So what, an even smaller percentage of Americans live in the state of Alaska, if it happened to be owned by some billionaire asshat through some mistake of history it seems reasonable that it shouldn't be able to be sold to another billionaire asshat - especially when neither of them lived in Alaska?
Wanting the Hawaiian people and citizens of the state to be able to decide what happens to a large island in the Hawaiian archipelago doesn't mean the decision would be up to people in the sovereignty movement...
They're Americans just like Californians, Georgians, New Yorkers (well, maybe not New Yorkers...)
The point of the homestead act is that Hawaiians got f***ed and this helps a tiny tiny bit to make up for that, and it helps keep rich white asshats like Ellison from displacing them all because everyone wants to buy a house there.
If it wasn't for the homestead act everyone in Hawaii would either speak Japanese or be a rich white guy (mass generalization of course, but if you've lived there you'll also know how true this is, lol.)
Terrible isn't it? I'm not against wealth, hell I'd love to have some appreciable wealth myself, but the idea of a single person owning the island of Lana'i is crass in the extreme.
Then, the cherry on the cake is that the guy is "super asshole of the century" Larry Ellison...
It should be decided by Hawaiians what happens to Hawaii - and I assure you they wouldn't want some megalomaniacal (sp?) asshat with all that power over their lives.
IT guys at large corporations have been monitoring this for at least TWO YEARS.
Heck, a friend of mine who works for SIEMENS says they've done some limited roll outs using the Atrix as a desktop replacement for some field support personnel. They've got teams learning the ins and outs of creating custom OS images for given phone sets so they can simply image peoples' phones the same way they do when you connect your laptop to their system now.
How eager people are to connect their 'work' phone, and what 'work' phone means now, is a bit more up for debate there. My friend says a lot of people are excited at the idea of ditching desktops AND laptops for certain types of employees and simply having offices filled with docking stations.
As a matter of fact, software companies will often have those with degrees who are fresh out of school work in tech support for at least 6 months. Then move them up when a slot opens or they show that they are capable.
The type of people that this post is directed to are NOWHERE NEAR getting funding
Where do you get this information from? LOL. It's nowhere in TFA. You must know something we don't.
If we're actually talking with VCs, then yes, I will be willing to consider signing an NDA. Not when you've just come up with the idea.
'If we're talkin with VCs" - What on earth are you on about. A woman approach the programmer and discussed an idea she had with him, they interacted, she then indicated that she wanted to take the relationship further. It is at this point that she broaches the topic of an NDA. The programmer doesn't know anything about how she is or is not funded, she's just been talking to him about the project. Are you just making this stuff up? Lol...
You didn't apparently. "...when she mentioned she would soon have a lawyer draw up a Non-Disclosure Agreement regarding the project..." - in other words, she wanted to involve him formally.
Waste of his time? That's like asking "why should he answer questions he thinks are dumb from his clients since it's a waste of his time?"
You're free to act however you want if you're willing to live with the repercussions of those decisions, but his blog is looked at as sage advice, and in this case his advice is poor and nonsensical.
Signing an NDA you agree with can actually make it more difficult for someone to sue you.
Personally I require NDAs to have expiration dates. It's tough for someone to sue me for something with an explicitly stated dissolution once that date has passed.
I routinely strike clauses in contracts / agreements that are overreaching and unreasonable - and have gotten very little push-back about it.
This is exactly right, and what a person should do. If you don't like something in the NDA, tell the person sending it to you what you have a problem with and what you suggest as an alternative (unless you want it removed completely.)
Personally, I insist on very specific market definitions and a date of expiration (usually 12-18 months.)
I've occasionally had a little push-back (from larger companies usually who have a**hole legal departments), but ultimately it has always worked.
Again, he's simply being arrogant and naive. If someone sends you an NDA, especially someone who is trying to get a company on its feet, simply suggest changes to the NDA that you find inappropriate. If you think it is too broad and vague, suggest something better. If you think it should have an expiry, make the suggestion. The person sending you an NDA isn't saying to you that you're going to steal their stuff, they're saying to you "I don't know you very well."
It's not like someone who wants to hire you is going to refuse to consider your point of view.
