"The US goes around invading countries and then refusing to pay for their restoration to even pre-war standards (let alone pre-embargo), instead trying to dump the bill on the UN. The US goes around changing people's laws with threat of ecconomic or military action. The US uses the CIA to play around with people's religeons by using fake Imams to preach Islam that suits the US foreign policy. The US frequently gets involved in other people's civil wars such as Vietnam. The US arms such nutcases as Saddam Husain and Osama Bin Laden in attempts to settle petty disputes with countries such as Iran and Russia."
I am getting so very tired of this nonsense. France and Germany have invaded far more countries than the U.S. ever has. Who was it that built Iraq's nuclear reactor in the 80's? FRANCE. Who was it that knowingly laundered all of Saddam Hussein's money, the money he got violating the U.N. embargo in the 90's? FRANCE. Who built all his bomb shelters and REPEATEDLY sold him military weapons in violation of the U.N. embargo? FRANCE and GERMANY. Liars liars liars. Do you think Iraq would have left Kuwait without being forced? Yeah, sure they would. Get off your moral high-horse and look inside your own corrupt countries before you attack mine. We'll see how YOUR country reacts when 3,000 people are killed by terrorists funded by a foreign government. The French would probably apologize and surrender to the terrorists. "Oh we are SO sorry. Please forgive us for being a free democracy. Would you like to take over our country? Here, have some of the Jews we missed when we were letting the Nazis burn them." LIARS.
Stop lying about it. France and Germany kept Saddam Hussein in power, and the U.N. helped by ignoring the problem. Slashdot has turned into a U.S.-bashing, left-wing nut site. The left-wingers in Europe will do anything, let any atrocity go unchallenged, let any terrorist bomb women and children, just to uphold their pacifist stupidity. Monsters exist in the real world, and no matter how much you wish otherwise, you can't ignore them and hope they will "see the light."
What happened to the Winston Churchill's of Europe? Classic liberals like JFK believed foreign policy and military strength should be used to defend human rights, stop terrorism and end oppression. Are there any John F. Kennedy's left on the Left? I weep for your children.
My apologies for the formatting of the first reply. See if this looks better:
> Are you saying that the US is a self-appointed > global policeman?
Of course not. But we have an obligation to find the balance between protecting our national interests and protecting the human rights and interests of other countries. There are times when those two goals are so much in sync that we must act.
> Defending our freedom? We are lazy, cowardly? > Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't America one > of the most obese nations in the world today? > That's what I'd call lazy.
Obesity is obviously a problem in the U.S., but personal laziness has nothing to do with collective national laziness when taking responsibility and taking RISKS to defend your freedom. For example, I couldn't give a rat's butt about defending France's freedom now, but the U.S. saved Europe in WWII. Tell me we didn't. You are deluding yourself.
Remember it was Europe, particularly France, that coddled Hitler and ignored his atrocities for years. It was France that surrendered to Hitler immediately without a fight. It was France that VOLUNTARILY rounded up Jews to hand over to him without even being asked. (These are historical facts, but you will certainly deny them.)
It was France and Germany that kept Hussein in power for the last 10 years. Along with Russia, they were Iraq's biggest trading partners. They sold Iraq weapons in violation of the U.N. resolutions, they built bomb shelters for Hussein. They had huge oil contracts with Hussein. They kept him in power while he tortured and brutalized his own people, mutilitating them, cutting off their fingers, hands, tongues-- stealing fathers and brothers in the middle of the night, never to be seen again. Europe did NOTHING. The U.N. did NOTHING. The U.N.'s Human Rights Commission is headed by Libya for cripe's sake! I haven't heard anyone in Europe doing anything to protest that disgusting monster.
Can the U.S. stop these things everywhere in the world, NO! We don't have the resources or the moral authority to do it alone. But, when the combination of our national interests and the human rights interests reach a certain point, we have to do something.
> Cowardice is hiding behind your nuclear arsenal > while saying no one else can have one. If as you > say the rest of the world is against you, then > shouldn't it behove you to at least ask why?
Cowardice is hiding your head in the sand while the devil works to destroy you. Just pretend there is nothing wrong while the tanks are bashing down the walls of your house.
Once again you show absolute ignorance of the real world. When the Soviet Union had 1,000 nuclear missiles pointed at EUROPE popular opinion among the population of Europe was that they could live with it. Were they nuts? The USSR had just invaded Afghanistan and Europe thought they had no aspirations for other countries? When Reagan went to negotiate with the USSR, he proposed TOTALLY ELIMINATING ALL of the U.S.'s and ALL of the USSR's nuclear weapons in Europe. He pushed that over and over. It was the USSR that refused that option.
