US Average Lifespans

Looks like we're doing pretty good.

Do you mean he got stuck at the syntax? Hopefully that's not how you determine if people are qualified for a job. Memorizing syntax has always been the least important thing to me about learning a language. That sounds really intimidating to set someone down and ask them to write code in a new environment without any reference materials while you watch over their shoulders.

I'm catholic you insensitive clod! Clearly the bible was written in Latin by God!

Unfortunately Amazon doesn't 50+ years of lobbying on their side. Lets hope the law sides with fair use...

From one party to another? They might have legal footing but not based on that logic.

Tell me again why we want to tax them equally? Haven't we figured out that the way to jump start the economy is to create more jobs in green technology? Instead of incentivising people to buy more efficient cars we're going to disincentivise all driving. That will fix the economy, more people staying at home doing nothing....

No mod points so I thought I'd just give a thumbs up! I'm signing up.

I assume he's talking about mainstream for end users. From my experience this means open source is going to have to edge out one of the five brands people can recite.

No, no, that's a feature of physics

Make it illegal to talk on the phone while driving then. She'll get a ticket and learn to stop or pay the price. If she hits someone she's liable. You're advocating for the government to preemptively take away our rights even if some of those rights aren't harmful in any way (how many times is it helpful to have a passenger call someone en route). Life is risky every time you walk out the door. Where do you draw the line at taking away people's freedoms to protect yourself? Consider how often pedestrians are hit by motorists, you have to draw the line somewhere. The best way to respect people's rights is to make actual wrong doing illegal. I think anything else is selfish. It's been 40 minutes and my comment hasn't appeared so I'm reposting it...

Make it illegal to talk on the phone while driving then. She'll get a ticket and learn to stop or pay the price. If she hits someone she's liable. You're advocating for the government to preemptively take away our rights even if some of those rights aren't harmful in any way (how many times is it helpful to have a passenger call someone en route). Life is risky every time you walk out the door. Where do you draw the line at taking away people's freedoms to protect yourself? Consider how often pedestrians are hit by motorists, you have to draw the line somewhere. The best way to respect people's rights is to make actual wrong doing illegal. I think anything else is selfish.

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Hey, I've got a great idea! Let's rack up huge legal expenses while we continue to lose profits! ...Then we can save our industry, we'll be heroes.

I really wish that the first thing he had done upon learning of the tracking device was contact the ACLU. I find this so disconcerting. I hope someone stands up to this type of government tracking so we can get some momentum going to protect our civil liberties.

Your post seems to be making the point that this was conceived as a cost saving endeavor. I highly doubt apple or the other companies involved were concerned about having to pay the market price for their employees, I'd bet they're well compensated.

It seems more likely that this was much more about not losing key members of their team with valuable training, trade secrets, and project time invested. In such a time sensitive and competitive market losing a team lead could seriously sabotage an important product.