I know you can't change that, but it kind of makes my point. Many jobs out there are not 8-5 types, yet management treats them as such. Were I having to put nuts on bolts coming down a line I can see the attitude of hourly work. In IT, if we are salary then while our pay may be computed on a 40 hour week, we have a management that is more then happy to get more then the contract agreed upon. "We expect 50 hours of work from you", yet you pay me only for 40 with the hope of comp..come on!
With your example, you caould go to the office, waste 4 out of the 8 hours and the boss will be happy because your ass was in his space. I just think we can do better then that these days; find the win win for all parties.
So what you are saying is that is more a management problem.
1 - A good Manager will assess the people on his/her team both good and bad. You don't have to look at the face of a boss to show you did/do a good job, its in the results. If the Manager says "Get this done today" and its done, whether that order came from 5 feet, or five hundred miles does not matter.
2 - I just don't buy this argument. A work team is foremost about work. If I need to talk, walking down the hall or picking up a phone or IM are the same thing. In my past I had a great relationship with team members I never saw face to face. Perhaps this is age, but work is not the new social medium for me. My hobbies, personal activities, and local interactions are more important for social time. I did have good times working with a team in a location, but I had great success when I only saw them 1 time a year. You adapt.
3 - 99% of the time what I hear in cube farm is noise. Phones, speaker phone calls, bitching and moaning about inane things. Rarely do I hear something liek you describe and even if it were and issue to deal with, I'd rather take time to ensure what I do is needed before I run off and "fix" something that later it was decided did not need fixing.
4 - When I work from home I am still responsible for my work. I still need to get it done. Whether that means I work 5 intense hours, or 8 stretched out hours is up to me. If I am needed for conversation I make sure I am available. If it needs to be complete by tomorrow then I work till its done, but at least I manage my time and I don't waste my time sitting in traffic 30/60/90 mins a day.
Perhaps telecommute is not for everyone, but my goodness, do we knock it down so it never gets a chance? On a side not, companies that began to offer unlimited vacation found that overall, productivity actually increased because employees began to be better rested, and wee able to better manage work/life then with a strict time off schedule. Sure it can be abused, everything can, but proper management can work through and should either guide employees to responsible use, or fire them. Ultimately what I hear fom naysayers is that "I can't be trusted" and from management "I don't trust you". Hell of a team mentality there.
See, this is a thought that should get modded up. We walk around with smartphones and tablets, our laptops carry more power then most mainframes, yet there is still this requirement that we get into a vehicle and travel some distance to sit in a cube or office and do work. Seriously?
Granted, not all jobs are suited for telecommuted, but more and more these days we have tools to start sending people home, with jobs. The energy savings would be huge I feel. It could help local business as more people shop near home and not work. Were I able to work from home, the savings in gas and food would be worth a raise. Companies would not need to spend so much on heating/cooling large buildings. They would also be able to save money by not having to maintain large networks for inter/intra office communication. As far as productivity goes, if an office is preferred, open smaller local offices or shops where people could go to work riding a bike, walking, or other mode other then a vehicle.
Instead of trying to re-invent how to move the drones to and from offices, lets figure a way to bring the office, the work back home.
Your sig may show your bias, and the response certainly has whiffs of troll. Normally I don't like responding to trolls, reasoned conversation is not found and it encourages future behavior. However it bothers me when people make a knee jerk, blanket statement about someone they have never met.
My friends would think otherwise about my mind. Open minded I am when what is presented has basis in fact, reason, and respect. Your argument falls flat when held against much better presenters then I (John Stewart for example). One episode performed a direct contrast between a conservative radio show and NPR. Though humorous, the contrast was stark and very telling about which broadcast was more prone to incite negative emotions and actions. CNN may have an editorial bias, but it at least attempts to fact check, while Fox has been repeatedly shown to out right lie on almost a daily basis. Glenn Beck, on a regular basis compares Obama to Hitler, makes opinion sound like fact, and believes the administration is trying to help the Caliphant. Even Bill O'Rielly puts him down. Rachel Maddow's worst is righteous indignation over powerful people who break laws, but are not prosecuted.
