Now I know what to do with that recently acquired virgin connect computer sitting in my apartment.... Imagine ripping the guts out of that thing, hardware hacking a 2600jr into it, powering with longlife rechargeable camcorder battery, spurcing it up with a woodgrain makeover...complete it out with ports to plug in the real atari joysticks (man, I love those joysticks....) Definite Christmas Vacation project... anyone want to help me figure out how to do this ?:)
I grew my own kind bud. Smoked it myself.
I grew my own mushrooms. Tripped once or twice a month.
Then I got raided. They charged me with manufacturing schedule 1 (never sold or produced any volume, just personal amounts... no use to pay dough when you know how to grow). They confiscated all my electronics and computers (sure do miss the old NeXT cube) not to mention my bong collection and all my piece pipes.
Now I'm on probation for 5 years. Can't do drugs in case the state pops a piss test on me. I purposely chose an employer that did not do drug testing, if they hadn't been so cool with situation I would be working in a city making twice my salary now.
My stress level is much higher during the business day now than when I was growing and using my personal stash after work. I've had to resort to working out everyday to relieve stress.
At least I'm in better physical shape, if not mental.
Total effect on my career = 3 lost working days while sitting in jail waiting for judge to set bond... which my employer paid to get me back into the office as quickly as possible. When the Systems Administrator of an ISP is completely unreachable things can get rough.
Now everyone in the office just makes the occasional bong joke knowing I can't smoke.
Mushrooms get ordered on every lunch pizza.
Drug laws are just plain annoying, and are overcrowding our prisons with the people that can't afford the good lawyers like the one my boss got for me. I feel sorry for them, and very thankful for what I have.
Its been a long time, but for some reason the idea that if you need to use PGP only use version 2.6.2 is firmly stuck in my head playing over and over like a broke record. If you "need" to use encryption to communicate with someone (or protect some data...), only 2.6.2 and if they can't or won't use it then you shouldn't communicate with them (or bother keeping the data).
2.6.2... yep, that is definitely engrained in my brain, can anybody help me to remember or figure out why?
Do you feel that the use of pyschedelics has been benificial or even integral to the development of the philosophies behind the free software movement?
What are your view points on legalization/decriminilization?
I love to program. I love linux. I love to get paid programming and working with linux. I also like to smoke nugs afterwork when relaxing with friends, or once or twice a month eat some mushrooms by myself in a dark room with no music and tripitate (meditative tripping). For lack of a better term I guess you could call my tripitating my spiritual or riligous practice.
Unfortunately I don't get to tripitate for the next 5 years. I am on probabation for growing a small amount of mushrooms for my own personal religous use. The technical legal term for this in the united hates is Manufacturing of a Schedule I Controlled Substance, maximum penalty 30 years. I copped a plea to a lesser charge, Possession of a Schedule I, plead under the first offender act (no admission of guilt, no felony record upon completion of sentence), and was sentenced to $1000 in fines and 5 years of probation. I can't leave the state of Georgia for five years except for short trips with permission, and I can't practice my spiritual communion.
I can't change the laws in this country. The constitution is a joke.
I can take my talents and abilities (and my income, and my taxes) and move to a better country.
When I am off probation, I will move to somewhere like the Netherlands. Canada has a special immigration program just for highly skilled computer workers (and mushrooms are a trivial misdemeanor). You can even legally purchase mushrooms at "head" shops in Japan.
I will find a nation that needs people with my skills, and I will find a nation that allows me to practice my religion and exercise what should be my rights as a human being. I hope that this trend catches on, and that this country will start to be drained of its intelligent resources...
In the end, a financial motivation is the only thing that will ever cause the united hates to legalize marijuana and sacred mushrooms. I'm doing my part by leaving as soon as I legally can.
Microsoft offered to pay for the BW needed for sugarmegs if they would change their streaming files from ra to asf. This was a pain for me since I couldn't listen to sugarmegs streams under linux any more. Once microsoft pulled their support, I figured I would do what I could and offered to stream files for sugarmegs at a new pop we've got that had BW to spare -- the only catch -- I'm offering to stream ra files only. My guess is the large shift I saw from ra to asf streaming providers on the net was due to a Microsoft campaign to pay for BW for the most popular streaming sites in exchange for them switching their streaming formats.... like what happened with sugarmegs.
