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
BIG MISTAKE! American corprations are above the Law, how many Enron and Arthur Andersen people are in jail? In Europe the Unions and Privacy Laws will defend you.
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).
Contractors being fired after being told no one was going to be fired.
Being told you need this job more than we need you.
Perhaps this doesn't sound like much, but when it occurs day in, and day out, for months on end, it's a very hostile and unpleasant working environment. It's like being a sock puppet for the village idiot.
Hey! That's my job! There was a little hope when the company got taken over by a large company, but then the big company managers got scared off by the flak that's deliberately created by the former small company workers (to get by as a small company you gotta be tough like promise 1 year of work then fire people without warning the next day and then not paying them). As a rule, IT people don't use Unions. I've seen people get fired for taking a week's vacation in a year.
RTFA! They want to tax the sale of open source software. I can see their point, if I'm on welfare and I write an OSS version of Oracle 10i which gets included free into the next version of Mandrake, I've just put ten thousand Oracle people out of their jobs, and if Oracle goes bankrupt, then the Country's Banks will have to write off those massive debts. Argentina comes to mind.
240 kg of fossil fuels. Well, that's a possibility. How is that assessed? That's (ballpark) a hundred gallons of gasoline
Easy. To create a new product Sum:
Proportion of fuel used by all Intel/AMD plus Seagate/Maxtor plus Matrox/VIA R&D personnel to go to work
Proportion of fuel used by planes to fly Intel/AMD/Maxtor/Seagate/Matrox/VIA managers and staff internationally to have meetings and whatever to design the Pentium 4
R&D fuel used to refine highly pure micron-process grade Silicon and Cobalt for hard disks
Electricity required plus employee fuel used for Silicon/Cobalt/Germanium purification factory
Fuel to fly and commute for Intel/AMD/Maxtor/Seagate/Matrox/VIA people to/from Hollywood to create marketing campaigns, plus to set up thousands of offices US-wide and thousands of transportation depots with employees and thousands of massive articulated delivery trucks plus diesel for these trucks
Proportion of fuel required to fly to new technology meetings such as Linus Torvalds speeches
Fuel required to process/transport hard disk Cobalt, iron ore and purification, manufacture the intricate spindle motor, high performance 7200rpm fluid-dynamic bearings cast steel and grind down using high power machinery accurate to 1 micron bearing run-out and precision alignment of the bearing in the groove
Porportion of fuel required to to transport this finished hard disk to the Dell factory
These big-shit "executives" are such hot shit when they are laying off the division, or stuffing their pockets with a bonus, or making the "big presentation" in a phone commercial, with their wire rimmed glasses glinting in the flourescence.
But when it comes time to take a real risk, they fold like a pair of threes
Working for a small company that has been acquired, I wholeheartedly agree. The small companies take the risks, and if the risk pays off, a big company comes and buys them. The old management gets rich, the new managers get kudos for an "aggressive takeover", the new employees get company cars, annual leave, sick leave, big company stock options and big 401(k), the customers get an improvement in service. Everybody's happy.
If big companies took risks and screwed up, they'd be in big trouble, for instance see how much IBM was beat up about the Deskstar Hard disks, they had to dump the entire Department with God knows how many employees.
Guys who put up their shingle and bet it all on one product are the guys with the huevos to get the job done. Not some buffed-shoes, blow-dryed, acronym-dropping fuck who can't make a fucking decision unless there is someone to blame if it goes wrong
Trust me, I know that small companies blame each other more, big companies are restricted by slander and libel laws. In a small company, when my manager screws up, he puts the same error into the systems I'm responsible for so it looks like it's a system fault and not a problem with his code. I have to turn a blind eye, he's a senior manager. But this will change after the big company pigeon-holes us as big companies do.
You know, India. Where discrimination against anyone not of Indian descent, not of your caste, not of your religion is not only OK but part of the fabric of daily life
India is a unique case, unlike most countries, India has positive discrimination for American and British personnel. From what I've experienced, every Indian takes a subservient stance whenever such personnel tell them what to do, even if the Indian has superior knowledge and experience in the field.
On the other hand, internally it's true there's significant caste discrimination. But then it's also true that in the US there's significant economic discrimination, together with being refused hospital treatment if you don't have health insurance. Looking a step further, why should health insurance companies even take the risk of offering transient Mexican migrant workers with high-risk jobs any insurance at all? If a guy wears a suit, has a Ferrari F50 and a degree in IT from Harvard, would you take his advice? Which one of these is the main factor in your opinion? Is it fair that he has money? There are lots of unemployed people like him, should you listen to them any less just because they're poor/unemployed? Discrimination is everywhere.
