I meant retail, not commercial. You're supposed to know what I meant, not what I said...;-) My friend who had his rent raised because his business was doing well ran a bookstore in Hayes Valley in San Francisco during the dot-com boom. Stupid landlord, the place sat empty for four months, then had a tennant who went bankrupt in six, then the dot-com boom was over and no one would pay the outrageous price he wanted.
Well I feel like a real OTARD now;) This is a good thing, if you feel as I do that government should be there to protect the little guy. If you're a Libertarian, this is just another case of the big bad government sticking its nose in other people's business.
Well, I'm no lawyer, and neither are you, so this is all speculation. It sounds as if you believe that there is a much larger list of things that landlords can't legally put into a lease than I do. Perhaps you are right, but I personally have signed leases that have stated that I could not run a home business even though the neighborhood was zoned for it. But maybe that wasn't a legal restriction and I could have run a business, maybe it varies from state to state what can and can't be in a lease, I really don't know.
I know of neighborhood associations that prevent homeowners from running businesses out of their home, so I am assuming that a landlord could fairly easily prevent a tennant from doing so through the conditions of a lease. They couldn't stop you if it wasn't part of a contract you signed, but if the contract you signed said, "no home businesses," then you couldn't run a home business.
Commercial real estate leases are quite often month to month, and the landlord can kick you out or raise your rent with only a month's notice. I know several people who started their own businesses, got successful, and had the landlord raise the rent. If a landlord didn't want you running wifi from your commercially leased space, he could simply kick you out when the lease was up. I imagine that airlines leasing space from an airport is different, though, as no business would invest that much money into a leased space if the owners could that easily kick them out. The leases are more than likely very long term, and thus the owners had to cry to the government for protection rather than just make unilateral demands.
It would certainly be nice if things were as fair as you imagine them to be, though.:(
A landlord could include almost any provision they want in the lease, as long as it wasn't, for instance, something illegal like selling yourself into slavery. But from my limited understanding of the law, it seems that if the landlord put "No Free Wireless" in the lease, then "No Free Wireless" it would be. But it sounds like they didn't do that, tried some legal shenanigans, and got shot down. They could attempt to negotiate it into any new lease, but then they are just bargaining, and not from a very strong position. Thus the attempt to get the government on their side.
As far as I know, Starbucks, like every other business, retains the right to refuse business for any reason, including bringing unapproved magazines onto their premesis. What they can't do is (for instance) require you to sell your firstborn child into slavery or make you vote for a certain party. There are certain rights you can't actually sign away, but I don't think the right to free wireless or outside magazines is included.
It's not his fault, he's an addict! That, and some money touched him in a bad place when he was a kid. Now he is just trying to hide it all away to protect the children.
That makes sense. The study you link to is only for this year. The Republicans have quite frankly had a very bad year. Media is a business, and like businesses everywhere it gives its customers what they want. With Bush's approval ratings as low as they are, it's pretty obvious that people are fed up with his presidency. Think back to the years long media circus that surrounded Clinton. Think back to how little coverage Bush's screw ups got back when his approval ratings were high. This year's election coverage may have gone to the Democrats, but most go to the Republicans.
Got a link to that study? I'd like to see their methodology, because from my experience and from other studies I've read, the media has a severe conservative bias. You may consider yourself unbiased, but if you go by the same criteria you've just mentioned, your post has a severe conservative bias because you focus solely on liberal scandals. Perhaps your perception of bias comes from the fact that conservatives currently have more power and therefore more opportunity to lie, cheat, and steal. Because they do it more, they get caught more and the media reports it more.
That being said, I agree with your general thesis: extremists on both sides have severely fucked American politics. I just think that you go about proving your point in a very biased way. A less biased way would be to make as many references to conservative scandals as to liberal scandals.
Way to misrepresent the UCLA/Stanford study. If it's the one I'm thinking of, it showed that reporters are more liberal than the average reader, but that editors and owners (you know, the guys who decide what goes in the media?) are decidedly more conservative than their readers. Actual media coverage of events shows a marked conservative bias because the people who control the media are rich and therefore far more likely to be conservative.
