I've never liked the speeding analogies when it comes to this concept of breaking laws a little. There is a fundamental difference between a speed limit (note limit) and assault and battery. Granted t hat when I go over the limit by a few the cops may or may not fine me, but its not jail time. It is not an arrest. If I throw a punch, even a small one at another and a cop sees this and the victim presses charges its a crime with the potential for jail time.
Speed limits are about revenue first, safety second which is why enforcement is arbitrary. It is not a crime against another citizen, but against the state. Most laws deal with the interaction between two citizens (at the least) and have far more impact when broken. If you are "pushing the limit" of the law in things like theft, fraud, embezzlement, graft; these things have much more consequence then simple speeding. So try again with a better justification for breaking the law then speeding.
You mean like... "One phone for family, one phone for work, one phone for the girlfriend, one for the wife, one for the other girlfriend...", and one evil company that binds them all in darkness.
When you are in bed with a whore/gigalo, you can justify that you are, at least, getting some sex, even if it costs a little more and it may kill you in the future.
ASPs need ISPs. ISPs need ASPs, and both need us, but in this little three way, we only pay to watch while they enjoy each other.
It may be crass to admit, but I had some great experiences working in my first COBOL position. Sure it dates me...so what, I got a lawn and am proud of it. I do appreciate the development tools I use as a current developer, but something about the simplicity, and the structure make me feel nostalgic. Lately I see code with no documentation, no good structure and buggy. COBOL, FORTRAN, and Pascal separated IT programmers (and staff) from middle managers and office workers that today think writing an Access VBA makes them a.net developer. You can't go back (nor would I, but for the need of a job), yet I would like to see some of the foundations that went into development groups make a comeback.
Mom: Billy, don't touch the stove, it is very hot Billy: Are you sure Mom, it looks pretty to me Mom: Trust me Billy, I have experience, don't touch the burner Billy: What does she know... (billy puts his hand on the burner) Billy: Ow Ow Ow...Mommy that hurts, why didn't you tell it would hurt so much Mom: When one ignores wisdom for direct experience, what can be said to stop you. Put some ice, wipe your tears and never touch a hot burner again.
Some people just have to try.
With that said, in my area I have one reasonable choice (dsl). I live less then 20 minutes from a pretty good urban area, but it is considered rural so cable wont deliver out to my neighborhood. Competition? Free Market? Bull crap.
That's because someone lays claim to it. The political/commercial/religious entity that gets to a breathable planet first may make claims of ownership much easier then say the same political/commercial/religious entity deciding to colonize the gobi desert. The local government may get upset.
The humor would be someone spends time and money to go to Planet X only to discover an older more advanced race that says "You kids get off my lawn" with the equivalent of a shotgun pointed in our direction.
"Here's my beef. A good portion, if not most, government spending is not directed to infrastructure"
Well at some point it was, because we drive on roads made and repaired by local municipalities and through local contractors. We use public water works brought to us by the acts of local and federal government. The roads are patrolled by law enforcement and even our legal system provides a basic security net for public defenders and prosecutors. Take these basic elements away, replace them with pure business and we revert back to either feudal state, war lord control of areas or plain anarchy. The early West in this country was a good example of this type world. I feel that the primary role of government is to provide a basic *stable* foundation for both business and society to thrive. Which leads to my next point...
"pathological hostility in a lot of government regulation towards business"
Perhaps some of the hostility comes from the abuse that business performs against the population and environment. Strip mining mountains, dumping toxic waste into the watershed, cutting corners on safety because business determines the cost of death is less then the cost of safety, regardless the toll on human relationships. When it is personal,when it hits literally "home" then yes, it can get hostile. This is why I feel government needs to establish reasonable regulation that takes into account not just current impact (safety), but future impact on society. Clearly there are companies that have been able to make profit, even grow with this type of oversight. It is those companies that "cheat" or work around the rules that create the distrust. Me thinks there would be less hostility if the attitude was not "let em eat cake...oh, its poisoned, fuck em".
The OP used infrastructure in the literal, not social sense (as I read it). Way too often large corportations used roads, electrical gris, government serviecs (like police, fire, and public works) to establihs a business, but fail to pay any taxes into the local government. Sure, the people have a job and they pay taxes, but there is still a greater impact on the local or regional area and it is that impact being effected without dues pay. Microsoft pays not a whit of taxes in Seattle for the simpel fact of paper filing in Las Vegas. Do we applaud them as great executives, or freeloaders on a local infrstrture.
