I still don't buy gas from Shell nor drink Coke due to apartheid
I assume this is a reference to them continuing to do business in South Africa? Ha-ha.
Do you know who the sanctions hit hardest? The very people they were supposed to be helping! If those businesses hadn't stayed in the country then all that would have happened is more people would have been out of jobs.
Only people who have been on the recieving end of economic sanctions know how useless they are.
By the way I assume you still fly don't you? Interestingly enough the rest of the world thought it was OK to impose "complete" economic sanctions against SA but it was still OK to buy gold, platinum and titanium from SA to continue manufacturing their planes amongst other things.
As for Shell - I would like to point out that a number of other gasoline companies continued working in South Africa. All they did was spin off a subsiduary and rename it to prevent political fallout.
Well there's your problem. You need to get the KJV and a good set of translation notes.
Wellll. If you want to be that picky why don't we all just learn Greek and Hebrew and get hold of the "real" original texts so to speak.
The NIV and other "modern" bibles are the word of Bob the fallablle translator, not the word of God.
You're telling us God personally handwrote the KJV? Because unless He did that at some point a human had to be involved in the process. That human is just as "fallible" as the next guy. I hope you were just kidding and I missed that.
I had a third-party go out there to hire 16 topnotch Linux developers/architects and 16 topnotch Windows architects so I could do some comparative studies on some work that we're doing. And no one knew that Microsoft had anything to do with this in terms of hiring people to work on this.
I hear the sounds of hundreds of hard drives spinning up right now as some rabid Linux fans scour their resumes with sweat dripping off their faces to see if they inadverdently ended up working for the the 'man'.
By reading the terms and conditions of this comment, you are locked in to obeying them by the most basic laws of physics of the universe and failure to obey them will cause you and your entire family to instantly cease to exist.
Could I modify that to...your current manager to instantly cease to exist ?
If you find this amendment to your T and C's ameniable please provide the deepest spot on your comment to link to.
So you think that allowing/forcing government agencies to co-operate with one another so that each can do their own job better is a bad thing?
No. I think that is a great idea. However, as I pointed out in my post - if we force the DMV to do the INS' job then the DMV cannot do their job of making the roads safer for everybody properly anymore.
Think about this carefully. We will never ever have "leak-proof" borders. There will always be illegal immigrants in this country. Now, given that fact we can choose to allow the DMV to make the roads safer for the illegals as well as the citizens or we can puff our chests and pretend that we are doing something but the net result is that we have unlicensed drivers on the road who are unaware of the roads rules. This makes it more dangerous for everybody on the roads.
I'm sorta interested in why the ACLU is so interested in defending people, who by the simple act of being here, are breaking the law.
They are not interested in defending these people per se. What they are trying to prevent is turning the DMV into the INS. They are separate departments with separate goals. INS is supposed to keep bad guys out of the country. DMV is supposed to make the roads safer for everybody on it. By forcing the DMV to do the work that the INS was supposed to do in the first place they are preventing the DMV from doing their real job - making the roads safer by educating people on correct rules.
Clinton said it, Gore said it, Blix said it, Chirac said it, Blair said it. Stating otherwise is completely revisionist history.
Blix said it?
Blix says it was "probable that the governments were conscious that they were exaggerating the risks they saw in order to get the political support they would not otherwise have had."
HTML, XML are prime examples of this - and also fad-driven development. Verbose, tag-based, require parsing every time, etc. -- not a very good language in any respect. Yet, people can read it. No technical intrinsic merits push XML over some other format, yet here we are.
I use XML purely to store data files for my applications. Most of the time there is no DTD or schema or anything fancy like that. However, what makes it useful for me is that I can add new parts to my data storage and my old code will still read the file correctly and will simply ignore any tags that it doesn't recognise. The new version will obviously be able to read the full file. That ability alone makes it worthwhile to use for me.
In the past I had to version number my data storage and provide conversion tools back and forth so that my customers could upgrade and degrade the files gracefully.
Now, obviously, I could have implemented such an idea myself, but we now have XML parsers and viewers all over the place, so much of the hard work is done for me already.
We have had MQSeries at each IBM implementation that I have worked at (SAP software).
My perception of MQ is that we would be better off throwing it away and FTPing files back and forth while using SAP's job control to kick things off. I cannot imagine how many weeks we have lost in a production environment because of some fiddly piece of junk involved in the MQ process decided to hiccup.
