Um. Not sure why parent is modded Troll for that. If there's a charm particle he clearly has a bunch of 'em; is that supposed to be bad? Are social skills that much of a foreign particle to us that we think saying y'have 'em is an insult..?
I know that there's no intelligent motive behind evolution
What a remarkably obtuse thing to say. How can anyone know -- short of subjective observations, which are inherently non-scientific, i.e. revelation from such an "evolution-motivating" intelligence -- whether or not there is an intelligent motive behind any such process?
-5, Burden of Proof
Please explain why the burden of proof doesn't fall on the person claiming knowledge.
Marvelous. One wonders if his damage was gradually regenerating all this time and is now detectable; or if, perhaps, he could have been rehabilitated to walk 20 years ago, had he been someone with more money than a tattoo artist / physical laborer.
Funny, what i saw was "uh.... the Gummint suggested we do it!" and "may not have been appropriate" and "if this has caused the family any offense." Moar qualifiers and excuses plz!
It's your responsibility to know what automated frickin' processes kick in, and to know when to flag an exception and stop them. "Gee, we don't really run our own systems any more, the Computer did it" is the modern version of "i was just following stupid orders." No. Ignorance of your own operations is not an excuse; it is, in fact, a further indication of incompetence.
Second paragraph i typed:). Trying to level solo or thru standard mish chains is still a grindfest, i fear. The major changes are in the new T/SFs at the higher levels.
Posi TF, i think, is an absolute nightmare. You basically run the same mission 10 times 'gainst the same enemies in the same awful cave map. I don't know what they were thinking on that. I can't think of a better way to kill off a new player's interest in the game:(. It needs to go.
By contrast, the newer stuff is shorter, has some variety in location and appearance and mission flow, and are just FUN. Faster paced, they let you go there with even a PUG and do what you came to do - cut loose with all your powers. There isn't [flamewar-spark alert] just "one good way" to do some of the bosses, too; i've seen a couple of strats work well by different groups / leaders. Compare to WoW where the raid leader stereotypically turns into a raving lunatic if anyone deviates from The Plan, because it's follow preprogrammed actions perfectly or wipe the team. Bah.
Try Cimerora and the Rikti War Zone on your 42 scrap, you might find it's what you've been looking for. The new player experience still needs work, however. Around level 10-15 or so when the new-shiny wears off a bit, lots of players i see in chat start getting suspicious of the "what, this again?" There are improvements being made there too with how missions and contacts, work; I am thinking that Champions looming around the corner and the penetration of some reasonable customer feedback is starting to galvanize the devs. Maybe they secured more funding for dev hours, who knows. I hope so.
They were willing to delay the MA by *a lot* - came right out and said, oh my, we've been following your discussions and expectations for the system, and it can't do none of that. We are scrapping and redoing and releasing when it's what you want. This, to me, is the best sign.
And reliable. I just ran across this from another source. The comments that follow the blog are just as interesting as the blog. We make jokes about job security, but if something happens regularly enough it's going to become part of the budget:
Back in the days when Microsoft was making inroads against Novell on the server side, I was employed by a company who had an official internal policy of selling up Windows against Novell.
The reason?
Novell was reliable and technicians seldom had to go back to site to attend to billable issues.
I recently (about 4 months ago) had contact with the same company and they still operate the same way, slagging GNU/Linux, Novell and Apple merely to ensure the regular call out fees.
Now mind you, i have 0 sympathy for this business model. It's the same mentality present in corporate gamblers taking half a trillion dollars of our tax money when they all bet on the same horse and lose, then telling the White House that the government "should have no say" in what compensation they get [flap about the $500k exec cap]. Really? I agree! Give us the bailout money back, you bastards.
The sense of entitlement these ignorance-dependent industries of failure have is astounding.
I'd rather see Linux (or BSD) adoption on a wide scale due to the benefits of the systems, not because they are free.
Of course we'd all like a "pure revolution," where the proITariat suddenly recognize the superiority and freedom available to them and throw off their proprietary shackles.
