...typical corporate bloviation. The kind of myopic propaganda that is designed to promote the concept that the only legitimate method of valuing anything is the market, and that any attempt to value something with anything other than the market is, by definition, illegitimate.
A "free and unfettered" market leads inexorably to the legitimization of prostitution, the selling of virginity ( https://www.google.com/search?q=Selling+her+virginity ) , trafficking in children, slavery, murder for hire, etc. It actually makes the entire concept of corruption impossible, while making it's reality unavoidable (and even ideal). Of course you sell your votes! It's not only legal (get out of the way of the market you evil government), it's the only way to measure your value, to yourself, your family, and to society. It's the very definition of a slippery slope.
Remember, if everything has a monetary price, anything can be bought or sold for money.
And if the market is the only legitimate measure of value, then everything has a monetary price. (And is thus terribly devalued, no matter the price.)
...increase the respect that other employees have for coders (See? It's not as easy as you think! Your code is inefficient / slow / unmaintainable / easily breaks.). The attitude of those who went through college towards those who did not (and towards those who did, but didn't have to) is often contempt, and coders are often treated as interchangeable, faceless cogs. Their skills often depreciated because coding is a skill that you can teach yourself, rather than requiring years studying in school, allowing self-trained coders the ability to then jump right into the business. This ability is enhanced because the tools needed to learn and practice coding skills can be acquired cheaply if you have the right contacts, and are digital in nature, so do not require huge outlays of cash and a large physical infrastructure to maintain them.
If you want to become an engineer and build bridges etc, self-study can take you only so far. Once you've mastered the intellectual skills required, going out and practicing those skills in a real-world environment is beyond the monetary wherewithal of you're average person. And the idea of "borrowing" a bridge, or building one to test your theories is, on it's face, ridiculous. On the other hand, "borrowing" intellectual property without alerting it's owners is not only possible, but an every-day occurrence in our world, making the gathering of important hands-on experience possible. And a diploma is not necessary to show you posses (in theory) the required coding skills, submitting working code is usually sufficient to prove your chops, since it does not take a highly skilled master to evaluate the code, it only requires being executed, and it's value will become apparent.
So, the idea of showing other employees that coding is not as easy as some think, not such a bad idea. But not everyone can pump-out production-quality code, especially with no coding experience. This means that acceptable code will either have to be low-threshold code that is, by it's nature, less difficult to produce. This will cause two problems:
1) Making the entire exercise pointless (because the employee would then think, "See?! I knew it was easy!", and... 2) There are only so many projects of this type available. Either requiring make-work (but it's supposed to be production code), or causing needless bulk as duplicate code cannot be eliminated because then, it wouldn't be production code.
It's either one of those or, as the author suggested, low quality code all around.
On the other-hand, this practice could actually stem from the attitude that programming is a low-threshold skill, and so it's practitioners are easily replaceable buy low-skill workers. I mean, who needs programmers when literally anybody in the company can (and does) do what they do?
Hardly an environment that will attract skilled practitioners, or pay enough to retain them. And now we're back to low-quality code all around again.
...that a comment on a social website about an incident that didn't put you in jail, would land you in jail, and get you banned from the website.
I mean if the crime wasn't serious enough to put you behind bars, how in the world could a comment about it be? Especially one that was self-mocking and basically said; "I'm such a dumb bass! LOL!".
It might be rude, it might tasteless, it might even be highly offensive. But if those are crimes, out prisons should be a LOT fuller
In other countries there are prohibitions against hate speech, speech against the government, and / or just downright rude speech (In Germany you can be arrested for just gesturing at a driver, let alone yelling at him, because it's considered distracting). But we supposedly cherish free speech, and are willing to tolerate it's drawbacks in order to derive it's benefits. If we can't arrest that jackass who recently released that anti-Islamic video for criminal negligence or inciting a riot in association with the very foreseeable deaths and property damages resulting from it's release, then what business do we have jailing someone for offensive speech that harmed no one?
What's more, when you buy Organic, you are (in most cases) supporting a local farmer
I wouldn't bet on it. At least in the big chains. Walmart (for instance), who actually has a pro-organic policy, advertises the fact that every year they demand (and get) lower and lower prices from their suppliers, and this goes for groceries too. Also, because they have a "hire within" policy (at least for knowledge-workers) that tends to move people from one position to another, they have a good turn-over in their (wholesale) buyers. This means that a small farmer has to compete with Mega-Farm corporations on price. And when they DO happen to make a contract with a single store, that buyer is likely to move on to some other position or store leaving the farmer to deal with the next buyer on the treadmill who probably has no experience in buying, or buying produce so they have to make a relationship with the new person and get them familiarized with their own organic policies.
