I thought the biker one was fake, but apparently its for real - one of my coworkers said he had seen a documentary, and the guy actually survived being thrown off his motorcycle and getting impaled...
Still, if you DO come across some good pics, I'll put them in the contest.
I hear you about the problems with the Red Cross - up here we took away their right to run blood donor clinics because they were negligent in screening. As a result, more than 1,000 Canadians contracted AIDS, and about another 20,000 got c hep.
"Also, the Swiss flag is a WHITE cross on a red background, and as such is not really a red cross."
>p>
shhhh... that's why I said "after all, the swiss flag is the same, except that the colors are inverted. An "obvious attempt to hide a blatant ripoff of Swiss cultural heritage".:-)
The agreement between 2 parties isn't binding except on those 2 parties - nobody else.
Also, remember the old "defend it or lose it" bit? Since they have/had a joint agreement, they were both responsible for policing its use; last I looked there are tons of red crosses denoting everything from first aid stations to emergency kits to tents (M*A*S*H, etc) to helipads to medivac units to hospitals to... well, lets just say that their defense was a lot less than vigorous.
Its certainly a generic symbol, and no longer protectable by trademark. Neither one is in a position to offer a license to use to the general public any more.
They agreed to JnJ's use of the cross logo, as you said, "for certain medical products", but that doesn't mean that JnJ all of a sudden now has exclusive rights.
Neither organization has exclusive rights to it - it is an internationally-accepted symbol, as per the Geneva Convention, a year prior to the trademark registration. That being the case, JnJ are out of line. They have no trademark rights except on those medical devices, and those trademark rights don't take away anyone else's rights to use the symbol.
At this point in time neither JnJ nor the ARC has the right to license its use to others. They're both in the wrong, but JnJ is a lot more in the wrong - the IRC can at least claim that the symbol originated with them.
... after all, the swiss flag is the same, except that the colors are inverted. An "obvious attempt to hide a blatant ripoff of Swiss cultural heritage".
We all know you're a liar, and a poor one at that. You claimed 15 years experience with databases, and you didn't even know what a transaction was. Get a job, get some real experience, and then maybe you'll be successful at trolling.
Also, REAL programmers code in assembler, c, and c++. Java is for when you either don't care about performance, or need a garbage collector because your code is garbage (after all, if you could match up your mallocs and frees, you wouldn't NEED a gc, would you?)
So, get a job, learn how to code, and maybe in 15 years you'll be able to troll. Until then, you bore me.
your credentials - you don't have 15 years experience with databases - you don't have ANY experience with databases, as you didn't know what a transaction was)
your claim that Nasdaq uses Windows to execute trades
So why should *anyone* bother wasting any time looking at anything else you "claim"? If you're going to try to troll, at least learn how to do it with a bit of credibility.
Depending on who's doing the talking, they're also called "chiens" (dogs) or (very rare) "flics", as in "Le câlisse de chien sale" (damned dirty dog) - especially around people who are telling you about their most recent "unfair" speeding ticket.
Which brings us to why "Who let the dogs out?" had a certain resonnance here. BTW - doesn't that make a police station a "dog pound"?
"just check the threats that are actually coming in across the news"
The biggest threats are internal - in this case, the people running the White House. They have done exactly what the terrorists wanted. Bush had it right for once, when he first said "Go about your daily lives, otherwise the terrorists have won." But look what he's done since. The constitution is a "piece of paper" that just "gets in the way," "posse commitas" is forgotten, and most of what is done is just "security theatre".
It would have been better to have Bush in the White House stoned on coke and booze continuously, rather than getting intoxicated on raw power.
The hassle (at least for me) is having to figure out what's missing*. One of the other devs at the office installed ubuntu (I had the install disks for both opensuse and ubuntu on me that day) rather than opensuse, and he spent days tracking down all the "missing" packages, libs, etc. Its not a question of the speed of your net connection, but of the time wasted by the end user.
I would use opensuse, fedora/redhat, or slackware before I'd use ubuntu, because my needs are different; of course, that didn't stop me from passing ubuntu CDs around to other people with different needs. That's the strength of choice, unlike a certain pigopolist from Redmond:-)
(*for example, and not pointing fingers at any specific distro here, a distro without "tree" is, for me, just crippleware)..
