In most places it is against the law to pull your dick out. It's called indecent exposure.
There are laws against wrongfull dissmissal and companies have been bit by them.
Yes, I believe that the laws that our snoop avoiding poster worries about were put in place only to protect certian minorites. Shell got burt a while back for having an executive with a mindset that was detrimental to negros. No policy was ever proved, but his tape recorded mutterings on the subject got his company fined millions of dollars. Would Shell have been nailed for a similar atitude about crackers? Koreans? Dumb Blonds? I don't think so. Yes, he lost his job. All of it is simply rude behavior and enforcing maners should not be a government concern. This kind of stuff wastes resources to make lawyers rich.
My mish mosh accuratly reflect the confused state of the law. On one hand the ACLU has fought for the rights of people to publish porn, and do other things that are disgusting and of no public value. In fact, most people think porn is degrading. On the other hand, people have noticed that such things can be offensive. Well, duh. At the University of North Carolina a group of students started an S&M club, claiming that they were a misunderstood minority. They were initially granted space in their union and funding. This was later revoked. Can you tell me the difference between an S&M club and the Homosexual club? The difference is that one pleased the administration and the other did not. Broad principles are not being applied.
Jefferson, in his Notes on the State of Virginia, predicted that excessive imigration would lead to a devided body politic and, ultimatly, confused laws. We have both, and it's obvious that some segments of our population are all in favor of surendering rights that Jefferson held dear.
That the loss of freedom of speech would lead to a loss of privacy is not too suprising. But it's repulsive to see bad laws it used as an argument in favor of bad policy. Email and phone conversations should be given the same protection US mail is.
Spelling, ha! Do you follow Webster or Oxford? Is your interpretation of English interpretations of the sounds of dead languages any beter than mine?
Women are a minority in the work force. Despite efforts to put more of them to work, women over the age of 30 in the workforce are an anomoly. No western society has yet to pass Jefferson's criteria of savagry where women are put to the plow.
Lewd speech is no more protected by the constitution than yelling "fire" in a crowded place.
There is no law that says you have to snoop on your employees. The author is not recomending any kind of law breaking.
There are laws against rude behavior designed to protect select privaliged minorites: women, negros, homosexuals and to a lesser extent, hispanics. Ignored are unfavored minorities such as Asians. These are the laws that the poster claims are forcing companies to snoop on their employees.
These laws are useless and un American. Oh, I hate rude people but my company is not responsible for this. Lewd speach is not protected, but just try to fire someone for being rude. Good luck.
Dude, you are both dull and old. RR, elected in 1980. DOS, released 1982 or so. Fast forward 20 years to Bill Clinton, "No mam, I don't remember what my dick looks like", or Al Gore, "No sir, I don't recall ever having a dick." Dear, or dear, still not funny.
Oh those evil proffesors. Where would we be without evil doctors?
Publishing a textbook is a labor of love for most. Sure, the 50,000 or so US publishers try all sorts of tricks to make money, but for some reason there's really not much to be made. Strange. In any case, the amount of money to be made by the author will keep him at his day job. All of the proffesors (engineering, greek and roman history) I've had with any pretense to publish a text were in it for recognition and love of the subject. They wanted to share as widely as possible.
Discussion question: How do you explain this to business people (who run the country) OR build it into the economy?
Oh yeah, capitalists, like those clueless old geezers of old who used to donate their entire fortunes to libraries or universities? Get off your ass and look around. Learn about some of these people you would like to villify, then see if you can acomplish anything yourself. There's a reason buildings on campus are named after people.
These greedy dirtbags don't have a chance of passing their trash off as it is not competitive. For your $600 initial investment and $1,200 yearly fee, the sole advantage they offer is a text search and once a semester updates. NFW! Ever heard of an index? Table of contents? Who needs once a semester updates on a dentistry book? Is that much really going to change about teeth in that time? Sheesh, pass me a book. I feel sorry for the people who put their money into this company.
Your world will not happen. Textbooks are written by academic types, people who devote their lives to teaching. They want people to learn and desire as wide a readership as possible. Dissapearing textbooks, assides being uncompetitive, will not be tolerated by the people woh write them. All of these new laws will be successful in protecting is junk no one wants.
Intel Bullshovicks have joined forces with MS operators to kill all the lazy techs who have for years been sucking the life's blood out of the working classes by building AMD systems.
"We can tell them by their smooth unburnt hands, and shoot them on sight," claimed Komrad Gates. "We started this revolution, and now we shall finish it!"
Really. A quick review of Soviet erea computing shows they had trouble building so much as a calculator.
Any AC from Intel want to say what really happened?
Cool that you know so many languages, but let me help you with an English word. Canadians and Mexicans consider themselves Americans too.
No gramar or spelling peeves here.
It's a joke, laugh.
Here is something fun for your French. www.techmag.net It's kind of slow and not many people write in, but slashdot is cool in french.
You can even get in a premier post.
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You may bring back the body, but I don't think you can manipulate the spirit.
To many people seem totally opposed to commercialisation on the internet and expect companies to provide for free.
