zerocool [from Sun's website]: Microsoft Windows 2000 (WHCL-certified) Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (WHCL-certified)
Kristopher Kubicki [from TFA at Anandtech]: The Sun Fire V40z is fully supported under Windows Server 2003 and (of course) Solaris, but our primary focus on this initial analysis of the V40z is under Linux.
Uhh, did I miss the release of Win-64 for AMD-64? Or are they talking about running W2K and W2003 in legacy 32-bit mode?
Ask your local municipal code inspector. You typically need 7 foot + (usually more) clearance from floor to ceiling or else your room won't pass code. Raised floors need to be done professionaly. I wouldn't recommend any other way - everything from electrical outlets to height, fire and safety codes will have to be inspected.. you wouldn't want to tear it out when you sell/move so get inspection on your plans before you start or hire a pro
Who the hell tells the county about improvements to their house?
What are you people, Brownshirts?!?
Or are you just good little Jews who get into the cattle cars like you're told?
There is a growing number of geologists who now wonder whether oil [as we know it] might not be the byproduct of some heretofore unknown process that transpires deep within the earth.
Since Buffy & Angel were cancelled, I've been watching a lot of Stargate [SG1 & Atlantis], Battlestar Galactica, and Carnivàle.
Rumor has it that Carnivàle will be cancelled after this season; I hope they resolve the Ben Hawkins -vs- Brother Justin stuff before they do.
Battlestar Galactica MAY have jumped the shark when Starbuck piloted a Cylon fighter into outer space with nothing more than duct-tape covering the hole in its side. [Although the story last Friday about Gaius Baltar and his relationship with God was pretty good stuff as TV goes.]
Stargate Atlantis is okay, but SG1 has pretty much the best writing I've seen in any series in the last ten or fifteen years. It'll be a real shame when we [eventually] lose that show.
Write the contract in MS Word and use huge uncompressed BMPs for the company logos. You have instantly enough space for subtile changes to create collisions.
[NB: For computer science geeks, a "pre-image of a hash" is more or less the same thing as a "bucket"; for math geeks, it's more or less the same thing as a "variety".]
If they're prepared to spend a realistic level of time on it they could create two of them that hash to the same thing, with a small but effective change to the second.
I dunno - my guess would be that the subspace of all grammatically correct English language sentences [and paragraphs, and chapters/essays/"contracts"] is, for all intents and purposes, infinitesimally small within the space of all ASCII [not to mention Unicode] strings of similar length.
If you doubt that, consider the trouble a really good English language wordsmith [like Yeats, or Frost, or Stevens] has to go to just to force the final words of lines to rhyme within a poem [and yet maintain any sense of cohesion in the result]. And we only seem to get about four or five of those guys every century. To get a second, meaningful, relevant, grammatically correct "contract" within the same hash pre-image as your existing "contract" strikes me as nigh unto impossible [although I'm more than happy to listen to any argument to the contrary].
There's this company called Novell that has this product called, variously, "NetWare Directory Services", "Novell Directory Services", "eDirectory", and "Nsure/exteNd/Nterprise/Ngage".
Okay, so maybe their marketing department has sucked big donkey dongs for like the last ten years and that's why you've never heard of them.
But rumor has it they purchased this outfit called SuSE, and that all their stuff has been ported to the Linux kernel, and they also purchased this other outfit, called Ximian, so that all their stuff would play nice with.NET, and...
Whenever this subject comes up, there are always two overriding concerns:
1) Must the server end of the thing sit on a public IP address, or can it sit on a private [NAT-ed] IP address behind a firewall, and
2) Must the end-user download and install a proprietary client?
Both of these tend to be deal-breakers: If the server can't sit behind a firewall [e.g. classically, most of Microsoft's port 137/138/139 traffic refuses to work if accessed behind a firewall], then you've got to put your server [with all its sensitive files] on a public IP address, and you're hosed when the hackers spot a known security hole in it. Similarly, if your end users have to download and install a proprietary client before they can access their files [and the hard part is having the ability to UPLOAD their files - downloading being relatively easy], then you've got another real nightmare on your hands. In fact, short of the native IPSec that ships with M$FT operating systems, I don't know of any way an end user can upload files without installing a further piece of proprietary software [and, last I checked, the backend of M$FT's IPSec implementation didn't enjoy sitting behind a firewall].
