in the case of things like infrastructure many communities receive their funding from the federal government. hence the fed wanting to know how to set their agenda for the next ten years.
also, the fed aren't the only ones that use the census as you well know. everyone uses census data. it might be that the census is only meant to count heads for the federal government but just as congress has tackedon extra questions so have local governments and businesses requested congress tack on questions that they wish answered. this is not a process I am happy about but it appears to be the process we have.
Where does it say that it's the Government's job to make sure that Marklars have the same number and kinds of toilets?
I'm not quite sure, but I believe its taken as being part of providing for welfare of the people. by welfare I don't mean free lunch but the basics like plumbing at the street. And no I can't see toilets having anything to do with interstate commerce.
For the people that are going to say its no one's business about this or that or how many toilets they have and so forth allow me a moment. First off, the toilet question was a real question from the 2000 US Census.
Now, before people get up in arms there are legitimate reasons for wanting this data. And they in no way harm any citizen. They are designed to help citizens.
For instance, the Marklar race respond that on average they earn 12,000 a year and have no indoor toilet. This lets the government know 1. Marklars may not be getting the racial equality that in the US should be mandatory. 2. Marklars are not properly being serviced by their government. This is rudimentary but you get the idea (i hope).
as for the questions, a curious thing happened in 2000. people complained about the questions, race, toilets, salary etc... Trent Lott, then Senate Majority Leader said that if people didn't want to answer the questions then the Census had no right to compel people to do so.
Here's the funny part. 1. the Census is meant only to count heads. 2. the other questions on the Census are tacked on by Congress 3. Congress in fact gives the Census the mandate to compel people to answer. 4. Trent Lott is an obvious asshat.
Finally for all of you clever people that thought the Census wouldn't count you if you closed the blinds when ever an enumerator came by you're wrong. Enumerators, towards the end of the Census would park at the end of your street and count people entering and leaving. How many cars in the driveway? How many people-size shadows behind the curtains? They would make an educated guess at the number and put that down.
Where is the 2000 Census data now? Arizona. In a big vault for the most part.
How do I know? That's where I Fed-Exed it. I was a Census Clerk for 2000. No, I really didn't care what you wrote down.
By the way, James Weatherby of 3247 Main St. has 5 bathrooms.
I swear the only way we'll ever get analysts to shut their friggin pieholes is by firebombing them. This isn't just a "apple is great the way it is, shut up you boob" rant. This is an analysts are making the world ugly rant. People wonder why companies treat them like just another number and not like a person. the reason? analysts make more money if companies focus on pushing product not companies pushing a good experience for the consumer. Apple gives me a good experience. I'd be just fine if they went private and just did what they wanted to.
I've seen Darko, own it on DVD. He is good. But, like you said he's darker. Spiderman isn't dark. Either way I would have been OK with Gyllenhaal but it makes me nuts when sequels change around actors. The schizophrenia of Batman made me... well, batty.
Sometimes people just want to profit from a great franchise. I knew that there were articles and essays and even a class about this sort of thing but the other day at B&N I saw "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: philosophy" or some such title.
talk about cashing in on someone else's creation. I hope this trend dies soon. Almost as much as I hope the current crop of bubblegum popsters dies fades out.
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dude, yay! thanks. Um mind telling me what the hell they are? Maybe mention how I might be able to hear them?
Really, how many radio shows are there worth recording? NPR yes. Pacifica, yes. Everything else? why bother? AM talk is whenever I listen a bunch of uninformed people talking to other uninformed people. why record that?
NPR you can just go to their site and listen to it again anytime.
Pacifica ditto.
yes I'm sure there are other programs that are of some use to someone but I don't know them all. now's your chance to point them out to me, not flame me.
oh and besides all that, you can hook a vcr up to a stereo and record 8 hours of radio onto VHS. People have done this for ages.
being an introverted sort of fellow I think I can safely say that chicks really don't care one way or the other. There's someone for everyone. another reason why introverted types never get dates might have to do with the fact that by their very definition introverts rarely go into the big blue room. See, thats where the girls are.
Riddle me this Batman. If when Apple makes software that pretty much negates a third-party solution people get pissy why would people then also get pissy when Apple doesn't produce software that no one gets paid for and only.01% of the Apple community would ever use?
this is not a flame thing. these are some points about apples that informed my decision to switch.
1. there are people that are still comfortably using older mac hardware. 2. (I can't recall the exact numbers but...) a IBM compat laptop goes for half what an apple laptop goes for after 2 years.
hear hear. notimeout is to my mind essential for dialup folk. course, Cox should be out sometime today to turn on my cable connection and I'll be able to get on with life again.
...another man's imperialist running dog propoganda.
First off, people in the third world are quite aware that the US is loaded. Its shoved down their throats to the point that the myths of America told 2 and 3 hundred years ago are still believed. The roads may not be paved with gold but everyone is as beautiful as Jennifer Aniston and has a bitchin' apartment.
