Since I am neither bad, nor lazy, I often make a considerable amount more than my coworkers. Even those who supposedly have the same title and more seniority. If I don't like the job, the environment, or my boss, I can always leave and go somewhere else.
Ditto, but I've also spent 15yrs on the other side of town where unions are often all that's between you and the gutter, doesn't matter how good you are at swinging a mop, without unions there are a hundred more who will do it cheaper.
You seem to think that unions are there to protect lazy people? - Have you have actually tried raising a family while wearing a blue color? Do you have callouses on your hands from all your "hard work"? Do realize that when people call you a "suit", it's not a sign of respect?
I worked at a place where management took the stall doors away in the toilets so they could see if people were slacking off. Union had the doors back up that afternoon and that was the last we heard of it.
I feel your suffering, now if you would just let those who know what they are talking about rearrange some of your brain wiring, we would all be in a lot less pain.
If they rounded it up to 150 million kilometers people would just remember it, much better if people have to look it up and be reminded who defined it. Yes, I'm being cynical.
This is slashdot, no good deed should be left unpunished. Twitter stood it's ground until it ran out of legal options, good for them, they should be applauded for their efforts to protect his privacy. At the end of the day the cops do appear to have "reasonable cause" in that they claim it "will show Mr. Harris was aware of police orders that he then disregarded". The right to privacy does not give you the right to conceal evidence, however if everyone who was innocent also had the balls to hold out until the legal ground was solid then it would tend to deter "fishing expeditions".
If you had the power to not release that video, and the knowledge that the people would die, would you have saved their lives by not uploading the video? If you knew it were you that would be killed, would you have uploaded it?
At this point in the saga I would re-release it, to do otherwise would signal your intention to cave in to every demand that has a death threat attached to it. OTOH: nobody would be threatening me over that particular movie, it's deliberate flame bait and I wouldn't have anything to do with it in the first place.
I know where you are coming from "let sleeping dogs lay" and all that, google doesn't have that option, some arsehole has already woken them up. It's now a battle of ideas and you certainly won't win any converts to free speech if all you do is use it to bash them and their beliefs.
Similar thing applies in the Westminster system, it's up to the prime minister when to call the election, the only real limit is that it must be done before the end of their term. If parliament is gridlocked the queen (or her representative) can call an election to unclog things, such a scenario is called a double dissolution and AFAIK was last done here in Oz in the mid-70's when the governor general sacked the government because it's budget was rejected by the senate twice in a row.
You're an adult male and you don't have a cave? - get one, they are (historically) very cheap at the moment. If a cave girl moves in and wrecks the decor, get a small cave out the back and tell the little monkeys to stay out of it.
There's been a lot of stuff about twitter in the news here lately, some celebrity was hospitalized due to a couple of tweets (no shit!). She doesn't hide the fact she is spruking an "anti-cyber-bullying charity". Personally I think it's about traditional media beating up on new media the only way it knows how, with a media beat up. Twitter has a mere 200K users in Oz, (I'm not one of 'em), it's bizarre that it gains this much political attention.
... are journalists, as a whole, really that bad at their jobs? Christie Wilcox reports that...
I think we could probably patent the application of the uncertainty principle to journalism. Yeah I know skepticism has prior art, but if we don't use that word, your average examiner won't know about it....
I'm not an international researcher but I'd agree that the US is high on the list of "research friendly nations", the science the US actually does is quite a contrast to the popular culture it projects, not to mention infinitely more valuable to the rest of the world.
I've known since 1978 that "bugs were part of the job" and yet I persist.
I'd go further than that and say bugs ARE the job, when they stop being reported your product is dead, your business/corporate-department probably died earlier than your product. Note that by "bugs" I mean the software/documents don't do/say whatever the guy spending the money wants them to do/say. As I'm sure you know, a professional works on the basis that giving the customer/boss what they want does not necessarily mean giving them what they ask for, so right there you have your first major "bug" to iron out.
...or perhaps they do an unpaid internship/job at a charity organization. Yes there are pricks who will abuse any system but in general people usually try to be decent human beings, and money is not the only reward. Too often interns just sit in a corner totally bewildered, it's not their fault. Also people do want to help them get up to speed, it's just a fact of life their own work takes precedence over the kid in the corner.
PS: The first trip you got 1/2 pay + training, no guaranteed "next time", no turning back unless it's a life or death thing, if you do nothing but spew up for the next 3 days you still get the "training pay".
