8. consider some criminal justice courses, trial techniques are an easy A.
9. be open minded to #1, freaky chicks rock. i speak from experience.
10. consider some of the student organizations, can meet chicks for #1 there
11. consider a hands off policy for people who want to borrow things, if you do not want a hands off policy, consider sever penalties for non-return.
12. concealed carry permits are something nice to have.
13. tripwires, booby traps and high explosives for those times when you are not in your room can be a must if the situation warrants it
14. getting into a light bondage thing for #1 can be fun, as long as the chick is into it
I have always been very interested in a variety of things, some of which i credit/. for. there once was this book reviewed on here called "faster than light: superluminal loopholes in physics". i have read that book a few times and gotten others interested in it. i have read other books on everything from other quantum physics books to books on the building of the hydrogen bomb, to books on biological warfare. so/. has fed my demon or is it daemon?
but back to the point of replying to this, it is very hard for some of my professors to reign me in. they assign a 5 page paper, i crank out a 21 page monster because i feel the need to educate them on the subject of what i choose to write about. they understand and a couple have thanked me for bringing them some new info to chew on.
so in the end i plow on, dig deeper for something new to work on and find new hobbies. i have gotten into growing giant pumpkins http://www.bigpumpkins.com
so there are new things out there to look at and discover. keep plugging on and digging for new info to feed the search/quest for knowledge is what works for me
My question is thus: Is the reason for the outsourcing because of purely ecomonic reasons (i.e. bigger bottom line profits) or is it the old reason they give (i.e. more qualified work force)?
Now i ask that as i am havin gto take an economics course this semester in college and we did kind of touch on this subject. I added my opinion to the classroom discussion. this is what i said: I think that the reasons that so many companies are outsourcing the support and other portions of their operations are many fold. #1- that the labor is indeed cheaper and that the companies, being the capitalist greed mongers that they are, want a bigger profit after they take their economic costs out of the revenues that they make. #2- that (Big Qualifier Here.. as i have a couple of computer certifications) the companies who are outsourcing the support operations do not want to have to pay the wages to get real people in the operations who know what the heck they are doing and not desire to dump Joe Snuffy off the call by telling him to reformat his hard drive. #3- that the companies who are outsourcing do not want to make the investment in the truly qualified people (i.e. benefits packages and such) that will retain them for a long haul kind of committment. #4- even the lowest paid phone monkey will still cost more in the US and that the monkey in question might actually care about the customer. and that the monkey in question has more rights here in the US, with regards to employment, than they would in the other countries. #5 that the techs here in the US actually are seeking to get more of areturn for their education, where as in another country.. they are just happy to be able to eat.
To sum up the monologue i gave in class.. my opinion of why companies seek to outsource are simply costs (wages, benefits and possibly even severance), more lax employment law in other lands, we demand more return on our education and that we have a tendency to want to fix things rather that using the old Format c:/y comand
Hmmm taco.. grab a modem rack (cisco makes one) and then get maybe 10 56k modems, channel bond em all.. bingo instant dsl speeds. tho your ISP my hate you for doing it.
didn't the guys who built spirit have to put those little stickers on the casing of the robot that say "Intel inside"
you would think that with 410 million dollars NASA could afford something a little better that Pentium I CPUs. I mean after all the Pentium I had that nasty little FPU problem.
that sounds like some of the windows programmers had a hand in working over some of the code for this one. maybe this is part of billgatus of borg's master plan for putting the open source community into a panic mode. too bad the other rover is landing closer, because it would have been cool for that one to take a picture of the Spirit's little lcd screen.
if that were to happen, we could all finally take a moment's rest in knowning that the old BSOD problem is not limited to earth anymore.
quirky thought for the day... "how does the rover do a Three Fingered Salute with those boom arms anyway?"
