which makes me wish the Supreme Court hadn't also given companies the same rights as individual citizens.
It is like they can have it both ways. At the heart a company is an idea and you can't throw an idea in jail. You can penalize it and put CEOs or more likely peons in jail, but you can't just close it down for yelling fire in a crowded theater.
This. People don't seem to realize that PDF, word documents, and flash will never take off as accepted formats for the layman unless they are baked into every major web-browser.
Correct. I've had several complaints from my users about files failing to open. Until Word is able to open that pdf document, file types will remain geek knowledge.
Ruin enough people's lives and you will have lots of the wrong sort of people mad at you.
This is how real revolutions begin.
Depends on how slowly it happens. If it happens slowly enough the next generation just assumes this is the way it is. The drug war has ruined tons of people's lives and we have neither won the war nor declared it legal.
Anyone remotely honest doesn't have the kind of money needed to run these days, either.
"The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed." by -Honore de Balzac
which is normally paraphrased as 'Behind every great fortune there is a crime'.
Thus the only way an honest man can get into congress is if a corrupt man helps him get there.
Which leads into this quote "Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature." by Kin Hubbard (1868-1930)
What would happen if there were no word for race is, you'd have some kids who would be considered "uglier" than some others, and these "ugly" kids would form bonds with other kids considered "ugly". This would be the logical conclusion if race were removed.
Actually if we didn't have the word race, we'd just have France's problem of trying to prove racial bias without using the word.
Removing words will not solve the problem. It just makes it harder to talk about it.
Also it doesn't make sense. In music, sounds are variations on each other with a few power cords tossed into the mix. The supreme court limited it to (I believe 8 seconds.) To compare that to language would be to use a simplified dictionary and then use only derivatives of those words. Any large sections would not be usable because complex thoughts could not be conveyed.
Plagiarizing a literary sample should consist of say a sentence, not entire passages.
Yup, it is just a proposed budget, but I'd go one step further saying that it is the initial ante in the budget bidding. Unless Obama does a Clinton and keeps vetoing the budget, we're going to get what Congress wants.
I was about to post something similar about World of Warcraft. Recently we had to boot a player from our guild. He was 10. His age didn't bother us so much because he wasn't in vent so he was missing most of the adult conversations. What makes me wonder is there are several people online that I think act just like that 10 year old....it makes me wonder how old they are.
On the other side of the fence, maybe the online services should be held a bit more accountable for not giving the tools to parents. I really hate the fact that to make wow playable for my kids, I have to jump through hoops turning off things like party chat and all the trade channels just to make safer for a little kid. I don't see what is so hard for Blizzard to have parental controls to limit conversations. I really don't want some random stranger to be talking to my 9 year old. Even if I am there to stop it, I really don't want to explain all the insane things jerks say.
Service is being cut off from individuals....form a company and get ISP service through your company.
The ISP will just charge businesses more than an individual.
It's a racket....
wish I could mod you up.
I wish that was a reality. For so many crimes, being convicted is a life sentence whether in the prison or out. I think it would be better for society and the criminal if there was a place we could banish them.
In order to control my personal life vs work life, I set my blackberry to wake up a hour before I go to work and shutdown a hour after I leave work. I figure that gives me time in the morning to understand what I'm walking into and time at the end of the day to answer any quick questions.
After it auto turns off, I rarely turn it back on.
That feature helps me control my blackberry habit and I highly recommend it.
Well of course it is biased. All 'intelligence' tests are biased because they are culturally or in this case species biased.
Does that throw out the results? Nope, but we should always error on the side that they have too much rather than too little intelligence because of that.
The sad part for me about this article is the fact that dogs make better drug guinea pigs than mice. I always felt bad for chimps because of their intelligence and now I will for dogs. I won't ask for the research to stop though.
Once I had this girl peta supporter trying to convince me that animal research should stop and that I should protest by not using products that are derived from animal research. I asked her if she was practicing this and she said she was....so then I asked her how she handling not taking birth control since it was derived from animal research....
My one complaint with the wording of the program is that they didn't just say 'if the car you have gets 10 mpg less than the one you are buying, you qualify for the program.'
Instead they limited it to your car has to get below 18 mpg and the car your are buying gets at least 10mpg more.
There is a limit to how much improvement we can make in fuel efficiency and I don't see why we shouldn't open up the program to everyone for all time. Admittedly the improvement gains are felt more at the beginning of the program, but I appreciate the fact that the program has a limited life span because of limits on improving fuel efficiency.
