I'd much rather have my kids participate in meatspace team-building starting with after-school programs and then moving on to the football team or the academic decathalon or robotics team before I let them glue themselves to a damn raster and throw their life away.
Hrm... I've got mod points to use but I wanted to reply to this because I had the opposite child hood.
My parents let me stay in front of the TV, NES, and encouraged my computer habits. (Even as so much as buying my CD-ROM kits and RAM for my 486 for my b-day) and never forced me to participate in anything I never wanted to participate in.
They encouraged things like joining the High School Marching bad (god I was a geek) but it was something I wanted to do because all my friends were in the band.
I played Doom, Mortal Kombat, participated in D&D, listened to heavy metal and all the other things society said that would make children psycho murderers and yet I didn't turn out to be.
Yes, I am a bit anti-social but that is because that is me and not the fact I wasn't forced to be social by my parents. If one thing I give them is that they were pretty open to my past times and interests (even if they didn't understand them) as long as I kept my grades up and didn't misbehave.
Now 20 odd some years later, this stuff is still my life and I make a living off it. Had they forced me to play football and take away my computer I probaly wouldn't have been able to teach myself the computer skills I have today that keep my mortgage bills paid every month.
Simply forcing a kid to participate in 'meatspace' really doesn't solve their problems or gets them an education. The truth is that in the 21st century (if you consider having a job important), the meat space is becoming extremely overrated and if you are not familiar with the internet and technology you are going to be left behind.
It kind of almost bothers me that I'm not in the clique anymore. I'll be walking down the street or riding the bus and I'll see people half my age talking about the internet or downloading files and I turn around and these will be valley girls or jocks and yes... It does make me cringe, but that is how society is changing.
So no... Geeks don't have a monopoly on the internet anymore and anyone holding back their kid from technology is now going to make them the outcast because everyone is going to be using it for education and employment.
Heck... Most work places have stopped advertising jobs in newspapers, do all posts on job sites, responses only via email, and would probably laugh you out of the interview if you didn't understand basic computer concepts.
If you're so concerned about the unintelligent procreating over the more intellectual people in an overthrow of evolution, perhaps you should consider what larger, smarter species various insects might have driven to destruction over the last 400 million years.
They didn't have a space program?
No, seriously... Any species that doesn't eventually figure out how to colonize other planets is doomed to extinction no matter how well adapted to their current environment due to unforeseen global disasters.
If non-intelligent people are more likely to build a successful space program then we are on the road to success.
Otherwise, some other species will have to figure out the whole deal with asteroid impacts, temporary loss of earth's magnetic shielding, and cosmic ray bursts in a few hundred million years from now.
It really depends. A college degree is extremely useful for getting your foot in the door, but real life experience is even better. The problem of course is that your average 21 year old has no life experience, so without a degree he's SOL.
As an anecdotal experience, I dropped out of college back in the late 90's and went to work for a software company for someone who knew my dad. From there I worked my way the IT chain and just go the certs and what everyone else had sans the degree.
Then I got enough names and years worked on my resume that not a problem that I don't have a problem with the lack of degree.
Of course, I'll admit I was pretty lucky getting those first gigs, but then again so is not having college debt.
But didn't anyone feel sad because of their memories of formatting those Windows 3.1 machines they had on display in Circuit City back in the early 90's?
That and putting something "cute" on the marquee screen saver.
Maybe I indirectly lead to their demise some odd 20 years later after making the one person who could have saved the company quit in frustration because of those damn brats.
Does anyone seriously treat any wireless transmission as if it was secure? If anyone who cares to listen can easily pick up everything being sent from your computer it's only a matter of time and CPU power before they can read it.
In theory, if both computers had atomic clocks and a shared truly random one time pad txt file saved locally on both systems the encryption will never be broken.
Of course finding a few atomic clocks to spare that could fit into a laptop and a true random number generator then I think the NSA would like to talk with you.
Examples of heaven on Earth: Congo Democratic Republic, Afghanistan, Somalia, Colombia, Kosovo.
Um... Except for Somalia, all of those countries have a form of government (mostly) and I'm not sure why you listed Kosovo because that's not really the epitome of anarchy and I'm sure they'd be insulted if you said so.
And to be fair, what you are suggesting as libertarianism is anarchism and that most libertarians really mean is Jeffersonianism.
