My company is pushing me to find a copy of the ruling, because *cough* they don't believe it. Any idea where I can find that. I'm searching EFF.org now, and the Supreme Court website is kludgy. I'm gonna dig through the comments to see if I can find it too.
So far, our department has taken on the impression that this doesn't affect them because they are not a public company (though we are an ASP for many companies that are, and host their data). They have NO legal policy governing data protection or retention, and everything is just a YEAR. But, they don't destroy data after that year, they just leave it on the tape.
Which brings me to my next point..... ERASE YOUR EXPIRED TAPES!!!!!! This is how Morgan Stanley lost the 1.45 BILLION dollar case. During Discovery, it was found that the data that was needed to LOSE the case was on tapes that had expired data on them. Welllllll... guess what? It's still there, still viable, and cost them a shiteload of cash. *sigh* It's OUR job to protect our CIO's and CEO's asses... and if we don't, now WE can be held accountable and go to pound-me-in-the-arseville.
We have signs up everywhere... PIGGYBACKING IS NOT ALLOWED. With the goofy pics like from signs when we were kids, this has a Dilbert look-alike with a criminal on his head.:P
I know... and it breaks my heart. *sigh* Sometimes I think I've just been around too long. But well, I've just been a grown-up for far too long. Happens to most military brats, I suspect.
Yeah, but a lot of the stories have gone left untold. *sigh* I would like to have seen more of the Minbari and such.. and Gkar was always my favorite character. I would like to see what we missed. Again... for probably the 10th time through the series again. I'm a sucker.
Blew up the whole data center. Oh, and asshats let the support on Netbackup lapse, so the restores wouldn't run until they fixed whatever problem they had. But they couldn't get support to help them until they got the CIO out of bed to sign a $250k PO for licensing and support.
All this happened because they didn't pay the invoice for ISS, and didn't get the Black Ice patch installed quickly enough.
Funny... I have severe asthma, and this was just the day they decided to paint the inside of our entire building. Needless to say, I was no help, and I got to sit that out until the paint dried. We were still cleaning up a week later.
We're working on it. San Diego, California is a very strange nut to crack. There are a lot of just plain vapid and selfish people. There's a *lot* of scam artists... and the hard drug scene is rampant. Most of the people who party downtown are from out of town!:P But it's ok... We do good. We were raised American Military brats, so we're used to being away from family. But sometimes... that nostalgia gets a bit tough.:)
Thank you for your kind words. It means a lot to me.:)
That's so totally beautiful. It's almost a 4 year old.:) I love Iranian people, and I miss my friend I used to work with. I shared an office with an Iraqi and Iranian, and they were best friends. Beautiful stuff.
I'm the same way... give me my blessings that give me another year, and allow me to keep on keepin' on, and I'm happy. Everyone is so damned material today, it scares me. I watch Jericho, and I'm like.... d00d! Materialism would be the FIRST thing to go in a Nuke. Wouldn't it?
When there are 5,000 non-American Citizens A DAY crossing deadly desert to come to America and Border Patrol is forced to let them go by, that's a problem. No, that's not hyperbole, those are the numbers straight from Jerry Sanders and the San Diego Border Patrol. Yes, that's a problem. And it's a HUMAN problem. Let's get the path worked out so that they can do it RIGHT.
We have an illegal employment problem. Go after the employers, and they'll stop coming to this country for illegal jobs.
I absolutely agree. But the problem fixing starts at HOME, not here in America. They need to create jobs in their own homelands to keep them home... as it is, villages are empty now, but full of rich houses, but no one works. No one needs to. But.. there's no jobs there, so they come here, and send money home. $40 BILLION dollars this year... $18 of it from California. That does NOT get spent in the US Economy.
I agree also with going after the employers, especially for exploitation. It's a massive problem, and must be curbed. The fact that in Vista, 2 blocks from my friends' home, is a migrant 'camp' where 12,000 of these workers 'live' in tents, with no water, etc. How is that humane? It's not... let's get them documented, get them taken care of, and get them in a home. I have a real massive problem with human exploitation.
It's easier to go after hundreds of illegal employers than it is to go after MILLIONS of illegal immigrants.
Except for the fact that so many of those employers contribute to the campaigns of the legislature that won't resolve the issues. I do not think that Madame Pelosi will be down for going after Tyson Foods.
Enforcement of employment regulations dropped 95% under Bush. There HAS to be a better answer than Cheap-Labor Conservativism.
