We are having these problems in Illinois and Wisconsin as well. Illinois has no concealed carry law, and Wisconsin's doesnt take effect until Nov 1.
We are not seeing destructive flash mobs in Houston. It's won't happen there because both the organizers and participants know that lots of Texans walk around armed all the time. So, the concealed carry law it's self PREVENTS violence because these hooligans don't want to try something that will lead to them being shot dead.
So, the UK can watch and spy, and listen all they want and it will have no effect on what is happening.
As an American, I am sickened and appalled by this post. That's all I have to say. We are not ALL gun carrying lunatics.
The Tea-Party Republicans ran on platforms of cutting spending and lowering the debt. Can you blame them for not turning on their constituents and breaking promises to pass legislation their home districts are against? I thought we were tired of politicians making campaign promises, then breaking them in office.
Yes, but the Tea-Party representatives don't actually believe any of their rhetoric. It's just what they said to get elected.
He is on the path to becoming the most influential philanthropist in a hundred years.
You do realize that every philanthropist throughout history has been a fraud, don't you? I guess not. Do you really think that a sociopath changes in his old age to become a compassionate human being? Dream on. When you have Billions, spending a few pennies on PR to get people to like you is just another part of the game.
If you want someone who came into his money via talent and hard work, and not putting other companies out of business, just look at Woz. He gave away stock options to co-workers, and he donated a large part (not pennies) of his wealth to his local community. Simply put, fuck Bill Gates and all robber barons past and present.
The reason that our space program is dead in the water is that we are pathologically afraid of the risk of anyone dying. If there's an accident, the entire program shuts down. Not for a couple of weeks, but for nearly a decade while congress has meeting after meeting, and even more bureacracy is put into place to hamper all programs. The solution is a lean, mean, risk taking NASA that can get a new vehicle out there flying every year to test out the technologies and toughen up the astronauts for the conquering of space, which will be the most difficult thing that the human race has done to date.
For a corporate device, nothing beats the speed and efficiency with which you can use the BlackBerry.
Our entire company (10,000+) pretty much dropped Blackberry because it was found that nothing beats the speed and efficiency of an iPhone or Android. We get a nice reimbursement to use our own devices, in the best way to suit our particular tasks. Since no matter what you need to do (sysadmin, marketing, exec level BS) there are apps for it. Corporate Exchange works like a charm, plus it works the same as folks with iPads who need to do more serious work than you can on a phone, without having to drag around a laptop.
If your business fails, then they're out a portion of their income (until they replace the account with another one).
Ah, but you are forgetting the crucial point. It's not your (the middle manager's) fault that it failed, it's theirs. You discharged your responsibility with the outsourcing, er, cloud contract.
Is there *anything* good that can happen to an ecosystem? Surely *some* changes are good?
Your sarcasm is unfounded. This issue is not a single instance of change. It is massive and rapid change. On ecological time, our lifetime is just a blink of an eye, and we are seeing the environment change on a scale that can and will cause unheard damage. It can take hundreds or thousands of years to adapt to the elimination of a single species, and we are losing them yearly.
That's about the longevity of a typical executive in any US company. Pay the ransom, keep it quiet, take your parachute, and leave the problem for the next guy.
Most admins ignore sudo's existing granularity, so why would they want an even more granular system? I'm not saying this new system has no uses -- clearly it does or no one would have built it -- but it's ridiculous to claim that it's likely to replace sudo in common usage when 75+% of admins have never changed the the default sudoers file, let alone wanted more even more granular control.
Spoken like a true Linux at home user who has never been an administrator in an enterprise. DBA's need one level of access, developers another, application support folks another, and content providers another. This is difficult to do with sudo, where the security mechanism is to lock down users to only use specific commands. Thirty years ago in VMS I could set up print queue managers, batch job managers, email managers, etc. without having to worry about what commands they needed to use. I love the simplicity of unix, and root/sudo should always be the default system control. But for machines with multiple users and teams, anything that helps manage security at a higher level would be quite welcome.
You know, every time a takeover happens some people get fired.
I am delighted to see that for a change it happens to you.
The last executive I knew personally who got fired got a two year paid vacation and the free services of a company to find him his next cushy job. These execs were just rewarded for selling their company. There's no way you can spin this as a bad thing for them.
It is also true that the US is spending about ten times more on the military than is needed for peace. It is also true that in the US we use capitol letters and periods to make things easier to reads.
These experiments do not share their data openly (while the experiment is still taking data) because if they did, there would not be any data. The only way to get enough physicists to work on the experiment to make it run well enough to get any data is to restrict data access to those who do service work on the experiment. After the end of data taking, the data may be released, but I don't know the time table on which that typically occurs.