An effective but limited federal government which does not get involved with issues or morality and then a strong local government.
Personally, I'd rather deal with a small government which I don't agree with because I can move elsewhere, but if I'm dealing with a strong government that is on the national level that I don't like, its not that easy to move.
If you decline to vote, then you really have no recourse to complain about the results of that process, do you? You had your chance to be heard and decided you had other things to do.
I think people are complaining about the lack of choice in the election, first and foremost, and the results as an after affect.
Its like telling a person living in the USSR in 1985 that he can't complain about the results of election because he didn't vote for the one person.
In reality there is an inherit flaw in first past the post in majority takes all elections. If we were serious about fixing politics we'd adopt a parliament with proportional representation.
Heck, we can keep calling it a congress but at least change the rules about the winner takes all so we don't have a single group that only needs 51% of the votes to tell the other 49% what to do.
If enough fucktards want to change the law, move elsewhere and watch them get their just deserts.
The United States was never intended for the people or by the people but rather to limit government to protect the majority from a powerful minority or powerful majority from a weak minority.
Historically, democracies with no limits on its power tended to be oppressive to its minorities.
Secondly, just picking up and moving is not always a solution especially when the majority puts restrictions on movement on said minorities.
Not to godwin this thread, but the Nazi's were technically legally elected by a democratic process which they dismantled from the inside once they go to power. The minorities such as the social democrats, socialists, communists, and others were made short work of shortly thereafter.
Many persons (especially those of the Jewish ethnicity) attempted to move but as the government increased its restrictions on them, those who had not moved early on could no longer escape the country after a certain point.
The key is that the best government is not one that simply empowers 51% of its population to rule, but to also protect the other 49% from being being treated as second class citizens (or worse).
Because they're an authoritarian government that lies all the time?
As compared to our pseudo-authoritarian government that lies all the time?
Sure I can speak out against the government and not worry about being hauled off (generally), but the USA actually has a greater ratio of its citizens in prisons than China does in there.
So statically, if you are an US citizen you are more likley to be in prison than you are a Chinese citizen. Maybe we just have more criminals over here, but sometimes it just feels like this anti-Chinese sentiment is pot calling kettle black.
Also the top three nations of users of the death penalty are China, Iran, and the US (in that order). Seems like we have a lot in common.
Sometimes I start to wonder to myself that the only difference between the USA and China is that over there they know they aren't free while over here we're just duped into thinking that we are until we actually break a law.
Yeah, given the choice I'd rather live here than over there, but sometimes I wonder if only that pent up frustration against China could be directed at our own government so that we can actually someday hopefully change the path towards a more democratic state for everyone and not just those are in the majority way of thinking.
Forgive my skepticism, but this is exactly the sort of thing that China commonly lies about.
The fact they had a spacewalk or the fact they did it without loss of human life?
Really, there is nothing gained long term if they lie about a space walk and frankly Soviets did it without lying. They could have, but so could the Americans about the moon.
Secondly, it would be easier to send up a few people to die than actually fake it. Not to mention that anyone can intercept the signals they are broadcasting. Sure they could have sent up a video to broadcast from space, but if they are going to do that they just need to shove someone out into space and get home without incident.
Well digital has "error correction" built in (most of the time).
Take a music CD and scratch it with a nail just once from the center to the edge (not in circles cause that actually does destroy the disc). Generally the CD will still play without loss of everything. You may hear skips or jumps but digital can by pass errors so its not an all or nothing with streaming.
However, its tolerance of errors is a bit lower than so analogue. You could in theory take a nail and run it in circles on a vinyl record and get something. Not the case if you do it with a audio CD.
Have a louder cry about the DRM. I'm sure you'd love games costing several million dollars to develop shoved up on FTP with an honesty box, but someone with any brainpower whatsoever would realise that its fucking retarded.
You could say the actual download process is DRM because you do have to install the Gamer's Gate Client to download the game, but once you have downloaded any of Pdox's games you can copy to any machine anywhere without any DRM.
They are a niche company, but frankly their fans (like myself) are hard core and I'll have to admit that I've given them more money for their games last year than any other gaming company I can think of.
Of course they do something kind of unique that kind of encourages honesty. For each game your purchase you can an icon of the community forums (they run them personally) and its like a badge of honor and you get direct communication with the developers.
