There are already working plants using this method. That's why they are building new coal fired plants in Europe, which is a lot more environmentally conscious than we are. That's as here, now and possible as building nuclear plants.
These new plants being built prove we are behind the times. I'd rather have my kids deal with inert minerals containing CO2 than radioactive crap that will probably be our undoing.
"Finally, the produced carbonates are unarguably stable and thus re-release of CO2 into the atmosphere is not an issue. "
This administration amazes more every day with it's shortsightedness. This spending bill is a big fat FAIL. Cut spending on nuclear waste storage and use the money to create more nuclear waste. Brilliant!
I agree that you get more bang for the buck out of nuclear energy, but until the waste storage problem is handled, it's not a sustainable option. We can get by on coal until solar and wind is ready for prime time.
We are sitting on one of the biggest coal reserves in the world. We need to use it.
Why doesn't Woz get his damn iPhone out and video the car exhibiting the behavior. If he describes what he's doing in the video to reproduce the bug and posts it to YouTube, Toyota will have a hard time denying it.
A better idea than an emulator, which will happen by the way, is to simply implement a good copy of the iPhone's interface on this. check out the LG Vu mods to see what I'm talking about... www.lg-vu.com
GUIs are comparatively simple to copy. Much better than trying to emulate an OS. With the hardware this thing has a gui copy will run just as fast as a native iphone if it's done right and the underlying OS is efficient.
Whoa! I beg to differ. Open an ssh shell to it. The underlying system is Darwin. It's the same set of core components and kernel that OSX is built from. I've done it and compiled a web server on it, complete with PHP and SSL. It's a base OSX system (think what yellow dog linux is to linux) which you can add any unix software you want to (including GCC). It's just slimmed down. From command line the functionality is identical. The system running on my phone is fully POSIX and UNIX compliant out of the box.
xxxxxxx-iPhone:~ root# uname -a Darwin xxxxxxx-iPhone 10.0.0d3 Darwin Kernel Version 10.0.0d3: Fri Sep 25 23:35:35 PDT 2009; root:xnu-1357.5.30~3/RELEASE_ARM_S5L8920X iPhone2,1 arm N88AP Darwin xxxxxxx-iPhone:/ root# ls -la total 42 drwxrwxr-t 15 root admin 748 Jan 31 11:46. drwxrwxr-t 15 root admin 748 Jan 31 11:46.. drwx------ 2 _unknown _unknown 238 Sep 27 18:34.fseventsd lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 30 Oct 19 12:04 Applications drwxrwxr-x 2 root admin 68 Sep 26 06:40 Developer drwxrwxr-x 14 root admin 680 Nov 2 15:03 Library drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Sep 26 04:50 System lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 11 Jan 31 11:46 User ->/var/mobile drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1972 Nov 2 16:26 bin drwxr-xr-x 2 root admin 68 Oct 19 12:03 boot drwxrwxr-t 2 root admin 68 Sep 26 02:04 cores dr-xr-xr-x 3 root wheel 1310 Jan 31 11:46 dev lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 11 Sep 27 18:36 etc -> private/etc drwxr-xr-x 2 root admin 68 Oct 19 12:03 lib drwxr-xr-x 2 root admin 68 Oct 19 12:03 mnt drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 Oct 19 11:53 private drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1530 Nov 2 16:26 sbin lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 15 Sep 27 18:36 tmp -> private/var/tmp drwxr-xr-x 6 root wheel 306 Oct 19 12:04 usr lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 11 Sep 27 18:36 var -> private/var
xxxxxxx=myname
---about darwin--- Darwin is an open source POSIX-compliant computer operating system released by Apple Inc. in 2000. It is composed of code developed by Apple, as well as code derived from NeXTSTEP, BSD, and other free software projects.
