Trump wants to exclude everyone except uneducated white men.
"Exclude" from what? See, this is the kind of meaningless accusation that seems to summarize the entire Clinton political platform. Go on, keep repeating this weak propaganda, it just shows that there's so little substance in Clinton's "vision" that your only hope of getting her elected is by default, trying to make people not vote for the other side. Weak.
But for people who can afford high end devices, Apple is not a waste of money only pursued by fashion victims and phonies
Do you even realize how smug this sounds? Here's a reality check for you: no matter the income of the buyer, Apple products are a waste of money because they're not worth the price tag. There's plenty of other products with that kind of bad value for the money; Range Rovers for instance. Doesn't make it any better than paying $20 for a cheeseburger at Mikee Dees.
As for fashion victims, here's a true story. Friend of mine told me she wanted a new laptop and was considering a Macbook. I told her about the limitations, the obsolete hardware, the bad manufacturing, the horrible work conditions of the production line workers, the ridiculous price tag for what she would actually get. She said she understood but would stil buy one because that's what everybody else was using in her yoga class. How many of Apple customers make this kind of decisions? Hint: a lot.
Well, not to burst your iBubble but OSX today looks like KDE in 2003.
You talk about nicer design and such, but for the most part that's biased bullshit. Have you seen high end Asus ultrabooks for instance?Put that next to a Macbook and immediately you can see it's not even in the same league. Macbook are more in the Chromebook market; a flimsy proprietary gadget that works ok as long as you don't mind the very limited choice of software.
And both candidates aren't "fairly ridiculous", both candidates are extremely ridiculous.
It's like that game, "would you rather...".
-Would you rather get a blood transfusion in a rural hospital in Uganda or get cornea transplant from a bootleg doctor that runs a clinic from his Motel 6 room
-Would you rather sleep with Whoopi Goldberg or the drummer fromThe Hansons
-Would you rather have Donald Trump or Hilary Clinton as a president
Well at least it's not Jeb Bush vs Michelle Obama.
I suspect that while the most vocal and prolific posters on Slashdot seem to be pro-Democrats, the vast majority of silent readers are more pro-Republicans. Outside of Silicon Valley and NYC, engineers tend to be on the conservative side.
Of course that doesn't mean conservative people are pro-Trump. This election is very testing for voters as both candidates are fairly ridiculous.
We're not talking about someone boycotting a convenience store owned by a convicted pedophile. We're talking about a consulting firm that calls itself "Project Include" who announces that they will not engage in business with startups that have received financial and strategic assistance from a specific startup incubator because one of the members of the board had made a political contribution to a candidate that "Project Include" doesn't like.
What that cunt is trying to do is hold startups hostage until there's enough pressure on YC that they drop a competent and influent member of their board because of his political affiliation. Sure, that consulting firm is a joke and at the core of ther business model is the shaming of organizations that don't agree with their agenda, but still, just the fact that there's potential collateral damage and that they are willing to lead such a witch hunt is disgusting. The fact that their mission is to promote "inclusion" makes it even more repugnant.
If a company was to do the opposite - boycott an organization because some of their board members support Clinton - that same cunt Pao would be the first one to write outraged denunciations on her blog.
Yes, and her black husband sued the building where they live for racial discrimination because the board refuse to let him buy a FOURTH condo in the building.
All this is is more virtue signaling; heaven forbid the other silicon valley lefties do not publicly show their disapproval. It's this public displays that lefties live for, after all.
Funny enough it's the same people who watch movies like Trumbo and are outraged by the actions of the HUAC and McCarthy. Bunch of hypocrites.
You comment seem to support firearm ownership but as the same time equate having a knife with mugger. You are beyond retard. There is no hope for you. Please go die in the nearest fire.
You can't even write proper sentences and you're accusing other people of being retards.
This reminds me of a scene in that Bruce Willis movie (Surrogates) where he gets attacked by an angry mob, and the last thing he sees before passing out is a disgusting obese lady with rotten teeth and terrible skin that screams at him "you're an abomination".
Interestingly, recently I read the book about how Twitter came to be, and besides discovering that the current CEO is a little cunt that has backstabbed and played dirty politics to kick out the real founder (and others), I found out that the true nature and potential of Twitter went out he door with the real founder. The whole "talk about me me me" angle comes from that backstabbing cunt that's currently in charge and now it's too late to turn that shipwreck around.
This is really another Yahoo. Huge potential, but then the Savior CEO comes in and pushes his/her vision that has nothing to do wih the business fundamentals. In the case of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer got rid of the money-makers (like the site for low and average income women) and replaced it with stuff like a vlog from Katie Couric or fancy fashion content. She couldn't understand or accept that the big yahoo userbase wanted more tmz, more kardashians, more national enquirer, while she was forcing down their throat more New Republic and more Fashion Week. So now they can't even find a buyer at fire sale price. Same for Twitter.
When you have a knife you don't need a phone, you can use other people's phones. Unless you don't live in a blue state of course, in which case what you need is a FBI badge.
