Comment Re:Antarctica (Score 1) 137
Antarctica just has air, ice and some rocks
And the Moon and Mars have only the last of these.
Antarctica just has air, ice and some rocks
And the Moon and Mars have only the last of these.
it just seems crazy to go through the trouble of settling Mars (or even Moon) without settling Antarctica first.
The company that gets the first Moon base will have a captive workforce and no pesky government interference. It will be a libertarian's paradise. Plus, they get to lob rocks at the Earth if anyone argues with them.
I'm not sure, but I think someone wrote a book about this.
There's porn on youtube now?
brb
You can get videos of people being beheaded, but not of them having sex.
What a world.
Unless you posted from a mobile device, you're simply a dipshit. If you posted from your PC, you're also a fucked-up, stupid and completely ignorant asshole.
So, let's be clear about this, you think the guy's wrong?
I'd like to quote from a famous song, "We Built This City", by artists Jefferson Starship.
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Yes, that's pretty much an instant classic.
I look forward eagerly to seeing it again soon.
I like how you're proud enough of your taste in web browsers to say what you don't use, but not proud enough to say what you do use.
I'm assuming Netscape Navigator 4.
My only criticism is that Microsoft don't make you pay for it, which seems an almost unbelievable oversight on their part.
"Not Microsoft's fault"
"I actually RTFA."
Kids these days...
And yes, darkside was excited and promised more than they could deliver to microsoft
I know this is heretical on slashdot, but surely that is not Microsoft's fault?
If you're afraid of getting fired, then you should quit and find a job where you don't fear losing it.
Fear eats you, ruins your life and no salary is big enough to compensate that for long.
Not all fears are irrational. It is sensible to be afraid of being shot if you're a combat soldier, it makes you alert.
It is also rational to worry about being fired, since there is no such thing as a secure job any more.
Also do win-win or no deal. (straight from 7 habits of highly effective people by Steven R. Covey)
Yes, because obviously the guys on the other side of the table won't have thought of this too.
It's obvious that the reason for those changing requirements is that they lack understanding of how development process works, so they just need technical background to understand what requirements make sense and what don't. Just being good at "management" is not enough.
You don't need any special industry knowledge to know that if someone says "we need to do X, Y and Z in addition to what the original project plan says" then it's going to cost money.
I don't want to defend Thompson at all. I do think that if people are committing criminal acts, like fraud, or intimidation, or harassment, or contempt, then we already have laws to deal with that, and we should use those laws. We don't need an extrajudicial process -- the judicial system should eat its own dog food.
So I suppose you would be against schools screening out paedophiles as teachers, since they can always be convicted of rape after the event?
Also, what is the libertarian defence of having a legal system at all? It is the basis for all government which you seem to hate so much.
The concept of mandatory bars and disbarring seems, ironically, to be unamerican. I can see having bar membership as an optional accreditation. We have ASE certified mechanic, or CCNA IT guys. Actually disallowing someone from doing a job, though, merely because someone else says they're unqualified seems incongruent with basic capitalism and free market principles.
And sending someone to prison for committing murder is an even more serious interference with their right to make money.
I would like to think you were joking, but there is no evidence for that, so I will instead assume you're a fucking idiot.
"Money is the root of all money." -- the moving finger
