However the fact still remains that Muslims are psychos and murderers of innocents. If you are a muslim and are offended by this, then perhaps you should start attacking internally and policing your selves first.
Just wait till you calm down and think. In every sufficiently large group there will be factions that claim to be a part of the larger group though they do not represent the ideals of that group. One need not go to religions or politics to see this but to the OS debate. Zelots exist everywhere, be they yellow-dwarf-hindu-lesbians.
How many innocent muslium american citizens (or simply middle eastern looking) will die tonight at the hand of americans in America?
I'm not going to claim to have a superior position or anything but I think you may be going a little far. I you could easily start justifying things like rape, summery execution of prisoners, etc. on a regular basis. Winning is critical but remember we have to live in a world where the losers are reincorporated into the society of nations. Can you image if US troops we allowed to rape civilians as a matter of military law? How do you think German and Japan, as modern industrial nations would feel? The days of razing cities and incorporating their populations as slaves is over. Bad shit happened in war, that doesn't make it justified or okay. It makes just make it so.
I know for a fact you can refuse to sign a noncompelet in California with no repercusions (sort of). If they fire you they are breaking the law. I just read the article in the SF Cronicle and can't find the article online but basically there is a statue that says that an employer can't prevent a employee from gaining employment after he or she has quit. As in "for any reason". The guy was fired, sued and won. Check you local laws but in california it's only binding if you sign it (and maybe not even then).
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I had Flashcom.com for a little less than a year, never was I sent a bill nor did I recieve a call. They went bust (aquired by Earthlink) and I'll tell you why, their billing department sucked. Many have mentioned this before me. By the way Earthlink sucks too.
Ian
That hasn't worked so hot unless you were white or fleeing a communist government. The US sent back people for El Salvador in the 80's who were applying for political asylum. They were placed on a plane sent back and executed by the El Salvadorian govt. It ain't easy getting and staying in the US legally.
I think most of these posts can be summerized thusly:
1) An individual has no obligation or duty to view banner ads. I have no obligation or duty to support the sites I view if they offer their services for free.
and
2) I have a buddy who does a lot of work on a site and he doesn't make any money so you are stealing the sweat of his labor by blocking (or even not clicking) on the banner ads on his site.
If you still can't figure out the ballot, the time to ask is before you punch the hole, not after.
That is factually incorrect. In florida, according to the sample ballot, if you make a mistake you can ask for a new ballot. At least on individual requested a new ballot and was refused. That is illegal.
Honestly, want to see a great debacle, i want the courts to play around in this, to see what happends, there are a lot of questions that could be cleared up. Honestly I don't care who wins at this point, the scrambling by both sides is worth the show.
1) When trashing media, consider that NPR was far more responsible in assigning states to candidates. Just trash the commercial media.
Actually NPR listed Florida along with everyone else as a win for Gore then for Bush. One company does the exit polling for Florida (actually I think for every state, can't recall the name of the company though). News services purchase the results of the exit polls and use those as reports. How do I know this? Because NPR reported it themselves while apologizing for the mishap. They actually interviewed the guy who invented exit polling.
Couldn't find you're email address so I hope you check back. A good CF reasource is http://forums.allaire.com/devconf/main.cfm?CFID=12 6813&CFTOKEN=19664018&& if that link doesn't work try http://www.allaire.com/DEVELOPER/ReferenceDesk/For ums.cfm (its the parent directory).
Also "The ColdFusion Web Application Constriction Kit" by Ben Forta rocks, of course that is just more money you would need to spend. Nonetheless, a excellent, nearly perfect text reference.
You are right about CFTAGNAME is annoying. I agree that they should drop the leading CF.
I am desperate to try out PHP i have only heard good things about (coding) it. I hope the above is some help.
The enterprise edition of ColdFusion cost $5k. That includes fault tolerance and clustering. PHP don't do that good ("Also, any organization doing clustering or failover with PHP is in largely uncharted waters"). Thats where you sink the $5k. If you don't want or need fault tolerance and clustering ColdFusion is $1,295.
As to you comment;
Sounds like Dilbert logic to me. The most expensive product will obviously make our programmers more productive.
