Calling IPv6 broccoli is a horrible analogy. IPv6 is chocolate, vanilla, cake, topped in cheese sauce. The only reason it is not being widely used is that IPv4 is working for the vast majority of people and they are not willing to invest time or money on equipment in switching to IPv6. Hopefully, this will change.
The day my ISP and my home hardware (MacOSX, Roku, iPhone, Android) support IPv6, I am using it.
Printing more money dilutes the value of the money, effectively robbing everyone of the value they exchanged either in goods or services/labor for the money they hold. This is why gold prices have rocketed recently. Gold has not gained in value, rather, the dollar used to buy it has lost value.
The Fed engaging in "quantitative easing" (printing/creating more money from thin air) has caused the value of the money to drop dramatically, thus requiring more money to purchase the same value in goods and services/labor. This effectively robs everyone holding that currency of the value of the goods or services/labor they exchanged for that money.
It's theft on a really grand scale with everyone holding US dollars as the victims.
Every time the Fed does another "quantitative easing", your salary/pay is effectively cut.
Strat
You Ron Paul'ers types need to pay attention to the inflation charts. Even with "Quantitative Easing", inflation has been holding steady and staying low the last few years. Should have it gone up? By all accounts, yes, but it did not.
Plus, there should always be a little inflation, so asking for none or complaining there is any, shows lack econ understanding.
Contrary to what Mitt Romney thinks, corporations are not people. The whole point of a corporation is to shield the owners (People) from losing everything they own if the company fails. There are benefits to this like not losing your house if your business goes under and negatives, like double taxation (The company pays taxes and then the owners pay taxes on their cut).
The corporation should get investors to help get the company off the ground, but they don't have any liability in doing so. The Corporation assumes all the liability if it fails.
Then don't live in a HOA! You don't move into a neighborhood and suddenly the HOA surprises you with HOA rules. When you buy a house, you have to sign a document saying you realize you live in a HOA neighborhood and you will follow the HOA rules.
Honestly, I love living in HOA neighborhoods. My neighbors don't play music all night long, don't hang their laundry out, don't have cows and chickens in the back yard and don't park their cars on the lawn. Some of us don't want to live in the country, since if we wanted to live in the country, we would just go live in the country.
Although in the USA every boyfriend would be reporting their girlfriends phone "stolen" when she left them and it would be a support nightmare trying to keep it all straight.
No, you would just walk into a store and display the bricked phone and an Photo ID attached to the account and reactivate the phone. Plus, I would assume that you have to clearly show that you own the phone by giving the phone ID and then proving that it is attached to your account by telling them your account number, SS#, home address and all that personal stuff.
However, any person who shares that personal information with a boyfriend is an idiot.
I have this setup at work and new users pick their Red Hat choice (They are given a short list) and kickstart, some scripts and CFengine takes care of the rest. Need to make a changes to 300+ Linux Desktops? Update CFengine and wait until it's hourly run happens and you're done. Need to force certain packages on? Update CFengine and wait until it's hourly run happens and you're done.
Forget the whole GMO debate, but how is it even possible that a multi-billion dollar company can threaten to sue a small farmer and then force them to sell out to them when the farmer cannot mount a proper defense. Couldn't you just create a well funded company that would identify small farms and threaten to sue them for anything, forcing them to sell out to you for lower that fair market prices as a part of a settlement? How does that not fall under some Organized Crime law?
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Why is anyone concerned with Mark's soon to be personal fortune and the taxes that stem from it?
Let me get this straight, you want me to seriously think of a guy who is about to be worth 28 BILLION dollars, who is going to cash in 5 BILLION dollars of it and then get stuck paying 2 BILLION dollars in taxes? Let me note, 500 MILLION of that goes to California, my beloved home state.
We're not talking thousands or millions of dollars, but BILLIONS of dollars. Mark should just be happy he lives in a country and society that he can take a "stupid little idea" like Facebook and turn it into a 100 BILLION dollar company.
For many many generations, the Zuckerburg's Family will be beyond fantastically wealthy. He should just pay it, not sleaze his way out of paying those taxes and be happy he lives somewhere he could make Facebook.
Spot on! I have been learning Xcode 4.2 and it's a joy to use! Objective C is fairly simple and Interface Builder is a snap to use. Why anyone would bother with hand editing XML files is beyond me.