> The US killed millions when it dropped two > atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The US > is the ONLY country to ever USE nuclear weapons > on the battlefield.
Total exaggeration once again. Those bombs killed one quarter of a million people. Those aren't U.S. numbers, they are the numbers as reported by Japan. They saved MILLIONS of deaths by dropping them. I'm quite honestly not convinced we should have dropped them (I'm very much not convinced...), but the fact is they saved 10 times the deaths by ending the war immediately.
> And as for restraint! I don't call invading two > countries (disclaimer: this number may increase) > an act of restraint. If that is restraint, what > is the alternative?!
This is an ignorant response. We were ATTACKED. Any country that sup
> Are you saying that the US is a self-appointed global policeman?
Of course not. But we have an obligation to find the balance between protecting our national interests and protecting the human rights and interests of other countries. There are times when those two goals are so much in sync that we must act.
> Defending our freedom? We are lazy, cowardly? Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't America one of the most obese nations in the world today? That's what I'd call lazy.
Obesity is obviously a problem in the U.S., but personal laziness has nothing to do with collective national laziness when taking responsibility and taking RISKS to defend your freedom. For example, I couldn't give a rat's butt about defending France's freedom now, but the U.S. saved Europe in WWII. Tell me we didn't. You are deluding yourself. Remember it was Europe, particularly France, that coddled Hitler and ignored his atrocities for years. It was France that surrendered to Hitler immediately without a fight. It was France that VOLUNTARILY rounded up Jews to hand over to him without even being asked. (These are historical facts, but you will certainly deny them.)
It was France and Germany that kept Hussein in power for the last 10 years. Along with Russia, they were Iraq's biggest trading partners. They sold Iraq weapons in violation of the U.N. resolutions, they built bomb shelters for Hussein. They had huge oil contracts with Hussein. They kept him in power while he tortured and brutalized his own people, mutilitating them, cutting off their fingers, hands, tongues-- stealing fathers and brothers in the middle of the night, never to be seen again. Europe did NOTHING. The U.N. did NOTHING. The U.N.'s Human Rights Commission is headed by Libya for cripe's sake! I haven't heard anyone in Europe doing anything to protest that disgusting monster. Can the U.S. stop these things everywhere in the world, NO! We don't have the resources or the moral authority to do it alone. But, when the combination of our national interests and the human rights interests reach a certain point, we have to do something.
> Cowardice is hiding behind your nuclear arsenal while saying no one else can have one. If as you say the rest of the world is against you, then shouldn't it behove you to at least ask why?
Cowardice is hiding your head in the sand while the devil works to destroy you. Just pretend there is nothing wrong while the tanks are bashing down the walls of your house. Once again you show absolute ignorance of the real world. When the Soviet Union had 1,000 nuclear missiles pointed at EUROPE popular opinion among the population of Europe was that they could live with it. Were they nuts? The USSR had just invaded Afghanistan and Europe thought they had no aspirations for other countries? When Reagan went to negotiate with the USSR, he proposed TOTALLY ELIMINATING ALL of the U.S.'s and ALL of the USSR's nuclear weapons in Europe. He pushed that over and over. It was the USSR that refused that option.
> The US killed millions when it dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The US is the ONLY country to ever USE nuclear weapons on the battlefield.
Total exaggeration once again. Those bombs killed one quarter of a million people. Those aren't U.S. numbers, they are the numbers as reported by Japan. They saved MILLIONS of deaths by dropping them. I'm quite honestly not convinced we should have dropped them (I'm very much not convinced...), but the fact is they saved 10 times the deaths by ending the war immediately.
>And as for restraint! I don't call invading two countries (disclaimer: this number may increase) an act of restraint. If that is restraint, what is the alternative?!
This is an ignorant, brainless response. We were ATTACKED. Any country that supports terrorists that attack the U.S. has implicitly declared war against us. The connections between Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, Saddam Hussein's Iraq, and international terror are IRREFUTABLE. Ask the Iraqis how happy they are that Hus
Can you think of any country besides the United States that would have acted with such incredible RESTRAINT after September 11th? Thank God it was the U.S. and not another nuclear power. It is not the U.S. that has a history of Imperialism, it is, yes you guessed it, FRANCE and GERMANY (not to mention England, Russia, Spain...)