But, what I'm saying, what I'd prefer, is that if we're going to help them in any way lets not help them to be us. Let's help them enough so that they can figure out who they are.
How sad would it be that all the world is America? How boring? I'm in no way saying that I want them to remain a quaint village we can all visit and take pictures of. It would just be nice if they could remain the people they are at the core but be able to reap those benefits of technology they deemed useful.
America is like crack. We use peer pressure to push ourselves on the unsuspecting masses. "See, America is great, cold icy drinks come out of a tap in the wall! you need to be just like us to enjoy the benefits of the almighty slurpee."
I'm not a self-hater. I love America. I think of myself as a patriot in the unperverted sense of the word. I think America is great for me. I just don't think America is great for the rest of the world. If you want to come here fine but, don't clone our world. Don't make a doppleganger of Britney. Do your own thing. If you need a hand ask, I'll gladly help out.
Don't destroy your world to be like ours. Part of being American is being able to enjoy other worlds. It would suck if all the worlds were the same wouldn't it?
right. how many non-geeks do you know that use the net to actually enlighten themselves? How many folks do you know that when they first signed onto AOL thought, "hey now I can just download all of the federalist papers".
its my opinion that the last thing these folks need is the corruption of the internet. lets say their lives suck ass. basic sanitation would probably help alot more than JenniCam.
actually, the low price on caldera stock has the potential to be a good thing (TM). as some have offered perhaps SCO wants to be bought by IBM. If IBM were to buy them out and you owned SCO stock it would be converted to IBM stock and you would then gain roughly 84 bucks a share.:)
ok, now the smarty-pants/.ers can correct my fallible ideas.
um? Practical C Programing (my latest O'reilly book) seems pretty useful to me. the K&R C book as other's have mentioned still works just fine. Learning the vi editor, ditto emacs, ditto the cathedral and the bazaar. even the HTML book still works just fine.
and, in another direction, you think the works of newton, einstein and others are no longer useful cause they're about science? Old books are quite useful no matter what the topic.
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whoa there cowboy, this liberal thinks the idea is downright horrifying.
in the case of things like infrastructure many communities receive their funding from the federal government. hence the fed wanting to know how to set their agenda for the next ten years.
also, the fed aren't the only ones that use the census as you well know. everyone uses census data. it might be that the census is only meant to count heads for the federal government but just as congress has tackedon extra questions so have local governments and businesses requested congress tack on questions that they wish answered. this is not a process I am happy about but it appears to be the process we have.
I'm not quite sure, but I believe its taken as being part of providing for welfare of the people. by welfare I don't mean free lunch but the basics like plumbing at the street. And no I can't see toilets having anything to do with interstate commerce.
fsckin funny
For the people that are going to say its no one's business about this or that or how many toilets they have and so forth allow me a moment. First off, the toilet question was a real question from the 2000 US Census.
Now, before people get up in arms there are legitimate reasons for wanting this data. And they in no way harm any citizen. They are designed to help citizens.
For instance, the Marklar race respond that on average they earn 12,000 a year and have no indoor toilet. This lets the government know 1. Marklars may not be getting the racial equality that in the US should be mandatory. 2. Marklars are not properly being serviced by their government. This is rudimentary but you get the idea (i hope).
as for the questions, a curious thing happened in 2000. people complained about the questions, race, toilets, salary etc... Trent Lott, then Senate Majority Leader said that if people didn't want to answer the questions then the Census had no right to compel people to do so.
Here's the funny part. 1. the Census is meant only to count heads. 2. the other questions on the Census are tacked on by Congress 3. Congress in fact gives the Census the mandate to compel people to answer. 4. Trent Lott is an obvious asshat.
Finally for all of you clever people that thought the Census wouldn't count you if you closed the blinds when ever an enumerator came by you're wrong. Enumerators, towards the end of the Census would park at the end of your street and count people entering and leaving. How many cars in the driveway? How many people-size shadows behind the curtains? They would make an educated guess at the number and put that down.
Where is the 2000 Census data now? Arizona. In a big vault for the most part.
How do I know? That's where I Fed-Exed it. I was a Census Clerk for 2000. No, I really didn't care what you wrote down.
By the way, James Weatherby of 3247 Main St. has 5 bathrooms.
I swear the only way we'll ever get analysts to shut their friggin pieholes is by firebombing them. This isn't just a "apple is great the way it is, shut up you boob" rant. This is an analysts are making the world ugly rant. People wonder why companies treat them like just another number and not like a person. the reason? analysts make more money if companies focus on pushing product not companies pushing a good experience for the consumer. Apple gives me a good experience. I'd be just fine if they went private and just did what they wanted to.
I've seen Darko, own it on DVD. He is good. But, like you said he's darker. Spiderman isn't dark. Either way I would have been OK with Gyllenhaal but it makes me nuts when sequels change around actors. The schizophrenia of Batman made me... well, batty.
