Sure it is. The people who wrote it were engaged in a revolution against the greatest superpower of their day. This superpower held a very dim view of such traitors, and those revolutionaries knew that if they failed they would surely die gruesomely at the hands of the English. As Ben Franklin said, "We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately." They were willing to die for the freedoms they enshrined in the Constituation. Why aren't you?
Does that option exist on the iPhone version of the site? I have a "Remember Me" button which is, to be sure, extremely handy, but I still have to hit "Sign On". I can't find any other options on the iPhone version of the site.
I understand his point fine. I even agree with it. But the fact of the matter is that this mission cost well over one billion dollars, which contradicts the basic statement he made in the original post.
What is it with space advocates and facts, never the twain shall meet? Any time you point out that things aren't as rosy as stated, you get all kinds of wacky defensive maneuvering instead of a simple "you're right about that, but".
There are quite a few people out there who get paid to review books and sports cars. I don't know about the sodas.
In any case, you got things backwards. You don't have to do everything you love for a living. Just find one thing that you love that you can also get money from.
If there is nothing you love that will give you money, then somewhere along the line you screwed up. But it's not too late to change. Start exploring career options and see if you can find something you love. You're bound to come across something if you look hard enough.
When I interview people for the security force, I always ask them to bring in a dead body. Anyone who does is rejected because I can't trust them to follow the law.
I understand what it means, and I realize it's a bargain. Still, it's a budget safely in the billions, and thus is a bad example to use when you're trying to show that you don't need billions.
Speed is a good point. Meebo is plenty fast once you're in it, but getting into it is not the best. This is especially true since Meebo forces you to click a sign-in button, whereas AIM just remembers who you are. If you're jumping into it a lot, this definitely makes a difference.
As for having the server store messages, I believe AIM is doing this for all clients now. It used to be that if you sent a message to someone who was signed off, the message was lost. A few months ago they switched to a Yahoo-style system where such messages are stored, and then delivered at next sign-in. However, the official AIM client is able to make it look like you're still signed in ever after you quit the app, which helps make it more seamless.
Certainly Meebo still has a place, at least until somebody releases a good multi-network client.
What's so great about AIM compared to a site like meebo.com? I'm asking legitimately, because I tried out AIM and just don't see the advantage. Meebo manages to look and perform like a native app, and it supports multiple services to boot. If AIM supported push messaging then that would be a big advantage, but from the reviews it seems that they haven't gotten to that part yet, and the rest of it seems to work basically the same.
I don't get it, you're so excited about official third-party applications that you scrubbed your phone and downgraded to a firmware version that doesn't support them?
That "emotional/philosophical bullshit" is often what causes a programmer to choose the technique that will scale enough to still be viable in a year, rather than the easier one that will fall down in a month. It's often what causes a programmer to write clear code for the next guy, instead of spaghetti that's easy to turn out now.
And the fact of the matter is that, as somebody who just codes for the money, you are less valuable than somebody who codes because he loves it, all else being equal.
Actually you didn't ask a question about that part, you just said, "Basing your entire vote off one decision is silly." With an obvious implication.
Anyway, I don't know who's better. The Libertarian or Green candidate may be worth voting for. If not, I'll just write somebody worthwhile in. Maybe Schwarzenegger, or Jesse Ventura. I have no real strong feelings about whether McCain or Obama is better now, so I'm not worried about "throwing my vote away".
I'll vote for whatever third party I won't have to retch over. As far basing my entire vote off one decision, that's not what I'm doing. Please don't jump to conclusions. My support of Obama was a very close-run thing to begin with, and this is just the thing that pushed it over the edge.
Actually you can still take screenshots. There are three easy ways. One is to use Grab.app. Another is to use the 'screencapture' command line tool in Terminal. And lastly you can use any third-party screen capture program. Apple half-assedly only disables the standard keyboard shortcuts. This is typical of their compliance with required terms for media playback. For example, the standard DVD player contract also requires making a reasonable effort to disable debuggers. Apple does this by calling ptrace(PT_DENY_ATTACH, 0, 0, 0) during application startup. This causes the application to crash if it's being run in the debugger, and causes any debugger attached to the application later to crash. It's laughably easy to work around, though; just set a breakpoint on the ptrace function, then tell the debugger to return immediately when it's hit. Presto!
