Could it be put in high orbit, and used to shoot down all the small bits of space junk that is being tracked. Something has to be done eventually to clean up that mess, why not use some of that star wars technology to do that? Would this laser have enough light pressure to push the smaller pieces into a decaying orbit?
And in the end, they are left with the zealots who would sing the praises of anything Redmond puts out, and are now mainly a source of amusement as every time a person posts on an issue with their train wreck OS, the reply is a variation on "If you don't like it, you're a dumbs" or "Update hosed your computer? Of course it's your fault."
I can't resist. You can change this paragraph to the one below, and it will still be true:
And in the end, they are left with the zealots who would sing the praises of anything LINUX, and are now mainly a source of amusement as every time a person posts on an issue with their train wreck OS, the reply is a variation on "If you don't like it, you're a dumbs" or "Update hosed your computer? Of course it's your fault."
Zealots, fanboys, whatever, are a bane. Not of anything in particular, just a bane.
The first rule of being civilized is to do your time when you are caught violating the personal rights of another human being. Now go home and sing some kumbaya.
I think everyone should be forced to live in the real world before anyone should be able to give any opinion on this subject, not just be an armchair quarterback who has lived a sheltered, politically correct, middle class existence. And before modding this down, read this whole comment and look at the context of this thread.
I had a challenging upbringing with little money. Yeah, boo hoo. I never used it for an excuse to commit crimes. I put myself through school working in a pool hall. That put me in direct contact with customers/people who were gang members, people who had served time for things like murder, manslaughter, armed robbery, property crimes (lot's of those), and/or assaults (lot's of those too), etc. During the couple years I worked there, two people who were customers and one employee I worked with committed murder or manslaugther (all arrested, one committed suicide in jail: one baited a gay man and stabbed him to death, one shot and killed a drug dealer in a deal gone bad, and one stabbed a taxi driver to death). Some missed the murder/manslaughter charge because the person lived. I had a gun pulled on me once.
Sure, many or most customers were quite ordinary and quite nice, and didn't know the backgrounds of some of the people around them. But there were a good number of criminals, pimps, prostitutes, and assorted scum bags who hung out there. Pretty much all of those who engaged in criminal activity bragged about how many times they went to jail and/or prison. It was a badge of honor in their circle. They didn't give a rat's ass about society's rules except to know how to get around them. I could give more examples of the kinds of people I met through working there, but I think this is enough.
So tell me hot shot, what kind of life experience do you have that gives you the moral authority to tell me what kind of opinion I should be allowed to have. And don't ever try to tell me that reading the news or reading about 'things' in the media qualifies you to tell me what opinions I may have. If people commit crimes they should go to prison. And they should serve hard time so they don't want to go back. So they don't want to earn that 'badge of honor'. Now go back to your cushy life and shut the fuck up. And yes I know you have a cushy life because I have yet to meet anyone who has seen the other side of the coin who will gainsay me.
Canada can add a couple of years to the sentence. As it should. In fact it should be able to add more for problem prisoners. If there is no consequence of an escape what is the incentive to serve one's sentence exhibiting good behaviour? Believe it or not, these are people you can't just sit down and have an 'adult conversation' with. They have already shown they have no respect for civilized society. I personally think flogging and other corporal punishment should be added back in to encourage good behaviour in prison and incentive to not break the law in future... prison should be ugly enough that it is no longer a thing to aspire to, to give someone 'street cred'.
Brits? British? You mean the English? Why ever would they wish to put their own slant on the English language? For that matter I wonder where English came from? Certainly not the English. Could it have been? Maybe? Possibly? Or was English originally from Anglo-Saxon (read German) origins modified by the French language spoken by the Normans who successfully invaded of all places, England (home of the English)?
And why on earth would the French language used by the Normans cause Latin based words to be infused into the English language along with other changes in spelling and grammar? I know! Of course, because it was posh in the 11th century!
Oh those crazy Brits 1000 years ago, messing with Old English to create Middle English just to mess up those pesky Americans. The who? Oh, they won't be around for another 600 years? Ah well, carry on then. Keep working on the development of Middle and Modern English. Hmmmm... modern English. I get it, the language of which American English is a dialect, a 'sub form', not really the original 'proper' form of the language. Wait, what were you saying about who murdering whose language?
Yeah, I worked in the U.S. for six years. So I know from TN and H1-B. So you had a good employer. I've seen and talked to too many people who didn't. So fuck you, you limited vision retard. Just because it worked for YOU alone, don't assume it is always the case. I am so sick of idiots who think that they know it all based on their own limited experience.
