I've been unable to contact any of my political blogs all day. My guess is it's called TRAFFIC because people (especially the west coast) are trying to get a sixth sense of what's going on...
That networking would be more and more private? Basically it's gone back to word of mouth and individual trades.. much like it's been for years via "sneaker net".
(y'know we only have rotate the port frequencies... or was it port harmonics... to keep them from getting a bead on us...)
"He might be gone, because if he hadn't complied, we might have had to go to war..."
And if so, then the casualty count probably would've been the same.
BTW, anybody have any civilian casualty counts on Bosnia?
War sucks. I'm not defending Bush' actions in Iraq.
But putting up a post that basically says "100,000 civilians dead, remember to vote!" implying that this wouldn't have happened under the other candidate is hubris. Especially when the other candidate says he would've gone to war under another set of circumstances!
That Kerry has "always" sais he'd have gone to war to that Brokaw is suprised at Kerry's response to the question "If you were President, Hussein would still be in power"
I can't cite any sources on the 'net (obviously not using the right keywords) but I had a history class which talked about religious armies having "special forces" troops that would go by names of something like "the Hand of God". Essentially striking for God by sneaking into enemy cities and doing damage to put the fear of God in people.
Muslim society probably has a similar concept. So a call for "God" to kill Bush could be construed as a call to action for those forces. (Remember, the CIA swears up and down that Bin Laden gives marching orders embedded in his speeches and uses email for similar purposes... why not embed an order just before an election in a "prayer for dubyah" with a request for his assassination in a public blog?)
You can argue that if healthcare were "free" people would go to doctors first before the problem got to an emergency state, but I don't think that's the case.
True, lack of money will make you think twice about seeing a doctor. But there's also just plain fear, laziness and overall bad attitudes to health in this country to begin with. (AKA Super Size Me)
Plus, you'll get the current problem they have with 911 (the emergency phone number in the US) where everybody and their brother calls up the line to get the time, their cat out of a tree of whatever.
Clinton ordered Reno to stop Californians from smoking weed for medicinal purposes, even though they made it legal.
Clinton defended homosexuality by implementing a don't ask don't tell policy.
Lieberman (Democrat VP candidate of 2000) voted for the internet child protection act (to ban pornography).
Liberals got Dr. Laura's TV show banned before it was aired and tried to do the same thing with a smear campaign on Mel Gibson's "The Passion" (so much so that he had to go through a tiny distribution company with his own money). But when Eisner turned down Fahrenheit 9/11 (which the contract with Miramax allowed him to do) and offered it back to Miramax (which the contract allowed him to do and as had been done with Moore's last movie), Liberals screamed censorhip and political shenannigans.
People on both sides of the aisles fight for freedom and people on both sides of the aisles are greedy power barons. But one side is the "good guys" and the other is the "bad guys" can you tell which is which?
And easily shown illegal... You're forcing me to "pay" something to get into the lottery. That's illegal in most states (that's why you can get free game pieces for the fast food games). So I should be allowed to enter the lottery without voting and that kills the logic right there.
Seriously, it's stupid. Paying people for their votes won't make government any more responsive which is why people aren't voting to begin with.
Is why are bookeepers thriving? Curiously while many words are given to the fall of programming and its association with being a blacksmith none are given as to why bookeeping is thriving. (as if programming is some sort of manual labor requiring materials while bookeeping isn't)
Part of the answer is in the about the author blurb: "Max Goff is a senior consultant and principal of Decillion, Inc., a boutique M&A and technology consulting firm located in New Albany, Mississippi."
Ahh... he's a "bookeeper".
Bookeeping thrives because the bookeepers are integrated into the business/government relationship. They tell the government how to change the tax law to be more fair or to get more money and in turn bookeepers tell the citizenry how to get around the new tax laws and/or move their money around to get maximum effect and minimize loss. By continuing to "churn the rules" people can never use science to standardize the process into a program and let a machine handle the bookeeping for them.
Or you could say the bookeepers devoured the blacksmiths. Using their techniques to standardize and introducing assembly-line and efficiency techniques to minimize cost while maximizing profit (and turn everything into consumerist widgets for people to buy) they made the blacksmiths redundant while insuring their own survival.
Blacksmithy "died" because the bookeepers and the lawyers stranglehold individual development. In the US, it is impossible to start your own car company because the "big-3" will sick their bookeepers on you and lock you out of the marketplace. If there were more car manufacturers there would be more competition and hence MORE need for metals/tools development to push the boundaries of efficiency and return on car development. But such development is stagnated, trickled out by the industry only when absolutely forced to and held back by the bookeepers to continue to maximize profits.
