Oral sex is often a good way to show your boss and co-workers how much you care about them. Offering to clean the nastier parts of their houses is also effective, and can sometimes afford you a shot at those "private files" that can contribute so much to your advancement in the company.
Being really, really good at your job helps, but only if your boss isn't threatened by that. Otherwise, he'll steal credit for everything you've done and portray you as a useless slacker (see paragraph one).
Has anybody seen that German clip where the guy goes through one of the English scanners? He pulls a bunch of stuff out of his jacket pockets that the scanner missed and builds a thermite bomb right in front of everybody. Then he goes outside and proves it works by setting it off and letting it burn through a metal container.
But at least these twats will get to look at my girlfriend's titties. Professionally, of course.
Good point, and I have to confess that I did exactly what you say with a PC (knocked it right off a desk). I was lucky enough to have the drive still work afterwards. I didn't trust it, though, and replaced it immediately. And I DO back up. As far as I'm concerned, a bigger drive just means you have more to lose if it screws up.
Nobody wants to talk about the fact that these things are actually considerably more expensive than their already-high retail price. You MUST have the storage capacity to keep them fully backed up at all times. When a standard-issue hard drive crashes, it usually gives you some hint that there's a problem. Maybe it starts running hot, maybe it starts making noise, maybe you start getting write errors or the partition goes missing (but the data is still salvagable). In 20 years and more HDD's than I can count, I've never once had one just plain quit. I've had that unpleasant experience twice with jump drives. Fine and dandy one minute, dead as a carp the next time I plugged it in and hour later. Neither had been anywhere, done anything...just sat there on the desk waiting for a few minutes (to be accurate, in one case overnight). Attempts to recover data via software intended to address the problem were unsuccessful.
Until this problem is addressed effectively, I'm going to be very careful about investing in large SSD's.
I guess you're unaware that Canada has a Supreme Court, and it's already schooled the Harper government a time or two. If I'd meant the US Supreme Court, I'd have said so.
The sad thing about all this is that when a government department or agency decides to thumb their nose at a Freedom of Information Request, few groups have the time and money to fight them all the way to the Supreme Court. And when they get there, the likelihood of a costs/damages finding big enough to really hurt the government is almost non-existent.
I guess the concept of "required courses" is unknown to you. Also wasted on you, perhaps, is the idea that the same course is often taught by more than one prof. One might also decide not to waste time at the lectures of an incompetent professor, but concentrate instead on TA-led labs and seminars.
There are other equally-likely scenarios, of course, but I trust the point is made?
I thought the point of post-secondary education was that attendance is optional, knowledge of course content is required, and verified by examination. Some of my profs were among the most brilliant people I've ever met. Sadly, a number of them had the personality and teaching skill of a venomous reptile. Forcing students into regular contact with them would have been regarded as a war crime in any civilized country on Earth.
Now you're starting to get silly. There's so many cases of little boys being raped by priests and appropriately-named "lay brothers" that the only possible conclusion a sane person can draw is that there are thousands more that haven't even been reported. I was especially angered by the rapist in a dog collar who molested at least 200 deaf children in Wisconsin.
And in recent weeks, hundreds of sexual abuse cover-up cases have surfaced in the German church, so many that the Vatican says it can't handle the workload. And three Brazilian Catholic priests were recently accused of abusing boys in Brazil, with video evidence. These outrages happen all over the world. The only thing they have in common is the Catholic Church and, until very recently, its ability to influence police and prosecutors. Fortunately, those days are gone.
The reason my "philosophical/theological reasoning about the highest questions known to humanity" isn't on display is because it doesn't include screwing children, then expecting my superiors to cover it up and move me on to another hunting ground. I can state very briefly, though, that Occam's Razor is more than sufficient to dispose of most claims made by most religions. Certainly religion is just about the only place where the credulous acceptance of irrational claptrap is elevated to the status of virtue while critical thought will often get you murdered in any of a hundred ingenious and agonizing ways. Basically, if you can produce one shred of verifiable proof that god exists, bring it on. You can't.
On the other hand, evidence that the Catholic Church has been a happy refuge for thousands of pedophiles is indisputable.
Pretty much the same as other religions: It's a pack of nonsense delusional people use to justify and forgive themselves for the most appalling moral and ethical lapses. I've been less than kind to the current Israeli government because of its refusal to obey the Geneva Conventions, and been called an anti-Semite as a result.
It's still a matter of record, by the way, that the Catholic Church has been a happy hunting ground for pedophiles for a long, long time. Underground journals in the Victorian Era mocked priests as a bunch of baby-rapers. They were right.
So how have they set in up? Once some guy has tried to "Friend" more than 100 tween boys he's never met before, does the Catholic Church automatically send him a pre-approved application form for entry into the priesthood?
