Uhhhh - what exactly does it matter if tens of thousands get their copies in a few hours, or if it takes ten or twelve days? The end result is precisely the same - everyone who really wants a copy will get one.
Oh - you may object that "Well, SOME people won't want a copy badly enough to put the wear on their sneakers! P2P actually ENCOURAGES people to make copies." And, I would say "Bullshit!" My wife and sisters had extensive libraries before any of them had access to internet. One would rent a movie, and make two, six, or twelve copies, depending on who they thought the movie would appeal to. I'm not sure that I could load out a tractor trailer with all their stuff, but I could most certainly load two smaller local delivery trucks. Shelves and shelves, loaded with old VCR movies.
In short - the time involved makes no difference at all. If anything, the internet has saved me from further inundation by VCR, CD, and DVD recordings. Now, everything is stored on hard drive! Imagine that - entire libraries, stored on a hard drive! I love it!
Good post, ElectricTurtle. And, that is the reason I send letters to the White House, congress, ICE, and other places. Hell, I haven't flown in years - but I imagine that if I tried to board an international flight, I'd probably find that I'm on a watch list - if not the "No fly" list!
I've got a bad attitude. That comes from not being afraid of the bastards! The worst they can do is to kill you, and they can only do that once. Being dead is better than living in fear, IMO.
You're right, that the answer isn't obvious. What's not obvious is, the corporations took all the global climate stuff as a cue to accelerate moving industry from first world countries, where they were regulated, to third world countries without regulation.
Assuming that both of those are "broadband", then you have one more choice than I have. My choices are limited to a dial up ISP, and a "broadband" DSL line - max speed 1 MB.
Rest assured, I understand your point. AC is very lucky to have all those choices, while the rest of us are ignored and passed over with every infrastructure "upgrade".
I'm very "Western". But - I look at this, and I wonder if that attitude will be worth much in years to come. Face it - our laws have innovators tied in knots in America. If Joe Blow comes up with something unique and exciting, he faces patent suits from Apple, Microsoft, SCO, and any number of lesser known patent trolls. In China, the government is actually getting behind these people who want to hack stuff.
Freedom? I'm watching ours being eroded, while the Chinese are beginning to explore their freedoms. Why do I feel like I'm being left behind?
Individual chips on the mainboard, I'm not certain about - some of them may have come from China.
Logitech produces roughly half of their products in China. I've never actually checked to see if my stuff is Chinese or not.
Netgear is a US company, but they outsource some of their stuff - I'm not sure where it comes from.
Need I go on? I do attempt to purchase European, American, and/or other Asian products. Given the opportunity, I'll buy African before I buy Chinese. Granted, it's impossible to ensure that no component of any given electronic product was made in China - but I'm not buying the cheapest shit on the market, all of which is produced in China.
Only a damned fool is going to buy stuff made in China. And, only a double damned fool is going to buy food products from China. FFS, did no one's parents teach them about QUALITY?!?!?! WTF are they teaching in home economics today?
Ohhhh - let's say that you want some bottled water to take on a camping trip or something. Where can you learn whether one brand or another is better than the others? How 'bout a google search. Oh, wow, look what I found!
Based on that one report alone, I'd probably be better off allowing the kids to drink from the streams where we camp. Crap, I can just boil the water, and have safer water than I can buy!
Do you think anyone looks at reports like that though? Not only "NO!", but "HELL NO!" People are chumps. They buy that bottled water because some MARKEDROIDS told them to buy it!
Americans are just chumps - no research, no comparison, nothing. Whatever is advertised on television is good enough for them. At the market, whichever brand is cheapest and/or comes in the prettiest package is good enough. DUHHHH.
Hey - if you won't shop intelligently for yourself, or your children, maybe you'll at least treat your dog right.
Notice that some of the best known, and most expensive, brands of dog food are less nutritious than a shit sandwich. Some of the unknown and cheaper brands are actually pretty good. The cheapest brands are what you would expect - worthless. Give Fido something decent to eat, alright?