What's this have to do with programming? Everything. If the bookeepers insist that you don't need innovation anymore and Windows is "good enough" then software has reached its plateau and the world only needs specialist programmers for custom (and very expensive) jobs while relying on some assembly-line guys in third world countries to slap a GUI together and tie it to a database. But if you keep changing the environment (churning the rules) you need pros to keep up with the latest advances.
Are there any programming examples of this? Yeah...In the world of video game programming. Where there are NO standards because everyone continually pushes the boundaries. A games' technology is outdated as soon as it hits the shelves. And open source programming... where a free browser like FireBox is gaining market share on an embedded, pre-installed, free browser maintained until recently by the barest minimum of programmers (ie assmebly line people).
The only validated fact is that the Sproul ran a Republican leaning get out the vote drive with standing orders to only offer registration forms to those who claimed to be Republican. That's shady, but not illegal and certainly not vote "fraud".
The rest of the accusations of registration destruction is all hearsay and could very well be a counter campaign by the DNC to smear the Republicans. Not true you say? Well what does page 66 of the DNC manual say? "pre-emptive" strikes on vote intimidation and fraud... hmmm...?
I'm not going to say that the RNC is a bastion of honesty and purity. If there's proof this guy ordered the destruction of Democratic registration forms, hang him high. But if you think the DNC doesn't have their own version of Karl Rove, you're seriously mistaken.
Even when said name reading show was delayed until the evening of many election primaries? And not say... oh 3 weeks later on Memorial Day? The traditional day to honor the military veterans and those who gave their lives in war?
Ptpptht! Every office I've been in in the last 10 years has required a small nuclear power plant for each phone. (And my current office requires a PC connected to the PBX to route the calls)
So for corporate use, nah do whatever. But don't change out the home system until we have a suitable alternative. (redundant cell phone tower power, etc)
My parents were in the hurricane in Florida and lost power (of course). No electricity, no internet, no cordless phones and the cell phone towers were out as well.
The corded phone plugged into the wall outlet worked for hours after the power went out and was on days before the power was restored.
In the US the phone system is required to have its own separate power supply/source to ensure that communications continue.
I'm not a luddite, I'm all for VOIP, cordless phones, etc. But in this case, I also like redundancy!
Optimus Prime: "Hey Spike, where're you going?" Spike: "I'm going to go vote! I have the power to choose clean water, new schools and do my civic duty to the country." Optimus Prime: "Now you're talking!" Everybody: "Transform the world, Vote!"
Or maybe a nice Thundercats ad Snarf: "Meow, Lion-o you know who Dick Cheney reminds me of?" Lion-o: "No Snarf, who?" Snarf: "Mumm-ra! That's why I'm voting for John Kerry, he won't blow up Thundara the way Bush/Cheney are!" Lion-o: "Wow Snarf, I like our planet. I never thought of it that way. Maybe I should vote in this election." Panthro: "Snarf, get your liberal butt out of here!" Snarf: "Panthro, you're such a closet homosexual!" Everyone: "Hahahahahahaha! Get out the vote!"
But then we're a generation that was taught environmental rights and wrongs by Captain Planet and the Planeteers...
No wonder the world laughs at us. We don't watch news programs or stay informed... We have animated characters tell us what to think and how to act.
The articles' numbers say 35% of a billion people can't read... so basically you're looking at a nationwide literacy program to handle 350 MILLION people.
It's nearly unimaginable that India has that level of scale that makes it more efficient to launch a satellite.
And yet, my local city government can't seem to figure out how to keep 13 high schools funded properly... (even though they claim they're raising taxes every year to do so...)
"To further clarify the Court's ruling, Justice Blackmun compared the government's tactics against Dowling to a case the Court had previously considered. That case involved a magazine, the Nation, which had published unauthorized excerpts from former President Gerald Ford's then soon-to-be-published memoirs.(note 129) Under the government's theory of the Dowling case, the Nation would have been guilty of interstate trans-portation of stolen goods for mailing magazine subscriptions when, of course, the magazines themselves were not stolen.(note 130)"
It appears that it's a generalized protection for political speech.
Slashdot Mirror
Okay, uh... Decimated? Laid Waste? Ceti Alpha 5?
Glaciers before... No Glaciers now...
That means...
Mars was destroyed by global warming!!!
(Yeah it's tongue in cheek... but it's gotta make you think!)
I've been unable to contact any of my political blogs all day. My guess is it's called TRAFFIC because people (especially the west coast) are trying to get a sixth sense of what's going on...
That networking would be more and more private? Basically it's gone back to word of mouth and individual trades.. much like it's been for years via "sneaker net".
