Generally, we assign the blame for aggressive acts to the instigator, not the victim acting in self defense. In this case, the aggressor was Jefferson Davis, who ordered General Beauregard to attack American troops.
But wasn't it the case that the place at issue was a fort in the southern harbor? If Lincoln wanted to avoid a larger war, he could have. I don't disagree that Lincoln did the right thing, but to say that he had no choice is simply not true.
He was probably our greatest American president ever
Very much so, and he was a hell of a killer too. As a percentage of population, Lincoln killed more Americans than all the rest of the US Presidents combined and by a fairly wide margin.
If we went by percentage of population in casualties, the Civil War, if fought today, would result in almost 7 million dead. If there were slaves in the South today, there would be more than a few people that might suggest that such titanic destruction is not worth it.
Even in absolute terms, there were casualties at one civil war battle, Antienam, than there have been in Iraq for the entire war, and Lincoln just kept right on rolling with the war.
Catholics don't have to apologize for a damn thing. Socialists and liberals have killed more people with their ill thought out gobbledygook in one century than the Catholic Church has ever killed, and that's not even counting abortion. Catholics for 1500 years preserved human knowledge, put an end to the idea of conquest as a justification for war, and helped keep the muzzies from wrecking everything.
Most likely it is used to stimulate the decreasing of costs in regards to the health care.
No its not. It's just a big political grab bag for constituencies of the Democratic Party. They've been waiting for 30 years for their big federal lootfest, and now they are going to get it.
You speak of Clinton as some great leader on budget deficits. His proposed budget in 1992 showed deficit spending without reduction for the foreseeable future.
This is simply not true. Clinton ran on budget deficit reduction as part of his campaign for 1992. I read his campaign book. He promised a balanced budget by the end of his second term, and he delivered it.
The fact of the matter is this, despite all rhetoric, any other way, Republicans have been terrible at balanced budgets. Reagan was terrible, Bush the elder was terrible, and Bush Jr was by far the worst.
It looks like they are trying to argue that they invented the tabbed multiple document selection within an application. With that in mind, what we would be looking for is evidence of an application that supports the editing of multiple documents that predates this patent. Could the venerable emacs claim to have supported multiple files prior to then?
So what you are really saying is that yes, you get paid enough to do the work but have no money to air the results in any meaningful way. So what we really need is a Research Data Office consisting of some number of research collectors. The collectors would basically be liased to the various institutions engaged in federal funding research and it would be their job to capture all of the particulars of all the experiments, load the steps and results into a federal database, which would then be available for public use. Scientists participating in federally funded research would be required to invest some time in peer review of this database, and in the very least the database could track of who has independently repeated an experiment set and achieved similar results. Traditional publishers, if they were American, could then cherry pick their favorite experiments for their own commercial use, as the data would be public domain, but the notes and particulars of the experiments would be available for everyone.
The President does not set the budget. He may suggest what he wants, but it is CONGRESS who holds the purse strings
The Budget is a law that the President may veto. During the years when Republicans ran all three branches of government (with of course the usual level of compromise in the Senate as they never had the 60 votes), Bush NEVER vetoed anything. He exerted no discipline over his own party, pretty mortgaging whatever political capital he had to get funding for his war.
Better take a look who was in charge of Congress during those years.
Republicans were. That's why there were so many independents that remembered Clinton's balanced budgets who voted for Obama, hoping he would continue the Clintonian fiscal restraint and prudent government. Clinton actually identified the budget deficit as an obstacle to economic recovery in 1991 and he was right to close that gap. By taking new Treasuries off of the market, investors had to look for other places to put their capital and they put it in the stock market. Now, the government borrows money hand over fist, the money goes there, and now we see completely economic irrationality when companies like Intel and Microsoft, that essentially have monopolies in growth industries, pay dividends, make profits hand over fist, and still wind up getting their market valuation tanked.
It's true, Bush was just terrible with the budget deficits, but the dirty secret is that he's been running like Keynes ever since the tech bubble burst to keep the economy rolling.
What's interesting is that Obama looks to add 800billion dollars of deficit spending in his first thirty days, and that spending does not cover even a fraction of the cost of his pending social initiatives, from national health care to alternative energy. Indeed, even as Obama touts a green economy, every biodiesel plant in the USA is on the verge of going bankrupt or shutting down under his watch.
Hey, the mantra of the traditional conservative is state's rights. It certainly is of mine, and here, Washington, despite its more liberal bent, is perfectly entitled to be more liberal, than say, Texas. If you want to do business in that state, then, hey, you gotta play by their rules. The desire of the businessman for national consistency is not an excuse to trump the rights of the residents of the various sovereign states who are signatories to the treaty that is the Constitution.
