Unfortunately these days, politics is more important then competancy. See, today chances are good that your boss is more of an idiot then you are, having already hit their level of incompetance, They don't want to be shown up for the moron they are. They will always hire the dishonest one who they believe will cover their idiot butt. Problem is, stupid is as stupid does and being that stupid means that it never occurrs to you that your employee will ultimately screw YOU because they actually want YOUR job!
In this article you have Stuart (the good guy or GG), Doug (the A$$wipe or AW) and Kelly (the incompetant bimbo or IB). The AW makes a deal with the IB to cover her ass and in return she cans the GG and promotes the AW. What's eventually going to happen is this: The GG's employees will find other jobs and quit. In their exit interviews they will blame the AW and IB for their leaving. Thus, a pattern will be discovered-one that is costing the company valuable employees. But since the IB's boss is also likely incompetant moron or IM himself, nothing will happen-yet.
Behind the IB's back, the AW will begin trashing her to her superiors. After all, he knows she's an IB-because she kept HIM, the AW instead of the GG. See, the AW wants the IB's job-and by showing the IM how dumb the IB is he's got a decent shot of getting it. Remember, the AW isn't dumb, he's just an AW.
Eventually, one of three things will happen: First, the AW will get the IB's job, 2/3 of the dept. will quit and the AW will get fired himself. Of course, the IM will get credit for cutting costs by all these people leaving. Second, the IB will discover a clue and either fire the AW herself, or demote him (and tell him why) so he quits himself. Of course, being an IB she will then proceed to hire an idiot or another AW to replace him and the cycle will repeat. Third, the entire department will get outsourced and the IM will still wind up being a hero for cutting expenses.
Have you noticed something interesting here? Nowhere is the GG in the plans. See, competant, nice guys DO finish last today! The problem is that EVERYONE in corporate America has recahed their level of imcompetance. Don't kid yourself, the downturn in our economy is primarily because of the collective incompetance of a LOT of people in decision making places. Those IMs are still there-and as long as they stay there things will not get better. See, they believe in CUTTING in bad times, NOT expanding. They have ZERO vision! Our one hope is the the BIGGEST and MOST POWERFUL IM's term ends tomorrow morning. let's hope that Obama doesn't wind up an IM himself.
IIRC, QWERTY was developed to DELIBERATELY slow down typists! See, many typists were able to type faster then the typewriters of the time could go, causing lock ups, jamming, etc. SO they developed the QWERTY keyboard to force them to slow down!
Try listening to a VHS HiFi tape over five years old. There's NO stereo left! Next, try a Beta-100% of the strero is still there!
This is because beta left space FOR stereo, while VHS never did-and had to go go a two depth recording system that simply goes away over time.
2: I have a friend whose entire family are cops. His father, his brothers, his uncle and all his cousins are all cops. He became a fireman because he wanted to be "a good guy". Got it?
99% of the cops out there today are not out there to help you. They are out there to BUST you! They should be treated with a healthy dose of distrust. The picture of the friendly cop on the beat is about 25 years out of date!
First off, this WAS DISCRIMINATION and RACISM!...PERIOD
Second off, NOTHING that the airlines are doing accounts to a RATS ASS at improving ANY air security. NOT THE TSA, NOT THE FBI, NOT THE AIR MARSHALLS...NOTHING!
What HAS helped are two things: First the cabin doors are hardened and second, the pilots have to IMMEDIATELY put the plane on the ground in case of ANY hijacking or other problem!
If these two policies wewre in place on 9/11/2001, both planes from Boston would have landed in Providence or Hartford and NOTHING would have happened to the Trade Center towers!
NOTHING would have happened to the Pentagon and the plane that crashed in PA would have landed in Pittsburgh safely.
The whole thing of 'airline security' is a money wasting bullshit facade-and the people involved take themselves WAY TOO SERIOUSLY!!
The FCC is by far one of the more corrupt of the Govt. agencies out there. Remember, the FCC was established to prevent interference between (then) radio broadcasters. Today's FCC has actually encouraged interference, by allowing the radio stations to run a digital broadcasting system that operates on their neighbors' frequency! They have totally screwed up cell phones, cable TV, broadcast TV, the Internet and just about everything else they have been allowed to touch! There has never been an engineer as an FCC Commisissioner, even though much of what they regulate is physics based. They all are lawyers!
Under their tutalige, (and in concert with a corrupt Bush administration) the United States has wound up with the costliest, slowest, most content regulaged Internet of all the first world countries. The Communications Act of 1996 was GUTTED by them! There is virtually NO competition for Internet in the USA! We have three non-compatible cell phone systems here in the USA; and even where systems ARE compatible, unlike the rest of the world, you can not take your phone from one carrier to another and use it! Instead, perfectly good phones clutter our landfills!
