If IT is a cost center it is because the upper management has made it that way. They fail to hire or provide training for competent end-user employees, fail to approve IT's requests for tech initiatives that will streamline things and make them more effective, and generally play penny-wise pound-foolish and then throw IT under the bus.
This is the reality in those places where IT is a true cost center.
WE make no money for the company? Clearly you are yourself personally able to manage all your own IT needs including full compliance with SOX, PCI, HIPAA etc (like keeping your personal shit seperate from the business's). Clearly you yourself personally can engineer 150 servers down to 30 in a big VMotion capable environment with redundancy and failover. Clearly you are able to produce, maintain and evolve the business's ecommerce site all by yourself.
Look, I'm real sorry your job sucks and you need 60 hours to do what you get paid 40 for, but you are infinately more replaceable than me and the only REAL COST associated with IT is babysitting people who don't know enough to be able to manage their own tools.
How is it you are able to keep your job if you can't use the tools you need to do it?
Hey if you are going to start green-lighting destroying things that are a "pointless waste of resources" by all means let me start my list, I should warn you though that at least the first 1000 items are all going to be human beings.
I drive my vehicle because it suits my needs, without it I'm out of work, some ass wants to burn it is ASKING for a bullet in the face. Am I allowed to burn people's TVs because all they watch is Jerry Springer and "reality" shows?
The ELF is on the terrorist group list for a reason, they've done stuff that's maimed and killed people. They are a real bunch of assholes hated by pretty much every other non-affiliated environmental group.
So the person who chooses to go under cover into a gang of vicious killers who have a habit of going after people's families WHILE HAVING CHILDREN OF HIS OWN somehow bears no responsibility for placing them in harms way.
Right.
Yeah it is a huge difference, its called being a reckless and irresponsible parent.
The actions of this woman have put the lives of these officers at risk. More so, and the reason I am glad she's been arrested and I hope she is convicted, is that she has also put the lives of the officers' families at risk as well - the wives (or husbands) and children of these officers. Anyone who attempts to justify putting the lives of spouses and children at risk as acceptable is daft, pure and simple.
Wait wait wait wait wait. Who is putting these officer's families at risk? Someone who can track and record and research them thru means of public information? Or the OFFICERS themselves for working such a dangerous detail in the first place.
A parent should be held responsible for endangering the lives of his/her family by their choice of occupation. ESPECIALLY when they new DAMN WELL that this info was out there and legally obtainable.
The police won't even protect the families of those who step up to do the right thing by reporting and testifying against drug dealers, as is evidenced by the firebombings of those families around here. Yet suddenly their families are to be dealt a higher status while they actually perpetuate the activities of dealers while they are under cover building a case?
Sorry, no sympathy. You want to work that sort of dangerous type of thing, YOU need to accept the fact that the moment you do puts your family in danger. Period.
I fail to see the college's angle on this. They are refusing to order a textbook (we are told) that will be required for the class, a class they approved to be taught for which they are happy to collect tuition money from students. But they won't order textbooks? Which are (in every college I have ever seen) ordered by the school bookstore and sold to students taking the courses for a profit? What the hell? There is something more to this story that we aren't being told because it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
No Hummer owner with a brain in their head would trade it in for just a few grand rebate. You are far better off throwing it in a garage and parting it out. Do you have any idea how expensive Hummer parts are??? They get $800 for ONE door mirror. I bet you could part out a Hummer and raise enough money to buy a fleet of Insights.
I'm much more interested in the immediate savings gained by changing automobiles right now.
The immediate savings? OH you mean replacing your liability-only insurance policy and your complete lack of a monthly car payment with probably a 100% increase in insurance costs and several hundred dollars in recurring monthly car payments over the next several years. Never mind the fact that the vehicle you have to trade in will probably last you as long as it would take you to pay off a new one.
Now just try convincing the average American moron that Medicare is a federal program.
"At a recent town hall meeting, a man stood up and told Representative Bob Inglis to "keep your government hands off my Medicare." The congressman, a Republican from South Carolina, tried to explain that Medicare is already a government program â" but the voter, Mr. Inglis said, "wasnâ(TM)t having any of it.""
How is his argument any more flawed than the unsubstantiated speculation that he is replying to? Maybe the problem doesn't come from the first people forced on the dole, but I would think that there is a much greater likelyhood that those who grew up with their family getting provided for by the government would learn to expect it.
Run? Why the hell run? If you are that screwed anyway you might as well become the monster they think you are. A few news stories about RIAA executives' or their lawyers' heads turning into a fine pink mist in broad daylight on a public street at least might bring some attention to the debate.
It's not like you'd be drowning a puppy or anything.
