Taxes are charged on this service, but in proportion to the total bill, not the number or duration of local calls made. Taxes on your local service would be the same if you made 0 or several thousand minutes of local calls. If you called a cab long distance, you would pay per minute for the call and be taxed on its cost, but that's not likely.
Horseshit. The FCC charges every phone in the US a tax - a flat tax - for access (as well as Cable connections.) Google Al Gore phone tax for more information. Or just take a look at the $2.33 FCC 'connection fee'. There are other use-based taxes, but there is a flat Federal tax on all connected devices.
Why not become a teacher? A lot of kids could benefit from a teacher with life experience, not someone fresh out of college with a teaching degree.
Because he doesn't want to start out at the bottom of the pay scale? Teaching pay scales are not based on merit, but on time served. He would be making the same as the aforementioned dipshit but with much larger bills to pay, regardless of much the kids might benefit. Private school is not that much more competitive, either.
How pissed are they that 'JavaScript' was already taken? I bet they walk the halls in the JavaFX Script dev area muttering about 'ECMAScript'. Bitter bastards, I'm sure.
Yes, steel was critical, but you could say the same for any core commodity. Like, say, oil. I don't think software development is the 'most important activity' of the 21st century. Software development is merely providing instruction sets to instruments. You could make a case about instrumentation, or micro-manufacturing, both of which utilize software development. While enticing to compare Gates to the robber barons of the late 19th century, it's far from accurate. Nobody NEEDS to buy MicroSoft products in order to do business. They choose to because it's easier. (Like it or not - real or not.)
Running Linux is one of the best books for learning the overall structure of systems. Matt even notes the basic exceptions between Slackware and most other core distros in terms of structure and processing. Indispensible.
Clinton fired the entirety of the US Attorneys not just a few. He had to have them confirmed by a party with the guts to actually say no.
Okay. So what? Bush can fire 8 or 93. It's his perogative.
And what you seem willfully ignorant of is the fact that they 2006 reauthorization of the Patriot act specifically authorizes the president to appoint US attorneys without any legislative oversight.
Why do I seem ignorant of it? It's has little or no bearing. If it's to be repealed, that's fine. That's up to congress. To vote on. That's their job. Crying over attorneys getting fired has precious little to do with what powers they gave the Executive.
Which begs the question why did you post that dribble. It is clear to me that oversight even by ones own party is significantly better than no confirmation at all. Which is what the President was hoping to achieve.
First off, did you mean 'drivel'? Secondly, the 'oversight even by ones [sic] own party' means nothing at all. See above post about Congressional oversight.
Bottom line is Bush can fire any and all of these attorneys whenever he wants for whatever reason he wants, political or otherwise. It would seem that these 8, those potentially fired for 'political' reasons, were mainly fired at the discretion of the AG on behalf of the POTUS. That's legal, end of story.
Most Republicans (at least in my circle) immediately recalled Clinton firing all 93 and the press blithely ignored it, despite the fact that it set back the Rostenkowski indictment.
And I still don't get your point. I mean, past Presidents fire at will, even on a grand scale, and help end political investigations - no problem. Bush fires 8 and holy smokes - their might (MIGHT!) be some political reason. So what?
The president can fire federal prosecutors WHENEVER HE WANTS FOR WHATEVER REASON. Period. There is no 'beginning of term' rule. Period. If you don't like the lack of congressional oversight, get on your congresscritter to change it. That's how the system works. But there is no indictable offense.
I can't believe this has been on the airwaves for as long as it does. Conclusion: either the media is willfully ignorant or they're taking sides. Or both. Now, what's your excuse?
Additionally there were no allegations when Clinton fired the US attorneys that the whitehouse or Democrats were interfering with investigations to help out their friends.
News to me. The firings saved Dan Rostenkowski's bacon and kept anyone competent from the Little Rock post. See here.
Just because you say something while being ignorant of the facts, does not make them true. Clinton also had an all Democrat congress, so yeah, he had to get Democrats approved by Democrats. Big deal.
