I know this feeling - something is outrageously wrong and you want to tell the world about it. Believe me I have experience with this - this is pointless. It is a nice flick nothing less or more(*). I tend to get this surges of anger too - I sit and write an essay for myself only and list all things that are wrong. Most often though I find that the most annoying parts are not omissions, errors and some such - they are stories where humans hardly play a role or/and which are inconsistent internally. No SF can even hope to describe the reality because of the fiction part. It is not even its role or ambition. The close description of reality does not even get done by most of documentaries so we can excuse a fiction movie as long as it is well made. If the movie about trip to Mars were a bit realistic it would have to include a show of idiocy and corruption on capitol hill as all these billions needed would be only spent if associated with heavy pork lifting and and done on basis of a lie or two about how this is going to cost and what it is going to achieve.
* - sometimes inaccurate and fairy tale like but exactly that is why it is so motivating for some as to show how impossible is possible.
we are on/. after all we are pedantic morons and we are proud of it. As with everything else pedantic morons have their use too. Not necessarily in area of leadership or ideas embedded in fiction of any type tho.
I may be mistaken but it may also be that GP meant a description that can be used by police force to distinguish between good and evil persons taking part in a shootout.
Just imagine this nice sight of dead bodies everywhere - some shot by perpetrators some by volunteer ad hoc force of armed bystanders and some by police who came and shoot everybody taking part in a shootout. That would make nice news. It would not change anything anyway but as long as you try it in some place I am not frequenting I am all for it.
There have been shooting just about everywhere. In USA much more frequently than any other land living in peace(*). The choice has been made by majority of US citizens - we and our criminals want to have free access to guns. There is no way any shooting will change that. If it does then it only increase amount of guns sold. This assures that the business will continue with new better guns. this is a tragedy only because there is a sizable minority in US that disagrees with this.
* - by peace I mean a state of peace that most of Western countries enjoy on their soil whereas some of those countries' armed forces take part in various adventures around the globe (which may or not be a moral hazard but that is not a topic here).
Now think of this. Uber's concern for the families, citizens and society and then the local government's concern for the families, citizens and society. I have almost no trust for the later and if this is the only choice I am gonna get I still go for it anyway as the alternative does not appeal to me. Unless of course Uber will bribe me enough.
As we know real world has limits. Politicians and religious and business leaders often ignore this reality - how about limits to the pilgrimage too - There is limited place in front of certain holy objects and you need certain time to do what you want to do. This means you have only this many people that can visit the place assuming smooth flow. Are Saudis anywhere near this limit yet?
Assuming we have maxed on safe numbers of people per unit of time we still assume smooth flow. Humans not being fluids, having their own ideas distorting the flow make accidents inevitable even with best design.
Indeed once a system is established in which any idea is shown as good there is always a chance a maniac who actually believes all the nonsense get high in the ranks and eventually becomes the great leader. The problem with this is also that human societies do not work very well without great ideas and great leaders and at the same time we always have a problem when a great leader decides to do evil things. This is so since human population density grew to a point when separate tribes were constantly in danger of being attacked by their neighbors (as opposed to being attacked from time to time). This induced complex social structures and a need for a bureaucracy for peace times and strong leadership for crisis times including war.
I see leaving it like this in the context of this discussion is no good.
The little painter from Austria could not care less about Muslim, Christian or any other faith - he was interested in two things: promoting his sick ideas, among which was killing all the Jews and other unfortunate beings) as well as holding on to power. So indeed he is not a good example of a crusader.
There are good and bad managers. Good manager would know something about the area where s/he manages - how else can they do what they are supposed to. Their view and tasks are different from the crew at the floor. The same is true for the requirements on their skillset.
you try to fight the fad brother/sister - that is not appreciated by fad squad and sliver bullet brigade. We found/whatever/ to be single and massive cause of this/grave problem/. By applying/this great and simple solution/ we can get rid of the problem. Let us use all force of law to make it happen and make a back on it.
spend all day in meetings and screwing with build errors, merge conflicts, and management changing the requirements mid-project?
except never stopping change of requirements is also popular in real projects (v. SW ones). That may be because it 'does not cost anything' t rebuild SW from the scratch if one so wishes whereas a bridge would be difficult to build again while its first version is standing although the building companies have means to change things on the fly too, they indeed build prototypes in scale to see how they behave etc and some managers are silly enough also to change requirements at the end of the project when the only missing thing is handing a product to a customer - also for real stuff (Berlin airport is one example).
I imagine this could be one of the problems Germans had but given ruthless Soviet leadership and their apparently unlimited sources of cheap cannon fodder there is no way Germany could win. Overengineered designs was still silly. Seems like US military procurement did not learn from them and that is why US have now F35.
I am old enough to recall commie BS first hand (first ear?). I live in the west for quite some years now and frankly the only difference between Western media BS and the real commie BS from the old days is that in the West you can mostly chose BS that fits your world view with exception of these few moments where all go ballistic on something and present united BS, the way commies did. Quite frankly I listen to the news with disgust these days - too much Putin and asylum seekers (or whatever let the journalists to get off) pr0n. Too bad all these real free pr0n sites are so boring.