About the only thing my mind is not open to is propaganda presented as news, opinion dressed up as fact, and idiots trying to sound important.
I read the article and was amazed at how spot on David Frun was in analyzing the republican party's woes (thus America's woes). His commentary about Fox News and the effect commercialized press has had on the party was chilling. The Coulters, Limbaughs, Becks, Hannitys of the sound media have only one interest, making money. Sadly, their method is to foment angst, division, and distrust so people will come back for more, the modern day owners of the coliseum. Thumbs up, thumbs down, it does not matter to them as long as the people come back to see the next show.
For me, it is a sad day in this country when the First Lady of the United States of America is booed in public. A woman who has tried to do good things for people in this country. A mother with two good children. A representative of our country. This is a serious sign of disrespect brought about by the non-stop name calling, truth-bending, and derogatory statements from Fox, Rush, and company. Perhaps they need to watch "The Ox Bow Incident" to realize what happens with uncontrolled mobs. We are becoming the Mob the "Right" should be most afraid of. One of the best lines in the article:
for it is the richest who have the most interest in political stability, which depends upon broad societal agreement that the existing distribution of rewards is fair and reasonable. If the social order comes to seem unjust to large numbers of people, what happens next will make Occupy Wall Street look like a street fair.
Indeed, the mob is fickle, the mob is anarchy, the mob is and will be a creation of the radical party who's interests are of Self first, Party second, and country a distant third.
British sailing Man-of-Wars would be out of contact with land for months at a time. American Whalers reported being at sea for three years in pursuit of the South Sea sperm whales. Those men did perfectly fine. These ships sometimes had hundreds of people and the men did not go bat shit insane.
That is just wrong. Those ships were not riding the seas for three years with no contact with land. They had to stop and times to provision, unload cargo, perform repairs that would require calm waters and materials from land. So perhaps they were away from"home" for three years, but natives in the south pacific may from time to time had blue eyed babies. There was also rampant "buggery", discipline through fear and violence and death was treated a part of the risk, not the exception. Out of a hundred crew members, if you lose one or two on a cruise you just re-hire in port or just make do. Lose a crew on a 5/6 man space mission has way more impact on every aspect of the mission.
Someone else mentioned subs that go on patrol for 5-6 months as a closer example to this experiment. In that I slightly agree, but 5-6 months is not 520 days. Subs are equipped with some of the best food products for meals, vast media libraries, and a military structure that (on the surface) sets a standard of behavior. No navy has tried to run a sub for 2 years non stop underwater. Now that may could close to an ideal on earth experiment.
It would be easy to say "just send em up and see what happens", but when you are talking Billions of dollars invested with no direct return? I can understand a step wise approach. Whaling ships were a lot cheaper to build (thus lose) then a Mars spacecraft.
You should check out God in Job. Whole thing starts out as a bet with the Devil. At the end God still comes out kind of egocentric and petulant. I am a man of Faith, who believes in a greater power and believes in science as well. I see the bible as a historical novel and guide book for faith, but not a religious tome (this coming from a PK). If a theologian cannot defend his statements in public he is lacking in both inner faith and belief in himself. How these weak spirited people get to positions of stature is beyond me.
Now that's funny, I did not see any colors, but while talking with my cousin @ 7:30 PM I looked up and saw a object streak across the sky with a long trail behind it (I live north east of Atlanta, GA). He joked that it was the German satellite though I though it had crashed by now. My thought was alien invasion and finally, we have something to take our minds off the drivel coming from Washington on how they will make our lives better. Nothing like aliens to shake up the status quo.
So reality may be more boring, just a couple billion tons of star stuff slamming into the planet. It was something to witness for I've not seen such a streak across the sky like this...hmmm...I think I'll stick with aliens, makes the day more interesting.