Besides which, "organic" is so popular that Mega Farms have gotten the terms like organic legally redefined in their favor, allowing so many pesticides, so much artificial fertilizer, etc. so that they can sell it (and at a higher price than before) too!
It's only when Mega-Buyers get involved and start demanding higher standards that quality goes up. Take McDonald's and eggs. Does anyone remember how small and thin eggshells were getting about 10 years ago, before McDonald's demanded that the chickens NOT be kept in the dark 24/7, NOT be in wire cages barely larger than themselves from laying age till death, don't get stacked so they shit on each other (and can't move out of the way), get 'so' much time to run in a yard and socialize, get 'so' much sun a day or week or whatever. The eggs had all gotten covered with grey spots, a lot of them completely grey and so thin that you could easily break them just taking them from the carton.
And the fuss it caused! If you listened to the corporations whine you'd think the world would end, the price of eggs would soar out of the reach of a simple business, eggs would stop being eaten, and life as we knew it would end. But here it is a decade or so later, and eggs can be handled without velvet glove, the eggs have gotten (marginally) larger and the egg trade booms! No one (in the US) has died for a lack of eggs, and the hens live in a little less hell than they did.
Theres a saying "The first bite is with the eye" meaning presentation of food is as important as the actual flavor.
Weak minded idiots are often fooled by their assumptions, preconceptions and beliefs. A weak and easily tricked mind is nothing to be proud of or satisfied with.
I'm proud to say that presentation means nothing to me. Well PRACTICALLY nothing.
Some of the best food I've eaten looked like it was thrown up onto the plate.
Depending on what they mean by "single-shot". And if they plan on making the barrel out of printable plastics.
One shot and the gun's dead? - Maybe. But that seems a poor choice for self-defence.
One shot at a time, but reloadable? - Doesn't seem do-able, and also not really the best choice for self defence. What happens when you need a second or third shot faster than you can reload?
If they really can make a re-usable gun with a printer, it'll be a nightmare for the cops, FBI, CIA, ATF, TSA, Homeland Security, etc.
And if the barrel can be destroyed or recycled, then they have created the perfect assassination / murder gun.
The retard got what he deserved... That's up there with thinking it's a great idea of wearing a gay pride shirt and prancing around making an ass of yourself at a country fried rock concert...
You're equating the TSA and Delta Airlines to a bunch of drunk rednecks.
Someone is being insulted there. I'm just not sure who.
That's up there with thinking it's a great idea of wearing a gay pride shirt and prancing around making an ass of yourself at a country fried rock concert to get attention for your political slant, cause, or moral views and being surprised when you get your ass beat by all the rednecks around you.
Still, it's illegal and immoral to beat him up, and legal for him to "prance around".
He may end up in the hospital or morgue, but if the cops can identify you as an attacker (in a place full of cameras, both video and still) you're the one getting a record and jail time. Not the "prancer".
So...wait a second? Is he saying that he's depending on the Federal Government to rescue them? I thought Republicans were all about self-sufficiency...
Under two conditions I would't mind a "closed box" computer.
1) A SIGNIFICANT price drop compared to other, 'unsealed' computers.
2) That the whole thing is recycleable. With the above two conditions, I would embrace the "closed box" concept because I have found that in my 30 years of building, fixing and supporting computers that I almost never upgrade a computer beyond memory and drives. Occasionly video cards, rarely other cards. Most other upgrades can be handeled via USB.
WITHOUT the above caveats I will vehemently reject "closed boxes".
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You can... do targetted ads without tracking...
True, advertise on websites and pages relevant to your product and you're not only doing targeted ads, your audience is self-selecting.
...typical corporate bloviation. The kind of myopic propaganda that is designed to promote the concept that the only legitimate method of valuing anything is the market, and that any attempt to value something with anything other than the market is, by definition, illegitimate.
A "free and unfettered" market leads inexorably to the legitimization of prostitution, the selling of virginity ( https://www.google.com/search?q=Selling+her+virginity ) , trafficking in children, slavery, murder for hire, etc. It actually makes the entire concept of corruption impossible, while making it's reality unavoidable (and even ideal). Of course you sell your votes! It's not only legal (get out of the way of the market you evil government), it's the only way to measure your value, to yourself, your family, and to society. It's the very definition of a slippery slope.
Remember, if everything has a monetary price, anything can be bought or sold for money.
And if the market is the only legitimate measure of value, then everything has a monetary price. (And is thus terribly devalued, no matter the price.)