Well, the problem is multifold. Part of it is that people who scream rant and rave about "keeping the government out of Medicare" without the mental ability to understand that it is a Federal program (or any one of hundreds of other examples, that's just the one making my brain bleed right now) have the exact same voting value as someone who researches issues and educates themselves on the candidates. Another part of the problem is that law has become too much of its own realm, and needs to be destroyed and reworked.
I'm certain that you have heard the quote "Ignorance of the law is no excuse". I argue that it is in fact an excuse, and quite a valid one. The man that coined that phrase was right to do so because he had EVERY law permanently posted in a public forum in language the citizens could understand, so there was in fact, no excuse for anyone not to know the laws. They were right there in front of them in simple language.
Law today is so massively and totally complicated that each and every one of us would have needed a lawyer issued to us on our date of birth to get anywhere NEAR a point where ignorance wasn't a valid excuse.
The complete lack of balance in fines and punishments is another huge issue, you could physically steal an entire tractor trailer of RIAA label music and not get anywhere near the punishment that has been levied in these infringement cases. I find it curious that the RIAA scream at the top of their lungs that file sharing is theft right up until they get to the punishment phase when it magically becomes infringement.
Have you ever been to a Department of Motor Vehicles or Social Security office in the US? If so do you REALLY think it would be a good idea having an agency like that running a health care system? I think I'd sooner remove my own appendix with a dull spoon.
A few years ago there was some high school drug dealer around here who was shot about 4 or 5 times and survived, 2 years later he was killed by someone who hit him ONCE with an aluminum bat to the skull. Which basically disassembled his head.
So yeah, all things considered, I'd say a bat is more dangerous.
A couple of years ago I helped install a state of the art fiber optic/cat-5e network in a public school without phones in the classrooms, no working intercom call system, and 486's-Pentium 2s and an old Apple System 7 server.
Because I am on call for my company and I would like to be able to go to a parent teacher conference and still be reachable? ("we can't reach Dr Bob because he's at his son's school play" I can actually HEAR the lawyers salivating)
Because I'm the school IT guy/facilities guy and need to be able to use a cell anywhere in the facility?
Because I'm a student with a cellphone and a LUNCH HOUR and would like to ask my mom if I can go to a friends straight after school? (when I was in school there were 4 lunch periods, started at like 11:15 and ended at 1:45)
Because you can't just willy-nilly intercept, redirect, manipulate or otherwise interfere with regulated communications frequencies cuz ITS AGAINST THE DAMN LAW????
I knew we were on our way to being well and truly fucked as far as the schools go when I heard that the middle school down the street from my parents, 2 years after I graduated, had banned the wearing of smiley faces because they were deemed to be "gang symbols".
You are completely insane. Let's run through this point by point shall we.
(1) Put one or more micro-cells in the school so that's what the phone will attach to, instead of the regular towers.
That'd require an agreement with EVERY carrier and doing so without their authorization is probably illegal.
(2) When calls go through those micro-cells, add a surcharge of $10/minute
Who is adding these charges? Who is AGREEING to having these charges being made part of their contracts?
(3) Use the money obtained to fund the school system
Oh please, all what, $5000 a year? How about stating by using the lottery profits to fund the schools like what was originally promised and not keep building new sports arenas with them?
Frankly, someone under 18 can't sign a cell contract, so kids with cell phones are kids with rich parents who have enough disposable income to buy their kids a cell phone, and who can afford to pay proportionally more in order to fund the schools, and probably should be doing so, in the first place.
RICH PARENTS???? It costs $10 a month to add an additional line on an AT&T Wireless plan, you could dock a kid's allowance to pay for it if you wanted. (also, 'rich parents' send their kids to private schools who never even entertain the thought of cellphone jamming)
One teacher I know is a black belt and even he says that the last thing he would ever do is use some martial arts in the class room - because a child slapping you in the face is not a life threatening situation, and no reasonable person would believe that a teacher breaking a student's bones is justified.
Of course, this is in a relatively safe country. In the United States, where many students own guns and could easily slaughter their classmates, things may be different.
I'm going to call bullshit. What grades does this teacher teach? I GUARANTEE you that if a high school jock threw a punch at that teacher or tried to kick him in the crotch he would INSTINCTIVELY use a martial arts block to defend himself. It becomes part of your muscle memory.
And guns are not as dangerous as you think. You could do more damage faster with an aluminum baseball bat in a classroom.
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All us childless people are NOT going to be happy covering for you family folk while you all try to jam your family vacations into 1 month's time.
If IT is a cost center it is because the upper management has made it that way. They fail to hire or provide training for competent end-user employees, fail to approve IT's requests for tech initiatives that will streamline things and make them more effective, and generally play penny-wise pound-foolish and then throw IT under the bus.
This is the reality in those places where IT is a true cost center.
