So what if he was a pharengi caliber profit monger? He probably introduced more people to anime than any other import studio, and certainly more than your "club". And at a time when anime (1) was still an extremely obscure cult item (2) no other studio around was willing to risk $$$ on something new and (3) anti-Japanese attitudes were still strongly prevalent among the older people (who "ain't gonna let my kid watch some jap crap").
And the Dirty pair scripts weren't "butchered" as many repeat as GOSPEL from 3rd hand heresay, while YOU don't and never will understand a lick of Japanese. Sure, there were some inane lines made up as filler (e.g., the bit about aerobics in the Eden movie). But nothing to drastically change the meaning. The changes for Robotech, on the other hand, were necessary to hook the 3 series together which in turn, was necessary before any TV station would air it, hence the running "protoculutre" theme. If Carl stood by YOUR principles, few would know of Macross and anime fandom might still be small and cult like, and we wouldn't have the piles of quality R1 DVDs with both dub and sub tracks available, that we have today thanks to Carl. Yeah, you heard me. I guess you long for the days when all anime was only obtainable 13th generation EP VHS bootlegs?
And all the while you whine, the original stuff was, is , and will always be there so WTF is your problem, fanboy? It's you hardcore types that really give us all a bad name. Truly, "shut the hell up geek."
Web browsers for the visually impaired and blind rely on being able to parse text and play it through a speech synthesizer. Obviously lots of graphics and shockwave crap won't work with speaking web browsers.
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Well, just as public AND PRIVATE business which are open to the public are REQUIRED to install ramps, bathroom handrails, and accomodate guide dogs preemptive of "no animals allowed" policies, so too should publically accessible business web sites be required to support text-only.
Keep fucking the disabled over and expect a big, expensive, precedent setting lawsuit to "impact" your stock holders and cost you that sweet CIO job.
All because you don't want to play fair. It'll happen. You'll see. You'll lose. And you'll pay. So why not do the RIGHT thing now?
Women are hypocrites. They whine about how fucked up men are, yet hang out with the most fucked up testosterone filled assholes of them all. They shun the lonely geek who would treasure a women and treat her like gold if he ever got one, but he's not "cool", so off with the jerk she goes. Then she gets treated like crap, cheated on, and acts surprised. She must like it. Eventually she figures out that "being cool" doesn't pay the bills, buy a car, nor provide a home to raise the kids in. She ends up battered, eventually divorced, living on crap wages at a crap job in a crap apartment and goes on Oprah to say how it's society and "the man" that's always oppressing her.
The lonely geek, on the other hand, makes good money, can afford a nice home, drives a comfy car, has loads to blow on quirky hobbies, but has long since given up on women as totally unfathomable, and has forgotten how to deal with them evermore. He grows old, and dies alone. Then the gov't takes his assets because he had no one to leave anything to nor share anything with. All that love, down the drain, down the crapper. No legacy. And no one cared that he was gone. No one noticed. Just another for sale sign on the block. Yawn.
Yes sir. This "coolness" is such a great thing indeed. Souls get sacrificed to it. And only pain is returned.
For God's sake, take a geek to lunch. You may find he is a real human being you enjoy being with and with whom you will BOTH be better off.
(1) no nuclear reactors (waste/safety issues)
(2) no coal fired power plants (air emissions issues)
(3) no diesel fired power plants (air emmissions again)
(4) no hydroelectric plants (harms [cuddly species of the day]'s habitat)
(5) in fact, no new power plants at all ("not in *my* backyard!")
(6) you shut down existing plants from (1), (2), (3), and (4)
(7) Solar and geothermal don't seem to work like you think... or at all (i.e., operate at a loss).
Well, congrats... your air and water still suck. Species are still going extinct. You put all your eggs on natural gas which is now drying up and prices skyrocketing, you're freezing your asses off and whining about power shortages, high prices, and rolling bloackouts.
And now you:
(1) want continued legislation to FORCE other states to sell power to CA companies headed into bankruptcy? (Who wants to sell to deadbeats?)
(2) Blame deregulation for the energy shortage! Can't have liberals blaming their eco legislation or (gasp!) call for repealing some of it.
(3) Don't give a flying fuck that other states have to pollute more to keep CA on electrical welfare?
Thoroughly, California made its own mess and ought to be forced to wallow in it. You're all screwed and it's your own fault.