They may not be making huge money like EA but they are quite successful in what they do and have a "rabid" community following their games.
Nice! About time someone took a proactive stance to gold farmers. They just present a way for the lazy player to get ahead.Nice! About time someone took a proactive stance to gold farmers. They just present a way for the lazy player to get ahead.
Personally, I have nothing against gold farmers and those who support them, but its really annoying and retarded in WAR because:
A.) They are spamming public channels and sending tells to everyone.
B.) There is no need for gold grind.
In fact the only thing that I can think of that would need grinding gold for would be mounts and generally unless you've been bad with your money and blew all on dyes once a day then you probaly will have enough by the time you get to that point.
Seriously, the majority of the best gear can be got from Public Quests and RvR battles. I got more gold than I know what to do with at this point.
Poor conservatives tend to come from a rural cultural background where you didn't have much materially, but always had both a farm to keep you fed, and a large social network of family and friends to lean on in times of crisis. Even if it no longer holds true entirely, the culture is still based around the consequences of that mentality - you don't depend on the government for things, because your core needs are handled, and while you expect to stay poor through hard work for yourself (on your own farm, or family's farm) you will never be desperate.
I don't mean to be a downer, but if is true then why does the government give out millions in subsidies to farmers?
Personally, I came from a poor rural area too but no one farmed, it was all furniture or textile factory workers. The community was quite jaded though due to the layoffs and immigration. There were plenty of people down there that lived on government welfare checks in the trailer parks that I grew up with.
Not to mention the dark side of the whole community that no one talked about at least openly about racism. Not to mention the "Good Ole Boy" system that ran the sheriff's office.
Anyways... I don't believe most of the red state citizens are farmers these days because most of the work is automated. The majority do other things and as quaint as some make it out to be, the ways of old aren't that pretty on occasion.
I live in a major city now and tend to say its not really about "What I can get from the government." as most people make out. Generally I think everyone wants to be left alone except the sociopaths who want to get in everyone's business.
The reason they don't like the republicans is because its a culture thing like unions, racism, and generally what their parents voted for.
Personally, it doesn't bother me when rural types vote republican either. Its their culture too. What really gets me peaved is the well educated business types that go for Bush/Mccaine simply because they're supposedly "financially conservative" which they are not. Those are the people I will never get.
A bullet flies over his head, and he turns and returns fire, killing the enemey. A few miles away, another solider is walking. He is not easily frightened or startled. He hears something, and calmly turns his head in the direction of the sound. The bullet goes straight through his face, killing him.
And sadly both cases were the result of friendly fire.
Seriously, this is not what military training teaches soldiers. You are to react to conditions through your training which goes against instinct. If you are fired upon, you're not taught to immediately fire back without finding cover. Returning fire on open ground is suicide and is actually the base instinct of fight or flight.
Of course fleeing across open ground is also suicide.
This of course also entails that if you blindly fire back at the enemy that he might be standing in a crowd of civilians or actually shooting over your buddies which would be your direct line of sight if you tried to return fire.
So no... Being frightened is not something you want going into combat which is why they try to train it out of you. You freeze up or start shooting without proper judgment will result in friendly or civilian casualties.
True there is a health fear of not dying, but in truth too much fear will get you killed.
Whether he was right or wrong, as I understamd it, A scientist should be able to state his ideas without fear of reprisals such as that.
If the head of a scientific institution declared the earth was flat, would not not call for the questioning of his post?
It would be like the head of OPEC declaring that oil comes from cows.
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As long as the communication's right, a manager doen't need the technical skills.
If a construction site manager could not look at a subordinate's construction work and see that its faulty then wouldn't that be a bad manager?
If a financial bank manager could not look at a subordinate's spread sheet numbers and see that its faulty then wouldn't that be a bad manager?
If a coding manager could not look at a subordinate's code and see that its faulty then wouldn't that be a bad manager?
Simply having good communication does not guarantee that work gets done properly. You can communicate and have meetings all day, but if the building falls down because the manager couldn't tell the difference between good and bad construction work, he needs to get into another line a business.
Yes, a manager needs to communicate, but he needs to communicate on the performance of those underneath him. If he cannot look at their work and determine if they are doing a good or bad job and give feedback then they are not a good manager.
And you cannot judge without having some technical knowledge in the background of the job of the person under you.
