I never got past the "Falafel/Loofah" thing. I never will. Even if he personally saved me from a burning building or something, I'd still take the opportunity to laugh in his face over the Falafel thing.
"My guess is that you are fond of counterculture stuff. How would you feel about someone that was strongly pro-life? Would you be as comfortable with them if they pushed that? What about if they counterculture stuff was racial purity?"
Wouldn't they volunteer all this same information in the one-on-one interviews? Or should we not hire them because they are two-faced and deceitful?
"Your resume likely gets 20 to 30 seconds of eyeball time when a manager or recruiter is scanning through a pile of resumes looking for potential interview candidates."
Cool.... They then spend enough time on my online profile to find out that I've read as much literature as the average English Professor, they will see my publications, they will see me shaking hands with John Glenn, Tiger Teague and Ronald Reagan, they will laugh at my quotes, and then decide not to hire me because I've listed my religious view as "Episcopagan."
>However, most people are smart enough to hide their facebook/etc.
If you are the kind of person I need to "hide my profile" from, the LAST thing you are going to get from me is my time investment and my skilled labor. Life is too short, and I'm too good for you.
Yes. And why would you bother doing anything for an employer who is petty enough to hold your web presence against you?
At my jobs, the people I've worked for have been into me for who I am.
Somebody checks my facebook page or whatever, it's what it's there for. Somebody has a *problem* with what they find there, they can kiss my ass, and I'd be man enough to say it point blanc even to a boss or prospective boss.
And speaking as a boss, I might do something like this just to test you to see if you have enough integrity to stand up for yourself. If you have a lot of counterculture / political stuff on your shirt sleeve, and you try to pretend to be someone else, I have NO respect for that.
"Someone was willing to pay that price, and someone was willing to sell for that price, but it doesn't mean that the price is an objective valuation of the object being sold."
Of course it means that.
What you just denied, is even a fairly good definition of the marketplace.
>b) Keeping them offline might make sense for security, but it makes servicing them more difficult, >and so more people need to be hired, and so it is more expensive (which is bad, apparently)
Yes, some CEO might only get $16,935,000 in their bonus instead of the full $17,000,000. And if that happens, apparently the economy will collapse.
Qualifications for President of the United States, all other considerations being matters of opinion:
No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.
>A valid affirmative defense in a copyright suit is to say that the copyright holder knew that infringement was taking place and failed to do anything >about it.
I suppose that is a UK thing, but not true at all in the USA.
You may have certain interpretations of trademark law confused with copyright.
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I always ask for the CV of whoever calls Sen. Obama "inexperienced." They always make excuses, rather than disclose their own position from which they criticize.
>You know, it is in fact possible to survive in most parts of the world without air conditioning.
Yes, of course, but if you want me to exchange my time in order for you to take advantage of my skilled labor, I shall do much more than merely "survive."
This is not negotiable.
I can "subsist" without making myself part of your corporate enterprise, get it?
If I work for you, I'm doing it for the rewards, and I have no shame in asking for the money.
On the other hand, when I've worked in IT I haven't had the problems that are so often reported by people who seem to do nothing but suffer.
>I thought early votes were treated like absentee votes.
Depends on locale.
In mine, there is a distinction between "early" and "provisional" ballots.
Early ballots are always counted, and encouraged by the Recorder's office for logistical and economic reasons. Provisional ballots are used, such as when a voter shows up at the wrong polling place. These are counted only when the total number of provisional ballots would make a difference on some ballot question.
If there are 3,977 provisional ballots, and the closest question on the ballot has already won by 277,591 votes, the provisional ballots aren't counted. Do you disagree with this policy?
>Raise the purse to $10,000 and you might have something.
Make the data on the drive be a key to an independently verifiable escrow account. First person to arrive with the key, takes all. It's really very simple to create a challenge of this kind.
The prize can be "seen", and the independent party that releases the prize to the first comer, has specific conditions that must be met. Put a disinterested party in charge of this part of the contest.
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Writing as though you speak on behalf of higher education:
"Their are also open access REPOSITORIES."
Applause.
I never got past the "Falafel/Loofah" thing. I never will. Even if he personally saved me from a burning building or something, I'd still take the opportunity to laugh in his face over the Falafel thing.
The "wassup crowd" consists primarily of internet users, especially those who seek out counterculture humor.
I'm not sure where the correspondence to "uneducated" is found. Annoying, and generally puposefully feigning ignorance, perhaps, but not uneducated.
>I agree with you about the media thing. The "infinity+" copyrights are a horrible abomination on the public.
Write a song or a book.
Then realize that the same laws protect you (the public) equally.
Are you part of the abomination then?
>Adultery doesn't even matter in court if you live in a no-fault divorce state.
Right... sex between consenting adults being legal, this is as it should be.
>She still ended up getting a settlement for half my retirement fund...
Because that fund was 100% accrued during your marriage. You got half of hers as well, right?
"My guess is that you are fond of counterculture stuff. How would you feel about someone that was strongly pro-life? Would you be as comfortable with them if they pushed that? What about if they counterculture stuff was racial purity?"
