Comment Re:Shame (Score 1) 488
It's not democratic on purpose.
It's not democratic on purpose.
A skilled commander seeks victory from the situation and does not demand it of his subordinates. - Sun Tzu
Actually, the theory is to fire the lowest 10% in relation to performance every quarter.
Ugly, yet effective.
The behavior of "cutting the fat" is persistent in any business worth it's salt. It just so happens that this behavior is synchronized, and expanded, in weaker economies.
A person desiring to keep their employment intact, or finding new opportunities, needs to understand three elements of their "business related worth".
Every company on the planet needs people who have different mixes of the above qualities. The big problem is that these three aspects run in a Rock/Paper/Scissors manner. The bigger problem is that the relationships change from company to company. Sometimes experience trumps talent. Other times talent is better than experience.
If you approach these elements of your work history without ego, focus your job search on opportunities that match your mix, and clearly communicate them to prospective employers - you will actually find a better job that makes you happy.
It can be done, don't go into it with a negative attitude.
Without a Phillip K. Dick story to bastardize, this script could go into turbo-shitty land really fast.
Damn, I never thought a big box retailer with brick and mortars would ever get it.
How the fuck is this a troll?
Charging a child with taking their own picture is punishing the victim!
Jesus people.
I mean, talk about punishing the victim here...
Oh wait, I forgot Child Porn laws are no longer about the harm and damage done to the child during the creation of the material in question...
Way to be society.
You only need 1% of the smart side of the bell curve to go along with you to have a majority.
I have to disagree with this.
You're not describing cultural entities. You're describing a social framework.
Just because the same entities are close to ubiquitous doesn't mean that they transfer culture. People who eat at T.G.I.Fridays in the south gravitate towards different menu items than those in the north. If this weren't true, they wouldn't have to bother with localized demographic data when planning product roll outs.
This discussion can quickly degrade into a bickering over semantics, so I will lay out the definitions I use for terms such as culture, social, etc.
My interpretations of these concepts closely corresponds to the Ken wilbur's take on the holon. In somewhat blunt terms, Culture is what the collective feels internally, and their Social aspects are what you can observe about a collective.
Some places do create strict ordinances to maintain their culture, but those ordinances are a social manifest which never would have come to fruition without the collective sharing the same culture.
After I do a consult with prospective clients, someone always asks me "Why should we pay you since you just told us what we needed to do? We can just go do it ourselves." This is pretty close to the sentiment of the article.
I always say the same thing: "What to do is free, how to do it costs money, asking me how to do it after you try to do it yourself will cost you double and I won't even have to raise my price."
Knowing how to execute a particular idea is always better than the original idea, because you have the hands on knowledge to improve it and improvise with it.
"And you know what? The NFL is right. According to US Code Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 110, 5,B, i, II which describes what isn't allowed under copyright code:
So that's the skinny: You can watch the Super Bowl at home on any size TV you like, but if you're watching it in a church or sports bar, any screen larger than 55-inches actually is in violation of the U.S. copyright code. It may be stupid, but according to my non-lawyerly interpretation, it isn't something the NFL pulled out of thin air.(II) if the performance or display is by audiovisual means, any visual portion of the performance or display is communicated by means of a total of not more than 4 audiovisual devices, of which not more than 1 audiovisual device is located in any 1 room, and no such audiovisual device has a diagonal screen size greater than 55 inches, and any audio portion of the performance or display is communicated by means of a total of not more than 6 loudspeakers, of which not more than 4 loudspeakers are located in any 1 room or adjoining outdoor space;
Credit ... is the only enduring testimonial to man's confidence in man. -- James Blish