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Getting Started With Part-Time Development Work?

fortapocalypse writes "I'm getting paid a good salary as a Java developer and the hours are great. It is also very stable, which means something in today's economy, especially with a family to feed. However, I'm very unmotivated both because of the work that I do, which is boring, and because the organization I work for is highly political, disorganized, and lacks accountability. I've done what I could to try to change things at work and have pretty much given up on that. I want to go out on my own, either starting my own company or just working as a contractor doing Java development, but I'm not sure of the best way to get started, and my family needs the stability of my current job. I'd really like to start out part-time at 5-15 hours a week to use it as supplemental income (which my family could really use at the moment), but I really don't know where to start. I doubt many contracting agencies would be interested in a part-time worker. What would you suggest for someone in my position?"

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  1. Re:Mix Fun and Fair by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This is about murdering innocent babies. Our society calls it abortion, but I call it what it is murder. Many Americans think our economy is failing because of the Bush Administration, but they are wrong, it is because of sin. We are a very sinful nation, therefore God is against us. The only quote I have is from God's word. 2 Chronicles 7:14 say's 'If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land'. We are suppose to be a civilized nation but we are practicing Barbaric behavior called human sacrifice. It is sad that we live in a county were it is perfectly legal to murder an unborn child for convenience, maybe the mother to be says, 'It's not the right time, I must further my career', or a mother may tell her teenage daughter, 'You must get rid of the baby because you are to young. You must finish school'. It is human sacrifice for one's own convenience. Senator Barack Obama said if he becomes president that he would intervene in the African countries where genocide is taking place. He will not however, intervene in Roe vs. Wade which is genocide that is taking place here in America everyday disguised as planned parenthood.

  2. Re:Craigslist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Q: Why do I keep receiving emails from an individual calling himself CmdrTaco?

    A: You have been receiving unsolicited mailings from a certain Robert CmdrTaco Malda, owner of the popular technology website slashdot.org. Actually, its not a very popular site in the common sense of the word; the site is rife with pimply, antisocial geeks and hackers, zit-faced nerds, communists, dirty GNU hippies, and other societal rejects and outcasts. Its also home to one of the worlds largest suspected pædophile rings, the infamous Slashdot crew.

    Whenever Mr. Malda gets bored (and who wouldnt, running a site like Slashdot all day), he roams through the user database, penis in hand, looking for people who might enjoy engaging in homosexual activities with him. How he determines this is anyones guess; but if you have a homosexual-sounding nickname, or a nick with a letter of the English alphabet in it, youre a potential candidate.

    This time, he found you. Lucky you.

    Q: Mr. Malda seems to be speaking in some sort of code. Do you know what it means?

    A: CmdrTacos code language is relatively easy to decipher. This pervert prefers to speak in thinly-veiled sexual innuendo (yes, thats right: he wants you) to evade the watchful eye of Slashdots parent corporation, VA Software. Mr. Maldas Commander is, of course, his penis: a small, withered little thing that lives in his pants and only comes out in the presence of other male geeks or at the beck and call of Maldas own lubed-up right hand. His Taco bells are the shriveled testicles that droop beneath his Commander, and his Taco sauce is his thin, runny semen. It should be more than obvious to you now what he means if he asked you to ring his Taco bells or taste his gourmet Taco sauce.

    I would also guess CmdrTaco asked you to engage in a practice known as Taco-snotting and, if he was in a particularly depraved mood at the time, a circle-snot.

    Q: Good Lord. And, yes, he did. What is Taco-snotting?

    A: Taco-snotting is the term used by Robert Malda to refer to the depraved act of fellating another man (homo- or heterosexual; CmdrTaco is rumoured to prefer raping unwilling victims), then blowing the semen out his nose and back onto the face and body of his victim. Naturally, a long, bubbly stream of milky-white semen is left on CmdrTacos face, dribbling out of his nose and down his cheek: hence the term, Taco-snotting.

    And if thats not bad enough: a circle-snot is a Taco-snotting circle-jerk, another practice common among the Slashdot crew. CmdrTaco, CowboiKneel, and Homos get together and snot each other with their gooey, sticky cum spooging their jizz-snot all over each others faces and pasty, white bodies, until theyre covered head to toe with their own and each others man juice. This vile, ungodly ritual can go on for hours. For the homosexual penetration that follows this lengthy foreplay, Roblowme is usually there to provide plenty of anal lubricant; he owns a limousine service and has ample supplies of motor oil and axle grease ready to go.

