Huh? All I'm saying is that ITWorld apparently didn't make this stuff up out of thin air. They cite WSJ, and WSJ provides quotes and attributions for same. ITWorld may or may not be a paragon of virtue. I tend to be sceptical of ITWorld's reporting generally, myself, but can't find fault with them in this particular instance.
Let me tell you about something called "journalism", just in case you've never heard of it or worked in the field yourself. (It so happens that I worked in broadcast journalism for some years.) Yes, the ITWorld story constitutes an example of correctly and responsibly done journalism: ITWorld provides a cite, and their source is a very well-known publication which has been around for quite a long time, and which in turn provides a number of cites of its own, including names, firms they work for, and positions held at those firms. This is how journalism is done. In journalism, "I've {never|always} heard of..." does not cut the mustard; having quotes from people who are willing to identify themselves while going on record does.
You are free to verify with Chip Whatshisname at DoucheBagCo whether or not he (a) actually said what the WSJ claims he did and, if so, (b) was telling the truth when he said it and was not taken out of context. But don't blame me or even ITWorld if it turns out to be a fabrication, distortion, or even some truth that happens not to be to your liking.
As for me, I think the story's a plausible one, although I reserve the right to change my mind if and when I encounter convincing evidence to the contrary. A veiled accusation of having some sort of hidden rightwing political agenda by some J. Random Internet Fuckwad does not supply it.
It's actually pretty funny, given that my politics are just slightly to the right of Leon Trotsky and that I don't especially try to keep that a secret around here, or in real life, for that matter.
Unions do have their place. An IT shop is not one of them.
You should really try to be more open-minded about such things. Maybe even consider moving to Sweden, where nearly everyone is entitled to union representation whether they bother to join one or not.
When we got bought, and the new owners tried to take away nearly all my benefits, my IT workers' union did a pretty good job of nipping that nonsense in the bud. Maybe I should show my appreciation by signing up and paying them the ~$25 per month they want as dues for actual membership. That's only about 2% of what I would have lost if they'd not gone to bat for me.
Maybe I took the bit about the "happy robots" other than in the spirit in which it was intended. Sometimes it's difficult for me to be completely objective about such matters, since the subject hits rather close to home, even when I'm not in one of my less happy phases.
It's also come to my notice recently that there seems to be an endless supply of online jerks who seem to think that depressives are that way by choice, or that they're just trying to look emo-hip.
Regarding the emo thing: I tend to take the emo scene with a large grain of salt. I appreciate that there are others with problems similar to mine, and many of them have it worse than I've ever had. But I don't need to see it glorified, and I don't need to broadcast to the world that it should feel sorry for me.
What I think helped to empower me was coming to the realisation that, while I can't always control how I feel, I can try to control what I do about it. And that feeling sorry for myself or expecting others to feel sorry for me negates that control.
Everything else is nitpicking by incompetent people which do not belong in the audience anyway.
I'm sorry, you seem to have written incompetent people where you really meant to say,
Devs who need to make changes but who came on board after the original code was written;
Support techs who have to support and debug code they themselves didn't write;
QA folks who are responsible for making sure a release does what we claim it does before it gets out in the wild;
Managers who like to have some assurance that when they tick the little box labelled Task Complete, the task they've just signed off on is actually complete and correct;
Customers who are trying to understand why the software does [foo] when they expected it to do [bar];
Community members who'd like to contribute patches;
Tech writers who have to write end-user documentation.
Used to be common sense that it's a bad idea for women to live with unrelated men. And that women, who lose every time against men in physical struggle, have no place in battle.
Tell that to the Israeli army. Must be why they keep losing wars.
I like having women at work. Especially young/attractive ones.
And women like having young/attractive men around. Which is why they steer clear of fields populated by all you neck-beard developer types.
Au contraire, mon frère...
Starting in their late 20s, women like men who are mature, stable, and established in a career. A fact I discovered... and discovered... and discovered... to my very pleasant surprise after I found myself single again at 41-going-on-42.