The U.S. did not fund terrorists in Central America. You need to stop reading trash journalism and actually understand what was happening at that time and why the U.S. took the steps that it did. Stop listening to Al Sharpton. The U.S. was funding anti-communist rebels, most of whom were perfectly decent and ethical, but some of whom did things that were quite objectionable. The U.S. did NOT endorse those activities. Remember it was marxist guerillas gunning down busloads of people trying to vote in democratic elections at the time.
The U.S. has never systematically mutilated people the way Germany, Iraq, Iran, and others have. Maybe you can argue the U.S. has made bad decisions with their foreign policy, but there is NO COMPARISON. Germany gassed millions. Iraq and Iran have mutilated and tortured thousands. The U.S. has never engaged in that kind of activity.
Stop bashing the U.S. A reasonable criticism is fine, as long as it is based on facts and analysis, not hyperbole and yellow-journalistic revisionist histories.
Thank God for the U.S. because Europe would be speaking German or Russian right now without us. Yes, we thank the French for the weapons they sold us during our revolution. Yippee. They did it because they hated England.
Sorry, but I'm tired of being the world's whipping boy. It is easy to throw stones when you don't have the responsibility for defending freedom for the rest of the lazy, cowardly countries of the world.
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You are living in a dreamworld, Neo. Most companies have politics. Politics for programmers are no different than politics for other types of careers. There are liars, backstabbers, lazy people that take credit for your work, lazy people that blame you for their failures, and just all around jerks.
Always cover your butt. Document everything. Save emails. This applies to any job, not just programming.
Oh, and HR is NOT there to help you. They work for the company, and their job is to protect the company-- never forget that.
Without saying too much, let me just say that my information is very much "inside" information. I know it to be 100% factual. It was not from a press release.
Wrong. McDonalds brewed their coffee at the temperature recommended by the manufacturer of the coffee mix they use. The temperature was the most effective way to extract the flavor from the beans. The manufacturer recommended against lowering the brewing temperature, but every McDonalds in the world lowered their brewing temperature because a stupid woman put a styrofoam between her thighs.
These stupid "big bad corporation" conspiracy theories are getting tiresome.
90 days uptime is not enough when you run 24x7 systems that process millions of dollars (which is what I manage). How do you get 90 days uptime when you have to install new critical patches every week? Why does every Windows patch require a reboot? I only reboot Linux if I install a new kernel.
Windows 2000 was better than 95/98/ME on the desktop-- but Win 95/98/ME (ugh ME!). 2000 is my primary desktop when I have to use Microsoft (I generally stick it in a VMware machine and firewall it from Linux).
Windows still doesn't come with even 10% of the management tools, utilities and applications that Linux does. Linux doesn't force me to use one browser, lock me into DRM mechanisms that give other companies control over my computer, require me to sign licenses giving Microsoft the legal right to delete things from my computer, force me to use proprietary formats that push me to spend $400 every two years to upgrade my office software, etc.
Microsoft is a dirty company. They assume we are all stupid and that we should have no rights, no legal recourse for their poor engineering, no opportunity to compete with them.
Don't assume just because we use Linux personally that we don't face the reality of using Windows in our professional lives. I run a whole server room full of Win2k boxes. They are garbage. Do you know how much time I've spent installing patches and rebooting locked/frozen/fried boxes? My disgust for Microsoft comes from years of experience with their products, not just their predatory business practices.
On the other hand, I also run a bunch of AIX and Linux boxes. They run some of our most critical applications. I never have to reboot them. I will repeat that. I NEVER have to reboot them.
Yes, Windows 2000 is better than Windows 95. Big deal. My wristwatch is better than Windows 95.
Guns do not have a purpose. Only people have a purpose. Guns are a mechanical device designed to propel a small, dense object called a bullet at high velocities.
Guns are used for a number of things besides killing. I grew up shooting guns, both real and toy, and never once was there any question of actually using them on a person. People just refuse to take responsibility for their own behavior and blame anything they can find for their own failures.
Blaming a gun is just as ridiculous as blaming a video game for a murder. The person who did the murder is to blame, as well as the parents who so horribly failed to teach morality to their child.
The Clean Air Act regulates what power companies must do when maintaining and upgrading their equipment. I'm not an expert, so I'm only regurgitating what I have heard, but the cost is supposedly enormous.
