If you venture out from under the bridge, you'll find that most other people you share the planet with are naturally social beings.
By all means, return your unused assets to the department. Around here a contemporary laptop is like gold and could probably be bartered for sexual favors.
I suppose in some places the coffee machines are expensive cost centers. However in the vast majority of places I have worked, consulted, and visited, the coffee machine is hardly ever a single step up from the two burner Bunn. The budget for coffee in my entire department is $2500.00 for the year. Our supplier gave us the machine on a free lease basis as long as we buy the supplies from them. Oh, lest I forget, the budget figure also includes water for the cooler, creamer, sugar, and eco friendly wooden stir sticks.
In return for that 2500 bucks, the company gets camaraderie, stimulated staff, and a place where people can go and destress for a few minutes.
And employers will replace them with 20-something go-getters with better attitudes and more up-to-date skills, and at half the salary.
Where is this elusive species to be found in quantity? The specimens I am familiar with have a hard time spelling "Word", much less using it. To them "The Web" is Yahoo, Gmail, and Facebook. And finally, SMTP is text slang for Suck My Teats and Poonani (less vulgar translation).
Yes, they can print and download, but in my experience deep knowledge of the plumbing behind the Internet is fading, not expanding.
Eh, it not just kids. I pulled a lady from in front of a speeding bus in Chicago's Loop one evening. She loudly accused me of trying to steal her bag. Luckily about six other people waiting for the light to change shouted her down with stuff like she should be thanking me. But still, I get what you are saying. Now, if it were just the two of us waiting for the light and she was about to be mowed down, I'd say something but not grab her. How sad is that?
I used to hang out on IRC back in the day as a compliment to my online gaming. Anyone remember Kali? Anyway, we would chat in IRC for much the same reasons as you cite. We had members from Australia and Germany, and a smattering of Japanese and other Europeans. There were some serious coming of age angst type conversations across generational lines (guess where socially awkward geek teens felt most comfortable?). Flash forward 16 years and I would not even think of engaging in any sort of real time online conversation with someone I suspected was underage. Hysteria brought us here. And the fact that IRC is so 90's.
So, in my Terms of Use policy I can extend any other entities AUP? Assume for a second that I skip the obvious like "...reserve the right to fornicate with your hot wife". How about if I add a small charge like 5 cents, American, for every post you make payable by your ISP. Lean back and issue bills after six months or so. Would the ensuing litigation create bad or good case law for consumers?
While we are playing at annoying rhetorical questions, if two trains leave opposite coasts towards Chicago, which one will beat the Greyhound bus?
I would hope the reporting functions are easier with a computer. However, what about the processes that input the data? Are they better than paper? Did they require paper first then an input session after acquisition? How many QC checks are required before the data are accepted?
There are plenty of benefits in computerized health care systems. The study confirms that they are not a panacea for uber cheap healthcare and perpetual youthful health.
You would think. However, a surprising number of people object to being tattooed with a bar code. Especially older folks with accents. Go figure./sarcasm
Sorry, despite freedom of speech and assembly, people don't have the right to set up giant panicky dangerous packed mob.
Really? The civil rights movement was for naught? Restricting free movement starts with teen idol fans and then moves to political rallies in the same place. I agree this guy committed a moral wrong. I'm not so sure on the legal front, though. Let's examine the gray very closely before we scream black or white.
Well, we are in the middle of a gang war with a bunch of kids being killed this year. Daley can co. won't breathe a word about the gang war. Cams don't seem to be stopping anything, but red light cams are generating lots of money. So, you can come to Chicago to kill a kid, but dammit, you better not run a red light on your way out of town.
What? The nerve! Everyone knows fathers are supposed to ignore their children at all times, even if they're on fire.
I believe that exception actually passed at the last decennial International Man Convention. Just make sure physical contact is kept to the barest minimum.
What will happen to the company is: Microsoft will send a letter to the CEO informing him that they will be performing an audit, that they are entitled to do as he is running some form of Microsoft software
No, that is not how it works. The audit trigger is only for those who have agreements with MS beyond retail or OEM licenses. You will get a letter requesting the audit and true-up in lieu of federal marshalls showing up in the lobby.
You can also receive a letter stating much the same thing from the BSA as they are an umbrella group representing a bunch of rights holders. The BSA likes to forego the nice letter and go straight to federal marshalls every once in a while to make a public point.
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If you venture out from under the bridge, you'll find that most other people you share the planet with are naturally social beings.
By all means, return your unused assets to the department. Around here a contemporary laptop is like gold and could probably be bartered for sexual favors.
I suppose in some places the coffee machines are expensive cost centers. However in the vast majority of places I have worked, consulted, and visited, the coffee machine is hardly ever a single step up from the two burner Bunn. The budget for coffee in my entire department is $2500.00 for the year. Our supplier gave us the machine on a free lease basis as long as we buy the supplies from them. Oh, lest I forget, the budget figure also includes water for the cooler, creamer, sugar, and eco friendly wooden stir sticks.
