So lets say Facebook is the king of social media, but they are a one trick pony, they have their web site and little else. I guess they will buy their way into markets. Sound familiar? It is like he copied the Microsoft business plan, buy anything their competitors would be involved in.

It did not work for Microsoft, and it is not going to work for Facebook.

I think these guys live in the bubble imagining that things will auto-magically work out instead of it turning into the Roman Empire where everything just gets stripped to the ground.

Rome only did well as the plunder kept coming in. When that stopped, you are looking at bread and circuses and a matter of time before the existing system(whatever that may be) falls apart.

The law also does not provide that the police officers can stalk you 24/7 without some sort of warrant.

The laws were originally written when there was no "Orwellian" state where you could anonymously watched/recorded in public everywhere. Lets no pretend incidentally stumbling onto a suspicious conversation is the same as monitoring EVERY conversation.

So, can look forward to anyone doing jail time? That is the really the only way this will stop. That or directly start suing the individuals who implemented the policies and make them pay. After that I am willing to bet once a few executives lose their hard won millions will be a little gun shy about conspiring to do anything.

Actually the more I think about it, the best way to reign these practices in is directly suing individuals. Once they can no longer hide behind the corporate veil, the less inclined they will be collude together.

People will submit themselves to horrible abuse for rewards. You can find a good example right here. Got to feed those competitive needs you know!

To use the building analog, did they use an architect to design the building? Did they have engineers inspect the drawings to ensure that it won't fall down? Did they inspect the quality of their materials to ensure that could support their specifications? Or he just ask you to keep piling bricks and was shocked that bricks were falling out at the bottom?

Is code just a bunch of bricks? Bricks are pretty simple, they don't have to do anything but exist. Code is logic, and given some specifications you write something and hope the specs were close. Should you be blamed if we ask you to add 2 numbers together and complains about errors when he uses strings instead?

If your boss is asking you to work on your own time because of something like this, I would find a new boss. He is just trying to pass the blame and you would be a sucker to accept it.

I forgot to include the Sarcasm tag.

And for being lazy, you can tell my the huge amount of debt the countries carry

If this were done by the previous management, the stock price would have gone up and M. Dell would not have been able to purchase the company. Hence, leaving the company limping along was probably the plan all along.

Just another way management can screw over the stockholders.

Patent trolls had gotten to the point of just threatening people and winning because only the biggest players could defend themselves. Couple this with the fact the PTO giving out dubious patents, and the low cost of suing someone how can things get any worse?

I notice that some try to appeal to the User's better nature to let the Ads on through. I wonder if perhaps, I don't know, PAYING the user to accept Ads should be part of the solution. Nothing like money to drive viewership!

I was thinking more along the lines of "if you are condensing your learning into a few intense hours of study", drugs may help you get through those few hours. The problem is you really did not learn much because you are not going to retain it.

The other problem with taking drugs can help you in the short-term, but it is sort of defeats the purpose. You are able to perform well for a short period but you are not able to retain the knowledge very well and you are not being educated so much as you are learning how to cram.

I assume that if you are in the 30's going to school you are trying to get an education, not learn how to cram for tests.

I guess the real question is under what conditions are you able to perform well? I think you will need to identify those conditions and focus upont working in those conditions. You may need to work with teachers to develop a schedule which you can work under.

You just may not be able to do well under a normal classroom conditions, and you will need to address that. Good teachers will help where they can and bad teachers will be inflexible, you may need to avoid those.