If I remember my basic law class, the airline would have to do this with ALL Muslims or anyone that looks like them to get into trouble. In other words, if they made it a policy to throw ALL Muslim folks off of the plane.
I bet the xenophobic idiot who reported their 'suspicious comments' is pleased with themselves, having delayed their flight by 2 hours.
I bet it was a 9/11 hero Wanna Be who thought that he could foil a terrorist plot and get his 15 minutes of fame. Don't underestimate a person's desire to be a "hero", to feel important, and be a media whore.
Technical liaison to off-shore companies. You won't be a code monkey or sitting in front of a computer all day - which I hate myself. I would start with the big Indian players first and try the eastern European players first.
I think that would be better than sales for you, but then again, if you're a people person, technical sales can be very lucrative.
One U.S. hospital was recently hit with a denial-of-service attack that knocked its critical services offline temporarily. "There have been several close calls" including that one, notes Perimeter eSecurity's Prince, who couldn't reveal details about the attack on the hospital. Prince says the hospital was able to deploy some redundant power sources to keep its operations going during the attack on its network. But Prince says he worries that eventually, human lives could be affected by a cyberattack like that of those hospitals or attacks on national infrastructures such as utilities. "It will happen at some point," he says.
Of course you do. Got to keep those customers coming in.
The hospital I'm familiar with has an internal LAN with the Life or Death systems on it. The Docs that have access to it go through their gateway. In other words, a DOS attack would keep folks from seeing the hospital's website that has their marketing stuff, job listings, location, etc... nothing that would kill anyone.
See, the IT folks there are actually pretty smart and read the security journals and some even come from defense contractors. Imagine that. This hyperbole is just a PR statement to get the suits and their lawyers all worked up to hire people like that for very large fees.
In all seriousness, I started, and continue to run, a moderately successful dev company on my own via 100% Craigslist clients. I began by building up a small, but consistent client base while still at my 9-5, and then, when the time was right, I struck out on my own.
I'm curious, are you making as much as you did in your 9-5? Don't get me wrong, there's much more to a job than $$$ - like controlling your own time and actually having free time. I just want to know how it's working for you - upside, downside, etc...
Many employers do not want their people to moonlight. They may even fire you over it. And these days, with all these folks who are out of work doing exactly what you're thinking of doing, you will have plenty of competition - meaning, your rate will suck unless you have experience doing some very specialized work.
This is NOT a very good time to take risks with your employment.
Are they even possible? I mean, we're talking about computing hardware here, the kind of stuff you can buy anywhere in the world without identification.
For the sake of argument, let's say it is. I think it's pretty arrogant of our Congress to think that only the US is capable of making printers, computers, anything in aerospace, or any other technology. But in passing these laws, they just hurt our export business and as a result, our economy. Just look at the aerospace industry. Congress passed this restrictive law and the only thing that happened was that other countries created their own technology and now has taken a major chunk of US business. Yes, I understand that there should be restrictions on some things (stealth and nukes for example), but run of the mill technology that's easy to reproduce?
I wish condescending and arrogant comments like this were not mod'ed up. As folks who responded to that post pointed out, that individual who made that comment apparently didn't do too well in economics himself.
And "If there is sufficient competition in the market profits will be driven to zero and the price of the service will approach the *actual* cost of providing it (which is close to zero, apparently)." - in theory. That is something for the economists to ponder and to teach to their undergrads. In reality, that is far from the truth. No rational producer of anything will stay in a business until profits go to zero. Most businesses will bail out of a business when their margins go below a certain threshold. As a matter of fact, I know an entrepreneur who will not stay or go into a business that has margins below 45%.
Economists are still figuring a bunch of stuff out and most of the time their theories do not match reality. For example, economists assume markets are rational. As we have seen in the last year, they are far from it.
Or, how, about, they pay you for the rest of your life. - you are being facetious but I am not certain why exactly, I suppose there is very thick sarcasm somewhere there.
Nope and you completely misread what I wrote. What I meant was, if they're going to fire you, for what ever reason, and still enforce the non-compete, then they should pay your salary for as long as they enforce the non-compete because you can't get a job because of the non-compete. Right?
