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No, by god, I shall be in the lounge bar enjoying a cigar and have no need to consider the mechanics of this womanly mystery. When I am first introduced to the child I require that it is clean and presentable.
I think the reason is that many of them have an entrenched idea that the world is only a couple of thousand of years old which is clearly no where near long enough for evolution to have got us to the point we are now. Obviously a lot of other stuff clearly contradicts this stupid idea as well so I'm not sure why they're quite so fixated with it.
Although I've never been 'outsourced' myself I have worked at an outsourcing company alongside many people who had. This wasn't HP so I don't know what they're like but my experience is that it is, in general, a fairly positive experience.
You may not end up doing exactly what you were doing before, or in exactly the same way which might be an issue for you but on the other hand you ought to have a lot more opportunities to get involved in different things which may not have been available to you before.
One thing I did notice is that people outsourced from the same company do tend to form their own little cliques within the new company which could work well for you if a lot of your management is also being outsourced or not so well if you are a smaller company.
For example although most of the management had come in on specific contracts/projects related to the company they came from at the beginning after a couple of years they'd be doing something totally unrelated to the company they were outsourced from and yet their team would still mostly be comprised of their old co-workers.
The other option ( in the UK at least ) is an excellent chance of a fairly generous redundancy package so I'd say if you want a big lump of cash take redundancy and leave to do something else or if you prefer career development go with the move.
I've been trying to remember what these books were called all morning. I remember absolutely loving "The Castle Of Lyr" when I was 9 or 10, really great characters and a fantastic story. I'd recommend these to any child.
I think there may also have been some sort of animated film of the Black Cauldron 20 years ago or something.
Snap ! Islands In The Sky probably wasn't the first Sci Fi book I read but it must have been one of the first when I was 8 or 9 or something.
I think the sci-fi books I enjoyed most around 11 - 12 were The Stainless Steel Rat series by Harry Harrison.
Not at all Sci Fi but you absolutely can't go wrong with the Swallows & Amazons series by Arthur Ransome, the setting may be ancient history now but the books are probably the best books I ever read as a kid.
The fact is that if I don't like the terms and conditions or the cost of buying from the RIAA then I do have an alternative which allows me to get the product I want for free. This is reality and given the nature of technology it's not a reality which I see changing anytime soon.
The RIAA can argue about how things should work all they like but the reality is that this is how things do work now and if they wish to remain in business then its up to them to change their business model so they can still survive in these new conditions. You might well say, "but thats not fair", "that's not what should happen" and you can probably make a good argument to back that up but nothing you or the RIAA can do now will change the reality that music is available for free.
Perhaps the record companies won't be able to adapt and the entire record industry will collapse, will this mean there is no more music ? I don't think so, I think people will continue to make music regardless but there's many ways the record companies can change and continue to make a profit for themselves. You only have to look at how the bottled water industry survives when tap water is almost universally free to see that you can compete with free and make a nice profit by doing so.
Rather than whining that the 'system isn't fair' and that 'oh no only people who have got off their arses and made a little money have any say' why don't you spend the time you would have spent pointlessly voting, take a look at the American Dream and start to do some work and earn some money so you can maybe, if you work hard enough, some day be able to afford some influence.
Maybe once you do you might think a little differently about letting lazy, good for nothing poor people run the country and make sure that everything you have worked hard for and earnt goes to do a little good for you and your family now and again.
Since it's madly spinning around in the depths of space and since any potential Sarah Connors mostly likely aren't in space I don't see this being a major problem.
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I was on holiday in Thailand last week and had the misfortune to be on the bus with some spoilt American brats in their early 20s. We were going to a national park and everyone had to pay the entrance fee. The American brats had mostly managed to buy themselves fake student cards from Bangkok and were pretending to be students to get a 50% discount except one who had forgotten hers and was shouting and yelling at the bus conductor that he was being unfair and he couldn't treat her like this and when he took no notice she went into an enormous sulk hitting her seat and slamming the bus door. It was quite disgusting behaviour.
I think the last time I transferred in the US my bags were taken off the plane and I had to pick them up again and wait whilst some completely rude and unpleasant monkey went through them and then check them back in, at which point the airport lost them and I didn't see them again until a week after my outgoing flight landed.
This sort of thing really does make me think twice before either transferring in the US or going there in general. As well as my experience a friend recently transferred in Miami to somewhere in South America and was held up by American customs giving him the unpleasant rude treatment for so long he actually missed his connection.
But with OSS, you'll have to hire someone on a hourly basis. That's different.
Hardly any different at all, I'm on an hourly rate and so is over half of this organisation. Apart from 2 permanent guys managing the project and the lead developer every one else is on an hourly rate; testers, trainers, DBA, developers, project management, business analysts, everyone. I think this is the norm in medium sized companies like this rather than the exception.
