[freenet-chat] self description
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 12:54:56 -0800 (PST) "Mr. Smith" writes: > --- krepta at juno.com wrote: > > I can't do that, that would be dishonest. Even if I > > didn't tell them, my > > work would be affected very badly by my condition > > and they would > > eventualy find out and fire me. I don't want to be > > a dishonest person, > > at least not when it affects other people. > > Employers are not (legally) allowed to discriminate > based on disability, provided that disability does not > preclude doing a job in the first place. If you were > applying for a job doing heavy lifting construction, > then the fact that you have bad knees would be a valid > reason for not hiring you, or firing you. Ah, but my bad knees make my vulnerable, basicaly all the time, to knee cap dislocations that take me out of commision completely for at least 3 weeks. During which time I must stay in bed as much as possible for my knee to heal. I would say that is reason enough to not hire me, and more than enough reason to fire me if I am dishonest about my condition when applying or being interviewed. :) > > Assuming that you are applying for jobs you actually > feel you are capable of performing, there is no > logical reason to include that information in an > interview. Even if it does affect your job > performance, provided you are still able to perform > within acceptable parameters it is really none of > their business. If you feel compelled to honesty, > don't lie, but there is nothing in a job interview > that requires you to paint a negative picture of > yourself by disclosing your every shortcoming. I have applied to jobs that I didn't think I could do. I applied at Whataburger. They asked me what I could do there. I told them I don't know. They asked me if I have any physical or mental handicaps that would effect my work, I told them I did, and explained what they were. They, and I, wondered what the heck I was doing trying to get a job there. They didn't want me. I left. I cannot function within acceptable parameters when I must be at a job site on time, every day, for the majority of the time I work there. I can function if my schedule is flexible enough to accomidate periodic knee cap dislocations, but, most businesses do not accomodate those kinds of things. Most people think that my knee problems are just minor irritations for me. They compare it to a stubbed toe, or an itch, or a pimple or something. Thats like compareing an LED bulb to a bon-fire. My knees, when they go out, cause so much pain that I actualy experience trauma, as in I go into shock. I have nightmares about dislocations. Most of my nights are filled with nightmares about various things, and some of them involve me haveing a knee cap dislocation. I could just be walking on a sidewalk, getting the mail from my mailbox, and anything, like a car splashing water on me real hard, or a dog running past and bumping into me or something, could cause a dislocation. I could dislocate my knee and fall into the street and get run over by a car. I could dislocate while walking across the street fast enough to get to the other side before the lights change. And sooner or later my knee braces will stop being usefull. They wear out, and they are expensive to replace. The point is, I could be an invalid, and even be killed, any time because of my knees. And that is a very good reason not to want me working for you. Tell me, guys, be honest. Knowing all that you know about me, if you were employers, would you hire me? Say the job is an office or secretarial job. Forget the heavy lifting stuff, that isn't even in the picture. Concentrate now. Would you hire me? I can not blame anyone for not hireing me. I wouldn't hire me. GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. ___ Chat mailing list Chat at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/chat
[freenet-chat] terrorism and Freenet
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002 13:32:43 -0600 Timm Murray writes: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Saturday 12 January 2002 22:57, you wrote: > > On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 18:27:01 -0600 Mark J Roberts > writes: > > > Your "my right to [do some relatively unusual thing] is being > > > trampled by legislation that is necessary to enforce copyright" > > > argument is stupid, and you know it. > > > > Again the Flame War starter strikes with another blast of his > incredible > > weapon of doom. > > Actually, this time MJR is not just trolling, he's being serious. > He is > correct, in that my argument doesn't go the whole way into > supporting the > idealogy of free speech on the net; it only mentions a practical > value on the > cited speech. While I am still more an idealist than pragmatist, I > learned > from the Lessig Slashdot interview that there is value in being able > to put > arguments in a more practical light, being that most people think > along > practical arguments. Therefore, in this case I am using a practical > argument > which favors a certain idealogy But, he isn't correct in saying that your right to do something relatively unusual is being trampled. It used to be unusual to even HAVE a personal computer. Now people are copying thier favorite music from CDs to MP3 players that they take along while they jog or sit on a beach or something. The right to make copies of your own things, when you want to, is not some totaly alien concept, nor should it be trampled on by anyone, especialy not the Music or Software Industries. I do agree that an argument should be practical, and that the reasoning be easily understood by others. But I don't think software or music copying is in any way unusual these days. > > - -- > Fly Windows NT: > All the passengers carry their seats out onto the tarmac, placing > the chairs > in the outline of a plane. They all sit down, flap their arms and > make jet > swooshing sounds as if they are flying. Heehe!! :) Is this supposed to be a joke about Windows NT's inabillity to function the way it was intended or something? I know windows OSes have been notoriously unstable and insecure and a whole bunch of other stuff too. Any anti-M$ or anti-Windows joke is probably gonna be very funny to me. :) GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. ___ Chat mailing list Chat at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/chat
