Castro's revolution had its flaws but he never openly tortured or killed his fellow citizens
That is flat out, 100% WRONG. One of my high school friends was from Cuba. Both his father and his uncle were tortured by the Castro regime because they didn't fight on the "right" side. They were lucky they weren't simply shot, but my friend's dad walked with a severe limp for the rest of his life. And Che was a murdering bastard who had a habit of shooting people he only suspected of not being loyal enough.
Know what those Che tshirts are good for? It makes it easy to spot complete morons.
My company has a maximum, but it's a lot more than yours (over 500 hours), but they will bitch at you long before you reach that max. You can cash out your holiday pay, but you have to take a day off for each day you cash out. so take a 2 week vacation and get paid for 4 weeks. That's a pretty sweet deal.
At the moment I'm sitting on over 200 hours in my vacation bank. I plan on taking a few weeks after March when we're done moving our data center.
as if it's their right to tell us what we can use our own hardware for
If you want to root it, feel free. Just like you are free to root the PS3. But if you do so, don't expect to be allowed on PSN. Their network, their rules.
If online gambling were illegal in the US, then Antigua would have lost the court case. Since online gambling is allowed, the WTO ruled (correctly) that blocking Antigua gambling was protectionism.
If alcohol is illegal in a country (which is very common in Muslim countries), then the WTO will rule against the alcohol distributor.
Basically, the WTO legal stance (which the US agreed to) is there must be a level playing field. You can not implement protectionist laws such has high tarrifs for imports and subsidies for domestic.
Even when there are plenty of qualified works in a field, businesses love to hire H1B workers for a number of reaons.
1. Get more qualified people. The job may only require a BA/BS degree of skill, but they can get an MA/MS for the same price. 2. No worry about threats to quit and leave for a competitor. It's a bitch to get your job visa changed and most companies don't want to bother. 3. H1B works will work longer hours without bitching for the same reason as #2. 4. You can skip paying bonuses and giving raises, again, see #2.
So hire an overqualified H1B worker, treat him like shit, don't give him raises or bonuses, and you don't have to worry about them leaving for the competitor. What's not to like? The way to fix this is to make it very easy to change an H1B to a different company. Once the involuntary servitude aspect is removed it will be less likely businesses will abuse the H1B system (it won't eliminate the abuse, just reduce it).
I remember sitting at home without a job while the tech industry was crying to congress that the needed more H1Bs because they couldn't find qualified workers. Fucking lying sacks of shit. This was not long after the tech bubble had burst and threw tens of thousands of us techies out of our jobs.
Interesting how some people can fully justify blatant media bias.
Bias should bother you, whether it's a candidate you like or dislike, you should be comfortable knowing that the news your receive is honest. When you are accepting of what is an outright lie, you are allowing yourself to live in a fantasy world.
Priests deny boinking little boys. Microsoft denies being a monopoly. Michael Moore denies being a big fat hypocrite. Noam Chomsky denies being a self-righteous asshole.
A rather incompetent script kiddie kept trying to hack one of my servers some years ago. Poking back, I found he had left the entire C: drive on his windows box shared to the world. So I dropped a gift into his startup directory. Yeah, not much of a story.
And how is memorizing a 6-8 digit random character password hard?
When you have five different passwords for work and company policy requires you to change a couple of them every three months and you can't repeat the last 10 passwords you used, then lock you out after three failed attempts because you got them mixed up. Oh, the password you meant to use? It's now on the "can not use" list, thus making it even more difficult to remember them.
Our password policy is set by some non-techie middle manager in Tokyo who probably read some lame article ten years ago. Getting a corporate policy changed in Japan is close to impossible, no matter how stupid it is.
A password vault is the only viable option. Which means all of your passwords are now protected by a single password, thus reducing overall security even more.
For one, "java" is a slang term for coffee. This was true before the language. That's why the java logo is a steaming cup of coffee. Thus, because it's a common term, it may not be eligible to be trademarked.
Quite the opposite. The less the term/phrase describes the product, the stronger the trademark. Thus, Apple is an excellent name for a computer company, but would probably be rejected if a fruit company tried to use it as a trademark. Microsoft should have been considered a weak trademark, but they got lucky and have the money to fight any attempts to revoke it.
Since Java and coffee really don't have anything to do with computing (other than it being the primary component of geek blood), it's a pretty strong trademark.
IANAL, but got that information from an article written by a trademark lawyer years ago.
When questioned by reporters, the judge responded, "My cousin^H^H^H^H^H^H The sheriff is a hard working public servant who had to make some tough budget choices."