Environmentalists have blocked new power lines from being built to improve the grid in many areas. They even sued to have an underwater power line kept offline that connected NY to CT. It has never been used until today when I believe they got a temporary approval to finally turn it on to help the current crisis.
> Um, not to be a Microsoft apologist or anything, but at least in the case of MSBlast, they DID fix the problem
Yes, but they did not put this update in the Windows Update most users use (Internet Explorer-Tools-Windows Update). It is asking alot of most Windows users to do the "easy" updates. If you don' t put this patch in there, forget it. It ain't gonna happen.
You have to actually download the patch separately and install it by hand. I am honestly curious why they would decide NOT to put that patch in the automated updates...
Unfortunately you do not understand at all what happened here. This is a failure in the power TRANSMISSION system, which is not deregulated. It is highly regulated. There is no profit incentive for anyone to invest in it because the regulations are so restrictive and expensive that nobody will risk their capital.
The problem is that ancient equipment has laid unimproved and unmaintained for decades because it costs too much to keep it up. The environmental laws alone make it almost impossible for anyone to actually upgrade the archaic system.
This is a failure of regulation, not deregulation.
There is this little thing called the Second Amendment. It is part of a document called the Bill of Rights. Read it some time.
There is no Right to Someone Else's Private Information in the Bill of Rights is there? I must have missed it...
Speakeasy is an excellent company
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Read the subject. I have been delighted with Speakeasy since I signed with them. Yes, you pay more. You can use your bandwidth however you want (including running servers). You also get fantastic tech support (including a Linux friendly attitude).
I absolutely love them! I've literally been recommending them to everyone I know. I've never seen a company, ever, with such fantastic customer service.
A true libertarian fully supports gun rights. What are you thinking? A libertarian would say that guns and bullets should be freely sold at the price the market will bear without goverment interference, regulation, taxation, or restriction.
Are you kidding? You think China would think twice about stealing an Oracle license? They'll just buy one and install in everywhere. MySQL is hardly going to compromise national security.
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"The US goes around invading countries and then refusing to pay for their restoration to even pre-war standards (let alone pre-embargo), instead trying to dump the bill on the UN. The US goes around changing people's laws with threat of ecconomic or military action. The US uses the CIA to play around with people's religeons by using fake Imams to preach Islam that suits the US foreign policy. The US frequently gets involved in other people's civil wars such as Vietnam. The US arms such nutcases as Saddam Husain and Osama Bin Laden in attempts to settle petty disputes with countries such as Iran and Russia."
I am getting so very tired of this nonsense. France and Germany have invaded far more countries than the U.S. ever has. Who was it that built Iraq's nuclear reactor in the 80's? FRANCE. Who was it that knowingly laundered all of Saddam Hussein's money, the money he got violating the U.N. embargo in the 90's? FRANCE. Who built all his bomb shelters and REPEATEDLY sold him military weapons in violation of the U.N. embargo? FRANCE and GERMANY. Liars liars liars. Do you think Iraq would have left Kuwait without being forced? Yeah, sure they would. Get off your moral high-horse and look inside your own corrupt countries before you attack mine. We'll see how YOUR country reacts when 3,000 people are killed by terrorists funded by a foreign government. The French would probably apologize and surrender to the terrorists. "Oh we are SO sorry. Please forgive us for being a free democracy. Would you like to take over our country? Here, have some of the Jews we missed when we were letting the Nazis burn them." LIARS.
Stop lying about it. France and Germany kept Saddam Hussein in power, and the U.N. helped by ignoring the problem. Slashdot has turned into a U.S.-bashing, left-wing nut site. The left-wingers in Europe will do anything, let any atrocity go unchallenged, let any terrorist bomb women and children, just to uphold their pacifist stupidity. Monsters exist in the real world, and no matter how much you wish otherwise, you can't ignore them and hope they will "see the light."
What happened to the Winston Churchill's of Europe? Classic liberals like JFK believed foreign policy and military strength should be used to defend human rights, stop terrorism and end oppression. Are there any John F. Kennedy's left on the Left? I weep for your children.
Liars.
My apologies for the formatting of the first reply. See if this looks better:
> Are you saying that the US is a self-appointed
> global policeman?
Of course not. But we have an obligation to find the balance between protecting our national interests and protecting the human rights and interests of other countries. There are times when those two goals are so much in sync that we must act.
> Defending our freedom? We are lazy, cowardly?
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't America one
> of the most obese nations in the world today?
