Derp is right... no better way to destroy any hope of a career, than to do something monumentally stupid like this.
I've left positions that have been, to put it charitably, crap. Once it involved hard feelings against an asshat that destroyed the department.
OTOH, the golden rule is to never touch the machinery. EEOC and labor laws be damned, HR critters do talk to each other; even if your stupid stunt never made the news, it will make the rounds. Rest assured this guy will have to move to the other part of the country at the very least.
The way I interpreted the summary is as follows: "Case A wasn't prosecuted, case B was. Case B was less deserving of prosecution than case A. One difference between the two cases is attribute R [...]
(Emphasis mine)
Therein lies the problem: "One" difference. Thing is, there are likely a whole host of differences in the two cases. I'm not saying that either case should or should not be prosecuted, but I am saying that if the two are going to be compared, then how about including more pertinent contrasts than the blindingly obvious subtext of 'he's white and she's black'? You know, contrasts like circumstance, motive, intent...?
The democrats are a center right party, we have no left party.
Depends on your ideological POV, doesn't it? Consider...
* From the Limbaugh standpoint, the DNC is a frothing group of neo-marxists out to take down the USA by any means possible. * From the MSNBC fan's standpoint, the DNC is a fair-minded champion of tolerance and diversity whose policy set sits far to the right of that found in the EU.
* From my standpoint, both the DNC and the RNC are a bunch of posturing hypocritical leeches on society who don't give a shit about anything but gaining power, money and control. Their only real difference is in how they each want these things exerted, and on whom, but their goals are the same so long as they are the ones in charge when the dust settles.
Ideology? Pfft! That's simply the truncheon they use to keep their respective troops in line.
Unless you think your company is too stupid to think that you might do this, what makes you think they haven't taken measures that included in your backups is the ability to wipe those same backups from where ever you have copied them?
What makes you think they have access to my personal laptop to do any such thing?
I see the future of BYOD being running another OS instance for the work apps, or possibly a separate easily switched profile with encrypted storage.
It's easier to just sync/backup my Android phone to my personal laptop. Wipe whatever you want... my mail is copied via pop3 from gmail to my laptop (and backed up from there to the home server), and my phone is backed up similarly. Restoration is trivial at best.
Do you really think it's wise to burn it off in the next generation, leaving nothing left for the thousands of generations to come?
Given human nature, You'd be hard-pressed to come up with a better argument for space colonization. At least that way our descendants would have access to more resources that way.
How about this, instead? We invest in alternative energy technologies R&D now? Then when (or if, if you prefer) the cost of oil-based energy becomes prohibitive, we'll be prepared, instead of waiting until the last moment and running around like the denizens of Tokyo when Godzilla comes to town?
Sorry? You don't think the wait staff should have to report all their income?
It's likely because of the minimum wage thing. I'll explain:
In the US, tips are the reason why minimum wage can be (and usually is) ignored for those working that particular job. Wages of $2.50/hr are not uncommon for a typical waitress, and sometimes the establishment forces them to pool the tips and/or share them with the bussing and dishwashing staff, etc. Some even require that a percentage of the tips go to the house (never understood that one...) Unless you're at some posh and busy restaurant, this really doesn't amount to an awful lot of income once it's all said and done. It's not like we're forcing Bill Gates to pay his 'fair share' or suchlike... quite the opposite for most folks who work it.
I guess my objection is this - the money isn't usually enough to be worth quibbling over, even on the scale of annual accumulation. The good ones work hard to make sure you're treated with respect and kindness, and do their best to give you a good experience. In this economy, folks aren't given to going out to eat as often, leaving less income for an already tough job. Finally, if zillionaires regularly avoid paying their 'fair share' of taxes by way of various loopholes (either here or in Canada), then what's so harmful about occasionally letting the little guy (or gal) get a break?
And that second part is why its doomed...the cost. Anybody who has looked into pinball cabinets will tell you how crazy expensive they are to build and maintain
Well, sort of. Then again, how much money does the average XBox gamer spend each year on new titles, the Live account, a huge flatscreen TV to see it on, the internet connection, accessories... ?
