First off, I despise sweatshops and have left companies because of that mentality. That said, I findit increasingly difficult to sympathize with people who tolerate those conditions, especially when they're for specialized skills like game programming. The company can't replace an entire team, so if the entire team says no to unpaid overtime, the company is stuck doing what they want. Ergo, EA gets away with treating its employees like shit because their employees let the company do so.
A capitalist economy will ALWAYS culminate in a race to the bottom. That race won't end until somebody wins, and when somebody wins everyone loses. With capitalism unchecked there is no victory, and demise is only a matter of time.
Working in the office is much better to exchange with your co-workers.
It also makes it much easier to separate working time and family time.
Exchanging information with idiots isn't productive. Most staff in corporate IT are idiots, ergo exchanging information with them isn't worth the bother. Most of them use the remote work option to work perpetually anyway, which is proof that they're not actually any good.
The last place I worked at where a lot of folks worked remotely was a culture of work; these people wrote spaghetti code and worked constantly.
I've telecommuted, and I can tell I am much more productive in the office.
On my last telecommuting gig I had the option of working in an office without windows or at home with windows and cat in my lap. The laptop I got stuck with was crap, so it was inefficient to work with no matter where I did it. Hence I was more productive at home, not commuting.
Feckless implies unfortunate. These board members aren't feckless, they're incompetent and probably voting for CEOs who promise to share their golden umbrellas.
One theory I heard for why Uwe Boll continues to get hired to direct movies in spite of his spectacular record for making terrible films is that he's a great tax shelter. If you're the head of a production company and you hire out directors to make films (common), hiring Uwe Boll to make a film will almost certainly lead to a significant loss, and therefore mitigate your tax bill. Hence, Uwe Boll makes a lot of bad movies in spite of being a pretty lousy director.
"If global warming is real why go after the smallest contributor to global warming? But you can't answer that can you?"
I can, but what would be the point?
Because the idiocracy has already won. That there are still people who claim that global warming is false is incontrovertible proof that the idiocracy has, through simple dint of numbers, defeated the intelligentsia and is dooming future generations to a world of hell and high water is now also a scientifically verifiable fact.
"I believe based on your statement that is the Global Warming group. So your group makes a claim of Global Warming."
The facts say that global warming is real. Hence it's YOUR burden to find evidence to the contrary.
Since global warming is actually happening, the models have predicted what we've been seeing in the real world, and the measurements back up the models, it's on the deniers to prove that they're not completely full of it.
Since the deniers can't do that, one must conclude that they're full of it.
The AGW models predicted exactly what we've been seeing.
And if you can't even use the correct "its" homonym for this situation, you aren't credible.
The AGW facts are observationally supported, measured, and the models have been tested and continue to gain accuracy. The only thing that they've been getting wrong is underestimating the sheer stupidity of people and the power of faith-based propaganda to influence the weak-minded.
Agreed. The real problem with our system is that the currently dominant companies are using their pet politicians to prevent the system from doing exactly what it did to enable them to get to where they are now.
The big oil, auto, (etc) companies got their starts with government subsidies, but they're still collecting those subsidies and working to prevent startups from having access to them, because those startups threaten their dominance.
They're now twisting the system to prevent it from doing for someone else what it did for them.
So, to anser your question "How is this not a good idea?" The track record is this will be a slush fund to reward his friends and accomplish nothing useful. Corrupt politics and corporate cronyism at its finest. Nothing to do with "socialism", just plain theft.
It sounds like you've been suckered in by the republican propagandists and idiots like Rush Limbaugh. You definitely should do some more research both into where that money went, where the industries it supported are going, and how many of them were successful launches. Then maybe compare it to history, because if your logic were valid, then Datsun's demise implied that the auto industry was doomed.
Samsung does make great components... but their products are cheesy shit.
Apple may suck... but everyone else is so fucking far behind them whatever point you think you're trying to make is completely moot.
The flaw in reasoning here is that Apple uses components that companies like Samsung make in their own products. Apple makes other companies' products look nice, like calling IEEE-1394 "FireWire" instead of IEEE-1394.
Other companies aren't behind Apple in the way that you imply; they're behind Apple in that their products enable Apple's.
You hit it right on. I was going to write that Marisa was basically admitting that she was a lousy leader and was pandering to her lousy underling managers, but you beat me to it.
It's probably correct to surmise that she's trying to get rid of people without laying them off so that she can replace them with mindless dolts who are culturally programmed to put in many, many hours without complaint, even when they don't have the faintest idea as to what they're doing, which is most of the time.
