The government could just be more wise and efficient with its use of out money, check for flaws in the their processes and get rid of unnecessary overhead.
Nah that is a crazy idea! Lets just keep our minds stuck on Pay more Taxes or get less services.
"The office would be required to consider four factors — the capability of states to enforce payment, the reliability of technology, administrative costs, and 'user acceptance"
I can see problems with the Reliability of the Technology happening after the trial runs. For some reasons a lot more cars are being stuck by lightning.
Because Most of us moved away from the cites and bought fuel efficient cars to avoid paying all these taxes. Extra Taxes won't make me move back to the city where it is loud, polluted and a lot of crime, and generally a lot more unsafe for me and my family. It will just mean that I will have to make due with less. Thus I suffer and tax revenue will not stay up in the long term as people will adjust their cost of living to make up for the tax difference.
Normally when one company buys a troubled company it is usually because they can see a plan to make it profitable again. The buying company can see a lot of the waste that is going on that people on the inside couldn't see (often because they were the benefactors of the waste). After they buy them they work to clear out the waste and get the company back to profitable again.
Novell Lost its way decades ago. Back in the days Novell Netware was key in the small-mid size business server. Cheaper then Unix more powerful then Windows/Dos, ran on standard hardware. Then they let Microsoft NT Take over, because Novell made to many features that they thought was important and didn't care what the customer wanted. After NT took over Linux came in and scavenged the rest. Sure Novell took a pro-Linux stradigy but it was too late. Suse was always second fiddle (in mindset) to Redhat. I think the only reason Novell lasted as long as it did was because SCO rallied the community behind Novell to help stop them. But after that was done Novell failed to see how fickle Open Source Zealots are and once they remeber that Novell was a company and did a pattent agreement with Microsoft and that Novell wasn't IBM that means they can be hated again.
The right to bear arms does make sense in the United States. The problem it doesn't work well in City areas. You need to keep in mind that population density is low in the US. And if there is a problem it could take hours for a legal official to arrive, plenty of time for something bad to happen.
You know the saying if Guns were illegal then only criminals will have guns. Sure you laugh at it as a tautology. But to more of the point criminals in order to be successful needs an edge to make them more powerful. A gun is such an item. And no amount of laws and regulations are going to stop the bad people from getting a gun, or making their own.
Guns should be more common and kids should be taught on how to respect and use the weapon. Otherwise it is seen as a device of power over someone else and used without training, hence a lot of the accidents that happen.
Fox news is tricky... They don't officially say any of those things. They let any random Joe call in and give that opinion. And if there is enough crazies saying the same thing then they will egg on the idea. Such as We know that Obama was born in the United States, We just don't see why he doesn't make public his certificate, to put people at ease. If Fox News just lied they would be out of business rather quickly. They are more subtle (and many ways more dangerous) they speak the truth, but uses words to imply there might be something else and "Let the viewer decide". But lets keep yourself honest... There was plenty of untruthful bashing of our former president(s). Like the idea the WTC was actually destroyed by the US Government, and by Bush more directly. A lot of this stuff has happened with or without Fox news egging it on... It usually happens with a small vocal but idiotic group of people.
What do you think would happen if McCain won the election... The left will be demand that McCain couldn't be president be HE WASN'T BORN IN THE UNITED STATES. McCain was born in a US Base Panama.
The reason why there was a price on his head was because he was a dangerous person. He convinced people that America was at war with the Religion Islam, and drove them to attack us.
Doing something heretical against the Islamic Religion would just prove to his followers (who are probably really pissed off right now) that he was right. Having his body treated in according to his religion, is a move to help mend the problems he has caused.
