it's the political cover to make changes they knew they should make all along
No argument here. Every single time that I've been in an organization that has brought in management consultants, the results of their work were almost exactly in line with advice that we had been feeding upper management for some time.
It's infuriating to have the right answers to solve problems while people at the top ignore good advice and then spend huge amounts of money to get that good advice repeated to them by other people.
Even worse is when upper management acts like the consultant advice is the first time they've heard those recommendations.
I have a TouchBar MacBook and I was pretty peeved about the escape key at first, but once I remapped the caps lock key to escape I never looked back. The caps lock key is worthless anyway.
That said, the only cool use for the TouchBar that I've noted is with iTerm2. Changing terminal colors on the fly from the TouchBar is actually kinda nifty.
So you're saying that Koch brother audiences are less hateful?
Have you spent any time on twitter? Have you found a particularly virtuous and polite political camp that doesn't vitriolically attack their opponents?
Do you think it would be any different for a speech from one of the Koch brothers? People who use their wealth to directly influence the political process are particularly reviled by their ideological opponents.
The tarnishing of American business has nothing to do with Snowden.
Snowden will never be a customer of Andreessen's companies' products. The US Government very likely will be.
He doesn't care about the ethics of the situation. He just knows that revenues in other countries for the Valley are going down and that he can't very well bite the hand that feeds the Valley domestically.
Sorry, by "answers" I didn't mean final solutions to every problem. I don't assume that there are answers to existence... not in the certainty of death and taxes sense. I meant that there was a direction to go in that was far superior to where they were. In programming terms, a superior local optimum was already evident.
The author makes a lot of excuses for Marx's philosophy based upon the times in which he existed, ignoring the fact that The Age of Enlightenment had already occurred. The Founding Fathers of the USA had already set the USA experiment in motion, based upon the thoughts of Locke and Montesquieu - among others.
There were already abundant answers to the problems that Marx was witnessing, but rather than celebrate the liberty of the individual, Marx subjugated every individual to the limitless needs and exigencies of the "masses".
Great, so a few of Marx's tenets out of context of his larger theme made some sense. His context, though, was completely screwed up.
No argument here. Every single time that I've been in an organization that has brought in management consultants, the results of their work were almost exactly in line with advice that we had been feeding upper management for some time.
It's infuriating to have the right answers to solve problems while people at the top ignore good advice and then spend huge amounts of money to get that good advice repeated to them by other people.
Even worse is when upper management acts like the consultant advice is the first time they've heard those recommendations.