DMCA = use technology to pirate copyrighted works, break the law
This = use technology to stop people from pirating copyrighted works, be a good citizen
Boiling this down to its essences, there is neither contradiction nor illogic. Copyright infringers are by definition in the wrong and copyright holders should have the legal means of stopping them.
It's a matter of money and investment according to the NGOs. If economies were races, Africa would be far far behind. So the standard solution is to give them the latest and greatest running shoes, some spiffy running shorts, and a ride up to the point where most other competitors are. They carelessly overlook that Africa doesn't even know how to run yet.
World aid and putting the cart before the horse
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The article talked about a Ghanaian man who was interested in IT and who was biding his time in a data entry position, gleaning as much technical knowledge as he could absorb. Along comes some bureaucrat from some NGO saying that data entry is a dead end position and wasting the many talents of the workers.
I see this as completely backwards. Obviously they don't have either the infrastructure or the technical resources to be a computerized society, but they do have some investment in the form of Aetna putting in a somewhat technically advanced data center where locals can get a job entering data. They aren't going to be able to step up to bat at the IT table until they get the necessary infrastructure and educational systems in place.
When these NGOs look at a country like Ghana and proclaim that investment isn't enough because more people aren't living at the same level as their Western counterparts, they are looking through their own paternal prizm which is in itself racist.
Have you demonstrated leadership ability through mentoring or project leading?
Do you communicate with customers well?
Do you appear as someone who would be a Santa Claus manager?
Is your upper management (not your immediate superiors) a bunch of clueless morons? Do they have strong points that make them suited for the leadership positions that they hold?
If you are looking to be in a leadership/management position, it would be better to stay where you are and learn the ropes, IMO. So many managers come straight out of development at one company and louse everything up at their new company as inexperienced PMs. Unless it's been made clear to you that the only way you're going to move into management is by killing a current manager, stay put and look for opportunities where you can.
Talk with the boss, if the company is not so big that you are completely alienated from the upper management then you have the chance to befriend those people and politick your way into an authority position.
Yes, we all know that leadership positions should be based on knowledge and track record and all those other good things, but in reality, you'll never get the positions you want unless you can make the right people understand exactly what you want.
From Pullman to Vantage, you can average about 90mph the whole way on the 2 lane road. It's a little disconcerting the first few times you pass someone else doing 100mph, but the shockwave effect becomes second nature after a few close calls.
I hate the Air and Space Museum. Nothing but crowds and commercial crap. Not to mention the Enola Gay travesty of an exhibit. That particular museum requires a couple hours max.
The Museum of Natural History, OTOH, is a great place to spend a whole day.
If you're in the DC area, you might as well head over to Rosslyn and have a few beers at Bardo Rodeo.
A day trip into Adams Morgan is also warranted.
Re:OG has been drinking excessively
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I'm tired of learning how to do new things.
My left hand just ain't getting the hang of it.
But I've noticed that my tolerance for reading the manual and familiarizing myself with all the aspects of a new product or piece of software is much, much lower than it used to be.
I don't understand how to navigate these newfangled Free Porn Sites. It used to be a simple click, but now I have to find the special "Accept" button.
I thought it might be age, but my youngest brother, who is 21, says he has the same problem.
I come from a family of unlaid nerds. We look up to our father who managed to lay a hooker and beget us.
And despite the difference in our ages, we've followed about the same progression from initial enthusiasm about learning all the ins and outs of new stuff to a jaded reluctance to even open a manual if we can help it, and an absolute unwillingness to learn how to use features we don't need right now.
Incest isn't working out for us. What do we do with our penises?
Now it takes a lot to get me to actually study in advance.
But I sometimes really tear into books to learn new techniques.
There are lots of features in it that I may use someday -- at which point I'll learn them. But the odds are that I'll buy a new one before I use most of them, and the new one will be different anyway.
Time ain't on my side. Neither do I have enough money to buy all the Preparation H I need.
That's a pain in individual cases, but the big picture is even worse: by now, everyone but the very youngest has learned that time spent acquiring knowledge in this area is likely to be wasted.