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The CEO of Ford knows what a carburetor is, but certainly can't identify the parts of one taken apart in front of him. That doesn't make him a bad CEO.
Warren Buffet (billionaire investor) has stated over and over again that he will never invest or manage a company that he does not understand. This is why he never invests in tech stocks. To be fair, he's a friend of Bill G and says that Microsoft and the like aren't bad investments, but its still of him to put his money into things he know idea what is going on.
I believe the same applies to other companies that are successful...
Take Steve Jobs and Balmer. Sure they probaly don't go down to the cubicles and slap coders with rulers saying "You're doing it wrong!", but they've been in the business long enough to understand the concepts behind it because they were there when the companies were small enough that the would see code on a daily basis.
Now, sometimes it hard to find an MBA that knows code, but if I were an investor of a tech company I would hope to have a CEO who had some experience in the actual creation of their products at one type of another.
Running a company simply on numbers and money will eventually destroy the company once you disconnect with your employees and customer base. After all, even the best financial CEO can't make a tech company work if he has no one to code and no one that wants to buy his companies products anymore.
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I think having the manager understand the technical nature of whats going on is certainly an asset.. but ultimately I don't know if it's a necessity.
Billionaire Warren Buffet won't touch tech companies. Why? Because he knows that he doesn't know jack about technology and if plans to buy a tech company then he wouldn't know how to run it. He said so himself over and over again in his talks that although tech companies like Microsoft aren't bad (he's a good friend with Bill), its just that given his current background he'd be going in blind as someone who helps run the company.
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I'd much rather have my kids participate in meatspace team-building starting with after-school programs and then moving on to the football team or the academic decathalon or robotics team before I let them glue themselves to a damn raster and throw their life away.
Hrm... I've got mod points to use but I wanted to reply to this because I had the opposite child hood.
My parents let me stay in front of the TV, NES, and encouraged my computer habits. (Even as so much as buying my CD-ROM kits and RAM for my 486 for my b-day) and never forced me to participate in anything I never wanted to participate in.
They encouraged things like joining the High School Marching bad (god I was a geek) but it was something I wanted to do because all my friends were in the band.
I played Doom, Mortal Kombat, participated in D&D, listened to heavy metal and all the other things society said that would make children psycho murderers and yet I didn't turn out to be.
Yes, I am a bit anti-social but that is because that is me and not the fact I wasn't forced to be social by my parents. If one thing I give them is that they were pretty open to my past times and interests (even if they didn't understand them) as long as I kept my grades up and didn't misbehave.
Now 20 odd some years later, this stuff is still my life and I make a living off it. Had they forced me to play football and take away my computer I probaly wouldn't have been able to teach myself the computer skills I have today that keep my mortgage bills paid every month.
Simply forcing a kid to participate in 'meatspace' really doesn't solve their problems or gets them an education. The truth is that in the 21st century (if you consider having a job important), the meat space is becoming extremely overrated and if you are not familiar with the internet and technology you are going to be left behind.
It kind of almost bothers me that I'm not in the clique anymore. I'll be walking down the street or riding the bus and I'll see people half my age talking about the internet or downloading files and I turn around and these will be valley girls or jocks and yes... It does make me cringe, but that is how society is changing.
So no... Geeks don't have a monopoly on the internet anymore and anyone holding back their kid from technology is now going to make them the outcast because everyone is going to be using it for education and employment.
Heck... Most work places have stopped advertising jobs in newspapers, do all posts on job sites, responses only via email, and would probably laugh you out of the interview if you didn't understand basic computer concepts.
And these are entry level jobs!
Just saying... Its a brave new world now.
If you're so concerned about the unintelligent procreating over the more intellectual people in an overthrow of evolution, perhaps you should consider what larger, smarter species various insects might have driven to destruction over the last 400 million years.
They didn't have a space program?
No, seriously... Any species that doesn't eventually figure out how to colonize other planets is doomed to extinction no matter how well adapted to their current environment due to unforeseen global disasters.
If non-intelligent people are more likely to build a successful space program then we are on the road to success.
Otherwise, some other species will have to figure out the whole deal with asteroid impacts, temporary loss of earth's magnetic shielding, and cosmic ray bursts in a few hundred million years from now.
If you don't pick up you've got to listen to some damn message - and you're sitting wondering about the content of the message until you listen to it.