> That's what I'd call lazy.
Obesity is obviously a problem in the U.S., but personal laziness has nothing to do with collective national laziness when taking responsibility and taking RISKS to defend your freedom. For example, I couldn't give a rat's butt about defending France's freedom now, but the U.S. saved Europe in WWII. Tell me we didn't. You are deluding yourself.
Remember it was Europe, particularly France, that coddled Hitler and ignored his atrocities for years. It was France that surrendered to Hitler immediately without a fight. It was France that VOLUNTARILY rounded up Jews to hand over to him without even being asked. (These are historical facts, but you will certainly deny them.)
It was France and Germany that kept Hussein in power for the last 10 years. Along with Russia, they were Iraq's biggest trading partners. They sold Iraq weapons in violation of the U.N. resolutions, they built bomb shelters for Hussein. They had huge oil contracts with Hussein. They kept him in power while he tortured and brutalized his own people, mutilitating them, cutting off their fingers, hands, tongues-- stealing fathers and brothers in the middle of the night, never to be seen again. Europe did NOTHING. The U.N. did NOTHING. The U.N.'s Human Rights Commission is headed by Libya for cripe's sake! I haven't heard anyone in Europe doing anything to protest that disgusting monster.
Can the U.S. stop these things everywhere in the world, NO! We don't have the resources or the moral authority to do it alone. But, when the combination of our national interests and the human rights interests reach a certain point, we have to do something.
> Cowardice is hiding behind your nuclear arsenal
> while saying no one else can have one. If as you
> say the rest of the world is against you, then
> shouldn't it behove you to at least ask why?
Cowardice is hiding your head in the sand while
the devil works to destroy you. Just pretend there is nothing wrong while the tanks are bashing down the walls of your house.
Once again you show absolute ignorance of the real world. When the Soviet Union had 1,000 nuclear missiles pointed at EUROPE popular opinion among the population of Europe was that they could live with it. Were they nuts? The USSR had just invaded Afghanistan and Europe thought they had no aspirations for other countries? When Reagan went to negotiate with the USSR, he proposed TOTALLY ELIMINATING ALL of the U.S.'s and ALL of the USSR's nuclear weapons in Europe. He pushed that over and over. It was the USSR that refused that option.
> The US killed millions when it dropped two
> atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The US
> is the ONLY country to ever USE nuclear weapons
> on the battlefield.
Total exaggeration once again. Those bombs killed one quarter of a million people. Those aren't U.S. numbers, they are the numbers as reported by Japan. They saved MILLIONS of deaths by dropping them. I'm quite honestly not convinced we should have dropped them (I'm very much not convinced...), but the fact is they saved 10 times the deaths by ending the war immediately.
> And as for restraint! I don't call invading two
> countries (disclaimer: this number may increase)
> an act of restraint. If that is restraint, what
> is the alternative?!
This is an ignorant response. We were ATTACKED. Any country that sup
> Are you saying that the US is a self-appointed global policeman? Of course not. But we have an obligation to find the balance between protecting our national interests and protecting the human rights and interests of other countries. There are times when those two goals are so much in sync that we must act. > Defending our freedom? We are lazy, cowardly? Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't America one of the most obese nations in the world today? That's what I'd call lazy. Obesity is obviously a problem in the U.S., but personal laziness has nothing to do with collective national laziness when taking responsibility and taking RISKS to defend your freedom. For example, I couldn't give a rat's butt about defending France's freedom now, but the U.S. saved Europe in WWII. Tell me we didn't. You are deluding yourself. Remember it was Europe, particularly France, that coddled Hitler and ignored his atrocities for years. It was France that surrendered to Hitler immediately without a fight. It was France that VOLUNTARILY rounded up Jews to hand over to him without even being asked. (These are historical facts, but you will certainly deny them.) It was France and Germany that kept Hussein in power for the last 10 years. Along with Russia, they were Iraq's biggest trading partners. They sold Iraq weapons in violation of the U.N. resolutions, they built bomb shelters for Hussein. They had huge oil contracts with Hussein. They kept him in power while he tortured and brutalized his own people, mutilitating them, cutting off their fingers, hands, tongues-- stealing fathers and brothers in the middle of the night, never to be seen again. Europe did NOTHING. The U.N. did NOTHING. The U.N.'s Human Rights Commission is headed by Libya for cripe's sake! I haven't heard anyone in Europe doing anything to protest that disgusting monster. Can the U.S. stop these things everywhere in the world, NO! We don't have the resources or the moral authority