The vast majority of police work is forensic in nature. So what if the cameras don't result in the suspect being nabbed while the crime is in progress. Whether the suspect is nabbed on the scene or elsewhere the fact remains they were identified and apprehended. Good luck arguing "I din't do it" when the camera has you on the scene and in the act. I don't expect privacy in a public place and if I'm somewhere I ought not to be doing something illegal any right to privacy is, I would argue, overidden by public safety concerns. Having said that I will guarantee that the cameras inq uestion will eventually be used to track vehicle presence in the city for revenue purposes. Its inevitable and utterly predictable.
Good for him. I do however question just how well he'll be able to defend the thesis soem 37 years on. Submitting it is one thing, the defence is another situation entirely.
When Microsoft decides enough is enough they can force a changeover to Vista by making it impractical to continue with XP ro whatever version of their poison one is using. When Vista is all there is the cash will flow as it must. So says Bill....
Funny I would have thought Rambutt would have been in there somewhere. Not sure I understand why U-Haul is on the list. Anytime I've used them I've been realtively satisfied.
Some 30 odd years ago when I was studying Modern Algebra I remember the professor mentioning Lie Groups and their use in theoretical physics. Whats really scary is that "Lie Group" popped into my mind the instant I saw the E8. Now where did that come from?
Up until January 2001 it was a porn site featuring fat chicks. Content could be summed up with that one word valley girl expression for ultimate disgust.
"Actually, never mind Microsoft. Let's look at the audio arena. The royalty-free OGG format should have bumped off MPG, but still device manufacturers are all too happy to pay Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft to use MP3. In fact, it's still hard to find devices that support OGG at all. The moral of"
And they may yet rue the day they caved to Fraunhofer as another predator has staked
a territorial claim in that environment.
Some years ago there was a quote from a retired civil servant who had been involved in drafting some of Johnson's Great Society legislation. He gleefully explained how he'd slipped in language that enabled cash payments to, inter alia, unsupervised teenage single mothers and some other things. Those provisions have had an incredibly destructive effect in minority communities. The individual responsible should have been hanged. If some sort of CM system was required for legislation this sort of thing would, as others have pointed out, be next to impossible. Earmarks would have fingerprints on them and pork barrel appropriations greatly reduced by the spotlight that would be shone on them. For those reason its never going to happen.
Anything that smacks of objective measurement, merit pay, alternatives to the state's skoolag, or any one of hundreds of possible remedial steps for the poor performance of the public education system is going to cause unionised teacher unrest.
Anything "Standard" from M$ must be regarded with suspicion bordering on the paranoid. M$ historical behavio(u)r makes this approach the only sane alternative. An M$ Open Standard is always so riddled with proprietary and mandatorily buggy kruft that to call it "Open" is to make mock of the English language. M$'s standard could be repaired but then it wouldn't be condusive to paltofrm lock and THAT would never do would it. Need I say whose side I'm on in this one
The Dhimmicreeps have been insisting for years that the Right to Keep and Bear Arms wasn't explicitly granted by the Constitution. So why should this sort of logic bother them. Fundamental problem is that language about all men being endowed with certain unalienable rights among which are.... Only three rights are listed explicitly but clearly the Founders had a longer list in mind. Any cursory reading of the document makes that clear. The Courts have also peered into shadows and penumbrae to construct a case for unlimited rights to do certain things not explicitly listed in the Constitution. I am of course referring to abortion. Roe v Wade was, in my view a bad way towards a legitimate end. There were other ways to accomplish the legalisation of abortions but Roe v Wade was about the only way to give a fig leaf to the "Anytime Any Reason" abortion rule the Dhimmicreeps will defend to the last 'creep. And just to make my position on abortion clear. There are times when it is the only viable solution to a medical issue but abortion for convenience in the 2nd and 3rd trimester is an abomination. So, to summarise, the RKBA explicitly mentioned in the Constitution can be limited but the right to abortion, not found anywhere in the document or Bill of Rights and constructed from dimly seen principles, cannot be? Consistency is not the legal system's forte going by this standard.
Thats like saying a convicted rapist needs time to change. Do we allow the rapist to continue and scale down his activities over time? Hell, no. We do something that makes it impossible to conduct business as usual. I'd be very surprised if the law made provision for convicted monopolists to continue their trade either. If the allegations can in fact be proved the only real remedy may be to break up Microsoft as was suggested during the original procedings. Require a complete disconnect between the OS and Application arms with heavy monitoring for compliance. Might I suggest the FSF be appointed the monitoring agency. If I were in a vindictive mode I'd also require physical separation between the newly separated parts of M$. Like oh say moving the OS portion to New Jersey and Applications to Arkansas. And-uh it goes without saying that a provable failure to comply would be an incredibly stoopid(*) move on M$ part.
