Disclaimer: I work for Jive Software, one of the leading vendors (if not the leading vendor) of Social Business Software, so take it for what you will. I'm just a hosting engineer though - not a marketer.
That said, I think this question actually entails two separate issues. The first one is, will having their employees collaborate socially save them time, money, and energy? I've seen many, many examples of companies coming to depend on social software - there are plenty of examples on Jive's site (and it's not just blowing smoke, I've seen firsthand evidence of this and have even talked to some people on the sales floor who swear by it). Some customers I work with have grown so dependent on social software that they cannot tolerate even a minute of downtime. Social business is, in many ways, the wave of the future, and to criticize companies for trying to get on the bandwagon and realize the benefits for themselves is not something I'm prepared to do.
The other question is: Should the company provide a sandboxed environment for this kind of collaboration, or should they force their employees to use solutions that potentially violate their privacy or have other issues? I'm not going to say that any of the solutions out there such as Facebook have those issues necessarily, but they are obviously very much less sandboxed and do not have the interests of corporate and personal privacy in mind near as much as a vendor whose software can be sandboxed to provide some safety for personal information and company secrets.
At Jive we eat our own dogwood, and we use a social instance of our own software in the company, and I can't imagine working without it. But if a company were to force me to collaborate on publicly available sites where my grandmother (for example) would also post, I'd seriously wonder what they were smoking.
Likely he hasn't even talked to Apple about it. But now that he's made the announcement, if Apple rejects the app, they look like the bad guys. Hefner may be a creep, but anyone who can get tens of women to service him each night is no idiot.
There is no way to explain to someone such as you what I have experienced or why I believe it to be true. I will relay what I have experienced when asked or given the opportunity, but will not try to convince or defend. So go your own way with my blessing. Just know that I've heard it all before, and nothing you have said has swayed me one inch.
There's nothing I could say that would change your mind. It has to come from above or it doesn't happen. So let's just agree that our paths are different.
Nah. Quantifying these things is difficult to impossible, and he just moves the goalposts anyway. If they don't want to be seen, they won't, and frankly, I don't encourage it. It's a personal experience and that's all it is.
I can see certain dark entities and specific other energy fields. I can also sense specific emotions off of people. I have also had another even more personal experience I don't want to go into at the moment but can be read from my blog. And there's very little you can say that will convince me nothing happened.
That's where skepticism falls flat. I was an atheist a year and a half ago. And then I pretty much got challenged - everything I knew was wrong. And I adapted. Such is life.
These things are real. And any protestations to the contract, at least for me, will never change that fact.
It has nothing to do with religion, but it does have quite a bit to do with spirituality and the creator.
I know this is a little far afield but these kinds of asides were literally ASKED for by the subject.
BTW, I used to be an atheist a year and a half ago, until I ran into something *I* couldn't explain. I'm not quite a Christian yet but that's only because I don't understand the whole "death and resurrection thing" - everything short of that...
You get into this kind of thing without a strong relationship with the creator and it's a crapshoot. It's almost a guarantee that you'll run into something you can't control.
The primary impact that such energy entities have is psychological. They can impact the physical world, but only weakly. I would suggest that what you are talking about are not ghosts, but something way, way more dangerous.
As a friend of mine said... most of those kinds of entities are bottom feeders who are very week and just feed on fear. A few are truly dangerous. And they don't come with resumes.
Take something that can measure many environmental factors, such as a heat camera, electromagnetic/electric field detector, and perhaps even a geiger counter.
But, if my experiences and those of others are of any indication, not much will happen until all your stuff is turned off.
My advice, though - if you want to catch a ghost, ask it to show itself. Sometimes all they really want is to be noticed. And be careful. Concentrations of energy such as that can be dangerous if handled inexpertly.
The statutes you read imply that a civil servant was killed or injured by said damage, and that a firearm was used in the commission of this crime. I don't think you're telling us the whole story.
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On rereading, except for the first sentence before the comma.
I could not disagree more with every single component of what you just posted.
Disclaimer: I work for Jive Software, one of the leading vendors (if not the leading vendor) of Social Business Software, so take it for what you will. I'm just a hosting engineer though - not a marketer.
