"since all of my goals outlined since my hire date have been met and exceeded, I have a lot of down time".
"The entire source was developed on personal equipment off company hours"
these two statements make absolutely zero sense when placed together.
if the guy wrote it and actually TESTED it on work time, then he owns exactly fucking 0 of his source code. he is considered a 'work for hire' employee.
of course, there is a chance that the administrators are too dumb to understand this. he could claim he 'registered copyright' (a phrase which has no actual meaning) and see if they will jump.
on the other hand, this is a 'trade school', which could in theory mean one of the diploma mills owned by hedge funds who are betting on the education bubble collapsing and betting against the student loans they pump and dump during day-time tv commercial hours. Im thinking ITT or DeVry here.
in that case, their corporate HQ will probably have some highly educated, experienced lawyers who will be able to run a truck right over any bluffing he tries to do.
lastly, im completely talking out of my ass. but it all sounded so good, right? right? parts of it have some resemblance to reality, id wager.
1. Chris Dodd, former senator, now head of MPAA, spoke admiringly of China's great firewall, saying that we could filter copyright violation if they could filter so much speech on their networks
2. Thomas Drake, Stephen Kim, Shamai Leibowitz, Jeffrey Alexander, Bradley Manning.
these 5 people's stories, and the details of the charges against them, prove that speech is increasingly being attacked for political reasons. under the guise of 'national security'.
anything more than trivial in basic actually takes a lot of 'programmer thinking' to do. donkey.bas, (with bill gates programming participation) is a perfect example. its hundreds of lines of spaghetti code that are almost impossible to understand. what does it accomplish ? it has a picture of a car, and pictures of donkeys coming down the screen you are supposed to dodge.
for the 'ordinary person' looking at this program, python would be far, far easier to understand than the mass of PEEK, POKE, hex-code, and other stuff that was in your average IBM PC BASIC program
there are two very interesting stratfor articles that bear direct relation on his case, one from circa 2001, one from circa 2010, both pointing out the laughable nature of our 'classification' system, and the way it breeds bureaucracy and political infighting, rather than security. when everything can be classified, even innocuous memos, then the whole point of classification loses its meaning in the first place. instead of becoming about security of critical information, it becomes about power brokers exploiting their security clearances to one-up each other and keep people out of loops.
i forget the names of the articles but if you google them you can find them.
"We invest in training people and bringing them up to speed to where they need to be, and boom they're gone"
as opposed to, say, employees who spend 30 years at a company, and then have their electronic ID turned off one day without anyone telling them, and someone sends them a text message saying 'we will mail you your stuff'.
you just FIRED all those old people in order to make room for the 20 somethings, so that you wouldn't have to pay health insurance or deal with their maternity leave or, you know, ability to understand their rights as employees.
you think the 20 somethings didn't see this happen? you think they don't know what you did? you think they don't understand how the game works?
where did these kids learn to be disloyal? they learned it by watching you!!!!
what matters is that the students have the freedom to build things and explore their creativity and imagination.
other than that, it doesnt matter if you have a bunch of old pentiums or a $500,000 artist designed "dead tech post modern bullshit" decor.
education is about the relationship between people, not about gadgets, whiteboards, network policies, projectors, natural light, or any of that other bullshit.
nevermind you can do everything faronics does with linux + ntfsclone for the cost of labor and farnoics is a gigantic vendor lockin clusterfuck to the twin houses of money wasting and mysterious breakage.
2. oh yeah. i know it was easy to mis-understand what i meant. there was actually one guy, who told other people what to do, and thats how the great wall of china got built. but then he committed suicide. because he had disturbed the Chi of the earth.
so i guess if your Chevy SUV suddenly loses all braking capability on a tight right hand curve above Dead Man's Canyon, its your own fucking fault that you and 5 kids and a nun died, am i right?
"Captain Theodore T. Harduvel's widow, Janet, was the focus of the production and her assistance was paramount in presenting an accurate portrait of the struggle to clear her husband's memory and legacy.[5] In 1987, Janet Harduvel won a $3.1 million dollar jury award against General Dynamics Corporation, alleging a flight instrumentation malfunction due to a short circuit caused by frayed ("chafed") wiring, led to his crash.[6][7] The verdict would "ultimately be overturned, not on its merits, but on the basis that federal defense contractors enjoy blanket immunity from such lawsuits."[1] A subsequent defeat on appeal followed.[8]"
1 ^ a b c Posner, Gary P. " "Star Goddess Janet Sciales." St. Petersburg Times via Tampa Bay Skeptics, Vol. 15, No. 1, Summer 2002. Retrieved: November 6, 2011. 5 ^ a b Schindehette, Susan. "For Love and honor." People, Vol. 37, No. 21, June 1, 1992. Retrieved: November 6, 2011. 6 ^ Murray, Frank J. "High-Flying Troubles." Insight on the News via FindArticles.com, January 3, 2000. Retrieved: November 6, 2011. 7 ^ a b Aleshire 2005, p. xvii. 8 ^ "878 F.2d 1311: Janet Harduvel." justia.com, July 31, 1989. Retrieved: November 6, 2011.
