The point of my post was as a rebuttal to the original article. They were like "keep IE8 off of your machine", when, really, doing anything to get rid of older versions of IE is a good thing.
As an FYI, to block updates to your FireFox, check Edit | Preferences and then, on the Updates tab, under "Automatically Check for Updates To... uncheck "Firefox", "Installed Add-Ons" and "Search Engines". Then, under "When Updates To FireFox are Found", check "Ask me what I want to do."
That makes FireFox only check for updates when you trigger it, and, if it finds an update, gives you the option of installing it.
I'm not happy with Arlen leaving, but I understand it. The thing is, if Arlen ran, the free trading Toomey would win the primary, lose the general election, hoping, vainly, as Republicans have for twenty years, that rank and file laborers will forget that the guys more likely to keep foreign competition out pave their meal ticket more than the guys that talk some Jesus. Were Toomey to beat Arlen in the primary and lose to another Democrat, its very likely that the "sixtieth vote" would follow lock step with card check, national health insurance and carbon trading. Given the extent of the disaster for we right wingers, I'd almost consider it a victory if all the Democrats got was national health insurance. Bush is just the gift that keeps on giving for the left.
I'm a Republican and the GOP's basic problem is that it has utterly forgotten that while the south and west tend to be for free trade, the Northeast leans protectionist. When Republicans remember that, they win. When they forget it, they lose. Mainstream America is already with them on values, but the GOP has a knack of forgetting that in America money matters more than one's attitudes towards gays...
The Republican myth of Reagan the free trader ushering in a wave of prosperity has not served this party well. Reagan was no free trader, although he talked a good game of it. According to the Mises institute, Reagan was the most protectionist president since Hoover. But, we note, he won twice in some of the biggest set of landslides ever. Gipper could do whatever he wanted in Ohio, PA and MI as long as he told the Japanese to go pound sand on imported cars - which he did. Obama did the same thing - and its a testimony to the GOP that he did the same thing that Reagan did - run protectionist.
Just because you move from Microsoft to an FOSS platform does not mean you are becoming more free nearly as much as you just trading service providers. Whether you get your browser from Microsoft or get it from Mozilla foundation, your Office from Microsoft, or your office from some Open Office foundation, doesn't matter. In all cases there's some other body that ultimately controls the direction of the software.
The problem with medical records is, essentially, that our present ways of representing data lack sufficient abstraction to let us manage all of the complexity.
I've worked on systems that track what goes into just -buildings- for insurance and those have enormous interoperability problems compounded by terrible standards. Just imagine what a field like "building type" could mean across vendors. I can't even imagine what a medical records system might look like, and, it probably doesn't help that the taxonomy of medical data is not well aligned for computerization, and, doctors would probably be resistant to encoding their knowledge into an information schema of some sort. But, in fairness, the domain expertise is so well, intense that one wonders if the programmer as a generationalist of information actually fails in this case.
Bottom line is, its going to take more than a push from any administration before we really get this right. We're going to need better technology, and more progressive doctors. I think what it really means is probably some funding for academic programs that examine the fusion of medical training for IT people and vice versa.. like, maybe you could be a programmer with a specialty in medicine such that you aren't a doctor per se, but you know enough about how medical information is organized so that you can represent things.
You seem to be under the impression that not having an afterlife should somehow induce people to value their terrestrial life more. If anything, a total death might be reassuring to people that their wicked actions won't have some consequence. Like, lets say you get laid off and your life is completely ruined. You could spend the meager time you have trying to put pieces back together as you age away, or, you could just load up and go people hunting. You figure, a lot of people will score based on how many things they did, how much stuff they have or something. But you could just go for high human hunting score, before you check out.
The irony, not that word would be overrused, is that RMS's midwifing of the FOSS movement is what ultimately drove the creation of the internet. Without FOSS, there is no SaaS. Instead of proprietary desktops, FOSS has birthed us into proprietary services... but, at least everyone is building them with the same tools.
Right, except for the free trade stuff like CAFTA, which was signed in 2005 - under a Republican president and Congress. The truth of the matter is that corporatists have largely overtaken economic policy in America, and it doesn't much matter which party is running things.