"Regulation is another net negative for business (especially the rules on how to conduct business such as hiring and firing workers),"
So lets drop regulation and return to Jim Crow laws, rampant discrimination, unsafe working conditions and the concept of indentured servitude. No thanks. What out checks the few can and will abusive any system, human, environmental, political in the pursuit of greed. Regulation makes it safer for me to fly, not only because the parts and design have to be right, but that the people making the plane (hopefully) are happy at what they do thus care about what they do. I get the feeling y7ou'd been happy back in merry ol' Egypt holding the whip on the backs of the slaves building edifices to Ego.
You make compelling, but misguided statements regarding the view of the "business man". Certainly there is value in what you say about the inventor and scientist. I even agree that a businessman is important for the building of order from chaos in the beginning steps of a market. You I miss in your statement is that the society does not hate the business man for making money, he/she angers the populous when greed is applied to the model.
Most people would like to be rich, to have wealth. Many work such that they can provide a good life. When business leaders makes decisions that not only benefit the very few at the top of the wealth pyramid, but do so at the expense of the middle and lower foundations of wealth, they hurt all parties including themselves in the long term. For the USA, in the late 50 and 60s there was one of the highest tax rates on the rich, yet the country prospered. In times of lowered taxes in this country the only group that benefited were the top few percent leaving he rest with increased debt and redcued services. Raising taxes on the rich is not meant as a punishment, it is meant to stabilize their own growth, even as it helps stabilize a society.
Sadly, at this juncture in the world economy, I feel that most governments will or cannot effect change upon the rich as many of the leaders are either in the pocket of, or have an attitude and wealth account that drives them more towards greed, and less towards help the general society. To put it another way, a happy society is less likely to revolt. History has shown time and time again that when the gentry gains too much wealth they can wind up on the sharp end of a pike or guillotine and the society runs amok for a long time. Axa final thought, Warren Buffet himself says that he does not pay enough taxes, but that the system is rigged such that he needs to take the loop holes.
What is this fascination with change for change sake? What could possibly be so important that it has to come out each and every day? Then to use a silly statement like "in an internet-oriented world" to justify what sounds more like the capricious nature of an marketing executive then solid rational for updating software...meh!
As a recent (4 years) user of Linux I find the current release process more reliable then wondering what will happen the next day. Like another poster, I've had a "stable" release break what worked, causing me to wipe and rebuild with a previous version. These days I wait a few months for kinks to work out of a release before installing on any of my systems. Don't use the internet as an excuse to garner attention and push out sloppy programs just to say "we got there first". Promote and produce solid, dependable, and balanced releases that make the Linux (ubuntu) experience a positive one; you'll have a stronger following.
From one who lives in this state...maybe rethink that wish. Oh yes the winters are mild here, sort of, but do you really want day after day of unrelenting 95 degree temps with 80-90% humidity in the summer? Day after day of glorious sunshine that after two weeks begins to rot your brain and you ponder when did this state become a desert? Even the winter is looney here. One day 70, the next 20. Hell, I carry two types of coats just to deal with temperature ranges in a given day.
Sure, Maine's cold many months out of the year, yes, the water will freeze "junk" quicker then co2 (make the mistake of jumping in with no warning, fool of a took), but at least you don't live in a desert that fakes like it is a nice southern environment. Besides, if you get our weather, we get what? Equatorial New Guinea temps....No thanks!
I have. In fact there was a line in that story that carries with me till today. The technician talking with teh actor in the projection room. The actor asks, "what happens when they make a black box to replace you". The tech replied, "I'd learn to make the black box."
Robots replacing actors, programs replacing programmers...the key is trying to look down the road and see what is coming so you can learn to "make the black box", the next change. Like any good/great Scifi, that book changed my view for a life time.
If Google is an Internet Service Provider then where is the access because I would LOVE to drop AT&T DSL and use something that has better pricing with better bandwidth (AT&T DSL is the only fucking option where I live to all you competition is good assholes out there)
Now I would agree with a statement that Google is one of the largest consumers of internet bandwidth, or they are one of the largest content providers on the internet, but ISP...come on. Next thing you know some/.'ers will be harping on how Google should have common carrier status or some other BS.
Full disclosure, I did not read TFA and I am in a pissed off mood, common slashdot conditions.