The big dumb thing about key store values is that they are actually just a subset of relational algebra in theory and are thus readily implementable in a relational database in fact. If you really wanted to have a database just do key / store values, you could quite easily do that in any rdms.
That's actually not true at all. Corporations are collections of people, and within them are coalitions and constituencies just like any other institution. Quite often, you'll have someone that wants a corporation to do something simply because they think it is cool and they really don't care about the profitability or business climate of it. They must justify some action in that regard, to cover their rears, but their mental game has already made the leap that they want to do something with the corporation just because they think it is cool.
So, when a company builds a school somewhere, sponsors a race, hires a speaker who climbed mt everest, invests in some wild technology, or any of the other things that corporations do, they do it because they think it is cool, and then they cover their rears to the shareholders and directors by inventing some elliptical story about profitability.
In fact, to many of the world's top business leaders, the whole point of the corporation is to exist to provide some social order and some revenue so that it can fund the private ambitions of its leaders. I mean, come on, do you really think if IBM funds something like a big art exhibit, they really sincerely think that doing so will yield a return? No, they do it because the board of IBM likes art, and that's that.
What does Wine use to emulate GDI and USER? I'd be willing to bet that their implementation of widgets is faster than whatever native widget kit that Firefox uses...
This is simply not true. From the chart, Microsoft has Fastcall, disabling exception handling, simple member functions, and GCC does not. Additionally, the chart also incorrectly states that Microsoft does not have an option for fast but imprecise floating point. It does.
On the flipside, MSVC++ has whole program optimization, which GNU calls LTO. LTO doesn't exist for GNU yet. See here:
Not that I would ever use a terabit connection for porn... but uh, when's that coming out again?
There's just a lot of problems with that.
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Even if we could assume that by, itself, a scenario of long term debt and eventual bankruptcy would not have terrible consequences for the USA, losing our ability to manufacture for ourselves is corrosive to our society. A slave economy retards technological innovation, undermines scientific achievement and ultimately results in social stagnation. The Romans collapsed as they went more and more into a slave economy, and having an economic reliance on slaves also doomed the old African tribal states, the Muslim states, and then most recently even the old Confederacy. Why invest millions into building machinery, when you can just add more slaves to your mix without any real capital cost at all? In that sense, slavery and a destruction of worker's rights is not just evil, its stupid.
You can buy American flags Made in the USA..
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This is just a stupid arrangement
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Let's have China be a giant slave labor pool but then borrow trillions of dollars of them to cover our own increased social welfare costs. Let's face it, the whole concept of trade coming into balance with them is just impossible, will never happen, and the more we trade with them, the more bankrupt we will get. Anyone who seems to think otherwise, please let me know what year it will be that US and China trade will be in balance. What year is that going to be?
Blaming an operating system for getting infected by a virus or an attacker of some sort is like blaming the victim for getting mugged when he's not allowed to shoot back.
It's time to get serious about going after botnets and the control network is the key. Follow that baby back to its origin, and shoot the guy holding the switch. If the network crosses into a country that doesn't allow that sort of thing, cut it off. It's not right to subject plenty of law abiding companies and people to this false ideology of passive defense.
Passive defense has failed, and its time to go on offense. The more hackers you have up rotting at the end of a rope at various computer fairs, the less likely people will be willing to attack. Now is not the time to be squeemish about the death penalty. If you can convince yourself a fetus isn't human, convince yourself that criminals aren't either, and kill them.
I got a bid in a gig for Silverlight, and, the thing is, Flash is actually a bit better for some of the special effects. I think its fair to say that Flash and Silverlight are designed to do two different things. Flash has more fancy graphics options, but, Silverlight is easier to assemble content dynamically with. You could go one of two routes with Silverlight. One way is to send out the binary blob ala Flash, but you can also just send out xml straight out to it.... that makes it a bit more like working with a normal web server paradigm. In that sense, you can view Silverlight as more of a stopgap to HTML5 than you would Flash.
Have you ever seen an autistic kid? They might be a bit hyperactive, but for the most part, they could completely care less about whether they are friends with other kids or not. IT was explained to me thus: if a deaf kid or a blind kid took the autism communications diagnostic tests, they'd still pass because they do something to compensate for their communications shortcomings. The autistic kid doesn't even care.
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Generally, we assign the blame for aggressive acts to the instigator, not the victim acting in self defense. In this case, the aggressor was Jefferson Davis, who ordered General Beauregard to attack American troops.
But wasn't it the case that the place at issue was a fort in the southern harbor? If Lincoln wanted to avoid a larger war, he could have. I don't disagree that Lincoln did the right thing, but to say that he had no choice is simply not true.
