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Google Hiring Programmers to Work on OpenOffice
massysett writes "Google is hiring programmers to work on OpenOffice.org. "We use a fair amount of open-source software at Google. We want to make sure that's a healthy community. And we want to make sure open source preserves competitiveness within the industry," said Google's manager for open-source software. Perhaps Google's work will address an oft-heard complaint about OO.o: "Google believes it can help OpenOffice--perhaps working to pare down the software's memory requirements or its mammoth 80MB download size.""
As someone previously figured
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Google can get away with paying below California's minimum wage laws. If they solicit people to work on OO.o, they will inevitably find some Indian or Chinese person willing to work at an [imputed] wage below that which Californians need to live. That's why we need to make sure Google pays a FAIR WAGE, an amount ENOUGH FOR SOMEONE TO LIVE ON (including and especially Californians). When Google does things like this, it puts California's programmers out of work. Even if the amount is enough for the Indian to live on, it drags down the wages of Californians and other Americans. Let's shut the exploitative project down. Write your state representa...
No, that made no sense whatsoever. Yes, it made exactly as much sense as any other argument for minimum wage laws.
Before you mod me down, please, for the love of God, explain how you can support minimum wage laws, but also what Google is planning to do. I want to know where I erred, and if I have in fact erred, I am more than willing to change my mind.
Rank my idea: http://www.sinceslicedbread.com/node/531
Meanwhile, in Dick's Secret Bunker...
Cheney: Okay, motherfuckers. This plame shit has totally fucked all our asses royally. What are you cocksuckers going to do about it?
Scooter: We could let Osama out of his cage, finally say we caught him.
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Condi: I'll go get the plutoooniuuuum!
Cheney: Someone go upstairs and tell that cum-belcher, "bright eyes." He's been wanting to push the fucking button ever since we fixed the fucking election. Every god damn day, I have to hear that shit from him, "I'm the president, Dick! I should get to push the button! Lemme push the button! Heh heh!" You know, that fucking snicker of his, sometimes I could just... OUCH! Third fuckin' coronary this morning.
Upstairs in the white house later...
Condi: Darlin- uh, I mean, Mr. President, guess what we get to do tooodaaaay?
Chimp: Clear brush and then ride muh bike?!
Condi: EVEN BETTER! LOOK!
She opens the TOP SECRET panel that reveals THE BUTTON!
Chimp: HOOOOO DOGGIES! THE BUTTON! You know, I always tell
Dick, I always tell him, I'm the president, Dick! I should get to push the button! Lemme push the button! Heh heh!
He pushes the button. Fade to white.
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Grow up.
Yes! I listen to NYC Speedcore and do math at 3AM. I suggest you try it too.
1996:
early morning:
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Hillary: Not until I get my rocks off, bitch, come'on say you're my bitch.
slick willy: OK, OK, I'm yur bitch...
Hillary: Oh, yes, Oh, yes.....
Later that day...
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slick willy: Let's see who I can intimidate today cause' I'm Hillary's bitch. You think people know I a closet homo who let's his gestapo wife stick strap-on dildos up my ass?
So exactly what does this post and my reply have to do with OO.org??
NOTHING!
If Kerry was the answer, it must have been a stupid question.
The UN - The largest "political" cause of death.
would you PLEASE stop suggesting that slashdot submitters coral-ize their links? it is clear that you don't understand at ALL what the coral caching system accomplishes. it DOES NOT rewrite image URL's, so the bulk of the data is still served from the original server. it DOES NOT rewrite intrasite hyperlink URLS, so any pages that the "cache" links to will still be from the original site. the coral cache is NOT a potential solution to the slashdot effect, and suggesting that it might be is sheer idiocy.
This guy is BS, only thing worse is that he is modded informative-- mod it down
If you resist reading what you disagree with, how will you ever acquire deeper insights into your own beliefs?
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