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  1. Re:Bad for me, but not for thee on Why Free Software Evangelist Richard Stallman is Haunted by Stalin's Dream (factordaily.com) · · Score: 1

    Oft repeated claim. But remains bullshit.

    Libertarianism is much older than socialism. Socialism is incompatible with libertarianism, as are all command economies.

  2. Re:How the mighty have fallen on Trump Offered NASA Unlimited Funding To Put People on Mars by 2020, Report Says (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    The is a close to optimal launch window every year. Do you even play KSP?

  3. Cut up and down your arms, not across when he's re-elected.

  4. Low energy transfer orbit times are always about the half the average of the two bodies years. As the ratios change, 'half the average' breaks, but for earth and mars, close enough.

  5. Re:Degrees are vital for the legacies. on Hiring Based on Skills Instead of College Degrees is Vital for the Future, IBM CEO Says (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Almost certainly just a translation issue.

    'Magna' became 'maha'. 'Magna' is latin BTW, not english. Europe was weird like that back in the middle ages. Would be like India using Sanskrit for official business.

  6. Re:Degrees are vital for the legacies. on Hiring Based on Skills Instead of College Degrees is Vital for the Future, IBM CEO Says (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    It is dogma of English history that there has only been one 'The Great', Alfred. He was never king of all of England.

    Of course there were kings of kingdoms within England, Wales and Scotland that called themselves 'the great', but 'official story'...you know how those are...e.g. never tell a Russian that Vodka was invented in Poland.

    John? No, someone was trying to sell you a story or something got lost in translation, maybe both.

  7. And then you ignored it and used: 'are real-world practical jobs - a.k.a. trades.' your private definition.

  8. Re:Lying AC. You employers want CHEAP. on Hiring Based on Skills Instead of College Degrees is Vital for the Future, IBM CEO Says (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    NOT(X NOR Y)? So X OR Y?

  9. Anything practical is a 'trade'? You realize that's your private definition?

    The word you are looking for is 'profession'. Doctor, Lawyer, Engineer, Prostitute.

  10. Re:Bad for me, but not for thee on Why Free Software Evangelist Richard Stallman is Haunted by Stalin's Dream (factordaily.com) · · Score: 0

    I don't know, why did you write such nonsense?

  11. Re:Bad for me, but not for thee on Why Free Software Evangelist Richard Stallman is Haunted by Stalin's Dream (factordaily.com) · · Score: 0

    Not in the USA for the last 100 years it hasn't. It's just one of the euphemisms used up by marxists trying to hide.

  12. How can you be so sure of yourself and so wrong?

    Foreclosure is a shitty way to cash out your equity, you're much better off selling. But you're just wrong about it being gone, by definition.

  13. Comfy restraint chair?

  14. Dual citizen!

    Neener neener.

  15. Capitalizing opex is a great plan. It makes the company look profitable and makes it look like it's holding a valuable software system asset, not an unsupportable money pit.

    Then you get yourself acquired and _RUN_.

    Tricky part is getting it past due diligence. I've seen auditors sign off on mature software development efforts that call 100% of dev costs systems development (capitalized), 0% as maintenance (expensed). Think of it as a MBA idiocy bene, the flip side of all the pain they cause.

  16. Re:Bad for me, but not for thee on Why Free Software Evangelist Richard Stallman is Haunted by Stalin's Dream (factordaily.com) · · Score: 0

    You must be one of the dumb ones.

  17. Re:Bad for me, but not for thee on Why Free Software Evangelist Richard Stallman is Haunted by Stalin's Dream (factordaily.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Libertarians are the classical liberals. American 'liberals' are socialist authoritarians.

  18. Re:Hire on aptitude and potential, not qualificati on Hiring Based on Skills Instead of College Degrees is Vital for the Future, IBM CEO Says (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    That's why you _always_ include the job description right back at them, in 2 point white on white text in the margin of your resume. Duh. Along with a super long list of skill keywords you might or might not actually own.

    I don't know why everybody doesn't do it. Aren't you supposed to be smarter than some HR moron?

    I wouldn't hire anyone that wasn't smart enough to work that stupidity for their benefit.

  19. Re:Ok - come up with another system on Hiring Based on Skills Instead of College Degrees is Vital for the Future, IBM CEO Says (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    You realize the CMU isn't the whole world?

    CS goes in waves. It's more or less back up to the level of 1985, the first computer gold rush.

  20. Re:Ok - come up with another system on Hiring Based on Skills Instead of College Degrees is Vital for the Future, IBM CEO Says (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    HVAC work involves crawling in very tight attics and crawl spaces. Often they are very hot and/or full of brown recluses.

    It's shit work, mostly done by kids. They have to pay well because the working conditions SUCK so badly.

  21. Two possibilities:

    1. You are right.
    2. You don't understand what he does.

    How are you qualified? What metric do you use? Is your hair pointy?

  22. Imagine a school where all of your classmates are also serious about it.

    That's the main benefit of a good school, the main drawback of all the 'four more years of HS' bullshit degrees.

    There's great potential for online groups to be that group of serious students. But S/N ratio.

  23. They're asking how many years of experience you have bullshitting skills you don't actually have and then learning fast.

    You know you have decades at that.

    The Indians are good at the bullshit part, not so much the learning fast part.

  24. Re:hiring based on skills is for millennial thinki on Hiring Based on Skills Instead of College Degrees is Vital for the Future, IBM CEO Says (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    Citation needed. I call bullshit. I've seen many 'coders' quit the industry after a year or two, they were very rarely the 'good ones'.

    The best metric for coders I've found remains 'number of languages proficient'. Not perfect, but posers are quickly found out.

    Six months to be up to speed, no programming experience. Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit!

  25. Re:hiring based on skills is for millennial thinki on Hiring Based on Skills Instead of College Degrees is Vital for the Future, IBM CEO Says (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    There have always been 'certificate of attendance' degrees.

    As the % with college degrees goes up, the % of those that got useless degrees also goes up. Diminishing returns never sleeps.