Absolutely not, buying politicians and getting government mandates is a far better way for Merck to spend its money. Business decision wise they absolutely made the correct choice. Far less expenditures and FAR greater incomes due to mandates means big big profit. Spending a fortune on education for a hit or miss return isn't a good business plan. Unfortunately Merck business plans and our freedoms don't exactly coincide. I mean, we all know that there has never been side effects from big pharm industry "cures" and whatnot.
Thats the part that pisses me off the most. I honestly don't know much of the details of this specific one, but I don't feel I need to. The track record stands of rushing shit like this to market, not doing proper testing, and then settling out of court for any damages it may have caused. But hey, I'm just one of that 1-10% that had the 'strong' reaction to the small pox vaccination. Granted, I'd rather go through that aweful experience again rather than go through the real thing, but I would also like to have had the damned choice in the matter, which I didn't.
My outcry is related to government, but I am quite the constitutionalist. Nowhere in there does it say that the government has the power to do this type of thing, and quite frankly the precedent is a little disturbing. So...what happens when gene therapy is more common? Should the government be allowed to mandate particular treatments? I mean...you know...there has never been a (Godwins alert) government that wanted everyone to share certain traits. I mean...our current administration would never consider doing something like "curing" gay would they?
I believe you are right in the sense that the government should step in, but it should not be a mandate thing. If you want the government to nudge, then they can give some form of tax break or something for those who participate. But their last little mandate over this kind of crap got some people killed, and others lost their jobs, while leaving themselves unexposed to the risk. Good thing they can use the general populace to 'mandate' a wider test subject range before they do anything themselves. Further, its a mandate to support a horribly unethical pharm industry, I'm sure Mr. TX is telling the truth when he says that their campaign contributions have nothing to do with his decision to make it mandatory that his constituents must pay the company $400 each.
You seem to be unfamiliar with how government contracts work. Someone got a promotion for this because someone is going to have to shell out some money to get this fixed I'm sure.
So here is my question about this...If it was such an important wonder drug. Good for everyone, amazing perfect shining happy world where we manage to wipe out a relatively rare form of cancers linked source. Why the hell wouldn't people be lining up for this without some government mandate? Now I'm not saying anything is wrong with the actual product, but I would like to see it some years down the line before I jump on board screaming how great it is...you know...the same way you don't want to get screwed in any early adopter scenario. However, with the owners trying to force this through government action it makes me HIGHLY suspicious. Aside from the fairly obvious conflict of interests here, there is also a fairly sketchy issue of government mandated injections. I have always been pretty suspicious about government mandate vaccinations
Anthrax...never been scares, or threats, or anything against US troops, but sure as shit mandated for US troops before real approvals happened and people were getting kicked out and having their livelyhood destroyed over refusing this shit. However, the asshats that made that declaration...sit in offices that have been threatened by anthrax multiple times, and have had numerous scares, yet...they didn't have to take the unapproved vaccine even though they were in a higher demonstrated risk?
Heinlein was a Navy man IIRC and I'm sure has FAR greater insight to the nature of committees and meetings. As far as being a waste of time, that is absolute crap. Now, while the majority of meetings I have been through were crap, they weren't crap because they were mandatory meetings, they were crap because they were held by people being managers and not leaders. There is a distinct difference, and to think that you can just hold a meeting and get stuff done is stupid. It takes training just like everything else. You have to be trained to conduct effective meetings, you have to be a leader and not a manager.
One of those irritating things I have noticed is that technical oriented people will discount managerial behaviour out of hand rather than looking at the individual. There are hordes of ineffective managers being hired with no real leadership qualities or capabilities. Work for someone who has strong leadership traits, has had good leadership training, and you simply won't fear meetings anymore. When I have worked for this type of person I have actually looked forward to a coming meeting. You get to provide status information, collect status and ideas from other sections, and get a good direction and any change information and sent back to work. If handled by a competent leader your meetings will actually keep your team on track better and things will get done with fewer mistakes or last minute changes.
The better reason to not trust Godaddy is that they will yank domains on you without notice if anyone cries foul to them. I don't have the link but it was a previous story here. Further, they are suspected of being one of the worst offenders of watching what people are looking for, registering it themselves, and then selling that instagrab service of theirs to register it for you as soon as it expires.