As I'm sure all of us know, all anologies are false but perhaps this will still serve as an illustrative point, 10 guys with tractors will be more productive than 10 guys with shovels even though (or because) tractors are more expensive.
The ease of use (the development environment is like candy) is really worth the money. It's easy and fast for NON-programmers to learn, develop, etc.
Pacific Lumber in the Northwest was on of the most future think timber corporation in the world. They built the first Colorine free paper factory, were heavily into protect the National forest they harvested on as well as their own Property. They paid they're workers well above the average wage for timber workers and had a very progressive retirement plan. Then they lost a hostle take over bid. The Retirement plan was trained the forest were completely denuded destroying topsoil and the company was left to die. The head of the corporation (oh, what is his name...?) that took over Pacific lumber is still being investigated for the Savings and Loan scandel. A company wooried about the long term need only take one misstep at any point to have all it has seen undone.
How very capitalist of Mark. You are absolutely correct. If the public parks are sold eother the demand for them will increase and they will be protected or they will be mined, deforested, etc. And I think that that is exactly what would happend, the natural minerals and resources would be removed and the land de-"pristined". But you are wrong about one thing. There will not be enough parks for ME. I will not be able to afford to visit a (formerlly) National Park. I won't be able to afford it.
A retail system doesn't work well. Here is why. Lets say an individual needs $20,000 (arbitrary number but close) to pay what most would consider basic needs. Let us say he or she makes, say $30,000. The remain $10,000 is put into savings. (I don't think saving 1/3 of your income is reasonable but whatever). So $20,000 or 2/3 of his or her income is spent on things that would generally be hit by a retail tax. Food/electricity/transportation/etc.
Now lets take someone who makes $300,000. They also need about $20,000 for basic needs but let us assume their wealth makes them more prone to purchase things, so lets say they spend $100,000 (5 times the less wealthy individual) and save $200,000.
The effective tax rate for someone making $30k is 60% and the tax rate for some one earning $300k is 30%. Seems backwards to me. The wealthly do buy lots of things (and would be hit by a retail tax) but they don't buy more as a percentage of income. They have a tendency to invest. Which is good but doesn't negate the fact that they would be pay less taxes (again as a percentage, which really is the way we should be, and hopefully are, thinking about tax rates).
If you like Combat you will love BZ Flag. A networked came with good to cheasy effects (depending on your video card) and networked. Basically its Combat but with a couple of special weapons. It is SO fun. For Windows or Linux (Linux version is free of course). Get it, play it, love it.
I decided to check out the "All CPS's Section" and scrolled down till I found my trusty AMD K6-2 and was surpised to find it "priced" at $530. Considering I bought my for $40 (cool looking fan included) it seemed a little over priced to me. Hey anyone want to buy it for say, $200 bucks? CPU Scorecard might want to try some sort of dynamic updating scheme. Then agin I appreciate what time they give.
I know this will sound like a plug from a company official but hopefully the spelling and gramatical errors will diminsh that impression.
PRO
I have had Flashcom since Febuary with really no problems. The install was fast and clean (sprint and some third dude with a van had to come around, sprint took the longest). I think the total install from the day I said yes to when I started using it was 2 weeks. CON
You don't get a static IP (63.248.54.107) and you aren't allowed to run servers (ian.hodur.org and ian@hodur.org as well as a bunch of crap that my loony roomamate plays with). Also you have to sign a 2 year contract but the set up fee is waived (or was) and can be transfer to another address if you move provide that dsl can be set up there. There billing department sucks, but big time. I had to pay $100 upfront and since then you haven't billed me once!
Mr. Newell: One reason for this is the DeCSS software that allows DVD owners to decrypt the movie and pull it straight off of the DVD with no loss of quality.
This comment just pisses me off... People really need to be educated before they speak. Hey Craig Newell If you're reading this: THE ORIGINAL INTENT OF DeCSS WAS TO PLAY DVD's ON LINUX!!! I can't stress this enough.
Yeah, so what? He is saying that DeCSS allows DVD owners to copy thier movies. Is that factually wrong? I think he may not know as much about DeCSS as you do but he knows, as anyone who knows anything about DeCSS, that is can be used to COPY. That's okay, we should be able to copy things we own. You make the point that the intention of DeCSS was to play movies. Good for it. That doesn't mean it can't (and isn't) being used for other purposes.
