Freedom of Speech is still alive and well. For that matter, it seems everyone of the bill of rights is still there and protecting us all. I don't see what your problem is.
OK, here's my problem, pal. These are just a few examples, but you get the drift. All of these were uncovered with quick Google searches. There are lots more cases that I'd be happy to share with you, or you could go ahead and look for yourself.
Of course you shouldn't take every job that drifts through your transom, but if someone is offering you 1/3 again as much money as you're making now, you owe it to yourself to take a look. If it looks like a good fit, you can at the very least put the screws to your current boss and see if he'll match the other company's offer. if you really like your current job, they don't even have to match it all the way - work with them. If not, finish up what you're doing and split.
Going too far with the "company man" attitude is just a license for your boss to step on you. Don't have any illusions out there, man. Loyalty is important, but only as far as it gets you closer to your goals. Security? Hah. They're not giving out the 50 year gold watches anymore at most companies - they're just looting the pensions.
Unless you own a slice of the company, you don't owe them any more than a good day's work.
If that was supposed to be an "A", there's no way in hell I would ever RTF it. You know why? Because my cat writes better than that when he rolls around on my keyboard.
That was fourth-rate illiterate garbage and I don't know how the hell it ever got on the front page of/.
Someone was really asleep at the switch on that one.
This waking dream has been making the rounds: what if you woke and found a strange and beautiful woman in your bed, and she was inscrutible, unpredictable, and dangerous... but oh so beautiful?
Too bad she's bloated and stops you a hundred times whenever you try to do anything interesting.
If you want cops to follow the laws better, than[sic] try to get policies implemented that punish them for breaking the law, because right now, there aren't that many.
I'm pretty sure all we'd need to do is apply the existing laws uniformly.
I know that at this point, you won't concede even a small bit of ground, but the time has come for you to wave the ol' white flag on this one, man.
I know your friend means a lot to you, and I have no doubt that in your friendly dealings with him he's a stand up guy. Watching you defend him today - however wrong and pointless I might feel it has all been - is certainly a powerful testament and it speaks volumes about your loyalty to your friends. I'm not being sarcastic and I'm not trying to be a jerk or take a potshot at you by pointing that out.
My problem here has been your repeated justifications of actions that can have none in any sane ethical system. You cannot uphold a law which you scoff at, and you cannot wield legal power over others which you do not recognize as having power over you as well and still call that power legitimate. This is the very foundation of our system - that we are all equal and that our rights and responsibilities in this regard are also equal. Acting like you are above the law for whatever reason implies that you believe yourself not to be bound as others are by the rules and this is a very destructive attitude no matter who espouses it - but especially for those whom we grant some measure of authority.
I know you think I'm an asshole. You're not the only one. But I will never agree, no matter how many times I hear it, that someone deserves any slack under the law because of something he has chosen to do with his career.
He might be a better man than me, he might be a nicer guy than me, and he might even be smarter, funnier and better looking than me, but legally he is no better than me.
He is obligated to follow the rules just like the rest of us.
And what, exactly, would you call doing something because you can get away with it if not a power trip?
I submit that acting like you're above the law because it has no consequences for you is the very definition of a power trip.
I'm tired of this bullshit, and frankly I'm tired of hearing about your pal the cop with a heart of freakin' gold.
Power corrupts. It has already started working its magic on your buddy, who thinks nothing of breaking one of the laws he is sworn to uphold. His selfish disregard of the speed limit might seem trivial to you - and maybe it is - but the fact remains that what he is doing is still criminal no matter how you try to rationalize it and he knows damn well that he'll never be punished.
At least when you or I choose to speed, we know we might get a ticket and can weigh that as part of our decision to abide by or ignore the law. He has no such restrictions.
How long until Officer Friendly decides to start ignoring some of the other laws on the books?
Or will that be OK since he's such a teddy-bear and no one is nice to him and blah, blah, blah?
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
How many clauses in there can you count that have direct application to this matter?
