They also have a rule that if a job is technically one you COULD get paid for, you're breaking the law.
I know this because my spouse, waiting for years without being able to work while my GC was being processed, tried to find some way to not have a multiple year hole in her resume. We were told unequivocally even if she never collected a dime, if she "volunteered" at a non-volunteer position e.g. working a job even for no pay, we'd be outta there.
Did you have authorization from the INS to be running an enterprise for pay, e.g. this little side project of yours? Doesn't matter you were paid via AdSense, you took on side work, even entrepreneurial, you were not authorized to perform.
Technically you're subject to immediate deportation for breaking the law.
Somebody please explain to this man the difference between OVULATION (when a woman produces an egg) and MENSTRUATION (when the uterine lining sheds itself out through the vagina).
You are correct, that is what I meant to say. Sounds like I'm going "oh, uh, yeah, I meant to say that". I was referring to the environment of COM, as you very clearly enumerated, as opposed to the standard and the binary implementation.
Actually, I've found it's more a problem trying to convince a manager that it would take LESS time to redo the damn code than it would be to figure out what the last guy did, and "resuse it" in the "new context" e.g. cut and paste and edit the hell out of it, rather than rearchitect it to the new requirements and take what you need.
A LOT of managers have this strange idea that lines of code are mined out of unobtainium or something, and that using as much as possible "from the existing codebase" is a REALLY GOOD IDEA.
Refactor. Rebuild. Check the unit tests. Duh.
But hey, so long as the checks clear, knock yourself out wasting BOTH our time....
EGO - Noone will admit they don't know what they want, noone will admit that what they wrote thet were learning while they were coding it, etc.
GENERAL CLUELESSNESS: Figure out what you want and build it. In that order. "If I don't write down clear specifications I can't be held accountable if they're wrong" is the manager's mantra.
MAGIC BULLET THEORY: Technology X will solve all our problems! And our neighbour's problems (see first point)
HR ISSUES: Must have 10 years experience in.NET (posted a year after.NET was released), Must have experience in Java, J2EE, J2ME, J2SE, JAX, JNI, JWD, JQV, WWJD, SOA, SOL, SQL, SPL, APL, OBE, CBE,... (see point one) and AN EXPERT IN ALL THE ABOVE.
Corollary to the above: don't hire someone with a clue who architects well and can translate the design into whatever language you want (or tell you why "object oriented" and "EJB" don't co-exist) find someone who either guesses the exact answer to your clever pointer question you thought was a cool hack, or find someone with tons of certifications and ultrageekery in the language du jour (the GOLDEN HAMMER antipattern)
RE: For the record, you would not know how many people are being tortured and killed in North Korea. In addition, why are these people being killed? For dissention? To be experimented on as the article mentions?
Does it really matter? Does the ideology matter? Do you think some Arab's mother gives a crap about the supposed Fight For Freedom that resulted in the loss of all four of her three year old's limbs? Difference is, Kim Jong Il kills his own people, we kill our own and other people.
RE: On forced labor camps, how is that equivalent to the ghetto at all?
Both are necessary, and the people who are in both don't choose to be there. Both have very high death rates, especially infant mortality.
RE: The ghetto is the ghetto because of a lack of jobs in that community. So its more like an anti-labor camp. So I think the comparison between the two is totally off base.
For there to be incentive to work demeaning minimum wage jobs, there must be the unemployed to point at and say "this could be you".
RE: We are at war in Iraq so of course there are going to be casualties caused by that. There may be more or may be less than North Korea, but name one other country that spends millions of dollars on one bomb to blow up a mud shack with our enemies in it. We could easily carpet bomb, nuke, or use chemical warfare (as Hussein and Chemical Ali did)
With weapons we provided for them. Are you starting to see how much damage we do worldwide?
RE: the city and it would be way cheaper, but we don't. Why do we do it? Because we're the United States of America and we have the technology, money, and humanity to try and limit collateral damage to civilian populations.
