My partner decided to loose weight (not me thank you, not yet at least). She began to exercise and looks great, she eats as much as she want and can't live without exercise anymore.
Did you wonder why those shepperds in mountanious places or isolated plains live such long and healty lifes in spite of eating bunches of so called "bad" stuff? The hard physaical work is the answer, so wither you become a shepperd or satrt doing some exercise. Now (OK, I walk half an hour to the train station each way every day, avoiding the inviting bus. So don't tell me I don't follow my own advice. I should stop the cheescakes though....).
I got those airline miles, I got those free hotel stays, I met interesting people.
Unfortunately my dad died before he could use one single of those tickets, spend one single night in any of those luxurious hotels and the interesting people did not give a damn (why should they?) about my pain, and anyway, after a while they just look as ordinary as anybody else.
I could have spent more time at home, but foolish one is, one doesn't realize that the important things in life one has to take them now or never.
So as they say, mileage varies, choices are hard, just see the whole picture and hope thins work fine.
Age: 35
Career: Unix Sys Admin
Place of work: somewhere
Average weekly hours: 35-40
Max weekly hours: 40.
Salary: equivalent to 55000 GBP (to compare with previous poster)
Downsides: http://www.internetchess.com blocked by corporate firewall. Damn!
Benefits:/. is NOT blocked by corporate firewall (yet).
Let me guess: did you work making design wear in Bangkok, Manila or Jakarta? When I said "making" I mean doing it yourself, how to put it better,mmmh, in which town was that sweatshop!
In Mexico more than 40 hours per week is technicaly ilegal, and if you are unionized it is really enforced.
As an aside: in Mexico most people take 2 hours for lunch (oil industry 3 hours!, but that makes sense in samll towns because you can go home, take a siesta or bring the children from school,etc.), so they are around for good 10 hours per day (9:00-19:00 is pretty much the norm).
So how it comes NAFTA is to blame for The Canadian situation?
Companies, specialy big ones paying good money, don't pay you to be slaved 8 hours doing something in fornt of the computer all the time and timing you every time you go to the toilet.
They pay you for having your expertise available when they need it for the projects or support that is required. This said aftear having worked for 4 or 5 big corps in 3 different continents in 5 different countries. The pattern is the same.
After 5 years of marriage I realized that working 40 hours per week when my contract says 35 was foolish.
Now I work 35 per week, thank you very much.
In the last downsizing "excercise" over here the guy dumped was the one that worked 45-50 hours per week, knew all the systems, had been working many years for company and would had put his hands on fire for them. Naturaly he got burned.;-)
Code is not art. And it does not matter anyway. We have to help to define why code is expressive and why it is speech.
Contribute towards that and forget the "code is art" stuff that will not help at all. To educate the judges very clear and simple examples have to be presented to them. Your snipet of code would leave them as ignorant as they were before.
Code expresses and idea, a way to solve a problem. When Galileo said that the Sun was the center of the Universe and that the Earth moves around it he could have done that with Kepler's laws. Or with a piece of code in C++ representing those laws. If in Galileo's times there would have existed C++ the code of a program simulating the movement of the Earth around the Sun would have been banned. That is why code is speech!!!
One can describe the procedure to decrypt DVDs in plain English. Code is another way to express that same procedure, and as such should be protected as much as any other kind of speech that explain how to do things that in the wrong hands could harm the interests of other people.
For goodness sake, can't you guys stop that nonsense about code being art? That does not help at all.
Code is speech in the sense that it is representing thoughts and ideas about how to solve a problem. To ban a piece of code is to ban an idea.
As somebdoy earlier pointed out, please present the judges with a clear explanation or pseudocode of how to decrypt the DVD protection in plain English, Spanish and German. Then explain to them that code is just the representation of those words in an intermediate way that facilitates the translation into instructions a computer can understand. Make clear that to ban DeCSS is to ban those text in normal language. Then maybe it will down in them why it is a first ammendament issue.
Forget the code is art crap. It is not relevant at all!!!
If you get your hair-cut in a mohawk, you might get fired as well, but no one would ever claim that you should get paid to get a good hair-cut.
A place (company, state, country) where this would be allowed is not worth woking/living there. Get out of there!
People don't get paid for stuff they do outside of the office but directly affect how they work. eg. no one gets paid for driving to work, dressing in uniform, etc.
