(2) Can I attach it to my keyring? (no silly lanyard clips please)
Both far more important to me in daily use than a 20% speed difference between one drive and another. It's not like I'm running terabyte database sorts on these little guys.......
...can tie up any new energy project in the courts, effectively forever, the status quo is what we are going to get, effectively forever.
This applies to politically correct energy sources such as solar, wind, and geothermal, just like it does to those eeeeeeeeeevil nuke and coal plants.
Since some of Obama's core constituencies are the trial bar, NIMBY "activists" and the save-the-endangered-weeds Gaia worshipers, don't look for any of that there "change" any time soon.
....are what I like most in a TV show, book, or movie.
Yep, there are BSG characters who are far from likeable (Baltar, Tigh). But sometimes those same characters will do the right thing, or even the heroic thing.
There are also characters who are very likeable (Roslin, at least IMO) who will do something downright vile in what they conceive as a higher cause.
This is still pretty rare on most of television, and it's why BSG stands out.
Send out your IT security analysis (or whatever) with a large, clearly labeled cover page to all the members of management, with a bunch of extra copies to pass out to their assistants.
Wait 24-48 hours.
Then send out an emergency communication via phone, e-mail and red-letter memo requiring that ALL COPIES of the IT security analysis be RETURNED TO YOU or SHREDDED immediately.
You'll get your eyeballs.
Obviously not to be overused - I've done this three times in a 20+ year career.
.....or anything else they care to do instead of actually making laws. Frankly I'd pay them each a couple million a year to just preen on YouTube and not legislate at all.
Medicare operates in a very similar way. There is an entire cottage industry built up around teaching physicians how to write little mini-essays in the patient's chart, that will cover their asses in the event that Medicare decides to audit their billing.
This is to some extent worse than the insurance industry. Aetna/United/Blue Cross can only deny payment - Medicare can and will bring criminal charges for failure to jump through their hoops, without regard to whether the care was appropriate for the patient.
Medicare, Medicaid and the insurance industry all have a vested interest in obfuscation and delay. It's the only way to (try and) keep a lid on spending - unless that is, we decide to be honest with the public and make it clear that an aging population is never going to be able to get the unlimited, cost no object health care it thinks is its birthright.
"everyone complains about this type of legislation while at the same time demanding that something be done about global warming"
Then you needn't be saddened by me, because I do complain about this nanny state legislation while at the same time asserting that anthropogenic global warming is bullcrap.
McCain lost me when he voted for TARP. Palin had nothing to do with it.
I told everyone I knew that I would vote and work for whichever candidate would oppose TARP, if the other candidate supported it.
I've never voted for a Democrat for a national office in my life, so I was saved the gut-wrenching decision to support Obama when he drank the Morgan Stanley kool-aid along with McLame.
The Bob Barr sign went up in my yard the next day.
"you are on the wrong website. This is supposed to be for technologically informed people."
Well, that's as may be. But I continue to be amazed by the number of people I've encountered on line who are clearly highly competent code jockeys and PC builders, while at the same time are blithering Luddites on the subject of energy, believing that all that tech they love can be powered by rainbows and fairy dust.
"this kind of interactive digital democracy eliminates any ambiguity as to what the general mood of the public is, how the public feels about key issues, and what the will of the people is."
If it works as well in that regard as Slashdot does, national consensus is obviously just days away.
Is this similar to what William Buckley had in mind when he said he'd much rather be governed by the first thousand names in the Boston phonebook than by the faculty of Harvard??
"but they will never fall under the (sic)rubrick of community service, since they have nothing to do with poverty"
You have an excessively constrained concept of community service. For example, I would consider circulating a petition allowing firearms concealed carry as enhancing citizen self-defense and therefore in the best tradition of community service.
You also might want to read up on the tens of thousands of the working poor who have lost their homes because the government wanted to boost the tax base by turning the neighborhood over to a developer for casinos, condos, or malls.
"Barack is not so much against the idea as he is the implementation."
Well, -against- is -against-, at least in the short term (and in the timeline of nuclear power development, eight years is the short term).
What is preventing any significant new energy development in America is the ability of opposition groups to tie up projects in the courts, nearly effectively forever. This is going to stymie the greens' beloved wind, solar, and water power (whaddya think the chances would be of getting a new major hydro dam built today?) every bit as much as it will stymie those eeeeeeevil fossil fuels and atoms.
