I know a lot of the/. crowd loves to work from home, but as someone who has to deal with clueless telecommuters all the time, I think the whole system sucks. Whether it's their home ISP having problems or they too stupid to figure out that they need to actually be on the VPN to access work resources, it's nothing but a huge headache. So for your average geek working from home may be a sweet deal, but for everyone else there should be a computer literacy test given before you are allowed to telecommute.
When I was in college I bought EverQuest a few weeks after it was released. I installed the game, tried to play it but had no luck on my outdated PC, and drove it back to the store a few hours later. To this day I'm still not sure how I convinced them to accept the return, but they did. I guess being 1998 people were still unfamiliar with monthly subscription games...the sales drone probably got chewed out after his manager found out they had an opened (and now useless) copy of EQ in the store.:)
And I think you're an ignorant twat who is in love with the sound of his own voice (or own text in this case.) You're wrong, you've been shown to be wrong, and the more you open your mouth the more ignorant you sound. Really, you should have just stopped after your first misguided, snide remark was called out.
That has got to be one of the most defensive and petty "responses" I've ever seen come from a company. At a time when people are calling for CCP to act professionally, they pull this stunt and come off looking like bitter nerds, not a mulit-million dollar company.
My advice to anyone even *thinking* about playing this game...don't. It's painfully obvious that CCP will go to any length to protect their perks, privileges, and collusions with certain alliances. They don't want a fair game because they want to have fun themselves, customers be damned. The clock is ticking for CCP, how much longer until the final explosion?
"Once the child is capable of independent viability..."
I'd like to know at what age you think a child is capable of that. I'm looking at my 2 month old son right now and his chance at "independent viability" is approximately 0%. He's completely helpless without his mother, much like he was 4 months ago while still inside the womb.
Thank you for contacting me regarding the REAL ID Act. I appreciate hearing from you on this important matter.
I am concerned about several of the provisions of the REAL ID Act. While I support measures to deter illegal entry into the United States, I also believe we must preserve due process under the law and the historic separation of powers. This legislation ignored a number of the bipartisan suggestions of the 9/11 Commission and reversed some of the positive steps we made in passing the Intelligence Reform bill last year.
The Intelligence Reform bill implemented a number of the recommendations of the bipartisan 9/11 Commission. The legislation calls for the Border Patrol workforce to be increased by 2000 agents per year from 2006 through 2010. This would double the size of the Border Patrol over a five year period. It also increases the number of full-time Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigators by 800 per year from 2006 to 2010, and the number of detention beds for immigration detention and removal by 8,000 per year from 2006 to 2010. The bill also strengthens and codifies visa requirements and toughens penalties against individuals who unlawfully bring in and harbor aliens.
In contrast, some provisions of the REAL ID Act are unnecessary, expensive, and dangerous. Although the REAL ID Act was offered as a means of improving identification security, it undermined the improvements in identification document security and reliability enacted in the Intelligence Reform bill. The Intelligence Reform bill not only set strict national standards for state identification documents, it also promised funds to assist states with document handling upgrades. The REAL ID Act ignored these provisions and set national standards without providing the necessary financial resources for these costly improvements. This unfunded mandate led the National Governors Association and the National Council of State Legislatures to oppose the REAL ID Act.
Additionally, the REAL ID Act includes provisions designed to expedite the deportation process without preserving a defendant's right to a lawyer and to present his or her case in court. We can enforce our immigration laws and protect our national security without violating due process.
Lastly, I am concerned with a clause in the REAL ID Act that permits the Secretary of Homeland Security to waive all laws in order to expedite the construction of barriers along any U.S. borders. Not only would this provision grant the Secretary of Homeland Security a free hand in overriding laws and regulations, it would prevent the Judicial Branch from reviewing the actions taken by the Secretary. Such a provision would violate the system of checks and balances central to our Constitution, upset the balance of power between the branches of government, and lend itself to abuses of power.
Although the Senate decided not to include the REAL ID Act in the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations bill, many of its provisions were added to the final version of that measure during the House-Senate conference on the bill.
Thank you again for writing and expressing your views on this issue.
You know, what's to stop the ad agency from calling in these "complaints" themselves, getting the advert "banned", and then rubbing their hands in glee while people actually go out of their way to see the ad and what all the fuss was about? I know I would have never heard or seen this advert if it wasn't for the fact it was banned...
Unless there are a lot of people who are upset with the MS/Novell deal, why bother with trying to prove "most" people are happy with it. It confirms there's a problem and seems like damage control to me.
