Any job change in the 40 to 50 year range should be limited to pricey consulting jobs where you can gain a years salary in six months (with the intention of working a full year) or else you are risking losing everything

Get them to commit something to you at 3 month intervals based on performance
i.e. 90 review with a set rate of compensation based on your performance, 180 review with assignment of position based on work being performed, even simple things like tools to be used, work environment, etc... should be well defined and you should start looking for another job if it looks like they are failing to deliver

leading with an ad hominem... nice

Such is the state of political discourse these days

But, you may ask, why oh why?

Namely it is rooted in the capability for any well funded entity to lean their financial weight into their argument in a manner that shuts out individuals

It does not matter if it is Citizen's United ruling allowing billions of dollars to influence elections, snatching up media sources to influence content, or funding astro-turfing of message boards to make it seem like everybody else agrees with the corporate viewpoint

slashdot stood against these tides for years, by fighting off tech companies that wanted to own the opinions or individuals writing submissions to line their own pockets

If we do not fight back, then we are bound to loose because their funding is relatively infinite and the people willing to troll for them are legion

then stop AC-ing

Um, yeah, Enron was getting into telecom (according to their propaganda) circa 1999

http://d-day.blogspot.com/2008...

bang!

Make unsubstantiated claim undermining original argument... check
Mention impotence of dreaded federal agency... check
Lace with smarmy rhetoric... check
Sidetrack entire argument with mention of unrelated case and easily mocked celebrity... check

see we call all shill for fun and profit, where do you go to get signed up?

I wondered if Exxon was getting into the cell phone business

the high risk activities are usually farmed out to smaller companies that can be folded easily with little risk of the larger multinationals getting sued

of course if Exxon Mobile just happens to buy and resell the oil... well their hands are clean

we are just flowers to be plucked to supply bouquets of posies, so that the gentry do not need to smell the foulness of our rotting bodies

So... does anybody directly remember the outrages of the 19th century? The work farms, then pauper prisons, the crowded workplaces where worker's only options to escape a fire were to launch themselves from multi-story buildings, or when the 'babysitter' was a bottle of laudanum to knock your baby out with opiates while you were working?

Probably not, but all of these abuses were well documented and they are the direct result for the Union movements (along with global socialism) that knocked the landed gentry and robber barons off of their roosts and allowed the growth of a new class, the educated middle class that American hold so dear

It is well past time that the middle class recognized that they are being pushed back into the 19th century and start pushing back

This proposal would only make sense if you planned on using the first few missions to establish the ability to turn local Lunar resources into solar panels

On the other hand, an orbital system would have to lift well... how much?

current solar panels weigh 15.8 kg/m^2, lets make life simple and imagine that they can make solar panels that are 1kg/m^2
and the moons equator is 11,000 Km (I can;t believe that the story said that it was miles...) and lets say they decide to make it a Km wide that is
11 billion kg of mass you are putting into orbit to match the generating ability of the lunar system

Ouch, that is a big win for a Lunar system right there... Even if you could get a solar film in space that was down to a gram per square meter, that is still 11 million kg... or 460 shuttle launches ouch!

My first construction job was in Texas in an area where the was a lot of limestone and caves. If the construction hit a cave, they would have to stop work and hire an archaeologist to investigate for Native American artifacts, and then excavate if they found any

As a result, they would quietly fill any 'gaps' they found with concrete (sometimes truckloads) just to avoid finding any inconvenient remains

All in all, the effect of the law ran exactly opposite to the intent of the law

I appreciate your fervor, but you really need to put your bullshit detector on full

As of this point:
"Update at 2:50 p.m. ET on June 16: We're pulling the plug on this story — (for clarification: ZDNet's story, not CNET's) — following Rep. Nadler's latest comments casting doubt on CNET's story. In a statement to our sister site, Nadler said: "I am pleased that the administration has reiterated that, as I have always believed, the NSA cannot listen to the content of Americans’ phone calls without a specific warrant." We've left the amended article (post the previous update, below) intact for transparency, but corrected the headline." http://www.zdnet.com/nsa-can-allegedly-listen-to-phone-calls-without-warrants-report-7000016864/

It is becoming apparent to me that this issue is being propagandized into a wedge between 'young voters' and President Obama. This seems to be an expected reaction to the huge misalignment between the current gop platform and the expectations of most young people (apparently even young republicans). To whit, just piss the young people off at the other guys instead of amending their platform

yeah, damn the MBA's... oh wait I am one, but then I had already been working in software development for over a decade before I chose to learn about the dark side

The business education was painful and enlightening. It was both maddening in how companies rate investment against perceived roi (no business person would ever fund pure research with no clear return on investment over what they could make just shutting down research in favor of a stock portfolio) and troubling (how business 'ethics' has been transformed into an all-out race for short term profits to meet shareholder expectations regardless of long-term outcomes)

If left to the business people, this entire country would be reduced to a backwater selling buggy whips in MLM schemes that maximize profits at the top and the rest of the world would be scrambling to leave us in the dust. I think that the most dangerous thing for a technology company to do is to allow their fate to fall into the hands of a business person with no technical background that only cares about the next quarters returns and ignores the need to plan ahead 5, 10 and 20 years into the future

Every time that I speak with an HP hardware rep they spend all of their time pushing the integrity/Itanium servers for about 10x the cost of the (formerly Compaq) proliant x86-64 line

They are wasting their breath, when we finally moved out the last of our DEC/Compaq Alpha servers we switched everything to proliant/operton servers running SUSE linux for our databases and blade servers (with lowest total cost per core) for vmware

I would have loved it HP had seen the looming failure of Itanium and Alpha was delivering its ev-12 generation, but that was not to be and HP should see its future in the path that it took Alpha down, obsolescence