What a sucker. Let me get this straight... The ex-boss who laid you off calls you up at your new place of employment and DEMANDS you help her? And you comply, like a trained dog? And only complain about not getting a THANK YOU? Man. You need some serious assertiveness training.
You have zero obligations to help out Ms. Demanding. Your relationship was a business contract between employer and employed. That contract was ended. Send her the bill, and make it juicy for emergency services rendered.
Can't walk through life with other people's boot prints on your back.
It could never be made illegal...simply because it's a form of unwanted advertising. Ever take a trip on the highway and seen all the billboards? I don't like the way that the billboards cover up the country side. I think that billboards are a physical equivilent of email spam......see my point?
Billboards are on private property in a public space. Billboard advertising is a 3rd party effect. Spamming an email address, which is strictly a private communication channel, is a direct effect. It's the difference between overhearing an ad playing on your neighbors' radio on his property, and someone stuffing flyers under your door. Someone stuffing flyers under your door is violating your privacy and property rights.
If your pointer is twice as big, you can only squeeze half of 'em into the same caches. Thus, more cache misses, and decreased performance of the application overall.
I hate it when my pointer is twice as big and I can only squeeze half of it into the caches. Cache misses suck, and definately decrease the performance of the whole thing. Damn straight.
That's ludicrous. It was LETO that broke the prohibitions on making computers again, and it was LETO'S Golden Path that destroyed the results of the Butlerian Jihad. Quite an odd way of preventing something - by making it possible.
It was the Imperial society that Leto intended to break. The forces of conservatism, stagnation, the slow decline into a static, caste-bound, existence. And first and foremost to free mankind from ARRAKIS. Arrakis was the limiting factor. Reliance upon the Spice centered the Universe upon a fixed point. Leto aimed to smash the reliance upon Spice and free mankind from its fixed patterns to ensure the diversity, ie HEALTH of the human population.
Any "killer robots" reading of Herbert is so painfully wrong its not funny. That's great for a simplistic writer like Asimov. Doesn't fit type for Herbert.
Other countries can breed like rabbits, but if they don't produce as many greenhouse gas emissions as us, then their share of the responsibility is lower.
The Indian subcontinent BREATHES OUT as much CO2 as the US produces from burning of fossil fuels. And soot is a greater factor in atmospheric greenhouse effects than CO2, and the majority of the world's human produced soot comes from - the Third World. All that burning of wood and whatever else they can get their grubby little hands on. So lets ALL cut out the "Save the world" singing, eh?
There are already supersonic cruise missiles and anti-ship and anti-air missiles. Russia especially has invested alot of capital into this area of weapons research.
They aren't scramjets, but Mach 2.5 - Mac 5 ain't nothin to laugh at, either.;)
Well, if you insist on maintaining your fantasy land interpretation of the Constitution, I can't help you.
The President can only suggest what he would like to see, and tell Congress when a bill they are working on doesn't agree with what he would like to see and threaten to veto.
Again, from your own sources: "President George W. Bush, who only weeks ago was criticizing the measure as unnecessary, is expected soon to sign the bill into law [...]"
That's because, ignoramus, the President's role in legislation, the CHECK on Congress's power, is the VETO. The President signs, or vetos, legislation passed by Congress. If he vetos a bill, it goes back to Congress where it requires a supermajority to override the veto. The President's veto power IS NOT LEGISLATING. ASSHOLE.
Since I have to do all your research for you, here's the text to the US Constitution for your edification: http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitut ion/constituti on.text.html
Fair enough. Although, those reports were quite vage when it comes to the details of seisures. I suppose I'll have to read through the bill myself, just to see under what terms assets can be seized, what can be seised, and exactly what will be done with seised assets.
Since you don't seem to be able to read the news or google yourself, else you wouldn't be so ignorant of how the US political system works, here's some more information for you to chew on:
House Republican leaders, heading home to face voters anxious over retirement security, announced yesterday they will introduce legislation to seize the mansions and yachts of corrupt corporate executives.