Why do kids like violent games and games with sex* in them? I would say because a group of knowledgeable and attentive designers, marketers, artist, etc. primary goal is to design a video game that children will enjoy. Don't underestimate this. There are basic reactions that human beings can be depended to respond to. The goal of a game design team is to have an individual, from a targeted demographic (young males, generally but increasingly young women) greatly enjoy a game, usually expressed by hours and days of game play, and recommend that game to others. That as well as buying the sequel.
But so what? Show me that violent video games make violent children. Recently a report on NPR or the BBC described a group of kids who were given a competitive game to play together. The researches recorded which children were more violent prone as well as there level of violence. Then the kids were given some "violent" video games to play. Lastly, they played another competitive group game. No change. The non-violent kids remained non-violent and the violent kids maintained the same level of violence. Maybe long term game play effects a tendency towards violence. I doubt it. More likely some people like violent video games and most violent people like violent video games.
*If a kid is interested in sex, he is transitioning away from being a kid or in fact not a child anymore and should be treated thusly.
First McDonalds kept their coffee that hot (180 degrees) because it stays fresher longer. They had received dozens of complaints about serious burns and ignored them. They figured the money they saved on coffee was worth more then the hazard hot coffee posed (3 degree burns in 3-7 seconds -- try to get out of a car and take off you pants in 3-7 seconds as your groin is being charred).
So basically McDonalds did a cost/benefit calculation and figured profits were more important than inflicting serious wounds. And let me make a point, people spill food and drinks on themselves, it happens all the time and places that serve millions of people a year should probably take that into account. Don't try the gun/smoking analogy. Firstly analogies are logical fallacies, they illustrate but do not prove a point and second, at least nowadays, people realize that smoking and guns are dangerous. When I get a slushy I don't expect it to dissolve the lining of my stomach, just as one would not expect a cup of coffee to cause 3rd degree burns.
The original amount she received was one days PROFIT from McDonalds COFFEE sales. Millions of dollars. It was a punitive judgement, as in "you put profits before the health of your customers". She got it because she stepped forward when others didn't. She lost all of it on appeal except for lawyer's fee's and medical bills.
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However the fact still remains that Muslims are psychos and murderers of innocents. If you are a muslim and are offended by this, then perhaps you should start attacking internally and policing your selves first.
Just wait till you calm down and think. In every sufficiently large group there will be factions that claim to be a part of the larger group though they do not represent the ideals of that group. One need not go to religions or politics to see this but to the OS debate. Zelots exist everywhere, be they yellow-dwarf-hindu-lesbians.
How many innocent muslium american citizens (or simply middle eastern looking) will die tonight at the hand of americans in America?
I'm not going to claim to have a superior position or anything but I think you may be going a little far. I you could easily start justifying things like rape, summery execution of prisoners, etc. on a regular basis. Winning is critical but remember we have to live in a world where the losers are reincorporated into the society of nations. Can you image if US troops we allowed to rape civilians as a matter of military law? How do you think German and Japan, as modern industrial nations would feel? The days of razing cities and incorporating their populations as slaves is over. Bad shit happened in war, that doesn't make it justified or okay. It makes just make it so.
Last time I heard it meant severing a body part such as an ear, finger, limb etc.
I know for a fact you can refuse to sign a noncompelet in California with no repercusions (sort of). If they fire you they are breaking the law. I just read the article in the SF Cronicle and can't find the article online but basically there is a statue that says that an employer can't prevent a employee from gaining employment after he or she has quit. As in "for any reason". The guy was fired, sued and won. Check you local laws but in california it's only binding if you sign it (and maybe not even then).
I had Flashcom.com for a little less than a year, never was I sent a bill nor did I recieve a call. They went bust (aquired by Earthlink) and I'll tell you why, their billing department sucked. Many have mentioned this before me. By the way Earthlink sucks too. Ian
That hasn't worked so hot unless you were white or fleeing a communist government. The US sent back people for El Salvador in the 80's who were applying for political asylum. They were placed on a plane sent back and executed by the El Salvadorian govt. It ain't easy getting and staying in the US legally.