... So, you were wrong with your bullshit about the trades being executed on that Windows system, since you're trying to change the subject. You're just a dickhead. So, kid, now that everyone knows you're just some no-experience wannabe, rather than "15 years experience", what ya gonna do? Oh, right, nothing, since you can't even troll properly.
Get a job, get a life, then come back when you know what you're talking about.
WoW... 2 dead links: Proud of you, that one, lol... I can't reach them, so, how can you show me this "proof" of yours, vs. this (and your OLD stale data, that's older than mine, here):
More bullshit - the links work fine.
And, if you had bothered to read the articles, you would have known that the upgrade was a 3-year program - 2005 to 2007. Not "old news", but a continuing program; and that the machines in question are Nasdaq's trading platform, have a much greater capacity than the Microsoft system you go on and on about, (which is a reporting system, not a trading platform) etc.
But you're just trying to troll, which we all already know. Your misunderstanding of the term "transaction" vis. databases makes it obvious that, contrary to your claim of "15 years experience", you never worked in this field.
So keep on, we're not impressed, you're just another dickhead shilling for Microsoft (and no, they won't front you a free laptop for this - you've got to do better than this lame attempt). Like Microsoft products, your trolling is third-rate.
Don't like it that those evil "open-sores" people are smarter than you? Awww, poor baby... NOT! Both linux and BSD eat Windows for lunch. Of course you have no way of knowing that, since you don't know the difference between a transaction and an order, or a reporting system and a trading system.
Here's a question even an AC can sink their teeth into - why do people continue to extoll the "benefits" of Windows when, in hindsight, it was obviously a wrong turn in the road as far as computer systems are concerned? Do they feel "embiggened" by being able to click on stuff and occasionally getting it right? Or is it the psychological block from not being willing to admit that you've made a wrong choice, and that the time invested is a write-off (in other words, do Windows users labour under the "sunk costs" fallacy)?
Part of me is wondering what sort of society we're turning into when we feel the need to outfit cops, etc., with tazers, pepper spray, and now "pain rays" and "nausea sabres".
Between that, and the encroachment of surveillance into our lives, about the only safe place to meet will be cyberspace, "where the men are men, the women are men, and the little girls are FBI agents, and nobody knows you're a dog." At least you won't get pepper-sprayed, tazered, etc. - about the worst you can expect is some trolling, mod-bombing, and links to tubgirl.
Guess you missed one of my points - that soon after the cops have it, so will the crooks. Same as guns, mace, pepper spray, etc.
So how soon before people start getting held up at "puke-sabre-point"?
Then there will be people who will want them for "self-defense" - putting even more on the street, and available for the black market.
It'll eventually end up like laser pointers - a once-esoteric device that you can now pick up at the dollar store. The only difference is, rather than teasing dogs, it'll be used against people for all sorts of reasons. Like disrupting traffic "just for the fun of it". Bank robberies. Install them in your car and "flash" the next asshole who cuts you off in traffic.
Can you imagine one of these in a movie theatre - it'll be as bad as Gigli. A subway station? A line-up in any enclosed space? (Hey, how about using it against a line-up in front of the men's room at a sporting event?)
So, does any of this sound more unlikely than the actual weapon itself?
So why not use your free time to try to get the Department of Homeland Security to give you a grant for making a flashlight that projects that picture? Show them the pic, and tell them you won't remove it until they sign a contract.
Or put it on T-Shirts as "cop repellent" for protesters. After all, who's going to want to try to cuff someone wearing THAT?
I can just the the all-points bulletin: "Be on the lookout for a suspect wearing a dickhead t-shirt. But don't look TOO hard, because you'll be scarred for life."
Sorry, but I would think that saying it gets people to want to close their eyes and puke, and that one guy tried to change his wallpaper with his eyes closed, would clue most people.
You've got to admit, it sure out-does the goat guy or tubgirl...
Again, learn to read. That system is for disseminating completed trades, not the actual trading system.
From your latest link:
The system supports NASDAQ's Market Data Dissemination System (MDDS).
This is NOT the trading system.
