We simply ought to do it ourselves. Get rid of all the problems in the middle east at one shot and have control of all the oil fields there. The risk sure looks like a good deal even if it means giving up most of our rights to do this, we'd be safer and I'd be able to quit worrying about my tank getting a meager 3MPG.
64bit Atoms? Where did you find that? According to Intel all Atom CPU's are 32bit only. Why do you think Win7 Starter is 32bit instead of 64bit? Because the damn Atom is a 32bit CPU on a 16bit bus with an 8bit legacy running a 2bit OS most times.
The only aspect of sex that falls under logic is the results of a genetic test. It has no basis to decide if sex is acceptable at a young age as research has shown that infants respond to sexual stimulation and begin seeking it themselves. Does this mean that screwing a six month old infant is acceptable? Under strict rules of logic it might. Under rules of Ethics and Morality the answer would be a resounding Hell No.
Heinlen covered the entire concept of Sex and Incest based on Genetics as the Only Determining Factor in his book "Time Enough For Love". Very interesting and the kind of reasoning that actually uses logic properly. All other aspects that he covers are questions of Morality and Ethics.
A very clear example of Logic Gone wrong is this saying "The Needs of the Many - Outweigh the Needs of the Few". This is the clearest example possible of the "Tyrany of the Majority" and from an ethical and moral standpoint, it stinks. It's logical to the absolute extreme but Logic in and of itself is absolutely bare of any ethical and moral understanding as Commander Spock found out when he Mind Melded with V'Ger in Star Trek - The Motion Picture.
One of the most common mistakes people make is thinking that logic is anything other then absolutely merciless. Answer this question from a logical standpoint: "Will you kill?" and Explain your reasoning. Unde the Rules of Logic, I can Kill, Coldly, Calmly and as efficiently as possible. Am I morally justified? Logic Does Not Care and Morals have no place in Logic. - OTOH: Logic has a place in both Ethics and Morality as both of them attempt to answer questions that Logic Alone does not answer effectively. In this case, Logic can examime the basis of the Ethical/Moral Question and help determine where they are wrong or conflicting. An example that many should be familiar with are Asimov's "3 Laws of Robotics"
A Robot may not harm a human nor through inaction allow a human being to come to harm
A Robot Must Obey any orders given to it by a Human Being except where such orders conflict with the first law
A Robot Must protect its own existence so long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law
Each and every challenge of the 3 laws is an ethical challenge and it forms the basis of Robot Ethics. As happens, in a later book, we end up with a changed Definition of "Human" that allows robots to harm and even kill others of the Human Genome, yet do not meet the Definition of Human. Logic Does not have a Basis in Ethics or Morality, which are partly based upon Emotion since Logic is Emotionless.
Art Has No Meaning In Governance? Logically that is incorrect. It serves a very useful purpose through Ceromony. Its purpose is to delay and slowdown the speed of Government and allow Humans the oppurtunity to think instead of simply react. The Cuban Missle Crisis is a good example where the "ART of Diplomacy" played a very important role, otherwise, Logically the proper response would have been a "First Strike" against Russia followed by a declaration of war. That's The logical element, yet an Art, that of Diplomacy, saved countless lives that day. So keep it in mind "A Closed Mouth Gathers No Foot".
- it even makes possible to recall a book, possibly to change it, which conjures uneasy visions of the Ministry of Truth.
Although I do appreciate E-Books due to my vision getting poorer (I can enlarge the fonts to be readable), I like the static nature of a printed book.
Once printed, changes can not be hidden. Be it as simple as a note in the margin, underlining of words and passages or even the removal of a page. Yes it's difficult to improve the story by rewriting (e-books offer that advantage) yet to me that's the biggest advantage dead tree publishing offers. It's static and can not be changed and you can return again and again to gather further insight into your own beliefsand thinking.
Another is that once bought, you own the book and can do what you want with it. Be it as simple as loaning it to a friend, donating it to the Library for others to enjoy, wiping you ass or using it to start a life saving fire during an emergency. It's yours to do what ever you want with it unlike an E-Book that includes DRM and is thus always dependant upon the Key server remaining up because once that server goes down, you've lost an emphremal possession. "I'm Sorry Dave - I can't do that" always keep that phrase in mind as it was so predictive of the current debate on DRM.
And it's irrelevant to the UK monarchy, as in practice she has no political power.
