CGI has already received their $678 million dollars.
For that money, the government could have bought half a Watson from IBM!
Actually, I was thinking that healthcare.gov could have been crowd-sourced by a series of questions on Stackoverflow, and just cut and pasting the answers. It wouldn't have been any worse than what CGI produced.
Obamacare says that my life is substandard, but I'd like to keep it anyway.
If you smoke some weed, listen to an old "Yes" album from the 70's and do some whippets, you understand it all and it becomes really clear, but you forget again when the whippets wear off.
Your subject question was the first thing to pop into my mind. The best software development manager that I have had was a mathematics Ph.D., with very little programming experience. He was great in abstracting and explaining problems, and excellent in team and people skills.
An anecdote: He was given a guy who just wasn't good at programming. Instead of booting the guy out, he put the guy in charge of builds, verification, and regression testing. These were all things that nobody else wanted to do. The guy got really excited about the job, and took a lot of load off our hands.
The manager told me later, "Not all programming languages are right for every problem. In the same way, not all people are right for every task. But most people want to do a good job. Find a job that is right for them, and they will motivate themselves and excel at it."
I would have liked to work for that manager until retirement.
Why??? Snowden did far more harm than good. Nothing has been done about anything he revealed, courts have been ruling it's legal.
So you are totally skipping over the whole "lying to congress" thing as if its inconsequential?
If the NSA pays folks to play video games, they will most certainly also pay folks to troll Slashdot. The comment that you responded to above looks, smells, walks and talks like a government flak.
But the real problem is that most folks in the US are more concerned about important things like the future of "Duck Dynasty" and if Kim Kardashian's ass will fit into her wedding dress to notice that a government agency is wildly spinning out of control . . .
they deliberately use their loud RC aircraft to harass people
I think that is the essential part of this issue . . . should people be allowed to use drones to harass other people for anything that they don't like? Hey, look, there's a Catholic Church . . . there's probably a priest raping an altar boy in there. If I launch my fleet of drones, and get all "Ride of the Valkyrie", maybe I will distract the priest from his "Chocolate-Star Fudge-Pack-ula."
Heaven forbid that the Westboro Baptist Church learn how to fly drones.
We'll end up with an escalating "Battle of Britain" drone air war in our skies.
I'm getting tired of writing these letters, yet I'll do it again and remind my "representation" of my position.
Unless you include a huge "donation" check in your letter . . . your "representation" won't even receive your letter. The secretary will just toss it in the trash.
It took a very brave man, Edward R. Murrow ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_R_Murrow ), to have the courage to stand up Senator Joseph McCarthy's communist witch hunt. Obama just isn't the man to do that. But you really can't blame him for that. Not everyone can be a superhero, and that is what the country needs to restore the NSA to what it once was. Old Cold War NSA retirees probably cry themselves to sleep every night when they think about what the NSA has now become. The NSA used to be very discrete, effective and restrained. Now they have gone entirely overboard and out of control. They need a military style stand-down to take an assessment of themselves. Discretion is the better part of valor. I'd like to see an NSA that we could be proud of again . . . not afraid of.
Take a look at the Navy SEALS . . . the best fighting force in the world . . . but the US Army command does not send them off everywhere at a whim. And most of their operations we probably never hear about . . . because they are used very discretely and restrained. The NSA has expanded their surveillance to a point that the world is bound to discover what they are doing . . . because they just can't keep such massive operations secret any more.
If the Navy SEALS came under the command of the NSA, the NSA would deploy the SEALS everywhere to shoot up everyone. And instruct them to search through the dead bodies, to see if any of the dead were, in fact, terrorists.
Many people reject science and education in general.
That is a tough spill to swallow for a lot of people who blame schools for everything. There are kids in school who just don't want to learn. No amount of shiny iPads or newfangled courses will change that. Ask some college kids why they are studying there, and most will answer:
I need to get a college degree to get a job.
. . . not many will say:
I'm here to learn.
This even goes right up to the top of the heap. I've heard premed students complain:
I hate organic chemistry . . . but I need a good grade in it to get into medical school
yes - a third of the American population don't have a basic science education
. . . American folks these days just learn all they know from reality shows . . . maybe we could sneak some science into them . . . ?
Kim Kardashian: The trigonometry of her boobs and butt.
Duck Dynasty: How the development of tools and hunting were crucial to the development of our civilization.
Honey Boo Boo: The metabolism of the human body. What happens to the food we eat? What makes us fat?
On another note, is there anything in the Bible about spying . . . ? Like, no peeping on your neighbor's wife . . . ? If we could convince the Bible-bangers of the nation that the NSA is a God-less nest of sinners doing the work of the Devil, maybe there would be a call for change in the NSA?
"The NSA is not just collecting meta-data . . . they are collecting souls . . . to sell to the Devil . . . !
We were caught abusing the rights of the American people and the people's of many other nations.
Obama said recently in an interview that spying in the US was limited by laws in the US. They he added that for the rest of the world, the NSA is not limited by any laws. So I guess that means that the US doesn't care about breaking laws in other countries.