What the conspiracy loons never mention of course is that in many places the elections are in the hands of local election boards who design the ballot, arrange for polling places, workers, etc. In 2000 for instance the overwhelming majority of districts in Florida where problems occurred had election boards controlled by guess who? Thats right the Democrats. The most famous artifact from that period, the Butterfly Ballot, was designed by Democrats and approved by both parties. The aged father of a friend of mine voted with that ballot. He was a man of limited education who'd driven a truck his entire life. My friend reported that his father, a Democrat, had no trouble with the ballot at all. Butterfly ballots were not that uncommon by the way. What was significant was who the Democrats chose to manage their attempts to crowbar the election their way. The Chicago Daleys for Bog's sake. If the presence of those folks anywhere near a ballot process doesn't make you see red you haven't been paying attention. The shrieking and feces flinging over the 2004 elections merely represent the tertiary stages of Anti-Bush Derangement Syndrome. Maybe I should start a website MoveOnandGetOverItYouMorons.org Sheesh.
Ah yes the F-104. What you evidently fail to remember is that the Starfighter's problems in German service were traced to their training regimen. When that was fixed their accident rates declined. Flying high performance aircraft in the strike regime is inherently dangerous even more so than swanning around at altitiude looking for other aircraft. Vista on the other hand is a fireball at the end of the runway however its used.
Har-de-har-har. Need I remind you that by objective measure ( academically at least ) Bush is the intellectual superior of both his challengers. And that from Division I schools not East Podunk U. And by another objective measure, he is a two term President, while you are?
Tool choices these days are all too often a matter of corporate taste. Case in point, I am mandated to use Visual Studio. Its OK an mostly does what I want it to but it can be maddening trying to figure out why something that worked yesterday now fails to link and what has changed in the project properties. Thats the Winders situation. Now flash forward to my Linux box.
IT Guy: Why do you want to put a server on our corporate network. Me: Server?????? Its a workstation for doing development!!!! IT Guy: You're developping on the corporate network???? Me: D'uh yeah! Me and several thousand other folk. IT Guy: Doesn't development happen in labs? Me:..... Me: Not since the 1990's or so....
This sort of thing is maddening and the IT Guy was mid-level management.
So corporate has a set of tools we are mandated to use for windows and not clue one about Linux. Fortunately this allows me to more or less set the standards or suggest them. But it is still a pain.
So the kid went ahead and deleted things things so he could store more of his pictures and music.
1. Parent = Idiot// for letting the kid on a biz critical machine.
2. Should have made the kid spring for his own storage for things
that aren't education related.
When I bought my last computer in 1999, I paid something north of $300 for 128M of RAM. Anymore you can buy an entire system for that. Mind you there was a shortage of RAM due to a big quake in Taiwan or at least thats what we were told at the time. And that purchase wasn't in East Podunk, Iowa either, it was smack dab in the middle of Silicon Valley. Any way to involve Rambutt er... Rambus in this?
Of course they're upset since it means they can't foist their backdoors on anyone without an immense amount of difficulty. Would you trust Beijing gummint encryption?
Well, the point is to avoid proprietary file formats. M$ cannot copyright what it doesn't own. An open standard would by definition be open not proprietary. And-uh the problem of M$ and others copyrighting their file formats to extort money from others would probably provoke the banishment of such file formats. We can expect M$ to fight this tooth and nail because their monopoly is largely dependent on their ability to break things in the OS or application and make the "fix" M$ only. With legally mandated open format conformance they can't do this. This ability is so critical to M$'s biz model that I fully expect to see some attempts made to lock users into their M$ filesystems and claim that the files themselves are still "open format". Good luck but I fully expect to see the attempt made. Nobody would force M$ to comply but they would risk losing a sizable portion of the market and please god the day the Federal Gummint got on the bandwagon would be a black day indeed for Mr Bill.
There was a NASA program called something like ACCESS5 which in part was supposed to study the impact of UAVs operating in the National Air Space. I think it went south last budget though. On the other hand, Global Hawk flight plans can now be filed just exactly like those for any other aircraft.
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The vast majority of police work is forensic in nature. So what if the cameras don't result in the suspect being nabbed while the crime is in progress. Whether the suspect is nabbed on the scene or elsewhere the fact remains they were identified and apprehended. Good luck arguing "I din't do it" when the camera has you on the scene and in the act. I don't expect privacy in a public place and if I'm somewhere I ought not to be doing something illegal any right to privacy is, I would argue, overidden by public safety concerns.
