You've hit the nail on the head. I've completely changed my habits for the better. In addition to saving a lot of money, I've decided to never finance anything ever again, including my home. This government has demonstrated that they'll sell me out in a heartbeat if they can. So I have to budget defensively for the rest of my life. Sad but true.
I think the problem is that copyrights are supposed to be a civil issue. If what you're doing is a copyright violation, they should be able to sue you. But inacting a criminal law for this smacks of corporate america controling the legal system. Also, the punishments for these sorts of things are usually way too harsh. For example, what would you have to do with your car to get a year in jail on the first offense? DUI? No. Manslaughter? That would probably do it. What about drugs... go to jail for a year on the first offense for possesion? I don't think so. But all you have to do is enter a movie theater with a camcorder and you're busted. It may be wrong to record movies, but this law is certainly unjust.
That's ok, fish are hot-swappable. You can use the net to pull out a dead one and replace it with a new one. You could even have a hot-spare in a cup on top of the tank... i mean case.
"Despite assertions made by Linux vendors, a Linux cluster is not a high performance computer,"
That's like saying that the automobile is not a high performance team of clydesdales. That's true, but it may be irrelevant. If it can get you there faster or better, I guess it doesn't matter.
Follow every single traffic law I know you were being sarcastic, but this is exactly what I do now. There's one stretch of road in the chicago area where I recently got a speeding ticket. The speed drops from 50 or 35 fairly quickly. It's a "School Zone". Actually, it's a stretch of 6 lane divided highway that is sort of near a high school. No one, and I mean no one, slows to 35 in this section of road. I was picked out of a crowd and written a ticket. So what do I do now? I go through there at 35. It pisses people off in a major way. They speed around me and cut me off, flip me off. It's sort of entertaining. And there's a cop car often in the same spot. I waive at them now. There's another place, a section of interstate. It's 90 between 290 and barrington that I take going west on the way home. People go through there at 85. This is no exaguration. I drive it at 55. It's dangerous at that speed, but I do it anyway. I waive at the cops when I see them. Ticketing in chicago is all about revenue, not safety. If they really wanted people to drive the speed limit. They would send a marked cop car through there at the speed limit. Instead, they chose to nail people for crossing over a little bit of white triangle at the entrance to the onramp from 290 to 90. Why are we paying them again?
tickets and cops are not regular enough to train people to stop.
It doesn't matter. This will go over like a lead baloon. Cops don't want people to slow down. How would they raise revenue? If cops really wanted to stop speeders, all they have to do is drive one marked police car though the area at the posted speed limit. No one will pass them. Instead, they hide in alleys and behind bushes waiting to jump out and fine people. Isn't it obvious what their real motivation is?
They have these white noise generators that help filter out noises in a cubicle farm, they work by disrupting all sound waves and getting them to cancel out.
I designed my finances so that I could take a 50% pay cut. How many americans can say that? Can you do that? Well, guess what? It wasn't enough. The job I have today represents a 63% pay cut. And the transition was so fast that I had a hard time unloading my two normal car payments and my house. How conservative is conservative enough?
...or the buying public, who continuously sends strong signals to companies that lowering prices is the most important thing they can do to increase sales
Do you actually believe that outsourcing will result in lower prices? Outsourcing manufacturing did lower prices, but at the expense of quality. Instead of buying a blender and using it for 20 years, now we replace it every six months. In some cases, it may lower prices, but only enough to compete with products from other third world countries. In the vast majority of cases, outsourcing has more to do with stock value and lining the pockets of the executives.
Why is the person outside of your country - probably also the head of a household - less deserving than the person in your country?
Because that person didn't go to school here for 7 years while working and raising children and rack up $30,000 in student loans like I did. I have no problem with outsourcing. What pisses me off is that our government did absolutly nothing to take care of it's citizens in the process. They talk about retraining and the Next Big Thing, but it's all bull shit. As long as the big corporations are happy, that's all that matters. People have 5 year car loans and 30 year mortgages. A little warning would have been nice. But instead, fuck the middle class.
And why, exactly, is hiring people in other countries immoral?
Like most things in life, what makes something moral or immoral has more to do with your motivations than the means or the ends. If your motivation is to survive as a company and continue to employ the people you have, then there's nothing wrong at all with hiring people outside the country. You could argue that it had to be done. Likewise, if you're obeying the spirit of the H1 visa law and you really can't find anyone here with the skill you need, then there's nothing wrong with it. The problem is that for every example of someone playing by the rules, there's an army of sleezy perfect-hair executives who outsource only to add zeros to their bank account or to increase their stock portfolio a quarter of a percent, at the expense of thousands of workers. Those executives can burn in hell.
GO FOR THE UGLY CHICKS ! Theyre horny, youre guarenteed to score and all you have to is cover their head with a bag.
When I was 12, my uncle came over to visit. Now my parents were bikers. (I'm not kidding, but to this day, my mother says, "no, no, no, it was a motorcycle club!") But by this time, my mother had grown out of being a biker. But my uncle was still this rough biker guy. So back to the story. So I was 12 and complaining about how I wanted to date this one girl who was very attractive, but she wasn't interested. But there was this other girl that wanted to date me who was not very attractive at all. So after complaining about this to my mother in the presence of my uncle, he inserted a few words of wisdom, "Well you know brian, even ugly girls have pussies." My mother was a little upset.
