And that article is largely bunk. The only time I wore a suit was board meeting presentations. If we were hosting any of the regional people I might have my jacket and tie on a hangar, just in case. Most days it was slacks and a dress shirt. In the summer slacks and a polo shirt were fine. On more than once occasion I caught the president of the company wearing shorts, although he usually didn't venture outside his office on ultra-casual days.
The IT department would wear jeans on days we were dragging cable or doing installations. Shorts were okay for the odd weekend.
Really fashion is dictated by the character of the office and your position. Some companies it's casual every day. Programmers frequently get a pass on the red carpet because they're rarely out front meeting customers. If you do any kind of budget management, you have to be a little more grooming conscious as that frequently puts you in meetings with non-IT departments. Take a cue from your peers at the office and do keep a spare shirt in the car. I used to get mine pressed and boxed at the dry cleaner and keep a spare box with different color shirts in the car. That way no matter what color slacks I had on that day I could find a shirt that matched in the event of an accident.
I went from upper management back to a grunt programmer job and loved it. Slacks and a polo shirt was dress up day. The best part was not worrying about it. I built some of their core systems and would have been hard to replace. It was obvious they were annoyed at my attitude some days, but there wasn't much they could do.
The improvements will increase the VLA's capabilities 10-fold, allowing it to "pick up a cell phone signal on Jupiter."
The Bush administration pressured Congress to expand the Protect America Act to include Jupiter. Visitors to that planet will now be required to have a US passport to get back in the country.
We were not completely surprised by the 9-11 hijackers, the problem was we didn't act on what we did know. Even then we knew. We knew without the Patriot Act, we knew without wholesale spying on the American public, we knew without the Protect America Act. We knew and did nothing. So now the solution is to spy on Americans. Makes almost as much sense as being attacked by terrorists operating out of Afghanistan and responding by attacking Iraq.
Only a Republican would think it makes sense to fight terrorism by monitoring my 83 year old mom's phone calls.
And, just in case this dust up has interfered with the intelligence community's ability to monitor the activity of Americans, the bake sale has been postponed until next week because the lady running it broke her hip and mom change her hair appointment to 11 am this week because Marge's family is flying in from Montana. And dad still can't figure out why his pineapple plants keep dying in the front yard. Now you're up to date.
The cult of personality CIO is probably the most destructive and wasteful of all of them. They're particularly dangerous in government. The last big contract I worked had one. He brought in "his" people to manage projects. Some of them were, in my opinion, charity cases. A couple had qualifications that included boarding their horses at the same riding academy. They had unproductive jobs and were bossy and abrasive on top of that. I watched them waste millions of dollars, produce nothing tangible or productive, then get promoted. The talented people took other jobs and left.
It's very demoralizing when you're trying to do the right thing for the customer and be cost effective, then see someone ride in with his toadies, blow millions on something that never had a chance of working in the first place, then get moved up the chain. Makes you question if there's a margin in being practical and productive. I always thought that if you made good business decisions in IT, the customer would eventually come back to the value proposition. But it doesn't always work that way and I'm starting to question whether that's naive.
I certainly have several first-hand experiences where the incompetent, impractical and wasteful have flourished.
...but I don't necessarily want to store them at Google or any other 3rd party vendor, unless Congress amends HIPPA to cover them. I'd rather have the option of carrying my records around on an encrypted USB or other portable device. That would mean getting health care providers to use common file formats and standard forms. Not holding my breath.
I wanted to something similar with my pets. Put their vet records on a little memory stick card I could put in a special holder in their collar. Treatment history, x-rays, shot records, license and contact information. I asked my vet if he used some type of electronic records and he looked at me like I'd just asked for directions to Mars. Since vets seldom have to deal with insurance companies, it seems electronic records are a concept in that field.
It's time to kill software patents once and for all. This is not what the patent system was intended to do. There's no investment by the litigant, other than monetary. It's not like the company involved is offering any value to the TV broadcast industry. It's nothing but a tax, worse than a tax because at least your tax money has some return. What Rembrandt is doing is a legal extortion racket. In any other setting this would be a crime.
Gotcha capitalism at its finest. Sickening. Enough is enough already.
Except I was coming at it from the angle that companies waste a fantastic amount of time and money on software vendors. The fewer you have in the mix, the more value in your IT systems.
