-- Hi, Sony? It's Toshiba. Your former employee tehcyder just applied here, what do you think about him? -- Oh, he is a great engineer, the only reason why we still produce laptops!
Or:
-- Hi, Sony? It's Toshiba. Your former employee tehcyder just applied here, what do you think about him? -- We managed to stuff him into a big layoff, but really we got rid of him because his incompetence caused the Lulzsec fiasco!
It's a fundamental nature of a merger to be anti-competitive, and it's very rarely can be in public interest. If those were sufficient conditions to prevent a merger, there would be no mergers in anything other than manufacturing and natural resources extraction, and few in those two areas.
...what constitutes running another application. Interactive one, too. Running simultaneously with other interactive applications. That may not even be related to the application "requesting" things.
It's a stupid idea -- rules have to be known in advance, and this is what all good (or mediocre) security designs are based on.
ITT: hairyfeet pretends that Microsoft can't be sued for all fraudulently obtained licensing fees, and all legal expenses that resulted from their fraud. US legal system may be toothless, but it's not toothless enough for RICO to not apply after some point.
It's possible that this is the case. Personally I think, I have some valid reasons to see myself as something different:
Most immigrants into US that I know or knew, had to resort to lies to get a refugee status, claiming whatever political and religious leaders who "helped" them wanted to hear. I got an H-1B visa after arriving as a visitor, and finding a job entirely based on my then-current education and work history.
Most of those immigrants happily gobbled up tons of brainwashing for no other reason but getting assistance and money -- not just political but also religious crap that they would never touch with a ten foot pole otherwise.I started with genuine interest in US culture, and ended up rejecting its foundations as a direct result of obtaining knowledge and understanding of it, but being unable to internalize those foundations.
Most immigrants accepted US citizenship as a kind of yoke that permitted them to work for Americans without offending or threatening them. I got a permanent resident status, however I kept my original citizenship because I would rather let Cthulhu rule and represent me than a bunch of corporate lackeys that Americans supposedly elect every few years. And I can assure everyone that despite similar deficiency in diplomatic and communications skills and nearly infinite inferiority in performance arts, Lukashenko represents me much better than Cthulhu ever could. I still think that it would make sense for me to accept US citizenship if politicians better than Cthulhu (not necessarily better than Lukashenko or whoever would be in power in Belarus at the moment) ended up anywhere close to power in US, but alas, Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations, along with the whole Congress over all those times, still scored far below my betentacled arguably Chaotic Evil reference point.
Most immigrants abandoned their original profession, and jumped into either demeaning kind of work, or some questionable get-rich-quick (or, more often, get-not-poor-quick) scheme, usually of dubious legality, and accomplished nothing. I, despite my fundamental disagreement with foundations of American ideology and society, never did anything more illegal than speeding of farther removed from my profession than Windows GUI software development (and only went that far in an extreme situation where it was somewhat rationally justified).
Most immigrants who managed to find a job somewhere related to technology, ended up becoming either: 1. A walking cost-saving measure -- a person who, through some great ingenuity and heroic effort, maintains hopelessly broken equipment because it's cheaper for employer to pay him peanuts than replace, repair or properly service said equipment. or 2. Professional charlatan. At least 80% of "programmers" are in this category regardless of their country of origin.
I currently do embedded systems development, and my previous work history includes large numbers of successfully developed projects -- though occasionally ruined by things far beyond my control.
So I think, I can place myself among large, but nowhere close to majority, category of immigrants who actually had a valid reason to move here while escaping a unique and serious economic crisis that coincided with my graduation. It also helps that when moving to US, among all hope and expectations, I clearly understood that I am coming there to be oppressed, and that even if I ended up liking the place and being perfectly aligned with dominant ideology and taste, I will never be accepted as one of the locals. Surely, disappointing me was a tough task, but American society accomplished it in the most successful way possible.
Granted, there are still problems, but the conditions are better now
Conditions are worse. Spin is more aligned with American ideology, and technology was advancing for two decades after that event in a manner that had nothing to do with politics or Capitalism, but those are the only thing that are "better".
reap
ripe
with opportunities for Russians ex-pats with the know-how and the heart to go for it.
"Opportunity" is an invitation to fight and gamble. Neither me, nor any sane person on Earth actually wants that. I want a peaceful, prosperous society, enabling people to perform useful and fulfilling work that helps other people in dignity and -- I repeat -- peace. With all its flaws 70's-80's USSR mostly was such a society -- you had to be a professional revolutionary to actually be flatly denied that. Modern US and modern Russia are nowhere close to this, and have a snowflake's chance in Hell to ever approach it without being turned into rubble first.