Good post. I clicked this link to give my thoughts on the lack of discipline.
Science is hard. It takes a disciplined mind to grasp science, to use it, to manipulate it. And, discipline is the last thing we ever think about in school. In fact, however misguided past decades may have been with discipline - we've ensured the removal of any sort of discipline from teachers and principals hands.
But - your post makes me think past the student's lack of discipline. The teachers, the principals, the school boards, even the state's board of education lacks discipline. No one is accountable, and the very thought of disciplining any of those bodies is so "politically incorrect", that entertaining the though is likely to result in hate crime charges.
In short - we see the results of a nihilistic society here. Self serving teachers, indifferent principals, a politicized education department all conspire to ensure that students DON'T ever learn any discipline. And, without that discipline, they cannot, and will not acquire the education required to do great things.
Horse shit. All of those questions are entirely relevant when considering whether a "spanking" is "corporal punishment" or "child abuse". The fact that you may be ignorant of the reasons why any or all of those questions are applicable has no bearing on the discussion.
The cerebral palsy means little to me. A child who has EARNED punishment is a child who has EARNED punishment. Your halfwit brother can bear a spanking just as well as you can - and may require a couple swats to help him understand the simplest lessons.
I'm not outraged that he beat a girl with cerebral palsy - I'm outraged that he dumped all of his rage and frustration on a mostly defenseless person. Dig deep enough into his psyche, and there is no difference between what the judge does here, and what a rapist does when he finds a defenseless woman in the park.
Key on one sentence in the video - "I'll beat you into submission". Key in on that sentence, then watch the video again.
Corporal punishment, by definition, has specific goals of teaching lessons. Consistent, fair punishment can almost never be considered abusive.
I listened to this judge, and everything he said and did hinges on one sentence. "I'll beat you into submission." The ONLY lesson to be learned from the beating in the video, is that "Dad is God".
Statute of limitations, I think. Sometimes those statutes suck - but unless you murder someone, there is a limit for all crimes. Had he also sexually abused the girl, I think that limit is quite a bit longer than mere physical and emotional abuse.
There are a couple questions to ask about the "spankings".
1. Did you actually do something wrong - or were the "spankings" random, unpredictable, and/or unwarranted?
2. Did you get belted all over your body, like the girl in the video?
3. Was there a preset number of swats, or did your parent just whip until his arms got tired?
4. Was there a definite lesson to be imparted?
5. Did you actually LEARN a lesson, or did you just "learn" to avoid Dad, or to hide your actions better?
As for minding our own damned business - that shit can go to far. I seem to remember some women being killed in New York City, screaming, crying, and begging for help - and no passerby would lift a finger, or make a telephone call. I also seem to remember, more recently, a toddler being killed in traffic in China, and no one would come to her aid. Almost every month, we read of some child dying in America due to abuse and neglect. I'm one to "mind my own business" most of the time - but there comes a time when you HAVE to take notice!
Well, tomhudson - I positively hate the whole "anger management" thing. To a guy like me, that crap just sounds gay most of the time.
I watched the video several days ago. I saw my own father. It isn't "anger management". I'll bet everything I've ever owned, and everything that I ever will own, that if you could get inside his head, he beat his daughter for the same reason he's a judge. He ENJOYS hurting people with whom he disagrees.
Oh, people like him rationalize that in many way. "I'm only doing it for your own good" and "You've got to learn" and "I'm only protecting society from you" and "You broke the law, what do you expect to happen".
Bottom line, though - I'm quite certain that he ENJOYS inflicting pain on people.
As I said - I looked into those eyes as a small child myself. It took 15 years for me to become "adult" enough to pick up a hunting rifle, stick the muzzle in the old bastard's face, and make him understand that "enough is enough".