I'm sick of voting for the lesser of two evils. I did it in 2004 and felt terrible about it later. I thought Obama might be a guy I could vote for without having to rationalize it (and did so in the primaries), but I guess I was wrong.
CIA is semi-military, mind you, and cooperates highly with military - they're not strictly under a civilian umbrella
They aren't under the DoD, they don't draw from military budgets, they don't have the same concept of a chain of command, you can't get thrown in jail if you quit before your term expires, they don't follow the UCMJ, etc. etc. In what way are they semi-military?
The real trouble is that most people don't understand the concept of the Rule of Law. The law is not just a bunch of rules that the police bust you on if you break. They are, in theory, the ultimate authority in the country, above any person and any branch of government.
One man's "terrorist" is another man's freedom fighter. There's nothing inherently bad about the term, except for the unnecessary connotations that we've given it.
There's an easy way to avoid the problems that Obama is facing: don't make promises you can't keep.
There's a big difference between Kerry-style "flip-flopping", where you change your mind later, and Obama-style promise-breaking, where you promise that you will never vote for X, and then you go and vote for X anyway.
So logically I can't see any reason for him to have done this other then he thought it was the best course of action for us. If he is right or not is different story.
Most politicians think that they're taking the best course of action for us. Bush thinks so. Clinton thought so. Bush's daddy thought so, Reagan thought so, and so on down the line. I really don't give a crap about this, because they all have it. You can bet your ass that McCain will do what he thinks is best for us, and Obama will do what he thinks is best for us.
I don't want a President who will do what he thinks is best for the country. I want a President who will do what I think is right.
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Sure it is. The people who wrote it were engaged in a revolution against the greatest superpower of their day. This superpower held a very dim view of such traitors, and those revolutionaries knew that if they failed they would surely die gruesomely at the hands of the English. As Ben Franklin said, "We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately." They were willing to die for the freedoms they enshrined in the Constituation. Why aren't you?
Does that option exist on the iPhone version of the site? I have a "Remember Me" button which is, to be sure, extremely handy, but I still have to hit "Sign On". I can't find any other options on the iPhone version of the site.
I understand his point fine. I even agree with it. But the fact of the matter is that this mission cost well over one billion dollars, which contradicts the basic statement he made in the original post.
What is it with space advocates and facts, never the twain shall meet? Any time you point out that things aren't as rosy as stated, you get all kinds of wacky defensive maneuvering instead of a simple "you're right about that, but".
There are quite a few people out there who get paid to review books and sports cars. I don't know about the sodas.
In any case, you got things backwards. You don't have to do everything you love for a living. Just find one thing that you love that you can also get money from.
If there is nothing you love that will give you money, then somewhere along the line you screwed up. But it's not too late to change. Start exploring career options and see if you can find something you love. You're bound to come across something if you look hard enough.
When I interview people for the security force, I always ask them to bring in a dead body. Anyone who does is rejected because I can't trust them to follow the law.
I understand what it means, and I realize it's a bargain. Still, it's a budget safely in the billions, and thus is a bad example to use when you're trying to show that you don't need billions.
ESA says the total cost of Ulysses has been about 1 billion Euro, which is about $1.5 billion US. Might want to try a different example.
How do you plan to arrange that close encounter when its current orbit takes it nowhere near Jupiter, genius?
Speed is a good point. Meebo is plenty fast once you're in it, but getting into it is not the best. This is especially true since Meebo forces you to click a sign-in button, whereas AIM just remembers who you are. If you're jumping into it a lot, this definitely makes a difference.
As for having the server store messages, I believe AIM is doing this for all clients now. It used to be that if you sent a message to someone who was signed off, the message was lost. A few months ago they switched to a Yahoo-style system where such messages are stored, and then delivered at next sign-in. However, the official AIM client is able to make it look like you're still signed in ever after you quit the app, which helps make it more seamless.