What you linked to, is a flowery justification of what I have described. It is obvious to every American that riches that "American dream" involves, can only be obtained by oppressing others. The foundation behind desire for such riches is always hostility toward others, and even "home ownership" is entirely based on the idea of hating your neighbor and trying to live as far from him as possible (a.k.a. "being independent").
Yes, it is an important propaganda point that "opportunity" to oppress others is equal or based on some kind of merit (Christianity helps with that), so everyone should just rush after it, and consider the outcome to be fair.
Anything but refusal to participate in oppression, or God forbids, organize with other people to help each other to mitigate the consequences of oppression. That's for losers!
Actually it did improve my situation -- at least until 1998-2000 I was in a far better situation here than I would be dealing with a massive 90's crisis over the whole ex-USSR. However I happened to be an unusually capable and well-educated engineer who left a country while it was going through the total devastation of its economy.
It taken those both conditions to make it somewhat worthwhile for me.
If you didn't get the news, USSR was dissolved in 1992, and at that point its former members adopted Libertarian ideology provided to them by US and its local sycophants. It triggered the worst economic devastation the whole area had seen since WWII (and one may argue, worse than WWII).
I would be delighted to see that happening. "American dream" is essentially an aspiration to obtain massive amount of wealth by whatever means, and use it to elevate yourself into position of control over other people (supposedly ones who implemented that dream at your expense before, or would implement it if you didn't stop them first), abusing them for your own pleasure. It is imposed on all population by propaganda, to make sociopaths in position of power seem normal.
I am all too familiar with immigrants spending the rest of their lives trying to convince themselves that moving to US improved their lives. Most of them are full of shit.
Slashdot Mirror
But the good of the many should never be used to outweigh the rights of the few, or the one.
Oh yes it should, and does.
Just imagine this:
-- Hi, Sony? It's Toshiba. Your former employee tehcyder just applied here, what do you think about him?
-- Oh, he is a great engineer, the only reason why we still produce laptops!
Or:
-- Hi, Sony? It's Toshiba. Your former employee tehcyder just applied here, what do you think about him?
-- We managed to stuff him into a big layoff, but really we got rid of him because his incompetence caused the Lulzsec fiasco!
anti-competitive and not in the public interest
It's a fundamental nature of a merger to be anti-competitive, and it's very rarely can be in public interest. If those were sufficient conditions to prevent a merger, there would be no mergers in anything other than manufacturing and natural resources extraction, and few in those two areas.
Recruiters call everyone with a phone number. And email everyone with email address.
You have just answered your question.
So long story short: I'm now a contractor.
You mean, unemployed, right?
No one gives or ask for references now.
the user grants it.
...what constitutes running another application. Interactive one, too. Running simultaneously with other interactive applications. That may not even be related to the application "requesting" things.
It's a stupid idea -- rules have to be known in advance, and this is what all good (or mediocre) security designs are based on.
"Are you an idiot?"
So does starting or participating in an unsuccessful open source project. However it also teaches things that are actually useful.
black list people
Something is wrong with the words order in this sentence.
Oh wow! hairyfeet now does his Microsoft marketing in non-Microsoft-related discussions.
Before he used those to parrot popular opinions to whore for karma and hide his Microsoft affiliation.
ITT: hairyfeet pretends that Microsoft can't be sued for all fraudulently obtained licensing fees, and all legal expenses that resulted from their fraud. US legal system may be toothless, but it's not toothless enough for RICO to not apply after some point.
So, spoke for yourself then when you said this?
It's possible that this is the case. Personally I think, I have some valid reasons to see myself as something different:
Most immigrants into US that I know or knew, had to resort to lies to get a refugee status, claiming whatever political and religious leaders who "helped" them wanted to hear. I got an H-1B visa after arriving as a visitor, and finding a job entirely based on my then-current education and work history.
Most of those immigrants happily gobbled up tons of brainwashing for no other reason but getting assistance and money -- not just political but also religious crap that they would never touch with a ten foot pole otherwise.I started with genuine interest in US culture, and ended up rejecting its foundations as a direct result of obtaining knowledge and understanding of it, but being unable to internalize those foundations.
Most immigrants accepted US citizenship as a kind of yoke that permitted them to work for Americans without offending or threatening them. I got a permanent resident status, however I kept my original citizenship because I would rather let Cthulhu rule and represent me than a bunch of corporate lackeys that Americans supposedly elect every few years. And I can assure everyone that despite similar deficiency in diplomatic and communications skills and nearly infinite inferiority in performance arts, Lukashenko represents me much better than Cthulhu ever could. I still think that it would make sense for me to accept US citizenship if politicians better than Cthulhu (not necessarily better than Lukashenko or whoever would be in power in Belarus at the moment) ended up anywhere close to power in US, but alas, Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations, along with the whole Congress over all those times, still scored far below my betentacled arguably Chaotic Evil reference point.