Hasty? I'm one who dislikes doing a job two or three times. Let's get it done right the first time. Shoot it through the heart with a silver bullet, drive a wooden stake through it's heart - following the path of the bullet, if you like, behead it, then leave it lying in the sun for most of a day, then bury it with a bouquet of garlic and other fragrant herbs. The head we removed earlier should be burned - I'm not sure if there's a prescribed formula for the fire, or if we can just kick the head into any old furnace.
Personally, I hate marketing. I hated commercials when I watched television, I hate adverts in my newspaper, I hate them on the tubez. Today, with this wonderful internet we have, when I want something, I start searching.
My youngest kid decided that a bike would be cool. He thought about a Harley. I told him that A; Harley is overpriced by an order of magnitude, and B; V-twins suck ass. He did some research, he half believed me, but still, the offer of a trade was just to good to pass up.
Now, three months later, he's believing me, and he's researching AND verifying his research with test rides on other bikes.
He came home last week, exclaiming about how much POWER just a little bitty Kawasaki 250 has, and how FAST it is, and how SMOOOTH it rides. He went on and on, and on some more.
Marketing? Screw marketing. Unless I get to ride the girl in the commercials, marketing means shit to me - and the son is learning the same thing. Just give us the internet, so we can compare specs, features, and prices. The corporations would do better to save all that money they are wasting on bubble headed blonde wannabe actresses who sprawl half naked across their products.
Memory leaks? Oh? How serious? I remember a real memory leaking operating system. You pretty much had to reboot every other day or so, to keep that steaming pile of shit running. The proprietors who marketed that dungheap finally ended support for all versions of it.
Now, Ubuntu? My main desktop runs version 10.04. It stays up and running from serious thunderstorm, to kernel update, to the next serious thunderstorm. Weeks in almost all cases, months in some cases.
Memory leaks, huh? Maybe in the newer versions - I can't vouch for them, because I've only run them in virtual machines.
So, I have to ask - are you serious, or are you just trolling?
Multi-nationals can be required to report profits made IN THIS COUNTRY, and to pay the same tax rates that our small businesses pay. It's all a matter of deciding that it needs to be done. And, THAT isn't going to happen so long as politicians and corporate chiefs are smart enough to make politicians wealthy secretly.
"Congressman, I don't know how I can ever repay you for your tax break support. How about we invite your daughter to sit on our board of directors? Oh, no sir, that can't possibly be called 'bribery' or a 'payoff', because you'll never get a red cent from us! But, your daughter will appreciate the gesture, I'm sure!"
That is something I'd never heard before. Sounds reasonable to me. "Runaway, we don't need you anymore, you're fired (or laid off). You just go on to the house, and we'll send you a paycheck next Friday, and the next, then you're on your own."
Here, in the US, you can drive to work in the morning, pick up your tools, or sit at your desk, and the boss comes along, hands you your notice, and escorts you out the door. In such cases, you generally don't even get paid for showing up at work. The more considerate bosses wait til Friday, hand you your paycheck, and tell you not to come back on Monday.
At my company, they let two management people go just three weeks ago. No severance, no nothing. Those of us not in management have no reason to expect anything - not even a "Thank you" on our way out!
I've not noticed much swerving in economic policy. The government has steadily been working to wreck the United States economy.
For fifty years or more, we've had no immigration policy worth mentioning. NAFTA China "free trade" CAFTA outsourcing exporting jobs "work visas" freely passed around like candy at halloween, and the conditions unenforced rewarding illegal aliens with free college tuition rewarding illegal aliens with free legal counsel rewarding illegal aliens with free health care tax cuts for companies that export jobs
Have I missed anything important? If I have, I've included enough to show that our government is NOT swerving back and forth. They are on a steady course to destroying the middle class.
The dead wood is mostly at the top, with some of stuck in middle management. The worker bees may or may not have some deadwood among them, but the majority of the deadwood is all located at the top. And, cost wise, cutting a little deadwood from the management structure saves more money than cutting a ton of deadwood from the bottom. One executive bonus equals about 20 employees annual salary these days, often times more!
