Funny how you use personal phone calls in a pre-internet era as an example justifying internet snooping, since I see it as justification for forbidding such snooping. Myself, my lawyer, and my doctor all work at roughly the same time. Which is also the same time that my kid is in school. Is it unreasonable for me to expect to be able to privately communicate with any of my doctor, my lawyer, or the school administrators during my working hours?
If personal use of company resources is a problem, it will show up in the employee's performance. If the employee's performance is not impacted, then why the fuck does it matter?
Do you think the company didn't know who you were communicating with?
Do you think they didn't have the ability to listen in without you knowing?
Of course they had those abilities, and some people did get fired over making personal calls.
I'm sure employers could, but I find it hard to believe that such routine monitoring would have been accepted for the above reasons. And were the employees fired because of the snooping on their phone calls, or because the employees became lax in their duties as a result of making personal phone calls? Actually, I'm not even sure how one could go about proving either side, since given the entire bloody planet I'm sure we could each find hundreds of cases to support our side.
Stop whining about a perk. You get them on their terms.
Careful, that's dangerously close to "you are not a starving kid in Africa, therefore you have no right to complain" thinking.
You're right there is a problem you are using company hardware for personal use.
So? Not like there aren't valid reasons for such. Think private phone calls from your doctor / lawyer / kid's school, in the era before the internet. It seems hard to imagine that back then people would just accept it as "well it's the company's phone line", so why do people accept similar snooping now?
As it isn't clear to me anymore if terminator genes are being used, I cannot say for certain that this is how it happens, but as I understand it, it would go something like this:
1) Plant 1st gen Monsanto seed.
2) Grow 1st gen Monsanto plant.
3) 1st gen Monsanto plant produces pollen.
4) 1st gen Monsanto plants pollinate each other.
5) Ears of corn grow on 1st gen Monsanto plant.
6) The seeds on those ears of corn, if planted, will not grow into new corn plants.
If the uncontrollable wind blows some Monsanto pollen on your field, you are innocent.
But if uncontrollable bees transfer pollen from a Monsanto field to your field, then you are "knowingly [using] seeds with the Monsanto gene in them without paying"?
But it is for some reason your business what software they choose to support? Do you also go around yelling at iOS developers for not supporting Android, or Android developers for not supporting iOS?
If you don't like it, by all means, don't visit their site again. It seems kind of stupid to hate on someone else because you're using an outdated browser, but whatever. But b, c, and d make you sound like you feel entitled to get what you want, when you want it, how you want it, and fuck anyone who dares to not cater to your every whim.
Not having an iPad, I don't know if this is relevant, but how much of a requirement is it that you have a desktop machine of some kind in order to make full use of an iPad?
Simple, because it is science class - teach the children, don't dictate to them, welcome their challenges as a sign of an engaged, but misinformed, student and work to inform their decisions.
Easy enough when it's the students doing the insisting that their religion == fact, but when it's the parents, school boards, and/or state legislatures?
On top of that, Kickstarter doesn't let backers withdraw their investment.
What do you mean? If you click the Manage Pledge link, there's a Cancel Pledge link all the way at the bottom. Did you mean once the project is funded you are not allowed to withdraw?
I've seen porn. I've seen bang brothers films/clips that got uploaded. I've seen amateurs put up stuff. Doesn't generally stay up long, but I've caught it once or twice. Though I've also never come across it accidentally, only seeing it when a friend or acquaintance links it.
And as I understand it, non-pornographic nudity is ok. So like health-related videos are fine (though makes me wonder, how they would treat a health-related video that, for example, was talking about and demonstrating masturbation). Though like you, the only nudity I've intentionally come across has been exposed breasts.
Although I did once come across a home birth video.. that was interesting to see.
Reminds me of a conversation I had with a friend a while back. I'm not saying that Apple makes the bestest stuff evers, but if other smartphones really do have sharper screens than the iPhone, why are they not touting that? Am I just living under a rock?
They hold much truth. It is just too often that people from fields related to hard sciences find in hard to accept that there might be message in between the lines.
Generally, I have found that it is the people who profess to believe in those stories that "find it hard to accept that there might be a message in between the lines" (they take them literally), not the people who do not profess to believe.
But that's just my own personal experience. Perhaps your experiences have been different.
Well I at least feel similarly. On my usual commute, I do watch out for cyclists on the road, and for the most part they seem to do their best to stay out of the way of cars despite any branches and such littering the poorly-maintained complete lack of a shoulder. But then I'll come up to a stop sign, look all ways, and see a cyclist just blow right on through like they've got their own personal force field to protect them from my 4,000 pound behemoth (just a regular ol station wagon, but compared to a bicycle...).
But to be even more fair, drivers also seem to run the same stop signs at about the same frequency.
Second, the post I quoted explicitly contradicts you:
You can afford more than $1000/month? I spent time as a consultant and sans an employer that was the quoted figure to cover one 20-something with no medical issues around five years ago. I couldn't afford it and neither could most people in my area. Lots of people think they can because their employer foots 80% or more of their medical insurance bill.
