Sorry, bud, it's your false dilemma. This guy wants to improve his situation and you bitch at him for being ungrateful. Not very helpful.
As for taking your bosses job (and again, you use the logical fallacy of a false dilemma: it's all one or the other), that rarely works, but, then again, you must know that since I'm sure you're running some mega corp by [blah blah blah]
Speaking of fallacies, you used a strawman (I suggested a course of action) and a pointless personal attack. I recently switched bosses to a better one, since I don't want to be a boss just yet. I will be one if the alternative is having a bad one - I just prefer being able to do the actual work, even if that only scales so far.
Just by your comment filled with "PHB", makes it seem like you have no respect for management at all.
No, just the one boss. The question seems to be "how do I get my boss replaced?" with a subtext of whether he should try and replace him. Increased visibility is a good idea, but I'd want to get involved in finding out what the direction should be for the dept - if the bosses start looking to you for IT stuff, you may just push the other guy out.
you have a job that pays for a place to live and heat and water and electricity
that you're healthy enough to go into work each day instead of spending most of your time seeing doctors to deal with cancer or MS or something else.
So either you get everything you want, or you have cancer? Get a grip. The solution is not to be grateful for what scraps you're given. The solution is to take your bosses job, since he doesn't have it anyway. What are you, a pet?
It helps when the physical humor matches the joke. Some stuff doesn't work as well, like the guy pretending to be a girl trying to be a guy (who's being hit on by some noble) in 12th night.
The reason people think shakespeare is high literature is that nobody really understands it well enough to get the dirty jokes. If they actually knew what he was saying, they'd ban it.
Second, what happens when the enterprize standardizes on this thing, and you have a cubicle farm of laptops spew CO2 (and a small component of CO) into the closed office atmosphere.
Simple - the air circulates every 5 minutes or so, and it's not much more than you produce anyway. Besides, won't they be on AC in the office?
Driving down wages? Isn't that the whole original point of the program? To keep wages at sustainable level?
Nope, just driving down wages. If wages weren't easily controllable by importing 60,000 foreigners, increasing supply, then US companies wouldn't piss away what supply they have on bullshit projects and would perhaps use their engineers more efficiently.
Computationally difficult/impractical may as well be impossible - solving the travelling salesman for n=1000 is intractable, so it can't be done. Using the same sort of meaning, intractable voting problems require a different approach - if pure electronic voting is intractable, then it's impossible.
As an immigration policy, the H-1b program is brilliant.
Sure is. Bring over a bunch of engineers and pay them poorly, driving down wages. As a bonus, they can't leave because they'd lose sponsorship, so you can treat them like dirt. Sure, there's supposed to be regulation, but with hardly anyone to enforce it, who's going to find out?
But if it stopped just one terrorist wouldn't it be worth it? When the violation of millions is justified for a single success I don't wanna play no more. I haven't been to America since pre 9-11 and quite frankly I don't feel any great urgency to return either, not for biz or pleasure.
Hey, you think you got it bad, I live here, and I don't have citizenship over there anywhere; I'd love to go to the EU somewhere and be a developer (hot shit C++ and Java + good communication skills), but I have no idea where to start. Where can an interested tech guy find decent opportunities in the EU?
When you fly into a country that is under threat of suicidal hijackers and other evildoers, the US should know all about the people coming in. It isn't a right to be anonymous when you enter any other country.
Fuck you.
The US knew all about the guys who allegedly knocked over the WTC (well, they may have screwed up half the names, but they did fly under their own names). Anyway, we aren't under any credible threat from suicidal blow up dudes - hijacking as a tactic died on 9/11, and anyone who tries will be torn to pieces. I'm flying in a couple weeks and am quite willing to do my part.
I just want to correct one thing: we aren't killing the terrorists' countrymen. We're mostly killing Iraqis and the odd Afghani. The terrorists that attacked us were (probably) mostly from saudi arabia. Since we don't know who they were, exactly, it's hard to say, exactly.
The obvious question is 'why the hell are you asking slashdot?' We're just a bunch of guys (mostly) who like computers and gadgets. Do you think even 2% of the people responding will be at all qualified? (never mind what the spread is for other ask slashdots).
Pick up a loaded handgun or rifle and try to pull the trigger without any training. It is more difficult than it seems. Most people forget to disengage the safety.
It's actually really easy - it's hitting what you aim at that's hard. Also, my gun has no safety.
Just pick up a newspaper and read about some cops firing 40 rounds, 10 feet from the victim and only landing 8 bullets.
That's because those cops suck. Also, there's some difference between a firing range and an actual encounter (but still, they suck). Yeah, and 50 rounds is half what I use going to the gun range.
No, the 223 round weighs half as much as the 7.62/.308 round it replaced. Soldiers would prefer to kill someone so they don't shoot back, which is different from killing them so they die later. Give me a.308 with a 30 round clip and a scout scope any day.
Dude, those are saudi tourists messing around with big rifles. Also, sniper rifles aren't particularly hard to come by - a Steyr Scout, a Tikka rifle, or any good quality.308 will do. You also need a scope with click adjustments and enough practice to range properly (this is the hard part). If you're shooting much past 300 meters, you also get to learn how different ammo behaves differently. Basically, good training is the difference between hitting something at 300M and hitting it at 1kM.
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We're talking about India. Not some hypothetical lawless frontier.
Depends - how much money have you got? Also, consider the case of Jessica Lal from upthread.
Or you could accept that this is only useful when the recipient is complicit in wanting the email to vanish later.
Sorry, bud, it's your false dilemma. This guy wants to improve his situation and you bitch at him for being ungrateful. Not very helpful.