Typically conspiracy to commit isn't "I thought about doing a crime and went to jail". There is a legal definition of conspiracy and I believe it involves 2-3 or more people. Beyond that, you can still 'talk' about committing a crime, but that is where the line starts to get fuzzy and the lawyers show up. Conspiracy to commit typically involves proving you and your cohorts went through at least some ammount of planning and were serious about pursuing the crime, not just talking it up.
And here is key point number one that I hate dealing with. Disagreeing with the US draconian system, the fast erosion of freedoms, the destruction of the constitution, the paranoia, the fear, the christian dogma plaguing our government and school systems(Note: I don't have a problem with christianity, I have a problem with christians as 90% of them just don't seem to get what Jesus spoke about), doesn't mean I am defending anyone elses insanity. My problem is that we need to clean up our own problems before we go off as Team America to save the world from those heathen religious extremists with our "crusade" (Excellent choice of words Mr. President, they certainly won't be bothered by a reference to the last time westerners slaughtered their friends and family in their homeland). We have mucked about and played stupid games with all the governments over there for ages. We have played them against each other and we have played them against the russians, and we have an excellent track record of not even giving a second look to a country with nukes that breaks the law, only countries trying to get nukes that we don't like. France and Russia were HUGE violators of selling Iraq arms...did we care...nope. N. Korea and Iran see this clearly and obviously want whatever it is that keeps the other violators from being invaded. We played Iraq vs Iran, and then attacked Iraq later when we changed our minds, is there any reason for Iran to trust ANYTHING we say since we told Saddam he was our great buddy for killing Iranians and then turned on him? In that famous little 7 day war everyone likes to talk about with God protecting Israel...noone mentions that with no intel of their own they were able to conduct precision strikes against Egyptian forces, nor does anyone talk about how the US negotiated with Egypt to not strike first when they closed their canal and Israel went berserk. We begged and pleaded with Egypt, don't strike, let us calm them down...and then Israel struck and we looked the other way and likely gave some form of support (questionable, but that part of the world believes without doubt that we assisted)
To paraphrase the man who everyone claims is on their side when they justify this horrific foreign policy. How can you tell your brother he has a mote of dust in his eye when you have a log in yours? We got ourselves in this situation...and fighting through it won't make it any better. Cure the disease, not the symptoms. The current state of affairs are just symptoms of our unbelievably awful international policy. Fix our behavior and many of the problems will start to lessen if not disappear over the years. This isn't appeasement like the ultra conservatives like to claim, its called setting the example. We are supposed to be the beacon of light on the hill, lets act like it for a change.
The problems I have run into were with totally unqualified women in IT who believed they were the best of the best and could not be questions. Some of these interactions I managed to mitigate by avoiding ever working on the same job with them, and they became pleasant in the office so long as there was no kind of technical work between us. Others just insisted they were correct in all things IT. One went so far to chastise me how dumb I was for not understanding that I had to turn on the FTP service on a Win2k3 server to use ftp to download things, when I demonstrated that you don't need that service running by completing a successful FTP manually and that it was a Symantic configuration issue causing problems she just laughed at me and said "See, you said you didn't have the FTP service running" I about lost my mind.
The women that brought any meaningful skills to the table have never given me trouble and we have learned plenty from each other as technicians should. So while I think part of it may be a reflection of them being dismissed as not "one of the guys" I think a large part of it is them being dismissed for not having a clue and they equate that with the victim mentality that is so common these days of "its because I'm a woman" and not "its because I have no skills". I think it is the same double edged sword that is equal opportunity. The most outspoken people I have met that are against equal opportunity were minorities because they get treated like they are only there because they have to be, or they are getting handouts that aren't based on their qualifications. There absolutely were(are) blockages that women face in getting into certain positions, but the special treatment end of it causes just as many problems. I don't treat women I work with any differently than the guys I work with, you either are a good technician or not, and any of that workplace flirting/romance crap is just begging for disaster anyways. Sexual harrassment is a real issue, but when its just a "oh my god they offended me" it usually boils back down the insecurity thing, because the women that I have worked with that really knew there job and were confident in their abilities and position...holy crap...you think guys can be dirty... I have heard these girls say things that make your testicles retreat like you haven't hit puberty and have you blushing like a school girl.
