Rule number one: Your compensation, benefits, terms of employment, etc. are confidential information. The only people who need to know besides yourself are your SO and your employer.
When you open your fat mouth and blab internationally on the internets, you risk winding up other employees (you know the ones I'm talking about; they don't think it is 'fair' that you're a better negotiator than them, so they should get the same deal you got, but for no effort), and management, who doesn't want to deal with the crybaby emps when they knock on the door with a variation of "how come Bob got $$$ more than me?! I work twice as hard than him!!" Or no PHB wants to make less than a mere workerbee, the nerve.
Bottom line, keep your powder dry and your pecker hard, and for god's sake shut the hell up.
Senator: All fellow members of the senate hear me. Shall we continue to enact tax-break after tax-break for the rich? Or shall we aspire to a more noble purpose and fund decent education for the poor? How does the senate vote?
Can you imagine if our pansy-assed, whipped, spineless reporters here in the States were all thrown to the wolves and we got a buncha tenacious, hard-assed, take-no-prisoners interviewers from Germany?
Why, the bloodletting that would be a Presidential News Brief would send Rove crying for his mommy and Shrub standing there like a deer in headlights...
Deutschland reporter (DR): Mr. President, did you underestimate the intelligence failures that lead to 9/11? A few years ago, the chief concerns of your country was making money and convincing China to free-float the Yen. Now security is of chief concern. Even the State department seems to have first become aware of the danger after Sept. 11.
President: (long pause) The terrorist attacks in 2001 just showed people up close where a lack of security can lead. Problems with national security have more to do with the unbelievable success of the nation itself. The more successful the nation became, the more the downsides also became clear, such as: how can I prevent someone from learning how to fly planes into buildings from the Internets? In some areas, the bad boys are also terribly clever -- and occasionally more crafty than we had expected.
...
DR: The US in Iraq is not only a part of the solution, but also, because of its presence, part of the problem. When a country provides more than 90 percent of all personnel is inevitably a target for insurgents interested in causing the most damage possible.
President: There are actually a large number of coalition forces operating in Iraq in addition to the US, for example, such as Poland, Tonga or Madagascar...
DR:... but in the realm of wartime operational theaters, they don't play a large role.
President: The truth is: the fewer numbers of participatory nations in the coalition, the better it is from a security point of view.
DR:
I beg your pardon?
---
DR:
When one puts the sentence "Miserable Failure" into the Internet search engine Google, the top result is your bio page. Does this bother you?
President: I have never searched the for such a sentence. Plus: if you understand the internets, it doesn't mean that you will find exactly this sentence on these pages.
DR: The anger that you occasionally encounter is just part of the governing the country for you?
President: Up until now I have only looked at very few of these anti-pages. That has also changed since 9/11 and terrorists attack. I have also over years governed with compassion and in bringing freedom to the middle east for the first time. For this, I am quite admired. My role in the government and in the intercontinental stage are both things that can provoke envy or jealousy. But I do not have a problem with how I am seen. I do what I do because I think I am making a contribution.
Get one thing straight: LSL: MCL is nothing but a collection of fark jokes and jigglies without any plot or character.
Al Lowe, the creator of the original (and who had absolutely nothing to do with this POS) said this about MCL:
It is not an adventure game.There are no real puzzles, no interactive dialog, no narrator, no character development, and nearly no plot. Much of the dialogue is uninspired and trite. There's more profanity in the first scene than in all the previous Larry games combined. Women cuss like sailors. The F-word is repeated so often the writers must have used a macro.
The kid was a tool. He tapped the teacher's computer to try to change his own grades / get test answers and finally got caught when he tried to sell the answers to other students.
The sooner we can get the involuntary organ donor bank online, the quicker these losers can be put to use for the good of society.
A degree means nothing---absolutely nothing---in determining whether someone can do a job. Educational experience means nothing in determining whether somone can do that job, either (unless said job is Education, but then how many Profs have you had that couldn't teach their way out of a web paper sack? I thought so).
Sorry to burst your bubble, Sims, but the world doesn't give a rat's ass what we do to it. Take a look at Venus: greenhouse gases, surface temp around 400 degrees, yet the planet is still very much there.
Oh, perhaps you mean "the world's life"?! Better not get too crazy about that one, son. Life is known to exist in extreme conditions.
Oh, wait, you probably mean "human life," right? Well, to quote Rush Hour: "Wipe yourself off. You're dead."
I let my Subscription to Geophysics lapse because
they jacked up the price and reduced benefits (regular membership went
from Paper Journal to CD Rom -- getting the paper journal after that
required another fee).
