Hypocritical asswipe? I would only be hypocritical if the technology I was using infringed on other people's privacy. Anyone who can't turn their cellphone off for an hour has a serious personality flaw, and should probably seek psychiatric help.
GAWD! I am so sick of this stupid, STUPID argument. I bet I've had to listen to a thousand cellphone conversations, and had my life interrupted by even thousands more stupid ringtones. Never ONCE was the call important. The people are always talking about something stupid. Most of the conversations are just stupid chitchat. Many conversations are also vulgar ("Hey, whatcha doin', mothafucka? Shit, I ain't seen yo' ass fo' ages!).
Here is my question: Suppose a company outsources a division to India. As a consequence of this, sensitive information becomes available to Indian workers. An Indian worker, or workers, take that information and sell it or otherwise exploit it. What is the legal remedy? How can any crime be investigated? How are the Indian workers brought to justice?
I see. So individuals who typically have poor "people" skills, should go from careers in which they rarely deal with others, into a field in which they regularly deal with sick, whiney, helpless people all day?
Oh my God! What did parents do in the days before cell phones? Lord have mercy! There must be graveyards FULL of children who died because parents didn't have immediate access to their babysitters.
Suck it up and go out to a nice restaurant without your cellphone, you prick.
Another problem with wood accessories is that wood gives off gasses over time, which will tend to cause corrosion of your electronic components. With small, low voltage components, even slight, undetectable corrosion can have disasterous results.
If Verisign can trick you into believing that they can guarantee your domain name for 100 years, and get you to pony up for it, they've found a way to boost their cash flow, without any added expense.
I own a few pieces of Bang & Olufsen kit, and they built their remote out of Zinc.
But zinc is a very active metal. It would corrode like crazy, especially when in frequent contact with a salty/sweaty human hand. I would think that would be a problem.
Each end is shaped exactly the same. I'm always picking it up and pressing the fast forward (I think) only to discover that I just pressed the rewind. My other remotes I hardly have to glance at because they are bigger at one end, or have some other tactile clue as to which is the correct orientation.
No. You are wrong. Just because I have a letter box does not mean that anyone can just put whatever they want into it. It's like saying, "Hey, your address was in the phone book, so I thought I'd dump my trash there." By your logic letter bombs would be legal.
Actually, what I was thinking of is something more akin to the Bar Exam, which a person would have to pass to practice in that state. If nothing else that would, at least, require a foreigner to travel to the U.S., pay for, and take the exam in order to develop American software for a company in a particular state.
I know that.head companies might find ways around it, but why make it easy for them?
At this point in time, it seems that the people of the US just have NOT found the need to come up with the idea of a licensed SE. I predict it will happen, and within the next 25-30 years. There have been movements withing the programming trade to do this. it's coming - but when?
I used to oppose this idea, but now I wish it would happen. If we had state certification of programmers, we could stop.head outsourcing and keep our jobs here.
Well, one thing's for certain. If software was outsourced to some.head company, and there was a terrible accident, no one here would have any legal remedy.
The.heads could just shrug their shoulders and move on.
This is a big reason why outsourcing to India should not only be discouraged, but should be illegal. At least if someone in the U.S. does something like this, they can be prosecuted. It's going to be a little harder to prosecute some.head company under American laws.
Back in the late 80's, early 90's there was a lot of talk about requiring state certification for IT professionals similar to Medical, Bar, and CPA exams. This was resisted by many in the industry (sadly, myself included), and by the time the.com boom began, nobody wanted to make it harder to hire people by requiring state certification.
Now, I think we blew it. If we had established a system whereby state certification would be required to perform these jobs, they would be protected, just like MD's, lawyers, and CPA's positions are.
We took him shopping so he could buy some gifts for his friends back home, and we couldn't find a damn thing he couldn't buy back in Shanghai - cheaper. Even at Wal Mart.
Well, there's your problem. Everything at Wal-Mart comes from China.
If you wanted to show him something uniquely American you should have taken him to a gun shop.
I am reminded of watching, many years ago, an old Flash Gordon movie, made back in the 30's. In it they were shoveling loads of "uranium" into the "atomic furnaces" like coal. It's laughable now, but I'm sure at the time it was created it made perfect sense to the armchair scientists out there.
Some day I'm sure Star Trek episodes will look the same way.
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Hypocritical asswipe? I would only be hypocritical if the technology I was using infringed on other people's privacy. Anyone who can't turn their cellphone off for an hour has a serious personality flaw, and should probably seek psychiatric help.
