) They attack the west because the US, Britain etc etc are in the Middle East preventing Osama from toppling non-Islamist governments and turning the region into an Islamist wonderland. If he did that, do you think he'd stop in the Middle East? Why not in Europe? Across the Atlantic? Russia, China, India? It might sound a little cliche but world domination by radical Islamists is the goal.
See, that's a whole lot different than 'they hate our freedom'. You have to understand the guy attacking you before you can defeat him. Given the sort of guy you have described, we a) shouldn't have bothered Saddam, b) shouldn't be so buddy buddy with the saudis, and c) should pull out of SA just as soon as we aren't reliant on their oil.
That last point is probably the biggest sticking point, but given the massive oil sand reserves in canada, I'd pay $4/gal if it meant not buying from SA and basically cutting off the air supply for loony tune Wahabists.
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They mitigate risk and pool resources for the purpose of increasing shareholder value. You are mistaking tactics for purpose.
No, I am quite clear - the corporation is a tool that allows people to pool assets under a separate entity (the corporation) while shielding themselves from risk. If you want to operate as a collection of individuals bound by an agreement, you can, but incorporating offers some benefits. The point here is that businesspeople always attempt to increase their wealth - a corporation doesn't change this.
Any idiot can write code (too many do). The really smart people are best employed architecting the system for others to code. This is where 'vision' and 'breadth of experience' come in.
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The purpose of a corporation is to make money for its stakeholders.
No, the purpose of a corporation is to mitigate risk and pool resources.
So, marriage and welfare are not only rights, but Human Rights. And abortion is a right in the US too.
Not as recognized by the US. Quoting a UN declaration does nothing for your argument.
So, the difference is defined by the law and our culture : if we (in our law) grant it to everyone, it is an universal right, otherwise it is a privilege.
No, if you have it by default, it is a right. If you must earn it, then it is a privelege.
BTW no mention of payment anywhere on Amazon's Intern page. Well genius where is it?
Yeah, like any company is going to publish that for the world to see. What Isay is true, and if you don't believe me, then too bad. We want smart people and we pay them well. After all, they have to live on the money we pay in seattle.
You do know that "paper" does not automatically mean "wood pulp", right?
Walk over to a photocopier and yank one of the drawers open. Then open a book at Borders. To most people, that's what paper is, historical trivia notwithstanding.
It devalues sex as a commodity and puts the woman's sexuality into her own control. In this context, killing the prostitute is not only acceptable, it's preferable. The prostitute is doing something wrong (taking control of her own sex), and gets punished. It's a morality play.
No, it's a mortality play:
The prostitute demands money for sex, then places herself in a position where you can kill her and take the money back. You the character, being a worthless scumbag, do so. She didn't do wrong, she was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Imagine if every computer had easily removable storage components in the front of one standard size.
Imagine if all your stuff was on a network server and your desktop was interchangeable. If the computer blows up, get another. Your data is safe, and you don't worry about losing it either.
once your laptop has GPS, what is to stop your boss requiring location-reporting spyware to be installed as a condition for connecting to the corporate network?
Your choice of employers? Seriously, what right does your boss have to know where you are? If they implemented that where I work, I'd never take my laptop home. As it is, they don't care about pointless crap like that - I can go down the street, sponge off a coffee shop's WiFi, and work (believe it or not).
I know who isn't - the ones who jump ship once layoffs are announced. The people that are left now have a higher proportion of dead wood, with the performers that can't leave for some reason. What will probably happen is the people who are bad at self promotion will be laid off first, and my money says that those people are mostly useful people that don't do politics - a lot of the useless ones are very good at politics.
Especially CEOs making more in one year than anyone needs to live comfortably for an entire LIFETIME, in a nation based on a Judeo-Christian faith that claims to believe in sacrifice and brotherhood, that claims to support individual "freedom."
This nation is based on English common law and the fundamental rights of Man. The judeo Christian sttuff is just cheerleading. Anyway, to respond to your point, what you do is save 10-15%, retrain, and work to increase your own powerbase. If you've been at HP for 20 years, you should have a good $300k minimum. You're an engineer, you're smart, so use what you've got!
Not even every *large* company is at the top of their game, IT-wise, and these aren't failing Korean megaliths; these are succesful, highly profitable corporations.
What this says to me is that a well executed IT plan, while useful, is not critical to line of business apps in most companies. That is, until some worm trashes the network. Translation: a minimally competent IT staff doing enough to fend off disaster is all these companies often need. Anything more is likely viewed as a waste and is primarily for the IT staff's benefit.
nice idea, and it slows people down. give me 5 minutes, ethereal, and ifconfig, and i can find a valid MAC, spoof it, and be happily requesting my own IP -- so it is far from perfect
Combine it with reactive measures like turning off the switch port attached to abusive hosts and it's pretty damn good.
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) They attack the west because the US, Britain etc etc are in the Middle East preventing Osama from toppling non-Islamist governments and turning the region into an Islamist wonderland. If he did that, do you think he'd stop in the Middle East? Why not in Europe? Across the Atlantic? Russia, China, India? It might sound a little cliche but world domination by radical Islamists is the goal.
See, that's a whole lot different than 'they hate our freedom'. You have to understand the guy attacking you before you can defeat him. Given the sort of guy you have described, we a) shouldn't have bothered Saddam, b) shouldn't be so buddy buddy with the saudis, and c) should pull out of SA just as soon as we aren't reliant on their oil.
