Shhhh..... Don't say that too loud. What they need (and using cell phone number provides) is the appearance of preventing the four horsemen from being able to use the service for their goals. It's a nice, big loophole for those who actually want privacy and freedom to slip through.
He was making a point about a completely unrelated issue. The fact that possibly illegals can vote has nothing to do with shoddy voting machines that could possibly allow for rigged elections.
Yes, but I don't see why an application for student loans should be subject to search by the FBI. I really don't see why there's such a special connection between the FSAF (if I got that acronym right) and the FBI that they can't go through the normal channels and get a subpoena for the records if they think that there's probable cause.
One of the things that the Bush administration has been doing while taking away our freedoms and privacy is to do everything it can to remove the checks against the power of the executive branch. Signing statements and the like. If the next administration is like this one, there aren't going to be any checks and balances left.
They're only different by degree. How much money I've borrowed and from whom is still personal information, and if the government is going to access it without probably cause, that's still a pretty serious violation of my privacy, as far as I'm concerned. Where do you draw the line?
Managers of IT projects who don't know much about IT seem to have this incredibly bizarre idea that IT people, programmers and analysts are all interchangeable. You can drop someone from a project two months away from the deadline, bring someone else in who knows nothing about what's going on and the new person will instantly hit the ground running. They also do it again, and again, and again and again. They also equate getting bodies on the project directly with getting it done faster. If something is late and obviously a complete mess it instantly becomes a resource problem. Not that I like calling 'people' 'resources'.
There is a "classic" book, called "The Mythicall Man Month" that describes this problem and why it doesn't work very well. Good reading for anybody in tech. Should be required for any managerial position.
Is flickr's idea of "Safari will work soon" anything like Google's idea of "We'll support Macs soon"? To give google some credit, Google Earth now does work on Macs (and has for several months), but it did take them quite a while.
You've got it backwards. The $10 that he spent a year ago had MORE buying power than the $10 that he didn't spend today, assuming inflation. Inflation makes yesterday's dollars more valuable than today's dollars.
An odd way of looking at it: suppose he invests in marbles. Any money that he doesn't spend on games, he spends on marbles. He could have bought n marbles with $10 a year ago, so in opportunity cost, he paid n marbles a year ago. So the total cost of the game is $40 + n marbles. Today, those $10 could buy.97 * n marbles (assuming 3% inflation). So if he were to pay the whole $50 today, it would cost him.97 * n marbles + $40. In the pre-pay scenario, he pays money when it's worth more. In the second scenario, he pays all of the money when they money is worth less anyway.
The objection is to comments (from the summary) like: "They are able to rotate the axis to every possible direction...." The submitter clearly is thinking of a spinning ball, but that is incorrect. Calling the angular momentum of an electron "spin" is one thing, going a step further and talking as if it's really spinning is just wrong.
Many places in the bible specifically say that homosexuality is a sin punishable by death in the Old Testament. To change God's laws and replace them with your own interpretations is something that can be a damnable heresy.
The bible also says that eating shrimp is a sin punishable by death. You eat shrimp? You should die, by your own arguments! You choose to interpret it in some other way than literally? That's a "damnable heresy", by your own words! So tell me: do you eat shrimp or other shellfish? If so, you're a hypocrite who selectively ignores what you find to be inconvenient rather than face up to the fact that the bible is a very long set of parables, and nothing more.
ugh. we made the move from boston to colorado a few years ago, and are itching to return return to a coast. Sure, the cost of living is lower (but housing is damned expensive), there are jobs, and there's less congestion. BUT it's like living on the moon -- denver/boulder are a joke, the locals are cowboys trying to be high-tech, and the weather sucks. bad. The talent pool is extremely limited for what I do, so I'm in high demand, but who cares, I'd rather have a life than live like this.
Okay, I've gotta call you out on this one. We moved from Boston to Colorado last year. Housing: not even close. We have a house that's 2x as big, 35 years younger and much nicer in a suburb 40 minutes commute (at rush hour, which is very short) from downtown Denver than our house 60 minute commute (at rush hour - much longer) from downtown Boston was. Housing is pretty damn cheap here.
