State troopers accross the country celebrate the toughened speed limits. "We are confident people are speeding less", says State Trooper D Onut and quotes the 1000 daily speeding tickets state troopers hand out each and every day. Speeding violations are up from 300 / day since the toughened speed limits.
There weren't any good deals online on Monday that I saw, especially compared to the insane deals on Thu - Sat, so I don't get where this "Cyber Monday" concept comes from. People were talking about it as if you could buy gold for $.01 / pound.
How do you explain the different conclusions from studies funded by Microsoft and studies funded by Unix/Linux vendors? Shouldn't studies that essentially study the same issue inevitably arrive in the same conclusions, if the research for the study was made independently, honestly and with no systemic errors? How do you expect people to take any of these studies, whether pro-Microsoft or anti-Microsoft, seriously?
"As a recent "joe-job" victim [google for my gmail address in google groups] I totally agree. There just isn't sufficient guarantee that usenet posts are authentic. It's too easy to joe-job people."
So that makes it kind of like SMTP then. Why aren't we cancelling everyone's Email access?
My next patent is to patent a politline where an outraged private individual goes postal on the USPTO, blows up the main office, stages a mass protest in front of the ruins and then gets killed in an epic shootout with the FBI.
I'm just afraid it's going to fail the non-obviousness test.
"...start writing a coherent stance for the USCO today."
DMCA is teh suxx0rszss!!!11!one!11
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No, it is not illegal.
Prevailing wage based on skill is the legal requirement. The study "studied" salaries regardless of skill grouping people with 1 year of experience together with people that have 12 years of experience just because their title had "computer programmer" in it.
I've seen the dept of labor salary charts that are used to satisfy the requirements for an H1B application. A software engineer has 4 or 5 categories in it based on experience. This "study" had only one.
I've been using my gorbachev nickname for over 15 years now. First used it in an online multiplayer realtime war strategy game specifically cause I knew it'd piss off the people I wanted to piss off. No matter how overboard I went with my soviet alter ego, no matter how self deprecating satire I would write, people still believed I was a communist outside of my alter ego. They flamed me for it, they hated me for it, and I laughed.
I don't know what I should've felt about the Emails I got from people after Raisa Gorbachev passed away 1999. I received about a dozen or so Emails from people sending me condolences on her passing. I did feel flattered one of them said I'm the greatest person alive. Come to think of it, it's like The Greatest President. Evar.
Halo 2 is an interesting experience with my gamertag. Every 10 games or so I get the 15-year old redneck from Nuclear Shelter Bunker Town, Bumfuck, who thinks he's going to insult me by calling me a commie bastard bitch homo f***. They also like to kill me a lot, like in "I'm going to come and kill you, commie bastard" not like in "I'ma pwn you n00b".
Would it be surprising to find that recent college graduates make less than programmers by average? Not really. So why is this study comparing H1B worker salaries to the industry average when it's commonly known a large majority of H1B workers are younger, and a lot of them recent college graduates, and with less experience than the industry average and would naturally make less money than the industry average?
They should've really hidden their bias a little better. But I'm sure this "study" will get widely quoted by blowhards like Lou Dobbs with no fact checking whatsoever. Infoworld appears to already have done so. Well done!
The US loves to censor "obscenity", which currently is defined by whoever howls "God will forsake you all, if you don't repent" the loudest.
Regardless, I fail to see the point of your post. They're not asking to give control to China or Europe, but to the UN. There is a bit of a difference, unless you think anything "not-US" is pretty much the same thing.
We cannot stand idly by as some governments seek to make the Internet an instrument of censorship and political suppression. We must stand fast against all attempts to alter the Internet's nature as a free and open global system.
I just have one question to the Senator:
Would that include censorship by the US Government as well?
I'm, of course, referring to the.xxx incident where Christian conservatives managed to get the US Government to politically suppress creating the new TLD.
If this would ever come to pass, I'll quit my programming job and go to law school. I'd specialize in labor law and specifically in helping programmers held liable for code defects to sue the pants off their employers. I'd probably become an extremely wealthy man doing that.
Most people are too lazy to find out more about their politicians than "oh, he's hot, let me vote for him" or "oh my, he's got a great voice, he must be great", so they vote for whomever they see in TV the most.
They don't really want a cut of iPod revenues. It's just a negotiation tactic to have leverage when they ask what they really want, which is to have more control over pricing in iTunes.
It'll be over when either of the two following scenarios come true.
1. RI/MPAA tightens their control over the US politicians and more draconian laws get passed making potential IP violations federal felony offenses. The private prison industry experiences double-digit growth numbers year after year. Shareholders of content owners and private prison industries make a killing in the stock market.
2. Massive civil disobedience finally changes the political landscape and US politicians stop catering their campaign donators as the courts are completely overloaded with IP lawsuits against 25% of the US population. IP laws will slowly stop being enforced and/or overturned by legislators.
Obviously neither scenario will ever come true, and we'll be stuck in the middle fighting until hell freezes over.
There will be watershed events in the RI/MPAA war on 12-year-olds that will temporarily shift the fight more towards either one of these scenarios.
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State troopers accross the country celebrate the toughened speed limits. "We are confident people are speeding less", says State Trooper D Onut and quotes the 1000 daily speeding tickets state troopers hand out each and every day. Speeding violations are up from 300 / day since the toughened speed limits.
There weren't any good deals online on Monday that I saw, especially compared to the insane deals on Thu - Sat, so I don't get where this "Cyber Monday" concept comes from. People were talking about it as if you could buy gold for $.01 / pound.
