Seriously... if you've got a really good idea, you should develop it on the side, very quietly, stash a bit of cash, then walk. Once you walk, file the patent and start looking for VC. Why on earth would you turn over an idea for $1000 when you could make millions off of it yourself? What, do you want to take your one lifetime and waste it on your corporate lord and master? What's the worst that they could do? Sue you? If you make millions, and they sue you, the worst that you do is make some settlement offer to them and you still walk away with more money than the $1000 and a jazzed up name tag.
If Democrats can run around and bash traditionally Republican companies, such as oil and coal, then, why should Republicans be doing the media any favors at all?
I mean, seriously, when I run as a Republican for either congress or the senate, I'm going to be coming out arguing that big media is obsolete, and waging my own sort of class warfare in return with all sorts of proposals to completely legalize copying of files. I will stand up at the Republican Convention and yell out that copying files is not wrong and that we are not going to threaten our children with imprisonment so Madonna can buy herself another pointy bra.
If the party of "big oil" and "big coal" has to recognize that we must change as a result of our scientific findings, that, hollywood has to accept that their business model is obsolete from scientific advance as well. Copying files and information is consistent with free trade and free exchange of ideas and Republicans should be in favor of this, not against. It's not a few books about pumping oil or building cars that is valuable, its the fricking oil and the cars! Duh!
Now, if it just so happens that this performs a complete cashectomy on the New York Times, Washington Post, most of the TV media, all of the recording artists and movie makers, and all of their liberal stuff is just silenced, well, that's just an added bonus.
It's just stupid that Republicans don't do this! We've been taking shit from big media now for decades and now is our chance to take them out!
Roosevelt made things worse during the Great Depression. Some of the institutions he laid out were good, but his obsession with controlling all of the gold, his failure to grasp supply side economics, his simplistic view of tax and spend, all conspired to make what should have been a manageable revival of the economy into a long and protracted national trauma alleviated only by the generous weapons purchases from the United Kingdom at the outset of World War II.
mpeaching him now would cause a close examination of all of his unconstitutional policies, and get a lot of them thrown out, or at least dragged out into the light so future presidents won't be able to use them.
Careful. You might just find that a lot of people would like what was found and that your side would be invariably painted as anti-American. What would happen is, the Nixon effect. Nixon was never really popular until after he was booted from Office. But, once all the stuff that he and Kissinger did became public, a lot of people who are big into national security and winning suddenly found that Nixon was their man after all. He was rehabilated into a "great statesmen", and now he's looked at as a good Cold Warrior. I mean, by the time a lot of the Nixon revelations came out, to some extent, many Democrats would take a look at Carter and say, Nixon would have done something, a perception that helped propel Reagan into the White House. Remember that in early Reagan years they used to actually talk about how he would chat with Nixon and Henry the K in matters of cold war brinkmanship.
To move that to today, let's say it came out that Bush had the CIA crawling all over New Orleans immediate post Katrina and was assasinating looters, but there was some operational weather problem that wrecked the plan, or that, he had secretly invaded Pakistan and Iran and had actually sabotaged the industrial capacity of any number of nations that were believed to be hiding Bin Laden, he would lock down the center-right base for sure. I mean, if Cheney's secret conversation revealed that Bush saw the coming peak oil, went through a phase of trying to secretly re-open talks with Saddam, but was rebuffed, and -then-, he invaded because Saddam did some covert anti-American thing... then, a lot of people would see the war in an entirely more positive light.
Similarly, if there did emerge some conspiracy that the struggles of the US financial system were part of a set of financial moves of the US against China or the world, then, Bush comes out ahead, again. Even if he's just paranoid and writing all this stuff down, along with Cheney, Bush comes out ahead.
I mean, the biggest asset Democrats have on Bush right now is that, they've painted him as stupid. But, if Bush is actually documented to be intelligent but evil, then, a lot more people are going to like him and you'll make a saint out of him.
IT's Java dude... I can't take that seriously any more than I can take C# seriously... yet another garbage collected slow as hell compiling on load environment. I'd take Objective C any day of the week over that.
