This is a weird issue. I was taught that a word should not offend anyone. I think the words God and Church are extremly offensive, but a domain of god.com or church.com could be okay?
Well anyway, most four letter words are just expressive English, and a joint.com could be a medical site.
Hard for me to understand how someone can be offended by a word and/or concept. I mean like, I would defend the Human/Constitutional rights of a person who is gay (the word/concept does not offend me), but I am not gay. Also, sexual assult is an assult on Human Rights (I would be offended) hetro or homo. Then again an a-sexual act would be (I guess) masturbation, harm no one and be an acceptable relief. Well I'm glad I'm married all these directions are almost moot for me.
Write the Constitution to Promote and Defend the rights of all Humans, multimix-cultural Advancement, Evolution, and Achievment (Cultural, Science, Art,...).
I'll sign... maybe one day... we will see the One Great Human Race. Evolution Never Ends, but we could fall as others in the past with a star... or ride to the stars of our future.
Yep, you are right, management (with Limited/No Technology/Programming/Engineering knowledge/experience) folks are very strange and funny in a miserable sort of way. Many are a wasted pay check. Around here we call'em View-Graph Engineers (Good Briefers) a/o Career Managers (Promotion Focused). I have also heard them call me and my colleagues worker-bees and pack-mules (obvious reason and both are sterile on decision making). A recent silly for me (from management) was teach others linux next month (my first reply was I just bought linux 30Mar99, NOT 01Apr99), about 30May99 I'll have them convinced that maybe 30Sep99 would be a good date, but I'll still be forced to put on a class by 30Jul99 (if I'm lucky). I laugh (at work) more that most folks believe, and management just figures I'm a happy (though a little crazy) employee (True, I am a happy employee or I'd be gone, but they don't know/believe that?).
I'm not a programmer, more of a WAN integrator (Okay I did write a couple lines of some hex-code PL, and a little double-digit cobol and..., but that was two decades, or more, ago atleast). I know alot about a few things (switching...) and a little about many things. I just tell folks I'm a Technology Assistance Professional (TAP), because they never understand other explainations of not quite a programmer, network planner/analyst, troubelshooter that can do math but does not have a degree....
Anyway I hope that slashdot develops a management topic, because we need to either get rid of the fools or get'em trained for a real job.
Long... long ago in an old stupid culture there were many ancient geezers in Government that paid per KLOC and the king wore new cloths every day. These foolish folks never knew FLOC (Functions per LOC). I remember this story from history, I believe it was really true inthe past.
Anyway the moral of the story is a creative smart short FLOC will take longer to make than a bunch of stupid LOC, but you always get something that functions at a far better price.
So, sounds like a statistical lie, due to stupid data collection methods/procedures/functions.
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This is a weird issue. I was taught that a word should not offend anyone. I think the words God and Church are extremly offensive, but a domain of god.com or church.com could be okay?
Well anyway, most four letter words are just expressive English, and a joint.com could be a medical site.
Hard for me to understand how someone can be offended by a word and/or concept. I mean like, I would defend the Human/Constitutional rights of a person who is gay (the word/concept does not offend me), but I am not gay. Also, sexual assult is an assult on Human Rights (I would be offended) hetro or homo. Then again an a-sexual act would be (I guess) masturbation, harm no one and be an acceptable relief. Well I'm glad I'm married all these directions are almost moot for me.
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... maybe one day ... we will see the One Great Human Race. Evolution Never Ends, but we could fall as others in the past with a star ... or ride to the stars of our future.
We the People (United Sentients (US))
In order to form a more perfect republic
For, of, and by the People
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Write the Constitution to Promote and Defend the rights of all Humans, multimix-cultural Advancement, Evolution, and Achievment (Cultural, Science, Art,
I'll sign
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..., but that was two decades, or more, ago atleast). I know alot about a few things (switching ...) and a little about many things. I just tell folks I'm a Technology Assistance Professional (TAP), because they never understand other explainations of not quite a programmer, network planner/analyst, troubelshooter that can do math but does not have a degree ....
Yep, you are right, management (with Limited/No Technology/Programming/Engineering knowledge/experience) folks are very strange and funny in a miserable sort of way. Many are a wasted pay check. Around here we call'em View-Graph Engineers (Good Briefers) a/o Career Managers (Promotion Focused). I have also heard them call me and my colleagues worker-bees and pack-mules (obvious reason and both are sterile on decision making). A recent silly for me (from management) was teach others linux next month (my first reply was I just bought linux 30Mar99, NOT 01Apr99), about 30May99 I'll have them convinced that maybe 30Sep99 would be a good date, but I'll still be forced to put on a class by 30Jul99 (if I'm lucky). I laugh (at work) more that most folks believe, and management just figures I'm a happy (though a little crazy) employee (True, I am a happy employee or I'd be gone, but they don't know/believe that?).
I'm not a programmer, more of a WAN integrator (Okay I did write a couple lines of some hex-code PL, and a little double-digit cobol and
Anyway I hope that slashdot develops a management topic, because we need to either get rid of the fools or get'em trained for a real job.
Long ... long ago in an old stupid culture there were many ancient geezers in Government that paid per KLOC and the king wore new cloths every day. These foolish folks never knew FLOC (Functions per LOC). I remember this story from history, I believe it was really true inthe past.
Anyway the moral of the story is a creative smart short FLOC will take longer to make than a bunch of stupid LOC, but you always get something that functions at a far better price.
So, sounds like a statistical lie, due to stupid data collection methods/procedures/functions.