No, no... I don't disagree with this at all. I should have said -since 1990s- thing. And, its not even that corporatists that dominate. I'm sure GM would much rather not have to fight to stay alive in North American will South Korea riots at even the prospect of being required to allow American cars in. It's globalists and an investment class that are driving all of this. Even the corporations are being pushed into it by the banks.
This is bio-warfare. I would say that its possible that the Obama Administration released a bio-warfare agent. It cuts down the human population and cements their own hold on power.
The USA has been researching swine flu since the 1970s.
Environmentalists feel that the earth is vastly overpopulated. People will gravitate towards strong governments in times of crisis, trading freedom for safety, invariably. Free trade and open borders makes it easier for diseases to spread globally.
The political party that is both in favor of dominating central government, and most aligned with environmentalists, and is the party that pushed free trade on the world since 1916, and is in complete control of the US government.
If Democrats think for one second that whatever the administration does will not be politicized, after the crap they pulled with Katrina and a number of other issues, they are out of their minds.
You'd better hope that this virus doesn't get stopped dead in its tracks, before we make Janet Napolitanos "no we don't need to screen aircraft passengers" into the Obama administration's equivalent of "Brownie you are doing a heck of a job."
the actual events depicted in such commercials are solidly in the realm of fantasy.
Obviously, you are drinking the wrong beer. You need to drink something better than Heineken and switch to something good like Strohs. Every time I went to a party when I was younger, with my beer of choice, I always got the supermodels!
Hmmm, I think connections are worth way more than formulas, so much so that one could say formulas are for people who do not have connections. Having a drink with one guy who just reviewed the innards of a big company and found them interesting in some way can produce immediate profitability.
He's all good with advocating that everyone else can live with his crap while he can sit back and cash in on his great grandfather's robber baron stock. Yeap, stand up guy. I can't wait till he's out of office.
You can mod this down. But its not a fear thing, its an awe thing. I mean seriously, look at how much more the USA can do than a European nation, and that is how much more the Chinese should be able to do. It's just an awesome thing.
With 5 Chinese for every American, the Chinese government could theoretically employ 100 million to spy on us, and still have 900 million left over. The question isn't, why would they spy on New York, but, why not just spy on everyone and everything? People have no idea just how much of an impact China is genuinely going to have on the world, or what that country can do. A billion people is an immense resource.
No amount of training can prepare you to kill someone. The prospect of THEM killing YOU is a fairly effective motivator though......
Actually, this is not true at all. Most people have to be trained to kill. For the early part of the century, in the world wars, it turns out that a huge problem for the American Army was that there were a lot soldiers that simply did not shoot at the enemy because they did not want to kill people. This actually happened even when soldiers were under fire themselves. It turns out that those soldiers that did shoot other people were more likely to have been hunters in their civilian life, so the idea of killing in their minds had been broached just not with human life.
In response to this, the Army would make a lot of changes in its training. Gone were circular targets, and in shaped were human shaped targets, is one. Also, drills and terminology were introduced to dehumanize the opponents. They weren't people to be killed, but targets to be engaged.
It could be argued that in today's culture, this is not so much of an inhibition. We look at something today like Gary Cooper's biblical inhibition against killing Germans in Sgt York and simply laugh as if its camp. But it used to matter to a lot of people. Now, it seems like killing is so common that it doesn't even matter at all.
I just wonder if, people have ever stopped to really look at the media, be it movies, tv, or video games, watched someone getting killed, and really actually just dwelled on what happened for a minute, the significance of the act. I guarantee you if you talked to any soldier that has killed, its an awesome (in the spiritually overpowering sense) thing to have done, and it makes you wonder if some of the alienation that veterans face is the realization that their own deep experience of having killed or be killed does not all square with the cavalier view of the media that holds the death of a man is almost the same sort of thing to talk about like, the weather.
AMD has been going belly up for so long now it was easy to write them off for dead. Yet, I'm tempted to pick up their stock. Has to do better than my NBFAQ.
I think there's still some brand loyalty in Opteron - I love mine and I still think an Opteron will be my next pick of CPU.
And, the newest go around of Ubuntu Linux has some new drivers for ATI cards that should improve those matters.
A 7ghz chip is a very healthy prize for AMD. I wouldn't expect them to advertise the power usage on such a thing, but hey, its engineerings, you can't have everything at once.