I boycotted the Olympics many years ago. I remember the exact moment I finally said, "fuck this". I was sitting on the couch with my wife watching a women's swimming event (2000 summer games). It went like this: 15 minutes about American swimmer, several commercials, 15 minutes about another American swimmer, more commercials, 15 minutes about the third American swimmer. More commercials. Discussion about how the only thing in question was the order the Americans would win the three medals. Race starts. Woman from some country they didn't care about beats the crap out of everyone. Immediately switch to another event without even fucking acknowledging the win by the woman from that shitty little country. Except that country was Hungary, where my wife was born and raised and where we were married. We cared a hell of a lot about that fine young (and uber hot) Hungarian swimmer and wanted to not just hear the assholes recognize her win, but also some background about her. I got up from the couch, told my wife I was done with the Olympics, and have not watched a single event (summer or winter) since then.
Their heavy handed reaction to people who post pictures or commentary about the games has only reinforced my desire to never watch their brand-fest again.
f you want to find a miserable employee, just look for the guy or gal who's working for a moron who thinks everything can be accomplished with a bullwhip.
On the first day of a new job I noticed the manager did nothing but walk around yelling at and abusing everyone. He never asked anyone to do something, he yelled at them. Shortly after lunch he tried that with me. My response was simply, "fuck you", and I walked out.
Rewriting the sage words of Mark Twain is a greater sin than burning his work. And anyone who claims Huck Finn is racist hasn't read the fucking book (or is too stupid to understand the entire point of the story).
What an astoundingly stupid accuasation to make. The ESL program works under the theory that the best way for a student to learn English is to teach everything in Spanish. This is so obviously completely wrong that the only explanation for the continued existence of the program is racists (La Raza, etc) pushing their political agenda.
How is much cash involved when someone home PC stops working? I can see if businesses are impacted, but I think their numbers about "half of Fortune 500 companies" is a bunch of bull - maybe they have a few that are infected, but nothing business crippling.
How much does it cost us to allow these infected computers to remain on the internet?
Booting them off the internet is a good idea, but doesn't fix the underlying problem. PEBKAC.
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Castro's revolution had its flaws but he never openly tortured or killed his fellow citizens
That is flat out, 100% WRONG. One of my high school friends was from Cuba. Both his father and his uncle were tortured by the Castro regime because they didn't fight on the "right" side. They were lucky they weren't simply shot, but my friend's dad walked with a severe limp for the rest of his life. And Che was a murdering bastard who had a habit of shooting people he only suspected of not being loyal enough.
Know what those Che tshirts are good for? It makes it easy to spot complete morons.
incremental improvements and an overall nice phone, sure, but the ad I saw said it was gonna be the biggest revolution since the color TV.
It's aimed at iPhone 4s owners whose loyalty is swaying.
It's aimed at iPhone 4 owners where are easily impressed by a cell phone that can make phone calls.
The fair-weather pro-Constitution people still think the 2nd is a collective right, despite the Supreme Court's rulling in the Heller case.
My company has a maximum, but it's a lot more than yours (over 500 hours), but they will bitch at you long before you reach that max. You can cash out your holiday pay, but you have to take a day off for each day you cash out. so take a 2 week vacation and get paid for 4 weeks. That's a pretty sweet deal.
At the moment I'm sitting on over 200 hours in my vacation bank. I plan on taking a few weeks after March when we're done moving our data center.
as if it's their right to tell us what we can use our own hardware for
If you want to root it, feel free. Just like you are free to root the PS3. But if you do so, don't expect to be allowed on PSN. Their network, their rules.
If online gambling were illegal in the US, then Antigua would have lost the court case. Since online gambling is allowed, the WTO ruled (correctly) that blocking Antigua gambling was protectionism.
If alcohol is illegal in a country (which is very common in Muslim countries), then the WTO will rule against the alcohol distributor.
Basically, the WTO legal stance (which the US agreed to) is there must be a level playing field. You can not implement protectionist laws such has high tarrifs for imports and subsidies for domestic.
A server needs a gui like a fish needs a banjo.
I got a woman ...
Ha, we know you are lying. This is slashdot.
With that statement you prove you prove you don't know a damn thing about how capitalism works.
Even when there are plenty of qualified works in a field, businesses love to hire H1B workers for a number of reaons.
1. Get more qualified people. The job may only require a BA/BS degree of skill, but they can get an MA/MS for the same price.
2. No worry about threats to quit and leave for a competitor. It's a bitch to get your job visa changed and most companies don't want to bother.
3. H1B works will work longer hours without bitching for the same reason as #2.
4. You can skip paying bonuses and giving raises, again, see #2.
So hire an overqualified H1B worker, treat him like shit, don't give him raises or bonuses, and you don't have to worry about them leaving for the competitor. What's not to like? The way to fix this is to make it very easy to change an H1B to a different company. Once the involuntary servitude aspect is removed it will be less likely businesses will abuse the H1B system (it won't eliminate the abuse, just reduce it).
