This, the seemingly non-plaintive, is one reason we need tort reformation: since these people are claiming verbal contract, just about anyone is vulnerable to crazy, non-sensical lawsuits.
Besides, let's say this lawfirm is completely correct in its claim. It's a major screw-up on their part to have nothing in writting concerning the inclusion of this person into their dealings. They need to stop whinning and waisting the public courts money and time with, at this point, frivolous lawsuit because it's obvious they don't know who to do proper business. No wonder they're desperate.
They have already lost... unless the judge thinks like the Plainfield School District. If so, then they might have a case. (good grief!)
This "leak" stinks of political motivation aimed at the President and his administration. Who is, ironically, legally allowed to do because of what the Client administration set in motion/made legal.
Also, the fear mongering associated with this NSA program is full of ignorance to the Nth degree: someone already knows whom I've called; the phone companies have known, already know, and won't stop knowing because they keep records for years of whom you call and who calls you. If you don't like that, go to a carrier that doesn't keep any records of your phone calls: they don't exist, even Quest keeps those records.
One problem that FreeBSD developers have faced is that GNOME developers tend to be focused on Linux rather than considering other desktop operating systems.
That being said, my advice is to take this as a hint and forego dealing with Gnome. Besides, (here's the flamebait) Gnome pails in comparison in usability to KDE; never have I hated a software application as much as I have hated Windows, until I have had to use Evolution for my email client. It just does some of the stupidest things I can imagine.
Sub-Preface: Gnome, and its applications, have one saving grace: features not found it KDE applications; like proxy use for IM in GAIM and an Exchange plugin in Evolution. Come oooon KDE, get those features soon!
That said, if I choose a signiture from the drop down menu (which I have told the preferences multiple times to use a default sig but it doesn't care what I think - which is either a Fedora Core 4, Evolution, or Gnome problem), and if for some reason I wish to edit that signiture and happen to need to delete a letter, everything after the cursor gets deleted also. Ctrl-z fixes what delete should naturally do, but NOOOO Gnome can't make an application that works as expected.
GAIM is another nightmare. One of the worst things about is that if I 'signoff', which means from all IM channels, and 'signon' again it will only signon one channel and not all of them. What in the world kind of functionality is that? It sucks and I have come to believe Torvalds' "Use KDE" rant; it is sadly accurate.
However, it's the security team's responsibility to get proper behaviour into the users stupid little heads.
Well, that can be slightly difficult when you have the VP of engineering subtly criticizing you for putting a '|' in the CEO's LDAP password. Which is only indicative of the laziness and low expectations and standards of those who hire security professionals. Not to mention there not being a means for the CEO to create or change his own password.
I don't think you should bother with looking for another 'drink' until you really can just appreciate the value AND taste of just pure water.
Now, that second part can be really hard if you don't want to pay for it or don't have decent, nay, very good drinking water from your city.
I lived in Baton Rouge, LA for 11 years and they, by far, had the best drinking water of any place I've visited. But, I've had the bottled spring water from about 65-80 miles east of there, from Abita, LA: absolutely the best bottled water I've ever tasted.
My final arguement is that you really should enjoy drinking that which makes up 70%-80% of your body mass.
Any engineer worth his salt can tell you that electric motors put out a hell of a lot more torque than gasoline engines. Gasoline engines are restricted by the tolerances of their mechanical parts, even if the engine is capable of producing more horsepower under load. That's why raw horsepower figures are often a poor indicator of a vehicle's acceleration.
A gasoline engines ability to have X amount of torque has nothing to do with these electric cars' ability to out accellerate them. Instead, it is the electric engine's ability to deliver the torque 100% of the time. Neither of these electric cars (the one from the article and the TZero) are so heavy as to need to have a hugh amount of torque. They only need enough to beat out their competitors. So, whether or not electric motors can handle more than gasoline motors is irrelavant.
Diesel Locomotives were making use of this fact long before the electric sports car showed up.
More offtopic. As you go on to correctly point out, the reason for the electric transmission is for the granularity of control from the diesel motor to the tracks and not so much for an electric motor's ability to handle more torque than another type of motor. Which still has nothing to do with the article.
The TZero was trouncing expensive sports cars long before the X-1 was introduced.
Well, whether the TZero was first or not it sure is last in looks.
