You'd prefer the guy who came up with a bad idea and tried it out to a guy who just did it more? That's like preferring the KKK to the SS (yeah yeah, Godwin and all that). I would not for a minute choose or support either one.
As others have pointed out, there isn't that level of control over the RSS feed. And we are trying to do Slashdot a favor by pointing out the things that piss its precious users off, since without those users the site is worthless. If you are saying that you enjoy kdawson's work and the Idle section, then do so clearly for the benefit of the discussion. If you just want to be a prick, well, I guess you've come to the right place but it sure doesn't give you a lot of credibility.
Besides, I've been here way longer than you have.:P
I know how you feel. I used to have 20/15 vision but I read an article from the Idle section in full and now I had to spend most of my paycheck for a down payment on a seeing eye dog.
I submitted a poll (or I hope I did - there is not a good interface for submitting polls) the other day:
Which would you rather see terminated?
- kdawson
- idle.slashdot.org
- both
- Not CowboyNeal
It'll never get posted, of course, but maybe someone will listen. It seems that Slashdot is becoming more "corporate," and of course by that I mean "mismanaged." The overall impression I get is that Slashdot has meetings to come up with new ideas, and just like many meetings of that sort, instead of acting as a filter by having more voices to reject bad ideas, those voices instead multiple only the number of bad ideas generated and accepted for lack of rejection.
Make it stop. And if this is just a New Coke-esque ploy to get us not to complain about spelling and grammatical errors in stories and stupid April Fool's Day jokes, it has accomplished its purpose already and you can bring back Slashdot Classic now.
The editors don't edit the submissions they approve. They don't check for anything in the way of factual sanity, much less correctness. They certainly don't read the articles that submissions link to. Do you really expect them to read sites for which they aren't spoon-fed a link?
Clinton and Gore were the origin of extraordinary rendition as an executive policy. That was early in their first term, in fact. Hence my original question.
IAAL and I desperately want to try it, though, so if you are going to commit a Slashdot-inspired crime* and have the money to fight it on principle**, then do it somewhere I'm licensed to practice law.
* - Don't do this, please. I honestly don't usually enjoy stupid clients, and this is all a joke anyhow.
** - Tied with "sorry" as the most expensive word in the law.
Interestingly enough, one of those tags has been removed. I wonder who did that. Everyone, tag this article kdawsonsucksandisretarded for good measure.
Unexpected change can be good, too. It's unexplained change that worries me. An object in motion remains in motion until acted on by an external force. It's when Newton starts looking like a fool that I start to get concerned.
You forget about the fact that paid vacation time is very common in the US, despite not being a legal requirement in most (all?) states, which strongly supports my point that companies will adopt paid vacation for their employees if it increases productivity. Look at Google for a good example of a corporation experimenting with employee benefits out of selfish motives. Generally speaking, the most selfish motives coupled with rational decision making do not lead to abusing employees. And the US actually does have some laws to prevent that outcome, which was my original point in opposition to the claim that the OP made about the US not having significant workers' rights in its laws.
If annual leave actually increases corporate productivity, then it will be adopted by corporations operating in a capitalist market. It's that simple. What we do have in the USA is the freedom to decide that between employer and employee, as well as the freedom to experiment with whether and how much paid vacation affects productivity. You can't prove that it increases productivity because you don't have any way to experiment.
Exactly. And in most states, that "some extent" is very limited in scope. Unless you were working with trade secrets, you can generally go to a competitor if the grass is greener on the other side. And even if you are subject to a draconian, enforceable covenant not to compete, if it's really so bad at Apple I know that the economy of the Bay Area is not entirely comprised of the computer industry. And even if it were, if the grass is really so brown at Apple, you could move.
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You'd prefer the guy who came up with a bad idea and tried it out to a guy who just did it more? That's like preferring the KKK to the SS (yeah yeah, Godwin and all that). I would not for a minute choose or support either one.
Five-digit UIDs already got cookies in 2003.
Dude, did you read the dates? They're on the 2005 backlog still!
