and the mandate of the corporation in general is to generate a profit. as we continue pressing on through consumer capitalism we realize that demand is perhaps not as infinite as we've considered it to be. in the past we've tried to stymy this by creating things like the interstate commerce clause, which limits your ability to grow your own wheat for example. we've also mandated that corporations consistently and continuously generate more profit than they had before. we've concluded through our own absurd philosophy that since demand is to us endless, there can be no equilibrium in which a company exists to supply a good or service. far past their titration points, corporations have sought to 'fudge' this profit margin by various means; all those except admitting demand is and can be limited. redacting sick days, mandating overtime, and the 38 hour work week for example are all slight-of-hand that corporations will continue engaging in to continue to turn ever greater profit.
machines that replace humans are good, however until we admit as a society that capitalism has equilibrium, then the notion of a corporation is entirely divorced from its workforce. in other words, a corporations final state is inevitably a gross disservice to the society in which it operates; it can be no other way.
1. we cant even universally handle different colors or sexes of our same species, its absurd to think we'd approach aliens any differently.
2. we still use and condone physical violence at all social levels to solve problems despite it being scientifically ineffective and counterproductive.
3. no ones proven Gary Busey is not in fact an alien lifeform
4. it is statistically improbable any advanced alien lifeform would even remotely consider a presence on the same planet as snooki and perez hilton.
5. Most aliens probably called it off after they found out we quit manufacturing twinkies.
terrorist: so does that bomb detector really work? i need to know because it takes a super long time to put one of these things together and i dont want to waste a bunch of time just getting arrested. trollface kenyan officer: they dont not work. terrorist: ok but a court in the UK said the detectors were all fake. trollface kenyan officer: our fake detectors work.
Forbes PHB: "hey i need you to work on the online version of the magazine as one of your stretch goals for 2013." BOFH: "hold on...netcraft..." Forbes PHB: "no, now. you need to make sure the magazine is online by april." BOFH: "of course. it will be online by then."
accounting intern:"damn, looks like the microwave is getting repaired. wanna go out for bbq?" accounting director:"we dont have a microwave. you mean the accounting computer down the hall??" BOFH:"so heres the dead man that just pushed a hot pocket into the 402 and took down payroll! let me get the punch cards kid, you're in for a fun night."
"general absence of programmers, engineers fails to deter C-levels from merging two companies in an effort to become a more robust alternative to databases that still arent hadoop, couch or hypertable"
Why did I do this?
I want to grow and build a business more than anyone can understand.
When you want something bad enough, youâ(TM)re forced to create a path or quit.
Am I proud of this path? In hindsight, I would have preferred promoting the site differently, but it is what it is at this point.
My last startup up was destroyed by Craigslist.
forced to create a path or quit? perhaps, but what you did was intentionally lie to investors about your personal identity. Its something the SEC and to an equal extent the FBI tend to frown upon (try doing it at a bank sometime.) The attorneys you'll likely deal with with wont care about how much you wanted to grow a business or create a path, or what your fucking hindsight was. They will have cause to insist on a legal fact-finding period, during which every "business" youve ever been a part of will be torn open and shaken out onto the floor. the wording of every email and correspondance they can find will be used to build a case against you in an effort to reclaim far greater amounts of money than the original investment which was made in your company. Legal inquiries into your personal finances, criminal history, travel, residency, and credit standing will be made, against which you will have very little standing to protest. Once your willful intent to defraud investors is proven, you'll not find the resources to start up so much as a tupperware party.
the hinterlands of kansas or bumbefuck missouri. for a while there it seemed like every new network technology from fios to dark fiber ended up in some rural midwestern or southern shithole hellbent on forwarding an e, i, or cyber industry and more than willing to hemmorage taxpayer money in the face of a familiar brand.
difficult to engineer than most people think. tasks involved in ikea assembly are uniquely human and should be given substantial consideration in my opinion. Features id like to see in this robot are:
1. the ability to identify the product as an exclusive export of the country of sweden, despite gratuitous labeling that confirms its chinese origin
2. capable of roaming inside an ikea store for more than 4 hours while a simulated 'wife' process randomly generates and discards a database of product selections
3. a packing and sorting method to attach an ikea product to or inside of a vehicle in such a manner as to require its occupants to either hold it with their hands or contort out of its way for a transit duration of no less than 25 minutes.
4. the ability to process the most difficult or time consuming outcomes of manufacturing the product. this should be done while exposed to both the instruction manual, and the tiny wrench included.
5. the ability to dynamically generate explitives in realtime while constructing the product. this is important as ive found most ikea furnature will not assemble properly unless confronted with a broad range of offensive, confusing and nonsensical phrases.
