"Someone breaks into your house. He is armed, you are not. You lose some valuables.
Someone breaks into your house. You are armed, he is armed. You lose nothing, he loses his life.
Now tell me which is the greater evil."
You have perfectly repeated the line of thinking that allowed 19 unarmed people to take over 4 airplanes (and no, boxcutters are no more weapons than a fist or a boot). The logic in place, as reinforced by policy, was "don't try to resist; giving in to whatever hijackers want is the lesser evil compared to the plane going down."
Strong advise: DON'T burn bridges. Your ex boss may be a shit, but wat if your flameout burns your coworkers? They are the ones you will probably run into again.
I did mine the quick & dirty way: - 1 line resignation letter "I am resigning effective XX/YY/ZZZZ. Sincerely, R2.0"
- gave back precisely what was called for in the manual - manuals, cell phone, etc.
- then I GUTTED my hard drive. I tried to erase not only every unauthorized program, but every reference to me anywhere on the drive. I tried to make it so that the prying eyes in IT not only wouldn't find anything against policy, they would find no evidence that I ever had the laptop in my posession. Then I ran Blowfish to scramble the empty space. A small victory, but I savored it.
- as my last act, I terminated myself. Policy cally for an e-mail to be sent to a special mailbox named "terminated" with the employees name, etc. That gets forwarded to HR, IT, Payroll, etc. I sent my own.
From: R2.0 To: Terminated Subject: R2.0, terminated XX/YY/ZZZZ
I can at least hope this caused some brief confusion.
I also think another factor clouding the issue is that, statistically, Crown Vic's *don't* explode more often then other cars when struck from behind by a car moving at highway speeds. But Crown Vic's are the single model most involved in this type of collision, specifically because police use them so predominantly.
So now the argument has changed to a warrant of merchantability type thing: in selling Crown Vic's as police card, Ford warranted that they were suitable for use as police cars. Since police cars are especially likely to be involved in high speed rear end collisions, the police cars should be able to withstand them better than other cars. Since they don't (ref previous statistics), they are incorrectly designed for police use, and so Ford is liable.
As for the tin-foil-hattism about Ford refusing to sell police cruisers to states that sue them, well DUHHH! Ford is not compelled to sell their products to anybody (except race/creed/gender, etc.) and to continue to sell products to an entity that is suing you is stupid. It's like letting the slip-and-fall plaintiff back into your grocery store - it's just giving them another chance to sue.
I go to Company A, buy the binary and they give me the source code under GPL. Unbeknownst to Company A, my real intent is to recompile the code, and then sell the SAME product as A, but now undercut them. I sell the binaries and distribute the source code under the GPL, just like A.
From what I understand of the GPL, there is no way A can prohibit me from doing this - they are not allowed to add any more restrictive terms to the license. How does A protect themselves from me?
I'm interpreting it as agreement with me(of course).
Your original post is correct in that the actual conversion is relatively efficient, i.e. 1W of electricity translates to 1 W (equivalent) H2, minus small losses. However, the energy requirements of autos & trucks are relatively high. So you would be adding to the electrical load on the grid by a lot.
H2 is an energy transport mechanism, NOT a generation source. The initial energy must come from somewhere. Currently it comes out of the ground in the form of oil. An H2 system, in order to be worth a damned ecologically, needs to get its source somewhere else - just cracking oil into H2 instead of gasoline is pretty pointless in the long term.
Fuel cells that run on biofuel (energy from the sun) would be great, but they are NOT part of the "H2 economy" - it's just a different engine.
But where does the energy to make the H2 come from? Currently, it takes a cubic assload of electricity to generate hydrogen, so the distributed production model would need huge increases in the electrical power generating infrastructure, which is already near maximum utilization.
The alternate is producing the H2 at a location with cheap power (hydro, desert solar collectors), and then shipping the H2 where it needs to be. But that has its own issues, as you pointed out.
I'll be honest - I'm not holding out for the "hydrogen economy" in my lifetime. Sounds to much like shale oil - grand idea, sounds good politically, and goes precisely nowhere. (Kind of like Carter's other big idea - Middle East Peace)
You are confusing HMO's and drug companies. HMO's would KILL for drugs like that - get sick, give a pill, don't need to come back. they lose their asses on patients with schronic or complicated diseases.
OTOH, drug companies have every incentive to develop drugs that do not cure but only treat. By turning an acute disease into a chronic one - like they are doing with AIDS - they guarantee their revenue stream.
Drug companies and HMO's arenatural enemies that are being pushed together by economics: people want more healthcare but want to pay as little as possible. Since doctors and hospitals (generally) cost more than drug therapies, HMO's tend to rely on the drug companies. But they don't necessarily like it.
"but in this case I suppose the old adage stands true that, "you get what you pay for"
Given the stunning innacuracies and bias in your post ("shareware version of linux"? "for anything more than a hobby OS, Windows 98/NT/2K are your only choices?" Guess IBM, HP, Sun, & Apples OS's are all vaporware) I have 2 questions?
1)How much did this "Fortune 500 Company" pay you? Whatever it was, you ripped them off.
