I don't recall seeing "If you come to /. you're a cunt." in the EULA. I accept that bigots and idiots might call me a cunt, but no, I don't accept I'm a cunt.

Blame the victim?! Dude, you're defending the customer service reps! Between the reps & the customers, who are the victims in this story, the only evidence of anybody being a dick, was the reps changing the customer's names! They're the assholes in the story, not some nebulous concept of a generic company hating customer yelling to random innocent reps making them too angry to do their job!

But they get to call customers, who never did anything to them, "whore".

That is what they told you. The US Senate grabbed Apple's IRS paperwork and found a check for $2.5 billion.

European taxes have not been collected because of the tricks Apple uses. The EU is pursing Apple for dodged taxes as well. One of Apple's subsidiaries paid absolutely no taxes at all for 5 years despite $30 billion in profits. $0 taxes, $30 billion profit.

Does said US citizen get to hold his US passport? Does he get to use US Embassies? Will he be rescued by the US military if kidnapped in Iraq? All that costs money. And the guy gets to deduct from his US tax bill anything paid in the UK anyways.

As long as it has nothing to do with the US.. I agree the US shouldn't tax it. Last time I drove through Cupertino though, I'm pretty sure I saw a giant Apple logo behind a bunch of people carrying Apple Ids. At least one of Apple's Irish subsidiaries has zero employees though.

Banting & Best, in 1921, were the first to extract natural insulin from dogs & later, fetal cows. They got a nobel prize in 1923 for doing that.

30 years later, Frederick Sanger picked up the 3rd nobel prize awarded on the subject by mapping the amino acid structure of insulin. The first mapped protein.

And 10 years after that, 2 universities created the first synthetic insulin, based on the 50 years of work done prior to that.

Hey, I just invented a new game. I call it "uTard". Thanks for playing anonymously.

WTF?! NOW JOBS DYING FIRST MAKES ME A COPYCAT FOLLOWER FANBOY?!

Well fuck you I'm living forever!

Can you name an invention on par with the iPhone in the last 100 years that lives up to your definition?

"Woe is me, I have no control over which shit call center job I have.", right?

Go back a few posts

If you work for Comcast, you either a) expect to get shit from people hating Comcast; or b) are a complete idiot.

If you choose to associate yourself with any business or entity, you are choosing to be a part of that organization's reputation too. If you join the CIA, there are some Snowden lovers that are going to hate you. If you join the CIA as a public relations officer, you're going to have to meet & talk to Snowden lovers that are going to hate you. This is known. It doesn't matter if that organization is Comcast, the CIA, the US Army, the KKK, the "Slashdot Beta Lovers Club", Obama's campaign, Romney's campaign, or "The H Club". If you choose the association, and you choose to speak to people who, from the organization's reputation, probably have a good reason to be upset before you ever pick up the phone, then you absolutely have & had control over your predicament. If you can't handle what goes with that, then quit and consider things more carefully before joining another organization with a known bad reputation.

I can sympathize with having to put up with a shitty job; but not with doing a shitty job. The people who made the name changes are assholes. Entertaining, but assholes.

They claim the same for other drugs that have been used, very successfully, by the medical community.

So, why should I believe these mosquitoes are harmless?

So you think money is why our internet access sucks? We don't have enough money?
The bigger the country, the greater number of opposing viewpoints you have to get past. If the bigger GDP mattered more, Obamacare would have been the model for the Massachusetts health care plan, not the other way around. New & improving initiatives nearly always take place at the local or state (US state / any other entire nation) level before they hit the federal (US) level because of this. Sure, you & 10 friends pooled together have enough money to buy a new house. But who is going to live in it? Who is going to maintain it? Who will replace it when it burns down?

Does it cost the same to lay 1000 miles of fiber as it does to lay 1 mile? Once you get the fiber in, do you make the same amount of money off 1 customer as 1000? Does it cost the same to service a line 1000 miles away as it does to service a line right outside your office? Do you think it is just random coincidence that cities get new/faster access before rural towns? Population density is a big part of every business decision in this realm because it is so closely tied to how much money you can make.

Source: Living with dial-up in San Jose, California, the heart of Silicon Valley, in this century, because every high-speed internet providing company on the planet agreed that it was more profitable to build up different, smaller, higher-density locations first.

I think what the "study" is missing is the fact that they're studying OSS on GitHub. The diversity there is implicit in the model. GitHub does not have a downtown office where all the contributors meet daily from 9-5 to work on their respective projects. So the talent pool is not artificially limited or hindered by the location. Anybody, anywhere, at any time, can start, end, join, or leave a project at a whim. Contributors are world-wide.

Amazon's Seattle office (not picking on Amazon, it is just a nice example) will never be that diverse because it requires anybody that wants to work there to move to Seattle. The people that do end up working there will be inundated with Seattle's culture & mindset, becoming less diverse the longer the office stays open. People aren't going to magically change sex or skin tone, but their brains will start to think alike because they're all forced to be a part of the same culture.

Sure, Amazon can attract diversity to Seattle. There are countless big name projects from big name companies that were created by truly diverse teams. But that is not the standard the "office in city X" naturally promotes. They have to specifically look for diversity by offering relocation benefits, extra stock options, visas, etc.

Of course what I'm truly saying is you're more likely to get the benefits of diversity if you look for geographic differences in your workforce as that marker is a more likely indication of different mindsets brought about by varied cultures.

Hire 2 new FTE programmer/H1B programmers for 50% of the 2nd local programmer's salary = another 50% savings = 100% savings!

Where is my honorary MBA?!

Which part of the comment are you guys referring to?
This?

or this?

With any currency you are guaranteed to lose money that way because the money loses value every day to inflation. The longer you hold cash in your hand, the poorer you get.
As to the baby boomers, no, they were not affected significantly by the drop in 2008. Why? Because even at the bottom of the worst of the market in 2008, the Dow was still up 1000% from its low in 1970. The fools that had to work an additional 10 years were just that, fools. They didn't invest properly.

Hording cash is not an investment strategy. Trading currency, including bitcoins, is.

meta-surprise.