Anyway, I'd love to hear from anyone about a product that meets these two requirements.
Stallman: "God told me I have programmed the best editor in the world!"
Torvalds: "Well, God told *me* that I have programmed the best operating system in the world!"
Knuth: "Wait, wait - I never said that."
Stallman would undoubtedly participate in a conversation like that.
Don't know about Linus's thoughts on the matter.
I should imagine, however, that Knuth would never be caught dead uttering such a thing:
first off, thanks for the reply. i do appreciate it. i've worked quite a bit w/ labview in lab. its good software... and the hardware interfaces available are great.. (not to mention the FPGAs--of which i've only read about.. but it looks great on paper) but its not the best actor-oriented type programming environment i've come across though... for those reading this looking for something more than NI's options.. check out the Kepler project (http://kepler.ecoinformatics.org/) and Ptolemy II (http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/ptolemyII/)
Right - like every language/virtual machine/operating system/computer science paradigm, LabVIEW has its problems [chief of which is that it doesn't support pointers natively, although Refnums can help in that regard].
My point, though, is that if you really know the ins and outs of LabVIEW [and all its little bugs and gotchas], and especially if you took a month off, studied for some exams, and got some National Instruments certification, then you could find a halfway interesting engineering job that would allow you to make a pretty nice salary and do some work that might stimulate your intellect a little. Or at least keep it from atrophying, the way it would if you got a cubicle-monkey assigment writing databases filled with telephone numbers, license plates, birth dates, or whatnot.
People don't seem to realize that LabVIEW has a 90+% marketshare in the engineering/scientific-ish fields which makes M$FT's monopolies pale in comparison, so if you know LabVIEW, and if you know some math/EE/physics/compsci/stats, you will find a job.
Just last night [well, in the wee hours of the morning today], I was surfing Travelocity and Expedia to make some airline reservations for a trip out to the left coast.
At Travelocity, I was hooked up with flights that involved two diffent carriers, and when I went to check-out, I was given schematics of each jet so that I could request my seat preferences. And of course after I enter my credit card number, everything ties into the VISA/Master Card/Discover/Amex credit card backbone, which in turn ties into the inter-bank secure backbone...
The mere thought of the IT infrastructure and inter-systems communications necessary to get something like that up and running is just staggering. And yet the private sector proves that these sorts of things can be made to work, and work pretty darned effectively.
So as tedious as some of these "big" problems are, they can be solved.
But I agree with you: There is a huge [maybe even infinite] amount of inertia in the bureaucracy directed at avoiding any possible risk and preserving the status quo at all costs.
Have you ever worked with National Instruments' LabVIEW environment?
It's a little-known fact that LabVIEW has something like a 90+% marketshare in the realm of, well, I'm not sure what you'd call it: Engineering/Scientific-ish data gathering - the kinds of things that Engineers and "Scientists" do in their laboratories and out on the assembly line floor.
Anyway, if you search at monster.com, you'll see that there are often more hits on "LabVIEW" than there are on "MCSD" [Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer]:
So if you know LabVIEW, and you're pretty good at the physics/math/EE stuff, then you could do some fairly interesting work at a pretty good salary while you pay off your debts.
Also, it's another little-known fact that National Instruments offers certifications in LabVIEW, so that you can earn yourself a little "diploma" which might open a few more doors:
Or "they are likely to only get one week of work a month for 4 months out of the year" -- which could be the case in TV land. But still that's a killing.
Yeah, you often bill high hourly rates if you're not getting very many total hours.
But the "consultants" on this state DOT gig have been billing at around $200/hr going on EIGHT YEARS now.
If you run the numbers, you see how easy it is to get to $125M:
8 man years at $200/hr = (8 years) x (50 weeks/year) x (40 hrs/week) x ($200/hr) = $3.2M
And that's just one "consultant".
Frankly, given that it's a state government agency, it strikes me as nigh unto felonious. [In fact, I'm a little curious as to why it hasn't become a campaign issue yet...]
Our state Department of Transportation is rumored to have embarked on a PeopleSoft ERP/CRM project that has stumbled along for seven or eight years now, has cost the taxpayers something like $125M dollars, and has all of zero PeopleSoft modules up and running and functioning properly.
The "consultants" on the project are rumored to charge in excess of $200/hr.
