So-called "secured credit cards" don't improve your credit rating. They're just another form of debit card, but "branded" so that they'll (sometimes) be accepted for things like movie, game, or car rentals and such where you need to use a "major credit card".
I found something that qualifies as a trojan under linux - beagle. Periodic bouts of 100% cpu usage. Got rid of beagle (which nobody needs - take 15 minutes once in a while to organize your files, people. You might end up actually backing some of them up at the same time:-) and it just hums along.
The question isn't "who is going to be number one." That's irrelevant. "Second best" was the term used. Its about quality. Linux is already superior, not "second best." Becoming #1 will follow from that. That the "whizzes" from Harvard can't see that is inevitable isn't my problem.
In other news: "Yale Concludes Harvard Will Remain Second Best"
In still other news: "Oxford Concludes Yale and Harvard Haven't Been Around Long Enough To Even Be Considered"
In even more news: "Don't Believe Everything You Read On The Internet"
Maybe that was his point? Substitute "invent antigravity" or "fusion on a tabletop", or "cure cancer". If you had employees who could develop that, you'd want to keep them even if they had the worst credit in history. Heck, you'd PAY an accountant to take care of all their bills for them, as a fringe benefit of the job.
People are more than a number on a credit score. You have to look at the talents you're hiring them for in the first place, not the extraneous stuff. That was the posters' point, and the WHOOSH you heard was it going over your head.
Bill Gates would have failed it back in the early days (I'm talking here about when Microsoft had less than 30 employees), before he had someone else take care of making sure his CC bills were paid on time.
BTW - "Mo credit, no job. No job, no credit. No credit, no job. No job, no credit."
We can add that to the old "No experience, no job. No job, no experience. No experience, no job"
So, the new one is:
No credit and no experience, no job. No job, no credit and no experience. No credit and no experience, no job. No job, no credit and no experience.
The future just got a lot bleaker for millions of people, from recent grads to moms trying to break into the workforce to people trying to recover from catastrophic health issues to people fleeing an abusive spouse.
At this rate, the only way you'll get that first job is to steal someone else's identity. Hey... THERE's an idea...
"but are looking for other information...the identity of a person...full legal name...A lot of people change their names if they have something to hide, and it lists former employers who might not be named on the résumé."
Prospective employer # 1 : "Gee, look at this. That last woman we interviewed, Mary Roe, the one we want to go with? Says here her name used to be Mike Row. Forget "it". Next!"
Prospective employer # 2 : "Gee, look at this. It says here that Joe Blow maxed out his credit cards last year for chemo for his wife. We don't want him raising our health insurance premiums. Next!"
Prospective employer # 3 : "Gee, look at this. The credit report lists Janet James as having a dependent child, but no husband. We don't need sinners like that here. Next!"
Prospective employer # 4 : "Gee, look at this. This credit report lists that Wilma Flinstone is claiming Betty Rubble as her spouse. Do we really want a lez in the office? Next!"
Prospective employer # 5 : "Gee, look at this. This credit report lists that Fred Flinstone is claiming Barney Rubble as his "domestic partner". Credit card bills show they were married at Stoney Creeek Lodge last year. I don't want some guy looking at my ass. Next!"
Prospective employer # 6 : "Gee, look at this. The credit report says that the reason for Nancy Crow's falling behind for a few months was she quit her job and sued her previous employer for sexual harrassment. She's probably a butch anyway. Next!"
There's more to business than just the bottom line. Treat people like crap, and you'll end up with crap people, and that WILL be reflected in your numbers eventually. And btw - while all of these forms of discrimination are illegal in any place with sane laws, #1 - the unwanted "outing" of a transsexual, either by the governments' program of informing employers about mis-matches between the gender associated with a SSN and the gender of the worker, or a credit check that is too invasive, places transsexuals at serious risk for becoming victims of physical violence, over and above any concerns of job discrimination.
Gee, no multiple desktops? No desktop pagers? You don't need dual monitors to have multiple desktops under linux, and even Windows can now have 4 desktops. And Apple supports multiple monitors.
