No, I don't love my job like I love my wife and family.
If you expect that, as an employer, you sir, are an idiot.
Love is reciprocal... is the company coming to sit by my bedside for 48 hours when I'm sick... though so.
Yet, I do my very best at my job within the hours I'm paid for. I'm a professional. I signed a contract that says I will work such and such hours and do such and such tasks.
I'm not to inflexible to work other hours or do another task in exceptional cases, however, if you as an employer expect me to work overtime structurally or do tasks which you are not paying me for, you are being unprofessional and I will seek other employment.
TomTom, a dutch navigation systems manufacturer, is already equipping their latest systems with this technique, but I haven't heard any reviews or feedback, so I'm not sure if and how it works.
If this works, it could be quite a relief... traffics jams are terrible in the Randstad, the conglomeration of The Hague, Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Utrecht.
"I don't recall anyone ever saying "To have a free market, it must be provided by public Government services", a free market can never have any Government regulation or intervention, else it is not a free market."
Hogwash and wordplay. There is no free market without regulations and governments to impose them. An unregulated market is not free, it's a playground for the strongest party to create a monopoly.
If you don't recall anyone telling you this, maybe you should make it a point to educate yourself on the subject of economics before you start spouting your opinion. All important thinkers on economics understand that regulation is necessary in order for a market to be free and fair.
"If it's clear that Lucas didn't allow the guy to go off and make money duplicating Stormtrooper outfits, then Lucas is in the right to sue him."
I'd say that would be a legal right then, but not a moral one.
He doesn't have to do it for the money, does he? And I don't see another decent reason to go after one of the creative minds that helped make your movie into a classic.
"RPGs are definitely different from shooters or games like Carmageddon where the whole point is to take out innocent people."
Eeeehm, no. First of all, there are no innocent people living in your computer, and there are no computer games that I know of whose point is to kill innocent people. Representations thereof, maybe, real people, no.
Moreover, very little shooters involve innocent characters. Most are just plain adversaries, you know, soldiers from the other side, the other gang, monsters, aliens, etc.etc.
Actually, wtf is an innocent person in this light? How could you possibly know if they were innocent or not? Take carmaggedon: the 'innocent' bystander you just ripped to pieces might have just raped your (fictional) mother or killed a whole hord of children. You don't know, it's a fictional character.
What is innocent anyway? It's so meaningless, this expression, without specification. Innocent of murder? Check. Innocent of rape? Check. Innocent of other crimes as specified by law? Check.
Innocent? Dunno? Innocent of what?
Innocent, is that like some of those weird moral constucts heard of only in America, like good people and evil people? Are good people innocent and evil people guilty, is that it?
I really loved the face bank, basically a slab with eyes, nose and a mouth that opens the mouth if you hold a coin over it.
These should be imported into the states, so you Americans can learn your kids to start saving young ( saving = putting your own money in the bank and taking it out later when necessary, as opposed to what you are doing now, spending, which is taking money from the bank and putting it back in when you own it (never!)).
You know you're going to need it now you can't remortage your house anymore and the rest of the world is tired of keeping the dollar floating.
"Weren't the trade sanctions against Cuba put there and don't they remain there in part because of Cuban human rights abuses?"
No. That's just an excuse to justify extending the trade sanctions. The US were just spitefull their comfortable dictator Batista was driven away by Fidel Castro and the control over their back yard latin- and south america seemed to be slipping away.
And of course they were pissed off that Castro did the only logical thing for him to do after the US turned their back on him... turn to the other super power for protection.
I don't think I can think of one example where the US government has chosen the moral high ground over economical or military considerations.
"Except that this isn't a "corp", it's the fscking US Government."
I'd say the difference between these two concepts is getting smaller every year, with the campaining system as it is and the two corporation backed political families Bush and Clinton.
I just looked up the figures from a few years (I think it was 2000) past when UMTS (Mobile Broadband, forget what it's called in the states) frequencies where on auctioned here in Northern Europe:
which is quite apt, as China is another country that intends to ban anonymous posting online, with the difference that they actually have the manpower to enforce it.
"Obviously, if you only want to wear t-shirts to every ocasion, including your wedding, then you will not be managament material anyway.
The fact that you think your dresscode is more importand then the job you do, means you are not interested in people. Hence: not management material."
