If you're so interested in creating jobs, why not start banning labor-saving technology?
Fortunately, "labor-saving technology" rarely saves any actual labor. Look at computers, fantastic potential to allow one person to do the job of hundreds. What really happened?/.
No, idiot, nobody has a right to be present on any private property that isn't theirs.
Actually, you're wrong. When the property owner (in this case a theater) decided to become a "public accomodation", they partially lost the right to decide who could and couldn't be on their property. Try opening a whites-only movie theater. It's illegal. When you open your doors to the public, you lose the right to make blanket decisions about who is allowed to be on your property. You can still remove an unruly customer 'for cause'.
both Craigslist and myRedbook actively facilitate the sale of prostitution services
So does Verizon. The Tampa Yellow Pages has over 70 pages of "Escort Services" with names like "Yes We Do" and "Satisfaction Guaranteed". You don't need to get any more explicit than that.
Unless you think 450 of the Fortune 500 are going to fail within three years, I think it's safe to say that larger businesses are a bit more stable than that.
He didn't say that they fail at the same rate; he said the the correlation coefficient for size was near zero. This probably means that they have isolated all other factors. So for a small company that has positive cash flow, low employee turnover, and 3 years of positive profits, they may be no more likely to fail than a large company with positive cash flow, low employee turnover, and 3 years of positive profits. Most of those small business that fail are probably very young, rather speculative, heavily in debt, and managed by people who are excellent {bakers, carpenters, whatever} but have no experience running a business.
What possible reason is there to re-invent the wheel three times?
Because, Mr. IT Manager, every time your developers try to push to develop a re-usable wheel API and well-encapsulated library, you say "We don't have time to do all of that, just do a one-off and ship it." That is why you reinvent the wheel in every project.
I have never copied/downloaded a movie DVD or a CD. It just doesn't sit right with me.
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Shouldn't you still be fighting the war on christmas?
That was sooo 'December 2005'. Now Bill's gearing-up to fight "The War Against Easter". "The lesbian-communist-anarcho-pagans who own and control America's retail outlets are forcing their greeters to say Happy Dead-God Week. This isn't Dead-God Week, it's Easter. They're trying to take Jesus out of Easter and pander to those Scandanavian commies who are still crying their eyes out because Loki (and Hoth) killed Baldur. And those Egyptians who are now Muslims are still secretly mourning the death of Osiris. But America is a Christian nation!" {Cue 10 minutes of bloody Passion footage.}
But dividends are taxed TWICE, once as coporate income then again as personal income, that is NOT right.
And then that investor uses one of his dollars to buy a cheeseburger at Burger King, and BK has to send 7% of that dollar to the state as sales tax. And then, any profit that they extract from that dollar gets taxed at 17%! And then, when they pay what's left of that dollar to *their* investor as a divedend it gets taxed again. And then when *that* investor buys a yacht, the dollar gets taxed again! OMG, every dollar in circulation gets taxed thousands of times! How is a poor billionaire going to make ends meet?
How often have people close to you had the option of choosing between two or more job offers and settled for the lower paying?
He didn't say that people don't think about money when changing jobs. He said that money "stops being a good motivator". I agree. I've seen unmotivated employees 'going through the motions' at large companies that pay well, and employees busting their asses at small shops that pay less. Motivating factors: a sense of ownership, challenging work, wanting the respect of peers who you respect, knowledge that managment has cast-aside all BS in order to support your team in accomplishing its goals, etc. Bad money will motivate people to look for a new job, but good money doesn't necessarily motivate them to do a better job.
..and Doing Good stock-price wise instead of no-evil wise is why they cave into China's oligarchic dictatorship and help deprive the Chinese people of basic human rights, such as free speech.
Let me explain something to you: Google didn't have the choice of caving-in to censorship, or standing-up for the Chinese people. Google had the choice of caving-in to censorship, or being kicked out of China and having all of their IP addresses blocked by the Chinese government.
As mighty as Google might look from our (peon) perspective, they are powerless in the face of any national government.
I don't know how things used to be, but it seems to me to be unjust how much emphasis is placed on having a 4 year degree, especially when you have a relavent amount of real-world experience.
Once you have a lot of real-world experience, your degree won't matter so much. I have an AA in CS, and make a much better salary, but I have 17 years of experience, not six.
I think that the reasoning behind preferring a four-year degree is not entirely unjustified. An educated programmer/analyst is better able to solve problems and work on novel problems than a trained programmer. A grounding in history, art, foreign language (no Java doesn't count as a foreign language), etc, can make you better able to understand and adapt to new situations. This advantage applies more strongly to analysis than raw programming, but most programmers today don't get fed a spec-sheet with the function name, parameters, return value, and algorithm already supplied. Every programmer I've worked with has been expected to do a large chunk of their own small-scale design. This is one reason why a training program such as ITT Tech is seen as inferior to an education.