I'll get flamed hard core for saying this but GWB actually seems to be getting more reasonable as his term winds down
The real deal is that you need to have the political party opposite of the President to be the one that holds Congress. Clinton of 1992 and 1993 was just terrible but once he lost the Congress and had to bend to the other side, partisanship went up, but the country was run far more effectively. Similarly, Bush being checked by the Democrats is actually more moderate because he has to be. When you have the other side of the aisle to contend with on a daily basis, you have to learn consensus to survive.
I read the article. It says they are taking out the email client from Windows 7 that shipped in Vista and that was Outlook Express before that and has been shipping with Windows since I think even Windows 95. I happen to like that email client and said so...
I'm only be rated as off topic because this board is filled with Linux zealots... you know, a bunch of free speech types that just want to censor everything that they disagree with.
Man, I actually think with Vista, Microsoft finally got Windows mail right. I mean, it's a pretty darn nice little client and web based everything sucks. gmail is a good web mail but I would prefer a real client any day of the week. Even Linux Evolution is a better email than any web based email...
somebody has to get rid of Ray Ozzie at Microsoft. Mr. Zroom or whatever he is has just a moron.
'm not knocking capitalism, but I think it has been unchecked for far too long.
I rather think the problem is that we do not have enough capitalism. Socialism and its ideas linger on in the administration of most major American cities and that is why they all are all failing to one degree or another.
The 80's was probably one of the most damaging eras for the U.S. where culture and society are concerned.
You are just completely wrong. The 1980s saw the birth of the personal computer revolution and laid the groundwork for the internet. An entirely new art form called video gaming was created and a great many advances were made in a wide variety of industries and sciences.
Yeah, the hair sucked, but the clothes were a step up from the 1970s and Reagan was a great president.
When you say, "everyone is greedy", it really means that you are piously condemning everyone else for what they choose to do, and asserting you have a right do so, of course, greedier than anything anyone else could do. It's not that everyone is greedy, it's that you are, and won't admit it to yourself.
Then when why is Vista better than Linux in some ways. I'm not saying this as an MS shill, as, I have run various Linux distributions now for ten years and in some ways I do prefer Linux. But, if we run down some features....
a) My Vista installation so far is as reliable as any of the Linuxes that I've used.
b) The Linux installer for the OS is clearly better, but the driver update did something to my desktop such that I'm now stuck with my x server configuration failing for nVidia on startup and kicking me back into low resolution Windows. This just hasn't happened on Vista.
c) Desktopwise - KDE 4.1 remains a work in progress. Vista's folders have just about got it right and have displaced for my preferences my previously favorite Gnome folder viewer.
d) Vista's UAC is easier to deal with than Linux's UAC.
e) Developmentwise - Vista has a consistent sound system, and Linux has several that are in various states of repair. Vista's OpenGL works fine and Linux has nothing to answer DirectX 10 with.
I still prefer the simple Windows SDK model of GDI and USER to any of the Linux frameworks. I think the venerable HDC / WM_PAINT pairing of Windows has proved itself over and over again.
Threading wise, Vista's threading model retains a lead over Linux's threads... Vista has a threadpool that is remarkably easy to use and integration of the IO into it is still rather elegant if conceptually bizarre.
f) Software management wise. APT for Linux is a huge improvement and I love the way Ubuntu works for adding new stuff... but, uninstall doesn't work. I installed KDE 4.1 onto my Ubuntu and it added a new kernel, modified my boot, and did all sorts of stuff and in doing so broke my X configuration. I would have thought that uninstalling it would have fixed that, but it doesn't. Any more, Windows uninstall actually works remarkably well, and the system snapshot is a capability that Linux simply lacks.
g) Windows networking stack under Vista seems better behaved when the desktop has tons of stuff in it. by contrast, I think Linux has taken something of a step backwards.
h) I really, really like the new Vista Start Bar and I like the way the right click on the desktop works now. By contrast, Gnome's right click on the desktop leaves me unsatisfied and I think KDE4.1 is still much of a work in progress to even judge it for or against.
i) On the other hand, Linux comes out of the box with good tools for making, mounting and viewing ISO files for DVDs/CDs and Vista just doesn't. That's a strike against Vista in my mind.
