FWIW, you can carry arbitrary sized bottles labeled saline solution for your contacts. Note that they need only be labeled as saline solution, you can put whatever you want in them.
See this story where the guy brought two big bottles labeled saline solution and when the TSA gangsta asked him, "why two?" he said "one for each eye" and the gangsta let him pass.
Out of pocket expenses for paid work for any organization are tax deductible - any contractor knows that. Although I am certainly no tax attorney, I don't see why giving away the work should make a difference.
There's a significant lack of respect for my work inherent in the statement they make by stealing a game I've worked on. The way it comes across to me is, "I know you spent hours of your life working on the thing that's entertaining me right now, and I think those hours were worth a total of zero dollars."
That is not their statement, that's your assumption.
Most hardcore pirates that I know are very much into promoting cool stuff and sharing it with others because they think it is really cool. They don't waste energy on crap. In part it gives them status in their community when they are able to turn people on to something impressive. This behavior seems to be normal human nature - sharing cool stuff regardless of what it is - is an inherent part of the human social animal.
You can choose to feel insulted by it, but feeling that way won't change anything and it makes you unhappy in the process.
Hell, I think that if they could not be pirated, then sales would be less then they are now. I believe this for 2 simple reasons:
1) The pirates who would pay would also be attracted to any competing free games instead and those would become even better than they are now (see the argument that should MS ever really turn the screws on their product activation, that would just boost linux usage).
2) The pirates who do pay - as in they treat a bootleg like an extended demo - won't even bother to risk their money and will spend it on other forms of entertainment entirely.
What? It really bothers you because of some lame-ass boilerplate in an employment contract? Something that probably wasn't even enforceable anyway?
If you want to get bothered about boilerplate in employment contracts, get pissed off about drug-testing and the whole guilty-until-proven innocent mindset it fosters.
I doubt they'll remove legitimately useful apps "just because it competes with us". The resulting fallout would be enough to kill Android.
I'm just as concerned about them removing useful apps that a local government requests be removed. As long as they truly can not touch stuff installed from outside the "app store" and thus aren't capable of satisfying some arbitrary authoritae's desires, then I'm good with it.
Maybe I'm in the other 10% then. I think it would be fun to live in New York for a couple of years and then come back here to London. To do that I probably need an H-1B although maybe there are alternatives.
L1 visa, its not quite as flexible as the H1B but it is also a non-immigrant visa. And, to be blunt, visas are for the benefit of the host nation, as a foreign citizen what you want isn't particularly relevant.
Sounds good ranting about fanboys, but when I read the OP it certainly didn't sound that way. It did not sound like he was giving a free pass to non-republicans, only that republicans did vote for the bill by a very large margin and mccain, as a republican is getting his just desserts.
In fact, I think it is just as plausible that electrictoy favors the republicans since he expressly high lighted that Clinton was a *democrat* despite the fact that congress's vote were veto-proof, making the president's signature and thus his party, irrelevant.
The root cause of the problem you describe is that H1B visas are in the family of "non-immigrant" visas which means they are not intended as a stepping stone to citizenship, even though in practice that's the way 90%+ of applicants see them.
My personal opinion is that not only should they be switched to being an official immigrant visa, but immigration should be mandatory. If H1B holders really are so smart and so rare as their employers attest when hiring them, then obviously we need them in this country more than almost any other group of aliens. So bring them in, maybe even make them post a bond of like $10K that is forfeited if they don't get a green card in 5 years.
I'm not sure about that last point without thinking it through some more, I don't want it to become a club which unscrupulous employers can use to hold back the immigrant or otherwise hold down wages. But I do want to make it less desirable for people to come to the USA for 5-10 years and then move back to their country of origin, taking their money and their skills with them. Historically the USA has been the beneficiary of a world-wide brain-drain and I think we ought to do everything we can maintain that phenomenon.
