True libertarians are against the PATRIOT Act, the Iraq War, Medicaid Part D, the banned use of new stem cell lines, and are FOR abortion rights.
What gets me is when the left pretends that they're any different than the right on ANY other issue. It would be funny if it were not so pathetic, the left will only tolerate Republicans who parrot their lines on infanticide. That's why they tolerate Guiliani, Ridge and Romney. Not that they actively support them, but they pretend that they would at primary time.
If I were to arrange a thousand people to turn up at the corporate headquarters of Visa, and then simply sit down on the ground outside the main doors, would it be a crime?
So, how can it be a crime if I achieve the same thing in cyberspace?
It would be a crime if you did that at an abortion clinic. 10 years in Federal prison and $100K+ in fines.
The only confusion is on the part of those who wish to subvert the obvious meaning of the text of the constitution. I find it amusing that both the left and the right engage in this activity.
The left acted like they were genuinely surprised when the SCOTUS decided that the Second Amendment actually means what it says it means. Now, the hard right is making a fool of itself over this birther nonsense.
Whether you're a citizen by geography of your birth or your lineage, if you're a citizen on the day of your birth, you're clearly a natural born citizen.
No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
It's not a problem for McCain. It's not a problem for Obama. Whether he was born in Hawaii, Kenya or on the moon. The only way to constitutionally disqualify him is to prove that someone else was his mother.
We should unionize. Conservative rhetoric aside, labor unions provide training, institute quality standards and work procedures.
I wish I had points to mod this funny. Have you ever had to deal with a Union? Unions enforce the supremacy of seniority, how many times have you had a boss or manager who couldn't find his ass with both hands but he had been there forever so he still had a job? Unionizing would compound this problem a hundredfold. In technology, you know as well as I do, that Rockstar programmers are out there and of all ages. Union rules will absolutely prevent a workplace from bringing in a younger worker above an older that they are better than. You can't have thought this idea through.
The partnership system in the steamfitters and pipefitters unions could be emulated as pair programming is often much higher quality than code produced by lone programmers, or ad hoc hastily-assembled teams.
Think of it as a contracting outfit, only with the hefty cut that normally goes to the contract brokers -- going directly into your pension plan -- a REAL pension plan -- which you get to take with you from job to job.
Training, standards, a partner system, pensions, health plans. All the things we could get small businesses off the hook of having to provide.
Where do you think all of that comes from? Small businesses will be paying for it one way or the other. There will be increased labor costs and as a result, fewer jobs available in our chosen career field. It's not just rhetoric, it's economic fact. Look at Detroit. When the rest of the nation was maxed at about 10% unemployment, they were looking at 15%. Southern states that are often "Right to Work" states and they can't force people to join unions are booming.
And, union labor could actually undercut the likes of TekSystems and Adecco in a fair fight, lol.
How? By magic? For the sake of argument, let's say you succeed in unionizing the IT in a workplace. What's to stop them from offering to double the salary of your best people to become "Managers" and then having a bunch of scabs telecommute for 40% less than they were paying the rest?
Hunh? Did you mean hundreds of thousands? Hundreds is lunch money.
Lunch money? For whom? Rush Limbaugh and Michael Moore? I have spent that kind of money at the bar however.
How much does it cost to set up a website for your "Consulting Business" and buy a copy of Quickbooks Pro? Hundreds of dollars, depending on the kind of business.
HR tends to think of programmers as production line workers.. and as much as I hate to admit it, there really is truth in that.
Except that it's easy to see if an assembly line worker isn't doing a good job. I know virtually nothing about making automobiles, but I could watch someone painting body panels and have some idea of whether or not he's doing a good job.
And I thought the whole "managers can write code thing" died with COBOL.
Huh? So...we should hobble ourselves to give them a chance?
I know that's not your point, but I don't see what is. They have had 0 chance against us on the battlefield for the last 50 years.
Fair question, I suppose that I wasn't clear enough in my original post. My point is that we have to remember that we are fighting an enemy who has no problem with engaging civilian targets. They engage those targets because they couldn't best our military technology from 20 years ago.
I'm saying that instead of breaking our arms patting ourselves on the backs, we should be thinking about how they will attempt to attack us instead of getting trounced by our military.
OK. By that same logic we should put some easy targets out there for the bad guys to shoot, maim, murder, slice up and generally do bad things to. Are you volunteering for said role?
You can't negotiate with a rabid dog. You put the rabid dog down and vaccinate the other dogs that aren't infected. Same with terrorists and jihadists. Put 'em down and work on "converting" those that aren't rabid.
