Narrator: Airlines have this policy
about vibrating luggage.
Jack - Was it ticking?
Airport Security Guard- Throwers know modern bombs don't tick.
Jack - Sorry, throwers?
Airport Security Guard - Baggage handlers. But when a suitcase vibrates, the throwers have got to call the police.
Jack - My suitcase was vibrating?
Airport Security Guard - Nine times out of ten it's an electric razor. But... every once in a while it's a dildo.
It's company policy never to imply ownership in the event of a dildo. We have to use the indefinite article, a dildo, never your dildo.
Jack - I don't own...
Airport Security Guard - Shhhh
I'm ignorant on this development - last I knew we could get kind of close to life (bio sludge sort of stuff), but weren't able to reproduce the conditions to create it.
Could you post links for studies or whatnot that lends credence to your statements? I haven't seen anything like it yet.
Preface this with:
I'm rally not well thought out on any of this speculation. It's just something I've been noticing and I really need to read and discuss more to make it more cohesive (or throw the theory out as silly tinfoil hattery)
But here goes. *deep breath*
I think corporations and government, working in lock-step, are attempting to revert us to a serfdom/feudalist society of landed gentry once again.
Evidence:
DRM mechanisms preventing ownership of goods
Recent changes to the bankruptcy laws making it more difficult for a citizen to declare (as an aside, corporate welfare and the like is alive and kicking, and costs more than my mom's bankruptcy ever will; that's just me being bitter I guess)
CC companies have now been forced (or was it merely a forceful suggestion?) to raise minimum payments. ( One of many links) This comes shortly after the law change. Now, it's sort of coincidence but it's one of those "happy coincidences" that seem to end up with SOMEONE indicted for fraud. Heh.
There's more but I'm home for the holidays and my mom just yelled for dinner. Honest. I don't live here anymore, I'm a grown up. I even read the Economist.
NAFTA is billed as a free trade agreement, but it's a pretty nasty piece of pro-corporate legislation. NAFTA article
A money quote from above article:
"In addition, NAFTA included unprecedented guarantees to protect the value of corporate investments and even the rights to earn profits in the future arising out of changes in government regulations or policy. In particular, NAFTA created specific clauses that provide for compensation for lost investments and loss of future profits due to regulations that are "tantamount to expropriation" (NAFTA Secretariat 2003, article 1110). No other part of NAFTA has generated as much controversy as this "investor state" clause. To date, 27 cases have been reviewed under this clause by companies alleging that their foreign investments or their right to earn profits in other countries have been expropriated (Hemispheric Social Alliance 2003, 68-74). These claims, several of which have resulted in damages paid or regulations rescinded, have had a chilling effect on government efforts to regulate private businesses throughout the hemisphere."
I can't imagine not feeling bitter about the direction our country has headed, and the partisan kool-aid that has been fed to the populace, poisoning many from clear headed debate.
The drunk part, on the other hand, is totally a personal choice. And a falsehood right now. But I should crack a beer, it's the holidays.
Because you're making a horrific assumption here that will land ALL of our asses in slings, which is this:
laws invoked in a benevolent administration* will still be laws in the future. When perhaps the government isn't quite as forgiving.
Maybe you missed the part of the conservative class where you're supposed to be interested in curtailing govermental power, not assisting a future installation of a totalitarian state.
*I assume you consider the Bush administration to be benevolent, as you referred to "liberals" in a condescending manner. I, OTOH, assume Bush is a hellspawned demon bent on enslaving the world.
And I'd say the comparison is rather poor, as well. Radiohead and the Pixies don't sound similar, IMO. Disclaimer: I've only listened to a couple of songs off of Trompe Le Monde so perhaps that album has Karma Police, Pixies style on it.
With regards to the original poster and the Pixies' popularity: The album Surfer Rosa just went platinum this year, IIRC.
They're a pretty interesting band. I think their influences really resonate throughout alternative rock today.
Funny thing - I played EQ back in the early days (when we'd just discovered spawn points, and DOTs still were bugged to hell but necros were still bad asses).
