Actually, this is a pretty good punishment, I think, minus the penis part. I thought I read a while ago that it really is possible for embryos to implant into men and grow; the only problem is they wouldn't survive the whole process. So maybe rapists could be forced to gestate children until the fetuses are developed enough to live in an incubator, though the rapists probably won't live long afterwards.
And exactly how much of your own money are you willing to pony up to make these victims more comfortable during their pregnancy and compensate them for their lost time, emotional trauma, and lost opportunities as far as school, career, etc.? And are you willing to adopt the child?
How? You don't even make any sense? What does being part of a "real scientific standard" have to do with what's taught in school? It's not like there's some worldwide authority on what's acceptable to teach in schools; that's up to various levels of government (depending on the country). If a country decides to teach Creationism as science, there's nothing that's going to stop them. Similarly, if officials decide to teach that pi = 3, they can do that too. Or that 2+2=5. Reality has no bearing.
Do you think Todd Akin consulted with real medical professionals before making his idiotic statement this week? Of course not. Does that matter to the people who will be voting for him? Of course not.
Hmmm, defamation of character [ehow.com] and libel?
Well obviously you do it in a way that you can't be tracked (use public wifi at Starbucks, for instance). And make sure to pick some really shitty neighbors...
Also you may note that all of these companies respond to subpenas [sic]
There's a big difference between informing law enforcement of threatening comments made by real people, which are seen by other real people (people in their friends list), and threatening comments that are seen by absolutely no one except the commenter. In the latter case, the only way for law enforcement to find out about these comments is if they're actively monitoring ALL messages on Facebook, ALL the time. If that thought doesn't disturb you, then I can't help you, because there's obviously something wrong with you.
It's creepy, because the government is not supposed to be spying on its own citizens, without a valid warrant. Now, if someone in a person's friends list alerts law enforcement to threatening statements made by someone, that's one thing; but if LE is seeing this stuff all on their own, there's something wrong.
Admittedly, I only read TFS, not TFA, but TFS says that his wall was private. If that's true, maybe one of his friends turned him in.
I guess an interesting test would be to create a small group of fake FB accounts (from different IPs), friend them all with each other, then start posting a bunch of crazy conspiracy stuff and threats to assassinate various political figures. For the "person" making the real threats, set their address to be one of your neighbors. Since no real people (only your fake sock poppets) can see any of this stuff, if you see a SWAT team show up at your neighbors' house, then we can surmise that Facebook does indeed allow the government to monitor private communications there.
Because funds are limited and we don't have tons of cash to blow on overpriced toys that are ready for the trash bin in 2 years. No, computers do not need to be replaced in 3 years; that may have been true in the 90s, but now you can get 5-8 years out of something easily, since performance really isn't improving any more in a way that's noticeable to end-users.
Only in times of dispair would a fool stay put and deal with such torment for a job. A sane person would leave, and find the right job, or at least the right company.
You sound like some kind of socialist! Don't you know you're supposed to worship your CEO and do everything you can so he can get a bigger bonus? Any good preacher will tell you that God loves the CEO more than you, because he has blessed him with more money and success than you! So you need to work harder!
Some companies do. and they continue to prosper through longevity and continuity of some of their most valued staff. Others like to fly high and die fast, not thinking or planning one second beyond the current fiscal quarter.
Overworking employees seems to be working fine for Apple.... They're not really known for work/life balance.
Actually, while not quite every week, I have taken it traveling many times in the past year. No, the extra pound doesn't make a bit of difference with all the other luggage that I'm carrying (I don't check any luggage, I carry it all on with me), at least not to me. Maybe if I were a 5'0", 90 pound female it would, but I'm not.
The thing is, you don't need a "proper work/life balance". How does that help the company? It doesn't. In fact, it's bad because it increases their costs, because now they're on the hook for insurance benefits for your spouse and kids, plus you won't work as much unpaid overtime. It's better for them to work you to death and get as much out of you as possible. Is this bad in the long term? Only for the employee; after you're used up, they'll happily lay you off and replace you with a younger model. This will help the company be more profitable, so the CEO can buy a new megayacht.
If you get paid hourly in a professional programming job, then you're most likely a contractor. Contractors almost always get paid on an hourly basis. However, they don't get any benefits (e.g. health insurance), unless they get them from the staffing company they work through. Regular full-time employees almost always get paid on a salaried, "exempt" basis, as the previous poster described. Usually contractors get paid more per hour than full-time employees (if you assume they only work 40 hours/week), however they're much easier to lay off. In practice these days, however, companies will happily lay you off whenever it suits them so being full-time really isn't much of an advantage. However in a lot of places it can be harder to find good contracting gigs. And some of them really are only for 3 or 6 months so they may not be suitable if you're looking for more stable long-term employment (but again, full-time is no guarantee either; you may be like me at Freescale Semi and walk into work one morning only to find that your entire team is being laid off, but to be fair we did get 3 months' salary as severance).