You miss my point. I'm not saying that we should provide easy targets. I'm saying that we shouldn't delude ourselves about the result of increasing our military might. I'm saying that our enemies will seek out easier targets and that means civilians.
If they have zero chance against us on the battle field, they'll shift the focus of their attacks. Namely, more terrorist attacks. IEDs, roadside bombs and attacks on American civilians.
Because we're not born with immunity to most things. We acquire it from low level exposure. If you remove all of those initial low level exposures from someone's life, they won't acquire immunity. It makes perfect sense.
Haha! Because women are gold-diggers rather than people with diverse and complex attractions and that's why you they sleep with other, richer men and not you! Classic!...Wait, they also find penniless badasses attractive? Brb, reevaluating.
Whether they admit it or not, women seek men who will contribute something to offspring. For some, what they seek is financial security. Why else would we have terms like "Good provider." when they discuss potential mates? Other women prefer physicality, a strong man will make strong children who will have a good chance at survival.
When you learn to read the signs that they put out, you know when to pass on a woman that would be a waste of your time or how to manipulate her perception of you to get closer to her. I happen to be lucky in that I'm over 6 feet tall and over 200 pounds. I'm not really in good shape, but if I dress properly, I can make it look like I'm more muscular than I am. I also make a decent living, but I'm not well off. However, I make enough to appear that I make more than I do. I'm off of the market now, but when I was still out there I learned a lot by watching guys who were successful with women and adapting their techniques to suit me.
What's crazy is that there is a subculture based on this, they call themselves Pick Up Artists (PUAs). I wish I had discovered the basics when I was younger.
I recently introduced my Fiance's sons to that game. It was made before they were even born but apparently it stands up quite well beside all of the eye candy of today's games.
Certification entails a third-party performing various tests and audits on the software and giving it the green light. If other open source projects can follow suit, this will be another step in getting business folk to see that open source is ready for enterprise use.
No, it's not. The tech savvy business people already know and those who don't get it will continue to not get it. Remember, there were people who insisted on buying IBM computers even after the Lenovo deal, because that's how PHBs and suits think.
I am so terribly sorry, you were looking for the racism thread.
No. I wasn't. I'll make that clear later.
Despite you low ID number I feel that I must tell you that here on Slashdot we don't really go in for the whole "Negro Bashing" thing.
Good, because that's not what I was doing. I was guilty-white-liberal bashing.
It might have been different when you started, and I really don't think it was, but now a days we don't actually bother with people's color because, well it has nothing to do with anything.
Obama's color means nothing to me.
To help you understand my message I will use prejudicial terms so you can understand.
I know Kikes that are poor, Spics that dont pick fruit, Niggers that suck at sports and Faggots that don't like show tunes.
And do your friends know that you use these terms to refer to them?
See? Prejudice sucks - it doesn't help anyone at all.
Interestingly though - I now know someone that thinks 'Chocolate' is a special word for people who have dark skin. And I guess I also know someone that thinks the President is the Messiah. No one in the Theological world ever thought he was the Second Coming.
Ray Nagin, the mayor of New Orleans responded to accusations that he didn't want black people to return to the city after Katrina by pledging to keep New Orleans a "chocolate city". IOW, full of black people.
But had you taken the time to look at my profile to get some idea of who I am, you'd know that my reference wasn't racist against Obama. I too an black. I used the term created by Bill Maher, a liberal former Catholic Jew, "President Chocolate Jesus" refers to how white liberals think that they're somehow more enlightened because they supported a black man whom they knew nothing about.
Think of it as my way of shouting "I told you so" in all of their stupid little faces.
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True libertarians are against the PATRIOT Act, the Iraq War, Medicaid Part D, the banned use of new stem cell lines, and are FOR abortion rights.
What gets me is when the left pretends that they're any different than the right on ANY other issue. It would be funny if it were not so pathetic, the left will only tolerate Republicans who parrot their lines on infanticide. That's why they tolerate Guiliani, Ridge and Romney. Not that they actively support them, but they pretend that they would at primary time.
LK
If I were to arrange a thousand people to turn up at the corporate headquarters of Visa, and then simply sit down on the ground outside the main doors, would it be a crime?
So, how can it be a crime if I achieve the same thing in cyberspace?
It would be a crime if you did that at an abortion clinic. 10 years in Federal prison and $100K+ in fines.
LK
I'm not a climate scientist, but I can tell when someone is bullshitting me.