But you boy-toys keep right on telling yourselves whatever it takes to make yourselves feel better.;P
(I'm now in a relationship again, and planning to marry her soon... But, boy, did I have some fun for 3-4 years before I hooked up with Ms Right.)
It's amazing how many people don't get this distinction.
Perhaps a car analogy would h---JUST kidding.
More seriously, it's often referred to as "confusing the map with the territory".
Analogy using a map and a copyright holder (what the heck, let's call him "Larry"):
Larry has a map of China (which he didn't actually draw, himself, but that's beside the point).
The map is copyright by Larry. This means that anyone publishing a copy of Larry's map owes Larry some money. So far, so good.
Here's where the attempted sleight of hand comes in: Larry wants the courts to rule that his copyright in this map of China also grants him copyright over China the country. And thus Larry gets paid by anyone saying anything to do with China. Which is preposterous.
Elvish is closer to Finnish than Dgèrnésiais (the native language of Guernsey) is to French, but the official French position is that Dgèrnésiais is a regional dialect and not an independent language.
The French government can take whatever position it likes, but since Guernsey's a dependency of the British Crown, that doesn't really mean very much, does it?;)
(NB: I get what you're trying to say here, and I agree with it, but I think you could have chosen a better example.)
It is a scientific fact humans need to eat meet. It is part of our diet. Vegans suffer massive health problems because if their diet.
[citation needed]
[other than a single Slashdot post from an AC]
[which is the first and only time I've ever seen someone make this particular claim]
[and while I'm not a vegetarian or vegan myself, I could offer lots of anecdotal evidence evidence about vegetarians/vegans whom I know and who don't appear to suffer any ill effects]
Huh? I've *never* had to do a reboot or to restart X for this. I plug in the 2nd monitor, it gets detected after about 10 seconds and just works after that.
Running OpenSUSE 11.3 with the Desktop kernel/KDE 3.5.10/nVidia drivers here. Did you not install the nVidia config tool or something?
I bought this laptop about 2 years ago, installed Linux (and the official nVidia drivers), and multiple monitors--one of them sometimes being my 52" TV via HDMI--have "just worked" for me ever since. I applaud these guys, but I'm also a believer in "If it ain't broke, don't fix it". Might give it a burl whenever I get round to a fresh install on this thing, though.
Yeah, they are constantly lying on food. For example, on some food you'll find values like "100 g have 1000 kJ", while simply inserting in E=mc^2 teaches you that every food has about 9 EJ per 100 g.
It's been a long day and I can't tell for sure whether you're trying to be funny or what, so just in case somebody takes you too seriously, I'll just point out that digestion of food is considerably less than efficient than total conversion of mass to energy.:)
This is the first time I've ever seen anyone make this claim.
It's not the first time I've seen anybody rant about Space Nutters, although I've never seen or heard any evidence of the existence of said Space Nutters, aside from occasional rants like this one.
Your comment history is replete with cart-before-the-horse-isms.
And if you're going to quote, then don't put words into my mouth. If I'd intended to say "cure", I would have said "cure".
I've lived and worked in a number of countries, and it's in the US--the overturning of Jim Crow notwithstanding--have I encountered a deep-seated racism which colours all aspects of social life to an extent I've simply not seen elsewhere. In a lot of ways, things have really not changed much since I had to have my dad explain to me what the "WHITE ONLY"/"COLORED ONLY" signs meant when I first started learning to read. It's one of the reasons why I prefer to remain overseas.
Yes, I've run into pockets of it here and there in other countries. But only rarely.
Rather than make excuses for it, I prefer to reflect on how incredibly much I've been made to feel welcome in places where the locals have good reason not to like or trust white folks in general and/or white Americans in particular, and how white Americans could (and should) learn from their example.
