Not that I support the death penalty, but the old testament contradicts...
Genesis 9:6: Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
Good point. That is precisely why it is called the OLD Testament. You're talking about living under law, which nobody can do 100%. We have to have a means of salvation so that we can be 100% squeaky clean. So the only solution is for God himself to eliminate rule of law as the means to the end of salvation as soon as human civilization sufficiently evolved to handle standing free of law. God had to pay the only sacrifice that can actually free us from sin. That sacrifice is God's own blood and suffering in our own native human form.
I'm in agreement with the parent poster, as the scripture says. Jesus said in Matthew 5:17 that as soon as his blood was shed in sacrifice, that all law that came before Him would be broken. If we completely trust in Him then He lives in us and begins to change us like a fire provides a chemical change, and He eventually guides our actions. Search that page for "law".
And then here's how it is after Jesus paid for all sin, in Galatians 3, verses 15-29. That explains the whole spiritual concept of humanity needing to be free from rule of law. In other words, following laws alone doesn't, can't, never could, and never will make you clean.
Thus began the New Testament, or Humanity 2.0. Eternal salvation explicitly without law.
I hope it's not too confusing, and other translations are available at a click. Just watch out for the fake Christians whose prayers consist of asking God to institute their own will, such as "WWJK"? (who would Jesus kill?)
Also the conclusion is that Microsoft has illegal monopolies.
They said the same thing to the US Department of Justice during their antritrust trial about the proposed delay of Windows 98.
So in other words, they claim in court and under oath that they can allegedly cripple the economies of entire continents just by doing nothing, but they're not a monopoly.
It sounds like rather than pedantry, your attitude might prefer more of the ignorant/apathetic excuse. Like maybe "Law is hard. Do what you feel like." And see how that works out for ya in court.
Because it's a civil infraction. There's civil law (more of a matter of behavior) and there's criminal law (more of a matter of depriving someone else of something they already had). See all the other comments about it not being theft, which is a crime. Slashdot does an awesome job of explaining these nuances just about every time a relevant story is posted. Read diligently!
Yeah no doubt. They state that because the job req is written by someone in H.R. who is obligated to do so as a formality. Usually it says "or equivalent experience", and virtually never is it enforced. And the situation you're describing is why I mentioned social networking. It's pretty unlikely to get a job by cold calling, although one should never quit trying. Do your networking through recruiters and the free software community if nothing else.
Always breaking "PC"? You misspelled "Windows".
Sift this discussion for tips on how to stop enabling your sister's and the monopoly's tyrannical behavior. Use Linux, MacOS, or extreme policy. Tough love.
What made you think that there is anything close to an industry wide default requirement for any degree, and that it's not based instead on social networking and directly demonstrated proof of competency like virtually every other industry? Did you believe something that your college advisors or some statistic told you? Why?
One day, our parents took us out to what would become our rural household for the next decade. The first thing we did when we checked out the property was totally freak out at the cool sticks and climbing trees, and the fact that it was surrounded on all sides by fields full of dirt clod grenades, all for role playing.
Nevertheless, my kneeless Transformers could breakdance and do comedy routines. The subterranian, mechanized labyrinths of Cybertron comprised our whole house. My Hotwheels cars could open their doors like wings and fly, or become amphibious vehicles in the bathtub with torpedoes that were tracked by my fingertips and vocal sound effects. The heap of sand in the front yard (for concrete) was their secret base, containing an elaborate subterranian network of tunnels and roads subject to emergency floods by the garden hose. My Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles had a full range of motion as stop-motion characters anchored by silly putty on our VHS camcorder. Or they had the option of reenacting scenes from TV. Or we picked up sticks and became Transformers ourselves.
All you're saying is that you believe that there are simple physical things that the omnipotent creator of the universe can't do. There are limits to your faith; just say so.
And of course, the possibility of doing this sort of thing depends on not too many other people doing it.
Yeah. The American Dream has come to mean not the achievement of independence via capitalistic means, but the dream that it's possible to be King. That prospect is a lot more suitable for those with narcissistic, megalomaniacal, or messianic personality traits. If you're born at the right place and time, you could be "blessed" with complete, orthogonal, self-reinforcing personality disorders providing a personalized psychological prison walled with mirrors, with room service and a view. You might be the President!
Today's implementation of capitalism requires a proletariat class serving those people, and it implies that many will be unemployed.
Sure, a lot more people could get in touch with themselves, take responsibility for their own lives, manage their own risks in progressively wider cycles, and more realistically pursue some additional degree of independence. But how many people can be King and how many Kings can there be?
