At the risk of feeding a possible troll, I never gave out my hotmail address to any porn site, but its inbox gets filled with porn spam. You don't have to give out your address to get spam. Secondly, I don't know any professional who doesn't use email in their work. Your proposal would pretty much get rid of tech companies.
Its beyond me how some manager can claim that spam filtering isn't worth it. A company's biggest expense is salary, and how much time (and therefore money) do employees waste filtering out spam manually?
That's because there is a cost to the sender involved in sending snail mail. Sure you can send a lot of it without a return address, but you are limited by how much money you can spend on postage. SMTP does not have this limitation which is why spam is such a problem. Also, the penalties for mail fraud are so severe that most people won't even try it.
So you settle for news with a pro-communist spin instead? I would certainly never claim that capitalist countries never lie or embellish things, but you must admit their track record for truth is quite a bit better than any communist country. Example, look at the situation in North Korea right now with the train wreck. The communist news agency wouldn't give any information at all other than to say there was 'an incident'.
It was not that long ago when people of certain races and religions died for their right to vote. It was more like the right for their people to vote, since they knew they would likely not survive to vote themselves. And now we apparently have people too scared to even go to a police station to vote? If you're that afraid, you have no business voting, period. You disenfranchised yourself. Every citizen has the right to vote, but that does not mean that the government is required to make voting 100% hassle free.
When the BayStar financing deal was first announced, I recall a lot of people saying this was "death spiral financing". They described how this was done with.coms that were running out of cash and that the financing institution typically provided money in exchange for a large portion of the corporation (or preferred shares). Apparently, the financing organization benefits from a reduction in stock price since they can acquire more of the company, or some other benefit like that. These financers would sometimes short the company stock just to drive the share price down. Could it be that BayStar made this announcement, knowing that it would drive down SCO's share price so that they would get whatever benefit would come out of it? Since BayStar is very unlikely to actually get their money back, this seems like the only real motivation for them to make the announcement.
most of the agents would probably rather be dealing with real criminals
I'm sure that's true in a lot of cases, but some of the agents are probably enjoying the idea of roughing up defenseless high school kids, knowing that nobody is likely to pull out a gun and start shooting at them, unlike what 'real criminals' might do. This is easy, risk free work from a law enforcement perspective.
If your 'core hours' are 40 a week and you have to be there at a certain time, then work those hours exactly. When quitting time comes, quit at that time. If they say anything about it, keep walking. If you get fired under circumstances like this, you've got a case for a wrongful termination suit no matter what state you live in. There are grounds for suit here one way or another. At the very least, the mere possibility of a suit will entice the company into giving you a few grand in severance. Until workers actually grow a pair, the company will be free to abuse you even if new laws are passed, since it would require someone to speak up in order for the violation to be reported.
The Justice for Janitors campaign in Los Angeles was quite successful at pressuring building owners to contract with unionized janitorial companies. IT workers could easily be unionized under the same circumstances.
Does that mean we threaten to take down a company's network with a virus unless they unionize? That seems to be the way unions act when they don't get their way. These are NOT isolated incidents. I've never heard of a union strike that did not involve some amount of violence. My grandpa (a railroad worker) had his car tires flattened when he went to work during a strike, even though the work he was doing was completely different than the union labor. In the case of theater workers, there were some theaters that were set on fire as part of a union drive. No, this is not something that would be positive for our industry. You couldn't convince me for a second that IT unions would somehow be magically uncorrupt unlike all the others.
But don't you know, this is the liberal way. Remember those "peace protestors" at UC Berkley that were shouting down conservative speakers? Liberals love free speech, as long as they agree with what is being said. Oddly enough, conservatives don't seem to have this attitude, since they are not constantly worried about somebody coming along and proving them wrong.
Here's one way to solve this problem. Never invent anything. Then it can never be used for evil purposes. Or we can come to the more rational conclusion that an inventor cannot and should not be responsible for any and all use of a product or idea. If they invent something for the good of society and it ends up being used for something bad, that's life. Sad but true.
This is exactly the problem. The people who say "there should be no fun at work" are only concerned with next quarter's revenue. The people who take a more balanced approach are looking out for the company's long term good. Too many managers are willing to do things that hurt the company in the long run just so they can get a quick buck in the immediate future. Luckily, more companies are recognizing this and changing some of these incentive packages, but some people will never learn.
What happens when there is something that you want to use and somebody has declared it annoying or unwanted and keeps it locked up by patent? I'm no fan of popup ads, but I'm also not a fan of having choices of technologies subjectively restricted.
I've also seen entire companies made up of "out of the box thinkers" that went belly up because their ideas are so "out of the box" that they just do not work in the real world. This is why a diverse team is very valuable. The more progressive types can come up with amazingly creative solutions and the experienced people can make sure that the ideas are practical. Not saying that someone cannot be both experienced and progressive, but a mix of people adds a lot of perspective to a project.