And I note that some cowardly cocksucker hit me with an Overrated mod. Guess he's never been to Brasil, which also has a history of importing black slaves at one time, but--unlike what happened in the US--they were actually permitted to integrate with the other races. My Brasilian friends simply don't identify as anything other than Brasilians, and find the very concept of identifying as a black or white or amazonian native or whatever to be quite strange. It's only in the US where I've encountered the "misgenation complex" which in practise translates into "we can fuck their women but if one of them tries to fuck one of our women, we hack his balls off or better yet just hang the son of a bitch".
This mindset was actually enshrined in American law until less than 50 years ago.
And people are actually have to *ask* why American black males are still so full of anger?
Another factor to consider is this: If it weren't for 400 years of white racism in the US (and colonies prior to 1776), there would by now be no distinct "Black" race in the US. Not only were blacks enslaved, but they were segregated, and this segregation lasted another century after slavery was abolished. This included "anti-misgenation" laws that continued to make interbreeding illegal until the mid-1960s.
It required a World War complete with several tens of millions of dead people for Europe and Asia to outgrow that "we must not let our sacred pure blood be diluted by lesser races" horseshit. I reckon it'll take another one to sort out the US.
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Huh? All I'm saying is that ITWorld apparently didn't make this stuff up out of thin air. They cite WSJ, and WSJ provides quotes and attributions for same. ITWorld may or may not be a paragon of virtue. I tend to be sceptical of ITWorld's reporting generally, myself, but can't find fault with them in this particular instance.
Let me tell you about something called "journalism", just in case you've never heard of it or worked in the field yourself. (It so happens that I worked in broadcast journalism for some years.) Yes, the ITWorld story constitutes an example of correctly and responsibly done journalism: ITWorld provides a cite, and their source is a very well-known publication which has been around for quite a long time, and which in turn provides a number of cites of its own, including names, firms they work for, and positions held at those firms. This is how journalism is done. In journalism, "I've {never|always} heard of..." does not cut the mustard; having quotes from people who are willing to identify themselves while going on record does.
You are free to verify with Chip Whatshisname at DoucheBagCo whether or not he (a) actually said what the WSJ claims he did and, if so, (b) was telling the truth when he said it and was not taken out of context. But don't blame me or even ITWorld if it turns out to be a fabrication, distortion, or even some truth that happens not to be to your liking.
As for me, I think the story's a plausible one, although I reserve the right to change my mind if and when I encounter convincing evidence to the contrary. A veiled accusation of having some sort of hidden rightwing political agenda by some J. Random Internet Fuckwad does not supply it.
It's actually pretty funny, given that my politics are just slightly to the right of Leon Trotsky and that I don't especially try to keep that a secret around here, or in real life, for that matter.
Unions do have their place. An IT shop is not one of them.
You should really try to be more open-minded about such things. Maybe even consider moving to Sweden, where nearly everyone is entitled to union representation whether they bother to join one or not.
When we got bought, and the new owners tried to take away nearly all my benefits, my IT workers' union did a pretty good job of nipping that nonsense in the bud. Maybe I should show my appreciation by signing up and paying them the ~$25 per month they want as dues for actual membership. That's only about 2% of what I would have lost if they'd not gone to bat for me.
A more important question is why would anyone take anything said at "ITWorld" as factual?
It's not just ITWorld's say-so. They cite this WSJ article, which also says so.
Maybe I took the bit about the "happy robots" other than in the spirit in which it was intended. Sometimes it's difficult for me to be completely objective about such matters, since the subject hits rather close to home, even when I'm not in one of my less happy phases.
It's also come to my notice recently that there seems to be an endless supply of online jerks who seem to think that depressives are that way by choice, or that they're just trying to look emo-hip.
Regarding the emo thing: I tend to take the emo scene with a large grain of salt. I appreciate that there are others with problems similar to mine, and many of them have it worse than I've ever had. But I don't need to see it glorified, and I don't need to broadcast to the world that it should feel sorry for me.