I suspect that the root of the "prevaling wage" problem is a complete lack of enforcement. There is zero budget for oversight - even the funding for this study took over a decade of bitching by the little guys before it was included in the law. I'm surprised anything actually came of it, much less getting enough publicity to be duped on slashdot.
Don't worry, look how successful the Drugs Czar is. Money well spent.
The lesson I've learned is to become a Copyright Blackwater - aka overpriced civilian contractor raking in taxpayer bucks in a fashion that just perpetuates the conflict and guarantees me a steady income.
It doesn't change the fact that it isn't, wasn't, and probably not even intended to be a way to skate around the "system."
If it came to light that Palin and her staff discussed avoiding archival as one of the benefits of using a non-government email system, would that change your opinion of the facts?
If it's not, then it's awfully discriminatory to try to 'fix' it. Isn't there a genetic cause for black skin too? How bad would the summary be if we replaced "male pattern baldness" with "black skin" or "homosexuality"? Why is it ok for baldness?
Maybe "fix" is too strong a word, but I wouldn't mind being able to change the color of my skin on a whim and I might even go gay and get a chest-wax if it would be enough to motivate me to go the gym more. With my luck, I would probably just end up a bear though, which wouldn't really improve the situation.
Can you please show us a specific e-mail that proves she was conducting government business via a free email service?
Seriously, there are plenty of legitimate criticisms to level at this woman, and this is not one of them. There is no proof.
While there is no proof per se, there is extremely incriminating evidence already available thanks to the so-called 'punk' who is under indictment. Here is a summary of subject lines and correspondents from said 'personal' account as reported on wikileaks. Some people have tried to argue that these are not incriminating, some people see pink elephants too.
Subject: Draft letter to Governor Schwarzenegger / Container Tax From: Ruaro, Randall P (Deputy Chief of Staff)
gov.palin@yahoo.com was her personal use account. gov.sarah@yahoo.com was the one that she was using for official state business.
It doesn't really matter what she says the account was used for, it is the actual usage that counts. The list of subjects and correspondents from the so-called 'personal use account' that are posted on wikileaks is extremely incriminating.
I'm sure that the worst punishment she will receive will be a slap on the wrist, after all the president and his staff have already done far worse wrt to email hiding and nothing happened to them. But what it does do is expose 'politics as usual' for her, all claims to maverick status are pretty much null and void now.
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FWIW, you can carry arbitrary sized bottles labeled saline solution for your contacts.
Note that they need only be labeled as saline solution, you can put whatever you want in them.
See this story where the guy brought two big bottles labeled saline solution and when the TSA gangsta asked him, "why two?" he said "one for each eye" and the gangsta let him pass.
I think I speak for all of us when I say: Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot.
No, you are just speaking for people with really high UIDs.
That post was a cut-n-paste of a tired, old troll posting with the slight up date of using Obama instead of some random jock twink type.
Out of pocket expenses for paid work for any organization are tax deductible - any contractor knows that.
Although I am certainly no tax attorney, I don't see why giving away the work should make a difference.
Will Wright. (Though having since found out his political affiliation I won't be supporting anything of his any longer.
Is it really any surprise? All the sim games are fundamentally authoritarian.
They're not interested in catching terrorists Bruce!
He rocks the boat, but he never connects the dots.
Yeah, sure he doesn't.
That's why he says things like these:
much of our country's counterterrorism security spending is not designed to protect us from the terrorists, but instead to protect our public officials from criticism when another attack occurs.
what I've come to call security theater: security primarily designed to make you feel more secure.
There's a significant lack of respect for my work inherent in the statement they make by stealing a game I've worked on. The way it comes across to me is, "I know you spent hours of your life working on the thing that's entertaining me right now, and I think those hours were worth a total of zero dollars."
That is not their statement, that's your assumption.
Most hardcore pirates that I know are very much into promoting cool stuff and sharing it with others because they think it is really cool. They don't waste energy on crap. In part it gives them status in their community when they are able to turn people on to something impressive. This behavior seems to be normal human nature - sharing cool stuff regardless of what it is - is an inherent part of the human social animal.
