When you say "general web development" I think most people think you're talking about a LAMP-like system.
You what? Speaking as someone using Linux since 1.2.13, who's worked at MSFT, and is developing applications in PHP in the healthcare sector now, I think you're way off the mark here. When you say "general web development", most people will ask ".NET or Java?"
Isn't that the same for Apple, though? Don't we hear re every launch of a new Apple product, "Oh everyone knows you don't buy the first release of a new Apple device!"
Let's see though, of our comments, one will be moderated up Funny/Insightful, one will be moderated down Troll/Flamebait. Wonder which will be which?
When I signed up for Comcast Business, I was offered the $160/mo package for $98/mo as long as I kept the contract alive. Not bad for 8/1, with burst to 16/2, 5 static IP addresses, and no port limitations or throttling.
Given that Youtube is available quite freely on cell data (hint, iPhone)... not much. People always use the 'streaming music 24/7' example of how they could do this. But numbers don't bear it out. I work at home. I listen to a 128kbps sound stream 8 hours a day, if not more, and the traffic my firewall measures as going to my Soundbridge? 12gb/month.
Not the good looking, sweet smelling, celebrity vagina.
Having seen (or been subjected to), as we all have, to upskirts of Britney, Paris, etc, I gotta say that "celebrity vagina" is by no means universally "good looking, sweet smelling"...
Okay, then in that case should I point out the lack of problems I have with reception with my 3G Nokia N95 "mobile internet device", with its webkit browser, its integrated (real) GPS, its 8GB MP3 player, etc, etc?
The Nokia model numbers are generally fairly logical to deduce (though could always be easier).
1000 series - Ultrabasic series
2000 series - Basic series
3000 series - Expression series
5000 series - Active series
6000 series - Classic Business series
7000 series - Fashion and Experimental series
8000 series - Premium series
9000 series - Communicator series (discontinued)
E series - Enterprise series
N series - Multimedia Computer series
Within each series, typically, the higher the number, the better, newer the model.
And they won't sell the same models under 3 other names with yet different model numbers: an AT&T version, a Sprint version, and a Verizon version.
No, but if they ever did it cross-platform they'd end up with the iPhone Sprint, instead. Hint: this joke is an affectation of the carrier, not the manufacturer, either wanting custom firmware or using different radio frequencies. So unless you want either a) to stick with one carrier for your phone offering, or b) are planning on getting a six-plus band radio installed in it, whoever you are, you'll be making different models for the US carriers. It's a sad travesty that any other tri/quad band phone can work with every other carrier on the planet (leaving aside GSM vs CDMA etc), yet you can't get a GSM phone in the US that'll work on all US GSM networks, everywhere (pockets of [unique]mhz coverage only).
However, the view that the current President of the United States is a war criminal is not unique to myself.
Though I can't find a link detailing each claim, under the rules we drew up in Nuremberg to try Nazi leaders, and under the covenants drawn up by us for the UN that we ratified at it's inception, each and every US President since World War Two has committed at least one war crime.
There's a strong suspicion, too, that if the US were every to ratify the ICJ, one of the very first people that it would be lobbied to try for war crimes would be Henry Kissinger.
Some of the first-run MacBooks had faulty displays... and Apple even replaced some of the affected screens on their own dime.
You'll forgive me if I don't fall over myself at the magnanimity of following consumer protection laws "some" of the time.
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Ye gods. I don't know what's worse, that you capitalized "Freedom", or that you honestly believe that the US's aim in taking over countries is to "build up a functioning democracy".
that helping people remove vile and murderous dictatorships
Oh yeah, like in Chile! Wait, hang on, no, not like Chile at all. In fact, Chile was the original "9/11", the day President Salvador Allende was murdered and the democratically elected government that he led was brutally overthrown by an army coup sponsored by the United States of America. September 11 will remain for a long time in the minds of most Chileans as the day to remember their murdered daughters, sons, mother and fathers, who disappeared, and the families whose world was changed irreparably by Augusto Pinochet and his henchmen, the puppet government whose power was not based on democratic principles but the protection of the USA.
Or maybe you meant Grenada, a "flagrant violation of international law", according to 108 members of the United Nations?
