The only real chance of resurrecting the dead is to invent time travel, and go back to a time before they die, then use your super-magic science to cure their diseases.
You're right, anyone in their right mind wouldn't fall for this scam.
But I suppose that parents who lost their 2 year old kid after a long and painful illness aren't exactly in their right mind.
That's what makes this disgusting rather than merely depressing. It's on the same level as people claiming to be mediums contacting the recently departed: pure scum.
If you believe the only goal of the company is to make money I hope you never start a business. Shareholder Value Maximisation theory pushed forward by Milton Friedman has been one of the most destructive and empirically flawed ideas in the 20th century.
If you aren't interested in maximising shareholder value, you should not have (external) shareholders. There is nothing that forces a company to become a publicly traded one.
it just seems crazy to go through the trouble of settling Mars (or even Moon) without settling Antarctica first.
The company that gets the first Moon base will have a captive workforce and no pesky government interference. It will be a libertarian's paradise. Plus, they get to lob rocks at the Earth if anyone argues with them.
I'm not sure, but I think someone wrote a book about this.
Unless you posted from a mobile device, you're simply a dipshit. If you posted from your PC, you're also a fucked-up, stupid and completely ignorant asshole.
So, let's be clear about this, you think the guy's wrong?
It's obvious that the reason for those changing requirements is that they lack understanding of how development process works, so they just need technical background to understand what requirements make sense and what don't. Just being good at "management" is not enough.
You don't need any special industry knowledge to know that if someone says "we need to do X, Y and Z in addition to what the original project plan says" then it's going to cost money.
I don't want to defend Thompson at all. I do think that if people are committing criminal acts, like fraud, or intimidation, or harassment, or contempt, then we already have laws to deal with that, and we should use those laws. We don't need an extrajudicial process -- the judicial system should eat its own dog food.
So I suppose you would be against schools screening out paedophiles as teachers, since they can always be convicted of rape after the event?
Also, what is the libertarian defence of having a legal system at all? It is the basis for all government which you seem to hate so much.
The concept of mandatory bars and disbarring seems, ironically, to be unamerican. I can see having bar membership as an optional accreditation. We have ASE certified mechanic, or CCNA IT guys. Actually disallowing someone from doing a job, though, merely because someone else says they're unqualified seems incongruent with basic capitalism and free market principles.
And sending someone to prison for committing murder is an even more serious interference with their right to make money.
I would like to think you were joking, but there is no evidence for that, so I will instead assume you're a fucking idiot.
You're joking, right? Her videos have been absolutely demolished by anyone who spends more than 3 seconds thinking about them. Some of her examples have been entirely debunked - she simply made up facts to back her argument.
Of course, you probably never heard of any of this because of the incredibly persuasive response to those debunking her bullshit: misogyny!
You should try reading posts you reply to rather than spewing out a kneejerk "SJW-feminazi" response.
OP was pointing out that if the original response had been to debate and defeat her arguments, that would have been sufficient to put the whole thing to bed. Instead, it was used as an excuse to push out piles of unpleasant misogynistic crap which actually reinforced her argument that a lot of games/gamers are misogynistic.
It's analogous to gamers responding to Jack Thompson's claim that games make people violent by going out and shooting him.
The USA system has worked well for centuries why mess it up?
Because there's a significant number of people here that are hostile towards religion in any shape or form. The mere fact that it exists drives them insane.
As an atheist, I can safely say that my view of religion is essentially the same as towards people who believe in astrology, fairies or alien abductions, i.e. it's your problem
The difference is that religions think they have the right to make it my problem too.
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I prefer to put my faith in science
The only real chance of resurrecting the dead is to invent time travel, and go back to a time before they die, then use your super-magic science to cure their diseases.
It's just an engineering problem, right?
You're right, anyone in their right mind wouldn't fall for this scam. But I suppose that parents who lost their 2 year old kid after a long and painful illness aren't exactly in their right mind.
That's what makes this disgusting rather than merely depressing. It's on the same level as people claiming to be mediums contacting the recently departed: pure scum.
If you believe the only goal of the company is to make money I hope you never start a business. Shareholder Value Maximisation theory pushed forward by Milton Friedman has been one of the most destructive and empirically flawed ideas in the 20th century.
If you aren't interested in maximising shareholder value, you should not have (external) shareholders. There is nothing that forces a company to become a publicly traded one.
Antarctica just has air, ice and some rocks
And the Moon and Mars have only the last of these.
it just seems crazy to go through the trouble of settling Mars (or even Moon) without settling Antarctica first.
