Isn't the nature of "coolness" such that other people want to be associated with you in order to raise their social standing?
The "cooler" you are, the more people who want to be associated with you. And the fewer people who can raise your social standing by you associating with them.
At some point you have to stop looking for external validation of your personal preferences.
I can agree with that. But it's not the same as being "cool".
Because you are not the only constituent the government serves.
The discussion was about the petitions on the government's web site. If a petition gets enough support, that means it should be a priority.
The question is, why are they not dealing with the subjects that the people have identified as priorities to many of them?
If all your priorities are #1, do you really have any priorities? There has to be stratification.
Again, the petition site. Did you miss it? It's in the summary.
Staff=people. Do you think that things magically get done? That Obama's staff are not constrained by a 24 hour day?
So now you're claiming that just answering questions takes magic?
No, answering questions does not take magic.
I don't disagree that the issue is important; I disagree that somehow it's cowardly that the administration has decided not to take on this issue at this time.
No. YOUR EXCUSE for why it wouldn't be addressed is cowardly.
Here's what you ORIGINALLY posted:
A simple provision to pay doctors if they discussed end-of-life decisions with a patient became uninformed ranting about how Obama would ration care and make people justify whether they deserved medical treatment or death. Sometimes you have to pick your battles. This one isn't one that the administration wants to fight at this time.
Fuck that! Who cares if the mean people say mean things about him? Most of us got over that in grade school.
If he doesn't fight for what he believes in then he is a coward.
If he doesn't fight because the mean people are mean, then he is a coward.
Yep, having laws automatically expire would (in my opinion) be a good thing.
And I'm a raving Liberal.
On a related note, how about having the various Congress Critters identify ONE law that they would fight to immediately revoke once elected. Per year. And no duplicates! Everyone cannot choose health care reform as what they'd revoke.
We have 200+ years of laws on the books. Let's get some of them cleaned off. And let's use that to process to learn more about the candidates.
So you have unlimited time and energy to fight every fight that comes your way?
Why would it have to be "unlimited"? No one is asking him to colonize the universe.
Also everything is priority #1 in your life and you don't have to let some things wait?
Wouldn't the top priority things be the top priorities? Isn't that what makes the top priorities?
The problem is that this is important to you thus the administration is being cowardly while some people don't give a damn about it.
Nope. You weren't paying attention.
The problem is once the "people" had identified a priority, the response was along the lines of "yeah, so make it easy for Obama to approve it once you get it through Congress and we'll see what we can do".
In fact some people might be upset that the administration spent valuable resources answering questions instead of creating new jobs.
Yeah, because answering questions means that you and your staff cannot be doing ANYTHING else at the same time. And the answering takes so long that it negatively impacts the other tasks WHICH YOU AREN'T DOING IN THE FIRST PLACE WHICH IS WHY YOUR APPROVAL RATING IS SO LOW.
Innovation means jobs. New jobs. Jobs to replace the lost jobs. Software patents (and other overly broad patents) hurt innovation. That means that they hurt jobs.
A simple provision to pay doctors if they discussed end-of-life decisions with a patient became uninformed ranting about how Obama would ration care and make people justify whether they deserved medical treatment or death.
There are people ranting about him not even being born in the USofA.
You CANNOT base policy on what the opposition will say about you.
Man up! Grow a pair of balls and FIGHT FOR WHAT YOU BELIEVE IN.
Innovation isn't going stop. It's just going to die in the USofA. Worldwide, it will continue.
And they outnumber us.
The goal should be to keep it difficult for the big industries to sit back while someone else overtakes us... while making it easy for our home-grown inventors to build the next generation of products.
Instead, we have a situation where the government is protecting the existing businesses at the expense of the next generation.
I think Obama is genuine (at least as genuine as a politician can be) in suggesting that he believes his bill is helpful, but understands it's a non-starter. He has to run around saying they should do it though because otherwise he'll be "the guy with no plan."