In return for that 2500 bucks, the company gets camaraderie, stimulated staff, and a place where people can go and destress for a few minutes.
And employers will replace them with 20-something go-getters with better attitudes and more up-to-date skills, and at half the salary.
Where is this elusive species to be found in quantity? The specimens I am familiar with have a hard time spelling "Word", much less using it. To them "The Web" is Yahoo, Gmail, and Facebook. And finally, SMTP is text slang for Suck My Teats and Poonani (less vulgar translation).
Yes, they can print and download, but in my experience deep knowledge of the plumbing behind the Internet is fading, not expanding.
I was going to say "about two blocks outside of Silicon Valley", but you did a much better job.
I'm pretty sure they'll sell me beer even if I'm speaking broken Swahili with a lisp.
Sissy.
/. says it all.
I would add a smiley, but my presence on
Welcome to the no-fly list, JimboG.
Shut up, you ignorant adolescent.
Eh, it not just kids. I pulled a lady from in front of a speeding bus in Chicago's Loop one evening. She loudly accused me of trying to steal her bag. Luckily about six other people waiting for the light to change shouted her down with stuff like she should be thanking me. But still, I get what you are saying. Now, if it were just the two of us waiting for the light and she was about to be mowed down, I'd say something but not grab her. How sad is that?
I used to hang out on IRC back in the day as a compliment to my online gaming. Anyone remember Kali? Anyway, we would chat in IRC for much the same reasons as you cite. We had members from Australia and Germany, and a smattering of Japanese and other Europeans. There were some serious coming of age angst type conversations across generational lines (guess where socially awkward geek teens felt most comfortable?). Flash forward 16 years and I would not even think of engaging in any sort of real time online conversation with someone I suspected was underage. Hysteria brought us here. And the fact that IRC is so 90's.
Put it back in the box and return it, of course! No, I'm not trolling; I'm advocating consumer protest.
So, in my Terms of Use policy I can extend any other entities AUP? Assume for a second that I skip the obvious like "...reserve the right to fornicate with your hot wife". How about if I add a small charge like 5 cents, American, for every post you make payable by your ISP. Lean back and issue bills after six months or so. Would the ensuing litigation create bad or good case law for consumers?
While we are playing at annoying rhetorical questions, if two trains leave opposite coasts towards Chicago, which one will beat the Greyhound bus?
I would hope the reporting functions are easier with a computer. However, what about the processes that input the data? Are they better than paper? Did they require paper first then an input session after acquisition? How many QC checks are required before the data are accepted?
There are plenty of benefits in computerized health care systems. The study confirms that they are not a panacea for uber cheap healthcare and perpetual youthful health.
You would think. However, a surprising number of people object to being tattooed with a bar code. Especially older folks with accents. Go figure. /sarcasm
Are you me from a parallel universe?
So cars create drug resistant bacteria? Or is it the other way around? Does the autoimmune industry really need more bailing out?
Obviously your mom didn't walk uphill both ways anywhere. City farmer.
Sorry, despite freedom of speech and assembly, people don't have the right to set up giant panicky dangerous packed mob.
Really? The civil rights movement was for naught? Restricting free movement starts with teen idol fans and then moves to political rallies in the same place. I agree this guy committed a moral wrong. I'm not so sure on the legal front, though. Let's examine the gray very closely before we scream black or white.
Well, we are in the middle of a gang war with a bunch of kids being killed this year. Daley can co. won't breathe a word about the gang war. Cams don't seem to be stopping anything, but red light cams are generating lots of money. So, you can come to Chicago to kill a kid, but dammit, you better not run a red light on your way out of town.
Fighting blind declarations with logic and fact will only get you blacklisted as an agitator.
Doable, but a support nightmare. Release it as a community game.
Ah, jeeze, ITSA GAME!!!!. When I turned all the monsters in Doom II to Barneys, what message was I sending to my yet unborn children?
Now I'm going to buy it just so I can shoot whatever looks shootable and post screenies in order to destabilize the world! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Might as well jump on the ludicrous bandwagon for fun since the games are now all off limits for fun.
And yet you felt the need to comment on that too. Maybe you should rethink what your behavior is doing for you... ;)
What? The nerve! Everyone knows fathers are supposed to ignore their children at all times, even if they're on fire.
I believe that exception actually passed at the last decennial International Man Convention. Just make sure physical contact is kept to the barest minimum.
What will happen to the company is: Microsoft will send a letter to the CEO informing him that they will be performing an audit, that they are entitled to do as he is running some form of Microsoft software
No, that is not how it works. The audit trigger is only for those who have agreements with MS beyond retail or OEM licenses. You will get a letter requesting the audit and true-up in lieu of federal marshalls showing up in the lobby.
You can also receive a letter stating much the same thing from the BSA as they are an umbrella group representing a bunch of rights holders. The BSA likes to forego the nice letter and go straight to federal marshalls every once in a while to make a public point.
Sure, but is so funny to say. Second only to Albuquerque. That's GOTTA be worth something.