Too bad about the LS-120. I bought one way back - cost me $200 and haven't used it in a while after the machine it was installed in died. I REALLY would like to see the standard floppy drive get consigned to the dustbin of computing history. The media is unreliable, and the hardware is slower than any of the other common storage mechanisms by at factor of 10.
I really thought that the LS-120 would do away with the standard floppy disk and put the kibosh on the Iomega Zip, especially after all those click-of-death problems but it was like VHS and BetaMax all over again.
As a resident of Ontario, I have high hopes for the BIOX process to succeed. It would be nice to have widely available, affordable biodiesel. Now what's needed is a wider range of passenger diesel vehicles.
AntiVir is a fine, fine product. Once I discovered it, it was curtains for Norton. AntiVir and Firefox are the 2 products I most recommend to my Windows-using friends.
As far as stock options go for senior executives, their sell price should be whatever the closing price was the day before they were terminated.
If the executive was a heavy hitter, then s/he wouldn't be penalized by a price plunge after the market reacts. If said executive was dead weight or detrimental, then s/he shouldn't be rewarded by a price increase after they are let go.
I assume that this isn't already the case for senior execs.
In the interest of equality, I guess it was a good thing to have a woman at the helm of a large tech firm. But, equality aside, not only was she a lousy choice, she was around for FAR too long.
What I don't know is if this will hurt some other competent woman's chance of holding the position full-time, not just for the interim.
Hrmm, so why should anyone feel sorry for her? Chances are, she'll have a new job ( if she wants one ) much faster than most of the people who she kicked to the curb - probably long before she manages to redeem those stock options.
I can just imagine a newbie Intel programmer looking through old NeXTSTEP code. "Whoa, these guys had NX ( No eXecute) way back then?! D0z3 d00dz w3r3 l33t!!
Playing an instrument, running a marathon and getting a PhD all fall within the arena of personal accomplishment. Whatever the hassle involved, it's a feather in your cap once you've achieved it, even if you never do it again. Building an airplane? I assume you're talking about not doing it for profit? Again, personal accomplishment. Based on the variety of businesses out there, there are lots of things you can do that offer tremendous flexibility. The problem is that your skillset may not be appropriate to many of these so you have a huge learning curve in the beginning. I have friends who work in import/export who, once they got established, have an incredible amount of freedom and others who own stores who don't seem to have a problem taking time off - they have partners and rotate the responsibility. There are also seasonal businesses, if time off is an important requirement. I'm not really sure what your point is but here's mine - those who bitch about what a hassle owning your own business is may very well be going about it wrong ( not in all cases, though) and despite what you said, yes you CAN quit. Business owners do it all the time for a variety of reasons. What you can't usually do, is walk out on the spot.
That's true of most small businesses, especially in the early years but ask yourself this - if it's such a freakin' hassle, why do so many try it? Are they are just stupid? More likely, they've jumped in with being well-prepared - it's the major reason why so many new businesses fail - piss-poor planning.
What he's saying is that, to him, the rights that apply to citizens should be paramount but, increasingly it's the rights of consumers that take precedence.
So? What's wrong with that? They are selling their software to secret government agencies - they sell to the general public. As far as I'm concerned, if they can tout their software's capabilities to the public, he has the right to showcase its weak points in the same forum.
Rushdie wrote a work of FICTION that featured a reference to the Air India sabotage as well as a character who resembled the prophet Muhammad. For that, Ayatollah Khomeini called on ALL MUSLIMS in any country to execute Rushdie on sight - that's essentially inciting citizens of foreign nations to commit murder and a multimillion dollar bounty was placed on his head in 1989. Four years later, his Norwegian publisher was wounded outside his own home and in '97, the bounty was doubled and the death sentence was renewed by the Iranian State Prosecutor despite an apology issued by Rushdie seven years previously. That's way beyond extreme.