TFA kept focusing on economic reasons though... and joke aside, the author forgot a few not-so-obvious-but-just-as compelling reasons:
1) population pressure 2) cultural/historical/other inquiry (aka the "because it's out there and we'd like to see it for ourselves" rationale) 3) war (you know, rebels and stuff... Everyone from King David to Mao Zedong spent time on the lam - where better to hide from an oppressive government than, you know, outer-freakin'-space?) 4) Maybe they want to know what Natalie Portman tastes like while naked and covered in grits? (okay not that, but maybe some similar stupid reason - think of it as a glorified hunting expedition, a'la Predator) 5) politics (hell, we build bridges to nowhere on governmental funds...) 6) {insert lesser barely-rational and irrational reasons here}
In 75 years the third or fourth generation "muslims" wil be exactly like the "christians". Which means: they don't believe in god or are in any way touched by religion.
Wait - you're assuming a conditions which really isn't a constant. Turkey's secular-friendly culture is an exception, not the rule... and only through a government dedicated towards stamping out the extremists has Turkey figured out how to keep Sharia law at bay.
France (for example) is becoming a way different story - you have an exploding demographic that really doesn't give a damn about integrating with the local existing culture. They are also busily helping to import as many fellow worshipers as the national immigration office will allow. Let me repeat this: in the past 20-25 years, there has been little-to-no cultural integration going on at all - instead, there are increasing demands that the existing culture integrate with them**.
While I don't know the deal in all of Europe, I can tell you that in most central EU nations, if you want to instigate a good mass fight in short order? Insure there's a mix of immigrants and native-born folks in a crowd, then ask any question out loud with the word "immigration" in it.
** Note that there is a less-volatile example of this in the US: Note how the Spanish language has become the unofficial 2nd language of most government-public interactions, and definitely in most publications.
75 years ago is 75 years ago. We made progress since then.
Our great-grandparents were saying something extremely similar in 1919...:/
Anyway, regardless of all this: there is a population of people already living in the EU, and I doubt they will let their freedoms slip away.
Immigration and birthrates will do what democracy and ideals will not.
Overpricing mistake for blue ray? Sure they sold less consoles, but when was the last time you bought an hd-dvd? They were very successful in hedging out their competing technology.
Wait - didn't the XBox originally have an HD-DVD option? Whatever happened to that?
As much as I detest having anything by Microsoft in my own home (work is a different story), let's be fair - I'm fairly sure they learned from the whole RROD incident
(ob. snark: That, or they learned XBox owners are not smart enough to realize that there's something inherently wrong with huge numbers of people buying the same damn thing multiple times, and/or waiting for it to go through RMA as opposed to actually using it...)
Even though playing pub servers means putting up with the occasional aim/wall/whatever hack-bot and/or juvenile chatter, overall they still play pretty well, even for the uber-old stuff like Quake 3.
(I never ever did pay-to-play for PC/console gaming in my life, so I couldn't tell you what Live or etc have in that aspect; that said, I assume that at least the bots are tamped down to a minimum, yes?)
Most of sharia law contradicts the charter of human rights. How do you come to the braindead assumption that parts of the EU would be able to fall under sharia?
You assume that majority rule is trumped by the UN, perhaps? More likely, you're not thinking of the same timescale I am - I'm looking at 50-75 years from now.
Further note that it wasn't 75 years ago when certain central European powers not only spat on the precepts of the UN Human Rights Charter, but became the historical impetus for forming the UN (and the aforementioned charter) in the first place.
AC's post wasn't racist, nationalist, or even all that idiotic. A bit too stereotypical IMO, but damn - wishing death (viz euthanasia) on the guy just because he (she, it) pointed out that yeah, it's going to be a problem down the road?
Seriously - there are elements of that post which happen to be correct - unless the muslim communities in Europe ratchet back (and tamp down) the whole demand for (and occasional practice of) Sharia law, parts of the EU may well end up living under it. Given that the radical elements do have a penchant for violence, he wasn't too far off the mark there, either.
2) You're looking at the wrong time scale. OSX and the iPod came out in 2001. MacBook Air The iPhone was launched in 2007, and the MacBook Air in 2008. The iPad showed up in 2010. On that kind of scale, Apple could wait until 2015 and it would still keep to its innovation calendar just fine.
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Derp is right... no better way to destroy any hope of a career, than to do something monumentally stupid like this.
I've left positions that have been, to put it charitably, crap. Once it involved hard feelings against an asshat that destroyed the department.
OTOH, the golden rule is to never touch the machinery. EEOC and labor laws be damned, HR critters do talk to each other; even if your stupid stunt never made the news, it will make the rounds. Rest assured this guy will have to move to the other part of the country at the very least.
You realize you just did the equivalent of saying "Beetlejuice" three times, right?