7hrs without a break is not inhumane. Last time I worked in a factory the law was a minimum 30min break every 5hrs, and Aussie labor laws are generally more favorable to workers than those in the US. I'm not saying Foxconn is a model employer but there's a big difference between rough conditions and inhumane treatment. For example, I worked on a fishing trawler in the 80's, 30hrs steaming to and from the fishing grounds, 36hrs straight on your feet sorting fish from things that either bite or sting, with short periods flat on your back on the deck, a 30min break every 5hrs. It was hard work but good pay, as a young bloke I was as happy as a pig in shit and so were the rest of the crew, except for the skipper who was your stero-typical small business pirate.
...of single celled organisims hitching a ride from Mars to Earth. We are talking about a complex multi-celled creature here, it's a very different proposition. I find the whole "panspermia" argument pointless, the Earth is made of the same stuff the rest of the solar system is made of, sure organic chemicals, large chunks of ice and maybe even single celled creatures rained down on the early Earth from space, that stuff just made the Earth a bit bigger, it was fundementally no different to the existing material. I think it comes from the idea that life is incredibly unlikely and only started in one place at one time, modern evidence says that notion is just a sciencey rebadging of the genesis myth.
As someone who has hired over 50 programmers in his career I don't need a theory to tell me it doesn't work, experince tells me it does work. If you're not smart enough to get past the HR filter, why the hell would I want to interview you?
The problem for many of us is we want our resume to be truthful.
Nobody is asking you to lie, they're asking you to jump through a hoop.
He became a caricature of himself, an iron-fisted evil dictator who's trying so hard people laugh at him.
Can't be all bad if you're allowed to laugh at him in public. Personally I would like to see a cage match between Putin and Palin, the cage should be mounted on an iceberg in the middle of the barring straight so that both nations can see it.
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Since I am neither bad, nor lazy, I often make a considerable amount more than my coworkers. Even those who supposedly have the same title and more seniority. If I don't like the job, the environment, or my boss, I can always leave and go somewhere else.
Ditto, but I've also spent 15yrs on the other side of town where unions are often all that's between you and the gutter, doesn't matter how good you are at swinging a mop, without unions there are a hundred more who will do it cheaper.
You seem to think that unions are there to protect lazy people? - Have you have actually tried raising a family while wearing a blue color? Do you have callouses on your hands from all your "hard work"? Do realize that when people call you a "suit", it's not a sign of respect?
I worked at a place where management took the stall doors away in the toilets so they could see if people were slacking off. Union had the doors back up that afternoon and that was the last we heard of it.
I feel your suffering, now if you would just let those who know what they are talking about rearrange some of your brain wiring, we would all be in a lot less pain.
If they rounded it up to 150 million kilometers people would just remember it, much better if people have to look it up and be reminded who defined it. Yes, I'm being cynical.
you've picked the wrong target.
This is slashdot, no good deed should be left unpunished. Twitter stood it's ground until it ran out of legal options, good for them, they should be applauded for their efforts to protect his privacy. At the end of the day the cops do appear to have "reasonable cause" in that they claim it "will show Mr. Harris was aware of police orders that he then disregarded". The right to privacy does not give you the right to conceal evidence, however if everyone who was innocent also had the balls to hold out until the legal ground was solid then it would tend to deter "fishing expeditions".
If you had the power to not release that video, and the knowledge that the people would die, would you have saved their lives by not uploading the video? If you knew it were you that would be killed, would you have uploaded it?
At this point in the saga I would re-release it, to do otherwise would signal your intention to cave in to every demand that has a death threat attached to it. OTOH: nobody would be threatening me over that particular movie, it's deliberate flame bait and I wouldn't have anything to do with it in the first place.
I know where you are coming from "let sleeping dogs lay" and all that, google doesn't have that option, some arsehole has already woken them up. It's now a battle of ideas and you certainly won't win any converts to free speech if all you do is use it to bash them and their beliefs.
Similar thing applies in the Westminster system, it's up to the prime minister when to call the election, the only real limit is that it must be done before the end of their term. If parliament is gridlocked the queen (or her representative) can call an election to unclog things, such a scenario is called a double dissolution and AFAIK was last done here in Oz in the mid-70's when the governor general sacked the government because it's budget was rejected by the senate twice in a row.
We never would have left the caves.
