even with out the ethnicity issue this sounds like lawsuit time. Are you forgetting about all the lost time and needless hassle?
its utter bs to make the ethnicity the entire story or reason for lawsuit. If they did this to 'joe the well to do executive' you can bet the farm he'd sue them for wasting his time, ruining his vacation, intentionally causing undue delay, etc etc. The ethnicity is just 'why' they were more than likely 'selected.' They probably wouldnt have done this to 'joe the exec' but had they done it we'd be at the same place.
IANAL but I'm guessing that playing the game of "no indication they were a threat to anyone" is pointless. Think about it. If there was no indication, but they pulled them anyways and it turned out they were 'a threat' we wouldn't be having this convo would we? (and they'd probly be locked up in one of those secret jails somewhere?) That and the fact that they will make up a reason that they felt they were a threat. The problem is that they were 'wrong' about it, and how they handled it after being 'wrong'. I would agree that I'm sure it was racially motivated; just not sure how easy that will be to prove sadly.
from your own words "for a lot of people" that doesnt mean everybody.
Who has the right to distinguish between offensive and non-offensive. They have every right to not play the game and avoid drawing a line in the sand where ok and not ok is.
in regards to your profile pic, Then i guess you are SOL and should go somewhere else.
and I will correct you Its not a problem with the policy; it is an area in which you desire a different policy then the one they employ. There is nothing wrong with the policy other than the fact that you and several breast feeding mothers don't like how it affects them.
What about a porn star? what if a nude model or porn star wanted their profile picture to be a nude photo of themselves? What if they 'posed' artistically. Facebook doesnt and won't have the time energy interest to start scrutinizing the details of what makes one accepable or not until it provides them a financial incentive to do so.
Did you pay anything for it? No. Did you create it? No. Stop complaining and go somewhere else. You agreed to their license when you started using their site.
Second: Frankly I don't see how anyone who purports to be tech savvy doesnt see the easy way around this; host your IMAGES ELSEWHERE
In fact I would surmise that one of the many reasons that I will occasionally still use facebook and not myspace is due to the proliferation of adult content everywhere on my space. Its trashy, sorry. but then again facebook has been on the decline ever since they opened up to non university students IMHO.
I'm not some anti-porn person. I have no desire to see these mothers pictures; and I equally have no compelling desire to 'protect the children'.. Instead I think it's not my or your place to question their policy. They are a private company, they do what they like. Like many nerds i've got a hefty stash. The point is that there is a time and a place for it. And that time and place is NOT facebook. It is a social networking site.
It is not facebooks problem that they are successful and that your smaller photo site isn't.
Here's a better idea. If you want to share your breast feeding photos with your friends, jsut start your own site to HOST THE PHOTOS and then just put a link to the album in your facebook pages...
Furthermore The problem is not simple because facebook is funded by advertising not by you. Facebooks 'rulers' are going to take caution to prevent material from getting on there that will alienate and upset their financial investors.
What I love is that these are probably the same parents who don't complain when school's filter the internet in its entirety.
Your point about various ratings in movies/games is extremely moot. I say this for two reasons. First it is still black and white, you fall into this category or you don't. You either have nudity or you don't. Facebook basically takes the stand that they are going to be a PG-13 or PG limit. Even more simply; let's pretend there is a ratings system... fbook just chose to set their threshhold beneath the level thata you enjoy. It's black and white by relativity only; they either include or exlude the content you care about. Furthermore I couldn't think of a more flawed and otherwise useless system than the ratings for movies. If you have no idea what I'm talking about go see "This film is not yet rated".
My question to you then, is what is your stance of FCC censorship. Why can't I say fuck shit cunt etc if I said it in appropriate context? It would seem to me that if a public government based agency can set black and white rules you have no business telling a PRIVATE company how they should censor themselves...
its simple really, and kills several birds with one stone. They are concerned with the 'hackers' who keep cracking this stuff, MAFIAA is annoyed that people keep cracking their often laughable security / encyption (who remembers the magic marker solution). Mafiaa pays them to host the challenge, and 'protects' some material with the very thing being 'cracked' in the challenge.
Then clearly they round up all the winners, let the DMCA circumvention suits fly, and add them to watch lists all at the same time. we'll just ignore the whole entrapment thing and laugh ok?
Brilliant.
1. host 'contest' 2. let net hackers do your work.. I mean crack the code for you 3. ??? 4. profit
Bought a Kinesis a little over a year ago and I absolutely love it. It's worth every penny. (~$325 for usb contour advantage).