[freenet-chat] Interesting 'take' on Internet Freedom War
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002 19:31:32 +1300 David McNab writes: > > > heretic wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I've just been reading in the C_FIT Release Community mailing > lists > >> that updates to Windows XP will include surveillance software, > >> including key logging and other nasties. > >> > >> It's likely that most XP users will have M$ Update switched on, > and > >> will inadvertently install software that completely eliminates > their > >> privacy, and they won't even know that such software is running. > >> > >> With keylogging (and other pieces of) software, even PGP becomes > >> completely useless. > >> > >> One could cynically speculate that in co-operating such with the > FBI, > >> M$ may be trying to gain some clemency from DoJ for its > >> anti-competitive crimes. > > > > > > This is why I use Linux. > > > > MS Windows is now a potential agent for the extension of the > growing > > American police state. > > > > The machinery is all there.all we need now is the venal > politicians > > to make use of it. As Nixon and Reagan both did as far as they > were > > able. > > I agree. I wish I had my own PC, then I'd use Linux. And I would try to find a way of defeating the DRM, if not in the law, then in software. > > > >If you own a PC, you've got your own software factory. If you can > write > good software, multi-billion pound companies need you -- but you > could > string together the words and numbers that shape the world as well > from a > bedroom in Calcutta as from their plush offices in Silicon Valley. > The > consumers own the means of production, the workers hold all the > cards: > welcome to the future, a world where the anarchy of software > economics has > the potential to overturn capitalism. True. Every computer, whether PC or something else, is potentialy a factory ready to spew out millions of copies of software a year. And every programer can create just as easily from home as from an office. Location doesn't matter, only hardware, and time. > > Or, alternatively, there's the doomsday scenario: > > "We are about to enter an age that would have thrilled all the > dictators > of the past. An age where machines can be a totally obedient, > non-human, > police force allowing absolute control over the movement and > interaction > of every individual," says Tony Stanco of the embryonic radical > software > company FreeDevelopers.net. I agree. I want to fight that, in any way possible. > > To him there is a war on. If things keep going as they are now, > before we > know it the profit-making strategies of "proprietary" companies such > as > Microsoft will leave us with our communications, commerce and, > potentially, democracy controlled by programmes no-one can > scrutinise and > few can understand; created and marketed to us by unaccountable > billionaires: "Since proprietary software is by definition unseen > code not > subject to scrutiny by the public, it gives too much power to a > few, > unelected businessmen, mostly from the US. Looking back on human > history, > nightmarish scenarios cannot be hard to imagine," says Stanco. Yeah, I think it's wrong that proprietary software cannot be examined for potential threats to personal privacy, or to things like National Security. GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. ___ Chat mailing list Chat at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/chat
[freenet-chat] self description
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, I also have asthma. :) That means that one of these days I'm gonna either die from an asthma attack caused by some SOB smoker who won't leave me alone, or, I'm gonna kill the SOB smoker or neither, whatever. Anyway, I think it's about time people with Asthma stand up to smokers and MAKE them give us back our freedom to go where we want to go, when we want to go there. I'm not against people smokeing, you can smoke all you like, just don't force ME or any other non-smoker to breath your crap! Thats all. And, I have some really strong opinions about things like infint circumcision and stuff. But a lot of my opinions can be swayed, with the right arguments and evidence of course. :) -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/chat/attachments/20020114/847f57ae/attachment.html>
[freenet-chat] self description
--- krepta at juno.com wrote: > I can't do that, that would be dishonest. Even if I > didn't tell them, my > work would be affected very badly by my condition > and they would > eventualy find out and fire me. I don't want to be > a dishonest person, > at least not when it affects other people. Employers are not (legally) allowed to discriminate based on disability, provided that disability does not preclude doing a job in the first place. If you were applying for a job doing heavy lifting construction, then the fact that you have bad knees would be a valid reason for not hiring you, or firing you. Assuming that you are applying for jobs you actually feel you are capable of performing, there is no logical reason to include that information in an interview. Even if it does affect your job performance, provided you are still able to perform within acceptable parameters it is really none of their business. If you feel compelled to honesty, don't lie, but there is nothing in a job interview that requires you to paint a negative picture of yourself by disclosing your every shortcoming. __ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ ___ Chat mailing list Chat at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/chat
[freenet-chat] question about FreeWeb
Hi Lucas, Monday, January 14, 2002, 10:07:22 AM, you wrote: LG> question: what binds the different files in a FreeWeb site together? I assume LG> that either it's all in a single archive or that there's a data file with LG> metadata about all the subpages. LG> ?? LG> thanks in advance. FreeWeb searches for an index.html file in the top level of the directory being inserted. If index.html exists at top level, FreeWeb assumes the user has indexed all the other files appropriately. If index.html doesn't exist, then FreeWeb generates an index.html which simply lists, with hyperlinks, all the files found in the directory and its subdirectories. Hope this adequately answers your question Cheers David ___ Chat mailing list Chat at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/chat
