Golf is a scottish practical joke played on the rest of the world, kind of like snipe hunting or curling. It began when the Romans, after conquering Scotland, asked "so, what do you guys do for fun around here?"
Most of your post is sound, but one paragraph made me cringe.
Tell your boss that you want to keep track of your IT hours and be paid for everything over 45 minutes a week at the same rate he would pay an outside contractor.
No. This is just utterly wrong.
Since he's certain that you'll never go over 30 minutes, this is a great bet for him.
And this is *exactly* why he shouldn't - because his boss will take him up on it.
This is a job negotiation, not poker. You can't win by bluffing.
The best thing for him to do is simply tell his boss that he doesn't want to do it. What he should do is simply tell his boss exactly what he told us here:
I just want to be a programmer.
And decline the offer.
He knows what he wants, it's stupid to accept somethig else, especially when he knows that something else will make him unhappy.
If you have the "Special Edition" DVD, put in disc 2 and check out the Cast directory - go to John Cleese, and it's right there - Tim is played by John Cleese.
isn't John Cleese actually in that scene, as Lanceleot?
Only in the shots where there is no Tim. (In the shots were we see Tim, we never see Lancelot.)
I'll come back and eat crow tomorrow if I've had some kind of mental blackspot over this
Tim was played by Scottish comedian Billy Connelly
Not according to the IMDB and my DVD (which I got this weekend for my birthday.) It was quite apparent (even to my wife, who unfortunately doesn't share my love of Python) that Tim was played by John Cleese (or, as my wife put it - "Hey, that's the guy from Fawlty Towers!")
The bridgekeeper is also known as 'Tim the enchanter'
Ahh, no.
He's also known as "the old man from Scene 23" (as Sir Bedemere says "Look, it's the old man from Scene 23!" when they see first see him at the Gorge of Eternal Peril.)
He was played by Terry Gilliam, Tim was played by John Cleese.
Expensive ice wines are expensive because they've left the grapes on the vine, picking them late at night when the temperature is exactly right
That's only part of it.
It's not just that you have to wait, but that if the "exactly right" conditions don't happen, then not only do you not get ice wine at all, but you get *no* wine - the entire crop is lost.
If the frost happens early, the grapes are unusable because they're not fully ripe.
If the frost happens late, the grapes are unusable because they've started to rot.
It's not expensive because the vinyard has to wait, it's expensive because every time they do it, the vinyard runs the risk of losing an entire crop (which is not that unusual.)
Perhaps the first charge between a sender and receiver could be waived.
And how do you establish "first"?
By the email address?
Assuming that you can even pin down a spammer to a real email address, I own my own domain, and have an unlimited number of email addresses - it would be trivial for a spammer to do the same.. and then pay $8 for a few trillion more if that domain gets blacklisted.
I also believe that O'Gara was merely being controversial.
MoG has had a hate-on for IBM since the days of the antitrust trial. If she has a chance to slam IBM, she takes it.
She sees PJ defending IBM, and so she goes after PJ. I think Darl & Co. played on her hatred of IBM, but she allowed them to, and she got what she deserved.
It was more than just being "controversial" - MoG wanted to hurt IBM by hurting PJ.
Limit the number of outgoing HTTP requests? Throttle the rate of HTTP requests?
I'm thinking that either of these would cause the author to blame Firefox or GreaseMonkey for being 'slow'. If someone is clueless enough to not understand the technology, it's likely that they'd be so clueless as to blame Firefox (or possible GreaseMonkey) for any problems they encounter.
I'm thinking it would be better to throw up an error message (explaining what's going on, and providing a link to a page explaining why it's a bad idea.)
The problem with that argument is that it doesn't actually prove anything.
And the problem with your argument is that it's not analogous to the situation at hand.
I rob a convenience store
RIght there - your analogy is broken right from the very beginning, because robbing a convenience store is *IN NO WAY* similar to downloading something from the internet (regardless of how the MPAA/RIAA apologists try to spin it.)
