Thank you for an informative post, however you didn't answer my question in any way whatsoever. I'm not really concerned at all with WHY they do it, as I'm well aware of the reasons (having worked in retail several years myself). However, I'm really curious as to whether they are legally ABLE to stop you and search your bags and demand to see a receipt.
Brave words from an anonymous loser. I don't care if you give a fuck about my hair, but to me, it isn't aesthetically pleasing, and I want to be able to do something about that.
As I'm sure many others of you with male pattern baldness are wondering, WHEN THE HELL WILL NANOTECH CURE HAIRLOSS?!?!?!
Seriously, with all of todays modern medicine, the best we can come up with is Minoxidil which speeds regrowth and Propecia which inhibits DHT. And you need to keep paying for these or your hair goes bye bye, not to mention if its Minox dependant, you lose all the hair you regrew with the Minox when you stop.
I can't wait till serious science deals away with these monthy costs and gives me a one time cure for hairloss. I don't care if it is a couple thousand dollars, because in the long run, that is worth not having to apply topicals/take pills and constantly worry whether or not they're working.
"It is difficult to orient yourself over 3 axis, so NASA and several other groups have been working on a new navigation system which would create virtual highways in the sky."
I won't be impressed until they can make lane dividers that hover in the sky ala Back to the Future II.
My favorite part of their website is the other things they push on their main page. I would have copied the text, but its in an animated gif which you can view here.
Yup, I feel much safer about investing in Moller now.
The issue of being stopped at the doors has come up more than once on Slashdot. Can someone refresh me on the legality of them being able to stop you?
I seem to recall that you have every right to say no and keep walking, and if they try to stop you and you haven't stolen a damn thing, they have just opened themselves up to a very big lawsuit.
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong though (hopefully with sources) because I'd like to be REALLY clear on this before I attempt it.
In the future, if you wanted to minimize your personal involvement, there is nothing wrong with an anonymous note/phonecall.
Also, I'm REALLY curious as to the legal grounds he had to search you. I know for a fact that retail stores are in DEEP shit if they try to search you INSIDE THE STORE and you don't have ANYTHING of theirs on you (I actually think you're safe even if you do, because you could argue you were still going to pay for it), that opens them up to a BIG lawsuit.
Now, of course this is from a customers perspective. I honestly don't know what would happen as an employee, so perhaps one of the resident Slashlawyers could inform us.
It's funny, because whenever I hear someone mention Jose Padilla, my mind obviously assumes its the Jose Padilla who produced the wonderful chillout Ibiza song called Adios Ayer, among others.
'Sorry, but I'm not paying $15/person/day (even if there's really only one day's worth of stuff according to the schedule), to see a bunch of companies throw their future-tech marketing at me."
But it could be fun to go just to have them pitch their ideas and then poke very logical holes in them, and ask them very simple questions and watch them be completely unable to answer them.
While I don't think this particular application is going to be the "killer app", I did read something similar in yesterday's Circuits section of the NY Times.
It was about a service called Dodgeball which basically takes the whole concept of Social Networks that's been the recent fad, and puts it in cellphone form. You can send out a message, and friends and friends of friends can see where you are, and a picture of you.
When I was in the UK I heard about a similar service which was basically like Match.com for the cellphone.
I think that once these are developed further, and people become more accustomed to them, it will be quite common to meet new people on the street through the medium of technology like this.
The good news is the technology isn't that complicated, its the whole hurdle of social acceptance that will make or break its success.
I hope that if it doesn't take off here in the states, it at least becomes mainstream in the UK and Japan which tend to be more open to those sorts of thing.
If you choose not to read the rest of my post, then you are missing out on the bulk of my argument, because the next sentence after the one you highlighted clarifies that statement.
I did not mean to put words in your mouth, but when you imply that MBAs do not have tech skills, and then give examples of engineer CEOs in germany, i understand it to mean that the engineer CEOs are given that position based on their technical merit alone.
If you want to discuss this further, please read the rest of my post and respond to that.