Realistically, however, how are the adopters going to know the 'benefits of the systems' if they are never exposed to them, never try them in a production environment? Years of partnering with the established regime, familiarity with the systems, the trained acceptance of quirks and flaws as the inevitable price of computing, managers and purchasers who believe you get what you pay for - all this is a pretty high barrier to adoption, being slowly overcome.
I recently had an experience where we needed a new server up and running ASAP. There was some consternation over the Winserver and client licensing costs, and while various channels were being checked, i kept mentioning - you know the old Woody Woodpecker cartoon where the commentator leans into the frame every scene and says, "If Woody had gone right to the police...?" Well, the goal here was a DB, local use only, pretty light load. I said early on, "If i just installed Linux on this box, it would be up and running by now, for no cost other than my time, and i can do it pretty fast." And i said it again when the first Windows price quote came in. And again when they said how long it would take to get it to us. And again, and again, and again...
Finally, i was asked to explain this newfangled option to my experienced but older boss-folk. I did so. Finally it was determined that this was not the time to drop a large sum of money on something if there was an alternative, and was asked [brag alert] when i could have it ready, to which i responded "yesterday," having already set everything up: to the raised eyebrows, i explained that it was just the matter of my taking the OS and running the install and setup while working on other things, since, if they decided not to use it, it could simply be blown away with no real loss. They got the point. We've been using it ever since, and this success has enabled me to start introducing more FOSS solutions where appropriate [/brag].
The moral of this novel: i would dearly love if one day, everyone woke up and said "Hey! We're not falling for any more BS! We're smart, informed people making the best decision for any given situation based on its own merits, and no marketing or FUD shall factor!"
However, until then, i will happily take advantage of every opportunity to step in and say "there's another way, you know," no matter how many times i have to repeat it. And it really drives the point home about the Free part, too, you know. For the cynical who still tie value to cost, feel free to get a support contract with someone for their product, ey? You help support the model, you might even like the support, and the managers feel like they're getting a professional product.
heh... at the risk of starting a war, i will say it's very different now, since it sounds like you stopped playing before CoV came out? you basically had a closed-beta experience, sorry.
Now, there's still a LOT of repetition. Oh look, we're in Building Map X again. Doing the same thing. Again. Only with higher-level baddies. Ergh...
If they can solve that, IMNSHO, they're set. Not coincidentally, Mission Architect might go a long way towards it. It might being in the modding community, as well, with the opportunity to get your missions spotlighted and a whispered chance that the very best of the best may become canon.
Add a 'premium' graphics content option the way eve-online upgraded their graphics, and they will be ahead of the game. The success path i envision is MA brings in enough subbers / returning players / recruit-a-friend drive perks to fund devs to address some of the longstanding issues like lack of variety in basic missions and their art.
The failpath is MA is too nerfed or doesn't give people the tools to get creative or, tbh, they pick missions that too many other players feel is lame. Yeah, it's dev choice, do what you want, but it's naive to think that it won't polarize the playerbase. This isn't just an innovative move, it's really rather brave.
hm. i have to break this off, at work, but hello Infinity server and split-infinity radio:)
But in the Massachusetts law cited by the appeals court, "actual malice" means "malevolent intent or ill will," said the panel. Noonan might be able to persuade a jury that the company demonstrated ill will; Baitler had never referred to a fired employee by name in a mass e-mail before, and jurors might conclude he "singled out Noonan in order to humiliate him," the court wrote.
Emphasis above is mine.
Motion to tag this story with "badsummary," your honor. IANAL but maybe NYCL will stop by this thread for a visit... there are some very, very important lessons here.
First and foremost, this situation arose because no one followed a procedure. Noonan, for whatever reason, did not do his expense reports right. He could be incompetent; he could be a thief; or he simply could have made honest mistakes and/or not realized how seriously those reports were being taken.
Baitler did something he'd never done before: he named someone in a termination notice. That's a/facepalm +2, +5 vs. your liability. Have a written goddamn procedure for anything related to security or liability, have people sign it, and never frickin deviate from it. If you want the right to name someone, make it part of company policy. Having NO policy covering this at all is no defense, either.
