From what I've seen, it's the 'Microsoft' jobs that are getting more and more scarce. There's a general shortage of devs and competent ops going on right now and the companies i've seen aren't even considering Ballmer-ware for anything but bizops desktop machines.
If you're actually looking in your local paper for tech jobs, and expecting to find anything half decent.... you need to relocate somewhere with an actual tech industry.... seriously
Couldn't it be said that management lost touch long before the physical separation? How often does management and marketing simply assume they are the entirety of a company? That might work when the workers are flesh robots welding things on an assembly line, but for knowledge industries, that scenario is always going to be fatal.
I think he understands that the City is a power..... a 'Don', if you will... that requires respect. The ONLY person who can demonstrate that respect for something this big, is another 'Don'. Any other CEO would send a lawyer or lackey, because any other CEO simply does not believe that 'mere' elected officials are worthy of respect.
but Flavor Aid is small and weak. It fell so far when it fell in Jonestown. But Kool-Aid is kool, it took the rap for it's dear friend Flavor Aid, because it can take the branding and bad press, but it's weaker friend would never have survived. It's couldn't bear to let that happen. Kool-Aid loves Flavor Aid, why can't you?
Dittos to that. I don't think the social benefit of the USPS can be stressed enough.
My dad has been a carrier for the past 38 years. In this time he has:
Stopped a spree murderer. IDd another man wanted for murder. Alerted police to a hostage situation. Physically apprehended an armed rapist in the act. (My mom damn near killed him for that) Thwarted armed bank robberies... TWICE. Called ambulances and social services for the injured, sick and elderly dozens of times Reported dozens of incidents of elder, child, and animal abuse.... And this is not out of the ordinary for our mail carriers. They know better than anyone, even neighbors oftentimes, when something is odd or out of place, and often disrupt criminal situations just by driving or walking up.
No. The whole reason the courts give corporations personhood is for it's own convenience! Legal paperwork, filings, organizational structures, etc would become massively complex and unprocessable, prohibitively so, if courts didn't simplify down all those massive contract structures. Courts themselves would have to track every single personal transaction that occurs within and without a corporation. Boiling it all down into a single "virtual" person would have to include all those unalienable rights that justify the simplification in the first place, but nothing else. And since it's "virtual" status exists only the eyes of the law, those same eyes have not abrogated their right to peer into any of those individual transactions wrought behind the corporate veil. Therefore, Corporations can never EVER have a right to privacy, in any real sense.
You don't get it! The whole case was never about attempting to right some sort of wrong, but try to use the courts to claim ownership over linux. It was never anything other than a huge scam by any means necessary by Darl and his backers to muscle in the linux rackett, like some sort of mob takeover....
Of course he cares about the freedom part of free software. He (and by extension, the FSB) cares about being able to audit the code their systems are using. I'll bet STuxnet has alot to do with this, plus their history of dealing with us (the US) sending them (literal) spyware. I seem to remember a story about a very large natural gas explosion caused by the CIA leaking the Soviets fake/bad software.
Seriously, what a bunch of wimps. News flash to all youngsters: yes, you may dream of running your own mega-billion dollar tech company, or coding for websites from your beach house in St. Barts, or covering Hollywood celebrities in your hot-item-of-the-moment blog, but it most likely ain't gonna happen. Are you saying I'll never grow up to be Perez Hilton?!?
I'll be happy when Slashdot can once again focus on the technical features of SuSE Linux or other Novell software, together with how well it respects the freedoms of its users. Those are things we can have some knowledge of and discuss sensibly, rather than speculating and fanboying.
Having seen Newt in action on dozens of occasions, I can say with reasonable certainty that he was either arguing from a devil's advocate position, setting up a straw man, or playing a question of doubt.
This is often where he gets into trouble.
People (and more importantly the press) do not comprehend politicians who stray from the mono-directional stump type speech. Gingrich's professor instincts usually result in him approaching a topic from multiple angles, like a good teacher should.
That doesn't soundbyte very well and confuses people with a double digit IQ (i.e. the press).
I know Newt.. I've worked for Newt.. and in many many ways he's a brilliant man.. His fatal flaw is he absolutely cannot be compressed into a soundbyte. He's a college professor by trade, he takes 50 minutes to explain ANYTHING. Remember "whither on the vine" where he practically handed the Democrats a golden issue? Yeah that was part of a particularly long press conference where he unveiled the next generation of free market oriented Medicare (Agree or disagree with that is not the point). One line was taken out of context, and in all certainty, this is what happened here.
But Taco, being from muskegon (or is it benton harbor? eh.. same difference), don't you pretty much have to rape and plunder your way through town anyway, just in the process of every day life?
Anyone who's experienced Paypal's wonderful quality of service DOES sympathize with the perpetrators. They're the same people who rightly hate Verizon, MSFT, RIAA, MPAA, the RUC, George W. Bush and every other entity that is both arrogant and incompetant, and covers the latter with more of the former!