This is quite possibly the most ignorant statement I've ever seen on Slashdot.
Care to take that smug attitude and tell it to Newton, Galileo, Copernicus, and even our beloved Knuth? I'd say science would be in poor shape today if we didn't have those brilliant minds.
Might want to educate yourself and check out this webpage for a more detailed listing.
Well, the funny thing about the Bible is that it's not technically a single book, but rather, 66 individual books. So just like I could pick up Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman and know that it's poetry and not to be taken "literally", I could read the book of Psalms or Revelations or Song of Solomon and know the same thing. So lumping everything together and claiming "you have to take it literally to get anything out of it" is just plain intellectually lazy.
You really do a good job playing the part of an arrogrant prick. Here's a tip: replying with a "False" to statements doesn't really make much of a case, it just makes you look like more of an ass.
Great rant. Too bad it has nothing to do with whether or not consumers are really "sheep." Your point that we can't all worry about the same things is very valid, just not relevant to what you quoted. The majority of consumers will buy whatever they are told to buy with little-to-no thought involved. That makes them sheep. Don't like it? Then do something to change it, starting with yourself.
Seriously. There used to be a time when radio DJs would read the adverts over the air. It would make for a much less jarring experience than the current cacophony of crap we have on today's radio stations. In Chicago, we have one station, the classical music station, that has the DJs read the ads and I don't mind hearing them at all. WXRT will also read some ads (Hello Walter E Smith furnature) and those are always the least annoying ones to hear.
It seems advertisers have gone out of their way to make the ads more and more annoying, definitely *not* less.
During a Cold War and a huge nuclear arms buildup, do you really think it's wise and appropriate to joke about bombing Russia? Especially coming from the person who actually has the ability to initiate it? It would be like making bomb jokes while on a plane flight today.
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You could try not hiring stupid people, for a start.
Do you know any system administrators that are responsible for hiring everyone in their company? No, I didn't think so.
A minimal amount of technical knowledge IS required to do their job, if they are working from home. But thanks for the pointless analogies.
I know a lot of the /. crowd loves to work from home, but as someone who has to deal with clueless telecommuters all the time, I think the whole system sucks. Whether it's their home ISP having problems or they too stupid to figure out that they need to actually be on the VPN to access work resources, it's nothing but a huge headache. So for your average geek working from home may be a sweet deal, but for everyone else there should be a computer literacy test given before you are allowed to telecommute.
Congrats on being a humorless nerd...oh, and pretty much proving his joke has legitimacy.
When I was in college I bought EverQuest a few weeks after it was released. I installed the game, tried to play it but had no luck on my outdated PC, and drove it back to the store a few hours later. To this day I'm still not sure how I convinced them to accept the return, but they did. I guess being 1998 people were still unfamiliar with monthly subscription games...the sales drone probably got chewed out after his manager found out they had an opened (and now useless) copy of EQ in the store. :)
This is the stupidest fucking thing I've heard since I've been at Microsoft.
And I think you're an ignorant twat who is in love with the sound of his own voice (or own text in this case.) You're wrong, you've been shown to be wrong, and the more you open your mouth the more ignorant you sound. Really, you should have just stopped after your first misguided, snide remark was called out.
As a parent, I'll decide what my kids can and cannot play/read/listen to. Not a corporation and certainly not a lunatic lawyer.
That has got to be one of the most defensive and petty "responses" I've ever seen come from a company. At a time when people are calling for CCP to act professionally, they pull this stunt and come off looking like bitter nerds, not a mulit-million dollar company.
My advice to anyone even *thinking* about playing this game...don't. It's painfully obvious that CCP will go to any length to protect their perks, privileges, and collusions with certain alliances. They don't want a fair game because they want to have fun themselves, customers be damned. The clock is ticking for CCP, how much longer until the final explosion?
I guess when you've managed to piss off a large potion of the world, you need to take drastic measures like this.
"Once the child is capable of independent viability..."
I'd like to know at what age you think a child is capable of that. I'm looking at my 2 month old son right now and his chance at "independent viability" is approximately 0%. He's completely helpless without his mother, much like he was 4 months ago while still inside the womb.
Nobody protests when their bellies are full.
From IL Senator Durbin:
Thank you for contacting me regarding the REAL ID Act. I appreciate hearing from you on this important matter.
I am concerned about several of the provisions of the REAL ID Act. While I support measures to deter illegal entry into the United States, I also believe we must preserve due process under the law and the historic separation of powers. This legislation ignored a number of the bipartisan suggestions of the 9/11 Commission and reversed some of the positive steps we made in passing the Intelligence Reform bill last year.
