My gut feeling is that America in general would love to change the healthcare system, but those in power would not. Those are two very different groups.
Why don't you start a startup? If running a business is unappealing, get a non-technical cofounder or two so you can be the CTO and let them worry about the money.
Unless they're planning on adding the force of law to the DNT bit, all this will do is make advertisers ignore it (and, they could argue, rightfully so since they couldn't be certain that people turned it on of their own volition).
Microsoft could pop up a dialog asking, but even then, who exactly is going to click "yes, track me"? Perhaps they should get together with some people from the advertising industry to come up with some fair copy that explains the benefits (targeted ads mean that you receive ads that will more likely interest you, after all) and drawbacks of cross-domain tracking, to ensure a semi-educated choice on the part of users.
If they just turn it on and don't ask about it though, expect it to be yet another technology extinguished by poor Microsoft engineering decisions. (I was kinda hoping we were past that, guys.)
While we're on the subject, it's kind of a life goal of mine to change this situation in the long run. The most well-known and potentially most powerful system with the most corruption seems to be the US federal government. As a web developer who would also like to bootstrap a startup one day, anyone have some ideas as to how I can effect some change to lower corruption in the federal government, legally? I have a few ideas but I'd be interested to hear others.
If you lie, cheat, and steal, you'll get into the top echelons of power. Just make sure you don't get caught... or at least, make sure that when you do get caught, you have the power to "take care" of whoever caught you.
Yeah, I mentally inserted a "for me" at the end of your quote as I often do but I probably should have put it in there. Hopefully I won't have a balance for too much longer and then the cash back strategy will make sense (though even then you usually have an annual fee for a cash back card, so there's some balancing to do).
I'm curious though, have you called and asked Chase if they'll give you a lower interest rate? I had a 19% APR on a card, got it lowered to a permanent 12% just by calling the bank and switching to their "low rate" option (no "perks" like reward points, but in the long run they mean much less anyway). I even did this while holding a balance on the card. This was with a Canadian bank though, so things may be different here.
The rules of the game are whatever Blizzard deems them to be, now and in the future, can change at any time without notice, and they can and will punish you for them, even if you had no idea they existed. You accepted this when you licensed a server-side game.
Eh. I find this is more of a stereotype than a reality. Sure, at the VERY top, you'll probably find more socially inept people, but you can still find some very smart, very agile hacker professionals out there, and in most cases those people are better than the ones at the top anyway.
This, but make sure you get other clients too. Your boss won't be happen when they inevitably realize they're contracting out to their own employee. Oh, and, y'know, make sure your plan is actually legal. The word "fraud" comes to mind.
I have also been that person ($12 instead of $10, mind you). Thankfully I quickly realized I was selling myself short. I only made that mistake once, at the beginning of my programming career. Schools need to tell students about what decent market rates are or they'll do the same thing.
If the client is being shady with long term expectations of a software product they're paying you to build, you need to either make them let you participate in the planning, or find another client. There are software companies out there that understand why scope creep is a bad thing.
The bigger a business becomes, the more risk-averse. Chains are pretty big businesses. And you can't blame them too much; leasing, or worse, building a new location is a significant investment.
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Could you have emailed their ISP's abuse department?
My gut feeling is that America in general would love to change the healthcare system, but those in power would not. Those are two very different groups.
Why don't you start a startup? If running a business is unappealing, get a non-technical cofounder or two so you can be the CTO and let them worry about the money.
If anyone is infringed here, it's basic geometry.
It's The Tetris Company. Don't give them ideas.
Unless they're planning on adding the force of law to the DNT bit, all this will do is make advertisers ignore it (and, they could argue, rightfully so since they couldn't be certain that people turned it on of their own volition).
Microsoft could pop up a dialog asking, but even then, who exactly is going to click "yes, track me"? Perhaps they should get together with some people from the advertising industry to come up with some fair copy that explains the benefits (targeted ads mean that you receive ads that will more likely interest you, after all) and drawbacks of cross-domain tracking, to ensure a semi-educated choice on the part of users.
If they just turn it on and don't ask about it though, expect it to be yet another technology extinguished by poor Microsoft engineering decisions. (I was kinda hoping we were past that, guys.)
Lawrence Lessig is a hero of mine. I'd love to work with him, though I'm sure he has access to the best and brightest anyway. Thanks for the idea.
Your devolution into "party politics" is a huge part of the problem. Please stop.
While we're on the subject, it's kind of a life goal of mine to change this situation in the long run. The most well-known and potentially most powerful system with the most corruption seems to be the US federal government. As a web developer who would also like to bootstrap a startup one day, anyone have some ideas as to how I can effect some change to lower corruption in the federal government, legally? I have a few ideas but I'd be interested to hear others.
If you lie, cheat, and steal, you'll get into the top echelons of power. Just make sure you don't get caught... or at least, make sure that when you do get caught, you have the power to "take care" of whoever caught you.
Yeah, I mentally inserted a "for me" at the end of your quote as I often do but I probably should have put it in there. Hopefully I won't have a balance for too much longer and then the cash back strategy will make sense (though even then you usually have an annual fee for a cash back card, so there's some balancing to do).
we can't just wait for an incident to happen and say "you shouldn't have been drunk."
I assume, then, that you hair test for alcohol and require employees to avoid any consumption whatsoever even outside the job?
I'm curious though, have you called and asked Chase if they'll give you a lower interest rate? I had a 19% APR on a card, got it lowered to a permanent 12% just by calling the bank and switching to their "low rate" option (no "perks" like reward points, but in the long run they mean much less anyway). I even did this while holding a balance on the card. This was with a Canadian bank though, so things may be different here.
I'm sorry, are you contributing multiple millions of dollars to reelection campaigns? No? Then you don't exist.
Never mind, misread that bit, Carreon is the lawyer.
The best part is that according to TFA, Carreon (fitting name) is representing himself.
Yep. No market pressures to lower the price. Sucks if you don't have or can't get insurance.
The rules of the game are whatever Blizzard deems them to be, now and in the future, can change at any time without notice, and they can and will punish you for them, even if you had no idea they existed. You accepted this when you licensed a server-side game.
Eh. I find this is more of a stereotype than a reality. Sure, at the VERY top, you'll probably find more socially inept people, but you can still find some very smart, very agile hacker professionals out there, and in most cases those people are better than the ones at the top anyway.
This, but make sure you get other clients too. Your boss won't be happen when they inevitably realize they're contracting out to their own employee. Oh, and, y'know, make sure your plan is actually legal. The word "fraud" comes to mind.
I have also been that person ($12 instead of $10, mind you). Thankfully I quickly realized I was selling myself short. I only made that mistake once, at the beginning of my programming career. Schools need to tell students about what decent market rates are or they'll do the same thing.
If the client is being shady with long term expectations of a software product they're paying you to build, you need to either make them let you participate in the planning, or find another client. There are software companies out there that understand why scope creep is a bad thing.
The bigger a business becomes, the more risk-averse. Chains are pretty big businesses. And you can't blame them too much; leasing, or worse, building a new location is a significant investment.
Is there a reason this "brutality" is necessary? Everyone makes mistakes sometimes.
What hath science wrought?
Also, I think if it got to immigration court, your chances would shoot up dramatically if you could present a decent argument to the judge.