The Mighty Buzzard (profile), May 23rd, 2013 @ 8:23pm
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For chemists, electronics engineers, and medical careers I agree. These are proper science and engineering fields and should remain as they are, more or less.
Things that are not proper science or the application of it though? They're better taught in trade schools or learned on the job. Spending years and thousands of dollars on a degree for them is foolish beyond belief and does no good for anyone except the universities.
The humanities? They're another discussion entirely; a fair number of their degrees have no career path whatsoever outside teaching them to the next batch of students.
The Mighty Buzzard (profile), May 23rd, 2013 @ 6:45pm
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Some do but quite a lot of them pay better than you'd think. Plumber, electrician, and HVAC guys all make a hell of a lot more than I did at my first sysadmin job, as do most union jobs. For that matter, sysadmin isn't really helped by having a degree beyond basic coding ability and that can be picked up for free online.
Most business positions have no need of what they had to learn for a business degree. Accountants and lawyers being pretty much the only exception.
The Mighty Buzzard (profile), May 23rd, 2013 @ 6:17pm
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College is also entirely unnecessary for the vast majority of jobs. If you want a better baseline education, improve K-12 education and leave college for those it will actually benefit.
The Mighty Buzzard (profile), Apr 25th, 2013 @ 11:59pm
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They would have already had that rude awakening if it weren't for this one holdup. We can't agree which of the bastards will be first against the wall when the revolution comes.
The Mighty Buzzard (profile), Apr 11th, 2013 @ 10:24am
Eh, I'm not particularly upset by this request. With a colo server or two, it's quite possible to commit any number of crimes within the borders of a nation that you've never been to physically and have no one acting as a representative in.
Good on Dotcom for finding the loophole but, last I checked, we were big on paying attention to unintended consequences around here and leaving the law as it stands has plenty of them.
There are plenty of unintended consequences to be had to saying all US laws apply to any company with any hardware located in the US too though. This mess needs some very careful wording to straighten out.
The Mighty Buzzard (profile), Apr 11th, 2013 @ 6:20am
Yesterday via Twitter:
@NathanFillion "@PirateKnits:Captain, looking to unload illegal hats. pic.twitter.com/fR1V0wJA9b" You got a job? We'll do it. Don't much care what it is
The Mighty Buzzard (profile), Apr 1st, 2013 @ 1:51pm
tl;dr Don't selv-censor because this kind of stuff should never be shown, self-censor because this is not the kind of stuff we want to be known for showing.
The Mighty Buzzard (profile), Mar 14th, 2013 @ 5:11pm
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I don't really give a happy damn if it entirely kills their market. That's capitalism. Provide something worth paying for or GTFO.
If they're stand-up businessmen, they'll do like you suggest and build their business around providing value on top of what's available for free. If they're douchebags, they'll try to go the legislative protection route. If they're idiots, they'll keep doing the same thing and go bankrupt.
I honestly don't care which they pick aside from the legislative protection route. If they succeed, they get fat wads of cash for being useful to society. If they fail, someone else will be happy to take our money in their place. As long as there's no protectionism going on, everyone who's not either bloody stupid or a greedy fucktard wins.
The Mighty Buzzard (profile), Mar 10th, 2013 @ 11:06am
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The Xerox Star was the first personal computer released with a mouse in 81. The Apple Lisa came along in 82, I think, as the second one to include a mouse. The VIC-20 hit the shelves in 80.
The Mighty Buzzard (profile), Mar 10th, 2013 @ 6:55am
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Unless you've somehow been literally getting tangled up in your mouse cable (how would you even manage that?) you're coming at it from a strictly aesthetic standpoint. Aesthetics can be nifty but they are by definition not useful.
The Mighty Buzzard (profile), Mar 9th, 2013 @ 11:52pm
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It's slow. It's cumbersome. It's not even on the same order of magnitude of precision as a mouse. It can't even begin to compare with the keyboard in range of input.
It's a gimmick that may prove useful in some limited ways but that's all.
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Things that are not proper science or the application of it though? They're better taught in trade schools or learned on the job. Spending years and thousands of dollars on a degree for them is foolish beyond belief and does no good for anyone except the universities.
The humanities? They're another discussion entirely; a fair number of their degrees have no career path whatsoever outside teaching them to the next batch of students.
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Most business positions have no need of what they had to learn for a business degree. Accountants and lawyers being pretty much the only exception.
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Sage advice in these times.
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Good on Dotcom for finding the loophole but, last I checked, we were big on paying attention to unintended consequences around here and leaving the law as it stands has plenty of them.
There are plenty of unintended consequences to be had to saying all US laws apply to any company with any hardware located in the US too though. This mess needs some very careful wording to straighten out.
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If they're stand-up businessmen, they'll do like you suggest and build their business around providing value on top of what's available for free. If they're douchebags, they'll try to go the legislative protection route. If they're idiots, they'll keep doing the same thing and go bankrupt.
I honestly don't care which they pick aside from the legislative protection route. If they succeed, they get fat wads of cash for being useful to society. If they fail, someone else will be happy to take our money in their place. As long as there's no protectionism going on, everyone who's not either bloody stupid or a greedy fucktard wins.
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It's a gimmick that may prove useful in some limited ways but that's all.