There is a qualitative difference between recording a show when it's broadcast (via VCR or Tivo or whatever) and getting somebody else who recorded it to make a copy for you after the fact.
Well then, perhaps you could explain that difference to us, because I sure don't see it.
Besides the fact that someone has to take time to make a copy, what's the "qualitative" difference you're speaking of?
they really aren't kidding about the "Can't teach an old dog new tricks" saying
Of course "they" are.
When I was 15 I rescued a 7 year old dog from an abusive home. One of the things that the family used to do was throw things at her, and she was extremely scared of anything that was thrown (regardless of where it was being thrown.)
We had another dog that we'd trained to catch things (most notably food, but he'd catch anything you threw at him.) Whenever we'd throw him some food, the rescue dog would run away.
It took about a year, but eventually we managed to teach her not only to not be afraid of things that were thrown to her, but also to catch.
We also taught her all of the other 'standard' tricks like sit, stay, lie down, and roll over. She'd never been trained at all by her old family.
Old dogs *can* be taught new tricks - any qualified dog trainer will tell you so.
Dogs don't cry. It's legal to keep a dog chained up at your house. A dog's disposition stays the same all month long. Dogs agree that you have to raise your voice to get your point across. Dogs never need to examine the relationship. Dogs love long car trips. Dogs understand that instincts are better than asking for directions. Dogs do not hate their bodies. Dogs love it when your friends come over. Dogs don't care if you use their shampoo. Dogs think you sing great. Dogs don't let magazine articles guide their lives. Dogs are excited by rough play. Dogs don't notice if you call them by another dog's name. Dogs don't want to know about every other dog you ever had. Dogs don't get mad at you when you pet another dog. Dogs don't shop. Dogs understand that flatulence is funny. Dogs can appreciate excessive body hair. Anyone can get a good looking dog. Dogs enjoy heavy petting in public. Dogs find you amusing when you're drunk. Dogs love it when you leave your clothes on the floor. A dog's time in the bathroom is limited to a quick drink. Dogs never expect flowers on Valentine's Day. Dogs never expect you to call them. Dogs seldom outlive you. Dogs won't hold out on you to get a new car. Dogs don't get mad at you if you forget their birthday. Dogs don't mind if you give their offspring away. If A dog is gorgeous, other dogs don't hate it. If A dog leaves, it won't take half of your stuff. If a dog smells another dog on you, they don't get mad, they just think it's interesting. If you bring another dog home, your dog will happily play with both of you. If you pretend to be blind, your dog can stay in your hotel room for free. No dog will ever wake you up at night to ask, "If I died, would you get another dog?" The later you are, the more excited your dog is to see you. When a dog gets old and starts to snap at you incessantly, you can shoot it. No dog ever bought a Kenny G or Hootie & the Blowfish album. No dog ever put on 100 pounds after reaching adulthood. Dogs never criticize. Dogs are always ready to go 24 hours a day. Dogs never want foot rubs. Dogs don't need 500 pairs of shoes.
Perhaps in your part of the world, but not in many others.
She's off limits.
Why? Because you say so?
If you don't understand that, then you have a big problem.
I'm sorry, but it appears that you're the one with the problem - you are deliberately ignoring evidence presented to you that you are wrong.
How old is she now? 15? Neither is an appropriate age to be trying to look at her underwear.
Bullshit. You have made an arbitrary decision about based on an imcomplete representation of facts. There are *many* people here who are her age (typically the ones making these comments), and you're saying it's inappropriate for them to want to sneak a look?
If you believe that, you should go in for some councilling - repressing your feelings that much is just asking for trouble.
there's a difference between two six year olds playing doctor and a twenty one year old wanting to play doctor with a six year old
Ohh.. another straw man! Seems to me that we were discussing 15 year olds, weren't we?
