Frankly, yes. I would rather my service provider sell out to the government, or not, by choice. When there is a gun to everyone's head, nobody feels responsible and eventually everyone forgets how right and wrong feel. I can hold AT&T, Verizon, et al accountable for every choice they make via the shareholder meeting…

This is why the States that have a lot of tow truck drivers like this are always trying to take your guns away. They know this is going to upset people, some to the point of violence, but it makes them and the tow companies money so naturally right and wrong are out the window.

They all work different places, at some of my customer sites. Especially in the North East corner of the US, it is often difficult to encourage people to move on from an IT career that no longer suits them. These guys might have been killer back in the day, and I respect their accomplishments, but there are no laurels…

Yes, it is stupidly common. I know no less than six IT people, these guys work with computers all day every day, mind you, who still insist on printing emails for various reasons. One guy does it to have a paper trail, another one because he doesn't like reading the screen, and the most common one is that they "miss…

Infinity this.

I have the same problem. I will turn documentation in a couple weeks late pretty consistently because I'm not happy with how three or four paragraphs flow, but the client isn't ever going to read it and it doesn't matter.

Obviously the money they lent you had some value to you at some time.

It's the only graph on Mint that makes me regret taking a consulting job... Ever since I have to pay for travel expenses and get reimbursed, I always have a bunch of debt keeping my net worth near zero :(

People who work in places that offer surgery want to cut you open and put in bits of metal to fix every problem, therefore they hate Chiropractitioners who offer a competing solution. Obviously they smell the money.

I wish my imagination was so lucrative. All I come up with are dumb jokes

But what they bought are use privileges, they didn't and cannot buy the land.

Technically, nobody but the Crown owns any land at all in England or Wales. The Crown owns the whole lot of it and all interests in any real property are the result of grants at some point in history of certain privileges, which can then be resold.

So that makes possession and distribution of it right up their alley.

We are talking about Sony, after all. I'm sure they can afford a CISO.

While I'm sure he'd enjoy your blessing, it isn't worth the billion dollars our young programmer apparently needs to give away to earn it. Not to mention the havoc a sudden, one-time infusion of a billion dollars into the charity market would wreak. Charities need organic growth in order to staff properly, otherwise…

You're thinking of the CISO, who is usually reporting to a CSO or CIO, who then reports to the CTO, CFO or COO as appropriate to the particular industry. A CISO is usually an extremely junior executive within the organization, though they are very frequently highly experienced IT/Information Security professionals.…

I often hear that Jonas Salk could have earned between 2 and 7 billion 2010 era dollars had he patented his Polio vaccine. For eradicating polio in the US, and enabling the entire world to eradicate polio should they have successfully implemented eradication efforts, our boy Salk would most certainly have earned every…

It's refreshing to see all these people wishing for the world's most evil tech conglomerate to have gotten a better deal buying that one video game all the kids are playing.

They didn't buy the game, they bought the audience. An audience, I might note, which is predominantly on the younger end and which largely had no emotional ties to Microsoft before MineCraft was purchased by same. This is about gaining long-term mindshare with the future citizens of the world. That is worth nearly any…

If that was honestly what somebody did for a living, that wouldn't be so bad. My "boss" essentially connects peeps like me with companies that need my particular brand of nerdspertise. I could not be nearly as productive without somebody else doing the client management, I'm sure tradesmen that don't want to run their…