If there were any evidence whatsoever that someone was banned (or otherwise discriminated against) because of their sexual orientation, that is quite illegal in many states (including California, and Microsoft certainly does have a presence in California).
Though, just to play devil's advocate, I can't help but wonder if this person's self-identity is so tied up in being a lesbian that that's all she sees herself as. Because at that point - and you know people like that, we all do - no matter what she does, it's always "because I'm a lesbian" when people react badly.
Ask yourself if you really want to work for a company that would assume that anyone with your name is you, even if - in your own words - "it would become quickly apparent that the subject in question is not me." If they're willing to do that, they'll be willing to assume you're to blame for anything anyone accuses you of to cover their own ass, and a host of other sins that employers commit ever day.
Think of this as an IQ test of a potential employer. If one brings it up, point out to them, in detail, how easy it would have been to determine this wasn't you, then walk out of the interview and be thankful you've dodged a bullet.
I labor under the daft illusion that the government should rationalize taxation. That is, road taxes should pay for roads while warmongering taxes should foot the bill for bullets.
That is, indeed, daft.
You should stop placidly accepting your government's habit of randomly redistributing your taxes willy-nilly.
You should take your lithium and rejoin the real world. Seriously.
I rarely drive. Why should I subsidize the people who drive 100 miles a day to commute into the city from their faux-rural home?
You seem to believe you will somehow pay less in taxes if this happens. Why, I have no idea. If anything, your taxes will go up to pay for the postage to send out the bills, so that the revenue from the tolls can be maximized.
Plus, why would you think, for one second, that the money from these tolls would be used to pay for road improvements anyway? They say they will, but they always do until the money's in the bank.
But you - and he - assume that prosecutors are 1) better trained, and better attorneys, and 2) criminally dishonest.
Assistant DAs are about as well paid as public defenders, and about as likely to be driven by a crusader complex. In short, there's no reason to believe they're any better than the PDs.
A coworker - who drives a hybrid and is quite familiar with the noise issue because of it - was nearly run down in a parking garage by a hybrid, because he couldn't hear it coming and couldn't see it coming around a corner. He was looking both ways.
The world isn't as simple as your sadism wishes it was, so that you could not feel guilty for being an asshole.
Actually, the quietness of electric and hybrid cars is already an issue, and a real one. There is a measurable rise in car/pedestrian accidents in ares with a lot of electric or hybrid cars.
You should note that in some states (and it varies a lot), audio recordings without everyone's explicit permission, even in a public place is a felony.
Laws vary by state, but it's hard to imagine that going through your backpack without your consent and taking things out of it is anything less than criminal anywhere in the United States. In California, it would be felony robbery, at least, and felony assault if the teacher touched you to force the issue.
Ask the university if they want to discipline the teacher, of if they'd rather you ask the police to do so.
The problem is the message replied to having - RTFA - several thousand addresses in the To: and CC: fields. This is what BCC is for. Allowing people to put several thousand addresses in to the headers will eventually result in a mail storm, whether someone hits Reply To All or not. The first time someone opens a virus laden attachment that goes through their (archived by law, this being a federal agency) emails, it will send itself out to thousands of equally clueless people. One of them will run the attachment, which will send another copy to several thousand people. And so on. This happened where I work once, by people who should have known better. Before it was done, I was getting two hundreds copies of the virus per day.
Whoever sent out the message replied to should be fired and criminally prosecuted for deliberately sabotaging the State Department's email system. But since the article doesn't mention this at all, I'm assuming it was some dumbass boss somewhree who is immune to any form of disclipline for anything, up to and including murder.
It isn't IT work that's the problem, it's workers and bosses who are idiots. And most are, of both. I've done IT for 15 years, and I love my job. If you want to enjoy IT work there are certain things you need to ensure:
1) Know your ass from a hole in the ground. And know your limits. Don't make claims you can't back up, and don't screw around just to fill out the day.
2) Learn to communicate with people who don't know a damn thing about computers. You must learn how to do this, or your boss will assume you're makign shit up because you're blowing smoke up his ass. It's the hardest part of the job, becaus you will work for people who know nothing about what you do, do not know this, and have been taught (getting their MBA) to micromanage everything you do. In other words, they'll get in your way.
3) Learn to put issues to the MBAs in their terms. Do not give them technical details of why you need a particular piece of equipment. Tell them that in order to make what they want to happen happen, you need $xxx amount of money. When they ask for details, keep it as simple, and plain english as you possibly can. But keep coming back to "If you want x to happen, I have to spend $y amount of money."