Now, for development tools... Eclipse is so porky that it makes Visual Studio look like a thoroughbred and honestly that's a tough thing to do. I've long preferred KDevelop to Visual Studio for C++, ever since VS.NET came out. But, KDE seems to be letting KDevelop 3.x slide, and KDevelop 4.x is simply not ready enough. On the other hand, Microsoft at least has command complete working with STL in Visual Studio 2008 and I can't even begin to emphasise how cool that is. Plus it looks like they've even gotten their built in installer to start making more sense.
For applications. I think Word is terrible but its less terrible than Open Office writer, and Excel just blows Calc out of the water. It just does. I wish IBM would actually not abandon Smart Suite and have kept pushing WordPro because that really was my favorite word processor... with its sort of a desktop publishing feel that both Word and Open Office writer simply lacks.
Honestly, I think Linux is a good thing because it keeps Microsoft on its toes. I mean, if there was no Linux, there would probably really be no more operating system development out of Microsoft at all and they'd just take their money and run with it. But I wouldn't say that Microsoft doesn't invent anything, because in my mind, I think Linux is behind Vista for the desktop at this point and I see that gap getting wider, rather than narrower.
The short of it is that the people of the US all have ADHD and very short attention spans.
Speak for yourself. There's a lot of people in the USA that are able to defer gratification and invest their time and money wisely and profitably, for both the short and long term.
An evening gown != harassment, and you are an ass for suggesting that it does.
The question is, evening gown... like, silky see through? Come on it does. And you are a fool for suggesting it doesn't.
I can't even tell what you're saying here. Do you think he lied about getting injured, so you would fire him for lying?
No, I'm saying that anyone that is dumb enough to get hit in the eye with a printer ink spray is stupid. What was he doing sticking his head inside the printer? That's the company's fault? What a joke.
He didn't say anything about a gun. Being vocal about an injustice != threatening to kill someone, and you are an ass for suggesting that it does
Being vocal is threatening. When you get in someone's face, you are threatening. I mean, I saw Obama the other day say that his people needed to get in Republican's faces. Well, that's fine. But, if they all get shot, they deserve it. Getting into someone's face and yelling is a threatening power play and you have every right, or should have every right, to shoot people that do that. The guy should be grateful that all he got was fired, because, in a perfect world, he ought to be dead. The total loss of emotional control dictates that he should be put down like a rabid dog for the good of humanity. Just an inferior product, sticking its head into printers and yelling at everyone, and you have to get rid of them.
If everyone was wearing a burka, then, there's no way that this system actually works. It may seem strange, but, what right does the public have to know my face?
Any manager with a clue would issue a warning instead
Don't you wish. I worked with a manager once, who had an employee with some girly pictures on his PC, fired the guy, then, went out of the way to go to state's unemployment board to make sure that the person who got fired did not get paid.
People who need a job and can't afford to be without one don't have that luxury.
Ok. Let's get this straight. Jobs are not rights. You do not get a job because you have a right to collect a paycheck. You get a job because you can do something useful. If he doesn't like his present employer, then, why can't he get a better job with someone else?
37 individual objectives, one of which took another person over a year to work on without success
Well, there you have it. He goes in and argues that if he does two objectives, he accomplished something, especially if the other guy failed.
And what about H1Bs? Oh, wait, even though they are here legally, they deserve all that shit piled on them too, right?
Everybody's a fricking victim. Cry me a river.
Guess what. Being a computer guy is the easiest fricking job there is right now, on the planet earth, that pays good money without too much in formal education. I mean, would you rather be a union stiff at GM wondering just how many more Silverado's they'll build if no one is buying them?
If you want more money, you can better your education, start your own business, and if that fails, then change your lifestyle.