So, they all need to go get the job they prefer, then wait for AMD to file suit, and fight it.
Personally, I have zero respect for any non-compete clauses. The company claims to have rights and authorities regarding employment, whether it's written into a contract or not. And, the employee has none.
Around the world, if a company decides to fire you or lay you off, you find out two minutes before you are on the pavement, wondering what just happened. BUT - if you plan on moving to another job, the company demands a two week notice. I say, "WTF?" When I decide to move on, I figure that calling my old boss from my new desk to tell him that I won't be back is good enough.
I don't read much of anything in my inbasket. I guess that makes me a high level employee?
COO: Did you read my email? Me: Well, hell no! I'm to busy to read mail. COO: Well, it said you'd be fired if you didn't read it. Me: Cool. Six months paid vacation, courtesy of the Employment Commission! COO: To hell with that, I have some shit jobs that need to be done before you go anywhere. Me: Well, Fuck you very much, Sir!
I think you should take your uptight ass for a nice long walk, off of a very short pier. Some of you people seem to have learned nothing in school, except spelling and grammar. It was the only place where you ever earned any praise. Since you are in no way superior to anyone else in any other field, you feel the need to make your inane grammar nazi posts here, there, everywhere.
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I found that in my inbox a short while ago. At the time, the irony hit me like a sledgehammer - Sophos wants to make me aware of fake AV, Sophos should be warning me against downloading and installing random shit from the internet - so they invite me to download some random shit from the internet which may or may not be a legitimate random shit. Hmmmm. Yeah - I'll save my clicks, thank you . . . .
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Uhhhh - what exactly does it matter if tens of thousands get their copies in a few hours, or if it takes ten or twelve days? The end result is precisely the same - everyone who really wants a copy will get one.
Oh - you may object that "Well, SOME people won't want a copy badly enough to put the wear on their sneakers! P2P actually ENCOURAGES people to make copies." And, I would say "Bullshit!" My wife and sisters had extensive libraries before any of them had access to internet. One would rent a movie, and make two, six, or twelve copies, depending on who they thought the movie would appeal to. I'm not sure that I could load out a tractor trailer with all their stuff, but I could most certainly load two smaller local delivery trucks. Shelves and shelves, loaded with old VCR movies.
In short - the time involved makes no difference at all. If anything, the internet has saved me from further inundation by VCR, CD, and DVD recordings. Now, everything is stored on hard drive! Imagine that - entire libraries, stored on a hard drive! I love it!
Good post, ElectricTurtle. And, that is the reason I send letters to the White House, congress, ICE, and other places. Hell, I haven't flown in years - but I imagine that if I tried to board an international flight, I'd probably find that I'm on a watch list - if not the "No fly" list!
I've got a bad attitude. That comes from not being afraid of the bastards! The worst they can do is to kill you, and they can only do that once. Being dead is better than living in fear, IMO.
You're right, that the answer isn't obvious. What's not obvious is, the corporations took all the global climate stuff as a cue to accelerate moving industry from first world countries, where they were regulated, to third world countries without regulation.
Imagine that . . .
Assuming that both of those are "broadband", then you have one more choice than I have. My choices are limited to a dial up ISP, and a "broadband" DSL line - max speed 1 MB.
Rest assured, I understand your point. AC is very lucky to have all those choices, while the rest of us are ignored and passed over with every infrastructure "upgrade".
I'm very "Western". But - I look at this, and I wonder if that attitude will be worth much in years to come. Face it - our laws have innovators tied in knots in America. If Joe Blow comes up with something unique and exciting, he faces patent suits from Apple, Microsoft, SCO, and any number of lesser known patent trolls. In China, the government is actually getting behind these people who want to hack stuff.
