what clinics think is a public disturbance, and what actually is are two very different things. many protests have been halted because they crossed that line. just because one person dosent like it dosent make it a disturbance. it is illegal for protesters to cause a public disturbance, end of story.
Well, no. That's not the end of the story.
FACE makes it illegal to engage in any conduct that the workers in the clinic "find threatening". For example, someone was convicted and incarcerated under FACE for parking a Ryder truck outside of street from a clinic.
It's all a question of local economy. $30k was a bit low, but $30-40k is about what entry-level programmers make here. Someone who doesn't have $40k in student loans is more able to take such a position.
Anyway, H-1Bs are good for 3 years, extendable up to an additional 2. This means that the theoretical maximum number of legal H-1Bs in the US at any one time is 5 * 85k = 425k. That's less than 0.2% of the population and seems unlikely to me to significantly affect the unemployment rate.
You, sir, have forgotten anchor babies and arranged marriages.
The problem that I have with H1Bs is that they drive down wages. Many employers quote industry average wages when posting for a job. That would be all well and good, but a few H1Bs earning $30k/yr will drive down the average.
If you're traveling downwind faster than wind speed, your sail would act like a parachute and slow you down. But if one were to build up speeds at right angles to the wind, drop sail and turn in the direction of the wind, for a while you would be traveling downwind at a faster speed than the wind.
You can protest them, but you can't be a public disturbance, you can't be on their property, and you can't block people from access to the clinic.
You can't trespass and you can't block access to a medical facility, but you can most certainly create a public disturbance. Every abortion clinic operator in the country considers the presence of dissenters to be a public disturbance. So what? As long as you don't break any other laws, it's perfectly legal.
In short, this was the first election with unrestricted spending in a long time - the results - corporatists with no concrete positions who are selling out their constituents as we speak. Turns out campaign finance reforms are important. The conservative majority in SCOTUS gave the GOP this election with its CU ruling. Any other analysis really takes backseat to how the CU ruling sold out this election.
Bullshit. Enough with the butthurt act. You wouldn't give a fuck about campaign finance reform if your side hadn't just lost. Where was all of your protesting when the Clinton administration was selling military technology to China in exchange for laundered campaign money for the DNC? When Al Gore was having non-meeting meetings with Buddhist monks to raise DNC cash? When Soros was pumping money into leftist non-profits to advocate on behalf of their point of view?
Citizens United v. FEC was decided the day that McCain-Feingold was signed into law. Why? The first amendment is crystal clear. "Congress shall make no law". Don't give me that bullshit about "corporations aren't people, they shouldn't have rights", because in this case Citizens United was not a for-profit corporation. It exists solely for advocacy. Or are we to accept that the only way the first amendment applies is if some single person has enough money to entirely finance a production alone? How can people lose their rights just because they've decided to band together?
How is supposedly to be technically possible at all that a non-compositing window manager (KWin 3.x) faster than the same window manager that is able to leverage the power of GPUs (KWin 4.x)?
I'm not an OS/GUI programmer. I can't say how or why. I'm just a user and I see first hand that it is, in fact, like I describe it.
768MB RAM is more than enough to load both KDE's as well as GNOME's base libraries into memory without causing performance lags! Upgrade you PC to have more than 128MB RAM if you feel "bloat".
The slowest system that I run linux on is a dual core with a 1GB of RAM. I push my system and KDE4's sluggishness makes it unacceptable to me. I even switched distros because I will not install that garbage again.
PS: Linux Journal's Readers' Choice Awards 2010 tie GNOME's and KDE's desktop environments at #1 which wonderfully shows that your claim about "core dev team and a few fanboys" is utterly wrong.
Try reading for comprehension. I wasn't saying that only devs and fanboys like KDE4. I was saying that you were being a pedantic cock. Instead of directly addressing the concern, you're nitpicking. 'That's not KDE, that's Plasma!"
Everyone else considers it all to just be "KDE4". It's sluggish and less feature filled than KDE 3.5.x
He makes a lump-sum statement withaout backing anything up and gets an "Insightful" rating. I merely ask what exactly he means and get "Troll"??? WTF?? At time of writing this, no one, not even you, was able to clarify what he means.