You complain about bias, but show an amazing amount of it yourself. You are one of those children you mention, in a single post both throwing spitwads (Dead people vote for Democrats!!11one!1) and tattling to the teachers (Reid's Real Estate!1one!1! Slashed GOP Tires!!eleventyone!!)
It's a small, simple game. It's actually noy as stupid as I was anticipating. The site also has games about identity theft and phishing, among others. Not everyone takes technology courses at school. Besides, mandating a new curriculum and either making states pay or using our tax dollars to pay is better how, exactly? Anyone can use these games. I, for one am glad that the government is spending what is no doubt a tiny fraction of our tax dollars on something which may actually help. Games are more accessible to the average joe than some dry textbook.
No, that's too risky, unless you know for sure those little kids don't have gorilla sized older brothers, gun-toting maniac fathers, or a shiv made from a melted scrap of plastic pumpkin. Even a four year old can stick you in the kidneys real good if you aren't careful. Besides, Halloween is about screwing over the adults, not other kids. Siblings' candy is always fair game, however.
No doubt, trick or treating should not be limited to 6-8pm, that sucks. But if you are time limited, use a simple technique I pioneered in 3rd grade. Have at least two, if not three or more costumes ready. You don't really need full costumes, just masks. Don costume #1 and hit up all the houses in a reasonable area. Note which houses give out the best/most candy. Don costume #2 and hit up only the best houses. Note which of those are still giving out the best/most candy. Don costume #3. Hit up the best houses again. Using this technique you should be able to maximize your candy gathering potential in any circumstance.
No, no, no. They can't afford a western style table, but they have their own solution. Kim just has a couple flunkies get down on all fours, then they lay a few more flunkies across the first two. Sure it's a little uneven but considering how little the average North Korean has to eat, most of them are thin and flat enough to make a lovely table.
Good God, that started out as a nice troll but you just went to far. A good troll has to be believable. The first paragraph was excellent, a few untruths and distortions, but nothing that is completely unbelievable. The next line should have been the last, though. The next to the last line is where you start to lose it. A mean streak? Come on, his worst critics would never say that. Then in the last line you go so far over the top that one almost has to conclude that you really feel exactly the opposite about Jimmy and are using an extreme form of sarcasm. History's greatest monster, indeed.
You are creating a straw man. No one is claiming it would be bad for the government to correct factual errors. In fact, they already do this and have all the manpower they need to correct factual errors. What I am concerned about is how the government will use this in ways that go far, far beyond correcting factual errors. Are you saying that you really trust our current and all possible future governments not to use this to spread lies? You don't think President Hillary might use it to correct "factual innacuracies" about her presidency or her party? You are fine with Democrats using our tax dollars to spread lies about the Republicans? Or do you really, honestly not think that could happen? Because that is what I am scared of. You could present every single legitimate reason in the world for having such a program, but as long as there are compelling reasons not to have such a program, and you haven't addressed those reasons, you have done nothing to effectively argue your case.
CPU Cache. Router buffers. CMOS RAM. Hard disk buffers. CD and DVD drive buffers. Static RAM is used anyplace where speed or low power consumption are important. Slow static RAM uses less power than DRAM, while fast static RAM is much faster than DRAM.
Free and independent news outlets exist to challenge other news outlets. What exists to challenge this new department of propaganda? You make it seem as though untruths spread by a free press are dangerous, whereas the inevitable untruths spread by a government propaganda outlet won't be. You may like it now, because it's controlled by an administration you like, but it won't just go away when this administration does. How would you feel about this if it were the Democrats who were in control of it? Because they will be, someday. Still feel all warm and fuzzy inside?
The military pounded the Al-Jazeera offices with depleted uranium rounds. So much more long lasting suffering than silly old cruise missiles. Depleted uranium, it's the gift that keeps on giving!