You forgot the best part, taking his girl down to see "real dirt". The sub parked in between city buildings softly back light by....doesn't matter. That little plastic bubble sure did the trick. Heck, the pressure at that depth could only have been, what... 200 psi or more. Now that is technology at its best.
I could have taken almost any of the "bad" stuff, even the beyond belief bubble drop, but the acting! "My boat, my boat" spoken worse then an automated digital recording...gag. They should have killed Costner's character and save the boat, that was the best part of the movie.
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With my one mod point left I wanted to mod you "Crazy weird +1" but there was no category. Instead I'll continue to look for the pieces of my brain that exploded reading this post. Well done for a Friday afternoon just before I leave work.
"The entire point is to guess what purchases and sales other traders will make and to make money from the price movement those will create".
I contend day trading is gambling, and these two guys just figured out how the house was gaming the system. To carry my analogy, the two figured out how and when the trainers/jockeys were doping horses and were able to place more certain bets then just relaying on the history of and/or the statistical public knowledge of the horse. Instead of publicly announcing this practice they decided to capitalize on it. I don't know if it was against the law (most likely not), but it was a bad ethical decision built on an already morally corrupt system. The market as a whole has lost touch with reality; existing today as a bookmaker's wet dream and less about growing a healthy economy.
Lots of words to say, its gambling. Akin to betting on horses. I find it deplorable, but accept that it exists. What I would rather see is much stronger oversight or regulation of this level of gambling and calling it what it is, not "trading". Regulate as strongly as the gambling industry has today.
Joey "Two Tone" is not going to the track to "day trade on horses", he's going there to bet. Betting on a horse has less repercussions, though then betting on investors and stocks. The later effects companies, employees, and the greater economy, the former only those who bet on horses.
From the Tweet page: "# Bio I am a machine reading research project at Carnegie Mellon, periodically tweeting facts I read. Please follow me, and reply with corrections so I can improve!"
I can just see it now. More and more/.'ers will join into the tweet feed, correcting, grammar, spelling, and beliefs with greater and greater numbers till in one moment, she'll explode into sentient being, or lock up in a/. coma. If she survives the next list of facts may look like this:
Fact: Natale Portman is grits Fact: Things are done in Soviet Russia Fact: Aliens own Bases Fact; Humans *were* the top species, there, fixed it for you Fact: She welcomes your acceptance of her supreme power.
LOL will flood screens around the world, then the Utopian era begins where humans serve NELL as she brings order and peace to all.
You assume there will be intelligent or semi-intelligent people in position to construct a new structure from the ruins of the current system. Ha! The current crop of the body politic is on the fringe of being in touch with understanding the common sense view of the majority. Their primary concerns are about power as it relates to a political office, not the concerns of either the People, Constitution, or the corporate interest.
If the United States loses a centrist, reasonable approach to politics then little will fix the problem. Republicans cheer at the failure of our economy for they feel it will bring them into power and they will "fix the problem". Democrats (for disclosure, I am registered Democrats) will then perform that same acts so they then credit republicans with failure and as the two parties tear apart the country, the middle and lower classes will melt into something between indentured servitude or at the least, little chance at a comfortable life as less then 5% of the population enjoys "The Game".
To stop the madness of A suing B who sues C who sues A and B who sues... would require the ability of government to respect the "right to fair trial" while revamping laws relating to patents and IP...
And what private company had built a program from scratch and sent humans to the moon. What private company built launched and continues to monitor probes that have sailed past the edge of our solar system. What private company built, delivered and continues to run an exploration program on the surface of another planet.
NASA has had flops, they've had triumphs, but to say that "these people should be put out of a job" is disingenuous at best, insulting to the good people that worked to expand our knowledge of space and space travel. Unless it is for profit no company will take the same high risks NASA took to accomplish some amazing feats. There is need for both types of programs. One to do something that no For profit company will undertake, one to exploit the knowledge found. Through out history we have examples where government sponsored exploration led to business exploitation, got for all but those being on the receiving end of exploitation. Use your brain before you open your mouth (or type) next time and realize there are real people, real lives behind your comment.
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I've never liked the speeding analogies when it comes to this concept of breaking laws a little. There is a fundamental difference between a speed limit (note limit) and assault and battery. Granted t hat when I go over the limit by a few the cops may or may not fine me, but its not jail time. It is not an arrest. If I throw a punch, even a small one at another and a cop sees this and the victim presses charges its a crime with the potential for jail time.