In which case he should be finding a way to CHANGE THE SITUATION.
Instead he's capitulating to the Republicans on every single issue that they disagree with.
He should be on TV every single night making his case for his changes directly to the people and naming those who oppose the improvements.
So because the mean people are being mean, he's not going to do ANYTHING?
At least get the legislation STARTED. Then name and shame anyone who tries to stop it. He's the President of the USofA. He gets worldwide coverage of his speeches. Then repeat the process.
There would be change if he was on TV every other week saying Senator X blocked the "tax incentive for working Christian Moms with poor babies who need milk" bill.
Part of politics is being able to frame your opposition as the "bad" guys. Obama doesn't want to do that because he's always looking for a way to compromise with people who are willing to let this country DEFAULT rather than give an inch.
I like candidate Obama a LOT more than President Obama. Oh well, at least he'll be campaigning for the year now.
It's called the "bully pulpit". The President drives the discussion by TALKING ABOUT IT. What the President says gets media coverage. Particularly if it's about jobs and the economy and innovation now.
Since ANY system you use will require that you learn SOMETHING about it your title is misleading.
The scenarios are: 1. Your people can already handle the task 2. Your people need to learn more and do so without additional expenses 3. Your people need to learn more and do so with additional expenses 4. Your people need to learn more and do NOT do so 5. You outsource the project and dump the scenarios onto the outsourcing company.
It doesn't matter which platform you choose. So Linux is still free (and Free like speech) as long as you have a brain and can learn.
The manufacturer should have a list of what serial numbers were sold to whom.
So it should just be a matter of matching the serial numbers to buyers who should have agreed to the export limitations.
In fact, Blue Coat should be ACTIVELY pursuing this avenue of investigation in order to demonstrate that they themselves followed the legal restrictions.
If you really want to do something, find your local Occupy protest and see what kind of help they need to make it through the winter.
Why not do BOTH?
How much does some stationery, envelopes and stamps cost? In time and in money?
The thing is that a PAPER letter has a LOT more weight with elected officials because of what it represents. And it represents someone who is willing to GET OFF HIS ASS and get involved. And that kind of person influences his friends. That is something that you cannot buy.
The same with the protesters at Occupy X. Someone willing to camp out in a tent is someone who won't have any problem standing in a line to vote.
The person staying home and sending them blankets and food is still more likely to vote than someone who isn't doing anything. Even if they aren't as committed as the protesters.
Staying home and doing NOTHING except complaining on/. is exactly what keeps the situation deteriorating the way it has been.
If the constituents of Senator X benefit from his demanding that it be built in his district before he'll vote for it... then he's doing a good job for his constituents.
This is only "waste" when people outside of his constituency look at it. And only then because it does not directly benefit them.
Which is why people are pissed at "Congress" but the re-election rate for Representatives and Senators is so high.
Get rid of the "bad" people in Congress who are grabbing pork for themselves and their districts... but keep our "good" Congress Critters who are looking out for the best interests of our district.
He called on the technologists in the audience to submit their ideas on what those rules should be, and he intends to further crowd source the project for ideas at CIO.gov.
So... "disruptive" and "crowd source". Any others?
âoeGoing forward, we need to embrace modular development, build on open standards, and run our projects in lean startup mode,â he said.
So the crowd sourced plan will be based on open standards to achieve maximum disruption.
Instead of having to go to an office to fill out piles of paper, or waiting for months in an inscrutable process for permits to build projects for example, VanRoekel wants to build mobile apps and web sites that let citizens and businesses interact with the government remotely and conveniently during the flow of their daily lives.
Yes, mobile apps that are crowd sourced should be built on open standards to achieve maximum disruptionability.
Seriously, if you think that people WANT government to be so involved in their lives that they NEED an app to handle their DAILY interaction with it... fuck you.
In many cases, two people doing things that look on the outside to be very similar can lead to wildly divergent results.