That's a very sour thought, when you chew on the implications of that statement.
School kids in the US used to be taught that a precise definition of treason was one of most important things that was included in the, now deprecated, US Constitution. It defined treason as: "Allegiance to a foreign country". This was because the British rulers would slap a charge on just about anyone in the colonies they didn't like.
Snowden has always claimed that he was not spying for Russia, nor Brazil, nor Germany, etc. He said he did it for the US.
I think we need to pause and think about the what's really behind the story here:
The Russians put our camera made by our German scientists and your film made by your German scientists into their satellite made by their German scientists.
This rescue will end when the a US nuclear submarine pops up through the ice sheet, and a bunch of marines in snow gear jump out. But then a Russian airplane will toss out a bunch of paratroopers in snow gear will land.
A suspenseful standoff is guaranteed . . .
This stranded tourists and scientists story is just a cover for the public to hide what is really going on . . .
I'm wondering whether this is actually legal, under WTO treaties. Can the US put a tax on imported German cars, to subsidize the US car industry? How about the Germans taxing French wines, to subsidize the German wine industry?
Ironically, one of the French film industry's biggest stars and cultural icons, Gerard Depardieu, just recently renounced his French citizenship, and his now has Russian citizenship.
Why would a French actor dare do such an outrageous thing? Because of high taxes in France.
There are many of us of a certain age (50ish) who remember during summer vacations being told not to be at home until after dark. Seriously.
There are many of us of a certain age (50ish) who remember during summer vacations being told not to be at home until after summer vacation. Seriously.
A better solution would be for Italy to simply lower their taxes
A better solution would be for Italy to simply take a closer look at the shady business and real estate shenanigans of the Vatican. There's lots of profits, legal and illegal, being made there that would drive Jesus to kick over their money changer tables. Jesus would then call for Ballmer to help with the chairs, as well.
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Correction: Before the beginning there was nothing.
Actually, there wasn't any "before" the beginning . . . because the beginning created time itself . . .
CGI has already received their $678 million dollars.
For that money, the government could have bought half a Watson from IBM!
Actually, I was thinking that healthcare.gov could have been crowd-sourced by a series of questions on Stackoverflow, and just cut and pasting the answers. It wouldn't have been any worse than what CGI produced.
Obamacare says that my life is substandard, but I'd like to keep it anyway.
Not that I, as a non-US citizen, or even resident, have a real say on the matter.
Not that I, as a US citizen, have a real say on the matter either.
Here you go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_expansion_of_space#What_space_is_the_universe_expanding_into.3F
It's kinda sorta expanding into itself . . .
If you smoke some weed, listen to an old "Yes" album from the 70's and do some whippets, you understand it all and it becomes really clear, but you forget again when the whippets wear off.
Well, you've heard of them now . . .
It would also be cool to have an ass hole on my forehead.
. . . Google can help you out with that . . .
Your subject question was the first thing to pop into my mind. The best software development manager that I have had was a mathematics Ph.D., with very little programming experience. He was great in abstracting and explaining problems, and excellent in team and people skills.
An anecdote: He was given a guy who just wasn't good at programming. Instead of booting the guy out, he put the guy in charge of builds, verification, and regression testing. These were all things that nobody else wanted to do. The guy got really excited about the job, and took a lot of load off our hands.
The manager told me later, "Not all programming languages are right for every problem. In the same way, not all people are right for every task. But most people want to do a good job. Find a job that is right for them, and they will motivate themselves and excel at it."
I would have liked to work for that manager until retirement.
Why??? Snowden did far more harm than good. Nothing has been done about anything he revealed, courts have been ruling it's legal.
So you are totally skipping over the whole "lying to congress" thing as if its inconsequential?
If the NSA pays folks to play video games, they will most certainly also pay folks to troll Slashdot. The comment that you responded to above looks, smells, walks and talks like a government flak.
But the real problem is that most folks in the US are more concerned about important things like the future of "Duck Dynasty" and if Kim Kardashian's ass will fit into her wedding dress to notice that a government agency is wildly spinning out of control . . .
they deliberately use their loud RC aircraft to harass people
I think that is the essential part of this issue . . . should people be allowed to use drones to harass other people for anything that they don't like? Hey, look, there's a Catholic Church . . . there's probably a priest raping an altar boy in there. If I launch my fleet of drones, and get all "Ride of the Valkyrie", maybe I will distract the priest from his "Chocolate-Star Fudge-Pack-ula."
Heaven forbid that the Westboro Baptist Church learn how to fly drones.
We'll end up with an escalating "Battle of Britain" drone air war in our skies.
I'm getting tired of writing these letters, yet I'll do it again and remind my "representation" of my position.
Unless you include a huge "donation" check in your letter . . . your "representation" won't even receive your letter. The secretary will just toss it in the trash.
If Ayn Rand is still copyrighted, Rand Paul needs to change his first name.
But wasn't there a band in the 80's named D'rand D'rand . . . ?
