Shouldn't political parties have to pay their own way in nominating their candidates? Why should my tax dollars go to help them count the votes? In other countries, political parties hold their own conventions at their own expense.
I always run DBAN on a new system or hard drive, OEM assembled or not. Insist on proper OS installation media and unless it too is defective, you'll be fine. But never, ever, trust a machine setup by anyone else. That's not practical for everyone, but we're all geeks here, installing your OS of choice should be a rite of passage.:)
I'd tend to agree this is more of an "opium for the masses" move, but it does have one upside, and that's to delay people throwing out older TVs somewhat. I realize the boxes themselves would be waste, but the CRT is a huge mess, maybe this helps prevent a massive dumping of TVs in 2 years.
You can't go complaining about lax Canadian immigration policy and using it as an excuse for your own immigration failures (let's remind ourselves, none of the 9/11 hijackers came in from Canada) and then complain when Canada gets tough with its borders and excludes people with criminal histories.
Granted, Canada's pretty lax about its own criminal justice system (serial killers out after 12 years, political murderers out in less than ten (FLQ), etc), but at least this is a good start.
If indeed IBM simply transferred two other workers who had actual sex on a desk (one assumes this occurred when someone could witness it, rather than in a private office late one night), it's going to be hard for them to justify firing this guy for engaging in otherwise legal activity even though it was using company resources. That's not to say this is age discrimination or some other malfeasance on the part of IBM, but the lack of consistency is troubling.
First, STFU in public about what happened. Not online, definitely not to the news media. Anything you say, especially if you speculate as to the cause, could come back to haunt you if this ever goes to trial.
Repeat "no comment" to yourself aloud a few hundred times to get used to it.
Next, call your insurance company. Let them sort it out. Let their lawyers fight it out with Dell if the laptop is determined to be the cause.
We don't let lawyers write code, by the same token, you shouldn't try to handle this with Dell yourself. You shouldn't be contacting them at all.
Does this mean it's actually better to not pay off your mortgage? It seems like if an institution like a bank has a lien, it's a lot harder to sell the house, fraudulent or not, so keeping around a small mortgage could act as a form of insurance against this sort of fraud.
Not that many people can pay off their mortgages any time soon, but those who have really should watch out.
What I would love to buy is a DVD player which ignores user prohibited operations, so you can actually skip those damned copyright warnings and even worse, movie trailers. I read that the cheapo brands sometimes do this, but have yet to find one. Anyone know of a source?
Now we're all f*cked because there's no way to differentiate ourselves from the bandwagon-jumpers who got in the game a few years earlier and now have "experience".
If you actually can't conceive anyway you can differentiate yourself from such a person, you're right, you are screwed. However, if you really have a passion for the business, that will come across, if you know how to search for a job. As an interviewer, you can spot the careerists from the true believers a mile away.
My company is hiring developers. I interviewed a few of them this week, and none of them met the bar for a medium level position. Coworkers and I would give them some simple coding problems, stuff like merge two arrays, reverse a linked list, reverse a string in place, and none of them gave a satisfactory answer. And some of these questions have been published in several books - do these guys not show up prepared? Going beyond coding, it was clear none of them really understood the software business despite claims of 5 to 15 years experience.
I don't doubt there are some good people out of work for too long, but even with all the outsourcing going on, there are companies hiring as there will always be software development done in the USA. All these custom applications by small firms will forever demand local employment, just as one example - Billy Bob isn't going to want to deal with a bunch of Indian devs across the world for his inventory tracking system, he's going to stay local.
As others have stated, first ask yourself if you really are a good developer, and if you default to "I have X years experience," rather than enumerating your accomplishments, the answer may very well be no. If yes, you'll find something soon enough if you use some saavy in your search. Just keep an open mind and be prepared to make some adjustments, including but not limited to moving.
They went to schools that give you partial credit for incorrect/incomplete answers, and now they get a lesson on how one screwup ruins everything. It would have been much cheaper to do this in school....
I wish King County, WA DA Maleng had the same balls as this DA. Instead, pretty much anything goes on the roads here.
I think the charge is partly a bargaining position against the defendant, and partly to make an example of the idiot. Manslaughter may not have sufficient jail time in Alaska and that may also be part of the motivation.
The reason jail time is important here is that it deters this twit from getting on the road again. License suspensions don't work, someone with that level of irresponsibility isn't going to be stopped. Give this clown 15 years in the slammer, you save his next victim and maybe, just maybe, someone else will think twice before pulling a stunt like this.
