The DNC has done wonders to attract white, black, hispanic, and asian voters.
And keep them. It is easy to attract voters when you promise them goodies from the public trough. However, exactly WHAT good has it done the Black people, who vote lockstep with the DNC? From my perspective, the greatest racism is that which perpetuates black underclass for political gain. Unfortunately, the blacks will soon be replaced with Hispanic for the dominant underclass promulgated by the DNC. Group politics is racist politics.
I can't wait till the Black community realizes that the Hispanics Immigrants get better treatment and goodies from Washington than they get. But at least, the DNC will have 30 million new voters to enslave!
Exactly. How has the DNC helped black people get out of where they've been stuck? Blame it on the (R)s all you want, but the DNC hasn't done anything for the people who vote 90+ % for them. I call it the best case of legalized slavery. We'll give you tokens for voting for us en-block, just as long as you keep voting for us. The sad thing is, it has worked for three generations, and the black people haven't figured out that they are still slaves.
Have you considered the fact that it wasn't just Reagan, it was Cater, Bush 1, Clinton, Bush II and now Obama that have all promised government will help you, and yet we have Black people in the worst shape in three decades? Oh right, because Obama, Clinton and Cater are all (D) and inherited their problems from (R) and the (R)s are all responsible.
Isn't it amazing that we had 16 years of growth before Clinton, and 7 decent years under Clinton before the.Com Bubble burst and 9/11 happened and yet it is all GWB's fault.
Looking at the history, as told by Democrats, only (D)s cause success, and (R)s are all douche bags. The same can be said of (R)s vs (D)s too. Could it be that both the (R) and (D)s are to blame for everything all the time, because nothing ever goes like they plan, and we're stuck with the mess that is Modern Government.
People fear our Government more than Terrorists (Jihad type). IMHO Government is Terrorism.
My questions is, why not have a 10 mile length of a double deck freeway that has no exits. That way, you get into the express deck, and you don't have to worry about asshats who swoop across 4 lanes of traffic to catch their off ramp at the last second.
" There was no marshal law. There wasn't even an emergency order. It was a shelter in place order,"
Semantics. Like, it isn't a "war" it is an "overseas contingency" or it wasn't "terrorism" it was "workplace violence". You may feel better by parsing the words differently, but the result is exactly the same, meaning it is the same. Undeclared Martial Law is Martial Law, the result is exactly the same.
Or do you support Thousands of troops with REAL Assault Rifles and Armed Tanks with 50 Cal guns patrolling streets searching for one guy. Personally, I think it was overkill. AND it proved to be ineffective. It was unarmed civilian that found the guy, not the troops banging on doors looking for him. This scares me more than the one guy running did, he was caught, the armed troops are still out there.
"Cause to believe or probable cause to believe".... are very important words. It isn't a right to search our houses, without consent, it is the exact opposite.
Was there cause to believe or probable cause to believe that the suspect is in THAT(randomly chosen) house? The answer is "NO". Could he have been, in THAT house, sure, but that is neither cause or probable cause.
Cause to believe = Cop saw him run into THAT house. (roughly) Probable Cause to Believe = Cop saw him run into the yard of THAT house, but lost sight of him somewhere around THAT house. (roughly)
Neither of those happened. Additionally they were going door to door searching, which is exactly what the 4th Amendment is about. Think Redcoats in 1775, searching for troublemakers going house to house... Probably used a term that roughly meant "National Security" (Crown/King/England) back then to justify it. It has nothing to do with courts, it has to do with security of your person and effects. YOU are not secure if you can be searched for any ginned up reason, even if it seems legitimate.
It cannot be an audit if it hasn't happened yet. This is in planning (before implementation) stage. Last time we had an outsider come in, his recommendations were more expensive than internal IT's because a couple of their assumptions were flat out wrong. And the cost of the consultant (his fee) would have paid for about 1/2 of the difference between IT's recommendation, and the consultant's. How is that efficient?
Oh, BTW, they are about to have another consultant come in and make the same recommendations we made 6 months ago. Whatever.
Which is why, if you go to Israel, or other country, you give them a rarely, if ever, used email address. I have several to choose from. Short of the Wrench decryption method, that is all they are going to see. I'll let them sort through my hotmail spam account all they want.
English just as much French as it is Gaelic, Germanic, Latin.... English is a made up language based on a whole bunch of influences.