It's people like you that send jobs overseas. I saw what your lazy ass kind did to Cleveland. Do you want to do that to the one sector that we have that's profitable?
If you don't like the IT business, get the fuck out.
Oh, my replacement is doing a bang up job with this 150k line Excel C# VBA abortion. He's very bright, I'm sure he'll pick it up in a day or so. I gotta go take my kid to the doctor... yeah short timing it.
Frankly we need more regulation to protect employees from abuse. People are forced to work and often don't have the luxury of telling the boss to stuff it
Protect from what abuse? What, do you think we are coal miners or something? Oh, mean old boss hurt your feelings. Grow a pair and say no sometimes.
Let's see. I got fired from Hewlett-Packard for having a picture of Claudia Schiffer in a evening gown (not nude) on my PC. 'Creating an environment conducive to sexual harassment' even though I was the only person working in the room.
Yeah, I would fire you for that. Condoning any sort of objectification of half of my people on my property is not only wrong, and counterproductive, but it also exposes me to numerous lawsuits where your behavior is harrasment.
Hmm... I got fired from a small medical equipment company in silicon valley when my boss overheard me say that 'white smocks are for white schmucks'. I actually got an unemployment check when I told the hearing judge that 'forcing Asian workers to wear white smocks was an insult because in VietNam and China only corpses were wrapped in white. The boss was telling the workers that they were nothing more than dead meat
Yeah, I'd fire you for that too. You aren't in VietNam or China. You are in American culture and you play by American rules and if you don't want to wear white, that's your stupid problem.
Oh and I got fired from Tektronix when I got blasted right in the eye with melted wax from a printer. No one noticed that the drain on eye-wash safety-station directed water directly onto a power strip. Of course it was all my fault. As always.
Oh, that old printer got you in the eye. Boy, yeah, out the door. That's just retarded.
I got fired from the German milling machine company where I had worked for six years when I demanded that the American employees get the same stock-option package as the German employees when the company went public. Since the USA branch was a subsidiary, wholly-owned by the German parent. The German manager claimed that he felt threatened and intimidated: he was six foot-eight inches and I'm five-foot seven. Ja-Ja.
Dude, its America... everyone has a right to own a gun. How tall you are doesn't matter. It's not like you can go into work and threaten to kill someone as joke, because, well, in this country, everyone has a gun and everyone can kill you.
Best example of this is 911 tape I heard on Sean Hannity. A couple of burglars broke into a house, lived in by a 50 something woman and her 70+ year old mother. Well, the 50 something woman freaked out and called 911, and, as she's screaming in the background about burglars and what not downstairs, you hear a couple of gunshots, followed by what sounds to be some old lady swearing. Turns out that grandma had her late husband's rifle and she shot all of them... best line, was, the daughter yelling out..."oh my grandma, did you shoot him again...." "teach that F---- to break into my house." At least 50% of the USA thinks that that is awesome.
All of this talk of the oppressed worker is really just a clever way of catering to self serving and paranoid managers. These security people in computers are just drumming up all sorts of fear in order to sell their so-called "services."
I also find it very ironic that some prominent conservatives and Republicans have given Obama their support. Ever hear of Susan Eisenhower? How about Wick Allison? Richard Riordan? Lincoln Chafee? Linwood Holton? Give me these minds any day, rather than men who care more about their message and ideology than basic ethics and integrity.
I really do have a long record of sticking up for my Republican boys on./, but, I also try to call it when I see it. So yeah, I said that liberals should vote for Obama, rather than not vote at all.
I think Obama is aweful but, just because you don't like someone or their politics doesn't mean that you shouldn't just stand back and watch his supporters do something as stupid as sit out an election over a petty difference with their standard bearer.
Sure, it would work out better for McCain if they did, but, you know, its just a crummy way to win an election, IMHO.