What will you do? Here's my prediction: Democrats will do ***NOTHING***. They'll sit and endure the rolling blackouts and come up with bullshit to justify them to the people. They will wait for republicans to propose building more power plants, and repealing the legislation preventing their construction. They will quietly vote to approve these measures amid much muttering and while speaking against it or more likely, will simply abstain on eco-law repealing bills to give republicans a majority (among remaining legislators who actually vote) to let the bills pass. Then when anyone, ANYONE complains about air quality or water pollution or nuclear waste in California they will "blame republicans for rolling back all our hard work to protect your environment." Saying they never voted to support that legislation. Yeah right.
You want power? Then you have to get dirty *just* *like* *everyone* *else*. TANSTAAFL, you know?
IMO, Republicans ought to continue the staredown with democrats until they start repealing their own legislation. Make the basterds squirm and swallow their own bullshit pride. As for the populations without power? Well, at least they'll learn what voting for liberals results in (stone age living) and will know better and teach their kids better in the future.
Um, did I miss anything here?
Free tip for CA denizens: The Plan to steal your cars from you via smog regs is already well underway. Start fighting it now. Basically it combines (1) smog check rules DESIGNED TO FAIL A PERCENTAGE of cars (with an eventual goal of 97% of all cars over 10 years old) with (2) rules that make it ILLEGAL to keep an unregistered vechicle on your property. (1) + (2) = State power to STEAL YOUR CARS and crush them into cubes. See http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1223/sb42/smo gflyer_5.html for more details.
Oceanic subduction zones are locations on the Earth where one crustal plate is being force under another and back into the Earth's mantle. This is a perfect place to dump nuclear waste. It would be (1) safe, (2) not contaminate water tables, (3) not leave problems for future generations to deal with.
Now before anyone misinterprets my words to mean "ocean dumping of nuclear waste" or says something nonsensical like "what if it 'comes up' in a volcano somewhere else", recall that ALL of the Earth's current internal heat is generated by the natural radioactive elements present in the Earth (see: http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/env99/env087.htm).
And since most radioactive elements are heavy, they tend to sink and not come back up. Those that do reemerge to the surface are diffused across the globe and are indistinguishable from natural radioactivity.
Support subduction zone dumping of nuclear waste now! Write your legislators! Get funding allocated to research this at your local University. It *is* a good idea. And far better than anything else yet conceived of what to do with the waste.
"Why not just quit making the waste? You overlook world energy shortages."
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Affirmative action solves the right problem at the wrong level.
Yes, a random sampling of college applicants will show blacks and hispanics to be less qualified than whites, but that's because they come from broken school districts that are all fucked up and run more like jails than schools, and staffed by teachers who were transferred there as a "disciplinary action" for screwing off on their job at a better school, or are in the poor school district until they "build up enough seniority" to be able to transfer to teach at their choice school.
Fix the academic problems in primary and secondary schools, and by the time the kids get to college, no one will need differing admissions standards based on race.
Racial quotas or lessened acceptance standards for minorities is a band-aid solution. It's like turning up the stereo louder in your car so you don't hear the water pump squealing anymore. You're just (1) masking the problem, (2) not fixing it, and (3) headed for real disaster down the road.
This is typical Mgmt-think. An employee happy where he is and who has been there a long time has "become too expensive". How does this happen?
(1)Since he does his job well, he always gets his raise at his annual (or more frequent) review.
(2) Since he's been there a long time, he's gotten many raises.
(3) Therefore, he is now waaaay overpaid compared to anyone else in his department, since the other workers are new, or left after a 2-3 years for greener pastures, while he has been there 6, 10, or more years.
But firing him for doing his job would be too evil. Cutting his pay for doing his job is even more evil. So what is an "honourable" way to get rid of him?
Promote him into incompetance! Keep promoting him and adding responsibilities until he can't handle it and becomes incompetent in his new duties. Then you can safely fire him for not being able to do his job. Hey! It'll be *his* fault, right? Wow, aren't we the clever Mgmt folk!
However, if he refuses promotions, though, he's obviously on to Our Plan, and will be fired for outthinking Mgmt and making us look dumb and therefore creating a "hostile" work environment.
And even the British police are starting to pack guns now. And I demand my gun because:
Who is ultimately responsible for my well being?
Will police take the rap for murder if they fail to protect me? Will you? Fuck no. And even a 3 minute wait for cops to arrive and defend an unarmed citizenry is long enough for the bad guy to blow you away, rape your kids and slit your wife's throat.
