The problem though is that APPLE is the one who had the say in the first place. I am working with a manufacturer in China right now to negotiate the physical construction of a product I came up with, and I can tell you that the people who sign the deals see everything in person when they sign the contract - so Apple knew what went on.
Those standards though are actually pretty decent in China. If you were to see what the average Chinese laborer deals with, you would see that Foxconn's employees are almost equivalent to middle-class Americans.
What is the truly amazing thing about these comments though, is that most seem to try and defend Apple. I wonder what they would say if it were IBM (read Lenovo) or Hell (rather, Dell) oh wait - they have already been blacklisted for similar reasons.
Ri-ight, because most of our ancestors never "invaded" America, or deposited our "people" here. And those who came over were obviously the best and brightest, and not religious nuts, farmers fleeing a potato famine, etc.
The difference, we took the land through acquisition - buying it from the French, Mexicans, and waging outright war on the Indians, which we have given them vast ammounts of land to call their own, and allowed them to do otherwise illegal activities (Indian Casinos in CA anyone) to try and make ammends so the far left will feel good about themselves. What Mexico is doing is equivocal to declaring war on us and invading us, but if we were to declare war and strike back, or in the case of us wanting to defend ourselves everyone things we are the bad guys.
When will you UN loving hippies pull your heads out of your rectums and realize that we have as much of a right to live and have our ideals as you do; and you trying to force your one-world-government, open borders, homosexuality for everyone and such closedmindedness on us is just as wrong as the KKK's white supremacy movement.
How is self defence xenophobia? If you had some other person "invading" your neither region and depositing their "people" wouldn't you complain too? That's about the least graphic I can make a good analogy of the situation. In reality the problem is that borders are there for a reason. I am sure you wouldn't want our influence spreading outward as you are obviously an Anti-American. Without our borders there as political boundaries, then our influence would spread as far as we want it to, and what would stop us from using our military prowess (read: everything in our power including nukes) to make everyone live by our way or the highway?
It's the same in reverse too, we don't want the corruption of the Mexican Government weeding it's way into ours more than it already has (read: Bush) and making us more like our third-world neighbor.
Perhaps this is a move by AMD to help NVidia finally rid themselves of their competition from ATI. Given the close relationship that AMD and NVidia have, and AMD's dependancy on NVidia, AMD would want to do everything in their power to help NVidia lorde their power over their competitors.
That, or perhaps AMD is seeking to relieve themselves of their dependance on NVidia, and it has become quite obvious that VIA is no longer a player in the motherboard battle. AMD Could be looking to expand their performance by making an AMD motherboard that actually is worth the silicon it's made on - just as Intel's best boards use Intel north and south bridges.
In addition to another astute point about the vast untouched quantities of Fossil Fuels, we need to develop more environmentally friendly power generation facilities, such as Hydroelectric, Nuclear, Wind and Solar (cleanest, most efficient, safest, most progressive towards other technologies) because the ammount of power that you continue to drain for things such as your (absurd electric vehicles,) computers, and electronics is far more contributary to greenouse gasses and carboin monoxide (carbon dioxide is good because it is what plants breathe and it contributes to the ozone layer you morons) than vehicles, weapons or even factories.
Think about the whole picture, not just the one corner you desire to attack.
Get over it!
I am so sick of every week hearing about some other bitching from you sore losers... Start complaining because someone else won and get to work helping our country recover from some of the stupidity of Bush and his predecessor who was equally as horrible.
If I have problem with my fingerprint readers, I usually scrape two fingers together (one being the referance print) to try and bring up the print ridges much like you would to get the nap in your flooring carpet to fluff up... Usually works for me...
I would have to say that there is a little, but it is only in the name of "equal opportunity" and against caucasians. I have lost four jobs in the past to less (only slightly though) qualified individuals because they were minorities and the company had to meet the EOE minimum requirements...
I am sure there is some stigma too, but anymore I doubt it.
