[T]he only salient characteristic shared by all owners of portable music players was that they were more likely to buy more music -- especially CDs.' This is despite years of iTunes promotion and apparent success.
The word "despite" in this quote implies all sorts of total nonsense. Are we to believe that promotion of iTunes was intended to discourage people from buying music or CDs?
"Apparent success?" Sounds like the average "what else ya got?" middle management fuck. "Sold a billion five eh? Not good enough. What else ya got?"
iTunes is a success, and it will continue to be a success, despite the constant drumbeat of anti-Apple bias.
What? You can grow cultivate orange trees for free? land is free to grow them? labour is free to harvest them, fertilizer is free? And I can do all this even in the cold north?
What? You can copy music videos for free? Computers are free? Internet connections are free? Electricity is free? Time is free?
What VALUE? WHERE ARE MUSIC VIDEOS BOUGHT AND SOLD?
Without YouTube NOBODY would watch music videos because otherwise THEY DON'T EXIST.
The only reason this argument continues is because copyright holders, for whatever reason, totally deprive their audience of what they want. People used to download billions of songs from filesharing networks. Then they turned around and bought 1.5 billion songs from iTunes. Why did they pay for what they could get for free? Because Apple gave them a high-quality easily found song for a reasonable price. If every music video were available for download off some record company site, this would be a non-issue.
Wait, it already is a non-issue.
I think food also wants to be free.
Food is free. Farmers provide the same service Apple does: a high-quality easily found vegetable/fruit/chicken dinner/bottle of orange juice at a reasonable price. And people pay for it despite the fact that anyone armed with a single orange can produce them in unlimited quantities.
But why shouldn't youtube pay for it like everyone else?
Who pays for music videos?
Why should the music industry provide free revenue for youtube, MTV etc?
Because... they provide revenue for the music industry? (I know this will never work of course. Modern business is WAY too adversarial to cooperate. Just look at the workplace. LOL)
I said a bachelor's degree is functionally useless
And that, unfortunately, is the problem with the current workplace. Nothing is ever good enough.
Our society claims to value education, despite the fact that in the workplace, "bachelor's degrees are functionally useless." So which is it? Shall we tell students to abandon their goals of higher education and with it their ability to earn a professional living? Might as well, since hiring managers already are.
If they would like to pay me an arm and a leg to read out of a book to students
I have never ever EVER seen a university professor stand and read from a book for an entire lecture. Not once. Anyone who puts 12 years into getting a PhD and earning the title of "Professor" has earned their paycheck just as much as any medical doctor. They have reached the zenith of their field. What do you want? Free enchiladas?
Professors aren't paid to answer questions, go out of their way to help anyone, or to really do anything except "deliver" the material whatever way they feel appropriate to students.
That is correct, and their Doctorate of Philosophy degree coupled with the title of "Professor" qualifies them on its face to make that decision. End of story.
I don't know what experiences you've had in business
I watched people's careers destroyed by rat fuck liars for no reason. That's about as succinct as I can put it.
Your posts are some of the most cynical, embittered, and vitriolic I've read in some time.
And they are right.
ow would you go about selecting employees?
I would ask "can you do this job?" Based on the answer, I would then ask "would you be willing to learn to do this job?" or say "welcome to the project."
Giving personality tests, horseshit puzzles and treating people like dogshit is quite a bit more cynical, embittered and vitriolic than my accurate commentary on the state of the modern workplace. HR departments and middle managers do this to take people's dignity away from them. Simple as that.
"We believe these new businesses are copyright infringers and owe us tens of millions of dollars"
Fair enough. Please direct us to the site where we can see Universal Music Group artists' music videos.
Okay. Please direct us to the television--
Okay. Please direct us to the DVD--
Oh, you mean nobody would ever see these videos otherwise? So if there's no market for these videos, how can it be established there were tens of millions in damages?
I realized in my first week of college that approx. 60 percent of professors could be fired tomorrow without any effect on students.
Sure! Fire all the professors. Nobody values education any more anyways. Just shut it all down. I mean, we only spent what, five thousand years teaching everyone to read? Let's just cram it all into the toilet. Sounds great. What's on Oprah?
This is an extra way for this professor to pad his pocket. It's pathetic to me that this kind of stuff is being charged for.
Oh noes! $20 a week! Oh noes! Oh noes!
and most are overpaid with cushioned jobs and tenure
And here we see the reason for the bitching. "We can't fire them so we gripe and bitch because they made $20 selling lectures." It is amazing how important it is to the suburban white ass that everyone be vulnerable to the loss of their job, income, career and home.
