I have great feelings for a culture where you are murdered for helping women. Where women are mutilated by their families because they were raped
maybe veering a little off topic here, but that reminded me of a story in our paper this morning...extract: A jealous butcher cut off his wifes leg for "exposing herself" to a gynaecologist just after giving birth to twins. Crazed Adamu Hussaini, 52, became convinced exhausted wife Amina, 27, was flirting with the doctor who examined her.
When they got home he tied her to their bed and cut off her leg with his butchers knives. Neighbours called police when they heard screams. Hussaini told police "I wanted to teach her a lesson"
Any you want to be nice to these people?
Well that's my 0,02 anyway...(bah, *Britan*, indeed).
err....that's £0.02...we don't need no stinkin euros blatant troll, but had to be said
Opinions expressed are mine, not my bosses. You can tell this because they're mostly spelt correctly, and do not contain demands for useless reports explaining that we missed a deadline because the developer was busy writing useless reports explaining that we missed a deadline because....you get the gist...
you mean like those emails I keep getting, that say 'AOL and microsoft are tracking this mail, and will donate $0.50 for every person that receives it. Forward this to all your friends, and be a nice guy for FREE!!!!'
Women have chunky days?!? Are guys really supposed to know this stuff? I am experiencing fear
I hear that...i'm in the position of doing both jobs - development weekdays, burger flipping weekends (yep, development pay really is that bad round these parts), and I have yet to have any issues with management at either place where they haven't backed down. As long as you play their game well enough for them to look good to their boss, they tend to play back ok when you need something.
Of course, it depends on the boss and his perception of you. We had a great guy here up until a few months ago. Management didn't take to him (he produced actual work, not reports about work) so they spent 5 months gradually reshuffling people around so he was on my old project, and i was moved to a new one. Then they cut my old project, with the redundancy of everyone working on it. We since found out that they were planning to cut the project from the start, and were 'restructuring' everyone to make sure the ones they wanted to cut were there when it went tits up.
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It's illegal to steal a phone, right? If I've stolen a phone, I'm probably not gonna be vastly upset to have to break another to make it usable. The only people who'd want to change the IMEI (that I can think of anyway) would be hackers etc who want to either learn some stuff or develop some stuff. Nothing too harmful there IMHO, and if the phone isn't stolen I can't really see the phone co. saying anything more than "sorry, your warranty's just gone bye-bye" if you do this. Fair enough.
I can see one point to this law though. At the moment, I can take any phone into any phone shop, and have the IMEI changed in 10 minutes, no questions asked. This law will stop this happening. It means theives will have to get the equipment and knowledge to do this themselves. In that sense, it will slow down casual mobile thefts. It'll never stop it, cos there'll always be people who can do it, and shops which will do it under the counter. But hey, it's a start.
Personally, I'm quite happy with my IMEI number, so I'm not overly fussed about not being allowed to change it:-)
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I have great feelings for a culture where you are murdered for helping women. Where women are mutilated by their families because they were raped
maybe veering a little off topic here, but that reminded me of a story in our paper this morning...extract:
A jealous butcher cut off his wifes leg for "exposing herself" to a gynaecologist just after giving birth to twins. Crazed Adamu Hussaini, 52, became convinced exhausted wife Amina, 27, was flirting with the doctor who examined her.
When they got home he tied her to their bed and cut off her leg with his butchers knives. Neighbours called police when they heard screams. Hussaini told police "I wanted to teach her a lesson" Any you want to be nice to these people?
Well that's my 0,02 anyway...(bah, *Britan*, indeed).
err....that's £0.02...we don't need no stinkin euros
blatant troll, but had to be said
Opinions expressed are mine, not my bosses. You can tell this because they're mostly spelt correctly, and do not contain demands for useless reports explaining that we missed a deadline because the developer was busy writing useless reports explaining that we missed a deadline because....you get the gist...
you mean like those emails I keep getting, that say 'AOL and microsoft are tracking this mail, and will donate $0.50 for every person that receives it. Forward this to all your friends, and be a nice guy for FREE!!!!'
Women have chunky days?!? Are guys really supposed to know this stuff? I am experiencing fear
I hear that...i'm in the position of doing both jobs - development weekdays, burger flipping weekends (yep, development pay really is that bad round these parts), and I have yet to have any issues with management at either place where they haven't backed down. As long as you play their game well enough for them to look good to their boss, they tend to play back ok when you need something. Of course, it depends on the boss and his perception of you. We had a great guy here up until a few months ago. Management didn't take to him (he produced actual work, not reports about work) so they spent 5 months gradually reshuffling people around so he was on my old project, and i was moved to a new one. Then they cut my old project, with the redundancy of everyone working on it. We since found out that they were planning to cut the project from the start, and were 'restructuring' everyone to make sure the ones they wanted to cut were there when it went tits up. T ÓÓ?
It's illegal to steal a phone, right? If I've stolen a phone, I'm probably not gonna be vastly upset to have to break another to make it usable.
:-)
The only people who'd want to change the IMEI (that I can think of anyway) would be hackers etc who want to either learn some stuff or develop some stuff. Nothing too harmful there IMHO, and if the phone isn't stolen I can't really see the phone co. saying anything more than "sorry, your warranty's just gone bye-bye" if you do this. Fair enough.
I can see one point to this law though. At the moment, I can take any phone into any phone shop, and have the IMEI changed in 10 minutes, no questions asked. This law will stop this happening. It means theives will have to get the equipment and knowledge to do this themselves. In that sense, it will slow down casual mobile thefts. It'll never stop it, cos there'll always be people who can do it, and shops which will do it under the counter. But hey, it's a start.
Personally, I'm quite happy with my IMEI number, so I'm not overly fussed about not being allowed to change it