YOUR OWN QUOTE:
Nasdaq replaced aging Tandem mainframes used to disseminate market trade data with a SQL Server 2005 system that handles 5,000 transactions per second and 100,000 queries a day
These are machines that are used for people who want to know trade history - not machines that handle trades. The "transactions" they refer to are queries about trades, not "transactions" for trades. A "transaction", if you actually worked with databases, is any exchange between the server and client, not a n "order" - a sale of stock.
Again.. your own words:
MDDS keeps the official daily record of all trades.
It doesn't actually execute the trades. Completely different system. Also, the NonStop server system that was upgraded in 2005, and which does the actual trades, can do 20,000 orders a second, a LOT more than your piddly 5,000 orders a second MDDS.
The trading system has 4x the capacity, and actually executes the trades; the Windows system you're so proud of is only for disseminating info, not actual trading. Yes, it gets a copy of each trade, to pass it along to those who want the info, but its NOT the trading system; its too under-powered by a long shot.
In the future, people will end up having to wear "Smart Defensive Clothing Networks." After all, its not like these aren't going to get stolen by crooks and used to rob people.
So you wear your SDCN, and a cop tries the "light sabre" trick - your SDCN counter-attacks with an invisible particle beam pulse that fries the light sabre. Now extend this to the cop trying this in a crowd, and 100 people's SDCNs counter-attack. Result - one Kentucky-Fried Cop.
So what are they going to do - ban SDCNs? That'll be hard to do, since they'll look just like other clothing, and trying to take one away could be interpreted as a deadly assault, with the SDCN responding appropriately.
This might have been a pipe dream a couple of decades ago, but we're within 20 years of this sort of engineered clothing, and you can be darned sure there will be a HUGE demand for it.
If the goal is to incapacitate people by getting them to involuntarily close their eyes and want to puke, this works a lot better, its available today, and it doesn't need a huge development budget.
One guy came back from vacation and spent several minutes trying to change his wallpaper without actually looking at his monitor.
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I thought the biker one was fake, but apparently its for real - one of my coworkers said he had seen a documentary, and the guy actually survived being thrown off his motorcycle and getting impaled ...
Still, if you DO come across some good pics, I'll put them in the contest.
I hear you about the problems with the Red Cross - up here we took away their right to run blood donor clinics because they were negligent in screening. As a result, more than 1,000 Canadians contracted AIDS, and about another 20,000 got c hep.
"Also, the Swiss flag is a WHITE cross on a red background, and as such is not really a red cross." >p> shhhh ... that's why I said "after all, the swiss flag is the same, except that the colors are inverted. An "obvious attempt to hide a blatant ripoff of Swiss cultural heritage". :-)
The agreement between 2 parties isn't binding except on those 2 parties - nobody else.
Also, remember the old "defend it or lose it" bit? Since they have/had a joint agreement, they were both responsible for policing its use; last I looked there are tons of red crosses denoting everything from first aid stations to emergency kits to tents (M*A*S*H, etc) to helipads to medivac units to hospitals to ... well, lets just say that their defense was a lot less than vigorous.
Its certainly a generic symbol, and no longer protectable by trademark. Neither one is in a position to offer a license to use to the general public any more.
"hate you. Where's my eye-bleach?"
I'd say look for the first aid kit - the box with the red cross on it - but I might get sued :-)
"My thought exactly! I wonder what this algorithm would "fill the gap" with :P"
Wait a year for it to be sold ... then ... IMAGE ADS BY GOOGLE!
Probably a Pepsi logo ... (certainly a lot better than the pumpkin).
Besides, we're looking to replace the goat guy. Here are some submissions by others (you can submit your candidates as well - the poll will be done in September), and the first suggestion. No, they're not safe anywhere - not at work, not at home.
They agreed to JnJ's use of the cross logo, as you said, "for certain medical products", but that doesn't mean that JnJ all of a sudden now has exclusive rights.
Neither organization has exclusive rights to it - it is an internationally-accepted symbol, as per the Geneva Convention, a year prior to the trademark registration. That being the case, JnJ are out of line. They have no trademark rights except on those medical devices, and those trademark rights don't take away anyone else's rights to use the symbol.
At this point in time neither JnJ nor the ARC has the right to license its use to others. They're both in the wrong, but JnJ is a lot more in the wrong - the IRC can at least claim that the symbol originated with them.
You really need to grow up and get a job.
