You claim that Florida, which allows CCW, has a greater incidence of violence than Massachusetts, which does not. Either you're claiming causation, or refuting deterrence. Whichever it is, you're not taking into account Florida's violence pre-1987 (I think), which was higher than it is now.
Florida's "shall issue" concealed carry laws were enacted *in response* to that higher crime rate. They were not the cause of it, as you clumsily allude; they were a response *to* it.
You make a bunch of vague and grammatically crippled claims that aren't specific enough to confirm or rebut. What sort of "equality" do you believe they disregard? What "left-wing" policies do you refer to? What makes you say that they "try harder to surround themselves by [sic] ignorant people"?
Glenn Beck *is* a tool. Most talking heads are. When people substitute them as a target instead of actually addressing and discussing ideas, it's usually because they aren't equipped to do the latter.
I'm interested, though: what "increased healthcare" did Beck support? And is there anyone who *opposes* "increased healthcare"?
I don't consider myself a tea partier, but looking at a few such self-described groups, their platform is mainly reduced government spending and avoiding tax increases. I see some other positions that include enforcing current immigration law, and general opposition to incumbents - not really extreme positions.
To address the post below mine, the TP sites I checked out didn't mention religion or America being a "Christian Nation". I saw more pictures of Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck than I'd like, but that's it.
Well, we can all see from your capital letters that you REALLY REALLY mean what you say.
The truth is that those robberies at gunpoint occur *more* in places where the law-abiding are not permitted to carry a weapon and where lawful ownership is very restricted.
Another truth is that people lawfully carrying weapons in those places it's allowed contribute statistically zero to crime. Whether you choose to believe that they serve as a deterrent is up to you.
He didn't say they were the *sole* problem. He said they're the *biggest* problem.
I believe that more children today are harder-to-teach kids. And I believe that parents today are harder to work with.
But a system where the worst teachers are paid the most, and where the ineffective can't be removed, overshadows those things.
Of course the teachers' union is infuriated. They've taken a stand against any policy having anything to do with performance - tying it or factoring it in to tenure or salary for example, and fight tooth and nail against anything resembling competition - even between public schools - that would highlight differences in teaching effectiveness.
That they're openly furious that the public is being informed about the performance of the schools they pay for and the teachers they employ and whom they entrust with their children shows how out-of-touch they are with reality.
The union hack is right that it "will do nothing to improve student learning" - as long as a few years of teaching guarantees a job for life from which a person can't be fired, no matter how crappy a job s/he does.
So, let me get this right. A tax code is so confusing and complicated - in part because of lobbyists and politicians carving out special exceptions for each other and special punishment for their enemies - that even cash-strapped California sees the need to assist its citizens with compliance? And the result is *more* lobbying from a company that's (frankly) had a windfall for years because of the degree of difficulty of that compliance, to convince the state... to help the company *make money* from its constituents instead of helping those constituents? Unbelievable.
There are people lining up to financially benefit from the already-mentioned schemes like "cap & trade" which will have little or no effect on atmospheric CO2 without the cooperation of China, India, etc.
And any claim implying the importance of consensus in determining fact must come from someone who doesn't understand what science is.
Years ago I implemented Brightmail for anti-spam. It worked well and its tech support was fast and knowledgeable. They were purchased by Symantec and support became difficult to reach, and ignorant about the product. Upgrading and maintaining licenses with Symantec became a nightmare, with (then, it's since been corrected) a Flash-requiring web site and paper licenses sent in the mail.
Looking ahead and not liking Brightmail much, we purchased Ironmail appliances from Secure Computing. Their support was excellent. Now *they* have been acquired by McAfee, and their support has taken a steep downward turn.
We use Zimbra - it's been acquired first by Yahoo, now by VMWare, which isn't bad because we use VMWare, except - VMWare has been purchased by EMC. EMC's labyrinthine support portal and seemingly dozens of layers of bureaucracy are soul-withering to muck through.
The human body does *not* "[break] down water's constituent atoms of hydrogen and oxygen to construct the proteins..."
Not, that is, unless I misunderstood the definition of "nuclear biology".
People are running on software that's "two versions behind current" and which is "a decade old" for a few reasons. They have a decade of dependency on it. They're wary of Microsoft's "upgrades" (and you've got quite a set for including Vista in that 'two versions behind current' while Microsoft is busy trying to make it look like Vista never existed, buried in the same box as Millennium).