4) Accept that there are a significant minority of users (and it is a minority, even though you spend most of your time dealing with them) who are simply too stupid to be able to turn a computer on an off by themselves. And you can't do anything about it. Make everything as idiot proof as you can, and learn how to work with drive images to quickly restore computers broken by morons. (I've recovered files someone deleted through stupidity a hundred times as often as because of any technical glitch.)
5) Learn to not be so geeky that people want to vomit at the sight of you. Really.
And most important of all:
6) No matter how many times you have to find a new job, do not work for idiots. The perfect boss is one who knows how little he knows about what you do, and leaves you alone. Trust me on this. A good boss tells you what he wants done, not what he wants you to do. You'll have to train your boss on the difference. But it's worth it.
The one difference from 1989 is that it is illegal for even ask for (or record) a phone number on a credit card now (or even have a box marked "phone number" on the slip). But if you have the name (which is in the mag strip) and a zip code (which is often asked), it's trivial to figure out the phone number and address. You're right, though. There's nothing new in this. It's also very, very possible the OP gave BB his address for some reason on a previous purchase, which was put in their customer database along with the debit card number, never to be forgotten except by the customer.
In other words, you can't find a credible study supporting your claims. As predicted. As is always the case for advocates of such ridiculous crap as accupunture. Thanks for confirming that you're dishoenst, rather than just stupid. Now run along and play, son, cuz the adults have important things to talk about.
If you know of an accupuncture study that showed positive results that hasn't been discredited, please give me a URL. But if you had one, you would have, wouldn't you? But you didn't. If you do, I'll forward it to people who review such things, and get back to you on what's wrong with it (as a scientific experiment).
Yes, every single one. Mostly, on the basis that it's not double-blind and randomized (because, as I noted, and as you ignored, this is very difficult to do with accupuncture). And if it's not double-blind and randomized, it's not valid research. That's how science works.
Speaking of red flags, you raised several. Attacking me and not my point, for instance, by calling me names rather than offering evidence to support your claim that there are studies that haven't been discredited. Retreating behind "you can never prove anything" BS is another, ignoring - and it's deliberate, I suspect - that there are infinite shades of gray, but some of them are pretty damned dark.
As I said, you should take a look at Steve Novella's blog on the subject at http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/ But you won't, because you know better than to wave your faith at folks like him. He's simply more credible than you are, being a doctor, and well within his field, and he'll tear you a new asshole with your BS hysteria tactics, as he has many others just like you.
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If you can't be troubled to back up your claims, I'll take the word of a real doctor over yours. And yes, discredited, most as "not done in a valid way," rather than "proven to be wrong," but discredited, nonetheless.
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Didn't read the book but acupuncture has a body of clinical studies related to actual, verifiable physical changes in body chemistry.
No, actually, it doesn't. Every single study that shows positive results have been discredited, and a number showing no, or even negative, results have not. Acupuncture is notoriously difficult to do real science on, because real science requires double blind, randomized testing. How do you administer accupuncture with a fake needle, in such a way that neither the patient nor the "doctor" knows which is real and which is fake? Only one study has been attempted (using an automated shield that covers the needle), and it actually showed that accupunture made things worse (though weakly).
If you're interested in real medical science, read Steve Novella's blog (which includes a lot of discussion of accupunture research) at http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/
He's more qualified than either of us, being an actual doctor.
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I've suffered years with allergies and to make a long story short, homeopathy cured me.
Allergies are often quite responsive to biofeedback effects. Not placebo, exactly, but serf-induced healing.
Before someone call "placebo effect", let's say that if placebo effect did the trick, why it didn't with all the previous treatments I tried before taking homeopathy?
Because you clearly have a bias against scientific medicine, and a placebo effect only works if you expect it to.
Believe me, I've hade this conversation several times and I'm just tired of arguing about this whole stuff.
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If there were any evidence whatsoever that someone was banned (or otherwise discriminated against) because of their sexual orientation, that is quite illegal in many states (including California, and Microsoft certainly does have a presence in California).
Though, just to play devil's advocate, I can't help but wonder if this person's self-identity is so tied up in being a lesbian that that's all she sees herself as. Because at that point - and you know people like that, we all do - no matter what she does, it's always "because I'm a lesbian" when people react badly.
