Was he stealing? Not without stretching the definition into extra-dimensions, twisted loops
No, he was committing fraud: His boss was paying him to do X. His boss knew this, and he knew this. Instead, he did Y, while continuing to accept money for doing the X that he wasn't doing. IOW, he was taking the boss' money under false pretences. Which is just a different name for...
I think you should be able to connect the remaining dots for yourself.
I haven't used Windows for work or personal reasons in about 12 years. The only exception being about a half-dozen times that I've run it in a VM to see if the Windows version of our product still compiled and ran according to the instructions.
I am very actively employed at a global top 10 software vendor. Do you think I need to get out more?
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"Great news, everyone! You're all fired!"
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As already noted, "advice" is an uncountable noun. You can say "the advice" or "some advice" or "a piece of advice". You can't say "an advice".
If that sounds "weird" to you, then you're either not a native speaker or not very well educated.
Was he stealing? Not without stretching the definition into extra-dimensions, twisted loops
No, he was committing fraud: His boss was paying him to do X. His boss knew this, and he knew this. Instead, he did Y, while continuing to accept money for doing the X that he wasn't doing. IOW, he was taking the boss' money under false pretences. Which is just a different name for...
I think you should be able to connect the remaining dots for yourself.
The Hooterville Trilogy FTW. (Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, Petticoat Junction.)
Anything by Adam Curtis is more than worth the time to watch.
Excursion from beneath rock needed.
I'll just leave this here and be on my merry way. Thanks.
I am responsible for security at an unnamed 3 letter government agency.
D. M. V.
What do I win?
If you're patched up to the latest, you're not getting infected - Windows, Mac or Linux is irrelevant to the conversation.
You're simply priceless. Please keep posting, and I'll keep wiping coffee from my keyboard.
I haven't used Windows for work or personal reasons in about 12 years. The only exception being about a half-dozen times that I've run it in a VM to see if the Windows version of our product still compiled and ran according to the instructions.
I am very actively employed at a global top 10 software vendor. Do you think I need to get out more?
Just so you know... a leek is that big-daddy green-oniony looking thing that goes really great in soup.
Works fine for me in preview as well. Check your charset settings.
Kind of like how the North Koreans have announced their discovery of a plot to assassinate Kim using a biochemical weapon, you mean?
"Comment scale"? His *user ID* (52032) indicates that he's been a registered user of the site since 1998 or so.
You mean, as "coördinated"?
I happen to have an ö key, but entity references also work.
I've been to Shenzhen numerous times, most recently about 3 months ago. He's largely correct.
I'd rather live in Guangzhou, though--it's much cleaner, the people are much nicer, and there's lots of local culture.
"A camera that writes to an SD card using a journaling filesystem?"
(To get the right effect, read aloud in the tone of voice one might use for saying, "A planet where apes evolved from men?")
Nuclear only looks cost-effective when propped up by large government subsidies and allowing the environmental impact to be someone else's problem.
I thought it was the right-wingers who were trying to prevent aid money from going for family planning?
You've read Time Enough For Love, right?
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Inquire with Dr C. Forrester, Deep 13 (somewhere under the launch pad near Gizmonics Institute).
I hear that Keene, NH, is nice in the summer and that they welcome newcomers with different ideas there.
"'In German oder English, I know how to count down... Und I'm learnink Chinese,' says Wernher von Braun."
Not even close to being a valid comparison, since Canonical doesn't try to indulge in the rent-seeking "we wanna be the cultural gatekeeper" thing.
This isn't about "my company's better than yours", and your attempt to cast it as such just marks you as a fanboi.
This isn't in the US. There are countries where governments regulate companies rather than the reverse. Sweden is one of them.