"We need to do more to strip corrupt corporate kingpins of their ill-gotten gains," said House Majority Whip Tom DeLay, Texas Republican. "We're taking the mansion. We're draining the accounts. And we're coming after the yacht."
It's pretty sad that you've been modded up for common freakin sense. I guess for the./ crowd, that's amazing insight. Kudus for bringing enlightenment to the stupid.
The article never said the military was intentionally exploiting a "loophole" to produce a weapon that blinded people. It noted that the weapon has the potential side effect of blinding people, and that the Air Force seems to be aware of the potential for unintended consequences, to which they reply, "unfortunate, but its collateral damage."
Not even the liberal New Scientist claimed the military is intentionally building a blinding laser weapon.
Yeah, sure. By that logic, guns don't kill people, people don't kill people, only bullets kill people. That would get a lot of people out of jail. "I saw it myself... That bullet killed the victim, not the defendant who held the gun and pulled the trigger!"
Really bad, and totally wrong, analogy. Since, let me make this clear - the President does not write legislation, does not introduce legislation into session, does not vote on legislation. The President of the United Fucking States does NOT MAKE LAW. Period. Capiche?
Likewise, I am aware of the bill to which I believe you are refering. It is set to increase the jail-time (to a max of 20 and 25 years). I refer to it in my original post on this thread: "He creates a task force, and doubles the (very small) penalties for this sort of thing." is pretty stupid. The only thing the President CAN do is create a task force, and he CAN'T increase penalties because that takes an act of LAW, which requires Congress. He can suggest, and Bush has suggested, and signed into law a bill passed by Congress, that corporate fraud penalties be increased to 25 years. The average sentence for murder in the US is SEVEN YEARS. You think 25 for white collar crime is too light?
Well, I give you two points for creative interpretation of the Constitution. Too bad it doesn't work that way. That isn't overlapping power, it is, once again, division of power with checks and balances. Since you don't seem to have listened the first time, let me reiterate: THE PRESIDENT DOES NOT MAKE LAW. REPEAT TEN TIMES FAST. Since it still has not sunk in.
He did stand the bully pulpit, and he backed his preferred version of the corporate accounting reform bills pending before Congress. Or haven't you been reading the news? I would assume you haven't, since you didn't even know there WAS a bill pending before Congress.
In the US government, if something is not explicitly denied, it is Reserved to the States, or the People. Those pesky Amendments. Read them some time.
Just saying it doesn't make it true. It would help if you had some sliver of evidence to back up your statements don't you think?
Boy, you shoot your mouth off alot without having a clue. Read the news lately? It's a bill pending in Congress.
Doesn't sound like you've ever read it. The system of checks and balances calls for overlaping powers. The president can call special sessions of congress. He can give executive orders. He can also use his influence in congress to get a bill passed. While that isn't literally 'making a law', it's close enough.
The Constitution DOES NOT establish overlapping powers, it establishes a DIVISION OF POWER. Hence the term CHECKS AND BALANCES. English your second language?
REPEAT AFTER ME: The President doesn't make law, Congress does. Repeat ten times fast if it isn't sinking in fast enough. Calling special sessions of Congress and using his influence is NOT legislating, he can call all the special sessions he wants and stand the bully pulpit all day. Still takes Congress to actually make a bill and pass a law. And executive orders can not violate the Constitutional mandate of Congress to make law. Executive orders are just that - orders from the President authorizing executive action. Executive orders can not criminalize an activity, or otherwise do what legislation is for. AND executive orders are reviewed by Congress.
Besides, there doesn't need to be a law made... What was done is already illegial. It's the overly light punishment that I disagree with.
So hump your damn Congressman's leg about it. The President doesn't set criminal sanctions, either.
Umm, CEOs have to sign off on their books, and go to jail if this sort of "creative bookkeeping" is discovered and their assets WILL be liable to seizure by lawsuit. And executives will no longer be able to vote themselves multimillion dollar bonuses, then declare corporate bankruptcy.