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a couple of weeks ago we had a.NET launch event at the school i go to. several questions were asked about longhorn. the MS rep said that longhorn was seriously lagging behind and also hinted at that longhorn could be skipped totally and they would leap to blackcomb. or if longhorn was to be shipped it may not be until 2005 or 2006
so there may be more problems than we know of
while black list and white listing can help.. especially with outside (i.e. non US based spammers) one of the most useful items i have found to work is the following piece of legislation. Title 47 USC 227
granted this citation usually applies to Fax spam.. it has been used, successfully in court, by a few people. and i have used it primarily in email exchanges with companies that are legit, such as mass emailers can be. thos i have smacked around with it most notably are realreply.com and a coupl eothers. i have even spoken on the phone to their legal dept. and basically said "stop the spam or i'll see you in court". lo and behold inside of three days i have gotten no more spam from them.
no i have not used this on companies outside of the US namely because of the fact they don't or won't answer emails and i dont have the cash to make overseas phone calls
more than likely we would get a good suntan. but aside from that.. i am not too nervous about it. what i am more nervous about is the fact that bill gatus of borg setting up and gaining a contract to basically network the new class of aircraft carriers the US navy is building.. doe that make anyone else nervous that a weapons platform is infested with windows 2000 and could possibly be open to a hack attack?
just as long as he doesn't upgrade rudolph to XP or 2000. if he does, then we're all screwed. by the time he would end up loading and converting the good girls and boys database, as well as the bad boys and girls database.. the entire christmas holiday will be gone and quite possibly new years as well
well i for one would like to be able to keep up on the newest and fastest. this is because of the types of courses and types of work i will have to do for my homework. i am goign to be doing alot of CAD work among other things. and we all know that is pretty memory and cpu intensive. so a faster bus is good...
to quote campchaos.com (infamous metallic vs napster shockwave animations ) "fast good.. sloow bad"
don't the cops in 2002 gravitate more towards bagels and latte`s than donuts and coffee?
heck i heard a cop down here in south dakota say something like that:)
but then again this is south dakota and things do move a little slower down south;)
i have had major issues with real reply. i have had to call them and more or less threaten prosecution under 47 U.S.C. 227
that is basically the telephone consumer protection act. that is the one i have found most often quoted in lawsuits against spammers. it is fun to make them squirm in their seats when i mention federal law. i have even spoken, to some of the spammers i deal with on a daily basis, their legal departments. and i have been asked on more than one instance if i was formally trained as a lawyer because they dont expect the general public to be as educated on law stuff.
update... i talked to my fiancee` last night about paypal and how they have frozen accounts. and she said they are really skirting the law with regards to blanket freezing of accounts. and to boot it may not be just a state charge they could get nailed on.. she has said more than likely it would be federal. so that did kind of brighten my day knowing i could , and read this.. would, file charges federally (least here in the US) charges against paypal if they ever froze my accounts. but this would be a huge pain in the butt
now while i dont agree with the ICANN decision i do have to admit they had been helpful to me in a few cases.. i.e. spam email. i tried to do the whois on the domain and i got bad info from the whois. i called ICANN and they looked at the master records or something.. they never told me what they did look at. then they told me they would get in touch with the registrar of the domain. less than ten minutes later i had an email from the registrar and no more spam.. so in some cases it can be a good thing:)
yeah i do see the discontinuity there. where i used to live we had one choice inside of two years. there had been two or three cable companies. then charter came in and bought em all. now the govt is goign to oppose this meger. what happened like the above poster asks when the cable compaines did the same. and then let's not forget how they hammered the telephone compaines when there was basically one big one. kind of seems like a double standard there don't it?
i was definately not making fun of india. the company i used to work for acutally had some outsourcing in india, some were good some were bad.. just like anywhere. as a matter of fact, being back in school now, there are a huge amount of people in the same college i go to who are from india. the South Dakota School of Mines and Tech. is one of the best schools in this area out here for engineering. i regularly call on a friend of mine, from school and from india, for some insight on math homework. so i do realize that india is a good source of some very brilliant people:)
actually there could be recourse if they took money out of your checking account without authorization. it would have to depend on the circumstances. with in my limited amount of legal knowledge, engaged to a lawyer so i am learning a bit more everyday, and her and i had a discussion about this a few months ago.
she had said that there have to be certain points that need to be met for them to yank cash out of your account.. i.e. proven fraud on the part of a customer or buyer from an online auction.. that kind of thing. as for them freezing accounts and not allowing access to legit funds in there.. we have not touched on that issue yet
Reading this post and then some of the associated pages about paypal are making me consider closing my account i have there. I have used paypal for a couple of years. makes buying things thru auctions and the like waaay to easy. now this, i mean what is going on there, i woudl really like to hear something specific on how it was done, from the standpoint of was it a hack or was it from the inside. now keep in mind i do not know anyone from the open source community personally, i dont want it to sound like i am trhowing out accusations about anyone involved in Abiword. if it has come across that way i apologize.