What I think helped to empower me was coming to the realisation that, while I can't always control how I feel, I can try to control what I do about it. And that feeling sorry for myself or expecting others to feel sorry for me negates that control.
The kind of depression we're talking about here is anything but "normal".
If you've not experienced it yourself, you should express your gratitude for that in some other way than being all snarky.
Your condescension is neither helpful nor welcome.
Now kindly STFU.
On the other hand, you qualify as a scoiopath.
Stop living in denial and get some help.
Everything else is nitpicking by incompetent people which do not belong in the audience anyway.
I'm sorry, you seem to have written incompetent people where you really meant to say,
Devs who need to make changes but who came on board after the original code was written;
Support techs who have to support and debug code they themselves didn't write;
QA folks who are responsible for making sure a release does what we claim it does before it gets out in the wild;
Managers who like to have some assurance that when they tick the little box labelled Task Complete , the task they've just signed off on is actually complete and correct;
Customers who are trying to understand why the software does [foo] when they expected it to do [bar];
Community members who'd like to contribute patches;
Tech writers who have to write end-user documentation.
Used to be common sense that it's a bad idea for women to live with unrelated men. And that women, who lose every time against men in physical struggle, have no place in battle.
Tell that to the Israeli army. Must be why they keep losing wars.
I was one of the juniors along side a talented, junior female developer...
And you thought so highly of her talents that you couldn't come up with anything better to do with her than to fuck her?
And then they let you go straight into management after that?
*facepalm*
For example, "Einstein later became fluent in English and German though he was a horrible speller in English."
Thanks for lowering everyone's IQ by a point or two.
OP didn't yet know that the Arab woman spoke a third language when OP originally formed that opinion.
OP revised said opinion upon learning this fact.
It's called "admitting that you were wrong" and "learning from experience". You should give it a try sometime.
I like having women at work. Especially young/attractive ones.
And women like having young/attractive men around. Which is why they steer clear of fields populated by all you neck-beard developer types.
Au contraire, mon frère...
Starting in their late 20s, women like men who are mature, stable, and established in a career. A fact I discovered... and discovered... and discovered... to my very pleasant surprise after I found myself single again at 41-going-on-42.
But you boy-toys keep right on telling yourselves whatever it takes to make yourselves feel better. ;P
(I'm now in a relationship again, and planning to marry her soon... But, boy, did I have some fun for 3-4 years before I hooked up with Ms Right.)
It's amazing how many people don't get this distinction.
Perhaps a car analogy would h---JUST kidding.
More seriously, it's often referred to as "confusing the map with the territory".
Analogy using a map and a copyright holder (what the heck, let's call him "Larry"):
Larry has a map of China (which he didn't actually draw, himself, but that's beside the point).
The map is copyright by Larry. This means that anyone publishing a copy of Larry's map owes Larry some money. So far, so good.
Here's where the attempted sleight of hand comes in: Larry wants the courts to rule that his copyright in this map of China also grants him copyright over China the country. And thus Larry gets paid by anyone saying anything to do with China. Which is preposterous.
Elvish is closer to Finnish than Dgèrnésiais (the native language of Guernsey) is to French, but the official French position is that Dgèrnésiais is a regional dialect and not an independent language.
The French government can take whatever position it likes, but since Guernsey's a dependency of the British Crown, that doesn't really mean very much, does it? ;)
(NB: I get what you're trying to say here, and I agree with it, but I think you could have chosen a better example.)
That is, everyone who speaks english and its variations (i.e. American English etc) would have to pay a royalty to Britain.
And Britain would have to pay royalties to the Danes, the Germans, and the French.
It is a scientific fact humans need to eat meet. It is part of our diet. Vegans suffer massive health problems because if their diet.
[citation needed]
[other than a single Slashdot post from an AC]
[which is the first and only time I've ever seen someone make this particular claim]
[and while I'm not a vegetarian or vegan myself, I could offer lots of anecdotal evidence evidence about vegetarians/vegans whom I know and who don't appear to suffer any ill effects]
[your turn...]