Darwin forms the core set of components upon which Mac OS X, Apple TV, and iPhone OS are based. It is compatible with the Single UNIX Specification version 3 (SUSv3) and POSIX UNIX applications and utilities.[2][3] ---end about darwin---
And before you ask, yes I changed the root password when I installed sshd so my phone won't get h4X0red. I did it the day I installed it, not when the "sploit" was released.
As well the kernel version is still stamped 2.1 even though I'm on version 3.1.2. Get on the stick Apple!
To use your own analogy, it's still a chevy drive train, but with a 4 cylinder engine and a different body. It's just a different processor with less memory so you can't fit the entirety of OSX on it, and it's got a different UI.
It has chevy pistons, chevy crank, chevy piston rings, water pump, crank, bearings, and even has AC Delco spark plugs. You also drive it from point A to point B, it has a gas pedal, brake, transmission control and steering wheel, so the most important functionality is there.
The interface is different but it's still a Darwin unix system under the hood, same as OSX. Can it go as fast as a Mac? No. Duh? It fits in the palm of your hand.
You could, given enough hardware resources, compile the mac interface on this OSX but I don't think the mac interface supports the screen resolution comfortably and the hardware requirements are a bit steep. They designed a smartphone interface purpose built to do what the iPhone does and run fast on ARM hardware.
However, the GUI does not equal the operating system;-)
It's just a GUI. You are right that the _GUI_ functionality is not close to the same. Peel the GUI off and they are nearly i
English is a second language in the US. It's the official language, but in reality it enjoys second class status when compared to Engrish, Ebonics, and Spanish.
My son would be far behind where I was when I was in 3rd grade if I didn't bust my ass with him. The teacher does so much remedial work with the Spanish speakers that everyone falls behind.
They make up for it by teaching Spanish as the foreign language since they know it will be easy for most of the kids.
This has a lot to do with the problem in some school districts. IMHO they should have their own English classes so people that speak English can get a proper English education, not an "English as a foreign language" one.
Not that you need to give a reason to want to home school (the reasons are painfully obvious to any parent with a kid in school), but that's a damn good one.
Lack of socialization is a good thing. A lot of kids are really bad people, because of their home life, and subject each other to stuff that adults usually don't do like physical violence, bullying, etc. They can also end up with the wrong crowd and getting into drugs, violence and all sorts of other bad stuff. If I was independently wealthy and could afford to home school (i'm divorced) I'd be all over it.
I have to work full time and pay my mortgage. When I get home and on the weekends I teach him way beyond what his homework and classwork teaches. He usually wants to know more than they teach him so I indulge that curiosity whenever he wants.
He easily gets A's and is on the honor roll every semester. I can't imagine what he'd be capable of if I could devote 8-10 hours a day to his education. I do what I can.
The other bad thing about sending your kids to a school is the political BS they get subjected to. I hate the fact that some teachers insist on indoctrinating my kids with their political views. I spend a lot of time explaining what is fact and what is opinion. This alone is enough for me to pull my son out of school if I could. Politics doesn't belong in 3rd grade education. It's as bad as teaching religion IMHO. While important, it's something that should be left up to a child's family.
Easy. The owners of the company are entitled to do whatever they want. You need to work with this and make sure they don't lose their data. This means shadowing them, watching how they work, and figuring out which directories you need to back up for each. How many people are we talking about, maybe 4 or 5?
You need to set up custom backup for them. It's not that hard.
I have to disagree. Idiots cause accidents, not the phone. Using a cell phone is just one way an idiot can be distracted. Other ways include being intoxicated, stuffing your face, playing with the radio, doing your makeup, reading a news paper, fiddling with a GPS.
They should call them "intentionals". You intentionally pick it up, you intentionally take your eyes off the road, and you intentionally text someone.
You can also intentionally speed even though it's raining or snowing and lose control of your vehicle.
There's rarely anything accidental about an "accident". The only real accidents are outside of your control. IE you are driving along and you go into insulin shock due to undiagnosed diabetes, or maybe you have a seizure due to a new brain tumor you didn't know you had. Maybe the car in front of you kicks up a 2x4 that flies through your windshield and hits you (though improperly securing building materials on a truck is also intentional, but on someone else's part, not the poor bastard that got hit with the board)
Common misuse of the word accident is another symptom of a society that refuses to take responsibility for it's actions.
