Justice Stevens' dissenting opinion raises some very good points and the effects were very apparent in the flow of big money in the 2012 election.
It was a very long time ago that someone wrote that "the love of money is the root of all evil". That's as true now as it ever was and it'll continue to corrupt & infect politics without strict controls.
The Senate also needs to be returned to being appointed by the State legislatures instead of being just another popularity contest where he gives away the most stuff wins. There needs to be another Constitutional Amendment enacted to effectively repeal the 17th Amendment.
Wasn't the 17th amendment enacted because of corruption in the State houses? Given how the States, particularly those with Republican governors AND GOP majorities in one or both houses have been behaving, going back to appointed Senators will probably make things worse.
America needs a truly arms-length bureau to draw up the electoral maps and to publicly fund elections. It works pretty well for Canada, although there are some differences given their parliamentary system. Spending 2 years out of 4 campaigning & jockeying is a waste of time and the stench of dirty money taints every level of government on both sides.
Far better to overturn Citizen's United than repeal the 17th Amendment
The Senate also needs to be returned to being appointed by the State legislatures instead of being just another popularity contest where he gives away the most stuff wins. There needs to be another Constitutional Amendment enacted to effectively repeal the 17th Amendment.
Was the 17th amendment enacted because of corruption in the State houses? Given how the States, particularly those with Republican governors AND GOP majorities in one or both houses have been behaving, going back to appointed Senators will probably make things worse.
America needs a truly arms-length bureau to draw up the electoral maps and publicly funded elections. It works pretty well for Canada, although there are some differences given their parliamentary system. Spending 2 years out of 4 campaigning & jockeying is a waste of time and the stench of dirty money taints every level of government on both sides.
Better to overturn Citizen's United than the 17th Amendment.
It should be done by Congress - they're the assholes in charge of lawmaking and it was the Patriot Act that made all this shit possible. Ruling by executive order is short-term & short-sighted; fix the damn law or repeal it. If Obama vetoes that, then his true colors will be known.
A 1000+ users isn't that many nowadays. Sogo, Zarafa, Zimbra should manage that without too much trouble. I'd check for the other groupware / calendar features that your users depend on before seriously considering a switch.
And there's always hosted mail / hosted Exchange. I think some of these are really running Exchange on the backend but so long as they provide the features and fully support Outlook or whatever mail client you're using, I don't think it matters.
On the plus side, it's given them more time to find the remote holes, a number of which have been fixed in the last couple years. By the time it's no longer supported, it'll be rock solid.
The end user retraining is probably the biggest expense but that might be offset by greater productivity / fewer desktop issues - it's hard to say. I see Linux admin salaries at ~10% more than for Windows but perhaps they can get by with fewer.
At some point, science has to put forth something that's not only consistent but testable. Religion appears to be exempt from that troublesome requirement. And a scientific theory can be falsified by new evidence. Religion, not so much.
As for science having a "belief system", I strongly suggest you not attempt to "disbelieve" in gravity while near the edge of a high building or in electromagnetism while sticking an uninsulated conductor into a live socket.
Some standards don't work or at too much trouble ( X.500?). MNG got barely any support and GIF is old and limited so Mozilla stepped-up and created something that is smaller, simpler, backward compatible and now widely supported.
Nothing wrong with that. But there's always Adobe Flash, which must be ok, amirite?
Lack of 3rd-party support never stopped M$ & others from implementing anything so why should Mozilla give a damn. GIF has been too limited for a very long time and MNG is too complex and far less support than APNG despite being around longer.
I used to live about 2 blocks away from a Ukrainian credit union and we once rented a hall in a Latvian community center. FYI, if the sign above the bar in a Latvian joint says "limonade", it means soft drinks, not actual lemonade.
And you're ignorant of how it affects individuals. A great many people are impaired well below the legal limit and many are only mildly affected well above it.
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Justice Stevens' dissenting opinion raises some very good points and the effects were very apparent in the flow of big money in the 2012 election.
It was a very long time ago that someone wrote that "the love of money is the root of all evil". That's as true now as it ever was and it'll continue to corrupt & infect politics without strict controls.
Gah, typos & bad quoting. See below
The Senate also needs to be returned to being appointed by the State legislatures instead of being just another popularity contest where he gives away the most stuff wins. There needs to be another Constitutional Amendment enacted to effectively repeal the 17th Amendment.