Fuck you, sir, for attempting to jeopardize me and my family by taking away my gun.
So what if it's primary purpose is to kill? Nothing wrong with killing, so long as the right people get killed. I have the right to denend myself with deadly force.
Look at Son May Records in Taiwan. Virtually their entire business consists of selling unauthorized copies of other people's CDs, DVDs, Videos, etc. Their products are cheap knockoffs. They typically don't copy all of the booklets, jacket art, or include black and white copies of color art, etc.
On the plus side, Son May produces many items that have gone out of print elsewhere long ago (and no, it's not *because* of Son May). Son May is the only place to find older CDs and such.
However, in Taiwan, Son May is a licensed local business. They employ people, pay taxes, pay business license fees, sponsor local kids sports groups, etc. From a local point of view, they are not illegitimate at all. Copyright law is a Western invention and then we have the gall to decree our invented concept "morally correct" and call names at Taiwan? Many other nations consider the US attitude on guns or wealth accumulation a far worse behavior. Our women don't cover their faces like in many Arab nations. Should we change and conform to meet ideals of other people in other nations?
I see no difference here.
And you know what, the world seems to be getting along just fine, and Son May sells its products all over the world without "authorities" seeming to care at all. Walk into any asian video/music store, or a comic shop that deals in japanese anime. At least half will stock Son May products. And this is in the US.
Does the US seem to care? Nope. Who's getting hurt? Answer, no one. What's our response? Hey! Taiwan is one of out "most favored nations".
Such altruistic creatures interested in a fair election. I find it odd that Democrats are only interested in checking Florida ballots.
If they are truly interested in checking for irregularities, why not check election procedures in all 50 states? Gore won California by only 5%. Let's check and see how many CA voters were illegal aliens. Nah. Democrats aren't interested in that since the illegal aliens prefer Gore over Bush.
It's my main server sitting on the cable modem and firewall to my internal LAN, why does it need a video card at all? That just wastes a slot that can have another ethernet card in it.
I've only got 5 slots in my machine. One has a sound card, the other 4 slots have network cards. eth0=static IP #1, eth1=static IP#2, eth2=DHCP addr, eth3=Internal LAN.
If I need a colsole for administration, I can ssh or remote X display one. I can even use a serial port in an emergency.
Sure, I installed a video card to set up the box. After Linux was running, the card was gone.
Get married? Have a child? Need to cut back work hours to "only" 40-50 hours/week as a responsibility to your family?
Then fuck you. You get fired, you slacking lazy graying old bastard.
Then when this fired worker applies for his next job it's, (interviewer to himself) "What? You're married with two kids?" (interviewer to you) "I'm sorry but you're { not qualified | too expensive | not what we're looking for }". It is discrimination pure and simple.
H1B visas are not about filling in skills US workers lack.
Nor do employers want more H1B visas so they can pay workers less.
H1Bs are a source of people with no family ties or other responsibilities whatsoever. H1B workers, along with most fresh college grads, are the only work group that can work the really really long hours, and devote their entire waking hours to "the company".
Now that the first wave of IT workers is getting married and having kids, employers are saying there is a "shortage of IT workers". Bullshit. There is only a shortage of workers who will let themselves be treated like crap. And yes, even if well paid, 70-100 hour work weeks == crap treatment and abuse of a salaried worker. Just like you can't justify exposing workers to workplace hazards by claiming, "they're paid well and accepted the job", so too can you not justify abusive work hours by claiming "they're paid well and accepted the job". In the USA, workers have rights, wheather you agree or not. Just get over it and accept it, or, move your business China. But if you want to operate in the US, then you play by US rules. It's just that simple.
Expect to see IT worker unions form if employers don't clean up their act. Do you hate unions? Hate the corruption? Hate the politics? Well, you have your chance to fix things now. Get off your ass and set things straights before the unions form. And don't bitch and whine about how unions are holding your company by the balls later because it'll only be your fault for fucking people over now.
I fully expect to see nearly all software refuse to fully install until it can register itself with corporate HQ somehow, either via an internet connection, or a modem call to some 800 number. It will present you with its EULA and require you to digitally sign and agree to the EULA under threat of non-rendering of SERVICES PAID FOR (your purchase price of the software).
Did anyone really think this "digital signatures as legally binding as real ones" was ever meant to help out the average citizen?
