Dream? You can't even pay attention. No one has fought against funding for research into cures using adult stem cells. No one has fought against funding for research into cures using your own stem cells. Try to pay attention.
First, they wanted to ban smoking. Tobacco smoke stinks and it's unhealthy. No one would put up too much of a fight for it. Then they wanted to ban trans-fats, they were unhealthy and no one could argue that they really needed them. Now, the want to ban salt. SALT!
The people of New York encourages this idiocy by not standing up to it before. Now that they've made their bed, let them lie in it.
I can't say that I have read his official job description but I'm pretty sure that "keep the passwords to yourself and the mayor of a major metropolitan city" wasn't it. It was probably "to keep the passwords safe from people not authorized to have them."
If I remember correctly, they tried to get the passwords out of him after he was released from the city's employment. If that's the case, his job description no longer factored in.
"You're fired. Give me the network passwords." "Sorry, that is no longer my job." "I'm calling the police."
WHY do they do that? I could see if they had either some expensive dev tool you had to use to make your own powerful apps, or if they were selling a much more expensive calculator that had all the programming options unlocked, but in this case I don't see any profit in it for TI to not let people program them?
Your inability to program it is what makes it acceptable for certain standardized tests. If the proctor of an exam can reset your device to factory fresh condition, they can be sure that you don't have anything in the device that would give you an advantage over others. If you can modify the firmware, you can add all of the programs you want to a reset device.
If the test administrators begin to require other calcs, TI loses money.
vista was no where near a flop and not at all a bad OS.
I suppose that all depends on how you define "good" or "bad". For my purposes, Vista was a bad OS. It didn't run all of the programs that I wanted to be able to run. That's why I upgraded to XP when I bought my laptop. Vista was less than useless for me. Next month, I'm going to be upgrading my main/games PC and for that I'll be giving Windows 7 a try. I hope that it works out, but if it doesn't I'll run XP for a couple more years. No matter what happens, though, I won't be running Vista. Ever.
This strikes me as a minefield for both the developer and his clients.
For some of the clients, perhaps but not the developer. Well, not if he can afford any decent lawyer. There is a legitimate use for that kind of software.
I had 100Mbps in my house a decade ago. It's easy to wire a small area. It would be several orders of magnitude more difficult to wire all of the US than all of Sweden.
Do you work in academia by chance? You're exhibiting the behavior of someone to has an academic knowledge of the structure of government, but no real world experience with how things really happen.
I'm just saying that sounds like a 5-year old's view of the world.
More like the world view of someone who has actually been the target of a federal investigation. I was not involved with the crime that they were investigating, but investigate me they did.
It's like saying you can't drive 100 MPH because the FTC will put pressure on auto makers. You can't drive 100 MPH because it's the law.
You suck at analogies. I clearly can drive 100 MPH, because I have. I've been up to 120 a time or two.
And here I thought the Federal Reserve, FDIC, OTS and state regulatory agencies regulated banks.
"Oh you need to wire 250,000 dollars, well we never received your 'Know your customer.' paperwork, so we're going to delay the transfer until you get us new copies. Have to make sure you're not banking with terrorists. What? You say you sent us the originals? Well, we're going to need you to get us some new originals, signed in triplicate.'
Bush's agenda was all about maintaining the physical safety of Americans, even if privacy had to suffer. (I disagree with this too BTW) Obama's agenda is all about claiming high ideals while brokering backroom deals to do whatever the fuck he wants to anyway.
If you can't make a good site without Flash, fucking hire a professional or STAY OFF THE NET.
There's a contractor that my employer deals with. She's a designer. I decided to take a look at her personal/business page. It's all fucking flash. It takes approximately 20 seconds to load and start displaying anything useful. I use a Core 2 Duo machine with 4GB of memory and we have a 25Mbps FiOS connection and this shit takes 20 seconds to load. Pages loaded faster when I was using a 33Mhz Mac on a dialup connection.
Judging anything by where you think it was headed reeks of fortune telling.
Only if you don't understand what you're looking at. If I see someone drop a rock, I can predict that it will land on the ground/floor/whatever. I can predict that it's not going to stop in mid-air and shoot back up into the sky.
Either they were a totalitarian state, despite failing your definition, or they weren't.
In reference to the two mentioned cases, they were.
What they may have become is an exercise in crystal ball gazing.
Just not in my house. I might download a PDF, but if I'm paying I want a tangible book. I want something that I can read without the publisher having the ability to revoke it or remotely deactivate it.