As far as the streaming goes, you don't have to license anything to stream ra content. Just stream it through http, your streaming server is your web server. Go with a apache, and you have unlimited streams (bottleneck will be your bandwidth). The only time you need to buy a real audio server license is for streaming LIVE content, and most of the streaming content out there is not LIVE. You can get a free version of ra server for up to like 60 streams or so (can't remember exactly) if you need to stream live content. All that we really need is a free open source encoder to encode live audio/video to ra formats and pass it off to apache somehow for the serving of live content feeds (for radio stations, or events, etc...).
The ra streaming mirror I've got setup for sugarmegs now is just an old pieced together PPro 200 w/96 Megs and scsi 2 drives running OpenBSD 2.6 / Apache 1.3.9, its saturating a full T1 at peak times serving pre-encoded ra files through http -- top shows ~52 Megs ram free and ~95%idle cpu. I'm very pleased with performance.
I know another admin that streams pre-encoded asf files. It took him 3 nt servers at > $20,000 in hardware to saturate his first T1. He may not have paid for the streaming licenses, but he paid out the ass for the hardware and os to run the free asf streaming server stuff (he did go overkill though, all dual processors, all raid 5, etc...). If he had went ra, he could have spent $2,000 on hardware and got the os and http server software to fit his needs for free, and in my opinion not sacrificed reliablity at all.
P2K was just as predicted!
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Phish NYE 2000 was magical. I enjoyed this show from start to end. It made for a very special millenium and birthday celebration. Happy New Years!!!
Never had a problem. Got a slew of linux, nt, 98 machines.... no problems switching between them (like losing mouse control or what have you... seen this with cheaper models).
We implemented the latest Real Audio server and encoder under linux (tested NT, random crashes, figured we could automate restarts a lot easier under linux). Purchased 100 stream license, got the box edition mailed, whole nine yards. The install sucked. Couldn't even get it to work without calling their tech support and getting someone to walk us through some manual script edits, just to get the server and encoder to even start (the tech knew exactly what was wrong as soon as I described the problem, knew exactly what to change, why not have just corrected the distribution?) Anyway, we get the server up and running, encoding is going fine, setup a windows client to listen to the live streams we were testing, and everything seemed to check out fine. So we install the box onsite at a local university, get their school radio feed into it, everything looks good and we leave. 30 mins back at the office and the calls start, its not working. Get into the box, the server is still running just fine, the encoder is still running just fine, but the server has just randomly decided to quit listening to the encoder. If one of the processes had died we could have just wrote a little watch dog script to restart it, but the damn processes are still running. So we restart everything, and the streams start playing again. 20mins to 1hr later, more calls. Its down again. Over the next two weeks we try everything under the sun to figure out what is wrong, including numerous emails and calls to Real's tech dept. They let it leak that they know about the problem, and that we need to move to beta products to get around it. I don't want to implement beta products, they've got to beta for a reason, and I'm sick of chasing after their bugs. If you sell a gold version commercial product for a platform, and you charge out the ass for it, it should work (and not randomly require manual restarts...as many as 20 per day). If I had it to do all over again, I would implement netshow on an NT server. And I hate NT with a passion, but I've seen it work at another client location flawlessly without intervention, and it doesn't have a pricing structure based on streams. Sometimes, the linux solution must be better because it is more stable attitude just doesn't hold up. More pressure needs to be put on commercial companies selling linux solutions to stand behind their products. We spent so much time trouble shooting the freakin RA linux server, we couldn't get our money back from the license sales, nor an acceptable solution from them. As it stands, we have had to set a cron job to kill the server, kill the encoder, then start both back up every hour. This keeps knocking people off, but at least they can get a stream for a little while some of the time. Real Networks is WORTHLESS. If you have to implement a live encoding audio streaming server, go with netshow under NT. 2cents
Does anyone know of a registrar that is not going to require credit card payment or check pre-payment before reserving a domain?
I work for a small ISP that offers personal and business users the ability to pay by cash/check/ or card. If a customer wants us to host their dns and point it to any of our servers or ips, we require them to allow us to register or tranfer the domain (so the admin, tech contact, primary, and secondary ips are listed correctly). Internic is now going to start to require credit card payment for registrations, which will totally break our system of charging our hosting fees and letting the registrar bill the customer directly for their reservation fee. We won't be able to list credit cards for our non-card paying customers. We've never had a problem with squating, as we charge our hosting fee (with a startup) in order to register the domains. Internic says they will offer to continue doing business to clients who "qualify" on the current system as long as you register more than 10 a month and fill out an application. We register a lot more than 10 a month, but Internic declined our application because of "insufficient" credit history and wants the company to pay some ridiculous thousands of dollars for the priveledge to keep doing business the same way we have been for 4.5 years! Does anybody know a registrar that will allow us to continue to reserve domains right away, and that will send the billing contacts an invoice for the registration charges?
