Your knee jerk response against unions, which are responsible for a great deal of the birth of the united states middle class, is exactly why programmers will never unionize.
You bought the bs. Speaking of which, why shouldn't teachers be unionized? They're underpaid as it is. What is wrong with job security and decent pay for people with as important of a job as they've got?
I love how your sig implies this really nuanced worldview, but you're basically implying that you can't be bothered to give a shit. Yeah I know who publishes my music and movies and yeah I know when they do shitty things, cause I read slashdot...
Some people on here are crazier than that and only use linux/play games that run on linux. Some people go out of their way to buy things that aren't produced using sweatshop labor.
There are lots of terms for this, "ideology", "principles"...
I like to call it paying attention and not giving my money to dicks.
Its a little embarrassing to have a serious statement modded funny, so I thought I'd add that a home automation platform already exists for which this would be completely appropriate: http://www.minervahome.net/
Minerva runs on GNU/Linux, but exists in its own mini eco-system, with its own list of users, set of scripts, and functionality. It relies on command line tools to perform all of its many tasks, and can therefore be run from virtually any platform (smartphone, PDA, laptop or remote PC) with identical functionality.
I use midpSSH (a j2me app) to control a number of bash scripts/command line programs for my media center computer from a non qwerty phone.
The program allows commands to be saved into command lists, suits my needs, and let me sell my samsung blackjack (received for free from an AT&T upgrade)
and downgrade to the slightly less ostentatious samsung a707 sync.
It seems like you might want to write the code for the fun of it, but if you're looking for a quick solution, anything you can do from the command line can be done with this arrangement.
The story here for people that are missing it:
This is evidence of a private account to circumvent Alaska's record retention laws.
This is exactly like what was done in the White House to hide evidence of political firings in the justice dept.
This is something like her 8th well publicized crime/bending of the law/lie, amusingly enough, not the first one tied to misdeeds of the kind that got so many thrown out of congress just two short years ago. .
No one will care anyway.
There is a quiet and unspoken truth to Republican success. America is a-ok with being criminally complicit, as long as they see a profit. We are happily being run by the mafia.
Have fun with President Palin.
a lot of Democrats had to answer to teacher's unions. I know quite a few dems came out in favor of NCLB, but to imply that there was across the board support for it from liberals is completely false.
Another point being missed is that ATT charges text rates for messages sent using their native IM clients. I just got a new smartphone through them, thought I was slick and only used IM. Turns out it isn't covered by the data package I was paying for. By using a downloaded one, they have seem to have bypassed this. Personally, I just started using email and zaTelnet to irc.
I've got to disagree with you there. I live in the tornado belt and in the event of one, I can't think of a single neighbor who wouldn't have found out about it from an emergency TV warning. Hell, thats the first thing my parents do when the weather outside looks foul. You and I might go to the web for information, but to a previous generation the television is the machine with the answers.
I try not to buy Chinese products because labor is treated terribly there. That is one reason among many that you might have for disliking the Chinese governments policies, but it is one that is certainly not going to change if it is the main reason that the US's corporations continue to invest there. There is a financial incentive for corporations to lower the standards by which they have to treat their employees. The difference between the two countries response to those corporations is what keeps me attempting to buy from democracies. Even if we choose to remain, for the most part, willfully ignorant of the declining compensation for most labor in the United States, when things get bad enough, we will be able to vote for change. We can protest. We can go on strike. No one will get shot, or indefinitely imprisoned (one hopes). In China it is openly and obviously not the same. As far as your comparison to the Iraq war, the American voters supported it. While I may not agree, at least we had a say. The idea in a democracy is that even when mistakes are made, they are learned from, and the system is corrected. Buy American, buy Mexican, buy German, buy Japanese, buy Polish. They all have corrupt pro-corporate governments, but at least they have a vote, and the right to be heard.
I was curious about the same thing recently. A search brought up a few Vaios that are constructed entirely in Japan, though not many, and any third party hardware on the device, probably down to the chips on the board, will likely be Chinese made. Sony outsources to China too.
I gotta say though, I'm 100% with you on this. I'm not an economist but I don't see the value in paying for China to build a stronger totalitarian society. That and I'm a computer science major. It would be nice to have a job someday.
As long as it is a private enterprise, I think they can throw anyone out for ANY reason including race and/or gender.
