Call Microsoft sales/licensing and tell them your situation and tell them you're working to resolve the licensing issues.
While you're at it find a large bull, kick it in the balls and wave a red flag at it.
I wouldn't put it past MS to charge a back-licensing fee with the threat of court. That's what I'd do if I was running a morally blind monopolistic protection racket.
Talk to your lawyer (of course IANAL) and union rep, possibly the BCS too?
Refuse to install ripped off software and inform the relevant authorities.
You'll get fired or be forced to resign but you'll have a very strong case for unfair/constructive dismissal and be able to sue for plenty of money - not enough that you won't have problems finding a job....
I'm one guy working out of my house (in one role) and use entirely OSS. In my other position as Director we do have to make some compromises, we use a paid for Accounting package running on a paid for copy of Windows XP. That's it however no other non free-gratis software, I'm pretty sure it's all free-libre too.
But that doesn't mean it can't speak from authority when it says that a culture dependent on cheap gas and personal transportation is a really *bad* idea.
You're right his logic is off, but I think the point is that the US can't speak/persuasively/ unless it at least appears to be attempting to solve the problem at home as well as projecting solutions on other nations.
In the same way that telling your child not to go out and get inebriated is less persuasive if they see you doing that exact thing you're counselling against.
You mean they're covering 6-800 Billion or that the expected pay out of what they're covering is 6-800 Billion USD!? If it's the former then the expected payout is going to be far smaller and is going to occur over a protracted period. The 200 Billion should cover it. If the expected payout is that high then the US must just be one whole mass of charred earth, derelict follies (aka skyscrapers) and broken infrastructure.
Are also those risks premium-paid or is there opportunity to collect a little back in the short term. Also could the government consider something like an additional 5% premium to secure the insurance - this would sink some projects for sure (the sickest companies?), others would run at a loss (but save the companies) and some would perhaps only break even, but I'd guess others would still profit. The margin on a toll way, given the risks and capital investment, must be pretty large.
I'm not sure which sense of "underwrite" you're using here?
The problem for the manufacturing industry is a cash flow issue isn't it. They need to borrow to complete projects, etc..
Well doesn't 200 Billion buy you enough projects to keep things moving? Once you've serviced those companies you can pass the debts on to others. Think of the 200 Billion as a bridging loan. Instead that money has been passed on to people who are doing everything in their power to grab as much money as possible whilst they run away. None of that money is going to be used to enable these large scale projects - it simply won't be there in the banks to be leant.
If you pay it out on these large scale projects you mention - instead of paying it to the banks and hoping one day they might - (and you do it properly) you don't even lose the money, it gets paid back with profits.
Management didn't decide to reward then, it was pre-agreed upon payment. And it would be horribly immoral for us to take them away from said recipients.
I'm a director of a business, suppose I decide now - with the other managers - that we should all get bonuses^H pay packets of 200Million USD for the next year (which will be a nice change from below minimum wage). Then, suprise-suprise, the company folds even though we invested all our money on a bet that last year poor people would make more on average than rich people; wow didn't imagine that wouldn't pay out.
So the company has no money to pay us, it's insolvent, we screwed it up and are basically imminently jobless... you think we should get government aid because we had an agreement with the company?
Basically the top guys in all the banks know they've royally "messed up" and no longer can use the previous methods to skim off the best of the economy so they're rallying one last effort to paddle off with the gold before they finally scupper the entire economy of the industrialised nations. What're the governments doing? Standing on the boat handing them the gold.
It's the overpopulation that's going to screw us all as the once rich nations that can no longer feed themselves fall flat on their faces.
Seriously though he did say all the photogs get asked for JPEG's for prepress and so don't need to worry about proper colour. It's so wrong but that's the way of things.
Who knows perhaps GIMP will get icc profiles and dynamic filters... probably when Duke Nukem comes out and raw-tree press stops for ever.
They only way for ODF to fail is if big-business buys the result. I'm sure America has learnt over the past few months not to let big business dictate the politics.
Saying Microsoft Office supports XHTML output is like saying that "dousing with petrol and throwing on a match" can be used to light the candles on a birthday cake.
Strictly true, but please don't let anyone do it.
[maybe the latest iteration is different, but allow me to apply a deal of scepticism]
The industry could of course have a valid example CC number like using example.com as a placeholder domain.
Or just ignore the fact and rely on links to that page being in the index. One could reissue the page with all CC numbers excised (or with the first 4 numbers replaced with AAAA or whatever) and a link at the top to a page with the CC numbers still in. It wouldn't really hurt any genuine use of CC numbers it would just require a little alteration if you wanted the precise page with the CC numbners to be indexed by Google.
The landlord is charging too much rent. Do you sell everything and pay the rent or do you move somewhere cheaper and force the price down?
At the moment it looks like everyone is selling everything to pay the rent (keep the banks going) thing is the landlord is running off with the money and not maintaining the building..
If you just look around near places were [sic] they renovate old houses you can get the old glass for freeâ¦â¦
I think he means he stole the glass that was waiting to be put in someone's house? You know if you look around the places where they store bank notes you can get old money for free too!