I think your nuts. I have an account on mindspring and another on a small local ISP. I have used both accounts about equally as much. The mindspring email box is constantly full of spam crap, most of it from mindspring dial-ups. The other smaller isp's email box rarely gets spammed (1 or 2 a week) and it is almost always coming from a mindspring camel(blah blah) server. I don't know why, it just is. Not only that, I think the whole mindspring mail system is screwy. I have gotten quite a few emails addressed to other mindspring members (personal stuffs....not spams) delivered to my box.
Not quite ignorance. Just my personal "experiences".
Everything is harmful to the body if not taken in moderation. I cannot name one substance that enters the body that does not harm it in some way, much less in excess. Oxygen is needed. Two much oxygen and you die. Water quinches thirst. Water can drown you. Food provideds nutrients. Food makes you fat, clogs your atteries, etc...
In keeping an open mind and doing research into drugs when younger, the medical books and human biology material I read lead me to believe that pot does not cause long term harm to the body in more than turkey can. Same thing for mushrooms and LSD. They do have benefits that far out way the cons when used properly and in moderation.... such as mental relaxation and spirtiuality recharging. Why just eat for a healthy body, why can't you eat for a healthy mind as well?
Do you have any credible information to validate your remarks or are you just regurgitating some bullshit you believed off a dare commercial?
Want to go one on quoting NORML versus DARE literature? Want to see who ends up sounding blissful and ignorant? Fire it up.
"They" are a business out to make money and increase profits wherever possible. Insurance companies give discounts to companies who drug test. Companies are not going to volunteer to pay money for drug testing, possibly loose that hard to find producer worker, etc... without a financial motivation. The financial motivation comes from the discounts the insurance companies provide to companies that drug test. It has nothing to do about trust.
At one company I worked for, the president was making the move to initiate a drug testing policy for all new employees. He asked for my input. I asked why he would want to ever do anything that incredibly stupid...and found out how much money he could save on insurrance. When I suggested that he consider how much money it was going to take to replace me, he suggested that I had nothing to worry about because I was already hired. I made it clear that I was not worried, I was angry at what I had just found out, and that if he started forcing my new employees to pass a drug screening prior to employment or as a requirement for company provided insurance then I would be sending out my resume to the local competition.
There are quite a few of us who believe in freeing the weed as well as the source code.
I know more herbal appreciators than beer guzzling professionals.
Why do you think so few top paying sys admin / programming positions drug test? I think it is because this is one field where if you don't like a company's invasion of your privacy and violation of what should be your rights as an adult, you can easily find an employment offer with another more open minded company that realizes it is more important to get a good employee than to save a few bucks on their group insurance policy (most insur companies give discounts to companys that drug test).
I don't really agree with the article's insinuation that most IT drug users are crack heads, coke heads, or little x popping teeny college ravers.
I would say the majority are casual to cronic nug tokers, with a fair amount of shroom eaters, and few hard core old time LSD lovers. All non-addictive and non-harmful to the body or the mind.
It's not my my words....hince the quotes. That site was linked off of www.slashdot.org and pissed a lot of people off when they followed the link and couldn't browse back to the article they were reading. I was just forwarding someone else's comments about the site to you in the hopes you would take it as constructive critisism and change the site's design. I hope you don't handle all your client relations with this kind of childish un-professionalism. And yes, this too will be posted to slashdot for another couple thousand un-educated poor english speaking computer professionals to consider.