What a great counter argument. <paraphrase>He has a blog and is therefore a well-known successful freelance programmer, and because of that he's not naive about the common requirements for obtaining funding...</paraphrase>
so that it's easier to sue me in the future
- You're being naive as well. Trust me, a company will sue you whether you have an NDA or not simply based upon the premise that they will likely weather a legal battle much more easily than you. It's not always true, but it's a "well-known" tactic.
There are perfectly valid and logical reasons to have someone who can implement your idea sign an NDA. It isn't always necessary, but it often is.
Just make sure the NDA has a relatively short term expiry (12-18 months) and is VERY specific as to market.
It isn't a good idea unless it is disabled by default and only available as an option.
I WANT Firefox to spread in the enterprise, and this will likely make that less probable.
Web based applications requiring individual permissions for aspects of their functionality in the corporate world? I have enough trouble getting these mental giants to load a web page...
There have been floor based pressure sensor for more than a decade that do these things and they're not from IBM. The earliest uses I am aware of were for security and access control purposes (to detect when someone walked in behind someone else that had an access card.
I think your post is insightful, but I think the real problem with Congress is that 435 of its members are virtually campaigning for re-election the day they win their election. The other 100 are little better, campaigning full time every two years in their 4 year term.
Political office in this country was not meant to be a career in this country. It was meant to be a term of service in order to benefit the country, not the individual themselves. Sadly, it is now a career effort.
Eliminate this. Have Representatives serve a 5 year term, Senators an 8 year term - then they are OUT. No more terms. None of this Strom Thurmond bullsh** where he's anti-black around Pearl Harbor while it gets him elected and then pro-black in the late 60's and 70's when it keeps him elected. Like ships without keels, blown whichever way the wind goes the bastards.
Hell, look at this guy Romney, I've been watching "Presidential Debates" (LOL) for months and I still couldn't tell you what I think he really believes. I think if I told him "I like pie" he'd pipe up with "I LOVE pie."
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So what, an even smaller percentage of Americans live in the state of Alaska, if it happened to be owned by some billionaire asshat through some mistake of history it seems reasonable that it shouldn't be able to be sold to another billionaire asshat - especially when neither of them lived in Alaska?
Why would they be deciding?
Wanting the Hawaiian people and citizens of the state to be able to decide what happens to a large island in the Hawaiian archipelago doesn't mean the decision would be up to people in the sovereignty movement...
Love your sig by the way, made me laugh :).
They're Americans just like Californians, Georgians, New Yorkers (well, maybe not New Yorkers...)
The point of the homestead act is that Hawaiians got f***ed and this helps a tiny tiny bit to make up for that, and it helps keep rich white asshats like Ellison from displacing them all because everyone wants to buy a house there.
If it wasn't for the homestead act everyone in Hawaii would either speak Japanese or be a rich white guy (mass generalization of course, but if you've lived there you'll also know how true this is, lol.)
Terrible isn't it? I'm not against wealth, hell I'd love to have some appreciable wealth myself, but the idea of a single person owning the island of Lana'i is crass in the extreme.
Then, the cherry on the cake is that the guy is "super asshole of the century" Larry Ellison...
...prevent stuff like this.
It should be decided by Hawaiians what happens to Hawaii - and I assure you they wouldn't want some megalomaniacal (sp?) asshat with all that power over their lives.
IT guys at large corporations have been monitoring this for at least TWO YEARS.
Heck, a friend of mine who works for SIEMENS says they've done some limited roll outs using the Atrix as a desktop replacement for some field support personnel. They've got teams learning the ins and outs of creating custom OS images for given phone sets so they can simply image peoples' phones the same way they do when you connect your laptop to their system now.
How eager people are to connect their 'work' phone, and what 'work' phone means now, is a bit more up for debate there. My friend says a lot of people are excited at the idea of ditching desktops AND laptops for certain types of employees and simply having offices filled with docking stations.
...if you don't have a formal degree.
As a matter of fact, software companies will often have those with degrees who are fresh out of school work in tech support for at least 6 months. Then move them up when a slot opens or they show that they are capable.
...are local.
They don't have to work on-site, but you'll find it incredibly difficult to manage the process properly without being able to visit them at will.
Exactly, you don't just step in the ring with Ali because you think you can box... ;)
The type of people that this post is directed to are NOWHERE NEAR getting funding
Where do you get this information from? LOL. It's nowhere in TFA. You must know something we don't.