Too many companies are locked into dysfunctional vendor-lead relationships. They're getting advice and resources from another company in business to sell them something. It's bizarre but I see it all the time.
The best value with open source is to implement it yourself. If you get into trouble you can always whistle up IBM or HP to ride in to save the day, at breath-taking charge rates, of course. Just depends on where you want to spend your money. With Microsoft you're paying for the licenses AND support. Where's the value? With OSS you're paying for support.
Now, this may not necessarily be a bad thing, but I don't see how this is markedly different from, say, paying Microsoft.
It's massively different. With Microsoft you're locked into their file formats and their upgrade cycle. You can either dance on the end of their patch string or leave your network vulnerable. I'm constantly surprised at how much MS dictates the daily activity of MS-centric shops.
The best value with open source is to implement it yourself. The next best thing would be paying someone like IBM to do it for you. If you get mad at IBM you have the option of finding someone else to support your operation and give them the boot. If you try it yourself and run into problems, you can always get out the checkbook and call in the big boys.
It'll be a great place for a data center, it's beautiful country...a geek paradise. Lots to do. Windsurfing in the gorge, mountain biking and hiking, skiing in the winter. A short drive to the Oregon coast going west and eastern Washington wine country to the east. Plenty of night life in Portland. Saturday Market under the bridge. Shop sales tax free in Oregon.
I'm sure they'll have no problem recruiting for those jobs. They'll get to work with Bonneville Power Assoc. for their electric needs, in the shadow of the DC Transmission system that ships the excess power to California. Cheaper to build the centers there than at the end of the power pipeline in CA where the price is much higher.
This plan has a better chance than the York debacle, but IBM and Novell will certainly want to see the money. If Norris Capital Partners has to front the 100 million in escrow this could get interesting.
For Microsoft this has to be like being caught in an endless corporate version of Fatal Attraction. Backing the SCO litigation probably looked good when the Vista release was delayed but now SCO has them by the short curlies. MS has to keep coming up with cash for their demanding paramour. And it's getting harder to design deniable sources for that cash. Hard to say what SCO has on them, maybe they keep threating to go state's evidence on the anti-trust behavior. Maybe MS thinks it's worth a couple hundred million to keep the litigation cloud intact. I'm leaning toward the former. This can't be worth it from a business strategy perspective. It's expensive and it's not working. If anything it's backfiring. It's the kind of advertising that Linux can't normally afford.
It's really hard to tell if this is calculated malfeasance or serial incompetence. With Microsoft it's sometimes hard to tell the difference.
Most definitely this doesn't have anything to do with McBride, other than I'm sure they'll want to keep him quiet. Which means making sure he's happy, which will likely involve a large sum of cash when he leaves.
This whole thing is such a loser. If MS would put that time and money into developing an operating system and other software that provides value to the user, they could forget all this stupidity with SCO. It's tacky, pathetic and...should be...beneath the dignity of a world class company.
Protecting against these new computer viruses, which so far are aimed at PCs running Windows, is hard - and sometimes impossible.
Windows XP or Vista? Are the infection rates similar for the two operating systems? I just hate it when a virus or trojan is treated like a uniform infectious agent. There can be big differences in the infection rates even among Windows machines, depending on configuration.
Autorun is from the devil. Right up there with ActiveX in my book. I think it does point up how difficult it is to secure Windows in a connected environment. I have a token Windows box on the network but don't surf with it. And I don't connect outside devices to it...especially not now. Seems like the added storage and capability of connected devices gives the virus writers a sweetheart platform to launch an attack.
I wonder how many of those picture frames managed to make their way on to corporate networks? Some exec that wants his kids pictures on his desk. I've got a customer with one of them in his office, an older one. Probably not a problem but that's today. The future is rife with potential for this to turn into a really bad problem.
If you were watching MSNBC last night Olbermann ripped Bush and the Republicans over telecomm immunity and this staged walk out. They were showing clips of the "spontaneous" walk out to a place where there just happened to be cameras and a podium rigged with microphones. As if there are podiums and broadcast crews stationed all over in case any of our Congress critters suddenly decide to storm out of chambers in protest.
He called Bush and incompetent liar and fascist...in so many words.