After slaving away on model m's, microsoft natural's (& knock-offs),thinkpads and my current mac book pro; I can say that I've tried a lot of different things.
Between my hobbies of guitar and lacrosse, and all of the typing through high school, high school internships, college, college internships and co-ops and my full time job now; I can say with ease my hands and wrists have never felt better.
Prior to the switch my typing endurance was starting to fade somewhat rapidly; I noticed that my guitar playing was suffering. Additionally if I took a couple whacks to the hands during lacrosse my typing tended to really suffer for the next couple days.
Took me about 2.5 weeks to regain full speed on it; but within a month I was typing faster than I ever had. I could go on endlessly. Every one who comes in my office asks me about it, so if nothing else its a great conversation piece:-). Loaned it to my best friend for two weeks while I was on vacation last June, as he had been suffering from what he thought was (what people call mis-label) as RSI or some precursor. He reluctantly put aside his model M (much to his girlfriends delight, as he works at home) and used it exclusively while I was gone. By the time I got back he had already ordered and received one of his own, and had safely secured his modem M away for posterity. (much to his gf's dismay)
My parents came for a visit recently and I brought it to my apt from my office to show them. Immediately after looking at my mother (a licensed O.T. in MA before retiring) saw many of the obvious benefits that I saw immediately in regards to both speed and reducing fatigue/strain: emphasis on our thumbs instead of pinky/index finger. The critical keys (space, backspace,delete, enter, pg up/down, home/end, ctrl,alt,super/meta) are all moved to the thumbs. This single factor is what will make it nearly impossible to ever use another keyboard because of how much I enjoy it. Particularly as an emacs user this is fantastic (and FWIW my friend a vim user found just as many benefits)
Obviously it's probably not for everyone, and it is a little pricey.. but I'd buy it again in a heart beat. In fact I might have to buy one for my apartment after being so spoiled by using it all day at work.
Apologies for the slightly over detailed plug/endorsement. But I freaking love this keyboard if it isn't obvious.
if they take a computer architecture class they won't be doing it in C... they'll be doing it in something like Y86, intel x86, name your assembly language of choice. C can't really tell you jack about the architecture.. which should be relatively obvious when you consider the fact that for nearly every known platform there is a C compiler.
Is it lower level than Java? yeah, is it the lowest level among the most commonly used languages? probably/arguably. But does even it even really tell you what the Machine is executing? Not so much.
C works on all platforms in the same way that a universal remote works on all tv's. Did you pay attention at all in any Op Sys classes? Have you heard of System Calls? Shared Objects?
Heck even integers vary by platform. Try using int64_t on windows... etc.
It is able to be made cross platform if you insert the needed pre-processor ifdef's, find all the libraries you need etc.
I don't care what GNU might say; the problem stems from their definition of cross-platform compatibility. It also stems from the fact that they aren't going to advocate a language that they can't control that some other company can.
I'm not saying Java is the answer, and its performance leaves plenty be desired. But Java is far more suited for cross-platform suitability then C is. Try taking C code for anything related to anything file related, network related, or THREAD related and simply 'using' it on linux (from windows). It won't compile. Now do the same with java.
I'm sorry claiming C has the absolute maximum cross-platform compatibility is a statement I find to be absurdly false unless you twist your definition of compatible to the point where it doesn't mean anything at all.
I'd mod you up if I could. To underscore the point however I'll add : Just because it isn't easy doesn't mean it doesn't work / solve the problem / shouldn't or isn't legal.
No one said the publishers have to make this easy for you. converting LP's to mp3's isn't always simple or fun either if you have a large collection.
The question was never or not the activity you have to go through is easy / fun / makes sense but the moral rightness of it. or so i thought at least:-)
Also a child of the 80's and I agree; obv IANAL, but to me the spirit of the license and fair use of the content transcends the medium. Example: you simply can't buy a mini-disc with commercial content on it such as Name Popular Album. People buy the album in whatever format is available and convert/record it onto the mini disc, the desired format.
FWIW I also think that if you already owned a copy of the book but perhaps it was faded beyond readability / eaten by the dog and you disposed of the remains you would similarly have the 'ethical right' to download the book.
