The Privacy settings ARE doing their job... to some extent. If you find a loophole that obviously wan't intended to be there, you report it rather than exploit it. If I find out that the online banking solution that I use allows me to circumvent it to fill my coffers and I do that, it's a felony, regardless whether their implementation is buggy or not.
I agree to that view as well. But sometimes, prison time hurts more than even huge fines, because the person at the top is nowhere near used to that, nor do they expect anything like that to happen to them. The prison time shock would likely be so great that top executives would turn to become completely honest for the rest of their lives. And even if not, it's worth giving it a try.
How about both? CEO in jail (or at least one of the few directly reporting to him) AND a hefty fine, which is a % of yearly profit, starting from 10% and increasing by a fixed amount every time they are found guilty of something.
This thing of "We do something illegal, you fine us, everyone's happy" must stop. Somebody must serve some nice jail time (not much, say 6-12 months) and then maybe such fucked up practices would diminish. This is like me breaking into someone's house, pissing and shitting all over the place, then paying a 5 dollar fine for doing so. Would that stop me in the future? Hell no.
It's funny how you pass everything through your USA-like filter. How do you know how things work in North Korea, for example? Or China, or Israel, for that matter? Yeah, in the USA maybe everything is under control and triple-checked. Good for you. I have strong doubts though about the same control being implemented in other, more dictatorial countries.
"But what does this button do?" Frankly, I think it's a huge temptation to press the doom button to pretty much anyone out there. One must be strong enough to not do it, and there's where a lot of personal factors intervene, such as education, civic spirit, religious strength and reasons, etc. I'd personally be more comfortable with the "no button to press on" option.
I work in a very large company which uses the 1-5 scale, where 5 is best (Outstanding) and 1 is worst (Not meeting expectations). First year: I got 5 but no raise, nothing. Second year: I got 5 but no raise, nothing. Third: I got 5 but no raise, nothing. Fourth: I got 5 but no raise, nothing. Now upon 5th year completion, I specifically asked for a 3 just for fun. My manager agreed, so I have a 3 now. No raise, nothing.
Thing is, the yearly appraisals, according to HR and internal procedures don't ensure you're going to get any bonuses or raises or whatever. Shortly put, it's up to the manager how would he split the extra budget, if any. Most times there's no budget for that because our organization doesn't bring direct revenue and thus we're at the bottom of the pond. So after 5 years during which I have seen a 5% salary increase once, whereas the currency parity between my local currency and the EUR fell 40%, I stopped giving a fuck about the appraisals. Also, starting a few months ago I gave up hope of changing jobs within the company. I have applied for 3 different internal jobs and received an offer for each, but there was one thing that was constant: you don't get any salary adjustment if you move. That's valid throughout the company at Individual Contributor level. Each hiring manager promised there's going to be appraisals and "if you do well, we can discuss about a salary increase". Right. I flat out told the last one: "You know, I'm not a new hire and after 5 years of being here I don't believe in such promises".
For me, it's very simple: show me the dough and I'm all yours. Job titles, work amounts, perks such as a desk nearer to the window don't interest me. I have to make enough for supporting my family and right now I can only make enough to barely keep us afloat. So I'm definitely looking outside but I was so far followed by bad luck.
One more thing: we're going through rougher times and companies bully their employees into low wages and shit because they can. But times will change eventually (might be 5 years, might be 10 until then) and when times change, some now large companies will become effectively defoliated of good performers. People would leave in droves because the job markets would boom again and bubbles will rise again to the top, while biggest bullies on the market right now will see their good blood drained by various startups and companies with good employee care plans.
Right now, when we look for another job, we ask ourselves "how stable is this company?" and a company's desirability is affected by its stability in the long-ish term. but in the future, when most companies will become again pretty stable, people will change their desirability scale accordingly. Then all the sins of those companies who now treat their employees like dirt will finally receive their overdue payment.
You must feel so special and unique. My Windows 7 boots in 15 minutes... but that only happens every 2-3 months when I reboot it for some reason (usually patches). Clean? Yes sir. No malware? Yes sir. Stable? With uptimes of 2-3 months at a time, yes sir.