Yes, I expect people to provide content for free. The net is one big advert and older models for reaching people are going to die. Banner adds don't work. Think about it. There is no reason to wait for that page to load because someone else is going to do it faster. Companies had better get used to not being able to shout down four or five channels at whole countries. Those that adapt to the new pull media and focus on product reputation instead of brainwashing will survive. Those that don't will become marginalized, caught in cycles of ever increasing advertisement costs and declining product quality. There's a reason gas pumps have ads for candy bars. The whole mass marketing thing might have had it's day. It's not going to make it on the web.
What do you use the web for? I expect accademic sites to provide journals. I expect musicians to provide music, mp3.com. I expect sites like this to provide news.
Will I put up with banner adds on Google? Yes, until I find someone who will not pain me that way.
Mot earned it's money selling you things. Sure, you got what you wanted when you bought each and every Mot product, and hopefully were satisfied. Your satisfaction does not end the chain of cause and effect. Your effort, in small part, built this thing and was equally wasted.
Indirectly, you have paid even more for this. Mot's efforts added to demand, and so raised all prices marginally. More importantly, all of that money could have been spent on something usefull that you would have been satisfied to purchase. Resourses destroyed don't come back. When supply falls relative to demand, prices rise.
Voting, that's funny. Government does not work that way! Do you really think that one president, a few hundred representative and their thousands of minions can oversee 25% of the US GDP? They do, and the results are bizare.
Trust the man, he does not have a chance. I've worked for state (3 years) and federal agencies (census work), and in industries regulated by federal agencies (2 years). State could be bad, but federal is out of control.
Those stupid things have been around a while. At least ten years in LA, where we have a drainage problem instead of a water shortage. Jump on the bandwagon stupid if you ask me. I'm going to just have to make my own tank when the day comes.
Plumbing stuff is so easy to thwart. Need a real shower? Buy a crapy water saver model and drill out the water saver, usually made of brass or plastic and can be drilled by hand if need be. Your shower will no longer resemble a mister or a girl urinating on you, and you will become clean. As for tanks, how hard could it be to build a bigger box?
The microsoft model, however will be ten times bigger, three times slower, and their chip will burn 80 watts. The extra gizmos include:a message box that flashes every time you put in a non-MS toilet paper, "Warning, Non MS TP 0x240:0a, will not flush properly", a seat that always opens with MSIE 5.0, and a music system that only plays wav files. Hell may freeze over before it finishes, but it will keep you warm in winter!
The method is to inject glycerin under the skin, and it wears off in 20 minutes or so. I'm afraid your sister would have to get 2 jabs, one random, for this to work.
First there's the practical concern of loss of name recognition. Say "SCO" and a flash of recognition with good overtones comes to mind. This is good for a company, regardless of how irrational that association might be. Say "Tarantella" and people get out bug spray. It's going to cost them plenty to build up that name recognition even if their products kick ass.
Second, employees might just see this as another spastic shift in direction. People notice such things, as well as the pile of pink slips. If it comes with equally empty slogans, count on moral to sink.
Oh wait a minute, I detect sarcasm. The more I read that note the harder I laugh.
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At work, whole O'Riely books. That's why I don't need one in the living room.
1. They have more money for it. What else do they have to spend it on? Experimental equipment? Fancy pens? Salary? Ha!
2. They can write.
Pentium 75 with 1.5GB: $80.
All my appliance needs is a printer and, oh yes, for me to want such a thing.
The computers have in invaded my living room, get out while you still can!
There are laws against wrongfull dissmissal and companies have been bit by them.
Yes, I believe that the laws that our snoop avoiding poster worries about were put in place only to protect certian minorites. Shell got burt a while back for having an executive with a mindset that was detrimental to negros. No policy was ever proved, but his tape recorded mutterings on the subject got his company fined millions of dollars. Would Shell have been nailed for a similar atitude about crackers? Koreans? Dumb Blonds? I don't think so. Yes, he lost his job. All of it is simply rude behavior and enforcing maners should not be a government concern. This kind of stuff wastes resources to make lawyers rich.
My mish mosh accuratly reflect the confused state of the law. On one hand the ACLU has fought for the rights of people to publish porn, and do other things that are disgusting and of no public value. In fact, most people think porn is degrading. On the other hand, people have noticed that such things can be offensive. Well, duh. At the University of North Carolina a group of students started an S&M club, claiming that they were a misunderstood minority. They were initially granted space in their union and funding. This was later revoked. Can you tell me the difference between an S&M club and the Homosexual club? The difference is that one pleased the administration and the other did not. Broad principles are not being applied.
Jefferson, in his Notes on the State of Virginia, predicted that excessive imigration would lead to a devided body politic and, ultimatly, confused laws. We have both, and it's obvious that some segments of our population are all in favor of surendering rights that Jefferson held dear.
That the loss of freedom of speech would lead to a loss of privacy is not too suprising. But it's repulsive to see bad laws it used as an argument in favor of bad policy. Email and phone conversations should be given the same protection US mail is.
Women are a minority in the work force. Despite efforts to put more of them to work, women over the age of 30 in the workforce are an anomoly. No western society has yet to pass Jefferson's criteria of savagry where women are put to the plow.