I will go ahead and guess that you were modded down because you were being pedantic and playing word games. What everyone except perhaps the core dev team and a few fanboys consider to be KDE4 is a bloat-fest. It requires more memory, is perceptibly slower than KDE3.5.x and is less feature complete. They should be more concerned with fixing their present code than they are with what may or may not happen 5+ years in the future.
I think I was a few years behind you. My first Apple was a TiBook...very nice h/w though the stupid windowing system didn't work for me and they made irritating changes to the OS to make it incompatible with everything else.
The incompatibilities between the iMacs/Blue & White G3s and everything else is what made me lose interest. I wasn't going to buy all of my peripherals all over just to use a new Mac. If I was going to go through all of that trouble, I was just going to switch to Windows/Linux.
I jumped ship 10 years ago. I used to be all about Apple. I'm not exaggerating when I say that I was the #2 Apple technician/repairman in Pittsburgh in 2000. They drove me away with the bullshit that they started pulling then. The people that are left are true die hards.
"The ACLU is our nation's guardian of liberty, working daily in courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and laws of the United States guarantee everyone in this country."
"The ACLU interprets the Second Amendment as a collective right. Therefore, we disagree with the Supreme Court’s decision in D.C. v. Heller."
The Supreme Court is the arbiter of what the Constitution means, not the ACLU. They're engaging in political advocacy. It's their right to do that, but it's bullshit to pretend that they really care about constitutional rights when they obviously don't.
They think you have a right to say... whatever stupid, crazy, brilliant, inspired, idiotic, hateful, useful, useless, or wonderful thing you want to say. Period. No matter where you fall on the political spectrum. I can respect that.
Unless what you want to say is a prayer in a public place. The American Nazi party wants to march through Jewish and Black neighborhoods and those douchebags at the ACLU will represent them in court for free. Some woman drowns her kids in her bathtub and the ACLU will mount a legal offensive to spare her the death penalty. Some kid wants to thank God for being class valedictorian, and the ACLU sues him/her.
Fuck the ACLU, fuck them in their hypocritical asses.
You must have not been paying attention when AMD bought ATI. You also must not have tried to download Radeon drivers and realized that you were at AMD's site.
OK. I will. Jobs is a douche deluxe. I was a dedicated Apple user from 1990 through 2000. Jobs and his unbridled douchery is why I'll never buy a new Apple again.
It's one thing if you're going to build and support 10-30 desktops. But if you're looking at over 100 units, just spend the money and buy them with support.
Dell, HP or Lenovo(IBM) are all decent manufacturers of business class machines and you can get quotes from all three and use those to negotiate the others downward. 1000 units will be enough incentive for them to deal.
Linux...IBM uses this. OpenOffice...Oracle was involved in developing this. So on and so forth. PHBs won't understand reasoned arguments about the benefits of F/OSS versus proprietary software. They will understand that a successful Fortune 500 company trusts their stockholders' profits to it.
How in the world do you prosecute someone for using an induction loop?
I agree. It's absolutely absurd. The problem is that the law doesn't need to make sense. They are essentially broadcasting power on a frequency that you can pick up for nothing and if you do, you can be prosecuted. It's bullshit. It's like the neighbors having bright floodlights in their backyard but you're not supposed to make use of the light that leaks in through your windows.
The problem is, making the law make sense would destroy the electric industry.
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Don't be a plick.
what clinics think is a public disturbance, and what actually is are two very different things. many protests have been halted because they crossed that line. just because one person dosent like it dosent make it a disturbance. it is illegal for protesters to cause a public disturbance, end of story.
Well, no. That's not the end of the story.
FACE makes it illegal to engage in any conduct that the workers in the clinic "find threatening". For example, someone was convicted and incarcerated under FACE for parking a Ryder truck outside of street from a clinic.
LK
It's all a question of local economy. $30k was a bit low, but $30-40k is about what entry-level programmers make here. Someone who doesn't have $40k in student loans is more able to take such a position.
LK
Anyway, H-1Bs are good for 3 years, extendable up to an additional 2. This means that the theoretical maximum number of legal H-1Bs in the US at any one time is 5 * 85k = 425k. That's less than 0.2% of the population and seems unlikely to me to significantly affect the unemployment rate.
