I'm by no means a Ron Paul supporter, but I love reading about people who actively challenge the system. For some reason, our citizens have become more and more acclimated to surrendering their rights without question.
While I like our system, I think there are two things that need to happen in the US.
Create two levels of high school degrees. One being a 10th grade level and the second being a 12th grade level for those intending to pursue further education.
Give more leeway to teachers to hold students back. Right now, too many kids who haven't figured it out are just failed up to the next grade. This causes the problems you speak of with slow students holding down the rest of the class. On top of that, I think there's a cumulative effect as those slower kids keep dragging down classes more and more as they progress through grades yet don't ever quite figure out the content matter. Secondly, I think the peer pressure of seeing your classmates move on it is a huge impetus to get a kid to get caught up.
And, why is the blame being assigned to the bureaucrats? What about the original bidder who ripped them off? Software is technical and the Dot Com era should have been evidence enough of how a slick talking shyster in an Armani suit can sell vaporware to the uninitiated.
That's not a fair comment. The problem with WinCE isn't that it's a terrible OS, it's that it wasn't designed from the ground up to be a mobile OS (or at least scalable). I've been developing for WinCE for about 3 years now, and the problem's I see are more 1.) M$'s crappy documentation and support for any of it's esoteric APIs, 2.) It's just not an efficient OS. , and 3.) the asinine decision to use a desktop UI model on a screen 2 x 3 inches square. It's a no brainer for a CEO to go with the devil he knows rather than hoping that Google will get its act together before he plans on going production.
The more "harmless" wars start to look, the easier it will be for politicians to convince the public to go to war. Look at how itchy a trigger finger our "all volunteer" army has given US Presidents. "What do I care? It's not MY kid."
And, that knowledge is a national security asset as we have plenty of enemies out there with nukes but without the rocket technology to deploy them intercontinentally. My point is, free marketers should follow their ideology and expect private industry to figure it out without government intervention.
So, what you're saying is private industry can't work without government assistance. Forget the ideological orgasms over these projects. The fact is they're riding on some long coat tails to get into space, and we all know how exponentially difficult it is to progress to the next steps in their grand plans. I'm waiting for the day the US "licenses" the Space Shuttle to a private company, gives them subsidies as large as our Space Shuttle budget, then having to listen to the "I drink your milkshake" ranting of free marketers about how private industry knows how to do it better and more efficiently.
For the past 5 years or so, I've outright dismissed every pretender "Google killer" that comes along. Then, after the Bing release I started thinking about my latest searches through Google. The fact is I've been getting so many advertising links returned instead of what I'm looking for that the first page often doesn't give me what I'm looking for (quite different from the past). I don't know when this degradation in performance for commercial interests happened, but I'm now aware of it and annoyed enough that I'd consider another search engine. That to me is what makes this time different.
As virtual as the Intertubez are, there still IS a physical layer. You could have the L33t-est of hackers in Albania, but that's not going to mean a damned thing when a Super Power decides to start surgical strikes on your infrastructure.
I'd LOVE to have a Volt. With a 40 mile range I'd practically NEVER need to buy gas with my driving habits. Maybe after a night of bar hopping I'd hit 40, but my life revolves around a small area of town. And, it still has a gas tank for my rare road trips around the country.
Hmmm, maybe warrior isn't man-bitch for casters anymore. That's why I quit. My favorite class was basically a dartboard for any class with a range attack and that's even if you stack up points in Protection.
I like the nice, paved roads, all that free streetlight, and traffic flow assistants like stop lights, signs, and painted divider lines. You should try driving in a country without all these bells and whistles. BTW, FEMA isn't useless, it was the incompetent skin bag we had running it during Katrina. Ask people in the Iowa floods or practically any other natural disaster we've seen since Clinton revamped it. Oh, wait a minute. Vituperous, uninformed rants against taxes and government agencies? I see...you're a Libertarian.
Probably the same as others have mentioned. We didn't contact the squatter from business accounts. We listened to his offer (an insane $100,000) then ignored him. He was so desperate that he precipitously dropped the price WAAY down. My boss ended up getting it for I think $100.
Look for alternatives
Be terse
Don't act desperate
Either don't let them know who you are or create a facade of poverty
Give a terrorist the tools and knowledge to conspire against us with people around the globe, instantly. What could possibly go wrong?
And herein lies the problem with my dumbass countrymen. So obnoxiously opinionated with an inversely proportional knowledge of the subject at hand. Guess you hadn't heard that we've already released hundreds of innocent "terrorists" from Gitmo?
def'n: Ascribe your name to some ambiguous phenomenon with barely enough repeated occurrence to be defined and immortalize yourself in the annals of internet history. If your code is getting 2x as slow every 18 months, you need to pursue a new career.
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I'm by no means a Ron Paul supporter, but I love reading about people who actively challenge the system. For some reason, our citizens have become more and more acclimated to surrendering their rights without question.
