Well I must thank you for solving the problem. A great statue will surely be erected in you honor.
Parents should be pre-screening everything their kids see. Including: all tv shows (just incase someone hacks tv station and shows porn again), all Internet usage (incase Anonymous posts porn videos in the middle if childrens videos on YouTube again), all songs on the radio (for obvious reasons). Now, I realize that single mothers and other busy parents aren't going to have time to do this so we all know good parents shouldn't let their kids watch tv, listen to the radio, or go on the Internet. I mean lets start being parents around here right?
. And what about these idiot parents that are working 60 hrs a week and cant keep up with their childs use of new technology? What's facebook? Lulz!!! Bad parents!!!!
You know what? A GOOD parent would go to school with their kids and make sure they aren't using any computers there either....
Obviously I could go on, and get onto the culture our kids live in today, but i think you get the point.
A B.S. alone doesn't mean you deserve an interview. Many many people have that degree PLUS experience. You are at a great disadvantage from the start, with the added restriction of being in a small town. Here is my advice to you:
1. Stop playing the victim, stop making excuses. Let the losers do that while you get yourself a job.
2. Network. Go to happy hours, talks, toastmasters, other networking meetings. Put yourself out there and let people know what you can do for them and how little they'll have to pay you. The best jobs to interview for are the ones that aren't posted and you don't land those interviews from behind a PC.
3. Find out where your classmates are getting jobs. Wait 2 and a half months and send that company your resume. Chances are someone isnt going to pass probation and they are going to need another developer.
4. Don't limit yourself geographically. Time goes quickly when you get out of school, you can move back once you get your experience.
5. Tell everyone you know that you are looking. Most companies give referral bonuses, and people will be eager to mention your name when the time is right.
I could go on but I think you get the idea. You need to separate yourself from the thousands of introverted unemployed programmers out there. Then when someone tells you were lucky to get the job you can tell them to piss off because "I earned it."
Yeah you could contribute to opensource projects and all that jazz but that will help you more in the interview than anything else. We can deal with that later, first you have to get a few interviews...
American Evangelical Christians do not accept that the Bible is fallible, nor do they recognize denominations that do as actually being Christians! (Yes, as far as a large percentage of Americans are concerned, the Catholics are no more Christian than the Latter Day Saints or the Rastafarians or the Tibetan Buddhists.)
It seems that you are misinformed on the Catholic teaching on the Bible (and don't provide any sources to support your claim) and I'd like to give you and the other readers a little more information on the topic. I put up with a lot of people claiming falsehoods regarding the Church (even other Catholics), but your post was rated +5 Insightful so I couldn't let this one slide.
Technically, the Catholic Church has never made a claim one way or the other about the Bible's infallability. To state an inanimate object to be fallible or infallable would be a misconstrual of the word. From Catholic.com:
When we use these words, we use them regarding an active agent--that is, we use them about someone making a decision that either may or may not be erroneous (in which case that someone is fallible) or that definitely cannot be erroneous (in which case that someone is infallible).
In other words, for something to be fallible or infallible, it needs to be capable of making a decision. A book can not make a decision. Therefore, the Catholic Church couldn't teach infallability regarding the Bible, a rock or a bush. It wouldn't make sense.
With that out of the way, we can talk about what the Catholic Chuch does teach about the Bible: that it is inerrant (free from error). Here is what the Catholic Church teaches about the inerrancy of the Bible, from the First Vatican Council:
"These books are held by the Church as sacred and canonical, not as having been composed by merely human labor, and afterwards approved by her authority, nor merely because they contain revelation without error, but because written under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, they have God for their author and have been transmitted to the Church as such."
From this official statement, we see that the Catholic Church teaches the inerrancy of the Bible.
I know this is slashdot, but if you are going to make claims about other people's beliefs, it might help to link to some verifiable sources so that you aren't unintentionally spreading falsehoods.
Peace.
If you were trolling...good job. I think this was my first post in years!
Here is what I think you are missing:
If he gets a charge back, HE has to eat the cost. He asks you to show your ID so that he can verifiy that the transaction probably isn't fradulent.
So what if Mastercard stays it isn't OK...give the guy a break and give him a little reassurance. It's no skin off your back, and it helps him out. Is your time really so important that you can't flash your ID for 2 seconds?
(I think) He called you an asshole because you'd rather point out page numbers of credit card contracts and argue with him, instead of cutting him a little slack by taking 2 seconds to prove that you own the card.