Personally, sure, I was generally given more even treatment because the companies knew I wouldn't put up with shit and didn't have that far to move back to Canada. Which I did eventually after having worked at ATT as a contractor for 13 months. People from other countries, possibly on that contract and definitely others, didn't have the options I had. You quit, you may have no more than a month to get find a new job or get out of the country. And having to go home for people from some other countries is a big shame to the family in those cultures. So they work like dogs until they manage to get a green card.
But to be fair U.S. companies also do things like create call centres in small economically bereft areas like butt fuck Oregon or Middle of the Desert, New Mexico, and work those people to shit too. And they know people will work like dogs because they are the only big employer there and if you get 'laid off' you'll not work there again.
What country? I know that in Canada this is the case. But in Canada contractors even through tech head hunters work as real contractors (i.e. the equivalent of 1099 employees in the U.S... they have to incorporate). They normally work as a secondary contractor (sub contractor) to the head hunters who act as the primary contractor. So they charge by the hour and $75/hour for a senior programmer or senior analyst is not unusual depending on the market. But I know in the U.S. tech recruiters/head hunters will also often hire people as employees and hire them out for specific contracts. Working as an employee of these companies you often do not get as much. And it all depends on the market. What one gets in New York City is way higher than what one gets in Saint Louis, say.
Also what perspective are you looking at this from? The company hiring the contractor or the contractor. The middlemen tech head hunter pimp companies take a big cut normally. So a end user company hiring the contractor could be paying $100/hour or more, and the contractor might only be getting $65 or $75/hour (again, depending on market).
It doesn't matter anyway. Companies will bring in people for fake interviews to say they tried to hire locals. Then they will hire H1-B indentured servants because they are cheaper.
Let's see... Republican Tea Bagger Religious freaks don't want assisted suicide for patients, and they don't want government assistance for health insurance. They want to force someone to remain alive even with no hope of recovery and/or while having to endure extreme pain or a miserable existence. And they want that person to pay for it! What if that person didn't have any money. Ah yes, then they and their supporters would say, "let them die!" So there is your solution, put some clause in to take away their money and give it to relatives and they can withhold funds, till the hospital board that supports the Republicans pulls the plug for non-payment. Hmmm..... give the funds to the relatives and let the hospital kill them.... not sure this works either way.
I'm wondering if there was any discriminatory thinking by the jury. Probably the troll's technical guy was neat and clean cut versus some hairy bearded academic sounding guy (whether well dressed or not, whether a nice guy or not, whether qualified or not). Average people have built in ideas of what qualified trustworthy 'real' business people look like. People here on/. may not like it, but regular folks do pay attention to that kind of thing and give more credence to people without the long hair and beard. It is why in business you don't see long haired bearded guys on Wall Street, running companies, or generally practicing Law. And before you throw out the exceptions to the rule just to be contrary, I'll say shut the fuck up from the start. Prove to me that 95+% of people in those professions are not like I described. People who go to financial planners want someone who looks 'normal' to them to help them with their money. The same thing happens in court rooms when it comes to talking about who owes who.
And I'm not saying they shouldn't have paid more credence to what Newegg's witness had to say. In fact I think the jury was completely wrong. And I like buying from Newegg and recommend them to anyone I know who says they are going to buy computer stuff online. But doing some thinking up front about appearances etc would probably have helped Newegg out a lot, and maybe won the case for them outright; instead of having to file an appeal.
The United States provides 22% of the United Nations funding (more than double the next highest contributor). So if they don't get what they want, they could probably fuck the UN by stopping payment. They have a lot of leverage to get what they want anyway.
Closed source software development will stop when it doesn't make money. It might be because the software is no longer relevant or because it sucks, but always because it is not making any more money for the developer(s). Open source projects can continue on if they suck or if they don't. There is no filter in that regard. The need to make money effectively weeds out undeserving projects and ensures there isn't a glut of half assed copycats. That is, there are a fewer number of properly QA'd more fully featured offerings for any given piece of software. And if closed source projects are good, they generally make money so they continue until they don't. Sure there are some decent open source programs. But for a workstation or laptop, I buy closed source apps and don't mind paying for them. For servers, open source seems to be at least as good as closed source. But it easier to make money selling support contracts for servers (like database servers or JEE containers) than for individual programs. So it still comes down to money.
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Could it be put in high orbit, and used to shoot down all the small bits of space junk that is being tracked. Something has to be done eventually to clean up that mess, why not use some of that star wars technology to do that? Would this laser have enough light pressure to push the smaller pieces into a decaying orbit?