Just to play devils advocate here a little. I have had some outstanding women supervisors and coworkers in the IT field, however, I have simply never had the same ammount of 'issues' with male supervisors and coworkers. The number of women I have worked with that are supremely offended by any suggestion that they may not be absolutely correct in all things IT blows my mind. I have never seen (not that it doesn't happen) a male coworker turn red screaming when it was insinuated that they were not correct. I don't think its really genetic so much as a social issue that has put them in this state, but so many of them choose to become offended instead of getting educated. Now, there have been dozens of studies that show women tend to use emotion much more when making decisions so I think that has an effect, but it certainly doesn't have any bearing on their technical capabilities in the long run. I think there is a barrier that women in general are faced with in the technical fields, which I'm sure contributes to insecurity, but its emotional overreactions to this that brand ALL women as unable to be technical. The other frequent class is the 'I'm a helpless girl' crap that leaves everyone pulling their weight while they pull a paycheck. Now, I have known males to try this, but I have never seen it actually work.
Incidentally, of those outstanding women I have worked with, all of them were incredibly secure and confident in their job. They weren't afraid of having someone point out a mistake, and they were able to point out others mistakes without it becoming an issue. They never pull the 'I'm a helpless girl' crap either. In all honestly I would prefer one of these women as a supervisor over a male supervisor in most cases due to their bluntness (not bitchyness) and typically less frequent political games (which male coworkers seem to play FAR more frequently).
So...by this train does that mean the CERN supercollider is considered cracking? I am SOOO going to sue them for cracking a particle that represented a copy of 1 bit of my intellectual property! DMCA here I come!
Uhm...and why wouldn't they suggest that. Given that they are getting paid for the advertisement it stands to reason that every time a user get suckered in by it that MS makes money on the deal. Sure it makes them looks bad, but now they get to make their little apology speech, everything is A OK again, and they still got paid through the deal. People who like windows are few and far between these days, almost every average joe user I have dealt with despises them, but knows no other reasonable option. IT professionals are the only place that I have managed to find MS fanboys. I had a security "professional" tell me how MS ISA server is the best thing since sliced bread and everyone should be using it as their firewall and proxy solution (enterprise level). I was laughing so hard I could barely breath to ask about his opinion on Sidewinder SecureOS or Cisco Pix.
Microsoft can do whatever wrong they want, because the populace believes there is no other choice to do what they need. The first OS that manages to be simple enough the average user can buy software off the shelf, install it, run it, and really have no flaming hoops of death to jump through, people will start leaving in droves. Linux isn't there yet, but it may get there some day. OSX I think may get there first if they solve the problem of the fear of learning a new interface and fears of software issues. Either way, once there is a viable competitor, I suspect the dynamic will shift very quickly.
On a side note, can you imagine how far a virtual software store would go for the unfamiliar user would go for linux? Browse by needs like you would any other online vendor, pick what you want, and it installs click n run style through whatever you distro of choice's methods are (well at least major distros, getting all the fringe ones would make for a monumental undertaking, but fringe distros are typically for those in the know anyways). I have been using linux for years and I still find myself stumbling across amazing packages I didn't know existed.
CAC Card is redundant based on what it is supposed to stand for. In reality it isn't because its a Can't Access Crap Card. It was a great idea, with an implementation that makes you wish the edges of your ID card were sharper so you could just slit your wrists at the computer and be more productive.
I can't believe you tried to put R2 on a production network. For shame, incidentally, due to lack of revenue we are reducing your department's manning starting with you, and hiring more IT staff to research the problems in production. Have a nice day.
Coming from military IT it surprises me that the Navy has said anything about the attacks being chinese. I suspect someone may be on their way to their new job of rock redistribution. Details of an attack on a DoD asset is most certainly largely classified information. That being said I suspect you are right about most of the details being classified and the media not being there. I imagine the truth is still relatively close, far easier to omit classified details rather than to fabricate entirely. Either way, they are definitely getting more ballsy as of late. But I suppose if your biggest adversary was tied up in multiple wars and their credibility a laughing stock on the world stage it would give you quite a bit of wiggle room to start getting gutsy.