I think most of these posts can be summerized thusly:
1) An individual has no obligation or duty to view banner ads. I have no obligation or duty to support the sites I view if they offer their services for free.
and
2) I have a buddy who does a lot of work on a site and he doesn't make any money so you are stealing the sweat of his labor by blocking (or even not clicking) on the banner ads on his site.
Pick your favorites.
If you still can't figure out the ballot, the time to ask is before you punch the hole, not after.
That is factually incorrect. In florida, according to the sample ballot, if you make a mistake you can ask for a new ballot. At least on individual requested a new ballot and was refused. That is illegal.
Honestly, want to see a great debacle, i want the courts to play around in this, to see what happends, there are a lot of questions that could be cleared up. Honestly I don't care who wins at this point, the scrambling by both sides is worth the show.
1) When trashing media, consider that NPR was far more responsible in assigning states to candidates. Just trash the commercial media.
Actually NPR listed Florida along with everyone else as a win for Gore then for Bush. One company does the exit polling for Florida (actually I think for every state, can't recall the name of the company though). News services purchase the results of the exit polls and use those as reports. How do I know this? Because NPR reported it themselves while apologizing for the mishap. They actually interviewed the guy who invented exit polling.
Historically Absente Ballots lean toward Republicans. That means more for Bush, not Gore.
Couldn't find you're email address so I hope you check back. A good CF reasource is http://forums.allaire.com/devconf/main.cfm?CFID=12 6813&CFTOKEN=19664018&& if that link doesn't work try http://www.allaire.com/DEVELOPER/ReferenceDesk/For ums.cfm (its the parent directory).
Also "The ColdFusion Web Application Constriction Kit" by Ben Forta rocks, of course that is just more money you would need to spend. Nonetheless, a excellent, nearly perfect text reference.
You are right about CFTAGNAME is annoying. I agree that they should drop the leading CF.
I am desperate to try out PHP i have only heard good things about (coding) it. I hope the above is some help.
Some instructions on what to do if you are stopped by the police and a handy card to carry in your wallet.
As to you comment; As I'm sure all of us know, all anologies are false but perhaps this will still serve as an illustrative point, 10 guys with tractors will be more productive than 10 guys with shovels even though (or because) tractors are more expensive.
The ease of use (the development environment is like candy) is really worth the money. It's easy and fast for NON-programmers to learn, develop, etc.
Pacific Lumber in the Northwest was on of the most future think timber corporation in the world. They built the first Colorine free paper factory, were heavily into protect the National forest they harvested on as well as their own Property. They paid they're workers well above the average wage for timber workers and had a very progressive retirement plan. Then they lost a hostle take over bid. The Retirement plan was trained the forest were completely denuded destroying topsoil and the company was left to die. The head of the corporation (oh, what is his name...?) that took over Pacific lumber is still being investigated for the Savings and Loan scandel. A company wooried about the long term need only take one misstep at any point to have all it has seen undone.
How very capitalist of Mark. You are absolutely correct. If the public parks are sold eother the demand for them will increase and they will be protected or they will be mined, deforested, etc. And I think that that is exactly what would happend, the natural minerals and resources would be removed and the land de-"pristined". But you are wrong about one thing. There will not be enough parks for ME. I will not be able to afford to visit a (formerlly) National Park. I won't be able to afford it.
A retail system doesn't work well. Here is why. Lets say an individual needs $20,000 (arbitrary number but close) to pay what most would consider basic needs. Let us say he or she makes, say $30,000. The remain $10,000 is put into savings. (I don't think saving 1/3 of your income is reasonable but whatever). So $20,000 or 2/3 of his or her income is spent on things that would generally be hit by a retail tax. Food/electricity/transportation/etc.
Now lets take someone who makes $300,000. They also need about $20,000 for basic needs but let us assume their wealth makes them more prone to purchase things, so lets say they spend $100,000 (5 times the less wealthy individual) and save $200,000.
The effective tax rate for someone making $30k is 60% and the tax rate for some one earning $300k is 30%. Seems backwards to me. The wealthly do buy lots of things (and would be hit by a retail tax) but they don't buy more as a percentage of income. They have a tendency to invest. Which is good but doesn't negate the fact that they would be pay less taxes (again as a percentage, which really is the way we should be, and hopefully are, thinking about tax rates).
