For some reasons parents don't mind violence,
We are born selfish and violent, lashing out (stomping feet, hitting, biting, scratch, hitting, etc) when we don't get want.
but show one schlong or some boobies, and that makes the movie off limits.
OTOH, we don't even start to become sexual beings until the early teen years.
Shlongs and boobies have non-sexy uses, too. Uses that we're also born with.
Reality and me just don't get along. And as I wrote when I followed up my own message later, it's just the statement itself (and the facts it represents) that irks me, not you or your delivery thereof. Of course, Engineers and Lawyers are ancient foes . . . and I forgot to hassle them on our feast day last week, so I guess I'm feeling a little scrappy.:(
When I think about it, I'm not so much going for a "consensus" here as a "mob". Not a very respectable thought by our culture's standards, but as I mentioned above I'm just not that compatible with reality.
You can try out your gf before she's your wife, you know -- even though some fuddy-duddies don't like it. So since we're using that logic (BSA = Baptist Sex Authority?) yes, it is OK to try software before you buy it.
Lastly, I would DOCUMENT everything, and let the Bossman know you are documenting everything, including the conversations you have regarding your findings and the solutions you're offering.
You're also documenting your failure to report a crime to the police, which I believe is illegal all by itself.
The BSA's scary ads notwithstanding, I don't think that software license violation is a criminal offense that one is obligated to report to the police. As if they would even be qualified to listen to your report. And "Software Piracy" isn't really handled by the Coast Guard, either.
Your question is a purely legal question. You should be addressing it to your company's lawyer. And you need to provide that lawyer with all the materials.
If 300 members of Slashdot tell you you're in the right, and they all get modded up to "+5", that doesn't mean you're in the clear.
But 300 Spartans could kick Carl Covert's ass. 300 Slashdotters can call him up and wish him well, or something.
I don't create the products I create for 'social good.' I create them to make money.
Unless your product is a currency printing machine, how does it make money if it's not for 'social good'? To put it another way, why would a member of society buy something that they didn't think would make something in their life better (or less bad)?
So in order to show your disapproval of the Chinese government's abuse of their people, you want to oppose and actively resist their attempt to do something to raise quality of life for those same people?
"Actively resist[ing]" is a little too strong of a term here. I'd describe an economic boycott as a rather passive form of resistance. Active resistance would be more along the lines of mining the harbors and blockading the ports. We're not ethically obligated to buy anything from any particular country just because that country wishes to improve its standard of living.
The belt holster is the pocket protector of the 21st century. But don't worry retro-nerds, the GP assures us it fits in your shirt pocket.
The belt holster is also the pocket protector of the 20th century, used by millions of geeks to carry their slide rules and later their HP calculators.
When I go for a job I do extensive research about the company I am applying to . . . So why is it that we are worried if the employer treats hiring in the same way?
If I look up a candidate and find them on Slashdot (on the assumption it can be verified as them) and they regularly flame or troll then you can bet that would effect my hiring decision. [emphasis mine]
Well, that's the rub, isn't it? The verifiability. Because maybe the stuff that appears to be about you isn't really. Or perhaps your facebook alter ego is entirely a figment of your imagination. You might indeed be the author, but it might be entirely fabricated. There's no legitimate obligation that I know of that everything posted online in social networking forums needs to be accurate. I'd agree if you said this was an unlikely scenario, but we've still got to go back to your point that it be verifiable.
It seems that searching for someone's persona online could lead to much misleading, untrue or irrelevant information. Basing hiring (or job application) decisions solely on unverified online evidence could lead to poor selection.
My opinion is that if I was born into a poor family and the job market sucks, then you DO need to work for them badly, even if they do petty personal stuff, or hell, even if they do outright illegal stuff like pay beneath minimum wage or not declare their income for tax purposes.
Sure we were slaves back in Egypt, but there was food on the tables.
That's just an urban legend about orthopedic surgeons. Fact is, in order to even be considered for it, you have to pretty much max out your medical school grades and perform extremely well on a standardized test that measures your book smarts called the "USMLE Step 1"
I know, I've helped my wife study for those exams. "Honey, pass the ketchup. What are the developmental milestones for 18 months?" "Have you seen my car keys, and describe the differential for Cushing's." Still, I met her classmates, and it is fun to mock the guys going into orthopedics. They're not that dumb, of course, they can spell cefuroxime.
And hard working. EE courses may be tough, but hard work can get you through them. Maybe not the EE program at Caltech or MIT, but certainly at a state school.
You are right, there. I've known at least two guys who fall into the category of "not too bright, but really hard working and determined" who got through their BSEEs at State U on the 7-year plan. A sufficiently liberal course-drop policy and no time limit to earn a degree makes that possible, at least if you don't run out of funds. Med schools do tend to have direct or indirect limits to how long you have to finish their program, so an equivalently in-apt med student couldn't just brute-force his way through. Plus the even greater tuition load. Maybe there's a special break for students going into orthopedics, assuming they can bench their own weight.
