Actually, the reason Rove hasn't done anything illegal is because Plame was not a clandestine agent when her name was revealed. In fact she hadn't been a covert agent for several years before her name was revealed. Also, Plame was never a deep cover NOC.
Not true. The Washington Times article is wrong. Wilson said that she was no longer covert the day Novak wrote the article - or rather, Novak's article caused her to lose her cover.
This was made plain by Larry Johnson (who's making the press-rounds this week) who is a former CIA employee who knew Val P, and knew her to be a NOC, and confirms that Novak compromised her identity.
The misinformation that she was not NOC is just a dust-up to provide cover for Rove. Not only did Rove break the law, but he compromised National Security - and clearly broke the rules that EVERY cleared person signs when they get a clearance.
One thing that should be mentioned is that Joseph Wilson acknowledged recently that at the time of his wife being "outed", she was no longer a covert operative. She was working at a desk.
Not true. He said that she was no longer covert the day Novak wrote the article - or rather, Novak's article caused her to lose her cover.
This was made plain by Larry Johnson (who's making the press-rounds this week) who is a former CIA employee who knew Val P, and knew her to be a NOC, and confirms that Novak compromised her identity.
Rove hasn't done anything illegal because one of the requirements of breaking the law is that the agent must have been working overseas in the past 5 years. Wilson's wife has been working a DESK JOB in Langley Virginia in that period of time.
Not true. This seems to be one of the prime bits of misinformation being passed around in Rove's defense, but it's entirely wrong. Wilson said that she was no longer covert the day Novak wrote the article - or rather, Novak's article caused her to lose her cover.
This was made plain by Larry Johnson (who's making the press-rounds this week) who is a former CIA employee who knew Val P, and knew her to be a NOC, and confirms that Novak compromised her identity.
Since all of our jobs are being outsourced to other countries, this keyboard will be perfect for public schools where they will need to teach children to function in the wonderful world of order-taking at fast food restaurants on those nifty little picture-only cash-registers..
They wouldn't teach that in grade school.
They'd teach that in your Senior Year of Engineering school, after you'd saddled yourself with $150k of student loans.
And not only is AD already there, you can get your Linux boxes to authenticate to the same infrastructure as well since AD is a Kerberos based technology.
How?
(I know how to use google, so a few keywords will be sufficient, rather than a drawn-out explanation).
I am a high school history teacher and if there's one thing that I would change it's reading. Kids don't read, period.
Oh they read allright. They get these programs like Readers Are Leaders, then these kids go home and do stuff like read all the Star Wars universe books, or all the Pokemon Books, and get credit. And then come out more ignorant than the kids that didn't read a damn thing. I think there's too much emphasis on quantity, and not on quality. And the reason is: The role that book publishers play in these programs, the promotion of garbage reading.
I think it's a good thing to foster a habit in children to read books for pleasure. But with absolutely no emphasis on quality, what you've done is create a junk-food-junkie. And if you're business is publishing cheap pulp, then you end up selling a buttload of cheap books.
We spent so much effort just trying to get them to READ, we didn't think about WHAT they were reading.
Hell, at this point, I'd be happy if my kids just read Atlas Shrugged (if only to realize what an utter idiot Ayn Rand is). I've already had to put the ban on the Pokemon and Star Wars crap that their freinds are reading.
The fundamental problem as I see it is free riders.
While I agree with this, I look back at my own education, as a "free rider" and yes - I was uninterested, and my parents were certainly less motivated to participate in their third child's education than their first two (not bitter, just a fact).
But looking back, I'm damn glad that I was "forced" to go through that system, because had I, at the tender age of 9 or so, opted out, because I wasn't interested at the time, I certainly would not be in the position I'm in today.
I have a lot of problems with some of the methods, and policies of public schools, much of which contributed to my "non-interest" - but me, as a "free rider" isn't one of them.
I don't believe that most Private School students are any more motivated.
This isn't about "giving up" on public education, it's about appreciating the reality that not everybody is going to college, and doing the best we can for them based on that.
