In any company, HR is the most completely useless department.
Anybody who has worked in tech for more than a month knows that HR is just the mindless, obedient enforcement arm of management, and not even top management at that. Never, ever share your issues with HR.
In decent societies, HR is actually there to enforce employee protection and heaalth and safety laws and to protect the staff from the worst abuses of upper management. Since this is akin to socialism, it's no wonder all the Americans on slashdot hate them so much.
The rest of us have had to work "hundreds" as my boss calls them, which are 16 hours a day on weekdays and 10 hours a day on weekends, for over two years. Also, we haven't allowed any vacation time other than around Christmas in nearly three years.
Change this first. Then you might get some actual employees.
He lets them have Christmas off?! Fucking communist.
If you want to look at a scene that plays with continuity: Find the scene where the cops (Leslie Nielson & co) are in the cruiser. The conversation is entirely blase. The thing to look for is the donuts and the coffee cups - they migrate around, get refilled, change color.
It must have driven the continuity people nuts, it was intentionally screwing with the one subject they work very hard at getting right.
I believe that the continuity people would be aware that it was what is called a "joke".
Uhhh, you do realize that it is incredibly racist to say that whites are like humans while blacks are like dogs, right?
I always find it hilarious when liberals show their true colors. "I'll have those niggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years."
Go start another war in the Mideast.
Is it "bring your retarded right wing friend to work" day here or something?
Black on white crime is common? Much more so that white on black crime? And no-one talks about it? Those who do are racist?
There is something legitimately wrong with you.
I imagine that, depending on where you live, crime is mostly black on black, or white on white. Most crime is economically based and fairly localised.
A white person killing a black person simply because of the colour of their skin is as egregious as a black person killing a black person simply because of the colour of their skin.
I'm told it's a place where black on white crime is documented and discussed, since no-one in the media will talk about it, meanwhile any violent act, justified or not, by a white (or quasi-white) person against a violent black felon makes the national news for weeks.
Yeah, being black is like having a "Get Out Of Jail Free" card tattooed on your forehead. That's why there is a disproportionately high number of white criminals in US prisons. Oh, wait...
If you create an online community, then destroy it, you're an asshole. Simple as that.
If you create a general online community, and find that the overwhelming majority of your users don't like having racist shit on it, and you respond to this by getting rid of the racist shit, you are not being an asshole. The ones who introduced the racist shit are the assholes.
I would not choose to waste my time on slashdot if it included thriving sub-slashdots dedicated to paedophilia, videos of tortured animals and race hate.
Next dunce: Iran, as they just gave up 90% completed nukes in exchange for a piece of stamped paper with, which they can't even cleanse their posteriors, because muslims use water for that purpose. Soon they will be bombed back to stone ages by Tel-Aviv.
Bullshit. The Israelis have had the theoretical capability to nuke Iran for quite a long time. If they were going to do it, they would have done by now, before Iran actually had its own nukes to retaliate.
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Real nukes are complicated and delicate systems, it takes lots of practice to get one working and more importantly maintain it in a functional state.
I think the rather more realistic fear is that terrorists will steal a bomb, not make one themselves. And, so the argument goes, the more nuclear bombs there are to steal, the easier it becomes to steal one.
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There is an illusion today among younger people that somehow our world isn't full of evil people
In an age where you can watch people being beheaded or tortured to death by ISIL on your phone, I find this hard to believe.
Exactly, the main evidence against the statement that the Japanese weren't going to surrender but would fight until they were all dead with swords in their hands is the fact that they did, in fact, surrender.
No one should have to apologize for their ancestors. It's meaningless at best.
There's a difference between ancestors from hundreds of years ago and your grandparents' generation.
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And that attitude is why we lost in Vietnam... we weren't ruthless ENOUGH...
Yes, in the sense that you could have nuked the whole country into oblivion, I suppose you're right. The point is, you were supposed to be saving the country, and in the end enough of them chose communism that you would have had to kill most of the population to "win".
I'd be very interested in how they're stating the possibility ("pustulated", "may", "suggests") that the aircraft could've made a landing in the water.
Because it was flying over water, disappeared over water, and a piece of its wreckage was found in the water?
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I always rather liked Bleu deployments... Rouge is so.... Moulin!
When two different posters used the term "rouge deployment" I assumed it was some new buzzphrase rather than a typo.
Writing software is "creative" in the same way that an accountant making a spreadsheet add up is creative.
In any company, HR is the most completely useless department.
Anybody who has worked in tech for more than a month knows that HR is just the mindless, obedient enforcement arm of management, and not even top management at that. Never, ever share your issues with HR.
In decent societies, HR is actually there to enforce employee protection and heaalth and safety laws and to protect the staff from the worst abuses of upper management. Since this is akin to socialism, it's no wonder all the Americans on slashdot hate them so much.