In law, you heard the phrase "Cease and Desist", well those aren't two different words meaning two different things. They mean the exact same thing, because the two words come from two different language groups. "Breaking and Entering" same thing.
So, by speaking English, we already are speaking "French" in a way. And Latin, Germanic, Gaelic....
He knows what he did. He is just being a dickwad liberal/socialist, who can't admit that the US has actually done more good than harm in this world. Yeah, we've made some mistakes, some fairly big ones, but that does not change the fact that there are MUCH worse people out there, and given a chance, they would enslave as many people as they can.
The left loves to support tyrants, as long as they are socialists railing against America. Sean Penn's infatuation with the former Hugo Chavez is among the most notable. Michael Moore and Cuba is another. Dennis Rodman and NK. I could go on, but I think you get my point. If you listen to these leftists, you would think the world would be better off with their "benevolent dictators".
So, yeah, it is blindness to anything that doesn't fit their rose tinted view of the world.
Because hiring civil engineers is more expensive than outsourcing to a firm. And with outside firm, you'll effectively verify what your internal IT people know all along. Nobody believes internal IT people for some reason, but outside consultants telling the same exact story as internal sources makes it more believable.
Yeah, we're dealing with that now. It isn't incompetence, it is people in decision making positions, knowing nothing about IT. Ignorance is not incompetence, though they often look and result in the same exact way. And I can tell you that very few people know exactly how expensive IT done right is. BTW, $700K isn't that much for equipment. About $7 per person for Networking equipment... sounds cheap.
We just had a demonstration that most people are willing to live under Marshal Law, have their houses searched, in a violation of the 4th Amendment. We have the federal government actively campaigning for the abolition of the 2nd. People being sued for speaking their mind (1st Amendment), and so on. So what is to protect us from government taking the 5th away? Not to mention that the Federal Government has consistently violated the 9th and 10th.
IF we the people had any balls, we would be dragging President, most (if not all) of Congress into court and charged with treason. Problem is, who is able to arrest the President of the USA for Treason? Who is willing? Obama, GWB, Clinton..... all are guilty. But stick a (D) or (R) after their name, and all of a sudden 1/2 the people will "like" what they are doing, say "It isn't that bad".
This is why I tell my kids, that driving takes 100% concentration. That while most of the time, 50-80% is usually good enough, you can't predict when the asshole in the left lane is going to swerve right three lanes because he is about to miss his exit, because he was too busy getting a BJ from his boyfriend or talking/txting/watching a video on a cell phone.
The point is, it doesn't matter what the other guy is doing, he is the danger. If you're 100% concentrating on driving you have a much better chance of avoiding the accident. AND that is worth everything.
VMWare the box, add in VDI for connecting to it, it becomes a behind a firewall/NAT network and safe from bad shit. Add in Snapshots and whatnot, even if it gets a virus/trojan, you're three minutes from a recovered version. Put the backend Database in the same VMWare Infrastructure, and you'll see a huge improvement in processing speeds as the resources are all on the same backend setup, and not dependent upon external networking. Bonus, you can work from home / anywhere.
Of course, that kind of setup costs more than $10 Grand, which makes upgrading software cheap. At some point, the software will no longer be supported and they will have to upgrade when it is no longer a choice. Might not be as convenient then. Also, ask then how much things cost when it isn't working right. Downtime costs money, even if they can't see it.
If you go through my posts and comments enough, you see me say that Microsoft being a "Windows" company is going to kill them. Going back at least 5 years ago, possibly more. Back then, people often made fun of me. It is Microsoft's worse trait, because it is what has made them the most money.
Office Web may be doable on Android/iOS. Native versions may be on the road, but not before 2014. And since Microsoft doesn't have a viable OS for Mobile market (RT is DOA, and Win 8 isn't "windows" at all), Microsoft is getting further behind every moment.
If i were MS CEO, I'd put everything I had into getting Office out for Android and iOS, (and linux)., I'd give them to end of 2013 for public beta. By saying Office is "Windows only" (Mac exception of course), they have tied their bread and butter to a dying OS. Problem is, Balmer can't inspire anyone any more. The Flying Chair thing only works once.
I actually do see a difference between humans and bears. But you obviously not seeing dependency as a problem is just as scary as starving people are.
I work at a school district, and I can't tell you how many of the "under privileged" children are obese, but the schools are now required to provide 2 or three meals a day to them. Because we cannot question the need for feeding "hungry" children, who are clearly not "hungry".