Frankly, I think there's more to it than just "Palpatine" == "Sidious" I think one is a clone of the other... Sidious is a foot shorter and much older than Palpatine...
I'm open to the possibility that Palpatine != Sidious, although I'd be shocked if that were to prove to be the case.
The goal is that the Emperor will have wiped out the Trade Federation, and depleted the Old Republic of it's forces. The Trade Federation will wipe out all means of cloning, the Republic army will wipe out the droid armies, leaving the Emperor's loyalist in charge with no opposition. It's a "classic" plot, but George just doesn't have the writing chops to pull it off like it should be...but it will LOOK cool!
But that's just WAAAAYYYYY too Byzantine a plot for a single movie, or even a series of three movies.
I mean, hell, that's too Byzantine for something encyclopedic, like War and Peace. A movie [or series of movies] can withstand at most about one subplot, and the more you strengthen the subplot, the more the movie becomes unwatchable. Scripts need to be simple, forceful, and to-the-point.
Even a relatively plot-driven movie, like Pulp Fiction [which weighed in at very nearly three hours], had basically one plot [Travolta/Vincent's loyal relationship with Rhames/Marsellus], and one subplot [Willis/Butch's disloyal relationship with Rhames/Marsellus]. If Tarantino had tried to throw in some further twist, such as Rhames/Marcellus playing off Travolta/Vincent against Willis/Butch in some sort of a Machiavellian uber-text, then the whole thing would have become unwatchable.
Besides, I like my idea of the Jedi's arrogance being their downfall [and Yoda certainly has become one damned arrogant little muppet in these prequels]. Furthermore, introducing Machiavellian themes into Star Wars ruins the appeal of its original premise, which was that it purported to be nothing more than a simple tale of an epic battle between the forces of good and the forces of evil.
Another tip: if you do anything for free, even something as simple as plugging in somebody's mouse or changing their desktop wallpaper, put it on the bill with a 100% discount so they can see all the benefits of keeping you happy.
If necessary, offer an early-pay discount to sweeten the pot.
[And believe you me, I know that 30/60/90 day AP/AR hellhole all too well...]
Now here are two questions and a little plea for advice:
1) If you're of a mind to divide the human race into two competing camps [compare e.g. the final scene of
To Kill A Mockingbird], then, at least lately, I've been coming to the conclusion that there are two kinds of people in this world: The "doers", and the "creators" [or "builders"]. The vast, overwhelming majority of people are "doers": They take orders, and "do" as they're told, or "do" things according to some routine because "that's the way it's done" [this includes even the vast, overwhelming majority of ostensibly brilliant people, like doctors, lawyers, scientists, etc]. However, when you're writing a piece of software [or a "system"], you're creating [or building] a thing that's never been created before, and, as we all know, there will ALWAYS be unforeseen circumstances that arise in the creation of a new piece of software [or a new system]. The problem is that the "doers" don't understand this: They're just chomping at the bit to get going and "do" something, and they get downright hateful when you try to explain to them that they can't "do" anything until you've finished creating the thing that they'll be doing [i.e. the new "routine"]. Along these lines, I've found that it's a piece of cake to write an alpha version of software, but that idiot-proofing the software [so that the idiot "doers" can't utterly fsck it up] takes a long, long time. Anyway, what strategies do you have for dealing with the inevitable schedule-overruns that occur when creating new software [or new systems]? I know the standard strategy is to write the possibility of schedule-misses into the contract [and penalize yourself for missing schedule targets, which pretty much mirrors your strategy of rewarding a customer for meeting an early payment schedule], but sometimes things just utterly FUBAR themselves, and you're stuck with very angry "doers" who can't understand why things are taking so long. [And, of course, the same ones who bitch and moan and drag your name through the mud will never bother to praise you when you finally deliver a gorgeous, flawless piece of software to them.] Any suggestions? Or is this simply a fact of life that we have to stomach?
2) Any thoughts on selling the package but retaining the source code -vs- leasing the package and retaining the source code [as more or less a "service"] -vs- selling the source code itself? And how would you price the various options? E.g. "Without source code, it will cost you $49,999, with source code, it will cost you $199,999, as a service with no support and no source code, it will cost you $9999 per anum, as a service with 24 X 7 support but no source code, it will cost you $49,999 per annum, as a service with 24 X 7 support and source code, it will cost you $149,999 up front and $49,999 per annum" etc. And what's the climate like these days for small shops leasing software as a service? Are clients signing up for that sort of thing, or do they balk, and demand to purchase the source?