In fact, from the badsummary impression of ONOES, U GET SOOD 4 TELIN TRU, what we actually have here is "Employee fired, then singled out in a way no employee ever has been before." Now, I don't see this being a Staples problem - responsibility here seems to rest in the lap of this Baitler person who made the extremely poor decision to do something new in an area of high risk. In PA, this is an at-will state: you still can't fire someone for an illegal reason, but you can fire them for no reason at all. That is what they should have done, if they felt the expense report thing was not resolvable by working with Noonan (either because they were sick of it, or someone had a personal grudge, or because he was actually in fact stealing - all irrelevant).
What Staples can best do here now is define clear from-the-top policy about how terminations are handled. If it were me, i'd have a word or three with Baitler and look to settle with Noonan, but i imagine they'll see if Noonan's claim is allowed to be amended first before approaching him.
They aren't some sort of consumer advocates, they're goddamned anarcho-communists.
Um. I liked your response to my post an' all, but i don't think they ever claimed to be otherwise really. one man's invective is another's badge of honor.
Also, despite our instinct (yours, mine, everyone's) to paint an ideological opponent as part of a hive-mind, there is no "they." There's a bunch of people, with commonalities (which a clever spin-artist will say makes one's opponents mindlessly monolithic), and differences (which a clever spin-artist will say makes one's opponents a fractuous, directionless mob).
This makes my brain hurt, teh implications, teh possibilities legal and otherwise...
i think i have to defer comment and opinion until some experts wander in (are we allowed to do that here? Will my account be locked?,-) ).
What does strike me is Protest 2.0.
SysAlert: new protest available. Download? [Y/N] > y ........... done.
Run protest? [Y/N] > y
Protest running.
Of course, i'm gonna complain that no one can be arsed to actually do anything any more, aren't i? And i advocate automation and interfacing with other systems - literally, figuratively, politically, socially, mechanically - whenever possible. So is this looking-askance at Protest.sh a little Luddite slipping in in my old age? Or will it just encourage MORE laziness - oh, if i don't have a button to press, i can't be arsed so prepackage my activism please.
Yeah, fair enough, sorry, i knew i shoulda been less snarky and more specific.
As i think others have mentioned, tho, botnets are in even the non-technical media pretty regularly - this is not a new, unproven, cutting-edge investigation. This is "we have conclusively and dramatically (and illegally) proven that water is wet! Go us!"
Botnets, zombies, ebil lone hackers sitting at an unknown console commanding a vast army... this is strong movie-like imagery, and the media and public eat it up. Where's the reporting on coporate security policies and their enforcement, or lack thereof? Why don't they submit some "honeyed" made up personal info to a site that claims not to sell it, then see how fast it spreads...?
There's stuff that actually needs investigating. Badly. And it could be done quite well. New to the reporter != news.
Breaking or bending the law to demonstrate a known is not as justified, imho, as truly going out on a limb to try and uncover something new.
Aside from that, i still maintain my horror at your implication that the BBC is more allowed to break the law than any other given lawbreaker, because they are such great successful guys with brand recognition...
Your Honor, my client is wearing a Saville Row suit and is a Respected Member of the Business Community. As a highly-paid journalist, it's important he avoid reporting on things that annoy the powerful, and concentrate on making us more attractive to advertisers, capitalize on buzzwords, and get us publicity.
On the other hand, that scruffy bastard over there has a snarky T-shirt on, keeps saying something about the safety of our information that i don't understand, and frankly, Your Honor, I Just Don't Like His Attitude.
Clearly, Your Honor, my client should be paid for his time wasted here in court today. Fry the scruffy bastard. See you and the missus for tea on Thursday, wot?
Sigh. Your paranoia about perceived liberalism has unfortunately has caused you to footbullet:
there have even been documented incidents
Some species of ants
Yes, various living things will quite ruthlessly and efficiently obliterate a threat, or competition, or whatever else activates that trigger. They're really rather good at it, too. This may be because they don't need the funding approved or a resolution from Congress. (I wonder how the Queen evaluates her intelligence sources..?:D).
