No need to find an excuse. They did not want t pay it so they already left. As it is not owned by them, perhaps they did not pay anything for the first 15 years. The town then decided they did not want to pay for it and asked money.
Don't forget that it is owned by the town, not by the society.
The memo was leaked. That shows a bad sign on the companies and government. So they are wronged by leaking the memo. The best way OBVIOUSLY is to forbid the leaking of memo's. Right?
Great idea. Just let Google wield their power and everybody who is against that must be punished. What if Microsoft would do such a thing?
Google wants to play in other countries? Then play by their rules, no matter how stupid or silly they are. If you are unwilling or unable to do that, then please stop providing service there and close the office in Paris and every other country they are unwilling or unable to give their service by the local laws.
I have rejected people because they wanted so bad to get experience in our field with all the great things we did that I felt like I was talking to the marketing people who gave the content for our website.
Please stop that. I know what we do. You do not have to tell me.
I rather like the "I like to use/build-on my experience and I hope that I can do that here." approach. Understand that each person is different. What will work for one person won't work for the other. Talk to friends on what they think and see that it is a serious talk, not a 'ha ha this is fun." talk. This is your future and will decide the rest of your life.
But the most important thing is to be honest. You can fool some of the people, all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time. That includes fooling yourself.
My answer was "To have a stable job" and I got the job. If I would have said "your job in 5 years" I would not have been hired at this job. I have told that at another job at another time in my life and got hired, because that was apparently what they wanted there at that moment.
The issue is not why they ask it. The issue is if you know the answers yourself. Hell, where I work now on a third interview I was asked if I smoked and when I said "Yes" they said "Great, let's take a break and have a smoke".
I am sure if I would have been a non-smoker, that would not have been an issue. However if I would have said no, because I was afraid to say yes and they hired me and saw me smoking, I would be thought of as a liar and that would be hindering my day to day job.
So be honest. A job interview is indeed not only about the answers, but also how you answer them. If you only answer what you think they will want to hear, you will miss those jobs where they would hired you if you would have been honest and get those where they hire somebody who you are not.
It's all about selling yourself and showing you can handle pressure.
That is something my dad told me when I went for my first job interview: It is a sales pitch. You are there to sell yourself.
And I mean sales where the end result is a win-win for both parties. I do not want to spend 8 hours per day there and they should not felt lied to afterwards.
When I am open and honest, I have noticed they will be as well. I have been told and have told myself that it would best NOT to work together as our goals would not match and problems would arise in the not to far future. It is better to part as friends then as enemies.
I have refused people who would be great at the job, but they just wanted a fucking job. Any fucking job. The reason I did not hire them is because those people will move on as fast as possible.
Why would I invest in them?
Sure, you might not want to work for me, but then I would not hire you. See? Everybody gets what they want so everybody is a winner.
They are politicians. What did you expect? Power corrupts: News at 11.
Even if you are the best willed person and set up the best government (or even company). At a later date it will become corrupt and will look not at all the people, but at some of the people. So even if you start a 0% evil it will evolved towards 100% evil.
Revolutions are there for a reason. They are there to do a reboot to 0% and the the whole process starts over again.
I am not saying that a revolution is what would help. Not yet anyway, but it will come. No idea in what form or when.
I work at such a company. However they are talking about buying new PCs and moving to Windows7. We have no internet connection. All the programs run as they should. I just know that things won't work after the upgrade. Well at least not for the first 2 years or so.
This is then called 'an inconvenience'. When asked why the answer sounded like "Well it goes to 11" (Well, it is Windows 7).
It will obviously mean that other projects and issues will get lower priorities because they are short on staff as they are working on the upgrade.
But I don't think it means what you think it means.
The last time I had a cable Internet connection to be installed, I had ordered it without a network card, so I was sure that they would not give me a Windows Only one. I clearly had this on the application. I also installed Windows, because I knew it would not go well otherwise.
So I have a clean Windows installation with on a paper the MAC address that they will need to make the connection. The first guy comes in and no connection. Well obviously, because he is using the wrong MAC address. I explain this to him, so he tells me that for this they need to send an engineer by.