now back to my point here, if it was a hack then that makes me very uncomfortable with their security. would anyone put their money in a back that hired a guard that slept all day while he/she was supposed to be watching for criminal activity?
well on first pass it does have usb connections so potentially you could use nics of that nature. but the memory seems a tad small for somehow loading all the mpi and pvm needed for a beowulf. it would just be interesting to see if someone would be crazy enough to try that:) but then again i never thought anyone would try to use liquid nitrogen to cool their machine
I am waiting to try to get fiber done up in my apt. i am lookign at how to get the whole routing and switching done right. right now i just have a couple itty bitty cisco routers and switches sitting here. i have two machines using fiber between themselves now. and i am hounding the phone company to allow me to get a bare line for 2 Meg dsl... just gotta keep working on them. if i can i might be able to tweak this set up a bit more
you also have to consider the fact that they may wish to cover up part of what has happened. granted 14 months in the ocean open to fish and other nasties of the deep may have some effect on the body. there also could be a contamination hazrad to anyone who handles the remains.. i.e. radiation/chemical/who knows what.
I can and do speak from experience here. i have looked into the effects of being in water for a long time as far as bodies go. i have lost a parent to a sunken ship
The US and Britan were using TLAM-C tomahawk missles as well as carrier based strike aircraft. there were B-1B, B-52 (which carpet bombed in Iraq) as well as B-2 bombers. those missles softened up the area and then the bombers went in to get a little more precise. who knows if there are troops in on the ground but i personally would not doubt it. anything is possible. now for me. i am getting a little nervous because i live within about an hour of a "large bomber base" and within about 30 minutes of a national monument. so anything could happen.
bin laden made a not too smart statement on his little taped message. he directly threatened the entire US. not the best move considering the area he is in is under bombing attack at the moment
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8. consider some criminal justice courses, trial techniques are an easy A. 9. be open minded to #1, freaky chicks rock. i speak from experience. 10. consider some of the student organizations, can meet chicks for #1 there 11. consider a hands off policy for people who want to borrow things, if you do not want a hands off policy, consider sever penalties for non-return. 12. concealed carry permits are something nice to have. 13. tripwires, booby traps and high explosives for those times when you are not in your room can be a must if the situation warrants it 14. getting into a light bondage thing for #1 can be fun, as long as the chick is into it
I have always been very interested in a variety of things, some of which i credit /. for. there once was this book reviewed on here called "faster than light: superluminal loopholes in physics". i have read that book a few times and gotten others interested in it. i have read other books on everything from other quantum physics books to books on the building of the hydrogen bomb, to books on biological warfare. so /. has fed my demon or is it daemon?
but back to the point of replying to this, it is very hard for some of my professors to reign me in. they assign a 5 page paper, i crank out a 21 page monster because i feel the need to educate them on the subject of what i choose to write about. they understand and a couple have thanked me for bringing them some new info to chew on.
so in the end i plow on, dig deeper for something new to work on and find new hobbies. i have gotten into growing giant pumpkins http://www.bigpumpkins.com
so there are new things out there to look at and discover. keep plugging on and digging for new info to feed the search/quest for knowledge is what works for me
My question is thus:
/y comand
Is the reason for the outsourcing because of purely ecomonic reasons (i.e. bigger bottom line profits) or is it the old reason they give (i.e. more qualified work force)?
Now i ask that as i am havin gto take an economics course this semester in college and we did kind of touch on this subject. I added my opinion to the classroom discussion. this is what i said:
I think that the reasons that so many companies are outsourcing the support and other portions of their operations are many fold. #1- that the labor is indeed cheaper and that the companies, being the capitalist greed mongers that they are, want a bigger profit after they take their economic costs out of the revenues that they make. #2- that (Big Qualifier Here.. as i have a couple of computer certifications) the companies who are outsourcing the support operations do not want to have to pay the wages to get real people in the operations who know what the heck they are doing and not desire to dump Joe Snuffy off the call by telling him to reformat his hard drive. #3- that the companies who are outsourcing do not want to make the investment in the truly qualified people (i.e. benefits packages and such) that will retain them for a long haul kind of committment.
