Jesus Christ. Kim Jong Il is not Chinese; he is North Korean. Also, the Chinese are part of the reason he is not "actually attacking."
The U.S. military commitment to global full spectrum dominance is helping to break our back financially. We won't be able to afford to be "#1" much longer, and China will. It might not be the truth you like, but history is full of examples of the ends of empires.
Wikileaks did not "facilitate the theft of a large number of confidential military documents." The documents were stolen by a member of the gov't. Wikileaks made them public. Funny how the ultra-right blames Wikileaks for the Pentagon's inability to secure its own data. The exposure of the Pentagon's document's was the Pentagon's mistake, not anyone else's. The Pentagon needs to join the 21st century with regard to securing its data. Looks like the ultra-right has found a new demon to fear in Wikileaks, though.
The interesting thing is the addition of Wikileaks to "an Australian government blacklist," which will probably translate to it being blocked from Australia at some point.
No doubt the next step will be to declare Wikileaks a terrorist organization. Then any would be donors would be funding terrorism.
RIAA does not care about child pornography. They're hiding behind the issue. They want to be able to claim that those who oppose their position hate children.
If this were to come into being, cell users would be horrified at how often chemicals would be detected. This is really the last thing that corporations would want, so it is not going to happen.
I get a sense from your post that you are not in a position to initiate any action, and your role is to criticize and whine. Don't. If you can adequately describe the difference between the way things are and the way they ought to be, then someone with authority will listen to you.
Good luck.
This is great advice for someone who will never work for a company. Here is what happens in the real world. In my company the Director of Engineering has mandated Agile and has had the usual lot of Agile gurus come in--no doubt at great expense to the company--to tell us that we are doing a great job with our implementation, thus making her bosses happy. But the reality is that Agile has been a dismal failure for us. Scrum teams here redefine doneness criteria on the fly and regularly fudge the numbers to up their velocity.
Middle managers, fearing for their jobs, will not let any information filter up to senior management indicating that we are having severe problems with Agile. We have an "Obstacle" post-it board in a common area for airing concerns or problems with our Agile implementation that is supposed to be regularly viewed by the director. In reality any post-its stuck to the Obstacle Board have been promptly removed by the middle managers before they can be seen by the director. It is pretty well understood within my particular scrum team NOT to post anything on the Obstacle Board. These days the Obstacle Board simply stays blank. So having no obstacle post-its and no negative communication about how Agile processes are working for us reaching the director level means that, per the director, everything is running smoothly.
So everyone plays along, just trying not to get fired for not be pumped up enough about Agile at my company.
This is individual megalomania coming home to roost. People who ever planned on having jobs should have considered this situation before putting their lives online as if others need to see them in the first place. It is odd that people so wilfully shun personal privacy.
...to no avail. But they will decide that users should only run Windows or Mac, and that Linux is the domain of hacker terrorists (for when they have to sell this to the ignoranti congress).
Restrictions have been relaxed in anticipation of the Olympics. This has been been widely reported. Once the Olympics are over, any semblance of electronic freedom will be as well.
"But while China's cities need these displaced laborers to work in factories and on construction sites, they are unwilling to offer them the same benefits as permanent residents: highly subsidized education and health care, as well as other public services. While migrants can live for decades in big cities like Shenzhen and Guangzhou, their residency remains fixed to the rural community where they were born, a fact encoded on their national ID cards. As one young migrant in Guangzhou put it to me, 'The local people want to make money from migrant workers, but they don't want to give them rights. But why are the local people so rich? Because of the migrant workers!'"
Sounds like the place is ripe for a communist revoluion.
The fact that people are still buying into the religion industry in 2008 is absurd. This is what we get for having crappy education and faith-based government in the U.S.--people who care about what some religious spokesperson says.
Thank you, Officer.
This article has been misunderstood, but IF the NYPD was to try to replace all the motorcycles there would be a union revolt. Motorcycle cops are there to ride motorcycles first and serve the public second.
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Jesus Christ. Kim Jong Il is not Chinese; he is North Korean. Also, the Chinese are part of the reason he is not "actually attacking." The U.S. military commitment to global full spectrum dominance is helping to break our back financially. We won't be able to afford to be "#1" much longer, and China will. It might not be the truth you like, but history is full of examples of the ends of empires.