In no way is this mess Conservative, not by any stretch of the imagination. It's Globalism at it's most rotten core, and actually, this particular topic is what cost Bush *and* McCain my last shreds of support. Period. Bush owns several illegals, I'm sure... I said that when he first ran for office in 2000, and I believe it today. Hell, Pelosi admits to using them in here grape fields, anywhere from 600-3,000 migrant workers.
There has to be a humane way to document these people, treat them as human beings, and let them contribute worthwhileness to society. Except that most of them don't want that, either. They want to go home to Mexico for the holidays, FOR THREE FUCKING MONTHS...they want to come and go without papers, they don't want their children immunized, etc. UH NO. You live here, you play by OUR rules. But we have to set those rules first.
Our poor border patrol is fired on constantly, and Hezbollah has headquarters in Tijuana. What next??
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Considering those are direct translations of the captured Iraqi Documents... I don't see it, but ok.:) Can you at least identify the straws? Maybe the VX recipe? Maybe the Nuclear Instructions that were so rapidly taken down off the web earlier this week? Um, I dunno... but I know the guy doing the translations, and they are balls on, according to my husband who speaks and reads Arabic and Farsi. You admit you aren't an expert, so why do you think he's grabbing at straws?
The real menace within the DOD is Paul Wolfowitz, the architect of all of the USA's global imperialist schemes since at least the Carter years.
Unfortunately, last year someone decided he was of better use as president of the World Bank than Deputy Secretary of Defense.
Not to nitpick, but wouldn't that be WAS? He is no longer in the DoD, as he had to give up that job to be the President of the World Bank. *snicker* Talk about the fox in the henhouse... and the Europeans PICKED HIM!
If I hear any more god damned grandstanding from the winners, I'm going to puke. Win with dignity, or this country is going to polarize it self so much further, only bloodshed will solve it.
Sweeter words never spoken.
Any takers on the timeline for the next terror attack on US Soil? I'm going with 14 months for $800, Alex.
I've already got money on John Bolton (UN Ambassador) being the next head to roll.
I'm a Republican, but somewhere along the lines our ELECTED officials forgot all about the PEOPLE they represent. My biggest question is wtf now about this damned illegal immigration problem? UK, Netherlands, Germany? Any help here?
You don't have to have a High-Definition capable tv to get the digital signals. They are only good for the High-Definition Antennae or receivers.
I do highly recommend it though, the programming is spectacular, the clarity is sooooooo realistic. And, for me, because of the content alone, it's worth every penny. If you are a sports fan at all or game with an XBox or X360, get the HD, it's a completely mind-blowing experience.
As for time, fuck them and their Thanksgiving sales.... wait until the week before/after the Superbowl! You'll save hundreds. We did pay a grand for our 52" HD Rear Projection (3 years ago), but if we had waited, we would have got it for $850.
What if you have no loved ones to share the days with? I'm lucky... I have my husband and my cats, but no one else. Our families all passed away already.
Anyone who perceives getting stocked with the latest and greatest tech gadgets for Christmas as creating joyful holidays must be pretty lacking in their life. Why ruin a perfectly wonderful family feast by fighting with the new toy and NOT being able to get tech support on Christmas Day?
And then back to giving vague details that don't mention party affiliation:
In Louisville, Ky., one poll worker was arrested on charges of assault and interfering with an election after he allegedly choked a voter and tossed the voter out the door. Election officials called police, and the voter wanted to file charges, said Paula McCraney, a spokeswoman for the Jefferson County Clerk.
Here you are! It was not a party affiliation issue... but someone went Rocky on a machine, too!
A poll worker was arrested Tuesday and charged with assault and interfering with an election for allegedly choking a voter and pushing him out the door, officials said.
It apparently started as a dispute between the two over marking the ballot, said Lt. Col. Carl Yates of the Jefferson County sheriff's office.
The voter told poll worker Jeffery Steitz that he didn't want to vote in a judicial election because he didn't know enough about the candidates, but Steitz told him he had to vote in the race anyway, Yates said.
Steitz, 42, eventually grabbed the man by the neck and threw him out of the polling place, Yates said.
"The poor guy went back in and he threw him out again," Yates said. "At least it wasn't over a Democrat or a Republican being on the ballot."
At least they gave you this option. They would NOT give my husband or I paper ballots, or the poor 95 year old woman in her walker that stood patiently for the 45 minutes it took for her to record her votes. And they wouldn't let anyone else help her.