You're an idiot if you think the Monarchy doesn't have any political power. It has plenty though it sees no reason to be flagarant in excersising that power unlike some Lords and the poor blokes in the Commons who have to stand for office.
An author who has a damn good understanding of Political power in a Monarchy that I sugest you read is David Webber and his Honor Harrington Series. Very astute description of the constraints placed on a constitutional monarchy in books such as "Flag in Exile" and "War of Honor". So don't ever discount the power of the throne even though it looks weak. It's more along the lines of a sleeping giant or dragon (depending on your mythical beliefs) and yes the crown has many ways of indicating it's displeasure to the nobles of the realm.
Nah - Landmines are to cheap. You aint thinking like an American Politician. It's got to cost at least 1 million per emplacement, ensure it can detect not only ilegals crossing the border but the drug runners, sniff out radioactive materials and shoot down exocet cruise missles and the damn idiot tourist who flys to close to the No Fly zone.
Don't forget it's got to be a long term defense contract that'll cost 10-20 billion dollars for a 10 year contract and give plenty of jobs to our favorite congress critters districts so they'll vote for him in the next election. That's the Real American Way.
It's called a Waccom Cintiq. Only thing is, they're damn expensive even for the 12 inch model. Work quite nicely and I want one for my Graphics work and yes you can use it as a 2nd display.
That's pretty much how I've gotten to be. Semi-organized for things and let the damn search index keep track of the specifics. The only real organization I do now is website centric as I have several that I visit frequently that are structured around the creator/author/artist, which is how I've setup their folders. Much easier for me but for all the general downloading that I do, it simply goes into the damn Downloads folder by default and I sort later based on what it is.
Actually the reason is even simpler. It's the damn Patents on Li-Ion battery tech that keeps us from building anything better then the Laptop/MoPhone designs. Licensing costs are completely outragouos for them because the laptop/MoPhone designs are standardized.
On the other hand, the NiMh battery patents are reasonbly priced, thus we're able to push the design of the battery packs as much as possible because the company holding the patents are reasonable instead of trolls.
Screw that: get one of the new PogoPlugs with 4USB ports. Low power and safely share all the drives over the network to everything you've got. Use EXT3 and you're good to go.
I've used Zonealarm in the past (was one of the beta testers long ago) but now that Win7 includes a true bi-directional firewall, I don't use it. What I've done is the same as I would on a *nix box. Simply deny all both directions then open the minimal exceptions I actually need. Yep even firefox gets no direct connection (goes through my proxy server) and it's the same for those few apps that actually need net access. Otherwise Nothing and I mean absolutely nothing is granted permission by default, including SVCHOST. I locked that down so hard WinUpdate quit working until I figured out exactly what to allow. Then created the rules for it and only it.
As someone posted earlier, the problem is this, we are all at the mercy of the devs who may not pay any attention to whether their app trully needs net access, yet most of those installed work fine after access is cut.
but Unlike Intel, what is ARM's debts? Almost no-existent AFAIK because they simply don't produce much more then the actual Design of the CPU and own the patents. What's the difference between ARM and x86? Simply put, it's who can produce the damn things. Unlike the current x86 issue (Intel/AMD) there are so many ARM producers that even if one of the fails and goes bankrupt, the market is hardly impacted due to the numbers and ease of gaining a license but if either Intel or AMD goes bankrupt, you have the real possibility of patent trolls being able to buy critical patents and literally shuting all x86 production down, which is the issue the FTC is looking at.
Personally, I'd prefer to see them force Intel to release everyting from the i586 and earlier on licence terms similar to how ARM does. If they did, it would expand the market around the P3 and earlier processors enough to ensure a reasonable level of diversity and competition.
The reason U.S. Telcos are able to screw, blue and tattoo their customers is very simple. There is no interop between carriers. Put simply, You have AT&T's network, Verizon's Network and Sprint/Nextel's network and only ONE national competitor, called T-Mobile. Any other competitor is going to be local/regional at the most, which means you can't use your phone anywhere but in your home region unless you purchase service through one of the national carriers and they simply refuse to sell or even unlock phones once your contract is completed plus they each use a different system (3G here in the states is a joke because it doesn't interop between Verizon and AT&T/T-Mobile). The services are that different even though both are valid 3G networks.
