Not only is it now a fairly serious crime, but it is also socially unacceptable. The latter I think often is even more of an incentive to refrain from doing it. Many people commit crimes on a regular basis (certainly ones that are hard to enforce, like piracy or personal drug use), but they are issues that can be discussed among friends and usually just be laughed about. Nobody will laugh if you tell a humorous story about your drunk driving mishaps. This is a good thing.
This is a good point. For years the media and so called experts tried to explain why suicide bombers do what they do, why they are so "full of hate" and so "religiously motivated" and the explanation always came back to the fact they were poor and lived in squalid surroundings. But as you say, many of these young recruits are in fact from wealthy families, often living in the West already.
For example, the "underpants bomber" or whatever he is referred to as, who was studying in London and whose father was very wealthy. I would hazard a guess that these people have a life too comfortable, and search for meaning. Meaning that they find in radical beliefs/religion. Much the same phenomenon happens in the West, wealthy suburbanite children who grow up into activists/extremists.
Well, the thing is, looking at some of the stuff they were doing, it really was new exciting and useful stuff, for which clients were lining up to buy.
The problem was the MD was not very good at dealing with customers. He did not write proper contracts nor draw up a proper spec to accompany the contracts. As a result, customers from four years ago were still not paying their agreed fee, waiting for "bug fixes" (enhancements) before signing off on the project. This dire situation was also not shared with anyone else in the company (not even the sales/financial guy they hired) so one week, suddenly, everyone but the MD, TD, the sales guy, and one programmer were given their one month's notice.
Honestly I had studied what to look for in terms of red flags and buzzwords to avoid, and given they were, on the surface, a successful web company having run for 4 years, and in the last year opened another office and hired new staff, it seemed totally legit.
Still left a bad taste in my mouth regarding small companies, so I sold out and started at a blue chip, big evil corporation. At least they pay on time (the aforementioned MD did not even have a direct debit or anything set up to pay, he simply did a manual online bank transfer to each employee "some time at the end of the month"..)
Man you should just move.
See my post higher up, out here in the South West they are snapping us up. I even negotiated for more money, and was offered several jobs before I had even finished uni!
Also, if you know Drupal you are golden! The amount of job specs I've had through for Drupal (I don't know it very well, just a few weeks' exposure) for upwards of £30k....
Oh man, after reading further above about the guy on £30-45k I felt my £23k was a bit lousy.
Wait for your severance package and look for something in higher pay. Where are you based? The going starter rate for graduate developers here is £20k
I graduated this summer with a BSc (Hons) in Computing. It was just by a hair, as I was a bit of an idiot with my project work and my documentation was terrible.
Regardless of that, before I even had my results in I had been offered two different jobs, one for a Web/ecommerce shop and one from a digital media agency.
I took the one at the ecommerce place, but the company went near bankrupt after two months (didnt see that coming...they hired another guy same time as me, saying they were doing really well..) and after a week of "unemployment" I landed another job as a developer for a FTSE100 company. Again, they were not interested in university results so much as just what I knew and what I had done commercially (I did a placement year at another FTSE100 company, which greatly helped both my experience my CV). I am now happily at work here.
The people I still keep in touch with from university all also went straight into employment.
I should add also that the university I went to was not at all prestigious, more like (almost) the equivalent of american community college.
Honestly from my experience I do not see a shortage of CS-related jobs at all, certainly not here in the South West.
Just another example of when a satirical/"funny"/poignant redefinition of an acronym becomes commonplace enough for actual textbooks to mis-define them.
I did not mean to place blame, I meant to point out what you just pointed out. From my perspective, news stories like this are a slap in the face, to remind me that the technology exists, but nobody rolls out some decent hardware.
Despite living in a major UK city I still have between 0.5 and 1mbps going down copper wires from an exchange the next town over.
But yeah keep talking about newer, better broadband.
That's not exactly what I meant. I meant what is it called when, upon firing the last round in the magazine, the slide stays back, allowing you to load another magazine, and then hitting a button to release the slide forward, chambering another round?
What about a handgun that, when no more rounds are chambered, the slide stays back with the breech open so that when a new mag is popped in you can simply release the slide to chamber another round? As opposed to a pistol that needs to be cocked for every new mag inserted? Is there a name for that?