If you like Combat you will love BZ Flag. A networked came with good to cheasy effects (depending on your video card) and networked. Basically its Combat but with a couple of special weapons. It is SO fun. For Windows or Linux (Linux version is free of course). Get it, play it, love it.
My bad, you are definitely correct. I work in the testing labs and sometimes forget that anything else exist.
I decided to check out the "All CPS's Section" and scrolled down till I found my trusty AMD K6-2 and was surpised to find it "priced" at $530. Considering I bought my for $40 (cool looking fan included) it seemed a little over priced to me. Hey anyone want to buy it for say, $200 bucks? CPU Scorecard might want to try some sort of dynamic updating scheme. Then agin I appreciate what time they give.
Unless you are a cable operator its not bloody likely that you will ever buy anything from OpenTV anytime in the future.
Note: I am an OpenTV employee.
I know this will sound like a plug from a company official but hopefully the spelling and gramatical errors will diminsh that impression.
PRO
I have had Flashcom since Febuary with really no problems. The install was fast and clean (sprint and some third dude with a van had to come around, sprint took the longest). I think the total install from the day I said yes to when I started using it was 2 weeks.
CON
You don't get a static IP (63.248.54.107) and you aren't allowed to run servers (ian.hodur.org and ian@hodur.org as well as a bunch of crap that my loony roomamate plays with). Also you have to sign a 2 year contract but the set up fee is waived (or was) and can be transfer to another address if you move provide that dsl can be set up there. There billing department sucks, but big time. I had to pay $100 upfront and since then you haven't billed me once!
Yeah, so what? He is saying that DeCSS allows DVD owners to copy thier movies. Is that factually wrong? I think he may not know as much about DeCSS as you do but he knows, as anyone who knows anything about DeCSS, that is can be used to COPY. That's okay, we should be able to copy things we own. You make the point that the intention of DeCSS was to play movies. Good for it. That doesn't mean it can't (and isn't) being used for other purposes.
Why do kids like violent games and games with sex* in them? I would say because a group of knowledgeable and attentive designers, marketers, artist, etc. primary goal is to design a video game that children will enjoy. Don't underestimate this. There are basic reactions that human beings can be depended to respond to. The goal of a game design team is to have an individual, from a targeted demographic (young males, generally but increasingly young women) greatly enjoy a game, usually expressed by hours and days of game play, and recommend that game to others. That as well as buying the sequel.
But so what? Show me that violent video games make violent children. Recently a report on NPR or the BBC described a group of kids who were given a competitive game to play together. The researches recorded which children were more violent prone as well as there level of violence. Then the kids were given some "violent" video games to play. Lastly, they played another competitive group game. No change. The non-violent kids remained non-violent and the violent kids maintained the same level of violence. Maybe long term game play effects a tendency towards violence. I doubt it. More likely some people like violent video games and most violent people like violent video games.
*If a kid is interested in sex, he is transitioning away from being a kid or in fact not a child anymore and should be treated thusly.
First McDonalds kept their coffee that hot (180 degrees) because it stays fresher longer. They had received dozens of complaints about serious burns and ignored them. They figured the money they saved on coffee was worth more then the hazard hot coffee posed (3 degree burns in 3-7 seconds -- try to get out of a car and take off you pants in 3-7 seconds as your groin is being charred).
So basically McDonalds did a cost/benefit calculation and figured profits were more important than inflicting serious wounds. And let me make a point, people spill food and drinks on themselves, it happens all the time and places that serve millions of people a year should probably take that into account. Don't try the gun/smoking analogy. Firstly analogies are logical fallacies, they illustrate but do not prove a point and second, at least nowadays, people realize that smoking and guns are dangerous. When I get a slushy I don't expect it to dissolve the lining of my stomach, just as one would not expect a cup of coffee to cause 3rd degree burns.
The original amount she received was one days PROFIT from McDonalds COFFEE sales. Millions of dollars. It was a punitive judgement, as in "you put profits before the health of your customers". She got it because she stepped forward when others didn't. She lost all of it on appeal except for lawyer's fee's and medical bills.