Mind you, this is somewhat specialized in that I live in the Dallas/Ft. Worth metroplex and my specialization is in Linux)
My last job hunting experience entailed finishing a contract position, changing my resume on a job website to visible, and then getting lots of great offers: I didn't initiate contact any of them with the excetion of one (but that was at the end of last year).
My point is this: while you cannot readily change your job skills, lots of employers do not want to be bothered with being contacted with people they 'think' they are qualified for the job. Instead, they would rather find your resume and contact you.
For you to take advantage of this method would mean you being unemployed and it would mean your job skills would need to be in demand for your down time to be short.
If that's not a viable option, then you might just have to do it the old fashioned way: put on a suit, dust off your resume, and hit the pavement with your resume.
The irony is that these "declarations" will likely be pursued with zeal by the nations in favor of them. While 10+ resolutions against Iraq set undisturbed and ignored.
According to the program, it's the ton of computers.
They didn't go over the waist products of mining computer parts for their gold, but no doubt it's there. I have to assume their calculations include the details of dealing with those waists as well.
Besides, I've crossed streams coming from a gold mine in the south of Peru, about 80 miles from Puerto Maldonado, that was undrinkable due to the cyanide or mercury, I forgot which was told me, used in that mine's extraction processes.
I actually caught the end of an educational piece about how in every ton of "computer parts", read: circuit board, there is 3oz of gold. Thus making it cheaper to mine gold out of "computer parts" than from the earth.
So, dumping (those parts) into a land fill would just be a waist... of 3oz of gold.:)
With that in mind, I think I'll tell warn my parternal side of the family to hire a professional (or at least a competent high school/college kid) for when my grandfather dies.
I think they're just trying to cull out some of the undesirable personality types in advance via this test, just as they cull out the unfit applicants in advance by examining resumes and applications.
I don't believe it is all about weeding out "undesirable" personalities. In fact, the way you word that tells me you have lumped bad character, you know: when you have more choice about what you do, with personality. I don't think "antisocial" is really part of one's personality. Even people who won't talk to you very much might have someone at home with whom they can't shut up. That's not antisocial behavior. It just means they don't trust you enough to go running their mouth off to you or that they are satisfied with having the person/people at home as their confidant(s); that's not antisocial.
When I think of antisocial I think of people who are aggressive against others or against interacting with them. That's not the same as non-social (with their co-workers).
There are theories out that are used for linking personality with preferences, particularly job preferences. Doesn't the ASVAB ask personality related questions? Not only that, if there is an established team working on a project(s), then the manager might want to try to balance that team by added someone they think has the proper personality to fit in with the rest. Afterall, as a manager you don't want two natural-born leaders in one group, do you?
Granted, I don't know if there is any "personality" test that completely discerns between that which is pure personality and that which comes from character. With that in mind, I doubt there are too many companies that are purely interested in your personality alone, but your character also.
I'm not too surprised, as he seems to be somewhat of a visionary: he see things as he thinks they should be... and explodes when they aren't.;)
What I don't get is why he choose to use incompetent to describe a group of people who are not implementing something he is just now implementing himself.
You might notice that the first, of two, points has nothing to do with warming or cooling. It seems you have not read what I wrote. But, instead, have read into it what you wanted.
The second point has to do with crowning man as, in my opinion, more powerful than he really is while simultaneously demoting his importance. That is: is able to significantly introduce gases into our terrifically voluminous atmosphere to affect climatic changes AND at the same time willing to put humans, and their safety, second to the environment; as the Sierra club (and another environmental group) did in fighting, in court, the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers when they attempted to upgrade the southern Louisiana levee system in the decade leading up to Hurricane Katrina. A side effect of those court battles meant less funds to upgrade the levees. And we know what happened to enough of that levee system and its effect on New Orleans.
As a side note: If you think the sky is big, as far as what is above your head, just remember your horizon is only so far away. Let's be generous and say you can see in a 50 mile radius, that still leaves you seeing a very small portion of your side of the earth (about 0.00001811 of a hemisphere). Since you don't see in a 50 mile radius, but maybe a 20 or, somehow, in a 30 mile radius, your perception is even smaller.
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This, the seemingly non-plaintive, is one reason we need tort reformation: since these people are claiming verbal contract, just about anyone is vulnerable to crazy, non-sensical lawsuits.
