You can determine who's an illegal just by looking at them, and discriminate accordingly? I don't think so. The police are empowered to ask for "papers, please" of anyone that they "suspect of being illegal". Which practically means, anyone mocha colored.
I'm actually curious to know how you're supposed to "prove citizenship". Is a driver's license enough? What if you're not driving? Are you supposed to walk around with a birth certificate at all times? Do the white folks do that too, to prove that they're not illegal from Canada?
If white folks don't feel at risk enough to carry "proof of citizenship" while not driving, because they know that they won't actually be required to show citizenship at an indiscriminate time, the police are simply racial profiling. Or, by any other name, being racist.
Where are they now that BHO has topped everything Bush did in eight years? Oh right, BHO is THIEIR kind of tyrant.:-/
Your assumption reveals your ignorance, but I'll respond anyways.
As a moderate liberal that voted for Obama, I honestly don't know what to do. I'm very disappointed in Obama, but have no good alternatives:
A. Vote Obama anyways. Maybe once he got clearance, he learned that all of this nonsense is really necessary. I think that's self serving justification nonsense, but it's what I got.
B. Vote Romney. There's 0 chance he'll retract the federal control mechanisms, and very probably will make them worse. Maybe at least he'll balance the budget, but probably do so while increasing fed intrusion into social issues as well.
C Vote Paul. He's a whacko, not least because of his advocating isolationism which I think is a dangerously reductionist view of the world. Quite simply, if we pull back, China and probably Russia will greatly expand their control of the world.
D...?
I frankly think this centralization of control and partisanship ends in bloodshed, when a disenfranchised minority figures that they've had enough of the Other Guy telling them what to do, and can no longer effect their will at the ballot box or are actually suppressed as a radical element that just happens to be on the wrong side of the central control. Maybe we should prepare for it. But it's probably at least 20 years off, if ever, and running around preparing for it now seems whacko.
The problem I have with the "cyber weapons" terminology is that they are weapons which do not kill anyone. Not that that is a bad thing.
Try going without the power grid for a week across the country, especially during the winter, and see who dies.
Shut down the transportation infrastructure, for instance by disabling the fuel supply infrastructure, and see who dies. Grocery stores have, at best, enough food for 3-4 days before they're out.
Shut down the public water utilities, esp if you shut down the power grid at the same time, and see who dies.
I'm no expert, but I believe we are very vulnerable to a disruption to our infrastructure. Especially in the US; since we have never experienced much of a failure along these lines, we have little preparation for it. Imagine something like Katrina hitting every major metro in the country at once, while we are preparing for a major military engagement.
OCP isn't about supporting some hardware. It's about building servers when you already have 24/7 hardware support and all of the parts on site already, and own the software stack so there's no value add there.
If you're not in the space where you do everything yourself already, then OCP isn't for you.
Google's cafes, (and Facebook's also, for that matter), allow guests. Employees with families regularly bring in their kids for dinner.
I don't recall there being any "employees only dining" spaces at either location. The cafes at the Google datacenters were more much more restricted than HQ for a long time, but contractors and vendors were still allowed.
I'm white, but went to a predominantly black High School in a major metro. I had a few altercations, but I never had my ass kicked.
As one of my (black) friends so eloquently put it to me: "You know when they're talking about the N*****s up at G******d, they're talking 'bout you, too."
I wasn't aware of "The Talk" before reading about it in the summary.
As a (white) father of two young boys, I can't imagine a harder conversation. "Remember all that talk about how you have unlimited potential? Yeah, it's all bullshit. Fight the power (but dont' get killed)."
I can't imagine how it looks to have the hope in their eyes die in front of you.
gp. When I last read "hypertext fiction", it was actually called a MUSH. Multiple authors participated with each other in creating an interactive, reader driven story. The branching paths are simply too much work to depend on a single author for.
The problem with MUSHing was that simply some people are better storytellers than others. That, and the griefers, of course.
they are being required to pay for contraception if the patient requests it
Why should an employer be able to determine what healthcare they do and do not wish to make available to me? My healthcare choices are my own choices. The employer can make their own moral choices about themselves, and I can make may own moral choices about myself
I mean, christ, what a slippery slope. Should employers be allowed to not pay for AIDs treatments? Obesity treatments? Medical benefits that are associated with particular races/sexes?
They're not even CC numbers. They're just "numbers". If they happen to match CC numbers of an account someplace, I would argue it's just a coincidence.