Freedom? I'm watching ours being eroded, while the Chinese are beginning to explore their freedoms. Why do I feel like I'm being left behind?
Taiwan, for my Asus mainboard.
Either Dresden or Taiwan for my CPU.
Individual chips on the mainboard, I'm not certain about - some of them may have come from China.
Logitech produces roughly half of their products in China. I've never actually checked to see if my stuff is Chinese or not.
Netgear is a US company, but they outsource some of their stuff - I'm not sure where it comes from.
Need I go on? I do attempt to purchase European, American, and/or other Asian products. Given the opportunity, I'll buy African before I buy Chinese. Granted, it's impossible to ensure that no component of any given electronic product was made in China - but I'm not buying the cheapest shit on the market, all of which is produced in China.
This ^
Only a damned fool is going to buy stuff made in China. And, only a double damned fool is going to buy food products from China. FFS, did no one's parents teach them about QUALITY?!?!?! WTF are they teaching in home economics today?
Ohhhh - let's say that you want some bottled water to take on a camping trip or something. Where can you learn whether one brand or another is better than the others? How 'bout a google search. Oh, wow, look what I found!
http://www.ewg.org/reports/BottledWater/Bottled-Water-Quality-Investigation
Based on that one report alone, I'd probably be better off allowing the kids to drink from the streams where we camp. Crap, I can just boil the water, and have safer water than I can buy!
Do you think anyone looks at reports like that though? Not only "NO!", but "HELL NO!" People are chumps. They buy that bottled water because some MARKEDROIDS told them to buy it!
Americans are just chumps - no research, no comparison, nothing. Whatever is advertised on television is good enough for them. At the market, whichever brand is cheapest and/or comes in the prettiest package is good enough. DUHHHH.
Hey - if you won't shop intelligently for yourself, or your children, maybe you'll at least treat your dog right.
http://www.dogfoodscoop.com/dog-food-comparison.html
Notice that some of the best known, and most expensive, brands of dog food are less nutritious than a shit sandwich. Some of the unknown and cheaper brands are actually pretty good. The cheapest brands are what you would expect - worthless. Give Fido something decent to eat, alright?
Good post. I clicked this link to give my thoughts on the lack of discipline.
Science is hard. It takes a disciplined mind to grasp science, to use it, to manipulate it. And, discipline is the last thing we ever think about in school. In fact, however misguided past decades may have been with discipline - we've ensured the removal of any sort of discipline from teachers and principals hands.
But - your post makes me think past the student's lack of discipline. The teachers, the principals, the school boards, even the state's board of education lacks discipline. No one is accountable, and the very thought of disciplining any of those bodies is so "politically incorrect", that entertaining the though is likely to result in hate crime charges.
In short - we see the results of a nihilistic society here. Self serving teachers, indifferent principals, a politicized education department all conspire to ensure that students DON'T ever learn any discipline. And, without that discipline, they cannot, and will not acquire the education required to do great things.
America is going down the tubes man!
Horse shit. All of those questions are entirely relevant when considering whether a "spanking" is "corporal punishment" or "child abuse". The fact that you may be ignorant of the reasons why any or all of those questions are applicable has no bearing on the discussion.
The cerebral palsy means little to me. A child who has EARNED punishment is a child who has EARNED punishment. Your halfwit brother can bear a spanking just as well as you can - and may require a couple swats to help him understand the simplest lessons.
I'm not outraged that he beat a girl with cerebral palsy - I'm outraged that he dumped all of his rage and frustration on a mostly defenseless person. Dig deep enough into his psyche, and there is no difference between what the judge does here, and what a rapist does when he finds a defenseless woman in the park.
Key on one sentence in the video - "I'll beat you into submission". Key in on that sentence, then watch the video again.
amiga - you nailed the issue right on the head.
Corporal punishment, by definition, has specific goals of teaching lessons. Consistent, fair punishment can almost never be considered abusive.