We could if it wasn't so close to a political election. Events happening withing 4 years of each presidential election could have a great impact on who is elected the next term. Sure the news is good. But every side wan't to gain from it, so they can be elected to keep their jobs for an other term. The democrats what to show it was their change in policies that made this happen. The republicans want to show it was the effect of their original policies that were let plaid out which won the day. Sub groups that are to stupid to come up with a counter argument will come up some conspiracy theories like he isn't really dead, or they have killed him years ago and just wanted to release the information at a political convenient time (not too close to an election to raise suspicion, and not to far away for the public to forget about it).
We as a culture has been brainwashed to be polarized. We are either Left or Right and the opposite side cannot be right. and Moderates are coined as people who are easily manipulated, and are not of strong opinion.
Yes this 1 million year long trend is quite disturbing. Except for hand to hand combat let's get a stone so if you get a blow to the head you win. Let's use a big heavy stick so you hit further away then you oponenent so he can't hit you with the rock.
Much of our civilization is from the fact if we break the rules there is retribution that we cannot fight back. Yes it is opression to an extent. But if you thought you had a fair fight more people will be willing to take their chance.
That is of course the guy who threw the first punch knew that type of retribution would occurre. It is not like the play ground situation where after he throws the first punch the other guy will either run away crying or punch back. If you are going to mess with a military any military they will respond to your attack with enough force to keep themselves safe. That means your wife could have a gun too, and your dog was trained to attack. If you don't know you are not going to risk it. War sucks the moral high ground doesn't work if you are dead.
While I don't see it as an attack against STEM, it is quite of a short sited goal. Sure STEM majors get paid more after they graduate, Thus college loans are less painful. But the truth of the matter is a lot of students will go for the cheaper degree, if there is a price difference. The trick is to raise the standards on those liberal art degrees and require them to take some heavy Math and Science classes. This is just as important giving Engineering Students English classes at least up to 200 level. So when they graduate they are well rounded. But they are not making Liberal Art majors well rounded they are just BS (Bull Shit) experience.
That and I doubt that it will curve their behavior, they will just figure your site is just crappy. It reminds me a of the old SysOp fuction on the old BBS Software ( WWIV) that allowed you to disconnect a user and make it look like line noise. It was good in the aspect that you could kick them off without them being personally offended, but it made it look like your line wasn't high quality and often will not go back to your site.
If you are using an other company to hold/work with your data. get a CONTRACT that explains what will be involved, what guarantees and compensation you have if there is a problem. As well an exit clause and plan.
The problem is dumb people just jump onto the cloud without any real dealing with the company, and host valuable stuff on it. The could concept is a good technology plan (although it is the same as hosting now), it is actually is a net plus. However get a contract if you data is valuable. Otherwise you are whim to the company.
Well even for 1 way trips. It will be better then putting all the fuel on one ship, where the weight of the fuel needs more fuel to keep the ship going fast enough for people. You can take these station years in advanced and get them to slingshot around planets until they are fast enough to match your fast flying ship which will stop by and refill at the same speed the station is moving. Then you can go on accelerating or deceleration after you filled up.
Also of note, People take a lot of resources to survive. So the trick with people is to move then quick so they use less resources. These could be put into orbit and take a decade or two to get into position. Have it sling shot around some planets and enough fuel (non-storage) to "Park It" in spot. For human travel taking a decade or two is way to long. We need fast and light ships to get us to say in mars in a year or two.
Well if you are avocation changing the system you need to lump them together. If the PhD are more often then not are becoming too specialized to be useful then the PhD system needs to change. Sure they are exceptions where some PhD offer enough generalization to show people to know that in order to meet any particular goal that you will need help in different areas. But those are the exception.
I would actually go further stating there is a larger problem with the education system in the whole.
