Yeah and since it is non-confrontational, there will be nothing but politics and group factions. All the managers will suck and everyone will hate each other. Then you get some characters that are "borderline" and they just make everyone pissed at each other.
Then, while walking through the forest to find stuff to sell/keep/etc, you come upon a monster. Instead of whacking it, you just scream "Please die!" over and over until it either runs away or complies and drops dead.
This also begs the question: if it is non-confrontational, do you get to do all those things that people do behind the boss's back to get even? Things that come to mind: pissing in the boss's coffee, having sex on the boss's desk, etc. Then there would have to be hidden cameras and microphones and....oh my god, its Everquest 1984!!!!
I thought Instant Gratification had more to do with a bottle of lotion and a hand. I must not have taken that math class.
The Greeks did kill themselves off with all that tech. But only some of them.....the ones that emmigrated to Mars just couldn't get along. I think it had something to do with this ugly rock face carving that some guy did.
Heh....growth doesn't mean jack without profitability. I can buy more stuff to fill my house up more if I just stop paying my bills.
Its funny how these execs call their decision "difficult." I'm sure it wasn't that difficult to see that the immediate cut would make them look good faster than the long term cut. I took a psychology course once (intro level) and the professor said that the personality disorder that caused some people to become axe murders was the same one some CEOs of large companies have. I guess they pick their weapons at some point in life.
Personally, if it were me, I'd be gone. I've been through too many of these group-huggy appealings to the employees from the people that own nice houses, drive nice cars, and have a 5 minute commute to work to believe that stock options for those who tough it out will ever materialize. If they are growing and need more money, they could just start liquidating the assets of some of their vertical market companies. Blow away the overhead and bring the developers over to work under your development team's infrastructure. Its a lot kinder to get laid off than to get a letter telling you they are going to cut your pay 50% for a month.
Of course, this is all real simple for an engineer......
Not only that, but when you pay the kind of money you pay for Cisco products, you usually get good support. You also have the majority of the customers calling in that know what they are talking about. It is much easier to support an end user if they actually know a lot about the product or platform to begin with.
Wow, thats interesting. I guess I just assumed that it you threw yourself at the ground fast and hard enough using this, you had a better chance of missing it. Seemed like a good way to learn how to fly. Hey, it worked for Arthur Dent.
the way for the US to stop making enemies is to stop intervening in other cultures unless it is specifically for the defense of the mainland
The US doesn't intervene in other cultures. If they truly did, Afghanistan wouldn't be the armpit-of-the-world it is. What most of the terrorists hate is that their youth tend to look at western culture and get drawn to it. I mean, you choose: 1) I want to live in a mud hut, shovel camel manure for a job, and read the Qu'ran every night when I get home. 2) I want to order a pizza with extra pepperoni, pop the top off a 40oz beer, and sit on my ass and watch football while guzzling pizza and beer.
The people that hate the US are those that are against changing their culture. They also have this flawed idea that everyone else around them should also think the same way. How are they really any different than the US? Don't we here do the same thing? When was the last time anyone thought Ahmish people were anything but fricking nuts?
I used to work at a grocery store. I moved around to stores in the chain and had the opportunity to experience many people. Many of them had extremely deep personal issues that would allow them to be considered abnormal.
Many of them were in their mid-30s to early 40s. A lot suffered with alcoholism, most were single or divorced, and I've never seen such politics in any other place that I've worked. The union controlled where people went when promoted, so everyone would bitch about how much they worked and how little others did. Many considered their job right up there with saving the world.
The job pretty much boiled down to this: you go there, put shit on shelves, put price tags on them, repeat until shift is over. Many of the issues you stated (like payroll) were all handled by computers and the corporate office. All it took was a little bit of data entry. Sure, the people weren't morons, but I wouldn't exactly call it a job where the sky is the limit.
You would have to build the robot hand in order for it to kill you. Anyone remember that lame B-movie where the guy got his hand chopped off and it crawled around and attacked people?