First, doctors pay their own way through school and for their own insurance because of the same flaw in our system: profit. In a first world country, you get an education. In america, you get massive debt and a piece of paper.
Second, who do think designs the tools and machines that doctors use to do their jobs?
In america, "working harder" usually means in reality simply putting in more hours, even if they aren't productive hours.
Henry Ford favored a 40 hour work week because it made for better productivity from his workers, which means more overall profit for the company. Since american companies generally don't care about quality and prefer to have their workers too burned out to have lives because people who are too stressed to live make better slaves, it's no wonder that american CEOs would prefer cheap slave-lobor factories over good ones.
There's a reason that it's hard to find quality products in the US anymore, and it's not only the fault of the CEOs, it's the fault of every worker who puts up with being treated like a slave while pretending that it's just working hard.
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge".
-- Isaac Asimov
Great quote! Thank you. I think that's one of the most concise explanations for why democracy simply doesn't work.
Winston Churchill's version was a little bit less blatantly insulting, but no less contemptuous of the intellectually deficient populace.
To much politics in science today to trust them with decisions.
There is a lot of junk out there being passed off as science.
Many scientists are available for sale to the highest bidder.
This has caused a loss of trust in the scientific community by the general public and the leadership.
You swallowed the anti-scientific propaganda hook, line, and sinker.
The problem with scientists is that they aren't good storytellers and don't have the money to hire people to help them tell their own stories. The propagandists who want to discredit them have money. So the scientists remain largely silent and go about doing their work, while those who seek to stifle their message tell the world that the scientific community is rife with politics and dissent, when in fact that's a pretty small minority in the field, and not very many scientists are in reality available to the highest bidder.
Since the US has such a strong culture of anti-intellectualism, this sort of deception is easy now.
I've worked for companies where I've done in two hours more than what my co-workers did in 60. The rest of my 40 hours were wasted cleaning up the other idiots' messes.
Then perhaps the employer should not take the actions that lead to mass resignations. Perhaps they should, you know, keep the critical employees happy! Employees are not fungible.
And mass resignations like this are the only way that the employees can win. More employees need to realize that they have the power to do this, and take advantage, or there will never be an end to the slavery that is corporate America.
When they all leave en masse, it can put a very large hole in your infrastructure: when someone leaving poaches from their former group, it's usually a contract violation, written into the contract _precisely_ to protect assets a company has invested in and built up over time.
That sounds like a good reason to take care of your personnel. Entire groups departing like that is more likely the fault of the management than anything else. If HP management thought that they were that important, then maybe they should have considered the possibility and planned accordingly.
That said, it's far more likely that HP's management just assumed that they were interchangeable cogs and didn't care... until all of them walked and made HP realize their blunder.
This is the sort of thing that more IT staff should be doing.
More significantly, the government continues to raise defense spending and refuses to cut it during lean times. These imbeciles would rather cut critical services like weather forecasting out if political expediency and short term cost-cutting than to cut pointlessly wasteful shit like the pentagram's largely wasted budget. It's pretty obvious that they're taking care of their bribers even though it will mean the nation's demise.
The saddest part is that these people keep getting elected, so the idiocracy really has won already. It's now just a batter of time until our economy collapses and takes the rest of the world's down with it.
As an employee at a company that uses mcafee's malware, you don't normally get to choose, unless you're in the IT department, and responsible for setting up the machines in the first place. Of course, they don't have that much of a choice either since they're just cloning an image nowadays. That is the main reason that the machines I get from work are always so painfully slow compared to my own machines, but if you're paid hourly, who cares! If the employer puts crap on the machine that they provide to you that makes your job slow and inefficient, you get paid more to do less. It's a pretty sad state of affairs, if you ask me, but it's also deeply ingrained into our culture or working as hard and as stupidly as possible in order to get ahead in the bureaucracy.
Apart from the fact that they're fairly overpriced for what they can do, they're really rather ugly and cumbersome (especially when mounted on a helmet, hardly sleek or unobtrusive), and not particularly intuitive to use (tiny buttons, not obvious whether it's recording or not).
But what do I know, they seem popular. Possibly because they're robust and they've got a few different mount options, but I can't believe there isn't more good-looking and capable competition.
Overpriced? There's nothing else on the market that will allow you to record cinema-quality video for under $10k, let alone under $1k.
They're popular because the GoPro cameras have always been the best at what they do, and while their competitors like Contour have some features that GoPro doesn't offer, GoPro's image quality is far superior.
Even dSLRs today don't record 2k video footage in Cineform.
For point of reference, the currently dominant cinema camera in big-budget film production right now is the Arri Alexa series, which record... $2k. The cheap one is $87k.
