Yeah, because the alternative is people living in a house for 30 years and being forced to sell it to pay for increasing property taxes they cannot afford on a retired fixed income is so much better for everyone.
Yes, that is the reason for Prop 13 as much as anything else. But liberals want your money so they don't care about old people eating dog food and living on the streets.
Its not that we hate "change" per se (we don't like it, that's for sure). It is that we don't like things taken away that we are used to having, all for the sake of gaining some extra marketing kudos or profit points or because some research said nobody uses that feature.
We do not mind change that actually "works" better. Change should always progress utility, not regress it. To use the car analogy, it is going from foot pedals, to rudder, to steering wheel improvements. Those were useful upgrades that changed how we steer, and were accepted. Now, go back to rudder to steer a car, or perhaps try and indycar style steering "wheel" instead. It doesn't work when you're trying to do a parallel parking job on a busy street.
It is doing a survey and coming to the conclusion that 64.36 % of all people NEVER parallel park and deciding that the steering wheel is the problem and changing it so that people can't use it for that anymore. THAT kind of change is where the problem is. Some of us can actually parallel park and a rudder or indycar steering device just won't cut it.
Change isn't the problem, it is change because someone figures out some statistic and decides to change everything based on it. All because they misunderstand the problem.
Make it harder to pass a law than nullify one. Right now, it is trivial to pass a new law, but nearly impossible to revoke a poorly conceived one. What ends up happening is that we try to fix a bad law, where there is no fix.
I'm sorry. I wasn't aware that only the rich would have access to universal healthcare.
I haven't laughed that hard in a long time. Good one!!
The "rich" will get the best care. The poor will get terrible care. And everyone else will not be able to afford healthcare... just like it is now, only worse.
Taxes are regressive. All taxes are regressive, all the time. The rich can avoid them, the poor cannot. That is why we should view Taxes not only as revenue generation for necessary government activities, but also as a means to retard the activities that shouldn't be illegal, but society doesn't want, like Prostitution, Drugs etc.
Drug war is a great example of failed policy to stem the tied of drug use, and has made Mexico a VERY VERY dangerous place with all the narco gangs, who are nothing more than modern day Al Capones. It isn't working, cannot work, and will only get worse. However if we made pot, coke and other drugs "legal" and taxed the crap out of them, we'd generate more than enough income AND stem the usage (Like Cigarettes).
As a benefit, those kinds of taxes are completely voluntary, you don't pay them unless you want to.
You cannot regulate greed out of the system. It is impossible, and all the regulations that arise only treat symptoms and not the cause. You cannot treat the cause, only treat it symptoms. Therefore, the end result is that you cannot stop greed, they will ALWAYS figure out a way around the regulations, with ever increasing convoluted schemes.
The other "isms" also don't ever take this into account either. The 1% are sociopaths. They will always find the loophole, or pay people to make one. I call it the rule of the Asshole. Assholes are that way, because they are always dancing on the line between legal and illegal, pushing the boundaries until they break.
1) Three Year Old Server, is time to retire the hardware, and replace it with new equipment.
2) Same box for 10 years, sounds like disaster waiting to happen (Hardware wise), and I surely wouldn't want anything mission critical on it.
3) Ten year old box is a PIV era machine, with perhaps 3.6 GB ram, my current laptop has more power and ram and could run that machine in the background in a VM.
4) A single UPS failure shouldn't break mission critical server, as they would have dual power supplies and run on independent Power circuits, with generator backup.
However after reading #1 and #2 you realize that this is a theme that is building. THAT is why people don't believe these types of trolls.
From Dictionary.com: "Average" 1. a quantity, rating, or the like that represents or approximates an arithmetic mean.
From www.purplemath.com: Mean, median, and mode are three kinds of "averages".
Yes, we have this very discussion every time someone uses "average" and someone with an ax to grind makes the case that median is more accurate (yes, it is) but how do you know I didn't mean "mean" ? Chances are the two numbers Median and Mean are similar enough to be the same.
Or you can take the "average" person who thinks "average" is the exact middle (median) and... well, my point exists no matter if I meant Median or Mean, now does it?
Because we can only discuss things by making extreme examples of the other person's positions. Nice Slippery Slope points. Hope your logic instructor is proud.
You say John Birch, I say Communist and Nazi. See, now we're even. You say Republicans, and I say Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi Democrats, we're even. You say Dominionist and I say Greentards, we're even.
And you haven't made a single point that makes a point, only to call people names. Typical Liberal argument.
The choice is to REVOKE Copyright by Constitutional Amendment. That's right, we THE PEOPLE have given them the ability to copyright works, and as such, we have the right to revoke it any time we want.
