Some govt. jobs require active secret or top secret clearances. How does this play into outsourcing? Can a company outsource work overseas to people without secret or top secret clearances?
Why do you think politicians give so much lip service to prescription drugs? Because older people (who usually need more prescription drugs than young people) vote more often! According to the director of the FDA (can't find link, it was on The McLaughlin 1 on 1 show), prescription drugs amount for $1 out of every $10 spent on medical care.
Not the "crisis" as some would want you to think. Sure, they're expensive, but so what.
Now, if we all voted consistently, wrote our officials, etc, we would be a force to rekon (sp?) with.
"I saw what appeared to be a word-for-word copy of about every third line of code in the central module of the Linux kernel," said Enderle of Giga Information Group, who viewed the alleged code violations two weeks ago. "The lines of code contained typos, misspellings and even copyright disclaimers. It appeared to constitute a violation of the license."
How is it this person can say this without violating the NDA? Does SCO have to enforce all violations of the NDA, or just selective ones? I guess SCO could allow this person to view it without an NDA, provided they say this.
Even if the interest rate was 1% you should still pay it off early if you can. That is 1% of your money that you will instantly save. Unless you can take the extra money you would pay towards the loan and use it to get a better rate of return somewhere else (savings account, CD, money market, etc).
If you can get a 4% return on your money, and make the minimum payments on the loan, then it may be worth it. But really, why not just get rid of the student loan all together?
Check out Personal Finance for Dummies (3ed) by Eric Tyson. This is THE book about personal finance. Don't let the 'for Dummies' title fool you, it is a GREAT book.
Also, check out usenet: misc.invest.financial-plan. that group is great also.
Good luck, that book changed my life for the better.
it stops being their content the moment it reaches my property.
So if the USPS delivers my mail to your house, then you have the right to open it? (HINT: The answer is NO.)
Cable companies sometimes lay cable through other people's property along streets to hit each house. But that doesn't mean you can just decide to hook up cable to your place.
People are just greedy and expect something for nothing. Lock their asses up.
I guess this all comes down to what is *average*? What I mean is this - a mark of C on an A,B,C,D,E scale is meant to represent average grasp of the material. So right away, most people should fall into that category. That's why they call it *average* after all.
Now, if a professor curves a class, fine. You are still being compared against the people in your class - I don't see a problem with that. The big problem comes when another professor teaching the same course curves differently. They you have Billy Bob from Professor Joe's class getting an A and you have Jill from Professor Mike's class getting a C. Meanwhile, Jill really knows more than Billy Bob.
So why not do something like releasing the ENTIRE average for the class during the year you took it? So when you show your transcripts to someone, you can show them how you ranked that year when you got a C in fluid mechanics or something.
Is a C average meant to say you have an average grasp of the material, or that you have an average grasp of the material as compared to your classmates?
Does anyone else find it slightly odd that cell phone companies are allowed to make cell phones that only work with their network? For instance, I can't ditch Sprint and use my Sprint PCS Samsung phone with Verizon service. Why is this allowed? I mean, what if Verizon required you to have a special type of phone for your local (land line) service. If you wanted to switch to a different provider, would you have to buy a new home phone? Most people would freak about that.
I'm not denying he signed the contract, what I want to know is the legality of ACME reinterpreting how to enforce the State's laws. If a police officer pulled him over and issued him a ticket and he lpead guilty, would ACME be allowed to fine him? Would this violate his protection against double jeopardy?
I'd be interested to hear how this might violate his due process rights under his state's and the federal consitution. Also, how does the legality of red-light camera's carry over to the legality of GPS based "speed monitors"?
Also, does ACME have the right to impose different fines for a criminal violation (state speeding fines vs. ACME's new speeding fines)? Does this violate his due-process rights?
Very interesting.
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It is a shame they want to try and ban anonymity.. it was through anonymity that some of our country's greatest thinkers (e.g. Ben Franklin) were able to publish papers/articles/letters criticizing the British government, and later using anonymity to help build the U.S. government after the revolution.
Ok, first of all, I was not involved with the actual list rentals, or anything. I was in the IT department. We wrote software to assist in internal processing of lists companies send us for segmentation, Merge/Purge, NCOA markup, etc.
