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  1. Re:Intro subjects don't need constant updates! on University of Missouri To Use Open Source And Other Cheaper Alternatives For General Education Textbook (columbiatribune.com) · · Score: 1

    How would you even 'tax warehouses as revenue enhancement'? What does that even mean? Inventory? Depreciation? Writing off expired or obsolete? Warehouses don't generate revenue, sales do.

    I'm not entirely sure. The 1987 tax reform closed a lot of loopholes that forced everyone to respond in different ways. A warehouse tax that makes it more expensive to store textbooks over time sounds plausible. I can't find a definitive answer either way on the Internet.

    A current example of a warehouse tax is being considered in Pennsylvania.

    http://mhlnews.com/warehousing/pennsylvania-s-proposed-warehouse-tax-start-trend

  2. You are a buffoon, and a fraudulent blow-hard, who could not engineer his way out of a wet paper bag, even armed with a skill knife and a pair of scissors.

    Not sure why everyone keeps mistaking me for an engineer. Not everyone in IT is in engineering or management.

  3. Re:Intro subjects don't need constant updates! on University of Missouri To Use Open Source And Other Cheaper Alternatives For General Education Textbook (columbiatribune.com) · · Score: 1

    The story that my English instructor told me in the early 1990's was that the Reagan Administration in the 1987 tax reform decided to tax warehouses as a revenue enhancement. That forced publishers to stop printing a million copies of a textbook, store them in warehouses and sell them over time. If textbook prices go up from a smaller print run, blame Reagan.

    I've also heard that this story was made up by the teachers union to make Reagan look bad.

  4. Not excusing harassment, but going the HR route is the worst way to handle what should be an adult-adult situation.

    You're assuming that the other person is an adult. It might surprise you that not everyone who grows up is an adult. I've met more than a few children in the workplace. HR can either send them away or babysit them. If HR decides to babysit them, it's time to find a new job elsewhere.

  5. As an aging fat white male, you have no power, so they can fire your ass easily if you misbehave.

    I'm more likely get someone else fired for misbehaving because I document everything. Documentation is powerful.

  6. The "pyc" is silent.

    So these new AMD processors run Python compiled bytecode? Sweet!

    https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8822335/what-do-the-python-file-extensions-pyc-pyd-pyo-stand-for

  7. I'm represented by Verve and InkWell. [susanjfowler.com] And it looks like she's doing the public speaking circuit.

    She's an author. I know this is shocking for some people on Slashdot, but she has a personal brand that exists independently of her tech job.

    But, I have to agree with the GP, she's not going be hired by anyone ever.

    According to her blog post, she left Uber and works at Stripe.

    The HR software used these days will catch it and her application would be deleted.

    I was out of work for two years, underemployed for six months, and filed for chapter seven bankruptcy in 2011. During that time I was told repeatedly by recruiters that I was "unemployable." The day after my bankruptcy got finalized, I had a new full-time job. The opinions of recruiters and HR software are overrated.

  8. NOw...let's see if anyone will hire her now, after all of this....

    According to her blog post that she wrote in February, she left Uber in December and started work at Stripe in January. When a push came to a shove at Uber, "I had a new job offer in my hands less than a week later."

    She brought down a 'toxic' CEO, ok....but now, is she a bit 'toxic' too?

    The men who work at Uber should probably be viewed as "toxic" by future employers, as the bad boy mentality drives out good people.

  9. My ringtone choice should be obvious... on Remember When You Called Someone and Heard a Song? (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The X-Files. Go figure...

  10. Re:Cutting out the middle men... on NSA Opens GitHub Account, Lists 32 Projects Developed By the Agency (thehackernews.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't you mean "content creation" and sell trash poetry on deviant art.

    Here's a couple of free poetry books that published my haiku poems. Enjoy!

    http://www.chuffedbuffbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Final_KIGO_SEASONAL_WORDS_Issue1.pdf
    http://www.chuffedbuffbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Final_KIGO_SEASONAL_WORDS_Issue2.pdf

  11. Re:Wait... whaaaa? on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Isolate a Network And Allow Data Transfer? · · Score: 1

    Adults with a lifetime history of gainful employment in the Bay Area don't live in apartments.

    That's an interesting notion. I've been in my apartment for nearly 12 years, including when I was out of work for two years, underemployed for six months and filed for chapter seven bankruptcy. I had the option to break my lease but I didn't do so because my circumstances were temporary. The day after my bankruptcy finalized, I was working full time again.

  12. Re:Cutting out the middle men... on NSA Opens GitHub Account, Lists 32 Projects Developed By the Agency (thehackernews.com) · · Score: 1

    Become legit and sell on eBay.

