This is definitely a harmful and cancerous view, but it reaches across the aisle. Limousine liberals at the most obvious, but also city people who hate country people, etc

My manager is an expert at doing my job. I cannot express how much that helps.

Managers who can understand what their employees are doing are better to work with. The ones who can't, constantly live in fear and push that fear onto their underlings.

Your idea is to punish everyone instead of addressing the person who is the problem?

Then the problem is you. Collective punishment was abandoned in civilized countries millenia ago.

Without wage suppression, food will cost twice as much or more.

That explains why they're flailing. They should have laid off a Cyrix instead.

Are you saying Trump did 9/11 so he could have the bigliest building?

That's exactly what's wrong with USDA Organic and other similar labels. The founders of the Organic gardening movement absolutely did not mean that. Organic farming was envisioned as a cyclical system where human feces returned to fields and soil health and community health supported one another. We kind of, sort of do that with sewage sludge, but it's terrible. Even if you didn't mix in all the various stuff people pour down their drains (which is pretty much everything you can imagine, if it will go down a drain, someone is pouring it there) you'd still have to deal with modern pharmaceuticals, many of which survive intact through both the human body and the sewage processing system.

You cannot successfully reduce a concept like organic farming to a list of approved products and still have it be true to that concept.

It's a pretty safe bet that no one person could do all the things when the system is this big and complicated, so that doesn't prove anything.

Also, Amazon apparently can't either.

Perhaps I'm salty because Bethesda just let the world down with announcement of a Fallout 4 rerelease (which is just going to fuck up all the mods and implement a little more eye candy, and fix almost no bugs, if history is any indication) but I'm pretty tired of rehashes of old games. Halo CE also has the problem that a significant percentage of the game is just fucking boring, namely the part where you're going through a maze of twisty passages, all alike. They're not likely to change that part substantially. The rest of the game is great, I'm not a Halo hater and in fact I bought the MCC edition on Steam, but introducing a new generation of gamers to one of the series' greatest misses is a poor substitute for a new title in it.

Maybe this is why our supervisors don't have to be shitty to us where I work. We have metrics that make it immediately obvious who's doing what. For example, I just had a performance review, and I meet a month's obligations in a week. So nobody has to ride my ass or count the minutes I spend taking breaks.

Apple had a line of servers before. Where is that business now? Oh yeah, they pulled a Google and canned it completely. Twice, in fact. But by all means, buy Apple servers, there's absolutely no chance you will get abandoned a third time, right?

My local Sears (in the Capitola Mall) had all kinds of departments. They did tires and batteries, had sizable camping and exercise equipment sections, a fairly decent electronics section with I think three different computers, appliances, housewares, jewelry and watches, and probably some other things I'm forgetting besides clothing obviously. And they had a fairly active catalog and layaway department, as Sears still had a fairly large catalog at the time. They were fairly easy to deal with, their prices were decent, they had good sales. They also had parts departments and you could get replacement parts for most of their tools many years later, and of course the hand tools had lifetime warranties (except for torque wrenches, even if the failure is not related to the torque part... sigh.)

The one complaint I did have about vintage Sears is that those parts were usually stupidly expensive, like they'd sell you a $5 primer bulb for a string trimmer for $20 plus shipping.

The fact that Azure is popular isn't a coincidence. It's in part because it's the easiest thing to get to from Windows, and Windows is still dominant in business and government. As you say, integration.

So if you're using less Windows at home, Azure is less appealing. There's still a case for it, you might still choose to use it etc, it's just less likely. That's why whether the customers are running Windows or not matters. And Windows is becoming steadily more offensive — can you ever trust it with your data on any basis? And oh yeah, Microsoft has had several embarrassing failures of security in Azure-related services.

I don't agree. As long as they still had real estate and shipping, they were in a position to make a comeback if they only demonstrated some competence. But instead of that, the real estate was sold off and the web site was never made not trash. As I recall they mostly hung on to the shipping and did some deals there, and they also had a line of business doing largely incompetent repair work, but selling the property was a huge failure.