I'm running dual monitors, 8 desktops on each, and I find that's sometimes 1 monitor shy of what I want, but how you people manage to work with only 1 desktop... I mean, what next... bearskins and knives*?
(* Yes, the "bearskins and knives is a Star Trek - Original Series reference")
"Nope. If Mr. Smith mazes out all his credit cards because he didn't buy proper insurance for little Suzy,"
The majority of bankruptcies are caused by medical bills, and 74% of those HAD insurance. So FOAD with the blaming of people for not having insurance. Between co-pays, non-covered items, incidental expenses, no coverage for pre-existing conditions (which can be used to deny everything except a fresh gunshot wound if they really want to stretch it)... they haven't got a hope in hell.
Think of it. 74 % are being told to FOAD. So stop with the "its their fault because they didn't buy insurance" bullshit, and get behind a public insurance plan that covers everyone.
"Whatever. We heard the exact same thing from the last generation of idiot college students who had just installed Linux and thought "THIS IS COOL!" before gaining any experience attempting to use it in the real world. What is it about college & university that makes people dumber?"
I've been out of college for decades, and according to your criteria, I must be really dumb, since I use gnu/linux as my only desktop all day long. For example, I'm not "smart enough" to try to find some setting by clicking a gajillion times... I have to edit the files in/etc manually with vi. Gee, I must be a real retard according to your "standard"...
What is it about Windows that makes people dumber? That makes them PAY for the "user experience" of viruses, computers that get so loaded-down with spyware adware viruses trojans antivirus scanners anti-spam etc? Oh, right... its the "a fool and his money are soon parted" meme.
In case people haven't noticed, linux has not only caught up, but surpassed Windows, in terms of stability, modularity, customizability, ease of install, maintainability of the code base, etc.
That last one - maintainability of the code base, is a killer. There will be no Windows after Vista. Even Microsoft has alluded to as much.
BTW - That "etc" I mentioned includes REPUTATION. What is the reputation of linux vs windows? Ask any virus-writer.
Try the scouring pad on the back of a cheap foam+scouring pad from the dollar store. Because they're so cheap, they're really soft - which is what you want.
Or you can just breathe on them and peel them off - keep breathing on it as you pull - the moisture in your breathe breaks the adhesive bond. You should be able to pull the logo off a car that way on a hot day.
"Our representatives could pass a law saying that each of us is legally the property of the dominant air carrier in our region, and obliged to compensate them in full for every flight we decide NOT to take, and those representatives would STILL get re-elected"
Sh*t! You've just given the **AA their next economic model... that they should be able to sue people for all the movies and songs that you DIDN'T watch/listen to.
And they've got the drugs^H^H^H^Hcash to do it, too.
Its not a question of an economic protest - its darned insulting to be treated like criminal suspects when you've done nothing wrong.
Maybe you're okay with this, but most of the world isn't, and you can be darned sure that if another country had been the first to implement this, the US would be squawking about "how dare you treat us like that!"
So, to date, how many "terrorists" have been caught by this extra-intrusive screening? Oh, right, none! Smart move... NOT!
You're racist. One of your complaints is that "they don't blend in". Re-read your refrain. You mention about how:
"For the most part, the illegals seem to just want to hang only together, speak spanish (which for some reason we cater to), and not assimilate to the US culture."
"This 'invasion' by illegals, that are not assimilating, are changing the culture of the US...not blending in."
"And no...I don't believe just because you were born here you should automatically be a citizen...that's a big problem too. At least ONE of your parents should be a legal US citizen before your child can be one."
So all the people who came to the US in successive waves of immigration, they would all be illegals, and so would their children, since their parents were. And of course, every black slave, and every decendant of them, would be illegal. How convenient.
I don't see the earlier waves of immigration "blending in" without changing US culture in the process. US culture? Give me a break. There are MANY distinct US cultures. Go to New York. Then visit Kansas. 2 different worlds. Really different.
What next - try to make it illegal for people to speak anything except english in public or at work, so "the man" can understand?
And what is "American food" you speak of, as opposed to "ethnic cultural" food? Are you willing to give up your pizza, your french fries, your spaghetti, your egg rolls and chop suey, your souvlakis, your bagels, your hot dogs (it was an immigrant who invented them), your burritos and tacos, etc.?