The joke among BA folks was that the only way they would ever get the FAA to approve supersonic flights over US territory was to paint "Boeing" on the side of the Concorde.
I switched from molecular bio to software development, but I did so starting in 1997. First as a tech writer, then I taught myself programming - although I always had an interest while in high school. A few lucky breaks, desperate interviewers willing to take a chance, and now I do dev work full time.
I think it was easier when I did it, especially with how low hiring standards were during the dotcom rush. Now you'd face a lot more competition, not just other job candidates, but the whole outsourcing thing as well.
As an MD, I imagine you could probably set your own work schedule - so I would make the transition slowly until you get to the point where you can sustain yourself. As for training, others here can offer better advice - I always have been and always will be one of those who just teaches himself.
Clark once said, "let them do the software in India." Or words to that effect. To be fair, I think he meant that the US will find other high tech areas in which to prosper in the future. Still, his attitude is unfortunate.
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People are going to have children regardless. Look at China, despite the penalties, people still have more than 1 child. Society should not push the burden onto others unnecessarily, and forcing employers (particularly small ones whose businesses are already stressed) to subsidize lifestyles which tend to hurt their business operations is unfair.
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Answer the question, don't just refer to the law and what is and isn't taboo (which is the object of this exercise after all). WHY should it be illegal to discriminate against prospective employees on the basis of VOLUNTARY choices they made (or will make) which will likely negatively impact their performance at work?
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because if an employer knows that I just had a baby it will probably hurt my chances of getting hired, no matter how illegal that is.
Why should this be illegal? You are more likely to take time off, less likely to work longer hours, more distracted, more likely to leave your position, more of a burden on the employer's insurance policy, etc.
Try getting state legislators to increase penalties for drunk driving or vehicular homicide, and nothing happens. Grease a few wheels with your well paid lobbyists and all of a sudden, mountains are moved. Lovely system.
As long as the product is made in another Western economy, with similar pay and cost of living, then I don't mind. But buying software made in India or consumer products made in China, that's where I draw the line. That's where the local workers are at an unfair disadvantage.
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Shouldn't political parties have to pay their own way in nominating their candidates? Why should my tax dollars go to help them count the votes? In other countries, political parties hold their own conventions at their own expense.
I always run DBAN on a new system or hard drive, OEM assembled or not. Insist on proper OS installation media and unless it too is defective, you'll be fine. But never, ever, trust a machine setup by anyone else. That's not practical for everyone, but we're all geeks here, installing your OS of choice should be a rite of passage. :)
How nice of Dubya to pardon a guy who was probably holding a lot of dirt about his administration in his back pocket.
In the meantime, some kid in his 20s is rotting in a Georgia jail for having consensual sex when he was 17 and she was 15.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/06/11/teen.sex.case/
Obstruction of justice okay. Getting a blow job, no. Consistent with the Republican party's approach to Clinton I guess.
I'd tend to agree this is more of an "opium for the masses" move, but it does have one upside, and that's to delay people throwing out older TVs somewhat. I realize the boxes themselves would be waste, but the CRT is a huge mess, maybe this helps prevent a massive dumping of TVs in 2 years.
You can't go complaining about lax Canadian immigration policy and using it as an excuse for your own immigration failures (let's remind ourselves, none of the 9/11 hijackers came in from Canada) and then complain when Canada gets tough with its borders and excludes people with criminal histories.
Granted, Canada's pretty lax about its own criminal justice system (serial killers out after 12 years, political murderers out in less than ten (FLQ), etc), but at least this is a good start.
If indeed IBM simply transferred two other workers who had actual sex on a desk (one assumes this occurred when someone could witness it, rather than in a private office late one night), it's going to be hard for them to justify firing this guy for engaging in otherwise legal activity even though it was using company resources. That's not to say this is age discrimination or some other malfeasance on the part of IBM, but the lack of consistency is troubling.
First, STFU in public about what happened. Not online, definitely not to the news media. Anything you say, especially if you speculate as to the cause, could come back to haunt you if this ever goes to trial.
Repeat "no comment" to yourself aloud a few hundred times to get used to it.
Next, call your insurance company. Let them sort it out. Let their lawyers fight it out with Dell if the laptop is determined to be the cause.
We don't let lawyers write code, by the same token, you shouldn't try to handle this with Dell yourself. You shouldn't be contacting them at all.
Does this mean it's actually better to not pay off your mortgage? It seems like if an institution like a bank has a lien, it's a lot harder to sell the house, fraudulent or not, so keeping around a small mortgage could act as a form of insurance against this sort of fraud.
