That is funny. I just got a new office with view on a lake recently and I must say I enjoy the view. I do not enjoy reading documents on my displays especially when there are no sun obscuring clouds on the sky. This proves that albeit we both indulge in similar activities professionally (wasting time on/. ) we have totally different perspectives: yours is from the windowless cellar mine from sun light filled room. What this means is that I do not expect too much of a benefit from having those tables etc I am not syaing that they are useless but they are tools for specific purposes, most of which are foreign to me.
So we have a positive feedback loop here: one side gets benefits from being aggressive assholes and the other from being silly shoe obsessed bitches. - what is new?
It has not been always that way. I guess the problem is as with all other social causes and organisations theoretically pursuing them is that they got stuck with the ideas and their faulty implementation from before or took over corruption and slack from the side they were fighting against. This of course can change and instead of pretending they defend the workers rights start actually doing so. The problem is not specific to IT but general. It is not easy to change that is certain. It includes setting the social goals and combining them with methods that are based on reason and reality. This can put them in a position when they will have to argue that market forces are good in some cases and control is good in some cases. This means arguments would be longer than one or max few simple sentences and this going beyond what average worker can actually comprehend. This problem is as said general as comprehension of complex issues is well beyond level reachable for majority. It can be done of course but it is easier to operate on genital level. Interestingly this whole difficult to explain solution with high comprehension failure rate versus simple but idiotic policies that all 'understand' dichotomy leads to situation where organisations carrying social issues on their flags often take money and ideas from whoever gives more money. It was fun to observe for instance when proposal to simplify (german) tax laws which would affect negatively business of tax advisers and such is attacked as socially irresponsible by social democrats. Itis not really odd or surprising of course. Unless this corrupt organisations are filled with people and ideas that are really intending to help people they will never raise any positive attention from educated folk and I would assume that even if mostly silly the IT folk is educated.
In short - I agree that the organisations in question are corrupt or at least inefficient but they do not have to be. They used to work once.
I suppose if they ordered a system designed specifically for their purpose it would cost a dozen millions more on top of this half that you mentioned and then they still had to do in house software stated in the summary. So indeed they saved some - even if you consider all the military expense a nonsense anyway it was still half a mil wasted instead of a dozen.
How many different nations do you know (lived with them for some time) and how many different languages do you know well enough to make a comparison and a judgment. I am asking because I agree with your statement about ignorance I am wondering why did you single out US - the same happens in any country I had a pleasure to live in. These were not many but I lived in few european countries and in each one of those most people were ignorant especially about others as well as things that matter and are used & relied upon in every day life. This included also the country of my origin. So why US? Are Chinese, British, Germans,French or whoever else any better? I do not think so. Just in case you wondered - I do not know US, I have never been there, have no intention to travel there and actually do dislike big parts of US culture. I find your statement outrageous because it is discriminatory and even more so because it does not bring anything into the discussion.
As to what happens when authorities dare change the language as they please without looking at what people use and are ready to accept see here and especially the part about acceptance of the so called reform by users of the language. This of course differs slightly from french solution.
Ohh so you know what pandemic is? Do you now what it was (in terms accepted by WHO) 2 years ago and why the rules changed? Especially 'why' question is interesting here.
Frankly I did not care what the definition is but as my money is spent on the vaccine that is not properly tested for an illness that is not really killing (comparing to normal flu which kills thousands a year anyway) I kind of got interested.
well I am not sure about politicians here - it seems to me that somebody was tweaking pandemic definitions of late. Hmmmm who might be this evil person? History of an interview by Sir Roy Andersson is really a teaching one. The article is not very exact possibly (what can you expect from daily mail) but - the guy apparently acquired some problems after his interview with BBC.
Donno about conspiracy but the whole story looks just too bad to be a result of incompetence only. Just why they removed mortality and morbidity from definition???
funny that I got sweats, shivers and shakes and I almost puked the first time I tried to smoke (cigarettes that I stole from my parents by the way). Consequently this was the last time I used nicotine or at least last time that I tried to use it actively. Now this either means that I have a character or that I do not. Whichever way it was makes no difference now but I find it funny that one industry makes stuff that should nullify effects of an addiction caused by stuff made some other industry. I suppose humans could save some health by bypassing nicotine/vaccine and just giving money to said industries directly without polluting our bodies but I guess that would skip the fun part too.
