Don't worry; once this abortion of a bill passes in the States, America Junior (Canada) will implement their own version, with the EU to follow closely behind.
What would happen if he asked his current employees what they needed to make their jobs easier, and actually implemented those ideas??
Three things that, if not present, will make an employee unhappy an eventually leave:
High enough pay so living expennses are not an issue
Autonomy - what to work on, how to do it, etc.
Meaningful, challenging work
Also, your HR dept has too much power. If you're still doing Theory X stuff like "annual performance reviews," you're doing it wrong, and deserve to die in a fire.
Separation of Church and state isn't spelled out in the constitution.
The "right" to purchase ammunition isn't spelled out in the constitution, either.
You're ignorant about how law works. Law is far more than the letters and words written in the law, but the MEANING and INTENT behind those words and letters.
Your little qualifier of "isn't spelled out" is cute...and utterly inconsequential and meaningless. You might as well complain that "Wharrgarbl" isn't in the Constitution. The establishment clause is absolutely in the Constitution and its meaning is clear.
The problem is we, the people, rely on a congressional system of elected officials who have become increasingly corrupt and feeble-minded, resulting in a massive disparity between the wishes of the masses and those of big business and the mega-rich.
Note that arbitrators are notorious for overwhelmingly favoring the party which hires them.
In some cases (depending upon the contract, of course), the cost of arbitration is shared. In that case, it is even worse for you, the poor consumer. Here's how:
* Both you and The Death Star company (AT&T) pay your share of the arbiter's fee.
* You show up at the hearing, AT&T does not.
* Arbitration cancelled (need both parties): no refunds
* Repeat
See how that works? You keep paying and paying and paying and nothing ever happens. For AT&T, the cost of ditching the meeting is higher than sending someone out to attend. They simply can't be bothered.
...how could it possibly be a bad thing...given the current state of the world we live in[?]
I can't believe I wore a uniform and served my country only to have the likes of you want to piss away all of our freedoms (without a fight!) because you're scared of a HYPOTHETICAL situation.
What a waste. I should've let the Communists hordes win, but Noooo, I had to slog it out in the friggin mud, sand and muck, freeze my *** off in a @*($&# GP-Medium and sweat my **** off humping Alice and Pig all over the &#*($ place for what?
Well, actually, it isn't.
DEATH before Fear.
No, wait.
Illusion before actuality!
How many people die in automobile accidents every year? 41,000 (Source: NTSB) Why do we still drive again?!
Your chance of being injured or killed in a Random Terrorist Attack(TM) is already ZERO (since it is not a repeatable event), so this tempest in a teapot is just that.
No need to avoid NYC or anything (unless you really hate the best Chinese food, pizza, hot dogs, etc. you could ever lay your hands on).
approach to preventing users from being tracked. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which will vary from state to state and country to country)
(x) It does not provide an adequate method of enforcement ( ) Nobody will spend eight months sitting in dull planning meetings to do it ( ) No one will be able to find the guy (x) It is defenseless against rogue websites (x) It tries to stop a fundamentally broken cookie model (x) Users of the web will not put up with it ( ) The government will not put up with it (x) Advertisers will not put up with it ( ) Requires too much cooperation from unwilling sources (x) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once ( ) Many advertisers cannot afford to lose what little business they have left ( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business ( ) Users are too stupid to know they're being tracked anyway
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
(x) Browsers' unwillingness to change to suit something that will be circumvented in days ( ) The existence of programmers for hire (x) The W3C ( ) Sources' proven unwillingness to "go direct" ( ) The difficulty of changing all those websites ( ) How few people actually care (x) The vast majority of "programmers" are unable to even code in semantically-correct HTML ( ) Unpopularity of weird new headers (x) Unstoppable moneyed Kung-Fu ( ) Legal liability of vigilante sites ( ) The training required to be even an craptaculous web monkey (x) Users hate pop-ups ( ) The necessity of ignoring laws from other countries (x) Americans' huge distrust of anyone not from their country/state/city/block ( ) Reluctance of governments and corporations to be held to account by two guys with a blog ( ) Inability of random people on the internets to demand anything ( ) How easy it is for corporations to manipulate unemployed sweaty shut-ins ( ) Rupert Murdoch ( ) Pron ( ) Hulu (x) Technically illiterate politicians ( ) The tragedy of the commons (x) Craigslist
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
( ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical ( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable ( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation ( ) Blacklists suck ( ) Whitelists suck ( ) We should be able to visit Drudge, Slashdot and Democracy Now without seeing those Cash for Gold ads ( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud ( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks ( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually ( ) Sending email should be free ( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers? ( ) Incompatibility with open source or open source licenses ( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem ( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome ( ) I don't want the government reading my email ( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
( ) Sorry dude, but I don’t think it would work. (x) This is a stupid idea, and you’re a stupid person for suggesting it. ( ) Maybe you should actually visit reality every fortnight or so
The issue is that the Epsilons insist that O is not a natural-born citizen.