The parent is correct. My postal life can be summed up in:
DMV Notices (2 a year) Parking Tickets (about 1 a year) Wedding Invitation (1 every 2 years) Credit Card reissue (They manage to get stolen from some place every year) Burning Man tickets (Once a year) Burning Man paper notices (Twice a year) Opera tickets (about 3 a year)
My IRA/Retirement people KEEP SENDING ME notices, even though I request they don't. Other than the above, they could do away with the postal system and I would not really notice. Everything can be done in email.
Plus, Californians send a lot more money to Washington in Federal taxes than they get back..
Given the sheer number of representative and electoral votes they represent at the federal level, they certainly do get it back in quite a few other ways, no?
Well, according to these guys, http://www.taxfoundation.org/research/show/22685.html, California sends a lot of money to Washington and does not get as much back. I find it ironic that Blue States basically subsidize the Red States.
You never know, that small business in Luxemburg just might transform itself to the largest corporation in the world. I think Apple is just hedging it bets on this one.
Let me first say, I love the App Store, it is where I tell my Wife and Mother to only get their software from. Makes my life ALOT easier.
Personally, I think effort/hassle of forced Sandboxing is not going to bring big dividends in what it prevents. Developers have to now deal with Sandboxing and we know Sandboxing can be defeated. The so called "return on investment" is not there. Next, I think this heads down the path of locking down the MacOS like they do with iOS, which I think would be a horrible mistake. Although, the thought of locking down my Mother's Mac Book does sound nice.
This is stupid. Virus and Trojans are not coming through the App Store. People are installing pirated software that has been infected or purposely contains a trojan. If people stop installing pirated software or being dumb and installing software without questioning it, this problem would go away in the MacOSX space.
Why do I have to support your purchase? I don't get input into buying it, why should IT have to support it? How do I control your phone? How do I know you have a good password to lock it or even do you lock it? How do I remote wipe the phone if it gets stolen or you leave the company? How do I know it is encrypted? Does it even have encryption? How do I control what goes on the phone? How do I block certain apps on the phone? How do I keep the phone from talking to other devices that IT does not own nor support?
The list goes on and on. It's not about you buying something, it's about control, protecting company property and keeping out people we don't want in our networks.
Indeed. You're not allowed to have anything that allows third-party code-execution on iOS, so a JavaScript interpreter is instantly out. You might get away with having an HTML parser (though it does duplicate built-in software, so might still get rejected), but that's not massively useful in this day-and-age. This is the reason why Opera Mobile and Firefox for Mobile aren't on iOS.
I would agree. I have never submitted an app to the App Store, but I think you could get away with your own HTML parser but not Java interpreter.
Mac OS X comes with Safari, which you can't remove. Many free software distros come with a browser (although I will concede that removing these are easier). Every mobile OS comes with a browser. Hell, iOS not only bundles Mobile Safari, but forbids you from any alternatives due to Apple's policies on not duplicating native features (and no, Opera Mini doesn't count).
Sorry, wrong, "sudo pkgutil --forget com.apple.pkg.Safari50SnowLeopard" for those on Snow Leopard with Safari 5, and there is also another for Lion. In MacOSX, you can remove iTunes, Safari and just about any other app that is installed that you don't want installed. People tend to think that OSX is really tightly tied together, but it is not. Also, WebKit for iOS can be replaced with another framework, you just have recompile your iOS apps. However, WebKit is based off an Open Source Software package and also happens to be used in Android too. From what my iPhone programming teacher was telling us, "Any HTML that works in iOS, should also work in Android". When it comes to web stuff, Apple does not play the same level of shenanigans as Microsoft.
Sorry, forgot to add that eliminating the Federal government is not the goal, but weakening it to the point it is almost irrelevant is a good idea, just as the founders intended.
You have anything to back that up? Also, the Founding Fathers live in the 18th Century, which is MUCH different than the 21st Century. Just because a bunch of dead white guys who owned slave wanted something, does not mean we should have it today. Societies evolve and move forward. Looking to how Societies were in the past, really does not gain you any insight into how we should do it today.
