I have been asked for ID by Walmart when buying software. It doesn't bother me except that I thought the ratings were just suggestions to help old people pick out gifts that they consider appropriate. Codifying a voluntary rating system into law just doesn't sit right with me.
Novell has thrown its lot in with Open Source. There is no doubt now. Sun removed itself from this fight by cross licensing all its technology to Microsoft and agreeing to no lawsuits regarding patents for the next ten years. It is becoming apparent now what that $2B Java settlement was really about. (And everyone thought MS got the short end of the stick. How wrong we were.) But the biggest player in the patent game is IBM. Their portfolio dwarfs everyone else. If they will make a similar statement to what Novell just has then they can cut Microsoft off before they take the battle to a field of their own choosing.
Netscape used to have something that would do this called Roaming Profile. It would sync with an LDAP server. That functionality is being recreated in Mozilla but it has been a low priority. Take a look at bug 17917 at bugzilla.mozilla.org and vote for it if you want to see it finished anytime soon.
Everyone knows that high mileage vehicles are a good idea but here in the US the trend has been to buy very large, very heavy SUV's which don't get good mileage at all. In fact driving a small car on the same road with those behemoths is dangerous. For example, what is nothing more than a fender bender for a Lincoln Navigator can be fatal for the driver of the Cooper Mini which gets involved in an accident with it. How can we break our dependence on foreign oil when we can't even feel safe buying a small, fuel economical vehicle?
Some states base your vehicle registration fee on the value of your car. While this does tend to progressively ease the burden on the poor who can't afford expensive cars it also encourages people to drive older vehicles that are not in prime mechanical condition. I suggest that the states base registration fees on the EPA mileage for the model of car. That way the larger, heavier vehicles which do more damage to the roads can pay a greater share of the maintenance. It will also encourage people to buy the newer, higher mileage vehicles as well as encourage the manufacturers to raise their mileage standards to follow that consumer trend.
It's not wrong for businesses to try to maximize their profits, that is what we should expect them to do. So obviously the way to get them to do the right thing is to set up the system so that they are doing the right thing for America (decreasing dependence on foreign oil) while they are doing the right thing for their shareholders (competing for customers). It's an added bonus that those who should pay more for road usage generally would.
IANAIC but I do play one on my CV.:-) Expect that you will experience the feast or famine syndrome. In other words, at times you will get no work when you need the money or offers of work that you can't accept because they demand more time that you can spare from projects you have already accepted. Working with a partner may help you to smooth out those peaks and troughs. One person can be lining up work while the other is finishing up a project and both can pull all nighters if a deadline looms.
Learn from the dot coms
You will need a bankroll. Kind of like the dot coms venture capital. Don't blow it all on plush offices in Mountain View with a company masseuse and free energy drinks. If you are living in your parents basement, stay there. But do have a dependable vehicle and a respectable wardrobe.
Don't underestimate your time. Include a fudge factor.
If you are going to have to make a living from this. You need to charge an hourly rate that will pay the bills while you are researching things you aren't familiar with. You can't go on site and look like you don't know what you are doing. You are on the clock and the client wants results for their money. Also charge enough to cover mistakes that you may make and cannot in good conscience charge a client to fix.
Get requirements in advance and in writing.
If you don't do this, you will get burned. Don't make exceptions to this rule. Don't start work until the client has agreed to what is to be done and has signed the dotted line. Changes also need to be signed off on before you do any work on them or you will get burned. By the way, did I mention that if you don't follow this rule you will get burned?
Just because the person who produced the documents dislikes Bush doesn't mean that the Republican Party Special-ops could not have chosen him as an unwitting patsy. He would be perfect in fact. The only challenge would have been to put the republican made forgeries into his hands. It could be done through a supposed mix up in fax numbers for example. They obtain a phone number for a party office which is only one digit off from some number where they are sure the "misdirected" fax would be passed to Bill Burkett such as the office of a friend or family member of Burkett's.
Now I'm not saying that this did happen. Only that it could have happened this way. They are certainly capable of planning and executing something this simple, and I am sure there are elements of their organization that are more than willing. Do you remember the reasons Ross Perot gave for dropping out of the presidential race? He called them 'Republican dirty tricks' and it had something to do with threats to ruin his daughters wedding with pictures of her in delicto flagrante with another woman.
