Every employee that forms part of "The Government" is a person just like you or me
Have you meet many government employees? My wife's family is filled with them. They're mostly part of a good ol' boys network (primarily it's the law enforcement organizations like this) and you do NOT get in the door unless you know someone or think/act just like the rest of them. People who have ever done anything with their life that shows the least bit of individuality or fun do NOT get these jobs. People that have made minor mistakes with their life (i.e. been HUMAN) do NOT get these jobs. Have bad credit? Sorry, you can't be trusted. Smoked pot more than 1 or 2 times? We don't want you. Have a couple friends who have DUIs? You might get one too, we don't need you. It's really like that in these law enforcement organizations. They want thoughtless drones who obey.
It's not much better in regulatory agencies like the EPA. The guy carting the mail around every day might be on the up and up, but a great deal of the higher officials are paid-off puppets for polluting companies or people that want to cause the competition some headaches.
You're right, people DO need to chill out a bit...it's not like we're being persecuted and hunted down in the streets, but if you think these "people like you and me" give a shit about you or YOUR family, civil liberties, freedom, or happiness, you're kidding yourself.
When exactly did the stock market turn into a bunch of fat white guys telling companies how to operate?
I can remember a day when you invested in a company and let them do what they needed to stay afloat. Financial accountability? A company didn't USED to have to be financially accountable to shareholders, they could just take their money other places if they didn't like how things were going.
IANAMA (I am not a market analyst) so someone tell me when exactly shareholders took over corporate america...I'd really love to know. It seems like maximizing profits for shareholder benefit is the embodiment of everything that is soulless and evil about corporate America.
Mac users that would like a second Mac but can't afford to buy a new one because Apple is so damn expensive maybe?
Or how about a PC owner that wants a Mac to dork around with an iPod and maybe some video editing but doesn't want to shell out several grand for a decent new one?
Expensive things often have a very active life in the used market...look at the resale value on older BMWs and Mercedes cars for instance. They keep their value well because people are willing to buy them at a reduced cost even if it's an older model.
I'm not saying Macs aren't worth the full retail price, but you can't deny that they're awful expensive compared to PCs. If Apple found a way to come down in price substantially (and I don't mean by offering another weak-ass iMac) I'm betting they'd find themselves with much improved marketshare. Many many people are sick of Microsoft and Windows.
I don't know what's funnier...the fact that his last name is Ham and he's the deputy of communications (Ham Radio) or the fact that his last name is Ham and he's a cop. (Pig!)
Open Source and Linux are arguably creating jobs, based on a recent/. article I'm too lazy to reference. At the very least it's not causing noticable declines in employment levels. Overpriced software on the other hand raises IT overhead and makes for more company layoffs and closures. There is no comparison between Linus creating the Linux kernel and Sun firing thousands of employees to replace with H1Bs. Your argument is neither logical nor founded in reality. Nice try though.
You're ashamed to be part of Slashdot because your country is still marginally 3rd world? My girlfriend's sister lives in India, I've been there to visit....I've seen droves of your little kids playing in sewer water and families with nowhere to go just propping up tents in abandonded areas of the city. I'm not trying to insult the people of India, I'm merely pointing out that the reason many of your citizens are coming to the US is because they don't have to live in squalor here, even on substandard wages. You're part of the Indian middle class...hooray for you...that's what, like 10% of your population that has that standard of living? If it's so great in India, why the fuck do so many of your professionals have a hard-on the get out of there?
I'm glad you're not planning on coming to the US...the last thing we need is yet another foreign national coming here for our jobs then getting all bent out of shape when people say something negative about their home. So go have a Coke and a Vindaloo and shut the fuck up.
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Which is exactly why companies that heavily rely on H1Bs are so evil...not only are they depriving our own citizens of jobs, they're also mistreating and exploiting the foreign labor that comes to replace us. They do it because they can. Indians will let themselves be worked 60-70 hours a week for the same salary that the cute white little administrative assistant is getting (hell, probably less) because, well, it beats the alternative which is sitting in a pile of your own filth in India hoping to get a job that pays enough so you can eat.
After world war II, there was a big grassroots movement to buy only American made cars and such. I'd like to see it taken one step further and only buy software, hardware, or services from tech companies that replace thousands of american workers with cheap exploitable foreign labor.