At child at the age of 4 enters school and remains there until they graduate from high school at 17 year. (That is 13 years) Then they will directly go to college for 4 more years at 21 years old (17 years) Now in that process they weill decide what they want to do for a living. Well during that period education is the only system they know, so They choose to stay in education, So they will get 2/4 years of masters (If they want to stay as a k-12 teacher) and 8 years if they want to be a professor. So now we have Teachers and Professors who's life has been centered around education. Then they teach the next generation that repeats the process. What happens is there is a schism between skills and knowledge that people need professionally and what they need to advance in Education, and it will keep on getting worse if you leave the system unchanged. Many Teachers and Professors (you can tell if you talk to them personally) despise commercial industry, but yet really know what is going on in it. They will focus on the areas where it has gone wrong but not where it has gone well. So they think we spend all our days in a real Dilbertesk like life. Education needs a infusion (A large one enough to change the schools culture) of professionals who are good at what they do to teach information that will be more practical for real life situation and really open up a dialog on how things really work.
You mean the online tests on Facebook. That are suppose to make average Joe to seem really smart. Most of the online test make people seem smart to get their guard down and read and click on adds or give then you cell number to text spam you.
about 1/2 see this as a good steal and take advantage of it. about 1/4 would see it as a trick where they could get in trouble later in life. (oh the cameras will get me, or if I do this now and abuse the system they will tighten the system down) about 1/8 would see this as they will get in trouble after life (Religion is an attempt to keep society honest by removing the idea you can really get away with something if you don't get caught). about 1/8 are just very honest people.
Well he was innocent. But that doesn't mean he couldn't be arrested and tried. That fact that his IP address was the offending IP Address was enough probable clause for an Arrest Warrant. Just as if you left your car unlocked some one stole your car, and robbed a bank with it. Chances are Police will get an arrest Warrant and you will be arrested.
It depends. Wheelchair basketball, sled hockey... some of those guys are actually really good. Besides if you watch the real Olympics almost all the athletes are injured from over training.
The special Olympics are look how well this guy can do without a leg. The normal olimics is look how well this guy can do with a perfectly fine leg but every thing else bash bruised and broken. (my apologies to Douglas Adams)
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The government could just be more wise and efficient with its use of out money, check for flaws in the their processes and get rid of unnecessary overhead.
Nah that is a crazy idea! Lets just keep our minds stuck on Pay more Taxes or get less services.
"The office would be required to consider four factors — the capability of states to enforce payment, the reliability of technology, administrative costs, and 'user acceptance"
I can see problems with the Reliability of the Technology happening after the trial runs. For some reasons a lot more cars are being stuck by lightning.
Because Most of us moved away from the cites and bought fuel efficient cars to avoid paying all these taxes. Extra Taxes won't make me move back to the city where it is loud, polluted and a lot of crime, and generally a lot more unsafe for me and my family. It will just mean that I will have to make due with less. Thus I suffer and tax revenue will not stay up in the long term as people will adjust their cost of living to make up for the tax difference.
Normally when one company buys a troubled company it is usually because they can see a plan to make it profitable again. The buying company can see a lot of the waste that is going on that people on the inside couldn't see (often because they were the benefactors of the waste). After they buy them they work to clear out the waste and get the company back to profitable again.
Novell Lost its way decades ago. Back in the days Novell Netware was key in the small-mid size business server. Cheaper then Unix more powerful then Windows/Dos, ran on standard hardware. Then they let Microsoft NT Take over, because Novell made to many features that they thought was important and didn't care what the customer wanted. After NT took over Linux came in and scavenged the rest. Sure Novell took a pro-Linux stradigy but it was too late. Suse was always second fiddle (in mindset) to Redhat. I think the only reason Novell lasted as long as it did was because SCO rallied the community behind Novell to help stop them. But after that was done Novell failed to see how fickle Open Source Zealots are and once they remeber that Novell was a company and did a pattent agreement with Microsoft and that Novell wasn't IBM that means they can be hated again.
What operating system did he use?
The right to bear arms does make sense in the United States. The problem it doesn't work well in City areas.
You need to keep in mind that population density is low in the US. And if there is a problem it could take hours for a legal official to arrive, plenty of time for something bad to happen.
