But that's just people being scared of the data protection act.
Its not like they can't. Its not different from a direct debit, really.
After all, how many times have you had a cold call that goes:
"Hi, I'm calling from your bank" "Hello" "For data protection, can you tell me the first line of your address, and date of birth" "No, you phoned me. I know who I am. Tell me YOUR address, and date of birth." "I'm afraid I can't divulge that" "Then nor can I, goodbye."
Outside the realm of "V for Vendetta", how does the actions of a gang of catholic terrorists in the 17th century got to do with anything?
The Gunpower Plot established popular dislike of "Papists", and the belief that the pope and his minions were out to overthrow our newly established protestant state, and should be suppressed at all cost. It has NOTHING to do with the freedom of any sense.
It isn't remembered in Britain because we remember the ability of one man to stand up to the state, it's remember because we (for 200 years) believed that the catholics were out to get us, and our country's independence was at risks unless we fought and suppressed them.
The 1689 Bill of Rights states, "it hath been found by experience that it is inconsistent with the safety and welfare of this protestant kingdom to be governed by a papist prince".
People are rude to you because you treat them like shit. IT tells you what software to use, what you can and cannot install on your computer, they check your email, follow your surfing behavior, ask you to change your password every three months and don't even allow you to use something you can remember easily, so now everyone uses their initials followed by 1234 in some order, try it you will see how many times it works in a larger environment. So essentially they give you a cash register to punch up the numbers they think you will need to do.....
I suspect that's the problem - "You" isn't the man you're complaining to. Whereas there are good reason for preventing people installing what they like on your computer and for password changing (3 months? Lucky sod, 28 days everywhere I've ever worked), those policies we're set by anybody the customer is shouting at.
And centralisation of IT is generally dictated at board level - everybody thinks its a bad idea for frontline support, but its a lot cheaper and its all the better to outsource you with, my dear.
The biggest issue is this work isn't given to anybody with any real experience - after a couple of years of being shouted at by perfect strangers it gets to you and you try to get a job somewhere in back-end server support. Somewhere where you'll actually get some respect and people will ask you to help them set the policies.
Unfortunately, professionalism comes with experience. By which time they aren't answering the phone on a 1st level support desk.
There's a tendency of Britain, and those countries which descended from it, to distrust the government's motives.
Therefore, the basic principal is that the state is totally distinct from the individual. As such, they can't DEMAND anything from you.
So, the state should never know more about you than they absolutely need to, and that you are voluntarily willing to disclose. This instinct is the reason we're very nervous about ID cards, for example. An organ of the state (a policeman) shouldn't have the right to demand your name. Being forced to be in possession of that information in a qualified, proven way implies that.
This database can be seen to be as an extension to this - your information is collected in a way that enables the government to form an opinion of your private life, outside what they require a warrant, or an arrest, to get.
Luxembourg is in the EU, and therefore covered by the same copyright laws as Sweden, so if it's difficult in Sweden, it'll be just as difficult in Luxembourg.
Monaco, as well as having some of the most expensive land in the world - making the datacentre a fairly expensive proposition - is mostly occupied by Russian gangsters, who wouldn't take it kindly having you drawing attention to them.
Can I suggest Venezuela? Chavez has just been reelected, so he's not going anywere soon (the CIA tried the coup method and failed) and all you need to do is pursuade him it'll piss of the US and your in. You'll probably get a free datacentre and subsidised electricity as well.
My uncle's tractor's European and about 50 years old, and as he (retired now) used it to manage a Welsh hill farm, I imagine it's been through the ringer more that yours.
Mind you, it's so old it was probably specified in imperial, but, er, what was my point again?
I believe that Jackson only owns the production rights to the Beatles catalogue, and therefore the rights to distribute the versions that exist.
That exactly the thing that's going out of copyright - the productions, not the music in a written down, literary sense.
So in the next decade, McCartney and (I suppose) Yoko Ono still get royalties from the recordings, because they own the copyright to the words and score, Jackson, who only owns the production of those recording, will get nothing.