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First off, I despise sweatshops and have left companies because of that mentality. That said, I findit increasingly difficult to sympathize with people who tolerate those conditions, especially when they're for specialized skills like game programming. The company can't replace an entire team, so if the entire team says no to unpaid overtime, the company is stuck doing what they want. Ergo, EA gets away with treating its employees like shit because their employees let the company do so.
A capitalist economy will ALWAYS culminate in a race to the bottom. That race won't end until somebody wins, and when somebody wins everyone loses. With capitalism unchecked there is no victory, and demise is only a matter of time.
Working in the office is much better to exchange with your co-workers.
It also makes it much easier to separate working time and family time.
Exchanging information with idiots isn't productive. Most staff in corporate IT are idiots, ergo exchanging information with them isn't worth the bother. Most of them use the remote work option to work perpetually anyway, which is proof that they're not actually any good.
The last place I worked at where a lot of folks worked remotely was a culture of work; these people wrote spaghetti code and worked constantly.
I've telecommuted, and I can tell I am much more productive in the office.
On my last telecommuting gig I had the option of working in an office without windows or at home with windows and cat in my lap. The laptop I got stuck with was crap, so it was inefficient to work with no matter where I did it. Hence I was more productive at home, not commuting.
Feckless implies unfortunate. These board members aren't feckless, they're incompetent and probably voting for CEOs who promise to share their golden umbrellas.
One theory I heard for why Uwe Boll continues to get hired to direct movies in spite of his spectacular record for making terrible films is that he's a great tax shelter. If you're the head of a production company and you hire out directors to make films (common), hiring Uwe Boll to make a film will almost certainly lead to a significant loss, and therefore mitigate your tax bill. Hence, Uwe Boll makes a lot of bad movies in spite of being a pretty lousy director.
"If global warming is real why go after the smallest contributor to global warming? But you can't answer that can you?" I can, but what would be the point?
I've done the math. Maybe you ought to give it a try sometime? That is of course assuming that you can handle even basic arithmetic...
Why is this shit modded +4 informative?
Because the idiocracy has already won. That there are still people who claim that global warming is false is incontrovertible proof that the idiocracy has, through simple dint of numbers, defeated the intelligentsia and is dooming future generations to a world of hell and high water is now also a scientifically verifiable fact.
"I believe based on your statement that is the Global Warming group. So your group makes a claim of Global Warming." The facts say that global warming is real. Hence it's YOUR burden to find evidence to the contrary. Since global warming is actually happening, the models have predicted what we've been seeing in the real world, and the measurements back up the models, it's on the deniers to prove that they're not completely full of it. Since the deniers can't do that, one must conclude that they're full of it.
The AGW models predicted exactly what we've been seeing. And if you can't even use the correct "its" homonym for this situation, you aren't credible. The AGW facts are observationally supported, measured, and the models have been tested and continue to gain accuracy. The only thing that they've been getting wrong is underestimating the sheer stupidity of people and the power of faith-based propaganda to influence the weak-minded.
Agreed. The real problem with our system is that the currently dominant companies are using their pet politicians to prevent the system from doing exactly what it did to enable them to get to where they are now. The big oil, auto, (etc) companies got their starts with government subsidies, but they're still collecting those subsidies and working to prevent startups from having access to them, because those startups threaten their dominance. They're now twisting the system to prevent it from doing for someone else what it did for them.
So, to anser your question "How is this not a good idea?" The track record is this will be a slush fund to reward his friends and accomplish nothing useful. Corrupt politics and corporate cronyism at its finest. Nothing to do with "socialism", just plain theft.
It sounds like you've been suckered in by the republican propagandists and idiots like Rush Limbaugh. You definitely should do some more research both into where that money went, where the industries it supported are going, and how many of them were successful launches. Then maybe compare it to history, because if your logic were valid, then Datsun's demise implied that the auto industry was doomed.
Samsung does make great components... but their products are cheesy shit.
Apple may suck... but everyone else is so fucking far behind them whatever point you think you're trying to make is completely moot.
The flaw in reasoning here is that Apple uses components that companies like Samsung make in their own products. Apple makes other companies' products look nice, like calling IEEE-1394 "FireWire" instead of IEEE-1394.
Other companies aren't behind Apple in the way that you imply; they're behind Apple in that their products enable Apple's.
You hit it right on. I was going to write that Marisa was basically admitting that she was a lousy leader and was pandering to her lousy underling managers, but you beat me to it. It's probably correct to surmise that she's trying to get rid of people without laying them off so that she can replace them with mindless dolts who are culturally programmed to put in many, many hours without complaint, even when they don't have the faintest idea as to what they're doing, which is most of the time.