People, we really need to go back to teaching Government and Civics in high school. There are some people here who have been left behind.
Is it ethically OK? Well I think you and I know the answer to that - it depends.
If you have money to play around with, I think a better idea would be to determine how the spammers select stocks that look like good pump and dump opportunities and buy into a few of them before they get selected in the hopes that they will someday be pumped. There has to be some relatively simple algorithm they use which accounts for price, trade volume, etc. . .
That way, you wouldn't really be a part of the plan, but you could profit from it passively with little or no possible criminal liability. It could just be a part of your normal investment system.
Does a spam email that is obviously a pump and dump scam expose you to any liability as a co-conspirator, say, if you follow up on it? How do people know you weren't following what you thought was a legitimate tip? And how about the companies involved? What happens to them when they see a huge stock price increase that blows away in a month? What kind of havoc does that wreak on the employees of that company?
Anyway, I think the best idea is to ultimately leave the whole thing alone. Let Spam Assasin do its job and don't get too curious about the shit that ends up in you Junk folder. You can't cheat an honest man as they say, so the best defense is probably to use your instincts and steer clear.
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Just for the record, man - I am NOT a liberal and I take serious offense to being called one.
Unless you mean liberal in the Thomas Jefferson classical liberal sense of course, in which case I thank you.
http://www.civil-liberties.com/pages/dead.html
OK, here's my problem, pal. These are just a few examples, but you get the drift. All of these were uncovered with quick Google searches. There are lots more cases that I'd be happy to share with you, or you could go ahead and look for yourself.
First Amendment: status - gone
Second Amendment: status - limited
Third Amendment: status - Intact!
Fourth Amendment: status - gone
Fifth Amendment: status - gone
I'll stop there for now.
The only one spouting bullshit here is you, chief.
Wake the fuck up before it's too late.
And if you're wondering what this has to do with Captain America - well, it just made me sad, that's all.
Funny you mention that, since his death is roughly coinciding with the death of our Constitution.
I think the only right we have left is the one that says they can't quarter soldiers in your house.
Expect that one to be gone by the end of the year, *sigh* . . .
First of all, they probably are sniffing you whenever it's convenient (like at the airport).
Second of all, people sadly don't seem to care all that much.
This looks like a cool tool, and I share the hope of an earlier poster that it will work with Broadcom cards - since that's what I have.
Well, subscribers who keep their back-issues anyway.
I prefer the Reader's Digest condensed version:
"Brevity is. . . wit"
Thanks, AC.
Actually, it was a joke that missed the mark.
Well, they can't all be winners. . .
Yep. Mac users are androgynous.
They are also smug with no good reason, unlike Linux users.
Whoa there, Smithers.
Of course you shouldn't take every job that drifts through your transom, but if someone is offering you 1/3 again as much money as you're making now, you owe it to yourself to take a look. If it looks like a good fit, you can at the very least put the screws to your current boss and see if he'll match the other company's offer. if you really like your current job, they don't even have to match it all the way - work with them. If not, finish up what you're doing and split.
Going too far with the "company man" attitude is just a license for your boss to step on you. Don't have any illusions out there, man. Loyalty is important, but only as far as it gets you closer to your goals. Security? Hah. They're not giving out the 50 year gold watches anymore at most companies - they're just looting the pensions.
Unless you own a slice of the company, you don't owe them any more than a good day's work.
If that was supposed to be an "A", there's no way in hell I would ever RTF it.
/.
You know why?
Because my cat writes better than that when he rolls around on my keyboard.
That was fourth-rate illiterate garbage and I don't know how the hell it ever got on the front page of
Someone was really asleep at the switch on that one.
Too bad she's bloated and stops you a hundred times whenever you try to do anything interesting.
Vista: RAM is very important to your system. Are you sure you want to look at your RAM?
You: OK
Vista: Are you sure? Anything you do might cause your computer to perform poorly. Are you sure?
