I don't recall anyone holding a gun to your head forcing you to work at one office instead of another. You made a choice to go and work at a company, and when you steal from it, you are stealing from the funds that will eventually go to pay ALL former employees, so you are also stealing from the receptionist who is trying to support two kids on a third of your pay.
I cannot believe the horseshit I am seeing posted on this topic. You spoiled fucks have got yourself so convinced that there is some "PHB" conspiracy to oppress geeks that you now are writing yourselves a blank check to commit theft because you think Monty Burns is out to get you.
Just remember this when you go to start your own business, and the "geeks" who spend 90% of their time playing Doom start taking home the laptops because you are oppressing them.
Come on folks, a crime is a crime. It doesn't matter if you work 20 hours a week or 100 hours a week - and all you fuckers spend at least 70 of those 100 hours surfing the web, so don't bother with the "I work all the time" argument.
As for people feeling "cheated" about their options and pay - well, guess what, you entered into that employment voluntarily. If after twleve months you feel the deal was not equitable, you are a moron for having ever entered in it, plain and simple.
You are the master of your fate you amoral fuckers. Just because life hands you a lemon, you don't get a blank check to commit theft.
Obviously it costs a great deal of money to manage a system of managing trillions of paper notes. These costs are amortized among taxpayers. Since the federal govt has no competition, there is no motivation to introduce a more cost effective and secure system.
The landscape is very quickly becoming littered with VMs...it won't be much a surprise if MS wins this round simply by dividing the competition.
I would like to see a cook-off between Mono and Parrot though, for similar high-level code. It would seem smart to use the best underlying VM for all of these high level languages.
You don't honestly believe that, do you? I mean, besides violating common sense, your explanation defies simple economics.
It certainly costs money to manage the supply of paper bills. This is factored into your taxes.
And if the US mint is profitable (I dispute the claim), then this profitability is as worthless as the USPS claim of profitability - ANY organization can make a profit when they can set prices at a whim. In private industry a profit demonstrates efficiency. For government agencies without competition it simply means they set prices unreasonably high - as would be the case for any organization that does not compete.
As for a "dollar being worth a dollar" - when has this not been the case? The value of the greenback is only relative to other currencies.
Note that it is expensive for the government to maintain the supply of bills. A huge quantity of bills must be printed and taken out of circulation on a weekly basis to maintain a managed supply of relatively clean and tear-free cash notes.
While it is worthwhile for the government to regulate the amount of money available through monetary instruments and fiscal policy, it seems pointless in our day and age for the government to continue to track the quality of trillions of pieces of paper.
Note that this is not simply a domestic issue - numerous other nations use the greenback for their currency, so this creates a huge bloated government apparatus that is completely unnecessary.
If you wanted to really launch a viable campaign to protect personal privacy, you would have to go back to 1975 or so, before mainframes started compiling credit histories and purchasing audit trails. For all I know this may have even been happening prior to 1975.
In any case, you really have no privacy right now. Bitching about it isn't going to get it back.
uh, hmm, whuh... I don't think you've done much study on the affairs of Israel. The bottom line is that the U.N. (read U.S. and U.K.) created the State of Israel and to this day they receive more aid from the U.S. than any other country by far.
You are completely incorrect. Egypt (a one time opponent of Israel) routinely receives the same degree of aid that Israel does, and in the last decade Egypt has more than once been the single largest recipient of US aid. The reasoning is simple - as the only stable Arabic democracy, the status of Egypt is key to the Middle East, and the US wishes to keep it from being turned into an Islamic state.
That said, my initial statement was correct - prior to the WTC incident, the US was taking unprecedented actions to create a plausible support for some Palestinian positions. These are a matter of historical record, they are not subject to your opinion.
Building them a US Army regulation mosque and a McD's will not endear you to these people. They despise Western culture (yet are also strangely drawn to it), which they see as degenerate, and they would look upon an extnerally imposed rewriting of their culture as the ultimate affront - you would be making war not on terror but on Islamic culture itself, thus drawing in to the conflict many other Islamic nations.