I never met the man, but it was his code that shaped the rest of my life. In 1978 I entered college to be a physicist. When I discovered I had to actually understand Calculus to get past the basics of physics, I found my way over to the computer lab. There I ran my first program, but as a consumer, not a creator. I was amazed and had to know how the program worked so I went to see the head of the department. The next day I signed up for CS101 for the next semester.
the Head of Comp Sci, just the year before had decided to radically change the direction of the CompSci program from understanding/learning the mainframe world to the emerging mini computers. Out when IBM and in came DEC PDP/11. Out went COBOL, in came C, RATFOR, FORTRAN, and Pascal along with assembler. My first Comp Sci book was K&R and I referenced that book for years. I'll grant he shaped the world, but he did it one programmer at a time. My variation:
Void Main() {
printf("Thank You Richie, from The World"); }
(for those noting that he has not gotten any major press, that is the difference between creation and marketing. Jobs was marketing magician, and very good at his job. Folks like Woz, Richie, Tim Patterson, these creators were the foundations which allowed minds like Jobs or Gates to exist. Their drive was not on attention, but creation. Today's media has little time on depth so they just follow the rule, sex sells and the creator of a programming language is not sexy, the king of marketing shiny devices that do fun things, he's sexy)
And I could see it as just two T-rex, waiting around for prey. Since I did not know the context, I chose correctly without knowing. Wonder what that says about the direction my mind is going these days.
As a side note, the museum actually did that and stated it is two t-rex mating? could make for some inteesting floor conversations... Child: Daddy, what are the dinosaurs doing? Uncomfortable Dad: Why Billy, they are just hanging around waiting for prey Child: That's funny, cause it looks like the same position you and Mommy make sometimes when I hear strange sounds.
I want to see if I understand this...The defense is God created the iphone for the purpose of telling us that Steve Jobs is in hell. Whew.
God created the iphone. To do this he created Steve Jobs to eventually help create the iphone, thus Steve was an instrument of God's creation. That means when you are an instrument of God that you will go to hell. I guess Steve will be seeing Margie and her gang sometime in the future. These people are not Christians nor represent the religion in any way. They are troubled individuals that use the facade of religion (and freedom of speech) to justify abhorrent behavior.
I'm worth a few 100 million dollars. I think I'll take a rick and invest a few 10 million dollars in a risky business. Oh what's that? if failed. Okay, I'll jet off to my island retreat and sulk for a bit till I make back my few 10 million in non-risky market trades. Wow, the pain.
Hi, I'm worth a few ten thousand, plus a mortgage, I think I'll risk most of my few ten thousand on a risky business, maxing out credit cards since I can't seem to get a loan. Oh what's that? It failed. No problem, I'll probably lose the house, no doubt I got to pay those creditors off, except I can't seem to get job, but if I get one I'll spend the next decade struggling to even get back to where I started.
In some ways life is much harder then it was back even 50 years ago. If you fail now the chance, the opportunity to get back on your feet is greatly reduced as more and more people are struggle for the same spots on the boat. Please don't tell me that the top 1% are risking their lives. For me to believe that, I'd want to see a multi-millionaire (or billionaire) drop most of their wealth (80/90%) into something truly risky like space travel/commercialization, advanced mass transportation (tunnel under the ocean), or some other human kind expanding effort. They risk shit.
I got an idea for a business, I know it will work, I just need a few million. it wont make double digit profits, it will only help a local or regional area, but it will put people to work, help the ecology, and provide fun and learning for folks Think the likes of Buffet, Gates, or Ellison would risk their billions and invert in creating new business at the small level? I doubt it very much.
How would any of us feel if our company's PR managers decided to come down and unilaterally make amateur and bug riddled commits to our projects code repositories and then release it? You'd probably want them fired too.
No, I would not fire them for a first offense. I'd figure out why they did what they did, I take steps to correct the behavior, and I'd verify the effort by random checks for a while. This manager made a mistake. he made an honest comment, for fucks sake it may be that the guy was proud of the product and in the moment, he had a brain fart. What did his tweets cost the company? Will we really know? What Microsoft lost, depending on his length of service, is a valuable resource that will cost them more in retraining then they may have lost in some minor tweets.
