Close, but not quite. Corporations exist to better the lives of it's owners, ie shareholders. All to often employees are part of the cost side of the equation: an expense to be minimized.
still have a zip disk with the entire log site on it, maybe since Locklear's not there anymore (is he?) I should put it up on geocities for posterity. It's still pretty funny, and nothing ever changes at that place, so it's probably still relevant too.
I think that's a fine idea. Further, I think The Log should be resurrected away from the meddling admin. We oughta give edodo a run for its money.
There is indeed a great view atop Memorial, but I prefer the one from above the Rotunda. I remember the rule against sex IN the hall, but I can't remember the one about sex ON the hall..
Another rooftop escapde: While standing inspection during one of my several long and distinguished periods of restriction, someone dropped a bag of flour from the top of the rotunda landed square in the middle of the ranks. Everyone's SDBs were coated in white...
The bowling alley is now a squash court, and a few years back several strategic panels were taken out of the skylight in memoral hall spelling out IHTFP in rays of golden sunshine upon the marble floor..
It's nice to think that the mystique of the service academies still lives.
In my plebe year at USNA 98-99, Napster was HUGE. Not only that, but exchange through the magic of the 'Network Neighborhood' made the accumulation of huge mp3 libraries trivial. Two problems: 1) Plebes arent allowed to listen to music, so we had to do it on the DL. 2) Our computers came with a 6GB HD and on the $50/month I was making, no upgrades. Since CDR was rarer back then, there were guys actually making money by burning CDs for $5 with either CD tracks or chock full of mp3.
Moral of the story: Don't think that the administration is only now learning of p2p and its questionable legality. It's been at USNA as it as been at every other college campus.
in all likelihood MS contracts an advertising firm to create the flash demo for them. Ad firm creative directors then mine for stock art of people using computers and them photoshop XP onto the monitors. Since the stock art is created by yet more advertising types, the computers in said stock art is more likely to be macintosh than is statistically likely in a sample of office situations.
Ahh, advertising... the festering, never healing scab on the ass of American Industry.
If you can sit through the whole demo, there's a second mac. About two thirds of the way through is a PowerMac Desktop I'm gussing circa 1996. I'm no mac expert. Maybe someone else can identify the model?
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
I'm 25. I discovered nethack when i was 9. My mom was in graduate school and i would occasionally accompany her to school and in particular to the computer lab where she would do her thing. One day I saw a much younger student playing nethack. After looking over his shoulder for a while, he set me up playing it on the terminal next to him. Once I got into it, I would take every opportunity to go the lab with Mom so I could play nethack next to her while she worked. Eventually she finished school and I had no connection to nethack, that is, until college...
'm so tired of the same old "W3C is the standard" horseshit. Get over it. The W3C is irrelevant. It has been for years. Scream until you're blue in the face, but until you can convince billions of people to follow that arbitrary "standard", you're just wasting oxygen. IE is the standard. Deal with it. Move on with life. It isn't that important.
Bill, Melinda called. She said dinner's getting cold.
There are two main piers at NSB Bangor. The larger one is called the Delta pier for obvious reasons. The ordnance loading dock? is actually a dry dock. These pictures arent anything the soviets havent seen for many years via satellite, but the dry dock is covered among other reasons because the shape of the propellor is classified. This is why any picture you might have seen of a sub out of water has a nice little propeller cozy on it.
What bothers me about the military is there is no accountability when it comes to its past.
I'll be the first to admit that the military and the government as a whole as done a whole lot of fucked up shit. Hell, if you haven't already read them, I would recommend reading A People's History of the United States or Deterring Democracy among many fine books on the subject.
The dilemma for the thinking individual is how to deal with all this history. I would recommend engagement. In that I reiterate what I said earlier, if you can do a better, more ethical job, I would encourage you to do so. The military is not made up of heartless monsters, but by people like you making sometimes very difficult decisions.
Are you ready to be part of that killing machine?
I have been a part of 'that killing machine' and with a clean conscience. I did the best I could in my small role in the service. I obeyed my ethics as best as I was able. Perhaps if those responsible for those horrible things had done the same, they never would have happened. Perhaps if persons with your moral integrity were making decisions, our nation as a whole would have the same clean collective conscience as I. I mean that seriously. The military needs people just like you.
If your shift manager tells you to do something against your judgement or your ethics, you can always quit. You can't quit the army, and you can't refuse to do what they tell you. The worst things done by humans have always been done under orders.
Just as you would quit if forced into an unethical situation by the shift manager, military ethics require one to observe that which is moral. There are other things you can do before 'quitting', but the ultimate step is to disobey what you see as an unlawful order.
Personally, I believe I am responsible for what I do, regardless of who tells me to do it.
I agree and so does the military. Those caught doing unethical or downright criminal acts are held accountable. Think Mi Lai or Nuremburg.
When you volunteer yourself into a coercive situation, you have handed your soul over to another's judgement.