It was a grind, but the thing that kept me playing for a LONG freakin' time was the run from Qeynos to Freport.
Long as hell and scary, to boot. That had me hooked for a while. Going splat! when a giant smacked me up, griffins killing me in the Commonlands, you name it.
Loved it all, until I grew bored with the level treadmill. I couldn't even imagine portal stones and the like; a lot of the flavor of EQ IMO was that early discovery and the difficulty to travel.
There are a myriad of needs in second and third world countries that aren't addressed by a $100 laptop. That's a no-brainer.
But the education need is addressed with the laptops. That's the whole point - it allows for a better education than without. Electronic medium textbooks are a pretty big deal even in America, let alone a third world country with a minimal GDP.
Food, shelter, political stability - of course these aren't answered. But that doesn't imply that bright minds shouldn't be working towards innovative solutions on other fronts as well.
Interesting.
I should have prefaced the "God hates fags" with an E.g. apparently.
To say the Religious Right is responsible for the rhetoric of hate on the right would do a tremendous disservice to everyone.
Rove considers the Religious Right a tool, no more, and he's one of the manufacturers of these ideologies.
Look at O'Reilly's jingoistic viewpoints, or Rush, or if we want to go really wacky, Savage. They're not religious, and I view them as mouthpieces for the Right at this point. (Ok not Savage, I'm not a jerk)
FWIW I do like McCain alright, and a few other Republican reps. But they're rare and seem to be the rebels to the party line at this point.
P.S. It was funny that you went "on attack". I don't think I've had a civil conversation with a self-styled conservative in a long time. Salute our masters, they've managed to completely squelch political discussion by shrill whining from either side.
Flexibility isn't a watch-word I'd use for any of the ERP system offerings.
But the rest of your comment was spot-on.
And if you're doing any watching on the Oracle Apps front, their "future vision" of the next decade or so is very close to what you just described WRT business process definition and the next gen of their software.
Only the Right seemed to really hate him, and they would have hated anyone their radio gods told them to hate. *shrug*
My girlfriend and I were talking about the typical ideology that is espoused on the conservative front, and it's always hate.
God hates fags.
Liberals hate America.
Liberals hate freedom.
Etc. etc. ad nauseam. It's either that or the age-old attack of "democrats have no plan! Democrats have no plan!".
Sigh. I'd like less rhetoric and more responsibility from the conservatives. That, and a return to their old values. Lack of government, fiscal responsibility, that sort of thing. That would be fantastic.
(for what it's worth - I'm a centrist Democrat. Kerry, to me, was just Iowa fucking it up for America. Again. I think they're secretly Republicans)
Interestingly enough, it's for surfing: Goat.cx
The page stinks to high heaven but there's the reference.
And HeadCase wasn't a bad choice either, considering we're dealing w/surfers.
It was one of the first ERP software sets.
As such, the primary purpose of it (or any ERP) is to run the books.
General Ledger, AR, AP. The remainder of the business supports flowing the information into the GL.
The manufacturing piece actually was developed a little later, with the Purchasing and Production Planning modules being "bolt-on".
Generally speaking, all ERP packages are going through the behemoth process that SAP is undergoing, because the nature of their product is a single-use implementation/license.
So in order to generate more licensing fees, they need to generate more products to sell licenses for.
In SAP's defense, the major problem with ERP systems is crappy business process understanding on the client side. Particularly in the ERP craze of the late 90s where the magic buzzword "ERP" was viewed as the panacea.
"Our processes are fucked, we can't pay our vendors to save our life, and we juggle our capacity requirement planning so often it may as well be on a shoestring. We'll implement this ERP (the sound of angels playing horns floats through the air)."
Fucked processes are still the major problem in any ERP imp. Most companies have the "we have this way to do it" in their mentality and customize the hell out of a graceful package and turn it into this clunky beast.
And ERP systems are inflexible. They have to be, as they integrate back into your system of record (GL) and need to maintain the controls throughout that process.
The submitter (or whoever) indicated that SAP's "corporate applications" have fallen out of favor obviously doesn't do ERP work.