The last time the US had a sensible way out of Middle Eastern policy was its backing of the Shah. Since then, affairs in the region have almost always forced a reluctant US to act, and has often softened to appease parties whose interests aren't the US's interests. If you look at the tenor of debate in the Israeli/Palestinian debate, the US was taking a firm middle ground between both parties.
There are tall mountains in Afghanistan. They look scary. I guess we should just roll over and let these people continue to murder us, because you know, those mountains are quite rugged.
Really, I want to use this product. I prefer its stand-alone approach to that of StarOffice, but they have got to get the stability issues dealt with. I honestly think the 0.9x version they have applied to their current code is deceptive - they should move the decimal place and call it v0.09.
The author is right to pick on XConfig - X setup is still abyssmal, and simply needs to be replaced.
I also agree with upgrading sets of associated packages - like KDE - this is still not anywhere near the level of ease of use that could be automated fairly easily.
I guess the real issue is - who is going to tackle this work? These are big problems that require the attention of a group with enough clout and authority to push their solution into the linux mainstream. Red Hat, IBM, Ximian and the FSF are the only groups I can think of.
Most web publishing problems are not terribly complex. Creating a solution in a simple language that provides good database connectivity makes a better fit than an overly complex solution.
JSP has not exactly taken off like wildfire - the largish Java language, and the relative complexity of its runtime environment means JSP can never hope to catch PHP in terms of development and execution time for 99% of web publishing tasks.
Use the right tool for the job.
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Privacy is a worthwhile fight. Your "you already have zero privacy" attitude is simply nihilism. If you extrapolate your position to other areas of life, you might just as well put a bullet in your head. Why not? You have to die anyway...
Well, I don't see zero privacy as something worth dying about. I could clearly move to a desert island and regain a great deal of privacy if I were to wish it.
Don't get me wrong, I am not anti-privacy - quite the contrary - I'm simply willing to admit that the battle ended years ago, and at this point, people living with modern conveniences have zero privacy.
Even though the Japanese were as fanatical these militant Muslims, they knew when they were beat.
Really? There are stories of Japanese soldiers cut off from civilization protecting their positions for years after the war was done.
The Japanese were also clearly gearing up to defend their mainland if called upon. Only the surrender signal from the Emperor himself could call them off.
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A google search on my name is hardly a reflection of the information that the government has on me.
You are right - it is a reflection of that fact that everyone has information on you, and can mine it at will. At least the government has safegaurds with regards to the use of census data....
Reports of Afghan soldiers mortally wounded firing
their weapons until death
This is no different than the Americans island hopping in WW2 against Japanese soldiers as fanatical as they come, defending their positions until the last man.
Nonetheless, I stick by my statements regarding the Russian army. You simply cannot compare it to any NATO force. During the Afghan invasion this was a draftee force. They did not want to be there, and the incredibly high instances of substance abuse bore that out. The US went through a similar problem with perpetually stoned draftees during Vietnam, which is a key reason why no modern army will field a draftee force if they don't have to.
Agreed, hate crimes based in thought policing
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The entire premise of a hate-crime is that the crime is in fact worse based on what was going on in your head when the crime was perpetrated.
This violates the common precept of equal treatment - which was tossed out of our law decades ago, unfortunately.
Do not compare Russian army to -ANY- NATO army
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During the cold war we were given the impression that Soviet forces were the equal of their NATO adversaries, but now we know better.
The Russians sent a bunch of heroin addicts and alcoholic draftees to Afghanistan to fight the CIA-by-proxy. The Russian army today is no better - look at Chechnya.
I'm not saying that Afghanistan would be a cakewalk for the US Army, but the terrain is similar to terrain they train on in the US, and they are a much better equipped and better disciplined force. There is no comparison.
I could care less how badly you may want to 'talk it out' with Osama
Don't mistake my view for pacifism - I would gladly pull the trigger to nuke Kabul myself. Nonetheless, the world is a drastically different place than that which Jefferson inhabited, and it would be silly to presume that you can expect the same degree of freedom as a farmer in eighteenth century Virginia - you don't live in his world. If you don't want to be searched at the airport, then don't fly. If you don't want your spending habits tracked, then don't use a credit card. Its fairly simple.