Go ahead and ban all immigration to the US for the next 50 years. Please. And enforce it with the death penalty. You seem to have a penchant for "solving" things by killing people, so go for it. There are large chunks of the world that are still "open for business" and welcome immigrants, recognizing that variety makes us stronger, not weaker.
Oh, come off it. If every illegal immigrant were to be deported tomorrow your economy would collapse, and you know it.
What you WANT is the immigrant labour, but without the obligations towards your fellow man that come with it.
The original immigrants didn't "sign the guest book" as you put it. Sure as hell the "founding fathers" didn't either. Seems to me that the US had a bit of a revolution that, if it had failed, those same founding fathers would have been shot for treason, so your country was born by illegal acts. Don't get so bent out of shape over it. You NEED those immigrants. Instead of decrying how they're illegal, make it easier for them to become legal.
BTW, you could apply this sort of thinking to both the war on drugs and the war on terrorism, and save a bundle.
I've signed contracts with black ink. There's no legal requirement that the ink be in blue. Heck, one time I signed in red (it was the only pen I had close at hand). Someone asked "Is that legal?" I said "Of course it is." Nowhere in the law on cotracts does it specify a pen colour. I've even seen old contracts (dated from the 1800's) signed in pencil.
Its insane. Canadians have been going over the border without a passport forever. That's set to change. A lot of us never bothered with a passport, or let it lapse, because we ARE at home when we go to the US, and vice versa.
Contrary to popular belief, not one 9/11 terrorist entered the US from Canada.
I went to the US on 4 occasions last year, and didn't have any problems. But that doesn't mean I'm going to like being treated like a foreigner next year. I don't think they "get it" about how this really rubs a lot of Canadians the wrong way. We're trying to maintain our ideal of an open, pluralistic, multicultural country, and we see the increased xenophobia to our south - the public outcry at "immigrants taking away our jobs" and we shake our heads. North America was populated by wave after wave of immigrants, right down to the first aboriginal indians who came across via the Bearing Strait; the attitude now is "I've got mine, Jack!"
They're only hurting themselves, not some half-mythical "terr'rist group".
"Asked her if she wanted a maid outfit. That was a mistake."
Top 10 responses...
"That's "french maid outfit" to you, mister!"
"No problem hon, I can wear it while throwing out the rest of your pr0n collection."
"Why don't you take a nice nap before supper. Most people don't die in their sleep... maybe you'll get lucky."
You know, my last boyfriend said the same thing. Too bad about those poisonous mushrooms..."
"That reminds me... extra starch next time I do your underwear... you need it!"
"Great! I can wear it instead of my dominatrix' outfit next time you're out drinking with your friends and I need some company..."
"If you thought the couch was lonely, the garage is worse!"
"You're out of socks... I put them in the "other" washing machine, pulled the chain, and they just disappeared. Now let me go wash your favourite lucky shirt."
"You know that negligee you bought me for my last birthday. Your boss insists I model it for him... again... next time you're ot of town on business."
The article I linked to isn't new. Its from 1983. The physical differences in the brains of lefties have long been confirmed by direct observation. Physical differences of the bodies, in handedness, for example, and in behaviour, are easy enough to confirm - just watch a lefty and a righty try to do the same thing.
Being a leftie is a marker that you will probably have these other problems as well. Being left-handed doesn't cause them, but it indicates that the brain and body underwent a different process at some point than righties, and possible genetic differences (handednes shows an inherited component).
I have a friend who came visiting from Australia, and she paid something like a grand extra just to avoid the US because of all the horror stories she's heard. She wouldn't stick out in any racial profile unless you're looking for natural blondes, and she has absolutely nothing to worry about - her past is totally clean - but still, she doesn't want the hassle and will pay extra to avoid the US.
And 7 out of her last 9 flights, they lost her luggage, so even if she WERE a bomb-carrying terrorist, it would probably end up taking out some crop-duster, or a baggage cart.
