What is the middle ground between these 2 positions?
1. Slavery is a good thing. 2. Slavery is unacceptable.
How about industrial revolution style wage slavery where you live in the company town and spend all your pay check before you get it on stuff sold to you by your employer? You're technically not a slave, so the freedom crowd like it (more than slavery) and the factory owner gets the same net effect so he's happy too.
If that is your experience, then the offended person probably wasn't a Christian but only called himself or herself one.
Let me guess... he or she probably wasn't a Scotsman either?
- in most cases if a company dies then there is not much left over for any kind of 'parachute' and while it sucks for the employees, they always got paid.
This really is not true. Take for example the fallout of Enron. Most the people that had Enron stock in their retirement funds lost the majority of its value (out of the $2 billion owed them, they were able to sue for $85 million). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron_scandal#Employees_and_shareholders
I didn't believe it either, but apparently, Arizona really did do what he said. http://www.politicususa.com/arizona-perpetual-pregnancy.html
That being said, I had always assumed that "girlintraining" meant "man" when I had seen his posts in the past.
Take a simple PIN for instance. Pair it up with the setting to erase the device after ten fails. Then an attacker gets the device and looks for fingerprints. One smudge on the device -- trivial. Two smudges and a four digit PIN can mean a 10 in 16 chance of getting the result. Three smudges, a 10 in 27, and four smudges, a 10 in 256 chance.
If someone uses a longer PIN, it becomes harder to guess things.
Man, I wish my college room-mate had a phone like this. Ten steps to deleting everything on his phone would have been hilarious to me.
Am I missing something, or is this roughly the equivalent of people saying "I want to be a fireman when I grow up!"?
Still, I suppose it's encouraging that software dev is seen as reasonably classy. Even just a few years ago it was all "but I'm not a sweaty nerd!"
Sort of, they see the potential fun in a career and say "I want to be a fireman because I just want to play with the siren and drive a big red truck." They have no idea of what it fully involves (pun intended).
Okay, I give up, what pun was intended? (Or are you obliquely referencing the xkcd about using the phrase "no pun intended" after a sentence with no pun in it?)
Top Ten Things Overheard At The ANSI C Draft Committee Meetings: (5) All right, who's the wiseguy who stuck this trigraph stuff in here?