They held the Timothy McVeigh trial here in Denver in 1996. My friends and I all played Cyberpunk at a Denny's during the wee hours of the night just about every night of the week. One night we started kinda early, during the tail end of the dinner rush. In the game, we were planning this big bank heist complete with neurotoxins, automatic weapons, remote cameras, cars packed with explosives, distracting police attention by blowing up a wing of a hospital, and all sorts of other shenanigans. We were all so into it, even the waitress was tossing ideas back and forth with us.
Well, apparently, some concerned citizen heard us plotting these things and called the police. The next night, a bunch of goons in FBI jackets stormed into the place and started interrogating us about what we were planning.
I was like "Dude, come on...it's a game. Here are the books, here are the dice...wanna see my stats?" No legal trouble ended up coming of it, luckily, but I wouldn't be surprised if I am on some FBI database somewhere as a potential terrorist. Last year, I applied for an intership with the feds and was denied based on the background check. Considering I have no significant criminal history, I can only imagine that is what caused it. (They don't tell you why you fail, just that you fail)
Think about my experiences, and those of Steve Jackson games, and tell me that there won't be many many misunderstandings as these things become more mainstream.
A Russian Girl travelling Vermont Said "It's a big fucking dick that I want" So I whipped out my weasel And used her face for an easel Chalk up one more for Detante.
What, are you educated in public schools or something? Take a dish of water and put it under vacuum. See how it boils? That's lower pressure causing boiling at lower tempurature, son.
The reason a liquid boils is due to the molecules of the liquid being able to escape from the surface of the liquid mass due to a lack of air molecules banging against it. The fewer the air molecules and the weaker the intramolecular bonds between the liquid molecules, the more easily the liquid molecules can escape to a vapor state, hence the lower the boiling point.
Is that enough of a chemistry lesson or shall I demonstrate with equations and stuff?
Yeah, lying in court is illegal, but there still needs to be a district or US attorney that is ready to bring the charges against them and honestly, no one has the balls. Our governement in this country is run by spineless lackies and corporate lapdogs.
Public opinion rarely motivates legislative or legal action...for example, there are more folks against Bush and the war in Iraq than there are for it, yet I don't see him trying to back down. He already proved that he doesn't need popular support to get into power.
You realize that the other Mozilla programs don't load into memory unless you run them, right? It's not like you open your browser and chat/mail/news all load too. They take up maybe 20-30 MB extra hard drive space...a drop in the bucket of your average hard drive these days.
Trust me, the majority of educated and socially aware Americans do not approve of Mr Bush or his war. Remember, the majority of the population here didnt even vote for this guy...we just have a fucked up election process and system of government.
A couple high level Democrats in Congress are already starting impeachment bills because of this war. Don't assume that we're all behind this man.
I work for an environmental laboratory that does testing for this very thing. This guy's whining aside, many folks' houses are more polluted than the outdoors.
There are quite a few factors that can cause illness to those living in such a place. Many older paints contain lead, older carpeting and padding can give off fumes of organic solvents, a lot of older linoleum and drywall contains asbestos, mold can grow in moist areas and squirt bits of mold particles all over, basements contain radon in many areas, oh and it clings to smoke/dust particles which lets it lodge in your lungs and sit there emitting harmful ionizing radiation directly into lung tissue. Granted, much of this stuff is just allergens, but constant allergies can lower your immune capability. And some of this stuff is downright toxic or carcinogenic.
Get your house tested. It really doesn't cost that much. Do it sooner rather than later, especially if you have children...this isn't a plug to drum up business for my lab, you really will be amazed at what kind of crap is in your home.
Just who are the people who are responding to spam?
-Men with small penises who are insecure about them
-Someone who wants a diploma but is too dumb to go to college
-Someone gullible enough to think that they can buy pure human growth hormone for 29.95 a bottle.
-A person who really doesn't know how to find a teenage beastiality plump asian tranny webcam on their own with a search engine
-Someone who wants to "make money fast" and has never been burned by a scam before. (Or is too dumb to see that this is one)
Should I go on?
Think about how many complete fucking morons you run into every single day, now understand that about 75% of them have email addresses and receive spam. Out of 10 million spams, all it takes is a few gullible fools to give a return on investment.
People sometimes ask my why I rag on stupid people so much. It's because their ignorance causes me inconvenience in many forms...spam is one of those forms. (others include needing ID to buy liquor, pot being illegal, and car insurance in denver being so fucking high)
100Mbs along with both a bandwidth cap and restrictions on servers? Not for nothin, but what's the point? If you couldn't run a server of your own (negating the usefulness of outbound 100Mb) and could exceed your monthly cap in like an hour if you maxed out your download bandwidth, why even have this? Oh, and you get to pay out the nose for the router? I'd rather keep my cable, thanks.