I read through most of the policy and given the nature of his tweets, it seems a reach to fire the guy.
Can I disclose confidential information when blogging?... Most importantly, to preserve Microsoft’s rights to protect its innovations through patents, do not disclose or describe any new features, functionalities, or innovations that have not been publicly disclosed or released without first checking with your business unit management or your LCA patent contact...
This section mentions not revealing new features, but from what was broadcast, he did not reveal anything specific nor anything that was not already basically understood. I could see getting a reprimand, held back from promotion type of punishment, but to just say "bugger off" for making positive comments about a MS product? ULM is not weird, their stupid. This could have been turned into a marketing scoop, getting the lemmings talking about it and perhaps now wanting to try it out. Since we don't know much about the man as an employee, perhaps he was horrible as a manager and they just needed a reason to boot his butt out. My sense, they just took what could have been both a teaching moment for employees and a marketing bonazza into more negative PR for an already tarnished image.
Okay, in general that is not a good policy, but there is at least one way to protect yourself. Open up another checking account then have the credit card make deposits once a month. This way the monthly routine is handled almost the same way. I did not see anything that required a minimum balance. IT also means that if there is a "computing error", only that account is effected and if the balance is zero except the day before payment there is little the company can do, but contact your for money.
I am fortunate that I have a bank which provides free checking accounts. I set these up just for this reason so that my primary deposit account is separated from much of my activity.
OT (but I'll burn the karma)...I hate waiting, will this be out full length in some format? The prologue was pretty good, kept my interest. I just don't like long interludes between readings which is why I wait till a trilogy is complete before buying. fyi, for me, the Chinese lettering is distracting partially because I have to trust the writer the "interpretation" is true. Nit pick.
On topic, I agree with your views of the Star * worlds. I feel that we live today in a more Star Wars type world, that it will take a collapse and rebuilding to achieve a Star Trek type world. The current path seems to not lead towards enlightenment. The question would be whether mankind would survive a collapse these days or just annihilate ourselves completely.
That sounds like a losing bet since these days, CEOs seem more interested in ruining companies then building them up. I'd be interested in knowing what was the rags to riches success company for I'd buy short on the stock. No company is allowed to be successful today, only profitable for the next quarter.
I kind of like both. Legalize to gain revenue to help our current budget crisis, and selectively target cartel compounds and destroy them. We don't need to send troops in, just "nuke em from orbit". Dropping some rocks from very high up will leave quite a dent in the place without all that messy radioactive stuff to deal with. The government can use plausible deny-ability since it was only a rock, and not a bomb with all sorts of traceable components.
I'm not normally a war monger, but even I'm getting tired of all this useless violence perpetrated by amoral sociopaths without a scrap of humanity. Yes, the rule of law is important, but when this dark of evil can use it as another tool to hide, then we have to look at other methods to deal with these thugs.
We don't have a War on Drugs, that's a vapid phrase with no value or meaning. Were it a war then a just society, and a just leader would take firm action, even if it meant innocent deaths, to eradicate evil. I cannot imagine the moment when Truman had to decide to drop the bomb or the decision to invade Normandy, or other examples when leaders knew good people will die, but the enemy would be defeated. They made those decisions, because they could see that countless lives would suffer if those evils where left in place. Today we get upset over 6000 deaths in ten years of fighting in Iraq/Afghanistan when that many died * 2 in the Normandy invasion, with allied countries supporting the effort.
These cartels are like fire ant mounds. You can kill soldier ants all day and the mound will remain. The only way to get ride of them is to kill the queen(leader) and destroy the mound completely.
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I know you can't change that, but it kind of makes my point. Many jobs out there are not 8-5 types, yet management treats them as such. Were I having to put nuts on bolts coming down a line I can see the attitude of hourly work. In IT, if we are salary then while our pay may be computed on a 40 hour week, we have a management that is more then happy to get more then the contract agreed upon. "We expect 50 hours of work from you", yet you pay me only for 40 with the hope of comp..come on!
