The problem is, the CEO/coach is the easiest scapegoat, regardless of where the problem actually lies.
Aw, there there sweetie. Did the nasty employees scapegoat you for being an incompetent, drunk fuckwit?
Never mind diddums, the board understands. Here's 20 million bucks to keep up the illusion that you were really a great hire so we don't get massacred in the market on Monday.
One big downside of NZ is they have much more gun control.
Go to New Zealand. Meet some New Zealanders. Then you will know why they have such strong gun control.
As to immigrating there. I'm always surprised by American's stating that 'I might just immigrate to X'. As if all you had to do to become a citizen or resident of another country is just hop on a plane with your credit card.
Do you think New Zealanders want millions of whinging Yanks turning up on their front doorstep with a suitcase?
There are currently an estimated 4 million 'slaves' in the United States currently, which compared to the total population is about 1.5%
Compared to pre-civil war levels of 7-12% of the population, I call you on your claim that slavery is more widespread than ever before.
Still. Modern slavery, done in secret, is probably much more oppressive and exploitave than when it was legal. So the problem itself is as bad as ever, perhaps worse.
Your opinion is boring and predictable, but let's hear it again anyway. We need some churchin-up.
I believe in the Bible
Which translation?
And as a Christian I have every right to say that Homo-sexuality is unnatural.
Christians don't have any rights. Only people protected by the First Amendment have every right to say whatever they like.
My viewpoint is NOT ignorant nor is it bigoted.
Even your first sentence is ignorant and bigoted. It can only go downhill from here.
And they have accepted my viewpoints so I know I'm doing something right.
By that I assume you mean you have spread your beliefs without offending them?
its okay for them to say it's 'wrong' for me to believe in what the Bible says?
By 'wrong', do you mean morally offensive or just plain simple minded?
It's 'supposedly' wrong for me to say that your wrong and living against the Bible (not that I would force the bible one you personally, but I will let you know my opinion on the matter), but it's OKAY for you to say that I'm wrong and judge me for my following my religion? Its okay for you to judge my life and call me a bigot (or worse - out of your ignorance), but it's not okay for me to believe what I want to believe? that my friends is hypocracy.
No, that's an opinion. It's the opinion that Christians don't really have anything constructive or spiritually uplifting to offer society, because their religion is one of judgement, punishment and condemnation.
I personally believe that it IS wrong to be Gay. that's what the bible says.
Actually it says that it is wrong for a man to lie down with a man, it doesn't say anything about being Gay. Perhaps you don't know the difference?
I'm not afraid to say what I believe in.
Well, that's refreshing. I say that the world would be much better off without stone-age monotheistic religions.
Yeah, because if Microsoft actually fixed the problems you wouldn't have anything to whinge about on/., would you ?
Yeah, because if Microsoft actually fixed the problems, they wouldn't have to send back intrusive, personal and possibly illegal information to Redmond, would they?
I live near a large chinese community, and I think the reason it's so low is that Chinese are very price-sensitive shoppers. ie, they don't shell out if the they don't feel they can afford it, or if the quality of the item is suspect. contrast this with your average american who will pay $$$ for pretty much everything.
That reminds me of a joke a Hongkie once told me.
A florist goes to the barber shop and gets a haircut. He goes to pay, but the barber stops him and says "No, today I am giving you this haircut as a community service".
The next day, the barber finds a dozen flowers on his doorstep.
Then a policeman goes to the barber shop and gets the same treatment, "No payment" the barber says," today this haircut is part of a community service."
The next day, the barber finds a dozen doughnuts on his doorstep.
The following day, a Chinese gentlement goes to the barber shop. Again, when the Chinese gentlemen goes to pay, the barber stops him and says "No, no, today your haircut is free as part of a community service."
The next day, the barber finds a dozen Chinese people waiting on his doorstep.
I wish I could remember the figure for how much the government would save if they would stop printing the dollar and just use the dollar coin.
I think the figure touted when Australia switched over was about a 20% saving over the lifetime of the coin.
As for coins being easier to counterfeit (poster above parent). Well, if you want to risk 40 years in jail to counterfeit $1 coins, then please, be my guest. The gene pool would be much better off without you.
I am now confused... Don't these people run TV channels? Wouldn't that be their preferred way to distribute TV shows?