I am sorry to have triggered your Red-Alert (ahem) reaction, so let's look at my hypothesis again, bold parts added because i like the b tag:
Maybe it isn't a universal trait that serious injury or death is the only way
Now, i'll give you the Maybe, because it's understood that when you get a conditional in context like that, the implication is that the speaker is endorsing that belief, and it isn't a truly fair "maybe." So okay. However, I'd have to modify my sentence further to make it into the kind of absolute statement you seem to want to think it is.
But thanks so much for stopping by to educate the poor unlearned liberal. If i see him, i'll tell him you were here.
Hi! That's good, but i'm afraid i have to be annoying now.
2 years ago, there were rumours floating around that "Firefox 3 will release official.msi files for enterprise deployment." 3.0.7.. or 3.1... or 3.5... is here now, and the only source for central management i can readily access are third-party packagers.
Some provide this free - tho rebranded - and others charge for the service. There are of course also commercial solutions to build my own packages. Any of them, especially the free ones, release new updates when they get around to it, leaving any central deployment behind on disclosed vulnerabilities and bugfixes.
All of them work against the purpose of this great FOSS app and its adoption in the workplace..adm support is varied as well (tho i did learn a bit from poking around and modifying someone else's). As it is, i have yet to find a free packager that will let me deploy with the extensions i choose.
What happened to the rumblings of simultaneous.msi release? Was it a technical decision, or a business decision? None of the packaging services i've seen claim any affiliation with Mozilla, but who knows.
Thoughts?
PS: let's assume a nonprofit with a limited budget here, shall we? Hope that heads off anyone who wants to chime in with "go buy stuff!"
Slashdot Mirror
Um. Not sure why parent is modded Troll for that. If there's a charm particle he clearly has a bunch of 'em; is that supposed to be bad? Are social skills that much of a foreign particle to us that we think saying y'have 'em is an insult..?
Why, is Boson suspected of foul play?
Where, pray tell, is parent's Informative mod, mmm?
Oh, and
an exotic hadron containing charm quarks.
Mmmm... Lucky Charms...
Please explain why the burden of proof doesn't fall on the person claiming knowledge.
Do you claim to know that it does?
a eunuch in a Klan uniform
You, sir or madam, owe me a new keyboard.
Marvelous. One wonders if his damage was gradually regenerating all this time and is now detectable; or if, perhaps, he could have been rehabilitated to walk 20 years ago, had he been someone with more money than a tattoo artist / physical laborer.
owned up to
Funny, what i saw was "uh.... the Gummint suggested we do it!" and "may not have been appropriate" and "if this has caused the family any offense." Moar qualifiers and excuses plz!
It's your responsibility to know what automated frickin' processes kick in, and to know when to flag an exception and stop them. "Gee, we don't really run our own systems any more, the Computer did it" is the modern version of "i was just following stupid orders." No. Ignorance of your own operations is not an excuse; it is, in fact, a further indication of incompetence.
Second paragraph i typed :). Trying to level solo or thru standard mish chains is still a grindfest, i fear. The major changes are in the new T/SFs at the higher levels.
Posi TF, i think, is an absolute nightmare. You basically run the same mission 10 times 'gainst the same enemies in the same awful cave map. I don't know what they were thinking on that. I can't think of a better way to kill off a new player's interest in the game :(. It needs to go.
By contrast, the newer stuff is shorter, has some variety in location and appearance and mission flow, and are just FUN. Faster paced, they let you go there with even a PUG and do what you came to do - cut loose with all your powers. There isn't [flamewar-spark alert] just "one good way" to do some of the bosses, too; i've seen a couple of strats work well by different groups / leaders. Compare to WoW where the raid leader stereotypically turns into a raving lunatic if anyone deviates from The Plan, because it's follow preprogrammed actions perfectly or wipe the team. Bah.