That is directly stating that people cannot afford to pay for medical insurance because they don't have the money, their employer does. And that was modded up 3 times.
Allow me to quote myself then:
It's just easier to say "my employer pays it" rather than "my employer pays me a reduced salary in order to pay for it", especially when everyone knows that the first means the second (unless you're just being pedantic).
note to pedants: I'm including the set top box "rental" fees
Ahh, that explains it. I've been looking at FIOS recently, and depending on which level of internet service I select, tacking on TV was only an additional $5-$10, also dependent on which tier of TV service I selected. But I hadn't been counting the STBs, which yeah, depending how many TVs you're going to hook up, would drive that up.
Hate to break it to you, but while your employer may deduct it pre-tax, you're paying the full amount. You're just extraordinarily gullible and have been duped by a stupid accounting trick. Let me guess, you also think your employer pays your social security, right?
Fairly certain no one here actually believes any of that. We all know that the cost of benefits is part of the salary. It's why people will accept a lower per-paycheck value if they feel that the other benefits make up for it.
It's just easier to say "my employer pays it" rather than "my employer pays me a reduced salary in order to pay for it", especially when everyone knows that the first means the second (unless you're just being pedantic).
Aristotle's work shows that there most likely is a creator. [...] Simply put: "Something had to start the shit."
By that logic, something also had to start that creator, and something had to start the thing that started that creator, and something had to start the thing that started the thing that started that creator, and...
But the point is I didn't. I kept buying upgrade discs. You were making it sound like this was a problem unique to Apple, and I was pointing out that it wasn't. Nevermind that, according to others, you can jump straight to 10.6 and then 10.7 (which again, no different from the fact that I had to install XP before I could install 7), with the only reason you can't go to 10.7 being that you need the app store in order to install it.
The only thing that makes it more complicated is if you bought 10.7 through the app store. If so, you have to install 10.6 first in order to get app store access.
No more complicated than having to install XP before I could use my 7 upgrade disc. Though if you want to do a clean install of 10.7.. a quick google does seem to imply that it is possible, but not as straight forward as with Windows.
Which is different from if I started off with a full edition of Windows 95, but kept buying upgrade discs after that? Though I must admit I do not know if Windows licensing would permit me to start with Windows 95, use a 98SE upgrade disc, use an XP upgrade disc, and then use a 7 upgrade disc to get a legitimate install of 7..
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If personal use of company resources is a problem, it will show up in the employee's performance. If the employee's performance is not impacted, then why the fuck does it matter?
Do you think the company didn't know who you were communicating with?
Do you think they didn't have the ability to listen in without you knowing?
Of course they had those abilities, and some people did get fired over making personal calls.
I'm sure employers could, but I find it hard to believe that such routine monitoring would have been accepted for the above reasons. And were the employees fired because of the snooping on their phone calls, or because the employees became lax in their duties as a result of making personal phone calls? Actually, I'm not even sure how one could go about proving either side, since given the entire bloody planet I'm sure we could each find hundreds of cases to support our side.
Stop whining about a perk. You get them on their terms.
Careful, that's dangerously close to "you are not a starving kid in Africa, therefore you have no right to complain" thinking.
You're right there is a problem you are using company hardware for personal use.
So? Not like there aren't valid reasons for such. Think private phone calls from your doctor / lawyer / kid's school, in the era before the internet. It seems hard to imagine that back then people would just accept it as "well it's the company's phone line", so why do people accept similar snooping now?
As it isn't clear to me anymore if terminator genes are being used, I cannot say for certain that this is how it happens, but as I understand it, it would go something like this:
1) Plant 1st gen Monsanto seed.
2) Grow 1st gen Monsanto plant.
3) 1st gen Monsanto plant produces pollen.
4) 1st gen Monsanto plants pollinate each other.
5) Ears of corn grow on 1st gen Monsanto plant.
6) The seeds on those ears of corn, if planted, will not grow into new corn plants.
So let me get this straight.
If the uncontrollable wind blows some Monsanto pollen on your field, you are innocent.
But if uncontrollable bees transfer pollen from a Monsanto field to your field, then you are "knowingly [using] seeds with the Monsanto gene in them without paying"?
Heh, personally I took Opportunist's post to mean "is buying drugs NOT a legitimate purpose?"
But it is for some reason your business what software they choose to support? Do you also go around yelling at iOS developers for not supporting Android, or Android developers for not supporting iOS?
If you don't like it, by all means, don't visit their site again. It seems kind of stupid to hate on someone else because you're using an outdated browser, but whatever. But b, c, and d make you sound like you feel entitled to get what you want, when you want it, how you want it, and fuck anyone who dares to not cater to your every whim.
Not having an iPad, I don't know if this is relevant, but how much of a requirement is it that you have a desktop machine of some kind in order to make full use of an iPad?
Simple, because it is science class - teach the children, don't dictate to them, welcome their challenges as a sign of an engaged, but misinformed, student and work to inform their decisions.
