...for I have a greater chance of winning the Powerball or Mega Millions lottery than this ever happening. (FYI, I don't buy lottery tickets.)
My point is that this is not going to happen... ever. The state as a whole will not approve of it, Congress will never approve of it (even if it ever becomes less dysfunctional), and politically it's a bad idea. It'll take one powerful state politically and water it down into six.
Now, the idea of a State of Jefferson for the areas of the state north of Redding is not bad in some ways. The conservative nut jobs who live there and in southern Oregon deserve each other. They can run it into the ground. However, this country cannot withstand the existence of another South Carolina.
I think California succession is a better idea given the size of its economy. We Californians can stand on our own. And we wouldn't even have to change the flag. There is a reason why the phrase "California Republic" is written under the grizzly bear.
It has nothing to do with parasites. My beautiful black cat is living proof that some cats are possessed by Satan. She's a feisty beast and very evil. The fact that she's black only makes it more evident.
Lawyers and pro-say litigants ignore these rules at their own peril, as doing so is liable to get your case dismissed outright and at the very least will seriously annoy the Judge.
This is not quite true. The general rule of courts is to expect attorneys to follow the court's rules regarding legal pleadings. An in pro se or in pro per (that's someone filing a pleading on his own behalf without an attorney) is generally given more latitude because he or she is not an attorney in the interest of justice. The court's expectation there is that the document be readable, it make rational and logical legal arguments, and that they be properly cited. In California and in federal courts, successful habeas corpus petitions written on toilet paper have been filed by prisoners.
This is interesting because web sites like Facebook ban sex offenders from using it in its terms of service (or so I'm told as I've never read them) and some jurisdictions ban paroled or probationed sex offenders from using social networking sites. And there have been some jurisdictions (California for one) that have tried to force all registered sex offenders to register with the government their e-mail addresses and their social media logins, thereby making them public record and allowing the Facebooks and Twitters of the world to easily find them.
This case is an advertisement for why everyone should have access to the Internet without restriction regardless of their current status. It seems that this guy was not on some kind of supervised release, for if he was he'd likely never find out about these biased comments by the hearing officer.
This case is also the reason why I don't blog or express too many of my more private thoughts online but instead sequester them in a paper diary. (No one reads Slashdot comments so this place doesn't count.) No one is going to stumble across my more biased ramblings and opinions through an unfortunate Google search.
Indeed. I understand that Austin is sort of like Berkeley, San Francisco, or Davis in many ways, quite enlightened although not quite a people's republic, with that certain sanctuary of ignorance centered around the Capitol building being the exception.
I am wearing my asbestos underwear so I'm prepared for the flames. I will now unload the vitriol.
There are times that I wish that the Republic of Texas, the entity that was created in 1836 after a war of revolution against Mexico, had remained an independent nation. Texas politicians are a national disgrace and I wish they would have just remained independent. They are the American Quebec, a province that many in Canada despise but cannot be gotten rid of without harming and hamstringing the rest of the country.
That Texas is governed by morons is evident in this article. A quick look at its current governor and its previous one, who also just happened to steal an election to become the President of the United States should remove any doubts as to the veracity of that statement.
I wonder how many of children are spared of abuse because the pervs had their impulses shunned by porn.
Not many I suspect. All the porn does is stoke the fires of the perversion. It's a kind of addiction, a progressive disease, not unlike alcoholism. Use of the porn leads will lead to an actual victim at some point if the porn user lives long enough and gets the opportunity.
I doubt California could afford it. What Sweden spends per prisoner is probably double what California does. I suspect a Swedish dungeon affords better conditions than a California one.
How many J2EE/EJB containers does the world really need? Certainly the world would be diminished if Oracle killed Glassfish completely because it is, after all, the reference implementation. But dropping commercial support only means that Oracle not going to support it as a commercial implementation. Keep in mind that Oracle also owns WebLogic, a more prominent and I dare say more successful competitor in this arena.
There are many reasons why this fellow started to shoot people. Given how terrible service is on airlines these days in "cattle class", long lines, TSA agents who want to "touch my junk" (the pedophile who touched mine when I was a kid was enough), late flights, no-fly lists, and more horrors, it's no wonder that this guy goes nuts. He's probably a frequent flier on United.
Hands down, the most difficult thing I've had to do is start a new job. New technologies, new software, new people, new environment, new policies, I'm two weeks into a new job and the anxiety is driving me bonkers. It's more stressful than the worst deadline crunch I've ever experienced... and here there is no deadline here!