The only issue we'd have hiring someone to do specific work on an open source project is the fact they may not be readily available for face to face interaction and we might have to work out exactly how to monitor their output effectively.
The first book I read on computers when I was 7 or 8 was sort of kids guide to the ZX Spectrum. I can't remember the name of it but it was a great book featuring the character "Speccy" and spent basically the first 4 pages explaining that nothing you could do would break speccy and not to be afraid to play around and do anything you liked which is probably the best advice you can give anyway trying to find there way around computers.
Of course Speccy was wrong and met a premature end when switching him on and yanking out his joystick at the same time caused him to smoke and shortly afterwards to die.
Actually I think the Government has some sort of wet dream of using the Olympics to roll out some of it's identity card nonsense so expect it to much worse than anything China is currently planning.
The incidents in Birmingham between the Black and Asian communities were purely the result of a deliberately provocative media.
Right, so the evil white supremacist media having spread lies about the activities of each community then went from house to house rabble rousing to gather a the large crowd of rioters involved.
You are talking absolute shit, on the one hand you're saying that ethnic islands don't exist and on the other your saying that two communities living right next to each other are so distrustful of the other that the media can cause them to riot and attack each other on some made up media driven pretext.
It really is people like you who are the problem here, by labelling any attempt to honestly discuss the issues raised by immigration and cultural differences as being "white supremicist", "fascist" or "racist" you are effectively stifling an important debate which needs to take place and you are directly responsible for the consequences of that action when uresolved differences bubble to the surface later on, usually a violent outcome.
Maybe for you thats some sort of codeword but don't think the same values apply to anyone else because they don't. Where it has created ethnic islands who mix more with themselves than they do with their neighbours of a different ethnicity then this is definitely in my view a bad thing and something which has in the past been encouraged rather discouraged.
As it happens I too live in Birmingham and for the most part I am pleased to say it is a fairly well integrated place to live but you may remember the set to a couple of years ago between the asian and afro carribean community which may well never have happened if there had been more mixing and less distrust between the two sides.
I think you need to supply a bit more evidence of my "hateful racist" beliefs before you go labelling me in that fashion or otherwise I might suspect you guilty of a most horrible type of predujice.
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Or in the case of the B-2 BOMBER things go wrong and people don't die.
Machine code ? Liberal soft soap for those too lazy to build their chips to do the job properly in the first place.
No, by god, I shall be in the lounge bar enjoying a cigar and have no need to consider the mechanics of this womanly mystery. When I am first introduced to the child I require that it is clean and presentable.
I think the reason is that many of them have an entrenched idea that the world is only a couple of thousand of years old which is clearly no where near long enough for evolution to have got us to the point we are now. Obviously a lot of other stuff clearly contradicts this stupid idea as well so I'm not sure why they're quite so fixated with it.
Although I've never been 'outsourced' myself I have worked at an outsourcing company alongside many people who had. This wasn't HP so I don't know what they're like but my experience is that it is, in general, a fairly positive experience.
You may not end up doing exactly what you were doing before, or in exactly the same way which might be an issue for you but on the other hand you ought to have a lot more opportunities to get involved in different things which may not have been available to you before.
One thing I did notice is that people outsourced from the same company do tend to form their own little cliques within the new company which could work well for you if a lot of your management is also being outsourced or not so well if you are a smaller company.
For example although most of the management had come in on specific contracts/projects related to the company they came from at the beginning after a couple of years they'd be doing something totally unrelated to the company they were outsourced from and yet their team would still mostly be comprised of their old co-workers.
The other option ( in the UK at least ) is an excellent chance of a fairly generous redundancy package so I'd say if you want a big lump of cash take redundancy and leave to do something else or if you prefer career development go with the move.
I've been trying to remember what these books were called all morning. I remember absolutely loving "The Castle Of Lyr" when I was 9 or 10, really great characters and a fantastic story. I'd recommend these to any child.
I think there may also have been some sort of animated film of the Black Cauldron 20 years ago or something.
Snap ! Islands In The Sky probably wasn't the first Sci Fi book I read but it must have been one of the first when I was 8 or 9 or something.
I think the sci-fi books I enjoyed most around 11 - 12 were The Stainless Steel Rat series by Harry Harrison.
Not at all Sci Fi but you absolutely can't go wrong with the Swallows & Amazons series by Arthur Ransome, the setting may be ancient history now but the books are probably the best books I ever read as a kid.
Huh ? They charge you for even recieving texts, the cheeky bastards !
The fact is that if I don't like the terms and conditions or the cost of buying from the RIAA then I do have an alternative which allows me to get the product I want for free. This is reality and given the nature of technology it's not a reality which I see changing anytime soon.
