(Yeah, I know. This will almost certainly get modded down to oblivion by KOSdot mods, probably modded "-1 Troll" but screw it. I've got the karma to burn.)
Right wing trolls always bitch about moderation; "that damn liberal media, etc", but I know from first hand that the 'angry right' have a serious (and I think loosely organized) presence on this site. There should be a '-1 bitching about moderation' moderation category.
Also I believe that anyone who thinks that complaints about Haliburton and the other war profiteers can be countered with attacks on the 'liberal media' should be forced to personally pay for every dime they stole from the federal treasury.
some people spend tens of thousands of dollars to go to school to learn how to do research and journalism, and some people actually write their own essays without any help from their friends or families. Those people, unfortunately, have the disadvantage of being honest and intelligent.
Well, I don't know where you when to school, but many (thankfully not most) of the best students that I knew were some of the worst cheaters.
it's only people who can write good resumes that will get the job
Well, if you're looking for a journalist's job, I hope that you could write one hell of a cover letter, at least. The problems that we all have seen are with the editors, as these days people post 'actual news' articles from crackberries with little if any review. Some people will claim that it's a cost issue, but if an editor can't find the time to critical read everything that goes into/onto their charge, they should either find different work, or find help (associate editors or create a peer review system).
Also, a college degree is a foot in the door; if you're more than 5 years into your career and still highlighting your education, you've either got a name brand sheepskin, or a very poor career track. Real world experience matters.
It does seem to be easy to 'permanently' remove, but I'm not a 'fan' of wrapped content of any form.
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Really? How is this not 'news for nerds'? Love him or hate him, he's been one of the most important 'nerds' in the world for the last couple of decades. While I've have only gone over the summary; I believe that it's fairly clear that it's an frank account of his childhood. Also, most of the time when people think of 'nerds' the seem to believe that we're mild, or focused; when in reality we struggle with our 'gifts', perhaps more than most.
Linux has plenty of critics...Just look through the lkml or read the code
No, that's not 'criticism', well not what passes as that for most people. For many it's always loud and abrasive, public cries for attention, and a hard-headed "hold this line" attitude. Sane, logical, thoughtful discussions, while being the most productive, just don't get noticed.
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Those are the 7 commandments of 'Treating People Right in the Workplace'...
So, he knows the real first rule of management; Present the ideas of others as if they were your own.
Sticker booths, aka photo booths like the ones you'll see at the beach, but they seem to be bigger.
UFO catcher aka claw vending machines like the ones you'll see at walmart.
because 9/11 wasn't Bush's mess either, he just got stuck with it.
Bull! Bush was President for 9 months before it happened. He even had a security briefing declaring "Bin Laden determined to strike in the U.S.", other papers detailed young Arabic men taking flying lesions with no desire to learn to land. He and his staff weren't even able to put that puzzle together; mostly because they didn't listen to anyone that wasn't a republican stooge.
Then when it came time to clean up the sink hole in Afghanistan, he chose instead to put troops in position to attack Iraq. It's likely that Bin Laden slipped across the border due to it. Next he invaded Iraq, which a very competent U.S. military was able to quickly crush. Unfortunately, instead of barracking what was left of the Iraqi army, they decided to 'save some money' and just send a half a million armed men out into the streets. Hell that's just the short list, from the first couple of years; the following 6 years were peppered with bad planning, poor responses, huge debts, privacy invasion, responsibility ducking and a general failure of leadership.
For a man who in 2000 sold himself as 'bringing honor back to the White House' and 'a uniter not a divider', he sure did a lousy job as President. It amazes me that people such as yourself still try to blame Clinton for the ills of the last eight years. But I do understand it on some levels, it's the last gasp of the failed Republican permanent campaign.
Even if Iraq comes out of it's mess (our mess) successfully, Bush will be easily remembered as the worst President in our history.
So what you're saying is that having a choice is worse than being forced to take whatever Stevy decides he wants you to have.
I didn't say that at all; you did. Actually the only reason why I don't use it full time on my main machine are the common complains of 'games' and 'VPN client'.
Does this executive order [whitehouse.gov] seem a little contradictory to anyone else
Only if you don't compare it to the Bush executive order which it replaces. Basically, it'll make it really hard for Bush to continue to hide the crimes of his administration.
