Hey, I've had to fire someone because her father used work in an industry that competed with two of my clients.
Wow, just wow. That's simply retarded. How the flying FUCK can you justify that? Maybe she has a neighbor who works for your client's competition, or a former teacher or professor or classmate or babysitter who now does, let alone USED TO.
My employer is my boss not my clients, our company has clients that are in direct and indirect competition with each other, and if any client want's one of our employees fired it'd better be for a better fucking reason than the past work history of a relative. WE've fired clients for much much less.
There are within maybe a few miles of my parent's home, approximately a dozen game retailers. ALL of them employ staffs comprised of mostly teenage high school kids or those out of high school less than 2 years.
Am I surprised that they sell to their younger friends/relatives. Not in the least.
Yeah that complicated tax code is why Warren Buffett pays 17% while his secretary pays 30%. Even HE doesn't agree with it.
And you mentioned attorneys, go figure legal services STILL aren't subject to this expanded sales tax, while my clicking buttons on a virus scanner or install wizard somehow is.
You seem to think that air superiority is still important. This is an old point of view which has been superseded with the renewn interest in improving the army.
Air superiority will always be necessary, as is ocean superiority. You cannot control the land if you cannot defeat what comes from the air and sea. The Army can hide under bunkers and buildings, hide amongst the population, camouflage its tanks and anti-air guns and artillery. The army can move and occupy land. Not the air force.
Mission objectives are not always to take land, sometime you just need a specific target neutralized. Sometimes that target is someone else's air power. Bombing before landing is important but the navy can do that more easily than the air force so why the need for air superiority?
Yeah that navy is going to be doing that with a carrier battlegroup, which is arguably THE air-superiority force at sea. If you don't own the sky when the ships show up, your enemy can hit them from the air. The only reason is to be able to use helicopters and cargo airplanes. They can make your grunts move faster and safer but that's pretty much it.
Truely, but lets not forget the ability to provide close-air support troops in trouble on the ground, or simply to make their fight easier. And medivac and C&C/intel birds too. And don't forget that you can get air superiority thanks to anti-air guns and missile systems.
Only if you want to put your platforms at risk, easier and cheaper to send a bird than try to explain why a nuclear carrier is sinking because an enemy fighter got close enough for a lucky shot.
As a matter of fact, do you still believe there are dog fights in the sky?
If you ignore the basics, someone somewhere one day will seriously make you regret it.
Air planes are now airborn missile platforms to bomb and intercept. Small and stealthy pilotless aircrafts are the future.
Remote control is fine but nothing beats being AT the fight. The air force is not obsolete but it is definitely not the most important part of the team. The ground troops are the most important. The others are just gravy.
Depends on the conflict. If you want to take and hold ground, sure, never gonna happen without a man in the mud. But if your mission objectives are to break a blockaded port, or destroy a weapons facility, etc its a different game. Oh and by the way, when you do put in the ground pounders, chances are they won't be "regular" Army, it'll be Rangers, paratroopers, air cavalry, and the Marines. Regular army is largely defensive and support these days.
The Top Gun era has ended. Time to move on.
Yeah that theory was behind the reason that we needed the Top Gun school in the first place.
Sounds like your employer is woefully understaffed. I used to be one of those 24/7 on call types. NEVER could have an evening without interruption. They even tried to get me when I was on vacation. All you are doing is perpetuating the problem. Make them pay for adequate staff. I still have on call days, but no more than 2 a week.
But if you are satisfied with them owning your ass so be it, but don't bring their BS into my life.
She was judged to be LIABLE, not guilty, based on the fact that she had offered files for upload, despite earlier cases where such an offering was not considered to be fact enough to prove infringement. A fact which was hidden from the trial judge even tho it was known to the RIAA attorneys, who should have disclosed that to the court.
Funny, when I first heard it was called Dollhouse I immediately wondered if it was related to one of the 2 mature audiences independant comics of the same name.
In the spirit of Star Trek diplomacy, "Words don't always solve problems. Sometimes you just have to punch an alien, er, customer service representative in the face."
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Well after our talking head trusted sources started getting caught fabricating news stories out of thin air....
I wouldn't call this news, a more accurate term would be gossip.
Full Metal Jacket:
"easy, ya just don't lead 'em as much!"
"It may not be on quite the same scale as Dickens in his day"
Remember also that much of what became renowned was at its time just trashy to many people, Shakespeare for instance.
So what if your "normal job" is a for-hire network administrator who has to do forensi work?
So while I don't care about their god, I need to ensure that they don't all share the same god because I can't lose them all on the same day.
Perhaps a few courses on project management are in order.
Hey, I've had to fire someone because her father used work in an industry that competed with two of my clients.
Wow, just wow. That's simply retarded. How the flying FUCK can you justify that? Maybe she has a neighbor who works for your client's competition, or a former teacher or professor or classmate or babysitter who now does, let alone USED TO.
My employer is my boss not my clients, our company has clients that are in direct and indirect competition with each other, and if any client want's one of our employees fired it'd better be for a better fucking reason than the past work history of a relative. WE've fired clients for much much less.
Can't we somehow ban the RIAA from legally being able to use anything containing a microprocessor?
