Taking a day off to be silly is fine, but nobodys even trying here. These stories don't even pass the laugh test. The only thing that has me mildly curious is the google mail story which, has both elements of the real and unreal. I remember a joke last year getting me really riled up and then I realized...
Me. I'm the demand. Linux guys, I have 3 linux machines, 1 pc to run cubase, and and i've got a fucking Pocket PC and I *HATE* it (Anyone wanna buy a dell axim x3? 2 months old...). I want it, I want it bad:)
I worked at the University I got my degree at. It wasn't quite a development job, but more like IT. One day my boss approached me with a cunning plan: lets defraud the goverment and you can take the bullet if someone finds out. We were funded by grants, and these grants legally had to be spent on the projects there were allocated to.
So the brilliant plan was -- he would issue me student financial aide, then with the help of another crook in the accounting office they would alter my work records stealing hours here and there so it looked like I was overpaid, and I owed the university money. I would then pay the money back, and it could re-enter the accounts presumably in some form they could steal. And oh, BTW, I was supposed to refile my taxes and get money back from the government because that income `never happened`. I got to commit fraud twice!:)
I was really angry, the fraud really only put ME at risk. I would have been the one who got audited, I was the one they were lying to. They tried to explain that i had been accidently paid out of the wrong account, and we just needed to do this thing to fix it...
Not being STUPID, I went to the police, and they devised an undercover operation where basically I acted like a dolt and got them to explain everything really carefully and I wore a wire and a tape recorder (backup). The plan was to then actually proceed with the fraud as they planned and let a forensic accountant trace where the money had actually gone to. It was *ALOT* of fun wearing a wire, but not so much fun being naked in a police station while they wired me. But screwing the people who were trying to screw me (yay revenge!) was priceless.
Problem was, they got cold feet and they devised another method to steal the money using. It was still illegal but almost impossible to prove. Long story short, they were never charged, and the university promised to senture them but they never got around to it.
Meanwhile its impossible for me to find a job because nobody wants to hear you were involved with the police at your last job (it actually *literally* lost me job offers).
One of the funniest and scariest things I've ever heard in my life: >extreme anger "GOD DAMNIT VISUAL C IS A FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT! IT ONLY ALLOWS 16384 LOCAL VARIABLES!!!!"
the boss gets agitated when you don't see him daily.
I had a boss who would do the same damn thing: I am a sysadmin at a small university lab, my boss goes to Venice for 3 weeks for vacation during the summer. The first day hes back I happen to be sitting at a terminal because some idiot installed commet cursor. He walks in the door, says hello to the secretary, and as he passes the terminal Im at he stops, stares at me, and he says "Wow I havent seen you in awhile!" (the implication being that I had been skipping work). He was always looking for imaginary villans ripping him off.
I was having a conversation about this with my brother just the other day. We were trying to decide if we should watch the new HBO series "Deadwood". After a discussion, we decided we were sick of being strung along by shows like The Shield and The Sopranos, waiting for the plot to advance while they show meaningless filler and introduce new characters so they can kill them two episodes later to be edgy. Not to mention the endless commercials and when sweeps ends they rewind the show 6 episodes and you've got to wait 6 weeks to see the plot advance, and then its that same filler material.
Long story short, we decided, when the DVD box set comes out in a year, we'll buy it or rent it and be done with all that crap.
Why does it have to be good or bad? Maybe it just is. A buddy of mine said "OMG you have to see aqua teen hunger force!" Problem? In my area adelphia doesn't carry the cartoon network (fucking stone age, I know!). I downloaded ATHF, loved it, and now I'm planning on ordering them from amazon when the second DVD set is avaliable in a month or two.
I'm sure there is other anticdotal to support that downloading is evil:)
Here." "if even a small fraction of these applications are granted, a huge number of business methods and technologies that are now widely deployed across the Internet shall in effect become commodities which the patent holder can leverage to extract licensing fees or, in the alternative, damages from infringers."
They basically say their business model is to crapflood the patent office and see who the can fuck.
Actors/voice actors have "dialect tapes" which they study to learn accents. I have a few and generally they start by giving vowel substitutions, common phrases and syntax, and then move on to insanely boring phrases you must repeat while trying to copy their accents and inflections.
Actually, thats called your ROR -- risk of ruin. Its a percentage that quantifies the risk that you'll loose all your money (down 100%) before you'll double it (up 100%). Obviously the higher your bank roll, the lower your ROR.
I dont think card counting is really an issue anymore as *VERY* few casinos still play with one deck. Most play with 6 - 8 decks at once which lowers the gain from card counting to almost nothing.
Does anyone have ANY sympathy for the gambling industry? Living within 100 miles of 8 or so indian casinos in southern california, I have seen first hand that gambling is as destructive as drugs, alcoholism and tobacco.
I was thinking the same thing, but I also had another concern...how much did it cost to implement that feature? I have done some robot building in my day and pretty crappy accelerometer costs 25 - 40$.