With your example, you caould go to the office, waste 4 out of the 8 hours and the boss will be happy because your ass was in his space. I just think we can do better then that these days; find the win win for all parties.
So what you are saying is that is more a management problem.
1 - A good Manager will assess the people on his/her team both good and bad. You don't have to look at the face of a boss to show you did/do a good job, its in the results. If the Manager says "Get this done today" and its done, whether that order came from 5 feet, or five hundred miles does not matter.
2 - I just don't buy this argument. A work team is foremost about work. If I need to talk, walking down the hall or picking up a phone or IM are the same thing. In my past I had a great relationship with team members I never saw face to face. Perhaps this is age, but work is not the new social medium for me. My hobbies, personal activities, and local interactions are more important for social time. I did have good times working with a team in a location, but I had great success when I only saw them 1 time a year. You adapt.
3 - 99% of the time what I hear in cube farm is noise. Phones, speaker phone calls, bitching and moaning about inane things. Rarely do I hear something liek you describe and even if it were and issue to deal with, I'd rather take time to ensure what I do is needed before I run off and "fix" something that later it was decided did not need fixing.
4 - When I work from home I am still responsible for my work. I still need to get it done. Whether that means I work 5 intense hours, or 8 stretched out hours is up to me. If I am needed for conversation I make sure I am available. If it needs to be complete by tomorrow then I work till its done, but at least I manage my time and I don't waste my time sitting in traffic 30/60/90 mins a day.
Perhaps telecommute is not for everyone, but my goodness, do we knock it down so it never gets a chance? On a side not, companies that began to offer unlimited vacation found that overall, productivity actually increased because employees began to be better rested, and wee able to better manage work/life then with a strict time off schedule. Sure it can be abused, everything can, but proper management can work through and should either guide employees to responsible use, or fire them. Ultimately what I hear fom naysayers is that "I can't be trusted" and from management "I don't trust you". Hell of a team mentality there.
See, this is a thought that should get modded up. We walk around with smartphones and tablets, our laptops carry more power then most mainframes, yet there is still this requirement that we get into a vehicle and travel some distance to sit in a cube or office and do work. Seriously?
Granted, not all jobs are suited for telecommuted, but more and more these days we have tools to start sending people home, with jobs. The energy savings would be huge I feel. It could help local business as more people shop near home and not work. Were I able to work from home, the savings in gas and food would be worth a raise. Companies would not need to spend so much on heating/cooling large buildings. They would also be able to save money by not having to maintain large networks for inter/intra office communication. As far as productivity goes, if an office is preferred, open smaller local offices or shops where people could go to work riding a bike, walking, or other mode other then a vehicle.
Instead of trying to re-invent how to move the drones to and from offices, lets figure a way to bring the office, the work back home.
I really should not try humor, it is never understood. Note the (I agree) before hand...sheesh :-/
(I agree) You must be new here.
No way. Just when you think, "There is no way the internet has that combination" someone sends a link. Lesbians Spider Queens on Mars..I'm blown away.
Your sig may show your bias, and the response certainly has whiffs of troll. Normally I don't like responding to trolls, reasoned conversation is not found and it encourages future behavior. However it bothers me when people make a knee jerk, blanket statement about someone they have never met.
My friends would think otherwise about my mind. Open minded I am when what is presented has basis in fact, reason, and respect. Your argument falls flat when held against much better presenters then I (John Stewart for example). One episode performed a direct contrast between a conservative radio show and NPR. Though humorous, the contrast was stark and very telling about which broadcast was more prone to incite negative emotions and actions. CNN may have an editorial bias, but it at least attempts to fact check, while Fox has been repeatedly shown to out right lie on almost a daily basis. Glenn Beck, on a regular basis compares Obama to Hitler, makes opinion sound like fact, and believes the administration is trying to help the Caliphant. Even Bill O'Rielly puts him down. Rachel Maddow's worst is righteous indignation over powerful people who break laws, but are not prosecuted.