Nope. I lived in California before and they simply linked the expiry of your driver's license to the expiry of your visa. This, combined with a flag in their database ensured you could not get a license without a valid visa. This system ensured that the immigration laws were being complied with and I was treated with decency.
Now, however, I am in Tennessee and they specifically issued these licenses which say on them in large red letters "NOT TO BE USED FOR ID PURPOSES". This, despite the fact that it still contains my picture and address. All this ensures is that I need to use my foreign passport for travel which means I get reamed every time I step through the airport. As I fly on a regular basis this pisses me off no end. My license still expires when my visa expires so no additional "security" has been built into the system.
However, with this "screw the foreigners because they are all terrorists anyway" policy in place the policitians can say "Wow! Look how hard we are on terrorism."
The interesting thing to note is that every government official that has encountered my "driving certificate" thinks that it is a stupid and demeaning idea. (Well with the exception of the TSA people, but most days I have to wonder if they are capable of ANY thought whatsoever.)
The really stupid part about turning the DMV into the INS is that we end up with illegal people driving without any training or insurance. The illegals don't simply evaporate because they can't get a license.
This is xenophobia, pure and simple, it's the assumption that a foreign national is a more of a threat than a citizen, go tell Timothy McVey.
Thank you. Finally somebody else that agrees with me. I'm actually living in the US at the moment on a temp visa and as such I am issued a different drivers license compared to Americans. This is done because they just assume - despite the criminal check that was done on me prior to entering the country - that I am more likely to be a criminal than some random American.
Most of the time Americans don't even realise how insulting they are and often they don't even care if they do realise it.
If you would like to switch to something other than Gnome, then first install something else - like Xfce. Secondly run a utility called switchdesk from the command line.
If you have the GUI part of switchdesk installed it will even list all the options you can change to and a simple mouseclick sends you on your way. Otherwise switchdesk xfce should see you on your way.
Watch out when a high tech company, or any company makes you salaried, because it means you are being setup to work tons of uncompensated overtime.
They have tried to dangle that "carrot" from time to time. I have not felt motivated to take them up on it.
Contractors are different you are getting paid hourly so they do have to pay you for overtime. Of course they can also throw you away like used tissue if they don't need or want you unless your contract says otherwise.
You mean like the 170+ sods at my place with "permanent" jobs that just got kicked in the butt when their jobs went off to India last week?
It sounds so cliched saying that but their jobs really did get offshored just last week. For a change they are not IT guys. They are the finance guys. Us IT people hung onto our jobs.
H1B visa workers lead the way in racking up huge quantities of uncompensated overtime that helps insure everyone else has to do the same.
Tsk. Tsk. I am an H1 visa holder and believe me if somebody wants me to stay overtime then they pay for it. The same rule applies to all the other H1 contractors that I know. Oh wait, are you talking about salaried workers. Hey, tough. That's one of the main reasons I became a contractor. Unpaid overtime is the same for citizens and us stinking foreigners.
The "indentured servants" are usually those applying for a green card. If you switch jobs, you have to start over the green card process. This is scary for two reasons: the process takes a long time (about two years), and you only have so much time to do it (six years, I think).
Unless you apply in f#$%king NY state. I am on year 4 now and I am still in the first stage of the application. Check out this site
It's quite different when a service provider stops people from using its service than it is when some third group stops people from using said service.
From the end-user's perspective it makes absolutely no difference. If I cannot use my cellphone it is just as annoying no matter who shut the system down.
How deranged must a person be if he thinks speed limits are set mainly to allow cops to harrass him?
The kind of person that realises that limiting people to 55mph on a freeway (go NY!) is obviously ridiculous to anybody with a brain. There is no sane reason that you could up with to justify that speed limit.
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Is Ajax compatible with the Odysseus web security tool or will it just cause Ajax to die a horrible death?
No. Ajax will now die in a Flash
As in Flash Gordon. As in why the heck is that movie still in my head after all these years?
I still don't buy gas from Shell nor drink Coke due to apartheid
I assume this is a reference to them continuing to do business in South Africa? Ha-ha.
Do you know who the sanctions hit hardest? The very people they were supposed to be helping! If those businesses hadn't stayed in the country then all that would have happened is more people would have been out of jobs.