On that note, I think it would be ultra cool to put this in the planter outside of the front door. Put it right under a plant that just barely covers it so people don't notice it. When a solicitor comes to the door and rings the doorbell, program it to scream, "What the fuck do you want?" and start swearing like a sailor. Much, much better than a no solicitors sign.
Be the first kid on your block to blow $2500 on this ultra cool wearable PC! Not only will you really look like a geek, but everyone will know who to talk to for some extra gas and grocery money! For an additional $15k, you can get the Honda walking robot docking station and play Ultraman with your friends in your front yard. (Turbo Jet and wing kit for robot sold seperately.)
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...nobody has had the balls to challenge it
Either that or nobody wants to spend the money it will take to challenge it. My guess is that what is going to happen is that someone will not back down to the demands of the FSF when they are found out of compliance with the GPL. At that point, it will be up to the FSF to prove it is valid rather than someone actually challenging it.
But, really, is there any reason this guy wouldn't say that it is strong? It amazes me that proponents of a certain issue always publish these "epiphanies" of how their issue is strong, sound, and the good cause. In any other forum, the conclusions published as such would be viewed with a lot of skepticism.
Consider becoming vegan, you'll save $$$ and benefit the environment.
What?!?! Unless you grow your own food, being a vegan is not cheap. I'm not vegan, but I worked with a group of people that were giving it a shot. This was in LA, of course, so maybe its different in other states. I am assuming the poster is in the bay area, which is worse than LA. They couldn't shop at normal grocery stores, and either mail ordered some of their food or had to go to some sort of Epicurean (translation: more $) market that carried organic foods and all that. The stuff that you buy in protest of the big business is expensive to produce because, well, it doesn't destroy the environment.
The funny thing is that they all pitched in and ordered these "snack" items from some mailorder place. (You really have to be dedicated to be vegan since most stuff lacks texture and flavor of normal food. A vegan, of course, will claim otherwise.) I can only descibe what these things were are rock-hard pucks of oatmeal held together with dehydrated fruit juice and a dehydrated apricot on top. The term "yummy" was only relative to the taste of shit scraped off the front lawn. It was like eating a hockey puck made of sand. It just made me want to run out and become a vegan....not.
I have never seen so much ignorance coming from one person. My point was that the societies are different, not their species. I don't believe I tried to separate the two races and call one inferior.
I don't really get how you interpreted what I said about the slave trade and developing societies as an attempt to call Africans inferior human beings. Anyway, the point is that society and species are two different topics. The society in Japan is as different from those in Africa as it is from those in Europe and North America. The beliefs of society are going to determine who will advance and who will not (and it will also define what exactly "advance" means with respect to their own society). Certainly the self-centered types of societies that we see in the world powers have caused it to advance over those societies that are group-centered. Much of African society is group-centered, such as when you have tribes. I don't want to debate which is better, I know where I live and what I must do to exist in my society.:)
However, as far as the slave trade goes, let me ask you this: Do you think that in every place in the world that when someone sticks a gun in your face and tells you to come with them that bystanders can just call 911 and get the police to come and rescue them? There are a great many countries where tribal rule is still the norm, even when a government exists. In many countries, the government is just a club of ex-military guys that are using their status to live a rich life. They aren't too concerned about if their citizens are working for pay or if they are working under duress as illegal slaves. Sure, LEGAL slavery does not exist today, but illegal slavery is still going. Is it on the same magnitude as it was in US colonial times? Certainly not. You even see it occassionally in the US where some garment manufacturer imported some Thai people and kept them locked in a room to work. It is a rare story you hear in the US, but it does still happen.
I don't believe I'm a bleeding heart liberal...heh, I don't think anyone would describe me as that. I like to keep every cent I make.
However, the slave trade is alive and well, but not in the world powers. Do some research on the net and you will probably find some of the organizations out there that are trying to free them. You can keep your head buried in the sand all you want, but it is still out there.
There is also a fundamental difference with the Jaspanese and the Africans. Their societies are totally different, which is probably what allowed them to develop while Africa didn't.
