A lot of the time, agencies (and even the courts) don't follow expunge orders. They conviniently "forget", so you have to hire a lawyer to follow up and make sure the court order was actually followed.
does anyone take these Christian groups seriously enough for this to actually be a problem?
Speaking as someone who lives in the bible belt, I can tell you that a lot of people here certainly do take the things those sort of groups say seriously.
Not everyone here is like that, but there are people here who judge you based on what church you do or don't belong to, how god-fearing they think you are, etc.
I usually buy it from the local farmer's market now.
When my family had bee hives, it was mostly clover and apple honey. Biscuits and honey was a great way to start the day on the weekends when I was there (my parents and I lived in town. My uncle and grandmother lived on and ran the farm). =]
It was also nice to have some 350 odd acres to play on as a kid.
Looking for music at OU? Forget Walmart. Go to Haffa's. The store is just off the corner of Court and Union, the discs are in great shape and the prices tend to be pretty good.
Don't give him such a hard time. He's just standing up for another OU person. =]
We do get a lot of grief from people who go to OSU, Miami, and CMU (the last of those because of our CS dept). It gets kind of old after a while, so some OU people are a bit quick to defend.
I never quite understood this; can't you compile FF2 on your Fedora? Is it just the issue of the fact that it can't be installed using a package manager?
I shouldn't *have* to compile an application which is commonly used by a metric boatload of people. It should be in the packages repository.
Your parent is exhibiting what seems to be the sterotypical whining of an OSU person. OSU has this hate thing for OU and just can't seem to get past it. The same can be said for Miami Oxford.
There are a whole lot of people who went to OU that did not simply get a job as an office assistant afterward. The grandparent needs to pull his head out of his rear.
We're actually well known for journalism, pretty well known for CS (and CMU hates us becuase we give them a serious run for their money in competitions), and our chem dept is well regarded as well if memory serves.
Well, off the top of my head, their Journalism department is very well known and their CS dept is pretty well known. I believe they're also fairly well known for their Chem dept as well.
The thing is that a lot of those companies aren't hoping that you'll spend 70-80 hours a week working for them; they're expecting it.
I've had interviews at places where the directors who were talking to me were highlighting that so many of their people were there until the wee hours of the morning. They were proud of this and trying to make it sound like the norm instead of the rare crunch time exception.
To me, that's not something to be proud of. It screams that they push their people to early burn out as a business practice.
There was even one where I was told point blank that they expected 70 hours a week even though they were only paying a salary based on 40 hours.
The other thing that a lot of people miss is the strategic use of the word "campus".
The use of the words corporate campus are often an attempt to make people forget they are at work. If they call it a campus, they can trick people into working an insane schedule like half of us did in college.
It's never a corporate office or corporate compound. It's always a campus.
My worst bug comes, oddly enough, from the time I was still in university. I was writing a shell in my operating systems class using lex and yacc. For some cases, it would just completely crap out.
It should be noted that gdb did not play with yacc at all at the time (I don't know if it does now or not). I literally had to print out the source code and go down with a pencil line by line. Turns out that I made a typo. I accidently had a $2 where I should have had a $3 or the other way around. It took a couple of hours to track down.
With the cds, when they were $5 for 100, I almost always went back and got another 3 spindles. After all, I had earmarked $20 to get blank cds. The sale just meant that I wouldn't have to buy more for a considerably longer time. =]
Some $7/hr cashier is not the owner of the store. They're not authorized to change the prices of anything and any reasonable adult knows this to be true.
Not true.
Back in 2002, I was making a fairly large purchase for the fencing team at my alma mater of which I was a member. It came to something like $2k.
I called in my order and started talking to the person on the other end of the line. When she found out that I was fronting the money for my team (Weird paperwork requirements at that time with the university. They had to pay before they could get reembursed and I was the only one with that much money sitting around), she gave me a 10% discount and free shipping.