Air Canada? Bwahahahah! (that's not laughter, btw, its crying... )
Don't laugh - a lot of people are paying extra so they won't have a stopover in the US on the way to another destination, just to avoid the hassles, even if they have never done anything wrong.
This is just going to make the situation worse. The losers are the US air carriers, and services based in the US.
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So-called "secured credit cards" don't improve your credit rating. They're just another form of debit card, but "branded" so that they'll (sometimes) be accepted for things like movie, game, or car rentals and such where you need to use a "major credit card".
I found something that qualifies as a trojan under linux - beagle. Periodic bouts of 100% cpu usage. Got rid of beagle (which nobody needs - take 15 minutes once in a while to organize your files, people. You might end up actually backing some of them up at the same time :-) and it just hums along.
slocate and find are "good enough".
The question isn't "who is going to be number one." That's irrelevant. "Second best" was the term used. Its about quality. Linux is already superior, not "second best." Becoming #1 will follow from that. That the "whizzes" from Harvard can't see that is inevitable isn't my problem.
In other news: "Yale Concludes Harvard Will Remain Second Best"
In still other news: "Oxford Concludes Yale and Harvard Haven't Been Around Long Enough To Even Be Considered"
In even more news: "Don't Believe Everything You Read On The Internet"
Maybe that was his point? Substitute "invent antigravity" or "fusion on a tabletop", or "cure cancer". If you had employees who could develop that, you'd want to keep them even if they had the worst credit in history. Heck, you'd PAY an accountant to take care of all their bills for them, as a fringe benefit of the job.
People are more than a number on a credit score. You have to look at the talents you're hiring them for in the first place, not the extraneous stuff. That was the posters' point, and the WHOOSH you heard was it going over your head.
Bill Gates would have failed it back in the early days (I'm talking here about when Microsoft had less than 30 employees), before he had someone else take care of making sure his CC bills were paid on time.
BTW - "Mo credit, no job. No job, no credit. No credit, no job. No job, no credit."
We can add that to the old "No experience, no job. No job, no experience. No experience, no job"
So, the new one is:
No credit and no experience, no job. No job, no credit and no experience. No credit and no experience, no job. No job, no credit and no experience.
The future just got a lot bleaker for millions of people, from recent grads to moms trying to break into the workforce to people trying to recover from catastrophic health issues to people fleeing an abusive spouse.
At this rate, the only way you'll get that first job is to steal someone else's identity. Hey ... THERE's an idea ...
"but are looking for other information...the identity of a person...full legal name...A lot of people change their names if they have something to hide, and it lists former employers who might not be named on the résumé."
Prospective employer # 1 : "Gee, look at this. That last woman we interviewed, Mary Roe, the one we want to go with? Says here her name used to be Mike Row. Forget "it". Next!"
Prospective employer # 2 : "Gee, look at this. It says here that Joe Blow maxed out his credit cards last year for chemo for his wife. We don't want him raising our health insurance premiums. Next!"
Prospective employer # 3 : "Gee, look at this. The credit report lists Janet James as having a dependent child, but no husband. We don't need sinners like that here. Next!"
Prospective employer # 4 : "Gee, look at this. This credit report lists that Wilma Flinstone is claiming Betty Rubble as her spouse. Do we really want a lez in the office? Next!"
Prospective employer # 5 : "Gee, look at this. This credit report lists that Fred Flinstone is claiming Barney Rubble as his "domestic partner". Credit card bills show they were married at Stoney Creeek Lodge last year. I don't want some guy looking at my ass. Next!"
Prospective employer # 6 : "Gee, look at this. The credit report says that the reason for Nancy Crow's falling behind for a few months was she quit her job and sued her previous employer for sexual harrassment. She's probably a butch anyway. Next!"
There's more to business than just the bottom line. Treat people like crap, and you'll end up with crap people, and that WILL be reflected in your numbers eventually. And btw - while all of these forms of discrimination are illegal in any place with sane laws, #1 - the unwanted "outing" of a transsexual, either by the governments' program of informing employers about mis-matches between the gender associated with a SSN and the gender of the worker, or a credit check that is too invasive, places transsexuals at serious risk for becoming victims of physical violence, over and above any concerns of job discrimination.
