I was working for Broadcom when Avago swooped in. Hock Tan came in to present his vision of the future, and it all centered on "harvestable IP." That was all the incentive I needed to take a severance package rather than take the job they were offering. It was a cool place back in the day. It's too bad.

Yeah, it is. Kind of the point.

Sex is pretty awesome and intimate for a woman, too. IF it's consensual. If not, not so much, eh?

I'd settle for some sign of HI (Human Intelligence) from this administration.

Yeah, so this fits in 100% with Avago....excuse me....Broadcom's normal strategy.

On behalf of the rest of the goddamned planet that has to pick up after shit stains who quip about this, please feel free to go fuck yourself. Too bad short sighted fuckwits aren't the only ones hurt by their asinine and selfish behaviors.

I played World of Warcraft from vanilla to MoP under the default Wine that was rolled out with Debian. Never had a problem. Well, aside from the problems caused by too much time sunk into WoW....

That's bad news, too. If they are doing that, I can pretty much guarantee that they are undermining your reputation behind your back. If they are in the management chain, run. If not, try to work around them.

If that is accurate(and I have no reason to doubt you), I would be spreading my resume like pollen in spring. Any place that hammers on you for legitimate improvements is a place to leave ASAP. If it's a contract, document your work, note the boundaries that they threw up in your path, collect your paycheck and move on.

Now, if you work in a strictly controlled and regulated environment, such as some parts of healthcare or military engineering, then I could see why fooling around with a standard library would get you in trouble. If you are doing on the fly changes to a system that is under change management, say for FDA regulatory reasons, you are definitely treading on thin ice. But I assume that you would have included that tidbit if it applied to your scenario.

After the first few, learning a new programming language is just syntax. If you have experience in python, call it out. Be honest("I worked with it, but I'm not an expert"), but don't sell yourself short, either. When I'm interviewing someone, I'm looking for flexibility in coding. I'll throw out a few challenges, but I'm not looking for gotchas. Hell, I take python pseudo code all the time, because any half ass programmer with google can get that right. I want to see your thought process. Same for when I was being interviewed. Passed with flying colors because I can think around the problem and see ways to solve it, regardless of the language involved.

Huh. A few seconds of a search and replace and peeling off the "progressive" bit makes your post actually reflect reality.
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The real problem is that we've seen the rise of extreme rightism over the past 40 to 50 years. The seeds were planted in the late 1960s, but it wasn't until the last decade that it has really taken off and become entrenched throughout Western society, especially within the so-called "Baby Boomer Generation".

Rightism abhors originality. It abhors creativity. It abhors free thinking. Why is that? Because individuals who engage in such activities quickly tear apart the intellectual "foundation" (or lack thereof) of rightist ideologies. Rightism collapses when confronted with any sort of intelligent analysis. That's why rightists try to hard to stamp out free thought in favor of people just mindlessly parroting rightist narratives.

Rightism is actually an intense form of conservatism, even to the point of regression. Rightist ideologies revolve around fixed, unchanging narratives. There is no flexibility for these narratives to evolve. What's wrongly perceived as "progress" is actually a society regressing so as to conform to these fixed rightist narratives.

We shouldn't be surprised that we see stagnation within academia, within the various R&D fields, and within business. As more and more rightists have worked their way into academic, research and business organizations, the focus has been taken away from doing real work and coming up with real innovation.

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Non sequitur. Atheism != Humanism. And there is no reason to assume that atheistic, non-humanist regimes will develop humanistic moral codes.

Not having the same values != not being moral. Again, the question of whether humanist morals can be derived from materialistic principles, true or false, has nothing to do with your statements.

When you ignore the entire history of religion, I suppose this could look true. In the real world, where people are still persecuted and killed for "crimes" like blasphemy and "sins" like unapproved sexual behavior, your argument falls flat.

Yeah, those fucking idiots. I really, really hate those assholes. I fully support their right to do this in the confines of their garage. Preferably, with all of the doors closed and any ventilation sealed shut.

Just like everything else. Participate in democracy. Sometimes it sucks, like when morons vote in morons. Such is life.

You don't seem to notice that your plan doesn't help. Get this. I DIG your idea of having a municipal government running the last mile. As long as they allow open competition. Net Neutrality. I don't even care if a private corp runs the wire. As long as they allow open competition. Net Neutrality.

False.

Ok, let the state build the wire. Be specific in that you are relying on government to do your work for you.

Oh, so in other words, the last mile provider has to provide the wire to anyone who is paying. Geez, that sounds so familiar.