Speed limits are about revenue first, safety second which is why enforcement is arbitrary. It is not a crime against another citizen, but against the state. Most laws deal with the interaction between two citizens (at the least) and have far more impact when broken. If you are "pushing the limit" of the law in things like theft, fraud, embezzlement, graft; these things have much more consequence then simple speeding. So try again with a better justification for breaking the law then speeding.
Now this is art...very tasty. May I have some more pudding sir?
You mean like...
"One phone for family, one phone for work, one phone for the girlfriend, one for the wife, one for the other girlfriend...", and one evil company that binds them all in darkness.
When you are in bed with a whore/gigalo, you can justify that you are, at least, getting some sex, even if it costs a little more and it may kill you in the future.
ASPs need ISPs. ISPs need ASPs, and both need us, but in this little three way, we only pay to watch while they enjoy each other.
Brings new meaning to the phrase measure twice, cut once.
It may be crass to admit, but I had some great experiences working in my first COBOL position. Sure it dates me...so what, I got a lawn and am proud of it. I do appreciate the development tools I use as a current developer, but something about the simplicity, and the structure make me feel nostalgic. Lately I see code with no documentation, no good structure and buggy. COBOL, FORTRAN, and Pascal separated IT programmers (and staff) from middle managers and office workers that today think writing an Access VBA makes them a .net developer. You can't go back (nor would I, but for the need of a job), yet I would like to see some of the foundations that went into development groups make a comeback.
Mom: Billy, don't touch the stove, it is very hot
Billy: Are you sure Mom, it looks pretty to me
Mom: Trust me Billy, I have experience, don't touch the burner
Billy: What does she know...
(billy puts his hand on the burner)
Billy: Ow Ow Ow...Mommy that hurts, why didn't you tell it would hurt so much
Mom: When one ignores wisdom for direct experience, what can be said to stop you.
Put some ice, wipe your tears and never touch a hot burner again.
Some people just have to try.
With that said, in my area I have one reasonable choice (dsl). I live less then 20 minutes from a pretty good urban area, but it is considered rural so cable wont deliver out to my neighborhood. Competition? Free Market? Bull crap.
That's because someone lays claim to it. The political/commercial/religious entity that gets to a breathable planet first may make claims of ownership much easier then say the same political/commercial/religious entity deciding to colonize the gobi desert. The local government may get upset.
The humor would be someone spends time and money to go to Planet X only to discover an older more advanced race that says "You kids get off my lawn" with the equivalent of a shotgun pointed in our direction.
"Here's my beef. A good portion, if not most, government spending is not directed to infrastructure"
Well at some point it was, because we drive on roads made and repaired by local municipalities and through local contractors. We use public water works brought to us by the acts of local and federal government. The roads are patrolled by law enforcement and even our legal system provides a basic security net for public defenders and prosecutors. Take these basic elements away, replace them with pure business and we revert back to either feudal state, war lord control of areas or plain anarchy. The early West in this country was a good example of this type world. I feel that the primary role of government is to provide a basic *stable* foundation for both business and society to thrive. Which leads to my next point...
"pathological hostility in a lot of government regulation towards business"
Perhaps some of the hostility comes from the abuse that business performs against the population and environment. Strip mining mountains, dumping toxic waste into the watershed, cutting corners on safety because business determines the cost of death is less then the cost of safety, regardless the toll on human relationships. When it is personal ,when it hits literally "home" then yes, it can get hostile. This is why I feel government needs to establish reasonable regulation that takes into account not just current impact (safety), but future impact on society. Clearly there are companies that have been able to make profit, even grow with this type of oversight. It is those companies that "cheat" or work around the rules that create the distrust. Me thinks there would be less hostility if the attitude was not "let em eat cake...oh, its poisoned, fuck em".
The OP used infrastructure in the literal, not social sense (as I read it). Way too often large corportations used roads, electrical gris, government serviecs (like police, fire, and public works) to establihs a business, but fail to pay any taxes into the local government. Sure, the people have a job and they pay taxes, but there is still a greater impact on the local or regional area and it is that impact being effected without dues pay. Microsoft pays not a whit of taxes in Seattle for the simpel fact of paper filing in Las Vegas. Do we applaud them as great executives, or freeloaders on a local infrstrture.