Yeah, but their screwups can bite you in the ass big time. A buddy of mine in Montreal paid H&R Block 2 years ago to prepare his return. They filed it with the Province of Quebec and never gave him back any documents. The Revenue office audits him, he asks H&R Block for his documents and gets bupkes. Why? They closed the office he originally dealt with and no-one knows or can find where the documents from that office are. Since he nothing to contest the auditor's disallowing employment related expenses ( former employer went bankrupt ), he's now $3000 out of pocket.
I'll stick to doing my own, as I have since the age of 16, thank you very much.
Okay, well, I concur with your definition of rape but them, the broadcast of that video is not rape nor even tantamount to it.
Assuming that it was made or broadcast without her permission, then it's a betrayal of trust. While many or most actual rapes involve a betrayal of trust, that element alone doesn't make it rape.
Also, your definition of rape offers an out for oral sex ( is that you, President Clinton? ) which is the only sexual activity depicted on that video.
I read the definitions at dictionary.com prior to posting - just to be sure. If you like, I can paste them into a post for you.
People use words in many ways and what is said isn't always what is MEANT and vice versa. In the many discussions and arguments I've had over the years on a variety of subjects, one constant is that those who like to use "tantamount" have always really meant to say that x IS y, not x is sorta like y or X is almost the same as Y
I don't believe that God created the universe or that there is only one universe. I believe that there are infinitely many universes in infinitely many dimensions and the sum total of all these realities - that is God.
None of your suppositions are possible as the Earth was only created sometime within the last 10,000 years.
Your "scientific" theories such as the formation of the Grand Canyon are very annoying to We, the Faithful, as it has been clearly shown that the canyon was formed during the Great Flood, which purged the Earth of the Ungodly.
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Too bad about the LS-120. I bought one way back - cost me $200 and haven't used it in a while after the machine it was installed in died.
I REALLY would like to see the standard floppy drive
get consigned to the dustbin of computing history. The media is unreliable, and the hardware is slower than any of the other common storage mechanisms by at factor of 10.
I really thought that the LS-120 would do away with the standard floppy disk and put the kibosh on the Iomega Zip, especially after all those click-of-death problems but it was like VHS and BetaMax all over again.
Whoa, I hadn't seen a reference to Remo Williams in many years.
As a resident of Ontario, I have high hopes for the BIOX process to succeed. It would be nice to have widely available, affordable biodiesel.
Now what's needed is a wider range of passenger diesel vehicles.
AntiVir is a fine, fine product. Once I discovered it, it was curtains for Norton. AntiVir and Firefox are the 2 products I most recommend to my Windows-using friends.
That should be "advice". "Advise" is the verb form.
although it's doesn't really apply to Windows 2000 and later.
As far as stock options go for senior executives, their sell price should be whatever the closing price was the day before they were terminated.
If the executive was a heavy hitter, then s/he wouldn't be penalized by a price plunge after the market reacts. If said executive was dead weight or detrimental, then s/he shouldn't be rewarded by a price increase after they are let go.
I assume that this isn't already the case for senior execs.
In the interest of equality, I guess it was a good thing to have a woman at the helm of a large tech firm. But, equality aside, not only was she a lousy choice, she was around for FAR too long.
What I don't know is if this will hurt some other competent woman's chance of holding the position full-time, not just for the interim.
Hrmm, so why should anyone feel sorry for her? Chances are, she'll have a new job ( if she wants one ) much faster than most of the people who she kicked to the curb - probably long before she manages to redeem those stock options.
I can just imagine a newbie Intel programmer looking through old NeXTSTEP code.
"Whoa, these guys had NX ( No eXecute) way back then?! D0z3 d00dz w3r3 l33t!!
I'd mod this up
Playing an instrument, running a marathon and getting a PhD all fall within the arena of personal accomplishment. Whatever the hassle involved, it's a feather in your cap once you've achieved it, even if you never do it again.
Building an airplane? I assume you're talking about not doing it for profit? Again, personal accomplishment.
Based on the variety of businesses out there, there are lots of things you can do that offer tremendous flexibility.
