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In this economy, it had better be a truely shitty job (ie shoveling shit) to leave. There are thousands of IT workers (some good, some not) who would kill you, smoke your entrails, and dance a little dance on your grave for your job (I being one of those). However with a three year contract, things and go from bad to worse and back again.
You should check out the list of companies behind the BSA. IBM and MS are both on it. Now do you really believe that the BSA is going to audit one of its own memebers?
Given I live in the US, however reading what I have about your Goverments try at an E-Gov type of portal (all your taxes go through it, get your drivers license, etc) MS has complete control over all goverment computers. In fact, its dictating the types of computer that goverment agencys have to buy to connect to the portal (win2k adv serv w/ ms sql server 2000 Office 2000 ETC).
I don't get where you say: "You should be playing hardball with them. It's happening in the UK" because its not. Even if businesses are having success against the MS dracion empire, do you really believe that they will contiue, when they are told that they have to submit their tax information in Excel 2k or submit their applications for licenses in Word 2k.
They will buy Office 2k because it will be easier then trying to figure out ANY open source alternives.....
the BSA is a software reseller. they have NO LEGAL AUTHORITY. they are not the "Software Police". they can't come to you and demand anything. you have to (stupidly, actually) ask them to come and perform an audit. then, when they find non-compliance, they offer to sell the company the licenses at a "special price".
While this may be techically correct, I would like to see you trying to tell that to the marshalls with big shotguns when they come knocking on the door.
The BSA is nothing but a frigging Mafia Protection Racket (and should be destroyed by RICO), they come in and tell you should pay them a large sum of money, or their going to "crack some skulls".
The only reason they survive is that its cheaper to pay them then to fight them. And they proclaim at the top of their lungs that if your trying to fight them then you must be a dirty pirate...
I know that its a qoute from a movie (if you don't know which, you are not a GEEK), and it illustrates the point quite effectively.
Now all you have to do is substute a particular group (ie "terrorist", "Pedofiles", "Jewish", "Palastian","Gay", "Cristian", "Satanist", "White", "Black", "Alien", or whatever group is out of favor with the current admistration/world) for the word "mutant". This is why its a bad idea. We may have to have some kind of national id, but without the proper laws to stop people (by people I do mean everyone, including me) from using the data improperly, we will all be going to communist hell in a handbasket!
That may be a good system. However do you know who has access to your data? Better yet, do you know what they are going to do with it? Has your goverment (assuming its not Cuba) writen into law what can and can not be done with it?
I would not feel so rightous, if I was you, if I can go to work as a simple librarian and have full access to your data. I just might feel mightly pissed off one day and "accidently" delete your ass from the database! Then how would you prove your you?
So in other words, you just said that you were willing to help others with unjust things for money. Is that not the definition of whore? I would not be proudly proclaiming this fact, its rather disgusting. And I like many other geeks chose to work for business that don't conflict with our ideals (no matter how stupid that seems).
AMEN AMEN AMEN I was in the miltary, and I understood why I had to give up certain information about my self to very yahoo I came across. However, when I want to DRIVE on a public street or go into a public bar I should not have to give out my birthdate/waist size/shoe size/favorite color/bank account number/size of package/etc.Sorry got kind of carried away there. These things make up me in a digital world, I should not have to share everything to everybody for nothing.
And the funniest part about this is that the driver's license was NEVER ment to be an id, it was just to show that you knew the basics of running a frigging car. Same thing on SSN numbers.
dude that is the dumbest idea around. Suppositly the software will pick you out no matter what your wearing (doesn't change your facial apparence, just makes you look stupid), or how your hair looks (same argument as above, but you do look way way dumber), or wither or not you have a beard/moustache/bushy eye brows (because the evil software measures the parts of your face that can't be changed without major surgery). So the only thing you do is fuckup the reason for a picture and not have facial reg. software.
the software works on the bones in your face, and distance between your eyes,nostrols,ears, etc. So unless you can rearrange your face, it will still work ( as much as it is feebly able to).
In the fact that you can only patent a THING for 20 years, but you can copyright music between 95(corp) and 140(person) years. Music is basicly a nothing, it improves society only artisicly, not with any tangiable improvement. Yet you can only patent someTHING for a fifth of a copyright. Does anyone else see how ironic that is?
Well if you don't believe People are the ones that kill, (know from experience I have used guns for a long while and YET I have to have killed someone). Then I guess you believe that Windows has the majority of the market because IT IS A BETTER PRODUCT THEN LINUX/UNIX??? Think about it............
They didn't remove the site its still at Xenu.net. They used a cunning battle tactic... remove the idea that there is more information. As we all know the search engines are how the majority of the web pages are found, and yet there is still approx. 90% to 95% of the web(can't remember exact stat) left to the black ether of the unknown.
They can't change the website...they are changing the Google website in the US. As we are currently the largest presence on the internet, they can do alot of damage.
That is NOT what they did... What they did was have the material from an OPPOSING website, a website that is not under their control and is located in another country, removed from the public domain.
Think about it...how many of us use google to find everything. And if you can't find it with google how are you suppose to find it.
Try this experiment... go to Google and type in the search term "Scientology"...You will have to go to the 45th search result to find one that is not owned or controlled or for the Church of Scientology. Now how many times during a search have anyone looked beyond the 2nd page?
Damn, now that I've said "The Church of Scientology", their going to censor this post.
"in 1996-1997 the researchers found 53 percent...
and in 2001: dropped to about 40 percent, Chiang said, a 25 percent decline
PLEASE explain to me how 53-25=40. Something is HORRIBLY wrong with this story!"
