Microsoft SMS has a similar thingy; you registier a piece of software, tell it how many licenses you own for that software, and any SMS client in it's admin domain will ask before it lets you run said software.
The problem is that I've never actually been able to figure out if Microsoft licence terms on their own software; i.e. office, visio, etc etc, allow you to use such a system; install X amount of times, but only allow Y copies to run at any given time.
Contract law states you get something in return for something.
You get the software in exchange for money. Great. Then you open it up, and the EULA suddenly takes away a bunch of rights. No quid pro quo, no meeting of the minds, no upfront intent. Ooops.
The EULA takes the right of resale away. Took me a while to wrap my head around EULAs vs the GPL, but here it is.
The GPL says 'here's some software. Legally, you can't copy it, but I'll GRANT you the right, assuming you agree to these conditions. Otherwise, use it all you want, but standard copyright applies.' In other words, it grants rights you don't legally get automatically.
The EULA, on the other hand, says 'here's some software. Before you use it, you must agree to GIVE UP the following legal rights you probably already have..no resale, blah blah blah.' In other words, as a precondition to using it, you need to surrender rights. And that's the rub.
Of course, with things like UCITA, if I recall the acronym correctly, EULAs becone a bit more kosher.
Find out if it's a pay cut, or a temporary reduction. Get, if you can, in writing, an agreement that when financial condition X is met by the company, salary will go back to normal, back-pay will be coughed up, etc.
Try to get time off/vacation in leiu of.
Start looking for another job; everybody else will be. And some of them will leave. Those that are left will be asked to do more. They'll get pissed, look for a new job. Vicious cycle.
And this is different from being hassled because I happen to have long hair and wear a big leather jacket (I like to have pockets. Lots of pockets.) when going through an airport how?
As a follow on, label the patchboards in the wiring closet, label the drops in the rooms, and get a floorplan, and put the patch numbers on the floorplan.
I'll point out that a firewall won't protect from this, as these are legitimate http requests.
Your gateway anti-virus solution and/or intrusion detection system, on the other hand, should catch these. But this sort of thing is NOT what a firewall is supposed to stop.
Supposedly the unemotionality is a state they try attain; the average Vulcan citizen trys to not act based on emotions, where as the hardcore Kohlinar students get pretty self-flagellent.
Notice please the ambassador's flowing robes. Where is the logic in making sexually dimorphic clothing? It seems terribly inefficient.
Seems logical to me that you'd want to wear a costume, whilst on a starship, that has no flowing lengths, or jewlery or other decorations to get caught on things, require readjustment, or any of that jazz.
Well, seeing as how this was a direct attack against a citizenry, as opposed to an attack against a country or a military, it does seem fitting for the citizenry to strike back....
What do you expect? We've pretty much progressed further in the thirty years since ST:TOS than they thought we would in three hundred years.
Prime example: They didn't have the concept of LEDs or computer monitors back then. Hence, lots of switches, dials and chaser lights for feedback. Ooops.
Also, ST:TOS was low-budget. Roddenberry wanted a film projecter behind each of the screens ringing the bridge, for cool animated readouts and library computer accesses. Until he found out a) that 12 projectors required, by union contract, 12 projectionists and b) how much one projectionist cost, let alone 12. Ooops.
Supposedly the insulting part is where Archer insists on putting the poor Klingon on life support and returning him to Qo'onos. Had the Klingon been left to properly die, wouldn't have been a problem.
Pirates! - 1987.
Covert Action - 1991(ish)
Sword of the Samurai - late 80's/early 90's (see a pattern forming yet?)
The various Gold Box AD&D/DragonLance/Buck Rogers games - C64 days.
Leisure Suit Larry/Quest For Glory/Space Quest
Well, by that logic, why did they forget to leave out all the parts about free speech, equality of all humans, and all the other stuff that got amended upon the 'moral absolutes' of the Constitution?
Another example I like is this: the Constitution clearly allows for capital punishment..."shall not deprive of property, liberty or life..without due process of the law" meaning that with due process of the law, deprivation of life is allowed for. So why is there such a huge arguement about capital punishment in the US of A?
If morals, and good/evil are such an absolute, why are we debating it?
The people who plowed those planes into the WTC truly, honestly believed that their God had sent them on a mission to strike a blow against the Great Satan, and that by doing so, their place in Heaven was assured (contray to Islam teachings, which state, much like Judeo-Christianity, that the suicide is denied Heaven)? Is your concept of right correct, or is their's? How can you tell? Who are you to say? Both groups will readily agree that red is red, white is white, 1+1 is 2, and so on, but if morals and good/evil are physical constants in this universe, why are there so many different takes?
A society can be defined as a group of people who all agree to follow the same moral code.
Anyway, your response is dead wrong. The stop sign has one color. One true color. It cannot be two colors at the same time and it is not subjective. The human comprehension, opinion, best guess is subjective... but the absolute truth is not.
But who's to say who's right and who's wrong about what the absolute colour is? What if you look in ultraviolet? Infrared? Oh, we're limiting ourselves to the visible spectrum? Then we're putting controls on, and now we're talking about a fixed situation. Much like human society comes up with a set of basic paramaters, and from THAT determines what they want to be moral and immoral.
It's sad that your flawed logic has received 2 (thus far).
Why is it that nobody understands how Slashdot's karma system works? I'm a registered user, so I post at +1, and I have lots of Karma, so I post at +1, for a grand total of +2.
I would tell them that. Don't forget that quite a few of your Founding Fathers were slave-owners who thought that only white male land-owners over the age of 21 should be allowed to vote. Ooops.