I can't help but wonder about the "fake" Bush service records too. They were created in such a way as to appear genuine until closely scrutinized. What if the content of the documents were generally correct but forged versions were prepared by Republicans to discredit the real ones that they feared were about to turn up. The Colonel's secretary stated on camera that although she did not type these particular documents, they were in agreement with her former boss's attitude and words. Also a member of the unit who was in the CQ the day the Bush records were disposed of told his story on camera. No doubt some neo hitler youth will accuse me of wearing a tinfoil hat despite that I am only suggesting this as a possibility, but I have heard of much stranger goings-on in Washington which actually came to light. Look at Watergate for a thoroughly investigated example of our two party's shenanigans.
But what is the point? Are they going to get any crucial new data on what the Moon rock is made of?
Or is this solely a demonstration of power? A sort of an international dick-waving contest? You are not grown up until you send some expensive junk to the moon or something?
Maybe the point is the same one that the U.S. and U.S.S.R. pursued: Being able to loft nuclear warheads over very long distances. Remember that India is in the nuclear club.
I had Elite for the C64 and it was extremely cool at the time because of the wireframe 3d graphics. But to be honest after the excitement of 3d wore off and the dogfights started to get a little old, I didn't see much reason to continue playing. There was no higher purpose than to just wander about the galaxy accumulating wealth. Or was there something more that I just overlooked?
"Quite honestly it's somewhat insulting to elections officials and volunteers," he said to the idea that elections officers would tamper with vote results."
It may be insulting, but election officials would be fools to believe that every else is as honest as themselves. What's more, election fraud and or "accidents" do happen. I seem to recall that in the last presidential election one of the less populated states out west (4 electoral votes IIRC) went to Bush but only because a hand written vote count was "accidently" misread and tabulated hundreds of phantom votes. I don't remember if the mistake was caught before the count was certified or if it was only during the brouhaha of the Florida contraversy that it came to light. I do remember the news report saying that it would not have tipped the election to Gore because Florida has many more electoral votes. I also remember seeing something in the news about a candidate who got caught hiring a hitman to kill his opponent just before the election thus insuring himself to win. So anyone who denies that election fraud can or does happen needs to wake up and smell the latte.
If they find Juji Fruit matted into your armpit hair......they can tell you've been living in a 24 hour movie house watching the Bourne Conspiracy over and over, sleeping on the floor, and eating whatever the patrons spill between the seats.
If you begin to seriously challenge RvW, you lose the next election.
That goes back to a major point of my original post. Presidents who go a second term don't have to worry about losing the next election. I guess I assumed wrongly that everyone knows this but... here in the U.S. no one may hold the office of the presidency for more than two consecutive terms.
So to recap: if Geourge Bush remains in the Whitehouse then he can reward his rightwing, conservative constituents whose hottest button is abortion by creating legal obstacles to abortion that only the rich, priveleged daughters of the powerful can navigate. So if Jenna comes back after being a little careless on spring break her life won't be ruined, but Suzie Sixpack who gets pregnant through accident, rape, or incest will have to carry to term and foster the next generation of wage slaves.
LOL or cry in silence, it doesn't matter to me which you do. Executive Orders are not fluff or nonsense and are enforced even when they contravene the Constitution. You should read
one
or
two before you pooh pooh them as impotent foolishness. And how do you expect anyone to take seriously your link to a crackpot website? Did you know what kind of "fluffy nonsense" that site contains, or did you find that particular page in Google and so accept it as gospel truth?
Just like laws passed by the legislature can be overturned by the courts or not enforced by the President? I don't think I give too much weight and I suspect that the men who designed our system of checks and balances would agree.
This election will not be a good one for Democrats if Nader drains many votes from them. Historically, presidents who get a second term make their most unpopular decisions during the second term because they can't get re-elected anyway. What will Bush do if he gets re-elected? He could effectively overturn Roe v. Wade through executive order, start a war with Iran or Korea or China, release pseudo-scientific studies declaring homosexuality to be a mental illness, continue to chip away at the Bill of Rights, relax pollution standards even further, push for a constitutional amendment to allow foreign-born sons of nazis to hold our highest office, eliminate capital gains and estate taxes (after all, why should a rich senator's son ever have to make his own way or risk his life in Viet Nam for that matter!)