English is not a programming language, dude. If you can't articulate your thoughts without all those nested parenthesis you're either lazy or unable to communicate clearly. Read a book once in a while.
It's a different bubble. This time around it's all about startups and venture capital; there's a few public companies but the bulk of the loss will not impact the stock market. Silicon Valley is about to eat its own shit.
Facebook makes about ONE BILLION dollars in profit every quarter. They have virtually no debt. You may not like social media but it's a profitable business for Facebook.
If your $5 buys you a controlling interest, you're on the hook for things like incurred taxes, payroll due, gross negligence or fraudulent behavior. So that's a lot more than $5 you could lose.
Just doing the research to make sure the company doesn't owe taxes or payroll would cost a small fortune.
That's what you get when you elect people who see the federal government as their personal army. And yet that s nothing compared to what would happen under Clnton.
Yeah, let's all get our panties in a bunch over the buffoon and his crude behavior and lack of class, meanwhile the spawn of Satan is getting ready to go back to the White House to monetize the presidency again. Who cares if American lives are lost in the process, as long as it's not her princess she doesn't care. There's already a trail of corpses behind that couple that makes Gacy look like Mother Teresa.
Just making sure that every company in Silicon Valley can still discriminate against straight white men
I'd say this is mostly a problem for "average" white males. When you're a rockstar, you typically don't deal with the layer of politically correct bullshit - either it doesn't apply to you, or you take your rockstarness somewhere else.
And as far as I'm concerned. average people can use whatever shenanigans or political trends to get ahead, I don't care.
Do we need to repeat the whole discussion from the original story? Anyone who hires in IT will tell you that nowadays you get a tidal wave of resumes from unqualified Indians that are crammed with buzzwords and acronyms that "look" legit. When you remove that thick layer of spam you usually get a more diverse array of candidates.
I hope you'lll find something nice to do with that $8/month you're going to save once your wife is done watching 17 seasons of Midsomer Murders. Maybe treat yourself to a nice latte and cupcake?
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Trump wants to exclude everyone except uneducated white men.
"Exclude" from what? See, this is the kind of meaningless accusation that seems to summarize the entire Clinton political platform. Go on, keep repeating this weak propaganda, it just shows that there's so little substance in Clinton's "vision" that your only hope of getting her elected is by default, trying to make people not vote for the other side. Weak.
But for people who can afford high end devices, Apple is not a waste of money only pursued by fashion victims and phonies
Do you even realize how smug this sounds? Here's a reality check for you: no matter the income of the buyer, Apple products are a waste of money because they're not worth the price tag. There's plenty of other products with that kind of bad value for the money; Range Rovers for instance. Doesn't make it any better than paying $20 for a cheeseburger at Mikee Dees.
As for fashion victims, here's a true story. Friend of mine told me she wanted a new laptop and was considering a Macbook. I told her about the limitations, the obsolete hardware, the bad manufacturing, the horrible work conditions of the production line workers, the ridiculous price tag for what she would actually get. She said she understood but would stil buy one because that's what everybody else was using in her yoga class. How many of Apple customers make this kind of decisions? Hint: a lot.
Well, not to burst your iBubble but OSX today looks like KDE in 2003.
You talk about nicer design and such, but for the most part that's biased bullshit. Have you seen high end Asus ultrabooks for instance?Put that next to a Macbook and immediately you can see it's not even in the same league. Macbook are more in the Chromebook market; a flimsy proprietary gadget that works ok as long as you don't mind the very limited choice of software.
Get real.
And both candidates aren't "fairly ridiculous", both candidates are extremely ridiculous.
It's like that game, "would you rather...".
-Would you rather get a blood transfusion in a rural hospital in Uganda or get cornea transplant from a bootleg doctor that runs a clinic from his Motel 6 room
-Would you rather sleep with Whoopi Goldberg or the drummer fromThe Hansons
-Would you rather have Donald Trump or Hilary Clinton as a president
Well at least it's not Jeb Bush vs Michelle Obama.
I suspect that while the most vocal and prolific posters on Slashdot seem to be pro-Democrats, the vast majority of silent readers are more pro-Republicans. Outside of Silicon Valley and NYC, engineers tend to be on the conservative side.
Of course that doesn't mean conservative people are pro-Trump. This election is very testing for voters as both candidates are fairly ridiculous.
Oh, you might also look up the word "cult" and realize that millions of Apple's customers do not belong in that definition.
This is correct. Only a minority is part of the cult; the others are fashion victims and/or phonies.
We're not talking about someone boycotting a convenience store owned by a convicted pedophile. We're talking about a consulting firm that calls itself "Project Include" who announces that they will not engage in business with startups that have received financial and strategic assistance from a specific startup incubator because one of the members of the board had made a political contribution to a candidate that "Project Include" doesn't like.
What that cunt is trying to do is hold startups hostage until there's enough pressure on YC that they drop a competent and influent member of their board because of his political affiliation. Sure, that consulting firm is a joke and at the core of ther business model is the shaming of organizations that don't agree with their agenda, but still, just the fact that there's potential collateral damage and that they are willing to lead such a witch hunt is disgusting. The fact that their mission is to promote "inclusion" makes it even more repugnant.