Only people who have been on the recieving end of economic sanctions know how useless they are.
By the way I assume you still fly don't you? Interestingly enough the rest of the world thought it was OK to impose "complete" economic sanctions against SA but it was still OK to buy gold, platinum and titanium from SA to continue manufacturing their planes amongst other things.
As for Shell - I would like to point out that a number of other gasoline companies continued working in South Africa. All they did was spin off a subsiduary and rename it to prevent political fallout.
Sheesh.
New International Version
Well there's your problem. You need to get the KJV and a good set of translation notes.
Wellll. If you want to be that picky why don't we all just learn Greek and Hebrew and get hold of the "real" original texts so to speak.
The NIV and other "modern" bibles are the word of Bob the fallablle translator, not the word of God.
You're telling us God personally handwrote the KJV? Because unless He did that at some point a human had to be involved in the process. That human is just as "fallible" as the next guy. I hope you were just kidding and I missed that.
*waves hand*
This is not the movie you want to see.
Move along.
I had a third-party go out there to hire 16 topnotch Linux developers/architects and 16 topnotch Windows architects so I could do some comparative studies on some work that we're doing. And no one knew that Microsoft had anything to do with this in terms of hiring people to work on this.
I hear the sounds of hundreds of hard drives spinning up right now as some rabid Linux fans scour their resumes with sweat dripping off their faces to see if they inadverdently ended up working for the the 'man'.
By reading the terms and conditions of this comment, you are locked in to obeying them by the most basic laws of physics of the universe and failure to obey them will cause you and your entire family to instantly cease to exist.
...your current manager to instantly cease to exist ?
Could I modify that to
If you find this amendment to your T and C's ameniable please provide the deepest spot on your comment to link to.
So you think that allowing/forcing government agencies to co-operate with one another so that each can do their own job better is a bad thing?
No. I think that is a great idea. However, as I pointed out in my post - if we force the DMV to do the INS' job then the DMV cannot do their job of making the roads safer for everybody properly anymore.
Think about this carefully. We will never ever have "leak-proof" borders. There will always be illegal immigrants in this country. Now, given that fact we can choose to allow the DMV to make the roads safer for the illegals as well as the citizens or we can puff our chests and pretend that we are doing something but the net result is that we have unlicensed drivers on the road who are unaware of the roads rules. This makes it more dangerous for everybody on the roads.
I'm sorta interested in why the ACLU is so interested in defending people, who by the simple act of being here, are breaking the law.
They are not interested in defending these people per se. What they are trying to prevent is turning the DMV into the INS. They are separate departments with separate goals. INS is supposed to keep bad guys out of the country. DMV is supposed to make the roads safer for everybody on it. By forcing the DMV to do the work that the INS was supposed to do in the first place they are preventing the DMV from doing their real job - making the roads safer by educating people on correct rules.
Interesting. Thanks for the link.
Clinton said it, Gore said it, Blix said it, Chirac said it, Blair said it. Stating otherwise is completely revisionist history.
Blix said it? Blix says it was "probable that the governments were conscious that they were exaggerating the risks they saw in order to get the political support they would not otherwise have had."
this comes from this link
HTML, XML are prime examples of this - and also fad-driven development. Verbose, tag-based, require parsing every time, etc. -- not a very good language in any respect. Yet, people can read it. No technical intrinsic merits push XML over some other format, yet here we are.
I use XML purely to store data files for my applications. Most of the time there is no DTD or schema or anything fancy like that. However, what makes it useful for me is that I can add new parts to my data storage and my old code will still read the file correctly and will simply ignore any tags that it doesn't recognise. The new version will obviously be able to read the full file. That ability alone makes it worthwhile to use for me.
In the past I had to version number my data storage and provide conversion tools back and forth so that my customers could upgrade and degrade the files gracefully.
Now, obviously, I could have implemented such an idea myself, but we now have XML parsers and viewers all over the place, so much of the hard work is done for me already.
We have had MQSeries at each IBM implementation that I have worked at (SAP software).
My perception of MQ is that we would be better off throwing it away and FTPing files back and forth while using SAP's job control to kick things off. I cannot imagine how many weeks we have lost in a production environment because of some fiddly piece of junk involved in the MQ process decided to hiccup.
...and the whole thing in a neat Java applet...
Which proceeded to crash my Firefox browser. Thanks.