Why the fuck would you assume I live in the USA? Who's the one making assumptions here? I stopped caring about detailed international news because they were getting to me. There was a period of time when I was reading all sorts of news, even had a huge RSS aggregator with literally thousands of news streams. Then I realized I could live happily without 99% of those. There's a war somewhere? I'll find out eventually. Some crimes have been committed half-way across the globe? Why the fuck should I care? There are some news websites I peruse. Slashdot being the tech one. And it's a bloody good one, I'd say. I also have the ABC News app on my phone and whenever I open it, there's literally nothing there that would interest me. And there's a Romanian news site which publishes pretty much everything I need, plus some stuff I am not interested in. That's it. More than enough for me. High quality, high detail news from distant places? Not really needed. Just give me the rough stuff and that's it.
Your false premise was that I live in the USA. I don't. And my politicians are too busy backstabbing each other to do anything of relevance externally. So there you have it.
I am sorry, but I don't need instantaneous, round the globe coverage with whatever the hell happens in some God-forsaken corner of the world. it's a perk I'm passively receiving and if I get such news, then that's fine. If not, I'm not gonna curl in a corner, frightened of the unknown.
There were times when people found that their king died weeks after the dude passed away, and their life was not impacted. Granted, we can do better nowadays but still, I couldn't care less about some fanatic blowing himself up in some Syria busy market. Local news - that's what I'm interested in, followed by news from my country. Everything else (save from something HUGE like the Japan Earthquake) is optional.
Yes I know, the Syria whatever-the-fuck-happens-there could theoretically very slightly affect me through the butterfly effect but really... not worth my immediate interest. Give me the high level overview: Syria dudes are still beating each other; China launched some satellite; USA still has crushing debt and Greece goes down the drain. Have a nice day!
I don't need to do that manually. There's software out there which does that more or less automatically. You have scripted tag and rename for files and folders, smart ripping, automatic arrangement in collections and so on. And you don't do it all at once, but spend a couple minutes each time you get a new album. Better than having a pile of shit as music collection.
When you have 600 GB of nicely ordered music (in folders, by band, alphabetically, with tags and whatnot) it's a no-brainer to navigate around. But I agree, Joe Sixpack would be helped by iTunes, because he listens to whatever's on the radio (which by the way makes it useless to even own an MP3 player).
Funny, I skipped the iPod exactly because of iTunes, which was slow, prone to errors, messed up audio files, etc. MP3 drag-and-drop was much, MUCH simpler.
Exactly the reason why, after much thought, I decided to NOT buy or play Diablo III, just like I had decided tro NOT play Diablo II either. I mean, screw this shit, if they're pushing e to trade for real cash then they looked at the wrong guy. I'm not worried, though, there's plenty sheep out there, just waiting in line with their wallets hanging, ready for the milking of their lives.
Ha, that's exactly what happened when my team changed organizations within the same LoB. I transitioned a tool made in VBA I had created and which we've been using to my former department. After a while, they wanted a small change (add some names into a drop-down list of agents which was hardcoded because it was a "quick hack"). I told them: press Alt+F11 in Excel, press Ctrl+F, search for any existing name and just copy that line of code,go to the end of the line, press Enter and Ctrl+V, then change the duplicate name with the new one. Rinse and repeat. After a while they came back to me because they had messed up. I declined accountability, saying "I transitioned the tool, now I'm doing something else, go find your own resource". They escalated to their director who had a chat with my manager and guess what happened next... Yeah, it was me who enhanced that tool 8 times now, because my manager is "managing up", little does he care about abusing his directs as long as he could lick some higher management boots.
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The Privacy settings ARE doing their job... to some extent. If you find a loophole that obviously wan't intended to be there, you report it rather than exploit it. If I find out that the online banking solution that I use allows me to circumvent it to fill my coffers and I do that, it's a felony, regardless whether their implementation is buggy or not.
I know. That's why I'm writing on Slashdot instead of lobbying for it out there on the streets :)
I agree to that view as well. But sometimes, prison time hurts more than even huge fines, because the person at the top is nowhere near used to that, nor do they expect anything like that to happen to them.