They would need to restructure their business. Their basic business model now is to buy stuff that attracts attention (ie. tv shows), and then sell that attention to those who want to send messages to it.
Selling the stuff that attracts attention (ie. the shows) is just not their business model. Sales, marketing and strategy would all have to change with the change in business model.
Given that the TV industry is populated with the laziest, greediest and most unconsciounable people in our society, they may find it difficult to make that level of effort.
But, MS should be required to release complete, accurate interfaces and specifications of functionality to anyone that wants to look at them, no strings (NDA, RAND royalities, etc.) attached.
As much as I hate MS, I have to disagree.
The salient point in the anti-trust case was that it is illegal for monopolies to 'bundle' third-party products with the monopoly product to force their way into a market (or to gain a monopoly in a secondary market).
If they could just enforce that provision of the law, then MS would be forced to sell it's shitty media player seperately, and then who would buy it? No-one. And that's exactly the point.
It's my contention that a slave of Thomas Jefferson or George Washington had more pride, human dignity, and a more pleasant lifestyle than any of our modern day McDonald's indentured servants.
That's an interesting contention. In considering whether that is true, I would have to ask the following questions.
Were Thomas Jefferson's slaves literate?
Were Thomas Jefferson's slaves free to move to California?
Were Thomas Jefferson's slaves free to purchase alcohol?
Were Thomas Jefferson's slaves free to choose another back-breaking unrewarding career instead of cotton picking?
Were Thomas Jefferson's slaves' rights protected under the constition?
To the best of my knowledge, the answer to all of the above questions are 'No', which lead's to the conclusion that today's indentured servants still have 10 times the unrealised opportunity that Thomas Jefferson's slaves did.
That there are social, economic and political forces working against today's indentured servants to prevent them from realising those opportunities does not detract from their availability. Which is different from a system of serfdom or slavery.
And back to the context that started this thread. The framers of the constitution used the expression 'free men', to describe the rights they were framing. That is, not slaves.
Right... because it's always a good idea to have a house and land full of people who are so degraded that they're plotting to knife you in the back and don't care if they get drawn and quartered afterwards.
Is it your contention that the founding fathers were not slave owners?
Damn right. If I'd been infected by his worm it would cost me time cleaning my system, verifying the integrity of my data, and so on. Time I could have spent making money or enjoying myself. Giving a free pass to someone who willfully takes action to damage my property does not sit well with me.
Yeah! Well you should be liable for choosing such a shitty operating system and placing it on a public network.
In fact, I think every lazy fucker that puts the shitty MS OS on a public network should pay $50 in damages to a fund for the W3C, IETF and GNU foundation.
I don't want to send the message to the next script kiddie that this short of sit is acceptable.
Riiiight. The message we want to send is that it's acceptable for Microsoft to put people's bank accounts, personal information and network performance at risk without any cost to them.
You know what? Fuck you for decreasing the value of the network and fuck Microsoft too.
The US currency didn't get that way because people decided it would be a nice thing to do. It's a result of all the other things that made it stable and worth something.
Well, it's really because Oil is sold in US dollars. It doesn't have to be of course, but those countries who think of selling it in another currency tend to get 'liberated' by the US marines.
That'll work for 10 years but your view is too static. Innovation drives success. Capital's important but if you don't keep ahead technologically, you end up in businesses with no margins and suddenly your capital becomes worthless. Consider if we hadn't invested in tech and remained an agrarian society. The best financial system wouldn't mean a thing because we wouldn't have anything worth investing in.
Really? Da Vinci invented a helicopter, Babbage invented a computer, and the Chinese invented gunpowder. All of those inventions went nowhere in the age they were invented.
Invention is important yes, but it is only the first step in the creation of wealth. You need production, distribution and service for the things you invent, and those are only possible with capital, and more recently captial markets.
Besides which, invention is something that all civilisations have been good at, so it may be something that is natural to us as humans. Even the most 'primitive' of hunter-gatherer societies have complex pharmacological preparations and tool/weapons.
Abstract systems on the other hand are something that most people find very difficult to understand. So creating and maintaining those is the much harder task.
The transistor was invented in America, fuckstick.
Possibly, but maybe not. The process by which it was invented is not well documented, even though the patent is. The basis of the transistor may have been a little bit of cold war theft.