Telcos have been dealing with wiretap law for decades, they knew what they were doing was wrong. If they're so certain their behavior was so lofty and patriotic, then let them take their chances with a jury.
We want companies to think twice before cooperating with an illegal enterprise, regardless of the perceived threats. The FISA court is a joke, they've never turned down a request. So, how is that virtual rubber stamp impeding terrorist investigations? Or is it that they're really afraid the FISA court won't authorize wholesale spying on the American public?
"permitting lawsuits against the companies would... discourage the private sector from cooperating with the government in the future."
Damn right, that's the whole point. Telecoms have been doing wiretaps for decades, they know the law. They knew what they were doing at the time and they knew it was on shaky legal ground.
We want companies to be discouraged from cooperating with the government, particularly when the government is breaking the law. Right wingers make me sick. Why aren't Hannity, Coulter and WindBag tearing up the airwaves with indignation? Not a peep out of any of you hypocrites. This borders on a domestic crime against the Constitution and you just hum right along, no big deal. If we had any collective nads we'd hang anyone supporting this legislation.
...experience tells me that 80% likely involves IE at 90 percent or better.
How is that a troll? He's stating the observation based on his experience.
I did read the article and can't tell, either. My experience coincides with yours. Funny articles are hesitant to spell out the distribution of vulnerabilities. I wonder if they get leaned on by Microsoft's legal department or one of their PR firms?
Just exactly how many of those vulnerabilities are Firefox running on Ubuntu? Or Safari? Or, as usual, is Windows and IE the most attractive attack vector?
In Microsoft Office Professional 2003's help, a search for "APA" (a popular documentation style) brings up two links labeled Microsoft Office Marketplace.
The ads don't appear in the app itself, but these days the online support is tightly coupled with the application. It's like ads in textbooks. If MS is that desperate for revenue they have to embed ads in their online help, then they're in worse shape than I thought. It's just tacky and slightly pathetic.
I'm still proud of my country but not as much as I used to be. That bothers me. What also bothers me is that bad behavior on the part of the TSA and other government organs is in danger of becoming institutionalized, which will make it very difficult to eliminate.
That sums up how I feel really well. I'm sadly disturbed that people don't take a minute to think about what they're giving up in the face of fear. And they're so convinced they've got the answers. So strange.
So you may have been inconvenienced, but a 20$ discount demonstrates some pretty respectable behavior from Amazon.
Okay, let's apply your thinking elsewhere. Like some of those sleazy online camera stores, advertising very attractive camera prices. They start accepting orders for new cameras, wait a week or two, then start calling customers back and saying they made a mistake and offering them a different model for slightly more. The dealer calls it an honest mistake...one they repeat regularly.
The only way companies will exercise reasonable care in advertising is if they're held accountable for what they advertise. Cell phone, cable companies, airlines, rental car companies, the camera stores mentioned above and hotels are getting to the point their advertised prices are fantasy. Where's the accountability?
What we definitely don't need now is a corporate apologists blaming the victim. As companies continually cut staff, we get stuck with the sloppy service, help desk language barriers, gotcaha capitalism and sloppy advertising mistakes made by overworked people. I'm tired of it. And I'm really fed up with the enabling attitude that scoffs at consumers for expecting companies to own up to their mistakes.
Sure they are. Only the entitlements are going to Haliburton, KBR, Blackwater, AT$T, CACI and other companies cooperating in the looting of our treasury and trashing our liberty. The new entitlements are for agencies like DHS that consume more and more resources, inconvenience millions of innocent people, yet don't make us any safer. Conservatives supposedly supported Bush because he believed in small government, but he created a massive and invasive new federal bureaucracy on the fringe of functionality.
We've replaced welfare for the poor with welfare for rich and powerful. We owe those companies billions, we waste billions more on a false sense of security. Where did you think the money was going to come from? You want unlimited government spending but no new taxes. How's that working so far?
Now a county tax assessor has filed a lawsuit trying to block the tax maps from being put online, claiming copyright infringement and financial damages
She just wasn't thinking big enough. She should have tried to claim copyright on the whole globe. Just think how much money should make on those royalties. That's more money than a fellar could make collecting aluminum cans his whole life.
And that, kids, is why cousins shouldn't get married.
