I don't know where you USian guys get this rubish about companies have only one goal, the damned profit.
You have been brainwashed and repeat your little mantra like the good Chinese workers used to parrot Mao's Red Book.
Companies can be the expresion of an ideal, the realization of a dream or the intent to attack social problems. You have companies that have been set up to ensure fair trade of tea and coffee, other companies that operate in a cooperative basis in which the workers are owners and benefit.
In Brazil a well known style of management (like some forward thinking USian companies like Google) support their employees to start their own businesses on their free time using company's resources that otherwise would not be utilized.
Many companies have programs to vinculate them with their local communities (mine is one of them) helping with reading skills, IT skills on deprived schools, and promoting on their employees a culture of solidarity and social responsibility. Many of you don't know, but many corporations have strict guidelines about what is legal or moreal and what is not, and employess are lectured constantly (to the point of boredom) about legal and moral obligations.
There are companies out there that compete trying to put innovative products on the market and not by the shameful "embracing and extending" touted by the greatest megalomaniac of the IT industry.
The companies are what you want them to be, if they only pursue profit without regards for the consequences it is because greedy unscrupulous individuals have been made heroes by their peers, the media and unsuspected Red Book reciters.
Oh, go on, they were just reflecting public opinion. For many years Japanese and even Korean cars were better technically, and som European more pleasent ahesthetically....
I will not direct you to read your own Congress report, it would be a futile exercise to try to embed in your craneum that Hussein did not have anything to do with 9-11.
Having money in the bank does not make you a dnager agains the US.
Hamas is not intent in destorying the US, and if they don't particularly love that country it is because it is firmly entrenched in the side of Hamas' opossition entity. The US finances with billions the killing, quasi apartheid machine (slef dfence, yeah, sure) of Israel. When do you want a foreign impossed regime change then?
I may (I don't) hate the US (I don't hate America, the Argentinians and Canadians are quite nice people), but that would not make me a threat to them.
So all your rethoric frankly has the wight of a ballon of very hot air.
They are entitled to it, the judcial systems in the different parts of the world simply are not equpped to deliver justice in a timely manner, that is why MS can stall things, but they will lose at the end (because it is as clear as water that they are doing unethicla and illegal things).
I am almost certain you work for one of those shitty companies rushing to catch the last gold of the Fools Rush.
Ringtones companies sell you a very specific thing: a ring tone for your damn annoying mobile phone.
What is a website selling you? Pageviews? What is a pageview? How can make sure I am billed failry?
In short I can't, and it would take only a few unescrupulous indivicuals to milk the uncertainity about this for all what is worth.
Do people publicizing website want to charge for it? Then go ahead, but bill me something I can understand.
I would gladly pay $1 or $2 a year for accessing/. , any more and I would not be bothered.
If you have 1000 loyal fans, that would pay the operation costs of a site serving such user population (shared hosting or very cheap colocated one).
If you have 100000 users or more (like this site) colour me stupid but 100000 bucks a year seem like something reasonable.
But no, websites owners wnat to charge 5, 10, 15 a year for their services (I just can imagine the beancounters faces: what??? 1 buck a year? Are you mad?).
Actually it should be more like 0.99 a year to make marketoid types happy...
.... obviously have no concept of natural justice.
OK, it is a settlement (why should a company settle if they are innocent? Do they understand how valuable reputation is? Even for MS) but the overwhelming feeling is of injustice: MS was caught doing something improper (heck, they pretend they are apologizing for it with those vouchers) and their punshment is to facilitate for them to do more of the same.
So you are advocating the enlightened path of sels censorship, in which you are always afraid of saying something in the name of the "greater good" (which surely will be defined for us by helpful persons in positions of authority.
That is so comforting.
Bring me my Soma, and two rations of Soylen with that please.
Some nutcases calling themselves Muslims are dreaming they could make the West crumble.
Thanks to their soulmates, teocratists in the West (yes, those that pray in the Whitehouse at the drop of a feather), they may actually have some success (everybody is becomming guilty until proven innocent)
If you don't want to have anything to do with politics find a cave, get in, put a big stone and hope nobody finds you.
As for "liberals" pushing their ideology down your throat, I did not know bondage was legal in your place, what I do when I get bullshit "conservative" (i.e. retrograde nonsense) political stuff, I turn off my radio, TV what have you and I never buy the magazines or newspapers that with the pass of time have shown no to represent my view of the world.
