What's wrong with RICO? It was one of the few ways they ever managed to nab organized crime bosses who's hands were otherwise legally clean. PATRIOT wasn't created by Congress. It was created by the Department of Justice and John "Beat By a Deadman" Asscroft. This is extremely common knowledge. Where have you been for the last 2.75 years, Siberia? They surely have better 'Net access there than that!:-)
This is a fact that all too few people realize. Sure we're allegedly handing over control to a new Iraqi government. That doesn't mean our boys and girls are coming home. That doesn't mean they'll be in any less danger while they're there. This really doesn't change much of anything. For most people June 30 means our troops are coming home and all will be well. Few realize that we're still reading Chatper 2 in thie sordid novel. This is a 12 chapter book with a cliff-hanger for many sequels to follow.
After reading your comment I may now actually go out and see (rent) "Bowling for Columbine." I am very pro-gun and very anti gun-control (to me "gun control means hitting your target:-) ). I thought his movie was anti-gun (so much is nowadays). If your comment about him actually showing Canada's increased gun per capita rate vs ours' then it may actually be a documentary I want to see. I support the NRA simply because there are very few other organizations that support gun owners' rights (and those that don't have them but might or that might simply benefit from others having them). Unfortunately the NRA is more than a little overzealous. Like all large organizations their size has gone to their heads, not necessarily powering their collective brain but instead swelling their ego. I wish they'd get it under control. I wouldn't then be somewhat ashamed to call myself a member. I think I'll rent that Moore movie. I hope he didn't go overboard with making it into a typical Hollywood flick. That would be a shame. I did like much of his book "Dude, Where's My Country" though, despite the Hollywood flare.
I live in the sticks. I mean that literally. To 99% of the country I live in the middle of freaking nowhere. This town has no gas station. It doesn't have a grocery store. We have one cafe that opened less than a month ago. Main street is paved in bricks. This town has a population of 231 at the last census. You see as many horses on main street as you do trucks. By all accounts I live in a deserted area of the country (though heavily populated when compared to areas of Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, New Mexico, or western Kansas. I do however live in one of the most important areas of the country, meteorlogically speaking. I live in tornado alley. Don't know what "tornado alley" is? Lets just say that we have a helluva a lot of tornados, more so than anywhere else in the world. I live east of the nearest town with a TV station and weather dept. Take note of the word "east" because that's very important. Tornadic weather in this area almost always moves west to east in general (NW-->SE, SW-->NE, etc). More often than not our local TV stations have live coverage of all storms west of their area. No commercials, no regular programming, just wall to wall coverage of the cloud floating overhead. That all changes as soon as the storm passes their precious little town. We're only 2 counties east of the TV station(s), 90 minutes driving time from town, and yet they rarely ever bother to cover us. If we're lucky we might get a glimpse of a radar image in the corner of the screen. Beyond that we're on our own. NOAA is the only entity that seems to give a rat's ass about us. They aren't in it for the ratings like our local TV stations. They only care about weather and the areas being affected. Without NOAA we'd be up shit's creek. I have 2 NOAA pages loaded right now since a storm went through a few hours ago. NOAA's NWS pages are indespensible. Privatizing weather forecasting will only lead to them concentrating on highly populated areas. They wouldn't give a damn about us in the sticks. You know, the ones that feed this country.
You school is an ISP. Would you like your ISP that's providing your DSL or cable modem requiring you to install their software so they can monitor your computer for you? I didn't think so.
Apply the same logic to the Internet connectivity you pay for at home like a DSL or cable modem connection. By your logic your ISP should be able to monitor your computer simply because you connected to their network. Nevermind that you are paying for access. "Don't want your computer searched? Don't connect to the network."
You should look into your state's renter/landlord laws. In Kansas it's called the Kansan Residential Landlord and Tenant Act. Our law explicitly forbids billing for bundled services not necessary for occupancy. I forget the exact wording but that's the jist of it. A lawyer in your area might be better able to advise you. I wouldn't be surprised if they are overstepping their bounds. All places like that will until someone stands up for themselves and fights back. Best of luck, and move out.
