Of course he has claimed to be objective, truthful, etc. And when caught in a fabrication, he falls back on the entertainer defence. He's a weasel. Something of a fraud, and a coward.
I have heard some property rights enthusiasts also carping about personal responsibility. You may not have the two tastes.
You build in a flood plain/slide zone/beach? Your problem. The laws have been in place for DECADES. You don't get to flout them because you made a stupid purchase. Especially when changing local currents (as a seawall will do) will affect the beach around you.
I don't think the rich should have a different relationship with the law. This is naive, of course. But America is supposed to treat citizens alike.
Lots of other folks have posted the explanation - beaches in CA are PUBLIC property. Nobody owns them except CA citizens. Someone builds a rock wall in a public park, it's vandalism. They do something that accelerates erosion or otherwise degrades the environment, IN A PUBLIC PARK, they should get their heads handed to them.
I'm a slob; I admit it. Even if I didn't, it would be obvious from the way I dress and the state of my desk. But at my job, I am cleaning up the spaghetti mess in the ceiling and trying to lay the wire cleanly from patch panels - switches.
Documenting connections has a real payoff in troubleshooting. But doing stuff on aesthetic grounds is a harder sell. I have a gut sense that a clean layout is important even if you know the destination both ends of a wire whose middle runs through a snarl. Here's what I came up with: my version of the community policing broken windows theory.
It's psychologically harder to do slipshod, shoddy work if everything around you has been done well. And it's hard to do a proper job if everything else is slipshod. As a matter of housemate politics, it's easier to leave the nth dirty dish in the sink than the first. You are only adding an increment, not changing state.
Doing the Right Thing is contagious. At least, it is among folks I care to work with. Doing the Wrong Thing is catching, too. Morale is higher and people challenge themselves more at a shop that is run well.
If you take your marching orders from a metaphysical source, you might as well get a "I hear voices and do what they say" bumper sticker.
Religion inspired and excused colonialism, which lead to the deaths of 90%+ of the indiginous inhabitants of the americas. The Spanish and Portugese brought priests with them, one of whom gave the command to massacre 10,000 incas at a parley.
Then there are the wars around the protestant reformation. The Inquisition. The balkan wars - ethnically identical groups committing genocide based on religious affinity - Catholic vs. Orthodox vs. Muslim/secular.
I'm not sure that the scores talley evenly, but the butcher's bill is too high to tout religiously-inspired ethics.
This is bullshit. Microsoft product teams have an explicit "good enough to sell" approach. They don't have much connection with "the Right Thing." The quality bar is set so that a release candidate offers at least a plausible case that the features will outweigh the bugs/problems. If it meets that criteria, which can be summarized as, "the features work well enough that the bugs we KNOW about and haven't yet fixed will not sufficiently antagonize the customer that we'll lose market share" - the release ships. Now, since bugs and problems take time to surface, and the quality bar is based on the then-current assessment, this calculation is ALWAYS off and you get the legendary shoddiness of MS products (another half dozen crippling holes in the browser you can't get off of your servers!)
I speak from firsthand knowledge as a former product tester at the Borg. (contract - no implant for me!)
All you have to do is compare the # of Apache servers vs. IIS and then do a relative exploit count. It's not even close.
Proves committment, and you aren't being a manipulated cash cow for the nitwits selling the rocks.
Worked for us (married 10 days now).
If it had been important to her, sure. I'd have happily had the ceremony nostril deep in a sewage lagoon if that was what she wanted. But between an inert, valueless rock and a down payment? No contest!
When I was in junior high I actually thought about what I was reciting, and decided that I wasn't in a position to ally with the US. I might, or might not, but I was W-A-A-A-A-Y to young to make committments like that, and I knew it. Then it hit me that millions of 5 year olds have been reciting empty syllables, and that put me off even more. Look, a pledge has to be understood, or it's a farce. Few kindergarteners have the vocabulary to grok the Pledge. None are mature enough to make a promise like that in a meaningful way. And the mass indoctrination element of the practice, without discussion or explanation, is an ugly technique used for generally ugly purposes throughout history. The fact that it's the US, rather than the North Korean commies, or the Iraqi government, doesn't make it less creepy. We're doing the exact same thing those creepy governments do/did. Indoctrination.