The open secret of terminal ballistics is that the best way to stop a person is to hit them with the biggest fastest moving bullet that you can. To be more specific, it is to create the larges wound channel you possibly can and to introduce as much kinetic force as possible, that's most easily estimated by bullet diameter and speed. In the Strasbourg tests the hottest.357 magnum loads tested were less effective than the hottest.45 ACP. That's why states tend to have minimum bore requirements when hunting certain types of game. The 22 Hornet isn't the best bet to take down an Elk. You can take down a person with a.22 or.25 but if my life is on the line, I'm trusting nothing less than a hot loaded 9mm JHP.
There's a reason why police officers are trained to shoot center of mass and to keep on shooting until the person goes down.
It's also human nature to keep shooting. Untrained novices keep squeezing the trigger too when they're in a life or death situation.
Remember that the next time you see a headline like "Cops shoot man 12 times".
That's not so much the problem, "Cops shoot unarmed man 12 times" is.
Never at their worst did they achieve "absolute authority over all aspects" of... well, anything, really. And yet they are, with good reason, the canonical modern examples of totalitarian states.
Only because they didn't have the time. The Nazi's time was cut short by the rest of the free world working to stop them, the Soviets' time was cut short by the utter failure of their system of government.
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I know... but I can dream can't I?
Dream? You can't even pay attention. No one has fought against funding for research into cures using adult stem cells. No one has fought against funding for research into cures using your own stem cells. Try to pay attention.
LK
We never stopped funding it. We weren't funding research based on the stem cells from dead human embryos.
I know you weren't interested in the answer, but I wanted to point out your douchebaggery.
LK
First, they wanted to ban smoking. Tobacco smoke stinks and it's unhealthy. No one would put up too much of a fight for it. Then they wanted to ban trans-fats, they were unhealthy and no one could argue that they really needed them. Now, the want to ban salt. SALT!
The people of New York encourages this idiocy by not standing up to it before. Now that they've made their bed, let them lie in it.
LK
I can't say that I have read his official job description but I'm pretty sure that "keep the passwords to yourself and the mayor of a major metropolitan city" wasn't it. It was probably "to keep the passwords safe from people not authorized to have them."
If I remember correctly, they tried to get the passwords out of him after he was released from the city's employment. If that's the case, his job description no longer factored in.
"You're fired. Give me the network passwords."
"Sorry, that is no longer my job."
"I'm calling the police."
LK
What hasn't someone shot this asshole yet? I'm only partially kidding. In all seriousness, people like this man are dangerous.
LK
WHY do they do that? I could see if they had either some expensive dev tool you had to use to make your own powerful apps, or if they were selling a much more expensive calculator that had all the programming options unlocked, but in this case I don't see any profit in it for TI to not let people program them?
Your inability to program it is what makes it acceptable for certain standardized tests. If the proctor of an exam can reset your device to factory fresh condition, they can be sure that you don't have anything in the device that would give you an advantage over others. If you can modify the firmware, you can add all of the programs you want to a reset device.
If the test administrators begin to require other calcs, TI loses money.
Understand now?
LK
What if my skin color gave me, say, a 30% increased chance of dying from some horrible skin cancer? Would I do it?
As things stand, your skin color gives you a decreased chance of dying from some horrible skin cancer.
LK
vista was no where near a flop and not at all a bad OS.
I suppose that all depends on how you define "good" or "bad". For my purposes, Vista was a bad OS. It didn't run all of the programs that I wanted to be able to run. That's why I upgraded to XP when I bought my laptop. Vista was less than useless for me. Next month, I'm going to be upgrading my main/games PC and for that I'll be giving Windows 7 a try. I hope that it works out, but if it doesn't I'll run XP for a couple more years. No matter what happens, though, I won't be running Vista. Ever.
LK
This strikes me as a minefield for both the developer and his clients.
For some of the clients, perhaps but not the developer. Well, not if he can afford any decent lawyer. There is a legitimate use for that kind of software.
LK
I had 100Mbps in my house a decade ago. It's easy to wire a small area. It would be several orders of magnitude more difficult to wire all of the US than all of Sweden.
LK
Pentium 4 is still fast enough for 97% of the applications.
How much horsepower do you really need to run a web browser and a word processor? In the "business" world, that's all a large portion of them ever do.
LK
It exists because Congress created it.
How do laws work? By magic? Or because there is someone with the authority to enforce them?