Considering Bush can't even get his nominee for ambassador to Belgium to get a vote because John Kerry's feelings are hurt, that isn't petty? You think he'll have an easy time getting any attorneys through Leahy and Schumer?
Difference is that nobody in the Bush case is either under indictment or has been subpoenaed. Clinton did the deed to a Grand Jury, by himself, and then did same during his Impeachment trial. Thus he was impeached 3 times.
You miss the obvious point - large cities have become bastions of welfare recipients and bloated organizations. In the 90's the population of Philadelphia decreased by 10% while the size of the bureaucracy increased 10%. Hardly more efficient. And it taxes folks based on the level of 'services' you are getting. Anyone who has had to do anything with the City of Philadelphia knows this is a joke. If cities were truly models of efficiency, then maybe more folks would be attracted, but more exurbanites (like myself) would rather have small, incompetent government rather than large, overweight government. I pay a third of the taxes and my trash ALWAYS gets picked up. Something that happened with varying results in Philadelphia. But Philadelphians are smart - they got rid of the A's and the Republicans in the 50's and only won one World Series and have lot all of their manufacturing base since then. They've taxed the smart folks out of town.
I'm reading the GP and I'm wondering if JtS has seen it and WHAM, there's your reply. Weren't you collecting these keyboards? I know you did a JE about them.
The first time I tried to install Slackware (having previous installed Debian with several issues), it didn't take a single hour. In fact, the third and fourth install didn't take only an hour, either.
Something tells me you didn't read this or this. If you just expect things to be set up right, you can't just install and be happy. In fact, the tendency to do that with Windows leads to the hosing of said Windows systems you write about.
P.S. Remember when Cheney refused to sell his Haliburton stock when appointed VP? He also resisted placing it into a blind trust and if I remember correctly, continues to receive compensation from Haliburton.
I love when folks with little/no understanding of executive and deferred compensation say stuff like this. Shows their ignorance. Like when the press sensationalizes 'semiautomatic' weapons. Yup. One pull, one bullet...but semiautomatic sounds so sexy.
FWIW, Cheney sold the stock he could and gave the proceeds to charity. As for the deferred comp, there's nothing that Cheney or Halliburton can do. But I don't see any of you kneejerk anti-Bushies getting up in arms over Al Gore's ties to Occidental Petroleum. Oh wait, everybody does it...
Glad you're contributing today. Perhaps you could, I don't know, Google for what it is. But the fact that you don't know what Groove is or who Ray Ozzie is suggests that maybe, just maybe, you aren't the one to suggest alternatives.
(And no, I don't know why I'm kicking karma by getting into a pissy flame war with a high id troll.)
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I guess the integration is worth something to unskilled users?
What do you think? MicroSoft isn't looking for/. people as Users, but as (potential) employees. Or not. Unskilled users ARE their user base. Apple is going after unskilled users with money or folks who don't want to hassle with drivers/software/etc. Linux is great, but very specialized and lacks out-of-the-box integrated tools. Sure, you can write a script or pipe output, but that's besides the point. Most users (think Admin Assistants) want and need nice GUIs.
They're just making it easier for the knucle-dragging, mouth-breathers of the world. And getting paid handsomely for it.
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It's exactly like rsync...if rsync was bundled into a browser file-saving interface, chat and web portal tool.
In other words, if you want to keep your job, get that chip off your shoulder and start reading.
And to the original poster, there is NOTHING like this in the open source environment unless someone developed an OpenOffice plugin for creating dynamic drupal sites and sharing seamlessly with a Jabber client.
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Taxes are charged on this service, but in proportion to the total bill, not the number or duration of local calls made. Taxes on your local service would be the same if you made 0 or several thousand minutes of local calls. If you called a cab long distance, you would pay per minute for the call and be taxed on its cost, but that's not likely.
Horseshit. The FCC charges every phone in the US a tax - a flat tax - for access (as well as Cable connections.) Google Al Gore phone tax for more information. Or just take a look at the $2.33 FCC 'connection fee'.
