Trick question. You do whatever fits your situation the best. I will say that custom programming business applications has been the most trying, except for those situations where you're using COTS and are bending the business process to fit the software.... 8P
Sounds like the RIAA should be going after the real pirates, not little Susie or Grandma."
Not to bust your bubble or anything like that, but "Little Susie and Grandma" are just as much intellectual property theives as the guys selling fake merch, provided:
the music isn't captured from CDs they own.
the music isn't recorded off the air by them.
they didn't get it from a friend.
they didn't pay for the copy in any way.
Not being an attorney, don't take this as legal advice, because it's not.
What are some of the most unstable areas of the world?
Isreal and India would be near the top of any such list.
Ask a business man to invest tons of money in those troubled areas: open factories, what ever. They'll look at you like you've lost your mind.
Yet the same hard nosed exporters of jobs have no hesitation in sending business critical functions out to areas of the world that could turn to nuclear vapor any time.
Which sounds impressive until one considers that omni-directional sending/receiving power calculations work on an inverse square, so the stat is bogus. FYI: Radar works on inverse 4th, just like the flash of a camera.
Terms of service doesn't allow for spamming, nor does it allow for DOSing someone elses site. In my book, A DOS'er is just as bad as a spammer. The only difference is that I won't get sued for hosting a spammer (the spammer may sue for getting tossed off, but f' 'em. They are H.I.S.T.O.R.Y. on my allocation), but hosting a DOSer and not discon'ing him WILL RESULT IN A SUIT. Let someone DOS Radio Shack from YOUR allocation, and see how fast Tandy Towers can decend upon you with legons of lawyers.
If you can't understand why DOSing ANYONE, even a spammer, is wrong, then get off the internet. You don't belong here.
If LYCOS was on my allocation, they'd get tossed as fast as any spammer for DoSes.
Spammers exceed the speed of light if they manage to get past due dilligence. Only one managed it so far in five years, for a total of eleven hours of connect time. They were discon'ed within minutes of the FIRST verified complaint.
Take your favorite explitive, apply it to yourself.
"Yesterday, I was contacted by the leader of the spinoff project who told me that he's quiet angry at us for doing that and that it's considered unethical and rude to copy code from the spinoff."
Sounds like he doesn't mind using the work of the others that contributed to the GPL, but doesn't want anyone to use his code.
Of course, we only get your side of the story, and while I can tell you've gone out of your way to be fair and present a balanced view, getting the other guy's take on the situation is just as important. Technically, under the GPL, you are allowed to use his code. Technically, under the GPL, he's free to incorrectly document the change log.
In real life, though, it sounds as if mistakes may have been made on both sides. It's hard to tell without more details.
Your options, in my view boil down to:
Deadend your fork.
continue on doing what you're doing.
stop coping his code.
Read the change log but do your own coding.
I'd add "talk it out and come to a solution you can both live with", but if you were able to do that, you wouldn't have forked.
Tenet wants little chips in our heads that explode the moment someone has an idea that the religious zelots don't like.
The only problem W and his motely crew had with the Taliban was that it was the wrong religion and OSB was hiding there. Otherwise, we would never have taken them down and they'd be fast friends. Look at all the police states the US has such good relations with. I think there should be a constitutional admendment that the US government, US corporations, and US citizens are not allowed to have trade or diplomatic relations with countries not recognized as having a freely elected governing body running their country, nor allow products produced in those countries to be imported. The irony is that the US would have had to cut itself off from 2000-2004.
'I'm being stolen! I'm being stolen!' and paging security as the janitor walks out the door with it."
I've been in offices for many many years. There has been only one time the Janitor Did It, and it was a case of they put it somewhere we wern't expecting.
Can we stop with the steriotype? All of the janitors I have known have been honest, hardworking people that are just trying to make a living. While I a sure there are dishonest janitors around, I sure that like anywhere else the vast majority are not crooks.
You could argue that some suffering is a mental construct within the sufferer's minds. But some suffering is obviously material and physical.
