I mean when you have people compulsively checking the value of their MFs, how can you blame the fund managers for wanting to increase value this quarter, right now?
How do you think it would go over if the manager said "There's not going to be much growth this quarter, or even year. But there should be good, reasonable growth over the next decade."
So, yeah, I'd say the problem is YOU (as in all of us).
What part of "papers and effects" don't they understand?
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Your computer (and phone) is as much your "papers" as the media is a "press".
What right did they get to GPS-track you? Isn't your car an "effect"? Even if not, it still is your property. So where did the government get the right to use your property without due process of law (5th amendment)?
Where'd the government get the right to confiscate servers? Domain names? Where's the due process of law?
The constitutional view is that the government only has such powers as have specifically been given to it. The state's view is that they have plenary (unlimited) power until stopped by a greater power.
A Constitution 3.0 would not be needed if there were a proper perspective on the existing constitution.
Read the link for the Federalist Papers, the Antifederalist Papers, and more.
I agree in general with "if it's not broken, don't fix it". Witness/. opinion regarding Unity/Gnome changes.
About Upstart, my lowly sysadmin opinion is this: It seems different from the other stuff Ubuntu's been doing in that, AFAIK, it's not alone in this. I think Fedora's going that way too.
Also, with Upstart I know if the webserver crashes for some reason, it'll restart without intervention. Yeah, I know, you're not getting to the root of the problem, but it beats being stuck to a top display looking if something burned.
What would be really useful is to give diffs for each new version, i.e., "What's New".
Nothing more annoying than to have to read through 1000 page to find out what's changed, assuming you remember the previous version exactly enough to be able to discern.
It might not be popular but: If you want the Internet to be a bastion for free speech, you have to have free speech for all (however repellent), not just for those with whom you agree.
I just did a check, and some Iranian government websites (as given on Wikipedia) work, as they should, including those with a.com TLD.
So why the special attention to Syria? Iran also put down an uprising a few years ago.
If you don't agree with something, argue against it on your own website; don't shut down somebody else's.
The reason they're not getting anywhere with spending cuts is the game has been rigged in favor of spending increases in the first place.
They have generous rates of increase built into the budgeting process. All of the so-called "cuts" are actually (slight) decreases to the rate of increase.
They could plug up the deficit merely by having slightly greater increase rate decreases.
Anyways, they can cut now, or they can have the universe cut for them. There's a limit to how much you can just keep spending pretend money.
A related rant is how Congress has gotten around the 27th amendment. That was supposed to say there should be an election in between Congressional pay raises. But they came up with a process whereby they get automatic cost of living increases without voting on it. Flagrantly unconstitutional. It's the same sort of thing.
Well, yeah, you're telling a provider something about yourself when you use their service.
But not everything.
I think what people are reacting to is Google knowing anything and everything about you.
So, going by the map example, if Android isn't tied tightly to Google services, when you access Google Maps, you're just an IP address asking for a map of Peoria. They don't have your name, and your contacts' names.
And even though your cell provider certainly knows everywhere you go, that doesn't mean Google does. On the other hand, your cell provider doesn't necessarily know what searches you're doing (unless it comes out they're logging your HTTP, in which case there's HTTPS).
So what people are looking for is compartmentalization of information.
Basically, before, you used to have editors who'd mold everything into U Chicago style guidelines or some such.
Now, everybody is his own editor. Is it web server or webserver? Web site or website? You decide.
You'll probably also see stuff where editors once had their fingers in the dike (like preventing the spread of "snuck") deluge the linguistic landscape.
Also people are free to verb nouns as they please.
Finally, I've noticed people are a lot more comfortable spontaneously making up portmanteaus.
OK, when you put it that way, it seems entirely reasonable. It just seemed that people in this thread were portraying dihydrogen monoxide as a mortal threat.
And I don't think people were saying you should drink plain water when you have become dehydrated. Rather, they were saying you should drink small amounts of water throughout the day (in addition to food).
So, basically, for everyday, normal folks playing light badminton or for junior high school kids just putzing around on the track for a half-hour, drinking some water, and then eating lunch when they normally do should be fine.
For track runners or football players, they should take the sports drink.
While accepting your statement about electrolytes, in school, teachers never gave sports drinks to anybody. If you were thirsty after PE, you'd drink water from the water dispenser. I suspect that's the same in most schools across the US. (Are there schools that actually hand out Gatorade after PE?)
There seems to be a disconnect there somewhere. It seems if you're in good health, drinking water, and then eating food (which contains salt), should be OK.
And bananas might kill you if you eat 8 dozen of them in one sitting (while sweating or not).
Point taken about the need for electrolytes, but just drinking water through the normal course of a day is the way most people drink water, not 10L at a time.
I think the only reason people object is that some weenies try to claim the word fruit all for themselves (a taxonomic definition of plant categories). If you want to share and are content to let normal people use the word fruit like they've used for hundreds of years, that's fine.
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The Post Office is in the process of shutting down, so everybody'll have to get off the DVD plan, anyway, just like we were trying to cajole them to.
Well, what's the difference?
I mean when you have people compulsively checking the value of their MFs, how can you blame the fund managers for wanting to increase value this quarter, right now?
How do you think it would go over if the manager said "There's not going to be much growth this quarter, or even year. But there should be good, reasonable growth over the next decade."
So, yeah, I'd say the problem is YOU (as in all of us).
Why not have the package delivered to your work in the first place?
Just one question: If the "whoever" were a corporation (Federal Express, UPS), who would be imprisoned for "not more than six months"?
What part of "papers and effects" don't they understand?