Most small companies and GOOD companies (Such as VoodooPC, Ibuypower etc, not A.....Ware, (H)ell, HP etc) still test, but in today's impatient mood they don't let you know that you are waiting extra time for them to check everything.
With the Xbox360, I doubt that each and every one is tested. They probably test ten or so for every batch of about a thousand, like most other manufacturers do, but it simply wouldn't be cost effective to test every single one - they would lose less money to recall half of the Xbox360's than they would to test every single one for even a half of an hour.
One thing you have to think about, is that some of the 'satire' in The Onion also spreads hatred. You have to realize that a lot of people out there are ignorant and/or dumb enough that they will read articles in the Onion and believe them. They will then spread this falsified news, a lot of it containing hatred and political rhetoric, to their friends and everyone they know whom (chances are) also as ignorant or stupid. The fact that the presidential seal (no matter how doctored) is used will add more faux credibility to these articles especially if they are anti-government in these days.
Why is it that everything even remotely suggesting an idea which is not commonly accepted as utopian, it is automatically the evils of George Bush or republicans (or in many cases conservitves which are vastly different from republicans)? If you look at all of the history of video game ratings, TV ratings and almost every other form of public rating system, they have been enacted by people the likes of Clinton (both Television and game ratings) and Kennedy (movie ratings.) Are you really that jaded and biased that anything even inclining the slightest bit of difference from your opinion is not only evil, but criminal of anyone who doesn't share your same opinion?
Not that I like Bush, I think he has many flaws and is as incapable of being a president as Clinton was, but your post has absoltely no grounds for anything except being modified as troll...
...that requiring a sticker warning people of vulgarity, sexual content, violence and/or other 'adult' themes a violation of any amendment? I for one appreciate the warnings, because I would lament if I were to give a 10-year old child a game with an unassuming name that is filled with all of the above.
If you actually read the publication, The Origin of Species you would see that it was authored by someone else (I forget who) and credited to Darwin as a follow-up to his original publication.
Hopefully you will see that my attidute twards FACTS is that I prefer to live by them rather than distort them to my own personal beliefs.
Then again, when you do something as irresponsible as that, you can possibly cause whole cultures to believe in your theory, no matter how vehemently you renounce it when you realize it is wrong. Look at Darwinism - less than a year after publishing his theory he fought up and down to try and stop it after he realized the innumerable flaws. Somehow though, it is the only theorem for our origins that is taught to an already overly ignorant public.
His points are quite vaild though...
Upgrading MS Office to the next version will probably cost less in the long run, because he won't have to spend as much time training everyone how to use it, and won't have to deal with the things that simply will not work outside of office. I did something similar... I was managing the IT at a company, and switched them from MS Office to Open Office... Unfortunately, I did it on a contract basis. I lost a LOT of money on it, because the problems became so numerous that it became cheaper to just set them back to Office than to continue helping them with Open Office. Unfortunately, there is a BIG learning curve to teach the unsavvy anything other than what they are used to.
He cannot require more than 2 weeks notice if you are in California... It is illegal. That is of course unless otherwise stated in some employment contract (written of course.) I have had to deal with this many times, and every time someone has tried to pull that on me, I gave them ONLY the two week notice instead of any of the extra notice / help I had originally offered...
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The ones that the healthy contstruction company I work for have given no problems in the 6 or so years that we have been installing them... We are actually working on a project, that thanks to these shingles, the entire 28 townhome project will be a zero-energy project which will be contributing to the grid as opposed to draining...
The problem with that is also that some states (here in CA for example) say that overtime occurs on the daily level. Anything beyond 8 hours in one day is overtime. So you could only work 24 hours in one week, but still get 16 hours of over time.
That joke is soo old and overdone...
Everywhere I look it is:
1. Eat
2. Sleep
3. ???