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Seriously... if you've got a really good idea, you should develop it on the side, very quietly, stash a bit of cash, then walk. Once you walk, file the patent and start looking for VC. Why on earth would you turn over an idea for $1000 when you could make millions off of it yourself? What, do you want to take your one lifetime and waste it on your corporate lord and master? What's the worst that they could do? Sue you? If you make millions, and they sue you, the worst that you do is make some settlement offer to them and you still walk away with more money than the $1000 and a jazzed up name tag.
If Democrats can run around and bash traditionally Republican companies, such as oil and coal, then, why should Republicans be doing the media any favors at all?
I mean, seriously, when I run as a Republican for either congress or the senate, I'm going to be coming out arguing that big media is obsolete, and waging my own sort of class warfare in return with all sorts of proposals to completely legalize copying of files. I will stand up at the Republican Convention and yell out that copying files is not wrong and that we are not going to threaten our children with imprisonment so Madonna can buy herself another pointy bra.
If the party of "big oil" and "big coal" has to recognize that we must change as a result of our scientific findings, that, hollywood has to accept that their business model is obsolete from scientific advance as well. Copying files and information is consistent with free trade and free exchange of ideas and Republicans should be in favor of this, not against. It's not a few books about pumping oil or building cars that is valuable, its the fricking oil and the cars! Duh!
Now, if it just so happens that this performs a complete cashectomy on the New York Times, Washington Post, most of the TV media, all of the recording artists and movie makers, and all of their liberal stuff is just silenced, well, that's just an added bonus.
It's just stupid that Republicans don't do this! We've been taking shit from big media now for decades and now is our chance to take them out!
Roosevelt made things worse during the Great Depression. Some of the institutions he laid out were good, but his obsession with controlling all of the gold, his failure to grasp supply side economics, his simplistic view of tax and spend, all conspired to make what should have been a manageable revival of the economy into a long and protracted national trauma alleviated only by the generous weapons purchases from the United Kingdom at the outset of World War II.
mpeaching him now would cause a close examination of all of his unconstitutional policies, and get a lot of them thrown out, or at least dragged out into the light so future presidents won't be able to use them.
Careful. You might just find that a lot of people would like what was found and that your side would be invariably painted as anti-American. What would happen is, the Nixon effect. Nixon was never really popular until after he was booted from Office. But, once all the stuff that he and Kissinger did became public, a lot of people who are big into national security and winning suddenly found that Nixon was their man after all. He was rehabilated into a "great statesmen", and now he's looked at as a good Cold Warrior. I mean, by the time a lot of the Nixon revelations came out, to some extent, many Democrats would take a look at Carter and say, Nixon would have done something, a perception that helped propel Reagan into the White House. Remember that in early Reagan years they used to actually talk about how he would chat with Nixon and Henry the K in matters of cold war brinkmanship.
To move that to today, let's say it came out that Bush had the CIA crawling all over New Orleans immediate post Katrina and was assasinating looters, but there was some operational weather problem that wrecked the plan, or that, he had secretly invaded Pakistan and Iran and had actually sabotaged the industrial capacity of any number of nations that were believed to be hiding Bin Laden, he would lock down the center-right base for sure. I mean, if Cheney's secret conversation revealed that Bush saw the coming peak oil, went through a phase of trying to secretly re-open talks with Saddam, but was rebuffed, and -then-, he invaded because Saddam did some covert anti-American thing... then, a lot of people would see the war in an entirely more positive light.
Similarly, if there did emerge some conspiracy that the struggles of the US financial system were part of a set of financial moves of the US against China or the world, then, Bush comes out ahead, again. Even if he's just paranoid and writing all this stuff down, along with Cheney, Bush comes out ahead.
I mean, the biggest asset Democrats have on Bush right now is that, they've painted him as stupid. But, if Bush is actually documented to be intelligent but evil, then, a lot more people are going to like him and you'll make a saint out of him.
IT's Java dude... I can't take that seriously any more than I can take C# seriously... yet another garbage collected slow as hell compiling on load environment. I'd take Objective C any day of the week over that.
