Not only that, but it invites abuse. When you tie up a decent chunk of a persons compensation and/or job security in a "performance incentive", you're begging for people to do underhanded stuff to make sure they meet their quota. Working with salespeople, I see this type of thing all the time and it gets worse when they get more desparate to make that bonus.
In the video release of Waynes World, the studio couldn't get the rights to that snippet from Stairway to Heaven for a reasonable fee, so they substituted it with a couple bars of generic guitar sound.
The 10 second scene that was a clever joke in the theatrical release makes completely no sense on the dvd and is quickly forgotten.
Give me a break, both parties are pro-America and want the best for us, they just differ on how to get there.
Given the monumental waste of money and innocent lives in Iraq, fleecing of the treasury for corporate crony interests, routine battering of the constitution, and the staggering deficit just for starters, I find it hard to agree that the republicans want whats best for the greater good.
I don't play partisan politics and won't say that democrats are the knights in shining armor either, but the recent history of republican hegemony speaks volumes.
If you want someone to come work for you, get over yourself and be prepared to train them
It's the old catch-22: can't get the job without experience and you can't get the experience without the job. Companies expect the suitable candidates to drop from the sky with just the experience they want without having to spend any of their own time and money to give that person that experience.
Would really want to put a script kiddie scumbag in control of your company's network and computing resources? If they have no qualms about owning machines to build a zombie army for DDOS attacks or spam, what makes you think that they would do right by you and your company?
The email address I originally mentioned is also used for my Monster.com account and gets its own share of scammers: MLM/Amway/Quixtar, Primerica (where they misleadingly identify themselves as Citigroup Financial Services), and check wire scammers.
The latter poses as a legit job doing payment processings where checks come in with the understanding that they are deposited, a percentage skimmed as a commission, and the remainder wired back to your "employers". Never mind that the checks are either bogus and you're out money or they're payments from fraudulent activities that you'll take the fall for once the authorities come knocking.
Apparently, people are falling for them if they keep sending them.
Personally, I haven't seen an influx of the viagra/mortgage spam as much as I've seen a sharp increase in the number of 419 scam emails of varying degrees. One of them is an account that used to get spam only very rarely. I theorize that someone else on the email service fell for the scams and word got around that there are plenty of mugus ripe for the plucking if you spam this domain.
Has anyone else seen a rise in the amount of this type of spam?
"Minor-attracted adults" sounds a lot better than "perverts,"
That it does. Why not rename the whole spectrum?
Creepy flasher guy in the park - Genital Display Engineer Pedophile priest - Faith-based Genital Manipulation Facilitator Gary Glitter - Overly-Child-Friendly Entertainment Provider
Unfortunately, many people abuse this right. I know many older people, including an uncle of mine, who walk around with their "service dog" all day
This is true. Looking at it from the owners perspective from the parent post, they probably deal with dozens of dingbats a week who try bring in their chiuhuahas or yorkies with the excuse that they're service animals. If you brought in a lab or golden with a Canine Companions for Independence jacket or a handle harness, I don't think you'd get a second thought.
I'd bet anything that its the Paris Hilton wannabees who think their dogs should be allowed anywhere make it harder for the people who legitimately need them.
Sids can be funny. Sid Caesar entertained millions with his funny voices and variety shows. Sid Kroff and his brother Marty made an indelible mark on the pop culture landscape with such programs as Lidsville and Land of the Lost.
Worse, they like to pretend they're a bank when it suits them and claim they're not a bank when it doesn't suit them. Paypal offers a money market-type account, pays interest on certain balances, ATM cards, money transfers, etc but they're not a bank, no sir, federal regulator!
If it looks like a duck, sounds like a duck, but calls itself a dog, it's probably PayPal.
I'm sincerely glad I wasn't in bed when they raided the house. That would have been even more scary.
Worse yet, if this guy owned a firearm and thought he was being robbed, he'd be dead and the FBI patting each other on the back for killing a "bad guy". In many cases, they won't identify themselves as they bust down the door so the suspects won't be able to scuttle evidence before the cops can subdue them.
and now here's Gordon Freeman with the weekend weather!