WE make no money for the company? Clearly you are yourself personally able to manage all your own IT needs including full compliance with SOX, PCI, HIPAA etc (like keeping your personal shit seperate from the business's). Clearly you yourself personally can engineer 150 servers down to 30 in a big VMotion capable environment with redundancy and failover. Clearly you are able to produce, maintain and evolve the business's ecommerce site all by yourself.
Look, I'm real sorry your job sucks and you need 60 hours to do what you get paid 40 for, but you are infinately more replaceable than me and the only REAL COST associated with IT is babysitting people who don't know enough to be able to manage their own tools.
How is it you are able to keep your job if you can't use the tools you need to do it?
What the FSCK! How lame is your college that it can't run an email system?
When you finally get out you might want to check and see if your diploma is signed.
Hey if you are going to start green-lighting destroying things that are a "pointless waste of resources" by all means let me start my list, I should warn you though that at least the first 1000 items are all going to be human beings.
I drive my vehicle because it suits my needs, without it I'm out of work, some ass wants to burn it is ASKING for a bullet in the face. Am I allowed to burn people's TVs because all they watch is Jerry Springer and "reality" shows?
The ELF is on the terrorist group list for a reason, they've done stuff that's maimed and killed people. They are a real bunch of assholes hated by pretty much every other non-affiliated environmental group.
So the person who chooses to go under cover into a gang of vicious killers who have a habit of going after people's families WHILE HAVING CHILDREN OF HIS OWN somehow bears no responsibility for placing them in harms way.
Right.
Yeah it is a huge difference, its called being a reckless and irresponsible parent.
The actions of this woman have put the lives of these officers at risk. More so, and the reason I am glad she's been arrested and I hope she is convicted, is that she has also put the lives of the officers' families at risk as well - the wives (or husbands) and children of these officers. Anyone who attempts to justify putting the lives of spouses and children at risk as acceptable is daft, pure and simple.
Wait wait wait wait wait. Who is putting these officer's families at risk? Someone who can track and record and research them thru means of public information? Or the OFFICERS themselves for working such a dangerous detail in the first place.
A parent should be held responsible for endangering the lives of his/her family by their choice of occupation. ESPECIALLY when they new DAMN WELL that this info was out there and legally obtainable.
The police won't even protect the families of those who step up to do the right thing by reporting and testifying against drug dealers, as is evidenced by the firebombings of those families around here. Yet suddenly their families are to be dealt a higher status while they actually perpetuate the activities of dealers while they are under cover building a case?
Sorry, no sympathy. You want to work that sort of dangerous type of thing, YOU need to accept the fact that the moment you do puts your family in danger. Period.
I fail to see the college's angle on this. They are refusing to order a textbook (we are told) that will be required for the class, a class they approved to be taught for which they are happy to collect tuition money from students. But they won't order textbooks? Which are (in every college I have ever seen) ordered by the school bookstore and sold to students taking the courses for a profit? What the hell? There is something more to this story that we aren't being told because it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
If you don't own something you can't license it out, pretty simple.
You can, however, relicense something that's in the public domain. You're not even obliged to tell them it's public domain.
At which point someone should turn your skull into a fucking canoe with a .50 cal rifle.
Following your logic, I am going to start billing people for fire, the wheel, and cutting blades.
No Hummer owner with a brain in their head would trade it in for just a few grand rebate. You are far better off throwing it in a garage and parting it out. Do you have any idea how expensive Hummer parts are??? They get $800 for ONE door mirror. I bet you could part out a Hummer and raise enough money to buy a fleet of Insights.
I'm much more interested in the immediate savings gained by changing automobiles right now.
The immediate savings? OH you mean replacing your liability-only insurance policy and your complete lack of a monthly car payment with probably a 100% increase in insurance costs and several hundred dollars in recurring monthly car payments over the next several years. Never mind the fact that the vehicle you have to trade in will probably last you as long as it would take you to pay off a new one.
Now just try convincing the average American moron that Medicare is a federal program.
"At a recent town hall meeting, a man stood up and told Representative Bob Inglis to "keep your government hands off my Medicare." The congressman, a Republican from South Carolina, tried to explain that Medicare is already a government program â" but the voter, Mr. Inglis said, "wasnâ(TM)t having any of it.""
Given that no matter what the system is, ANY AND EVERY payout is a loss to that system.
Do you REALLY think medical insurance is there to help you?
How is his argument any more flawed than the unsubstantiated speculation that he is replying to? Maybe the problem doesn't come from the first people forced on the dole, but I would think that there is a much greater likelyhood that those who grew up with their family getting provided for by the government would learn to expect it.