And this BS about not signing it is completely unrealistic because if everyone demands it, how are you supposed to "not sign it"? I understand NDAs, but other than that, these agreements that employers demand that you sign just a form black mailing employees.
... I modify them where I see it necessary. Most people make the mistake of not doing this and it will bite them.
Really? Good for you! Every time I had a non-compete or any agreement that has to be signed for a job was a take it or leave it. In other words, you either sign it as is or you do not get the job. Of course it depends on what you do and who you are. Meaning, someone like you has skills and talent that, apparently, I do not have and you are able to pull that off. (I am NOT being facetious or sarcastic.)
I agree with everything else in your post. I just had a problem with the way you interpreted my comment. I typed this with a smile on my face and with warm and fuzzy Holiday feelings.
Don't forget that RIM made a deal with Motorola in the past about hiring their workers. If RIM were serious about free markets, they wouldn't have made the deal with Motorola in the first place.
Just as well, here in the States, the free market and saving jobs are just catch phrases to get Congress to legislate some sort of benefit for your organization; whether it's labor or corporate mgt.
Everyone: if you are a 'permanent' employee, don't sign non-compete clauses, and if you do, at least modify them to say that if the company terminates your employment, then this clause does not apply.
Or, how, about, they pay you for the rest of your life.
You got that right. Apple, being the marketing gods that they are, will get by this easily. It wouldn't surprise me if Apple actually charges extra for the DRM, selling it as service and feature.
I can just hear it now from the Apple Fans, "Apple has DRM! Do the other services? Nooooo! That's why I buy Apple for these extra value added services! That's why they charge more!"
Currently, I wondering if I should really take the Karma hit. Is there a way my Karma hit can go to starving orphans or something? Starving orphans that need Apple products?
Yep, I'm going to Slashdot Hell for this. Windows 3.1 as my OS on a 386, Balmer as my boss, and no stock options to compensate...
I hope that was a joke. You could also choose to ignore the existence of gravity, but you would still have to live with the consequences.
What consequences? If God existed, He would be forgiving and understand my feeble humanity and forgive me. That's assuming I didn't turn out the way He made me - including my preference to Zen Buddhism. This is all assuming the New Testament, Loving God not the evil, childish, pathetic excuse for a deity in the Old Testament - which is nothing but ancient Hebrew myth.
And no, I wasn't joking and please don't commit blasphemy by praying for my soul. Whenever you pray for something, you make God your servant; thereby, making yourself more important than Him committing blasphemy in the process.
Newspapers will not die though. Most of their stories are sourced from the same organizations which source on-line content (reuters, associated press, et al), and they will continue on in their ineptitude and failure to fact check or investigate, as usual.
Aye. And also newspapers are (have always been IMHO) "influencers". They are bought and maintained with the idea of having a way of influencing public opinion. In a democracy, public opinion is a source of money, so the owners of newspapers are richly paid beyond the advertising revenues, in ways not reflected in the accounting books. In short, we are always reading about newspapers dying, but I seem to detect no lack of them in the newsstands.
I prefer to be an ignostic. It doesn't matter if God exists or not because we have free will; therefore, I just ignore the existence of God or whether God exists in the first place.
If it were you or me, we'd be in the slammer, but if you're a rich member of a powerful industry, it just gets ignored by the courts. Ah yes, to be rich and powerful.
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I had a serious fall when skiing in february. A muscle in my back was so sore that I could not tie my own shoelaces or sit down without severe pain.
After having consulted three different medical doctors who all told me to just go home and lie down and just wait for the pain to go away I consulted a chiropractic. He was able to make some of the pain disappear immediately.
So I have to say that for me at least it worked. YMMV.
My doctor, Johnny Walker, MD, can do better than that. His assistant, Jack Daniels, does a pretty good job too of relaxing muscles. Dr. Jim Beam, on the other hand, I never got along with him. And when times are hard, like now, I get it on with the Blue Nun - yeah, I'm a perv. Now, I heard of this Russian guy, Smirnoff, I think, who can do a good job too. Some folks prefer to go with a laymen with some military training. They like Captain Morgan. I don't know about the Captain. Too each his own.
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I know what it feels like, being that I'm half black and half white.