6. the ability to expound historical facts about the country of sweden while consuming confections and "meat balls" inside an actual ikea. for this to work properly the food stuffs must be violently ejected from the rear of the robot afterwards.
convince slashdot that as a waning influence on technology and the internet thats rationed off its core competencies to other players like microsoft, you'll need your own slashdot icon for stories from now on.
the pi and the arduino are any indication, the new Tesla vehicles will be made entirely of metal-air batteries. the user will interface with the radio using ruby, and the turnsignals will be excreted in realtime by a makerbot.
the majority of linux/unix users have never had. netflix has never warmed up to GNU, and thats just fine for me. ill hit TPB, download the latest excretion from hollywood, judge it based on its merits and if i like it, ill buy the blu-ray version. if i dont like it, 'rm' works nicely and if its a star-wars prequil, 'unlink' and a half pound of thermite has so far proven slightly effective.
once you take away the "works in silicon valley" and "startup." he says dont hire assholes but then goes on to tout "ethical fiber" as a hiring qualification. what even is that? You dont want a bunch of "single childless males" but what about childless women? as a gay male, is a heteronormative marriage a job requirement for me to work here? sure, people can be hit-or-miss socially but thats why you have harassment and discrimination courses, and adhere to them.
he says he wants a family friendly company that supports paternity and maternity leave but in california those arent things you decide to "do" for employees, theyre state law. saying you're "really diverse" just because you have married couples working for you fails on so many levels to understand what diversity in the workplace means. yes ive worked for startups that buy out bars and clubs for the night, but they also give out baseball and movie tickets too. my last startup work traded in the nightclub perk for a bowling alley because they listened to their employees instead of making vague generalizations about how family friendly or unfriendly the workplace perks needed to be.
he doesnt buy dinner for the company, which is fine. working weird hours in IT means you've alienated my entire shift by robbing me of a breakfast that for you is a dinner. not buying dinner doesnt inherently prevent people from working late. Making intelligent business decisions like purchasing new hardware based on my MTBF and MTTF calculations instead the cost avoidance of making me work 90 hour weeks failing over infrastructure will keep me from working late.
and, i fully expect to be modded down for this: if we allow ourselves to be terrorized, the point of the action was successful. Locking down the entire city, ordering businesses closed, and shutting down the mass transit system is the very definition of "successful terrorist attack." No amount of national anthem sing-song is going to somehow magically avoid this fact.
Slashdot Mirror
ever more legitimized wikileaks.
is quite befitting. had i spent a decade at -269C, id certainly appreciate moving to an orbit around the sun.
its also worth nothing that in 2018, barring congressional shit-fits or another bush in office, the James Webb telescope is due to launch!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope
"the Tampa Florida Hackathon: rise of the GNU Geriatrics"
and the mandate of the corporation in general is to generate a profit. as we continue pressing on through consumer capitalism we realize that demand is perhaps not as infinite as we've considered it to be. in the past we've tried to stymy this by creating things like the interstate commerce clause, which limits your ability to grow your own wheat for example. we've also mandated that corporations consistently and continuously generate more profit than they had before. we've concluded through our own absurd philosophy that since demand is to us endless, there can be no equilibrium in which a company exists to supply a good or service. far past their titration points, corporations have sought to 'fudge' this profit margin by various means; all those except admitting demand is and can be limited. redacting sick days, mandating overtime, and the 38 hour work week for example are all slight-of-hand that corporations will continue engaging in to continue to turn ever greater profit.
machines that replace humans are good, however until we admit as a society that capitalism has equilibrium, then the notion of a corporation is entirely divorced from its workforce. in other words, a corporations final state is inevitably a gross disservice to the society in which it operates; it can be no other way.
1. we cant even universally handle different colors or sexes of our same species, its absurd to think we'd approach aliens any differently.
2. we still use and condone physical violence at all social levels to solve problems despite it being scientifically ineffective and counterproductive.
3. no ones proven Gary Busey is not in fact an alien lifeform
4. it is statistically improbable any advanced alien lifeform would even remotely consider a presence on the same planet as snooki and perez hilton.
5. Most aliens probably called it off after they found out we quit manufacturing twinkies.
terrorist: so does that bomb detector really work? i need to know because it takes a super long time to put one of these things together and i dont want to waste a bunch of time just getting arrested.
trollface kenyan officer: they dont not work.
terrorist: ok but a court in the UK said the detectors were all fake.
trollface kenyan officer: our fake detectors work.
Forbes PHB: "hey i need you to work on the online version of the magazine as one of your stretch goals for 2013."
BOFH: "hold on...netcraft..."
Forbes PHB: "no, now. you need to make sure the magazine is online by april."
BOFH: "of course. it will be online by then."
s/that recovers data from messed-up hard drives/that has learned the value of sponsored content advertising through the dice network/
accounting intern:"damn, looks like the microwave is getting repaired. wanna go out for bbq?"
accounting director:"we dont have a microwave. you mean the accounting computer down the hall??"
BOFH:"so heres the dead man that just pushed a hot pocket into the 402 and took down payroll! let me get the punch cards kid, you're in for a fun night."