Gee, no multiple desktops? No desktop pagers? You don't need dual monitors to have multiple desktops under linux, and even Windows can now have 4 desktops. And Apple supports multiple monitors.
I'm running dual monitors, 8 desktops on each, and I find that's sometimes 1 monitor shy of what I want, but how you people manage to work with only 1 desktop ... I mean, what next ... bearskins and knives*?
(* Yes, the "bearskins and knives is a Star Trek - Original Series reference")
"Nope. If Mr. Smith mazes out all his credit cards because he didn't buy proper insurance for little Suzy,"
The majority of bankruptcies are caused by medical bills, and 74% of those HAD insurance. So FOAD with the blaming of people for not having insurance. Between co-pays, non-covered items, incidental expenses, no coverage for pre-existing conditions (which can be used to deny everything except a fresh gunshot wound if they really want to stretch it) ... they haven't got a hope in hell.
Think of it. 74 % are being told to FOAD. So stop with the "its their fault because they didn't buy insurance" bullshit, and get behind a public insurance plan that covers everyone.
"Whatever. We heard the exact same thing from the last generation of idiot college students who had just installed Linux and thought "THIS IS COOL!" before gaining any experience attempting to use it in the real world. What is it about college & university that makes people dumber?"
I've been out of college for decades, and according to your criteria, I must be really dumb, since I use gnu/linux as my only desktop all day long. For example, I'm not "smart enough" to try to find some setting by clicking a gajillion times ... I have to edit the files in /etc manually with vi. Gee, I must be a real retard according to your "standard" ...
What is it about Windows that makes people dumber? That makes them PAY for the "user experience" of viruses, computers that get so loaded-down with spyware adware viruses trojans antivirus scanners anti-spam etc? Oh, right ... its the "a fool and his money are soon parted" meme.
Hi, fool.
In case people haven't noticed, linux has not only caught up, but surpassed Windows, in terms of stability, modularity, customizability, ease of install, maintainability of the code base, etc.
That last one - maintainability of the code base, is a killer. There will be no Windows after Vista. Even Microsoft has alluded to as much.
BTW - That "etc" I mentioned includes REPUTATION. What is the reputation of linux vs windows? Ask any virus-writer.
Try the scouring pad on the back of a cheap foam+scouring pad from the dollar store. Because they're so cheap, they're really soft - which is what you want.
Or you can just breathe on them and peel them off - keep breathing on it as you pull - the moisture in your breathe breaks the adhesive bond. You should be able to pull the logo off a car that way on a hot day.
"Our representatives could pass a law saying that each of us is legally the property of the dominant air carrier in our region, and obliged to compensate them in full for every flight we decide NOT to take, and those representatives would STILL get re-elected"
Sh*t! You've just given the **AA their next economic model ... that they should be able to sue people for all the movies and songs that you DIDN'T watch/listen to.
And they've got the drugs^H^H^H^Hcash to do it, too.
Its not a question of an economic protest - its darned insulting to be treated like criminal suspects when you've done nothing wrong.
Maybe you're okay with this, but most of the world isn't, and you can be darned sure that if another country had been the first to implement this, the US would be squawking about "how dare you treat us like that!"
So, to date, how many "terrorists" have been caught by this extra-intrusive screening? Oh, right, none! Smart move ... NOT!
That's an incentive with TEETH.
You're racist. One of your complaints is that "they don't blend in". Re-read your refrain. You mention about how:
"And no...I don't believe just because you were born here you should automatically be a citizen...that's a big problem too. At least ONE of your parents should be a legal US citizen before your child can be one."
So all the people who came to the US in successive waves of immigration, they would all be illegals, and so would their children, since their parents were. And of course, every black slave, and every decendant of them, would be illegal. How convenient. I don't see the earlier waves of immigration "blending in" without changing US culture in the process. US culture? Give me a break. There are MANY distinct US cultures. Go to New York. Then visit Kansas. 2 different worlds. Really different.
What next - try to make it illegal for people to speak anything except english in public or at work, so "the man" can understand?
