Why does this summery link to itself?

I would expect google.fr to link to the French google homepage.

Maybe after the EU human rights court gets done listening to Snowden they can take a look inwards at their own terrible examples of not respecting human rights.

Puting a guy in solitary because he ran a file sharing website? God in Wisconsin you can drive drunk and your first offence is just a traffic ticket. You can kill people driving drunk, I don't understand why we punish guys who threaten profits more than guys who threaten lives.

What if Snowden was a former employee/contractor for GCHQ, and he leaked documents illuminating GCHQ spying on the US, Russia, and other non European nations? Would the EU still allow him to testify, or would they be calling for him to return to face their courts?

Don't large corporations control congress? Don't congress members want to stay in the good graces of corporations so they continue to get campaign donations and board positions upon retirement from public service?

Why aren't large corporations pressuring congress to reign in the NSA?

Who's holding the puppet strings?

I understand that if he said these things while holding his position that he would have effectively ended his ability to do his job and that would be irresponsible.

You could have just said that you catch more flies with honey than vinegar.

I understand that is the way the world works (a big reason I resist going into management). However I feel like once in a while it is really usefull for someone to really tell it like it is. It might ruin their career, it might screw up their organization in the short term, but how else do things change?

It is a trivial example but I see this all the time in projects. The project leader knows everything is fucked, they know that the test lab doesn't really test anything. They know that the firmware group is cutting corners. They know marketing is bullshitting numbers to make everything look good. But they never say that openly. And at the end of the project when the Boss asks why everything was late, the defect rate is high, and the sales are below forecast, the project manager shrugs and says "well everyone told me things were going great". That happens a few times and then the project leader starts looking for another position and then on his/her way out explains all of the troubles of the organization.

What if in the beginning the project lead would say something like "well from my standpoint the test lab needs better procedures and needs to be accountable if they don't follow their test plans, the firmware group needs accountability and more peer review, and the marketing organization needs to explain why their numbers are always overly optimistic". That project leader just pissed off all of the other groups and might have jeopardized their career, but it was the truth.

He never said any of this publicly while holding his position because he didn't want to lose his job. I feel that most politicians and cabinet appointees feel this way, but they always hold it all in until they leave office and are ready to author their "tell all" memoir. Maybe if someone actually spoke the truth while in office the problems plaguing our government would have a better chance of being addressed.

Of course since they are all "prone to put self (and re-election) before country" they would never dare to challenge the party line. Robert Gates included.

Do you think being in a gang in Chicago is safe? Do you really think an average joe is going to pull a gun on a gang member on the south side of Chicago? Do you know how gangs work? You kill one of them, they come and kill someone from your gang. Not in a gang? Even better, they just come kill you. "Normal" people aren't going to become RoboCop and stand up to criminals, that's suicide.

There is crime in Chicago not because criminals feel like they can act with impunity, but because so many people know nothing else than crime and violence and there are very few opportunities to support yourself without turning to crime. No one is going to say "man, gang banging is dangerous now that "normal" people have guns, I'm going to go become a bank teller". I really can't understand how you can convince yourself of such nonsense.

Neither more or less guns are going to fix the problem in Chicago.

I hope you aren't a statistician. I'm guessing that the study you mention doesn't take into account how segregated Chicago is in terms of poverty and crime. Gun ownership in Lincoln Park isn't going to lower the murder rate in Chatham. Do you really think flooding the south side with handguns would actually lower the murder rate?

The name of a smartphone keyboard manufacturer is Typo?

Also, Ryan Seacrest is a founder of the company.

If managers are there to shield engineers from "political nonsense and red tape" it is probably more cost effective to reduce the political nonsense and red tape instead of hiring someone to deal with it.

If there are too many meetings address that issue. If there is political bullshit address it. If the processes are all fucked up and you have guys jumping through hoops just because some process document says to, fix it. Fixing the actual problems will benefit the company way more than hiring a guy to shield the engineers from it. The last non technical manager I had just invited me to all the meetings he went to because he wasn't able to answer anyones questions. He literally did nothing and when he quit after being denied a promotion he applied for his position was not backfilled

In my opinion you want the engineers to interface with the rest of the company. That is how problems get solved. Engineers getting feedback from customers, tech support, manufacturing, and ops. Then engineers figure out how long it would take and how much it would cost to solve the issues and present that data to marketing and project management. Then you get representatives from each group together to decide based on marketing data and project management input what features to prioritize, what features to drop, and so on. ( I know this never happens in the real world)

All too often marketing draws up some Marketing Requirements Document, which is usually fucked to begin with because marketing doesn't present the engineering group with the customers problems, instead marketing presents the engineering group with marketing's (usually poor) solutions to the customers problems. Then some project management people get together with the non technical manager and agree upon some crazy timeline based on no input from the actual people responsible for doing the work. Then the engineers get a product spec document that basically says to invent a perpetual motion device in a couple of months. When they don't do it everyone blames the engineering group for not following through once again. Set up to fail from the start... In my experience non technical managers don't do anything but add additional noise to the signal.

You lack foresight. Its not a question of if drones become cheap enough to target individuals, its a question of when.

Why doesn't he have any work lined up? I worked at a grocery store 9 years ago and we all knew Dominicks was fucked. They have been doing poorly in the Chicagoland market for years. I know there has been lots of talk about the stores closing. If he hasn't looked for anything yet then that is his fault.

Lucky for him Gov. Quinn established a "Grocery Store Taskforce" to assist these poor people on finding new entry level jobs. Illinois has plenty of money to pay for this shit.