We should also come to grips with a plan, on what to do with people who do not go to college, instead of economically discarding them as refuse for the rest of their lives, and likely any of their future generations as well. A college degree isn't always an automatic guarantee of competence. There should be some way for people without a degree to demonstrate competence without the typical blanket dismissal. Right now, that piece of paper has too much credibility, and too much of a hold on today's hiring managers.
Tell me, will there be exceptions or special appointments for sons and daughters of wealthy political dynasties?
If not, pray tell, what will you do to prevent this? (hint: you cannot do a damn thing).
Otherwise, I pretty much agree with everything else you propose. (Except vouchers. Vouchers ONLY for schools that conform to certain standards, like strict church-state separation, for one.)
Republican as in the Constituition's mandate that each state shall have "a Republican form of Government." As opposed to a Democracy for example, which the Founding Fathers rightly considered a perversion since it denies the Rule of Law.
What would more quickly deny the Rule of Law is if everybody started sending their kids to Madrassas, or White Supremicist (etc.) schools - where kids would be taught xenophobia and hate, and not to respect the rights of others, particularly those enshrined in our Bill of Rights - to be subsequently followed on by those same students growing up, getting the right to vote, and electing representatives who promptly begin amending the Constitution to eliminate those rights (or appointing so-called "constructioninst" judges who refuse to strike down laws that abridge those rights).
That would be the quickest route to destroying the nation that our Founding Fathers built.
There has to be a minimal standard of critical thinking and reasoning (arguably, *not* currently taught in our public school system today) taught to all members of any nation with a constitutional system of government, to preserve the ideals by which that constitution was created - or that constitution will quickly be overrun by fascism. That's what The Enlightenment was all about in the first place. The Free Market will only exist as long as those Essential Liberties stand, and are protected.
In an open source compiler, there is always a chance that an independent party will spot the problem and correct it. A small chance in cases like these, but a chance nonetheless.
In a closed source compiler, there is zero chance.
Open source isn't a guarantee that bugs, intentional or otherwise, get caught and fixed. But closed source is a guarantee that they WONT.
Conclusion: By making their Itanium announcement, Intel slew four out five serious competitor. It doesn't relly matter if the Itanium sucks. In fact, the Itanium would be Intels greatest success even if they had never delivered it.
The ironic bit is, back when the Itanium was announced, even a retarded 5 year old was smart enough to know Intel's posturing was 100% BS. Yet everyone fell for it. TO this day, I still can't figure out what the hell happened to HP. I guess the $4 Billion increase in HP's market cap the day after Carly Fiorina resigned says something. . .
My bet is that the move had something to do with Intel's DRM, and making the Music Industry happy - since Apple's focus now is iPod/iTMS.
Also, each iPod sale is a potential "switcher". iTunes is available for Windows, yes. But each iPod sale is a person who may be curious about OS X, might actually buy an iMac, or Mac Mini. (the Mac Mini is aimed at "switchers" - who already have a keyboard, mouse, monitor, but want to front a minimal investment to switch platforms, just replace the CPU.) But what if iPod potential "switchers" can't be supplied with enough PPC-powered Mac Minis, or Mac Minis are still a tad too costly, or what if Apple can't slip a powerful enough chip into that enclosure due to heat issues? The switch to Intel chips solves all of these issues. The difference between a Windows iPod/iTMS user, and an OS X iPod/iTMS user? The OS X "experience" - the same schlock any cross-platform software producer can do: make their Native version better than the ports. Like IE Windows compared to IE Mac. iTunes Mac will be kept more up to date with features than iTunes Windows, and it will only cost an iPod/iTMS user a couple hundred bucks to switch. And with Intel chips, they can ramp volume to meet demand now.
I spend about 3-6 hours per week working on my yard.
My motivation?
I want my house and my yard to look nice.
Who benefits?
My neighbors who try to sell their houses, it increases neighborhood property values. Do *I* get any kickbacks? Are you shitting me? People do things for reasons other than personal profit all the fucking time.