Who developed the microprocessor? Telephone? TV?
Americans with brand-new pronouncable surnames.
America's research and university system is what has allowed it to dominate a lot of R&D for the last 50 years.
Actually, no. America's vast capital reserves and efficient capital markets have allowed it to dominate R&D for the last 50 years. Russia and China have produced a huge amount of innovative and inventive research, but lack the virtuous, steal, innovate, capitalise, commercialise, rinse, repeat cycle that America excels (excelled?) at.
Too bad we're stifling innovation at our national labs through bureaucracy and cutting funding to university research.
That won't matter as long as the US capital markets remain transparent and effecient. The current trend of poli-corporate-criminals indicates a trend towards corruption and opacity of those markets.
Maybe you'll be right in 50 years, but you aren't now.
The rest of the world subsidises US growth by propping up the currency, having it's best brains and talent immigrate there and bending over when it's technology is stolen and commercialised by American companies. In return for this subsidy, the rest of the world recieves access to the world's largest export (or import) market for it's commodities, tourism and specialist products.
If the rest of the world decided that it didn't need that export market any longer, or if that market was closed by xenophobic terrorist warriors, then perhaps the subsidies would end, and that would be the end of the US free ride.
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The problem is, the CEO/coach is the easiest scapegoat, regardless of where the problem actually lies.
Aw, there there sweetie. Did the nasty employees scapegoat you for being an incompetent, drunk fuckwit?
Never mind diddums, the board understands. Here's 20 million bucks to keep up the illusion that you were really a great hire so we don't get massacred in the market on Monday.
As an old saying goes, never attribute to malice what can more properly be explained by stupidity.
I think almost everything can be attributed to either malicious stupidity, or stupid maliciousness.
Anyone else have any good ideas for this chip?
Yes! I've always wanted a ROM image of the entire baseline OS/distro. Kernel, drivers, lib-c, X.
Advantages include....
System files cannot be compromised or corrupted.
Good for thin clients. Put one of these chips on the network card.
Other?
One big downside of NZ is they have much more gun control.
Go to New Zealand. Meet some New Zealanders. Then you will know why they have such strong gun control.
As to immigrating there. I'm always surprised by American's stating that 'I might just immigrate to X'. As if all you had to do to become a citizen or resident of another country is just hop on a plane with your credit card.
Do you think New Zealanders want millions of whinging Yanks turning up on their front doorstep with a suitcase?
as well as the 'not having an empire' thing (remember some guy called 'Alexander'?).
I remember that he was Macedonian, from Macedonia. But it's all Greek to me.
He was talking about slavery across the world, you silly parochial American.
Wow! Wrong twice in a single sentence.
Slavery is more widespread now than ever before.
There are currently an estimated 4 million 'slaves' in the United States currently, which compared to the total population is about 1.5%
Compared to pre-civil war levels of 7-12% of the population, I call you on your claim that slavery is more widespread than ever before.
Still. Modern slavery, done in secret, is probably much more oppressive and exploitave than when it was legal. So the problem itself is as bad as ever, perhaps worse.
As a Christian
Your opinion is boring and predictable, but let's hear it again anyway. We need some churchin-up.
I believe in the Bible
Which translation?
And as a Christian I have every right to say that Homo-sexuality is unnatural.
Christians don't have any rights. Only people protected by the First Amendment have every right to say whatever they like.
My viewpoint is NOT ignorant nor is it bigoted.
Even your first sentence is ignorant and bigoted. It can only go downhill from here.
And they have accepted my viewpoints so I know I'm doing something right.
By that I assume you mean you have spread your beliefs without offending them?
its okay for them to say it's 'wrong' for me to believe in what the Bible says?
By 'wrong', do you mean morally offensive or just plain simple minded?
It's 'supposedly' wrong for me to say that your wrong and living against the Bible (not that I would force the bible one you personally, but I will let you know my opinion on the matter), but it's OKAY for you to say that I'm wrong and judge me for my following my religion? Its okay for you to judge my life and call me a bigot (or worse - out of your ignorance), but it's not okay for me to believe what I want to believe? that my friends is hypocracy.
No, that's an opinion. It's the opinion that Christians don't really have anything constructive or spiritually uplifting to offer society, because their religion is one of judgement, punishment and condemnation.
I personally believe that it IS wrong to be Gay. that's what the bible says.