That is why you hide the recorder - just make sure you are in a one party consent state first.
In some states, it is a felony to record audio without the explicit permission of all parties. A felony.
A bullet dodged is a bullet dodges, whether you hear the sonic crack or not.
Ask yourself if you really want to work for a company that would assume that anyone with your name is you, even if - in your own words - "it would become quickly apparent that the subject in question is not me." If they're willing to do that, they'll be willing to assume you're to blame for anything anyone accuses you of to cover their own ass, and a host of other sins that employers commit ever day.
Think of this as an IQ test of a potential employer. If one brings it up, point out to them, in detail, how easy it would have been to determine this wasn't you, then walk out of the interview and be thankful you've dodged a bullet.
I labor under the daft illusion that the government should rationalize taxation. That is, road taxes should pay for roads while warmongering taxes should foot the bill for bullets.
That is, indeed, daft.
You should stop placidly accepting your government's habit of randomly redistributing your taxes willy-nilly.
You should take your lithium and rejoin the real world. Seriously.
I rarely drive. Why should I subsidize the people who drive 100 miles a day to commute into the city from their faux-rural home?
You seem to believe you will somehow pay less in taxes if this happens. Why, I have no idea. If anything, your taxes will go up to pay for the postage to send out the bills, so that the revenue from the tolls can be maximized.
Plus, why would you think, for one second, that the money from these tolls would be used to pay for road improvements anyway? They say they will, but they always do until the money's in the bank.
But you - and he - assume that prosecutors are 1) better trained, and better attorneys, and 2) criminally dishonest.
Assistant DAs are about as well paid as public defenders, and about as likely to be driven by a crusader complex. In short, there's no reason to believe they're any better than the PDs.
Now adjust your tin foil hat, son.
What most of my friends, who are attorneys,
Over 50% of your friends are lawyers?
A good attorney will find a way to make the prosecution's evidence inadmissible.
And yet, conviction rates at trial are very, very high in most courts.
I'm sure that being convinced it was all a big conspiracy will be a great comfort to you while you serve your sentence.
You are reinforcing my point.
A coworker - who drives a hybrid and is quite familiar with the noise issue because of it - was nearly run down in a parking garage by a hybrid, because he couldn't hear it coming and couldn't see it coming around a corner. He was looking both ways.
The world isn't as simple as your sadism wishes it was, so that you could not feel guilty for being an asshole.
The inability to experience compassion is a warning sign of a psychopathic personality.
Actually, the quietness of electric and hybrid cars is already an issue, and a real one. There is a measurable rise in car/pedestrian accidents in ares with a lot of electric or hybrid cars.
You should note that in some states (and it varies a lot), audio recordings without everyone's explicit permission, even in a public place is a felony.
Laws vary by state, but it's hard to imagine that going through your backpack without your consent and taking things out of it is anything less than criminal anywhere in the United States. In California, it would be felony robbery, at least, and felony assault if the teacher touched you to force the issue.
Ask the university if they want to discipline the teacher, of if they'd rather you ask the police to do so.
Your tin foil hat is slipping.
The problem is the message replied to having - RTFA - several thousand addresses in the To: and CC: fields. This is what BCC is for . Allowing people to put several thousand addresses in to the headers will eventually result in a mail storm, whether someone hits Reply To All or not. The first time someone opens a virus laden attachment that goes through their (archived by law, this being a federal agency) emails, it will send itself out to thousands of equally clueless people. One of them will run the attachment, which will send another copy to several thousand people. And so on. This happened where I work once, by people who should have known better. Before it was done, I was getting two hundreds copies of the virus per day.
Whoever sent out the message replied to should be fired and criminally prosecuted for deliberately sabotaging the State Department's email system. But since the article doesn't mention this at all, I'm assuming it was some dumbass boss somewhree who is immune to any form of disclipline for anything, up to and including murder.
It isn't IT work that's the problem, it's workers and bosses who are idiots. And most are, of both. I've done IT for 15 years, and I love my job. If you want to enjoy IT work there are certain things you need to ensure:
1) Know your ass from a hole in the ground. And know your limits. Don't make claims you can't back up, and don't screw around just to fill out the day.
2) Learn to communicate with people who don't know a damn thing about computers. You must learn how to do this, or your boss will assume you're makign shit up because you're blowing smoke up his ass. It's the hardest part of the job, becaus you will work for people who know nothing about what you do, do not know this, and have been taught (getting their MBA) to micromanage everything you do. In other words, they'll get in your way.
