I'd take a cut to have a Mgr that actually knew more than me.
Why?
I manage a small office and every so often, I hear this exact same thing.
I know how to manage -- I hire folks that are smarter than me for a reason -- because if I wanted to do the job myself, I'd have hired someone stupider.
Knowledge != intelligence.
Your boss SHOULD KNOW MORE than you do!!! Otherwise he is not competent. I've had more than my share of total dolty bosses we could run around by the nose; fuck, once, we even delayed a research project by stalling it for 6 months, and the happy-go-lucky boss didn't notice anything.
Best job I ever had was only part-time, 20-30 hours a week at about $20/hour (and they religiously paid overtime). I was maintaining the computers and the network for a company that made museums.
Small and Big museums all over the world, like one for the Smithsonian. Or a space camp. Or an insect zoo (once a year, they have a degustation; can you imagine a zoo where you can eat the critters?).
The office was located in an old bank, so I had my own office, the server room, located in the vault (with the operational door)...
Before long, I was doing other work for planning museums, and since I had mechanical experience I was soon very much in demand to debug things the designers did...
We had interesting meetings like "where do we put the dinosaur skeleton"; or I had bosses who came to me and ask "Quick! I need a planetarium" (absolutely true - turns out he did not want the projector [I located 10 used ones] but the dome screen) or "I need a monorail and a cable car!" (true, too [I found two engineering design firms who would design the monorail]).
I didn't care much about the low pay, because it was a 10 minute walk from home.
Those are low-level programming-jock languages disguised as high-level languages. As long as the punks who program them will have pissing contests in code obfuscation, you can count on having buffer overflows and memory leaks.
Sounds like some one in her home used her name/credit to buy Net Access leading them to sue her rather than whoever used the computer. Or perhaps this is a case of an identity thef!
I was actually accused of identity theft because of an ISP ineptitude.
I moved to a friend's place some years ago, and when he decided to move out, he transferred his phone line and DSL service to me. As can be expected, the ISP did not do the transfer properly (even though it is a division of the phone company), and for about 2 years, I accessed the Internet under my ex-roomate identity.
Then, a spammer I LARTED several times took up a fight with me, and complained to the police for "harasement" (sic). The police went after the wrong guy (who was long gone abroad) for very long before eventually getting my real identity, thanks to phone company stupidity. I eventually learned that they did not press charges against me because they were overworked and underbudgeted...
I finally changed ISPs when the ISP dumped me because I was running a website on my DSL line, and I went to a co-op.
This is the usual bourgeois rubbish where they're all for the "frea mahkit" until they go down the drain because they sux0r. That's the moment where they whine to the governor to outlaw their competition instead of adapting themselves.
Institutionalized anti-black apartheid until the 1960's?
Rampant unofficial (private) racism (property sales contract that say "you can't sell your house to niggers") and property values that go down because "some niggers moved in the neighb ourhood"?
Guantanamo bay?
A president that goes ballistic to change the Constitution to prohibit gay marriage?
The most powerful superpower in the world discriminating against latino people because "they don't want to take our culture" - imagine that: a superpower that is scared shitless by some of the poorest people in the world!!!
What country in the world would you say has a better record on civil rights? Or instead of a record, a better existing civil rights situation currently?
I'd be all for it if it were more unilateral. It would help force China to play more by international rules than by their own.
International rules? What international rules? Since when there are international rules that force countries to have freedom of speech and not squish protesting kids with tanks???
Or maybe China could prohibit it's companies to deal with countries that allow freedom of speech?
You have to address ALL business doing anything in China. Any business activity that boosts the Chinese economy or makes them more competitive could be said to be supporting crimes against humanity.
You mean a company like the so quintessentially american Wall-Marde???
Last summer, I was harassed for taking pictures of city buses in Ottawa (federal capital of Canada). Here's my account of the... incident:
I was being hassled by OC transpo security types for taking pictures of buses in the street.
One of them, a woman, was practically in tears about "don't you know what happenned in London", just as if photographing buses would make them blow-up. Poor little creature. I almost wanted to hug her to calm her fears (but she looked too much like whe queen of England and I didn't want to smear myself)...
The whole thing got ugly when they demanded to see some identification; I refused flatly, on matters of principle. Nothing illegal was done; then we went through the usual "if you don't have nothing to hide, why don't you give us some ID" bullshit arguments we always hear.
They then said that they would have to call the police on me.
-- Are you arresting me? I asked.
-- No, you're free to leave.
**BINGO!**
This was a dead giveaway that they are security types, not constables. They cannot arrest and detain somebody for nothing...