I think you are confused. He was in firing range and was undetected by a US carrier group. A US carrier group is not 1 boat, it is a carrier and a fleet of boats designed to protect said carrier. No sane US CO would fire on a ship that didn't do something more hostile than say "surprise, I see you" and then run away, especially given that they are Chinese and can do no wrong apparently. That sub was showing exactly what it could have done to us before we knew it was there. Since they were there undetected, they surface to show how close they can get undetected. Its the same reason they were blinding US satellites. To prove that they can. Its called a show of force, it is a tactic the US used frequently before the cowboy got in. Flexing military might without actually 'doing' anything, the cowboy just shoots first and doesn't bother to ask questions.
It blows my mind that for all the "moral" reasons we are going to war...we completely overlook China and make them a most favored trade nation. What a joke. I absolutely agree with that idea, there needs to be international agreements on labor conditions and such, its the same thing that drives so many US companies overseas...they can cheat and win. I also think investors should be held liable for the behavior of the company. Now you have to do some research into their business before giving them your money to use to continue to do whatever good, bad, or other they are doing. You invested in Coca Cola, Coca Cola paid mercenaries to harass/kill union workers in south america, YOU paid mercenaries to harrass/kill union workers in south america.
Incidentally, mancow radio show plays this GREAT 'commercial' about this guy going through his daily business "he wakes up and puts on his slippers made in taiwan, turns on his coffee pot made in china, etc etc etc" and he goes out to look for a job but can't find one and he wonders where all the American jobs went. Freaking funny yet disturbingly true.
I dunno that the economy would exactly shrink, but it would most certainly slow down until it reached its equilibrium. This credit nonsense totally screws market equilibrium because people are willing to pay higher prices since its not really money they have anyways.
I can't believe you found an article directly referencing a pillow mfg shutting down. I only said pillow because I was recently looking at getting a job at a pillow making place as part of a relocation. There have been numerous studies about what you are talking about and typically they vary wildly, I think for certain industries and services its true one direction and others the opposite. I'm not saying its all that rosy out there, but there have been a growing number of companies that are starting to shy away from the offshoring things as the PHB types learn its not as cost effective as the fluff filled hype magazines lead them to believe. Some things just can't go on without touch maintenance in IT, and there are other related jobs that aren't likely to go anywhere. Government jobs being a big one (as much as I hate the current crop of insanity, it certainly has created tons of government jobs).
It does still work today, you just can't live like the media makes it look. I have never bought a new car, and have never been plagued by the "unreliability" that the media would have you believe to drive new car sales. Many of these closings and draw downs aren't just a symptom of offshoring, its also hugely affected by the debt driven credit society. The money just doesn't exist, its all credit, and that only works so long as the status quo is maintained. Any kind of surprise and the whole system starts to suffer. Economics is a terribly complex system and really is driven by consumer habits more than CEO decisions. The best thing you can do is work local and shop local. The more crap people buy on credit from places that mfg overseas the worse the situation gets. Alot of people act like its stupid and arrogant and otherwise self centered Americanism, but BUY AMERICAN! Yes, you might pay a bit more, but if you want to get paid you will deal. The best way to stop offshoring is to make the American run businesses do better, but it takes a whole lot of people and a whole lot of financial discipline that just doesn't exist in our mass media marketing society.
Now, I'm not saying its all easy, but it can be done. I don't make all that much but I am the breadwinner and wife stays home with kids. We are doing fine, not life of luxury or anything, but well to do. My plasma TV was paid for in less than a month (yes, on credit, but half per payday to account for any emergency that might come up) and it was US made. In two short years of getting really involved in my finances, investing, planning, budgeting, we have become completely debt free and have investments earning at a considerable rate.
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Absolutely not, buying politicians and getting government mandates is a far better way for Merck to spend its money. Business decision wise they absolutely made the correct choice. Far less expenditures and FAR greater incomes due to mandates means big big profit. Spending a fortune on education for a hit or miss return isn't a good business plan. Unfortunately Merck business plans and our freedoms don't exactly coincide. I mean, we all know that there has never been side effects from big pharm industry "cures" and whatnot.