Oops my mistake. My apologies to Lauren, not meant as an insult. I had skipped the about me stuff and just read the article/blog; and made a poor assumption. Thanks to responder.
product idea, cool and yes itd be awesome but is this patentable? I disagree
new? perhaps, arguable. novel? no; takes well known things non-obvious: fail; its called a calculator. The computer isn't doing any operation we don't know how to do. Many waiters / waitressess already do this kind of thing in their heads, or through check splitting. If they don't someone at the table pulls out a cellphone w/ a calculator and we do this ourselves.
All this patent really does is add very obvious things to other EXISTING patents / prior art. Basically this is taking the automated checkout from the grocery store and sticking it at your table.
Cool idea? yes. would i like to see some form of it deployed in restaurants here and there? sure but is it truly patentworthy? I really don't think so; and more than anything else firmly believe that the IP captured in this patent does nothing but preventing someone from doing something they already know how to do. This smells a lot like patenting an algorithm / implementation.
Sadly this probably just decreases the liklihood we'll ever see it because licensing will probably just raise the costs of such a device.
complaining about the potential for abuse is like complaining your search could pull up a porn site. its retarted. if you dont like it then a. keep them minimized and dont read them, or b. go use a different search engine. honestly after reading this lady's page i think she's a paranoid nut who thinks its her job to police everyone.
I agree with you its BS. Makes you wonder if this whole thing would have worked out differently and better if instead of bailing out the companies now with the 78 billion, instead that money had been used to bail out the 'people' who were defaulting on the loans, to repay them etc. and prevent the whole problem. of course i dont like handing out money to bankrupt people either and hindsight is 20/20.. but its a thought
hence my point. Clearly change is needed. I agree that you, me, and our kin will be paying for the mistakes and its BS. Hence something needs to be changed.
p.s. not every US company is losing. Several big studid ones ? yes.
I'm not sure what you refer to by "american companies start winning again... 40 years of excuses"... How do you define an american company, and how do you define winning? and how does any of that have to do with this.
Businesses fail for lots reasons; I can venture that one GM's biggest problems is that all they much are big a$$ed trucks and there isnt a high demand for trucks and suv's right now with the gas crisis.
I could care less if "American" companies fail or prosper. My problem is when I am forced to bail them out. Would I prefer success to failure, obviously, but its not the gov't problem. The only company whose success I or anyone should truly care about is one at which I/they work or invest in. (aside from philanthropic interest)
As a whole I'm just lost by your post. What gifts? And how do you possibly read into this that I think more "gifts"/rights/anything should be given to BigBusiness. I'm advocating for consumer / employee rights.
difference to me is that rosa parks' actions didnt hurt anyone. Her sitting up front didn't cause monetary damage.. But the other part is that when she performed this civil disobediance she didn't try to shake her way out of the consequences. She was arrested and jailed if I recall. She didn't just sit up front and then try to get out of the punishment. She was thus able to essentially make herself a martyr of the cause, sparking the other actions, the boycotts, etc etc.
If he wants to be like rosa, he should go work for apple, face whatever punishment is handed down and then get involved with changing this all.
I pay very close attention current events, looks like you missed the critcal detail in the quote. It's the first letter. "I", as in I / you / we / average people can't.
This doesn't say anything either away about whether Big Corporation X can. (not that it matters but they shouldn't be able to either... ) But that's the problem there. You are missing the point. This guy isn't "Joe Developer". He IS in a position to bargain / negotiate / etc.
And for the record since silly people are going to say "clearly you arent employed". I work for the same company albeit down several rungs obviously. The decision of whether or not I accept that contract and the consequences of it is not what this discussion is about. My point is that if you sign it then live with it. I signed one, and I'm adhering to it, why should you be special and not have to?
What this really gets back to is the whole problem of companies being allowed to force us to sign contracts of "highly questionable" validity. If it's such an important issue and flaw with the contract it should be ironed out in advance when its being signed, not after the fact.
This is not a lowly employee for them to bully around. This is an executive vice president. Did you not read the article? These are the kind of people who could easily say "Strike that from my contract or no deal, and I'll work somewhere else"
I don't know him personally, and I'm sure he's a fine individual; but that said, I don't think he'll be in a pinch for money anytime soon. If this causes reform that affects normal people like you and me great. But otherwise I could careless, he should suffer the same fate we would. The difference is that if you or I left or get laid off a. we don't have a crazy pension that he likely does. b. we don't have companies happy to pay 6+ figures a year for us to do nothing.
The person is lying, no one forces you to sign anything. Employment is at will, if you don't like it negotiate it or don't sign it. That's how the legal system works. I can't sign a loan for a million dollars and then say you didnt really think I was going to pay you back did I?