Oh yeah, I totally forgot about that one. Yep, with your non-Apple laptop, if it's a few years old and the battery either dies or only lasts a short time, you can just go on Ebay and buy a new (aftermarket) one dirt-cheap that'll work just fine. With an Apple laptop, you either keep it plugged in all the time or you throw it in the trash.
Oh no, a whole pound... Are your arms really so weak that a pound is even noticeable to you?
There's more to the trade-off than that: 1) Thinkpads have the best laptop keyboards in the industry, bar none. 2) Thinkpads are more ruggedized than just about any other laptop out there. 3) Being able to swap components out is pretty valuable if you're a business with an IT department and the data on that laptop is far more valuable than its purchase price, or you'd like to be able to reuse good components from bad laptops to get a better return on your hardware investment than simply throwing it away when one thing breaks.
In a given T-series Thinkpad, there's several different displays with the same physical dimensions, and different resolutions. There isn't much holding the display onto the rest of the laptop except a few screws and a couple of cables with connectors. Replacing the display (along with the rest of the lid, which usually also contains the WiFi antenna and webcam) is fairly simple, so if you want to buy a dead laptop with the better display on Ebay and upgrade yours, it's not hard to do.
I seriously doubt this. It doesn't matter what laws any state passes with regard to marijuana, because it's still highly illegal according to Federal law, so while some states may have legalized medical marijuana and allow clinics to sell it, Obama is constantly sending his DEA stormtroopers to bust these dispensaries. We have this problem constantly in Arizona, where we too have legalized medical marijuana.
As for concealed guns, they do have a problem with them in TX: people are getting shot and killed for situations where no one's life is in dangers, such as petty thieves running away and getting shot in the back by gun owners. We don't have this problem in AZ (where there's now no permits required for concealed carry), because our law actually require you to be in real bodily danger in order to shoot someone. They don't have that requirement in TX.
You socialist! We need to embrace free-market principles and drastically increase the salaries for local government administrators, while cutting teacher salaries.
I completely disagree about parents. Unless your parents are in your field of interest, they don't have a fucking clue about what fields are good and which aren't. If your parents are not college-educated, it's even worse. I'm an embedded software engineer; my mom is always encouraging me to apply to jobs I have zero experience in, just because they involve computers in some way. She thinks I can do anything that has anything remotely to do with computers.
Now if I was asked to do that everyday, I'd find another place to work.
What the hell is wrong with you? You should feel privileged to work 14-16 hours per day, for no extra money, so your company's CEO can get a bigger bonus and buy a private jet or megayacht.
There's some problems with this. When you relocate far away like that, you lose your entire social support network: family, friends, etc. You're not even in your own culture any more, you're in an alien culture, so it's quite hard to make any new friends, and you can forget about having a marriage, kids, etc. What exactly is the draw for this? A big salary? A prestigious job? Science and engineering jobs don't pay that well. They're better than the average, at least until age discrimination hits at 40 and you're nearly unemployable, but they're nothing special. As someone else in this thread noted, a plumber in the UK gets the equivalent of USD$200k. Plumbers don't have to relocate to Singapore or Dubai to continue their career.
Basically it seems to me that education has gotten to be a scam; it's not going to get you into any really well-paying jobs, and the decent-paying jobs it'll get you into will require you to uproot yourself and move to foreign countries (and for EU residents, that means possibly outside the EU, into third-world countries like UAE), chasing for jobs that really don't pay all that well, in places where you're probably not going like to live. Don't forget, engineers tend to be pretty conservative personality types; they're not generally the kind of people who really love the idea of staying single and moving around and experiencing different cultures. And what's the point of all this work? So we can make a bunch of corporate executives extremely rich, while they get to live anywhere they like and take private jets when they need to travel anywhere.
Some "jobs" involve calling people up, schmoozing, doing lunch or dinner, etc. Those could be done 16 hours a day indefinitely, if you don't have a life outside work - and, if you don't have a life outside work, then why should the company pay you anything beyond your work related expenses?
I think this is an important point. For most managers, this is their "job": talking to people. Worse, this is something they really like to do; they just can't get enough of hearing themselves talk. So of course they can "work" 16 hour days indefinitely; they're doing nothing productive.
That makes sense in vendor/customer relationships, however a lot of software developers working at larger companies have probably had the experience where they have to talk to development teams on other continents (esp. in India). Everyone is an employee of the same company, so there is no vendor/customer relationship there.