And take a minute to read the Constitution. The President doesn't make law, the Congress does.
Well, there's a good chance you may be joining me in the Former Employee of the Worldcom Family of Companies Club. Don't worry, there's 27,000 of us now from the layoffs in the past year, you'll be in good company.
Seriously though, there will probably be more layoffs, but operations will continue. Hope you didn't optin on the stock purchase benefit. More than likely its worthless now that WCOM went into Chapter 11. Your money as a stockholder comes AFTER the creditors. And if you get laid off, you probably won't get a severance.
Well Mr. Math Prof you don't get out much obviously. As often as not, the classes at the local community college are taught by the same faculty as the local University, or the CC is a branch of the Uni.
Penn State and Penn State:Hazleton is one example. The Houston Community College System is another. HCCS is staffed in good part by profs from Rice and the UoH.
The fellow in question is interested in learning some mathematics, not going on a math nerd cruise of the latest and greatest research institute. And to insinuate that a Master in Math isn't "good enough" to teach funamental mathematics is not just insulting, its damn stupid.
The problem is, those cheap OEM systems are just that - cheap. They're crap. They're cheap because the OEM cuts lots of corners. If you want a disposable comp, go for it. If you want something that will perform half decently and last, you'll still have to ante up.
You can build a decent, high quality box for 800 bucks. And you won't get stuck with an HSP Micromodem and shared memory onboard video. The components will be good, and the box will stand up. The average person doesn't want to buy a new computer every two years. If you build your own, it may cost a bit more, but I've found it to be worth the extra cost by a longshot.
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I wish I had some fucking mod points to slap an Insightful on your ass.
Derek
What a sucker. Let me get this straight... The ex-boss who laid you off calls you up at your new place of employment and DEMANDS you help her? And you comply, like a trained dog? And only complain about not getting a THANK YOU? Man. You need some serious assertiveness training.
You have zero obligations to help out Ms. Demanding. Your relationship was a business contract between employer and employed. That contract was ended. Send her the bill, and make it juicy for emergency services rendered.
Can't walk through life with other people's boot prints on your back.
Derek
It could never be made illegal...simply because it's a form of unwanted advertising. Ever take a trip on the highway and seen all the billboards? I don't like the way that the billboards cover up the country side. I think that billboards are a physical equivilent of email spam......see my point?
Billboards are on private property in a public space. Billboard advertising is a 3rd party effect. Spamming an email address, which is strictly a private communication channel, is a direct effect. It's the difference between overhearing an ad playing on your neighbors' radio on his property, and someone stuffing flyers under your door. Someone stuffing flyers under your door is violating your privacy and property rights.
Derek
Why not use a disk duplication machine?
Not trying to be smart, just suggesting.
Derek
I hate it when my pointer is twice as big and I can only squeeze half of it into the caches. Cache misses suck, and definately decrease the performance of the whole thing. Damn straight.
Derek@killmykarma.edu
That's ludicrous. It was LETO that broke the prohibitions on making computers again, and it was LETO'S Golden Path that destroyed the results of the Butlerian Jihad. Quite an odd way of preventing something - by making it possible.
It was the Imperial society that Leto intended to break. The forces of conservatism, stagnation, the slow decline into a static, caste-bound, existence. And first and foremost to free mankind from ARRAKIS. Arrakis was the limiting factor. Reliance upon the Spice centered the Universe upon a fixed point. Leto aimed to smash the reliance upon Spice and free mankind from its fixed patterns to ensure the diversity, ie HEALTH of the human population.
Any "killer robots" reading of Herbert is so painfully wrong its not funny. That's great for a simplistic writer like Asimov. Doesn't fit type for Herbert.
Derek
The Indian subcontinent BREATHES OUT as much CO2 as the US produces from burning of fossil fuels. And soot is a greater factor in atmospheric greenhouse effects than CO2, and the majority of the world's human produced soot comes from - the Third World. All that burning of wood and whatever else they can get their grubby little hands on. So lets ALL cut out the "Save the world" singing, eh?