Does this mean there are kids that aren't being fed at home? I'm sure there are kids whose parents are unable to care for them. But when we cannot even question what the fuck these parents are doing with their welfare checks and food stamps (EBT cards), there is a problem. And when liberal lefties go nuts when Florida passes a mandatory drug screening test for welfare, because of some "privacy" or imagined slight to some unknown "right", there is a problem. How do we get these people functional in society when we can't address a large part of the problem because it might hurt their "wittle feewings"
Well, people(left wingers) keep telling me that there is no difference between mankind and animals, that man is just another animal. So Tell me, if we are just another animal, what makes us different? If you say our brain, do you judge people according to how smart they are?
I don't have a problem with Use taxes. In fact, I would suggest that we put use taxes on all non-essential products and services that we deem "harmful" to society, like say Pot, and Cocaine, Gasoline and Junk Food. If you want to eat McD's fine, pay the damn tax, have it go to Heart Attack Surgeries and Diabetic Medicine. That way, you can have your programs, and I don't have to pay for it. The people increasing their risk for disease pay for their own care.
IF you want to fix inequality of application of things like Health Care, then make the Politicians have the worst plan they are foisting upon the public. And until that happens there is no "fairness", even when loony leftwingers claim there is.
Finally, if you want to fix Medical Care, it is easy. ONE and SAME price for all care. Not tiered / negotiated pricing. If I pay cash for care, it should be the same price as any insurance pays. Pricing is open and viewable to all, and no discounts. And uninsured have to go to special clinics except for special life saving (immediate) care (True Emergency).
I shouldn't have to pay for the care of someone who is uninsured and smoked all their life who is suddenly finding out they have cancer. Let the cigarette taxes pay for that. When there isn't enough money, raise taxes on cigarettes.
They aren't worthless, someone is willing to pay for them, just not the $399 for Office that MS thinks it is worth. At $25, it is worth it to someone. Problem is, try to get Office for Android...
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The DNC has done wonders to attract white, black, hispanic, and asian voters.
And keep them. It is easy to attract voters when you promise them goodies from the public trough. However, exactly WHAT good has it done the Black people, who vote lockstep with the DNC? From my perspective, the greatest racism is that which perpetuates black underclass for political gain. Unfortunately, the blacks will soon be replaced with Hispanic for the dominant underclass promulgated by the DNC. Group politics is racist politics.
I can't wait till the Black community realizes that the Hispanics Immigrants get better treatment and goodies from Washington than they get. But at least, the DNC will have 30 million new voters to enslave!
"SR-71 is the fastest aircraft in the world right now"
That we know of. There have been hints at other craft going faster, namely Aurora
Exactly. How has the DNC helped black people get out of where they've been stuck? Blame it on the (R)s all you want, but the DNC hasn't done anything for the people who vote 90+ % for them. I call it the best case of legalized slavery. We'll give you tokens for voting for us en-block, just as long as you keep voting for us. The sad thing is, it has worked for three generations, and the black people haven't figured out that they are still slaves.
Actually, he is pissed because he took the Patent on contingency and it was rejected, and now he isn't getting paid. Just a guess.
Have you considered the fact that it wasn't just Reagan, it was Cater, Bush 1, Clinton, Bush II and now Obama that have all promised government will help you, and yet we have Black people in the worst shape in three decades? Oh right, because Obama, Clinton and Cater are all (D) and inherited their problems from (R) and the (R)s are all responsible.
Isn't it amazing that we had 16 years of growth before Clinton, and 7 decent years under Clinton before the .Com Bubble burst and 9/11 happened and yet it is all GWB's fault.
Looking at the history, as told by Democrats, only (D)s cause success, and (R)s are all douche bags. The same can be said of (R)s vs (D)s too. Could it be that both the (R) and (D)s are to blame for everything all the time, because nothing ever goes like they plan, and we're stuck with the mess that is Modern Government.
People fear our Government more than Terrorists (Jihad type). IMHO Government is Terrorism.
"effective social net"
No such thing. Social Nets become crutches, not for the occasional fall, but rescuer of those that are repeatedly stupid.
But you can build 100 story high rise?
My questions is, why not have a 10 mile length of a double deck freeway that has no exits. That way, you get into the express deck, and you don't have to worry about asshats who swoop across 4 lanes of traffic to catch their off ramp at the last second.
