How about a policy that states that the management reserves the right to monitor and/or search computers, desks, and electronic transmissions in cases where there is a real possibility of wrongdoing.
Basically, we won't do anything unless we have a good reason, but given a reason, we can do what we want. I like the suggestion I saw, about 2 managers having to sign off on the action, and at least 1 witness being present for all searches.
2 things, if Yahoo was a store with outlets in the US and France, the US store wouldn't have to follow French rules, yet French people would be more than capable of traveling to the US store to get things.
Second, Yahoo is NOT responsible for piping ANYTHING into France. It's the French ISPs that do the piping. They just provide content, let the French Government and ISPs censor their people, not the American Company.
I used to say it every day in elementary school, but nobody made us do it in high school. You know what, I didn't even know what it meant, or bother to think about it until I hit high school. Do you really think that a 6 year old child know what a pledge of allegiance is? It's just something that they memorize and repeat.
Yes, they have offices in France, they run the French version of Yahoo there, which has no Nazi auctions. Why should the American/International site have to comply with French laws?
Are we going to ban all auctions of Nazi items on the Internet because France doesn't like it? Are we going to make every auction site block French citizens from looking at Nazi item's?
Not everyone has the ambition to be Bill Gates. I don't.
What's wrong with bein happy and satisfied with where you are. You don't have to be gunning for the top guy to be an asset to your company. If you show up every day and do great work, why should you want to do anything else. If you love it, stick with it.
As for "his imperial Gatesness", well, I refuse to bite on that flamebait.
Reminds of a conversation I had with someone at Dunkin Donuts the other day. (Actually, it was a conversation he had to me, but anyway). I was discussing my future with my mother. How soon I would be getting back into school and stuff.
This guy politely got into the conversation, and proceed to talk about all of the great opportunities there are to start my own business. Too bad we had been talking about how I don't want to be in charge of people.
He moved from me running my own business playing with computers, what I love, to running any kind of business that has a good idea. He was nice enough to throw some ideas at me, and I just smiled and nodded at him.
Many people can't understand the fact that not everybody has the same view of the "American Dream". I really don't want to own my own business. IMHO the #2 spot is the best, still get loads of money, but are not directly responsible for everything. Unless of course #1 dumps everything on you.:)
We are a democracy "of the people, by the people, and for the people." (I think I got the order right) No mention of corporations there.
Therefore I feel that no company or corporation should be allowed to give money to a politician. Not that I know of a practical solution to allow the rich and the poor to have equal influence on the government without restricting rights.
I think it is disgusting. I've never been one to criticize Katz, but I think that is horrible. It makes fun of the death of dozens of people, and totally trivializes the tragedy that happened.
Death is not funny, the person that wrote that is obviously a troll, in my eyes, and I think it is wrong on many different levels to publish a comment like that.
Since it's been announced, you know that they have already submitted a patent application for the use of Random Access Memory storage via magnetism. Making them the sole distributor of said technology.
Then again, if it takes them 10 years to get this out, their patent will be almost up.:)
Speaking of Drag and Drop, have they got that working with the bookmarks under the address yet? IE has it, Netscape has it, but if I try to drag the icon down, and make it a shortcut, nothing happens. (in M18)
I'm not going to say that your version of the story is wrong, but that's not the way I heard it.
The building was designed to be contructed with welds, not bolts, but then the contruction crew decided it was cheaper to use bolts, and so they did. Once, the designer found out about what had happened, he figured out a way to fix it, because not doing so would have caused the building to fall over, and take out a good portion of Manhattan.
At least that's the story that was told in my Engineering Design class.
As with many good books, Dune doesn't translate well into a short time period, even a several hour miniseries. I know it goes against the Hollywood mentality, but how come no one ever decides to ignore the masses, and just try to create a good movie?
If they put their efforts into staying true to the story, and including as much as possible, then they could have a cult/underground hit.
I guess they want their money right away, which means they need lots of people watching. If they instead put out a quality film, it would last longer, and over time actually make more money for them.
Not that I expect this to happen, but wouldn't that be cool for Dune, or any other quality book?
I'm guessing that those numbers are all of the people that have seen any of the installments. Which would be much more impressive if they hadn't shown each one 4 times in a row.
I also would like to know when they will be playing them again, perhaps in order. I didn't catch all of part 1, and missed all of part 2.
No, it was not just for Contra, but that's where most people I know learned of it.