Dr. Thompson,
How do you explain the different conclusions from studies funded by Microsoft and studies funded by Unix/Linux vendors? Shouldn't studies that essentially study the same issue inevitably arrive in the same conclusions, if the research for the study was made independently, honestly and with no systemic errors? How do you expect people to take any of these studies, whether pro-Microsoft or anti-Microsoft, seriously?
"As a recent "joe-job" victim [google for my gmail address in google groups] I totally agree. There just isn't sufficient guarantee that usenet posts are authentic. It's too easy to joe-job people."
So that makes it kind of like SMTP then. Why aren't we cancelling everyone's Email access?
Project Gotham Racing 3 is the killer app for a lot of racing fans. Granted that group of gamers is not as large as the FPS fanbase.
Because you can't take that TV or computer monitor with you when you're on the road. I agree, it's pretty obvious.
My next patent is to patent a politline where an outraged private individual goes postal on the USPTO, blows up the main office, stages a mass protest in front of the ruins and then gets killed in an epic shootout with the FBI.
I'm just afraid it's going to fail the non-obviousness test.
I completely agree. His philantrophic activities are par none.
"...start writing a coherent stance for the USCO today."
DMCA is teh suxx0rszss!!!11!one!11
No, it is not illegal.
Prevailing wage based on skill is the legal requirement. The study "studied" salaries regardless of skill grouping people with 1 year of experience together with people that have 12 years of experience just because their title had "computer programmer" in it.
I've seen the dept of labor salary charts that are used to satisfy the requirements for an H1B application. A software engineer has 4 or 5 categories in it based on experience. This "study" had only one.
I've been using my gorbachev nickname for over 15 years now. First used it in an online multiplayer realtime war strategy game specifically cause I knew it'd piss off the people I wanted to piss off. No matter how overboard I went with my soviet alter ego, no matter how self deprecating satire I would write, people still believed I was a communist outside of my alter ego. They flamed me for it, they hated me for it, and I laughed.
I don't know what I should've felt about the Emails I got from people after Raisa Gorbachev passed away 1999. I received about a dozen or so Emails from people sending me condolences on her passing. I did feel flattered one of them said I'm the greatest person alive. Come to think of it, it's like The Greatest President. Evar.
Halo 2 is an interesting experience with my gamertag. Every 10 games or so I get the 15-year old redneck from Nuclear Shelter Bunker Town, Bumfuck, who thinks he's going to insult me by calling me a commie bastard bitch homo f***. They also like to kill me a lot, like in "I'm going to come and kill you, commie bastard" not like in "I'ma pwn you n00b".
Nice study.
Would it be surprising to find that recent college graduates make less than programmers by average? Not really. So why is this study comparing H1B worker salaries to the industry average when it's commonly known a large majority of H1B workers are younger, and a lot of them recent college graduates, and with less experience than the industry average and would naturally make less money than the industry average?
They should've really hidden their bias a little better. But I'm sure this "study" will get widely quoted by blowhards like Lou Dobbs with no fact checking whatsoever. Infoworld appears to already have done so. Well done!
"Maybe we need to set up a relief fund for them."
What do you think stuff like the Appropriations Bill and Medicaid is?
Well, no, but Roche might feel less inclined to import their drugs to Taiwan in the future. That's not necessarily great for Taiwan.
" Cite an example of the US censoring "obscenity" on the Internet. Dare you. " .xxx
The US loves to censor "obscenity", which currently is defined by whoever howls "God will forsake you all, if you don't repent" the loudest.
Regardless, I fail to see the point of your post. They're not asking to give control to China or Europe, but to the UN. There is a bit of a difference, unless you think anything "not-US" is pretty much the same thing.
I just have one question to the Senator:
Would that include censorship by the US Government as well?
I'm, of course, referring to the
Pot...kettle...black, dear Seantor.
If this would ever come to pass, I'll quit my programming job and go to law school. I'd specialize in labor law and specifically in helping programmers held liable for code defects to sue the pants off their employers. I'd probably become an extremely wealthy man doing that.
THAT's what's really stiffling innovation.
That is the privilege us important people have in the Soviet Union. It's good to be on top of the pyramid.
I vote in every election I'm eligible to vote.
Not me, and not you.
Stupid people, ignorant people. Lemmings. 90% of us.
But NOT me.
Lemmings. That's who.
Most people are too lazy to find out more about their politicians than "oh, he's hot, let me vote for him" or "oh my, he's got a great voice, he must be great", so they vote for whomever they see in TV the most.
They don't really want a cut of iPod revenues. It's just a negotiation tactic to have leverage when they ask what they really want, which is to have more control over pricing in iTunes.
The game is nowhere near over.
It'll be over when either of the two following scenarios come true.
1. RI/MPAA tightens their control over the US politicians and more draconian laws get passed making potential IP violations federal felony offenses. The private prison industry experiences double-digit growth numbers year after year. Shareholders of content owners and private prison industries make a killing in the stock market.
2. Massive civil disobedience finally changes the political landscape and US politicians stop catering their campaign donators as the courts are completely overloaded with IP lawsuits against 25% of the US population. IP laws will slowly stop being enforced and/or overturned by legislators.
Obviously neither scenario will ever come true, and we'll be stuck in the middle fighting until hell freezes over.
There will be watershed events in the RI/MPAA war on 12-year-olds that will temporarily shift the fight more towards either one of these scenarios.