actually the media tends to favor obama. generally republicans are more reliable when actually going to the polls, and democrats less reliable.
whatever margins he may win by in the actual election won't be as wide as whatever margins he may be leading by now in the polls. come back to me next week & tell me i was right.
where are my mod points when i need them? NYTimes is biased. i knew this guy was an obama man when he suggested getting the policy proposals from the candidates' sites.
from their sites you will get their spin, half-truths & reality distortion.
obama claims that mc cain is the tax raiser. mc cain for the first time in history is creating a tax on healthcare benefits. what he refuses to include is that an additional health care tax Credit overshadows that first tax, which creates a net tax CUT overall for the taxpayer. he is a liar, who apparently has enough money to get his message out. he is winning by tactical strategy, & just gold old fashioned money, not actual substance or philosophy.
amen. people are having too many kids as it is. there definitely shouldn't be any encouragement to do so. more people means resources will be consumed even faster. BAD.
i don't get where you can say 'the average CEO' has been raiding pension plans. i also don't get how you can say that most workers are being cheated of overtime pay, healthcare, and whatever 'the works' are. or that most companies are 'too greedy' to give it to them.
what about the NON-greedy companies? if they're being taxed, that's less money to give to employees for raises or other benefits. instead of me being able to give my own employees benefits, obama wants to take that money from me to give to people who not only don't work for me, some don't even work at all.
and this is 'making work pay' HOW??
also, how about just closing those loopholes you spoke of earlier, rather than trying to 'get something' out of the wealthy? and what about the wealthy who DON'T cheat? who don't exploit the loopholes? by raising taxes on them you're just punishing the righteous ones.
as far as 'paying up like the rest of us', the government makes more money off my father's business than he does. and obama wants to take even more. by your statements i have a very hard time believing you worked on anyone's taxes.
you're not in the minority. NOBODY would ever expect less from an employer because they're taxed less. that guy above simply has his head up his ass. someone trying to build reality around his own philosophies and delusional ideals rather than understanding how life and people actually work.
as an employer i know employees wouldn't expect any less from me if they paid any less in taxes, and i don't blame them for that. on the other hand, i also know that if i'm paying more taxes, they won't be getting those raises, as mr. obama's spreading the wealth i don't have, in this worst period in economic history since the depression, to other people who not only don't work for me, but may not even work at all.
Let your boss know the risk he is facing and then ask him if he really wants to risk being caught and shut down unexpectedly, or worse, finding someone has poisened his data.
It's just not good for business.
now that is an intelligent and pragmatic answer.
now one with any instinct toward self-preservation will see this is much better than the 'get it in writing', flat-out refusal, or any other threats or immature behavior rank with self-righteous indignation any other of the slashdot amateur lawyers have suggested.
here you are not only voicing your own personal concerns but you are also giving your employer more insight into the situation and making him aware of the potential risks. you are preserving your own sense of morals and at the same time helping him refine his own.
this is not only taking the high road in a sense but also showing your boss that you're on his side and looking out for him as well, rather than just being difficult. he will appreciate this.
acting as a 'whistleblower' will only get you on his shit list and cause him not to trust you. so while you're interviewing at other places you will not have his support or recommendations later on.
also, to truly be on both sides of the fence, one should try being an employer as well. not all businessmen are evil. not all programmers are ethical.
in fact, i wouldn't be surprised if half of those who are saying this man is unethical for 'stealing' the data might in another breath have no problems with downloading music illegally.
when you think about it, he may actually be more ethical, as, at least he's using some kind of loophole within the existing system rather than completely working to break something outright(like circumventing DRM.)
ok so what's the point of these assholes driving priuses like they give a shit about their carbon footprint if they're just going to fly private jets everywhere?
i think he means 24 inches. when there is flooding damage contractors will remove the drywall 24 inches up from the floor along the bases of the walls to reveal where the majority of the mold and water damage occurs.
you might have something there. if windows wasn't pirated people may be more inclined to use a less system resource intensive OS, in which case they may get much more mileage out of their current PCs.. resulting in less landfill waste and less demand for production of new machines.