3) Learn to put issues to the MBAs in their terms. Do not give them technical details of why you need a particular piece of equipment. Tell them that in order to make what they want to happen happen, you need $xxx amount of money. When they ask for details, keep it as simple, and plain english as you possibly can. But keep coming back to "If you want x to happen, I have to spend $y amount of money."
4) Accept that there are a significant minority of users (and it is a minority, even though you spend most of your time dealing with them) who are simply too stupid to be able to turn a computer on an off by themselves. And you can't do anything about it. Make everything as idiot proof as you can, and learn how to work with drive images to quickly restore computers broken by morons. (I've recovered files someone deleted through stupidity a hundred times as often as because of any technical glitch.)
5) Learn to not be so geeky that people want to vomit at the sight of you. Really.
And most important of all:
6) No matter how many times you have to find a new job, do not work for idiots. The perfect boss is one who knows how little he knows about what you do, and leaves you alone. Trust me on this. A good boss tells you what he wants done, not what he wants you to do. You'll have to train your boss on the difference. But it's worth it.
My brother started his own business with the settlement money he got after a coworker attacked him.
The one difference from 1989 is that it is illegal for even ask for (or record) a phone number on a credit card now (or even have a box marked "phone number" on the slip). But if you have the name (which is in the mag strip) and a zip code (which is often asked), it's trivial to figure out the phone number and address. You're right, though. There's nothing new in this. It's also very, very possible the OP gave BB his address for some reason on a previous purchase, which was put in their customer database along with the debit card number, never to be forgotten except by the customer.
In other words, you can't find a credible study supporting your claims. As predicted. As is always the case for advocates of such ridiculous crap as accupunture. Thanks for confirming that you're dishoenst, rather than just stupid. Now run along and play, son, cuz the adults have important things to talk about.
if you worry more about how to write it than you do actually writing it. Books were written with pencil and paper for centuries. Really.
If you know of an accupuncture study that showed positive results that hasn't been discredited, please give me a URL. But if you had one, you would have, wouldn't you? But you didn't. If you do, I'll forward it to people who review such things, and get back to you on what's wrong with it (as a scientific experiment).
Yes, every single one. Mostly, on the basis that it's not double-blind and randomized (because, as I noted, and as you ignored, this is very difficult to do with accupuncture). And if it's not double-blind and randomized, it's not valid research. That's how science works.
Speaking of red flags, you raised several. Attacking me and not my point, for instance, by calling me names rather than offering evidence to support your claim that there are studies that haven't been discredited. Retreating behind "you can never prove anything" BS is another, ignoring - and it's deliberate, I suspect - that there are infinite shades of gray, but some of them are pretty damned dark.
As I said, you should take a look at Steve Novella's blog on the subject at http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/ But you won't, because you know better than to wave your faith at folks like him. He's simply more credible than you are, being a doctor, and well within his field, and he'll tear you a new asshole with your BS hysteria tactics, as he has many others just like you.
If you can't be troubled to back up your claims, I'll take the word of a real doctor over yours. And yes, discredited, most as "not done in a valid way," rather than "proven to be wrong," but discredited, nonetheless.
Didn't read the book but acupuncture has a body of clinical studies related to actual, verifiable physical changes in body chemistry.
No, actually, it doesn't. Every single study that shows positive results have been discredited, and a number showing no, or even negative, results have not. Acupuncture is notoriously difficult to do real science on, because real science requires double blind, randomized testing. How do you administer accupuncture with a fake needle, in such a way that neither the patient nor the "doctor" knows which is real and which is fake? Only one study has been attempted (using an automated shield that covers the needle), and it actually showed that accupunture made things worse (though weakly).
If you're interested in real medical science, read Steve Novella's blog (which includes a lot of discussion of accupunture research) at http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/
He's more qualified than either of us, being an actual doctor.
I've suffered years with allergies and to make a long story short, homeopathy cured me.
Allergies are often quite responsive to biofeedback effects. Not placebo, exactly, but serf-induced healing.
Before someone call "placebo effect", let's say that if placebo effect did the trick, why it didn't with all the previous treatments I tried before taking homeopathy?
Because you clearly have a bias against scientific medicine, and a placebo effect only works if you expect it to.
Believe me, I've hade this conversation several times and I'm just tired of arguing about this whole stuff.
If that's the case, why'd you post about it?