When Ron Paul is on cable news networks, and starts talking about the 1953 Coup de tat, he is cut off immediately and they break to commercial. Both Fox and CNN are guilty of this. I don't believe that we have Freedom of the Press in this country for that reason and many others. We have New York Times reporters thrown in jail for leaking information that can hurt the administration.
We need the country to wake their brain dead asses up and do a little bit of research rather than just following the talking heads of CNN and Fox. I think the 1953 Coup de tat has a little bit more historical significance than Britney Spears ass in a windshield. Why do they always seem to have time for the latter? Seems fishy to me.
"if you're an individual that has an extreme view, is the ability to broadcast that view in the privacy of your den"
This is protected by the First Amendment. No interpretation is necessary, just a brain to understand that.
" It struck me two or three years ago that our historical concepts of privacy were dependent upon what the technologies were at the time"
So in the 1800's it may have been illegal to send a peeon to spy on someone, but since webcams and computers are readily available it should be legal to spy on them? It's a federal offense to open someone else's mail, yet the federal government wants access to the messages you send online.
"How failure to share information leads to more failure:"
So some software crashed, therefore we need to violate your privacy rights? Very twisted logic.
Businesses take information on a voluntary basis. Ones like airlines are a service that the consumer wants, and only the information that the consumer wants to give is given. Unlike the government businesses do NOT have access to bank accounts or NUKES.
There is a difference. One is food, and one is tobacco. The former is necessary to live, the latter is not.
You think the government can save us from outside influences, but they SUBSIDIZE TOBACCO FARMERS. They have quotas on how much of certain crops farmers can grow. You have cases like "Wikard v. Filbur", the FDA who is comprised of several former Monsanto execs.
These issues need to remain issues at the local level. If someone back east(or on the other side of the country) is smoking or eating fatty foods, that's their problem. Why does that affect you?
As always, no one is looking at the root causes of these problems, but rather they are treating the symptoms. This non-sense. The more responsibility you hand over to government, the worse your life is going to get. Just look to the past, they've been destroying everything!
You are the ultimate communist (socialist, fascist...it's all the same).
Just read history, and you'll see why what you just said is problematic.
Watch them take away the liberties of those you disagree with. When the time comes that they take away your liberties, there'll be no one left to defend you.
Go to a country that does what you just said. There's plenty of them. Let me know how that works out for you.
This contradicts the policies of forcing email services like google, yahoo and telecom companies to share info. It's a full time job to keep track of what bills are coming out of that town, and many of them are slight of hand. I'm sure this one is no different.
Gillette had the idea to give away the razor to sell the blades in 1900. I would consider this a marketing expense, and I do not see software as less valuable than a physical product. In many cases I would see it as more valuable. Word processor or typewriter...Digital Audio Workstation or 4-track....etc...
I don't see DRM as killing music or software. Giving away music may be a valuable marketing tool for some artists, but it can also devalue your music. It's human nature to want what you can't have and vice versa. If Metallica just gave away their music, they would have been out $1 billion at about 100 Million Albums at about $10 per. Maybe it's a good idea for lessor known artists, but when I think about bands that just handed me their CD (this is in the old days), it ended up on a shelf rather than the CD player.
In the case of software, I see DRM as quite necessary. It takes a lot of time and energy to develop good software. People deserve compensation for their efforts.
Some of these I'm glad he broke.
"Give annual "State of the World" address" - We should employ a non-interventionist foreign policy. This is a step toward continuing our takeover of the world.
"Double funding for afterschool programs" - Public schools are already a disaster. We should move toward private schools so that competent teachers can begin teaching our children.
I'd further what you said by saying that we should have never armed Al Qaeda, Hussein, or engaged in the 1953 Iranian coup de tat. Britain failed in Iraq trying to do the same crap we're doing now, and Britain has many more centuries of experience trying to expand empires.
We lost the supposed "War on Terror" the day we we're willing to give up our freedoms in the name of security. Ben Franklin, yada yada...
Our founding fathers said to ally with no one, and trade with anyone. The constitution also says we can't go to war unless we're invaded. I think some people should be thrown in jail for violating the constitution given that they took an oath to uphold it.
Why do you need 3 html/css? I'm always so curious why business would hire people specifically for this task. What kind of salary are they paid? What kind of tasks do they do? This is the kind of thing I learned similarly to the way I learned to use a word processor. It just kind of happened. If you have to think about this stuff...god help you.
Developers need a quiet place to go if they need to concentrate and get something done. I work in a lobby right now, and I'm disrupted constantly. Fortunately, my job is a joke and I can get stuff done well ahead of schedule. If I had more interesting work to do that required concentration and I got a lot of pressure to get stuff done, I'd walk right out of this office and find a new job. If you have developers that will screw off with an office, you should consider firing them and finding decent ones.
If you have newbs that are learning to program, then they need interaction. Other than that, interaction with other programmers should be extremely brief...say 5 minutes. Your code should communicate what it's doing.
