In your case, if 90% of your solutions come from groups then you really should invest in some Cisco and Microsoft certification to teach you how to administer properly.
Which shows that you're more a PHB than the Dilbert's boss, because you're stupid enough not to realize that no amount of Microsoft or Cisco certifications will teach me how to debug (note that I didn't say "administer" nor "manage") a UNIX system. And, of course, only PHBs give any credence to Microsoft certifications...
And you obviously have been nothing more than a pencil-pusher because if you actually had the brains to do actual **WORK**, you'd realize that since there is a good probability someone else faced the same problem and he might have written something about it, I have a good chance of finding the solution on Google (groups or not).
Oftentimes management will hand down edicts based on something they've heard or read or even something a customer ...
They may not understand why or how the security measure is preventing legitimate work from getting done.
That's because, in case you haven't noticed, management does not do any legitimate work.
How can blocking Google Groups be seen as draconian. They have no place in a responsible workplace. They are only filled with warez requests, AOL Me Toos, kiddie porn and hentai anyway.
You must be one of those pointy-haired bosses to say that Google Groups ain't got no business at work.
Whenever I work as a sysadmin, 90% of the solutions I apply to problems come from Google Groups.
How do you plead for all of those Pirated Britney Spears albums on your computers?
I plead totally not guilty, nor for the 4503 songs I have on my computer, almost all of which I have downloaded and/or ripped from CDs borrowed from the library.
You see, where I live, downloading and copying music is perfectly legal.
Furthermore, I wasn't stopped at the border of California to have all my possessions inspected for drugs or bombs. I didn't even have to stop at the California border to prove my identity and that I wasn't on some terrorist watch list.
But you were stopped at the California border to be inspected if you did not bring fruits and vegetables, though...
From what I understand from the argument, and from what I have read (granted, my understanding and knowledge comes only from what I have read on the internet), what the "Right to Travel" is about is that drivers licenses are an illegal restriction on the Constitutional "Right to Travel", which has no limits on the means of conveyance.
By the size of your rant, you're obviously one of those anglo-saxon property rights zealot. Your rant also is totally off-the-mark, so I will not even bother busting neurons reading it.
I will however bust all your arguments with the following:
so, since there is "no limits on the means of conveyance", it's perfectly okay to travel by using a mechanical copy of Godzilla which merrily goes about squashing roads, cars, electric/telephone wires and buildings.
The average reader will then have no problem getting the futility of your argument.
You may want to review the history of automobile licenses, and the Right to Travel - not that I expect anything to change...
Er, no. Your "right to travel" is not hindered if your driver's license is pulled from you.
You can still travel by foot, bike, bus, train, boat or plane. Driving a car remains a privilege that can be taken from you if you drive like an ass, or don't pay your tickets or alimony.
What's not? Some bonehead decides that 45 mph is the max speed for a straight stretch of road 10 miles long through empty land between 2 highways.
Where'd that number come from?
Do you really, seriously, honestly think that a money-grubbing insurance company would either decrease one's premiums, or even go to the extent of SPENDING money to investigate if anyone would be worthy of having his premiums loweres?
Right now, they are currently deploying thousands of CCTV cameras in the subway where I live. I'm gonna test something I've been thinking for a little while: epaulets and a baseball cap visor studded with IR LEDs. Cameras are sensitive to IR light, so the epaulets and visor would cast an aura around my face, making it very hard to see it on screen.
Once you'll face the bigotry of the jews, you'll understand. But of course, the US media carefully shields you from news of jews shooting kids in Palestine...
Encrypting your communications like this will just cause you to be a target. The NSA can most likely crack whatever you can throw at them, and even if not they will not hesitate to use some more creative methods if they want to listen in.
Each time you encrypt a communication, those tho have no business snooping on you will lose time decrypting it, thus decreasing their general effectiveness. Eventually, when EVERYONE will encrypt their own communications, EVERYONE will be a suspect. Only in communist countries is EVERYONE a suspect.
Meanwhile, hopefully, the direction of ressources towards false suspects will enable true terrorists to slip through, and enable them to blow up a nest of politicians (terrorists are stupid. Why do they target ordinary people? It's the bigwigs they should aim for: politicans, croporations board members, law enforcement agencies heads, high-ranking soldiers).
They be glad I am not sitting on a jury. If they could not prove their case I would award expenses plus punitive damages that would make them take a second look while they spin uncontrollably. Treating the general public like criminals is not going to solve anything.
No need for that; if I were on an US jury judging such a case (impossible, I'm in a country where P2P music sharing is legal), I would NULLIFY.
Yes, nullify; despite bulling by courts, juries can nullify a law for a particular case if they feel the law is unjust or immoral, even though the culprit is guilty as hell.
There is nothing racist about that. Jews don't have blue skin or square eyes or pink hair. They are not a race, but a religion. Meaning that's all in the head.
Ask any jew if he was born a jew, or he is jewish because his parents programmed him as a jew.
As I said, there is nothing racist in what I had said, but there is plenty of "religionist", though. And it's perfectly allright to discriminate on the basis of religion, because unlike skin colour, it is something that can be changed in a person.
Well, with a name like Gerald J. Weinberger, this is obviously a jew, and jews only think about money and since their morals are notoriously primitive, they will have no problem going to pretty sleazy ways in order to make a quick buck while staying on their fat arses.
(Yeah, I know, you're not supposed to criticize jews, they're the chosen people and Hitler killed plenty of them so they're entitled to the whole planet. Fucking bunch of whiners).
