Am I being unreasonable to expect a raise even though I'm in school?
Whoah, leave off that 'even though I'm in school' clause. As strange as it seems, the best deal these days is to quit and get a job somewhere else. Nobody seems to give raises anymore. (At least not worthy of note.)
Want a raise or propmotion? Quit. I have never got a raise while I have worked in IT of more than a buck an hour, yet I have nearly doubled my salary twice by just getting a new job. You would think that a company would value experience, but noooooo....
I fully believe it is Congress' job to change the law. But when there are gaps, it is the Judicial branch's job to make determinations as to what should be done, at least until Congress can go back and make more specific laws.
Congress doesn't pass laws, it spends money. They pass spending measures to decide how to spend your tax money. The senate passes bills, perhaps you are thinking of them?
Naah.. the whole 180 thing is a lie to get you to wait 'til they've managed to misappropriate your money somewhere.
They don't need to misappropriate the money to profit from the 180 day time period. Just by having a large sum of money for a given period of time allows you to make short term investments and such.
Imagine you are an e-bank. You have 100k in your vaults that people have given you as say escrow for ebay transactions. You have 5k incomming each day, and 5k outgoing each day. If you impose an additional 10 day waiting period on the transactions you are doing, you suddenly have 50k more liquid cash. While you are obligated to repay all of it, just by delaying things, you have generated more capital.
First step is to declare EA a monopoly. There is yet a standard Anti-Monopoly trust in the video game industry. Sure there is the Sherman Anti-trust act, but some politican needs to bend the same rules to apply it to EA.
I don't believe that you can use the sherman anti trust act to break up non-essential industrys. Monopolys only count when they control an essential resource such as food or oil. Although, IANAL.
If a little cell phone light sets you off, man, lay off the caffeine, eh?
BZZT. Wrong. How about you take your phone into the lobby and check it there. If the call you are waiting for is that important, you can walk 30 goddam feet into the lobby to check it. Its called common courtesy. Theaters are dark for a reason, and light can be just as distracting as noise.
I like the movie theater experience, but the cost is now an issue, especially when that $50 buys a tank of gas or two.
Everyone has mentioned the price of seeing a movie these days as being expensive. Personally, I don't mind shelling out $30-50 to see a film with my GF. What the problem is, is there are so few movies that are worth the time to see. I have almost entirely switched for foreign films and indy films in the last few years, because of all the crap that Hollywood is producing.
Who cares what the Geneva convention says about lasers. Everyone knows that the exhaust ports will be ray shielded, so they are already an irrelevant technology. The important thing is who is research on proton torpedos comming along?
(and, I would imagine, are less comfortable for women--correct me if I'm wrong)...
Jesus, I wish that were the case. My GF keeps stealing my underwear to wear when all hers need to be washed. If some guy could invent underwear that is comfy for men, but uncomfortable for women, I'd buy fifty pair.
Yes, you are stupid. That we have resolved. Mostly because you attacked my tangental observation about the final results of what you deem to be acceptable, on the grounds that 'I didn't read what you wrote'.
Also, you are stupid for assuming that I advocate more legistation. I simply stated that if *you* want to change the status quo, that *you* could lobby to change that. It's a fact, not an endorisment of doctern.
Finally, you are stupid to assume that an individual has unlimited rights to 'do as they fucking please with their OWN property', or that the idea that such a thing would be in any way good for society. Are you advocating an Anachist approach to property rights?
I simply pointed out that if government survelance is abused, then the same thing will happen (or is happening) in the private sector.
I cannot possibly control what a private company does with their property...
BZZZT! Thankyouforplaying, but you lose!
If you don't like the fact you are being spied upon on private property, you *can* use your weight as a citizen to push for laws against survelance in private space. Because you accept that as the status quo, it will reamin that way.
Mibus is correct. The copying of DNS dbs is trivial. Getting everyone to use your DNS db instead of the 'Official' one is the trick. It would take some major polarizing event to get enought people to switch over.
Perople who are calling for a transfer probably don't care about the cost issues. They care about having a neutral party controlling the db. The issue is about power, not cost.
I am not against video cameras in a private space (i.e. dressing rooms of a store).
When the goverment is granted survelance powers over a population, it inevitabily abuses them. Why would you expect a private company to behave any differently?
More to the point, how is it any different if you are spied upon on private property as oppoesd to public property? You are still being spied on.
The USA controls the root DNS only as long as the rest of the world doesn't get annoyed with us. The root DNS db can be easily copied or re-created if the rest of the planet decides to create their own, non-US dominated DNS service. Perhaps the best thing for all parties concerned would be if the US decides to be asshats about some issue, so that everyone else is spurred to action.
They already have their fluffy union contracts, guaranteed life time pay, and the complete inability to be fired. They don't need power over information too.
This isn't the government that wants to control what you see and hear. Its the goddamed fucking Cristians, pardon my french. The religious busybodies that can't mind their own damn businuess. They whine and bitch to the politicians until they get their way. Blame them.
