Yes, let's talk about individualism and the debt owed to the labor movement.
Let's talk about a jobs pool. Specifically, let's talk about certain Detroit labor movements that negotiated their way into having thousands of "jobs" paying $30 bucks an hour to sit and do nothing all day. Boy, that sure is good for people, doing crossword puzzles all day long. With benefits.
What a perversion of "labor" movement.
Proponents say "These people would be starving without us!" but what they're really doing is killing the American car industry just like they killed the American steel industry. No company in it's right mind would ever want to locate somewhere they're forced to pay millions for NOTHING.
My own personal experiences with the "labor" movment:
I worked at a company that did trade shows at various convention centers around the country. These convention centers are invariably union staffed.
You can't move furniture, touch a wire, stack boxes, NOTHING - all work must be done by the appropriate union rep/workers. So, you wait all day for 1 line of CAT5 to be run, and the "labor" movment manages to invariably drive staples through it, or crimp it, or leave it exactly where your customers can trip over it. Don't like it? Tough - if you fix it yourself, that generally means you will get abosolutely NOTHING else done for you, if not outright sabotage.
I've also worked at union shops. Let me tell you how they treat people who don't agree with the union - physically assaulted, their cars vandalized, threating phone calls to their wives and children, it never ends.
While working a temp job (6 month contract) I personally had the temerity to change a fucking lightbulb (which requires 2 electrical union guys for what reason?) which ended up with such a debate that I quit early. A lightbulb.
So why exactly are unions a good thing? Let's see - they provide a structure for abuse, a total lack of motivation to do better (seniority rules!), they artificially inflate the cost of product creation, and provide more incentive for companies to outsource or hire illegal immigrant labor.
acutally, the "strangely enough" was aimed as a bit of sarcasm toward the parent without trying to be trollish - the idea that religious belief requires scientific ignorance is b.s. Frankly, I find that science enhances that belief.
Too many corrupt middle-eastern regimes? Don't try to help get rid of the corruption, just invade one and hope for the best!
And just how does one get rid of one of the corrupt middle-eastern governments? Wait, don't tell me, let the UN handle it! Such sterling examples such as Oil-for-Food, Darfur, Sudan...the list goes on.
Too many terrorist attacks? Don't try to figure out why so many people are willing to die to hurt you, just find a convenient country to blame and invade it!
The terror occurred long *BEFORE* anyone got invaded. 9/11/? Khobar Towers? USS Cole? US Embassy? Lockerbie? WTC bombing? Sound familiar?
Seriously, the parent is not interesting, nor informative. Flamebait at best.
Using Subversion (subversion.tigris.org) and Apache as a front-end (WebDAV link to Subversion, connection to LDAP) you get versioned documentation, file storage, hook-ins to Active Directory or any other LDAP product, and Windows Web Folders for easy access.
Works very well here for documentation storage. 300+ users.
Stupid effing IE can't handle (though it says it can) compressed content correctly.
I just spent the past week trying to implement mod_deflate for our webapp. Sometimes IE will render it, sometimes it won't. Don't bother trying to compress javascript - if the timing is even a little off, your page will break.
Don't bother trying to compress CSS - sometimes it will load the CSS, sometimes it won't.
If you have any other applications installed that also understand http, https, and have installed handlers to that effect, IE may "throw away" the first 2048 bytes of compressed web content.
I think I side with the Konquerer dev's on this one - Microsoft has focused on customer experience and not correct operation, and with 90% market penetration, they've increased the TCO for us (bandwidth costs) and we're not even using their products!
I have also seen this in action - there are some popups that FireFox can't block anymore, and I have seen pages attempt to exploit JVM issues - thankfully, FireFox pops up and asks about the issue every time.
And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each man, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of his fellow man."
What I believe this is a reference to is not the lifeblood of all creatures - God is saying here:
"If anybody or anything murders you, he/she/it will be held accountable - and if you kill anyone (human) you betcha you'll be held accountable."
I got a ticket for going 2mph over the limit in San Diego while driving down the Strand toward Palm Avenue.
I took it to court and lost - in addition to the $140 ticket, I had to pay for traffic school (I forget how much that cost) to "hide" the ticket from my insurance.
It kind of looks like state-sponsored extortion, if you ask me.
I was in Hawaii about 9 months ago - had no idea that SPAM was so popular there.
I was at a Japanese restaurant and was in a hurry and ordered what looked like a rollup of meat and rice and was very suprised to find that the meat in question was SPAM cooked with soy sauce.
I just got the following message from my representative (in Pennsylvania), Melissa Hart: ********
Thank you for contacting my office regarding H.R. 107, the Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act (DMCRA). With changes in how consumers access copyrighted material, I agree that we must reexamine the application of our copyright laws.
