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- Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be cops
- http://www.tampabays10.com/news/news.aspx?storyid=24785Why'd she keep going? She was taking her cancer-sick husband to the hospital.Guess that makes it okay to disregard the well-being of the officer you just hit with your car.Just pathetic.I was a smart-alec teenager to copsBut later in life I had a few friends who were policemen, and...
- Tags: cop
- Discussion threads 2006-02-02
- Open letter to Senator Corzine
- I just heard you on C-SPAN, debating for the office of Governor of New Jersey, undermine the welfare/populist trend of your party, and want to congratulate you for it.You correctly described smoking in public as an imposition by the smoker on all affected non-smokers. It is an admirable moral...
- Tags: Absolutely, corruption, education, injustice, off-topic, robin hood, sloth, smoke, smoker, theft, welfare
- Discussion threads 2005-11-07
- legal process and justice
- legal process and justiceIt seems that this John Cooey who killed 9 year old Jessica Lunsford in Citrus County, FL might get off because, even though he voluntarily confessed to the crime, he had requested an attorney and not been given one right away. Since he gave the info...
- Tags: confession
- Discussion threads 2005-07-05
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- The Needy Get Nerdy
- Ever consider how unfair it is that poor people can't be geeky? I mean, sure they can be geeky, but they can't afford the stuff that marks them as geeky. Here is a project, started in Portland, that is trying to remedy that injustice. They take old computers, refurbish them,...
- Tags: Computer, Productivity, Rebecca Ward
- Blog posts 2007-04-06
- Beats of Rage (zip)
- As fans of the 'Streets of Rage' series that originally appeared on the SEGA megadrive/genesis, we always wanted to see streets of rage 4. But the waiting proved futile, and streets of rage 4 never came. That's why we tried to correct this mistake and fill the void by making...
- Tags: Street, Senile Team, Y, Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software
- Software downloads 2008-03-21
- Workplace Learning Mode - Best Practices
- Focus: HOPE is a nationally recognized civil and human rights organization founded in 1968 in response to a riot that left Detroit, Michigan, sharply divided along racial lines. It was in this atmosphere that the Focus: HOPE cofounders became committed to "Intelligent and practical action to overcome racism, poverty, and...
- Tags: Workplace, Cisco Systems Inc., Best Practice
- Case studies
- Alleged NASA hacker's appeal begins
- deleteddeletedNo civilized nation......should ever be willing to extradite someone to the US criminal injustice system.An interesting conceptWe are no longer responsible for not protecting our computers but the people who break in are responsible for breaking in and we want to charge them with doing the damage that we allowed...
- Tags: thoger@..., security, NASA
- Discussion threads 2007-02-20
- Xbox Live brat gets busted by Google video
- Once again, I'm stealing from John Scalzi, who pointed out this little gem of a Google video, wherein a 9-year-old kid curses out his mom for refusing to bring him some chocolate milk while he plays his Rainbow Six. Unfortunately for the little punk, he forgot to turn...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Video, Xbox Live, Video, Microsoft Xbox, Corporate Communications, Game Players, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2005-11-21
- Comic Relief Builds Multi-Channel e-Commerce Site
- Comic Relief is a charitable organization set up by Richard Curtis in the United Kingdom to help end poverty and social injustice by raising funds. The company wanted to build a scalable, high-performance e-commerce platform capable of live-authorizing hundreds of thousands of transactions arriving through the Internet, digital satellite TV...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Call-center, E-business, Comic Relief, Web Technology, Call Centers, E-business/E-Commerce, TVs, Satellite TV, Tv & Home Theater, Leadership, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), It Operations, Internet, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Management, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies
- Amnesty International calling all bloggers before IGF
- Amnesty International is calling on bloggers around the world to stand up for the right of free expression. The press release comes days before the Internet Governance Forum meet in Athens (30/10/06 - 2/11/06) to discuss the future of the Internet. There are fears that decisions made could infringe upon...