How is that flamebait? This isn't just searching for contraband, this is looking back through web history files, email and sensitive "thought data" without bothering with either probable cause or a warrant. Any reasonable person has a right to resent this type of intrusion, not to mention confiscating expensive equipment without due process.
More frightening than the act itself is the attitude of creeping intrusiveness justified by people who went through the American educational system. I don't think anyone in the history of the world imagined themselves being part of an emerging police state. In almost every instance it was a gradual process where the principles were acting on some type of perceived imperative. The people involved believed they were justified. The GRU, the Stasi, the SS and a thousand organizations like them started with a social imperative.
Don't think we'll ever be that bad? If there are no checks and balances, no oversight and no way to challenge over-reaching policy what's stopping us from getting there? There has to be a line even for terrorism. This far and no farther. Instead we keep kicking that can farther down the road.
It's not the actual policy. It's not this little thing or that little thing, it's the attitude that the ends justify the means underlying each little step.
And in record time for a federal agency. I think its creation was a mistake and its continued existence a money-sucking waste of resources. Instead of focusing on terrorism they've started to put their greasy fingers into all kinds of areas not related to what's supposed to be their core mission.
Unless someone can relate cold medicine and terrorism. If we've got this terrorism thing whipped that DHS has so much time on their hands, then scale back their budget.
We have the FBI for domestic terrorism, the CIA for overseas operations...they were getting the job done before 9-11. Just as a reminder, the problem wasn't that we didn't know about the terrorists before 9-11, the problem was we didn't act on what we knew. And we knew without massive, illegal wiretapping of Americans, without the Patriot Act, without waterboarding, secret prisons, GITMO and all the other retarded things we've done out of fear since then.
FDA officials say the problems in Puerto Rico are proportionate with the large number of pharmaceutical plants here and generally no worse than those on the US mainland.
Wow, I'm sure glad there isn't any more paint in our meds here on the US mainland than Puerto Rico.
Remind me why the US pharmaceutical industry told us we were paying more for the same meds in this country? Something about safety...
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And that article is largely bunk. The only time I wore a suit was board meeting presentations. If we were hosting any of the regional people I might have my jacket and tie on a hangar, just in case. Most days it was slacks and a dress shirt. In the summer slacks and a polo shirt were fine. On more than once occasion I caught the president of the company wearing shorts, although he usually didn't venture outside his office on ultra-casual days.
The IT department would wear jeans on days we were dragging cable or doing installations. Shorts were okay for the odd weekend.
Really fashion is dictated by the character of the office and your position. Some companies it's casual every day. Programmers frequently get a pass on the red carpet because they're rarely out front meeting customers. If you do any kind of budget management, you have to be a little more grooming conscious as that frequently puts you in meetings with non-IT departments. Take a cue from your peers at the office and do keep a spare shirt in the car. I used to get mine pressed and boxed at the dry cleaner and keep a spare box with different color shirts in the car. That way no matter what color slacks I had on that day I could find a shirt that matched in the event of an accident.
I went from upper management back to a grunt programmer job and loved it. Slacks and a polo shirt was dress up day. The best part was not worrying about it. I built some of their core systems and would have been hard to replace. It was obvious they were annoyed at my attitude some days, but there wasn't much they could do.
The improvements will increase the VLA's capabilities 10-fold, allowing it to "pick up a cell phone signal on Jupiter."
The Bush administration pressured Congress to expand the Protect America Act to include Jupiter. Visitors to that planet will now be required to have a US passport to get back in the country.
We were not completely surprised by the 9-11 hijackers, the problem was we didn't act on what we did know. Even then we knew. We knew without the Patriot Act, we knew without wholesale spying on the American public, we knew without the Protect America Act. We knew and did nothing. So now the solution is to spy on Americans. Makes almost as much sense as being attacked by terrorists operating out of Afghanistan and responding by attacking Iraq.
Only a Republican would think it makes sense to fight terrorism by monitoring my 83 year old mom's phone calls.
And, just in case this dust up has interfered with the intelligence community's ability to monitor the activity of Americans, the bake sale has been postponed until next week because the lady running it broke her hip and mom change her hair appointment to 11 am this week because Marge's family is flying in from Montana. And dad still can't figure out why his pineapple plants keep dying in the front yard. Now you're up to date.
