You don't understand capitalism. There is no such thing as "enough". Whatever profit you make in any given year must be bested the next year or you are a failure.
It's mostly a lot of very dedicated, very intelligent people trying their best to defend and strengthen the good 'ol USofA...
Mostly? Yes, I'd agree that it is mostly dedicated people. However, it doesn't take many powermongers to stick me with a multi-billion dollar bill for useless weaponry.
1. PHP scales well. 2. Java scales well. 3. Friendster couldn't devlop a scalable J2EE application, so they switched to PHP. 4. WHat will Friendster switch to when they can't develop a scalable PHP application?
Even if they do speak English, classic (i.e. European) literature may not be all the useful. How valuable would you find the works of an Egyptian author, even if you read the language?
The way I see it. You can complain, win your court case, lose your job, ask people if they'd like fries with that. or You can work your long hours and take every ounce of free time for yourself during the day, just making sure to do a bit of a better job than everyone else.
Another possibility is to band together with other IT workers, domestic as well as international, and demand fair pay for a day's work. A unified group voice is the only counter to the dollars that management has at their disposal to throw around at election time. For me, I prefer to not be a sheep.
What about the guy who sells nick-nacks on Ebay and gets his account shutdown because he sent too many emails to customers one day? He can't take his business to AOL because AOL and Comcast conspired to shut down the email accounts of businesses like his. IANAL, but this sounds no-good to me.
Consumers who allow their infected computers to send out millions of "spam" messages could be unplugged from the Internet under a proposal released Tuesday by six large e-mail providers.
Isn't conspiring to restrain trade illegal? Comcast, AOL and others might be opening themselves up to suits from legitimate businesses. From businesslaw.gov: "Antitrust laws make it illegal to conspire to restrain trade or commerce in any marketplace, regardless of size."
The military/DOD is a huge customer for Microsoft and one they will not give up without an epic battle.
There will be no battle, epic or otherwise. With the stakes this high, Microsoft can purchase as many Congresscritters as it needs to make sure the DoD is a customer today, tomorrow and forever.
Many researchers believe the next major earthquake will be in northern California, not southern California. One reason is that the San Andreas fault 'creeps' in the south, slowly releasing energy (so the theory goes). In the north, the San Andreas is locked and last moved in 1906, when it released all its energy at once, devastating San Francisco.
... investors are a bunch of gullible sheep who lack the ability to think in the long-term.
Not true at all. I am an investor and have made several investment decisions based on 5 and 10 year outlooks (I'm not gutsy enough to make decisions on even farther forward-looking strategies). By definition, long-term outlooks are hig-risk because there are too many variables, known and unknown. No intelligent investor puts a large percentage of their portfolio in high-risk investments. There are nearly as many reasons to invest as there are investors and to label all investors as "gullible sheep" is unfounded.
can't they, like, just buy a big hard drive and stuff?
Are you kidding? The next election the Republicans go batshit because the city spent tax dollars saving porn-related emails. Rush Limbaugh could turn that into a week of shows.
Sometimes I think I am the only person in the US who realizes this but we are NOT at war. Just because President Dumbass sez so doesn't make it so. Section 8 of Article 1 of the US Constitution clearly states that the US Congress has the power to declare war. Not Bush. Not Ashcroft. Not any bozo bureacrat who declares a war on drugs, poverty, illiteracy, this, that or the other thing. No war, no extra-constitutional powers, no sedition. Period.
Is this is actually happening? Theatres don't run with lots of staff. You basically have a kid taking tickets and a kid selling popcorn. Everything else is computerized. Who exactly is this person who is going to be donning night vision goggles?
It's not a memory leak, per se. Java doesn't have what's commonoy known as memory leaks. More appropriate would be the term "memory loitering". No object is ever put in a state where it cannot be gc'ed - only where they will not be gc'ed.
...what they have ended up with is a tech manager and a bunch of programmers who are comsumed by the minutae of the programming language...
Thank you!! I was trying to think of the right phrase to describe the complete worthlessness of these tests. I try to educate my own company about the pointlessness of these tests and I am having some success. I try to recommend alternative questions that uncover a candidate's true experiences. Questions like, "tell me about a difficult technical problem you faced and how you solved it", tells a million times more about a candidate than "why are manhole covers round"?
