IBM is not an American company. Most of their employees are in India.

I'm from NYC living in Texas. The bullshit level here in TX is out of this world. Boy it's less in NYC but I no longer live there. Finland sounds good to me. I wonder what the politicians are like in Finland?

Most programmers in commerce do not get to choose the language they want to program. Strongly typed languages are used by long time programmers simply because strogly typed languages were created first. So saying that long time programmers prefer strongly typed languages means nothing. C++ is overly complex and the only reason that it exists is that this very complexity insures job security and high pay. When you spend your time getting bogged down in useless minutia and trying to understand some purposely written esoteric code with strong typing when it could have been written in a dynamic language in 1/2 the time. I say that C++ makes a program more complex, harder to maintain, and take longer to code and even ultimately LESS reliable when the poor slob who takes over the program to maintain it misREADS the code. C++ is truly shit.

But I think some ofhis answers mght be interesting but askign questions lile why are an asshole is totally moronic

I disagree. My ex-girlfriend had a mac laptop about perhaps 10 years ago, She had some sort of extended warranty on laptop. She retuned it under warrany 3 times for same problem until warranty expired. She wasn't agressive. I would have gone ape shit crazy. Clearly there was a defect in laptop but fixing laptop and then a couple of months later same fuckin problem reoccurs is ridiculous . The myth that expensive is quality: You are living in a fools paradise. Expensive simply means that you are paying more. If you are lucky it's higher quality. It actually might be cheaper buying a new non-luxury phone every couple of years. The sheeple wil never learn.

I bet u he left @ micro$oft ! What will he throw @ the basketball players?

Where's African Is that between NY and Vermont?

Really? Most of the skills to run a company take common sense. Its a myth that do a job that a moron can do takes skills. Let's see skills needed run a company : hire someone to keep track inventory and report to president hire someone to do research and report to president ditto ad infinitum An idiot can run a company Mostly common sense Pick any one off street and assuming they are middle class people Odds are they can run a company (ie not crazy, etc) Odds are they may be able do a better job All this BS about irreplaceable people is pure bullshit Now pick someone off street to design an electronic circuit You may have a problem Most people are idiots and most jobs can be done by anyone especially at higher levels

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“It is not impossible to govern Italians, merely useless.” -Mussolini Italy is a fuckn zoo

Boss or wife? Boss and wife are same person.

Yes I agree Linux has high performance firewalls called open office. But it is now called libre Office firewall (cough .... cough) which is even better (cough ... cough ... cough).

Don't worry be happy.. 12-21-2012 is just around the corner. Who cares? I welcome our new overlords, the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse. We don't manufacture anything. We outsource everything. Damn I think the 4 horsemen are Indian and they all have a Texas accent too !!!

Interesting I never thought of pessimists as lazy. My experience has been that most jaded/pessimistic people seem to realize what is going on while optimists seem almost stupid or outright stupid. Most optimists that I have met seem to tun their lives by soundbites: simplistic aphorisms that can't possibly be true. But I have to admit that perhaps pessimists are lazy and perhaps just complain and never do anything. Sad perhaps if true. Unfortunately I have to admit u might be right. .