There are other use-based taxes, but there is a flat Federal tax on all connected devices.
Why not become a teacher? A lot of kids could benefit from a teacher with life experience, not someone fresh out of college with a teaching degree.
Because he doesn't want to start out at the bottom of the pay scale?
Teaching pay scales are not based on merit, but on time served. He would be making the same as the aforementioned dipshit but with much larger bills to pay, regardless of much the kids might benefit.
Private school is not that much more competitive, either.
How pissed are they that 'JavaScript' was already taken?
I bet they walk the halls in the JavaFX Script dev area muttering about 'ECMAScript'.
Bitter bastards, I'm sure.
Yes, steel was critical, but you could say the same for any core commodity. Like, say, oil.
I don't think software development is the 'most important activity' of the 21st century. Software development is merely providing instruction sets to instruments. You could make a case about instrumentation, or micro-manufacturing, both of which utilize software development.
While enticing to compare Gates to the robber barons of the late 19th century, it's far from accurate. Nobody NEEDS to buy MicroSoft products in order to do business. They choose to because it's easier. (Like it or not - real or not.)
Cost going down and price going up is not progress.
No, it's economics.
The scary part is that if a bot can spam it can capture keystrokes or troll for interesting documents.
Or troll slashdot.
Get a copy of the Illuminatus! Trilogy [fnord] soonest so you're no longer missing these [fnord] jokes.
Except for Slackware and Debian...yes.
Package maintenance, that's another issue altogether.
I hope the next article I read about him is how his car ran over an IED
Boy, you're a bitter, jealous bitch, aren't you?
Running Linux is one of the best books for learning the overall structure of systems. Matt even notes the basic exceptions between Slackware and most other core distros in terms of structure and processing.
Indispensible.
Clinton fired the entirety of the US Attorneys not just a few. He had to have them confirmed by a party with the guts to actually say no.
Okay. So what? Bush can fire 8 or 93. It's his perogative.
And what you seem willfully ignorant of is the fact that they 2006 reauthorization of the Patriot act specifically authorizes the president to appoint US attorneys without any legislative oversight.
Why do I seem ignorant of it? It's has little or no bearing. If it's to be repealed, that's fine. That's up to congress. To vote on. That's their job. Crying over attorneys getting fired has precious little to do with what powers they gave the Executive.
Which begs the question why did you post that dribble. It is clear to me that oversight even by ones own party is significantly better than no confirmation at all. Which is what the President was hoping to achieve.
First off, did you mean 'drivel'?
Secondly, the 'oversight even by ones [sic] own party' means nothing at all. See above post about Congressional oversight.
Bottom line is Bush can fire any and all of these attorneys whenever he wants for whatever reason he wants, political or otherwise.
It would seem that these 8, those potentially fired for 'political' reasons, were mainly fired at the discretion of the AG on behalf of the POTUS.
That's legal, end of story.
Most Republicans (at least in my circle) immediately recalled Clinton firing all 93 and the press blithely ignored it, despite the fact that it set back the Rostenkowski indictment.
And I still don't get your point. I mean, past Presidents fire at will, even on a grand scale, and help end political investigations - no problem.
Bush fires 8 and holy smokes - their might (MIGHT!) be some political reason.
So what?
The president can fire federal prosecutors WHENEVER HE WANTS FOR WHATEVER REASON.
Period.
There is no 'beginning of term' rule.
Period.
If you don't like the lack of congressional oversight, get on your congresscritter to change it.
That's how the system works.
But there is no indictable offense.
I can't believe this has been on the airwaves for as long as it does. Conclusion: either the media is willfully ignorant or they're taking sides.
Or both.
Now, what's your excuse?
Additionally there were no allegations when Clinton fired the US attorneys that the whitehouse or Democrats were interfering with investigations to help out their friends.
News to me. The firings saved Dan Rostenkowski's bacon and kept anyone competent from the Little Rock post. See here.
Just because you say something while being ignorant of the facts, does not make them true. Clinton also had an all Democrat congress, so yeah, he had to get Democrats approved by Democrats. Big deal.