There are a few flaws in your post.
First, doctors pay their own way through school and for their own insurance because of the same flaw in our system: profit. In a first world country, you get an education. In america, you get massive debt and a piece of paper.
Second, who do think designs the tools and machines that doctors use to do their jobs?
In america, "working harder" usually means in reality simply putting in more hours, even if they aren't productive hours. Henry Ford favored a 40 hour work week because it made for better productivity from his workers, which means more overall profit for the company. Since american companies generally don't care about quality and prefer to have their workers too burned out to have lives because people who are too stressed to live make better slaves, it's no wonder that american CEOs would prefer cheap slave-lobor factories over good ones. There's a reason that it's hard to find quality products in the US anymore, and it's not only the fault of the CEOs, it's the fault of every worker who puts up with being treated like a slave while pretending that it's just working hard.
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge".
-- Isaac Asimov
Great quote! Thank you. I think that's one of the most concise explanations for why democracy simply doesn't work.
Winston Churchill's version was a little bit less blatantly insulting, but no less contemptuous of the intellectually deficient populace.
To much politics in science today to trust them with decisions.
There is a lot of junk out there being passed off as science.
Many scientists are available for sale to the highest bidder.
This has caused a loss of trust in the scientific community by the general public and the leadership.
You swallowed the anti-scientific propaganda hook, line, and sinker.
The problem with scientists is that they aren't good storytellers and don't have the money to hire people to help them tell their own stories. The propagandists who want to discredit them have money. So the scientists remain largely silent and go about doing their work, while those who seek to stifle their message tell the world that the scientific community is rife with politics and dissent, when in fact that's a pretty small minority in the field, and not very many scientists are in reality available to the highest bidder.
Since the US has such a strong culture of anti-intellectualism, this sort of deception is easy now.
They're not interested in facts, just their own ideology.
You are correct, unfortunately. It's another way of saying that the idiocracy's victory is nearly complete.
I've worked for companies where I've done in two hours more than what my co-workers did in 60. The rest of my 40 hours were wasted cleaning up the other idiots' messes.
When they all leave en masse, it can put a very large hole in your infrastructure: when someone leaving poaches from their former group, it's usually a contract violation, written into the contract _precisely_ to protect assets a company has invested in and built up over time.
That sounds like a good reason to take care of your personnel. Entire groups departing like that is more likely the fault of the management than anything else. If HP management thought that they were that important, then maybe they should have considered the possibility and planned accordingly.
That said, it's far more likely that HP's management just assumed that they were interchangeable cogs and didn't care... until all of them walked and made HP realize their blunder.
This is the sort of thing that more IT staff should be doing.
More significantly, the government continues to raise defense spending and refuses to cut it during lean times. These imbeciles would rather cut critical services like weather forecasting out if political expediency and short term cost-cutting than to cut pointlessly wasteful shit like the pentagram's largely wasted budget. It's pretty obvious that they're taking care of their bribers even though it will mean the nation's demise. The saddest part is that these people keep getting elected, so the idiocracy really has won already. It's now just a batter of time until our economy collapses and takes the rest of the world's down with it.
As an employee at a company that uses mcafee's malware, you don't normally get to choose, unless you're in the IT department, and responsible for setting up the machines in the first place. Of course, they don't have that much of a choice either since they're just cloning an image nowadays. That is the main reason that the machines I get from work are always so painfully slow compared to my own machines, but if you're paid hourly, who cares! If the employer puts crap on the machine that they provide to you that makes your job slow and inefficient, you get paid more to do less. It's a pretty sad state of affairs, if you ask me, but it's also deeply ingrained into our culture or working as hard and as stupidly as possible in order to get ahead in the bureaucracy.
Apart from the fact that they're fairly overpriced for what they can do, they're really rather ugly and cumbersome (especially when mounted on a helmet, hardly sleek or unobtrusive), and not particularly intuitive to use (tiny buttons, not obvious whether it's recording or not).
But what do I know, they seem popular. Possibly because they're robust and they've got a few different mount options, but I can't believe there isn't more good-looking and capable competition.
Overpriced? There's nothing else on the market that will allow you to record cinema-quality video for under $10k, let alone under $1k. They're popular because the GoPro cameras have always been the best at what they do, and while their competitors like Contour have some features that GoPro doesn't offer, GoPro's image quality is far superior. Even dSLRs today don't record 2k video footage in Cineform. For point of reference, the currently dominant cinema camera in big-budget film production right now is the Arri Alexa series, which record... $2k. The cheap one is $87k.