You ask anybody who played the game what the "Contra Code" is and they'll give you UUDDLRLRBABAS. Though most of them will know that the "Konami Code" is the same thing.
The US government has more interest in protecting companies than people (indeed, I have letters from Representative Sununu and Senator Gregg of NH saying about as such)
Do you have those letters posted online? I'd like to see them. No becuase I doubt you, but because I believe you. Something like that could really get some people upset.
I have a feeling that they simply did a search, or sent out a spider, looking for phrases like DeCSS and 2600. I would suggest renaming the DeCSS page, or having it redirect to something with a title that is a little less threatening. Perhaps say something like "Go here to help support free speach, and play movies on your computer."
I also think that they are trying to bully people around. They won the first legal battle, but they know the war isn't over.
Yeah, we've seen that one before. Slowly a crowd of bicycle-riding deadheads gather around the cooperative leaching off it for 'support' and the whole cooperative tumbles down.
On a post elsewhere Lucas, the author of the article, mentions that Co-Op is probably the wrong word, but he couldn't think of another one.
This company, Spindletop, will be dealing with equipment, not food, so they won't be 'supporting' anyone. And from what I understand, the only paid positions are like bookkeeping, and other grunt work that even volunteers won't do.
That is just my understanding, feel free to ask them yourself.
I just checked out the FHF, and it is a recycling organization. The GNU Cooperperative would be dealing in new parts.
Their main focus will be in maintaining info on parts that can be used with Free OSes, but they will also be building boxen, and selling individual parts.
The idea is to buy everything wholesale, and sell it just above cost. Something around 10% I think, but don't quote me. The money made from sales will be used to support the Cooperative, and I think, in the event of excess money, the rest will be donated.
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I think that one of the biggest problems with the presidential election, is that there is no standard for voting. I think that the US government should determine EXACTLY how the presidential ballot looks. None of this bullshit about different ballots in different states, or even within states.
They should also have the same people on every ballot. Why is it up to the individual states to decide who can be on the ballot to run the country.
As for the electronic voting, I don't think that there is a feasible way to provide adequate voting online. You either mail in your vote, or physically go there and submit it. I do think that at the polling places, they should verify the validity of your ballot before it is locked away.
I don't know exactly how the system should work, but if you are dealing with computers, then I think that every transaction should be printed to paper. Computers just aren't reliable enough to be trusted with no hard copy. Why does everyone think a HDD, a Floppy, and Smart Media are enough? What happens if lightning strikes the building and everything gets fried, or scrambled?\
I'm pretty sure that they don't do it, but how come the news media isn't required to black out coverage until the polls close?
There are 3 hours of voting after they close on the East Coast, but at around 8 or 9 eastern, they start declaring a winner. Thus possibly having a major effect on voters, who see a declared winner, and feel no need to go out to the polls, and vote.
Our future is in grave danger. The challenge that presents the current generation is the Internet. We must resist it, or it will "darken our hearts" for good.
Unfortunately, like everything else, I am doing this better than Al Gore. According to an article on Boston.com my website is getting more hits, than his.
This proves that I am better than Gore in every way, including corrupting our population.
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Basically, we won't do anything unless we have a good reason, but given a reason, we can do what we want. I like the suggestion I saw, about 2 managers having to sign off on the action, and at least 1 witness being present for all searches.
Second, Yahoo is NOT responsible for piping ANYTHING into France. It's the French ISPs that do the piping. They just provide content, let the French Government and ISPs censor their people, not the American Company.
I used to say it every day in elementary school, but nobody made us do it in high school. You know what, I didn't even know what it meant, or bother to think about it until I hit high school. Do you really think that a 6 year old child know what a pledge of allegiance is? It's just something that they memorize and repeat.
Are we going to ban all auctions of Nazi items on the Internet because France doesn't like it? Are we going to make every auction site block French citizens from looking at Nazi item's?
This is the first step down a long dark road.
What's wrong with bein happy and satisfied with where you are. You don't have to be gunning for the top guy to be an asset to your company. If you show up every day and do great work, why should you want to do anything else. If you love it, stick with it.
As for "his imperial Gatesness", well, I refuse to bite on that flamebait.
Reminds of a conversation I had with someone at Dunkin Donuts the other day. (Actually, it was a conversation he had to me, but anyway). I was discussing my future with my mother. How soon I would be getting back into school and stuff.