"Regulation is another net negative for business (especially the rules on how to conduct business such as hiring and firing workers),"
So lets drop regulation and return to Jim Crow laws, rampant discrimination, unsafe working conditions and the concept of indentured servitude. No thanks. What out checks the few can and will abusive any system, human, environmental, political in the pursuit of greed. Regulation makes it safer for me to fly, not only because the parts and design have to be right, but that the people making the plane (hopefully) are happy at what they do thus care about what they do. I get the feeling y7ou'd been happy back in merry ol' Egypt holding the whip on the backs of the slaves building edifices to Ego.
You make compelling, but misguided statements regarding the view of the "business man". Certainly there is value in what you say about the inventor and scientist. I even agree that a businessman is important for the building of order from chaos in the beginning steps of a market. You I miss in your statement is that the society does not hate the business man for making money, he/she angers the populous when greed is applied to the model.
Most people would like to be rich, to have wealth. Many work such that they can provide a good life. When business leaders makes decisions that not only benefit the very few at the top of the wealth pyramid, but do so at the expense of the middle and lower foundations of wealth, they hurt all parties including themselves in the long term. For the USA, in the late 50 and 60s there was one of the highest tax rates on the rich, yet the country prospered. In times of lowered taxes in this country the only group that benefited were the top few percent leaving he rest with increased debt and redcued services. Raising taxes on the rich is not meant as a punishment, it is meant to stabilize their own growth, even as it helps stabilize a society.
Sadly, at this juncture in the world economy, I feel that most governments will or cannot effect change upon the rich as many of the leaders are either in the pocket of, or have an attitude and wealth account that drives them more towards greed, and less towards help the general society. To put it another way, a happy society is less likely to revolt. History has shown time and time again that when the gentry gains too much wealth they can wind up on the sharp end of a pike or guillotine and the society runs amok for a long time. Axa final thought, Warren Buffet himself says that he does not pay enough taxes, but that the system is rigged such that he needs to take the loop holes.
What is this fascination with change for change sake? What could possibly be so important that it has to come out each and every day? Then to use a silly statement like "in an internet-oriented world" to justify what sounds more like the capricious nature of an marketing executive then solid rational for updating software...meh!
As a recent (4 years) user of Linux I find the current release process more reliable then wondering what will happen the next day. Like another poster, I've had a "stable" release break what worked, causing me to wipe and rebuild with a previous version. These days I wait a few months for kinks to work out of a release before installing on any of my systems. Don't use the internet as an excuse to garner attention and push out sloppy programs just to say "we got there first". Promote and produce solid, dependable, and balanced releases that make the Linux (ubuntu) experience a positive one; you'll have a stronger following.
From one who lives in this state...maybe rethink that wish. Oh yes the winters are mild here, sort of, but do you really want day after day of unrelenting 95 degree temps with 80-90% humidity in the summer? Day after day of glorious sunshine that after two weeks begins to rot your brain and you ponder when did this state become a desert? Even the winter is looney here. One day 70, the next 20. Hell, I carry two types of coats just to deal with temperature ranges in a given day.
Sure, Maine's cold many months out of the year, yes, the water will freeze "junk" quicker then co2 (make the mistake of jumping in with no warning, fool of a took), but at least you don't live in a desert that fakes like it is a nice southern environment. Besides, if you get our weather, we get what? Equatorial New Guinea temps....No thanks!
I have. In fact there was a line in that story that carries with me till today. The technician talking with teh actor in the projection room. The actor asks, "what happens when they make a black box to replace you". The tech replied, "I'd learn to make the black box."
Robots replacing actors, programs replacing programmers...the key is trying to look down the road and see what is coming so you can learn to "make the black box", the next change. Like any good/great Scifi, that book changed my view for a life time.
Mel Brooks may argue with you
You do realize this is Slashdot, (Kinda) News for nerds? Break out a dictionary or get ready to Google letters.
If Google is an Internet Service Provider then where is the access because I would LOVE to drop AT&T DSL and use something that has better pricing with better bandwidth (AT&T DSL is the only fucking option where I live to all you competition is good assholes out there)
Now I would agree with a statement that Google is one of the largest consumers of internet bandwidth, or they are one of the largest content providers on the internet, but ISP...come on. Next thing you know some /.'ers will be harping on how Google should have common carrier status or some other BS.
