Refuse, and then report them. I just spent a half-semester doing research on this topic for my brief writing class. There is a narrow public policy exception (supported by legislative or constitutional wording) in most states that says an employer may not retaliatorily terminate you when you refuse to break the law. If they do fire you, the typical procedure for most courts (definitely for Wisconsin, since I did the research within that state's common law, and I didn't find any state that was absolutely opposed to what I'm saying) you go to court, give the court the public policy you were commanded to violate (in this case, the legislative imperative that stealing is illegal, that you were given the ultimatum of "install the software w/o the licenses or you're fired," and you're done. Instant metric assload of money is yours, provided you got a decent lawyer. I didn't do much research into the amount of damages you'd recover, but most cases I vaguely recall involved salary payments among other things. One employer was even forced to rehire his employee, and the employee got back-salary, I think.
However, I'm not a lawyer yet, so don't take this as legal advice. You can talk to a lawyer about this; an initial consultation might even be free. See what lawyers in your state have to say about the issue. You could even go to a library at your nearest law school and look up in your state's case history the topic of "retaliatory discharge," if you wanted to avoid paying for legal services just yet.
I just wanted to let you know that there are provisions protecting employees in the situation of facing the choice of "violate the law or be fired."
/. has the perspective of someone who has already been through it, now I'll offer up my experiences as someone going through the transition now. I typically have cherry tomatos for breakfast (they're quite sweet, and taste a hell of a lot better than anything else I used to eat). I munch on steamed broccoli, and during the day get a few grain servings. I only eat red meat when I visit my family (they live on a farm, and raise cattle); the rest of the time, I only eat turkey, chicken, and fish.
I weigh 12 lbs less than I did a very short time ago, and I feel much better about myself than I did when I ate junk food. The cravings of course still come, and I eat pizza every once in a while. However, I get full a lot faster, so when I do pig out on pizza, it's significantly less than I used to eat.
Being a university student, I used to eat fast food a lot. There is a Wendy's a quarter of a mile away from my apartment, but I haven't been there in a few months now.
To any unattached Slashdotters out there, start eating healthily now. Find a few foods you enjoy which are healthy, and eat them every day. You'll get in a pattern of eating healthily, and because you're unattached, you won't have a wife or kids complaining about the same meal every day. That's how I started.
And now I find out that the less calories you consume, the longer you live with youthful energy! Seriously, you'll always be saying to yourself, "Oh, I'll start eating healthily soon," but three months later, when you say it again, you may realize that you'd be 10-20 lbs lighter, with more energy if you'd just started when you said you would.
I'm just rambling at this point because I have finals right now, so I'll just submit this comment without proofreading it.
Ok, all you idiots offering prescriptions for what to do in a fight, stop.
Except you're responding to a post by a guy who has actually been in fights before:) And in case you missed the last half of my post, I said exactly what you said, to avoid fighting altogether.
There are ways to "stop" a person, but those ain't it. (think knife/stabbing)
And for a less deadly, but still effective approach, elbows and knees are weak points in human anatomy, because they bend only one way willingly, but bend the other way quite easily with a little force. In fact, here's a strategy for you:
Get pressure put on elbow
throw the opponent's balance off a little (they will forget you're putting pressure on their elbow in order to keep their balance
finish putting the force on their elbow and enjoy the feeling of knowing you just ruined a guy's shit
?????
PROFIT!
And as a disclaimer: I hate hate hate fighting, and am incredibly passive, so I don't want people to interpret this as the ravings of some psycho. But in this world, you can only trust yourself for defense. Learn it.
Of course, the best fighting style is what I prefer -- it's called never-ever-get-into-a-fight style; even take a hit to your "honor" in order to avoid an escalation in violence. Honor is worth nothing when you're dead.
done by a now-disbanded and dishonoured editor (Michael Sims, 'Nazi Editor')
I'm glad this has finally been brought up, because it's been bugging me -- I never saw an announcement on/. about his departure. I just noticed one day that he hadn't posted any stories in a while. I wondered about whether the Censorware stuff caught up with him finally.
