So, he was convicted of "obstructing justice" in an investigation where the official conclusion was that the crime under investigation (ie, "outing" an undercover agent) never even really happened.
I've no love for Bush, or the Republicans in general, but this whole Plame deal stank of witch hunt and red herring from the beginning. On the scale of D.C. corruptions, this is small time, at best.
My fiance is a Red Cross certified HIV/AIDS instructor, so I've gotten a good earfull of what is and isn't true about AIDS "cures".
The "cocktail" that's currently used to treat HIV infection drugs to prevent HIV from entering cells, drugs to keep it from reproducing inside cells, and drugs to keep it from breaking out of infected cells. From what I read in the summary, this new treatment fits in that first category. Good thing, because HIV has this nasty tendency to mutate and become immune to any given drug after years and years of use. When that happens, the patient has no choice but to switch over to another combination of drugs, probably more expensive, and probably not as friendly to the body. If this "blood-derived" treatment adds to the list of patient-friendly treatments available, that's fantastic.
But the way I read this, it isn't the magic bullet "cure for AIDS" everyone is wishing for. It can slow down the progress of an infection, but reversing that progress is another matter altogether. Ditto for undoing damage to the immune system.
That being said, if I were the U.K. I sure as hell wouldn't extradite one of my citizens to a country where due process and habeas corpus have recently been ruled to not apply to "enemy combatants," a designation which is applied to non-citizens solely at the discretion of the executive branch.
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but as far as I know, everyone who's been declared as an "enemy combatant" so far was, at one point or another, captured during the course of... well, y'know... combat. Hard to call someone a combatant with a straight face if there's no combat involved, I'd think. If you know of any examples to the contrary, I'd be glad to hear them.
Not saying that this abuse of power couldn't happen, or that it hasn't. I just don't think it any good to cry wolf. I mean, every country out there has laws that are ripe for abuse, and those laws should be lobbied against, always. I'd just be interested to know if these laws actually have been abused before I decide how upset I need to get right now.
Can't remember where I read this but I vaguely remember an answer to a similar question: If God created the universe with us humans in mind, why would He make it so infinite, when the space we can actually possibly physically use is so limited?
Answer: He knew that we would need room for our imaginations to grow.
I went to download and install the DST patch for my BlackBerry a couple of weeks ago. And, wouldn't you know it, the patch broke it. Wouldn't recover from a hard reboot.
Good news, I'd backed up everything just before patching. Better news, it was still under warranty. Best news, the model was no longer being sold, so I got a free upgrade to a much nicer BB.
So, worth it? To me, getting a free upgrade, hey, why not! But to my cell phone provider? Not so much, I imagine.
You talk like paralyzing government would be a bad thing. No one's wallet is safe while Congress is in session. And besides, I think some bills Congress passes can honestly be considered threats to national security....
F-Secure at my company has been a royal pain. It's one of those that has to keep in sync with a central database within the company, and we've got processing servers that just can't seem to go an hour without getting 50 alerts that the local F-Secure can't connect to the central database.
But the worst problem is that, from time to time, the AV running on one of the processing servers, or even on one of our workstations, will just decide, apparently at random, that one of our in-house DLLs or EXEs must be dangerous. And the AV will just delete the file. No warning, no feedback, no yes/no/cancel.
The good news is, the company just got bought by a larger parent company, and they're switching us over to a different AV product. So far, I haven't seen the same problems cropping up. Knock on wood.
"Do you own the file(s) you are about to copy, or is your copying protected by Fair Use?" - Yes (Copy will continue) - No (Authorities will be notified) - Help (Opens an internet search for lawyers in your area)
So, the company I work for comes out with a new service which involves OCRing financial docs for our clients, and using the results to reconcile bills going out with checks coming in.
If you know anything about OCR, you know that no matter how good your process is, you need human eyeballs to verify your recognized documents. And in order to get the turnaround time needed to make this service useful to our customers, these eyeballs needed to be working overnight.
Yes, you can hire a night shift staff to work on this stuff. But people working the graveyard shift tend to want good pay for their services. And we're still a rather small company, we didn't have the resources to grow a days entry staff that could keep up with even one client's needs.
So we now have people in India doing this data entry and verification for us. And the time zones work to our favor: a night shift over here is a day shift over there. And the service has worked so well that our client base has grown big-time. And as we get more clients, we have to hire more local people. Our software dev department is growing, pay rates are rising, and we're getting the resources to work with better technologies. As a developer, I'm not complaining.:-)
So, yeah. I'm in favor of overseas outsourcing, especially when it leads to growth of better jobs over here.
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I'm guessing "Live Free or DieBold" won't be at the top of their list of marketing slogans.
No more quoting now, I mean it!
Anybody want a peanut?
Nausea counts as a "universal language" under these circumstances, I think.
+1 Redundant?
No, I mean the official conclusion. I don't care for Bush, don't listen to Rush, find Hannity boring, and O'Reilly is nothing but full of himself.
I mean there was no secret identity outed, because Plame's identity was far from secret in the first place.
So, he was convicted of "obstructing justice" in an investigation where the official conclusion was that the crime under investigation (ie, "outing" an undercover agent) never even really happened.
I've no love for Bush, or the Republicans in general, but this whole Plame deal stank of witch hunt and red herring from the beginning. On the scale of D.C. corruptions, this is small time, at best.
Okay, here goes: is your e-mail more like a convertible with the top down, or an SUV with tinted windows?
