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Comment How to survive a police encounter (Score 1) 509

I am honestly considering taking the policy of laying face down on the ground with my hands interlocked behind my head any time a police officer talks to me. That way if they shoot you it will be in the back, and they might have to think twice about beating a murder wrap if there is no way they can claim you were "resisting".

Comment Re:It wasn't the tweet (Score 5, Informative) 185

It wasn't the tweet that caused the sell off, it was the poor Q1 numbers.

Well sort-of. The thing is wall street speculation is now highly automated. If a stock starts to slip before the numbers are supposed to be released, all the algorithms start to throw off warning bells and cause a sell-off run much more efficiently than humans reading twitter ever could.

If stock slips during an earnings announcement, it is expected, and bots don't emulate panic... if it happens BEFORE earnings announcements, bots latch on to the pattern in what is essentially insider trading, but with plausible deniability.

Comment Charge the customer to be our customer (Score 1) 208

Agile/waterfall/Forkitarian
It doesn't matter what methodology you use or what you call it if your business model is based on exploiting your disappearing market position.

IBM's horrible business model is "Of course they have to buy IBM and once they do we will punish them for buying IBM by making them pay for IBM over and over again on the "integration services" and "custom maintenance" consulting racket.

That worked great back before every company was a software company, but in the modern era, every company with enough money to look fat and juicy to IBM can and must simply hire their own coders.

Basically the more coders there are in the world, the worse IBM will do. Or rather, the more people understand technology enough to realize IBM is a scam, the worse IBM will do.

Comment Buying cars based on fuel price... ugh (Score 3, Interesting) 622

For most people, especially ones with NEW cars, the cost of fuel is such a small portion of TCO that gas mileage is almost inconsequential within reason. People get psychotic when gas swings one way or another because people are idiots, who cannot ignore the 20-80 dollars they spent today in favor of focusing on the 500 dollars they pay every month.

Comment Re:$30 per month (Score 1) 216

If Hulu plus actually worked, I would still pay for it and still watch the stupid ads, even at double the price. As it is I had to drop it, because we couldn't actually use the service we paid for. Netflix works bug-free on all of my devices. Hulu plus crashes on every platform I have used it on except PC (where you don't even need to pay for it). It is crappy software, and they think they can get away with it because they are the gatekeepers to "precious" content.

Netflix, on the other hand, is a better experience than piracy. Netflix gets my money (and more from me than the average person because I pay for an account with more simultaneous screens since my household has so damned many devices that work flawlessly with netflix).

Comment Re:How much is his investment in the company makin (Score 2, Interesting) 482

They have taken token salaries so that they do not have to pay income tax, NOT because they are heroes. "Compensated in stock" is another word for "Tax evasion"

It isn't cute, it is CEOs taking advantage of YOU directly, and looking like heroes when they do it.

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