Google turns up nothing except for obvious fake explanations of what happened involving multiple acts of sodomy and a few members of the Free Software Foundation:/
Wikipedia doesn't have anything either. Can someone just tell me what the heck happened?
I think it's a hybrid, actually. It fails the "super user" portion of "sudo," but passes the "do" part of "sudo" which differentiates it from "su." "Su" is just to switch users, and "runas" isn't that. Instead, "runas" is to "switch user" and "do" something, which makes it something of a hybrid "su" from "su" and "do" from "sudo."
Kinda confusing that the "su" in "su" and the "su" in "sudo" don't stand for the same thing.
The fact is that Microsoft is late to the party with their Microsoftized version of sudo.
Microsoft would is trying to make you believe sudo was their idea.
To be fair, Windows XP has something like sudo. It's called "runas," and I've used it for a long time now. For example, if I want to run a command prompt as admin (provided admin has a password -- you can't switch to another user if the user's account is not password-protected, how's that for security?), I would execute runas/user:Admin "cmd". Similar to sudo, I would then be prompted for a password, and then the privileges would be elevated appropriately.
I know you're purposefully trolling, but I wanted to point out anyways that neither A in AAC stands for Apple. It stands for "Advanced Audio Coding." Second, it's a standardized format.
However, it is patent-encumbered, but only for people who are developing AAC codecs.
That is why you who are lawyers need to speak up and explain it to us.
Points:
We usually do comment. NewYorkCountryLawyer comments often about copyright issues (but typically only the RIAA issues since that is what he is involved in), and I (although only a law student at this point) tend to offer my knowledge as well. There are a few others whose names I don't remember, but comment here often. Holy hell, NYCL has 18 comments posted on/. just today!
The issue here is that people on/. don't seem to understand the concept of federalism. This is something taught in junior high school in the States, and it shouldn't be imperative upon us legal-types to explain the most basic facts of how the US judicial system is set up. It's like me complaining that no chemist on/. ever explains what a molecule is.
When I lived in Japan, I noticed that the milk sold there didn't have Vitamin D supplements in it. However, Vitamin D is added to milk in the US. Curious as to why that was, I did some research and found out that Vitamin D deficiency is a problem in the US but not in Japan, so dairy products in the US are fortified with Vitamin D.
I suppose it is because Japanese people eat a metric assload of salmon, tuna and eel, good sources of Vitamin D, and spend more time outside walking and biking to school/work/leisure activities.
I think it would be dangerous for Apple to make a software Blu Ray player. You know that would get hacked in a second, and the Blu Ray Consortium or whoever has no qualms about revoking keys. Can you imagine the hit to Apple's "coolness" when they keep getting their keys revoked and customers have to make sure to install the latest updates just so they can play their discs? Imagine every few months popping in a new disc and being presented with "please download the latest patches from Apple" screen right when you're at a friend's house who doesn't have wireless and you wanted to watch a movie together?
I'd hire a particularly expensive lawyer just to make sure the legal fees being sent to Mr. Goldman's office are as high as they can possibly be.
Except that we don't have a loser-pays system for attorney fees in the United States in libel cases. However, if you later sued him for copyright infringement, then you'd have a chance of getting back attorney fees.
The problem you get there is illustrated by the case of a student who is great at math but sucks at the arts, but has attended a highly-regarded arts school because of cost or home location. The student probably has a low GPA because the school was tailored to the arts, which the student is horrible at. Furthermore, because the school is highly-regarded in the arts but not in the sciences, both StudentGPA and alpha are low. Not only is StudentGPA low, but because of finances or living conditions, the student is kicked down even further when attempting to pursue a math education because the high school's math-alpha is lower than average.
If the examples on Wikipedia of output generated using XSL-FO and Apache are anything to judge by, LaTeX is far superior. I noticed many instances where a "t" and "i" were not properly formed into a ligature, and I think there was no kerning! LaTeX, on the other hand, is the product of decades of work by a brilliant man dedicated to making this product the absolute greatest typesetting program it can be.