As others have pointed out, there isn't that level of control over the RSS feed. And we are trying to do Slashdot a favor by pointing out the things that piss its precious users off, since without those users the site is worthless. If you are saying that you enjoy kdawson's work and the Idle section, then do so clearly for the benefit of the discussion. If you just want to be a prick, well, I guess you've come to the right place but it sure doesn't give you a lot of credibility.
:P
Besides, I've been here way longer than you have.
I know how you feel. I used to have 20/15 vision but I read an article from the Idle section in full and now I had to spend most of my paycheck for a down payment on a seeing eye dog.
I submitted a poll (or I hope I did - there is not a good interface for submitting polls) the other day:
Which would you rather see terminated?
- kdawson
- idle.slashdot.org
- both
- Not CowboyNeal
It'll never get posted, of course, but maybe someone will listen. It seems that Slashdot is becoming more "corporate," and of course by that I mean "mismanaged." The overall impression I get is that Slashdot has meetings to come up with new ideas, and just like many meetings of that sort, instead of acting as a filter by having more voices to reject bad ideas, those voices instead multiple only the number of bad ideas generated and accepted for lack of rejection.
Make it stop. And if this is just a New Coke-esque ploy to get us not to complain about spelling and grammatical errors in stories and stupid April Fool's Day jokes, it has accomplished its purpose already and you can bring back Slashdot Classic now.
The editors don't edit the submissions they approve. They don't check for anything in the way of factual sanity, much less correctness. They certainly don't read the articles that submissions link to. Do you really expect them to read sites for which they aren't spoon-fed a link?
Clinton and Gore were the origin of extraordinary rendition as an executive policy. That was early in their first term, in fact. Hence my original question.
How respected was Clinton by "every civilised individual on the planet"?
Ah, you're right. Scratch that, they're both dumb. :P
IAAL and I desperately want to try it, though, so if you are going to commit a Slashdot-inspired crime* and have the money to fight it on principle**, then do it somewhere I'm licensed to practice law.
* - Don't do this, please. I honestly don't usually enjoy stupid clients, and this is all a joke anyhow.
** - Tied with "sorry" as the most expensive word in the law.
I just re-read the Slashdot blurb. Hurricane78 didn't make any mention of Duke Nukem Forever. Every single mention of it was by kdawson.
Ooh, I almost forgot that a link could make this more interesting. I can only dream of being this popular:
http://slashdot.org/tags/kdawsonsucks
There, I fixed that for you.
Interestingly enough, one of those tags has been removed. I wonder who did that. Everyone, tag this article kdawsonsucksandisretarded for good measure.
-- Weird Al
Hard to argue with that.
Unexpected change can be good, too. It's unexplained change that worries me. An object in motion remains in motion until acted on by an external force. It's when Newton starts looking like a fool that I start to get concerned.
The dirty-as-shit factories that make the renewable energy generators, batteries, and related equipment have to be built somewhere, you know.
The existence of a XIII is enough of a joke for most people.
You seem to be pretty new here. The standard for "dumbest headline ever" is very, very high.
All I want to know is this: What do badgers eat?
Most of us knew that when we saw Posted by kdawson at the top of the article.
You forget about the fact that paid vacation time is very common in the US, despite not being a legal requirement in most (all?) states, which strongly supports my point that companies will adopt paid vacation for their employees if it increases productivity. Look at Google for a good example of a corporation experimenting with employee benefits out of selfish motives. Generally speaking, the most selfish motives coupled with rational decision making do not lead to abusing employees. And the US actually does have some laws to prevent that outcome, which was my original point in opposition to the claim that the OP made about the US not having significant workers' rights in its laws.
If annual leave actually increases corporate productivity, then it will be adopted by corporations operating in a capitalist market. It's that simple. What we do have in the USA is the freedom to decide that between employer and employee, as well as the freedom to experiment with whether and how much paid vacation affects productivity. You can't prove that it increases productivity because you don't have any way to experiment.
Exactly. And in most states, that "some extent" is very limited in scope. Unless you were working with trade secrets, you can generally go to a competitor if the grass is greener on the other side. And even if you are subject to a draconian, enforceable covenant not to compete, if it's really so bad at Apple I know that the economy of the Bay Area is not entirely comprised of the computer industry. And even if it were, if the grass is really so brown at Apple, you could move.