Got a tip for you: if you want people to take you seriously, you shouldn't make stupid arguments that have no bearing on the topic at hand, all you do is make it look like you don't have any relevant arguments, and are grasping at straws in order to convince yourself you're right.
Again with the straw man - tell me, are you missing the point deliberately?
She's not a child, she's a teenager who is well past puberty, and in much of the world, she's past the age of consent. (Which has been pointed out to you before, and yet you continue to ignore it while making your straw man argument.)
As many people here are fond of pointing out, the plural of "anecdote" is not "data".
And as I said, it doesn't matter one whit if someone buys or not - spam will continue anyway, because there is the perception that it works (whether it actually does or not.)
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Just be prepared for the unemployment line.
Bullshit. If you're *good*, your boss will want to keep you. You make yourself indispensable by proving that you're valuable.
if you're not going to bend over backwards for your employer, there are a few thousand recently unemployed tech-workers in my area alone that would
How do you know that the poster is in your area?
Grow some balls and stand up for yourself. Letting your boss walk all over you is the best way to be unhappiness. Excuses don't help.
As others have pointed out, golf is not a sport.
Golf is a game. Tennis is a sport.
To qualify as a sport, you must sweat.
Golf is a scottish practical joke played on the rest of the world, kind of like snipe hunting or curling. It began when the Romans, after conquering Scotland, asked "so, what do you guys do for fun around here?"
Most of your post is sound, but one paragraph made me cringe.
Tell your boss that you want to keep track of your IT hours and be paid for everything over 45 minutes a week at the same rate he would pay an outside contractor.
No. This is just utterly wrong.
Since he's certain that you'll never go over 30 minutes, this is a great bet for him.
And this is *exactly* why he shouldn't - because his boss will take him up on it.
This is a job negotiation, not poker. You can't win by bluffing.
The best thing for him to do is simply tell his boss that he doesn't want to do it. What he should do is simply tell his boss exactly what he told us here:
I just want to be a programmer.
And decline the offer.
He knows what he wants, it's stupid to accept somethig else, especially when he knows that something else will make him unhappy.
There can be only one explanation : the matrix has me.
:o)
Ahh, but your acceptance that it's John Cleese shows that you're ready to move beyond.
Consider yourself lucky - most people who exit the Matrix don't remember the exact moment of their realization.
Until I get home and watch my own DVD
:o)
If you have the "Special Edition" DVD, put in disc 2 and check out the Cast directory - go to John Cleese, and it's right there - Tim is played by John Cleese.
isn't John Cleese actually in that scene, as Lanceleot?
Only in the shots where there is no Tim. (In the shots were we see Tim, we never see Lancelot.)
I'll come back and eat crow tomorrow if I've had some kind of mental blackspot over this
OK, I'll be waiting
Tim was played by Scottish comedian Billy Connelly
Not according to the IMDB and my DVD (which I got this weekend for my birthday.) It was quite apparent (even to my wife, who unfortunately doesn't share my love of Python) that Tim was played by John Cleese (or, as my wife put it - "Hey, that's the guy from Fawlty Towers!")
Billy Connolly was never in the movie.
The bridgekeeper is also known as 'Tim the enchanter'
Ahh, no.
He's also known as "the old man from Scene 23" (as Sir Bedemere says "Look, it's the old man from Scene 23!" when they see first see him at the Gorge of Eternal Peril.)
He was played by Terry Gilliam, Tim was played by John Cleese.
I'd assume a street car would be outfitted with just one.
Not if GM has their way.
Current electric cars have only one motor
That's because current electric cars are basically just retrofitting an electric motor into an existing design.
my phone line supports 2mbit ADSL easily [...] All the distance limits were removed in the UK
Sorry, are you saying that the UK has changed the laws of physics that prevent ADSL from working over distances of ~25000 feet?
If so, I'm sure the rest of the world would like to know how you did it.
Just as long as they don't make any changes, else the GPL will force them to give those changes back.
Well, *IF* the software is covered under the GPL, just include the source on the CD. How is this a problem?