You could argue that, but you'd be wrong. Else treatment of things like post traumatic stress would be a simple matter of measuring the wound and prescribing the proper amount of treatment. Yet mistakes are made more often than not in treating this sort of illness. You can't use a device based on some common biometric to measure the amount of traumatic stress. You can't point on the floor and say, "Look out! Don't step in that suffering!".
People who get abducted, imprisoned, tortured or gang-raped are clearly suffering physically--not just in their heads.
No, it is all in their heads once the psyical injuries heal. Just because the rest of the injury is in their head doesn't make the wound any less injurious, nor does it devalue the pain it causes. However, you can take a picture of a laceration, you can't take one of a mental insult.
Yes it's a value judgement to say that the people/organizations/governments that cause this suffering are evil. But most reasonable people would agree with the judgement--nobody in their right mind wants to be treated like that!
But it still doesn't give a tangible property to Evil. Evil is an intangable. It never runs out, you never have to order more, blah blah blah.
The real problem with "evil" (as I found out by taking a first year Religious Studies course called "the Nature of Evil") is that it usually isn't done by individuals.
Groups are a collective of individules. If you want to claim a syerengy in a group, that I'll allow. Claiming that evil comes into spontianious being because of a group is like saying flies cause garbage. You are getting the cart before the horse.
When an individual person can be singled out as directly responsible for heinous acts (e.g. Hitler) then it is easy to judge them as an Evil person.
Only Hitler's acts were all the worse because they were not just the acts of a single person. See above. This is exactly what I'm saying.
But who is to blame for the systematic mistreatment of poor people (especially poor minorities) by capitalist, democratic societies such as the U.S.?
We, the people of the United States are responsible for the ill treatment of the poor in the US, both as individuals and as a group. This is exactly the point I try and try to make with neo-cons. Jesus was poor. He depended on begging for a living once he started spreading the Word.
The true miricle of it isn't that it's a God walking the earth and doing miricalous things. That's nothing for a God to do. What makes it miricalous is that it was God made man that did this. And again, the right wing nuts just don't Get It. Say "Jesus was not God when he preached" will get you lynched. I use christian teachings and names. They are not important to this discussion. What is important is realize that the world isn't all about you, and to act accordingly.
Often things happen which are clearly evil in their nature, but not attributable to any one person.
True. Sometimes evil isn't a single thread, but a tapestry.
It's a "product of the system". Is the system evil?
The system's value is based on the group that makes up the "system" and what their actions do and what value system the observer has.
How is it that a basically good *institution* (such as capitalism, or democracy) can have these evil side effects?
Capitalism is not inhearantly good or evil. The Robber Barons of the 1800's were capitalists without question, but their actions for the most part were far from good.
--it is *also* that they are doing what is best for the FBI's survival and relevance, by expanding its scope and power.
And it's up to the people to keep such excesses from happening. Which is why you don't see any of this stuff on a ballot you can cast a vote on. The United
Evil isn't just a philosophical construct, nor is it a metaphor, it exists.
Evil is a value judgement. People make value judgements. Therefore Evil IS a philosophical construct.
Bush said "I looked into his [Putin's] Soul and found it good." Quite aside from the metaphysical bullshite, I didn't sign over my moral judgement to a politician. "Put not your trust in Kings" is more than just a catchy phrase. It's good advice.
Face it. With Dubbya getting another four years (with no worry about re-election) and the massive "mandate" that 3 percent win gives him, the rats with some shread of honesty getting fired...oh, excuse me, "Needing to spend more time with family", this sort of thing is just the tip top of the cespool. Far worse things are happening without any public fanfare.
One comment made over and over again is how well this administration stays "on message". That's a fancy way of saying that we get what we're told, Faux News won't permit any thing else to be aired, and the rest of the (neo-con called "liberal") media too scared about losing all their corespondents white house press credentials, we won't hear of anything Karl Rove doesn't want us to hear about.
If Rove says the next big music craze is after dinner flatulence, then we're going to be hearing farts on Clear Channel. Oops. Too late.
And yeah, you neo-con far right wing nut barbarian, I AM an embittered Liberal Democrat. Better thank that God whose word you don't live that you have an evil like me to "fight", or you'd dry up and blow away for lack of anything better to do.