Since the National carriers have us basically over a barrel due to size of United States (how many countries in the EU?) that's the size of each of the Big 3 National Networks. Do you think they have any incentive to interop beyond 911 or the minimum the law requires? Hell No, and there's no competition between them since their markets are captive. Why change a good thing? We can Rape you all we want and you don't have any option except bend over and take it up the ass when we decide to do so. That's how the Carriers work in the United States because they Own Congress and the Laws that are written./rant
Turn in your business card pup. Google is not and never has been a Marketing Company, Content Producer or anything more then a Service Provider. The service that Google provides is access to our Eyeballs and Minds. We aren't even a product becauuse of that. Just the access to them is all they sell - yet - until they figure out how to provide direct access to our minds, at which point "We Are Borg - Resistance Is Futile - You Will Be Assimilated" becomes reality. Until then everything that Google does has one and only one purpose. To enhance the visiability of what ever is being purshed by those purchasing that access.
You're only partly right. Yes it does provide possible grounds for divorce but that's not the big issue. That revolves around Child Custody and Alimony. An argument that could be used due to her being gay is "Unfit as a mother". because of the risk of STD's such as Aids. If there is any money involved, it could have lots of bearing on how much alimony she's awarded. Note that Alimony is not Child Support, which is determined seperately and usually via published Guidelines.
Nope. The 5th ammendment has nothing to do with this matter as it's strictly a civil case. Now if there was the potential of "The State of" prosecuting her for a crime, then it's possible to supress this as evidence under the 5th but not really likely as its discovery was not by the Court or persons of the Court, nor is it held under Attorney/Client Privelage.
The first point that needs to be thought about is the U.S Privacy laws regarding Health/Medical Records. There is absolutely no reason for any pages from those two topics to be in the search results, particularly as Google is a United States Corporation. Means they can be sued/fined heavily under HIPPIA for violations.
Another is the censorship issue in general. I'll agree that I don't like the Idea of them Caving in to China's demands but only the People of China have any say in their governments decision unless you are willing to declare war and attempt to enforce those requirements upon them by force of arms.
In regards to the Chester Guide, I'm open to debate on whether the page should have been removed from the index or simply gotten the disclaimer? It's important to note that Censorship of any kind is the beginning of a very slippery slope and who's to say that Google hasn't already started the long slide into irrevelency by caving in to both China and Germany's demands and that's the bigger issue. Google has stated that they want to make all known information available but if they're censoring pages at the request of governments, who's to say they aren't censoring pages that governments have not requested? On the China and German Censorhip issues, keep in mind that the censorship only applies within the country that asked for it. Outside still gets access to it. This means the information is only censored on a regional level instead of worldwide as happened with the "Chester Guide".
Remember that huricane? Nocked lots of companies offline for more then 4 hours and people couldn't change an SPF record if they wanted to due to the evacuations. Another was Loma Prieta in 1991 during the World Series Game. San Francisco, CA 6.9 Earthquake with lots of damage. Another was the St. Helens Eruption in Washington. I could go on but I think you've got the message, which is Natural Disasters. These could affect large areas and result in SPF being absolutely useless because people simply can't transfer their Email service even temporarilly and I'm not talking the Mom and Pop shops, I'm talking places like RacSpace and other Hosts like them. Get a major disaster in a location where some major hosting providers are and you're talking an email meltdown because of SPF only but if combined with DKIM, you might have a chance.
Pushing the Envelope? Being Smart? I think you're asking waaaay to much of a cable company. All they want is to be "Good Enough for Government Work." Nothing more then the absolute bare minimum that keeps their locked in customers from dumping them entirely or bitching to much to city hall.
Big Question: Why aren't you using the Outlook Journal to at least track projects? It can link all of the information (messages, tasks and files) into a single location. Very handy and you've already got it.
Another option that will work nicely is Onenote by MS. It's now part of Office and expands on the Outlook Journal capabilities. It uses tabs to keep things organized, you can add pages as needed, link in other documents such as research information, web links and maybe track emails like the Outlook Journal. It also has a shared notebook feature that's for networks and the best thing is, you might be able to convince the boss to get a copy since it's fairly cheap from your normal office super store. I've only been using it for 6 weeks now and it's already become the must have tool for me. Can't say how well it'll work for you but worth giving it a try
I'm sorry but if you were to walk up to me on the street and say "I'm going to kill you" I'd feel threatened enough to be justified in reacting with lethal force right then. Would I be justified in doing so? That question is for a Jury to decide, not the prosecution or the officers who respond to the incident and my defense would most likely be accepted by the jury because I don't know you. Of course, this would prevent you from ever walking up to anothe total stranger and making the same statement then walking off. Yes it's ilegal and if everyone carried a gun along with knew how to use it, I think our society would be far more polite and circumspect about what and how we say things in public.
