But let me be frank - this is so goddamned fscking ridiculously friggin stupid that only a true idiot would think it was remotely an intelligent idea. Memory is cheap, so what kind of retard would want to store their applications in the fail-inevitble cloud bubble?
Think about it. You bought an app. You think you own an app. But you just get the parts that Apple thinks you need right now, not the whole app.
It's a brilliant late-capitalist business strategy, really. Keep a wall between your customers and the stuff your customers think they bought. And now you control the gate.
I guess this is why, when I updated my wife's iPad to OS9.1, it insisted so hard that she have an iCloud account. And I do mean "insisted", as in "certain features of your device will not work without an iCloud account" and, "Are you SURE you want to continue without connecting to iCloud?" and "DANGER WILL ROBINSON, YOU ARE ABOUT TO MAKE THE BIGGEST MISTAKE OF YOUR FUCKING LIFE IF YOU DON"T GET YOUR iCloud ACCOUNT!"
Fuck off, Apple. This iPad has 64gig of memory, and it doesn't need your app baloney slicer.
Not so. The second one has a correct and professional answer: "I do not know. This will require a pre-study. But adding new requirements during the process is right out, then the pre-study has to be repeated and the project reset." and on the pre-study you _can_ deliver a reasonable estimate.
You are assuming the corporation you work for is a rational actor. They are not. They are products of paperwork and exist as golems to extract maximum profits at any cost.
The management you work for isn't to blame, because they're just trying to feed Moloch too. They are also consumables.
Looking for rational expectations and behavior in the 2015 workplace is like Captain Yossarian looking for rational expectations and behavior in the military. If you're not crazy, you're not paying attention.
OK, I'm going to help you guys out. Give you something healthy, delicious and refreshing to drink that won't make you fat, ruin your teeth or cause you to grow a tumor the size of a pillbox hat on your head. Stay with me.
1) Get a soda stream. They're cheap now, and I found mine at a garage sale. Staples, Target and others still sell the CO2 tanks, and if you're clever you can figure out how to get your own refilled on the cheap.
2) When you make the soda, just leave it as plain carbonated water and stick it in the fridge. By the way, you can "overcharge" soda with a SodaStream so that the carbonation levels are much higher than regular pop. This is what I do because I like that carbonated "burn" you get. The SodaStream bottles have special caps so that the carbonation doesn't escape, so you can always have some good fizzy water at the ready when you want it.
3) Brew up some green tea with a good amount of ginger. It can also be fruit-flavored for a little sweetness. When my wife makes jam, I save some of the fruit juice left over and put that in, too. Make the tea STRONG because it's gonna be your flavoring syrup for the drink you're making.
4) Now this is the kicker: When the tea cools, shake some cayenne pepper on it and stir it in. This you have to do by taste because people tolerate different levels of hot. I know it sounds weird, but trust me. You gotta add the cayenne pepper to the flavoring mix (although one of my friends waits until after he's mixed the flavoring with the soda water to sprinkle the cayenne pepper, because he thinks he's a bad-ass, but really he ain't shit. I could totally kick his ass if I were 15 years younger. He also puts a little ginseng in the tea, but I don't do that because I don't have any trouble in that area, if you get my drift.
5. When you're ready for a great drink, pour a nice glass of the soda water, and then pour a little of the tea/ginger/fruitjuice/cayenne pepper mix in and stir. It'll foam up a bit creating a nice little "head" in the glass. The flavoring mixture stores very well in the fridge, just shake it up when you're ready to add it to the soda water.
I'm telling you, this stuff is like ginger ale with a hard-on. It's like Dr Pepper, if Dr Pepper were played by Peter Capaldi. You can drink it all day and it won't make you fat, and the ginger and cayenne pepper are healthy as hell. You'll doubt me, but hand-to-god, when I drink this stuff my sinus allergies get better. It's good for digestion and it will save you a ton of money over store-bought soda pop. I mean hundreds of dollars over the course of a year.
That's why we have insurance and other prepayment schemes.
"Schemes" is exactly the right word.
If we had a free market, worldwide, in medicine,
There's no such thing as a free market, especially in health care. If a truck hits you, are you going to comparison shop for the best trauma center? If your kid gets leukemia, are you going to look for the cheapest chemotherapy?