If you're gonna troll, you should at least attempt to be intelligent about it.
Why is it called a disc drive if it's based on flash memory?
:o)
Maybe the chip is circular?
Expensive ice wines are expensive because they've left the grapes on the vine, picking them late at night when the temperature is exactly right
That's only part of it.
It's not just that you have to wait, but that if the "exactly right" conditions don't happen, then not only do you not get ice wine at all, but you get *no* wine - the entire crop is lost.
If the frost happens early, the grapes are unusable because they're not fully ripe.
If the frost happens late, the grapes are unusable because they've started to rot.
It's not expensive because the vinyard has to wait, it's expensive because every time they do it, the vinyard runs the risk of losing an entire crop (which is not that unusual.)
Perhaps the first charge between a sender and receiver could be waived.
And how do you establish "first"?
By the email address?
Assuming that you can even pin down a spammer to a real email address, I own my own domain, and have an unlimited number of email addresses - it would be trivial for a spammer to do the same.. and then pay $8 for a few trillion more if that domain gets blacklisted.
your spam filter would reject unsolicited emails without this "stamp"
That doesn't make any sense - how exactly does the spammer *know* that the mail has been rejected?
If you say "because of the bounces", allow me to introduce you to the concept of forged mail headers
Spammers don't care *right now* if their spam actually reaches someone. Why would they caring just because people started using "e-stamps"?
I also believe that O'Gara was merely being controversial.
MoG has had a hate-on for IBM since the days of the antitrust trial. If she has a chance to slam IBM, she takes it.
She sees PJ defending IBM, and so she goes after PJ. I think Darl & Co. played on her hatred of IBM, but she allowed them to, and she got what she deserved.
It was more than just being "controversial" - MoG wanted to hurt IBM by hurting PJ.
The RIAA does not have a chokehold on all music distribution.
Sure - not anymore but they still weild considerable power in the form of government lobbying.
And the still *DO* have a chokehold on global promotion.
Musicians have no less freedom to self distribute
Yes, but without a global promotion mechanism, they have no choice but to submit to the RIAA's contract demands.
Internet distribution is a good thing, but there is still one piece of the puzzle left.
Napster proved only one thing; people just want shit for free
I think you might be surprised that people got "shit" for free *long* before Napster arrived.
It's this nifty technology called radio, and it's been around for decades.
Limit the number of outgoing HTTP requests? Throttle the rate of HTTP requests?
I'm thinking that either of these would cause the author to blame Firefox or GreaseMonkey for being 'slow'. If someone is clueless enough to not understand the technology, it's likely that they'd be so clueless as to blame Firefox (or possible GreaseMonkey) for any problems they encounter.
I'm thinking it would be better to throw up an error message (explaining what's going on, and providing a link to a page explaining why it's a bad idea.)
The problem with that argument is that it doesn't actually prove anything.
And the problem with your argument is that it's not analogous to the situation at hand.
I rob a convenience store
RIght there - your analogy is broken right from the very beginning, because robbing a convenience store is *IN NO WAY* similar to downloading something from the internet (regardless of how the MPAA/RIAA apologists try to spin it.)
There is a qualitative difference between recording a show when it's broadcast (via VCR or Tivo or whatever) and getting somebody else who recorded it to make a copy for you after the fact.
Well then, perhaps you could explain that difference to us, because I sure don't see it.
Besides the fact that someone has to take time to make a copy, what's the "qualitative" difference you're speaking of?
they really aren't kidding about the "Can't teach an old dog new tricks" saying
Of course "they" are.
When I was 15 I rescued a 7 year old dog from an abusive home. One of the things that the family used to do was throw things at her, and she was extremely scared of anything that was thrown (regardless of where it was being thrown.)
We had another dog that we'd trained to catch things (most notably food, but he'd catch anything you threw at him.) Whenever we'd throw him some food, the rescue dog would run away.