While you may not ALL become executives, NONE of you have even a shot at it until you develop these people skills. Being an executive and part of management means you are constantly dealing with *gasp* people! Your technical skills are very important, but if you lack the basic skills to handle the other very important part of that position, you're not going to ever get that position.
If you don't like the way current corporate structures are, make your own damn company, nobody is stopping you.
If you don't like the game that is the 'corporate ladder', don't play, and most importantly, don't whine when you don't win the game that you aren't willing to play.
"Contrast this to Germany where CEOs are engineers."
What an ignorant statement, and I'm not surprised it's coming from someone on the technical side of the fence. Do you seriously believe that these "engineer-CEOs" in Germany lack people skills? These people are the front-men of their company, and need to interact with customers, shareholders, and employees on a daily basis. They may certainly be engineers, but I guarantee they have well developed people skills as well.
Why can't YOU grok that there are certain requirements to be the public face of a company, and having EXCELLENT people skills is one of them.
I'm all for people doing what they enjoy for a living, but seriously, I don't understand the constant complaints around here that tech people aren't getting promoted to a position where their performance depends on how they interact with people, when they lack people skills.
Not all CEOs lie or have dubious ethics. You are making a gross overgeneralization and that is a very dangerous thing to do.
If you don't like the fact that your career is at a deadend because you only have technical skills and not people skills, quit bitching, and learn some people skills.
Having people skills such as communication and teamwork is ESSENTIAL to higher level functions in a company. I can't count how many times I have been on a team for a project with technical aspects where the person handling the technical side has caused serious delays due to his lack of ability to communicate or be a team player.
This is perhaps the most ignorant post I have ever read on Slashdot.
"Oooo, wwaaaaahhh, they won't give me more money or put me in charge because I'm not good with people."
You are your own worst enemy on this one.
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Well, I personally want neither, but if I had to absolutely choose, I would want to be sent a ticket and have the ability to fight it in court.
You see, when the road dictates the max speed of my car, it does not take into account unique situations that may arise where I absolutely NEED to exceed the speed limit. Such as if I need to accelerate to avoid an accident, or escape the crazed drunken lunatic who is chasing after me. Yeah, these tend to be exceptions to the norm, but if even one person dies or is injured because the road computers set a max speed for the car, the system is a failure.
It doesn't necessarily matter what a "good field" to be in is these days. I'm in advertising/marketing (yeah yeah, we're not all evil, and some of us actually have a clue) because I love business and psych, and felt it was a good combination.
They glory days of $100k coke parties with lots of free sex are over, but for those who know how to network and have good people skills, you can still move ahead quite quickly, and make some very decent money. I do it because I love it. And even though there may not be as big a demand, if you're smart enough you can create one.
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Seriously, with all of todays modern medicine, the best we can come up with is Minoxidil which speeds regrowth and Propecia which inhibits DHT. And you need to keep paying for these or your hair goes bye bye, not to mention if its Minox dependant, you lose all the hair you regrew with the Minox when you stop.
I can't wait till serious science deals away with these monthy costs and gives me a one time cure for hairloss. I don't care if it is a couple thousand dollars, because in the long run, that is worth not having to apply topicals/take pills and constantly worry whether or not they're working.
I won't be impressed until they can make lane dividers that hover in the sky ala Back to the Future II.
Yup, I feel much safer about investing in Moller now.
I suppose you think insurance and repairs are going to be negligible costs for one of these?
I seem to recall that you have every right to say no and keep walking, and if they try to stop you and you haven't stolen a damn thing, they have just opened themselves up to a very big lawsuit.
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong though (hopefully with sources) because I'd like to be REALLY clear on this before I attempt it.
Also, I'm REALLY curious as to the legal grounds he had to search you. I know for a fact that retail stores are in DEEP shit if they try to search you INSIDE THE STORE and you don't have ANYTHING of theirs on you (I actually think you're safe even if you do, because you could argue you were still going to pay for it), that opens them up to a BIG lawsuit.