And how exactly do you release raw data? You know, this isn't a well tagged HTML page we are talking about. It is raw binary data, that unless you have all the programs to read and analyze it, it means nothing. Data gets released after it is munged into a state that it can be shared, which means a ton of cleaning up and indexing. It has NOTHING to do with any conspiracy by physicists to keep their data secret for any length of time.
For the love of God, the name of the app is "WiFi Sync". What the fuck else are they going to call an app that syncs over WiFi?
For the love of God, the name of the store is "Amazon Appstore". What the fuck else are Amazon going to call their store that sells apps?
Appstore is a trademarked marketing term. WiFi Sync is the name of an app. Different ball parks. Not that I don't think the Appstore suite is ridiculous.
But it should be done in courts or congress, not by vigilante mobs deciding to lynch a corporation that offended them.
Yes it should, but it won't be. Those same corporations own those politicians and courts lock stock and barrel. The only time we ever see any government action against a corporation is when it's one corporation verses another, biggest bastard take all. There is no realistic legal action that any individual can take against a corporation. The laws and legal processes make sure of that.
Laws were broken and heads were busted the last time that individual American's actions had any effect on the state of their country. We have been way too complacent for the past 30 years. I do not advocate any particular form of law breaking, but it's a legitimate form of social protest. Remember, today's villains are often tomorrow's heroes.
To be fair, I don't believe she is as dumb as she appears. I think she intentionally puts on that stupid accent and plays dumb to win over the fly-over states.
Nice diatribe, but I'm not convinced. What is this concept that time off from the air will magically make the series better? Consistent good writing, production, and acting does that, and it has absolutely nothing to do with a show becoming "tired." The entire concept is ludicrous.
Besides, the new episodes are nowhere near as bad as the John Nathan Turner era. Don't get me wrong. Troughton (what few survive) and Tom Baker (except for the last season) are still the best, IMNSHO, but I'd definitely put Smith's series up there near the top. The only problem I see is that the Doctor keeps looking younger. It'll be hard to go back to a middle aged or elderly regeneration. I wonder if they will actually go with a female Doctor next time. It's the logical thing at this point.
NYSE is an exchange company. They are not investors, they do not tell banks to accept bad loans, and don't really do much of anything that caused the recession. Blaming NYSE is like blaming Ford for a bank robbery, because the robbers drove a Ford getaway car.
They are also a publicly traded company. That right there is the problem. It's like blaming Ford for a bank robbery because the executives at Ford are band robbers.
It is very cool, but come on! People are struggling to afford college for their kids, and universities waste money like this?! Sorry, we have to raise tuition another 5%, we have to pay off this robotic library. And people complain about the oil companies...
You have got to be kidding. This is exactly what Universities should be doing. Finding ways to preserve knowledge and make it available to whomever wants it. Until everything is digitized, this is a perfect way to make those books available in an as efficient a way possible. The students at the U of C are not about getting good grades and passing courses to get good jobs. They are about discovering and creating and investigating things that no one else has thought of yet. It's a research institution, not a tech school. And I wish we had more like it.
As I say this I just finished a letter to my representative Jamie Boles (NC) regarding him balking at people having legally permitted concealed weapons in restaurants, and his stalling tactics in regards to HB1XX. Take a stand on what you feel is right, and let these fuckers know your watching them. We just have to stop talking amongst ourselves and start reaching out to others who aren't in our little mental circle jerk in all these forums.
OK, I will. I don't want you or any other person to be carrying a gun in public. It's bad enough if you have one at home. Speaking of terrorist fear. Is the boogie man going to get you?
The freedom we enjoy in the US means nothing in the end if we ignore oppression elsewhere.
I'm tired of religious despots. I'm fed up with tribes who circumcise infant girls. I'm real fucking annoyed with honor killings. I have come to the conclusion that there are some traditions and cultures that need to die out sooner rather than later, and I'm willing to apply the necessary explosives to make it happen.
And I'm tired of abortion restrictions, universal health care paranoia, intelligent design in schools, absurd restrictions on pain killers, worship of the rich and famous, government representatives owned by big business, an out of control military killing people by the thousands, etc. etc. Someone really needs to step in and erase the American culture and replace it with something sane.
Amazon's content requirements are very clear. Even if the material is not pornographic, it can still offend-- and Amazon is not obligated to explain why it has chosen to take offense.
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We are having these problems in Illinois and Wisconsin as well. Illinois has no concealed carry law, and Wisconsin's doesnt take effect until Nov 1.
We are not seeing destructive flash mobs in Houston. It's won't happen there because both the organizers and participants know that lots of Texans walk around armed all the time. So, the concealed carry law it's self PREVENTS violence because these hooligans don't want to try something that will lead to them being shot dead.