Kinda my point, although I didn't say so explicitly; the post that I was replying to said "Linux is easy enough to pare down", which in reality, it isn't.
I've used Linux off and on since 1998, and I've found the hardest part of the install was figuring out which distribution was most appropriate for my needs at the time (well, ease of install is usually the most important factor, but hey that's a need).
It's easy enough for someone who really knows what they are doing, and then post that as a distribution. The average user would find it easier to modify Windows than some random Linux distribution, if only because of the homogeneity of it (Windows biggest security problem, but that's not this issue).
Windows 7 biggest advantage is that it's the second generation of a major rewrite. (like Win 95 to Win 98) The third generation should be pretty good, but only if they don't try to use it as a 'bridge' like Windows Millennium.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution...
People always confuse 'delegated' with 'enumerated'. What's funny is that by the time that he wrote that amendment, Madison was well aware of what many saw of over reaching of the 'general welfare' clause, yet the ninth amendment uses 'enumerated' and the Tenth 'delegated'. There are many ways to delegate something, including a general welfare mandate.
"to form a more perfect union" was a reference to the failure of the Articles of Confederation, and the need for the (at the time) new federal agreement. It's a great idea, and has become an enduring mandate, but I don't think it was meant that way.
Then when they tell you their answer, use that to dismiss all the verses they tend to used against people.
Works every time.
Not really, while you might actually 'win' the argument, it reminds me of the old saying "Never get into a wrestling match with a pig. You both get dirty -- and the pig likes it."
Their tenets are not intended to be logical, but to gain attention. More so, attacking them with logical discussions is almost counter productive as some who hear the discussion may fall for the 'truthful middle fallacy'. This is a case where it's best just to call them nasty names to make yourself feel better and move on.
Seriously, the ship captain might object to installing it. Besides from the summary, I get the impression that email is already included, just limited in size.
A ship owner might find the solution really useful, so it's not bad to mention, but I doubt if it would be useful in this situation.
I'm fairly certain that the ease of malpractice suits and the rate at which they crop up is a huge reason for increased health costs.
While I've seen this type of conjecture many, many times, I have never seen any real data on it. How many malpractice lawsuits are dismissed? Sure, some doctors are driven out of business by the price they pay for insurance, but some drivers can't afford car insurance; what's the average price for it? Unsurprisingly, bad doctors would pay more, just like bad drivers.
No matter what the numbers at least many of the lawsuits were filed by good honest people who were hurt by malpractice. As the AMA is unwilling to create national database of bad doctors, and often seem to support even the worst of them, suing them out of business actually saves lives.
well, it's late, and I reread the Oneness Pentecostalism article, and 'rejects it altogether' is certainly too strong of a statement, but that's kinda my point; religion is a tough subject. We should focus on what we share in common, rather than what separates us; perhaps there will be fewer wars if we do.
To say that these four religions believe in the same God demonstrates a gross lack of understanding.
Sure the dogma is different, but the root of all four was Abraham.
Those differences also are what define these four religions as separate, independent religions, and to say otherwise belittles all of them.
Perhaps it's a little flippant of me to say that 'only the last prophet is different', but as a broad generalization, I don't believe that it's wrong. However any discussion of religion is fraught with challenges. For example you describe Christianity as belief in the Holy Trinity, but as you likely well know, even within the Christian churches, there are profoundly different views on that doctrine. Even your denomination has a branch that rejects it altogether. Of course you might not consider such people as Christians (or Pentecostal for that matter), but hey, that's one of the things wars are fought over.
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, which is slower than the previous one, and that requires bigger hardware.
Well, Win2k is faster than XP, perhaps we should downgrade to that? Oh, wait, Windows 98 is faster than Win2k. I'm wondering how quick MS-DOS would run on a quad core!
(Yeah, I know. This will almost certainly get modded down to oblivion by KOSdot mods, probably modded "-1 Troll" but screw it. I've got the karma to burn.)
Right wing trolls always bitch about moderation; "that damn liberal media, etc", but I know from first hand that the 'angry right' have a serious (and I think loosely organized) presence on this site. There should be a '-1 bitching about moderation' moderation category.