As pointed out elsewhere, it's not a stubborn minority refusing to give up XP that Microsoft is being asked to spend a disproportionate time serving. It's the majority of their customers who have purchased a flawed product that it's Microsoft's responsibility to fix. And XP isn't end-of-life'd because it's become useless and obsolete; it's EOL'd because Microsoft wants to sell everyone a new OS.
"*(Before you freak out, I have a concealed carry permit issued by the government.)".... and if you think that permits you to brandish and threaten deadly force any time you see fit, it should be revoked.
"the Army had no reason whatever [mypetjawa.mu.nu] to believe that the "unarmed civilians" featured in "Collateral Murder" were "unarmed" "
Really? You think that killing anyone you can't prove summarily and immediately is unarmed is a reasonable engagement policy?
This occurred in a city with an overwhelming ratio of noncombatants to combatants, not a well-defined battlefield or firefight over occupying some ground.
Satire (along with humor) is a powerful and effective tool. To dismiss one of its most skilled practitioners of it as "crazy" is ignorant. I disagreed with most of Carlin's politics (he practically opposed property rights) but he was a genius at pointing out the hypocrisy and futility of things sacred, secular, and bureaucratic.
While you're right that both of the major parties are nealy identical, it's silly to describe them as "pro-free-market". They both advocate, and drool over, their own control over the market.
Claiming that "The free market has failed" when it hasn't seen the light of day is ignorant.
No, then it's still irrelevant. What's relevant if you're a stockholder is its share price relative to what it was offered or purchased at.
Stock ABCD, initially offered/purchased at $10 and trading at $15, is doing better than stock DEFG, purchased at $20 and trading at $16.
Absolute price is meaningless. A billion-dollar company can have ten shares outstanding (well, that might be ridiculous, but it's hypothetical) at $100M each, and another billion-dollar company can have ten million shares outstanding at $100 each.
What do customers need from their ISP other than connectivity to other services on the Internet? Most ISPs have stopped offering NNTP service, and I don't think most people use their ISPs e-mail servers.
All I want from my ISP is "dumb pipe" service.
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You claim that Florida, which allows CCW, has a greater incidence of violence than Massachusetts, which does not. Either you're claiming causation, or refuting deterrence. Whichever it is, you're not taking into account Florida's violence pre-1987 (I think), which was higher than it is now.
Florida's "shall issue" concealed carry laws were enacted *in response* to that higher crime rate. They were not the cause of it, as you clumsily allude; they were a response *to* it.
You make a bunch of vague and grammatically crippled claims that aren't specific enough to confirm or rebut. What sort of "equality" do you believe they disregard? What "left-wing" policies do you refer to? What makes you say that they "try harder to surround themselves by [sic] ignorant people"? Glenn Beck *is* a tool. Most talking heads are. When people substitute them as a target instead of actually addressing and discussing ideas, it's usually because they aren't equipped to do the latter. I'm interested, though: what "increased healthcare" did Beck support? And is there anyone who *opposes* "increased healthcare"?
I don't consider myself a tea partier, but looking at a few such self-described groups, their platform is mainly reduced government spending and avoiding tax increases. I see some other positions that include enforcing current immigration law, and general opposition to incumbents - not really extreme positions. To address the post below mine, the TP sites I checked out didn't mention religion or America being a "Christian Nation". I saw more pictures of Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck than I'd like, but that's it.
Well, we can all see from your capital letters that you REALLY REALLY mean what you say. The truth is that those robberies at gunpoint occur *more* in places where the law-abiding are not permitted to carry a weapon and where lawful ownership is very restricted. Another truth is that people lawfully carrying weapons in those places it's allowed contribute statistically zero to crime. Whether you choose to believe that they serve as a deterrent is up to you.
He didn't say they were the *sole* problem. He said they're the *biggest* problem. I believe that more children today are harder-to-teach kids. And I believe that parents today are harder to work with. But a system where the worst teachers are paid the most, and where the ineffective can't be removed, overshadows those things.
Of course the teachers' union is infuriated. They've taken a stand against any policy having anything to do with performance - tying it or factoring it in to tenure or salary for example, and fight tooth and nail against anything resembling competition - even between public schools - that would highlight differences in teaching effectiveness. That they're openly furious that the public is being informed about the performance of the schools they pay for and the teachers they employ and whom they entrust with their children shows how out-of-touch they are with reality. The union hack is right that it "will do nothing to improve student learning" - as long as a few years of teaching guarantees a job for life from which a person can't be fired, no matter how crappy a job s/he does.
I'm not surprised that Intuit is trying to keep business; I'm surprised that the level of brazenness necessary for politicians to entertain the idea.