Regards, Scott McDonald Admin@MyLink.net
-----Original Message----- From: Dave Cannon To: Scott McDonald Date: Friday, February 12, 1999 7:53 PM Subject: Re:
>That's what I like. A really constructive bit of input. You're english >teacher would be proud. > >Good luck in life. >-----Original Message----- >From: Scott McDonald >To: 'mediamasters@mediaville.com' >Date: Friday, February 12, 1999 4:34 PM > > >> >>www.castlewoodsystems.com >> >> >> >> >>Amen?.. >> >>" >>That's one of those sorry assed garlic breathed web sites that tries to >take control of your browser and refuses to let you leave. >> >>Be sure to register your displeasure with their web master. >>" >> >> > >
It's not my my words....hince the quotes. That site was linked off of www.slashdot.org and pissed a lot of people off when they followed the link and couldn't browse back to the article they were reading. I was just forwarding someone else's comments about the site to you in the hopes you would take it as constructive critism and change the site's design. I hope you don't handle all your client relations with this kind of childish un-professionalism. And yes, this too will be posted to slashdot for another couple thousand un-educated poor english speaking computer professionals to consider.
Regards, Scott McDonald Admin@MyLink.net
-----Original Message----- From: Dave Cannon To: Scott McDonald Date: Friday, February 12, 1999 7:53 PM Subject: Re:
>That's what I like. A really constructive bit of input. You're english >teacher would be proud. > >Good luck in life. >-----Original Message----- >From: Scott McDonald >To: 'mediamasters@mediaville.com' >Date: Friday, February 12, 1999 4:34 PM > > >> >>www.castlewoodsystems.com >> >> >> >> >>Amen?.. >> >>" >>That's one of those sorry assed garlic breathed web sites that tries to >take control of your browser and refuses to let you leave. >> >>Be sure to register your displeasure with their web master. >>" >> >> > >
I never liked the chocolate drink (now that seems like a real trademark issue seeing as how there is no ! on domain names) and I never liked the web site.
I guess yahooka.com could always get the source for slashdot, change their domain name, and launch slashpot.org.....as long as rob doesn't sue them that is:)
Slashdot Mirror
So is that how the books end - or was the movie just the first part of the story?
Yeah!
:)
0K!
This is why I don't have to spend all night patching our company's servers anymore
Learn on Linux.
Live off OpenBSD.
JSM
The traffic being generated by all our neighboring class A blocks is saturating our T1's... our webservers are running full blast logging 404 errors.
Here's an mrtg graph of T1 bandwidth at one server pop.
Now I know what to do with that recently acquired virgin connect computer sitting in my apartment.... Imagine ripping the guts out of that thing, hardware hacking a 2600jr into it, powering with longlife rechargeable camcorder battery, spurcing it up with a woodgrain makeover...complete it out with ports to plug in the real atari joysticks (man, I love those joysticks....) Definite Christmas Vacation project... anyone want to help me figure out how to do this ? :)
I grew my own kind bud. Smoked it myself.
I grew my own mushrooms. Tripped once or twice a month.
Then I got raided. They charged me with manufacturing schedule 1 (never sold or produced any volume, just personal amounts... no use to pay dough when you know how to grow). They confiscated all my electronics and computers (sure do miss the old NeXT cube) not to mention my bong collection and all my piece pipes.
Now I'm on probation for 5 years. Can't do drugs in case the state pops a piss test on me. I purposely chose an employer that did not do drug testing, if they hadn't been so cool with situation I would be working in a city making twice my salary now.
My stress level is much higher during the business day now than when I was growing and using my personal stash after work. I've had to resort to working out everyday to relieve stress.
At least I'm in better physical shape, if not mental.
Total effect on my career = 3 lost working days while sitting in jail waiting for judge to set bond... which my employer paid to get me back into the office as quickly as possible. When the Systems Administrator of an ISP is completely unreachable things can get rough.
Now everyone in the office just makes the occasional bong joke knowing I can't smoke.
Mushrooms get ordered on every lunch pizza.
Drug laws are just plain annoying, and are overcrowding our prisons with the people that can't afford the good lawyers like the one my boss got for me. I feel sorry for them, and very thankful for what I have.
Its been a long time, but for some reason the idea that if you need to use PGP only use version 2.6.2 is firmly stuck in my head playing over and over like a broke record. If you "need" to use encryption to communicate with someone (or protect some data...), only 2.6.2 and if they can't or won't use it then you shouldn't communicate with them (or bother keeping the data).
2.6.2... yep, that is definitely engrained in my brain, can anybody help me to remember or figure out why?
What do you say to the growing boycot movement currently gaining steam against your "art"?
What are your view points on legalization/decriminilization?
Here is why I believe a free country is just as important as free software.
Tried getting tickets to a PHISH show lately?
Better mail order early.
