Why? No one's advocating being a prick to the lowly security guard, but if you're not doing anything wrong why should you stop what you're doing just to make someone else feel good? Their feelings are their own responsibility, not yours, and you have no control over how they feel about anything.
I certainly wouldn't turn the camera on the guard and start snapping pictures just to antagonize him/her, but I wouldn't put it away, either, if I wasn't done with the shots I wanted to get, just to preserve someone else's "feelings".
That's not entirely accurate, at least not in the US. The Supreme Court has ruled that shopping malls fulfill the traditional "public square" function, and you are free to conduct political activities on their property, as long as you don't block entrance or exit and don't pollute the area with excessive noise or trash. That's why you can set up a table outside of a grocery store to get people to sign a petition, and when the manager tells you to leave you can tell him to call the cops and have you arrested. Which he won't do, because the police won't arrest you.
I know, I've done this many many times in my younger, more active days, when I tried to get pro-marijuana laws put on the ballot in California.
God, I hope this "post anonymously" button works, or else the wife is gonna be pissed...
You'd let all of Slashdot miss out on comedy gold to save your marriage? Bros before hos, dude.
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Except that there, it would be funny. Alex is a little better at setting up the joke and finding the punchline. Sam dragged that first letter out longer than an SNL skit.
Don't be so hard on Rick. After all, you and he've known each other for so long. Didn't he tell you he wouldn't give you up, wouldn't let you down, wouldn't run around and desert you?
That's actually a pretty useful suggestion. Think about it, the real question the PHB is asking is, why should we continue to fund this thing? Are we getting our money's worth? The best way to answer that is to see how much, if at all, people are using it, and what they think of it. Your survey may just be the metric the bosses are looking for.
There are multiple libraries for reCAPTCHA already published, all under the MIT License. Just see http://code.google.com/p/recaptcha/ for a list of them.
Bingo! Or to put it another way, just because you think something is unconstitutional doesn't make it so, especially if the courts have found that it is constitutional. Your remedy is to try to amend the constitution, not throw off half-baked legal theories with no grounds in reality.
Of course, then they'd have to get Patton Oswald and Greg Giraldo appointed to the Supreme Court, so they can continue arguing about what is the "root of all evil".
Mayor is fine...the splatter damage area is greatly reduced to maybe no more than the tri-county area. Regan fscked us with onerous debt and Sonny Bono gave us unconstitutionally long copyright terms.
You misunderstand my argument: I'm not saying that Russia SHOULD attack Poland in the method described in the original scenario; I'm saying no one should be surprised if it happens. I'm also not making any comments about real politik concerns the Russians may or not have regarding expansion of hostilities.
And I think it's a mistake to look at the past actions of Britain and assume that Russia would play from the same book. It's also a mistake to assume that Russia is at all concerned about NATO; I think the Russians view NATO as a paper tiger, and have convinced themselves they won't fight. Russia under Putin is moving closer and closer to a return to the Tsars. If they're able to bring Georgia back in (which appears to be their goal), expect a war of "liberation" against the Ukraine within a year.
The answer is in the "rules of war": if a Russian flagged vessel were to dock in a neutral country, like the Ukraine, George would be within its rights to attack that port and destroy it. That's why neutral countries usually bar belligerents from using their docks.
Same thing here. If Poland wants to allow Georgia to use their servers, they shouldn't be surprised if Russia "hacks" those servers with a 2,000 lb bomb.
My brother and I have a common ancestor in my maternal grandfather, for example, but our "last shared" common ancestor would be our mother (or father).
Well, at least your mother. Maybe not your father(s).
What if you willing sign a contract that says if you quit, you have to let your boss sleep with your wife first? You've willingly signed the contract, right?
So you only want people who have served in the military, ideally those who were involved in battles, to be able to hold elective office? Careful what you wish for, you might just get it.
They are finally looking for a network admin, but they also need the guy to be able to setup audio/video/computer gear for their large rental clients.
Anyone with half a brain can learn how to set up the audio/video/computer gear, if they're focusing on someone who's already done those things they're artificially limiting their pool of prospective employees. Employers need to focus on the skills that do take time to learn, and not worry so much about a given application.
This is one of the problems with employers these days: they simply don't understand what it takes to learn a given skill. They assume that if someone hasn't been doing something for three years, they couldn't possibly get up to speed on where they need them to be in three months or less. Unless you're hiring for a Masters level position, that simply isn't true.
Who cares about the popular vote?? That has never, not once, mattered in this country when electing the president. The ONLY thing that matters is the electoral college; and if Kerry had carried Ohio, he would've won the election.
That said, it's impossible to know how many, if any, of Bush's votes were due to voting machine errors. So it's kind of pointless to dwell on it. Better to learn from the experience, and use a system with better checks and balances in it.
The scantronic machines used to tabulate paper voting are made by a private company, and that's worked well, for the most part. No, the problem isn't farming out production of the machines to a private company, the problem is farming out the maintenance of the machines to a private company, and especially doing so to a company so deeply connected with a given political party.
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I'm not a security guard.
But do try to see it from their point of view.
Why? No one's advocating being a prick to the lowly security guard, but if you're not doing anything wrong why should you stop what you're doing just to make someone else feel good? Their feelings are their own responsibility, not yours, and you have no control over how they feel about anything.