Man, when I was in high school we werent even allowed to use the command prompt. Some kid managed to open it and did a 'net send * [message]' to the whole of the school network. Got nailed for it.
Surely if your dog barks all night you wont get any sleep either..?
I know that when my dog hears something go bump in the night he lets me know with a bark, and it is LOUD. Wakes me right up. I just give him a cuddle and go back to sleep, but if he were to bark constantly, I would have had to take some special measures, dog training or whatnot.
Good for you for rescuing! My partner and I adopted a 2-year old GSD, which was quite a handful at first, but we love him (and no fucker ever comes round to bother us. No sales people, no thieves).
While most of your points are valid (and I certainly agree that someone who does not really like dogs and just wants a cheap security guard should not buy a dog) I feel I should point out a few things:
My GSD is not nearly as expensive as we had considered. He does not eat all that much (GSDs are quite lean, compared to other guard dog types such as rottweilers). I would say in a month I spend maybe £10 on food. Get a decent insurance policy on him/her and vet bills should be cheaper too (though this is the UK, the US might be different). He also doesn't need walking twice a day, as long as he gets his daily exercise. That is to say, we take him for a long walk with lots of playing fetch in the evening, which means he won't need a morning walk.
True. A burglar going from house to house scoping for stuff to steal will take one look at the dog and move on. He might just hear a bark, and then its a no-go. To a burglar, it is not worth his time and the risk if there is a dog, not when there are other houses without a dog.
My partner and I recently adopted a (fairly) well trained GSD. Not only is he a fantastic pet/companion to both of us, but he is an excellent deterrent. He is not very aggressive, but his bark is loud and quite startling; the pizza guy ran for the hills one time when my dog got past me as I opened the door (he just wanted to say hi... lol).
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Not only is it now a fairly serious crime, but it is also socially unacceptable. The latter I think often is even more of an incentive to refrain from doing it. Many people commit crimes on a regular basis (certainly ones that are hard to enforce, like piracy or personal drug use), but they are issues that can be discussed among friends and usually just be laughed about. Nobody will laugh if you tell a humorous story about your drunk driving mishaps. This is a good thing.
This is a good point. For years the media and so called experts tried to explain why suicide bombers do what they do, why they are so "full of hate" and so "religiously motivated" and the explanation always came back to the fact they were poor and lived in squalid surroundings. But as you say, many of these young recruits are in fact from wealthy families, often living in the West already.
For example, the "underpants bomber" or whatever he is referred to as, who was studying in London and whose father was very wealthy. I would hazard a guess that these people have a life too comfortable, and search for meaning. Meaning that they find in radical beliefs/religion. Much the same phenomenon happens in the West, wealthy suburbanite children who grow up into activists/extremists.
Well, the thing is, looking at some of the stuff they were doing, it really was new exciting and useful stuff, for which clients were lining up to buy.
The problem was the MD was not very good at dealing with customers. He did not write proper contracts nor draw up a proper spec to accompany the contracts. As a result, customers from four years ago were still not paying their agreed fee, waiting for "bug fixes" (enhancements) before signing off on the project. This dire situation was also not shared with anyone else in the company (not even the sales/financial guy they hired) so one week, suddenly, everyone but the MD, TD, the sales guy, and one programmer were given their one month's notice.
Honestly I had studied what to look for in terms of red flags and buzzwords to avoid, and given they were, on the surface, a successful web company having run for 4 years, and in the last year opened another office and hired new staff, it seemed totally legit.
Still left a bad taste in my mouth regarding small companies, so I sold out and started at a blue chip, big evil corporation. At least they pay on time (the aforementioned MD did not even have a direct debit or anything set up to pay, he simply did a manual online bank transfer to each employee "some time at the end of the month"..)
Man you should just move.
See my post higher up, out here in the South West they are snapping us up. I even negotiated for more money, and was offered several jobs before I had even finished uni!
Also, if you know Drupal you are golden! The amount of job specs I've had through for Drupal (I don't know it very well, just a few weeks' exposure) for upwards of £30k....
(who's earning £16,000 a year after 3 years)
Oh man, after reading further above about the guy on £30-45k I felt my £23k was a bit lousy.