I mean really, what is the big deal?
Who cares what Mastercard says about showing your ID...we are talking about customers putting food on the merchant's table, and we are talking about theives trying to take it off the table. Give him a break and help him figure out if you are a customer or a thief.
So the root of the problem is that he wanted an arbitrator and got an arbortrator . He might not have been specific enough, and if he requested Arbortration on his project, that's exactly what he got.
Yeah I completely agree, it would cost way too much to run all those lines over and over again. The power companies in my area are doing this too, if you are going to pick apart the analogy like that, then maybe I need a new analogy too... Maybe this is why most of the economics text's that I've read give examples in terms of "widgets" instead of something tangable;)
My point was (basically) that when you are acting as a monopoly (as the poster was arguing that Intel had a monopoly on the CPU market at the time), then artificially increasing the cost of your commodity is illegal. Now, you were stating that he was pulling the "illegal" price fixing accusation out of his ass. This could be true as you could easily argue that Intel isn't (and wasn't at the time) a convicted monopoly, so there wasn't anything illegal about what they did. I just wanted to clairfy his point for you, as from your Matrix anology, I didn't think you got it. It's just opinion, but I think we can all agree that it is a good thing "Intel got served!"
Your analogy is flawed. The poster who said it was illegal was referring to Intel as a monopoly. That is, at the time, Intel was viewed by a majority of consumers to be the ONLY company to buy a CPU from. It appears that he was arguing that Intel was abusing its monopoly on the CPU market.
I'm not even sure how your Matrix example applies, the only thing the Matrix franchise has a monopoly on is the Matrix series. There are plenty of movies out there, and nobody HAS to go see them. Try making your point using a monopoly controlled commodity and you'll make a better point. Some busisess/people HAD to buy PC's, and they HAD to pay Intel's inflated price. A price that was arguably illegal, and possible only through the existance of the monopoly.
Then the free market came, and AMD knocked Intel on it's proverbial ass.
I'll try a more fitting anaolgy. Take a monopoly-controlled commodity, lets say: natural gas and electricity. If you want to heat your food, or sleep warm at night, you'll have to pay what they are asking. Where else are you going to get natural gas or electricity? There is no other way to get it. So they jack up the price to 2x market value...is THAT illegal?
Now Intel wasn't considered a monopoly as far as I know. But it sure seemed like they did, and they were asses about it.
Alternatively you can help stop them by flooding them with usless information by using this site: http://www.phishfighting.com/. Check it out. It is bad ass.
Well I guess I have some Karam to burn, so I'm going to go ahead and agree here.
I remember reading a post by someone who claimed to be the lead IT guy for a company that went from having sales of a few hundred thousand a year to over a few million per year. Aparrently, after 15 years or so, he was laid off with very little thanks, and replaced by someone who didn't earn nearly as much as he did.
The (not so) funny thing about that story is, he thought that he "deserved" a better retirement package because he helped the company grow (to millions of dollars in sales per year). What he didn't realize is that while his job IS important, it isn't like someone else couldn't have done it. If he would have quit, they would have found a replacement, and sales most likely wouldn't have dropped.
To use his line of reasoning...should a plumber that keeps the toilets clear of clogs "deserve" a great retirement package because he "enables" the compnay workers to use a convenient restroom? Just think if they had to go home everytime they had to use the can! BFD.
The people that actually DO help companies grow are the dirty snakes that can sell ice to eskimos. The managers that can manage a workforce to produce things that the customers WANT TO BUY. These are the creative people that "deserve" the special treatment. Without these folks, sales would be $0 and the company would fold.
Sure, keeping a hundred servers and a thousand desktops online "enables" the company to make money by recording data/processing payments/etc. Just like cleaners "enable" the company to function in a clean environment. Just like the plumbers "enable" the company to make money by providing a place for employees to use the rest room on-site. But this doesn't mean any of these people are doing anything spectacular.
There is nothing creative about IT. IT is just a support system. Like the parent said, it just "enables" a company to function. You aren't special, lots of people can do your job, and you can be replaced at a moments notice.
The idea of the article is to provide you with some suggestions on HOW to be "special" enough to not be replaced.
I'd love to hear your opinion if you think that I'm incorrect.
BTW... some cars have unadvertised built-in speed limits. My 2001 Toyota Sequoia appears to have a 100mph limit.