Please Please Bring back Public Dueling and make it completely legal with codes and strong enforcement of those codes. I suspect this alone would go a long way towards helping America regain some god damn uncommon sense and keep people from sticking their noses in where they're not wanted without damn good reason. Bloody Busy Bodies and Control Freaks. Drop dead all of you.
Buzzz!!! Turn in your Call To Power 2 card right now. The United States is no more a Democratic Replublic then we are a Socialistic Democracy. We are and have always been a Corporate Republic. It's why the Dollar is King and the Corporations craft laws to Support them while purusing the Global Agenda of everyone being under Corporate America's rule of law. Why do you thing RIAA/CRIAA/**AA in every country is pushing hard for both extending Copy Right law and the entire secret ACTA Treaty? It's a fucking treaty people and thus should not be secret except for the fact that Corporate America realizes that everyone else would start shooting shoud they really know what's in that fucking treaty. DMCA/Crimilization of Copy Right Violations/Death penalties and such? God Only knows (no I've not read the WikiLeaks file) because the damn thing is secret and has not been finalized.
The Word "Republic" Originated with Socrates and the Republic States of Ancient Greece. Read the Treatise by Socrates' on Republics. Interesting and one of the basis the Crafters of the United States Constitution used. Another is the Ramayana, which is one of the Great Religious Documents of the World and is the basis of the "Purusit of Happiness" clause in the Constitution. There are many other Supposedly Great works involved in the crafting of the American Constitution and one book that is a "MUST READ" for all American's and anyone interested in American History are the "Federalist Papers", which are a collection of Papers written before the Revoltion. I'll have to review my copy to remind me who that author/s were but it's a damn good read and should be readlily available from any bookstore since it's that important a collection of writings. History Section where you'll find it. Government and Politics might be another section.
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We simply ought to do it ourselves. Get rid of all the problems in the middle east at one shot and have control of all the oil fields there. The risk sure looks like a good deal even if it means giving up most of our rights to do this, we'd be safer and I'd be able to quit worrying about my tank getting a meager 3MPG.
64bit Atoms? Where did you find that? According to Intel all Atom CPU's are 32bit only. Why do you think Win7 Starter is 32bit instead of 64bit? Because the damn Atom is a 32bit CPU on a 16bit bus with an 8bit legacy running a 2bit OS most times.
The only aspect of sex that falls under logic is the results of a genetic test. It has no basis to decide if sex is acceptable at a young age as research has shown that infants respond to sexual stimulation and begin seeking it themselves. Does this mean that screwing a six month old infant is acceptable? Under strict rules of logic it might. Under rules of Ethics and Morality the answer would be a resounding Hell No.
Heinlen covered the entire concept of Sex and Incest based on Genetics as the Only Determining Factor in his book "Time Enough For Love". Very interesting and the kind of reasoning that actually uses logic properly. All other aspects that he covers are questions of Morality and Ethics.
A very clear example of Logic Gone wrong is this saying "The Needs of the Many - Outweigh the Needs of the Few". This is the clearest example possible of the "Tyrany of the Majority" and from an ethical and moral standpoint, it stinks. It's logical to the absolute extreme but Logic in and of itself is absolutely bare of any ethical and moral understanding as Commander Spock found out when he Mind Melded with V'Ger in Star Trek - The Motion Picture.
One of the most common mistakes people make is thinking that logic is anything other then absolutely merciless. Answer this question from a logical standpoint: "Will you kill?" and Explain your reasoning. Unde the Rules of Logic, I can Kill, Coldly, Calmly and as efficiently as possible. Am I morally justified? Logic Does Not Care and Morals have no place in Logic. - OTOH: Logic has a place in both Ethics and Morality as both of them attempt to answer questions that Logic Alone does not answer effectively. In this case, Logic can examime the basis of the Ethical/Moral Question and help determine where they are wrong or conflicting. An example that many should be familiar with are Asimov's "3 Laws of Robotics"
Each and every challenge of the 3 laws is an ethical challenge and it forms the basis of Robot Ethics. As happens, in a later book, we end up with a changed Definition of "Human" that allows robots to harm and even kill others of the Human Genome, yet do not meet the Definition of Human. Logic Does not have a Basis in Ethics or Morality, which are partly based upon Emotion since Logic is Emotionless.
