Agreed. Carry stuff that isn't easily available online, make your inventory easy to search, and make the transaction as quick and painless as possible.
...it is exercised by the students. In the sixties, freedom of expression on campus sometimes had a high cost. University administrations may have bowed to expediency in the seventies and eighties, but it does appear that the old shackles are back in place, although some of them have different names.
Today's students can take back their freedom of expression, but will they have the guts to do so? Or will they continue to lament that "the man" doesn't allow them to say unpopular things?
> If they really wanted to improve the show they could do a Southpark/Kenny thing and wipe out Miley Cyrus every episode in ever increasingly unlikely and excruciating ways.
That really shoulda been the fifth season of Hannah Montana. Directed by Sam Raimi.
Put yourself into the position of a potential employer who needs backers, would you hire somebody who used to work for Hostess? Think about it for a little bit and you will come to the only correct conclusion: nobody who worked for Hostess and especially as part of the baker union is going to be hired by any employer who has 2 brain cells to rub together.
I think there's truth to that. In fact the only employees likely to be hired elsewhere in anything resembling the same industry would be the ones who got out before all that went down and could prove it. I think this supports my original point. Congratulations, you successfully took down your company. Yay for you. Now what?
When even the teamsters think it's a bad idea to prolong a strike, it probably is.
> My joke about Miley Cyrus makes me think that she would make a great alien
Only if Miley was vaporized at the end.
If you saw her on Three and a Half Men, you know that she could easily play someone totally alien. Or maybe that's her in real life.
But I agree, the "last of the time lords" seems really unlikely. How does he know? "I just know." And then he's wrong -- The Master survived. And he (presumably) doesn't know yet that Jenny survived in "The Doctor's Daughter", and seemed entirely unaware of River Song's legacy through most of that plot line. So this knowing thing about other time lords seems like a plot hole in itself.
What might be moderately cool is a plot where there's a whole bunch of time lords that survived, but they're all hiding from him as some kind of colossal joke.
> I said - don't look Ethel!..., but it was too late..., she'd already looked.
I hadn't heard that in so long it took me a moment to remember Ray Stevens.
> They were thinking they would rather work with a new company who has a product consumers want to buy instead of going down with a sinking ship that would bleed them dry on the way down.
Then why not quit and go work for another company?
I don't watch something "because it's on". I actively seek it out (and my Tivo seeks out future episodes).
But you're not everyone. For decades the networks have sandwiched a stinker between two popular shows to get more eyes on it. And they do this because it works. There is enough of a tendency to turn on the set to watch something in particular, and then watching whatever is on, that the networks plan for that. The original article wasn't about you or me, or arguably people who post on Slashdot; they're talking averages, and I submit that the average TV viewer has an increasing tendency to substitute TV for anything meaningful in their lives.
Now, whether this is a cause or effect of the original observation (that as a race we're getting stupider) is of course subject to interpretation.
Ok. But... I'd submit that going to The Globe and seeing the silliest of Shakespeare's plays is a different thing than being on the couch watching something just because it's on. And I'm aware that there's a wide range between the two. Maybe it goes back to being an addictive personality. Some people can use recreational drugs, then put them away and do other stuff. Others can't. I seem to observe that the "can'ts" are an increasing percentage.
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Moral? An argument could be made.
Sounds like a lack of guts to me.
SAP lab director has head up ass.
That's all true. And how is that situation different from the campus protests in the sixties? Or, for that matter, Occupy Wall Street?
You do it, and then you stand by it, damn the consequences. That's how it was done in the sixties, and there was collateral damage at first.
But you need the courage of your convictions, and I'm not sure the current crop of students can muster that.
Yes, Microsoft, that is how it feels.
Agreed. Carry stuff that isn't easily available online, make your inventory easy to search, and make the transaction as quick and painless as possible.
Sell your DVDs, put in some servers, start an advertisement-supported torrent site.
Today's students can take back their freedom of expression, but will they have the guts to do so? Or will they continue to lament that "the man" doesn't allow them to say unpopular things?
Yep, but /. moderators aren't hiring, are they?
> If they really wanted to improve the show they could do a Southpark/Kenny thing and wipe out Miley Cyrus every episode in ever increasingly unlikely and excruciating ways.
That really shoulda been the fifth season of Hannah Montana. Directed by Sam Raimi.
But we digress.
Boop boop ba doop.
Employment rights. Employment. Rights. Employment, rights.
Sorry, I can't parse that.
Put yourself into the position of a potential employer who needs backers, would you hire somebody who used to work for Hostess? Think about it for a little bit and you will come to the only correct conclusion: nobody who worked for Hostess and especially as part of the baker union is going to be hired by any employer who has 2 brain cells to rub together.
I think there's truth to that. In fact the only employees likely to be hired elsewhere in anything resembling the same industry would be the ones who got out before all that went down and could prove it. I think this supports my original point. Congratulations, you successfully took down your company. Yay for you. Now what?
When even the teamsters think it's a bad idea to prolong a strike, it probably is.
> My joke about Miley Cyrus makes me think that she would make a great alien
Only if Miley was vaporized at the end.
If you saw her on Three and a Half Men, you know that she could easily play someone totally alien. Or maybe that's her in real life.
But I agree, the "last of the time lords" seems really unlikely. How does he know? "I just know." And then he's wrong -- The Master survived. And he (presumably) doesn't know yet that Jenny survived in "The Doctor's Daughter", and seemed entirely unaware of River Song's legacy through most of that plot line. So this knowing thing about other time lords seems like a plot hole in itself.
What might be moderately cool is a plot where there's a whole bunch of time lords that survived, but they're all hiding from him as some kind of colossal joke.
> I said - don't look Ethel!..., but it was too late..., she'd already looked.
I hadn't heard that in so long it took me a moment to remember Ray Stevens.
>> good thing to seek to redress the shortcomings of the classic series
> Special effects, check. What else?
Pacing, music.
Yep, and it doesn't have a ribbon either. And this is important how?
And now, they are individuals who own homes, have families, have established roots, and are out of work.
I suspect that history would indicate getting a new boss in the same establishment under as good or better terms is a bit remote. But we shall see.
Like this. OpenOffice is superior to MS Office. See, my face didn't change at all.
>> I wonder what these idiots were thinking.
> They were thinking they would rather work with a new company who has a product consumers want to buy instead of going down with a sinking ship that would bleed them dry on the way down.
Then why not quit and go work for another company?
They'll eat carrot sticks and like it!
I don't watch something "because it's on". I actively seek it out (and my Tivo seeks out future episodes).
But you're not everyone. For decades the networks have sandwiched a stinker between two popular shows to get more eyes on it. And they do this because it works. There is enough of a tendency to turn on the set to watch something in particular, and then watching whatever is on, that the networks plan for that. The original article wasn't about you or me, or arguably people who post on Slashdot; they're talking averages, and I submit that the average TV viewer has an increasing tendency to substitute TV for anything meaningful in their lives.
Now, whether this is a cause or effect of the original observation (that as a race we're getting stupider) is of course subject to interpretation.
Someone save this post. His family might need it later.
Ok. But... I'd submit that going to The Globe and seeing the silliest of Shakespeare's plays is a different thing than being on the couch watching something just because it's on. And I'm aware that there's a wide range between the two. Maybe it goes back to being an addictive personality. Some people can use recreational drugs, then put them away and do other stuff. Others can't. I seem to observe that the "can'ts" are an increasing percentage.