(y'know we only have rotate the port frequencies... or was it port harmonics... to keep them from getting a bead on us...)
If you want a nice ad, try this one... it's a "get out the vote ad" too, it's a PSA that's highly critical of Kerry.
http://www.clubforgrowth.net/
Wrong thinking will be just as quickly punished. But no no... it's the Republicans and wacko right wingers who are orwellian...
Remember, in this time of spirit and liberty and free speech and free thought, you better think the way WE do, or else...
"or else what?"
"or else we will be very angry with you and and we will write down how angry we are and send it to you in a letter and then mod you down."
"Fine Hans... why don't you step a little to the left..."
"He might be gone, because if he hadn't complied, we might have had to go to war..."
And if so, then the casualty count probably would've been the same.
BTW, anybody have any civilian casualty counts on Bosnia?
War sucks. I'm not defending Bush' actions in Iraq.
But putting up a post that basically says "100,000 civilians dead, remember to vote!" implying that this wouldn't have happened under the other candidate is hubris. Especially when the other candidate says he would've gone to war under another set of circumstances!
That Kerry has "always" sais he'd have gone to war to that Brokaw is suprised at Kerry's response to the question "If you were President, Hussein would still be in power"
Oh and Kerry is for the draft too... hmmmm...
See the link So the casualty count would probably have been the same. Remember to vote!
I can't cite any sources on the 'net (obviously not using the right keywords) but I had a history class which talked about religious armies having "special forces" troops that would go by names of something like "the Hand of God". Essentially striking for God by sneaking into enemy cities and doing damage to put the fear of God in people.
Muslim society probably has a similar concept. So a call for "God" to kill Bush could be construed as a call to action for those forces. (Remember, the CIA swears up and down that Bin Laden gives marching orders embedded in his speeches and uses email for similar purposes... why not embed an order just before an election in a "prayer for dubyah" with a request for his assassination in a public blog?)
You can argue that if healthcare were "free" people would go to doctors first before the problem got to an emergency state, but I don't think that's the case.
True, lack of money will make you think twice about seeing a doctor. But there's also just plain fear, laziness and overall bad attitudes to health in this country to begin with. (AKA Super Size Me)
Plus, you'll get the current problem they have with 911 (the emergency phone number in the US) where everybody and their brother calls up the line to get the time, their cat out of a tree of whatever.
Clinton ordered Reno to stop Californians from smoking weed for medicinal purposes, even though they made it legal.
Clinton defended homosexuality by implementing a don't ask don't tell policy.
Lieberman (Democrat VP candidate of 2000) voted for the internet child protection act (to ban pornography).
Liberals got Dr. Laura's TV show banned before it was aired and tried to do the same thing with a smear campaign on Mel Gibson's "The Passion" (so much so that he had to go through a tiny distribution company with his own money). But when Eisner turned down Fahrenheit 9/11 (which the contract with Miramax allowed him to do) and offered it back to Miramax (which the contract allowed him to do and as had been done with Moore's last movie), Liberals screamed censorhip and political shenannigans.
People on both sides of the aisles fight for freedom and people on both sides of the aisles are greedy power barons. But one side is the "good guys" and the other is the "bad guys" can you tell which is which?
Or does it really matter?
And easily shown illegal... You're forcing me to "pay" something to get into the lottery. That's illegal in most states (that's why you can get free game pieces for the fast food games). So I should be allowed to enter the lottery without voting and that kills the logic right there.
Seriously, it's stupid. Paying people for their votes won't make government any more responsive which is why people aren't voting to begin with.
Is why are bookeepers thriving? Curiously while many words are given to the fall of programming and its association with being a blacksmith none are given as to why bookeeping is thriving. (as if programming is some sort of manual labor requiring materials while bookeeping isn't)
Part of the answer is in the about the author blurb:
"Max Goff is a senior consultant and principal of Decillion, Inc., a boutique M&A and technology consulting firm located in New Albany, Mississippi."
Ahh... he's a "bookeeper".
Bookeeping thrives because the bookeepers are integrated into the business/government relationship. They tell the government how to change the tax law to be more fair or to get more money and in turn bookeepers tell the citizenry how to get around the new tax laws and/or move their money around to get maximum effect and minimize loss. By continuing to "churn the rules" people can never use science to standardize the process into a program and let a machine handle the bookeeping for them.
Or you could say the bookeepers devoured the blacksmiths. Using their techniques to standardize and introducing assembly-line and efficiency techniques to minimize cost while maximizing profit (and turn everything into consumerist widgets for people to buy) they made the blacksmiths redundant while insuring their own survival.