Art Has No Meaning In Governance? Logically that is incorrect. It serves a very useful purpose through Ceromony. Its purpose is to delay and slowdown the speed of Government and allow Humans the oppurtunity to think instead of simply react. The Cuban Missle Crisis is a good example where the "ART of Diplomacy" played a very important role, otherwise, Logically the proper response would have been a "First Strike" against Russia followed by a declaration of war. That's The logical element, yet an Art, that of Diplomacy, saved countless lives that day. So keep it in mind "A Closed Mouth Gathers No Foot".
- it even makes possible to recall a book, possibly to change it, which conjures uneasy visions of the Ministry of Truth.
Although I do appreciate E-Books due to my vision getting poorer (I can enlarge the fonts to be readable), I like the static nature of a printed book.
Once printed, changes can not be hidden. Be it as simple as a note in the margin, underlining of words and passages or even the removal of a page. Yes it's difficult to improve the story by rewriting (e-books offer that advantage) yet to me that's the biggest advantage dead tree publishing offers. It's static and can not be changed and you can return again and again to gather further insight into your own beliefsand thinking.
Another is that once bought, you own the book and can do what you want with it. Be it as simple as loaning it to a friend, donating it to the Library for others to enjoy, wiping you ass or using it to start a life saving fire during an emergency. It's yours to do what ever you want with it unlike an E-Book that includes DRM and is thus always dependant upon the Key server remaining up because once that server goes down, you've lost an emphremal possession. "I'm Sorry Dave - I can't do that" always keep that phrase in mind as it was so predictive of the current debate on DRM.
And it's irrelevant to the UK monarchy, as in practice she has no political power.
You're an idiot if you think the Monarchy doesn't have any political power. It has plenty though it sees no reason to be flagarant in excersising that power unlike some Lords and the poor blokes in the Commons who have to stand for office.
An author who has a damn good understanding of Political power in a Monarchy that I sugest you read is David Webber and his Honor Harrington Series. Very astute description of the constraints placed on a constitutional monarchy in books such as "Flag in Exile" and "War of Honor". So don't ever discount the power of the throne even though it looks weak. It's more along the lines of a sleeping giant or dragon (depending on your mythical beliefs) and yes the crown has many ways of indicating it's displeasure to the nobles of the realm.
Nah - Landmines are to cheap. You aint thinking like an American Politician. It's got to cost at least 1 million per emplacement, ensure it can detect not only ilegals crossing the border but the drug runners, sniff out radioactive materials and shoot down exocet cruise missles and the damn idiot tourist who flys to close to the No Fly zone.
Don't forget it's got to be a long term defense contract that'll cost 10-20 billion dollars for a 10 year contract and give plenty of jobs to our favorite congress critters districts so they'll vote for him in the next election. That's the Real American Way.
It's called a Waccom Cintiq. Only thing is, they're damn expensive even for the 12 inch model. Work quite nicely and I want one for my Graphics work and yes you can use it as a 2nd display.
That's pretty much how I've gotten to be. Semi-organized for things and let the damn search index keep track of the specifics. The only real organization I do now is website centric as I have several that I visit frequently that are structured around the creator/author/artist, which is how I've setup their folders. Much easier for me but for all the general downloading that I do, it simply goes into the damn Downloads folder by default and I sort later based on what it is.
He's right. There is no 2nd world because that's trademarked by 2nd Life
Actually the reason is even simpler. It's the damn Patents on Li-Ion battery tech that keeps us from building anything better then the Laptop/MoPhone designs. Licensing costs are completely outragouos for them because the laptop/MoPhone designs are standardized.
On the other hand, the NiMh battery patents are reasonbly priced, thus we're able to push the design of the battery packs as much as possible because the company holding the patents are reasonable instead of trolls.
Screw that: get one of the new PogoPlugs with 4USB ports. Low power and safely share all the drives over the network to everything you've got. Use EXT3 and you're good to go.
