Brilliant! You paid for their market research for them! You're so smart! Congratulations on your gift! I'm sure that one of the executives of the company really appreciates it! Want to give my company some money, too?
Seriously? Now, private, for-profit companies are just asking people for cash? What kind of balls does it take to do that? And, somewhat related, what kind of idiot would give them money?
Yes and Buffet is blowing air up people's arses! Just because you can't find value does not mean that value does not exist! Value exists, but it requires an understanding of business without resorting to biases... This is why people don't make money on the stock market.
Oh, really? What's the mechanism that ties stock price to "value", exactly?
What exactly does it mean to "buy" a blog? Are they wanting to pay half a mil for a domain name? Is the content really worth half a million bucks? Or, are people just stupid when it comes to trying to put a dollar value on anything Internet related? It seems like a lovely little blog, but I don't see how any sane person could come up with a $500,000 valuation for it.
Considering the fact that America is the instigator if not the outright aggressor of most modern wars today, yes, I happen to think that Peace comes from opposing the United States.
The police are already much more heavily armed than any regular person could ever hope to be. Your paranoid fears have not come to fruition, by and large.
Creating a new tax and forcing people to choose between higher costs or cutting employee's hours is immoral.
Are you out of your fucking mind? Are you serious? Are you such a sucker that you believe the "We have to cut hours or go out of business" bullshit? What a load of horseshit that is. It's a false dichotomy.
Actually, I'd argue that not many people thought that so many employers are immoral shit-sucking assholes who'd intentionally try to screw their employees out of health care. I would never imagined that any business would publicly announce they're trying to fuck over their employees. I'm shocked, quite frankly, at hearing so many businesses declare that they are, in fact, run by immoral fucktards who not only couldn't give two shits about their employees, but actually see no problem with it.
- An employer who pays for health insurance for all of his employees
Sounds like your company has some serious problems. It shouldn't take dozens of Windows people to administer the same number of computers that one Unix guy can administer.
So do LEDs bother your eyes? I think CRTs gave me headaches far more often than has any form of flat panel display, at least partly because of the whining noise that CRTs emit.
No. You're imagining things.
But, that being said, you're not alone. I heard somebody walk into the retail establishment that I work at and said, "I'm disappointed that you guys installed automatic doors that emit so much radiation, but I'm glad that at least you don't have horrible fluorescent lights that would make me unable to shop here." Of course, she was saying that standing under about 500 CFL's that she assumed weren't fluorescent because of their size, shape, and color.
I don't understand why anybody thinks that as Facebook products/users, they'd have any ability at all to influence Facebook. Seems pretty silly for me to use a service for free and think that you'd be able to have any say as to the quality of the service. I think that some people forget that they're not the customers, but the *products* that Facebook sells to customers. This guy seems to think that Facebook is some sort of public utility that regular people have some sort of rights to influence.
I've always worked as a contractor through agencies, and have let them deal with taxes. I've also never been out of work any longer than I've wanted to. I think you're confusing "contractor" with "freelance". Freelance is hard. Contractor is not.
Contractors get no health coverage and many people can't get it without group policies.
Have you heard of a little thing called "The Affordable Care Act"? Anybody can buy their own health insurance now. Unless you have some very serious medical issues, it's only a few hundred bucks a month, which is much more than the pay difference between a "contractor" and a "full time" developer.
The #1 advice I can give is NOT to take a "full time" job. Work as a contractor. Contractors have always gotten paid significantly more than "full time" developers, and have the added benefits of being able to move between jobs much more quickly.
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Because every company needs investors, right? Why can't those investors just be the first customers looking to get in early? How is this a bad thing?
It's only bad for the people dumb enough to give somebody money with no strings attached and call it "investing".
Those of us with some sense of fiscal sanity generally call that "investing". Crowdsourcing is unrelated to investing.
Brilliant! You paid for their market research for them! You're so smart! Congratulations on your gift! I'm sure that one of the executives of the company really appreciates it! Want to give my company some money, too?