No, it doesn't make it right. It just means what they are doing is not news. It seems to be one of those unsolvable problems. Someone would have to give more incentive to assist the developing countries than there is for exploiting them to fix this. That doesn't seem very likely to happen.
You forgot about the slave trade and the child labor too. Fact is that people who live in developing countries exploit each other just as much as the developed countries exploit the developing countries.
I used to work in post production, which I'm guessing is similar to TV. I'll tell you that you better love it before you get into it or else you'll get sick of dealing with the non-geek types.
If you start as a PA, make sure you're not the only one that knows how to run the teleprompter. I saw this poor girl that had a graphic design degree that they stuck on the teleprompter one day and I never saw her anywhere else again. Sure it gets you a spot on the stage, but I'm sure running a teleprompter is not a real challenge.
Gee, if you have a kid and get the kid to play, you can legally classify your pastime as an ideology. You could declare that your religon only lets you work a few hours a day and you have to play Asheron's Call for at least 8 hours. Then you can force your employer to let you play since they can't discriminate against you based on your religion.
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I've used it. The stuff was crap. First, the multicast router (the thing that took the multicast packets and shoved them into the video signal) required no particular security settings to connect to. If someone was running it and you could get through their firewall, well, chances are you could start broadcasting your own content.
It also didn't seem to want to let you go any furthur that embedding simple hyperlinks and graphics into the TV signal (since most of the clients didn't support anything other than that I suppose.) Since you might get about 2400 baud worth of bandwidth through the TV signal if you're lucky (due to TV stations using most of the VBI lines for test signals, etc), you couldn't push a lot of content down either. Since most people don't watch a TV station for more than 5-10 minutes most of the time, it probably wouldn't work to try to shove several megabytes down to the viewers since they wouldn't stick around long enough to get it all.
Nah, they are secretly planning to overtake all the extra bandwidth on the internet by processing high-volumes of spam. I think they code-named the mainframe MCP or something......it might talk too, but I'm not sure.
But you might be able to triangulate the position in reference to the PCS cells. I think the point would be that you would know basically where the kid is, even if you didn't know where they were within 10 feet.
As for not getting the device off....hmm. There are creative ways to hack things off when someone needs to. In fact, I head a story on the radio about some company that made arm armor for Japanese couriers. Apparently there is too much traffic in Japan to drive armored cars around and pick up cash from businesses. So they send couriers. Then they have these ninja crooks that walk up behind them and hack the arm off with the case of money that is padlocked to their wrist clean off. Ouch.
Also, it reminds me of the recent case of a little girl here in San Diego, CA. Someone abducted her in the middle of the night. It was probably the closet pedophile neighbor who apparently took off to the desert in his RV the next morning. They might have found her in time if she had one of these on. I guess if it was also fireproof, they might have found her body a lot sooner too.
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Then, while walking through the forest to find stuff to sell/keep/etc, you come upon a monster. Instead of whacking it, you just scream "Please die!" over and over until it either runs away or complies and drops dead.
This also begs the question: if it is non-confrontational, do you get to do all those things that people do behind the boss's back to get even? Things that come to mind: pissing in the boss's coffee, having sex on the boss's desk, etc. Then there would have to be hidden cameras and microphones and....oh my god, its Everquest 1984!!!!
The Greeks did kill themselves off with all that tech. But only some of them.....the ones that emmigrated to Mars just couldn't get along. I think it had something to do with this ugly rock face carving that some guy did.
Its funny how these execs call their decision "difficult." I'm sure it wasn't that difficult to see that the immediate cut would make them look good faster than the long term cut. I took a psychology course once (intro level) and the professor said that the personality disorder that caused some people to become axe murders was the same one some CEOs of large companies have. I guess they pick their weapons at some point in life.
Personally, if it were me, I'd be gone. I've been through too many of these group-huggy appealings to the employees from the people that own nice houses, drive nice cars, and have a 5 minute commute to work to believe that stock options for those who tough it out will ever materialize. If they are growing and need more money, they could just start liquidating the assets of some of their vertical market companies. Blow away the overhead and bring the developers over to work under your development team's infrastructure. Its a lot kinder to get laid off than to get a letter telling you they are going to cut your pay 50% for a month.