And weather.... What's wrong with the 300 days of sunny weather / year here? Do you really like the oppressive humidity in Boston? Fine, Denver gets 20 inches of snow more per year than Boston.... But it melts at least as quickly.
Please, please, please have some supporting proof for your claim.
see: http://terrorwatchlist.org/About_Us.html/ (at the bottom). I can't give you a link about the teddy bear, but it's true. And of course, that's the thing about the terror watchlist. There's really no way to get "proof" that anybody's on it.
First and foremost, remember that there is no such thing as a free lunch. If it sounds too good to be true, then it is. You're not going to get rich off of this money, you should plan on slowly growing it.
The stock market sounds like a bad idea to me. If you're investing in a 10+ year time frame, then it's a good idea, but there's a good chance that you will lose money in the next year or two if you invest it in the stock market. Really, finding a good money market account or investing in some CDs (staggering the maturity dates to make sure that there's always some money available) is the best way for you to make some money off of it and to make sure that it doesn't disappear. I'm not sure that you're going to beat the interest you're paying on the loans by much with that strategy, but you've got to decide what your risk tolerance is.
You've had a bit too much of the MS kool aid, methinks. Bill Gates did not "create" any industry. IBM and Apple were "creating" personal computers and their operating systems before Microsoft. So were several other companies. Microsoft has always been good at one thing: marketing other peoples' ideas as their own.
Just a question, since you talk about "living inside a nuclear reactor". Do you understand that electromagnetic radiation (cell phone tower) is completely different from nuclear radiation?
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I agree... sort of. I have one of the Head First books (something about CSS and HTML - needed to learn CSS). As far as teaching goes, it's good. I skimmed the book pretty quickly (because I had some familiarity with the subject matter to begin with). However, the book is now useless. The index is absolutely atrocious (of the HTML/CSS book, that is - I have no experience with the Ajax book). It is completely unusable as a reference - the only way to refer to anything in the book is to go back and read the whole thing again, because there's no other way to find a piece of content. Any book about CSS whose index doesn't have an entry for "text-align" has a real problem.
For crying out loud, read the Oregon Herald article that I linked. It says "Pentagon drills were conducted in 2000-2001 simulating suicide hijacking attacks on the World Trade Center". They knew that this was a distinct possibility. They didn't do those drills just for shits and giggles. Georgie decided that everything that anything that the previous administration had decided (see OSHA regulations, pollution regulations, etc) was not worth doing, and turned his back on it. Including fighting terrorism. How blind can you be?
So, yes, given the information that he was given, Bush was supposed to figure it out. Or he was supposed to assign resources in his administration to figure it out. But he was too focused on missile defense and Iraq to care.
Do you recall during the debates before the 2000 election, Dubya commented that Clinton had recently (I'm paraphrasing here) launced a million dollar missile at a tent in a desert, and how he would never waste our money that way? I'll refresh your memory: that tent in the desert had held Osama bin Laden until about 15 minutes before the airstrike. Clinton was using the intelligence that he had to try to remove bin Laden as a threat. When Clinton handed over the keys to the white house to Dubya, Dubya was told that the single most important thing his administration had to worry about was terrorism. On 8/6/2001, Dubya received (but didn't read) a briefing entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US". His administration never made any attempt to investigate any terrorism, and in fact, ignored Richard Clarke's warnings that the administration needed to be paying attention to this problem.
A month before 9/11 (on 8/6/2001), Bush was given a "Presidential Daily Briefing" entitled "Bin Laden determined to strike in US". If you can show me such solid evidence that FDR knew of the attack on Pearl Harbor more than a month beforehand yet did nothing, then your question is relevant. Otherwise, there is no parallel.
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Shhhh..... Don't say that too loud. What they need (and using cell phone number provides) is the appearance of preventing the four horsemen from being able to use the service for their goals. It's a nice, big loophole for those who actually want privacy and freedom to slip through.
He was making a point about a completely unrelated issue. The fact that possibly illegals can vote has nothing to do with shoddy voting machines that could possibly allow for rigged elections.