    To complete this perverted orgy, fellow faggots Michael, Timothy, and Jamie will usually join in, dressed in tight leather mock-S.S. uniforms, jack boots, and leather gloves. The homosexual shenanigans that follow are nearly beyond description. The whole group begins to snot each others spunk and whip each others pudgy asses with riding crops and chains until their pale, white geek bodies are exhausted and soaked in stinking sweat from the hours of passionate, homosexual revelry.

    Q: Ewwwwww. So, can I stop receiving these emails?

    A: Hopefully, but I wouldnt count on it. To begin with, you most likely forgot to uncheck the Willing to Snot checkbox in your account preferences. CmdrTaco has probably already got the hots for your wad (do you have a homosexual-sounding nick?), and hes probably already been lurking outside your bathroom window for weeks with a camera, some tissues and lube, just waiting to pounce and declare you his new bitch. Theres no escaping a geek in heat (t

  3. Time for my daily trollbiting... by SanityInAnarchy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm going to regret this...

    Many Americans think our economy is failing because of the Bush Administration, but they are wrong, it is because of sin. We are a very sinful nation, therefore God is against us.

    And so, all that time before, when we were "sinning" as much or more, and the economy was much better? What was that? Was God taking a nap?

    I mean, look at this crap:

    If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land

    How about all of the people out of work now -- people with families to feed, dipping into their savings, can't even pull much from their retirement fund because the market is shit, too -- I guarantee some of those are praying, and I doubt they're getting abortions. How hard do they have to pray before God hears them?

    it is perfectly legal to murder an unborn child for convenience, maybe the mother to be says, 'It's not the right time, I must further my career', or a mother may tell her teenage daughter, 'You must get rid of the baby because you are to young. You must finish school'.

    That's based on two false assumptions: First, what you're calling an "unborn child", the medical community calls a "fetus". You'll find no clear scientific or religious basis for when the fetus becomes a child.

    Second, you're assuming that all of this is for "convenience". That shows a profound lack of understanding of what it is like to carry and give birth to a child -- especially when, as in this case, you're likely to have to give it up for adoption anyway.

    genocide that is taking place here in America everyday disguised as planned parenthood.

    It's not genocide -- even if we grant that they are children, the meaning of "genocide" is very specific. I suggest you use a dictionary.

    And planned parenthood is not just about abortion -- they also provide education, and contraceptives, which help avoid the problem entirely.

    But again -- the economic crisis is not about abortion, no matter how much you want it to be. People who have not had abortions are suffering, and, I'm sure, people who have had abortions are finding ways to weather the storm.

    And think about your core point, too:

    Many Americans think our economy is failing because of the Bush Administration

    Yes, it is. If you'd like us to believe that this is somehow God's punishment, fine, that means God is punishing us through the actions of the Bush administration.

    Or, hey, it's possible God has nothing to do with it, and this is just our natural consequence for our stupidity in electing those assholes, not once, but twice.

    --
    Don't thank God, thank a doctor!
    1. Re:Time for my daily trollbiting... by SanityInAnarchy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      So, I've just reread my post, and I can't see where I even mentioned rape. But let's go with that, because I'm in such a trollbiting mood:

      While this might be considered a legitimate reason to have an abortion, consider the statistics

      So you admit that it might be a legitimate reason, except for some statistics. So let's look at them:

      There are about 200 pregnancies due to rape [physiciansforlife.org] per year

      In other words, you're going to tell those 200 women that they have to carry the baby to term,

      So my question is: why is it okay to make abortion legal and freely available in all cases, just to make it available for the 0.00003% that may have legitimate reasons?

      I don't know. Let's look at our other fundamental rights and see which ones we don't value, because they only apply to a minority.

      Hell, there's only a tiny percentage of people in the US who aren't Christian, or at least Deist -- let's make it a legal requirement to believe in God!

      Fuck no, the question is not one of statistics. We are about fundamental rights, in case you've forgotten. How many people in China are actually harmed by the inability to speak freely? Who gives a fuck? It's a fundamental, inalienable right.

      So yeah, unless you're ready to tell those 200 women to go fuck themselves -- and very likely the other thousand or so women who don't want to admit they were raped -- I think we should let it stand.

      By the way: All of that is following your assumption that only women who have been raped have a legitimate reason for getting an abortion. That seems moronic. Either abortion is baby-killing or it's not. If you're right, and it is baby-killing, then those 200 women should sit and suffer -- but I think you're an insensitive prick if you believe that. If it's not baby-killing, but fetus-aborting, then yes, every woman should have a right to it, whether she's been raped or not.

      --
      Don't thank God, thank a doctor!