If you hit another car because you are doing something you aren't supposed to, it's not an accident. You caused it by intentionally doing something you weren't supposed to.
> This is most old-school gamers wet dream. Til Bubba and Snap open your eyes (and anus) in the shower.
Prison is nothing to look forward to no matter what type of recreation they allow, unless you like getting ass raped, beat to a pulp and being someone's bitch. It's far from fun. Mickey Mouse and the rest of Disneyland could be there and it wouldn't be fun. Half the people I grew up with spent time in prison. I'm not saying that they should get cable or allow gaming in prison, only that your perspective on prison is inaccurate.
Further prison is not a deterrent. The last thing people are thinking about when they commit a crime is "Gee maybe I shouldn't do this because I might go to prison!". They are usually in the throes of withdrawal, enraged, possibly starving. They are always out of control in some way. You have to be rational for anything to be a deterrent. If they were rational they wouldn't commit the crime in the first place.
Deterrent is a really funny word. The people that "deterrent" means something to, don't need a deterrent.
Prison is a response. By the time it enters a criminal's mind, it's too late for them and the crime has been committed.
It's flawed logic. People believe that because most people who murder on behalf of religion are fundamentalist or extremist, that all fundamentalists and extremists are murderers.
You have justified your existence in your organization. If all of these perceived problems were solved, you wouldn't have a job because the users wouldn't need you any more. The CIO could sit at his desk on his mega-console and handle everything with the touch of a button.
I worked for a large investment firm in the mid 90's. We moved from the department paradigm to IT run as a business because the department paradigm meant everyone had 5+ year old computers and were never happy. Justifying budget for anything was like pulling teeth. We moved to the "IT run as a business" paradigm and before we knew it we had the money to put a new desktop on every desk, replace the aging IBM token ring network with a new 100Mbps to the desktop ethernet one. We were able to put in our own data center off site, with a private FDDI loop out to it.
Life became infinitely better over the space of 2 years where before it was totally stagnated. IT barely had the money to pay their staff because they were viewed as overhead instead of a service.
We never could have done it the other way. Trust me, as someone that experienced both paradigms out in a real company, the devil you know is far better than the one you don't in some cases. The business units were happy because they could pay a set fee per port instead of getting nickel and dimed. The PC's are leased for 2 years then replaced. If there's a problem with one, we pulled the old one out and just dropped a new one in. Everyone can plan their budget.
It is a double edged sword however... When business units lay people off, that means ports get cut, so the staffing of the IT organization is more or less tied directly to how the business is doing. It probably should be this way anyway...
patio = book homeowner = publisher architect = writer
The homeowner retains the right to sell the patio. He can also rent the patio for a fee for weddings, bar mitzvahs and parties.
It's against the law for people to walk onto the property and use the patio unless they rent it or buy it. However they are free to make their own imitation of the patio as long as it's not an exact copy since they'd need an architect to sign off on the drawing they used to build their property and the drawing becomes property of the homeowner.
Is there anything wrong with this? The owner's grandkids could still profit from the property if they still owned it. Just like if an author's grandkids owned the property, they would be entitled to profit.
If the house was sold to someone else outright, the grandkids of the owner wouldn't be entitled to anything. If the publishing rights and royalty rights were sold, the grandkids of the author wouldn't be entitled to anything.
If the ground ownership was retained by the homeowner when selling the house a small fee would be due him each year. If the royalties of sales were retained by the author, a small fee would be due him each year.
If the ground ownership of the property were left as an inheritance to the grandkids of the property owner, they would be entitled to the ground rent. If the royalties of the author were left as an inheritance to his grandkids, they'd be entitled to the royalties.
What a dumb shit. By the same token, an actual terrorist wouldn't advertise the fact he was going to blow up an airport on Twitter.