Seriously? Now, private, for-profit companies are just asking people for cash? What kind of balls does it take to do that? And, somewhat related, what kind of idiot would give them money?
Yes and Buffet is blowing air up people's arses! Just because you can't find value does not mean that value does not exist! Value exists, but it requires an understanding of business without resorting to biases... This is why people don't make money on the stock market.
Oh, really? What's the mechanism that ties stock price to "value", exactly?
The panic is that they clearly have no viable plan for participating in the mobile revolution. They have lost control of the platform.
Windows Phone is growing faster in sales than Android and iOS. I don't think you know what you're talking about.
It sounds like you watch waaay too many commercials. I have no idea what you're talking about.
What exactly does it mean to "buy" a blog? Are they wanting to pay half a mil for a domain name? Is the content really worth half a million bucks? Or, are people just stupid when it comes to trying to put a dollar value on anything Internet related? It seems like a lovely little blog, but I don't see how any sane person could come up with a $500,000 valuation for it.
Iraq, Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam...
Considering the fact that America is the instigator if not the outright aggressor of most modern wars today, yes, I happen to think that Peace comes from opposing the United States.
The police are already much more heavily armed than any regular person could ever hope to be. Your paranoid fears have not come to fruition, by and large.
Creating a new tax and forcing people to choose between higher costs or cutting employee's hours is immoral.
Are you out of your fucking mind? Are you serious? Are you such a sucker that you believe the "We have to cut hours or go out of business" bullshit? What a load of horseshit that is. It's a false dichotomy.
The word's "leech", dipshit.
Actually, I'd argue that not many people thought that so many employers are immoral shit-sucking assholes who'd intentionally try to screw their employees out of health care. I would never imagined that any business would publicly announce they're trying to fuck over their employees. I'm shocked, quite frankly, at hearing so many businesses declare that they are, in fact, run by immoral fucktards who not only couldn't give two shits about their employees, but actually see no problem with it.
- An employer who pays for health insurance for all of his employees
Sounds like your company has some serious problems. It shouldn't take dozens of Windows people to administer the same number of computers that one Unix guy can administer.
It's also cheap to use. No need for an expensive Unix person to maintain.
Windows works.
Windows is cheap.
Windows has the largest collection of software available for it.
So do LEDs bother your eyes? I think CRTs gave me headaches far more often than has any form of flat panel display, at least partly because of the whining noise that CRTs emit.
No. You're imagining things.
But, that being said, you're not alone. I heard somebody walk into the retail establishment that I work at and said, "I'm disappointed that you guys installed automatic doors that emit so much radiation, but I'm glad that at least you don't have horrible fluorescent lights that would make me unable to shop here." Of course, she was saying that standing under about 500 CFL's that she assumed weren't fluorescent because of their size, shape, and color.
I haven't laughed harder during a movie than I did when watching Ishtar. I'm still waiting for it to come out on DVD.
I don't understand why anybody thinks that as Facebook products/users, they'd have any ability at all to influence Facebook. Seems pretty silly for me to use a service for free and think that you'd be able to have any say as to the quality of the service. I think that some people forget that they're not the customers, but the *products* that Facebook sells to customers. This guy seems to think that Facebook is some sort of public utility that regular people have some sort of rights to influence.
I've always worked as a contractor through agencies, and have let them deal with taxes. I've also never been out of work any longer than I've wanted to. I think you're confusing "contractor" with "freelance". Freelance is hard. Contractor is not.
I've bought my own health insurance for about 20 years now. It went from $103 when I started to $250 now.
Contractors get no health coverage and many people can't get it without group policies.
Have you heard of a little thing called "The Affordable Care Act"? Anybody can buy their own health insurance now. Unless you have some very serious medical issues, it's only a few hundred bucks a month, which is much more than the pay difference between a "contractor" and a "full time" developer.
The #1 advice I can give is NOT to take a "full time" job. Work as a contractor. Contractors have always gotten paid significantly more than "full time" developers, and have the added benefits of being able to move between jobs much more quickly.
What "rapid decline" are you referring to, exactly?