" There was no marshal law. There wasn't even an emergency order. It was a shelter in place order,"
Semantics. Like, it isn't a "war" it is an "overseas contingency" or it wasn't "terrorism" it was "workplace violence". You may feel better by parsing the words differently, but the result is exactly the same, meaning it is the same. Undeclared Martial Law is Martial Law, the result is exactly the same.
Or do you support Thousands of troops with REAL Assault Rifles and Armed Tanks with 50 Cal guns patrolling streets searching for one guy. Personally, I think it was overkill. AND it proved to be ineffective. It was unarmed civilian that found the guy, not the troops banging on doors looking for him. This scares me more than the one guy running did, he was caught, the armed troops are still out there.
"Cause to believe or probable cause to believe" .... are very important words. It isn't a right to search our houses, without consent, it is the exact opposite.
Was there cause to believe or probable cause to believe that the suspect is in THAT(randomly chosen) house? The answer is "NO". Could he have been, in THAT house, sure, but that is neither cause or probable cause.
Cause to believe = Cop saw him run into THAT house. (roughly)
Probable Cause to Believe = Cop saw him run into the yard of THAT house, but lost sight of him somewhere around THAT house. (roughly)
Neither of those happened. Additionally they were going door to door searching, which is exactly what the 4th Amendment is about. Think Redcoats in 1775, searching for troublemakers going house to house ... Probably used a term that roughly meant "National Security" (Crown/King/England) back then to justify it. It has nothing to do with courts, it has to do with security of your person and effects. YOU are not secure if you can be searched for any ginned up reason, even if it seems legitimate.
It cannot be an audit if it hasn't happened yet. This is in planning (before implementation) stage. Last time we had an outsider come in, his recommendations were more expensive than internal IT's because a couple of their assumptions were flat out wrong. And the cost of the consultant (his fee) would have paid for about 1/2 of the difference between IT's recommendation, and the consultant's. How is that efficient?
Oh, BTW, they are about to have another consultant come in and make the same recommendations we made 6 months ago. Whatever.
Which is why, if you go to Israel, or other country, you give them a rarely, if ever, used email address. I have several to choose from. Short of the Wrench decryption method, that is all they are going to see. I'll let them sort through my hotmail spam account all they want.
English just as much French as it is Gaelic, Germanic, Latin .... English is a made up language based on a whole bunch of influences.
In law, you heard the phrase "Cease and Desist", well those aren't two different words meaning two different things. They mean the exact same thing, because the two words come from two different language groups. "Breaking and Entering" same thing.
So, by speaking English, we already are speaking "French" in a way. And Latin, Germanic, Gaelic ....
He knows what he did. He is just being a dickwad liberal/socialist, who can't admit that the US has actually done more good than harm in this world. Yeah, we've made some mistakes, some fairly big ones, but that does not change the fact that there are MUCH worse people out there, and given a chance, they would enslave as many people as they can.
The left loves to support tyrants, as long as they are socialists railing against America. Sean Penn's infatuation with the former Hugo Chavez is among the most notable. Michael Moore and Cuba is another. Dennis Rodman and NK. I could go on, but I think you get my point. If you listen to these leftists, you would think the world would be better off with their "benevolent dictators".
So, yeah, it is blindness to anything that doesn't fit their rose tinted view of the world.
Because hiring civil engineers is more expensive than outsourcing to a firm. And with outside firm, you'll effectively verify what your internal IT people know all along. Nobody believes internal IT people for some reason, but outside consultants telling the same exact story as internal sources makes it more believable.
Yeah, we're dealing with that now. It isn't incompetence, it is people in decision making positions, knowing nothing about IT. Ignorance is not incompetence, though they often look and result in the same exact way. And I can tell you that very few people know exactly how expensive IT done right is. BTW, $700K isn't that much for equipment. About $7 per person for Networking equipment ... sounds cheap.
We just had a demonstration that most people are willing to live under Marshal Law, have their houses searched, in a violation of the 4th Amendment. We have the federal government actively campaigning for the abolition of the 2nd. People being sued for speaking their mind (1st Amendment), and so on. So what is to protect us from government taking the 5th away? Not to mention that the Federal Government has consistently violated the 9th and 10th.
IF we the people had any balls, we would be dragging President, most (if not all) of Congress into court and charged with treason. Problem is, who is able to arrest the President of the USA for Treason? Who is willing? Obama, GWB, Clinton ..... all are guilty. But stick a (D) or (R) after their name, and all of a sudden 1/2 the people will "like" what they are doing, say "It isn't that bad".