The President already has a press secretary that does a very good job of getting the administration's point across. In fact, they are a little too good. Watch and listen, the same exact phrases get repeated on all the news outlets, over and over and over. In fact, no one else has nearly the kind of control that the executive already has over the news.
You make it seem as though the poor government just can't currently compete with all the big, mean, lying bloggers. Are you actually saying the propaganda of the Fed, and specifically the executive branch, can't compete with a bunch of bloggers? Now, the thing about bloggers is, they come from all sides. Why should the Fed counter the untruths? That's what we have a free press for.
Now, the larger question is, who will counter the untruths of this new department? If you think this department won't spread untruths, think of the horror you will feel when President Hillary (or someone equally as heinous to you) has control of this propaganda machine. Will you still be so blase, or do you really feel it's not an issue, as only 'the good guys' will be in power here from now on?
Shit, you are right. I was being a pussy. I'm just too fond of my intellect. I am not, however, scared to throw anyone, including myself, into the void. It's what I hope to accomplish and if what I said is easily misinterpreted, then I need to know that.
I do know that you have to kill people to deliver them, I've killed myself, but evidently not thoroughly enough. And you are right, it is nice after it is over. One at least has access to perfect peace. Whether one is smart or determined enough to dwell there is another matter.
As they say, before enlightnement, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. The realization is not the end of the road, but it makes the rest of the trip a lot more enjoyable. Me, I just wish I wasn't so damn lazy when it comes to putting things into practice. I mean, what good is knowing that perfect peace is always within your grasp if anyone can come along and push your buttons and take it away again?
I've enjoyed sparring with you more than with most. I wasn't quite sure of you at first, but now I know that was more about my lack of mastery than yours. Anyway, thanks for the lessons;-) I was overdue for a little shake up.
Thank you! This is going to really, really help us here. I've tried the other VMware recomended solutions like using the VMWare tools clock synch feature with no luck. I will definitely try this.
We use VMware on IBM Blades. Very many other businesses are doing the same. All the CIO management rags are all abuzz over VM. Your workplace is indeed a little behind the times.
You do know that it doesn't matter if people are using hardware virtualization, right? All new Intel and AMD chips have it, whether you use it or not, it's there for a rootkit to exploit.
There are several other VM packages that also use the hardware VM. Xen is one, and it's open source. And in any case, it's not about how VMWare or Xen deal with the new hardware, it's how Windows and Linux deal with it. If mainstream OSs don't take steps to lock down the VM hardware, undetectable rootkits will be the result.
As someone who has worked quite a bit with VMware, let me say that I am more concerned with it's freakish inability to keep accurate time. I've got a cronjob running every five minutes to reset the time via ntpdate. Running ntp on the server won't help, the offset is too random and too large to compensate for. In five minutes between running ntpdate, I've seen clocks be off by a minute.
Never thought of this as a debate, but more of a sharing of understanding. The fact that you see it as a debate speaks volumes. We have to use words to communicate. Words, especially when used to convey things such as we are trying to convey, are necessarily imprecise. I could easily misinterprete the things you are saying and turn around and accuse you of making silly assumptions. But that would be because I was looking at your words, like the cat looking at the finger pointing at the food and not at the meaning behind the words. I have no doubt that you have a certain understanding about what the world is and how it works, but you refuse to come off your high horse and see that we are using different sets of words to create two different signs pointing at the exact same thing. You focus on a subset of what I am saying and don't get the gist of it. I know this because you have not said anything to me that I don't already understand deeply on an intuitive level. I don't know about you, but I have had certain experiences. Even there, I begin to go wrong, "I" did not "have" these experiences, but language is imprecise. In fact, "I" disappeared. All distinction, all difference, all concepts, all subjects and all objects were gone. Yet they were all present, too. If "you" have had a similar "experience," you will know what was left after everything (including being gone) was gone. If so, as best you can recall and put into words, what was it?