Here's proof that it wasn't. Govt's are now scared shitless because grass roots organizations have announced plans to have ON-LINE BALLOT INITIATIVE PETITIONS to get various porpisitions, etc., on state, county, and municipal elections. And hey! The digital signatures collected via the web are "as legally binding as paper signatures". Holy shit! We gave power to the poeple? This was supposed to just help corps and the UCITA. JUDAS! We gotta do something!
So for this, I applaud the new digital signature bill. Because now it gives ME THE POWER to start writing new state legislation myself. Watch out corps., I've got a pen in my hand and web site running from my desk.
"Quality Assurance" is nothing more than a buzzword that overpaid, technologically clueless executives and marketroids like to throw around.
There is exactly one and only one quality assurance method. And that is to fully map out all possible states that a program can be in, how they can reach each of those states and that none of those states is an error state reachable from the start state. This is only possible for the tiniest programs. Stuff running inside a PIC chip, maybe a simple device driver, etc. We're talking a few single digit K of binary code tops, and more often than not, well under 1K. Huge apps like an OS or a word processor? Forget it. There can be no "Quality Assurance" for such things, only rigorous testing of "simulated average use". But like in mathematics, proof by exhaustive example does not a proof make.
Advertising how many hours of live (not automated or unattended) beta testing a product has undergone and by how many different and unique people would be a far better guage of a product's reliability than any "Quality Assurance" methods could produce.
And these two numbers, hours tested and how many doing the testing are orders of magnitude greater for Linux than for any Microsoft OS. So while Microsoft spends orders of magnitude more dollars on "Quality Assurance" programs, Linux comes out more stable. You tell me. Which is the better indicator of product reliability?
the Barenaked Ladies' attempt to flood Napster with
trojan downloads with ads for their new album rather than the alleged songs.
This slashdot article says that Michigan's new law makes " the unauthorized
alteration, damage or use of a computer system a felony."
Hrm. Uploading ads disguised as MP3s sure sounds like an "unauthorised use" to me. Let's see these music industry sponsored laws used right back on their own ranks. After all, juices flow both ways when you start fucking people over. Bust the Barenaked Ladies. Throw their asses in jail on felony charges. Because laws mean nothing unless they apply to everyone equally.
You have entered a dark chamber. You are likely to be eaten by a Grue.
But the Grue was far scarier than anything in Doom or Quake, because you never see it. It's as horrible and scary an your mind makes it out to be. Besides, if I want babes in my games, there's always Leather Goddesses of Phobos!
It'll destroy DNA or at least mangle it enough that it can no longer be identified yet leave the product unharmed (so long as it's made of cloth or plastic or ceramic or glass, etc.) Foil the piracy police! Microwave your olympic souvenirs today!
In the early days of the web, our local paranoid sysadmin said "no, absolutely not" to running a web server (then, NCSA, well before apache). And official policy was that we (the users) not run it either on non-priveleged ports. Anonymous ftp was also banned. Our sysadmin was a true BOFH. However! The system *did* support finger. So I thought to put one and only one HTML page into my.plan file. And access it with a funky URL:
http://hostname.tld:79/\ userid
Note the space preceeding the userid.
Totally wrong protocol to send to finger yet it worked. The HTTP protocol sends a "GET / userid HTTP/1.0" to the finger daemon. Luckily fingerd supports multiple userid lookups at the same time. Naturally 'GET' and '/' and 'HTTP/1.0'resolve to invalid users, but userid retrieves the.plan file!
Since HTTP ignores stuff preceding the <HTML> tag, my web page rendered correctly! From a system where such things were prohibited! Woo hoo! In your face Woods (the sysadmin back then)! Of course, few people cared back then as the web was a whacked far out academic project. Gopher was the big thing back then. Blargh.
There are exactly two forces in the universe. Science and magic. An example:
A conventional oven works on science. Gas flows down a vented pipe where it is ignited by a pilot light. The burning gas (reacting with oxygen) heats the oven chamber until a bimetallic metal strip inside the oven bends enough to trip a lever that cuts off the flow of gas. Then as the oven cools, the metal bends back until it opens the gas flow to again heat the oven. A regulated temperature hysterisis is maintained. All goooood solid reliable and science. All of the chemical and physical properties of this non-living system are readily known and predictable.