Credit card companies have something like that set up for people with bad credit, so it seems like a good way for the church to save time it might waste rejecting all the women and married men who might want to be priests.
Yeah, it's always a mistake to stand up for what you believe in...or even demand to be treated like a human being. Better by far to grovel and kiss the ass of the douchebag with the gun. You'll survive, probably. And what could be more important than that?
No doubt the next badge will be awarded for evading the creepy Scout Leader during the weekend camp-out, with an added "Survival Under Extreme Conditions" Badge if Scoutmaster Roy brings along that priest he met on-line.
I posted on the earlier summary about how even my ancient Palm Tungsten E2 functions very well as a retarded little laptop and won't bore anybody by repeating myself. I will, however, note that with a thorough upgrade and proper marketing, this small device (or it's grandkid) could effectively replace a lot of bigger, more power-hungry devices.
I hadn't considered it, but that kind of convergence makes a huge amount of sense.
Palm's "Hotsync" is certainly a step in that direction. I usually use a cable, but even my ancient E2 could easily synchronize notes, contacts, e-mail, photos, books, music and everything else automatically by Bluetooth as soon as I got within a few yards of my PC. Depending on what you set up, data transfer is in both directions, and applets can be set up separately to give any site priority (or none). With a WiFi card, the cloud is completely accessible, too.
The Palm Tungsten and closely-allied models are absolutely perfect for my purposes. I make photographs and graphics...which I can show to potential customers. I constantly jot notes to myself, and I can write on the thing. My girlfriend originally bought it for me because when I quit smoking, I'd tear bits off her package to scribble on. It's got a keyboard accessory with real-sized keys that I can type on (along with Microsoft Office). It displays e-books amazingly well considering its small size. There's room for plenty of music. With its updated battery and an external charger that cost dick-all it's good for more hours of operation than you can possibly use. You could easily type notes from morning to lunch, charge at lunch and then go for the whole afternoon (and the infrared keyboard is its most power-hungry application). It plays movies and has WiFi through an optional card. It syncs with Outlook. It keeps as much contact information and scheduling information as any smart phone, and it communicates with my un-smart phone effectively via Bluetooth. The thing is like a runty, retarded little laptop. It's five years old, it still works like new, and it should have worn out twice by now. It also fits comfortably in a shirt pocket.
If HP wanted to do some serious damage in the current market, they should build on this basic model. Keep the on-screen writing/sketching and other stuff nobody else does anymore. Add a camera, microphone and the ability to address larger-capacity memory cards (my model is limited to 1G cards). I don't know what's possible in an upgraded processor...but do it. These things will never replace a laptop, or maybe even a notebook (though I might argue that), but when more people catch on to what the little buggers can do, there will definitely be a market for them.
I'm not much for applauding and saying, "Me, too", but I can't help with agree 100%. If you weren't already at 5, I'd give you another mod point.
Since, as you say, the media are pussies, perhaps it's time for a more grassroots approach. What would the poor darlings do if cartoons of a certain prophet engaging in an excessively friendly act with a camel started popping up all over the Free World? On walls, on websites, inserted into newspaper boxes...everywhere. And if The Diva Formerly Known As Prince can adopt a symbol as his name, I'm pretty sure we could develop a nice, easy-to-draw symbol that means "the prophet buggers barnyard critters" fairly easily.
IANL, but it seems to me that you'd have a pretty good case for constructive dismissal, if you wanted to push that hard. I can't see that it would be anything but counterproductive, but it would be there. The employer wants to materially change the job you hold and isn't prepared to provide the tools that would let you upgrade to the new standard.
On the other hand, as stated elsewhere, an employee would probably be much better off simply obtaining the certification and using the opportunity to look for a new job while there's still a steady paycheck coming in.
A young guy's bare titty! Oh, my god, save me from Satan's hordes! Will somebody please tell fundamentalcase Americans and all the castrated, ass-kissing business drones who are afraid of them to go fuck themselves? Nobody seems to have much of a problem with 29 miners who died because of corporate greed, but some nimrod who sticks his cellphone camera under his shirt causes squeals and apologies from the corporate community? A lot of people are badly in need of a pimp-slap, and most of them are wearing suits.
"Tom Nugent...previously worked on the 'photonic fence' mosquito-zapping project at Intellectual Ventures..."
I understand the photonic fence project hit a wall during tests held just North of Winnipeg. Three mosquitoes (described by locals as "undersized" and "early season weaklings") came out of the bush, trashed the equipment and kicked the living shit out of two researchers. A German Shepherd-Pit Bull cross brought in to keep bears out of the scientists' camp was dragged off by the insects and never seen again.
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Oral sex is often a good way to show your boss and co-workers how much you care about them. Offering to clean the nastier parts of their houses is also effective, and can sometimes afford you a shot at those "private files" that can contribute so much to your advancement in the company.
