Like you really fucking care, you Anonymous Coward. You chicken motherfucker. Why don't you reveal your ugly self? I'll tell you why, because you're a yellow fucking coward!
And you, you trolling motherfucker. Why don't you reveal who you are so I can fucking hack your account and fuck up your piece of shit computer! WHORE!
And fuck you Malda, you bitch. I have EVERY ad from you're fucking sites BLOCKED!
The thing is, Puerto Rico has voted several times on whether or not to become a full state, and each time they have voted to remain as they are.
They should have self-determination, but only for so long.
Personally, if the next election they had over statehood didn't make them a state, I'd dump them asap. Politically, my career would be over, but at least that issue would be settled.
As for the other commonwealths/territories/possessions, the same should go for them, as well.
As for already established voting states, I don't think it'd be that bad if we dumped a few.
There is another one called Charity Focus, Inc (www.charityfocus.org, which I'm a member of) and is based out of California. They hook up volunteers in web/graphics design, project management and project leadership with NPO's in need of web sites (or web designers to re-do old sites). Through them I rebuilt (with the help of a volunteer for whom I took over after she had to leave the project due to medical reasons) the website for PeopleTech.org,an NPO that takes donated computers, refurbishes them, and donates them to needy children/families (more info on their site).
I had similar problems at ITT Tech. When I started, I was told that we would have three courses (I took Electronics Engineering at the Nashville, TN campus). Theory, required course (math, sociology, etc.) for credits, and Lab. And it was that way for the first quarter or two. And during those first two quarters, I was passing all my classes easy as pie. Then they switched. Lab, required course, and Theory. BIG problem for two reasons.
1) Lab was two (or more) chapters AHEAD of Theory 2) Lab was before theory
At the end of the first year I basically flunked out because of this, even though the first half of the year I was passing with a 3.4 GPA. I wasn't the only one whose grades suffered, either.
As for resolving it, I didn't. I just don't have anything to do with them anymore.
Signing over the rights to your code to a professor is not so clear cut. His role is to teach the students engineering, not to make a profit from the software they produce. Therefore he has no need for ownership of the rights. The remedy is far too extreme for the problem it prevents.
I agree completely. Also, in the comment you responded to, this signing over of the rights (before the code is even typed!) to the code is NOT like an NDA you sign for a company. As for when it happens, it would have to happen AFTER you've enrolled. A professor can't make someone whose not even a student sign over rights.
Now, back to the NDA, I signed one when I worked for the Dell plant in Lebanon, TN (which was about 3 years ago, and the NDA was only for while I was working +2 years). It was presented and explained to me that this was needed. After reading it, I of course asked several questions, then signed it (needed the job). Trade secrets does NOT equal source code to programming projects in a university, no matter HOW you try to slice it. To present it as such should get the person claiming such laughed out of court.
I agree with you completely and only hope I don't run into this problem myself as I am going into college for Computer Sciences, and I have to take several programming courses to pass.
This is definitly an Ask/. that I'm going to follow.
And Raul, please keep us up2date as to what happened!
Hey, partying, getting boozed up, and giving away gifts was part of how Saturnalia was celebrated back then, so why not! Just say you're celebrating Christmas while the little voice in the back of your head that knows better snickers away! *L*
As for a lot more being stolen from the Pagans for whatever reasons, it's NOT that hard to believe, honestly.
Thanks for the nice, informative response, don't get many of those lately.:-)
Ah. Well he did mention XP and I know MSN messenger is tossed in and turned on be default. Damn thing even tries to force you to register with MSN the first time you log into a profile.
The only thing I'd love to really turn off is the e-mail announcement. Even if you goto the option in MSN Messenger, e-mail announcements STILL show up (this happens even when using Everybuddy!! At least in Yahoo Messenger (both Win and Lin clients) you can turn off the message, sound and everything associated with being alerted to e-mail). I don't care about the latest piece of spam to hit my inbox, I just use MSN for RPin(and another MSN e-mail alert pop's up interrupting my typing)g (MSN Groups) and as a quick log-in for Monster.com. That's it. Oh, and some of my friends use MSN more then Yahoo/AIM/ICQ, although the latter three are used more/most often.
I'm on RedHat 7.2 and use samba to connect to my parents XP box, although I haven't used the client to send any messages. Don't feel like annoying them, yet.;-)
I've been busy on IRC pointing out to everyone that Christmas is a fascist holiday hijacked by the Christians from the pagan's celebration of Saturnalia so they (the Christians) wouldn't get gacked in ancient Rome.