I didn't spend a whole lot of time looking at it, but it looks like your 2001 Toyota Sequoia ships with S rated tires. That is, your tires are "rated" for use up to 112 mph.
I can think of a bunch of reasons why Toyota wouldn't set your max speed to the full 112 though. (To allow for imperfections in the tire, to protect folks that overload their SUV's, etc...)
Your Toyota could probably go faster, but they'd have to strap on some more expensive tires for you to do it safely.
More on Tire Ratings here: tire rack.
No you aren't required to get an EZ pass, it is just a convenience that makes it so you don't have to deal with the toll booth operators. If you don't have an EZ pass, you have to pay the toll booth collector.
There are some toll roads around here that do have the "money in the basket" option avialable at the end, but they aren't part of the "main" PA turnpike. The good thing is that they don't require a paper ticket. The bad thing is, "Exact change required.";)
"Currently they are not being used to auto-ticket speeders..."
Why is everyone so concerned about this?
They don't need an EZ-Pass to determine if you were speeding or not. All of the information that they need (time stamps) is also available on the paper ticket. One could even argue that auto ticketing paper ticket holders would be a more effective means of ticket distribution as the toll booth collector could even hand you your ticket back with your change. With an EZ-Pass auto-ticketing system, you'd have to go through the trouble of mailing the ticket.
Furthermore, where I live, they have the ability to take a photograph of the license AND the driver at every toll booth. So my point is, if they were going to start auto-ticketing speeders, having an EZ-Pass isn't going to make it any easier for them to give you a ticket.
While Clinton signed the DMCA, the RIAA were the ones that decided to use it for extortion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extortion). Luckily, a judge that Clinton appointed is trying to put a stop to that. Checks and balances...more than just an idea?
McMahon, Colleen
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Well I must thank you for solving the problem. A great statue will surely be erected in you honor.
Parents should be pre-screening everything their kids see. Including: all tv shows (just incase someone hacks tv station and shows porn again), all Internet usage (incase Anonymous posts porn videos in the middle if childrens videos on YouTube again), all songs on the radio (for obvious reasons). Now, I realize that single mothers and other busy parents aren't going to have time to do this so we all know good parents shouldn't let their kids watch tv, listen to the radio, or go on the Internet. I mean lets start being parents around here right?
. And what about these idiot parents that are working 60 hrs a week and cant keep up with their childs use of new technology? What's facebook? Lulz!!! Bad parents!!!!
You know what? A GOOD parent would go to school with their kids and make sure they aren't using any computers there either....
Obviously I could go on, and get onto the culture our kids live in today, but i think you get the point.
Very interesting point of view. It really gives me a better idea of what went on. Thanks for taking the time to post.
A B.S. alone doesn't mean you deserve an interview. Many many people have that degree PLUS experience. You are at a great disadvantage from the start, with the added restriction of being in a small town. Here is my advice to you:
1. Stop playing the victim, stop making excuses. Let the losers do that while you get yourself a job.
2. Network. Go to happy hours, talks, toastmasters, other networking meetings. Put yourself out there and let people know what you can do for them and how little they'll have to pay you. The best jobs to interview for are the ones that aren't posted and you don't land those interviews from behind a PC.
3. Find out where your classmates are getting jobs. Wait 2 and a half months and send that company your resume. Chances are someone isnt going to pass probation and they are going to need another developer.
4. Don't limit yourself geographically. Time goes quickly when you get out of school, you can move back once you get your experience.
5. Tell everyone you know that you are looking. Most companies give referral bonuses, and people will be eager to mention your name when the time is right.
I could go on but I think you get the idea. You need to separate yourself from the thousands of introverted unemployed programmers out there. Then when someone tells you were lucky to get the job you can tell them to piss off because "I earned it."
Yeah you could contribute to opensource projects and all that jazz but that will help you more in the interview than anything else. We can deal with that later, first you have to get a few interviews...
Dude, classic! I am in tears from laughing...
American Evangelical Christians do not accept that the Bible is fallible, nor do they recognize denominations that do as actually being Christians! (Yes, as far as a large percentage of Americans are concerned, the Catholics are no more Christian than the Latter Day Saints or the Rastafarians or the Tibetan Buddhists.)
It seems that you are misinformed on the Catholic teaching on the Bible (and don't provide any sources to support your claim) and I'd like to give you and the other readers a little more information on the topic. I put up with a lot of people claiming falsehoods regarding the Church (even other Catholics), but your post was rated +5 Insightful so I couldn't let this one slide.
