progressive_dad

I feel as though I've been sent to sit in the corner with a dunce cap for daring to criticize a piece of journalism that equates releasing NSA spy tools on the black market with government whistleblowing.

As long as we're all stuck in the "Breakfast Club" for veering away from "the facts" might as well read something relevant: http://www.openculture.com/2015/03/huxley-to-orwell-my-helli...

Point well taken. Imagining Edward Snowden as my playful pathetic little brachiocephalic puppy dog stinking up his pew and being swatted on the nose with NEWSPAPER just made me giggle. I'll keep my GAS-lighting jokes to myself. Especially when it comes to LEAKING sensitive material...

Without any science behind it or having first hand access to the source for the tools used to identify such words/phrases/idioms you're just amateurishly putting lipstick on a pig.

Its a racist idiot's idea of a joke.

That's steganography not cryptography and generally considered to be the red-headed bastard step child of actual intelligence work. Don't be ridiculous.

Its some 4chan racist idiot's idea of a red herring.

I mean, selling NSA tools on the black market in broken english is about as far from government whistleblowing as I can stretch my imagination.

Absurdum is right.

This article falsely equates selling NSA tools on the black market with government whistleblowing.

Let's not get on a high horse about rhetoric in the comments?

Now I'm picturing martian sex tourism. Thanks.

More like being a UN human rights peace keeper.

What is this Amy Bouzaglo's kitchen?

How about stating that the CIA will, despite being a civilian organization, adopt the oath of the UCMJ. The Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) 809.ART.90 (20), makes it clear that personnel need to obey the “lawful command of his superior officer,” 891.ART.91 (2), the “lawful order of a warrant officer”, 892.ART.92 (1) the “lawful general order”, 892.ART.92 (2) “lawful order”. In each case, personnel have an obligation and a duty to only obey Lawful orders and indeed have an obligation to disobey Unlawful orders, including orders by the president that do not comply with the UCMJ. The moral and legal obligation is to the U.S. Constitution and not to those who would issue unlawful orders, especially if those orders are in direct violation of the Constitution and the UCMJ.

I don't know why you got down voted. You're absolutely right. Most everyone will tell you, "Its about maxing total compensation as much as you can to boost your overall earnings!"

Good luck with burning out at 35 with no passive income streams. I'd rather build equity, and even have a couple of rental properties from being a top 10% earner in a smaller area. That's a million dollar piggy bank being filled by someone else AND a passive income stream on which to retire.

I think I got the gist of OP's comment... Computer programmers make higher than the average salary. If you're barely making ends meet as a programmer your significant other is probably NOT making ends meet. Living together and sharing expenses saves some money but you'll probably be just about back where you started once you're married and co-habitating with your spouse.

Then comes kids...

The minute they try to lock you in a room the only appropriate response is to Bobby Hill your way out of there.

When is lobbying appropriate in your view? Is it the responsibility of government to facilitate the opening of new markets, for instance? As with TTIP?

How do you square a free market with a global economy where free markets are not the norm? How do you compete with state owned and operated business? Do you let these companies participate in your free market?

Are there any other instances you can imagine besides preventing revolving door monopolies where regulation might be appropriate?

*Your ideas don't sound very different from the form of capitalism practiced in America today which is a pretty far cry from the extreme ideas about free-market libertarian ideals I'm used to from fans of Ayn Rand. What are some principles you find appealing in her writing?

I believe the standard "party line" on housing costs would be something akin to Sweden. Purchasing a property for the explicit purpose of renting it is de-facto barred. Its not illegal but must be approved by your local tenant/owner association (like a condo board or home owner's association). This has the net effect of raising rents, making it extremely difficult to rent in the first place, while keeping home ownership within reach for nearly everyone due to depressing any kind of housing bubble or gentrification through property acquisition and flipping.

https://www.justlanded.com/english/Sweden/Sweden-Guide/Prope...

Do you distinguish between truly competitive capitalism and modern acquisition based growth? I will admit I only know about these topics from exchanges with peers such as this and haven't made it a study. I feel that modern capitalism... What I would call, "Militaristic" capitalism eliminates competition in the market, foments monopolistic practices, but drives global market growth and competition.

How would you describe your views on competition in the market and whether monopolies are desirable or inevitable in today's market?

They broke the mold when they made him.

Several asked to be transferred to other departments. That's what prompted his demand to be the sole point of provisioning. He had final say over Finance, Analytics, internal reporting tools, if he didn't like you it didn't get a server.

I had been with the company for four years at that point and I knew a lot of other old timers. Overnight it went from a flat organization with a progressive expectation that "No one is going to tell you what to do. You are here because you kick ass and we expect great things." to a strict hierarchy with several layers of management and influence.

Everyone who had been there as long as I had was equally unhappy with the new direction. This was all done under the guise of, "Getting the budget under control." when we all clearly saw the budget was fatter than ever. Where we had a diversity projects and research going on before, now we had 1 or 2 large money making projects. Where we had an expectation that we needed to be competitive and lean and every aspect mattered before, now they were hiring more and more management instead of workers.