Wait, I know, you're talking about Iraq! Except I'm not sure how anyone would actually call Iraq a democracy in anything but name only. The government is still a rubber stamp of the US military, over and above its constitutional representation of its people, including such 'freedom'-like joys as "preferred bidders" for oil contracts and all other manner of extracting money from the ruins of a country as being US companies. It's also rather difficult to have democracy in the 21st century when you're still wondering when they will turn your power back on, only 2,000 days after "Mission Accomplished!"
Or perhaps it was Haiti? You know, where it was decided that a "democracy" run by corruption so rife and endemic that elections were not recognized by the international community where apparently worthy of US intervention.
How about Nicaragua, where many amongst the populace were so sick of Somoza's brazen and open corruption, nepotism, and the fact that he was a dictator who had stolen land from hundreds of thousands of their country members, without any international interference, that they rose up and rebelled. Their heinous crime? Accepting help from - gasp - COMMIES! - in order to do so. What else was a good Freedom loving US president to do to "restore" "democracy", but to order one of his spy agencies to begin financing, arming and training rebels. Let's not overlook the fact that Nicaragua was in ruins, and the Sandanistas did a whole lot to try to rebuild their nation, but oh no, better dead than red, dontcha know?
Or maybe Panama - where Noriega, a nice, Freedom loving gun- and drug-running dictator, the kind we in the US try to install in countries - had many many meetings, and lots of involvement with the CIA, and ol' buddy of Ronald Reagan, Ollie North.
Actually, let's make the list shorter. Let's try to list places the US has invaded since World War II with the real and genuine aim, and perhaps even accomplishment, of helping a nation be a functioning, non-puppet, democracy.
...
It's a far shorter list, isn't it... ?
we are still the last, best hope for Freedom in the world
Let's not go blowing the "World Policeman" whistle too much. We've used it far too many times when we weren't being world policemen at all, we were acting in -our- interests, not those of that nation, nor the world. Acting in your own interest is not (inherently) a problem. Pretending you're the line between light and dark while milking your own interests, however, is.
Really? I, on the other hand, think that there is a lot you can learn, in addition to being entertained by things like Deadliest Catch, or Ice Road Truckers. But hey, you know better, Batman.
It always amazes me, as someone born in the UK under NHS, who lived most my life under Australia's medicare system (and the privatization of health coverage there) and is now paying upwards of $500 a month for health insurance in the US that Americans are so quick to laugh at the idea of socialized medicine, and so blindly keen to spew the rhetoric fed to them by the insurance system they're financing: "It'll take years for any surgery, and months if it's only somewhat life threatening", "do you want the government deciding what your treatment is?" (as opposed to the corporation that does, now?).
Occam's Razor would suggest that, given the amount of time the systems have been around, the amount of research done, the fact that the US is the only country in the world with a healthcare system like this, that every other "first world" country uses socialized medicine to a large or exclusive degree, that the answer is not "they're all stupid", but "what's wrong here that NO other country WANTS to do it the way we do it?".
Your memory is far from correct. You're actually advocating breaking immigration law. The Visa Waiver Program explicitly requires that you do not "seek nor engage in work".
Problem is it means increased reliance on "ER as a GP", where people go into the ER for a cold, or alternatively, leave something relatively benign until it -requires- an ER visit, for that very reason.
You also signed a contract with that person that you would pay them for services rendered. Failure at your end to correctly write a check does not absolve you of your legal obligation to pay that person on their scheduled pay date. What -should- happen (and not without its own issues, absolutely) is that the check should be processed and the difference repaid.
It's also very much the law in Australia, too. If you overpay someone, you have absolutely zero recourse to reverse that transaction per se. Happened to someone in my ex-partner's department who issued a pay check with a decimal in the wrong place. They contacted the bank immediately and the bank's response was "Sorry, you made the payment. You will need to contact that person and obtain reimbursement."
The problem is this: you promise to make payment on a given date. You are legally bound by contract law and labor law to do so. That you were in error in issuing the check for more than the required amount does not negate you the requirement to make payment to the correct amount. If you stop payment on the check, you are not paying the person, and are in breach of said contract. Labor law is strict on the fact that an employee should not be unfairly disadvantaged (and not being paid at all) as a result of an unrelated error on their employer's part.
But by all means, please do explain how it is somehow more fair to stop payment altogether, than to recoup losses, due to YOUR mistake, than punishing the innocent.