I figure my only hope, after the new nukes die in court, the drilling fields are ruled out of bounds and the coal burning plants capped, is to ask President Obama to come to my house and fart into my backyard windmill so I'll have enough wattage to log onto Slashdot.
This is true. And it's also true that there is a three word phrase, extensively used by Democrats over the last few years, which will -vanish- from their vocabularies henceforth.
Why do I have this funny feeling that 50 hours of signing up the homeless in heavily Democratic districts will easily qualify as "community service" while 50 hours of working with a libertarian organization to oppose eminent domain laws, or working with a law firm fighting campus speech codes, may just barely fail to pass muster??
There's an easy fix for the Avira nag screens if you're running XP Pro.
Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Local Security Policy.
Select "Software Restriction Policies" then right click "Additional Rules" and select "New Path Rule".
Create a new rule for the file C:\Program Files\Avira\AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic\avnotify.exe and set security level to "Disallowed". Voila, the update nag screen is history.
Is it in any way a Bad Thing that XP is eight years old?
The purpose of an OS should be to provide a consistent platform for data access, communication, and input/output devices. That's about it.
If there were an OS that did just those things and didn't insist on weaving the apps and the OS together via DLL's or dependencies, it might be routine to go ten years between major OS versions, which would be fine with me.
Slashdot Mirror
If Obama reinstates the draft in a few years you'll be on the Group W bench and you'll be golden.
(1) Does it have a cap I am likely to lose?
(2) Can I attach it to my keyring? (no silly lanyard clips please)
Both far more important to me in daily use than a 20% speed difference between one drive and another.
It's not like I'm running terabyte database sorts on these little guys.......
...can tie up any new energy project in the courts, effectively forever, the status quo is what we are going to get, effectively forever.
This applies to politically correct energy sources such as solar, wind, and geothermal, just like it does to those eeeeeeeeeevil nuke and coal plants.
Since some of Obama's core constituencies are the trial bar, NIMBY "activists" and the save-the-endangered-weeds Gaia worshipers, don't look for any of that there "change" any time soon.
"Suppose you would normally replace your OS and office suite every 3 years"
Any home user who would do this can waste his time and money as he pleases.
Any business that would do this obviously has a lot more cash laying around than it knows what to do with.
Our company is using Windows XP (eight years old) and Office 2000 (nine years old). No plans to upgrade. We're enjoying the savings, thank you kindly.
....are what I like most in a TV show, book, or movie.
Yep, there are BSG characters who are far from likeable (Baltar, Tigh). But sometimes those same characters will do the right thing, or even the heroic thing.
There are also characters who are very likeable (Roslin, at least IMO) who will do something downright vile in what they conceive as a higher cause.
This is still pretty rare on most of television, and it's why BSG stands out.
Send out your IT security analysis (or whatever) with a large, clearly labeled cover page to all the members of management, with a bunch of extra copies to pass out to their assistants.
Wait 24-48 hours.
Then send out an emergency communication via phone, e-mail and red-letter memo requiring that ALL COPIES of the IT security analysis be RETURNED TO YOU or SHREDDED immediately.
You'll get your eyeballs.
Obviously not to be overused - I've done this three times in a 20+ year career.
.....or anything else they care to do instead of actually making laws. Frankly I'd pay them each a couple million a year to just preen on YouTube and not legislate at all.
....enact both of these.
1. No more withholding. Everyone has to pay their full taxes to the IRS by check or plastic.
2. Change the tax due date from April 15th to the first Monday in November.
Medicare operates in a very similar way. There is an entire cottage industry built up around teaching physicians how to write little mini-essays in the patient's chart, that will cover their asses in the event that Medicare decides to audit their billing.
This is to some extent worse than the insurance industry. Aetna/United/Blue Cross can only deny payment - Medicare can and will bring criminal charges for failure to jump through their hoops, without regard to whether the care was appropriate for the patient.
Medicare, Medicaid and the insurance industry all have a vested interest in obfuscation and delay. It's the only way to (try and) keep a lid on spending - unless that is, we decide to be honest with the public and make it clear that an aging population is never going to be able to get the unlimited, cost no object health care it thinks is its birthright.