Now that I'm an adult, yeah, I'm ready to commit to supporting my country. I don't ally with the flag (a symbol is not the thing it represents), but I do with the Republic (what's left of it). I signed up for Selective Service, ready to go. I sing the national anthem at baseball games (from the audience). We've got a cool country. In many ways the best in history. In some respects, about average.
I think what makes this place worth caring about is not just from the perspective of the accident that I was born here (when knuckleheads chant, "USA!USA!" it strikes me they would be singing "Deutschland Uber Alles" in another time and place). It's that people who weren't born here can be naturalized and belong, and participate fully in political life. (Apart from the statistically unlikely election to office of president/vp). Japan and Germany are admirable countries, but they don't offer a universally accessible vision. They offer the world a lot, but not a chance at citizenship.
I'm aware that the INS is awful, and that the US is, and has been, hostile to immigrants. But those who do make it through the stupid hurdles can belong. Holland strikes me as about the most civilized country in the world, with a sensible and humane government, but I don't know anything about its immigration policies.
I had to speak with the principal who decreed I just had to stay seated and quiet during the recitation. Seemed and seems reasonable.
It's doing a very useful thing for us. The traffic volume is low, but could be extremely high and not freak the server. Bandwidth throttling will allow us to set a ceiling in the unlikely event traffic exceeds fastethernet.
Ya know - he NEVER made that claim. You can't defend yourself against one of these memes, and so Gore didn't even try. He did claim to have supported its development/expansion, which is true.
1) Filtering software is uniformly lame at blocking access to pr0n. It is therefore of dubious utility.
2) Filtering software is uniformly lame at permitting access to non-pr0n. It is therefore impermissibly harmful.
This point has been made over and over- wake up! Your train of thought doesn't even reach the "Access to Pr0n will make my daughter promiscuous" station. If this approach to censorship even WORKED we could then talk about whether it was a good idea, or whether the harm of the false blocks (many of them deliberate and politically motivated) outweighed the supposed good. But it doesn't.
And turn off your radio - Laura S., PhD (Not "Dr." - her PhD is not relevent to her business except for leading the public to assume she is a medical doctor/psychiatrist) is a troll.
She is really, REALLY pretty with a dynamite smile. Big brown eyes...
Not that I'm about to put fan fiction on her doorstop or anything, but she is cute. The performance was average, I guess, but a lot of that is at the mercy of the director, editor, and writer.
Gender ratio close enough to 50-50 that I'd have to take a census to find out what it actually was. And there was an agreeable fashion consensus to present breasts with various push-up contraptions, much like a platter of hors d'oevres.
There are female geeks. They may not be playing Magic, but they are out there!
Actually, it's pretty much the Arabs who are advocating genocide. Eliminating Israel is the preferred goal of a majority of Arabs, no? Only a fringe of Israelis are determined to hold on to all of the West Bank. Look - the Palestinians are under the guns of the IDF right now. What's holding the IDF back? What is preventing them from killing every Palestinian?
If the shoe were on the other foot, would anything hold back Hamas and the PLO? I don't think so.
I'm not denying that Israeli forces have committed some atrocities. It does not look to me that it's policy. Detonating bombs in crowded pizza parlors DOES seem to be Palestinian policy and one supported by a majority of Palestinians.
Well, Lebanon was occupied by Syria at the time, and continues to be right now. It was also hosting (and continues to host) groups dedicated to attacking non-combatants, which I find a useful definition for terrorist. The invasion may have been brutal, it may have been a bad idea - dunno. But there's not a country in the world who would have put up with what was coming from Lebanon had it the means to stop it.