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I know this feeling - something is outrageously wrong and you want to tell the world about it. Believe me I have experience with this - this is pointless. It is a nice flick nothing less or more(*). I tend to get this surges of anger too - I sit and write an essay for myself only and list all things that are wrong. Most often though I find that the most annoying parts are not omissions, errors and some such - they are stories where humans hardly play a role or/and which are inconsistent internally. No SF can even hope to describe the reality because of the fiction part. It is not even its role or ambition. The close description of reality does not even get done by most of documentaries so we can excuse a fiction movie as long as it is well made. If the movie about trip to Mars were a bit realistic it would have to include a show of idiocy and corruption on capitol hill as all these billions needed would be only spent if associated with heavy pork lifting and and done on basis of a lie or two about how this is going to cost and what it is going to achieve.
* - sometimes inaccurate and fairy tale like but exactly that is why it is so motivating for some as to show how impossible is possible.
Better than what this old fart Plato had. Now we can share our shadows on the wall of the cave and see it all while drinking beer and eating popcorn.
we are on /. after all we are pedantic morons and we are proud of it. As with everything else pedantic morons have their use too. Not necessarily in area of leadership or ideas embedded in fiction of any type tho.
So how big part of population shares your approach?
It all applies to all of us, you (and me of course too) including.
I may be mistaken but it may also be that GP meant a description that can be used by police force to distinguish between good and evil persons taking part in a shootout.
Just imagine this nice sight of dead bodies everywhere - some shot by perpetrators some by volunteer ad hoc force of armed bystanders and some by police who came and shoot everybody taking part in a shootout. That would make nice news. It would not change anything anyway but as long as you try it in some place I am not frequenting I am all for it.
I think they should start working on this in UK. If guns are not available be innovative.
There have been shooting just about everywhere. In USA much more frequently than any other land living in peace(*).
The choice has been made by majority of US citizens - we and our criminals want to have free access to guns. There is no way any shooting will change that. If it does then it only increase amount of guns sold. This assures that the business will continue with new better guns. this is a tragedy only because there is a sizable minority in US that disagrees with this.
* - by peace I mean a state of peace that most of Western countries enjoy on their soil whereas some of those countries' armed forces take part in various adventures around the globe (which may or not be a moral hazard but that is not a topic here).
Why would anybody want kids to eat broccoli?
Wait and see how this all changes when TTIP and some other agreement will be signed over our heads.
where are the mod points when one needs them...
Now think of this. Uber's concern for the families, citizens and society and then the local government's concern for the families, citizens and society.
I have almost no trust for the later and if this is the only choice I am gonna get I still go for it anyway as the alternative does not appeal to me. Unless of course Uber will bribe me enough.
As we know real world has limits. Politicians and religious and business leaders often ignore this reality - how about limits to the pilgrimage too - There is limited place in front of certain holy objects and you need certain time to do what you want to do. This means you have only this many people that can visit the place assuming smooth flow.
Are Saudis anywhere near this limit yet?
Assuming we have maxed on safe numbers of people per unit of time we still assume smooth flow. Humans not being fluids, having their own ideas distorting the flow make accidents inevitable even with best design.
Indeed once a system is established in which any idea is shown as good there is always a chance a maniac who actually believes all the nonsense get high in the ranks and eventually becomes the great leader. The problem with this is also that human societies do not work very well without great ideas and great leaders and at the same time we always have a problem when a great leader decides to do evil things. This is so since human population density grew to a point when separate tribes were constantly in danger of being attacked by their neighbors (as opposed to being attacked from time to time). This induced complex social structures and a need for a bureaucracy for peace times and strong leadership for crisis times including war.
I see leaving it like this in the context of this discussion is no good.
The little painter from Austria could not care less about Muslim, Christian or any other faith - he was interested in two things: promoting his sick ideas, among which was killing all the Jews and other unfortunate beings) as well as holding on to power. So indeed he is not a good example of a crusader.
And he did not mind Islam at all
There are good and bad managers. Good manager would know something about the area where s/he manages - how else can they do what they are supposed to. Their view and tasks are different from the crew at the floor. The same is true for the requirements on their skillset.
You did not hear this sound? It was like whizzzz or whoooooosh or alike.
you try to fight the fad brother/sister - that is not appreciated by fad squad and sliver bullet brigade. /whatever/ to be single and massive cause of this /grave problem/. By applying /this great and simple solution/ we can get rid of the problem. Let us use all force of law to make it happen and make a back on it.
We found
is groupon?
Why is this news?
Actually all from
spend all day in meetings and screwing with build errors, merge conflicts, and management changing the requirements mid-project?
except never stopping change of requirements is also popular in real projects (v. SW ones). That may be because it 'does not cost anything' t rebuild SW from the scratch if one so wishes whereas a bridge would be difficult to build again while its first version is standing although the building companies have means to change things on the fly too, they indeed build prototypes in scale to see how they behave etc and some managers are silly enough also to change requirements at the end of the project when the only missing thing is handing a product to a customer - also for real stuff (Berlin airport is one example).
I imagine this could be one of the problems Germans had but given ruthless Soviet leadership and their apparently unlimited sources of cheap cannon fodder there is no way Germany could win. Overengineered designs was still silly. Seems like US military procurement did not learn from them and that is why US have now F35.
I am old enough to recall commie BS first hand (first ear?). I live in the west for quite some years now and frankly the only difference between Western media BS and the real commie BS from the old days is that in the West you can mostly chose BS that fits your world view with exception of these few moments where all go ballistic on something and present united BS, the way commies did. Quite frankly I listen to the news with disgust these days - too much Putin and asylum seekers (or whatever let the journalists to get off) pr0n. Too bad all these real free pr0n sites are so boring.
This looks like a real advice.
I like the part about us all being jerwads. It fits quite well actually.