The way I interpreted the summary is as follows: "Case A wasn't prosecuted, case B was. Case B was less deserving of prosecution than case A. One difference between the two cases is attribute R [...]
(Emphasis mine)
Therein lies the problem: "One" difference. Thing is, there are likely a whole host of differences in the two cases. I'm not saying that either case should or should not be prosecuted, but I am saying that if the two are going to be compared, then how about including more pertinent contrasts than the blindingly obvious subtext of 'he's white and she's black'? You know, contrasts like circumstance, motive, intent...?
The democrats are a center right party, we have no left party.
Depends on your ideological POV, doesn't it? Consider...
* From the Limbaugh standpoint, the DNC is a frothing group of neo-marxists out to take down the USA by any means possible.
* From the MSNBC fan's standpoint, the DNC is a fair-minded champion of tolerance and diversity whose policy set sits far to the right of that found in the EU.
* From my standpoint, both the DNC and the RNC are a bunch of posturing hypocritical leeches on society who don't give a shit about anything but gaining power, money and control. Their only real difference is in how they each want these things exerted, and on whom, but their goals are the same so long as they are the ones in charge when the dust settles.
Ideology? Pfft! That's simply the truncheon they use to keep their respective troops in line.
A pox on both your frickin' houses.
Unless you think your company is too stupid to think that you might do this, what makes you think they haven't taken measures that included in your backups is the ability to wipe those same backups from where ever you have copied them?
What makes you think they have access to my personal laptop to do any such thing?
I see the future of BYOD being running another OS instance for the work apps, or possibly a separate easily switched profile with encrypted storage.
It's easier to just sync/backup my Android phone to my personal laptop. Wipe whatever you want... my mail is copied via pop3 from gmail to my laptop (and backed up from there to the home server), and my phone is backed up similarly. Restoration is trivial at best.
Do you really think it's wise to burn it off in the next generation, leaving nothing left for the thousands of generations to come?
Given human nature, You'd be hard-pressed to come up with a better argument for space colonization. At least that way our descendants would have access to more resources that way.
How about this, instead? We invest in alternative energy technologies R&D now? Then when (or if, if you prefer) the cost of oil-based energy becomes prohibitive, we'll be prepared, instead of waiting until the last moment and running around like the denizens of Tokyo when Godzilla comes to town?
Isn't that what's happening now?
Here's an example from my neck of the woods.
Isn't every movie made out of atoms?
In this case it's just a question of quantity.
At least their render times are pretty short - how long does it take to ray-trace something a few atoms wide?
Sorry? You don't think the wait staff should have to report all their income?
It's likely because of the minimum wage thing. I'll explain:
In the US, tips are the reason why minimum wage can be (and usually is) ignored for those working that particular job. Wages of $2.50/hr are not uncommon for a typical waitress, and sometimes the establishment forces them to pool the tips and/or share them with the bussing and dishwashing staff, etc. Some even require that a percentage of the tips go to the house (never understood that one...) Unless you're at some posh and busy restaurant, this really doesn't amount to an awful lot of income once it's all said and done. It's not like we're forcing Bill Gates to pay his 'fair share' or suchlike... quite the opposite for most folks who work it.
I guess my objection is this - the money isn't usually enough to be worth quibbling over, even on the scale of annual accumulation. The good ones work hard to make sure you're treated with respect and kindness, and do their best to give you a good experience. In this economy, folks aren't given to going out to eat as often, leaving less income for an already tough job. Finally, if zillionaires regularly avoid paying their 'fair share' of taxes by way of various loopholes (either here or in Canada), then what's so harmful about occasionally letting the little guy (or gal) get a break?
Then as I cannot avoid the increased markup, my way is still the best.
...until the town experiences a black/brown-out and during that outage you *really* need to buy diapers, formula, {insert critical item here}...
I can agree with the concept, but seriously, the wait-staff?
I usually try to not be a dick to the waiters/waitresses, especially in this economy.
And that second part is why its doomed...the cost. Anybody who has looked into pinball cabinets will tell you how crazy expensive they are to build and maintain
Well, sort of. Then again, how much money does the average XBox gamer spend each year on new titles, the Live account, a huge flatscreen TV to see it on, the internet connection, accessories... ?
True, but on the bright side, it's one of the few games available nowadays that have no DRM on it
('course, the anti-bot/cheat "tilt" switch is still in place unless you get in there and remove it...)