#4- even the lowest paid phone monkey will still cost more in the US and that the monkey in question might actually care about the customer. and that the monkey in question has more rights here in the US, with regards to employment, than they would in the other countries.
#5 that the techs here in the US actually are seeking to get more of areturn for their education, where as in another country.. they are just happy to be able to eat.
To sum up the monologue i gave in class.. my opinion of why companies seek to outsource are simply costs (wages, benefits and possibly even severance), more lax employment law in other lands, we demand more return on our education and that we have a tendency to want to fix things rather that using the old Format c:
Hmmm taco.. grab a modem rack (cisco makes one) and then get maybe 10 56k modems, channel bond em all.. bingo instant dsl speeds. tho your ISP my hate you for doing it.
it is a thought tho
didn't the guys who built spirit have to put those little stickers on the casing of the robot that say "Intel inside" you would think that with 410 million dollars NASA could afford something a little better that Pentium I CPUs. I mean after all the Pentium I had that nasty little FPU problem.
that sounds like some of the windows programmers had a hand in working over some of the code for this one. maybe this is part of billgatus of borg's master plan for putting the open source community into a panic mode. too bad the other rover is landing closer, because it would have been cool for that one to take a picture of the Spirit's little lcd screen. if that were to happen, we could all finally take a moment's rest in knowning that the old BSOD problem is not limited to earth anymore. quirky thought for the day... "how does the rover do a Three Fingered Salute with those boom arms anyway?"
a couple of weeks ago we had a .NET launch event at the school i go to. several questions were asked about longhorn. the MS rep said that longhorn was seriously lagging behind and also hinted at that longhorn could be skipped totally and they would leap to blackcomb. or if longhorn was to be shipped it may not be until 2005 or 2006
so there may be more problems than we know of
while black list and white listing can help.. especially with outside (i.e. non US based spammers) one of the most useful items i have found to work is the following piece of legislation. Title 47 USC 227 granted this citation usually applies to Fax spam.. it has been used, successfully in court, by a few people. and i have used it primarily in email exchanges with companies that are legit, such as mass emailers can be. thos i have smacked around with it most notably are realreply.com and a coupl eothers. i have even spoken on the phone to their legal dept. and basically said "stop the spam or i'll see you in court". lo and behold inside of three days i have gotten no more spam from them. no i have not used this on companies outside of the US namely because of the fact they don't or won't answer emails and i dont have the cash to make overseas phone calls
more than likely we would get a good suntan. but aside from that.. i am not too nervous about it. what i am more nervous about is the fact that bill gatus of borg setting up and gaining a contract to basically network the new class of aircraft carriers the US navy is building.. doe that make anyone else nervous that a weapons platform is infested with windows 2000 and could possibly be open to a hack attack?
just as long as he doesn't upgrade rudolph to XP or 2000. if he does, then we're all screwed. by the time he would end up loading and converting the good girls and boys database, as well as the bad boys and girls database.. the entire christmas holiday will be gone and quite possibly new years as well
well i for one would like to be able to keep up on the newest and fastest. this is because of the types of courses and types of work i will have to do for my homework. i am goign to be doing alot of CAD work among other things. and we all know that is pretty memory and cpu intensive. so a faster bus is good... to quote campchaos.com (infamous metallic vs napster shockwave animations ) "fast good.. sloow bad"
don't the cops in 2002 gravitate more towards bagels and latte`s than donuts and coffee? heck i heard a cop down here in south dakota say something like that :)
but then again this is south dakota and things do move a little slower down south ;)
i have had major issues with real reply. i have had to call them and more or less threaten prosecution under 47 U.S.C. 227 that is basically the telephone consumer protection act. that is the one i have found most often quoted in lawsuits against spammers. it is fun to make them squirm in their seats when i mention federal law. i have even spoken, to some of the spammers i deal with on a daily basis, their legal departments. and i have been asked on more than one instance if i was formally trained as a lawyer because they dont expect the general public to be as educated on law stuff.