Easy enough when it's the students doing the insisting that their religion == fact, but when it's the parents, school boards, and/or state legislatures?
Would you like to loose your user priviledges?
Er, you are asking that of "dyingtolive", right?
On top of that, Kickstarter doesn't let backers withdraw their investment.
What do you mean? If you click the Manage Pledge link, there's a Cancel Pledge link all the way at the bottom. Did you mean once the project is funded you are not allowed to withdraw?
I've seen porn. I've seen bang brothers films/clips that got uploaded. I've seen amateurs put up stuff. Doesn't generally stay up long, but I've caught it once or twice. Though I've also never come across it accidentally, only seeing it when a friend or acquaintance links it.
And as I understand it, non-pornographic nudity is ok. So like health-related videos are fine (though makes me wonder, how they would treat a health-related video that, for example, was talking about and demonstrating masturbation). Though like you, the only nudity I've intentionally come across has been exposed breasts.
Although I did once come across a home birth video.. that was interesting to see.
Reminds me of a conversation I had with a friend a while back. I'm not saying that Apple makes the bestest stuff evers, but if other smartphones really do have sharper screens than the iPhone, why are they not touting that? Am I just living under a rock?
They hold much truth. It is just too often that people from fields related to hard sciences find in hard to accept that there might be message in between the lines.
Generally, I have found that it is the people who profess to believe in those stories that "find it hard to accept that there might be a message in between the lines" (they take them literally), not the people who do not profess to believe.
But that's just my own personal experience. Perhaps your experiences have been different.
Try Memory Alpha.
Well I at least feel similarly. On my usual commute, I do watch out for cyclists on the road, and for the most part they seem to do their best to stay out of the way of cars despite any branches and such littering the poorly-maintained complete lack of a shoulder. But then I'll come up to a stop sign, look all ways, and see a cyclist just blow right on through like they've got their own personal force field to protect them from my 4,000 pound behemoth (just a regular ol station wagon, but compared to a bicycle...).
But to be even more fair, drivers also seem to run the same stop signs at about the same frequency.
No problem, was just curious what you were saying, and I think I understand it now, thanks.
Second, the post I quoted explicitly contradicts you:
You can afford more than $1000/month? I spent time as a consultant and sans an employer that was the quoted figure to cover one 20-something with no medical issues around five years ago. I couldn't afford it and neither could most people in my area. Lots of people think they can because their employer foots 80% or more of their medical insurance bill.
That is directly stating that people cannot afford to pay for medical insurance because they don't have the money, their employer does. And that was modded up 3 times.
Allow me to quote myself then:
It's just easier to say "my employer pays it" rather than "my employer pays me a reduced salary in order to pay for it", especially when everyone knows that the first means the second (unless you're just being pedantic).
Wait, a password 24 digits long has the same entropy as a password one character long?
note to pedants: I'm including the set top box "rental" fees
Ahh, that explains it. I've been looking at FIOS recently, and depending on which level of internet service I select, tacking on TV was only an additional $5-$10, also dependent on which tier of TV service I selected. But I hadn't been counting the STBs, which yeah, depending how many TVs you're going to hook up, would drive that up.
Hate to break it to you, but while your employer may deduct it pre-tax, you're paying the full amount. You're just extraordinarily gullible and have been duped by a stupid accounting trick. Let me guess, you also think your employer pays your social security, right?
Fairly certain no one here actually believes any of that. We all know that the cost of benefits is part of the salary. It's why people will accept a lower per-paycheck value if they feel that the other benefits make up for it.
It's just easier to say "my employer pays it" rather than "my employer pays me a reduced salary in order to pay for it", especially when everyone knows that the first means the second (unless you're just being pedantic).
Aristotle's work shows that there most likely is a creator. [...] Simply put: "Something had to start the shit."
By that logic, something also had to start that creator, and something had to start the thing that started that creator, and something had to start the thing that started the thing that started that creator, and...
Satan^H^H^Hnta is supposed to live at the North Pole, right? So unless you're going to redefine what/who "Santa" is...
But the point is I didn't. I kept buying upgrade discs. You were making it sound like this was a problem unique to Apple, and I was pointing out that it wasn't. Nevermind that, according to others, you can jump straight to 10.6 and then 10.7 (which again, no different from the fact that I had to install XP before I could install 7), with the only reason you can't go to 10.7 being that you need the app store in order to install it.
The only thing that makes it more complicated is if you bought 10.7 through the app store. If so, you have to install 10.6 first in order to get app store access.
No more complicated than having to install XP before I could use my 7 upgrade disc. Though if you want to do a clean install of 10.7.. a quick google does seem to imply that it is possible, but not as straight forward as with Windows.
Which is different from if I started off with a full edition of Windows 95, but kept buying upgrade discs after that? Though I must admit I do not know if Windows licensing would permit me to start with Windows 95, use a 98SE upgrade disc, use an XP upgrade disc, and then use a 7 upgrade disc to get a legitimate install of 7..