it's got nothing to do with locking baggage. my brother and his friend are both in the US military. they graduated from west point. a west point class ring can run anywhere from $2k to 10k. his friend's ring was worth about $8k.
anyways as he was putting his carry-on luggage through the scanners & stepped through the metal detector, he put his cell phone and his ring into the plastic bowl they hold it in.
anyways the TSA guy took it. told him it was lost & played dumb. brother's buddy wasn't about to let an $8k ring go like that, so he filed a complaint & later on they ended up catching the guy on video, grabbing it.
they immediately went after the guy. they got the ring back. it was all jacked up. he was trying to remove the stone from it.
good thing it was insured..
shit, it was a week before the guy actually graduated. had he actually graduated the TSA guy would have been accused of stealing from an officer in the military, which carries a MUCH steeper penalty than simply stealing from a soldier or a civilian.
anyways my point was that it wasn't in locked luggage nor something that you can blame the Bush administration or the consequences of the last 8 years upon. it could have happened and i'm sure it's happened years before to many other people, as long as there have been metal detectors in airports.
in fact, one could actually argue that the increased video surveillance was what actually caught the guy this time.
'ye', 'whence', 'lo', 'thou', 'canst', etc..
what's with the Old English? this the King James edition?
reminds me of every historical fiction movie using an english accent no matter where the setting really took place. Gladiator for a relatively recent example.
"unlike some other robin hoods, i can speak with an english accent."
eh. i have both and i hate paying for pointless adapters. the most insulting thing so far is the iphone 3g dock being $30 for a fucking piece of plastic.
what bugs me most about my macbook pro is the right USB port. i'm reading a lot of macbook pros have this problem. i've also read with music software & interfaces some companies only support the device when it's plugged into the left side. obviously it's defective in the design.
it's 'for all intents and purposes', not 'for all intensive purposes'. 'whom' is a word, but it's objective, meaning it's a noun that acts as the recipient of an action or an object of a preposition. the 'who' in 'who cares' is subjective, as it is the subject of the sentence or action in particular./grammar lesson
actually i drove like an asshole when i had my Volvo:-x
it was an 05 S40 with the turbo in it. had 220 hp, plenty of zip for such a small car. it was VERY safe & had amazing handling. i must admit though that illusion of safety made me feel like i could drive more recklessly & without consequence.
i'm an idiot. i wrecked it, and i miss it very much.
very nice car though.
this is one of many reasons why i miss my '05 Volvo S40. it was just respectable for what it was. i wasn't some asshole in a BMW selfishly taking the road for himself, and i wasn't some lowly peasant getting in the way. the car is just as nice as a 3-series, just doesn't have that elitist stigma.
it was also interesting getting pulled over by cops. i used to have a 94 explorer (PIECE OF SHIT). it seems that when i had a respectable & classy car, cops were much more respectful and less abusive. i wasn't some peasant they could just abuse, but i also wasn't some asshole they might feel the need to teach a lesson.
being 25 at the time, i also used to get 'what do you do for a living?' from the cops quite often as well. anybody else ever experience this?
people are funny when they judge cars. my dad had a 1984 porsche 911 convertible. it was in really nice shape. i remember him driving it one time & some asshole in a brand new mustang was yelling shit at him about being a rich asshole or something. the funny thing was, he paid about $18k for the porsche, whereby which Asshole's brand new mustang was probably, what, 30k?
another instance with the porsche was one where my brother took it out & like an idiot left it in a seedy area. someone keyed the shit out of it. i'm sure there were plenty of cars in the lot of higher value. someone just wanted to destroy something beautiful i guess. people are retarded.