The whole thing is laughable as they keep insisting that he produce his "real" Hawaii birth certificate to prove his citizenship. When it was produced, they whined that it wasn't real; a perfect example of Dunning Kruger.
All Birthers, sorry, Epsilons need to do is produce "the Kenyian birth certificate" themselves. This will prove beyond doubt that President O is NOT a citizen.
DESQview was a "must-have" for anyone running a multi-line DOS-based BBS. Windows/286/386 were horrible at multi-tasking, whereas DV did it quite well.
QEMM386 (which came with DV), was a slam-dunk for getting much more usable RAM under DOS. MemMaker was a weak attempt, and it wasn't until Win95 that people stopped caring (even though Win95–ME were nothing more than a windows environment running on top of DOS).
Here's one I'm working on: you have 8 million documents, each of which belongs to one or more categories in a taxonomy of no deeper than three nodes (root, branch, leaf). Given any random document, which is the most efficient way to return the parent and children taxonomy with document counts for each?
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My favorite textbook example: you need to malloc 1,000 addresses, perfom a simple calc and then free them. How do you do this?
malloc all, do the calcs, then free all
malloc one, calc, free it. Rinse, repeat
malloc 1/2 of them (or some percentage), do the calcs, then free. Rinse, repeat.
Now scale it. Instead of 1,000 addresses, do 1,000,000.
Been coding for around 35 years (architecting for about 20) and have had no need for such a thing, ever.
Proving, again, that personal anecdotes are not evidence or proof of anything.
Slashdot Mirror
(Hopefully this wont get /. a take down notice!)
They will, eventually.
It sucks to be an American
Don't worry; once this abortion of a bill passes in the States, America Junior (Canada) will implement their own version, with the EU to follow closely behind.
what does it mean?
It means "lower profits" and/or "less competitive."
0/10
The depressing reality is it's much easier to get a real pay raise by switching jobs than it is by being loyal.
FIFY ;)
Also, your HR dept has too much power. If you're still doing Theory X stuff like "annual performance reviews," you're doing it wrong, and deserve to die in a fire.
The "right" to purchase ammunition isn't spelled out in the constitution, either.
You're ignorant about how law works. Law is far more than the letters and words written in the law, but the MEANING and INTENT behind those words and letters.
Your little qualifier of "isn't spelled out" is cute...and utterly inconsequential and meaningless. You might as well complain that "Wharrgarbl" isn't in the Constitution. The establishment clause is absolutely in the Constitution and its meaning is clear.
The problem is we, the people, rely on a congressional system of elected officials who have become increasingly corrupt and feeble-minded, resulting in a massive disparity between the wishes of the masses and those of big business and the mega-rich.
FIFY
(you gotta go to the source!)
In some cases (depending upon the contract, of course), the cost of arbitration is shared. In that case, it is even worse for you, the poor consumer. Here's how:
See how that works? You keep paying and paying and paying and nothing ever happens. For AT&T, the cost of ditching the meeting is higher than sending someone out to attend. They simply can't be bothered.
Bottom line: they win, you lose.
MMM can be complemented with "Peopleware": another management-must-read (that they never do).
This is a good thing, you godless socialist.
It happened and is happening in the Middle East. It can happen here, too.
I can't believe I wore a uniform and served my country only to have the likes of you want to piss away all of our freedoms (without a fight!) because you're scared of a HYPOTHETICAL situation.
What a waste. I should've let the Communists hordes win, but Noooo, I had to slog it out in the friggin mud, sand and muck, freeze my *** off in a @*($&# GP-Medium and sweat my **** off humping Alice and Pig all over the &#*($ place for what?
Better not jump to conclusions.
We need a pre-pre-pre security checkpoint. Something that every good citizen can have in his or her home to verify loyalty. Like a Swibble.
Well, actually, it isn't. DEATH before Fear. No, wait. Illusion before actuality! How many people die in automobile accidents every year? 41,000 (Source: NTSB) Why do we still drive again?!