The engineer comes and I tell him the problem AND the solution. He seems not to believe me and looks around in various network settings. After 20 minutes (!) he calls in to his HQ and tells them the MAC address I already had for him.
All I wanted to have a working connection. The moment he left I called in, told them I had a new MAC address and gave them the MAC my router has. This was not possible as the account was allowed only one device.
So if they are really specialists, the first guy could have done the call with the MAC address, seen it working and save their company a lot of money.
This would benefit the companies and hurt the individual. Mickey will be in copyright forever, while my fantastic great book I have just written won't be. Then that will be turned into a Disney production, because it is in public domain.
That will then be copyrighted. They have done so with several stories already. The only difference is the fee. The rest would not make any difference.
And you can be damn sure that there will be a group discount and it will be tax deductible and so many other rules that they will pay less for all their copyrights then you will do for just one.
Just make it a max of 10 years. That would mean no need to change anything, except the number of years. If grand-dad dies the day after he wrote his book, I have 10 years to collect on it. If he dies the before, I have 1 day.
Artists can start playing their own music after 10 years f they had problems with their publisher. They can even use their own name again. (Who? Prince! That skinny MF with the high voice.)
I understand how you feel. And that is the problem as well. You talk about your experience, which is influenced by many years of incandescent bulb usage. and that is how you think artificial light should be.
It is a normal process as most people do not like change. Some will fight it and make an obsession out of it. Others will just 'learn' the new way artificial light will look.
I find LED more like natural light as it is more white and less yellow. Colors look real to me. But then the human mind has a great way of correcting things without our knowledge.
Have you read that it is the "first mainstream midsize sedan in North America"? So not "the first car ever". So other cars elsewhere already have this and companies have experience with it.
It is now waiting for the first person in sue-happy USA who had an accident while driving drunk to sue Ford.
Depending on how precise it can measure where your 'mouse' is I could see the following happening: 1) You build this into a smart phone or tablet PC 2) Calibrate by selecting the 4 corners of your surface. 3) use the whole surface you selected as an extended touch screen. This could be a bar top, a table at your local fast food, a whiteboard, your desk, tray in a plane,....
It would allow the screen to be smaller yet the input to be bigger without the need to drag the keyboard with you. You could use a paper with a pre-printed design on it, like a keyboard or a map or whatever. Make it in silk and it is indestructable (well almost) and yet very small. http://duo.irational.org/food_for_free/material_maps/silk_map.html
An old joke comes to mind about Soviet Russia and freedom of speech: In America there is freedom of speech. You can can say that your president is an idiot. Here in Soviet Russia we have the same freedom. We can say your president is an idiot, too.
If the US follows up on it, then this is not the fault of the Israelis. It will be the fault of the US for thinking it was a great idea.
I see your funny side and raise you "sad but true". The question is to ban things. That won't happen. Logically we won't do anything at all. reality has learned us that they will do the second best thing: Attempting to be 100% sure that there are no terrorists on any of it.
The best they will come up with is controlling who goes on any of it. So people using twitter will be monitored. People using phones will be monitored and their location will be noted as well all the time.
Roads and cars will be subject to random searches. State crossings will require paperwork and if you are on the list, you won't be allowed to pass.
Stuff you buy will be data mined to see if there is no purchases that could make a bomb.
With all that, Soviet Russia would seem like a paradise. With all that, Big Brother would feel like a dream to live for because it is less evil.
Be prepared to fight against it now or be prepared for things to get much much worse. Start doing your part like this person here. Start in any legal way that you can think of. Write it on facebook. Yell it in the streets.
Because if you don't and things get worse (and they will) then change will be bloody. Unless you are fine about it. Then please just moan and do nothing.
Just don't say later "we didn't know." And if you are in the military or police, blindly following orders is no excuse. (Godwin's Law if you get it.)
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No need to find an excuse. They did not want t pay it so they already left.
As it is not owned by them, perhaps they did not pay anything for the first 15 years. The town then decided they did not want to pay for it and asked money.
Don't forget that it is owned by the town, not by the society.
Because it is technically possible.
The memo was leaked. That shows a bad sign on the companies and government. So they are wronged by leaking the memo.
The best way OBVIOUSLY is to forbid the leaking of memo's. Right?