Certainly Meebo still has a place, at least until somebody releases a good multi-network client.
What's so great about AIM compared to a site like meebo.com? I'm asking legitimately, because I tried out AIM and just don't see the advantage. Meebo manages to look and perform like a native app, and it supports multiple services to boot. If AIM supported push messaging then that would be a big advantage, but from the reviews it seems that they haven't gotten to that part yet, and the rest of it seems to work basically the same.
I don't get it, you're so excited about official third-party applications that you scrubbed your phone and downgraded to a firmware version that doesn't support them?
That "emotional/philosophical bullshit" is often what causes a programmer to choose the technique that will scale enough to still be viable in a year, rather than the easier one that will fall down in a month. It's often what causes a programmer to write clear code for the next guy, instead of spaghetti that's easy to turn out now.
And the fact of the matter is that, as somebody who just codes for the money, you are less valuable than somebody who codes because he loves it, all else being equal.
Yeah, sorry, plans which require a referral from an employee don't count.
Actually you didn't ask a question about that part, you just said, "Basing your entire vote off one decision is silly." With an obvious implication.
Anyway, I don't know who's better. The Libertarian or Green candidate may be worth voting for. If not, I'll just write somebody worthwhile in. Maybe Schwarzenegger, or Jesse Ventura. I have no real strong feelings about whether McCain or Obama is better now, so I'm not worried about "throwing my vote away".
I'll vote for whatever third party I won't have to retch over. As far basing my entire vote off one decision, that's not what I'm doing. Please don't jump to conclusions. My support of Obama was a very close-run thing to begin with, and this is just the thing that pushed it over the edge.
Actually you can still take screenshots. There are three easy ways. One is to use Grab.app. Another is to use the 'screencapture' command line tool in Terminal. And lastly you can use any third-party screen capture program. Apple half-assedly only disables the standard keyboard shortcuts. This is typical of their compliance with required terms for media playback. For example, the standard DVD player contract also requires making a reasonable effort to disable debuggers. Apple does this by calling ptrace(PT_DENY_ATTACH, 0, 0, 0) during application startup. This causes the application to crash if it's being run in the debugger, and causes any debugger attached to the application later to crash. It's laughably easy to work around, though; just set a breakpoint on the ptrace function, then tell the debugger to return immediately when it's hit. Presto!
Sure, let's not let anything like a concrete voting record get in the way of a good vibe.
I'm sick of voting for the lesser of two evils. I did it in 2004 and felt terrible about it later. I thought Obama might be a guy I could vote for without having to rationalize it (and did so in the primaries), but I guess I was wrong.
CIA is semi-military, mind you, and cooperates highly with military - they're not strictly under a civilian umbrella
They aren't under the DoD, they don't draw from military budgets, they don't have the same concept of a chain of command, you can't get thrown in jail if you quit before your term expires, they don't follow the UCMJ, etc. etc. In what way are they semi-military?
The real trouble is that most people don't understand the concept of the Rule of Law. The law is not just a bunch of rules that the police bust you on if you break. They are, in theory, the ultimate authority in the country, above any person and any branch of government.
One man's "terrorist" is another man's freedom fighter. There's nothing inherently bad about the term, except for the unnecessary connotations that we've given it.
There's an easy way to avoid the problems that Obama is facing: don't make promises you can't keep.
There's a big difference between Kerry-style "flip-flopping", where you change your mind later, and Obama-style promise-breaking, where you promise that you will never vote for X, and then you go and vote for X anyway.
So logically I can't see any reason for him to have done this other then he thought it was the best course of action for us. If he is right or not is different story.
Most politicians think that they're taking the best course of action for us. Bush thinks so. Clinton thought so. Bush's daddy thought so, Reagan thought so, and so on down the line. I really don't give a crap about this, because they all have it. You can bet your ass that McCain will do what he thinks is best for us, and Obama will do what he thinks is best for us.
I don't want a President who will do what he thinks is best for the country. I want a President who will do what I think is right.
Answer me the same question for deserters.
I'm just curious, is this sentence supposed to be relevant to anything being discussed, or did you just throw that in there for fun?