I have a handicapped cat with spinal damage at birth, fused vertebrae, improperly formed rear hip joints. We took her to a veterinary acupuncturist for recurrent UTIs, amongst her other issues. Acupuncture has done a lot to stimulate nerve response in her, but the most telling was the doctor talking about spot used re the bladder. Not near the bladder or urethra. When she put a needle in there, the cat/immediately/ started to urinate. Repeatedly, each time it was done. Not a nervous response to the needles - she is quite serene at the whole concept surprisingly enough. But it was convincing enough to me, in and of itself.
Interestingly... many of the people TCAP "caught" had charges against them thrown out because of all sorts of issues, the "bait" baiting-and-switching age, etc, etc. So I'd not necessarily hold it up as a good model of "why this can be right".
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You what? Speaking as someone using Linux since 1.2.13, who's worked at MSFT, and is developing applications in PHP in the healthcare sector now, I think you're way off the mark here. When you say "general web development", most people will ask ".NET or Java?"
Let's see though, of our comments, one will be moderated up Funny/Insightful, one will be moderated down Troll/Flamebait. Wonder which will be which?
Wait, I'm confused. Are you saying that 'raynet' is your own name? How unique! Perhaps you'd like to share with us the origin of it?
I do that all the time, when I think a comment isn't worthy of "2" just because the poster earned a karma bonus. What's your point?
Wow, lots of legitimate use there - forgive me if I'm not crying a river over caps when it comes to people like you.
When I signed up for Comcast Business, I was offered the $160/mo package for $98/mo as long as I kept the contract alive. Not bad for 8/1, with burst to 16/2, 5 static IP addresses, and no port limitations or throttling.
Given that Youtube is available quite freely on cell data (hint, iPhone)... not much. People always use the 'streaming music 24/7' example of how they could do this. But numbers don't bear it out. I work at home. I listen to a 128kbps sound stream 8 hours a day, if not more, and the traffic my firewall measures as going to my Soundbridge? 12gb/month.
Having seen (or been subjected to), as we all have, to upskirts of Britney, Paris, etc, I gotta say that "celebrity vagina" is by no means universally "good looking, sweet smelling"...
Wait, what's your so-called point? Nice conspiracy theory, though.
That thing can make your brain hurt, in a good, but occasionally frustrating way.
Okay, then in that case should I point out the lack of problems I have with reception with my 3G Nokia N95 "mobile internet device", with its webkit browser, its integrated (real) GPS, its 8GB MP3 player, etc, etc?
Within each series, typically, the higher the number, the better, newer the model.
No, but if they ever did it cross-platform they'd end up with the iPhone Sprint, instead. Hint: this joke is an affectation of the carrier, not the manufacturer, either wanting custom firmware or using different radio frequencies. So unless you want either a) to stick with one carrier for your phone offering, or b) are planning on getting a six-plus band radio installed in it, whoever you are, you'll be making different models for the US carriers. It's a sad travesty that any other tri/quad band phone can work with every other carrier on the planet (leaving aside GSM vs CDMA etc), yet you can't get a GSM phone in the US that'll work on all US GSM networks, everywhere (pockets of [unique]mhz coverage only).
Though I can't find a link detailing each claim, under the rules we drew up in Nuremberg to try Nazi leaders, and under the covenants drawn up by us for the UN that we ratified at it's inception, each and every US President since World War Two has committed at least one war crime.
There's a strong suspicion, too, that if the US were every to ratify the ICJ, one of the very first people that it would be lobbied to try for war crimes would be Henry Kissinger.
You'll forgive me if I don't fall over myself at the magnanimity of following consumer protection laws "some" of the time.
Oh yeah, like in Chile! Wait, hang on, no, not like Chile at all. In fact, Chile was the original "9/11", the day President Salvador Allende was murdered and the democratically elected government that he led was brutally overthrown by an army coup sponsored by the United States of America. September 11 will remain for a long time in the minds of most Chileans as the day to remember their murdered daughters, sons, mother and fathers, who disappeared, and the families whose world was changed irreparably by Augusto Pinochet and his henchmen, the puppet government whose power was not based on democratic principles but the protection of the USA.
Or maybe you meant Grenada, a "flagrant violation of international law", according to 108 members of the United Nations?
Wait, I know, you're talking about Iraq! Except I'm not sure how anyone would actually call Iraq a democracy in anything but name only. The government is still a rubber stamp of the US military, over and above its constitutional representation of its people, including such 'freedom'-like joys as "preferred bidders" for oil contracts and all other manner of extracting money from the ruins of a country as being US companies. It's also rather difficult to have democracy in the 21st century when you're still wondering when they will turn your power back on, only 2,000 days after "Mission Accomplished!"