I don't have a lot to add to this conversation, but I want to say what is horribly lacking in 99% of these comments:
Cutting the Department of Education does not mean no more public education. Cutting even the USGS does not mean no more earthquake and tsunami research. In addition to the United States Geological Survey, there is a California Geological Survey, Mississippi Geological Survey, etc. The states already do virtually everything the federal government does to some degree. Even the interstate highways are handled by the individual states' Department of Transportations, albeit with money and quality standards issued by the US Department of Transportation.
Ron Paul's idea would be a dramatic change in recent US history, one of reducing centralized power and putting the power back into the individual states. It would not be the end of the world, it would be a return to bygone eras. Most of these departments are relatively recent in US history, and some have been good, and some have not produced the results we hoped. There are certainly areas where states do better than the feds (and vice versa) and we could live without the redundancy of some of them (drug laws, anyone?).
It might a stretch for you puny brained Ron Paul supporters to understand, but maybe States and Fed Government should have their own departments? California Geological Survey serves the State of California by serving its specific needs. Needs that do nothing for Arizona or Nevada. The Fed Geological Survy does the whole country, looking out for the interests of all of the United States Geological Surveying needs by crossing state lines, helping the states, and giving the Federal Government insight to Geological Survey issues across the whole country.
NASHUA – Maybe Michael Gannon shouldn’t have given lip to two police detectives that afternoon.
But Gannon claims he wouldn’t have said a word on July 1 if a detective – unprovoked, Gannon said – hadn’t shouted something at him as their unmarked police car passed by on Canal Street.
Sounds like a couple of douche bags yelling at each other. The police should not be yelling anything at anyone unless it is part of their job and Mr. Gannon should just learn to ignore stupid comments. If either of these two people had the slightest bit of decorum, it would be a non-issue.
However, Mr. Gannon will win. The police don't seem to have much of a case to stop him in the first place. And while being a douche is dumb, it is not against the law.
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Calling IPv6 broccoli is a horrible analogy. IPv6 is chocolate, vanilla, cake, topped in cheese sauce. The only reason it is not being widely used is that IPv4 is working for the vast majority of people and they are not willing to invest time or money on equipment in switching to IPv6. Hopefully, this will change.
The day my ISP and my home hardware (MacOSX, Roku, iPhone, Android) support IPv6, I am using it.
Printing more money dilutes the value of the money, effectively robbing everyone of the value they exchanged either in goods or services/labor for the money they hold. This is why gold prices have rocketed recently. Gold has not gained in value, rather, the dollar used to buy it has lost value.
The Fed engaging in "quantitative easing" (printing/creating more money from thin air) has caused the value of the money to drop dramatically, thus requiring more money to purchase the same value in goods and services/labor. This effectively robs everyone holding that currency of the value of the goods or services/labor they exchanged for that money.
It's theft on a really grand scale with everyone holding US dollars as the victims.
Every time the Fed does another "quantitative easing", your salary/pay is effectively cut.
Strat
You Ron Paul'ers types need to pay attention to the inflation charts. Even with "Quantitative Easing", inflation has been holding steady and staying low the last few years. Should have it gone up? By all accounts, yes, but it did not.
Plus, there should always be a little inflation, so asking for none or complaining there is any, shows lack econ understanding.
Contrary to what Mitt Romney thinks, corporations are not people. The whole point of a corporation is to shield the owners (People) from losing everything they own if the company fails. There are benefits to this like not losing your house if your business goes under and negatives, like double taxation (The company pays taxes and then the owners pay taxes on their cut).
The corporation should get investors to help get the company off the ground, but they don't have any liability in doing so. The Corporation assumes all the liability if it fails.
Then don't live in a HOA! You don't move into a neighborhood and suddenly the HOA surprises you with HOA rules. When you buy a house, you have to sign a document saying you realize you live in a HOA neighborhood and you will follow the HOA rules.
Honestly, I love living in HOA neighborhoods. My neighbors don't play music all night long, don't hang their laundry out, don't have cows and chickens in the back yard and don't park their cars on the lawn. Some of us don't want to live in the country, since if we wanted to live in the country, we would just go live in the country.
Although in the USA every boyfriend would be reporting their girlfriends phone "stolen" when she left them and it would be a support nightmare trying to keep it all straight.