Most immigrants abandoned their original profession, and jumped into either demeaning kind of work, or some questionable get-rich-quick (or, more often, get-not-poor-quick) scheme, usually of dubious legality, and accomplished nothing. I, despite my fundamental disagreement with foundations of American ideology and society, never did anything more illegal than speeding of farther removed from my profession than Windows GUI software development (and only went that far in an extreme situation where it was somewhat rationally justified).
Most immigrants who managed to find a job somewhere related to technology, ended up becoming either:
1. A walking cost-saving measure -- a person who, through some great ingenuity and heroic effort, maintains hopelessly broken equipment because it's cheaper for employer to pay him peanuts than replace, repair or properly service said equipment.
or
2. Professional charlatan. At least 80% of "programmers" are in this category regardless of their country of origin.
I currently do embedded systems development, and my previous work history includes large numbers of successfully developed projects -- though occasionally ruined by things far beyond my control.
So I think, I can place myself among large, but nowhere close to majority, category of immigrants who actually had a valid reason to move here while escaping a unique and serious economic crisis that coincided with my graduation. It also helps that when moving to US, among all hope and expectations, I clearly understood that I am coming there to be oppressed, and that even if I ended up liking the place and being perfectly aligned with dominant ideology and taste, I will never be accepted as one of the locals. Surely, disappointing me was a tough task, but American society accomplished it in the most successful way possible.
Granted, there are still problems, but the conditions are better now
Conditions are worse. Spin is more aligned with American ideology, and technology was advancing for two decades after that event in a manner that had nothing to do with politics or Capitalism, but those are the only thing that are "better".
reap
ripe
with opportunities for Russians ex-pats with the know-how and the heart to go for it.
"Opportunity" is an invitation to fight and gamble. Neither me, nor any sane person on Earth actually wants that. I want a peaceful, prosperous society, enabling people to perform useful and fulfilling work that helps other people in dignity and -- I repeat -- peace. With all its flaws 70's-80's USSR mostly was such a society -- you had to be a professional revolutionary to actually be flatly denied that. Modern US and modern Russia are nowhere close to this, and have a snowflake's chance in Hell to ever approach it without being turned into rubble first.
Libyans
They want French and American military to fight a war against their government, and bring them into power?
What you linked to, is a flowery justification of what I have described. It is obvious to every American that riches that "American dream" involves, can only be obtained by oppressing others. The foundation behind desire for such riches is always hostility toward others, and even "home ownership" is entirely based on the idea of hating your neighbor and trying to live as far from him as possible (a.k.a. "being independent").
Yes, it is an important propaganda point that "opportunity" to oppress others is equal or based on some kind of merit (Christianity helps with that), so everyone should just rush after it, and consider the outcome to be fair.
Anything but refusal to participate in oppression, or God forbids, organize with other people to help each other to mitigate the consequences of oppression. That's for losers!
Actually it did improve my situation -- at least until 1998-2000 I was in a far better situation here than I would be dealing with a massive 90's crisis over the whole ex-USSR. However I happened to be an unusually capable and well-educated engineer who left a country while it was going through the total devastation of its economy.
It taken those both conditions to make it somewhat worthwhile for me.
If you didn't get the news, USSR was dissolved in 1992, and at that point its former members adopted Libertarian ideology provided to them by US and its local sycophants. It triggered the worst economic devastation the whole area had seen since WWII (and one may argue, worse than WWII).
I mean, what's it worth to you that copyrighted material enter the public domain?
Nonprofits running completely automated factories that produce everything I really need. It would happen.
American dream is dead
I would be delighted to see that happening. "American dream" is essentially an aspiration to obtain massive amount of wealth by whatever means, and use it to elevate yourself into position of control over other people (supposedly ones who implemented that dream at your expense before, or would implement it if you didn't stop them first), abusing them for your own pleasure. It is imposed on all population by propaganda, to make sociopaths in position of power seem normal.
The problem is, this thing is still alive.
Outspending? No. Out-shouting through astroturf campaigns? Hell yes!
It makes sense for anyone living in an abused colony, to try to move to the heart of the Empire that conquered it.
I am all too familiar with immigrants spending the rest of their lives trying to convince themselves that moving to US improved their lives. Most of them are full of shit.