150,000,000 bucks / 20,000 bucks = 7,500 high end domain names a year they need to sell to break even. Or about 20 per day. I don't think that is happening.
Correct. That is how a normal domain sale goes. You buy your name, set up your site.....PROFIT! Or so the theory goes.
But they are in the high profit business of reselling domain names they "own" (in reality they are just tying them up indefinately and not paying anything for them). They may pay nothing for the domain name while they have it in their shell game - but when an offer comes in to buy it, they "buy" the name for, say $6, then transfer it to the person who wants it for their asking price - maybe $600+ as an example. $594 in profit. Not bad.
Nice business model when you can have millions of items 'in stock' that don't cost anything for you until you sell them for a huge profit - and a virtual monopoly on the items you own.
You don't need to be a registrar to buy a domain name, sample it for 4.9 days, and then return it to get your money back. Anybody can do this if their registrar is willing to play ball.
The three sham companies can all register through a fourth sham registrar to make this easier for them. They don't have to be an official registrar, but can do it as a domain reseller. Many big hosting companies have reseller accounts that include some type of domain reseller service. I am doing this now and have never been asked for anything other than money.
Imagine if you will, a place where 5 days lasts forever. A week never goes by. A lawn never gets mowed.
Unpossible, you say? Not if you are really a sham company who buys a domain name and returns it 4.9 days later, only to be immediately picked back up again by another sham company which happens to be located in the same place as the first, and again only holds the domain name for another 4.9 days to again return it for a refund and have it immediately picked back up again by a third sham company - a mirror image of the past two, which again holds the domain for 4.9 days, only again to return it for a full refund, at which time the first sham company picks it up again, starting the cycle all over again, ad infinitum - and at $0.00 net cost to the companies.
It's not that squatting = 5 days, but that this process continues for years. Making that $0.20 fee non-refundable means that now every 4.9 days in the above merry-go-round, there is a 20 cent charge for that domain name. What used to be free to do will now cost $1.50 a month - PER DOMAIN NAME if they keep doing this, which, obviously they will not be able to afford.
Chances are they will now have to cough up some hard cash to actually register the million or so domain names they have, or let them expire and be free amongst the intertubes yet again for legitamite buyers to catch.
I had high hopes for the Autodetect option too - but alas, it did not work. I didn't see the 'use system settings' option in the Mac version as of a couple weeks ago, but yes, that would be the ideal solution. Thanks for the tip, I'l have a look for it - maybe an upgrade is in order or it hasnt come to the Mac version yet.
I now that was a troll, but I may be able to offer some insight for thers reading this thread that may be helpful to future Mac admins out there and may save some hassle - which is really what being an admin is all about IMHO - saving my users hassle. If they have no worries, I don't get calls and can get back to updating my Mac build or quelling political infighting with some technical facts...
Safari pulls it's network and proxy info from the OS. FireFox does not - it has that set in a pref. The Mac laptops in our company network need proxy settings, DNS info, and a search domain entered to get at all the intranet goodness, as well as make it out to the cloud. In my image I create a WORK location and an AWAY location for the network. The work location has all the network settings for, well, you get the idea. This makes it simple for the user to go under the Apple menu to Location and select WORK or AWAY and still be able to connect to whatever they need to on site or off site. And even that takes a little training.
Unfortunately, FireFox doesn't support that. So the FireFox users would have to go into FireFox and navigate the prefs to find the proxy settings and manually enter the proxy settings in the network, and disable them when they are off site - in addition to choosing the work or away location under the Apple menu. For those that want to know how to do this, the info is on our Mac intranet site and the users are free to do it. But it's just a couple extra steps to remember to do and undo. And for most of my corporate users they could care less which browser they are using - as long as it gets them to the internets theys iz wantin.
So I have my Mac build with both Safari and Firefox set up and configured for work locations - even the status bar showing on Safari. But when they go offsite and just select the AWAY location, only Safari works. Those that know how to make FireFox work will do those extra steps. Those that don't, won't generally care, or will ask me or the help desk and get refrenced to the intranet site for details on how to get it working.
I hope that proves useful for any other Mac admins out there facing the same issue. If you have a better solution, please share it.
I'm curious - given the feedback generated on this article - what, exactly, is canadacow developing?
Or is canadacow just another kid who, like one of my cow-orkers, likes the beta versions so much they lie cheat and steal to get the bug-ware versions of apps for bragging/crashing rights.
This can't speak well for whatever is being developed...