So I left at once; but less than a block away, I was intercepted by a fuming policewoman whose demeanor was quite arrogant and disgusting. She neatly parked her car blocking the reserved bus lane on Albert, between Bronson and Commissionners street, a most inconvenient place for buses, right as rush-hour was beginning.
As I was walking calmly, she started to yell at me:
-- "Hey, buddy"!!!
Well, I'm sorry, but that's not a very polite way to introduce yourself. So I ignore her and keep walking slowly up the hill. That girl has to be taught a lesson in respect.
She caught up on me right when I was about to arrive to where I was staying. Never before I have seen such a tremenduous display of fury and nastyness. 120 pounds and 120 decibels of pure, hot and tanned unadulterated flaming bitch. She would be perfect on ALT.FLAME.
She was yelling at me, demanding to see identification.
-- Are you arresting me? I asked again.
-- No, I am detaining you.
Not to take chances (what the fuck "detaining" legally means???), I started to dole out information on a piecemeal basis; like a Québec birth certificate, a perfectly legal, yet totally unknown document.
-- You don't have anything with your address? she hysterically blurted, expecting the standard, run-of-the-mill sacrosanct driver's license, which I don't have...
-- This is all I have (heavily implying "this is all you'll get").
As we argued, three transit security types came about (including the slimy one who said that "I can leave", but the sad girl was gone, though), as well as two city cops came to watch the fun go by.
The two cops (guys) were much nicer (which is easy to do, given the terminal nastyness of the first - I guess even Genghis Khan would seem nice compared to her).
She then asks me for my address. Just as I finish saying the number and the street, before I say "Montréal", she disgustingly blurts out "is this in Gatineau???", like if I was living in a toilet bowl.
As I said "No, Montréal", she demanded my address in Ottawa. So I gave her my friend's address, not wanting to be arrested on charges of homelessness (you never know what slimy dirty trick the pigs will pull on you - during all that time, I carefully stayed on the sidewalk alignment so I would not be charged for trespassing), some 20 feet away - because of this, my friend got in trouble; he was told by his condo administrators that he was "put on probation for bringing-in people who cause trouble", as the whole scene was witnessed by about 30 construction workers working on the condo... But this is a matter for his lawyer, though, and not on topic here.
-- "It's right there, pointing at the condo main door"
-- "I don't believe you, you just made that up!!!!" then blared out of the high-pitched decibel emitter. I suppose I could have borrowed some earplugs from nearb
It is a very user-friendly RAID system which can produce a polished product very rapidly. Since it uses Pascal, it does not have C's assininely stupid pointer-based string that are so loved by crackers thanks to their buffer overflows. And the Borland Pascal has zillions of extensions that makes it just as capable as any C++ compiler, but without the obfuscateness.
One could think of Delphi as "visual pascal on steroïds"; Delphi produces an executable file, which does not needs 36,000 DLLs to be arcanely installed.
And if you need to use a database, Delphi offers either standalone "Paradox" databases, or ODBC interface to connect to your favourite SQL database.
So does that mean that you can download anything you want and there is no liability? Or can you only legally use the blank CDs to make copies of songs you have paid for, something you shouldn't need to pay for again.
No, you can copy stuff you borrow from friends or the library (I myself have more than 4000 copied songs on a server at home, all legally copied from library CDs or downloaded from the net), and share on P2P, thanks to recent Supreme Court decisions.
Actually, that's not precisely the system you have. With the system you have, you pay the levy whether you use it or not, and whether you were otherwise entitled to the music or not (e.g., by buying it through iTMS or because you already paid for the CD).
Er, no. The copyright act does not says that you have to OWN the work you copy. And the supreme court said it's okay to share music for downloading on a P2P system.
Nice try, industry shill.
Meanwhile, because of all the paranoia from the music industry, it's very difficult to record anything - there are so many attempts to close the analog hole and to avoid perfect copies that, to this day, it is a struggle to get any kind of usable equipment that works for us - e.g., something where you push "record" and you get a clean digital recording. If you have the bucks for really expensive pro gear this isn't out of the question, but all of the sub-$1k equipment is deliberately crippled.
What are you talking about? You can make perfectly good copies or master audio-CDs on any PC. Perhaps you don't know how to use your gear properly??? Have you tried to RTFM???
And both ministers who have been pushing for DMCA-like laws in Canada have been booted from office a week ago: I personally worked for the campaign of the kid who just booted Liza Frulla out of office by a landslide!!! So don't expect any legislation soon with the minority conservative government in place...
I added a contentious bit of information to an extremely contentious article once. It was outright deleted, reverted, spell checked, deleted, grammer fixed, reverted, opened up an enormous discussion with rabid opponents on both sides.
