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Less than two years for swiping $1 million
"Appropriate?" In my book, any statement is bullshit that isn't backed up--in no matter what forum it is made. Information, not rhetoric. Analysis is fine, but only when the factual foundations for the analysis are up front. While I'll reserve judgment on this particular case, the vacuum isn't making it look good. Until relevant and comprehensive information accompanies the statements, I'm done with this. Too bad--I really wanted to know the basis for why the underdog was right and the "system" was wrong . . .— August 31, 2015 7:57 a.m.
How will Qualcomm layoffs affect SD area?
Silly sie bum!— August 30, 2015 8:15 p.m.
How will Qualcomm layoffs affect SD area?
Ok, Ponzi (and Don), you've really got me thinkin' now. Here's some of the mush that hasn't solidified into anything coherent yet: When it comes to getting things righter than wronger, it seems that "we" tend to get into an "either/or" trap, blind to what we can't see, know, or understand. Language has its limits, as does mathematics. There seems to be a realm of brain activity that lies beyond both, but has an inexplicable ability to go beyond those limits and resolve complex systems "while we sleep." Loft Zadeh, for example, having worked for some time on something he hadn't named, woke up from a dead sleep in a motel and had the concept of Fuzzy Logic pretty much worked out. (This is the story as I recall reading about it; it may not be perfectly accurate.) I have to re-read some of the old stuff on successive approximation. “We” tend, I suspect, to be more linear than divergent in our thinking, and prefer the static to the dynamic. When we think in terms of image, we think of an unchanging snapshot in time and space, and fear to venture beyond. Why the hell we prefer, the frozen, the cast-in-concrete, the certain to the ever-changing and dynamic, I don’t quite understand even though it seems to exist, nay, dominate our individual and collective being. Long have I worked at resisting the certain, I confess frequent lapses. I can’t guess or assume what others may wish, but “give me liberty or give me death.” I reckon that can be arranged—at least with respect to the latter.— August 30, 2015 4:23 p.m.
How will Qualcomm layoffs affect SD area?
Re: " Ponzi Aug. 29, 2015 @ 6:13 p.m. So, Compaq, a computer designed on the back of a napkin was conceived from some Texas Instrument engineers and the Compaq portable was born." My first computer. I still have it. Tw— August 30, 2015 2:50 p.m.
How will Qualcomm layoffs affect SD area?
Ponzi, at the very least you should do an oral history (as well), but at least get the stories you write here into general circulation (unfortunately, the way the Reader website is structured, only a few obsessive types like us will ever know about them, and the various search engines will bury them. And starting a Reader blog is like singing in the shower. Still, the Reader archive of Don's blog is better than nothing, I suppose. But how long will it last? This is admittedly a case of the pot implying that the kettle is black here, as I have some video and audio of some outstanding people that I should have gotten into an archive years ago. You can write. Tw— August 30, 2015 2:47 p.m.
How will Qualcomm layoffs affect SD area?
But Don, "image over substance" is the giant balloon of progress . . .— August 30, 2015 2:33 p.m.
How will Qualcomm layoffs affect SD area?
Ponzi, you've got a helluva book here, and not just the the story but the undercurrents. But most of all the PRINCIPLES that draw crucial distinctions between merit-based innovation and crony, blood-sucking, scheming "capitalism." Tw PS: My whole goddammerung "career" (life-work) has been the story of stubbornly sticking to what I know is right and being undermined by (if you'll excuse the expression) blow-dried suits that never challenge anything but make a "science" out of persuasion--in other words, failure after failure. Those guys undoubtedly sleep better at night than I do, and do so in McMansions in Rancho Santa Fe. Image over substance.— August 30, 2015 8:40 a.m.
San Diego: Tech City, U.S.A., babies
You're about as independent as they make 'em, Don. I'm relieved to hear that. What are their financials and administrative performance like? Are they more or less costly in tuition than Bridgepoint ad nauseam? Tw— August 29, 2015 5:13 p.m.
How will Qualcomm layoffs affect SD area?
I with you on the dim sum--my memory doesn't add up to much either. But why did the stock plunge? Tw PS: Buying stock with my gut and heart has been one of my greatest faults--and I've got the relative poverty to prove it.— August 29, 2015 5:09 p.m.
Former UCAN founder wins lawsuit
Rampant in NGO's. No Good Organizations? Caution, at least, is in order. The more vague promises, the less info about sources of income, details about how/where money is spent, unwillingness to post financials--all are danger signs. "Membership" organizations that have self-perpetuating boards and deny "members" the right to vote for board members are, by definition, not public, e.g., all the museums in Balboa Park (and almost everywhere else). Fifth-columnists are inserted into all kinds of public and nonprofit organizations. What was the basis of Shames' claim? Tw— August 29, 2015 3:11 p.m.