Bye bye E-Z Bake Oven...
You have no expectation of privacy in public. Maybe that's why they call it "public". Don't like it? Stay home and close your windows.
I DARE you to try pulling something like tracking people in public as a private citizen, see how that works out for you. Stalker.
Also consider this:
There are within maybe a few miles of my parent's home, approximately a dozen game retailers. ALL of them employ staffs comprised of mostly teenage high school kids or those out of high school less than 2 years.
Am I surprised that they sell to their younger friends/relatives. Not in the least.
Yeah that complicated tax code is why Warren Buffett pays 17% while his secretary pays 30%. Even HE doesn't agree with it.
And you mentioned attorneys, go figure legal services STILL aren't subject to this expanded sales tax, while my clicking buttons on a virus scanner or install wizard somehow is.
You seem to think that air superiority is still important. This is an old point of view which has been superseded with the renewn interest in improving the army.
Air superiority will always be necessary, as is ocean superiority. You cannot control the land if you cannot defeat what comes from the air and sea.
The Army can hide under bunkers and buildings, hide amongst the population, camouflage its tanks and anti-air guns and artillery. The army can move and occupy land. Not the air force.
Mission objectives are not always to take land, sometime you just need a specific target neutralized. Sometimes that target is someone else's air power.
Bombing before landing is important but the navy can do that more easily than the air force so why the need for air superiority?
Yeah that navy is going to be doing that with a carrier battlegroup, which is arguably THE air-superiority force at sea. If you don't own the sky when the ships show up, your enemy can hit them from the air.
The only reason is to be able to use helicopters and cargo airplanes. They can make your grunts move faster and safer but that's pretty much it.
Truely, but lets not forget the ability to provide close-air support troops in trouble on the ground, or simply to make their fight easier. And medivac and C&C/intel birds too.
And don't forget that you can get air superiority thanks to anti-air guns and missile systems.
Only if you want to put your platforms at risk, easier and cheaper to send a bird than try to explain why a nuclear carrier is sinking because an enemy fighter got close enough for a lucky shot.
As a matter of fact, do you still believe there are dog fights in the sky?
If you ignore the basics, someone somewhere one day will seriously make you regret it.
Air planes are now airborn missile platforms to bomb and intercept. Small and stealthy pilotless aircrafts are the future.
Remote control is fine but nothing beats being AT the fight.
The air force is not obsolete but it is definitely not the most important part of the team. The ground troops are the most important. The others are just gravy.
Depends on the conflict. If you want to take and hold ground, sure, never gonna happen without a man in the mud. But if your mission objectives are to break a blockaded port, or destroy a weapons facility, etc its a different game. Oh and by the way, when you do put in the ground pounders, chances are they won't be "regular" Army, it'll be Rangers, paratroopers, air cavalry, and the Marines. Regular army is largely defensive and support these days.
The Top Gun era has ended. Time to move on.
Yeah that theory was behind the reason that we needed the Top Gun school in the first place.
So, out of curiousity, what's the plan if you get injured or have some sort of accident?
Still sounds understaffed.
They would be better putting your salary toward a third-party managed solution.
Sounds like your employer is woefully understaffed. I used to be one of those 24/7 on call types. NEVER could have an evening without interruption. They even tried to get me when I was on vacation. All you are doing is perpetuating the problem. Make them pay for adequate staff. I still have on call days, but no more than 2 a week.
But if you are satisfied with them owning your ass so be it, but don't bring their BS into my life.
I do propose at some point the ubiquitous rude behavior on cell phones dictates some solution. I hope sooner rather than later.
If alone, place yourself next to the rude bastard, pull out a pad, and start taking notes.
If with a friend, place yourselves on opposite sides of rude bastard and start a conversation ACROSS him/her.
No legally she's not guilty. She was found LIABLE, this is a civil action NOT a criminal one, where the standards of proof are much looser.
Sigh. No. Wrong.
She was judged to be LIABLE, not guilty, based on the fact that she had offered files for upload, despite earlier cases where such an offering was not considered to be fact enough to prove infringement. A fact which was hidden from the trial judge even tho it was known to the RIAA attorneys, who should have disclosed that to the court.
This should be tossed on that fact alone.
Now, when will we see the RIAA sue EMI?
Funny, when I first heard it was called Dollhouse I immediately wondered if it was related to one of the 2 mature audiences independant comics of the same name.
Definition: media, An object or device, such as a disk, on which data is stored.
Their term is incorrect even as a description, as Kazaa does NOT distribute media, if it sent you CDs in the mail that'd be different.
I can find no definiton for the term media that defines it as data or content.
In the spirit of Star Trek diplomacy, "Words don't always solve problems. Sometimes you just have to punch an alien, er, customer service representative in the face."
Talk until you're out of breath and they still ignore you, maybe its time to switch to a hammer.
Are they certain they haven't gotten any component parts from Acme?
IANAL, but I doubt copyright is appropriate here, but in MD and VA UCITA might make such after-the-fact licenses enforcable.
Dozier Internet Law, P.C. does not direct our website to children under thirteen (13) years of age.
Anyone with a kid want to test this? They seem to think they are running some psychic webserver.