Some of us get out plenty.

You're just repeating a variation of the Microsoft fallacy. No. Not everything is total crap. You can escape the crapulence by finding a better option and staying away from the obvious crap.

Not all companies are the same.

You seem jealous and butthurt that some of us have managed to avoid whatever torment you've brought upon yourself.

Nope.

Beaurocracies scale poorly. ALL of them do. This includes corporations. The larger the corporation, the more BS you're going to have to deal with. The larger the corporation, the more likely you will have to put up with "HR professionals". Them filtering out good candidates for no good reason is just the tip of the iceberg really.

I've never encountered a 3rd party plugin for Excel at any company I've ever worked for.

Most people simply don't use it that hard.

If your DBA can't pick up new "MSO skills" on an as needed basis, they aren't competent to be your DBA.

This is not a front desk receptionist position we're talking about here.

The HR staff isn't competent to determine what the technical candidate is capable of. That's rather the whole point of this sub-thread.

Nope. SQL Server is still not Office. The two have nothing to do with each other. The fact that your DBA candidate doesn't waste time or space on something as trivial as a spreadsheet app should not be held against him.

Again. Time clean out the HR department.

Well, at least we have something that's not just pulled from the nether regions of whatever judge happens to be deciding a case. In a forum full of IT geeks, it should really not be controversial that there should be well documented policies and procedures and that you should actualy follow them.

> This attitude of piracy hasn't helped anything whatsoever. Before piracy, we had Trent Reznors, Joe Satriani, and many other good artists promoted.

If you think that "piracy" and "freeloading" are anything new then you're an idiot. Perhaps you're just some cluless tweener that's simply too young to have experienced the world "pre internet".

Entire sub-genres of music only got a foothold through rampant piracy before relevant gatekeepers decided to relent.

The idea of new bands being put through the meat grinder paying their dues is also nothing new. I guess they just whined about it less and just stuck it out.

The only people that would think such a thing is silly are people that are completly ignorant of military history. Even recent history is littered with examples of the biggest military machine on the planet (and it's cronies) having much more trouble with "inferior" forces than they should.

"But you can't attack that tank with what you have."

Spoken like someone that never actually had any sort of military training.

It's still the same now. An enthusiast that buys his own weapon likely has a much better piece of equipment than someone that just has standard issue gear.

There are even catalogs used by the troops for enhancing their own personal gear while on personal deployment.

Of course. Just like with "gun control", there will be exceptions carved out for the elites and government. In the end, an ample supply will still remain in society and the problem won't actually really be solved. You'll just disarm more of the responsible types.

This was a formerly "legit" armoured car tha got retired and surplussed out into some "normal civilians" hands.

Are you kidding? It's pretty trivial to own or operate a bulldozer. Even if you aren't interested in the cost of owning it outright, you can still rent it for a day. Easy peasey.

I have no desire to meddle in the business of others.

If it don't trust my neighbors sufficiently, then I'm living in the wrong place.

> Does anyone really believe that doing something about cancer well prevent future illnesses?

We barely understand the problem and we're actually trying. What do you really think can be done that doesn't amount to buying into snake oil really?

Just like with gun violence, if you think there is some easy answer then you have no idea what the scope of the problem is.

Not exactly. These notable examples of white men running amok are the outliers. They are a nice juicy thing for the media to latch onto. Most gun crime is not. So the mindless liberals get a really skewed idea of what's really going on and what really needs to be solved.

But yes, NRA members are not the problem.

The solution to dealing with the dangerous places isn't the infantile approach of simply banning guns. You will still have violent criminals lurking about. They may even still have their guns despite being banned. They can just get them with the rest of their contraband.

The truth of the matter is that your serious drunks will just start sniffing glue next and perhaps just be less inconspicous in their squalor.

Plenty of places are fantasic even if you aren't rich. They usually include places where the cost of living isn't jacked up out of whack due to unbalanced supply and demand and too much media hype.

I agree with the guy that said for townies the attractions wear off after awhile and you've already done everthing. Then the glamour city starts to become a pointless grind.