Whether learning a foreign language is useful compared to learning a computer language is irrelevant. A computer language is not a foreign language, doesn't involve learning the same sort of things, and one shouldn't be used as evidence of competence in the other.
Learning a foreign language, particularly in the early stages, is massive rote memorization of vocabulary, grammar, and exceptions. Learning a computer language involves memorizing a small vocabulary and a smaller set of grammar rules; the bulk is the creative process of problem solving.
In most large companies the majority of the shares are owned by funds. Very few funds actively participate in corporate governance, and those that do do more harm than good.
If I think $500 is a reasonably price for an HDTV that's fine. But if the market price would be $400 if not for industry collusion, then the industry has stolen $100 from me...
You haven't the faintest idea what stealing is and what voluntary action is.
One of the functions of proper government is to codify a single standard of the legitimate use of force. In the absence of government, anarchy, there is no such single standard. It is not possible to know what legitimate force is. There is no mechanism to deal with psychopathic behavior. Those two problems do make anarchy bad.
Generally speaking, those who are creative and intelligent rebel against the enforced mediocrity of unions. I know I would have quit any company that unionized.
Generally speaking, soliciting a competitor's employees involves getting inside their phone system through fraud. That should be illegal and punishable with heavy fines.
If you want new employees, place ads in newspapers and trade journals. Only people who are already looking for a job will see such ads; you aren't directly soliciting your competitor's employees.
Antitrust laws are a violation of freedom, and violate several portions of the US Constitution. They should be eliminated.
You have a professional voluntary relationship with your employer, where they are trying to get the most work out of you for the least money, and you are trying to get the most money out of them for the least work.
If this is your attitude as an employee, you are a poor employee and a disgrace to your profession. You should enjoy what you do and strive to do it as well as possible.
If this is your attitude as an employer, you will earn the hatred of your employees and drive your company into the ground as the best people leave for good companies.
The US is already losing its engineering population. Add unionization, and more engineering will be done overseas, further depressing the market for engineers. Everybody in the US loses, except perhaps union leaders.
Union leaders, allow me to introduce you to Pyrrhus of Epirus.
I'll guess, based on the failure to chose correctly between "right" and "write", that you're incompetent, poorly paid or unemployed, and insanely jealous of everyone better than you.
I worked in an electronics lab where a lady technician played insipid easy-listening music all day long. I was so happy when I found a frequency modulated square wave could block the whole FM band.
Thinking for a living and music (even music I like) are not compatible.
I worked in an open office plan where nobody had a fixed desk and there weren't enough desks and computers for everybody that needed one. Leftover people - those with least seniority - had to work at a workbench, sitting on a high stool and shoving aside the oscilloscope and power supplies to make room for paper. All desks were IKEA tables (half of them assembled incorrectly so that they were swaybacked) that faced cinderblock walls. So there was no territory, and until law made workspace smoking illegal there was that problem also. It sucked.
20x12x11=2640, with an implied average use time of 5.5 years. Five or less failures means a MTTF of 2904 years, an average failure rate of 0.035%/year. This is a large enough sample size to have statistical significance.
But you're obviously to lazy and arrogant to run the numbers.
Under communism you can compare all the manufacturers' failure rates for consumer hard drives... oh wait, communist countries don't manufacture consumer hard drives. If they did, they wouldn't care if they failed, but publishing failure information would be a criminal offense. WAKE UP.
Republicans don't propose a tax on fossil fuels because unlike Democrats, Republicans wish to minimize slavery in the form of taxation.
You are proposing what moderates have been proposing for decades, and that always fails: to give up principles in order to deprive the opposition of an issue. What happens is that the opposition then takes a more extreme stand, policy changes and fails because it denies reality, and the opposition claims change failed because it wasn't big enough and it was opposed by the opposition.
I'm 64. During my life I've seen the Democrats go from being a party mostly of lying thieves to almost entirely lying thieves. Suggesting that the Republicans try to get out in front of Democrats is a really poor idea.
If you want to see a genuine tragedy for humanity, it's global cooling, regardless of the cause. A full-blown ice age means death on a scale worse than all the nuclear weapons in existence. Look for widespread starvation as agriculture becomes impossible north of Atlanta.
Regardless, you keep on believing things like "permanent climate changes" that don't depend on the sun aging. You'll fit right in with the billions of other fools that make up our species.
Seriously, you have captured the essential mindset of the denialists: there can only be one cause for anything. That assumption underlies most of the denialist arguments.
There's an important invention you need to look into. It's called a mirror.
Capital punishment removes the lynch mob. If aggrieved people aren't reasonably sure there will be proper and adequate punishment applied to the worst offenders, there will be more Jack Rubys.
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Whether learning a foreign language is useful compared to learning a computer language is irrelevant. A computer language is not a foreign language, doesn't involve learning the same sort of things, and one shouldn't be used as evidence of competence in the other.
