The Coward makes a good point only he does it badly. We are constitutionally guaranteed the right to free speech. This right should not be infringed by the GOVERNMENT. Private industry is not the government and thereby not amenable to that particular point. That being said, if the statement was true to the best knowledge of the person or persons issuing said statement, and was not in violation of a legal, binding agreement, the ccompany in question COULD be sued for harassment.
In reality...They've probably got deeper pockets, so for your own sake...if you can't say something nice, say nothing at all.
Not necessarily. NDAs are often signed by all employees of a company as a safety precaution. Non-competes are usually left to developers. This is why I no longer do instrumentation development. My question is...Is saying that something is f**ked generally, without specifics, a violation of disclosure agreements. Of course it depends on the language of the agreement.
I got a Timex/Sinclar Z80 by saving up coke bottles and having a paper route. The next box was a TI-99/4a (Great box!). Then to the C64 then to an old 8088 I rescued. My first modem was 300 baud external. I had a mainframe account in 84 that I could dial into.
17 years later...Bean counters think I'm too expensive when my years in the business pretty much equal the rest of the IT staff combined.
It's not the age so much...certain industries don't respect the IT professionals...banks for one. On the other hand, my years with NASA were a rocking good ego boost!
Doesn't that protect us from reasonable search and seizure? Isn't PGP a way to protect personal mail? So the "g" has open season on your mailbox, apparently, because that little envelope is "supposed" to keep them out, and they're not crying about wanting to open every bit of mail in the world.
If we give in to this sort of intrusiveness, the terrorists have already won.
I think you're the one kidding yourself. NFL players do not leave it all out in the field anymore. They're interested in endorsements, movie roles, rap videos etc.
Give me a team that plays AS A TEAM, with guts and heart anyday of the overpaid thugs of the NFL. I'm not kidding myself in regards to the moral caliber of the XFL players. But the last 5 "pro" games I went to were crap because the players didn't hustle, the quarterback slid in rather than trying for that last yard, etc. For the money those guys get, every one of them should have to be carried off the field at the end of the game. NFL players are soft and overpaid. They've forgotten that football is a GAME and that they are just lucky enough to get paid to play it.
The league may not be better. But the game is...
I find that the NFL players are exactly the antithesis of what palying is all about. They lay down, don't play hard, don't hit hard..they play like there is a tomorrow. IN FOOTBALL THERE IS NO TOMORROW. I for one think that the level of play AND PAY will increase in the XFL.
As long as the level of emotion increases so will the level of play and the number of fans.
The NFL stands for the Nancy-boy Football League and the CFL stands for the Candy-Ass Football league.
I think that Zero-Sum and competition (scoring)games are not one and the same. There's an old game called "True Colors" that is great fun. Pictionary, Scrabble and others are competitive, but do not require someone to lose somthing in order for someone else to win. IMNTBHO, Zero-Sum requires one party to lose something in order for the other to gain it.
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Freaking narcs...just take them out behind the gym and kick the shit outta them
The Coward makes a good point only he does it badly. We are constitutionally guaranteed the right to free speech. This right should not be infringed by the GOVERNMENT. Private industry is not the government and thereby not amenable to that particular point. That being said, if the statement was true to the best knowledge of the person or persons issuing said statement, and was not in violation of a legal, binding agreement, the ccompany in question COULD be sued for harassment. In reality...They've probably got deeper pockets, so for your own sake...if you can't say something nice, say nothing at all.
Not necessarily. NDAs are often signed by all employees of a company as a safety precaution. Non-competes are usually left to developers. This is why I no longer do instrumentation development. My question is...Is saying that something is f**ked generally, without specifics, a violation of disclosure agreements. Of course it depends on the language of the agreement.
I got a Timex/Sinclar Z80 by saving up coke bottles and having a paper route. The next box was a TI-99/4a (Great box!). Then to the C64 then to an old 8088 I rescued. My first modem was 300 baud external. I had a mainframe account in 84 that I could dial into. 17 years later...Bean counters think I'm too expensive when my years in the business pretty much equal the rest of the IT staff combined. It's not the age so much...certain industries don't respect the IT professionals...banks for one. On the other hand, my years with NASA were a rocking good ego boost!
Doesn't that protect us from reasonable search and seizure? Isn't PGP a way to protect personal mail? So the "g" has open season on your mailbox, apparently, because that little envelope is "supposed" to keep them out, and they're not crying about wanting to open every bit of mail in the world. If we give in to this sort of intrusiveness, the terrorists have already won.
I think you're the one kidding yourself. NFL players do not leave it all out in the field anymore. They're interested in endorsements, movie roles, rap videos etc. Give me a team that plays AS A TEAM, with guts and heart anyday of the overpaid thugs of the NFL. I'm not kidding myself in regards to the moral caliber of the XFL players. But the last 5 "pro" games I went to were crap because the players didn't hustle, the quarterback slid in rather than trying for that last yard, etc. For the money those guys get, every one of them should have to be carried off the field at the end of the game. NFL players are soft and overpaid. They've forgotten that football is a GAME and that they are just lucky enough to get paid to play it. The league may not be better. But the game is...
I find that the NFL players are exactly the antithesis of what palying is all about. They lay down, don't play hard, don't hit hard..they play like there is a tomorrow. IN FOOTBALL THERE IS NO TOMORROW. I for one think that the level of play AND PAY will increase in the XFL. As long as the level of emotion increases so will the level of play and the number of fans. The NFL stands for the Nancy-boy Football League and the CFL stands for the Candy-Ass Football league.
I think that Zero-Sum and competition (scoring)games are not one and the same. There's an old game called "True Colors" that is great fun. Pictionary, Scrabble and others are competitive, but do not require someone to lose somthing in order for someone else to win. IMNTBHO, Zero-Sum requires one party to lose something in order for the other to gain it.