Huh? I've *never* had to do a reboot or to restart X for this. I plug in the 2nd monitor, it gets detected after about 10 seconds and just works after that.
Running OpenSUSE 11.3 with the Desktop kernel/KDE 3.5.10/nVidia drivers here. Did you not install the nVidia config tool or something?
I bought this laptop about 2 years ago, installed Linux (and the official nVidia drivers), and multiple monitors--one of them sometimes being my 52" TV via HDMI--have "just worked" for me ever since. I applaud these guys, but I'm also a believer in "If it ain't broke, don't fix it". Might give it a burl whenever I get round to a fresh install on this thing, though.
Keeping a little statue of Ganesha next to the servers at work is not necessarily a bad thing.
The Buddhas in my study don't seem to mind him, either. :)
Religion can and often is used as means of control of the (unwashed) masses...
I respectfully disagree.
Religion has the sole purpose of providing a means of control of the (unwashed) masses
Yeah, they are constantly lying on food. For example, on some food you'll find values like "100 g have 1000 kJ", while simply inserting in E=mc^2 teaches you that every food has about 9 EJ per 100 g.
It's been a long day and I can't tell for sure whether you're trying to be funny or what, so just in case somebody takes you too seriously, I'll just point out that digestion of food is considerably less than efficient than total conversion of mass to energy. :)
This is the first time I've ever seen anyone make this claim.
It's not the first time I've seen anybody rant about Space Nutters, although I've never seen or heard any evidence of the existence of said Space Nutters, aside from occasional rants like this one.
That's one reason.
For Fallacy #2, I suggest you work out just how those rich people in England got that way to begin with.
(Hint: "Property is theft".)
Your comment history is replete with cart-before-the-horse-isms.
And if you're going to quote, then don't put words into my mouth. If I'd intended to say "cure", I would have said "cure".
I've lived and worked in a number of countries, and it's in the US--the overturning of Jim Crow notwithstanding--have I encountered a deep-seated racism which colours all aspects of social life to an extent I've simply not seen elsewhere. In a lot of ways, things have really not changed much since I had to have my dad explain to me what the "WHITE ONLY"/"COLORED ONLY" signs meant when I first started learning to read. It's one of the reasons why I prefer to remain overseas.
Yes, I've run into pockets of it here and there in other countries. But only rarely.
Rather than make excuses for it, I prefer to reflect on how incredibly much I've been made to feel welcome in places where the locals have good reason not to like or trust white folks in general and/or white Americans in particular, and how white Americans could (and should) learn from their example.
And I note that some cowardly cocksucker hit me with an Overrated mod. Guess he's never been to Brasil, which also has a history of importing black slaves at one time, but--unlike what happened in the US--they were actually permitted to integrate with the other races. My Brasilian friends simply don't identify as anything other than Brasilians, and find the very concept of identifying as a black or white or amazonian native or whatever to be quite strange. It's only in the US where I've encountered the "misgenation complex" which in practise translates into "we can fuck their women but if one of them tries to fuck one of our women, we hack his balls off or better yet just hang the son of a bitch".
This mindset was actually enshrined in American law until less than 50 years ago.
And people are actually have to *ask* why American black males are still so full of anger?
Wish I had a mod point for this one.
Another factor to consider is this: If it weren't for 400 years of white racism in the US (and colonies prior to 1776), there would by now be no distinct "Black" race in the US. Not only were blacks enslaved, but they were segregated, and this segregation lasted another century after slavery was abolished. This included "anti-misgenation" laws that continued to make interbreeding illegal until the mid-1960s.
It required a World War complete with several tens of millions of dead people for Europe and Asia to outgrow that "we must not let our sacred pure blood be diluted by lesser races" horseshit. I reckon it'll take another one to sort out the US.