A friend of mine went to high school with Harold Dick. I didn't believe him until he pulled out his year book. There he was, and he went by Harry. To make matters worse, he was one of these freaks who could grow a full beard at 16, and he did.
I once was employed by an insurance product publishing company in indianapolis. The project manager made all his decisions with rock-paper-scissors. I'm not making this up. Whenever a bug needed to be fixed, he would call all the developers into a room and play RPS until there was a loser.
Once, I worked for a company run by Scientologists. They did software for the timeshare industry. I lost that job when the IRS seized the company for failure to pay payroll taxes.
While working at walgreens corporate, i was once asked to clean desks with paper towels and windex... for $68/hr.
I once worked for a trading firm in downtown chicago where my boss, while standing behind me to look at my code, would put his... package... on my shoulder. I would scoot in to get away and he would step closer until I could no longer get away. That job didn't last long.
These are just the highlights of my ilustrious IT career.
They *could* put in sidewalks, but chose not to. Commercial and retail *could* be included but are not. New subdivisions *could* be criss crossed with minor streets great for bicycling but instead every neighborhood street ends in a cul de sac and traffic is diverted to arterials.
I grew up in valencia california. The tract neighborhoods go on for miles and miles with what they call paseos. They're ultra-wide sidewalks, about 6-10 feet across. They weave around the houses and through endless cul-de-sac subdivisions. I used to bike to school when I was in the 5th and 6th grade. The route I took included a bridge (the one over mcbean) just for these paths. I've never seen anything like it since. I really mourn the loss of freedom for my kids. It was nothing for me to venture miles from my house at the age of 12. My children can't do that now.
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You've hit the nail on the head. I've completely changed my habits for the better. In addition to saving a lot of money, I've decided to never finance anything ever again, including my home. This government has demonstrated that they'll sell me out in a heartbeat if they can. So I have to budget defensively for the rest of my life. Sad but true.
I've worked with Accidenture before. The proper phrase is "achieving synergy with your core matrix."
Good head
This conjured up horrible images of an indian IT worker providing phone sex:
"head? what you mean head? We have no head here. I am not knowing... Now get out."
4. I have $50/month more to spend on other things that I enjoy to do (i.e. food, drinking, girlfriend, etc).
Your girlfriend charges you a monthly fee? Where I come from, there's a word for that...
I think the problem is that copyrights are supposed to be a civil issue. If what you're doing is a copyright violation, they should be able to sue you. But inacting a criminal law for this smacks of corporate america controling the legal system. Also, the punishments for these sorts of things are usually way too harsh. For example, what would you have to do with your car to get a year in jail on the first offense? DUI? No. Manslaughter? That would probably do it. What about drugs... go to jail for a year on the first offense for possesion? I don't think so. But all you have to do is enter a movie theater with a camcorder and you're busted. It may be wrong to record movies, but this law is certainly unjust.
I wouldn't worry about it.
I wouldn't either as long as I wasn't using nVidia's new card.
They're fish, not a video card
That's ok, fish are hot-swappable. You can use the net to pull out a dead one and replace it with a new one. You could even have a hot-spare in a cup on top of the tank... i mean case.
"Despite assertions made by Linux vendors, a Linux cluster is not a high performance computer,"
That's like saying that the automobile is not a high performance team of clydesdales. That's true, but it may be irrelevant. If it can get you there faster or better, I guess it doesn't matter.
Follow every single traffic law
I know you were being sarcastic, but this is exactly what I do now. There's one stretch of road in the chicago area where I recently got a speeding ticket. The speed drops from 50 or 35 fairly quickly. It's a "School Zone". Actually, it's a stretch of 6 lane divided highway that is sort of near a high school. No one, and I mean no one, slows to 35 in this section of road. I was picked out of a crowd and written a ticket. So what do I do now? I go through there at 35. It pisses people off in a major way. They speed around me and cut me off, flip me off. It's sort of entertaining. And there's a cop car often in the same spot. I waive at them now. There's another place, a section of interstate. It's 90 between 290 and barrington that I take going west on the way home. People go through there at 85. This is no exaguration. I drive it at 55. It's dangerous at that speed, but I do it anyway. I waive at the cops when I see them. Ticketing in chicago is all about revenue, not safety. If they really wanted people to drive the speed limit. They would send a marked cop car through there at the speed limit. Instead, they chose to nail people for crossing over a little bit of white triangle at the entrance to the onramp from 290 to 90. Why are we paying them again?
tickets and cops are not regular enough to train people to stop.
It doesn't matter. This will go over like a lead baloon. Cops don't want people to slow down. How would they raise revenue? If cops really wanted to stop speeders, all they have to do is drive one marked police car though the area at the posted speed limit. No one will pass them. Instead, they hide in alleys and behind bushes waiting to jump out and fine people. Isn't it obvious what their real motivation is?
