Many of the posts here argue that the following statement is a reasonable one under some concept of 'zero tolerance.' I disagree.
'We cannot educate theater managers to be judges and juries in what is acceptable. Theater managers cannot distinguish between good and bad stealing."
I read this as the equivalent of threatening global thermonulear war for a minor border infractions. It is a scare tactic intended to make the threat as credible as possible. The less local discretion, the more credible the threat.
The fact is that theater managers are, for the most part and to a greater or lesser extent, more or less adult, and they can, in fact, distinguish between good and bad stealing. Since they can, this attempt to remove their discretion is just a ploy to relieve them of the responsibility to run a fair business so that the treat of the law becomes more real.
Sort of 'kill them all and let the lawyers sort it out.'
My fond Borland memories are of Sprint and Quattro Pro. With the Sprint wordprocessor, toggle an option and the command strucutre switched to WordPerfect, WordStar, and two or three other popular packages. Personally the native command structure worked best for me.
Their spreadsheet Quattro Pro, in my opinion, was the model for the graphics found in Excel to this day. If you wanted font control, 3-D, you name it, Quattro had it long before MS.
We ran a depart of fifty folks using those to on another dead platfrom, too obscure to make the list: Banyan VINES.
Oh, the pain of early adoption...
You really don't have to defend your stance from what is currently available, but to say that nothing will ever be good enough to replace those good old fashioned, tried and tested wires is simply ludicrous. That buggy out there was good enough for grandad, and, consarn it, it is good enough for me! Now where did that horse get off to?
It is incredibly unlikely that Dell uses real insurance for this product. The loss ratio on warranty contracts (the ratio of losses paid to premium recieved) is often under 10%. In almost no industry do you find bona fide insurance for these things. You find 'captive insurance companies' that are wholly owned by the firm involved, sometimes with a 'fronting insurance company' issuing the polciy. A 'fronting insurer' is a real insurance company that takes no risk and provides a policy and administration only.
I personally worked on such deals for electronics, white goods and automotive industries; my firm consults with most of the Fortune 1000, and sees these deals on a regular basis. Based on my own experience I never buy the warranty. Only do it if you absolutely cannot afford to repair or replace yourself.
It turns out that there is public policy against compensating for fraud regardless of contract language. If you commit a crime no insurance or warranty contract will be enforcable regardless of its language.
I am comforted to see someone else remembers WordStar. Saddened, though, that it is now one of the ten funniest IT adverts of all time. In its day, it was a wonder. Fully justified text and would run in 64K of memory. Many a BBS operator depended on WS for 'publishing' electronic articles back in the day. I know I did. With a product like Multilink you could cram two instances of RBBS-PC into 640K of RAM with enough RAM left over to run a WS instance at the same time. It was a godsend.
Furthermore, we expect our sellers to obtain currency only through fair and legitimate means and to always be courteous to other gamers.
How do you expect to enforce this expectation? What information do you collect on sellers that makes it even possible to know if they are 'fair and honorable' plat farmers?
The FBI will not contact you online and request your personal information so be wary of fraud schemes that request this type of information, especially via unsolicited emails. To report fraudulent activity or financial scams, contact the nearest FBI office or police department, and file a complaint online with the Internet Crime Complaint Center, www.ic3.gov.
I don't have enought SD cards (did I say cards? I have one) for a wallet. I use USB sticks for the same thing you use SD cards, mostly because my office equipment has tons of USB ports and zero SD slots. I can see the SD cards being less bulky than the sticks, but perhaps less durable. I am pretty sure I don't want another wallet any more than another 'device' but another object on my keyring is not so bad.
Wifi is a great feature to have but it is no replacement for an SD card. An SD card can be removed from the phone and plugged into a computer when you get to where you are going where the files can be transferred. Personally, the SD card in my Treo is quite the PITA. True, a bit of scotch tape fixes it up, but that is at least inelegant.
Oft are the times I wished it simply had a couple of gigs for music and file storage, rather than the prone to pop SD card.
My personal beliefs are this: first, if you are atheist, why do you care if someone else believes in God as long as their behavior and decisions either do not impact you or do not adversely impact you or the world; that is, if someone's belief in God encourages them to do good things, why is that a problem. For the most part, I don't care. I do care, however, when the belief in God results in some real world action that, but for that belief, ordinarily would not, and I don't care for the action. So belief is ok, but using that belief to create and pursue a political agenda, solely or predominantly because of that belief, is not. I get to feel, under those circumstances, that we would all be better off if that belief did not exist.
This is particularly worrisome where I can come to a point of view say through mundane philosophy (e.g. a "Golden Rule") or at an extreme, say by iterated multiplayer games theoretic analyses (GTIT, for example), and someone else comes to a contradictory point of view, and wishes to impose that point of view on me, solely or predominantly because their version of belief in God compels them to accept as literal truth an obviously absurd conclusion.