It's OK for the gubmint, but if you modify yours then you are a danger to society.
Their first mistake was not building the factory in China.
Wikileaks did not "facilitate the theft of a large number of confidential military documents." The documents were stolen by a member of the gov't. Wikileaks made them public. Funny how the ultra-right blames Wikileaks for the Pentagon's inability to secure its own data. The exposure of the Pentagon's document's was the Pentagon's mistake, not anyone else's. The Pentagon needs to join the 21st century with regard to securing its data. Looks like the ultra-right has found a new demon to fear in Wikileaks, though. The interesting thing is the addition of Wikileaks to "an Australian government blacklist," which will probably translate to it being blocked from Australia at some point.
No doubt the next step will be to declare Wikileaks a terrorist organization. Then any would be donors would be funding terrorism.
RIAA does not care about child pornography. They're hiding behind the issue. They want to be able to claim that those who oppose their position hate children.
If this were to come into being, cell users would be horrified at how often chemicals would be detected. This is really the last thing that corporations would want, so it is not going to happen.
I get a sense from your post that you are not in a position to initiate any action, and your role is to criticize and whine. Don't. If you can adequately describe the difference between the way things are and the way they ought to be, then someone with authority will listen to you.
Good luck.
This is great advice for someone who will never work for a company. Here is what happens in the real world. In my company the Director of Engineering has mandated Agile and has had the usual lot of Agile gurus come in--no doubt at great expense to the company--to tell us that we are doing a great job with our implementation, thus making her bosses happy. But the reality is that Agile has been a dismal failure for us. Scrum teams here redefine doneness criteria on the fly and regularly fudge the numbers to up their velocity. Middle managers, fearing for their jobs, will not let any information filter up to senior management indicating that we are having severe problems with Agile. We have an "Obstacle" post-it board in a common area for airing concerns or problems with our Agile implementation that is supposed to be regularly viewed by the director. In reality any post-its stuck to the Obstacle Board have been promptly removed by the middle managers before they can be seen by the director. It is pretty well understood within my particular scrum team NOT to post anything on the Obstacle Board. These days the Obstacle Board simply stays blank. So having no obstacle post-its and no negative communication about how Agile processes are working for us reaching the director level means that, per the director, everything is running smoothly. So everyone plays along, just trying not to get fired for not be pumped up enough about Agile at my company.
Also, most people here accept evolution for a fact, yet deny that it applies to humans as well. Ever heard the term "doublethink"?
Most people here on /.? Not likely.
Maybe it is for the children.
"...a AT&T communications workers contract..."? WTF does that mean?
For a less political and more informative view of the NSA, read Chatter by Patrick Radden Keefe.
I wonder if "Red Shirt" smells like burnt plasma.
This is individual megalomania coming home to roost. People who ever planned on having jobs should have considered this situation before putting their lives online as if others need to see them in the first place. It is odd that people so wilfully shun personal privacy.
...to no avail. But they will decide that users should only run Windows or Mac, and that Linux is the domain of hacker terrorists (for when they have to sell this to the ignoranti congress).
Restrictions have been relaxed in anticipation of the Olympics. This has been been widely reported. Once the Olympics are over, any semblance of electronic freedom will be as well.
"But while China's cities need these displaced laborers to work in factories and on construction sites, they are unwilling to offer them the same benefits as permanent residents: highly subsidized education and health care, as well as other public services. While migrants can live for decades in big cities like Shenzhen and Guangzhou, their residency remains fixed to the rural community where they were born, a fact encoded on their national ID cards. As one young migrant in Guangzhou put it to me, 'The local people want to make money from migrant workers, but they don't want to give them rights. But why are the local people so rich? Because of the migrant workers!'"
Sounds like the place is ripe for a communist revoluion.
The fact that people are still buying into the religion industry in 2008 is absurd. This is what we get for having crappy education and faith-based government in the U.S.--people who care about what some religious spokesperson says.
Thank you, Officer. This article has been misunderstood, but IF the NYPD was to try to replace all the motorcycles there would be a union revolt. Motorcycle cops are there to ride motorcycles first and serve the public second.