Actually it says that it is wrong for a man to lie down with a man, it doesn't say anything about being Gay. Perhaps you don't know the difference?
I'm not afraid to say what I believe in.
Well, that's refreshing. I say that the world would be much better off without stone-age monotheistic religions.
I believe the correct answer is "Northern Telecom".
Yeah, because if Microsoft actually fixed the problems you wouldn't have anything to whinge about on /., would you ?
Yeah, because if Microsoft actually fixed the problems, they wouldn't have to send back intrusive, personal and possibly illegal information to Redmond, would they?
I live near a large chinese community, and I think the reason it's so low is that Chinese are very price-sensitive shoppers. ie, they don't shell out if the they don't feel they can afford it, or if the quality of the item is suspect. contrast this with your average american who will pay $$$ for pretty much everything.
," today this haircut is part of a community service."
That reminds me of a joke a Hongkie once told me.
A florist goes to the barber shop and gets a haircut. He goes to pay, but the barber stops him and says "No, today I am giving you this haircut as a community service".
The next day, the barber finds a dozen flowers on his doorstep.
Then a policeman goes to the barber shop and gets the same treatment, "No payment" the barber says
The next day, the barber finds a dozen doughnuts on his doorstep.
The following day, a Chinese gentlement goes to the barber shop. Again, when the Chinese gentlemen goes to pay, the barber stops him and says "No, no, today your haircut is free as part of a community service."
The next day, the barber finds a dozen Chinese people waiting on his doorstep.
I wish I could remember the figure for how much the government would save if they would stop printing the dollar and just use the dollar coin.
I think the figure touted when Australia switched over was about a 20% saving over the lifetime of the coin.
As for coins being easier to counterfeit (poster above parent). Well, if you want to risk 40 years in jail to counterfeit $1 coins, then please, be my guest. The gene pool would be much better off without you.
I am now confused... Don't these people run TV channels? Wouldn't that be their preferred way to distribute TV shows?
They would need to restructure their business. Their basic business model now is to buy stuff that attracts attention (ie. tv shows), and then sell that attention to those who want to send messages to it.
Selling the stuff that attracts attention (ie. the shows) is just not their business model. Sales, marketing and strategy would all have to change with the change in business model.
Given that the TV industry is populated with the laziest, greediest and most unconsciounable people in our society, they may find it difficult to make that level of effort.
But, MS should be required to release complete, accurate interfaces and specifications of functionality to anyone that wants to look at them, no strings (NDA, RAND royalities, etc.) attached.
As much as I hate MS, I have to disagree.
The salient point in the anti-trust case was that it is illegal for monopolies to 'bundle' third-party products with the monopoly product to force their way into a market (or to gain a monopoly in a secondary market).
If they could just enforce that provision of the law, then MS would be forced to sell it's shitty media player seperately, and then who would buy it? No-one. And that's exactly the point.
It's my contention that a slave of Thomas Jefferson or George Washington had more pride, human dignity, and a more pleasant lifestyle than any of our modern day McDonald's indentured servants.
That's an interesting contention. In considering whether that is true, I would have to ask the following questions.
Were Thomas Jefferson's slaves literate?
Were Thomas Jefferson's slaves free to move to California?
Were Thomas Jefferson's slaves free to purchase alcohol?
Were Thomas Jefferson's slaves free to choose another back-breaking unrewarding career instead of cotton picking?
Were Thomas Jefferson's slaves' rights protected under the constition?
To the best of my knowledge, the answer to all of the above questions are 'No', which lead's to the conclusion that today's indentured servants still have 10 times the unrealised opportunity that Thomas Jefferson's slaves did.
That there are social, economic and political forces working against today's indentured servants to prevent them from realising those opportunities does not detract from their availability. Which is different from a system of serfdom or slavery.
And back to the context that started this thread. The framers of the constitution used the expression 'free men', to describe the rights they were framing. That is, not slaves.
>> The Founding Fathers were slaveowners,
Right... because it's always a good idea to have a house and land full of people who are so degraded that they're plotting to knife you in the back and don't care if they get drawn and quartered afterwards.
Is it your contention that the founding fathers were not slave owners?
Generally speaking, it is not a crime to be careless, even extremely careless, with your own property.