I've been lucky, never having met the ire of paypal, nor needing customer service for myself.. But I've suffered through more than a few nightmares on behalf of friends and associates.. and every single time i've wondered how they've avoided some nutjob doing exactly this.
But huzzah to Tyler Durden for fighting the good fight! Huzzah!
The people who bought Perfomas were not "mac people." They were the Walmart crowd who bought what their kid's school had, who then would generally return them to Walmart when it crapped out or their kid realized he couldn't play Doom on it.
I know.. I serviced HUNDREDS of those crapboxes back then, and nary a one was a owned by a "mac guy". Those rarely failed.
Wish i could find a link about this old story (i think it was macintouch or don crabb), but I remember Walmart and Apple going at it over product returns back in the Performa days.
Basically Apple said "We don't take returns" and Wal(800lb gorilla)mart said "Oh yes you do, or we won't sell your product anymore!" with Apple replying "Fine."
Considering how viciously Walmart goes after suppliers in order to force them to capitulate to their demands, I wouldn't be surprised if the folks in Bentonville were holding a grudge.
Here in Nevada the casinos were going nuts about this bill. They want to get into online gambling, or at least remove the layers between themselves and the offshore online gambling sites they secretly own. Also horse tracks desperately want the right to expand their books online and appeal to a global audience.
Marijuana prohibition is a remnant of Jim Crow, as are other drug prohibitions. States, particularly southern states, believed that drugs used predominantly by blacks (cocaine) and latinos (marijuana) could disrupt their social order (i.e. white people using these drugs might mix with the darkies, oh no!!). It helped that both these drugs were in direct economic competition with dixie-originating alcohol and tobacco.
with the exception of Chuck Norris, this list consists mostly of kings and heros... do they really want to give a bridge such a mundane name? I'm leaning towards Chuck Norris, for no other reason than these people's children and grand children will forever be confused with hows and whys this bridge was given such an eclectic name.
With all the assorted bitching on here about this bill, people need to realize something....
The Senate IS NOT going to bother with this bill.
The Senate takes alot longer to do things. _maybe_ 10% of what the House passes is ever brought up on the floor. Add to that the short time Congress is in session before they all go home to campaign and the real purpose becomes clear.
1. the Senate too slow to take time with frivolous legislation. 2. there are only a few days left of the session before everyone goes home to campaign. 3. therefore the House is free to pass any kind of retarded crap it wants, knowing it will die on the way down the hall. 4. therefore House members are totally free to vote for blatantly unconstitutional AND retarded bills so they can say they support protecting our children from the boogeyman. 5. tout said dumb bill in campaign commercials 6. win 7. ??? (think duke cunningham) 8. profit!
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Is this question a nostalgia post from 1997?
From what I've seen, it's the 'Microsoft' jobs that are getting more and more scarce. There's a general shortage of devs and competent ops going on right now and the companies i've seen aren't even considering Ballmer-ware for anything but bizops desktop machines.
If you're actually looking in your local paper for tech jobs, and expecting to find anything half decent.... you need to relocate somewhere with an actual tech industry.... seriously
Couldn't it be said that management lost touch long before the physical separation? How often does management and marketing simply assume they are the entirety of a company? That might work when the workers are flesh robots welding things on an assembly line, but for knowledge industries, that scenario is always going to be fatal.
I think he understands that the City is a power ..... a 'Don', if you will... that requires respect. The ONLY person who can demonstrate that respect for something this big, is another 'Don'. Any other CEO would send a lawyer or lackey, because any other CEO simply does not believe that 'mere' elected officials are worthy of respect.
but Flavor Aid is small and weak. It fell so far when it fell in Jonestown. But Kool-Aid is kool, it took the rap for it's dear friend Flavor Aid, because it can take the branding and bad press, but it's weaker friend would never have survived. It's couldn't bear to let that happen. Kool-Aid loves Flavor Aid, why can't you?
Wow...... how "British"....
Dittos to that. I don't think the social benefit of the USPS can be stressed enough.
My dad has been a carrier for the past 38 years. In this time he has:
Stopped a spree murderer. ... And this is not out of the ordinary for our mail carriers. They know better than anyone, even neighbors oftentimes, when something is odd or out of place, and often disrupt criminal situations just by driving or walking up.
IDd another man wanted for murder.
Alerted police to a hostage situation.
Physically apprehended an armed rapist in the act. (My mom damn near killed him for that)
Thwarted armed bank robberies... TWICE.
Called ambulances and social services for the injured, sick and elderly dozens of times
Reported dozens of incidents of elder, child, and animal abuse.
No. The whole reason the courts give corporations personhood is for it's own convenience! Legal paperwork, filings, organizational structures, etc would become massively complex and unprocessable, prohibitively so, if courts didn't simplify down all those massive contract structures. Courts themselves would have to track every single personal transaction that occurs within and without a corporation. Boiling it all down into a single "virtual" person would have to include all those unalienable rights that justify the simplification in the first place, but nothing else. And since it's "virtual" status exists only the eyes of the law, those same eyes have not abrogated their right to peer into any of those individual transactions wrought behind the corporate veil. Therefore, Corporations can never EVER have a right to privacy, in any real sense.
