Now you know why out-sourcing to countries with workers so desperate to merely survive that they'll tolerate any degree of disadvantagement makes good sense.
FTFY.
Outsourcing bites those greedy employers in the ass soon enough: when the local standard of living rises just enough that thriving and not surviving is now the focus, those disadvantaged people will begin to rebel and demand fair treatment. Then the greedy employers pull up the anchor and sail for the next region full of desperate people... until there are none left. First it was Mexico, then India, then Moldova. It won't go on forever. That's even assuming that awareness of global ethics doesn't put a stop to such abuse entirely.
If you are actually seeking knowledge and not just trolling to start a confrontation from the expected answer, I am not the person to educate you about the banking industry. That history is well documented. Go read, since you've managed to grow to adulthood without paying attention.
Can you please specify where I stated that it was? What I did say is that the context of the job matters, and that context can be substantially the same regardless of the industry or name on the door.
Truth be told, almost every corporation with external shareholders sucks. It's impossible to maintain any sort of ethics in an environment where the company owes its existence to people who care nothing for it past its profitability to them.
Simply knowing COBOL isn't the deciding factor. Could I stomach being employed in the banking industry and facilitating the awful shit they pull? No. So whether I know COBOL or not is irrelevant.
For several years I was getting e-mail intended for someone else with almost the same name as me (first, last, middle initial) and whose email address was identical except it was lacking delineators, but on the opposite end of the country. All of the messages were commercial in nature. I did some investigating and quickly found an obituary for the guy, so it was left to me to tell these businesses to stop e-mailing me because the customer they were trying to court was dead.
Much much earlier, I found a distant relative (confirmed via family trees) who had my exact name. Not long after that I tried to sign up for and AOL Instant Messenger account (yes, it was THAT long ago) and discovered that he had already gotten an account with our shared name! I had to misspell my name, dammit.
I care neither about idiots nor their repetitive penchant for downvoting what they cannot comprehend, which is most everything. Let them niggle all they want.
"Our service can only operate fairly if it's run through consistent application of our rules, rather than the personal views of any executive, including our CEO."
And yet Twitter's executive suite doesn't really care if the service truly operates fairly, it only cares if it has the APPEARANCE of operating fairly... and that can be accomplished without that niggling "consistent application of rules".
Is this how Big Tech solves insoluble problems, by tossing the whole bathtub out the second story window and then when challenged about it asking, "what problem?"
The entire proceeding reads like a personal grudge unsupported by facts and yet executed in the public court system. That would be the very textbook definition of frivolous.
The point was that they never should have had another "owner" in the first place. They had to sell the original company in the first place to get into the current mess.
The lesson to be learned here is not to get impatient and greedy when you have a promising company; don't sell out to the first bastard who dangles a big wad of acquisition (or IPO) cash in your face.
... that they perpetrated a years-long effort to create Bethesda.net and launch a new version of Skyrim to utilize it, for no other reason than an attempt to destroy the free and open source modding ecosystem for the game and and replace it with one they control so they can monetize the hell out of it... to the detriment of their customers.
You sound a lot like the eugenicists of the 1920s: "sitting around for decades doing nothing, burning up resources" == "useless eaters"
I'm at least relieved knowing that you won't be making any executive decisions about it. You know nothing about the elderly, yet you're all too happy to make make blanket declarations about them and throw them under the bus first.
I've read that a human population with all modern technologies is fully sustainable to a limit of 500 million. How far past that sustainable limit are we now, and still living in denial of this 800-pound gorilla sitting on top of the solution to nearly all the problems of human civilization?
Good luck with that denial, people. The population reduction is coming one way or another....
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FTFY.
Outsourcing bites those greedy employers in the ass soon enough: when the local standard of living rises just enough that thriving and not surviving is now the focus, those disadvantaged people will begin to rebel and demand fair treatment. Then the greedy employers pull up the anchor and sail for the next region full of desperate people... until there are none left. First it was Mexico, then India, then Moldova. It won't go on forever. That's even assuming that awareness of global ethics doesn't put a stop to such abuse entirely.