I'll get flamed hard core for saying this but GWB actually seems to be getting more reasonable as his term winds down
The real deal is that you need to have the political party opposite of the President to be the one that holds Congress. Clinton of 1992 and 1993 was just terrible but once he lost the Congress and had to bend to the other side, partisanship went up, but the country was run far more effectively. Similarly, Bush being checked by the Democrats is actually more moderate because he has to be. When you have the other side of the aisle to contend with on a daily basis, you have to learn consensus to survive.
I read the article. It says they are taking out the email client from Windows 7 that shipped in Vista and that was Outlook Express before that and has been shipping with Windows since I think even Windows 95. I happen to like that email client and said so...
I'm only be rated as off topic because this board is filled with Linux zealots... you know, a bunch of free speech types that just want to censor everything that they disagree with.
Man, I actually think with Vista, Microsoft finally got Windows mail right. I mean, it's a pretty darn nice little client and web based everything sucks. gmail is a good web mail but I would prefer a real client any day of the week. Even Linux Evolution is a better email than any web based email...
somebody has to get rid of Ray Ozzie at Microsoft. Mr. Zroom or whatever he is has just a moron.
'm not knocking capitalism, but I think it has been unchecked for far too long.
I rather think the problem is that we do not have enough capitalism. Socialism and its ideas linger on in the administration of most major American cities and that is why they all are all failing to one degree or another.
The 80's was probably one of the most damaging eras for the U.S. where culture and society are concerned.
You are just completely wrong. The 1980s saw the birth of the personal computer revolution and laid the groundwork for the internet. An entirely new art form called video gaming was created and a great many advances were made in a wide variety of industries and sciences.
Yeah, the hair sucked, but the clothes were a step up from the 1970s and Reagan was a great president.
When you say, "everyone is greedy", it really means that you are piously condemning everyone else for what they choose to do, and asserting you have a right do so, of course, greedier than anything anyone else could do. It's not that everyone is greedy, it's that you are, and won't admit it to yourself.
(d) PROFIT!!
You must not be an American. I was hoping for total annihilation rather than having to live through the election.
As a consolation prize, at least we get to watch the Palin / Biden debate. That's going to be a fun program of sure brain surgery, for sure.
Then when why is Vista better than Linux in some ways. I'm not saying this as an MS shill, as, I have run various Linux distributions now for ten years and in some ways I do prefer Linux. But, if we run down some features....
a) My Vista installation so far is as reliable as any of the Linuxes that I've used.
b) The Linux installer for the OS is clearly better, but the driver update did something to my desktop such that I'm now stuck with my x server configuration failing for nVidia on startup and kicking me back into low resolution Windows. This just hasn't happened on Vista.
c) Desktopwise - KDE 4.1 remains a work in progress. Vista's folders have just about got it right and have displaced for my preferences my previously favorite Gnome folder viewer.
d) Vista's UAC is easier to deal with than Linux's UAC.
e) Developmentwise - Vista has a consistent sound system, and Linux has several that are in various states of repair. Vista's OpenGL works fine and Linux has nothing to answer DirectX 10 with.
I still prefer the simple Windows SDK model of GDI and USER to any of the Linux frameworks. I think the venerable HDC / WM_PAINT pairing of Windows has proved itself over and over again.
Threading wise, Vista's threading model retains a lead over Linux's threads... Vista has a threadpool that is remarkably easy to use and integration of the IO into it is still rather elegant if conceptually bizarre.
f) Software management wise. APT for Linux is a huge improvement and I love the way Ubuntu works for adding new stuff... but, uninstall doesn't work. I installed KDE 4.1 onto my Ubuntu and it added a new kernel, modified my boot, and did all sorts of stuff and in doing so broke my X configuration. I would have thought that uninstalling it would have fixed that, but it doesn't. Any more, Windows uninstall actually works remarkably well, and the system snapshot is a capability that Linux simply lacks.
g) Windows networking stack under Vista seems better behaved when the desktop has tons of stuff in it. by contrast, I think Linux has taken something of a step backwards.
h) I really, really like the new Vista Start Bar and I like the way the right click on the desktop works now. By contrast, Gnome's right click on the desktop leaves me unsatisfied and I think KDE4.1 is still much of a work in progress to even judge it for or against.
i) On the other hand, Linux comes out of the box with good tools for making, mounting and viewing ISO files for DVDs/CDs and Vista just doesn't. That's a strike against Vista in my mind.