What is stopping you to do the same? O soory, did not realize you are disabled and have not got hands.
It is a shame that it takes a group as descredited as any religious organization (don't start me on this one, just my opinion OK?) to tackle excesive violence and demeaning or exploitatve sex stereotypes.
I, being a non religious person, am sick and tired of games whose only aim is to brutalize as many characters as possible in the worst possible way.
I think game designers have a moral responsibility towards society, specially having in mind that many of their "customers" are impressionable young persons, I am not saying that there should not be ultraviolent, sexually explicit or politically incorrect games, the point I am trying to make is that game developpers seem to think that without at least one of the above they can't sell.
It is a testament to how wrong they are how Tetris, Pac Man, Myst, SimCity and other games like thes are perhaps the most successful in all time,
That is the first step, not the last, during a job cycle.
Do it properly in your next job and start documenting as soon as you put your fat behinf in your new chair.
DO whatever you can for the position you are leaving, most likely you will be caught doing many other things, so documentation most likely will be lacking any way.
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.... if the schedules are broken by the latest round of firefighting patching (and this is not a joke).
I don't know where you USian guys get this rubish about companies have only one goal, the damned profit.
You have been brainwashed and repeat your little mantra like the good Chinese workers used to parrot Mao's Red Book.
Companies can be the expresion of an ideal, the realization of a dream or the intent to attack social problems. You have companies that have been set up to ensure fair trade of tea and coffee, other companies that operate in a cooperative basis in which the workers are owners and benefit.
In Brazil a well known style of management (like some forward thinking USian companies like Google) support their employees to start their own businesses on their free time using company's resources that otherwise would not be utilized.
Many companies have programs to vinculate them with their local communities (mine is one of them) helping with reading skills, IT skills on deprived schools, and promoting on their employees a culture of solidarity and social responsibility. Many of you don't know, but many corporations have strict guidelines about what is legal or moreal and what is not, and employess are lectured constantly (to the point of boredom) about legal and moral obligations.
There are companies out there that compete trying to put innovative products on the market and not by the shameful "embracing and extending" touted by the greatest megalomaniac of the IT industry.
The companies are what you want them to be, if they only pursue profit without regards for the consequences it is because greedy unscrupulous individuals have been made heroes by their peers, the media and unsuspected Red Book reciters.
Lets remove the only incentive they have to do a proper job: they do their job, they'll be unemployed, they don't do it, they'll be unemployed.
I think that Batmask you are wearing is a bit too tight and is cutting the blood circulation to your batbrain. But the idea is good, I promise.
Yours,
The Penguin.
Such a schedule would be illegal in the European Union.
Amazing.
So it is allright if they demand you work 22 hours in a row for 5 days?
Give me a break, some people should get a sense of what is logic and what is ludicrous.
You may have signed a contract but there is a point where demands put upon you are not reasonlable, no matter what you signed.
Oh, go on, they were just reflecting public opinion. For many years Japanese and even Korean cars were better technically, and som European more pleasent ahesthetically ....
You clearly do not understand what it meant for this man to shake hands with an Israeli Prime Minister.
Your parochiality is showing in all its true flying colours.
Mr Moore has been recognized in boths sides of the Atlantic as a film maker and has won two of the most important prizes (Oscar and Palm d'Or).
You can level whatever criticism you want at Mr Moore, but that say he is not a filmaker is frankly childish.
I will not direct you to read your own Congress report, it would be a futile exercise to try to embed in your craneum that Hussein did not have anything to do with 9-11.
Having money in the bank does not make you a dnager agains the US.
Hamas is not intent in destorying the US, and if they don't particularly love that country it is because it is firmly entrenched in the side of Hamas' opossition entity. The US finances with billions the killing, quasi apartheid machine (slef dfence, yeah, sure) of Israel. When do you want a foreign impossed regime change then?
I may (I don't) hate the US (I don't hate America, the Argentinians and Canadians are quite nice people), but that would not make me a threat to them.
So all your rethoric frankly has the wight of a ballon of very hot air.
Do you own the site?
Nope.
Did you know the rules?
Obviously nope (hint: the owner, Mr Taco, can do pretty much what he wants. I read it, did you fail a reading proficienfy test or what?).
