To put these odds in terms us slashdotters will understand, the odds that this asteroid will hit earth are better than the odds of rolling a '20' with a twenty-sided die 2 times in a row.
More importantly, your odds of convincing an actual female to have sex with you just went up to 1 in 233.
The issues being debated before starting work on the mission include cost-benefit and other space priorities.
The obvious solution is to cut costs by outsourcing to India. I would estimate that project costs can be cut by 30% by outsourcing to India. The real benefit is that because they are already in India, this can be done recursively. So they will save 30% by outsourcing to India the first time, then another 30% by outsourcing a second time, and so on and so forth until the actual cost approaches zero.
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Now I work at S**** F***
you work at Shit Fuck !?!?
Ah yes, I almost had it. I had the jingle running through my head but couldn't quite remember the company. "Just like a good neighbor, Shit Fuck is there."
There should probably be an intermediate state as well for a question that is on its way from the FUQ to the FAQ, pending an answer - I propose that we refer to questions in this state as being part of the FUQ-queue. Example: you could say that a company like Verizon gives its customers a large FUQ-queue.
For Democrats, Greens are the party which champions what Democrats used to: support for working people and people of color and protection of the environment
The thing is, Greens are only interested in championing people one particular color. For shame.
This is dumb ownership, if this bug becomes prevalent.
Phew... I was worried there for a second. It's a good thing we can rely on Windows users to not be dumb, otherwise the Internet would be bogged down in viruses, spyware, and spam.
Beware of the source. I came across another article from their site earlier this morning and I'm perplexed as to how they can be considered a credible news source. Check out their article on programmers outsourcing their own jobs if you need a good laugh. They took a comment that was posted on Slashdot awhile back from some guy who was joking about how he had outsourced his own job to India and not only did they treat this guy's post as a reliable news source, but they also extrapolated it into claims of this practice being the hot new trend. It's quite bizarre. I wish I could find the original comment because I remember reading it and laughing at the time, but Google isn't turning it up for some reason.
Under Marx, you also get to choose what it is you want to do, so you're not being forced into an undesireable job, just a job you want to do.
Yeah, right. Tell Slashdot readers that they can do any job they want and get paid the same for it and tomorrow the world would wake up with 500,000 less programmers and 500,000 more porn stars. Oh what's that? You can't pick just any job under Marx, just one from a list of state approved jobs that you are deemed capable of doing? Well, that's starting to wander away from your promise of a job that isn't "undesirable" if I can't have my top pick. The beauty of the free market, and the reason why a centrally planned economy cannot possibly provide the same individual freedom, is that I am free to pursue whatever job I want no matter how unrealistic. In a Marxist economy, I would have no chance at being a porn star because Marx would say "we only need 100 porn stars, so you must choose a different job", but in a free market the choice is left up to me to determine whether I am willing to accept that my lower pay is worth my increased happiness.
And what about jobs that are less desirable to everybody? Where would the proctologists come from? Where would the plumbers come from? There is a reason why these people are paid well and it is because they quite literally have shit jobs. There are plenty of jobs that are inherently less desirable, and we need to reward those willing to do them so that society can function. That's the other beauty of the free market - putting a price on everything causes supply and demand to meet at an optimal level (under perfect competition), so we get the right number of plumbers and proctologists. Marxism totally ignores supply and demand with disastrous effects on both side of the equation - people willing to work shit jobs choose not to (due to lack of incentives) and people needing shit jobs done are SOL because they have no way to provide incentives to others. Above all, it is just flat out wrong to disallow people to bargain with each other for services of their own free will, and that is what you are doing when you say that work should be divorced from compensation.
My God! Do you think that Rob Enderle and the goatse guy might actually be one and the same?! I for one have never seen the two of them in the same room at the same time.
the terror level has just been raised to "Orange" high at the same time that Tom Ridge announced that after the election he will reteire due to financial difficulties. I guess $175,000 a year of tax payer money just doesn't buy a lot now a days.
That's only for DC. The terror level is still "Bert" for the rest of the country.
