We should not expect companies to make political statements - we have politicians for that - Companies are driven by different forces than politics and in the highly competitive market of internet search taking such a stance could damage the company immensely.
This is EXACTLY the problem with the world today, and the root of corporate corruption.
Companies don't make deals with inhumane governments; people do.
Those companies made up of people, yet the notion of a "corporation" lets people accept the rewards of doing amoral things while releasing them from any responsibility of their actions as a human being.
You can say that "companies are driven by different forces than politics" but that's misleading. Whenever you say "companies are", change it to "people are", because it's people behind these companies and behind the decisions of these companies. People are driven by money, and people have decided that in the name of money they will make deals and concessions with repressive governments.
These people should be ashamed of themselves for their unamerican, amoral actions.
If China and the rest of the world sees that you can do business with China by ignoring their gross human rights violations, then nothing will ever be done about it, and you will be doing a disservice to the chinese people.
Google enables the chinese government to keep censoring media, and that means Google approves of it. Bad Google! For this is most certainly an evil alliance.
What if a rope manufacturer wanted to do business in the 1950's southern USA, but the lynch mobs in the south would only buy rope that was pre-tied into a noose? Is it alright to accept their demands just to do business with them?
I don't think it's so much a corporate playtoy, but you gotta admit he really disrespects his fans when he kills the thing that they fell in love with (and made him rich for). He claims its his movie and he can do what he wants, but to completely leave his fans hanging without a quality copy of the originals is just wrong.
What if that awful (imo) Jessica Simpson remake of "Take my breath away" was the only version you could get on CD?
Lucas:"I'm the one who has to have everybody throw rocks at me all the time, so at least if they're going to throw rocks at me, they're going to throw rocks at me for something I love rather than something I think is not very good, or at least something I think is not finished."
NO ONE THREW ANY ROCKS UNTIL YOU CHANGED THE FREAKIN FILMS!!!
Lucas: "Well, the film only came out to be 25 or 30 percent of what I wanted it to be."
Me: So... 70 to 75 percent of your movie is a retarded scene with an animated jabba, a dewback in the background, and an extra shock ring or two on the space explosions? Hmmm...
This just sounds like more trouble than its worth. If you want to go think-client, then go thin-client and reap the benefits. If you want individual workstations, then do that. Don't try to meet in the middle, or you'll find yourself with twice the headaches and none of the benefits.
That's not really true is it. Just because you are on strike that does not mean the email server magically stops working or the router magically stops routing.
If you set things up right, it is absolutely true. Not right in the sense of a properly set up system, but right in the sense of a system configured with this on-strike precaution.
What benefits would employer-hostile unions provide when our jobs can be easily shipped over seas? Manufacturing plants are much harder to move than IT call-centers and programming teams.
When steel workers strike, steel prices go up a bit.
When manufacturer workers strike, we don't get as many new clothes.
When IT workers strike, no one gets their email, and your CEO's blackberry stops working. Think digital Project Mayhem.
Which would cause the most reaction in your company?
So break up your union, watch half your friends get fired, then bend over and take a 50% paycut.
Unions and striking are about standing up to capitalists who have disproportionate power, and unions help prevent the middle class from becoming the lower class.
If you don't like being in a union, find a job with less troubles.
Also, Lucas digitally changed the scene so that Han misses and Gredo kills Han instead. Later, Gredo assasinates Jabba the Hutt and takes over his crime ring, and falls in love with Princess Leia and tehy get married and have a child who turns out to be Tiger Woods.
Now, one of those provisions says that some state can take more water from the Colorado river than it already does. The Colorado river is already under huge pressure from water users, and my friend is a representative from CO. Therefore, when the bill comes up, he votes against it because he can't approve a legislative measure that would deprive his already drought-conditioned constituents of even more water.
Problem is, that bill would have provided affordable housing for 250,000 families across the country.
We've got to do something about this...
The real question is, what kind of asshat would say "alright, I'll only give housing to 250,000 families across the USA if you take give more water from the Colorado River". We need to find out who's the representative who tacked on that Colorado River rider in the first place, and put him in the spotlight.
I realize this is just a theoretical example, but is it possible to trace who added what insane riders to a bill, or does that information get lost in the volumes of committee dialog and minutes?
Here's a summary from the faq, in case Google gets slashdotted:
Summary of the Tournament The Google(TM) Code Jam 2004 is being offered by Google Inc. ("Google") and TopCoder, Inc. ("TopCoder"). Google is using the results of the Code Jam 2004 to identify possible employees for their company. The Code Jam 2004 will take place between Wednesday, September 1 and Friday, October 15, 2004. It begins with a 2-week online registration, after which all registered individuals will participate in a Qualification Round to determine who will compete in the programming tournament. The tournament consists of one (1) day of qualification, two (2) online elimination rounds and one (1) onsite final round. All participants who compete in Round 1 (the first online elimination round) will receive a "Google Code Jam 2004, Powered by TopCoder" t-shirt. In addition, Google will award $50,000 in cash prizes to the 50 finalists in the tournament.