Your chance of being injured or killed in a Random Terrorist Attack(TM) is already ZERO (since it is not a repeatable event), so this tempest in a teapot is just that.
No need to avoid NYC or anything (unless you really hate the best Chinese food, pizza, hot dogs, etc. you could ever lay your hands on).
Link?
Your post advocates a
(x) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) crowd-sourced
approach to preventing users from being tracked. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which will vary from state to state and country to country)
(x) It does not provide an adequate method of enforcement
( ) Nobody will spend eight months sitting in dull planning meetings to do it
( ) No one will be able to find the guy
(x) It is defenseless against rogue websites
(x) It tries to stop a fundamentally broken cookie model
(x) Users of the web will not put up with it
( ) The government will not put up with it
(x) Advertisers will not put up with it
( ) Requires too much cooperation from unwilling sources
(x) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
( ) Many advertisers cannot afford to lose what little business they have left
( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
( ) Users are too stupid to know they're being tracked anyway
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
(x) Browsers' unwillingness to change to suit something that will be circumvented in days
( ) The existence of programmers for hire
(x) The W3C
( ) Sources' proven unwillingness to "go direct"
( ) The difficulty of changing all those websites
( ) How few people actually care
(x) The vast majority of "programmers" are unable to even code in semantically-correct HTML
( ) Unpopularity of weird new headers
(x) Unstoppable moneyed Kung-Fu
( ) Legal liability of vigilante sites
( ) The training required to be even an craptaculous web monkey
(x) Users hate pop-ups
( ) The necessity of ignoring laws from other countries
(x) Americans' huge distrust of anyone not from their country/state/city/block
( ) Reluctance of governments and corporations to be held to account by two guys with a blog
( ) Inability of random people on the internets to demand anything
( ) How easy it is for corporations to manipulate unemployed sweaty shut-ins
( ) Rupert Murdoch
( ) Pron
( ) Hulu
(x) Technically illiterate politicians
( ) The tragedy of the commons
(x) Craigslist
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
( ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
( ) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
( ) We should be able to visit Drudge, Slashdot and Democracy Now without seeing those Cash for Gold ads
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
( ) Sending email should be free
( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatibility with open source or open source licenses
( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government reading my email
( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
( ) Sorry dude, but I don’t think it would work.
(x) This is a stupid idea, and you’re a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Maybe you should actually visit reality every fortnight or so
The issue is that the Epsilons insist that O is not a natural-born citizen.
The whole thing is laughable as they keep insisting that he produce his "real" Hawaii birth certificate to prove his citizenship. When it was produced, they whined that it wasn't real; a perfect example of Dunning Kruger.
All Birthers, sorry, Epsilons need to do is produce "the Kenyian birth certificate" themselves. This will prove beyond doubt that President O is NOT a citizen.
...but they can't, so they won't.
DESQview was a "must-have" for anyone running a multi-line DOS-based BBS. Windows/286 /386 were horrible at multi-tasking, whereas DV did it quite well.
QEMM386 (which came with DV), was a slam-dunk for getting much more usable RAM under DOS. MemMaker was a weak attempt, and it wasn't until Win95 that people stopped caring (even though Win95–ME were nothing more than a windows environment running on top of DOS).
Windows 3.1(or maybe it was '95) running on DVX.
It would've been Win 3.1. DV/X was released in the early 90s, well before Win95.
.Net and C# came about to push Java out of the market, not the other way around.
Yep! .Net is about as close to Java as one can get without violating Sun’s^H^H^H^H Oracle’s copyright.
I might as well make it as uncomfortable and inconvenient for them as possible.
Make sure to eat lots of garlic, don't bathe for a few days and put lots of sand in your pants before you hit the line.
The fine folks at CodeOffsets.com will donate to PostgreSQL if you so designate.
You can take that theory of electricity with a grain of salt when you stick a metal fork in an outlet,
Here's one I'm working on: you have 8 million documents, each of which belongs to one or more categories in a taxonomy of no deeper than three nodes (root, branch, leaf). Given any random document, which is the most efficient way to return the parent and children taxonomy with document counts for each?
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My favorite textbook example: you need to malloc 1,000 addresses, perfom a simple calc and then free them. How do you do this?
Now scale it. Instead of 1,000 addresses, do 1,000,000.
Proving, again, that personal anecdotes are not evidence or proof of anything.