The RIAA can argue about how things should work all they like but the reality is that this is how things do work now and if they wish to remain in business then its up to them to change their business model so they can still survive in these new conditions. You might well say, "but thats not fair", "that's not what should happen" and you can probably make a good argument to back that up but nothing you or the RIAA can do now will change the reality that music is available for free.
Perhaps the record companies won't be able to adapt and the entire record industry will collapse, will this mean there is no more music ? I don't think so, I think people will continue to make music regardless but there's many ways the record companies can change and continue to make a profit for themselves. You only have to look at how the bottled water industry survives when tap water is almost universally free to see that you can compete with free and make a nice profit by doing so.
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You lived in Mosside and you actually went to school ! You must have taken some beatings for that.
Rather than whining that the 'system isn't fair' and that 'oh no only people who have got off their arses and made a little money have any say' why don't you spend the time you would have spent pointlessly voting, take a look at the American Dream and start to do some work and earn some money so you can maybe, if you work hard enough, some day be able to afford some influence.
Maybe once you do you might think a little differently about letting lazy, good for nothing poor people run the country and make sure that everything you have worked hard for and earnt goes to do a little good for you and your family now and again.
Since it's madly spinning around in the depths of space and since any potential Sarah Connors mostly likely aren't in space I don't see this being a major problem.
I don't win. I NEVER win !
I was on holiday in Thailand last week and had the misfortune to be on the bus with some spoilt American brats in their early 20s. We were going to a national park and everyone had to pay the entrance fee. The American brats had mostly managed to buy themselves fake student cards from Bangkok and were pretending to be students to get a 50% discount except one who had forgotten hers and was shouting and yelling at the bus conductor that he was being unfair and he couldn't treat her like this and when he took no notice she went into an enormous sulk hitting her seat and slamming the bus door. It was quite disgusting behaviour.
Terminal 5 anyone ?
Or give your customers the choice of no hangars or an extra 50cents with a hanger. I bet most find the hangers a nuisance as it is.
I think the last time I transferred in the US my bags were taken off the plane and I had to pick them up again and wait whilst some completely rude and unpleasant monkey went through them and then check them back in, at which point the airport lost them and I didn't see them again until a week after my outgoing flight landed.
This sort of thing really does make me think twice before either transferring in the US or going there in general. As well as my experience a friend recently transferred in Miami to somewhere in South America and was held up by American customs giving him the unpleasant rude treatment for so long he actually missed his connection.
Hardly any different at all, I'm on an hourly rate and so is over half of this organisation. Apart from 2 permanent guys managing the project and the lead developer every one else is on an hourly rate; testers, trainers, DBA, developers, project management, business analysts, everyone. I think this is the norm in medium sized companies like this rather than the exception.
The only issue we'd have hiring someone to do specific work on an open source project is the fact they may not be readily available for face to face interaction and we might have to work out exactly how to monitor their output effectively.
The first book I read on computers when I was 7 or 8 was sort of kids guide to the ZX Spectrum. I can't remember the name of it but it was a great book featuring the character "Speccy" and spent basically the first 4 pages explaining that nothing you could do would break speccy and not to be afraid to play around and do anything you liked which is probably the best advice you can give anyway trying to find there way around computers.
Of course Speccy was wrong and met a premature end when switching him on and yanking out his joystick at the same time caused him to smoke and shortly afterwards to die.
There have been a fair few football matches in the past where either one of both sets of fans have been banned from the stadium.
Actually I think the Government has some sort of wet dream of using the Olympics to roll out some of it's identity card nonsense so expect it to much worse than anything China is currently planning.
Right, so the evil white supremacist media having spread lies about the activities of each community then went from house to house rabble rousing to gather a the large crowd of rioters involved.
You are talking absolute shit, on the one hand you're saying that ethnic islands don't exist and on the other your saying that two communities living right next to each other are so distrustful of the other that the media can cause them to riot and attack each other on some made up media driven pretext.
It really is people like you who are the problem here, by labelling any attempt to honestly discuss the issues raised by immigration and cultural differences as being "white supremicist", "fascist" or "racist" you are effectively stifling an important debate which needs to take place and you are directly responsible for the consequences of that action when uresolved differences bubble to the surface later on, usually a violent outcome.
Maybe for you thats some sort of codeword but don't think the same values apply to anyone else because they don't. Where it has created ethnic islands who mix more with themselves than they do with their neighbours of a different ethnicity then this is definitely in my view a bad thing and something which has in the past been encouraged rather discouraged.
As it happens I too live in Birmingham and for the most part I am pleased to say it is a fairly well integrated place to live but you may remember the set to a couple of years ago between the asian and afro carribean community which may well never have happened if there had been more mixing and less distrust between the two sides.
I think you need to supply a bit more evidence of my "hateful racist" beliefs before you go labelling me in that fashion or otherwise I might suspect you guilty of a most horrible type of predujice.