About the only thing my mind is not open to is propaganda presented as news, opinion dressed up as fact, and idiots trying to sound important.
I read the article and was amazed at how spot on David Frun was in analyzing the republican party's woes (thus America's woes). His commentary about Fox News and the effect commercialized press has had on the party was chilling. The Coulters, Limbaughs, Becks, Hannitys of the sound media have only one interest, making money. Sadly, their method is to foment angst, division, and distrust so people will come back for more, the modern day owners of the coliseum. Thumbs up, thumbs down, it does not matter to them as long as the people come back to see the next show.
For me, it is a sad day in this country when the First Lady of the United States of America is booed in public. A woman who has tried to do good things for people in this country. A mother with two good children. A representative of our country. This is a serious sign of disrespect brought about by the non-stop name calling, truth-bending, and derogatory statements from Fox, Rush, and company. Perhaps they need to watch "The Ox Bow Incident" to realize what happens with uncontrolled mobs. We are becoming the Mob the "Right" should be most afraid of. One of the best lines in the article:
for it is the richest who have the most interest in political stability, which depends upon broad societal agreement that the existing distribution of rewards is fair and reasonable. If the social order comes to seem unjust to large numbers of people, what happens next will make Occupy Wall Street look like a street fair.
Indeed, the mob is fickle, the mob is anarchy, the mob is and will be a creation of the radical party who's interests are of Self first, Party second, and country a distant third.
That makes me fee +1 Sad.
British sailing Man-of-Wars would be out of contact with land for months at a time. American Whalers reported being at sea for three years in pursuit of the South Sea sperm whales. Those men did perfectly fine. These ships sometimes had hundreds of people and the men did not go bat shit insane.
That is just wrong. Those ships were not riding the seas for three years with no contact with land. They had to stop and times to provision, unload cargo, perform repairs that would require calm waters and materials from land. So perhaps they were away from"home" for three years, but natives in the south pacific may from time to time had blue eyed babies. There was also rampant "buggery", discipline through fear and violence and death was treated a part of the risk, not the exception. Out of a hundred crew members, if you lose one or two on a cruise you just re-hire in port or just make do. Lose a crew on a 5/6 man space mission has way more impact on every aspect of the mission.
Someone else mentioned subs that go on patrol for 5-6 months as a closer example to this experiment. In that I slightly agree, but 5-6 months is not 520 days. Subs are equipped with some of the best food products for meals, vast media libraries, and a military structure that (on the surface) sets a standard of behavior. No navy has tried to run a sub for 2 years non stop underwater. Now that may could close to an ideal on earth experiment.
It would be easy to say "just send em up and see what happens", but when you are talking Billions of dollars invested with no direct return? I can understand a step wise approach. Whaling ships were a lot cheaper to build (thus lose) then a Mars spacecraft.
You should check out God in Job. Whole thing starts out as a bet with the Devil. At the end God still comes out kind of egocentric and petulant. I am a man of Faith, who believes in a greater power and believes in science as well. I see the bible as a historical novel and guide book for faith, but not a religious tome (this coming from a PK). If a theologian cannot defend his statements in public he is lacking in both inner faith and belief in himself. How these weak spirited people get to positions of stature is beyond me.
which means if you roll the clock back, the universe was actually created on a Tuesday. Always felt the weekend was on the wrong days.
Now that's funny, I did not see any colors, but while talking with my cousin @ 7:30 PM I looked up and saw a object streak across the sky with a long trail behind it (I live north east of Atlanta, GA). He joked that it was the German satellite though I though it had crashed by now. My thought was alien invasion and finally, we have something to take our minds off the drivel coming from Washington on how they will make our lives better. Nothing like aliens to shake up the status quo.
So reality may be more boring, just a couple billion tons of star stuff slamming into the planet. It was something to witness for I've not seen such a streak across the sky like this...hmmm...I think I'll stick with aliens, makes the day more interesting.