Again, from all the science it seems like global warming will be a catastrophe, but it would be nice to find a few more bog people.
And yes, I have a degree in anthropology.
...but not in biology, obviously. You can find frozen bog people carcases from 8 thousand years ago, because they were frozen. How long do you think these bodies are going to last once they thaw? Now, unless you have some clever plan to locate all these 'lost treasures' PDQ, all you will find will be their bones, since dead tissue is gone pretty quick once you thaw it.
The prudent interpretation would be that they interfere when the UN is on to something and they cooperate when the UN is on a dead end.
Consider this: You are Sadaam, and you wish to deter a hostile superpower from removing you from power. Given that building WMD could be costly in terms of money, resources, and international goodwill, wouldn't it be better to make people wonder if you have them? If you build them, it might give the west a reason to invade, since you are then a threat to them. If you don't have them, the west might invade since there isn't any deterent. The best plan is to prevent any resolution of the question either way. FUD isn't just a weapon for mega-corps.
An alternate interpretation would be that they interfere when the UN is on a dead end to create disinformation. You don't stay a dictator for long by being stupid...
In addition, shouldn't they be suing the person who created the product, not the user? I would think that they should sue Microsoft (ASP, MS-SQL) or the Apache/PHP teams, since they are the partys creating the patent violating technology.
Or perhaps they are afraid of what will happen when they file a suit like this against MS...
Not trying to lord it over anyone, just scik and fucking tired of this meme.
Then perhaps you should spout you cute little angst ridden rant when someone posts a genuine jab at NASA's value, rather than someone who is making fun of people who can't see the value of a national space program.
Goddam. Another fucking droid on/. who can't be bothered to read something before they ejaculate their worthless opinion all over anyone they can...
Urhurhur. I have a stick up my ass, and can't see the humor in a joke. Obviously, this was an attempt, not at reductionist humor, but to belittle the entire NASA space program and imply that then only real product of their efforts was tang. I think I'll bitch about a bunch of random blog entries and call everyone techno-phobes, because I am much more educated even though I can't name a few space program spin offs from the top of my head. Fucktard.
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Am I being unreasonable to expect a raise even though I'm in school?
Whoah, leave off that 'even though I'm in school' clause. As strange as it seems, the best deal these days is to quit and get a job somewhere else. Nobody seems to give raises anymore. (At least not worthy of note.)
Want a raise or propmotion? Quit. I have never got a raise while I have worked in IT of more than a buck an hour, yet I have nearly doubled my salary twice by just getting a new job. You would think that a company would value experience, but noooooo....
I fully believe it is Congress' job to change the law. But when there are gaps, it is the Judicial branch's job to make determinations as to what should be done, at least until Congress can go back and make more specific laws.
Congress doesn't pass laws, it spends money. They pass spending measures to decide how to spend your tax money. The senate passes bills, perhaps you are thinking of them?
Naah.. the whole 180 thing is a lie to get you to wait 'til they've managed to misappropriate your money somewhere.
They don't need to misappropriate the money to profit from the 180 day time period. Just by having a large sum of money for a given period of time allows you to make short term investments and such.
Imagine you are an e-bank. You have 100k in your vaults that people have given you as say escrow for ebay transactions. You have 5k incomming each day, and 5k outgoing each day. If you impose an additional 10 day waiting period on the transactions you are doing, you suddenly have 50k more liquid cash. While you are obligated to repay all of it, just by delaying things, you have generated more capital.
First step is to declare EA a monopoly. There is yet a standard Anti-Monopoly trust in the video game industry. Sure there is the Sherman Anti-trust act, but some politican needs to bend the same rules to apply it to EA.
I don't believe that you can use the sherman anti trust act to break up non-essential industrys. Monopolys only count when they control an essential resource such as food or oil. Although, IANAL.
If a little cell phone light sets you off, man, lay off the caffeine, eh?
BZZT. Wrong. How about you take your phone into the lobby and check it there. If the call you are waiting for is that important, you can walk 30 goddam feet into the lobby to check it. Its called common courtesy. Theaters are dark for a reason, and light can be just as distracting as noise.
I like the movie theater experience, but the cost is now an issue, especially when that $50 buys a tank of gas or two.
Everyone has mentioned the price of seeing a movie these days as being expensive. Personally, I don't mind shelling out $30-50 to see a film with my GF. What the problem is, is there are so few movies that are worth the time to see. I have almost entirely switched for foreign films and indy films in the last few years, because of all the crap that Hollywood is producing.
Who cares what the Geneva convention says about lasers. Everyone knows that the exhaust ports will be ray shielded, so they are already an irrelevant technology. The important thing is who is research on proton torpedos comming along?
(and, I would imagine, are less comfortable for women--correct me if I'm wrong)...
Jesus, I wish that were the case. My GF keeps stealing my underwear to wear when all hers need to be washed. If some guy could invent underwear that is comfy for men, but uncomfortable for women, I'd buy fifty pair.
As you can see, they don't look anything alike.
A moot point. I bet they both taste like chicken...
...along side its Beowulf Cluster.