We were doing so well that many former co-workers contacted me and other old timers during this time and we warned them off. Many simply didn't renew their contracts because they saw the writing on the wall.

Only one other person outright quit and that was really heartbreaking to watch. He had just transferred from California and the bullying was so bad he told me he was going home to stay with his sister and start going to therapy. He couldn't stand the idea of working in tech anymore.

I stuck it out until he confiscated the personal laptop of an engineer who had permission to use it on network.

After that I got permission to work from home for a month and used the opportunity to find a new job.

I think we've all seen a good engineer get fired because he's a pushover.

You know who doesn't get fired?

Story time: We had the most brilliant and insufferable devops engineer I've ever met. I don't mean just your standard grump overworked sys admin. This guy was a treasure. 1) Previously all engineers had 20% time and would work on personal projects. We had a ton of extra servers lying around and it was fairly simple to provision some space to work on an idea. His first week he went to the CTO and had 20% time axed and demanded that all provisioning go directly through him and all physical servers be nuked from orbit. 2) They got him a personal secretary. He routinely had her go 5 blocks to get him gummy bears, buy him a waffle iron and make him waffles in the office, and routinely made sexist comments. 3) Op sec. We would have media come by the office once in a while so this guy instituted a policy of "security through shame" If you didn't have 2factor auth on your email he would send you snide comments. If you didn't use full disk encryption you had to go to a mandatory course on personal security. If you left your laptop unlocked at your desk to go the bathroom it was prank emails and screwing with your settings. On the 3rd time he would confiscate your laptop and lock it in a personal safe he had under his desk for the day. 4) This guy would use our internal channels and slack to shame anyone non-technical. One time the personal assistant to a VP in another department accidentally posted a listing asking if anyone had a bed for sale to the channel for asking about restaurants in the area. 24hours of shame where he got the entire tech team to participate emailing everyone in the company if they had any food shaped furniture for sale. Apparently she broke down crying and had to go home for the day. 5) Despite the fact that we had no QA team this guy refused to deploy hotfixes even for critical launches. You got one day a week to launch code. You got one chance. If there was anything wrong it was, "roll back and try next week." Unless of course the issue was you needed a CDN cache clear or there was something wrong with the build. Then you could email him (directly after the deployment) and have him refuse to respond or believe you for about an hour before he would actually do anything.

These guys get promoted. They run things.

They fire the pushovers.

It works for FOIA

My 8 year old son knows more about the Rift from watching his youtube buddies than I did. That's when I realized its gonna stick this time. He had a chance to use it at his summer camp and now he's saving his allowance so he can ask Santa for one and buy a Kinect to make VR experiences at home (Luckily his superhero dad is a PHP and C# programmer by day)

Little kids love even the simplest buggy broken demos. They go wild for it.

If demanding humane working conditions is globally anti-competitive call me Mr. Monopoly.

I'm just tired of hearing, "but we didn't know working conditions were so bad!" from US owned businesses. You damn well should have.

The US needs to set some ground rules with our Chinese rivals...

Start with requiring occupancy of all homes held by foreign nationals, trusts or investment groups, or you pay enormous property tax increases.

Then you require all US businesses selling consumer products to staff at least 1 US resident inspector for each stage of the supply chain from raw goods to finished product. If the host country doesn't like it, then you can't do business with that host country. This inspector may be called before Congress to answer personally (with jail time) for any human rights abuses not reported in the supply chain.

How about creating federal guidelines under which churches may receive federal and local education funding for using their space as a school 5 days a week.

This would EMPHATICALLY not be vouchers. The funds would only be available to churches that do not currently run a private school.

Get more religious nut jobs out of my child's secular public schools. Reduce class size. Create more teaching jobs. Everyone's happy.

I had quite a few friends who excelled in Science and Tech in highschool and went on to MIT, Stanford, Virginia Tech, GA Tech, Purdue, UofI Urbana, etc.

My parents were over 500k in debt when I was applying to colleges and I had a pretty good idea what I wanted to do with my life, so I opted for an associates degree from a community college and to start my career as a computer programmer as soon as possible. I was making enough money I made it a point to travel to visit my friends and they all seemed miserable, stressed out, disappointed with their choices, frustrated, lost...

All except my friend who went to WPI. He was as enthusiastic and happy as ever eating bad Chinese food, bent over 30 half assembled hacked gameboys, same as when I'd last seen him 3 years ago.

Its the first place I want to take my son when he's looking at colleges.

I'm often asked to remove my shoes before intercourse, but I found out you can opt out of both this AND the cavity search.

Stop looking backward nxzero. Stop it. Obama says we can't do that. Its bad. He's not doing it. Why are you? We gotta move forward. Its time to heal and put the past behind us. As a nation. You don't want to be looking backward as a nation do you nxzero? Do you? Forward. As a nation. Look there.

Create a bot with a set budget which uses a short term gains investment strategy called, "Day Trading". The timing of the purchase and sale of these stocks would be informed by a script written to digest and interpret live twitter feeds around the world and monitor them for key terms and indications that the stock of a particular company will dramatically go up or down.