Depends, and anyway that is not comparable to a company requesting, er, no, demanding, ordering you to turn on your pager and your mobile phone, be available all the time no matter what and in some cases not to leave town (it is almopst like if you are a tagged criminal on parole!). Those activities are work, and one should get proper compensation for it. Sometimes the salary rate is so godd that one feels compensated, but I always prefer the explicit approach so everybody knows who is doing how much out of office hours.
If a company intends you to live to work (and not to work to live) they should pay for it.
Oh yes, I see. Sure Timothy McVeigh and the NY WTC did not exist.
One thing is terrorism that can hit anywhere, another thing is if a society decides if it is good or not that their citizens have access to lethal weapons in a casual manner. Both things intersect some times but are not the same.
OK lets see about objectionable places to work, should we?:
-Defense industry. No comments.
-Gun makers. Again, co comments.
-Banks and financial institutions: ask any third world country how ethic is that.
-Oil companies. Look for Ken Saro Wiwa (sp?) and the Ogoni people of Nigeria, they will tell you how ethic is that.
-Biotech companies: ask any environmentalist what can happen if some stuff gets out in the wild.
And so on and so forth.
Ethics is not an absolute, you think p()orn is unethical, that is fine, just remember that your ethics are not absolute and everybody will be happy.
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I was trying to explain that sudden (1 hour is sudden for our bodies) changes of pressure, specialy if they happen in a fairly regular basis, are not good for your health. It was not me, but the doctor of a friend that was commuting by car every morning between two places with very different heights.
About your last comment, is nice that you find comments of idiots so interesting that you bother to reply to them.
What about using the word "safer" for goodness sake!
Anyway, then lets use arms with only 4 or 5 or 6 bullets. A civilized society does not need automatic weapons firing bulets like cooking popcorn...
Funy how British Police can deal with criminals without using guns, or perhaps that should support your argument: if having a weapon that is used for legal reasons give you a very slim chance of hitting target (you said so), then what is the f...g point of having the guns in the first place?!?!?
In my opinion, this has about to do with video games as the cigarette lawsuits had to due with cigarettes.
Good idea, wrong example.
People that smoke can't stop it. Can't help it. They are sick, physicaly sick, like somebody having a cold or a virus.
The adictive nature of cigarettes is documented more than enough, recognized as a sickness by the UN's World Health Organization and no respected physician will say that this is due to the "lack of will" of the patient....
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Tell your cardiologist or vascular system specialist (whatever that is called in English). It is not gratuitous that deep-sea divers need to adjust to changes of pressure.
Your blood presure could have problems and as anybody knows, blood presure irregularities has very few symptoms, specially if it is high blood presure.
I know of people that had to stop commuting between towns with differences in height similar to the ones mentioned in gorunds that is not good for their health.
A person living in the top would be basicaly trapped in its golden cage...
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The problem is the same: supply and demand, it does not matter if it is office or appartment buildings.
During an economic downturn people will not have money to buy any appartments, even worst for fancy ones in stupidily tall towers that I am sure will be more expensive than anything around in town.
So nobody buys, empty space in the tower, 50% or less ocuppation, loans to building company default, Chinese goverment bails out company with tax money.
Hopefully that will stop the infantile discussion "mine is bigger than yours" between the pro-Petronas towers (mainly Malaysian, the Petronas Towers are a symbol of almost national identity over there) and their detractors.
IN a country that shuld remain nameless this who writes used to go to the equivalent to high school, there where serious problems with gangs.
A new director found a quick solution: he contracted photographers that were located strategicaly around the school for one week documenting all the bullying (and even criminal acts) going around.
Then the director called the culprits and publicized the findings.
In the "fantasy island" *all* Internet traffic has to go through proxies and people is known to be sued to oblivion by the goverment (in unfair, goverment biased courts) when the post anti goverment stuff in USENET.
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All fad diets are nonsense.
Again please.
My partner decided to loose weight (not me thank you, not yet at least). She began to exercise and looks great, she eats as much as she want and can't live without exercise anymore.
Did you wonder why those shepperds in mountanious places or isolated plains live such long and healty lifes in spite of eating bunches of so called "bad" stuff? The hard physaical work is the answer, so wither you become a shepperd or satrt doing some exercise. Now (OK, I walk half an hour to the train station each way every day, avoiding the inviting bus. So don't tell me I don't follow my own advice. I should stop the cheescakes though....).
