Not to mention that, even if you do prove it's you, the insurance company sues you for "faking your death" (even if it is a long-term fake), requiring you to give back all the money and interest. Then the state starts with fraud charges. Oh what a lovely future you'll have!
We don't even _have_ the kind of reactors and capacitors where you could split a hundred thousands of billions of billions of reactor-grade uranium and dump it all into just creating a black hole.
Poop... I guess we'll just have to make bombs out of it now...
News services have become such an opinion mill that it's starting to make it hard to take them seriously. There is a time and place for people to banter on but I don't want it from a news outlet.
3com doesn't have anything which HP doesn't have a better version of already.
Except for customers that can be converted to HP equipment. This is one reason why acquisitions happen - you get rid of a competitor (even a weak one) while gaining salesperson-customer relationships and upgrade sale incentives. Try getting that from paper plates and disposable spoons.
These days it seems to be much easier to slip them into "War Funding/Think of the Troops" bills, as they seem to occur much more often and stupid conservatives hammer people for not voting on them - Why do you hate our troops? Hell, these days you can hate kids, but don't mess with our boys in uniform - we might have to bring them home.
I'm shocked... simply shocked that a large company would ever screw over a small player like this. God knows I can't think of anything like this happening before. Well, not for the last few minutes, at least.
Actually, they assumed that you could go and look up the number yourself. Really. And your company probably compensated the agents by the number of reservations they booked, not the number of reservations that had the proper information included booked. You could have easily solved this problem by docking the agent per error (invalid phone number being one such error) or only compensating him/her for reservations with all data valid. But the business didn't do that. They obviously thought that the people processing the reservations on the back end could look up the phone number, too. The bottom line is that the agents weren't stupid. In fact it was in their self interest to put in crap data and ship the problem to the back end because they could get to the next call (and meet their quota) ten seconds earlier.
I actually let Paul Krugman know that the NY Times had put his stuff behind a paywall (this was about six years ago when the Times tried to do this for a couple of years) via his Princeton email. I let him know I'd probably have to stop reading his columns because the subscription to the Times website wasn't worth it to me (I wasn't going to pay good money to read idiots like Friedman or Brooks) and, because of that, I wouldn't have access. He wrote back to me and seemed genuinely unaware that this was happening, although that's not surprising - he just sent his columns in, got paid, and assumed that the Times knew what it was doing in distributing his material. This is something that authors need to look at a lot more closely these days. And, BTW, Krugman is a really gracious and forthcoming guy. He took the time to answer email from a random stranger and engaged in a couple of back and forth messages about the issue. I was impressed with the guy's candor and responsiveness.
Ya know, I used to think this way about my career. But as I get closer to retirement now and as my 401K has shrunk, I have second thoughts about not having taken a safe government job and being retired by now on a generous pension instead. Yes, I would have missed out on the excitement of the work I did, but at least I wouldn't be worried about my old age.
Who wants a small dinosaur!? I mean, it can't crush your enemy's cars, or destroy their houses, or knock over power lines. Hell, the thing wasn't even big enough to bite someones ankle convincingly (not that it had any teeth to do that anyhow). Just a waste of good plastic.
The conclusions of these studies indicate that during the 1990s to the 2000s, a period of remarkable wealth for the U.S., an increasing number of people confess to having lost faith in the American Dream.
This is not surprising.
The health of "The American Dream" is tightly tied to notions that, if you work hard, you'll do better, which are tied to (relatively) equitable distribution of economic gains. During this "period of remarkable wealth", most working people had little or no progress in their income levels (in inflation adjusted terms), as increases in national wealth accrued mainly to those in the top percentiles. The "American Dream" (such as it is) was never about absolute values of national wealth, but the individual's ability to "do better". Since there has been little or no gain for the average person during the last twenty-plus years, it's no surprise that many people have lost faith in "The American Dream" even though the country has been at levels of "remarkable wealth" during this time.
Elitist is a loaded term used by useful idiots, seeking to lump together people of above-average intelligence, (supposedly) more highly refined culture, and (very, very secondarily) the wealthy into a political target group that can be exploited by the right wing populist. Unfortunately, this normally results in the demise of smart people (who cannot defend themselves), while leaving in place the wealthy (who can). In doing so, the right wing defang a properly targeted populist revolt that might actually change the system, which is based on economic class/power differences rather than on cultural/IQ differences. Doing this ensures that the fundamental class system, determined by power structures dictated by economics and wealth are never changed, leaving the idiots in the lower class forever subservient. Wash, repeat.
So have a ball flushing your elitist toilet and wave back from the sewer outlet as you try to figure out why that doesn't change a damn thing.
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I hear that this sort of thing is a capital offense over there.
And that's where it all falls apart.
Not to mention that, even if you do prove it's you, the insurance company sues you for "faking your death" (even if it is a long-term fake), requiring you to give back all the money and interest. Then the state starts with fraud charges. Oh what a lovely future you'll have!
Honestly, this is terrible publicity for Microsoft: "Come to us - we're so bad that people have to be paid not to use our competitors".
Well, it worked for them with their "We'll pay you to buy a PC ad."
Accounting, engineering, law, medicine are professions - we're computer janitors.
Yeah... But at least you don't have a union to hold you back.
We don't even _have_ the kind of reactors and capacitors where you could split a hundred thousands of billions of billions of reactor-grade uranium and dump it all into just creating a black hole.