We also ran a response center... that is where those envelopes go when you mail them back. They pay someone to sit in a glass box surounded by cameras to open envelopes, take out the information and/or money, categorize it, etc. If you mail back garbage, it does cost the company money. Not too much though, since usually the client gets a flat bill from the direct marketers. It is the direct marketers that get the cost pasted on to them.
Statistically, black people are more likely to commit crimes in the US (or at least, they are more likely to get caught). I guess, it segregastion is good business practice after all...
Ok, comparing someone's actions (vandalism) to someone's genetic disposition (skin color) is absurd. Apples and oranges.
You have control of yourself and your actions, if you do something stupid, you must expect to pay for it. There is no free ride.
If an employer wants to not hire you because you were a vandal in your youth, that is their right. Who is to say that you won't vandalize their property. Now, most employers rarely look that far back, but some do. That is the price of youthful indescretion. When I was younger (not too long ago), I didn't particpate in such things. But that was jsut me, I was in control of myself.
If you are being discriminated against because of genetic disposition (skin color, race, gender) then you should not stand for it. It is wrong.
For example: car insurance. In the United States, males, on average, pay more car insurance than females. They are more "risky", and as such, get discriminated against. For some reason, no one seems to mind this much. Actually, if someone can explain this to me I would appreciate it.
I've never commented on a story by Katz because I never really thought it worth my time, however, I will now.
This is such a load of crap! Adults have nothing to teach their children?! Whatever! Most of the problems with teenage violence, suicide, pregnancy, et al is due to a weak parental influence.
Ok, so your parents can't install the latest build of Debian on their old wintel box - whoopy dooda!! Adults have things to teach like respect, manners, how to act like civilized human beings, being good citizens, etc. I don't think Quake III Arena teaches you any of these things except to respect CoolDude023 if he has more firepower than you. Games entertain you, not teach you about life. That is and always will be the job of the parent.
If I decide to have children, I certainly won't let them spend ALL of their time playing video games all day long. Entertainment is a part of your life, yes, but it should be balanced out with things like sports, education, human interaction, etc.
I'm learning new things from my mother and father every day I spend with them, and now that I've moved out for good, I feel a certain loss at not being able to experience the learning everday.
Yeah, I knew everything when I was a teenager - then I woke up.
I am sick of hearing this over and over in the media - the popular vote does not elect the president. I, personally, think this is a good thing. Why should states like (for example): NY, Califaronia and Texas hold the country hostage just because it has the most people? You think candidates campaign strategies are stupid now, jsut wait if the electoral college was abolished! Candidates would campaign in even less states. That is ridiculous.
The electoral college was instituted to protect the country from the tyranny of the people. Luckily, the founding fathers were smart people.
Confusing Ballots
Any idiot who looked at the ballots on cnn.com or your local newspaper can figure these things out. In fact, when given to elementary schoolers and told to choose there favourtie Disney character (Disney characters replacing candidate nes), none of the kids were confused - they all could figure it out!
There were stories about people who said they were to ashamed to ask for a new ballot because they had made a mistake - too damn bad. If you put more worth on your self-image than you do your vote, maybe you don't deserve to be voting? Just a thought.
Military Votes
Anyone looking to disqualify military absentee votes because of a missing stamp should be given a stern beating (this includes Bush and/or Gore). The entire reason you have a *right* to vote is because of the past actions, present actions, and future actions of the men and women of the US Armed Forces!
Do you think Private Ryan stationed in Bosnia can just walk down to his local US Post Office and mail his ballot. Nope. Do I still think his vote should count? Yes.
Anything to Win
Gore is now going to challenge the results because Florida did not wait till 9am Monday morning to accept votes. I do not see how he has any legal standing since the court he won in declared that date. They did say Florida could accept on monday if they were not open on sunday, but they were. Gore praised the decision of the Supreme Court of Florida when they ruled this way. Now he doesn't like it? Bug off.
There is a growing movement in America that holds the idea that anything goes as long as you win. This isn't how it should be. Typically, Democratic loyalists say "well, you (meaning Republicans) would do it if you were in our shoes". Not only (I think) is that untrue, but what kind of argument is that? What happeend to doing what is right?
Doing something because you should, not necesarrily because you want to.