Besides, let's say this lawfirm is completely correct in its claim. It's a major screw-up on their part to have nothing in writting concerning the inclusion of this person into their dealings. They need to stop whinning and waisting the public courts money and time with, at this point, frivolous lawsuit because it's obvious they don't know who to do proper business. No wonder they're desperate.
They have already lost... unless the judge thinks like the Plainfield School District. If so, then they might have a case. (good grief!)
Yeah, I used to teach... used to.
This kind of non-thinking is one of the reasons I wanted to leave the field.
Seems these administrators are not too different from the rest.
Sure, if you're cynical.
I totally agree.
This "leak" stinks of political motivation aimed at the President and his administration. Who is, ironically, legally allowed to do because of what the Client administration set in motion/made legal.
Also, the fear mongering associated with this NSA program is full of ignorance to the Nth degree: someone already knows whom I've called; the phone companies have known, already know, and won't stop knowing because they keep records for years of whom you call and who calls you. If you don't like that, go to a carrier that doesn't keep any records of your phone calls: they don't exist, even Quest keeps those records.
Does it explain why some servers, both claiming or seeming to use authoritative time sources, are off by as much as two minutes?
*picks jaw off floor*
Must be trying to keep up with the times.
No, I have not. But I will investigate.
Thanks for the tip.
That being said, my advice is to take this as a hint and forego dealing with Gnome. Besides, (here's the flamebait) Gnome pails in comparison in usability to KDE; never have I hated a software application as much as I have hated Windows, until I have had to use Evolution for my email client. It just does some of the stupidest things I can imagine.
Sub-Preface: Gnome, and its applications, have one saving grace: features not found it KDE applications; like proxy use for IM in GAIM and an Exchange plugin in Evolution. Come oooon KDE, get those features soon!
That said, if I choose a signiture from the drop down menu (which I have told the preferences multiple times to use a default sig but it doesn't care what I think - which is either a Fedora Core 4, Evolution, or Gnome problem), and if for some reason I wish to edit that signiture and happen to need to delete a letter, everything after the cursor gets deleted also. Ctrl-z fixes what delete should naturally do, but NOOOO Gnome can't make an application that works as expected.
GAIM is another nightmare. One of the worst things about is that if I 'signoff', which means from all IM channels, and 'signon' again it will only signon one channel and not all of them. What in the world kind of functionality is that? It sucks and I have come to believe Torvalds' "Use KDE" rant; it is sadly accurate.
If this is true, then most of those channels must be over Antarctica.
Or, once the 'ozone depleting' chemicals are into the upper layers of our atmosphere, they have been, or are, shuttled/attracted to the south pole.
Well, that can be slightly difficult when you have the VP of engineering subtly criticizing you for putting a '|' in the CEO's LDAP password. Which is only indicative of the laziness and low expectations and standards of those who hire security professionals. Not to mention there not being a means for the CEO to create or change his own password.
I don't think you should bother with looking for another 'drink' until you really can just appreciate the value AND taste of just pure water.
Now, that second part can be really hard if you don't want to pay for it or don't have decent, nay, very good drinking water from your city.
I lived in Baton Rouge, LA for 11 years and they, by far, had the best drinking water of any place I've visited. But, I've had the bottled spring water from about 65-80 miles east of there, from Abita, LA: absolutely the best bottled water I've ever tasted.
My final arguement is that you really should enjoy drinking that which makes up 70%-80% of your body mass.
A gasoline engines ability to have X amount of torque has nothing to do with these electric cars' ability to out accellerate them. Instead, it is the electric engine's ability to deliver the torque 100% of the time. Neither of these electric cars (the one from the article and the TZero) are so heavy as to need to have a hugh amount of torque. They only need enough to beat out their competitors. So, whether or not electric motors can handle more than gasoline motors is irrelavant.
More offtopic. As you go on to correctly point out, the reason for the electric transmission is for the granularity of control from the diesel motor to the tracks and not so much for an electric motor's ability to handle more torque than another type of motor. Which still has nothing to do with the article.
Well, whether the TZero was first or not it sure is last in looks.
Mind you, this is somewhat specialized in that I live in the Dallas/Ft. Worth metroplex and my specialization is in Linux)
My last job hunting experience entailed finishing a contract position, changing my resume on a job website to visible, and then getting lots of great offers: I didn't initiate contact any of them with the excetion of one (but that was at the end of last year).