Regarding his pay, Ridge has got to have one of the most stressful, time consuming, and important jobs in the country, and as such I for one do not think that $175K is nearly enough. Corporate officers frequently make more than that, so why would anybody willingly subject himself to a much more stressful and dangerous job for less money? I've got to side with Ridge.
It sounds to me like somebody got the wrong idea with everybody raving about how much they love SpamAssassin. It was probably somebody who does not understand English very well (most likely from Soviet Russia) mistakenly thinking that people love it when spam assassinates you. Ah, the dangers of taking Slashdot too literally.
Shouldn't that first one be "Star Trek X: Cheetah"? Inside jokes are only funny when you do them right.
Oh, I think it's funny both ways. People will identify with the most recent ones, and it doesn't matter so much what the first few were. For example, I could have put "Star Trek X: afish40" as the first one and nobody would have noticed because it still would have been a list of big pussies. Anyway, I got the list from The Mac Mind, which said it was "Leopard" (although a bit more Googling shows that "Cheetah" is probably correct - damn Mac Mind!).
Anything I pay for doesn't get used for business. Period.
Clothes?
Especially clothes. You should show up to work with progressively less clothing on each day until your boss figures out why clothing your work-nerds is a very necessary business expense. If they threaten to fire you, tell them that you are no longer able to find clothing large enough to fit you because you are so large as to be disabled and then they will get in a panic about firing a disabled person and decide to instead buy you a mumu or a tent to cover your shame.
UNIX utilities such as cp, tar and nsync can properly handle HFS+ resource forks
Wow... the first boy band to properly handle resource forks. Watch for Microsoft to play catch up by inking a deal for Longhorn support with The Backstreet Boys.
The problem is that the free operating system created by Torvalds and his collaborators is poorly documented.
Wait a minute... if I recall correctly, in one of its anti-trust trials Microsoft said that it was not able to turn over the source code to certain older versions of Windows because it could no longer find the code! And Linux is "poorly documented" in comparison to what again?!?! Why on earth would organizations demand a paper trail of who submitted all the little patches that got rolled into Linux when Microsoft can't even produce the code that made up their old operating systems, let alone account for where the code came from? The world has gone mad.
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Beware of the source. I came across another article from their site earlier this morning and I'm perplexed as to how they can be considered a credible news source. Check out their article on programmers outsourcing their own jobs if you need a good laugh. They took a comment that was posted on Slashdot awhile back from some guy who was joking about how he had outsourced his own job to India and not only did they treat this guy's post as a reliable news source, but they also extrapolated it into claims of this practice being the hot new trend. It's quite bizarre. I wish I could find the original comment because I remember reading it and laughing at the time, but Google isn't turning it up for some reason.
And what about jobs that are less desirable to everybody? Where would the proctologists come from? Where would the plumbers come from? There is a reason why these people are paid well and it is because they quite literally have shit jobs. There are plenty of jobs that are inherently less desirable, and we need to reward those willing to do them so that society can function. That's the other beauty of the free market - putting a price on everything causes supply and demand to meet at an optimal level (under perfect competition), so we get the right number of plumbers and proctologists. Marxism totally ignores supply and demand with disastrous effects on both side of the equation - people willing to work shit jobs choose not to (due to lack of incentives) and people needing shit jobs done are SOL because they have no way to provide incentives to others. Above all, it is just flat out wrong to disallow people to bargain with each other for services of their own free will, and that is what you are doing when you say that work should be divorced from compensation.
Regarding his pay, Ridge has got to have one of the most stressful, time consuming, and important jobs in the country, and as such I for one do not think that $175K is nearly enough. Corporate officers frequently make more than that, so why would anybody willingly subject himself to a much more stressful and dangerous job for less money? I've got to side with Ridge.
It sounds to me like somebody got the wrong idea with everybody raving about how much they love SpamAssassin. It was probably somebody who does not understand English very well (most likely from Soviet Russia) mistakenly thinking that people love it when spam assassinates you. Ah, the dangers of taking Slashdot too literally.
- Star Trek X: Leopard
- Star Trek X: Puma
- Star Trek X: Jaguar
- Star Trek X: Panther
- Star Trek X: Tiger
The trick is to not vary the modulus of the version number but to vary the fur color instead.I do hope they meant "rsync".