You sound like Douglas Adams describing the Vogon bureaucratic process...
The notoriously shortsighted bourgeois always go for the easy way, like pissing on the messenger rather than refuting the points made in the message...
This is not surprising in the least. The last quarter century has seen an unprecedented subversion of Public and Democratic institutions by the bourgeois in order to promote their own agenda.
Regarding Public education, the bourgeois have gutted the system so the children are taught to be perfect bourgeois fodder: mindless drones who will work for the bourgeois without asking any questions, and purchase the stuff bourgeois sell them through invasive advertisements.
The bourgeois, meanwhile, send their own offspring to private schools so they can be properly taught how to dominate and exploit other people.
As usual, it's the majority of the population that gets shafted there.
Your story breaks down upon examination of the photo. That girl is ok at best. I'd probably need to be in space at least three weeks before she became a "hot bitch". And how can wives of astronauts go "on strike" anyways? Don't you need to be employed before you can go on strike?
For übergeeks such as astro-nuts, she's a real hot geekchick (think of the geekchick in the "Thunderbirds" movie). And inside the space station, there are a few russians who've been cooped-up there for months...
As for the astronaut wives, they are "employed" by their husbands to do the cooking, cleaning, laundry...
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Now we know where lawyers come from!!!
Your boss SHOULD KNOW MORE than you do!!! Otherwise he is not competent. I've had more than my share of total dolty bosses we could run around by the nose; fuck, once, we even delayed a research project by stalling it for 6 months, and the happy-go-lucky boss didn't notice anything.
Best job I ever had was only part-time, 20-30 hours a week at about $20/hour (and they religiously paid overtime). I was maintaining the computers and the network for a company that made museums.
Small and Big museums all over the world, like one for the Smithsonian. Or a space camp. Or an insect zoo (once a year, they have a degustation; can you imagine a zoo where you can eat the critters?).
The office was located in an old bank, so I had my own office, the server room, located in the vault (with the operational door)...
Before long, I was doing other work for planning museums, and since I had mechanical experience I was soon very much in demand to debug things the designers did...
We had interesting meetings like "where do we put the dinosaur skeleton"; or I had bosses who came to me and ask "Quick! I need a planetarium" (absolutely true - turns out he did not want the projector [I located 10 used ones] but the dome screen) or "I need a monorail and a cable car!" (true, too [I found two engineering design firms who would design the monorail]).
I didn't care much about the low pay, because it was a 10 minute walk from home.
Those are low-level programming-jock languages disguised as high-level languages. As long as the punks who program them will have pissing contests in code obfuscation, you can count on having buffer overflows and memory leaks.
I moved to a friend's place some years ago, and when he decided to move out, he transferred his phone line and DSL service to me. As can be expected, the ISP did not do the transfer properly (even though it is a division of the phone company), and for about 2 years, I accessed the Internet under my ex-roomate identity.
Then, a spammer I LARTED several times took up a fight with me, and complained to the police for "harasement" (sic). The police went after the wrong guy (who was long gone abroad) for very long before eventually getting my real identity, thanks to phone company stupidity. I eventually learned that they did not press charges against me because they were overworked and underbudgeted...
I finally changed ISPs when the ISP dumped me because I was running a website on my DSL line, and I went to a co-op.
Good for them! At least, here's a *GOOD* company.
Here, have a candy!
(Herman, Jim Unger)
This is the usual bourgeois rubbish where they're all for the "frea mahkit" until they go down the drain because they sux0r. That's the moment where they whine to the governor to outlaw their competition instead of adapting themselves.
Slavery?
Institutionalized anti-black apartheid until the 1960's?
Rampant unofficial (private) racism (property sales contract that say "you can't sell your house to niggers") and property values that go down because "some niggers moved in the neighb ourhood"?
Guantanamo bay?
A president that goes ballistic to change the Constitution to prohibit gay marriage?
The most powerful superpower in the world discriminating against latino people because "they don't want to take our culture" - imagine that: a superpower that is scared shitless by some of the poorest people in the world!!!
Belgium? The Nederlands? Canada?Or maybe China could prohibit it's companies to deal with countries that allow freedom of speech?
Last summer, I was harassed for taking pictures of city buses in Ottawa (federal capital of Canada). Here's my account of the... incident:
I was being hassled by OC transpo security types for taking pictures of buses in the street.
One of them, a woman, was practically in tears about "don't you know what happenned in London", just as if photographing buses would make them blow-up. Poor little creature. I almost wanted to hug her to calm her fears (but she looked too much like whe queen of England and I didn't want to smear myself)...