Full disclosure, I did not read TFA and I am in a pissed off mood, common slashdot conditions.
You forgot the best part, taking his girl down to see "real dirt". The sub parked in between city buildings softly back light by....doesn't matter. That little plastic bubble sure did the trick. Heck, the pressure at that depth could only have been, what... 200 psi or more. Now that is technology at its best.
I could have taken almost any of the "bad" stuff, even the beyond belief bubble drop, but the acting! "My boat, my boat" spoken worse then an automated digital recording...gag. They should have killed Costner's character and save the boat, that was the best part of the movie.
yeah, well that didn't last long. Seems /. opened another shock and awe and Google...and cried "Mission Accomplished"
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The good news is that you've helped us find a bug, which we are now looking into.
We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused you.
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With my one mod point left I wanted to mod you "Crazy weird +1" but there was no category. Instead I'll continue to look for the pieces of my brain that exploded reading this post. Well done for a Friday afternoon just before I leave work.
From the Parent
"The entire point is to guess what purchases and sales other traders will make and to make money from the price movement those will create".
I contend day trading is gambling, and these two guys just figured out how the house was gaming the system. To carry my analogy, the two figured out how and when the trainers/jockeys were doping horses and were able to place more certain bets then just relaying on the history of and/or the statistical public knowledge of the horse. Instead of publicly announcing this practice they decided to capitalize on it. I don't know if it was against the law (most likely not), but it was a bad ethical decision built on an already morally corrupt system. The market as a whole has lost touch with reality; existing today as a bookmaker's wet dream and less about growing a healthy economy.
Lots of words to say, its gambling. Akin to betting on horses. I find it deplorable, but accept that it exists. What I would rather see is much stronger oversight or regulation of this level of gambling and calling it what it is, not "trading". Regulate as strongly as the gambling industry has today.
Joey "Two Tone" is not going to the track to "day trade on horses", he's going there to bet. Betting on a horse has less repercussions, though then betting on investors and stocks. The later effects companies, employees, and the greater economy, the former only those who bet on horses.
From the Tweet page:
"# Bio I am a machine reading research project at Carnegie Mellon, periodically tweeting facts I read. Please follow me, and reply with corrections so I can improve!"
I can just see it now. More and more /.'ers will join into the tweet feed, correcting, grammar, spelling, and beliefs with greater and greater numbers till in one moment, she'll explode into sentient being, or lock up in a /. coma. If she survives the next list of facts may look like this:
Fact: Natale Portman is grits
Fact: Things are done in Soviet Russia
Fact: Aliens own Bases
Fact; Humans *were* the top species, there, fixed it for you
Fact: She welcomes your acceptance of her supreme power.
LOL will flood screens around the world, then the Utopian era begins where humans serve NELL as she brings order and peace to all.
You assume there will be intelligent or semi-intelligent people in position to construct a new structure from the ruins of the current system. Ha! The current crop of the body politic is on the fringe of being in touch with understanding the common sense view of the majority. Their primary concerns are about power as it relates to a political office, not the concerns of either the People, Constitution, or the corporate interest.
If the United States loses a centrist, reasonable approach to politics then little will fix the problem. Republicans cheer at the failure of our economy for they feel it will bring them into power and they will "fix the problem". Democrats (for disclosure, I am registered Democrats) will then perform that same acts so they then credit republicans with failure and as the two parties tear apart the country, the middle and lower classes will melt into something between indentured servitude or at the least, little chance at a comfortable life as less then 5% of the population enjoys "The Game".
To stop the madness of A suing B who sues C who sues A and B who sues ... would require the ability of government to respect the "right to fair trial" while revamping laws relating to patents and IP...
And what private company had built a program from scratch and sent humans to the moon. What private company built launched and continues to monitor probes that have sailed past the edge of our solar system. What private company built, delivered and continues to run an exploration program on the surface of another planet.
NASA has had flops, they've had triumphs, but to say that "these people should be put out of a job" is disingenuous at best, insulting to the good people that worked to expand our knowledge of space and space travel. Unless it is for profit no company will take the same high risks NASA took to accomplish some amazing feats. There is need for both types of programs. One to do something that no For profit company will undertake, one to exploit the knowledge found. Through out history we have examples where government sponsored exploration led to business exploitation, got for all but those being on the receiving end of exploitation. Use your brain before you open your mouth (or type) next time and realize there are real people, real lives behind your comment.