What many people fail to understand is the US Constitution does not GIVE anyone any rights. If AFIRMS those rights exist and are real and shall not be messed with by government. The Bill of Rights was written for the People, not the nipple heads in government.
I found it to be predicable and boring at best. As far as I am concerned, it was a remake of Battle Star with a Stargate. Poor lost humans looking for earth. I'll give it 3 more runs but I don't expect it to get any better. Don't get me wrong, Battle Star was the bomb. We don't need another rehash of an all ready played out story line. I mean really, the uniforms even have the same style!
NO! What is strange is the lack of foresight there is in this blog! The article is talking about a passport CARD! The first step towards a National ID card and you all missed it. Geeks you may be but wise you are not!
This is typical "I'm not responsible for my action" crap mouth GARBAGE that is killing this Country! Why don't you and your mealy mouthed liberal crackpots just SHUT THE PHUCK UP!
I am sorry to report that the greatest document written in US history, is now a piece of subversion as declared by the "Patriot Act." WAKE UP AMERICA! We are being invaded by our government!
I will now go hide for I am also labeled as a "subversive" because I speak against the government.
I love my country. I don't trust the government.
Such an old saying but true even today. When I first started learning computers, there were no PCs, we had COCOs & AMIGAs, most people thought we were geeks. A disliked class of people who really had no use in the world. After all, who REALLY needs a computer anyway? Most geeks allowed that opinion to live by acting as if they, geeks, were better than most but would not tell you why. For after all, you had no idea why we did things, so you would never understand us.
Thirty years latter, we geeks STILL treat the end user like trash. How many of you IT types refer to the end user as "Luser"? We as a whole never understood we are employed in IT because of the user, not in spite of them. Without the end user there is no need for the network and no need for IT. So, what does GIGO have to do with this you may ask. We as humans get what we dish out, GIGO. If you are treating the end users as "Lusers", they will treat YOU as a LOOSER, because you are. Even the "Luser" comments back in the server room will reflect out on the production floor. You want respect, give respect AT ALL TIMES. Stop being the IT person and become a person. We as humans, many times, let our position in life define who we are, when in reality, who we are defines our position in life. Be nice to people, not because you have to, because you want to. You don't like people? Find another career path. IT demands we work with people. All types of people. One thing I do after I find out what is wrong with an end user system is explain to them, in a non tech way, what was wrong. If it is a result of something they did, I say this in privet and share a story about when I did a similar thing. They learn how to operate a computer and they become your partner. This creates value for you. On the working with managers, always make sure they know how you saved them money and how you where part of the team which brought the project in on time and under budget. Always make sure you are training your replacement. Never box in the upper management to think they will not know how to replace you. This takes away their power and makes you the problem. And you NEVER get a day off. Give them the respect and power their position commands, weather you believe they deserve it or not. Let them know they can fire you, they won't be so likely to do so. I remember when I was "THE" IT department for a small, 150 people, manufacturing firm. The General Manger had a problem with the fact I had access to ALL company information because it was on the servers. He asked me why he should trust me. Instead of selling myself I gave him the power back. I told him that at any time he really did not trust me, he should fire me. No questions asked or answered. Just 'Here is your pay check and have a good life.' He never asked me that question again and we became good friends.
The bottom line is all people want respect and to be liked. Some where along the line we forgot we need to EARN respect, not demand it. Every job is required in each company or the position would not exist. We all have different skills but we don't each have all the skills. If you are not treating the person who picks up your trash the same as the person who signs your pay check, then the problem is YOU, not the rest of the world. If you are treating them both the same, and they both have no respect for you, then look in the mirror, you will see the problem.
GIGO = karma = GIGO
You want to walk into a room and be treated as a GOD, start your own religion. Get out of the IT business. People like you are making it hard for those of use who do IT because we like to work with people and technology. In your own religion, you can demand the respect your arrogant ego thinks it deserves. The rest of us will be better off also.
"The alliance comprises a group of IT hardware and software firms that have combined their expertise and products to help EDS create 'best of breed' solutions and compete with the likes of IBM Global Services and Hewlett-Packard for the most lucrative government and enterprise contracts."
"They" will say anything to gain another contract. All one needs to do is RTFM.
I'll tell you what. I'm sick and tired of hearing the whining crap from the freaking babies out there about Spam. These are the same people who will get their snail mail and throw out 3/4 or more of it because it is junk. Their junk snail mail cost us money also! The bulk mailer people get a DISCOUNT for mailing bulk, junk, mail. Who pays for the difference? You and I do every time they jack up the postal rates so stop your freaking crying about SPAM. Spam dose not kill trees, use up fossil fuel to be hauled around or clog our refuse dumps etc, etc. Filter it either with software or the delete key. Same as you do with you junk snail mail.
UN-solicited email, or Spam as you cry babies call it, is used the same way as junk snail mail. It works! Just like mailed fliers work. It is called sales and sales makes the economic world spin. Those who cry about Spam do NOT understand sales. But I don't expect many people to understand sales because only 10% of the work force is in sales. The other 90% of you support us. So get a life and holler about something real like censorship.
The big problem as I see it is this. Somewhere along the merry primrose path of business this simple fact was lost. One should Manage "things" and lead "people." Too much today I see very little leadership and much displaced management. Hell, I even see books about "How to manage employees for dummies." Only a dummy would want to "manage" a person. Never did a great warrior follow a manager into battle. We follow Leaders or we are leaders.
Just my 2 cents worth.
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It is a cycle setting on a washing machine. The term "Normal" as applied to humans is medical bullshit!
What many people fail to understand is the US Constitution does not GIVE anyone any rights. If AFIRMS those rights exist and are real and shall not be messed with by government. The Bill of Rights was written for the People, not the nipple heads in government.