I know that most cultures have a sweet spot for hyperbole, but I am dumbfounded at how people say such things. Macintosh has always been the most compatible and accessible platform. Any one Mac can access the most operating systems either natively or via emulation than any other machine I've ever heard of. We've always had exceptionally fast emulators and native virtual machines, and for most people, VirtualPC or Qemu are better than a 'real' one. Drag-and-drop desktop-to-desktop integration and undoable filesystems are a lot more than "nice to have" when trying to keep Windows alive.
Well, good luck to ya in finally discovering your own world, Mr. Unfrozen Caveman I.T. Guy!;-)
Poppycock! I hear these so-called definitions and vernaculars and euphemisms and etymologisms and I dismiss them! It's a silly word. I won't have it, I can't have it, and I shan't have it!
I hereby reject "whys" from my personal vocabulary now and forever.
Hi there. It seems to me that whatever OS you're referring to, is terribly insecure. It doesn't work on my Linux based systems. They are correctly treating the symlink as a separate file. Regardless of their own perms, the system follows the link and respects the perms of the target file. Did I miss something?
Ok so the "your boss is an idiot" comments have been covered. Cool.;) I doubt this will help in such a small and culturally insular company, but I'll throw in my two cents that I've learned from Slashdot.
If you have an objection to managerial policy, document the situation and your objection with Human Resources. Take the advice everyone else given here regarding the estimation of time/money lost and of unaccountability and unprofessionalism, make your presentation, and file it with H.R. Then see if that doesn't make the situation more real to you that you need to keep your resume fresh.
At the very least, this post serves as my thanks to the Slashdotters who have suggested this in the past.:)
It wasn't a failure at all. It was a proof of concept and an homage to Macintosh. It was the kind of technology that was written about in Playboy magazine, because it was a nod to the future where a computer would become a standard lifestyle component. They expected people to fawn over it, write about it, and spend decades trying to find one -- not to buy it.
First they'd have to transform from being a monopoly marketing led company into being a customer-and-public-interest led company, then transform into being an engineering led company, before they could transform into being a design led company.
That would require them to somehow no longer be Microsoft as we know it in any way whatsoever.
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Good point. That is precisely why it is called the OLD Testament. You're talking about living under law, which nobody can do 100%. We have to have a means of salvation so that we can be 100% squeaky clean. So the only solution is for God himself to eliminate rule of law as the means to the end of salvation as soon as human civilization sufficiently evolved to handle standing free of law. God had to pay the only sacrifice that can actually free us from sin. That sacrifice is God's own blood and suffering in our own native human form.
I'm in agreement with the parent poster, as the scripture says. Jesus said in Matthew 5:17 that as soon as his blood was shed in sacrifice, that all law that came before Him would be broken. If we completely trust in Him then He lives in us and begins to change us like a fire provides a chemical change, and He eventually guides our actions. Search that page for "law".
And then here's how it is after Jesus paid for all sin, in Galatians 3, verses 15-29. That explains the whole spiritual concept of humanity needing to be free from rule of law. In other words, following laws alone doesn't, can't, never could, and never will make you clean.
Thus began the New Testament, or Humanity 2.0. Eternal salvation explicitly without law.
I hope it's not too confusing, and other translations are available at a click. Just watch out for the fake Christians whose prayers consist of asking God to institute their own will, such as "WWJK"? (who would Jesus kill?)
Apparently, his mind is too rational to process such a ridiculous and nonsensical vernacular.
Also the conclusion is that Microsoft has illegal monopolies. They said the same thing to the US Department of Justice during their antritrust trial about the proposed delay of Windows 98. So in other words, they claim in court and under oath that they can allegedly cripple the economies of entire continents just by doing nothing, but they're not a monopoly.
It sounds like rather than pedantry, your attitude might prefer more of the ignorant/apathetic excuse. Like maybe "Law is hard. Do what you feel like." And see how that works out for ya in court.
Because it's a civil infraction. There's civil law (more of a matter of behavior) and there's criminal law (more of a matter of depriving someone else of something they already had). See all the other comments about it not being theft, which is a crime. Slashdot does an awesome job of explaining these nuances just about every time a relevant story is posted. Read diligently!
And in other news, 100% of all laws polled agree that copyright infringement is not a crime!