You can choose to feel insulted by it, but feeling that way won't change anything and it makes you unhappy in the process.
Hell, I think that if they could not be pirated, then sales would be less then they are now.
I believe this for 2 simple reasons:
1) The pirates who would pay would also be attracted to any competing free games instead and those would become even better than they are now (see the argument that should MS ever really turn the screws on their product activation, that would just boost linux usage).
2) The pirates who do pay - as in they treat a bootleg like an extended demo - won't even bother to risk their money and will spend it on other forms of entertainment entirely.
What? It really bothers you because of some lame-ass boilerplate in an employment contract? Something that probably wasn't even enforceable anyway?
If you want to get bothered about boilerplate in employment contracts, get pissed off about drug-testing and the whole guilty-until-proven innocent mindset it fosters.
Same here, I used to be able to concen OH HEY LOOK LOLCAT!
Thanks for reminding me, haven't had a fix for a few days.
I think it is like yawning.
I doubt they'll remove legitimately useful apps "just because it competes with us". The resulting fallout would be enough to kill Android.
I'm just as concerned about them removing useful apps that a local government requests be removed. As long as they truly can not touch stuff installed from outside the "app store" and thus aren't capable of satisfying some arbitrary authoritae's desires, then I'm good with it.
Well, I thought I was saying there is a good chance that he is one.
You'll fucking say anything to appear to be in the right, won't you.
No, but I will say anything to appear to be in the left.
huh? At first you sound like you are disagreeing but then you agree?
Maybe I'm in the other 10% then. I think it would be fun to live in New York for a couple of years and then come back here to London. To do that I probably need an H-1B although maybe there are alternatives.
L1 visa, its not quite as flexible as the H1B but it is also a non-immigrant visa.
And, to be blunt, visas are for the benefit of the host nation, as a foreign citizen what you want isn't particularly relevant.
Sounds good ranting about fanboys, but when I read the OP it certainly didn't sound that way. It did not sound like he was giving a free pass to non-republicans, only that republicans did vote for the bill by a very large margin and mccain, as a republican is getting his just desserts.
In fact, I think it is just as plausible that electrictoy favors the republicans since he expressly high lighted that Clinton was a *democrat* despite the fact that congress's vote were veto-proof, making the president's signature and thus his party, irrelevant.
The root cause of the problem you describe is that H1B visas are in the family of "non-immigrant" visas which means they are not intended as a stepping stone to citizenship, even though in practice that's the way 90%+ of applicants see them.
My personal opinion is that not only should they be switched to being an official immigrant visa, but immigration should be mandatory. If H1B holders really are so smart and so rare as their employers attest when hiring them, then obviously we need them in this country more than almost any other group of aliens. So bring them in, maybe even make them post a bond of like $10K that is forfeited if they don't get a green card in 5 years.
I'm not sure about that last point without thinking it through some more, I don't want it to become a club which unscrupulous employers can use to hold back the immigrant or otherwise hold down wages. But I do want to make it less desirable for people to come to the USA for 5-10 years and then move back to their country of origin, taking their money and their skills with them. Historically the USA has been the beneficiary of a world-wide brain-drain and I think we ought to do everything we can maintain that phenomenon.
I suspect that the root of the "prevaling wage" problem is a complete lack of enforcement. There is zero budget for oversight - even the funding for this study took over a decade of bitching by the little guys before it was included in the law. I'm surprised anything actually came of it, much less getting enough publicity to be duped on slashdot.
He shd have acted the same way Rove quashed the records of Bush as Air National Guard leakage.
Silent and deadly.
He should have farted on her email account?
Don't worry, look how successful the Drugs Czar is. Money well spent.
The lesson I've learned is to become a Copyright Blackwater - aka overpriced civilian contractor raking in taxpayer bucks in a fashion that just perpetuates the conflict and guarantees me a steady income.