Nice try backfilling the "inability to do his job" part. He was let go because he didn't agree with people even when they were wrong. Middle management doesn't want employees. They want control. They don't want to get the job done. They want someone to blame.
Seriously, if you think you're done with test after school then you don't belong in these types of jobs.
There is no reason to "test" someone for an entry-level phone-answering job or an entry-level programming job. Employees should be hired and trained to do their jobs. Having a college degree ON ITS FACE qualifies someone beyond the need for testing.
There are two post-graduate "tests" that have any credibility for jobs that do not require formal training: the bar exam, and a medical board. Other than that, all other pre-employment qualification "tests" are bullshit. Period.
it would be a mistake to choose someone who is incapable of following
An implication that leaders are incapable of following. This is one reason corporate middle management is incapable of employing leaders. Effective management is to give someone a job and LET THEM DO IT. Modern management is give someone a job, sabotage it, then fire them and take their paycheck. The purpose now is not to get the job done. The purpose now is to stuff all the money into middle management pockets and take a three-hour lunch.
he candidate is not likely to give references who are down on them.
Which obviates the entire issue of the "world's biggest jerk."
You need some way to try to make the right decision.
Corporate middle management would interpret that as "a justification that can be scapegoated when the manager makes the wrong decision." Here's the deal:
1. Inability to take responsibility. 2. Dishonesty 3. Greed 4. Irrational aversion to risk 5. Contempt for fellow employees 6. Incompetence 7. Obsessive documentation of trivial work 8. Making up words to euphemize common sense 9. The use of layoffs and arbitrary mass firings as a routine cost control measure 10. Total inability to produce anything except carbon dioxide and methane.
This is corporate middle management. They cannot do their jobs, so they blame everyone else. Our workplaces are REPLETE with these people, and they are destroying neighborhoods, families, careers and educations on a daily basis. It wasn't this way one generation ago.
ontact them and see if they would be willing to do a trial period at a reduced pay rate. Say 3 months at half the going rate. Then, a review and if they keep you, another 3 months at 3/4th the going rate. Then another review and if you are acceptable, you continue on at full pay rate.
Congratulations. You've discovered that employers want highly competent employees for free.
Sales has agreed to build a system, and the client's already signed off on a fixed price payment. You have 1 month to build it until the budget runs out. There is no spec, no design document, and no way to confirm any given feature. What do you do?
Compile the largest single reference of riddles and answers in preparation for the next fuckwad series of interviews.
Also, I think I am a solid coder, with 13+ years of experience, and not a single negative review or comment. Somehow, though, none of that mattered, nor did my education or anything else. My answer was "wrong", so I was rejected.
NEVERTHELESS THERE ARE PEOPLE HERE WHO WILL CLAIM WITH CERTAINTY THAT THE EMPLOYER WAS CORRECT AND JUSTIFIED BECAUSE MONEY IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN YOUR NEIGHBORS.
Were they a leader or a follower? This is important in knowing how to handle the employee after they have been hired.
Leaders don't get hired. Modern corporate management is incompetent to employ leaders.
Some of the important questions are about how well the candidate gets along with other employees. Being brilliant at puzzles is nearly useless if you are the world's biggest jerk
And of course, the opinion of a former employer is conclusive proof that someone is the "world's biggest jerk." The possibility the employer is a fucking asscrack isn't even considered, naturally.
And at the end "Is there anything else you would like to add?" That one often has a surprizing answer.
Sure! It's an invitation to take a giant shit on somebody. Why management can't just hire people and get the job done is truly beyond me.
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Why are people buying CDs if they can get the songs for free off file-sharing sites?
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This article is silly, misleading, and biased.
[T]he only salient characteristic shared by all owners of portable music players was that they were more likely to buy more music -- especially CDs.' This is despite years of iTunes promotion and apparent success.
The word "despite" in this quote implies all sorts of total nonsense. Are we to believe that promotion of iTunes was intended to discourage people from buying music or CDs?
"Apparent success?" Sounds like the average "what else ya got?" middle management fuck. "Sold a billion five eh? Not good enough. What else ya got?"
iTunes is a success, and it will continue to be a success, despite the constant drumbeat of anti-Apple bias.
What's the next step to unlimited oranges?
Dirt, water, carbon dioxide, sunlight. In that order.
