The other thing is if you don't fit into those pidgeon holes, they won't even hire you and just say "you don't have the skills" or "you don't fit in" and then bitch and moan as to why they can't get "qualified" people.
Let's see, Ballmer and Bezos do most of their hiring overseas or in other states - if at all.
The Governor will blow money which will reward the politically connected.
The answer is that whatever happens, the middle class (what's left of it) gets fucked and gets the bill. Any income tax passed will mostly be the burden of the middle class.
Bezos and Ballmer are morons for giving money because being members of the super wealthy, they can just pick up and move to Texas or Florida and get around the whole thing.
But it would be good for us if we had to slaughter our own meat. Our factory food has become so sanitized that we've lost all concept that we're eating animals.
Years ago I was at a rodeo in South America and of course some folks I was with were getting all "offended" (fellow folks from the US) at the "mistreatment" of the cattle. Later on that night at dinner - yep, they all had nice big steaks and burgers. .
We in the US are a bunch of hypocrites - except for maybe the PETA nuts.
My father-in-law said that it's possible to walk a deer down: we humans have one the highest endurance in the animal kingdom. Other animals may be faster and stronger, but we can outlast them.
So, a real man would walk a deer down and then club it to death with his bare fists?
Thinning pests, and over population of grazing animals...
When someone wakes up to find their prized roses chewed up by starving deer or when their spouse t-bones a deer on the interstate and dies, it's amazing how "pro-hunting" they become.
That's what happens when people crowd in and destroy an ecosystem - all the deer's predators were wiped out: hunters who wanted cats, hysterical suburbanites who were afraid that the big bad cat was going to eat their dog fi-fi, dumb-asses who thought the cats were going to come into their house or something and eat their babies, etc....
A starving deer or any creature for that matter, is an incredibly pitiful site - much more pitiful than seeing its heart blown out by a shotgun slug or pierced by an arrow.
On another note: Deer is an incredibly wonderful tasting animal! Bambie for the win!!
Save the environment - eat Bambie!! Disney should make a cartoon about that.
On really bumpy flights and boat trips for that matter, I get pretty sick. Looking out to the horizon makes me feel much better. It's hard on an aircraft when you're sitting in the aisle seat or in the middle of the center pack on a 777.
Not a problem - I hardly went there anyway. For some reason, the BP stations around here (Metro Atlanta) sell their gas for around 10 cents more than the Racetracks or Quicktrips. I understand there was a lawsuit in the NE that the franchisees brought against BP for just that reason (this was before the spill), so I guess it's not a regional thing.
Anyway, you wouldn't be hurting BP Oil, you'd be hurting the guy who owns the franchise - who got himself into a really shitty contract, btw. Gas station franchises are the some of the worst from what I've been told.
Black is a color.... so is gray and silver or whatever the color they use now is called.
Yes, I'm being pedantic, but seeing how the GP was mod'ed "Redundant" for stating a rather insightful opinion, I see that a fanboy or two has mod points and I feel like karma whoring.
It has a VS project. I'm trying to open it in VC Express (It gave me a "Product needs to be reinstalled error" - ????). Anyway, it's been a while, isn't there a way to export VC projects as makefiles?
Unlike "regular old waste" e-waste has lots of heavy metals and various organic compounds like PCBs & PCDs (collectively mutagens/terogens/carcinogens). Instead of being disposed of properly, these electronic items get shipped to Asia or Africa where they contaminate the water &/or pollute the air.
Huh. In my day we just called it hazardous waste - we weren't smart enough to have these high tech names for it.
Is the documentation for this claim posted on wikileaks yet?
Or is he just asking us to trust him, at the same time he's telling us to not trust anyone else?
Well, Mr Pedantic:
It's "Wikileaks" with a capital 'W' not "wikileaks".
Starting a sentence with a conjunction really is not proper English grammar; although, it is acceptable in regards to contemporary English in some cases.
Nowhere does he ask us to trust him. He is merely stating facts.
Poor countries like these will be the first to go in terms of collapse. Eventually, it'll catch up to us and then and only then will it be taken seriously. Of course it'll be too late and we'll be taking horribly drastic actions - forced abortions, forced migration, impoverishment of the populace for examples.