I've used Zonealarm in the past (was one of the beta testers long ago) but now that Win7 includes a true bi-directional firewall, I don't use it. What I've done is the same as I would on a *nix box. Simply deny all both directions then open the minimal exceptions I actually need. Yep even firefox gets no direct connection (goes through my proxy server) and it's the same for those few apps that actually need net access. Otherwise Nothing and I mean absolutely nothing is granted permission by default, including SVCHOST. I locked that down so hard WinUpdate quit working until I figured out exactly what to allow. Then created the rules for it and only it.
As someone posted earlier, the problem is this, we are all at the mercy of the devs who may not pay any attention to whether their app trully needs net access, yet most of those installed work fine after access is cut.
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but Unlike Intel, what is ARM's debts? Almost no-existent AFAIK because they simply don't produce much more then the actual Design of the CPU and own the patents. What's the difference between ARM and x86? Simply put, it's who can produce the damn things. Unlike the current x86 issue (Intel/AMD) there are so many ARM producers that even if one of the fails and goes bankrupt, the market is hardly impacted due to the numbers and ease of gaining a license but if either Intel or AMD goes bankrupt, you have the real possibility of patent trolls being able to buy critical patents and literally shuting all x86 production down, which is the issue the FTC is looking at.
Personally, I'd prefer to see them force Intel to release everyting from the i586 and earlier on licence terms similar to how ARM does. If they did, it would expand the market around the P3 and earlier processors enough to ensure a reasonable level of diversity and competition.
The reason U.S. Telcos are able to screw, blue and tattoo their customers is very simple. There is no interop between carriers. Put simply, You have AT&T's network, Verizon's Network and Sprint/Nextel's network and only ONE national competitor, called T-Mobile. Any other competitor is going to be local/regional at the most, which means you can't use your phone anywhere but in your home region unless you purchase service through one of the national carriers and they simply refuse to sell or even unlock phones once your contract is completed plus they each use a different system (3G here in the states is a joke because it doesn't interop between Verizon and AT&T/T-Mobile). The services are that different even though both are valid 3G networks.
Since the National carriers have us basically over a barrel due to size of United States (how many countries in the EU?) that's the size of each of the Big 3 National Networks. Do you think they have any incentive to interop beyond 911 or the minimum the law requires? Hell No, and there's no competition between them since their markets are captive. Why change a good thing? We can Rape you all we want and you don't have any option except bend over and take it up the ass when we decide to do so. That's how the Carriers work in the United States because they Own Congress and the Laws that are written. /rant
Turn in your business card pup. Google is not and never has been a Marketing Company, Content Producer or anything more then a Service Provider. The service that Google provides is access to our Eyeballs and Minds. We aren't even a product becauuse of that. Just the access to them is all they sell - yet - until they figure out how to provide direct access to our minds, at which point "We Are Borg - Resistance Is Futile - You Will Be Assimilated" becomes reality. Until then everything that Google does has one and only one purpose. To enhance the visiability of what ever is being purshed by those purchasing that access.
You're only partly right. Yes it does provide possible grounds for divorce but that's not the big issue. That revolves around Child Custody and Alimony. An argument that could be used due to her being gay is "Unfit as a mother". because of the risk of STD's such as Aids. If there is any money involved, it could have lots of bearing on how much alimony she's awarded. Note that Alimony is not Child Support, which is determined seperately and usually via published Guidelines.
Nope. The 5th ammendment has nothing to do with this matter as it's strictly a civil case. Now if there was the potential of "The State of" prosecuting her for a crime, then it's possible to supress this as evidence under the 5th but not really likely as its discovery was not by the Court or persons of the Court, nor is it held under Attorney/Client Privelage.
Hell where I live (15K+ population) McD's is the only place that even offers WiFi.
The first point that needs to be thought about is the U.S Privacy laws regarding Health/Medical Records. There is absolutely no reason for any pages from those two topics to be in the search results, particularly as Google is a United States Corporation. Means they can be sued/fined heavily under HIPPIA for violations.
Another is the censorship issue in general. I'll agree that I don't like the Idea of them Caving in to China's demands but only the People of China have any say in their governments decision unless you are willing to declare war and attempt to enforce those requirements upon them by force of arms.