Media Bias
As anyone is aware, there is a present Media bias in favour of Democratic ideals. While it is fine for people (news media) to have their own oppinions, I find it appalling that they still claim to be impartial. From what I understand, Walter Cronkite did not even vote soemtimes to prove his impartiality. Where have media men and women of this caliber gone?
How can slashdot report the news when its own editor is obviously biased? Rob can have his own views, but don't call it news if he seeps his ideas into thew story.
Secretary of State of Florida
I can't remember her name right now, but people have been calling her some nasty names as of late. She is only doing her job, following the law. Get over it. People claim she is not impartial - show me someone involved who is impartial. If you voted in the election, you are not impartial. If your vote was cast for one candidate, then you can not, in any way, be impartial.
First of all, why does Yahoo even need offices in France? I mean, it isn't like you need your server to be physically in France to put up French web pages. I can see the advantages of having them there, but who cares.
Also, does Yahoo have any legal options left available to them? I do not know French law..
Yahoo should just pull out of France all together. I know that is drastic, but maybe the French goverment will get the message. French people losing jobs because French citizens can get to a US company's website.
I have seen many exchange setups crash and burn at other companies, and become management nightmares.
And I've seen many exchange setups that do not crash and do not become management nightmares. What's your point?
The previous corporation I worked for was entirely MS software based, and their exchange server worked fine. You need to find out why these people want to move to MS software before you can counter their arguments. But the number one reason, from what I read of your request, should be if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
It is obvious your setup works. Why change it for no real performance advantage?
Would they need to retrain you and your staff?
What about licensing? MS has some not-so-nice per-seat licensing on their software, this might be the case with exchange.
Personally, I like exchange. IMAP, POP, easily deployable web interface. But, you shouldn't switch to satisfy some whim.
I think if you present how switching would affect the Bottom Line (tm), management would see your way.
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Some govt. jobs require active secret or top secret clearances. How does this play into outsourcing? Can a company outsource work overseas to people without secret or top secret clearances?
Or can a company, itself, have a clearance?
This has got to be one of the signs of the apocalypse!
Why do you think politicians give so much lip service to prescription drugs? Because older people (who usually need more prescription drugs than young people) vote more often! According to the director of the FDA (can't find link, it was on The McLaughlin 1 on 1 show), prescription drugs amount for $1 out of every $10 spent on medical care.
Not the "crisis" as some would want you to think. Sure, they're expensive, but so what.
Now, if we all voted consistently, wrote our officials, etc, we would be a force to rekon (sp?) with.
How is it this person can say this without violating the NDA? Does SCO have to enforce all violations of the NDA, or just selective ones? I guess SCO could allow this person to view it without an NDA, provided they say this.
Thoughts?
Ken (Japanese) - sword
do (Japanese) - the way
Google for it.
Even if the interest rate was 1% you should still pay it off early if you can. That is 1% of your money that you will instantly save. Unless you can take the extra money you would pay towards the loan and use it to get a better rate of return somewhere else (savings account, CD, money market, etc).
If you can get a 4% return on your money, and make the minimum payments on the loan, then it may be worth it. But really, why not just get rid of the student loan all together?
Check out Personal Finance for Dummies (3ed) by Eric Tyson. This is THE book about personal finance. Don't let the 'for Dummies' title fool you, it is a GREAT book.
Also, check out usenet: misc.invest.financial-plan. that group is great also.
Good luck, that book changed my life for the better.
I never understood why you can't resell stuff. I mean, try this:
You buy a car from Ford. It has a new type of experimental engine or something which uses a patent from Toyota. Toyota licensed it to Ford.
You can't then sell your car as used?
I know there are EULAs and such with s/w, but it is just plain wierd.
..turns out I had unauthorized charges of around $21 on my cc last week.
I am just plain unlucky.
So if the USPS delivers my mail to your house, then you have the right to open it? (HINT: The answer is NO.)
Cable companies sometimes lay cable through other people's property along streets to hit each house. But that doesn't mean you can just decide to hook up cable to your place.
People are just greedy and expect something for nothing. Lock their asses up.
I guess this all comes down to what is *average*? What I mean is this - a mark of C on an A,B,C,D,E scale is meant to represent average grasp of the material. So right away, most people should fall into that category. That's why they call it *average* after all.