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I meant retail, not commercial. You're supposed to know what I meant, not what I said... ;-) My friend who had his rent raised because his business was doing well ran a bookstore in Hayes Valley in San Francisco during the dot-com boom. Stupid landlord, the place sat empty for four months, then had a tennant who went bankrupt in six, then the dot-com boom was over and no one would pay the outrageous price he wanted.
Well I feel like a real OTARD now ;) This is a good thing, if you feel as I do that government should be there to protect the little guy. If you're a Libertarian, this is just another case of the big bad government sticking its nose in other people's business.
Well, I'm no lawyer, and neither are you, so this is all speculation. It sounds as if you believe that there is a much larger list of things that landlords can't legally put into a lease than I do. Perhaps you are right, but I personally have signed leases that have stated that I could not run a home business even though the neighborhood was zoned for it. But maybe that wasn't a legal restriction and I could have run a business, maybe it varies from state to state what can and can't be in a lease, I really don't know.
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I know of neighborhood associations that prevent homeowners from running businesses out of their home, so I am assuming that a landlord could fairly easily prevent a tennant from doing so through the conditions of a lease. They couldn't stop you if it wasn't part of a contract you signed, but if the contract you signed said, "no home businesses," then you couldn't run a home business.
Commercial real estate leases are quite often month to month, and the landlord can kick you out or raise your rent with only a month's notice. I know several people who started their own businesses, got successful, and had the landlord raise the rent. If a landlord didn't want you running wifi from your commercially leased space, he could simply kick you out when the lease was up. I imagine that airlines leasing space from an airport is different, though, as no business would invest that much money into a leased space if the owners could that easily kick them out. The leases are more than likely very long term, and thus the owners had to cry to the government for protection rather than just make unilateral demands.
It would certainly be nice if things were as fair as you imagine them to be, though.
A landlord could include almost any provision they want in the lease, as long as it wasn't, for instance, something illegal like selling yourself into slavery. But from my limited understanding of the law, it seems that if the landlord put "No Free Wireless" in the lease, then "No Free Wireless" it would be. But it sounds like they didn't do that, tried some legal shenanigans, and got shot down. They could attempt to negotiate it into any new lease, but then they are just bargaining, and not from a very strong position. Thus the attempt to get the government on their side.
As far as I know, Starbucks, like every other business, retains the right to refuse business for any reason, including bringing unapproved magazines onto their premesis. What they can't do is (for instance) require you to sell your firstborn child into slavery or make you vote for a certain party. There are certain rights you can't actually sign away, but I don't think the right to free wireless or outside magazines is included.
It's not his fault, he's an addict! That, and some money touched him in a bad place when he was a kid. Now he is just trying to hide it all away to protect the children.
That makes sense. The study you link to is only for this year. The Republicans have quite frankly had a very bad year. Media is a business, and like businesses everywhere it gives its customers what they want. With Bush's approval ratings as low as they are, it's pretty obvious that people are fed up with his presidency. Think back to the years long media circus that surrounded Clinton. Think back to how little coverage Bush's screw ups got back when his approval ratings were high. This year's election coverage may have gone to the Democrats, but most go to the Republicans.
Got a link to that study? I'd like to see their methodology, because from my experience and from other studies I've read, the media has a severe conservative bias. You may consider yourself unbiased, but if you go by the same criteria you've just mentioned, your post has a severe conservative bias because you focus solely on liberal scandals. Perhaps your perception of bias comes from the fact that conservatives currently have more power and therefore more opportunity to lie, cheat, and steal. Because they do it more, they get caught more and the media reports it more.
That being said, I agree with your general thesis: extremists on both sides have severely fucked American politics. I just think that you go about proving your point in a very biased way. A less biased way would be to make as many references to conservative scandals as to liberal scandals.
Way to misrepresent the UCLA/Stanford study. If it's the one I'm thinking of, it showed that reporters are more liberal than the average reader, but that editors and owners (you know, the guys who decide what goes in the media?) are decidedly more conservative than their readers. Actual media coverage of events shows a marked conservative bias because the people who control the media are rich and therefore far more likely to be conservative.