While I like our system, I think there are two things that need to happen in the US.
And, why is the blame being assigned to the bureaucrats? What about the original bidder who ripped them off? Software is technical and the Dot Com era should have been evidence enough of how a slick talking shyster in an Armani suit can sell vaporware to the uninitiated.
That's not a fair comment. The problem with WinCE isn't that it's a terrible OS, it's that it wasn't designed from the ground up to be a mobile OS (or at least scalable). I've been developing for WinCE for about 3 years now, and the problem's I see are more 1.) M$'s crappy documentation and support for any of it's esoteric APIs, 2.) It's just not an efficient OS. , and 3.) the asinine decision to use a desktop UI model on a screen 2 x 3 inches square. It's a no brainer for a CEO to go with the devil he knows rather than hoping that Google will get its act together before he plans on going production.
The more "harmless" wars start to look, the easier it will be for politicians to convince the public to go to war. Look at how itchy a trigger finger our "all volunteer" army has given US Presidents. "What do I care? It's not MY kid."
And, that knowledge is a national security asset as we have plenty of enemies out there with nukes but without the rocket technology to deploy them intercontinentally. My point is, free marketers should follow their ideology and expect private industry to figure it out without government intervention.
So, what you're saying is private industry can't work without government assistance. Forget the ideological orgasms over these projects. The fact is they're riding on some long coat tails to get into space, and we all know how exponentially difficult it is to progress to the next steps in their grand plans. I'm waiting for the day the US "licenses" the Space Shuttle to a private company, gives them subsidies as large as our Space Shuttle budget, then having to listen to the "I drink your milkshake" ranting of free marketers about how private industry knows how to do it better and more efficiently.
The problem with our economy isn't that jobs are disappearing. It's that we've adopted laws that encourage corporations to ship them overseas.
For the past 5 years or so, I've outright dismissed every pretender "Google killer" that comes along. Then, after the Bing release I started thinking about my latest searches through Google. The fact is I've been getting so many advertising links returned instead of what I'm looking for that the first page often doesn't give me what I'm looking for (quite different from the past). I don't know when this degradation in performance for commercial interests happened, but I'm now aware of it and annoyed enough that I'd consider another search engine. That to me is what makes this time different.
Smuggling it out in her purse should dampen the explosion.
As virtual as the Intertubez are, there still IS a physical layer. You could have the L33t-est of hackers in Albania, but that's not going to mean a damned thing when a Super Power decides to start surgical strikes on your infrastructure.
Except they did, so you'd have to name it Obtainedium.
I'd LOVE to have a Volt. With a 40 mile range I'd practically NEVER need to buy gas with my driving habits. Maybe after a night of bar hopping I'd hit 40, but my life revolves around a small area of town. And, it still has a gas tank for my rare road trips around the country.
Then, I'll be ready to invest. Or run. "ALASKA'S LIBERATION IS IMMINENT!"
Hmmm, maybe warrior isn't man-bitch for casters anymore. That's why I quit. My favorite class was basically a dartboard for any class with a range attack and that's even if you stack up points in Protection.
Since we're all just speculating.
What makes you think all that money went to Nagin? This is America 2.0, of course it went to lobbyists and corporations to "rebuild."
I like the nice, paved roads, all that free streetlight, and traffic flow assistants like stop lights, signs, and painted divider lines. You should try driving in a country without all these bells and whistles. BTW, FEMA isn't useless, it was the incompetent skin bag we had running it during Katrina. Ask people in the Iowa floods or practically any other natural disaster we've seen since Clinton revamped it. Oh, wait a minute. Vituperous, uninformed rants against taxes and government agencies? I see...you're a Libertarian.
You got a better idea? Maybe governments or domain registrars would sign certs?
Yes
Probably the same as others have mentioned. We didn't contact the squatter from business accounts. We listened to his offer (an insane $100,000) then ignored him. He was so desperate that he precipitously dropped the price WAAY down. My boss ended up getting it for I think $100.
Give a terrorist the tools and knowledge to conspire against us with people around the globe, instantly. What could possibly go wrong?
And herein lies the problem with my dumbass countrymen. So obnoxiously opinionated with an inversely proportional knowledge of the subject at hand. Guess you hadn't heard that we've already released hundreds of innocent "terrorists" from Gitmo?
def'n: Ascribe your name to some ambiguous phenomenon with barely enough repeated occurrence to be defined and immortalize yourself in the annals of internet history. If your code is getting 2x as slow every 18 months, you need to pursue a new career.
It's not about DNS, it's about TRUST.
Call your congressman.
I would, but I bet he's just a corrupt, fat, balding jerk in the 3-piece suit with a pocket watch who made his fortune off of graft.
I think you can define a sociopath as a human being uninfluenced by "society".