4. Profit!
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Oh, but if you read my post closely, you would see that I would RATHER... never said I have. Well, I have but because I knew or met the band - so that really doesn't count for these . But if there was a way to contact Linkin Park and get the money to them somehow without it being pocketed by some temp worker hired to sort their mail, then I would. My problem is not with buying the CD... My problem lies in funding the greed and ego-centric selfishness of organizations like the RIAA. I don't buy this bullshit they give where you have to support the artist because an artist's income is less than 10% from their CD sales. I use my insignificand and mute voice to challenge them to do as they say... But nobody seems to realize that - you are all too busy leeching the free music because you don't want to pay and use the RIAA as the excuse. I do pay - when I can... but I don't pay WHO I can... I could buy every CD with every song I have tomorrow if I HAD to, but it would take the same act of God to get me to do that as it would to make the RIAA die and realize what retarded selfish assholes they are. And yes, when a company makes it a good offer for all sides (EG Universal lowering the prices of their CD's while raising the percentage given to the artist - I bought the 8 alblums they publish that I like.
I don't know about you, but none of the wal-marts's within a hundred miles of me are open past 11 nor do they open before 9. All of you retarded "let's support the artist" fanboys can try and push your 'it's just as convenient to buy the cd' all you want but it is bullshit. Especailly for people like me who like the smaller, less known bands that don't sell in big (if ANY) stores. And it is also more than just convenience... Why should I buy a 48min CD for $20 when I only want ONE song and the artist seed $.75 at most of that $20??? Fuck buying CD's... I use Rhapsody on the rare ocasion that they have a song I like. But for the artists that I like, I would rather pirate their CD and send them the $20 directly. I don't care if that is illegal.
What are the proper names for the greatherthan and lessthan symbols on the keyboard? I have heard them called karat keys, html markers, greaterthan and lessthan etc... I know that mathematically they are the last (greatherthan and lessthan,) but is there a more proper name when referring to the keys on a computer keyboard?
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The problem though is that APPLE is the one who had the say in the first place. I am working with a manufacturer in China right now to negotiate the physical construction of a product I came up with, and I can tell you that the people who sign the deals see everything in person when they sign the contract - so Apple knew what went on.
Those standards though are actually pretty decent in China. If you were to see what the average Chinese laborer deals with, you would see that Foxconn's employees are almost equivalent to middle-class Americans.
What is the truly amazing thing about these comments though, is that most seem to try and defend Apple. I wonder what they would say if it were IBM (read Lenovo) or Hell (rather, Dell) oh wait - they have already been blacklisted for similar reasons.
EXAMINE YOUR ZIPPER - YOUR BIAS IS SHOWING.
Ri-ight, because most of our ancestors never "invaded" America, or deposited our "people" here.
And those who came over were obviously the best and brightest, and not religious nuts, farmers fleeing a potato famine, etc.
The difference, we took the land through acquisition - buying it from the French, Mexicans, and waging outright war on the Indians, which we have given them vast ammounts of land to call their own, and allowed them to do otherwise illegal activities (Indian Casinos in CA anyone) to try and make ammends so the far left will feel good about themselves. What Mexico is doing is equivocal to declaring war on us and invading us, but if we were to declare war and strike back, or in the case of us wanting to defend ourselves everyone things we are the bad guys.
When will you UN loving hippies pull your heads out of your rectums and realize that we have as much of a right to live and have our ideals as you do; and you trying to force your one-world-government, open borders, homosexuality for everyone and such closedmindedness on us is just as wrong as the KKK's white supremacy movement.
How is self defence xenophobia? If you had some other person "invading" your neither region and depositing their "people" wouldn't you complain too? That's about the least graphic I can make a good analogy of the situation. In reality the problem is that borders are there for a reason. I am sure you wouldn't want our influence spreading outward as you are obviously an Anti-American. Without our borders there as political boundaries, then our influence would spread as far as we want it to, and what would stop us from using our military prowess (read: everything in our power including nukes) to make everyone live by our way or the highway?
