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You actually had a leader when she was in power, thats quite a big plus in my book.

One who only attempted to lead half the nation unfortunately. Big in image, rhetoric and propaganda but actually pretty bad at running the country. We are all indeed suffering from a lack of leadership now, but leadership of that kind is not what anyone really wants.

Speaking during a debate to mark the death of the former prime minister, Tebbit said he had to turn down an invitation to rejoin her cabinet to allow him to care for his wife, Margaret, who was gravely injured in the 1984 Brighton bomb. "I left her at the mercy of her friends," he said.

This says more about the true style of that government than any of the deliberately created myths do.

Are we?:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic ... s-age.html

Da, ist ours:

http://news.yahoo.com/mars-photos-may-r ... 39074.html

Good article on why programmers are frequently grumpy.

-- GSH

So true. That was how it worked at the company where I was a software tester. The machines got designed and built first obviously, what the software was supposed to do was defined by non programmers. It was then down to the programmers to create that vision and make the machine work and for us testers to tell them where they'd got it wrong, all within a nice formal process and a fixed release date. Frequently the reality needed some adjustment and we had to rewrite the designers specifications for them in order to get a working product.
The programmers were grumpy and the testers undervalued to the point of being treated just like the cleaning staff, both were employed on contracts, one generous and negotiable the other a static non-career "like it or leave" option. Programmers moved on frequently and the testers...the only ones who got promoted where the useless ones, promoted to somewhere they could not cause quite so much harm to the company, those of us who did "like it" all ended up leaving anyway eventually, there was no other way up but out.
Of course production soon moved to the far east anyway and software development went with it.
Programmers must weave their own career paths, a long career with one company is not a desirable prospect.
Testers...well there must be a few companies out there who value this peculiar specialization in their own products systems, but really it is not a career path to anywhere, you end up specialised in aspects of that one companies technology but nowhere even near the bottom rung of their promotion ladder and everyone else thinks you have just spent several years doing nothing worthwhile at all.

MrTwosheds wrote:So true. [snip]

What you just said is so compabable to the company I work for, which has nothing to do with software development.

Huh, no wonder I've been in such a bad mood:

http://www.wnd.com/2013/04/americans-sn ... -millions/

Shame the author had to turn his article into a politically biased attack, it just shows that he has very little understanding or actual interest in the subject he/she is writing about...Its someone else's fault, not your own for just going along with the whole lunatic rush to consume our world in the name of imaginary profits and driving yourselves mad in the usually futile attempt to attain "success", whatever that is. Somehow we have built a culture of auto-enslavement, you can see it very clearly in any discussion on children and their education. Sad to say, this is actually a mass spiritual failure.
The religions have ceased to perform their main function of continually seeking knowledge of and understanding the world we make around us. They have retreated into dogma and the darkness of their old sacred certainties, leaving us at the mercy of that which they are supposed to lead the fight against...Ourselves.

I hope the people commenting aren't representative of the rest of the population

They aren't. The majority of people here can't compose a coherent sentence. These are the cream of the crop.

As a man who is facianted with bayoent charges, this is freaking hilarious:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pzxb2sxbDU

Cool:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/ ... X520130429

I thought you guys would get a laugh out of this one.
What happens when pirates play a game development simulator and then go bankrupt because of piracy?

That is clever.

Yeah ladies and genteleman, saturn is the eye of terror

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/ ... -Hurricane