The biggest thing I've seen for the resistance towards human caused global climate change isn't the science (the criticism is just an excuse), it's the fear of wealth transfer - people in rich countries are afraid their money will be taken by the UN to compensate small countries like Kirbati. I have doubts about the UN's competency myself, btw.
Basically, I get the impression in the West that we want to shit in others yards, eat their cake and keep ours. It's really not a moral failing of Westerner (read White), but a human failing - if the South Pacific Islanders got developed before us, they'd be doing the same thing.
No one wants their Director-of-100-Million-Dollar-Project walking off one day because the main competitor offered him double to recreate the project.
No one is saying that would happen and even if it did, there would be lawsuits over the intellectual property and trade secrets.
This is about allowing people to move to another employer using their skills. If you spent years in school studying and then years working in a field learning new skills that are very specific to an industry, according to these folks, you'd be stuck with one employer with no recourse if you had to leave. And if you left, what then? If your experience has been in search engines, where do you go if the other ones won't hire you? As we all know, corp America wants people to fit into their pidgeon holes.
Of course IBM was - for the exception of some token R&D projects in Austin, they sent all of their R&D and IT jobs overseas. The only things left here in the States are salesmen and management and other assorted business support services.
Let's say you're a mathematician that specializes in search algorithms. For whatever reason, you want to leave Google - it's beside the point as to why. There aren't too many places where you can work in that specialty. And as everyone who has tried to make a career change even within the same industry (ex: becoming a network admin after years as a C++ programmer), is nearly impossible because of the pigeon holing that corp America does; so the mathematician won't be able to just switch to statistics or whatever.
Either they do away with this rule or I think a law should be created that, if a company has this rule, then they should pay a lifetime and a half of said person's salary, inflation adjusted of course, if they have to leave - for whatever reason.
Unfair to the company? No more "unfair" than this rule is to the employee.
Oh, and whether they're private (they're not) or public is irrelevant.
If he is innocent and things work there like the US, the charges will be dropped and the police involved will get a suspension with pay while things are being "investigated". The cops will then go back to active duty after the investigations and the whistle blower will be continually harassed because protect each other even when the other is a criminal or eve murderer - I mean accidental shooting victim.
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The other thing is if you don't fit into those pidgeon holes, they won't even hire you and just say "you don't have the skills" or "you don't fit in" and then bitch and moan as to why they can't get "qualified" people.
This article belongs on one of those Onion wanna-be sites.
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The Governor will blow money which will reward the politically connected.
The answer is that whatever happens, the middle class (what's left of it) gets fucked and gets the bill. Any income tax passed will mostly be the burden of the middle class.
Bezos and Ballmer are morons for giving money because being members of the super wealthy, they can just pick up and move to Texas or Florida and get around the whole thing.
Oops, my bad, they're creating the jobs overseas. I correct myself.
But it would be good for us if we had to slaughter our own meat. Our factory food has become so sanitized that we've lost all concept that we're eating animals.
Years ago I was at a rodeo in South America and of course some folks I was with were getting all "offended" (fellow folks from the US) at the "mistreatment" of the cattle. Later on that night at dinner - yep, they all had nice big steaks and burgers. .
We in the US are a bunch of hypocrites - except for maybe the PETA nuts.
So, a real man would walk a deer down and then club it to death with his bare fists?
Thinning pests, and over population of grazing animals...
When someone wakes up to find their prized roses chewed up by starving deer or when their spouse t-bones a deer on the interstate and dies, it's amazing how "pro-hunting" they become.
That's what happens when people crowd in and destroy an ecosystem - all the deer's predators were wiped out: hunters who wanted cats, hysterical suburbanites who were afraid that the big bad cat was going to eat their dog fi-fi, dumb-asses who thought the cats were going to come into their house or something and eat their babies, etc....
A starving deer or any creature for that matter, is an incredibly pitiful site - much more pitiful than seeing its heart blown out by a shotgun slug or pierced by an arrow.
On another note: Deer is an incredibly wonderful tasting animal! Bambie for the win!!
Save the environment - eat Bambie!! Disney should make a cartoon about that.
On really bumpy flights and boat trips for that matter, I get pretty sick. Looking out to the horizon makes me feel much better. It's hard on an aircraft when you're sitting in the aisle seat or in the middle of the center pack on a 777.