I remember sitting at home without a job while the tech industry was crying to congress that the needed more H1Bs because they couldn't find qualified workers. Fucking lying sacks of shit. This was not long after the tech bubble had burst and threw tens of thousands of us techies out of our jobs.
I feel that logically it's incorrect to thank me.
LIKE HELL! While I'm not an Apple fan (the current corporation, not the company you founded), you brought personal computing to the masses.
You are making the assumption that the person did something wrong. How do you feel about murdering innocent teeangers?
Some of those leftists don't even realize they act just like the extremist muslims when they demand speech they dislike be stopped.
Interesting how some people can fully justify blatant media bias.
Bias should bother you, whether it's a candidate you like or dislike, you should be comfortable knowing that the news your receive is honest. When you are accepting of what is an outright lie, you are allowing yourself to live in a fantasy world.
Priests deny boinking little boys.
Microsoft denies being a monopoly.
Michael Moore denies being a big fat hypocrite.
Noam Chomsky denies being a self-righteous asshole.
A rather incompetent script kiddie kept trying to hack one of my servers some years ago. Poking back, I found he had left the entire C: drive on his windows box shared to the world. So I dropped a gift into his startup directory. Yeah, not much of a story.
And how is memorizing a 6-8 digit random character password hard?
When you have five different passwords for work and company policy requires you to change a couple of them every three months and you can't repeat the last 10 passwords you used, then lock you out after three failed attempts because you got them mixed up. Oh, the password you meant to use? It's now on the "can not use" list, thus making it even more difficult to remember them.
Our password policy is set by some non-techie middle manager in Tokyo who probably read some lame article ten years ago. Getting a corporate policy changed in Japan is close to impossible, no matter how stupid it is.
A password vault is the only viable option. Which means all of your passwords are now protected by a single password, thus reducing overall security even more.
Quite the opposite. The less the term/phrase describes the product, the stronger the trademark. Thus, Apple is an excellent name for a computer company, but would probably be rejected if a fruit company tried to use it as a trademark. Microsoft should have been considered a weak trademark, but they got lucky and have the money to fight any attempts to revoke it.
Since Java and coffee really don't have anything to do with computing (other than it being the primary component of geek blood), it's a pretty strong trademark.
IANAL, but got that information from an article written by a trademark lawyer years ago.
When questioned by reporters, the judge responded, "My cousin^H^H^H^H^H^H The sheriff is a hard working public servant who had to make some tough budget choices."
I boycotted the Olympics many years ago. I remember the exact moment I finally said, "fuck this". I was sitting on the couch with my wife watching a women's swimming event (2000 summer games). It went like this: 15 minutes about American swimmer, several commercials, 15 minutes about another American swimmer, more commercials, 15 minutes about the third American swimmer. More commercials. Discussion about how the only thing in question was the order the Americans would win the three medals. Race starts. Woman from some country they didn't care about beats the crap out of everyone. Immediately switch to another event without even fucking acknowledging the win by the woman from that shitty little country. Except that country was Hungary, where my wife was born and raised and where we were married. We cared a hell of a lot about that fine young (and uber hot) Hungarian swimmer and wanted to not just hear the assholes recognize her win, but also some background about her. I got up from the couch, told my wife I was done with the Olympics, and have not watched a single event (summer or winter) since then.
Their heavy handed reaction to people who post pictures or commentary about the games has only reinforced my desire to never watch their brand-fest again.
On the first day of a new job I noticed the manager did nothing but walk around yelling at and abusing everyone. He never asked anyone to do something, he yelled at them. Shortly after lunch he tried that with me. My response was simply, "fuck you", and I walked out.
Rewriting the sage words of Mark Twain is a greater sin than burning his work. And anyone who claims Huck Finn is racist hasn't read the fucking book (or is too stupid to understand the entire point of the story).
What an astoundingly stupid accuasation to make. The ESL program works under the theory that the best way for a student to learn English is to teach everything in Spanish. This is so obviously completely wrong that the only explanation for the continued existence of the program is racists (La Raza, etc) pushing their political agenda.
Remove the engine from his car. Demand he "make it work". Refuse to give back the engine or to pay for a new one.
Oh, and quit your job because there isn't a damn thing you can do to fix this problem. You are fucked.
How is much cash involved when someone home PC stops working? I can see if businesses are impacted, but I think their numbers about "half of Fortune 500 companies" is a bunch of bull - maybe they have a few that are infected, but nothing business crippling.
How much does it cost us to allow these infected computers to remain on the internet?
Booting them off the internet is a good idea, but doesn't fix the underlying problem. PEBKAC.