Technically, the Catholic Church has never made a claim one way or the other about the Bible's infallability. To state an inanimate object to be fallible or infallable would be a misconstrual of the word. From Catholic.com:
In other words, for something to be fallible or infallible, it needs to be capable of making a decision. A book can not make a decision. Therefore, the Catholic Church couldn't teach infallability regarding the Bible, a rock or a bush. It wouldn't make sense.
With that out of the way, we can talk about what the Catholic Chuch does teach about the Bible: that it is inerrant (free from error). Here is what the Catholic Church teaches about the inerrancy of the Bible, from the First Vatican Council:
From this official statement, we see that the Catholic Church teaches the inerrancy of the Bible.
I know this is slashdot, but if you are going to make claims about other people's beliefs, it might help to link to some verifiable sources so that you aren't unintentionally spreading falsehoods.
Peace.
If you were trolling...good job. I think this was my first post in years!
Here is what I think you are missing:
If he gets a charge back, HE has to eat the cost. He asks you to show your ID so that he can verifiy that the transaction probably isn't fradulent.
So what if Mastercard stays it isn't OK...give the guy a break and give him a little reassurance. It's no skin off your back, and it helps him out. Is your time really so important that you can't flash your ID for 2 seconds?
(I think) He called you an asshole because you'd rather point out page numbers of credit card contracts and argue with him, instead of cutting him a little slack by taking 2 seconds to prove that you own the card.
I mean really, what is the big deal?
Who cares what Mastercard says about showing your ID...we are talking about customers putting food on the merchant's table, and we are talking about theives trying to take it off the table. Give him a break and help him figure out if you are a customer or a thief.
That's how us non-assholes think.
Peace.
So the root of the problem is that he wanted an arbitrator and got an arbortrator . He might not have been specific enough, and if he requested Arbortration on his project, that's exactly what he got.
Yeah...but what he really needs is The Arbiter!
Looks like Google Maps still has some bugs.
"far from the most expensive console in history." They say it like it's some sort of accomplishment or something.
What's next...a different study showing that the Sony Rootkit was "far from the most invasive rootkit in history?"
Whatever.
Your point is valid, but you're talking in absolutes.
;) I mean, who else are you going to get widgets from but Widget Co.!
Yeah, my bad. In the future I'll be sure to use "widgets" in my examples
Yeah I completely agree, it would cost way too much to run all those lines over and over again. The power companies in my area are doing this too, if you are going to pick apart the analogy like that, then maybe I need a new analogy too... Maybe this is why most of the economics text's that I've read give examples in terms of "widgets" instead of something tangable ;)
My point was (basically) that when you are acting as a monopoly (as the poster was arguing that Intel had a monopoly on the CPU market at the time), then artificially increasing the cost of your commodity is illegal. Now, you were stating that he was pulling the "illegal" price fixing accusation out of his ass. This could be true as you could easily argue that Intel isn't (and wasn't at the time) a convicted monopoly, so there wasn't anything illegal about what they did. I just wanted to clairfy his point for you, as from your Matrix anology, I didn't think you got it. It's just opinion, but I think we can all agree that it is a good thing "Intel got served!"
Your analogy is flawed. The poster who said it was illegal was referring to Intel as a monopoly. That is, at the time, Intel was viewed by a majority of consumers to be the ONLY company to buy a CPU from. It appears that he was arguing that Intel was abusing its monopoly on the CPU market.
I'm not even sure how your Matrix example applies, the only thing the Matrix franchise has a monopoly on is the Matrix series. There are plenty of movies out there, and nobody HAS to go see them. Try making your point using a monopoly controlled commodity and you'll make a better point. Some busisess/people HAD to buy PC's, and they HAD to pay Intel's inflated price. A price that was arguably illegal, and possible only through the existance of the monopoly.
Then the free market came, and AMD knocked Intel on it's proverbial ass.
I'll try a more fitting anaolgy. Take a monopoly-controlled commodity, lets say: natural gas and electricity. If you want to heat your food, or sleep warm at night, you'll have to pay what they are asking. Where else are you going to get natural gas or electricity? There is no other way to get it. So they jack up the price to 2x market value...is THAT illegal?
Now Intel wasn't considered a monopoly as far as I know. But it sure seemed like they did, and they were asses about it.
Alternatively you can help stop them by flooding them with usless information by using this site: http://www.phishfighting.com/. Check it out. It is bad ass.