Poop... I guess we'll just have to make bombs out of it now...
... just with better synthesizers.
Define better.
Peace,
The Analog Snob
News services have become such an opinion mill that it's starting to make it hard to take them seriously. There is a time and place for people to banter on but I don't want it from a news outlet.
Yeah! That's why I'll only watch Fox News!
3com doesn't have anything which HP doesn't have a better version of already.
Except for customers that can be converted to HP equipment. This is one reason why acquisitions happen - you get rid of a competitor (even a weak one) while gaining salesperson-customer relationships and upgrade sale incentives. Try getting that from paper plates and disposable spoons.
Just be glad they didn't name it YAPL (Yet Another Programming Language) - although I'm sure that was already used sometime in the eighties.
So why isn't anyone talking about it?
Well, because the economic collapse was caused by ACORN and the CRA, dummy! Glenn Beck said so...
("Think of the Children" type bills)
These days it seems to be much easier to slip them into "War Funding/Think of the Troops" bills, as they seem to occur much more often and stupid conservatives hammer people for not voting on them - Why do you hate our troops? Hell, these days you can hate kids, but don't mess with our boys in uniform - we might have to bring them home.
I'm shocked... simply shocked that a large company would ever screw over a small player like this. God knows I can't think of anything like this happening before. Well, not for the last few minutes, at least.
Does it include a "blink" attribute?
Actually, they assumed that you could go and look up the number yourself. Really. And your company probably compensated the agents by the number of reservations they booked, not the number of reservations that had the proper information included booked. You could have easily solved this problem by docking the agent per error (invalid phone number being one such error) or only compensating him/her for reservations with all data valid. But the business didn't do that. They obviously thought that the people processing the reservations on the back end could look up the phone number, too. The bottom line is that the agents weren't stupid. In fact it was in their self interest to put in crap data and ship the problem to the back end because they could get to the next call (and meet their quota) ten seconds earlier.
I actually let Paul Krugman know that the NY Times had put his stuff behind a paywall (this was about six years ago when the Times tried to do this for a couple of years) via his Princeton email. I let him know I'd probably have to stop reading his columns because the subscription to the Times website wasn't worth it to me (I wasn't going to pay good money to read idiots like Friedman or Brooks) and, because of that, I wouldn't have access. He wrote back to me and seemed genuinely unaware that this was happening, although that's not surprising - he just sent his columns in, got paid, and assumed that the Times knew what it was doing in distributing his material. This is something that authors need to look at a lot more closely these days. And, BTW, Krugman is a really gracious and forthcoming guy. He took the time to answer email from a random stranger and engaged in a couple of back and forth messages about the issue. I was impressed with the guy's candor and responsiveness.
Ya know, I used to think this way about my career. But as I get closer to retirement now and as my 401K has shrunk, I have second thoughts about not having taken a safe government job and being retired by now on a generous pension instead. Yes, I would have missed out on the excitement of the work I did, but at least I wouldn't be worried about my old age.
Who wants a small dinosaur!? I mean, it can't crush your enemy's cars, or destroy their houses, or knock over power lines. Hell, the thing wasn't even big enough to bite someones ankle convincingly (not that it had any teeth to do that anyhow). Just a waste of good plastic.
The entire point is that any stateless creates a power vacuum, which will be filled with someone...
No! The glorious vision of Libertarianism must win out! The will of the individual will not be denied!
The conclusions of these studies indicate that during the 1990s to the 2000s, a period of remarkable wealth for the U.S., an increasing number of people confess to having lost faith in the American Dream.
This is not surprising.
The health of "The American Dream" is tightly tied to notions that, if you work hard, you'll do better, which are tied to (relatively) equitable distribution of economic gains. During this "period of remarkable wealth", most working people had little or no progress in their income levels (in inflation adjusted terms), as increases in national wealth accrued mainly to those in the top percentiles. The "American Dream" (such as it is) was never about absolute values of national wealth, but the individual's ability to "do better". Since there has been little or no gain for the average person during the last twenty-plus years, it's no surprise that many people have lost faith in "The American Dream" even though the country has been at levels of "remarkable wealth" during this time.
Will somebody please flush the elitist toilet?
Elitist is a loaded term used by useful idiots, seeking to lump together people of above-average intelligence, (supposedly) more highly refined culture, and (very, very secondarily) the wealthy into a political target group that can be exploited by the right wing populist. Unfortunately, this normally results in the demise of smart people (who cannot defend themselves), while leaving in place the wealthy (who can). In doing so, the right wing defang a properly targeted populist revolt that might actually change the system, which is based on economic class/power differences rather than on cultural/IQ differences. Doing this ensures that the fundamental class system, determined by power structures dictated by economics and wealth are never changed, leaving the idiots in the lower class forever subservient. Wash, repeat.
So have a ball flushing your elitist toilet and wave back from the sewer outlet as you try to figure out why that doesn't change a damn thing.
Page? Try planet...
Back when Internet Access was something you got under the table, THEN it really MEANT something.
I think you meant to say "Back when giving someone internet access meant they gave me SOMETHING under the table, ...".
Is Slashdot a SNS?
Well, as social as they can be while they live in their Moms' basements.
Whether we can legislate politeness is another matter.
Yes, but we can make goat fucking legal now! Free Captain James T. Kirk!
Violence almost always solves the problem, one way or the other.
Damn straight! That girl I beat up in grade school never bothered me again. Kept all the other bitches in line, too.