to do it alone. But, when the combination of our national interests and the human rights interests reach a certain point, we have to do something. > Cowardice is hiding behind your nuclear arsenal while saying no one else can have one. If as you say the rest of the world is against you, then shouldn't it behove you to at least ask why? Cowardice is hiding your head in the sand while the devil works to destroy you. Just pretend there is nothing wrong while the tanks are bashing down the walls of your house. Once again you show absolute ignorance of the real world. When the Soviet Union had 1,000 nuclear missiles pointed at EUROPE popular opinion among the population of Europe was that they could live with it. Were they nuts? The USSR had just invaded Afghanistan and Europe thought they had no aspirations for other countries? When Reagan went to negotiate with the USSR, he proposed TOTALLY ELIMINATING ALL of the U.S.'s and ALL of the USSR's nuclear weapons in Europe. He pushed that over and over. It was the USSR that refused that option. > The US killed millions when it dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The US is the ONLY country to ever USE nuclear weapons on the battlefield. Total exaggeration once again. Those bombs killed one quarter of a million people. Those aren't U.S. numbers, they are the numbers as reported by Japan. They saved MILLIONS of deaths by dropping them. I'm quite honestly not convinced we should have dropped them (I'm very much not convinced...), but the fact is they saved 10 times the deaths by ending the war immediately. >And as for restraint! I don't call invading two countries (disclaimer: this number may increase) an act of restraint. If that is restraint, what is the alternative?! This is an ignorant, brainless response. We were ATTACKED. Any country that supports terrorists that attack the U.S. has implicitly declared war against us. The connections between Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, Saddam Hussein's Iraq, and international terror are IRREFUTABLE. Ask the Iraqis how happy they are that Hus
Can you think of any country besides the United States that would have acted with such incredible RESTRAINT after September 11th? Thank God it was the U.S. and not another nuclear power. It is not the U.S. that has a history of Imperialism, it is, yes you guessed it, FRANCE and GERMANY (not to mention England, Russia, Spain...) The U.S. did not fund terrorists in Central America. You need to stop reading trash journalism and actually understand what was happening at that time and why the U.S. took the steps that it did. Stop listening to Al Sharpton. The U.S. was funding anti-communist rebels, most of whom were perfectly decent and ethical, but some of whom did things that were quite objectionable. The U.S. did NOT endorse those activities. Remember it was marxist guerillas gunning down busloads of people trying to vote in democratic elections at the time. The U.S. has never systematically mutilated people the way Germany, Iraq, Iran, and others have. Maybe you can argue the U.S. has made bad decisions with their foreign policy, but there is NO COMPARISON. Germany gassed millions. Iraq and Iran have mutilated and tortured thousands. The U.S. has never engaged in that kind of activity. Stop bashing the U.S. A reasonable criticism is fine, as long as it is based on facts and analysis, not hyperbole and yellow-journalistic revisionist histories. Thank God for the U.S. because Europe would be speaking German or Russian right now without us. Yes, we thank the French for the weapons they sold us during our revolution. Yippee. They did it because they hated England. Sorry, but I'm tired of being the world's whipping boy. It is easy to throw stones when you don't have the responsibility for defending freedom for the rest of the lazy, cowardly countries of the world.
You are living in a dreamworld, Neo. Most companies have politics. Politics for programmers are no different than politics for other types of careers. There are liars, backstabbers, lazy people that take credit for your work, lazy people that blame you for their failures, and just all around jerks.
Always cover your butt. Document everything. Save emails. This applies to any job, not just programming.
Oh, and HR is NOT there to help you. They work for the company, and their job is to protect the company-- never forget that.
Without saying too much, let me just say that my information is very much "inside" information. I know it to be 100% factual. It was not from a press release.
Wrong. McDonalds brewed their coffee at the temperature recommended by the manufacturer of the coffee mix they use. The temperature was the most effective way to extract the flavor from the beans. The manufacturer recommended against lowering the brewing temperature, but every McDonalds in the world lowered their brewing temperature because a stupid woman put a styrofoam between her thighs.
These stupid "big bad corporation" conspiracy theories are getting tiresome.
90 days uptime is not enough when you run 24x7 systems that process millions of dollars (which is what I manage). How do you get 90 days uptime when you have to install new critical patches every week? Why does every Windows patch require a reboot? I only reboot Linux if I install a new kernel.