[Studio] recording[s] at "better than human hearing" isn't enough... those sounds are altered, processed, mixed, overlaid and resampled over and over
Quite true.
How many channels does vinyl or audio tape have?
Studio recordings have always been better than retail recordings.
Plus, if you can't hear the difference, there is none.
Did you say "Porno compliance"?
PorNo is a myth. There is only pornYes!
Makes me think of porno.
But then I'm a dirty old man!
A book filled with blank white squares ... will [make slashdot / the media]
A pathetic goal for a textbook, but understandable in the context of business.
You know, the idea that "There's no such thing as bad press" .
...increase the respect that other employees have for coders (See? It's not as easy as you think! Your code is inefficient / slow / unmaintainable / easily breaks.). The attitude of those who went through college towards those who did not (and towards those who did, but didn't have to) is often contempt, and coders are often treated as interchangeable, faceless cogs. Their skills often depreciated because coding is a skill that you can teach yourself, rather than requiring years studying in school, allowing self-trained coders the ability to then jump right into the business. This ability is enhanced because the tools needed to learn and practice coding skills can be acquired cheaply if you have the right contacts, and are digital in nature, so do not require huge outlays of cash and a large physical infrastructure to maintain them.
If you want to become an engineer and build bridges etc, self-study can take you only so far. Once you've mastered the intellectual skills required, going out and practicing those skills in a real-world environment is beyond the monetary wherewithal of you're average person. And the idea of "borrowing" a bridge, or building one to test your theories is, on it's face, ridiculous. On the other hand, "borrowing" intellectual property without alerting it's owners is not only possible, but an every-day occurrence in our world, making the gathering of important hands-on experience possible. And a diploma is not necessary to show you posses (in theory) the required coding skills, submitting working code is usually sufficient to prove your chops, since it does not take a highly skilled master to evaluate the code, it only requires being executed, and it's value will become apparent.
So, the idea of showing other employees that coding is not as easy as some think, not such a bad idea. But not everyone can pump-out production-quality code, especially with no coding experience. This means that acceptable code will either have to be low-threshold code that is, by it's nature, less difficult to produce. This will cause two problems:
1) Making the entire exercise pointless (because the employee would then think, "See?! I knew it was easy!", and...
2) There are only so many projects of this type available. Either requiring make-work (but it's supposed to be production code), or causing needless bulk as duplicate code cannot be eliminated because then, it wouldn't be production code.
It's either one of those or, as the author suggested, low quality code all around.
On the other-hand, this practice could actually stem from the attitude that programming is a low-threshold skill, and so it's practitioners are easily replaceable buy low-skill workers. I mean, who needs programmers when literally anybody in the company can (and does) do what they do?
Hardly an environment that will attract skilled practitioners, or pay enough to retain them. And now we're back to low-quality code all around again.
...that a comment on a social website about an incident that didn't put you in jail, would land you in jail, and get you banned from the website.
I mean if the crime wasn't serious enough to put you behind bars, how in the world could a comment about it be? Especially one that was self-mocking and basically said; "I'm such a dumb bass! LOL!".
It might be rude, it might tasteless, it might even be highly offensive. But if those are crimes, out prisons should be a LOT fuller
In other countries there are prohibitions against hate speech, speech against the government, and / or just downright rude speech (In Germany you can be arrested for just gesturing at a driver, let alone yelling at him, because it's considered distracting). But we supposedly cherish free speech, and are willing to tolerate it's drawbacks in order to derive it's benefits. If we can't arrest that jackass who recently released that anti-Islamic video for criminal negligence or inciting a riot in association with the very foreseeable deaths and property damages resulting from it's release, then what business do we have jailing someone for offensive speech that harmed no one?
What's more, when you buy Organic, you are (in most cases) supporting a local farmer
I wouldn't bet on it. At least in the big chains. Walmart (for instance), who actually has a pro-organic policy, advertises the fact that every year they demand (and get) lower and lower prices from their suppliers, and this goes for groceries too. Also, because they have a "hire within" policy (at least for knowledge-workers) that tends to move people from one position to another, they have a good turn-over in their (wholesale) buyers. This means that a small farmer has to compete with Mega-Farm corporations on price. And when they DO happen to make a contract with a single store, that buyer is likely to move on to some other position or store leaving the farmer to deal with the next buyer on the treadmill who probably has no experience in buying, or buying produce so they have to make a relationship with the new person and get them familiarized with their own organic policies.