The faster you go, the longer it takes to stop, the less reaction time you have, the harder you it that telephone pole, the greater the chance of you flipping and rolling as you slide sideways, the wider you have to take a curve, the greater your chance of going off the road/into a pole/over the side/into a ditch should you lose control....
I do most of my driving on the freeway. If I see some Mario Andretti coming up on me at 20MPH+ over the speed of other cars, I flash my headlights as they pass me to warn the cars ahead of me of this driver so they know it's coming before they make an unsignaled lane change into his path and wreck out right in front of me.
Oddly enough, most times the cars shuffle just slightly enough that they form a blockade and don't let the guy pass.
But this kind of enforcement isn't about safety, it is about revenue. I had traffic school about two years ago for a speeding ticket. My fine was about $350 and the highest in the class of about 25. Most were around $150-$200. Yet every day I pass signs that say $1000 fine for littering. Need revenue? Follow a few smokers and bring in thousands of dollars a day. There are other examples that I found a number of years ago that showed that speeding tickets were some of the least expensive tickets out there.
I may be a bit biased however since I come from a fire department family and we have all seen first hand evidence of speeders that made a mistake or had an equipment failure or found a drunk driver the hard way. THAT is where the laws don't really matter much anymore and physics takes over. A few miles per hour less and that telephone pole would have come in 6 inches less and not shatered that teenagers pevlis between the pole and center console causing death by the internal blood loss.
Maybe if that mom was driving a little slower she wouldn't have flipped her car upside down into a ditch. And if she had been wearing her seatbelt she would not have been ejected and had her car land on top of her leaving her two daughters crying on the curb when I rolled up that night.
If that truck driver were going a little slower he would have seen the two cars stopped in the carpool lane exchanging information about a minor fender bender they just had. And maybe he would have seen the 18 year old girl standing between the two cars inspecting the damage before he slammed into them and crushed her to death. I went to that funeral. They did a good job reconstructing her face.
Maybe if that BMW had decided to just chill a bit in traffic and not speed around it on the shoulder he wouldn't have hit the stalled car on the shoulder and slammed it into the tow truck operator who nearly died on scene. The BMW's passenger was his pregnant girlfriend/wife and had to be cut out of the car.
Maybe if that speeder going up to the mountains had this service warn him of a speed trap rather than trying to pass on a curve that lady he slammed head on into would not have been evicerated by her seatbelt that afternoon.....and don't even get me started on motorcycles and speed.....
It's not about the damn money to me or the families of the kids and adults I've seen killed. It's about answering the question I hear at every one of these scenes. "WHY?!" After you are done waving your flags and standing on your soapbox, do a ride along with the guys on the big red trucks to see this stuff and have those words stick in your head.
Then come up with a better way to keep people following the rules of the road. Most of those rules were placed BECAUSE of things like what I have seen above. It's called the law of catastrophic reform - when you see something tragic, you want to do your best to stop it from happening again. Is there a perfect way to do this? Nope. What tools do we have? Cops. Should we arrest people? Take their cars? Shoot them? Or give them a fine?
I understand you don't like being caught doing something wrong and don't like paying fines. So what else do you have to get the job done? Or are you arguing that there should be no traffic laws? I'm not understanding what you would like to have other than traffic fines to help remind people to follow the rules of driving so people stay alive.
If this service slows somebody down long enough to see a stop sign or to be able to swerve around some junk in the road without flipping, I'm for it.
Sounds reasonable - now HOW do you do that in a quick and cost effective way? You clearly understand the problem - but offer no solution that is better than what is there now. I do not have one either, but wish I did.
I'd think having a few false positives would be less annoying to a cancer patient than one false negative. Not to mention the rest of the inhabitants.
He's with LA County Fire Department too, so he has access to some of the water dropping choppers we use on brushfires. And 95% of the engeneering has been done on those birds, so it may just be as simple as changing the 'water source' to a 'sewage source' when filling up.
However, I am sure there will be a substantial clean-up fee if you were to rent something like this from him.
> I have also heard it said that if a motorcyclist refuses to stop it is almost impossible to give chase in a car
Go watch some TV - like Worlds Wildest Police Videos, COPS, and the like. They show cops in cars chasing motorcyles quite a bit. Even ending the pursuits with a low speed nudge to knock the bike over in the cases where the biker doesn't end up eating the side of a bus, dulley, tree, etc. And in the end the bikers who 'get stopped' (versus stop on their own) end up going to a hospital jail ward first.
Your solution to slow traffic is to - slow down -?