Hopefully this will get the contracts and the laws regarding them updated and inspected. Much like the copyright issues with music, instead of breaking the laws and skirting them lets CHANGE them.
running out of shells isnt your only problem... a fork bomb also runs you out of processes of which there are a limit... which can prevent you from creating a process to kill the others with. the memory is also a problem.
why has no one modded this up? I'm one of the people he's partially defending / largely correcting expanding upon. otherwise i'd spend all 5 of my mod points on him
again, you make your problems those of others because you cant deal with them yourself.
ask the band to turn down the volume. ask your manager to ask the band to turn down the volume, etc. YOUR COMPANY is PAYING the band, not the other way around. worst case scenario, you should have brought your own earplugs, or you can leave.
its not my problem, and its my neighbors problem and its not the governments problem. Especially because this is a private event at a private company; which can do what they want.
Do I sympathize for the situation? yes, my company tends to do similarly stupid things with band volumes for random functions. I started bringing my own ear plugs.
Do I think the government should be involved in any way shape or form? absolutely not. Forget the fact that they can't seem to get anything done in washington, now you think they really need to waste time wiping your butt for you?
if i cared enough I would ask them to turn it down or ask the planners to adjust it in the future but i dont. You apparently do; so do something actively about it.
I have a better idea, don't contact your senator and make your problems ours. Leave the party
screw you people and your legislation of mp3 volumes. IF YOU DONT LIKE IT GO SOMEWHERE ELSE. TURN DOWN THE VOLUME, FILE A NOISE COMPLAINT.
if you are going to a party and are concerned with your hearing and volume, bring your own god damn ear plugs. Why should it be my problem? your health is your job. I bring ear plugs to every concert I go to; i don't expect someone else to do it for me.
I dont want to hear it either but dont tell me how to fix a problem that doesnt exist.
Your friend took a job with high risks and sold his health for money. go cry to your mom about it.
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even with out the ethnicity issue this sounds like lawsuit time. Are you forgetting about all the lost time and needless hassle?
its utter bs to make the ethnicity the entire story or reason for lawsuit. If they did this to 'joe the well to do executive' you can bet the farm he'd sue them for wasting his time, ruining his vacation, intentionally causing undue delay, etc etc. The ethnicity is just 'why' they were more than likely 'selected.' They probably wouldnt have done this to 'joe the exec' but had they done it we'd be at the same place.
IANAL but I'm guessing that playing the game of "no indication they were a threat to anyone" is pointless. Think about it. If there was no indication, but they pulled them anyways and it turned out they were 'a threat' we wouldn't be having this convo would we? (and they'd probly be locked up in one of those secret jails somewhere?) That and the fact that they will make up a reason that they felt they were a threat. The problem is that they were 'wrong' about it, and how they handled it after being 'wrong'. I would agree that I'm sure it was racially motivated; just not sure how easy that will be to prove sadly.
(posting AC because of moderations)
from your own words "for a lot of people" that doesnt mean everybody.
Who has the right to distinguish between offensive and non-offensive. They have every right to not play the game and avoid drawing a line in the sand where ok and not ok is.
in regards to your profile pic, Then i guess you are SOL and should go somewhere else.
and I will correct you
Its not a problem with the policy; it is an area in which you desire a different policy then the one they employ. There is nothing wrong with the policy other than the fact that you and several breast feeding mothers don't like how it affects them.
What about a porn star? what if a nude model or porn star wanted their profile picture to be a nude photo of themselves? What if they 'posed' artistically. Facebook doesnt and won't have the time energy interest to start scrutinizing the details of what makes one accepable or not until it provides them a financial incentive to do so.
Did you pay anything for it? No. Did you create it? No. Stop complaining and go somewhere else. You agreed to their license when you started using their site.
Second: Frankly I don't see how anyone who purports to be tech savvy doesnt see the easy way around this; host your IMAGES ELSEWHERE
In fact I would surmise that one of the many reasons that I will occasionally still use facebook and not myspace is due to the proliferation of adult content everywhere on my space. Its trashy, sorry. but then again facebook has been on the decline ever since they opened up to non university students IMHO.
I'm not some anti-porn person. I have no desire to see these mothers pictures; and I equally have no compelling desire to 'protect the children'.. Instead I think it's not my or your place to question their policy. They are a private company, they do what they like. Like many nerds i've got a hefty stash. The point is that there is a time and a place for it. And that time and place is NOT facebook. It is a social networking site.