A microwave oven, on the other hand, works on magic. When you press the 'start' button, an unseen dimensional portal is opened up inside the oven chamber and a horde of tiny invisible demons is released. The demons poke your food with their magic charged pitchforks causing it to heat up. The demons are picky, though. They don't like to touch some materials so they don't heat up at all (e.g., glass or porcelin). The demons are also playful. Sometimes they deliberately leave a big region of your food uncooked and laugh feindlishly as you later bite into that big chink of ice in your otherwise scalding hot lasagne. Sometimes the demons get so excited that they actually explode. This explains the mysterious splatters you find stuck to the interrior walls of the oven even though you always keep your food covered while cooking it. (Demons, once dead, can no longer maintain their invisibility and so show up as visible splatterings). When the timer stops, power is cut, and the warp hole begins to collapse and sucks all the demons back into the other realm. So since they're based on magic and rely on conscious beings with random personalities, microwave ovens are inherently unreliable and unpredictable.
There is no doubt that computers operate on magic. The entire device requires a spell (we call them programs today) in order to do anything useful. Truly, we programmers are the modern day sorcerers.
To all the poeple who say that reverse engineering is illegal, you don't own the barcode reader etc. I say: I never saw any EULA. I'm told it appears when you install the software which I never did. Therefore, even if you believe in EULAs, I was never presented with it. So how can I be bound by it?
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And the Dirty pair scripts weren't "butchered" as many repeat as GOSPEL from 3rd hand heresay, while YOU don't and never will understand a lick of Japanese. Sure, there were some inane lines made up as filler (e.g., the bit about aerobics in the Eden movie). But nothing to drastically change the meaning. The changes for Robotech, on the other hand, were necessary to hook the 3 series together which in turn, was necessary before any TV station would air it, hence the running "protoculutre" theme. If Carl stood by YOUR principles, few would know of Macross and anime fandom might still be small and cult like, and we wouldn't have the piles of quality R1 DVDs with both dub and sub tracks available, that we have today thanks to Carl. Yeah, you heard me. I guess you long for the days when all anime was only obtainable 13th generation EP VHS bootlegs?
And all the while you whine, the original stuff was, is , and will always be there so WTF is your problem, fanboy? It's you hardcore types that really give us all a bad name. Truly, "shut the hell up geek."
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Well, just as public AND PRIVATE business which are open to the public are REQUIRED to install ramps, bathroom handrails, and accomodate guide dogs preemptive of "no animals allowed" policies, so too should publically accessible business web sites be required to support text-only.
Keep fucking the disabled over and expect a big, expensive, precedent setting lawsuit to "impact" your stock holders and cost you that sweet CIO job.
All because you don't want to play fair. It'll happen. You'll see. You'll lose. And you'll pay. So why not do the RIGHT thing now?
Women are hypocrites. They whine about how fucked up men are, yet hang out with the most fucked up testosterone filled assholes of them all. They shun the lonely geek who would treasure a women and treat her like gold if he ever got one, but he's not "cool", so off with the jerk she goes. Then she gets treated like crap, cheated on, and acts surprised. She must like it. Eventually she figures out that "being cool" doesn't pay the bills, buy a car, nor provide a home to raise the kids in. She ends up battered, eventually divorced, living on crap wages at a crap job in a crap apartment and goes on Oprah to say how it's society and "the man" that's always oppressing her.
The lonely geek, on the other hand, makes good money, can afford a nice home, drives a comfy car, has loads to blow on quirky hobbies, but has long since given up on women as totally unfathomable, and has forgotten how to deal with them evermore. He grows old, and dies alone. Then the gov't takes his assets because he had no one to leave anything to nor share anything with. All that love, down the drain, down the crapper. No legacy. And no one cared that he was gone. No one noticed. Just another for sale sign on the block. Yawn.
Yes sir. This "coolness" is such a great thing indeed. Souls get sacrificed to it. And only pain is returned.
For God's sake, take a geek to lunch. You may find he is a real human being you enjoy being with and with whom you will BOTH be better off.
(1) no nuclear reactors (waste/safety issues)
(2) no coal fired power plants (air emissions issues)
(3) no diesel fired power plants (air emmissions again)
(4) no hydroelectric plants (harms [cuddly species of the day]'s habitat)
(5) in fact, no new power plants at all ("not in *my* backyard!")
(6) you shut down existing plants from (1), (2), (3), and (4)
(7) Solar and geothermal don't seem to work like you think... or at all (i.e., operate at a loss).
Well, congrats... your air and water still suck. Species are still going extinct. You put all your eggs on natural gas which is now drying up and prices skyrocketing, you're freezing your asses off and whining about power shortages, high prices, and rolling bloackouts.