Boy, imagine a Beowulf cluster of...those Beowulf...er...oh, damn.
Excuse me? I'm stupid?
Yes, you are stupid. That we have resolved. Mostly because you attacked my tangental observation about the final results of what you deem to be acceptable, on the grounds that 'I didn't read what you wrote'.
Also, you are stupid for assuming that I advocate more legistation. I simply stated that if *you* want to change the status quo, that *you* could lobby to change that. It's a fact, not an endorisment of doctern.
Finally, you are stupid to assume that an individual has unlimited rights to 'do as they fucking please with their OWN property', or that the idea that such a thing would be in any way good for society. Are you advocating an Anachist approach to property rights?
I simply pointed out that if government survelance is abused, then the same thing will happen (or is happening) in the private sector.
I cannot possibly control what a private company does with their property...
BZZZT! Thankyouforplaying, but you lose!
If you don't like the fact you are being spied upon on private property, you *can* use your weight as a citizen to push for laws against survelance in private space. Because you accept that as the status quo, it will reamin that way.
In the future please try to be less stupid.
Mibus is correct. The copying of DNS dbs is trivial. Getting everyone to use your DNS db instead of the 'Official' one is the trick. It would take some major polarizing event to get enought people to switch over.
Perople who are calling for a transfer probably don't care about the cost issues. They care about having a neutral party controlling the db. The issue is about power, not cost.
I am not against video cameras in a private space (i.e. dressing rooms of a store).
When the goverment is granted survelance powers over a population, it inevitabily abuses them. Why would you expect a private company to behave any differently?
More to the point, how is it any different if you are spied upon on private property as oppoesd to public property? You are still being spied on.
The USA controls the root DNS only as long as the rest of the world doesn't get annoyed with us. The root DNS db can be easily copied or re-created if the rest of the planet decides to create their own, non-US dominated DNS service. Perhaps the best thing for all parties concerned would be if the US decides to be asshats about some issue, so that everyone else is spurred to action.
Most people were disapointed when they got in and discovered that the ibooks were not in fact, cabage patch kids.
They already have their fluffy union contracts, guaranteed life time pay, and the complete inability to be fired. They don't need power over information too.
This isn't the government that wants to control what you see and hear. Its the goddamed fucking Cristians, pardon my french. The religious busybodies that can't mind their own damn businuess. They whine and bitch to the politicians until they get their way. Blame them.
Again, from all the science it seems like global warming will be a catastrophe, but it would be nice to find a few more bog people.
...but not in biology, obviously. You can find frozen bog people carcases from 8 thousand years ago, because they were frozen. How long do you think these bodies are going to last once they thaw? Now, unless you have some clever plan to locate all these 'lost treasures' PDQ, all you will find will be their bones, since dead tissue is gone pretty quick once you thaw it.
And yes, I have a degree in anthropology.
The prudent interpretation would be that they interfere when the UN is on to something and they cooperate when the UN is on a dead end.
Consider this: You are Sadaam, and you wish to deter a hostile superpower from removing you from power. Given that building WMD could be costly in terms of money, resources, and international goodwill, wouldn't it be better to make people wonder if you have them? If you build them, it might give the west a reason to invade, since you are then a threat to them. If you don't have them, the west might invade since there isn't any deterent. The best plan is to prevent any resolution of the question either way. FUD isn't just a weapon for mega-corps.
An alternate interpretation would be that they interfere when the UN is on a dead end to create disinformation. You don't stay a dictator for long by being stupid...
In addition, shouldn't they be suing the person who created the product, not the user? I would think that they should sue Microsoft (ASP, MS-SQL) or the Apache/PHP teams, since they are the partys creating the patent violating technology.
Or perhaps they are afraid of what will happen when they file a suit like this against MS...
The mass extinction is sad, but probably won't be the end of humans.
Fuck 'em if they can't take a global warming! No loss, most of them taste like chicken anyway...
...to capture astonishing images of thousands of emperor penguins engaging in a mating...
SWEET JESUS! Penguin orgy pr0n! Won't anyone think of the children?
Not trying to lord it over anyone, just scik and fucking tired of this meme.
/. who can't be bothered to read something before they ejaculate their worthless opinion all over anyone they can...
Then perhaps you should spout you cute little angst ridden rant when someone posts a genuine jab at NASA's value, rather than someone who is making fun of people who can't see the value of a national space program.
Goddam. Another fucking droid on
Somebody please mod this jackass down
Urhurhur. I have a stick up my ass, and can't see the humor in a joke. Obviously, this was an attempt, not at reductionist humor, but to belittle the entire NASA space program and imply that then only real product of their efforts was tang. I think I'll bitch about a bunch of random blog entries and call everyone techno-phobes, because I am much more educated even though I can't name a few space program spin offs from the top of my head. Fucktard.
A ton of technology came from the space race
Yeah, if it weren't for the bravery and heroisim of the early astronaughts, we wouldn't have TANG(tm) INSTANT BREAKFAST DRINK today.
I for one applaude their efforts.