Has anyone done a similar test except with all humans? I'd be curious what the ratio is then. That's the number a computer would have to beat.
Depends on which humans. I bet a test that consisted entirely of teenage girls would make for a pretty easy ratio to beat.
It doesn't change the fact that it isn't, wasn't, and probably not even intended to be a way to skate around the "system."
If it came to light that Palin and her staff discussed avoiding archival as one of the benefits of using a non-government email system, would that change your opinion of the facts?
If it's not, then it's awfully discriminatory to try to 'fix' it. Isn't there a genetic cause for black skin too? How bad would the summary be if we replaced "male pattern baldness" with "black skin" or "homosexuality"? Why is it ok for baldness?
Maybe "fix" is too strong a word, but I wouldn't mind being able to change the color of my skin on a whim and I might even go gay and get a chest-wax if it would be enough to motivate me to go the gym more. With my luck, I would probably just end up a bear though, which wouldn't really improve the situation.
I hope I'm not the only one misreading the title as "Badness gene found".
I wouldn't mind a little bad-ass gene therapy myself.
Can you please show us a specific e-mail that proves she was conducting government business via a free email service?
Seriously, there are plenty of legitimate criticisms to level at this woman, and this is not one of them. There is no proof.
While there is no proof per se, there is extremely incriminating evidence already available thanks to the so-called 'punk' who is under indictment.
Here is a summary of subject lines and correspondents from said 'personal' account as reported on wikileaks.
Some people have tried to argue that these are not incriminating, some people see pink elephants too.
Subject: Draft letter to Governor Schwarzenegger / Container Tax
From: Ruaro, Randall P (Deputy Chief of Staff)
Subject: FW: Motor Fuel Tax Suspension
From: Meghan Stapleton (Press Secretary)
Subject: RE: Using Royalty Oil to Lower the Cost of Fuel for Alaskans
From: Nizich, Michael A (Chief of Staff)
Subject: Court of Appeals / Executive Director Parole Board / Boards and Commissions
From: Ruaro, Randall P (Deputy Chief of Staff)
Subject: RE: Please approve
From: Ruaro, Randall P (Deputy Chief of Staff)
Subject: Rural Wireless Service
From: McBride, Rhonda (Rural Advisor)
Subject: FW: DPS Employee Draft
From: Ruaro, Randall P (Deputy Chief of Staff)
Subject: Re: DPS Personnel and Budget Issues
From: McAllister, William D (Communciations Director)
Subject: FW: DPS Personnel and Budget Issues
From: Ruaro, Randall P (Deputy Chief of Staff)
Subject: Court of Appeals Nominations
From: Ruaro, Randall P (Deputy Chief of Staff)
Subject: another records request
From: Nizich, Michael A (Chief of Staff)
Subject: RE: Scheduling - Week of 08.10.08
From: Mason, Janice L (Scheduling Assistant
Subject: FW: Capitalizing on coal reserves, Crow Tribe strikes deal for $7B
From: Nizich, Michael A (Chief of Staff)
Subject: Status report
From: Ruaro, Randall P (Deputy Chief of Staff)
Subject: FW: Special session press release
From: Nizich, Michael A (Chief of Staff)
Subject: Followup.
From: Colberg, Talis J (Alaska Attorney General)
Subject: FW: CONFIDENTIAL Ethics Matter
From: Nizich, Michael A (Chief of Staff)
gov.palin@yahoo.com was her personal use account. gov.sarah@yahoo.com was the one that she was using for official state business.
It doesn't really matter what she says the account was used for, it is the actual usage that counts.
The list of subjects and correspondents from the so-called 'personal use account' that are posted on wikileaks is extremely incriminating.
I'm sure that the worst punishment she will receive will be a slap on the wrist, after all the president and his staff have already done far worse wrt to email hiding and nothing happened to them. But what it does do is expose 'politics as usual' for her, all claims to maverick status are pretty much null and void now.