Our Digital TV system is a JOKE-just wait until next February to see how bad THAT is going to be (Hint: the digital coverage of TV stations is only about 60% of their current analog coverage, resulting in lots of coverage gaps). The AM broadcast band has been destroyed by an FCC that has allowed all sorts of interfering electronic devices to create digital grunge without licensing or oversight. Finally, the only thing that talks at ther FCC is MONEY!! Why else would under 35 TV stations be able to occupy TV channels five and six after digital, when a new FM band that could accomodate EVERY ONE of the 5000 plus AM stations could make MUCH BETTER use of this precious spectrum (another hint: channels 2-6 are USELESS for DTV)!
The FCC needs to be abolished and replaced with a non-partisan agency primarily run by engineers. For far too long, the FCC has allowed the foxes (the very licensees they regulate) run the hen house. It's time to put this dog to sleep!
I can monopoloze a service, contract with you to provide said service wholesale, then right in the middle of the contract completely change the terms and that's okay in Canada???!!!
Of course, I did get slapped. I was told that the next time I pull this shit, I have to give you 30 days notice that I'm changing the terms of the contract in mid stream.
I guess this means that contracts aren't worth the paper they're printed on in Canada!
If Stevens had won, Sarah Palin would have probably been their next senator. Stevens would have been thrown out in January and it would be up to Governor Palin to appoint his successor until the 2010 elections. She would have most certainly appointed herself.
It's the tagging (vandalism) that makes the boxes really ugly! Just like dogs marking their hydrants with pee, the gangs have to piss on everything and anything with spray paint!
Instead of getting pissed at AT&T, FIX THE PROBLEM!! Tagging here in Los Angeles is completely out of control-they even came into our fenced back yard and tagged the back wall where our kids' bedroom is! Personally, the thought of gang members on the other side of a window from my young, sleeping children scares the shit out of me!
It's time to get tough with these punks! How about this-take indellible ink and paint a big red "T" atop their forehead!
This surprises you? It doesn't surprise me at all! After all, Dick and Bush are still in power through next February, which means they have FIVE MORE MONTHS to fuck over the American people!
Napster offered to become a PAID SERVICE and to share the majority of their profits with the labels. You history is (as we say) 180 degrees out of phase!
Even though the judge let the gag order expire, by issuing it in the first place, the MBTA essentially got what rhey wanted-to keep the information from those participating in Defcon.
It's only taken them TEN YEARS to come up with what Napster tried to hand them on a platium platter a decade ago-and they responded then by suing them out of business. Now 10 years later they're slapping themselves on the back for coming up with this original idea?
Will someone please give these clowns a clue pill?
This is an old trick that we used when I worked for www.worldclassrock.com. Our audio streaming ISP did it back in 2000. It's called "edge streaming"-you establish relationships with ISPs all over and you distrubute your content directly to them via satellite. This way the content never goes out over the public Intenet-and it also minimizes the number of (packet dropping) routers it has to go through.
If these guys try to patent what they did-we beat them to it by 8 years! Prior art applies here fellas!
Pandora has a right to kake a profit! Out of the 30% left, they have to pay for salaries, interest and principal on loans, mortgages on property, servers, taxes and bandwidth. SoundExchange has to do NOTHING! All they do is put their hand out!-and they get more then TWICE what Pandora grosses! This is 100% GRAVY MONEY for them-if the creators of Pandora hadn't come up with the novel idea they did, SoundExchange would be getting NOTHING from them!
The RIAA pulled the same thing with iTunes. Apple doesn't make a PENNY on each song downloaded from iTunes. The RIAA gets seventy cents out of every.99, the artists and credit card companies each get 7 cents, leaving Apple grossing 16 cents. Out of this 16 cents they have to pay to RUN iTunes, including salaries, bandwidth, etc. yet the greedy mothafuckers known as the RIAA claimed their cut wasn't enough-and wanted a piece out of every iPod sold! Then they wanted Apple to raise the rates for songs to $1.49 and give THEM $1.25 of it! Fortunately, Apple told them to go fuck themselves and they relented.
AGAIN I SAY, 50% of SOMETHING is better then 100% of NOTHING!-yet SoundExchange wants thet 100%! Why can't the truth come out-that SoundExchange is just a cartel who wants to eradicate Internet radio>
College radio pays ASCAP, BMI and SESAC fees, but at a lower rate then commercial stations (which pay about 7% of gross sales).
Nontheless, rights fees for even the smallest college station are still several thousands of dollars a year.