This is good if you are trying to avoid that next fender bender rear end collision - but the guys behind you are delayed by the gap in front of you - which in my neck of the road means someone from the next lane is getting in front of you - pushing your lane back a car - which means now you have to slow down again to get your cushon back in place. GOTO 10.
Speed up? Drive closer together? Can't do that either because you need a little buffer for reaction time.
Humans have this wet thing in their head that makes them do all kinds of crazy things. One of the key things here is that we tend to slow down when we get closer together. Not only in cars, but in walking down the street, running in a marathon, escaping a burning building... Think I'm wrong? Check your distance at heavy traffic and then try to do that same distance at normal traffic - It's called tailgating. Try the 3 second rule (1-2 seconds around here) and you will see that speed and distnace between cars is directly proportional.
So - we can establish that when traffic slows down, we get closer - and stay slow and closer until traffic speeds up again. Or - to flip this around - traffic will be fine until someone/something slows us down and we get closer together and slower, and will remain so until traffic speeds up and spreads out.
Your 'solution' is based on spreading out - but not speeding up - which will compound the traffic behind you by taking up more volume of driveable road than other cars, and keeping a reduced speed - thereby occupying the same distance of road for a slightly longer period of time (because speed = distance over time).
One factor that seems to be key is traffic volume and additional traffic coming into the freeway. If the road is at capacity and additional traffic is trying to get in, there will be a slowdown at the merge point. Simply speaking - you are putting an additional car inbetween every car already on the road. And if the cars already on the road are slow and close together, they have no choice but to slow down to make space to accomodate the oncoming traffic. After the cars are merged together, spaces between the cars and speeds both rise and the traffic congestion eases until the next merge point. These are usually predictable places where traffic is always bad.
Next - the mystery of the random slowdown. You sit in traffic and then later it suddenly goes away and you see no cause. Coming from a family of firefighters and police, there are often times when an accident will block a lane because the car is disabled or the occupants are too dim to pull over to the shoulder (or better - off the freeway) to exchange information. So they sit in a traffic lane and look at the damage and write down information - creating a jam from people having to merge into another lane to get around them. And sometimes another car will crash into them, creating a bigger mess and great risk to the people standing outside in the middle of the freeway writing down a license number and insurance information for a fender bender. I used to teach and I had a student of mine killed in this exact scenario - minor fender bender in a car pool lane, got out to look at the damage and exchange info, stood between the two cars and then a 3rd car plowed into them, killing my student. But I digress - Around here (let's call it Los Angeles) traffic accidents are everpresent. Take a look here for current info: http://cad.chp.ca.gov/ And typically an accident blockinglanes will be moved to the shoulder or off the freeway in about 10-20 minutes. So if it is a minor fender bender, the people get out IN LANES to look at the damage, then agree to pull off the freeway to exchange info, you could easily sit in traffic and then have it suddenly evaporate by the time you get around the bend.
The CHP will also get reports of a traffic hazard (usually a ladder) in the lanes and run a traffic break where they get in front of the free fl
Can we break those intermediate steps into seven phases or so and declare each of those a "day", get a copy to the Pope, and settle this whole religion versus science mess now? Or at least build some bridges for the Bible folks and the Science folks to agree to something that makes a little more sense?
Maybe we should get that information to the GeekSquad guys that are still left while this incident is fresh in their minds? Or maybe a union rep is willing to do the footwork and get them on board and end this type of non-sense. No reason for them not to fire back in this war.
A little publicity on something like this may have a big impact on all the tech workers everywhere - and maybe - just maybe - a manager somewhere might take notice too and stop using us as the whipping boys.
Can we start a union of computer workers so we have a little more barganing table? If Hollywood writers, janitors, garbagemen, Disney employees, etc. can unionize and fight back for some rights, we can too.
Imagine what kind of mess they would be in if there was a strike?
Is there any reason that we CAN NOT have a computer tech or programmers union? Seriously.
Although I haven't seen one in person, I learned in my firefighter and EMT training that even a mid-speed accident (35mph / 70kph) can cause an aortic rupture - the main artery on top of the heart. Apparently it is able to move more than the heart can, and when the impact happens it tends to tear, and, as my instructor said "You can't get them to the hospital fast enough".
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15 bucks * 11,000,000 domain names = 150,000,000 bucks overhead per year.
150,000,000 bucks / 20,000 bucks = 7,500 high end domain names a year they need to sell to break even. Or about 20 per day. I don't think that is happening.
- versus -
0 bucks for 11,000,000 domain names tasted indefintely = 0 bucks overhead
1 sale per year = PROFIT!
