And, no, it's not the document format for representing all supported document types within the Office suite.
If it was, then it would have already been implemented *and supported* in Microsoft Office.
Microsoft just wanted to get OOXML an ISO stamp of approval, so it could say that it's products conformed to international standards when quotes for potential purchases required such a thing. Of course, in hind sight, it was all a lie, Microsoft never did support the ISO approved OOXML standard, and never intended to. And that's a realted but slightly different story.
-- what geeks of old were into, as far as building radio equipment, upgrading it, etc. before computers came to the fore.
It's popularity, IMHO, can be explained by it being sort of unique in today's computer age. Additionally, long time radio talk show host, Art Bell, is and has been a long time avid fan and operator. Many of the people that listened to his show "Coast to Coast AM" (he is mostly retired now) were and are HAMs as well. His show lives on with others hosting, George Noory (most of the time) plus Ian Punnett and George Knapp. Art occasionally still hosts a Sunday show, when there is a fifth Sunday in a month. And, from recent listenting, Art is still active as a HAM.
The show, I believe, is the most popular late night radio show of all time, currently with over 500 U.S. affiliates.
For the most part, in my experience of teaching 12 year olds and older English as a Second Language students their computer basics (like learning the binary number system and similar things) any one can learn, where the person teaching them cares enough to ensure they get the material and can use it.
For the most part, this doesn't happen in most of the schooling I received, with the few exceptions of a math and biology teacher. Those two teachers worked very hard to ensure all their students could at least think with the information being imparted, even working with the ones that were lagging to help them get caught up and with the rest of the class. More teachers should be like them.
Well, in different areas of the U.S. I have driven (San Francisco, CA; Denver, CO;, Chicago, IL; Los Angeles, CA, Phoenix, AZ; Tampa, FL and others) I would say that driver-less cars would as safe (if not safer) than cars with drivers in some of those areas.
Of course, it kind of depends on the driving conditions (rush hour, driven rain storms, blizzards, thick fog, etc.).
Besides, most real food items are exempt from state sales taxes *in most states*.
Foods that are prepared in stores that you take out, etc. are usually not exempt. But, rice, onions, pack pack of chicken thighs, etc. are usually not taxed.
Your points are good, but they also do not take the above into account.:)
So yes, let's have some lawyers get together and make it more specific.
The problem with the current way the U.S. government *cough* works *cough* is that there are few, if any, consequences for the damage done by members of the House and Senate plus any government official (whether elected, appointed or hired).
There should be penalties, embodied in the Constitution (by amendment) that are commensurate with the damage done by their actions while in office. The current majority (and this was also true with the last administration) want all the power and perks but could give a rat's a$$ when it comes to violating the constitution, pushing the federal government further and further into debt, etc. This needs to be nipped in the bud, pronto-like.
No, the passing of the health care monstrosity (TM) does not give anyone a "right" to health care. Such a right never existed before, doesn't now, and unless embodied in the U.S. Constitution as an amendment, it will never exist as a "right".
Now, to the matter at hand, a "National ID card", it is just another of the things that the U.S. government clearly has no mandate for in the U.S. Constitution. It is, was and always will be a state's rights issue.
How about the House of Representatives (and the Senate, for that matter) propose a constitutional amendment like the following:
Any member of the U.S. House or Senate, any standing President and any federal appointee, or civilian worker) that violates their oath of office (House and Senate "... support and defend the Constitution...", President "... protect and defend the Constitution...", etc.) be charged with treason and prosecuted the the U.S. Federal court system. Upon conviction, for House and Senate members, they are removed from office, jailed for a period of at least five years but not more than ten, fined 10 times the amount of tax payer money they have been paid since their offense, and prohibited from ever serving in the U.S. government in any capacity whatsoever (cannot be elected to any Federal office, cannot be appointed to any position, cannot be hired to work in any capacity in the Federal government).
And, any U.S. House or Senate member, Presidential staff member, or other federal appointee or civilian that *failed* to report the violation of the oath of office, shall be subject to the same exact penalties.
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|| You seem to think no money is accounted for and everything is twice what it should be. ||
Nope, no studies.
The U.S. federal government, by my own estimate is more than twice the size it needs to be to fulfill its constitutional mandated actions/activities. Period. Nothing more, nothing less. On top of that, taxes should come down drastically, as a result of this drastic down-sizing of the U.S. federal government.
Health care reform and any other numerous problems touted by the U.S. federal government are, in large part, problems that the U.S. federal government either A) created or B) greatly exacerbated. On top of this, the U.S. federal government is trying to cram their solutions down the U.S. citizenry's collective throats. And that, my friend, is tyranny, plain and simple.