I just might have to pick up a copy of my own. I paid for a membership to dictionary.com (dictionary.reference.com IIRC). I pop open that page at least 2 dozen times a day on a slow typing day. OED might be pretty interesting too! Thanks
What exactly is the crime he's accused of? Taking customer lists from any other business would be actionable in civil court, ie he wouldn't be arrested. What value can they assess on a list of email addresses? Not that I'm defending this jackass. Frankly I'd like to meat [sic] up with him in a dark alley with an old Sun keyboard. Something from the original IPC would do nicely. I'm just curious what the actual criminal crime is that would cause him to be arrested, or if this is another company with $$$ getting the police to handle their civil affairs.
eBay "Message from eBay Member" messages do this. IIRC Paypal does too. I'm sure I've seen others but I can't remember them off the top of my head. That's always been something that annoyed me. I get a lot of spam that forges my address as the sender so when I flush it from my trap I get the DSN. Grrr...
I'm not up on this invite thing. I assume you have to be invited into the gmail service. Is that right? Could you do me please? thedocisn AAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTt yahoo.com. Thanks
Well I would have posted the WHOIS for both of those domains but Slashdot's fucking 'junk' character filter is all pissy about it. I really hate those fucking filters.
On the contrary, think of it this way. 90% of the population of the world lives in 10% of the populated area (cites, metropolis', etc..). Those 500 well-placed nukes could eliminated 90% of the population. I'm lucky though because I live in the sticks. The last census reported 231 people in this town. Bomb's away.
That's the way it should be too. It shouldn't be a bunch of suits sitting around bullshiting and interviewing a new manager. It should be the grunts in a dept that actually make things happen that should be interviewing all the candidates and making the recommendation to the top suit.
First of all you need to find out if the candidate has a backbone. Does the candidate bend in the wind like a cattail? Is the candidate more susceptable by manipulation from a few within the group? If so DON'T CONSIDER THAT CANDIDATE. You want someone with a good head on their shoulders that can think for themselves and see if someone is bullshiting them and trying to manipulate their ofice views. You don't need that kind of shit. You also need a boss that while go to bat for your dept with his bosses, the big wigs. A backbone helps makes him a respectable person.
Does the candidate have a background in the trenches of IT? The best supervisors and bosses I've had are ones that came up from the trenches through the ranks to be my boss. They've done the same things I'm doing and know how difficult it can be. While you don't have to be a former-grunt to be a good boss, it sure helps. It also helps them know when someone is bullshiting them.
Ask what they did at their previous jobs to build office comradery, relieve stress, and make the office a better place to work in general. If they've never been in management (yikes!) ask what they'd see as good in their eyes for things to do here. While you want someone with a backbone you also don't want a hardass slave driver.
During the last search I participated in I asked the 3 candidates on the short list what words, phrases, or main points would their department mission statement contain. Ie, I was looking for them to say something with the users in mind. 2 actually did that. The other started rambling. It's not a question they'd normally expect but it's not that hard if they have a good (honest) head on their shoulders and are quick on their feet. Good qualities for a person in management (or at least the type of person we'd like to see in management). Best of luck.
I worked on one on New Year's Eve that was almost as bad. Win98 box with 853 pieces of crap found by Adaware. The machine was horribly s-l-o-o-o-o-o-o-w. It was bad. All the extra toolbar things were stepping on each others' toes. Kind of funny too I suppose.
Well, actually it's not possible to use a cigarette in a way that doesn't hurt somebody. If not the people around the smoker than the smoker themself. Filters don't help. The little perforations in the base don't help. Doing it really slowly doesn't help. The only thing that helps is not doing period.
Frankly I really hate both parties. I think our party system should be abandoned. Wait, I've said that before. Look at my history to read where I wrote that yesterday. I'm gonnasave my fingers for another debate. Maybe you and I should go into politics as independents.:-)
I could see myself running for office someday. However I don't want anything to do with either the Republicans or Democrats. I think the party system in and of itself is a joke and corrupt to boot. I think we should abandon the party system and elect individuals. The party system has no honest way or actually working. How can the Republican party say that they support the Republican views of a farmer in Kansas and a CEO bigwig in New York? What about a Republican retired couple in Florida or a Republican marketing flunky in LA? The Republican party can not appease all those different people and what they consider to be their stance on issues. It's impossible. We need to elect individuals for their personal beliefs, not a corrupt entity that simply wants to increase its power. The party system needs to go.
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What's wrong with RICO? It was one of the few ways they ever managed to nab organized crime bosses who's hands were otherwise legally clean. PATRIOT wasn't created by Congress. It was created by the Department of Justice and John "Beat By a Deadman" Asscroft. This is extremely common knowledge. Where have you been for the last 2.75 years, Siberia? They surely have better 'Net access there than that! :-)
Those missile parts were from SCUDs. This has already been covered in depth by people paid much more than you or I to research this.