In regards to the Chester Guide, I'm open to debate on whether the page should have been removed from the index or simply gotten the disclaimer? It's important to note that Censorship of any kind is the beginning of a very slippery slope and who's to say that Google hasn't already started the long slide into irrevelency by caving in to both China and Germany's demands and that's the bigger issue. Google has stated that they want to make all known information available but if they're censoring pages at the request of governments, who's to say they aren't censoring pages that governments have not requested? On the China and German Censorhip issues, keep in mind that the censorship only applies within the country that asked for it. Outside still gets access to it. This means the information is only censored on a regional level instead of worldwide as happened with the "Chester Guide".
"Katrina"
Remember that huricane? Nocked lots of companies offline for more then 4 hours and people couldn't change an SPF record if they wanted to due to the evacuations. Another was Loma Prieta in 1991 during the World Series Game. San Francisco, CA 6.9 Earthquake with lots of damage. Another was the St. Helens Eruption in Washington. I could go on but I think you've got the message, which is Natural Disasters. These could affect large areas and result in SPF being absolutely useless because people simply can't transfer their Email service even temporarilly and I'm not talking the Mom and Pop shops, I'm talking places like RacSpace and other Hosts like them. Get a major disaster in a location where some major hosting providers are and you're talking an email meltdown because of SPF only but if combined with DKIM, you might have a chance.
Pushing the Envelope? Being Smart? I think you're asking waaaay to much of a cable company. All they want is to be "Good Enough for Government Work." Nothing more then the absolute bare minimum that keeps their locked in customers from dumping them entirely or bitching to much to city hall.
Big Question: Why aren't you using the Outlook Journal to at least track projects? It can link all of the information (messages, tasks and files) into a single location. Very handy and you've already got it.
Another option that will work nicely is Onenote by MS. It's now part of Office and expands on the Outlook Journal capabilities. It uses tabs to keep things organized, you can add pages as needed, link in other documents such as research information, web links and maybe track emails like the Outlook Journal. It also has a shared notebook feature that's for networks and the best thing is, you might be able to convince the boss to get a copy since it's fairly cheap from your normal office super store. I've only been using it for 6 weeks now and it's already become the must have tool for me. Can't say how well it'll work for you but worth giving it a try
I'm sorry but if you were to walk up to me on the street and say "I'm going to kill you" I'd feel threatened enough to be justified in reacting with lethal force right then. Would I be justified in doing so? That question is for a Jury to decide, not the prosecution or the officers who respond to the incident and my defense would most likely be accepted by the jury because I don't know you. Of course, this would prevent you from ever walking up to anothe total stranger and making the same statement then walking off. Yes it's ilegal and if everyone carried a gun along with knew how to use it, I think our society would be far more polite and circumspect about what and how we say things in public.
Please Please Bring back Public Dueling and make it completely legal with codes and strong enforcement of those codes. I suspect this alone would go a long way towards helping America regain some god damn uncommon sense and keep people from sticking their noses in where they're not wanted without damn good reason. Bloody Busy Bodies and Control Freaks. Drop dead all of you.
Buzzz!!! Turn in your Call To Power 2 card right now. The United States is no more a Democratic Replublic then we are a Socialistic Democracy. We are and have always been a Corporate Republic. It's why the Dollar is King and the Corporations craft laws to Support them while purusing the Global Agenda of everyone being under Corporate America's rule of law. Why do you thing RIAA/CRIAA/**AA in every country is pushing hard for both extending Copy Right law and the entire secret ACTA Treaty? It's a fucking treaty people and thus should not be secret except for the fact that Corporate America realizes that everyone else would start shooting shoud they really know what's in that fucking treaty. DMCA/Crimilization of Copy Right Violations/Death penalties and such? God Only knows (no I've not read the WikiLeaks file) because the damn thing is secret and has not been finalized.
The Word "Republic" Originated with Socrates and the Republic States of Ancient Greece. Read the Treatise by Socrates' on Republics. Interesting and one of the basis the Crafters of the United States Constitution used. Another is the Ramayana, which is one of the Great Religious Documents of the World and is the basis of the "Purusit of Happiness" clause in the Constitution. There are many other Supposedly Great works involved in the crafting of the American Constitution and one book that is a "MUST READ" for all American's and anyone interested in American History are the "Federalist Papers", which are a collection of Papers written before the Revoltion. I'll have to review my copy to remind me who that author/s were but it's a damn good read and should be readlily available from any bookstore since it's that important a collection of writings. History Section where you'll find it. Government and Politics might be another section.