The cult of personality CIO is probably the most destructive and wasteful of all of them. They're particularly dangerous in government. The last big contract I worked had one. He brought in "his" people to manage projects. Some of them were, in my opinion, charity cases. A couple had qualifications that included boarding their horses at the same riding academy. They had unproductive jobs and were bossy and abrasive on top of that. I watched them waste millions of dollars, produce nothing tangible or productive, then get promoted. The talented people took other jobs and left.
It's very demoralizing when you're trying to do the right thing for the customer and be cost effective, then see someone ride in with his toadies, blow millions on something that never had a chance of working in the first place, then get moved up the chain. Makes you question if there's a margin in being practical and productive. I always thought that if you made good business decisions in IT, the customer would eventually come back to the value proposition. But it doesn't always work that way and I'm starting to question whether that's naive.
I certainly have several first-hand experiences where the incompetent, impractical and wasteful have flourished.
...but I don't necessarily want to store them at Google or any other 3rd party vendor, unless Congress amends HIPPA to cover them. I'd rather have the option of carrying my records around on an encrypted USB or other portable device. That would mean getting health care providers to use common file formats and standard forms. Not holding my breath.
I wanted to something similar with my pets. Put their vet records on a little memory stick card I could put in a special holder in their collar. Treatment history, x-rays, shot records, license and contact information. I asked my vet if he used some type of electronic records and he looked at me like I'd just asked for directions to Mars. Since vets seldom have to deal with insurance companies, it seems electronic records are a concept in that field.
It's time to kill software patents once and for all. This is not what the patent system was intended to do. There's no investment by the litigant, other than monetary. It's not like the company involved is offering any value to the TV broadcast industry. It's nothing but a tax, worse than a tax because at least your tax money has some return. What Rembrandt is doing is a legal extortion racket. In any other setting this would be a crime.
Gotcha capitalism at its finest. Sickening. Enough is enough already.
Except I was coming at it from the angle that companies waste a fantastic amount of time and money on software vendors. The fewer you have in the mix, the more value in your IT systems.
Too many companies are locked into dysfunctional vendor-lead relationships. They're getting advice and resources from another company in business to sell them something. It's bizarre but I see it all the time.
The best value with open source is to implement it yourself. If you get into trouble you can always whistle up IBM or HP to ride in to save the day, at breath-taking charge rates, of course. Just depends on where you want to spend your money. With Microsoft you're paying for the licenses AND support. Where's the value? With OSS you're paying for support.
Now, this may not necessarily be a bad thing, but I don't see how this is markedly different from, say, paying Microsoft.
It's massively different. With Microsoft you're locked into their file formats and their upgrade cycle. You can either dance on the end of their patch string or leave your network vulnerable. I'm constantly surprised at how much MS dictates the daily activity of MS-centric shops.
The best value with open source is to implement it yourself. The next best thing would be paying someone like IBM to do it for you. If you get mad at IBM you have the option of finding someone else to support your operation and give them the boot. If you try it yourself and run into problems, you can always get out the checkbook and call in the big boys.
It'll be a great place for a data center, it's beautiful country...a geek paradise. Lots to do. Windsurfing in the gorge, mountain biking and hiking, skiing in the winter. A short drive to the Oregon coast going west and eastern Washington wine country to the east. Plenty of night life in Portland. Saturday Market under the bridge. Shop sales tax free in Oregon.
I'm sure they'll have no problem recruiting for those jobs. They'll get to work with Bonneville Power Assoc. for their electric needs, in the shadow of the DC Transmission system that ships the excess power to California. Cheaper to build the centers there than at the end of the power pipeline in CA where the price is much higher.
This plan has a better chance than the York debacle, but IBM and Novell will certainly want to see the money. If Norris Capital Partners has to front the 100 million in escrow this could get interesting.
For Microsoft this has to be like being caught in an endless corporate version of Fatal Attraction. Backing the SCO litigation probably looked good when the Vista release was delayed but now SCO has them by the short curlies. MS has to keep coming up with cash for their demanding paramour. And it's getting harder to design deniable sources for that cash. Hard to say what SCO has on them, maybe they keep threating to go state's evidence on the anti-trust behavior. Maybe MS thinks it's worth a couple hundred million to keep the litigation cloud intact. I'm leaning toward the former. This can't be worth it from a business strategy perspective. It's expensive and it's not working. If anything it's backfiring. It's the kind of advertising that Linux can't normally afford.