Of course, this is all real simple for an engineer......
Not only that, but when you pay the kind of money you pay for Cisco products, you usually get good support. You also have the majority of the customers calling in that know what they are talking about. It is much easier to support an end user if they actually know a lot about the product or platform to begin with.
No, they should call Microsoft. At least Microsoft will be honest about taking a lot of your money and not getting anything done.
Wow, thats interesting. I guess I just assumed that it you threw yourself at the ground fast and hard enough using this, you had a better chance of missing it. Seemed like a good way to learn how to fly. Hey, it worked for Arthur Dent.
The US doesn't intervene in other cultures. If they truly did, Afghanistan wouldn't be the armpit-of-the-world it is. What most of the terrorists hate is that their youth tend to look at western culture and get drawn to it. I mean, you choose: 1) I want to live in a mud hut, shovel camel manure for a job, and read the Qu'ran every night when I get home. 2) I want to order a pizza with extra pepperoni, pop the top off a 40oz beer, and sit on my ass and watch football while guzzling pizza and beer.
The people that hate the US are those that are against changing their culture. They also have this flawed idea that everyone else around them should also think the same way. How are they really any different than the US? Don't we here do the same thing? When was the last time anyone thought Ahmish people were anything but fricking nuts?
Actually, they write their losses off and just don't pay tax on the lost money. So the poster wasn't totally wrong.
Many of them were in their mid-30s to early 40s. A lot suffered with alcoholism, most were single or divorced, and I've never seen such politics in any other place that I've worked. The union controlled where people went when promoted, so everyone would bitch about how much they worked and how little others did. Many considered their job right up there with saving the world.
The job pretty much boiled down to this: you go there, put shit on shelves, put price tags on them, repeat until shift is over. Many of the issues you stated (like payroll) were all handled by computers and the corporate office. All it took was a little bit of data entry. Sure, the people weren't morons, but I wouldn't exactly call it a job where the sky is the limit.
Yeah, but think of the gut-busting laughter you'll enjoy while she chases you around waving her fist in the air.
On that note, I think it would be ultra cool to put this in the planter outside of the front door. Put it right under a plant that just barely covers it so people don't notice it. When a solicitor comes to the door and rings the doorbell, program it to scream, "What the fuck do you want?" and start swearing like a sailor. Much, much better than a no solicitors sign.
Be the first kid on your block to blow $2500 on this ultra cool wearable PC! Not only will you really look like a geek, but everyone will know who to talk to for some extra gas and grocery money! For an additional $15k, you can get the Honda walking robot docking station and play Ultraman with your friends in your front yard. (Turbo Jet and wing kit for robot sold seperately.)
Either that or nobody wants to spend the money it will take to challenge it. My guess is that what is going to happen is that someone will not back down to the demands of the FSF when they are found out of compliance with the GPL. At that point, it will be up to the FSF to prove it is valid rather than someone actually challenging it.
But, really, is there any reason this guy wouldn't say that it is strong? It amazes me that proponents of a certain issue always publish these "epiphanies" of how their issue is strong, sound, and the good cause. In any other forum, the conclusions published as such would be viewed with a lot of skepticism.
What?!?! Unless you grow your own food, being a vegan is not cheap. I'm not vegan, but I worked with a group of people that were giving it a shot. This was in LA, of course, so maybe its different in other states. I am assuming the poster is in the bay area, which is worse than LA. They couldn't shop at normal grocery stores, and either mail ordered some of their food or had to go to some sort of Epicurean (translation: more $) market that carried organic foods and all that. The stuff that you buy in protest of the big business is expensive to produce because, well, it doesn't destroy the environment.
The funny thing is that they all pitched in and ordered these "snack" items from some mailorder place. (You really have to be dedicated to be vegan since most stuff lacks texture and flavor of normal food. A vegan, of course, will claim otherwise.) I can only descibe what these things were are rock-hard pucks of oatmeal held together with dehydrated fruit juice and a dehydrated apricot on top. The term "yummy" was only relative to the taste of shit scraped off the front lawn. It was like eating a hockey puck made of sand. It just made me want to run out and become a vegan....not.