No, you would just walk into a store and display the bricked phone and an Photo ID attached to the account and reactivate the phone. Plus, I would assume that you have to clearly show that you own the phone by giving the phone ID and then proving that it is attached to your account by telling them your account number, SS#, home address and all that personal stuff.
However, any person who shares that personal information with a boyfriend is an idiot.
PXE + Kickstart (Ubuntu Equivalent) + CFengine + mrepo + Handfull of simple scripts = Cloned machines environment.
I have this setup at work and new users pick their Red Hat choice (They are given a short list) and kickstart, some scripts and CFengine takes care of the rest. Need to make a changes to 300+ Linux Desktops? Update CFengine and wait until it's hourly run happens and you're done. Need to force certain packages on? Update CFengine and wait until it's hourly run happens and you're done.
You must be a software developer.
Having a CS or CIS degree in IT is extremely handy.
Forget the whole GMO debate, but how is it even possible that a multi-billion dollar company can threaten to sue a small farmer and then force them to sell out to them when the farmer cannot mount a proper defense. Couldn't you just create a well funded company that would identify small farms and threaten to sue them for anything, forcing them to sell out to you for lower that fair market prices as a part of a settlement? How does that not fall under some Organized Crime law?
Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater.
Why is anyone concerned with Mark's soon to be personal fortune and the taxes that stem from it?
Let me get this straight, you want me to seriously think of a guy who is about to be worth 28 BILLION dollars, who is going to cash in 5 BILLION dollars of it and then get stuck paying 2 BILLION dollars in taxes? Let me note, 500 MILLION of that goes to California, my beloved home state.
We're not talking thousands or millions of dollars, but BILLIONS of dollars. Mark should just be happy he lives in a country and society that he can take a "stupid little idea" like Facebook and turn it into a 100 BILLION dollar company.
For many many generations, the Zuckerburg's Family will be beyond fantastically wealthy. He should just pay it, not sleaze his way out of paying those taxes and be happy he lives somewhere he could make Facebook.
Spot on! I have been learning Xcode 4.2 and it's a joy to use! Objective C is fairly simple and Interface Builder is a snap to use. Why anyone would bother with hand editing XML files is beyond me.
The parent is correct. My postal life can be summed up in:
DMV Notices (2 a year)
Parking Tickets (about 1 a year)
Wedding Invitation (1 every 2 years)
Credit Card reissue (They manage to get stolen from some place every year)
Burning Man tickets (Once a year)
Burning Man paper notices (Twice a year)
Opera tickets (about 3 a year)
My IRA/Retirement people KEEP SENDING ME notices, even though I request they don't. Other than the above, they could do away with the postal system and I would not really notice. Everything can be done in email.
The wife handles Christmas/Birthday cards.
Coast Guard?
Plus, Californians send a lot more money to Washington in Federal taxes than they get back..
Given the sheer number of representative and electoral votes they represent at the federal level, they certainly do get it back in quite a few other ways, no?
Well, according to these guys, http://www.taxfoundation.org/research/show/22685.html, California sends a lot of money to Washington and does not get as much back. I find it ironic that Blue States basically subsidize the Red States.
You never know, that small business in Luxemburg just might transform itself to the largest corporation in the world. I think Apple is just hedging it bets on this one.
Let me first say, I love the App Store, it is where I tell my Wife and Mother to only get their software from. Makes my life ALOT easier.
Personally, I think effort/hassle of forced Sandboxing is not going to bring big dividends in what it prevents. Developers have to now deal with Sandboxing and we know Sandboxing can be defeated. The so called "return on investment" is not there. Next, I think this heads down the path of locking down the MacOS like they do with iOS, which I think would be a horrible mistake. Although, the thought of locking down my Mother's Mac Book does sound nice.
This is stupid. Virus and Trojans are not coming through the App Store. People are installing pirated software that has been infected or purposely contains a trojan. If people stop installing pirated software or being dumb and installing software without questioning it, this problem would go away in the MacOSX space.
As the guy in IT, let me ask this:
Why do I have to support your purchase? I don't get input into buying it, why should IT have to support it? How do I control your phone? How do I know you have a good password to lock it or even do you lock it? How do I remote wipe the phone if it gets stolen or you leave the company? How do I know it is encrypted? Does it even have encryption? How do I control what goes on the phone? How do I block certain apps on the phone? How do I keep the phone from talking to other devices that IT does not own nor support?