This is a fact that all too few people realize. Sure we're allegedly handing over control to a new Iraqi government. That doesn't mean our boys and girls are coming home. That doesn't mean they'll be in any less danger while they're there. This really doesn't change much of anything. For most people June 30 means our troops are coming home and all will be well. Few realize that we're still reading Chatper 2 in thie sordid novel. This is a 12 chapter book with a cliff-hanger for many sequels to follow.
After reading your comment I may now actually go out and see (rent) "Bowling for Columbine." I am very pro-gun and very anti gun-control (to me "gun control means hitting your target :-) ). I thought his movie was anti-gun (so much is nowadays). If your comment about him actually showing Canada's increased gun per capita rate vs ours' then it may actually be a documentary I want to see. I support the NRA simply because there are very few other organizations that support gun owners' rights (and those that don't have them but might or that might simply benefit from others having them). Unfortunately the NRA is more than a little overzealous. Like all large organizations their size has gone to their heads, not necessarily powering their collective brain but instead swelling their ego. I wish they'd get it under control. I wouldn't then be somewhat ashamed to call myself a member. I think I'll rent that Moore movie. I hope he didn't go overboard with making it into a typical Hollywood flick. That would be a shame. I did like much of his book "Dude, Where's My Country" though, despite the Hollywood flare.
I live in the sticks. I mean that literally. To 99% of the country I live in the middle of freaking nowhere. This town has no gas station. It doesn't have a grocery store. We have one cafe that opened less than a month ago. Main street is paved in bricks. This town has a population of 231 at the last census. You see as many horses on main street as you do trucks. By all accounts I live in a deserted area of the country (though heavily populated when compared to areas of Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, New Mexico, or western Kansas. I do however live in one of the most important areas of the country, meteorlogically speaking. I live in tornado alley. Don't know what "tornado alley" is? Lets just say that we have a helluva a lot of tornados, more so than anywhere else in the world. I live east of the nearest town with a TV station and weather dept. Take note of the word "east" because that's very important. Tornadic weather in this area almost always moves west to east in general (NW-->SE, SW-->NE, etc). More often than not our local TV stations have live coverage of all storms west of their area. No commercials, no regular programming, just wall to wall coverage of the cloud floating overhead. That all changes as soon as the storm passes their precious little town. We're only 2 counties east of the TV station(s), 90 minutes driving time from town, and yet they rarely ever bother to cover us. If we're lucky we might get a glimpse of a radar image in the corner of the screen. Beyond that we're on our own. NOAA is the only entity that seems to give a rat's ass about us. They aren't in it for the ratings like our local TV stations. They only care about weather and the areas being affected. Without NOAA we'd be up shit's creek. I have 2 NOAA pages loaded right now since a storm went through a few hours ago. NOAA's NWS pages are indespensible. Privatizing weather forecasting will only lead to them concentrating on highly populated areas. They wouldn't give a damn about us in the sticks. You know, the ones that feed this country.
You school is an ISP. Would you like your ISP that's providing your DSL or cable modem requiring you to install their software so they can monitor your computer for you? I didn't think so.
Apply the same logic to the Internet connectivity you pay for at home like a DSL or cable modem connection. By your logic your ISP should be able to monitor your computer simply because you connected to their network. Nevermind that you are paying for access. "Don't want your computer searched? Don't connect to the network."
You should look into your state's renter/landlord laws. In Kansas it's called the Kansan Residential Landlord and Tenant Act. Our law explicitly forbids billing for bundled services not necessary for occupancy. I forget the exact wording but that's the jist of it. A lawyer in your area might be better able to advise you. I wouldn't be surprised if they are overstepping their bounds. All places like that will until someone stands up for themselves and fights back. Best of luck, and move out.
I just might have to pick up a copy of my own. I paid for a membership to dictionary.com (dictionary.reference.com IIRC). I pop open that page at least 2 dozen times a day on a slow typing day. OED might be pretty interesting too! Thanks
MS is a wonderful tool, don't you think? I love it. We even bought Canit-Pro. That's a very nice tool. I highly recommend it.
OED? Mind telling us what it is? Sounds interesting.