The prison time shock would likely be so great that top executives would turn to become completely honest for the rest of their lives. And even if not, it's worth giving it a try.
Heh, was my evil twin, I swear! I'm innocent!
How about both? CEO in jail (or at least one of the few directly reporting to him) AND a hefty fine, which is a % of yearly profit, starting from 10% and increasing by a fixed amount every time they are found guilty of something.
This thing of "We do something illegal, you fine us, everyone's happy" must stop. Somebody must serve some nice jail time (not much, say 6-12 months) and then maybe such fucked up practices would diminish.
This is like me breaking into someone's house, pissing and shitting all over the place, then paying a 5 dollar fine for doing so. Would that stop me in the future? Hell no.
It's funny how you pass everything through your USA-like filter. How do you know how things work in North Korea, for example? Or China, or Israel, for that matter?
Yeah, in the USA maybe everything is under control and triple-checked. Good for you. I have strong doubts though about the same control being implemented in other, more dictatorial countries.
"But what does this button do?"
Frankly, I think it's a huge temptation to press the doom button to pretty much anyone out there. One must be strong enough to not do it, and there's where a lot of personal factors intervene, such as education, civic spirit, religious strength and reasons, etc.
I'd personally be more comfortable with the "no button to press on" option.
I work in a very large company which uses the 1-5 scale, where 5 is best (Outstanding) and 1 is worst (Not meeting expectations).
First year: I got 5 but no raise, nothing.
Second year: I got 5 but no raise, nothing.
Third: I got 5 but no raise, nothing.
Fourth: I got 5 but no raise, nothing.
Now upon 5th year completion, I specifically asked for a 3 just for fun. My manager agreed, so I have a 3 now. No raise, nothing.
Thing is, the yearly appraisals, according to HR and internal procedures don't ensure you're going to get any bonuses or raises or whatever. Shortly put, it's up to the manager how would he split the extra budget, if any. Most times there's no budget for that because our organization doesn't bring direct revenue and thus we're at the bottom of the pond. So after 5 years during which I have seen a 5% salary increase once, whereas the currency parity between my local currency and the EUR fell 40%, I stopped giving a fuck about the appraisals. Also, starting a few months ago I gave up hope of changing jobs within the company. I have applied for 3 different internal jobs and received an offer for each, but there was one thing that was constant: you don't get any salary adjustment if you move. That's valid throughout the company at Individual Contributor level. Each hiring manager promised there's going to be appraisals and "if you do well, we can discuss about a salary increase". Right. I flat out told the last one: "You know, I'm not a new hire and after 5 years of being here I don't believe in such promises".
For me, it's very simple: show me the dough and I'm all yours. Job titles, work amounts, perks such as a desk nearer to the window don't interest me. I have to make enough for supporting my family and right now I can only make enough to barely keep us afloat. So I'm definitely looking outside but I was so far followed by bad luck.
One more thing: we're going through rougher times and companies bully their employees into low wages and shit because they can. But times will change eventually (might be 5 years, might be 10 until then) and when times change, some now large companies will become effectively defoliated of good performers. People would leave in droves because the job markets would boom again and bubbles will rise again to the top, while biggest bullies on the market right now will see their good blood drained by various startups and companies with good employee care plans.
Right now, when we look for another job, we ask ourselves "how stable is this company?" and a company's desirability is affected by its stability in the long-ish term. but in the future, when most companies will become again pretty stable, people will change their desirability scale accordingly. Then all the sins of those companies who now treat their employees like dirt will finally receive their overdue payment.
Weird, my VirtualBOX VMs run games just fine, but I agree that's happening using a Windows host. Not sure about Linux hosts though.
Make a Windows VM under Linux and run the damn game. If it works. Honestly I never tried.
You must feel so special and unique.
My Windows 7 boots in 15 minutes... but that only happens every 2-3 months when I reboot it for some reason (usually patches). Clean? Yes sir. No malware? Yes sir. Stable? With uptimes of 2-3 months at a time, yes sir.
Funny, this is exactly the sort of news I'm actually getting and reading. And there's plenty, at least where I live.