My acquaintances didn't really "make it" as EEs, though. One's a computer tech and I think the other went into sales. I guess that's the Orthopedic surgeon ("Strong as an ox and twice as smart!") of engineering.
There's a quick way to tell if someone has actually managed to motivate themselves enough to click, and that's if they epically fail to check a link to see the original source:
There's also a quick way to tell if someone isn't a top-notch wit, and it involves the use of the term "Epic Fail" in an argument.
My medical school class as a group was on a performance level and competition that you CANNOT imagine.
Careful not to break your arm there, Doc;) OK, Doctors may not be average everyday people, but they are average everyday smart people. And there are a lot of smart people out there (But the dumbasses do seem to make the news more). And I'll give you motivated, particularly if you look at the gunners in your class. But don't let the fact that you can memorize stuff much better than average deceive you into to thinking that everyone else is a mental midget in comparison, or that no one can imagine how tough it was. Imagination is not one of the attributes that medical training selects for. I know you worked hard for your degree, and the fools you see every day give you a bad opinion of everyone else, because being dumb does select for "needs emergent care frequently".
There was really a time when a successful doctor might have the nicest house on the block, but not also a nice house in St. Lucia and a nice house in Aspen and a nice apartment on the Gulf Coast. So now doctors fear that if we have universal health care in the US, they might have to go back to being part of the community in which they serve.
There are still a few lucrative specialties ("How do you find the orthopedic surgeon's car in the parking lot?" "It's the Porsche with the comic book on the dashboard."), but not your front-line physicians. General practitioners like family doctors and internists are just not raking it in hand-over-fist. Any marginal excess over other "good jobs" is pretty much eaten up by expenses like malpractice insurance and paying med school debt, which is something like $250,000 these days for most newly minted docs.
OK, one more: "What's the difference between a carpenter and an Orthopod?" "A carpenter knows more than one antibiotic."
At a minimum, one can reasonably expect that someone who is medical school talent could pass the highest paying undergrad major. Electrical engineering or geology or similar.
Just being smart enough to get through med school does not necessarily imply that one is smart enough to do any other difficult degree. "Smart" just isn't that fungible.
The judge IS full of shit. Probably a liberal who believes the government == good and therefore can do no wrong, and therefore we should all submit happily to searches of our cars, homes, or laptops, because the Constitution is just a "guideline" not the law.
Or a conservative, who believes that anyone the government thinks is bad, is bad, we just haven't beaten it out of them yet.
I think you'd be hard pressed these days to find a liberal who still believes that his government is beneficent. Sure the new boss is more liberal than the old boss, but even if he were the second coming of FDR, this thing doesn't exactly turn on a dime.
If you the government official believe there's contraband, obtain a warrant and list the evidence you have acquired to demonstrate probable cause (example: "He was sighted handing money to a child while holding a camaera."). Without that, I will go to jail before I decrypt my laptop. I will not give up my rights, even if you torture me.
On this point, this liberal agrees, at least in principle. As for the torture, though, I'd probably go all Group Captain Mandrake: "Ah, oh, no... well, I don't think they wanted me to talk really. I don't think they wanted me to say anything. It was just their way of having a bit of fun, the swines." So your best bet is probably to keep your.45 in the bathroom drawer.
It's sad but true. When an employee does something wrong it's unprofessional. When an employer does something wrong it's business.
The term "professionalism", as used around here means employees giving unpaid perks to the company. I've thought about asking the grocery store for a few extra carrots for the same money, then if they refuse, tell them it's "unprofessional".
You will eventually see more papers going online only, and you'll definitely see more effort put into the web editions vs the print ones. But you won't see the death of the local paper, just a change in how its delivered.
I'll agree with you that blogs don't take the place of the newspaper, but the way newspapers are working on competing is to lay off local reporters as fast as they can. They're not being killed off by the blog, they're committing suicide. My local paper has had an online edition for about 15 years now, and they've never figured out how to get any money out of it. With lower costs of distribution, it seems like it should be obvious, but not to the newspaper suits.
What's going online isn't the newspapers, but rather the media replacing them. When the print issue of the local rag is gone, their website will quickly follow.
That may not be enough for most devices out there. You'll probably also have to take out the battery, and even then there could be an internal battery that keeps the tracking going. Your best bet, whenever you don't want people to track you through your cell phone, would be to smash it to bits, or coat it in honey and feed it to a bear.
Take off and nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
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For some reasons parents don't mind violence, We are born selfish and violent, lashing out (stomping feet, hitting, biting, scratch, hitting, etc) when we don't get want. but show one schlong or some boobies, and that makes the movie off limits. OTOH, we don't even start to become sexual beings until the early teen years.