The police were just doing their job though. If someone did advertise that they felt like blowing up an airport on twitter, then actually blew it up, I wonder what we'd be saying about the police then if they didn't haul the guy in despite the fact that the twitter post had been reported to them. The police are damned if they do and damned if they don't.
A guy named David summed it up nicely: "The terrorists have won. We are now afraid of our own shadow."
No shit. I built a model rocket with my son. We went up to the park to send it up and did. Then I read a story about the ATF requiring a license for solid fuel model rockets after Sept 11. I'm not sure how that equates to terrorists flying a 747 into a building or why that should have prompted this licensing requirement.
If I wanted to build a rocket-bomb, I wouldn't be getting a license for it. Conversely, if a terrorist wants to build one, he can just get a license.
Had I been caught, at that time, I could have went to jail for doing the same thing my dad did with me when I was a kid. Luckily the NAR subsequently took the ATF to court over this and won last May http://www.space-rockets.com/arsanews.html#nolist, getting ACPC solid fuel off of the ATF's list.
All is not lost. Some of this "anti-terrorism" legislation is getting beat down.
What about CBS, ABC, and NBC? They account for a nice sized chunk of the population. All liberal stations... you have to add them into the figures as well. CNN and MSNBC don't amount to squat.
2.7 million viewers (Fox's numbers) are about 2% of the viewing population.
Fox is the only conservative network. My point being that it's the only one the democrats could stand to gain anything with by bringing the fairness doctrine back. It's not in their best interest.
The rest of the networks love Obama and the democrats and democrats could only lose out in combined total of air time. Losing liberal bias could only hurt the democrats because things would be fair and balanced and people might actually get some facts with their news.
No republicans and democrats are secretly one big party: Republicrats. They give the appearance that they are two parties so that we think there are competing interests representing us. Us rubes fall for it too. Sad really...
If you think the US government is spending too much, borrowing too much ------------------ Balance sheets don't lie, the gov is broke, to the tune of 11 trillion + dollars. gao.gov for the documentation. I'll save you the trouble. Here's a direct link to the report. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d1088.pdf. go to page 11. This is the governments own report ; ) ------------------
or that the health care plan is a Really Bad Idea... ------------------ which one? I haven't seen one that was finished. The last one was thrown out before anyone had a chance to read it now the democrats are writing a new one in secret. If it's so great why won't they let us see it or let the republicans have any input?
Larger question... why don't they model it after one of the ones that have been proven and actually work (like Denmark or France), rather than reinventing the wheel and filling it up with pork and other entitlements? It indicates a scary amount of hubris for our legislative branch to believe that they can do better than something that has been in development and refined, not to mention successfully implemented, since the 40's. The French have implemented it, had it nearly fail then fixed it and found the right balance.
We should take advantage of what they've done and learned, to get it right the first time. Instead we will do it wrong, and it will go broke, leaving many people without benefits, in other words, we'll end up being worse off than we are now. ------------------ Well, we have freedom of speech and you're allowed to say that. I suppose you're also allowed to say the president is a secret Muslim. ------------------ It's well documented that he's a Christian.
That would backfire for the democrats ; ) The media is decidedly liberal and they'd then need to give conservatives more air time. It will never happen, at least not til the republicans are back in power. Democrats have nothing to gain by bringing the Fairness Doctrine back, except Fox LMAO. No one pays attention to Fox anyway.
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Ever hear of CO2 scrubbers? Burying CO2 is a hell of a lot more green than burying radioactive waste in containers that will eventually leak. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_capture_and_storage
There are already working plants using this method. That's why they are building new coal fired plants in Europe, which is a lot more environmentally conscious than we are. That's as here, now and possible as building nuclear plants.
These new plants being built prove we are behind the times. I'd rather have my kids deal with inert minerals containing CO2 than radioactive crap that will probably be our undoing.