Instead, thoroughly analyze...
the customer and create your own "requirements."
What the customer wants and needs is paramount. Everything [and I mean everything] else is bullshit. Your job exists for the sole purpose of satisfying the customer [at a price that's profitable to the enterprise].
And if you think management is unnecessary (as many commenters on K5 seem to), go ahead and start your own _successful_ company.
This is the most important point, and it's the reason our ancestors died in hellholes like Argonne, Normandy, Bastogne, and Chosun Reservoir: So that pissants like you [dear/. reader] would have the freedom to tell these marxist-fascist organizational turds to go fuck themselves.
PS: You made some other good points as well. For instance, I've been fired from the last two salaried jobs I had precisely because I sent emails that were politically incorrect.
But fuck 'em. At my age, I've got to face the fact that loners like me just don't make good organization men.
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zerocool [from Sun's website]: Microsoft Windows 2000 (WHCL-certified) Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (WHCL-certified)
Kristopher Kubicki [from TFA at Anandtech]: The Sun Fire V40z is fully supported under Windows Server 2003 and (of course) Solaris, but our primary focus on this initial analysis of the V40z is under Linux.
Uhh, did I miss the release of Win-64 for AMD-64? Or are they talking about running W2K and W2003 in legacy 32-bit mode?
Watch a DVD while waiting for a project to finish compiling or whatnot.
Just out of curiosity: Is your compiler single-threaded?
And welcome to "-1 Flamebait" purgatory.
Ask your local municipal code inspector. You typically need 7 foot + (usually more) clearance from floor to ceiling or else your room won't pass code. Raised floors need to be done professionaly. I wouldn't recommend any other way - everything from electrical outlets to height, fire and safety codes will have to be inspected.. you wouldn't want to tear it out when you sell/move so get inspection on your plans before you start or hire a pro
Who the hell tells the county about improvements to their house?
What are you people, Brownshirts?!?
Or are you just good little Jews who get into the cattle cars like you're told?
There is a growing number of geologists who now wonder whether oil [as we know it] might not be the byproduct of some heretofore unknown process that transpires deep within the earth.
Google on e.g. "abiotic oil":
Since Buffy & Angel were cancelled, I've been watching a lot of Stargate [SG1 & Atlantis], Battlestar Galactica, and Carnivàle.
Rumor has it that Carnivàle will be cancelled after this season; I hope they resolve the Ben Hawkins -vs- Brother Justin stuff before they do.
Battlestar Galactica MAY have jumped the shark when Starbuck piloted a Cylon fighter into outer space with nothing more than duct-tape covering the hole in its side. [Although the story last Friday about Gaius Baltar and his relationship with God was pretty good stuff as TV goes.]
Stargate Atlantis is okay, but SG1 has pretty much the best writing I've seen in any series in the last ten or fifteen years. It'll be a real shame when we [eventually] lose that show.
Tyan just released a new series of Opteron boards that have PCIe & 16GB: They're the ones with the "E" at the end of their names [e.g. Thunder K8WE -vs- the older Thunder K8W].
You've
Well, at least the M$DN.
The Cylons tried to frame Gaius Baltar using a doctored photograph.
Also a lot of stuff about Baltar's relationship with God [which probably sailed right over the head of the average /.-er].
Write the contract in MS Word and use huge uncompressed BMPs for the company logos. You have instantly enough space for subtile changes to create collisions.
Obviously you didn't watch last night's episode of Battlestar Galactica...
[NB: For computer science geeks, a "pre-image of a hash" is more or less the same thing as a "bucket"; for math geeks, it's more or less the same thing as a "variety".]
If they're prepared to spend a realistic level of time on it they could create two of them that hash to the same thing, with a small but effective change to the second.
I dunno - my guess would be that the subspace of all grammatically correct English language sentences [and paragraphs, and chapters/essays/"contracts"] is, for all intents and purposes, infinitesimally small within the space of all ASCII [not to mention Unicode] strings of similar length.
