Panmunjom I have been to and I have seen the DMZ. So yes, I have actually walked on NK soil. I've spent a lot of time in the South. There is no comparison.
That's what happens when you assume, idiot. Unless you were born on the Pen, you haven't been there more than me.
North Korea is a hellhole. I don't care how many web sites they have. I do care about millions essentially enslaved and starved by that atrocious, autocratic government of the Kims.
Education is about indoctrination, not about improving humanity. You don't want people to think, but to spout out the right responses to stimuli so that they can function well in the totalized bureaucracy we have created. Indoctrination is easier the earlier you get them...
There is an economic factor to requiring more and more college to just go out and work, and it has nothing to do with actual qualifications. It has to do with an attempt to avoid the reality that there aren't enough jobs for everyone by keeping the kids in college for 4-8 more years. Whole cohorts of the population that do not require employment - pushes the problem off for about one administration.
On sort of related but unrelated notes:
Whine-fests about the lack of STEM graduates are irrelevancies. There aren't huge caches of smarter people that haven't been mined. The population is what it is and education has little to do with it beyond what we would mostly call vocational training - learning the rote tasks required for one trade or another. Forcing more people through a STEM curriculum is great for devaluing what that actually means, rather than producing more trained people.
If we were interested in efficiency, we'd ask how to get the maximum benefit from the brains we have rather than bemoaning the lack of better ones. So the hacks that advocate H1B programs are just that, hacks.
It is not "all rationed". If people are willing to pay for more of a scarce resource, you get more. If it's all mandated by the government, you don't.
Your premise is faulty at the outset.
Beyond that, people are upset when their life effort serving their country and/or raising productive citizens is rewarded by having some bum on the street who did jack shit for the country getting health care before them. And there's no explanation that will mollify them.
That is the reason people break out in hives about socialized medicine. Everywhere that has socialized medicine has to deal with health care rationing. Regardless if the frogs have been slowly boiled to the point where they "don't care" about having to wait endlessly for medical care so that they die before they need expensive treatments, no one wants it.
Oh, and no one wants to pay for people who don't think their health is sufficiently important to pay for themselves, either.
How about reading some Cicero and seeing how litigation really works? The civil variety is a witch hunt against others using state power. It's barely restrained by peer juries who are malleable to the plaintiff's cause.
Someone who litigated against others in Rome was at risk later when those same people would again serve as a magistrate. This is as it should be - expecting courts to rule on vexatious litigation means your life could run out before you see results. If the guy gets a box of poop at home and the equivalent of threatening graffiti written about him, it's just what he deserved.
The poop mail and threats (and the GoFundMe) were related to the Sterling suit, though you gave me some context I didn't have. That's scummy as hell...basically selling defective/deficient goods. I'm surprised Valve let them last this long.
"Romine's GoFundMe account, set up to fund the suit, has made just $425 of his $75,000 goal, even though he claims he "received a pile of feces in the mail" and that he had had messages saying things like "Your wife is a whore," and "I hope you die in a fiery car crash.""
Is that Julian Hirsch essentially said the same thing over the course of his career. I spent a lot of time reading his stuff in Stereo Review during the 80s and early 90s.
Particularly the bit about the speakers/cartridge overpowering whatever was going on at the amplification end. Except the noise.
I love how someone who didn't grow up in the US somehow knows how to be successful here.
News flash: It's actually merit-based in large part. That's the great part about this country. Having good parents doesn't mean all that much when you enter the work force, unless you are very high up in the food chain. Most aren't, and even if you are - it's no guarantee of success. It's also easy to become something that the Romans used to call homines novi, a "new man". People with zero background placed in high positions.
Stop putting your European memories of class distinction atop the US. It just isn't true here. I could cite particular cases - the Harvard grad with the perfect credentials who was a failure as a CEO, or the nothing guy who ended up in leadership because he kicked massive ass. His family has shit background. But I don't have to for a US audience, because they know the same things from their own experiences.
I worked at or ran help desks for 10 years - 87 to 96 or so. It was more creative then than now, that's for sure, but not very much so, and the people I hired for my jobs weren't all that creative, either.
I had one of those affected laptops but mine never died - lasted over 6 years on the road. Lucky me. Replaced the LCD twice and the keyboard twice over that period for various issues, switched from HDD to SSD when that became cost effective, etc.
(with apologies to Jackie DeShannon and Dionne Warwick...)
What the world needs now, is more shitty code Lame developers throwing systems into safe mode What the world needs now, is more shitty code Javascript used to push out a fecal load
Lord, we don't need any more PHP There is broken code, strewn enough, for us to fix There is Python, and VB, and Ruby shit Let's rewrite it all in Perl 6
I'd be ok with your viewpoint if we could have them all develop in Logo.
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I've been to both places, i'd much rather live as a Saudi indentured servant.
Panmunjom I have been to and I have seen the DMZ. So yes, I have actually walked on NK soil. I've spent a lot of time in the South. There is no comparison.
That's what happens when you assume, idiot. Unless you were born on the Pen, you haven't been there more than me.
North Korea is a hellhole. I don't care how many web sites they have. I do care about millions essentially enslaved and starved by that atrocious, autocratic government of the Kims.