And now you:
(1) want continued legislation to FORCE other states to sell power to CA companies headed into bankruptcy? (Who wants to sell to deadbeats?)
(2) Blame deregulation for the energy shortage! Can't have liberals blaming their eco legislation or (gasp!) call for repealing some of it.
(3) Don't give a flying fuck that other states have to pollute more to keep CA on electrical welfare?
Thoroughly, California made its own mess and ought to be forced to wallow in it. You're all screwed and it's your own fault.
What will you do? Here's my prediction: Democrats will do ***NOTHING***. They'll sit and endure the rolling blackouts and come up with bullshit to justify them to the people. They will wait for republicans to propose building more power plants, and repealing the legislation preventing their construction. They will quietly vote to approve these measures amid much muttering and while speaking against it or more likely, will simply abstain on eco-law repealing bills to give republicans a majority (among remaining legislators who actually vote) to let the bills pass. Then when anyone, ANYONE complains about air quality or water pollution or nuclear waste in California they will "blame republicans for rolling back all our hard work to protect your environment." Saying they never voted to support that legislation. Yeah right.
You want power? Then you have to get dirty *just* *like* *everyone* *else*. TANSTAAFL, you know?
IMO, Republicans ought to continue the staredown with democrats until they start repealing their own legislation. Make the basterds squirm and swallow their own bullshit pride. As for the populations without power? Well, at least they'll learn what voting for liberals results in (stone age living) and will know better and teach their kids better in the future.
Um, did I miss anything here?
Free tip for CA denizens: The Plan to steal your cars from you via smog regs is already well underway. Start fighting it now. Basically it combines (1) smog check rules DESIGNED TO FAIL A PERCENTAGE of cars (with an eventual goal of 97% of all cars over 10 years old) with (2) rules that make it ILLEGAL to keep an unregistered vechicle on your property. (1) + (2) = State power to STEAL YOUR CARS and crush them into cubes. See http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1223/sb42/smo gflyer_5.html for more details.
Now before anyone misinterprets my words to mean "ocean dumping of nuclear waste" or says something nonsensical like "what if it 'comes up' in a volcano somewhere else", recall that ALL of the Earth's current internal heat is generated by the natural radioactive elements present in the Earth (see: http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/env99/env087 .htm).
And since most radioactive elements are heavy, they tend to sink and not come back up. Those that do reemerge to the surface are diffused across the globe and are indistinguishable from natural radioactivity.
Support subduction zone dumping of nuclear waste now! Write your legislators! Get funding allocated to research this at your local University. It *is* a good idea. And far better than anything else yet conceived of what to do with the waste.
"Why not just quit making the waste? You overlook world energy shortages."
Yes, a random sampling of college applicants will show blacks and hispanics to be less qualified than whites, but that's because they come from broken school districts that are all fucked up and run more like jails than schools, and staffed by teachers who were transferred there as a "disciplinary action" for screwing off on their job at a better school, or are in the poor school district until they "build up enough seniority" to be able to transfer to teach at their choice school.
Fix the academic problems in primary and secondary schools, and by the time the kids get to college, no one will need differing admissions standards based on race.
Racial quotas or lessened acceptance standards for minorities is a band-aid solution. It's like turning up the stereo louder in your car so you don't hear the water pump squealing anymore. You're just (1) masking the problem, (2) not fixing it, and (3) headed for real disaster down the road.
I'm suing the aliens for gross negligence. As restitution, I get their flying saucer.
(1)Since he does his job well, he always gets his raise at his annual (or more frequent) review.
(2) Since he's been there a long time, he's gotten many raises.
(3) Therefore, he is now waaaay overpaid compared to anyone else in his department, since the other workers are new, or left after a 2-3 years for greener pastures, while he has been there 6, 10, or more years.
But firing him for doing his job would be too evil. Cutting his pay for doing his job is even more evil. So what is an "honourable" way to get rid of him?
Promote him into incompetance! Keep promoting him and adding responsibilities until he can't handle it and becomes incompetent in his new duties. Then you can safely fire him for not being able to do his job. Hey! It'll be *his* fault, right? Wow, aren't we the clever Mgmt folk!
However, if he refuses promotions, though, he's obviously on to Our Plan, and will be fired for outthinking Mgmt and making us look dumb and therefore creating a "hostile" work environment.