I've got some news for you, it isn't 1776 anymore.
As it stands, it was taxation that prompted the American revolution - the highbrow rhetoric about rights and freedoms, important as it was, was just gift wrapping.
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I find it odd that people continue to bemoan a supposed loss of privacy resulting from this conflict - you have none to lose.
Think about it - almost every gainfully employed adult has a credit card. Right there you have built up an audit trail that describes you enough that most data mining techniques can reasonably predict what you might purchase (any Amazon user knows this).
Most people user their SSN to create bank accounts - once again you are easily tracked and described.
You phone can be easily tapped, as discussion on this site already have indicated.
If you have digital TV, or any TV system requiring a phone jack, your viewing habits are being cataloged.
As for your internet connection - this is probably the easiest to monitor. Just do a google search on your own name, you may get a blast from the past.
You can bemoan the current state of affairs if you want, but the fact is you have already have zero privacy.
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I really don't understand why I continue to see comments like this. Are you implying we not increase airport security? Are you implying that we not more closely track foreign terrorist groups? This is absurd. We must learn from this event, and change and adapt to better evolve to a new reality. I would counter that not changing is the true threat.
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Oh, by the way, these are the same people who want increased privacy. Go figure.
I cannot believe the horseshit I am seeing posted on this topic. You spoiled fucks have got yourself so convinced that there is some "PHB" conspiracy to oppress geeks that you now are writing yourselves a blank check to commit theft because you think Monty Burns is out to get you.
Just remember this when you go to start your own business, and the "geeks" who spend 90% of their time playing Doom start taking home the laptops because you are oppressing them.
As for people feeling "cheated" about their options and pay - well, guess what, you entered into that employment voluntarily. If after twleve months you feel the deal was not equitable, you are a moron for having ever entered in it, plain and simple.
You are the master of your fate you amoral fuckers. Just because life hands you a lemon, you don't get a blank check to commit theft.
Obviously it costs a great deal of money to manage a system of managing trillions of paper notes. These costs are amortized among taxpayers. Since the federal govt has no competition, there is no motivation to introduce a more cost effective and secure system.
I would like to see a cook-off between Mono and Parrot though, for similar high-level code. It would seem smart to use the best underlying VM for all of these high level languages.
It certainly costs money to manage the supply of paper bills. This is factored into your taxes.
And if the US mint is profitable (I dispute the claim), then this profitability is as worthless as the USPS claim of profitability - ANY organization can make a profit when they can set prices at a whim. In private industry a profit demonstrates efficiency. For government agencies without competition it simply means they set prices unreasonably high - as would be the case for any organization that does not compete.
As for a "dollar being worth a dollar" - when has this not been the case? The value of the greenback is only relative to other currencies.
While it is worthwhile for the government to regulate the amount of money available through monetary instruments and fiscal policy, it seems pointless in our day and age for the government to continue to track the quality of trillions of pieces of paper.
Note that this is not simply a domestic issue - numerous other nations use the greenback for their currency, so this creates a huge bloated government apparatus that is completely unnecessary.
In any case, you really have no privacy right now. Bitching about it isn't going to get it back.
You are completely incorrect. Egypt (a one time opponent of Israel) routinely receives the same degree of aid that Israel does, and in the last decade Egypt has more than once been the single largest recipient of US aid. The reasoning is simple - as the only stable Arabic democracy, the status of Egypt is key to the Middle East, and the US wishes to keep it from being turned into an Islamic state.
That said, my initial statement was correct - prior to the WTC incident, the US was taking unprecedented actions to create a plausible support for some Palestinian positions. These are a matter of historical record, they are not subject to your opinion.
Building them a US Army regulation mosque and a McD's will not endear you to these people. They despise Western culture (yet are also strangely drawn to it), which they see as degenerate, and they would look upon an extnerally imposed rewriting of their culture as the ultimate affront - you would be making war not on terror but on Islamic culture itself, thus drawing in to the conflict many other Islamic nations.