And they wonder why the Japanese auto makers got ahead. When the American car companies got fat and lazy, they got hurt bad, and are still recovering from it.
It is the musicians themselves that have killed the album. When they record a CD with a few interesting songs, a couple of OK songs, and a bunch of filler, nobody values the album format. And why should they, since it would just be boring to listen through the filler to get to your favorite songs. An album, in the true sense, is a collection of songs that are similar and put together well (example: Pink Floyd). When it became just a bunch of songs thrown onto a CD as a delivery mechanism, the idea of the album lost its meaning.
Then they will require you to wait around all day at home for a technician to come by, which they will assure you is necessary in order to get the channel installed. Technician will arrive 4 hours late, fumble around in the box outside for a coupld of minutes, come into the house and see the new channel on the TV, then leave. I don't know about most people, but I have a real problem taking a day off work to wait for the cable company to arrive.
This is a last ditch effort to try and make something before they begin to fold.
Just wait until they get to the phase of their demise that can now be called the 'SCO phase' and start an IP lawsuit / stock scam. I'm sure they own a few vaguely worded patents, so I wouldn't put it past them at all. Who will they sue first?
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Good thing you didn't go for something like this. All it would do is leave you broke and without an internet connection, after it was shut off for spamming. And as other people have pointed out, its unlikely that you would have gotten paid. I'm sure the agreement has enough technicalities in it to let the company use almost any excuse not to pay you. Its unfortunate that sleazy companies do tend to prey on those who don't have a lot, since they tend to be the most desperate for any offer of money, no matter how unlikely it really is.
Are you just trolling or do you honest to god never exceed any speed limit? Or are you one of those people who doesn't drive and feels that its your place to criticise those who do? You may be saying "but I never go more than 5 over the limit". Just wait until the camera operators decide they need more revenue and start nailing the people caught going 57 in a 55 zone. By the way, the "stay alive at 55" myth has been debunked long ago, hence the U.S. dropped its mandatory 55 highway limit.
If you don't speed, then you don't drive. Are you really going to tell me that you've never, just once, traveled at 26 MPH in a 25 zone? Or are you one of those snail-man drivers that goes 5-10 under the limit at all times and causes severe road rage in everyone who is unfortunate enough to get stuck behind you. Strictly enforced traffic laws are easy to support until you are the unlucky one.
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Come on now, don't spoil a good anti-American rant with facts.
A fool and his (or her) money are soon parted. 'Nuff said.
At the risk of feeding a possible troll, I never gave out my hotmail address to any porn site, but its inbox gets filled with porn spam. You don't have to give out your address to get spam. Secondly, I don't know any professional who doesn't use email in their work. Your proposal would pretty much get rid of tech companies.
Its beyond me how some manager can claim that spam filtering isn't worth it. A company's biggest expense is salary, and how much time (and therefore money) do employees waste filtering out spam manually?
That's because there is a cost to the sender involved in sending snail mail. Sure you can send a lot of it without a return address, but you are limited by how much money you can spend on postage. SMTP does not have this limitation which is why spam is such a problem. Also, the penalties for mail fraud are so severe that most people won't even try it.
On the flip side, maybe Air America will actually be able to stay on the air for a little while, with something like this.
So you settle for news with a pro-communist spin instead? I would certainly never claim that capitalist countries never lie or embellish things, but you must admit their track record for truth is quite a bit better than any communist country. Example, look at the situation in North Korea right now with the train wreck. The communist news agency wouldn't give any information at all other than to say there was 'an incident'.
It was not that long ago when people of certain races and religions died for their right to vote. It was more like the right for their people to vote, since they knew they would likely not survive to vote themselves. And now we apparently have people too scared to even go to a police station to vote? If you're that afraid, you have no business voting, period. You disenfranchised yourself. Every citizen has the right to vote, but that does not mean that the government is required to make voting 100% hassle free.
When the BayStar financing deal was first announced, I recall a lot of people saying this was "death spiral financing". They described how this was done with .coms that were running out of cash and that the financing institution typically provided money in exchange for a large portion of the corporation (or preferred shares). Apparently, the financing organization benefits from a reduction in stock price since they can acquire more of the company, or some other benefit like that. These financers would sometimes short the company stock just to drive the share price down. Could it be that BayStar made this announcement, knowing that it would drive down SCO's share price so that they would get whatever benefit would come out of it? Since BayStar is very unlikely to actually get their money back, this seems like the only real motivation for them to make the announcement.
most of the agents would probably rather be dealing with real criminals
I'm sure that's true in a lot of cases, but some of the agents are probably enjoying the idea of roughing up defenseless high school kids, knowing that nobody is likely to pull out a gun and start shooting at them, unlike what 'real criminals' might do. This is easy, risk free work from a law enforcement perspective.