He was probably our greatest American president ever
Very much so, and he was a hell of a killer too. As a percentage of population, Lincoln killed more Americans than all the rest of the US Presidents combined and by a fairly wide margin.
If we went by percentage of population in casualties, the Civil War, if fought today, would result in almost 7 million dead. If there were slaves in the South today, there would be more than a few people that might suggest that such titanic destruction is not worth it.
Even in absolute terms, there were casualties at one civil war battle, Antienam, than there have been in Iraq for the entire war, and Lincoln just kept right on rolling with the war.
Catholics don't have to apologize for a damn thing. Socialists and liberals have killed more people with their ill thought out gobbledygook in one century than the Catholic Church has ever killed, and that's not even counting abortion. Catholics for 1500 years preserved human knowledge, put an end to the idea of conquest as a justification for war, and helped keep the muzzies from wrecking everything.
Most likely it is used to stimulate the decreasing of costs in regards to the health care.
No its not. It's just a big political grab bag for constituencies of the Democratic Party. They've been waiting for 30 years for their big federal lootfest, and now they are going to get it.
You speak of Clinton as some great leader on budget deficits. His proposed budget in 1992 showed deficit spending without reduction for the foreseeable future.
This is simply not true. Clinton ran on budget deficit reduction as part of his campaign for 1992. I read his campaign book. He promised a balanced budget by the end of his second term, and he delivered it.
The fact of the matter is this, despite all rhetoric, any other way, Republicans have been terrible at balanced budgets. Reagan was terrible, Bush the elder was terrible, and Bush Jr was by far the worst.
The issue date is 1991, and what's the current year? I thought patents lasted 18 years, meaning that the patent expires this year. Why the worry?
It looks like they are trying to argue that they invented the tabbed multiple document selection within an application. With that in mind, what we would be looking for is evidence of an application that supports the editing of multiple documents that predates this patent. Could the venerable emacs claim to have supported multiple files prior to then?
So what you are really saying is that yes, you get paid enough to do the work but have no money to air the results in any meaningful way. So what we really need is a Research Data Office consisting of some number of research collectors. The collectors would basically be liased to the various institutions engaged in federal funding research and it would be their job to capture all of the particulars of all the experiments, load the steps and results into a federal database, which would then be available for public use. Scientists participating in federally funded research would be required to invest some time in peer review of this database, and in the very least the database could track of who has independently repeated an experiment set and achieved similar results. Traditional publishers, if they were American, could then cherry pick their favorite experiments for their own commercial use, as the data would be public domain, but the notes and particulars of the experiments would be available for everyone.
The President does not set the budget. He may suggest what he wants, but it is CONGRESS who holds the purse strings
The Budget is a law that the President may veto. During the years when Republicans ran all three branches of government (with of course the usual level of compromise in the Senate as they never had the 60 votes), Bush NEVER vetoed anything. He exerted no discipline over his own party, pretty mortgaging whatever political capital he had to get funding for his war.
Better take a look who was in charge of Congress during those years.
Republicans were. That's why there were so many independents that remembered Clinton's balanced budgets who voted for Obama, hoping he would continue the Clintonian fiscal restraint and prudent government. Clinton actually identified the budget deficit as an obstacle to economic recovery in 1991 and he was right to close that gap. By taking new Treasuries off of the market, investors had to look for other places to put their capital and they put it in the stock market. Now, the government borrows money hand over fist, the money goes there, and now we see completely economic irrationality when companies like Intel and Microsoft, that essentially have monopolies in growth industries, pay dividends, make profits hand over fist, and still wind up getting their market valuation tanked.
Republicans cost FAR more.
It's true, Bush was just terrible with the budget deficits, but the dirty secret is that he's been running like Keynes ever since the tech bubble burst to keep the economy rolling.
What's interesting is that Obama looks to add 800billion dollars of deficit spending in his first thirty days, and that spending does not cover even a fraction of the cost of his pending social initiatives, from national health care to alternative energy. Indeed, even as Obama touts a green economy, every biodiesel plant in the USA is on the verge of going bankrupt or shutting down under his watch.
Hey, the mantra of the traditional conservative is state's rights. It certainly is of mine, and here, Washington, despite its more liberal bent, is perfectly entitled to be more liberal, than say, Texas. If you want to do business in that state, then, hey, you gotta play by their rules. The desire of the businessman for national consistency is not an excuse to trump the rights of the residents of the various sovereign states who are signatories to the treaty that is the Constitution.
The big dumb thing about key store values is that they are actually just a subset of relational algebra in theory and are thus readily implementable in a relational database in fact. If you really wanted to have a database just do key / store values, you could quite easily do that in any rdms.