No, it isn't "That bad". It is worse.
This is why I tell my kids, that driving takes 100% concentration. That while most of the time, 50-80% is usually good enough, you can't predict when the asshole in the left lane is going to swerve right three lanes because he is about to miss his exit, because he was too busy getting a BJ from his boyfriend or talking/txting/watching a video on a cell phone.
The point is, it doesn't matter what the other guy is doing, he is the danger. If you're 100% concentrating on driving you have a much better chance of avoiding the accident. AND that is worth everything.
VMWare the box, add in VDI for connecting to it, it becomes a behind a firewall/NAT network and safe from bad shit. Add in Snapshots and whatnot, even if it gets a virus/trojan, you're three minutes from a recovered version. Put the backend Database in the same VMWare Infrastructure, and you'll see a huge improvement in processing speeds as the resources are all on the same backend setup, and not dependent upon external networking. Bonus, you can work from home / anywhere.
Of course, that kind of setup costs more than $10 Grand, which makes upgrading software cheap. At some point, the software will no longer be supported and they will have to upgrade when it is no longer a choice. Might not be as convenient then. Also, ask then how much things cost when it isn't working right. Downtime costs money, even if they can't see it.
If you go through my posts and comments enough, you see me say that Microsoft being a "Windows" company is going to kill them. Going back at least 5 years ago, possibly more. Back then, people often made fun of me. It is Microsoft's worse trait, because it is what has made them the most money.
Office Web may be doable on Android/iOS. Native versions may be on the road, but not before 2014. And since Microsoft doesn't have a viable OS for Mobile market (RT is DOA, and Win 8 isn't "windows" at all), Microsoft is getting further behind every moment.
If i were MS CEO, I'd put everything I had into getting Office out for Android and iOS, (and linux)., I'd give them to end of 2013 for public beta. By saying Office is "Windows only" (Mac exception of course), they have tied their bread and butter to a dying OS. Problem is, Balmer can't inspire anyone any more. The Flying Chair thing only works once.
I actually do see a difference between humans and bears. But you obviously not seeing dependency as a problem is just as scary as starving people are.
I work at a school district, and I can't tell you how many of the "under privileged" children are obese, but the schools are now required to provide 2 or three meals a day to them. Because we cannot question the need for feeding "hungry" children, who are clearly not "hungry".
Does this mean there are kids that aren't being fed at home? I'm sure there are kids whose parents are unable to care for them. But when we cannot even question what the fuck these parents are doing with their welfare checks and food stamps (EBT cards), there is a problem. And when liberal lefties go nuts when Florida passes a mandatory drug screening test for welfare, because of some "privacy" or imagined slight to some unknown "right", there is a problem. How do we get these people functional in society when we can't address a large part of the problem because it might hurt their "wittle feewings"
Name calling, always wins an argument when you can't win otherwise. Typical.
Well, people(left wingers) keep telling me that there is no difference between mankind and animals, that man is just another animal. So Tell me, if we are just another animal, what makes us different? If you say our brain, do you judge people according to how smart they are?
I don't have a problem with Use taxes. In fact, I would suggest that we put use taxes on all non-essential products and services that we deem "harmful" to society, like say Pot, and Cocaine, Gasoline and Junk Food. If you want to eat McD's fine, pay the damn tax, have it go to Heart Attack Surgeries and Diabetic Medicine. That way, you can have your programs, and I don't have to pay for it. The people increasing their risk for disease pay for their own care.
IF you want to fix inequality of application of things like Health Care, then make the Politicians have the worst plan they are foisting upon the public. And until that happens there is no "fairness", even when loony leftwingers claim there is.
Finally, if you want to fix Medical Care, it is easy. ONE and SAME price for all care. Not tiered / negotiated pricing. If I pay cash for care, it should be the same price as any insurance pays. Pricing is open and viewable to all, and no discounts. And uninsured have to go to special clinics except for special life saving (immediate) care (True Emergency).
I shouldn't have to pay for the care of someone who is uninsured and smoked all their life who is suddenly finding out they have cancer. Let the cigarette taxes pay for that. When there isn't enough money, raise taxes on cigarettes.
They aren't worthless, someone is willing to pay for them, just not the $399 for Office that MS thinks it is worth. At $25, it is worth it to someone. Problem is, try to get Office for Android ...