Comment Re:"Because I had an idea to risk my life" (Score 2) 128
I think it's a rich person who has nothing better to do with his money.
I think it's a rich person who has nothing better to do with his money.
Niagara Falls is in Ontario. You're not making it to Quebec unless you swim across Lake Ontario, into the St. Lawrence River, and downriver for 50 miles or so. If you can do that learning French should be easy.....
God (Via his assistant) unleashes all manner of misery and suffering upon Job, killing his family, ruining him financially and inflicting him with horrible diseases entirely to show that Job, as a loyal Jew, will remain obedient and loyal no matter what circumstances throw at him - and sure enough, at the end, God restores his health and wealth. Though not the dead family.
Not only that, but he did it basically on a dare.
God: "Job will do anything for me, no matter what"
Satan: "no way"
God: "yes way"
Satan: "prove it or GTFO"
God: "watch this..."
Now, do you have statistics to back up your implication, that in real life police are more often wrong than right?
No, but the consequences of real life police being wrong are pretty fucking serious. And they're wrong a lot more often than people care to admit.
Actually, Genesis would be a good start.
That's for sure. THAT sumbitch told Abraham to kill his kid and then at the last second went, "PSYCH!"
Some of of can tell the difference between fiction and reality.
And one would hope that law enforcement officers are near the top of the list of people who can tell the difference between fantasy and reality.
So, if popular culture approves of and encourages it, can't blame the cops too much for doing it despite it being merely illegal...
Popular culture also approves and encourages Justin Bieber, but don't nobody want to see cops imitating that mess.
in 2013, the selected charity siphoned (heh) off about $10M from a $35M cash flow for "operations", of which 70% went for the salaries of 67 people. That's about $100K per person...not bad for a...er..."nonprofit."
Where did you get the idea that "nonprofit" means, "we don't pay our employees"? Or, "we pay our employees shit"?
It's as dumb as thinking "for-profit" means, "we pay all of our employees well".
Harvard University is a non-profit, and last I checked, they're paying their professors pretty well. Rush Presbyterian hospital is a non-profit, but the head of surgery probably makes more than minimum wage.
But you can't sit there and tell me that all the amenities around campus are there for no reason.
Absolutely not. They're there for various very important reasons.
However, none of those reasons are the one you postulate. If you look at each of them individually, drop your bias, and think about what benefit there could be to the company in providing that service to employees... it's generally very obvious.
In fact, a bathroom I used during an interview had a wall of cups and toothbrushes with employee names on them. People apparently stay at work so long that they need a dedicated toothbrush.
Where do you keep your toothbrush at work? Or don't you brush after lunch? Ick.
That sounds pretty unhealthy to me, especially given the present evidence of attrition suggesting that it is not a sustainable way of working.
Attrition at Google is very, very low, and what there is is mostly people leaving to found their own companies. As for how it sounds to you... you really don't know what you're talking about. Go spend some time with some of said young employees and you'll see why they feel it's fantastic.
So, you are an outlier who will have been employed for a different reason than the infantry and for whom expectations are different.
Nope, just another SWE.
I'm curious, are you on an hourly wage or on a fixed salary? Is it the same for everyone?
Salary plus annual bonus and incentive stock. Yes it's the same for pretty much everyone. Why?
The problem is that it isn't the easiest or most obvious thing to do.
Yeah, it's like three or four whole mouse clicks to make it happen....
C'Mon people, Microsoft does enough shit wrong, we don't need to make crap up.
No autoplay (which was the core attack vector) and you'd hope the SCADA software would run as it's own user under Linux which isn't possible with Windows.
???
Really, who would be surprised by a blue screen from a Windows 95 box?
The giveaway was probably when the blue screen was replaced with CIA's logo and the text "All your base are belong to us."
Why they didn't use Linux, BSD, even the Russia or RedFlag version ?
Ask Siemens. They designed the equipment the Iranians are using and wrote most of the control software to operate in a Windows environment. Not that it would have mattered, once you've got an agency with the resources of CIA or Mossad after you it's only a matter of time before they find a way in. Linux is not proof against malware delivered via HUMINT assets.
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