Were you or the poor, defenseless "alienated people" forced to click on the damned link?
Nope.
But you had to complain. Give me a fscking brake.
It is his website, the rules are clear, if you want "objective" reporting, well, you let us know when you find it.
After that we need to find the holly grail as well, so go sonny, go and find us objective reporting.
They are stlling proceedings, not making process.
They are entitled to it, the judcial systems in the different parts of the world simply are not equpped to deliver justice in a timely manner, that is why MS can stall things, but they will lose at the end (because it is as clear as water that they are doing unethicla and illegal things).
I am almost certain you work for one of those shitty companies rushing to catch the last gold of the Fools Rush.
/. , any more and I would not be bothered.
Ringtones companies sell you a very specific thing: a ring tone for your damn annoying mobile phone.
What is a website selling you? Pageviews? What is a pageview? How can make sure I am billed failry?
In short I can't, and it would take only a few unescrupulous indivicuals to milk the uncertainity about this for all what is worth.
Do people publicizing website want to charge for it? Then go ahead, but bill me something I can understand.
I would gladly pay $1 or $2 a year for accessing
If you have 1000 loyal fans, that would pay the operation costs of a site serving such user population (shared hosting or very cheap colocated one).
If you have 100000 users or more (like this site) colour me stupid but 100000 bucks a year seem like something reasonable.
But no, websites owners wnat to charge 5, 10, 15 a year for their services (I just can imagine the beancounters faces: what??? 1 buck a year? Are you mad?).
Actually it should be more like 0.99 a year to make marketoid types happy...
.... obviously have no concept of natural justice.
OK, it is a settlement (why should a company settle if they are innocent? Do they understand how valuable reputation is? Even for MS) but the overwhelming feeling is of injustice: MS was caught doing something improper (heck, they pretend they are apologizing for it with those vouchers) and their punshment is to facilitate for them to do more of the same.
USians: what are you doing about this insanity?
So you are advocating the enlightened path of sels censorship, in which you are always afraid of saying something in the name of the "greater good" (which surely will be defined for us by helpful persons in positions of authority.
That is so comforting.
Bring me my Soma, and two rations of Soylen with that please.
Slap in the wrist me thinks.
Islam is assaulting nobody.
Some nutcases calling themselves Muslims are dreaming they could make the West crumble.
Thanks to their soulmates, teocratists in the West (yes, those that pray in the Whitehouse at the drop of a feather), they may actually have some success (everybody is becomming guilty until proven innocent)
What a shame you have got no batlinks at least to document that.
I guess the Penguin ate them.
Human beings are political animals.
If you don't want to have anything to do with politics find a cave, get in, put a big stone and hope nobody finds you.
As for "liberals" pushing their ideology down your throat, I did not know bondage was legal in your place, what I do when I get bullshit "conservative" (i.e. retrograde nonsense) political stuff, I turn off my radio, TV what have you and I never buy the magazines or newspapers that with the pass of time have shown no to represent my view of the world.
What is stopping you to do the same? O soory, did not realize you are disabled and have not got hands.
It is a shame that it takes a group as descredited as any religious organization (don't start me on this one, just my opinion OK?) to tackle excesive violence and demeaning or exploitatve sex stereotypes.
I, being a non religious person, am sick and tired of games whose only aim is to brutalize as many characters as possible in the worst possible way.
I think game designers have a moral responsibility towards society, specially having in mind that many of their "customers" are impressionable young persons, I am not saying that there should not be ultraviolent, sexually explicit or politically incorrect games, the point I am trying to make is that game developpers seem to think that without at least one of the above they can't sell.
It is a testament to how wrong they are how Tetris, Pac Man, Myst, SimCity and other games like thes are perhaps the most successful in all time,
I am not a beta tester.
I just don't get what the fuss is all about.
That is the first step, not the last, during a job cycle.
Do it properly in your next job and start documenting as soon as you put your fat behinf in your new chair.
DO whatever you can for the position you are leaving, most likely you will be caught doing many other things, so documentation most likely will be lacking any way.
They paid for support and services.
Get a Batclue....
Popular is valid. Unpopular is loony.
Great logical thinking you have got there (Mohhamed, Jesus, Buddha were all loonies then).