Its 25% of 53. Which comes out to about 13.25.
53 - 13 = wait for it.... 40
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In this economy, it had better be a truely shitty job (ie shoveling shit) to leave. There are thousands of IT workers (some good, some not) who would kill you, smoke your entrails, and dance a little dance on your grave for your job (I being one of those). However with a three year contract, things and go from bad to worse and back again.
Everybody mod this man up.
We should all help a fellow geek get laid.
You should check out the list of companies behind the BSA. IBM and MS are both on it. Now do you really believe that the BSA is going to audit one of its own memebers?
What the Grapes are you talking about?
Given I live in the US, however reading what I have about your Goverments try at an E-Gov type of portal (all your taxes go through it, get your drivers license, etc) MS has complete control over all goverment computers. In fact, its dictating the types of computer that goverment agencys have to buy to connect to the portal (win2k adv serv w/ ms sql server 2000 Office 2000 ETC).
I don't get where you say: "You should be playing hardball with them. It's happening in the UK" because its not. Even if businesses are having success against the MS dracion empire, do you really believe that they will contiue, when they are told that they have to submit their tax information in Excel 2k or submit their applications for licenses in Word 2k.
They will buy Office 2k because it will be easier then trying to figure out ANY open source alternives.....
While this may be techically correct, I would like to see you trying to tell that to the marshalls with big shotguns when they come knocking on the door.
The BSA is nothing but a frigging Mafia Protection Racket (and should be destroyed by RICO), they come in and tell you should pay them a large sum of money, or their going to "crack some skulls".
The only reason they survive is that its cheaper to pay them then to fight them. And they proclaim at the top of their lungs that if your trying to fight them then you must be a dirty pirate...
I know that its a qoute from a movie (if you don't know which, you are not a GEEK), and it illustrates the point quite effectively.
Now all you have to do is substute a particular group (ie "terrorist", "Pedofiles", "Jewish", "Palastian","Gay", "Cristian", "Satanist", "White", "Black", "Alien", or whatever group is out of favor with the current admistration/world) for the word "mutant".
This is why its a bad idea. We may have to have some kind of national id, but without the proper laws to stop people (by people I do mean everyone, including me) from using the data improperly, we will all be going to communist hell in a handbasket!
That may be a good system. However do you know who has access to your data? Better yet, do you know what they are going to do with it? Has your goverment (assuming its not Cuba) writen into law what can and can not be done with it?
I would not feel so rightous, if I was you, if I can go to work as a simple librarian and have full access to your data. I just might feel mightly pissed off one day and "accidently" delete your ass from the database! Then how would you prove your you?
So in other words, you just said that you were willing to help others with unjust things for money. Is that not the definition of whore? I would not be proudly proclaiming this fact, its rather disgusting. And I like many other geeks chose to work for business that don't conflict with our ideals (no matter how stupid that seems).
AMEN AMEN AMEN I was in the miltary, and I understood why I had to give up certain information about my self to very yahoo I came across. However, when I want to DRIVE on a public street or go into a public bar I should not have to give out my birthdate/waist size/shoe size/favorite color/bank account number/size of package/etc.Sorry got kind of carried away there. These things make up me in a digital world, I should not have to share everything to everybody for nothing.
And the funniest part about this is that the driver's license was NEVER ment to be an id, it was just to show that you knew the basics of running a frigging car. Same thing on SSN numbers.
dude that is the dumbest idea around. Suppositly the software will pick you out no matter what your wearing (doesn't change your facial apparence, just makes you look stupid), or how your hair looks (same argument as above, but you do look way way dumber), or wither or not you have a beard/moustache/bushy eye brows (because the evil software measures the parts of your face that can't be changed without major surgery). So the only thing you do is fuckup the reason for a picture and not have facial reg. software.
the software works on the bones in your face, and distance between your eyes,nostrols,ears, etc. So unless you can rearrange your face, it will still work ( as much as it is feebly able to).
In the fact that you can only patent a THING for 20 years, but you can copyright music between 95(corp) and 140(person) years.
Music is basicly a nothing, it improves society only artisicly, not with any tangiable improvement. Yet you can only patent someTHING for a fifth of a copyright.
Does anyone else see how ironic that is?
Well if you don't believe People are the ones that kill, (know from experience I have used guns for a long while and YET I have to have killed someone).
Then I guess you believe that Windows has the majority of the market because IT IS A BETTER PRODUCT THEN LINUX/UNIX??? Think about it............
They didn't remove the site its still at Xenu.net. They used a cunning battle tactic ... remove the idea that there is more information.
As we all know the search engines are how the majority of the web pages are found, and yet there is still approx. 90% to 95% of the web(can't remember exact stat) left to the black ether of the unknown.
They can't change the website...they are changing the Google website in the US. As we are currently the largest presence on the internet, they can do alot of damage.
That is NOT what they did... What they did was have the material from an OPPOSING website, a website that is not under their control and is located in another country, removed from the public domain.
... go to Google and type in the search term "Scientology"...You will have to go to the 45th search result to find one that is not owned or controlled or for the Church of Scientology. Now how many times during a search have anyone looked beyond the 2nd page?
Think about it...how many of us use google to find everything. And if you can't find it with google how are you suppose to find it.
Try this experiment
Damn, now that I've said "The Church of Scientology", their going to censor this post.
"in 1996-1997 the researchers found 53 percent... and in 2001: dropped to about 40 percent, Chiang said, a 25 percent decline PLEASE explain to me how 53-25=40. Something is HORRIBLY wrong with this story!"
Its 25% of 53. Which comes out to about 13.25. 53 - 13 = wait for it.... 40