When I was a lonely undergrad and not studying for my degree in what they now call MIS because I was too busy writing code the department chair of all people gave me a great piece of advice that I have never forgotten and it has paid off on at least one occasion. He told me the being a coder is all well and good but the people who really get the jobs are those who can code AND are competent in some other area as well.
One job I got in the late 90's with a library software vendor was specifically because I knew the true evil that lurks in the way libraries use computers thanks to a masters degree in library science I obtained. I knew the terminology and actually knew something about cataloging and automated library systems having done it in grad school using their products. The fact that I knew Java at a time when not many people did all helped as well.
The job have now is, ironically, the one I've always wanted but didn't get after getting my BS because I didn't specialize at first. However, I have a lot of experience in the Java world, something they don't have, and I had to take a big pay cut (it's the government) in order to do this work without a lot of experience in the corporate world.
I've always thought that this was the case. However, I think it might be an example of the "chicken or the egg" problem. Is it you become a better person because you read good books, or do better people automatically read better books? For myself, I would much prefer to read a Charles Dickens' novel than any of the schlock produced by Dan Brown, although I have read both.;-)
I will not—repeat—NOT buy a car unless I have driven it first. So, I will test drive it, then go online and see if I can get it from GM for less. If I and others can, GM will put its dealer network out of business. How are they going to sell cars then? They'll have to open a series of GM stores as the dealers get put out of business, something which will probably get the remaining dealers into Federal court fast. And if GM ultimately wins and you can only buy a GM car from GM, I'm not certain I want to buy a GM car from them. I can guarantee you that it will not be the same as visiting the local Apple Store.
Undoubtedly, to people who have no life and are as bad as the most diehard of Star Trek fans/nutcases this is very important. Granted, "Doctor Who" is a cultural icon and it's nice that a big gap in the series has been rediscovered. However, I would be getting much more excited if, for example, some more lost or portions of fragmentary works of Archimedes were rediscovered.
Offhand, I'd say that Sacramento and Los Angeles are Democrat. Oakland and San Francisco are so far left that they're national embarrassments.
National embarrassments? Well, not really, at least on the European scale of embarrassment. For example, the People's Republic of San Francisco ensures that all people living there have health coverage. Not a very Republican idea but certainly not an embarrassing one either. San Francisco also spends a bunch of money it gets from tourists in the form of taxes they pay to fund the arts there. What's embarrassing about San Francisco is that it's a pain in the ass to drive there literally because the streets are in such bad shape. I was there just yesterday and my tailbone is still recovering from the experience.
This law was passed in California. Republicans there are as rare as Christians in Saudi Arabia!
So Democrats elected Regan and Schwarzenegger?
Well, they're more rare now than they were then. And Reagan couldn't be elected dog catcher by today's Republicans. As politicians go, he was pretty pragmatic and centrist. And on occasion we do elect an idiot like the Ah-nold the Governator.
... how important is this? This fellow is a foreign national who is actively working against the interests of the United States, at least as the Obama administration believes it to be. Having said that, all this has done is prevent this person from coming to the United States and speaking in person. This does not prevent him from returning to Germany and giving his talk remotely via the Internet. Undoubtedly, the NSA will be listening in but is unlikely to interfere. Part of the right to freedom of speech and expression is to receive it. American citizens have the right to listen to what he says without U.S. government interference.
If I remember correctly, the United States as host nation is obligated to permit entry to any person who is coming into the country on United Nations business. I think the U.N. even issues its own diplomatic passports for such purposes. It is rare when the U.S. declares a person here on a U.N. passport a persona non grata and order him or her out of the country or denies entry to the country in the first place.
Personally, I'm with the attitude Ronald Reagan had about the U.N. While I think the U.S. earns far more international goodwill in being the host nation of the U.S. than it loses, it would not be a bad thing for the U.N. to move to Switzerland. The original League of Nations was based in Geneva and its headquarters building is used today by the United Nations to house a significant portion of its bureaucracy.
This was modded down to "troll" because he told the truth? He's absolutely right.
The only people who have an absolute right to enter the United States are those who hold a valid American passport or are American citizens and for one reason or another have no passport when they reach the border, e.g., Edward Snowden. ICE will hem and haw but they will admit you eventually. Snowden, of course, will be admitted and quickly gagged and shackled before taken into the federal gulag.
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...for I have a greater chance of winning the Powerball or Mega Millions lottery than this ever happening. (FYI, I don't buy lottery tickets.)
My point is that this is not going to happen... ever. The state as a whole will not approve of it, Congress will never approve of it (even if it ever becomes less dysfunctional), and politically it's a bad idea. It'll take one powerful state politically and water it down into six.