Also I believe that anyone who thinks that complaints about Haliburton and the other war profiteers can be countered with attacks on the 'liberal media' should be forced to personally pay for every dime they stole from the federal treasury.
some people spend tens of thousands of dollars to go to school to learn how to do research and journalism, and some people actually write their own essays without any help from their friends or families. Those people, unfortunately, have the disadvantage of being honest and intelligent.
Well, I don't know where you when to school, but many (thankfully not most) of the best students that I knew were some of the worst cheaters.
it's only people who can write good resumes that will get the job
Well, if you're looking for a journalist's job, I hope that you could write one hell of a cover letter, at least. The problems that we all have seen are with the editors, as these days people post 'actual news' articles from crackberries with little if any review. Some people will claim that it's a cost issue, but if an editor can't find the time to critical read everything that goes into/onto their charge, they should either find different work, or find help (associate editors or create a peer review system).
Also, a college degree is a foot in the door; if you're more than 5 years into your career and still highlighting your education, you've either got a name brand sheepskin, or a very poor career track. Real world experience matters.
But that just demonstrates the stupidity and lemming-like nature of hip, cool, trendy people.
It's true that some people use items to improve social status, others attempt it by making snarky comments.
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It does seem to be easy to 'permanently' remove, but I'm not a 'fan' of wrapped content of any form.
Really? How is this not 'news for nerds'? Love him or hate him, he's been one of the most important 'nerds' in the world for the last couple of decades. While I've have only gone over the summary; I believe that it's fairly clear that it's an frank account of his childhood. Also, most of the time when people think of 'nerds' the seem to believe that we're mild, or focused; when in reality we struggle with our 'gifts', perhaps more than most.
I live within minutes of an Interstate that can get me onto a vast 70-mph network.
Me too, that is when you can call I-95 a '70 mph' road.
Linux has plenty of critics...Just look through the lkml or read the code
No, that's not 'criticism', well not what passes as that for most people. For many it's always loud and abrasive, public cries for attention, and a hard-headed "hold this line" attitude. Sane, logical, thoughtful discussions, while being the most productive, just don't get noticed.
Those are the 7 commandments of 'Treating People Right in the Workplace'...
So, he knows the real first rule of management; Present the ideas of others as if they were your own.
Suppose you set up a TLD ...but the rules of using it are different from the rest of the web
So instead of simply using the DNS to resolve to an IP address, how would you route '.bob'?
Sticker booths, aka photo booths like the ones you'll see at the beach, but they seem to be bigger. UFO catcher aka claw vending machines like the ones you'll see at walmart.
because 9/11 wasn't Bush's mess either, he just got stuck with it.
Bull! Bush was President for 9 months before it happened. He even had a security briefing declaring "Bin Laden determined to strike in the U.S.", other papers detailed young Arabic men taking flying lesions with no desire to learn to land. He and his staff weren't even able to put that puzzle together; mostly because they didn't listen to anyone that wasn't a republican stooge.
Then when it came time to clean up the sink hole in Afghanistan, he chose instead to put troops in position to attack Iraq. It's likely that Bin Laden slipped across the border due to it. Next he invaded Iraq, which a very competent U.S. military was able to quickly crush. Unfortunately, instead of barracking what was left of the Iraqi army, they decided to 'save some money' and just send a half a million armed men out into the streets. Hell that's just the short list, from the first couple of years; the following 6 years were peppered with bad planning, poor responses, huge debts, privacy invasion, responsibility ducking and a general failure of leadership.
For a man who in 2000 sold himself as 'bringing honor back to the White House' and 'a uniter not a divider', he sure did a lousy job as President. It amazes me that people such as yourself still try to blame Clinton for the ills of the last eight years. But I do understand it on some levels, it's the last gasp of the failed Republican permanent campaign.
Even if Iraq comes out of it's mess (our mess) successfully, Bush will be easily remembered as the worst President in our history.
So what you're saying is that having a choice is worse than being forced to take whatever Stevy decides he wants you to have.
I didn't say that at all; you did. Actually the only reason why I don't use it full time on my main machine are the common complains of 'games' and 'VPN client'.