Given that you are going out of your way to be sneaky about it ("No data here, just a plain ole' watch"), I would suggest that you already know the answer to your implied question. Deep down you feel that what you are doing is wrong, but you are glossing over it with hand waving about rights and "fighting the Man."
How would a backup have protected her "rights?" Generally, IT departments do what you described to keep an angry employee from deleting their documents out of spite.
Also, what "rights" are you referring to? The right not to be fired in an inconsiderate way?
"In a place where it's not illegal to photocopy a text book, there is no legal dilemma."
Except that in the article, with the exception of a trowaway line about "outside the law", there is no reference to textbook copying actually being legal in Mexico. It is simply not addressed.
My guess would be that the students go to Mexico to copy the books because 1: it's cheaper 2: the Mexican shop could give a rats ass about US OR Mexican copyright law, whereas the local Kinko's might be more fussy.
As for the "no legal dilemna part," I think you are whistling in the wind. Although the copying per se may take place somewhere else, there is possession, importation, etc. The students doing it is penny ante, but if it gets large enough, I'm sure some law could be enforced.
I would occasionally bring my girlfriend (now wife) over to Sunday dinner at her house. One day, as we were leaving, she kisses us both goodbye and says "Now you be good... and if you can't, name it after me".
Got any good cheats? Not that I would teach my kids to cheat, but that doesn't stop Daddy from "winning" the reels of tickets needed to get anything worthwhile.
Everything you say is true, and I too type better than I write, but it is wholly irrelevant: the original poster implied a disability, not convenience or performance.
Unless you believe that "being a geek" IS a disability.
1. There WAS a patent on the automobile, and it was the same deal - generic concept, lawyer/shell company demanding royalties on every car built. Henry Ford said "Screw You", took it to court, and won.
2. I believe archaeology has shown beer predating wine.
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"five foot two and weigh in at 250 pounds"
You say that like its a bad thing.
"Someone breaks into your house. He is armed, you are not. You lose some valuables.
Someone breaks into your house. You are armed, he is armed. You lose nothing, he loses his life.
Now tell me which is the greater evil."
You have perfectly repeated the line of thinking that allowed 19 unarmed people to take over 4 airplanes (and no, boxcutters are no more weapons than a fist or a boot). The logic in place, as reinforced by policy, was "don't try to resist; giving in to whatever hijackers want is the lesser evil compared to the plane going down."
Guess we know better now.
Sir or Madam, you are now my hero.
Strong advise: DON'T burn bridges. Your ex boss may be a shit, but wat if your flameout burns your coworkers? They are the ones you will probably run into again.
I did mine the quick & dirty way:
- 1 line resignation letter "I am resigning effective XX/YY/ZZZZ. Sincerely, R2.0"
- gave back precisely what was called for in the manual - manuals, cell phone, etc.
- then I GUTTED my hard drive. I tried to erase not only every unauthorized program, but every reference to me anywhere on the drive. I tried to make it so that the prying eyes in IT not only wouldn't find anything against policy, they would find no evidence that I ever had the laptop in my posession. Then I ran Blowfish to scramble the empty space. A small victory, but I savored it.
- as my last act, I terminated myself. Policy cally for an e-mail to be sent to a special mailbox named "terminated" with the employees name, etc. That gets forwarded to HR, IT, Payroll, etc. I sent my own.
From: R2.0
To: Terminated
Subject: R2.0, terminated XX/YY/ZZZZ
I can at least hope this caused some brief confusion.
I also think another factor clouding the issue is that, statistically, Crown Vic's *don't* explode more often then other cars when struck from behind by a car moving at highway speeds. But Crown Vic's are the single model most involved in this type of collision, specifically because police use them so predominantly.
So now the argument has changed to a warrant of merchantability type thing: in selling Crown Vic's as police card, Ford warranted that they were suitable for use as police cars. Since police cars are especially likely to be involved in high speed rear end collisions, the police cars should be able to withstand them better than other cars. Since they don't (ref previous statistics), they are incorrectly designed for police use, and so Ford is liable.
As for the tin-foil-hattism about Ford refusing to sell police cruisers to states that sue them, well DUHHH! Ford is not compelled to sell their products to anybody (except race/creed/gender, etc.) and to continue to sell products to an entity that is suing you is stupid. It's like letting the slip-and-fall plaintiff back into your grocery store - it's just giving them another chance to sue.
Okay, to take this a little further...
I go to Company A, buy the binary and they give me the source code under GPL. Unbeknownst to Company A, my real intent is to recompile the code, and then sell the SAME product as A, but now undercut them. I sell the binaries and distribute the source code under the GPL, just like A.
From what I understand of the GPL, there is no way A can prohibit me from doing this - they are not allowed to add any more restrictive terms to the license. How does A protect themselves from me?
I love advice that boils down to "I want you to spend money so I can continue to be an asshole."
"Microsoft have released three (3!) major desktop operating system revisions since then"
Windows ME: Oh, it was major, alright - a major failure. The "Upgrade" path at the time was to revert Back to 98SE.
Windows 2000: Remember, this was marketed as "not for home use". That was what ME was for. 2000 wouldn't support many legacy apps.