And for the record, Planned Parenthood and the like are rabidly opposed to informing women of the gruesome horrors of the abortion procedure - to say that women actually do know what's involved is not at all tru - in most cases, they may well have no idea - which is why abortion is so often associated with severe depression later in life, once the woman finds out what really happened, and that her baby suffered terribly as it was literally ripped limb-from-limb
Oh dear, I didn't know that, thank you for enlightening me. In the light of this I change my mind - in the case that the majority of women don't know what abortion is, they should be informed about the gruesomeness of the procedure and should judge for themselves whether they want it. Condoms are always best.
I somehow suspect, based on your apparent political leanings, that your stance on this full disclosure issue would be wildly inconsistent if we were discussing abortion and the need to graphically depict to aborting mothers the gruesome and ghastly violence of a procedure that literally rips a cornered and helpless living being to shreds
Quite correct, as a woman usually knows full well what is involved in the process and with/without your knowledge has probably spent 100 hours crying over it and thinking it over, decreasing their work productivity. We wouldn't need speed limits in front of schools if status of disembowelled children were erected in the middle of the tarmac. What we need is more informed consumers
The fact of the matter is that Christian ethic is one intended for slaves, to make them happy with their pitiful life and give them some sick conception of how they are better than their masters. It is not a recipe for the advancement of the human race or the furthering of civilization. In the grand scheme of life, it is irrelevent
To the contrary, Sir. In a World where most countries will soon have nuclear weapons, global passivity is the only way to ensure the survival of our species.
Either way, somebody is going to have decide who lives and who dies in the future, or more precisely, who reproduces and who does not. That is nature, not your feel good egalitarianism. All humans are not equal, it makes sense only the best and brighest reproduce.
If somebody were to decide who lives or dies on my behalf then that's Fascism or tyranny. Although after reading about how people on minimum wage are treated Capitalism seems to have the same against the hardest workers. Soccer mom and Jock reproduction rates are far higher than any Slashdot geek. I suppose in a Fascism the leaders must decide what type of intelligence traits to encourage, the Chinese authorities seem to have some plans in this area.
Also, if you have any plans on saving the earth, you are going to have to start being intolerant of somebody
This is due to false advertising. When you go to Walmart and buy a dining table, it doesn't say in big letters on the label, "This wood comes from Brazil, 10 species were eradicated as a result of this deforestation". If it did, most people wouldn't buy it. It's only due to Government legislation that cigarette packets say, "SMOKING KILLS". A picture of a chicken leg rotted with feaces must be placed as a label on every KFC meal to indicate the toxicity of the animals' living conditions, then we'll see what happens when the consumer is informed. The consumer is entitled to perfect information, if this doesn't happen and nobody fascistically manages it on their behalf, then the consumer is purchasing the product in the dark. If I were to purchase a chicken breast I wouldn't expect suffering, deforestation nor global destruction to come with it.
The purchaser of the vehicle would have the Right to disable such a device just like you have the Right to do whatever with a DVD you have purchased - think DeCSS. Already people do drag-racing and fit turbochargers with custom Engine Management Systems to their vehicles, they'll quickly learn how to deal with these devices.
If a Magistrate ordered a car stopped after looking at a real-time video feed via satellite/cellular from the scene of the incident, most people wouldn't mind that because then the police wouldn't have the arbitrary power to stop any vehicle anywhere such as the fast lane or whilst going around a mountainous curve, it would be up to the Magistrate.
GM, Ford, etc. already store car key immobiliser encryption codes which are needed to make spare keys. I'm sure they can also store your vehicle's Engine Management System Private key which can be used to calculate a timestampted engine-off signal to remotely override your vehicle's ignition computer with a Magistrate-authorised signal sent via INMARSAT/IRIDIUM or cellular. The vehicle's Engine Management System would then calculate whether the decrypted engine-off signal hashes to the current time (so that engine-off signals issued in the past cannot disable a vehicle in the future). If it checks out the Engine Management System will shut down and maybe then pop a thermal switch or two.
There's a huge problem with car theft in the UK, we've got lots of bored teenagers, but at least they don't gang-bang yet like across the pond, there aren't enough guns here for that yet. The thing is they tend to only steal older cars that use carburation (no EMS). This system would therefore be aimed at professional criminals or people running away from the Law. If Linus, Alan Cox and Stallman were shot by a carjacker who then drove off at speed, we'd all change our minds about these technologies.
At one part per trillion, the lowest level that they could reliably produce, they lost nearly 100% of the animals
Bloody hell, I'm lying on my sofa totally shocked. I thought 1984 and Brazil were bad... Well the meat industry is still up to its tricks.
Well I suppose that's Capitalism, gimme more feaces in my food and less Government regulation, lower my taxes so I can have 5 SUVs each a different colour and I'll eat feaces/corporate soylent green for breakfast lunch and dinner yada yada...