Yes, but I don't see why an application for student loans should be subject to search by the FBI. I really don't see why there's such a special connection between the FSAF (if I got that acronym right) and the FBI that they can't go through the normal channels and get a subpoena for the records if they think that there's probable cause.
Checks and balances - gotta love'em.
One of the things that the Bush administration has been doing while taking away our freedoms and privacy is to do everything it can to remove the checks against the power of the executive branch. Signing statements and the like. If the next administration is like this one, there aren't going to be any checks and balances left.
They're only different by degree. How much money I've borrowed and from whom is still personal information, and if the government is going to access it without probably cause, that's still a pretty serious violation of my privacy, as far as I'm concerned. Where do you draw the line?
Managers of IT projects who don't know much about IT seem to have this incredibly bizarre idea that IT people, programmers and analysts are all interchangeable. You can drop someone from a project two months away from the deadline, bring someone else in who knows nothing about what's going on and the new person will instantly hit the ground running. They also do it again, and again, and again and again. They also equate getting bodies on the project directly with getting it done faster. If something is late and obviously a complete mess it instantly becomes a resource problem. Not that I like calling 'people' 'resources'.
There is a "classic" book, called "The Mythicall Man Month" that describes this problem and why it doesn't work very well. Good reading for anybody in tech. Should be required for any managerial position.Is flickr's idea of "Safari will work soon" anything like Google's idea of "We'll support Macs soon"? To give google some credit, Google Earth now does work on Macs (and has for several months), but it did take them quite a while.
You've got it backwards. The $10 that he spent a year ago had MORE buying power than the $10 that he didn't spend today, assuming inflation. Inflation makes yesterday's dollars more valuable than today's dollars. An odd way of looking at it: suppose he invests in marbles. Any money that he doesn't spend on games, he spends on marbles. He could have bought n marbles with $10 a year ago, so in opportunity cost, he paid n marbles a year ago. So the total cost of the game is $40 + n marbles. Today, those $10 could buy .97 * n marbles (assuming 3% inflation). So if he were to pay the whole $50 today, it would cost him .97 * n marbles + $40. In the pre-pay scenario, he pays money when it's worth more. In the second scenario, he pays all of the money when they money is worth less anyway.
The objection is to comments (from the summary) like: "They are able to rotate the axis to every possible direction...." The submitter clearly is thinking of a spinning ball, but that is incorrect. Calling the angular momentum of an electron "spin" is one thing, going a step further and talking as if it's really spinning is just wrong.
Aah, yes. This lovely argument, yet again:
Many places in the bible specifically say that homosexuality is a sin punishable by death in the Old Testament. To change God's laws and replace them with your own interpretations is something that can be a damnable heresy.
The bible also says that eating shrimp is a sin punishable by death. You eat shrimp? You should die, by your own arguments! You choose to interpret it in some other way than literally? That's a "damnable heresy", by your own words! So tell me: do you eat shrimp or other shellfish? If so, you're a hypocrite who selectively ignores what you find to be inconvenient rather than face up to the fact that the bible is a very long set of parables, and nothing more.
ugh. we made the move from boston to colorado a few years ago, and are itching to return return to a coast. Sure, the cost of living is lower (but housing is damned expensive), there are jobs, and there's less congestion. BUT it's like living on the moon -- denver/boulder are a joke, the locals are cowboys trying to be high-tech, and the weather sucks. bad. The talent pool is extremely limited for what I do, so I'm in high demand, but who cares, I'd rather have a life than live like this.
Okay, I've gotta call you out on this one. We moved from Boston to Colorado last year. Housing: not even close. We have a house that's 2x as big, 35 years younger and much nicer in a suburb 40 minutes commute (at rush hour, which is very short) from downtown Denver than our house 60 minute commute (at rush hour - much longer) from downtown Boston was. Housing is pretty damn cheap here.
And weather.... What's wrong with the 300 days of sunny weather / year here? Do you really like the oppressive humidity in Boston? Fine, Denver gets 20 inches of snow more per year than Boston.... But it melts at least as quickly.
