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Yes, I'm writing two books about it right now. One is for Kindle and the other is for Kindle.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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So in what circumstances is it appropriate for workers, male or female, to hold out their hand for a raise? And when is it less than advisable? "You know the night time, is the right time"
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Ray Charles is for all time 
TTFN - Kent
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I meant the concept of asking for a raise.
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Oh. Yeah. 'struth. 
TTFN - Kent
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Just trust Karma, eh? 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Slaves aren't allowed to ask for a raise. And if such an event does occur, steps will be implemented to ensure it never happens again.
Comments from work:- "Why can't you just do it like everybody else?"
- "Well, we haven't had any complaints yet."
- "I just want to get it into production."
- "It only matters if it’s important to someone who matters."
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Microsoft is planning to launch its own wearable fitness band in the coming weeks. They dug the unsold SPOT watches out of storage?
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Google is seeking permission to test a high-speed Internet service that could be in your home before Fiber. Brains between transmitters are only mildly poached
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Am I the only one thinking that noone gives dollars at price of cents?
I would like to know how much data volumen is going to be saved / forwarded to the marketing research, personalized sells and /or similars
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Developers aren't going to go for proprietary standards. "Standards are wonderful things; that's why we have so many."
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People found guilty of Internet "trolling" in Britain could be jailed for up to two years under government proposals outlined on Sunday, following a number of high-profile cases of abusive and threatening behaviour on Twitter. The Lounge might become a lonely place...
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As if any of our local trolls were in the UK. 
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Be brave troller is coming 
In code we trust !
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This is such a hard call to make - on the one hand some of the recent excesses (gamergate is a good recent example) have made me begin to think that anonymity on the Internet is not worth the price, on the other the potential for abuse by the government to stifle dissent is also horrifying.
Sadly, it looks like trolls may cause the entire Internet to lose some of its freedom.
Largely, I blame the large Internet companies (Google, Yahoo, Twitter, Facebook, etc.) for failing to get their house in order. They're the people with the resources to come up with a solution to this. Their failure to do so may cost us all an important freedom.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: have made me begin to think that anonymity on the Internet is not worth the
price
Anonymity provides freedom, the freedom of speech among others. If the media are controlled, you cannot talk of freedom. And no, it is not worth giving up because some idiots used some harsh words.
Rob Grainger wrote: Their failure to do so may cost us all an important freedom.
Well, yaah, apparantly - I am going to guess that most people rather have a friendly place without freedom than anything else.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: some idiots used some harsh words.
If it was only idiots using harsh words, then I don't think it would be as much of a problem. If they locked up everyone who called someone a c*nt on Twatter, then between Piers Morgan and David Cameron, most of the UK would be behind bars.
Unfortunately, some total f*cktards thought it would be a good idea to start posting women's home addresses and other personal information, accompanied by threats of rape and murder.
Whilst I'm generally opposed to censorship and de-anonymising the Internet, the people making these kinds of post clearly need to be tracked down and locked up.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: Unfortunately, some total f*cktards thought it would be a good idea
Good point, didn't know it was that extreme.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Sadly, I suspect the UK government may not be good at drawing up a law that differentiates the normal idiots from these malicious ones. I fully support the full weight of the law against the latter, but don't think someone should face two years for describing Cameron online as a W**ker. That's the same sentence as you face for racially motivated assault in this country.
Don't misunderstand me, I strongly believe in free speech, but at least a couple of women have been forced out of their homes by these retards - due to their addresses being outed (doxing) and believable threats to them and their families. Just because they dared to criticise the portrayal of women in games (i.e. exercising their right to free speech).
Free speech, yes, threats and intimidation - definitely no.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: Don't misunderstand me, I strongly believe in free speech
Yes, but not if it is abused like that.
Rob Grainger wrote: These aren't simple black and white issues.
Agreed; and a sad sight.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Sadly too, one of the recent "trolls" outed by the British media (actually the Daily Mail I believe, to name and shame, in comments related to the McCann case, turned out to be a 67 year old woman, who has since committed suicide. In this case, she wasn't directly addressing her remarks to the McCann's, and was expressing her opinion - which I believe she was entitled to, even if I strongly disagree with her.
These aren't simple black and white issues.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Thanks, saved me pointing this out.
I don't have a problem with casual abuse (I'd prefer it wasn't so endemic, but I can live with that), but the recent gamergate stuff illustrates just how far out of hand it gets.
Incidentally, Intel and IBM deserve some opprobrium here, for withdrawing advertising from at least one gaming site after campaigns initiated by the same bunch of idiots. These large companies shouldn't bow to these idiots. Linkety.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Richard Deeming wrote: need to be tracked down and locked up together
FTFY
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