That said, I think this question actually entails two separate issues. The first one is, will having their employees collaborate socially save them time, money, and energy? I've seen many, many examples of companies coming to depend on social software - there are plenty of examples on Jive's site (and it's not just blowing smoke, I've seen firsthand evidence of this and have even talked to some people on the sales floor who swear by it). Some customers I work with have grown so dependent on social software that they cannot tolerate even a minute of downtime. Social business is, in many ways, the wave of the future, and to criticize companies for trying to get on the bandwagon and realize the benefits for themselves is not something I'm prepared to do.
The other question is: Should the company provide a sandboxed environment for this kind of collaboration, or should they force their employees to use solutions that potentially violate their privacy or have other issues? I'm not going to say that any of the solutions out there such as Facebook have those issues necessarily, but they are obviously very much less sandboxed and do not have the interests of corporate and personal privacy in mind near as much as a vendor whose software can be sandboxed to provide some safety for personal information and company secrets.
At Jive we eat our own dogwood, and we use a social instance of our own software in the company, and I can't imagine working without it. But if a company were to force me to collaborate on publicly available sites where my grandmother (for example) would also post, I'd seriously wonder what they were smoking.
Likely he hasn't even talked to Apple about it. But now that he's made the announcement, if Apple rejects the app, they look like the bad guys. Hefner may be a creep, but anyone who can get tens of women to service him each night is no idiot.
There is no way to explain to someone such as you what I have experienced or why I believe it to be true. I will relay what I have experienced when asked or given the opportunity, but will not try to convince or defend. So go your own way with my blessing. Just know that I've heard it all before, and nothing you have said has swayed me one inch.
No, but that's the first time I figured out what your point was. Maybe it's just me.
There's nothing I could say that would change your mind. It has to come from above or it doesn't happen. So let's just agree that our paths are different.
It's not out of line, but it's certainly incomprehensible.
I was an atheist. I am no longer. Because I had experiences I can't explain.
You want to call me deluded, wonderful. I really don't care. You run off and do whatever you do, and I'll follow my own path.
Nah. Quantifying these things is difficult to impossible, and he just moves the goalposts anyway. If they don't want to be seen, they won't, and frankly, I don't encourage it. It's a personal experience and that's all it is.
There is nothing to fear, but I suspect for different reasons.
*contrary. Funny how I rarely typo, but I word-o quite a bit.
I can see certain dark entities and specific other energy fields. I can also sense specific emotions off of people. I have also had another even more personal experience I don't want to go into at the moment but can be read from my blog. And there's very little you can say that will convince me nothing happened.
That's where skepticism falls flat. I was an atheist a year and a half ago. And then I pretty much got challenged - everything I knew was wrong. And I adapted. Such is life.
These things are real. And any protestations to the contract, at least for me, will never change that fact.
Yeah. That ain't ghosts. Ghosts are to those things what windows admins are to linux admins.
It has nothing to do with religion, but it does have quite a bit to do with spirituality and the creator.
I know this is a little far afield but these kinds of asides were literally ASKED for by the subject.
BTW, I used to be an atheist a year and a half ago, until I ran into something *I* couldn't explain. I'm not quite a Christian yet but that's only because I don't understand the whole "death and resurrection thing" - everything short of that...
You get into this kind of thing without a strong relationship with the creator and it's a crapshoot. It's almost a guarantee that you'll run into something you can't control.
They're a distraction anyway, only dangerous to those who don't have something more powerful to anchor to.
The primary impact that such energy entities have is psychological. They can impact the physical world, but only weakly. I would suggest that what you are talking about are not ghosts, but something way, way more dangerous.
As a friend of mine said... most of those kinds of entities are bottom feeders who are very week and just feed on fear. A few are truly dangerous. And they don't come with resumes.
Take something that can measure many environmental factors, such as a heat camera, electromagnetic/electric field detector, and perhaps even a geiger counter.
But, if my experiences and those of others are of any indication, not much will happen until all your stuff is turned off.
My advice, though - if you want to catch a ghost, ask it to show itself. Sometimes all they really want is to be noticed. And be careful. Concentrations of energy such as that can be dangerous if handled inexpertly.
The statutes you read imply that a civil servant was killed or injured by said damage, and that a firearm was used in the commission of this crime. I don't think you're telling us the whole story.
Yeah. that's not lawyers! That's a wife!
but then he'd have to provide an address for service, and there goes Christianity.
It'll be overturned on appeal.
What surprises me is that you weren't arrested for assault.
Is that they've figured out another way to accomplish the same ends. It ain't over.
Perhaps it doesn't. I'm just making the point that you are not special because you are military.
Not in terms of privileges, and not in terms of counterfeiters.