There are other alternatives as well. Conditional Copyright, which if you stick additional terms and conditions on a copyrightable work, you CANNOT Copyright it, and all Copyright laws do not, nor cannot apply to that work.
We don't need "consumer" laws, because this is a CONSTITUTIONAL question. But then again, we haven't followed the Constitution in any meaningful way in a long long time.
And Moonbeam couldn't even run Oakland, let alone California the first time. People voted for him because he was the devil we knew. Of course you probably think (R) bad (D) good, I don't suffer that delusion. (R) bad, (D) bad, more so in CA than anywhere else.
Most voters in California could see that Whitman is out of touch with reality
That is not what happened. The voters of California chose between two people out of touch with reality. proving that most of California is out of touch with reality, because the (R) party gave us Whitman and the (D) party gave us Moonbeam.
California is after all, the land of fruits and nuts.
you can afford to develop two different platforms.
Hell, if you engineer it right, you don't even have to build two different hardware specs. And if you're creative, you can have the guys over at CyanogenMod make a Tablet OS for you that is world class and always up to date, while you build WebOS for yourselves.
THEN you give people a choice, and they can change their mind later and put a different but fully armed and operational OS on it.
Lest we forget, the PC revolution in business was brought about by CONSUMER "Personal Computers" being brought into businesses to get around the walled garden of Corporate IT (Mainframes back in the day).
Today, it is iPads replacing Notebooks and Laptops, and Androids and iPhones replacing Blackberries and Palms (back in the day). IT should identify the need, and start ordering Commercial Versions of these products. Too bad they aren't so there isn't much choice.
If Google REALLY wanted to rule the world, they'd put together a Corporate Server solution to manage Corporate Android Devices and market the crap out of it in Professional IT magazines and in places where the CIO spends time. I realize that Google does have some semblance of this out there, but it is hardly Corporate Grade, nor is it marketed to the CIO/CEO as a "must have" for IT.
This is where Microsoft is losing the battle, trying to stay a "Windows Company".
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Yeah, because the alternative is people living in a house for 30 years and being forced to sell it to pay for increasing property taxes they cannot afford on a retired fixed income is so much better for everyone.
Yes, that is the reason for Prop 13 as much as anything else. But liberals want your money so they don't care about old people eating dog food and living on the streets.
OWS in a nutshell.
OWS in a nutshell
Its not that we hate "change" per se (we don't like it, that's for sure). It is that we don't like things taken away that we are used to having, all for the sake of gaining some extra marketing kudos or profit points or because some research said nobody uses that feature.
We do not mind change that actually "works" better. Change should always progress utility, not regress it. To use the car analogy, it is going from foot pedals, to rudder, to steering wheel improvements. Those were useful upgrades that changed how we steer, and were accepted. Now, go back to rudder to steer a car, or perhaps try and indycar style steering "wheel" instead. It doesn't work when you're trying to do a parallel parking job on a busy street.
It is doing a survey and coming to the conclusion that 64.36 % of all people NEVER parallel park and deciding that the steering wheel is the problem and changing it so that people can't use it for that anymore. THAT kind of change is where the problem is. Some of us can actually parallel park and a rudder or indycar steering device just won't cut it.
Change isn't the problem, it is change because someone figures out some statistic and decides to change everything based on it. All because they misunderstand the problem.
Make it harder to pass a law than nullify one. Right now, it is trivial to pass a new law, but nearly impossible to revoke a poorly conceived one. What ends up happening is that we try to fix a bad law, where there is no fix.
I haven't laughed that hard in a long time. Good one!!
The "rich" will get the best care. The poor will get terrible care. And everyone else will not be able to afford healthcare ... just like it is now, only worse.
Taxes are regressive. All taxes are regressive, all the time. The rich can avoid them, the poor cannot. That is why we should view Taxes not only as revenue generation for necessary government activities, but also as a means to retard the activities that shouldn't be illegal, but society doesn't want, like Prostitution, Drugs etc.
Drug war is a great example of failed policy to stem the tied of drug use, and has made Mexico a VERY VERY dangerous place with all the narco gangs, who are nothing more than modern day Al Capones. It isn't working, cannot work, and will only get worse. However if we made pot, coke and other drugs "legal" and taxed the crap out of them, we'd generate more than enough income AND stem the usage (Like Cigarettes).
As a benefit, those kinds of taxes are completely voluntary, you don't pay them unless you want to.
You cannot regulate greed out of the system. It is impossible, and all the regulations that arise only treat symptoms and not the cause. You cannot treat the cause, only treat it symptoms. Therefore, the end result is that you cannot stop greed, they will ALWAYS figure out a way around the regulations, with ever increasing convoluted schemes.
