You will never be unemployed again, because you work for more than one person

FIFY.

When I am employed by a company, I have one "client". When that client lets me go (rif/outsource/fired/whatever), I have no other income.

When I have 3-4 clients and one client lets me go (can't afford my rates/personality clash/they went crazy and I had to fire them/they hired someone fulltime/etc), I have other clients that keep some $$$ coming in.

As long as I have n+1 clients (where n = sufficient income), then I'm doing well.

Pffft, amateurs.

I code with cosmic rays.

I trust the slashdot community, that's why I'm here. Not for the slashdot editorials on clouds or Buisness Intelligence.

Welcome to /.

Would it be better if he was thrown in a cage with other, no doubt, rather more hardened criminals?

...said the pimply-faced 40-something basement-dwelling recluse whose prison "experience" is watching reruns of Oz.

Way to quote-mine Random People On The Internet, I mean, Wikipedia. Here's the next paragraph:

Historian Gregg L. Frazer argues that the leading Founders (Adams, Jefferson, Franklin, Wilson, Morris, Madison, Hamilton, and Washington) were neither Christians nor Deists, but rather supporters of a hybrid "theistic rationalism".[23]

Sigh. Unfortunately, we have gone through a 236-year-long exercise in Religious fanatical masturbation, with no end in sight.

During the constitutional convention, there were attempts to add Christianity to the Constitution's preamble, and they were all ignored/thrown out by the core architects (Franklin, Adams, and Madison).

During the first few decades of the new republic, several amendments were proposed to add the same; none made it out of Congress.

Eventually the religious zealots gave up and went home. Until the Civil War. Recognizing the war was a direct result of "God not being mentioned in the constitution" (yes, they actually believed that) attempts to amend the constitution to add Christianity were renewed, with the same result: epic failure.

Every couple of decades, we forget and try to do the same old thing again. As always, it fails. Thank dog.

FIFY.

If you ever take a constitutional law class, you'll understand the limits to free speech, and your examples aren't outside any of them.

Speech that can incite panic (e.g., yelling fire in a crowded theater) and "fighting words" (i.e., direct, immediate threats of harm) are two examples of non-protected speech.

He's coming right for us!

* BLAM *

(thud)

Agile is not about being more accepting of risk: it's about engineering risk out,

I actually wasn't talking about Agile the process but agile the adjective (hence the quotes). Perhaps I should've said 'flexible' or 'responsive'.

If he can't deploy to production in one step, he needs to fix that first.

I'm not talking about from dev box to production. I'm talking about the physical act of someone running a single command (or for the Winlazy, pressing a button) then walking away. All code checkouts from source control, database changes, app server code deployments, web server restarts—whatever—happen without user intervention.

He should also be able to roll back in one step.

For all the meetings, forms, etc., it sounds like there is A LOT of CYA in that company. In that case, it is cultural and can only be changed from the top. Until/unless the company becomes less risk adverse, there is no point in trying to become more "agile" (i.e., risk-accepting) except making your job easier. Build your tools/scripts/whatever to make it easier to do stuff.

tl;dr: If you want a more nimble company, switch jobs.

I know lots of athiests who are religious about their beliefs (or lack of beliefs, depending on how you want to slice it).

Atheists are religious the same same way "off" is a TV Station.

Sorry, but you are ignorant: you don't know what the word "religion" means. Now, if you were to say your atheist friends were "adamant," "aggrandized," "animated" or "galvanized," you would effuse the appearance of knowledge.

Not really, as President he can't just throw on anything that might be in the closet.

Simple Solution: Garanimals for Presidents®

Ordering military action? Match up the Gorilla

Debating your political opponent? Go with the Orangutan

Vising a coal mine for a photo op? Try the Rhinoceros

It took a BIG, and rather firm, kick in the ass to get them to pay attention. But that's not the way government is supposed to work. We aren't supposed to have to whip them to get them to actually work for us.

When there's a friggin 1,600 lb gorilla in the room with "Citizens United" tattooed on its chest, us little people have to whip that cream HARD and LONG before anything will happen.

1. Rent from Red Box: $1.32/night.

2. Rip it to laptop

3. ???

4. WATCH IT WITH NO RESTRICTIONS!

Remember TIA ("Total Information Awareness")? That monster rose from the dead and its zombie maw is chomping at the bit to eat everything it can.

I wish the MPAA/RIAA would hurry up and die already. They are little more than brutish fossils, symbolic of a decayed era gratefully forgotten.