You might as well just go straight to the faith healer. Because your faith in a free market is just as evidenced-based.
Today, during the first day of his visit to the US, someone asked Pope Francis I what he thought of Martin Shrkeli. His response (and I'm quoting here), was, "I'd like to snap this little fucker's back like a piece of celery."
Turing is not big pharma. It's Martin Shrkeli's new play toy. For those who don't know who he is, he made his money as a tiny hedge fund manager that specialized in shorting crap/scam companies.
He also owns League of Legends and DOTA2 pro teams.
How much you want to bet he posts about ethics in game journalism on 8chan?
And, if you think I'm being unfair comparing Shrkeli to a certain now-defunct hashtag group beginning with the letter "G", I suggest you read through some of his Tweets. See if you recognize the tone and substance of his arguments. In other words, where have you seen this kind of stuff before?:
Free markets? Who wants one of those when you can guarantee corporate profits and not have to work for it?
Or, it just may be that "free markets" don't exist, have never existed and cannot exist, and this is just a snapshot of what late-stage capitalism looks like.
When it's dog eat dog, the big dog eats and sick dogs die.
LISTEN CAREFULLY: There is no "free market" solution to health care costs. Not drugs, not hospitals, not doctors. How would you feel if you lived in a small town and the doctor came out to your house to see to your sick child and you were told, "You're child won't live the night without this drug. I've got exclusive rights to the drug and even though it costs me $0.25 to make, I'm going to charge you $100,000 because it's a matter of supply and demand and your dying daughter has just increased your demand."
There is no "free market" solution to health care costs because sick people are vulnerable. Their families are vulnerable. And people with the last name, "Inc" will gladly throw a baby off a bridge for a dollar.
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I just looked at my open wireless router, and I think I've got all the IP addresses.
Think about it. You bought an app. You think you own an app. But you just get the parts that Apple thinks you need right now, not the whole app.
It's a brilliant late-capitalist business strategy, really. Keep a wall between your customers and the stuff your customers think they bought. And now you control the gate.
I guess this is why, when I updated my wife's iPad to OS9.1, it insisted so hard that she have an iCloud account. And I do mean "insisted", as in "certain features of your device will not work without an iCloud account" and, "Are you SURE you want to continue without connecting to iCloud?" and "DANGER WILL ROBINSON, YOU ARE ABOUT TO MAKE THE BIGGEST MISTAKE OF YOUR FUCKING LIFE IF YOU DON"T GET YOUR iCloud ACCOUNT!"
Fuck off, Apple. This iPad has 64gig of memory, and it doesn't need your app baloney slicer.
Like the movement I had at about 7:30am.
You are assuming the corporation you work for is a rational actor. They are not. They are products of paperwork and exist as golems to extract maximum profits at any cost.
The management you work for isn't to blame, because they're just trying to feed Moloch too. They are also consumables.
Looking for rational expectations and behavior in the 2015 workplace is like Captain Yossarian looking for rational expectations and behavior in the military. If you're not crazy, you're not paying attention.
My vacation photos are all of me, drunk on my couch watching the Cartoon Network.
Mars, bitches!
No, that would be 8chan.
That tells you everything you need to know about how real the "free market" is.
Then learn to do yoga so you can bend over and kiss your ass goodbye.
OK, I'm going to help you guys out. Give you something healthy, delicious and refreshing to drink that won't make you fat, ruin your teeth or cause you to grow a tumor the size of a pillbox hat on your head. Stay with me.
1) Get a soda stream. They're cheap now, and I found mine at a garage sale. Staples, Target and others still sell the CO2 tanks, and if you're clever you can figure out how to get your own refilled on the cheap.
2) When you make the soda, just leave it as plain carbonated water and stick it in the fridge. By the way, you can "overcharge" soda with a SodaStream so that the carbonation levels are much higher than regular pop. This is what I do because I like that carbonated "burn" you get. The SodaStream bottles have special caps so that the carbonation doesn't escape, so you can always have some good fizzy water at the ready when you want it.
3) Brew up some green tea with a good amount of ginger. It can also be fruit-flavored for a little sweetness. When my wife makes jam, I save some of the fruit juice left over and put that in, too. Make the tea STRONG because it's gonna be your flavoring syrup for the drink you're making.