Like those guys on Star Trek? Which side is black?
If I remember my basic law class, the airline would have to do this with ALL Muslims or anyone that looks like them to get into trouble. In other words, if they made it a policy to throw ALL Muslim folks off of the plane.
I bet the xenophobic idiot who reported their 'suspicious comments' is pleased with themselves, having delayed their flight by 2 hours.
I bet it was a 9/11 hero Wanna Be who thought that he could foil a terrorist plot and get his 15 minutes of fame. Don't underestimate a person's desire to be a "hero", to feel important, and be a media whore.
I think that would be better than sales for you, but then again, if you're a people person, technical sales can be very lucrative.
One U.S. hospital was recently hit with a denial-of-service attack that knocked its critical services offline temporarily. "There have been several close calls" including that one, notes Perimeter eSecurity's Prince, who couldn't reveal details about the attack on the hospital. Prince says the hospital was able to deploy some redundant power sources to keep its operations going during the attack on its network. But Prince says he worries that eventually, human lives could be affected by a cyberattack like that of those hospitals or attacks on national infrastructures such as utilities. "It will happen at some point," he says.
Of course you do. Got to keep those customers coming in.
The hospital I'm familiar with has an internal LAN with the Life or Death systems on it. The Docs that have access to it go through their gateway. In other words, a DOS attack would keep folks from seeing the hospital's website that has their marketing stuff, job listings, location, etc... nothing that would kill anyone.
See, the IT folks there are actually pretty smart and read the security journals and some even come from defense contractors. Imagine that. This hyperbole is just a PR statement to get the suits and their lawyers all worked up to hire people like that for very large fees.
In all seriousness, I started, and continue to run, a moderately successful dev company on my own via 100% Craigslist clients. I began by building up a small, but consistent client base while still at my 9-5, and then, when the time was right, I struck out on my own.
I'm curious, are you making as much as you did in your 9-5? Don't get me wrong, there's much more to a job than $$$ - like controlling your own time and actually having free time. I just want to know how it's working for you - upside, downside, etc...
This is NOT a very good time to take risks with your employment.
Cheers!
Are they even possible? I mean, we're talking about computing hardware here, the kind of stuff you can buy anywhere in the world without identification.
For the sake of argument, let's say it is. I think it's pretty arrogant of our Congress to think that only the US is capable of making printers, computers, anything in aerospace, or any other technology. But in passing these laws, they just hurt our export business and as a result, our economy. Just look at the aerospace industry. Congress passed this restrictive law and the only thing that happened was that other countries created their own technology and now has taken a major chunk of US business. Yes, I understand that there should be restrictions on some things (stealth and nukes for example), but run of the mill technology that's easy to reproduce?
No, apparently you failed economics.
I wish condescending and arrogant comments like this were not mod'ed up. As folks who responded to that post pointed out, that individual who made that comment apparently didn't do too well in economics himself.
And "If there is sufficient competition in the market profits will be driven to zero and the price of the service will approach the *actual* cost of providing it (which is close to zero, apparently)." - in theory. That is something for the economists to ponder and to teach to their undergrads. In reality, that is far from the truth. No rational producer of anything will stay in a business until profits go to zero. Most businesses will bail out of a business when their margins go below a certain threshold. As a matter of fact, I know an entrepreneur who will not stay or go into a business that has margins below 45%.
Economists are still figuring a bunch of stuff out and most of the time their theories do not match reality. For example, economists assume markets are rational. As we have seen in the last year, they are far from it.
Or, how, about, they pay you for the rest of your life. - you are being facetious but I am not certain why exactly, I suppose there is very thick sarcasm somewhere there.
Nope and you completely misread what I wrote. What I meant was, if they're going to fire you, for what ever reason, and still enforce the non-compete, then they should pay your salary for as long as they enforce the non-compete because you can't get a job because of the non-compete. Right?
And this BS about not signing it is completely unrealistic because if everyone demands it, how are you supposed to "not sign it"? I understand NDAs, but other than that, these agreements that employers demand that you sign just a form black mailing employees.
... I modify them where I see it necessary. Most people make the mistake of not doing this and it will bite them.
