Economically he's somewhat moderate, but that's not hard to do in Vermont. You can provide a high level of Government services without high taxes in Vermont because they have a good tax base. Most states are a lot poorer and can't do that.
If I were a CIO or CTO debating the TCO of *nix vs. Win2K3 to a CEO, would IBM vs. SCO be the TKO that stops the CEO from approving A/P to pay my PO for RH's LGX?
FWIW, even if OSS is FAIB, if the DOJ considers *nix IP with a TM, then it basically become's SCO's LIC, meaning our OSS becomes a CSS OS, which would RSTBO.
AIBO going w/ an ASP that manages our OS? BTA, we might end up w/ a BOFH giving us ZA, which WWAD PMS.
AFAIK, INMP if SCO wants to be ITM by enforcing its supposed IPR - *nix IP should be PD or GNU, like BSD just on GP, IYKWIM. I keep asking myself in this situation - WWLD?
And to think I thought SCO was suing IBM for strictly altruistic reasons. Or for entertainment purposes (it certainly is amusing). To think that they're just in it for the money leaves me feeling hollow inside and disillusioned.
The Earth may indeed be getting warmer. (And there is still debate over this) If it is, it is seriously unlikely that it is caused by man.
Guess what, the climate has changed MANY times in Earth's history, long before man was around. Have you ever been to the sandhills of the Carolinas? These sandhills are about 100mi (160km) inland. How'd they get there? Once upon a time, that was the beach. Likewise, what is now the beach was once considerably inland during the last ice age.
If the earth wants to heat up or cool down, there is truly very little we can do about it. Man made "greenhouse gasses" are relatively minor compared to naturally occuring "greenhouse gasses" coming from volcanoes and forest fires. It's a fart in a windstorm.
I could go on but I won't. There's still lots of debate, and this is as it should be, but global warming has not been "disproved" except in the minds of politically motivated ideologues.
The global environmental movement is as politically motivated as any right-wing ideologue. To say otherwise is terribly naive.
Must be nice that cable's an option where you live. Our cable system (Northland Cable) is worse than BellSouth as far as customer service and support, and even worse, they do not and will not offer cable internet service. Seeing that I live in a somewhat rural area, a large percentage of the population can't get any broadband at all.
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(Remember how schools dealt with energetic kids before Ritalin? Recess twice a day plus gym class, and sometimes actually paying individual attention to the kids...)
But then they wouldn't have time to get ready for the PACT (or whatever your state has) test.
We have to make sure our children are good standardized test takers.
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The younger you are, the more a lower amount of salary seems. $50k/yr is great for a recent college graduate (varies from region to region due to cost of living), but for a more experienced programmer it isn't that much. To take this even further, $30k/yr is an insane amount to a high school whiz kid, even though it's chickensh!t to an experienced programmer.
Some may wonder why the RIAA is fighting internet music and not trying to make money off of it. The case that music sharing decreases cd sales is weak at best, not to mention that there is plenty of money to be made with mp3's. But the RIAA fights it tooth and nail.
Quite simply, internet music makes the RIAA obsolete. Take Apple's iTunes for example. Anyone from any label can put their tracks on iTunes. All labels are equal. There is no difference between an RIAA label and an indie. Also take Pearl Jam for instance. Their contract expired, so they decided to distribute their music themselves. If they are successful, imagine the impact on the RIAA if other major acts go to direct sales instead of an RIAA contract.
The RIAA is a middleman, nothing more. Internet music allows artists to cut out the middleman and sell directly to customers. There will be no need for the RIAA anymore.
I've heard everything from bluegrass to Dave Matthews Band on this station. They're run out of a small community college in Spindale, NC. Like no other station on the air. I just wish they had a more powerful transmitter.
As for opening up the spectrum: Some of us still have analog radios in our cars. I am roughly equdistant between 3 stations, two of which I listen to frequently: 103.7, 103.9, & 104.1. I'll go around a curve and the station will change on me! There needs to be some separation between the stations.