  13. Seriously, this is just begging for an ad from Cisco

    "Cisco Routers for the Desperate: Router and Switch Management, the Easy Way" by Michael W. Lucas.

  14. Re:Wait... whaaaa? on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Isolate a Network And Allow Data Transfer? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Buy a used CDC-6500.

    My apartment complex has a recyclable weekend once or twice a year for tenants to drop off old electronics. The list of acceptable items include "mainframe" computers. I've been waiting for someone to drop off a mainframe computer. No one ever does. Out of 300+ apartments in Silicon Valley, you would think that someone would have an old mainframe computer that they weren't using.

  15. Re:SneakerNET? on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Isolate a Network And Allow Data Transfer? · · Score: 2

    When a college roommate gave me an old IBM PC AT with MS-DOS from his computer surplus job, the first piece of software that I bought at the Egghead Software store was an anti-virus scanner for $25. My roommates gave me a hard time on the way home for purchasing a useless utility instead of a video game. Every PC and every floppy we shared in our apartment had viruses, which all came from the same source via SneakerNet.

  16. Re:Creimer threatens to shoot others on Trump Promises a Federal Technology Overhaul To Save $1 Trillion (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    You incur expenses that you don't need, then scramble desperately just to break even ??

    Nope. I dissolved the LLC because I've decided to walk away from the business for a while (three years, actually). It didn't help that the FTB took my tax payment, didn't update records, and tried to collect money that I've already paid. I didn't want my cash flow going the state during the time I wasn't involved with the business.

  17. Re:Creimer threatens to shoot others on Trump Promises a Federal Technology Overhaul To Save $1 Trillion (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Is your apartment number still the same?

    Read the subject line and think twice (if you can).

  18. Re:Creimer threatens to shoot others on Trump Promises a Federal Technology Overhaul To Save $1 Trillion (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    70$ for registering. I was wondering were you scrounged that up.

    The franchise tax is $800+ per year — off the top.

  19. Re:Creimer threatens to shoot others on Trump Promises a Federal Technology Overhaul To Save $1 Trillion (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Hey, whatever happened to C.D. Reimer & Associates LLC?

    An expensive mistake. I spent two years arguing with the FTB on how expensive it was supposed to be.

    All the documentation I have here has only your signature on it. Who were these associates?

    Private investors.

  20. Re:Creimer threatens to shoot others on Trump Promises a Federal Technology Overhaul To Save $1 Trillion (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    So you submitted gay porn to the FBI and tried to claim it was revenge porn?

    Not yet. I'm still waiting for a response to my complaint. Meanwhile I'm assembling the documentation, emails and contact info from the last three months.

  21. Re:Creimer threatens to shoot others on Trump Promises a Federal Technology Overhaul To Save $1 Trillion (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    You have no standing to make a claim on behalf of someone else's copyright.

    I did argued that the dick pic violated the image website's TOS as revenge porn. The dick pic is no more. I did create a screenshot for the FBI.

  22. Re:cremier thinks shooting people is fine on Trump Promises a Federal Technology Overhaul To Save $1 Trillion (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Can you provide a link?

    I can provide several since Slashdot has become a profitble theme on my blog.

    https://www.kickingthebitbucket.com/2017/03/21/have-i-threatened-to-shoot-you-today/
    https://www.kickingthebitbucket.com/tag/slashdot/

  23. What's this ringly thingie on my desk? on Even Telecom Workers Don't Want To Talk On the Phone (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The majority of my coworkers communicate via Microsoft Lync (IM) with a headset. I got a coworker who uses the phone because he doesn't want to leave a paper trail that could make him look bad. He gets mad at me because I document everything out of habit. What he says over the phone doesn't always match what he writes in the ticket log. I've put him on my "trust but verify" list of coworkers.

  24. Re:Creimer threatens to shoot others on Trump Promises a Federal Technology Overhaul To Save $1 Trillion (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    So are you claiming that one of the guys in the image is you?

    I'm claiming that a reasonable person could conclude that one of the men in the dick pic could be me, as they each bare a passing resemblance to my photo on my author website. Furthermore, the person who has been reposting my photo without authorization (copyright infringement) recently had four user accounts deleted and has the motive to take revenge on me by implying that I'm a homosexual in a dick pic. Hence, revenge porn.

    So I'm not sure why you think the FBI has jurisdiction here.

    A determination that the FBI needs to make.

  25. Re:Creimer threatens to shoot others on Trump Promises a Federal Technology Overhaul To Save $1 Trillion (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    [...] there are no pictures of you engaging in sex.

    Never mind that the dick pic featured two men who had a passing resemblance to me, and that posting my name and URL would cause someone to reasonably conclude that one of the men in the picture was me.