Man I wish I had mod points right now. This needs more visibility. The Europeans like paying 60% taxes on their energy costs because it makes them feel so smug and superior, then criticize any other country that doesn't follow their social engineering plan.
Actually, I don't reconcile monthly either and I don't get statements. But Quicken downloads my cleared transactions and my balance, and then reconciles the account for me, whenever I hit that download button, every week or so. It includes more than just checks (which I also don't write any more), it reconciles all my electronic transactions. Which I want to do, at least for now, because that's the only sure way I can tell if someone tries to hack my account.
Man I've been steaming about the new splash screen on Quicken. It used to be switchable, now with 2011 it's not. And it sits there for minutes, locked on top and not letting you do anything else. I use Quicken for one reason and one reason only, to be able to pay bills directly and electronically through my register, and to be able to download transactions and reconcile accounts. Other programs offer the former or the latter, but I haven't found any that does both. Once some other software (and I don't really care which platform) offers this, I'm ready to dump the Intuit anti-customer attitude once and for all.
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Woah, woah, woah. Way too many words. I was like "What?" and then I was like "Huh?" and then, uh, I got a little bored.
Funny how historic problems repeat themselves, and we let it. East India Company was so big and its reach so massive that it had it's own flag, its own military, and its administrative section was larger than most governments. Eventually even government officials, who were quite comfortable with someone else managing their nasty colonial duties, began to realize that they had outgrown their own britches and started systematically taking them apart.
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Education also provides all the funding for student aid and non-private grants. They also administer all federally backed student loans.
Now someone like Ron Paul probably wants all that gone anyway. But I for one question where we, as a country, would be today if we didn't provide these services.
IBM sold what was considered a computer in those days to the Nazis, then the Nazis used them to tabulate their kills. Not the same type of computer that you typed your comment in on, but the same basic function; input, compute, output.
Also, many other companies also sold to the Nazis during the WWII period including Standard Oil (Chevron, Amoco, and later BP) and AT&T and many others.
Also, I hope you don't like Volkswagons, Porsches, Audis, Bentleys, Bugattis, Lamborghinis, SEATs, kodas or Scanias.
I've been in many jobs in the last ~15 years where a chat infrastructure is a standard tool of the IT group.
I've also seen managers, who traditionally kept out of the admin channels, start to invade them, in the name of "keeping a pulse of the group's activities and issues..."
No sir, I don't want or need my boss seeing what I type and erase in the chat client before I type a calmer chat and hit enter.
,,,how banks work. Where the data is stored has a lot to do with how much (or little) legal maneuvering is required to gain access to customer financial data.
It's more dynamic than that. Iran is racing to acquire weapons-grade nukes before their economy collapses from the sanctions. In the US Government's view, pushing the clock gives the sanctions a better chance of succeeding.
Also, as the story points out, there's a second attack coded in the worm - one that hasn't played out yet. So, in theory, the clock might still be pushed back further.
"Diplomacy is much harder when you are at war with the other guy."
You Don't Make Peace with your Friends, You Make Peace with your Enemies
Yeah, I've got a box of punchcards - basically a dump of Basic - for a CDC Cyber system running NOS/BE. In theory, if I ever find one, I can load them up and run batch basic.
Good point, but my thinking - and again it's just mine - he didn't go to the UK until the Swedish arrest warrant was issued. At that point, the UK was beholden to Sweden for him, even if the US stepped up with a warrant.
And why didn't they (US) issue a warrant earlier? {shrug}. Strange as it sounds, it does take a while for US authorities to figure out a way to circumvent the existing laws to get their way.
I think, technically, he turned himself in to the UK police.
Which I think is a strategic move on his part. Once Sweden extradites him, in all likelihood, he can't be extradited *from* Sweden by another country (say, US). Note that he got bail in the UK despite basically being a nomad, and all he has to do is spend four hours during daylight hours and four hours during night hours at a friend's mansion. I suspect (and it is just a guess) that the reason is that he agreed not to fight extradition to Sweden. Note also that the criminal charges he faces in Sweden do not carry any mandatory jail time.
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Man I wish I had mod points right now. This needs more visibility. The Europeans like paying 60% taxes on their energy costs because it makes them feel so smug and superior, then criticize any other country that doesn't follow their social engineering plan.
Actually, I don't reconcile monthly either and I don't get statements. But Quicken downloads my cleared transactions and my balance, and then reconciles the account for me, whenever I hit that download button, every week or so. It includes more than just checks (which I also don't write any more), it reconciles all my electronic transactions. Which I want to do, at least for now, because that's the only sure way I can tell if someone tries to hack my account.