I never met the man, but it was his code that shaped the rest of my life. In 1978 I entered college to be a physicist. When I discovered I had to actually understand Calculus to get past the basics of physics, I found my way over to the computer lab. There I ran my first program, but as a consumer, not a creator. I was amazed and had to know how the program worked so I went to see the head of the department. The next day I signed up for CS101 for the next semester.
the Head of Comp Sci, just the year before had decided to radically change the direction of the CompSci program from understanding/learning the mainframe world to the emerging mini computers. Out when IBM and in came DEC PDP/11. Out went COBOL, in came C, RATFOR, FORTRAN, and Pascal along with assembler. My first Comp Sci book was K&R and I referenced that book for years. I'll grant he shaped the world, but he did it one programmer at a time. My variation:
Void Main() {
printf("Thank You Richie, from The World");
}
(for those noting that he has not gotten any major press, that is the difference between creation and marketing. Jobs was marketing magician, and very good at his job. Folks like Woz, Richie, Tim Patterson, these creators were the foundations which allowed minds like Jobs or Gates to exist. Their drive was not on attention, but creation. Today's media has little time on depth so they just follow the rule, sex sells and the creator of a programming language is not sexy, the king of marketing shiny devices that do fun things, he's sexy)
And I could see it as just two T-rex, waiting around for prey. Since I did not know the context, I chose correctly without knowing. Wonder what that says about the direction my mind is going these days.
As a side note, the museum actually did that and stated it is two t-rex mating? could make for some inteesting floor conversations...
Child: Daddy, what are the dinosaurs doing?
Uncomfortable Dad: Why Billy, they are just hanging around waiting for prey
Child: That's funny, cause it looks like the same position you and Mommy make sometimes when I hear strange sounds.
and a clean LCD screen. Perspective, an amazing thing.
I want to see if I understand this...The defense is God created the iphone for the purpose of telling us that Steve Jobs is in hell. Whew.
God created the iphone. To do this he created Steve Jobs to eventually help create the iphone, thus Steve was an instrument of God's creation. That means when you are an instrument of God that you will go to hell. I guess Steve will be seeing Margie and her gang sometime in the future. These people are not Christians nor represent the religion in any way. They are troubled individuals that use the facade of religion (and freedom of speech) to justify abhorrent behavior.
Oh now that's rich!
I'm worth a few 100 million dollars. I think I'll take a rick and invest a few 10 million dollars in a risky business. Oh what's that? if failed. Okay, I'll jet off to my island retreat and sulk for a bit till I make back my few 10 million in non-risky market trades. Wow, the pain.
Hi, I'm worth a few ten thousand, plus a mortgage, I think I'll risk most of my few ten thousand on a risky business, maxing out credit cards since I can't seem to get a loan. Oh what's that? It failed. No problem, I'll probably lose the house, no doubt I got to pay those creditors off, except I can't seem to get job, but if I get one I'll spend the next decade struggling to even get back to where I started.
In some ways life is much harder then it was back even 50 years ago. If you fail now the chance, the opportunity to get back on your feet is greatly reduced as more and more people are struggle for the same spots on the boat. Please don't tell me that the top 1% are risking their lives. For me to believe that, I'd want to see a multi-millionaire (or billionaire) drop most of their wealth (80/90%) into something truly risky like space travel/commercialization, advanced mass transportation (tunnel under the ocean), or some other human kind expanding effort. They risk shit.
I got an idea for a business, I know it will work, I just need a few million. it wont make double digit profits, it will only help a local or regional area, but it will put people to work, help the ecology, and provide fun and learning for folks Think the likes of Buffet, Gates, or Ellison would risk their billions and invert in creating new business at the small level? I doubt it very much.
How would any of us feel if our company's PR managers decided to come down and unilaterally make amateur and bug riddled commits to our projects code repositories and then release it? You'd probably want them fired too.