You can do what I do.
1. Don't answer the phone.
2. Delete the message
3. Maybe call the person back in a week if I'm curious about what they wanted.
Really... You don't have to answer the phone.
It really depends. A college degree is extremely useful for getting your foot in the door, but real life experience is even better. The problem of course is that your average 21 year old has no life experience, so without a degree he's SOL.
As an anecdotal experience, I dropped out of college back in the late 90's and went to work for a software company for someone who knew my dad. From there I worked my way the IT chain and just go the certs and what everyone else had sans the degree.
Then I got enough names and years worked on my resume that not a problem that I don't have a problem with the lack of degree.
Of course, I'll admit I was pretty lucky getting those first gigs, but then again so is not having college debt.
But didn't anyone feel sad because of their memories of formatting those Windows 3.1 machines they had on display in Circuit City back in the early 90's?
That and putting something "cute" on the marquee screen saver.
Maybe I indirectly lead to their demise some odd 20 years later after making the one person who could have saved the company quit in frustration because of those damn brats.
Does anyone seriously treat any wireless transmission as if it was secure? If anyone who cares to listen can easily pick up everything being sent from your computer it's only a matter of time and CPU power before they can read it.
In theory, if both computers had atomic clocks and a shared truly random one time pad txt file saved locally on both systems the encryption will never be broken.
Of course finding a few atomic clocks to spare that could fit into a laptop and a true random number generator then I think the NSA would like to talk with you.
Examples of heaven on Earth: Congo Democratic Republic, Afghanistan, Somalia, Colombia, Kosovo.
Um... Except for Somalia, all of those countries have a form of government (mostly) and I'm not sure why you listed Kosovo because that's not really the epitome of anarchy and I'm sure they'd be insulted if you said so.
And to be fair, what you are suggesting as libertarianism is anarchism and that most libertarians really mean is Jeffersonianism.
An effective but limited federal government which does not get involved with issues or morality and then a strong local government.
Personally, I'd rather deal with a small government which I don't agree with because I can move elsewhere, but if I'm dealing with a strong government that is on the national level that I don't like, its not that easy to move.
If you decline to vote, then you really have no recourse to complain about the results of that process, do you? You had your chance to be heard and decided you had other things to do.
I think people are complaining about the lack of choice in the election, first and foremost, and the results as an after affect.
Its like telling a person living in the USSR in 1985 that he can't complain about the results of election because he didn't vote for the one person.
In reality there is an inherit flaw in first past the post in majority takes all elections. If we were serious about fixing politics we'd adopt a parliament with proportional representation.
Heck, we can keep calling it a congress but at least change the rules about the winner takes all so we don't have a single group that only needs 51% of the votes to tell the other 49% what to do.
If enough fucktards want to change the law, move elsewhere and watch them get their just deserts.
The United States was never intended for the people or by the people but rather to limit government to protect the majority from a powerful minority or powerful majority from a weak minority.
Historically, democracies with no limits on its power tended to be oppressive to its minorities.
Secondly, just picking up and moving is not always a solution especially when the majority puts restrictions on movement on said minorities.
Not to godwin this thread, but the Nazi's were technically legally elected by a democratic process which they dismantled from the inside once they go to power. The minorities such as the social democrats, socialists, communists, and others were made short work of shortly thereafter.
Many persons (especially those of the Jewish ethnicity) attempted to move but as the government increased its restrictions on them, those who had not moved early on could no longer escape the country after a certain point.
The key is that the best government is not one that simply empowers 51% of its population to rule, but to also protect the other 49% from being being treated as second class citizens (or worse).
Here I was finally thinking I'd get a raise this year because of labor shortage!
Listen kids, there is no future in IT. Plumbers and lawyers is where it is at.
Because they're an authoritarian government that lies all the time?
As compared to our pseudo-authoritarian government that lies all the time?
Sure I can speak out against the government and not worry about being hauled off (generally), but the USA actually has a greater ratio of its citizens in prisons than China does in there.
So statically, if you are an US citizen you are more likley to be in prison than you are a Chinese citizen. Maybe we just have more criminals over here, but sometimes it just feels like this anti-Chinese sentiment is pot calling kettle black.
Also the top three nations of users of the death penalty are China, Iran, and the US (in that order). Seems like we have a lot in common.