Said less obliquely, 'your' belief in God should not be used to justify what children get taught in science class. Science should decide that. 'Your' belief in God should not inform laws about matters of abortion (there can be such laws, in principle, but they must be otherwise justified). Objective lawmakers should decide. 'Your' belief in God should not justify the murder of others. Probably no one should, although the State does seem to have some intersts in this matter. I leave as an exercise the completion of this list. The drift is clear.
Yahoo does empty your spam folder regularly. I don't know the frequency, because I empty it manually on a regular basis. I get a much, much lower frequency of spam missing the filter - probably on the 2 - 5% range, and unlike you I have a much higher rate of e-mail traffic on yahoo than gmail.
A single school district is very unlikely to buy the market limit. They might have half that amount, say $25 million.
Claims involving kids can be extraordinarily expensive; the serious one's involving death or quadraplegia can run excess of $10 million on occasion.
Class actions, particularly one's that piss off juries, could possibly (although I agree that it is not likely) aggregate up to the policy limit. Particularly in Texas, which has a bit of a reputation in this area.
Giving credit where credit is due:
I have both a gmail and a yahoo account. Both do a good job of filtering. Yahoo gets more overall traffic, and a bit more spam, but one or two a day is about what I experience.
Just not that big a deal, to me.
And remember, suing the school is basically suing the local community -- any money the school district loses comes from local taxes. In California, as in most of the US, this will probably get covered largely by some for of pooling or insurance. A typical school district will self-insure the first million, and then pool about the next 10 - 20 milliion with hundreds or thousands of other schools, and then buy top up coverage from the conventional market (which includes at least one underwriter, United Educators, that is like a big national Pool). Available capacity exists for at least $50 million in total, although most schools don't buy that much. I could see this claim exhausting all of the available coverage. The way these things work, it is not likely that the claim will exceed insurance limits, at least not by much, assuming the school district purchased sensible limits.
Now, insurance and pooling will eventually spread the cost back to the folks that pay the premiums, and an event like this might spike up rates, but as far as that one district is concerned, it probably pays its $1 million, and its share of the next $4 million or so. There might be a short term increase in the cost of the $20 million in excess of $5 million, or there might not.
I think it is premature to come to this conclusion, and rather too black and white. It is possible that this e-mail costs someone a job, but my guess is that the boss has more to lose than the sender. He or she is the one instructing illegal behavior.
Impractical advice, sorry to say. Sounds like fun, but inivites heavy duty retaliation, and undermines the possiblity of support from above. The upper level CC's will be seen by both your boss and the folks above him/her as a transparent play. The CC will make it look like your mission is to make your boss look bad, which may be true, but it is not the perception you wish to leave. A BCC to self is fine. If you get pushback from the boss, CC'ing his boss on your reply is fine, even with the e-mail chain - but round one CC chain you suggest is going to convert an outcome from which it is possible to emerge with a victory to a sure loss.
Unfortunately, we are not able proceed with installing more copies of this software until new licenses are purchased. [emphasis added] It's not that it is unfortunate, it's that it would be illegal. It's not that you are incapable of doing an installation, it's that to do so would break the law. I would rewrite this sentence to reflect the situation, rather than leaving room for 'misinterpretation.' Something like the following is what I have in mind.
Under the terms of our license with [whomever], it is not legal for us to install more copies unless we purchase additional licenses.
This serves to put the decision maker on clear notice, and forms the basis for you legitimate refusal if it comes to that.
Either way this comes out, update your CV and get it launched.
I suppose that is ok if you are not collaborating with you client. In our business, also a multinatinal with tens of thousands of employees and thousands of customers, PDF's are for production purposes, and for archival purposes, but we use live word processing documents for draft work and anything for which a customer edit might be required, which is most of our traffic.
At the present time I am aware of no client that requires OO, and, frankly, no client that does not use MS Word.
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'We cannot educate theater managers to be judges and juries in what is acceptable. Theater managers cannot distinguish between good and bad stealing."
I read this as the equivalent of threatening global thermonulear war for a minor border infractions. It is a scare tactic intended to make the threat as credible as possible. The less local discretion, the more credible the threat.
The fact is that theater managers are, for the most part and to a greater or lesser extent, more or less adult, and they can, in fact, distinguish between good and bad stealing. Since they can, this attempt to remove their discretion is just a ploy to relieve them of the responsibility to run a fair business so that the treat of the law becomes more real.
Sort of 'kill them all and let the lawyers sort it out.'
My fond Borland memories are of Sprint and Quattro Pro. With the Sprint wordprocessor, toggle an option and the command strucutre switched to WordPerfect, WordStar, and two or three other popular packages. Personally the native command structure worked best for me. Their spreadsheet Quattro Pro, in my opinion, was the model for the graphics found in Excel to this day. If you wanted font control, 3-D, you name it, Quattro had it long before MS. We ran a depart of fifty folks using those to on another dead platfrom, too obscure to make the list: Banyan VINES. Oh, the pain of early adoption...
It is incredibly unlikely that Dell uses real insurance for this product. The loss ratio on warranty contracts (the ratio of losses paid to premium recieved) is often under 10%. In almost no industry do you find bona fide insurance for these things. You find 'captive insurance companies' that are wholly owned by the firm involved, sometimes with a 'fronting insurance company' issuing the polciy. A 'fronting insurer' is a real insurance company that takes no risk and provides a policy and administration only.
