Writing and maintaining client-specific accounting programs in RPG-II.
What this means is, we wrote a seperate program for every client, reusing code where suitable. Thus, if we found a bug, we could MAYBE fix it the same way in every other client's code, but only by manually merging it in each.
Oh, and I got paid $4 an hour.
I lasted less than two months, and that only because I needed the money. I actually would have lasted longer, but I discovered that I was also being used as a "mule" to smuggle drugs, so I decided the time was ripe to take my leave.
It's funny when people who insist that the PC is great because it puts the power to control one's computing destiny into one's own hands, instead of the old model of centralized computing, also insist on mass transportation, instead of owning private cars that put one's travel destiny into one's own hands.
Microsoft was found to be guilty of anti-competitive practices. The DOJ recommended breaking up Microsoft. This sound familiar?
George W. handed down the proclamation from on high that the Justice department was no longer allowed to pursue a breakup of Microsoft.
What the hell are you talking about? Judge Jackson ruled that they should be broken up, and the appeals court vacated that ruling. They all but closed the door on the possibility of breaking them up, barring a tremendous quantity of new evidence.
It was pretty widely agreed at the time that their choice was pretty simple:
Spend two years and millions of taxpayer dollars to end up not breaking them up, or drop that idea right now and get some relief for their competitors NOW, instead of years later.
I don't know, whether this is such a brilliant idea - if this gets widely adopted it can't be long before some idiot will get the idea of paying for a spam to "advertise" one of his competitors just to get HIS site blocked...
They've been doing it for years. It's called a "Joe Job", and it's so prevalent that even Snopes uses the term.
When I started writing this post, I was going to show how the Russian approach care less about the lives of the astronauts, treating them like expendable components, and thus wasn't suitable for a country like the US that puts more of premium on human life.
Then I did the math.
They've done about twice as many manned launches as we have, but lost only 4 people, while we've lost 14 so far. (Not counting Apollo 1.)
Maybe we should be looking more closely at their approach.
I'm sure the East German secret police occasionaly caught someone who was an actual danger to people (rather than to the state). Would that justify their networks of secret informers etc?
And I'm sure your local city police department occasionally catches someone who isn't. Does that mean their existence is not justified?
The CIA isn't the East German secret police. Their activities are scrutinzed by elected government officials, who can be removed from office by the people any time they like. Their activities are constrained by laws passed by those officials.
Most of their activities are secret from the public. This is a good thing. If it wasn't for secret government agencies, we wouldn't exist as a country; we'd probably be split evenly between the Japanese Empire and the Third Reich.
Big brother may be watching you, but you have no way of knowing...
Unless you're operating under the assumption that they people they watch never, EVER turn out to be actual terrorists, I would think the reasons why that's an absolute necessity would be obvious.
The CIA is spending money to enhance their ability to do their job, while still preserving as much of the person's privacy as possible. We should be applauding this, not lamenting it.
If you laud this and pan outsourcing manufacturing jobs, you Don't Get It.(tm)
Technology is changing existing models in nearly everything. To embrace it when it's convenient for you, and decry it when it's not, is the height of hypocrisy.
If the city police won't help her, the county Sheriff might, because in Florida they both have jurisdiction in the cities.
If they won't help, she can go to the State Attorney's office.
However, all will require proof of ownership. If she doesn't have that, then obviously there is nothing the police can do, and nothing EB should do. If they had to return anything that somebody claimed was stolen without proof, they'd be full of empty shelves.
As a woman, I'm deriding these choices that they made as sterotypical and offensive.
Yes, I'm sure the women that made those choices are very offended by them, and that it stems from their deep lack of understanding of what they themselves are looking for in a car.
Wait, I know; it's because they're women, so they don't know what they want, right?
They also said they had strong indications that terror suspects, alert to the phones' vulnerability, had largely abandoned them for important communications and instead were using e-mail, Internet phone calls and hand-delivered messages.
Way to go, NYT; now they're gonna abandon email, Internet phone calls, and hand-delivered messages!
Don't tell anybody they sometimes talk to each other in person, they might be reading this.
Interesting that when a bunch of women design a car, they make choices that, if made by a man designing a car for women, would be derided as stereotypical.
So, how come SCO keeps sending OpenLinux security updates to all the lists, if they only have a couple dozen "licensed" customers? You think they could just send them to those guys.