That's a contradiction. If you've volunteered, you've made that choice yourself hopefully having given the decision due forethought.
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Isnt that kinda the idea?
Bill Gates drawn and quartered in the city square? Likewise his male progeny so that cannot thus take revenge?
Close, but not quite. Corporations exist to better the lives of it's owners, ie shareholders. All to often employees are part of the cost side of the equation: an expense to be minimized.
I think that's a fine idea. Further, I think The Log should be resurrected away from the meddling admin. We oughta give edodo a run for its money.
You might find it hard to find anyone who had at one point graduated from USNA, but no longer..
Ok, I thought I knew who you were, but I'm not sure now. What company were you in?
Hey I remember you. What was the deal with the...maxim spoof issue of the log? You still have those pictures?
Another rooftop escapde: While standing inspection during one of my several long and distinguished periods of restriction, someone dropped a bag of flour from the top of the rotunda landed square in the middle of the ranks. Everyone's SDBs were coated in white...
The bowling alley is now a squash court, and a few years back several strategic panels were taken out of the skylight in memoral hall spelling out IHTFP in rays of golden sunshine upon the marble floor..
Not as stupid as some mids busted a few years back for selling their issued copies of expensive software on Ebay...
That they were doing it isn't news. The fact that a corporate cartel could exert this kind of pressure on an august government institution IS.
In my plebe year at USNA 98-99, Napster was HUGE. Not only that, but exchange through the magic of the 'Network Neighborhood' made the accumulation of huge mp3 libraries trivial. Two problems: 1) Plebes arent allowed to listen to music, so we had to do it on the DL. 2) Our computers came with a 6GB HD and on the $50/month I was making, no upgrades. Since CDR was rarer back then, there were guys actually making money by burning CDs for $5 with either CD tracks or chock full of mp3.
Moral of the story: Don't think that the administration is only now learning of p2p and its questionable legality. It's been at USNA as it as been at every other college campus.
ELT, aka Easy Livin' Technician
Ahh, advertising... the festering, never healing scab on the ass of American Industry.
If you can sit through the whole demo, there's a second mac. About two thirds of the way through is a PowerMac Desktop I'm gussing circa 1996. I'm no mac expert. Maybe someone else can identify the model?
Slushees! Slushees! Slushees! [/Racial Stereotype monkeyboy]
Dude, I think your tinfoil helmet isnt strapped on tightly enough...
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
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rez@service01:~$ cat t | grep D- | wc -l
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Hey, it's Unix! I know this!
I'm 25. I discovered nethack when i was 9. My mom was in graduate school and i would occasionally accompany her to school and in particular to the computer lab where she would do her thing. One day I saw a much younger student playing nethack. After looking over his shoulder for a while, he set me up playing it on the terminal next to him. Once I got into it, I would take every opportunity to go the lab with Mom so I could play nethack next to her while she worked. Eventually she finished school and I had no connection to nethack, that is, until college...
Bill, Melinda called. She said dinner's getting cold.
Forget the webmaster, write the suits a letter about how their site is out of W3 compliance, even better raise some IE security issues.
Since IE is an integral portion of windows, shouldnt then Mosaic get a percentage of windows sales? hmm...
There are two main piers at NSB Bangor. The larger one is called the Delta pier for obvious reasons. The ordnance loading dock? is actually a dry dock. These pictures arent anything the soviets havent seen for many years via satellite, but the dry dock is covered among other reasons because the shape of the propellor is classified. This is why any picture you might have seen of a sub out of water has a nice little propeller cozy on it.
I'll be the first to admit that the military and the government as a whole as done a whole lot of fucked up shit. Hell, if you haven't already read them, I would recommend reading A People's History of the United States or Deterring Democracy among many fine books on the subject.
The dilemma for the thinking individual is how to deal with all this history. I would recommend engagement. In that I reiterate what I said earlier, if you can do a better, more ethical job, I would encourage you to do so. The military is not made up of heartless monsters, but by people like you making sometimes very difficult decisions.
Are you ready to be part of that killing machine?
I have been a part of 'that killing machine' and with a clean conscience. I did the best I could in my small role in the service. I obeyed my ethics as best as I was able. Perhaps if those responsible for those horrible things had done the same, they never would have happened. Perhaps if persons with your moral integrity were making decisions, our nation as a whole would have the same clean collective conscience as I. I mean that seriously. The military needs people just like you.
Just as you would quit if forced into an unethical situation by the shift manager, military ethics require one to observe that which is moral. There are other things you can do before 'quitting', but the ultimate step is to disobey what you see as an unlawful order.
Personally, I believe I am responsible for what I do, regardless of who tells me to do it.
I agree and so does the military. Those caught doing unethical or downright criminal acts are held accountable. Think Mi Lai or Nuremburg.
When you volunteer yourself into a coercive situation, you have handed your soul over to another's judgement.
That's a contradiction. If you've volunteered, you've made that choice yourself hopefully having given the decision due forethought.