So, uhm, while possibly not all prisoners are criminal, surely, all are equally a burden to tax payers.
I'm not entirly sure that our criminal justice system incarserates only those that are truly guilty of harming our union. One can argue that there are a a few of people who don't belong in prision, either due to stupid laws or malicous prosecution. These people are fortunalty rare.
My general thought is that people in prision should work at least 60 hours of hard labor per week - just like the rest of us. If they don't want to work, then they should starve. Just like the rest of us. They should not keep the fruits of their labor - just like the rest of us overtaxed suckers who keep collectivly voting idiots into office.
Including people who are too physically disabled to work?
If disabled through no fault of their own AND are otherwise trying to be productive, then they should, of course, be allowd to vote.
But if they caused their own diability, say by driving drunk, and they are spongin off our tax money, then they obviously don't have enough inteligence to determine the course of our union.
I don't know where the line should be drawn, but it needs to be considered.
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Spock I never (pause) wanted (pause) you to dress (pause) like a (pause) tribble (pause) and tracktor beam (pause) me from behind (pause) you burning hulk (pause) of Vulcan (pause) man meat
I've seen you post a couple times, and I just gotta say, damn, I love your sig. It just really sums up everything very nicely.
Thanks. It took a while to fit it under the Slashdot sig cap.
There's a gentleman who setup a website calld newslavery.org that focuses more on the coporite side of things but is worth the read. I'm probably a little bit more pissed at the scheming welfare class than I should be, but their GIMMIE GIMMIE, opps I HAD ANOTHER BABY attitude is really grating on my nerves.
The easiest solution that I can figgure out would be that people who take out of the government more than they put in should not be allowed to vote. And anybody that spawns a child that the government has to pay for should be spayed/neutered. (yes I know those are terms for animals, but REAL humans woulden't bring a life into the world that they know they coulden't take care of)
What the hell??? Do we need to start pretending we are blind because we don't want people to use IE. Shit, man thats pretty lame.
Blind enabeled browsers are very delicate, and are very hard to get working right. Any webmaster that throws artificial blockades up need to fix them ASAP - if it happens to help other standards complient browsers, than this is a small benificial side-effect.
I feel that it's appropriate to take any reasonable measures to see that webmasters fix this particular problem - and if a little creative lying gets the job done than so be it.
I have two clients who are legally blind, but when I write webmasters and complain about poor site accessability on my clients' behalf,
I've never gotten a response myself from the webmaster - I've always gone directly over their head. Pick someone at the business who looks like they would be afraid of lawsuits. It's suprisingly effecftive to combine your complaint with official sounding ADA referances.
Some of the ADA requirements are over the top, but it's unexcusable that whole sections of the web are offlimits to blind people due to bad coding by idiot webmasters. The web could be so enableing for blind people if given half the chance. Good luck!
Suposidly DB2 is making inroads on Oracle - A compelling reason is that if someone buys an IBM mainframe, with IBM DB2 and IBM consulting - there is not "pass the blame" possible - It's all IBM's problem to fix.
Several years ago I would have considered Oracle for our middle sized projects - now were a PostregSQL shop for everyting. We dodn't do large projects where Oracle really shines.
I have a patent on the obligatory posting of funny patent posts on slashdot. It also appears that the same patent also covers recursion. All Lisp users, prepare to empty your bank accounts.
For me, it not about cost savings - it's about time. If you stocked up on supplies and used the 5 quart jugs you get from trucker part stores to buy your oil and use as containers for used oil you could save yourself a lot of time. I'd much rather spend 10 min doing it myself that waste 30 in some lobby. I'm *highly* paid, so, for me, it an issue of time.
There are mobile oil changing companies that will come to your house - they would be the ultimae in time savings.
Even my chouice of syenthetic save me time - I have 180,000 miles on my American car, and I havent has any trouble yet. I haven't even had to change the timing chain - that was suposed to go 80,000 miles ago and it still is solid. YMMV.
So learn to do it yourself efficently and save yourself time. Or not, depending on your view of the after-life. I have no set beleifs that there is a time after this one, so I tend to veiw time sinks with a bit of distain.
that's great if you're already a Luser (Linux user) with tons of experience. Sorry, my time is worth more than that to me...
I seriously doubt *your* time is all that valuable, considering that it inserting a Mandrake 8.2 disk, clicking a mouse a few times, and getting a cup of cofee is beyond your capabilities.
but a good number of people will take their car in to the shop because it is faster, easier, and will be done right.
