Of course a marine or "LEO" (What a cute little acronym you just invented) can handle a taser shock. The Marine at least is quite physically fit, and both the marine and the "LEO" have been screened for any medical conditions that could affect their ability to perform their jobs.
Now, they perform those screenings for a very good reason. People have MEDICAL CONDITIONS which are not VISIBLY DETECTABLE.
I could care less how many marines and cops the PR morons want to parade around. Let's see them bring out a random 7-year old, or pull out a woman from a nursing home, and tase the 5-10 times in a row. They won't, because they know their product will kill people who aren't in decent physical condition.
I'd like to know what alternate universe pays 37k/year AVERAGE for a level 1 grunt phone tech. Certainly not the United States, or Canada.
I suspect that they're including the total cost of employment into that (health care, vacation, worker's comp, unemployment insurance, blah blah) and not the employee's gross or net income.
Responding to your personal note, I had a similar experience. After getting out of the Army, I started with a government contractor doing hell desk work. Not 3 months later, I was promoted to a systems administrator position. I'm not going to flatter myself and deny that a lot of luck was involved, but it would be silly to completely discount the role of the help desk as a stepping stone towards more technical positions. Many companies in fact use the help desk as a primary recruiting pool for their sysadmin/etc positions.
The government as an entity may not be supposed to, but the (U.S.) government can't block its employee's freedom of speech. I can see an argument being brought that they might be misunderstood to be representing the government if they do it from a computer at work, but thats a productivity/discipline thing.
The federal government's relationship with media is very complicated. They do, in fact, exert an amazing amount of influence on the media, both directly and indirectly.
And you don't think that proprietary software vendors are including support contracts in that 60 billion dollar "loss"? Come on now, you know that figure is padded with everything from the price of support contracts to shipping and handling.
Funny how nobody replied to this one. Must be so off-the-wall and absurd that nobody even bothered to look. Or, no nanny-staters could come up with a good response.
With your reasoning, you have no right to read the latest issue of Maxim unless they include a clip-n-send card for you to sign and return.
To put it another way: If I sell you a CD with a couple of my band's songs on it, I cannot call you and tell you that you're not allowed to listen to it because I changed my mind.
Funny side note to the Constitution being the American government. If America were to hold another constitutional convention, the delegates would have full power to change the government in any way they see fit, such as turning it into a monarchy or theocracy.
The article that created what statement? That the Constitution was originally written on parchment? I'd say his source is a hell of a lot more credible than the unfounded assertions of an anonymous coward.
fine print - *: for only the first 10 seconds of any sustained transaction. Additional fees and restrictions apply. Bandwidth advertised will be dropped to dial-up speeds when used for any protocol not essential to the viewing of a common web page.
You misunderstood. Security in this case is specifically referring to ensuring that the individual who is trying to authenticate is who they say they are. If they have a gun to their head, that doesn't change who they are.
An intelligent businesses from anywhere but the U.S. would avoid Google Docs or Microsoft Office Live or any of these web-based document solutions like the plague. The USAPATRIOT act is quite the liability, especially for businesses that must report any access of customer data by outside entities. A bit hard to do that when the access is done in secret, eh?
He's not blaming his tools. He is stating that IBM sells his management absolute crap which he has to support. This a big reason why IT personnel hate their management: purchasing power while lacking brainpower.
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You foolish Coward.
Of course a marine or "LEO" (What a cute little acronym you just invented) can handle a taser shock. The Marine at least is quite physically fit, and both the marine and the "LEO" have been screened for any medical conditions that could affect their ability to perform their jobs.
Now, they perform those screenings for a very good reason. People have MEDICAL CONDITIONS which are not VISIBLY DETECTABLE.
I could care less how many marines and cops the PR morons want to parade around. Let's see them bring out a random 7-year old, or pull out a woman from a nursing home, and tase the 5-10 times in a row. They won't, because they know their product will kill people who aren't in decent physical condition.
State your source. I have never before heard of a state that levies tariffs on imported goods.
CDN, that's like 2 USD each by now, right?