Are you freaking nuts? We're spending obscene amounts of money to enrich Halliburton, not because we care how many "Hajis" we're killing.
RE: If you truly feel President Bush and our government is equivalent to, or maybe even more evil than North Korea, I challenge you to move there and see how different they really are.
Evil? No. Dangerous? Yes.
RE: I was a little confused on the distinction between a Representative Democracy and a Republic. They seem kinda close in definition. Wikipedia and Encarta are confused too as Encarta calls the United States a Representative Democracy [msn.com] and Wikipedia calls the United States a Republic [wikipedia.org]. So please feel free to enlighten me on the distinction.
I pledge allegiance, to the flag, of the United States of America, and to the REPUBLIC, for which it stands.....
Dude, this is a Republic. End of story. We have a rule of law and an indirect rule by people (Electoral college????) as opposed to direct running of government, which can and does turn into mob rule. A democracy by definition is direct involvement in government, which we do not have. Ah hell, just read this http://users.law.capital.edu/dmayer/Blog/blogIndex .asp?entry=20050606.asp
It's understood that the world is getting slightly warmer, but apart from Eurohysteria about the EVIL USA choking us all with CO2, it's not understood how much of an effect we have, if at all. The amount of CO2 we put out is less than 4% of the total CO2, and you get diminishing returns in terms of greenhouse effect the more you add.
RE: Um, yeah... except that we aren't living in cruel Stalinist dictatorship that's starving its people,
No, we're living in a neocon capitalist dictatorship where "the decider" can't seem to clue in most people thinking he's doing a crap job. The Constitution is just "a piece of paper" and what's left in it is being shredded by PATRIOT and other ruses tossed into other bills quietly tucked into some corner somewhere.
RE: running forced labor camps to control population,
I wonder if that's more deadly than an inner city ghetto, which various authorities import heroin and crack into, to finance wet ops elsewhere.
RE: and threateningly launching missles at and over neighboring countries.
Versus invading a country to boost poll numbers, using a complete web of everchanging lies.
RE: The "Dear Leader" is an absolute loon in charge of a vast, starving, standing army.
As opposed to "the decider", an ex-alcoholic ex-cokehead with a nuclear arsenal that could vaporize the planet many times over?
RE: That army is regularly told that it's going to be attacked at any moment (since the Koren War isn't over, really).
Versus Republican fearmongering that now, right now, terrorists might have designs on the Stuckey's in Midlanowhere, Iowa, so we'd better tear up the Bill of Rights and open torture camps RIGHT NOW? Because the Iraq war technically never ended either...
RE: Much like Iran's regular references to wiping other countries off the map,
Versus our saber rattling in Iran, Syria, Iraq...
RE: NK is actively, regularly doing and saying really unsettling. Crazy crap. They counterfeit currency from all of the world and use nationally flagged vessels to carry heroin and other smuggled goods around the world so that the D.L. can buy contraband western niceties from the same western countries that he curses and with whom he makes bogus diplomatic agreements.
That's chicken feed compared to what Western governments sometimes do, I'm sure.
RE: It's really not the same as a country, like ours, that regularly changes out its cilivian and military leadership and has tight military relations with more than one other country. NK's got a luke-warm relationship with the very parasitic NK.
Of course, sometimes we replace a middle aged white Skull and Bones member indebted to the military industrial complex for another middle aged white Skull and Bones member indebted to the military indusrial complex. Meanwhile the same spooks and generals and other X-files types run the show day to day while the talking heads change marginally.
I was worried for about 0.0000001sec about this. "Gosh, what if they figure out where I worked based on this?" As if this didn't apply to THOUSANDS of companies.
I worked somewhere where the managment took advantage of the REALLY terrible job market to basically say "this will be done ON our unrealistic schedule, without listening to your suggestions, or you can all find jobs elsewhere" (which they knew didn't exist). "If it takes weekends, evenings, it will get done, or you can find another job."