update... i talked to my fiancee` last night about paypal and how they have frozen accounts. and she said they are really skirting the law with regards to blanket freezing of accounts. and to boot it may not be just a state charge they could get nailed on.. she has said more than likely it would be federal. so that did kind of brighten my day knowing i could , and read this .. would, file charges federally (least here in the US) charges against paypal if they ever froze my accounts. but this would be a huge pain in the butt
now while i dont agree with the ICANN decision i do have to admit they had been helpful to me in a few cases.. i.e. spam email. i tried to do the whois on the domain and i got bad info from the whois. i called ICANN and they looked at the master records or something.. they never told me what they did look at. then they told me they would get in touch with the registrar of the domain. less than ten minutes later i had an email from the registrar and no more spam.. so in some cases it can be a good thing :)
yeah i do see the discontinuity there. where i used to live we had one choice inside of two years. there had been two or three cable companies. then charter came in and bought em all. now the govt is goign to oppose this meger. what happened like the above poster asks when the cable compaines did the same. and then let's not forget how they hammered the telephone compaines when there was basically one big one. kind of seems like a double standard there don't it?
i was definately not making fun of india. the company i used to work for acutally had some outsourcing in india, some were good some were bad.. just like anywhere. as a matter of fact, being back in school now, there are a huge amount of people in the same college i go to who are from india. the South Dakota School of Mines and Tech. is one of the best schools in this area out here for engineering. i regularly call on a friend of mine, from school and from india, for some insight on math homework. so i do realize that india is a good source of some very brilliant people :)
actually there could be recourse if they took money out of your checking account without authorization. it would have to depend on the circumstances. with in my limited amount of legal knowledge, engaged to a lawyer so i am learning a bit more everyday, and her and i had a discussion about this a few months ago. she had said that there have to be certain points that need to be met for them to yank cash out of your account.. i.e. proven fraud on the part of a customer or buyer from an online auction.. that kind of thing. as for them freezing accounts and not allowing access to legit funds in there.. we have not touched on that issue yet
Reading this post and then some of the associated pages about paypal are making me consider closing my account i have there. I have used paypal for a couple of years. makes buying things thru auctions and the like waaay to easy. now this, i mean what is going on there, i woudl really like to hear something specific on how it was done, from the standpoint of was it a hack or was it from the inside. now keep in mind i do not know anyone from the open source community personally, i dont want it to sound like i am trhowing out accusations about anyone involved in Abiword. if it has come across that way i apologize. now back to my point here, if it was a hack then that makes me very uncomfortable with their security. would anyone put their money in a back that hired a guard that slept all day while he/she was supposed to be watching for criminal activity?
well on first pass it does have usb connections so potentially you could use nics of that nature. but the memory seems a tad small for somehow loading all the mpi and pvm needed for a beowulf. it would just be interesting to see if someone would be crazy enough to try that :) but then again i never thought anyone would try to use liquid nitrogen to cool their machine
I am waiting to try to get fiber done up in my apt. i am lookign at how to get the whole routing and switching done right. right now i just have a couple itty bitty cisco routers and switches sitting here. i have two machines using fiber between themselves now. and i am hounding the phone company to allow me to get a bare line for 2 Meg dsl ... just gotta keep working on them. if i can i might be able to tweak this set up a bit more
you also have to consider the fact that they may wish to cover up part of what has happened. granted 14 months in the ocean open to fish and other nasties of the deep may have some effect on the body. there also could be a contamination hazrad to anyone who handles the remains.. i.e. radiation/chemical/who knows what. I can and do speak from experience here. i have looked into the effects of being in water for a long time as far as bodies go. i have lost a parent to a sunken ship
The US and Britan were using TLAM-C tomahawk missles as well as carrier based strike aircraft. there were B-1B, B-52 (which carpet bombed in Iraq) as well as B-2 bombers. those missles softened up the area and then the bombers went in to get a little more precise. who knows if there are troops in on the ground but i personally would not doubt it. anything is possible. now for me. i am getting a little nervous because i live within about an hour of a "large bomber base" and within about 30 minutes of a national monument. so anything could happen.
bin laden made a not too smart statement on his little taped message. he directly threatened the entire US. not the best move considering the area he is in is under bombing attack at the moment