The lapdance is always better when the stripper is crying.
My wife actually introduced me to that song. She's pretty awesome.
That's just how big companies operate.
That's actually not true at all. Corporations are collections of people, and within them are coalitions and constituencies just like any other institution. Quite often, you'll have someone that wants a corporation to do something simply because they think it is cool and they really don't care about the profitability or business climate of it. They must justify some action in that regard, to cover their rears, but their mental game has already made the leap that they want to do something with the corporation just because they think it is cool.
So, when a company builds a school somewhere, sponsors a race, hires a speaker who climbed mt everest, invests in some wild technology, or any of the other things that corporations do, they do it because they think it is cool, and then they cover their rears to the shareholders and directors by inventing some elliptical story about profitability.
In fact, to many of the world's top business leaders, the whole point of the corporation is to exist to provide some social order and some revenue so that it can fund the private ambitions of its leaders. I mean, come on, do you really think if IBM funds something like a big art exhibit, they really sincerely think that doing so will yield a return? No, they do it because the board of IBM likes art, and that's that.
It's good to be a CEO.
Imagine streaming video so clear you can actually sense the actresses' emotional issues
That would actually make it better. Some broad ruins her life completely to make me happy for a few minutes. Kinda balances out marriage.
What does Wine use to emulate GDI and USER? I'd be willing to bet that their implementation of widgets is faster than whatever native widget kit that Firefox uses...
GCC does everything MSVC does, and more
This is simply not true. From the chart, Microsoft has Fastcall, disabling exception handling, simple member functions, and GCC does not. Additionally, the chart also incorrectly states that Microsoft does not have an option for fast but imprecise floating point. It does.
On the flipside, MSVC++ has whole program optimization, which GNU calls LTO. LTO doesn't exist for GNU yet. See here:
http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/LinkTimeOptimization
Scroll down and read. Pretty much, LTO looks to require a new C/C++ parser. That's not going to happen overnight.
Not that I would ever use a terabit connection for porn... but uh, when's that coming out again?
Even if we could assume that by, itself, a scenario of long term debt and eventual bankruptcy would not have terrible consequences for the USA, losing our ability to manufacture for ourselves is corrosive to our society. A slave economy retards technological innovation, undermines scientific achievement and ultimately results in social stagnation. The Romans collapsed as they went more and more into a slave economy, and having an economic reliance on slaves also doomed the old African tribal states, the Muslim states, and then most recently even the old Confederacy. Why invest millions into building machinery, when you can just add more slaves to your mix without any real capital cost at all? In that sense, slavery and a destruction of worker's rights is not just evil, its stupid.
From here:
http://www.united-states-flag.com/noname.html
Let's have China be a giant slave labor pool but then borrow trillions of dollars of them to cover our own increased social welfare costs. Let's face it, the whole concept of trade coming into balance with them is just impossible, will never happen, and the more we trade with them, the more bankrupt we will get. Anyone who seems to think otherwise, please let me know what year it will be that US and China trade will be in balance. What year is that going to be?
Blaming an operating system for getting infected by a virus or an attacker of some sort is like blaming the victim for getting mugged when he's not allowed to shoot back.
It's time to get serious about going after botnets and the control network is the key. Follow that baby back to its origin, and shoot the guy holding the switch. If the network crosses into a country that doesn't allow that sort of thing, cut it off. It's not right to subject plenty of law abiding companies and people to this false ideology of passive defense.
Passive defense has failed, and its time to go on offense. The more hackers you have up rotting at the end of a rope at various computer fairs, the less likely people will be willing to attack. Now is not the time to be squeemish about the death penalty. If you can convince yourself a fetus isn't human, convince yourself that criminals aren't either, and kill them.
I got a bid in a gig for Silverlight, and, the thing is, Flash is actually a bit better for some of the special effects. I think its fair to say that Flash and Silverlight are designed to do two different things. Flash has more fancy graphics options, but, Silverlight is easier to assemble content dynamically with. You could go one of two routes with Silverlight. One way is to send out the binary blob ala Flash, but you can also just send out xml straight out to it.... that makes it a bit more like working with a normal web server paradigm. In that sense, you can view Silverlight as more of a stopgap to HTML5 than you would Flash.
It's not your language. It's mine. You should pay me for using it.
Have you ever seen an autistic kid? They might be a bit hyperactive, but for the most part, they could completely care less about whether they are friends with other kids or not. IT was explained to me thus: if a deaf kid or a blind kid took the autism communications diagnostic tests, they'd still pass because they do something to compensate for their communications shortcomings. The autistic kid doesn't even care.