Halfway through the project, at a critical juncture, when they'd sign contracts that committed the company to delivery, an employee cracked and shouted at someone else. They fired him on the spot. Half the team looked at the job market, realised it had since become VERY VERY good, and more than half the team walked out.
Needless to say, managment were on the chopping block in a big way when the promised delivery date rolled around and there was no product. The businesses who had signed big deals for the project were demanding major price reductions or cancelling.
Or, you can note that many of the "facts" in that film are incorrect, such as the misattribution of the loss of the Kilimanjaro ice cap to "teh global warming" when we know it was deforestation leading to drier air in the area that's the real culprit.
And correlating CO2 and temperatures is correlation. Perhaps there's more CO2 in the air when temperatures rise, post hoc ergo propter hoc error maybe?
Translation: Eggheads with an axe to grind are quick to beak off about apocalyptic scenarios without having all the facts.
Therefore : It behooves us to shut the Algore types up a few minutes to look at ALL the facts, not the distorted ones they're bleating which EVENTUALLY TURN OUT TO BE WRONG
The real solution it to tell the EPA to fuck off and make cool soot producing cars like the 69 charger again, and the earth will lose some of its solar radiation and we'll cool down like we did in the 70s.
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RE: Yes but which one would you like to have applied to your colon in the event of Colon Cancer?
I've been on this intarweb thing long enough to know that there's NOTHING SOMEONE won't apply to his or her colon.
Question: wouldn't the human body work nicely as an antenna?
I mean, I know antennas that have worked better when in contact with my water-filled fat ass.
RE: What's illegal here is that he got paid.
They also have a rule that if a job is technically one you COULD get paid for, you're breaking the law.
I know this because my spouse, waiting for years without being able to work while my GC was being processed, tried to find some way to not have a multiple year hole in her resume. We were told unequivocally even if she never collected a dime, if she "volunteered" at a non-volunteer position e.g. working a job even for no pay, we'd be outta there.
Did you have authorization from the INS to be running an enterprise for pay, e.g. this little side project of yours? Doesn't matter you were paid via AdSense, you took on side work, even entrepreneurial, you were not authorized to perform.
Technically you're subject to immediate deportation for breaking the law.
Two faulty assumptions on your part:
1) Hemp is not smokable.
2) I do not smoke it, and have no wish to, nor its smokable cousins, cannabis sativa and indica.
Or we could go back to driving cool cars. 1969 Dodge Charger, 1970s era Gran Torino, etc. Particulate matter.
We find a cure for cancer and have everyone smoke again.
Return to cool AND drop planetary temperatures. Oh right, wait. Global warming is a myth.
Hemp. Process the oils for diesel.
C'est une question de solidarite, tu sais.
Marilyn Manson doesn't look like a Goth, either. He looks like that homosexual death metal dude Mortiis.
Marilyn Manson may be a queen, but he isn't Goth. He's a heavy metal rocker who owes much of his act to glam and Alice Cooper.
Somebody please explain to this man the difference between OVULATION (when a woman produces an egg) and MENSTRUATION (when the uterine lining sheds itself out through the vagina).
You are correct, that is what I meant to say. Sounds like I'm going "oh, uh, yeah, I meant to say that". I was referring to the environment of COM, as you very clearly enumerated, as opposed to the standard and the binary implementation.
Actually, I've found it's more a problem trying to convince a manager that it would take LESS time to redo the damn code than it would be to figure out what the last guy did, and "resuse it" in the "new context" e.g. cut and paste and edit the hell out of it, rather than rearchitect it to the new requirements and take what you need.
A LOT of managers have this strange idea that lines of code are mined out of unobtainium or something, and that using as much as possible "from the existing codebase" is a REALLY GOOD IDEA.
Refactor. Rebuild. Check the unit tests. Duh.
But hey, so long as the checks clear, knock yourself out wasting BOTH our time....
BLOAT - Look at J2EE and COM.
.NET (posted a year after .NET was released), Must have experience in Java, J2EE, J2ME, J2SE, JAX, JNI, JWD, JQV, WWJD, SOA, SOL, SQL, SPL, APL, OBE, CBE, ... (see point one) and AN EXPERT IN ALL THE ABOVE.