Thats the part that pisses me off the most. I honestly don't know much of the details of this specific one, but I don't feel I need to. The track record stands of rushing shit like this to market, not doing proper testing, and then settling out of court for any damages it may have caused. But hey, I'm just one of that 1-10% that had the 'strong' reaction to the small pox vaccination. Granted, I'd rather go through that aweful experience again rather than go through the real thing, but I would also like to have had the damned choice in the matter, which I didn't.
My outcry is related to government, but I am quite the constitutionalist. Nowhere in there does it say that the government has the power to do this type of thing, and quite frankly the precedent is a little disturbing. So...what happens when gene therapy is more common? Should the government be allowed to mandate particular treatments? I mean...you know...there has never been a (Godwins alert) government that wanted everyone to share certain traits. I mean...our current administration would never consider doing something like "curing" gay would they?
I believe you are right in the sense that the government should step in, but it should not be a mandate thing. If you want the government to nudge, then they can give some form of tax break or something for those who participate. But their last little mandate over this kind of crap got some people killed, and others lost their jobs, while leaving themselves unexposed to the risk. Good thing they can use the general populace to 'mandate' a wider test subject range before they do anything themselves. Further, its a mandate to support a horribly unethical pharm industry, I'm sure Mr. TX is telling the truth when he says that their campaign contributions have nothing to do with his decision to make it mandatory that his constituents must pay the company $400 each.
You seem to be unfamiliar with how government contracts work. Someone got a promotion for this because someone is going to have to shell out some money to get this fixed I'm sure.
So here is my question about this...If it was such an important wonder drug. Good for everyone, amazing perfect shining happy world where we manage to wipe out a relatively rare form of cancers linked source. Why the hell wouldn't people be lining up for this without some government mandate? Now I'm not saying anything is wrong with the actual product, but I would like to see it some years down the line before I jump on board screaming how great it is...you know...the same way you don't want to get screwed in any early adopter scenario. However, with the owners trying to force this through government action it makes me HIGHLY suspicious. Aside from the fairly obvious conflict of interests here, there is also a fairly sketchy issue of government mandated injections. I have always been pretty suspicious about government mandate vaccinations
Anthrax...never been scares, or threats, or anything against US troops, but sure as shit mandated for US troops before real approvals happened and people were getting kicked out and having their livelyhood destroyed over refusing this shit. However, the asshats that made that declaration...sit in offices that have been threatened by anthrax multiple times, and have had numerous scares, yet...they didn't have to take the unapproved vaccine even though they were in a higher demonstrated risk?
I have learned the moderation system is more like a slot machine than anything reasonable.
Heinlein was a Navy man IIRC and I'm sure has FAR greater insight to the nature of committees and meetings. As far as being a waste of time, that is absolute crap. Now, while the majority of meetings I have been through were crap, they weren't crap because they were mandatory meetings, they were crap because they were held by people being managers and not leaders. There is a distinct difference, and to think that you can just hold a meeting and get stuff done is stupid. It takes training just like everything else. You have to be trained to conduct effective meetings, you have to be a leader and not a manager.
One of those irritating things I have noticed is that technical oriented people will discount managerial behaviour out of hand rather than looking at the individual. There are hordes of ineffective managers being hired with no real leadership qualities or capabilities. Work for someone who has strong leadership traits, has had good leadership training, and you simply won't fear meetings anymore. When I have worked for this type of person I have actually looked forward to a coming meeting. You get to provide status information, collect status and ideas from other sections, and get a good direction and any change information and sent back to work. If handled by a competent leader your meetings will actually keep your team on track better and things will get done with fewer mistakes or last minute changes.
I guess the joke is on you Mr +5 funny! No karma here.
The better reason to not trust Godaddy is that they will yank domains on you without notice if anyone cries foul to them. I don't have the link but it was a previous story here. Further, they are suspected of being one of the worst offenders of watching what people are looking for, registering it themselves, and then selling that instagrab service of theirs to register it for you as soon as it expires.
