And I'll bet he was paid at or just above minimum wage.
This guy (or gal) saved your multi-million dollar bacon, earned everyone else a big bonus, kudos all around and got precisely jack in compensation.
I've got the dumb today, please explain how this is NOT outright explotation of a possibly illegal kind.
I could be wrong but my understanding is the 'piracy' label came from the early days of DRM/copy protection. The groups that hacked/cracked the DRM had BBS handles that had pirate themes. They added ANSI type graphics, often a picture of a pirate ship or pirate with an eye patch, that said such and such program was cracked by Capt. Cracker and Scruvy crew. I remember those from my Apple II+/Commodore 64 days.
Some of it was a holdover from phone phreaks that also had BBS handles like Capt. Crunch (a.k.a John Draper)
I've never been in traffic that allows a zipper technique. Universally, traffic that goes to the end of the merge will come to a complete stop because no one in the merge-to lane will ever allow a another car to merge in. Here in Seattle, people actively and aggressively work to PREVENT people from merging in.
The trick is to find a gap big enough for your car and jam yourself into it. At least by getting in to a gap early, you can A) keep moving forward and B) prevent others from merging in front of you by tailgating the car in front of you.
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Didn't the FBI use something very similar to this to go after Al Capone. They called it The Untouchables. It was led by a guy named Eliot Ness . He was pretty successfull.
There ARE honest people in Goverment. Find them, give them the authority, and turn them loose.
Walmart average wage is $9.68/hr. Costco's average is $16.
Walmart: only 38% of nonsupervisory staff has health care. Walmart dumps its employee health care on the state health care system. Costco: 85% of employee's are covered. Costco offers part-time employees partial coverage. There is even a test program to offer a health care plan to self employed customers.
On a per store basis Costco does double that of Walmart "Wal-Mart operates 5,332 stores with annual sales of $288 billion, or $54 million per store. Costco has 452 stores with annual sales of $48 billion, or $106 million per store."
The Costco Mission Statement 1)Obey the law. 2)Take care of our members. 3)Take care of our employees. 4)Respect our vendors. 5)Reward our shareholders.
Walmart does not even have a official mission statement
This is exactly the kind of "I've got mine now fark off" attitude that really makes me grind my teeth.
This attitude seems almost like a hazing mentality. "I suffered, therefore you must too". No, we should be trying to pass down a better way to our kids. The mentality should be instead "I suffered so you don't have to".
We (meaning sociality in general) tells kids; study hard, go to college, and you'll get a good job. Then complain when kids start to believe it.
The tech jobs are in high cost of living areas like Seattle, San Fran, San Jose, etc. Young people want tech jobs. Young people need to live where the jobs are. They want to be paid such that they can live decently in those areas. This should surprise no one.
The whole off shoring/outsourcing trend does nothing but suppress wages and brain drains education and skills back to other countries. There maybe a handful of extremely specialized skill sets that require imported workers. At a rough guess, maybe 1000 or so of these type of jobs nation wide.
Great, Come on over, but I want my Windows XP games (especially WoW) to run as fast as they do under XP. I want to be able to rip and copy my DVD's. I want to be able to write to my DVD burner in general. I want to be able to install new software without going through a ton of configuration scripts. In short, I want Ubuntu (or any *nix) to be as easy to use as Windows.
Oh and while you are installing it on my machine, Can you install and support my 70 year old parents' machine as well? (good luck with that)
It's an old canard against Goodmail to claim it's an anti-spam system and then comdemn it as an ineffective solution. It's not supposed to be an anti-spam system. It's a system for legitimate senders to avoid false positives.
It's not just a matter of ponying up the money to them. You have to demonstrate that you are a legitimate business and a legitimate e-mail source, and not a significant source of complaints by users. Just how is that not the very definition of a anti-spam system?
The correct use is "43 kelvins." Unlike degrees Celsius or degrees Fahrenheit (both adjectives), it is a noun, and the correct pluralization is kelvins.
In other news, anal-retentive is hyphenated when it modifies a noun?
Are there ANY technogies that the eco-nut types actually like?
No Nanotech. RTFM No Fission Breeder reactors. Plutonium is bad. No Hydropower. Kills fish. Raises water temperature No Oil/Coal/Natural Gas. Global warming. No Wind Turbines. Ugly and noisy. No Solar. Ugly No Orbiting Microwave relay. Way Way too expensive. No Corn based diesel/Ethennol(sic). Frankenfoods. No Plasics. Toxic landfill. No Lumber/Paper products. Kills trees.
The word of the day boys and girls is...
Luddite n.
1)Any of a group of British workers who between 1811 and 1816 rioted and destroyed laborsaving textile machinery in the belief that such machinery would diminish employment. 2)One who opposes technical or technological change.
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Ok OK. You win. I'll get off your lawn
Yes, M.E Massengill no longer sells a product with Diethylene Glycol. For some problems, YES. The government IS a solution.
And I'll bet he was paid at or just above minimum wage. This guy (or gal) saved your multi-million dollar bacon, earned everyone else a big bonus, kudos all around and got precisely jack in compensation. I've got the dumb today, please explain how this is NOT outright explotation of a possibly illegal kind.
I'm not saying that robots could replace waitresses at Hooters, but there are places where robots could be used.