You: OK
Vista: Really? Cause I don't think you'd even know what to look for. Are you sure?
You: OK
Vista: Really?
You: OK
etc. . .
That's cause they're Glass.
I'm pretty sure all we'd need to do is apply the existing laws uniformly.
I know that at this point, you won't concede even a small bit of ground, but the time has come for you to wave the ol' white flag on this one, man.
I know your friend means a lot to you, and I have no doubt that in your friendly dealings with him he's a stand up guy. Watching you defend him today - however wrong and pointless I might feel it has all been - is certainly a powerful testament and it speaks volumes about your loyalty to your friends. I'm not being sarcastic and I'm not trying to be a jerk or take a potshot at you by pointing that out.
My problem here has been your repeated justifications of actions that can have none in any sane ethical system. You cannot uphold a law which you scoff at, and you cannot wield legal power over others which you do not recognize as having power over you as well and still call that power legitimate. This is the very foundation of our system - that we are all equal and that our rights and responsibilities in this regard are also equal. Acting like you are above the law for whatever reason implies that you believe yourself not to be bound as others are by the rules and this is a very destructive attitude no matter who espouses it - but especially for those whom we grant some measure of authority.
I know you think I'm an asshole. You're not the only one. But I will never agree, no matter how many times I hear it, that someone deserves any slack under the law because of something he has chosen to do with his career.
He might be a better man than me, he might be a nicer guy than me, and he might even be smarter, funnier and better looking than me, but legally he is no better than me.
He is obligated to follow the rules just like the rest of us.
And what, exactly, would you call doing something because you can get away with it if not a power trip?
I submit that acting like you're above the law because it has no consequences for you is the very definition of a power trip.
I'm tired of this bullshit, and frankly I'm tired of hearing about your pal the cop with a heart of freakin' gold.
Power corrupts. It has already started working its magic on your buddy, who thinks nothing of breaking one of the laws he is sworn to uphold. His selfish disregard of the speed limit might seem trivial to you - and maybe it is - but the fact remains that what he is doing is still criminal no matter how you try to rationalize it and he knows damn well that he'll never be punished.
At least when you or I choose to speed, we know we might get a ticket and can weigh that as part of our decision to abide by or ignore the law. He has no such restrictions.
How long until Officer Friendly decides to start ignoring some of the other laws on the books?
Or will that be OK since he's such a teddy-bear and no one is nice to him and blah, blah, blah?
Last time I checked, it's stupid to leave anything with a default password.
If you had all your personal papers in a safe, would you leave it set to the factory combination?
Algae produce most of the oxygen in the world.
We all need to have a look at it from time to time.
People, we really need to go back to teaching Government and Civics in high school. There are some people here who have been left behind.
Is it ethically OK? Well I think you and I know the answer to that - it depends.
If you have money to play around with, I think a better idea would be to determine how the spammers select stocks that look like good pump and dump opportunities and buy into a few of them before they get selected in the hopes that they will someday be pumped. There has to be some relatively simple algorithm they use which accounts for price, trade volume, etc. . .
That way, you wouldn't really be a part of the plan, but you could profit from it passively with little or no possible criminal liability. It could just be a part of your normal investment system.
Does a spam email that is obviously a pump and dump scam expose you to any liability as a co-conspirator, say, if you follow up on it? How do people know you weren't following what you thought was a legitimate tip? And how about the companies involved? What happens to them when they see a huge stock price increase that blows away in a month? What kind of havoc does that wreak on the employees of that company?
Anyway, I think the best idea is to ultimately leave the whole thing alone. Let Spam Assasin do its job and don't get too curious about the shit that ends up in you Junk folder. You can't cheat an honest man as they say, so the best defense is probably to use your instincts and steer clear.
By the time they are spamming you about it, the pumping has already pretty much happened.
You're the dump part.
I assure you, you can try to buy those stocks, but you won't make money.
Except for the 1903 and 1911 winner.
That was video of the old Ghostbusters game.
I think you crossed your streams.