The only thing I've used Napster for is trading
legit legal copies of live performances from bands that allow taping/trading.
The only cds I've bought in the last 2 years have
been studio releases from the bands that I just couldn't get enough live recordings from.
What's wrong with that?
I love to program. I love linux. I love to get paid programming and working with linux. I also like to smoke nugs afterwork when relaxing with friends, or once or twice a month eat some mushrooms by myself in a dark room with no music and tripitate (meditative tripping). For lack of a better term I guess you could call my tripitating my spiritual or riligous practice.
Unfortunately I don't get to tripitate for the next 5 years. I am on probabation for growing a small amount of mushrooms for my own personal religous use. The technical legal term for this in the united hates is Manufacturing of a Schedule I Controlled Substance, maximum penalty 30 years. I copped a plea to a lesser charge, Possession of a Schedule I, plead under the first offender act (no admission of guilt, no felony record upon completion of sentence), and was sentenced to $1000 in fines and 5 years of probation. I can't leave the state of Georgia for five years except for short trips with permission, and I can't practice my spiritual communion.
I can't change the laws in this country. The constitution is a joke.
I can take my talents and abilities (and my income, and my taxes) and move to a better country.
When I am off probation, I will move to somewhere like the Netherlands. Canada has a special immigration program just for highly skilled computer workers (and mushrooms are a trivial misdemeanor). You can even legally purchase mushrooms at "head" shops in Japan.
I will find a nation that needs people with my skills, and I will find a nation that allows me to practice my religion and exercise what should be my rights as a human being. I hope that this trend catches on, and that this country will start to be drained of its intelligent resources...
In the end, a financial motivation is the only thing that will ever cause the united hates to legalize marijuana and sacred mushrooms. I'm doing my part by leaving as soon as I legally can.
www.sugarmegs.org
Microsoft offered to pay for the BW needed for sugarmegs if they would change their streaming files from ra to asf. This was a pain for me since I couldn't listen to sugarmegs streams under linux any more. Once microsoft pulled their support, I figured I would do what I could and offered to stream files for sugarmegs at a new pop we've got that had BW to spare -- the only catch -- I'm offering to stream ra files only. My guess is the large shift I saw from ra to asf streaming providers on the net was due to a Microsoft campaign to pay for BW for the most popular streaming sites in exchange for them switching their streaming formats.... like what happened with sugarmegs.
As far as the streaming goes, you don't have to license anything to stream ra content. Just stream it through http, your streaming server is your web server. Go with a apache, and you have unlimited streams (bottleneck will be your bandwidth). The only time you need to buy a real audio server license is for streaming LIVE content, and most of the streaming content out there is not LIVE. You can get a free version of ra server for up to like 60 streams or so (can't remember exactly) if you need to stream live content. All that we really need is a free open source encoder to encode live audio/video to ra formats and pass it off to apache somehow for the serving of live content feeds (for radio stations, or events, etc...).
The ra streaming mirror I've got setup for sugarmegs now is just an old pieced together PPro 200 w/96 Megs and scsi 2 drives running OpenBSD 2.6 / Apache 1.3.9, its saturating a full T1 at peak times serving pre-encoded ra files through http -- top shows ~52 Megs ram free and ~95%idle cpu. I'm very pleased with performance.
I know another admin that streams pre-encoded asf files. It took him 3 nt servers at > $20,000 in hardware to saturate his first T1. He may not have paid for the streaming licenses, but he paid out the ass for the hardware and os to run the free asf streaming server stuff (he did go overkill though, all dual processors, all raid 5, etc...). If he had went ra, he could have spent $2,000 on hardware and got the os and http server software to fit his needs for free, and in my opinion not sacrificed reliablity at all.
Phish NYE 2000 was magical. I enjoyed this show from start to end. It made for a very special millenium and birthday celebration. Happy New Years!!!
Nuf Said
Never had a problem. Got a slew of linux, nt, 98 machines.... no problems switching between them (like losing mouse control or what have you... seen this with cheaper models).