Really? Good for you! Every time I had a non-compete or any agreement that has to be signed for a job was a take it or leave it. In other words, you either sign it as is or you do not get the job. Of course it depends on what you do and who you are. Meaning, someone like you has skills and talent that, apparently, I do not have and you are able to pull that off. (I am NOT being facetious or sarcastic.)
I agree with everything else in your post. I just had a problem with the way you interpreted my comment. I typed this with a smile on my face and with warm and fuzzy Holiday feelings.
Happy New Year!
Just as well, here in the States, the free market and saving jobs are just catch phrases to get Congress to legislate some sort of benefit for your organization; whether it's labor or corporate mgt.
Everyone: if you are a 'permanent' employee, don't sign non-compete clauses, and if you do, at least modify them to say that if the company terminates your employment, then this clause does not apply.
Or, how, about, they pay you for the rest of your life.
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You got that right. Apple, being the marketing gods that they are, will get by this easily. It wouldn't surprise me if Apple actually charges extra for the DRM, selling it as service and feature.
I can just hear it now from the Apple Fans, "Apple has DRM! Do the other services? Nooooo! That's why I buy Apple for these extra value added services! That's why they charge more!"
Currently, I wondering if I should really take the Karma hit. Is there a way my Karma hit can go to starving orphans or something? Starving orphans that need Apple products?
Yep, I'm going to Slashdot Hell for this. Windows 3.1 as my OS on a 386, Balmer as my boss, and no stock options to compensate...
I hope that was a joke. You could also choose to ignore the existence of gravity, but you would still have to live with the consequences.
What consequences? If God existed, He would be forgiving and understand my feeble humanity and forgive me. That's assuming I didn't turn out the way He made me - including my preference to Zen Buddhism. This is all assuming the New Testament, Loving God not the evil, childish, pathetic excuse for a deity in the Old Testament - which is nothing but ancient Hebrew myth.
And no, I wasn't joking and please don't commit blasphemy by praying for my soul. Whenever you pray for something, you make God your servant; thereby, making yourself more important than Him committing blasphemy in the process.
I found it trying to find the story about a state in the South West that keeps lowering the speed limits on the interstates to boost revenue.
Newspapers will not die though. Most of their stories are sourced from the same organizations which source on-line content (reuters, associated press, et al), and they will continue on in their ineptitude and failure to fact check or investigate, as usual.
Aye. And also newspapers are (have always been IMHO) "influencers". They are bought and maintained with the idea of having a way of influencing public opinion. In a democracy, public opinion is a source of money, so the owners of newspapers are richly paid beyond the advertising revenues, in ways not reflected in the accounting books. In short, we are always reading about newspapers dying, but I seem to detect no lack of them in the newsstands.
The same could be said about AM Radio.
I prefer to be an ignostic. It doesn't matter if God exists or not because we have free will; therefore, I just ignore the existence of God or whether God exists in the first place.
Outsource to the EU, Russians, or the Chinese?
If it were you or me, we'd be in the slammer, but if you're a rich member of a powerful industry, it just gets ignored by the courts. Ah yes, to be rich and powerful.
Black Tar Heroin
Doesn't have the ring of 'John' or 'Sam'. Now, Sam Heroin would cut it.
I had a serious fall when skiing in february. A muscle in my back was so sore that I could not tie my own shoelaces or sit down without severe pain.
After having consulted three different medical doctors who all told me to just go home and lie down and just wait for the pain to go away I consulted a chiropractic. He was able to make some of the pain disappear immediately.
So I have to say that for me at least it worked. YMMV.
My doctor, Johnny Walker, MD, can do better than that. His assistant, Jack Daniels, does a pretty good job too of relaxing muscles. Dr. Jim Beam, on the other hand, I never got along with him. And when times are hard, like now, I get it on with the Blue Nun - yeah, I'm a perv. Now, I heard of this Russian guy, Smirnoff, I think, who can do a good job too. Some folks prefer to go with a laymen with some military training. They like Captain Morgan. I don't know about the Captain. Too each his own.
Now, I have to go to my Canadian Club to relax.
Linux, Linux, ..., ad infinitum.
If taxed consumption instead of taxing income and savings, we wouldn't be in this economic mess we're in now.