You know the saying if Guns were illegal then only criminals will have guns. Sure you laugh at it as a tautology. But to more of the point criminals in order to be successful needs an edge to make them more powerful. A gun is such an item. And no amount of laws and regulations are going to stop the bad people from getting a gun, or making their own.
Guns should be more common and kids should be taught on how to respect and use the weapon. Otherwise it is seen as a device of power over someone else and used without training, hence a lot of the accidents that happen.
Fox news is tricky... They don't officially say any of those things. They let any random Joe call in and give that opinion. And if there is enough crazies saying the same thing then they will egg on the idea. Such as We know that Obama was born in the United States, We just don't see why he doesn't make public his certificate, to put people at ease. If Fox News just lied they would be out of business rather quickly. They are more subtle (and many ways more dangerous) they speak the truth, but uses words to imply there might be something else and "Let the viewer decide".
But lets keep yourself honest... There was plenty of untruthful bashing of our former president(s). Like the idea the WTC was actually destroyed by the US Government, and by Bush more directly. A lot of this stuff has happened with or without Fox news egging it on... It usually happens with a small vocal but idiotic group of people.
What do you think would happen if McCain won the election... The left will be demand that McCain couldn't be president be HE WASN'T BORN IN THE UNITED STATES. McCain was born in a US Base Panama.
And what would that accomplish?
The reason why there was a price on his head was because he was a dangerous person. He convinced people that America was at war with the Religion Islam, and drove them to attack us.
Doing something heretical against the Islamic Religion would just prove to his followers (who are probably really pissed off right now) that he was right. Having his body treated in according to his religion, is a move to help mend the problems he has caused.
We could if it wasn't so close to a political election. Events happening withing 4 years of each presidential election could have a great impact on who is elected the next term. Sure the news is good. But every side wan't to gain from it, so they can be elected to keep their jobs for an other term.
The democrats what to show it was their change in policies that made this happen.
The republicans want to show it was the effect of their original policies that were let plaid out which won the day.
Sub groups that are to stupid to come up with a counter argument will come up some conspiracy theories like he isn't really dead, or they have killed him years ago and just wanted to release the information at a political convenient time (not too close to an election to raise suspicion, and not to far away for the public to forget about it).
We as a culture has been brainwashed to be polarized. We are either Left or Right and the opposite side cannot be right. and Moderates are coined as people who are easily manipulated, and are not of strong opinion.
Yes this 1 million year long trend is quite disturbing. Except for hand to hand combat let's get a stone so if you get a blow to the head you win. Let's use a big heavy stick so you hit further away then you oponenent so he can't hit you with the rock.
Much of our civilization is from the fact if we break the rules there is retribution that we cannot fight back. Yes it is opression to an extent. But if you thought you had a fair fight more people will be willing to take their chance.
That is of course the guy who threw the first punch knew that type of retribution would occurre. It is not like the play ground situation where after he throws the first punch the other guy will either run away crying or punch back. If you are going to mess with a military any military they will respond to your attack with enough force to keep themselves safe. That means your wife could have a gun too, and your dog was trained to attack. If you don't know you are not going to risk it. War sucks the moral high ground doesn't work if you are dead.
While I don't see it as an attack against STEM, it is quite of a short sited goal. Sure STEM majors get paid more after they graduate, Thus college loans are less painful. But the truth of the matter is a lot of students will go for the cheaper degree, if there is a price difference. The trick is to raise the standards on those liberal art degrees and require them to take some heavy Math and Science classes. This is just as important giving Engineering Students English classes at least up to 200 level. So when they graduate they are well rounded. But they are not making Liberal Art majors well rounded they are just BS (Bull Shit) experience.
Are used by or against people who go to LARP? (Live Action Role Playing)
That and I doubt that it will curve their behavior, they will just figure your site is just crappy. It reminds me a of the old SysOp fuction on the old BBS Software ( WWIV) that allowed you to disconnect a user and make it look like line noise. It was good in the aspect that you could kick them off without them being personally offended, but it made it look like your line wasn't high quality and often will not go back to your site.