The term changed from 'Global Warming' to 'Climate Change'. Why is that? If they(politicians such as Al Gore) didn't mean Global Cooling, why didn't they stick with the former term.
Scientists have shown that the Earth's climate has been fluctuating for millions of years. It's been through several ice ages. How can you expect the Earth's climate not to fluctuate given that it changes distance from the Sun constantly? Scientists have claimed that the Sun will eventually run out of energy. I really doubt the amount of energy it emits will be constant until that time. How can you make the claim that the climate should follow a repeatable pattern?
If the problem is Global Warming from Man-made pollution, then why not use the term 'Pollution' to describe the problem rather than use a term that describes a symptom of the problem?
Even if humans were proven to be the cause of 'Climate Change', we wouldn't stop doing the things we're doing. Do you really think it's feasible to throw away all of our vehicles, live without electricity, or gas, destroy all of our airplanes, tankers, weapons. Even if we were able to live completely off of Solar and Wind energy, that would still pollute because the materials are pollutants, and it would take energy to create them.
The fact is that in order to survive, some sacrifice has to be made.
The general politic rhetoric with this topic is "Humans are destroying the planet, therefore we have to tax you." No politician has ever given a solution to the alleged problem, you didn't propose a solution in your response, and you even admitted that there isn't a good solution. This is why people are irritated with the rhetoric.
I challenge you to propose a definitive, feasible solution.
This is an awful idea. I've been in that situation, not quite a round table, but 5 guys in the same room. It's a great way to not get shit done, and have a lot of conversations about the latest MMO. At that time it was Everquest. I guess it'd be Starcraft now.
In addition, the foul odors emitted in that room were quite offensive. The farting, sweating, lack of showering...etc.... The best configuration for programmers is individual offices.
This is why Microsoft! (I love doing that) came up with C#. I know Sun came out with Java first, but Java sucks. If hardware developers keep changing the hardware dramatically, (F-off Sony) and you are developing for Next Gen systems, you are stuck developing new engines every few years. Until Microsoft really get's XNA together, which doesn't appear to be far off, that is the reality of the business.
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When Ron Paul is on cable news networks, and starts talking about the 1953 Coup de tat, he is cut off immediately and they break to commercial. Both Fox and CNN are guilty of this. I don't believe that we have Freedom of the Press in this country for that reason and many others. We have New York Times reporters thrown in jail for leaking information that can hurt the administration.
We need the country to wake their brain dead asses up and do a little bit of research rather than just following the talking heads of CNN and Fox. I think the 1953 Coup de tat has a little bit more historical significance than Britney Spears ass in a windshield. Why do they always seem to have time for the latter? Seems fishy to me.
This is not FlameBait. People should lose moderator points.
"if you're an individual that has an extreme view, is the ability to broadcast that view in the privacy of your den"
This is protected by the First Amendment. No interpretation is necessary, just a brain to understand that.
" It struck me two or three years ago that our historical concepts of privacy were dependent upon what the technologies were at the time"
So in the 1800's it may have been illegal to send a peeon to spy on someone, but since webcams and computers are readily available it should be legal to spy on them? It's a federal offense to open someone else's mail, yet the federal government wants access to the messages you send online.
"How failure to share information leads to more failure:"
So some software crashed, therefore we need to violate your privacy rights? Very twisted logic.
Businesses take information on a voluntary basis. Ones like airlines are a service that the consumer wants, and only the information that the consumer wants to give is given. Unlike the government businesses do NOT have access to bank accounts or NUKES.
Your use of the word "we" is quite vague. I don't ignore the negative affects of smoking or fatty foods. I take them very seriously.
Do you mean "we" a small group of elitists in Washington, a small group of people governing Santa Clara county, or all of the citizens of the USA?
A great argument against public education. Not to mention that it's BROKE!
There is a difference. One is food, and one is tobacco. The former is necessary to live, the latter is not.
You think the government can save us from outside influences, but they SUBSIDIZE TOBACCO FARMERS. They have quotas on how much of certain crops farmers can grow. You have cases like "Wikard v. Filbur", the FDA who is comprised of several former Monsanto execs.
These issues need to remain issues at the local level. If someone back east(or on the other side of the country) is smoking or eating fatty foods, that's their problem. Why does that affect you?
As always, no one is looking at the root causes of these problems, but rather they are treating the symptoms. This non-sense. The more responsibility you hand over to government, the worse your life is going to get. Just look to the past, they've been destroying everything!
You are the ultimate communist (socialist, fascist...it's all the same).
Just read history, and you'll see why what you just said is problematic.
Watch them take away the liberties of those you disagree with. When the time comes that they take away your liberties, there'll be no one left to defend you.
Go to a country that does what you just said. There's plenty of them. Let me know how that works out for you.
The population would then approach ZERO rather rapidly.
before it's illegal to have a dick in this state.
This contradicts the policies of forcing email services like google, yahoo and telecom companies to share info. It's a full time job to keep track of what bills are coming out of that town, and many of them are slight of hand. I'm sure this one is no different.