Wouldn't they volunteer all this same information in the one-on-one interviews? Or should we not hire them because they are two-faced and deceitful?
"Your resume likely gets 20 to 30 seconds of eyeball time when a manager or recruiter is scanning through a pile of resumes looking for potential interview candidates."
Cool.... They then spend enough time on my online profile to find out that I've read as much literature as the average English Professor, they will see my publications, they will see me shaking hands with John Glenn, Tiger Teague and Ronald Reagan, they will laugh at my quotes, and then decide not to hire me because I've listed my religious view as "Episcopagan."
Their loss!
"A handful of beans aren't worth as much as a cow just because you manage to persuade one hick that they're 'magic' beans."
In that story, the beans *were* magic.
"And an instantaneous stock-market price would only really mark the consensus agreement on the worth of a stock if markets were perfectly efficient."
No, because you can fall on this for *any* market dynamics you want to dismiss.
>For that matter, would you want to hire anyone dumb enough to BE on Facebook in the first place?
If you're a government employer, I smell "chilling effect" and "abridgement of first amendment protected activity."
Potentially much more lucrative than any "job"...
>However, most people are smart enough to hide their facebook/etc.
If you are the kind of person I need to "hide my profile" from, the LAST thing you are going to get from me is my time investment and my skilled labor. Life is too short, and I'm too good for you.
>What you do in public is public.
Yes. And why would you bother doing anything for an employer who is petty enough to hold your web presence against you?
At my jobs, the people I've worked for have been into me for who I am.
Somebody checks my facebook page or whatever, it's what it's there for. Somebody has a *problem* with what they find there, they can kiss my ass, and I'd be man enough to say it point blanc even to a boss or prospective boss.
And speaking as a boss, I might do something like this just to test you to see if you have enough integrity to stand up for yourself. If you have a lot of counterculture / political stuff on your shirt sleeve, and you try to pretend to be someone else, I have NO respect for that.
>Just don't let me hear you complain about GW again, since he's fully qualified!
I never said he wasn't.
How dare you claim that I ever did, liar?
>Apparently you put no thought into your comments, whatsoever.
Dude, this is slashdot. I've been here so long I stopped giving a fuck, like 12 years ago.
"Someone was willing to pay that price, and someone was willing to sell for that price, but it doesn't mean that the price is an objective valuation of the object being sold."
Of course it means that.
What you just denied, is even a fairly good definition of the marketplace.
>b) Keeping them offline might make sense for security, but it makes servicing them more difficult, >and so more people need to be hired, and so it is more expensive (which is bad, apparently)
Yes, some CEO might only get $16,935,000 in their bonus instead of the full $17,000,000. And if that happens, apparently the economy will collapse.
Mobile phones can send text messages now? Cool.
Qualifications for President of the United States, all other considerations being matters of opinion:
No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.
>Some investors jumped the gun and sold stock that was worth more than they sold it for
If there was a trade, then by definition the stock was worth precisely the value at which it was traded.
>A valid affirmative defense in a copyright suit is to say that the copyright holder knew that infringement was taking place and failed to do anything
>about it.
I suppose that is a UK thing, but not true at all in the USA.
You may have certain interpretations of trademark law confused with copyright.
I always ask for the CV of whoever calls Sen. Obama "inexperienced."
They always make excuses, rather than disclose their own position from which they criticize.
>You know, it is in fact possible to survive in most parts of the world without air conditioning.
Yes, of course, but if you want me to exchange my time in order for you to take advantage of my skilled labor, I shall do much more than merely "survive."
This is not negotiable.
I can "subsist" without making myself part of your corporate enterprise, get it?
If I work for you, I'm doing it for the rewards, and I have no shame in asking for the money.
On the other hand, when I've worked in IT I haven't had the problems that are so often reported by people who seem to do nothing but suffer.
>I thought early votes were treated like absentee votes.
Depends on locale.
In mine, there is a distinction between "early" and "provisional" ballots.
Early ballots are always counted, and encouraged by the Recorder's office for logistical and economic reasons. Provisional ballots are used, such as when a voter shows up at the wrong polling place. These are counted only when the total number of provisional ballots would make a difference on some ballot question.
If there are 3,977 provisional ballots, and the closest question on the ballot has already won by 277,591 votes, the provisional ballots aren't counted. Do you disagree with this policy?
>wonder just how much you can make it do...
With so many posts saying "it's impossible to make it do anything interesting", I'm just waiting...
>Give me the scenario.
My favorite was a Network Appliance 760 Filer having three WAFL drives fail.
It did not involve power or cooling. The only time we ever lost power was during the Northridge quake.
>It's called redundancy. Yes, a single router will fail. 2 at once? Likely not. 3? No.
Saw triply redundant systems fail twice in my career as a net admin.
I'm willing to bet your life on the reliability of triple redundancy.
>Raise the purse to $10,000 and you might have something.
Make the data on the drive be a key to an independently verifiable escrow account.
First person to arrive with the key, takes all. It's really very simple to create a challenge of this kind.
The prize can be "seen", and the independent party that releases the prize to the first comer, has specific conditions that must be met. Put a disinterested party in charge of this part of the contest.