I later called back to make sure that a certain thing had gotten onto the order because I wasn't sure if I had mentioned it or not. This time, the person who answered the phone happened to be one of the owners. He informed me that I was quite a lucky person because they usually don't give any discount for orders under 5 grand and that, otherwise, it's at the sole discresion of the person making the sale.
Now free (or next to free) would be a dead giveaway..
I don't know about the next to free thing being a dead giveaway. There have been numerous times when I have gone into brick and moarter stores to buy a spindle of cds which were marked at $20 for 100 discs only to get to the counter and find that, after in store discount (which wasn't marked on the shelf or in their sale paper anywhere) it came to $5.
There have even been a few cases where the in-store discount/rebate was actually more than the price of the cds I picked up. I actually asked about that one, and was informed that that was indeed the right price.
Some stores do some weird things with unadvertised discounts.
Just because he knows a great deal about a competing technology does not mean that he isn't a shill for the people he currently works for. He's being paid to be a product evangelist which, by its very nature, is pretty much the title for a coroprate shill.
I could say the same thing about Ben Forta when I met him several years ago (Ben was an evangelist for Macromedia). The man was amazingly briliant and could pull better code off of the top of his head than most people could write while actually trying, but his job was to promote the products Macromedia wanted him to.
I doesn't mean that Eckel doesn't know anything about Java since we all know that he does. It's just that we also know he's basically getting paid to bash it and promote something else.
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A lot of the time, agencies (and even the courts) don't follow expunge orders. They conviniently "forget", so you have to hire a lawyer to follow up and make sure the court order was actually followed.
If this story is anything to judge by, we'll know in 12 or 13 years.
I'm in Ohio. It's fairly common here.
:P
And you?
does anyone take these Christian groups seriously enough for this to actually be a problem?
Speaking as someone who lives in the bible belt, I can tell you that a lot of people here certainly do take the things those sort of groups say seriously.
Not everyone here is like that, but there are people here who judge you based on what church you do or don't belong to, how god-fearing they think you are, etc.
Reasons I wear my pa-kua under my shirt.
I usually buy it from the local farmer's market now.
When my family had bee hives, it was mostly clover and apple honey. Biscuits and honey was a great way to start the day on the weekends when I was there (my parents and I lived in town. My uncle and grandmother lived on and ran the farm). =]
It was also nice to have some 350 odd acres to play on as a kid.
None of this, by the way, provides any insight into why a slashdotter would keep bees, which is a mystery better left unexplored.
Because honey in the comb is a wonderful thing? There were beehives on my family's farm when I was a kid.
Trust me. I understand. I certainly heard more than enough of it while I was there =]
By the way, do you know if Osterman is still teaching now that he's taken over the network stiuation or is he too busy with his new duties?
Looking for music at OU? Forget Walmart. Go to Haffa's. The store is just off the corner of Court and Union, the discs are in great shape and the prices tend to be pretty good.
:P
Sheesh. Underclassmen these days
He really was just kidding. We go back and forth in a good-natured manner fairly often.
I appreciate the assist, though. What program are you in?
Don't give him such a hard time. He's just standing up for another OU person. =]
We do get a lot of grief from people who go to OSU, Miami, and CMU (the last of those because of our CS dept). It gets kind of old after a while, so some OU people are a bit quick to defend.
I never quite understood this; can't you compile FF2 on your Fedora? Is it just the issue of the fact that it can't be installed using a package manager?
I shouldn't *have* to compile an application which is commonly used by a metric boatload of people. It should be in the packages repository.
Your parent is exhibiting what seems to be the sterotypical whining of an OSU person. OSU has this hate thing for OU and just can't seem to get past it. The same can be said for Miami Oxford.
There are a whole lot of people who went to OU that did not simply get a job as an office assistant afterward. The grandparent needs to pull his head out of his rear.
We're actually well known for journalism, pretty well known for CS (and CMU hates us becuase we give them a serious run for their money in competitions), and our chem dept is well regarded as well if memory serves.
Well, off the top of my head, their Journalism department is very well known and their CS dept is pretty well known. I believe they're also fairly well known for their Chem dept as well.