I listened to this judge, and everything he said and did hinges on one sentence. "I'll beat you into submission." The ONLY lesson to be learned from the beating in the video, is that "Dad is God".
Statute of limitations, I think. Sometimes those statutes suck - but unless you murder someone, there is a limit for all crimes. Had he also sexually abused the girl, I think that limit is quite a bit longer than mere physical and emotional abuse.
There are a couple questions to ask about the "spankings".
1. Did you actually do something wrong - or were the "spankings" random, unpredictable, and/or unwarranted?
2. Did you get belted all over your body, like the girl in the video?
3. Was there a preset number of swats, or did your parent just whip until his arms got tired?
4. Was there a definite lesson to be imparted?
5. Did you actually LEARN a lesson, or did you just "learn" to avoid Dad, or to hide your actions better?
As for minding our own damned business - that shit can go to far. I seem to remember some women being killed in New York City, screaming, crying, and begging for help - and no passerby would lift a finger, or make a telephone call. I also seem to remember, more recently, a toddler being killed in traffic in China, and no one would come to her aid. Almost every month, we read of some child dying in America due to abuse and neglect. I'm one to "mind my own business" most of the time - but there comes a time when you HAVE to take notice!
Well, tomhudson - I positively hate the whole "anger management" thing. To a guy like me, that crap just sounds gay most of the time.
I watched the video several days ago. I saw my own father. It isn't "anger management". I'll bet everything I've ever owned, and everything that I ever will own, that if you could get inside his head, he beat his daughter for the same reason he's a judge. He ENJOYS hurting people with whom he disagrees.
Oh, people like him rationalize that in many way. "I'm only doing it for your own good" and "You've got to learn" and "I'm only protecting society from you" and "You broke the law, what do you expect to happen".
Bottom line, though - I'm quite certain that he ENJOYS inflicting pain on people.
As I said - I looked into those eyes as a small child myself. It took 15 years for me to become "adult" enough to pick up a hunting rifle, stick the muzzle in the old bastard's face, and make him understand that "enough is enough".
Hasty? I'm one who dislikes doing a job two or three times. Let's get it done right the first time. Shoot it through the heart with a silver bullet, drive a wooden stake through it's heart - following the path of the bullet, if you like, behead it, then leave it lying in the sun for most of a day, then bury it with a bouquet of garlic and other fragrant herbs. The head we removed earlier should be burned - I'm not sure if there's a prescribed formula for the fire, or if we can just kick the head into any old furnace.
Or, we could just nuke from orbit.
Personally, I hate marketing. I hated commercials when I watched television, I hate adverts in my newspaper, I hate them on the tubez. Today, with this wonderful internet we have, when I want something, I start searching.
My youngest kid decided that a bike would be cool. He thought about a Harley. I told him that A; Harley is overpriced by an order of magnitude, and B; V-twins suck ass. He did some research, he half believed me, but still, the offer of a trade was just to good to pass up.
Now, three months later, he's believing me, and he's researching AND verifying his research with test rides on other bikes.
He came home last week, exclaiming about how much POWER just a little bitty Kawasaki 250 has, and how FAST it is, and how SMOOOTH it rides. He went on and on, and on some more.
Marketing? Screw marketing. Unless I get to ride the girl in the commercials, marketing means shit to me - and the son is learning the same thing. Just give us the internet, so we can compare specs, features, and prices. The corporations would do better to save all that money they are wasting on bubble headed blonde wannabe actresses who sprawl half naked across their products.
Memory leaks? Oh? How serious? I remember a real memory leaking operating system. You pretty much had to reboot every other day or so, to keep that steaming pile of shit running. The proprietors who marketed that dungheap finally ended support for all versions of it.
Now, Ubuntu? My main desktop runs version 10.04. It stays up and running from serious thunderstorm, to kernel update, to the next serious thunderstorm. Weeks in almost all cases, months in some cases.