It's the same in reverse too, we don't want the corruption of the Mexican Government weeding it's way into ours more than it already has (read: Bush) and making us more like our third-world neighbor.
Perhaps this is a move by AMD to help NVidia finally rid themselves of their competition from ATI. Given the close relationship that AMD and NVidia have, and AMD's dependancy on NVidia, AMD would want to do everything in their power to help NVidia lorde their power over their competitors.
That, or perhaps AMD is seeking to relieve themselves of their dependance on NVidia, and it has become quite obvious that VIA is no longer a player in the motherboard battle. AMD Could be looking to expand their performance by making an AMD motherboard that actually is worth the silicon it's made on - just as Intel's best boards use Intel north and south bridges.
UH-Oh. You pieced together common words in a way that resembles someone else's idea, you are a theif!! I hate the flippin' music industry.
In addition to another astute point about the vast untouched quantities of Fossil Fuels, we need to develop more environmentally friendly power generation facilities, such as Hydroelectric, Nuclear, Wind and Solar (cleanest, most efficient, safest, most progressive towards other technologies) because the ammount of power that you continue to drain for things such as your (absurd electric vehicles,) computers, and electronics is far more contributary to greenouse gasses and carboin monoxide (carbon dioxide is good because it is what plants breathe and it contributes to the ozone layer you morons) than vehicles, weapons or even factories. Think about the whole picture, not just the one corner you desire to attack.
Get over it! I am so sick of every week hearing about some other bitching from you sore losers... Start complaining because someone else won and get to work helping our country recover from some of the stupidity of Bush and his predecessor who was equally as horrible.
If I have problem with my fingerprint readers, I usually scrape two fingers together (one being the referance print) to try and bring up the print ridges much like you would to get the nap in your flooring carpet to fluff up... Usually works for me...
I would have to say that there is a little, but it is only in the name of "equal opportunity" and against caucasians. I have lost four jobs in the past to less (only slightly though) qualified individuals because they were minorities and the company had to meet the EOE minimum requirements... I am sure there is some stigma too, but anymore I doubt it.
Mainly it is not obsolete because you don't want to make a major mistake, save it and be unable to undo that mistake.
Most small companies and GOOD companies (Such as VoodooPC, Ibuypower etc, not A.....Ware, (H)ell, HP etc) still test, but in today's impatient mood they don't let you know that you are waiting extra time for them to check everything. With the Xbox360, I doubt that each and every one is tested. They probably test ten or so for every batch of about a thousand, like most other manufacturers do, but it simply wouldn't be cost effective to test every single one - they would lose less money to recall half of the Xbox360's than they would to test every single one for even a half of an hour.
One thing you have to think about, is that some of the 'satire' in The Onion also spreads hatred. You have to realize that a lot of people out there are ignorant and/or dumb enough that they will read articles in the Onion and believe them. They will then spread this falsified news, a lot of it containing hatred and political rhetoric, to their friends and everyone they know whom (chances are) also as ignorant or stupid. The fact that the presidential seal (no matter how doctored) is used will add more faux credibility to these articles especially if they are anti-government in these days.
Why is it that everything even remotely suggesting an idea which is not commonly accepted as utopian, it is automatically the evils of George Bush or republicans (or in many cases conservitves which are vastly different from republicans)? If you look at all of the history of video game ratings, TV ratings and almost every other form of public rating system, they have been enacted by people the likes of Clinton (both Television and game ratings) and Kennedy (movie ratings.) Are you really that jaded and biased that anything even inclining the slightest bit of difference from your opinion is not only evil, but criminal of anyone who doesn't share your same opinion? Not that I like Bush, I think he has many flaws and is as incapable of being a president as Clinton was, but your post has absoltely no grounds for anything except being modified as troll...
...that requiring a sticker warning people of vulgarity, sexual content, violence and/or other 'adult' themes a violation of any amendment? I for one appreciate the warnings, because I would lament if I were to give a 10-year old child a game with an unassuming name that is filled with all of the above.