GRRRRRRR.... I knew I should have voted absentee. All I got was a dumb sticker. That's it.
Not everyone has the right to vote. Absentee ballots are rarely counted, and some places (DC and protectorates) have no voting representation. Not to mention 4 million felons who can't vote.
The DC thingEy is jacked up. That's just wrong, and they have representation, so why can't they vote. I know that Guam can vote via Absentee Ballots, and that every absentee ballot, allegedly, is counted in California. But you are probably accurate about that. However, Felons should NOT be allowed to vote until their records are expunged. That's part of doing your time and sociatal debt, as it were.
It is completely unproductive to complain about situations if you are doing nothing for the change. That's what I believe. All those talking heads on TV better get their asses to the polls and cast their ballot, else they are bigger hypocrites than Ted Haggard.
The ONLY way we, as American Citizens, can exercise change and our own power is by voting. I think it should be criminal like in Australia to NOT vote.
Nah, the Dimowits are just *that* desperate. Muwahahahahahah.
Seriously, they aren't *any* freakin' better, and you know it.
Anyone that has served in office for the last 12 years is complicit in all the bullshit being flung today. So, do us all a favor... don't reinforce votes for any of the ASSHATS currently in office (hey, if you like your candidate, they must not be an asshat, right?). It just so figures that that means I have to vote straight Republican on my OH SO LIBERAL AND DEMOCRAT precinct. And vote NO on anything that raises taxes!
Remember, it's not 50% of American Citizens, it is but 1/2 of the percentage that leaves their television shows and actually VOTES: In 2004, a major Presidential Election, only 64% of Americans voted. Now, let's try comparing apples to apples here, and take it back to 2002, the last midterm election: 46% of Americans voted. I think that's more along the lines of what we will see tomorrow.
So, yeah... anyone who doesn't give a shit, doesn't vote, but they sure can BITCH! Just remember... if you don't go and press a button/pull a lever/sign your name -> YOU CAN'T BITCH!!!!!!!!
I, for one, am not voting for a single solitary soul (not that they have any) that currently is in office. It just pisses me off that because of my precinct, it will all be straight Republicans. Oh, and I'm voting NO on every single ballot issue.
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My company is pushing me to find a copy of the ruling, because *cough* they don't believe it. Any idea where I can find that. I'm searching EFF.org now, and the Supreme Court website is kludgy. I'm gonna dig through the comments to see if I can find it too.
So far, our department has taken on the impression that this doesn't affect them because they are not a public company (though we are an ASP for many companies that are, and host their data). They have NO legal policy governing data protection or retention, and everything is just a YEAR. But, they don't destroy data after that year, they just leave it on the tape.
Which brings me to my next point..... ERASE YOUR EXPIRED TAPES!!!!!! This is how Morgan Stanley lost the 1.45 BILLION dollar case. During Discovery, it was found that the data that was needed to LOSE the case was on tapes that had expired data on them. Welllllll... guess what? It's still there, still viable, and cost them a shiteload of cash. *sigh* It's OUR job to protect our CIO's and CEO's asses... and if we don't, now WE can be held accountable and go to pound-me-in-the-arseville.
We have signs up everywhere... PIGGYBACKING IS NOT ALLOWED. With the goofy pics like from signs when we were kids, this has a Dilbert look-alike with a criminal on his head. :P
I know... and it breaks my heart. *sigh* Sometimes I think I've just been around too long. But well, I've just been a grown-up for far too long. Happens to most military brats, I suspect.
Yeah, but a lot of the stories have gone left untold. *sigh* I would like to have seen more of the Minbari and such.. and Gkar was always my favorite character. I would like to see what we missed. Again... for probably the 10th time through the series again. I'm a sucker.
Witty Worm.
Blew up the whole data center. Oh, and asshats let the support on Netbackup lapse, so the restores wouldn't run until they fixed whatever problem they had. But they couldn't get support to help them until they got the CIO out of bed to sign a $250k PO for licensing and support.
All this happened because they didn't pay the invoice for ISS, and didn't get the Black Ice patch installed quickly enough.
Funny... I have severe asthma, and this was just the day they decided to paint the inside of our entire building. Needless to say, I was no help, and I got to sit that out until the paint dried. We were still cleaning up a week later.
