When I was about 10, my dad caught me emptying two rows of candy out of vending machines, my arm was just skinny enough and long enough. I was up in that candy hole like a vet fertilizing a prize heffer.
He hung around till I got the last of it, then we ran for it.
I haven't seen that model machine in a while, still look for it, though my arm has been too big for decades. I had little bothers though, we got about six years free gum and lifesavers all told, there were years with three of us expropriating.
Decades ago, a friend 'somehow came into possession' of two of the new (Large Car company) monster aluminimum V8s/transmissions, out of prototypes that had been destroyed before the (Large Car company) reps eyes. Two years before they were to be put into production.
Long story short, he sold one set...standard computer, so called (Large Car Company) for support, gave serial#...Secret Service...denied everything, denied, denied, denied...got away with it, no 'double secret' motors found at his locations.
Some details omitted to avoid incriminating anybody.
Honestly the dude had two projects of his own, so he was just (stupid/loyal to rival large car company and his own plans). Should have sold them to a Chinese car company, that would have been maximizing revenue, didn't have the right connections.
I wouldn't steal anything not valuable enough to be worth skipping the country over. $1 million, no. But give me a chance at $100million and you'd never see me again.
Not true. The key number is corporate tax + capital gains. The effective tax rate on investment is a very competitive number in the first world. Has to be, capital seeks returns.
Nations with no corporate tax have high capital gains taxes. VAT is orthogonal.
Around here Devops is kind of code for 'cheap clueless management'. Been my experience, but I was a kid and didn't know better.
Coders haven't really 'arrived' until they work for someone that sells code, one way or another. Until then, they are just overhead, like IT. Exceptions exist, where coders can be rainmakers, financial quants etc.
Sales...you will never get the stink off. I've delt with your kind before. The fact you have an engineering degree makes the lies you tell, even worse.
You'll never get the stink of sales off of you now. The other engineers won't accept you, likely drive you out of the pack, to starve in the wilderness.
Only the Mormons consider themselves a 'Judeo-Christian' religion. The rest of the religious world just, politely, doesn't raise the subject (I'm a heathen).
I'm a dev, have been for decades. Did some DevOps back in the Netmare 2 days, back when being an admin was a fucking bitch...
Anyhow: The worst thing you can hear from me is 'Anything is possible...' Because the second clause is '...but that's the dumbest thing I've heard in a long time, there has to be a better way!', but that clause is usually silent. People that have worked with me for a long time, know it's there.
Anything is possible, but you're a fool if sometimes you don't tell management that a bad idea is 'impossible'. We don't know, who is who, in your story. Cookbook admins suck, but devs that don't bother learning how things are done, before inventing their own ways, also suck.
So you think the reverse makes sense? Have you seen some of the code ops people put together (shudders)?
IMHO DevOps is where all IT/dev types should spend the first few years of their working lives. So they can appreciate the complexity of the 'other half's' jobs and make an informed decision about what they really want to do. Not so they can do the jobs at senior level.
Eastern Europe, particularly S Eastern Europe. No so much for phone banks, but for IT/dev roles. Of course they aren't near as cheap as India and YMMV.
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Stopped being 'your cat' the day your MIL started feeding it. By the third bowl, it didn't remember you. Just how cats are.
When I was about 10, my dad caught me emptying two rows of candy out of vending machines, my arm was just skinny enough and long enough. I was up in that candy hole like a vet fertilizing a prize heffer.
He hung around till I got the last of it, then we ran for it.
I haven't seen that model machine in a while, still look for it, though my arm has been too big for decades. I had little bothers though, we got about six years free gum and lifesavers all told, there were years with three of us expropriating.
Decades ago, a friend 'somehow came into possession' of two of the new (Large Car company) monster aluminimum V8s/transmissions, out of prototypes that had been destroyed before the (Large Car company) reps eyes. Two years before they were to be put into production.
Long story short, he sold one set...standard computer, so called (Large Car Company) for support, gave serial#...Secret Service...denied everything, denied, denied, denied...got away with it, no 'double secret' motors found at his locations.
Some details omitted to avoid incriminating anybody.
Honestly the dude had two projects of his own, so he was just (stupid/loyal to rival large car company and his own plans). Should have sold them to a Chinese car company, that would have been maximizing revenue, didn't have the right connections.
Moral to the story: Deny everything!
Don't forget MITMing the cards with old PCs, 'dead' cards, unloopers, soldering serial cables to the receiver's card connectors etc. Good times.
I wouldn't steal anything not valuable enough to be worth skipping the country over. $1 million, no. But give me a chance at $100million and you'd never see me again.
Not true. The key number is corporate tax + capital gains. The effective tax rate on investment is a very competitive number in the first world. Has to be, capital seeks returns.
Nations with no corporate tax have high capital gains taxes. VAT is orthogonal.
That's exactly the wrong lesson. The Ds should nominate a _competent_ centrist next time. Not a leftist.
That's how we'll get more Trump.
That and making Antifa the face of the left, those clowns need to calm down, get jobs and get on with growing up.
Around here Devops is kind of code for 'cheap clueless management'. Been my experience, but I was a kid and didn't know better.
Coders haven't really 'arrived' until they work for someone that sells code, one way or another. Until then, they are just overhead, like IT. Exceptions exist, where coders can be rainmakers, financial quants etc.
Sales...you will never get the stink off. I've delt with your kind before. The fact you have an engineering degree makes the lies you tell, even worse.
He's just trollin. Ignore him.
You'll never get the stink of sales off of you now. The other engineers won't accept you, likely drive you out of the pack, to starve in the wilderness.
Excel cowboys never build 'applications' either. Until the thing falls over on top of its creator and it ends up on some poor saps 'issue list'.
It's a fair cop: I read part of the Gwyneth Paltrow article yesterday, but it was about yonis, so...
Don't want cop harassment? Drive a car that says: "I can afford a good shyster'. Simple as that.
Easiest way to project that: Have a car payment, don't buy your car for cash. You should be paying at least half your rent in car payment + insurance.
Why to double down on _wrong_.
Only the Mormons consider themselves a 'Judeo-Christian' religion. The rest of the religious world just, politely, doesn't raise the subject (I'm a heathen).
I'm a dev, have been for decades. Did some DevOps back in the Netmare 2 days, back when being an admin was a fucking bitch...
Anyhow: The worst thing you can hear from me is 'Anything is possible...' Because the second clause is '...but that's the dumbest thing I've heard in a long time, there has to be a better way!', but that clause is usually silent. People that have worked with me for a long time, know it's there.
Anything is possible, but you're a fool if sometimes you don't tell management that a bad idea is 'impossible'. We don't know, who is who, in your story. Cookbook admins suck, but devs that don't bother learning how things are done, before inventing their own ways, also suck.
Go look up 'dictator' in a dictionary you halfwit.
In what context?
Politically: 'Progressives' are reactionaries, hoping to return to the politics of the 1930s.
If they could code, they would have higher paying jobs as coders.
Professional...not (starter/dead ender) jobs.
So you think the reverse makes sense? Have you seen some of the code ops people put together (shudders)?
IMHO DevOps is where all IT/dev types should spend the first few years of their working lives. So they can appreciate the complexity of the 'other half's' jobs and make an informed decision about what they really want to do. Not so they can do the jobs at senior level.
Eastern Europe, particularly S Eastern Europe. No so much for phone banks, but for IT/dev roles. Of course they aren't near as cheap as India and YMMV.
Anybody know any recruiters working for Tata/Infosys etc? Post 'em (Company name, city and recruiter name), so nobody else wastes their time.
Not all Muslims are Islamists. Only the ones who follow the religion's teachings literally.