I'll take Colonel Sanders over all the politicians in North America. Even if the Colonel was responsible for the original bird flue.
North Dakota just bought 100,000 septic tanks. Soon as they figure out how to drive them, they're going to invade Manitoba.
I can't resist. You can change this paragraph to the one below, and it will still be true:
And in the end, they are left with the zealots who would sing the praises of anything LINUX, and are now mainly a source of amusement as every time a person posts on an issue with their train wreck OS, the reply is a variation on "If you don't like it, you're a dumbs" or "Update hosed your computer? Of course it's your fault."
Zealots, fanboys, whatever, are a bane. Not of anything in particular, just a bane.
The first rule of being civilized is to do your time when you are caught violating the personal rights of another human being. Now go home and sing some kumbaya.
I think everyone should be forced to live in the real world before anyone should be able to give any opinion on this subject, not just be an armchair quarterback who has lived a sheltered, politically correct, middle class existence. And before modding this down, read this whole comment and look at the context of this thread.
I had a challenging upbringing with little money. Yeah, boo hoo. I never used it for an excuse to commit crimes. I put myself through school working in a pool hall. That put me in direct contact with customers/people who were gang members, people who had served time for things like murder, manslaughter, armed robbery, property crimes (lot's of those), and/or assaults (lot's of those too), etc. During the couple years I worked there, two people who were customers and one employee I worked with committed murder or manslaugther (all arrested, one committed suicide in jail: one baited a gay man and stabbed him to death, one shot and killed a drug dealer in a deal gone bad, and one stabbed a taxi driver to death). Some missed the murder/manslaughter charge because the person lived. I had a gun pulled on me once.
Sure, many or most customers were quite ordinary and quite nice, and didn't know the backgrounds of some of the people around them. But there were a good number of criminals, pimps, prostitutes, and assorted scum bags who hung out there. Pretty much all of those who engaged in criminal activity bragged about how many times they went to jail and/or prison. It was a badge of honor in their circle. They didn't give a rat's ass about society's rules except to know how to get around them. I could give more examples of the kinds of people I met through working there, but I think this is enough.
So tell me hot shot, what kind of life experience do you have that gives you the moral authority to tell me what kind of opinion I should be allowed to have. And don't ever try to tell me that reading the news or reading about 'things' in the media qualifies you to tell me what opinions I may have. If people commit crimes they should go to prison. And they should serve hard time so they don't want to go back. So they don't want to earn that 'badge of honor'. Now go back to your cushy life and shut the fuck up. And yes I know you have a cushy life because I have yet to meet anyone who has seen the other side of the coin who will gainsay me.
I agree.
Canada can add a couple of years to the sentence. As it should. In fact it should be able to add more for problem prisoners. If there is no consequence of an escape what is the incentive to serve one's sentence exhibiting good behaviour? Believe it or not, these are people you can't just sit down and have an 'adult conversation' with. They have already shown they have no respect for civilized society. I personally think flogging and other corporal punishment should be added back in to encourage good behaviour in prison and incentive to not break the law in future... prison should be ugly enough that it is no longer a thing to aspire to, to give someone 'street cred'.
Yeah, I trust that Scalia and his ilk on the SCOTUS will save the day.
Enough already!!! Jack killed them.
In case that wasn't a very droll joke...
Brits? British? You mean the English? Why ever would they wish to put their own slant on the English language? For that matter I wonder where English came from? Certainly not the English. Could it have been? Maybe? Possibly? Or was English originally from Anglo-Saxon (read German) origins modified by the French language spoken by the Normans who successfully invaded of all places, England (home of the English)?
And why on earth would the French language used by the Normans cause Latin based words to be infused into the English language along with other changes in spelling and grammar? I know! Of course, because it was posh in the 11th century!
Oh those crazy Brits 1000 years ago, messing with Old English to create Middle English just to mess up those pesky Americans. The who? Oh, they won't be around for another 600 years? Ah well, carry on then. Keep working on the development of Middle and Modern English. Hmmmm... modern English. I get it, the language of which American English is a dialect, a 'sub form', not really the original 'proper' form of the language. Wait, what were you saying about who murdering whose language?
But can the debris from the killed bacteria build up and form a layer of detritus?
Yeah, I worked in the U.S. for six years. So I know from TN and H1-B. So you had a good employer. I've seen and talked to too many people who didn't. So fuck you, you limited vision retard. Just because it worked for YOU alone, don't assume it is always the case. I am so sick of idiots who think that they know it all based on their own limited experience.