It's still Oracle and SAP leading the pack, with every other ERP package a laggard. And SAP ain't going anywhere; at a price tag in the millions for an implementation, "falling out of favor" isn't much of anything.
Companies will bitch but they're still going to run SAP and follow the recommended upgrade paths.
Plus there's a 5 year adoption timeline from a company implementing to becoming proficient/improving the system.
SAP was getting hot a decade ago; many companies are still well within the window of improving to competency yet.
He has no obligation to avoid boring you. His obligation is to teach you what is outlined in his syllabus. Your goal is to learn it. That's it.
Teachers who make it interesting are good teachers indeed, but you're not paying for entertainment, you're paying to learn a discipline that will earn you your keep.
Go watch the Family Guy if you're so in need of entertainment, and fail out like the other 40% of students who share your attitude.
You seem to forget the basic premise of democracy:
Everybody gets to vote (18 y.o. and up)
Read slashdot at -1 for about a week. If that doesn't open your eyes to the inherent flaws of democracy. . . well I don't know what to say.
Idiots are easily fooled, and idiots make up a significant part of the population. That's the reason assholes like Karl Rove are political power-brokers. . . his shithead tactics work. Hence corruption in the highest seats.
Bottom line is impacted a significant amount more when costs are cut, as opposed to increasing price/sales.
Cost centers are the first thing CEOs/CFOs look at for impacting the bottom line and showing that their 6+ figure salary is worth something. Hence the lack of raises.
Direct revenue generation, by the way, is rather sparse:
Sales
Delivery/Manufacturing
The second two will depend on service vs product. And trust me, you don't make squat in manufacturing until Veep level. VP of Materials Management perhaps. Senior planners and commodity managers make precisely jack and shit. . . . unless your firm recognizes SCM as a core competency, in which case you might do a little better. But perhaps not; lots of companies with Supply Chain competencies got there because of IT. Think Wal-mart. Please don't dispute that, just do some research on Wal-mart SCM)
Coming back to the main point: IT is not getting raises because in the classic corporate mindset it is a commodity. Not all IT, but a fair amount. And they're right. MCSEs are a dime a dozen. Good ones are harder to find, certainly. But finding one isn't an onus on HR. Like most fields, the cream rises to the top and will receive the significant rewards. The rest. . . will suck lemons for a bit. They'll get better, get better jobs, or get out.
But:
This was not a religion slam. This wasn't even a Microsoft slam. Well, obliquely it was. They've demonstrated in the marketplace repeated abuse of monopoly power, and here's a case where they come out and embrace their competitors' products for a solution.
These are opposing world views.
The actual quote in my body text is a paraphrased version of something Jesus said about giving to charity. Perhaps he said it a couple of other places as well.
one man's flamebait is another man's funny, I suppose. (note I dropped my karma bonus here, for any mods that wish to mod me into oblivion)
Slashdot Mirror
Jack - Was it ticking?
Airport Security Guard- Throwers know modern bombs don't tick.
Jack - Sorry, throwers?
Airport Security Guard - Baggage handlers. But when a suitcase vibrates, the throwers have got to call the police.
Jack - My suitcase was vibrating?
Airport Security Guard - Nine times out of ten it's an electric razor. But... every once in a while it's a dildo.
It's company policy never to imply ownership in the event of a dildo. We have to use the indefinite article, a dildo, never your dildo.
Jack - I don't own...
Airport Security Guard - Shhhh
Could you post links for studies or whatnot that lends credence to your statements? I haven't seen anything like it yet.
Pedantic? No. It's the combination on my luggage.
But here goes. *deep breath*
I think corporations and government, working in lock-step, are attempting to revert us to a serfdom/feudalist society of landed gentry once again.
Evidence:
-
DRM mechanisms preventing ownership of goods
- Recent changes to the bankruptcy laws making it more difficult for a citizen to declare (as an aside, corporate welfare and the like is alive and kicking, and costs more than my mom's bankruptcy ever will; that's just me being bitter I guess)
- CC companies have now been forced (or was it merely a forceful suggestion?) to raise minimum payments. ( One of many links) This comes shortly after the law change. Now, it's sort of coincidence but it's one of those "happy coincidences" that seem to end up with SOMEONE indicted for fraud. Heh.