And don't forget that your country was formed by the illegal rebellion against your rightful soverign. But that's ok, because they were right. But militas are bad, because they're trying to overthrough the rightful government, right? Ooops.
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Microsoft SMS has a similar thingy; you registier a piece of software, tell it how many licenses you own for that software, and any SMS client in it's admin domain will ask before it lets you run said software. The problem is that I've never actually been able to figure out if Microsoft licence terms on their own software; i.e. office, visio, etc etc, allow you to use such a system; install X amount of times, but only allow Y copies to run at any given time.
Contract law states you get something in return for something. You get the software in exchange for money. Great. Then you open it up, and the EULA suddenly takes away a bunch of rights. No quid pro quo, no meeting of the minds, no upfront intent. Ooops.
The EULA takes the right of resale away. Took me a while to wrap my head around EULAs vs the GPL, but here it is. The GPL says 'here's some software. Legally, you can't copy it, but I'll GRANT you the right, assuming you agree to these conditions. Otherwise, use it all you want, but standard copyright applies.' In other words, it grants rights you don't legally get automatically. The EULA, on the other hand, says 'here's some software. Before you use it, you must agree to GIVE UP the following legal rights you probably already have..no resale, blah blah blah.' In other words, as a precondition to using it, you need to surrender rights. And that's the rub. Of course, with things like UCITA, if I recall the acronym correctly, EULAs becone a bit more kosher.
Find out if it's a pay cut, or a temporary reduction. Get, if you can, in writing, an agreement that when financial condition X is met by the company, salary will go back to normal, back-pay will be coughed up, etc. Try to get time off/vacation in leiu of. Start looking for another job; everybody else will be. And some of them will leave. Those that are left will be asked to do more. They'll get pissed, look for a new job. Vicious cycle.
"Be My Yoko Ono" by The Barenaked Ladies.
And this is different from being hassled because I happen to have long hair and wear a big leather jacket (I like to have pockets. Lots of pockets.) when going through an airport how?
As a follow on, label the patchboards in the wiring closet, label the drops in the rooms, and get a floorplan, and put the patch numbers on the floorplan.
I'll point out that a firewall won't protect from this, as these are legitimate http requests. Your gateway anti-virus solution and/or intrusion detection system, on the other hand, should catch these. But this sort of thing is NOT what a firewall is supposed to stop.
Supposedly the unemotionality is a state they try attain; the average Vulcan citizen trys to not act based on emotions, where as the hardcore Kohlinar students get pretty self-flagellent.
Your five year old boy can't watch two clothed beings applying bengay to each other?
Well, seeing as how this was a direct attack against a citizenry, as opposed to an attack against a country or a military, it does seem fitting for the citizenry to strike back....
One of the prerequisites to Federation First Contact is a stable world government and cultural harmony.
What do you expect? We've pretty much progressed further in the thirty years since ST:TOS than they thought we would in three hundred years. Prime example: They didn't have the concept of LEDs or computer monitors back then. Hence, lots of switches, dials and chaser lights for feedback. Ooops. Also, ST:TOS was low-budget. Roddenberry wanted a film projecter behind each of the screens ringing the bridge, for cool animated readouts and library computer accesses. Until he found out a) that 12 projectors required, by union contract, 12 projectionists and b) how much one projectionist cost, let alone 12. Ooops.
Supposedly the insulting part is where Archer insists on putting the poor Klingon on life support and returning him to Qo'onos. Had the Klingon been left to properly die, wouldn't have been a problem.
Yeah, because Denise Crosby wanted off of the show; didn't think it was going anywhere. She now regrets that.
It's on Space and the other various CHUM-city holdings up here in good old Canada.
Oh yeah, and Master of Orion 2, and Master of Magic. And X-Com. 1, 2. MmmmmMMMMmmm. X-Com. X-Com Interceptor was highly underrated.
Pirates! - 1987. Covert Action - 1991(ish) Sword of the Samurai - late 80's/early 90's (see a pattern forming yet?) The various Gold Box AD&D/DragonLance/Buck Rogers games - C64 days. Leisure Suit Larry/Quest For Glory/Space Quest
Well, by that logic, why did they forget to leave out all the parts about free speech, equality of all humans, and all the other stuff that got amended upon the 'moral absolutes' of the Constitution? Another example I like is this: the Constitution clearly allows for capital punishment..."shall not deprive of property, liberty or life..without due process of the law" meaning that with due process of the law, deprivation of life is allowed for. So why is there such a huge arguement about capital punishment in the US of A? If morals, and good/evil are such an absolute, why are we debating it? The people who plowed those planes into the WTC truly, honestly believed that their God had sent them on a mission to strike a blow against the Great Satan, and that by doing so, their place in Heaven was assured (contray to Islam teachings, which state, much like Judeo-Christianity, that the suicide is denied Heaven)? Is your concept of right correct, or is their's? How can you tell? Who are you to say? Both groups will readily agree that red is red, white is white, 1+1 is 2, and so on, but if morals and good/evil are physical constants in this universe, why are there so many different takes? A society can be defined as a group of people who all agree to follow the same moral code.
I would tell them that. Don't forget that quite a few of your Founding Fathers were slave-owners who thought that only white male land-owners over the age of 21 should be allowed to vote. Ooops. And don't forget that your country was formed by the illegal rebellion against your rightful soverign. But that's ok, because they were right. But militas are bad, because they're trying to overthrough the rightful government, right? Ooops.