Now, for development tools... Eclipse is so porky that it makes Visual Studio look like a thoroughbred and honestly that's a tough thing to do. I've long preferred KDevelop to Visual Studio for C++, ever since VS.NET came out. But, KDE seems to be letting KDevelop 3.x slide, and KDevelop 4.x is simply not ready enough. On the other hand, Microsoft at least has command complete working with STL in Visual Studio 2008 and I can't even begin to emphasise how cool that is. Plus it looks like they've even gotten their built in installer to start making more sense.
For applications. I think Word is terrible but its less terrible than Open Office writer, and Excel just blows Calc out of the water. It just does. I wish IBM would actually not abandon Smart Suite and have kept pushing WordPro because that really was my favorite word processor... with its sort of a desktop publishing feel that both Word and Open Office writer simply lacks.
Honestly, I think Linux is a good thing because it keeps Microsoft on its toes. I mean, if there was no Linux, there would probably really be no more operating system development out of Microsoft at all and they'd just take their money and run with it. But I wouldn't say that Microsoft doesn't invent anything, because in my mind, I think Linux is behind Vista for the desktop at this point and I see that gap getting wider, rather than narrower.
The short of it is that the people of the US all have ADHD and very short attention spans.
Speak for yourself. There's a lot of people in the USA that are able to defer gratification and invest their time and money wisely and profitably, for both the short and long term.
An evening gown != harassment, and you are an ass for suggesting that it does.
The question is, evening gown... like, silky see through? Come on it does. And you are a fool for suggesting it doesn't.
I can't even tell what you're saying here. Do you think he lied about getting injured, so you would fire him for lying?
No, I'm saying that anyone that is dumb enough to get hit in the eye with a printer ink spray is stupid. What was he doing sticking his head inside the printer? That's the company's fault? What a joke.
He didn't say anything about a gun. Being vocal about an injustice != threatening to kill someone, and you are an ass for suggesting that it does
Being vocal is threatening. When you get in someone's face, you are threatening. I mean, I saw Obama the other day say that his people needed to get in Republican's faces. Well, that's fine. But, if they all get shot, they deserve it. Getting into someone's face and yelling is a threatening power play and you have every right, or should have every right, to shoot people that do that. The guy should be grateful that all he got was fired, because, in a perfect world, he ought to be dead. The total loss of emotional control dictates that he should be put down like a rabid dog for the good of humanity. Just an inferior product, sticking its head into printers and yelling at everyone, and you have to get rid of them.
If everyone was wearing a burka, then, there's no way that this system actually works. It may seem strange, but, what right does the public have to know my face?
Wow, you have Claudia Schiffer (and one other person) on your property? Lucky dude. I didn't even know she had got into I.T.
You know, I've had her before. She's not all that good in bed.
Any manager with a clue would issue a warning instead
Don't you wish. I worked with a manager once, who had an employee with some girly pictures on his PC, fired the guy, then, went out of the way to go to state's unemployment board to make sure that the person who got fired did not get paid.
People who need a job and can't afford to be without one don't have that luxury.
Ok. Let's get this straight. Jobs are not rights. You do not get a job because you have a right to collect a paycheck. You get a job because you can do something useful. If he doesn't like his present employer, then, why can't he get a better job with someone else?
37 individual objectives, one of which took another person over a year to work on without success
Well, there you have it. He goes in and argues that if he does two objectives, he accomplished something, especially if the other guy failed.
And what about H1Bs? Oh, wait, even though they are here legally, they deserve all that shit piled on them too, right?
Everybody's a fricking victim. Cry me a river.
Guess what. Being a computer guy is the easiest fricking job there is right now, on the planet earth, that pays good money without too much in formal education. I mean, would you rather be a union stiff at GM wondering just how many more Silverado's they'll build if no one is buying them?