Run? Why the hell run? If you are that screwed anyway you might as well become the monster they think you are. A few news stories about RIAA executives' or their lawyers' heads turning into a fine pink mist in broad daylight on a public street at least might bring some attention to the debate.
It's not like you'd be drowning a puppy or anything.
Well, the problem is multifold. Part of it is that people who scream rant and rave about "keeping the government out of Medicare" without the mental ability to understand that it is a Federal program (or any one of hundreds of other examples, that's just the one making my brain bleed right now) have the exact same voting value as someone who researches issues and educates themselves on the candidates. Another part of the problem is that law has become too much of its own realm, and needs to be destroyed and reworked.
I'm certain that you have heard the quote "Ignorance of the law is no excuse". I argue that it is in fact an excuse, and quite a valid one. The man that coined that phrase was right to do so because he had EVERY law permanently posted in a public forum in language the citizens could understand, so there was in fact, no excuse for anyone not to know the laws. They were right there in front of them in simple language.
Law today is so massively and totally complicated that each and every one of us would have needed a lawyer issued to us on our date of birth to get anywhere NEAR a point where ignorance wasn't a valid excuse.
The complete lack of balance in fines and punishments is another huge issue, you could physically steal an entire tractor trailer of RIAA label music and not get anywhere near the punishment that has been levied in these infringement cases. I find it curious that the RIAA scream at the top of their lungs that file sharing is theft right up until they get to the punishment phase when it magically becomes infringement.
Have you ever been to a Department of Motor Vehicles or Social Security office in the US? If so do you REALLY think it would be a good idea having an agency like that running a health care system? I think I'd sooner remove my own appendix with a dull spoon.
Its the RIAA, I'm certain they'd accept the child, they have to feed their lawyers after all you know.
A few years ago there was some high school drug dealer around here who was shot about 4 or 5 times and survived, 2 years later he was killed by someone who hit him ONCE with an aluminum bat to the skull. Which basically disassembled his head.
So yeah, all things considered, I'd say a bat is more dangerous.
A couple of years ago I helped install a state of the art fiber optic/cat-5e network in a public school without phones in the classrooms, no working intercom call system, and 486's-Pentium 2s and an old Apple System 7 server.
You were LUCKY.
Because I am on call for my company and I would like to be able to go to a parent teacher conference and still be reachable? ("we can't reach Dr Bob because he's at his son's school play" I can actually HEAR the lawyers salivating)
Because I'm the school IT guy/facilities guy and need to be able to use a cell anywhere in the facility?
Because I'm a student with a cellphone and a LUNCH HOUR and would like to ask my mom if I can go to a friends straight after school? (when I was in school there were 4 lunch periods, started at like 11:15 and ended at 1:45)
Because you can't just willy-nilly intercept, redirect, manipulate or otherwise interfere with regulated communications frequencies cuz ITS AGAINST THE DAMN LAW????
I'm 39 and I completely agree with you.
I knew we were on our way to being well and truly fucked as far as the schools go when I heard that the middle school down the street from my parents, 2 years after I graduated, had banned the wearing of smiley faces because they were deemed to be "gang symbols".
You are completely insane. Let's run through this point by point shall we.
(1) Put one or more micro-cells in the school so that's what the phone will attach to, instead of the regular towers.
That'd require an agreement with EVERY carrier and doing so without their authorization is probably illegal.
(2) When calls go through those micro-cells, add a surcharge of $10/minute
Who is adding these charges? Who is AGREEING to having these charges being made part of their contracts?
(3) Use the money obtained to fund the school system
Oh please, all what, $5000 a year? How about stating by using the lottery profits to fund the schools like what was originally promised and not keep building new sports arenas with them?
Frankly, someone under 18 can't sign a cell contract, so kids with cell phones are kids with rich parents who have enough disposable income to buy their kids a cell phone, and who can afford to pay proportionally more in order to fund the schools, and probably should be doing so, in the first place.
RICH PARENTS???? It costs $10 a month to add an additional line on an AT&T Wireless plan, you could dock a kid's allowance to pay for it if you wanted. (also, 'rich parents' send their kids to private schools who never even entertain the thought of cellphone jamming)
One teacher I know is a black belt and even he says that the last thing he would ever do is use some martial arts in the class room - because a child slapping you in the face is not a life threatening situation, and no reasonable person would believe that a teacher breaking a student's bones is justified.
Of course, this is in a relatively safe country. In the United States, where many students own guns and could easily slaughter their classmates, things may be different.
I'm going to call bullshit. What grades does this teacher teach? I GUARANTEE you that if a high school jock threw a punch at that teacher or tried to kick him in the crotch he would INSTINCTIVELY use a martial arts block to defend himself. It becomes part of your muscle memory.
And guns are not as dangerous as you think. You could do more damage faster with an aluminum baseball bat in a classroom.