Derek
What kind of fucknut bricklayer would make the loose brick low enough that the little boys could look through?
Hey man. Midgets need jobs too, you know.
Derek
Loser.
Derek
There are already supersonic cruise missiles and anti-ship and anti-air missiles. Russia especially has invested alot of capital into this area of weapons research.
;)
They aren't scramjets, but Mach 2.5 - Mac 5 ain't nothin to laugh at, either.
The heading and the article are misleading. The change is postulated to be caused by a bulge of Pacific Ocean water SHIFTING towards the equator.
Derek
The President can only suggest what he would like to see, and tell Congress when a bill they are working on doesn't agree with what he would like to see and threaten to veto.
Again, from your own sources:
"President George W. Bush, who only weeks ago was criticizing the measure as unnecessary, is expected soon to sign the bill into law [...]"
That's because, ignoramus, the President's role in legislation, the CHECK on Congress's power, is the VETO. The President signs, or vetos, legislation passed by Congress. If he vetos a bill, it goes back to Congress where it requires a supermajority to override the veto. The President's veto power IS NOT LEGISLATING. ASSHOLE.
Since I have to do all your research for you, here's the text to the US Constitution for your edification:t ion/constituti on.text.html
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitu
Fair enough. Although, those reports were quite vage when it comes to the details of seisures. I suppose I'll have to read through the bill myself, just to see under what terms assets can be seized, what can be seised, and exactly what will be done with seised assets.
Since you don't seem to be able to read the news or google yourself, else you wouldn't be so ignorant of how the US political system works, here's some more information for you to chew on:
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020727-566014. htm
House Republican leaders, heading home to face voters anxious over retirement security, announced yesterday they will introduce legislation to seize the mansions and yachts of corrupt corporate executives.
"We need to do more to strip corrupt corporate kingpins of their ill-gotten gains," said House Majority Whip Tom DeLay, Texas Republican. "We're taking the mansion. We're draining the accounts. And we're coming after the yacht."
It's pretty sad that you've been modded up for common freakin sense. I guess for the ./ crowd, that's amazing insight. Kudus for bringing enlightenment to the stupid.
Derek
The article never said the military was intentionally exploiting a "loophole" to produce a weapon that blinded people. It noted that the weapon has the potential side effect of blinding people, and that the Air Force seems to be aware of the potential for unintended consequences, to which they reply, "unfortunate, but its collateral damage."
Not even the liberal New Scientist claimed the military is intentionally building a blinding laser weapon.
Derek
Really bad, and totally wrong, analogy. Since, let me make this clear - the President does not write legislation, does not introduce legislation into session, does not vote on legislation. The President of the United Fucking States does NOT MAKE LAW. Period. Capiche?
Likewise, I am aware of the bill to which I believe you are refering. It is set to increase the jail-time (to a max of 20 and 25 years). I refer to it in my original post on this thread: "He creates a task force, and doubles the (very small) penalties for this sort of thing." is pretty stupid. The only thing the President CAN do is create a task force, and he CAN'T increase penalties because that takes an act of LAW, which requires Congress. He can suggest, and Bush has suggested, and signed into law a bill passed by Congress, that corporate fraud penalties be increased to 25 years. The average sentence for murder in the US is SEVEN YEARS. You think 25 for white collar crime is too light?
As to seizure of assets: here
here
and here.
Now, I'm really sorry if I'm being a prick about all this, but this ignorant, uninformed bullshit really pisses me off. Derek
Well, I give you two points for creative interpretation of the Constitution. Too bad it doesn't work that way. That isn't overlapping power, it is, once again, division of power with checks and balances. Since you don't seem to have listened the first time, let me reiterate:
THE PRESIDENT DOES NOT MAKE LAW. REPEAT TEN TIMES FAST. Since it still has not sunk in.
He did stand the bully pulpit, and he backed his preferred version of the corporate accounting reform bills pending before Congress. Or haven't you been reading the news? I would assume you haven't, since you didn't even know there WAS a bill pending before Congress.