Now, the idea of a State of Jefferson for the areas of the state north of Redding is not bad in some ways. The conservative nut jobs who live there and in southern Oregon deserve each other. They can run it into the ground. However, this country cannot withstand the existence of another South Carolina.
I think California succession is a better idea given the size of its economy. We Californians can stand on our own. And we wouldn't even have to change the flag. There is a reason why the phrase "California Republic" is written under the grizzly bear.
It has nothing to do with parasites. My beautiful black cat is living proof that some cats are possessed by Satan.
She's a feisty beast and very evil. The fact that she's black only makes it more evident.
Lawyers and pro-say litigants ignore these rules at their own peril, as doing so is liable to get your case dismissed outright and at the very least will seriously annoy the Judge.
This is not quite true. The general rule of courts is to expect attorneys to follow the court's rules regarding legal pleadings. An in pro se or in pro per (that's someone filing a pleading on his own behalf without an attorney) is generally given more latitude because he or she is not an attorney in the interest of justice. The court's expectation there is that the document be readable, it make rational and logical legal arguments, and that they be properly cited. In California and in federal courts, successful habeas corpus petitions written on toilet paper have been filed by prisoners.
This is interesting because web sites like Facebook ban sex offenders from using it in its terms of service (or so I'm told as I've never read them) and some jurisdictions ban paroled or probationed sex offenders from using social networking sites. And there have been some jurisdictions (California for one) that have tried to force all registered sex offenders to register with the government their e-mail addresses and their social media logins, thereby making them public record and allowing the Facebooks and Twitters of the world to easily find them.
This case is an advertisement for why everyone should have access to the Internet without restriction regardless of their current status. It seems that this guy was not on some kind of supervised release, for if he was he'd likely never find out about these biased comments by the hearing officer.
This case is also the reason why I don't blog or express too many of my more private thoughts online but instead sequester them in a paper diary. (No one reads Slashdot comments so this place doesn't count.) No one is going to stumble across my more biased ramblings and opinions through an unfortunate Google search.
Indeed. I understand that Austin is sort of like Berkeley, San Francisco, or Davis in many ways, quite enlightened although not quite a people's republic, with that certain sanctuary of ignorance centered around the Capitol building being the exception.
I am wearing my asbestos underwear so I'm prepared for the flames. I will now unload the vitriol.
There are times that I wish that the Republic of Texas, the entity that was created in 1836 after a war of revolution against Mexico, had remained an independent nation. Texas politicians are a national disgrace and I wish they would have just remained independent. They are the American Quebec, a province that many in Canada despise but cannot be gotten rid of without harming and hamstringing the rest of the country.
That Texas is governed by morons is evident in this article. A quick look at its current governor and its previous one, who also just happened to steal an election to become the President of the United States should remove any doubts as to the veracity of that statement.
I wonder how many of children are spared of abuse because the pervs had their impulses shunned by porn.
Not many I suspect. All the porn does is stoke the fires of the perversion. It's a kind of addiction, a progressive disease, not unlike alcoholism. Use of the porn leads will lead to an actual victim at some point if the porn user lives long enough and gets the opportunity.
I doubt California could afford it. What Sweden spends per prisoner is probably double what California does. I suspect a Swedish dungeon affords better conditions than a California one.
How many J2EE/EJB containers does the world really need? Certainly the world would be diminished if Oracle killed Glassfish completely because it is, after all, the reference implementation. But dropping commercial support only means that Oracle not going to support it as a commercial implementation. Keep in mind that Oracle also owns WebLogic, a more prominent and I dare say more successful competitor in this arena.
Why? Three words: history, History, HISTORY. Without a record of the past, there is no real history, only folklore.
There are many reasons why this fellow started to shoot people. Given how terrible service is on airlines these days in "cattle class", long lines, TSA agents who want to "touch my junk" (the pedophile who touched mine when I was a kid was enough), late flights, no-fly lists, and more horrors, it's no wonder that this guy goes nuts. He's probably a frequent flier on United.
Hands down, the most difficult thing I've had to do is start a new job. New technologies, new software, new people, new environment, new policies, I'm two weeks into a new job and the anxiety is driving me bonkers. It's more stressful than the worst deadline crunch I've ever experienced... and here there is no deadline here!
Heh... I agree with you there. I'm learning how to use it now...or how not to use it.