I think you are grouping guerilla tactics in with terrorism. We have seen some politicians do so to stir emotions and raise support for causes that more rational minds might reject. And we see the media do so out of competition for eyeballs. But doing so runs the risk of crying wolf since the public can't be exposed to alarm after alarm with no actual attack without losing that sense of urgency that we need to be ready to respond to a real crisis.
It's not a bean bag chair, but it's kinda similar. I enjoy the 6 foot diameter sack covered in polar bear fur.
The three babes are optional but recommended. I could only afford one. I would have had a picture of me to post ala a 'Baby on a bearskin rug', but my camera is broken. My gf's camera is the old school variety and we weren't sure if the lab would develop a picture with a man's buttocks in it.
The original New Scientist article states 'predictions of a three kilometre high column of water, mud, metal and munitions sent into the air by the blast.' I understood what they meant and I misspoke when I used the word wall instead of column. I didn't intend to exaggerate or mislead anyone.
If this surcharge is put in place then obviously the price will need to be adjusted occasionally. By exaggerating the need for wiretaps the police chiefs can increase their budgets and their headcount without even raising taxes because the citizen only sees an increase in his phone and internet bills.
Don't think it could happen? More than once, a friend of mine who compiles crime statistics was pressured by his female boss to massage the numbers for domestic violence cases because that is her pet peeve. She couldn't flat out say to change the numbers but it was clear what she wanted, especially after several years of this. He ended up reclassifying certain types of cases that had never been counted under DV before. Presumably she wanted to show an increased need for funding either for her own satisfaction or as a political favor to the director of that program.
I guarantee you that if someone can bump up their headcount or budget by doing more wiretaps then more and more wiretaps will get performed regardless of the true need. Peace. Big Brother loves you.
If you will need to run Apache 1.3 under Cygwin, watch out for the path traversal expoloit. It supposedly only shows up under Cygwin but you can work around it by setting filesystem permissions carefully.
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I have been asked for ID by Walmart when buying software. It doesn't bother me except that I thought the ratings were just suggestions to help old people pick out gifts that they consider appropriate. Codifying a voluntary rating system into law just doesn't sit right with me.
The new web site will be known as... SCOfflaw.net
Novell has thrown its lot in with Open Source. There is no doubt now. Sun removed itself from this fight by cross licensing all its technology to Microsoft and agreeing to no lawsuits regarding patents for the next ten years. It is becoming apparent now what that $2B Java settlement was really about. (And everyone thought MS got the short end of the stick. How wrong we were.) But the biggest player in the patent game is IBM. Their portfolio dwarfs everyone else. If they will make a similar statement to what Novell just has then they can cut Microsoft off before they take the battle to a field of their own choosing.
Oh Thanks. I didn't realize that.
Netscape used to have something that would do this called Roaming Profile. It would sync with an LDAP server. That functionality is being recreated in Mozilla but it has been a low priority. Take a look at bug 17917 at bugzilla.mozilla.org and vote for it if you want to see it finished anytime soon.
Everyone knows that high mileage vehicles are a good idea but here in the US the trend has been to buy very large, very heavy SUV's which don't get good mileage at all. In fact driving a small car on the same road with those behemoths is dangerous. For example, what is nothing more than a fender bender for a Lincoln Navigator can be fatal for the driver of the Cooper Mini which gets involved in an accident with it. How can we break our dependence on foreign oil when we can't even feel safe buying a small, fuel economical vehicle?
Some states base your vehicle registration fee on the value of your car. While this does tend to progressively ease the burden on the poor who can't afford expensive cars it also encourages people to drive older vehicles that are not in prime mechanical condition. I suggest that the states base registration fees on the EPA mileage for the model of car. That way the larger, heavier vehicles which do more damage to the roads can pay a greater share of the maintenance. It will also encourage people to buy the newer, higher mileage vehicles as well as encourage the manufacturers to raise their mileage standards to follow that consumer trend.
