The solution is to be a contract programmer. I will be 60 in March and have been working as a contract programmer since 1996. My income doubled, and in one year it tripled, and they are reluctant to have you work more than 40 hours as they have to pay for it. Great for us guys over 50.
Probably the main reason that young people are "looked down on" is that they don't have the experience yet to know that the first solution is usually not the best. They don't have the experience to know that there are typically many "solutions". And they are eager to have the first solution. My advice: Slow down and accomplish more.
The interesting thing is that things are going to get much worse over the next two years.
When 2002 comes around I expect a significant number of Democrats to be replaced by Republicans in both state and national races.
Too bad Barbara Boxer is not up for reelection until 2004. Talk about a liar and theif.
1) This is not an especially cold winter in CA. I went out and played nine holes of golf today in the San Francisco Bay Area. Had to take my jacket off as it got too hot.
2) The reduced supply of electricity from Washington is more due to the lack of hydroelectric power, i.e., so far it has been a drier winter.
And also, yes, the power companies are going broke and the reason why is that the Democrat controled State Government refuses to deregulate the prices power companies can charge customers. But the price the power companies pay for the fuel has been unregulated and the power companies are now being charged more than they can charge their customers.
The real reason why this problem is occurring is that liberal Democrats have pretty much held the electrical industry hostage for the last 15 to 20 years in California.
And the Sierra Club has the nerve to protest Bush's Interior Secretary nomination!
Time for a change in California to match the change in the Federal Government!
I don't understand this. I have corresponded by email with many mainland Chinese and have exchanged jpg files.
E.G., One was a young woman who was employed by the State to list web sites to be censored by their criteria. The other was a young man who was comparing notes with me on the best digital camera available in early 1999.
ALthough we didn't talk politics, there was no problems of data flow, but I was never inside of China trying to get to web sites. The Yugoslavian war came along with the Chinese Embasy bombing and I had to cancel my trip to Beijing.
A suggestion on a way to foil the Censors is to produce a site that conforms to their censoring rules yet provides the information that is essential in a form that is not censorable.
Of course pornography is not going to be get around that, but then again I would love to see it censored here in the USA. I am no friend of pornography and its providers.
One other note: The elite of China, I'm sure, are not using the same censored route. That might be a useful clue.
The reason they are out of date is that a lot of the testing has been taken over by QA departments, at least after Unit Testing.
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there is no privacy. There is no way of having the privacy of not knowing who voted for who. If you don't know that, you don't have a secure system. And if you know that, you don't have a system with privacy. The two, privacy and secure, are mutually exclusive.
The secrecy of the Ballot Box is essential in modern governments to protect us from those who are mad for power. I dont' care if computes count the votes, in fact I prefer computers count the votes as they are impartial, but the actual voting cannot ever be controlled by computers if you want to maintain your freedom.
is that the responsibility of voting belongs to the States as explicitly stated in the constitution. I cannot believe how ignorant Americans are of their most precious institution.
will not be determined by 300 votes. My extrapolations are that Bush will win by around 13,000 votes when the absentee votes are counted. Over 512,000 absentee ballots were sent out and all but 122,000 were returned by Nov. 6th. Most of the others will probably come in this week. They have until Friday. Most of them from military voters. See, the military is important. In all past Florida elections the absentee ballots are about 60% for the conservative candidate.
As an aside, I'm sure that the Cuban-Americans in Florida feel that they got their revenge in this election.
The Clinton-Gore Administration stole something earlier this year from South Florida. They are not going to be allowed to steal something again.
The real reason why geeks have poor posture is that they don't get enough exercise. I knew the writer of one of the most popular text editors and he must have weighted over 300 pounds. Every time he stood up he ran the risk of throwing his back out.
Get out of that damn chair and go take a long walk. No human was made for any chair. And no chair was made for any human.
A chair is a device that allows you to keep your rear off the dirty floor. Not much use for anything else. Switch to a bench without a back.
Sorry, presidents don't vote like legislatures. They enforce the laws already passed. (Although Clinton has used a few "mandates" to get his way about things that are not laws.)
"What is real and what is not real?" is one of the most mind boggling questions you can ask. On the surface it seems so obvious. But when you start picking away at the places where our sense of reality is ill defined, you begin to see that it is not such a simple thing after all.