I benefit, with pride, and personal satisfaction.
I see no difference between my decadent motivations, and the Open Source movement.
This guy's just a "Free Market" capitalist ideologist. Ideology seldom has anything to do with the real world.
. . . I'm thinking, now would be a good time for Apple to buy SGI. If they cede 3d graphics to Microsoft, they're totally fucked, because D3D is going to be a Windows-only technology for the forseeable future.
ergy. You can use a renewable power source, such as solar/hydroelectric/wind power, when producing hydrogen. While you still need the initial input to create the solar plant, dam or windmills, the amount of hydrogen produced with very little impact on the environment would be astronomical!
Keep in mind, that the more people switch to hydrogen for auto transportation, the more other sectors of the economy, will "pick up the slack" for demand for oil. The same amount of oil will still be burned, (up until demand drives price to the point where it's not economically feasible), and the same amount of carbon, nitrogen and sulfer oxides, will pollute our atmosphere. Until somethingis done to reduce the overall rate of fossil fuel consumption, there will be no impact on the environment. The only way to stop people from consuming fossil fuels is if other forms become economically competitive, (or, if you put a gun to everyone's head). You would think that the threat of global environmental destruction would act as a "gun to our heads"" - but not everybody lives in Florida, not everyone deals with constant Cat 5 hurricanes from June through October. But soon, perhaps, everyone will?
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Yeah, when her winxp computer got sogged up with spyware, after weeks of attempts to clean it up, she got rid of it and bought another computer;
A Mac.
Actually, the reason Rove hasn't done anything illegal is because Plame was not a clandestine agent when her name was revealed. In fact she hadn't been a covert agent for several years before her name was revealed. Also, Plame was never a deep cover NOC.
Not true. The Washington Times article is wrong. Wilson said that she was no longer covert the day Novak wrote the article - or rather, Novak's article caused her to lose her cover.
This was made plain by Larry Johnson (who's making the press-rounds this week) who is a former CIA employee who knew Val P, and knew her to be a NOC, and confirms that Novak compromised her identity.
The misinformation that she was not NOC is just a dust-up to provide cover for Rove. Not only did Rove break the law, but he compromised National Security - and clearly broke the rules that EVERY cleared person signs when they get a clearance.
One thing that should be mentioned is that Joseph Wilson acknowledged recently that at the time of his wife being "outed", she was no longer a covert operative. She was working at a desk.
Not true. He said that she was no longer covert the day Novak wrote the article - or rather, Novak's article caused her to lose her cover.
This was made plain by Larry Johnson (who's making the press-rounds this week) who is a former CIA employee who knew Val P, and knew her to be a NOC, and confirms that Novak compromised her identity.
B-but. . . Clinton did it, that means WE get to get away with it too!
Rove hasn't done anything illegal because one of the requirements of breaking the law is that the agent must have been working overseas in the past 5 years. Wilson's wife has been working a DESK JOB in Langley Virginia in that period of time.
Not true. This seems to be one of the prime bits of misinformation being passed around in Rove's defense, but it's entirely wrong. Wilson said that she was no longer covert the day Novak wrote the article - or rather, Novak's article caused her to lose her cover.
This was made plain by Larry Johnson (who's making the press-rounds this week) who is a former CIA employee who knew Val P, and knew her to be a NOC, and confirms that Novak compromised her identity.
In this case, the government might seek to inject as much contradictory information as it can.
Which happens every time a White House Administration official appears on FoxNews.
Since all of our jobs are being outsourced to other countries, this keyboard will be perfect for public schools where they will need to teach children to function in the wonderful world of order-taking at fast food restaurants on those nifty little picture-only cash-registers..
They wouldn't teach that in grade school.
They'd teach that in your Senior Year of Engineering school, after you'd saddled yourself with $150k of student loans.
I'll let YOU in on the future: The cars of the future are going to be powered by donkeys.
And not only is AD already there, you can get your Linux boxes to authenticate to the same infrastructure as well since AD is a Kerberos based technology.
