That's kind of the point of a picket line, to completely close off outside access to a company. The fact that it was done via electronic means really doesn't change that they were doing exactly what they set out to do. My real worry here is that they win on 1st amendment grounds, then Spamford Wallace claims a moral victory. Like it or not, yelling your own free speech isn't criminal, even if it prevents the other side from saying anything.
If you can get charged with being one of a thousand emails, the only way to avoid that is being pseudonymous. To put it in a nutshell, shit's about to get fake.
In MA, the IBEW and CWA declared a strike against Verizon starting yesterday (Sunday). So, Verizon has very little trained staff on right now, and they want to do things to make their phones seem like they're broken to the end-user. This will turn out well....
Publius was never a christening name used on the North American continent. It may have been used in Ancient Rome, but by 1783, it was a BIT out of vogue. Mark Twain is from an old method of sounding depths, where marks were knots in a weighted rope, one fathom apart, and twain was a term for two (thus the sounding man's cry "mark twain" meant 2 fathoms deep, or 12'): it's just about as likely to be used for a child's name as Boot Black, and for a similar reason: it's an indicator of a less-than-lucrative profession. I chose those two specially as pseudonyms that would completely fail most checks for Real Names, and threw in Orwell as a bonus. I can easily transform waddgodd back to it's original usage and make it into an acceptable (if rather risque) name for both facebook and G+. I took the name from John Holmes's original stage name (or pseudonym, if you will), Johnny Wadd (hey, I didn't want to go there, but AC kind of said that the name wouldn't make someone famous).
There's no small amount of evidence that "William Shakespeare" was a pseudonym for Sir Francis Bacon, so do tell me about the technological enhancements that provide for pseudonymity
The last US Rare Earth mine closed because it was an ecological nightmare to smelt the ore, not because it ran out. Since this is a new vein and not a new smelting process, it'll be doomed to failure the exact same way, so will the (relatively) new vein in Idaho. Short of the EPA rolling over on a mine that will be a superfund site within months of opening in a Democratic administration (anyone want to figure the odds of that?), this mine will be a non-starter.
I'd like to know how the FAA is investigating this, they've been closed down the last month because their funding bill's become a political football and they ran out of budget the first week in July
I don't even know the average size of the typical android app, but I'm guessing a 1000 LOC app would be HUGE in comparison to most of them, yet they want actual valuta for what is essentially an afternoon's work? I've seen a "must-have" app a friend showed me once, it was a GUI frontend to pgrep/pkill, for $5. The ripoff here is they charge you $$ for what is essentially a "hello world" app, then one day Google has the infernal gall to actually give it to you for free, and the devs whinge. Here's a surefire way to not get ripped off when Google puts your app up on "free day", opt out of the darn thing. I'm sure there's some way or another you can tell Google that you don't wish to have your app given away that they'll honor, or at least indemnify you for lost revenue when they DO put it up for free.Short of that, you can always go back to windows developing, and stay off free platforms until you realize that the crap you puked out on your keyboard in an afternoon isn't worth $50 a pop.
I will gladly pay $1 in taxes each year to pay for them to print and mail a statement.
I've seen the accounting for such things in a number of corporations, and none of them could send out statements at a cost of under $1, so I doubt that the SSA can achieve such a cheap mailing, either.
One word. Franking. It helps when you're part of the entity that charges the postage...
In normal years, they could afford it, but the economy made it so they took in $40 billion less than they paid out last year. They expect a similar shortfall this year. This isn't bad, as the trust fund is coming REALLY close to $2 trillion, but they don't want to borrow more than they have to from interest or the general fund (I'm thinking borrow from the general fund is out right now). Basically, they're looking right down the barrel of a HUGE payout of trust fund as the baby boom retires in the next five to ten years, and don't want to take anything for granted.
Mountain Pass basically closed because the tailings were about to become a superfund site, and last year, they discovered a promising mine at Lemhi Pass that won't open until DEQ signs off on it. The REE are there, it's just that we've GOT to get a handle on smelting them first.
How do you make the pay-for-crap-software market go away? Make the guys running it go away. I'm pretty sure that the Taiwanese aren't going to miss a $5 frontend to "killall" or about a dozen pay frontends to "ntpdate"
DH "So the combination is... one, two, three, four, five? That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard in my life! The kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage! "... CS: "It worked, sir, we have the combination" PS: "that's great, we can now take every last breath of fresh air off Druidia, what was the combination?" CS: "12345" PS: "12345?" CS: "yes" PS: "that's amazing, I have the same combination on my luggage"
We did, in '74. Worked pretty good for less than a decade, then Reagan got elected, and within a second decade, all of the people involved in Watergate were back in their offices, almost as if nothing happened.
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That's kind of the point of a picket line, to completely close off outside access to a company. The fact that it was done via electronic means really doesn't change that they were doing exactly what they set out to do. My real worry here is that they win on 1st amendment grounds, then Spamford Wallace claims a moral victory. Like it or not, yelling your own free speech isn't criminal, even if it prevents the other side from saying anything.
If you can get charged with being one of a thousand emails, the only way to avoid that is being pseudonymous. To put it in a nutshell, shit's about to get fake.