It is not facebooks problem that they are successful and that your smaller photo site isn't.
Here's a better idea. If you want to share your breast feeding photos with your friends, jsut start your own site to HOST THE PHOTOS and then just put a link to the album in your facebook pages...
Furthermore
The problem is not simple because facebook is funded by advertising not by you. Facebooks 'rulers' are going to take caution to prevent material from getting on there that will alienate and upset their financial investors.
What I love is that these are probably the same parents who don't complain when school's filter the internet in its entirety.
Your point about various ratings in movies/games is extremely moot. I say this for two reasons. First it is still black and white, you fall into this category or you don't. You either have nudity or you don't. Facebook basically takes the stand that they are going to be a PG-13 or PG limit. Even more simply; let's pretend there is a ratings system... fbook just chose to set their threshhold beneath the level thata you enjoy. It's black and white by relativity only; they either include or exlude the content you care about. Furthermore I couldn't think of a more flawed and otherwise useless system than the ratings for movies. If you have no idea what I'm talking about go see "This film is not yet rated".
My question to you then, is what is your stance of FCC censorship. Why can't I say fuck shit cunt etc if I said it in appropriate context? It would seem to me that if a public government based agency can set black and white rules you have no business telling a PRIVATE company how they should censor themselves...
its simple really, and kills several birds with one stone. They are concerned with the 'hackers' who keep cracking this stuff, MAFIAA is annoyed that people keep cracking their often laughable security / encyption (who remembers the magic marker solution). Mafiaa pays them to host the challenge, and 'protects' some material with the very thing being 'cracked' in the challenge.
Then clearly they round up all the winners, let the DMCA circumvention suits fly, and add them to watch lists all at the same time. we'll just ignore the whole entrapment thing and laugh ok?
Brilliant.
1. host 'contest'
2. let net hackers do your work.. I mean crack the code for you
3. ???
4. profit
again just a joke
Bought a Kinesis a little over a year ago and I absolutely love it. It's worth every penny. (~$325 for usb contour advantage).
After slaving away on model m's, microsoft natural's (& knock-offs) ,thinkpads and my current mac book pro; I can say that I've tried a lot of different things.
Between my hobbies of guitar and lacrosse, and all of the typing through high school, high school internships, college, college internships and co-ops and my full time job now; I can say with ease my hands and wrists have never felt better.
Prior to the switch my typing endurance was starting to fade somewhat rapidly; I noticed that my guitar playing was suffering. Additionally if I took a couple whacks to the hands during lacrosse my typing tended to really suffer for the next couple days.
Took me about 2.5 weeks to regain full speed on it; but within a month I was typing faster than I ever had. I could go on endlessly. Every one who comes in my office asks me about it, so if nothing else its a great conversation piece :-). Loaned it to my best friend for two weeks while I was on vacation last June, as he had been suffering from what he thought was (what people call mis-label) as RSI or some precursor. He reluctantly put aside his model M (much to his girlfriends delight, as he works at home) and used it exclusively while I was gone. By the time I got back he had already ordered and received one of his own, and had safely secured his modem M away for posterity. (much to his gf's dismay)
My parents came for a visit recently and I brought it to my apt from my office to show them. Immediately after looking at my mother (a licensed O.T. in MA before retiring) saw many of the obvious benefits that I saw immediately in regards to both speed and reducing fatigue/strain: emphasis on our thumbs instead of pinky/index finger. The critical keys (space, backspace,delete, enter, pg up/down, home/end, ctrl,alt,super/meta) are all moved to the thumbs. This single factor is what will make it nearly impossible to ever use another keyboard because of how much I enjoy it. Particularly as an emacs user this is fantastic (and FWIW my friend a vim user found just as many benefits)
Obviously it's probably not for everyone, and it is a little pricey.. but I'd buy it again in a heart beat. In fact I might have to buy one for my apartment after being so spoiled by using it all day at work.
Apologies for the slightly over detailed plug/endorsement. But I freaking love this keyboard if it isn't obvious.
if they take a computer architecture class they won't be doing it in C... they'll be doing it in something like Y86, intel x86, name your assembly language of choice. C can't really tell you jack about the architecture.. which should be relatively obvious when you consider the fact that for nearly every known platform there is a C compiler.
Is it lower level than Java? yeah, is it the lowest level among the most commonly used languages? probably/arguably. But does even it even really tell you what the Machine is executing? Not so much.