Why the fuck would you assume I live in the USA? Who's the one making assumptions here?
I stopped caring about detailed international news because they were getting to me. There was a period of time when I was reading all sorts of news, even had a huge RSS aggregator with literally thousands of news streams. Then I realized I could live happily without 99% of those. There's a war somewhere? I'll find out eventually. Some crimes have been committed half-way across the globe? Why the fuck should I care?
There are some news websites I peruse. Slashdot being the tech one. And it's a bloody good one, I'd say. I also have the ABC News app on my phone and whenever I open it, there's literally nothing there that would interest me. And there's a Romanian news site which publishes pretty much everything I need, plus some stuff I am not interested in. That's it. More than enough for me.
High quality, high detail news from distant places? Not really needed. Just give me the rough stuff and that's it.
Your false premise was that I live in the USA. I don't. And my politicians are too busy backstabbing each other to do anything of relevance externally. So there you have it.
I am sorry, but I don't need instantaneous, round the globe coverage with whatever the hell happens in some God-forsaken corner of the world. it's a perk I'm passively receiving and if I get such news, then that's fine. If not, I'm not gonna curl in a corner, frightened of the unknown.
There were times when people found that their king died weeks after the dude passed away, and their life was not impacted. Granted, we can do better nowadays but still, I couldn't care less about some fanatic blowing himself up in some Syria busy market. Local news - that's what I'm interested in, followed by news from my country. Everything else (save from something HUGE like the Japan Earthquake) is optional.
Yes I know, the Syria whatever-the-fuck-happens-there could theoretically very slightly affect me through the butterfly effect but really... not worth my immediate interest. Give me the high level overview: Syria dudes are still beating each other; China launched some satellite; USA still has crushing debt and Greece goes down the drain. Have a nice day!
I don't need to do that manually. There's software out there which does that more or less automatically.
You have scripted tag and rename for files and folders, smart ripping, automatic arrangement in collections and so on. And you don't do it all at once, but spend a couple minutes each time you get a new album. Better than having a pile of shit as music collection.
When you have 600 GB of nicely ordered music (in folders, by band, alphabetically, with tags and whatnot) it's a no-brainer to navigate around. But I agree, Joe Sixpack would be helped by iTunes, because he listens to whatever's on the radio (which by the way makes it useless to even own an MP3 player).
Funny, I skipped the iPod exactly because of iTunes, which was slow, prone to errors, messed up audio files, etc. MP3 drag-and-drop was much, MUCH simpler.
Exactly the reason why, after much thought, I decided to NOT buy or play Diablo III, just like I had decided tro NOT play Diablo II either. I mean, screw this shit, if they're pushing e to trade for real cash then they looked at the wrong guy. I'm not worried, though, there's plenty sheep out there, just waiting in line with their wallets hanging, ready for the milking of their lives.
Ha, that's exactly what happened when my team changed organizations within the same LoB. I transitioned a tool made in VBA I had created and which we've been using to my former department. After a while, they wanted a small change (add some names into a drop-down list of agents which was hardcoded because it was a "quick hack"). I told them: press Alt+F11 in Excel, press Ctrl+F, search for any existing name and just copy that line of code,go to the end of the line, press Enter and Ctrl+V, then change the duplicate name with the new one. Rinse and repeat.
After a while they came back to me because they had messed up. I declined accountability, saying "I transitioned the tool, now I'm doing something else, go find your own resource". They escalated to their director who had a chat with my manager and guess what happened next...
Yeah, it was me who enhanced that tool 8 times now, because my manager is "managing up", little does he care about abusing his directs as long as he could lick some higher management boots.
You either tried to reply to someone else's post, or didn't read mine.
Abort, retry, ignore?
If it's not gold-pressed Latinum, then it's worthless.
You mean this town right here?
https://maps.google.ro/maps?q=F%C4%83get+maps&ie=UTF8&ll=45.85463,22.174873&spn=0.024898,0.066047&hnear=F%C4%83get,+Timi%C8%99&gl=ro&t=h&z=15
Maybe he's a manager, in which case he's entitled to have no fucking clue, because that's what average managers do.