I agree with what your saying however you chose a poor example:
I change my oil im my car with Mobil 1 - it costs $20 in materials, and takes me ten minits. My local shop would cost $45 and take half an hour of my time loitering in their lobby.
I don't care much about the cost diferance, but the time diferance keeps me doing it myself. YMMV.
Old geezer engineer types love the old-skool reverse-polish-notaion HP calculators. There hard to find but worth it.
Normal calc: [2] [+] [3] [=]
RPN calc: [2] [3] [+]
RPN calcs are really cool if you have a lot of parens in your formula, and getting the right operation order is easy. RPN calcs are basically a little stack computer.
$1000 for Phone $250 for Data connector $1.50 per min of 9600 baud
(the phone looks like a slow serial modem to your computer)
I've used a Psion Revo, null-modem cable and Iridium phone to telnet into servers while on vacation - works well for me, and the whole package weighs about 4 pounds.
Those least capable of supporting offspring are having them by the dozen, and those theoretically most capable aren't. I fear for the genetic future of the planet.
To add insult to injury - we're the ones making it easy for idiots to pop out dozens of bastard children through our taxes!
Look at the evidence! Free software is flourishing, and in every place where there is decent Free software available - it's gaining marketshare at the expense of non-free software.
Free OS have gone from.01% to 10% of the market. Free Webservers continue to dominate at 60%. Free Browsers have gone from.01% to %7. Free compilers have gone from nothing to a lot.
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So, uhm, while possibly not all prisoners are criminal, surely, all are equally a burden to tax payers.
I'm not entirly sure that our criminal justice system incarserates only those that are truly guilty of harming our union. One can argue that there are a a few of people who don't belong in prision, either due to stupid laws or malicous prosecution. These people are fortunalty rare.
My general thought is that people in prision should work at least 60 hours of hard labor per week - just like the rest of us. If they don't want to work, then they should starve. Just like the rest of us. They should not keep the fruits of their labor - just like the rest of us overtaxed suckers who keep collectivly voting idiots into office.
Including people who are too physically disabled to work?
If disabled through no fault of their own AND are otherwise trying to be productive, then they should, of course, be allowd to vote.
But if they caused their own diability, say by driving drunk, and they are spongin off our tax money, then they obviously don't have enough inteligence to determine the course of our union.
I don't know where the line should be drawn, but it needs to be considered.
Consider:
Wellcome
Next Page-->
to Toms Harware where we
Next Page -->
Discuss the new anti copying
Next Page -->
schemes that affect your CD-R
VS
Spock I never (pause) wanted (pause) you to dress (pause) like a (pause) tribble (pause) and tracktor beam (pause) me from behind (pause) you burning hulk (pause) of Vulcan (pause) man meat
I've seen you post a couple times, and I just gotta say, damn, I love your sig. It just really sums up everything very nicely.
Thanks. It took a while to fit it under the Slashdot sig cap.
There's a gentleman who setup a website calld newslavery.org that focuses more on the coporite side of things but is worth the read. I'm probably a little bit more pissed at the scheming welfare class than I should be, but their GIMMIE GIMMIE, opps I HAD ANOTHER BABY attitude is really grating on my nerves.
The easiest solution that I can figgure out would be that people who take out of the government more than they put in should not be allowed to vote. And anybody that spawns a child that the government has to pay for should be spayed/neutered. (yes I know those are terms for animals, but REAL humans woulden't bring a life into the world that they know they coulden't take care of)
Oh well, sorry for the rant and thanks.
What the hell??? Do we need to start pretending we are blind because we don't want people to use IE. Shit, man thats pretty lame.
Blind enabeled browsers are very delicate, and are very hard to get working right. Any webmaster that throws artificial blockades up need to fix them ASAP - if it happens to help other standards complient browsers, than this is a small benificial side-effect.
I feel that it's appropriate to take any reasonable measures to see that webmasters fix this particular problem - and if a little creative lying gets the job done than so be it.
I have two clients who are legally blind, but when I write webmasters and complain about poor site accessability on my clients' behalf,
I've never gotten a response myself from the webmaster - I've always gone directly over their head. Pick someone at the business who looks like they would be afraid of lawsuits. It's suprisingly effecftive to combine your complaint with official sounding ADA referances.
Some of the ADA requirements are over the top, but it's unexcusable that whole sections of the web are offlimits to blind people due to bad coding by idiot webmasters. The web could be so enableing for blind people if given half the chance. Good luck!
Bookmarked.
Care to bet on this?
Don't you mean "My Favorites" ?
Here's a hint: Right click on "My Computer" then rename it to "My Komputer." Then all your fiends will think youre a cool KDE Linux user.