Wish the Chemistry department would get some sense about their hardware. When I took Chem 101/102 at Clemson (1998-99), they had bunch of Mac Quadras/Performas in the Chem labs. They ran a Hypercard stack program that told us everything we needed to know to complete our assignments. Web access was with Netscape 3.0. If you spilled hazardous chemicals on them - oh well, no great loss.
Unfortunately, this arrangement didn't last. The Chemistry labs now have (old style) iMacs. The hypercard program is now web based, and more inconvient than ever.
Yes, Iraq is becoming a corporate colony of the United States of America.
There are far worse things it could be. The personal fiefdom of a brutal dictator, for example. However, the idea that the US is going in there for strictly altruistic reasons is pure B.S. The case that the invasion of Iraq was for national security reasons is not much stronger.
It's not all about oil either, though oil plays a role. Iraq is an extremely large potential market for US goods and services.
Here's the scenario:
US Oil companies pump lots of oil out of Iraq. But at the same they pump money in to Iraq. This raises the standard of living for the Iraqi people causing them to demand more consumer goods and services.
The same thing happens with the infrastructure. U.S. companies make lots of money rebuilding Iraq, but they also create Iraqi jobs in the process.
The U.S. controlled government makes mutually favorable trade agreements with the US, giving the US an untapped and open market.
US companies want laws favorable to their interests in Iraq, like they do in the US.
Since no one will notice copyright laws when they have no running water, now is the time to enact laws that favor the corporation over the consumer.
Don't get me wrong. I like capitalism. I like the free market. I supported the war in Iraq (to get rid of Saddam) Politically, I consider myself Conservative/Libertarian. I voted for Bush (or more accurately, against Gore)
However, to say the Government is being less than honest with the American people in Iraq is an understatement.
The primary point of Shock and Awe is psychological. It's the opposite of being stealthy. The US wants Saddam and the Iraqi Army to know that we can destroy anything we want when we want. The US wants pants-shitting terror to befall those who oppose us. Surrender is a vastly preferable option to a close encounter with a MOAB.
As for the targets, AFAIK, they are primarily Military and Governmental buildings, i.e. symbols of Saddam's regime. This is a psychological tactic.
To those who think this war is about oil, answer this question:
If the all the U.S. wanted was Iraqi oil, why didn't we just buy it from Saddam. He's was willing to sell it to anyone who would buy and would be a hell of a lot cheaper than a war.
But it's Government regulations that made the SUV craze in the first place.
Americans like big comfortable cars. People from other countries may find this strange, but the USA is a big country and outside of NYC, public transportation is not that good or popular.
CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Effieciency) standards did away with most large comfortable cars. They were too fuel ineffiecient. However, SUV's are considered Light Trucks, which have much more lenient CAFE standards. To summarize, a station wagon (car) that gets 20 mpg would be worse under CAFE than an SUV that gets 15 mpg.
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Bush is right. Sadaam is a threat to American security and world security. He needs to go.
That being said, the administration has almost gone out of their way to offend most of the world. Why would large majorities of the world population outside of the US, Israel, and Kuwait so strongly oppose this war. Why would people seriously say that Bush is worse than Sadaam? The simple answer is that unlike his father in the first Gulf War, George W. Bush has made little to no effort to satisfy world opinion or even attempt to try to be nice to our allies and nations that may possibly help us. Hell, we even offended the Canadians! (Bush publicly snubbed Canada after 9/11 because it was believed that the hijackers came into the US from Canada, even though on that day, Canada helped the US more than any other country. And none of the 9/11 hijackers did enter from Canada.)
The administration's tactic of "join us or you're evil" should go down in history as one of the stupidist diplomatic maneuvers ever. Going to the world community with the attitude of "we're not asking you if we can go to war with Iraq, we're telling you we're going to war with Iraq", also went over like a lead balloon. It also gave an opening to America's "third party" enemies, like the fringe groups financing these violent "peace rallies". If not for the boorish talk of the administration, no one would even give them the time of day.
