Figures it'd be CNET (or Wired) or some other 90s giggly "tech media" remnant trumpeting this stunt. These counter-cultural events ceased being relevant about two years after these news outlets began covering them as part of the tech culture. The wannabes diluted the pool, and the legit players all vacated for greener pastures about which they now widely keep mum.
It is a convention of sites such as those that slashdot aspires to be like when it grows up (or when it returns to its greatness in the Malda era) to provide the credentials of the pundit whose post is being featured. If you don't get the difference between an uncredited poster's punditry and the posts from the community of posters commenting on that punditry, turn in your internet card. Moron.
Editors, even in minimal-work aggregation sites like slashdot, you still sort of need to back-up a screed like this with the ranter's credentials to tell me why I should care what he thinks.
...okay, so I Googled him, and see he is a basement-dwelling tech-blogger who looks like a Despicable Me "Minion" but with longer legs. In other words, Walt Mossberg he ain't.
I never said *I* wouldn't hire him. Pay attention, and please look up the definition of "Fascist," you're using the word incorrectly. I'm saying that it is my educated opinion after a long professional career in business that many, many people in most large companies will not hire him, and that if he thinks he can post pictures of himself with bikini babes and bikers all over his social media and that it won't negatively impact his hiring chances than he is foolishly naive, woefully self-absorbed or hopelessly pig-headed -- or a millennial, if I am not being redundant. It is amazing to me that anyone would argue otherwise.
What are you talking about? [A] What has this to do with social media, and [B] I've never been laid and always left a job of my own accord and on great terms.
And why are you posting as an AC if being "cowardly" is such a big negative for you?
I have indeed said some amazingly stupid "shut" but not in this discussion here today. You, on the other hand, have been -- what's the word server jockeys use to describe being publicly humiliated...? -- oh yeah, "pwned."
Seriously, spring for some remedial reading courses at your local community college. Well worth the investment for you. Also look up the meaning for "precious snowflake" in the context of an online forum.
But back to your train wreck of an argument: I'm not saying there isn't a server monkey who hasn't snorted cocaine with his boss and kept his job, I'm saying there is none who has done that and posted a picture of it on Facebook. Or if there was and he did, I can pretty much guarantee he was fired -- and his boss too. See the point of this whole thread is not that server monkeys can't or won't do amazingly stupid things in their off-hours -- we both know they're more likely to than just about any other class of employee -- it's that the ones who keep their jobs and rise in the ranks don't post pictures of their dubious leisure pursuits online for all to see.
It's not even open to debate, Zero Dick. A guy posting pix of bikini clad girls in biker bars as a regular feature in his open social media shows poor judgement if he hopes to obtain/retain a corporate IT position in the U.S. Does it necessarily make him an inferior server jockey? No, of course not. It just shows he really doesn't have a clue about Big Boy Corporate Concerns and/or lacks a modicum of maturity. Would the world be a better place if server jockeys could feel free to post pix of bikini babes in biker bars without fear of deep-sixing their careers? Perhaps, but only the foolishly naive, woefully self-absorbed or hopelessly pig-headed believe that we live in that world now, and that's my point.
The far-rightwing idealogue is not ashamed of his opinions, and makes them clear to all on his Facebook page. He should not expect many job offers from the entertainment industry anytime soon. Likewise the far-leftwinger, from that gun store. How many employers have a low opinion of bikers? I dunno, but certainly plenty more than think poorly of someone active in the Rotary Club -- which is the only kind of activity I would highlight on a Facebook page if I was so stupid to be highlighting activity on a Facebook page while job hunting.
Except that this fool is putting his information online for any random stranger to see. Why wouldn't a potential employer thinking about entrusting him with the keys to their IT infrastructure avail themselves of it?
The KKK??! Geez, even teenaged trolls are savvy enough to at least babble about the "Alt Right" or "White Supremacists." The teens are also smart enough to know that when the KKK was doing their very best cross-burning, lynching and KKK'ing they were the party of Southern Democrats, and *that* sure doesn't play well in these online forums.
Why not just equate the behavior and mores of all Christians with the medieval Church Inquisition, like the real n00b anti-Christian trolls do, and call it a day?
It has been the Truth That Dare Not Speak Its Name for decades: The Nielsen ratings are just one or two ticks above throwing darts, blindfolded, when it comes to both accuracy or picking real winners. But too many people within the TV industry make their living based upon the "Dailies" for any one of them to want to upset the apple cart. Tip of the Iceberg, here. I suspect whoever wrote that will be SethRich'd shortly, if he hasn't already been...
Except he is absolutely right. Plus, he provides a cogent and well-thought-out argument. You, on the other hand, say nothing that contributes to the discussion, and do so anonymously, to boot. So, really, who's the idiot?
Keep printing this wild "DEADLY HEATWAVE CREATES RISING FATALITIES!!" stuff. You make my job of painting all climate change alarmists as bug-eyed screwballs that much easier...
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Figures it'd be CNET (or Wired) or some other 90s giggly "tech media" remnant trumpeting this stunt. These counter-cultural events ceased being relevant about two years after these news outlets began covering them as part of the tech culture. The wannabes diluted the pool, and the legit players all vacated for greener pastures about which they now widely keep mum.
>> a document reportedly produced by British spy agency
WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN??
