Comment Re:Soviet Strong (Score 1) 92
We are on the same team.
Comment It doesn't look at the sky... (Score 3) 204
That's my nitpick of the day.
Comment Re:Holy Mixed Unit Systems Batman! (Score 1) 179
Are you a human being or a computer?
As you said: "Pick a style, pick a system, and STICK WITH IT."
Regards
Comment Re:Do you rememeber when... (Score 1) 140
My Vostok can be adjusted for accuracy. Yours might have an adjuster also.
Comment With respect (Score 1) 567
I believe that N. Korea is going to be the cause of a nuclear war in the next five years.
All the anger of the world is directed towards some happening and this will probably be it.
Regards.
United States Begins Flying Stealth Bombers Over South Korea 567
skade88 writes "The New York Times is reporting that the United States has started flying B-2 stealth bomber runs over South Korea as a show of force to North Korea. The bombers flew 6,500 miles to bomb a South Korean island with mock explosives. Earlier this month the U.S. Military ran mock B-52 bombing runs over the same South Korean island. The U.S. military says it shows that it can execute precision bombing runs at will with little notice needed. The U.S. also reaffirmed their commitment to protecting its allies in the region. The North Koreans have been making threats to turn South Korea into a sea of fire. North Korea has also made threats claiming they will nuke the United States' mainland."
Comment Re:Obligatory quote (Score 2) 284
-Douglas Adams
(And I do not believe the original quote was past tense)
Comment Re:I block Facebook using my HOST file (Score 1) 61
This is exactly why we need better mental illness awareness!
Comment Forgotten employees? (Score 5, Interesting) 529
"A lot of people hid. There were all these employees [working remotely] and nobody knew they were still at Yahoo."
It's amazing that a company can have people on the payroll, and the managers forget about them..
Comment Re:Not enough Libertopian novels for you! (Score 2) 232
>>If you read the SF novels detailing life in Libertopia, you'll find that, as if by magic, citizens voluntarily donate enough of their income to feed, clothe, and house those that are poor through no fault of their own. They purchase, build, and staff a full parks system out of the goodness of their hearts.
>This is how things used to be done.
When? Please come up with a concrete time boxed example of a country doing this. I'm pretty sure that I could look at the details and come up with a more accurate story.
Comment Re:Where's Waldo (Score 1) 228
I thought we learned that the overall water content of the planet is steadily increasing due to gravitational attraction of the planet sucking in comets water deposits and the like. Sure in a few hundred years it's not much, and I don't imagine water mining the asteroids or capturing comets technologically.
Comment Re:The Downfall of Microsoft (Score 1) 245
You obviously aren't in their target business market.
No, they want CIO's, CTO's and CEO's thinking that they could have that much fun at "work" if only they had the kit.
And yes, these people do have the mindset that matches the ad you portrayed so it appears to be actually well matched.
Comment Re:FIghting the system is a mental health issue (Score 2) 319
So if a placebo cures *your* cancer you should try to get it to come out of remission?!?
That is essentially what you are advocating.
A sample size of one is all that is needed if it works for that one person, especially of the desired result is something like "happiness".
YMMV
YOUR milage may vary...
Comment Re:I never liked him but... (Score 1) 270
There is a difference between trade secrets and general know how.
I agree that if an employee is divulging trade secrets and they had a contractual obligation not to that is one thing.
Being able to create a business similar to the one they came from is not in any way remarkable or wrong.
Comment Re:I never liked him but... (Score 3, Insightful) 270
> It's quite another if recruiters from Palm are actively poaching their competitors' employees.
And this is what is wrong with your outlook as well as the outlook of most corporations.
You seem to feel that these companies own their employees, keeping them on their "employee farms" and only their King can kill them.
Kind of like cattle.
Now, please let me know what is wrong with receiving an offer of employment at another firm for a better salary?
Regards.