It's not wrong for businesses to try to maximize their profits, that is what we should expect them to do. So obviously the way to get them to do the right thing is to set up the system so that they are doing the right thing for America (decreasing dependence on foreign oil) while they are doing the right thing for their shareholders (competing for customers). It's an added bonus that those who should pay more for road usage generally would.
Feast or Famine
:-) Expect that you will experience the feast or famine syndrome. In other words, at times you will get no work when you need the money or offers of work that you can't accept because they demand more time that you can spare from projects you have already accepted. Working with a partner may help you to smooth out those peaks and troughs. One person can be lining up work while the other is finishing up a project and both can pull all nighters if a deadline looms.
IANAIC but I do play one on my CV.
Learn from the dot coms
You will need a bankroll. Kind of like the dot coms venture capital. Don't blow it all on plush offices in Mountain View with a company masseuse and free energy drinks. If you are living in your parents basement, stay there. But do have a dependable vehicle and a respectable wardrobe.
Don't underestimate your time. Include a fudge factor.
If you are going to have to make a living from this. You need to charge an hourly rate that will pay the bills while you are researching things you aren't familiar with. You can't go on site and look like you don't know what you are doing. You are on the clock and the client wants results for their money. Also charge enough to cover mistakes that you may make and cannot in good conscience charge a client to fix.
Get requirements in advance and in writing.
If you don't do this, you will get burned. Don't make exceptions to this rule. Don't start work until the client has agreed to what is to be done and has signed the dotted line. Changes also need to be signed off on before you do any work on them or you will get burned. By the way, did I mention that if you don't follow this rule you will get burned?
Just because the person who produced the documents dislikes Bush doesn't mean that the Republican Party Special-ops could not have chosen him as an unwitting patsy. He would be perfect in fact. The only challenge would have been to put the republican made forgeries into his hands. It could be done through a supposed mix up in fax numbers for example. They obtain a phone number for a party office which is only one digit off from some number where they are sure the "misdirected" fax would be passed to Bill Burkett such as the office of a friend or family member of Burkett's.
Now I'm not saying that this did happen. Only that it could have happened this way. They are certainly capable of planning and executing something this simple, and I am sure there are elements of their organization that are more than willing. Do you remember the reasons Ross Perot gave for dropping out of the presidential race? He called them 'Republican dirty tricks' and it had something to do with threats to ruin his daughters wedding with pictures of her in delicto flagrante with another woman.
I can't help but wonder about the "fake" Bush service records too. They were created in such a way as to appear genuine until closely scrutinized. What if the content of the documents were generally correct but forged versions were prepared by Republicans to discredit the real ones that they feared were about to turn up. The Colonel's secretary stated on camera that although she did not type these particular documents, they were in agreement with her former boss's attitude and words. Also a member of the unit who was in the CQ the day the Bush records were disposed of told his story on camera. No doubt some neo hitler youth will accuse me of wearing a tinfoil hat despite that I am only suggesting this as a possibility, but I have heard of much stranger goings-on in Washington which actually came to light. Look at Watergate for a thoroughly investigated example of our two party's shenanigans.
I predict that Windows will be hit by a virulent new strain of computer virus. You heard it here first!
Maybe the point is the same one that the U.S. and U.S.S.R. pursued: Being able to loft nuclear warheads over very long distances. Remember that India is in the nuclear club.
I had Elite for the C64 and it was extremely cool at the time because of the wireframe 3d graphics. But to be honest after the excitement of 3d wore off and the dogfights started to get a little old, I didn't see much reason to continue playing. There was no higher purpose than to just wander about the galaxy accumulating wealth. Or was there something more that I just overlooked?
It may be insulting, but election officials would be fools to believe that every else is as honest as themselves. What's more, election fraud and or "accidents" do happen. I seem to recall that in the last presidential election one of the less populated states out west (4 electoral votes IIRC) went to Bush but only because a hand written vote count was "accidently" misread and tabulated hundreds of phantom votes. I don't remember if the mistake was caught before the count was certified or if it was only during the brouhaha of the Florida contraversy that it came to light. I do remember the news report saying that it would not have tipped the election to Gore because Florida has many more electoral votes. I also remember seeing something in the news about a candidate who got caught hiring a hitman to kill his opponent just before the election thus insuring himself to win. So anyone who denies that election fraud can or does happen needs to wake up and smell the latte.