Man I've been steaming about the new splash screen on Quicken. It used to be switchable, now with 2011 it's not. And it sits there for minutes, locked on top and not letting you do anything else. I use Quicken for one reason and one reason only, to be able to pay bills directly and electronically through my register, and to be able to download transactions and reconcile accounts. Other programs offer the former or the latter, but I haven't found any that does both. Once some other software (and I don't really care which platform) offers this, I'm ready to dump the Intuit anti-customer attitude once and for all.
'Through this series I will explore the possibilities for our future in conversations with those who are shaping it. Are we heading towards utopia, or dystopia and how we can set our paths? This is an exciting opportunity to discuss the vision of my guests in a new style of show that examines their philosophies and struggles in a deeper and clearer way than has been done before.'
Woah, woah, woah. Way too many words. I was like "What?" and then I was like "Huh?" and then, uh, I got a little bored.
Funny how historic problems repeat themselves, and we let it. East India Company was so big and its reach so massive that it had it's own flag, its own military, and its administrative section was larger than most governments. Eventually even government officials, who were quite comfortable with someone else managing their nasty colonial duties, began to realize that they had outgrown their own britches and started systematically taking them apart.
iMe too :wq
Education also provides all the funding for student aid and non-private grants. They also administer all federally backed student loans.
Now someone like Ron Paul probably wants all that gone anyway. But I for one question where we, as a country, would be today if we didn't provide these services.
Apple has been a consumer electronics company for years. You're just figuring this out?
IBM sold what was considered a computer in those days to the Nazis, then the Nazis used them to tabulate their kills. Not the same type of computer that you typed your comment in on, but the same basic function; input, compute, output.
Also, many other companies also sold to the Nazis during the WWII period including Standard Oil (Chevron, Amoco, and later BP) and AT&T and many others.
Also, I hope you don't like Volkswagons, Porsches, Audis, Bentleys, Bugattis, Lamborghinis, SEATs, kodas or Scanias.
If you worked at Fermilab, they wouldn't be.
Troy is a great guy and will be missed. I've only been here ~3 months and I've already asked him innumerable questions about SLF.
Best of luck from MHD, Troy!
I've been in many jobs in the last ~15 years where a chat infrastructure is a standard tool of the IT group.
I've also seen managers, who traditionally kept out of the admin channels, start to invade them, in the name of "keeping a pulse of the group's activities and issues..."
No sir, I don't want or need my boss seeing what I type and erase in the chat client before I type a calmer chat and hit enter.
Do Not Want.
What a drag it is growing old.
,,,how banks work. Where the data is stored has a lot to do with how much (or little) legal maneuvering is required to gain access to customer financial data.
But but but it's youtubes and it's on the internets so there must be some exception... otherwise they're obviously censoring the internet, I tell ya!
Yeah but it works out great if you don't rent a car and drive an out-of-state vehicle... they don't bill out-of-state plates at all!
It's more dynamic than that. Iran is racing to acquire weapons-grade nukes before their economy collapses from the sanctions. In the US Government's view, pushing the clock gives the sanctions a better chance of succeeding.
Also, as the story points out, there's a second attack coded in the worm - one that hasn't played out yet. So, in theory, the clock might still be pushed back further.
"Diplomacy is much harder when you are at war with the other guy."
You Don't Make Peace with your Friends, You Make Peace with your Enemies
Maybe he/she is worried about releasing The Andromeda Strain...
Well played.
If I do that, what will hold up one end of my coffee table? :)
Yeah, I've got a box of punchcards - basically a dump of Basic - for a CDC Cyber system running NOS/BE. In theory, if I ever find one, I can load them up and run batch basic.
Good point, but my thinking - and again it's just mine - he didn't go to the UK until the Swedish arrest warrant was issued. At that point, the UK was beholden to Sweden for him, even if the US stepped up with a warrant.
And why didn't they (US) issue a warrant earlier? {shrug}. Strange as it sounds, it does take a while for US authorities to figure out a way to circumvent the existing laws to get their way.
I think, technically, he turned himself in to the UK police.
Which I think is a strategic move on his part. Once Sweden extradites him, in all likelihood, he can't be extradited *from* Sweden by another country (say, US). Note that he got bail in the UK despite basically being a nomad, and all he has to do is spend four hours during daylight hours and four hours during night hours at a friend's mansion. I suspect (and it is just a guess) that the reason is that he agreed not to fight extradition to Sweden. Note also that the criminal charges he faces in Sweden do not carry any mandatory jail time.
Indeed. The start of the death of the "Old Sun" was the whole "we're the .com" or whatever it was, right before .com imploded.
The next step was taking an investment from KKR... In fact I wouldn't be surprised if KKR didn't push the Oracle deal.
So whatever Sun *was*, died in about 2002 and got buried in 2007 (KKR). At least Oracle found something to do with the body.
+1 funny