"Subject matter of copyright: United States Government works: Copyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government, but the United States Government is not precluded from receiving and holding copyrights transferred to it by assignment, bequest, or otherwise."
For example, Diebold voting software is government funded project but it alone did not make it a public domain, where is in this case, one of the vendor released its government funded software as GPL.
I don't think that this is a big conspiracy by the big corporations and there are many websites and books out there about the tricks of the trades of credit card companies, but most people don't read them just as they don't read MS EULAs.
As for the debit card, Visa announced that they will have similar fraud protection against unauthorized charges against the debit card as they do for the credit cards.
This is the reason why geeks get shafted. Largest voting segment in the US are the seniors and most of them don't give a damn about open source software or software patents. Why do you think that two magic words that constantly come up during the election year are Social Security and Medicare?
My suggestion is that you volunteer. Most state and local government level politionsThis is the reason why geeks get shafted time after time is that most of them don't have any idea how the political process works. Largest voting segment in the US are the seniors and most of them don't give a damn about open source software or software patents. Why do you think that two magic words that constantly come up during the election year are Social Security and Medicare?
My suggestion is that you volunteer. Most state and local government level politicians have limited budget for staff and are always on the lookout for volunteers. I volunteered for a state representative during my college years as the IT advisor. At first, I mainly did it to have something to put on my resume. However, I ended up contributing and learning much more than I expected. At first I expected that only things that I'll end up doing would be creating and maintaining a website and trouble shoot office computers. However, he asked for advices related to IT issues affecting the state ( I guess better me giving advice that having him get it from a MS rep) and also took me to IT related conferences and showed me how the political process works in person.
And unlike the common notion among the slashdotters, politicians actually do actually care about what the constituents think and large volume of calls and letters (form E-mails are not as effective) have persuaded politicians to change his/her mind many times in the past. While big businesses may make big donations, it's the constituents who are the ones casting votes. For example, I sent a letter to my congressman about an issue that I supported and I got a customized reply back, unlike what parent poster mentioned about the letters to the congressman. It turns out that he also supported that issue and also earned a loyal voter.
So to the geeks out there, go out and volunteer. You'll not only make differences to the other geeks out there, but you'll also expend your mind beyond CS. And call your politicians and write personalized letters. Thousands of calls and letters are more effective than a couple of letters to the editor and if your politicians really don't give a damn about what you think, take a hint and vote for someone else.
Officers and/or shareholders of a coporation can be liable if they make personal guarantees. Second, reports have surfaced that Enron cheated its customers (CA consumers of energy). I'm willing to bet that there will be ex-Enron offiers/board members/emploees who will face heat for this. Third, if you still believe that officers are 100% not liable for the act of the corporation, form a one person corporation (yes, it's legal), and start defrauding consumers using that corporation (for example, setup fake eBay autions as the business). I'm pretty sure that you'll end up in jail in no time.
You just proved my point that offiers are not immune. If you see a corporate crime, raise a stink about it. It's like speeding. People get away with it unless theres a cop there being aware of it. Enough people complained to SEC that they may look into this company called SCO.
One of the features MS bragged about Windows 2003 over 2000 and NT is that you can do more with command prompt. In fact, there are many MS utilities that you can only use via command prompt so I believe that the use of CLI will increase (at least for the sys admins) over time, esp. with Linux gaining popularity.
Actually, I grew up in a poor family and lost my father while I was in the elementry school and lost my mother while I was in college. Thus, I didn't have wealthy parents (or even poor ones) to recieved help from and worked my ass off through college (also managed to rack up credit card debt as well). I'd say I am quite quite aware of that a real poverty. While I'm a geek by trade, I've started to learn about personal finance by reading books, taking classes, and visiting other website than Slashdot, Newsforge, Linux.com, groklaw, etc. Why? Because I don't want anyone else to go through what I went through because it does royally (no pun intended) suck to be in poverty.
So go ahead and spread your garbage about how there's no hope and everyone should just give up (and last time I checked Canada isn't a third world country). So who ever's reading this, you have two chocies. You can either give up and whine or EDUCATE yourself. I recommand that you visit personal finance forums and find out how others like you dug themselfs out of debt pit and bankruptcies.
I didn't say RBC wasn't a fault but shit does happen and you should be prepared for it. It's funny how people have money for video games, booze, SUVs, and phat stero systems but never enough for emergency savings.
Best of luck to ya. RBC stated that they will pay for NSF fees and other "resonable" charges, so hopfuly, you won't have any pernament financial damage.
My best friend's a loan officer and he told me that he has clients who make $100,000+ that comes in to make $2000-3000 emergency loan so it's just about making a lot of money. By contrast, my other friend's mom works as a teacher's aid for special ed kids, and the dad works at a rental center (both rather low paying jobs) and their networth now is about $700,000.