Disclaimer: I'm an alumnus.
I think it's the creepy and unsettling bear...
I would not want to work in that office space.
The thing is that a lot of those companies aren't hoping that you'll spend 70-80 hours a week working for them; they're expecting it.
I've had interviews at places where the directors who were talking to me were highlighting that so many of their people were there until the wee hours of the morning. They were proud of this and trying to make it sound like the norm instead of the rare crunch time exception.
To me, that's not something to be proud of. It screams that they push their people to early burn out as a business practice.
There was even one where I was told point blank that they expected 70 hours a week even though they were only paying a salary based on 40 hours.
The other thing that a lot of people miss is the strategic use of the word "campus".
The use of the words corporate campus are often an attempt to make people forget they are at work. If they call it a campus, they can trick people into working an insane schedule like half of us did in college.
It's never a corporate office or corporate compound. It's always a campus.
It's an interesting psychological ploy.
Out of curiosity, where are you now?
I graduated from Ohio University, about an hour south of Columbus. We've got a good program as well, but OSU gets most of the credit.
It's always nice to see someone with their head firmly on their shoulders instead of getting giddy over the "we want you to work 70 hours" freebies.
I like software dev, but I also value my life. This is coming from a 20-something who has already done the startup thing.
Agreed on the asking questions.
My worst bug comes, oddly enough, from the time I was still in university. I was writing a shell in my operating systems class using lex and yacc. For some cases, it would just completely crap out.
It should be noted that gdb did not play with yacc at all at the time (I don't know if it does now or not). I literally had to print out the source code and go down with a pencil line by line. Turns out that I made a typo. I accidently had a $2 where I should have had a $3 or the other way around. It took a couple of hours to track down.
With the cds, when they were $5 for 100, I almost always went back and got another 3 spindles. After all, I had earmarked $20 to get blank cds. The sale just meant that I wouldn't have to buy more for a considerably longer time. =]
Some $7/hr cashier is not the owner of the store. They're not authorized to change the prices of anything and any reasonable adult knows this to be true.
Not true.
Back in 2002, I was making a fairly large purchase for the fencing team at my alma mater of which I was a member. It came to something like $2k.
I called in my order and started talking to the person on the other end of the line. When she found out that I was fronting the money for my team (Weird paperwork requirements at that time with the university. They had to pay before they could get reembursed and I was the only one with that much money sitting around), she gave me a 10% discount and free shipping.
I later called back to make sure that a certain thing had gotten onto the order because I wasn't sure if I had mentioned it or not. This time, the person who answered the phone happened to be one of the owners. He informed me that I was quite a lucky person because they usually don't give any discount for orders under 5 grand and that, otherwise, it's at the sole discresion of the person making the sale.
Now free (or next to free) would be a dead giveaway..
I don't know about the next to free thing being a dead giveaway. There have been numerous times when I have gone into brick and moarter stores to buy a spindle of cds which were marked at $20 for 100 discs only to get to the counter and find that, after in store discount (which wasn't marked on the shelf or in their sale paper anywhere) it came to $5.
There have even been a few cases where the in-store discount/rebate was actually more than the price of the cds I picked up. I actually asked about that one, and was informed that that was indeed the right price.
Some stores do some weird things with unadvertised discounts.
Just don't try that in Heretic. You'll end up with nothing but a quarterstaff lol
I am reminded of a quote from Bash:
"I think Hello Kitty would be an appropriate name for a cruise missle" =]
Just because he knows a great deal about a competing technology does not mean that he isn't a shill for the people he currently works for. He's being paid to be a product evangelist which, by its very nature, is pretty much the title for a coroprate shill.
I could say the same thing about Ben Forta when I met him several years ago (Ben was an evangelist for Macromedia). The man was amazingly briliant and could pull better code off of the top of his head than most people could write while actually trying, but his job was to promote the products Macromedia wanted him to.
I doesn't mean that Eckel doesn't know anything about Java since we all know that he does. It's just that we also know he's basically getting paid to bash it and promote something else.