He sounds like a goblin from the Harry Potter books, the last book in fact. Goblins in that universe think that only the creator owns something and everyone else is renting the item. They strongly dislike the practice of humans passing heritage items down the family tree and think that when the 'renter' dies such items should be returned to their creator.
(ok...I geeked out a bit there...and yeah, I've read the books too many times....)
Which state or country are we talking about because I know from personal experience that in Texas, if they committed an aggravated assault, they are staying in jail. Parole is not an option.
My mother committed murder after catching her boyfriend cheating. She got 26 years and has been up for parole frequently over the last 17 years. She's a model inmate and was at one time a chaplain's clerk until they decided that anyone with an aggravated sentence couldn't do such jobs.
My father, who I believe is innocent of his crime, got 30 years, has served 10, and will die this year from cancer.
So please stop spreading the FUD that violent offenders are getting out of jail because of budget concerns or over crowding. At least in Texas, that isn't happening.
And last year they got a female resident under that bridge. She had been convicted of striping in front of a 14 year old. She was drunk at the time.
Basically the offenders even after getting out of jail are given life sentences.
I blame the fact that sex crimes are such a titillating topic that we have such restrictive measures against them. I'd be more worried about the druggie who's barely an adult living with his parents who has a previous burglary conviction. Many drugs are more addictive than sex and druggies aren't known for thinking rationally.
Also if we keep ratching up the penalty for such crimes, we are going to have cases where the perp thinks 'might as well hang for a sheep as a lamb," and commit murder.
Argh...every time someone mentions violent video games, columbine comes up. It should be declared a subset of Godwin's Law.
Violent games are not affecting our kids in negative ways. Canada plays our violent video games and has a passion for guns and they have no where near the US gun fatalities. Japan plays extremely violent video games and has the lowest gun fatalities.
Parents need to stop blaming the media and start being parents.
exactly. Encrypting emails is trivial inside a company, but practically non-existent when dealing with people outside the company.
That said we have company policies that state that everything sensitive in nature needs to be encrypted. Thus on a quarterly basis we have a discussion that goes no where because the options don't exist to make this policy a realistic reality.
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which makes me wish the Supreme Court hadn't also given companies the same rights as individual citizens. It is like they can have it both ways. At the heart a company is an idea and you can't throw an idea in jail. You can penalize it and put CEOs or more likely peons in jail, but you can't just close it down for yelling fire in a crowded theater.
Correct. I've had several complaints from my users about files failing to open. Until Word is able to open that pdf document, file types will remain geek knowledge.
Depends on how slowly it happens. If it happens slowly enough the next generation just assumes this is the way it is. The drug war has ruined tons of people's lives and we have neither won the war nor declared it legal.
Many of these bad traits were useful to us during our evolution and are very valid on that basis alone.
normal cats are very social. When wild, female cats form large social groups.
Anyone remotely honest doesn't have the kind of money needed to run these days, either.
"The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed." by -Honore de Balzac
which is normally paraphrased as 'Behind every great fortune there is a crime'.
Thus the only way an honest man can get into congress is if a corrupt man helps him get there.
Which leads into this quote "Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature." by Kin Hubbard (1868-1930)
I'm thinking he's more of a corpse man. That, or zombies, they ARE a bit livelier.
ah, so you too watched the documentary Deadgirl
What would happen if there were no word for race is, you'd have some kids who would be considered "uglier" than some others, and these "ugly" kids would form bonds with other kids considered "ugly". This would be the logical conclusion if race were removed.
Actually if we didn't have the word race, we'd just have France's problem of trying to prove racial bias without using the word.
Removing words will not solve the problem. It just makes it harder to talk about it.
yes, but who is John Galt?
Also it doesn't make sense. In music, sounds are variations on each other with a few power cords tossed into the mix. The supreme court limited it to (I believe 8 seconds.) To compare that to language would be to use a simplified dictionary and then use only derivatives of those words. Any large sections would not be usable because complex thoughts could not be conveyed. Plagiarizing a literary sample should consist of say a sentence, not entire passages.
Yup, it is just a proposed budget, but I'd go one step further saying that it is the initial ante in the budget bidding. Unless Obama does a Clinton and keeps vetoing the budget, we're going to get what Congress wants.
Seriously... all this talk about Obama "cleaning up", and what has he really done? It's just a talking point, utterly meaningless.
