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Hacker goes to his department and meets his Permanent Secretary, Sir Humphrey Appleby, and his Principal Private Secretary, Bernard Woolley.
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Hacker and goes
" He then goes on to tell Hacker neither of these things, implying that Hacker is from neither party.
Hacker and department
Woolley is sympathetic towards Hacker but as Appleby reminds him, his civil servant superiors will have much to say about the course of his future career, while ministers do not usually stay long in one department.
* The Barbara Lang Hacker Theater is home to the Theater department and the Players Mandolin Performance Troupe ( PMPT ).
Hacker and Permanent
Sir Humphrey Appleby GCB, KBE, MVO, MA ( Oxon ) ( Nigel Hawthorne ) serves throughout the series as Permanent Secretary under his Minister, Jim Hacker at the Department of Administrative Affairs.
Throughout the series, he serves as Permanent Secretary under the ministry of Jim Hacker at the Department of Administrative Affairs ; he is appointed Cabinet Secretary shortly before Hacker's elevation to the role of Prime Minister.
Hacker and Secretary
After the third series, following Sir Humphrey's promotion to Cabinet Secretary, Hacker becomes Prime Minister and requests that Bernard Woolley continue as his Principal Private Secretary.
* Hacker also had a Press Secretary, Bill Pritchard, played by Antony Carrick.
In the satirical British television programme Yes Minister, Jim Hacker MP is told an old joke by his Private Secretary Bernard Woolley about what the various post-nominals stand for.
Yes, Prime Minister follows on from this, with Hacker and Sir Humphrey raised to the highest levels in British government: Prime Minister and Cabinet Secretary respectively.
He is continually concerned with what the newspapers of the day will have to say about him, and is always hoping to receive promotion by the Prime Minister ( Hacker ran the unsuccessful campaign for a political ally during the Party's last leadership election-his man lost, becoming Foreign Secretary, and leaving Hacker nervous about his prospects under the winner, now Prime Minister ).
Like Hacker, Sir Humphrey enjoys the finer things in life, and is regularly seen drinking sherry and dining at fine establishments, often with his fellow civil servant Sir Arnold Robinson, who was Cabinet Secretary throughout Yes Minister.
When Hacker once asked his Private Secretary where his loyalty would lie when the chips were down, Woolley replied, " Minister, it's my job to see the chips stay up.
Hacker and Sir
Many of the episodes revolve around proposals backed by Hacker but frustrated by Appleby, and others revolve around proposals promoted by the latter but rejected by Hacker, which Sir Humphrey attempts by all means necessary to persuade Hacker to accept.
More often than not Sir Humphrey prevents him from achieving his goal while mollifying Hacker with some positive publicity or at least a means to cover up his failure.
Occasionally, however, Hacker does get his way, often inadvertently thwarting other arrangements or deals that Sir Humphrey has been making behind the scenes elsewhere with other ministers or civil servants.
Her experience and insight into many civil service tricks ensure a lasting mutual distrust between her and Sir Humphrey and provide an invaluable second opinion for Hacker.
Sir Humphrey falsely assures her there have not been badgers in the woods for some years, a deceit winked at by Hacker after the fact.
Hacker ( it must be argued, reasonably ) thought the Church of England to be a Christian institution, but Sir Humphrey informed him that most of the Anglican bishops do not believe in God and that a theologian's job is partly to explain why an agnostic or atheist can be a Church leader.
The three main characters in the Minister's Office of the Department of Administrative Affairs: from left, Sir Humphrey Appleby, Bernard Woolley and Jim Hacker.
Hacker received his degree from the London School of Economics ( graduating with a Third ), for which he is often derided by the Oxford-educated Sir Humphrey ( who attended the fictitious Baillie College graduating with a First in Classics ).
While Sir Humphrey initially held all the aces, Hacker now and again plays a trump card of his own.
While he is theoretically responsible to Hacker personally, it is Sir Humphrey who writes his performance reviews and influences Bernard's Civil Service career.
Woolley tends to side with Hacker when new policies are announced, because they seem radical or democratic, only for Sir Humphrey to point out the disadvantages to the status quo and the civil service in particular.
Both Sir Humphrey and Jim Hacker are portrayed there by the same actors who dubbed them for the original.