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Actually, this is a pretty good punishment, I think, minus the penis part. I thought I read a while ago that it really is possible for embryos to implant into men and grow; the only problem is they wouldn't survive the whole process. So maybe rapists could be forced to gestate children until the fetuses are developed enough to live in an incubator, though the rapists probably won't live long afterwards.
And exactly how much of your own money are you willing to pony up to make these victims more comfortable during their pregnancy and compensate them for their lost time, emotional trauma, and lost opportunities as far as school, career, etc.? And are you willing to adopt the child?
How? You don't even make any sense? What does being part of a "real scientific standard" have to do with what's taught in school? It's not like there's some worldwide authority on what's acceptable to teach in schools; that's up to various levels of government (depending on the country). If a country decides to teach Creationism as science, there's nothing that's going to stop them. Similarly, if officials decide to teach that pi = 3, they can do that too. Or that 2+2=5. Reality has no bearing.
Do you think Todd Akin consulted with real medical professionals before making his idiotic statement this week? Of course not. Does that matter to the people who will be voting for him? Of course not.
Hmmm, defamation of character [ehow.com] and libel?
Well obviously you do it in a way that you can't be tracked (use public wifi at Starbucks, for instance). And make sure to pick some really shitty neighbors...
Also you may note that all of these companies respond to subpenas [sic]
There's a big difference between informing law enforcement of threatening comments made by real people, which are seen by other real people (people in their friends list), and threatening comments that are seen by absolutely no one except the commenter. In the latter case, the only way for law enforcement to find out about these comments is if they're actively monitoring ALL messages on Facebook, ALL the time. If that thought doesn't disturb you, then I can't help you, because there's obviously something wrong with you.
...where Nurse Ratchet works.
It's creepy, because the government is not supposed to be spying on its own citizens, without a valid warrant. Now, if someone in a person's friends list alerts law enforcement to threatening statements made by someone, that's one thing; but if LE is seeing this stuff all on their own, there's something wrong.
Maybe we shouldn't have trained him to be a professional killer....
Admittedly, I only read TFS, not TFA, but TFS says that his wall was private. If that's true, maybe one of his friends turned him in.
I guess an interesting test would be to create a small group of fake FB accounts (from different IPs), friend them all with each other, then start posting a bunch of crazy conspiracy stuff and threats to assassinate various political figures. For the "person" making the real threats, set their address to be one of your neighbors. Since no real people (only your fake sock poppets) can see any of this stuff, if you see a SWAT team show up at your neighbors' house, then we can surmise that Facebook does indeed allow the government to monitor private communications there.
Because funds are limited and we don't have tons of cash to blow on overpriced toys that are ready for the trash bin in 2 years. No, computers do not need to be replaced in 3 years; that may have been true in the 90s, but now you can get 5-8 years out of something easily, since performance really isn't improving any more in a way that's noticeable to end-users.
Citation needed. I've never heard much about different religions being given fair treatment in US public schools.
Only in times of dispair would a fool stay put and deal with such torment for a job. A sane person would leave, and find the right job, or at least the right company.
You sound like some kind of socialist! Don't you know you're supposed to worship your CEO and do everything you can so he can get a bigger bonus? Any good preacher will tell you that God loves the CEO more than you, because he has blessed him with more money and success than you! So you need to work harder!
Some companies do. and they continue to prosper through longevity and continuity of some of their most valued staff. Others like to fly high and die fast, not thinking or planning one second beyond the current fiscal quarter.
Overworking employees seems to be working fine for Apple.... They're not really known for work/life balance.
Actually, while not quite every week, I have taken it traveling many times in the past year. No, the extra pound doesn't make a bit of difference with all the other luggage that I'm carrying (I don't check any luggage, I carry it all on with me), at least not to me. Maybe if I were a 5'0", 90 pound female it would, but I'm not.
The thing is, you don't need a "proper work/life balance". How does that help the company? It doesn't. In fact, it's bad because it increases their costs, because now they're on the hook for insurance benefits for your spouse and kids, plus you won't work as much unpaid overtime. It's better for them to work you to death and get as much out of you as possible. Is this bad in the long term? Only for the employee; after you're used up, they'll happily lay you off and replace you with a younger model. This will help the company be more profitable, so the CEO can buy a new megayacht.
If you get paid hourly in a professional programming job, then you're most likely a contractor. Contractors almost always get paid on an hourly basis. However, they don't get any benefits (e.g. health insurance), unless they get them from the staffing company they work through. Regular full-time employees almost always get paid on a salaried, "exempt" basis, as the previous poster described. Usually contractors get paid more per hour than full-time employees (if you assume they only work 40 hours/week), however they're much easier to lay off. In practice these days, however, companies will happily lay you off whenever it suits them so being full-time really isn't much of an advantage. However in a lot of places it can be harder to find good contracting gigs. And some of them really are only for 3 or 6 months so they may not be suitable if you're looking for more stable long-term employment (but again, full-time is no guarantee either; you may be like me at Freescale Semi and walk into work one morning only to find that your entire team is being laid off, but to be fair we did get 3 months' salary as severance).