When I was a lonely undergrad and not studying for my degree in what they now call MIS because I was too busy writing code the department chair of all people gave me a great piece of advice that I have never forgotten and it has paid off on at least one occasion. He told me the being a coder is all well and good but the people who really get the jobs are those who can code AND are competent in some other area as well.
One job I got in the late 90's with a library software vendor was specifically because I knew the true evil that lurks in the way libraries use computers thanks to a masters degree in library science I obtained. I knew the terminology and actually knew something about cataloging and automated library systems having done it in grad school using their products. The fact that I knew Java at a time when not many people did all helped as well.
The job have now is, ironically, the one I've always wanted but didn't get after getting my BS because I didn't specialize at first. However, I have a lot of experience in the Java world, something they don't have, and I had to take a big pay cut (it's the government) in order to do this work without a lot of experience in the corporate world.
There is a simple answer to that question: Have you actually written something in COBOL? I hope you're a fast typist.
I've always thought that this was the case. However, I think it might be an example of the "chicken or the egg" problem. Is it you become a better person because you read good books, or do better people automatically read better books? For myself, I would much prefer to read a Charles Dickens' novel than any of the schlock produced by Dan Brown, although I have read both. ;-)
I will not—repeat—NOT buy a car unless I have driven it first. So, I will test drive it, then go online and see if I can get it from GM for less. If I and others can, GM will put its dealer network out of business. How are they going to sell cars then? They'll have to open a series of GM stores as the dealers get put out of business, something which will probably get the remaining dealers into Federal court fast. And if GM ultimately wins and you can only buy a GM car from GM, I'm not certain I want to buy a GM car from them. I can guarantee you that it will not be the same as visiting the local Apple Store.
Undoubtedly, to people who have no life and are as bad as the most diehard of Star Trek fans/nutcases this is very important. Granted, "Doctor Who" is a cultural icon and it's nice that a big gap in the series has been rediscovered. However, I would be getting much more excited if, for example, some more lost or portions of fragmentary works of Archimedes were rediscovered.
Offhand, I'd say that Sacramento and Los Angeles are Democrat. Oakland and San Francisco are so far left that they're national embarrassments.
National embarrassments? Well, not really, at least on the European scale of embarrassment. For example, the People's Republic of San Francisco ensures that all people living there have health coverage. Not a very Republican idea but certainly not an embarrassing one either. San Francisco also spends a bunch of money it gets from tourists in the form of taxes they pay to fund the arts there. What's embarrassing about San Francisco is that it's a pain in the ass to drive there literally because the streets are in such bad shape. I was there just yesterday and my tailbone is still recovering from the experience.
This law was passed in California. Republicans there are as rare as Christians in Saudi Arabia!
So Democrats elected Regan and Schwarzenegger?
Well, they're more rare now than they were then. And Reagan couldn't be elected dog catcher by today's Republicans. As politicians go, he was pretty pragmatic and centrist. And on occasion we do elect an idiot like the Ah-nold the Governator.
This is so not fair. I never get moderation points when I need them.
... how important is this? This fellow is a foreign national who is actively working against the interests of the United States, at least as the Obama administration believes it to be. Having said that, all this has done is prevent this person from coming to the United States and speaking in person. This does not prevent him from returning to Germany and giving his talk remotely via the Internet. Undoubtedly, the NSA will be listening in but is unlikely to interfere. Part of the right to freedom of speech and expression is to receive it. American citizens have the right to listen to what he says without U.S. government interference.
If I remember correctly, the United States as host nation is obligated to permit entry to any person who is coming into the country on United Nations business. I think the U.N. even issues its own diplomatic passports for such purposes. It is rare when the U.S. declares a person here on a U.N. passport a persona non grata and order him or her out of the country or denies entry to the country in the first place.
Personally, I'm with the attitude Ronald Reagan had about the U.N. While I think the U.S. earns far more international goodwill in being the host nation of the U.S. than it loses, it would not be a bad thing for the U.N. to move to Switzerland. The original League of Nations was based in Geneva and its headquarters building is used today by the United Nations to house a significant portion of its bureaucracy.
This was modded down to "troll" because he told the truth? He's absolutely right.
The only people who have an absolute right to enter the United States are those who hold a valid American passport or are American citizens and for one reason or another have no passport when they reach the border, e.g., Edward Snowden. ICE will hem and haw but they will admit you eventually. Snowden, of course, will be admitted and quickly gagged and shackled before taken into the federal gulag.
This is Microsoft. Their data center is in the U.S. The only backdoor any three-letter agency needs to gain entry is the loading dock.
The only three-letter agency I'd choose to trust is IBM.