The Intelligence Reform bill implemented a number of the recommendations of the bipartisan 9/11 Commission. The legislation calls for the Border Patrol workforce to be increased by 2000 agents per year from 2006 through 2010. This would double the size of the Border Patrol over a five year period. It also increases the number of full-time Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigators by 800 per year from 2006 to 2010, and the number of detention beds for immigration detention and removal by 8,000 per year from 2006 to 2010. The bill also strengthens and codifies visa requirements and toughens penalties against individuals who unlawfully bring in and harbor aliens.
In contrast, some provisions of the REAL ID Act are unnecessary, expensive, and dangerous. Although the REAL ID Act was offered as a means of improving identification security, it undermined the improvements in identification document security and reliability enacted in the Intelligence Reform bill. The Intelligence Reform bill not only set strict national standards for state identification documents, it also promised funds to assist states with document handling upgrades. The REAL ID Act ignored these provisions and set national standards without providing the necessary financial resources for these costly improvements. This unfunded mandate led the National Governors Association and the National Council of State Legislatures to oppose the REAL ID Act.
Additionally, the REAL ID Act includes provisions designed to expedite the deportation process without preserving a defendant's right to a lawyer and to present his or her case in court. We can enforce our immigration laws and protect our national security without violating due process.
Lastly, I am concerned with a clause in the REAL ID Act that permits the Secretary of Homeland Security to waive all laws in order to expedite the construction of barriers along any U.S. borders. Not only would this provision grant the Secretary of Homeland Security a free hand in overriding laws and regulations, it would prevent the Judicial Branch from reviewing the actions taken by the Secretary. Such a provision would violate the system of checks and balances central to our Constitution, upset the balance of power between the branches of government, and lend itself to abuses of power.
Although the Senate decided not to include the REAL ID Act in the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations bill, many of its provisions were added to the final version of that measure during the House-Senate conference on the bill.
Thank you again for writing and expressing your views on this issue.
You know, what's to stop the ad agency from calling in these "complaints" themselves, getting the advert "banned", and then rubbing their hands in glee while people actually go out of their way to see the ad and what all the fuss was about? I know I would have never heard or seen this advert if it wasn't for the fact it was banned...
Unless there are a lot of people who are upset with the MS/Novell deal, why bother with trying to prove "most" people are happy with it. It confirms there's a problem and seems like damage control to me.
This is quite possibly the most ignorant statement I've ever seen on Slashdot.
Care to take that smug attitude and tell it to Newton, Galileo, Copernicus, and even our beloved Knuth? I'd say science would be in poor shape today if we didn't have those brilliant minds.
Might want to educate yourself and check out this webpage for a more detailed listing.
Well, the funny thing about the Bible is that it's not technically a single book, but rather, 66 individual books. So just like I could pick up Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman and know that it's poetry and not to be taken "literally", I could read the book of Psalms or Revelations or Song of Solomon and know the same thing. So lumping everything together and claiming "you have to take it literally to get anything out of it" is just plain intellectually lazy.
You really do a good job playing the part of an arrogrant prick. Here's a tip: replying with a "False" to statements doesn't really make much of a case, it just makes you look like more of an ass.
Considering that none of those countries has the word "America" in their name (like the US of A does), I'd say no it doesn't include them.
Great rant. Too bad it has nothing to do with whether or not consumers are really "sheep." Your point that we can't all worry about the same things is very valid, just not relevant to what you quoted. The majority of consumers will buy whatever they are told to buy with little-to-no thought involved. That makes them sheep. Don't like it? Then do something to change it, starting with yourself.
According to Blizzard, I don't own anything inside of the World of Warcraft. Why the hell would I be taxed on property that belongs to someone else?
Seriously. There used to be a time when radio DJs would read the adverts over the air. It would make for a much less jarring experience than the current cacophony of crap we have on today's radio stations. In Chicago, we have one station, the classical music station, that has the DJs read the ads and I don't mind hearing them at all. WXRT will also read some ads (Hello Walter E Smith furnature) and those are always the least annoying ones to hear.
It seems advertisers have gone out of their way to make the ads more and more annoying, definitely *not* less.
During a Cold War and a huge nuclear arms buildup, do you really think it's wise and appropriate to joke about bombing Russia? Especially coming from the person who actually has the ability to initiate it? It would be like making bomb jokes while on a plane flight today.
What I want is my time back! I need it for my life, I need it to LIVE!
Actually, accordning to the most recent slang, I believe the correct translation for that word would be "schooled."