My point is this: while you cannot readily change your job skills, lots of employers do not want to be bothered with being contacted with people they 'think' they are qualified for the job. Instead, they would rather find your resume and contact you.
For you to take advantage of this method would mean you being unemployed and it would mean your job skills would need to be in demand for your down time to be short.
If that's not a viable option, then you might just have to do it the old fashioned way: put on a suit, dust off your resume, and hit the pavement with your resume.
The irony is that these "declarations" will likely be pursued with zeal by the nations in favor of them. While 10+ resolutions against Iraq set undisturbed and ignored.
So I can graduate!
Otherwise I won't be able to get my unversity's M$ discount.
So, I guess that means you don't respect trains:
- They're full of power.
- Incapable of ethics.
Does that mean you don't respect them enough to out of their way?According to the program, it's the ton of computers.
They didn't go over the waist products of mining computer parts for their gold, but no doubt it's there. I have to assume their calculations include the details of dealing with those waists as well.
Besides, I've crossed streams coming from a gold mine in the south of Peru, about 80 miles from Puerto Maldonado, that was undrinkable due to the cyanide or mercury, I forgot which was told me, used in that mine's extraction processes.
I actually caught the end of an educational piece about how in every ton of "computer parts", read: circuit board, there is 3oz of gold. Thus making it cheaper to mine gold out of "computer parts" than from the earth.
So, dumping (those parts) into a land fill would just be a waist... of 3oz of gold. :)
My condolences.
With that in mind, I think I'll tell warn my parternal side of the family to hire a professional (or at least a competent high school/college kid) for when my grandfather dies.
Thanks for the info.
Well, if you won't get fired for web surfing, you're sure to get fire for slashdotting your boss's website!
D'oh!
I don't believe it is all about weeding out "undesirable" personalities. In fact, the way you word that tells me you have lumped bad character, you know: when you have more choice about what you do, with personality. I don't think "antisocial" is really part of one's personality. Even people who won't talk to you very much might have someone at home with whom they can't shut up. That's not antisocial behavior. It just means they don't trust you enough to go running their mouth off to you or that they are satisfied with having the person/people at home as their confidant(s); that's not antisocial.
When I think of antisocial I think of people who are aggressive against others or against interacting with them. That's not the same as non-social (with their co-workers).
There are theories out that are used for linking personality with preferences, particularly job preferences. Doesn't the ASVAB ask personality related questions? Not only that, if there is an established team working on a project(s), then the manager might want to try to balance that team by added someone they think has the proper personality to fit in with the rest. Afterall, as a manager you don't want two natural-born leaders in one group, do you?
Granted, I don't know if there is any "personality" test that completely discerns between that which is pure personality and that which comes from character. With that in mind, I doubt there are too many companies that are purely interested in your personality alone, but your character also.
I'm not too surprised, as he seems to be somewhat of a visionary: he see things as he thinks they should be... and explodes when they aren't. ;)
What I don't get is why he choose to use incompetent to describe a group of people who are not implementing something he is just now implementing himself.
What do you expect when there's six kitchens!?
Sounds like he planned that place to be turned into a bed and breakfast when he dies.
Please read the post again.
You might notice that the first, of two, points has nothing to do with warming or cooling. It seems you have not read what I wrote. But, instead, have read into it what you wanted.
The second point has to do with crowning man as, in my opinion, more powerful than he really is while simultaneously demoting his importance. That is: is able to significantly introduce gases into our terrifically voluminous atmosphere to affect climatic changes AND at the same time willing to put humans, and their safety, second to the environment; as the Sierra club (and another environmental group) did in fighting, in court, the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers when they attempted to upgrade the southern Louisiana levee system in the decade leading up to Hurricane Katrina. A side effect of those court battles meant less funds to upgrade the levees. And we know what happened to enough of that levee system and its effect on New Orleans.
As a side note: If you think the sky is big, as far as what is above your head, just remember your horizon is only so far away. Let's be generous and say you can see in a 50 mile radius, that still leaves you seeing a very small portion of your side of the earth (about 0.00001811 of a hemisphere). Since you don't see in a 50 mile radius, but maybe a 20 or, somehow, in a 30 mile radius, your perception is even smaller.
Volcanos, such as Krakatoa ('Long-term effects' section) are much more effective at affecting global climatic changes.
The man-is-responsible-for-global-warming crowd has a strang way of making man less important while declaring great and mighty feats from the same.