You complain about bias, but show an amazing amount of it yourself. You are one of those children you mention, in a single post both throwing spitwads (Dead people vote for Democrats!!11one!1) and tattling to the teachers (Reid's Real Estate!1one!1! Slashed GOP Tires!!eleventyone!!)
It's a small, simple game. It's actually noy as stupid as I was anticipating. The site also has games about identity theft and phishing, among others. Not everyone takes technology courses at school. Besides, mandating a new curriculum and either making states pay or using our tax dollars to pay is better how, exactly? Anyone can use these games. I, for one am glad that the government is spending what is no doubt a tiny fraction of our tax dollars on something which may actually help. Games are more accessible to the average joe than some dry textbook.
No, that's too risky, unless you know for sure those little kids don't have gorilla sized older brothers, gun-toting maniac fathers, or a shiv made from a melted scrap of plastic pumpkin. Even a four year old can stick you in the kidneys real good if you aren't careful. Besides, Halloween is about screwing over the adults, not other kids. Siblings' candy is always fair game, however.
No doubt, trick or treating should not be limited to 6-8pm, that sucks. But if you are time limited, use a simple technique I pioneered in 3rd grade. Have at least two, if not three or more costumes ready. You don't really need full costumes, just masks. Don costume #1 and hit up all the houses in a reasonable area. Note which houses give out the best/most candy. Don costume #2 and hit up only the best houses. Note which of those are still giving out the best/most candy. Don costume #3. Hit up the best houses again. Using this technique you should be able to maximize your candy gathering potential in any circumstance.
Oh shit. I feel dumb now.
No, no, no. They can't afford a western style table, but they have their own solution. Kim just has a couple flunkies get down on all fours, then they lay a few more flunkies across the first two. Sure it's a little uneven but considering how little the average North Korean has to eat, most of them are thin and flat enough to make a lovely table.
Good God, that started out as a nice troll but you just went to far. A good troll has to be believable. The first paragraph was excellent, a few untruths and distortions, but nothing that is completely unbelievable. The next line should have been the last, though. The next to the last line is where you start to lose it. A mean streak? Come on, his worst critics would never say that. Then in the last line you go so far over the top that one almost has to conclude that you really feel exactly the opposite about Jimmy and are using an extreme form of sarcasm. History's greatest monster, indeed.
You are creating a straw man. No one is claiming it would be bad for the government to correct factual errors. In fact, they already do this and have all the manpower they need to correct factual errors. What I am concerned about is how the government will use this in ways that go far, far beyond correcting factual errors. Are you saying that you really trust our current and all possible future governments not to use this to spread lies? You don't think President Hillary might use it to correct "factual innacuracies" about her presidency or her party? You are fine with Democrats using our tax dollars to spread lies about the Republicans? Or do you really, honestly not think that could happen? Because that is what I am scared of. You could present every single legitimate reason in the world for having such a program, but as long as there are compelling reasons not to have such a program, and you haven't addressed those reasons, you have done nothing to effectively argue your case.
Now your computer can get STDs as well!
Stupidity Transmitted Diseases?
CPU Cache. Router buffers. CMOS RAM. Hard disk buffers. CD and DVD drive buffers. Static RAM is used anyplace where speed or low power consumption are important. Slow static RAM uses less power than DRAM, while fast static RAM is much faster than DRAM.
Free and independent news outlets exist to challenge other news outlets. What exists to challenge this new department of propaganda? You make it seem as though untruths spread by a free press are dangerous, whereas the inevitable untruths spread by a government propaganda outlet won't be. You may like it now, because it's controlled by an administration you like, but it won't just go away when this administration does. How would you feel about this if it were the Democrats who were in control of it? Because they will be, someday. Still feel all warm and fuzzy inside?
The military pounded the Al-Jazeera offices with depleted uranium rounds. So much more long lasting suffering than silly old cruise missiles. Depleted uranium, it's the gift that keeps on giving!