You, sir, have forgotten anchor babies and arranged marriages.
The problem that I have with H1Bs is that they drive down wages. Many employers quote industry average wages when posting for a job. That would be all well and good, but a few H1Bs earning $30k/yr will drive down the average.
LK
If you're traveling downwind faster than wind speed, your sail would act like a parachute and slow you down. But if one were to build up speeds at right angles to the wind, drop sail and turn in the direction of the wind, for a while you would be traveling downwind at a faster speed than the wind.
LK
You can protest them, but you can't be a public disturbance, you can't be on their property, and you can't block people from access to the clinic.
You can't trespass and you can't block access to a medical facility, but you can most certainly create a public disturbance. Every abortion clinic operator in the country considers the presence of dissenters to be a public disturbance. So what? As long as you don't break any other laws, it's perfectly legal.
LK
In short, this was the first election with unrestricted spending in a long time - the results - corporatists with no concrete positions who are selling out their constituents as we speak. Turns out campaign finance reforms are important. The conservative majority in SCOTUS gave the GOP this election with its CU ruling. Any other analysis really takes backseat to how the CU ruling sold out this election.
Bullshit.
Enough with the butthurt act. You wouldn't give a fuck about campaign finance reform if your side hadn't just lost.
Where was all of your protesting when the Clinton administration was selling military technology to China in exchange for laundered campaign money for the DNC? When Al Gore was having non-meeting meetings with Buddhist monks to raise DNC cash? When Soros was pumping money into leftist non-profits to advocate on behalf of their point of view?
Citizens United v. FEC was decided the day that McCain-Feingold was signed into law. Why? The first amendment is crystal clear. "Congress shall make no law". Don't give me that bullshit about "corporations aren't people, they shouldn't have rights", because in this case Citizens United was not a for-profit corporation. It exists solely for advocacy. Or are we to accept that the only way the first amendment applies is if some single person has enough money to entirely finance a production alone? How can people lose their rights just because they've decided to band together?
LK
I'm not a programmer either but I'm also not stupid which is why I can identify the cause for a problem when I see one.
Well, I am a programmer. Just not an OS or GUI programmer.
What I am not is a fanboy or a pedantic cock. KDE4 is awful. Long time KDE users have been complaining non-stop since 4.0 was released.
When is the last time you heard of a user community joining together to bring back a previous version of any major software package? Well, I have.
KDE 3.5.x has been adopted and is under active development because a critical mass of people are disgusted with KDE4.
And as I already wrote: Smartphones and netbooks can both run the software fine, too.
It's probably easier to handle a half or quarter vga screen than a 1600x1200x2 desktop.
LK
How is supposedly to be technically possible at all that a non-compositing window manager (KWin 3.x) faster than the same window manager that is able to leverage the power of GPUs (KWin 4.x)?
I'm not an OS/GUI programmer. I can't say how or why. I'm just a user and I see first hand that it is, in fact, like I describe it.
768MB RAM is more than enough to load both KDE's as well as GNOME's base libraries into memory without causing performance lags! Upgrade you PC to have more than 128MB RAM if you feel "bloat".
The slowest system that I run linux on is a dual core with a 1GB of RAM. I push my system and KDE4's sluggishness makes it unacceptable to me. I even switched distros because I will not install that garbage again.
PS: Linux Journal's Readers' Choice Awards 2010 tie GNOME's and KDE's desktop environments at #1 which wonderfully shows that your claim about "core dev team and a few fanboys" is utterly wrong.
Try reading for comprehension. I wasn't saying that only devs and fanboys like KDE4. I was saying that you were being a pedantic cock. Instead of directly addressing the concern, you're nitpicking. 'That's not KDE, that's Plasma!"
Everyone else considers it all to just be "KDE4". It's sluggish and less feature filled than KDE 3.5.x
LK
He makes a lump-sum statement withaout backing anything up and gets an "Insightful" rating. I merely ask what exactly he means and get "Troll"??? WTF??
At time of writing this, no one, not even you, was able to clarify what he means.
I will go ahead and guess that you were modded down because you were being pedantic and playing word games. What everyone except perhaps the core dev team and a few fanboys consider to be KDE4 is a bloat-fest. It requires more memory, is perceptibly slower than KDE3.5.x and is less feature complete. They should be more concerned with fixing their present code than they are with what may or may not happen 5+ years in the future.