Having said that I will guarantee that the cameras inq uestion will eventually be used to track vehicle presence in the city for revenue purposes. Its inevitable and utterly predictable.
IBM
Good for him. I do however question just how well he'll be able to defend the thesis soem 37 years on. Submitting it is one thing, the defence is another situation entirely.
When Microsoft decides enough is enough they can force a changeover to Vista by making it impractical to continue with XP ro whatever version of their poison one is using. When Vista is all there is the cash will flow as it must. So says Bill....
Funny I would have thought Rambutt would have been in there somewhere.
Not sure I understand why U-Haul is on the list. Anytime I've used them
I've been realtively satisfied.
Some 30 odd years ago when I was studying Modern Algebra I remember the professor mentioning Lie Groups and their use in theoretical physics. Whats really scary is that "Lie Group" popped into my mind the instant I saw the E8. Now where did that come from?
Up until January 2001 it was a porn site featuring fat chicks.
Content could be summed up with that one word valley girl expression
for ultimate disgust.
Ewwwwwwww!
"Actually, never mind Microsoft. Let's look at the audio arena. The royalty-free OGG format should have bumped off MPG, but still device manufacturers are all too happy to pay Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft to use MP3. In fact, it's still hard to find devices that support OGG at all. The moral of"
And they may yet rue the day they caved to Fraunhofer as another predator has staked
a territorial claim in that environment.
IBM
Some years ago there was a quote from a retired civil servant who had been involved in drafting some of Johnson's Great Society legislation. He gleefully explained how he'd slipped in language that enabled cash payments to, inter alia, unsupervised teenage single mothers and some other things. Those provisions have had an incredibly destructive effect in minority communities. The individual responsible should have been hanged. If some sort of CM system was required for legislation this sort of thing would, as others have pointed out, be next to impossible. Earmarks would have fingerprints on them and pork barrel appropriations greatly reduced by the spotlight that would be shone on them. For those reason its never going to happen.
Anything that smacks of objective measurement, merit pay, alternatives to the state's skoolag, or any one of hundreds of possible remedial steps for the poor performance of the public education system is going to cause unionised teacher unrest.
Anything "Standard" from M$ must be regarded with suspicion bordering on the paranoid.
M$ historical behavio(u)r makes this approach the only sane alternative.
An M$ Open Standard is always so riddled with proprietary and mandatorily buggy kruft that
to call it "Open" is to make mock of the English language.
M$'s standard could be repaired but then it wouldn't be condusive to paltofrm lock and THAT
would never do would it.
Need I say whose side I'm on in this one
IBM(me not the biz)
The Dhimmicreeps have been insisting for years that the Right to Keep and Bear Arms wasn't explicitly granted by the Constitution. So why should this sort of logic bother them. .... Only three rights are listed explicitly but clearly the Founders had a longer list in mind. Any cursory reading of the document makes that clear.
Fundamental problem is that language about all men being endowed with certain unalienable rights among which are
The Courts have also peered into shadows and penumbrae to construct a case for unlimited rights to do certain things not explicitly listed in the Constitution. I am of course referring to abortion. Roe v Wade was, in my view a bad way towards a legitimate end. There were other ways to accomplish the legalisation of abortions but Roe v Wade was about the only way to give a fig leaf to the "Anytime Any Reason" abortion rule the Dhimmicreeps will defend to the last 'creep.
And just to make my position on abortion clear. There are times when it is the only viable solution to a medical issue but abortion for convenience in the 2nd and 3rd trimester is an abomination.
So, to summarise, the RKBA explicitly mentioned in the Constitution can be limited but the right to abortion, not found anywhere in the document or Bill of Rights and constructed from dimly seen principles, cannot be? Consistency is not the legal system's forte going by this standard.
IBM
"They are probably fairly desperate, and willing to do anything."
Ermmmm...
Doesn't that go without saying?
They are, after all, lawyers.
IBM
A solution Messers Stalin & Lysenko would approve of.
IBM
Thats like saying a convicted rapist needs time to change. Do we allow the rapist to continue and scale down his activities over time? Hell, no. We do something that makes it impossible to conduct business as usual. I'd be very surprised if the law made provision for convicted monopolists to continue their trade either.
If the allegations can in fact be proved the only real remedy may be to break up Microsoft as was suggested during the original procedings. Require a complete disconnect between the OS and Application arms with heavy monitoring for compliance. Might I suggest the FSF be appointed the monitoring agency. If I were in a vindictive mode I'd also require physical separation between the newly separated parts of M$. Like oh say moving the OS portion to New Jersey and Applications to Arkansas.
