Comment The Galaxy Alpha? Excellent! (Score 3, Funny) 220
I am very happy to hear that Samsung is releasing a new phone that can run Windows NT, OpenVMS and Digital UNIX equally well.
It's good to know you're not an "abusive user."
He only drops the phone when it makes him angry. It's the phone's fault, really.
The argument is that the government doesn't create wealth. While you can look at defense contractors as the government creating jobs it is at best intellectually dishonest. The government doesn't create wealth, it acquires from other parties and redistributes it to further parties. Those first parties, from which the taxes are collected, would have been otherwise able to use those tax monies which would have stimulated other businesses and created the need and opportunities for jobs. Now these specific jobs probably wouldn't exist and the jobs that would be here may not be as well paying but in a climate where we consider part time jobs replacing full time positions to be job creation, I hardly think that matters.
Those jobs are taken from companies like mine that paid the taxes being used to pay for those jobs. Therefore, no net jobs are created and, in fact, net jobs are lost. The government doesn't create wealth - with the caveat being "usually" but "certainly not in this case".
When you're getting capital at below the rate of inflation you'd be stupid not to take the money so long as you have something useful to do with it.
I'm going to have to go with the same answer I give at most project post-mortems when asked the question "What was the root cause of our problems?"
"Lax hiring practices."
Correct! So what if I placed an on-demand playback of "This call may be recorded for future review". How many CSRs at the other end would drop my call?
You're missing the point. If they give notice that "this call may be recorded" then that covers *both* parties. Either one of you may record legally at that point.
I live in a "one-party" state (TN) and used to live in another (IN) so it's never been a concern to me if I wanted to record, and I definitely have. One of my best calls was with a idiot Comcast rep - surprise, surprise.
The work involved in telling computers what to do is markedly different than it was even five years ago, and it's quite possible that any Rip Van Winkle-like developer who slept through the past 10 years would be unable to function in the today's computing world.
This is quite possibly the stupidest article ever posted to Slashdot.
Ok, this month.
I hate it when I have mod points and comments like this are already at 5.
My thoughts exactly. I'd love to do the 8,000m peaks but unfortunately I don't do well above ~12,000ft so I have to keep to smaller mountains (just got done with Mt Washington and a few surrounding mountains last week).
I use HDMI from my tablet to TVs in hotel rooms when traveling.
The problem with working at a job where you can do whatever you like and never get fired is that you are working _with_ people who can do whatever they like and never get fired.
If that still sounds like a good deal then it's only because you have never tried it.
why would you want to opt out of social security?
Because the returns are abysmal compared to the stock market.
you plan to die young, or work til your 90?
Or, you're not stupid with money.
this is the same nonsense dreck you "shrink the gov til you can drown it in a bathtub" types always put up.
you need a course in basic civics concerning government (i suggest starting at governmentisgood.com).
Ah, yes, let's ask government-worshiping leftists what they think.
and oh, btw, if you dont pay your mortgage, the bank gets the guys with guns to come kick you out.
You make a voluntary contract with the bank and if you renege on your side they have the right to use the courts to enforce the contract. Works both ways:
http://articles.philly.com/201...
A big part of the purpose of government in a civilized society is to enforce contracts. You'd think reading "governmentisgood" would help you understand that.
Function reject.