Now, if a professor curves a class, fine. You are still being compared against the people in your class - I don't see a problem with that. The big problem comes when another professor teaching the same course curves differently. They you have Billy Bob from Professor Joe's class getting an A and you have Jill from Professor Mike's class getting a C. Meanwhile, Jill really knows more than Billy Bob.
So why not do something like releasing the ENTIRE average for the class during the year you took it? So when you show your transcripts to someone, you can show them how you ranked that year when you got a C in fluid mechanics or something.
Is a C average meant to say you have an average grasp of the material, or that you have an average grasp of the material as compared to your classmates?
Go Terps!
:-)
Can't wait to play you guys in Cameron Indoor!
Does anyone else find it slightly odd that cell phone companies are allowed to make cell phones that only work with their network? For instance, I can't ditch Sprint and use my Sprint PCS Samsung phone with Verizon service. Why is this allowed? I mean, what if Verizon required you to have a special type of phone for your local (land line) service. If you wanted to switch to a different provider, would you have to buy a new home phone? Most people would freak about that.
Thoughts?
Mike
I'm not denying he signed the contract, what I want to know is the legality of ACME reinterpreting how to enforce the State's laws. If a police officer pulled him over and issued him a ticket and he lpead guilty, would ACME be allowed to fine him? Would this violate his protection against double jeopardy?
I'd be interested to hear how this might violate his due process rights under his state's and the federal consitution. Also, how does the legality of red-light camera's carry over to the legality of GPS based "speed monitors"?
Also, does ACME have the right to impose different fines for a criminal violation (state speeding fines vs. ACME's new speeding fines)? Does this violate his due-process rights?
Very interesting.
It is a shame they want to try and ban anonymity .. it was through anonymity that some of our country's greatest thinkers (e.g. Ben Franklin) were able to publish papers/articles/letters criticizing the British government, and later using anonymity to help build the U.S. government after the revolution.
Talk about forgetting your roots.
First of all, great article. Secondly, who exactly controls the WIPO? A country? A couple of countries?
Please fill me in. I'm a complete newbie when it comes to this.
Please excuse my spelling ... it is horrible.
Please note the past tense of the subject line..
... that is where those envelopes go when you mail them back. They pay someone to sit in a glass box surounded by cameras to open envelopes, take out the information and/or money, categorize it, etc. If you mail back garbage, it does cost the company money. Not too much though, since usually the client gets a flat bill from the direct marketers. It is the direct marketers that get the cost pasted on to them.
(puts flame suit on)
Ok, first of all, I was not involved with the actual list rentals, or anything. I was in the IT department. We wrote software to assist in internal processing of lists companies send us for segmentation, Merge/Purge, NCOA markup, etc.
We also ran a response center
Just thought I would clear that up.
You have control of yourself and your actions, if you do something stupid, you must expect to pay for it. There is no free ride.
If an employer wants to not hire you because you were a vandal in your youth, that is their right. Who is to say that you won't vandalize their property. Now, most employers rarely look that far back, but some do. That is the price of youthful indescretion. When I was younger (not too long ago), I didn't particpate in such things. But that was jsut me, I was in control of myself.
If you are being discriminated against because of genetic disposition (skin color, race, gender) then you should not stand for it. It is wrong.
For example: car insurance. In the United States, males, on average, pay more car insurance than females. They are more "risky", and as such, get discriminated against. For some reason, no one seems to mind this much. Actually, if someone can explain this to me I would appreciate it.
Anyone interested should read the book The Ten Things You Can't Say in America by Larry Elder.
Please note: if you can't entertain an idea without excepting it, do not read this book... it may make your blood boil.
I've never commented on a story by Katz because I never really thought it worth my time, however, I will now.
This is such a load of crap! Adults have nothing to teach their children?! Whatever! Most of the problems with teenage violence, suicide, pregnancy, et al is due to a weak parental influence.
Ok, so your parents can't install the latest build of Debian on their old wintel box - whoopy dooda!! Adults have things to teach like respect, manners, how to act like civilized human beings, being good citizens, etc. I don't think Quake III Arena teaches you any of these things except to respect CoolDude023 if he has more firepower than you. Games entertain you, not teach you about life. That is and always will be the job of the parent.