GAWD! I am so sick of this stupid, STUPID argument. I bet I've had to listen to a thousand cellphone conversations, and had my life interrupted by even thousands more stupid ringtones. Never ONCE was the call important. The people are always talking about something stupid. Most of the conversations are just stupid chitchat. Many conversations are also vulgar ("Hey, whatcha doin', mothafucka? Shit, I ain't seen yo' ass fo' ages!).
Do cellphones really save that many lives? NO!!!
Here is my question: Suppose a company outsources a division to India. As a consequence of this, sensitive information becomes available to Indian workers. An Indian worker, or workers, take that information and sell it or otherwise exploit it. What is the legal remedy? How can any crime be investigated? How are the Indian workers brought to justice?
I see. So individuals who typically have poor "people" skills, should go from careers in which they rarely deal with others, into a field in which they regularly deal with sick, whiney, helpless people all day?
Right.
Oh my God! What did parents do in the days before cell phones? Lord have mercy! There must be graveyards FULL of children who died because parents didn't have immediate access to their babysitters.
Suck it up and go out to a nice restaurant without your cellphone, you prick.
I see. So it's wrong for Americans to be "fat and happy", but it's OK for everyone else?
Fat and happy?
Fuck you, man.
Another problem with wood accessories is that wood gives off gasses over time, which will tend to cause corrosion of your electronic components. With small, low voltage components, even slight, undetectable corrosion can have disasterous results.
Don't expect your wooden PC to last very long.
If Verisign can trick you into believing that they can guarantee your domain name for 100 years, and get you to pony up for it, they've found a way to boost their cash flow, without any added expense.
My sig says it all.
I own a few pieces of Bang & Olufsen kit, and they built their remote out of Zinc.
But zinc is a very active metal. It would corrode like crazy, especially when in frequent contact with a salty/sweaty human hand. I would think that would be a problem.
Each end is shaped exactly the same. I'm always picking it up and pressing the fast forward (I think) only to discover that I just pressed the rewind. My other remotes I hardly have to glance at because they are bigger at one end, or have some other tactile clue as to which is the correct orientation.
No. You are wrong. Just because I have a letter box does not mean that anyone can just put whatever they want into it. It's like saying, "Hey, your address was in the phone book, so I thought I'd dump my trash there." By your logic letter bombs would be legal.
I hate your guts. You've just been foe'd.
I used to be an AT on the Hornet too. Keep me in mind if it works out. ;-)
The central university building is Academic Quadrangle, name after its quadrangular shape.
Wow! Whoever heard of a "quad" at a university?
Does it house the Department of Redundancy Department?
Actually, what I was thinking of is something more akin to the Bar Exam, which a person would have to pass to practice in that state. If nothing else that would, at least, require a foreigner to travel to the U.S., pay for, and take the exam in order to develop American software for a company in a particular state.
.head companies might find ways around it, but why make it easy for them?
I know that
...As is, there's a mechanism in place already. They're called "lawsuits"...
.head outfit in India, then there is no legal remedy.
Unless, of course, the company in question was some
At this point in time, it seems that the people of the US just have NOT found the need to come up with the idea of a licensed SE. I predict it will happen, and within the next 25-30 years. There have been movements withing the programming trade to do this. it's coming - but when?
.head outsourcing and keep our jobs here.
I used to oppose this idea, but now I wish it would happen. If we had state certification of programmers, we could stop
Well, one thing's for certain. If software was outsourced to some .head company, and there was a terrible accident, no one here would have any legal remedy.
.heads could just shrug their shoulders and move on.
The
Thank you, come again.
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This is a big reason why outsourcing to India should not only be discouraged, but should be illegal. At least if someone in the U.S. does something like this, they can be prosecuted. It's going to be a little harder to prosecute some .head company under American laws.
Back in the late 80's, early 90's there was a lot of talk about requiring state certification for IT professionals similar to Medical, Bar, and CPA exams. This was resisted by many in the industry (sadly, myself included), and by the time the .com boom began, nobody wanted to make it harder to hire people by requiring state certification.
Now, I think we blew it. If we had established a system whereby state certification would be required to perform these jobs, they would be protected, just like MD's, lawyers, and CPA's positions are.
We took him shopping so he could buy some gifts for his friends back home, and we couldn't find a damn thing he couldn't buy back in Shanghai - cheaper. Even at Wal Mart.
Well, there's your problem. Everything at Wal-Mart comes from China.
If you wanted to show him something uniquely American you should have taken him to a gun shop.
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Wholly Moses!
I am reminded of watching, many years ago, an old Flash Gordon movie, made back in the 30's. In it they were shoveling loads of "uranium" into the "atomic furnaces" like coal. It's laughable now, but I'm sure at the time it was created it made perfect sense to the armchair scientists out there.
Some day I'm sure Star Trek episodes will look the same way.