Wait for your severance package and look for something in higher pay. Where are you based? The going starter rate for graduate developers here is £20k
I graduated this summer with a BSc (Hons) in Computing. It was just by a hair, as I was a bit of an idiot with my project work and my documentation was terrible. Regardless of that, before I even had my results in I had been offered two different jobs, one for a Web/ecommerce shop and one from a digital media agency. I took the one at the ecommerce place, but the company went near bankrupt after two months (didnt see that coming...they hired another guy same time as me, saying they were doing really well..) and after a week of "unemployment" I landed another job as a developer for a FTSE100 company. Again, they were not interested in university results so much as just what I knew and what I had done commercially (I did a placement year at another FTSE100 company, which greatly helped both my experience my CV). I am now happily at work here. The people I still keep in touch with from university all also went straight into employment. I should add also that the university I went to was not at all prestigious, more like (almost) the equivalent of american community college. Honestly from my experience I do not see a shortage of CS-related jobs at all, certainly not here in the South West.
Just another example of when a satirical/"funny"/poignant redefinition of an acronym becomes commonplace enough for actual textbooks to mis-define them.
Yes, I think so. Copywritten is past-particible isnt it?
Copywritten? Past-tense of Copywrite...?
I did not mean to place blame, I meant to point out what you just pointed out. From my perspective, news stories like this are a slap in the face, to remind me that the technology exists, but nobody rolls out some decent hardware.
Despite living in a major UK city I still have between 0.5 and 1mbps going down copper wires from an exchange the next town over. But yeah keep talking about newer, better broadband.
I played this game endlessly on my mac
..AT&T...YOU are harmful and contrary to the fundamental principles of the Internet!
That's not exactly what I meant. I meant what is it called when, upon firing the last round in the magazine, the slide stays back, allowing you to load another magazine, and then hitting a button to release the slide forward, chambering another round?
beat me to it :p
What about a handgun that, when no more rounds are chambered, the slide stays back with the breech open so that when a new mag is popped in you can simply release the slide to chamber another round? As opposed to a pistol that needs to be cocked for every new mag inserted? Is there a name for that?
Man, when I was in high school we werent even allowed to use the command prompt. Some kid managed to open it and did a 'net send * [message]' to the whole of the school network. Got nailed for it.
I can't unsee that now, thanks!
I thought OMON were essentially riot police and SWAT style squads?
My money is on Spetsnaz.
Whisky Tango Foxtrot???
Surely if your dog barks all night you wont get any sleep either..?
I know that when my dog hears something go bump in the night he lets me know with a bark, and it is LOUD. Wakes me right up. I just give him a cuddle and go back to sleep, but if he were to bark constantly, I would have had to take some special measures, dog training or whatnot.
Good for you for rescuing! My partner and I adopted a 2-year old GSD, which was quite a handful at first, but we love him (and no fucker ever comes round to bother us. No sales people, no thieves).
While most of your points are valid (and I certainly agree that someone who does not really like dogs and just wants a cheap security guard should not buy a dog) I feel I should point out a few things:
My GSD is not nearly as expensive as we had considered. He does not eat all that much (GSDs are quite lean, compared to other guard dog types such as rottweilers). I would say in a month I spend maybe £10 on food. Get a decent insurance policy on him/her and vet bills should be cheaper too (though this is the UK, the US might be different). He also doesn't need walking twice a day, as long as he gets his daily exercise. That is to say, we take him for a long walk with lots of playing fetch in the evening, which means he won't need a morning walk.
True. A burglar going from house to house scoping for stuff to steal will take one look at the dog and move on. He might just hear a bark, and then its a no-go. To a burglar, it is not worth his time and the risk if there is a dog, not when there are other houses without a dog.
My partner and I recently adopted a (fairly) well trained GSD. Not only is he a fantastic pet/companion to both of us, but he is an excellent deterrent. He is not very aggressive, but his bark is loud and quite startling; the pizza guy ran for the hills one time when my dog got past me as I opened the door (he just wanted to say hi... lol).
I feel the same way about cats. But people get upset when I cook their Fluffy/Mittens/AIDS-machine/Crap-factory ... even if I offer them the leftovers.