At the same time, voting on your ideals can allow the greater evil to move in. While there are far better voting systems out there, until they are changed, we kinda have to do what we can with what we have. Change the voting system before you bitch at people for not voting for more 3rd party candidates.
Considering that his "principle" is to not allow gay marriage, I can't respect it.
And don't give me the crap that "He wants government out of all marriage!" I'll believe it when I see him introduce a bill to remove the federal government's recognition of straight marriage.
You know, you can always support, campaign, and vote for a 3rd party candidate. Plus, you can do what the Tea Party did: use the primaries to get others out of office, and get candidates that more closely match your ideals in on a major party ticket.
In any democratic system, it ends up being a case of holding your nose and voting for the "least bad" candidate.
That's a rather pessimistic way of putting it. Rather, it's a case of finding the candidate who best matches your ideals, and supporting them. You're probably not going to find someone who matches you 100%, but you can probably find someone who matches you enough on the matters you care about.
No, but I think the point is to get a list of what we could call "geek issues", and see what side the candidates come down on. It wouldn't matter if one of us is pro-NN, and the other anti-NN, as we both get the same information and can make our decisions accordingly.
Are you honestly trying to say that it would have been a GOOD thing to default on the debt? That says a lot about Ron Paul supporters: That they don't understand foreign policy at all.
How many nations do you honestly think would still want to trade with us after we did that? Huh? And how do you think the loss of that trade would affect American jobs?
My friend is a coal miner and voted for Obama because the union told him too. If that's not voting against your self interest, I don't know what is.
Wait, explain how voting for McCain would be in his self interest? Explain how putting the party in power that wants to dismantle any kind of environmental regulation, any kind of workplace regulation, and that has since then introduced legislation in several states to try and dismantle the power of unions would be voting in his self interest? If anything, the Democrats have the interest of the working class in mind far, far, far more than the Republicans.
*Republicans believe that nothing should hold back an individual or group from achieving success and happiness provided that it is done in a way that is not that harmful to society or others
I disagree. I don't think they give a shit what the effects on society are. However you can find to make money, go and do it, regardless of what harm it might do to others.
Wow. So you're going to take his reasoned and well written opinion, and just say, "NOPE!", and replace it with the same puke that everyone tries to insist upon?
Depends on the definition of "expert". It also depends on how it came to be. The Technical Lead could be someone who started very early with the company, and now they're experiencing quite a bit of growth. Besides, if he's willing to half ass the interview, what else is he willing to half ass?
That condition still doesn't require the code to be written outside the office. I've written code on my own, during work hours, because it made my job easier, or I saw a problem that could be solved better by my code. That fits your definition of coding because something inside me made me do it, but it's still not stuff I can share.
If you can't give the answer to the A* question, what are the chances that you'll be able to use algorithms in the same space that are not documented anywhere ?
If I haven't dealt with A* in 5 years or so, and didn't get the impression that it's something I should know for the interview, then there's a pretty good chance that I won't be able to answer the A* question as perfectly as he wanted.
and also not interested in hiring anyone that would take that risk
So you want people who don't have ambition, and quite frankly, would just keep their heads down, their mouths shut, and don't hope to improve their station at all.
So you decide to go ahead and make things even more unfair? That practice is indicative of a lazy asshole manager, one who has absolutely no business whatsoever being in charge of a night shift at Denny's, let alone an engineering group.
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I can see that. Although, it entirely depends on who he deems the "experts in the field" to be.
At the same time, voting on your ideals can allow the greater evil to move in. While there are far better voting systems out there, until they are changed, we kinda have to do what we can with what we have. Change the voting system before you bitch at people for not voting for more 3rd party candidates.
Why don't they have a primary too?
Because the odds of beating the incumbent President in a primary are approximately 3720 to 1.
Considering that his "principle" is to not allow gay marriage, I can't respect it.
And don't give me the crap that "He wants government out of all marriage!" I'll believe it when I see him introduce a bill to remove the federal government's recognition of straight marriage.
They could have had the Senate as well in 2010.
true, his foreign policy is completely incompatible with US imperialism.
No, his foreign policy is incompatible with pretty much any stance other than total isolationism.
Most states have a way to introduce measures on the ballot at election time. Look into how your state does it.
make lobbying illegal
How are you going to differentiate between someone lobbying an elected official, and a citizen discussing issues with their elected representative?
You know, you can always support, campaign, and vote for a 3rd party candidate. Plus, you can do what the Tea Party did: use the primaries to get others out of office, and get candidates that more closely match your ideals in on a major party ticket.
In any democratic system, it ends up being a case of holding your nose and voting for the "least bad" candidate.
That's a rather pessimistic way of putting it. Rather, it's a case of finding the candidate who best matches your ideals, and supporting them. You're probably not going to find someone who matches you 100%, but you can probably find someone who matches you enough on the matters you care about.
No, but I think the point is to get a list of what we could call "geek issues", and see what side the candidates come down on. It wouldn't matter if one of us is pro-NN, and the other anti-NN, as we both get the same information and can make our decisions accordingly.
Are you honestly trying to say that it would have been a GOOD thing to default on the debt? That says a lot about Ron Paul supporters: That they don't understand foreign policy at all.
How many nations do you honestly think would still want to trade with us after we did that? Huh? And how do you think the loss of that trade would affect American jobs?
Except Ron Paul would have absolutely nothing in place to stop the inevitable corporate monopoly from forming and taking power.
Yeah! Ron Paul wants to uphold the Constitution, with all the gay marriage bans involved in it.
My friend is a coal miner and voted for Obama because the union told him too. If that's not voting against your self interest, I don't know what is.
Wait, explain how voting for McCain would be in his self interest? Explain how putting the party in power that wants to dismantle any kind of environmental regulation, any kind of workplace regulation, and that has since then introduced legislation in several states to try and dismantle the power of unions would be voting in his self interest? If anything, the Democrats have the interest of the working class in mind far, far, far more than the Republicans.
You're wrong if you think there's a difference between the two parties.
And you're an idiot if you think there isn't.
*Republicans believe that nothing should hold back an individual or group from achieving success and happiness provided that it is done in a way that is not that harmful to society or others
I disagree. I don't think they give a shit what the effects on society are. However you can find to make money, go and do it, regardless of what harm it might do to others.
Wow. So you're going to take his reasoned and well written opinion, and just say, "NOPE!", and replace it with the same puke that everyone tries to insist upon?
Depends on the definition of "expert". It also depends on how it came to be. The Technical Lead could be someone who started very early with the company, and now they're experiencing quite a bit of growth. Besides, if he's willing to half ass the interview, what else is he willing to half ass?
That condition still doesn't require the code to be written outside the office. I've written code on my own, during work hours, because it made my job easier, or I saw a problem that could be solved better by my code. That fits your definition of coding because something inside me made me do it, but it's still not stuff I can share.
If you can't give the answer to the A* question, what are the chances that you'll be able to use algorithms in the same space that are not documented anywhere ?
If I haven't dealt with A* in 5 years or so, and didn't get the impression that it's something I should know for the interview, then there's a pretty good chance that I won't be able to answer the A* question as perfectly as he wanted.
People who act like cunts toward me deserve the same thrown right back at them.
and also not interested in hiring anyone that would take that risk
So you want people who don't have ambition, and quite frankly, would just keep their heads down, their mouths shut, and don't hope to improve their station at all.
Wait, so it's ok for you to be an asshole, but you can't take it back? Sounds like your company deserves to go out of business.
So you decide to go ahead and make things even more unfair? That practice is indicative of a lazy asshole manager, one who has absolutely no business whatsoever being in charge of a night shift at Denny's, let alone an engineering group.