So does owning a gun. By owning a weapon, you actually show more intent and means to kill than just having the mere instructions downloaded by this guy.
Are you suggesting that everyone that owns a handgun and has written an angry letter to the OpEd section should be arrested?
Clinton was impeached for lying under oath about Lewinski.
Why the US Congress wasted a year investigating a president's sex life is why I won't ever vote for Gingrich. There's simply no good reason for them to be doing so; besides a moral failing of the president, it was not ever confirmed that Clinton abused his political power for this escapade.
An abuse of power that is dangerous to the body politic is a reasonable use of the impeachment process. Investigating the sex lives of our politicians is not, regardless how scandalous it may be.
Not if you're a defense contractor. I believe that they are literally going to the ruin of our country--our enemies will be able to field larger, more effective forces with less drain on their economic resources.
I mean, would you rather have 1M men that cost $1000 each to equip, or 100K men that cost $100K each to equip? The 100K men are outnumbered 10-to-1, and gear that costs 100 times as much still won't be effective enough to make up for the difference. Also, the expensive guys are more vulnerable to supply chain issues; a disruption to their supply chain leaves them outnumbered 10-1 without even the benefit of their gear.
We're both subsidizing truck traffic, which is more damaging to the roads than they pay for in fuel taxes.
If things were really going to be fair, the tax burden would shift up to trucks and away from personal use vehicles. Of course, that would make consumer goods more expensive, as they're trucked in and the increased cost would be passed on; or at least, until the train freight infrastructure could expand enough to absorb the extra traffic.
Personally, I would rather pay less at the pump and pay more for consumer goods that have to be trucked, but I can see that that would be politically unpopular thing to do. Let alone probably end businesses like Amazon due to increased shipping costs.
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You can determine who's an illegal just by looking at them, and discriminate accordingly? I don't think so. The police are empowered to ask for "papers, please" of anyone that they "suspect of being illegal". Which practically means, anyone mocha colored.
I'm actually curious to know how you're supposed to "prove citizenship". Is a driver's license enough? What if you're not driving? Are you supposed to walk around with a birth certificate at all times? Do the white folks do that too, to prove that they're not illegal from Canada?
If white folks don't feel at risk enough to carry "proof of citizenship" while not driving, because they know that they won't actually be required to show citizenship at an indiscriminate time, the police are simply racial profiling. Or, by any other name, being racist.
You don't think Facebook is "enterprise level computing"?
Teach them the language. Expose 1 gram of the substance, and make one dot. Then label the really hazardous stuff with 100 dots.
If they can't draw a conclusion from that, maybe they deserve to be irradiated.
Where are they now that BHO has topped everything Bush did in eight years? Oh right, BHO is THIEIR kind of tyrant.
Your assumption reveals your ignorance, but I'll respond anyways.
As a moderate liberal that voted for Obama, I honestly don't know what to do. I'm very disappointed in Obama, but have no good alternatives:
I frankly think this centralization of control and partisanship ends in bloodshed, when a disenfranchised minority figures that they've had enough of the Other Guy telling them what to do, and can no longer effect their will at the ballot box or are actually suppressed as a radical element that just happens to be on the wrong side of the central control. Maybe we should prepare for it. But it's probably at least 20 years off, if ever, and running around preparing for it now seems whacko.
The problem I have with the "cyber weapons" terminology is that they are weapons which do not kill anyone. Not that that is a bad thing.
Try going without the power grid for a week across the country, especially during the winter, and see who dies.
Shut down the transportation infrastructure, for instance by disabling the fuel supply infrastructure, and see who dies. Grocery stores have, at best, enough food for 3-4 days before they're out.
Shut down the public water utilities, esp if you shut down the power grid at the same time, and see who dies.
I'm no expert, but I believe we are very vulnerable to a disruption to our infrastructure. Especially in the US; since we have never experienced much of a failure along these lines, we have little preparation for it. Imagine something like Katrina hitting every major metro in the country at once, while we are preparing for a major military engagement.
Diane Rhem is the toughest interviewer I've ever listened too. Her lack of accepting bs from liars was awesome and very welcome.
160,000 students @ $100 each is $16M.
$16M at $32k buys 500 TAs / year.
160K students / 500 TAs is 320 students / TA.
One TA could give each student one dedicated hour every other month and maintain a regular 40 hr per week year round schedule.
That's not that far off from being reasonable.
