Comment Re: If he actually did all that... (Score 2) 257
You're wrong. But I don't care enough to explain why.
That is not awesome, that is ultra-cheap. She's going to be one of those fools who dies with millions in the bank and living in poverty conditions.
Oh, no, she does not live in poverty conditions, but she is also not disconnected. I'm not doing the story justice. You have to know her. She is awesome.
How about when Visio invented the 40inch LCD tv ?
SSSHHHH!!!! I don't want Apple inventing a 40" smartphone.
Do millionaires sleep on the sidewalk? No
Somebody hasn't been to Mardi Gras before!
:D My mother-in-law once got stuck overnight near SFO waiting for a delayed flight (She is a millionaire). She ended up sharing a piece of cardboard with a random guy. Even with millions she is still the type to say "It was only 5 hours, why would I waste money on a hotel?!" She is awesome.
I generally trust
I am the OP, and I certainly had sardonic irony in mind. I am surprised by the amount of "whoosing" that my comment engendered.
Remember that over 80% of people support mandatory labeling of foods containing DNA.
Most (I am not exaggerating, I believe the number actually is > 50%) people are stupid and/or uneducated enough to be quite serious with comments such as yours. It is pretty safe to assume people are in the majority.
I shouldn't have commented in the first place. Broke my own rule: don't comment on politics on Slashdot (or pretty much any place else, for that matter). I am primarily committed to sharing information, not opinion. Commenting on politics is rarely informative, always opinionated. One is reduced to sardonic irony, or worse.
I *should* do that.
So should most everybody else actually...
Granted; I see your point.
On reflection, the part that speaks to me is: "Conservatives are for equal treatment. For instance, a law against sleeping on the sidewalk should be enforced equally on both millionaires and homeless vagrants."
Thing is, that statement is just as much bullshit as the anti-liberal statement.
1. Sleeping on the sidewalk is a law that affects only 1 group. They make such laws knowing that the law will only or primarily affect the demographic they hate. Do millionaires sleep on the sidewalk? No. Passing a law that you know will only or primarily affect a certain demographic is discriminatory. The KKK could fuck over 2 of their hated groups by getting a law passed that says "curly hair is illegal." Such a law doesn't violate the constitution or civil rights laws at its face, so the conservative KKK says ". You have to look at who it hits primarily.
2. Entitlement programs. To me, giving a business a tax break is no different than giving an individual a tax break. Conservatives are all for tax breaks for their businesses & charitable donations. But give a poor person a meal and they throw you in jail.
Does he get to use US Embassies?
How does one use an embassy?
As an expat, there are a very small number of reasons (I forget, maybe 4 or 5) that I will even be allowed into the embassy. Basically, my US passport will get me a ticket out of the country if WWIII starts, but other than that, the fact that the embassy exists is of absolutely no day-to-day use to me.
That page shows a picture of a helicopter saving a US Citizen hurt in the earthquake in Haiti. US Citizens got helicopters, everybody else got Cholera. Sounds like a decent benny.
If you work for Comcast, you either a) expect to get shit from people hating Comcast; or b) are a complete idiot.
You're a cunt.
Yes a huge, blubbering fanny flap.
Oh, I'm sorry, you don't like getting abused. But you chose to come to
I don't recall seeing "If you come to
The point I'm making here is that regardless of your job, being abused by customers is never acceptable and blaming the victim for it is pants on head retarded.
Blame the victim?! Dude, you're defending the customer service reps! Between the reps & the customers, who are the victims in this story, the only evidence of anybody being a dick, was the reps changing the customer's names! They're the assholes in the story, not some nebulous concept of a generic company hating customer yelling to random innocent reps making them too angry to do their job!
A lot of people take these jobs because they cant find any other work. This does not mean they have chose to take abuse.
But they get to call customers, who never did anything to them, "whore".
Except that's not what Apple is doing. See the fact that Apple US paid 6 billion dollars in US taxes on 18 billion profit.
That is what they told you. The US Senate grabbed Apple's IRS paperwork and found a check for $2.5 billion.
What Apple Europe (which is in Ireland) does is holds all the profits that Apple makes in countries other than the US, because they can't bring that money back into the US. The US wants to charge a second round of taxes, even though European taxes have already applied.
European taxes have not been collected because of the tricks Apple uses. The EU is pursing Apple for dodged taxes as well. One of Apple's subsidiaries paid absolutely no taxes at all for 5 years despite $30 billion in profits. $0 taxes, $30 billion profit.
This is the same thing that the US does to dual nationals - a US/UK dual citizen working in the UK will pay income tax both to the UK and to the US, because the US thinks they're entitled to taxes on money made abroad.
Does said US citizen get to hold his US passport? Does he get to use US Embassies? Will he be rescued by the US military if kidnapped in Iraq? All that costs money. And the guy gets to deduct from his US tax bill anything paid in the UK anyways.
The reality here is that what should change is the US's policy of taxing all money everywhere, whether or not it ever had anything to do with the US.
As long as it has nothing to do with the US.. I agree the US shouldn't tax it. Last time I drove through Cupertino though, I'm pretty sure I saw a giant Apple logo behind a bunch of people carrying Apple Ids. At least one of Apple's Irish subsidiaries has zero employees though.
1920-1922, Banting and Best create synthetic insulin changing life forever for millions of diabetics. Thanks for playing iTard. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...
Banting & Best, in 1921, were the first to extract natural insulin from dogs & later, fetal cows. They got a nobel prize in 1923 for doing that.
30 years later, Frederick Sanger picked up the 3rd nobel prize awarded on the subject by mapping the amino acid structure of insulin. The first mapped protein.
And 10 years after that, 2 universities created the first synthetic insulin, based on the 50 years of work done prior to that.
Hey, I just invented a new game. I call it "uTard". Thanks for playing anonymously.
....but Steve Jobs has passed on. Those that follow, are exactly that, followers.
WTF?! NOW JOBS DYING FIRST MAKES ME A COPYCAT FOLLOWER FANBOY?!
Well fuck you I'm living forever!
That's not creating a new business out of nothing, nor is it being particularly visionary. It's a natural improvement on an existing market segment.
Can you name an invention on par with the iPhone in the last 100 years that lives up to your definition?
especially if said job involves being yelled at and blamed by angry people all day about things they have no control over.
"Woe is me, I have no control over which shit call center job I have.", right?
Go back a few posts
You take a job at a customer call center for a reviled company;
If you work for Comcast, you either a) expect to get shit from people hating Comcast; or b) are a complete idiot.
If you choose to associate yourself with any business or entity, you are choosing to be a part of that organization's reputation too. If you join the CIA, there are some Snowden lovers that are going to hate you. If you join the CIA as a public relations officer, you're going to have to meet & talk to Snowden lovers that are going to hate you. This is known. It doesn't matter if that organization is Comcast, the CIA, the US Army, the KKK, the "Slashdot Beta Lovers Club", Obama's campaign, Romney's campaign, or "The H Club". If you choose the association, and you choose to speak to people who, from the organization's reputation, probably have a good reason to be upset before you ever pick up the phone, then you absolutely have & had control over your predicament. If you can't handle what goes with that, then quit and consider things more carefully before joining another organization with a known bad reputation.
Sure they have to be fired when the insults become public as a matter of public relations, but I sympathize with them even if I'm one of the people they've labeled insultingly.
I can sympathize with having to put up with a shitty job; but not with doing a shitty job. The people who made the name changes are assholes. Entertaining, but assholes.
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