EGO - Noone will admit they don't know what they want, noone will admit that what they wrote thet were learning while they were coding it, etc.
GENERAL CLUELESSNESS: Figure out what you want and build it. In that order. "If I don't write down clear specifications I can't be held accountable if they're wrong" is the manager's mantra.
MAGIC BULLET THEORY: Technology X will solve all our problems! And our neighbour's problems (see first point)
HR ISSUES: Must have 10 years experience in
Corollary to the above: don't hire someone with a clue who architects well and can translate the design into whatever language you want (or tell you why "object oriented" and "EJB" don't co-exist) find someone who either guesses the exact answer to your clever pointer question you thought was a cool hack, or find someone with tons of certifications and ultrageekery in the language du jour (the GOLDEN HAMMER antipattern)
RE: For the record, you would not know how many people are being tortured and killed in North Korea. In addition, why are these people being killed? For dissention? To be experimented on as the article mentions?
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Does it really matter? Does the ideology matter? Do you think some Arab's mother gives a crap about the supposed Fight For Freedom that resulted in the loss of all four of her three year old's limbs? Difference is, Kim Jong Il kills his own people, we kill our own and other people.
RE: On forced labor camps, how is that equivalent to the ghetto at all?
Both are necessary, and the people who are in both don't choose to be there. Both have very high death rates, especially infant mortality.
RE: The ghetto is the ghetto because of a lack of jobs in that community. So its more like an anti-labor camp. So I think the comparison between the two is totally off base.
For there to be incentive to work demeaning minimum wage jobs, there must be the unemployed to point at and say "this could be you".
RE: We are at war in Iraq so of course there are going to be casualties caused by that. There may be more or may be less than North Korea, but name one other country that spends millions of dollars on one bomb to blow up a mud shack with our enemies in it. We could easily carpet bomb, nuke, or use chemical warfare (as Hussein and Chemical Ali did)
With weapons we provided for them. Are you starting to see how much damage we do worldwide?
RE: the city and it would be way cheaper, but we don't. Why do we do it? Because we're the United States of America and we have the technology, money, and humanity to try and limit collateral damage to civilian populations.
Are you freaking nuts? We're spending obscene amounts of money to enrich Halliburton, not because we care how many "Hajis" we're killing.
RE: If you truly feel President Bush and our government is equivalent to, or maybe even more evil than North Korea, I challenge you to move there and see how different they really are.
Evil? No. Dangerous? Yes.
RE: I was a little confused on the distinction between a Representative Democracy and a Republic. They seem kinda close in definition. Wikipedia and Encarta are confused too as Encarta calls the United States a Representative Democracy [msn.com] and Wikipedia calls the United States a Republic [wikipedia.org]. So please feel free to enlighten me on the distinction.
I pledge allegiance, to the flag, of the United States of America, and to the REPUBLIC, for which it stands.....
Dude, this is a Republic. End of story. We have a rule of law and an indirect rule by people (Electoral college????) as opposed to direct running of government, which can and does turn into mob rule. A democracy by definition is direct involvement in government, which we do not have. Ah hell, just read this http://users.law.capital.edu/dmayer/Blog/blogInde
It's understood that the world is getting slightly warmer, but apart from Eurohysteria about the EVIL USA choking us all with CO2, it's not understood how much of an effect we have, if at all. The amount of CO2 we put out is less than 4% of the total CO2, and you get diminishing returns in terms of greenhouse effect the more you add.
Posted by anonymous coward. Speaks volumes.
For the record, the US is responsible for more war deaths this year than North Korea.
Also for the record, the US is not a democracy, it's a Republic. Get a clue.
RE: Um, yeah... except that we aren't living in cruel Stalinist dictatorship that's starving its people,
No, we're living in a neocon capitalist dictatorship where "the decider" can't seem to clue in most people thinking he's doing a crap job. The Constitution is just "a piece of paper" and what's left in it is being shredded by PATRIOT and other ruses tossed into other bills quietly tucked into some corner somewhere.