If your 'core hours' are 40 a week and you have to be there at a certain time, then work those hours exactly. When quitting time comes, quit at that time. If they say anything about it, keep walking. If you get fired under circumstances like this, you've got a case for a wrongful termination suit no matter what state you live in. There are grounds for suit here one way or another. At the very least, the mere possibility of a suit will entice the company into giving you a few grand in severance. Until workers actually grow a pair, the company will be free to abuse you even if new laws are passed, since it would require someone to speak up in order for the violation to be reported.
The Justice for Janitors campaign in Los Angeles was quite successful at pressuring building owners to contract with unionized janitorial companies. IT workers could easily be unionized under the same circumstances.
Does that mean we threaten to take down a company's network with a virus unless they unionize? That seems to be the way unions act when they don't get their way. These are NOT isolated incidents. I've never heard of a union strike that did not involve some amount of violence. My grandpa (a railroad worker) had his car tires flattened when he went to work during a strike, even though the work he was doing was completely different than the union labor. In the case of theater workers, there were some theaters that were set on fire as part of a union drive. No, this is not something that would be positive for our industry. You couldn't convince me for a second that IT unions would somehow be magically uncorrupt unlike all the others.
But don't you know, this is the liberal way. Remember those "peace protestors" at UC Berkley that were shouting down conservative speakers? Liberals love free speech, as long as they agree with what is being said. Oddly enough, conservatives don't seem to have this attitude, since they are not constantly worried about somebody coming along and proving them wrong.
Here's one way to solve this problem. Never invent anything. Then it can never be used for evil purposes. Or we can come to the more rational conclusion that an inventor cannot and should not be responsible for any and all use of a product or idea. If they invent something for the good of society and it ends up being used for something bad, that's life. Sad but true.
This is exactly the problem. The people who say "there should be no fun at work" are only concerned with next quarter's revenue. The people who take a more balanced approach are looking out for the company's long term good. Too many managers are willing to do things that hurt the company in the long run just so they can get a quick buck in the immediate future. Luckily, more companies are recognizing this and changing some of these incentive packages, but some people will never learn.
What happens when there is something that you want to use and somebody has declared it annoying or unwanted and keeps it locked up by patent? I'm no fan of popup ads, but I'm also not a fan of having choices of technologies subjectively restricted.
I've also seen entire companies made up of "out of the box thinkers" that went belly up because their ideas are so "out of the box" that they just do not work in the real world. This is why a diverse team is very valuable. The more progressive types can come up with amazingly creative solutions and the experienced people can make sure that the ideas are practical. Not saying that someone cannot be both experienced and progressive, but a mix of people adds a lot of perspective to a project.
You are a genius! Have you ever thought about running for president? I'm sure you'd get plenty of votes from conservatives.
And they wonder why the Japanese auto makers got ahead. When the American car companies got fat and lazy, they got hurt bad, and are still recovering from it.
It is the musicians themselves that have killed the album. When they record a CD with a few interesting songs, a couple of OK songs, and a bunch of filler, nobody values the album format. And why should they, since it would just be boring to listen through the filler to get to your favorite songs. An album, in the true sense, is a collection of songs that are similar and put together well (example: Pink Floyd). When it became just a bunch of songs thrown onto a CD as a delivery mechanism, the idea of the album lost its meaning.
Then they will require you to wait around all day at home for a technician to come by, which they will assure you is necessary in order to get the channel installed. Technician will arrive 4 hours late, fumble around in the box outside for a coupld of minutes, come into the house and see the new channel on the TV, then leave. I don't know about most people, but I have a real problem taking a day off work to wait for the cable company to arrive.
This is a last ditch effort to try and make something before they begin to fold.
Just wait until they get to the phase of their demise that can now be called the 'SCO phase' and start an IP lawsuit / stock scam. I'm sure they own a few vaguely worded patents, so I wouldn't put it past them at all. Who will they sue first?
Good thing you didn't go for something like this. All it would do is leave you broke and without an internet connection, after it was shut off for spamming. And as other people have pointed out, its unlikely that you would have gotten paid. I'm sure the agreement has enough technicalities in it to let the company use almost any excuse not to pay you. Its unfortunate that sleazy companies do tend to prey on those who don't have a lot, since they tend to be the most desperate for any offer of money, no matter how unlikely it really is.
Are you just trolling or do you honest to god never exceed any speed limit? Or are you one of those people who doesn't drive and feels that its your place to criticise those who do? You may be saying "but I never go more than 5 over the limit". Just wait until the camera operators decide they need more revenue and start nailing the people caught going 57 in a 55 zone. By the way, the "stay alive at 55" myth has been debunked long ago, hence the U.S. dropped its mandatory 55 highway limit.
If you don't speed, then you don't drive. Are you really going to tell me that you've never, just once, traveled at 26 MPH in a 25 zone? Or are you one of those snail-man drivers that goes 5-10 under the limit at all times and causes severe road rage in everyone who is unfortunate enough to get stuck behind you. Strictly enforced traffic laws are easy to support until you are the unlucky one.