"general absence of programmers, engineers fails to deter C-levels from merging two companies in an effort to become a more robust alternative to databases that still arent hadoop, couch or hypertable"
Why did I do this? I want to grow and build a business more than anyone can understand. When you want something bad enough, youâ(TM)re forced to create a path or quit. Am I proud of this path? In hindsight, I would have preferred promoting the site differently, but it is what it is at this point. My last startup up was destroyed by Craigslist.
forced to create a path or quit? perhaps, but what you did was intentionally lie to investors about your personal identity. Its something the SEC and to an equal extent the FBI tend to frown upon (try doing it at a bank sometime.) The attorneys you'll likely deal with with wont care about how much you wanted to grow a business or create a path, or what your fucking hindsight was. They will have cause to insist on a legal fact-finding period, during which every "business" youve ever been a part of will be torn open and shaken out onto the floor. the wording of every email and correspondance they can find will be used to build a case against you in an effort to reclaim far greater amounts of money than the original investment which was made in your company. Legal inquiries into your personal finances, criminal history, travel, residency, and credit standing will be made, against which you will have very little standing to protest. Once your willful intent to defraud investors is proven, you'll not find the resources to start up so much as a tupperware party.
the hinterlands of kansas or bumbefuck missouri. for a while there it seemed like every new network technology from fios to dark fiber ended up in some rural midwestern or southern shithole hellbent on forwarding an e, i, or cyber industry and more than willing to hemmorage taxpayer money in the face of a familiar brand.
truths include its preferences for organic food, bob dylan music, and neil degrasse tyson.
difficult to engineer than most people think. tasks involved in ikea assembly are uniquely human and should be given substantial consideration in my opinion. Features id like to see in this robot are:
1. the ability to identify the product as an exclusive export of the country of sweden, despite gratuitous labeling that confirms its chinese origin
2. capable of roaming inside an ikea store for more than 4 hours while a simulated 'wife' process randomly generates and discards a database of product selections
3. a packing and sorting method to attach an ikea product to or inside of a vehicle in such a manner as to require its occupants to either hold it with their hands or contort out of its way for a transit duration of no less than 25 minutes.
4. the ability to process the most difficult or time consuming outcomes of manufacturing the product. this should be done while exposed to both the instruction manual, and the tiny wrench included.
5. the ability to dynamically generate explitives in realtime while constructing the product. this is important as ive found most ikea furnature will not assemble properly unless confronted with a broad range of offensive, confusing and nonsensical phrases.
6. the ability to expound historical facts about the country of sweden while consuming confections and "meat balls" inside an actual ikea. for this to work properly the food stuffs must be violently ejected from the rear of the robot afterwards.
convince slashdot that as a waning influence on technology and the internet thats rationed off its core competencies to other players like microsoft, you'll need your own slashdot icon for stories from now on.
the pi and the arduino are any indication, the new Tesla vehicles will be made entirely of metal-air batteries. the user will interface with the radio using ruby, and the turnsignals will be excreted in realtime by a makerbot.
was divided among local, state and federal government in their tireless quest to shit all over the middle east and shred the constitution.
the majority of linux/unix users have never had. netflix has never warmed up to GNU, and thats just fine for me. ill hit TPB, download the latest excretion from hollywood, judge it based on its merits and if i like it, ill buy the blu-ray version. if i dont like it, 'rm' works nicely and if its a star-wars prequil, 'unlink' and a half pound of thermite has so far proven slightly effective.
once you take away the "works in silicon valley" and "startup." he says dont hire assholes but then goes on to tout "ethical fiber" as a hiring qualification. what even is that? You dont want a bunch of "single childless males" but what about childless women? as a gay male, is a heteronormative marriage a job requirement for me to work here? sure, people can be hit-or-miss socially but thats why you have harassment and discrimination courses, and adhere to them.
he says he wants a family friendly company that supports paternity and maternity leave but in california those arent things you decide to "do" for employees, theyre state law. saying you're "really diverse" just because you have married couples working for you fails on so many levels to understand what diversity in the workplace means. yes ive worked for startups that buy out bars and clubs for the night, but they also give out baseball and movie tickets too. my last startup work traded in the nightclub perk for a bowling alley because they listened to their employees instead of making vague generalizations about how family friendly or unfriendly the workplace perks needed to be.
he doesnt buy dinner for the company, which is fine. working weird hours in IT means you've alienated my entire shift by robbing me of a breakfast that for you is a dinner. not buying dinner doesnt inherently prevent people from working late. Making intelligent business decisions like purchasing new hardware based on my MTBF and MTTF calculations instead the cost avoidance of making me work 90 hour weeks failing over infrastructure will keep me from working late.
like to be the first to welcome our new robotic noodle shaving overlords.
s/Crowdsourcing Failed/Witch Hunting Succeeds In Boston Bombing Aftermath
fairly robust fibre optic solutions to date that carry data and are far more energy efficient. im confused as to why our peripherals dont use them
but its been cancelled?
why not zoidberg??
fails to address is will the ants have to come in saturday to finish up the TPS reports or not?
and, i fully expect to be modded down for this: if we allow ourselves to be terrorized, the point of the action was successful. Locking down the entire city, ordering businesses closed, and shutting down the mass transit system is the very definition of "successful terrorist attack." No amount of national anthem sing-song is going to somehow magically avoid this fact.