We're expecting partly sunny skies with the slight chance of headcrabs as we get into Saturday. Sunday, better get your railguns ready for the fall folliage! Back to you!
Don't off yourself if you have Spasmodic Dysphonia, your voice might come back some day. Just keep up with your nursery rhymes and it's somehow possible that everything will be alright!
I don't know if every sufferer of this disease would be ok with sounding like the token character in a Hanna-Barbara cartoon that speaks in rhyme. Although it could be amusing if spoken in limericks.
Patient picking up dry cleaning before heading to the movies:
There once was a man named Smith. Who dropped off his shirt at this cleaners forthwith I hope you vanquished the stain so it doesn't remain when I go see Revenge of the Sith
Patient ordering at a restaurant:
Roses are red, violets are blue I'll have the caesar salad and croutons too.
The media has self-created the right to anonymous and unchallenged sources, and it's something that I find incredibly damaging. There are literally thousands of daily reports that rely on 'unnamed sources'. The incredible power the media wields is often done without the burden of transparency. They can make wild accusations, attribute them to some unnamed source, and pass their reporting as fact. The public is left to either simply trust them, or disregard the news completely.
Substitute media with government and this statement makes just as much sense.
For those of you at work today, you might want to skip this one. Unless, of course, you don't mind your boss seeing the triple-breasted martian prostitute. Hell, it might make for interesting conversation during your annual review.
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Not only that, but it invites abuse. When you tie up a decent chunk of a persons compensation and/or job security in a "performance incentive", you're begging for people to do underhanded stuff to make sure they meet their quota. Working with salespeople, I see this type of thing all the time and it gets worse when they get more desparate to make that bonus.
I hope they offer driving directions to the "Here be dragons" area.
Can you play "Smoke on the Water" on that cancer cure? I didn't think so either. Rock on!
In the video release of Waynes World, the studio couldn't get the rights to that snippet from Stairway to Heaven for a reasonable fee, so they substituted it with a couple bars of generic guitar sound.
The 10 second scene that was a clever joke in the theatrical release makes completely no sense on the dvd and is quickly forgotten.
Give me a break, both parties are pro-America and want the best for us, they just differ on how to get there.
Given the monumental waste of money and innocent lives in Iraq, fleecing of the treasury for corporate crony interests, routine battering of the constitution, and the staggering deficit just for starters, I find it hard to agree that the republicans want whats best for the greater good.
I don't play partisan politics and won't say that democrats are the knights in shining armor either, but the recent history of republican hegemony speaks volumes.
If you want someone to come work for you, get over yourself and be prepared to train them
It's the old catch-22: can't get the job without experience and you can't get the experience without the job. Companies expect the suitable candidates to drop from the sky with just the experience they want without having to spend any of their own time and money to give that person that experience.
Would really want to put a script kiddie scumbag in control of your company's network and computing resources? If they have no qualms about owning machines to build a zombie army for DDOS attacks or spam, what makes you think that they would do right by you and your company?
The email address I originally mentioned is also used for my Monster.com account and gets its own share of scammers: MLM/Amway/Quixtar, Primerica (where they misleadingly identify themselves as Citigroup Financial Services), and check wire scammers.
The latter poses as a legit job doing payment processings where checks come in with the understanding that they are deposited, a percentage skimmed as a commission, and the remainder wired back to your "employers". Never mind that the checks are either bogus and you're out money or they're payments from fraudulent activities that you'll take the fall for once the authorities come knocking.
Apparently, people are falling for them if they keep sending them.
Personally, I haven't seen an influx of the viagra/mortgage spam as much as I've seen a sharp increase in the number of 419 scam emails of varying degrees. One of them is an account that used to get spam only very rarely. I theorize that someone else on the email service fell for the scams and word got around that there are plenty of mugus ripe for the plucking if you spam this domain.
Has anyone else seen a rise in the amount of this type of spam?
Their potassium is vastly inferior to the potassium in the great nation of Khazakistan.
High five for portassiam! Very nice.
"Minor-attracted adults" sounds a lot better than "perverts,"
That it does. Why not rename the whole spectrum?