You mean like this one?
http://www.phishfighting.com/
Well I guess I have some Karam to burn, so I'm going to go ahead and agree here.
I remember reading a post by someone who claimed to be the lead IT guy for a company that went from having sales of a few hundred thousand a year to over a few million per year. Aparrently, after 15 years or so, he was laid off with very little thanks, and replaced by someone who didn't earn nearly as much as he did.
The (not so) funny thing about that story is, he thought that he "deserved" a better retirement package because he helped the company grow (to millions of dollars in sales per year). What he didn't realize is that while his job IS important, it isn't like someone else couldn't have done it. If he would have quit, they would have found a replacement, and sales most likely wouldn't have dropped.
To use his line of reasoning...should a plumber that keeps the toilets clear of clogs "deserve" a great retirement package because he "enables" the compnay workers to use a convenient restroom? Just think if they had to go home everytime they had to use the can! BFD.
The people that actually DO help companies grow are the dirty snakes that can sell ice to eskimos. The managers that can manage a workforce to produce things that the customers WANT TO BUY. These are the creative people that "deserve" the special treatment. Without these folks, sales would be $0 and the company would fold.
Sure, keeping a hundred servers and a thousand desktops online "enables" the company to make money by recording data/processing payments/etc. Just like cleaners "enable" the company to function in a clean environment. Just like the plumbers "enable" the company to make money by providing a place for employees to use the rest room on-site. But this doesn't mean any of these people are doing anything spectacular.
There is nothing creative about IT. IT is just a support system. Like the parent said, it just "enables" a company to function. You aren't special, lots of people can do your job, and you can be replaced at a moments notice.
The idea of the article is to provide you with some suggestions on HOW to be "special" enough to not be replaced.
I'd love to hear your opinion if you think that I'm incorrect.
Maybe if they outsource the project.
I actually laughed out loud when I read your comment. Spot on.
BTW... some cars have unadvertised built-in speed limits. My 2001 Toyota Sequoia appears to have a 100mph limit.
I didn't spend a whole lot of time looking at it, but it looks like your 2001 Toyota Sequoia ships with S rated tires. That is, your tires are "rated" for use up to 112 mph.
I can think of a bunch of reasons why Toyota wouldn't set your max speed to the full 112 though. (To allow for imperfections in the tire, to protect folks that overload their SUV's, etc...)
Your Toyota could probably go faster, but they'd have to strap on some more expensive tires for you to do it safely.
More on Tire Ratings here: tire rack.
This is how it works on the PA turnpike...
;)
No you aren't required to get an EZ pass, it is just a convenience that makes it so you don't have to deal with the toll booth operators. If you don't have an EZ pass, you have to pay the toll booth collector.
There are some toll roads around here that do have the "money in the basket" option avialable at the end, but they aren't part of the "main" PA turnpike. The good thing is that they don't require a paper ticket. The bad thing is, "Exact change required."
"Currently they are not being used to auto-ticket speeders..."
Why is everyone so concerned about this?
They don't need an EZ-Pass to determine if you were speeding or not. All of the information that they need (time stamps) is also available on the paper ticket. One could even argue that auto ticketing paper ticket holders would be a more effective means of ticket distribution as the toll booth collector could even hand you your ticket back with your change. With an EZ-Pass auto-ticketing system, you'd have to go through the trouble of mailing the ticket.
Furthermore, where I live, they have the ability to take a photograph of the license AND the driver at every toll booth. So my point is, if they were going to start auto-ticketing speeders, having an EZ-Pass isn't going to make it any easier for them to give you a ticket.
Good cough. However...
;) Touché.
While Clinton signed the DMCA, the RIAA were the ones that decided to use it for extortion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extortion). Luckily, a judge that Clinton appointed is trying to put a stop to that. Checks and balances...more than just an idea?
Good cough none the less
Ah, a fellow wildcard purist.
Good catch.
McMahon, Colleen
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Born 1951 in Columbus, OH
Federal Judicial Service:
U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
Nominated by William J. Clinton on May 21, 1998, to a seat vacated by John F. Keenan;
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Way to go Clinton
*quickly ducks*
"Netscape lost not because IE went free, but because Netscape 4 was such a bloat POS that it was agonizing to use it compared to IE 4."
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Netscape lost because they "practically started over from scratch."
Check out Joel's take on it here: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000
LOL Dude that was funny! Wish I had some mod points for ya!