"We just want them to stop using our name," he says.
Okay, those comedians are dumb for choosing such an obviously similar name. I have no sympathy for them; they should change it immediately. They could call themselves "Three Jackasses".
Keep a little usb camera running in a background process, writing to your network drive with protection such that it requires a password to delete the video-log file. Or, have it email a secure acount with still pictures whenever it detects movement.
For prosecution, nothing beats video of a crime in action.
I find that CD-Rs work fine for my current useI think the guy's point was that he doesn't trust CDs or DVDs (they do degrade). He wanted something more reliable, and in order to be truly reliable you must have active monitoring (a server will let you know the instant one of the drives fails) and redundancy (drives in redundant RAID config and also backup to tape now and then).
"We didn't evolve to pilot a vehicle moving at 60+mpg, we evolved to stalk prey on grasslands, quite different sets of requirements."
What planet are you living on? We did evolve to drive 60 mph machines. Look: we've evolved, and we drive cars. Simple as that. Did we evolve to live in houses? To use computers to find unimaginibly large prime numbers? Did our fingers evolve to type on keyboards so that we might communicate on/.?
Just because certain people are lousy at it doesnt mean that it's a problem for our entire species.
hacking into fed radio frequency now...I think I hear them discussing ficher's capture...
---TRANSMISSION INTERCEPTION--- "If we can hit that bull's-eye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards...Checkmate." ---TRANSMISSION SIGNAL LOST---
If I was on millionaire and lost on one question, I'd totally be like "I must have put a decimal point in the wrong place or something. Shit. I always do that. I always mess up some mundane detail."
"The parlimentary euro-sino-russo-dutch governing governmental body of powers recently tomorrow didn't not non-approve what wasn't not being reverse voted in favor of affirmatively being anti-against banning patent restrictions."
Crazy euro-speak... can someone please translate what happened into english?
Slashdot Mirror
We should not expect companies to make political statements - we have politicians for that - Companies are driven by different forces than politics and in the highly competitive market of internet search taking such a stance could damage the company immensely.
This is EXACTLY the problem with the world today, and the root of corporate corruption.
Companies don't make deals with inhumane governments; people do.
Those companies made up of people, yet the notion of a "corporation" lets people accept the rewards of doing amoral things while releasing them from any responsibility of their actions as a human being.
You can say that "companies are driven by different forces than politics" but that's misleading. Whenever you say "companies are", change it to "people are", because it's people behind these companies and behind the decisions of these companies. People are driven by money, and people have decided that in the name of money they will make deals and concessions with repressive governments.
These people should be ashamed of themselves for their unamerican, amoral actions.
If China and the rest of the world sees that you can do business with China by ignoring their gross human rights violations, then nothing will ever be done about it, and you will be doing a disservice to the chinese people.
Google enables the chinese government to keep censoring media, and that means Google approves of it. Bad Google! For this is most certainly an evil alliance.
What if a rope manufacturer wanted to do business in the 1950's southern USA, but the lynch mobs in the south would only buy rope that was pre-tied into a noose? Is it alright to accept their demands just to do business with them?
I don't think it's so much a corporate playtoy, but you gotta admit he really disrespects his fans when he kills the thing that they fell in love with (and made him rich for). He claims its his movie and he can do what he wants, but to completely leave his fans hanging without a quality copy of the originals is just wrong.
What if that awful (imo) Jessica Simpson remake of "Take my breath away" was the only version you could get on CD?
Lucas: "I'm the one who has to have everybody throw rocks at me all the time, so at least if they're going to throw rocks at me, they're going to throw rocks at me for something I love rather than something I think is not very good, or at least something I think is not finished."
NO ONE THREW ANY ROCKS UNTIL YOU CHANGED THE FREAKIN FILMS!!!
Lucas: "Well, the film only came out to be 25 or 30 percent of what I wanted it to be."
Me: So... 70 to 75 percent of your movie is a retarded scene with an animated jabba, a dewback in the background, and an extra shock ring or two on the space explosions? Hmmm...
This just sounds like more trouble than its worth. If you want to go think-client, then go thin-client and reap the benefits. If you want individual workstations, then do that. Don't try to meet in the middle, or you'll find yourself with twice the headaches and none of the benefits.
That's not really true is it. Just because you are on strike that does not mean the email server magically stops working or the router magically stops routing.
If you set things up right, it is absolutely true. Not right in the sense of a properly set up system, but right in the sense of a system configured with this on-strike precaution.
When manufacturer workers strike, we don't get as many new clothes.