Who is ultimately responsible for my well being?
Will police take the rap for murder if they fail to protect me? Will you? Fuck no. And even a 3 minute wait for cops to arrive and defend an unarmed citizenry is long enough for the bad guy to blow you away, rape your kids and slit your wife's throat.
Fuck you, sir, for attempting to jeopardize me and my family by taking away my gun.
So what if it's primary purpose is to kill? Nothing wrong with killing, so long as the right people get killed. I have the right to denend myself with deadly force.
Just get over it, m'kay?
If I'm paying the fine, I might as well do the crime, right? I mean if I'm pre-penalized, why should I not pirate? It's become my fscking duty.
However, in Taiwan, Son May is a licensed local business. They employ people, pay taxes, pay business license fees, sponsor local kids sports groups, etc. From a local point of view, they are not illegitimate at all. Copyright law is a Western invention and then we have the gall to decree our invented concept "morally correct" and call names at Taiwan? Many other nations consider the US attitude on guns or wealth accumulation a far worse behavior. Our women don't cover their faces like in many Arab nations. Should we change and conform to meet ideals of other people in other nations?
I see no difference here.
And you know what, the world seems to be getting along just fine, and Son May sells its products all over the world without "authorities" seeming to care at all. Walk into any asian video/music store, or a comic shop that deals in japanese anime. At least half will stock Son May products. And this is in the US.
Does the US seem to care? Nope. Who's getting hurt? Answer, no one. What's our response? Hey! Taiwan is one of out "most favored nations".
If they are truly interested in checking for irregularities, why not check election procedures in all 50 states? Gore won California by only 5%. Let's check and see how many CA voters were illegal aliens. Nah. Democrats aren't interested in that since the illegal aliens prefer Gore over Bush.
Cheese it! The Feds!
I've only got 5 slots in my machine. One has a sound card, the other 4 slots have network cards. eth0=static IP #1, eth1=static IP#2, eth2=DHCP addr, eth3=Internal LAN.
If I need a colsole for administration, I can ssh or remote X display one. I can even use a serial port in an emergency.
Sure, I installed a video card to set up the box. After Linux was running, the card was gone.
Video cards are for the weak!
Then fuck you. You get fired, you slacking lazy graying old bastard.
Then when this fired worker applies for his next job it's, (interviewer to himself) "What? You're married with two kids?" (interviewer to you) "I'm sorry but you're { not qualified | too expensive | not what we're looking for }". It is discrimination pure and simple.
H1B visas are not about filling in skills US workers lack.
Nor do employers want more H1B visas so they can pay workers less.
H1Bs are a source of people with no family ties or other responsibilities whatsoever. H1B workers, along with most fresh college grads, are the only work group that can work the really really long hours, and devote their entire waking hours to "the company".
Now that the first wave of IT workers is getting married and having kids, employers are saying there is a "shortage of IT workers". Bullshit. There is only a shortage of workers who will let themselves be treated like crap. And yes, even if well paid, 70-100 hour work weeks == crap treatment and abuse of a salaried worker. Just like you can't justify exposing workers to workplace hazards by claiming, "they're paid well and accepted the job", so too can you not justify abusive work hours by claiming "they're paid well and accepted the job". In the USA, workers have rights, wheather you agree or not. Just get over it and accept it, or, move your business China. But if you want to operate in the US, then you play by US rules. It's just that simple.
Expect to see IT worker unions form if employers don't clean up their act. Do you hate unions? Hate the corruption? Hate the politics? Well, you have your chance to fix things now. Get off your ass and set things straights before the unions form. And don't bitch and whine about how unions are holding your company by the balls later because it'll only be your fault for fucking people over now.
Did anyone really think this "digital signatures as legally binding as real ones" was ever meant to help out the average citizen?
Here's proof that it wasn't. Govt's are now scared shitless because grass roots organizations have announced plans to have ON-LINE BALLOT INITIATIVE PETITIONS to get various porpisitions, etc., on state, county, and municipal elections. And hey! The digital signatures collected via the web are "as legally binding as paper signatures". Holy shit! We gave power to the poeple? This was supposed to just help corps and the UCITA. JUDAS! We gotta do something!
So for this, I applaud the new digital signature bill. Because now it gives ME THE POWER to start writing new state legislation myself. Watch out corps., I've got a pen in my hand and web site running from my desk.