How?
(I know how to use google, so a few keywords will be sufficient, rather than a drawn-out explanation).
I am a high school history teacher and if there's one thing that I would change it's reading. Kids don't read, period.
Oh they read allright. They get these programs like Readers Are Leaders, then these kids go home and do stuff like read all the Star Wars universe books, or all the Pokemon Books, and get credit. And then come out more ignorant than the kids that didn't read a damn thing. I think there's too much emphasis on quantity, and not on quality. And the reason is: The role that book publishers play in these programs, the promotion of garbage reading.
I think it's a good thing to foster a habit in children to read books for pleasure. But with absolutely no emphasis on quality, what you've done is create a junk-food-junkie. And if you're business is publishing cheap pulp, then you end up selling a buttload of cheap books.
We spent so much effort just trying to get them to READ, we didn't think about WHAT they were reading.
Hell, at this point, I'd be happy if my kids just read Atlas Shrugged (if only to realize what an utter idiot Ayn Rand is). I've already had to put the ban on the Pokemon and Star Wars crap that their freinds are reading.
The fundamental problem as I see it is free riders.
While I agree with this, I look back at my own education, as a "free rider" and yes - I was uninterested, and my parents were certainly less motivated to participate in their third child's education than their first two (not bitter, just a fact).
But looking back, I'm damn glad that I was "forced" to go through that system, because had I, at the tender age of 9 or so, opted out, because I wasn't interested at the time, I certainly would not be in the position I'm in today.
I have a lot of problems with some of the methods, and policies of public schools, much of which contributed to my "non-interest" - but me, as a "free rider" isn't one of them.
I don't believe that most Private School students are any more motivated.
This isn't about "giving up" on public education, it's about appreciating the reality that not everybody is going to college, and doing the best we can for them based on that.
We should also come to grips with a plan, on what to do with people who do not go to college, instead of economically discarding them as refuse for the rest of their lives, and likely any of their future generations as well. A college degree isn't always an automatic guarantee of competence. There should be some way for people without a degree to demonstrate competence without the typical blanket dismissal. Right now, that piece of paper has too much credibility, and too much of a hold on today's hiring managers.
Mandatory Civil Service?
Tell me, will there be exceptions or special appointments for sons and daughters of wealthy political dynasties?
If not, pray tell, what will you do to prevent this? (hint: you cannot do a damn thing).
Otherwise, I pretty much agree with everything else you propose. (Except vouchers. Vouchers ONLY for schools that conform to certain standards, like strict church-state separation, for one.)
Republican as in the Constituition's mandate that each state shall have "a Republican form of Government." As opposed to a Democracy for example, which the Founding Fathers rightly considered a perversion since it denies the Rule of Law.
What would more quickly deny the Rule of Law is if everybody started sending their kids to Madrassas, or White Supremicist (etc.) schools - where kids would be taught xenophobia and hate, and not to respect the rights of others, particularly those enshrined in our Bill of Rights - to be subsequently followed on by those same students growing up, getting the right to vote, and electing representatives who promptly begin amending the Constitution to eliminate those rights (or appointing so-called "constructioninst" judges who refuse to strike down laws that abridge those rights).
That would be the quickest route to destroying the nation that our Founding Fathers built.
There has to be a minimal standard of critical thinking and reasoning (arguably, *not* currently taught in our public school system today) taught to all members of any nation with a constitutional system of government, to preserve the ideals by which that constitution was created - or that constitution will quickly be overrun by fascism. That's what The Enlightenment was all about in the first place. The Free Market will only exist as long as those Essential Liberties stand, and are protected.
Maybe a pop-culture movement, like a series of "intellectual hero" movies, like the one about John Nash "A Beautiful Mind" etc. Just to start.
Then, swap the DoD and DoE budgets.
As a former call-center worker, my former boss, if he had his way, would have us clock-out until a call came in.
It's a dirty, dirty business, from about 1996-on.
While what you say is somewhat true;
In an open source compiler, there is always a chance that an independent party will spot the problem and correct it. A small chance in cases like these, but a chance nonetheless.