There's more but I'm home for the holidays and my mom just yelled for dinner. Honest. I don't live here anymore, I'm a grown up. I even read the Economist.NAFTA article
A money quote from above article:
"In addition, NAFTA included unprecedented guarantees to protect the value of corporate investments and even the rights to earn profits in the future arising out of changes in government regulations or policy. In particular, NAFTA created specific clauses that provide for compensation for lost investments and loss of future profits due to regulations that are "tantamount to expropriation" (NAFTA Secretariat 2003, article 1110). No other part of NAFTA has generated as much controversy as this "investor state" clause. To date, 27 cases have been reviewed under this clause by companies alleging that their foreign investments or their right to earn profits in other countries have been expropriated (Hemispheric Social Alliance 2003, 68-74). These claims, several of which have resulted in damages paid or regulations rescinded, have had a chilling effect on government efforts to regulate private businesses throughout the hemisphere."
The drunk part, on the other hand, is totally a personal choice. And a falsehood right now. But I should crack a beer, it's the holidays.
laws invoked in a benevolent administration* will still be laws in the future. When perhaps the government isn't quite as forgiving.
Maybe you missed the part of the conservative class where you're supposed to be interested in curtailing govermental power, not assisting a future installation of a totalitarian state.
*I assume you consider the Bush administration to be benevolent, as you referred to "liberals" in a condescending manner. I, OTOH, assume Bush is a hellspawned demon bent on enslaving the world.
They call it the bleeding edge for a reason. :)
With regards to the original poster and the Pixies' popularity:
The album Surfer Rosa just went platinum this year, IIRC.
They're a pretty interesting band. I think their influences really resonate throughout alternative rock today.
It was a grind, but the thing that kept me playing for a LONG freakin' time was the run from Qeynos to Freport.
Long as hell and scary, to boot. That had me hooked for a while. Going splat! when a giant smacked me up, griffins killing me in the Commonlands, you name it.
Loved it all, until I grew bored with the level treadmill. I couldn't even imagine portal stones and the like; a lot of the flavor of EQ IMO was that early discovery and the difficulty to travel.
But the education need is addressed with the laptops. That's the whole point - it allows for a better education than without. Electronic medium textbooks are a pretty big deal even in America, let alone a third world country with a minimal GDP.
Food, shelter, political stability - of course these aren't answered. But that doesn't imply that bright minds shouldn't be working towards innovative solutions on other fronts as well.
It's gotta get through the Senate, and it looks as if it will be filibustered. By Republicans AND Democrats.
To say the Religious Right is responsible for the rhetoric of hate on the right would do a tremendous disservice to everyone.
Rove considers the Religious Right a tool, no more, and he's one of the manufacturers of these ideologies.
Look at O'Reilly's jingoistic viewpoints, or Rush, or if we want to go really wacky, Savage. They're not religious, and I view them as mouthpieces for the Right at this point. (Ok not Savage, I'm not a jerk)
FWIW I do like McCain alright, and a few other Republican reps. But they're rare and seem to be the rebels to the party line at this point.
P.S. It was funny that you went "on attack". I don't think I've had a civil conversation with a self-styled conservative in a long time. Salute our masters, they've managed to completely squelch political discussion by shrill whining from either side.
The Little Yellow God, on page 12. Cheers.
Flexibility isn't a watch-word I'd use for any of the ERP system offerings. But the rest of your comment was spot-on.
And if you're doing any watching on the Oracle Apps front, their "future vision" of the next decade or so is very close to what you just described WRT business process definition and the next gen of their software.
Only the Right seemed to really hate him, and they would have hated anyone their radio gods told them to hate. *shrug*
My girlfriend and I were talking about the typical ideology that is espoused on the conservative front, and it's always hate.
God hates fags.
Liberals hate America.