It's probably time for Americans who are aware of the issue to start lobbying for new legislation to target this kind of behaviour
The country is run by lawyers:(
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I am going to respond in anger to your somewhat silly statement. It is our hope that the universe is simple and understandable, but there is no reason it has to be at all.
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Taking a day off to be silly is fine, but nobodys even trying here. These stories don't even pass the laugh test. The only thing that has me mildly curious is the google mail story which, has both elements of the real and unreal. I remember a joke last year getting me really riled up and then I realized ...
Me. I'm the demand. Linux guys, I have 3 linux machines, 1 pc to run cubase, and and i've got a fucking Pocket PC and I *HATE* it (Anyone wanna buy a dell axim x3? 2 months old...). I want it, I want it bad :)
So the brilliant plan was -- he would issue me student financial aide, then with the help of another crook in the accounting office they would alter my work records stealing hours here and there so it looked like I was overpaid, and I owed the university money. I would then pay the money back, and it could re-enter the accounts presumably in some form they could steal. And oh, BTW, I was supposed to refile my taxes and get money back from the government because that income `never happened`. I got to commit fraud twice! :)
I was really angry, the fraud really only put ME at risk. I would have been the one who got audited, I was the one they were lying to. They tried to explain that i had been accidently paid out of the wrong account, and we just needed to do this thing to fix it...
Not being STUPID, I went to the police, and they devised an undercover operation where basically I acted like a dolt and got them to explain everything really carefully and I wore a wire and a tape recorder (backup). The plan was to then actually proceed with the fraud as they planned and let a forensic accountant trace where the money had actually gone to. It was *ALOT* of fun wearing a wire, but not so much fun being naked in a police station while they wired me. But screwing the people who were trying to screw me (yay revenge!) was priceless.
Problem was, they got cold feet and they devised another method to steal the money using. It was still illegal but almost impossible to prove. Long story short, they were never charged, and the university promised to senture them but they never got around to it.
Meanwhile its impossible for me to find a job because nobody wants to hear you were involved with the police at your last job (it actually *literally* lost me job offers).
One of the funniest and scariest things I've ever heard in my life: >extreme anger "GOD DAMNIT VISUAL C IS A FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT! IT ONLY ALLOWS 16384 LOCAL VARIABLES!!!!"
I had a boss who would do the same damn thing: I am a sysadmin at a small university lab, my boss goes to Venice for 3 weeks for vacation during the summer. The first day hes back I happen to be sitting at a terminal because some idiot installed commet cursor. He walks in the door, says hello to the secretary, and as he passes the terminal Im at he stops, stares at me, and he says "Wow I havent seen you in awhile!" (the implication being that I had been skipping work). He was always looking for imaginary villans ripping him off.
Probably not, but I hear the girls there give great head.
I don't remember who said it, but a very wise fellow once said, "Terrorism, drugs and kiddy porn are the root keys to the constitution."
No jackass, you're wrong, and you're thinking like one of "them". The "responsibility" lies with the comapnies making *FRADULENT* claims.
You're saying this fellow should politely inform these companies that they are lying? I think they know already.
You went to Hollywood Upstairs Law School to huh?
Didn't the city of Munich recently switch to Linux for their operations? Wasnt that a HUGE loss for MS?
Long story short, we decided, when the DVD box set comes out in a year, we'll buy it or rent it and be done with all that crap.
I'm sure there is other anticdotal to support that downloading is evil :)
Hehehe the irony is, Im unemployed -- I watch *ALOT* of TV, see alot of commercials, and can't afford anything I see :-P
They basically say their business model is to crapflood the patent office and see who the can fuck.
Hey love your sig, and MST3k! recognize my name? ;)
I seem to have developed a pathalogical mistrust of organizations that end in AA.
Actors/voice actors have "dialect tapes" which they study to learn accents. I have a few and generally they start by giving vowel substitutions, common phrases and syntax, and then move on to insanely boring phrases you must repeat while trying to copy their accents and inflections.
I dont think card counting is really an issue anymore as *VERY* few casinos still play with one deck. Most play with 6 - 8 decks at once which lowers the gain from card counting to almost nothing.
Does anyone have ANY sympathy for the gambling industry? Living within 100 miles of 8 or so indian casinos in southern california, I have seen first hand that gambling is as destructive as drugs, alcoholism and tobacco.
I was thinking the same thing, but I also had another concern ...how much did it cost to implement that feature? I have done some robot building in my day and pretty crappy accelerometer costs 25 - 40$.
The country is run by lawyers :(
I am going to respond in anger to your somewhat silly statement. It is our hope that the universe is simple and understandable, but there is no reason it has to be at all.
In the same way fucking that crazy girl down the street reminds you its not good to fuck crazy girls... I suppose
ok, I own 10 domains ... thats a cool 20,000 dollars for me to be able to send emails from them and have a reasonable chance of getting through.
I knew them all too well :) Send me an e-mail privately and I'll give you my IM info if you'd like