Those white lines do a good job of keeping you steering in the right direction on a dark and stormy night.

Im pretty sure back in the 1800s and early 1900s, before TV and decent radio, the masses were fairly ignorant of current events outside the town fair. Knowledge of anything besides the absolutely practical for surviving the month was hard won and often the privilege of the wealthy or well-reputed.

I'll trade that for having to shove aside Kanye West infotainment to gain easy access to pretty much anything I want to know about without moving my thumb more than 4 inches at a time.

Musk is smart. The more competition he has in electric car manufacturers, the less is his share in the infrastructure of recharging stations, battery building, and the research and tech behind it all. The more companies that jump on the electric car path, the easier it is for him to sell cars (though he seems a little more high minded than that which is why I like him).

Graphics card isn't important? I guess if you're playing Zork, it's not. GPU and CPU handle different parts of the game . Case in point: Battle for Middle Earth. A good GPU allowed one to play with the best
graphics, but it was the CPU that allowed a greater number of units in the game. Disk access is also important these days but you still don't require an SSD for great gameplay.

I was in NYC for a taxi strike in the 90s. For a person who walked and took the subway, it was heaven. Half the cars disappeared from the streets. So much quieter.

You have no history of repaying debt. So yes, you're more of a risk than someone with a mortgage or credit card payments. If I didn't know you, I'd consider long and hard before loaning you money too. Perhaps the reason you have so much cash on hand is because you don't pay it back. :-)

I suppose it matters less for the amount of code you'll get for $4000 with government standards, but having a contract with the developers for bug fixes, improvements, etc is useful if you don't have your own team. A $4000 application with no updates is, well, not worth the money.

The problem, I think you'll find with safety training, is that people who are killing other people aren't in what most of us would call a right mind. Gearing up half a campus of kids (which are legally adults but in general kids) is asking to exacerbate the problem you're trying to solve -- gun deaths. Alcohol, high emotions, stress, crazy: all these negate any safety training and pretty much all are available in spades on a college campus. I'd be happier if I wasn't surrounded by armed students all day long on the off chance some complete nutter who is not a student decides to rampage.

Porsche doesn't compete with non-performance cars. From appearance and probably stats, this will be more in the supercar arena: Audi R8, BMW i8, Ferraris, Lamborghinis. My guess, if it's up to Porsche standards, one will be required to find at least $150,000 to afford this. Which, according to reports, is how much a fully loaded Tesla Model X will run (the price range is...large on that one: mid $70s to mid $100s).

I drive a Civic. I had a Porsche for a weekend earlier this year -- 911 Carrera S. I imagine it to be a land-based version of a fighter jet. I haven't driven a Tesla -- I hear they are very very nice, very fast off the line...but I wonder how their sport handling compares to a 911. Hmm...need to find me some Youtube comparisons...

Oh, and will someone explain what BMW is doing with the i3? When I think BMW, I think sport sedan. That thing has the specs of a Nissan Leaf and the looks of a Scion Cube. I'd expected something Tesla-ish.

Agree with above. Architect is a strategic position. You're not moving the Legos yourself anymore -- you bring in your team to give high level overviews to you, you listen to where they feel improvements could be made, and you use that as leverage to make even more significant improvements. You don't need access to AD --- you get people to talk about it and you discuss possible enhancements.

Education isn't only a path to higher paying jobs. There's more to life than a bigger salary.

Sure. I respect a good business plan and respect a good implementation of said plan even more. Don't appreciate executive salaries rising meteorically while the rest of the company stagnates. That's the problem. There is no sense of proportion.

Message from the 99%: when your company does well, don't horde the profits amongst the executive class.

Back in the 90s, IT people were magicians. Now they are plumbers. So much of today's infrastructure relies 100% on IT support -- people can't just write it down, or file it manually. IT folk are in charge of a giant, critical piece of the everyday workload. But expectations are that it will just work, and that things will keep moving forward as new technologies arise. Back in the day, IT could handle an entire 500 person company with 2 or 3 people -- it was all printers and email. Now it's files and databases and remote access and web apps and mobile apps and security and policies.

The IT folk who are more stressed are the ones who haven't staffed up. I've no comment on the younger set...I'll defer to Socrates as people have suggested.

Certainly dept policies and enforcement of those policies will help change the culture of what's expected. But you have the remember the position description:

Your entire day is meeting people who are possibly engaged in criminal activity. You must be able to discern whether their activity is criminal; you must be prepared by verbal or physical means to halt criminal activity, even when the person is claiming innocence or threatening you. You may be called to a house for a domestic violence dispute, be allowed in, and see four people. You may not know who called, who is dangerous, but you must control the situation quickly.

People will, in general, not be nice to you. People will hate you. People will fear you. People will treat you like absolute garbage. Sometimes it will be their personality, sometimes it will be their culture, sometimes it will be because you have made a mistake. It is likely that every day of your job will be thankless and unreasonably taxing on your psyche.

The job is important. For every drug dealer you capture, there may be 10 less kids starting a life of dependency on a substance. Your very presence can stop a situation from becoming violent. The job is thankless because you deal with the perpetrators, not the victims. But you need to know that there are victims, otherwise who the hell would ever wear the badge?

It's a terrible but necessary job. And people are human. I am not forgiving them for committing their own crimes, but I get how it happens. It takes a very special person to do the job perfectly. Cases of significant abuse are *relatively* rare given the variety of duties police have. Prosecute the people who have failed, but be respective of the ones who have not.