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  1. Re: Wow is Larry ever tired of being wrong? on Oracle's CTO: No Way a 'Normal' Person Would Move To AWS (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    There's also the 'drunk monkey CEO', that gets great ROI when an entire market booms and they go along for the ride.

  2. Re:Got it on Oracle's CTO: No Way a 'Normal' Person Would Move To AWS (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    One point. IBM is the IBM of legacy databases. Other than that, spot on.

  3. Re:Got it on Oracle's CTO: No Way a 'Normal' Person Would Move To AWS (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    He's mixing that up with Ellison pushing 'thin clients' for everything in the 90s. IIRC Ellison was using the quote.

  4. Re:Not dealing with Oracle = big win on Oracle's CTO: No Way a 'Normal' Person Would Move To AWS (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    WTF? MySQL is completely non-standard. The only way it's fast is to throw away transactions.

    They can all lock you in, but most will let you write 90% ANSI SQL. Not MySQL though.

  5. Re:And they will respond ... on France Will Tax Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon In New Year (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Commodities are most of the market. They aren't priced like iPhones or Rolexes.

  6. Re:Borrowing from tomorrow on More than Half of Americans Say They Didn't Get a Pay Raise this Year (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    Did you say anything or were you all for it? Consistency, not partisanship.

    Same standard, if they invested it, then maybe. But the feds were _blowing_the_money_, everytime.

    There have been a couple of 'more taxes now for reduced spending tomorrow' deals in DC. We're still waiting for the first reduction in spending. The beast needs starving.

  7. Re: Only One Thing Needed on Nearly 200 Countries Agree On Global Climate Pact Rules After Impasse (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Better than the other one.

    Still lists business expenses as subsidies, rather than the difference in present value between expensing and amortizing. Lots of industries have those kinds of rules.

  8. Wiping ass is good money for the incompetent. All supply and demand. Some of the best paying mechanic work is working on trash trucks. It's the 'trash juice' they get to roll around in that makes it better paid.

    People need to eat. Duh. Doesn't change a thing about how useless most poors are.

    The ones that stay poor are too good to wipe ass. Why they're still poor and why wiping ass is relatively well paid.

  9. Capital is mobile. World economies compete on after tax ROI: (AverageROI * (1 - CapGainsRate) * (1 - CorpTaxRate) * (1 - CorruptionTax)).

    If a nation's after tax ROI isn't competitive, it gets no investment.

    Capital controls don't work.

  10. Re:Borrowing from tomorrow on More than Half of Americans Say They Didn't Get a Pay Raise this Year (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 0

    Of course you were consistent...You were against increased spending under the Ds? What, no? Well fuck you then.

  11. I'm not 'society'. I hire based on value to _me_.

    Never trust anyone who claims to be a judge of 'value to society'. Especially nolife, worthless to everyone including themselves, trolls.

  12. This whole discussion started with 'if you want useful work, hire someone with a history of doing useful work'.

    You choose to disagree with that. Using a janitor as an example. BTW Janitors do useful work, it's just paid for shit as anyone could do it.

  13. People are wired to 'follow' about a thousand others. The size of a primitive community. It was important to know who you could trust. (There is a name for this 'constant' it just escapes me at the moment.)

    'Celebrity' is just an evolution of that wiring against modern urban life, you interact with much more than 1000 people, but actually 'know' much fewer (how many people do you think you know by name?). So people fill in the empty spaces with 'public' persons, 99% of which will be categorized as 'untrustworthy', DC and Hollywood both being gold plated trailer parks (so to speak).

    Celebrities are just overpaid versions of 'Jerry Springer' sideshow, 'I fucked my sister' type geeks. The smart ones know it.

  14. Re: Only One Thing Needed on Nearly 200 Countries Agree On Global Climate Pact Rules After Impasse (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Still an improvement. I've heard 'them' claim a tax on gasoline was a subsidy. Not just some random /.er, a citation counted gas tax as subsidy.

  15. Re:Troll on Nearly 200 Countries Agree On Global Climate Pact Rules After Impasse (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    They're generally called 'watermelons'. Green on the outside, red to the core.

    Same old same old, but they've changed their public reasons for 'smashing capitalism'. Just boring and lame, but they don't have much left to base their arguments on.

  16. I hire based on value of work. GGP pretends he hires based on 'value as a human being'. He's deluded to think he can know, but 'virtue signaling moron'.

  17. You can build a fusion reactor in your home lab, many people have. Making one net energy positive is the tricky part.

  18. Good luck with your janitor employing tech venture.

    You understand that nobody is going to invest and why?

  19. Re:So... on People Are Harassing Waymo's Self-Driving Vehicles (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Many subdivisions just made their streets into mazes, so only locals that knew the way could use the shortcut. Technology has broken that. They will all go to the single entrance mode.

  20. Re:Chile banned plastic bags too on Nearly 200 Countries Agree On Global Climate Pact Rules After Impasse (reuters.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    No need. They've fucked themselves more than enough.

  21. Re:So: that is English swear words dealed with ... on OpenJDK Bug Report Complains Source Code 'Has Too Many Swear Words' (java.net) · · Score: 1

    'Du leah lo mo' means 'hello old friend'. Say it to your Chinese associates and coworkers.

    That Chinese has no swear words in an oft repeated lie.

  22. Re:Grow the fuck up on OpenJDK Bug Report Complains Source Code 'Has Too Many Swear Words' (java.net) · · Score: 1

    There are people who are professional and people who act professional.

    You are the fucking second kind.

  23. Re:Why are the swear words there? on OpenJDK Bug Report Complains Source Code 'Has Too Many Swear Words' (java.net) · · Score: 1

    We know at least 6 ways to spell it! You just lack emagination.

  24. Re:The rot is growing stronger on OpenJDK Bug Report Complains Source Code 'Has Too Many Swear Words' (java.net) · · Score: 1

    Idiot. The word that matters is 'people'. As you point out, they clearly knew the word 'militia' have just used it earlier in the sentence.

  25. Re:The rot is growing stronger on OpenJDK Bug Report Complains Source Code 'Has Too Many Swear Words' (java.net) · · Score: 1

    Comments by the coder aren't the same as comments from random idiots.

    Your hypothetical should never happen, as the commenter wouldn't have checkin rights. They could of course fork the project to add their editorials.

    Four 'fucks' in a project is not overuse of cursing. Bet there are four messes in there that rate 'fucks'.