Sorry to double post but i forgot my closing statement... that despite all this C and C++ are still the best choice :-)
C works on all platforms in the same way that a universal remote works on all tv's. Did you pay attention at all in any Op Sys classes? Have you heard of System Calls? Shared Objects?
Heck even integers vary by platform. Try using int64_t on windows... etc.
It is able to be made cross platform if you insert the needed pre-processor ifdef's, find all the libraries you need etc.
I don't care what GNU might say; the problem stems from their definition of cross-platform compatibility. It also stems from the fact that they aren't going to advocate a language that they can't control that some other company can.
I'm not saying Java is the answer, and its performance leaves plenty be desired. But Java is far more suited for cross-platform suitability then C is. Try taking C code for anything related to anything file related, network related, or THREAD related and simply 'using' it on linux (from windows). It won't compile. Now do the same with java.
I'm sorry claiming C has the absolute maximum cross-platform compatibility is a statement I find to be absurdly false unless you twist your definition of compatible to the point where it doesn't mean anything at all.
I'd mod you up if I could. To underscore the point however I'll add :
Just because it isn't easy doesn't mean it doesn't work / solve the problem / shouldn't or isn't legal.
No one said the publishers have to make this easy for you. converting LP's to mp3's isn't always simple or fun either if you have a large collection.
The question was never or not the activity you have to go through is easy / fun / makes sense but the moral rightness of it. or so i thought at least :-)
Also a child of the 80's and I agree; obv IANAL, but to me the spirit of the license and fair use of the content transcends the medium. Example: you simply can't buy a mini-disc with commercial content on it such as Name Popular Album. People buy the album in whatever format is available and convert/record it onto the mini disc, the desired format.
FWIW I also think that if you already owned a copy of the book but perhaps it was faded beyond readability / eaten by the dog and you disposed of the remains you would similarly have the 'ethical right' to download the book.
Oops my mistake. My apologies to Lauren, not meant as an insult. I had skipped the about me stuff and just read the article/blog; and made a poor assumption. Thanks to responder.
product idea, cool and yes itd be awesome
but is this patentable? I disagree
new? perhaps, arguable.
novel? no; takes well known things
non-obvious: fail; its called a calculator. The computer isn't doing any operation we don't know how to do. Many waiters / waitressess already do this kind of thing in their heads, or through check splitting. If they don't someone at the table pulls out a cellphone w/ a calculator and we do this ourselves.
All this patent really does is add very obvious things to other EXISTING patents / prior art. Basically this is taking the automated checkout from the grocery store and sticking it at your table.
Cool idea? yes.
would i like to see some form of it deployed in restaurants here and there? sure
but is it truly patentworthy? I really don't think so; and more than anything else firmly believe that the IP captured in this patent does nothing but preventing someone from doing something they already know how to do. This smells a lot like patenting an algorithm / implementation.
Sadly this probably just decreases the liklihood we'll ever see it because licensing will probably just raise the costs of such a device.
complaining about the potential for abuse is like complaining your search could pull up a porn site. its retarted. if you dont like it then a. keep them minimized and dont read them, or b. go use a different search engine. honestly after reading this lady's page i think she's a paranoid nut who thinks its her job to police everyone.
in short she's a moronic douche.
I agree with you its BS. Makes you wonder if this whole thing would have worked out differently and better if instead of bailing out the companies now with the 78 billion, instead that money had been used to bail out the 'people' who were defaulting on the loans, to repay them etc. and prevent the whole problem. of course i dont like handing out money to bankrupt people either and hindsight is 20/20.. but its a thought
hence my point. Clearly change is needed. I agree that you, me, and our kin will be paying for the mistakes and its BS. Hence something needs to be changed.
p.s. not every US company is losing. Several big studid ones ? yes.
I'm not sure what you refer to by "american companies start winning again... 40 years of excuses"... How do you define an american company, and how do you define winning? and how does any of that have to do with this.
Businesses fail for lots reasons; I can venture that one GM's biggest problems is that all they much are big a$$ed trucks and there isnt a high demand for trucks and suv's right now with the gas crisis.