If we're actually talking with VCs, then yes, I will be willing to consider signing an NDA. Not when you've just come up with the idea.
'If we're talkin with VCs" - What on earth are you on about. A woman approach the programmer and discussed an idea she had with him, they interacted, she then indicated that she wanted to take the relationship further. It is at this point that she broaches the topic of an NDA. The programmer doesn't know anything about how she is or is not funded, she's just been talking to him about the project. Are you just making this stuff up? Lol...
You didn't apparently. "...when she mentioned she would soon have a lawyer draw up a Non-Disclosure Agreement regarding the project..." - in other words, she wanted to involve him formally.
Waste of his time? That's like asking "why should he answer questions he thinks are dumb from his clients since it's a waste of his time?"
You're free to act however you want if you're willing to live with the repercussions of those decisions, but his blog is looked at as sage advice, and in this case his advice is poor and nonsensical.
Signing an NDA you agree with can actually make it more difficult for someone to sue you.
Personally I require NDAs to have expiration dates. It's tough for someone to sue me for something with an explicitly stated dissolution once that date has passed.
I routinely strike clauses in contracts / agreements that are overreaching and unreasonable - and have gotten very little push-back about it.
This is exactly right, and what a person should do. If you don't like something in the NDA, tell the person sending it to you what you have a problem with and what you suggest as an alternative (unless you want it removed completely.)
Personally, I insist on very specific market definitions and a date of expiration (usually 12-18 months.)
I've occasionally had a little push-back (from larger companies usually who have a**hole legal departments), but ultimately it has always worked.
I did read the article, thanks.
Again, he's simply being arrogant and naive. If someone sends you an NDA, especially someone who is trying to get a company on its feet, simply suggest changes to the NDA that you find inappropriate. If you think it is too broad and vague, suggest something better. If you think it should have an expiry, make the suggestion. The person sending you an NDA isn't saying to you that you're going to steal their stuff, they're saying to you "I don't know you very well."
It's not like someone who wants to hire you is going to refuse to consider your point of view.
The guy is giving people bad advice.
What a great counter argument. <paraphrase>He has a blog and is therefore a well-known successful freelance programmer, and because of that he's not naive about the common requirements for obtaining funding...</paraphrase>
so that it's easier to sue me in the future
- You're being naive as well. Trust me, a company will sue you whether you have an NDA or not simply based upon the premise that they will likely weather a legal battle much more easily than you. It's not always true, but it's a "well-known" tactic.
There are perfectly valid and logical reasons to have someone who can implement your idea sign an NDA. It isn't always necessary, but it often is.
Just make sure the NDA has a relatively short term expiry (12-18 months) and is VERY specific as to market.
...want to know that anyone involved has been signed with an NDA before they consider giving you money.
It isn't a good idea unless it is disabled by default and only available as an option.
I WANT Firefox to spread in the enterprise, and this will likely make that less probable.
Web based applications requiring individual permissions for aspects of their functionality in the corporate world? I have enough trouble getting these mental giants to load a web page...
There have been floor based pressure sensor for more than a decade that do these things and they're not from IBM. The earliest uses I am aware of were for security and access control purposes (to detect when someone walked in behind someone else that had an access card.
Cheney is the guy who sent Libby off to meet with Miller.
How much time do you think Cheney and Rove should get?
I think your post is insightful, but I think the real problem with Congress is that 435 of its members are virtually campaigning for re-election the day they win their election. The other 100 are little better, campaigning full time every two years in their 4 year term.
Political office in this country was not meant to be a career in this country. It was meant to be a term of service in order to benefit the country, not the individual themselves. Sadly, it is now a career effort.
Eliminate this. Have Representatives serve a 5 year term, Senators an 8 year term - then they are OUT. No more terms. None of this Strom Thurmond bullsh** where he's anti-black around Pearl Harbor while it gets him elected and then pro-black in the late 60's and 70's when it keeps him elected. Like ships without keels, blown whichever way the wind goes the bastards.
Hell, look at this guy Romney, I've been watching "Presidential Debates" (LOL) for months and I still couldn't tell you what I think he really believes. I think if I told him "I like pie" he'd pipe up with "I LOVE pie."
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How do we mod 'Sad but Funny'?
Thank goodness we didn't think that way when we came out with Digital Studio ;)...