We implemented the latest Real Audio server and encoder under linux (tested NT, random crashes, figured we could automate restarts a lot easier under linux). Purchased 100 stream license, got the box edition mailed, whole nine yards. The install sucked. Couldn't even get it to work without calling their tech support and getting someone to walk us through some manual script edits, just to get the server and encoder to even start (the tech knew exactly what was wrong as soon as I described the problem, knew exactly what to change, why not have just corrected the distribution?) Anyway, we get the server up and running, encoding is going fine, setup a windows client to listen to the live streams we were testing, and everything seemed to check out fine. So we install the box onsite at a local university, get their school radio feed into it, everything looks good and we leave. 30 mins back at the office and the calls start, its not working. Get into the box, the server is still running just fine, the encoder is still running just fine, but the server has just randomly decided to quit listening to the encoder. If one of the processes had died we could have just wrote a little watch dog script to restart it, but the damn processes are still running. So we restart everything, and the streams start playing again. 20mins to 1hr later, more calls. Its down again. Over the next two weeks we try everything under the sun to figure out what is wrong, including numerous emails and calls to Real's tech dept. They let it leak that they know about the problem, and that we need to move to beta products to get around it. I don't want to implement beta products, they've got to beta for a reason, and I'm sick of chasing after their bugs. If you sell a gold version commercial product for a platform, and you charge out the ass for it, it should work (and not randomly require manual restarts...as many as 20 per day). If I had it to do all over again, I would implement netshow on an NT server. And I hate NT with a passion, but I've seen it work at another client location flawlessly without intervention, and it doesn't have a pricing structure based on streams. Sometimes, the linux solution must be better because it is more stable attitude just doesn't hold up. More pressure needs to be put on commercial companies selling linux solutions to stand behind their products. We spent so much time trouble shooting the freakin RA linux server, we couldn't get our money back from the license sales, nor an acceptable solution from them. As it stands, we have had to set a cron job to kill the server, kill the encoder, then start both back up every hour. This keeps knocking people off, but at least they can get a stream for a little while some of the time. Real Networks is WORTHLESS. If you have to implement a live encoding audio streaming server, go with netshow under NT. 2cents
Does anyone know of a registrar that is not going to require credit card payment or check pre-payment before reserving a domain?
I work for a small ISP that offers personal and business users the ability to pay by cash/check/ or card. If a customer wants us to host their dns and point it to any of our servers or ips, we require them to allow us to register or tranfer the domain (so the admin, tech contact, primary, and secondary ips are listed correctly). Internic is now going to start to require credit card payment for registrations, which will totally break our system of charging our hosting fees and letting the registrar bill the customer directly for their reservation fee. We won't be able to list credit cards for our non-card paying customers. We've never had a problem with squating, as we charge our hosting fee (with a startup) in order to register the domains. Internic says they will offer to continue doing business to clients who "qualify" on the current system as long as you register more than 10 a month and fill out an application. We register a lot more than 10 a month, but Internic declined our application because of "insufficient" credit history and wants the company to pay some ridiculous thousands of dollars for the priveledge to keep doing business the same way we have been for 4.5 years! Does anybody know a registrar that will allow us to continue to reserve domains right away, and that will send the billing contacts an invoice for the registration charges?
I think your nuts. I have an account on mindspring and another on a small local ISP. I have used both accounts about equally as much.
The mindspring email box is constantly full of spam crap, most of it from mindspring dial-ups.
The other smaller isp's email box rarely gets spammed (1 or 2 a week) and it is almost always coming from a mindspring camel(blah blah) server. I don't know why, it just is.
Not only that, I think the whole mindspring mail system is screwy. I have gotten quite a few emails addressed to other mindspring members (personal stuffs....not spams) delivered to my box.
When is traditional tea time in England?
Not quite ignorance.
Just my personal "experiences".
Everything is harmful to the body if not taken in moderation. I cannot name one substance that enters the body that does not harm it in some way, much less in excess. Oxygen is needed. Two much oxygen and you die. Water quinches thirst. Water can drown you. Food provideds nutrients. Food makes you fat, clogs your atteries, etc...
In keeping an open mind and doing research into drugs when younger, the medical books and human biology material I read lead me to believe that pot does not cause long term harm to the body in more than turkey can. Same thing for mushrooms and LSD. They do have benefits that far out way the cons when used properly and in moderation.... such as mental relaxation and spirtiuality recharging. Why just eat for a healthy body, why can't you eat for a healthy mind as well?
Do you have any credible information to validate your remarks or are you just regurgitating some bullshit you believed off a dare commercial?
Want to go one on quoting NORML versus DARE literature? Want to see who ends up sounding blissful and ignorant? Fire it up.
Wrong.