It took about a year, but eventually we managed to teach her not only to not be afraid of things that were thrown to her, but also to catch.
We also taught her all of the other 'standard' tricks like sit, stay, lie down, and roll over. She'd never been trained at all by her old family.
Old dogs *can* be taught new tricks - any qualified dog trainer will tell you so.
Dogs don't cry.
It's legal to keep a dog chained up at your house.
A dog's disposition stays the same all month long.
Dogs agree that you have to raise your voice to get your point across.
Dogs never need to examine the relationship.
Dogs love long car trips.
Dogs understand that instincts are better than asking for directions.
Dogs do not hate their bodies.
Dogs love it when your friends come over.
Dogs don't care if you use their shampoo.
Dogs think you sing great.
Dogs don't let magazine articles guide their lives.
Dogs are excited by rough play.
Dogs don't notice if you call them by another dog's name.
Dogs don't want to know about every other dog you ever had.
Dogs don't get mad at you when you pet another dog.
Dogs don't shop.
Dogs understand that flatulence is funny.
Dogs can appreciate excessive body hair.
Anyone can get a good looking dog.
Dogs enjoy heavy petting in public.
Dogs find you amusing when you're drunk.
Dogs love it when you leave your clothes on the floor.
A dog's time in the bathroom is limited to a quick drink.
Dogs never expect flowers on Valentine's Day.
Dogs never expect you to call them.
Dogs seldom outlive you.
Dogs won't hold out on you to get a new car.
Dogs don't get mad at you if you forget their birthday.
Dogs don't mind if you give their offspring away.
If A dog is gorgeous, other dogs don't hate it.
If A dog leaves, it won't take half of your stuff.
If a dog smells another dog on you, they don't get mad, they just think it's interesting.
If you bring another dog home, your dog will happily play with both of you.
If you pretend to be blind, your dog can stay in your hotel room for free.
No dog will ever wake you up at night to ask, "If I died, would you get another dog?"
The later you are, the more excited your dog is to see you.
When a dog gets old and starts to snap at you incessantly, you can shoot it.
No dog ever bought a Kenny G or Hootie & the Blowfish album.
No dog ever put on 100 pounds after reaching adulthood.
Dogs never criticize.
Dogs are always ready to go 24 hours a day.
Dogs never want foot rubs.
Dogs don't need 500 pairs of shoes.
She's underage.
Perhaps in your part of the world, but not in many others.
She's off limits.
Why? Because you say so?
If you don't understand that, then you have a big problem.
I'm sorry, but it appears that you're the one with the problem - you are deliberately ignoring evidence presented to you that you are wrong.
How old is she now? 15? Neither is an appropriate age to be trying to look at her underwear.
Bullshit. You have made an arbitrary decision about based on an imcomplete representation of facts. There are *many* people here who are her age (typically the ones making these comments), and you're saying it's inappropriate for them to want to sneak a look?
If you believe that, you should go in for some councilling - repressing your feelings that much is just asking for trouble.
there's a difference between two six year olds playing doctor and a twenty one year old wanting to play doctor with a six year old
Ohh.. another straw man! Seems to me that we were discussing 15 year olds, weren't we?
Got a tip for you: if you want people to take you seriously, you shouldn't make stupid arguments that have no bearing on the topic at hand, all you do is make it look like you don't have any relevant arguments, and are grasping at straws in order to convince yourself you're right.
Sexualising children is WRONG
Again with the straw man - tell me, are you missing the point deliberately?
She's not a child, she's a teenager who is well past puberty, and in much of the world, she's past the age of consent. (Which has been pointed out to you before, and yet you continue to ignore it while making your straw man argument.)
Wow - I didn't know that Steven Tyler was even a firefox user, let alone that he'd appear in promos for them!
As many people here are fond of pointing out, the plural of "anecdote" is not "data".
And as I said, it doesn't matter one whit if someone buys or not - spam will continue anyway, because there is the perception that it works (whether it actually does or not.)