I think it is not as simple as you suggest - there is a lot of people that want war on drugs to continue and like the bans. To get trough to their brains with the message that e.g. education is cheaper and more effective than prisons is not possible. I had this discussions number of times and lack of education on the subject of drugs even among physicians is staggering. There is just enough people out in the open silly enough to believe that a plant like this can make you die if it is not banned. The hysteria in media just reflects this.
Why should he move anywhere from his own country? This "if you dislike it so much move somewhere else" argument which has different versions but ultimately leads to the use of North Korea as an argument that all is well here, so this argument is a fallacy and has no meaning.
If your argument is that there is no reason to call state X a 'police state' then you should maybe provide definition of what you think constitutes a police state. I am not saying here that GP was right or wrong in his assessment but if you disagree then provide arguments that could be used to verify who is right.
well but that is what happens all the time - people get used to certain ways and later claim these are better than theoretically better products that came later. At the end what matters is opinion of the (I am afraid uneducated, hearing impaired and not caring) masses which cause certain solutions to succeed and others to fail without any sense and reason. In other words: which format is better may not matter that much if majority chooses the worse one, is happy with that decision and thinks it gives and advantage over everything else. So are we humans.
If you ever wake up they will charge you a fine for canceling the contract because while in fluid nitrogen you did not answer a registered letter from them. Add an interest to this scheme and they will have a slave. Most likely however what will happen is that after said registered letter they will put your money into 'profit' part of their books. The fine will be a bonus that they can put on their books too although in virtual sort of way - but hey so what that it will never materialize, bottom line is that it brings virtual interest with it but without risk of investing the money. The profit in this case may be virtual - what counts is that it is on the books and can be used to justify the bonus for managers of the company. What an excellent scheme.
which of course raises the question why it is so. In case of said admin he is paid to do certain task of which part is creating software. The software is then intergated into t he solution for which the admin got paid. There is not much discussion here although there are ways to handle it differently if for instance the admin was slef employed and delivered software on licence base. The teachers on the other hand are paid to teach. Whether they use plans or not is their problem. It is accepted tool to work with but not a product. Product or work they are paid for is: teaching. me thinks.
You ge trid of the problem if you criminalise the whole business with plans and force the teachers to buy them from the school before they can enter the class. Or even better - pay the license for use at class. That would actually cut school's costs and teach the teachers a lesson.
what false positives - if you have something to fear than you are guilty of something nasty that is obvious. I see it as a good thing - if we execute each of such fearful indihviduals and give evolution a while then we will have a society of fearless which will destroy any dictatorship in no time as these things are based on fear. Fantastic idea!
I may have reservations about the ideas like scrum or generally agile methods but if done well they apparently involve technical people in decision and budget work as a matter of principle which is good as it enriches the perception engineers have thus enabling better understanding of constrains that one has to work with.
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That is funny. I just got a new office with view on a lake recently and I must say I enjoy the view. I do not enjoy reading documents on my displays especially when there are no sun obscuring clouds on the sky. This proves that albeit we both indulge in similar activities professionally (wasting time on /. ) we have totally different perspectives: yours is from the windowless cellar mine from sun light filled room. What this means is that I do not expect too much of a benefit from having those tables etc I am not syaing that they are useless but they are tools for specific purposes, most of which are foreign to me.
So we have a positive feedback loop here: one side gets benefits from being aggressive assholes and the other from being silly shoe obsessed bitches. - what is new?
why use M$ office if you can use open office just as well and have less of a headache due to silliness of micro- or cloud- products.
In short - I agree that the organisations in question are corrupt or at least inefficient but they do not have to be. They used to work once.
Here I fixed that for you: "In real life your job is bound to end sooner rather than later anyway". If that is so then why should we care?
I suppose if they ordered a system designed specifically for their purpose it would cost a dozen millions more on top of this half that you mentioned and then they still had to do in house software stated in the summary. So indeed they saved some - even if you consider all the military expense a nonsense anyway it was still half a mil wasted instead of a dozen.
Sasha Grey plays a vitol role in some of the documentaries that we so love to watch in our cellars - that is why.
How many different nations do you know (lived with them for some time) and how many different languages do you know well enough to make a comparison and a judgment. I am asking because I agree with your statement about ignorance I am wondering why did you single out US - the same happens in any country I had a pleasure to live in. These were not many but I lived in few european countries and in each one of those most people were ignorant especially about others as well as things that matter and are used & relied upon in every day life. This included also the country of my origin. So why US? Are Chinese, British, Germans,French or whoever else any better? I do not think so. Just in case you wondered - I do not know US, I have never been there, have no intention to travel there and actually do dislike big parts of US culture. I find your statement outrageous because it is discriminatory and even more so because it does not bring anything into the discussion.