Yeah no doubt. They state that because the job req is written by someone in H.R. who is obligated to do so as a formality. Usually it says "or equivalent experience", and virtually never is it enforced. And the situation you're describing is why I mentioned social networking. It's pretty unlikely to get a job by cold calling, although one should never quit trying. Do your networking through recruiters and the free software community if nothing else.
Always breaking "PC"? You misspelled "Windows". Sift this discussion for tips on how to stop enabling your sister's and the monopoly's tyrannical behavior. Use Linux, MacOS, or extreme policy. Tough love.
What made you think that there is anything close to an industry wide default requirement for any degree, and that it's not based instead on social networking and directly demonstrated proof of competency like virtually every other industry? Did you believe something that your college advisors or some statistic told you? Why?
^_^
One day, our parents took us out to what would become our rural household for the next decade. The first thing we did when we checked out the property was totally freak out at the cool sticks and climbing trees, and the fact that it was surrounded on all sides by fields full of dirt clod grenades, all for role playing.
Nevertheless, my kneeless Transformers could breakdance and do comedy routines. The subterranian, mechanized labyrinths of Cybertron comprised our whole house. My Hotwheels cars could open their doors like wings and fly, or become amphibious vehicles in the bathtub with torpedoes that were tracked by my fingertips and vocal sound effects. The heap of sand in the front yard (for concrete) was their secret base, containing an elaborate subterranian network of tunnels and roads subject to emergency floods by the garden hose. My Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles had a full range of motion as stop-motion characters anchored by silly putty on our VHS camcorder. Or they had the option of reenacting scenes from TV. Or we picked up sticks and became Transformers ourselves.
All you're saying is that you believe that there are simple physical things that the omnipotent creator of the universe can't do. There are limits to your faith; just say so.
Unfortunately, the meds can do nothing for your severe case of arrogance. I'm afraid you'll have it for the rest of your life.
Yeah. The American Dream has come to mean not the achievement of independence via capitalistic means, but the dream that it's possible to be King. That prospect is a lot more suitable for those with narcissistic, megalomaniacal, or messianic personality traits. If you're born at the right place and time, you could be "blessed" with complete, orthogonal, self-reinforcing personality disorders providing a personalized psychological prison walled with mirrors, with room service and a view. You might be the President!
Today's implementation of capitalism requires a proletariat class serving those people, and it implies that many will be unemployed.
Sure, a lot more people could get in touch with themselves, take responsibility for their own lives, manage their own risks in progressively wider cycles, and more realistically pursue some additional degree of independence. But how many people can be King and how many Kings can there be?
I know that most cultures have a sweet spot for hyperbole, but I am dumbfounded at how people say such things. Macintosh has always been the most compatible and accessible platform. Any one Mac can access the most operating systems either natively or via emulation than any other machine I've ever heard of. We've always had exceptionally fast emulators and native virtual machines, and for most people, VirtualPC or Qemu are better than a 'real' one. Drag-and-drop desktop-to-desktop integration and undoable filesystems are a lot more than "nice to have" when trying to keep Windows alive.
Well, good luck to ya in finally discovering your own world, Mr. Unfrozen Caveman I.T. Guy! ;-)
Just to recap, Microsoft has always implied, stated, and testified that it is not a monopoly, illegal or not.
Not with a properly configured, managed switch, which any security sensitive environment is going to have.
I hereby reject "whys" from my personal vocabulary now and forever.
Hi. "Whys" is not a word. Thanks.
Hi there. It seems to me that whatever OS you're referring to, is terribly insecure. It doesn't work on my Linux based systems. They are correctly treating the symlink as a separate file. Regardless of their own perms, the system follows the link and respects the perms of the target file. Did I miss something?
If you have an objection to managerial policy, document the situation and your objection with Human Resources. Take the advice everyone else given here regarding the estimation of time/money lost and of unaccountability and unprofessionalism, make your presentation, and file it with H.R. Then see if that doesn't make the situation more real to you that you need to keep your resume fresh.
At the very least, this post serves as my thanks to the Slashdotters who have suggested this in the past. :)
It wasn't a failure at all. It was a proof of concept and an homage to Macintosh. It was the kind of technology that was written about in Playboy magazine, because it was a nod to the future where a computer would become a standard lifestyle component. They expected people to fawn over it, write about it, and spend decades trying to find one -- not to buy it.
First they'd have to transform from being a monopoly marketing led company into being a customer-and-public-interest led company, then transform into being an engineering led company, before they could transform into being a design led company.
That would require them to somehow no longer be Microsoft as we know it in any way whatsoever.
Never fear, says the article! The tool of evil is not inherently evil! *Whew* Ok!