Rush Limbaugh's Rules: #1 Be an asshole. #2... #3 Profit! #4 Take lots of pills for fun #5 Piss off women every chance I get. #6 The world is governed by the aggressive use of force.
Wow...that last one just doesn't seem to fit with the rest.
I'm so glad that you're not right. My son goes to a public Montessori school. They do not "teach to the test" nor does he learn things by "rote memorization".
The GP is absolutely correct, in that it takes a community to make a school. Hell, it takes a community to make a government. If your public school (or public library, or public park or public ANYTHING) sucks, then for gods sake, get off your lazy ass and fix it! It's PUBLIC! That means its as much yours as it is anyone else's! Take some responsibility for yourself and your community instead of blaming it on "the Man" or "the Government" or whomever your boogyman of choice is.
Personally, I still blame everything on Dick Cheney.
Just as "organic" has become trendy to the point that well-to-do consumers will pay three or four times as much money for pesticide free vegetables, we need to make ethical and sustainable business practices just as "trendy".
This is already "trendy". See Starbucks "Fair-Trade" coffee. It's a bit more difficult when you deal with complex electronic devices. If I buy an iPad, knowing that Apple treats their employees well -- I am largely ignorant of how Apple's suppliers (i.e. FoxConn) treat their employees. And even now that we know how Foxconn treats their employees, how do we know how ethical *their* suppliers and their supplier's suppliers are? So, FoxConn pays their guys to assemble the iPad -- but it contains a touch-screen, a battery, connectors, resisters, capacitors, etc. These were likely manufactured by other companies. There is no practical way for an American consumer to know which products (if any) were manufactured humanely.
Lets assume then that a large number of Americans simply stop purchasing these items, until Apple (or Dell, HTC, Samsung, Nintendo, etc.) start publishing comprehensive audits. Do we expect the aforementioned corporations to know the reason for our reluctance? Can we trust the audits?
You can be fired for believing the Loch Ness Monster exists? That's news to me.
This guy can believe all of the cockamamee(sp?) ideas he wants to, and shouldn't be fired for it. In America, we're pretty much allowed to believe whatever we want, and the only employers that are allowed to discriminate based upon beliefs are religious institutions.
However, the burden of proof is on the plaintiff. He must show that his beliefs rather than his actions were the reason for his demotion and subsequent firing. It will be hard to prove that about the firing, seeing as how they were laying off a lot of guys at the same time. He can believe in the Loch Ness Monster if he wants to, but if he wastes taxpayer resources expounding upon that belief, then he should be first on the chopping block.
I find it interesting how so many movies were labelled as "propaganda against the Bush administration" just because they had an evil politician in them...
I agree that PMs are a vital part of any large project. However, I think it's not a logical step to go from programming to project management. They are two completely different skill-sets.
I'm may be just a little bitter, though. We just narrowly avoided failure on a project because a programmer tried to take up the PM role and failed miserably.
This varies by geography. In my town, we can't find enough developers. Headhunters are trying to contact me daily. My last three clients were all hungry for new programmers.
And no, people who actually do the work well are not a dime a dozen. H1b, offshore and otherwise useless wannabes are.
The problem with this is that the role of an Enterprise Architect varies wildly from role to role. In some organizations it is exactly as you describe. In some organizations it is mostly a political favor handed down to somebody connected. In others the Architects are a miserable cesspool of the most stodgy ivory tower types that come up with terrible ideas that amount to mental masturbation and whip up convuluted half-completed prototypes that only vaguely demonstrate the original idea they came up with, then handing over that unfinished and likely technically impossible to implement prototype to a group of developers to turn into a product.
Consulting. You can do it through a consulting firm if you don't want to be your own boss. You can make damn good money at it -- especially if you can specialize in one of the big-name platforms like SAP, Axapta, Rockwell, or Great Plains. I'm currently doing this through a firm, so I don't have to find the work. I get benefits, and I have clients in completely different industries month to month.
They hired the jerk. They kept him on when their other PR people complained about his methods. They kept him on when the other PR firm pulled out because of him. They should be held accountable. I have no compassion for assholes or asshole enablers.
Have you read the 7000+ death threats to his family? I've only read that he claims to have gotten them. He's a liar about other things, and so he's not to be believed. Until they are all posted in a publicly available forum, I won't believe him. Even then, I'd eye them with suspicion. He has earned this distrust. Perhaps he should put on his big boy hat and deal with that?
I agree that the customer in the PR story clearly went uncivil first, and I was aggravated with him first.
I disagree. " so put on your big boy hat and wait it out like everyone else" was the PR guy implying that the customer was being childish, when the customer was asking legitimate questions up to that point. That is the PR guy "going uncivil first".
I agree that people shouldn't be threatening his wife and kid... whether that's actually happened remains to be seen. It's a claim that the jerk repeatedly made, but he's proven himself to be untrustworthy.
However, I don't have a problem with people flooding his wife with friend-requests on facebook. At least they've made her aware that her husband's an asshole at work, and not the genius he has probably snowed her into thinking he is.