Great idea. Just let Google wield their power and everybody who is against that must be punished.
What if Microsoft would do such a thing?
Google wants to play in other countries? Then play by their rules, no matter how stupid or silly they are. If you are unwilling or unable to do that, then please stop providing service there and close the office in Paris and every other country they are unwilling or unable to give their service by the local laws.
I have rejected people because they wanted so bad to get experience in our field with all the great things we did that I felt like I was talking to the marketing people who gave the content for our website.
Please stop that. I know what we do. You do not have to tell me.
I rather like the "I like to use/build-on my experience and I hope that I can do that here." approach. Understand that each person is different. What will work for one person won't work for the other. Talk to friends on what they think and see that it is a serious talk, not a 'ha ha this is fun." talk. This is your future and will decide the rest of your life.
But the most important thing is to be honest. You can fool some of the people, all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time. That includes fooling yourself.
My answer was "To have a stable job" and I got the job. If I would have said "your job in 5 years" I would not have been hired at this job. I have told that at another job at another time in my life and got hired, because that was apparently what they wanted there at that moment.
The issue is not why they ask it. The issue is if you know the answers yourself. Hell, where I work now on a third interview I was asked if I smoked and when I said "Yes" they said "Great, let's take a break and have a smoke".
I am sure if I would have been a non-smoker, that would not have been an issue. However if I would have said no, because I was afraid to say yes and they hired me and saw me smoking, I would be thought of as a liar and that would be hindering my day to day job.
So be honest. A job interview is indeed not only about the answers, but also how you answer them. If you only answer what you think they will want to hear, you will miss those jobs where they would hired you if you would have been honest and get those where they hire somebody who you are not.
That is something my dad told me when I went for my first job interview: It is a sales pitch. You are there to sell yourself.
And I mean sales where the end result is a win-win for both parties. I do not want to spend 8 hours per day there and they should not felt lied to afterwards.
When I am open and honest, I have noticed they will be as well. I have been told and have told myself that it would best NOT to work together as our goals would not match and problems would arise in the not to far future. It is better to part as friends then as enemies.
I have refused people who would be great at the job, but they just wanted a fucking job. Any fucking job. The reason I did not hire them is because those people will move on as fast as possible.
Why would I invest in them?
Sure, you might not want to work for me, but then I would not hire you. See? Everybody gets what they want so everybody is a winner.
And remember: Those same dumbed down people are electing the people who rule over us.
They are politicians. What did you expect?
Power corrupts: News at 11.
Even if you are the best willed person and set up the best government (or even company). At a later date it will become corrupt and will look not at all the people, but at some of the people. So even if you start a 0% evil it will evolved towards 100% evil.
Revolutions are there for a reason. They are there to do a reboot to 0% and the the whole process starts over again.
I am not saying that a revolution is what would help. Not yet anyway, but it will come. No idea in what form or when.
I know "Best of whatever of this year" come often too early, but this is just silly.
I work at such a company. However they are talking about buying new PCs and moving to Windows7. We have no internet connection. All the programs run as they should. I just know that things won't work after the upgrade. Well at least not for the first 2 years or so.
This is then called 'an inconvenience'. When asked why the answer sounded like "Well it goes to 11" (Well, it is Windows 7).
It will obviously mean that other projects and issues will get lower priorities because they are short on staff as they are working on the upgrade.
If you get a new PC you have to call in. If you have two PCs they want to sell you a more expensive account type.
Easy to work around. They counted on the majority of people not knowing this. Basic ISP theft I would say.
But I don't think it means what you think it means.
The last time I had a cable Internet connection to be installed, I had ordered it without a network card, so I was sure that they would not give me a Windows Only one. I clearly had this on the application. I also installed Windows, because I knew it would not go well otherwise.
So I have a clean Windows installation with on a paper the MAC address that they will need to make the connection. The first guy comes in and no connection. Well obviously, because he is using the wrong MAC address. I explain this to him, so he tells me that for this they need to send an engineer by.
The engineer comes and I tell him the problem AND the solution. He seems not to believe me and looks around in various network settings. After 20 minutes (!) he calls in to his HQ and tells them the MAC address I already had for him.