I personally worked on such deals for electronics, white goods and automotive industries; my firm consults with most of the Fortune 1000, and sees these deals on a regular basis. Based on my own experience I never buy the warranty. Only do it if you absolutely cannot afford to repair or replace yourself.
It turns out that there is public policy against compensating for fraud regardless of contract language. If you commit a crime no insurance or warranty contract will be enforcable regardless of its language.
I am comforted to see someone else remembers WordStar. Saddened, though, that it is now one of the ten funniest IT adverts of all time. In its day, it was a wonder. Fully justified text and would run in 64K of memory. Many a BBS operator depended on WS for 'publishing' electronic articles back in the day. I know I did. With a product like Multilink you could cram two instances of RBBS-PC into 640K of RAM with enough RAM left over to run a WS instance at the same time. It was a godsend.
Think of it as evolution in action.
I don't have enought SD cards (did I say cards? I have one) for a wallet. I use USB sticks for the same thing you use SD cards, mostly because my office equipment has tons of USB ports and zero SD slots. I can see the SD cards being less bulky than the sticks, but perhaps less durable. I am pretty sure I don't want another wallet any more than another 'device' but another object on my keyring is not so bad.
Oft are the times I wished it simply had a couple of gigs for music and file storage, rather than the prone to pop SD card.
This is particularly worrisome where I can come to a point of view say through mundane philosophy (e.g. a "Golden Rule") or at an extreme, say by iterated multiplayer games theoretic analyses (GTIT, for example), and someone else comes to a contradictory point of view, and wishes to impose that point of view on me, solely or predominantly because their version of belief in God compels them to accept as literal truth an obviously absurd conclusion.
Said less obliquely, 'your' belief in God should not be used to justify what children get taught in science class. Science should decide that. 'Your' belief in God should not inform laws about matters of abortion (there can be such laws, in principle, but they must be otherwise justified). Objective lawmakers should decide. 'Your' belief in God should not justify the murder of others. Probably no one should, although the State does seem to have some intersts in this matter. I leave as an exercise the completion of this list. The drift is clear.
Yahoo does empty your spam folder regularly. I don't know the frequency, because I empty it manually on a regular basis. I get a much, much lower frequency of spam missing the filter - probably on the 2 - 5% range, and unlike you I have a much higher rate of e-mail traffic on yahoo than gmail.
A single school district is very unlikely to buy the market limit. They might have half that amount, say $25 million. Claims involving kids can be extraordinarily expensive; the serious one's involving death or quadraplegia can run excess of $10 million on occasion. Class actions, particularly one's that piss off juries, could possibly (although I agree that it is not likely) aggregate up to the policy limit. Particularly in Texas, which has a bit of a reputation in this area.
Giving credit where credit is due: I have both a gmail and a yahoo account. Both do a good job of filtering. Yahoo gets more overall traffic, and a bit more spam, but one or two a day is about what I experience. Just not that big a deal, to me.
Now, insurance and pooling will eventually spread the cost back to the folks that pay the premiums, and an event like this might spike up rates, but as far as that one district is concerned, it probably pays its $1 million, and its share of the next $4 million or so. There might be a short term increase in the cost of the $20 million in excess of $5 million, or there might not.
Breakups can be hard But text reads well when broken Mind good at repair?
And throw in Hartford in a heartbeat.
I think it is premature to come to this conclusion, and rather too black and white. It is possible that this e-mail costs someone a job, but my guess is that the boss has more to lose than the sender. He or she is the one instructing illegal behavior.
Impractical advice, sorry to say. Sounds like fun, but inivites heavy duty retaliation, and undermines the possiblity of support from above. The upper level CC's will be seen by both your boss and the folks above him/her as a transparent play. The CC will make it look like your mission is to make your boss look bad, which may be true, but it is not the perception you wish to leave. A BCC to self is fine. If you get pushback from the boss, CC'ing his boss on your reply is fine, even with the e-mail chain - but round one CC chain you suggest is going to convert an outcome from which it is possible to emerge with a victory to a sure loss.
Under the terms of our license with [whomever], it is not legal for us to install more copies unless we purchase additional licenses.
This serves to put the decision maker on clear notice, and forms the basis for you legitimate refusal if it comes to that.
Either way this comes out, update your CV and get it launched.
I suppose that is ok if you are not collaborating with you client. In our business, also a multinatinal with tens of thousands of employees and thousands of customers, PDF's are for production purposes, and for archival purposes, but we use live word processing documents for draft work and anything for which a customer edit might be required, which is most of our traffic.
At the present time I am aware of no client that requires OO, and, frankly, no client that does not use MS Word.
Sorry, but that is just the reality of it.
Personally, I feel safe enough from evil uses of the Poincare Conjecture...
On a system whose display is a sweep refreshed crt adapted from a WWII radar screen? Come on, modernize!