Try Cimerora and the Rikti War Zone on your 42 scrap, you might find it's what you've been looking for. The new player experience still needs work, however. Around level 10-15 or so when the new-shiny wears off a bit, lots of players i see in chat start getting suspicious of the "what, this again?" There are improvements being made there too with how missions and contacts, work; I am thinking that Champions looming around the corner and the penetration of some reasonable customer feedback is starting to galvanize the devs. Maybe they secured more funding for dev hours, who knows. I hope so.
They were willing to delay the MA by *a lot* - came right out and said, oh my, we've been following your discussions and expectations for the system, and it can't do none of that. We are scrapping and redoing and releasing when it's what you want. This, to me, is the best sign.
Please don't mention "4chan" and "hardened systems" that closely.
What do you blaim your inability to read the mandatory preview on?
Whatever we can blame yours on, I suppose!
er... come on now... parent modded troll? really??
o_O
And reliable. I just ran across this from another source. The comments that follow the blog are just as interesting as the blog. We make jokes about job security, but if something happens regularly enough it's going to become part of the budget:
The Fine Article
Back in the days when Microsoft was making inroads against Novell on the server side, I was employed by a company who had an official internal policy of selling up Windows against Novell.
The reason?
Novell was reliable and technicians seldom had to go back to site to attend to billable issues.
I recently (about 4 months ago) had contact with the same company and they still operate the same way, slagging GNU/Linux, Novell and Apple merely to ensure the regular call out fees.
Now mind you, i have 0 sympathy for this business model. It's the same mentality present in corporate gamblers taking half a trillion dollars of our tax money when they all bet on the same horse and lose, then telling the White House that the government "should have no say" in what compensation they get [flap about the $500k exec cap]. Really? I agree! Give us the bailout money back, you bastards.
The sense of entitlement these ignorance-dependent industries of failure have is astounding.
I'd rather see Linux (or BSD) adoption on a wide scale due to the benefits of the systems, not because they are free.
Of course we'd all like a "pure revolution," where the proITariat suddenly recognize the superiority and freedom available to them and throw off their proprietary shackles.
Realistically, however, how are the adopters going to know the 'benefits of the systems' if they are never exposed to them, never try them in a production environment? Years of partnering with the established regime, familiarity with the systems, the trained acceptance of quirks and flaws as the inevitable price of computing, managers and purchasers who believe you get what you pay for - all this is a pretty high barrier to adoption, being slowly overcome.
I recently had an experience where we needed a new server up and running ASAP. There was some consternation over the Winserver and client licensing costs, and while various channels were being checked, i kept mentioning - you know the old Woody Woodpecker cartoon where the commentator leans into the frame every scene and says, "If Woody had gone right to the police...?" Well, the goal here was a DB, local use only, pretty light load. I said early on, "If i just installed Linux on this box, it would be up and running by now, for no cost other than my time, and i can do it pretty fast." And i said it again when the first Windows price quote came in. And again when they said how long it would take to get it to us. And again, and again, and again...
Finally, i was asked to explain this newfangled option to my experienced but older boss-folk. I did so. Finally it was determined that this was not the time to drop a large sum of money on something if there was an alternative, and was asked [brag alert] when i could have it ready, to which i responded "yesterday," having already set everything up: to the raised eyebrows, i explained that it was just the matter of my taking the OS and running the install and setup while working on other things, since, if they decided not to use it, it could simply be blown away with no real loss. They got the point. We've been using it ever since, and this success has enabled me to start introducing more FOSS solutions where appropriate [/brag].
The moral of this novel: i would dearly love if one day, everyone woke up and said "Hey! We're not falling for any more BS! We're smart, informed people making the best decision for any given situation based on its own merits, and no marketing or FUD shall factor!"
However, until then, i will happily take advantage of every opportunity to step in and say "there's another way, you know," no matter how many times i have to repeat it. And it really drives the point home about the Free part, too, you know. For the cynical who still tie value to cost, feel free to get a support contract with someone for their product, ey? You help support the model, you might even like the support, and the managers feel like they're getting a professional product.
At this point i'm hoping there will be a "next generation of spacecraft" in my lifetime.
where's that... one sec:
I always knew I'd see the first man on the Moon. I never thought I'd see the last.