Hmmm. I'd say the fact that you think how someone dresses correlates with their ability to manage people would make me not hire you in a management position.
I'll give you this: someone who dresses well (and that does not necessarily imply a suit for me) is easier to take serious, but a good manager should be able to see past such shallow things and recognize the inherent talents in the persons he manages.
Programming in VB, PHP or Ruby does not make you stupid per se. Capable programmers that understand what goes on under the hood actually use these languages.
Programming a website in assembly, on the other hand, would be pretty thickheaded.
My point is that a knowledge of assembly is indeed very usefull for any programmer. I only disagree with your gratitious bashing of script languages and their users.
"What a great way to detract attention from its continuing defiance of the world community -- no, not just the US -- on its nuclear processing."
What exactly is this defiance that you speak of? I though your own intelligence agency concluded that Iran stopped their nuke program in 2003?
Is this some kind of news lag you experience in the states? Like still believing Bin Laden and Saddam were working together years after they were proven not to?
Or still believing WMD would be found in Iraq months or even years after the invasion?
Or still believing that the invasion of Iraq is contributing to the battle on terrorism even though terrorist incidents have peaked since the invasion?
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No, I don't love my job like I love my wife and family.
... is the company coming to sit by my bedside for 48 hours when I'm sick ... though so.
If you expect that, as an employer, you sir, are an idiot.
Love is reciprocal
Yet, I do my very best at my job within the hours I'm paid for. I'm a professional. I signed a contract that says I will work such and such hours and do such and such tasks.
I'm not to inflexible to work other hours or do another task in exceptional cases, however, if you as an employer expect me to work overtime structurally or do tasks which you are not paying me for, you are being unprofessional and I will seek other employment.
If drug abuse is made a terrorist act, yes. There might already be more than one million 'terrorists' in american jails in that case ...
You present it as fact, but that assertion is in fact only your opinion.
Some (if not most) decision are made subconsciously. The 'free' part may only consist of an ability to override subconscious decisions.
And then again, the conscious/subconscious terms (AFAIK) originate with Freud and are only a model, and not a very usefull one at that, in my opinion.
TomTom, a dutch navigation systems manufacturer, is already equipping their latest systems with this technique, but I haven't heard any reviews or feedback, so I'm not sure if and how it works.
... traffics jams are terrible in the Randstad, the conglomeration of The Hague, Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Utrecht.
If this works, it could be quite a relief
"I don't recall anyone ever saying "To have a free market, it must be provided by public Government services", a free market can never have any Government regulation or intervention, else it is not a free market."
Hogwash and wordplay. There is no free market without regulations and governments to impose them. An unregulated market is not free, it's a playground for the strongest party to create a monopoly.
If you don't recall anyone telling you this, maybe you should make it a point to educate yourself on the subject of economics before you start spouting your opinion. All important thinkers on economics understand that regulation is necessary in order for a market to be free and fair.
"It's odd that the first thing that you thought of was how Americans suck and how Europeans are so great with their LHC."
Those are your words, not his.
""The fact that people will misuse drugs does not mean we shouldn't make them available."
...
Someone should probably tell that to the DEA before we waste any more resources on this whole war on drugs thing."
Hmm, or they have another reason entirely for cracking down on drugs?
Just speculating
I don't need no stinking google to do that ...
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wait
you meant on THEIR servers
right.
"(if you don't know what the basic rules are that I speak of, then you are probably a child molester)"
Way to go witchhunter!
"If it's clear that Lucas didn't allow the guy to go off and make money duplicating Stormtrooper outfits, then Lucas is in the right to sue him."
I'd say that would be a legal right then, but not a moral one.
He doesn't have to do it for the money, does he? And I don't see another decent reason to go after one of the creative minds that helped make your movie into a classic.
"RPGs are definitely different from shooters or games like Carmageddon where the whole point is to take out innocent people."
Eeeehm, no. First of all, there are no innocent people living in your computer, and there are no computer games that I know of whose point is to kill innocent people. Representations thereof, maybe, real people, no.
Moreover, very little shooters involve innocent characters. Most are just plain adversaries, you know, soldiers from the other side, the other gang, monsters, aliens, etc.etc.