...-- 3-day work weeks and crazy amounts of money, but is the lack of stability worth it?
Many employers now do this. First, it lets them see you work with the company, other employees, and the customers. Second, it lets them get rid of people that look good in the interview, but are lousy people. If we did this where I work, I doubt we'd have 70% of the people we do.
Another "Me Too!" on this. If Solaris ran on vacuume cleaners, it *might* be useful. As far as I can see, Solaris on Intel is no more a threat to Lunix than a firecracker to an aircraft carrier.
My exprience with Solaris on SPARC is worse. Every single last SPARC I've worked on (many) wouldn't have made a good door stop. SCSI problems, mesterious file system problems that fsck couldn't fix, devices that first work, then are deallocated from the kernel, sky high prices for the hardware, snobbery from vendors that write code for it (and only it), sky high prices for the software, resellers that don't know a thing about Sun, SPARC, Solaris (I frequently knew more about each then the entire reseller's company combined), tar and CPIO that don't always work correctly or with large files.
In short, if a project involves a Sun product, I know it will cost too much and won't work with as little trouble as with AIX, SCO (spit), or Linux.
The right wing nuts don't like porn. Buh bye.
The right wing nuts don't like "liberal lies!" like the Washington Post, Doud, or Kathryn Thomas. Buh Bye.
They don't like people that don't go to church. Buh bye.
If you tell a lie often enough, a majority will believe it. Witness the 59 million that voted for Bush. If you tell a big enough lie, the majority will believe that too (witness the WMD in Iraq, terrorist supported by Saddam, blah blah blah.)
If you waive the bloody shirt faster, more people will support you. Look at all the folks they are calling to active duty.
...may be valuable for proving anti-competitive intent on Microsoft's behalf should MS (or a proxy) go on a patent rampage against FOSS.
Microsoft is already going on that rampage. Evidence ripped from this month's headlines: See SPF & (without patents) SCOX.
Microsoft has repeatly stated that they intend to rampage with patents. The only question is should SlashDot document it. Answer: No.
PJ of Groklaw is a hobby site without any ads. Slashdot isn't. The liability of a suit against/. is much greater than the same suit against PJ. PJ isn't doing it for the money. MS could argue/. is, and would be putting every post under the microscope to crush, coverup, and destroy evey bit of evidence posted to public view. Count on it. If they tried that with GrokLaw, MS couldn't show any monitary advantage to GrokLaw for doing so, and PJ should know enough to avoid posting in a way that would likely result in a suit.
/. is about technology. GrokLaw is about technology law suits. Let each do what they do best.
But I don't see any reason why the tender tidbits posted at GrokLaw couldn't be discussed on SlashDot.
But farmers aren't businessmen, either. So what do I know?
As someone who owns a small farm, I can tell you that the neo-cons whinging about "farm welfare" have never received a check from the Ag department. HINT: My cotten price support check was all of $2.39. No kidding.
Small farms exsist mostly because:
It keeps the property taxes manageable
writeoffs, writeoffs, writeoffs
No one wants to buy the land for any kind of fair price. If your farm is next to a government facility of some sort (port, airport, highway) no one that knows what's going on will take it if you give it away.
God help you if some sort of small furry woodland creature lives on it. You'll be forced to stop everything and still keep paying the bills with no income.
He gave Bush a five-page, handwritten letter in which he stated, 'The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved.'"
Sure has. Bush was ELECTED this time out. Goes to show that "People don't drink the sand because they're thirsty. They drink the sand because they don't know the difference." - The American President
PREDICTION: Unless Bush has problems passing a law allowing Corporate America to loot social security (instead of the neo-cons looting it), the "Alert Level" thing is going to quietly fade away.
If the timing of George W Bush's toothless (where concerned with big business) Justice Department being confirmed for another 4 years had anything at all to do with this.
Most government employees -- federal, state, and local -- have strong job protections once they've passed probation on the job.
Most federal employees now have a "work at will" contract, see especially Homeland Security employees. Many state workers, especailly where conseritives rule the roost, do as well.