I rate this question right up there with the question: "How can anything exist at all?" A question that, quite frankly, makes me realize how much evolution is left for us to complete.
The human mind does have its limits. These questions are excellent koans to stretch our minds to explore the dark holes of consciousness.
One of the fundamental errors that we all make is confusing "reality" with our models of reality. There is even a word for it, "reafication". Although I may be misspelling it. A nice word to know.
By the way, if you find an answer, you're wrong. And no cheating by blaming it on God, the oldest cop-out in the world.
There are some good studies that indicate that social behavior must be learned at an early age or else it is never learned. That is not unlike the children that are never spoken to in their childhood (classic: Wolfboy, and the girl in LA) never develop speach beyond very primitive levels.
So it is clear that how we raise our children is very important. If we raise them in antisocial environments we end up with sociopaths, as is clearly the problem with some of the people who have posted on this thread and the person who was interviewed. These people are not unbiased and they are destructive and they are blind to that. They simply don't care.
As parents and people who care, we have a right to protect our children from them by whatever compassionate method is available or necessary. Encouraging them into other lines of work is one of them. I'm sure he would make an excellent funeral director or sewer engineer.
Game violence is just another form of pollution that has to be taken care of. And it will be.
I went out to Excite's web site for MFST's financial statement and found that they paid $4,854 Million in Income Taxes in 2000 (fiscal year ending in June).
Check it out for yourself:
http://excite.elogic.com/sec_financials.asp?tick er=MSFT&Mod=1&S1=N
After it has been recovered the Gov should make replicas and sell them. Nothing reduces the value of somethng as a flood of replicas. Plus this could cover the cost of beafing up their lax security.
Then they should put the real one in a vault and put a replica on display.
I believe there is a rumor that that is exactly what they have done with the crown jewels in the Tower of London museum.
Jon Katz's article is basically the same used by the Porn Industry. "There are these evil people that want to take our freedoms away."
Katz starts off his argument with a classic ad hominem argument by calling people that appeal for a higher morality as Luddites. Then he misquotes statistics and bends them for his use even when they really indicate just the opposite. And he uses loaded pejoritive words to accentuate how bad these people are to tell him and his ilk to curb their appetites for socially unacceptable behavior.
Frankly I admire the positions Joseph Lieberman and former Education Secretary William Bennett on the corrosive effects of the movie, computer game, cable, organized crime, and porn industries. These industries are really all very much in bed with each other (sometimes literally). They are not small cottage industries and they are not harmless to our society, our children, or even Slashdot and the internet industry. And they are not harmless to Katz although he doesn't realize it yet.
What is needed is an effective way to send data that doesn't appear as data. Pictures perhaps?
Use Mao's/Komeaney's picture and embed data into it with an easy way to extract the data?
Send to friend in China/Iran who knows how to extract the data.
People who think they have the right to tell everyone how to think and use the power of the state to enforce that will always be defeated in time. Just takes time and being a little more clever than the fundamentalist enforcers.
My son and I don't usually eat at McDonalds here in California but last summer when we were in Europe they were useful for a number of reasons:
1) McDonalds is the only place you can get a cup of American style coffee. I don't care for the sludge they call Expresso. Gives me cramps.
2) McDonalds is inexpensive compared to the tourist priced resturants in Europe. That and staying at Youth Hostels helped us to stay for 45 days in Europe instead of 30. We went all over, including watching the fireworks in front of the Eifel Tower on July 14th, participating in the Love Parade in Berlin a few days before, watching the fireworks in Florence on St. Somebody's Day, visiting St. Peter's, the canals of Venice, the Matterhorn at Zermatt, the Prado in Madrid, the Alhambra in Granada, even a day in Tangiers across the Straits of Gibraltar from Aljeceris.
3) They are easy to find. There are 47 in the city of Paris alone. Too bad they don't join up with Internet Cafes.
There are some differences. Many sell food with a slight local flavor. They charge you for the catsup. Many do not request you to bus your table; they hire people to do that for you.
4) They are highly successful. The French love them. So does everyone else in Europe, except for the politically motivated left. I'm sure Jose is a political candidate with the Green Party or some such socialist ilk. This is just a publicity stunt by someone who has the ultimate goal of sticking his hand in your wallet.