[...] I'd rather see that time spent getting a proper version for Linux, and extension support.
Yeah but pissing off the people that caused me so much extra work redesigning websites to work with IEs brokenness (by releasing something better on their release day), that comes a pretty close second for me...
It may be too little, but MSIE has one thing that will have practically everyone installing it... mandated installation via windows update.
"Your browser [Firefox 3] is not the latest version of MSIE, were updating it in the background and setting IE8 as your default browser, to cancel this update please remove your HDD and smash with a hammer."
With even those so-called "web developers" (they're really IE platform specific developers, the web is platform neutral) I'd be suprised to find anyone that really liked IE6 as a platform, perhaps filters and what not for eye-candy on intranet pages swung them?
Perhaps people liked poor CSS support and having to mess around with hundreds of nested tables to get a page that fails against every standard and accessibility test...?
On judging others Jesus, who you claim to follow, says (Mathhew 7, NIV): "You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye."
Notice he doesn't say not to judge at all just that you should get yourself in order first so you're able to help others.
If the New Testament is correct that (1 Corinthians 6, TNIV) "[...] wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral [...] nor practicing homosexuals [...] will inherit the kingdom of God." then loving someone enough that you don't want them to spend eternity away from God means steering them away from any of these things that will prevent them from going to heaven, such as practicing homosexual behaviour.
Doing "good" is not the requirement, (John 14) "no-one comes to the Father except through [Jesus]".
Personally, I would much rather go for hospice care. Aside from being more comfortable for the patient, it also gives them a chance to say goodbye to everyone properly, rather than just gurgling at your horrified visitors from inside a torture chamber.
If I know the time I think I'd rather go and sit on a hill somewhere, possibly take up pipe-smoking, and just die already.
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Call Microsoft sales/licensing and tell them your situation and tell them you're working to resolve the licensing issues.
While you're at it find a large bull, kick it in the balls and wave a red flag at it.
I wouldn't put it past MS to charge a back-licensing fee with the threat of court. That's what I'd do if I was running a morally blind monopolistic protection racket.
Hunger is a strong imperative.
Talk to your lawyer (of course IANAL) and union rep, possibly the BCS too?
Refuse to install ripped off software and inform the relevant authorities.
You'll get fired or be forced to resign but you'll have a very strong case for unfair/constructive dismissal and be able to sue for plenty of money - not enough that you won't have problems finding a job. ...
I'm one guy working out of my house (in one role) and use entirely OSS. In my other position as Director we do have to make some compromises, we use a paid for Accounting package running on a paid for copy of Windows XP. That's it however no other non free-gratis software, I'm pretty sure it's all free-libre too.
We are a small UK limited company.
But that doesn't mean it can't speak from authority when it says that a culture dependent on cheap gas and personal transportation is a really *bad* idea.
You're right his logic is off, but I think the point is that the US can't speak /persuasively/ unless it at least appears to be attempting to solve the problem at home as well as projecting solutions on other nations.
In the same way that telling your child not to go out and get inebriated is less persuasive if they see you doing that exact thing you're counselling against.
US and UK government have guaranteed deposit schemes so that
If the banks go down, everyone loses their savings
isn't strictly true.
I don't know anyone with that much cash.
UK = £50,000 per account holder;
US = $US250,000.
Of course the government might have to print some money if all the banks went down ...
AIG do insurance, who knew ... ;0)>
You mean they're covering 6-800 Billion or that the expected pay out of what they're covering is 6-800 Billion USD!? If it's the former then the expected payout is going to be far smaller and is going to occur over a protracted period. The 200 Billion should cover it. If the expected payout is that high then the US must just be one whole mass of charred earth, derelict follies (aka skyscrapers) and broken infrastructure.
Are also those risks premium-paid or is there opportunity to collect a little back in the short term. Also could the government consider something like an additional 5% premium to secure the insurance - this would sink some projects for sure (the sickest companies?), others would run at a loss (but save the companies) and some would perhaps only break even, but I'd guess others would still profit. The margin on a toll way, given the risks and capital investment, must be pretty large.
It's just like the story of the grasshopper and the octopus.
All year long, the grasshopper kept burying acorns for winter, while the octopus mooched off his girlfriend and watched TV.
But then the winter came, and the grasshopper died, and the octopus ate all his acorns. Also, he got a race car.
Is any of this getting through to you?
You got it exactly right except for this
"winter came, the octopus ate all the grasshopper's acorns and then he died"
I'm not sure which sense of "underwrite" you're using here?
The problem for the manufacturing industry is a cash flow issue isn't it. They need to borrow to complete projects, etc..
Well doesn't 200 Billion buy you enough projects to keep things moving? Once you've serviced those companies you can pass the debts on to others. Think of the 200 Billion as a bridging loan. Instead that money has been passed on to people who are doing everything in their power to grab as much money as possible whilst they run away. None of that money is going to be used to enable these large scale projects - it simply won't be there in the banks to be leant.