The company that gets the first Moon base will have a captive workforce and no pesky government interference. It will be a libertarian's paradise. Plus, they get to lob rocks at the Earth if anyone argues with them.
I'm not sure, but I think someone wrote a book about this.
There's porn on youtube now?
brb
You can get videos of people being beheaded, but not of them having sex.
What a world.
Unless you posted from a mobile device, you're simply a dipshit. If you posted from your PC, you're also a fucked-up, stupid and completely ignorant asshole.
So, let's be clear about this, you think the guy's wrong?
I'd like to quote from a famous song, "We Built This City", by artists Jefferson Starship.
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Yes, that's pretty much an instant classic.
I look forward eagerly to seeing it again soon.
I like how you're proud enough of your taste in web browsers to say what you don't use, but not proud enough to say what you do use.
I'm assuming Netscape Navigator 4.
My only criticism is that Microsoft don't make you pay for it, which seems an almost unbelievable oversight on their part.
"Not Microsoft's fault"
"I actually RTFA."
Kids these days...
And yes, darkside was excited and promised more than they could deliver to microsoft
I know this is heretical on slashdot, but surely that is not Microsoft's fault?
If you're afraid of getting fired, then you should quit and find a job where you don't fear losing it.
Fear eats you, ruins your life and no salary is big enough to compensate that for long.
Not all fears are irrational. It is sensible to be afraid of being shot if you're a combat soldier, it makes you alert.
It is also rational to worry about being fired, since there is no such thing as a secure job any more.
Also do win-win or no deal. (straight from 7 habits of highly effective people by Steven R. Covey)
Yes, because obviously the guys on the other side of the table won't have thought of this too.
It's obvious that the reason for those changing requirements is that they lack understanding of how development process works, so they just need technical background to understand what requirements make sense and what don't. Just being good at "management" is not enough.
You don't need any special industry knowledge to know that if someone says "we need to do X, Y and Z in addition to what the original project plan says" then it's going to cost money.
What in the hell are you doing here? You don't belong here.
I don't want to defend Thompson at all. I do think that if people are committing criminal acts, like fraud, or intimidation, or harassment, or contempt, then we already have laws to deal with that, and we should use those laws. We don't need an extrajudicial process -- the judicial system should eat its own dog food.
So I suppose you would be against schools screening out paedophiles as teachers, since they can always be convicted of rape after the event?
Also, what is the libertarian defence of having a legal system at all? It is the basis for all government which you seem to hate so much.
The concept of mandatory bars and disbarring seems, ironically, to be unamerican. I can see having bar membership as an optional accreditation. We have ASE certified mechanic, or CCNA IT guys. Actually disallowing someone from doing a job, though, merely because someone else says they're unqualified seems incongruent with basic capitalism and free market principles.
And sending someone to prison for committing murder is an even more serious interference with their right to make money.
I would like to think you were joking, but there is no evidence for that, so I will instead assume you're a fucking idiot.
Ah yes, it's all a conspiracy of the liberal media. Thanks for identifying yourself as a clueless right wing chucklefuck.
If there's one thing more pathetic than an internet tough guy, it's an internet rapist.
You're joking, right? Her videos have been absolutely demolished by anyone who spends more than 3 seconds thinking about them. Some of her examples have been entirely debunked - she simply made up facts to back her argument.
Of course, you probably never heard of any of this because of the incredibly persuasive response to those debunking her bullshit: misogyny!
You should try reading posts you reply to rather than spewing out a kneejerk "SJW-feminazi" response.
OP was pointing out that if the original response had been to debate and defeat her arguments, that would have been sufficient to put the whole thing to bed. Instead, it was used as an excuse to push out piles of unpleasant misogynistic crap which actually reinforced her argument that a lot of games/gamers are misogynistic.
It's analogous to gamers responding to Jack Thompson's claim that games make people violent by going out and shooting him.
The USA system has worked well for centuries why mess it up?
Because there's a significant number of people here that are hostile towards religion in any shape or form. The mere fact that it exists drives them insane.
As an atheist, I can safely say that my view of religion is essentially the same as towards people who believe in astrology, fairies or alien abductions, i.e. it's your problem
The difference is that religions think they have the right to make it my problem too.
If Stalin was trying to purge religion from the world 200 years later he did a shit job of it.
Yes, but at least he tried.
It's the logical extension of libertarianism, I suppose.
Well done for not using the term "SJW", although I suspect it must have been hard to resist.