Old solutions could be helpful here... Not because acid-free paper will last for centuries (the volume of paper would be staggering, and you can't grep dead trees), but they provide methods that could be applied.
Take mercury delay lines. They kept data by continuously sending sound impulses inside a tank filled with mercury, and the impulses were recycled through to refresh the storage.
Well, this could be done with a *HUGE* disk array, where you add drives to increase storage, and "retire" broken or obsolete drives and it would evolve as technology does, never losing any of it's data.
The moral of the story: the RIAA, or any private organisation or individual for that matter, does not and should not wield any police power.
It's not that easy. Some private companies actually do have private police forces. Railroads, for example, with their huge land and long rail lines; they carry valuable cargo that is naturally the target of many theft attempts (for examples, all automobiles carried by train carry their own legal papers and are unlocked. If you can get hold of one, it is virtually impossible to prove that you stole it). So they have to have their own police forces to patrol their yards and lines.
There is also several cases of mixed rail/road bridges whose roadway belong to the railroad, and the railroad police do enforce traffic regulations. Speeding and parking tickets are marked with the railroad's name instead of the city/county/state/ province/country/continent/planet/solar system/sector/quadrant/arm/galaxy/universe.
Jesus, a real '60's-style hippy commie, right here on Slashdot! I thought all of your sort had gone extinct. But please, keep us in chuckles with your rants on the evil "bourgeois" and how they're out to personally screw you!
What's a bourgeois? It's just the old name for "entrepreneur". A bourgeois is someone who has something to sell you.
Please be more clueful in the future. It's not for nothing that you don't have any karma bonus.
Tetris was developped for brain studies. Some study found some interesting effects on brain waves whenever a subject played Tetris.
That said, Popcap is a very good company with good products. You can play the demo versions as long as you want (they are not crippleware), and they are almost as good as the payware versions, which only offer more levels and playing offline.
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And you obviously have been nothing more than a pencil-pusher because if you actually had the brains to do actual **WORK**, you'd realize that since there is a good probability someone else faced the same problem and he might have written something about it, I have a good chance of finding the solution on Google (groups or not).
Whenever I work as a sysadmin, 90% of the solutions I apply to problems come from Google Groups.
Then we passed over a busy street, and only above the street, were about 50 pigeons perched over the street, and nowhere else.
Just as if they planned to specifically target that area...
You see, where I live, downloading and copying music is perfectly legal.
Given how big business has subverted the Democratic process, expect those who proposed this to be quietly removed from office...
I will however bust all your arguments with the following:
so, since there is "no limits on the means of conveyance", it's perfectly okay to travel by using a mechanical copy of Godzilla which merrily goes about squashing roads, cars, electric/telephone wires and buildings.
The average reader will then have no problem getting the futility of your argument.
You can still travel by foot, bike, bus, train, boat or plane. Driving a car remains a privilege that can be taken from you if you drive like an ass, or don't pay your tickets or alimony.
Well, at least, it's not the fault of the Internet...
That's a good one. A really GOOD one.
Do you really, seriously, honestly think that a money-grubbing insurance company would either decrease one's premiums, or even go to the extent of SPENDING money to investigate if anyone would be worthy of having his premiums loweres?
In what kind of dreamland are you living in????
Right now, they are currently deploying thousands of CCTV cameras in the subway where I live. I'm gonna test something I've been thinking for a little while: epaulets and a baseball cap visor studded with IR LEDs. Cameras are sensitive to IR light, so the epaulets and visor would cast an aura around my face, making it very hard to see it on screen.
Once you'll face the bigotry of the jews, you'll understand. But of course, the US media carefully shields you from news of jews shooting kids in Palestine...
Meanwhile, hopefully, the direction of ressources towards false suspects will enable true terrorists to slip through, and enable them to blow up a nest of politicians (terrorists are stupid. Why do they target ordinary people? It's the bigwigs they should aim for: politicans, croporations board members, law enforcement agencies heads, high-ranking soldiers).
I will not be so stupid as tell the court that I believe in nullification... And, no, they have no business knowing what happens during deliberation.
Actually, lawyers are made by fucking in the arse.
Yes, nullify; despite bulling by courts, juries can nullify a law for a particular case if they feel the law is unjust or immoral, even though the culprit is guilty as hell.
Ask any jew if he was born a jew, or he is jewish because his parents programmed him as a jew.
As I said, there is nothing racist in what I had said, but there is plenty of "religionist", though. And it's perfectly allright to discriminate on the basis of religion, because unlike skin colour, it is something that can be changed in a person.
(Yeah, I know, you're not supposed to criticize jews, they're the chosen people and Hitler killed plenty of them so they're entitled to the whole planet. Fucking bunch of whiners).
Take mercury delay lines. They kept data by continuously sending sound impulses inside a tank filled with mercury, and the impulses were recycled through to refresh the storage.
Well, this could be done with a *HUGE* disk array, where you add drives to increase storage, and "retire" broken or obsolete drives and it would evolve as technology does, never losing any of it's data.
There is also several cases of mixed rail/road bridges whose roadway belong to the railroad, and the railroad police do enforce traffic regulations. Speeding and parking tickets are marked with the railroad's name instead of the city/county/state/ province/country/continent /planet/solar system/sector/quadrant/arm/galaxy/universe.
Please be more clueful in the future. It's not for nothing that you don't have any karma bonus.
That said, Popcap is a very good company with good products. You can play the demo versions as long as you want (they are not crippleware), and they are almost as good as the payware versions, which only offer more levels and playing offline.