it was, in fact, entirely preventable, by proper management and engineering, both of which failed on an epic scale. how do you make a 145 million dollar aircraft that does not do basic life support functions to the same quality of an aircraft built in the 1970s?
its unbelieveably fucking ridiculous. military men are not willing to die, that doesnt mean you can waste their lives with stupid decisions and cost-cutting back room political bullshit and get away with it.
ultimately, the taxpayers are the customer here. and i doubt many of them, in a jury, would find the managers and air force innocent here.
it can outmaneuver it, it can be loaded with missiles that destroy it easily, etc etc. piloted warplanes are fucking stupid, and the whole industry is a gigantic welfare program that needs to be shut down before this country goes completely bankrupt.
which is inherent in a military that is more like a gigantic welfare-jobs program than an actual fighting force (minus, of course, the actual fighters)
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"since all of my goals outlined since my hire date have been met and exceeded, I have a lot of down time".
"The entire source was developed on personal equipment off company hours"
these two statements make absolutely zero sense when placed together.
if the guy wrote it and actually TESTED it on work time, then he owns exactly fucking 0 of his source code. he is considered a 'work for hire' employee.
of course, there is a chance that the administrators are too dumb to understand this. he could claim he 'registered copyright' (a phrase which has no actual meaning) and see if they will jump.
on the other hand, this is a 'trade school', which could in theory mean one of the diploma mills owned by hedge funds who are betting on the education bubble collapsing and betting against the student loans they pump and dump during day-time tv commercial hours. Im thinking ITT or DeVry here.
in that case, their corporate HQ will probably have some highly educated, experienced lawyers who will be able to run a truck right over any bluffing he tries to do.
lastly, im completely talking out of my ass. but it all sounded so good, right? right?
parts of it have some resemblance to reality, id wager.
if Penny Arcade gave as much attention to customer service disasters as, say, you know, a human rights disaster
"Hello, I am writing in regards to my husbands disappearance in an American prison in Afghanistan"
--"Yes we will get right on that"
"Hello, it has been 1 year since i asked about my husbands location"
--"Sorry, we have lost your ticket id. please submit a new one to your local ASR FQR"
"Hello ASR FQR i need to find my husband"
--"We have no record of anyone named Pashkar"
"His name is Dashkar not Pashkar"
--"We have no record of anyone named Dashkar"
"they spelled it without the h
--"Daskar was posted for an AR40 73b6"
"When? What does that mean?"
--"We cannot give out that information"
etc etc
1. Chris Dodd, former senator, now head of MPAA, spoke admiringly of China's great firewall, saying that we could filter copyright violation if they could filter so much speech on their networks
2. Thomas Drake, Stephen Kim, Shamai Leibowitz, Jeffrey Alexander, Bradley Manning.
these 5 people's stories, and the details of the charges against them, prove that speech is increasingly being attacked for political reasons. under the guise of 'national security'.
anything more than trivial in basic actually takes a lot of 'programmer thinking' to do.
donkey.bas, (with bill gates programming participation) is a perfect example. its hundreds of lines of spaghetti code that are almost impossible to understand. what does it accomplish ? it has a picture of a car, and pictures of donkeys coming down the screen you are supposed to dodge.
for the 'ordinary person' looking at this program, python would be far, far easier to understand than the mass of PEEK, POKE, hex-code, and other stuff that was in your average IBM PC BASIC program
there are two very interesting stratfor articles that bear direct relation on his case, one from circa 2001, one from circa 2010, both pointing out the laughable nature of our 'classification' system, and the way it breeds bureaucracy and political infighting, rather than security. when everything can be classified, even innocuous memos, then the whole point of classification loses its meaning in the first place. instead of becoming about security of critical information, it becomes about power brokers exploiting their security clearances to one-up each other and keep people out of loops.
i forget the names of the articles but if you google them you can find them.
the bizarre contrast in the way these stories were reported.
mythbusters:
crazy experiment goes wrong, smashes through two houses and a car.
russian satellite:
incompetent russians almost kill man with space debris.
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difference? mythbusters actually almost killed several people. the russians only almost killed one guy.
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how 'different' it is.