"They" don't give a shit 9 out of 10 times.
"They" like me, either tried, did, or do smoke.
"They" are a business out to make money and increase profits wherever possible. Insurance companies give discounts to companies who drug test. Companies are not going to volunteer to pay money for drug testing, possibly loose that hard to find producer worker, etc... without a financial motivation. The financial motivation comes from the discounts the insurance companies provide to companies that drug test. It has nothing to do about trust.
At one company I worked for, the president was making the move to initiate a drug testing policy for all new employees. He asked for my input. I asked why he would want to ever do anything that incredibly stupid...and found out how much money he could save on insurrance. When I suggested that he consider how much money it was going to take to replace me, he suggested that I had nothing to worry about because I was already hired. I made it clear that I was not worried, I was angry at what I had just found out, and that if he started forcing my new employees to pass a drug screening prior to employment or as a requirement for company provided insurance then I would be sending out my resume to the local competition.
The drug testing issue was dropped.
It's the same in Georgia.
Yes.
There are quite a few of us who believe in freeing the weed as well as the source code.
I know more herbal appreciators than beer guzzling professionals.
Why do you think so few top paying sys admin / programming positions drug test? I think it is because this is one field where if you don't like a company's invasion of your privacy and violation of what should be your rights as an adult, you can easily find an employment offer with another more open minded company that realizes it is more important to get a good employee than to save a few bucks on their group insurance policy (most insur companies give discounts to companys that drug test).
I don't really agree with the article's insinuation that most IT drug users are crack heads, coke heads, or little x popping teeny college ravers.
I would say the majority are casual to cronic nug tokers, with a fair amount of shroom eaters, and few hard core old time LSD lovers. All non-addictive and non-harmful to the body or the mind.
It's not my my words....hince the quotes. That site was linked off of www.slashdot.org and pissed
a lot of people off when they followed the link and couldn't browse back to the article they
were reading. I was just forwarding someone else's comments about the site to you in
the hopes you would take it as constructive critisism and change the site's design.
I hope you don't handle all your client relations with this kind of childish un-professionalism.
And yes, this too will be posted to slashdot for another couple thousand un-educated poor
english speaking computer professionals to consider.
Regards,
Scott McDonald
Admin@MyLink.net
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Cannon
To: Scott McDonald
Date: Friday, February 12, 1999 7:53 PM
Subject: Re:
>That's what I like. A really constructive bit of input. You're english
>teacher would be proud.
>
>Good luck in life.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Scott McDonald
>To: 'mediamasters@mediaville.com'
>Date: Friday, February 12, 1999 4:34 PM
>
>
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>>www.castlewoodsystems.com
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>>
>>
>>
>>Amen?..
>>
>>"
>>That's one of those sorry assed garlic breathed web sites that tries to
>take control of your browser and refuses to let you leave.
>>
>>Be sure to register your displeasure with their web master.
>>"
>>
>>
>
>
It's not my my words....hince the quotes. That site was linked off of www.slashdot.org and pissed
a lot of people off when they followed the link and couldn't browse back to the article they
were reading. I was just forwarding someone else's comments about the site to you in
the hopes you would take it as constructive critism and change the site's design.
I hope you don't handle all your client relations with this kind of childish un-professionalism.
And yes, this too will be posted to slashdot for another couple thousand un-educated poor
english speaking computer professionals to consider.
Regards,
Scott McDonald
Admin@MyLink.net
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Cannon
To: Scott McDonald
Date: Friday, February 12, 1999 7:53 PM
Subject: Re:
>That's what I like. A really constructive bit of input. You're english
>teacher would be proud.
>
>Good luck in life.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Scott McDonald
>To: 'mediamasters@mediaville.com'
>Date: Friday, February 12, 1999 4:34 PM
>
>
>>
>>www.castlewoodsystems.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Amen?..
>>
>>"
>>That's one of those sorry assed garlic breathed web sites that tries to
>take control of your browser and refuses to let you leave.
>>
>>Be sure to register your displeasure with their web master.
>>"
>>
>>
>
>
I never liked the chocolate drink (now that seems like a real trademark issue seeing as how there is no ! on domain names) and I never liked the web site.
:)
I guess yahooka.com could always get the source for slashdot, change their domain name, and launch
slashpot.org.....as long as rob doesn't sue them that is
SlashPot
News for heads. Hemp that matters.