I had more of a Twilight Zone theme in mind, but can hear Don reading that now. :)
Correct. That is how a normal domain sale goes. You buy your name, set up your site.....PROFIT! Or so the theory goes.
But they are in the high profit business of reselling domain names they "own" (in reality they are just tying them up indefinately and not paying anything for them). They may pay nothing for the domain name while they have it in their shell game - but when an offer comes in to buy it, they "buy" the name for, say $6, then transfer it to the person who wants it for their asking price - maybe $600+ as an example. $594 in profit. Not bad.
Nice business model when you can have millions of items 'in stock' that don't cost anything for you until you sell them for a huge profit - and a virtual monopoly on the items you own.
You don't need to be a registrar to buy a domain name, sample it for 4.9 days, and then return it to get your money back. Anybody can do this if their registrar is willing to play ball.
The three sham companies can all register through a fourth sham registrar to make this easier for them. They don't have to be an official registrar, but can do it as a domain reseller. Many big hosting companies have reseller accounts that include some type of domain reseller service. I am doing this now and have never been asked for anything other than money.
Imagine if you will, a place where 5 days lasts forever. A week never goes by. A lawn never gets mowed.
Unpossible, you say? Not if you are really a sham company who buys a domain name and returns it 4.9 days later, only to be immediately picked back up again by another sham company which happens to be located in the same place as the first, and again only holds the domain name for another 4.9 days to again return it for a refund and have it immediately picked back up again by a third sham company - a mirror image of the past two, which again holds the domain for 4.9 days, only again to return it for a full refund, at which time the first sham company picks it up again, starting the cycle all over again, ad infinitum - and at $0.00 net cost to the companies.
It's not that squatting = 5 days, but that this process continues for years. Making that $0.20 fee non-refundable means that now every 4.9 days in the above merry-go-round, there is a 20 cent charge for that domain name. What used to be free to do will now cost $1.50 a month - PER DOMAIN NAME if they keep doing this, which, obviously they will not be able to afford.
Chances are they will now have to cough up some hard cash to actually register the million or so domain names they have, or let them expire and be free amongst the intertubes yet again for legitamite buyers to catch.
I had high hopes for the Autodetect option too - but alas, it did not work. I didn't see the 'use system settings' option in the Mac version as of a couple weeks ago, but yes, that would be the ideal solution. Thanks for the tip, I'l have a look for it - maybe an upgrade is in order or it hasnt come to the Mac version yet.
I now that was a troll, but I may be able to offer some insight for thers reading this thread that may be helpful to future Mac admins out there and may save some hassle - which is really what being an admin is all about IMHO - saving my users hassle. If they have no worries, I don't get calls and can get back to updating my Mac build or quelling political infighting with some technical facts...
Safari pulls it's network and proxy info from the OS. FireFox does not - it has that set in a pref. The Mac laptops in our company network need proxy settings, DNS info, and a search domain entered to get at all the intranet goodness, as well as make it out to the cloud. In my image I create a WORK location and an AWAY location for the network. The work location has all the network settings for, well, you get the idea. This makes it simple for the user to go under the Apple menu to Location and select WORK or AWAY and still be able to connect to whatever they need to on site or off site. And even that takes a little training.
Unfortunately, FireFox doesn't support that. So the FireFox users would have to go into FireFox and navigate the prefs to find the proxy settings and manually enter the proxy settings in the network, and disable them when they are off site - in addition to choosing the work or away location under the Apple menu. For those that want to know how to do this, the info is on our Mac intranet site and the users are free to do it. But it's just a couple extra steps to remember to do and undo. And for most of my corporate users they could care less which browser they are using - as long as it gets them to the internets theys iz wantin.
So I have my Mac build with both Safari and Firefox set up and configured for work locations - even the status bar showing on Safari. But when they go offsite and just select the AWAY location, only Safari works. Those that know how to make FireFox work will do those extra steps. Those that don't, won't generally care, or will ask me or the help desk and get refrenced to the intranet site for details on how to get it working.
I hope that proves useful for any other Mac admins out there facing the same issue. If you have a better solution, please share it.
Now you have a little bar at the bottom of Safari that shows you the actual target of links.
I, for one, welcome our new female overlords. :)
I'm curious - given the feedback generated on this article - what, exactly, is canadacow developing?
Or is canadacow just another kid who, like one of my cow-orkers, likes the beta versions so much they lie cheat and steal to get the bug-ware versions of apps for bragging/crashing rights.