I love sodomy with little boys, but sometimes I think they are too advanced. I can hardly keep up these days!
But now that products are smart, a little more attention to consistency in user interfaces is called for -- or the ability to choose an old interface.
When I buy a buttplug, I want it to *plug* dammit. I don't want no freaky gyration crap making me spill my feces all over the sheets!
Now you tell me that this Linux isn't an homosexual OS.
OG has been drinking excessively
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But he still knows that this guy couldn't get laid to save his life.
Are you kidding?
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Except for Open Source Software, versions don't get upgraded so often. But since hardly anyone (1%) are using OSS, it doesn't really make a difference now, does it?
hahaha. *sigh*
Meanwhile, I'm still looking for hardware to load Debian 2.2 onto.
I wrote up a bug that I found with the device. I haven't received a response from Fuji yet (yes, I sent an email to Fuji directly and didn't just expect that someone would read my journal).
This after watching 2001 A Space Oddessy last night. Bizarre!
It didn't seem to me that HAL was necessarily crazy, as a lot of reviews imply. He was given special information that made it necessary that he survive all the way to Jupiter. Thus when the two astronauts discuss taking him offline, he reacts in the only way possible.
As for the last half hour of the movie, what was that all about? I understand that the monolith appears when great leaps in evolution are imminent, but Huh?
For great ramen in Vancouver, try Kintaro ramen on Robson and Denman. If you're into sushi, try Musashi right next door. Very, very good and cheap (for sushi).
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Only a Republicant would misspell "hare-brained".
DMCA = use technology to pirate copyrighted works, break the law
This = use technology to stop people from pirating copyrighted works, be a good citizen
Boiling this down to its essences, there is neither contradiction nor illogic. Copyright infringers are by definition in the wrong and copyright holders should have the legal means of stopping them.
That's funny.
cartel... hehehe
heh
1 STU is X * football fields
Here on Earth we have a desert that covers the size of Texas and Arizona and New Mexico, easily.
If it uses WINE to run, can you really say that you are free of Microsoft?
Where is the native Linux app does this?
Where would you get MFC42.dll?
This is a direct descendant of the technique used in the Matrix.
From the rumormill, this technique will be used in the Matrix 2 to create even better effects than was done previously.
Catch someone using an IM, have them written up for some trumped up violation.
If you're anal enough to want to block the IMs in the first place, why not go whole hog and just implement a policy?
Computers don't belong in the classroom. They belong in the library or at home.
Giving kids expensive gadgets is an even worse idea than teaching kids in front of computers.
At least I know I can always mug a kid in the school parking lot and get myself a PDA and a hot piece of ass.
It's a matter of money and investment according to the NGOs. If economies were races, Africa would be far far behind. So the standard solution is to give them the latest and greatest running shoes, some spiffy running shorts, and a ride up to the point where most other competitors are. They carelessly overlook that Africa doesn't even know how to run yet.
The article talked about a Ghanaian man who was interested in IT and who was biding his time in a data entry position, gleaning as much technical knowledge as he could absorb. Along comes some bureaucrat from some NGO saying that data entry is a dead end position and wasting the many talents of the workers.
I see this as completely backwards. Obviously they don't have either the infrastructure or the technical resources to be a computerized society, but they do have some investment in the form of Aetna putting in a somewhat technically advanced data center where locals can get a job entering data. They aren't going to be able to step up to bat at the IT table until they get the necessary infrastructure and educational systems in place.
When these NGOs look at a country like Ghana and proclaim that investment isn't enough because more people aren't living at the same level as their Western counterparts, they are looking through their own paternal prizm which is in itself racist.
I guess I have to supply my own pot and Pink Floyd music.
Have you demonstrated leadership ability through mentoring or project leading?
Do you communicate with customers well?
Do you appear as someone who would be a Santa Claus manager?
Is your upper management (not your immediate superiors) a bunch of clueless morons? Do they have strong points that make them suited for the leadership positions that they hold?
If you are looking to be in a leadership/management position, it would be better to stay where you are and learn the ropes, IMO. So many managers come straight out of development at one company and louse everything up at their new company as inexperienced PMs. Unless it's been made clear to you that the only way you're going to move into management is by killing a current manager, stay put and look for opportunities where you can.