In a closed source compiler, there is zero chance.
Open source isn't a guarantee that bugs, intentional or otherwise, get caught and fixed. But closed source is a guarantee that they WONT.
Better still, was the Halo flashlight.
You have a personal force shield generator that can repel bullets, but your flashlight batteries would last about 30 seconds. . .
4. Blades don't need reloading.
apparently, you have not played Halo 2.
Conclusion: By making their Itanium announcement, Intel slew four out five serious competitor. It doesn't relly matter if the Itanium sucks. In fact, the Itanium would be Intels greatest success even if they had never delivered it.
The ironic bit is, back when the Itanium was announced, even a retarded 5 year old was smart enough to know Intel's posturing was 100% BS. Yet everyone fell for it. TO this day, I still can't figure out what the hell happened to HP. I guess the $4 Billion increase in HP's market cap the day after Carly Fiorina resigned says something. . .
My bet is that the move had something to do with Intel's DRM, and making the Music Industry happy - since Apple's focus now is iPod/iTMS.
Also, each iPod sale is a potential "switcher". iTunes is available for Windows, yes. But each iPod sale is a person who may be curious about OS X, might actually buy an iMac, or Mac Mini. (the Mac Mini is aimed at "switchers" - who already have a keyboard, mouse, monitor, but want to front a minimal investment to switch platforms, just replace the CPU.)
But what if iPod potential "switchers" can't be supplied with enough PPC-powered Mac Minis, or Mac Minis are still a tad too costly, or what if Apple can't slip a powerful enough chip into that enclosure due to heat issues? The switch to Intel chips solves all of these issues. The difference between a Windows iPod/iTMS user, and an OS X iPod/iTMS user? The OS X "experience" - the same schlock any cross-platform software producer can do: make their Native version better than the ports. Like IE Windows compared to IE Mac. iTunes Mac will be kept more up to date with features than iTunes Windows, and it will only cost an iPod/iTMS user a couple hundred bucks to switch. And with Intel chips, they can ramp volume to meet demand now.
Listen.
I'm about as borzhwa as they come.
I spend about 3-6 hours per week working on my yard.
My motivation?
I want my house and my yard to look nice.
Who benefits?
My neighbors who try to sell their houses, it increases neighborhood property values. Do *I* get any kickbacks? Are you shitting me? People do things for reasons other than personal profit all the fucking time.
I benefit, with pride, and personal satisfaction.
I see no difference between my decadent motivations, and the Open Source movement.
This guy's just a "Free Market" capitalist ideologist. Ideology seldom has anything to do with the real world.
. . . I'm thinking, now would be a good time for Apple to buy SGI. If they cede 3d graphics to Microsoft, they're totally fucked, because D3D is going to be a Windows-only technology for the forseeable future.
ergy. You can use a renewable power source, such as solar/hydroelectric/wind power, when producing hydrogen. While you still need the initial input to create the solar plant, dam or windmills, the amount of hydrogen produced with very little impact on the environment would be astronomical!
Keep in mind, that the more people switch to hydrogen for auto transportation, the more other sectors of the economy, will "pick up the slack" for demand for oil. The same amount of oil will still be burned, (up until demand drives price to the point where it's not economically feasible), and the same amount of carbon, nitrogen and sulfer oxides, will pollute our atmosphere. Until somethingis done to reduce the overall rate of fossil fuel consumption, there will be no impact on the environment. The only way to stop people from consuming fossil fuels is if other forms become economically competitive, (or, if you put a gun to everyone's head). You would think that the threat of global environmental destruction would act as a "gun to our heads"" - but not everybody lives in Florida, not everyone deals with constant Cat 5 hurricanes from June through October. But soon, perhaps, everyone will?
novative and arguably superior design, destroyed only by the economy of scale.
. . . not just economy of scale, let's not forget, illegal strongarm tactics, and dishonest marketing played a big role as well.
surface winds; yes.
But high-altitude winds are the real danger.