It's not just a problem with the current House, Senate and Administration, the last set had their part, but the current set is hell bent on making sure it gets a whole lot worse.
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-- Just cut the U.S. federal budget, as a start, 50 percent across the boards, every agency, bureau, department, program, etc. The whole shootin' match.
Then, after the dust settles, start surgically removing any left overs that have no useful benefit to society whatsoever, namely: any and all subsidies in whatever form.
After that, completely dismantle the current tax system, make a flat income tax where everyone pays, the poorest of the poor, the richest of the rich. If you are below the poverty level, you can have your taxes cut by no more than half, same on the richer end of the scale when it comes to charitable contributions, you pay, but no less than half your total tax owing.
The above would be a good start to really reforming health care and the entirety of our increasingly tyrannical U.S. federal government.
Even if classified or FOUO, it does not automatically exempt it from FOIA.
If the document is responsive to the request, even if classified or FOUO, it can be redacted and then released. However, where a hearing might be necessary (and is at times) the document may be protected
Had he been a real Jedi, he would have just waved his hand and said "You don't have to remove your hood", to which security would have said "You don't have to remove your hood" and waved him on through.
You said: Do we really want to be just like China, North Korea and Russia?
Answer: No, of course not.
You said: Aren't they countries where freedom is suppressed if it even exists?
Answer: Yes, for the most part. But, you could put the U.S. into that list also, based on the continual chipping away of our rights for the past 80 or so years. And, even worse, more and more chipping away of our individual liberty and freedom here in the U.S. are being proposed continually.
You said: I guess that shows you where our government officials want this nation to go, down the communist tubes...
Response: Where have you been the last 80 years or so?
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And, no, it's not the document format for representing all supported document types within the Office suite.
If it was, then it would have already been implemented *and supported* in Microsoft Office.
Microsoft just wanted to get OOXML an ISO stamp of approval, so it could say that it's products conformed to international standards when quotes for potential purchases required such a thing. Of course, in hind sight, it was all a lie, Microsoft never did support the ISO approved OOXML standard, and never intended to. And that's a realted but slightly different story.
Bill? Is that you?
When customers become "the enemy", the company needs to find something better to do with it's resources, IMHO.
-- check the history of the Better Business Bureau, it's rating system, how it is financed, etc.
Yelp is just more of the same of the worst part of the BBB, but on the web.
Nothing new here, move along, move along.
-- what geeks of old were into, as far as building radio equipment, upgrading it, etc. before computers came to the fore.
It's popularity, IMHO, can be explained by it being sort of unique in today's computer age. Additionally, long time radio talk show host, Art Bell, is and has been a long time avid fan and operator. Many of the people that listened to his show "Coast to Coast AM" (he is mostly retired now) were and are HAMs as well. His show lives on with others hosting, George Noory (most of the time) plus Ian Punnett and George Knapp. Art occasionally still hosts a Sunday show, when there is a fifth Sunday in a month. And, from recent listenting, Art is still active as a HAM.
The show, I believe, is the most popular late night radio show of all time, currently with over 500 U.S. affiliates.
... who will monitor the cyberguards?
Well, the Civil War was also fought on our soil. /shrug
I agree.
For the most part, in my experience of teaching 12 year olds and older English as a Second Language students their computer basics (like learning the binary number system and similar things) any one can learn, where the person teaching them cares enough to ensure they get the material and can use it.
For the most part, this doesn't happen in most of the schooling I received, with the few exceptions of a math and biology teacher. Those two teachers worked very hard to ensure all their students could at least think with the information being imparted, even working with the ones that were lagging to help them get caught up and with the rest of the class. More teachers should be like them.
Well, in different areas of the U.S. I have driven (San Francisco, CA; Denver, CO;, Chicago, IL; Los Angeles, CA, Phoenix, AZ; Tampa, FL and others) I would say that driver-less cars would as safe (if not safer) than cars with drivers in some of those areas.
Of course, it kind of depends on the driving conditions (rush hour, driven rain storms, blizzards, thick fog, etc.).
|| I don't know if this guy really believes he's sensitive or if he's just a complete asshat. ||
Those two circumstances are not mutually exclusive.
Rule 4: Doubletap
Besides, most real food items are exempt from state sales taxes *in most states*.
Foods that are prepared in stores that you take out, etc. are usually not exempt. But, rice, onions, pack pack of chicken thighs, etc. are usually not taxed.
Your points are good, but they also do not take the above into account. :)
|| Um, Karl Rove is Russian? ||
Yes, and so is Rahm Emanuel.