LK
And it still doesn't mean that the FTC is in charge of speed limits any more than your idea that the FBI is a banking regulator.
Where did I say "In charge"?
They have influence with other federal agencies. Refuse a "request" from the FBI and find out just how much influence they have.
LK
Do you work in academia by chance? You're exhibiting the behavior of someone to has an academic knowledge of the structure of government, but no real world experience with how things really happen.
I'm just saying that sounds like a 5-year old's view of the world.
More like the world view of someone who has actually been the target of a federal investigation. I was not involved with the crime that they were investigating, but investigate me they did.
It's like saying you can't drive 100 MPH because the FTC will put pressure on auto makers. You can't drive 100 MPH because it's the law.
You suck at analogies. I clearly can drive 100 MPH, because I have. I've been up to 120 a time or two.
LK
Since Polio is a virus, it's already antibiotic resistant.
LK
You don't really believe that there is that much separation between the various tentacles of the Federal Government, do you?
The Department of Justice(FBI) has been known to work with the Department of Treasury(BATF) on occasion (Waco, Ruby Ridge).
LK
And here I thought the Federal Reserve, FDIC, OTS and state regulatory agencies regulated banks.
"Oh you need to wire 250,000 dollars, well we never received your 'Know your customer.' paperwork, so we're going to delay the transfer until you get us new copies. Have to make sure you're not banking with terrorists. What? You say you sent us the originals? Well, we're going to need you to get us some new originals, signed in triplicate.'
LK
How's Obama any different than Bush?
Bush was honest about what he believes.
Bush's agenda was all about maintaining the physical safety of Americans, even if privacy had to suffer. (I disagree with this too BTW)
Obama's agenda is all about claiming high ideals while brokering backroom deals to do whatever the fuck he wants to anyway.
LK
Now if only American banks had the same motivation to protect its customers data from the very same agencies.
The problem with that is banks are Federally chartered in the US. The FBI can make life difficult for any bank that does not comply.
LK
This is a very sad day for disabled people, as it means we do not really have full-time developers any more.
When I read this my first thought was "They should march...Um. I guess they can't."
LK
If you can't make a good site without Flash, fucking hire a professional or STAY OFF THE NET.
There's a contractor that my employer deals with. She's a designer. I decided to take a look at her personal/business page. It's all fucking flash. It takes approximately 20 seconds to load and start displaying anything useful. I use a Core 2 Duo machine with 4GB of memory and we have a 25Mbps FiOS connection and this shit takes 20 seconds to load. Pages loaded faster when I was using a 33Mhz Mac on a dialup connection.
LK
Judging anything by where you think it was headed reeks of fortune telling.
Only if you don't understand what you're looking at. If I see someone drop a rock, I can predict that it will land on the ground/floor/whatever. I can predict that it's not going to stop in mid-air and shoot back up into the sky.
Either they were a totalitarian state, despite failing your definition, or they weren't.
In reference to the two mentioned cases, they were.
What they may have become is an exercise in crystal ball gazing.
Plotting an obvious course is not divination.
LK
Just not in my house. I might download a PDF, but if I'm paying I want a tangible book. I want something that I can read without the publisher having the ability to revoke it or remotely deactivate it.
LK
The open secret of terminal ballistics is that the best way to stop a person is to hit them with the biggest fastest moving bullet that you can. To be more specific, it is to create the larges wound channel you possibly can and to introduce as much kinetic force as possible, that's most easily estimated by bullet diameter and speed. In the Strasbourg tests the hottest .357 magnum loads tested were less effective than the hottest .45 ACP. That's why states tend to have minimum bore requirements when hunting certain types of game. The 22 Hornet isn't the best bet to take down an Elk. You can take down a person with a .22 or .25 but if my life is on the line, I'm trusting nothing less than a hot loaded 9mm JHP.
There's a reason why police officers are trained to shoot center of mass and to keep on shooting until the person goes down.
It's also human nature to keep shooting. Untrained novices keep squeezing the trigger too when they're in a life or death situation.
Remember that the next time you see a headline like "Cops shoot man 12 times".
That's not so much the problem, "Cops shoot unarmed man 12 times" is.
LK
Never at their worst did they achieve "absolute authority over all aspects" of ... well, anything, really. And yet they are, with good reason, the canonical modern examples of totalitarian states.
Only because they didn't have the time. The Nazi's time was cut short by the rest of the free world working to stop them, the Soviets' time was cut short by the utter failure of their system of government.
LK