LK
The only confusion is on the part of those who wish to subvert the obvious meaning of the text of the constitution. I find it amusing that both the left and the right engage in this activity.
The left acted like they were genuinely surprised when the SCOTUS decided that the Second Amendment actually means what it says it means. Now, the hard right is making a fool of itself over this birther nonsense.
Whether you're a citizen by geography of your birth or your lineage, if you're a citizen on the day of your birth, you're clearly a natural born citizen.
LK
The implication in the Constitution is that you must be physically born in the U.S.
I'm sorry, but that's just not correct.
There's no such stipulation in the US Constitution.
It's not a problem for McCain. It's not a problem for Obama. Whether he was born in Hawaii, Kenya or on the moon. The only way to constitutionally disqualify him is to prove that someone else was his mother.
LK
What's so funny about the whole controversy is that it doesn't matter where he was born. His mother was a citizen, he's a citizen, end of story.
LK
When they voted to give Obama the prize after three weeks in office.
LK
Lunch money? For whom?
For a business.
I think that the noble Mr. Perens just established that there was no business.
LK
We should unionize. Conservative rhetoric aside, labor unions provide training, institute quality standards and work procedures.
I wish I had points to mod this funny. Have you ever had to deal with a Union? Unions enforce the supremacy of seniority, how many times have you had a boss or manager who couldn't find his ass with both hands but he had been there forever so he still had a job? Unionizing would compound this problem a hundredfold. In technology, you know as well as I do, that Rockstar programmers are out there and of all ages. Union rules will absolutely prevent a workplace from bringing in a younger worker above an older that they are better than. You can't have thought this idea through.
The partnership system in the steamfitters and pipefitters unions could be emulated as pair programming is often much higher quality than code produced by lone programmers, or ad hoc hastily-assembled teams.
Think of it as a contracting outfit, only with the hefty cut that normally goes to the contract brokers -- going directly into your pension plan -- a REAL pension plan -- which you get to take with you from job to job.
Training, standards, a partner system, pensions, health plans. All the things we could get small businesses off the hook of having to provide.
Where do you think all of that comes from? Small businesses will be paying for it one way or the other. There will be increased labor costs and as a result, fewer jobs available in our chosen career field. It's not just rhetoric, it's economic fact. Look at Detroit. When the rest of the nation was maxed at about 10% unemployment, they were looking at 15%. Southern states that are often "Right to Work" states and they can't force people to join unions are booming.
And, union labor could actually undercut the likes of TekSystems and Adecco in a fair fight, lol.
How? By magic? For the sake of argument, let's say you succeed in unionizing the IT in a workplace. What's to stop them from offering to double the salary of your best people to become "Managers" and then having a bunch of scabs telecommute for 40% less than they were paying the rest?
LK
Hunh? Did you mean hundreds of thousands? Hundreds is lunch money.
Lunch money? For whom? Rush Limbaugh and Michael Moore? I have spent that kind of money at the bar however.
How much does it cost to set up a website for your "Consulting Business" and buy a copy of Quickbooks Pro? Hundreds of dollars, depending on the kind of business.
LK
HR tends to think of programmers as production line workers.. and as much as I hate to admit it, there really is truth in that.
Except that it's easy to see if an assembly line worker isn't doing a good job. I know virtually nothing about making automobiles, but I could watch someone painting body panels and have some idea of whether or not he's doing a good job.
And I thought the whole "managers can write code thing" died with COBOL.
LOL. You think the COBOL died?
LK
If the guy at Sealand could "annex" this, that would be something.
Huh? So...we should hobble ourselves to give them a chance?
I know that's not your point, but I don't see what is. They have had 0 chance against us on the battlefield for the last 50 years.
Fair question, I suppose that I wasn't clear enough in my original post. My point is that we have to remember that we are fighting an enemy who has no problem with engaging civilian targets. They engage those targets because they couldn't best our military technology from 20 years ago.
I'm saying that instead of breaking our arms patting ourselves on the backs, we should be thinking about how they will attempt to attack us instead of getting trounced by our military.
LK
OK. By that same logic we should put some easy targets out there for the bad guys to shoot, maim, murder, slice up and generally do bad things to. Are you volunteering for said role?
You can't negotiate with a rabid dog. You put the rabid dog down and vaccinate the other dogs that aren't infected. Same with terrorists and jihadists. Put 'em down and work on "converting" those that aren't rabid.
You miss my point. I'm not saying that we should provide easy targets. I'm saying that we shouldn't delude ourselves about the result of increasing our military might. I'm saying that our enemies will seek out easier targets and that means civilians.