If you doubt that, consider the trouble a really good English language wordsmith [like Yeats, or Frost, or Stevens] has to go to just to force the final words of lines to rhyme within a poem [and yet maintain any sense of cohesion in the result]. And we only seem to get about four or five of those guys every century. To get a second, meaningful, relevant, grammatically correct "contract" within the same hash pre-image as your existing "contract" strikes me as nigh unto impossible [although I'm more than happy to listen to any argument to the contrary].
There's this company called Novell that has this product called, variously, "NetWare Directory Services", "Novell Directory Services", "eDirectory", and "Nsure/exteNd/Nterprise/Ngage".
Okay, so maybe their marketing department has sucked big donkey dongs for like the last ten years and that's why you've never heard of them.
But rumor has it they purchased this outfit called SuSE, and that all their stuff has been ported to the Linux kernel, and they also purchased this other outfit, called Ximian, so that all their stuff would play nice with .NET, and...
Well, you get the picture.
Whenever this subject comes up, there are always two overriding concerns: Both of these tend to be deal-breakers: If the server can't sit behind a firewall [e.g. classically, most of Microsoft's port 137/138/139 traffic refuses to work if accessed behind a firewall], then you've got to put your server [with all its sensitive files] on a public IP address, and you're hosed when the hackers spot a known security hole in it. Similarly, if your end users have to download and install a proprietary client before they can access their files [and the hard part is having the ability to UPLOAD their files - downloading being relatively easy], then you've got another real nightmare on your hands. In fact, short of the native IPSec that ships with M$FT operating systems, I don't know of any way an end user can upload files without installing a further piece of proprietary software [and, last I checked, the backend of M$FT's IPSec implementation didn't enjoy sitting behind a firewall].
Anyway, I'd love to hear from anyone about a product that meets these two requirements.
Can you site an instance where M$FT ever sued someone on patent grounds? Remember, we're talking patents, not copyrights or software piracy.
As far as I know, companies like M$FT take out patents to defend themselves, not to launch offensives against their competition.
People rag on M$FT architectures to no end, but WinCE does surprisingly well in real world tests, and Linux does surprisingly poorly:
Stallman: "God told me I have programmed the best editor in the world!"
Torvalds: "Well, God told *me* that I have programmed the best operating system in the world!"
Knuth: "Wait, wait - I never said that."
Stallman would undoubtedly participate in a conversation like that.
Don't know about Linus's thoughts on the matter.
I should imagine, however, that Knuth would never be caught dead uttering such a thing:
first off, thanks for the reply. i do appreciate it. i've worked quite a bit w/ labview in lab. its good software... and the hardware interfaces available are great.. (not to mention the FPGAs--of which i've only read about.. but it looks great on paper) but its not the best actor-oriented type programming environment i've come across though
Right - like every language/virtual machine/operating system/computer science paradigm, LabVIEW has its problems [chief of which is that it doesn't support pointers natively, although Refnums can help in that regard].
My point, though, is that if you really know the ins and outs of LabVIEW [and all its little bugs and gotchas], and especially if you took a month off, studied for some exams, and got some National Instruments certification, then you could find a halfway interesting engineering job that would allow you to make a pretty nice salary and do some work that might stimulate your intellect a little. Or at least keep it from atrophying, the way it would if you got a cubicle-monkey assigment writing databases filled with telephone numbers, license plates, birth dates, or whatnot.
People don't seem to realize that LabVIEW has a 90+% marketshare in the engineering/scientific-ish fields which makes M$FT's monopolies pale in comparison, so if you know LabVIEW, and if you know some math/EE/physics/compsci/stats, you will find a job.
Are you kidding me?
This is the best [and frankly the only piece of concrete] advice the poor guy has gotten in this stupid thread.
Good grief. Some of you guys need to get a life.
Or maybe you're LabVIEW programmers and you don't want the dirty little secret to get out...
Just last night [well, in the wee hours of the morning today], I was surfing Travelocity and Expedia to make some airline reservations for a trip out to the left coast.
At Travelocity, I was hooked up with flights that involved two diffent carriers, and when I went to check-out, I was given schematics of each jet so that I could request my seat preferences. And of course after I enter my credit card number, everything ties into the VISA/Master Card/Discover/Amex credit card backbone, which in turn ties into the inter-bank secure backbone...
The mere thought of the IT infrastructure and inter-systems communications necessary to get something like that up and running is just staggering. And yet the private sector proves that these sorts of things can be made to work, and work pretty darned effectively.