- Tags: Amnesty International, blogger, IGF, Internet Openness, Yahoo! Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-10-28
- TechRepublic members sound off on "Where do you want to go today, eh?"
- In a recent column, Tim Landgrave suggested that Microsoft should consider moving to Canada. Here's what you thought about that idea.Love it or hate it, people are passionate about Microsoft.If we needed a reminder, we received one in response to Tim Landgrave’s recent column, “Where do you want to go...
- Tags: Government, Paul Baldwin, Microsoft Corp.
- Technical articles 2000-05-15
- Redrawing borders - Middle East
- Ralph Peters author of the book: Never Quit the Fight, Stackpole Books. 2006; in an article written in June 2006 begins thus:**************International borders are never completely just. But the degree of injustice they inflict upon those whom frontiers force together or separate makes an enormous difference — often the difference...
- Tags: Sikhs & Buddhists, maps, middle east, onbliss, off-topic, Buddhist
- Discussion threads 2006-08-28
- Will your PC keep pace with Vista?
- Vista features Windows Performance RatingWindows Vista will include a tool that grades a PC based on how well it is running and on how much it can take advantage of Vista's capabilities.Check out the screenshots: Vista rates your PChttp://techrepublic.com.com/2300-10877-6050140.htmlWhile this tool could help retailers, the benefits for buyers are not...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, pc, news, vista, tool, Sonja Thompson, hardware, Microsoft Windows XP, operating system
- Discussion threads 2006-03-16
- We must protect digital intellectual property to foster innovation
- By Tim LandgraveOne of the most difficult issues that we as a society have to resolve is how to encourage new ideas and inventions by protecting the interests of those who create them. Most enlightened CIOs recognize that we’re all ultimately in the business of creating intellectual property.For many of...
- Tags: atom, intellectual property, CD
- Technical articles 2003-06-17
- Study finds too few women and minorities in tech
- The important pointThe important point of this article was expressed with the words "we can ill afford to miss out on anyone with the right aptitude, skills and motivation to succeed in technical fields". What if it so happens that a smaller proportion of women & "minorities" have this...
- Tags: bjswm@..., career, information technology, minority, women
- Discussion threads 2005-06-24
- Sick and Tired.
- As I think of the posts I have made on this site alone not to mention the other sites I frequent, to say that I am not a big fan of George Bush is probably a gross understatement.Now, having said that, I can't take it any longer. I have...
- Tags: Inkling, Gonzales, U.S. Senate, initial reaction, U.S. Congress, dismissal, White House
- Discussion threads 2007-03-20
- Dispelling a few myths about the hiring process
- There's an international conspiracy against IT workers. You're entitled to a certain pay rate. The human resources department runs the whole show. Learn the truth behind these and other employment myths.As a technical recruiter, I’m all too familiar with how uncertain employment has become for many IT workers. Every day,...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Tim Heard, hiring, recruiter
- Technical articles 2002-10-01
- Microsoft asks for help from hackers
- Microsoft held a two-day gathering in March, during which time outsiders were invited into the heart of the Windows empire for the express purpose of exploiting flaws in Microsoft computing systems. This “Blue Hat” event exemplifies how important security has become for the software giant. In fact, Microsoft plans to...
- Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, Microsoft Corp., hacker
- Discussion threads 2005-06-16
- Some one HELP me understand this!
- Some one HELP me understand this!It doesn't seem to matter what the subject matter, many TR peers seem to think that the best way to respond is with "10 point words" - words with the absolute highest emotional triggers. And the unfortunate outcome is that there are really good...
- Tags: TR Peers
- Discussion threads 2006-05-29
- Don't let the jerk at the top steal all your thunder
- When a senior manager steals all the credit for your team's good work, morale plummets and ill-will skyrockets. Here's how you can turn the situation around from the inside out.We’ve all had to deal with someone in senior management who regularly takes credit for your department’s successes. If, by chance,...
- Tags: Team management, Scott Robinson, team
- Technical articles 2002-07-08
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