And-uh it goes without saying that a provable failure to comply would be an incredibly stoopid(*) move on M$ part.
IBM
( * stoopid = stupid on steroids )
I expect there are probably assault lawyers out there whose biz model is based on suing Google.
Shades of H. G. Wells....
What the conspiracy loons never mention of course is that in many places the elections are in the hands of local election boards who design the ballot, arrange for polling places, workers, etc. In 2000 for instance the overwhelming majority of districts in Florida where problems occurred had election boards controlled by guess who? Thats right the Democrats. The most famous artifact from that period, the Butterfly Ballot, was designed by Democrats and approved by both parties.
The aged father of a friend of mine voted with that ballot. He was a man of limited education who'd driven a truck his entire life. My friend reported that his father, a Democrat, had no trouble with the ballot at all. Butterfly ballots were not that uncommon by the way. What was significant was who the Democrats chose to manage their attempts to crowbar the election their way. The Chicago Daleys for Bog's sake. If the presence of those folks anywhere near a ballot process doesn't make you see red you haven't been paying attention.
The shrieking and feces flinging over the 2004 elections merely represent the tertiary stages of
Anti-Bush Derangement Syndrome. Maybe I should start a website MoveOnandGetOverItYouMorons.org
Sheesh.
IBM
Ah yes the F-104. What you evidently fail to remember is that the Starfighter's problems
in German service were traced to their training regimen. When that was fixed their accident
rates declined. Flying high performance aircraft in the strike regime is inherently dangerous
even more so than swanning around at altitiude looking for other aircraft.
Vista on the other hand is a fireball at the end of the runway however its used.
Har-de-har-har.
Need I remind you that by objective measure ( academically at least ) Bush is
the intellectual superior of both his challengers. And that from Division I schools not
East Podunk U.
And by another objective measure, he is a two term President, while you are?
Tool choices these days are all too often a matter of corporate taste.
..... ...
Case in point, I am mandated to use Visual Studio. Its OK an mostly does
what I want it to but it can be maddening trying to figure out why something
that worked yesterday now fails to link and what has changed in the project
properties. Thats the Winders situation.
Now flash forward to my Linux box.
IT Guy: Why do you want to put a server on our corporate network.
Me: Server?????? Its a workstation for doing development!!!!
IT Guy: You're developping on the corporate network????
Me: D'uh yeah! Me and several thousand other folk.
IT Guy: Doesn't development happen in labs?
Me:
Me: Not since the 1990's or so.
This sort of thing is maddening and the IT Guy was mid-level management.
So corporate has a set of tools we are mandated to use for windows and not clue one
about Linux. Fortunately this allows me to more or less set the standards or suggest
them. But it is still a pain.
So the kid went ahead and deleted things things so he could store more of his pictures and music.
// for letting the kid on a biz critical machine.
1. Parent = Idiot
2. Should have made the kid spring for his own storage for things
that aren't education related.
IBM
When I bought my last computer in 1999, I paid something north of $300 for 128M of RAM. Anymore you can buy an entire system for that. Mind you there was a shortage of RAM due to a big quake in Taiwan or at least thats what we were told at the time. And that purchase wasn't in East Podunk, Iowa either, it was smack dab in the middle of Silicon Valley. Any way to involve Rambutt er... Rambus in this?
Of course they're upset since it means they can't foist their backdoors on anyone without an immense amount of difficulty. Would you trust Beijing gummint encryption?
Well, the point is to avoid proprietary file formats. M$ cannot copyright what it doesn't own. An open standard would by definition be open not proprietary. And-uh the problem of M$ and others copyrighting their file formats to extort money from others would probably provoke the banishment of such file formats.
We can expect M$ to fight this tooth and nail because their monopoly is largely dependent on their ability to break things in the OS or application and make the "fix" M$ only. With legally mandated open format conformance they can't do this. This ability is so critical to M$'s biz model that I fully expect to see some attempts made to lock users into their M$ filesystems and claim that the files themselves are still "open format". Good luck but I fully expect to see the attempt made. Nobody would force M$ to comply but they would risk losing a sizable portion of the market and please god the day the Federal Gummint got on the bandwagon would be a black day indeed for Mr Bill.
There was a NASA program called something like ACCESS5 which in part was supposed to study the impact of UAVs operating in the National Air Space. I think it went south last budget though.
On the other hand, Global Hawk flight plans can now be filed just exactly like those for any other aircraft.