Your computer (and phone) is as much your "papers" as the media is a "press".
What right did they get to GPS-track you? Isn't your car an "effect"? Even if not, it still is your property. So where did the government get the right to use your property without due process of law (5th amendment)?
Where'd the government get the right to confiscate servers? Domain names? Where's the due process of law?
The constitutional view is that the government only has such powers as have specifically been given to it. The state's view is that they have plenary (unlimited) power until stopped by a greater power.
A Constitution 3.0 would not be needed if there were a proper perspective on the existing constitution.
Read the link for the Federalist Papers, the Antifederalist Papers, and more.
Genius. Best new idea I've heard in a long time.
(That's also why it won't be implemented.)
I agree in general with "if it's not broken, don't fix it". Witness /. opinion regarding Unity/Gnome changes.
About Upstart, my lowly sysadmin opinion is this: It seems different from the other stuff Ubuntu's been doing in that, AFAIK, it's not alone in this. I think Fedora's going that way too.
Also, with Upstart I know if the webserver crashes for some reason, it'll restart without intervention. Yeah, I know, you're not getting to the root of the problem, but it beats being stuck to a top display looking if something burned.
Warning: Coffee is hot.
Warning: Ice cream is cold.
Warning: Water is wet. (Oops, EU says you can't say that.)
Does your barcode printer/scanner work under Ubuntu? (I'm assuming it works under XP.)
The Phillipines employ more people in call centers than India.
Yet India earns 10 times as much in outsourcing.
How can that be?
AHA! I guess they mean that Indians are doing other stuff than answering the phone, like developing, looking at xrays, etc.
(Reminds me of the old joke where a kid is the son of a doctor, but the doctor is not his father. The doctor is his mother.)
How many of you feel we're still going to be hearing about the ghost of Wronghaven for years to come?
What would be really useful is to give diffs for each new version, i.e., "What's New".
Nothing more annoying than to have to read through 1000 page to find out what's changed, assuming you remember the previous version exactly enough to be able to discern.
They had it coming. Oatmeal Netflix parody:
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/netflix
You forgot the NO CARRIER
Your first thought was cyber-payback for "EU says water isn't wet."
It might not be popular but: If you want the Internet to be a bastion for free speech, you have to have free speech for all (however repellent), not just for those with whom you agree.
I just did a check, and some Iranian government websites (as given on Wikipedia) work, as they should, including those with a .com TLD.
So why the special attention to Syria? Iran also put down an uprising a few years ago.
If you don't agree with something, argue against it on your own website; don't shut down somebody else's.
The reason they're not getting anywhere with spending cuts is the game has been rigged in favor of spending increases in the first place.
They have generous rates of increase built into the budgeting process. All of the so-called "cuts" are actually (slight) decreases to the rate of increase.
They could plug up the deficit merely by having slightly greater increase rate decreases.
Anyways, they can cut now, or they can have the universe cut for them. There's a limit to how much you can just keep spending pretend money.
A related rant is how Congress has gotten around the 27th amendment. That was supposed to say there should be an election in between Congressional pay raises. But they came up with a process whereby they get automatic cost of living increases without voting on it. Flagrantly unconstitutional. It's the same sort of thing.
Well, yeah, you're telling a provider something about yourself when you use their service.
But not everything.
I think what people are reacting to is Google knowing anything and everything about you.
So, going by the map example, if Android isn't tied tightly to Google services, when you access Google Maps, you're just an IP address asking for a map of Peoria. They don't have your name, and your contacts' names.
And even though your cell provider certainly knows everywhere you go, that doesn't mean Google does. On the other hand, your cell provider doesn't necessarily know what searches you're doing (unless it comes out they're logging your HTTP, in which case there's HTTPS).
So what people are looking for is compartmentalization of information.
Basically, before, you used to have editors who'd mold everything into U Chicago style guidelines or some such.
Now, everybody is his own editor. Is it web server or webserver? Web site or website? You decide.
You'll probably also see stuff where editors once had their fingers in the dike (like preventing the spread of "snuck") deluge the linguistic landscape.
Also people are free to verb nouns as they please.
Finally, I've noticed people are a lot more comfortable spontaneously making up portmanteaus.
Thanks.
OK, when you put it that way, it seems entirely reasonable. It just seemed that people in this thread were portraying dihydrogen monoxide as a mortal threat.
And I don't think people were saying you should drink plain water when you have become dehydrated. Rather, they were saying you should drink small amounts of water throughout the day (in addition to food).
So, basically, for everyday, normal folks playing light badminton or for junior high school kids just putzing around on the track for a half-hour, drinking some water, and then eating lunch when they normally do should be fine.
For track runners or football players, they should take the sports drink.
While accepting your statement about electrolytes, in school, teachers never gave sports drinks to anybody. If you were thirsty after PE, you'd drink water from the water dispenser. I suspect that's the same in most schools across the US. (Are there schools that actually hand out Gatorade after PE?)
There seems to be a disconnect there somewhere. It seems if you're in good health, drinking water, and then eating food (which contains salt), should be OK.
And bananas might kill you if you eat 8 dozen of them in one sitting (while sweating or not).
Point taken about the need for electrolytes, but just drinking water through the normal course of a day is the way most people drink water, not 10L at a time.
I think the only reason people object is that some weenies try to claim the word fruit all for themselves (a taxonomic definition of plant categories). If you want to share and are content to let normal people use the word fruit like they've used for hundreds of years, that's fine.
>The EU decided that you could get the same from other sources of fluids.
France was behind this.
En France, we drink wine in place of water.