For a fact I know there are organizations who exist around Perl,Python,Sendmail (Heavily modified), etc and not one bit goes back. NDA bound not to say too much I'm afraid.
Technqiue 1: If your managers are out of compliance with the GPL, tell the FSF anonymously with the name of the company and they'll nail them.
Technique 2: Encrypt the patch and take it on floppy disk/flash key. Wear a false beard and go to an Internet cafe out of State, submit the patch from there. If the company finds out, they'll blame Osama binLaden.
"Our sendmail patch was stolen by Osama binLaden and given to OSS. Those Ev1L OSS people." would give a company publicity and widen their customer base - everybody wins.
As the weight of the wheel goes up so does its inertia. It starts to resist movement more and more. This is a Bad Thing. When you hit the right bump at the right speed the wheel hops off the ground rather than moving the suspension up with the irregularity, upsetting the entire car and losing traction at that corner.
A speed limit of 56mph and an improvement in tarmac quality through taxes would mean that sports car handling will be unnecessary. Women tell their husbands what car to buy, that's why we have so many families with SUVs instead of 8.0-litre twin-turbocharged Coupe 2-seater sports cars.
By decreasing the rim size to 195/65R12 the tyre wall itself will be able to provide significant springiness, relieving the suspension system.
I honestly have never been able to understand why someone would choose a career they have no great intrest in simply because they could make fairly good money
Most students don't know what to do with their lives, so they look at the money and think, "Yeah I suppose that's a good reason". The same is true in later life, if you approach most 30-year olds and ask them why they married they'll say, "Aaaaargh! Worst mistake in my life" but usually they still stick it.
90% of their users aren't going to start pegging their bandwith usage and they are going to keep dropping off the high-end users until they are satisfied they are raking in enough dough.
Yup, too right. I went to this all you can eat restaurant with a friend of mine who is obese. They didn't mind me coming in, but when they saw my friend they suddenly became uncomfortable. Whenever he went to the buffet and shouted, "Oh my God, look at that fat-ass, I bet he's gonna eat lots!" and similar comments. Did the cops bust the restaurant for false selling? Nope. But I ended up eating more food than my obese friend. Discrimination sux, and high bandwidth/ethnic minority/fat people are constantly discriminated against, nothing new there.
The same applies to my company, I knew they wouldn't hire the disabled guy nor the stuttering guy nor the ageing programmer, it's just one of those things that people expect to happen.
Well now you're just being silly.
I bet 15MPH school zones REALLY tick you off.
School zones should be 5mph in the mornings, evenings, and at lunch. At all other times kids should be in class and so the speed limit should be the same as for all other roads. Retracting speed humps can enforce this during those times
My sports car has ABS, CBC (Corner Brake Control) and ESP (Electronic Stability Program) with uprated reinforced tyres. Why the hell should I have the same speed limit as some 20 year old mechanical heap of trash driven by a blind grandmother who doesn't know where the hell the brake pedal is?
Leave on time. Not my fault you can't manage your time well
And I think I'll change the speed limit to 1mph because that would save lives and therefore makes sense. So all trucks would be at 1mph, and all food would rot before it gets to Walmart. Every American will starve to death YEEHAAA! To get to work in time you'll have to leave home at 2am. You'll get back home from work at 11pm. Have a nice life.
And this would force people to go the speed limit. A good thing.
Yeah, and now it takes me ages to go from place to place so I'll be doing my hair, watching the TV, using my cellular phone, and eating a Big Mac while I'm driving and I'm gonna smash into your car and I'm a rich asshole so I'll throw 1000 high-powered lawyers at you saying it was your fault.
So boring, I think I'll drive with my eyes closed. If I run someone over some children then it's their fault because I was not over the speed limit when I ran them over
it is wrong for us to begrudge them their deserved success or in any way attempt to curtail the implementation of their globalist vision, which will make them richer yet and us poorer
The creation of a global workforce will make war obsolete, which in the nuclear prliferation era is our last best hope for the prevention of genocide. The Americans laugh about going from California to Bangalore to get a job, conversely, Indians don't laugh about going from Bangalore to California. This must change, the Americans must be happy to go to Bangalore if they get a job there.
If we want to guarantee jobs in the United States, then all other countries in the World must be bombed until they all become Communist, then they won't have businesses to compete with ours.
