Great movie.
Isnāt it, though. Itās like my favorite teen movie after Heathers.
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Iām going to have to watch my back after what I posted above. Someoneās likely to snark at me on Twitter.
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Piece work?
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Nah, Iām a possibly overpayed salary class professional in mid-career. Along with my own work, I manage a six person engineering security team in three countries. My payment is not directly tied to hours or specific work items.
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From the little Iāve read of Zizek, he sometimes restates what others have said in an interesting way. But, he seems to have an idea of dialectical reasoning that amounts to simply being contrarian, and carelessly assumes that everyone understands this, so his political assertions tend to be murky.
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Have I wandered into the 'Sup Marxists thread by accident?
I kid, I kidā¦it makes perfect sense to head in the direction of political and economic theory in a thread about a market collapse. Itās just funny to see how quickly we got here.
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My understanding is that Marx was just presenting the broad overview anyway, but that the middle classes expanded and took on a more important role in stabilizing the system overall than Marx and early Marxists anticipated. Trotsky, in the '20s, was referring to āthe petty bourgeoisie and the new middle classesā.
Iāve noticed that when Iām trying to explain the basics of Marxism to people, what people express most confusion about is the theory of crises, and whatās the nature of the middle class. The former is fairly confusing, in my opinion, but Iād think classes are relatively obvious. I think people tend to get hung up on legalistic definitions and trying to categorize individuals, when itās less about describing individuals and more about describing large-scale patterns, like mapping ocean currents.
Speaking of legalistic definitions, Iād occasionally see people get hung up on working class people being āwage earnersā and so be confused about people on salary, or whether contract workers were petty bourgeois. It seems pretty obvious to me that Uber driversā interests are working class interests, but the whole 1099 scam seems to really confuse some people.
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Better a @falcor behind me than a frontal lobotomy!
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Hello. Guess what I do. See you at defcon this year?
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Engineer death bots?
I suspect we may be in the same field. All the engineers I manage do fuzzing as their fulltime job.
I bought my DEFCON plane tickets and hotel room yesterday, in fact. Be there representing Moz. Iām not doing Blackhat though (seven years in a row of both was enough).
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Black hat is a rip off. I donāt know if I will be representing anyone this year, but defcon is too good of a conference to miss. (I tend to lead reverse engineers, antifraud, and light crypto stuff)
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Oh, and @shaddack is the death robot engineer in these parts 
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It is less a rip off when it isnāt your own money but we came around to that opinion. I donāt think any of us are going to BH.
We should meet up. Get @shaddack to come. Heād be right at home with the evil nerd contingent.
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I havenāt been able to go since defcon9. If Iām there, though, youāll recognize me because Iāll be the only one not wearing black. 
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Tempting, tempting, temptingā¦!
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Quite a tangent, but Iāve had some interest in IT security, so itād be a good thing if yāall started a thread about it.
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I find that if I make a conscious effort to note every single time some one is considerate, it changes my perspective very rapidly, especially if you pay attention to drivers being courteous to other drivers who arenāt you. Itās really easy to focus on the 10% of the drivers who are rather me-first and treat the other 90% as almost invisible because their every-day considerate behaviour doesnāt set off any alarms.
When I try to give a little wave to everyone who letās me in, I find my hand tiring in very short order. However, itās still a useful tool when Iāve gotten into the mindset that every driver on the road is a maniac.
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