Bigotry is thinking less of someone for their beliefs (or being). Thinking their beliefs are stupid while not thinking any less of the person who believes them is not bigotry.
Doesn't sound any better coming from you than "Hate the sin, love the sinner" sounds coming from the other side.
Management doesn't want to face reality when they've already decided something that strikes their fancy, they only want it to work or to be able to blame someone else for the failure.
Pretty much. In that case, the only thing an IT admin can really do is document the management's decision in writing and move forward. That way you have some protection when they try to throw you under the bus later.
IT is a striking example of the issue where if you're doing your job right no one sees problems.
Whereas if you're doing management right, hardly anyone should see you at all -- and by that I mean, people should be able to do their jobs for long stretches of time without managerial meddling^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H "guidance."
How much of that manager-induced stress is a result of managers who don't know how to lead?
If I'm the head of the department you work in, then my No. 1 job is to clear obstacles out of your way so you can do yours. If I'm the head of a different department that relies on you (as an infrastructure manager) to do its job, then my No. 1 job is to work with you to find the most reasonable way of making it happen.
On the other side of that, though, I've run into folks who think they're the gatekeepers just because they have the keys to the building. Any good manager should take "no" for an answer from IT if IT just can't do it, e.g., it introduces unacceptable security risk, the infrastructure just isn't there, etc. But an IT person who says it can't be done and won't explain why shouldn't expect to stick around very long.
It's acceptable. Steam's been around and isn't going anywhere. It also has this nifty thing called "offline mode" where I'm not forced to be connected once I've finished downloading it and have started the program at least once. It's as much "DRM" as a serial code -- which is to say, it's really not.
If you want "intrusive DRM," take a look at the encumbrance surrounding SimCity.
And if their obsession with games inspires them you can go talk to the victim's families
Inspiration is only relevant when someone is sane. The act of shooting 20 or more children pretty much places someone outside that definition. That aside, it seems like mass murderers seem to take inspiration not from video games but from other mass murderers.
Agreed on all counts, except the motive, because I can't really know the motive. She may simply be afraid of direct confrontation, but even so, that wouldn't excuse her poor decision-making.
Big bang theory is indeed a guess or hunch. The best reasoning for Big Bang "everything started with a bang, but we had no idea what happened before the bang".
The question itself is meaningless until or unless we can prove time even existed before the Big Bang. A track and field race starts when someone fires the gun -- before that, there's no race.
That 33% total for Christianity is achieved by lumping several disparate religions together. It's a stretch to group Christians, Catholics, Mormon, Jehovahs Witness, Quakers, etc and call them the same religion
No, it's not. They all believe Jesus is the son of God and that he'll one day come back to Earth to judge the quick and the dead.
The Amanda Blum blog is damned informative. Thanks for posting the link.
One of the things Blum mentions is that Richards' only real offense in this case was not just turning around and telling the guys to knock it off. I agree -- in my experience, conflict resolution works best at the lowest level. If the guys had become unreasonable, then she could have gotten hold of PyCon people. Praise in public, correct in private.
The fact that this is a trend with Richards makes it a lot easier to understand why SendGrid let her go.
And you have just exemplified the problem that is all too rampant in the tech business and in geekery as a whole. Any girl who has a problem with guys' unprofessional behavior is a "stupid cunt" or a "bitch" who deserves all the rape threats and death threats she receives for daring to call said guys out for their bullshit. And any guy who says, "You know, she has a point," is instantly a "white knight" who's not worth listening to.
She went drama queen and it cost her job. Also cost a father of 3 his job also. Her fault for losing her job, and her fault for getting that other person fired.
Umm, no. Her losing her job was arguably her fault. Her costing him his job is not -- he's responsible for the consequences of his stupidity, and his former employer is responsible for the choice to let him go.
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Bigotry is thinking less of someone for their beliefs (or being). Thinking their beliefs are stupid while not thinking any less of the person who believes them is not bigotry.
Doesn't sound any better coming from you than "Hate the sin, love the sinner" sounds coming from the other side.
Management doesn't want to face reality when they've already decided something that strikes their fancy, they only want it to work or to be able to blame someone else for the failure.
Pretty much. In that case, the only thing an IT admin can really do is document the management's decision in writing and move forward. That way you have some protection when they try to throw you under the bus later.
IT is a striking example of the issue where if you're doing your job right no one sees problems.
Whereas if you're doing management right, hardly anyone should see you at all -- and by that I mean, people should be able to do their jobs for long stretches of time without managerial meddling^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H "guidance."
How much of that manager-induced stress is a result of managers who don't know how to lead?