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- Proportion of fuel used by all Intel/AMD plus Seagate/Maxtor plus Matrox/VIA R&D personnel to go to work
- Proportion of fuel used by planes to fly Intel/AMD/Maxtor/Seagate/Matrox/VIA managers and staff internationally to have meetings and whatever to design the Pentium 4
- R&D fuel used to refine highly pure micron-process grade Silicon and Cobalt for hard disks
- Electricity required plus employee fuel used for Silicon/Cobalt/Germanium purification factory
- Fuel to fly and commute for Intel/AMD/Maxtor/Seagate/Matrox/VIA people to/from Hollywood to create marketing campaigns, plus to set up thousands of offices US-wide and thousands of transportation depots with employees and thousands of massive articulated delivery trucks plus diesel for these trucks
- Proportion of fuel required to fly to new technology meetings such as Linus Torvalds speeches
- Fuel required to process/transport hard disk Cobalt, iron ore and purification, manufacture the intricate spindle motor, high performance 7200rpm fluid-dynamic bearings cast steel and grind down using high power machinery accurate to 1 micron bearing run-out and precision alignment of the bearing in the groove
- Porportion of fuel required to to transport this finished hard disk to the Dell factory
Etc etc.....If big companies took risks and screwed up, they'd be in big trouble, for instance see how much IBM was beat up about the Deskstar Hard disks, they had to dump the entire Department with God knows how many employees.
Trust me, I know that small companies blame each other more, big companies are restricted by slander and libel laws. In a small company, when my manager screws up, he puts the same error into the systems I'm responsible for so it looks like it's a system fault and not a problem with his code. I have to turn a blind eye, he's a senior manager. But this will change after the big company pigeon-holes us as big companies do.On the other hand, internally it's true there's significant caste discrimination. But then it's also true that in the US there's significant economic discrimination, together with being refused hospital treatment if you don't have health insurance. Looking a step further, why should health insurance companies even take the risk of offering transient Mexican migrant workers with high-risk jobs any insurance at all? If a guy wears a suit, has a Ferrari F50 and a degree in IT from Harvard, would you take his advice? Which one of these is the main factor in your opinion? Is it fair that he has money? There are lots of unemployed people like him, should you listen to them any less just because they're poor/unemployed? Discrimination is everywhere.
"Register within 30 days or your computer will explode!"
If a Magistrate ordered a car stopped after looking at a real-time video feed via satellite/cellular from the scene of the incident, most people wouldn't mind that because then the police wouldn't have the arbitrary power to stop any vehicle anywhere such as the fast lane or whilst going around a mountainous curve, it would be up to the Magistrate.
GM, Ford, etc. already store car key immobiliser encryption codes which are needed to make spare keys. I'm sure they can also store your vehicle's Engine Management System Private key which can be used to calculate a timestampted engine-off signal to remotely override your vehicle's ignition computer with a Magistrate-authorised signal sent via INMARSAT/IRIDIUM or cellular. The vehicle's Engine Management System would then calculate whether the decrypted engine-off signal hashes to the current time (so that engine-off signals issued in the past cannot disable a vehicle in the future). If it checks out the Engine Management System will shut down and maybe then pop a thermal switch or two.
In Europe, there's a massive problem with drug dealers carjacking luxury cars such as Mercedes S-class and Audi S4, driving them at >190mph to bust through police checkpoints and get to drug-dealer ghettos. This will worsen as vehicles get faster and run-flat tyres become popular
There's a huge problem with car theft in the UK, we've got lots of bored teenagers, but at least they don't gang-bang yet like across the pond, there aren't enough guns here for that yet. The thing is they tend to only steal older cars that use carburation (no EMS). This system would therefore be aimed at professional criminals or people running away from the Law. If Linus, Alan Cox and Stallman were shot by a carjacker who then drove off at speed, we'd all change our minds about these technologies.
Well I suppose that's Capitalism, gimme more feaces in my food and less Government regulation, lower my taxes so I can have 5 SUVs each a different colour and I'll eat feaces/corporate soylent green for breakfast lunch and dinner yada yada...
Technique 2: Encrypt the patch and take it on floppy disk/flash key. Wear a false beard and go to an Internet cafe out of State, submit the patch from there. If the company finds out, they'll blame Osama binLaden.
"Our sendmail patch was stolen by Osama binLaden and given to OSS. Those Ev1L OSS people." would give a company publicity and widen their customer base - everybody wins.
By decreasing the rim size to 195/65R12 the tyre wall itself will be able to provide significant springiness, relieving the suspension system.
The same applies to my company, I knew they wouldn't hire the disabled guy nor the stuttering guy nor the ageing programmer, it's just one of those things that people expect to happen.
My sports car has ABS, CBC (Corner Brake Control) and ESP (Electronic Stability Program) with uprated reinforced tyres. Why the hell should I have the same speed limit as some 20 year old mechanical heap of trash driven by a blind grandmother who doesn't know where the hell the brake pedal is?
So boring, I think I'll drive with my eyes closed. If I run someone over some children then it's their fault because I was not over the speed limit when I ran them over
If we want to guarantee jobs in the United States, then all other countries in the World must be bombed until they all become Communist, then they won't have businesses to compete with ours.