When IT workers strike, no one gets their email, and your CEO's blackberry stops working. Think digital Project Mayhem.
Which would cause the most reaction in your company?
So break up your union, watch half your friends get fired, then bend over and take a 50% paycut.
Unions and striking are about standing up to capitalists who have disproportionate power, and unions help prevent the middle class from becoming the lower class.
If you don't like being in a union, find a job with less troubles.
(Now Gredo and Han shoot at the SAME time!)
Also, Lucas digitally changed the scene so that Han misses and Gredo kills Han instead. Later, Gredo assasinates Jabba the Hutt and takes over his crime ring, and falls in love with Princess Leia and tehy get married and have a child who turns out to be Tiger Woods.
Now, one of those provisions says that some state can take more water from the Colorado river than it already does. The Colorado river is already under huge pressure from water users, and my friend is a representative from CO. Therefore, when the bill comes up, he votes against it because he can't approve a legislative measure that would deprive his already drought-conditioned constituents of even more water.
Problem is, that bill would have provided affordable housing for 250,000 families across the country.
We've got to do something about this...
The real question is, what kind of asshat would say "alright, I'll only give housing to 250,000 families across the USA if you take give more water from the Colorado River". We need to find out who's the representative who tacked on that Colorado River rider in the first place, and put him in the spotlight.
I realize this is just a theoretical example, but is it possible to trace who added what insane riders to a bill, or does that information get lost in the volumes of committee dialog and minutes?
Here's a summary from the faq, in case Google gets slashdotted:
Summary of the Tournament
The Google(TM) Code Jam 2004 is being offered by Google Inc. ("Google") and TopCoder, Inc. ("TopCoder"). Google is using the results of the Code Jam 2004 to identify possible employees for their company. The Code Jam 2004 will take place between Wednesday, September 1 and Friday, October 15, 2004. It begins with a 2-week online registration, after which all registered individuals will participate in a Qualification Round to determine who will compete in the programming tournament. The tournament consists of one (1) day of qualification, two (2) online elimination rounds and one (1) onsite final round. All participants who compete in Round 1 (the first online elimination round) will receive a "Google Code Jam 2004, Powered by TopCoder" t-shirt. In addition, Google will award $50,000 in cash prizes to the 50 finalists in the tournament.
"We just want them to stop using our name," he says.
Okay, those comedians are dumb for choosing such an obviously similar name. I have no sympathy for them; they should change it immediately. They could call themselves "Three Jackasses".
Keep a little usb camera running in a background process, writing to your network drive with protection such that it requires a password to delete the video-log file. Or, have it email a secure acount with still pictures whenever it detects movement.
For prosecution, nothing beats video of a crime in action.
Fry: Is she hot?
Amazonian: That not important! She all knowing!
Fry: In other words, No.
...which is to say, the consumer of VOIP will foot the bill for allowing the government to listen in on our phone calls.
Newsflash: through taxes, consumers pay for EVERYTHING that the government does.
Google's Cache of Tom Hudson's page
I find that CD-Rs work fine for my current useI think the guy's point was that he doesn't trust CDs or DVDs (they do degrade). He wanted something more reliable, and in order to be truly reliable you must have active monitoring (a server will let you know the instant one of the drives fails) and redundancy (drives in redundant RAID config and also backup to tape now and then).
"The first time I have seen a site Slashdotted before the first Slashdot post!"
The site's been WAS'd (Wide Area Slashdotted) ever since that animation came out.
"We didn't evolve to pilot a vehicle moving at 60+mpg, we evolved to stalk prey on grasslands, quite different sets of requirements."
/.?
What planet are you living on? We did evolve to drive 60 mph machines. Look: we've evolved, and we drive cars. Simple as that. Did we evolve to live in houses? To use computers to find unimaginibly large prime numbers? Did our fingers evolve to type on keyboards so that we might communicate on
Just because certain people are lousy at it doesnt mean that it's a problem for our entire species.
hacking into fed radio frequency now...I think I hear them discussing ficher's capture...
---TRANSMISSION INTERCEPTION---
"If we can hit that bull's-eye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards...Checkmate."
---TRANSMISSION SIGNAL LOST---
totally right... baseball's a game of suspense, not highlights. If you want the highlights, just skim the scorecard afterwards.
If I was on millionaire and lost on one question, I'd totally be like "I must have put a decimal point in the wrong place or something. Shit. I always do that. I always mess up some mundane detail."
Um... that wasn't offtopic, I was asking someone to clarify the confusing logic of what was voted on and what it means...
"The parlimentary euro-sino-russo-dutch governing governmental body of powers recently tomorrow didn't not non-approve what wasn't not being reverse voted in favor of affirmatively being anti-against banning patent restrictions."
Crazy euro-speak... can someone please translate what happened into english?