And this whole "freedom fries" crap is childish. While we might laugh at French failure in 1940, let's remember where the US was then: not fighting Hitler. We watched that one on the sidelines until 1941, much like the French are watching from the sidelines now. Please, give me a break.
However, the fact that the Bush administration has acted like a bunch of jackasses, that doesn't change the fact that they are right. The world, and Iraq will be a much better place without Sadaam.
The H-1B fiasco is not the problem, it is a symptom of the problem. This is yet another reason massive immigration reform is needed.
The INS wants to deport Hitesh Tolani, but gave renewed the 9/11 terrorists visas - AFTER 9/11! The whole system is bad and needs to be reformed from the ground up.
I still like my old SB Live! Value. Good clear sound. Does well with games and mp3's. Of course, I'm not exactly an audiophile either.
For most (90%) of people, a good set of speakers is a much wiser investment in sound quality than a good sound card. On a cheap set of speakers, an SB Audigy, SB Live!, the AC97 that came with your mobo, and even a 10 year old SB16 don't sound terribly different. Only good speakers can truly take advantage of a good sound card.
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No, he's a liberal, especially on social issues.
Economically he's somewhat moderate, but that's not hard to do in Vermont. You can provide a high level of Government services without high taxes in Vermont because they have a good tax base. Most states are a lot poorer and can't do that.
Scary thought: What if Jimmy Carter had been re-elected? (Hey, who doesn't like double digit inflation!)
Scarier thought: President Walter Mondale. (There's a reason he only carried Minnesota and D.C.)
Why do you think is the real reason he got more Democrats to vote for him than any other Republican in history?
flame on...
No, George Bush III is probably going to be George P. Bush (Jeb's son, GW's nephew.)
If I were a CIO or CTO debating the TCO of *nix vs. Win2K3 to a CEO, would IBM vs. SCO be the TKO that stops the CEO from approving A/P to pay my PO for RH's LGX?
FWIW, even if OSS is FAIB, if the DOJ considers *nix IP with a TM, then it basically become's SCO's LIC, meaning our OSS becomes a CSS OS, which would RSTBO.
AIBO going w/ an ASP that manages our OS? BTA, we might end up w/ a BOFH giving us ZA, which WWAD PMS.
AFAIK, INMP if SCO wants to be ITM by enforcing its supposed IPR - *nix IP should be PD or GNU, like BSD just on GP, IYKWIM. I keep asking myself in this situation - WWLD?
Oh, BTW - IITYWIMWYBMAD?
WTF???
And to think I thought SCO was suing IBM for strictly altruistic reasons. Or for entertainment purposes (it certainly is amusing). To think that they're just in it for the money leaves me feeling hollow inside and disillusioned.
The Earth may indeed be getting warmer. (And there is still debate over this) If it is, it is seriously unlikely that it is caused by man.
Guess what, the climate has changed MANY times in Earth's history, long before man was around. Have you ever been to the sandhills of the Carolinas? These sandhills are about 100mi (160km) inland. How'd they get there? Once upon a time, that was the beach. Likewise, what is now the beach was once considerably inland during the last ice age.
If the earth wants to heat up or cool down, there is truly very little we can do about it. Man made "greenhouse gasses" are relatively minor compared to naturally occuring "greenhouse gasses" coming from volcanoes and forest fires. It's a fart in a windstorm.
I could go on but I won't. There's still lots of debate, and this is as it should be, but global warming has not been "disproved" except in the minds of politically motivated ideologues.
The global environmental movement is as politically motivated as any right-wing ideologue. To say otherwise is terribly naive.
Can someone mod this ENTIRE article as flamebait?
Might as well have said "Will Linux ever catch up with XP?" or "Will vi ever catch up with emacs?"
Use what best suits your purposes.