I like AMD a lot, and I just hope they succeed. I know that Nehalem from Intel is a strong series of parts, and AMD has a lot of work to do, but the capital costs are so high in chipmaking that it is doubtful we would see another competitor to Intel emerge in a generation if AMD goes out.
So what you really need to be asking yourself is whether its worse to have your television stolen or to be locked up in a state-run nursing home in the waning years of your life.
Actually, my son would probably so bitterly resent me for letting the TV get stolen when I could have had a gun and shot the guy doing it, that he would lock me in a state run nursing home.
Besides, there will be no nursing home for me. When my end comes, I may as well wire myself for glory and head over to the Democratic HQ. All that misuse of power breeds terrorists, you know...
If you want to protect your home against burglary, the most effective thing is to fortify the entry points into your house so you slow down the burglar enough to make him choose a different target.
No, the ideal thing is to have some sort of automated gun system that shoots the intruder.
Piracy is a crime and should be treated as such. If there's a rash of break-ins in your hometown you don't recommend that every home owner goes out and buys a gun, you track down the criminals responsible and put them to justice
Actually, I would recommend that every home owner buy a gun. If you shoot the guys breaking in, they won't do it again.
The fact of the matter is, pirates are NOT criminals. They are pirates. They are completely outside the law and anyone has a right to kill a pirate on the high seas. That was what worked 200 years ago, and its only because the surrenderists are in charge that piracy and lawlessness have made a comeback.
I'm sick of hearing about how people should trust their government for safety, when it won't do anything to guarantee it.
I would think that if the Royal Navy was abolish piracy 200 years ago with a mixture of cannon balls, musket fire, and a hangman's noose, then, the M-16 would work pretty well.
I can google up an equation of describing how electrons work, but, without being trained as to its applicability and utility, then, I wouldn't be doing the right thing.
The easiest way to prove your knowledge, is to go a 4 year series of tests and interviews with masters of the field... that's called a diploma.
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Don't DO that.
The point of my post was as a rebuttal to the original article. They were like "keep IE8 off of your machine", when, really, doing anything to get rid of older versions of IE is a good thing.
The US has 'gone offensive' enough for some good 80 years. Just please... Stop.
Yeah, well, Lusitania, Pearl Harbor, when will you sorry non-Americans learn your lesson!
Should have nuked you all when we had the chance.
As an FYI, to block updates to your FireFox, check Edit | Preferences and then, on the Updates tab, under "Automatically Check for Updates To ... uncheck "Firefox", "Installed Add-Ons" and "Search Engines". Then, under "When Updates To FireFox are Found", check "Ask me what I want to do."
That makes FireFox only check for updates when you trigger it, and, if it finds an update, gives you the option of installing it.
I'm not happy with Arlen leaving, but I understand it. The thing is, if Arlen ran, the free trading Toomey would win the primary, lose the general election, hoping, vainly, as Republicans have for twenty years, that rank and file laborers will forget that the guys more likely to keep foreign competition out pave their meal ticket more than the guys that talk some Jesus. Were Toomey to beat Arlen in the primary and lose to another Democrat, its very likely that the "sixtieth vote" would follow lock step with card check, national health insurance and carbon trading. Given the extent of the disaster for we right wingers, I'd almost consider it a victory if all the Democrats got was national health insurance. Bush is just the gift that keeps on giving for the left.
I'm a Republican and the GOP's basic problem is that it has utterly forgotten that while the south and west tend to be for free trade, the Northeast leans protectionist. When Republicans remember that, they win. When they forget it, they lose. Mainstream America is already with them on values, but the GOP has a knack of forgetting that in America money matters more than one's attitudes towards gays...
The Republican myth of Reagan the free trader ushering in a wave of prosperity has not served this party well. Reagan was no free trader, although he talked a good game of it. According to the Mises institute, Reagan was the most protectionist president since Hoover. But, we note, he won twice in some of the biggest set of landslides ever. Gipper could do whatever he wanted in Ohio, PA and MI as long as he told the Japanese to go pound sand on imported cars - which he did. Obama did the same thing - and its a testimony to the GOP that he did the same thing that Reagan did - run protectionist.
