The office "power user" who convinces management that he should be able to manage his department's IT infrastructure by himself because "he's more efficient than those guys in tech support". The highly connected programming manager who recommended a new applications platform because "it'll look good on my resume". The large systems salesman who plays golf with the chairman of the board.
Who is treating them as objects? Could it be the ones who are using them as pawns to score cheap political points? Because after all, nothing says "you're a real person" more than acting offended by the fact that *some* women can make money by being attractive and pleasant.
It's hard enough to give a development project your full attention while you're at home, much less "hopping from hostel to hostel" or leeching internet connections in cafes.
Propaganda back atcha. Right-wing groups withdrew their applications because the IRS made inappropriate demands for information, because they couldn't afford lawyers to fight it. Demands that were not made of left-wing groups. The IRS already admitted this. You don't have a leg to stand on.
The IRS was completely partisan about whose applications they held up. Democrat groups got approved right away. Tea Party did not. No, they were not totally correct. The IRS was politicized.
It gets better. The IRS commissioner who was in charge when the IRS was denying tax-exempt status to right-wing political groups is now in charge of implementing Obamacare requirements. Naw, there won't be any partisan shenanigans. How dare you even think that? You wouldn't want your dear old granny to be denied that hip operation now would you?
Are you kidding? There's sixty years worth of legacy applications programs out there in COBOL. Yeah, it sucks from a Computer Science perspective, but business programming ain't Computer Science.
So they've been doing the stuff with the greatest return on investment. What's left is the marginal improvements that probably cost more than they're worth.
Moving the whole datacenter to the Pacific Northwest just isn't in the cards for most companies.
Nice pile of strawmen you got there. Nobody but you is saying that laws are no good unless they're 100% effective. And nobody but you is saying that the analogy between drugs and guns is no good unless it's 100% perfect.
As for background checks and other loopholes, it's just a step towards confiscation. "Oh, your paperwork isn't 100% perfect so you're guilty of a federal felony. We're here to take away your illegal guns now." Your congresscritters gave that game away when they voted against the amendment that would have made it illegal to use background checks to establish a national gun registry.
Yes, we do have the right to own guns and to carry them, it is in the constitution, right along with the freedom of speech that you probably value. But hey, it's just a piece of paper so let's get rid of the whole inconvenient thing. See, I can do strawmen too.
Because irresponsible morons never bought dangerous presents for kids who weren't ready for them before so we need to prohibit all responsible people from buying dangerous things ever.
Stick to the particulars of the software. What are the technical requirements (hardware, network, etcetera)? What level of support staff (DBA's, data entry, etc). What, if any, changes to work flow? Keep that to a minimum if possible. And how does all that affect the bottom line?
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The office "power user" who convinces management that he should be able to manage his department's IT infrastructure by himself because "he's more efficient than those guys in tech support".
The highly connected programming manager who recommended a new applications platform because "it'll look good on my resume".
The large systems salesman who plays golf with the chairman of the board.
Orin Kerr has the usual detailed and insightful analysis of the case here (long, worth reading):
http://www.volokh.com/2013/06/17/do-you-have-a-right-to-remain-silent-thoughts-on-the-sleeper-criminal-procedure-case-of-the-term-salinas-v-texas/
tl;dr - Don't talk to the police.
With all the other challenges of putting a viable human colony on Mars, it seems like perchlorates in the soil are small beans indeed.
Ah, so you think men are all objects too? We can only respond in the ways your sexist stereotypes dictate?
Who is treating them as objects? Could it be the ones who are using them as pawns to score cheap political points?
Because after all, nothing says "you're a real person" more than acting offended by the fact that *some* women can make money by being attractive and pleasant.
I tell you what, when the UN converts all its restaurants and cafeterias to raise and serve insects then get back to us.
Blah blah blah fail bullshit.
Never ever ever talk to to police. Not ever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8z7NC5sgik&list=PLF86A38E34934761B
It's hard enough to give a development project your full attention while you're at home, much less "hopping from hostel to hostel" or leeching internet connections in cafes.
...as far as I can remember. :p
If you want peace, then prepare for war.
Propaganda back atcha. Right-wing groups withdrew their applications because the IRS made inappropriate demands for information, because they couldn't afford lawyers to fight it. Demands that were not made of left-wing groups.
The IRS already admitted this. You don't have a leg to stand on.
The IRS was completely partisan about whose applications they held up. Democrat groups got approved right away. Tea Party did not.
No, they were not totally correct. The IRS was politicized.
It gets better. The IRS commissioner who was in charge when the IRS was denying tax-exempt status to right-wing political groups is now in charge of implementing Obamacare requirements. Naw, there won't be any partisan shenanigans. How dare you even think that? You wouldn't want your dear old granny to be denied that hip operation now would you?
Read between the lines: "the law is irrelevant" so there will be no legal repercussions. It's the Chicago Way.
Structured programming and objects are afterthoughts. Arbitrary data structures likewise.
No first-class functions. No lambdas.
Not that your typical business report program has any use for those things.
Are you kidding? There's sixty years worth of legacy applications programs out there in COBOL.
Yeah, it sucks from a Computer Science perspective, but business programming ain't Computer Science.
mmmm, steak and garlic. Oh, wait...
So they've been doing the stuff with the greatest return on investment.
What's left is the marginal improvements that probably cost more than they're worth.
Moving the whole datacenter to the Pacific Northwest just isn't in the cards for most companies.
*The Fifth Head of Cerberus* was the first of his books that I read, and reread, and puzzled over.
Because it's such a great idea to mandate all kinds of pointless activity.
In case you didn't notice, the quote from Thruen implied the 100% effectiveness of a gun ban.
Therefore your (not you're) ignorance is showing. Twice.
Nice pile of strawmen you got there. Nobody but you is saying that laws are no good unless they're 100% effective. And nobody but you is saying that the analogy between drugs and guns is no good unless it's 100% perfect.
As for background checks and other loopholes, it's just a step towards confiscation. "Oh, your paperwork isn't 100% perfect so you're guilty of a federal felony. We're here to take away your illegal guns now." Your congresscritters gave that game away when they voted against the amendment that would have made it illegal to use background checks to establish a national gun registry.
Yes, we do have the right to own guns and to carry them, it is in the constitution, right along with the freedom of speech that you probably value. But hey, it's just a piece of paper so let's get rid of the whole inconvenient thing. See, I can do strawmen too.
Because irresponsible morons never bought dangerous presents for kids who weren't ready for them before so we need to prohibit all responsible people from buying dangerous things ever.
Drugs are banned so there are no drugs on the street, right?
Stick to the particulars of the software. What are the technical requirements (hardware, network, etcetera)? What level of support staff (DBA's, data entry, etc). What, if any, changes to work flow? Keep that to a minimum if possible. And how does all that affect the bottom line?