That's because the variables also include the people being "managed" and the corporate culture.
How often have people here completed a project DESPITE the manager's attempts to "manage" said project and people?
The upshot of it is that the best managers are unique snowflakes who follow their own rules and are successful, while the worst managers are unique snowflakes who follow their own rules and aren't successful
Pretty much that. But can the successful manager take over the spot of the unsuccessful manager and achieve the same results?
I think Scott Adams said it best about management and statistics. Statistically, SOME average (or even bad) managers will "succeed" just by happening to be in the right place at the right time.
Take a hundred pennies. Toss them into the air. The ones that come up "heads" have "won". Discard the others. Repeat. Some will come up heads again! Discard the others. Repeat. Wow! Some pennies are super achievers. They've come up heads THREE TIMES! Discard the others. Repeat. Now you have the elite pennies. You know that these pennies will "win" no matter what the circumstances. Discard the others. Repeat. The pennies that come up heads this time are the ultra-super-elite pennies. Whatever these pennies do, you should emulate. These pennies really know the situation and are capable of adapting to changing circumstances.
An OS is not a static thing. It gets updated, users configure it etc.
Hence the line about "daily updates" in my post.
You boot the CD and it checks the anti-virus vendor's site for the latest information on what files are where with which hashes. That includes the OS and the applications.
With that, the only place the crackers can hide the viruses are in the user's files. And those files SHOULD be easily movable to a flash drive or such.
The way to defend against it is to boot the AV from CD, there are some that offer that.
That's a good start. But there needs to be more. Such as having multiple hashes of the KNOWN files for the OS and apps.
That way, not only can you check for KNOWN viruses... but you can verify that the files you have do not have UNKNOWN viruses.
The only problem (aside from the daily update thing) would be user-created files. So an easy way to move those files from the machine to something like a flash drive would be handy.
Then do something similar for the registry.
And you'd have a better way of evaluating anti-virus companies. Which of them identify the most files from the most legitimate vendors and how accurately.
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Isn't the nature of "coolness" such that other people want to be associated with you in order to raise their social standing?
The "cooler" you are, the more people who want to be associated with you. And the fewer people who can raise your social standing by you associating with them.
I can agree with that. But it's not the same as being "cool".
The discussion was about the petitions on the government's web site. If a petition gets enough support, that means it should be a priority.
The question is, why are they not dealing with the subjects that the people have identified as priorities to many of them?
Again, the petition site. Did you miss it? It's in the summary.
So now you're claiming that just answering questions takes magic?
No, answering questions does not take magic.
No. YOUR EXCUSE for why it wouldn't be addressed is cowardly.
Here's what you ORIGINALLY posted:
Fuck that! Who cares if the mean people say mean things about him? Most of us got over that in grade school.
If he doesn't fight for what he believes in then he is a coward.
If he doesn't fight because the mean people are mean, then he is a coward.
And it doesn't involve magic.
Yep, having laws automatically expire would (in my opinion) be a good thing.
And I'm a raving Liberal.
On a related note, how about having the various Congress Critters identify ONE law that they would fight to immediately revoke once elected. Per year. And no duplicates! Everyone cannot choose health care reform as what they'd revoke.
We have 200+ years of laws on the books. Let's get some of them cleaned off. And let's use that to process to learn more about the candidates.
Why would it have to be "unlimited"? No one is asking him to colonize the universe.
Wouldn't the top priority things be the top priorities? Isn't that what makes the top priorities?
Nope. You weren't paying attention.
The problem is once the "people" had identified a priority, the response was along the lines of "yeah, so make it easy for Obama to approve it once you get it through Congress and we'll see what we can do".
Yeah, because answering questions means that you and your staff cannot be doing ANYTHING else at the same time. And the answering takes so long that it negatively impacts the other tasks WHICH YOU AREN'T DOING IN THE FIRST PLACE WHICH IS WHY YOUR APPROVAL RATING IS SO LOW.