Oh yeah, I totally forgot about that one. Yep, with your non-Apple laptop, if it's a few years old and the battery either dies or only lasts a short time, you can just go on Ebay and buy a new (aftermarket) one dirt-cheap that'll work just fine. With an Apple laptop, you either keep it plugged in all the time or you throw it in the trash.
Oh no, a whole pound... Are your arms really so weak that a pound is even noticeable to you?
There's more to the trade-off than that: 1) Thinkpads have the best laptop keyboards in the industry, bar none. 2) Thinkpads are more ruggedized than just about any other laptop out there. 3) Being able to swap components out is pretty valuable if you're a business with an IT department and the data on that laptop is far more valuable than its purchase price, or you'd like to be able to reuse good components from bad laptops to get a better return on your hardware investment than simply throwing it away when one thing breaks.
In a given T-series Thinkpad, there's several different displays with the same physical dimensions, and different resolutions. There isn't much holding the display onto the rest of the laptop except a few screws and a couple of cables with connectors. Replacing the display (along with the rest of the lid, which usually also contains the WiFi antenna and webcam) is fairly simple, so if you want to buy a dead laptop with the better display on Ebay and upgrade yours, it's not hard to do.
What if they skipped the entry-level commercial NAS, and went straight to whatever EMC's most insanely-overpriced offering is?
I seriously doubt this. It doesn't matter what laws any state passes with regard to marijuana, because it's still highly illegal according to Federal law, so while some states may have legalized medical marijuana and allow clinics to sell it, Obama is constantly sending his DEA stormtroopers to bust these dispensaries. We have this problem constantly in Arizona, where we too have legalized medical marijuana.
As for concealed guns, they do have a problem with them in TX: people are getting shot and killed for situations where no one's life is in dangers, such as petty thieves running away and getting shot in the back by gun owners. We don't have this problem in AZ (where there's now no permits required for concealed carry), because our law actually require you to be in real bodily danger in order to shoot someone. They don't have that requirement in TX.
You socialist! We need to embrace free-market principles and drastically increase the salaries for local government administrators, while cutting teacher salaries.
I completely disagree about parents. Unless your parents are in your field of interest, they don't have a fucking clue about what fields are good and which aren't. If your parents are not college-educated, it's even worse. I'm an embedded software engineer; my mom is always encouraging me to apply to jobs I have zero experience in, just because they involve computers in some way. She thinks I can do anything that has anything remotely to do with computers.
Now if I was asked to do that everyday, I'd find another place to work.
What the hell is wrong with you? You should feel privileged to work 14-16 hours per day, for no extra money, so your company's CEO can get a bigger bonus and buy a private jet or megayacht.
Ingrate.
There's some problems with this. When you relocate far away like that, you lose your entire social support network: family, friends, etc. You're not even in your own culture any more, you're in an alien culture, so it's quite hard to make any new friends, and you can forget about having a marriage, kids, etc. What exactly is the draw for this? A big salary? A prestigious job? Science and engineering jobs don't pay that well. They're better than the average, at least until age discrimination hits at 40 and you're nearly unemployable, but they're nothing special. As someone else in this thread noted, a plumber in the UK gets the equivalent of USD$200k. Plumbers don't have to relocate to Singapore or Dubai to continue their career.
Basically it seems to me that education has gotten to be a scam; it's not going to get you into any really well-paying jobs, and the decent-paying jobs it'll get you into will require you to uproot yourself and move to foreign countries (and for EU residents, that means possibly outside the EU, into third-world countries like UAE), chasing for jobs that really don't pay all that well, in places where you're probably not going like to live. Don't forget, engineers tend to be pretty conservative personality types; they're not generally the kind of people who really love the idea of staying single and moving around and experiencing different cultures. And what's the point of all this work? So we can make a bunch of corporate executives extremely rich, while they get to live anywhere they like and take private jets when they need to travel anywhere.
Some "jobs" involve calling people up, schmoozing, doing lunch or dinner, etc. Those could be done 16 hours a day indefinitely, if you don't have a life outside work - and, if you don't have a life outside work, then why should the company pay you anything beyond your work related expenses?
I think this is an important point. For most managers, this is their "job": talking to people. Worse, this is something they really like to do; they just can't get enough of hearing themselves talk. So of course they can "work" 16 hour days indefinitely; they're doing nothing productive.
That makes sense in vendor/customer relationships, however a lot of software developers working at larger companies have probably had the experience where they have to talk to development teams on other continents (esp. in India). Everyone is an employee of the same company, so there is no vendor/customer relationship there.