Wasn't the 17th amendment enacted because of corruption in the State houses? Given how the States, particularly those with Republican governors AND GOP majorities in one or both houses have been behaving, going back to appointed Senators will probably make things worse.
America needs a truly arms-length bureau to draw up the electoral maps and to publicly fund elections. It works pretty well for Canada, although there are some differences given their parliamentary system. Spending 2 years out of 4 campaigning & jockeying is a waste of time and the stench of dirty money taints every level of government on both sides.
Far better to overturn Citizen's United than repeal the 17th Amendment
The Senate also needs to be returned to being appointed by the State legislatures instead of being just another popularity contest where he gives away the most stuff wins. There needs to be another Constitutional Amendment enacted to effectively repeal the 17th Amendment.
Was the 17th amendment enacted because of corruption in the State houses? Given how the States, particularly those with Republican governors AND GOP majorities in one or both houses have been behaving, going back to appointed Senators will probably make things worse.
America needs a truly arms-length bureau to draw up the electoral maps and publicly funded elections. It works pretty well for Canada, although there are some differences given their parliamentary system. Spending 2 years out of 4 campaigning & jockeying is a waste of time and the stench of dirty money taints every level of government on both sides.
Better to overturn Citizen's United than the 17th Amendment.
It should be done by Congress - they're the assholes in charge of lawmaking and it was the Patriot Act that made all this shit possible.
Ruling by executive order is short-term & short-sighted; fix the damn law or repeal it. If Obama vetoes that, then his true colors will be known.
"it's just in this one that you suck really, really hard" - does that mean that in this universe, he's the starlet?
This goes back a lot further than the Obama administration.
Again, I'm talking about arcade games or something the general public would have had access to.
So what was?
Spacewar wasn't very common in arcades and doesn't rhyme with Kong.
If you're going to go old school, do it right.
Thank you. I think that's the quickest any comment I've ever made on /. has gotten to +5.
Start here - http://www.smallbusinesscomputing.com/biztools/article.php/10730_3932591_2/Top-5-Open-Source-Alternatives-to-Microsoft-Exchange.htm
A 1000+ users isn't that many nowadays. Sogo, Zarafa, Zimbra should manage that without too much trouble. I'd check for the other groupware / calendar features that your users depend on before seriously considering a switch.
And there's always hosted mail / hosted Exchange. I think some of these are really running Exchange on the backend but so long as they provide the features and fully support Outlook or whatever mail client you're using, I don't think it matters.
Here's a vid from Sogo demonstrating Outlook compatibility, narrated by a very boring robotic voice - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hcBSB4Kxww#t=292
On the plus side, it's given them more time to find the remote holes, a number of which have been fixed in the last couple years.
By the time it's no longer supported, it'll be rock solid.
Troll of the day. Well done, AC
The end user retraining is probably the biggest expense but that might be offset by greater productivity / fewer desktop issues - it's hard to say.
I see Linux admin salaries at ~10% more than for Windows but perhaps they can get by with fewer.
Only if Pan's your daddy.
At some point, science has to put forth something that's not only consistent but testable. Religion appears to be exempt from that troublesome requirement.
And a scientific theory can be falsified by new evidence. Religion, not so much.
As for science having a "belief system", I strongly suggest you not attempt to "disbelieve" in gravity while near the edge of a high building or in electromagnetism while sticking an uninsulated conductor into a live socket.
Some standards don't work or at too much trouble ( X.500?). MNG got barely any support and GIF is old and limited so Mozilla stepped-up and created something that is smaller, simpler, backward compatible and now widely supported.
Nothing wrong with that. But there's always Adobe Flash, which must be ok, amirite?
Lack of 3rd-party support never stopped M$ & others from implementing anything so why should Mozilla give a damn.
GIF has been too limited for a very long time and MNG is too complex and far less support than APNG despite being around longer.
I used to live about 2 blocks away from a Ukrainian credit union and we once rented a hall in a Latvian community center.
FYI, if the sign above the bar in a Latvian joint says "limonade", it means soft drinks, not actual lemonade.
To paraphrase Richard Dawkins, "We Are All Niggers, under the skin"
Can you tell me if the following situation happens in "various countries with socialized medicine"?
http://www.tnjustice.org/lara-kaylor/
Alcohol is a depressant and may well be beneficial, up to a point, to jittery or perhaps easily-distracted drivers.
And you're ignorant of how it affects individuals. A great many people are impaired well below the legal limit and many are only mildly affected well above it.
How does "fluent in English" eliminate someone with a "slight accent"?