Not that many people can pay off their mortgages any time soon, but those who have really should watch out.
What I would love to buy is a DVD player which ignores user prohibited operations, so you can actually skip those damned copyright warnings and even worse, movie trailers. I read that the cheapo brands sometimes do this, but have yet to find one. Anyone know of a source?
Name them, especially here, and let them know you've done it. That will teach them a lesson.
There was a married couple on one of the shuttle flights, I'd be surprised if they didn't.
If you actually can't conceive anyway you can differentiate yourself from such a person, you're right, you are screwed. However, if you really have a passion for the business, that will come across, if you know how to search for a job. As an interviewer, you can spot the careerists from the true believers a mile away.
My company is hiring developers. I interviewed a few of them this week, and none of them met the bar for a medium level position. Coworkers and I would give them some simple coding problems, stuff like merge two arrays, reverse a linked list, reverse a string in place, and none of them gave a satisfactory answer. And some of these questions have been published in several books - do these guys not show up prepared? Going beyond coding, it was clear none of them really understood the software business despite claims of 5 to 15 years experience.
I don't doubt there are some good people out of work for too long, but even with all the outsourcing going on, there are companies hiring as there will always be software development done in the USA. All these custom applications by small firms will forever demand local employment, just as one example - Billy Bob isn't going to want to deal with a bunch of Indian devs across the world for his inventory tracking system, he's going to stay local.
As others have stated, first ask yourself if you really are a good developer, and if you default to "I have X years experience," rather than enumerating your accomplishments, the answer may very well be no. If yes, you'll find something soon enough if you use some saavy in your search. Just keep an open mind and be prepared to make some adjustments, including but not limited to moving.
They went to schools that give you partial credit for incorrect/incomplete answers, and now they get a lesson on how one screwup ruins everything. It would have been much cheaper to do this in school....
I wish King County, WA DA Maleng had the same balls as this DA. Instead, pretty much anything goes on the roads here.
I think the charge is partly a bargaining position against the defendant, and partly to make an example of the idiot. Manslaughter may not have sufficient jail time in Alaska and that may also be part of the motivation.
The reason jail time is important here is that it deters this twit from getting on the road again. License suspensions don't work, someone with that level of irresponsibility isn't going to be stopped. Give this clown 15 years in the slammer, you save his next victim and maybe, just maybe, someone else will think twice before pulling a stunt like this.
The joke among BA folks was that the only way they would ever get the FAA to approve supersonic flights over US territory was to paint "Boeing" on the side of the Concorde.
Actually, it's 273.15.
These guys made commercials with sexy women and fast cars, and Coke sold like hotcakes.
Point well taken, but fast cars and sexy women will sell just about anything, anywhere.I switched from molecular bio to software development, but I did so starting in 1997. First as a tech writer, then I taught myself programming - although I always had an interest while in high school. A few lucky breaks, desperate interviewers willing to take a chance, and now I do dev work full time.
I think it was easier when I did it, especially with how low hiring standards were during the dotcom rush. Now you'd face a lot more competition, not just other job candidates, but the whole outsourcing thing as well.
As an MD, I imagine you could probably set your own work schedule - so I would make the transition slowly until you get to the point where you can sustain yourself. As for training, others here can offer better advice - I always have been and always will be one of those who just teaches himself.
Clark once said, "let them do the software in India." Or words to that effect. To be fair, I think he meant that the US will find other high tech areas in which to prosper in the future. Still, his attitude is unfortunate.
People are going to have children regardless. Look at China, despite the penalties, people still have more than 1 child. Society should not push the burden onto others unnecessarily, and forcing employers (particularly small ones whose businesses are already stressed) to subsidize lifestyles which tend to hurt their business operations is unfair.
Answer the question, don't just refer to the law and what is and isn't taboo (which is the object of this exercise after all). WHY should it be illegal to discriminate against prospective employees on the basis of VOLUNTARY choices they made (or will make) which will likely negatively impact their performance at work?
Why should this be illegal? You are more likely to take time off, less likely to work longer hours, more distracted, more likely to leave your position, more of a burden on the employer's insurance policy, etc.
Try getting state legislators to increase penalties for drunk driving or vehicular homicide, and nothing happens. Grease a few wheels with your well paid lobbyists and all of a sudden, mountains are moved. Lovely system.
As long as the product is made in another Western economy, with similar pay and cost of living, then I don't mind. But buying software made in India or consumer products made in China, that's where I draw the line. That's where the local workers are at an unfair disadvantage.