Now, of course this is from a customers perspective. I honestly don't know what would happen as an employee, so perhaps one of the resident Slashlawyers could inform us.
Isn't there someone on here with the Latin translation in their .sig?
Right, because all I want is to have a cop be required to run my plates every time he sees them.
This is the real life equivelant to telling people to hit Alt-F4 for God Mode.
I guess there will always be a few people who enjoy talking into a taco.
Perhaps because if things don't work right you can always blame the technology.
"Oh, my cellphone said you would be interested in talking to me, my mistake."
But it could be fun to go just to have them pitch their ideas and then poke very logical holes in them, and ask them very simple questions and watch them be completely unable to answer them.
It was about a service called Dodgeball which basically takes the whole concept of Social Networks that's been the recent fad, and puts it in cellphone form. You can send out a message, and friends and friends of friends can see where you are, and a picture of you.
When I was in the UK I heard about a similar service which was basically like Match.com for the cellphone.
I think that once these are developed further, and people become more accustomed to them, it will be quite common to meet new people on the street through the medium of technology like this.
The good news is the technology isn't that complicated, its the whole hurdle of social acceptance that will make or break its success.
I hope that if it doesn't take off here in the states, it at least becomes mainstream in the UK and Japan which tend to be more open to those sorts of thing.
I did not mean to put words in your mouth, but when you imply that MBAs do not have tech skills, and then give examples of engineer CEOs in germany, i understand it to mean that the engineer CEOs are given that position based on their technical merit alone.
If you want to discuss this further, please read the rest of my post and respond to that.
If you don't like the way current corporate structures are, make your own damn company, nobody is stopping you.
If you don't like the game that is the 'corporate ladder', don't play, and most importantly, don't whine when you don't win the game that you aren't willing to play.
What an ignorant statement, and I'm not surprised it's coming from someone on the technical side of the fence. Do you seriously believe that these "engineer-CEOs" in Germany lack people skills? These people are the front-men of their company, and need to interact with customers, shareholders, and employees on a daily basis. They may certainly be engineers, but I guarantee they have well developed people skills as well.
Why can't YOU grok that there are certain requirements to be the public face of a company, and having EXCELLENT people skills is one of them.
I'm all for people doing what they enjoy for a living, but seriously, I don't understand the constant complaints around here that tech people aren't getting promoted to a position where their performance depends on how they interact with people, when they lack people skills.
Not all CEOs lie or have dubious ethics. You are making a gross overgeneralization and that is a very dangerous thing to do.
If you don't like the fact that your career is at a deadend because you only have technical skills and not people skills, quit bitching, and learn some people skills.
Having people skills such as communication and teamwork is ESSENTIAL to higher level functions in a company. I can't count how many times I have been on a team for a project with technical aspects where the person handling the technical side has caused serious delays due to his lack of ability to communicate or be a team player.
This is perhaps the most ignorant post I have ever read on Slashdot.
"Oooo, wwaaaaahhh, they won't give me more money or put me in charge because I'm not good with people."
You are your own worst enemy on this one.
You see, when the road dictates the max speed of my car, it does not take into account unique situations that may arise where I absolutely NEED to exceed the speed limit. Such as if I need to accelerate to avoid an accident, or escape the crazed drunken lunatic who is chasing after me. Yeah, these tend to be exceptions to the norm, but if even one person dies or is injured because the road computers set a max speed for the car, the system is a failure.
They glory days of $100k coke parties with lots of free sex are over, but for those who know how to network and have good people skills, you can still move ahead quite quickly, and make some very decent money. I do it because I love it. And even though there may not be as big a demand, if you're smart enough you can create one.
For a moment I read that as Monty Python, and suddenly I began visualizing your post in a whole different way.
Well, at least in real war we don't have fucktards on your own side firing stingers at your helicopter when you get into it before they do.
And there are STILL dupes.....
Ah....Darwin works in mysterious ways sometimes....or perhaps some not so mysterious ways as found in this case.