I've heard for over a decade that when the Soviet Union fell that the communists migrated into the environmentalist movement. Maybe, and that would seem to be a relatively harmless place to keep them. Now with a grand attempt by environmentalists to wrest power from the industrialized nations via carbon taxes, and proven fabrications in data regarding climate change, and Dr. Lovelock here also on the side of doing away with democracy, it doesn't seem like such a silly thing after all.
Mankind has waded through millennia of rule by bullies, mafia type kings, religiously ordained kings, generals into kings, pick your poison of absolutist tyrant, etc. to finally obtain a somewhat working democracy. 234 years ago there was only one democracy. Now there are over 170. It may not be the perfect government, but I suspect there is no perfect government when imperfect people are involved.
Given the alternatives we've seen in the 20th century, I'll stick with democracy or republics for a while. We haven't given them nearly enough time to work the kinks out yet. Nothing else ever worked the kinks out either, even with hundreds or thousands of years to work things out. Communism is just subjugating yourself to another tyrant... the tyrantiest tyrant of a group of tyrants, just like it used to be.
I'm bald in red, green, blue, monochrome, or acoustic emissions (for any bats reading this). And the blind would figure it out if I let them. The question is will this approach cure baldness? If colorblindness is a by-product, that's fine with me.
China will do exactly what they're doing with the rest of industry... they make deals provided they do some manufacturing in China. They lift every secret they can, then open their competing industry. Of course their competing industry is well on its way. Remember, they have more honor students than we have students, and they're outproducing us in engineers around 9 to 1.
Maybe I can hope that the folks at the more impressive military contractors have lots of servers with files almost expertly tucked away, with firewalls almost strong enough to keep out brilliant scoundrels, that are chock full of military secrets... that are fake.
Regarding #3, I was not referring to my reply to you, but my initial stance on the issue in general. And regarding talk radio as not the best source for statistics, when they site the study, I don't think they're the worst source for statistics either.
#1, Your reply to the OP implied that Mississippi politicians had more to fear wrt mistresses and the like. I replied to that, and you ignored that essential part of my reply, obviously because I made the point effectively. #2, The politicians are the ones who put the lights into effect in the first place. It was the groundswell of resistance that brought them down. #3, Where the invasion of privacy is concerned was not an original argument of mine and I never cared about that, but it's obviously ridiculous to say that there is "NO INVASION OF PRIVACY" when the camera can put you at a particular spot at a particular time, and can photograph who you're with at the time. That could be a problem for other reasons than mistresses. And lastly, #4, Your reply to the OP had nothing to do with Barbour. From my perspective, it was making a statement at best about the morality of the politicians in this state, and at worst about the people in general. Looking at the politicians from other states, I see no basis for that. It's just your baseless attack on a state that doesn't deserve it. I'm not a fan of Barbour in particular. He's been praised for his reaction to Katrina, and I didn't see him do anything other than what common sense would dictate. His biggest accomplishment to this point has been in getting Toyota into the state, though I'm not sure if that deal is still going to happen with the economic downturn. The main thing to consider about Mississippi voting him is, is that he is a damned site better than the incompetent boob that he was running against.
It's Mississippi??? As opposed to the other states where the lawmakers don't run traffic lights and don't care if their mistresses or misters are seen?
I've been hearing the vast hoards complaining for the last several years about invasion of privacy by the government and Mississippi takes a small step against it, and this changes the validity of the argument somehow?
They've been talking about this on Supertalk Mississippi (listen on the internet if you like) for a while, and since I work, I haven't heard much of the arguments, but I seem to remember them saying that the cameras at some intersections actually increased the number of accidents, since people were focused on not getting caught by cameras rather than focusing on the traffic.
"It's Mississippi" indeed.
BOB the Engineer
Stop trying to find ways to screw over employees. Pay them 1/2 of everything it saves the company for 1 year.
A raffle? People aren't stupid. They'll see that's just flim flam.
If you use the idea *thank them by paying them money dammit*! They don't need pats-on-the-back. They don't need an award. They need to pay the damned bills.
Life is hard. People need to be rewarded for making the company money. It's that simple.
My mechanical engineering prof said that what doomed Ford was the response of the Ford CEO (it's been a long time since the class, I think it was the CEO) to an internal missive concerning the problem. When he was informed that a certain percentage of riders would die by a fire explosion when the car was rear-ended, he sent the note back after he scrawled on it "let them burn".
The ability to respond angrily to an internet post is the best proof of humanity. (Before the internet, it was a letter to the editor. Before that, public jeering. Before that, stoning. They were only protohumans before that).
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7me4boq5Wyk
Who didn't see this kind of thing coming with with programmable voting machines? And who's gullible enough to think this is the extent of it?
Get back to me when they come up with something that doesn't look like it was peeled off of Shakespeare's corpse.
Looking at the OP, I wonder do the UK folk consider themselves "subjects" or "citizens"? I never really paid attention until I read http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/07/03/1935215/Spectral-Imaging-Reveals-Jefferson-Nixed-Subjects-for-Citizens
Keep the mercury spinning straight up, but use high quality mirrors to reflect the wanted image down the tube. There you go.