Typically conspiracy to commit isn't "I thought about doing a crime and went to jail". There is a legal definition of conspiracy and I believe it involves 2-3 or more people. Beyond that, you can still 'talk' about committing a crime, but that is where the line starts to get fuzzy and the lawyers show up. Conspiracy to commit typically involves proving you and your cohorts went through at least some ammount of planning and were serious about pursuing the crime, not just talking it up.
And here is key point number one that I hate dealing with. Disagreeing with the US draconian system, the fast erosion of freedoms, the destruction of the constitution, the paranoia, the fear, the christian dogma plaguing our government and school systems(Note: I don't have a problem with christianity, I have a problem with christians as 90% of them just don't seem to get what Jesus spoke about), doesn't mean I am defending anyone elses insanity. My problem is that we need to clean up our own problems before we go off as Team America to save the world from those heathen religious extremists with our "crusade" (Excellent choice of words Mr. President, they certainly won't be bothered by a reference to the last time westerners slaughtered their friends and family in their homeland). We have mucked about and played stupid games with all the governments over there for ages. We have played them against each other and we have played them against the russians, and we have an excellent track record of not even giving a second look to a country with nukes that breaks the law, only countries trying to get nukes that we don't like. France and Russia were HUGE violators of selling Iraq arms...did we care...nope. N. Korea and Iran see this clearly and obviously want whatever it is that keeps the other violators from being invaded. We played Iraq vs Iran, and then attacked Iraq later when we changed our minds, is there any reason for Iran to trust ANYTHING we say since we told Saddam he was our great buddy for killing Iranians and then turned on him? In that famous little 7 day war everyone likes to talk about with God protecting Israel...noone mentions that with no intel of their own they were able to conduct precision strikes against Egyptian forces, nor does anyone talk about how the US negotiated with Egypt to not strike first when they closed their canal and Israel went berserk. We begged and pleaded with Egypt, don't strike, let us calm them down...and then Israel struck and we looked the other way and likely gave some form of support (questionable, but that part of the world believes without doubt that we assisted)
To paraphrase the man who everyone claims is on their side when they justify this horrific foreign policy. How can you tell your brother he has a mote of dust in his eye when you have a log in yours? We got ourselves in this situation...and fighting through it won't make it any better. Cure the disease, not the symptoms. The current state of affairs are just symptoms of our unbelievably awful international policy. Fix our behavior and many of the problems will start to lessen if not disappear over the years. This isn't appeasement like the ultra conservatives like to claim, its called setting the example. We are supposed to be the beacon of light on the hill, lets act like it for a change.
The problems I have run into were with totally unqualified women in IT who believed they were the best of the best and could not be questions. Some of these interactions I managed to mitigate by avoiding ever working on the same job with them, and they became pleasant in the office so long as there was no kind of technical work between us. Others just insisted they were correct in all things IT. One went so far to chastise me how dumb I was for not understanding that I had to turn on the FTP service on a Win2k3 server to use ftp to download things, when I demonstrated that you don't need that service running by completing a successful FTP manually and that it was a Symantic configuration issue causing problems she just laughed at me and said "See, you said you didn't have the FTP service running" I about lost my mind.
The women that brought any meaningful skills to the table have never given me trouble and we have learned plenty from each other as technicians should. So while I think part of it may be a reflection of them being dismissed as not "one of the guys" I think a large part of it is them being dismissed for not having a clue and they equate that with the victim mentality that is so common these days of "its because I'm a woman" and not "its because I have no skills". I think it is the same double edged sword that is equal opportunity. The most outspoken people I have met that are against equal opportunity were minorities because they get treated like they are only there because they have to be, or they are getting handouts that aren't based on their qualifications. There absolutely were(are) blockages that women face in getting into certain positions, but the special treatment end of it causes just as many problems. I don't treat women I work with any differently than the guys I work with, you either are a good technician or not, and any of that workplace flirting/romance crap is just begging for disaster anyways. Sexual harrassment is a real issue, but when its just a "oh my god they offended me" it usually boils back down the insecurity thing, because the women that I have worked with that really knew there job and were confident in their abilities and position...holy crap...you think guys can be dirty... I have heard these girls say things that make your testicles retreat like you haven't hit puberty and have you blushing like a school girl.