If I decide to have children, I certainly won't let them spend ALL of their time playing video games all day long. Entertainment is a part of your life, yes, but it should be balanced out with things like sports, education, human interaction, etc.
I'm learning new things from my mother and father every day I spend with them, and now that I've moved out for good, I feel a certain loss at not being able to experience the learning everday.
Yeah, I knew everything when I was a teenager - then I woke up.
Flame all you want, but it is the truth.
A few things to consider..
Gore Winning the Popular Vote
I am sick of hearing this over and over in the media - the popular vote does not elect the president. I, personally, think this is a good thing. Why should states like (for example): NY, Califaronia and Texas hold the country hostage just because it has the most people? You think candidates campaign strategies are stupid now, jsut wait if the electoral college was abolished! Candidates would campaign in even less states. That is ridiculous.
The electoral college was instituted to protect the country from the tyranny of the people. Luckily, the founding fathers were smart people.
Confusing Ballots
Any idiot who looked at the ballots on cnn.com or your local newspaper can figure these things out. In fact, when given to elementary schoolers and told to choose there favourtie Disney character (Disney characters replacing candidate nes), none of the kids were confused - they all could figure it out!
There were stories about people who said they were to ashamed to ask for a new ballot because they had made a mistake - too damn bad. If you put more worth on your self-image than you do your vote, maybe you don't deserve to be voting? Just a thought.
Military Votes
Anyone looking to disqualify military absentee votes because of a missing stamp should be given a stern beating (this includes Bush and/or Gore). The entire reason you have a *right* to vote is because of the past actions, present actions, and future actions of the men and women of the US Armed Forces!
Do you think Private Ryan stationed in Bosnia can just walk down to his local US Post Office and mail his ballot. Nope. Do I still think his vote should count? Yes.
Anything to Win
Gore is now going to challenge the results because Florida did not wait till 9am Monday morning to accept votes. I do not see how he has any legal standing since the court he won in declared that date. They did say Florida could accept on monday if they were not open on sunday, but they were. Gore praised the decision of the Supreme Court of Florida when they ruled this way. Now he doesn't like it? Bug off.
There is a growing movement in America that holds the idea that anything goes as long as you win. This isn't how it should be. Typically, Democratic loyalists say "well, you (meaning Republicans) would do it if you were in our shoes". Not only (I think) is that untrue, but what kind of argument is that? What happeend to doing what is right?
Doing something because you should, not necesarrily because you want to.
Media Bias
As anyone is aware, there is a present Media bias in favour of Democratic ideals. While it is fine for people (news media) to have their own oppinions, I find it appalling that they still claim to be impartial. From what I understand, Walter Cronkite did not even vote soemtimes to prove his impartiality. Where have media men and women of this caliber gone?
How can slashdot report the news when its own editor is obviously biased? Rob can have his own views, but don't call it news if he seeps his ideas into thew story.
Secretary of State of Florida
I can't remember her name right now, but people have been calling her some nasty names as of late. She is only doing her job, following the law. Get over it. People claim she is not impartial - show me someone involved who is impartial. If you voted in the election, you are not impartial. If your vote was cast for one candidate, then you can not, in any way, be impartial.
Just my thoughts on the matter.
WTF?
First of all, why does Yahoo even need offices in France? I mean, it isn't like you need your server to be physically in France to put up French web pages. I can see the advantages of having them there, but who cares.
Also, does Yahoo have any legal options left available to them? I do not know French law..
Yahoo should just pull out of France all together. I know that is drastic, but maybe the French goverment will get the message. French people losing jobs because French citizens can get to a US company's website.
This is such utter stupidity.
The previous corporation I worked for was entirely MS software based, and their exchange server worked fine. You need to find out why these people want to move to MS software before you can counter their arguments. But the number one reason, from what I read of your request, should be if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
It is obvious your setup works. Why change it for no real performance advantage?
Would they need to retrain you and your staff?
What about licensing? MS has some not-so-nice per-seat licensing on their software, this might be the case with exchange.
Personally, I like exchange. IMAP, POP, easily deployable web interface. But, you shouldn't switch to satisfy some whim.
I think if you present how switching would affect the Bottom Line (tm), management would see your way.