So essentially the government is paying auto manufacturers to send lobbyists back to washington to lobby on behalf of the auto manufacturers which Washington actually owns?
GM and Chrysler are partially owned by the US Government aka us. They were split up between the unions, bondholders, and the Government. As you can see from the Bloomberg article, the percentages are still in the air for GM and I assume for Chrysler too. Chrysler I find really disgusting considering it's the second time that that shit company has been bailed out. It needs to die. The same for GM.
You just know that they'll continue with their crap and it'll get worse because they pretty much have a Government mandate to do it. They will produce crap and with the whole warranty thing - no thank you! I'll buy Japanese. Any bailout money that came out of my taxes I consider to be a sunk cost and it's gone forever. I'll buy Japanese next time.
I would love to know how fast gravity waves travel. I wonder if they travel faster than light - I know, 300,000 km/s is the Universal speed limit according to Einstein, but...? . If a black hole can keep light from escaping, that means the speed of light isn't escape velocity, and that means that gravity is getting to it faster than the speed of light?
no, a lot of people who use the term 'The Man', think the government is one entity and wears tin foil hats are scaredy cats as well.
Actually, we think of them as many tiny (figuratively) men who want power in their little fiefdom. Some folks who want it: one politician uses the data to tax and then spend money on politically popular programs (known as "buying" votes); the prosecutor, wanting to make a name for himself, uses the data to go off on some witch hunt (hmmm, why do all those middle aged men have to drive by the grade school?) so he can eventually get elected Governor or into the Senate; the cops wanting to throw their weight around find out what roads have the most traffic and start ticketing everyone who drives over the speed limit +/- 1 MPH - see Arizona on THAT one; any other Government official that wants to grab power.
Just look at the TSA. They're supposed to screen threats of folks that might commit a terrorist act, instead they're stopping folks doing things that are completely legal and confiscating things that they have no business confiscating..
No, when the Government gets power, any power, they find an excuse to abuse it and the slope isn't slippery with them: it's covered with wet ice.
First an alternative OS like Open Solaris and now a garage OS? What next, an Indie OS? The developers go around on tour and sell the CDs at the OS Concert?
Really? Engineers are the easiest people to dupe with financial numbers. Why, you ask?
Engineers come from a background where the numbers are based upon physical laws - the numbers mean something tangible in the end. Whereas in accounting and in business in general, the can be and usually are several correct answers, and in some cases, the incorrect numbers look more reasonable. Many times, the numbers are assumptions. Numbers that are assumptions are pulled from one's ass; hence assumptions.
Alarmed by the deletion of e-mails that could have contained potentially significant information, administration officials recently instituted a new electronic document retention policy and temporary âoejournalingâ(TM)â(TM) program, to keep copies of every e-mail sent and received by every city employee.
Considering all the news about politicians and their "extracurricular activities", I just had this image of a bunch of emails that were sent and received from escorts and 20 something year old girlfriends or boyfriends. Meaning, they are hiding something and that's why they're deleting them.
Yes, I am very cynical when it comes to politicians.
If they want a shot at faking another moonlanding they really need to hire a better set designer, that didn't look anything like the moon!
I had a great set for my faked Moon landing. It looked perfect as the rocket came down on its parachute! For some reason folks said it didn't look like a real Moon landing - go figure!
I'll buy you a diamond ring my friend if it makes you feel alright
I'll get you anything my friend if it makes you feel alright
'Cause I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love
I'll give you all I got to give if you say you love me too
I may not have a lot to give but what I got I'll give to you
I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love
Can't buy me love, everybody tells me so
Can't buy me love, no no no, no
Say you don't need no diamond ring and I'll be satisfied
Tell me that you want the kind of thing that money just can't buy
I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love
Besides meeting with Chief Executive Steve Ballmer, Microsoft interns attend presentations by division presidents. "It's not your average make-coffee-and-copies-for-us internship," said Ederlyn Lacson, a linguistics major from the University of Maryland at College Park. "People are working on products that have or will ship.
OK, the part about meeting Ballmer - that' s just too easy - interns... chairs...yep.
Interns working on products that are going to ship. Yeah. Ooooookay, mmmmmmm.....mm..mm..mm..mm. Yeah, this one is too easy too, I'm gonna let that go. I do have my standards.
It's part of their marketing. Now, when fanboys say that Apple products are NOT more expensive when you compare them feature to feature with others, the fanboys can also point out that you're also buying features that you don't know about! See how superior Apple products are?!
First of all, I second the above posts about the lack of decent documentation - if there's any at all.