As long as they don't put a spoiler on the case or one of those big mufflers on the cpu fan exhaust.
"The more you tighten your grasp, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."
Because the best way to generate business is to treat your customers like criminals.
When you're sharing mp3s, you're spreading terrorism!
Must be nice that cable's an option where you live. Our cable system (Northland Cable) is worse than BellSouth as far as customer service and support, and even worse, they do not and will not offer cable internet service. Seeing that I live in a somewhat rural area, a large percentage of the population can't get any broadband at all.
(Remember how schools dealt with energetic kids before Ritalin? Recess twice a day plus gym class, and sometimes actually paying individual attention to the kids...)
But then they wouldn't have time to get ready for the PACT (or whatever your state has) test.
We have to make sure our children are good standardized test takers.
The younger you are, the more a lower amount of salary seems. $50k/yr is great for a recent college graduate (varies from region to region due to cost of living), but for a more experienced programmer it isn't that much. To take this even further, $30k/yr is an insane amount to a high school whiz kid, even though it's chickensh!t to an experienced programmer.
Some may wonder why the RIAA is fighting internet music and not trying to make money off of it. The case that music sharing decreases cd sales is weak at best, not to mention that there is plenty of money to be made with mp3's. But the RIAA fights it tooth and nail.
Quite simply, internet music makes the RIAA obsolete. Take Apple's iTunes for example. Anyone from any label can put their tracks on iTunes. All labels are equal. There is no difference between an RIAA label and an indie. Also take Pearl Jam for instance. Their contract expired, so they decided to distribute their music themselves. If they are successful, imagine the impact on the RIAA if other major acts go to direct sales instead of an RIAA contract.
The RIAA is a middleman, nothing more. Internet music allows artists to cut out the middleman and sell directly to customers. There will be no need for the RIAA anymore.
They can't really blame it on a computer error, can they?
You forgot a scene:
Xander: Where's Anya?
Andrew: She's dead.
Xander: Oh, just wanted to know.
Am I the only one bothered by the fact that no one, not even Xander seems to care that Anya's dead?
He was a lot more upset about the death of Tara, Joyce, and even Jenny Calendar that he was about Anya. He barely showed any reaction to Anya's death.
I've heard everything from bluegrass to Dave Matthews Band on this station. They're run out of a small community college in Spindale, NC. Like no other station on the air. I just wish they had a more powerful transmitter.
As for opening up the spectrum: Some of us still have analog radios in our cars. I am roughly equdistant between 3 stations, two of which I listen to frequently: 103.7, 103.9, & 104.1. I'll go around a curve and the station will change on me! There needs to be some separation between the stations.
Wish the Chemistry department would get some sense about their hardware. When I took Chem 101/102 at Clemson (1998-99), they had bunch of Mac Quadras/Performas in the Chem labs. They ran a Hypercard stack program that told us everything we needed to know to complete our assignments. Web access was with Netscape 3.0. If you spilled hazardous chemicals on them - oh well, no great loss.
Unfortunately, this arrangement didn't last. The Chemistry labs now have (old style) iMacs. The hypercard program is now web based, and more inconvient than ever.
Did I mention that tuition DOUBLED in this time?
Yes, Iraq is becoming a corporate colony of the United States of America.
There are far worse things it could be. The personal fiefdom of a brutal dictator, for example. However, the idea that the US is going in there for strictly altruistic reasons is pure B.S. The case that the invasion of Iraq was for national security reasons is not much stronger.
It's not all about oil either, though oil plays a role. Iraq is an extremely large potential market for US goods and services.
Here's the scenario:
US Oil companies pump lots of oil out of Iraq. But at the same they pump money in to Iraq. This raises the standard of living for the Iraqi people causing them to demand more consumer goods and services.
The same thing happens with the infrastructure. U.S. companies make lots of money rebuilding Iraq, but they also create Iraqi jobs in the process.