Would you encourage your kid to become a suicide bomber for $25K?
No, and I also wouldn't make the mistake of assuming that people raised in a completely different culture would weigh the same factors to reach the same conclusions as I do on such a question.
If you have been taught all your life that becoming a suicide bomber guarantees you a special place of honor in heaven, you will react differently than someone who has been taught all his life that becoming suicide bomber guarantees you a special place of pain in hell, or someone who has been taught that becoming a suicide bomber means you're just freakin' dead and everybody who knew you thinks you were an asshole.
In the US, on occasion desperate fathers will arrange their own deaths to allow their families to collect the insurance money. In "Palestine", $25K is enough money to set you for life. The per-capita GDP is $800. Saddam Hussein was offering over 31 YEARS of income in return for blowing yourself up. That would be like having an insurance policy in the US that paid well over a million dollars. People have committed suicide to collect a tenth of that.
If your children were starving, and you had no alternative to bring them any income, and you had 30 years of religious education that killing yourself would mean you spent eternity as a hero, and somebody said "I'll give your family a million dollars if you kill yourself in this manner", mightn't you be tempted?
Saddam Hussein was spending money to encourage people to commit acts of terrorism. That alone makes him a threat. Americans died so certain goblins could collect those posthumous rewards.
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Writing and maintaining client-specific accounting programs in RPG-II.
What this means is, we wrote a seperate program for every client, reusing code where suitable. Thus, if we found a bug, we could MAYBE fix it the same way in every other client's code, but only by manually merging it in each.
Oh, and I got paid $4 an hour.
I lasted less than two months, and that only because I needed the money. I actually would have lasted longer, but I discovered that I was also being used as a "mule" to smuggle drugs, so I decided the time was ripe to take my leave.
It's funny when people who insist that the PC is great because it puts the power to control one's computing destiny into one's own hands, instead of the old model of centralized computing, also insist on mass transportation, instead of owning private cars that put one's travel destiny into one's own hands.
It would mean more up-to-the-minute online recaps of games in progress. MLB will shut them down.
Don't be foolish. Everybody knows that any atmospheric pollutant discovered anywhere in the universe is George Bush's fault.
Microsoft was found to be guilty of anti-competitive practices. The DOJ recommended breaking up Microsoft. This sound familiar?
George W. handed down the proclamation from on high that the Justice department was no longer allowed to pursue a breakup of Microsoft.
What the hell are you talking about? Judge Jackson ruled that they should be broken up, and the appeals court vacated that ruling. They all but closed the door on the possibility of breaking them up, barring a tremendous quantity of new evidence.
It was pretty widely agreed at the time that their choice was pretty simple:
Spend two years and millions of taxpayer dollars to end up not breaking them up, or drop that idea right now and get some relief for their competitors NOW, instead of years later.
I would have thought God would have had a lower slashdot ID# than that.
Nah, it took him 7 days before he had time to sign up.
I don't know, whether this is such a brilliant idea - if this gets widely adopted it can't be long before some idiot will get the idea of paying for a spam to "advertise" one of his competitors just to get HIS site blocked...
They've been doing it for years. It's called a "Joe Job", and it's so prevalent that even Snopes uses the term.
When I started writing this post, I was going to show how the Russian approach care less about the lives of the astronauts, treating them like expendable components, and thus wasn't suitable for a country like the US that puts more of premium on human life.
Then I did the math.
They've done about twice as many manned launches as we have, but lost only 4 people, while we've lost 14 so far. (Not counting Apollo 1.)
Maybe we should be looking more closely at their approach.
I'm sure the East German secret police occasionaly caught someone who was an actual danger to people (rather than to the state). Would that justify their networks of secret informers etc?
And I'm sure your local city police department occasionally catches someone who isn't. Does that mean their existence is not justified?
The CIA isn't the East German secret police. Their activities are scrutinzed by elected government officials, who can be removed from office by the people any time they like. Their activities are constrained by laws passed by those officials.
Most of their activities are secret from the public. This is a good thing. If it wasn't for secret government agencies, we wouldn't exist as a country; we'd probably be split evenly between the Japanese Empire and the Third Reich.
If they keep this up, pretty soon you'll be able to turn your PC on, and it'll load an entire operating system!
