your freedom ends when it negatively affects others.
False. My calling you names or otherwise being offensive (including, gasp, making racist and sexist statements), for example, however negatively it might affect you and millions of others, does not end my freedom of speech.
Freedom of speech is a separate issue, although even in countries with near-total freedom of speech like the US you can (rightly) be sued for slander/libel.
We are talking about things like the "freedom" to drink drive and kill someone.
It also seems to me that software engineers are definitely the least conservative and religious of engineers I've met.
Judging from slashdot, most software engineers are of the extreme right wing/libertarian political persuasion, and outside the US would be considered extremely conservative apart from their enthusiasm for drugs. And their religion is the free market.
The watershed moment is when that nerd finishes his engineering or computer science degree and get a 50k-100k job. Engineering is one of the few jobs that consistently have high entry salaries. Other areas that may have huge salaries, generally have really low paying or ultra high steess entry conditions, such as law, medicine or business administration.
As a result you have a slightly weird guy with mediocre fashion sense, not very high self esteem and a high paying job. They suddenly get catapulted to the top of the dating pool without actually realizing it. The reason why you see many nerds being married, is because any woman with a sense knows to put a ring on his finger before he realizes that he actually is at the top of the dating pool.
I am, by no means, an expert on this subject but is this an area where you really want to hunt for bargains? I think one would want to pay top dollar for this sort of service. I'd want someone who is skilled enough to demand a high rate and someone who's willing to stay silent after the fact because they've been well paid.
Anyone who's wuss enough to pay for a hired killer rather than do it themselves deserves to be shot. By a hired killer.
I would never hire a programmer that would pride himself on the complexity of his software. That's probably the reason the poor slob had to turn to malware to make a buck.
I think you're confusing 'complexity' with '(unnecessary) complication'.
If something is complex, you can't simplify it without losing information: if something is (unnecessarily) complicated, then you can.
Outsourcing does not give you workers who care about your company.
Employing people does not give you workers who care about your company, except in tedious business-obsessed countries like the US where everyone thinks they'll be a millionaire next year, like humourless versions of Del Boy Trotter.
I just like it to see all the IANAL disclaimers. No fucking shit, there's me thinking a rambling paragraph by an Anonymous Paranoiac on the internet is as valuable as a practicing lawyer's five hundred an hour advice.
and it took all 6 of them to do your job half as well but the cost for 6 was 3x what the company was paying you
Yes, big corporations deliberately spend extra money on employees for the sake of it. That's exactly right, a really accurate description of how businesses behave.
Business schools in the last 20 years have really been a disaster. It's the progressive idea that things should always be improving. They teach the role of a businessman isn't to create value, it is to maximize value.
Is there no end to the evil caused by liberals?
If they're not trying to destroy the economy by introducing socialism, they're trying to destroy society by seeking the maximisation of profit!
No it is not, and it is precisely for the reason that there is a separate licence fee instead of paying for it out of general taxation. The current Tory government want to get rid of the licence fee purely to diminish the BBC's independence.
Hey at least The North Koreans will get to listen to the same politically biased shit that us Brits do though they might find it harder to swallow.
So are you one of the people who think the BBC is a bastion of out-dated colonial-imperialist racist militarism, or one of the people who think the BBC is a hotbed of sacriligeous left-wing Islamophiles?
Yeah, when I was a lad, if you brought a nuclear weapon into class as a prank, Sir just put it in a cupboard til the end of the day. Maybe you got six of the best if it was actually leaking radiation, but in any case we all just took things in proportion unlike the lily-livered hippies in charge today.
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your freedom ends when it negatively affects others.
False. My calling you names or otherwise being offensive (including, gasp, making racist and sexist statements), for example, however negatively it might affect you and millions of others, does not end my freedom of speech.
Freedom of speech is a separate issue, although even in countries with near-total freedom of speech like the US you can (rightly) be sued for slander/libel.
We are talking about things like the "freedom" to drink drive and kill someone.
Yes, but you would still have to come up with a method for people to move large packages around if you eliminated all the cars.
You'd still have cabs and delivery vans in London.
the thousands of believers who put Jedi on their census as a way of giving the middle finger to Richard Dawkins' atheist zealotry
I always assumed that, like the Flying Spghetti Monster, this was people having a dig at the absurdity of religion.
It also seems to me that software engineers are definitely the least conservative and religious of engineers I've met.
Judging from slashdot, most software engineers are of the extreme right wing/libertarian political persuasion, and outside the US would be considered extremely conservative apart from their enthusiasm for drugs. And their religion is the free market.