The U.S. controlled government makes mutually favorable trade agreements with the US, giving the US an untapped and open market.
US companies want laws favorable to their interests in Iraq, like they do in the US.
Since no one will notice copyright laws when they have no running water, now is the time to enact laws that favor the corporation over the consumer.
Don't get me wrong. I like capitalism. I like the free market. I supported the war in Iraq (to get rid of Saddam) Politically, I consider myself Conservative/Libertarian. I voted for Bush (or more accurately, against Gore)
However, to say the Government is being less than honest with the American people in Iraq is an understatement.
The primary point of Shock and Awe is psychological. It's the opposite of being stealthy. The US wants Saddam and the Iraqi Army to know that we can destroy anything we want when we want. The US wants pants-shitting terror to befall those who oppose us. Surrender is a vastly preferable option to a close encounter with a MOAB.
As for the targets, AFAIK, they are primarily Military and Governmental buildings, i.e. symbols of Saddam's regime. This is a psychological tactic.
To those who think this war is about oil, answer this question:
If the all the U.S. wanted was Iraqi oil, why didn't we just buy it from Saddam. He's was willing to sell it to anyone who would buy and would be a hell of a lot cheaper than a war.
But it's Government regulations that made the SUV craze in the first place.
Americans like big comfortable cars. People from other countries may find this strange, but the USA is a big country and outside of NYC, public transportation is not that good or popular.
CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Effieciency) standards did away with most large comfortable cars. They were too fuel ineffiecient. However, SUV's are considered Light Trucks, which have much more lenient CAFE standards. To summarize, a station wagon (car) that gets 20 mpg would be worse under CAFE than an SUV that gets 15 mpg.
Bush is right. Sadaam is a threat to American security and world security. He needs to go.
That being said, the administration has almost gone out of their way to offend most of the world. Why would large majorities of the world population outside of the US, Israel, and Kuwait so strongly oppose this war. Why would people seriously say that Bush is worse than Sadaam? The simple answer is that unlike his father in the first Gulf War, George W. Bush has made little to no effort to satisfy world opinion or even attempt to try to be nice to our allies and nations that may possibly help us. Hell, we even offended the Canadians! (Bush publicly snubbed Canada after 9/11 because it was believed that the hijackers came into the US from Canada, even though on that day, Canada helped the US more than any other country. And none of the 9/11 hijackers did enter from Canada.)
The administration's tactic of "join us or you're evil" should go down in history as one of the stupidist diplomatic maneuvers ever. Going to the world community with the attitude of "we're not asking you if we can go to war with Iraq, we're telling you we're going to war with Iraq", also went over like a lead balloon. It also gave an opening to America's "third party" enemies, like the fringe groups financing these violent "peace rallies". If not for the boorish talk of the administration, no one would even give them the time of day.
And this whole "freedom fries" crap is childish. While we might laugh at French failure in 1940, let's remember where the US was then: not fighting Hitler. We watched that one on the sidelines until 1941, much like the French are watching from the sidelines now. Please, give me a break.
However, the fact that the Bush administration has acted like a bunch of jackasses, that doesn't change the fact that they are right. The world, and Iraq will be a much better place without Sadaam.
Tact is just not saying true stuff. I'll pass
The H-1B fiasco is not the problem, it is a symptom of the problem. This is yet another reason massive immigration reform is needed.
The INS wants to deport Hitesh Tolani, but gave renewed the 9/11 terrorists visas - AFTER 9/11! The whole system is bad and needs to be reformed from the ground up.
Then we can talk about solving this problem.
I still like my old SB Live! Value. Good clear sound. Does well with games and mp3's. Of course, I'm not exactly an audiophile either.
For most (90%) of people, a good set of speakers is a much wiser investment in sound quality than a good sound card. On a cheap set of speakers, an SB Audigy, SB Live!, the AC97 that came with your mobo, and even a 10 year old SB16 don't sound terribly different. Only good speakers can truly take advantage of a good sound card.