Second, at least with business programs, it's obvious that a programmer designed them them. GNUCash is the worst thing a business can use for their accounting software. They took a home checkbook program, added a couple of other accounts and considered it done. If you're running a business, just shell out the money for Quickbooks, MS Accounting, or Moneyworks.
Lastly, some development tools - yikes! Comparing gtk+ with Qt, Qt has wonderful documentation, the build environment was easy to set up and the integration with eclipse was great (I wish for a Netbeans integration one day but that was easy to set up too). It took me a few hours to get gtk+ build environment set up correctly where Netbeans could actually compile and link something. A make file would just be a nightmare!
...if their competitors are finding this out through The Register, then they really are not doing their jobs properly.
I had this image of Intel, Motorola, AMD, (I can't think of more) sending really hot Russian women to go and seduce the SUN engineers getting them to divulge everything. After I stopped my 007ish fantasy, I realized all they'd have to do is send in a pretty lady and have her just say "Hi" and those engineers would divulge everything - they are geeks after all.
Calling when your traveling internationally. Instead of having to mess around with phone cards or cell phones, you bring your laptop, hook into the hotel's internet connection (many times free) and call away.
I don't know about you guys, but I don't even notice advertising. I'm a bit interested in this story because of the marketing techniques they're using - I'm not interested at all in their games, btw. With there being so much noise and promotions out there, to get your message across these days you have to resort to things like this.
That might sound harsh to people outside the aerospace community but, as Rutan knows, test pilots and astronauts are a breed of people that willingly accepts certain risk in order to be part of great endeavors.
After reading about some of those guys, if you made the program too safe, they'd take up free climbing or something else to get the rush. The possibility of dying early gives it that rush.
We're such a death phobic society - no wonder terrorists can just flinch and send us into girly girl panics.
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So essentially the government is paying auto manufacturers to send lobbyists back to washington to lobby on behalf of the auto manufacturers which Washington actually owns?
GM and Chrysler are partially owned by the US Government aka us. They were split up between the unions, bondholders, and the Government. As you can see from the Bloomberg article, the percentages are still in the air for GM and I assume for Chrysler too. Chrysler I find really disgusting considering it's the second time that that shit company has been bailed out. It needs to die. The same for GM.
You just know that they'll continue with their crap and it'll get worse because they pretty much have a Government mandate to do it. They will produce crap and with the whole warranty thing - no thank you! I'll buy Japanese. Any bailout money that came out of my taxes I consider to be a sunk cost and it's gone forever. I'll buy Japanese next time.
I would love to know how fast gravity waves travel. I wonder if they travel faster than light - I know, 300,000 km/s is the Universal speed limit according to Einstein, but...? . If a black hole can keep light from escaping, that means the speed of light isn't escape velocity, and that means that gravity is getting to it faster than the speed of light?
maybe we can create artificial gravity like in the movies without having to have big centrifuges built into the hulls.
no, a lot of people who use the term 'The Man', think the government is one entity and wears tin foil hats are scaredy cats as well.
Actually, we think of them as many tiny (figuratively) men who want power in their little fiefdom. Some folks who want it: one politician uses the data to tax and then spend money on politically popular programs (known as "buying" votes); the prosecutor, wanting to make a name for himself, uses the data to go off on some witch hunt (hmmm, why do all those middle aged men have to drive by the grade school?) so he can eventually get elected Governor or into the Senate; the cops wanting to throw their weight around find out what roads have the most traffic and start ticketing everyone who drives over the speed limit +/- 1 MPH - see Arizona on THAT one; any other Government official that wants to grab power.
Just look at the TSA. They're supposed to screen threats of folks that might commit a terrorist act, instead they're stopping folks doing things that are completely legal and confiscating things that they have no business confiscating..
No, when the Government gets power, any power, they find an excuse to abuse it and the slope isn't slippery with them: it's covered with wet ice.
And it's aluminum foil! :-P
First an alternative OS like Open Solaris and now a garage OS? What next, an Indie OS? The developers go around on tour and sell the CDs at the OS Concert?
I'm curious about the differences between Open Solaris and Linux, and Open Solaris and Solaris.
Really? Engineers are the easiest people to dupe with financial numbers. Why, you ask?
Engineers come from a background where the numbers are based upon physical laws - the numbers mean something tangible in the end. Whereas in accounting and in business in general, the can be and usually are several correct answers, and in some cases, the incorrect numbers look more reasonable. Many times, the numbers are assumptions. Numbers that are assumptions are pulled from one's ass; hence assumptions.