"Finally, the produced carbonates are unarguably stable and thus re-release of CO2 into the atmosphere is not an issue. "
Ok now couple this development with a complete shutdown of the nuclear waste storage program at Yucca Mountain.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0201/Nuclear-waste-storage-in-limbo-as-Obama-axes-Yucca-Mountain-funds
This administration amazes more every day with it's shortsightedness. This spending bill is a big fat FAIL. Cut spending on nuclear waste storage and use the money to create more nuclear waste. Brilliant!
I agree that you get more bang for the buck out of nuclear energy, but until the waste storage problem is handled, it's not a sustainable option. We can get by on coal until solar and wind is ready for prime time.
We are sitting on one of the biggest coal reserves in the world. We need to use it.
Why doesn't Woz get his damn iPhone out and video the car exhibiting the behavior. If he describes what he's doing in the video to reproduce the bug and posts it to YouTube, Toyota will have a hard time denying it.
I'm just sayin...
A better idea than an emulator, which will happen by the way, is to simply implement a good copy of the iPhone's interface on this.
check out the LG Vu mods to see what I'm talking about... www.lg-vu.com
GUIs are comparatively simple to copy. Much better than trying to emulate an OS. With the hardware this thing has a gui copy will run just as fast as a native iphone if it's done right and the underlying OS is efficient.
The GUI is just another program ;) The only difference between OSX and iPhone OS is the underlying hardware and the GUI.
Whoa! I beg to differ. Open an ssh shell to it. The underlying system is Darwin. It's the same set of core components and kernel that OSX is built from. I've done it and compiled a web server on it, complete with PHP and SSL. It's a base OSX system (think what yellow dog linux is to linux) which you can add any unix software you want to (including GCC). It's just slimmed down. From command line the functionality is identical. The system running on my phone is fully POSIX and UNIX compliant out of the box.
xxxxxxx-iPhone:~ root# uname -a . .. .fseventsd /var/mobile
Darwin xxxxxxx-iPhone 10.0.0d3 Darwin Kernel Version 10.0.0d3: Fri Sep 25 23:35:35 PDT 2009; root:xnu-1357.5.30~3/RELEASE_ARM_S5L8920X iPhone2,1 arm N88AP Darwin
xxxxxxx-iPhone:/ root# ls -la
total 42
drwxrwxr-t 15 root admin 748 Jan 31 11:46
drwxrwxr-t 15 root admin 748 Jan 31 11:46
drwx------ 2 _unknown _unknown 238 Sep 27 18:34
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 30 Oct 19 12:04 Applications
drwxrwxr-x 2 root admin 68 Sep 26 06:40 Developer
drwxrwxr-x 14 root admin 680 Nov 2 15:03 Library
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Sep 26 04:50 System
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 11 Jan 31 11:46 User ->
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1972 Nov 2 16:26 bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root admin 68 Oct 19 12:03 boot
drwxrwxr-t 2 root admin 68 Sep 26 02:04 cores
dr-xr-xr-x 3 root wheel 1310 Jan 31 11:46 dev
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 11 Sep 27 18:36 etc -> private/etc
drwxr-xr-x 2 root admin 68 Oct 19 12:03 lib
drwxr-xr-x 2 root admin 68 Oct 19 12:03 mnt
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 Oct 19 11:53 private
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1530 Nov 2 16:26 sbin
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 15 Sep 27 18:36 tmp -> private/var/tmp
drwxr-xr-x 6 root wheel 306 Oct 19 12:04 usr
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 11 Sep 27 18:36 var -> private/var
xxxxxxx=myname
---about darwin---
Darwin is an open source POSIX-compliant computer operating system released by Apple Inc. in 2000. It is composed of code developed by Apple, as well as code derived from NeXTSTEP, BSD, and other free software projects.
Darwin forms the core set of components upon which Mac OS X, Apple TV, and iPhone OS are based. It is compatible with the Single UNIX Specification version 3 (SUSv3) and POSIX UNIX applications and utilities.[2][3]
---end about darwin---
And before you ask, yes I changed the root password when I installed sshd so my phone won't get h4X0red. I did it the day I installed it, not when the "sploit" was released.