LK
How about they fix the steaming bloat-fest that is KDE4 before thinking about KDE5?
LK
If the alternative is to miss out on cool features like network multiplay, maybe that's a tradeoff that some people are willing to make.
I play network games on my PC, about 5 nights a week.
Fuck every one of those locked down crap box consoles.
LK
I think I was a few years behind you. My first Apple was a TiBook...very nice h/w though the stupid windowing system didn't work for me and they made irritating changes to the OS to make it incompatible with everything else.
The incompatibilities between the iMacs /Blue & White G3s and everything else is what made me lose interest. I wasn't going to buy all of my peripherals all over just to use a new Mac. If I was going to go through all of that trouble, I was just going to switch to Windows/Linux.
LK
Stupid users want to be able to install apps with one click and have them just work, whether they are native apps or Web apps.
FTFY.
and then paid Sun for the privilege. (it costs money to make sure your JVM was approved).
Sounds like Sun App-Stored Apple.
LK
I jumped ship 10 years ago. I used to be all about Apple. I'm not exaggerating when I say that I was the #2 Apple technician/repairman in Pittsburgh in 2000. They drove me away with the bullshit that they started pulling then. The people that are left are true die hards.
LK
Apple is too totalitarian for the Chinese government's tastes.
LK
The ACLU is a one issue group.
How in the fuck were you moderated as Informative? You're hopelessly misinformed.
You, clearly, haven't so much as visited the ACLU Web site.
This is what the ACLU lists as their "key issues".
In case you weren't paying attention, that's a lot more than "one issue".
Look on their about page.
Except of course that they don't really mean that. See what they have to say about the Second Amendment.
The Supreme Court is the arbiter of what the Constitution means, not the ACLU. They're engaging in political advocacy. It's their right to do that, but it's bullshit to pretend that they really care about constitutional rights when they obviously don't.
They think you have a right to say... whatever stupid, crazy, brilliant, inspired, idiotic, hateful, useful, useless, or wonderful thing you want to say. Period. No matter where you fall on the political spectrum. I can respect that.
Unless what you want to say is a prayer in a public place. The American Nazi party wants to march through Jewish and Black neighborhoods and those douchebags at the ACLU will represent them in court for free. Some woman drowns her kids in her bathtub and the ACLU will mount a legal offensive to spare her the death penalty. Some kid wants to thank God for being class valedictorian, and the ACLU sues him/her.
Fuck the ACLU, fuck them in their hypocritical asses.
LK
The radicals realize NN can guarantee them an audience by law - not by earning it.
Since when is it radical to not want to be hearded into an online free speech zone?
LK
You must have not been paying attention when AMD bought ATI. You also must not have tried to download Radeon drivers and realized that you were at AMD's site.
LK
Right...because a golden vision and knowing what your customers want isn't worth anything
Jobs doesn't know what his customers want, he has the uncanny ability to *tell them* what they want.
LK
Say what you want
OK. I will. Jobs is a douche deluxe. I was a dedicated Apple user from 1990 through 2000. Jobs and his unbridled douchery is why I'll never buy a new Apple again.
LK
Agree.
It's one thing if you're going to build and support 10-30 desktops. But if you're looking at over 100 units, just spend the money and buy them with support.
Dell, HP or Lenovo(IBM) are all decent manufacturers of business class machines and you can get quotes from all three and use those to negotiate the others downward. 1000 units will be enough incentive for them to deal.
LK
Linux...IBM uses this.
OpenOffice...Oracle was involved in developing this.
So on and so forth.
PHBs won't understand reasoned arguments about the benefits of F/OSS versus proprietary software. They will understand that a successful Fortune 500 company trusts their stockholders' profits to it.
LK
How in the world do you prosecute someone for using an induction loop?
I agree. It's absolutely absurd. The problem is that the law doesn't need to make sense. They are essentially broadcasting power on a frequency that you can pick up for nothing and if you do, you can be prosecuted. It's bullshit. It's like the neighbors having bright floodlights in their backyard but you're not supposed to make use of the light that leaks in through your windows.
The problem is, making the law make sense would destroy the electric industry.
LK