Alarmed by the deletion of e-mails that could have contained potentially significant information, administration officials recently instituted a new electronic document retention policy and temporary âoejournalingâ(TM)â(TM) program, to keep copies of every e-mail sent and received by every city employee.
Considering all the news about politicians and their "extracurricular activities", I just had this image of a bunch of emails that were sent and received from escorts and 20 something year old girlfriends or boyfriends. Meaning, they are hiding something and that's why they're deleting them.
Yes, I am very cynical when it comes to politicians.
If they want a shot at faking another moonlanding they really need to hire a better set designer, that didn't look anything like the moon!
I had a great set for my faked Moon landing. It looked perfect as the rocket came down on its parachute! For some reason folks said it didn't look like a real Moon landing - go figure!
Perhaps he majored in political science? That would explain the numbers.
Can't buy me love
I'll buy you a diamond ring my friend if it makes you feel alright
I'll get you anything my friend if it makes you feel alright
'Cause I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love
I'll give you all I got to give if you say you love me too
I may not have a lot to give but what I got I'll give to you
I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love
Can't buy me love, everybody tells me so
Can't buy me love, no no no, no
Say you don't need no diamond ring and I'll be satisfied
Tell me that you want the kind of thing that money just can't buy
I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love
When I interned, I worked for free and I was working on projects myself.
Besides meeting with Chief Executive Steve Ballmer, Microsoft interns attend presentations by division presidents. "It's not your average make-coffee-and-copies-for-us internship," said Ederlyn Lacson, a linguistics major from the University of Maryland at College Park. "People are working on products that have or will ship.
OK, the part about meeting Ballmer - that' s just too easy - interns ... chairs ...yep.
Interns working on products that are going to ship. Yeah. Ooooookay, mmmmmmm.....mm..mm..mm..mm. Yeah, this one is too easy too, I'm gonna let that go. I do have my standards.
Why didn't they tell us earlier? Seems odd to me.
It's part of their marketing. Now, when fanboys say that Apple products are NOT more expensive when you compare them feature to feature with others, the fanboys can also point out that you're also buying features that you don't know about! See how superior Apple products are?!
Well, I don't know about the rest of you, but the "worlds oldest profession" probably needs its own holiday too.
It is a holiday that has been a long time in coming.
Bakers? Why not! Without bakers, we wouldn't have bread which led to beer!
Let's hear it for Mr. Flibble for sticking up for the bakers!!
I was referring to a profession involving a different kind of yeast.
Ohhhhhhhhhh, a vintner! Yes, wine makers do use a different kind of yeast.
Well, I don't know about the rest of you, but the "worlds oldest profession" probably needs its own holiday too.
It is a holiday that has been a long time in coming.
Bakers? Why not! Without bakers, we wouldn't have bread which led to beer!
Let's hear it for Mr. Flibble for sticking up for the bakers!!
Then, I had this thought of them becoming the best of buds and ruling the World.
Second, at least with business programs, it's obvious that a programmer designed them them. GNUCash is the worst thing a business can use for their accounting software. They took a home checkbook program, added a couple of other accounts and considered it done. If you're running a business, just shell out the money for Quickbooks, MS Accounting, or Moneyworks.
Lastly, some development tools - yikes! Comparing gtk+ with Qt, Qt has wonderful documentation, the build environment was easy to set up and the integration with eclipse was great (I wish for a Netbeans integration one day but that was easy to set up too). It took me a few hours to get gtk+ build environment set up correctly where Netbeans could actually compile and link something. A make file would just be a nightmare!
I had this image of Intel, Motorola, AMD, (I can't think of more) sending really hot Russian women to go and seduce the SUN engineers getting them to divulge everything. After I stopped my 007ish fantasy, I realized all they'd have to do is send in a pretty lady and have her just say "Hi" and those engineers would divulge everything - they are geeks after all.
I was thinking more along the lines of - teenager gets harassed by others, commits suicide, parents sue deep pockets (twitter)
It doesn't support FOSS and ....oh, fuck it.
Calling when your traveling internationally. Instead of having to mess around with phone cards or cell phones, you bring your laptop, hook into the hotel's internet connection (many times free) and call away.
I don't know about you guys, but I don't even notice advertising. I'm a bit interested in this story because of the marketing techniques they're using - I'm not interested at all in their games, btw. With there being so much noise and promotions out there, to get your message across these days you have to resort to things like this.
After reading about some of those guys, if you made the program too safe, they'd take up free climbing or something else to get the rush. The possibility of dying early gives it that rush.
We're such a death phobic society - no wonder terrorists can just flinch and send us into girly girl panics.
You need to call him "Hillary Clinton's husband" for the young folks to know who you're talking about.