As well the kernel version is still stamped 2.1 even though I'm on version 3.1.2. Get on the stick Apple!
To use your own analogy, it's still a chevy drive train, but with a 4 cylinder engine and a different body. It's just a different processor with less memory so you can't fit the entirety of OSX on it, and it's got a different UI.
It has chevy pistons, chevy crank, chevy piston rings, water pump, crank, bearings, and even has AC Delco spark plugs. You also drive it from point A to point B, it has a gas pedal, brake, transmission control and steering wheel, so the most important functionality is there.
The interface is different but it's still a Darwin unix system under the hood, same as OSX. Can it go as fast as a Mac? No. Duh? It fits in the palm of your hand.
You could, given enough hardware resources, compile the mac interface on this OSX but I don't think the mac interface supports the screen resolution comfortably and the hardware requirements are a bit steep. They designed a smartphone interface purpose built to do what the iPhone does and run fast on ARM hardware.
However, the GUI does not equal the operating system ;-)
It's just a GUI. You are right that the _GUI_ functionality is not close to the same. Peel the GUI off and they are nearly i
English is a second language in the US. It's the official language, but in reality it enjoys second class status when compared to Engrish, Ebonics, and Spanish.
My son would be far behind where I was when I was in 3rd grade if I didn't bust my ass with him. The teacher does so much remedial work with the Spanish speakers that everyone falls behind.
They make up for it by teaching Spanish as the foreign language since they know it will be easy for most of the kids.
This has a lot to do with the problem in some school districts. IMHO they should have their own English classes so people that speak English can get a proper English education, not an "English as a foreign language" one.
Not that you need to give a reason to want to home school (the reasons are painfully obvious to any parent with a kid in school), but that's a damn good one.
Lack of socialization is a good thing. A lot of kids are really bad people, because of their home life, and subject each other to stuff that adults usually don't do like physical violence, bullying, etc. They can also end up with the wrong crowd and getting into drugs, violence and all sorts of other bad stuff. If I was independently wealthy and could afford to home school (i'm divorced) I'd be all over it.
I have to work full time and pay my mortgage. When I get home and on the weekends I teach him way beyond what his homework and classwork teaches. He usually wants to know more than they teach him so I indulge that curiosity whenever he wants.
He easily gets A's and is on the honor roll every semester. I can't imagine what he'd be capable of if I could devote 8-10 hours a day to his education. I do what I can.
The other bad thing about sending your kids to a school is the political BS they get subjected to. I hate the fact that some teachers insist on indoctrinating my kids with their political views. I spend a lot of time explaining what is fact and what is opinion. This alone is enough for me to pull my son out of school if I could. Politics doesn't belong in 3rd grade education. It's as bad as teaching religion IMHO. While important, it's something that should be left up to a child's family.
Easy. The owners of the company are entitled to do whatever they want. You need to work with this and make sure they don't lose their data. This means shadowing them, watching how they work, and figuring out which directories you need to back up for each. How many people are we talking about, maybe 4 or 5?
You need to set up custom backup for them. It's not that hard.
I have to disagree. Idiots cause accidents, not the phone. Using a cell phone is just one way an idiot can be distracted. Other ways include being intoxicated, stuffing your face, playing with the radio, doing your makeup, reading a news paper, fiddling with a GPS.
They should call them "intentionals". You intentionally pick it up, you intentionally take your eyes off the road, and you intentionally text someone.
You can also intentionally speed even though it's raining or snowing and lose control of your vehicle.
There's rarely anything accidental about an "accident". The only real accidents are outside of your control. IE you are driving along and you go into insulin shock due to undiagnosed diabetes, or maybe you have a seizure due to a new brain tumor you didn't know you had. Maybe the car in front of you kicks up a 2x4 that flies through your windshield and hits you (though improperly securing building materials on a truck is also intentional, but on someone else's part, not the poor bastard that got hit with the board)
Common misuse of the word accident is another symptom of a society that refuses to take responsibility for it's actions.