If you want more money, you can better your education, start your own business, and if that fails, then change your lifestyle.
It's people like you that send jobs overseas. I saw what your lazy ass kind did to Cleveland. Do you want to do that to the one sector that we have that's profitable?
If you don't like the IT business, get the fuck out.
Oh, my replacement is doing a bang up job with this 150k line Excel C# VBA abortion. He's very bright, I'm sure he'll pick it up in a day or so. I gotta go take my kid to the doctor... yeah short timing it.
Frankly we need more regulation to protect employees from abuse. People are forced to work and often don't have the luxury of telling the boss to stuff it
Protect from what abuse? What, do you think we are coal miners or something? Oh, mean old boss hurt your feelings. Grow a pair and say no sometimes.
Let's see. I got fired from Hewlett-Packard for having a picture of Claudia Schiffer in a evening gown (not nude) on my PC. 'Creating an environment conducive to sexual harassment' even though I was the only person working in the room.
Yeah, I would fire you for that. Condoning any sort of objectification of half of my people on my property is not only wrong, and counterproductive, but it also exposes me to numerous lawsuits where your behavior is harrasment.
Hmm... I got fired from a small medical equipment company in silicon valley when my boss overheard me say that 'white smocks are for white schmucks'. I actually got an unemployment check when I told the hearing judge that 'forcing Asian workers to wear white smocks was an insult because in VietNam and China only corpses were wrapped in white. The boss was telling the workers that they were nothing more than dead meat
Yeah, I'd fire you for that too. You aren't in VietNam or China. You are in American culture and you play by American rules and if you don't want to wear white, that's your stupid problem.
Oh and I got fired from Tektronix when I got blasted right in the eye with melted wax from a printer. No one noticed that the drain on eye-wash safety-station directed water directly onto a power strip. Of course it was all my fault. As always.
Oh, that old printer got you in the eye. Boy, yeah, out the door. That's just retarded.
I got fired from the German milling machine company where I had worked for six years when I demanded that the American employees get the same stock-option package as the German employees when the company went public. Since the USA branch was a subsidiary, wholly-owned by the German parent. The German manager claimed that he felt threatened and intimidated: he was six foot-eight inches and I'm five-foot seven. Ja-Ja.
Dude, its America... everyone has a right to own a gun. How tall you are doesn't matter. It's not like you can go into work and threaten to kill someone as joke, because, well, in this country, everyone has a gun and everyone can kill you.
Best example of this is 911 tape I heard on Sean Hannity. A couple of burglars broke into a house, lived in by a 50 something woman and her 70+ year old mother. Well, the 50 something woman freaked out and called 911, and, as she's screaming in the background about burglars and what not downstairs, you hear a couple of gunshots, followed by what sounds to be some old lady swearing. Turns out that grandma had her late husband's rifle and she shot all of them... best line, was, the daughter yelling out..."oh my grandma, did you shoot him again...." "teach that F---- to break into my house." At least 50% of the USA thinks that that is awesome.
All of this talk of the oppressed worker is really just a clever way of catering to self serving and paranoid managers. These security people in computers are just drumming up all sorts of fear in order to sell their so-called "services."
I also find it very ironic that some prominent conservatives and Republicans have given Obama their support. Ever hear of Susan Eisenhower? How about Wick Allison? Richard Riordan? Lincoln Chafee? Linwood Holton? Give me these minds any day, rather than men who care more about their message and ideology than basic ethics and integrity.
All I gotta say is "Joe Lieberman". :-)
I really do have a long record of sticking up for my Republican boys on ./, but, I also try to call it when I see it. So yeah, I said that liberals should vote for Obama, rather than not vote at all.
I think Obama is aweful but, just because you don't like someone or their politics doesn't mean that you shouldn't just stand back and watch his supporters do something as stupid as sit out an election over a petty difference with their standard bearer.
Sure, it would work out better for McCain if they did, but, you know, its just a crummy way to win an election, IMHO.