Ignoring the fact that the global economy would be gone, and all city centres and major surburban districts in approx. 10 - 15k cities
LOL! File this under, "other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?"
Carl Sagan offered the best analogy for explaining environmental effects. Consider all the components of our biosphere as parts on a plane: each species might be one rivet, the ozone layer might be analogous to the stabilizers and so forth. You can lose several rivets and the plane will still fly. One engine can stop running and a trained pilot can compensate. At some point, however, the loss of parts will turn suddenly catastrophic.
Surprising as it may sound, this is NOT enough to 'destroy' the world.
You're assuming that 9600 warheads detonated together would 'only' amount to 9600 times the results of one warhead detonation. This is by no means a widely accpeted view. It's much more likely that there is a "tipping point" where the damage from a nuclear exchange cascades into a catastrophe for the species (us). In any event, I prefer not to prove it conclusively, Dr. Strangelove.
Commercial speech should absolutely be as protected as other speech.
Absolutely not!! A corporation exists solely to generate a profit. It has no morals, no ethics and cannot be deprived of its life or liberty for its crimes. Freedom of speech is a human condition intended for humans. When humans can hide behind a corporation, they can not be held accountalbe for their actions or speech. For example, Dow Chemical murdered 800 people in Bhopal India. Was it forced to cease existing? Of course not. Any entity which has no compulsion to behave with human responsibilities has no expectation of human rights. It has long been accepted that not ALL speech is free. You cannot shout "fire" in a crowded theatre and you cannot expect unbridled rights to make commercial claims.
Commercial speech does not (nor should it) enjoy 1st Amendment protections. Now, if we could just lock up the people behind those annoying lite beer commercials.
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Absolutely right. Kinda makes it hard to make an argument for the superiority of one over the other, doesn't it?
You don't understand capitalism. There is no such thing as "enough". Whatever profit you make in any given year must be bested the next year or you are a failure.
It's mostly a lot of very dedicated, very intelligent people trying their best to defend and strengthen the good 'ol USofA...
Mostly? Yes, I'd agree that it is mostly dedicated people. However, it doesn't take many powermongers to stick me with a multi-billion dollar bill for useless weaponry.
I'm really sorry you're having trouble finding jobs because you're a Java programmer. My advice is you start to learn PHP.
Thank you so much for your valuable advice. I have learned PHP, as well as Java, and already have a job though.
1. PHP scales well.
2. Java scales well.
3. Friendster couldn't devlop a scalable J2EE application, so they switched to PHP.
4. WHat will Friendster switch to when they can't develop a scalable PHP application?
Even if they do speak English, classic (i.e. European) literature may not be all the useful. How valuable would you find the works of an Egyptian author, even if you read the language?
A self-determinative flock, sure.
Beats hiding behind and anonymous coward id.
The way I see it. You can complain, win your court case, lose your job, ask people if they'd like fries with that.
or
You can work your long hours and take every ounce of free time for yourself during the day, just making sure to do a bit of a better job than everyone else.
Another possibility is to band together with other IT workers, domestic as well as international, and demand fair pay for a day's work.
A unified group voice is the only counter to the dollars that management has at their disposal to throw around at election time. For me, I prefer to not be a sheep.
Yes, please leave comedy to the pros.
Or at least leave it to the funny.
What about the guy who sells nick-nacks on Ebay and gets his account shutdown because he sent too many emails to customers one day? He can't take his business to AOL because AOL and Comcast conspired to shut down the email accounts of businesses like his. IANAL, but this sounds no-good to me.
Consumers who allow their infected computers to send out millions of "spam" messages could be unplugged from the Internet under a proposal released Tuesday by six large e-mail providers.
Isn't conspiring to restrain trade illegal? Comcast, AOL and others might be opening themselves up to suits from legitimate businesses.
From businesslaw.gov:
"Antitrust laws make it illegal to conspire to restrain trade or commerce in any marketplace, regardless of size."
The military/DOD is a huge customer for Microsoft and one they will not give up without an epic battle.
There will be no battle, epic or otherwise. With the stakes this high, Microsoft can purchase as many Congresscritters as it needs to make sure the DoD is a customer today, tomorrow and forever.