Considering Bush can't even get his nominee for ambassador to Belgium to get a vote because John Kerry's feelings are hurt, that isn't petty? You think he'll have an easy time getting any attorneys through Leahy and Schumer?
Difference is that nobody in the Bush case is either under indictment or has been subpoenaed.
Clinton did the deed to a Grand Jury, by himself, and then did same during his Impeachment trial.
Thus he was impeached 3 times.
You miss the obvious point - large cities have become bastions of welfare recipients and bloated organizations. In the 90's the population of Philadelphia decreased by 10% while the size of the bureaucracy increased 10%. Hardly more efficient. And it taxes folks based on the level of 'services' you are getting. Anyone who has had to do anything with the City of Philadelphia knows this is a joke.
If cities were truly models of efficiency, then maybe more folks would be attracted, but more exurbanites (like myself) would rather have small, incompetent government rather than large, overweight government. I pay a third of the taxes and my trash ALWAYS gets picked up. Something that happened with varying results in Philadelphia.
But Philadelphians are smart - they got rid of the A's and the Republicans in the 50's and only won one World Series and have lot all of their manufacturing base since then. They've taxed the smart folks out of town.
I'm reading the GP and I'm wondering if JtS has seen it and WHAM, there's your reply.
Weren't you collecting these keyboards? I know you did a JE about them.
The first time I tried to install Slackware (having previous installed Debian with several issues), it didn't take a single hour. In fact, the third and fourth install didn't take only an hour, either.
Something tells me you didn't read this or this.
If you just expect things to be set up right, you can't just install and be happy. In fact, the tendency to do that with Windows leads to the hosing of said Windows systems you write about.
They made every effort to bring the situation back under control before they pulled out their weapons and opened fire.
That would explain that 'semi-automatic' weapons ban that Congress is considering.
Don't want those scary 'semi-automatic' weapons in the hands of the wrong people.
That was my senior year yearbook quote.
And I felt like a fag for using it.
Please report to the Illuminati reconditioning chamber.
All white is black.
Freedom is Responsibility.
That is all.
I don't find anything newsworthy about it. IMO it seems like a good way to spam more then it does to offer solutions.
You'll fit right in here.
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Hacker Diet
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I love when folks with little/no understanding of executive and deferred compensation say stuff like this. Shows their ignorance.
Like when the press sensationalizes 'semiautomatic' weapons. Yup. One pull, one bullet...but semiautomatic sounds so sexy.
FWIW, Cheney sold the stock he could and gave the proceeds to charity. As for the deferred comp, there's nothing that Cheney or Halliburton can do.
But I don't see any of you kneejerk anti-Bushies getting up in arms over Al Gore's ties to Occidental Petroleum. Oh wait, everybody does it...
Glad you're contributing today. Perhaps you could, I don't know, Google for what it is.
But the fact that you don't know what Groove is or who Ray Ozzie is suggests that maybe, just maybe, you aren't the one to suggest alternatives.
(And no, I don't know why I'm kicking karma by getting into a pissy flame war with a high id troll.)
I guess the integration is worth something to unskilled users?
/. people as Users, but as (potential) employees. Or not.
What do you think? MicroSoft isn't looking for
Unskilled users ARE their user base.
Apple is going after unskilled users with money or folks who don't want to hassle with drivers/software/etc.
Linux is great, but very specialized and lacks out-of-the-box integrated tools. Sure, you can write a script or pipe output, but that's besides the point. Most users (think Admin Assistants) want and need nice GUIs.
They're just making it easier for the knucle-dragging, mouth-breathers of the world.
And getting paid handsomely for it.
It's exactly like rsync...if rsync was bundled into a browser file-saving interface, chat and web portal tool.
In other words, if you want to keep your job, get that chip off your shoulder and start reading.
And to the original poster, there is NOTHING like this in the open source environment unless someone developed an OpenOffice plugin for creating dynamic drupal sites and sharing seamlessly with a Jabber client.