All traditional broadcasters pay is ASCAP, BMI and SESAC fees-NOTHING to SoundExchange-though there's a bill in Congress now that aims to change that too! The record companies want to force radio stations to pay as well.
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Simply put vacuum devices under the tables at Taco Bell and Del Taco. You'll get all the burnable gas you'll ever need!
In this article you have Stuart (the good guy or GG), Doug (the A$$wipe or AW) and Kelly (the incompetant bimbo or IB). The AW makes a deal with the IB to cover her ass and in return she cans the GG and promotes the AW. What's eventually going to happen is this: The GG's employees will find other jobs and quit. In their exit interviews they will blame the AW and IB for their leaving. Thus, a pattern will be discovered-one that is costing the company valuable employees. But since the IB's boss is also likely incompetant moron or IM himself, nothing will happen-yet.
Behind the IB's back, the AW will begin trashing her to her superiors. After all, he knows she's an IB-because she kept HIM, the AW instead of the GG. See, the AW wants the IB's job-and by showing the IM how dumb the IB is he's got a decent shot of getting it. Remember, the AW isn't dumb, he's just an AW.
Eventually, one of three things will happen: First, the AW will get the IB's job, 2/3 of the dept. will quit and the AW will get fired himself. Of course, the IM will get credit for cutting costs by all these people leaving. Second, the IB will discover a clue and either fire the AW herself, or demote him (and tell him why) so he quits himself. Of course, being an IB she will then proceed to hire an idiot or another AW to replace him and the cycle will repeat. Third, the entire department will get outsourced and the IM will still wind up being a hero for cutting expenses.
Have you noticed something interesting here? Nowhere is the GG in the plans. See, competant, nice guys DO finish last today! The problem is that EVERYONE in corporate America has recahed their level of imcompetance. Don't kid yourself, the downturn in our economy is primarily because of the collective incompetance of a LOT of people in decision making places. Those IMs are still there-and as long as they stay there things will not get better. See, they believe in CUTTING in bad times, NOT expanding. They have ZERO vision! Our one hope is the the BIGGEST and MOST POWERFUL IM's term ends tomorrow morning. let's hope that Obama doesn't wind up an IM himself.
IIRC, QWERTY was developed to DELIBERATELY slow down typists! See, many typists were able to type faster then the typewriters of the time could go, causing lock ups, jamming, etc. SO they developed the QWERTY keyboard to force them to slow down!
Try listening to a VHS HiFi tape over five years old. There's NO stereo left! Next, try a Beta-100% of the strero is still there! This is because beta left space FOR stereo, while VHS never did-and had to go go a two depth recording system that simply goes away over time.
1: Most cops are sadists.
2: I have a friend whose entire family are cops. His father, his brothers, his uncle and all his cousins are all cops. He became a fireman because he wanted to be "a good guy". Got it?
99% of the cops out there today are not out there to help you. They are out there to BUST you! They should be treated with a healthy dose of distrust. The picture of the friendly cop on the beat is about 25 years out of date!
Sad...but true!
First off, this WAS DISCRIMINATION and RACISM!...PERIOD
Second off, NOTHING that the airlines are doing accounts to a RATS ASS at improving ANY air security. NOT THE TSA, NOT THE FBI, NOT THE AIR MARSHALLS...NOTHING!
What HAS helped are two things: First the cabin doors are hardened and second, the pilots have to IMMEDIATELY put the plane on the ground in case of ANY hijacking or other problem!
If these two policies wewre in place on 9/11/2001, both planes from Boston would have landed in Providence or Hartford and NOTHING would have happened to the Trade Center towers! NOTHING would have happened to the Pentagon and the plane that crashed in PA would have landed in Pittsburgh safely.
The whole thing of 'airline security' is a money wasting bullshit facade-and the people involved take themselves WAY TOO SERIOUSLY!!
That's the sound of Warner shooting themselves in the foot!
The FCC is by far one of the more corrupt of the Govt. agencies out there. Remember, the FCC was established to prevent interference between (then) radio broadcasters. Today's FCC has actually encouraged interference, by allowing the radio stations to run a digital broadcasting system that operates on their neighbors' frequency! They have totally screwed up cell phones, cable TV, broadcast TV, the Internet and just about everything else they have been allowed to touch! There has never been an engineer as an FCC Commisissioner, even though much of what they regulate is physics based. They all are lawyers!
Under their tutalige, (and in concert with a corrupt Bush administration) the United States has wound up with the costliest, slowest, most content regulaged Internet of all the first world countries. The Communications Act of 1996 was GUTTED by them! There is virtually NO competition for Internet in the USA! We have three non-compatible cell phone systems here in the USA; and even where systems ARE compatible, unlike the rest of the world, you can not take your phone from one carrier to another and use it! Instead, perfectly good phones clutter our landfills!