The rest of us have had to work "hundreds" as my boss calls them, which are 16 hours a day on weekdays and 10 hours a day on weekends, for over two years. Also, we haven't allowed any vacation time other than around Christmas in nearly three years. Change this first. Then you might get some actual employees.
He lets them have Christmas off?! Fucking communist.
If you want to look at a scene that plays with continuity: Find the scene where the cops (Leslie Nielson & co) are in the cruiser. The conversation is entirely blase. The thing to look for is the donuts and the coffee cups - they migrate around, get refilled, change color. It must have driven the continuity people nuts, it was intentionally screwing with the one subject they work very hard at getting right.
I believe that the continuity people would be aware that it was what is called a "joke".
In the past, this was one of the reasons that publishers and writers used editors. They weren't just there to correct spelling mistakes.
For the benefit of UK readers, there is also a joke in there somewhere about his ideas never knowingly being underblown..
Ignore the doc. You will die anyway.
Yeah, YOLO right?
People spend very large sums of money on "special" whiskies. Space Whiskey would be highly prized, providing the taste is reasonable.
If people can't work out how to make money in space, space exploration will slow down or stop completely.
There is a difference between genuine economic activityy in space and ripping off gullible idiots.
The main difference between Wolfram's NKS and the Bible is that the latter has a more modest Author.
Yes, I was waiting for the old "Nazi" is German for National SOCIALIST, so all socialists are Nazis" gag.
Uhhh, you do realize that it is incredibly racist to say that whites are like humans while blacks are like dogs, right? I always find it hilarious when liberals show their true colors. "I'll have those niggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years." Go start another war in the Mideast.
Is it "bring your retarded right wing friend to work" day here or something?
Black on white crime is common? Much more so that white on black crime? And no-one talks about it? Those who do are racist? There is something legitimately wrong with you.
I imagine that, depending on where you live, crime is mostly black on black, or white on white. Most crime is economically based and fairly localised.
A white person killing a black person simply because of the colour of their skin is as egregious as a black person killing a black person simply because of the colour of their skin.
I'm told it's a place where black on white crime is documented and discussed, since no-one in the media will talk about it, meanwhile any violent act, justified or not, by a white (or quasi-white) person against a violent black felon makes the national news for weeks.
Yeah, being black is like having a "Get Out Of Jail Free" card tattooed on your forehead. That's why there is a disproportionately high number of white criminals in US prisons. Oh, wait...
If you create an online community, then destroy it, you're an asshole. Simple as that.
If you create a general online community, and find that the overwhelming majority of your users don't like having racist shit on it, and you respond to this by getting rid of the racist shit, you are not being an asshole. The ones who introduced the racist shit are the assholes.
I would not choose to waste my time on slashdot if it included thriving sub-slashdots dedicated to paedophilia, videos of tortured animals and race hate.
Next dunce: Iran, as they just gave up 90% completed nukes in exchange for a piece of stamped paper with, which they can't even cleanse their posteriors, because muslims use water for that purpose. Soon they will be bombed back to stone ages by Tel-Aviv.
Bullshit. The Israelis have had the theoretical capability to nuke Iran for quite a long time. If they were going to do it, they would have done by now, before Iran actually had its own nukes to retaliate.
Real nukes are complicated and delicate systems, it takes lots of practice to get one working and more importantly maintain it in a functional state.
I think the rather more realistic fear is that terrorists will steal a bomb, not make one themselves. And, so the argument goes, the more nuclear bombs there are to steal, the easier it becomes to steal one.
There is an illusion today among younger people that somehow our world isn't full of evil people
In an age where you can watch people being beheaded or tortured to death by ISIL on your phone, I find this hard to believe.
Exactly, the main evidence against the statement that the Japanese weren't going to surrender but would fight until they were all dead with swords in their hands is the fact that they did, in fact, surrender.
No one should have to apologize for their ancestors. It's meaningless at best.
There's a difference between ancestors from hundreds of years ago and your grandparents' generation.
And that attitude is why we lost in Vietnam... we weren't ruthless ENOUGH...
Yes, in the sense that you could have nuked the whole country into oblivion, I suppose you're right. The point is, you were supposed to be saving the country, and in the end enough of them chose communism that you would have had to kill most of the population to "win".
There is a difference between killing enemy combatants and killing civilians.
The big problem was Financials.
Oracle Financials is merely bad in the way that Hitler was merely a bit racist.
It's the sort of software that makes people leave their jobs and sign up to fight ISIL as a more enjoyable option.
I'd be very interested in how they're stating the possibility ("pustulated", "may", "suggests") that the aircraft could've made a landing in the water.
Because it was flying over water, disappeared over water, and a piece of its wreckage was found in the water?
I think I just heard one of the biggest whooshes in the history of the Internet.