4) Now this is the kicker: When the tea cools, shake some cayenne pepper on it and stir it in. This you have to do by taste because people tolerate different levels of hot. I know it sounds weird, but trust me. You gotta add the cayenne pepper to the flavoring mix (although one of my friends waits until after he's mixed the flavoring with the soda water to sprinkle the cayenne pepper, because he thinks he's a bad-ass, but really he ain't shit. I could totally kick his ass if I were 15 years younger. He also puts a little ginseng in the tea, but I don't do that because I don't have any trouble in that area, if you get my drift.
5. When you're ready for a great drink, pour a nice glass of the soda water, and then pour a little of the tea/ginger/fruitjuice/cayenne pepper mix in and stir. It'll foam up a bit creating a nice little "head" in the glass. The flavoring mixture stores very well in the fridge, just shake it up when you're ready to add it to the soda water.
I'm telling you, this stuff is like ginger ale with a hard-on. It's like Dr Pepper, if Dr Pepper were played by Peter Capaldi. You can drink it all day and it won't make you fat, and the ginger and cayenne pepper are healthy as hell. You'll doubt me, but hand-to-god, when I drink this stuff my sinus allergies get better. It's good for digestion and it will save you a ton of money over store-bought soda pop. I mean hundreds of dollars over the course of a year.
Fuck Coke.
I'm curious, what country do you live in that has a "free market solution to health care"?
And your work.
There is no such thing. A "free market" has never existed in human history and can never exist.
A free market is the unicorn of the economic world. Belief in a free market is religious, not evidence-based.
"Schemes" is exactly the right word.
There's no such thing as a free market, especially in health care. If a truck hits you, are you going to comparison shop for the best trauma center? If your kid gets leukemia, are you going to look for the cheapest chemotherapy?
You might as well just go straight to the faith healer. Because your faith in a free market is just as evidenced-based.
Today, during the first day of his visit to the US, someone asked Pope Francis I what he thought of Martin Shrkeli. His response (and I'm quoting here), was, "I'd like to snap this little fucker's back like a piece of celery."
He also owns League of Legends and DOTA2 pro teams.
How much you want to bet he posts about ethics in game journalism on 8chan?
Here is an actual photo of Martin Shrkeli:
http://www.slate.com/content/d...
And, if you think I'm being unfair comparing Shrkeli to a certain now-defunct hashtag group beginning with the letter "G", I suggest you read through some of his Tweets. See if you recognize the tone and substance of his arguments. In other words, where have you seen this kind of stuff before?:
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/0...
Clearly, you have some expertise with pharmaceuticals.
Or, it just may be that "free markets" don't exist, have never existed and cannot exist, and this is just a snapshot of what late-stage capitalism looks like.
When it's dog eat dog, the big dog eats and sick dogs die.
LISTEN CAREFULLY: There is no "free market" solution to health care costs. Not drugs, not hospitals, not doctors. How would you feel if you lived in a small town and the doctor came out to your house to see to your sick child and you were told, "You're child won't live the night without this drug. I've got exclusive rights to the drug and even though it costs me $0.25 to make, I'm going to charge you $100,000 because it's a matter of supply and demand and your dying daughter has just increased your demand."
There is no "free market" solution to health care costs because sick people are vulnerable. Their families are vulnerable. And people with the last name, "Inc" will gladly throw a baby off a bridge for a dollar.
That game sounds awesome.
No, Carly Fiorina went to "How To Destroy a Corporation" Camp.
An Ahmed the Clockmaker truther.
You can't make this stuff up.
If you've ever been to Texas, you know it's not bigotry, just a straightforward observation of reality.
And their CEO now wants to be President of the United States.
I found a video used in the French class:
https://youtu.be/JEdBndu0YUM
I guarantee that whoever that cop in the picture is, he wasn't the one deciding what kind of charges were to be brought against Ahmed.
Here is a picture of the police chief of Irving, Texas:
http://cdn5.img.sputniknews.co...
And here's a picture of him standing with his posse:
http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm...
[note: Take a look at the faces in that photo. Now remember that Irving, Texas is 60% minority. Get the picture?]
Here is a picture of the mayor of Irving, Texas, who has been giving speeches about how Muslims are gonna take over the US legal system:
http://cdn3.freedomoutpost.com...
Yes, I stand by "stupid cracker". If you have a more apt term, I'm keen to hear it.