I certainly wouldn't turn the camera on the guard and start snapping pictures just to antagonize him/her, but I wouldn't put it away, either, if I wasn't done with the shots I wanted to get, just to preserve someone else's "feelings".
That's not entirely accurate, at least not in the US. The Supreme Court has ruled that shopping malls fulfill the traditional "public square" function, and you are free to conduct political activities on their property, as long as you don't block entrance or exit and don't pollute the area with excessive noise or trash. That's why you can set up a table outside of a grocery store to get people to sign a petition, and when the manager tells you to leave you can tell him to call the cops and have you arrested. Which he won't do, because the police won't arrest you.
I know, I've done this many many times in my younger, more active days, when I tried to get pro-marijuana laws put on the ballot in California.
Damn, my ex-wife hangs out on Slashdot.
Pics or it didn't happen.
God, I hope this "post anonymously" button works, or else the wife is gonna be pissed...
You'd let all of Slashdot miss out on comedy gold to save your marriage? Bros before hos, dude.
Except that there, it would be funny. Alex is a little better at setting up the joke and finding the punchline. Sam dragged that first letter out longer than an SNL skit.
Don't be so hard on Rick. After all, you and he've known each other for so long. Didn't he tell you he wouldn't give you up, wouldn't let you down, wouldn't run around and desert you?
I don't know what the other questions are, but I guarantee the last one is "Where's the quickest place to get laid on a Friday night?"
That's actually a pretty useful suggestion. Think about it, the real question the PHB is asking is, why should we continue to fund this thing? Are we getting our money's worth? The best way to answer that is to see how much, if at all, people are using it, and what they think of it. Your survey may just be the metric the bosses are looking for.
There are multiple libraries for reCAPTCHA already published, all under the MIT License. Just see http://code.google.com/p/recaptcha/ for a list of them.
Bingo! Or to put it another way, just because you think something is unconstitutional doesn't make it so, especially if the courts have found that it is constitutional. Your remedy is to try to amend the constitution, not throw off half-baked legal theories with no grounds in reality.
Are you sure? I heard a lot of jokes about his Benefiting Lonely Overweight Women and Junior Officeworkers Bill.
Of course, then they'd have to get Patton Oswald and Greg Giraldo appointed to the Supreme Court, so they can continue arguing about what is the "root of all evil".
Mayor is fine...the splatter damage area is greatly reduced to maybe no more than the tri-county area. Regan fscked us with onerous debt and Sonny Bono gave us unconstitutionally long copyright terms.
Inigo Montoya would like a word with you.
Hey, that's not fair. Reagan in his prime was a comedy and romance actor, not a professional wrestler.
Now Ventura vs. Zombie Reagan, that would be an interesting match!
Do you really want a shell that runs out of memory and starts killing all of your processes?
You misunderstand my argument: I'm not saying that Russia SHOULD attack Poland in the method described in the original scenario; I'm saying no one should be surprised if it happens. I'm also not making any comments about real politik concerns the Russians may or not have regarding expansion of hostilities.
And I think it's a mistake to look at the past actions of Britain and assume that Russia would play from the same book. It's also a mistake to assume that Russia is at all concerned about NATO; I think the Russians view NATO as a paper tiger, and have convinced themselves they won't fight. Russia under Putin is moving closer and closer to a return to the Tsars. If they're able to bring Georgia back in (which appears to be their goal), expect a war of "liberation" against the Ukraine within a year.
The answer is in the "rules of war": if a Russian flagged vessel were to dock in a neutral country, like the Ukraine, George would be within its rights to attack that port and destroy it. That's why neutral countries usually bar belligerents from using their docks.
Same thing here. If Poland wants to allow Georgia to use their servers, they shouldn't be surprised if Russia "hacks" those servers with a 2,000 lb bomb.
My brother and I have a common ancestor in my maternal grandfather, for example, but our "last shared" common ancestor would be our mother (or father).
Well, at least your mother. Maybe not your father(s).
What if you willing sign a contract that says if you quit, you have to let your boss sleep with your wife first? You've willingly signed the contract, right?
So you only want people who have served in the military, ideally those who were involved in battles, to be able to hold elective office? Careful what you wish for, you might just get it.
Careful, people advocating that sort of nonsense usually end up getting crucified by the state (sometimes quite literally).
They are finally looking for a network admin, but they also need the guy to be able to setup audio/video/computer gear for their large rental clients.
Anyone with half a brain can learn how to set up the audio/video/computer gear, if they're focusing on someone who's already done those things they're artificially limiting their pool of prospective employees. Employers need to focus on the skills that do take time to learn, and not worry so much about a given application.
This is one of the problems with employers these days: they simply don't understand what it takes to learn a given skill. They assume that if someone hasn't been doing something for three years, they couldn't possibly get up to speed on where they need them to be in three months or less. Unless you're hiring for a Masters level position, that simply isn't true.
Who cares about the popular vote?? That has never, not once, mattered in this country when electing the president. The ONLY thing that matters is the electoral college; and if Kerry had carried Ohio, he would've won the election.
That said, it's impossible to know how many, if any, of Bush's votes were due to voting machine errors. So it's kind of pointless to dwell on it. Better to learn from the experience, and use a system with better checks and balances in it.
The scantronic machines used to tabulate paper voting are made by a private company, and that's worked well, for the most part. No, the problem isn't farming out production of the machines to a private company, the problem is farming out the maintenance of the machines to a private company, and especially doing so to a company so deeply connected with a given political party.