Morality trumps pragmatism every time, unless you're a psychopath.
The point is that you believers need a proper reason for us to believe in it as the actual truth rather than a series of interesting stories.
The watershed moment is when that nerd finishes his engineering or computer science degree and get a 50k-100k job. Engineering is one of the few jobs that consistently have high entry salaries. Other areas that may have huge salaries, generally have really low paying or ultra high steess entry conditions, such as law, medicine or business administration.
As a result you have a slightly weird guy with mediocre fashion sense, not very high self esteem and a high paying job. They suddenly get catapulted to the top of the dating pool without actually realizing it. The reason why you see many nerds being married, is because any woman with a sense knows to put a ring on his finger before he realizes that he actually is at the top of the dating pool.
Yeah, I too live in a fantasy 1950s world.
Time to go to Finland and beat the crap out of him.
Internet Tough guy has spoken. So mote it be.
I am, by no means, an expert on this subject but is this an area where you really want to hunt for bargains? I think one would want to pay top dollar for this sort of service. I'd want someone who is skilled enough to demand a high rate and someone who's willing to stay silent after the fact because they've been well paid.
Anyone who's wuss enough to pay for a hired killer rather than do it themselves deserves to be shot. By a hired killer.
Exactly. And this is another gem:
'much more complex than average malware'
I would never hire a programmer that would pride himself on the complexity of his software. That's probably the reason the poor slob had to turn to malware to make a buck.
I think you're confusing 'complexity' with '(unnecessary) complication'.
If something is complex, you can't simplify it without losing information: if something is (unnecessarily) complicated, then you can.
Outsourcing does not give you workers who care about your company.
Employing people does not give you workers who care about your company, except in tedious business-obsessed countries like the US where everyone thinks they'll be a millionaire next year, like humourless versions of Del Boy Trotter.
I just like it to see all the IANAL disclaimers. No fucking shit, there's me thinking a rambling paragraph by an Anonymous Paranoiac on the internet is as valuable as a practicing lawyer's five hundred an hour advice.
and it took all 6 of them to do your job half as well but the cost for 6 was 3x what the company was paying you
Yes, big corporations deliberately spend extra money on employees for the sake of it. That's exactly right, a really accurate description of how businesses behave.
Are you ten years old?
Business schools in the last 20 years have really been a disaster. It's the progressive idea that things should always be improving. They teach the role of a businessman isn't to create value, it is to maximize value.
Is there no end to the evil caused by liberals?
If they're not trying to destroy the economy by introducing socialism, they're trying to destroy society by seeking the maximisation of profit!
Un-fucking-believable.
So Vladimir Putin ordered fighters into NATO airspace and was shots down.
Where is the storys here?
Simples: is start of WW3. Will probably delay release of new iPhone, hence news for nerd.
The BBC would not be at the top of my list of examples of "media independence".
The BBC isn't perfect but it's less imperfect than almost anything else of its size.
The North Koreans will listen to the BBC and think, "hey, I don't mind a bit of propaganda but this is too much!"
I'd be interested to hear your idea of a more balanced and neutral service than the BBC.
The BBC is the government's mouthpiece
No it is not, and it is precisely for the reason that there is a separate licence fee instead of paying for it out of general taxation. The current Tory government want to get rid of the licence fee purely to diminish the BBC's independence.
Hey at least The North Koreans will get to listen to the same politically biased shit that us Brits do though they might find it harder to swallow.
So are you one of the people who think the BBC is a bastion of out-dated colonial-imperialist racist militarism, or one of the people who think the BBC is a hotbed of sacriligeous left-wing Islamophiles?
Made in Egypt ... With technology they got from refugees from Atlantis, clearly.
And look what happened to Egypt after they let in all those refugees!
Truly a warning from history.
A way of giving financial support to content creators. ...kind of like a Patron
So why not call it "Find a Gullible Fucking Patron" or isn't that hipstery enough?
The real problem is that apparently no scientists were involved in the decision to purchase these things.
I imagine some palm-greasing of tame experts went on too. There surely must have been some sort of validation process, however sketchy?
You must be holding it wrong.
He should have sold it as an iPhone app, then he'd have had plausible deniability.
As an aside, really!?, a ten year sentence?
10 years is the maximum sentence for fraud in the UK.
Yes, but this is more like manslaughter.
Yeah, when I was a lad, if you brought a nuclear weapon into class as a prank, Sir just put it in a cupboard til the end of the day. Maybe you got six of the best if it was actually leaking radiation, but in any case we all just took things in proportion unlike the lily-livered hippies in charge today.