Nope. I lived in California before and they simply linked the expiry of your driver's license to the expiry of your visa. This, combined with a flag in their database ensured you could not get a license without a valid visa. This system ensured that the immigration laws were being complied with and I was treated with decency.
Now, however, I am in Tennessee and they specifically issued these licenses which say on them in large red letters "NOT TO BE USED FOR ID PURPOSES". This, despite the fact that it still contains my picture and address. All this ensures is that I need to use my foreign passport for travel which means I get reamed every time I step through the airport. As I fly on a regular basis this pisses me off no end. My license still expires when my visa expires so no additional "security" has been built into the system.
However, with this "screw the foreigners because they are all terrorists anyway" policy in place the policitians can say "Wow! Look how hard we are on terrorism."
The interesting thing to note is that every government official that has encountered my "driving certificate" thinks that it is a stupid and demeaning idea. (Well with the exception of the TSA people, but most days I have to wonder if they are capable of ANY thought whatsoever.)
See this link for some background discussion.
The really stupid part about turning the DMV into the INS is that we end up with illegal people driving without any training or insurance. The illegals don't simply evaporate because they can't get a license.
This is xenophobia, pure and simple, it's the assumption that a foreign national is a more of a threat than a citizen, go tell Timothy McVey.
Thank you. Finally somebody else that agrees with me. I'm actually living in the US at the moment on a temp visa and as such I am issued a different drivers license compared to Americans. This is done because they just assume - despite the criminal check that was done on me prior to entering the country - that I am more likely to be a criminal than some random American.
Most of the time Americans don't even realise how insulting they are and often they don't even care if they do realise it.
I don't care which one of them wrote it. The quality of the handwriting makes me feel better about mine though.
Seriously, my handwriting skills have dropped to almost pre-school levels due to non-use. I type everything these days.
But things like this really piss me of (excuse my language).
No problem. Here is the correction for next time around;
But things like this really piss me off
If you would like to switch to something other than Gnome, then first install something else - like Xfce. Secondly run a utility called switchdesk from the command line.
If you have the GUI part of switchdesk installed it will even list all the options you can change to and a simple mouseclick sends you on your way. Otherwise switchdesk xfce should see you on your way.
Then they told me, "Don't repeat this story."
This guy just doesn't listen does he?
Your suggestion does not apply if you have an email address like {CommonWord}@gmail.com. You will get spammed a good amount, as I do,...
stevehenderson is a common word? Is it a verb or a noun?
Watch out when a high tech company, or any company makes you salaried, because it means you are being setup to work tons of uncompensated overtime.
They have tried to dangle that "carrot" from time to time. I have not felt motivated to take them up on it.
Contractors are different you are getting paid hourly so they do have to pay you for overtime. Of course they can also throw you away like used tissue if they don't need or want you unless your contract says otherwise.
You mean like the 170+ sods at my place with "permanent" jobs that just got kicked in the butt when their jobs went off to India last week?
It sounds so cliched saying that but their jobs really did get offshored just last week. For a change they are not IT guys. They are the finance guys. Us IT people hung onto our jobs.
H1B visa workers lead the way in racking up huge quantities of uncompensated overtime that helps insure everyone else has to do the same.
Tsk. Tsk. I am an H1 visa holder and believe me if somebody wants me to stay overtime then they pay for it. The same rule applies to all the other H1 contractors that I know. Oh wait, are you talking about salaried workers. Hey, tough. That's one of the main reasons I became a contractor. Unpaid overtime is the same for citizens and us stinking foreigners.
The "indentured servants" are usually those applying for a green card. If you switch jobs, you have to start over the green card process. This is scary for two reasons: the process takes a long time (about two years), and you only have so much time to do it (six years, I think).
Unless you apply in f#$%king NY state. I am on year 4 now and I am still in the first stage of the application. Check out this site
It's quite different when a service provider stops people from using its service than it is when some third group stops people from using said service.
From the end-user's perspective it makes absolutely no difference. If I cannot use my cellphone it is just as annoying no matter who shut the system down.
How deranged must a person be if he thinks speed limits are set mainly to allow cops to harrass him?
The kind of person that realises that limiting people to 55mph on a freeway (go NY!) is obviously ridiculous to anybody with a brain. There is no sane reason that you could up with to justify that speed limit.