The United States is a dictatorship that bans bisexual, mixed-raced, and fetishistic relationships on broadcast TV.
[tuning down sarcasm to nrmal level]
Tell me how different their attitude is that from beloved and most-popular US President Abraham Lincoln not wanting the South to split and causing half a million dead and many more wounded just because the United States just had to be One?
Exactly. it's like car tires. There's nothing really hard engineering-wise about mounting rubber tires on wheels. But the hard part is the actual mounting, pressuring, balancing and installing on the car.
You don't pay the guy because you can't figure it out, you pay him so you don't get dirty.
Would you put a $50,000 alarm system in your $30,000 car?
Would you pay $300,000 a year to protect your company's data?
Answer: It depends how much the company data is worth.
For a lot of companies, especially smaller companies, the answer is no. The data might be compromised, but unless they deal with sensitive data whose loss could cause public embarrassment, they will not spend a lot of money to protect it.
Would you hire a top-notch guy for $130k plus 1 helper at $70k plus overhead ($100K) to protect a bunch of tractor part orders?
I hope you and your friends are gun ownership advocates. Because history has proved again and again that "principles" such as yours mean squat when the government can force you to comply at gunpoint.
If they know you are armed and will shoot on sight, they do not pass stupid laws like DMR since they know thay have no way to enforce it, because cops or the army will not go along with this, and the local bureaucrat in his fancy blue uniform will be scared shitless to go knock on your door to make sure you complied.
This is why most lenders do not make mortgage loans on mobile homes, because a $50,000 mobile home in the middle of the desert protected by a demented vietnam veteran and his three cousins with 2 fully automatic M-16s, a couple SKSs and an arsenal of handguns is not worth the risk to the local sheriff or to the bank's repo officer.
And I am not talking about 9mm pistols. I'm talking fully automatic AK-47, M-16s, sniper rifles, uzis, and machine guns (like M60). Go to Texas sometimes. They could rearm the Iraqi army by themselves. Politicians would never pass DRM regulations in Texas, and if the feds did, it would be thoroughly ignored.
There is a popular bumper sticker in Texas that goes like this: "Politician only fear one thing: peasants with guns."
Make python executable (with py2exe) on shared drive, linked from win desktops as shortcut and launch on startup.
said script has dedicated local directory like: c:\ourscripts\ and synchs everything from the network at launch. Script remains running and checks via xml-rpc for updates and will throughout the day get updates to particular files. If you do the xml-rpc check every minute, you'll have near-realtime distribution of cli scripts to windows clients.
I am assuming you have less than 1k people to do that with in your org. One server could easily handle it.
by the way, redhat autoupdate uses xml-rpc.
This has the advantage not to need any local machine deployments of software packages.
Let me know privately if you need this sort of solution built. Or ask the python mailing list.
Exactly. It's always management's fault. They should have planned better for capacity. It's expensive? Too expensive? Let the invisible hand of the Market wipe your inefficient little company off the face of the earth, but don't violate the Law.
Ultimately, things like this are expensive to make. Movies are expensive. Yet, thousands still are made worldwide, and still are overall profitable. (for now).
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In the real world it does work like that.
You get a PII with 128 megs of ram that won't take XP or Win2kpro well, ask your boss to let you run some test or something, install linux, and presto, it works.
Then, when the company looks at the cost of keeping the PII as-is versus migrting to windows, they'll keep the PII.
If they were not willing to change, then, I have no pity for them.
I'll give you the 1 million years ago scenario (give or take 1/2 a million). Note: Translated to modern english for comprehension.
Ugha: We're hunting. Googa: Where? Ugha: At the third hill. Googa: Any luck? Ugha: We haven't killed anything in the last 30 years. Googa: How are you doing? Ugha: Almost the whole tribe is wiped out, and we're really weak. Googa: Why don't you guys try hunting elsewhere? Ugha: But we've always hunted there... Googa: Ok, well, good luck then!
Googa, walking away, thinking: I can come back in a while and get Ugha's stuff after he's dead. Dumbass...
Anyway, they should couple that with a high caliber machine gun and 1500 rounds and as soon as they hear the bullet and identify the shooter, the thing should automagically spray the entire area.
There will be a lot less shooting in the vicinity, I can guarantee you that.
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well, I think that would be "J'vais prenez les varchar".
Of course, then, it's hard to see how he's going to takemore than one car... maybe this is why this is overused.
You can't be exempt, unless you are paid that much. You start out hourly, and can become exempt. You don't start out exempt, in the eyes of the law.
As always, IANAL, CALFLA (Consult a lawyer for legal advice)
Dark Lanterns: Secret Political Societies, Conspiracies and Treason Trials in the Civil War
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Look it up on amazon.
If you had done that in 1862, you would have been hung for treason.
[Sarcasm Tuned at 100%]
The United States is a dictatorship that bans bisexual, mixed-raced, and fetishistic relationships on broadcast TV.
[tuning down sarcasm to nrmal level]
Tell me how different their attitude is that from beloved and most-popular US President Abraham Lincoln not wanting the South to split and causing half a million dead and many more wounded just because the United States just had to be One?
Exactly. it's like car tires. There's nothing really hard engineering-wise about mounting rubber tires on wheels. But the hard part is the actual mounting, pressuring, balancing and installing on the car.
You don't pay the guy because you can't figure it out, you pay him so you don't get dirty.