For those not interested in visiting the site, here's the relevent text:
"The Bible says nothing about the calendar date of the Nativity, but does refer to historical personages and events, such as the reign of King Herod. Modern historical research suggests that Herod may have died sometime between 4 BC and 1 BC by our present calendar. The Magi are said to have visited Herod just before he died, and presumably the birth of Christ and appearance of the Star came sometime before that.
And it is very doubtful that Jesus was born in late December. For one thing, the Biblical passage in St. Luke, "And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night," indicates that spring is the likely season; that was when the shepherds in Judea were tending the newborn lambs.
In ancient times, Dec. 25 was the date of the lavish Roman festival of Saturnalia. It was a time when gifts were exchanged; homes, streets and buildings were decorated; people came home for the holidays and everybody was in a happy, party mood. It has been said that early Christians chose the date of the Saturnalia in order to avoid attention and thus escape persecution.
When the Roman emperor Constantine officially adopted Christianity in the 4th century, the date of Christmas remained Dec. 25."
As a cancer patient myself, I can tell you now, you do NOT want cancer. While I have been in remission for 6+ years now, I've had several friends fall out of remission and die from various cancers (from lukemia to non-Hodgkins Lymphoma). The treatments (radiation (max dosage (I forget the exact rem number)) and chemo-therapy (experimental)) are DEFINITLY not something I would want to go through again, nor would I wish cancer upon my worst enemy. But hey, what do I know. Perhaps your masochistic.
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Like you really fucking care, you Anonymous Coward. You chicken motherfucker. Why don't you reveal your ugly self? I'll tell you why, because you're a yellow fucking coward!
And you, you trolling motherfucker. Why don't you reveal who you are so I can fucking hack your account and fuck up your piece of shit computer! WHORE!
And fuck you Malda, you bitch. I have EVERY ad from you're fucking sites BLOCKED!
Long live Mozilla and ad-blocking software!
You are the worthless one, biatch! Go fucking jump off a cliff and DIE!
Fuck you!
You are just as worthless as the fucking dirt you walk on!
THey hate me, too! Fucker! Go screw yourself!
You all hate me anyways, you stupid asswhipes, so you can all go fuck yourselves!
Especially you "In Soviet Russia" spammers. you are worse then fucking amobeas. YOU ARE WORTHLESS!
Fucking whores.
The thing is, Puerto Rico has voted several times on whether or not to become a full state, and each time they have voted to remain as they are.
They should have self-determination, but only for so long.
Personally, if the next election they had over statehood didn't make them a state, I'd dump them asap. Politically, my career would be over, but at least that issue would be settled.
As for the other commonwealths/territories/possessions, the same should go for them, as well.
As for already established voting states, I don't think it'd be that bad if we dumped a few.
There is another one called Charity Focus, Inc (www.charityfocus.org, which I'm a member of) and is based out of California. They hook up volunteers in web/graphics design, project management and project leadership with NPO's in need of web sites (or web designers to re-do old sites). Through them I rebuilt (with the help of a volunteer for whom I took over after she had to leave the project due to medical reasons) the website for PeopleTech.org,an NPO that takes donated computers, refurbishes them, and donates them to needy children/families (more info on their site).
I had similar problems at ITT Tech. When I started, I was told that we would have three courses (I took Electronics Engineering at the Nashville, TN campus). Theory, required course (math, sociology, etc.) for credits, and Lab. And it was that way for the first quarter or two. And during those first two quarters, I was passing all my classes easy as pie. Then they switched. Lab, required course, and Theory. BIG problem for two reasons.
1) Lab was two (or more) chapters AHEAD of Theory
2) Lab was before theory
At the end of the first year I basically flunked out because of this, even though the first half of the year I was passing with a 3.4 GPA. I wasn't the only one whose grades suffered, either.
As for resolving it, I didn't. I just don't have anything to do with them anymore.
Signing over the rights to your code to a professor is not so clear cut. His role is to teach the students engineering, not to make a profit from the software they produce. Therefore he has no need for ownership of the rights. The remedy is far too extreme for the problem it prevents.
I agree completely. Also, in the comment you responded to, this signing over of the rights (before the code is even typed!) to the code is NOT like an NDA you sign for a company. As for when it happens, it would have to happen AFTER you've enrolled. A professor can't make someone whose not even a student sign over rights.