Gotta go.. The paperclip is helping me write a letter.
And I use Opera, but identify as IE5.
You want a site to fix this in under 24 hours? Just tell them that you're blind and that their site won't let your blide-enabeled web-browser in.
Dreams of ADA lawsuits start dancing in their heads. It works really well for government sites, and moderatly well for medium sized corporations.
until they can grow my wife larger breasts.
Skip the wife! Grow your own bio-breasts and you can fondle them all day!
Regular porn is probably too small, so
I imagine the Canadian gentleman can now print out ASCII porn for his viewing pleasure.
Suposidly DB2 is making inroads on Oracle - A compelling reason is that if someone buys an IBM mainframe, with IBM DB2 and IBM consulting - there is not "pass the blame" possible - It's all IBM's problem to fix.
Several years ago I would have considered Oracle for our middle sized projects - now were a PostregSQL shop for everyting. We dodn't do large projects where Oracle really shines.
Of course YMMV.
I have a patent on the obligatory posting of funny patent posts on slashdot. It also appears that the same patent also covers recursion. All Lisp users, prepare to empty your bank accounts.
For me, it not about cost savings - it's about time. If you stocked up on supplies and used the 5 quart jugs you get from trucker part stores to buy your oil and use as containers for used oil you could save yourself a lot of time. I'd much rather spend 10 min doing it myself that waste 30 in some lobby. I'm *highly* paid, so, for me, it an issue of time.
There are mobile oil changing companies that will come to your house - they would be the ultimae in time savings.
Even my chouice of syenthetic save me time - I have 180,000 miles on my American car, and I havent has any trouble yet. I haven't even had to change the timing chain - that was suposed to go 80,000 miles ago and it still is solid.
YMMV.
So learn to do it yourself efficently and save yourself time. Or not, depending on your view of the after-life. I have no set beleifs that there is a time after this one, so I tend to veiw time sinks with a bit of distain.
I don't understand why it matters that it's a killer bee versus a regular bee.
Well, killer-bees are actually a cross between the docile honey-bee and an African swarming bee.
And if you've ever seen getto pr0n, you know how exactly how those fat bees can lay down good a luvin' spoonfull on the flower.
and after that.... beat any student that thinks main can return anything other than an int. Beat them well.
that's great if you're already a Luser (Linux user) with tons of experience. Sorry, my time is worth more than that to me...
I seriously doubt *your* time is all that valuable, considering that it inserting a Mandrake 8.2 disk, clicking a mouse a few times, and getting a cup of cofee is beyond your capabilities.
but a good number of people will take their car in to the shop because it is faster, easier, and will be done right.
I agree with what your saying however you chose a poor example:
I change my oil im my car with Mobil 1 - it costs $20 in materials, and takes me ten minits. My local shop would cost $45 and take half an hour of my time loitering in their lobby.
I don't care much about the cost diferance, but the time diferance keeps me doing it myself. YMMV.
Yes you are quite correct,
Sorry about that, after the 2, the enter is required to push the two onto the stack.
Old geezer engineer types love the old-skool reverse-polish-notaion HP calculators. There hard to find but worth it.
Normal calc: [2] [+] [3] [=]
RPN calc: [2] [3] [+]
RPN calcs are really cool if you have a lot of parens in your formula, and getting the right operation order is easy. RPN calcs are basically a little stack computer.
$1000 for Phone
$250 for Data connector
$1.50 per min of 9600 baud
(the phone looks like a slow serial modem to your computer)
I've used a Psion Revo, null-modem cable and Iridium phone to telnet into servers while on vacation - works well for me, and the whole package weighs about 4 pounds.
I've been spoofing a real Slashdot poster for the last two years - as long as the checks come in, I recommend Windows XP - with .NET technology!
..and you feel free to go shoot up the rusting camaro in your backyard and beat your wife.
It's a Firebird... the Camero is in the front-yard. And she likes it.
Actually there is a charity that does this already for crack mothers:
here
The astonsihing thing? $200 is what they give, and they have people lined up!
Those least capable of supporting offspring are having them by the dozen, and those theoretically most capable aren't. I fear for the genetic future of the planet.
To add insult to injury - we're the ones making it easy for idiots to pop out dozens of bastard children through our taxes!
I say, norplant welfare recipients!
Look at the evidence! Free software is flourishing, and in every place where there is decent Free software available - it's gaining marketshare at the expense of non-free software.
Free OS have gone from
Free Webservers continue to dominate at 60%.
Free Browsers have gone from
Free compilers have gone from nothing to a lot.
We're still small - but the momentum is there!