If a company was to do the opposite - boycott an organization because some of their board members support Clinton - that same cunt Pao would be the first one to write outraged denunciations on her blog.
Hypocrites.
Yes, and her black husband sued the building where they live for racial discrimination because the board refuse to let him buy a FOURTH condo in the building.
Those are real people, isn't that amazing.
All this is is more virtue signaling; heaven forbid the other silicon valley lefties do not publicly show their disapproval. It's this public displays that lefties live for, after all.
Funny enough it's the same people who watch movies like Trumbo and are outraged by the actions of the HUAC and McCarthy. Bunch of hypocrites.
I don't need to know the underlying issue. If Ellen Pao is involved, I'm rooting for the other side.
Also really the Clintonazis are getting less and less subtle nowadays.
You comment seem to support firearm ownership but as the same time equate having a knife with mugger. You are beyond retard. There is no hope for you. Please go die in the nearest fire.
You can't even write proper sentences and you're accusing other people of being retards.
This reminds me of a scene in that Bruce Willis movie (Surrogates) where he gets attacked by an angry mob, and the last thing he sees before passing out is a disgusting obese lady with rotten teeth and terrible skin that screams at him "you're an abomination".
True that.
Interestingly, recently I read the book about how Twitter came to be, and besides discovering that the current CEO is a little cunt that has backstabbed and played dirty politics to kick out the real founder (and others), I found out that the true nature and potential of Twitter went out he door with the real founder. The whole "talk about me me me" angle comes from that backstabbing cunt that's currently in charge and now it's too late to turn that shipwreck around.
This is really another Yahoo. Huge potential, but then the Savior CEO comes in and pushes his/her vision that has nothing to do wih the business fundamentals. In the case of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer got rid of the money-makers (like the site for low and average income women) and replaced it with stuff like a vlog from Katie Couric or fancy fashion content. She couldn't understand or accept that the big yahoo userbase wanted more tmz, more kardashians, more national enquirer, while she was forcing down their throat more New Republic and more Fashion Week. So now they can't even find a buyer at fire sale price. Same for Twitter.
Let's compare.
You:
Facebook has actually never made a profit
The New York Times
Facebook said sales totaled $6.44 billion for the quarter, up 59 percent from a year ago, while profit almost tripled to $2.06 billion.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07...
(See, now they're making TWO billions per quarter in profit.)
Next time dude, try a little less smugness and a little more google search.
When you have a knife you don't need a phone, you can use other people's phones. Unless you don't live in a blue state of course, in which case what you need is a FBI badge.
English is not a programming language, dude. If you can't articulate your thoughts without all those nested parenthesis you're either lazy or unable to communicate clearly. Read a book once in a while.
It's a different bubble. This time around it's all about startups and venture capital; there's a few public companies but the bulk of the loss will not impact the stock market. Silicon Valley is about to eat its own shit.
Facebook makes about ONE BILLION dollars in profit every quarter. They have virtually no debt. You may not like social media but it's a profitable business for Facebook.
Twitter is something else.
If your $5 buys you a controlling interest, you're on the hook for things like incurred taxes, payroll due, gross negligence or fraudulent behavior. So that's a lot more than $5 you could lose.
Just doing the research to make sure the company doesn't owe taxes or payroll would cost a small fortune.
That's what you get when you elect people who see the federal government as their personal army. And yet that s nothing compared to what would happen under Clnton.
Yeah, let's all get our panties in a bunch over the buffoon and his crude behavior and lack of class, meanwhile the spawn of Satan is getting ready to go back to the White House to monetize the presidency again. Who cares if American lives are lost in the process, as long as it's not her princess she doesn't care. There's already a trail of corpses behind that couple that makes Gacy look like Mother Teresa.
Just making sure that every company in Silicon Valley can still discriminate against straight white men
I'd say this is mostly a problem for "average" white males. When you're a rockstar, you typically don't deal with the layer of politically correct bullshit - either it doesn't apply to you, or you take your rockstarness somewhere else.
And as far as I'm concerned. average people can use whatever shenanigans or political trends to get ahead, I don't care.
Do we need to repeat the whole discussion from the original story? Anyone who hires in IT will tell you that nowadays you get a tidal wave of resumes from unqualified Indians that are crammed with buzzwords and acronyms that "look" legit. When you remove that thick layer of spam you usually get a more diverse array of candidates.
Any white guy is considered automatically racist and shunable these days
Don't forget that the guy is gay, which is a form of sexism and violence against womyns.
Government isn't the answer to nearly 99% of the questions it tries to answer..
True. That's why we badly need someone who could make America great again.
I hope you'lll find something nice to do with that $8/month you're going to save once your wife is done watching 17 seasons of Midsomer Murders. Maybe treat yourself to a nice latte and cupcake?
Wow! How can I be just like you?
I LOLed.