Or perhaps it was Haiti? You know, where it was decided that a "democracy" run by corruption so rife and endemic that elections were not recognized by the international community where apparently worthy of US intervention.
How about Nicaragua, where many amongst the populace were so sick of Somoza's brazen and open corruption, nepotism, and the fact that he was a dictator who had stolen land from hundreds of thousands of their country members, without any international interference, that they rose up and rebelled. Their heinous crime? Accepting help from - gasp - COMMIES! - in order to do so. What else was a good Freedom loving US president to do to "restore" "democracy", but to order one of his spy agencies to begin financing, arming and training rebels. Let's not overlook the fact that Nicaragua was in ruins, and the Sandanistas did a whole lot to try to rebuild their nation, but oh no, better dead than red, dontcha know?
Or maybe Panama - where Noriega, a nice, Freedom loving gun- and drug-running dictator, the kind we in the US try to install in countries - had many many meetings, and lots of involvement with the CIA, and ol' buddy of Ronald Reagan, Ollie North.
Actually, let's make the list shorter. Let's try to list places the US has invaded since World War II with the real and genuine aim, and perhaps even accomplishment, of helping a nation be a functioning, non-puppet, democracy.
It's a far shorter list, isn't it... ?
Let's not go blowing the "World Policeman" whistle too much. We've used it far too many times when we weren't being world policemen at all, we were acting in -our- interests, not those of that nation, nor the world. Acting in your own interest is not (inherently) a problem. Pretending you're the line between light and dark while milking your own interests, however, is.
Really? I, on the other hand, think that there is a lot you can learn, in addition to being entertained by things like Deadliest Catch, or Ice Road Truckers. But hey, you know better, Batman.
Occam's Razor would suggest that, given the amount of time the systems have been around, the amount of research done, the fact that the US is the only country in the world with a healthcare system like this, that every other "first world" country uses socialized medicine to a large or exclusive degree, that the answer is not "they're all stupid", but "what's wrong here that NO other country WANTS to do it the way we do it?".
Ostrich syndrome is alive and well.
Your memory is far from correct. You're actually advocating breaking immigration law. The Visa Waiver Program explicitly requires that you do not "seek nor engage in work".
Probably. And if not, it seems like the alternative is "Mr Lee's Greater Hong Kong", etc.
Problem is it means increased reliance on "ER as a GP", where people go into the ER for a cold, or alternatively, leave something relatively benign until it -requires- an ER visit, for that very reason.
It's also very much the law in Australia, too. If you overpay someone, you have absolutely zero recourse to reverse that transaction per se. Happened to someone in my ex-partner's department who issued a pay check with a decimal in the wrong place. They contacted the bank immediately and the bank's response was "Sorry, you made the payment. You will need to contact that person and obtain reimbursement."
The problem is this: you promise to make payment on a given date. You are legally bound by contract law and labor law to do so. That you were in error in issuing the check for more than the required amount does not negate you the requirement to make payment to the correct amount. If you stop payment on the check, you are not paying the person, and are in breach of said contract. Labor law is strict on the fact that an employee should not be unfairly disadvantaged (and not being paid at all) as a result of an unrelated error on their employer's part.
But by all means, please do explain how it is somehow more fair to stop payment altogether, than to recoup losses, due to YOUR mistake, than punishing the innocent.
I have a handicapped cat with spinal damage at birth, fused vertebrae, improperly formed rear hip joints. We took her to a veterinary acupuncturist for recurrent UTIs, amongst her other issues. Acupuncture has done a lot to stimulate nerve response in her, but the most telling was the doctor talking about spot used re the bladder. Not near the bladder or urethra. When she put a needle in there, the cat /immediately/ started to urinate. Repeatedly, each time it was done. Not a nervous response to the needles - she is quite serene at the whole concept surprisingly enough. But it was convincing enough to me, in and of itself.
You do realize it is a violation of labor laws to withhold someone's pay check or refuse to pay them as the result of a third party failure, correct?
Interestingly... many of the people TCAP "caught" had charges against them thrown out because of all sorts of issues, the "bait" baiting-and-switching age, etc, etc. So I'd not necessarily hold it up as a good model of "why this can be right".