As a member of the Intellectual Property Subcommittee, I will have the opportunity to work closely on this issue and agree that we must create a balance between protecting the artist's work and providing access for consumers. While copyright law should protect the property rights of the creators of a work, we must also ensure that consumers of those works have fair access to the material. Just as radio changed the way copyright law applied to music, the development of the Internet, peer-to-peer networks and digital copies are changing the applicatio of copyright law.
One way to address the imbalance is H.R. 107, which requires the producer of a work to properly label what the limits of how their materials may be used or accessed. In addition, the bill ensures that consumers have a fair use right to circumvent any new copyright protections. As this legislation is considerd in the Intellectual Property Subcommittee, I will be sure to keep your view in mind.
Again, thank you for contacting me and, if I can be of further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact my office.
Lord help you if you install BEA Portal - that piece of crap changes your startup time from about 45 seconds to around !6! freaking minutes.
Between the startup times and the constant CR patches it's madness. I will say that it's nice to be able to call and talk to a person instead of just email support, though. I pity the fools on Metalink.
In addition to exclusivity, I wonder if id does this to help limit the amount of support they will be liable for. After all, they're not a big company, and probably pretty busy doing their own work.
Off our high horse? Get off the damned couch and do something for the country, or for other people before you start bashing the guys that do. Don't ever equate a soldier's sacrifice with a politician's intent.
You obviously have never done any kind of service or charity work, with an attitude like that. What are you going to say next? "Boy, those stupid firefighters and cops that saved all those lives on 9/11 but got themselves killed were a bunch of assholes for thinking they could save people since politicians and Israel created the people that crashed the planes."
The right to speech also includes the right to keep your stupid troll opionions to yourself.
And michael, you've proven your total ignorance of why soldiers are out there with that post. They don't give a fuck about politics.
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Yes, let's talk about individualism and the debt owed to the labor movement.
Let's talk about a jobs pool. Specifically, let's talk about certain Detroit labor movements that negotiated their way into having thousands of "jobs" paying $30 bucks an hour to sit and do nothing all day. Boy, that sure is good for people, doing crossword puzzles all day long. With benefits.
What a perversion of "labor" movement.
Proponents say "These people would be starving without us!" but what they're really doing is killing the American car industry just like they killed the American steel industry. No company in it's right mind would ever want to locate somewhere they're forced to pay millions for NOTHING.
My own personal experiences with the "labor" movment:
I worked at a company that did trade shows at various convention centers around the country. These convention centers are invariably union staffed.
You can't move furniture, touch a wire, stack boxes, NOTHING - all work must be done by the appropriate union rep/workers. So, you wait all day for 1 line of CAT5 to be run, and the "labor" movment manages to invariably drive staples through it, or crimp it, or leave it exactly where your customers can trip over it. Don't like it? Tough - if you fix it yourself, that generally means you will get abosolutely NOTHING else done for you, if not outright sabotage.
I've also worked at union shops. Let me tell you how they treat people who don't agree with the union - physically assaulted, their cars vandalized, threating phone calls to their wives and children, it never ends.
While working a temp job (6 month contract) I personally had the temerity to change a fucking lightbulb (which requires 2 electrical union guys for what reason?) which ended up with such a debate that I quit early. A lightbulb.
So why exactly are unions a good thing? Let's see - they provide a structure for abuse, a total lack of motivation to do better (seniority rules!), they artificially inflate the cost of product creation, and provide more incentive for companies to outsource or hire illegal immigrant labor.
What a great deal! Sign me up!
acutally, the "strangely enough" was aimed as a bit of sarcasm toward the parent without trying to be trollish - the idea that religious belief requires scientific ignorance is b.s. Frankly, I find that science enhances that belief.
Strangely enough, the theory of evolution is, according to Catholic dogma, acceptable, and not at odds with the profession of the faith.
And just how does one get rid of one of the corrupt middle-eastern governments? Wait, don't tell me, let the UN handle it! Such sterling examples such as Oil-for-Food, Darfur, Sudan...the list goes on.
Too many terrorist attacks? Don't try to figure out why so many people are willing to die to hurt you, just find a convenient country to blame and invade it!
The terror occurred long *BEFORE* anyone got invaded. 9/11/? Khobar Towers? USS Cole? US Embassy? Lockerbie? WTC bombing? Sound familiar?
Seriously, the parent is not interesting, nor informative. Flamebait at best.
Using Subversion (subversion.tigris.org) and Apache as a front-end (WebDAV link to Subversion, connection to LDAP) you get versioned documentation, file storage, hook-ins to Active Directory or any other LDAP product, and Windows Web Folders for easy access.