Blowing a terrorist's head off with a cell phone bomb may be extra judicial, but contrast the care taken with the Engineer's profession - preparing for indescriminate slaughter of non-combantants. There is no moral problem here. None. They made sure it was him on the phone before detonating.
Israel has acted with a restraint one can not expect from its enemies. That's the difference between Israel and Iraq. How much restraint would the arab armies show were the relative positions of power reversed?
I have not served. Nor have I belittled Clinton for not serving, as the Republicans have done. Notable dodgers include Phil Graham, Pat Buchanan (former repub) and Newt Gingrich, all of whom argued that Clinton was unfit to serve as CIC.
If a draft dodger is unfit to serve as CIC (as I've heard argued), W and Quayle are not fit. I understand that Quayle at least served out his term, honorably defending our nation's golf courses. They both pulled strings to stay out of harms way and let others do the fighting (and dying). Gore served. Clinton opposed the war in Vietnam - so I find his actions morally consistent. I also find his assessment of American policy at the time correct.
I think that OBL is important. Simple principles of justice say we nail his hide to a pig stye. His charisma appears to have a galvanizing effect on his followers, and the fact that he may still be at large makes him heroic and the US look bad.
9/11 vindicated the notion of nation building, to some extent. Without a chaotic non-country to sit in, the terrorist infrastructure wouldn't have been built there. The places OBL may have gone (or his successors) include Somalia, the Sudan, Pakistan, and Yemen. All have ineffective or non-existent central government control over territory.
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I think so - according to this:
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Of course he has claimed to be objective, truthful, etc. And when caught in a fabrication, he falls back on the entertainer defence. He's a weasel. Something of a fraud, and a coward.
I have heard some property rights enthusiasts also carping about personal responsibility. You may not have the two tastes.
You build in a flood plain/slide zone/beach? Your problem. The laws have been in place for DECADES. You don't get to flout them because you made a stupid purchase. Especially when changing local currents (as a seawall will do) will affect the beach around you.
I don't think the rich should have a different relationship with the law. This is naive, of course. But America is supposed to treat citizens alike.
Lots of other folks have posted the explanation - beaches in CA are PUBLIC property. Nobody owns them except CA citizens. Someone builds a rock wall in a public park, it's vandalism. They do something that accelerates erosion or otherwise degrades the environment, IN A PUBLIC PARK, they should get their heads handed to them.
I'm a slob; I admit it. Even if I didn't, it would be obvious from the way I dress and the state of my desk. But at my job, I am cleaning up the spaghetti mess in the ceiling and trying to lay the wire cleanly from patch panels - switches.
Documenting connections has a real payoff in troubleshooting. But doing stuff on aesthetic grounds is a harder sell. I have a gut sense that a clean layout is important even if you know the destination both ends of a wire whose middle runs through a snarl. Here's what I came up with:
my version of the community policing broken windows theory.
It's psychologically harder to do slipshod, shoddy work if everything around you has been done well. And it's hard to do a proper job if everything else is slipshod. As a matter of housemate politics, it's easier to leave the nth dirty dish in the sink than the first. You are only adding an increment, not changing state.
Doing the Right Thing is contagious. At least, it is among folks I care to work with. Doing the Wrong Thing is catching, too. Morale is higher and people challenge themselves more at a shop that is run well.
That's how I pitched it, and my boss bought it.
I'd prefer naked and petrified celebrities.
Imagine a beowulf galaxy cluster, though.
If you take your marching orders from a metaphysical source, you might as well get a "I hear voices and do what they say" bumper sticker.
Religion inspired and excused colonialism, which lead to the deaths of 90%+ of the indiginous inhabitants of the americas. The Spanish and Portugese brought priests with them, one of whom gave the command to massacre 10,000 incas at a parley.
Then there are the wars around the protestant reformation. The Inquisition. The balkan wars - ethnically identical groups committing genocide based on religious affinity - Catholic vs. Orthodox vs. Muslim/secular.
