Nicely put. I particularly enjoyed ". . . and they consistently appear to have mistaken their windowless cubicles for Olympus/Valhalla." I hope it's okay if I use that:).
(Didn't seem trollish to me, but then, my threshold is pretty high:).)
You make a valid point in the case of cars, but given the tax advantages and the fact that in some parts of the country, mortgage payments plus an allowance for property maintenance are about the same as rent for an equivalent property, writing off home mortgages and their associated tax and equity advantages as foolish isn't such an easy conclusion.
In any case, I was just pointing out a hazard to one's credit file that could ensue from using the OP's strategy--I didn't try to analyze the pros or cons of using credit.
Actually, if the companies doing this are subscribers to credit reporting agencies (e.g. Equifax), they can cause you lots of grief in that situation. If you "agreed" to a EULA that allowed automatic rebilling and gave them a card number that wasn't good at renewal time, they have a nice hammer in the form of credit reporting: you'll need that $39.95 AV renewal collection trade line on your credit report cleared up before you buy your next car or refinance your home.
I think the next line of defense in that sort of thing, provided it isn't shut down by TPTB as facilitating "terrorist money laundering" is to buy giftcards from credit card issuers that look just like regular debit cards to an online merchant but are actually pre-paid debit cards. These can be issued in any name (so far) and don't require identity verification for that name. So if they put a collection on the credit report of Mickey Mouse, so be it.
I won't argue with you about stagnation -- it's conventional wisdom that the only way to get a large increase in salary is to change jobs. I have been lucky with apartments, though--maybe it's because mine's so sparsely furnished that the management realizes that rent increase = 1 month's notice:).
That, and I think when the money trail to Cuomo is eventuall unraveled, it'll show that MyRichUncle and other bitter lenders who weren't offering the best deals and were pissed that they couldn't get on schools' lender lists, helped finance these "investigations".
My first thought is "higher salary." I've seen people leave where I am who were happy and productive but went after the bigger bucks. But you do raise good points--and note that many companies very much prefer new hires from school to people that have spent time in some other company's culture.
Also, if an ex-employer bad-mouths you, that's grounds for a lawsuit which would be an easy win. Any smart employer now will not say anything at all about you except to confirm you worked there, and during what dates. This is standard company policy now at most places.
HR people are the only ones that care about those policies. The real first-line people in the trenches and lower to middle managers will still give references, but only good ones. The ones that don't have anything good to say about a former employee refer the reference checker to HR. And with a wink and a nod, the reference checker knows what that means--people aren't afraid to say good things about a former employee, but are afraid to say bad things, thus the HR referral.
Spare us your self-righteous pap. He caused people to be sued for copyright infringement and lose their homes and assets while living like a king. He was fortunate to have died a natural death.
Those students are paying for that bandwidth and don't need to be told what legal purposes they should or should not use it for by some dickless eye-tee power monger or bureaucratic administator who doesn't want them using a protocol they have trouble monitoring or controlling.
WTF? Beagle at least doesn't call home, like Google Desktop Search and Yahoo Desktop Search (a.k.a. X1 Seach) do. What difference would it make on an unencrypted drive whether you have desktop search software installed or not? If the gendarmes kick down your door, and they want to search your drive, they can mount an image of it and point their own search tool at it, be that a desktop search tool, or forensic search software like ilook or Encase--not having Beagle installed isn't going to save you.
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Nicely put. I particularly enjoyed ". . . and they consistently appear to have mistaken their windowless cubicles for Olympus/Valhalla." I hope it's okay if I use that :).
I'm sure a school with their content cartel friendly police state IT policies probably blocks the TOR entry nodes.
Good luck with that.
So the obvious solution to the intellectual "property" infringement problem is to make copyright infringement punishable by death :).
Right. Because there's only one university, and they can't possibly go to school somewhere else.
Or a Joint Chiefs of Staff meeting. Generals! Generals! Generals!
Unless Apple paid, you don't have too much to worry about from the editors.
LOL -- cracks me up that someone bothered to mod that down. I have more karma than Shiva.
You suck.
I'd be afraid that putting it out there would date me -- it's not like age is an asset for programming jobs.
You make a valid point in the case of cars, but given the tax advantages and the fact that in some parts of the country, mortgage payments plus an allowance for property maintenance are about the same as rent for an equivalent property, writing off home mortgages and their associated tax and equity advantages as foolish isn't such an easy conclusion.
In any case, I was just pointing out a hazard to one's credit file that could ensue from using the OP's strategy--I didn't try to analyze the pros or cons of using credit.
I think the next line of defense in that sort of thing, provided it isn't shut down by TPTB as facilitating "terrorist money laundering" is to buy gift cards from credit card issuers that look just like regular debit cards to an online merchant but are actually pre-paid debit cards. These can be issued in any name (so far) and don't require identity verification for that name. So if they put a collection on the credit report of Mickey Mouse, so be it.
And even if it weren't required, people would just assume that those who left "sexual orientation" blank are gay.
I won't argue with you about stagnation -- it's conventional wisdom that the only way to get a large increase in salary is to change jobs. I have been lucky with apartments, though--maybe it's because mine's so sparsely furnished that the management realizes that rent increase = 1 month's notice :).
That, and I think when the money trail to Cuomo is eventuall unraveled, it'll show that MyRichUncle and other bitter lenders who weren't offering the best deals and were pissed that they couldn't get on schools' lender lists, helped finance these "investigations".
My first thought is "higher salary." I've seen people leave where I am who were happy and productive but went after the bigger bucks. But you do raise good points--and note that many companies very much prefer new hires from school to people that have spent time in some other company's culture.
Also, if an ex-employer bad-mouths you, that's grounds for a lawsuit which would be an easy win. Any smart employer now will not say anything at all about you except to confirm you worked there, and during what dates. This is standard company policy now at most places.
HR people are the only ones that care about those policies. The real first-line people in the trenches and lower to middle managers will still give references, but only good ones. The ones that don't have anything good to say about a former employee refer the reference checker to HR. And with a wink and a nod, the reference checker knows what that means--people aren't afraid to say good things about a former employee, but are afraid to say bad things, thus the HR referral.
Me too. I also have a 5 digit UID that can't moderate to this day after that thread. And naturally, I haven't bothered to ask.
Spare us your self-righteous pap. He caused people to be sued for copyright infringement and lose their homes and assets while living like a king. He was fortunate to have died a natural death.
Hitler loved dogs and children. That doesn't entitle him to our sympathy in death. (Yeah, yeah, Godwin's law yadda yadda.)
Those students are paying for that bandwidth and don't need to be told what legal purposes they should or should not use it for by some dickless eye-tee power monger or bureaucratic administator who doesn't want them using a protocol they have trouble monitoring or controlling.
. . . are roasting together in the ninth circle of Hell.
Because it's inconvenient, and they shouldn't have to. And how many fscking times are you going to post that same trollish rhetorical question?
"Speed trap ahead."
WTF? Beagle at least doesn't call home, like Google Desktop Search and Yahoo Desktop Search (a.k.a. X1 Seach) do. What difference would it make on an unencrypted drive whether you have desktop search software installed or not? If the gendarmes kick down your door, and they want to search your drive, they can mount an image of it and point their own search tool at it, be that a desktop search tool, or forensic search software like ilook or Encase--not having Beagle installed isn't going to save you.