Not so. Passed on July 2, 1964, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 banned racial discrimination in public places, particularly in public accommodations, largely based on Congress' control of interstate commerce.
The intellectual property argument was just an idiotic thing for them to go public with. But, the way I understand it, a store has the right to toss you out for any reason they see fit (presumably barring race or gender.) Thats why they have those "We reserve the right to toss you out on your ass" signs. When I was an annoying little adolescent, some shopkeepers told my friends and I to get out as soon as we came into their store. It was evident that we were just bored and fucking around, not intending to purchase anything. It was evident in this case that the guy was wandering around the store taking notes not only intending not to buy anything but enhancing his ability to shop competitively. If he shared his information he would be broadening that result. The store had no good reason not to toss him out.
Doesn't make it any less annoying though. used to piss me off then, pisses me off now. Especially since he was just trying to get around the unabashed robbery perpetrated by college bookstores and textbook companies.
Hey, since the place is already there, why not just open it up to any commercial flights that want to come in? Speaking of which, Al Gore has some coax he'd like to sell you.
You make a comment deriding others' entitlement and laziness... when the article is about some guys getting a taxpayer funded private parking space so that they don't have to walk as far to the front door. You're gonna turn me into a Paultard.
I disagree. My parents didn't talk about science at the dinner table. All those kids need is challenging reading material. Not science related reading material, not even science fiction necessarily, just challenging. If they enjoy reading and it makes them question the world around them, then they will naturally want to branch out into science, if thats the direction for them. Some of them won't, they'll end up English teachers. Nothing wrong with that. My English teachers were a huge influence on me. They never needed to point me in any direction, they just taught me the value of the written word. I went and found plenty of books on my own as a result.
Yeah, no kidding. Every time I'm looking for ways to save money, I always suggest to my wife, "Hey, look... Keeping your grandmother on life support is freaking expensive. Lets just put one in her brain and be done with it. Please hon? Or maybe we could just starve the kids for a couple of days, they'll survive..." I mean Christ. She knows I gotta put gas in my Hummer. But everytime I bring up cuttin costs, its always, "Ditch your gas guzzler if you want to save money, we're not gonna kill Grandma!" God. Selfish people. I mean seriously, if the American people didn't want to fight an endless global war, they never would have let their congressmen spend half a trillion dollars a year on the defense budget for 15 years after the end of the Cold War.
I think this is a great idea, except that it doesn't also cover liberal arts degrees. A broader pool of qualified teachers in all subjects would be beneficial to the United States. It would also be unfortunate if the only people considering going into the humanities are people who are in a different financial bracket than those going into science. I'm afraid that this is the direction that our schools are headed, science is undoubtedly important, but art and culture shouldn't be under appreciated for the role they have in producing a society in which science and discovery flourish.
No I meant the holy war that all of the parties involved seem to have been pushing for since the end of world war II. Shiite vs. Sunni, Arab vs. Jew, Christian vs. snakes, we make a red cow, teh Jesus mahdi comes back for the partay. All that oh so lovable claptrap that has to happen in the last chapter of everyone's book. I know, I know, there are moderates on all sides. But, I would like to know what good a philosophy is if you have to run it through a sieve to get out all the crazy just to pick up a few self-help tidbits and universal truths. Especially ones that can be arrived at just chit-chatting with a 6 year old. Rendered entirely metaphorical, the bible is about as high an art form as Aesop's fables.
The references to Stalin and Mao, seem to be missing my point. I don't think we need a pogrom to get rid of all the lazy minded people succumbing willingly to mass hallucination. They're gonna do it for us!
Which, I think, was probably the whole point of the Iraq war. Someone thought it would be a good idea to kickstart the party. Piss off some sunnis here, some shiites there, give some money to these shiites, some guns to these sunnis, right in the middle of two heavily armed neighbors with a lot riding on the outcome, then get the fuck out of dodge. Once they've done most the ethnic cleansing for us we'll be back.
And more power to them all. If you manage to survive world war 3, the world will be in for quite a renaissance. That's all I was saying guys, nothing crazy about that, right?
p.s. Crazy autocrats non-withstanding, was atheistic government that bad an idea? What happened in the Balkans when the soviet regime collapsed? The crazies started ethnic cleansing again. If crazies are gonna be crazy, some times you have to ask them with tanks not to be crazy. I'm a big ol fan of liberty. But if Pat Roberson raised an army of dumb fucking white people, we'd be obliged to clamp down on him. Oh wait, the civil war.