Same thought-process for the device on Amazon. N-Gadget would have never taken notice if they hadn't seen this hitting them in the bank-account. The fact is that they hired an asshole. Either they were too incompetent to be able to determine he was an asshole, or they thought it was a good idea to hire assholes. Their former marketing firm (The Hand Media, I think?) pulled out because this guy was an asshole. They told N-gadget the guy was an asshole. So, the obvious conclusion is that N-Gadget thought it was a good idea to hire assholes. Ruining their product's ratings on Amazon is one way to teach them that it's not okay to hire assholes.
Hopefully, N-Gadget will serve as an example to other companies, and the general quantity of assholes being hired will go down across the board. I've had more than one gig ruined because the bosses thought it was a good idea to hire an asshole, so I feel like I have a stake in this.
And WHY do you think Washington made these unfair laws that benefit the 1%? Because the 1% told them to do it. They PAID them to do it. Don't make it sound like Congress just decided to do it out of the kindness of their hearts! The anger is at the system, that encourages this behavior.
The huge multinationals get to Frak the land and poison our drinking water, (only on/. is that a double-entendre), because they can get away with it. They get to hide in tax shelters. They get to offshore jobs to cheaper workers over-seas. All of this is not because Congress is simply being mean. It's because Congress is on their payrolls.
The anger is at both of them. The choice of Wall St. as a location of the protest is symbolic of that.
This is a scary prospect, because it means a continuation of the partisan deadlock. But at least it would mean that the Democrats would stop allowing the Republicans to drag them to the right. Instead, the new extreme-left would force them to dig in their heels, and counter-balance the inexorable pull of the extreme right.
It's a whole bunch of people who refuse to do any hard work and are upset that the people who did work hard their entire lives were (gasp) REWARDED FOR IT.
Did you hear that straight from Fox and Friends? Instead of believing what you're told about these people, why don't you listen to what they actually say.
These are people from all walks of life. People who are successful. People who aren't. People who made mistakes. People who just had plain old bad luck. People who tried to do the right thing. People who work 3 jobs. People who can't find work. And people who are worried about the future.
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Rush Limbaugh's Rules: ...
#1 Be an asshole.
#2
#3 Profit!
#4 Take lots of pills for fun
#5 Piss off women every chance I get.
#6 The world is governed by the aggressive use of force.
Wow...that last one just doesn't seem to fit with the rest.
You are mute, just angry and bitter now that the dream to which you pinned all your hopes now is so utterly revealed as to the true nature within.
Yet somehow, still better than all the alternatives....
I'm so glad that you're not right. My son goes to a public Montessori school. They do not "teach to the test" nor does he learn things by "rote memorization".
The GP is absolutely correct, in that it takes a community to make a school. Hell, it takes a community to make a government. If your public school (or public library, or public park or public ANYTHING) sucks, then for gods sake, get off your lazy ass and fix it! It's PUBLIC! That means its as much yours as it is anyone else's! Take some responsibility for yourself and your community instead of blaming it on "the Man" or "the Government" or whomever your boogyman of choice is.
Personally, I still blame everything on Dick Cheney.
I had a young single coworker say to me once, "I understand how parents feel now that I have a dog".
I asked, "Oh yeah? Where's your dig right now?"
He responded, "At home, in his cage."
I chuckled, "They'd put me in jail if I left my son at home, alone, in a cage."
Parenting is a hell of a lot more than cooking extra food or owning a pet.
Just as "organic" has become trendy to the point that well-to-do consumers will pay three or four times as much money for pesticide free vegetables, we need to make ethical and sustainable business practices just as "trendy".
This is already "trendy". See Starbucks "Fair-Trade" coffee. It's a bit more difficult when you deal with complex electronic devices. If I buy an iPad, knowing that Apple treats their employees well -- I am largely ignorant of how Apple's suppliers (i.e. FoxConn) treat their employees. And even now that we know how Foxconn treats their employees, how do we know how ethical *their* suppliers and their supplier's suppliers are? So, FoxConn pays their guys to assemble the iPad -- but it contains a touch-screen, a battery, connectors, resisters, capacitors, etc. These were likely manufactured by other companies. There is no practical way for an American consumer to know which products (if any) were manufactured humanely.
Lets assume then that a large number of Americans simply stop purchasing these items, until Apple (or Dell, HTC, Samsung, Nintendo, etc.) start publishing comprehensive audits. Do we expect the aforementioned corporations to know the reason for our reluctance? Can we trust the audits?
In case anyone cares, her name was Shirly Sherrod.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resignation_of_Shirley_Sherrod
You can be fired for believing the Loch Ness Monster exists? That's news to me.
This guy can believe all of the cockamamee(sp?) ideas he wants to, and shouldn't be fired for it. In America, we're pretty much allowed to believe whatever we want, and the only employers that are allowed to discriminate based upon beliefs are religious institutions.
However, the burden of proof is on the plaintiff. He must show that his beliefs rather than his actions were the reason for his demotion and subsequent firing. It will be hard to prove that about the firing, seeing as how they were laying off a lot of guys at the same time. He can believe in the Loch Ness Monster if he wants to, but if he wastes taxpayer resources expounding upon that belief, then he should be first on the chopping block.