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actually the media tends to favor obama. generally republicans are more reliable when actually going to the polls, and democrats less reliable.
whatever margins he may win by in the actual election won't be as wide as whatever margins he may be leading by now in the polls. come back to me next week & tell me i was right.
where are my mod points when i need them? NYTimes is biased. i knew this guy was an obama man when he suggested getting the policy proposals from the candidates' sites.
from their sites you will get their spin, half-truths & reality distortion.
obama claims that mc cain is the tax raiser. mc cain for the first time in history is creating a tax on healthcare benefits. what he refuses to include is that an additional health care tax Credit overshadows that first tax, which creates a net tax CUT overall for the taxpayer. he is a liar, who apparently has enough money to get his message out. he is winning by tactical strategy, & just gold old fashioned money, not actual substance or philosophy.
every little bit helps. cut what we can.
taking it out of payroll taxes is even more asinine. it's money that otherwise would have gone to already-failing social security.
amen. people are having too many kids as it is. there definitely shouldn't be any encouragement to do so. more people means resources will be consumed even faster. BAD.
i don't get where you can say 'the average CEO' has been raiding pension plans. i also don't get how you can say that most workers are being cheated of overtime pay, healthcare, and whatever 'the works' are. or that most companies are 'too greedy' to give it to them.
what about the NON-greedy companies? if they're being taxed, that's less money to give to employees for raises or other benefits. instead of me being able to give my own employees benefits, obama wants to take that money from me to give to people who not only don't work for me, some don't even work at all.
and this is 'making work pay' HOW??
also, how about just closing those loopholes you spoke of earlier, rather than trying to 'get something' out of the wealthy? and what about the wealthy who DON'T cheat? who don't exploit the loopholes? by raising taxes on them you're just punishing the righteous ones.
as far as 'paying up like the rest of us', the government makes more money off my father's business than he does. and obama wants to take even more. by your statements i have a very hard time believing you worked on anyone's taxes.
all the more reason for less federal taxes then!
you're not in the minority. NOBODY would ever expect less from an employer because they're taxed less. that guy above simply has his head up his ass. someone trying to build reality around his own philosophies and delusional ideals rather than understanding how life and people actually work.
as an employer i know employees wouldn't expect any less from me if they paid any less in taxes, and i don't blame them for that. on the other hand, i also know that if i'm paying more taxes, they won't be getting those raises, as mr. obama's spreading the wealth i don't have, in this worst period in economic history since the depression, to other people who not only don't work for me, but may not even work at all.
and that is 'making work pay' HOW?
Let your boss know the risk he is facing and then ask him if he really wants to risk being caught and shut down unexpectedly, or worse, finding someone has poisened his data.
It's just not good for business.
now that is an intelligent and pragmatic answer.
now one with any instinct toward self-preservation will see this is much better than the 'get it in writing', flat-out refusal, or any other threats or immature behavior rank with self-righteous indignation any other of the slashdot amateur lawyers have suggested.
here you are not only voicing your own personal concerns but you are also giving your employer more insight into the situation and making him aware of the potential risks. you are preserving your own sense of morals and at the same time helping him refine his own.
this is not only taking the high road in a sense but also showing your boss that you're on his side and looking out for him as well, rather than just being difficult. he will appreciate this.
acting as a 'whistleblower' will only get you on his shit list and cause him not to trust you. so while you're interviewing at other places you will not have his support or recommendations later on.
also, to truly be on both sides of the fence, one should try being an employer as well. not all businessmen are evil. not all programmers are ethical.
in fact, i wouldn't be surprised if half of those who are saying this man is unethical for 'stealing' the data might in another breath have no problems with downloading music illegally.
when you think about it, he may actually be more ethical, as, at least he's using some kind of loophole within the existing system rather than completely working to break something outright(like circumventing DRM.)
i'm just sayin'.
sounds like you live in my town.
ok so what's the point of these assholes driving priuses like they give a shit about their carbon footprint if they're just going to fly private jets everywhere?
and that project would actually create jobs as well and stimulate the economy much more than the $600 bribe plan. very interesting.
i think he means 24 inches. when there is flooding damage contractors will remove the drywall 24 inches up from the floor along the bases of the walls to reveal where the majority of the mold and water damage occurs.