5) They ALL understand English! Although the food might have a twist to the name to make it fit in the local language. Actually language was only an issue in Germany where a few places required me to use my college German. That was a rare event. Seems like everyone in France speaks English. Oh, I forgot, my son's High School Spanish came in handy in Spain. And my Mandarin Chinese I learned 10 years ago, believe it or not, came in handy at a mom and pop store in Madrid run by some Chinese. Ni hao ma?
6) They are fast (although in the train stations and in Spain you might have to stand in line for 10 minutes). There is really no competition in Europe with that concept.
7) They are courteous. That speaks volumes. The problem people like Jose have is that they are really rude sociopaths wrapping themselves in the flag of some cause.
If people like Jose were really serious they would form a business that competed with McDonalds with more of a local flavor. There are a few attempts like that although we saw that mainly in Spain.
But Jose doesn't doesn't really want success. He can only build himself up by tearing someone else down.
Depending on the country there may be different uses for the same frequencies. A good example of this is the overlap between some Ham Bands in the USA and Shortwave Radio bands in foreign countries. And there are many many unauthorized uses of frequencies from the illegal FM/AM radio stations in Berkeley, CA, to the encrypted number codes in Cuba and responding revolutionary armies in South America. The truth is that the FCC doesn't have the manpower nor the time to control the frequencies to the extent that they would like you to believe they can. And it is next to impossible to control these issues outside of the country. International agreements are fine. Just remember they are only as good as the compliance of those countries that sign them. One other point: Most of the charts listed here make ambigious the fact that the government owns MOST and controls ALL of the frequencies. That includes military, agencies, fire, police, etc. There is NO shortage of frequencies. What is happening is that government agencies are frequently using obsolete technologies that squander the bands allocated to them. They could work with much less if they used technologies developed since the vacuum tube was replaced by the transistor. But there is no incentive for them to upgrade their hardware.
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The solution is to be a contract programmer. I will be 60 in March and have been working as a contract programmer since 1996. My income doubled, and in one year it tripled, and they are reluctant to have you work more than 40 hours as they have to pay for it. Great for us guys over 50. Probably the main reason that young people are "looked down on" is that they don't have the experience yet to know that the first solution is usually not the best. They don't have the experience to know that there are typically many "solutions". And they are eager to have the first solution. My advice: Slow down and accomplish more.
The interesting thing is that things are going to get much worse over the next two years. When 2002 comes around I expect a significant number of Democrats to be replaced by Republicans in both state and national races. Too bad Barbara Boxer is not up for reelection until 2004. Talk about a liar and theif.
A minor correction to your two points:
1) This is not an especially cold winter in CA. I went out and played nine holes of golf today in the San Francisco Bay Area. Had to take my jacket off as it got too hot.
2) The reduced supply of electricity from Washington is more due to the lack of hydroelectric power, i.e., so far it has been a drier winter.
And also, yes, the power companies are going broke and the reason why is that the Democrat controled State Government refuses to deregulate the prices power companies can charge customers. But the price the power companies pay for the fuel has been unregulated and the power companies are now being charged more than they can charge their customers.
The real reason why this problem is occurring is that liberal Democrats have pretty much held the electrical industry hostage for the last 15 to 20 years in California.
And the Sierra Club has the nerve to protest Bush's Interior Secretary nomination!
Time for a change in California to match the change in the Federal Government!
I don't understand this. I have corresponded by email with many mainland Chinese and have exchanged jpg files.
E.G., One was a young woman who was employed by the State to list web sites to be censored by their criteria. The other was a young man who was comparing notes with me on the best digital camera available in early 1999.
ALthough we didn't talk politics, there was no problems of data flow, but I was never inside of China trying to get to web sites. The Yugoslavian war came along with the Chinese Embasy bombing and I had to cancel my trip to Beijing.
A suggestion on a way to foil the Censors is to produce a site that conforms to their censoring rules yet provides the information that is essential in a form that is not censorable.
Of course pornography is not going to be get around that, but then again I would love to see it censored here in the USA. I am no friend of pornography and its providers.
One other note: The elite of China, I'm sure, are not using the same censored route. That might be a useful clue.
Maybe they should have saved time and just gone after you to begin with? Is that what you are saying.
What is this nonsense about defending pornography!?
True. But the teacher is probably tenured and a Union member and a Democrat. They have their own laws.