So, let me get this right. A tax code is so confusing and complicated - in part because of lobbyists and politicians carving out special exceptions for each other and special punishment for their enemies - that even cash-strapped California sees the need to assist its citizens with compliance? And the result is *more* lobbying from a company that's (frankly) had a windfall for years because of the degree of difficulty of that compliance, to convince the state ... to help the company *make money* from its constituents instead of helping those constituents? Unbelievable.
There are people lining up to financially benefit from the already-mentioned schemes like "cap & trade" which will have little or no effect on atmospheric CO2 without the cooperation of China, India, etc. And any claim implying the importance of consensus in determining fact must come from someone who doesn't understand what science is.
Huh?
IIRC it's more than just a case of collisions; it's possible (if not trivial) to create documents with the same hash.
MD5 is broken, for some time now. Is that really the tool to show off your uber-leet-cyber command? PR fail.
Years ago I implemented Brightmail for anti-spam. It worked well and its tech support was fast and knowledgeable. They were purchased by Symantec and support became difficult to reach, and ignorant about the product. Upgrading and maintaining licenses with Symantec became a nightmare, with (then, it's since been corrected) a Flash-requiring web site and paper licenses sent in the mail. Looking ahead and not liking Brightmail much, we purchased Ironmail appliances from Secure Computing. Their support was excellent. Now *they* have been acquired by McAfee, and their support has taken a steep downward turn. We use Zimbra - it's been acquired first by Yahoo, now by VMWare, which isn't bad because we use VMWare, except - VMWare has been purchased by EMC. EMC's labyrinthine support portal and seemingly dozens of layers of bureaucracy are soul-withering to muck through.
The human body does *not* "[break] down water's constituent atoms of hydrogen and oxygen to construct the proteins ..."
Not, that is, unless I misunderstood the definition of "nuclear biology".
People are running on software that's "two versions behind current" and which is "a decade old" for a few reasons. They have a decade of dependency on it. They're wary of Microsoft's "upgrades" (and you've got quite a set for including Vista in that 'two versions behind current' while Microsoft is busy trying to make it look like Vista never existed, buried in the same box as Millennium). As pointed out elsewhere, it's not a stubborn minority refusing to give up XP that Microsoft is being asked to spend a disproportionate time serving. It's the majority of their customers who have purchased a flawed product that it's Microsoft's responsibility to fix. And XP isn't end-of-life'd because it's become useless and obsolete; it's EOL'd because Microsoft wants to sell everyone a new OS.
"*(Before you freak out, I have a concealed carry permit issued by the government.)" .... and if you think that permits you to brandish and threaten deadly force any time you see fit, it should be revoked.
"the Army had no reason whatever [mypetjawa.mu.nu] to believe that the "unarmed civilians" featured in "Collateral Murder" were "unarmed" " Really? You think that killing anyone you can't prove summarily and immediately is unarmed is a reasonable engagement policy? This occurred in a city with an overwhelming ratio of noncombatants to combatants, not a well-defined battlefield or firefight over occupying some ground.
Satire (along with humor) is a powerful and effective tool. To dismiss one of its most skilled practitioners of it as "crazy" is ignorant. I disagreed with most of Carlin's politics (he practically opposed property rights) but he was a genius at pointing out the hypocrisy and futility of things sacred, secular, and bureaucratic.
Huh? If it "come[s] back to bite them in the ass" and makes people think twice before speaking up, then free speech will have been impinged.
While you're right that both of the major parties are nealy identical, it's silly to describe them as "pro-free-market". They both advocate, and drool over, their own control over the market. Claiming that "The free market has failed" when it hasn't seen the light of day is ignorant.
I think they do get it, and that it can be said that "they did it six times, and it worked every time" is *more* illustrative.
kernel.org only has up to 2.6.33.
Unless you are a shareholder.
No, then it's still irrelevant. What's relevant if you're a stockholder is its share price relative to what it was offered or purchased at. Stock ABCD, initially offered/purchased at $10 and trading at $15, is doing better than stock DEFG, purchased at $20 and trading at $16. Absolute price is meaningless. A billion-dollar company can have ten shares outstanding (well, that might be ridiculous, but it's hypothetical) at $100M each, and another billion-dollar company can have ten million shares outstanding at $100 each.
What do customers need from their ISP other than connectivity to other services on the Internet? Most ISPs have stopped offering NNTP service, and I don't think most people use their ISPs e-mail servers. All I want from my ISP is "dumb pipe" service.