In MA, the IBEW and CWA declared a strike against Verizon starting yesterday (Sunday). So, Verizon has very little trained staff on right now, and they want to do things to make their phones seem like they're broken to the end-user. This will turn out well....
Fair enough, "he" willl get equal billing next time XD
Publius was never a christening name used on the North American continent. It may have been used in Ancient Rome, but by 1783, it was a BIT out of vogue. Mark Twain is from an old method of sounding depths, where marks were knots in a weighted rope, one fathom apart, and twain was a term for two (thus the sounding man's cry "mark twain" meant 2 fathoms deep, or 12'): it's just about as likely to be used for a child's name as Boot Black, and for a similar reason: it's an indicator of a less-than-lucrative profession. I chose those two specially as pseudonyms that would completely fail most checks for Real Names, and threw in Orwell as a bonus. I can easily transform waddgodd back to it's original usage and make it into an acceptable (if rather risque) name for both facebook and G+. I took the name from John Holmes's original stage name (or pseudonym, if you will), Johnny Wadd (hey, I didn't want to go there, but AC kind of said that the name wouldn't make someone famous).
There's no small amount of evidence that "William Shakespeare" was a pseudonym for Sir Francis Bacon, so do tell me about the technological enhancements that provide for pseudonymity
'twas. For those watching at home, the birth names were: "an amalgam of Madison, Hamilton, and Jay", "Samuel Clemens", and "Eric Blair"
So was Publius a troll, fraud, or a spammer? What about George Orwell? What about Mark Twain?
The last US Rare Earth mine closed because it was an ecological nightmare to smelt the ore, not because it ran out. Since this is a new vein and not a new smelting process, it'll be doomed to failure the exact same way, so will the (relatively) new vein in Idaho. Short of the EPA rolling over on a mine that will be a superfund site within months of opening in a Democratic administration (anyone want to figure the odds of that?), this mine will be a non-starter.
I'd like to know how the FAA is investigating this, they've been closed down the last month because their funding bill's become a political football and they ran out of budget the first week in July
I don't even know the average size of the typical android app, but I'm guessing a 1000 LOC app would be HUGE in comparison to most of them, yet they want actual valuta for what is essentially an afternoon's work? I've seen a "must-have" app a friend showed me once, it was a GUI frontend to pgrep/pkill, for $5. The ripoff here is they charge you $$ for what is essentially a "hello world" app, then one day Google has the infernal gall to actually give it to you for free, and the devs whinge. Here's a surefire way to not get ripped off when Google puts your app up on "free day", opt out of the darn thing. I'm sure there's some way or another you can tell Google that you don't wish to have your app given away that they'll honor, or at least indemnify you for lost revenue when they DO put it up for free.Short of that, you can always go back to windows developing, and stay off free platforms until you realize that the crap you puked out on your keyboard in an afternoon isn't worth $50 a pop.
We'd better hurry up and launch then, don't want China to steal our Alpha Centauri victory
no, irony was posting against pseudonymity as an AC
It's going nowhere, Reid is still Majority Leader, it's in his state, and he's still against it. Lotta political smoke, not much fire.
I will gladly pay $1 in taxes each year to pay for them to print and mail a statement.
I've seen the accounting for such things in a number of corporations, and none of them could send out statements at a cost of under $1, so I doubt that the SSA can achieve such a cheap mailing, either.
One word. Franking. It helps when you're part of the entity that charges the postage...
In normal years, they could afford it, but the economy made it so they took in $40 billion less than they paid out last year. They expect a similar shortfall this year. This isn't bad, as the trust fund is coming REALLY close to $2 trillion, but they don't want to borrow more than they have to from interest or the general fund (I'm thinking borrow from the general fund is out right now). Basically, they're looking right down the barrel of a HUGE payout of trust fund as the baby boom retires in the next five to ten years, and don't want to take anything for granted.
Mountain Pass basically closed because the tailings were about to become a superfund site, and last year, they discovered a promising mine at Lemhi Pass that won't open until DEQ signs off on it. The REE are there, it's just that we've GOT to get a handle on smelting them first.
This is your corporate account. How does this happen?
I suggest it didn't. They just had to really quickly gin up a "hacker group" to cover their sick joke
Had they wanted to continue, would the next bid have been Feigenbaum's (4.669201609) billion?
How do you make the pay-for-crap-software market go away? Make the guys running it go away. I'm pretty sure that the Taiwanese aren't going to miss a $5 frontend to "killall" or about a dozen pay frontends to "ntpdate"
DH "So the combination is... one, two, three, four, five? That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard in my life! The kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage! " ...
CS: "It worked, sir, we have the combination"
PS: "that's great, we can now take every last breath of fresh air off Druidia, what was the combination?"
CS: "12345"
PS: "12345?"
CS: "yes"
PS: "that's amazing, I have the same combination on my luggage"
Who knew that Mel Brooks was so visionary?
...or they could get rid of major/minor versioning altogether, and just go with build number or something
Yeah, because facebook totally cares about spam
Great, now I'll NEVER get to work on time
(on second thought, I'll take two, one to keep at the office to prove why I'm late)
We did, in '74. Worked pretty good for less than a decade, then Reagan got elected, and within a second decade, all of the people involved in Watergate were back in their offices, almost as if nothing happened.