Blacksmithy "died" because the bookeepers and the lawyers stranglehold individual development. In the US, it is impossible to start your own car company because the "big-3" will sick their bookeepers on you and lock you out of the marketplace. If there were more car manufacturers there would be more competition and hence MORE need for metals/tools development to push the boundaries of efficiency and return on car development. But such development is stagnated, trickled out by the industry only when absolutely forced to and held back by the bookeepers to continue to maximize profits.
What's this have to do with programming? Everything. If the bookeepers insist that you don't need innovation anymore and Windows is "good enough" then software has reached its plateau and the world only needs specialist programmers for custom (and very expensive) jobs while relying on some assembly-line guys in third world countries to slap a GUI together and tie it to a database.
But if you keep changing the environment (churning the rules) you need pros to keep up with the latest advances.
Are there any programming examples of this? Yeah...In the world of video game programming. Where there are NO standards because everyone continually pushes the boundaries. A games' technology is outdated as soon as it hits the shelves.
And open source programming... where a free browser like FireBox is gaining market share on an embedded, pre-installed, free browser maintained until recently by the barest minimum of programmers (ie assmebly line people).
But that's just my 2 cents...
The only validated fact is that the Sproul ran a Republican leaning get out the vote drive with standing orders to only offer registration forms to those who claimed to be Republican. That's shady, but not illegal and certainly not vote "fraud".
The rest of the accusations of registration destruction is all hearsay and could very well be a counter campaign by the DNC to smear the Republicans. Not true you say? Well what does page 66 of the DNC manual say? "pre-emptive" strikes on vote intimidation and fraud... hmmm...?
I'm not going to say that the RNC is a bastion of honesty and purity. If there's proof this guy ordered the destruction of Democratic registration forms, hang him high. But if you think the DNC doesn't have their own version of Karl Rove, you're seriously mistaken.
Even when said name reading show was delayed until the evening of many election primaries? And not say... oh 3 weeks later on Memorial Day? The traditional day to honor the military veterans and those who gave their lives in war?
hates Bill O'Reilly...
I'd see we were talking about corporate PBX's...
Ptpptht! Every office I've been in in the last 10 years has required a small nuclear power plant for each phone. (And my current office requires a PC connected to the PBX to route the calls)
So for corporate use, nah do whatever.
But don't change out the home system until we have a suitable alternative. (redundant cell phone tower power, etc)
My parents were in the hurricane in Florida and lost power (of course). No electricity, no internet, no cordless phones and the cell phone towers were out as well.
The corded phone plugged into the wall outlet worked for hours after the power went out and was on days before the power was restored.
In the US the phone system is required to have its own separate power supply/source to ensure that communications continue.
I'm not a luddite, I'm all for VOIP, cordless phones, etc. But in this case, I also like redundancy!
I was going to start with that, but figured not as many people would get that.
Get out the vote?
Optimus Prime: "Hey Spike, where're you going?"
Spike: "I'm going to go vote! I have the power to choose clean water, new schools and do my civic duty to the country."
Optimus Prime: "Now you're talking!"
Everybody: "Transform the world, Vote!"
Or maybe a nice Thundercats ad
Snarf: "Meow, Lion-o you know who Dick Cheney reminds me of?"
Lion-o: "No Snarf, who?"
Snarf: "Mumm-ra! That's why I'm voting for John Kerry, he won't blow up Thundara the way Bush/Cheney are!"
Lion-o: "Wow Snarf, I like our planet. I never thought of it that way. Maybe I should vote in this election."
Panthro: "Snarf, get your liberal butt out of here!"
Snarf: "Panthro, you're such a closet homosexual!"
Everyone: "Hahahahahahaha! Get out the vote!"
But then we're a generation that was taught environmental rights and wrongs by Captain Planet and the Planeteers...
No wonder the world laughs at us. We don't watch news programs or stay informed... We have animated characters tell us what to think and how to act.
That's brilliant... Thumbs-up guys...
"Hey we're going legit now...our old company name is offensive... should we change it?"
"Not really..."
The articles' numbers say 35% of a billion people can't read... so basically you're looking at a nationwide literacy program to handle 350 MILLION people.
It's nearly unimaginable that India has that level of scale that makes it more efficient to launch a satellite.
And yet, my local city government can't seem to figure out how to keep 13 high schools funded properly... (even though they claim they're raising taxes every year to do so...)
Edusat means Channel 1.
It's a weird irony that it's cheaper to send up a satellite than it is to build schools to support everyone.
http://law.indiana.edu/fclj/pubs/v47/no3/schwartz. html#II
(just before section c)
It appears that it's a generalized protection for political speech.