This guy politely got into the conversation, and proceed to talk about all of the great opportunities there are to start my own business. Too bad we had been talking about how I don't want to be in charge of people.
He moved from me running my own business playing with computers, what I love, to running any kind of business that has a good idea. He was nice enough to throw some ideas at me, and I just smiled and nodded at him.
Many people can't understand the fact that not everybody has the same view of the "American Dream". I really don't want to own my own business. IMHO the #2 spot is the best, still get loads of money, but are not directly responsible for everything. Unless of course #1 dumps everything on you. :)
Therefore I feel that no company or corporation should be allowed to give money to a politician. Not that I know of a practical solution to allow the rich and the poor to have equal influence on the government without restricting rights.
Blarg.
Death is not funny, the person that wrote that is obviously a troll, in my eyes, and I think it is wrong on many different levels to publish a comment like that.
Then again, if it takes them 10 years to get this out, their patent will be almost up. :)
Speaking of Drag and Drop, have they got that working with the bookmarks under the address yet? IE has it, Netscape has it, but if I try to drag the icon down, and make it a shortcut, nothing happens. (in M18)
btw, is there a way to only get the browser for mozilla? I don't need, or want anything else.
The building was designed to be contructed with welds, not bolts, but then the contruction crew decided it was cheaper to use bolts, and so they did. Once, the designer found out about what had happened, he figured out a way to fix it, because not doing so would have caused the building to fall over, and take out a good portion of Manhattan.
At least that's the story that was told in my Engineering Design class.
This is the very first that I, and probably others, have heard of it. How are they going to communicate this to the entire country in just a month?
If they put their efforts into staying true to the story, and including as much as possible, then they could have a cult/underground hit.
I guess they want their money right away, which means they need lots of people watching. If they instead put out a quality film, it would last longer, and over time actually make more money for them.
Not that I expect this to happen, but wouldn't that be cool for Dune, or any other quality book?
I also would like to know when they will be playing them again, perhaps in order. I didn't catch all of part 1, and missed all of part 2.
You ask anybody who played the game what the "Contra Code" is and they'll give you UUDDLRLRBABAS. Though most of them will know that the "Konami Code" is the same thing.
Do you have those letters posted online? I'd like to see them. No becuase I doubt you, but because I believe you. Something like that could really get some people upset.
With no one left to collect your money, there is no one left to provide you with another years worth of access.
What if they simply decide not to support the "book" anymore?
They can just decide to no longer sell access. Therefore there would be no legal way to read the information, and perhaps pass your classes.
I also think that they are trying to bully people around. They won the first legal battle, but they know the war isn't over.
Just MHO on the issue.
On a post elsewhere Lucas, the author of the article, mentions that Co-Op is probably the wrong word, but he couldn't think of another one.
This company, Spindletop, will be dealing with equipment, not food, so they won't be 'supporting' anyone. And from what I understand, the only paid positions are like bookkeeping, and other grunt work that even volunteers won't do.
That is just my understanding, feel free to ask them yourself.
Their main focus will be in maintaining info on parts that can be used with Free OSes, but they will also be building boxen, and selling individual parts.
The idea is to buy everything wholesale, and sell it just above cost. Something around 10% I think, but don't quote me. The money made from sales will be used to support the Cooperative, and I think, in the event of excess money, the rest will be donated.
They should also have the same people on every ballot. Why is it up to the individual states to decide who can be on the ballot to run the country.
As for the electronic voting, I don't think that there is a feasible way to provide adequate voting online. You either mail in your vote, or physically go there and submit it. I do think that at the polling places, they should verify the validity of your ballot before it is locked away.
I don't know exactly how the system should work, but if you are dealing with computers, then I think that every transaction should be printed to paper. Computers just aren't reliable enough to be trusted with no hard copy. Why does everyone think a HDD, a Floppy, and Smart Media are enough? What happens if lightning strikes the building and everything gets fried, or scrambled?\
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I'll have to look into ActiveGuitar.
There are 3 hours of voting after they close on the East Coast, but at around 8 or 9 eastern, they start declaring a winner. Thus possibly having a major effect on voters, who see a declared winner, and feel no need to go out to the polls, and vote.
Unfortunately, like everything else, I am doing this better than Al Gore. According to an article on Boston.com my website is getting more hits, than his.
This proves that I am better than Gore in every way, including corrupting our population.