Social skills are overrated and having "emotional IQ" is basically similar to knowing how to act (Read: fake) in response to people. Emotional responses are usually illogical and counterproductive. Trying to read what people's motives or intentions are is a crash course in failure. It is quite literally impossible. Learning "social skills" is not what is needed. What is needed is to eloquently and thouroughly communicate to people that their emotional responses are getting in the way of their rational responses and what they need to learn to do is to calm the fuck down and don't get butt hurt by things. We would all get along a lot better if people learned some damn humility and responded to real life situations in a logical and not "self first" type of way. In circles of "Nerds" this happens all the time and people get along swimmingly. Then some emotional girl comes along and one guy wants to mount her and another gets jealous and the shit hits the fan because the girl doesn't know what the fuck she wants because she's "only in college" nevermind the fact that she is a legal consenting adult at this point and needs to take responsibility for her own fucking life and make some damn decisions every now and then for herself!
Ya, but that has to be proven in a COURT of LAW FIRST. That's called DUE PROCESS and it is guaranteed by the CONSTITUION of the United States. You should read it some time. That's right people, Obama shreds the Consititution.
No, only corrupt assholes do that. Point in case: One time in Band Camp there used to be a lot of hazing by the Seniors on the Freshman. They would not just play pranks but be complete jerks to the incoming class doing things like making them march in place for hours while covering them in food and silly string and then making them clean up THEIR mess afterwards. They also made them stand at attention for hours on end with no water (Abu Grahib Style) and hurl insults at them. The worst is when they would march them directly into solid objects like tree limbs and the sides of buildings.
When that Freshman class became Seniors, NONE of that stuff came over. The new Seniors kept ONE tradition which was making the Freshman carry a block of wood around and punishing them if they lost it. Otherwise there was no hazing whatsoever. So in one Generation the corruption ended. Apple just proves that instead of abhoring the corruption and abuse of power, they were simply jealous that they did not "think of that first".
No! If I buy the $300 phone they should throw in the $30 bumper for free! You know why? Because that "$30 bumper" actually costs them $2 and most of that is shipping! If they did that then this issue would go away! Their refusal to do ANYTHING is complete bullshit! It violates the implied warranty of fitness for use as a PHONE (which it is still, gadgets and all).
You can't have everything. They would just declare bankruptcy. Also if Americans want everything then that just proves how unethical our culture has become. At most they should want the amount equal to their real liability. Even better would be to not break the law and live up to the liability cap set in place. Full Discolsure: I sold my stocks in oil companies over a year ago and hold none now.
How did that oil company liability limit work out for BP? Obama has shown he is the dictator here and he will do whatever he wants. If he wants $20 billion when then limit of liability is $75 Million then he will damn well get it. Why? Because he said so. When the authority of a ruler comes from him being the ruler then Democracy has failed. His or Her authority should come from the backing and support of the people of the United States of America.
The CEO of the company I worked for used this trick once. He was trying to get all the executives to take a temporary pay cut for one month. In order to do this he mentioned that he took no salary for the last 3 months. While this was technically true, the more overarching truth was more sinister. He had in fact shielded himself and his income from any downturn in the business by setting up a second corporation where he was the only owner, employee etc. This was a marketing company. Now the first company only got leads from Direct Mail. Guess what the second company did? Direct Mail Marketinig. So while he took no salary from the first company, he continued to get paid very well from the second company for something the first could not live without.
That doesn't work in the real world. In the real world your boss may not even be in the same field as you and they have no basis to know if you are actually good or just bullshitting.
Wow, shed a tear for yourself. All you are doing is exporting the problem somewhere else in the globe. Do you think Mideast drilling operations care about safety? Do you think they care about the environment? Do you think they give a shit that most of the income from their operations funds militant theocracies or terrorists? Look at the alternative before you open your mouth. You are taking a very narrow view on the subject.
Look, we need to move away from oil as fast as possible but at the same time we need to source a much of it as possible right here at home because the alternative is infinently WORSE!
Nobody said Natural Seeps are in one place. Actually if you took the time to ask my my position I would tell you that there should be On-Shore cross drilling into the offshore wells off the coast of Santa Barbara because this would result in a higher GDP, more jobs, better national security, and LESS oil in the ocean off THAT coast.
Are you saying then spent none? Becuase I followed the timeline and they already had like 5 different things to try within days of it happening. The problem is they should not have been forced to drill so deeply in the first place. Drilling in shallower water is MUCH safer although more politically incorrect.
Wow, the demonization of Tony Hayward is complete. Why don't you start spreading some wrong information that he's a pedophile to add the icing on the cake?
I mean seriously, what did this guy do or fail to do? The way I see it the whole disaster would not have happened if Halliburton didn't fuck up the cementing and that other company didn't fuck up the failsafe mechanism.
So it wasn't their fault but it kind of it because they outsourced the solution. Also the data made public is no worse then what gets posted on Facebook. Non-story for the most part.
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Social skills are overrated and having "emotional IQ" is basically similar to knowing how to act (Read: fake) in response to people. Emotional responses are usually illogical and counterproductive. Trying to read what people's motives or intentions are is a crash course in failure. It is quite literally impossible. Learning "social skills" is not what is needed. What is needed is to eloquently and thouroughly communicate to people that their emotional responses are getting in the way of their rational responses and what they need to learn to do is to calm the fuck down and don't get butt hurt by things. We would all get along a lot better if people learned some damn humility and responded to real life situations in a logical and not "self first" type of way. In circles of "Nerds" this happens all the time and people get along swimmingly. Then some emotional girl comes along and one guy wants to mount her and another gets jealous and the shit hits the fan because the girl doesn't know what the fuck she wants because she's "only in college" nevermind the fact that she is a legal consenting adult at this point and needs to take responsibility for her own fucking life and make some damn decisions every now and then for herself!