We're working on it. San Diego, California is a very strange nut to crack. There are a lot of just plain vapid and selfish people. There's a *lot* of scam artists... and the hard drug scene is rampant. Most of the people who party downtown are from out of town! :P But it's ok... We do good. We were raised American Military brats, so we're used to being away from family. But sometimes... that nostalgia gets a bit tough. :)
:)
Thank you for your kind words. It means a lot to me.
That's so totally beautiful. It's almost a 4 year old. :) I love Iranian people, and I miss my friend I used to work with. I shared an office with an Iraqi and Iranian, and they were best friends. Beautiful stuff.
I'm the same way... give me my blessings that give me another year, and allow me to keep on keepin' on, and I'm happy. Everyone is so damned material today, it scares me. I watch Jericho, and I'm like.... d00d! Materialism would be the FIRST thing to go in a Nuke. Wouldn't it?
There is no illegal immigration problem.
When there are 5,000 non-American Citizens A DAY crossing deadly desert to come to America and Border Patrol is forced to let them go by, that's a problem. No, that's not hyperbole, those are the numbers straight from Jerry Sanders and the San Diego Border Patrol. Yes, that's a problem. And it's a HUMAN problem. Let's get the path worked out so that they can do it RIGHT.
We have an illegal employment problem. Go after the employers, and they'll stop coming to this country for illegal jobs.
I absolutely agree. But the problem fixing starts at HOME, not here in America. They need to create jobs in their own homelands to keep them home... as it is, villages are empty now, but full of rich houses, but no one works. No one needs to. But.. there's no jobs there, so they come here, and send money home. $40 BILLION dollars this year... $18 of it from California. That does NOT get spent in the US Economy.
I agree also with going after the employers, especially for exploitation. It's a massive problem, and must be curbed. The fact that in Vista, 2 blocks from my friends' home, is a migrant 'camp' where 12,000 of these workers 'live' in tents, with no water, etc. How is that humane? It's not... let's get them documented, get them taken care of, and get them in a home. I have a real massive problem with human exploitation.
It's easier to go after hundreds of illegal employers than it is to go after MILLIONS of illegal immigrants.
Except for the fact that so many of those employers contribute to the campaigns of the legislature that won't resolve the issues. I do not think that Madame Pelosi will be down for going after Tyson Foods.
Enforcement of employment regulations dropped 95% under Bush. There HAS to be a better answer than Cheap-Labor Conservativism.
In no way is this mess Conservative, not by any stretch of the imagination. It's Globalism at it's most rotten core, and actually, this particular topic is what cost Bush *and* McCain my last shreds of support. Period. Bush owns several illegals, I'm sure... I said that when he first ran for office in 2000, and I believe it today. Hell, Pelosi admits to using them in here grape fields, anywhere from 600-3,000 migrant workers.
There has to be a humane way to document these people, treat them as human beings, and let them contribute worthwhileness to society. Except that most of them don't want that, either. They want to go home to Mexico for the holidays, FOR THREE FUCKING MONTHS...they want to come and go without papers, they don't want their children immunized, etc. UH NO. You live here, you play by OUR rules. But we have to set those rules first.
Our poor border patrol is fired on constantly, and Hezbollah has headquarters in Tijuana. What next??
Considering those are direct translations of the captured Iraqi Documents... I don't see it, but ok. :) Can you at least identify the straws? Maybe the VX recipe? Maybe the Nuclear Instructions that were so rapidly taken down off the web earlier this week? Um, I dunno... but I know the guy doing the translations, and they are balls on, according to my husband who speaks and reads Arabic and Farsi. You admit you aren't an expert, so why do you think he's grabbing at straws?
*giggle* Same place I got mine! (well, it was my husband, but still! :))
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Ah... our loved ones, huh? Too bad they don't come with pricey Christmas Gadget Glory.
The real menace within the DOD is Paul Wolfowitz, the architect of all of the USA's global imperialist schemes since at least the Carter years. Unfortunately, last year someone decided he was of better use as president of the World Bank than Deputy Secretary of Defense.
Not to nitpick, but wouldn't that be WAS? He is no longer in the DoD, as he had to give up that job to be the President of the World Bank. *snicker* Talk about the fox in the henhouse... and the Europeans PICKED HIM!
You just keep on believing your media-spoonfed lies. Many of us KNOW better and have SEEN the evidence. Just open your eyes, dimwit.
http://iraqdocs.blogspot.com/
If I hear any more god damned grandstanding from the winners, I'm going to puke. Win with dignity, or this country is going to polarize it self so much further, only bloodshed will solve it.
Sweeter words never spoken.
