"Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences."

That's an interesting way to put it. The way the Clash said it was, "You have the right to free speech as long as you're not dumb enough to actually try it".

Damore was dumb enough to actually try it. He thought that when people said they wanted open dialog and healthy debate, that those people wanted open dialog and healthy debate. Total aspie thinking.

Shut up, keep your head down, and let management tell you what you are supposed to think: solutions for modern living.

>>> What the heck are the other 3440 people doing?

Two hour "agile" stand-ups where they sit down and go through every single open feature request.

If the word "transgender" were to be used in the context of the condition being considered a disease or a mental disorder, the Left Wing would have a complete melt-down!

An epidemic of transgender has been spreading rapidly up and down the west coast. Evidence-based analysis suggests that the probability of a fetus at this time is low.

The officially sanctioned replacement terms:

"science-based" -> "theoretical"
"evidence-based" -> "alleged"
"vulnerable" -> "lazy"
"entitlement" -> "waste, fraud and abuse"
"diversity" -> "discrimination against white men"
"transgender" -> "Bay Area resident"
"fetus" -> "0 year old"

Slashdot has really gone downhill with this Bitcoin hits $19000 crap. How is it news for nerds that Bitcoin hits $17000? If I wanted to read about Bitcoin hitting $23000 I would be on Reddit.

You've only been on the internet since 2015?

GenX is not a generation

That's hilarious, that's the way we've always been treated. It's OK with me, fits my personality style to be mostly invisible. The stealth generation.

Our parents didn't pay any attention to us either. It was great.

"These results come as Salary Survey has undergone a major change in its methodology."
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Vinyl records, vacuum tube guitar amps, vacuum tube pre-amps for the vinyl record turntables, manual transmissions, felines for pest control.

Quality stuff.

Been many a year since I found any good vinyl at a yard sale, and the shops are more shiny than dusty. Sales of new vinyl records in the US have grown about 500% in the last 5 years. Around 2000, I couldn't find a lot of the new music I wanted on vinyl. Things have changed, I can get pretty much anything I want on vinyl now.

Vinyl vs. cloud is a false dichotomy, most new stuff you buy on vinyl you get access to it in the cloud too. Best of both worlds.

Text-only books I will buy digital. Graphic novels, anything with art or other visual content I will kill some trees for. Best of both worlds. Except for the trees I guess.

There are new record stores opening up all over the place, there are independent book sellers that are having record years, there are video rental chains that are opening new stores. You've gotta be quick and you've gotta be smart to stay in business but that's the same as it ever was.

Haha POJOs.

I love that typical developers using Java, an object-oriented language, got so far down the over-engineering path that they had to make an acronym for those obscure corner cases where you might want to just use....an object.

Although it's true that the Java development community does seem to be header in a much nicer direction lately.

You are doing something illegal - everyone is. You may not even know what you are doing that is illegal, but if the NSA knows everything you do, they know what you are doing that is illegal.

They aren't going to do anything about it until you do some thing that is legal that they don't want you to do.

If you run for office, they own you.

Read the constitution.