Sometimes I start to wonder to myself that the only difference between the USA and China is that over there they know they aren't free while over here we're just duped into thinking that we are until we actually break a law.
Yeah, given the choice I'd rather live here than over there, but sometimes I wonder if only that pent up frustration against China could be directed at our own government so that we can actually someday hopefully change the path towards a more democratic state for everyone and not just those are in the majority way of thinking.
Forgive my skepticism, but this is exactly the sort of thing that China commonly lies about.
The fact they had a spacewalk or the fact they did it without loss of human life?
Really, there is nothing gained long term if they lie about a space walk and frankly Soviets did it without lying. They could have, but so could the Americans about the moon.
Secondly, it would be easier to send up a few people to die than actually fake it. Not to mention that anyone can intercept the signals they are broadcasting. Sure they could have sent up a video to broadcast from space, but if they are going to do that they just need to shove someone out into space and get home without incident.
Can everyone please stop saying 'they' and start saying 'we'?
What do you mean "we", human?
Well digital has "error correction" built in (most of the time).
Take a music CD and scratch it with a nail just once from the center to the edge (not in circles cause that actually does destroy the disc). Generally the CD will still play without loss of everything. You may hear skips or jumps but digital can by pass errors so its not an all or nothing with streaming.
However, its tolerance of errors is a bit lower than so analogue. You could in theory take a nail and run it in circles on a vinyl record and get something. Not the case if you do it with a audio CD.
Now I'll have to wait even longer to welcome our new demonic overlords who were supposed to come out of the stargate that the LHC will create.
Well, it looks like the best estimates will have the LHC running full collisions will be sometime in December, 2012.
Hey wait a minute!
Have a louder cry about the DRM. I'm sure you'd love games costing several million dollars to develop shoved up on FTP with an honesty box, but someone with any brainpower whatsoever would realise that its fucking retarded.
Its what Paradox Interactive does with Gamer's Gate with their own games (3rd party titles I'm not so sure).
You could say the actual download process is DRM because you do have to install the Gamer's Gate Client to download the game, but once you have downloaded any of Pdox's games you can copy to any machine anywhere without any DRM.
They are a niche company, but frankly their fans (like myself) are hard core and I'll have to admit that I've given them more money for their games last year than any other gaming company I can think of.
Of course they do something kind of unique that kind of encourages honesty. For each game your purchase you can an icon of the community forums (they run them personally) and its like a badge of honor and you get direct communication with the developers.
They may not be making huge money like EA but they are quite successful in what they do and have a "rabid" community following their games.
Nice! About time someone took a proactive stance to gold farmers. They just present a way for the lazy player to get ahead.Nice! About time someone took a proactive stance to gold farmers. They just present a way for the lazy player to get ahead.
Personally, I have nothing against gold farmers and those who support them, but its really annoying and retarded in WAR because:
A.) They are spamming public channels and sending tells to everyone.
B.) There is no need for gold grind.
In fact the only thing that I can think of that would need grinding gold for would be mounts and generally unless you've been bad with your money and blew all on dyes once a day then you probaly will have enough by the time you get to that point.
Seriously, the majority of the best gear can be got from Public Quests and RvR battles. I got more gold than I know what to do with at this point.
Poor conservatives tend to come from a rural cultural background where you didn't have much materially, but always had both a farm to keep you fed, and a large social network of family and friends to lean on in times of crisis. Even if it no longer holds true entirely, the culture is still based around the consequences of that mentality - you don't depend on the government for things, because your core needs are handled, and while you expect to stay poor through hard work for yourself (on your own farm, or family's farm) you will never be desperate.
I don't mean to be a downer, but if is true then why does the government give out millions in subsidies to farmers?
Personally, I came from a poor rural area too but no one farmed, it was all furniture or textile factory workers. The community was quite jaded though due to the layoffs and immigration. There were plenty of people down there that lived on government welfare checks in the trailer parks that I grew up with.
Not to mention the dark side of the whole community that no one talked about at least openly about racism. Not to mention the "Good Ole Boy" system that ran the sheriff's office.
Anyways... I don't believe most of the red state citizens are farmers these days because most of the work is automated. The majority do other things and as quaint as some make it out to be, the ways of old aren't that pretty on occasion.
