No, it's on Slashdot because it's a nice anti-corporate story to stir up outrage. The hivemind loves those.

When you grow up, you might find yourself working for a corporation. Then you will be glad at whatever little outlets for your emotions the world permits you.

This is a crass over-reaction to a silly video on YouTube and it shows just how pompous and arrogant corporations (and those with power in general) tend to become. Satire is necessary for a free society.

I have no sympathy for Safeway (if this is the same Safeway company I worked for part-time as a teenager in Scotland in the early 1990s). They were unfair and oppressive. I could tell you some stories about how bad they were to their staff but that's for another day.

There's a really easy way to make decisions regarding technology and it is this: if Pat thinks that something is good enough to go in mainline Slackware, then it's good. Otherwise, no banana.

In his line of work, it is the price of doing what he did.

And he was a very courageous and public-spirited man for doing it.

I for one, would not have the courage and selflessness to make such a sacrifice.

Compare what he did with the thousands of morons running around at the moment killing themselves and others in the name of some sort of god.

All the people at Microsoft who knew how XP worked were probably "let go" as part of a cost-cutting restructuring years ago under hubristic management tactics which assumed everyone (customers and the general public) would just upgrade to something newer, just because that's the way it's always been, and there's no reason to believe that this time it would be any different. I bet support for legacy products got outsourced without proper Knowledge Transfer (as if KT ever happens properly).

But did it catch the Peruvian Chicken Spider?

So, birth is just a starting position in life, it is up to you how hard you want to work to finish.

All too often, without external help, that amount of hard work required given your starting position will kill you.

There are is a large proportion of people who would rather maintain the sanctity of their imaginary divine market than help their fellow man.

The first thing you need to understand is that what you are doing isn't all that different from what any other programmer, certainly not any other web programmer does.

Knockout is a library and ajax is a pattern. Any developer worth anything will be able to pick them up by looking at existing code and doing a little reading and experimenting.

"The unintended consequence of this is the creation of as many as 12 million people who now THINK they know something about computer science."

We have to get CTOs, VP's of IT and project managers from somewhere.

I'm sure if they'd kept him alive a few days longer, they could have thought of even more guilt for him to have. It all sounds a bit amateurish to me.

wouldn't be surprised if the ultra-orthodox Jews and the Muslims got together and traded tips.

Don't forget the right-thinking people of Stornoway who are trying hard to keep the queers away.

Stornoway High Church consulted on a split after the General Assembly voted in May for a proposal that would allow gay men and women to become ministers.

If they let them in, there'll be Harry Potter books in the schools next. Mark my words!

If you want real religious nut-cases, here are some who went about London trying to "impose" Sharia law on otherwise peaceful Londoners going about their own quiet, lawful business.

This is the problem with religion. At the moment it just happens to be Islam that's in fashion with the young and impressionable.

The court had been told that Horner and the 23-year-old man drove alongside Joshua Bilton and Anna Reddiford in Bethnal Green and yelled at them through a megaphone. Horner shouted: "Let go of each other's hands. This is a Muslim area!" The couple initially believed it was a joke but the group repeated the warning until they let go of each other's hands.

The world is full of nut-cases who think they know better than everyone else and who think it is their business to "put things in order."

The older I get, the less I respect the "religious" (of all religions, not just Islam).

Where was your star, was it far?

There's a big difference between being $15k in the hole and 100s of thousands if dollars in the hole. When you talk about pre ACA medical bankruptcies you're talking about big money. A $15k debt is something most people could manage. And if they can't manage it then they shouldn't buy a Bronze plan.

Thanks!

Amazon is a terrible place to work, at least in the UK. They treat their staff appallingly. The BBC did a report as well.

Victorian working conditions are returning.