The reason they are out of date is that a lot of the testing has been taken over by QA departments, at least after Unit Testing.
there is no privacy. There is no way of having the privacy of not knowing who voted for who. If you don't know that, you don't have a secure system. And if you know that, you don't have a system with privacy. The two, privacy and secure, are mutually exclusive.
The secrecy of the Ballot Box is essential in modern governments to protect us from those who are mad for power. I dont' care if computes count the votes, in fact I prefer computers count the votes as they are impartial, but the actual voting cannot ever be controlled by computers if you want to maintain your freedom.
is that the responsibility of voting belongs to the States as explicitly stated in the constitution. I cannot believe how ignorant Americans are of their most precious institution.
will not be determined by 300 votes. My extrapolations are that Bush will win by around 13,000 votes when the absentee votes are counted. Over 512,000 absentee ballots were sent out and all but 122,000 were returned by Nov. 6th. Most of the others will probably come in this week. They have until Friday. Most of them from military voters. See, the military is important. In all past Florida elections the absentee ballots are about 60% for the conservative candidate.
As an aside, I'm sure that the Cuban-Americans in Florida feel that they got their revenge in this election.
The Clinton-Gore Administration stole something earlier this year from South Florida. They are not going to be allowed to steal something again.
The real reason why geeks have poor posture is that they don't get enough exercise. I knew the writer of one of the most popular text editors and he must have weighted over 300 pounds. Every time he stood up he ran the risk of throwing his back out.
Get out of that damn chair and go take a long walk. No human was made for any chair. And no chair was made for any human.
A chair is a device that allows you to keep your rear off the dirty floor. Not much use for anything else. Switch to a bench without a back.
but I'm not going to tell you.
The toilet roll should be placed so that the paper hangs down on the outside.
Seems like King George III is alive and just as mad as ever. Guess all those newspaper editorials will have to be signed now, eh?
Sorry, presidents don't vote like legislatures. They enforce the laws already passed. (Although Clinton has used a few "mandates" to get his way about things that are not laws.)
"What is real and what is not real?" is one of the most mind boggling questions you can ask. On the surface it seems so obvious. But when you start picking away at the places where our sense of reality is ill defined, you begin to see that it is not such a simple thing after all.
I rate this question right up there with the question: "How can anything exist at all?" A question that, quite frankly, makes me realize how much evolution is left for us to complete.
The human mind does have its limits. These questions are excellent koans to stretch our minds to explore the dark holes of consciousness.
One of the fundamental errors that we all make is confusing "reality" with our models of reality. There is even a word for it, "reafication". Although I may be misspelling it. A nice word to know.
By the way, if you find an answer, you're wrong. And no cheating by blaming it on God, the oldest cop-out in the world.
There are some good studies that indicate that social behavior must be learned at an early age or else it is never learned. That is not unlike the children that are never spoken to in their childhood (classic: Wolfboy, and the girl in LA) never develop speach beyond very primitive levels.
So it is clear that how we raise our children is very important. If we raise them in antisocial environments we end up with sociopaths, as is clearly the problem with some of the people who have posted on this thread and the person who was interviewed. These people are not unbiased and they are destructive and they are blind to that. They simply don't care.
As parents and people who care, we have a right to protect our children from them by whatever compassionate method is available or necessary. Encouraging them into other lines of work is one of them. I'm sure he would make an excellent funeral director or sewer engineer.
Game violence is just another form of pollution that has to be taken care of. And it will be.
I went out to Excite's web site for MFST's financial statement and found that they paid $4,854 Million in Income Taxes in 2000 (fiscal year ending in June).
Check it out for yourself:
http://excite.elogic.com/sec_financials.asp?tic
Does someone have a screw loose?
After it has been recovered the Gov should make replicas and sell them. Nothing reduces the value of somethng as a flood of replicas. Plus this could cover the cost of beafing up their lax security.
Then they should put the real one in a vault and put a replica on display.
I believe there is a rumor that that is exactly what they have done with the crown jewels in the Tower of London museum.
Of course the real challenge is to market the robot cat. Iaido might be the perfect name.
But as long as they are stuck on dogs, they should name the new dog "Faido".
Jon Katz's article is basically the same used by the Porn Industry. "There are these evil people that want to take our freedoms away."
