Its the Ender Wiggin “Hit the enemy so hard that they can never hit you back.”

In 2001, my step-mom had a 98 Accord V6 that was the lease was finished on. It was already inspected, and drop off was set for 9 days later. My VW Corrado at the time was getting painted, so I had no car and my dad was like ‘just take the Accord.’ Well, being that it was already inspected for the lease turn in,…

If you fix a bug, the bug is fixed. It may have other unintended consequences or manifest in different ways with different inputs or reveal other flaws or introduce NEW bugs, but bugs don’t magically unfix themselves.

Or that’s all they CAN afford. A 20 year old EM or FA Civic or mk4 Jetta 2.0 for $3-7000 are affordable and obtainable for someone making $15/hr and will mostly be reliable and easy to maintain. A 10 year old auto-only Corolla? Probably a better car than the previous two, but they’re $12K or so. 

That’s two completely different things, though. A person can just as easily strike your child or t-bone you at an intersection. In fact, I’d venture to say that > 99.999% of all children ever struck by a vehicle were human driven. Same with t-boning.

I started roughly the same time as you. I was fired on July 8th 2000, though. I had downloaded a copy of Jet Set Radio (The Japanese version, since the US version had not been announced, nor released yet, and wouldn’t be until October of 2000). One of my coworkers asked if he could borrow it so I brought it in and…

Which sucks because there’s still antiquated IT equipment out there that REQUIRES old ass java versions to run, and IE was the easiest/quickest way to get that shit to run. Looking at you, EMC VNX’s.

I don’t think they said it will be sliced specifically for YOUR sandwich JIT. Just that they won’t be opening packs of pre-sliced Hilshire Farms style lunchmeat. They’ll likely slice up 2lbs of turkey and ham in the morning and stick it in the same container that held the pre-sliced meat. 

He’s even said that he won’t really do ‘big beefy’ roles for much longer, if at all anymore, and more specifically Drax. He said he’s 54 years old and it’s just way too much work to maintain the physique and it’s not going to get any easier.

Is that even legally like... culpable? “She signaled me to jump off the roof and I’d be fine... but I still broke my legs. It’s her fault!” It’s like blaming the GPS for driving into a lake. “But it said turn left!”

Usually happens when they’re leaving a well lit place like a gas station or similar. It’s light enough that it doesn’t click in your brain to turn the lights on.

But so what if Sony IS affected. It’s not a monopoly is the argument. If Sony has all these successful exclusives themselves, they remain a viable alternative. Sony is on top of the mountain currently, and have been for 10+ years. MSFT is affected every time Sony buys a studio and/or buys game exclusivity. If they…

Yeah like, I don’t fully *agree* with the take, but I see where she’s coming from, especially when they need to make the argument that it won’t damage Sony. It’s a disingenuous, lawyer-ese argument, but it’s got SOME merit, even if only from a certain point of view.

Yeah, it’s this. Your work laptop isn’t yours. It belongs to the company who lets you use it. I used to have people who, when putting in their notice, would ask me to move their music/movies/photos/etc to a thumb drive so they could keep them. I always said we’re not allowed to touch personal stuff since if there’s…

They should make a second show that’s just American Idol except its just R&M auditions with Dan Harmon, Chris Parnell, Sarah Chalke and Spencer Grammar as judges.

I happens all the time everywhere. Not always with such sensitive data, but still. I worked for a company that as part of one of our products did a credit and background check on applicants that used the system. They also had DEBUG level logging on in JBoss. Those logs, in plain text on the server and parsed and…

These companies do need these people. But they’re willing to inflict a little damage on themselves in the short term to flood the market with talent in order to raise the supply and be able to lower the wages. I truly believe that this is all an attempt to force people to take less money. 

I’m not disagreeing with you in the least. However, I don’t think the stance would be taken by the Democrats with the same rationale. The Democrats also don’t run on a ‘DEY TOOK YER JERBS!’ platform. 

Again, let’s not act like the US corporations wouldn’t do it if they could. In fact, a lot of them do... just in other countries. Chevron, Monsanto, Coca-Cola, Chiquita, etc have all done similar. Just not on US soil, and that seems to be anyone here really cares about.

Unlike all the US based, unfriendly, human-rights-violating corporations that are already here, right? You realize that the Supreme Court is already trying to gut the right to strike in the US? They don’t hate China’s human rights abuses. They’re jealous that they can’t get away with doing it here without a slow roll.