Actually, wtf is an innocent person in this light? How could you possibly know if they were innocent or not? Take carmaggedon: the 'innocent' bystander you just ripped to pieces might have just raped your (fictional) mother or killed a whole hord of children. You don't know, it's a fictional character.
What is innocent anyway? It's so meaningless, this expression, without specification. Innocent of murder? Check. Innocent of rape? Check. Innocent of other crimes as specified by law? Check.
Innocent? Dunno? Innocent of what?
Innocent, is that like some of those weird moral constucts heard of only in America, like good people and evil people? Are good people innocent and evil people guilty, is that it?
That's OffTopic. That was not what this research was about. It was about stresslevels before and after playing WoW.
No, that isn't even research into agression, that is still another thing.
I really loved the face bank, basically a slab with eyes, nose and a mouth that opens the mouth if you hold a coin over it.
These should be imported into the states, so you Americans can learn your kids to start saving young ( saving = putting your own money in the bank and taking it out later when necessary, as opposed to what you are doing now, spending, which is taking money from the bank and putting it back in when you own it (never!)).
You know you're going to need it now you can't remortage your house anymore and the rest of the world is tired of keeping the dollar floating.
"Weren't the trade sanctions against Cuba put there and don't they remain there in part because of Cuban human rights abuses?"
... turn to the other super power for protection.
No. That's just an excuse to justify extending the trade sanctions. The US were just spitefull their comfortable dictator Batista was driven away by Fidel Castro and the control over their back yard latin- and south america seemed to be slipping away.
And of course they were pissed off that Castro did the only logical thing for him to do after the US turned their back on him
I don't think I can think of one example where the US government has chosen the moral high ground over economical or military considerations.
"Except that this isn't a "corp", it's the fscking US Government."
I'd say the difference between these two concepts is getting smaller every year, with the campaining system as it is and the two corporation backed political families Bush and Clinton.
I just looked up the figures from a few years (I think it was 2000) past when UMTS (Mobile Broadband, forget what it's called in the states) frequencies where on auctioned here in Northern Europe:
Germany netted a total of 111 billion euros.
Great Brittain 85 billion.
The Netherlands 5.9 billion.
"that there are quite a few people in China"
which is quite apt, as China is another country that intends to ban anonymous posting online, with the difference that they actually have the manpower to enforce it.
"The PC players absolutely curb stomped the dreamcast players until they were drowning in the blood pouring out their eyes.. "
...
Please do not let Jack Thompson hear this
"Obviously, if you only want to wear t-shirts to every ocasion, including your wedding, then you will not be managament material anyway.
The fact that you think your dresscode is more importand then the job you do, means you are not interested in people. Hence: not management material."
Hmmm. I'd say the fact that you think how someone dresses correlates with their ability to manage people would make me not hire you in a management position.
I'll give you this: someone who dresses well (and that does not necessarily imply a suit for me) is easier to take serious, but a good manager should be able to see past such shallow things and recognize the inherent talents in the persons he manages.
... he won't even admit he's jealous!
... it's crap.
Anyway, I concur with your opinion of the article
Yes, OMG! How am I going to survive this day, the day that youtube.com went down the tubes?
A bit less hyperbole might have been more apt here, dear editors.
Programming in VB, PHP or Ruby does not make you stupid per se. Capable programmers that understand what goes on under the hood actually use these languages.
Programming a website in assembly, on the other hand, would be pretty thickheaded.
My point is that a knowledge of assembly is indeed very usefull for any programmer. I only disagree with your gratitious bashing of script languages and their users.
Same here, I've got plant pots, ash trays and litter boxes all designed for Windows XP.
Pfff, newfangled stuff.
I use the dir command in dos to benchmark my new computers. and have been doing so since the 8088.
"What a great way to detract attention from its continuing defiance of the world community -- no, not just the US -- on its nuclear processing."
What exactly is this defiance that you speak of? I though your own intelligence agency concluded that Iran stopped their nuke program in 2003?
Is this some kind of news lag you experience in the states? Like still believing Bin Laden and Saddam were working together years after they were proven not to?
Or still believing WMD would be found in Iraq months or even years after the invasion?
Or still believing that the invasion of Iraq is contributing to the battle on terrorism even though terrorist incidents have peaked since the invasion?