I worked as a database admin in a fairly well-to-do district. I and just about everybody else on our team never had any problems with cops there, but the operations manager would get pulled over on average about once every three months. As an amazing coincidence, he was also the only black guy on our team.
I was surprised (and more than a little bit disappointed) to see Ron Paul vote for this. You'd think his opinion (even though he's a social conservative) would've been that this is outside the constitutional limits of the federal government.
erm, did you know that Ohio is the 7th largest state in terms of population and has 20 electoral votes? Sure, it's not a CA, TX, or NY, but it's one of those states that gets diluted rather than amplified.
I hear what you're saying, but tyranny's tyranny and switching its mode doesn't make it any better. I personally liked what another suggested that the electoral votes go proportionally to the popular vote of the state.
I'm always the guy in line with one thing to buy, too... the one thing in the store that doesn't have its weight in the database and complains when I buy it.
I hate self-checkout and avoid it if at all possible.
"Bite me, mods. You, too, work for someone who sees you as expendable as the next person. You can't mod that fact down, but it can mod you down to the unemployment line."
You are 100% correct, but I have found that if I also view my employer as expendable that I enjoy life a lot more than the average bear. I have told employers before that if they don't like something, they're more than free to fire me. I've been laid off four times in my life, and actually fired once.
Sure, it sucks to get laid off or fired, but things work themselves out in the end. The time I got fired was one of the best things that ever happened to me because it enabled me to go back to school and finish my degree, which led to me finally getting much cooler jobs.
I will work like a dog for my employer, but if they treat me like a dog, I can find a new job. They're expendable, too.
The other post is from someone not logged in ("Anonymous Coward") and those always start out at zero, and will stay there until some moderator moves it.
All I need is an ssh client for it and I may never need a laptop again...Not that I'd want to do heads down work on it, but just flipping open my DS, logging on and tapping out a couple emergency commands would be very handy.
John Dvorak, unfashionably late as always. It's news that CSS has problems? Hasn't anybody who's done even casual web development known this for six or seven years now?
To summarize Dvorak's argument: "OMG Inheritance is just too hard to understand LOL"
("Two problems" "Three, Sire!") When someone characterizes something as "extremely funny", I'd like to think the article will at least make me grin once. I'll admit to a moderate anti-Dvorak prejudice, but it came off closer to the neighborhood of "extremely stupid" than "extremely funny".
"in domestic criminal cases, our privacy rights are secured at the prosecution stage more than at the evidence gathering stage - the penalty for violations by law enforcement being the exclusion of the evidence in question."
You're totally right, but let's stop and think what this means for a minute. If we trample someone's rights in order to build a case, there are either two outcomes: either this person is actually innocent and that means that they will be exonerated, or the person in question is actually guilty of the crime, in which case because the evidence gets thrown out, and they get off with no punishment. In other words, we punish the innocent by violating their rights and let the guilty go free by tainting all the evidence that would otherwise convict them if it had been obtained properly. I totally fail to see how this could be considered a win for anyone... except criminals of course.
I think it actually varies from place to place, but I vote that it's perfectly fine to do so once they say "Calls may be monitored or recorded for quality assurance" or some such thing. Tell the hold music "Calls will be monitored or recorded to document douchebag performance" to protect yourself.:-)
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I worked as a database admin in a fairly well-to-do district. I and just about everybody else on our team never had any problems with cops there, but the operations manager would get pulled over on average about once every three months. As an amazing coincidence, he was also the only black guy on our team.
At least he never got arrested.
I don't know what's sadder: That you knew this well enough to write it, or that I recognized it immediately.
I was surprised (and more than a little bit disappointed) to see Ron Paul vote for this. You'd think his opinion (even though he's a social conservative) would've been that this is outside the constitutional limits of the federal government.
Sigh. Maybe he's down with a cold.
erm, did you know that Ohio is the 7th largest state in terms of population and has 20 electoral votes? Sure, it's not a CA, TX, or NY, but it's one of those states that gets diluted rather than amplified.
I hear what you're saying, but tyranny's tyranny and switching its mode doesn't make it any better. I personally liked what another suggested that the electoral votes go proportionally to the popular vote of the state.
I'm always the guy in line with one thing to buy, too... the one thing in the store that doesn't have its weight in the database and complains when I buy it.
I hate self-checkout and avoid it if at all possible.
'but you can't "radiate cool"'
Speak for yourself, buster!
And what exactly make you think they aren't? :-)
"Bite me, mods. You, too, work for someone who sees you as expendable as the next person. You can't mod that fact down, but it can mod you down to the unemployment line."
You are 100% correct, but I have found that if I also view my employer as expendable that I enjoy life a lot more than the average bear. I have told employers before that if they don't like something, they're more than free to fire me. I've been laid off four times in my life, and actually fired once.
Sure, it sucks to get laid off or fired, but things work themselves out in the end. The time I got fired was one of the best things that ever happened to me because it enabled me to go back to school and finish my degree, which led to me finally getting much cooler jobs.
I will work like a dog for my employer, but if they treat me like a dog, I can find a new job. They're expendable, too.
The other post is from someone not logged in ("Anonymous Coward") and those always start out at zero, and will stay there until some moderator moves it.
All I need is an ssh client for it and I may never need a laptop again...Not that I'd want to do heads down work on it, but just flipping open my DS, logging on and tapping out a couple emergency commands would be very handy.
Touche', sir. I bow before your obviously superior intellect. Truly, I am shamed.
Fair enough. :-)
Yes, very hackneyed indeed. I used precisely the same amount of brain power to come up with that as Dvorak apparently used to understand CSS.
Isn't repeating the same adjective multiple times also pretty hackneyed?
I come to /. for the dupes.
And you're helping by mentioning the aforementioned domain name four times in your post... ;-)
+6 Funny
"Why? They are no relation... If his dad was married the daughter would be the poster's step-sister."
Never been to Appalachia, have you? :-D
"I created awesome, thanks for your support!"
I've been looking for you! I've got some patches to make "awesome" into "totally awesome" and was wondering where to send them.
Now, Toby, don't be a sheet...
"in domestic criminal cases, our privacy rights are secured at the prosecution stage more than at the evidence gathering stage - the penalty for violations by law enforcement being the exclusion of the evidence in question."
You're totally right, but let's stop and think what this means for a minute. If we trample someone's rights in order to build a case, there are either two outcomes: either this person is actually innocent and that means that they will be exonerated, or the person in question is actually guilty of the crime, in which case because the evidence gets thrown out, and they get off with no punishment. In other words, we punish the innocent by violating their rights and let the guilty go free by tainting all the evidence that would otherwise convict them if it had been obtained properly. I totally fail to see how this could be considered a win for anyone... except criminals of course.
"Is that legal?"
I think it actually varies from place to place, but I vote that it's perfectly fine to do so once they say "Calls may be monitored or recorded for quality assurance" or some such thing. Tell the hold music "Calls will be monitored or recorded to document douchebag performance" to protect yourself. :-)
Google: Maybe you do now...
Google lights up all that dark fiber they are rumored to have been buying over the last few years to build GoogleNet.
Insert vague reference here to it achieving sentience sometime later and starting Judgement Day.
I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
A steaming pile of crap can actually be used as a fertilizer to grow food or ornamental plants. Dvorak's articles only dream of being so useful.