They also charge exorbitant fees for authors.
As others point out, though - they are really the only game in
town, so what are you going to do.
And just how much is $500 from some stupid LAN going to help?
Keep going down.
"$380 we were thinking was going to go straight into the Red Cross Tsunami fund," Alston said.
Oh and don't you dare bring up the other hot spots where genocide and regular slaughter are going on. That's just man against man, whereas the Tsunami represents God against man, and we're going to KICK gOD'S ASS!!!111 WTF!!!!11
Also, if you're only dealing with two or three companies, you may not be living in the real world.
Please continue to dole out advice such as this. I need less competition when I am looking for a job and targeting a company. As more and more people scour want ads (success rate: < 1%)/online job boards (success rate: < 3%) and use the shotgun approach to job hunting, that means less people getting between me and the hiring manager.
Please also direct job hunters to talk to HR departments. I hear if you get a post card from them, you are "virtually guaranteed" to get a job. Really!
The difference between paying down 5% versus 20% is less than you save by paying PMI and investing the 15% in other ways. If your goal is to buy a house outright, then putting down as much as possible may be the way to go.
If, on the other hand, you just want a place to live and want to build up a bit of equity, putting down the least amount as possible is better.
Wow, you're right... getting a brutal dictatorship to torture and kill people who send you unwanted emails is *awesome!*
I don't think our future Attorney General Alberto Gonzales cares about going after spammers when there are "terrorists' under every rock 'n' tree to catch and wire up...
The article boils down to: XSL (FO) is harder to use than CSS, so CSS r0xx0r5!
The same argument could be applied to RDBMS: "Stored Procs are harder to use, so move the logic into the PHP code!!!" or Languages: "Pointers are hard to use, so VB.NET r0xx0rs over C!!!!"
My experience with the whole mess is that, yes, XSL-FO->PDF is harder to set up, but I get the same output every time. We tried to use CSS, and all it took to screw up the works was have somone set their browser margins or font size differently. Or use a non-CSS-compliant browser. We don't have control over the user's browser, but if we output to PDF, we have total control. Oh, but it is harder to use the latter, so forget it.
Q: How can you tell if a website was designed by a know-nothing monkey? A: "This site best viewed in 800x600, 1024x768, etc."
When travelling to a Police State, such as the US:
Always have the name, address and telephone number of someone you "are staying with" on hand. Note that in the states, a phone number that contains "xxx-555-yyyy" is bogus (used only in the movies).
When asked how you know the person, use something vague and unverifiable, such as "We met on holiday in Canada," "we went to school together," etc.
When they ask you for your driver's license number or other identifying number from a card that you don't have a reason to carry, simply state "I don't remember." DO NOT SMILE WHEN YOU SAY THAT!
Never crack jokes. Police State Officials who have a sense of humour are usually sent to "reeducation centre" to have it removed.
Furthermore, there's a good chance the theater will be sold out, and in that case someone would be the wiser -- probably the guy without a seat.
There are always a few seats held in reserve (at least at Mann Theaters) to handle problems like broken hardware, visiting VIPS, miscounts, etc.
At the theater I worked, we had a reserve of 30 seats out of a total capacity of 1,341. Even if we were "sold out," 30 more people could potentially get in.
He could just get a job at the theater; on the day of the show, he shows up for work as normal, then goes into the theater and hangs out until they start letting people in. If he takes off his dorky polyester jacket and sits down, no one would ever be the wiser.
And if his boss finds out and he's fired? Oh well - such are the hazards of only paying your workers minimum wage.
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When you open your fat mouth and blab internationally on the internets, you risk winding up other employees (you know the ones I'm talking about; they don't think it is 'fair' that you're a better negotiator than them, so they should get the same deal you got, but for no effort), and management, who doesn't want to deal with the crybaby emps when they knock on the door with a variation of "how come Bob got $$$ more than me?! I work twice as hard than him!!" Or no PHB wants to make less than a mere workerbee, the nerve.
Bottom line, keep your powder dry and your pecker hard, and for god's sake shut the hell up.
All of the senate: FUCK THE POOR!
Senator: Good!
Why, the bloodletting that would be a Presidential News Brief would send Rove crying for his mommy and Shrub standing there like a deer in headlights...
Deutschland reporter (DR): Mr. President, did you underestimate the intelligence failures that lead to 9/11? A few years ago, the chief concerns of your country was making money and convincing China to free-float the Yen. Now security is of chief concern. Even the State department seems to have first become aware of the danger after Sept. 11.