LK
The price sounds okay, an M16 can cost up to $28,000 and frankly I'd rather hit the taxpayers than cause more deaths.
FYI, a non-transferable M16 (that is, not for regular-old-civilian purchase) costs something around $800-$1000, not the $28k you mention.
True that. Someone looked in shotgun news and assumed that there were no other factors pushing up the civilian price.
Basically, look at the lowest price you can find on a reputable AR-15, then take 10-20% off of that to estimate what the government is paying.
LK
If they have zero chance against us on the battle field, they'll shift the focus of their attacks. Namely, more terrorist attacks. IEDs, roadside bombs and attacks on American civilians.
LK
Because we're not born with immunity to most things. We acquire it from low level exposure. If you remove all of those initial low level exposures from someone's life, they won't acquire immunity. It makes perfect sense.
LK
Haha! Because women are gold-diggers rather than people with diverse and complex attractions and that's why you they sleep with other, richer men and not you! Classic! ...Wait, they also find penniless badasses attractive? Brb, reevaluating.
Whether they admit it or not, women seek men who will contribute something to offspring. For some, what they seek is financial security. Why else would we have terms like "Good provider." when they discuss potential mates? Other women prefer physicality, a strong man will make strong children who will have a good chance at survival.
When you learn to read the signs that they put out, you know when to pass on a woman that would be a waste of your time or how to manipulate her perception of you to get closer to her. I happen to be lucky in that I'm over 6 feet tall and over 200 pounds. I'm not really in good shape, but if I dress properly, I can make it look like I'm more muscular than I am. I also make a decent living, but I'm not well off. However, I make enough to appear that I make more than I do. I'm off of the market now, but when I was still out there I learned a lot by watching guys who were successful with women and adapting their techniques to suit me.
What's crazy is that there is a subculture based on this, they call themselves Pick Up Artists (PUAs). I wish I had discovered the basics when I was younger.
LK
I recently introduced my Fiance's sons to that game. It was made before they were even born but apparently it stands up quite well beside all of the eye candy of today's games.
LK
Certification entails a third-party performing various tests and audits on the software and giving it the green light. If other open source projects can follow suit, this will be another step in getting business folk to see that open source is ready for enterprise use.
No, it's not. The tech savvy business people already know and those who don't get it will continue to not get it. Remember, there were people who insisted on buying IBM computers even after the Lenovo deal, because that's how PHBs and suits think.
LK
It's like the West in the Middle Ages.
An amazing reversal, no?
LK
I am so terribly sorry, you were looking for the racism thread.
No. I wasn't. I'll make that clear later.
Despite you low ID number I feel that I must tell you that here on Slashdot we don't really go in for the whole "Negro Bashing" thing.
Good, because that's not what I was doing. I was guilty-white-liberal bashing.
It might have been different when you started, and I really don't think it was, but now a days we don't actually bother with people's color because, well it has nothing to do with anything.
Obama's color means nothing to me.
To help you understand my message I will use prejudicial terms so you can understand.
I know Kikes that are poor, Spics that dont pick fruit, Niggers that suck at sports and Faggots that don't like show tunes.
And do your friends know that you use these terms to refer to them?
See? Prejudice sucks - it doesn't help anyone at all.
Interestingly though - I now know someone that thinks 'Chocolate' is a special word for people who have dark skin. And I guess I also know someone that thinks the President is the Messiah. No one in the Theological world ever thought he was the Second Coming.
Ray Nagin, the mayor of New Orleans responded to accusations that he didn't want black people to return to the city after Katrina by pledging to keep New Orleans a "chocolate city". IOW, full of black people.
But had you taken the time to look at my profile to get some idea of who I am, you'd know that my reference wasn't racist against Obama. I too an black. I used the term created by Bill Maher, a liberal former Catholic Jew, "President Chocolate Jesus" refers to how white liberals think that they're somehow more enlightened because they supported a black man whom they knew nothing about.
Think of it as my way of shouting "I told you so" in all of their stupid little faces.
LK
Samsung I think. They love to have proprietary connectors.
I have a Samsung with a micro USB port.
LK
You mean to tell us that President Chocolate Jesus's administration is no more ethical than the previous one?
What about all of that "The previous 8 years." stuff they they kept talking about?
The only news here is that some people are naive enough to believe that dishonesty is owned exclusively by one party.
LK
All kinds of military developments have filtered out to the civilian market.
Antiperspirant/deodorant. GPS. Radar. Microwave communication.
It's just how some things develop.
LK