Just because you move from Microsoft to an FOSS platform does not mean you are becoming more free nearly as much as you just trading service providers. Whether you get your browser from Microsoft or get it from Mozilla foundation, your Office from Microsoft, or your office from some Open Office foundation, doesn't matter. In all cases there's some other body that ultimately controls the direction of the software.
The problem with medical records is, essentially, that our present ways of representing data lack sufficient abstraction to let us manage all of the complexity.
I've worked on systems that track what goes into just -buildings- for insurance and those have enormous interoperability problems compounded by terrible standards. Just imagine what a field like "building type" could mean across vendors. I can't even imagine what a medical records system might look like, and, it probably doesn't help that the taxonomy of medical data is not well aligned for computerization, and, doctors would probably be resistant to encoding their knowledge into an information schema of some sort. But, in fairness, the domain expertise is so well, intense that one wonders if the programmer as a generationalist of information actually fails in this case.
Bottom line is, its going to take more than a push from any administration before we really get this right. We're going to need better technology, and more progressive doctors. I think what it really means is probably some funding for academic programs that examine the fusion of medical training for IT people and vice versa.. like, maybe you could be a programmer with a specialty in medicine such that you aren't a doctor per se, but you know enough about how medical information is organized so that you can represent things.
You seem to be under the impression that not having an afterlife should somehow induce people to value their terrestrial life more. If anything, a total death might be reassuring to people that their wicked actions won't have some consequence. Like, lets say you get laid off and your life is completely ruined. You could spend the meager time you have trying to put pieces back together as you age away, or, you could just load up and go people hunting. You figure, a lot of people will score based on how many things they did, how much stuff they have or something. But you could just go for high human hunting score, before you check out.
The irony, not that word would be overrused, is that RMS's midwifing of the FOSS movement is what ultimately drove the creation of the internet. Without FOSS, there is no SaaS. Instead of proprietary desktops, FOSS has birthed us into proprietary services... but, at least everyone is building them with the same tools.
Right, except for the free trade stuff like CAFTA, which was signed in 2005 - under a Republican president and Congress. The truth of the matter is that corporatists have largely overtaken economic policy in America, and it doesn't much matter which party is running things.
No, no... I don't disagree with this at all. I should have said -since 1990s- thing. And, its not even that corporatists that dominate. I'm sure GM would much rather not have to fight to stay alive in North American will South Korea riots at even the prospect of being required to allow American cars in. It's globalists and an investment class that are driving all of this. Even the corporations are being pushed into it by the banks.
This is bio-warfare. I would say that its possible that the Obama Administration released a bio-warfare agent. It cuts down the human population and cements their own hold on power.
The USA has been researching swine flu since the 1970s.
Environmentalists feel that the earth is vastly overpopulated. People will gravitate towards strong governments in times of crisis, trading freedom for safety, invariably. Free trade and open borders makes it easier for diseases to spread globally.
The political party that is both in favor of dominating central government, and most aligned with environmentalists, and is the party that pushed free trade on the world since 1916, and is in complete control of the US government.
It certainly makes a good conspiracy theory!
If Democrats think for one second that whatever the administration does will not be politicized, after the crap they pulled with Katrina and a number of other issues, they are out of their minds.
You'd better hope that this virus doesn't get stopped dead in its tracks, before we make Janet Napolitanos "no we don't need to screen aircraft passengers" into the Obama administration's equivalent of "Brownie you are doing a heck of a job."
the actual events depicted in such commercials are solidly in the realm of fantasy.
Obviously, you are drinking the wrong beer. You need to drink something better than Heineken and switch to something good like Strohs. Every time I went to a party when I was younger, with my beer of choice, I always got the supermodels!
Hmmm, I think connections are worth way more than formulas, so much so that one could say formulas are for people who do not have connections. Having a drink with one guy who just reviewed the innards of a big company and found them interesting in some way can produce immediate profitability.
In the insurance world, they use the beta distribution for probability because the curve can be shaped pretty much any old which way.
He's all good with advocating that everyone else can live with his crap while he can sit back and cash in on his great grandfather's robber baron stock. Yeap, stand up guy. I can't wait till he's out of office.
so now they can spy inside!
You can mod this down. But its not a fear thing, its an awe thing. I mean seriously, look at how much more the USA can do than a European nation, and that is how much more the Chinese should be able to do. It's just an awesome thing.