I guess better than with your boss and the guy that cleans the bins at 10:00PM.
:-)
I got those airline miles, I got those free hotel stays, I met interesting people.
Unfortunately my dad died before he could use one single of those tickets, spend one single night in any of those luxurious hotels and the interesting people did not give a damn (why should they?) about my pain, and anyway, after a while they just look as ordinary as anybody else.
I could have spent more time at home, but foolish one is, one doesn't realize that the important things in life one has to take them now or never.
So as they say, mileage varies, choices are hard, just see the whole picture and hope thins work fine.
:-(
Age: 35 /. is NOT blocked by corporate firewall (yet).
Career: Unix Sys Admin
Place of work: somewhere
Average weekly hours: 35-40
Max weekly hours: 40.
Salary: equivalent to 55000 GBP (to compare with previous poster)
Downsides: http://www.internetchess.com blocked by corporate firewall. Damn!
Benefits:
Now, smile please.
Let me guess: did you work making design wear in Bangkok, Manila or Jakarta? When I said "making" I mean doing it yourself, how to put it better,mmmh, in which town was that sweatshop!
;-)
In Mexico more than 40 hours per week is technicaly ilegal, and if you are unionized it is really enforced.
As an aside: in Mexico most people take 2 hours for lunch (oil industry 3 hours!, but that makes sense in samll towns because you can go home, take a siesta or bring the children from school,etc.), so they are around for good 10 hours per day (9:00-19:00 is pretty much the norm).
So how it comes NAFTA is to blame for The Canadian situation?
Companies, specialy big ones paying good money, don't pay you to be slaved 8 hours doing something in fornt of the computer all the time and timing you every time you go to the toilet.
They pay you for having your expertise available when they need it for the projects or support that is required. This said aftear having worked for 4 or 5 big corps in 3 different continents in 5 different countries. The pattern is the same.
After 5 years of marriage I realized that working 40 hours per week when my contract says 35 was foolish.
;-)
Now I work 35 per week, thank you very much.
In the last downsizing "excercise" over here the guy dumped was the one that worked 45-50 hours per week, knew all the systems, had been working many years for company and would had put his hands on fire for them. Naturaly he got burned.
Code is not art. And it does not matter anyway. We have to help to define why code is expressive and why it is speech.
Contribute towards that and forget the "code is art" stuff that will not help at all. To educate the judges very clear and simple examples have to be presented to them. Your snipet of code would leave them as ignorant as they were before.
Code expresses and idea, a way to solve a problem. When Galileo said that the Sun was the center of the Universe and that the Earth moves around it he could have done that with Kepler's laws. Or with a piece of code in C++ representing those laws. If in Galileo's times there would have existed C++ the code of a program simulating the movement of the Earth around the Sun would have been banned. That is why code is speech!!!
One can describe the procedure to decrypt DVDs in plain English. Code is another way to express that same procedure, and as such should be protected as much as any other kind of speech that explain how to do things that in the wrong hands could harm the interests of other people.
For goodness sake, can't you guys stop that nonsense about code being art? That does not help at all.
Code is speech in the sense that it is representing thoughts and ideas about how to solve a problem. To ban a piece of code is to ban an idea.
As somebdoy earlier pointed out, please present the judges with a clear explanation or pseudocode of how to decrypt the DVD protection in plain English, Spanish and German. Then explain to them that code is just the representation of those words in an intermediate way that facilitates the translation into instructions a computer can understand. Make clear that to ban DeCSS is to ban those text in normal language. Then maybe it will down in them why it is a first ammendament issue.
Forget the code is art crap. It is not relevant at all!!!
I hate MS software. Will not use it unless forced to it. But, I do have a MS natural Keyboard. As far as I know:
-MS has not forced anybody to ship their PCs with this keyboard.
-MS has not done anything anticompetitive to place this keyboard in the market.
-The keyboard is great in its own merits (IMHO).
Now if I would find evidence on the contrary I will drop it fast.
If you get your hair-cut in a mohawk, you might get fired as well, but no one would ever claim that you should get paid to get a good hair-cut.
A place (company, state, country) where this would be allowed is not worth woking/living there. Get out of there!
People don't get paid for stuff they do outside of the office but directly affect how they work. eg. no one gets paid for driving to work, dressing in uniform, etc.