Education is about indoctrination, not about improving humanity. You don't want people to think, but to spout out the right responses to stimuli so that they can function well in the totalized bureaucracy we have created. Indoctrination is easier the earlier you get them...
There is an economic factor to requiring more and more college to just go out and work, and it has nothing to do with actual qualifications. It has to do with an attempt to avoid the reality that there aren't enough jobs for everyone by keeping the kids in college for 4-8 more years. Whole cohorts of the population that do not require employment - pushes the problem off for about one administration.
On sort of related but unrelated notes:
Whine-fests about the lack of STEM graduates are irrelevancies. There aren't huge caches of smarter people that haven't been mined. The population is what it is and education has little to do with it beyond what we would mostly call vocational training - learning the rote tasks required for one trade or another. Forcing more people through a STEM curriculum is great for devaluing what that actually means, rather than producing more trained people.
If we were interested in efficiency, we'd ask how to get the maximum benefit from the brains we have rather than bemoaning the lack of better ones. So the hacks that advocate H1B programs are just that, hacks.
It is not "all rationed". If people are willing to pay for more of a scarce resource, you get more. If it's all mandated by the government, you don't.
Your premise is faulty at the outset.
Beyond that, people are upset when their life effort serving their country and/or raising productive citizens is rewarded by having some bum on the street who did jack shit for the country getting health care before them. And there's no explanation that will mollify them.
That is the reason people break out in hives about socialized medicine. Everywhere that has socialized medicine has to deal with health care rationing. Regardless if the frogs have been slowly boiled to the point where they "don't care" about having to wait endlessly for medical care so that they die before they need expensive treatments, no one wants it.
Oh, and no one wants to pay for people who don't think their health is sufficiently important to pay for themselves, either.
Of course, this guy is creating negative publicity for himself, expounding further on how he just doesn't get the net.
How about reading some Cicero and seeing how litigation really works? The civil variety is a witch hunt against others using state power. It's barely restrained by peer juries who are malleable to the plaintiff's cause.
Someone who litigated against others in Rome was at risk later when those same people would again serve as a magistrate. This is as it should be - expecting courts to rule on vexatious litigation means your life could run out before you see results. If the guy gets a box of poop at home and the equivalent of threatening graffiti written about him, it's just what he deserved.
Litigate against your customers and you get what you get. I have no sympathy for this piece of shit.
Because shitbag ACs certainly do :-)
You expected something different from the scumbag ideological hacks you refer to?
That would make me sad. I would love for the guy to get a little box filled with human crap and packing peanuts.
The poop mail and threats (and the GoFundMe) were related to the Sterling suit, though you gave me some context I didn't have. That's scummy as hell...basically selling defective/deficient goods. I'm surprised Valve let them last this long.
I think this guy is a bit impermeable to advice. He needs a stint of inpatient therapy and anger management classes.
I'd like to congratulate (but not shake the hand) of the guy who sent him the shit.
"Romine's GoFundMe account, set up to fund the suit, has made just $425 of his $75,000 goal, even though he claims he "received a pile of feces in the mail" and that he had had messages saying things like "Your wife is a whore," and "I hope you die in a fiery car crash.""
Romine is a guy who does not get teh net.
Is that Julian Hirsch essentially said the same thing over the course of his career. I spent a lot of time reading his stuff in Stereo Review during the 80s and early 90s.
Particularly the bit about the speakers/cartridge overpowering whatever was going on at the amplification end. Except the noise.
Don't look now, but I think he took the lead in the RCP average. Are you getting a paycheck from his campaign?
It is the fastest in benchmarks. That's about it.
I love how someone who didn't grow up in the US somehow knows how to be successful here.
News flash: It's actually merit-based in large part. That's the great part about this country. Having good parents doesn't mean all that much when you enter the work force, unless you are very high up in the food chain. Most aren't, and even if you are - it's no guarantee of success. It's also easy to become something that the Romans used to call homines novi, a "new man". People with zero background placed in high positions.
Stop putting your European memories of class distinction atop the US. It just isn't true here. I could cite particular cases - the Harvard grad with the perfect credentials who was a failure as a CEO, or the nothing guy who ended up in leadership because he kicked massive ass. His family has shit background. But I don't have to for a US audience, because they know the same things from their own experiences.
This guy seriously needs something bad to happen to his company. It's a running sore on the buttocks of the Earth.
I worked at or ran help desks for 10 years - 87 to 96 or so. It was more creative then than now, that's for sure, but not very much so, and the people I hired for my jobs weren't all that creative, either.
I had one of those affected laptops but mine never died - lasted over 6 years on the road. Lucky me. Replaced the LCD twice and the keyboard twice over that period for various issues, switched from HDD to SSD when that became cost effective, etc.
Is there a printer vendor that doesn't play games with the consumables?
By that standard, most jobs do. But not in the actual execution of the tasks you were hired for.
(with apologies to Jackie DeShannon and Dionne Warwick...)
What the world needs now, is more shitty code
Lame developers throwing systems into safe mode
What the world needs now, is more shitty code
Javascript used to push out a fecal load
Lord, we don't need any more PHP
There is broken code, strewn enough, for us to fix
There is Python, and VB, and Ruby shit
Let's rewrite it all in Perl 6
I'd be ok with your viewpoint if we could have them all develop in Logo.