If you hit another car because you are doing something you aren't supposed to, it's not an accident. You caused it by intentionally doing something you weren't supposed to.
> This is most old-school gamers wet dream.
Til Bubba and Snap open your eyes (and anus) in the shower.
Prison is nothing to look forward to no matter what type of recreation they allow, unless you like getting ass raped, beat to a pulp and being someone's bitch. It's far from fun. Mickey Mouse and the rest of Disneyland could be there and it wouldn't be fun. Half the people I grew up with spent time in prison. I'm not saying that they should get cable or allow gaming in prison, only that your perspective on prison is inaccurate.
Further prison is not a deterrent. The last thing people are thinking about when they commit a crime is "Gee maybe I shouldn't do this because I might go to prison!". They are usually in the throes of withdrawal, enraged, possibly starving. They are always out of control in some way. You have to be rational for anything to be a deterrent. If they were rational they wouldn't commit the crime in the first place.
Deterrent is a really funny word. The people that "deterrent" means something to, don't need a deterrent.
Prison is a response. By the time it enters a criminal's mind, it's too late for them and the crime has been committed.
It's flawed logic. People believe that because most people who murder on behalf of religion are fundamentalist or extremist, that all fundamentalists and extremists are murderers.
It's simply not true.
Free thinkers also don't bash a phone or computer just because it's made by a particular company that engenders fanboi worship.
They tend to be pragmatic and get the tools that suit their needs. In my case the iPhone suited my needs.
I build my own computers out of components (because I like to) so naturally I don't own a Mac. A mac doesn't suit my needs. They sure are purdy tho.
You forgot about the Republicrats. It's a 3 party system!
You have justified your existence in your organization. If all of these perceived problems were solved, you wouldn't have a job because the users wouldn't need you any more. The CIO could sit at his desk on his mega-console and handle everything with the touch of a button.
I worked for a large investment firm in the mid 90's. We moved from the department paradigm to IT run as a business because the department paradigm meant everyone had 5+ year old computers and were never happy. Justifying budget for anything was like pulling teeth. We moved to the "IT run as a business" paradigm and before we knew it we had the money to put a new desktop on every desk, replace the aging IBM token ring network with a new 100Mbps to the desktop ethernet one. We were able to put in our own data center off site, with a private FDDI loop out to it.
Life became infinitely better over the space of 2 years where before it was totally stagnated. IT barely had the money to pay their staff because they were viewed as overhead instead of a service.
We never could have done it the other way. Trust me, as someone that experienced both paradigms out in a real company, the devil you know is far better than the one you don't in some cases. The business units were happy because they could pay a set fee per port instead of getting nickel and dimed. The PC's are leased for 2 years then replaced. If there's a problem with one, we pulled the old one out and just dropped a new one in. Everyone can plan their budget.
It is a double edged sword however... When business units lay people off, that means ports get cut, so the staffing of the IT organization is more or less tied directly to how the business is doing. It probably should be this way anyway...
patio = book
homeowner = publisher
architect = writer
The homeowner retains the right to sell the patio. He can also rent the patio for a fee for weddings, bar mitzvahs and parties.
It's against the law for people to walk onto the property and use the patio unless they rent it or buy it. However they are free to make their own imitation of the patio as long as it's not an exact copy since they'd need an architect to sign off on the drawing they used to build their property and the drawing becomes property of the homeowner.
Is there anything wrong with this? The owner's grandkids could still profit from the property if they still owned it. Just like if an author's grandkids owned the property, they would be entitled to profit.
If the house was sold to someone else outright, the grandkids of the owner wouldn't be entitled to anything.
If the publishing rights and royalty rights were sold, the grandkids of the author wouldn't be entitled to anything.