Now, back to the NDA, I signed one when I worked for the Dell plant in Lebanon, TN (which was about 3 years ago, and the NDA was only for while I was working +2 years). It was presented and explained to me that this was needed. After reading it, I of course asked several questions, then signed it (needed the job). Trade secrets does NOT equal source code to programming projects in a university, no matter HOW you try to slice it. To present it as such should get the person claiming such laughed out of court.
Who started the computer industry?
Some Brit named Turing made the first programable computer.
Wrong. IBM with it's punch card readers in the late 1800's.
Sweetness. :-)
And I believe that would not be a legal contract.
/. :-)
No. A legal contract has to be entered into willingly by both parties. Coercion on either side invalidates it, as I'm sure you found out.
I REALLY hope Raul's prof's read
I agree with you completely and only hope I don't run into this problem myself as I am going into college for Computer Sciences, and I have to take several programming courses to pass.
/. that I'm going to follow.
This is definitly an Ask
And Raul, please keep us up2date as to what happened!
Ah, see, there's the trick. *L* I don't have any of the plug-ins. *goes to grab* Thanks for the link!
I use GAIM v0.59.4 and it has no MSN capability.
Is there a newer version of GAIM I can install from source (prefered)?
Hey, partying, getting boozed up, and giving away gifts was part of how Saturnalia was celebrated back then, so why not! Just say you're celebrating Christmas while the little voice in the back of your head that knows better snickers away! *L*
:-)
As for a lot more being stolen from the Pagans for whatever reasons, it's NOT that hard to believe, honestly.
Thanks for the nice, informative response, don't get many of those lately.
Ah. Well he did mention XP and I know MSN messenger is tossed in and turned on be default. Damn thing even tries to force you to register with MSN the first time you log into a profile.
My bad and apologies for the offtopic post.
The only thing I'd love to really turn off is the e-mail announcement. Even if you goto the option in MSN Messenger, e-mail announcements STILL show up (this happens even when using Everybuddy!! At least in Yahoo Messenger (both Win and Lin clients) you can turn off the message, sound and everything associated with being alerted to e-mail). I don't care about the latest piece of spam to hit my inbox, I just use MSN for RPin(and another MSN e-mail alert pop's up interrupting my typing)g (MSN Groups) and as a quick log-in for Monster.com. That's it. Oh, and some of my friends use MSN more then Yahoo/AIM/ICQ, although the latter three are used more/most often.
It's smbclient.
;-)
I'm on RedHat 7.2 and use samba to connect to my parents XP box, although I haven't used the client to send any messages. Don't feel like annoying them, yet.
I've been busy on IRC pointing out to everyone that Christmas is a fascist holiday hijacked by the Christians from the pagan's celebration of Saturnalia so they (the Christians) wouldn't get gacked in ancient Rome.
The article I pulled this from is here
For those not interested in visiting the site, here's the relevent text:
"The Bible says nothing about the calendar date of the Nativity, but does refer to historical personages and events, such as the reign of King Herod. Modern historical research suggests that Herod may have died sometime between 4 BC and 1 BC by our present calendar. The Magi are said to have visited Herod just before he died, and presumably the birth of Christ and appearance of the Star came sometime before that.
And it is very doubtful that Jesus was born in late December. For one thing, the Biblical passage in St. Luke, "And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night," indicates that spring is the likely season; that was when the shepherds in Judea were tending the newborn lambs.
In ancient times, Dec. 25 was the date of the lavish Roman festival of Saturnalia. It was a time when gifts were exchanged; homes, streets and buildings were decorated; people came home for the holidays and everybody was in a happy, party mood. It has been said that early Christians chose the date of the Saturnalia in order to avoid attention and thus escape persecution.
When the Roman emperor Constantine officially adopted Christianity in the 4th century, the date of Christmas remained Dec. 25."
So Happy Saturnalia to everyone everywhere!
(And yes, I AM Pagan myself)
Well, I'm happy with my 24x12x40 CDRW, thank you very much. :-)
Sputnik means "We beat the Americans!"
As a cancer patient myself, I can tell you now, you do NOT want cancer. While I have been in remission for 6+ years now, I've had several friends fall out of remission and die from various cancers (from lukemia to non-Hodgkins Lymphoma). The treatments (radiation (max dosage (I forget the exact rem number)) and chemo-therapy (experimental)) are DEFINITLY not something I would want to go through again, nor would I wish cancer upon my worst enemy. But hey, what do I know. Perhaps your masochistic.
It's called the super-continent of Eurasia!
It's ONE landmass for the most part. India is a Sub-Continent.