No, I would not fire them for a first offense. I'd figure out why they did what they did, I take steps to correct the behavior, and I'd verify the effort by random checks for a while. This manager made a mistake. he made an honest comment, for fucks sake it may be that the guy was proud of the product and in the moment, he had a brain fart. What did his tweets cost the company? Will we really know? What Microsoft lost, depending on his length of service, is a valuable resource that will cost them more in retraining then they may have lost in some minor tweets.
I read through most of the policy and given the nature of his tweets, it seems a reach to fire the guy.
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Most importantly, to preserve Microsoft’s rights to protect its innovations through
patents, do not disclose or describe any new features, functionalities, or
innovations that have not been publicly disclosed or released without first
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This section mentions not revealing new features, but from what was broadcast, he did not reveal anything specific nor anything that was not already basically understood. I could see getting a reprimand, held back from promotion type of punishment, but to just say "bugger off" for making positive comments about a MS product? ULM is not weird, their stupid. This could have been turned into a marketing scoop, getting the lemmings talking about it and perhaps now wanting to try it out. Since we don't know much about the man as an employee, perhaps he was horrible as a manager and they just needed a reason to boot his butt out. My sense, they just took what could have been both a teaching moment for employees and a marketing bonazza into more negative PR for an already tarnished image.
Bad form Microsoft, bad form.
Okay, in general that is not a good policy, but there is at least one way to protect yourself. Open up another checking account then have the credit card make deposits once a month. This way the monthly routine is handled almost the same way. I did not see anything that required a minimum balance. IT also means that if there is a "computing error", only that account is effected and if the balance is zero except the day before payment there is little the company can do, but contact your for money.
I am fortunate that I have a bank which provides free checking accounts. I set these up just for this reason so that my primary deposit account is separated from much of my activity.
OT (but I'll burn the karma)...I hate waiting, will this be out full length in some format? The prologue was pretty good, kept my interest. I just don't like long interludes between readings which is why I wait till a trilogy is complete before buying. fyi, for me, the Chinese lettering is distracting partially because I have to trust the writer the "interpretation" is true. Nit pick.
On topic, I agree with your views of the Star * worlds. I feel that we live today in a more Star Wars type world, that it will take a collapse and rebuilding to achieve a Star Trek type world. The current path seems to not lead towards enlightenment. The question would be whether mankind would survive a collapse these days or just annihilate ourselves completely.
That sounds like a losing bet since these days, CEOs seem more interested in ruining companies then building them up. I'd be interested in knowing what was the rags to riches success company for I'd buy short on the stock. No company is allowed to be successful today, only profitable for the next quarter.
I kind of like both. Legalize to gain revenue to help our current budget crisis, and selectively target cartel compounds and destroy them. We don't need to send troops in, just "nuke em from orbit". Dropping some rocks from very high up will leave quite a dent in the place without all that messy radioactive stuff to deal with. The government can use plausible deny-ability since it was only a rock, and not a bomb with all sorts of traceable components.
I'm not normally a war monger, but even I'm getting tired of all this useless violence perpetrated by amoral sociopaths without a scrap of humanity. Yes, the rule of law is important, but when this dark of evil can use it as another tool to hide, then we have to look at other methods to deal with these thugs.
We don't have a War on Drugs, that's a vapid phrase with no value or meaning. Were it a war then a just society, and a just leader would take firm action, even if it meant innocent deaths, to eradicate evil. I cannot imagine the moment when Truman had to decide to drop the bomb or the decision to invade Normandy, or other examples when leaders knew good people will die, but the enemy would be defeated. They made those decisions, because they could see that countless lives would suffer if those evils where left in place. Today we get upset over 6000 deaths in ten years of fighting in Iraq/Afghanistan when that many died * 2 in the Normandy invasion, with allied countries supporting the effort.
These cartels are like fire ant mounds. You can kill soldier ants all day and the mound will remain. The only way to get ride of them is to kill the queen(leader) and destroy the mound completely.
And here I thought the object was not to play in the first place. Where' WOPR to guide us today.