One more quote: "The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma." Honest Abe
Hitler's bible, full of notes, and his many, many statements in contrast to those seem to imply that he just had his own version of Christianity, employed for his own purposes. That doesn't sound like any Christians in this country. My statements were meant to refute the original post that the Nazis should be considered separated from Christianity, when they used it quite effectively in pursuing their cause. Just like Osama Bin Laden uses a version of Islam to advance his plan to create a Caliphate. Even if the first site googling "Hitler Christianity" pulled up didn't give me the complete picture, and honestly I wasn't cherry-picking a damn thing, there is one thing about my statements that sure is true. When the holy wars are over, the world will have a lot less use for religion, and it will be a much better place for it.
I'll go with your atheist fundamentalist thing, but evolution never led to a genocide. Religion is a mental disease. If I need to employ a little hyperbole to get people to let the men with the white suits take em away, so be it. I guess I'm wallowing in some kind of hog shit, but its a separate pool than Jerry Falwell's icky bloated corpse and thats as much as I ask.
Untrue.
Adolph Hitler:
"Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord."
"My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was His fight for the world against the Jewish poison. To-day, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this that He had to shed His blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice... And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly it is the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people."
"We are a people of different faiths, but we are one. Which faith conquers the other is not the question; rather, the question is whether Christianity stands or falls.... We tolerate no one in our ranks who attacks the ideas of Christianity... in fact our movement is Christian. We are filled with a desire for Catholics and Protestants to discover one another in the deep distress of our own people."
Who else but a Christian could come up with Hitler's ridiculous bullshit? Oh right, a member of any other religion that believes its is the only path to salvation.
One good thing that might come from the impending massive war in the middle east, perhaps we'll get lucky and the "holy land" will get turned into irradiated glass, and we can all have a post war resurgence of rationality and atheism. It took World War II, but the French and Germans are over half atheists. Evolution is slow and the herd apparently needs a bit of a thinning.
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So you're saying we need a more liberal president.
I agree.
Just think of how much worse it could have gotten under mccain/palin
*shudder*
Your knee jerk response against unions, which are responsible for a great deal of the birth of the united states middle class, is exactly why programmers will never unionize.
You bought the bs.
Speaking of which, why shouldn't teachers be unionized? They're underpaid as it is. What is wrong with job security and decent pay for people with as important of a job as they've got?
You're fucking nuts man.
but they left it out. I'm looking to move to verizon just to get one once the new pre++ or w/e comes out later this month.
I love how your sig implies this really nuanced worldview, but you're basically implying that you can't be bothered to give a shit. Yeah I know who publishes my music and movies and yeah I know when they do shitty things, cause I read slashdot...
Some people on here are crazier than that and only use linux/play games that run on linux. Some people go out of their way to buy things that aren't produced using sweatshop labor.
There are lots of terms for this, "ideology", "principles"...
I like to call it paying attention and not giving my money to dicks.
Nixon said "What's the nature of the crisis?", My friend said in a serious tone of voice "We're out of toilet paper sir!" http://www.webcrunchers.com/crunch/Play/history/stories/toilet.html/
http://www.minervahome.net/
I use midpSSH (a j2me app) to control a number of bash scripts/command line programs for my media center computer from a non qwerty phone. The program allows commands to be saved into command lists, suits my needs, and let me sell my samsung blackjack (received for free from an AT&T upgrade) and downgrade to the slightly less ostentatious samsung a707 sync. It seems like you might want to write the code for the fun of it, but if you're looking for a quick solution, anything you can do from the command line can be done with this arrangement.
The story here for people that are missing it: This is evidence of a private account to circumvent Alaska's record retention laws. This is exactly like what was done in the White House to hide evidence of political firings in the justice dept. This is something like her 8th well publicized crime/bending of the law/lie, amusingly enough, not the first one tied to misdeeds of the kind that got so many thrown out of congress just two short years ago. . No one will care anyway. There is a quiet and unspoken truth to Republican success. America is a-ok with being criminally complicit, as long as they see a profit. We are happily being run by the mafia. Have fun with President Palin.