Being really, really good at your job helps, but only if your boss isn't threatened by that. Otherwise, he'll steal credit for everything you've done and portray you as a useless slacker (see paragraph one).
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Has anybody seen that German clip where the guy goes through one of the English scanners? He pulls a bunch of stuff out of his jacket pockets that the scanner missed and builds a thermite bomb right in front of everybody. Then he goes outside and proves it works by setting it off and letting it burn through a metal container.
But at least these twats will get to look at my girlfriend's titties. Professionally, of course.
Good point, and I have to confess that I did exactly what you say with a PC (knocked it right off a desk). I was lucky enough to have the drive still work afterwards. I didn't trust it, though, and replaced it immediately. And I DO back up. As far as I'm concerned, a bigger drive just means you have more to lose if it screws up.
If I had mod points, I'd give you an "Informative". That sounds like a good system.
I use Acronis to create images of my data and boot drives on one of two external HDD's. One is always off the premises.
Nobody wants to talk about the fact that these things are actually considerably more expensive than their already-high retail price. You MUST have the storage capacity to keep them fully backed up at all times. When a standard-issue hard drive crashes, it usually gives you some hint that there's a problem. Maybe it starts running hot, maybe it starts making noise, maybe you start getting write errors or the partition goes missing (but the data is still salvagable). In 20 years and more HDD's than I can count, I've never once had one just plain quit. I've had that unpleasant experience twice with jump drives. Fine and dandy one minute, dead as a carp the next time I plugged it in and hour later. Neither had been anywhere, done anything...just sat there on the desk waiting for a few minutes (to be accurate, in one case overnight). Attempts to recover data via software intended to address the problem were unsuccessful.
Until this problem is addressed effectively, I'm going to be very careful about investing in large SSD's.
I guess you're unaware that Canada has a Supreme Court, and it's already schooled the Harper government a time or two. If I'd meant the US Supreme Court, I'd have said so.
The sad thing about all this is that when a government department or agency decides to thumb their nose at a Freedom of Information Request, few groups have the time and money to fight them all the way to the Supreme Court. And when they get there, the likelihood of a costs/damages finding big enough to really hurt the government is almost non-existent.
Obviously.
I guess the concept of "required courses" is unknown to you. Also wasted on you, perhaps, is the idea that the same course is often taught by more than one prof. One might also decide not to waste time at the lectures of an incompetent professor, but concentrate instead on TA-led labs and seminars.
There are other equally-likely scenarios, of course, but I trust the point is made?
I thought the point of post-secondary education was that attendance is optional, knowledge of course content is required, and verified by examination. Some of my profs were among the most brilliant people I've ever met. Sadly, a number of them had the personality and teaching skill of a venomous reptile. Forcing students into regular contact with them would have been regarded as a war crime in any civilized country on Earth.
Now you're starting to get silly. There's so many cases of little boys being raped by priests and appropriately-named "lay brothers" that the only possible conclusion a sane person can draw is that there are thousands more that haven't even been reported. I was especially angered by the rapist in a dog collar who molested at least 200 deaf children in Wisconsin.
And in recent weeks, hundreds of sexual abuse cover-up cases have surfaced in the German church, so many that the Vatican says it can't handle the workload. And three Brazilian Catholic priests were recently accused of abusing boys in Brazil, with video evidence. These outrages happen all over the world. The only thing they have in common is the Catholic Church and, until very recently, its ability to influence police and prosecutors. Fortunately, those days are gone.
The reason my "philosophical/theological reasoning about the highest questions known to humanity" isn't on display is because it doesn't include screwing children, then expecting my superiors to cover it up and move me on to another hunting ground. I can state very briefly, though, that Occam's Razor is more than sufficient to dispose of most claims made by most religions. Certainly religion is just about the only place where the credulous acceptance of irrational claptrap is elevated to the status of virtue while critical thought will often get you murdered in any of a hundred ingenious and agonizing ways. Basically, if you can produce one shred of verifiable proof that god exists, bring it on. You can't.
On the other hand, evidence that the Catholic Church has been a happy refuge for thousands of pedophiles is indisputable.
Pretty much the same as other religions: It's a pack of nonsense delusional people use to justify and forgive themselves for the most appalling moral and ethical lapses. I've been less than kind to the current Israeli government because of its refusal to obey the Geneva Conventions, and been called an anti-Semite as a result.
It's still a matter of record, by the way, that the Catholic Church has been a happy hunting ground for pedophiles for a long, long time. Underground journals in the Victorian Era mocked priests as a bunch of baby-rapers. They were right.
Next question?
Thanks for saving me the trouble of having to school that illiterate prat. You were a lot more polite about it that I'd have been.
So how have they set in up? Once some guy has tried to "Friend" more than 100 tween boys he's never met before, does the Catholic Church automatically send him a pre-approved application form for entry into the priesthood?