It's really hard to tell if this is calculated malfeasance or serial incompetence. With Microsoft it's sometimes hard to tell the difference.
Most definitely this doesn't have anything to do with McBride, other than I'm sure they'll want to keep him quiet. Which means making sure he's happy, which will likely involve a large sum of cash when he leaves.
This whole thing is such a loser. If MS would put that time and money into developing an operating system and other software that provides value to the user, they could forget all this stupidity with SCO. It's tacky, pathetic and...should be...beneath the dignity of a world class company.
Protecting against these new computer viruses, which so far are aimed at PCs running Windows, is hard - and sometimes impossible.
Windows XP or Vista? Are the infection rates similar for the two operating systems? I just hate it when a virus or trojan is treated like a uniform infectious agent. There can be big differences in the infection rates even among Windows machines, depending on configuration.
Autorun is from the devil. Right up there with ActiveX in my book. I think it does point up how difficult it is to secure Windows in a connected environment. I have a token Windows box on the network but don't surf with it. And I don't connect outside devices to it...especially not now. Seems like the added storage and capability of connected devices gives the virus writers a sweetheart platform to launch an attack.
I wonder how many of those picture frames managed to make their way on to corporate networks? Some exec that wants his kids pictures on his desk. I've got a customer with one of them in his office, an older one. Probably not a problem but that's today. The future is rife with potential for this to turn into a really bad problem.
If you were watching MSNBC last night Olbermann ripped Bush and the Republicans over telecomm immunity and this staged walk out. They were showing clips of the "spontaneous" walk out to a place where there just happened to be cameras and a podium rigged with microphones. As if there are podiums and broadcast crews stationed all over in case any of our Congress critters suddenly decide to storm out of chambers in protest.
He called Bush and incompetent liar and fascist...in so many words.
Telcos have been dealing with wiretap law for decades, they knew what they were doing was wrong. If they're so certain their behavior was so lofty and patriotic, then let them take their chances with a jury.
We want companies to think twice before cooperating with an illegal enterprise, regardless of the perceived threats. The FISA court is a joke, they've never turned down a request. So, how is that virtual rubber stamp impeding terrorist investigations? Or is it that they're really afraid the FISA court won't authorize wholesale spying on the American public?
Shame studies.
I think you meant "sham" studies but I sorta like your way better. It's a sham that's also a shame. ;)
"permitting lawsuits against the companies would ... discourage the private sector from cooperating with the government in the future."
Damn right, that's the whole point. Telecoms have been doing wiretaps for decades, they know the law. They knew what they were doing at the time and they knew it was on shaky legal ground.
We want companies to be discouraged from cooperating with the government, particularly when the government is breaking the law. Right wingers make me sick. Why aren't Hannity, Coulter and WindBag tearing up the airwaves with indignation? Not a peep out of any of you hypocrites. This borders on a domestic crime against the Constitution and you just hum right along, no big deal. If we had any collective nads we'd hang anyone supporting this legislation.
How is that a troll? He's stating the observation based on his experience.
I did read the article and can't tell, either. My experience coincides with yours. Funny articles are hesitant to spell out the distribution of vulnerabilities. I wonder if they get leaned on by Microsoft's legal department or one of their PR firms?
Just exactly how many of those vulnerabilities are Firefox running on Ubuntu? Or Safari? Or, as usual, is Windows and IE the most attractive attack vector?
In Microsoft Office Professional 2003's help, a search for "APA" (a popular documentation style) brings up two links labeled Microsoft Office Marketplace.
The ads don't appear in the app itself, but these days the online support is tightly coupled with the application. It's like ads in textbooks. If MS is that desperate for revenue they have to embed ads in their online help, then they're in worse shape than I thought. It's just tacky and slightly pathetic.
I'm still proud of my country but not as much as I used to be. That bothers me. What also bothers me is that bad behavior on the part of the TSA and other government organs is in danger of becoming institutionalized, which will make it very difficult to eliminate.
That sums up how I feel really well. I'm sadly disturbed that people don't take a minute to think about what they're giving up in the face of fear. And they're so convinced they've got the answers. So strange.