I live in a major city now and tend to say its not really about "What I can get from the government." as most people make out. Generally I think everyone wants to be left alone except the sociopaths who want to get in everyone's business.
The reason they don't like the republicans is because its a culture thing like unions, racism, and generally what their parents voted for.
Personally, it doesn't bother me when rural types vote republican either. Its their culture too. What really gets me peaved is the well educated business types that go for Bush/Mccaine simply because they're supposedly "financially conservative" which they are not. Those are the people I will never get.
A bullet flies over his head, and he turns and returns fire, killing the enemey. A few miles away, another solider is walking. He is not easily frightened or startled. He hears something, and calmly turns his head in the direction of the sound. The bullet goes straight through his face, killing him.
And sadly both cases were the result of friendly fire.
Seriously, this is not what military training teaches soldiers. You are to react to conditions through your training which goes against instinct. If you are fired upon, you're not taught to immediately fire back without finding cover. Returning fire on open ground is suicide and is actually the base instinct of fight or flight.
Of course fleeing across open ground is also suicide.
This of course also entails that if you blindly fire back at the enemy that he might be standing in a crowd of civilians or actually shooting over your buddies which would be your direct line of sight if you tried to return fire.
So no... Being frightened is not something you want going into combat which is why they try to train it out of you. You freeze up or start shooting without proper judgment will result in friendly or civilian casualties.
True there is a health fear of not dying, but in truth too much fear will get you killed.
How are these ISPs and Telcos even supposed to allow their network admins to work from home... if the net is down?
I suppose if they are knowledgeable enough they can SSH or telnet into work with direct dialup access.
That depends on if they still have modems laying around on both ends and that the phone system still works.
I would be surprised. Shit happens.
Always feign ignorance so they won't attribute it to your malice.
Whether he was right or wrong, as I understamd it, A scientist should be able to state his ideas without fear of reprisals such as that.
If the head of a scientific institution declared the earth was flat, would not not call for the questioning of his post?
It would be like the head of OPEC declaring that oil comes from cows.
As long as the communication's right, a manager doen't need the technical skills.
If a construction site manager could not look at a subordinate's construction work and see that its faulty then wouldn't that be a bad manager?
If a financial bank manager could not look at a subordinate's spread sheet numbers and see that its faulty then wouldn't that be a bad manager?
If a coding manager could not look at a subordinate's code and see that its faulty then wouldn't that be a bad manager?
Simply having good communication does not guarantee that work gets done properly. You can communicate and have meetings all day, but if the building falls down because the manager couldn't tell the difference between good and bad construction work, he needs to get into another line a business.
Yes, a manager needs to communicate, but he needs to communicate on the performance of those underneath him. If he cannot look at their work and determine if they are doing a good or bad job and give feedback then they are not a good manager.
And you cannot judge without having some technical knowledge in the background of the job of the person under you.
The CEO of Ford knows what a carburetor is, but certainly can't identify the parts of one taken apart in front of him. That doesn't make him a bad CEO.
Warren Buffet (billionaire investor) has stated over and over again that he will never invest or manage a company that he does not understand. This is why he never invests in tech stocks. To be fair, he's a friend of Bill G and says that Microsoft and the like aren't bad investments, but its still of him to put his money into things he know idea what is going on.
I believe the same applies to other companies that are successful...
Take Steve Jobs and Balmer. Sure they probaly don't go down to the cubicles and slap coders with rulers saying "You're doing it wrong!", but they've been in the business long enough to understand the concepts behind it because they were there when the companies were small enough that the would see code on a daily basis.
Now, sometimes it hard to find an MBA that knows code, but if I were an investor of a tech company I would hope to have a CEO who had some experience in the actual creation of their products at one type of another.
Running a company simply on numbers and money will eventually destroy the company once you disconnect with your employees and customer base. After all, even the best financial CEO can't make a tech company work if he has no one to code and no one that wants to buy his companies products anymore.
I think having the manager understand the technical nature of whats going on is certainly an asset.. but ultimately I don't know if it's a necessity.
Billionaire Warren Buffet won't touch tech companies. Why? Because he knows that he doesn't know jack about technology and if plans to buy a tech company then he wouldn't know how to run it. He said so himself over and over again in his talks that although tech companies like Microsoft aren't bad (he's a good friend with Bill), its just that given his current background he'd be going in blind as someone who helps run the company.