BS, I used to think the exact same way. I've told myself "I'll save whatever's left over from my paycheck for an emergency fund". Sure enough, I always ended up not saving because there never were any money leftover.
I finally got sick and tired of living paycheck to paycheck and started checking out personal finance websites, such as The Motley Fool. I got myself a free 30-day membership and visited forums to learn about living below your means, cutting credit card interest rates and playing their "balance transfer games", and the "paying yourself first" method. With the lowered expenses, I put away at least $100 a month toward savings and investments. I treat that $100 or more as a bill that I must pay (thus "paying your self first") before any other bills. Otherwise I'll found a way to spend that money.
I have saving and non-retirement investments of $1200 right now. That's not that much but that's way better than being broke. It took me about 6 months to save up that much, and I estimate that I'll need $6000 for the 3 months worth, so at this rate, I'll need about 2 more years (yes, I wish that I started sooner).
2. Your statement shows that charging $2000 gamining machine on the credit card while having no emergency fund saved up is foolish.
3. Many slashdotters charge $2000 gamining machine (or other cool toys) on the credit card while having no emergency fund saved up.
4. As stated before, by having big egos, they shift the blame to the credit card companies for providing easy credit and conclude that who ever disagrees with them are trolls that work for the banks.
I totally agree. Most experts recommand that you have three to six months worth of funds saved up, which means that delay of payroll check deposit of a day, or even couple of weeks should be non-issue.
They are just saying that to cover their asses in case of worst case seniro. For example, what if the building blows up before the tapes get delivered to the off site warehouse? If you are bold enough, you can start your own paid backup service and offer 100% reliability for the same price and it should be an instant hit.
IBM wasn't too much different than MS in the past. IBM used to be as much a monopoly as MS in the PC market. IBM has changed its tunes and there always is a sliver of chance that MS may end up changing as well.
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If you RTFA, you've realized that:
"Subject matter of copyright: United States Government works: Copyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government, but the United States Government is not precluded from receiving and holding copyrights transferred to it by assignment, bequest, or otherwise."
For example, Diebold voting software is government funded project but it alone did not make it a public domain, where is in this case, one of the vendor released its government funded software as GPL.
I don't think that this is a big conspiracy by the big corporations and there are many websites and books out there about the tricks of the trades of credit card companies, but most people don't read them just as they don't read MS EULAs.
As for the debit card, Visa announced that they will have similar fraud protection against unauthorized charges against the debit card as they do for the credit cards.
This is the reason why geeks get shafted. Largest voting segment in the US are the seniors and most of them don't give a damn about open source software or software patents. Why do you think that two magic words that constantly come up during the election year are Social Security and Medicare?
My suggestion is that you volunteer. Most state and local government level politionsThis is the reason why geeks get shafted time after time is that most of them don't have any idea how the political process works. Largest voting segment in the US are the seniors and most of them don't give a damn about open source software or software patents. Why do you think that two magic words that constantly come up during the election year are Social Security and Medicare?
My suggestion is that you volunteer. Most state and local government level politicians have limited budget for staff and are always on the lookout for volunteers. I volunteered for a state representative during my college years as the IT advisor. At first, I mainly did it to have something to put on my resume. However, I ended up contributing and learning much more than I expected. At first I expected that only things that I'll end up doing would be creating and maintaining a website and trouble shoot office computers. However, he asked for advices related to IT issues affecting the state ( I guess better me giving advice that having him get it from a MS rep) and also took me to IT related conferences and showed me how the political process works in person.
And unlike the common notion among the slashdotters, politicians actually do actually care about what the constituents think and large volume of calls and letters (form E-mails are not as effective) have persuaded politicians to change his/her mind many times in the past. While big businesses may make big donations, it's the constituents who are the ones casting votes. For example, I sent a letter to my congressman about an issue that I supported and I got a customized reply back, unlike what parent poster mentioned about the letters to the congressman. It turns out that he also supported that issue and also earned a loyal voter.
So to the geeks out there, go out and volunteer. You'll not only make differences to the other geeks out there, but you'll also expend your mind beyond CS. And call your politicians and write personalized letters. Thousands of calls and letters are more effective than a couple of letters to the editor and if your politicians really don't give a damn about what you think, take a hint and vote for someone else.
And do you not see the fact that in many of major cities, crime rates are high regardless of the gun control laws?
Officers and/or shareholders of a coporation can be liable if they make personal guarantees. Second, reports have surfaced that Enron cheated its customers (CA consumers of energy). I'm willing to bet that there will be ex-Enron offiers/board members/emploees who will face heat for this. Third, if you still believe that officers are 100% not liable for the act of the corporation, form a one person corporation (yes, it's legal), and start defrauding consumers using that corporation (for example, setup fake eBay autions as the business). I'm pretty sure that you'll end up in jail in no time.