Talk with the boss, if the company is not so big that you are completely alienated from the upper management then you have the chance to befriend those people and politick your way into an authority position.
Yes, we all know that leadership positions should be based on knowledge and track record and all those other good things, but in reality, you'll never get the positions you want unless you can make the right people understand exactly what you want.
Are you going to write up an RFC?
Nope, in the writeup we have a mixing of land miles, nautical miles, and metric kilometers.
This screams failure.
From Pullman to Vantage, you can average about 90mph the whole way on the 2 lane road. It's a little disconcerting the first few times you pass someone else doing 100mph, but the shockwave effect becomes second nature after a few close calls.
I hate the Air and Space Museum. Nothing but crowds and commercial crap. Not to mention the Enola Gay travesty of an exhibit. That particular museum requires a couple hours max.
The Museum of Natural History, OTOH, is a great place to spend a whole day.
If you're in the DC area, you might as well head over to Rosslyn and have a few beers at Bardo Rodeo.
A day trip into Adams Morgan is also warranted.
Quote:
I'm tired of learning how to do new things.
My left hand just ain't getting the hang of it.
But I've noticed that my tolerance for reading the manual and familiarizing myself with all the aspects of a new product or piece of software is much, much lower than it used to be.
I don't understand how to navigate these newfangled Free Porn Sites. It used to be a simple click, but now I have to find the special "Accept" button.
I thought it might be age, but my youngest brother, who is 21, says he has the same problem.
I come from a family of unlaid nerds. We look up to our father who managed to lay a hooker and beget us.
And despite the difference in our ages, we've followed about the same progression from initial enthusiasm about learning all the ins and outs of new stuff to a jaded reluctance to even open a manual if we can help it, and an absolute unwillingness to learn how to use features we don't need right now.
Incest isn't working out for us. What do we do with our penises?
Now it takes a lot to get me to actually study in advance.
But I sometimes really tear into books to learn new techniques.
There are lots of features in it that I may use someday -- at which point I'll learn them. But the odds are that I'll buy a new one before I use most of them, and the new one will be different anyway.
Time ain't on my side. Neither do I have enough money to buy all the Preparation H I need.
That's a pain in individual cases, but the big picture is even worse: by now, everyone but the very youngest has learned that time spent acquiring knowledge in this area is likely to be wasted.
I love sodomy with little boys, but sometimes I think they are too advanced. I can hardly keep up these days!
But now that products are smart, a little more attention to consistency in user interfaces is called for -- or the ability to choose an old interface.
When I buy a buttplug, I want it to *plug* dammit. I don't want no freaky gyration crap making me spill my feces all over the sheets!
Now you tell me that this Linux isn't an homosexual OS.
But he still knows that this guy couldn't get laid to save his life.
Except for Open Source Software, versions don't get upgraded so often. But since hardly anyone (1%) are using OSS, it doesn't really make a difference now, does it?
hahaha. *sigh*
Meanwhile, I'm still looking for hardware to load Debian 2.2 onto.
Blood, that is.
Haha. Just kidding.
No, I hate ketchup. It's too sweet for my taste. Gimme a big dollop or squirt of mustard anytime.
Anyway, don't use ketchup, it ruins your burger or hot dog, whichever you may be eating. Try the onions instead.
I wrote up a bug that I found with the device. I haven't received a response from Fuji yet (yes, I sent an email to Fuji directly and didn't just expect that someone would read my journal).
This after watching 2001 A Space Oddessy last night. Bizarre!
It didn't seem to me that HAL was necessarily crazy, as a lot of reviews imply. He was given special information that made it necessary that he survive all the way to Jupiter. Thus when the two astronauts discuss taking him offline, he reacts in the only way possible.
As for the last half hour of the movie, what was that all about? I understand that the monolith appears when great leaps in evolution are imminent, but Huh?
For great ramen in Vancouver, try Kintaro ramen on Robson and Denman. If you're into sushi, try Musashi right next door. Very, very good and cheap (for sushi).