TFA kept focusing on economic reasons though... and joke aside, the author forgot a few not-so-obvious-but-just-as compelling reasons:
1) population pressure
2) cultural/historical/other inquiry (aka the "because it's out there and we'd like to see it for ourselves" rationale)
3) war (you know, rebels and stuff... Everyone from King David to Mao Zedong spent time on the lam - where better to hide from an oppressive government than, you know, outer-freakin'-space?)
4) Maybe they want to know what Natalie Portman tastes like while naked and covered in grits? (okay not that, but maybe some similar stupid reason - think of it as a glorified hunting expedition, a'la Predator)
5) politics (hell, we build bridges to nowhere on governmental funds...)
6) {insert lesser barely-rational and irrational reasons here}
In 75 years the third or fourth generation "muslims" wil be exactly like the "christians". Which means: they don't believe in god or are in any way touched by religion.
Wait - you're assuming a conditions which really isn't a constant. Turkey's secular-friendly culture is an exception, not the rule... and only through a government dedicated towards stamping out the extremists has Turkey figured out how to keep Sharia law at bay.
France (for example) is becoming a way different story - you have an exploding demographic that really doesn't give a damn about integrating with the local existing culture. They are also busily helping to import as many fellow worshipers as the national immigration office will allow. Let me repeat this: in the past 20-25 years, there has been little-to-no cultural integration going on at all - instead, there are increasing demands that the existing culture integrate with them**.
While I don't know the deal in all of Europe, I can tell you that in most central EU nations, if you want to instigate a good mass fight in short order? Insure there's a mix of immigrants and native-born folks in a crowd, then ask any question out loud with the word "immigration" in it.
** Note that there is a less-volatile example of this in the US: Note how the Spanish language has become the unofficial 2nd language of most government-public interactions, and definitely in most publications.
75 years ago is 75 years ago. We made progress since then.
Our great-grandparents were saying something extremely similar in 1919... :/
Anyway, regardless of all this: there is a population of people already living in the EU, and I doubt they will let their freedoms slip away.
Immigration and birthrates will do what democracy and ideals will not.
Overpricing mistake for blue ray? Sure they sold less consoles, but when was the last time you bought an hd-dvd? They were very successful in hedging out their competing technology.
Wait - didn't the XBox originally have an HD-DVD option? Whatever happened to that?
As much as I detest having anything by Microsoft in my own home (work is a different story), let's be fair - I'm fairly sure they learned from the whole RROD incident
(ob. snark: That, or they learned XBox owners are not smart enough to realize that there's something inherently wrong with huge numbers of people buying the same damn thing multiple times, and/or waiting for it to go through RMA as opposed to actually using it...)
This, exactly.
Even though playing pub servers means putting up with the occasional aim/wall/whatever hack-bot and/or juvenile chatter, overall they still play pretty well, even for the uber-old stuff like Quake 3.
(I never ever did pay-to-play for PC/console gaming in my life, so I couldn't tell you what Live or etc have in that aspect; that said, I assume that at least the bots are tamped down to a minimum, yes?)
Most of sharia law contradicts the charter of human rights. How do you come to the braindead assumption that parts of the EU would be able to fall under sharia?
You assume that majority rule is trumped by the UN, perhaps? More likely, you're not thinking of the same timescale I am - I'm looking at 50-75 years from now.
Further note that it wasn't 75 years ago when certain central European powers not only spat on the precepts of the UN Human Rights Charter, but became the historical impetus for forming the UN (and the aforementioned charter) in the first place.
Can't be - the word isn't long enough.
Wait, what?
AC's post wasn't racist, nationalist, or even all that idiotic. A bit too stereotypical IMO, but damn - wishing death (viz euthanasia) on the guy just because he (she, it) pointed out that yeah, it's going to be a problem down the road?
Seriously - there are elements of that post which happen to be correct - unless the muslim communities in Europe ratchet back (and tamp down) the whole demand for (and occasional practice of) Sharia law, parts of the EU may well end up living under it. Given that the radical elements do have a penchant for violence, he wasn't too far off the mark there, either.
why not a kindle with a hdmi port?
...because Amazon can't make more money that way. They need a different device to sell you in addition to the Kindle.
...tender pot roast and canned meats?
Umm, wait a sec:
1) Apple has paid dividends before - even when Jobs was quite alive.
2) You're looking at the wrong time scale. OSX and the iPod came out in 2001. MacBook Air The iPhone was launched in 2007, and the MacBook Air in 2008. The iPad showed up in 2010. On that kind of scale, Apple could wait until 2015 and it would still keep to its innovation calendar just fine.