Depends, and anyway that is not comparable to a company requesting, er, no, demanding, ordering you to turn on your pager and your mobile phone, be available all the time no matter what and in some cases not to leave town (it is almopst like if you are a tagged criminal on parole!). Those activities are work, and one should get proper compensation for it. Sometimes the salary rate is so godd that one feels compensated, but I always prefer the explicit approach so everybody knows who is doing how much out of office hours.
If a company intends you to live to work (and not to work to live) they should pay for it.
Oh yes, I see. Sure Timothy McVeigh and the NY WTC did not exist.
One thing is terrorism that can hit anywhere, another thing is if a society decides if it is good or not that their citizens have access to lethal weapons in a casual manner. Both things intersect some times but are not the same.
OK lets see about objectionable places to work, should we?:
-Defense industry. No comments.
-Gun makers. Again, co comments.
-Banks and financial institutions: ask any third world country how ethic is that.
-Oil companies. Look for Ken Saro Wiwa (sp?) and the Ogoni people of Nigeria, they will tell you how ethic is that.
-Biotech companies: ask any environmentalist what can happen if some stuff gets out in the wild.
And so on and so forth.
Ethics is not an absolute, you think p()orn is unethical, that is fine, just remember that your ethics are not absolute and everybody will be happy.
I was trying to explain that sudden (1 hour is sudden for our bodies) changes of pressure, specialy if they happen in a fairly regular basis, are not good for your health. It was not me, but the doctor of a friend that was commuting by car every morning between two places with very different heights.
About your last comment, is nice that you find comments of idiots so interesting that you bother to reply to them.
Thanks.
What about using the word "safer" for goodness sake!
Anyway, then lets use arms with only 4 or 5 or 6 bullets. A civilized society does not need automatic weapons firing bulets like cooking popcorn...
Funy how British Police can deal with criminals without using guns, or perhaps that should support your argument: if having a weapon that is used for legal reasons give you a very slim chance of hitting target (you said so), then what is the f...g point of having the guns in the first place?!?!?
In my opinion, this has about to do with video games as the cigarette lawsuits had to due with cigarettes.
Good idea, wrong example.
People that smoke can't stop it. Can't help it. They are sick, physicaly sick, like somebody having a cold or a virus.
The adictive nature of cigarettes is documented more than enough, recognized as a sickness by the UN's World Health Organization and no respected physician will say that this is due to the "lack of will" of the patient....
Tell your cardiologist or vascular system specialist (whatever that is called in English). It is not gratuitous that deep-sea divers need to adjust to changes of pressure.
Your blood presure could have problems and as anybody knows, blood presure irregularities has very few symptoms, specially if it is high blood presure.
I know of people that had to stop commuting between towns with differences in height similar to the ones mentioned in gorunds that is not good for their health.
A person living in the top would be basicaly trapped in its golden cage...
The problem is the same: supply and demand, it does not matter if it is office or appartment buildings.
During an economic downturn people will not have money to buy any appartments, even worst for fancy ones in stupidily tall towers that I am sure will be more expensive than anything around in town.
So nobody buys, empty space in the tower, 50% or less ocuppation, loans to building company default, Chinese goverment bails out company with tax money.
It will be all the same all over again.
Hopefully that will stop the infantile discussion "mine is bigger than yours" between the pro-Petronas towers (mainly Malaysian, the Petronas Towers are a symbol of almost national identity over there) and their detractors.
Oh wait, what about "mine is the second biggest".
Never mind.
Anecdote:
IN a country that shuld remain nameless this who writes used to go to the equivalent to high school, there where serious problems with gangs.
A new director found a quick solution: he contracted photographers that were located strategicaly around the school for one week documenting all the bullying (and even criminal acts) going around.
Then the director called the culprits and publicized the findings.
No problems anymore.
Pardon my ignorance: what about things like Samba or NFS?
And what about a mixed configuration of Winblows and UNIX sharing printers and disk space?
Can this be accomodated using ssh or something similar in a wireless 802.11b LAN?
In the "fantasy island" *all* Internet traffic has to go through proxies and people is known to be sued to oblivion by the goverment (in unfair, goverment biased courts) when the post anti goverment stuff in USENET.
The problem is that the software would die because there will be nobody to issue the keys that unlock it for the next lease period.
Then either you become a cracker (sure one wants to do that) or hit your head against the wall repeating: "renting software is a dumb idea".