Lewd speech is no more protected by the constitution than yelling "fire" in a crowded place.
There are laws against rude behavior designed to protect select privaliged minorites: women, negros, homosexuals and to a lesser extent, hispanics. Ignored are unfavored minorities such as Asians. These are the laws that the poster claims are forcing companies to snoop on their employees.
These laws are useless and un American. Oh, I hate rude people but my company is not responsible for this. Lewd speach is not protected, but just try to fire someone for being rude. Good luck.
Dude, you are both dull and old. RR, elected in 1980. DOS, released 1982 or so. Fast forward 20 years to Bill Clinton, "No mam, I don't remember what my dick looks like", or Al Gore, "No sir, I don't recall ever having a dick." Dear, or dear, still not funny.
This article was sensationalist, got any better links?
Publishing a textbook is a labor of love for most. Sure, the 50,000 or so US publishers try all sorts of tricks to make money, but for some reason there's really not much to be made. Strange. In any case, the amount of money to be made by the author will keep him at his day job. All of the proffesors (engineering, greek and roman history) I've had with any pretense to publish a text were in it for recognition and love of the subject. They wanted to share as widely as possible.
Oh yeah, capitalists, like those clueless old geezers of old who used to donate their entire fortunes to libraries or universities? Get off your ass and look around. Learn about some of these people you would like to villify, then see if you can acomplish anything yourself. There's a reason buildings on campus are named after people.
These greedy dirtbags don't have a chance of passing their trash off as it is not competitive. For your $600 initial investment and $1,200 yearly fee, the sole advantage they offer is a text search and once a semester updates. NFW! Ever heard of an index? Table of contents? Who needs once a semester updates on a dentistry book? Is that much really going to change about teeth in that time? Sheesh, pass me a book. I feel sorry for the people who put their money into this company.
Your world will not happen. Textbooks are written by academic types, people who devote their lives to teaching. They want people to learn and desire as wide a readership as possible. Dissapearing textbooks, assides being uncompetitive, will not be tolerated by the people woh write them. All of these new laws will be successful in protecting is junk no one wants.
Intel Bullshovicks have joined forces with MS operators to kill all the lazy techs who have for years been sucking the life's blood out of the working classes by building AMD systems.
"We can tell them by their smooth unburnt hands, and shoot them on sight," claimed Komrad Gates. "We started this revolution, and now we shall finish it!"
Really. A quick review of Soviet erea computing shows they had trouble building so much as a calculator.
Any AC from Intel want to say what really happened?
www.techmag.net
No gramar or spelling peeves here.
It's a joke, laugh.
Here is something fun for your French. www.techmag.net It's kind of slow and not many people write in, but slashdot is cool in french. You can even get in a premier post.
You may bring back the body, but I don't think you can manipulate the spirit.
What do you use the web for? I expect accademic sites to provide journals. I expect musicians to provide music, mp3.com. I expect sites like this to provide news.
Will I put up with banner adds on Google? Yes, until I find someone who will not pain me that way.
...someone needed it. I have patience.
Indirectly, you have paid even more for this. Mot's efforts added to demand, and so raised all prices marginally. More importantly, all of that money could have been spent on something usefull that you would have been satisfied to purchase. Resourses destroyed don't come back. When supply falls relative to demand, prices rise.
Mot will pay, and so will you.
Fly and be free my little pigeon.
Trust the man, he does not have a chance. I've worked for state (3 years) and federal agencies (census work), and in industries regulated by federal agencies (2 years). State could be bad, but federal is out of control.
Plumbing stuff is so easy to thwart. Need a real shower? Buy a crapy water saver model and drill out the water saver, usually made of brass or plastic and can be drilled by hand if need be. Your shower will no longer resemble a mister or a girl urinating on you, and you will become clean. As for tanks, how hard could it be to build a bigger box?
The microsoft model, however will be ten times bigger, three times slower, and their chip will burn 80 watts. The extra gizmos include:a message box that flashes every time you put in a non-MS toilet paper, "Warning, Non MS TP 0x240:0a, will not flush properly", a seat that always opens with MSIE 5.0, and a music system that only plays wav files. Hell may freeze over before it finishes, but it will keep you warm in winter!
I'm going to crack your toilet and flood the rest of your house with it, ha ha ha!
The method is to inject glycerin under the skin, and it wears off in 20 minutes or so. I'm afraid your sister would have to get 2 jabs, one random, for this to work.
This give a whole new meaning to "beer belly."
I'm going to have some strange dreams about that one.
Reminds of an old Onion story... "New Corporate Log Changes Everything".
The logo is the log. There's an Italian dancing on it, and a spider hiding uner it.
SaCcO is dead, Long Live Anarchy. http://partners.nyt.com/learning/general/onthisday /big/0823.html
Always crap on company time.
Second, employees might just see this as another spastic shift in direction. People notice such things, as well as the pile of pink slips. If it comes with equally empty slogans, count on moral to sink.
Oh wait a minute, I detect sarcasm. The more I read that note the harder I laugh.