It took a very brave man, Edward R. Murrow ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_R_Murrow ), to have the courage to stand up Senator Joseph McCarthy's communist witch hunt. Obama just isn't the man to do that. But you really can't blame him for that. Not everyone can be a superhero, and that is what the country needs to restore the NSA to what it once was. Old Cold War NSA retirees probably cry themselves to sleep every night when they think about what the NSA has now become. The NSA used to be very discrete, effective and restrained. Now they have gone entirely overboard and out of control. They need a military style stand-down to take an assessment of themselves. Discretion is the better part of valor. I'd like to see an NSA that we could be proud of again . . . not afraid of.
Take a look at the Navy SEALS . . . the best fighting force in the world . . . but the US Army command does not send them off everywhere at a whim. And most of their operations we probably never hear about . . . because they are used very discretely and restrained. The NSA has expanded their surveillance to a point that the world is bound to discover what they are doing . . . because they just can't keep such massive operations secret any more.
If the Navy SEALS came under the command of the NSA, the NSA would deploy the SEALS everywhere to shoot up everyone. And instruct them to search through the dead bodies, to see if any of the dead were, in fact, terrorists.
. . . meanwhile, all USA Today employees can be sure that their emails are being read and their phones tapped.
. . . you have the right of speech in America . . . and now the NSA and the FBI have the right of free listen.
Oh, and USA Today can expect a tough audit from the IRS next year.
I'm guessing that 2014 will be the year of "The War On Surveillance" . . . but like all other "The War On" wars . . . it is doomed to be lost.
Many people reject science and education in general.
That is a tough spill to swallow for a lot of people who blame schools for everything. There are kids in school who just don't want to learn. No amount of shiny iPads or newfangled courses will change that. Ask some college kids why they are studying there, and most will answer:
I need to get a college degree to get a job.
. . . not many will say:
I'm here to learn.
This even goes right up to the top of the heap. I've heard premed students complain:
I hate organic chemistry . . . but I need a good grade in it to get into medical school
yes - a third of the American population don't have a basic science education
. . . American folks these days just learn all they know from reality shows . . . maybe we could sneak some science into them . . . ?
On another note, is there anything in the Bible about spying . . . ? Like, no peeping on your neighbor's wife . . . ? If we could convince the Bible-bangers of the nation that the NSA is a God-less nest of sinners doing the work of the Devil, maybe there would be a call for change in the NSA?
"The NSA is not just collecting meta-data . . . they are collecting souls . . . to sell to the Devil . . . !
. . . by a team of tricyclists . . . !
We were caught abusing the rights of the American people and the people's of many other nations.
Obama said recently in an interview that spying in the US was limited by laws in the US. They he added that for the rest of the world, the NSA is not limited by any laws. So I guess that means that the US doesn't care about breaking laws in other countries.
That's a very sour thought, when you chew on the implications of that statement.
School kids in the US used to be taught that a precise definition of treason was one of most important things that was included in the, now deprecated, US Constitution. It defined treason as: "Allegiance to a foreign country". This was because the British rulers would slap a charge on just about anyone in the colonies they didn't like.
Snowden has always claimed that he was not spying for Russia, nor Brazil, nor Germany, etc. He said he did it for the US.
So . . .
just thinking about sex, can activate the neurons associated with the physical act of sex
Now, y'all excuse me, I'm off to "boost my brain" . . .
I think we need to pause and think about the what's really behind the story here:
The Russians put our camera made by our German scientists and your film made by your German scientists into their satellite made by their German scientists.
This rescue will end when the a US nuclear submarine pops up through the ice sheet, and a bunch of marines in snow gear jump out. But then a Russian airplane will toss out a bunch of paratroopers in snow gear will land.
A suspenseful standoff is guaranteed . . .
This stranded tourists and scientists story is just a cover for the public to hide what is really going on . . .
...except when the state does it, it is legal.
I'm wondering whether this is actually legal, under WTO treaties. Can the US put a tax on imported German cars, to subsidize the US car industry? How about the Germans taxing French wines, to subsidize the German wine industry?
Ironically, one of the French film industry's biggest stars and cultural icons, Gerard Depardieu, just recently renounced his French citizenship, and his now has Russian citizenship.
Why would a French actor dare do such an outrageous thing? Because of high taxes in France.
Maybe Steve Elop returned to Microsoft and told them that they are on a "burning platform" with Windows 8?
That schtick of his worked wonders at Nokia . . .
There are many of us of a certain age (50ish) who remember during summer vacations being told not to be at home until after dark. Seriously.
There are many of us of a certain age (50ish) who remember during summer vacations being told not to be at home until after summer vacation. Seriously.
Tesla is a danger to the prostitute and coke habits of the CEOs and members of board of every Established Car Maker in the world
. . . not if those CEOs buy Tesla: http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2013/12/26/gm-ford-tesla/4208273/
A better solution would be for Italy to simply lower their taxes
A better solution would be for Italy to simply take a closer look at the shady business and real estate shenanigans of the Vatican. There's lots of profits, legal and illegal, being made there that would drive Jesus to kick over their money changer tables. Jesus would then call for Ballmer to help with the chairs, as well.
Google on "Bishop of Bling" to see what I mean.