What? You can grow cultivate orange trees for free? land is free to grow them? labour is free to harvest them, fertilizer is free? And I can do all this even in the cold north?
What? You can copy music videos for free? Computers are free? Internet connections are free? Electricity is free? Time is free?
their valuable property
What VALUE? WHERE ARE MUSIC VIDEOS BOUGHT AND SOLD?
Without YouTube NOBODY would watch music videos because otherwise THEY DON'T EXIST.
The only reason this argument continues is because copyright holders, for whatever reason, totally deprive their audience of what they want. People used to download billions of songs from filesharing networks. Then they turned around and bought 1.5 billion songs from iTunes. Why did they pay for what they could get for free? Because Apple gave them a high-quality easily found song for a reasonable price. If every music video were available for download off some record company site, this would be a non-issue.
Wait, it already is a non-issue.
I think food also wants to be free.
Food is free. Farmers provide the same service Apple does: a high-quality easily found vegetable/fruit/chicken dinner/bottle of orange juice at a reasonable price. And people pay for it despite the fact that anyone armed with a single orange can produce them in unlimited quantities.
But why shouldn't youtube pay for it like everyone else?
Who pays for music videos?
Why should the music industry provide free revenue for youtube, MTV etc?
Because... they provide revenue for the music industry? (I know this will never work of course. Modern business is WAY too adversarial to cooperate. Just look at the workplace. LOL)
Websites with AMVs to Evanescence songs were told to cease distribution of the videos
Yeah. That worked. You can't swing a cat on the internet without knocking over two dozen Final Fantasy videos set to "Bring me to Life"
I said a bachelor's degree is functionally useless
And that, unfortunately, is the problem with the current workplace. Nothing is ever good enough.
Our society claims to value education, despite the fact that in the workplace, "bachelor's degrees are functionally useless." So which is it? Shall we tell students to abandon their goals of higher education and with it their ability to earn a professional living? Might as well, since hiring managers already are.
If they would like to pay me an arm and a leg to read out of a book to students
I have never ever EVER seen a university professor stand and read from a book for an entire lecture. Not once. Anyone who puts 12 years into getting a PhD and earning the title of "Professor" has earned their paycheck just as much as any medical doctor. They have reached the zenith of their field. What do you want? Free enchiladas?
Professors aren't paid to answer questions, go out of their way to help anyone, or to really do anything except "deliver" the material whatever way they feel appropriate to students.
That is correct, and their Doctorate of Philosophy degree coupled with the title of "Professor" qualifies them on its face to make that decision. End of story.
Except there is no tenure whatsoever, and you can be fired any time in your career.
Tenure wins. Flawless victory.
I don't know what experiences you've had in business
I watched people's careers destroyed by rat fuck liars for no reason. That's about as succinct as I can put it.
Your posts are some of the most cynical, embittered, and vitriolic I've read in some time.
And they are right.
ow would you go about selecting employees?
I would ask "can you do this job?" Based on the answer, I would then ask "would you be willing to learn to do this job?" or say "welcome to the project."
Giving personality tests, horseshit puzzles and treating people like dogshit is quite a bit more cynical, embittered and vitriolic than my accurate commentary on the state of the modern workplace. HR departments and middle managers do this to take people's dignity away from them. Simple as that.
"We believe these new businesses are copyright infringers and owe us tens of millions of dollars"
Fair enough. Please direct us to the site where we can see Universal Music Group artists' music videos.
Okay. Please direct us to the television--
Okay. Please direct us to the DVD--
Oh, you mean nobody would ever see these videos otherwise? So if there's no market for these videos, how can it be established there were tens of millions in damages?
BZZZT. Thanks for playing.
Kudos to the professor for innovating!
Now let's dump shit all over the idea.
because they value the benefits of an educated citizenry.
Despite the fact that nobody else does.
the professor's profiteering.
Grocery store club cards are profiteering. $2.50 is not profiteering.
I realized in my first week of college that approx. 60 percent of professors could be fired tomorrow without any effect on students.
Sure! Fire all the professors. Nobody values education any more anyways. Just shut it all down. I mean, we only spent what, five thousand years teaching everyone to read? Let's just cram it all into the toilet. Sounds great. What's on Oprah?
I suppose this means that, if students volunteered to record and edit the lecture and distribute it for free, the professor would have no objection?