Innovation means jobs. New jobs. Jobs to replace the lost jobs.
Software patents (and other overly broad patents) hurt innovation.
That means that they hurt jobs.
There are people ranting about him not even being born in the USofA.
You CANNOT base policy on what the opposition will say about you.
Man up! Grow a pair of balls and FIGHT FOR WHAT YOU BELIEVE IN.
Exactly. He will only pass this is enough people get enough votes in Congress to make it politically unsupportable for him to veto it.
In which case, why even have an office of the President?
Where's the media blitz?
Where's the national discussion?
Where's the FAILED bill and the PUBLIC discussion of who killed it?
Innovation isn't going stop.
It's just going to die in the USofA.
Worldwide, it will continue.
And they outnumber us.
The goal should be to keep it difficult for the big industries to sit back while someone else overtakes us ... while making it easy for our home-grown inventors to build the next generation of products.
Instead, we have a situation where the government is protecting the existing businesses at the expense of the next generation.
No he's not. He's out campaigning for re-election.
In which speech did he specifically identify an individual Senator who opposed his bill?
Compare his current behaviour to Bush-2's campaigning for just about anything that he got.
In which case he should be finding a way to CHANGE THE SITUATION.
Instead he's capitulating to the Republicans on every single issue that they disagree with.
He should be on TV every single night making his case for his changes directly to the people and naming those who oppose the improvements.
So because the mean people are being mean, he's not going to do ANYTHING?
At least get the legislation STARTED.
Then name and shame anyone who tries to stop it.
He's the President of the USofA. He gets worldwide coverage of his speeches.
Then repeat the process.
There would be change if he was on TV every other week saying Senator X blocked the "tax incentive for working Christian Moms with poor babies who need milk" bill.
Part of politics is being able to frame your opposition as the "bad" guys. Obama doesn't want to do that because he's always looking for a way to compromise with people who are willing to let this country DEFAULT rather than give an inch.
I like candidate Obama a LOT more than President Obama. Oh well, at least he'll be campaigning for the year now.
It's called the "bully pulpit". The President drives the discussion by TALKING ABOUT IT. What the President says gets media coverage. Particularly if it's about jobs and the economy and innovation now.
By the way, didn't you guys introduce a jobs bill of some kind? So there is a means for you to get legislation started.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/American_Jobs_Act
Since ANY system you use will require that you learn SOMETHING about it your title is misleading.
The scenarios are:
1. Your people can already handle the task
2. Your people need to learn more and do so without additional expenses
3. Your people need to learn more and do so with additional expenses
4. Your people need to learn more and do NOT do so
5. You outsource the project and dump the scenarios onto the outsourcing company.
It doesn't matter which platform you choose. So Linux is still free (and Free like speech) as long as you have a brain and can learn.
Nope. Otherwise we wouldn't be seening all the attempts such as "teach the controversy" and "teach both" in schools.
Maybe on Internet sites it is zealots vs zealots. But in the real world it is zealots vs everyone-else.
And what, exactly, is a "hardcore evolutionist"? Since current medical/biological science is 100% based on evolution.
So far, so good.
Nice. But you haven't identified anyone who is doing that.
But it is easy to find the Creationist zealots.
The manufacturer should have a list of what serial numbers were sold to whom.
So it should just be a matter of matching the serial numbers to buyers who should have agreed to the export limitations.
In fact, Blue Coat should be ACTIVELY pursuing this avenue of investigation in order to demonstrate that they themselves followed the legal restrictions.
Why not do BOTH?
How much does some stationery, envelopes and stamps cost? In time and in money?
The thing is that a PAPER letter has a LOT more weight with elected officials because of what it represents. And it represents someone who is willing to GET OFF HIS ASS and get involved. And that kind of person influences his friends. That is something that you cannot buy.
The same with the protesters at Occupy X.