Logical.
I've heard for over a decade that when the Soviet Union fell that the communists migrated into the environmentalist movement. Maybe, and that would seem to be a relatively harmless place to keep them. Now with a grand attempt by environmentalists to wrest power from the industrialized nations via carbon taxes, and proven fabrications in data regarding climate change, and Dr. Lovelock here also on the side of doing away with democracy, it doesn't seem like such a silly thing after all.
Mankind has waded through millennia of rule by bullies, mafia type kings, religiously ordained kings, generals into kings, pick your poison of absolutist tyrant, etc. to finally obtain a somewhat working democracy. 234 years ago there was only one democracy. Now there are over 170. It may not be the perfect government, but I suspect there is no perfect government when imperfect people are involved.
Given the alternatives we've seen in the 20th century, I'll stick with democracy or republics for a while. We haven't given them nearly enough time to work the kinks out yet. Nothing else ever worked the kinks out either, even with hundreds or thousands of years to work things out. Communism is just subjugating yourself to another tyrant... the tyrantiest tyrant of a group of tyrants, just like it used to be.
I'm bald in red, green, blue, monochrome, or acoustic emissions (for any bats reading this). And the blind would figure it out if I let them. The question is will this approach cure baldness? If colorblindness is a by-product, that's fine with me.
If they speak dolphin, forget it!
World Series of Poker on the phone ain't bad.
How's that hope and change working out for ya?
China will do exactly what they're doing with the rest of industry... they make deals provided they do some manufacturing in China. They lift every secret they can, then open their competing industry. Of course their competing industry is well on its way. Remember, they have more honor students than we have students, and they're outproducing us in engineers around 9 to 1.
Maybe I can hope that the folks at the more impressive military contractors have lots of servers with files almost expertly tucked away, with firewalls almost strong enough to keep out brilliant scoundrels, that are chock full of military secrets... that are fake.
(no it doesn't!)
A year is seven days wide (according to my calendar).
Regarding #3, I was not referring to my reply to you, but my initial stance on the issue in general. And regarding talk radio as not the best source for statistics, when they site the study, I don't think they're the worst source for statistics either.
#1, Your reply to the OP implied that Mississippi politicians had more to fear wrt mistresses and the like. I replied to that, and you ignored that essential part of my reply, obviously because I made the point effectively. #2, The politicians are the ones who put the lights into effect in the first place. It was the groundswell of resistance that brought them down. #3, Where the invasion of privacy is concerned was not an original argument of mine and I never cared about that, but it's obviously ridiculous to say that there is "NO INVASION OF PRIVACY" when the camera can put you at a particular spot at a particular time, and can photograph who you're with at the time. That could be a problem for other reasons than mistresses. And lastly, #4, Your reply to the OP had nothing to do with Barbour. From my perspective, it was making a statement at best about the morality of the politicians in this state, and at worst about the people in general. Looking at the politicians from other states, I see no basis for that. It's just your baseless attack on a state that doesn't deserve it. I'm not a fan of Barbour in particular. He's been praised for his reaction to Katrina, and I didn't see him do anything other than what common sense would dictate. His biggest accomplishment to this point has been in getting Toyota into the state, though I'm not sure if that deal is still going to happen with the economic downturn. The main thing to consider about Mississippi voting him is, is that he is a damned site better than the incompetent boob that he was running against.
It's Mississippi??? As opposed to the other states where the lawmakers don't run traffic lights and don't care if their mistresses or misters are seen? I've been hearing the vast hoards complaining for the last several years about invasion of privacy by the government and Mississippi takes a small step against it, and this changes the validity of the argument somehow? They've been talking about this on Supertalk Mississippi (listen on the internet if you like) for a while, and since I work, I haven't heard much of the arguments, but I seem to remember them saying that the cameras at some intersections actually increased the number of accidents, since people were focused on not getting caught by cameras rather than focusing on the traffic. "It's Mississippi" indeed. BOB the Engineer
Stop trying to find ways to screw over employees. Pay them 1/2 of everything it saves the company for 1 year. A raffle? People aren't stupid. They'll see that's just flim flam. If you use the idea *thank them by paying them money dammit*! They don't need pats-on-the-back. They don't need an award. They need to pay the damned bills. Life is hard. People need to be rewarded for making the company money. It's that simple.
My mechanical engineering prof said that what doomed Ford was the response of the Ford CEO (it's been a long time since the class, I think it was the CEO) to an internal missive concerning the problem. When he was informed that a certain percentage of riders would die by a fire explosion when the car was rear-ended, he sent the note back after he scrawled on it "let them burn".
women
Isn't it crappy that teenagers have to determine what they'll like doing when they're 40, and haven't got enough real life experience to know squat?
The ability to respond angrily to an internet post is the best proof of humanity. (Before the internet, it was a letter to the editor. Before that, public jeering. Before that, stoning. They were only protohumans before that).