RE: running forced labor camps to control population,
I wonder if that's more deadly than an inner city ghetto, which various authorities import heroin and crack into, to finance wet ops elsewhere.
RE: and threateningly launching missles at and over neighboring countries.
Versus invading a country to boost poll numbers, using a complete web of everchanging lies.
RE: The "Dear Leader" is an absolute loon in charge of a vast, starving, standing army.
As opposed to "the decider", an ex-alcoholic ex-cokehead with a nuclear arsenal that could vaporize the planet many times over?
RE: That army is regularly told that it's going to be attacked at any moment (since the Koren War isn't over, really).
Versus Republican fearmongering that now, right now, terrorists might have designs on the Stuckey's in Midlanowhere, Iowa, so we'd better tear up the Bill of Rights and open torture camps RIGHT NOW? Because the Iraq war technically never ended either...
RE: Much like Iran's regular references to wiping other countries off the map,
Versus our saber rattling in Iran, Syria, Iraq...
RE: NK is actively, regularly doing and saying really unsettling. Crazy crap. They counterfeit currency from all of the world and use nationally flagged vessels to carry heroin and other smuggled goods around the world so that the D.L. can buy contraband western niceties from the same western countries that he curses and with whom he makes bogus diplomatic agreements.
That's chicken feed compared to what Western governments sometimes do, I'm sure.
RE: It's really not the same as a country, like ours, that regularly changes out its cilivian and military leadership and has tight military relations with more than one other country. NK's got a luke-warm relationship with the very parasitic NK.
Of course, sometimes we replace a middle aged white Skull and Bones member indebted to the military industrial complex for another middle aged white Skull and Bones member indebted to the military indusrial complex. Meanwhile the same spooks and generals and other X-files types run the show day to day while the talking heads change marginally.
Please keep this up, it's really quite comical.
CoC = Captains of Crush, fuckmunch. Look it up.
I was worried for about 0.0000001sec about this. "Gosh, what if they figure out where I worked based on this?" As if this didn't apply to THOUSANDS of companies.
Another CoC enthusiast? I'm on the #3 list.... which one did you leave around? 3 or 4?
Yeah, but karma is a bitch.
I worked somewhere where the managment took advantage of the REALLY terrible job market to basically say "this will be done ON our unrealistic schedule, without listening to your suggestions, or you can all find jobs elsewhere" (which they knew didn't exist). "If it takes weekends, evenings, it will get done, or you can find another job."
Halfway through the project, at a critical juncture, when they'd sign contracts that committed the company to delivery, an employee cracked and shouted at someone else. They fired him on the spot. Half the team looked at the job market, realised it had since become VERY VERY good, and more than half the team walked out.
Needless to say, managment were on the chopping block in a big way when the promised delivery date rolled around and there was no product. The businesses who had signed big deals for the project were demanding major price reductions or cancelling.
Couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch.
RE: CO2 and temperature is correlation backed by theory.
But correlation isn't causality.
And as I said before, if it's such a slam dunk that GW because of human action is true, why lie?
Or, you can note that many of the "facts" in that film are incorrect, such as the misattribution of the loss of the Kilimanjaro ice cap to "teh global warming" when we know it was deforestation leading to drier air in the area that's the real culprit.
And correlating CO2 and temperatures is correlation. Perhaps there's more CO2 in the air when temperatures rise, post hoc ergo propter hoc error maybe?
You fucked up. It should be:
Translation: Eggheads with an axe to grind are quick to beak off about apocalyptic scenarios without having all the facts.
Therefore : It behooves us to shut the Algore types up a few minutes to look at ALL the facts, not the distorted ones they're bleating which EVENTUALLY TURN OUT TO BE WRONG
The real solution it to tell the EPA to fuck off and make cool soot producing cars like the 69 charger again, and the earth will lose some of its solar radiation and we'll cool down like we did in the 70s.