Our Digital TV system is a JOKE-just wait until next February to see how bad THAT is going to be (Hint: the digital coverage of TV stations is only about 60% of their current analog coverage, resulting in lots of coverage gaps). The AM broadcast band has been destroyed by an FCC that has allowed all sorts of interfering electronic devices to create digital grunge without licensing or oversight. Finally, the only thing that talks at ther FCC is MONEY!! Why else would under 35 TV stations be able to occupy TV channels five and six after digital, when a new FM band that could accomodate EVERY ONE of the 5000 plus AM stations could make MUCH BETTER use of this precious spectrum (another hint: channels 2-6 are USELESS for DTV)!
The FCC needs to be abolished and replaced with a non-partisan agency primarily run by engineers. For far too long, the FCC has allowed the foxes (the very licensees they regulate) run the hen house. It's time to put this dog to sleep!
I can monopoloze a service, contract with you to provide said service wholesale, then right in the middle of the contract completely change the terms and that's okay in Canada???!!!
Of course, I did get slapped. I was told that the next time I pull this shit, I have to give you 30 days notice that I'm changing the terms of the contract in mid stream.
I guess this means that contracts aren't worth the paper they're printed on in Canada!
If Stevens had won, Sarah Palin would have probably been their next senator. Stevens would have been thrown out in January and it would be up to Governor Palin to appoint his successor until the 2010 elections. She would have most certainly appointed herself.
Looks like he might be 'dancing with the stripes' instead of the stars soon!
Would that be the very safe harbor they are trying to remove in the new copyright law that's pending?
There's a MUCH easier way to commit suicide!
1. Open Mouth
2. Insert barrel of pistol
3. PULL TRIGGER!
Got it?
The amount of pure incompetance out there is truly staggering, ISN'T IT YAHOO???
I have no idea what narcotics THAT judge is on-but I WANT SOME! Seriously though, the phrase 'learned jurist' seems to ne an oxymoron these days!
Netgear wireless routers-they're out of this world!
It's the tagging (vandalism) that makes the boxes really ugly! Just like dogs marking their hydrants with pee, the gangs have to piss on everything and anything with spray paint!
Instead of getting pissed at AT&T, FIX THE PROBLEM!! Tagging here in Los Angeles is completely out of control-they even came into our fenced back yard and tagged the back wall where our kids' bedroom is! Personally, the thought of gang members on the other side of a window from my young, sleeping children scares the shit out of me!
It's time to get tough with these punks! How about this-take indellible ink and paint a big red "T" atop their forehead!
This surprises you? It doesn't surprise me at all! After all, Dick and Bush are still in power through next February, which means they have FIVE MORE MONTHS to fuck over the American people!
Napster offered to become a PAID SERVICE and to share the majority of their profits with the labels. You history is (as we say) 180 degrees out of phase!
Win the battle, lose the war
Will someone please give these clowns a clue pill?
This is an old trick that we used when I worked for www.worldclassrock.com. Our audio streaming ISP did it back in 2000. It's called "edge streaming"-you establish relationships with ISPs all over and you distrubute your content directly to them via satellite. This way the content never goes out over the public Intenet-and it also minimizes the number of (packet dropping) routers it has to go through. If these guys try to patent what they did-we beat them to it by 8 years! Prior art applies here fellas!
The RIAA pulled the same thing with iTunes. Apple doesn't make a PENNY on each song downloaded from iTunes. The RIAA gets seventy cents out of every .99, the artists and credit card companies each get 7 cents, leaving Apple grossing 16 cents. Out of this 16 cents they have to pay to RUN iTunes, including salaries, bandwidth, etc. yet the greedy mothafuckers known as the RIAA claimed their cut wasn't enough-and wanted a piece out of every iPod sold! Then they wanted Apple to raise the rates for songs to $1.49 and give THEM $1.25 of it! Fortunately, Apple told them to go fuck themselves and they relented.
AGAIN I SAY, 50% of SOMETHING is better then 100% of NOTHING!-yet SoundExchange wants thet 100%! Why can't the truth come out-that SoundExchange is just a cartel who wants to eradicate Internet radio>
College radio pays ASCAP, BMI and SESAC fees, but at a lower rate then commercial stations (which pay about 7% of gross sales). Nontheless, rights fees for even the smallest college station are still several thousands of dollars a year.
All traditional broadcasters pay is ASCAP, BMI and SESAC fees-NOTHING to SoundExchange-though there's a bill in Congress now that aims to change that too! The record companies want to force radio stations to pay as well.