Memory leaks, huh? Maybe in the newer versions - I can't vouch for them, because I've only run them in virtual machines.
So, I have to ask - are you serious, or are you just trolling?
Multi-nationals can be required to report profits made IN THIS COUNTRY, and to pay the same tax rates that our small businesses pay. It's all a matter of deciding that it needs to be done. And, THAT isn't going to happen so long as politicians and corporate chiefs are smart enough to make politicians wealthy secretly.
"Congressman, I don't know how I can ever repay you for your tax break support. How about we invite your daughter to sit on our board of directors? Oh, no sir, that can't possibly be called 'bribery' or a 'payoff', because you'll never get a red cent from us! But, your daughter will appreciate the gesture, I'm sure!"
That is something I'd never heard before. Sounds reasonable to me. "Runaway, we don't need you anymore, you're fired (or laid off). You just go on to the house, and we'll send you a paycheck next Friday, and the next, then you're on your own."
Here, in the US, you can drive to work in the morning, pick up your tools, or sit at your desk, and the boss comes along, hands you your notice, and escorts you out the door. In such cases, you generally don't even get paid for showing up at work. The more considerate bosses wait til Friday, hand you your paycheck, and tell you not to come back on Monday.
At my company, they let two management people go just three weeks ago. No severance, no nothing. Those of us not in management have no reason to expect anything - not even a "Thank you" on our way out!
I've not noticed much swerving in economic policy. The government has steadily been working to wreck the United States economy.
For fifty years or more, we've had no immigration policy worth mentioning.
NAFTA
China "free trade"
CAFTA
outsourcing
exporting jobs
"work visas" freely passed around like candy at halloween, and the conditions unenforced
rewarding illegal aliens with free college tuition
rewarding illegal aliens with free legal counsel
rewarding illegal aliens with free health care
tax cuts for companies that export jobs
Have I missed anything important? If I have, I've included enough to show that our government is NOT swerving back and forth. They are on a steady course to destroying the middle class.
The dead wood is mostly at the top, with some of stuck in middle management. The worker bees may or may not have some deadwood among them, but the majority of the deadwood is all located at the top. And, cost wise, cutting a little deadwood from the management structure saves more money than cutting a ton of deadwood from the bottom. One executive bonus equals about 20 employees annual salary these days, often times more!
So, they all need to go get the job they prefer, then wait for AMD to file suit, and fight it.
Personally, I have zero respect for any non-compete clauses. The company claims to have rights and authorities regarding employment, whether it's written into a contract or not. And, the employee has none.
Around the world, if a company decides to fire you or lay you off, you find out two minutes before you are on the pavement, wondering what just happened. BUT - if you plan on moving to another job, the company demands a two week notice. I say, "WTF?" When I decide to move on, I figure that calling my old boss from my new desk to tell him that I won't be back is good enough.
AHHHH-HAA-HAAA!
I don't read much of anything in my inbasket. I guess that makes me a high level employee?
COO: Did you read my email?
Me: Well, hell no! I'm to busy to read mail.
COO: Well, it said you'd be fired if you didn't read it.
Me: Cool. Six months paid vacation, courtesy of the Employment Commission!
COO: To hell with that, I have some shit jobs that need to be done before you go anywhere.
Me: Well, Fuck you very much, Sir!
I think you should take your uptight ass for a nice long walk, off of a very short pier. Some of you people seem to have learned nothing in school, except spelling and grammar. It was the only place where you ever earned any praise. Since you are in no way superior to anyone else in any other field, you feel the need to make your inane grammar nazi posts here, there, everywhere.
Sux2bU, huh?
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I found that in my inbox a short while ago. At the time, the irony hit me like a sledgehammer - Sophos wants to make me aware of fake AV, Sophos should be warning me against downloading and installing random shit from the internet - so they invite me to download some random shit from the internet which may or may not be a legitimate random shit. Hmmmm. Yeah - I'll save my clicks, thank you . . . .