All I wanted to have a working connection. The moment he left I called in, told them I had a new MAC address and gave them the MAC my router has. This was not possible as the account was allowed only one device.
So if they are really specialists, the first guy could have done the call with the MAC address, seen it working and save their company a lot of money.
This would benefit the companies and hurt the individual. Mickey will be in copyright forever, while my fantastic great book I have just written won't be. Then that will be turned into a Disney production, because it is in public domain.
That will then be copyrighted. They have done so with several stories already. The only difference is the fee. The rest would not make any difference.
And you can be damn sure that there will be a group discount and it will be tax deductible and so many other rules that they will pay less for all their copyrights then you will do for just one.
Just make it a max of 10 years. That would mean no need to change anything, except the number of years. If grand-dad dies the day after he wrote his book, I have 10 years to collect on it. If he dies the before, I have 1 day.
Artists can start playing their own music after 10 years f they had problems with their publisher. They can even use their own name again. (Who? Prince! That skinny MF with the high voice.)
Easy way out is a limited time of 10 years. If you want to sell your sole and copyright to the MAFIAA, please do so.
If you don't make enough money from it in 10 years, then perhaps others can do good with it and build on it.
No it doesn't. Copyright is by default.
First they came for Mickey mouse ...
Yes, it is a treat to democracy. The majority of people do not want this. The minority wants this. Seems like a pretty undemocratic rule to me.
I understand how you feel. And that is the problem as well. You talk about your experience, which is influenced by many years of incandescent bulb usage. and that is how you think artificial light should be.
It is a normal process as most people do not like change. Some will fight it and make an obsession out of it. Others will just 'learn' the new way artificial light will look.
I find LED more like natural light as it is more white and less yellow. Colors look real to me. But then the human mind has a great way of correcting things without our knowledge.
Have you read that it is the "first mainstream midsize sedan in North America"? So not "the first car ever". So other cars elsewhere already have this and companies have experience with it.
It is now waiting for the first person in sue-happy USA who had an accident while driving drunk to sue Ford.
So that is the reason those Volvo Station Cars are holding drag races all the time in our street?
Depending on how precise it can measure where your 'mouse' is I could see the following happening: ....
1) You build this into a smart phone or tablet PC
2) Calibrate by selecting the 4 corners of your surface.
3) use the whole surface you selected as an extended touch screen.
This could be a bar top, a table at your local fast food, a whiteboard, your desk, tray in a plane,
It would allow the screen to be smaller yet the input to be bigger without the need to drag the keyboard with you. You could use a paper with a pre-printed design on it, like a keyboard or a map or whatever. Make it in silk and it is indestructable (well almost) and yet very small. http://duo.irational.org/food_for_free/material_maps/silk_map.html
An old joke comes to mind about Soviet Russia and freedom of speech: In America there is freedom of speech. You can can say that your president is an idiot. Here in Soviet Russia we have the same freedom. We can say your president is an idiot, too.
If the US follows up on it, then this is not the fault of the Israelis. It will be the fault of the US for thinking it was a great idea.
We are working on that. We are politicians, we need to spend the money companies give us as well, so please be patient.
Signed,
Every politician in the world
I see your funny side and raise you "sad but true". The question is to ban things. That won't happen. Logically we won't do anything at all. reality has learned us that they will do the second best thing: Attempting to be 100% sure that there are no terrorists on any of it.
The best they will come up with is controlling who goes on any of it. So people using twitter will be monitored. People using phones will be monitored and their location will be noted as well all the time.
Roads and cars will be subject to random searches. State crossings will require paperwork and if you are on the list, you won't be allowed to pass.
Stuff you buy will be data mined to see if there is no purchases that could make a bomb.
With all that, Soviet Russia would seem like a paradise. With all that, Big Brother would feel like a dream to live for because it is less evil.
Be prepared to fight against it now or be prepared for things to get much much worse. Start doing your part like this person here. Start in any legal way that you can think of. Write it on facebook. Yell it in the streets.
Because if you don't and things get worse (and they will) then change will be bloody. Unless you are fine about it. Then please just moan and do nothing.
Just don't say later "we didn't know." And if you are in the military or police, blindly following orders is no excuse. (Godwin's Law if you get it.)