The President already has a press secretary that does a very good job of getting the administration's point across. In fact, they are a little too good. Watch and listen, the same exact phrases get repeated on all the news outlets, over and over and over. In fact, no one else has nearly the kind of control that the executive already has over the news.
You make it seem as though the poor government just can't currently compete with all the big, mean, lying bloggers. Are you actually saying the propaganda of the Fed, and specifically the executive branch, can't compete with a bunch of bloggers? Now, the thing about bloggers is, they come from all sides. Why should the Fed counter the untruths? That's what we have a free press for.
Now, the larger question is, who will counter the untruths of this new department? If you think this department won't spread untruths, think of the horror you will feel when President Hillary (or someone equally as heinous to you) has control of this propaganda machine. Will you still be so blase, or do you really feel it's not an issue, as only 'the good guys' will be in power here from now on?
Shit, you are right. I was being a pussy. I'm just too fond of my intellect. I am not, however, scared to throw anyone, including myself, into the void. It's what I hope to accomplish and if what I said is easily misinterpreted, then I need to know that.
;-) I was overdue for a little shake up.
I do know that you have to kill people to deliver them, I've killed myself, but evidently not thoroughly enough. And you are right, it is nice after it is over. One at least has access to perfect peace. Whether one is smart or determined enough to dwell there is another matter.
As they say, before enlightnement, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. The realization is not the end of the road, but it makes the rest of the trip a lot more enjoyable. Me, I just wish I wasn't so damn lazy when it comes to putting things into practice. I mean, what good is knowing that perfect peace is always within your grasp if anyone can come along and push your buttons and take it away again?
I've enjoyed sparring with you more than with most. I wasn't quite sure of you at first, but now I know that was more about my lack of mastery than yours. Anyway, thanks for the lessons
Thank you! This is going to really, really help us here. I've tried the other VMware recomended solutions like using the VMWare tools clock synch feature with no luck. I will definitely try this.
We use VMware on IBM Blades. Very many other businesses are doing the same. All the CIO management rags are all abuzz over VM. Your workplace is indeed a little behind the times.
You do know that it doesn't matter if people are using hardware virtualization, right? All new Intel and AMD chips have it, whether you use it or not, it's there for a rootkit to exploit.
There are several other VM packages that also use the hardware VM. Xen is one, and it's open source. And in any case, it's not about how VMWare or Xen deal with the new hardware, it's how Windows and Linux deal with it. If mainstream OSs don't take steps to lock down the VM hardware, undetectable rootkits will be the result.
As someone who has worked quite a bit with VMware, let me say that I am more concerned with it's freakish inability to keep accurate time. I've got a cronjob running every five minutes to reset the time via ntpdate. Running ntp on the server won't help, the offset is too random and too large to compensate for. In five minutes between running ntpdate, I've seen clocks be off by a minute.
Never thought of this as a debate, but more of a sharing of understanding. The fact that you see it as a debate speaks volumes. We have to use words to communicate. Words, especially when used to convey things such as we are trying to convey, are necessarily imprecise. I could easily misinterprete the things you are saying and turn around and accuse you of making silly assumptions. But that would be because I was looking at your words, like the cat looking at the finger pointing at the food and not at the meaning behind the words. I have no doubt that you have a certain understanding about what the world is and how it works, but you refuse to come off your high horse and see that we are using different sets of words to create two different signs pointing at the exact same thing. You focus on a subset of what I am saying and don't get the gist of it. I know this because you have not said anything to me that I don't already understand deeply on an intuitive level. I don't know about you, but I have had certain experiences. Even there, I begin to go wrong, "I" did not "have" these experiences, but language is imprecise. In fact, "I" disappeared. All distinction, all difference, all concepts, all subjects and all objects were gone. Yet they were all present, too. If "you" have had a similar "experience," you will know what was left after everything (including being gone) was gone. If so, as best you can recall and put into words, what was it?
One could say that they know exactly what to do with a page file...