When Paris Hilton owns one.
If you actually read the publication, The Origin of Species you would see that it was authored by someone else (I forget who) and credited to Darwin as a follow-up to his original publication. Hopefully you will see that my attidute twards FACTS is that I prefer to live by them rather than distort them to my own personal beliefs.
Then again, when you do something as irresponsible as that, you can possibly cause whole cultures to believe in your theory, no matter how vehemently you renounce it when you realize it is wrong. Look at Darwinism - less than a year after publishing his theory he fought up and down to try and stop it after he realized the innumerable flaws. Somehow though, it is the only theorem for our origins that is taught to an already overly ignorant public.
His points are quite vaild though... Upgrading MS Office to the next version will probably cost less in the long run, because he won't have to spend as much time training everyone how to use it, and won't have to deal with the things that simply will not work outside of office. I did something similar... I was managing the IT at a company, and switched them from MS Office to Open Office... Unfortunately, I did it on a contract basis. I lost a LOT of money on it, because the problems became so numerous that it became cheaper to just set them back to Office than to continue helping them with Open Office. Unfortunately, there is a BIG learning curve to teach the unsavvy anything other than what they are used to.
He cannot require more than 2 weeks notice if you are in California... It is illegal. That is of course unless otherwise stated in some employment contract (written of course.) I have had to deal with this many times, and every time someone has tried to pull that on me, I gave them ONLY the two week notice instead of any of the extra notice / help I had originally offered...
The ones that the healthy contstruction company I work for have given no problems in the 6 or so years that we have been installing them... We are actually working on a project, that thanks to these shingles, the entire 28 townhome project will be a zero-energy project which will be contributing to the grid as opposed to draining...
The problem with that is also that some states (here in CA for example) say that overtime occurs on the daily level. Anything beyond 8 hours in one day is overtime. So you could only work 24 hours in one week, but still get 16 hours of over time.
That joke is soo old and overdone... Everywhere I look it is: 1. Eat 2. Sleep 3. ??? 4. Profit!
Oh, but if you read my post closely, you would see that I would RATHER... never said I have. Well, I have but because I knew or met the band - so that really doesn't count for these . But if there was a way to contact Linkin Park and get the money to them somehow without it being pocketed by some temp worker hired to sort their mail, then I would. My problem is not with buying the CD... My problem lies in funding the greed and ego-centric selfishness of organizations like the RIAA. I don't buy this bullshit they give where you have to support the artist because an artist's income is less than 10% from their CD sales. I use my insignificand and mute voice to challenge them to do as they say... But nobody seems to realize that - you are all too busy leeching the free music because you don't want to pay and use the RIAA as the excuse. I do pay - when I can... but I don't pay WHO I can... I could buy every CD with every song I have tomorrow if I HAD to, but it would take the same act of God to get me to do that as it would to make the RIAA die and realize what retarded selfish assholes they are. And yes, when a company makes it a good offer for all sides (EG Universal lowering the prices of their CD's while raising the percentage given to the artist - I bought the 8 alblums they publish that I like.
I don't know about you, but none of the wal-marts's within a hundred miles of me are open past 11 nor do they open before 9. All of you retarded "let's support the artist" fanboys can try and push your 'it's just as convenient to buy the cd' all you want but it is bullshit. Especailly for people like me who like the smaller, less known bands that don't sell in big (if ANY) stores. And it is also more than just convenience... Why should I buy a 48min CD for $20 when I only want ONE song and the artist seed $.75 at most of that $20??? Fuck buying CD's... I use Rhapsody on the rare ocasion that they have a song I like. But for the artists that I like, I would rather pirate their CD and send them the $20 directly. I don't care if that is illegal.
What are the proper names for the greatherthan and lessthan symbols on the keyboard? I have heard them called karat keys, html markers, greaterthan and lessthan etc... I know that mathematically they are the last (greatherthan and lessthan,) but is there a more proper name when referring to the keys on a computer keyboard?