LaTeX can also create HTML. The only thing is that LaTeX cannot be "validated," as you claim, but when I use MikTeX, it always tells me when I have an error. That's validation enough for me.
And on a related note, I really, really want to design a LaTeX template for eBooks, so someone can request a PDF version of a book, and that PDF would look great. You know, like real eBooks which have had typesetting performed on them do.
Wow, I completely forgot to mention that I wanted this to be a feature on Project Gutenberg. That was the initial point of my post and I forgot to mention it:\
The sum of all these adjustments, while not consciously visible to the reader, most definitely has an effect on the overall desirability of print media.
And on a related note, I really, really want to design a LaTeX template for eBooks, so someone can request a PDF version of a book, and that PDF would look great. You know, like real eBooks which have had typesetting performed on them do.
While I understand the people who release pirated versions of books online (e.g. any eBook version of Harry Potter) care more about getting the release out and less about the beauty of the release, I can't believe there isn't a group out there wanting to release a "proper" of the Harry Potter books in better typesetting.
Hell, I have the "unofficial" eBook versions of all six books (own the hardcopies as well), and I'm tempted to run the documents through some Python and then LaTeX just to make them better looking and more readable.
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Refuse, and then report them. I just spent a half-semester doing research on this topic for my brief writing class. There is a narrow public policy exception (supported by legislative or constitutional wording) in most states that says an employer may not retaliatorily terminate you when you refuse to break the law. If they do fire you, the typical procedure for most courts (definitely for Wisconsin, since I did the research within that state's common law, and I didn't find any state that was absolutely opposed to what I'm saying) you go to court, give the court the public policy you were commanded to violate (in this case, the legislative imperative that stealing is illegal, that you were given the ultimatum of "install the software w/o the licenses or you're fired," and you're done. Instant metric assload of money is yours, provided you got a decent lawyer. I didn't do much research into the amount of damages you'd recover, but most cases I vaguely recall involved salary payments among other things. One employer was even forced to rehire his employee, and the employee got back-salary, I think.
However, I'm not a lawyer yet, so don't take this as legal advice. You can talk to a lawyer about this; an initial consultation might even be free. See what lawyers in your state have to say about the issue. You could even go to a library at your nearest law school and look up in your state's case history the topic of "retaliatory discharge," if you wanted to avoid paying for legal services just yet.
I just wanted to let you know that there are provisions protecting employees in the situation of facing the choice of "violate the law or be fired."
/. has the perspective of someone who has already been through it, now I'll offer up my experiences as someone going through the transition now. I typically have cherry tomatos for breakfast (they're quite sweet, and taste a hell of a lot better than anything else I used to eat). I munch on steamed broccoli, and during the day get a few grain servings. I only eat red meat when I visit my family (they live on a farm, and raise cattle); the rest of the time, I only eat turkey, chicken, and fish.
I weigh 12 lbs less than I did a very short time ago, and I feel much better about myself than I did when I ate junk food. The cravings of course still come, and I eat pizza every once in a while. However, I get full a lot faster, so when I do pig out on pizza, it's significantly less than I used to eat.
Being a university student, I used to eat fast food a lot. There is a Wendy's a quarter of a mile away from my apartment, but I haven't been there in a few months now.
To any unattached Slashdotters out there, start eating healthily now. Find a few foods you enjoy which are healthy, and eat them every day. You'll get in a pattern of eating healthily, and because you're unattached, you won't have a wife or kids complaining about the same meal every day. That's how I started.
And now I find out that the less calories you consume, the longer you live with youthful energy! Seriously, you'll always be saying to yourself, "Oh, I'll start eating healthily soon," but three months later, when you say it again, you may realize that you'd be 10-20 lbs lighter, with more energy if you'd just started when you said you would.
I'm just rambling at this point because I have finals right now, so I'll just submit this comment without proofreading it.
- Get pressure put on elbow
- throw the opponent's balance off a little (they will forget you're putting pressure on their elbow in order to keep their balance
- finish putting the force on their elbow and enjoy the feeling of knowing you just ruined a guy's shit
- ?????
- PROFIT!