You can't legally coopt a symbol that is protected by a treaty that your country has signed.
... after all, the swiss flag is the same, except that the colors are inverted. An "obvious attempt to hide a blatant ripoff of Swiss cultural heritage".
Johnson and Johnson are just being dickheads.
On a more serious note - they don't have a case. The International Red Cross created the symbol in 1863, and it was recognized by the First Geneva Convention in 1864
International treaty establishes the prior claim and trumps any later claim by J&J.
We all know you're a liar, and a poor one at that. You claimed 15 years experience with databases, and you didn't even know what a transaction was. Get a job, get some real experience, and then maybe you'll be successful at trolling.
Also, REAL programmers code in assembler, c, and c++. Java is for when you either don't care about performance, or need a garbage collector because your code is garbage (after all, if you could match up your mallocs and frees, you wouldn't NEED a gc, would you?)
So, get a job, learn how to code, and maybe in 15 years you'll be able to troll. Until then, you bore me.
So why should *anyone* bother wasting any time looking at anything else you "claim"? If you're going to try to troll, at least learn how to do it with a bit of credibility.
"What makes you think he hasn't been stoned in the White House?"
He's still walking ... they won't let a crowd gather around him with enough stones to do the job right :-)
(BTW: how bombed do you have to be to choke on a pretzel?)
Depending on who's doing the talking, they're also called "chiens" (dogs) or (very rare) "flics", as in "Le câlisse de chien sale" (damned dirty dog) - especially around people who are telling you about their most recent "unfair" speeding ticket.
Which brings us to why "Who let the dogs out?" had a certain resonnance here. BTW - doesn't that make a police station a "dog pound"?
Or one of the nastier black holes, sort of like what happens with corporate mergers gone wrong, or the federal deficit, for that matter.
"just check the threats that are actually coming in across the news"
The biggest threats are internal - in this case, the people running the White House. They have done exactly what the terrorists wanted. Bush had it right for once, when he first said "Go about your daily lives, otherwise the terrorists have won." But look what he's done since. The constitution is a "piece of paper" that just "gets in the way," "posse commitas" is forgotten, and most of what is done is just "security theatre".
It would have been better to have Bush in the White House stoned on coke and booze continuously, rather than getting intoxicated on raw power.
The hassle (at least for me) is having to figure out what's missing*. One of the other devs at the office installed ubuntu (I had the install disks for both opensuse and ubuntu on me that day) rather than opensuse, and he spent days tracking down all the "missing" packages, libs, etc. Its not a question of the speed of your net connection, but of the time wasted by the end user.
I would use opensuse, fedora/redhat, or slackware before I'd use ubuntu, because my needs are different; of course, that didn't stop me from passing ubuntu CDs around to other people with different needs. That's the strength of choice, unlike a certain pigopolist from Redmond :-)
(*for example, and not pointing fingers at any specific distro here, a distro without "tree" is, for me, just crippleware)..
... So, you were wrong with your bullshit about the trades being executed on that Windows system, since you're trying to change the subject. You're just a dickhead. So, kid, now that everyone knows you're just some no-experience wannabe, rather than "15 years experience", what ya gonna do? Oh, right, nothing, since you can't even troll properly.
Get a job, get a life, then come back when you know what you're talking about.
More bullshit - the links work fine.
And, if you had bothered to read the articles, you would have known that the upgrade was a 3-year program - 2005 to 2007. Not "old news", but a continuing program; and that the machines in question are Nasdaq's trading platform, have a much greater capacity than the Microsoft system you go on and on about, (which is a reporting system, not a trading platform) etc.
But you're just trying to troll, which we all already know. Your misunderstanding of the term "transaction" vis. databases makes it obvious that, contrary to your claim of "15 years experience", you never worked in this field.
So keep on, we're not impressed, you're just another dickhead shilling for Microsoft (and no, they won't front you a free laptop for this - you've got to do better than this lame attempt). Like Microsoft products, your trolling is third-rate.
Don't like it that those evil "open-sores" people are smarter than you? Awww, poor baby ... NOT! Both linux and BSD eat Windows for lunch. Of course you have no way of knowing that, since you don't know the difference between a transaction and an order, or a reporting system and a trading system.