Please have a look @ the following links;
http://www.usconstitution.net/consttop_bor.html
http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html
It is time we Americans read and fully understand what our founding Farther's established for this great country of ours.
I found it to be predicable and boring at best. As far as I am concerned, it was a remake of Battle Star with a Stargate. Poor lost humans looking for earth. I'll give it 3 more runs but I don't expect it to get any better. Don't get me wrong, Battle Star was the bomb. We don't need another rehash of an all ready played out story line. I mean really, the uniforms even have the same style!
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
NO! What is strange is the lack of foresight there is in this blog! The article is talking about a passport CARD! The first step towards a National ID card and you all missed it. Geeks you may be but wise you are not!
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This worked very well. Thank you. It is nice to find a solution within a bunch of bitching.
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but poor parenting skills are society's fault.
This is typical "I'm not responsible for my action" crap mouth GARBAGE that is killing this Country! Why don't you and your mealy mouthed liberal crackpots just SHUT THE PHUCK UP!
I am sorry to report that the greatest document written in US history, is now a piece of subversion as declared by the "Patriot Act." WAKE UP AMERICA! We are being invaded by our government!
I will now go hide for I am also labeled as a "subversive" because I speak against the government.
I love my country. I don't trust the government.
Such an old saying but true even today. When I first started learning computers, there were no PCs, we had COCOs & AMIGAs, most people thought we were geeks. A disliked class of people who really had no use in the world. After all, who REALLY needs a computer anyway? Most geeks allowed that opinion to live by acting as if they, geeks, were better than most but would not tell you why. For after all, you had no idea why we did things, so you would never understand us.
Thirty years latter, we geeks STILL treat the end user like trash. How many of you IT types refer to the end user as "Luser"? We as a whole never understood we are employed in IT because of the user, not in spite of them. Without the end user there is no need for the network and no need for IT. So, what does GIGO have to do with this you may ask. We as humans get what we dish out, GIGO. If you are treating the end users as "Lusers", they will treat YOU as a LOOSER, because you are. Even the "Luser" comments back in the server room will reflect out on the production floor. You want respect, give respect AT ALL TIMES. Stop being the IT person and become a person. We as humans, many times, let our position in life define who we are, when in reality, who we are defines our position in life. Be nice to people, not because you have to, because you want to. You don't like people? Find another career path. IT demands we work with people. All types of people. One thing I do after I find out what is wrong with an end user system is explain to them, in a non tech way, what was wrong. If it is a result of something they did, I say this in privet and share a story about when I did a similar thing. They learn how to operate a computer and they become your partner. This creates value for you. On the working with managers, always make sure they know how you saved them money and how you where part of the team which brought the project in on time and under budget. Always make sure you are training your replacement. Never box in the upper management to think they will not know how to replace you. This takes away their power and makes you the problem. And you NEVER get a day off. Give them the respect and power their position commands, weather you believe they deserve it or not. Let them know they can fire you, they won't be so likely to do so. I remember when I was "THE" IT department for a small, 150 people, manufacturing firm. The General Manger had a problem with the fact I had access to ALL company information because it was on the servers. He asked me why he should trust me. Instead of selling myself I gave him the power back. I told him that at any time he really did not trust me, he should fire me. No questions asked or answered. Just 'Here is your pay check and have a good life.' He never asked me that question again and we became good friends.
The bottom line is all people want respect and to be liked. Some where along the line we forgot we need to EARN respect, not demand it. Every job is required in each company or the position would not exist. We all have different skills but we don't each have all the skills. If you are not treating the person who picks up your trash the same as the person who signs your pay check, then the problem is YOU, not the rest of the world. If you are treating them both the same, and they both have no respect for you, then look in the mirror, you will see the problem.
GIGO = karma = GIGO
You want to walk into a room and be treated as a GOD, start your own religion. Get out of the IT business. People like you are making it hard for those of use who do IT because we like to work with people and technology. In your own religion, you can demand the respect your arrogant ego thinks it deserves. The rest of us will be better off also.
It's called life, learn how to live it.
The second paragraph says it ALL:
"The alliance comprises a group of IT hardware and software firms that have combined their expertise and products to help EDS create 'best of breed' solutions and compete with the likes of IBM Global Services and Hewlett-Packard for the most lucrative government and enterprise contracts."
"They" will say anything to gain another contract. All one needs to do is RTFM.
I'll tell you what. I'm sick and tired of hearing the whining crap from the freaking babies out there about Spam. These are the same people who will get their snail mail and throw out 3/4 or more of it because it is junk. Their junk snail mail cost us money also! The bulk mailer people get a DISCOUNT for mailing bulk, junk, mail. Who pays for the difference? You and I do every time they jack up the postal rates so stop your freaking crying about SPAM. Spam dose not kill trees, use up fossil fuel to be hauled around or clog our refuse dumps etc, etc. Filter it either with software or the delete key. Same as you do with you junk snail mail.
UN-solicited email, or Spam as you cry babies call it, is used the same way as junk snail mail. It works! Just like mailed fliers work. It is called sales and sales makes the economic world spin. Those who cry about Spam do NOT understand sales. But I don't expect many people to understand sales because only 10% of the work force is in sales. The other 90% of you support us. So get a life and holler about something real like censorship.
The big problem as I see it is this. Somewhere along the merry primrose path of business this simple fact was lost. One should Manage "things" and lead "people." Too much today I see very little leadership and much displaced management. Hell, I even see books about "How to manage employees for dummies." Only a dummy would want to "manage" a person. Never did a great warrior follow a manager into battle. We follow Leaders or we are leaders. Just my 2 cents worth.