The last time the US had a sensible way out of Middle Eastern policy was its backing of the Shah. Since then, affairs in the region have almost always forced a reluctant US to act, and has often softened to appease parties whose interests aren't the US's interests. If you look at the tenor of debate in the Israeli/Palestinian debate, the US was taking a firm middle ground between both parties.
There are tall mountains in Afghanistan. They look scary. I guess we should just roll over and let these people continue to murder us, because you know, those mountains are quite rugged.
Really, I want to use this product. I prefer its stand-alone approach to that of StarOffice, but they have got to get the stability issues dealt with. I honestly think the 0.9x version they have applied to their current code is deceptive - they should move the decimal place and call it v0.09.
I also agree with upgrading sets of associated packages - like KDE - this is still not anywhere near the level of ease of use that could be automated fairly easily.
I guess the real issue is - who is going to tackle this work? These are big problems that require the attention of a group with enough clout and authority to push their solution into the linux mainstream. Red Hat, IBM, Ximian and the FSF are the only groups I can think of.
JSP has not exactly taken off like wildfire - the largish Java language, and the relative complexity of its runtime environment means JSP can never hope to catch PHP in terms of development and execution time for 99% of web publishing tasks.
Use the right tool for the job.
Well, I don't see zero privacy as something worth dying about. I could clearly move to a desert island and regain a great deal of privacy if I were to wish it.
Don't get me wrong, I am not anti-privacy - quite the contrary - I'm simply willing to admit that the battle ended years ago, and at this point, people living with modern conveniences have zero privacy.
Really? There are stories of Japanese soldiers cut off from civilization protecting their positions for years after the war was done.
The Japanese were also clearly gearing up to defend their mainland if called upon. Only the surrender signal from the Emperor himself could call them off.
You are right - it is a reflection of that fact that everyone has information on you, and can mine it at will. At least the government has safegaurds with regards to the use of census data....
their weapons until death
This is no different than the Americans island hopping in WW2 against Japanese soldiers as fanatical as they come, defending their positions until the last man.
Nonetheless, I stick by my statements regarding the Russian army. You simply cannot compare it to any NATO force. During the Afghan invasion this was a draftee force. They did not want to be there, and the incredibly high instances of substance abuse bore that out. The US went through a similar problem with perpetually stoned draftees during Vietnam, which is a key reason why no modern army will field a draftee force if they don't have to.
This violates the common precept of equal treatment - which was tossed out of our law decades ago, unfortunately.
The Russians sent a bunch of heroin addicts and alcoholic draftees to Afghanistan to fight the CIA-by-proxy. The Russian army today is no better - look at Chechnya.
I'm not saying that Afghanistan would be a cakewalk for the US Army, but the terrain is similar to terrain they train on in the US, and they are a much better equipped and better disciplined force. There is no comparison.
Don't mistake my view for pacifism - I would gladly pull the trigger to nuke Kabul myself. Nonetheless, the world is a drastically different place than that which Jefferson inhabited, and it would be silly to presume that you can expect the same degree of freedom as a farmer in eighteenth century Virginia - you don't live in his world. If you don't want to be searched at the airport, then don't fly. If you don't want your spending habits tracked, then don't use a credit card. Its fairly simple.
As it stands, it was taxation that prompted the American revolution - the highbrow rhetoric about rights and freedoms, important as it was, was just gift wrapping.
Think about it - almost every gainfully employed adult has a credit card. Right there you have built up an audit trail that describes you enough that most data mining techniques can reasonably predict what you might purchase (any Amazon user knows this).
Most people user their SSN to create bank accounts - once again you are easily tracked and described.
You phone can be easily tapped, as discussion on this site already have indicated.
If you have digital TV, or any TV system requiring a phone jack, your viewing habits are being cataloged.
As for your internet connection - this is probably the easiest to monitor. Just do a google search on your own name, you may get a blast from the past.
You can bemoan the current state of affairs if you want, but the fact is you have already have zero privacy.
I really don't understand why I continue to see comments like this. Are you implying we not increase airport security? Are you implying that we not more closely track foreign terrorist groups? This is absurd. We must learn from this event, and change and adapt to better evolve to a new reality. I would counter that not changing is the true threat.