You just proved my point that offiers are not immune. If you see a corporate crime, raise a stink about it. It's like speeding. People get away with it unless theres a cop there being aware of it. Enough people complained to SEC that they may look into this company called SCO.
It same as patents being bad, unless Apple is the one who applies for them.
I don't think that anyone truely knows what goes into McRib.
Quoting Free Republic for political facts is like quoting PETA for facts on why you shouldn't eat meat.
You should move to Washington D.C. since they have the most restrive gun control laws in the nation. But don't blame me if you get mugged or shot.
Tell that to the ex-Enron offiers.
One of the features MS bragged about Windows 2003 over 2000 and NT is that you can do more with command prompt. In fact, there are many MS utilities that you can only use via command prompt so I believe that the use of CLI will increase (at least for the sys admins) over time, esp. with Linux gaining popularity.
Actually, I grew up in a poor family and lost my father while I was in the elementry school and lost my mother while I was in college. Thus, I didn't have wealthy parents (or even poor ones) to recieved help from and worked my ass off through college (also managed to rack up credit card debt as well). I'd say I am quite quite aware of that a real poverty. While I'm a geek by trade, I've started to learn about personal finance by reading books, taking classes, and visiting other website than Slashdot, Newsforge, Linux.com, groklaw, etc. Why? Because I don't want anyone else to go through what I went through because it does royally (no pun intended) suck to be in poverty.
So go ahead and spread your garbage about how there's no hope and everyone should just give up (and last time I checked Canada isn't a third world country). So who ever's reading this, you have two chocies. You can either give up and whine or EDUCATE yourself. I recommand that you visit personal finance forums and find out how others like you dug themselfs out of debt pit and bankruptcies.
I didn't say RBC wasn't a fault but shit does happen and you should be prepared for it. It's funny how people have money for video games, booze, SUVs, and phat stero systems but never enough for emergency savings.
Best of luck to ya. RBC stated that they will pay for NSF fees and other "resonable" charges, so hopfuly, you won't have any pernament financial damage.
My best friend's a loan officer and he told me that he has clients who make $100,000+ that comes in to make $2000-3000 emergency loan so it's just about making a lot of money. By contrast, my other friend's mom works as a teacher's aid for special ed kids, and the dad works at a rental center (both rather low paying jobs) and their networth now is about $700,000.
BS, I used to think the exact same way. I've told myself "I'll save whatever's left over from my paycheck for an emergency fund". Sure enough, I always ended up not saving because there never were any money leftover.
I finally got sick and tired of living paycheck to paycheck and started checking out personal finance websites, such as The Motley Fool. I got myself a free 30-day membership and visited forums to learn about living below your means, cutting credit card interest rates and playing their "balance transfer games", and the "paying yourself first" method. With the lowered expenses, I put away at least $100 a month toward savings and investments. I treat that $100 or more as a bill that I must pay (thus "paying your self first") before any other bills. Otherwise I'll found a way to spend that money.
I have saving and non-retirement investments of $1200 right now. That's not that much but that's way better than being broke. It took me about 6 months to save up that much, and I estimate that I'll need $6000 for the 3 months worth, so at this rate, I'll need about 2 more years (yes, I wish that I started sooner).
Because:
1. Many slashdotters have big egos.
2. Your statement shows that charging $2000 gamining machine on the credit card while having no emergency fund saved up is foolish.
3. Many slashdotters charge $2000 gamining machine (or other cool toys) on the credit card while having no emergency fund saved up.
4. As stated before, by having big egos, they shift the blame to the credit card companies for providing easy credit and conclude that who ever disagrees with them are trolls that work for the banks.
If you RTFA, the problem is with the payroll deposit, not with accessing existing funds or credit cards.
I totally agree. Most experts recommand that you have three to six months worth of funds saved up, which means that delay of payroll check deposit of a day, or even couple of weeks should be non-issue.
They are just saying that to cover their asses in case of worst case seniro. For example, what if the building blows up before the tapes get delivered to the off site warehouse? If you are bold enough, you can start your own paid backup service and offer 100% reliability for the same price and it should be an instant hit.
Not to mention their stance on Linux. I'm still not sure if they are for or against it, although I personally think that Sun's anti-Linux.
Apache isn't GPLed but that didn't stop most distros from making the Apache the standard web server for Linux.
IBM wasn't too much different than MS in the past. IBM used to be as much a monopoly as MS in the PC market. IBM has changed its tunes and there always is a sliver of chance that MS may end up changing as well.