And as a disclaimer: I hate hate hate fighting, and am incredibly passive, so I don't want people to interpret this as the ravings of some psycho. But in this world, you can only trust yourself for defense. Learn it.Of course, the best fighting style is what I prefer -- it's called never-ever-get-into-a-fight style; even take a hit to your "honor" in order to avoid an escalation in violence. Honor is worth nothing when you're dead.
Google turns up nothing except for obvious fake explanations of what happened involving multiple acts of sodomy and a few members of the Free Software Foundation
Wikipedia doesn't have anything either. Can someone just tell me what the heck happened?
"sudo" stands for "super user do."
I think it's a hybrid, actually. It fails the "super user" portion of "sudo," but passes the "do" part of "sudo" which differentiates it from "su." "Su" is just to switch users, and "runas" isn't that. Instead, "runas" is to "switch user" and "do" something, which makes it something of a hybrid "su" from "su" and "do" from "sudo."
Kinda confusing that the "su" in "su" and the "su" in "sudo" don't stand for the same thing.
To be fair, the accusation was that "finally MS is copying sudo here with Vista."
Precisely. It's what we call "anal retentiveness."
I know you're purposefully trolling, but I wanted to point out anyways that neither A in AAC stands for Apple. It stands for "Advanced Audio Coding." Second, it's a standardized format.
However, it is patent-encumbered, but only for people who are developing AAC codecs.
What the hell? How is this flamebait?
Except that in the US, we call it "tic tac toe," so an American still would have no inkling that "cross" is British for "x" ;)
But yeah, that does explain things.
On a related note, is "cross" British for the symbol "x"?
When I lived in Japan, I noticed that the milk sold there didn't have Vitamin D supplements in it. However, Vitamin D is added to milk in the US. Curious as to why that was, I did some research and found out that Vitamin D deficiency is a problem in the US but not in Japan, so dairy products in the US are fortified with Vitamin D.
I suppose it is because Japanese people eat a metric assload of salmon, tuna and eel, good sources of Vitamin D, and spend more time outside walking and biking to school/work/leisure activities.
I think it would be dangerous for Apple to make a software Blu Ray player. You know that would get hacked in a second, and the Blu Ray Consortium or whoever has no qualms about revoking keys. Can you imagine the hit to Apple's "coolness" when they keep getting their keys revoked and customers have to make sure to install the latest updates just so they can play their discs? Imagine every few months popping in a new disc and being presented with "please download the latest patches from Apple" screen right when you're at a friend's house who doesn't have wireless and you wanted to watch a movie together?
That is lame, not "Apple Cool."
The problem you get there is illustrated by the case of a student who is great at math but sucks at the arts, but has attended a highly-regarded arts school because of cost or home location. The student probably has a low GPA because the school was tailored to the arts, which the student is horrible at. Furthermore, because the school is highly-regarded in the arts but not in the sciences, both StudentGPA and alpha are low. Not only is StudentGPA low, but because of finances or living conditions, the student is kicked down even further when attempting to pursue a math education because the high school's math-alpha is lower than average.
Many Ballantines died to bring you this information.
I think I'll stick with LaTeX.
If the examples on Wikipedia of output generated using XSL-FO and Apache are anything to judge by, LaTeX is far superior. I noticed many instances where a "t" and "i" were not properly formed into a ligature, and I think there was no kerning! LaTeX, on the other hand, is the product of decades of work by a brilliant man dedicated to making this product the absolute greatest typesetting program it can be.
LaTeX can also create HTML. The only thing is that LaTeX cannot be "validated," as you claim, but when I use MikTeX, it always tells me when I have an error. That's validation enough for me.
OK, how the hell did this get modded insightful? Parent literally just said that contracts are worthless.
While I understand the people who release pirated versions of books online (e.g. any eBook version of Harry Potter) care more about getting the release out and less about the beauty of the release, I can't believe there isn't a group out there wanting to release a "proper" of the Harry Potter books in better typesetting.
Hell, I have the "unofficial" eBook versions of all six books (own the hardcopies as well), and I'm tempted to run the documents through some Python and then LaTeX just to make them better looking and more readable.