If you pay it out on these large scale projects you mention - instead of paying it to the banks and hoping one day they might - (and you do it properly) you don't even lose the money, it gets paid back with profits.
Management didn't decide to reward then, it was pre-agreed upon payment. And it would be horribly immoral for us to take them away from said recipients.
I'm a director of a business, suppose I decide now - with the other managers - that we should all get bonuses^H pay packets of 200Million USD for the next year (which will be a nice change from below minimum wage). Then, suprise-suprise, the company folds even though we invested all our money on a bet that last year poor people would make more on average than rich people; wow didn't imagine that wouldn't pay out.
So the company has no money to pay us, it's insolvent, we screwed it up and are basically imminently jobless ... you think we should get government aid because we had an agreement with the company?
Basically the top guys in all the banks know they've royally "messed up" and no longer can use the previous methods to skim off the best of the economy so they're rallying one last effort to paddle off with the gold before they finally scupper the entire economy of the industrialised nations. What're the governments doing? Standing on the boat handing them the gold.
It's the overpopulation that's going to screw us all as the once rich nations that can no longer feed themselves fall flat on their faces.
But I give that a couple of years yet.
Yeah, and you got pwned in that thread too ...
joking, joking ... ;0)
Seriously though he did say all the photogs get asked for JPEG's for prepress and so don't need to worry about proper colour. It's so wrong but that's the way of things.
Who knows perhaps GIMP will get icc profiles and dynamic filters ... probably when Duke Nukem comes out and raw-tree press stops for ever.
They only way for ODF to fail is if big-business buys the result. I'm sure America has learnt over the past few months not to let big business dictate the politics.
Ha ha ha ha.
Saying Microsoft Office supports XHTML output is like saying that "dousing with petrol and throwing on a match" can be used to light the candles on a birthday cake.
Strictly true, but please don't let anyone do it.
[maybe the latest iteration is different, but allow me to apply a deal of scepticism]
The industry could of course have a valid example CC number like using example.com as a placeholder domain.
Or just ignore the fact and rely on links to that page being in the index. One could reissue the page with all CC numbers excised (or with the first 4 numbers replaced with AAAA or whatever) and a link at the top to a page with the CC numbers still in. It wouldn't really hurt any genuine use of CC numbers it would just require a little alteration if you wanted the precise page with the CC numbners to be indexed by Google.
On a second reading I admit I'm wrong .. just that in this city if it's not locked up it's considered to be free-gratis too.
The landlord is charging too much rent. Do you sell everything and pay the rent or do you move somewhere cheaper and force the price down?
At the moment it looks like everyone is selling everything to pay the rent (keep the banks going) thing is the landlord is running off with the money and not maintaining the building ..
Perhaps I should have gone with a car analogy.
I liked this bit:
If you just look around near places were [sic] they renovate old houses you can get the old glass for freeâ¦â¦
I think he means he stole the glass that was waiting to be put in someone's house? You know if you look around the places where they store bank notes you can get old money for free too!
The story is about the Europe
Did you mean "teh 3urope"?
[...] I'd rather see that time spent getting a proper version for Linux, and extension support.
Yeah but pissing off the people that caused me so much extra work redesigning websites to work with IEs brokenness (by releasing something better on their release day), that comes a pretty close second for me ...
It may be too little, but MSIE has one thing that will have practically everyone installing it ... mandated installation via windows update.
"Your browser [Firefox 3] is not the latest version of MSIE, were updating it in the background and setting IE8 as your default browser, to cancel this update please remove your HDD and smash with a hammer."
With even those so-called "web developers" (they're really IE platform specific developers, the web is platform neutral) I'd be suprised to find anyone that really liked IE6 as a platform, perhaps filters and what not for eye-candy on intranet pages swung them?
Perhaps people liked poor CSS support and having to mess around with hundreds of nested tables to get a page that fails against every standard and accessibility test ...?
It is pretty awesome marketing ... this is a lot more interesting than "meh, another dysfunctional browser from MS"
It was a response to "UK gov. clueless", ie "gov. clueless" is sufficient.
On judging others Jesus, who you claim to follow, says (Mathhew 7, NIV): "You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye."
Notice he doesn't say not to judge at all just that you should get yourself in order first so you're able to help others.
If the New Testament is correct that (1 Corinthians 6, TNIV) "[...] wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral [...] nor practicing homosexuals [...] will inherit the kingdom of God." then loving someone enough that you don't want them to spend eternity away from God means steering them away from any of these things that will prevent them from going to heaven, such as practicing homosexual behaviour.
Doing "good" is not the requirement, (John 14) "no-one comes to the Father except through [Jesus]".
Personally, I would much rather go for hospice care. Aside from being more comfortable for the patient, it also gives them a chance to say goodbye to everyone properly, rather than just gurgling at your horrified visitors from inside a torture chamber.
If I know the time I think I'd rather go and sit on a hill somewhere, possibly take up pipe-smoking, and just die already.