pessimizer

That classic scenario originated in an opinion supporting jailing someone for handing out flyers opposing the WWI draft, during a period in American history when jailing people for antiwar speech or s…

Mexico doesn't have freedom of speech. According to the constitution, speech can be restricted if it offends good morals, incites crime, disturbs the public order, or disrespects private lives, morals…

I don't mean to negatively characterize you as an individual due to your public admission of a serious handicap. I mean to positively characterize ughs comment as adding to the conversation and not be…

I just happened to be passing by, and have no dog in this fight. I just don't think ugh has one either. He isn't saying what you think he's saying. I've spent weeks of my life fixing accessibility on …

That implication is based on the fact that he has reviewed seven dog trainers, given two of them one star reviews, one of them a five star review, and the other four reviews weren't worth mentioning i…

Because ugh isn't trying to convince you of anything, but you seem to be trying to convince him, over and over again, at increasing length, that people are different and that what some people call "ha…

Businesses aren't made of people any more than they are made of bricks or telephones. Businesses employ people, and are owned by people. Assuming that businesses will be nice because they are largely …

Agreed. If there was one terrible review written a year or two ago by someone with a reviewing history, and then suddenly twenty gushing all caps reviews filled with superlatives and exclamations of p…

I'm pretty sure that there's no way to do this without effectively just releasing pristine copies that somebody will cut the ads out of within 5 minutes of them being posted. They could use their own …

I'm in - and I'd be looking to experiment for somewhere around 50 years, give or take 20. The major problem with something like that as I've seen it is that any arrangement or economy between people i…

He got from "SVN [is] to Git what Windows 98 was to Windows XP." "SVN is a slightly crappier version of Git." to "SVN is a version of Git in which every time you want to start a branch or merge it bac…

I see curation as the important problem right now. It's telling that the two web juggernauts right now are Google and Facebook - both basically curation companies through search and social networkin…

I'm thinking more about easy to use low footprint FOSS blogging software, cheaper smaller processors, wireless, mesh networking, internationalization, distribution (a la bittorrent, group blogs, arXiv…

I think the problem is a bit deeper than that: I think that journalism as a product rather than as advocacy has failed. There are hundreds of amazing free blogs out there, surviving on donations from …

To the extent that people have to do a 12 year study program to do first aid or put on a band-aid, I'm suggesting that people should do a 12 year study program to put up their volleyball club's websit…

I'd buy this argument if a CS degree qualified you for a programming job. It doesn't. It doesn't even mean you can program. You're expected to learn all of the skills that a programmer uses on the job…

There's an amount of legal work currently outsourced to India - things that can be legally outsourced, that is. Currently, the class of things that can be legally outsourced is small (research + writi…

Not prior art? http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevericketts/5500614942/

Just to recommend something that people swear by, but I'm just getting around to trying out - orgmode on emacs (orgmode.org). Super-sophisticated organizer using text files. Source control can be used…

There isn't a shortage of LPNs. In a lot of places there are an excess of LPNs.

I would guess that the sluggish productivity figures are a result of the sluggish capital expenditures during the recession.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Futurological_Congress

@idiopathic: You're right, I read it badly. Sorry, crag.

That's exactly what I did - loaded the machine with some odd shaped component, again and again, as fast as I could. And somebody looked at what came out for quality control, then that was packed onto …

Related to nothing, I worked one of these bastards too: http://www.mailmarketplace.com/inserters/5250_001IN.htm . It shoves mail into envelopes so I can swamp you with useless credit card offers, ret…

Nursing is a highly skilled job that requires college education, like programming, except that it requires college education .

If you're paying $20 an hour and you can't find a decent Java programmer, I'm not sure if it's a failure of the market. I wouldn't program for $20 an hour no matter where I lived, unless life sucked o…

Agricultural workers do not get paid substantially more than $13.00/hr gasket inspectors, they get paid substantially less and they work in the sun. A nursing job is a very high skilled job that is ve…