Yes because the highest calling of the techno-cyber-people is to invest time and effort to deprive someone of their $2.50
I'll bet a buck they shut him down under the guise of mis-use of state resources to make a buck on the side.
Under a bill titled "The Irony in Education Act" no doubt.
This is an extra way for this professor to pad his pocket. It's pathetic to me that this kind of stuff is being charged for.
Oh noes! $20 a week! Oh noes! Oh noes!
and most are overpaid with cushioned jobs and tenure
And here we see the reason for the bitching. "We can't fire them so we gripe and bitch because they made $20 selling lectures." It is amazing how important it is to the suburban white ass that everyone be vulnerable to the loss of their job, income, career and home.
Give it a rest.
Some people have better abstract thinking abilities than others. This is clearly what he meant.
Nonsense. The statement was specific.
He was let go for attitude
Nice try backfilling the "inability to do his job" part. He was let go because he didn't agree with people even when they were wrong. Middle management doesn't want employees. They want control. They don't want to get the job done. They want someone to blame.
Seriously, if you think you're done with test after school then you don't belong in these types of jobs.
There is no reason to "test" someone for an entry-level phone-answering job or an entry-level programming job. Employees should be hired and trained to do their jobs. Having a college degree ON ITS FACE qualifies someone beyond the need for testing.
There are two post-graduate "tests" that have any credibility for jobs that do not require formal training: the bar exam, and a medical board. Other than that, all other pre-employment qualification "tests" are bullshit. Period.
it would be a mistake to choose someone who is incapable of following
An implication that leaders are incapable of following. This is one reason corporate middle management is incapable of employing leaders. Effective management is to give someone a job and LET THEM DO IT. Modern management is give someone a job, sabotage it, then fire them and take their paycheck. The purpose now is not to get the job done. The purpose now is to stuff all the money into middle management pockets and take a three-hour lunch.
he candidate is not likely to give references who are down on them.
Which obviates the entire issue of the "world's biggest jerk."
You need some way to try to make the right decision.
Corporate middle management would interpret that as "a justification that can be scapegoated when the manager makes the wrong decision." Here's the deal:
1. Inability to take responsibility.
2. Dishonesty
3. Greed
4. Irrational aversion to risk
5. Contempt for fellow employees
6. Incompetence
7. Obsessive documentation of trivial work
8. Making up words to euphemize common sense
9. The use of layoffs and arbitrary mass firings as a routine cost control measure
10. Total inability to produce anything except carbon dioxide and methane.
This is corporate middle management. They cannot do their jobs, so they blame everyone else. Our workplaces are REPLETE with these people, and they are destroying neighborhoods, families, careers and educations on a daily basis. It wasn't this way one generation ago.
ontact them and see if they would be willing to do a trial period at a reduced pay rate. Say 3 months at half the going rate. Then, a review and if they keep you, another 3 months at 3/4th the going rate. Then another review and if you are acceptable, you continue on at full pay rate.
Congratulations. You've discovered that employers want highly competent employees for free.
Sales has agreed to build a system, and the client's already signed off on a fixed price payment. You have 1 month to build it until the budget runs out. There is no spec, no design document, and no way to confirm any given feature. What do you do?
Compile the largest single reference of riddles and answers in preparation for the next fuckwad series of interviews.
IT is now so much about problem solving, why not test potential employees ability to do just that.
They have a degree. They don't have to take tests any more. Thanks.
Also, I think I am a solid coder, with 13+ years of experience, and not a single negative review or comment. Somehow, though, none of that mattered, nor did my education or anything else. My answer was "wrong", so I was rejected.
NEVERTHELESS THERE ARE PEOPLE HERE WHO WILL CLAIM WITH CERTAINTY THAT THE EMPLOYER WAS CORRECT AND JUSTIFIED BECAUSE MONEY IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN YOUR NEIGHBORS.
Were they a leader or a follower? This is important in knowing how to handle the employee after they have been hired.
Leaders don't get hired. Modern corporate management is incompetent to employ leaders.
Some of the important questions are about how well the candidate gets along with other employees. Being brilliant at puzzles is nearly useless if you are the world's biggest jerk
And of course, the opinion of a former employer is conclusive proof that someone is the "world's biggest jerk." The possibility the employer is a fucking asscrack isn't even considered, naturally.
And at the end "Is there anything else you would like to add?" That one often has a surprizing answer.
Sure! It's an invitation to take a giant shit on somebody. Why management can't just hire people and get the job done is truly beyond me.