Shlongs and boobies have non-sexy uses, too. Uses that we're also born with.
"Hey, don't knock masturbation, it's sex with someone I love"
Reality and me just don't get along. And as I wrote when I followed up my own message later, it's just the statement itself (and the facts it represents) that irks me, not you or your delivery thereof. Of course, Engineers and Lawyers are ancient foes . . . and I forgot to hassle them on our feast day last week, so I guess I'm feeling a little scrappy. :(
When I think about it, I'm not so much going for a "consensus" here as a "mob". Not a very respectable thought by our culture's standards, but as I mentioned above I'm just not that compatible with reality.
You can try out your gf before she's your wife, you know -- even though some fuddy-duddies don't like it. So since we're using that logic (BSA = Baptist Sex Authority?) yes, it is OK to try software before you buy it.
You're also documenting your failure to report a crime to the police, which I believe is illegal all by itself.
The BSA's scary ads notwithstanding, I don't think that software license violation is a criminal offense that one is obligated to report to the police. As if they would even be qualified to listen to your report. And "Software Piracy" isn't really handled by the Coast Guard, either.
Thanks, Jane Q. The question should definitely be referred to a lawyer.
As a non-lawyer, I despise that answer.
I should add, Mr./Ms. Country Lawyer, that I do not despise you, just that statement.
Thanks, Jane Q. The question should definitely be referred to a lawyer.
As a non-lawyer, I despise that answer.
Your question is a purely legal question. You should be addressing it to your company's lawyer. And you need to provide that lawyer with all the materials. If 300 members of Slashdot tell you you're in the right, and they all get modded up to "+5", that doesn't mean you're in the clear.
But 300 Spartans could kick Carl Covert's ass. 300 Slashdotters can call him up and wish him well, or something.
The problem with athiests these days is that they personally attack people that have a religion.
Those darn prejudiced atheists.
I don't create the products I create for 'social good.' I create them to make money.
Unless your product is a currency printing machine, how does it make money if it's not for 'social good'? To put it another way, why would a member of society buy something that they didn't think would make something in their life better (or less bad)?
So in order to show your disapproval of the Chinese government's abuse of their people, you want to oppose and actively resist their attempt to do something to raise quality of life for those same people?
"Actively resist[ing]" is a little too strong of a term here. I'd describe an economic boycott as a rather passive form of resistance. Active resistance would be more along the lines of mining the harbors and blockading the ports. We're not ethically obligated to buy anything from any particular country just because that country wishes to improve its standard of living.
The belt holster is the pocket protector of the 21st century. But don't worry retro-nerds, the GP assures us it fits in your shirt pocket.
The belt holster is also the pocket protector of the 20th century, used by millions of geeks to carry their slide rules and later their HP calculators.
When I go for a job I do extensive research about the company I am applying to . . . So why is it that we are worried if the employer treats hiring in the same way?
If I look up a candidate and find them on Slashdot (on the assumption it can be verified as them) and they regularly flame or troll then you can bet that would effect my hiring decision. [emphasis mine]
Well, that's the rub, isn't it? The verifiability. Because maybe the stuff that appears to be about you isn't really. Or perhaps your facebook alter ego is entirely a figment of your imagination. You might indeed be the author, but it might be entirely fabricated. There's no legitimate obligation that I know of that everything posted online in social networking forums needs to be accurate. I'd agree if you said this was an unlikely scenario, but we've still got to go back to your point that it be verifiable.
It seems that searching for someone's persona online could lead to much misleading, untrue or irrelevant information. Basing hiring (or job application) decisions solely on unverified online evidence could lead to poor selection.
My opinion is that if I was born into a poor family and the job market sucks, then you DO need to work for them badly, even if they do petty personal stuff, or hell, even if they do outright illegal stuff like pay beneath minimum wage or not declare their income for tax purposes.
Sure we were slaves back in Egypt, but there was food on the tables.
That's just an urban legend about orthopedic surgeons. Fact is, in order to even be considered for it, you have to pretty much max out your medical school grades and perform extremely well on a standardized test that measures your book smarts called the "USMLE Step 1"
I know, I've helped my wife study for those exams. "Honey, pass the ketchup. What are the developmental milestones for 18 months?" "Have you seen my car keys, and describe the differential for Cushing's." Still, I met her classmates, and it is fun to mock the guys going into orthopedics. They're not that dumb, of course, they can spell cefuroxime.
Gotta keep 'em on their toes.
And hard working. EE courses may be tough, but hard work can get you through them. Maybe not the EE program at Caltech or MIT, but certainly at a state school.