There are also plenty of bacteria that will consume biomass. (i.e. the organic contaminants) As far as the inorganic contaminants go, it's basically just heavy metal (well, Beryllium aint all that heavy but it's a problem too) ions, which are removed manually more easily than organic contaminants. (filtration, evaporation, precipitation, you name it)
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Eros is the same deity as Cupid...one is Greek, the other Roman. Eros is actually the Greek name, whereas Cupid is the Roman. However, since at the time the moon Eros was named Cupid was already defined in our culture as a fat little fairy with wings, they went with Eros.
Well this WD drive does sport a 1.2 million hour MTBF
That's like 139 years dude....I'm thinking either you're wrong about that number or WD is fucking with you. Or I'm just really stoned and missed your sarcasm.
Any decent university is going to have an FTP server for student use. If the administrators or students are any kind of good geeks, they're going to mirror all open source distro sites so that students have access to the images without blowing their bandwidth cap.
If they DON'T have an FTP server...well...now you have something to bring up at your next student government meeting.
Would you call the cops if you found out people were stealing from you? I thought so.
I don't agree with IP laws the way they are written and enforced, but as it stands, pirating music is stealing. Don't like it? Write your congressman so you can make yourself feel righteous.
Or, a better idea, listen to and support bands that don't use the RIAA-affiliated recording/publishing houses. In a capitalist country, only changes in the bottom line can bring about change.
Some knees can jerk both ways, see? One direction you have "But its the law" and the other you have "Corporations are taking over all our rights." I'm more inclined to the latter as well, but just being morally outraged is tiresome, I've just stopped buying products or services from companies or organizations whose ethics I do not like. I put my money where my mouth is, unlike the majority of/. who decry groups like the MPAA but still line up 6 months in advance for their movies.
In other words, come up with some better analogies. (Not so easy...nothing else is quite like our hydrocephalic IP laws)
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Every employee that forms part of "The Government" is a person just like you or me
Have you meet many government employees? My wife's family is filled with them. They're mostly part of a good ol' boys network (primarily it's the law enforcement organizations like this) and you do NOT get in the door unless you know someone or think/act just like the rest of them. People who have ever done anything with their life that shows the least bit of individuality or fun do NOT get these jobs. People that have made minor mistakes with their life (i.e. been HUMAN) do NOT get these jobs. Have bad credit? Sorry, you can't be trusted. Smoked pot more than 1 or 2 times? We don't want you. Have a couple friends who have DUIs? You might get one too, we don't need you. It's really like that in these law enforcement organizations. They want thoughtless drones who obey.
It's not much better in regulatory agencies like the EPA. The guy carting the mail around every day might be on the up and up, but a great deal of the higher officials are paid-off puppets for polluting companies or people that want to cause the competition some headaches.
You're right, people DO need to chill out a bit...it's not like we're being persecuted and hunted down in the streets, but if you think these "people like you and me" give a shit about you or YOUR family, civil liberties, freedom, or happiness, you're kidding yourself.
When exactly did the stock market turn into a bunch of fat white guys telling companies how to operate?
I can remember a day when you invested in a company and let them do what they needed to stay afloat. Financial accountability? A company didn't USED to have to be financially accountable to shareholders, they could just take their money other places if they didn't like how things were going.
IANAMA (I am not a market analyst) so someone tell me when exactly shareholders took over corporate america...I'd really love to know. It seems like maximizing profits for shareholder benefit is the embodiment of everything that is soulless and evil about corporate America.
They have hundreds of thousands of hostiles already planted here though...and they have ALMOST learned to drive on the snow!
Mac users that would like a second Mac but can't afford to buy a new one because Apple is so damn expensive maybe?
Or how about a PC owner that wants a Mac to dork around with an iPod and maybe some video editing but doesn't want to shell out several grand for a decent new one?
Expensive things often have a very active life in the used market...look at the resale value on older BMWs and Mercedes cars for instance. They keep their value well because people are willing to buy them at a reduced cost even if it's an older model.
I'm not saying Macs aren't worth the full retail price, but you can't deny that they're awful expensive compared to PCs. If Apple found a way to come down in price substantially (and I don't mean by offering another weak-ass iMac) I'm betting they'd find themselves with much improved marketshare. Many many people are sick of Microsoft and Windows.
I don't know what's funnier...the fact that his last name is Ham and he's the deputy of communications (Ham Radio) or the fact that his last name is Ham and he's a cop. (Pig!)