Sometimes people just want to profit from a great franchise. I knew that there were articles and essays and even a class about this sort of thing but the other day at B&N I saw "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: philosophy" or some such title.
talk about cashing in on someone else's creation. I hope this trend dies soon. Almost as much as I hope the current crop of bubblegum popsters dies fades out.
dude, yay! thanks. Um mind telling me what the hell they are? Maybe mention how I might be able to hear them?
Really, how many radio shows are there worth recording? NPR yes. Pacifica, yes. Everything else? why bother? AM talk is whenever I listen a bunch of uninformed people talking to other uninformed people. why record that?
NPR you can just go to their site and listen to it again anytime.
Pacifica ditto.
yes I'm sure there are other programs that are of some use to someone but I don't know them all. now's your chance to point them out to me, not flame me.
oh and besides all that, you can hook a vcr up to a stereo and record 8 hours of radio onto VHS. People have done this for ages.
being an introverted sort of fellow I think I can safely say that chicks really don't care one way or the other. There's someone for everyone. another reason why introverted types never get dates might have to do with the fact that by their very definition introverts rarely go into the big blue room. See, thats where the girls are.
Riddle me this Batman. If when Apple makes software that pretty much negates a third-party solution people get pissy why would people then also get pissy when Apple doesn't produce software that no one gets paid for and only .01% of the Apple community would ever use?
this is not a flame thing. these are some points about apples that informed my decision to switch.
1. there are people that are still comfortably using older mac hardware.
2. (I can't recall the exact numbers but...) a IBM compat laptop goes for half what an apple laptop goes for after 2 years.
hear hear. notimeout is to my mind essential for dialup folk. course, Cox should be out sometime today to turn on my cable connection and I'll be able to get on with life again.
...another man's imperialist running dog propoganda.
First off, people in the third world are quite aware that the US is loaded. Its shoved down their throats to the point that the myths of America told 2 and 3 hundred years ago are still believed. The roads may not be paved with gold but everyone is as beautiful as Jennifer Aniston and has a bitchin' apartment.
But, what I'm saying, what I'd prefer, is that if we're going to help them in any way lets not help them to be us. Let's help them enough so that they can figure out who they are.
How sad would it be that all the world is America? How boring? I'm in no way saying that I want them to remain a quaint village we can all visit and take pictures of. It would just be nice if they could remain the people they are at the core but be able to reap those benefits of technology they deemed useful.
America is like crack. We use peer pressure to push ourselves on the unsuspecting masses. "See, America is great, cold icy drinks come out of a tap in the wall! you need to be just like us to enjoy the benefits of the almighty slurpee."
I'm not a self-hater. I love America. I think of myself as a patriot in the unperverted sense of the word. I think America is great for me. I just don't think America is great for the rest of the world. If you want to come here fine but, don't clone our world. Don't make a doppleganger of Britney. Do your own thing. If you need a hand ask, I'll gladly help out.
Don't destroy your world to be like ours. Part of being American is being able to enjoy other worlds. It would suck if all the worlds were the same wouldn't it?
didn't mean to get off on a rant there.
wow... you read a manpage... just wow.
right. how many non-geeks do you know that use the net to actually enlighten themselves? How many folks do you know that when they first signed onto AOL thought, "hey now I can just download all of the federalist papers".
its my opinion that the last thing these folks need is the corruption of the internet. lets say their lives suck ass. basic sanitation would probably help alot more than JenniCam.
that is the most freakishly huge taskbar I have ever seen!
dear sweet lord.
I'll have you know I never wear black turtlenecks. Black t-shirts sure but not a turtleneck.
agreed. other than the reply mentioning older Macs what purpose will linux on a Mac serve now that you can run most OSS apps in OS X?
actually, the low price on caldera stock has the potential to be a good thing (TM). as some have offered perhaps SCO wants to be bought by IBM. If IBM were to buy them out and you owned SCO stock it would be converted to IBM stock and you would then gain roughly 84 bucks a share. :)
/.ers can correct my fallible ideas.
ok, now the smarty-pants
um? Practical C Programing (my latest O'reilly book) seems pretty useful to me. the K&R C book as other's have mentioned still works just fine. Learning the vi editor, ditto emacs, ditto the cathedral and the bazaar. even the HTML book still works just fine.
and, in another direction, you think the works of newton, einstein and others are no longer useful cause they're about science? Old books are quite useful no matter what the topic.
If you can play the following games and tell me that they were not at least engaging and fresh then I'll agree with you.
Thief
Deus Ex
System Shock 2
Maybe you can afford 3 thousand a year but I can't.
not to be an ass but, what does the PC do that you can't do with an apple? I'm genuinely curious.
:)
I recently switched and have found the apple environment (hardware and OS) so enjoyable that my PC is quickly becoming a paperweight.
Note: I was once hardcore anti-mac. I like to think of myself as reformed now.