Works very well here for documentation storage. 300+ users.
It's not just CSS.
Stupid effing IE can't handle (though it says it can) compressed content correctly.
I just spent the past week trying to implement mod_deflate for our webapp. Sometimes IE will render it, sometimes it won't. Don't bother trying to compress javascript - if the timing is even a little off, your page will break.
Don't bother trying to compress CSS - sometimes it will load the CSS, sometimes it won't.
If you have any other applications installed that also understand http, https, and have installed handlers to that effect, IE may "throw away" the first 2048 bytes of compressed web content.
I think I side with the Konquerer dev's on this one - Microsoft has focused on customer experience and not correct operation, and with 90% market penetration, they've increased the TCO for us (bandwidth costs) and we're not even using their products!
CHUD is easy.
I'm just not sure what Cannibalistic Human Underground Dwellers have to do with 64bit computing.
I use pvcs and I'm looking into switching - were you using the promotion model, and if so, what did you replace it with?
I have also seen this in action - there are some popups that FireFox can't block anymore, and I have seen pages attempt to exploit JVM issues - thankfully, FireFox pops up and asks about the issue every time.
If Firefox can be exploited, it will be.
What I believe this is a reference to is not the lifeblood of all creatures - God is saying here:
"If anybody or anything murders you, he/she/it will be held accountable - and if you kill anyone (human) you betcha you'll be held accountable."
One word:
truss.
There is not one single other utility that compares to truss on Solaris for troubleshooting whatever problem you might have.
hummm...because people can't own handguns in DC, either?
nah. You'd end up with people who really hate Bush drawing moustaches on him or something and end up scoring votes for him.
holy rollercoaster ride, Batman -
...they really mean "rock" stable. Look out 6 Flags!
Link to Mission Log
Descent rates > 10000 ft/min!!
I took it to court and lost - in addition to the $140 ticket, I had to pay for traffic school (I forget how much that cost) to "hide" the ticket from my insurance.
It kind of looks like state-sponsored extortion, if you ask me.
Wonder how much of Samba 3.0 is in that?
I was at a Japanese restaurant and was in a hurry and ordered what looked like a rollup of meat and rice and was very suprised to find that the meat in question was SPAM cooked with soy sauce.
********
Thank you for contacting my office regarding H.R. 107, the Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act (DMCRA). With changes in how consumers access copyrighted material, I agree that we must reexamine the application of our copyright laws.
As a member of the Intellectual Property Subcommittee, I will have the opportunity to work closely on this issue and agree that we must create a balance between protecting the artist's work and providing access for consumers. While copyright law should protect the property rights of the creators of a work, we must also ensure that consumers of those works have fair access to the material. Just as radio changed the way copyright law applied to music, the development of the Internet, peer-to-peer networks and digital copies are changing the applicatio of copyright law.
One way to address the imbalance is H.R. 107, which requires the producer of a work to properly label what the limits of how their materials may be used or accessed. In addition, the bill ensures that consumers have a fair use right to circumvent any new copyright protections. As this legislation is considerd in the Intellectual Property Subcommittee, I will be sure to keep your view in mind.
Again, thank you for contacting me and, if I can be of further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact my office.
Very truly yours,
Melissa Hart
Member of Congress
************
Lord help you if you install BEA Portal - that piece of crap changes your startup time from about 45 seconds to around !6! freaking minutes.
Between the startup times and the constant CR patches it's madness. I will say that it's nice to be able to call and talk to a person instead of just email support, though. I pity the fools on Metalink.
Both of these games are examples of cpu-bound programs. Most of the benchmarks showing up on the web indicate that.
I do agree that UT2k3 is more optimized, however.
In addition to exclusivity, I wonder if id does this to help limit the amount of support they will be liable for. After all, they're not a big company, and probably pretty busy doing their own work.
It is unconstitutional. The Supreme Court ruled a while ago (during WWII) that it was unconstitutional to require anyone to say it.
You obviously have never done any kind of service or charity work, with an attitude like that. What are you going to say next? "Boy, those stupid firefighters and cops that saved all those lives on 9/11 but got themselves killed were a bunch of assholes for thinking they could save people since politicians and Israel created the people that crashed the planes."
The right to speech also includes the right to keep your stupid troll opionions to yourself.
And michael, you've proven your total ignorance of why soldiers are out there with that post. They don't give a fuck about politics.
They should have mentioned that VideoLan also works just fine on Win32 as well, though I know the focus of this review is Linux.
Part of the reason that meat tastes good (to those of us that like it) is the fat content. Would vat-grown meat have fat content?
If it didn't, it would be pretty dry and nasty-tasting.