They have these white noise generators that help filter out noises in a cubicle farm, they work by disrupting all sound waves and getting them to cancel out.
No, that's just the air conditioner.
I feel sorry for any IT professionals walking around with a pager, NEXtel, and a PDA in their pockets/belts. Ouch!
It blowed up right there on her butt!
But then I started thinking about railguns and emp devices...
That's ok as long as you stop thinking about flashing and discharges.
"Don't hit the program!"
Tron: Bit, was the server de-rezed?
Bit: (thinks for a while) Yes!
"Janus" was the name of the daily flights of mysterious unmarked airplanes from las vegas to area 51. Maybe it is diabolical.
...may harm your genitals...
That's what my mother keeps saying about my one-handed web browsing.
Nobody made them do that.
I designed my finances so that I could take a 50% pay cut. How many americans can say that? Can you do that? Well, guess what? It wasn't enough. The job I have today represents a 63% pay cut. And the transition was so fast that I had a hard time unloading my two normal car payments and my house. How conservative is conservative enough?
...or the buying public, who continuously sends strong signals to companies that lowering prices is the most important thing they can do to increase sales
Do you actually believe that outsourcing will result in lower prices? Outsourcing manufacturing did lower prices, but at the expense of quality. Instead of buying a blender and using it for 20 years, now we replace it every six months. In some cases, it may lower prices, but only enough to compete with products from other third world countries. In the vast majority of cases, outsourcing has more to do with stock value and lining the pockets of the executives.
Why is the person outside of your country - probably also the head of a household - less deserving than the person in your country?
Because that person didn't go to school here for 7 years while working and raising children and rack up $30,000 in student loans like I did. I have no problem with outsourcing. What pisses me off is that our government did absolutly nothing to take care of it's citizens in the process. They talk about retraining and the Next Big Thing, but it's all bull shit. As long as the big corporations are happy, that's all that matters. People have 5 year car loans and 30 year mortgages. A little warning would have been nice. But instead, fuck the middle class.
And why, exactly, is hiring people in other countries immoral?
Like most things in life, what makes something moral or immoral has more to do with your motivations than the means or the ends. If your motivation is to survive as a company and continue to employ the people you have, then there's nothing wrong at all with hiring people outside the country. You could argue that it had to be done. Likewise, if you're obeying the spirit of the H1 visa law and you really can't find anyone here with the skill you need, then there's nothing wrong with it. The problem is that for every example of someone playing by the rules, there's an army of sleezy perfect-hair executives who outsource only to add zeros to their bank account or to increase their stock portfolio a quarter of a percent, at the expense of thousands of workers. Those executives can burn in hell.
GO FOR THE UGLY CHICKS ! Theyre horny, youre guarenteed to score and all you have to is cover their head with a bag.
When I was 12, my uncle came over to visit. Now my parents were bikers. (I'm not kidding, but to this day, my mother says, "no, no, no, it was a motorcycle club!") But by this time, my mother had grown out of being a biker. But my uncle was still this rough biker guy. So back to the story. So I was 12 and complaining about how I wanted to date this one girl who was very attractive, but she wasn't interested. But there was this other girl that wanted to date me who was not very attractive at all. So after complaining about this to my mother in the presence of my uncle, he inserted a few words of wisdom, "Well you know brian, even ugly girls have pussies." My mother was a little upset.
A friend of mine went to high school with Harold Dick. I didn't believe him until he pulled out his year book. There he was, and he went by Harry. To make matters worse, he was one of these freaks who could grow a full beard at 16, and he did.
It it may make him pull his shirt up over his head and start demanding TP for his bunghole.
"Are you threatening me?!"
Where do I begin? Oh yes...
I once was employed by an insurance product publishing company in indianapolis. The project manager made all his decisions with rock-paper-scissors. I'm not making this up. Whenever a bug needed to be fixed, he would call all the developers into a room and play RPS until there was a loser.
Once, I worked for a company run by Scientologists. They did software for the timeshare industry. I lost that job when the IRS seized the company for failure to pay payroll taxes.
While working at walgreens corporate, i was once asked to clean desks with paper towels and windex... for $68/hr.
I once worked for a trading firm in downtown chicago where my boss, while standing behind me to look at my code, would put his... package... on my shoulder. I would scoot in to get away and he would step closer until I could no longer get away. That job didn't last long.
These are just the highlights of my ilustrious IT career.
They *could* put in sidewalks, but chose not to. Commercial and retail *could* be included but are not. New subdivisions *could* be criss crossed with minor streets great for bicycling but instead every neighborhood street ends in a cul de sac and traffic is diverted to arterials.
I grew up in valencia california. The tract neighborhoods go on for miles and miles with what they call paseos. They're ultra-wide sidewalks, about 6-10 feet across. They weave around the houses and through endless cul-de-sac subdivisions. I used to bike to school when I was in the 5th and 6th grade. The route I took included a bridge (the one over mcbean) just for these paths. I've never seen anything like it since. I really mourn the loss of freedom for my kids. It was nothing for me to venture miles from my house at the age of 12. My children can't do that now.