Here's a question even an AC can sink their teeth into - why do people continue to extoll the "benefits" of Windows when, in hindsight, it was obviously a wrong turn in the road as far as computer systems are concerned? Do they feel "embiggened" by being able to click on stuff and occasionally getting it right? Or is it the psychological block from not being willing to admit that you've made a wrong choice, and that the time invested is a write-off (in other words, do Windows users labour under the "sunk costs" fallacy)?
Between that, and the encroachment of surveillance into our lives, about the only safe place to meet will be cyberspace, "where the men are men, the women are men, and the little girls are FBI agents, and nobody knows you're a dog." At least you won't get pepper-sprayed, tazered, etc. - about the worst you can expect is some trolling, mod-bombing, and links to tubgirl.
Guess you missed one of my points - that soon after the cops have it, so will the crooks. Same as guns, mace, pepper spray, etc.
So how soon before people start getting held up at "puke-sabre-point"?
Then there will be people who will want them for "self-defense" - putting even more on the street, and available for the black market.
It'll eventually end up like laser pointers - a once-esoteric device that you can now pick up at the dollar store. The only difference is, rather than teasing dogs, it'll be used against people for all sorts of reasons. Like disrupting traffic "just for the fun of it". Bank robberies. Install them in your car and "flash" the next asshole who cuts you off in traffic.
Can you imagine one of these in a movie theatre - it'll be as bad as Gigli. A subway station? A line-up in any enclosed space? (Hey, how about using it against a line-up in front of the men's room at a sporting event?)
So, does any of this sound more unlikely than the actual weapon itself?
Sure beats goatse.cx and tubgirl, don't it?
So why not use your free time to try to get the Department of Homeland Security to give you a grant for making a flashlight that projects that picture? Show them the pic, and tell them you won't remove it until they sign a contract.
Or put it on T-Shirts as "cop repellent" for protesters. After all, who's going to want to try to cuff someone wearing THAT?
I can just the the all-points bulletin: "Be on the lookout for a suspect wearing a dickhead t-shirt. But don't look TOO hard, because you'll be scarred for life."
Sorry, but I would think that saying it gets people to want to close their eyes and puke, and that one guy tried to change his wallpaper with his eyes closed, would clue most people.
You've got to admit, it sure out-does the goat guy or tubgirl ...
Again, learn to read. That system is for disseminating completed trades, not the actual trading system.
From your latest link:
This is NOT the trading system.YOUR OWN QUOTE:
These are machines that are used for people who want to know trade history - not machines that handle trades. The "transactions" they refer to are queries about trades, not "transactions" for trades. A "transaction", if you actually worked with databases, is any exchange between the server and client, not a n "order" - a sale of stock.
Again .. your own words:
It doesn't actually execute the trades. Completely different system. Also, the NonStop server system that was upgraded in 2005, and which does the actual trades, can do 20,000 orders a second, a LOT more than your piddly 5,000 orders a second MDDS.http://www.gridtoday.com/grid/354702.html3 491491
http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/
The trading system has 4x the capacity, and actually executes the trades; the Windows system you're so proud of is only for disseminating info, not actual trading. Yes, it gets a copy of each trade, to pass it along to those who want the info, but its NOT the trading system; its too under-powered by a long shot.
In the future, people will end up having to wear "Smart Defensive Clothing Networks." After all, its not like these aren't going to get stolen by crooks and used to rob people.
So you wear your SDCN, and a cop tries the "light sabre" trick - your SDCN counter-attacks with an invisible particle beam pulse that fries the light sabre. Now extend this to the cop trying this in a crowd, and 100 people's SDCNs counter-attack. Result - one Kentucky-Fried Cop.
So what are they going to do - ban SDCNs? That'll be hard to do, since they'll look just like other clothing, and trying to take one away could be interpreted as a deadly assault, with the SDCN responding appropriately.
This might have been a pipe dream a couple of decades ago, but we're within 20 years of this sort of engineered clothing, and you can be darned sure there will be a HUGE demand for it.
If the goal is to incapacitate people by getting them to involuntarily close their eyes and want to puke, this works a lot better, its available today, and it doesn't need a huge development budget.
One guy came back from vacation and spent several minutes trying to change his wallpaper without actually looking at his monitor.