I know of four people that work in Federal, State, and Local government. All have said they were required to sign a "employment at will" contract that basically says they can be fired at any time, for any reason, or no reason at all. The reality may be that they get a lot of protection, but the dejure situation is that they don't. As always, it's the politics of a particular situation that determine if you have protection or not.
I suspect that the person fired did more than load a program on a server. However, that should be enough to fire them. Don't muck about with the servers.
That pretty much sums up the liberal idiot platform. "Bush=Hitler", and "VOTE KERRY OR YOU'LL BE DRAFTED!!!".
If you'd pay attention to anything but Rush Limbaugh and Fox "news", you may see that the emperor has no clothes.
If you're going to support Kerry over Bush, at least do it for factual reasons.
OK, I will. How about them WDMs? Where are they?
How about OSB? Where is he? Why was the operation to catch him outsourced to a bunch of people who where on OSB's/Taliban's payroll the week before?
Why do I pay more taxes since the tax cuts than I did before them? My income has gone *down*, not up.
Why is it good to outsource jobs but not prescription drugs? It's the same job in India as it was here, it was the same drug here as it is in Canada. Why did Republicans pass a law forbiding Medicare from barganing for better prices from the drug companies?
Why do Republicans spend more money on fighting a war in Iraq than on programs here to get, keep, and promote American workers?
Why were we told the war in Iraq would be cheap, and we've spent 120 billion, and looking to spend another 80 billion?
Why do I pay more in taxes than many multinational corporations?
Why do we need a law to defend marrage from gays, but not one to defend it from divorce?
Why do we need "faith based initiatives" spending tax dollars? Arn't Government and churches supposed to not mingle?
Why do you suppose Kerry is a flip flopper? Because this week he has the truth, and last month all he had were the lies out of the White House?
Why is it "strong" to disregard treaties with other countries and weak to keep them, or at least work with other countries?
Why is it that we don't have more countries willing to send more troops to Iraq than the 10 percent that are already there?
Why is my private retirement account worth about 60% less today than four years ago? (Note: I did not own any Enron or WorldCom stock)
Why did they move food service jobs from the service sector to the manufacturing sector? Surely it wasn't to play games with the numbers, now, was it?
You see, I have lots of questions. Unfortunately, the Republicans don't have any answers they'd like to publish.
Get a clue.
Thanks for the advice. Here's some for you:
Wake up. You are being lied to.
Now if they can just ban access to that nasty election and recount data, the terrorist will really be screwed.
The WhiteHouse is working on that. Didn't you read about the requested legal opinion on delaying the elections in case of terrorist attack?
Where to move...where to move... Canada is too cold, the aussies have no sense of humor when it comes to free speech, Switzerland takes too much money, Finland is also too cold, England is too "big brother"ish, Ireland is a possiballity, but too cold too....
Where to move...where to move...
Slashdot Mirror
Only if your time is worthless. Bugs, missing features, no (or very little) standards, IP bound formats, no security...
Trick question. You do whatever fits your situation the best. I will say that custom programming business applications has been the most trying, except for those situations where you're using COTS and are bending the business process to fit the software.... 8P
Technical decisions are so much easier without any technicial people involved. (Dilbert)
Not to bust your bubble or anything like that, but "Little Susie and Grandma" are just as much intellectual property theives as the guys selling fake merch, provided:
the music isn't captured from CDs they own.
the music isn't recorded off the air by them.
they didn't get it from a friend.
they didn't pay for the copy in any way.
Not being an attorney, don't take this as legal advice, because it's not.
Isreal and India would be near the top of any such list.
Ask a business man to invest tons of money in those troubled areas: open factories, what ever. They'll look at you like you've lost your mind.
Yet the same hard nosed exporters of jobs have no hesitation in sending business critical functions out to areas of the world that could turn to nuclear vapor any time.
It don't make sense, but that's management.
Which sounds impressive until one considers that omni-directional sending/receiving power calculations work on an inverse square, so the stat is bogus. FYI: Radar works on inverse 4th, just like the flash of a camera.
If you can't understand why DOSing ANYONE, even a spammer, is wrong, then get off the internet. You don't belong here.