Someone willing to camp out in a tent is someone who won't have any problem standing in a line to vote.
The person staying home and sending them blankets and food is still more likely to vote than someone who isn't doing anything. Even if they aren't as committed as the protesters.
Staying home and doing NOTHING except complaining on /. is exactly what keeps the situation deteriorating the way it has been.
Get involved. Get as involved as you can be.
Write PAPER letters to your state and national Representatives and Senators (and mayors and governors). Tell them that you want them to OPPOSE this.
Get your friends to write the same kind of PAPER letters to the same people.
If the politicians do not fight this on your behalf, then replace them in the next election cycle.
Get educated. Get motivated. Get involved.
A cynic who stays at home will never change anything.
Government is for handling the jobs that business is not efficient or effective enough to handle.
Business is good for running things that can turn a profit in a competitive environment.
Do not confuse the two.
If the constituents of Senator X benefit from his demanding that it be built in his district before he'll vote for it ... then he's doing a good job for his constituents.
This is only "waste" when people outside of his constituency look at it. And only then because it does not directly benefit them.
Which is why people are pissed at "Congress" but the re-election rate for Representatives and Senators is so high.
Get rid of the "bad" people in Congress who are grabbing pork for themselves and their districts ... but keep our "good" Congress Critters who are looking out for the best interests of our district.
From TFA:
So ... "disruptive" and "crowd source". Any others?
So the crowd sourced plan will be based on open standards to achieve maximum disruption.
Yes, mobile apps that are crowd sourced should be built on open standards to achieve maximum disruptionability.
Seriously, if you think that people WANT government to be so involved in their lives that they NEED an app to handle their DAILY interaction with it ... fuck you.
He's a CIO that's spouting buzz words.
That's because the variables also include the people being "managed" and the corporate culture.
How often have people here completed a project DESPITE the manager's attempts to "manage" said project and people?
Pretty much that. But can the successful manager take over the spot of the unsuccessful manager and achieve the same results?
I think Scott Adams said it best about management and statistics. Statistically, SOME average (or even bad) managers will "succeed" just by happening to be in the right place at the right time.
Take a hundred pennies. Toss them into the air. The ones that come up "heads" have "won".
Discard the others. Repeat.
Some will come up heads again! Discard the others. Repeat.
Wow! Some pennies are super achievers. They've come up heads THREE TIMES! Discard the others. Repeat.
Now you have the elite pennies. You know that these pennies will "win" no matter what the circumstances. Discard the others. Repeat.
The pennies that come up heads this time are the ultra-super-elite pennies. Whatever these pennies do, you should emulate. These pennies really know the situation and are capable of adapting to changing circumstances.
The shorter range means that you won't have as many other access points conflicting with yours.
The only problem I've seen with 5GHz is that fewer end-user devices are supporting it.
Hence the line about "daily updates" in my post.
You boot the CD and it checks the anti-virus vendor's site for the latest information on what files are where with which hashes. That includes the OS and the applications.
With that, the only place the crackers can hide the viruses are in the user's files. And those files SHOULD be easily movable to a flash drive or such.
That's a good start. But there needs to be more. Such as having multiple hashes of the KNOWN files for the OS and apps.
That way, not only can you check for KNOWN viruses ... but you can verify that the files you have do not have UNKNOWN viruses.
The only problem (aside from the daily update thing) would be user-created files. So an easy way to move those files from the machine to something like a flash drive would be handy.
Then do something similar for the registry.
And you'd have a better way of evaluating anti-virus companies. Which of them identify the most files from the most legitimate vendors and how accurately.
There are only so many TSA people you can fit inside an airport.
Let's hire MORE and put them to work ... checking TRUCKS! And buses, yeah! Because that's where the terrorists will strike next.
In the year 2035, 51% of the population will be employed by the DHS/TSA to watch/search the other 49%.
Via The Order of the Stick.
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0327.html