You don't get it! The whole case was never about attempting to right some sort of wrong, but try to use the courts to claim ownership over linux. It was never anything other than a huge scam by any means necessary by Darl and his backers to muscle in the linux rackett, like some sort of mob takeover....
Of course he cares about the freedom part of free software. He (and by extension, the FSB) cares about being able to audit the code their systems are using. I'll bet STuxnet has alot to do with this, plus their history of dealing with us (the US) sending them (literal) spyware. I seem to remember a story about a very large natural gas explosion caused by the CIA leaking the Soviets fake/bad software.
I just get this mental image I'm not going to be able to shake....
"Some call it a slingbox, I call it appleTV. nnnngggggghhhh"
Having seen Newt in action on dozens of occasions, I can say with reasonable certainty that he was either arguing from a devil's advocate position, setting up a straw man, or playing a question of doubt.
This is often where he gets into trouble.
People (and more importantly the press) do not comprehend politicians who stray from the mono-directional stump type speech. Gingrich's professor instincts usually result in him approaching a topic from multiple angles, like a good teacher should.
That doesn't soundbyte very well and confuses people with a double digit IQ (i.e. the press).
I know Newt.. I've worked for Newt.. and in many many ways he's a brilliant man.. His fatal flaw is he absolutely cannot be compressed into a soundbyte. He's a college professor by trade, he takes 50 minutes to explain ANYTHING. Remember "whither on the vine" where he practically handed the Democrats a golden issue? Yeah that was part of a particularly long press conference where he unveiled the next generation of free market oriented Medicare (Agree or disagree with that is not the point). One line was taken out of context, and in all certainty, this is what happened here.
But Taco, being from muskegon (or is it benton harbor? eh.. same difference), don't you pretty much have to rape and plunder your way through town anyway, just in the process of every day life?
I prefer the more generic term: Congresscritter
Anyone who's experienced Paypal's wonderful quality of service DOES sympathize with the perpetrators. They're the same people who rightly hate Verizon, MSFT, RIAA, MPAA, the RUC, George W. Bush and every other entity that is both arrogant and incompetant, and covers the latter with more of the former!
I've been lucky, never having met the ire of paypal, nor needing customer service for myself.. But I've suffered through more than a few nightmares on behalf of friends and associates.. and every single time i've wondered how they've avoided some nutjob doing exactly this.
But huzzah to Tyler Durden for fighting the good fight! Huzzah!
The people who bought Perfomas were not "mac people." They were the Walmart crowd who bought what their kid's school had, who then would generally return them to Walmart when it crapped out or their kid realized he couldn't play Doom on it.
I know.. I serviced HUNDREDS of those crapboxes back then, and nary a one was a owned by a "mac guy". Those rarely failed.
Wish i could find a link about this old story (i think it was macintouch or don crabb), but I remember Walmart and Apple going at it over product returns back in the Performa days.
Basically Apple said "We don't take returns" and Wal(800lb gorilla)mart said "Oh yes you do, or we won't sell your product anymore!" with Apple replying "Fine."
Considering how viciously Walmart goes after suppliers in order to force them to capitulate to their demands, I wouldn't be surprised if the folks in Bentonville were holding a grudge.
No.
Here in Nevada the casinos were going nuts about this bill. They want to get into online gambling, or at least remove the layers between themselves and the offshore online gambling sites they secretly own. Also horse tracks desperately want the right to expand their books online and appeal to a global audience.
I think you need to give Keanu his bong back.
No. No. No.
Marijuana prohibition is a remnant of Jim Crow, as are other drug prohibitions. States, particularly southern states, believed that drugs used predominantly by blacks (cocaine) and latinos (marijuana) could disrupt their social order (i.e. white people using these drugs might mix with the darkies, oh no!!). It helped that both these drugs were in direct economic competition with dixie-originating alcohol and tobacco.
with the exception of Chuck Norris, this list consists mostly of kings and heros... do they really want to give a bridge such a mundane name? I'm leaning towards Chuck Norris, for no other reason than these people's children and grand children will forever be confused with hows and whys this bridge was given such an eclectic name.
Unknown SlashMeme Error on line -1, you insensitive clod.
With all the assorted bitching on here about this bill, people need to realize something....
The Senate IS NOT going to bother with this bill.
The Senate takes alot longer to do things. _maybe_ 10% of what the House passes is ever brought up on the floor. Add to that the short time Congress is in session before they all go home to campaign and the real purpose becomes clear.
1. the Senate too slow to take time with frivolous legislation.
2. there are only a few days left of the session before everyone goes home to campaign.
3. therefore the House is free to pass any kind of retarded crap it wants, knowing it will die on the way down the hall.
4. therefore House members are totally free to vote for blatantly unconstitutional AND retarded bills so they can say they support protecting our children from the boogeyman.
5. tout said dumb bill in campaign commercials
6. win
7. ??? (think duke cunningham)
8. profit!