I could care less if "American" companies fail or prosper. My problem is when I am forced to bail them out. Would I prefer success to failure, obviously, but its not the gov't problem. The only company whose success I or anyone should truly care about is one at which I/they work or invest in. (aside from philanthropic interest)
As a whole I'm just lost by your post. What gifts? And how do you possibly read into this that I think more "gifts"/rights/anything should be given to BigBusiness. I'm advocating for consumer / employee rights.
difference to me is that rosa parks' actions didnt hurt anyone. Her sitting up front didn't cause monetary damage.. But the other part is that when she performed this civil disobediance she didn't try to shake her way out of the consequences. She was arrested and jailed if I recall. She didn't just sit up front and then try to get out of the punishment. She was thus able to essentially make herself a martyr of the cause, sparking the other actions, the boycotts, etc etc.
If he wants to be like rosa, he should go work for apple, face whatever punishment is handed down and then get involved with changing this all.
I pay very close attention current events, looks like you missed the critcal detail in the quote. It's the first letter. "I", as in I / you / we / average people can't.
This doesn't say anything either away about whether
Big Corporation X can. (not that it matters but they shouldn't be able to either... ) But that's the problem there. You are missing the point. This guy isn't "Joe Developer". He IS in a position to bargain / negotiate / etc.
And for the record since silly people are going to say "clearly you arent employed". I work for the same company albeit down several rungs obviously. The decision of whether or not I accept that contract and the consequences of it is not what this discussion is about. My point is that if you sign it then live with it. I signed one, and I'm adhering to it, why should you be special and not have to?
What this really gets back to is the whole problem of companies being allowed to force us to sign contracts of "highly questionable" validity. If it's such an important issue and flaw with the contract it should be ironed out in advance when its being signed, not after the fact.
This is not a lowly employee for them to bully around. This is an executive vice president. Did you not read the article? These are the kind of people who could easily say "Strike that from my contract or no deal, and I'll work somewhere else"
I don't know him personally, and I'm sure he's a fine individual; but that said, I don't think he'll be in a pinch for money anytime soon. If this causes reform that affects normal people like you and me great. But otherwise I could careless, he should suffer the same fate we would. The difference is that if you or I left or get laid off a. we don't have a crazy pension that he likely does. b. we don't have companies happy to pay 6+ figures a year for us to do nothing.
The person is lying, no one forces you to sign anything. Employment is at will, if you don't like it negotiate it or don't sign it. That's how the legal system works. I can't sign a loan for a million dollars and then say you didnt really think I was going to pay you back did I?
Hopefully this will get the contracts and the laws regarding them updated and inspected. Much like the copyright issues with music, instead of breaking the laws and skirting them lets CHANGE them.
running out of shells isnt your only problem... a fork bomb also runs you out of processes of which there are a limit... which can prevent you from creating a process to kill the others with. the memory is also a problem.
in what ways is it great? I think CMVC is proof that the devil exists... that and windows.
if you didnt notice, the company that developed all of those products IS the company that developed CMVC as well.... 3 letters long... and its not HAL
at least you aren't using CMVC at a company that developed rational team concert, jazz, clearcase, etc...
why has no one modded this up? I'm one of the people he's partially defending / largely correcting expanding upon. otherwise i'd spend all 5 of my mod points on him
again, you make your problems those of others because you cant deal with them yourself.
ask the band to turn down the volume. ask your manager to ask the band to turn down the volume, etc. YOUR COMPANY is PAYING the band, not the other way around. worst case scenario, you should have brought your own earplugs, or you can leave.
its not my problem, and its my neighbors problem and its not the governments problem. Especially because this is a private event at a private company; which can do what they want.
Do I sympathize for the situation? yes, my company tends to do similarly stupid things with band volumes for random functions. I started bringing my own ear plugs.
Do I think the government should be involved in any way shape or form? absolutely not. Forget the fact that they can't seem to get anything done in washington, now you think they really need to waste time wiping your butt for you?
if i cared enough I would ask them to turn it down or ask the planners to adjust it in the future but i dont. You apparently do; so do something actively about it.
I have a better idea, don't contact your senator and make your problems ours. Leave the party
screw you people and your legislation of mp3 volumes. IF YOU DONT LIKE IT GO SOMEWHERE ELSE. TURN DOWN THE VOLUME, FILE A NOISE COMPLAINT.
if you are going to a party and are concerned with your hearing and volume, bring your own god damn ear plugs. Why should it be my problem? your health is your job. I bring ear plugs to every concert I go to; i don't expect someone else to do it for me.
I dont want to hear it either but dont tell me how to fix a problem that doesnt exist.
Your friend took a job with high risks and sold his health for money. go cry to your mom about it.