That last point is probably the biggest sticking point, but given the massive oil sand reserves in canada, I'd pay $4/gal if it meant not buying from SA and basically cutting off the air supply for loony tune Wahabists.
They mitigate risk and pool resources for the purpose of increasing shareholder value. You are mistaking tactics for purpose.
No, I am quite clear - the corporation is a tool that allows people to pool assets under a separate entity (the corporation) while shielding themselves from risk. If you want to operate as a collection of individuals bound by an agreement, you can, but incorporating offers some benefits. The point here is that businesspeople always attempt to increase their wealth - a corporation doesn't change this.
Any idiot can write code (too many do). The really smart people are best employed architecting the system for others to code. This is where 'vision' and 'breadth of experience' come in.
The purpose of a corporation is to make money for its stakeholders.
No, the purpose of a corporation is to mitigate risk and pool resources.
If I was HP I would be dead scared and trying to climb desperately to the middle end!
The middle end?
So, marriage and welfare are not only rights, but Human Rights. And abortion is a right in the US too.
Not as recognized by the US. Quoting a UN declaration does nothing for your argument.
So, the difference is defined by the law and our culture : if we (in our law) grant it to everyone, it is an universal right, otherwise it is a privilege.
No, if you have it by default, it is a right. If you must earn it, then it is a privelege.
Go get a Subaru Legacy - it blows ice cubes in the frickin desert.
And since hacks appeared so quickly, it must not have been too well hidden, or too difficult to access.
Yeah, it only took a year to get at this one. Do you even read what you write?
BTW no mention of payment anywhere on Amazon's Intern page. Well genius where is it?
Yeah, like any company is going to publish that for the world to see. What Isay is true, and if you don't believe me, then too bad. We want smart people and we pay them well. After all, they have to live on the money we pay in seattle.
Write up a document that's identical to the contract, word for word, in all but the contestable manners.
Sounds like you're acting in bad faith, which may get the contract invalidated, or even the original contract enforced.
Amazon pays well. I know because we have some interns right now and I know what they make.
And that job was at your Dad's company was it?
Didja know that some companies pay interns entry-level wages? $50-$60k/yr is pretty nice when you're an intern.
Do they put these things together deliberately to fuck with us, or is it just an accident?
I know which one I'd be...
Bill also donated 2 million copies of Visual Basic .NET to all universities in US, more copies are available on request.
Oh yeah, like 2 million copies of VB is going to help
You do know that "paper" does not automatically mean "wood pulp", right?
Walk over to a photocopier and yank one of the drawers open. Then open a book at Borders. To most people, that's what paper is, historical trivia notwithstanding.
It devalues sex as a commodity and puts the woman's sexuality into her own control. In this context, killing the prostitute is not only acceptable, it's preferable. The prostitute is doing something wrong (taking control of her own sex), and gets punished. It's a morality play.
No, it's a mortality play:
The prostitute demands money for sex, then places herself in a position where you can kill her and take the money back. You the character, being a worthless scumbag, do so. She didn't do wrong, she was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Imagine if every computer had easily removable storage components in the front of one standard size.
Imagine if all your stuff was on a network server and your desktop was interchangeable. If the computer blows up, get another. Your data is safe, and you don't worry about losing it either.
once your laptop has GPS, what is to stop your boss requiring location-reporting spyware to be installed as a condition for connecting to the corporate network?
Your choice of employers? Seriously, what right does your boss have to know where you are? If they implemented that where I work, I'd never take my laptop home. As it is, they don't care about pointless crap like that - I can go down the street, sponge off a coffee shop's WiFi, and work (believe it or not).
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It's paper. Real money is mostly rag and linen.
So, you know who is useless? You are an idiot.
I know who isn't - the ones who jump ship once layoffs are announced. The people that are left now have a higher proportion of dead wood, with the performers that can't leave for some reason. What will probably happen is the people who are bad at self promotion will be laid off first, and my money says that those people are mostly useful people that don't do politics - a lot of the useless ones are very good at politics.
Especially CEOs making more in one year than anyone needs to live comfortably for an entire LIFETIME, in a nation based on a Judeo-Christian faith that claims to believe in sacrifice and brotherhood, that claims to support individual "freedom."
This nation is based on English common law and the fundamental rights of Man. The judeo Christian sttuff is just cheerleading. Anyway, to respond to your point, what you do is save 10-15%, retrain, and work to increase your own powerbase. If you've been at HP for 20 years, you should have a good $300k minimum. You're an engineer, you're smart, so use what you've got!
Not even every *large* company is at the top of their game, IT-wise, and these aren't failing Korean megaliths; these are succesful, highly profitable corporations.
What this says to me is that a well executed IT plan, while useful, is not critical to line of business apps in most companies. That is, until some worm trashes the network. Translation: a minimally competent IT staff doing enough to fend off disaster is all these companies often need. Anything more is likely viewed as a waste and is primarily for the IT staff's benefit.
nice idea, and it slows people down. give me 5 minutes, ethereal, and ifconfig, and i can find a valid MAC, spoof it, and be happily requesting my own IP -- so it is far from perfect
Combine it with reactive measures like turning off the switch port attached to abusive hosts and it's pretty damn good.
Or simply use the Billings Ovulation Method
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