Any takers on the timeline for the next terror attack on US Soil? I'm going with 14 months for $800, Alex.
I've already got money on John Bolton (UN Ambassador) being the next head to roll.
I'm a Republican, but somewhere along the lines our ELECTED officials forgot all about the PEOPLE they represent. My biggest question is wtf now about this damned illegal immigration problem? UK, Netherlands, Germany? Any help here?
You don't have to have a High-Definition capable tv to get the digital signals. They are only good for the High-Definition Antennae or receivers.
I do highly recommend it though, the programming is spectacular, the clarity is sooooooo realistic. And, for me, because of the content alone, it's worth every penny. If you are a sports fan at all or game with an XBox or X360, get the HD, it's a completely mind-blowing experience.
As for time, fuck them and their Thanksgiving sales.... wait until the week before/after the Superbowl! You'll save hundreds. We did pay a grand for our 52" HD Rear Projection (3 years ago), but if we had waited, we would have got it for $850.
What if you have no loved ones to share the days with? I'm lucky... I have my husband and my cats, but no one else. Our families all passed away already.
Anyone who perceives getting stocked with the latest and greatest tech gadgets for Christmas as creating joyful holidays must be pretty lacking in their life. Why ruin a perfectly wonderful family feast by fighting with the new toy and NOT being able to get tech support on Christmas Day?
Oh man. Yes, completely off topic, but your sig just made me snort my chicken salad on my monitor. Thanks for finally motivating me to clean it!!! :P
Here you are! It was not a party affiliation issue... but someone went Rocky on a machine, too!
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/11/07/D8L8EQR0
At least they gave you this option. They would NOT give my husband or I paper ballots, or the poor 95 year old woman in her walker that stood patiently for the 45 minutes it took for her to record her votes. And they wouldn't let anyone else help her.
GRRRRRRR.... I knew I should have voted absentee. All I got was a dumb sticker. That's it.
Thanks! That's what I recalled, but the Census.gov site didn't go back much further - on first glance.
Uh... Actually, that was supposed to say YES, you can bitch! It's about participation.
It is incredibly wrong to tell someone what they should vote when one does not act on said same effort. At least, that's my opinion.
Not everyone has the right to vote. Absentee ballots are rarely counted, and some places (DC and protectorates) have no voting representation. Not to mention 4 million felons who can't vote.
The DC thingEy is jacked up. That's just wrong, and they have representation, so why can't they vote. I know that Guam can vote via Absentee Ballots, and that every absentee ballot, allegedly, is counted in California. But you are probably accurate about that. However, Felons should NOT be allowed to vote until their records are expunged. That's part of doing your time and sociatal debt, as it were.
It is completely unproductive to complain about situations if you are doing nothing for the change. That's what I believe. All those talking heads on TV better get their asses to the polls and cast their ballot, else they are bigger hypocrites than Ted Haggard.
The ONLY way we, as American Citizens, can exercise change and our own power is by voting. I think it should be criminal like in Australia to NOT vote.
I'm sixteen and can't legally vote. Do I have to stop bitching because the law says I can't vote?
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You can vote in mock elections, and you can volunteer, so yes.
Caveat - at least here in California.... the kids were out of school today to volunteer at our polling stations.
Nah, the Dimowits are just *that* desperate. Muwahahahahahah.
Seriously, they aren't *any* freakin' better, and you know it.
Anyone that has served in office for the last 12 years is complicit in all the bullshit being flung today. So, do us all a favor... don't reinforce votes for any of the ASSHATS currently in office (hey, if you like your candidate, they must not be an asshat, right?). It just so figures that that means I have to vote straight Republican on my OH SO LIBERAL AND DEMOCRAT precinct. And vote NO on anything that raises taxes!
Remember, it's not 50% of American Citizens, it is but 1/2 of the percentage that leaves their television shows and actually VOTES: In 2004, a major Presidential Election, only 64% of Americans voted. Now, let's try comparing apples to apples here, and take it back to 2002, the last midterm election: 46% of Americans voted. I think that's more along the lines of what we will see tomorrow.
So, yeah... anyone who doesn't give a shit, doesn't vote, but they sure can BITCH! Just remember... if you don't go and press a button/pull a lever/sign your name -> YOU CAN'T BITCH!!!!!!!!
I, for one, am not voting for a single solitary soul (not that they have any) that currently is in office. It just pisses me off that because of my precinct, it will all be straight Republicans. Oh, and I'm voting NO on every single ballot issue.