Dr. Jerry Eugene Pournelle
heh... at the risk of starting a war, i will say it's very different now, since it sounds like you stopped playing before CoV came out? you basically had a closed-beta experience, sorry.
Now, there's still a LOT of repetition. Oh look, we're in Building Map X again. Doing the same thing. Again. Only with higher-level baddies. Ergh...
If they can solve that, IMNSHO, they're set. Not coincidentally, Mission Architect might go a long way towards it. It might being in the modding community, as well, with the opportunity to get your missions spotlighted and a whispered chance that the very best of the best may become canon.
Add a 'premium' graphics content option the way eve-online upgraded their graphics, and they will be ahead of the game. The success path i envision is MA brings in enough subbers / returning players / recruit-a-friend drive perks to fund devs to address some of the longstanding issues like lack of variety in basic missions and their art.
The failpath is MA is too nerfed or doesn't give people the tools to get creative or, tbh, they pick missions that too many other players feel is lame. Yeah, it's dev choice, do what you want, but it's naive to think that it won't polarize the playerbase. This isn't just an innovative move, it's really rather brave.
hm. i have to break this off, at work, but hello Infinity server and split-infinity radio :)
sort of an undead lawyer now
Ach. Terry Pratchett should sue, but that might cause a rip in the space-time continuum.
UNSTABLE MOLECULES!
Oho, what's this?
But in the Massachusetts law cited by the appeals court, "actual malice" means "malevolent intent or ill will," said the panel. Noonan might be able to persuade a jury that the company demonstrated ill will; Baitler had never referred to a fired employee by name in a mass e-mail before, and jurors might conclude he "singled out Noonan in order to humiliate him," the court wrote.
Emphasis above is mine.
Motion to tag this story with "badsummary," your honor. IANAL but maybe NYCL will stop by this thread for a visit... there are some very, very important lessons here.
First and foremost, this situation arose because no one followed a procedure. Noonan, for whatever reason, did not do his expense reports right. He could be incompetent; he could be a thief; or he simply could have made honest mistakes and/or not realized how seriously those reports were being taken.
Baitler did something he'd never done before: he named someone in a termination notice. That's a /facepalm +2, +5 vs. your liability. Have a written goddamn procedure for anything related to security or liability, have people sign it, and never frickin deviate from it. If you want the right to name someone, make it part of company policy. Having NO policy covering this at all is no defense, either.
In fact, from the badsummary impression of ONOES, U GET SOOD 4 TELIN TRU, what we actually have here is "Employee fired, then singled out in a way no employee ever has been before." Now, I don't see this being a Staples problem - responsibility here seems to rest in the lap of this Baitler person who made the extremely poor decision to do something new in an area of high risk. In PA, this is an at-will state: you still can't fire someone for an illegal reason, but you can fire them for no reason at all. That is what they should have done, if they felt the expense report thing was not resolvable by working with Noonan (either because they were sick of it, or someone had a personal grudge, or because he was actually in fact stealing - all irrelevant).
What Staples can best do here now is define clear from-the-top policy about how terminations are handled. If it were me, i'd have a word or three with Baitler and look to settle with Noonan, but i imagine they'll see if Noonan's claim is allowed to be amended first before approaching him.
They aren't some sort of consumer advocates, they're goddamned anarcho-communists.
Um. I liked your response to my post an' all, but i don't think they ever claimed to be otherwise really. one man's invective is another's badge of honor.
Also, despite our instinct (yours, mine, everyone's) to paint an ideological opponent as part of a hive-mind, there is no "they." There's a bunch of people, with commonalities (which a clever spin-artist will say makes one's opponents mindlessly monolithic), and differences (which a clever spin-artist will say makes one's opponents a fractuous, directionless mob).
This makes my brain hurt, teh implications, teh possibilities legal and otherwise...
i think i have to defer comment and opinion until some experts wander in (are we allowed to do that here? Will my account be locked? ,-) ).
What does strike me is Protest 2.0.
SysAlert: new protest available. Download? [Y/N] > y
........... done.
Run protest? [Y/N] > y
Protest running.