Which is fair enough. "We are the world", my arse.
You may not pay much attention to our federal budget from the U.K. but our federal budget deficit is the worst in history due to extremely imprudent spend-but-don't-tax policies passed by the current round of Republicans, to the point that many economists have predicted third-world style hyperinflation of the U.S. dollar.
You'd be surprised how much the budget deficit matters to the rest of the world. Mainly because most of the internationally traded goods (oil, gold, etc) are traded in US Dollars. So if the dollar collapses, so does the economies of the countries trying to export these goods.
Also, at some point there needs to be a correction. Eventually, the debt has to be repaid, and it's the American middle class that's going to pay it (I don't suppose Microsoft or Lockheed Martin will suddenly have a huge tax bill).
If the American population feel poor, they'll stop buying. This will kill the economy in the US, and as the old cliche goes - when America sneezes, the whole world gets a cold.
One of the (few) joys of the UK is the indian food, which is by far the best in Europe. I work for an Indian programming house, and they seem to rate the local variety highly.
Initially we built 3Gb filesystems - we couldn't back then up, the sequential file pointer in HPUX can only address 2Tb, which meant we couldn't copy the whole filesystem to tape. I had to rebuild with max 2Tb filesystem.
Then, Veritas Netbackup can only parallelise backups in different directory trees so I was taking ages to perform a full back up - 18 - 19 hours (bit of a bugger in a 24hr backup window).
We don't do incremental backups because restoring takes an age with incremental. Even with fulls, if the backup takes 10 hours, the restore takes 15 - its to do with how different simultaneous backups are stiped across the tape. Therefore we always do fulls.
Eventually (and fortunately during test phase) we rebuild the filesystems with 500Gb limits.
Which makes growing the database really sticky because we have to allocate new filesystems, rather than grow the ones we've got.
There's a major move towards disk-based archival storage, but tape's reliable and extremely portable so its generally what we end up using.
But our friendly-neighbour nutter through himself under a train.
So, I'm not sure the eligability argument carried. The police (and by clear extension the Austrian people) want to know how and why. And more particularly what else has he been getting up to.
As long as they can get the data off, it doesn't matter how.
Er,
3 times actually, 1997, 2001, 2005.
And the scary thing is that his (probable) replacement agrees with this lunacy as well.
That's what happens when you give power to a miserable Scottish Presbyterian. They gave the world the temperance movement.....
Still, we're quite an old country - we've been through worse.
I think your resume needs to shout a bit clearer. It a little hard to read.
Resumes, like all documents, should have a beginning, middle and end. You're has just got a middle.
Start with a heading. Mine says "CURRICULUM VITAE", I suppose you would need "RESUME" there.
Then a section called "PERSONAL DETAILS" - put your name, address, email in clearly defined sections (say NAME: ADDRESS: etc)
Then put the summary paragraph.
And the list the skills you have, in a straight list. "C, TCL, etc". Also list spoken languages, "Spanish: Fluent, Chinese: Conversational", etc. People at first look don't read the body text so it's better to list it up front.
Then do work experience, which is more important that qualifications. Also have clear heading "Employer, Dates, Job Title", followed by the freeform text. It's fine if its all "University".
Put the qualifications next and the achievements, nicely formatted at the end.
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Yeah,
But that's just people being scared of the data protection act.
Its not like they can't. Its not different from a direct debit, really.
After all, how many times have you had a cold call that goes:
"Hi, I'm calling from your bank"
"Hello"
"For data protection, can you tell me the first line of your address, and date of birth"
"No, you phoned me. I know who I am. Tell me YOUR address, and date of birth."
"I'm afraid I can't divulge that"
"Then nor can I, goodbye."
Not just continental Europe, it works like that in Britain too.
:)
And Ireland, and Iceland as far as I know
Outside the realm of "V for Vendetta", how does the actions of a gang of catholic terrorists in the 17th century got to do with anything?
The Gunpower Plot established popular dislike of "Papists", and the belief that the pope and his minions were out to overthrow our newly established protestant state, and should be suppressed at all cost. It has NOTHING to do with the freedom of any sense.