Actually, I probably don't want to let anyone know that while I'm in San Fransisco. They might ask to see it.
I don't really get how you interpreted what I said about the slave trade and developing societies as an attempt to call Africans inferior human beings. Anyway, the point is that society and species are two different topics. The society in Japan is as different from those in Africa as it is from those in Europe and North America. The beliefs of society are going to determine who will advance and who will not (and it will also define what exactly "advance" means with respect to their own society). Certainly the self-centered types of societies that we see in the world powers have caused it to advance over those societies that are group-centered. Much of African society is group-centered, such as when you have tribes. I don't want to debate which is better, I know where I live and what I must do to exist in my society. :)
However, as far as the slave trade goes, let me ask you this: Do you think that in every place in the world that when someone sticks a gun in your face and tells you to come with them that bystanders can just call 911 and get the police to come and rescue them? There are a great many countries where tribal rule is still the norm, even when a government exists. In many countries, the government is just a club of ex-military guys that are using their status to live a rich life. They aren't too concerned about if their citizens are working for pay or if they are working under duress as illegal slaves. Sure, LEGAL slavery does not exist today, but illegal slavery is still going. Is it on the same magnitude as it was in US colonial times? Certainly not. You even see it occassionally in the US where some garment manufacturer imported some Thai people and kept them locked in a room to work. It is a rare story you hear in the US, but it does still happen.
However, the slave trade is alive and well, but not in the world powers. Do some research on the net and you will probably find some of the organizations out there that are trying to free them. You can keep your head buried in the sand all you want, but it is still out there.
There is also a fundamental difference with the Jaspanese and the Africans. Their societies are totally different, which is probably what allowed them to develop while Africa didn't.
No, it doesn't make it right. It just means what they are doing is not news. It seems to be one of those unsolvable problems. Someone would have to give more incentive to assist the developing countries than there is for exploiting them to fix this. That doesn't seem very likely to happen.
You forgot about the slave trade and the child labor too. Fact is that people who live in developing countries exploit each other just as much as the developed countries exploit the developing countries.
If you start as a PA, make sure you're not the only one that knows how to run the teleprompter. I saw this poor girl that had a graphic design degree that they stuck on the teleprompter one day and I never saw her anywhere else again. Sure it gets you a spot on the stage, but I'm sure running a teleprompter is not a real challenge.
Uh, they DIED when they expired. Probably not a good thing to let your web server die over a long holiday weekend.
(Insert "Tears in the Rain" speech here.)
I knew there was a solution!!!!
It also didn't seem to want to let you go any furthur that embedding simple hyperlinks and graphics into the TV signal (since most of the clients didn't support anything other than that I suppose.) Since you might get about 2400 baud worth of bandwidth through the TV signal if you're lucky (due to TV stations using most of the VBI lines for test signals, etc), you couldn't push a lot of content down either. Since most people don't watch a TV station for more than 5-10 minutes most of the time, it probably wouldn't work to try to shove several megabytes down to the viewers since they wouldn't stick around long enough to get it all.
Nah, they are secretly planning to overtake all the extra bandwidth on the internet by processing high-volumes of spam. I think they code-named the mainframe MCP or something......it might talk too, but I'm not sure.
As for not getting the device off....hmm. There are creative ways to hack things off when someone needs to. In fact, I head a story on the radio about some company that made arm armor for Japanese couriers. Apparently there is too much traffic in Japan to drive armored cars around and pick up cash from businesses. So they send couriers. Then they have these ninja crooks that walk up behind them and hack the arm off with the case of money that is padlocked to their wrist clean off. Ouch.
Also, it reminds me of the recent case of a little girl here in San Diego, CA. Someone abducted her in the middle of the night. It was probably the closet pedophile neighbor who apparently took off to the desert in his RV the next morning. They might have found her in time if she had one of these on. I guess if it was also fireproof, they might have found her body a lot sooner too.