The problem is that your skillset may not be appropriate to many of these so you have a huge learning curve in the beginning.
I have friends who work in import/export who, once they got established, have an incredible amount of freedom and others who own stores who don't seem to have a problem taking time off - they have partners and rotate the responsibility.
There are also seasonal businesses, if time off is an important requirement.
I'm not really sure what your point is but here's mine - those who bitch about what a hassle owning your own business is may very well be going about it wrong ( not in all cases, though) and despite what you said, yes you CAN quit.
Business owners do it all the time for a variety of reasons. What you can't usually do, is walk out
on the spot.
That's true of most small businesses, especially in the early years but ask yourself this - if it's such a freakin' hassle, why do so many try it?
Are they are just stupid? More likely, they've jumped in with being well-prepared - it's the major reason why so many new businesses fail - piss-poor planning.
Your sig should read:
Fighting for peace is like fucking for chastity
Has a nicer ring to it, IMO
Yes. Do you really want to tell him the truth?
What he's saying is that, to him, the rights that apply to citizens should be paramount but, increasingly it's the rights of consumers that take precedence.
Defition? Is that in the M$ dictionary? My gnome-dictionary doesn't have any such word in it.
So? What's wrong with that? They are selling their software to secret government agencies - they sell to the general public.
As far as I'm concerned, if they can tout their software's capabilities to the public, he has the right to showcase its weak points in the same forum.
Rushdie wrote a work of FICTION that featured a reference to the Air India sabotage as well as a character who resembled the prophet Muhammad.
For that, Ayatollah Khomeini called on ALL MUSLIMS in any country to execute Rushdie on sight - that's essentially inciting citizens of foreign nations to commit murder and a multimillion dollar bounty was placed on his head in 1989.
Four years later, his Norwegian publisher was wounded outside his own home and in '97, the bounty was doubled and the death sentence was renewed by the Iranian State Prosecutor despite an
apology issued by Rushdie seven years previously.
That's way beyond extreme.
Yeah, but their screwups can bite you in the ass big time. A buddy of mine in Montreal paid H&R Block 2 years ago to prepare his return.
They filed it with the Province of Quebec and never gave him back any documents. The Revenue office audits him, he asks H&R Block for his documents and gets bupkes.
Why? They closed the office he originally dealt with and no-one knows or can find where the documents from that office are.
Since he nothing to contest the auditor's disallowing employment related expenses ( former employer went bankrupt ), he's now $3000 out of pocket.
I'll stick to doing my own, as I have since the age of 16, thank you very much.
Okay, well, I concur with your definition of rape but them, the broadcast of that video is not rape nor even tantamount to it.
Assuming that it was made or broadcast without her permission, then it's a betrayal of trust.
While many or most actual rapes involve a betrayal of trust, that element alone doesn't make it rape.
Also, your definition of rape offers an out for oral sex ( is that you, President Clinton? ) which is the only sexual activity depicted on that video.
"Your personal favorite" - I'm beginning to understand you. The nice thing about definitions is that there are so many to choose from.
What, pray tell, is "your personal favorite" definition of rape?
I read the definitions at dictionary.com prior to posting - just to be sure. If you like, I can paste them into a post for you.
People use words in many ways and what is said isn't always what is MEANT and vice versa.
In the many discussions and arguments I've had over the years on a variety of subjects, one constant is that those who like to use "tantamount" have always really meant to say that x IS y, not x is sorta like y or X is almost the same as Y
I don't believe that God created the universe or that there is only one universe. I believe that there are infinitely many universes in infinitely many dimensions and the sum total of all these realities - that is God.
Makes one feel really small, doesn't it?
None of your suppositions are possible as the Earth was only created sometime within the last 10,000 years.
Your "scientific" theories such as the formation of the Grand Canyon are very annoying to We, the Faithful, as it has been clearly shown that the canyon was formed during the Great Flood, which purged the Earth of the Ungodly.