As to what happens when authorities dare change the language as they please without looking at what people use and are ready to accept see here and especially the part about acceptance of the so called reform by users of the language. This of course differs slightly from french solution.
Frankly I did not care what the definition is but as my money is spent on the vaccine that is not properly tested for an illness that is not really killing (comparing to normal flu which kills thousands a year anyway) I kind of got interested.
well I am not sure about politicians here - it seems to me that somebody was tweaking pandemic definitions of late. Hmmmm who might be this evil person? History of an interview by Sir Roy Andersson is really a teaching one. The article is not very exact possibly (what can you expect from daily mail) but - the guy apparently acquired some problems after his interview with BBC. Donno about conspiracy but the whole story looks just too bad to be a result of incompetence only. Just why they removed mortality and morbidity from definition???
funny that I got sweats, shivers and shakes and I almost puked the first time I tried to smoke (cigarettes that I stole from my parents by the way). Consequently this was the last time I used nicotine or at least last time that I tried to use it actively. Now this either means that I have a character or that I do not. Whichever way it was makes no difference now but I find it funny that one industry makes stuff that should nullify effects of an addiction caused by stuff made some other industry. I suppose humans could save some health by bypassing nicotine/vaccine and just giving money to said industries directly without polluting our bodies but I guess that would skip the fun part too.
I think there is a set of people that do both every day. Do they need this vaccine or maybe we should leave them alone?
I think it is not as simple as you suggest - there is a lot of people that want war on drugs to continue and like the bans. To get trough to their brains with the message that e.g. education is cheaper and more effective than prisons is not possible. I had this discussions number of times and lack of education on the subject of drugs even among physicians is staggering. There is just enough people out in the open silly enough to believe that a plant like this can make you die if it is not banned. The hysteria in media just reflects this.
If your argument is that there is no reason to call state X a 'police state' then you should maybe provide definition of what you think constitutes a police state. I am not saying here that GP was right or wrong in his assessment but if you disagree then provide arguments that could be used to verify who is right.
well but that is what happens all the time - people get used to certain ways and later claim these are better than theoretically better products that came later. At the end what matters is opinion of the (I am afraid uneducated, hearing impaired and not caring) masses which cause certain solutions to succeed and others to fail without any sense and reason. In other words: which format is better may not matter that much if majority chooses the worse one, is happy with that decision and thinks it gives and advantage over everything else. So are we humans.
Hmm I am not sure you should mention such evil things like 'other realms' on /. This does not seem to be au courant here.
If you ever wake up they will charge you a fine for canceling the contract because while in fluid nitrogen you did not answer a registered letter from them. Add an interest to this scheme and they will have a slave. Most likely however what will happen is that after said registered letter they will put your money into 'profit' part of their books. The fine will be a bonus that they can put on their books too although in virtual sort of way - but hey so what that it will never materialize, bottom line is that it brings virtual interest with it but without risk of investing the money. The profit in this case may be virtual - what counts is that it is on the books and can be used to justify the bonus for managers of the company. What an excellent scheme.
You mean irony and sarcasm do not work if not tagged properly?
which of course raises the question why it is so. In case of said admin he is paid to do certain task of which part is creating software. The software is then intergated into t he solution for which the admin got paid. There is not much discussion here although there are ways to handle it differently if for instance the admin was slef employed and delivered software on licence base. The teachers on the other hand are paid to teach. Whether they use plans or not is their problem. It is accepted tool to work with but not a product. Product or work they are paid for is: teaching. me thinks.
You ge trid of the problem if you criminalise the whole business with plans and force the teachers to buy them from the school before they can enter the class. Or even better - pay the license for use at class. That would actually cut school's costs and teach the teachers a lesson.
why would anyone want a lifetime membership if the company were successful?
they turned on the winch and went on with their other business like reading /. etc which proves again that men are not that multitasking after all.
what false positives - if you have something to fear than you are guilty of something nasty that is obvious. I see it as a good thing - if we execute each of such fearful indihviduals and give evolution a while then we will have a society of fearless which will destroy any dictatorship in no time as these things are based on fear. Fantastic idea!
I may have reservations about the ideas like scrum or generally agile methods but if done well they apparently involve technical people in decision and budget work as a matter of principle which is good as it enriches the perception engineers have thus enabling better understanding of constrains that one has to work with.