4 digit id silent since 2004 who the fuck ebays?
a lot of Democrats had to answer to teacher's unions. I know quite a few dems came out in favor of NCLB, but to imply that there was across the board support for it from liberals is completely false.
Another point being missed is that ATT charges text rates for messages sent using their native IM clients.
I just got a new smartphone through them, thought I was slick and only used IM. Turns out it isn't covered by the data package I was paying for.
By using a downloaded one, they have seem to have bypassed this. Personally, I just started using email and zaTelnet to irc.
I've got to disagree with you there. I live in the tornado belt and in the event of one, I can't think of a single neighbor who wouldn't have found out about it from an emergency TV warning. Hell, thats the first thing my parents do when the weather outside looks foul. You and I might go to the web for information, but to a previous generation the television is the machine with the answers.
I try not to buy Chinese products because labor is treated terribly there. That is one reason among many that you might have for disliking the Chinese governments policies, but it is one that is certainly not going to change if it is the main reason that the US's corporations continue to invest there. There is a financial incentive for corporations to lower the standards by which they have to treat their employees. The difference between the two countries response to those corporations is what keeps me attempting to buy from democracies. Even if we choose to remain, for the most part, willfully ignorant of the declining compensation for most labor in the United States, when things get bad enough, we will be able to vote for change. We can protest. We can go on strike. No one will get shot, or indefinitely imprisoned (one hopes). In China it is openly and obviously not the same. As far as your comparison to the Iraq war, the American voters supported it. While I may not agree, at least we had a say. The idea in a democracy is that even when mistakes are made, they are learned from, and the system is corrected. Buy American, buy Mexican, buy German, buy Japanese, buy Polish. They all have corrupt pro-corporate governments, but at least they have a vote, and the right to be heard.
I was curious about the same thing recently. A search brought up a few Vaios that are constructed entirely in Japan, though not many, and any third party hardware on the device, probably down to the chips on the board, will likely be Chinese made. Sony outsources to China too.
I gotta say though, I'm 100% with you on this. I'm not an economist but I don't see the value in paying for China to build a stronger totalitarian society. That and I'm a computer science major. It would be nice to have a job someday.
Not so.
Passed on July 2, 1964, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 banned racial discrimination in public places, particularly in public accommodations, largely based on Congress' control of interstate commerce.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_Atlanta_Motel_v._United_States
The intellectual property argument was just an idiotic thing for them to go public with. But, the way I understand it, a store has the right to toss you out for any reason they see fit (presumably barring race or gender.) Thats why they have those "We reserve the right to toss you out on your ass" signs. When I was an annoying little adolescent, some shopkeepers told my friends and I to get out as soon as we came into their store. It was evident that we were just bored and fucking around, not intending to purchase anything. It was evident in this case that the guy was wandering around the store taking notes not only intending not to buy anything but enhancing his ability to shop competitively. If he shared his information he would be broadening that result. The store had no good reason not to toss him out.
Doesn't make it any less annoying though. used to piss me off then, pisses me off now. Especially since he was just trying to get around the unabashed robbery perpetrated by college bookstores and textbook companies.
Hey, since the place is already there, why not just open it up to any commercial flights that want to come in? Speaking of which, Al Gore has some coax he'd like to sell you.
You make a comment deriding others' entitlement and laziness... when the article is about some guys getting a taxpayer funded private parking space so that they don't have to walk as far to the front door. You're gonna turn me into a Paultard.
I disagree. My parents didn't talk about science at the dinner table. All those kids need is challenging reading material. Not science related reading material, not even science fiction necessarily, just challenging. If they enjoy reading and it makes them question the world around them, then they will naturally want to branch out into science, if thats the direction for them. Some of them won't, they'll end up English teachers. Nothing wrong with that. My English teachers were a huge influence on me. They never needed to point me in any direction, they just taught me the value of the written word. I went and found plenty of books on my own as a result.
Yeah, no kidding. Every time I'm looking for ways to save money, I always suggest to my wife, "Hey, look... Keeping your grandmother on life support is freaking expensive. Lets just put one in her brain and be done with it. Please hon? Or maybe we could just starve the kids for a couple of days, they'll survive..." I mean Christ. She knows I gotta put gas in my Hummer. But everytime I bring up cuttin costs, its always, "Ditch your gas guzzler if you want to save money, we're not gonna kill Grandma!" God. Selfish people. I mean seriously, if the American people didn't want to fight an endless global war, they never would have let their congressmen spend half a trillion dollars a year on the defense budget for 15 years after the end of the Cold War.