Just to play devils advocate here a little. I have had some outstanding women supervisors and coworkers in the IT field, however, I have simply never had the same ammount of 'issues' with male supervisors and coworkers. The number of women I have worked with that are supremely offended by any suggestion that they may not be absolutely correct in all things IT blows my mind. I have never seen (not that it doesn't happen) a male coworker turn red screaming when it was insinuated that they were not correct. I don't think its really genetic so much as a social issue that has put them in this state, but so many of them choose to become offended instead of getting educated. Now, there have been dozens of studies that show women tend to use emotion much more when making decisions so I think that has an effect, but it certainly doesn't have any bearing on their technical capabilities in the long run. I think there is a barrier that women in general are faced with in the technical fields, which I'm sure contributes to insecurity, but its emotional overreactions to this that brand ALL women as unable to be technical. The other frequent class is the 'I'm a helpless girl' crap that leaves everyone pulling their weight while they pull a paycheck. Now, I have known males to try this, but I have never seen it actually work.
Incidentally, of those outstanding women I have worked with, all of them were incredibly secure and confident in their job. They weren't afraid of having someone point out a mistake, and they were able to point out others mistakes without it becoming an issue. They never pull the 'I'm a helpless girl' crap either. In all honestly I would prefer one of these women as a supervisor over a male supervisor in most cases due to their bluntness (not bitchyness) and typically less frequent political games (which male coworkers seem to play FAR more frequently).
So...by this train does that mean the CERN supercollider is considered cracking? I am SOOO going to sue them for cracking a particle that represented a copy of 1 bit of my intellectual property! DMCA here I come!
God I hope not, last thing we need is another Hollywood. Although the idea of moving them off planet certainly is appealing.
Uhm...and why wouldn't they suggest that. Given that they are getting paid for the advertisement it stands to reason that every time a user get suckered in by it that MS makes money on the deal. Sure it makes them looks bad, but now they get to make their little apology speech, everything is A OK again, and they still got paid through the deal. People who like windows are few and far between these days, almost every average joe user I have dealt with despises them, but knows no other reasonable option. IT professionals are the only place that I have managed to find MS fanboys. I had a security "professional" tell me how MS ISA server is the best thing since sliced bread and everyone should be using it as their firewall and proxy solution (enterprise level). I was laughing so hard I could barely breath to ask about his opinion on Sidewinder SecureOS or Cisco Pix.
Microsoft can do whatever wrong they want, because the populace believes there is no other choice to do what they need. The first OS that manages to be simple enough the average user can buy software off the shelf, install it, run it, and really have no flaming hoops of death to jump through, people will start leaving in droves. Linux isn't there yet, but it may get there some day. OSX I think may get there first if they solve the problem of the fear of learning a new interface and fears of software issues. Either way, once there is a viable competitor, I suspect the dynamic will shift very quickly.
On a side note, can you imagine how far a virtual software store would go for the unfamiliar user would go for linux? Browse by needs like you would any other online vendor, pick what you want, and it installs click n run style through whatever you distro of choice's methods are (well at least major distros, getting all the fringe ones would make for a monumental undertaking, but fringe distros are typically for those in the know anyways). I have been using linux for years and I still find myself stumbling across amazing packages I didn't know existed.
CAC Card is redundant based on what it is supposed to stand for. In reality it isn't because its a Can't Access Crap Card. It was a great idea, with an implementation that makes you wish the edges of your ID card were sharper so you could just slit your wrists at the computer and be more productive.
They have great 64 bit offerings. You just have to purchase 32 licenses for their 2 bit offerings to get there.
I can't believe you tried to put R2 on a production network. For shame, incidentally, due to lack of revenue we are reducing your department's manning starting with you, and hiring more IT staff to research the problems in production. Have a nice day.
There is a car analogy waiting to happen here...
Coming from military IT it surprises me that the Navy has said anything about the attacks being chinese. I suspect someone may be on their way to their new job of rock redistribution. Details of an attack on a DoD asset is most certainly largely classified information. That being said I suspect you are right about most of the details being classified and the media not being there. I imagine the truth is still relatively close, far easier to omit classified details rather than to fabricate entirely. Either way, they are definitely getting more ballsy as of late. But I suppose if your biggest adversary was tied up in multiple wars and their credibility a laughing stock on the world stage it would give you quite a bit of wiggle room to start getting gutsy.