/., you probably won't be picking up chicks whatever you drive.
The answer is easy: doesn't matter, since you're posting on
Obviously they will send you 5 copies of the inverse of the bits you have received.
Wait, I'm confused... Does that mean that for every 1 I download, they have to send me a -1?
My fiance is a Red Cross certified HIV/AIDS instructor, so I've gotten a good earfull of what is and isn't true about AIDS "cures".
The "cocktail" that's currently used to treat HIV infection drugs to prevent HIV from entering cells, drugs to keep it from reproducing inside cells, and drugs to keep it from breaking out of infected cells. From what I read in the summary, this new treatment fits in that first category. Good thing, because HIV has this nasty tendency to mutate and become immune to any given drug after years and years of use. When that happens, the patient has no choice but to switch over to another combination of drugs, probably more expensive, and probably not as friendly to the body. If this "blood-derived" treatment adds to the list of patient-friendly treatments available, that's fantastic.
But the way I read this, it isn't the magic bullet "cure for AIDS" everyone is wishing for. It can slow down the progress of an infection, but reversing that progress is another matter altogether. Ditto for undoing damage to the immune system.
That being said, if I were the U.K. I sure as hell wouldn't extradite one of my citizens to a country where due process and habeas corpus have recently been ruled to not apply to "enemy combatants," a designation which is applied to non-citizens solely at the discretion of the executive branch.
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but as far as I know, everyone who's been declared as an "enemy combatant" so far was, at one point or another, captured during the course of... well, y'know... combat. Hard to call someone a combatant with a straight face if there's no combat involved, I'd think. If you know of any examples to the contrary, I'd be glad to hear them.
Not saying that this abuse of power couldn't happen, or that it hasn't. I just don't think it any good to cry wolf. I mean, every country out there has laws that are ripe for abuse, and those laws should be lobbied against, always. I'd just be interested to know if these laws actually have been abused before I decide how upset I need to get right now.
Imagine what a beowulf cluster of these things would cost!
Not to be confused with Emeril's trademark on "Bam!"
Can't remember where I read this but I vaguely remember an answer to a similar question: If God created the universe with us humans in mind, why would He make it so infinite, when the space we can actually possibly physically use is so limited?
Answer: He knew that we would need room for our imaginations to grow.
I went to download and install the DST patch for my BlackBerry a couple of weeks ago. And, wouldn't you know it, the patch broke it. Wouldn't recover from a hard reboot.
Good news, I'd backed up everything just before patching. Better news, it was still under warranty. Best news, the model was no longer being sold, so I got a free upgrade to a much nicer BB.
So, worth it? To me, getting a free upgrade, hey, why not! But to my cell phone provider? Not so much, I imagine.
Now why did you have to go and turn this into a complex discussion?
At that point, after the quote, "I already said there is no Linux..." I had to stop reading.
Wait, is he trying to say that Linux is a spoon or something?
...but the guy in charge of inventory kept insisting, "This is not the cloak you're looking for."
You talk like paralyzing government would be a bad thing. No one's wallet is safe while Congress is in session. And besides, I think some bills Congress passes can honestly be considered threats to national security....
I am sick and tired of these motherf*ckin' snakes on this motherf*ckin' ring plane!
(couldn't resist...)
Argh, how could you stoop solo?
F-Secure at my company has been a royal pain. It's one of those that has to keep in sync with a central database within the company, and we've got processing servers that just can't seem to go an hour without getting 50 alerts that the local F-Secure can't connect to the central database.
But the worst problem is that, from time to time, the AV running on one of the processing servers, or even on one of our workstations, will just decide, apparently at random, that one of our in-house DLLs or EXEs must be dangerous. And the AV will just delete the file. No warning, no feedback, no yes/no/cancel.
The good news is, the company just got bought by a larger parent company, and they're switching us over to a different AV product. So far, I haven't seen the same problems cropping up. Knock on wood.
Baby universes? Let's name one "Bob"!
What, our universe gives its life up so another can be born, and we don't even get to name it?
4% is a hell of a lot better than your odds of winning the lottery and that happens *everyday*.
I'd like to meet the person who wins the lottery every day... So I can peek over their shoulder at the numbers.
I'm seeing a DRM mechanism that prompts the user:
"Do you own the file(s) you are about to copy, or is your copying protected by Fair Use?"
- Yes (Copy will continue)
- No (Authorities will be notified)
- Help (Opens an internet search for lawyers in your area)
So, the company I work for comes out with a new service which involves OCRing financial docs for our clients, and using the results to reconcile bills going out with checks coming in.
:-)
If you know anything about OCR, you know that no matter how good your process is, you need human eyeballs to verify your recognized documents. And in order to get the turnaround time needed to make this service useful to our customers, these eyeballs needed to be working overnight.
Yes, you can hire a night shift staff to work on this stuff. But people working the graveyard shift tend to want good pay for their services. And we're still a rather small company, we didn't have the resources to grow a days entry staff that could keep up with even one client's needs.
So we now have people in India doing this data entry and verification for us. And the time zones work to our favor: a night shift over here is a day shift over there. And the service has worked so well that our client base has grown big-time. And as we get more clients, we have to hire more local people. Our software dev department is growing, pay rates are rising, and we're getting the resources to work with better technologies. As a developer, I'm not complaining.
So, yeah. I'm in favor of overseas outsourcing, especially when it leads to growth of better jobs over here.