Spammers exceed the speed of light if they manage to get past due dilligence. Only one managed it so far in five years, for a total of eleven hours of connect time. They were discon'ed within minutes of the FIRST verified complaint.
Take your favorite explitive, apply it to yourself.
No one complained about defending yourself, they complained because fighting abuse with abuse is:
stupid
in many cases illegal
in some cases against the wrong party.
DoSing someone's server is illegal in the US. Had Lycos tried it on my allocation, they would have been null routed as soon as I found out about it.
Attacking someone's web site is not defense. Even if they are a spammer, it doesn't make it right.
And if any of my users ever used the service, I'd kick them off too. Pull your head out of where you stuck it, you aren't getting enough O2.
Sounds like he doesn't mind using the work of the others that contributed to the GPL, but doesn't want anyone to use his code.
Of course, we only get your side of the story, and while I can tell you've gone out of your way to be fair and present a balanced view, getting the other guy's take on the situation is just as important. Technically, under the GPL, you are allowed to use his code. Technically, under the GPL, he's free to incorrectly document the change log.
In real life, though, it sounds as if mistakes may have been made on both sides. It's hard to tell without more details.
Your options, in my view boil down to:
Deadend your fork.
continue on doing what you're doing.
stop coping his code.
Read the change log but do your own coding.
I'd add "talk it out and come to a solution you can both live with", but if you were able to do that, you wouldn't have forked.
The only problem W and his motely crew had with the Taliban was that it was the wrong religion and OSB was hiding there. Otherwise, we would never have taken them down and they'd be fast friends. Look at all the police states the US has such good relations with. I think there should be a constitutional admendment that the US government, US corporations, and US citizens are not allowed to have trade or diplomatic relations with countries not recognized as having a freely elected governing body running their country, nor allow products produced in those countries to be imported. The irony is that the US would have had to cut itself off from 2000-2004.
I've been in offices for many many years. There has been only one time the Janitor Did It, and it was a case of they put it somewhere we wern't expecting.
Can we stop with the steriotype? All of the janitors I have known have been honest, hardworking people that are just trying to make a living. While I a sure there are dishonest janitors around, I sure that like anywhere else the vast majority are not crooks.
You could argue that, but you'd be wrong. Else treatment of things like post traumatic stress would be a simple matter of measuring the wound and prescribing the proper amount of treatment. Yet mistakes are made more often than not in treating this sort of illness. You can't use a device based on some common biometric to measure the amount of traumatic stress. You can't point on the floor and say, "Look out! Don't step in that suffering!".
People who get abducted, imprisoned, tortured or gang-raped are clearly suffering physically--not just in their heads.
No, it is all in their heads once the psyical injuries heal. Just because the rest of the injury is in their head doesn't make the wound any less injurious, nor does it devalue the pain it causes. However, you can take a picture of a laceration, you can't take one of a mental insult. Yes it's a value judgement to say that the people/organizations/governments that cause this suffering are evil. But most reasonable people would agree with the judgement--nobody in their right mind wants to be treated like that!
But it still doesn't give a tangible property to Evil. Evil is an intangable. It never runs out, you never have to order more, blah blah blah.
The real problem with "evil" (as I found out by taking a first year Religious Studies course called "the Nature of Evil") is that it usually isn't done by individuals.
Groups are a collective of individules. If you want to claim a syerengy in a group, that I'll allow. Claiming that evil comes into spontianious being because of a group is like saying flies cause garbage. You are getting the cart before the horse.
When an individual person can be singled out as directly responsible for heinous acts (e.g. Hitler) then it is easy to judge them as an Evil person.
Only Hitler's acts were all the worse because they were not just the acts of a single person. See above. This is exactly what I'm saying.
But who is to blame for the systematic mistreatment of poor people (especially poor minorities) by capitalist, democratic societies such as the U.S.?