Wait...
Big brother may be watching you, but you have no way of knowing...
Unless you're operating under the assumption that they people they watch never, EVER turn out to be actual terrorists, I would think the reasons why that's an absolute necessity would be obvious.
The CIA is spending money to enhance their ability to do their job, while still preserving as much of the person's privacy as possible. We should be applauding this, not lamenting it.
I can only think of one company that makes Unix workstations that isn't pushing a Linux workstation.
So, if you want to know why "more" aren't, maybe you should ask them.
America's system varies from the Europeans' only cosmetically. They form their coalitions after the vote, and we form them before.
Look at Greens, look at Libertarians. THEY'RE different, and where are they?
They're in two places. The ones that joined the coalitions before the election are either serving as Senator from Massachusetts or Congressman from Texas.
The ones who tried to buck the system are serving as Jay Leno punchlines and the target of sentences that have the word "spoiler" in them.
I hope you're paying attention, people.
If you laud this and pan outsourcing manufacturing jobs, you Don't Get It.(tm)
Technology is changing existing models in nearly everything. To embrace it when it's convenient for you, and decry it when it's not, is the height of hypocrisy.
In Florida, she has multiple avenues.
If the city police won't help her, the county Sheriff might, because in Florida they both have jurisdiction in the cities.
If they won't help, she can go to the State Attorney's office.
However, all will require proof of ownership. If she doesn't have that, then obviously there is nothing the police can do, and nothing EB should do. If they had to return anything that somebody claimed was stolen without proof, they'd be full of empty shelves.
As a woman, I'm deriding these choices that they made as sterotypical and offensive.
Yes, I'm sure the women that made those choices are very offended by them, and that it stems from their deep lack of understanding of what they themselves are looking for in a car.
Wait, I know; it's because they're women, so they don't know what they want, right?
They also said they had strong indications that terror suspects, alert to the phones' vulnerability, had largely abandoned them for important communications and instead were using e-mail, Internet phone calls and hand-delivered messages.
Way to go, NYT; now they're gonna abandon email, Internet phone calls, and hand-delivered messages!
Don't tell anybody they sometimes talk to each other in person, they might be reading this.
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Interesting that when a bunch of women design a car, they make choices that, if made by a man designing a car for women, would be derided as stereotypical.
So, how come SCO keeps sending OpenLinux security updates to all the lists, if they only have a couple dozen "licensed" customers? You think they could just send them to those guys.
One of my co-workers has suggested we should also remove S, C, and O from the alphabet.
This is why the Fortune 500 company for whom I work has adopted a new Linux strategy:
We don't talk about Linux to the press.
The real question is why do slashdot postings, as do many configuration utilities, assume the reader already knows the answers?
Because if you're reading it, you have a web browser, and google knows the answers, so there's no excuse for you not knowing them.
Would you encourage your kid to become a suicide bomber for $25K?
No, and I also wouldn't make the mistake of assuming that people raised in a completely different culture would weigh the same factors to reach the same conclusions as I do on such a question.
If you have been taught all your life that becoming a suicide bomber guarantees you a special place of honor in heaven, you will react differently than someone who has been taught all his life that becoming suicide bomber guarantees you a special place of pain in hell, or someone who has been taught that becoming a suicide bomber means you're just freakin' dead and everybody who knew you thinks you were an asshole.
In the US, on occasion desperate fathers will arrange their own deaths to allow their families to collect the insurance money. In "Palestine", $25K is enough money to set you for life. The per-capita GDP is $800. Saddam Hussein was offering over 31 YEARS of income in return for blowing yourself up. That would be like having an insurance policy in the US that paid well over a million dollars. People have committed suicide to collect a tenth of that.
If your children were starving, and you had no alternative to bring them any income, and you had 30 years of religious education that killing yourself would mean you spent eternity as a hero, and somebody said "I'll give your family a million dollars if you kill yourself in this manner", mightn't you be tempted?
Saddam Hussein was spending money to encourage people to commit acts of terrorism. That alone makes him a threat. Americans died so certain goblins could collect those posthumous rewards.
P.S. Correct my last message to read "But there's no evidence he was promoting terrorism beyond that.
Yeah, and Hitler didn't kill anybody except the Jews, Gypsies, and Homosexuals.