I used to work for Nielsen (just north of clearwater), and one of the guys I worked with used to work there (it sounds like the same place to me). He even got one of those packages where the company will pay $10,000 toward training if you agree to stay for a year. Him and his wife aren't very religious, but he said that he could feel the evil there, and would listen to christian radio on the way to work and on the way back, and they were praying all the time for his safety. He even went to his bank to get a loan to pay off the contract. But then the SEC thing happened, and they let him go, so he didn't have to pay the money back (that was like just a little bit before her started at Nielsen, like May 98). He believed they let him go because he was the only non-scientologist working there...
> But somehow I don't think an Industrial
> Tribunal/Court Action would accept 'Turned down
> promotion' as a valid reason for your sacking.
I don't know about this. This is how the military works. You can turn down one assigment during your first enlistment, but if you turn down a second one after that, or even your first after your first enlistment, they will get rid of you. They will say that turning down an assignment "is not conducive to a military career". Believe me, I know. That's what happened to me.
If the government can do it, I don't see why they would object to any companies doing it also.
This reminds me of a short scene in a book by John de Chancie. It was in one of the Castle Perilous novels, where Gene ends up trapped in a world where the population is controlled by a virus called InnerVoice (tm). It used your own body responses against you. If someone told you to smile, and you didn't, you would start having guilty feelings, and InnerVoice (tm) would react and start acting on your body with stomach cramps and the like, until you complied.
That sounds like a precursor to something very bad. Is anybody familiar with Revelation 13:16-17?
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
I worked at Nielsen for a bit, and (IIRC) they had around 10-12 TB databases, using Sybase under sun hardware (E10000s and others).
Because I had a half-dozen Sybase SA's within a stone's throw of my desk, I used Sybase for my personal database at home (it was only about 160M).
Sybase works really well under Linux. I'm pretty sure you won't need to worry about file size, because I ended up having several files for the database (my database was initially too small, and I just initialized a new disk and added it to the current database to add data and log space).
Actually, it hasn't. Testing it with Pike 7.0.43, the *b syntax works.
I would have done the loop differently, though:
foreach(b, int i) write(i+"\n");
There is probably a better way to do it, but I haven't used Pike that often yet either, although I am writing an on/off -line pop3 mail reader with pike and pigtk (gtk+ bindings).
This may be a little off topic, but I just had to respond...
I think it was useful. I didn't know about that link. What happens to that person who accesses Slashdot for the first time? Does he not get any information because everybody else "already knows?"
I've been here for a while, but I don't read every article, and I have a lot of comments filtered, so this is the first time I had heard of this.
If you didn't like it, skip it, change the channel, don't buy the book, but don't harrass the poster...
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Holy cow, that all sounds so familiar!
I used to work for Nielsen (just north of clearwater), and one of the guys I worked with used to work there (it sounds like the same place to me). He even got one of those packages where the company will pay $10,000 toward training if you agree to stay for a year. Him and his wife aren't very religious, but he said that he could feel the evil there, and would listen to christian radio on the way to work and on the way back, and they were praying all the time for his safety. He even went to his bank to get a loan to pay off the contract. But then the SEC thing happened, and they let him go, so he didn't have to pay the money back (that was like just a little bit before her started at Nielsen, like May 98). He believed they let him go because he was the only non-scientologist working there...
lsd
> But somehow I don't think an Industrial
> Tribunal/Court Action would accept 'Turned down
> promotion' as a valid reason for your sacking.
I don't know about this. This is how the military works. You can turn down one assigment during your first enlistment, but if you turn down a second one after that, or even your first after your first enlistment, they will get rid of you. They will say that turning down an assignment "is not conducive to a military career". Believe me, I know. That's what happened to me.
If the government can do it, I don't see why they would object to any companies doing it also.
This reminds me of a short scene in a book by John de Chancie. It was in one of the Castle Perilous novels, where Gene ends up trapped in a world where the population is controlled by a virus called InnerVoice (tm). It used your own body responses against you. If someone told you to smile, and you didn't, you would start having guilty feelings, and InnerVoice (tm) would react and start acting on your body with stomach cramps and the like, until you complied.
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That sounds like a precursor to something very bad. Is anybody familiar with Revelation 13:16-17?
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
I'm pretty sure I'll refuse...
I worked at Nielsen for a bit, and (IIRC) they had around 10-12 TB databases, using Sybase under sun hardware (E10000s and others).
Because I had a half-dozen Sybase SA's within a stone's throw of my desk, I used Sybase for my personal database at home (it was only about 160M).
Sybase works really well under Linux. I'm pretty sure you won't need to worry about file size, because I ended up having several files for the database (my database was initially too small, and I just initialized a new disk and added it to the current database to add data and log space).
lance
Being ex-military, I pronounce it "crosshatch".
lsd
Actually, it hasn't. Testing it with Pike 7.0.43, the *b syntax works.
I would have done the loop differently, though:
foreach(b, int i)
write(i+"\n");
There is probably a better way to do it, but I haven't used Pike that often yet either, although I am writing an on/off -line pop3 mail reader with pike and pigtk (gtk+ bindings).
This may be a little off topic, but I just had to respond...
I think it was useful. I didn't know about that link. What happens to that person who accesses Slashdot for the first time? Does he not get any information because everybody else "already knows?"
I've been here for a while, but I don't read every article, and I have a lot of comments filtered, so this is the first time I had heard of this.
If you didn't like it, skip it, change the channel, don't buy the book, but don't harrass the poster...
I would like to see The Human Ton and Handy.
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Too funny.
This is just one more step toward requiring us to have the number 666 stamped on our foreheads and not allowing us to buy food without it.
I for one am totally against this, and will refuse it.
If I am not allowed to board an airplane without one, I guess I will end up having to drive cross-country.