If you are using an other company to hold/work with your data. get a CONTRACT that explains what will be involved, what guarantees and compensation you have if there is a problem. As well an exit clause and plan.
The problem is dumb people just jump onto the cloud without any real dealing with the company, and host valuable stuff on it. The could concept is a good technology plan (although it is the same as hosting now), it is actually is a net plus. However get a contract if you data is valuable. Otherwise you are whim to the company.
Well even for 1 way trips. It will be better then putting all the fuel on one ship, where the weight of the fuel needs more fuel to keep the ship going fast enough for people. You can take these station years in advanced and get them to slingshot around planets until they are fast enough to match your fast flying ship which will stop by and refill at the same speed the station is moving. Then you can go on accelerating or deceleration after you filled up.
Also of note, People take a lot of resources to survive. So the trick with people is to move then quick so they use less resources. These could be put into orbit and take a decade or two to get into position. Have it sling shot around some planets and enough fuel (non-storage) to "Park It" in spot. For human travel taking a decade or two is way to long. We need fast and light ships to get us to say in mars in a year or two.
Well if you are avocation changing the system you need to lump them together. If the PhD are more often then not are becoming too specialized to be useful then the PhD system needs to change. Sure they are exceptions where some PhD offer enough generalization to show people to know that in order to meet any particular goal that you will need help in different areas. But those are the exception.
I would actually go further stating there is a larger problem with the education system in the whole.
At child at the age of 4 enters school and remains there until they graduate from high school at 17 year. (That is 13 years) Then they will directly go to college for 4 more years at 21 years old (17 years) Now in that process they weill decide what they want to do for a living. Well during that period education is the only system they know, so They choose to stay in education, So they will get 2/4 years of masters (If they want to stay as a k-12 teacher) and 8 years if they want to be a professor. So now we have Teachers and Professors who's life has been centered around education. Then they teach the next generation that repeats the process. What happens is there is a schism between skills and knowledge that people need professionally and what they need to advance in Education, and it will keep on getting worse if you leave the system unchanged.
Many Teachers and Professors (you can tell if you talk to them personally) despise commercial industry, but yet really know what is going on in it. They will focus on the areas where it has gone wrong but not where it has gone well. So they think we spend all our days in a real Dilbertesk like life. Education needs a infusion (A large one enough to change the schools culture) of professionals who are good at what they do to teach information that will be more practical for real life situation and really open up a dialog on how things really work.
You mean the online tests on Facebook. That are suppose to make average Joe to seem really smart. Most of the online test make people seem smart to get their guard down and read and click on adds or give then you cell number to text spam you.
It is Allen (A L L E N) not Alien (A L I E N)
Well the numbers would make sense.
about 1/2 see this as a good steal and take advantage of it.
about 1/4 would see it as a trick where they could get in trouble later in life. (oh the cameras will get me, or if I do this now and abuse the system they will tighten the system down)
about 1/8 would see this as they will get in trouble after life (Religion is an attempt to keep society honest by removing the idea you can really get away with something if you don't get caught).
about 1/8 are just very honest people.
Well he was innocent. But that doesn't mean he couldn't be arrested and tried. That fact that his IP address was the offending IP Address was enough probable clause for an Arrest Warrant. Just as if you left your car unlocked some one stole your car, and robbed a bank with it. Chances are Police will get an arrest Warrant and you will be arrested.
It depends. Wheelchair basketball, sled hockey... some of those guys are actually really good. Besides if you watch the real Olympics almost all the athletes are injured from over training.
The special Olympics are look how well this guy can do without a leg. The normal olimics is look how well this guy can do with a perfectly fine leg but every thing else bash bruised and broken. (my apologies to Douglas Adams)
I am a moderate who is part of the Modern Whig Party what Operating System can I use? Plan9?