A: What is the captial of Georgia?
Thats correct, however we would also have accepted
A: What is a hot spot for lesbians?
If they find Juji Fruit matted into your armpit hair... ...they can tell you've been living in a 24 hour movie house watching the Bourne Conspiracy over and over, sleeping on the floor, and eating whatever the patrons spill between the seats.
That goes back to a major point of my original post. Presidents who go a second term don't have to worry about losing the next election. I guess I assumed wrongly that everyone knows this but... here in the U.S. no one may hold the office of the presidency for more than two consecutive terms.
So to recap: if Geourge Bush remains in the Whitehouse then he can reward his rightwing, conservative constituents whose hottest button is abortion by creating legal obstacles to abortion that only the rich, priveleged daughters of the powerful can navigate. So if Jenna comes back after being a little careless on spring break her life won't be ruined, but Suzie Sixpack who gets pregnant through accident, rape, or incest will have to carry to term and foster the next generation of wage slaves.
LOL or cry in silence, it doesn't matter to me which you do. Executive Orders are not fluff or nonsense and are enforced even when they contravene the Constitution. You should read one or two before you pooh pooh them as impotent foolishness. And how do you expect anyone to take seriously your link to a crackpot website? Did you know what kind of "fluffy nonsense" that site contains, or did you find that particular page in Google and so accept it as gospel truth?
Just like laws passed by the legislature can be overturned by the courts or not enforced by the President? I don't think I give too much weight and I suspect that the men who designed our system of checks and balances would agree.
This election will not be a good one for Democrats if Nader drains many votes from them. Historically, presidents who get a second term make their most unpopular decisions during the second term because they can't get re-elected anyway. What will Bush do if he gets re-elected? He could effectively overturn Roe v. Wade through executive order, start a war with Iran or Korea or China, release pseudo-scientific studies declaring homosexuality to be a mental illness, continue to chip away at the Bill of Rights, relax pollution standards even further, push for a constitutional amendment to allow foreign-born sons of nazis to hold our highest office, eliminate capital gains and estate taxes (after all, why should a rich senator's son ever have to make his own way or risk his life in Viet Nam for that matter!)
I think you are grouping guerilla tactics in with terrorism. We have seen some politicians do so to stir emotions and raise support for causes that more rational minds might reject. And we see the media do so out of competition for eyeballs. But doing so runs the risk of crying wolf since the public can't be exposed to alarm after alarm with no actual attack without losing that sense of urgency that we need to be ready to respond to a real crisis.
It's not a bean bag chair, but it's kinda similar. I enjoy the 6 foot diameter sack covered in polar bear fur. The three babes are optional but recommended. I could only afford one. I would have had a picture of me to post ala a 'Baby on a bearskin rug', but my camera is broken. My gf's camera is the old school variety and we weren't sure if the lab would develop a picture with a man's buttocks in it.
The original New Scientist article states 'predictions of a three kilometre high column of water, mud, metal and munitions sent into the air by the blast.' I understood what they meant and I misspoke when I used the word wall instead of column. I didn't intend to exaggerate or mislead anyone.
If this surcharge is put in place then obviously the price will need to be adjusted occasionally. By exaggerating the need for wiretaps the police chiefs can increase their budgets and their headcount without even raising taxes because the citizen only sees an increase in his phone and internet bills.
Don't think it could happen? More than once, a friend of mine who compiles crime statistics was pressured by his female boss to massage the numbers for domestic violence cases because that is her pet peeve. She couldn't flat out say to change the numbers but it was clear what she wanted, especially after several years of this. He ended up reclassifying certain types of cases that had never been counted under DV before. Presumably she wanted to show an increased need for funding either for her own satisfaction or as a political favor to the director of that program.
I guarantee you that if someone can bump up their headcount or budget by doing more wiretaps then more and more wiretaps will get performed regardless of the true need. Peace. Big Brother loves you.
If you will need to run Apache 1.3 under Cygwin, watch out for the path traversal expoloit. It supposedly only shows up under Cygwin but you can work around it by setting filesystem permissions carefully.
For most Slashdotters, it will be whoever happens to be their cellmate when they get jailtime for felony copyright violation.