Please, please, please have some supporting proof for your claim.
see: http://terrorwatchlist.org/About_Us.html/ (at the bottom). I can't give you a link about the teddy bear, but it's true. And of course, that's the thing about the terror watchlist. There's really no way to get "proof" that anybody's on it.
First and foremost, remember that there is no such thing as a free lunch. If it sounds too good to be true, then it is. You're not going to get rich off of this money, you should plan on slowly growing it.
The stock market sounds like a bad idea to me. If you're investing in a 10+ year time frame, then it's a good idea, but there's a good chance that you will lose money in the next year or two if you invest it in the stock market. Really, finding a good money market account or investing in some CDs (staggering the maturity dates to make sure that there's always some money available) is the best way for you to make some money off of it and to make sure that it doesn't disappear. I'm not sure that you're going to beat the interest you're paying on the loans by much with that strategy, but you've got to decide what your risk tolerance is.
My 3-year-old nephew is on the list. This has resulted in such events as him getting into a tugging match with a TSA screener over his teddy bear....
My effective federal tax rate last year was 5.5% because of deductions and credits....
You've had a bit too much of the MS kool aid, methinks. Bill Gates did not "create" any industry. IBM and Apple were "creating" personal computers and their operating systems before Microsoft. So were several other companies. Microsoft has always been good at one thing: marketing other peoples' ideas as their own.
Maybe money is the problem....
Just a question, since you talk about "living inside a nuclear reactor". Do you understand that electromagnetic radiation (cell phone tower) is completely different from nuclear radiation?
I agree... sort of. I have one of the Head First books (something about CSS and HTML - needed to learn CSS). As far as teaching goes, it's good. I skimmed the book pretty quickly (because I had some familiarity with the subject matter to begin with). However, the book is now useless. The index is absolutely atrocious (of the HTML/CSS book, that is - I have no experience with the Ajax book). It is completely unusable as a reference - the only way to refer to anything in the book is to go back and read the whole thing again, because there's no other way to find a piece of content. Any book about CSS whose index doesn't have an entry for "text-align" has a real problem.
You can configure Panther to only connect to trusted networks, too.
For crying out loud, read the Oregon Herald article that I linked. It says "Pentagon drills were conducted in 2000-2001 simulating suicide hijacking attacks on the World Trade Center". They knew that this was a distinct possibility. They didn't do those drills just for shits and giggles. Georgie decided that everything that anything that the previous administration had decided (see OSHA regulations, pollution regulations, etc) was not worth doing, and turned his back on it. Including fighting terrorism. How blind can you be?
Well, if you read the http://files.findlaw.com/news.findlaw.com/hdocs/do cs/terrorism/80601pdb.pdfpresidential daily briefing that I mentioned, it does mention hijacking planes in a couple of places. Or, you can read about all of the warnings that the government had that terrorists were planning on using planes as bombs http://www.oregonherald.com/n/trueblood/condi's_bi g_con.htmlhere.
So, yes, given the information that he was given, Bush was supposed to figure it out. Or he was supposed to assign resources in his administration to figure it out. But he was too focused on missile defense and Iraq to care.
Do you have a source for this?
Do you recall during the debates before the 2000 election, Dubya commented that Clinton had recently (I'm paraphrasing here) launced a million dollar missile at a tent in a desert, and how he would never waste our money that way? I'll refresh your memory: that tent in the desert had held Osama bin Laden until about 15 minutes before the airstrike. Clinton was using the intelligence that he had to try to remove bin Laden as a threat. When Clinton handed over the keys to the white house to Dubya, Dubya was told that the single most important thing his administration had to worry about was terrorism. On 8/6/2001, Dubya received (but didn't read) a briefing entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US". His administration never made any attempt to investigate any terrorism, and in fact, ignored Richard Clarke's warnings that the administration needed to be paying attention to this problem.
Now tell me, who didn't try to stop 9/11?
A month before 9/11 (on 8/6/2001), Bush was given a "Presidential Daily Briefing" entitled "Bin Laden determined to strike in US". If you can show me such solid evidence that FDR knew of the attack on Pearl Harbor more than a month beforehand yet did nothing, then your question is relevant. Otherwise, there is no parallel.