"We invest in training people and bringing them up to speed to where they need to be, and boom they're gone"
as opposed to, say, employees who spend 30 years at a company, and then have their electronic ID turned off one day without anyone telling them, and someone sends them a text message saying 'we will mail you your stuff'.
you just FIRED all those old people in order to make room for the 20 somethings, so that you wouldn't have to pay health insurance or deal with their maternity leave or, you know, ability to understand their rights as employees.
you think the 20 somethings didn't see this happen? you think they don't know what you did? you think they don't understand how the game works?
where did these kids learn to be disloyal? they learned it by watching you!!!!
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maybe we should also just round up a few thousand of them and ship them to cuba and torture them until they tell us where all the bad guys are?
i bet that would work, this war would be over tomorrow!
oh wait, apple patented the beowulf cluster.
what matters is that the students have the freedom to build things and explore their creativity and imagination.
other than that, it doesnt matter if you have a bunch of old pentiums or a $500,000 artist designed "dead tech post modern bullshit" decor.
education is about the relationship between people, not about gadgets, whiteboards, network policies, projectors, natural light, or any of that other bullshit.
nevermind you can do everything faronics does with linux + ntfsclone for the cost of labor
and farnoics is a gigantic vendor lockin clusterfuck to the twin houses of money wasting and mysterious breakage.
, namely, the ADAMS and PRODIGAL projects? what were the ethical debates inside the CS department about accepting this money for doing this work?
do you think the world is better off knowing about the corruption and incompetence uncovered by Wikileaks?
do you think Bradley Manning was guilty of Aiding the Enemy?
is higher than your GDP.
2. oh yeah. i know it was easy to mis-understand what i meant. there was actually one guy, who told other people what to do, and thats how the great wall of china got built. but then he committed suicide. because he had disturbed the Chi of the earth.
so i guess if your Chevy SUV suddenly loses all braking capability on a tight right hand curve above Dead Man's Canyon, its your own fucking fault that you and 5 kids and a nun died, am i right?
"Captain Theodore T. Harduvel's widow, Janet, was the focus of the production and her assistance was paramount in presenting an accurate portrait of the struggle to clear her husband's memory and legacy.[5] In 1987, Janet Harduvel won a $3.1 million dollar jury award against General Dynamics Corporation, alleging a flight instrumentation malfunction due to a short circuit caused by frayed ("chafed") wiring, led to his crash.[6][7] The verdict would "ultimately be overturned, not on its merits, but on the basis that federal defense contractors enjoy blanket immunity from such lawsuits."[1] A subsequent defeat on appeal followed.[8]"
1 ^ a b c Posner, Gary P. " "Star Goddess Janet Sciales." St. Petersburg Times via Tampa Bay Skeptics, Vol. 15, No. 1, Summer 2002. Retrieved: November 6, 2011.
5 ^ a b Schindehette, Susan. "For Love and honor." People, Vol. 37, No. 21, June 1, 1992. Retrieved: November 6, 2011.
6 ^ Murray, Frank J. "High-Flying Troubles." Insight on the News via FindArticles.com, January 3, 2000. Retrieved: November 6, 2011.
7 ^ a b Aleshire 2005, p. xvii.
8 ^ "878 F.2d 1311: Janet Harduvel." justia.com, July 31, 1989. Retrieved: November 6, 2011.
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it was, in fact, entirely preventable, by proper management and engineering, both of which failed on an epic scale. how do you make a 145 million dollar aircraft that does not do basic life support functions to the same quality of an aircraft built in the 1970s?
its unbelieveably fucking ridiculous. military men are not willing to die, that doesnt mean you can waste their lives with stupid decisions and cost-cutting back room political bullshit and get away with it.
ultimately, the taxpayers are the customer here. and i doubt many of them, in a jury, would find the managers and air force innocent here.
and then covering it up, in order to protect the rich fuckbags who run the aviation industry.
don't believe me?
United States v. Reynolds
Janet Harduvel vs General Dynamics
and on and on and on.
apologists for the air force need to shut the fuck up and sit the fuck down. you arent worth the tiniest piece of ash left over from this pilots body.
it can outmaneuver it, it can be loaded with missiles that destroy it easily, etc etc. piloted warplanes are fucking stupid, and the whole industry is a gigantic welfare program that needs to be shut down before this country goes completely bankrupt.
airplane's have been supplying oxygen to pilots for decades without problems, during all sorts of bizarre failures.
whoever was the dipshit who decided to institute this fancy bullshit system instead of the old simple crap is to blame. not the pilot.
exactly? because to me heres what it looks like
system X has worked fine for decades. but they decide it costs too much and replace it with something else.
plane Y costs 145 million dollars a pop, even though old planes cost 30 million or 50 million.
did i mention that System X was part of the life support system for the pilot?
how can the average taxpayer agree to pay for bullshit like this? why should we?
which is inherent in a military that is more like a gigantic welfare-jobs program than an actual fighting force (minus, of course, the actual fighters)
then let them see how fast that problem gets fixed.