So, the UK can watch and spy, and listen all they want and it will have no effect on what is happening.
As an American, I am sickened and appalled by this post. That's all I have to say. We are not ALL gun carrying lunatics.
The Tea-Party Republicans ran on platforms of cutting spending and lowering the debt. Can you blame them for not turning on their constituents and breaking promises to pass legislation their home districts are against? I thought we were tired of politicians making campaign promises, then breaking them in office.
Yes, but the Tea-Party representatives don't actually believe any of their rhetoric. It's just what they said to get elected.
He is on the path to becoming the most influential philanthropist in a hundred years.
You do realize that every philanthropist throughout history has been a fraud, don't you? I guess not. Do you really think that a sociopath changes in his old age to become a compassionate human being? Dream on. When you have Billions, spending a few pennies on PR to get people to like you is just another part of the game.
If you want someone who came into his money via talent and hard work, and not putting other companies out of business, just look at Woz. He gave away stock options to co-workers, and he donated a large part (not pennies) of his wealth to his local community. Simply put, fuck Bill Gates and all robber barons past and present.
The reason that our space program is dead in the water is that we are pathologically afraid of the risk of anyone dying. If there's an accident, the entire program shuts down. Not for a couple of weeks, but for nearly a decade while congress has meeting after meeting, and even more bureacracy is put into place to hamper all programs. The solution is a lean, mean, risk taking NASA that can get a new vehicle out there flying every year to test out the technologies and toughen up the astronauts for the conquering of space, which will be the most difficult thing that the human race has done to date.
For a corporate device, nothing beats the speed and efficiency with which you can use the BlackBerry.
Our entire company (10,000+) pretty much dropped Blackberry because it was found that nothing beats the speed and efficiency of an iPhone or Android. We get a nice reimbursement to use our own devices, in the best way to suit our particular tasks. Since no matter what you need to do (sysadmin, marketing, exec level BS) there are apps for it. Corporate Exchange works like a charm, plus it works the same as folks with iPads who need to do more serious work than you can on a phone, without having to drag around a laptop.
If your business fails, then they're out a portion of their income (until they replace the account with another one).
Ah, but you are forgetting the crucial point. It's not your (the middle manager's) fault that it failed, it's theirs. You discharged your responsibility with the outsourcing, er, cloud contract.
Can we please get a +1 "knows how to use a semicolon correctly"mod option?
Is there *anything* good that can happen to an ecosystem? Surely *some* changes are good?
Your sarcasm is unfounded. This issue is not a single instance of change. It is massive and rapid change. On ecological time, our lifetime is just a blink of an eye, and we are seeing the environment change on a scale that can and will cause unheard damage. It can take hundreds or thousands of years to adapt to the elimination of a single species, and we are losing them yearly.
Everyone else will start doing it too, and he'll have to go back to his day job.
Which is why it's a bogus story. There's no pot of gold on New York streets. Only in a con man's mind. Yeesh.
They will get asked for money on a yearly basis.
That's about the longevity of a typical executive in any US company. Pay the ransom, keep it quiet, take your parachute, and leave the problem for the next guy.
Most admins ignore sudo's existing granularity, so why would they want an even more granular system? I'm not saying this new system has no uses -- clearly it does or no one would have built it -- but it's ridiculous to claim that it's likely to replace sudo in common usage when 75+% of admins have never changed the the default sudoers file, let alone wanted more even more granular control.
Spoken like a true Linux at home user who has never been an administrator in an enterprise. DBA's need one level of access, developers another, application support folks another, and content providers another. This is difficult to do with sudo, where the security mechanism is to lock down users to only use specific commands. Thirty years ago in VMS I could set up print queue managers, batch job managers, email managers, etc. without having to worry about what commands they needed to use. I love the simplicity of unix, and root/sudo should always be the default system control. But for machines with multiple users and teams, anything that helps manage security at a higher level would be quite welcome.
You know, every time a takeover happens some people get fired.
I am delighted to see that for a change it happens to you.
The last executive I knew personally who got fired got a two year paid vacation and the free services of a company to find him his next cushy job. These execs were just rewarded for selling their company. There's no way you can spin this as a bad thing for them.
It is also true that the US is spending about ten times more on the military than is needed for peace. It is also true that in the US we use capitol letters and periods to make things easier to reads.
How is this different from any other young race car driver? I'm not seeing the story here.
These experiments do not share their data openly (while the experiment is still taking data) because if they did, there would not be any data. The only way to get enough physicists to work on the experiment to make it run well enough to get any data is to restrict data access to those who do service work on the experiment. After the end of data taking, the data may be released, but I don't know the time table on which that typically occurs.