We, the people of the United States are responsible for the ill treatment of the poor in the US, both as individuals and as a group. This is exactly the point I try and try to make with neo-cons. Jesus was poor. He depended on begging for a living once he started spreading the Word. The true miricle of it isn't that it's a God walking the earth and doing miricalous things. That's nothing for a God to do. What makes it miricalous is that it was God made man that did this. And again, the right wing nuts just don't Get It. Say "Jesus was not God when he preached" will get you lynched. I use christian teachings and names. They are not important to this discussion. What is important is realize that the world isn't all about you, and to act accordingly.
Often things happen which are clearly evil in their nature, but not attributable to any one person.
True. Sometimes evil isn't a single thread, but a tapestry.
It's a "product of the system". Is the system evil?
The system's value is based on the group that makes up the "system" and what their actions do and what value system the observer has.
How is it that a basically good *institution* (such as capitalism, or democracy) can have these evil side effects?
Capitalism is not inhearantly good or evil. The Robber Barons of the 1800's were capitalists without question, but their actions for the most part were far from good.
--it is *also* that they are doing what is best for the FBI's survival and relevance, by expanding its scope and power.
And it's up to the people to keep such excesses from happening. Which is why you don't see any of this stuff on a ballot you can cast a vote on. The United
Evil is a value judgement. People make value judgements. Therefore Evil IS a philosophical construct.
Bush said "I looked into his [Putin's] Soul and found it good." Quite aside from the metaphysical bullshite, I didn't sign over my moral judgement to a politician. "Put not your trust in Kings" is more than just a catchy phrase. It's good advice.
Face it. With Dubbya getting another four years (with no worry about re-election) and the massive "mandate" that 3 percent win gives him, the rats with some shread of honesty getting fired...oh, excuse me, "Needing to spend more time with family", this sort of thing is just the tip top of the cespool. Far worse things are happening without any public fanfare.
One comment made over and over again is how well this administration stays "on message". That's a fancy way of saying that we get what we're told, Faux News won't permit any thing else to be aired, and the rest of the (neo-con called "liberal") media too scared about losing all their corespondents white house press credentials, we won't hear of anything Karl Rove doesn't want us to hear about.
If Rove says the next big music craze is after dinner flatulence, then we're going to be hearing farts on Clear Channel. Oops. Too late.
And yeah, you neo-con far right wing nut barbarian, I AM an embittered Liberal Democrat. Better thank that God whose word you don't live that you have an evil like me to "fight", or you'd dry up and blow away for lack of anything better to do.
Many employers now do this. First, it lets them see you work with the company, other employees, and the customers. Second, it lets them get rid of people that look good in the interview, but are lousy people. If we did this where I work, I doubt we'd have 70% of the people we do.
My exprience with Solaris on SPARC is worse. Every single last SPARC I've worked on (many) wouldn't have made a good door stop. SCSI problems, mesterious file system problems that fsck couldn't fix, devices that first work, then are deallocated from the kernel, sky high prices for the hardware, snobbery from vendors that write code for it (and only it), sky high prices for the software, resellers that don't know a thing about Sun, SPARC, Solaris (I frequently knew more about each then the entire reseller's company combined), tar and CPIO that don't always work correctly or with large files.
In short, if a project involves a Sun product, I know it will cost too much and won't work with as little trouble as with AIX, SCO (spit), or Linux.
The right wing nuts don't like porn. Buh bye.
The right wing nuts don't like "liberal lies!" like the Washington Post, Doud, or Kathryn Thomas. Buh Bye.
They don't like people that don't go to church. Buh bye.
If you tell a lie often enough, a majority will believe it. Witness the 59 million that voted for Bush. If you tell a big enough lie, the majority will believe that too (witness the WMD in Iraq, terrorist supported by Saddam, blah blah blah.)
If you waive the bloody shirt faster, more people will support you. Look at all the folks they are calling to active duty.
Microsoft is already going on that rampage. Evidence ripped from this month's headlines: See SPF & (without patents) SCOX.
Microsoft has repeatly stated that they intend to rampage with patents. The only question is should SlashDot document it.
Answer: No.
PJ of Groklaw is a hobby site without any ads. Slashdot isn't. The liability of a suit against /. is much greater than the same suit against PJ. PJ isn't doing it for the money. MS could argue /. is, and would be putting every post under the microscope to crush, coverup, and destroy evey bit of evidence posted to public view. Count on it. If they tried that with GrokLaw, MS couldn't show any monitary advantage to GrokLaw for doing so, and PJ should know enough to avoid posting in a way that would likely result in a suit.