The principal cast was David Haig as Jim Hacker, Henry Goodman as Sir Humphrey, Jonathan Slinger as Bernard Woolley and Emily Joyce as Claire Sutton, Hacker's special policy advisor.
The play began a tour of the United Kingdom in February 2011, with Simon Williams as Sir Humphrey Appleby, Richard McCabe as Jim Hacker and Charlotte Lucas as Claire Sutton.
Both David Haig and Henry Goodman will reprise their roles as Jim Hacker and Sir Humphrey from the original run of the stage play.
For example, in the novelization for ' The Official Visit ', Sir Humphrey manages to confuse Hacker, by reeling-off a plethora of acronyms -- without explaining them, leaving Hacker with nonsense to fathom.
An original portrait of Sir Alfred Keogh by Arthur Hacker RA hangs in the RAMC HQ Mess at Millbank, London.
Hacker received his degree, a third, from the London School of Economics, and is frequently derided for this by the Oxford-educated Sir Humphrey.
Hacker and Humphrey
Even there, Humphrey does not reveal which party Jim Hacker represents.
Hacker is also noted as having challenged Humphrey while he was a member of the Opposition by asking difficult questions when Sir Humphrey was testifying to a Parliamentary committee: Sir Humphrey stated that Hacker had asked "... all the questions I hoped nobody would ask ," showing his new Minister to be at least a reasonably capable politician.
Hacker and Appleby
" Iannucci suggests that Bernard is essential to the structure of the show because both Hacker and Appleby confide in him, " which means we get to find out what they're plotting next.
From left to right-Sir Humphrey Appleby, Bernard Woolley and the Minister, James " Jim " Hacker.
The novels takes the form of diaries written by Hacker and the so-called Appleby Papers.
Hacker and Bernard
* Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Stewart James, " Vanessa ", and ( separately ) Marilyn Hacker, " Cancer Winter "
Hacker is often seen going off into sentimental, overly pretentious speeches either to himself or to Bernard and Sir Humphrey, holding his lapel on his suit jacket in a very royal manner.
Hacker and Woolley
Woolley plays an important role in many episodes in helping Hacker.
In the last scene of " The Tangled Web ", the final episode of Yes, Prime Minister, Woolley of his own accord both saves Sir Humphrey from public embarrassment and gives Hacker a lasting weapon to use against him, by acquiring a tape of Sir Humphrey describing the British public in many unpleasant ways, spoken off the record after a radio interview.
Hacker and .
Some virtual communities explicitly refer to the concept of cyberspace, for example Linden Lab calling their customers " Residents " of Second Life, while all such communities can be positioned " in cyberspace " for explanatory and comparative purposes ( as did Sterling in The Hacker Crackdown, followed by many journalists ), integrating the metaphor into a wider cyber-culture.
The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder On the Electronic Frontier.
Hacker and M. R.
Hacker is a term that has been used to mean a variety of different things in computing.
" Hacker " can therefore be seen as a shibboleth, identifying those who use the technically-oriented sense ( as opposed to the exclusively intrusion-oriented sense ) as members of the computing community.
These moral conflicts are expressed in The Mentor's " The Hacker Manifesto ", published 1986 in Phrack.
Use of the term hacker meaning computer criminal was also advanced by the title " Stalking the Wily Hacker ", an article by Clifford Stoll in the May 1988 issue of the Communications of the ACM.
A Hacker Emblem proposed by Eric S. Raymond.
* How To Become A Hacker by Eric S. Raymond, open source perspective
* The Hacker Community and Ethics: An interview with Richard M. Stallman, 2002
Hacker ethic is a term for the moral values and philosophy that are standard in the hacker community.
Hacker skill is the ultimate determinant of acceptance.
Steven Mizrach, who identifies himself with CyberAnthropologist studies, compared Levy's " Old Hacker Ethic " with the " New Hacker Ethic " prevalent in the computer security hacking community.
" he makes the controversial claim that the " New Hacker Ethic " has continuously evolved out of the older one, though having undergone a radical shift.
Himanen explained these ideas in a book, The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age, with a prologue contributed by Linus Torvalds and an epilogue by Manuel Castells.
The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age.
* Hacker, Marilyn.
James Harrington, Mr. James Challoner, Mr. John Phelps, Mr. John Carew, Mr. Hugh Peters, Mr. Gregory Clement, Colonel Adrian Scroop, Col. Francis Hacker, Col. Daniel Axtel.
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