I'm not sure that the scores talley evenly, but the butcher's bill is too high to tout religiously-inspired ethics.
This is bullshit. Microsoft product teams have an explicit "good enough to sell" approach. They don't have much connection with "the Right Thing." The quality bar is set so that a release candidate offers at least a plausible case that the features will outweigh the bugs/problems. If it meets that criteria, which can be summarized as, "the features work well enough that the bugs we KNOW about and haven't yet fixed will not sufficiently antagonize the customer that we'll lose market share" - the release ships. Now, since bugs and problems take time to surface, and the quality bar is based on the then-current assessment, this calculation is ALWAYS off and you get the legendary shoddiness of MS products (another half dozen crippling holes in the browser you can't get off of your servers!)
I speak from firsthand knowledge as a former product tester at the Borg. (contract - no implant for me!)
All you have to do is compare the # of Apache servers vs. IIS and then do a relative exploit count. It's not even close.
That would just turn it into work. Take my advice - just do it for the love, baby.
Talk about your heirlooms. Not just gramma's ring, but gramma herself!
Proves committment, and you aren't being a manipulated cash cow for the nitwits selling the rocks.
Worked for us (married 10 days now).
If it had been important to her, sure. I'd have happily had the ceremony nostril deep in a sewage lagoon if that was what she wanted. But between an inert, valueless rock and a down payment? No contest!
Every Substance in Universe Now Available in Ranch! http://www.segfault.org/stories/390a2f80-0733dae0. html
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I'm pretty sure there is undeveloped film that would make a better movie than the NRA porn that is Red Dawn.
When I was in junior high I actually thought about what I was reciting, and decided that I wasn't in a position to ally with the US. I might, or might not, but I was W-A-A-A-A-Y to young to make committments like that, and I knew it. Then it hit me that millions of 5 year olds have been reciting empty syllables, and that put me off even more. Look, a pledge has to be understood, or it's a farce. Few kindergarteners have the vocabulary to grok the Pledge. None are mature enough to make a promise like that in a meaningful way. And the mass indoctrination element of the practice, without discussion or explanation, is an ugly technique used for generally ugly purposes throughout history. The fact that it's the US, rather than the North Korean commies, or the Iraqi government, doesn't make it less creepy. We're doing the exact same thing those creepy governments do/did. Indoctrination.
Now that I'm an adult, yeah, I'm ready to commit to supporting my country. I don't ally with the flag (a symbol is not the thing it represents), but I do with the Republic (what's left of it). I signed up for Selective Service, ready to go. I sing the national anthem at baseball games (from the audience). We've got a cool country. In many ways the best in history. In some respects, about average.
I think what makes this place worth caring about is not just from the perspective of the accident that I was born here (when knuckleheads chant, "USA!USA!" it strikes me they would be singing "Deutschland Uber Alles" in another time and place). It's that people who weren't born here can be naturalized and belong, and participate fully in political life. (Apart from the statistically unlikely election to office of president/vp). Japan and Germany are admirable countries, but they don't offer a universally accessible vision. They offer the world a lot, but not a chance at citizenship.
I'm aware that the INS is awful, and that the US is, and has been, hostile to immigrants. But those who do make it through the stupid hurdles can belong. Holland strikes me as about the most civilized country in the world, with a sensible and humane government, but I don't know anything about its immigration policies.
I had to speak with the principal who decreed I just had to stay seated and quiet during the recitation. Seemed and seems reasonable.
It's doing a very useful thing for us. The traffic volume is low, but could be extremely high and not freak the server. Bandwidth throttling will allow us to set a ceiling in the unlikely event traffic exceeds fastethernet.
Ya know - he NEVER made that claim. You can't defend yourself against one of these memes, and so Gore didn't even try. He did claim to have supported its development/expansion, which is true.