Learning a foreign language, particularly in the early stages, is massive rote memorization of vocabulary, grammar, and exceptions. Learning a computer language involves memorizing a small vocabulary and a smaller set of grammar rules; the bulk is the creative process of problem solving.
In most large companies the majority of the shares are owned by funds. Very few funds actively participate in corporate governance, and those that do do more harm than good.
You haven't the faintest idea what stealing is and what voluntary action is.
Your statements that unions exist in a free market and violence was associated with the rise of unions are mutually exclusive.
One of the functions of proper government is to codify a single standard of the legitimate use of force. In the absence of government, anarchy, there is no such single standard. It is not possible to know what legitimate force is. There is no mechanism to deal with psychopathic behavior. Those two problems do make anarchy bad.
Unions assume they have the right to use force, and they occasionally even resort to murder. There is no place for them in a free market.
Generally speaking, those who are creative and intelligent rebel against the enforced mediocrity of unions. I know I would have quit any company that unionized.
Generally speaking, soliciting a competitor's employees involves getting inside their phone system through fraud. That should be illegal and punishable with heavy fines.
If you want new employees, place ads in newspapers and trade journals. Only people who are already looking for a job will see such ads; you aren't directly soliciting your competitor's employees.
Antitrust laws are a violation of freedom, and violate several portions of the US Constitution. They should be eliminated.
If this is your attitude as an employee, you are a poor employee and a disgrace to your profession. You should enjoy what you do and strive to do it as well as possible.
If this is your attitude as an employer, you will earn the hatred of your employees and drive your company into the ground as the best people leave for good companies.
The US is already losing its engineering population. Add unionization, and more engineering will be done overseas, further depressing the market for engineers. Everybody in the US loses, except perhaps union leaders.
Union leaders, allow me to introduce you to Pyrrhus of Epirus.
Is there a coherent thought in your post?
I'll guess, based on the failure to chose correctly between "right" and "write", that you're incompetent, poorly paid or unemployed, and insanely jealous of everyone better than you.
I worked in an electronics lab where a lady technician played insipid easy-listening music all day long. I was so happy when I found a frequency modulated square wave could block the whole FM band.
Thinking for a living and music (even music I like) are not compatible.
They're female. They are a hostile work environment.
I worked in an open office plan where nobody had a fixed desk and there weren't enough desks and computers for everybody that needed one. Leftover people - those with least seniority - had to work at a workbench, sitting on a high stool and shoving aside the oscilloscope and power supplies to make room for paper. All desks were IKEA tables (half of them assembled incorrectly so that they were swaybacked) that faced cinderblock walls. So there was no territory, and until law made workspace smoking illegal there was that problem also. It sucked.
20x12x11=2640, with an implied average use time of 5.5 years. Five or less failures means a MTTF of 2904 years, an average failure rate of 0.035%/year. This is a large enough sample size to have statistical significance.
But you're obviously to lazy and arrogant to run the numbers.
Under communism you can compare all the manufacturers' failure rates for consumer hard drives... oh wait, communist countries don't manufacture consumer hard drives. If they did, they wouldn't care if they failed, but publishing failure information would be a criminal offense. WAKE UP.
If you know competent Accenture employees, persuade them to quit.
Taxes in the US are very high compared to any time over 200 years ago, going back millennia.
"independent climatologist" is an oxymoron. There isn't a one that doesn't work for an organization with a political bias.
Republicans don't propose a tax on fossil fuels because unlike Democrats, Republicans wish to minimize slavery in the form of taxation.
You are proposing what moderates have been proposing for decades, and that always fails: to give up principles in order to deprive the opposition of an issue. What happens is that the opposition then takes a more extreme stand, policy changes and fails because it denies reality, and the opposition claims change failed because it wasn't big enough and it was opposed by the opposition.
I'm 64. During my life I've seen the Democrats go from being a party mostly of lying thieves to almost entirely lying thieves. Suggesting that the Republicans try to get out in front of Democrats is a really poor idea.
If you want to see a genuine tragedy for humanity, it's global cooling, regardless of the cause. A full-blown ice age means death on a scale worse than all the nuclear weapons in existence. Look for widespread starvation as agriculture becomes impossible north of Atlanta.
Regardless, you keep on believing things like "permanent climate changes" that don't depend on the sun aging. You'll fit right in with the billions of other fools that make up our species.
There's an important invention you need to look into. It's called a mirror.
Capital punishment removes the lynch mob. If aggrieved people aren't reasonably sure there will be proper and adequate punishment applied to the worst offenders, there will be more Jack Rubys.
<sarcasm> There's a marvelous example of personal responsibility. </sarcasm>
Fill the bad guy with painkillers and sleeping drugs. Drop a 1 ton steel block on his head from 20 meters. Quick death, no pain.