It isn't remembered in Britain because we remember the ability of one man to stand up to the state, it's remember because we (for 200 years) believed that the catholics were out to get us, and our country's independence was at risks unless we fought and suppressed them.
The 1689 Bill of Rights states, "it hath been found by experience that it is inconsistent with the safety and welfare of this protestant kingdom to be governed by a papist prince".
Don't confuse history with Graphic Novels.
If you're British, you don't need a visa, it's in the EU. Just go, it's lovely (if a little cold).
Trust me, the girls will love the accent - they'll think you're Hugh Grant.
I suspect that's the problem - "You" isn't the man you're complaining to. Whereas there are good reason for preventing people installing what they like on your computer and for password changing (3 months? Lucky sod, 28 days everywhere I've ever worked), those policies we're set by anybody the customer is shouting at.
And centralisation of IT is generally dictated at board level - everybody thinks its a bad idea for frontline support, but its a lot cheaper and its all the better to outsource you with, my dear.
The biggest issue is this work isn't given to anybody with any real experience - after a couple of years of being shouted at by perfect strangers it gets to you and you try to get a job somewhere in back-end server support. Somewhere where you'll actually get some respect and people will ask you to help them set the policies.
Unfortunately, professionalism comes with experience. By which time they aren't answering the phone on a 1st level support desk.
We've all done it - it was crap.....
There's a tendency of Britain, and those countries which descended from it, to distrust the government's motives.
Therefore, the basic principal is that the state is totally distinct from the individual. As such, they can't DEMAND anything from you.
So, the state should never know more about you than they absolutely need to, and that you are voluntarily willing to disclose. This instinct is the reason we're very nervous about ID cards, for example. An organ of the state (a policeman) shouldn't have the right to demand your name. Being forced to be in possession of that information in a qualified, proven way implies that.
This database can be seen to be as an extension to this - your information is collected in a way that enables the government to form an opinion of your private life, outside what they require a warrant, or an arrest, to get.
Luxembourg is in the EU, and therefore covered by the same copyright laws as Sweden, so if it's difficult in Sweden, it'll be just as difficult in Luxembourg.
Monaco, as well as having some of the most expensive land in the world - making the datacentre a fairly expensive proposition - is mostly occupied by Russian gangsters, who wouldn't take it kindly having you drawing attention to them.
Can I suggest Venezuela? Chavez has just been reelected, so he's not going anywere soon (the CIA tried the coup method and failed) and all you need to do is pursuade him it'll piss of the US and your in. You'll probably get a free datacentre and subsidised electricity as well.
My uncle's tractor's European and about 50 years old, and as he (retired now) used it to manage a Welsh hill farm, I imagine it's been through the ringer more that yours.
Mind you, it's so old it was probably specified in imperial, but, er, what was my point again?
I believe that Jackson only owns the production rights to the Beatles catalogue, and therefore the rights to distribute the versions that exist.
That exactly the thing that's going out of copyright - the productions, not the music in a written down, literary sense.
So in the next decade, McCartney and (I suppose) Yoko Ono still get royalties from the recordings, because they own the copyright to the words and score, Jackson, who only owns the production of those recording, will get nothing.
Which is fair enough. "We are the world", my arse.
You'd be surprised how much the budget deficit matters to the rest of the world. Mainly because most of the internationally traded goods (oil, gold, etc) are traded in US Dollars. So if the dollar collapses, so does the economies of the countries trying to export these goods.
Also, at some point there needs to be a correction. Eventually, the debt has to be repaid, and it's the American middle class that's going to pay it (I don't suppose Microsoft or Lockheed Martin will suddenly have a huge tax bill).
If the American population feel poor, they'll stop buying. This will kill the economy in the US, and as the old cliche goes - when America sneezes, the whole world gets a cold.
In short - it'll bugger us up as well.
As as we're talking about Sasha Baron Cohen, I hardn't think he spends a lot of time on the Falls Road.