You are right, there. I've known at least two guys who fall into the category of "not too bright, but really hard working and determined" who got through their BSEEs at State U on the 7-year plan. A sufficiently liberal course-drop policy and no time limit to earn a degree makes that possible, at least if you don't run out of funds. Med schools do tend to have direct or indirect limits to how long you have to finish their program, so an equivalently in-apt med student couldn't just brute-force his way through. Plus the even greater tuition load. Maybe there's a special break for students going into orthopedics, assuming they can bench their own weight.
My acquaintances didn't really "make it" as EEs, though. One's a computer tech and I think the other went into sales. I guess that's the Orthopedic surgeon ("Strong as an ox and twice as smart!") of engineering.
There's a quick way to tell if someone has actually managed to motivate themselves enough to click, and that's if they epically fail to check a link to see the original source:
There's also a quick way to tell if someone isn't a top-notch wit, and it involves the use of the term "Epic Fail" in an argument.
My medical school class as a group was on a performance level and competition that you CANNOT imagine.
Careful not to break your arm there, Doc ;) OK, Doctors may not be average everyday people, but they are average everyday smart people. And there are a lot of smart people out there (But the dumbasses do seem to make the news more). And I'll give you motivated, particularly if you look at the gunners in your class. But don't let the fact that you can memorize stuff much better than average deceive you into to thinking that everyone else is a mental midget in comparison, or that no one can imagine how tough it was. Imagination is not one of the attributes that medical training selects for. I know you worked hard for your degree, and the fools you see every day give you a bad opinion of everyone else, because being dumb does select for "needs emergent care frequently".
There was really a time when a successful doctor might have the nicest house on the block, but not also a nice house in St. Lucia and a nice house in Aspen and a nice apartment on the Gulf Coast. So now doctors fear that if we have universal health care in the US, they might have to go back to being part of the community in which they serve.
There are still a few lucrative specialties ("How do you find the orthopedic surgeon's car in the parking lot?" "It's the Porsche with the comic book on the dashboard."), but not your front-line physicians. General practitioners like family doctors and internists are just not raking it in hand-over-fist. Any marginal excess over other "good jobs" is pretty much eaten up by expenses like malpractice insurance and paying med school debt, which is something like $250,000 these days for most newly minted docs.
OK, one more: "What's the difference between a carpenter and an Orthopod?" "A carpenter knows more than one antibiotic."
At a minimum, one can reasonably expect that someone who is medical school talent could pass the highest paying undergrad major. Electrical engineering or geology or similar.
Just being smart enough to get through med school does not necessarily imply that one is smart enough to do any other difficult degree. "Smart" just isn't that fungible.
The judge IS full of shit. Probably a liberal who believes the government == good and therefore can do no wrong, and therefore we should all submit happily to searches of our cars, homes, or laptops, because the Constitution is just a "guideline" not the law.
Or a conservative, who believes that anyone the government thinks is bad, is bad, we just haven't beaten it out of them yet.
I think you'd be hard pressed these days to find a liberal who still believes that his government is beneficent. Sure the new boss is more liberal than the old boss, but even if he were the second coming of FDR, this thing doesn't exactly turn on a dime.
If you the government official believe there's contraband, obtain a warrant and list the evidence you have acquired to demonstrate probable cause (example: "He was sighted handing money to a child while holding a camaera."). Without that, I will go to jail before I decrypt my laptop. I will not give up my rights, even if you torture me.
On this point, this liberal agrees, at least in principle. As for the torture, though, I'd probably go all Group Captain Mandrake: "Ah, oh, no... well, I don't think they wanted me to talk really. I don't think they wanted me to say anything. It was just their way of having a bit of fun, the swines." So your best bet is probably to keep your .45 in the bathroom drawer.
It's sad but true. When an employee does something wrong it's unprofessional. When an employer does something wrong it's business.
The term "professionalism", as used around here means employees giving unpaid perks to the company. I've thought about asking the grocery store for a few extra carrots for the same money, then if they refuse, tell them it's "unprofessional".
You will eventually see more papers going online only, and you'll definitely see more effort put into the web editions vs the print ones. But you won't see the death of the local paper, just a change in how its delivered.
I'll agree with you that blogs don't take the place of the newspaper, but the way newspapers are working on competing is to lay off local reporters as fast as they can. They're not being killed off by the blog, they're committing suicide. My local paper has had an online edition for about 15 years now, and they've never figured out how to get any money out of it. With lower costs of distribution, it seems like it should be obvious, but not to the newspaper suits.
What's going online isn't the newspapers, but rather the media replacing them. When the print issue of the local rag is gone, their website will quickly follow.
That may not be enough for most devices out there. You'll probably also have to take out the battery, and even then there could be an internal battery that keeps the tracking going. Your best bet, whenever you don't want people to track you through your cell phone, would be to smash it to bits, or coat it in honey and feed it to a bear.
Take off and nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.