Besides which, "organic" is so popular that Mega Farms have gotten the terms like organic legally redefined in their favor, allowing so many pesticides, so much artificial fertilizer, etc. so that they can sell it (and at a higher price than before) too!
It's only when Mega-Buyers get involved and start demanding higher standards that quality goes up. Take McDonald's and eggs. Does anyone remember how small and thin eggshells were getting about 10 years ago, before McDonald's demanded that the chickens NOT be kept in the dark 24/7, NOT be in wire cages barely larger than themselves from laying age till death, don't get stacked so they shit on each other (and can't move out of the way), get 'so' much time to run in a yard and socialize, get 'so' much sun a day or week or whatever. The eggs had all gotten covered with grey spots, a lot of them completely grey and so thin that you could easily break them just taking them from the carton.
And the fuss it caused! If you listened to the corporations whine you'd think the world would end, the price of eggs would soar out of the reach of a simple business, eggs would stop being eaten, and life as we knew it would end. But here it is a decade or so later, and eggs can be handled without velvet glove, the eggs have gotten (marginally) larger and the egg trade booms! No one (in the US) has died for a lack of eggs, and the hens live in a little less hell than they did.
Well "moo" to you too!
oh wow I thought 'double blind test' meant you had to poke *both* their eyes out
GaaWhaa!?
It doesn't?
[g]
Theres a saying "The first bite is with the eye" meaning presentation of food is as important as the actual flavor.
Weak minded idiots are often fooled by their assumptions, preconceptions and beliefs. A weak and easily tricked mind is nothing to be proud of or satisfied with.
I'm proud to say that presentation means nothing to me. Well PRACTICALLY nothing.
Some of the best food I've eaten looked like it was thrown up onto the plate.
Hah! You guy's actually *count* your votes!?
How Communist! Or Fascist, or something.
Don't you know that the ballots of the unwashed masses are best used to feed the fire cooking the Bald Eagle for the man who bought the election?
Mmmmm. Now THAT's good eats!
X-actly. Success seems dubious.
Depending on what they mean by "single-shot". And if they plan on making the barrel out of printable plastics.
One shot and the gun's dead? - Maybe. But that seems a poor choice for self-defence.
One shot at a time, but reloadable? - Doesn't seem do-able, and also not really the best choice for self defence. What happens when you need a second or third shot faster than you can reload?
If they really can make a re-usable gun with a printer, it'll be a nightmare for the cops, FBI, CIA, ATF, TSA, Homeland Security, etc.
And if the barrel can be destroyed or recycled, then they have created the perfect assassination / murder gun.
The retard got what he deserved... That's up there with thinking it's a great idea of wearing a gay pride shirt and prancing around making an ass of yourself at a country fried rock concert...
You're equating the TSA and Delta Airlines to a bunch of drunk rednecks.
Someone is being insulted there. I'm just not sure who.
That's up there with thinking it's a great idea of wearing a gay pride shirt and prancing around making an ass of yourself at a country fried rock concert to get attention for your political slant, cause, or moral views and being surprised when you get your ass beat by all the rednecks around you.
Still, it's illegal and immoral to beat him up, and legal for him to "prance around".
He may end up in the hospital or morgue, but if the cops can identify you as an attacker (in a place full of cameras, both video and still) you're the one getting a record and jail time. Not the "prancer".
I hope your joking.
If not, that in as much bad-taste and morally bankrupt as the Republicans praying for Obama's death.
ROTFLMAO!
Exactly.
What hot-blooded young hurricane could resist the temptation when those people dress like that?
Probably God whispered in it's ear too!
^_^
So...wait a second? Is he saying that he's depending on the Federal Government to rescue them? I thought Republicans were all about self-sufficiency...
I don't see any Republicans arguing with you!
Evacuating the GOP convention with a hurricane is just God's way of voting. I'd pay attention and not try to "misplace" God's ballot if I were them.
I don't know...
Is God a citizen? Or an illegal alien? Is he showing his displeasure with Republicans? Does that make him illegitimate in the eyes of Republicans?
And will the new Republican anti-voter laws deny God the ability to vote?
Under two conditions I would't mind a "closed box" computer.
1) A SIGNIFICANT price drop compared to other, 'unsealed' computers.
2) That the whole thing is recycleable. With the above two conditions, I would embrace the "closed box" concept because I have found that in my 30 years of building, fixing and supporting computers that I almost never upgrade a computer beyond memory and drives. Occasionly video cards, rarely other cards. Most other upgrades can be handeled via USB.
WITHOUT the above caveats I will vehemently reject "closed boxes".
I now "nwO" all your accounts!