Sadly, you were probably better than the guy before you and the guy after you.

I venture to say that just because you realized you were doing a bad job, you were already doing a better job than the vast majority of managers (especially ones who think of themselves as "good").

well, I know who I'm not voting for in the presidential elections. I guess he didn't care to distance himself from Ted "Obamacare for the Internet" Cruz.

The day of the internet savy republican voting libertarian is now officially over.

s/kept/put/

In 1953 they had a democratically elected, very westernized government. The US and UK staged a coup when that government wasn't generous enough with "our" oil.

Worked out about as well as all our other efforts to tell the rest of the world how to run their countries.

I dunno, maybe they'll get nukes and the warmongers will have to find another country to bomb?

Or, who knows, maybe we could get attacked by Saudi-sponsored terrorists again?

What's good for Disney is good for America. Or at any rate, good for the Americans who matter.

I recently read that Southern California Edison replaced its whole 500-strong IT staff with H1Bs. However, details are scarce. Several US senators have called for an investigation, but the feds are refusing on the grounds that no one hurt by it filed a complaint.

The US economy is screwed anyway. The H1B saga is just one more issue in the decades-long trend of converting the economy into shareholders and people who flip burgers for shareholders. Once the rich have skimmed all the cream, they'll go find another country to screw - or at least one that actually makes stuff they can buy with their winnings.

In my experience, upper management's views on who is easily replaceable don't usually conform very well to reality.

An earlier version of this general effort used language that would forbid reference to models in policymaking.

Presumably written by some clown club that doesn't know that models are what science produces. They were transparently trying to outlaw use of the computer models that climate science relies so heavily on. (And other branches of science, but climate science is the branch that's driving corruption^w campaign donations right now.)

Perhaps Microsoft is paying them co-marketing dollars for doing positive PR for Skype? Maybe that's his great vision on saving the company.

Sounds like a good policy anyway.

See you almost got it. you forgot a big capital bold IF before the "as long as we can share it", for some reason that is in parenthesis as if its an after thought, when in fact thats the main point of contention. That big capital bold faced IF is the major point of contention, because as long as capitalism exists, and the workers do not own the robots, that IF statement is going to fail.

Then what follows is that arguing for even the slightest abatement from capitalism will get you flagged as an extremist, terrist, and almost universally opposed and perhaps framed, jailed, reputation ruined by the massive suriallence state which is set up for the exact purpose of maintaining capitalism. So before you talk in big bold tall IF statements, think about how likely the $true condition is, and what would be needed to achievement before you brush it off as trivial.

I mean after all we are saving them from the terrible teenagers, the grief and stress. Its a job that most people don't want to do. So lets simply replace them with robots.

Its the generic excuse when they introduce machines that put people out of work, or introduce lower paid non-union labor, or do something else that drags wages down. I for one, am sick of this pseudo-'leftist' language being used to justify driving down the price of labor, and putting people out of work.

Humans.