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I'm no Luddite; I love technology. I just don't pretend that it saves me time (especially not while I'm posting on /.)
Fortunately, "labor-saving technology" rarely saves any actual labor. Look at computers, fantastic potential to allow one person to do the job of hundreds. What really happened? /.
You're both annoying the crap out of me; please surrender yourselves at your local police stations for re-education (and a free beating).
Actually, you're wrong. When the property owner (in this case a theater) decided to become a "public accomodation", they partially lost the right to decide who could and couldn't be on their property. Try opening a whites-only movie theater. It's illegal. When you open your doors to the public, you lose the right to make blanket decisions about who is allowed to be on your property. You can still remove an unruly customer 'for cause'.
A marketshare pissing contest between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs should actually be called an "egosystem".
No, that AC rant smells like Ballmer to me. Didn't you get a visual of a tubby AC throwing a chair?
No, your career chip is embedded in your right hand.
So does Verizon. The Tampa Yellow Pages has over 70 pages of "Escort Services" with names like "Yes We Do" and "Satisfaction Guaranteed". You don't need to get any more explicit than that.
He didn't say that they fail at the same rate; he said the the correlation coefficient for size was near zero. This probably means that they have isolated all other factors. So for a small company that has positive cash flow, low employee turnover, and 3 years of positive profits, they may be no more likely to fail than a large company with positive cash flow, low employee turnover, and 3 years of positive profits. Most of those small business that fail are probably very young, rather speculative, heavily in debt, and managed by people who are excellent {bakers, carpenters, whatever} but have no experience running a business.
Because, Mr. IT Manager, every time your developers try to push to develop a re-usable wheel API and well-encapsulated library, you say "We don't have time to do all of that, just do a one-off and ship it." That is why you reinvent the wheel in every project.
The word that you were looking for is: meme.
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How do you get around the language barrier? Where does one even find translators?
You whippersnappers just can't appreciate the BFG1337. Now that was a more elegant weapon for a more civilized age.
But the BSOD only seems to be good at fratricide.
Penguin Lust in the ranks!
That was sooo 'December 2005'. Now Bill's gearing-up to fight "The War Against Easter". "The lesbian-communist-anarcho-pagans who own and control America's retail outlets are forcing their greeters to say Happy Dead-God Week. This isn't Dead-God Week, it's Easter. They're trying to take Jesus out of Easter and pander to those Scandanavian commies who are still crying their eyes out because Loki (and Hoth) killed Baldur. And those Egyptians who are now Muslims are still secretly mourning the death of Osiris. But America is a Christian nation!" {Cue 10 minutes of bloody Passion footage.}
And then that investor uses one of his dollars to buy a cheeseburger at Burger King, and BK has to send 7% of that dollar to the state as sales tax. And then, any profit that they extract from that dollar gets taxed at 17%! And then, when they pay what's left of that dollar to *their* investor as a divedend it gets taxed again. And then when *that* investor buys a yacht, the dollar gets taxed again! OMG, every dollar in circulation gets taxed thousands of times! How is a poor billionaire going to make ends meet?
Hitting someone in the face with a styrofoam model of the Greek letter pi would be a 'symbolic jesture'. The word you were looking for is 'gesture'.
He didn't say that people don't think about money when changing jobs. He said that money "stops being a good motivator". I agree. I've seen unmotivated employees 'going through the motions' at large companies that pay well, and employees busting their asses at small shops that pay less. Motivating factors: a sense of ownership, challenging work, wanting the respect of peers who you respect, knowledge that managment has cast-aside all BS in order to support your team in accomplishing its goals, etc. Bad money will motivate people to look for a new job, but good money doesn't necessarily motivate them to do a better job.
Let me explain something to you: Google didn't have the choice of caving-in to censorship, or standing-up for the Chinese people. Google had the choice of caving-in to censorship, or being kicked out of China and having all of their IP addresses blocked by the Chinese government.
As mighty as Google might look from our (peon) perspective, they are powerless in the face of any national government.
It's not "too bad"; it's inevitable. After all, their mission statement includes the phrase Don't be evil.
I hang around on /. Does this mean that my spelling and grammer are be gowing two tern too crap?
Vee hav vays ov making you not talk.
Once you have a lot of real-world experience, your degree won't matter so much. I have an AA in CS, and make a much better salary, but I have 17 years of experience, not six.
I think that the reasoning behind preferring a four-year degree is not entirely unjustified. An educated programmer/analyst is better able to solve problems and work on novel problems than a trained programmer. A grounding in history, art, foreign language (no Java doesn't count as a foreign language), etc, can make you better able to understand and adapt to new situations. This advantage applies more strongly to analysis than raw programming, but most programmers today don't get fed a spec-sheet with the function name, parameters, return value, and algorithm already supplied. Every programmer I've worked with has been expected to do a large chunk of their own small-scale design. This is one reason why a training program such as ITT Tech is seen as inferior to an education.