Anyway, you wouldn't be hurting BP Oil, you'd be hurting the guy who owns the franchise - who got himself into a really shitty contract, btw. Gas station franchises are the some of the worst from what I've been told.
Yes, I'm being pedantic, but seeing how the GP was mod'ed "Redundant" for stating a rather insightful opinion, I see that a fanboy or two has mod points and I feel like karma whoring.
So fanboys, gimme my "+5 Insightful".
Come on, I got fresh K-Y iiiiiii.....
They're Hindus?
Porting to Linux is on my mind.....
Or
File:RTCW-SP-GPL.zip 3642 KB 8/12/2010 2:21:00 PM
Try refreshing the page. I'm downloading RTCW-SP as I type.....
Unlike "regular old waste" e-waste has lots of heavy metals and various organic compounds like PCBs & PCDs (collectively mutagens/terogens/carcinogens). Instead of being disposed of properly, these electronic items get shipped to Asia or Africa where they contaminate the water &/or pollute the air.
Huh. In my day we just called it hazardous waste - we weren't smart enough to have these high tech names for it.
networkadvertising .... I guess they do it by IP? So everytime my ISP assigns me a new one, I'll have to go and check all those boxes again?
Yeah it's annoying but what does my kid need a login for any website for?
That goes for adults too - I say with my Slashdot account ....
Is the documentation for this claim posted on wikileaks yet?
Or is he just asking us to trust him, at the same time he's telling us to not trust anyone else?
Well, Mr Pedantic:
It's "Wikileaks" with a capital 'W' not "wikileaks".
Starting a sentence with a conjunction really is not proper English grammar; although, it is acceptable in regards to contemporary English in some cases.
Nowhere does he ask us to trust him. He is merely stating facts.
He hasn't sobered up from last night yet - or he's drunk off his ass in Hawaii or Australia or he's having a pitcher of Bloody Marys for breakfast.
He is probably referring to the bout of security fixes for windows 7 with the same wording.. there has been quite a few of them lately.
And that's relevant to this thread how again?
Might as well start posting stuff about Chewbacca.
Maybe Linux' kernel is too big?
Chewbacca lives on Endor wihout any Linux or Windows computers ....
The biggest thing I've seen for the resistance towards human caused global climate change isn't the science (the criticism is just an excuse), it's the fear of wealth transfer - people in rich countries are afraid their money will be taken by the UN to compensate small countries like Kirbati. I have doubts about the UN's competency myself, btw.
Basically, I get the impression in the West that we want to shit in others yards, eat their cake and keep ours. It's really not a moral failing of Westerner (read White), but a human failing - if the South Pacific Islanders got developed before us, they'd be doing the same thing.
No one wants their Director-of-100-Million-Dollar-Project walking off one day because the main competitor offered him double to recreate the project.
No one is saying that would happen and even if it did, there would be lawsuits over the intellectual property and trade secrets.
This is about allowing people to move to another employer using their skills. If you spent years in school studying and then years working in a field learning new skills that are very specific to an industry, according to these folks, you'd be stuck with one employer with no recourse if you had to leave. And if you left, what then? If your experience has been in search engines, where do you go if the other ones won't hire you? As we all know, corp America wants people to fit into their pidgeon holes.
IBM has become just an Indian tech reseller.
Let's say you're a mathematician that specializes in search algorithms. For whatever reason, you want to leave Google - it's beside the point as to why. There aren't too many places where you can work in that specialty. And as everyone who has tried to make a career change even within the same industry (ex: becoming a network admin after years as a C++ programmer), is nearly impossible because of the pigeon holing that corp America does; so the mathematician won't be able to just switch to statistics or whatever.
Either they do away with this rule or I think a law should be created that, if a company has this rule, then they should pay a lifetime and a half of said person's salary, inflation adjusted of course, if they have to leave - for whatever reason.
Unfair to the company? No more "unfair" than this rule is to the employee.
Oh, and whether they're private (they're not) or public is irrelevant.
If he is innocent and things work there like the US, the charges will be dropped and the police involved will get a suspension with pay while things are being "investigated". The cops will then go back to active duty after the investigations and the whistle blower will be continually harassed because protect each other even when the other is a criminal or eve murderer - I mean accidental shooting victim.