Re: Ah, the joys of career-ending emails
Fortuantely, I never heard anything.. Maybe he found it funny!
More likely that either the spam filters caught it or if it got through then the admin nuked it.
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<sarc>Or...maybe cross a border via Canada or Mexico? Risky as hell though.<sarc off> We have worse people already in this country (US) who were born here. Politics, "security agencies" and the BS they spew is unbelievable. I do feel bad for the guy.
We've all seen this shit before where physical overrides experience, talent, etc. and yet, rather than these SJW'w working on the quality of work, they focus on quotas. It was a disaster back in the 70''s and it has continued being a disaster to today. It's box ticking at it's worst. I always thought that the best person for the job should be hired. Everything else like race, religion, sex, and orientation shouldn't matter.
Old joke back then but still applies: The best employee is a one-legged black woman who's gay because it fills so many slots.
Have an amen from me also. I'm a one man very minor operation and damned if I can see going to Win10 with all the BS. I don't want to be their "free" tester nor do I want their telemetry and other BS.
Viva la revolution against Win 10 and all the BS.
No one wins a trade war and casualties go beyond the targets to just about everyone from businesses not even involved in the trade war to the consumers having to pay more "tax" (that what a tariff actually is) for goods. We (the world) has enough problems without tossing this one in on purpose.
They had a newbie in the department so someone gave them a part code and told them to order it.
When I was in the Marines (US), this was very common and seems to be a rite of passage. Our line shop got a pickup truck as the order somehow got passed through. Then again, we would tell a newbie to go to supply an pick up such goodies as "5 gallons of prop wash", "200 feet of flight line", etc. Ah... good times.
Their platforms are driven by on the engines of human drivel,
This also includes most of the news media. A quick look around them and much of their content is human drivel or totally out of wack. For example, why should my news feed from say Yahoo, Google, etc. contain stories about auto accidents in cities a thousand miles from me?
Bob,
The basic flaw in all this is that the extreme right has seized the label "conservatives" and also had it thrust upon them by the extreme left as if it's a bad thing. It used to be that conservatives were the middle ground. At this point, I'm not seeing any middle ground only the extremes fighting each other.
I'm guessing that their billing and customer support are all off-shored to contractors? We have that issue here in the States. The only way to get anything resolved is to go into the local office. Even then.... they have an almost impossible time dealing with the contractors.
As for pricing.... again I make a visit to the local office and in 15 minutes it's done.
Footnote... as I said, I'm in the States. I only have one choice for anything really resembling broadband (cable). The rest are basically WiFi and slower than molasses in January.
And this: and to appease regulators and lawmakers, Facebook can be expected make its platform a robust surveillance system.
This is a wet dream for all those who do surveillance. I'm sure there will be an "access fee" charged by FB also to "offset costs". And it might get them so freedom from various legislative bodies because they're doing "important work for the government".
People are in danger whether he releases it or not.
I'm not so sure about this particular bug. If someone has physical access to your PC/laptop, then maybe. However, if you walk into where your computer is located and there's a guy wearing a hoodie with a bunch of 1's and 0's floating around him, then yes, you have a real problem.
Not sure if you were trolling on this, but I took it to mean that it was causing children to be trained up to lack imagination. Not so good if it turns out to be the case.
But that's exactly what government wants. If you have imagination, you might be a danger to them. Look to the leaders of just about any government for an example of what they want.
Today I would agree with you. Back then, things were simpler, computers were new and not the heart of many companies. When I received my first computer at work (an IBM before the 286's came out), the boss said "run amok", play with it, you'll learn more screwing things up than by doing them right. He was correct. In today's environment....no way in hell would I do that.
Arrogance? Something for than arrogance. From the article: "Chief Constable Giles York later doubled down on his employees' behaviour, refusing to apologise for the wrongful arrests and suggesting the two innocent people should have been grateful to police for not having them "released under investigation"* "
That innocents should be grateful that they weren't further harassed? This is just so wrong it boggles the mind. This seems more like Gestapo tactics than anything else.
Absolutely. Still, given the number of times various home-grown bombers and terrorists turned out to have been "known to the security services beforehand", I'm uncertain as how close an eye a very close eye really constitutes...
It's a question of priorities and funding. Since we've always been at war with Eastasia, our government can ignore them and focus on the citizens.