Comment Re: Drop the price (Score 1) 33
Now adjust for inflation.
Now adjust for inflation.
Oh no, I think shareholders deserve to be responsible for the actions of the corporations they invest in. I'm giving you parts of the story you're asking for and then you're making assumptions about what I believe based on things you didn't ask about, and only imagined. I'm not responsible for shit you made up.
I know you're trolling, but anyway, libertarians are those who want money to provide police protection from slaves, and are sure that they belong in the slave owning class.
What I am is in favor of profit being attached to responsibility, rather than being predicated upon being permitted to ignore externalities.
Content costs money to make, and companies are apparently obligated to "increase revenue" and "make profit."
Those two things are not the same, and conflating them is the height of crony capitalism cuckery.
Yes, businesses exist to make a profit. That is absolutely reasonable and understandable.
The way trading happens in stock markets has turned business into a game, where the only goal is to get ever higher numbers in order to please shareholders. There is no reward for steady, reliable businesses which make a reasonable profit year after year. They have to make more money every year or they are considered failures and the stock market punishes them for not doing anything and everything to achieve that goal, no matter how antisocial or indeed self-destructive.
1) Unless there is some serious violation of policy, nobody is terminated without notice where I work.
Nobody is terminated without notice anywhere. Giving notice is how you terminate someone.
2) This is a recent phenomenon.
What do you think that says?
3) Our employment is not terrible, nor different than a few years ago.
The people you're hiring disagree with the first part; the second is irrelevant.
4) It is common decency to communicate with your employer. You don't just ghost them or not show after being hired.
I've had plenty of employers with no common decency. Most of them, in fact.
Frankly, if you don't pay back your debts I don't really want to associate with you.
What about the "debt" from the car someone else bought in my name? A court in Nevada City, CA awarded a judgement against me, the evidence against me was a photocopy of a check cashing card with my SSN written on it in pen.
What about the "debt" from the banks which held my deposits for days even though they were payroll checks which never bounced but processed my withdrawals immediately, resulting in overdrawn accounts and then being reported to Chex Systems?
You're a clueless cuck.
More precisely, the detractors-- the few who actually get past the "problems can't be solved" stage-- move on to "the solutions can't be economically viable."
Blaming the activists for the failures of nuclear power and not the people designing and implementing them is not just ignorant, it's willfully so.
If you are interested in the economic analyses, use google. They are everywhere. We have shared them here time and again and people like you pooh-poohed them, so you're going to have to suck it up and accept that we're done trying to educate you when you weren't receptive dozens to hundreds of times in the past. Educate yourself, don't depend on us to do it for you when you've consistently ignored us.
You said "How many flavors of Linux are out there and how many actually work w/o any twiddling ???"
This implied that there were operating systems that work without twiddling.
There are no operating systems that work for power users (or even, often, for average users) without twiddling and there never have been.
I don't care whether you see what the world has seen that has made Linux the dominant operating system for people who actually want to get shit done. What I care about is that your very argument is ignorant bullshit.
The problems don't have economically viable solutions, and the whole world is capitalistic.
We should if we don't want Putler to eventually rampage across Europe
They're not keeping the four teams, either. They bought at least 1 of those companies solely to destroy the competition.
Too bad we don't enforce antitrust in this country.
For people who want to exist in the future, also known as humanity.
If you spend your mod points on me you can't spend them on someone who gets less karma than I do.
I've been working with Linux for many years and Windows even longer ofc, and Windows is a massive PITA all day every day.
How many flavors of Linux are out there and how many actually work w/o any twiddling ??
Same question for you, but about Windows.
People are always whining about how you have to tweak stuff to make Linux work. I have never ever had a Windows system where I didn't have to tweak registry values, manually edit config files, etc. So it's a valid complaint, but not about Linux, only about computers in general. The only place I didn't do a ton of that was the classic MacOS, and that only because there was less tweaking available and you just lived with it being terribly limited.
81% of the young people we hired in the last year didn't bother to show to orientation, or quit during orientation, or quit (usually with no notice) within the 3 month probationary period
Those young people need income as much as anyone else, so what happened there was that your employment was so terrible that they were able to find something better and it was worth doing it even though they were already hired by you.
They also don't owe you notice by any reasonable measurement, since you don't have to give them any. That's what at will employment means. Employers have set the standard amount of notice at or near 0 days by terminating people with that little notice as their SOP, and buying laws that permit them to do that. You got what you wanted, now you don't want it? Bummer for you, but you created this.
"Spock, did you see the looks on their faces?" "Yes, Captain, a sort of vacant contentment."