Why not? The waitresses at Hooters are already made of silicone. Silicon...Silicone...What's the differance?
Like my dad always said... "They can't MAKE you do it but they can sure as hell make you wish you had"
I guess I WAS wrong. Did not know
I could be wrong but my understanding is the 'piracy' label came from the early days of DRM/copy protection.
The groups that hacked/cracked the DRM had BBS handles that had pirate themes. They added ANSI type graphics, often a picture of a pirate ship or pirate with an eye patch, that said such and such program was cracked by Capt. Cracker and Scruvy crew. I remember those from my Apple II+/Commodore 64 days.
Some of it was a holdover from phone phreaks that also had BBS handles like Capt. Crunch (a.k.a John Draper)
I've never been in traffic that allows a zipper technique. Universally, traffic that goes to the end of the merge will come to a complete stop because no one in the merge-to lane will ever allow a another car to merge in. Here in Seattle, people actively and aggressively work to PREVENT people from merging in. The trick is to find a gap big enough for your car and jam yourself into it. At least by getting in to a gap early, you can A) keep moving forward and B) prevent others from merging in front of you by tailgating the car in front of you.
Didn't the FBI use something very similar to this to go after Al Capone. They called it The Untouchables. It was led by a guy named Eliot Ness . He was pretty successfull.
There ARE honest people in Goverment. Find them, give them the authority, and turn them loose.
I'm sorry, you'll have to take that up with the Ministry of Redundancy Minister. You'll need to fill out the paperwork in triplicate.
But only if your mother was a hampster and your father smells of elderberries.
*cough*Bullshit*cough*Bullshit*
Walmart average wage is $9.68/hr. Costco's average is $16.
Walmart: only 38% of nonsupervisory staff has health care. Walmart dumps its employee health care on the state health care system.
Costco: 85% of employee's are covered. Costco offers part-time employees partial coverage. There is even a test program to offer a health care plan to self employed customers.
On a per store basis Costco does double that of Walmart
"Wal-Mart operates 5,332 stores with annual sales of $288 billion, or $54 million per store. Costco has 452 stores with annual sales of $48 billion, or $106 million per store."
Costco's turnover is about 1/3 of Walmarts.
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/oct2005/tc2005107_6620.htm
The Costco Mission Statement
1)Obey the law.
2)Take care of our members.
3)Take care of our employees.
4)Respect our vendors.
5)Reward our shareholders.
Walmart does not even have a official mission statement
(disclaimer: I work for Costco)
This is exactly the kind of "I've got mine now fark off" attitude that really makes me grind my teeth.
This attitude seems almost like a hazing mentality. "I suffered, therefore you must too".
No, we should be trying to pass down a better way to our kids. The mentality should be instead "I suffered so you don't have to".
We (meaning sociality in general) tells kids; study hard, go to college, and you'll get a good job. Then complain when kids start to believe it.
The tech jobs are in high cost of living areas like Seattle, San Fran, San Jose, etc. Young people want tech jobs. Young people need to live where the jobs are. They want to be paid such that they can live decently in those areas. This should surprise no one.
The whole off shoring/outsourcing trend does nothing but suppress wages and brain drains education and skills back to other countries. There maybe a handful of extremely specialized skill sets that require imported workers. At a rough guess, maybe 1000 or so of these type of jobs nation wide.
Great, Come on over, but I want my Windows XP games (especially WoW) to run as fast as they do under XP. I want to be able to rip and copy my DVD's. I want to be able to write to my DVD burner in general. I want to be able to install new software without going through a ton of configuration scripts. In short, I want Ubuntu (or any *nix) to be as easy to use as Windows. Oh and while you are installing it on my machine, Can you install and support my 70 year old parents' machine as well? (good luck with that)
If you are talking about episodes 1-3 then the movies not the program, was short sighted and stupid.
Simple, tell the truth in such a manner that everyone thinks you are lying...
... obligatory Spiderman joke here.
I smoke plants all the time
The correct use is "43 kelvins." Unlike degrees Celsius or degrees Fahrenheit (both adjectives), it is a noun, and the correct pluralization is kelvins.
In other news, anal-retentive is hyphenated when it modifies a noun?
Now I'm hungry
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
Whitehead, Alfred North (1861 1947)
The movie with the magnetic boots was Fortress
Face Off was the movie in which Travolta and Cage switch ID's
... the movie could be 2.5 hours of G. Lucus' hairy butt and fanboy's will still flock to see it.
Are there ANY technogies that the eco-nut types actually like?
No Nanotech. RTFM
No Fission Breeder reactors. Plutonium is bad.
No Hydropower. Kills fish. Raises water temperature
No Oil/Coal/Natural Gas. Global warming.
No Wind Turbines. Ugly and noisy.
No Solar. Ugly
No Orbiting Microwave relay. Way Way too expensive.
No Corn based diesel/Ethennol(sic). Frankenfoods.
No Plasics. Toxic landfill.
No Lumber/Paper products. Kills trees.
The word of the day boys and girls is...
Luddite n.
1)Any of a group of British workers who between 1811 and 1816 rioted and destroyed laborsaving textile machinery in the belief that such machinery would diminish employment.
2)One who opposes technical or technological change.