As for taking your bosses job (and again, you use the logical fallacy of a false dilemma: it's all one or the other), that rarely works, but, then again, you must know that since I'm sure you're running some mega corp by [blah blah blah]
Speaking of fallacies, you used a strawman (I suggested a course of action) and a pointless personal attack. I recently switched bosses to a better one, since I don't want to be a boss just yet. I will be one if the alternative is having a bad one - I just prefer being able to do the actual work, even if that only scales so far.
Just by your comment filled with "PHB", makes it seem like you have no respect for management at all.
No, just the one boss. The question seems to be "how do I get my boss replaced?" with a subtext of whether he should try and replace him. Increased visibility is a good idea, but I'd want to get involved in finding out what the direction should be for the dept - if the bosses start looking to you for IT stuff, you may just push the other guy out.
So either you get everything you want, or you have cancer? Get a grip. The solution is not to be grateful for what scraps you're given. The solution is to take your bosses job, since he doesn't have it anyway. What are you, a pet?
It helps when the physical humor matches the joke. Some stuff doesn't work as well, like the guy pretending to be a girl trying to be a guy (who's being hit on by some noble) in 12th night.
The reason people think shakespeare is high literature is that nobody really understands it well enough to get the dirty jokes. If they actually knew what he was saying, they'd ban it.
I think you mean that they're fucking Aristotle literarally.
Second, what happens when the enterprize standardizes on this thing, and you have a cubicle farm of laptops spew CO2 (and a small component of CO) into the closed office atmosphere.
Simple - the air circulates every 5 minutes or so, and it's not much more than you produce anyway. Besides, won't they be on AC in the office?
even a total catastrophic failure at 1 million RPM might not be cause for concern.
Ever get a metal splinter?
I believe that US corporations will do the right thing when all other options have been exhausted.
Driving down wages? Isn't that the whole original point of the program? To keep wages at sustainable level?
Nope, just driving down wages. If wages weren't easily controllable by importing 60,000 foreigners, increasing supply, then US companies wouldn't piss away what supply they have on bullshit projects and would perhaps use their engineers more efficiently.
Computationally difficult/impractical may as well be impossible - solving the travelling salesman for n=1000 is intractable, so it can't be done. Using the same sort of meaning, intractable voting problems require a different approach - if pure electronic voting is intractable, then it's impossible.
As an immigration policy, the H-1b program is brilliant.
Sure is. Bring over a bunch of engineers and pay them poorly, driving down wages. As a bonus, they can't leave because they'd lose sponsorship, so you can treat them like dirt. Sure, there's supposed to be regulation, but with hardly anyone to enforce it, who's going to find out?
Military grade encryption end-to-end is not available, and the US government won't allow it to be used anyway if they can at all prevent its use.
It is, and they can't
But if it stopped just one terrorist wouldn't it be worth it? When the violation of millions is justified for a single success I don't wanna play no more. I haven't been to America since pre 9-11 and quite frankly I don't feel any great urgency to return either, not for biz or pleasure.
Hey, you think you got it bad, I live here, and I don't have citizenship over there anywhere; I'd love to go to the EU somewhere and be a developer (hot shit C++ and Java + good communication skills), but I have no idea where to start. Where can an interested tech guy find decent opportunities in the EU?
When you fly into a country that is under threat of suicidal hijackers and other evildoers, the US should know all about the people coming in. It isn't a right to be anonymous when you enter any other country.
Fuck you.
The US knew all about the guys who allegedly knocked over the WTC (well, they may have screwed up half the names, but they did fly under their own names). Anyway, we aren't under any credible threat from suicidal blow up dudes - hijacking as a tactic died on 9/11, and anyone who tries will be torn to pieces. I'm flying in a couple weeks and am quite willing to do my part.
believe that the problem of accurate voting machines, while intractable, is not impossible.
I guess you didn't know, but those mean the same thing. Anyway, I don't object to voting machines, I just demand a paper record.
I just want to correct one thing: we aren't killing the terrorists' countrymen. We're mostly killing Iraqis and the odd Afghani. The terrorists that attacked us were (probably) mostly from saudi arabia. Since we don't know who they were, exactly, it's hard to say, exactly.
The obvious question is 'why the hell are you asking slashdot?' We're just a bunch of guys (mostly) who like computers and gadgets. Do you think even 2% of the people responding will be at all qualified? (never mind what the spread is for other ask slashdots).
I'd hire a reformed bank robber to do a pen test on my bank, which is really what they're talking about.
Pick up a loaded handgun or rifle and try to pull the trigger without any training. It is more difficult than it seems. Most people forget to disengage the safety.
It's actually really easy - it's hitting what you aim at that's hard. Also, my gun has no safety.
Just pick up a newspaper and read about some cops firing 40 rounds, 10 feet from the victim and only landing 8 bullets.
That's because those cops suck. Also, there's some difference between a firing range and an actual encounter (but still, they suck). Yeah, and 50 rounds is half what I use going to the gun range.
thats why the US uses .223 caliper round
No, the 223 round weighs half as much as the 7.62/.308 round it replaced. Soldiers would prefer to kill someone so they don't shoot back, which is different from killing them so they die later. Give me a .308 with a 30 round clip and a scout scope any day.
Dude, those are saudi tourists messing around with big rifles. Also, sniper rifles aren't particularly hard to come by - a Steyr Scout, a Tikka rifle, or any good quality .308 will do. You also need a scope with click adjustments and enough practice to range properly (this is the hard part). If you're shooting much past 300 meters, you also get to learn how different ammo behaves differently. Basically, good training is the difference between hitting something at 300M and hitting it at 1kM.