I think you are confused. He was in firing range and was undetected by a US carrier group. A US carrier group is not 1 boat, it is a carrier and a fleet of boats designed to protect said carrier. No sane US CO would fire on a ship that didn't do something more hostile than say "surprise, I see you" and then run away, especially given that they are Chinese and can do no wrong apparently. That sub was showing exactly what it could have done to us before we knew it was there. Since they were there undetected, they surface to show how close they can get undetected. Its the same reason they were blinding US satellites. To prove that they can. Its called a show of force, it is a tactic the US used frequently before the cowboy got in. Flexing military might without actually 'doing' anything, the cowboy just shoots first and doesn't bother to ask questions.
Boy you guys are dated. It wasn't all that long ago that a Chinese sub surfaced within torpedo range of a US aircraft carrier. Or you can bring up the shooting at US satellites. China sub stalked U.S. fleet
China Attempted to blind US Satellites
I would assume growling. Can't be happy about a bunch of us fleas tearing up the skin right?
It blows my mind that for all the "moral" reasons we are going to war...we completely overlook China and make them a most favored trade nation. What a joke. I absolutely agree with that idea, there needs to be international agreements on labor conditions and such, its the same thing that drives so many US companies overseas...they can cheat and win. I also think investors should be held liable for the behavior of the company. Now you have to do some research into their business before giving them your money to use to continue to do whatever good, bad, or other they are doing. You invested in Coca Cola, Coca Cola paid mercenaries to harass/kill union workers in south america, YOU paid mercenaries to harrass/kill union workers in south america.
Incidentally, mancow radio show plays this GREAT 'commercial' about this guy going through his daily business "he wakes up and puts on his slippers made in taiwan, turns on his coffee pot made in china, etc etc etc" and he goes out to look for a job but can't find one and he wonders where all the American jobs went. Freaking funny yet disturbingly true.
I dunno that the economy would exactly shrink, but it would most certainly slow down until it reached its equilibrium. This credit nonsense totally screws market equilibrium because people are willing to pay higher prices since its not really money they have anyways.
I can't believe you found an article directly referencing a pillow mfg shutting down. I only said pillow because I was recently looking at getting a job at a pillow making place as part of a relocation. There have been numerous studies about what you are talking about and typically they vary wildly, I think for certain industries and services its true one direction and others the opposite. I'm not saying its all that rosy out there, but there have been a growing number of companies that are starting to shy away from the offshoring things as the PHB types learn its not as cost effective as the fluff filled hype magazines lead them to believe. Some things just can't go on without touch maintenance in IT, and there are other related jobs that aren't likely to go anywhere. Government jobs being a big one (as much as I hate the current crop of insanity, it certainly has created tons of government jobs).
It does still work today, you just can't live like the media makes it look. I have never bought a new car, and have never been plagued by the "unreliability" that the media would have you believe to drive new car sales. Many of these closings and draw downs aren't just a symptom of offshoring, its also hugely affected by the debt driven credit society. The money just doesn't exist, its all credit, and that only works so long as the status quo is maintained. Any kind of surprise and the whole system starts to suffer. Economics is a terribly complex system and really is driven by consumer habits more than CEO decisions. The best thing you can do is work local and shop local. The more crap people buy on credit from places that mfg overseas the worse the situation gets. Alot of people act like its stupid and arrogant and otherwise self centered Americanism, but BUY AMERICAN! Yes, you might pay a bit more, but if you want to get paid you will deal. The best way to stop offshoring is to make the American run businesses do better, but it takes a whole lot of people and a whole lot of financial discipline that just doesn't exist in our mass media marketing society.
Now, I'm not saying its all easy, but it can be done. I don't make all that much but I am the breadwinner and wife stays home with kids. We are doing fine, not life of luxury or anything, but well to do. My plasma TV was paid for in less than a month (yes, on credit, but half per payday to account for any emergency that might come up) and it was US made. In two short years of getting really involved in my finances, investing, planning, budgeting, we have become completely debt free and have investments earning at a considerable rate.