President: (long pause) The terrorist attacks in 2001 just showed people up close where a lack of security can lead. Problems with national security have more to do with the unbelievable success of the nation itself. The more successful the nation became, the more the downsides also became clear, such as: how can I prevent someone from learning how to fly planes into buildings from the Internets? In some areas, the bad boys are also terribly clever -- and occasionally more crafty than we had expected.
...
DR: The US in Iraq is not only a part of the solution, but also, because of its presence, part of the problem. When a country provides more than 90 percent of all personnel is inevitably a target for insurgents interested in causing the most damage possible.
President: There are actually a large number of coalition forces operating in Iraq in addition to the US, for example, such as Poland, Tonga or Madagascar...
DR: ... but in the realm of wartime operational theaters, they don't play a large role.
President: The truth is: the fewer numbers of participatory nations in the coalition, the better it is from a security point of view.
DR: I beg your pardon?
---
DR: When one puts the sentence "Miserable Failure" into the Internet search engine Google, the top result is your bio page. Does this bother you?
President: I have never searched the for such a sentence. Plus: if you understand the internets, it doesn't mean that you will find exactly this sentence on these pages.
DR: The anger that you occasionally encounter is just part of the governing the country for you?
President: Up until now I have only looked at very few of these anti-pages. That has also changed since 9/11 and terrorists attack. I have also over years governed with compassion and in bringing freedom to the middle east for the first time. For this, I am quite admired. My role in the government and in the intercontinental stage are both things that can provoke envy or jealousy. But I do not have a problem with how I am seen. I do what I do because I think I am making a contribution.
The possibilities are endless! Replace the background with:
LOL
j/k h.a.g.s. k.i.t. FFE!!!1
WTF!!!!111 LOL!!!111
WMP r00lz, AAC teh suck!
Al Lowe, the creator of the original (and who had absolutely nothing to do with this POS) said this about MCL:
The sooner we can get the involuntary organ donor bank online, the quicker these losers can be put to use for the good of society.
Thank you,
Information Minister
Especially as in TX, where they require (I believe the right) THUMB print only. One is not allowed to use other fingers for authentication.
A degree means nothing---absolutely nothing---in determining whether someone can do a job. Educational experience means nothing in determining whether somone can do that job, either (unless said job is Education, but then how many Profs have you had that couldn't teach their way out of a web paper sack? I thought so).
Sorry to burst your bubble, Sims, but the world doesn't give a rat's ass what we do to it. Take a look at Venus: greenhouse gases, surface temp around 400 degrees, yet the planet is still very much there.
Oh, perhaps you mean "the world's life"?! Better not get too crazy about that one, son. Life is known to exist in extreme conditions.
Oh, wait, you probably mean "human life," right? Well, to quote Rush Hour: "Wipe yourself off. You're dead."
YAAT. YHL. FOAD.
I let my Subscription to Geophysics lapse because they jacked up the price and reduced benefits (regular membership went from Paper Journal to CD Rom -- getting the paper journal after that required another fee).
They also charge exorbitant fees for authors.
As others point out, though - they are really the only game in town, so what are you going to do.
Keep going down.
Oh and don't you dare bring up the other hot spots where genocide and regular slaughter are going on. That's just man against man, whereas the Tsunami represents God against man, and we're going to KICK gOD'S ASS!!!111 WTF!!!!11Please also direct job hunters to talk to HR departments. I hear if you get a post card from them, you are "virtually guaranteed" to get a job. Really!
Thank you.
If, on the other hand, you just want a place to live and want to build up a bit of equity, putting down the least amount as possible is better.
The same argument could be applied to RDBMS: "Stored Procs are harder to use, so move the logic into the PHP code!!!" or Languages: "Pointers are hard to use, so VB.NET r0xx0rs over C!!!!"
My experience with the whole mess is that, yes, XSL-FO->PDF is harder to set up, but I get the same output every time. We tried to use CSS, and all it took to screw up the works was have somone set their browser margins or font size differently. Or use a non-CSS-compliant browser. We don't have control over the user's browser, but if we output to PDF, we have total control. Oh, but it is harder to use the latter, so forget it.
Q: How can you tell if a website was designed by a know-nothing monkey? A: "This site best viewed in 800x600, 1024x768, etc."
At the theater I worked, we had a reserve of 30 seats out of a total capacity of 1,341. Even if we were "sold out," 30 more people could potentially get in.
And if his boss finds out and he's fired? Oh well - such are the hazards of only paying your workers minimum wage.
Just taking your example: 2,520 resumes = 1 job. That's a .03% (NOT 3%) success rate. I think I'd much rather spend my time using other techniques.