I prefer "British". Call me radical....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2VCfOC69jc
or the banned xbox one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu8456pVSLI
It comes from Birmigham in the English West Midlands, which is near Warwick, hence the GPs love of the stuff.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balti_(food) for more info.
One of the (few) joys of the UK is the indian food, which is by far the best in Europe. I work for an Indian programming house, and they seem to rate the local variety highly.
Honestly it's a right pig.
Most of the databases I work on are 10-50Tb.
Initially we built 3Gb filesystems - we couldn't back then up, the sequential file pointer in HPUX can only address 2Tb, which meant we couldn't copy the whole filesystem to tape. I had to rebuild with max 2Tb filesystem.
Then, Veritas Netbackup can only parallelise backups in different directory trees so I was taking ages to perform a full back up - 18 - 19 hours (bit of a bugger in a 24hr backup window).
We don't do incremental backups because restoring takes an age with incremental. Even with fulls, if the backup takes 10 hours, the restore takes 15 - its to do with how different simultaneous backups are stiped across the tape. Therefore we always do fulls.
Eventually (and fortunately during test phase) we rebuild the filesystems with 500Gb limits.
Which makes growing the database really sticky because we have to allocate new filesystems, rather than grow the ones we've got.
There's a major move towards disk-based archival storage, but tape's reliable and extremely portable so its generally what we end up using.
Bizarre serious-off-topic connection.
I was in a bar in Finland a couple of weeks ago.
There was a jukebox-on-random selection paying on the PA.
At one point, a new tune came on and everybody (almost in unison) said, "my God, that David Hasselhoff".
Gotta Make you feel good (sorry!)
True.
But our friendly-neighbour nutter through himself under a train.
So, I'm not sure the eligability argument carried. The police (and by clear extension the Austrian people) want to know how and why. And more particularly what else has he been getting up to.
As long as they can get the data off, it doesn't matter how.
Mark.
Hint, say "So, what's it like being English?" in a pub on the Falls Road (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falls_road).
Kneecaps, what kneecaps.....
So many sports, so little appeal :)
Mind you, cheese rolling's pretty odd: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooper's_Hill_Cheese- Rolling_and_Wake
Maybe that's what your perception of life is like in England - however, in Wales (where this refers to) is a lot more interesting.
Maps are interesting things - can I recommend buying one
I'm off to watch rounders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n baseball - that's alot more interesting.
Not really news - but it is silly season. Next up, a made-up survey about how little work everybody does.
November the 5th is a celebration of the execution of a terrorist, not the actual terrorist himself.
Its also a statement from the protestant population of Britain against the catholic church.
Obligatory wikipedia reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_fawkes.
Er, 3 times actually, 1997, 2001, 2005. And the scary thing is that his (probable) replacement agrees with this lunacy as well. That's what happens when you give power to a miserable Scottish Presbyterian. They gave the world the temperance movement..... Still, we're quite an old country - we've been through worse.
Do you want some unsolicited advise?
I think your resume needs to shout a bit clearer. It a little hard to read.
Resumes, like all documents, should have a beginning, middle and end. You're has just got a middle.
Start with a heading. Mine says "CURRICULUM VITAE", I suppose you would need "RESUME" there.
Then a section called "PERSONAL DETAILS" - put your name, address, email in clearly defined sections (say NAME: ADDRESS: etc)
Then put the summary paragraph.
And the list the skills you have, in a straight list. "C, TCL, etc". Also list spoken languages, "Spanish: Fluent, Chinese: Conversational", etc. People at first look don't read the body text so it's better to list it up front.
Then do work experience, which is more important that qualifications. Also have clear heading "Employer, Dates, Job Title", followed by the freeform text. It's fine if its all "University".
Put the qualifications next and the achievements, nicely formatted at the end.
It'll make all the difference.
From America, wouldn't it be quicker to go west?
Sorry, couldn't resist it!
America (and every other liberal democratic state) stands for the supremacy of the rule of law above all else.
It's irrelevent where the law is being carried out, it's the principal that matters.
You can't act with anything like moral superiority if you disregard what your country stand for.