The other "isms" also don't ever take this into account either. The 1% are sociopaths. They will always find the loophole, or pay people to make one. I call it the rule of the Asshole. Assholes are that way, because they are always dancing on the line between legal and illegal, pushing the boundaries until they break.
1) Three Year Old Server, is time to retire the hardware, and replace it with new equipment.
2) Same box for 10 years, sounds like disaster waiting to happen (Hardware wise), and I surely wouldn't want anything mission critical on it.
3) Ten year old box is a PIV era machine, with perhaps 3.6 GB ram, my current laptop has more power and ram and could run that machine in the background in a VM.
4) A single UPS failure shouldn't break mission critical server, as they would have dual power supplies and run on independent Power circuits, with generator backup.
However after reading #1 and #2 you realize that this is a theme that is building. THAT is why people don't believe these types of trolls.
Typical, can't win, so you run home to momma's basement.
From Dictionary.com: "Average" 1. a quantity, rating, or the like that represents or approximates an arithmetic mean.
From www.purplemath.com: Mean, median, and mode are three kinds of "averages".
Yes, we have this very discussion every time someone uses "average" and someone with an ax to grind makes the case that median is more accurate (yes, it is) but how do you know I didn't mean "mean" ? Chances are the two numbers Median and Mean are similar enough to be the same.
Or you can take the "average" person who thinks "average" is the exact middle (median) and ... well, my point exists no matter if I meant Median or Mean, now does it?
George Soros. Next point.
Think about it this way. How stupid is the "average" person? Realize that half the people are dumber than that.
Because we can only discuss things by making extreme examples of the other person's positions. Nice Slippery Slope points. Hope your logic instructor is proud.
You say John Birch, I say Communist and Nazi. See, now we're even. You say Republicans, and I say Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi Democrats, we're even. You say Dominionist and I say Greentards, we're even.
And you haven't made a single point that makes a point, only to call people names. Typical Liberal argument.
If you don't trust your government, then there is only on thing left; it is time to replace it.
This is what happens when people don't understand what Liberty and Rights really are.
The choice is to REVOKE Copyright by Constitutional Amendment. That's right, we THE PEOPLE have given them the ability to copyright works, and as such, we have the right to revoke it any time we want.
There are other alternatives as well. Conditional Copyright, which if you stick additional terms and conditions on a copyrightable work, you CANNOT Copyright it, and all Copyright laws do not, nor cannot apply to that work.
We don't need "consumer" laws, because this is a CONSTITUTIONAL question. But then again, we haven't followed the Constitution in any meaningful way in a long long time.
And Moonbeam couldn't even run Oakland, let alone California the first time. People voted for him because he was the devil we knew. Of course you probably think (R) bad (D) good, I don't suffer that delusion. (R) bad, (D) bad, more so in CA than anywhere else.
That is not what happened. The voters of California chose between two people out of touch with reality. proving that most of California is out of touch with reality, because the (R) party gave us Whitman and the (D) party gave us Moonbeam.
California is after all, the land of fruits and nuts.
Hell, if you engineer it right, you don't even have to build two different hardware specs. And if you're creative, you can have the guys over at CyanogenMod make a Tablet OS for you that is world class and always up to date, while you build WebOS for yourselves.
THEN you give people a choice, and they can change their mind later and put a different but fully armed and operational OS on it.
FTFY
Not everything on my phone is tied to Exchange. I can't manage the entire device (applications/data).
That, and you missed my point. We are seeing the next evolution in IT, being driven by Consumer Products because IT is too slow moving.
Exactly. They didn't do proper "science" in the first place.
Wooosh
Lest we forget, the PC revolution in business was brought about by CONSUMER "Personal Computers" being brought into businesses to get around the walled garden of Corporate IT (Mainframes back in the day).
Today, it is iPads replacing Notebooks and Laptops, and Androids and iPhones replacing Blackberries and Palms (back in the day). IT should identify the need, and start ordering Commercial Versions of these products. Too bad they aren't so there isn't much choice.
If Google REALLY wanted to rule the world, they'd put together a Corporate Server solution to manage Corporate Android Devices and market the crap out of it in Professional IT magazines and in places where the CIO spends time. I realize that Google does have some semblance of this out there, but it is hardly Corporate Grade, nor is it marketed to the CIO/CEO as a "must have" for IT.
This is where Microsoft is losing the battle, trying to stay a "Windows Company".
If it is on the PUBLIC internet, then it is PUBLIC, regardless of what you or anyone else says.
If you remember this, then there is no problem with privacy as you understand that the INTERNET is not PRIVATE ... ever.