I think this is a great idea, except that it doesn't also cover liberal arts degrees. A broader pool of qualified teachers in all subjects would be beneficial to the United States. It would also be unfortunate if the only people considering going into the humanities are people who are in a different financial bracket than those going into science. I'm afraid that this is the direction that our schools are headed, science is undoubtedly important, but art and culture shouldn't be under appreciated for the role they have in producing a society in which science and discovery flourish.
No I meant the holy war that all of the parties involved seem to have been pushing for since the end of world war II. Shiite vs. Sunni, Arab vs. Jew, Christian vs. snakes, we make a red cow, teh Jesus mahdi comes back for the partay. All that oh so lovable claptrap that has to happen in the last chapter of everyone's book. I know, I know, there are moderates on all sides. But, I would like to know what good a philosophy is if you have to run it through a sieve to get out all the crazy just to pick up a few self-help tidbits and universal truths. Especially ones that can be arrived at just chit-chatting with a 6 year old. Rendered entirely metaphorical, the bible is about as high an art form as Aesop's fables.
The references to Stalin and Mao, seem to be missing my point. I don't think we need a pogrom to get rid of all the lazy minded people succumbing willingly to mass hallucination. They're gonna do it for us!
Which, I think, was probably the whole point of the Iraq war. Someone thought it would be a good idea to kickstart the party. Piss off some sunnis here, some shiites there, give some money to these shiites, some guns to these sunnis, right in the middle of two heavily armed neighbors with a lot riding on the outcome, then get the fuck out of dodge. Once they've done most the ethnic cleansing for us we'll be back.
And more power to them all. If you manage to survive world war 3, the world will be in for quite a renaissance. That's all I was saying guys, nothing crazy about that, right?
p.s. Crazy autocrats non-withstanding, was atheistic government that bad an idea? What happened in the Balkans when the soviet regime collapsed? The crazies started ethnic cleansing again. If crazies are gonna be crazy, some times you have to ask them with tanks not to be crazy. I'm a big ol fan of liberty. But if Pat Roberson raised an army of dumb fucking white people, we'd be obliged to clamp down on him. Oh wait, the civil war. One more quote: "The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma." Honest Abe
Hitler's bible, full of notes, and his many, many statements in contrast to those seem to imply that he just had his own version of Christianity, employed for his own purposes. That doesn't sound like any Christians in this country. My statements were meant to refute the original post that the Nazis should be considered separated from Christianity, when they used it quite effectively in pursuing their cause. Just like Osama Bin Laden uses a version of Islam to advance his plan to create a Caliphate. Even if the first site googling "Hitler Christianity" pulled up didn't give me the complete picture, and honestly I wasn't cherry-picking a damn thing, there is one thing about my statements that sure is true. When the holy wars are over, the world will have a lot less use for religion, and it will be a much better place for it. I'll go with your atheist fundamentalist thing, but evolution never led to a genocide. Religion is a mental disease. If I need to employ a little hyperbole to get people to let the men with the white suits take em away, so be it. I guess I'm wallowing in some kind of hog shit, but its a separate pool than Jerry Falwell's icky bloated corpse and thats as much as I ask.
Untrue.
Adolph Hitler: "Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord."
"My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was His fight for the world against the Jewish poison. To-day, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this that He had to shed His blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice... And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly it is the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people."
"We are a people of different faiths, but we are one. Which faith conquers the other is not the question; rather, the question is whether Christianity stands or falls.... We tolerate no one in our ranks who attacks the ideas of Christianity... in fact our movement is Christian. We are filled with a desire for Catholics and Protestants to discover one another in the deep distress of our own people."
Who else but a Christian could come up with Hitler's ridiculous bullshit? Oh right, a member of any other religion that believes its is the only path to salvation.
One good thing that might come from the impending massive war in the middle east, perhaps we'll get lucky and the "holy land" will get turned into irradiated glass, and we can all have a post war resurgence of rationality and atheism. It took World War II, but the French and Germans are over half atheists. Evolution is slow and the herd apparently needs a bit of a thinning.