Don't let the Chicago thuggery fool you.
Treason (noun): an act of deliberate betrayal.
To be specific.
So yes, let's have some lawyers get together and make it more specific.
The problem with the current way the U.S. government *cough* works *cough* is that there are few, if any, consequences for the damage done by members of the House and Senate plus any government official (whether elected, appointed or hired).
There should be penalties, embodied in the Constitution (by amendment) that are commensurate with the damage done by their actions while in office. The current majority (and this was also true with the last administration) want all the power and perks but could give a rat's a$$ when it comes to violating the constitution, pushing the federal government further and further into debt, etc. This needs to be nipped in the bud, pronto-like.
No, the passing of the health care monstrosity (TM) does not give anyone a "right" to health care. Such a right never existed before, doesn't now, and unless embodied in the U.S. Constitution as an amendment, it will never exist as a "right".
Now, to the matter at hand, a "National ID card", it is just another of the things that the U.S. government clearly has no mandate for in the U.S. Constitution. It is, was and always will be a state's rights issue.
-- as if nothing like this was ever anticipated or expected.
Whoosh!
How about the House of Representatives (and the Senate, for that matter) propose a constitutional amendment like the following:
Any member of the U.S. House or Senate, any standing President and any federal appointee, or civilian worker) that violates their oath of office (House and Senate "... support and defend the Constitution...", President "... protect and defend the Constitution...", etc.) be charged with treason and prosecuted the the U.S. Federal court system. Upon conviction, for House and Senate members, they are removed from office, jailed for a period of at least five years but not more than ten, fined 10 times the amount of tax payer money they have been paid since their offense, and prohibited from ever serving in the U.S. government in any capacity whatsoever (cannot be elected to any Federal office, cannot be appointed to any position, cannot be hired to work in any capacity in the Federal government).
And, any U.S. House or Senate member, Presidential staff member, or other federal appointee or civilian that *failed* to report the violation of the oath of office, shall be subject to the same exact penalties.
|| You seem to think no money is accounted for and everything is twice what it should be. ||
Nope, no studies.
The U.S. federal government, by my own estimate is more than twice the size it needs to be to fulfill its constitutional mandated actions/activities. Period. Nothing more, nothing less. On top of that, taxes should come down drastically, as a result of this drastic down-sizing of the U.S. federal government.
Health care reform and any other numerous problems touted by the U.S. federal government are, in large part, problems that the U.S. federal government either A) created or B) greatly exacerbated. On top of this, the U.S. federal government is trying to cram their solutions down the U.S. citizenry's collective throats. And that, my friend, is tyranny, plain and simple.
It's not just a problem with the current House, Senate and Administration, the last set had their part, but the current set is hell bent on making sure it gets a whole lot worse.
-- Just cut the U.S. federal budget, as a start, 50 percent across the boards, every agency, bureau, department, program, etc. The whole shootin' match.
Then, after the dust settles, start surgically removing any left overs that have no useful benefit to society whatsoever, namely: any and all subsidies in whatever form.
After that, completely dismantle the current tax system, make a flat income tax where everyone pays, the poorest of the poor, the richest of the rich. If you are below the poverty level, you can have your taxes cut by no more than half, same on the richer end of the scale when it comes to charitable contributions, you pay, but no less than half your total tax owing.
The above would be a good start to really reforming health care and the entirety of our increasingly tyrannical U.S. federal government.
Actually, no.
Even if classified or FOUO, it does not automatically exempt it from FOIA.
If the document is responsive to the request, even if classified or FOUO, it can be redacted and then released. However, where a hearing might be necessary (and is at times) the document may be protected
It's restin'.
Had he been a real Jedi, he would have just waved his hand and said "You don't have to remove your hood", to which security would have said "You don't have to remove your hood" and waved him on through.
I am inclined to give you that one without any further information.
But a part of me still remains skeptical, having worked with state Departments of Transportation and their contractors for 27 years or so now.
"...that the plan will cost most Americans money, and won't provide much if any relief to the poor."
When does the U.S. government do something that doesn't match the above?
You said: Do we really want to be just like China, North Korea and Russia?
Answer: No, of course not.
You said: Aren't they countries where freedom is suppressed if it even exists?
Answer: Yes, for the most part. But, you could put the U.S. into that list also, based on the continual chipping away of our rights for the past 80 or so years. And, even worse, more and more chipping away of our individual liberty and freedom here in the U.S. are being proposed continually.
You said: I guess that shows you where our government officials want this nation to go, down the communist tubes...
Response: Where have you been the last 80 years or so?