In the US government, if something is not explicitly denied, it is Reserved to the States, or the People. Those pesky Amendments. Read them some time.
Derek
Just saying it doesn't make it true. It would help if you had some sliver of evidence to back up your statements don't you think?
Boy, you shoot your mouth off alot without having a clue. Read the news lately? It's a bill pending in Congress.
Doesn't sound like you've ever read it. The system of checks and balances calls for overlaping powers. The president can call special sessions of congress. He can give executive orders. He can also use his influence in congress to get a bill passed. While that isn't literally 'making a law', it's close enough.
The Constitution DOES NOT establish overlapping powers, it establishes a DIVISION OF POWER. Hence the term CHECKS AND BALANCES. English your second language?
REPEAT AFTER ME: The President doesn't make law, Congress does. Repeat ten times fast if it isn't sinking in fast enough. Calling special sessions of Congress and using his influence is NOT legislating, he can call all the special sessions he wants and stand the bully pulpit all day. Still takes Congress to actually make a bill and pass a law. And executive orders can not violate the Constitutional mandate of Congress to make law. Executive orders are just that - orders from the President authorizing executive action. Executive orders can not criminalize an activity, or otherwise do what legislation is for. AND executive orders are reviewed by Congress.
Besides, there doesn't need to be a law made... What was done is already illegial. It's the overly light punishment that I disagree with.
So hump your damn Congressman's leg about it. The President doesn't set criminal sanctions, either.
Derek
Yeah, ok. If that's the case, it was done with Clinton's LIFE SIZE JOHN HANCOCK written all over it.
The President gets to veto, you know.
I love it how quickly it went from "Clinton's Miracle Boom Economy" to the "Gingrich-led Republican-initiated deregulation." Typical.
Derek
Umm, CEOs have to sign off on their books, and go to jail if this sort of "creative bookkeeping" is discovered and their assets WILL be liable to seizure by lawsuit. And executives will no longer be able to vote themselves multimillion dollar bonuses, then declare corporate bankruptcy.
And take a minute to read the Constitution. The President doesn't make law, the Congress does.
Derek
What history have YOU been reading? Is this Opposite Day?
AT&T telephones worked? They were inexpensive?? Customer service was great??! Hooo...
Worldcom isn't a monopoly, genius.
Well, there's a good chance you may be joining me in the Former Employee of the Worldcom Family of Companies Club. Don't worry, there's 27,000 of us now from the layoffs in the past year, you'll be in good company.
Seriously though, there will probably be more layoffs, but operations will continue. Hope you didn't optin on the stock purchase benefit. More than likely its worthless now that WCOM went into Chapter 11. Your money as a stockholder comes AFTER the creditors. And if you get laid off, you probably won't get a severance.
Derek
Well Mr. Math Prof you don't get out much obviously. As often as not, the classes at the local community college are taught by the same faculty as the local University, or the CC is a branch of the Uni.
Penn State and Penn State:Hazleton is one example. The Houston Community College System is another. HCCS is staffed in good part by profs from Rice and the UoH.
The fellow in question is interested in learning some mathematics, not going on a math nerd cruise of the latest and greatest research institute. And to insinuate that a Master in Math isn't "good enough" to teach funamental mathematics is not just insulting, its damn stupid.
Derek
Why is everyone on this board acting like a total asshole, instead of reasonably debating the points that he made?
Because the point he makes questions the techie orthodoxy that "sharing" cds doesn't result in lower CD sales.
Bzzt. Move along, only flames there.
Derek
The problem is, those cheap OEM systems are just that - cheap. They're crap. They're cheap because the OEM cuts lots of corners. If you want a disposable comp, go for it. If you want something that will perform half decently and last, you'll still have to ante up.
You can build a decent, high quality box for 800 bucks. And you won't get stuck with an HSP Micromodem and shared memory onboard video. The components will be good, and the box will stand up. The average person doesn't want to buy a new computer every two years. If you build your own, it may cost a bit more, but I've found it to be worth the extra cost by a longshot.
Derek