... but 9 women can't have a baby in 1 month.
9 women????
You lucky bastard. Around here, we'd be expected to make a baby in one month with only 4 women.
Many researchers believe the next major earthquake will be in northern California, not southern California. One reason is that the San Andreas fault 'creeps' in the south, slowly releasing energy (so the theory goes). In the north, the San Andreas is locked and last moved in 1906, when it released all its energy at once, devastating San Francisco.
... investors are a bunch of gullible sheep who lack the ability to think in the long-term.
Not true at all. I am an investor and have made several investment decisions based on 5 and 10 year outlooks (I'm not gutsy enough to make decisions on even farther forward-looking strategies).
By definition, long-term outlooks are hig-risk because there are too many variables, known and unknown. No intelligent investor puts a large percentage of their portfolio in high-risk investments. There are nearly as many reasons to invest as there are investors and to label all investors as "gullible sheep" is unfounded.
can't they, like, just buy a big hard drive and stuff?
Are you kidding? The next election the Republicans go batshit because the city spent tax dollars saving porn-related emails. Rush Limbaugh could turn that into a week of shows.
Whoever, when the United States is at war, ...
Sometimes I think I am the only person in the US who realizes this but we are NOT at war. Just because President Dumbass sez so doesn't make it so.
Section 8 of Article 1 of the US Constitution clearly states that the US Congress has the power to declare war. Not Bush. Not Ashcroft. Not any bozo bureacrat who declares a war on drugs, poverty, illiteracy, this, that or the other thing.
No war, no extra-constitutional powers, no sedition. Period.
I just hope their programmers aren't unionized.
I hope their programmers ARE unionized. If not, you can bet who the scapegoats will be, regardless of whether they are actually to blame.
Is this is actually happening? Theatres don't run with lots of staff. You basically have a kid taking tickets and a kid selling popcorn. Everything else is computerized. Who exactly is this person who is going to be donning night vision goggles?
It's not a memory leak, per se. Java doesn't have what's commonoy known as memory leaks. More appropriate would be the term "memory loitering". No object is ever put in a state where it cannot be gc'ed - only where they will not be gc'ed.
...what they have ended up with is a tech manager and a bunch of programmers who are comsumed by the minutae of the programming language...
Thank you!! I was trying to think of the right phrase to describe the complete worthlessness of these tests. I try to educate my own company about the pointlessness of these tests and I am having some success. I try to recommend alternative questions that uncover a candidate's true experiences. Questions like, "tell me about a difficult technical problem you faced and how you solved it", tells a million times more about a candidate than "why are manhole covers round"?
Ignoring the fact that the global economy would be gone, and all city centres and major surburban districts in approx. 10 - 15k cities
LOL! File this under, "other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?"
Carl Sagan offered the best analogy for explaining environmental effects. Consider all the components of our biosphere as parts on a plane: each species might be one rivet, the ozone layer might be analogous to the stabilizers and so forth. You can lose several rivets and the plane will still fly. One engine can stop running and a trained pilot can compensate. At some point, however, the loss of parts will turn suddenly catastrophic.
Surprising as it may sound, this is NOT enough to 'destroy' the world.
You're assuming that 9600 warheads detonated together would 'only' amount to 9600 times the results of one warhead detonation. This is by no means a widely accpeted view. It's much more likely that there is a "tipping point" where the damage from a nuclear exchange cascades into a catastrophe for the species (us).
In any event, I prefer not to prove it conclusively, Dr. Strangelove.
Commercial speech should absolutely be as protected as other speech.
Absolutely not!! A corporation exists solely to generate a profit. It has no morals, no ethics and cannot be deprived of its life or liberty for its crimes. Freedom of speech is a human condition intended for humans. When humans can hide behind a corporation, they can not be held accountalbe for their actions or speech. For example, Dow Chemical murdered 800 people in Bhopal India. Was it forced to cease existing? Of course not. Any entity which has no compulsion to behave with human responsibilities has no expectation of human rights.
It has long been accepted that not ALL speech is free. You cannot shout "fire" in a crowded theatre and you cannot expect unbridled rights to make commercial claims.
Commercial speech does not (nor should it) enjoy 1st Amendment protections.
Now, if we could just lock up the people behind those annoying lite beer commercials.