CubsSoxFans.pps
This is a very effective way of communicating the difference between fans of the Chicago Cubs and fans of the Chicago White Sox.
Maybe the general's problem is that he's missing the eye candy.
Gillette had the idea to give away the razor to sell the blades in 1900. I would consider this a marketing expense, and I do not see software as less valuable than a physical product. In many cases I would see it as more valuable. Word processor or typewriter...Digital Audio Workstation or 4-track....etc...
I don't see DRM as killing music or software. Giving away music may be a valuable marketing tool for some artists, but it can also devalue your music. It's human nature to want what you can't have and vice versa. If Metallica just gave away their music, they would have been out $1 billion at about 100 Million Albums at about $10 per. Maybe it's a good idea for lessor known artists, but when I think about bands that just handed me their CD (this is in the old days), it ended up on a shelf rather than the CD player.
In the case of software, I see DRM as quite necessary. It takes a lot of time and energy to develop good software. People deserve compensation for their efforts.
And then it will be George Bush's fault.
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Some of these I'm glad he broke. "Give annual "State of the World" address" - We should employ a non-interventionist foreign policy. This is a step toward continuing our takeover of the world. "Double funding for afterschool programs" - Public schools are already a disaster. We should move toward private schools so that competent teachers can begin teaching our children.
I'd further what you said by saying that we should have never armed Al Qaeda, Hussein, or engaged in the 1953 Iranian coup de tat. Britain failed in Iraq trying to do the same crap we're doing now, and Britain has many more centuries of experience trying to expand empires.
We lost the supposed "War on Terror" the day we we're willing to give up our freedoms in the name of security. Ben Franklin, yada yada...
Our founding fathers said to ally with no one, and trade with anyone. The constitution also says we can't go to war unless we're invaded. I think some people should be thrown in jail for violating the constitution given that they took an oath to uphold it.
Dude, he was joking.
Why do you need 3 html/css? I'm always so curious why business would hire people specifically for this task. What kind of salary are they paid? What kind of tasks do they do? This is the kind of thing I learned similarly to the way I learned to use a word processor. It just kind of happened. If you have to think about this stuff...god help you.
Developers need a quiet place to go if they need to concentrate and get something done. I work in a lobby right now, and I'm disrupted constantly. Fortunately, my job is a joke and I can get stuff done well ahead of schedule. If I had more interesting work to do that required concentration and I got a lot of pressure to get stuff done, I'd walk right out of this office and find a new job. If you have developers that will screw off with an office, you should consider firing them and finding decent ones.
If you have newbs that are learning to program, then they need interaction. Other than that, interaction with other programmers should be extremely brief...say 5 minutes. Your code should communicate what it's doing.
The term changed from 'Global Warming' to 'Climate Change'. Why is that? If they(politicians such as Al Gore) didn't mean Global Cooling, why didn't they stick with the former term.
Scientists have shown that the Earth's climate has been fluctuating for millions of years. It's been through several ice ages. How can you expect the Earth's climate not to fluctuate given that it changes distance from the Sun constantly? Scientists have claimed that the Sun will eventually run out of energy. I really doubt the amount of energy it emits will be constant until that time. How can you make the claim that the climate should follow a repeatable pattern?
If the problem is Global Warming from Man-made pollution, then why not use the term 'Pollution' to describe the problem rather than use a term that describes a symptom of the problem?
Even if humans were proven to be the cause of 'Climate Change', we wouldn't stop doing the things we're doing. Do you really think it's feasible to throw away all of our vehicles, live without electricity, or gas, destroy all of our airplanes, tankers, weapons. Even if we were able to live completely off of Solar and Wind energy, that would still pollute because the materials are pollutants, and it would take energy to create them.
The fact is that in order to survive, some sacrifice has to be made.
The general politic rhetoric with this topic is "Humans are destroying the planet, therefore we have to tax you." No politician has ever given a solution to the alleged problem, you didn't propose a solution in your response, and you even admitted that there isn't a good solution. This is why people are irritated with the rhetoric.
I challenge you to propose a definitive, feasible solution.
This is an awful idea. I've been in that situation, not quite a round table, but 5 guys in the same room. It's a great way to not get shit done, and have a lot of conversations about the latest MMO. At that time it was Everquest. I guess it'd be Starcraft now.
In addition, the foul odors emitted in that room were quite offensive. The farting, sweating, lack of showering...etc.... The best configuration for programmers is individual offices.
I feel really bad for the poor guy changing the flat tire, or getting the traffic ticket...but as a Darwinist it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.
There ARE people with no arms.
This is why Microsoft! (I love doing that) came up with C#. I know Sun came out with Java first, but Java sucks. If hardware developers keep changing the hardware dramatically, (F-off Sony) and you are developing for Next Gen systems, you are stuck developing new engines every few years. Until Microsoft really get's XNA together, which doesn't appear to be far off, that is the reality of the business.