>>A follow-up by the BBC indicated that the document was legitimate
Who is following up on the BBC to see if *they're* legitimate, Or are we supposed to take this government media arm at face value now?
We have gone completely down the rabbit hole...
It is a convention of sites such as those that slashdot aspires to be like when it grows up (or when it returns to its greatness in the Malda era) to provide the credentials of the pundit whose post is being featured. If you don't get the difference between an uncredited poster's punditry and the posts from the community of posters commenting on that punditry, turn in your internet card. Moron.
Editors, even in minimal-work aggregation sites like slashdot, you still sort of need to back-up a screed like this with the ranter's credentials to tell me why I should care what he thinks.
...okay, so I Googled him, and see he is a basement-dwelling tech-blogger who looks like a Despicable Me "Minion" but with longer legs. In other words, Walt Mossberg he ain't.
I never said *I* wouldn't hire him. Pay attention, and please look up the definition of "Fascist," you're using the word incorrectly. I'm saying that it is my educated opinion after a long professional career in business that many, many people in most large companies will not hire him, and that if he thinks he can post pictures of himself with bikini babes and bikers all over his social media and that it won't negatively impact his hiring chances than he is foolishly naive, woefully self-absorbed or hopelessly pig-headed -- or a millennial, if I am not being redundant. It is amazing to me that anyone would argue otherwise.
What are you talking about? [A] What has this to do with social media, and [B] I've never been laid and always left a job of my own accord and on great terms.
And why are you posting as an AC if being "cowardly" is such a big negative for you?
I have indeed said some amazingly stupid "shut" but not in this discussion here today. You, on the other hand, have been -- what's the word server jockeys use to describe being publicly humiliated...? -- oh yeah, "pwned."
Seriously, spring for some remedial reading courses at your local community college. Well worth the investment for you. Also look up the meaning for "precious snowflake" in the context of an online forum.
But back to your train wreck of an argument: I'm not saying there isn't a server monkey who hasn't snorted cocaine with his boss and kept his job, I'm saying there is none who has done that and posted a picture of it on Facebook. Or if there was and he did, I can pretty much guarantee he was fired -- and his boss too. See the point of this whole thread is not that server monkeys can't or won't do amazingly stupid things in their off-hours -- we both know they're more likely to than just about any other class of employee -- it's that the ones who keep their jobs and rise in the ranks don't post pictures of their dubious leisure pursuits online for all to see.
It's not even open to debate, Zero Dick. A guy posting pix of bikini clad girls in biker bars as a regular feature in his open social media shows poor judgement if he hopes to obtain/retain a corporate IT position in the U.S. Does it necessarily make him an inferior server jockey? No, of course not. It just shows he really doesn't have a clue about Big Boy Corporate Concerns and/or lacks a modicum of maturity. Would the world be a better place if server jockeys could feel free to post pix of bikini babes in biker bars without fear of deep-sixing their careers? Perhaps, but only the foolishly naive, woefully self-absorbed or hopelessly pig-headed believe that we live in that world now, and that's my point.
The far-rightwing idealogue is not ashamed of his opinions, and makes them clear to all on his Facebook page. He should not expect many job offers from the entertainment industry anytime soon. Likewise the far-leftwinger, from that gun store. How many employers have a low opinion of bikers? I dunno, but certainly plenty more than think poorly of someone active in the Rotary Club -- which is the only kind of activity I would highlight on a Facebook page if I was so stupid to be highlighting activity on a Facebook page while job hunting.
Except that this fool is putting his information online for any random stranger to see. Why wouldn't a potential employer thinking about entrusting him with the keys to their IT infrastructure avail themselves of it?
...than any human currently working at CNN.
The KKK??! Geez, even teenaged trolls are savvy enough to at least babble about the "Alt Right" or "White Supremacists." The teens are also smart enough to know that when the KKK was doing their very best cross-burning, lynching and KKK'ing they were the party of Southern Democrats, and *that* sure doesn't play well in these online forums.
Why not just equate the behavior and mores of all Christians with the medieval Church Inquisition, like the real n00b anti-Christian trolls do, and call it a day?
It has been the Truth That Dare Not Speak Its Name for decades: The Nielsen ratings are just one or two ticks above throwing darts, blindfolded, when it comes to both accuracy or picking real winners. But too many people within the TV industry make their living based upon the "Dailies" for any one of them to want to upset the apple cart. Tip of the Iceberg, here. I suspect whoever wrote that will be SethRich'd shortly, if he hasn't already been...
The rocket scientists? No. But I would sure hate to be their family right about now...
That's where it's at!
Machines judging art.
Except they've been building rockets in Huntsville, Alabama even longer than you've been a classist bigot. Go figure!
who read this and said "Now?" "Whaddya mean, 'NOW??'"
Christ Almighty, is this getting tedious...!
Except he is absolutely right. Plus, he provides a cogent and well-thought-out argument. You, on the other hand, say nothing that contributes to the discussion, and do so anonymously, to boot. So, really, who's the idiot?
Why so violent?
Keep printing this wild "DEADLY HEATWAVE CREATES RISING FATALITIES!!" stuff. You make my job of painting all climate change alarmists as bug-eyed screwballs that much easier...
I am sure that if the team's management thought they were pissing off enough local fans, they would make a change. But we both know they are not.
Of course hate speech exists. But that doesn't mean it should be illegal.