Many reasons for firing, even in an "at will" state, are illegal. You cannot fire someone for being black, as retribution for reporting illegal activity, or for not spending "quality time" under the CEO's desk, among other things
If there is reasonable evidence to suspect that the employee is being fired for something along these lines, the employer better have some good documentation showing that it's not firing employees illegally. Otherwise the employer will have some hefty lawsuits to contend with. It's all about the preponderance of evidence in civil suits.
No, it's true, you've obviously never had a job at a company of any significant size. There is nothing insulting about that. Being bright-eyed and naive is a stage most of us go through at one time in our lives.
Let me summarize the last few posts in line-by-line format for you.
How about NONE? Perhaps not commercial applications, yet, but many open source and freely distributed applications do. Case in point: uTorrent.
Wine doesn't have a "logo" Did you miss the Wine logo on its front page? Or on the top of the story?
nor a certification program. Wine's AppDB begs to differ
Being 1.0 release as well means it would be premature Over a decade of development, and its premature?
for a developer to market towards it (thus accepting liability for what could be shortcomings in the WINE system itself) Like that stopped developers or even hardware vendors from marketing for WindowsME.
My finding is that... it's fun to click the back button. It's pretty, round, and stands out. It literally POPS off the screen to say "Hello, please click me!".
IANAL, but I'm still surprised to hear that the FOIA only applies to government offices which have "substantial independent authority."
From everything I've heard, it applies to all government agencies. Does this mean if a government office can make itself appear harmless enough, it doesn't have to cooperate?
"Sorry, I'm only the FBI director's SECRETARY. I don't have substantial independent authority."
No, we could have done any variety of workarounds. Because it wasn't originally built with a D drive and the "Program Files" folder in the default location, we were told to start from scratch to appease the coder.
Because if the Wall Street Journal put ANY story out that even insinuated that women were less than the epitome of all that is good and right in the world, their offices would be firebombed.
I know the plural of "anecdote" is not "data", but in my experiences this is far from true. I have found female coders in my jobs to be downright malevolent in their coding. All women I have worked with that write any sort of code obfuscate the hell out of it, document absolutely nothing, and will barely explain how to even use their product. If everything is not run "their way", then it seems like armageddon.
Case in point. We have a coder who wrote an application for our office. Because of the fact that she refused to use any variable for the Program Files folder (hard coded as "c:\Program Files\") and she
insisted that all workstations need a D: partition (to hold a 100kb support file), we had to rebuild 4 servers.
Say what you will about women coders being "touchy feely." I won't fall for it, any more than the NOW propoganda that all women are natural caring mothers, even the coked out alcoholics.
The US constitution's protections regarding due process apply to all individuals charged or detained by the US government on US soil. If they were being held off US soil, the local laws would apply, like the situation where Hussein was tried in Iraqi court.
What has happened here is that the current administration decided to declare US-leased, US-occupied territory as a "law-free" zone where anything goes.
Loopholes are generally frowned upon by the Supreme Court.
So many people on this post are whining about the collateral damage to "innocent" traffickers in the "phony" child porn. No,/.ers are not whining about "collateral damage." They're voicing objection to the creation of another victimless crime which can ruin someone's life.
And in addition, the proportion of female sexual predators is nearly 50%. Parents are looking at every male like he will rape their children bloody, but happily embrace any "motherly" woman.
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Many reasons for firing, even in an "at will" state, are illegal. You cannot fire someone for being black, as retribution for reporting illegal activity, or for not spending "quality time" under the CEO's desk, among other things
If there is reasonable evidence to suspect that the employee is being fired for something along these lines, the employer better have some good documentation showing that it's not firing employees illegally. Otherwise the employer will have some hefty lawsuits to contend with. It's all about the preponderance of evidence in civil suits.
No, it's true, you've obviously never had a job at a company of any significant size. There is nothing insulting about that. Being bright-eyed and naive is a stage most of us go through at one time in our lives.
It makes the predictions near useless for anyone until independently fact-checked.
Oh, believe me, nobody is ever going to (correctly) assume that Gartner is unbiased.
You were correct, if you planned to guess the center of the earth.
My finding is that... it's fun to click the back button. It's pretty, round, and stands out. It literally POPS off the screen to say "Hello, please click me!".
Sadly enough, this is a completely serious post.
Quit muddling things up with facts.
It looks like I was wrong, hence the IANAL disclaimer. Thanks for the clarification!
IANAL, but I'm still surprised to hear that the FOIA only applies to government offices which have "substantial independent authority."
From everything I've heard, it applies to all government agencies. Does this mean if a government office can make itself appear harmless enough, it doesn't have to cooperate?
"Sorry, I'm only the FBI director's SECRETARY. I don't have substantial independent authority."
Sadly, no. What makes this even more disturbing is that there are more than one of this particular breed in the wild.
I weep for our children's future.
Whoah, when did this discussion go from geeks to nerds?
No, we could have done any variety of workarounds. Because it wasn't originally built with a D drive and the "Program Files" folder in the default location, we were told to start from scratch to appease the coder.
But the article says we need to hire all female programmers, because only men write bad code!
Because if the Wall Street Journal put ANY story out that even insinuated that women were less than the epitome of all that is good and right in the world, their offices would be firebombed.
I know the plural of "anecdote" is not "data", but in my experiences this is far from true. I have found female coders in my jobs to be downright malevolent in their coding. All women I have worked with that write any sort of code obfuscate the hell out of it, document absolutely nothing, and will barely explain how to even use their product. If everything is not run "their way", then it seems like armageddon.
Case in point. We have a coder who wrote an application for our office. Because of the fact that she refused to use any variable for the Program Files folder (hard coded as "c:\Program Files\") and she insisted that all workstations need a D: partition (to hold a 100kb support file), we had to rebuild 4 servers.
Say what you will about women coders being "touchy feely." I won't fall for it, any more than the NOW propoganda that all women are natural caring mothers, even the coked out alcoholics.
McCain opposes the restoration of Habeus Corpus. Get your facts straight before you regret your decisions later.
The US constitution's protections regarding due process apply to all individuals charged or detained by the US government on US soil. If they were being held off US soil, the local laws would apply, like the situation where Hussein was tried in Iraqi court.
What has happened here is that the current administration decided to declare US-leased, US-occupied territory as a "law-free" zone where anything goes.
Loopholes are generally frowned upon by the Supreme Court.
Yes, it is.
Name one U.S. soldier not being held in Gitmo who has been denied the basic rights the accused are asking for?
"DID admit" to what? Being terrorists? Every single detainee? Have a source on that?
Didn't think so.
State your source.
And in addition, the proportion of female sexual predators is nearly 50%. Parents are looking at every male like he will rape their children bloody, but happily embrace any "motherly" woman.