Does this executive order [whitehouse.gov] seem a little contradictory to anyone else
Only if you don't compare it to the Bush executive order which it replaces. Basically, it'll make it really hard for Bush to continue to hide the crimes of his administration.
Kinda my point, although I didn't say so explicitly; the post that I was replying to said "Linux is easy enough to pare down", which in reality, it isn't.
I've used Linux off and on since 1998, and I've found the hardest part of the install was figuring out which distribution was most appropriate for my needs at the time (well, ease of install is usually the most important factor, but hey that's a need).
but at least Linux is easy enough to pare down.
It's easy enough for someone who really knows what they are doing, and then post that as a distribution. The average user would find it easier to modify Windows than some random Linux distribution, if only because of the homogeneity of it (Windows biggest security problem, but that's not this issue).
Windows 7 biggest advantage is that it's the second generation of a major rewrite. (like Win 95 to Win 98) The third generation should be pretty good, but only if they don't try to use it as a 'bridge' like Windows Millennium.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution...
People always confuse 'delegated' with 'enumerated'. What's funny is that by the time that he wrote that amendment, Madison was well aware of what many saw of over reaching of the 'general welfare' clause, yet the ninth amendment uses 'enumerated' and the Tenth 'delegated'. There are many ways to delegate something, including a general welfare mandate.
"to form a more perfect union" was a reference to the failure of the Articles of Confederation, and the need for the (at the time) new federal agreement. It's a great idea, and has become an enduring mandate, but I don't think it was meant that way.
Then when they tell you their answer, use that to dismiss all the verses they tend to used against people. Works every time.
Not really, while you might actually 'win' the argument, it reminds me of the old saying "Never get into a wrestling match with a pig. You both get dirty -- and the pig likes it."
Their tenets are not intended to be logical, but to gain attention. More so, attacking them with logical discussions is almost counter productive as some who hear the discussion may fall for the 'truthful middle fallacy'. This is a case where it's best just to call them nasty names to make yourself feel better and move on.
It requires ... a hundred foot antenna.
Hey, look that ship is happy to see us!
Seriously, the ship captain might object to installing it. Besides from the summary, I get the impression that email is already included, just limited in size.
A ship owner might find the solution really useful, so it's not bad to mention, but I doubt if it would be useful in this situation.
I have a perpetual issue with customers using Word to type in plain text
Worse, I've had 'technical' people take my 'txt' formatted documentation and paste them badly into Word, as it's more 'professional'.
I'm fairly certain that the ease of malpractice suits and the rate at which they crop up is a huge reason for increased health costs.
While I've seen this type of conjecture many, many times, I have never seen any real data on it. How many malpractice lawsuits are dismissed? Sure, some doctors are driven out of business by the price they pay for insurance, but some drivers can't afford car insurance; what's the average price for it? Unsurprisingly, bad doctors would pay more, just like bad drivers.
No matter what the numbers at least many of the lawsuits were filed by good honest people who were hurt by malpractice. As the AMA is unwilling to create national database of bad doctors, and often seem to support even the worst of them, suing them out of business actually saves lives.
well, it's late, and I reread the Oneness Pentecostalism article, and 'rejects it altogether' is certainly too strong of a statement, but that's kinda my point; religion is a tough subject. We should focus on what we share in common, rather than what separates us; perhaps there will be fewer wars if we do.
To say that these four religions believe in the same God demonstrates a gross lack of understanding.
Sure the dogma is different, but the root of all four was Abraham.
Those differences also are what define these four religions as separate, independent religions, and to say otherwise belittles all of them.
Perhaps it's a little flippant of me to say that 'only the last prophet is different', but as a broad generalization, I don't believe that it's wrong. However any discussion of religion is fraught with challenges. For example you describe Christianity as belief in the Holy Trinity, but as you likely well know, even within the Christian churches, there are profoundly different views on that doctrine. Even your denomination has a branch that rejects it altogether. Of course you might not consider such people as Christians (or Pentecostal for that matter), but hey, that's one of the things wars are fought over.
Allah is Jewish.
Actually, Jews, Christians, Muslims, and Mormons, all worship the same God, they just disagree on who was the last prophet.