You're conflating focus with prioritisation.

Any business bigger than a sole trader can focus on more than one thing.

Shit, one company I worked for saved 10 cents on pens by stopping buying stationary. It was that or go out of business. They stayed in business.

that's just ignorance. valuing life means you value vaccines. if you value life, but you don't value vaccines, that's not a separate belief, that's lack of knowledge

everyone is entitled to their own beliefs. no one is entitled to their own facts. if you don't understand that vaccines protect life, you're simply a stupid person

You do not have a right to live free of threats, sorry

i stopped reading there, you're an idiot

as a free man, i absolutely have the right to live free of threats

not that i expect no one will ever threaten me in my life, there's always some fucking douchebag

but that when my life is threatened, i can expect that person to recognize they have transgressed on my freedoms and to apologize or make amends, or be caught and punished by me, someone else, or the authorities, for transgressing against the freedoms of others

freedom must be maintained from all threats, indeed

what most don't understand is that threats to your freedoms do not come only from above, corrupt authority, but also from losers around you who abuse your freedoms out of malice or stupidity

there will always be immoral actions, yes. and? your point?

we're talking about what is right and what is wrong, idiot. not that wrong actions merely exist

well said

My point was simple, if you only take out the people paying the bribes, and not those accepting them, someone else will step up and start bribing the people in government

i'm saying take out both, you're focusing only on one side

who has the power to create the framework that the companies work in - the government

this is retarded beyond belief. if government were weaker or nonexistent, companies would still exist, and merely form their own security forces, against which you have no right to redress. power is not magic that government creates, it is merely assumed by whomever exerts it. why do you want to weaken the only institution you have on your side, government, and allow a freer hand to those who are already abusing you (corrupting your government) and would happily abuse you more without pesky rules and regulations?

every freedom has limitations, natural limitations dictated by logic and reason, not big bad government arbitrarily limiting your freedom

namely, when you use your freedoms to infringe on other peoples's freedoms

such as their freedom to live, and live free of threats

it is illegal to to threaten lives. it's the only logical position. to *preserve* freedom, you see

there's a certain kind of selfish moron who thinks freedom means "i can do anything i want, damn the consequences." of course, true freedom only exists with true maturity and responsibility, which understands freedom to mean "i can do anything i want, as long i don't infringe on the freedom of others"

if you make a threat, people aren't going to ignore that

this is not an overreaction or a big brother issue

you can never expect to make a statement which is clearly a threat and people are just going to ignore it

yup, well said

many of us also remember our youth fondly. when the teenage years are the most psychologically painful periods of a human life

we all have it. we forget the bad, and remember the good. it's also why people think things should be "like the good old days," to mythologize the past and always think things are getting worse. the truth of course that the past was more violent, poorer, and unhappier

it's a fundamental human conceit. historical myopia

you want to take away the government?

you want to magically remove corruptibility from the human race?

you don't want to go after the slimy assholes doing the corrupting?

you're a moron, really. not a baseless insult, an objective evaluation of your thinking. you want to ignore corruptors and focus only on the corrupted. fucking stupid

yes, absolutely, political corruption is a crime with a corruptor and a corrupted

why do you want to focus all blame on only one side of a deal that is the fault of two sides?

why do you focus zero blame on the guy who is paying for and often initiating the corruption? you think it's only innocent corporations being reached out to by sleazy politicians? seriously?

If someone used then modified the template then either their changes become your property, or they contravene the licence terms, or they get to keep their changes but not the template or the template is already the company's property.

There's no single answer, until or unless we know the terms of the licence or commercial agreement under which the company are using the code in your template.

Yeah, that's why everybody writes their own engine instead of using Unity, or one of the Unreal engine incarnations, or Source, or Crytek.

Oh wait. No. They've done the careful cost analysis and the productivity benefits of an engine and being able to get big swathes of the solution domain out of the box works out a fuck of a lot cheaper than hand crafting everything.

You're right, time is money. Learning an engine takes time. Writing your own engine takes time. Hiring someone that already knows an engine is quick, easy and comes with the advantage that the technology is already proven.

You're fucking insane.

10 cents for a pen sure. Saving 10-20% on a $800k stationary bill however..
Changing the thermostat, again, tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars across a multinational.
1% of your budget? That's fucking massive. Where I work that's several tens of millions of dollars.

A good businessman focusses on everything, because you can, and it works out better for you, and your stakeholders.

"someone bribed the bank guard and robbed the bank"

"so fire the guard, problem solved"

"what about the robbers?"

"uhhh...."