"You won't likely see a real-world web site run on thttpd"
I use it - works nicely. It *IS* for a static web site, I admit.
1) Filtering software is uniformly lame at blocking access to pr0n. It is therefore of dubious utility.
2) Filtering software is uniformly lame at permitting access to non-pr0n. It is therefore impermissibly harmful.
This point has been made over and over- wake up! Your train of thought doesn't even reach the "Access to Pr0n will make my daughter promiscuous" station. If this approach to censorship even WORKED we could then talk about whether it was a good idea, or whether the harm of the false blocks (many of them deliberate and politically motivated) outweighed the supposed good. But it doesn't.
And turn off your radio - Laura S., PhD (Not "Dr." - her PhD is not relevent to her business except for leading the public to assume she is a medical doctor/psychiatrist) is a troll.
She is really, REALLY pretty with a dynamite smile. Big brown eyes...
Not that I'm about to put fan fiction on her doorstop or anything, but she is cute. The performance was average, I guess, but a lot of that is at the mercy of the director, editor, and writer.
As the grown up Padme.
Gender ratio close enough to 50-50 that I'd have to take a census to find out what it actually was. And there was an agreeable fashion consensus to present breasts with various push-up contraptions, much like a platter of hors d'oevres.
There are female geeks. They may not be playing Magic, but they are out there!
Actually, it's pretty much the Arabs who are advocating genocide. Eliminating Israel is the preferred goal of a majority of Arabs, no? Only a fringe of Israelis are determined to hold on to all of the West Bank. Look - the Palestinians are under the guns of the IDF right now. What's holding the IDF back? What is preventing them from killing every Palestinian?
If the shoe were on the other foot, would anything hold back Hamas and the PLO? I don't think so.
I'm not denying that Israeli forces have committed some atrocities. It does not look to me that it's policy. Detonating bombs in crowded pizza parlors DOES seem to be Palestinian policy and one supported by a majority of Palestinians.
By the way - I'm not Jewish.
Well, Lebanon was occupied by Syria at the time, and continues to be right now. It was also hosting (and continues to host) groups dedicated to attacking non-combatants, which I find a useful definition for terrorist. The invasion may have been brutal, it may have been a bad idea - dunno. But there's not a country in the world who would have put up with what was coming from Lebanon had it the means to stop it.
Blowing a terrorist's head off with a cell phone bomb may be extra judicial, but contrast the care taken with the Engineer's profession - preparing for indescriminate slaughter of non-combantants. There is no moral problem here. None. They made sure it was him on the phone before detonating.
Israel has acted with a restraint one can not expect from its enemies. That's the difference between Israel and Iraq. How much restraint would the arab armies show were the relative positions of power reversed?
I haven't seen an innaccurate article about MS on the Register. I'd be happy to read any if you provide a link.
It can be the case that the only way to be fair and impartial is to post a vicious slam. I think that is true in this case.
I have not served. Nor have I belittled Clinton for not serving, as the Republicans have done. Notable dodgers include Phil Graham, Pat Buchanan (former repub) and Newt Gingrich, all of whom argued that Clinton was unfit to serve as CIC.
If a draft dodger is unfit to serve as CIC (as I've heard argued), W and Quayle are not fit. I understand that Quayle at least served out his term, honorably defending our nation's golf courses. They both pulled strings to stay out of harms way and let others do the fighting (and dying). Gore served. Clinton opposed the war in Vietnam - so I find his actions morally consistent. I also find his assessment of American policy at the time correct.
I think that OBL is important. Simple principles of justice say we nail his hide to a pig stye. His charisma appears to have a galvanizing effect on his followers, and the fact that he may still be at large makes him heroic and the US look bad.
9/11 vindicated the notion of nation building, to some extent. Without a chaotic non-country to sit in, the terrorist infrastructure wouldn't have been built there. The places OBL may have gone (or his successors) include Somalia, the Sudan, Pakistan, and Yemen. All have ineffective or non-existent central government control over territory.