Posts by Fatman

Re: ...shout and throw big heavy things at the managers...

If you really want to get their attention, then tell them (the manglers) that they will be the Red Shirts in the event the robots go berserk.

Re: ... unless the customer service agent is inept.

Unfortunately, at too many $BIGCORPs, that is a job requirement.

Re: Testing updates prior to release

From a management perspective, testing is a cost that needs to be cut, as it does not increase shareholder value.

EOS!

Re: finance department acquired a "new" payroll application

A 16 bit back end in 2008, to me that is gross incompetence.

For that sin, your FD should have been shot!!!!

Re: Why ever not? Yes...

This is usually a lie.

A real bald faced one, too!!!!!

RE: Sending fame hungary individuals with no connection to each other.

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Re: We can only hope

It would be just desserts if the Chinese took the WBC out to the border with Mongolia, and left them there.

Re: NB I'm a lucky 300m from the exchange.

NO Shit!!!

No wonder why!!!!

300m!!!!

That's practically next door!!!

I'd be a damn sight happy IF I were that close.

Re: ....I'd get a gun, and from as far away as possible shoot the bastard full of holes.

Are you suggesting the best solution to the Nork problem?????

Re: Please don't confuse "music industry" with musicians.

I, for one, do not!!!

I am well aware that the music industry, like Hollywood will never let any opportunity to ram it up the ass of a musician or actor pass by, if it presents itself.

The music industry took a page out of Hollywood's Creative Accounting playbook, and figured out so many ways past Sunday to cheat musicians and artists. It is one reason why I have no sympathy for member companies of the MAFIAA (Music And Film Industy Associations of America). Fuck them!

Unless you are a "household name" artist, whose popularity allows you the ability to dictate your own terms; you are fucked. The record companies will make damn sure that any potential royalties you might be entitled to are consumed by bogus nickel and dime expenses. You may have to have an army of CPAs to keep the labels honest. When you sign with a label, you have given them first dibs at your first born, your left nut and your spouse (or girl/boyfriend), and essentially, you are a slave (to the record company) with little hope of gaining your freedom. So, pirates out there, if you really want to stick it to those bastards, then support those artists that release their music directly to the public, fuck the labels. Supporting an artist directly takes the labels out of the revenue stream, and those greedy motherfuckers don't want their gravy train hijacked.

Re: hahahahahahahaaaaa...Nice price, but they can keep it.

I bet that Intel took a page out of Cisco's pricing strategy book when they priced this unit.

Re: I felt a small disturbance in the Force...as if dozens of voices suddenly cried out in terror

When they found out that they got Mickey Moused.

RE: Re: thus proving taxation systems are broken

Strike out the double taxation rules. All revenue raised in the country that the end customer lives in is taxed at the prevailing rate in that country. Multinationals are then playing by the same rules as corporations that do business solely in one jurisdiction.

Which is well and good, but, if you notice very carefully, many of these avoidance schemes involve tax deductible business expenses. And, if you think corporates are going to stand for basing tax on gross revenues as opposed to net profits; you are in for a serious shock. The wailing and moaning will be heard world wide. The trick for tax agencies world wide is to determine how to fairly assess legitimate business expenses, and tax those claimed business 'expenses' that simply serve to move profits out of a high tax percentage country into a tax haven.

Re: Much as it pains me to say it, this proves you're better off buying a CD and ripping it.

Exactly!!!

More so, you have some control over the quality of the ripped file.

If your taste is FLACs as opposed to MP3s; ripping your own from a CD is one way to insure a better quality rip.

NOW you know why I never waste my money on digital downloads; give me the physical medium anyday!!!!

Re: ...if you aren't clicking on stupid things

That is what WROK PALCE does to prevent damagement from viewing pr0n sites.

Boy, did some male execs scream when the female CEO got an email listing their attempt in real time to access a prohibited site. She often paid a visit to their office - unannounced!!!!

IT got called some really nasty names; but, what the hell, we were only following ORDERS!!!!!

Re: The trolls should be

But first, subject them to the BOFH's cattle prod a few hundred times!!!!!

RE: but why each individual bulb? It's nonsense.

Not in the bulb, but in the fixture itself!!!!!

This would solve one of the problems that plague older homes - getting cables down inside walls.

When I was a kid (the 1960's), my dad worked for a company that made precision motors, they used a 24 volt momentary closure relay (made by GE) to turn on/off their shop floor lighting. Since the factory was in Chicago, a city where the electrical codes were quite strict, being able to run the control circuits using what amounted to doorbell wire (24 volts at 100 ma) eliminated many lengthy metal conduit runs. The neat part was this combination switch that had the on/off buttons and a 12 position rotary switch that allowed selection of any one of the 12 connected relay loads from a single point. Also, since these on/off switches were wired in parallel to each other, complicated and expensive 3-way and 4-way mains wiring was eliminated.

So, a fixture (or load) mounted Zigbee module may serve as the foundation for quite flexible load control.

Re: Analysts Analyzed

You guys are spelling it wrong!!!!!!!

It should be spelled:

ANALysts

Get the difference????

Re: S.A: Put your clocks back...

Yes, someone, please think of the children!!!!

Re: Based on the TV ads...How about a funeral?

Whose??

GoPro's perhaps???

Re: wow...why don't you move next to one.

I live within 75 miles of a nuke plant that, because management damagement wanting to save some money, (to increase their year end bonuses) decided to perform a "DIY" nuke plant repair. (see http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/energy/consumer-advocates-want-investigation-into-crystal-river-nuclear-plant-deal/1276531 ) Seventh paragraph says it all.

And I have no plans to move, either.

Re: sad @ dogged... @AC

I must agree.

I can easily understand why he did not want to have sex with her. Just take one look, and ...

Re: boss's phone line becoming short circuited

Actually, I would rather see about 500g of semtex hidden inside his desk set, with a detonator wired to the buzzer. Ring his extension, and .......

Re: Sir...Next up, the Patriot Act.

Which can not happen soon enough!!!

Or...

@Vic,

e) a desire to show the little people that you are the high and mighty, and you can fuck over anyone you want, and get away with it.