Windows 2000 was better than 95/98/ME on the desktop-- but Win 95/98/ME (ugh ME!). 2000 is my primary desktop when I have to use Microsoft (I generally stick it in a VMware machine and firewall it from Linux).
Windows still doesn't come with even 10% of the management tools, utilities and applications that Linux does. Linux doesn't force me to use one browser, lock me into DRM mechanisms that give other companies control over my computer, require me to sign licenses giving Microsoft the legal right to delete things from my computer, force me to use proprietary formats that push me to spend $400 every two years to upgrade my office software, etc.
Microsoft is a dirty company. They assume we are all stupid and that we should have no rights, no legal recourse for their poor engineering, no opportunity to compete with them.
I'm glad you like them so much.
Don't assume just because we use Linux personally that we don't face the reality of using Windows in our professional lives. I run a whole server room full of Win2k boxes. They are garbage. Do you know how much time I've spent installing patches and rebooting locked/frozen/fried boxes? My disgust for Microsoft comes from years of experience with their products, not just their predatory business practices.
On the other hand, I also run a bunch of AIX and Linux boxes. They run some of our most critical applications. I never have to reboot them. I will repeat that. I NEVER have to reboot them.
Yes, Windows 2000 is better than Windows 95. Big deal. My wristwatch is better than Windows 95.
> I agree that there are alternative mail client choices out there.
Sendmail is not a mail client and is in no way comparable to Outlook Express.
Guns do not have a purpose. Only people have a purpose. Guns are a mechanical device designed to propel a small, dense object called a bullet at high velocities.
Guns are used for a number of things besides killing. I grew up shooting guns, both real and toy, and never once was there any question of actually using them on a person. People just refuse to take responsibility for their own behavior and blame anything they can find for their own failures.
Blaming a gun is just as ridiculous as blaming a video game for a murder. The person who did the murder is to blame, as well as the parents who so horribly failed to teach morality to their child.
Why not teach your son that KILLING is wrong?
The Clean Air Act regulates what power companies must do when maintaining and upgrading their equipment. I'm not an expert, so I'm only regurgitating what I have heard, but the cost is supposedly enormous. Environmentalists have blocked new power lines from being built to improve the grid in many areas. They even sued to have an underwater power line kept offline that connected NY to CT. It has never been used until today when I believe they got a temporary approval to finally turn it on to help the current crisis.
> Um, not to be a Microsoft apologist or anything, but at least in the case of MSBlast, they DID fix the problem Yes, but they did not put this update in the Windows Update most users use (Internet Explorer-Tools-Windows Update). It is asking alot of most Windows users to do the "easy" updates. If you don' t put this patch in there, forget it. It ain't gonna happen. You have to actually download the patch separately and install it by hand. I am honestly curious why they would decide NOT to put that patch in the automated updates...
Unfortunately you do not understand at all what happened here. This is a failure in the power TRANSMISSION system, which is not deregulated. It is highly regulated. There is no profit incentive for anyone to invest in it because the regulations are so restrictive and expensive that nobody will risk their capital. The problem is that ancient equipment has laid unimproved and unmaintained for decades because it costs too much to keep it up. The environmental laws alone make it almost impossible for anyone to actually upgrade the archaic system. This is a failure of regulation, not deregulation.
There is this little thing called the Second Amendment. It is part of a document called the Bill of Rights. Read it some time. There is no Right to Someone Else's Private Information in the Bill of Rights is there? I must have missed it...
Read the subject. I have been delighted with Speakeasy since I signed with them. Yes, you pay more. You can use your bandwidth however you want (including running servers). You also get fantastic tech support (including a Linux friendly attitude).
I absolutely love them! I've literally been recommending them to everyone I know. I've never seen a company, ever, with such fantastic customer service.
Obligatory disclaimer: I don't work for them.
A true libertarian fully supports gun rights. What are you thinking? A libertarian would say that guns and bullets should be freely sold at the price the market will bear without goverment interference, regulation, taxation, or restriction.
One word:
Parasite
Are you kidding? You think China would think twice about stealing an Oracle license? They'll just buy one and install in everywhere. MySQL is hardly going to compromise national security.
Goodness.
Simple solution:
DSL from speakeasy.net
No, I don't work for them.
Why not just download and install the multimedia components you want? I'm sure RPM's will be popping up all over the place.
Heck, I still love them. I read them once a year just for kicks.
There's plenty of versions of grep available for windows. Look around. I use it all the time.