Of course, i'm gonna complain that no one can be arsed to actually do anything any more, aren't i? And i advocate automation and interfacing with other systems - literally, figuratively, politically, socially, mechanically - whenever possible. So is this looking-askance at Protest.sh a little Luddite slipping in in my old age? Or will it just encourage MORE laziness - oh, if i don't have a button to press, i can't be arsed so prepackage my activism please.
Brain hurts again :P
Your comment + your sig = i immediately think of Nethack...
Yeah, fair enough, sorry, i knew i shoulda been less snarky and more specific.
As i think others have mentioned, tho, botnets are in even the non-technical media pretty regularly - this is not a new, unproven, cutting-edge investigation. This is "we have conclusively and dramatically (and illegally) proven that water is wet! Go us!"
Botnets, zombies, ebil lone hackers sitting at an unknown console commanding a vast army... this is strong movie-like imagery, and the media and public eat it up. Where's the reporting on coporate security policies and their enforcement, or lack thereof? Why don't they submit some "honeyed" made up personal info to a site that claims not to sell it, then see how fast it spreads...?
There's stuff that actually needs investigating. Badly. And it could be done quite well. New to the reporter != news.
Breaking or bending the law to demonstrate a known is not as justified, imho, as truly going out on a limb to try and uncover something new.
Aside from that, i still maintain my horror at your implication that the BBC is more allowed to break the law than any other given lawbreaker, because they are such great successful guys with brand recognition...
Ah. Yes. Quite.
Your Honor, my client is wearing a Saville Row suit and is a Respected Member of the Business Community. As a highly-paid journalist, it's important he avoid reporting on things that annoy the powerful, and concentrate on making us more attractive to advertisers, capitalize on buzzwords, and get us publicity.
On the other hand, that scruffy bastard over there has a snarky T-shirt on, keeps saying something about the safety of our information that i don't understand, and frankly, Your Honor, I Just Don't Like His Attitude.
Clearly, Your Honor, my client should be paid for his time wasted here in court today. Fry the scruffy bastard. See you and the missus for tea on Thursday, wot?
Sigh. Your paranoia about perceived liberalism has unfortunately has caused you to footbullet:
there have even been documented incidents
Some species of ants
Yes, various living things will quite ruthlessly and efficiently obliterate a threat, or competition, or whatever else activates that trigger. They're really rather good at it, too. This may be because they don't need the funding approved or a resolution from Congress. (I wonder how the Queen evaluates her intelligence sources..? :D).
I am sorry to have triggered your Red-Alert (ahem) reaction, so let's look at my hypothesis again, bold parts added because i like the b tag:
Maybe it isn't a universal trait that serious injury or death is the only way
Now, i'll give you the Maybe, because it's understood that when you get a conditional in context like that, the implication is that the speaker is endorsing that belief, and it isn't a truly fair "maybe." So okay. However, I'd have to modify my sentence further to make it into the kind of absolute statement you seem to want to think it is.
But thanks so much for stopping by to educate the poor unlearned liberal. If i see him, i'll tell him you were here.
Hi! That's good, but i'm afraid i have to be annoying now.
2 years ago, there were rumours floating around that "Firefox 3 will release official .msi files for enterprise deployment." 3.0.7.. or 3.1... or 3.5... is here now, and the only source for central management i can readily access are third-party packagers.
Some provide this free - tho rebranded - and others charge for the service. There are of course also commercial solutions to build my own packages. Any of them, especially the free ones, release new updates when they get around to it, leaving any central deployment behind on disclosed vulnerabilities and bugfixes.
All of them work against the purpose of this great FOSS app and its adoption in the workplace. .adm support is varied as well (tho i did learn a bit from poking around and modifying someone else's). As it is, i have yet to find a free packager that will let me deploy with the extensions i choose.
What happened to the rumblings of simultaneous .msi release? Was it a technical decision, or a business decision? None of the packaging services i've seen claim any affiliation with Mozilla, but who knows.
Thoughts?
PS: let's assume a nonprofit with a limited budget here, shall we? Hope that heads off anyone who wants to chime in with "go buy stuff!"