Except under execeptional circumstances where you can be charged with 'gross negligence occaisoning death', or similar.
The problem with the broken-window-fallacy in this context is that when a window is broken, it replaced by more or less the same window.
.... when this windows(tm) was broken, it was theoretically replaced by a much better windows(tm)
However
So there was a direct economic benefit to all who use the public network known as the Internet. ie. it improved.
Damn right. If I'd been infected by his worm it would cost me time cleaning my system, verifying the integrity of my data, and so on. Time I could have spent making money or enjoying myself. Giving a free pass to someone who willfully takes action to damage my property does not sit well with me.
Yeah! Well you should be liable for choosing such a shitty operating system and placing it on a public network.
In fact, I think every lazy fucker that puts the shitty MS OS on a public network should pay $50 in damages to a fund for the W3C, IETF and GNU foundation.
I don't want to send the message to the next script kiddie that this short of sit is acceptable.
Riiiight. The message we want to send is that it's acceptable for Microsoft to put people's bank accounts, personal information and network performance at risk without any cost to them.
You know what? Fuck you for decreasing the value of the network and fuck Microsoft too.
To be mad at /. is nieve
Is that Neve as in Campbell, Niet as in No,or Naive as in faith in the public education system?
You're so dumb so can't even troll. Why don't you come back here when you're 16?
The US currency didn't get that way because people decided it would be a nice thing to do. It's a result of all the other things that made it stable and worth something.
Well, it's really because Oil is sold in US dollars. It doesn't have to be of course, but those countries who think of selling it in another currency tend to get 'liberated' by the US marines.
That'll work for 10 years but your view is too static. Innovation drives success. Capital's important but if you don't keep ahead technologically, you end up in businesses with no margins and suddenly your capital becomes worthless. Consider if we hadn't invested in tech and remained an agrarian society. The best financial system wouldn't mean a thing because we wouldn't have anything worth investing in.
Really? Da Vinci invented a helicopter, Babbage invented a computer, and the Chinese invented gunpowder. All of those inventions went nowhere in the age they were invented.
Invention is important yes, but it is only the first step in the creation of wealth. You need production, distribution and service for the things you invent, and those are only possible with capital, and more recently captial markets.
Besides which, invention is something that all civilisations have been good at, so it may be something that is natural to us as humans. Even the most 'primitive' of hunter-gatherer societies have complex pharmacological preparations and tool/weapons.
Abstract systems on the other hand are something that most people find very difficult to understand. So creating and maintaining those is the much harder task.
The transistor was invented in America, fuckstick.
Possibly, but maybe not. The process by which it was invented is not well documented, even though the patent is. The basis of the transistor may have been a little bit of cold war theft.
Who developed the microprocessor? Telephone? TV?
Americans with brand-new pronouncable surnames.
America's research and university system is what has allowed it to dominate a lot of R&D for the last 50 years.
Actually, no. America's vast capital reserves and efficient capital markets have allowed it to dominate R&D for the last 50 years. Russia and China have produced a huge amount of innovative and inventive research, but lack the virtuous, steal, innovate, capitalise, commercialise, rinse, repeat cycle that America excels (excelled?) at.
Too bad we're stifling innovation at our national labs through bureaucracy and cutting funding to university research.
That won't matter as long as the US capital markets remain transparent and effecient. The current trend of poli-corporate-criminals indicates a trend towards corruption and opacity of those markets.
Maybe you'll be right in 50 years, but you aren't now.
The rest of the world subsidises US growth by propping up the currency, having it's best brains and talent immigrate there and bending over when it's technology is stolen and commercialised by American companies. In return for this subsidy, the rest of the world recieves access to the world's largest export (or import) market for it's commodities, tourism and specialist products.
If the rest of the world decided that it didn't need that export market any longer, or if that market was closed by xenophobic terrorist warriors, then perhaps the subsidies would end, and that would be the end of the US free ride.
(Looks up nVidia corporate) So it is!
Every nVidia card I have purchased has been assembled in China and the GPU fabricated in Taiwan. And the manual has been in Chinese and Chinglish.
Lazy of me to make the assumption that the company was Asian.
I want to buy a card with the manual in Amerilish, it's marginally easier to understand than Chinglish.
People with Chinese or Indian names can't possibly be Chinese or Indian nationals? They all want to "stay"?
Sheesh.