What exactly is the crime he's accused of? Taking customer lists from any other business would be actionable in civil court, ie he wouldn't be arrested. What value can they assess on a list of email addresses? Not that I'm defending this jackass. Frankly I'd like to meat [sic] up with him in a dark alley with an old Sun keyboard. Something from the original IPC would do nicely. I'm just curious what the actual criminal crime is that would cause him to be arrested, or if this is another company with $$$ getting the police to handle their civil affairs.
eBay "Message from eBay Member" messages do this. IIRC Paypal does too. I'm sure I've seen others but I can't remember them off the top of my head. That's always been something that annoyed me. I get a lot of spam that forges my address as the sender so when I flush it from my trap I get the DSN. Grrr...
I ended up doing command line FTP in Windows too for adaware. It's was ugly but it worked. :-)
I'm not up on this invite thing. I assume you have to be invited into the gmail service. Is that right? Could you do me please? thedocisn AAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTt yahoo.com. Thanks
Now I'm feeling kind of left out. Ping me with one would ya? thedocisn2 AAAAAAATTTTTTTTT yahoo.com
Well I would have posted the WHOIS for both of those domains but Slashdot's fucking 'junk' character filter is all pissy about it. I really hate those fucking filters.
Simply put if you capture execute a spy you just commited murder. There is no grey area here.
Aim a couple dozen of your nukes at the most volatile volcanos and fill the skies with ash. I wonder what repeated hits on Mt. Renier (sp?) would do.
On the contrary, think of it this way. 90% of the population of the world lives in 10% of the populated area (cites, metropolis', etc..). Those 500 well-placed nukes could eliminated 90% of the population. I'm lucky though because I live in the sticks. The last census reported 231 people in this town. Bomb's away.
First of all you need to find out if the candidate has a backbone. Does the candidate bend in the wind like a cattail? Is the candidate more susceptable by manipulation from a few within the group? If so DON'T CONSIDER THAT CANDIDATE. You want someone with a good head on their shoulders that can think for themselves and see if someone is bullshiting them and trying to manipulate their ofice views. You don't need that kind of shit. You also need a boss that while go to bat for your dept with his bosses, the big wigs. A backbone helps makes him a respectable person.
Does the candidate have a background in the trenches of IT? The best supervisors and bosses I've had are ones that came up from the trenches through the ranks to be my boss. They've done the same things I'm doing and know how difficult it can be. While you don't have to be a former-grunt to be a good boss, it sure helps. It also helps them know when someone is bullshiting them.
Ask what they did at their previous jobs to build office comradery, relieve stress, and make the office a better place to work in general. If they've never been in management (yikes!) ask what they'd see as good in their eyes for things to do here. While you want someone with a backbone you also don't want a hardass slave driver.
During the last search I participated in I asked the 3 candidates on the short list what words, phrases, or main points would their department mission statement contain. Ie, I was looking for them to say something with the users in mind. 2 actually did that. The other started rambling. It's not a question they'd normally expect but it's not that hard if they have a good (honest) head on their shoulders and are quick on their feet. Good qualities for a person in management (or at least the type of person we'd like to see in management). Best of luck.
I worked on one on New Year's Eve that was almost as bad. Win98 box with 853 pieces of crap found by Adaware. The machine was horribly s-l-o-o-o-o-o-o-w. It was bad. All the extra toolbar things were stepping on each others' toes. Kind of funny too I suppose.
Well, actually it's not possible to use a cigarette in a way that doesn't hurt somebody. If not the people around the smoker than the smoker themself. Filters don't help. The little perforations in the base don't help. Doing it really slowly doesn't help. The only thing that helps is not doing period.
Frankly I really hate both parties. I think our party system should be abandoned. Wait, I've said that before. Look at my history to read where I wrote that yesterday. I'm gonnasave my fingers for another debate. Maybe you and I should go into politics as independents. :-)
I could see myself running for office someday. However I don't want anything to do with either the Republicans or Democrats. I think the party system in and of itself is a joke and corrupt to boot. I think we should abandon the party system and elect individuals. The party system has no honest way or actually working. How can the Republican party say that they support the Republican views of a farmer in Kansas and a CEO bigwig in New York? What about a Republican retired couple in Florida or a Republican marketing flunky in LA? The Republican party can not appease all those different people and what they consider to be their stance on issues. It's impossible. We need to elect individuals for their personal beliefs, not a corrupt entity that simply wants to increase its power. The party system needs to go.