The list goes on and on. It's not about you buying something, it's about control, protecting company property and keeping out people we don't want in our networks.
Indeed. You're not allowed to have anything that allows third-party code-execution on iOS, so a JavaScript interpreter is instantly out. You might get away with having an HTML parser (though it does duplicate built-in software, so might still get rejected), but that's not massively useful in this day-and-age. This is the reason why Opera Mobile and Firefox for Mobile aren't on iOS.
I would agree. I have never submitted an app to the App Store, but I think you could get away with your own HTML parser but not Java interpreter.
Mac OS X comes with Safari, which you can't remove. Many free software distros come with a browser (although I will concede that removing these are easier). Every mobile OS comes with a browser. Hell, iOS not only bundles Mobile Safari, but forbids you from any alternatives due to Apple's policies on not duplicating native features (and no, Opera Mini doesn't count).
Sorry, wrong, "sudo pkgutil --forget com.apple.pkg.Safari50SnowLeopard" for those on Snow Leopard with Safari 5, and there is also another for Lion. In MacOSX, you can remove iTunes, Safari and just about any other app that is installed that you don't want installed. People tend to think that OSX is really tightly tied together, but it is not.
Also, WebKit for iOS can be replaced with another framework, you just have recompile your iOS apps. However, WebKit is based off an Open Source Software package and also happens to be used in Android too. From what my iPhone programming teacher was telling us, "Any HTML that works in iOS, should also work in Android". When it comes to web stuff, Apple does not play the same level of shenanigans as Microsoft.
Sorry, forgot to add that eliminating the Federal government is not the goal, but weakening it to the point it is almost irrelevant is a good idea, just as the founders intended.
You have anything to back that up? Also, the Founding Fathers live in the 18th Century, which is MUCH different than the 21st Century. Just because a bunch of dead white guys who owned slave wanted something, does not mean we should have it today.
Societies evolve and move forward. Looking to how Societies were in the past, really does not gain you any insight into how we should do it today.
I don't have a lot to add to this conversation, but I want to say what is horribly lacking in 99% of these comments:
Cutting the Department of Education does not mean no more public education. Cutting even the USGS does not mean no more earthquake and tsunami research. In addition to the United States Geological Survey, there is a California Geological Survey, Mississippi Geological Survey, etc. The states already do virtually everything the federal government does to some degree. Even the interstate highways are handled by the individual states' Department of Transportations, albeit with money and quality standards issued by the US Department of Transportation.
Ron Paul's idea would be a dramatic change in recent US history, one of reducing centralized power and putting the power back into the individual states. It would not be the end of the world, it would be a return to bygone eras. Most of these departments are relatively recent in US history, and some have been good, and some have not produced the results we hoped. There are certainly areas where states do better than the feds (and vice versa) and we could live without the redundancy of some of them (drug laws, anyone?).
It might a stretch for you puny brained Ron Paul supporters to understand, but maybe States and Fed Government should have their own departments? California Geological Survey serves the State of California by serving its specific needs. Needs that do nothing for Arizona or Nevada. The Fed Geological Survy does the whole country, looking out for the interests of all of the United States Geological Surveying needs by crossing state lines, helping the states, and giving the Federal Government insight to Geological Survey issues across the whole country.
Ron Paul should just change his election tag line to "Ron Paul; the Biggest Fucking Narrow Minded Asshole in the USA Government!".
Yet, another stupid idea from the man from Texas who really lives in La La La Land.
The best thing about Android Ice Cream Sandwich is that Steve Ballmer has gone nowhere near it.
NASHUA – Maybe Michael Gannon shouldn’t have given lip to two police detectives that afternoon.
But Gannon claims he wouldn’t have said a word on July 1 if a detective – unprovoked, Gannon said – hadn’t shouted something at him as their unmarked police car passed by on Canal Street.
Sounds like a couple of douche bags yelling at each other. The police should not be yelling anything at anyone unless it is part of their job and Mr. Gannon should just learn to ignore stupid comments. If either of these two people had the slightest bit of decorum, it would be a non-issue.
However, Mr. Gannon will win. The police don't seem to have much of a case to stop him in the first place. And while being a douche is dumb, it is not against the law.