http://thepiratebay.org/
you might have something there. if windows wasn't pirated people may be more inclined to use a less system resource intensive OS, in which case they may get much more mileage out of their current PCs.. resulting in less landfill waste and less demand for production of new machines.
it's got nothing to do with locking baggage. my brother and his friend are both in the US military. they graduated from west point. a west point class ring can run anywhere from $2k to 10k. his friend's ring was worth about $8k.
anyways as he was putting his carry-on luggage through the scanners & stepped through the metal detector, he put his cell phone and his ring into the plastic bowl they hold it in.
anyways the TSA guy took it. told him it was lost & played dumb. brother's buddy wasn't about to let an $8k ring go like that, so he filed a complaint & later on they ended up catching the guy on video, grabbing it.
they immediately went after the guy. they got the ring back. it was all jacked up. he was trying to remove the stone from it.
good thing it was insured..
shit, it was a week before the guy actually graduated. had he actually graduated the TSA guy would have been accused of stealing from an officer in the military, which carries a MUCH steeper penalty than simply stealing from a soldier or a civilian.
anyways my point was that it wasn't in locked luggage nor something that you can blame the Bush administration or the consequences of the last 8 years upon. it could have happened and i'm sure it's happened years before to many other people, as long as there have been metal detectors in airports.
in fact, one could actually argue that the increased video surveillance was what actually caught the guy this time.
goatse, is that you??
err that last quote was from Robin Hood: Men in Tights of course, and would have made more sense if i'd remembered to include paragraph tags.
'ye', 'whence', 'lo', 'thou', 'canst', etc.. what's with the Old English? this the King James edition? reminds me of every historical fiction movie using an english accent no matter where the setting really took place. Gladiator for a relatively recent example. "unlike some other robin hoods, i can speak with an english accent."
he must be from los angeles. a sunny place, for shady people.
eh. i have both and i hate paying for pointless adapters. the most insulting thing so far is the iphone 3g dock being $30 for a fucking piece of plastic. what bugs me most about my macbook pro is the right USB port. i'm reading a lot of macbook pros have this problem. i've also read with music software & interfaces some companies only support the device when it's plugged into the left side. obviously it's defective in the design.
it's 'for all intents and purposes', not 'for all intensive purposes'. 'whom' is a word, but it's objective, meaning it's a noun that acts as the recipient of an action or an object of a preposition. the 'who' in 'who cares' is subjective, as it is the subject of the sentence or action in particular. /grammar lesson
no they're just taking a cue from Dante & bringing us straight to the Seventh Circle of Hell.
actually i drove like an asshole when i had my Volvo :-x
it was an 05 S40 with the turbo in it. had 220 hp, plenty of zip for such a small car. it was VERY safe & had amazing handling. i must admit though that illusion of safety made me feel like i could drive more recklessly & without consequence.
i'm an idiot. i wrecked it, and i miss it very much.
very nice car though.
this is one of many reasons why i miss my '05 Volvo S40. it was just respectable for what it was. i wasn't some asshole in a BMW selfishly taking the road for himself, and i wasn't some lowly peasant getting in the way. the car is just as nice as a 3-series, just doesn't have that elitist stigma. it was also interesting getting pulled over by cops. i used to have a 94 explorer (PIECE OF SHIT). it seems that when i had a respectable & classy car, cops were much more respectful and less abusive. i wasn't some peasant they could just abuse, but i also wasn't some asshole they might feel the need to teach a lesson. being 25 at the time, i also used to get 'what do you do for a living?' from the cops quite often as well. anybody else ever experience this? people are funny when they judge cars. my dad had a 1984 porsche 911 convertible. it was in really nice shape. i remember him driving it one time & some asshole in a brand new mustang was yelling shit at him about being a rich asshole or something. the funny thing was, he paid about $18k for the porsche, whereby which Asshole's brand new mustang was probably, what, 30k? another instance with the porsche was one where my brother took it out & like an idiot left it in a seedy area. someone keyed the shit out of it. i'm sure there were plenty of cars in the lot of higher value. someone just wanted to destroy something beautiful i guess. people are retarded.