You do realize the whole reason for Jar Jar was that Paul Allen bet him ten million USD that he wouldn't put a completely stupid main character into Episode I.
If you haven't had to explain the exact same thing to two different people, one right after the other, in the span of a few minutes, then you are not a software engineer.
It sounds like George W. Bush is a fan of the original theatrical release.
When did Bush ever shoot anyone first? That guy is a total punk. He was too much coward to go to Vietnam. He let China ram our spy plane that was in international waters and capture our people and hold them hostage and then he apologized to them. Then he let 9/11 happen. Then we go to war in Iraq and basically lose. Then Iran starts pushing us around because they know Bush is even bigger chump than Jimmy Carter.
Yeah, 'cuz, you know, like, they work for Infoworld and PC Magazine and stuff an' they're all corporate shills an' stuff an'...
We don't really need to mod them down because they are corporate shills. I think that the fact that the premise of the articles are basically stupid is plenty enough reason.
I agree they should be punished, but I think your proposed sentance is too harsh. Even if the person murdered someone, I think it would be too harsh and we are talking about a non-violent crime.
Unless management went through the code module by module and tallied up the bugs in each and fired anyones who tally when over some limit.
If that were the criteria used, there would be certain modules I would refuse to write. Some things are easier to debug meaning that you can debug them and check them in and feel certain that the code has relatively few bugs that will be found long term. Some things are just the opposite.
I'm not just blowing wind here either. For one thing, there's no way I'd agree to be the guy in charge of making the application AppleScriptable.
In the US you will be arrested if you do not have ID when the police ask for it. There was a recent case where a man was arrested on his front lawn for not having ID - even after he offered to go into the house to get his ID.
The specifics of the case: police were called because someone heard gunshots. This man happened to be the only one on his street who was outside at the time the police arrived. He lived one street over from where the shots had been reported. He was outside to smoke. He was ultimately charged with disobeying the officer's request to show id. In reality, he was attempting to comply, but they would not allow him to enter his home to fetch his ID.
Because of this, I never walk out of my house without my wallet containing my driver's license.
In my experience, almost anything with your name on it will satisfy a police request for ID (college ID, credit card, whatever.) as long as you are not driving in which case you need a driving license and nothing else.
My wife tried Paxil, Prozac, and Zoloft. Zoloft was the one that helped her. She did a lot better on it, but after a couple of years and also some psychotherapy was able to stop taking it. She didn't find it addictive at all - in fact, it was hard to get her to take it in the first place.
Neither of us drink at all and only take medicine when we REALLY need it.
Rebates and vouchers and gift cards are SO POPULAR in business. I have actually been a meeting and seen the numbers on rebates and I've seen the focus group data.
In most people's mind a voucher or gift card or rebate is 80% as good as getting actual money. In other words, the company gets 80% of the "benefit" from a voucher.
On the other hand, they pay around 20%. That's right. My company did a $99 rebate on the product I worked on (a consumer electronics hardware/software product) and only 20% of the customers who got the rebate actually redeemed it. And we totaly advertised the price after the rebate.
I hear that gift cards are redeemed only half the time, too.
If I were Apple, I would totally be giving gift cards for the Apple Store. 50% don't use them at all - the other 50% have to come to an Apple Store where they will probably buy something from Apple. That's so win-win for them.
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So who protects the people from their government?
It is supposed to be the courts.
Yes, and that field is called the United States.
Your loop is leaking scared elephants.
Pixelated boobies make Baby Jesus cry...
You do realize the whole reason for Jar Jar was that Paul Allen bet him ten million USD that he wouldn't put a completely stupid main character into Episode I.
If you haven't had to explain the exact same thing to two different people, one right after the other, in the span of a few minutes, then you are not a software engineer.
It sounds like George W. Bush is a fan of the original theatrical release.
When did Bush ever shoot anyone first? That guy is a total punk. He was too much coward to go to Vietnam. He let China ram our spy plane that was in international waters and capture our people and hold them hostage and then he apologized to them. Then he let 9/11 happen. Then we go to war in Iraq and basically lose. Then Iran starts pushing us around because they know Bush is even bigger chump than Jimmy Carter.
That seems like the most realistic part.
Presumably the WOPR was on ARPA net?
Especially with your 300 baud modem!
Yeah, 'cuz, you know, like, they work for Infoworld and PC Magazine and stuff an' they're all corporate shills an' stuff an'...
We don't really need to mod them down because they are corporate shills. I think that the fact that the premise of the articles are basically stupid is plenty enough reason.
If only you could get someone to pirate just the technical support part of your company!
I agree they should be punished, but I think your proposed sentance is too harsh. Even if the person murdered someone, I think it would be too harsh and we are talking about a non-violent crime.
That's because in the US, everything is a crime. The people who aren't in prison are just those who haven't been caught yet.
Unless management went through the code module by module and tallied up the bugs in each and fired anyones who tally when over some limit.
If that were the criteria used, there would be certain modules I would refuse to write. Some things are easier to debug meaning that you can debug them and check them in and feel certain that the code has relatively few bugs that will be found long term. Some things are just the opposite.
I'm not just blowing wind here either. For one thing, there's no way I'd agree to be the guy in charge of making the application AppleScriptable.
Pray tell how they were making ID cards before the invention of photography?
Not all IDs are photo IDs.
I should move to New Hampshire. I wonder if there are any jobs there?
In the US you will be arrested if you do not have ID when the police ask for it. There was a recent case where a man was arrested on his front lawn for not having ID - even after he offered to go into the house to get his ID.
The specifics of the case: police were called because someone heard gunshots. This man happened to be the only one on his street who was outside at the time the police arrived. He lived one street over from where the shots had been reported. He was outside to smoke. He was ultimately charged with disobeying the officer's request to show id. In reality, he was attempting to comply, but they would not allow him to enter his home to fetch his ID.
Because of this, I never walk out of my house without my wallet containing my driver's license.
In my experience, almost anything with your name on it will satisfy a police request for ID (college ID, credit card, whatever.) as long as you are not driving in which case you need a driving license and nothing else.
My wife tried Paxil, Prozac, and Zoloft. Zoloft was the one that helped her. She did a lot better on it, but after a couple of years and also some psychotherapy was able to stop taking it. She didn't find it addictive at all - in fact, it was hard to get her to take it in the first place.
Neither of us drink at all and only take medicine when we REALLY need it.
Apparently it can sometimes be expensive.
Rebates and vouchers and gift cards are SO POPULAR in business. I have actually been a meeting and seen the numbers on rebates and I've seen the focus group data.
In most people's mind a voucher or gift card or rebate is 80% as good as getting actual money. In other words, the company gets 80% of the "benefit" from a voucher.
On the other hand, they pay around 20%. That's right. My company did a $99 rebate on the product I worked on (a consumer electronics hardware/software product) and only 20% of the customers who got the rebate actually redeemed it. And we totaly advertised the price after the rebate.
I hear that gift cards are redeemed only half the time, too.
If I were Apple, I would totally be giving gift cards for the Apple Store. 50% don't use them at all - the other 50% have to come to an Apple Store where they will probably buy something from Apple. That's so win-win for them.
Apple has done some fabulous research over the years.
This technology presents interesting ideas...
None of your ideas were interesting.
I don't know any women who dislike Slashdot.
OTOH, I don't know any women.
By definition filing a patent makes the invention "not a secret" anymore. That is the whole purpose of patents.