Personally, sure, I was generally given more even treatment because the companies knew I wouldn't put up with shit and didn't have that far to move back to Canada. Which I did eventually after having worked at ATT as a contractor for 13 months. People from other countries, possibly on that contract and definitely others, didn't have the options I had. You quit, you may have no more than a month to get find a new job or get out of the country. And having to go home for people from some other countries is a big shame to the family in those cultures. So they work like dogs until they manage to get a green card.
But to be fair U.S. companies also do things like create call centres in small economically bereft areas like butt fuck Oregon or Middle of the Desert, New Mexico, and work those people to shit too. And they know people will work like dogs because they are the only big employer there and if you get 'laid off' you'll not work there again.
Glad to see you were brave enough to post as AC.
So what you are saying is that $US120K is typical. Since the exchange rate right now is $NZ1 = $US0.81
Buying 10,000 useless items because they are on sale does not make it a good deal. You have less money and 10,000 useless items.
What country? I know that in Canada this is the case. But in Canada contractors even through tech head hunters work as real contractors (i.e. the equivalent of 1099 employees in the U.S... they have to incorporate). They normally work as a secondary contractor (sub contractor) to the head hunters who act as the primary contractor. So they charge by the hour and $75/hour for a senior programmer or senior analyst is not unusual depending on the market. But I know in the U.S. tech recruiters/head hunters will also often hire people as employees and hire them out for specific contracts. Working as an employee of these companies you often do not get as much. And it all depends on the market. What one gets in New York City is way higher than what one gets in Saint Louis, say.
Also what perspective are you looking at this from? The company hiring the contractor or the contractor. The middlemen tech head hunter pimp companies take a big cut normally. So a end user company hiring the contractor could be paying $100/hour or more, and the contractor might only be getting $65 or $75/hour (again, depending on market).
It doesn't matter anyway. Companies will bring in people for fake interviews to say they tried to hire locals. Then they will hire H1-B indentured servants because they are cheaper.
Let's see... Republican Tea Bagger Religious freaks don't want assisted suicide for patients, and they don't want government assistance for health insurance. They want to force someone to remain alive even with no hope of recovery and/or while having to endure extreme pain or a miserable existence. And they want that person to pay for it! What if that person didn't have any money. Ah yes, then they and their supporters would say, "let them die!" So there is your solution, put some clause in to take away their money and give it to relatives and they can withhold funds, till the hospital board that supports the Republicans pulls the plug for non-payment. Hmmm..... give the funds to the relatives and let the hospital kill them.... not sure this works either way.
I'm wondering if there was any discriminatory thinking by the jury. Probably the troll's technical guy was neat and clean cut versus some hairy bearded academic sounding guy (whether well dressed or not, whether a nice guy or not, whether qualified or not). Average people have built in ideas of what qualified trustworthy 'real' business people look like. People here on /. may not like it, but regular folks do pay attention to that kind of thing and give more credence to people without the long hair and beard. It is why in business you don't see long haired bearded guys on Wall Street, running companies, or generally practicing Law. And before you throw out the exceptions to the rule just to be contrary, I'll say shut the fuck up from the start. Prove to me that 95+% of people in those professions are not like I described. People who go to financial planners want someone who looks 'normal' to them to help them with their money. The same thing happens in court rooms when it comes to talking about who owes who.
And I'm not saying they shouldn't have paid more credence to what Newegg's witness had to say. In fact I think the jury was completely wrong. And I like buying from Newegg and recommend them to anyone I know who says they are going to buy computer stuff online. But doing some thinking up front about appearances etc would probably have helped Newegg out a lot, and maybe won the case for them outright; instead of having to file an appeal.
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The United States provides 22% of the United Nations funding (more than double the next highest contributor). So if they don't get what they want, they could probably fuck the UN by stopping payment. They have a lot of leverage to get what they want anyway.
Closed source software development will stop when it doesn't make money. It might be because the software is no longer relevant or because it sucks, but always because it is not making any more money for the developer(s). Open source projects can continue on if they suck or if they don't. There is no filter in that regard. The need to make money effectively weeds out undeserving projects and ensures there isn't a glut of half assed copycats. That is, there are a fewer number of properly QA'd more fully featured offerings for any given piece of software. And if closed source projects are good, they generally make money so they continue until they don't. Sure there are some decent open source programs. But for a workstation or laptop, I buy closed source apps and don't mind paying for them. For servers, open source seems to be at least as good as closed source. But it easier to make money selling support contracts for servers (like database servers or JEE containers) than for individual programs. So it still comes down to money.
What part of "scam" don't you understand?
I'll gladly watch from the ground while you ride in a jumbo jet doing a belly landing all on automated pilot to prove your point.