Creepy flasher guy in the park - Genital Display Engineer
Pedophile priest - Faith-based Genital Manipulation Facilitator
Gary Glitter - Overly-Child-Friendly Entertainment Provider
Any others?
Unfortunately, many people abuse this right. I know many older people, including an uncle of mine, who walk around with their "service dog" all day
This is true. Looking at it from the owners perspective from the parent post, they probably deal with dozens of dingbats a week who try bring in their chiuhuahas or yorkies with the excuse that they're service animals. If you brought in a lab or golden with a Canine Companions for Independence jacket or a handle harness, I don't think you'd get a second thought.
I'd bet anything that its the Paris Hilton wannabees who think their dogs should be allowed anywhere make it harder for the people who legitimately need them.
the screen readers will be reading "spacer" "spacer" "spacer" for three hours.
You should throw in a "MUSHROOM MUSHROOM" here and there to break up the monotony.
Sids can be funny. Sid Caesar entertained millions with his funny voices and variety shows. Sid Kroff and his brother Marty made an indelible mark on the pop culture landscape with such programs as Lidsville and Land of the Lost.
Worse, they like to pretend they're a bank when it suits them and claim they're not a bank when it doesn't suit them. Paypal offers a money market-type account, pays interest on certain balances, ATM cards, money transfers, etc but they're not a bank, no sir, federal regulator!
If it looks like a duck, sounds like a duck, but calls itself a dog, it's probably PayPal.
I'm sincerely glad I wasn't in bed when they raided the house. That would have been even more scary.
Worse yet, if this guy owned a firearm and thought he was being robbed, he'd be dead and the FBI patting each other on the back for killing a "bad guy". In many cases, they won't identify themselves as they bust down the door so the suspects won't be able to scuttle evidence before the cops can subdue them.
That's because diaper service is an art, not a science.
If scraping baby turds off of cotton makes one an artist, them I'm Van freakin' Gogh.
Blame your management. We all know they're a big part of the problem.
If he wants a job to come back on to Monday, he won't, at least not on a public forum like Slashdot.
Should I expect to be able to walk down the street with my dick hanging out of my pants screaming "FREE SPEECH! FREE SPEECH!" at the top of my lungs
Many don't know that you really can shout "Fire!" in a crowded theater if you have your dick hanging out of your pants.
Try it and see!
Fun Fact: Thomas Jefferson wrote the entire Declaration of Independence with his dick hanging out of his pants.
Focus your fire on that strawberry shortcake. May the frosting be with us all.
and now here's Gordon Freeman with the weekend weather!
We're expecting partly sunny skies with the slight chance of headcrabs as we get into Saturday. Sunday, better get your railguns ready for the fall folliage! Back to you!
Don't off yourself if you have Spasmodic Dysphonia, your voice might come back some day. Just keep up with your nursery rhymes and it's somehow possible that everything will be alright!
I don't know if every sufferer of this disease would be ok with sounding like the token character in a Hanna-Barbara cartoon that speaks in rhyme. Although it could be amusing if spoken in limericks.
Patient picking up dry cleaning before heading to the movies:
There once was a man named Smith.
Who dropped off his shirt at this cleaners forthwith
I hope you vanquished the stain
so it doesn't remain
when I go see Revenge of the Sith
Patient ordering at a restaurant:
Roses are red, violets are blue
I'll have the caesar salad and croutons too.
The media has self-created the right to anonymous and unchallenged sources, and it's something that I find incredibly damaging. There are literally thousands of daily reports that rely on 'unnamed sources'. The incredible power the media wields is often done without the burden of transparency. They can make wild accusations, attribute them to some unnamed source, and pass their reporting as fact. The public is left to either simply trust them, or disregard the news completely.
Substitute media with government and this statement makes just as much sense.
Maybe Junis would be willing to come over from Afganistan to help out...
15: Total Recall
For those of you at work today, you might want to skip this one. Unless, of course, you don't mind your boss seeing the triple-breasted martian prostitute. Hell, it might make for interesting conversation during your annual review.