If you pay the TAs only $15K-20K you would have budget for overhead and profit, or more TAs for more FTF time.
supporting some hardware
OCP isn't about supporting some hardware. It's about building servers when you already have 24/7 hardware support and all of the parts on site already, and own the software stack so there's no value add there.
If you're not in the space where you do everything yourself already, then OCP isn't for you.
and most internal servers and such, are in Redmond, and elsewhere in Puget Sound area
No, they're not. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10020902-56.html
One of those DCs probably use more than the rest of their offices and corp servers combined.
Google's cafes, (and Facebook's also, for that matter), allow guests. Employees with families regularly bring in their kids for dinner. I don't recall there being any "employees only dining" spaces at either location. The cafes at the Google datacenters were more much more restricted than HQ for a long time, but contractors and vendors were still allowed.
Troll slashdot. Pretty much like any other day, actually.
NPR is "government funded" like oil companies are "government funded". NPR is no BBC.
Fact: there are more white criminals than black ones.
That there are more blacks that are convicted doesn't disprove the latter, it demonstrates the racism of the justice system.
Be more careful about your data analysis and understand what it describes, and how the data points can be manipulated.
I dunno, could be you're just an asshole.
I'm white, but went to a predominantly black High School in a major metro. I had a few altercations, but I never had my ass kicked.
As one of my (black) friends so eloquently put it to me: "You know when they're talking about the N*****s up at G******d, they're talking 'bout you, too."
I wasn't aware of "The Talk" before reading about it in the summary.
As a (white) father of two young boys, I can't imagine a harder conversation. "Remember all that talk about how you have unlimited potential? Yeah, it's all bullshit. Fight the power (but dont' get killed)."
I can't imagine how it looks to have the hope in their eyes die in front of you.
in fact, you'd probably just let it warm up in the same room as the victim.
then they can watch the count down to the impending pain ray.
Madison had a point.
gp. When I last read "hypertext fiction", it was actually called a MUSH. Multiple authors participated with each other in creating an interactive, reader driven story. The branching paths are simply too much work to depend on a single author for.
The problem with MUSHing was that simply some people are better storytellers than others. That, and the griefers, of course.
they are being required to pay for contraception
if the patient requests it
Why should an employer be able to determine what healthcare they do and do not wish to make available to me? My healthcare choices are my own choices. The employer can make their own moral choices about themselves, and I can make may own moral choices about myself
I mean, christ, what a slippery slope. Should employers be allowed to not pay for AIDs treatments? Obesity treatments? Medical benefits that are associated with particular races/sexes?
It sounds like you were being hazed.
They're not even CC numbers. They're just "numbers". If they happen to match CC numbers of an account someplace, I would argue it's just a coincidence.
It demonstrates intent.
So does owning a gun. By owning a weapon, you actually show more intent and means to kill than just having the mere instructions downloaded by this guy.
Are you suggesting that everyone that owns a handgun and has written an angry letter to the OpEd section should be arrested?
Clinton was impeached for lying under oath about Lewinski.
Why the US Congress wasted a year investigating a president's sex life is why I won't ever vote for Gingrich. There's simply no good reason for them to be doing so; besides a moral failing of the president, it was not ever confirmed that Clinton abused his political power for this escapade.
An abuse of power that is dangerous to the body politic is a reasonable use of the impeachment process. Investigating the sex lives of our politicians is not, regardless how scandalous it may be.
Can we call that good enough?
Not if you're a defense contractor. I believe that they are literally going to the ruin of our country--our enemies will be able to field larger, more effective forces with less drain on their economic resources.
I mean, would you rather have 1M men that cost $1000 each to equip, or 100K men that cost $100K each to equip? The 100K men are outnumbered 10-to-1, and gear that costs 100 times as much still won't be effective enough to make up for the difference. Also, the expensive guys are more vulnerable to supply chain issues; a disruption to their supply chain leaves them outnumbered 10-1 without even the benefit of their gear.
We're both subsidizing truck traffic, which is more damaging to the roads than they pay for in fuel taxes.
If things were really going to be fair, the tax burden would shift up to trucks and away from personal use vehicles. Of course, that would make consumer goods more expensive, as they're trucked in and the increased cost would be passed on; or at least, until the train freight infrastructure could expand enough to absorb the extra traffic.
Personally, I would rather pay less at the pump and pay more for consumer goods that have to be trucked, but I can see that that would be politically unpopular thing to do. Let alone probably end businesses like Amazon due to increased shipping costs.