With 5 Chinese for every American, the Chinese government could theoretically employ 100 million to spy on us, and still have 900 million left over. The question isn't, why would they spy on New York, but, why not just spy on everyone and everything? People have no idea just how much of an impact China is genuinely going to have on the world, or what that country can do. A billion people is an immense resource.
No amount of training can prepare you to kill someone. The prospect of THEM killing YOU is a fairly effective motivator though......
Actually, this is not true at all. Most people have to be trained to kill. For the early part of the century, in the world wars, it turns out that a huge problem for the American Army was that there were a lot soldiers that simply did not shoot at the enemy because they did not want to kill people. This actually happened even when soldiers were under fire themselves. It turns out that those soldiers that did shoot other people were more likely to have been hunters in their civilian life, so the idea of killing in their minds had been broached just not with human life.
In response to this, the Army would make a lot of changes in its training. Gone were circular targets, and in shaped were human shaped targets, is one. Also, drills and terminology were introduced to dehumanize the opponents. They weren't people to be killed, but targets to be engaged.
It could be argued that in today's culture, this is not so much of an inhibition. We look at something today like Gary Cooper's biblical inhibition against killing Germans in Sgt York and simply laugh as if its camp. But it used to matter to a lot of people. Now, it seems like killing is so common that it doesn't even matter at all.
I just wonder if, people have ever stopped to really look at the media, be it movies, tv, or video games, watched someone getting killed, and really actually just dwelled on what happened for a minute, the significance of the act. I guarantee you if you talked to any soldier that has killed, its an awesome (in the spiritually overpowering sense) thing to have done, and it makes you wonder if some of the alienation that veterans face is the realization that their own deep experience of having killed or be killed does not all square with the cavalier view of the media that holds the death of a man is almost the same sort of thing to talk about like, the weather.
AMD has been going belly up for so long now it was easy to write them off for dead. Yet, I'm tempted to pick up their stock. Has to do better than my NBFAQ.
I think there's still some brand loyalty in Opteron - I love mine and I still think an Opteron will be my next pick of CPU.
And, the newest go around of Ubuntu Linux has some new drivers for ATI cards that should improve those matters.
A 7ghz chip is a very healthy prize for AMD. I wouldn't expect them to advertise the power usage on such a thing, but hey, its engineerings, you can't have everything at once.
I like AMD a lot, and I just hope they succeed. I know that Nehalem from Intel is a strong series of parts, and AMD has a lot of work to do, but the capital costs are so high in chipmaking that it is doubtful we would see another competitor to Intel emerge in a generation if AMD goes out.
So what you really need to be asking yourself is whether its worse to have your television stolen or to be locked up in a state-run nursing home in the waning years of your life.
Actually, my son would probably so bitterly resent me for letting the TV get stolen when I could have had a gun and shot the guy doing it, that he would lock me in a state run nursing home.
Besides, there will be no nursing home for me. When my end comes, I may as well wire myself for glory and head over to the Democratic HQ. All that misuse of power breeds terrorists, you know...
If you want to protect your home against burglary, the most effective thing is to fortify the entry points into your house so you slow down the burglar enough to make him choose a different target.
No, the ideal thing is to have some sort of automated gun system that shoots the intruder.
Piracy is a crime and should be treated as such. If there's a rash of break-ins in your hometown you don't recommend that every home owner goes out and buys a gun, you track down the criminals responsible and put them to justice
Actually, I would recommend that every home owner buy a gun. If you shoot the guys breaking in, they won't do it again.
The fact of the matter is, pirates are NOT criminals. They are pirates. They are completely outside the law and anyone has a right to kill a pirate on the high seas. That was what worked 200 years ago, and its only because the surrenderists are in charge that piracy and lawlessness have made a comeback.
I'm sick of hearing about how people should trust their government for safety, when it won't do anything to guarantee it.
I would think that if the Royal Navy was abolish piracy 200 years ago with a mixture of cannon balls, musket fire, and a hangman's noose, then, the M-16 would work pretty well.
I can google up an equation of describing how electrons work, but, without being trained as to its applicability and utility, then, I wouldn't be doing the right thing.
The easiest way to prove your knowledge, is to go a 4 year series of tests and interviews with masters of the field... that's called a diploma.