I'd like to know what alternate universe pays 37k/year AVERAGE for a level 1 grunt phone tech. Certainly not the United States, or Canada.
I suspect that they're including the total cost of employment into that (health care, vacation, worker's comp, unemployment insurance, blah blah) and not the employee's gross or net income.
So, what exactly is an "Infrastructure Library process framework"? How do you define "service management"?
Why are you capitalizing random words as if they are divine concepts, such as "Incidents, Problems and Changes?"
We Slashdotters tend to appreciate posts that contain information, not management buzzword doublespeak. Do you have a 6-Sigma black belt, too?
Responding to your personal note, I had a similar experience. After getting out of the Army, I started with a government contractor doing hell desk work. Not 3 months later, I was promoted to a systems administrator position. I'm not going to flatter myself and deny that a lot of luck was involved, but it would be silly to completely discount the role of the help desk as a stepping stone towards more technical positions. Many companies in fact use the help desk as a primary recruiting pool for their sysadmin/etc positions.
The government as an entity may not be supposed to, but the (U.S.) government can't block its employee's freedom of speech. I can see an argument being brought that they might be misunderstood to be representing the government if they do it from a computer at work, but thats a productivity/discipline thing.
The federal government's relationship with media is very complicated. They do, in fact, exert an amazing amount of influence on the media, both directly and indirectly.
Until the new Ferrari owner's chief competitor decided to cut their prices to beat out the greedy one's artificially inflated prices.
Many things balance themselves out in the face of competition.
And you don't think that proprietary software vendors are including support contracts in that 60 billion dollar "loss"? Come on now, you know that figure is padded with everything from the price of support contracts to shipping and handling.
Funny how nobody replied to this one. Must be so off-the-wall and absurd that nobody even bothered to look. Or, no nanny-staters could come up with a good response.
How about the people of 23 years ago saying "oh man, they'll be running Windows 6.0.6000 in 2008!"
It's a noun, it's a verb, it's an adjective! It's a floor wax, it's a dessert topping it's... oh, wait...
With your reasoning, you have no right to read the latest issue of Maxim unless they include a clip-n-send card for you to sign and return.
To put it another way: If I sell you a CD with a couple of my band's songs on it, I cannot call you and tell you that you're not allowed to listen to it because I changed my mind.
Source?
Funny side note to the Constitution being the American government. If America were to hold another constitutional convention, the delegates would have full power to change the government in any way they see fit, such as turning it into a monarchy or theocracy.
It could always be worse.
The article that created what statement? That the Constitution was originally written on parchment? I'd say his source is a hell of a lot more credible than the unfounded assertions of an anonymous coward.
50Mbps*
fine print -
*: for only the first 10 seconds of any sustained transaction. Additional fees and restrictions apply. Bandwidth advertised will be dropped to dial-up speeds when used for any protocol not essential to the viewing of a common web page.
BE CAREFUL! Questioning a Mac user's assertions can ruin any karma you thought you had.
Well, I'm sure the 1.2 billion RSS readers and bots immediately preload every link that makes the front page.
Don't blame the users, blame the technology!
Pshaw. In 1994, I got my hands on a shiny new V.FAST 28.8 Sportster!
I was... still godawful slow.
Ahh, the days when changing your browser's "background" color to anything other than (off-)white meant most pages became unreadable.
Oh, and good job, Slashdotters. The page is down already!
You misunderstood. Security in this case is specifically referring to ensuring that the individual who is trying to authenticate is who they say they are. If they have a gun to their head, that doesn't change who they are.
An intelligent businesses from anywhere but the U.S. would avoid Google Docs or Microsoft Office Live or any of these web-based document solutions like the plague. The USAPATRIOT act is quite the liability, especially for businesses that must report any access of customer data by outside entities. A bit hard to do that when the access is done in secret, eh?
He's not blaming his tools. He is stating that IBM sells his management absolute crap which he has to support. This a big reason why IT personnel hate their management: purchasing power while lacking brainpower.
... except, the announcement was made yesterday.
The timestamp on the first story was 10:38 am EDT on March 31st. The ZD article was 2:30pm the same day.