You're an adult male and you don't have a cave? - get one, they are (historically) very cheap at the moment. If a cave girl moves in and wrecks the decor, get a small cave out the back and tell the little monkeys to stay out of it.
what is probably the least most popular government
I sense an undecided voter. ;)
There's been a lot of stuff about twitter in the news here lately, some celebrity was hospitalized due to a couple of tweets (no shit!). She doesn't hide the fact she is spruking an "anti-cyber-bullying charity". Personally I think it's about traditional media beating up on new media the only way it knows how, with a media beat up. Twitter has a mere 200K users in Oz, (I'm not one of 'em), it's bizarre that it gains this much political attention.
... are journalists, as a whole, really that bad at their jobs? Christie Wilcox reports that ...
I think we could probably patent the application of the uncertainty principle to journalism. Yeah I know skepticism has prior art, but if we don't use that word, your average examiner won't know about it....
I'm not an international researcher but I'd agree that the US is high on the list of "research friendly nations", the science the US actually does is quite a contrast to the popular culture it projects, not to mention infinitely more valuable to the rest of the world.
I've known since 1978 that "bugs were part of the job" and yet I persist.
I'd go further than that and say bugs ARE the job, when they stop being reported your product is dead, your business/corporate-department probably died earlier than your product. Note that by "bugs" I mean the software/documents don't do/say whatever the guy spending the money wants them to do/say. As I'm sure you know, a professional works on the basis that giving the customer/boss what they want does not necessarily mean giving them what they ask for, so right there you have your first major "bug" to iron out.
The ones who know maths do, but they can't describe it to the ones who don't in any other way.
From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!
As a definition of the "social contract" it's vastly more civilized than "eat or be eaten".
It always happens, just when I finish spending my mod points a gem like the parent has me literally laughing out loud.
...or perhaps they do an unpaid internship/job at a charity organization. Yes there are pricks who will abuse any system but in general people usually try to be decent human beings, and money is not the only reward. Too often interns just sit in a corner totally bewildered, it's not their fault. Also people do want to help them get up to speed, it's just a fact of life their own work takes precedence over the kid in the corner.
PS: The first trip you got 1/2 pay + training, no guaranteed "next time", no turning back unless it's a life or death thing, if you do nothing but spew up for the next 3 days you still get the "training pay".
7hrs without a break is not inhumane. Last time I worked in a factory the law was a minimum 30min break every 5hrs, and Aussie labor laws are generally more favorable to workers than those in the US. I'm not saying Foxconn is a model employer but there's a big difference between rough conditions and inhumane treatment. For example, I worked on a fishing trawler in the 80's, 30hrs steaming to and from the fishing grounds, 36hrs straight on your feet sorting fish from things that either bite or sting, with short periods flat on your back on the deck, a 30min break every 5hrs. It was hard work but good pay, as a young bloke I was as happy as a pig in shit and so were the rest of the crew, except for the skipper who was your stero-typical small business pirate.
You forgot to add in your disclaimer that you are plagerizing George Carlin's jokes.
Even NASA has postulated the possibility....
...of single celled organisims hitching a ride from Mars to Earth. We are talking about a complex multi-celled creature here, it's a very different proposition. I find the whole "panspermia" argument pointless, the Earth is made of the same stuff the rest of the solar system is made of, sure organic chemicals, large chunks of ice and maybe even single celled creatures rained down on the early Earth from space, that stuff just made the Earth a bit bigger, it was fundementally no different to the existing material. I think it comes from the idea that life is incredibly unlikely and only started in one place at one time, modern evidence says that notion is just a sciencey rebadging of the genesis myth.
It's the old woman who gave birth to your "mom".
My theory is it doesn't work.
As someone who has hired over 50 programmers in his career I don't need a theory to tell me it doesn't work, experince tells me it does work. If you're not smart enough to get past the HR filter, why the hell would I want to interview you?
The problem for many of us is we want our resume to be truthful.
Nobody is asking you to lie, they're asking you to jump through a hoop.
He became a caricature of himself, an iron-fisted evil dictator who's trying so hard people laugh at him.
Can't be all bad if you're allowed to laugh at him in public. Personally I would like to see a cage match between Putin and Palin, the cage should be mounted on an iceberg in the middle of the barring straight so that both nations can see it.
I will bet you anything that roman_mir will not catch on. - Why do you think I put him in the "lost cause" basket?