Ya, but that has to be proven in a COURT of LAW FIRST. That's called DUE PROCESS and it is guaranteed by the CONSTITUION of the United States. You should read it some time. That's right people, Obama shreds the Consititution.
No, only corrupt assholes do that. Point in case: One time in Band Camp there used to be a lot of hazing by the Seniors on the Freshman. They would not just play pranks but be complete jerks to the incoming class doing things like making them march in place for hours while covering them in food and silly string and then making them clean up THEIR mess afterwards. They also made them stand at attention for hours on end with no water (Abu Grahib Style) and hurl insults at them. The worst is when they would march them directly into solid objects like tree limbs and the sides of buildings.
When that Freshman class became Seniors, NONE of that stuff came over. The new Seniors kept ONE tradition which was making the Freshman carry a block of wood around and punishing them if they lost it. Otherwise there was no hazing whatsoever. So in one Generation the corruption ended. Apple just proves that instead of abhoring the corruption and abuse of power, they were simply jealous that they did not "think of that first".
Thanks for that reply STEVE JOBS! Alert, I found ANOTHER one of his Slashdot accounts! Terminate it immediatly!
No! If I buy the $300 phone they should throw in the $30 bumper for free! You know why? Because that "$30 bumper" actually costs them $2 and most of that is shipping! If they did that then this issue would go away! Their refusal to do ANYTHING is complete bullshit! It violates the implied warranty of fitness for use as a PHONE (which it is still, gadgets and all).
Right because we all know that only dictators keep their word. (end Sarcasm)
You can't have everything. They would just declare bankruptcy. Also if Americans want everything then that just proves how unethical our culture has become. At most they should want the amount equal to their real liability. Even better would be to not break the law and live up to the liability cap set in place. Full Discolsure: I sold my stocks in oil companies over a year ago and hold none now.
How did that oil company liability limit work out for BP? Obama has shown he is the dictator here and he will do whatever he wants. If he wants $20 billion when then limit of liability is $75 Million then he will damn well get it. Why? Because he said so. When the authority of a ruler comes from him being the ruler then Democracy has failed. His or Her authority should come from the backing and support of the people of the United States of America.
This has the added benefit that if you do something really stupid on the forums then you might not just get banned on there but all of battle.net
The CEO of the company I worked for used this trick once. He was trying to get all the executives to take a temporary pay cut for one month. In order to do this he mentioned that he took no salary for the last 3 months. While this was technically true, the more overarching truth was more sinister. He had in fact shielded himself and his income from any downturn in the business by setting up a second corporation where he was the only owner, employee etc. This was a marketing company. Now the first company only got leads from Direct Mail. Guess what the second company did? Direct Mail Marketinig. So while he took no salary from the first company, he continued to get paid very well from the second company for something the first could not live without.
That doesn't work in the real world. In the real world your boss may not even be in the same field as you and they have no basis to know if you are actually good or just bullshitting.
Wow, shed a tear for yourself. All you are doing is exporting the problem somewhere else in the globe. Do you think Mideast drilling operations care about safety? Do you think they care about the environment? Do you think they give a shit that most of the income from their operations funds militant theocracies or terrorists? Look at the alternative before you open your mouth. You are taking a very narrow view on the subject.
Look, we need to move away from oil as fast as possible but at the same time we need to source a much of it as possible right here at home because the alternative is infinently WORSE!
Nobody said Natural Seeps are in one place. Actually if you took the time to ask my my position I would tell you that there should be On-Shore cross drilling into the offshore wells off the coast of Santa Barbara because this would result in a higher GDP, more jobs, better national security, and LESS oil in the ocean off THAT coast.
Yes, because they wanted the rig to explode and sink into the sea.
Almost half a century of technological advance matters here.
Also this... http://dcm2.enr.state.nc.us/facts/offshore.htm
3-200 miles offshore drilling was already banned in many areas except for existing wells.
Some light reading. http://www.theresilientearth.com/?q=content/crude-facts-about-offshore-drilling
Also oil with dispersant in it does not float to the top.
In Russia it does.
Actually, it is soon to be second to debt repayment. This is because of the other thing I mentioned about staying in a budget.
This was before it was cultural suicide to say anything negative about the iPod.
Are you saying then spent none? Becuase I followed the timeline and they already had like 5 different things to try within days of it happening. The problem is they should not have been forced to drill so deeply in the first place. Drilling in shallower water is MUCH safer although more politically incorrect.
Wow, the demonization of Tony Hayward is complete. Why don't you start spreading some wrong information that he's a pedophile to add the icing on the cake?
I mean seriously, what did this guy do or fail to do? The way I see it the whole disaster would not have happened if Halliburton didn't fuck up the cementing and that other company didn't fuck up the failsafe mechanism.
My only question is "Why did it take so long?".
Because the author is the same one who accessed the database in the first place? I'm just sayin...
So it wasn't their fault but it kind of it because they outsourced the solution. Also the data made public is no worse then what gets posted on Facebook. Non-story for the most part.