So you may have been inconvenienced, but a 20$ discount demonstrates some pretty respectable behavior from Amazon.
Okay, let's apply your thinking elsewhere. Like some of those sleazy online camera stores, advertising very attractive camera prices. They start accepting orders for new cameras, wait a week or two, then start calling customers back and saying they made a mistake and offering them a different model for slightly more. The dealer calls it an honest mistake...one they repeat regularly.
The only way companies will exercise reasonable care in advertising is if they're held accountable for what they advertise. Cell phone, cable companies, airlines, rental car companies, the camera stores mentioned above and hotels are getting to the point their advertised prices are fantasy. Where's the accountability?
What we definitely don't need now is a corporate apologists blaming the victim. As companies continually cut staff, we get stuck with the sloppy service, help desk language barriers, gotcaha capitalism and sloppy advertising mistakes made by overworked people. I'm tired of it. And I'm really fed up with the enabling attitude that scoffs at consumers for expecting companies to own up to their mistakes.
It's not entitlements that's killing us
Sure they are. Only the entitlements are going to Haliburton, KBR, Blackwater, AT$T, CACI and other companies cooperating in the looting of our treasury and trashing our liberty. The new entitlements are for agencies like DHS that consume more and more resources, inconvenience millions of innocent people, yet don't make us any safer. Conservatives supposedly supported Bush because he believed in small government, but he created a massive and invasive new federal bureaucracy on the fringe of functionality.
We've replaced welfare for the poor with welfare for rich and powerful. We owe those companies billions, we waste billions more on a false sense of security. Where did you think the money was going to come from? You want unlimited government spending but no new taxes. How's that working so far?
Now a county tax assessor has filed a lawsuit trying to block the tax maps from being put online, claiming copyright infringement and financial damages
She just wasn't thinking big enough. She should have tried to claim copyright on the whole globe. Just think how much money should make on those royalties. That's more money than a fellar could make collecting aluminum cans his whole life.
And that, kids, is why cousins shouldn't get married.
it's a star-eat-star universe after all, eh
I couldn't possibly have another bite of star. My doctor says I have to cut down on hydrogen.
Yet we receive a surprisingly large number of requests for such resources: up to 130 million requests per day
I want to run their AdSense program. Cha-ching!
How is that flamebait? This isn't just searching for contraband, this is looking back through web history files, email and sensitive "thought data" without bothering with either probable cause or a warrant. Any reasonable person has a right to resent this type of intrusion, not to mention confiscating expensive equipment without due process.
More frightening than the act itself is the attitude of creeping intrusiveness justified by people who went through the American educational system. I don't think anyone in the history of the world imagined themselves being part of an emerging police state. In almost every instance it was a gradual process where the principles were acting on some type of perceived imperative. The people involved believed they were justified. The GRU, the Stasi, the SS and a thousand organizations like them started with a social imperative.
Don't think we'll ever be that bad? If there are no checks and balances, no oversight and no way to challenge over-reaching policy what's stopping us from getting there? There has to be a line even for terrorism. This far and no farther. Instead we keep kicking that can farther down the road.
It's not the actual policy. It's not this little thing or that little thing, it's the attitude that the ends justify the means underlying each little step.
And in record time for a federal agency. I think its creation was a mistake and its continued existence a money-sucking waste of resources. Instead of focusing on terrorism they've started to put their greasy fingers into all kinds of areas not related to what's supposed to be their core mission.
Unless someone can relate cold medicine and terrorism. If we've got this terrorism thing whipped that DHS has so much time on their hands, then scale back their budget.
We have the FBI for domestic terrorism, the CIA for overseas operations...they were getting the job done before 9-11. Just as a reminder, the problem wasn't that we didn't know about the terrorists before 9-11, the problem was we didn't act on what we knew. And we knew without massive, illegal wiretapping of Americans, without the Patriot Act, without waterboarding, secret prisons, GITMO and all the other retarded things we've done out of fear since then.
FDA officials say the problems in Puerto Rico are proportionate with the large number of pharmaceutical plants here and generally no worse than those on the US mainland.
Wow, I'm sure glad there isn't any more paint in our meds here on the US mainland than Puerto Rico.
Remind me why the US pharmaceutical industry told us we were paying more for the same meds in this country? Something about safety...