I find it interesting how so many movies were labelled as "propaganda against the Bush administration" just because they had an evil politician in them...
Similar experience here...over and over throughout school.
Lastly, you have lousy taste in porn.
Ouch! Where'd that come from?
I agree that PMs are a vital part of any large project. However, I think it's not a logical step to go from programming to project management. They are two completely different skill-sets.
I'm may be just a little bitter, though. We just narrowly avoided failure on a project because a programmer tried to take up the PM role and failed miserably.
This varies by geography. In my town, we can't find enough developers. Headhunters are trying to contact me daily. My last three clients were all hungry for new programmers.
And no, people who actually do the work well are not a dime a dozen. H1b, offshore and otherwise useless wannabes are.
The problem with this is that the role of an Enterprise Architect varies wildly from role to role. In some organizations it is exactly as you describe. In some organizations it is mostly a political favor handed down to somebody connected. In others the Architects are a miserable cesspool of the most stodgy ivory tower types that come up with terrible ideas that amount to mental masturbation and whip up convuluted half-completed prototypes that only vaguely demonstrate the original idea they came up with, then handing over that unfinished and likely technically impossible to implement prototype to a group of developers to turn into a product.
I totally agree with AC.
Consulting. You can do it through a consulting firm if you don't want to be your own boss. You can make damn good money at it -- especially if you can specialize in one of the big-name platforms like SAP, Axapta, Rockwell, or Great Plains. I'm currently doing this through a firm, so I don't have to find the work. I get benefits, and I have clients in completely different industries month to month.
I thought Doctors never die...they just regenerate.
They hired the jerk. They kept him on when their other PR people complained about his methods. They kept him on when the other PR firm pulled out because of him. They should be held accountable. I have no compassion for assholes or asshole enablers.
Have you read the 7000+ death threats to his family? I've only read that he claims to have gotten them. He's a liar about other things, and so he's not to be believed. Until they are all posted in a publicly available forum, I won't believe him. Even then, I'd eye them with suspicion. He has earned this distrust. Perhaps he should put on his big boy hat and deal with that?
I agree that the customer in the PR story clearly went uncivil first, and I was aggravated with him first.
I disagree. " so put on your big boy hat and wait it out like everyone else" was the PR guy implying that the customer was being childish, when the customer was asking legitimate questions up to that point. That is the PR guy "going uncivil first".
I agree that people shouldn't be threatening his wife and kid ... whether that's actually happened remains to be seen. It's a claim that the jerk repeatedly made, but he's proven himself to be untrustworthy.
However, I don't have a problem with people flooding his wife with friend-requests on facebook. At least they've made her aware that her husband's an asshole at work, and not the genius he has probably snowed her into thinking he is.
Same thought-process for the device on Amazon. N-Gadget would have never taken notice if they hadn't seen this hitting them in the bank-account. The fact is that they hired an asshole. Either they were too incompetent to be able to determine he was an asshole, or they thought it was a good idea to hire assholes. Their former marketing firm (The Hand Media, I think?) pulled out because this guy was an asshole. They told N-gadget the guy was an asshole. So, the obvious conclusion is that N-Gadget thought it was a good idea to hire assholes. Ruining their product's ratings on Amazon is one way to teach them that it's not okay to hire assholes.
Hopefully, N-Gadget will serve as an example to other companies, and the general quantity of assholes being hired will go down across the board. I've had more than one gig ruined because the bosses thought it was a good idea to hire an asshole, so I feel like I have a stake in this.
...and "Fact-based".
And WHY do you think Washington made these unfair laws that benefit the 1%? Because the 1% told them to do it. They PAID them to do it. Don't make it sound like Congress just decided to do it out of the kindness of their hearts! The anger is at the system, that encourages this behavior.
The huge multinationals get to Frak the land and poison our drinking water, (only on /. is that a double-entendre), because they can get away with it. They get to hide in tax shelters. They get to offshore jobs to cheaper workers over-seas. All of this is not because Congress is simply being mean. It's because Congress is on their payrolls.
The anger is at both of them. The choice of Wall St. as a location of the protest is symbolic of that.
This is a scary prospect, because it means a continuation of the partisan deadlock. But at least it would mean that the Democrats would stop allowing the Republicans to drag them to the right. Instead, the new extreme-left would force them to dig in their heels, and counter-balance the inexorable pull of the extreme right.
It's a whole bunch of people who refuse to do any hard work and are upset that the people who did work hard their entire lives were (gasp) REWARDED FOR IT.
Did you hear that straight from Fox and Friends? Instead of believing what you're told about these people, why don't you listen to what they actually say.
These are people from all walks of life. People who are successful. People who aren't. People who made mistakes. People who just had plain old bad luck. People who tried to do the right thing. People who work 3 jobs. People who can't find work. And people who are worried about the future.
And why arent those rules in place? Because the 1% lobbied against them....
I don't think they claim to speak for you. They merely tell their own stories and claim to be part of the 99%. You are welcome to add your voice.