There is exactly one and only one quality assurance method. And that is to fully map out all possible states that a program can be in, how they can reach each of those states and that none of those states is an error state reachable from the start state. This is only possible for the tiniest programs. Stuff running inside a PIC chip, maybe a simple device driver, etc. We're talking a few single digit K of binary code tops, and more often than not, well under 1K. Huge apps like an OS or a word processor? Forget it. There can be no "Quality Assurance" for such things, only rigorous testing of "simulated average use". But like in mathematics, proof by exhaustive example does not a proof make.
Advertising how many hours of live (not automated or unattended) beta testing a product has undergone and by how many different and unique people would be a far better guage of a product's reliability than any "Quality Assurance" methods could produce.
And these two numbers, hours tested and how many doing the testing are orders of magnitude greater for Linux than for any Microsoft OS. So while Microsoft spends orders of magnitude more dollars on "Quality Assurance" programs, Linux comes out more stable. You tell me. Which is the better indicator of product reliability?
This slashdot article says that Michigan's new law makes " the unauthorized alteration, damage or use of a computer system a felony."
Hrm. Uploading ads disguised as MP3s sure sounds like an "unauthorised use" to me. Let's see these music industry sponsored laws used right back on their own ranks. After all, juices flow both ways when you start fucking people over. Bust the Barenaked Ladies. Throw their asses in jail on felony charges. Because laws mean nothing unless they apply to everyone equally.
I just wipe it off with a damp rag and it's as clean as the day I bought it. What are you people talking about?
But the Grue was far scarier than anything in Doom or Quake, because you never see it. It's as horrible and scary an your mind makes it out to be. Besides, if I want babes in my games, there's always Leather Goddesses of Phobos!
It'll destroy DNA or at least mangle it enough that it can no longer be identified yet leave the product unharmed (so long as it's made of cloth or plastic or ceramic or glass, etc.) Foil the piracy police! Microwave your olympic souvenirs today!
http://hostname.tld:79/\ userid
Note the space preceeding the userid.
Totally wrong protocol to send to finger yet it worked. The HTTP protocol sends a "GET / userid HTTP/1.0" to the finger daemon. Luckily fingerd supports multiple userid lookups at the same time. Naturally 'GET' and '/' and 'HTTP/1.0'resolve to invalid users, but userid retrieves the .plan file!
Since HTTP ignores stuff preceding the <HTML> tag, my web page rendered correctly! From a system where such things were prohibited! Woo hoo! In your face Woods (the sysadmin back then)! Of course, few people cared back then as the web was a whacked far out academic project. Gopher was the big thing back then. Blargh.
A conventional oven works on science. Gas flows down a vented pipe where it is ignited by a pilot light. The burning gas (reacting with oxygen) heats the oven chamber until a bimetallic metal strip inside the oven bends enough to trip a lever that cuts off the flow of gas. Then as the oven cools, the metal bends back until it opens the gas flow to again heat the oven. A regulated temperature hysterisis is maintained. All goooood solid reliable and science. All of the chemical and physical properties of this non-living system are readily known and predictable.
A microwave oven, on the other hand, works on magic. When you press the 'start' button, an unseen dimensional portal is opened up inside the oven chamber and a horde of tiny invisible demons is released. The demons poke your food with their magic charged pitchforks causing it to heat up. The demons are picky, though. They don't like to touch some materials so they don't heat up at all (e.g., glass or porcelin). The demons are also playful. Sometimes they deliberately leave a big region of your food uncooked and laugh feindlishly as you later bite into that big chink of ice in your otherwise scalding hot lasagne. Sometimes the demons get so excited that they actually explode. This explains the mysterious splatters you find stuck to the interrior walls of the oven even though you always keep your food covered while cooking it. (Demons, once dead, can no longer maintain their invisibility and so show up as visible splatterings). When the timer stops, power is cut, and the warp hole begins to collapse and sucks all the demons back into the other realm. So since they're based on magic and rely on conscious beings with random personalities, microwave ovens are inherently unreliable and unpredictable.
There is no doubt that computers operate on magic. The entire device requires a spell (we call them programs today) in order to do anything useful. Truly, we programmers are the modern day sorcerers.
malloc: corrupt arena.
lpr: /dev/lp is on fire.
To all the poeple who say that reverse engineering is illegal, you don't own the barcode reader etc. I say: I never saw any EULA. I'm told it appears when you install the software which I never did. Therefore, even if you believe in EULAs, I was never presented with it. So how can I be bound by it?