The internal combustion engine is SO 19th century. Seriously, it's high time we started looking into other engine technologies and I think that someone has built an electric car that I would drive is great. If we apply the same slowness in innovations to computers, we would still be on PDP-11s.
Here's the thing I don't get; why would you spend time on off hours writing a custom app for your employer when you have down time during your normal work hours? I would talk to your boss about finishing it and deploying it into production and then put it on your resume and move on with your life. Trying to squeeze a couple more pennies out of someone who doesn't seem to have it, to me, seems like a waste of time. The payoff for this will be at your next review or job when you can demonstrate initiative and an increased skillset.
Actually, that's untrue. Communities do support companies by giving them tax cuts, paving roads, providing services like water and sewer, etc. What you speak of, is a financial transaction that exists in a vacuum, not in reality. Companies and communities can and should have a mutually beneficial relationship.
He's been signed up for all that mail under false pretenses. It's mail fraud and a Federal Offense.
I don't think it is mail fraud. For it to be mail fraud he would have had to have been defrauded of something. As long as no one bought something and sent him the bill, there has been no fraud. It could be argued that he was defrauded of time or money by way of increased garbage fees, but that's a stretch.
Overall, I just think he's after the money. Threaten people with a lawsuit and hope they settle. He sounds like a pretty amoral person.
You've got a good point. There is the whole hassle factor in P2P. I think it would be worth money if I could download from a fast server, know that what I think I'm downloading is what I'm really getting, and know that I'm going to get the whole song. There have been a number of times for me, where the hassle of getting a particular song via P2P wasn't worth it, but was the only alternitive.
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The internal combustion engine is SO 19th century. Seriously, it's high time we started looking into other engine technologies and I think that someone has built an electric car that I would drive is great. If we apply the same slowness in innovations to computers, we would still be on PDP-11s.
Here's the thing I don't get; why would you spend time on off hours writing a custom app for your employer when you have down time during your normal work hours? I would talk to your boss about finishing it and deploying it into production and then put it on your resume and move on with your life. Trying to squeeze a couple more pennies out of someone who doesn't seem to have it, to me, seems like a waste of time. The payoff for this will be at your next review or job when you can demonstrate initiative and an increased skillset.
Actually, that's untrue. Communities do support companies by giving them tax cuts, paving roads, providing services like water and sewer, etc. What you speak of, is a financial transaction that exists in a vacuum, not in reality. Companies and communities can and should have a mutually beneficial relationship.
He's been signed up for all that mail under false pretenses. It's mail fraud and a Federal Offense.
I don't think it is mail fraud. For it to be mail fraud he would have had to have been defrauded of something. As long as no one bought something and sent him the bill, there has been no fraud. It could be argued that he was defrauded of time or money by way of increased garbage fees, but that's a stretch.
Overall, I just think he's after the money. Threaten people with a lawsuit and hope they settle. He sounds like a pretty amoral person.
You've got a good point. There is the whole hassle factor in P2P. I think it would be worth money if I could download from a fast server, know that what I think I'm downloading is what I'm really getting, and know that I'm going to get the whole song. There have been a number of times for me, where the hassle of getting a particular song via P2P wasn't worth it, but was the only alternitive.