tomjen

Thomas Jefferson is allowed to boast, but Franklin didn't build his own house.

Simple: They forgot to invest in people who can lobby their side in Washington. Microsoft had the same problem in the 90'ies. If you aren't spending 20% of your income on lobbism as a big company, you are a sitting duck. A startup don't have to, since they are mostly invisible anyway.

Yes, this sucks and I would love a world in which it was not. Being realistic, however this is the way out of it.

I don't run antivirus, instead I configured a secondary account and then removed the admin privileges on my primary one. This has the added effect of preventing Skype from installing annoying browser toolbars.

Chickens are better for that purposes, since their excrements are some of the best fertilizer around. They also smell better than the goat.

My guess is that it is actually illegal.

He wrote it in 1948, which is post Mickey so it is still under copyright.

Not that it matters, as you pointed out.

I don't mind what you do - nor do I think the parent does - but techchrunch is not a porn site, and it is not a blog about porn, when they write about porn it annoys those who come there to read tech news.

May he rot and burn in hell, and may all the world forget he ever lived.

Not really, as inflation is properly damaging more than this negative interest.

You get a job because you want to make money. Whether you write Java stuff for bigcorp a or bigcorp b doesn't matter, they are going to require the same skills so they are "commodity" work places. You get a job there because you love to code and would like to make money. In short, you love to work.

Now, there are a few exceptions, of course, such as Frog Creek or your dream job, where you get a job because you love to work there.

You might get that if you worked at some place I wanted to work more than the average place, but for the average firm, why bother?

Find a convenient tin-pot dictator and make sure to give him a good amount of money to keep out of your affairs.

That is a good one, though I fancy this more:

"Good friend for Jesus' sake forbear To dig the dust enclosed here: Blest be the man that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones. Epitaph on his tomb, probably self composed" -- Shakespeare

I have long wanted a "ban Scribd" option for my google resposes. It used to crash my firefox whenever I left their site too.

My mother is better than your mother then, she had the good sense to use a throw away email account.