Of course he is just a talking point. He's the president. All he can do is veto something that congress sends him or start a war.....
yeah...one primate did...learned some sign language and passed it to her adopted son. http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/cultural/language/chimpanzee.html
I was about to post something similar about World of Warcraft. Recently we had to boot a player from our guild. He was 10. His age didn't bother us so much because he wasn't in vent so he was missing most of the adult conversations. What makes me wonder is there are several people online that I think act just like that 10 year old....it makes me wonder how old they are. On the other side of the fence, maybe the online services should be held a bit more accountable for not giving the tools to parents. I really hate the fact that to make wow playable for my kids, I have to jump through hoops turning off things like party chat and all the trade channels just to make safer for a little kid. I don't see what is so hard for Blizzard to have parental controls to limit conversations. I really don't want some random stranger to be talking to my 9 year old. Even if I am there to stop it, I really don't want to explain all the insane things jerks say.
split them...parse them...export them.....
The IT forensics team is going to love this
Service is being cut off from individuals....form a company and get ISP service through your company. The ISP will just charge businesses more than an individual. It's a racket....
wish I could mod you up. I wish that was a reality. For so many crimes, being convicted is a life sentence whether in the prison or out. I think it would be better for society and the criminal if there was a place we could banish them.
In order to control my personal life vs work life, I set my blackberry to wake up a hour before I go to work and shutdown a hour after I leave work. I figure that gives me time in the morning to understand what I'm walking into and time at the end of the day to answer any quick questions.
After it auto turns off, I rarely turn it back on.
That feature helps me control my blackberry habit and I highly recommend it.
Well of course it is biased. All 'intelligence' tests are biased because they are culturally or in this case species biased.
Does that throw out the results? Nope, but we should always error on the side that they have too much rather than too little intelligence because of that.
The sad part for me about this article is the fact that dogs make better drug guinea pigs than mice. I always felt bad for chimps because of their intelligence and now I will for dogs. I won't ask for the research to stop though.
Once I had this girl peta supporter trying to convince me that animal research should stop and that I should protest by not using products that are derived from animal research. I asked her if she was practicing this and she said she was....so then I asked her how she handling not taking birth control since it was derived from animal research....
I got a blank confused look from her....
My one complaint with the wording of the program is that they didn't just say 'if the car you have gets 10 mpg less than the one you are buying, you qualify for the program.' Instead they limited it to your car has to get below 18 mpg and the car your are buying gets at least 10mpg more. There is a limit to how much improvement we can make in fuel efficiency and I don't see why we shouldn't open up the program to everyone for all time. Admittedly the improvement gains are felt more at the beginning of the program, but I appreciate the fact that the program has a limited life span because of limits on improving fuel efficiency.
He sounds like a goblin from the Harry Potter books, the last book in fact. Goblins in that universe think that only the creator owns something and everyone else is renting the item. They strongly dislike the practice of humans passing heritage items down the family tree and think that when the 'renter' dies such items should be returned to their creator. (ok...I geeked out a bit there...and yeah, I've read the books too many times....)
Which state or country are we talking about because I know from personal experience that in Texas, if they committed an aggravated assault, they are staying in jail. Parole is not an option. My mother committed murder after catching her boyfriend cheating. She got 26 years and has been up for parole frequently over the last 17 years. She's a model inmate and was at one time a chaplain's clerk until they decided that anyone with an aggravated sentence couldn't do such jobs. My father, who I believe is innocent of his crime, got 30 years, has served 10, and will die this year from cancer. So please stop spreading the FUD that violent offenders are getting out of jail because of budget concerns or over crowding. At least in Texas, that isn't happening.
And last year they got a female resident under that bridge. She had been convicted of striping in front of a 14 year old. She was drunk at the time. Basically the offenders even after getting out of jail are given life sentences. I blame the fact that sex crimes are such a titillating topic that we have such restrictive measures against them. I'd be more worried about the druggie who's barely an adult living with his parents who has a previous burglary conviction. Many drugs are more addictive than sex and druggies aren't known for thinking rationally. Also if we keep ratching up the penalty for such crimes, we are going to have cases where the perp thinks 'might as well hang for a sheep as a lamb," and commit murder.
Violent games are not affecting our kids in negative ways. Canada plays our violent video games and has a passion for guns and they have no where near the US gun fatalities. Japan plays extremely violent video games and has the lowest gun fatalities.
Parents need to stop blaming the media and start being parents.
exactly. Encrypting emails is trivial inside a company, but practically non-existent when dealing with people outside the company. That said we have company policies that state that everything sensitive in nature needs to be encrypted. Thus on a quarterly basis we have a discussion that goes no where because the options don't exist to make this policy a realistic reality.