Liberals hate freedom.
Etc. etc. ad nauseam. It's either that or the age-old attack of "democrats have no plan! Democrats have no plan!".
Sigh. I'd like less rhetoric and more responsibility from the conservatives. That, and a return to their old values. Lack of government, fiscal responsibility, that sort of thing. That would be fantastic.
(for what it's worth - I'm a centrist Democrat. Kerry, to me, was just Iowa fucking it up for America. Again. I think they're secretly Republicans)
Interestingly enough, it's for surfing:
Goat.cx
The page stinks to high heaven but there's the reference. And HeadCase wasn't a bad choice either, considering we're dealing w/surfers.
General Ledger, AR, AP. The remainder of the business supports flowing the information into the GL.
The manufacturing piece actually was developed a little later, with the Purchasing and Production Planning modules being "bolt-on".
Generally speaking, all ERP packages are going through the behemoth process that SAP is undergoing, because the nature of their product is a single-use implementation/license.
So in order to generate more licensing fees, they need to generate more products to sell licenses for.
In SAP's defense, the major problem with ERP systems is crappy business process understanding on the client side. Particularly in the ERP craze of the late 90s where the magic buzzword "ERP" was viewed as the panacea.
"Our processes are fucked, we can't pay our vendors to save our life, and we juggle our capacity requirement planning so often it may as well be on a shoestring. We'll implement this ERP (the sound of angels playing horns floats through the air)." Fucked processes are still the major problem in any ERP imp. Most companies have the "we have this way to do it" in their mentality and customize the hell out of a graceful package and turn it into this clunky beast.
And ERP systems are inflexible. They have to be, as they integrate back into your system of record (GL) and need to maintain the controls throughout that process.
It's still Oracle and SAP leading the pack, with every other ERP package a laggard. And SAP ain't going anywhere; at a price tag in the millions for an implementation, "falling out of favor" isn't much of anything.
Companies will bitch but they're still going to run SAP and follow the recommended upgrade paths.
Plus there's a 5 year adoption timeline from a company implementing to becoming proficient/improving the system. SAP was getting hot a decade ago; many companies are still well within the window of improving to competency yet.
Go watch the Family Guy if you're so in need of entertainment, and fail out like the other 40% of students who share your attitude.
I own 2 Sony comps, and neither test positive for the rootkit using RootkitRevealer. They are, however, > 1 year old.
Everybody gets to vote (18 y.o. and up)
Read slashdot at -1 for about a week. If that doesn't open your eyes to the inherent flaws of democracy. . . well I don't know what to say.
Idiots are easily fooled, and idiots make up a significant part of the population. That's the reason assholes like Karl Rove are political power-brokers. . . his shithead tactics work. Hence corruption in the highest seats.
Cost centers are the first thing CEOs/CFOs look at for impacting the bottom line and showing that their 6+ figure salary is worth something. Hence the lack of raises.
Direct revenue generation, by the way, is rather sparse:
Sales
Delivery/Manufacturing
The second two will depend on service vs product. And trust me, you don't make squat in manufacturing until Veep level. VP of Materials Management perhaps. Senior planners and commodity managers make precisely jack and shit. . . . unless your firm recognizes SCM as a core competency, in which case you might do a little better. But perhaps not; lots of companies with Supply Chain competencies got there because of IT. Think Wal-mart. Please don't dispute that, just do some research on Wal-mart SCM)
Coming back to the main point: IT is not getting raises because in the classic corporate mindset it is a commodity. Not all IT, but a fair amount. And they're right. MCSEs are a dime a dozen. Good ones are harder to find, certainly. But finding one isn't an onus on HR. Like most fields, the cream rises to the top and will receive the significant rewards. The rest. . . will suck lemons for a bit. They'll get better, get better jobs, or get out.
These are opposing world views.
The actual quote in my body text is a paraphrased version of something Jesus said about giving to charity. Perhaps he said it a couple of other places as well.
one man's flamebait is another man's funny, I suppose. (note I dropped my karma bonus here, for any mods that wish to mod me into oblivion)