Sure, this is probably the first time he got any approval from daddy since he beat up his first geek in parochial school.
Open Source and Linux are arguably creating jobs, based on a recent /. article I'm too lazy to reference. At the very least it's not causing noticable declines in employment levels. Overpriced software on the other hand raises IT overhead and makes for more company layoffs and closures. There is no comparison between Linus creating the Linux kernel and Sun firing thousands of employees to replace with H1Bs. Your argument is neither logical nor founded in reality. Nice try though.
You're ashamed to be part of Slashdot because your country is still marginally 3rd world? My girlfriend's sister lives in India, I've been there to visit....I've seen droves of your little kids playing in sewer water and families with nowhere to go just propping up tents in abandonded areas of the city. I'm not trying to insult the people of India, I'm merely pointing out that the reason many of your citizens are coming to the US is because they don't have to live in squalor here, even on substandard wages. You're part of the Indian middle class...hooray for you...that's what, like 10% of your population that has that standard of living? If it's so great in India, why the fuck do so many of your professionals have a hard-on the get out of there?
I'm glad you're not planning on coming to the US...the last thing we need is yet another foreign national coming here for our jobs then getting all bent out of shape when people say something negative about their home. So go have a Coke and a Vindaloo and shut the fuck up.
Which is exactly why companies that heavily rely on H1Bs are so evil...not only are they depriving our own citizens of jobs, they're also mistreating and exploiting the foreign labor that comes to replace us. They do it because they can. Indians will let themselves be worked 60-70 hours a week for the same salary that the cute white little administrative assistant is getting (hell, probably less) because, well, it beats the alternative which is sitting in a pile of your own filth in India hoping to get a job that pays enough so you can eat.
After world war II, there was a big grassroots movement to buy only American made cars and such. I'd like to see it taken one step further and only buy software, hardware, or services from tech companies that replace thousands of american workers with cheap exploitable foreign labor.
Funny story related to this:
They held the Timothy McVeigh trial here in Denver in 1996. My friends and I all played Cyberpunk at a Denny's during the wee hours of the night just about every night of the week. One night we started kinda early, during the tail end of the dinner rush. In the game, we were planning this big bank heist complete with neurotoxins, automatic weapons, remote cameras, cars packed with explosives, distracting police attention by blowing up a wing of a hospital, and all sorts of other shenanigans. We were all so into it, even the waitress was tossing ideas back and forth with us.
Well, apparently, some concerned citizen heard us plotting these things and called the police. The next night, a bunch of goons in FBI jackets stormed into the place and started interrogating us about what we were planning.
I was like "Dude, come on...it's a game. Here are the books, here are the dice...wanna see my stats?" No legal trouble ended up coming of it, luckily, but I wouldn't be surprised if I am on some FBI database somewhere as a potential terrorist. Last year, I applied for an intership with the feds and was denied based on the background check. Considering I have no significant criminal history, I can only imagine that is what caused it. (They don't tell you why you fail, just that you fail)
Think about my experiences, and those of Steve Jackson games, and tell me that there won't be many many misunderstandings as these things become more mainstream.
A Russian Girl travelling Vermont
Said "It's a big fucking dick that I want"
So I whipped out my weasel
And used her face for an easel
Chalk up one more for Detante.
Ah, John Valby, king of the limerick.
What, are you educated in public schools or something? Take a dish of water and put it under vacuum. See how it boils? That's lower pressure causing boiling at lower tempurature, son.
The reason a liquid boils is due to the molecules of the liquid being able to escape from the surface of the liquid mass due to a lack of air molecules banging against it. The fewer the air molecules and the weaker the intramolecular bonds between the liquid molecules, the more easily the liquid molecules can escape to a vapor state, hence the lower the boiling point.
Is that enough of a chemistry lesson or shall I demonstrate with equations and stuff?
Yeah, lying in court is illegal, but there still needs to be a district or US attorney that is ready to bring the charges against them and honestly, no one has the balls. Our governement in this country is run by spineless lackies and corporate lapdogs.
Public opinion rarely motivates legislative or legal action...for example, there are more folks against Bush and the war in Iraq than there are for it, yet I don't see him trying to back down. He already proved that he doesn't need popular support to get into power.
You realize that the other Mozilla programs don't load into memory unless you run them, right? It's not like you open your browser and chat/mail/news all load too. They take up maybe 20-30 MB extra hard drive space...a drop in the bucket of your average hard drive these days.