And how exactly do you release raw data? You know, this isn't a well tagged HTML page we are talking about. It is raw binary data, that unless you have all the programs to read and analyze it, it means nothing. Data gets released after it is munged into a state that it can be shared, which means a ton of cleaning up and indexing. It has NOTHING to do with any conspiracy by physicists to keep their data secret for any length of time.
For the love of God, the name of the app is "WiFi Sync". What the fuck else are they going to call an app that syncs over WiFi?
For the love of God, the name of the store is "Amazon Appstore". What the fuck else are Amazon going to call their store that sells apps?
Appstore is a trademarked marketing term. WiFi Sync is the name of an app. Different ball parks. Not that I don't think the Appstore suite is ridiculous.
But it should be done in courts or congress, not by vigilante mobs deciding to lynch a corporation that offended them.
Yes it should, but it won't be. Those same corporations own those politicians and courts lock stock and barrel. The only time we ever see any government action against a corporation is when it's one corporation verses another, biggest bastard take all. There is no realistic legal action that any individual can take against a corporation. The laws and legal processes make sure of that.
Laws were broken and heads were busted the last time that individual American's actions had any effect on the state of their country. We have been way too complacent for the past 30 years. I do not advocate any particular form of law breaking, but it's a legitimate form of social protest. Remember, today's villains are often tomorrow's heroes.
Have politics ever really focused on social issues, rather than the people(be they bonehead or genius) who support or dismiss them?
Yes, once, when Benjamin Franklin brow-beated them all into dropping their personal agendas and agree to do something for the common good.
To be fair, I don't believe she is as dumb as she appears. I think she intentionally puts on that stupid accent and plays dumb to win over the fly-over states.
Occam's razor.
Nice diatribe, but I'm not convinced. What is this concept that time off from the air will magically make the series better? Consistent good writing, production, and acting does that, and it has absolutely nothing to do with a show becoming "tired." The entire concept is ludicrous.
Besides, the new episodes are nowhere near as bad as the John Nathan Turner era. Don't get me wrong. Troughton (what few survive) and Tom Baker (except for the last season) are still the best, IMNSHO, but I'd definitely put Smith's series up there near the top. The only problem I see is that the Doctor keeps looking younger. It'll be hard to go back to a middle aged or elderly regeneration. I wonder if they will actually go with a female Doctor next time. It's the logical thing at this point.
NYSE is an exchange company. They are not investors, they do not tell banks to accept bad loans, and don't really do much of anything that caused the recession. Blaming NYSE is like blaming Ford for a bank robbery, because the robbers drove a Ford getaway car.
They are also a publicly traded company. That right there is the problem. It's like blaming Ford for a bank robbery because the executives at Ford are band robbers.
It is very cool, but come on! People are struggling to afford college for their kids, and universities waste money like this?! Sorry, we have to raise tuition another 5%, we have to pay off this robotic library. And people complain about the oil companies...
You have got to be kidding. This is exactly what Universities should be doing. Finding ways to preserve knowledge and make it available to whomever wants it. Until everything is digitized, this is a perfect way to make those books available in an as efficient a way possible. The students at the U of C are not about getting good grades and passing courses to get good jobs. They are about discovering and creating and investigating things that no one else has thought of yet. It's a research institution, not a tech school. And I wish we had more like it.
As I say this I just finished a letter to my representative Jamie Boles (NC) regarding him balking at people having legally permitted concealed weapons in restaurants, and his stalling tactics in regards to HB1XX. Take a stand on what you feel is right, and let these fuckers know your watching them. We just have to stop talking amongst ourselves and start reaching out to others who aren't in our little mental circle jerk in all these forums.
OK, I will. I don't want you or any other person to be carrying a gun in public. It's bad enough if you have one at home. Speaking of terrorist fear. Is the boogie man going to get you?
Bull crap.
The freedom we enjoy in the US means nothing in the end if we ignore oppression elsewhere.
I'm tired of religious despots. I'm fed up with tribes who circumcise infant girls. I'm real fucking annoyed with honor killings. I have come to the conclusion that there are some traditions and cultures that need to die out sooner rather than later, and I'm willing to apply the necessary explosives to make it happen.
And I'm tired of abortion restrictions, universal health care paranoia, intelligent design in schools, absurd restrictions on pain killers, worship of the rich and famous, government representatives owned by big business, an out of control military killing people by the thousands, etc. etc. Someone really needs to step in and erase the American culture and replace it with something sane.
Amazon's content requirements are very clear. Even if the material is not pornographic, it can still offend-- and Amazon is not obligated to explain why it has chosen to take offense.
I'm horribly offended by the bible. Just saying.