If the ground ownership was retained by the homeowner when selling the house a small fee would be due him each year.
If the royalties of sales were retained by the author, a small fee would be due him each year.
If the ground ownership of the property were left as an inheritance to the grandkids of the property owner, they would be entitled to the ground rent.
If the royalties of the author were left as an inheritance to his grandkids, they'd be entitled to the royalties.
Your analogy is a good one, just not complete.
What a dumb shit. By the same token, an actual terrorist wouldn't advertise the fact he was going to blow up an airport on Twitter.
The police were just doing their job though. If someone did advertise that they felt like blowing up an airport on twitter, then actually blew it up, I wonder what we'd be saying about the police then if they didn't haul the guy in despite the fact that the twitter post had been reported to them. The police are damned if they do and damned if they don't.
A guy named David summed it up nicely:
"The terrorists have won. We are now afraid of our own shadow."
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No shit. I built a model rocket with my son. We went up to the park to send it up and did. Then I read a story about the ATF requiring a license for solid fuel model rockets after Sept 11. I'm not sure how that equates to terrorists flying a 747 into a building or why that should have prompted this licensing requirement.
If I wanted to build a rocket-bomb, I wouldn't be getting a license for it. Conversely, if a terrorist wants to build one, he can just get a license.
Had I been caught, at that time, I could have went to jail for doing the same thing my dad did with me when I was a kid. Luckily the NAR subsequently took the ATF to court over this and won last May http://www.space-rockets.com/arsanews.html#nolist, getting ACPC solid fuel off of the ATF's list.
All is not lost. Some of this "anti-terrorism" legislation is getting beat down.
What about CBS, ABC, and NBC? They account for a nice sized chunk of the population. All liberal stations... you have to add them into the figures as well. CNN and MSNBC don't amount to squat.
2.7 million viewers (Fox's numbers) are about 2% of the viewing population.
Fox is the only conservative network. My point being that it's the only one the democrats could stand to gain anything with by bringing the fairness doctrine back. It's not in their best interest.
The rest of the networks love Obama and the democrats and democrats could only lose out in combined total of air time. Losing liberal bias could only hurt the democrats because things would be fair and balanced and people might actually get some facts with their news.
It ain't happening.
Carlin has been proven right. Social Security is broke, yet we have money to give wall street to bail them out.
Eerie actually...
No republicans and democrats are secretly one big party: Republicrats. They give the appearance that they are two parties so that we think there are competing interests representing us. Us rubes fall for it too. Sad really...
If you think the US government is spending too much, borrowing too much
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Balance sheets don't lie, the gov is broke, to the tune of 11 trillion + dollars. gao.gov for the documentation. I'll save you the trouble. Here's a direct link to the report. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d1088.pdf. go to page 11. This is the governments own report ; )
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or that the health care plan is a Really Bad Idea...
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which one? I haven't seen one that was finished. The last one was thrown out before anyone had a chance to read it now the democrats are writing a new one in secret. If it's so great why won't they let us see it or let the republicans have any input?
Larger question... why don't they model it after one of the ones that have been proven and actually work (like Denmark or France), rather than reinventing the wheel and filling it up with pork and other entitlements? It indicates a scary amount of hubris for our legislative branch to believe that they can do better than something that has been in development and refined, not to mention successfully implemented, since the 40's. The French have implemented it, had it nearly fail then fixed it and found the right balance.
We should take advantage of what they've done and learned, to get it right the first time. Instead we will do it wrong, and it will go broke, leaving many people without benefits, in other words, we'll end up being worse off than we are now.
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Well, we have freedom of speech and you're allowed to say that. I suppose you're also allowed to say the president is a secret Muslim.
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It's well documented that he's a Christian.
That would backfire for the democrats ; ) The media is decidedly liberal and they'd then need to give conservatives more air time. It will never happen, at least not til the republicans are back in power. Democrats have nothing to gain by bringing the Fairness Doctrine back, except Fox LMAO. No one pays attention to Fox anyway.