But I don't see any reason why the tender tidbits posted at GrokLaw couldn't be discussed on SlashDot.
As someone who owns a small farm, I can tell you that the neo-cons whinging about "farm welfare" have never received a check from the Ag department. HINT: My cotten price support check was all of $2.39. No kidding.
Small farms exsist mostly because:
It keeps the property taxes manageable
writeoffs, writeoffs, writeoffs
No one wants to buy the land for any kind of fair price. If your farm is next to a government facility of some sort (port, airport, highway) no one that knows what's going on will take it if you give it away.
God help you if some sort of small furry woodland creature lives on it. You'll be forced to stop everything and still keep paying the bills with no income.
Sure has. Bush was ELECTED this time out. Goes to show that "People don't drink the sand because they're thirsty. They drink the sand because they don't know the difference." - The American President
PREDICTION: Unless Bush has problems passing a law allowing Corporate America to loot social security (instead of the neo-cons looting it), the "Alert Level" thing is going to quietly fade away.
If the timing of George W Bush's toothless (where concerned with big business) Justice Department being confirmed for another 4 years had anything at all to do with this.
Naaa.... couldn't be that.
Most federal employees now have a "work at will" contract, see especially Homeland Security employees. Many state workers, especailly where conseritives rule the roost, do as well.
I know of four people that work in Federal, State, and Local government. All have said they were required to sign a "employment at will" contract that basically says they can be fired at any time, for any reason, or no reason at all. The reality may be that they get a lot of protection, but the dejure situation is that they don't. As always, it's the politics of a particular situation that determine if you have protection or not.
I suspect that the person fired did more than load a program on a server. However, that should be enough to fire them. Don't muck about with the servers.
If you'd pay attention to anything but Rush Limbaugh and Fox "news", you may see that the emperor has no clothes.
If you're going to support Kerry over Bush, at least do it for factual reasons.
OK, I will. How about them WDMs? Where are they?
How about OSB? Where is he? Why was the operation to catch him outsourced to a bunch of people who where on OSB's/Taliban's payroll the week before?
Why do I pay more taxes since the tax cuts than I did before them? My income has gone *down*, not up.
Why is it good to outsource jobs but not prescription drugs? It's the same job in India as it was here, it was the same drug here as it is in Canada. Why did Republicans pass a law forbiding Medicare from barganing for better prices from the drug companies?
Why do Republicans spend more money on fighting a war in Iraq than on programs here to get, keep, and promote American workers?
Why were we told the war in Iraq would be cheap, and we've spent 120 billion, and looking to spend another 80 billion?
Why do I pay more in taxes than many multinational corporations?
Why do we need a law to defend marrage from gays, but not one to defend it from divorce?
Why do we need "faith based initiatives" spending tax dollars? Arn't Government and churches supposed to not mingle?
Why do you suppose Kerry is a flip flopper? Because this week he has the truth, and last month all he had were the lies out of the White House?
Why is it "strong" to disregard treaties with other countries and weak to keep them, or at least work with other countries?
Why is it that we don't have more countries willing to send more troops to Iraq than the 10 percent that are already there?
Why is my private retirement account worth about 60% less today than four years ago? (Note: I did not own any Enron or WorldCom stock)
Why did they move food service jobs from the service sector to the manufacturing sector? Surely it wasn't to play games with the numbers, now, was it?
You see, I have lots of questions. Unfortunately, the Republicans don't have any answers they'd like to publish.
Get a clue.
Thanks for the advice. Here's some for you:
Wake up. You are being lied to.
The WhiteHouse is working on that. Didn't you read about the requested legal opinion on delaying the elections in case of terrorist attack?
Where to move...where to move... Canada is too cold, the aussies have no sense of humor when it comes to free speech, Switzerland takes too much money, Finland is also too cold, England is too "big brother"ish, Ireland is a possiballity, but too cold too....
Where to move...where to move...