And what is "American food" you speak of, as opposed to "ethnic cultural" food? Are you willing to give up your pizza, your french fries, your spaghetti, your egg rolls and chop suey, your souvlakis, your bagels, your hot dogs (it was an immigrant who invented them), your burritos and tacos, etc.?
Go ahead and ban all immigration to the US for the next 50 years. Please. And enforce it with the death penalty. You seem to have a penchant for "solving" things by killing people, so go for it. There are large chunks of the world that are still "open for business" and welcome immigrants, recognizing that variety makes us stronger, not weaker.
Oh, come off it. If every illegal immigrant were to be deported tomorrow your economy would collapse, and you know it.
What you WANT is the immigrant labour, but without the obligations towards your fellow man that come with it.
The original immigrants didn't "sign the guest book" as you put it. Sure as hell the "founding fathers" didn't either. Seems to me that the US had a bit of a revolution that, if it had failed, those same founding fathers would have been shot for treason, so your country was born by illegal acts. Don't get so bent out of shape over it. You NEED those immigrants. Instead of decrying how they're illegal, make it easier for them to become legal.
BTW, you could apply this sort of thinking to both the war on drugs and the war on terrorism, and save a bundle.
That's Xerox's NEXT marketing move - photocopy paper that DOESN'T fade! Only 10x the price of the same ordinary paper you've been buying for years.
I've signed contracts with black ink. There's no legal requirement that the ink be in blue. Heck, one time I signed in red (it was the only pen I had close at hand). Someone asked "Is that legal?" I said "Of course it is." Nowhere in the law on cotracts does it specify a pen colour. I've even seen old contracts (dated from the 1800's) signed in pencil.
Its insane. Canadians have been going over the border without a passport forever. That's set to change. A lot of us never bothered with a passport, or let it lapse, because we ARE at home when we go to the US, and vice versa.
Contrary to popular belief, not one 9/11 terrorist entered the US from Canada.
I went to the US on 4 occasions last year, and didn't have any problems. But that doesn't mean I'm going to like being treated like a foreigner next year. I don't think they "get it" about how this really rubs a lot of Canadians the wrong way. We're trying to maintain our ideal of an open, pluralistic, multicultural country, and we see the increased xenophobia to our south - the public outcry at "immigrants taking away our jobs" and we shake our heads. North America was populated by wave after wave of immigrants, right down to the first aboriginal indians who came across via the Bearing Strait; the attitude now is "I've got mine, Jack!"
They're only hurting themselves, not some half-mythical "terr'rist group".
"Asked her if she wanted a maid outfit. That was a mistake."
Top 10 responses ...
The article I linked to isn't new. Its from 1983. The physical differences in the brains of lefties have long been confirmed by direct observation. Physical differences of the bodies, in handedness, for example, and in behaviour, are easy enough to confirm - just watch a lefty and a righty try to do the same thing.
Being a leftie is a marker that you will probably have these other problems as well. Being left-handed doesn't cause them, but it indicates that the brain and body underwent a different process at some point than righties, and possible genetic differences (handednes shows an inherited component).
Finally, contracts that aren't worth the paper they're written on.
I have a friend who came visiting from Australia, and she paid something like a grand extra just to avoid the US because of all the horror stories she's heard. She wouldn't stick out in any racial profile unless you're looking for natural blondes, and she has absolutely nothing to worry about - her past is totally clean - but still, she doesn't want the hassle and will pay extra to avoid the US.
And 7 out of her last 9 flights, they lost her luggage, so even if she WERE a bomb-carrying terrorist, it would probably end up taking out some crop-duster, or a baggage cart.
Air Canada? Bwahahahah! (that's not laughter, btw, its crying ... )
Stop whining about little things like mice and scrollbars and scissors.
The simple fact is, if you're a leftie, you're much more likely to be f*cked up in other ways ...
Geez ... no wonder parents used to try to get their left-handed kids to switch hands - who wants all these problems?
Don't laugh - a lot of people are paying extra so they won't have a stopover in the US on the way to another destination, just to avoid the hassles, even if they have never done anything wrong.
This is just going to make the situation worse. The losers are the US air carriers, and services based in the US.