"everyone complains about this type of legislation while at the same time demanding that something be done about global warming"
Then you needn't be saddened by me, because I do complain about this nanny state legislation while at the same time asserting that anthropogenic global warming is bullcrap.
McCain lost me when he voted for TARP. Palin had nothing to do with it.
I told everyone I knew that I would vote and work for whichever candidate would oppose TARP, if the other candidate supported it.
I've never voted for a Democrat for a national office in my life, so I was saved the gut-wrenching decision to support Obama when he drank the Morgan Stanley kool-aid along with McLame.
The Bob Barr sign went up in my yard the next day.
I'm a conservative who opposed the Patriot Act from day one.
"dont you people have any faith in anything at all?"
I have faith in my loved ones, my coworkers, and my neighbors. None of them has ever held political office.
I'm popping a big bowl of Orville's best right now.
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If Chimpy McBushitler had done this, it'd be business as usual on
But now that his O'ness has done it, I'm looking forward to a really entertaining read.
"you are on the wrong website. This is supposed to be for technologically informed people."
Well, that's as may be. But I continue to be amazed by the number of people I've encountered on line who are clearly highly competent code jockeys and PC builders, while at the same time are blithering Luddites on the subject of energy, believing that all that tech they love can be powered by rainbows and fairy dust.
If you take away BT and Giganews, my desire for broadband drops to the point where a $10/month dialup account becomes a realistic possibility.
And I'm sure I am not the only one.
How many customers have to make that decision before my cable company decides not to be the RIAA'a buttboy?
Time- and electron-saving version of the above, applicable to all proposed Congressional action in any field:
Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work.
(X) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
"this kind of interactive digital democracy eliminates any ambiguity as to what the general mood of the public is, how the public feels about key issues, and what the will of the people is."
If it works as well in that regard as Slashdot does, national consensus is obviously just days away.
"promotion and adoption of electoral lotteries"
Is this similar to what William Buckley had in mind when he said he'd much rather be governed by the first thousand names in the Boston phonebook than by the faculty of Harvard??
If so, I am totally in favor.
"but they will never fall under the (sic)rubrick of community service, since they have nothing to do with poverty"
You have an excessively constrained concept of community service. For example, I would consider circulating a petition allowing firearms concealed carry as enhancing citizen self-defense and therefore in the best tradition of community service.
You also might want to read up on the tens of thousands of the working poor who have lost their homes because the government wanted to boost the tax base by turning the neighborhood over to a developer for casinos, condos, or malls.
"Barack is not so much against the idea as he is the implementation."
Well, -against- is -against-, at least in the short term (and in the timeline of nuclear power development, eight years is the short term).
What is preventing any significant new energy development in America is the ability of opposition groups to tie up projects in the courts, nearly effectively forever. This is going to stymie the greens' beloved wind, solar, and water power (whaddya think the chances would be of getting a new major hydro dam built today?) every bit as much as it will stymie those eeeeeeevil fossil fuels and atoms.
I figure my only hope, after the new nukes die in court, the drilling fields are ruled out of bounds and the coal burning plants capped, is to ask President Obama to come to my house and fart into my backyard windmill so I'll have enough wattage to log onto Slashdot.
"they didn't have $10 trillion in debt"
This is true. And it's also true that there is a three word phrase, extensively used by Democrats over the last few years, which will -vanish- from their vocabularies henceforth.
That phrase is "the Federal deficit".
Why do I have this funny feeling that 50 hours of signing up the homeless in heavily Democratic districts will easily qualify as "community service" while 50 hours of working with a libertarian organization to oppose eminent domain laws, or working with a law firm fighting campus speech codes, may just barely fail to pass muster??
There's an easy fix for the Avira nag screens if you're running XP Pro.
Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Local Security Policy.
Select "Software Restriction Policies" then right click "Additional Rules" and select "New Path Rule".
Create a new rule for the file C:\Program Files\Avira\AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic\avnotify.exe and set security level to "Disallowed". Voila, the update nag screen is history.
Is it in any way a Bad Thing that XP is eight years old?
The purpose of an OS should be to provide a consistent platform for data access, communication, and input/output devices. That's about it.
If there were an OS that did just those things and didn't insist on weaving the apps and the OS together via DLL's or dependencies, it might be routine to go ten years between major OS versions, which would be fine with me.