So as tedious as some of these "big" problems are, they can be solved.
But I agree with you: There is a huge [maybe even infinite] amount of inertia in the bureaucracy directed at avoiding any possible risk and preserving the status quo at all costs.
Have you ever worked with National Instruments' LabVIEW environment?
It's a little-known fact that LabVIEW has something like a 90+% marketshare in the realm of, well, I'm not sure what you'd call it: Engineering/Scientific-ish data gathering - the kinds of things that Engineers and "Scientists" do in their laboratories and out on the assembly line floor.
Anyway, if you search at monster.com, you'll see that there are often more hits on "LabVIEW" than there are on "MCSD" [Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer]:
So if you know LabVIEW, and you're pretty good at the physics/math/EE stuff, then you could do some fairly interesting work at a pretty good salary while you pay off your debts.Also, it's another little-known fact that National Instruments offers certifications in LabVIEW, so that you can earn yourself a little "diploma" which might open a few more doors:
Or "they are likely to only get one week of work a month for 4 months out of the year" -- which could be the case in TV land. But still that's a killing.
Yeah, you often bill high hourly rates if you're not getting very many total hours.
But the "consultants" on this state DOT gig have been billing at around $200/hr going on EIGHT YEARS now.
If you run the numbers, you see how easy it is to get to $125M:
And that's just one "consultant".Frankly, given that it's a state government agency, it strikes me as nigh unto felonious. [In fact, I'm a little curious as to why it hasn't become a campaign issue yet...]
Our state Department of Transportation is rumored to have embarked on a PeopleSoft ERP/CRM project that has stumbled along for seven or eight years now, has cost the taxpayers something like $125M dollars, and has all of zero PeopleSoft modules up and running and functioning properly.
The "consultants" on the project are rumored to charge in excess of $200/hr.
Boy, I sure could use me a gig like that.
Frankly, I think there's more to it than just "Palpatine" == "Sidious" I think one is a clone of the other... Sidious is a foot shorter and much older than Palpatine...
I'm open to the possibility that Palpatine != Sidious, although I'd be shocked if that were to prove to be the case.
The goal is that the Emperor will have wiped out the Trade Federation, and depleted the Old Republic of it's forces. The Trade Federation will wipe out all means of cloning, the Republic army will wipe out the droid armies, leaving the Emperor's loyalist in charge with no opposition. It's a "classic" plot, but George just doesn't have the writing chops to pull it off like it should be...but it will LOOK cool!
But that's just WAAAAYYYYY too Byzantine a plot for a single movie, or even a series of three movies.
I mean, hell, that's too Byzantine for something encyclopedic, like War and Peace. A movie [or series of movies] can withstand at most about one subplot, and the more you strengthen the subplot, the more the movie becomes unwatchable. Scripts need to be simple, forceful, and to-the-point.
Even a relatively plot-driven movie, like Pulp Fiction [which weighed in at very nearly three hours], had basically one plot [Travolta/Vincent's loyal relationship with Rhames/Marsellus], and one subplot [Willis/Butch's disloyal relationship with Rhames/Marsellus]. If Tarantino had tried to throw in some further twist, such as Rhames/Marcellus playing off Travolta/Vincent against Willis/Butch in some sort of a Machiavellian uber-text, then the whole thing would have become unwatchable.
Besides, I like my idea of the Jedi's arrogance being their downfall [and Yoda certainly has become one damned arrogant little muppet in these prequels]. Furthermore, introducing Machiavellian themes into Star Wars ruins the appeal of its original premise, which was that it purported to be nothing more than a simple tale of an epic battle between the forces of good and the forces of evil.
First off: I like both of these pieces of advice: Now here are two questions and a little plea for advice: Thanks!
The two most important points you made were: What the customer wants and needs is paramount. Everything [and I mean everything] else is bullshit. Your job exists for the sole purpose of satisfying the customer [at a price that's profitable to the enterprise]. This is the most important point, and it's the reason our ancestors died in hellholes like Argonne, Normandy, Bastogne, and Chosun Reservoir: So that pissants like you [dear
PS: You made some other good points as well. For instance, I've been fired from the last two salaried jobs I had precisely because I sent emails that were politically incorrect.
But fuck 'em. At my age, I've got to face the fact that loners like me just don't make good organization men.