The whole thing got ugly when they demanded to see some identification; I refused flatly, on matters of principle. Nothing illegal was done; then we went through the usual "if you don't have nothing to hide, why don't you give us some ID" bullshit arguments we always hear.
They then said that they would have to call the police on me.
-- Are you arresting me? I asked.
-- No, you're free to leave.
**BINGO!**
This was a dead giveaway that they are security types, not constables. They cannot arrest and detain somebody for nothing...
So I left at once; but less than a block away, I was intercepted by a fuming policewoman whose demeanor was quite arrogant and disgusting. She neatly parked her car blocking the reserved bus lane on Albert, between Bronson and Commissionners street, a most inconvenient place for buses, right as rush-hour was beginning.
As I was walking calmly, she started to yell at me:
-- "Hey, buddy"!!!
Well, I'm sorry, but that's not a very polite way to introduce yourself. So I ignore her and keep walking slowly up the hill. That girl has to be taught a lesson in respect.
She caught up on me right when I was about to arrive to where I was staying. Never before I have seen such a tremenduous display of fury and nastyness. 120 pounds and 120 decibels of pure, hot and tanned unadulterated flaming bitch. She would be perfect on ALT.FLAME.
She was yelling at me, demanding to see identification.
-- Are you arresting me? I asked again.
-- No, I am detaining you.
Not to take chances (what the fuck "detaining" legally means???), I started to dole out information on a piecemeal basis; like a Québec birth certificate, a perfectly legal, yet totally unknown document.
-- You don't have anything with your address? she hysterically blurted, expecting the standard, run-of-the-mill sacrosanct driver's license, which I don't have...
-- This is all I have (heavily implying "this is all you'll get").
As we argued, three transit security types came about (including the slimy one who said that "I can leave", but the sad girl was gone, though), as well as two city cops came to watch the fun go by.
The two cops (guys) were much nicer (which is easy to do, given the terminal nastyness of the first - I guess even Genghis Khan would seem nice compared to her).
She then asks me for my address. Just as I finish saying the number and the street, before I say "Montréal", she disgustingly blurts out "is this in Gatineau???", like if I was living in a toilet bowl.
As I said "No, Montréal", she demanded my address in Ottawa. So I gave her my friend's address, not wanting to be arrested on charges of homelessness (you never know what slimy dirty trick the pigs will pull on you - during all that time, I carefully stayed on the sidewalk alignment so I would not be charged for trespassing), some 20 feet away - because of this, my friend got in trouble; he was told by his condo administrators that he was "put on probation for bringing-in people who cause trouble", as the whole scene was witnessed by about 30 construction workers working on the condo... But this is a matter for his lawyer, though, and not on topic here.
-- "It's right there, pointing at the condo main door"
-- "I don't believe you, you just made that up!!!!" then blared out of the high-pitched decibel emitter. I suppose I could have borrowed some earplugs from nearb
You think railfans have problems? You should ask some planespotters some times!!!
It is a very user-friendly RAID system which can produce a polished product very rapidly. Since it uses Pascal, it does not have C's assininely stupid pointer-based string that are so loved by crackers thanks to their buffer overflows. And the Borland Pascal has zillions of extensions that makes it just as capable as any C++ compiler, but without the obfuscateness.
One could think of Delphi as "visual pascal on steroïds"; Delphi produces an executable file, which does not needs 36,000 DLLs to be arcanely installed.
And if you need to use a database, Delphi offers either standalone "Paradox" databases, or ODBC interface to connect to your favourite SQL database.
Nice try, industry shill. What are you talking about? You can make perfectly good copies or master audio-CDs on any PC. Perhaps you don't know how to use your gear properly??? Have you tried to RTFM???
And both ministers who have been pushing for DMCA-like laws in Canada have been booted from office a week ago: I personally worked for the campaign of the kid who just booted Liza Frulla out of office by a landslide!!! So don't expect any legislation soon with the minority conservative government in place...
This is precisely the system we have in Canada, through a levy on blank media.
(What was the article???)
Judging and grading is so bourgeois...
The notoriously shortsighted bourgeois always go for the easy way, like pissing on the messenger rather than refuting the points made in the message...
Regarding Public education, the bourgeois have gutted the system so the children are taught to be perfect bourgeois fodder: mindless drones who will work for the bourgeois without asking any questions, and purchase the stuff bourgeois sell them through invasive advertisements.
The bourgeois, meanwhile, send their own offspring to private schools so they can be properly taught how to dominate and exploit other people.
As usual, it's the majority of the population that gets shafted there.
As for the astronaut wives, they are "employed" by their husbands to do the cooking, cleaning, laundry...
Never underestimate the stupidity of bean-counters, even more so that they run most companies nowadays.