Yes, but overall, they are profitable.
Yeah, I hear you about the tractors. I meant parts, like a guard rail trim or something like that.
It all comes down to money. Really.
Would you put a $50,000 alarm system in your $30,000 car?
Would you pay $300,000 a year to protect your company's data?
Answer: It depends how much the company data is worth.
For a lot of companies, especially smaller companies, the answer is no. The data might be compromised, but unless they deal with sensitive data whose loss could cause public embarrassment, they will not spend a lot of money to protect it.
Would you hire a top-notch guy for $130k plus 1 helper at $70k plus overhead ($100K) to protect a bunch of tractor part orders?
I hope you and your friends are gun ownership advocates. Because history has proved again and again that "principles" such as yours mean squat when the government can force you to comply at gunpoint.
If they know you are armed and will shoot on sight, they do not pass stupid laws like DMR since they know thay have no way to enforce it, because cops or the army will not go along with this, and the local bureaucrat in his fancy blue uniform will be scared shitless to go knock on your door to make sure you complied.
This is why most lenders do not make mortgage loans on mobile homes, because a $50,000 mobile home in the middle of the desert protected by a demented vietnam veteran and his three cousins with 2 fully automatic M-16s, a couple SKSs and an arsenal of handguns is not worth the risk to the local sheriff or to the bank's repo officer.
And I am not talking about 9mm pistols. I'm talking fully automatic AK-47, M-16s, sniper rifles, uzis, and machine guns (like M60). Go to Texas sometimes. They could rearm the Iraqi army by themselves. Politicians would never pass DRM regulations in Texas, and if the feds did, it would be thoroughly ignored.
There is a popular bumper sticker in Texas that goes like this: "Politician only fear one thing: peasants with guns."
This only works if there aren't hundreds of them. Otherwise you end up cluttering the desktop pretty seriously.
Also, you can achieve the same result with a shared drive, but it assumes you launch the script from the icon.
Make python executable (with py2exe) on shared drive, linked from win desktops as shortcut and launch on startup.
said script has dedicated local directory like: c:\ourscripts\
and synchs everything from the network at launch. Script remains running and checks via xml-rpc for updates and will throughout the day get updates to particular files. If you do the xml-rpc check every minute, you'll have near-realtime distribution of cli scripts to windows clients.
I am assuming you have less than 1k people to do that with in your org. One server could easily handle it.
by the way, redhat autoupdate uses xml-rpc.
This has the advantage not to need any local machine deployments of software packages.
Let me know privately if you need this sort of solution built. Or ask the python mailing list.
That is why section (h) starts with the word "Except".
This is why they do qualify. subsection (h) is specifically written as an exception from the rules above, for programmers.
It's cor California, not Canada. Sorry if I did not make that clear.
Oh, you are so right.
But maintaining those boxes is still easier than winworld.
Also. I have told mgmt that if they want backup, they need to move thr projects to production. They know.
Is he selling a book?
some links for the google deficient:
from http://www.dir.ca.gov/IWC/WageOrderIndustries.htm
order number 4. That's the one posted in our breakroom.
http://www.dir.ca.gov/IWC/IWCArticle4.html
Look under 1 A 3 (h) and (i)
Enjoy.
In California, they have to earn more than $44 per hour. for 60 hours a week, that's $137K for 80, that's $183K.
> And the grunts that work in movies(including the actors)have unions.
That's right.
But programmer unions? Naah, I don't think so.
Exactly. It's always management's fault. They should have planned better for capacity. It's expensive? Too expensive? Let the invisible hand of the Market wipe your inefficient little company off the face of the earth, but don't violate the Law.
Ultimately, things like this are expensive to make. Movies are expensive. Yet, thousands still are made worldwide, and still are overall profitable. (for now).
In the real world it does work like that.
You get a PII with 128 megs of ram that won't take XP or Win2kpro well, ask your boss to let you run some test or something, install linux, and presto, it works.
Then, when the company looks at the cost of keeping the PII as-is versus migrting to windows, they'll keep the PII.
Repeat.
I've done this. I'm on the third box.
Fortune 500.
If they were not willing to change, then, I have no pity for them.
I'll give you the 1 million years ago scenario (give or take 1/2 a million). Note: Translated to modern english for comprehension.
Ugha: We're hunting.
Googa: Where?
Ugha: At the third hill.
Googa: Any luck?
Ugha: We haven't killed anything in the last 30 years.
Googa: How are you doing?
Ugha: Almost the whole tribe is wiped out, and we're really weak.
Googa: Why don't you guys try hunting elsewhere?
Ugha: But we've always hunted there...
Googa: Ok, well, good luck then!
Googa, walking away, thinking: I can come back in a while and get Ugha's stuff after he's dead. Dumbass...
They should make a create-your-own adventure game book for computer troubleshooting.
You know, the You are in a long hallway. there is a door to the right. To open the door go to 67. To continue down the hallway, go to 122.
This would need to be a booklet because the PC might be unusable.
This would also train users in logical thinking (imagine that!)
Oh yeah, you post on /. and worry about police?
Anyway, they should couple that with a high caliber machine gun and 1500 rounds and as soon as they hear the bullet and identify the shooter, the thing should automagically spray the entire area.
There will be a lot less shooting in the vicinity, I can guarantee you that.
You saw my sig dude?