This can't speak well for whatever is being developed...
Psst - your lack of physics is showing.
The faster you go, the longer it takes to stop, the less reaction time you have, the harder you it that telephone pole, the greater the chance of you flipping and rolling as you slide sideways, the wider you have to take a curve, the greater your chance of going off the road/into a pole/over the side/into a ditch should you lose control....
I do most of my driving on the freeway. If I see some Mario Andretti coming up on me at 20MPH+ over the speed of other cars, I flash my headlights as they pass me to warn the cars ahead of me of this driver so they know it's coming before they make an unsignaled lane change into his path and wreck out right in front of me.
Oddly enough, most times the cars shuffle just slightly enough that they form a blockade and don't let the guy pass.
I may be a bit biased however since I come from a fire department family and we have all seen first hand evidence of speeders that made a mistake or had an equipment failure or found a drunk driver the hard way. THAT is where the laws don't really matter much anymore and physics takes over. A few miles per hour less and that telephone pole would have come in 6 inches less and not shatered that teenagers pevlis between the pole and center console causing death by the internal blood loss.
Maybe if that mom was driving a little slower she wouldn't have flipped her car upside down into a ditch. And if she had been wearing her seatbelt she would not have been ejected and had her car land on top of her leaving her two daughters crying on the curb when I rolled up that night.
If that truck driver were going a little slower he would have seen the two cars stopped in the carpool lane exchanging information about a minor fender bender they just had. And maybe he would have seen the 18 year old girl standing between the two cars inspecting the damage before he slammed into them and crushed her to death. I went to that funeral. They did a good job reconstructing her face.
Maybe if that BMW had decided to just chill a bit in traffic and not speed around it on the shoulder he wouldn't have hit the stalled car on the shoulder and slammed it into the tow truck operator who nearly died on scene. The BMW's passenger was his pregnant girlfriend/wife and had to be cut out of the car.
Maybe if that speeder going up to the mountains had this service warn him of a speed trap rather than trying to pass on a curve that lady he slammed head on into would not have been evicerated by her seatbelt that afternoon.
It's not about the damn money to me or the families of the kids and adults I've seen killed. It's about answering the question I hear at every one of these scenes. "WHY?!" After you are done waving your flags and standing on your soapbox, do a ride along with the guys on the big red trucks to see this stuff and have those words stick in your head.
Then come up with a better way to keep people following the rules of the road. Most of those rules were placed BECAUSE of things like what I have seen above. It's called the law of catastrophic reform - when you see something tragic, you want to do your best to stop it from happening again. Is there a perfect way to do this? Nope. What tools do we have? Cops. Should we arrest people? Take their cars? Shoot them? Or give them a fine?
I understand you don't like being caught doing something wrong and don't like paying fines. So what else do you have to get the job done? Or are you arguing that there should be no traffic laws? I'm not understanding what you would like to have other than traffic fines to help remind people to follow the rules of driving so people stay alive.
If this service slows somebody down long enough to see a stop sign or to be able to swerve around some junk in the road without flipping, I'm for it.
1995 - isn't that about the time air bags and impact 'crumple zones' became more popular?
Just wanted to toss that out there so we weren't focused on a strictly cause-effect scenario here.
Any time.
Sounds reasonable - now HOW do you do that in a quick and cost effective way? You clearly understand the problem - but offer no solution that is better than what is there now. I do not have one either, but wish I did.
I'd think having a few false positives would be less annoying to a cancer patient than one false negative. Not to mention the rest of the inhabitants.
So I think the best effort is at hand.
My brother restores helicopters and flys them. Next time I see him, I'll ask if he can rig something like this up for you.
http://combatkiowas.com/
He's with LA County Fire Department too, so he has access to some of the water dropping choppers we use on brushfires. And 95% of the engeneering has been done on those birds, so it may just be as simple as changing the 'water source' to a 'sewage source' when filling up.
However, I am sure there will be a substantial clean-up fee if you were to rent something like this from him.
> I have also heard it said that if a motorcyclist refuses to stop it is almost impossible to give chase in a car
Go watch some TV - like Worlds Wildest Police Videos, COPS, and the like. They show cops in cars chasing motorcyles quite a bit. Even ending the pursuits with a low speed nudge to knock the bike over in the cases where the biker doesn't end up eating the side of a bus, dulley, tree, etc. And in the end the bikers who 'get stopped' (versus stop on their own) end up going to a hospital jail ward first.
OK - maybe I should watch LESS TV.
Your solution to slow traffic is to - slow down -?