So there has really only been 1 major desktop OS revision that is relevant, and given XP's poor rep, there are plenty of reasons not to upgrade.
Also, the comparison between then and now isn't valid. A large number of the exploits now target services in 2000 & XP that 98 doesn't have.
98 certainly isn't state of the art, but I don't know that I'd call 2000 or XP that either. Your most compelling argument seems to be "98 is OLD!!"
BFD.
Slashdot...objective viewpoint....
Bwahahahahahahaha....
Until you can't take it on a plane with you.
"I've been yanking on it a couple years at least"
The tragedy is, even with such a great straight line, I STILL can't think of something witty.
"All it takes is a little basic research first."
You're new here, aren't you?
I'm interpreting it as agreement with me(of course).
Your original post is correct in that the actual conversion is relatively efficient, i.e. 1W of electricity translates to 1 W (equivalent) H2, minus small losses. However, the energy requirements of autos & trucks are relatively high. So you would be adding to the electrical load on the grid by a lot.
H2 is an energy transport mechanism, NOT a generation source. The initial energy must come from somewhere. Currently it comes out of the ground in the form of oil. An H2 system, in order to be worth a damned ecologically, needs to get its source somewhere else - just cracking oil into H2 instead of gasoline is pretty pointless in the long term.
Fuel cells that run on biofuel (energy from the sun) would be great, but they are NOT part of the "H2 economy" - it's just a different engine.
But where does the energy to make the H2 come from? Currently, it takes a cubic assload of electricity to generate hydrogen, so the distributed production model would need huge increases in the electrical power generating infrastructure, which is already near maximum utilization.
The alternate is producing the H2 at a location with cheap power (hydro, desert solar collectors), and then shipping the H2 where it needs to be. But that has its own issues, as you pointed out.
I'll be honest - I'm not holding out for the "hydrogen economy" in my lifetime. Sounds to much like shale oil - grand idea, sounds good politically, and goes precisely nowhere. (Kind of like Carter's other big idea - Middle East Peace)
You are confusing HMO's and drug companies. HMO's would KILL for drugs like that - get sick, give a pill, don't need to come back. they lose their asses on patients with schronic or complicated diseases.
OTOH, drug companies have every incentive to develop drugs that do not cure but only treat. By turning an acute disease into a chronic one - like they are doing with AIDS - they guarantee their revenue stream.
Drug companies and HMO's arenatural enemies that are being pushed together by economics: people want more healthcare but want to pay as little as possible. Since doctors and hospitals (generally) cost more than drug therapies, HMO's tend to rely on the drug companies. But they don't necessarily like it.
"but in this case I suppose the
old adage stands true that, "you get what you pay for"
Given the stunning innacuracies and bias in your post ("shareware version of linux"? "for anything more than a hobby OS, Windows 98/NT/2K are your only choices?" Guess IBM, HP, Sun, & Apples OS's are all vaporware) I have 2 questions?
1)How much did this "Fortune 500 Company" pay you? Whatever it was, you ripped them off.
2) How much is MS paying you?
Given that you are going out of your way to be sneaky about it ("No data here, just a plain ole' watch"), I would suggest that you already know the answer to your implied question. Deep down you feel that what you are doing is wrong, but you are glossing over it with hand waving about rights and "fighting the Man."
That will be $.05, please.
How would a backup have protected her "rights?" Generally, IT departments do what you described to keep an angry employee from deleting their documents out of spite.
Also, what "rights" are you referring to? The right not to be fired in an inconsiderate way?
"In a place where it's not illegal to photocopy a text book, there is no legal dilemma."
Except that in the article, with the exception of a trowaway line about "outside the law", there is no reference to textbook copying actually being legal in Mexico. It is simply not addressed.
My guess would be that the students go to Mexico to copy the books because
1: it's cheaper
2: the Mexican shop could give a rats ass about US OR Mexican copyright law, whereas the local Kinko's might be more fussy.
As for the "no legal dilemna part," I think you are whistling in the wind. Although the copying per se may take place somewhere else, there is possession, importation, etc. The students doing it is penny ante, but if it gets large enough, I'm sure some law could be enforced.
Scarier is when she MEANS it the other way...
I would occasionally bring my girlfriend (now wife) over to Sunday dinner at her house. One day, as we were leaving, she kisses us both goodbye and says "Now you be good... and if you can't, name it after me".
Got any good cheats? Not that I would teach my kids to cheat, but that doesn't stop Daddy from "winning" the reels of tickets needed to get anything worthwhile.
I stand corrected, and am enlightened thereby.
Everything you say is true, and I too type better than I write, but it is wholly irrelevant: the original poster implied a disability, not convenience or performance.
Unless you believe that "being a geek" IS a disability.
Couple of points...
1. There WAS a patent on the automobile, and it was the same deal - generic concept, lawyer/shell company demanding royalties on every car built. Henry Ford said "Screw You", took it to court, and won.
2. I believe archaeology has shown beer predating wine.
Other than these quibbles, point taken.
But I gotta ask: what condition does your friend have that makes it easier to type than to handwrite?