If you are actually seeking knowledge and not just trolling to start a confrontation from the expected answer, I am not the person to educate you about the banking industry. That history is well documented. Go read, since you've managed to grow to adulthood without paying attention.
Can you please specify where I stated that it was? What I did say is that the context of the job matters, and that context can be substantially the same regardless of the industry or name on the door.
Truth be told, almost every corporation with external shareholders sucks. It's impossible to maintain any sort of ethics in an environment where the company owes its existence to people who care nothing for it past its profitability to them.
Simply knowing COBOL isn't the deciding factor. Could I stomach being employed in the banking industry and facilitating the awful shit they pull? No. So whether I know COBOL or not is irrelevant.
In a perfect demonstration of laziness, rather than find a new topic to discuss the SAME SLASHDOT EDITOR allowed a submission about the SAME RESEARCH by the SAME SUBMITTER but merely from a different and rather tardy source almost a month later. Way to prove the point, guys!
For several years I was getting e-mail intended for someone else with almost the same name as me (first, last, middle initial) and whose email address was identical except it was lacking delineators, but on the opposite end of the country. All of the messages were commercial in nature. I did some investigating and quickly found an obituary for the guy, so it was left to me to tell these businesses to stop e-mailing me because the customer they were trying to court was dead.
Much much earlier, I found a distant relative (confirmed via family trees) who had my exact name. Not long after that I tried to sign up for and AOL Instant Messenger account (yes, it was THAT long ago) and discovered that he had already gotten an account with our shared name! I had to misspell my name, dammit.
"Verification", as in certification? We already have that! Of course Google can't really monetize the current processes....
I care neither about idiots nor their repetitive penchant for downvoting what they cannot comprehend, which is most everything. Let them niggle all they want.
Probably true - and how sad is that - but I was still obligated to call out the anonymous self-promotion.
Every single link in the summary points to the same Twitter account. @PulpLibrarian isn't very anonymous, but he's a coward for the lame attempt.
And yet Twitter's executive suite doesn't really care if the service truly operates fairly, it only cares if it has the APPEARANCE of operating fairly... and that can be accomplished without that niggling "consistent application of rules".
Is this how Big Tech solves insoluble problems, by tossing the whole bathtub out the second story window and then when challenged about it asking, "what problem?"
And they just might get SLAPPed by the judge. :-)
You CAN sue the person, but your suit will be frivolous.
The entire proceeding reads like a personal grudge unsupported by facts and yet executed in the public court system. That would be the very textbook definition of frivolous.
The point was that they never should have had another "owner" in the first place. They had to sell the original company in the first place to get into the current mess.
The lesson to be learned here is not to get impatient and greedy when you have a promising company; don't sell out to the first bastard who dangles a big wad of acquisition (or IPO) cash in your face.
... that they perpetrated a years-long effort to create Bethesda.net and launch a new version of Skyrim to utilize it, for no other reason than an attempt to destroy the free and open source modding ecosystem for the game and and replace it with one they control so they can monetize the hell out of it... to the detriment of their customers.
Just going to leave this here, because so many people are assholes, even on Slashdot (or perhaps especially on Slashdot):
http://www.evfit.com/populatio...
You just Googled the number and looked for anything confirming bias, didn't you, genius?
My final sentence holds true regardless how you might want to quibble with numbers.
You sound a lot like the eugenicists of the 1920s: "sitting around for decades doing nothing, burning up resources" == "useless eaters"
I'm at least relieved knowing that you won't be making any executive decisions about it. You know nothing about the elderly, yet you're all too happy to make make blanket declarations about them and throw them under the bus first.
Or you do.
I've read that a human population with all modern technologies is fully sustainable to a limit of 500 million. How far past that sustainable limit are we now, and still living in denial of this 800-pound gorilla sitting on top of the solution to nearly all the problems of human civilization?
Good luck with that denial, people. The population reduction is coming one way or another....
I wouldn't know such detail... I stopped watching after the first season when it became obvious it wasn't going to be escapist enough for me.