Credit card companies have something like that set up for people with bad credit, so it seems like a good way for the church to save time it might waste rejecting all the women and married men who might want to be priests.
Yeah, it's always a mistake to stand up for what you believe in...or even demand to be treated like a human being. Better by far to grovel and kiss the ass of the douchebag with the gun. You'll survive, probably. And what could be more important than that?
No doubt the next badge will be awarded for evading the creepy Scout Leader during the weekend camp-out, with an added "Survival Under Extreme Conditions" Badge if Scoutmaster Roy brings along that priest he met on-line.
I posted on the earlier summary about how even my ancient Palm Tungsten E2 functions very well as a retarded little laptop and won't bore anybody by repeating myself. I will, however, note that with a thorough upgrade and proper marketing, this small device (or it's grandkid) could effectively replace a lot of bigger, more power-hungry devices.
I hadn't considered it, but that kind of convergence makes a huge amount of sense.
Palm's "Hotsync" is certainly a step in that direction. I usually use a cable, but even my ancient E2 could easily synchronize notes, contacts, e-mail, photos, books, music and everything else automatically by Bluetooth as soon as I got within a few yards of my PC. Depending on what you set up, data transfer is in both directions, and applets can be set up separately to give any site priority (or none). With a WiFi card, the cloud is completely accessible, too.
Are you talking about a Harry Palm for Potter?
The Palm Tungsten and closely-allied models are absolutely perfect for my purposes. I make photographs and graphics...which I can show to potential customers. I constantly jot notes to myself, and I can write on the thing. My girlfriend originally bought it for me because when I quit smoking, I'd tear bits off her package to scribble on. It's got a keyboard accessory with real-sized keys that I can type on (along with Microsoft Office). It displays e-books amazingly well considering its small size. There's room for plenty of music. With its updated battery and an external charger that cost dick-all it's good for more hours of operation than you can possibly use. You could easily type notes from morning to lunch, charge at lunch and then go for the whole afternoon (and the infrared keyboard is its most power-hungry application). It plays movies and has WiFi through an optional card. It syncs with Outlook. It keeps as much contact information and scheduling information as any smart phone, and it communicates with my un-smart phone effectively via Bluetooth. The thing is like a runty, retarded little laptop. It's five years old, it still works like new, and it should have worn out twice by now. It also fits comfortably in a shirt pocket.
If HP wanted to do some serious damage in the current market, they should build on this basic model. Keep the on-screen writing/sketching and other stuff nobody else does anymore. Add a camera, microphone and the ability to address larger-capacity memory cards (my model is limited to 1G cards). I don't know what's possible in an upgraded processor...but do it. These things will never replace a laptop, or maybe even a notebook (though I might argue that), but when more people catch on to what the little buggers can do, there will definitely be a market for them.
I'm not much for applauding and saying, "Me, too", but I can't help with agree 100%. If you weren't already at 5, I'd give you another mod point.
Since, as you say, the media are pussies, perhaps it's time for a more grassroots approach. What would the poor darlings do if cartoons of a certain prophet engaging in an excessively friendly act with a camel started popping up all over the Free World? On walls, on websites, inserted into newspaper boxes...everywhere. And if The Diva Formerly Known As Prince can adopt a symbol as his name, I'm pretty sure we could develop a nice, easy-to-draw symbol that means "the prophet buggers barnyard critters" fairly easily.
Maybe a little desensitization is in order?
IANL, but it seems to me that you'd have a pretty good case for constructive dismissal, if you wanted to push that hard. I can't see that it would be anything but counterproductive, but it would be there. The employer wants to materially change the job you hold and isn't prepared to provide the tools that would let you upgrade to the new standard.
On the other hand, as stated elsewhere, an employee would probably be much better off simply obtaining the certification and using the opportunity to look for a new job while there's still a steady paycheck coming in.
A young guy's bare titty! Oh, my god, save me from Satan's hordes! Will somebody please tell fundamentalcase Americans and all the castrated, ass-kissing business drones who are afraid of them to go fuck themselves? Nobody seems to have much of a problem with 29 miners who died because of corporate greed, but some nimrod who sticks his cellphone camera under his shirt causes squeals and apologies from the corporate community? A lot of people are badly in need of a pimp-slap, and most of them are wearing suits.
"Tom Nugent...previously worked on the 'photonic fence' mosquito-zapping project at Intellectual Ventures..."
I understand the photonic fence project hit a wall during tests held just North of Winnipeg. Three mosquitoes (described by locals as "undersized" and "early season weaklings") came out of the bush, trashed the equipment and kicked the living shit out of two researchers. A German Shepherd-Pit Bull cross brought in to keep bears out of the scientists' camp was dragged off by the insects and never seen again.