Besides hard work per se, having a huge salary or a high position in whatever hierarchy is no guarantee of personal happiness. I'd say the idea of working hard (more like perseverence, which may or may not be developed through so-called hard work) is still useful, as long as you work hard for yourself, not for others.
Believe or not, huge numbers of people are simply better than you.
Nolo contendere.
but they are not so morally bankrupt that they then think substance and principles are of no importance.
My first principle was to provide for my family, and I did that well. It was Job One. Second job was to educate the sons and daughters of the community. Also a success. Don't blame me if I was able to accomplish the task easily.
somehow makes you superior.
I never said I was superior, though I'm almost certainly superior to you. I admire people who happily work long hours and produce great things. I just happen to know my own limitations and was able to exercise enough critical thinking to crack the code on the so-called "work ethic". YMMV.
Exactly what I came here to say. I'm a boomer, but I've never heard anyone lauding us for our work ethic... that was always our parents, members of the "Greatest Generation" - the people who lived through the Great Depression and fought World War II.
Ain't that the truth. Baby boomers were not a hard-working generation. It seemed that way during the "Wall Street", "greed is good" 1980s, but that was only because of all the cocaine.
The millennials I know (some of whom are my students) are actually a pretty good bunch. They have good heads on their shoulders for the most part, and a realistic view of the world as a giant shit-show.
I came from a working family in a poor neighborhood in Chicago's Little Italy. My dad came home from WWII and worked his ass off. My mom parlayed a "Rosie the Riveter" gig into a great job. They both retired with terrific pensions.
Yet there are fungi that have greater work ethic than me. I made it through grad school on charm and bullshit and ended up university faculty (with a nice pension). My daughter takes after her Mom and is an incredibly hard worker (she's a PhD candidate in Math and teaches kick-boxing). I will bet that right now she's busting her ass trying to get numerical simulations of viral infections working in some arcane programming language and hasn't stopped since early this morning. She's working hard because she seems to genuinely love working hard. God bless her, but I don't feel that way.
Hard work has almost no correlation to success, I've found. The ability to convince people you work hard is more important than actually working hard.
The idea of a "work ethic" is nothing more than left-over propaganda from the Protestant assholes that first settled this country. We're supposed to see "hard work" as somehow morally superior to idleness. It's just a way that the people in the very top economic strata convince the rest of us to kill ourselves for their benefit. I'm glad I was able to see through that bullshit early on. My life was much nicer due to that revelation, and I was still able to accomplish a full and happy existence and even be able to leave something to my kid without really breaking a sweat. Luck, and the ability to know which corners to cut.
I love American liberal hypocrisy. When a man is a victim of sexual assault, it's all laughs, not unlike the tape. But when it's a woman, you all lose your shit.
I'm pretty sure that if Trump or Hillary talked about "grabbing a man's penis" against his will, it would reflect badly on them.
I love my neighborhood convenience store. Forget the fact that I can get a bag of Funyums, a lotto ticket and a 40 oz King Cobra there at 3am. The owner is a great guy whose family of immigrants (and now citizens) has been an essential part of the neighborhood. They work their asses off, keep that part of the street clean and are their own neighborhood watch program. The oldest son is in med school now.
When I walk past the place, I'll go in just to say hello and talk sports with the owner, who can tell you Jake Arrieta's pitch count from last night and how he didn't have the usual movement on his fastball, and why the Carolina Panthers have utterly collapsed. And this is a guy who grew up watching cricket and didn't see a baseball game until about 1990.
All I want from Amazon is to leave the box at my door and keep their brick and mortar footprint out of the neighborhood.
So you still have no answer why some meaningless locker-room boasting
So, Trump was boasting about sexually assaulting a woman but lying to make himself look better in the eyes of a grade-C soap opera actor?
OK, I accept your argument, but I'm not sure why you want to be calling Trump a liar if you want him to become president. I take him at his word. If he says he did it, then he did it. Trump deserves the benefit of the doubt about his claim of sexually assaulting women.
Anyway, we'll have more to discuss on this topic in two days, when Trump's trial in the rape of a 13 year-old girl starts.
I don't think we're going to get rid of trumpkins after the election. Unfortunately, whether Trump wins or not, he already did one thing that is not easily reversible - he became a role model to all those people and showed that you can not only think crap like that, but say it in the public, and act out on it - and you'll have enough people to back you up to not be an outright social outcast, at least in some parts of the country. Which means that they'll keep doing it for some time to come, and it'll be a thing in deep red local politics for a while.
"Deep red local politics" aren't what they used to be. I'm in Houston, Texas right now, and this state, which went for Romney by 12 points in '12, is within the margin of error. Arizona may well go blue. The senate will almost certainly go blue and the House GOP might lose 25-30 seats, which will leave them with a very narrow majority, and a lot of vulnerable incumbents who supported Trump in places like Idaho, New Mexico, etc.
I get the feeling that the table's been flipped over and anything can happen in the next two years. If Trump tries to exert his will over the GOP, there won't be a GOP any more and the hard-core Trump people only make up about 1/5 of the voting public (which means 1/10 of the population). There are way more minorities in the US than hard-core Trump supporters.
So if it comes to the convention, I expect the same thing - anything that comes from the left will be opposed by the right regardless of what it actually is about, "on principle".