This is good if you are trying to avoid that next fender bender rear end collision - but the guys behind you are delayed by the gap in front of you - which in my neck of the road means someone from the next lane is getting in front of you - pushing your lane back a car - which means now you have to slow down again to get your cushon back in place. GOTO 10.
Speed up? Drive closer together? Can't do that either because you need a little buffer for reaction time.
Humans have this wet thing in their head that makes them do all kinds of crazy things. One of the key things here is that we tend to slow down when we get closer together. Not only in cars, but in walking down the street, running in a marathon, escaping a burning building... Think I'm wrong? Check your distance at heavy traffic and then try to do that same distance at normal traffic - It's called tailgating. Try the 3 second rule (1-2 seconds around here) and you will see that speed and distnace between cars is directly proportional.
So - we can establish that when traffic slows down, we get closer - and stay slow and closer until traffic speeds up again. Or - to flip this around - traffic will be fine until someone/something slows us down and we get closer together and slower, and will remain so until traffic speeds up and spreads out.
Your 'solution' is based on spreading out - but not speeding up - which will compound the traffic behind you by taking up more volume of driveable road than other cars, and keeping a reduced speed - thereby occupying the same distance of road for a slightly longer period of time (because speed = distance over time).
One factor that seems to be key is traffic volume and additional traffic coming into the freeway. If the road is at capacity and additional traffic is trying to get in, there will be a slowdown at the merge point. Simply speaking - you are putting an additional car inbetween every car already on the road. And if the cars already on the road are slow and close together, they have no choice but to slow down to make space to accomodate the oncoming traffic. After the cars are merged together, spaces between the cars and speeds both rise and the traffic congestion eases until the next merge point. These are usually predictable places where traffic is always bad.
Next - the mystery of the random slowdown. You sit in traffic and then later it suddenly goes away and you see no cause. Coming from a family of firefighters and police, there are often times when an accident will block a lane because the car is disabled or the occupants are too dim to pull over to the shoulder (or better - off the freeway) to exchange information. So they sit in a traffic lane and look at the damage and write down information - creating a jam from people having to merge into another lane to get around them. And sometimes another car will crash into them, creating a bigger mess and great risk to the people standing outside in the middle of the freeway writing down a license number and insurance information for a fender bender. I used to teach and I had a student of mine killed in this exact scenario - minor fender bender in a car pool lane, got out to look at the damage and exchange info, stood between the two cars and then a 3rd car plowed into them, killing my student. But I digress - Around here (let's call it Los Angeles) traffic accidents are everpresent. Take a look here for current info: http://cad.chp.ca.gov/ And typically an accident blockinglanes will be moved to the shoulder or off the freeway in about 10-20 minutes. So if it is a minor fender bender, the people get out IN LANES to look at the damage, then agree to pull off the freeway to exchange info, you could easily sit in traffic and then have it suddenly evaporate by the time you get around the bend.
The CHP will also get reports of a traffic hazard (usually a ladder) in the lanes and run a traffic break where they get in front of the free fl
Low power. The solar cells would need to spend a lot of time recharging that battery.
Where the line power will quick charge it so it can get back to work doing whatever it does over that suspicious looking nude beach.
Can we break those intermediate steps into seven phases or so and declare each of those a "day", get a copy to the Pope, and settle this whole religion versus science mess now? Or at least build some bridges for the Bible folks and the Science folks to agree to something that makes a little more sense?
Maybe we should get that information to the GeekSquad guys that are still left while this incident is fresh in their minds? Or maybe a union rep is willing to do the footwork and get them on board and end this type of non-sense. No reason for them not to fire back in this war.
A little publicity on something like this may have a big impact on all the tech workers everywhere - and maybe - just maybe - a manager somewhere might take notice too and stop using us as the whipping boys.
I know what I am asking Santa for this year....
Can we start a union of computer workers so we have a little more barganing table? If Hollywood writers, janitors, garbagemen, Disney employees, etc. can unionize and fight back for some rights, we can too.
Imagine what kind of mess they would be in if there was a strike?
Is there any reason that we CAN NOT have a computer tech or programmers union? Seriously.
Although I haven't seen one in person, I learned in my firefighter and EMT training that even a mid-speed accident (35mph / 70kph) can cause an aortic rupture - the main artery on top of the heart. Apparently it is able to move more than the heart can, and when the impact happens it tends to tear, and, as my instructor said "You can't get them to the hospital fast enough".
I'm just waiting for Dvorak to denounce it. That'll be proof enough for me.