Katz starts off his argument with a classic ad hominem argument by calling people that appeal for a higher morality as Luddites. Then he misquotes statistics and bends them for his use even when they really indicate just the opposite. And he uses loaded pejoritive words to accentuate how bad these people are to tell him and his ilk to curb their appetites for socially unacceptable behavior.
Frankly I admire the positions Joseph Lieberman and former Education Secretary William Bennett on the corrosive effects of the movie, computer game, cable, organized crime, and porn industries. These industries are really all very much in bed with each other (sometimes literally). They are not small cottage industries and they are not harmless to our society, our children, or even Slashdot and the internet industry. And they are not harmless to Katz although he doesn't realize it yet.
Don't Encrypt. That draws attention.
What is needed is an effective way to send data that doesn't appear as data. Pictures perhaps?
Use Mao's/Komeaney's picture and embed data into it with an easy way to extract the data?
Send to friend in China/Iran who knows how to extract the data.
People who think they have the right to tell everyone how to think and use the power of the state to enforce that will always be defeated in time. Just takes time and being a little more clever than the fundamentalist enforcers.
My son and I don't usually eat at McDonalds here in California but last summer when we were in Europe they were useful for a number of reasons:
1) McDonalds is the only place you can get a cup of American style coffee. I don't care for the sludge they call Expresso. Gives me cramps.
2) McDonalds is inexpensive compared to the tourist priced resturants in Europe. That and staying at Youth Hostels helped us to stay for 45 days in Europe instead of 30. We went all over, including watching the fireworks in front of the Eifel Tower on July 14th, participating in the Love Parade in Berlin a few days before, watching the fireworks in Florence on St. Somebody's Day, visiting St. Peter's, the canals of Venice, the Matterhorn at Zermatt, the Prado in Madrid, the Alhambra in Granada, even a day in Tangiers across the Straits of Gibraltar from Aljeceris.
3) They are easy to find. There are 47 in the city of Paris alone. Too bad they don't join up with Internet Cafes.
There are some differences. Many sell food with a slight local flavor. They charge you for the catsup. Many do not request you to bus your table; they hire people to do that for you.
4) They are highly successful. The French love them. So does everyone else in Europe, except for the politically motivated left. I'm sure Jose is a political candidate with the Green Party or some such socialist ilk. This is just a publicity stunt by someone who has the ultimate goal of sticking his hand in your wallet.
5) They ALL understand English! Although the food might have a twist to the name to make it fit in the local language. Actually language was only an issue in Germany where a few places required me to use my college German. That was a rare event. Seems like everyone in France speaks English. Oh, I forgot, my son's High School Spanish came in handy in Spain. And my Mandarin Chinese I learned 10 years ago, believe it or not, came in handy at a mom and pop store in Madrid run by some Chinese. Ni hao ma?
6) They are fast (although in the train stations and in Spain you might have to stand in line for 10 minutes). There is really no competition in Europe with that concept.
7) They are courteous. That speaks volumes. The problem people like Jose have is that they are really rude sociopaths wrapping themselves in the flag of some cause.
If people like Jose were really serious they would form a business that competed with McDonalds with more of a local flavor. There are a few attempts like that although we saw that mainly in Spain.
But Jose doesn't doesn't really want success. He can only build himself up by tearing someone else down.
Socialism is dying an ungraceful death and while writing its own mournful eulogy.
Depending on the country there may be different uses for the same frequencies. A good example of this is the overlap between some Ham Bands in the USA and Shortwave Radio bands in foreign countries. And there are many many unauthorized uses of frequencies from the illegal FM/AM radio stations in Berkeley, CA, to the encrypted number codes in Cuba and responding revolutionary armies in South America. The truth is that the FCC doesn't have the manpower nor the time to control the frequencies to the extent that they would like you to believe they can. And it is next to impossible to control these issues outside of the country. International agreements are fine. Just remember they are only as good as the compliance of those countries that sign them. One other point: Most of the charts listed here make ambigious the fact that the government owns MOST and controls ALL of the frequencies. That includes military, agencies, fire, police, etc. There is NO shortage of frequencies. What is happening is that government agencies are frequently using obsolete technologies that squander the bands allocated to them. They could work with much less if they used technologies developed since the vacuum tube was replaced by the transistor. But there is no incentive for them to upgrade their hardware.