That's OK, too. A Con-con is a long process, and I honestly believe that if the stakes were significant, Americans would rise to the occasion.
Slashdot Mirror
This is absolutely spot on.
You're not paying attention. The Russians are Republicans, and Wikileaks is providing the receipts to prove it.
Nolo contendere.
My first principle was to provide for my family, and I did that well. It was Job One. Second job was to educate the sons and daughters of the community. Also a success. Don't blame me if I was able to accomplish the task easily.
I never said I was superior, though I'm almost certainly superior to you. I admire people who happily work long hours and produce great things. I just happen to know my own limitations and was able to exercise enough critical thinking to crack the code on the so-called "work ethic". YMMV.
It can't be rape if money changes hands.
Not any more.
No energy. Your mom wore me out.
Ain't that the truth. Baby boomers were not a hard-working generation. It seemed that way during the "Wall Street", "greed is good" 1980s, but that was only because of all the cocaine.
The millennials I know (some of whom are my students) are actually a pretty good bunch. They have good heads on their shoulders for the most part, and a realistic view of the world as a giant shit-show.
I came from a working family in a poor neighborhood in Chicago's Little Italy. My dad came home from WWII and worked his ass off. My mom parlayed a "Rosie the Riveter" gig into a great job. They both retired with terrific pensions.
Yet there are fungi that have greater work ethic than me. I made it through grad school on charm and bullshit and ended up university faculty (with a nice pension). My daughter takes after her Mom and is an incredibly hard worker (she's a PhD candidate in Math and teaches kick-boxing). I will bet that right now she's busting her ass trying to get numerical simulations of viral infections working in some arcane programming language and hasn't stopped since early this morning. She's working hard because she seems to genuinely love working hard. God bless her, but I don't feel that way.
Hard work has almost no correlation to success, I've found. The ability to convince people you work hard is more important than actually working hard.
The idea of a "work ethic" is nothing more than left-over propaganda from the Protestant assholes that first settled this country. We're supposed to see "hard work" as somehow morally superior to idleness. It's just a way that the people in the very top economic strata convince the rest of us to kill ourselves for their benefit. I'm glad I was able to see through that bullshit early on. My life was much nicer due to that revelation, and I was still able to accomplish a full and happy existence and even be able to leave something to my kid without really breaking a sweat. Luck, and the ability to know which corners to cut.
But you still haven't figured out how to make an account on Slashdot.
Oh, you like your sheep slutty.
Nice.
Come here, you. Let me give you a hug. It's gonna be alright.
1: Is there multiplayer?
2: Can I get 60fps on a GeForce 960?
3: Is the sheep a 6 or a 10?
I didn't realize the author of 50 Shades of Gray was running for president.
Yes.
http://reason.com/blog/2016/10...
"It's not slavery if the man allows the whipping to take place".
I'm pretty sure that if Trump or Hillary talked about "grabbing a man's penis" against his will, it would reflect badly on them.
Admitting sexual assault is not "joshing around guy talk", unless we're talking about the guys on your cell block.
I love my neighborhood convenience store. Forget the fact that I can get a bag of Funyums, a lotto ticket and a 40 oz King Cobra there at 3am. The owner is a great guy whose family of immigrants (and now citizens) has been an essential part of the neighborhood. They work their asses off, keep that part of the street clean and are their own neighborhood watch program. The oldest son is in med school now.
When I walk past the place, I'll go in just to say hello and talk sports with the owner, who can tell you Jake Arrieta's pitch count from last night and how he didn't have the usual movement on his fastball, and why the Carolina Panthers have utterly collapsed. And this is a guy who grew up watching cricket and didn't see a baseball game until about 1990.
All I want from Amazon is to leave the box at my door and keep their brick and mortar footprint out of the neighborhood.
Trump 2016.
So, Trump was boasting about sexually assaulting a woman but lying to make himself look better in the eyes of a grade-C soap opera actor?
OK, I accept your argument, but I'm not sure why you want to be calling Trump a liar if you want him to become president. I take him at his word. If he says he did it, then he did it. Trump deserves the benefit of the doubt about his claim of sexually assaulting women.
Anyway, we'll have more to discuss on this topic in two days, when Trump's trial in the rape of a 13 year-old girl starts.
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
It's a hoax from China.
I mean, "Gyna".
I can sum up the Trump AC Slashdot comments on this story right now:
https://youtu.be/xoMgnJDXd3k
Now reason.com is too lefty for you too?
"Deep red local politics" aren't what they used to be. I'm in Houston, Texas right now, and this state, which went for Romney by 12 points in '12, is within the margin of error. Arizona may well go blue. The senate will almost certainly go blue and the House GOP might lose 25-30 seats, which will leave them with a very narrow majority, and a lot of vulnerable incumbents who supported Trump in places like Idaho, New Mexico, etc.
I get the feeling that the table's been flipped over and anything can happen in the next two years. If Trump tries to exert his will over the GOP, there won't be a GOP any more and the hard-core Trump people only make up about 1/5 of the voting public (which means 1/10 of the population). There are way more minorities in the US than hard-core Trump supporters.
That's OK, too. A Con-con is a long process, and I honestly believe that if the stakes were significant, Americans would rise to the occasion.