If I'm the head of the department you work in, then my No. 1 job is to clear obstacles out of your way so you can do yours. If I'm the head of a different department that relies on you (as an infrastructure manager) to do its job, then my No. 1 job is to work with you to find the most reasonable way of making it happen.
On the other side of that, though, I've run into folks who think they're the gatekeepers just because they have the keys to the building. Any good manager should take "no" for an answer from IT if IT just can't do it, e.g., it introduces unacceptable security risk, the infrastructure just isn't there, etc. But an IT person who says it can't be done and won't explain why shouldn't expect to stick around very long.
You made it all this way without even mentioning DRM. I'm kinda impressed.
Those dick moves you outlined actually sound more like CapCom than EA, though.
I won't believe Kickstarter has peaked until Netcraft confirms it.
... all religion then took a hard right into weird cult ...
How do you tell the difference?
You say that like it's acceptable.
It's acceptable. Steam's been around and isn't going anywhere. It also has this nifty thing called "offline mode" where I'm not forced to be connected once I've finished downloading it and have started the program at least once. It's as much "DRM" as a serial code -- which is to say, it's really not.
If you want "intrusive DRM," take a look at the encumbrance surrounding SimCity.
No, he probably just wants the British out of India.
And if their obsession with games inspires them you can go talk to the victim's families
Inspiration is only relevant when someone is sane. The act of shooting 20 or more children pretty much places someone outside that definition. That aside, it seems like mass murderers seem to take inspiration not from video games but from other mass murderers.
When someone goes into a school and kills 20 children with copies of "Grand Theft Auto," call me.
Agreed on all counts, except the motive, because I can't really know the motive. She may simply be afraid of direct confrontation, but even so, that wouldn't excuse her poor decision-making.
Maybe you should look up the Urban Dictionary definition for assclown, assclown.
What she did is far worse than what he did.
I'm not trying to make a value judgment on whose actions are worse, so much as I'm delineating what consequences came from which person's actions.
Indirectly, it is, because it's a consequence of her actions and she probably didn't stop to think what those might be. A tattletale is a tattletale.
Bollocks. It's a consequence of his actions and his employer's actions. Her role in this starts and stops at pointing out his unprofessional behavior.
If you have to resort to, "I would have gotten away with it if it weren't for those darn kids," you're tacitly admitting you acted like a dumbass.
Well, in all fairness, though, in this case she *is* a stupid cunt bitch.
Alternately: She's someone who's passionate about getting more women involved in the tech business and let that passion get the better of her.
The threats are unwarranted.
I think we can all agree on that.
Big bang theory is indeed a guess or hunch. The best reasoning for Big Bang "everything started with a bang, but we had no idea what happened before the bang".
The question itself is meaningless until or unless we can prove time even existed before the Big Bang. A track and field race starts when someone fires the gun -- before that, there's no race.
Who cares what Pat Robertson thinks? I'm more concerned that about 40 percent of the American population believes it!
That 33% total for Christianity is achieved by lumping several disparate religions together. It's a stretch to group Christians, Catholics, Mormon, Jehovahs Witness, Quakers, etc and call them the same religion
No, it's not. They all believe Jesus is the son of God and that he'll one day come back to Earth to judge the quick and the dead.
The Amanda Blum blog is damned informative. Thanks for posting the link.
One of the things Blum mentions is that Richards' only real offense in this case was not just turning around and telling the guys to knock it off. I agree -- in my experience, conflict resolution works best at the lowest level. If the guys had become unreasonable, then she could have gotten hold of PyCon people. Praise in public, correct in private.
The fact that this is a trend with Richards makes it a lot easier to understand why SendGrid let her go.
My understanding comes from Solzhenitsyn, Shirer, Ma Bo, and other chroniclers of governmental atrocities.
But delightfully devoid of any actual numbers. Nice.
And you have just exemplified the problem that is all too rampant in the tech business and in geekery as a whole. Any girl who has a problem with guys' unprofessional behavior is a "stupid cunt" or a "bitch" who deserves all the rape threats and death threats she receives for daring to call said guys out for their bullshit. And any guy who says, "You know, she has a point," is instantly a "white knight" who's not worth listening to.
Amazing that so many people in this day and age still don't get satire. I bet you think Steven Colbert is a dyed-in-the-wool conservative, too.
She breached the two mens privacy in a serious way ...
"Privacy"? In a packed auditorium? That's like saying you have privacy in a movie theater or a football stadium -- which, of course, you don't.
JK Rowling's next book, perhaps?
She went drama queen and it cost her job. Also cost a father of 3 his job also. Her fault for losing her job, and her fault for getting that other person fired.
Umm, no. Her losing her job was arguably her fault. Her costing him his job is not -- he's responsible for the consequences of his stupidity, and his former employer is responsible for the choice to let him go.