Trust me, the majority of educated and socially aware Americans do not approve of Mr Bush or his war. Remember, the majority of the population here didnt even vote for this guy...we just have a fucked up election process and system of government.
A couple high level Democrats in Congress are already starting impeachment bills because of this war. Don't assume that we're all behind this man.
I work for an environmental laboratory that does testing for this very thing. This guy's whining aside, many folks' houses are more polluted than the outdoors.
There are quite a few factors that can cause illness to those living in such a place. Many older paints contain lead, older carpeting and padding can give off fumes of organic solvents, a lot of older linoleum and drywall contains asbestos, mold can grow in moist areas and squirt bits of mold particles all over, basements contain radon in many areas, oh and it clings to smoke/dust particles which lets it lodge in your lungs and sit there emitting harmful ionizing radiation directly into lung tissue. Granted, much of this stuff is just allergens, but constant allergies can lower your immune capability. And some of this stuff is downright toxic or carcinogenic.
Get your house tested. It really doesn't cost that much. Do it sooner rather than later, especially if you have children...this isn't a plug to drum up business for my lab, you really will be amazed at what kind of crap is in your home.
Just who are the people who are responding to spam?
-Men with small penises who are insecure about them
-Someone who wants a diploma but is too dumb to go to college
-Someone gullible enough to think that they can buy pure human growth hormone for 29.95 a bottle.
-A person who really doesn't know how to find a teenage beastiality plump asian tranny webcam on their own with a search engine
-Someone who wants to "make money fast" and has never been burned by a scam before. (Or is too dumb to see that this is one)
Should I go on?
Think about how many complete fucking morons you run into every single day, now understand that about 75% of them have email addresses and receive spam. Out of 10 million spams, all it takes is a few gullible fools to give a return on investment.
People sometimes ask my why I rag on stupid people so much. It's because their ignorance causes me inconvenience in many forms...spam is one of those forms. (others include needing ID to buy liquor, pot being illegal, and car insurance in denver being so fucking high)
100Mbs along with both a bandwidth cap and restrictions on servers? Not for nothin, but what's the point? If you couldn't run a server of your own (negating the usefulness of outbound 100Mb) and could exceed your monthly cap in like an hour if you maxed out your download bandwidth, why even have this? Oh, and you get to pay out the nose for the router? I'd rather keep my cable, thanks.
There are also plenty of bacteria that will consume biomass. (i.e. the organic contaminants) As far as the inorganic contaminants go, it's basically just heavy metal (well, Beryllium aint all that heavy but it's a problem too) ions, which are removed manually more easily than organic contaminants. (filtration, evaporation, precipitation, you name it)
Eros is the same deity as Cupid...one is Greek, the other Roman. Eros is actually the Greek name, whereas Cupid is the Roman. However, since at the time the moon Eros was named Cupid was already defined in our culture as a fat little fairy with wings, they went with Eros.
Well this WD drive does sport a 1.2 million hour MTBF
That's like 139 years dude....I'm thinking either you're wrong about that number or WD is fucking with you. Or I'm just really stoned and missed your sarcasm.
You saved me a bunch of typing by stating exactly what was on my mind. You should get modded up just for slipping in a Jerky Boys reference.
Any decent university is going to have an FTP server for student use. If the administrators or students are any kind of good geeks, they're going to mirror all open source distro sites so that students have access to the images without blowing their bandwidth cap.
If they DON'T have an FTP server...well...now you have something to bring up at your next student government meeting.
Would you call the cops if you found out people were stealing from you? I thought so.
/. who decry groups like the MPAA but still line up 6 months in advance for their movies.
I don't agree with IP laws the way they are written and enforced, but as it stands, pirating music is stealing. Don't like it? Write your congressman so you can make yourself feel righteous.
Or, a better idea, listen to and support bands that don't use the RIAA-affiliated recording/publishing houses. In a capitalist country, only changes in the bottom line can bring about change.
Some knees can jerk both ways, see? One direction you have "But its the law" and the other you have "Corporations are taking over all our rights." I'm more inclined to the latter as well, but just being morally outraged is tiresome, I've just stopped buying products or services from companies or organizations whose ethics I do not like. I put my money where my mouth is, unlike the majority of
In other words, come up with some better analogies. (Not so easy...nothing else is quite like our hydrocephalic IP laws)
I keep wondering the same thing, but SOMEONE has to be buying or else they'd stop doing. (At least that's the theory)
Hopefully it will go away as people stop falling victim to it and more legislation gets passed.