With a budget proposed by a Democratic President, written by a Democratic House, passed by a Democratic House and Senate, and signed by a Democratic President.
In response to a crisis that was created by a series of administrations and Congresses that have been alternately controlled by the Dems and the Republicans over the past 20 years. If Obama and Congress hadn't voted in that budget to pay to clean up this mess, where would we be? Staring at conditions rivaling the Great Depression, I'll bet. Now Obama is trying to figure out how we're going to pay off the debt that we've had to incur.
I think the evidence is pretty clear that the fantasy is a deeply held belief of both Parties.
I'm not so sure that this is truly the case any longer. I think it's far more likely that there is a hard core of Republicans who believe this and just about nobody else. It's hard to tell, but Spector's defection back to the Democrats has me wondering if maybe there isn't a solid bloc of moderate Republicans who are trying to figure out how to jettison these toxic idiots right now, along with their fanatical brethren amongst those calling themselves Christian evangelicals.
Wow. Whatever happened to trusting people to do their jobs and just dealing with the outliers? You do realise that your management has virtually guaranteed that any employee who is at all worthwhile is going to be looking for a job elsewhere as soon as this gets around, right?
Two?!? One squad of US Marines is a heavily armed element; 8 or 9 M16s or M4s, a couple of grenade launchers, an M240 or M249 MG, and a bunch of AT4s (replacements for the old LAW rocket). More than enough to deal with the level of threat we're seeing in Somali waters. If the pirates want to rachet up, at least you'd have a force in place to delay them long enough to bring up the Navy.
I grew up in Judy Garland's home town. The old farts still occasionally talk about watching the Gumms getting their toddler up on stage in one of the local theaters before a movie to do a little vaudeville. I grew up watching movies in that town in the '60s and '70s. Even then, while you could see how much the glory of the old theaters had faded, you could still enjoy a show in a really nice environment. Now? Not so much.:(
I'm glad that Apple's UI fits the way that you work. However, stating that
"...it combines a UI on par with or better than Windows with the 'Unix like' functionality offered by Linux"
assumes that you see the the OS/X UI as far better than that of any Linux UI.
That is not necessarily a universal truth. I have access to Macs, Linux, and XP boxes here at work and at home. Of the three, I would far rather use KDE or fluxbox than either XP or OS/X. Therefore, for me, Linux is my OS of choice.
Piffle. In the *incredibly* *really* *real* olden days it was a dull chisel.
What? You think those stone tablets engraved themselves? You try getting a mammoth to boot without one some time. How do you think we ended up with one eating buttercups in a snow storm. Worst case of cross linked parameter files I've ever seen...
Odd, isn't it, that despite the more or less continuous stock buyback program for the past 10 years, the price of their stock has remained stagnant? I've often wondered about that...
Funny, I work for a U.S. company with more than 50,000 employees. We've got IBM mainframes, AIX, a little Solaris, a little HP-UX, Windows 2003 servers, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. We've got some old databases on the mainframes that have been running the bread and butter apps of our business for more than 30 years, DB2, Oracle, MS-SQL, a little MySQL, a little postgresql. Our use of Oracle is limited to a single relatively large application that happens to be hosted on our HP-UX environment. Still, it's dwarfed by the traffic that flows through all of the other systems.
If I suggested to my senior management that we should move any of our OS support over to a database vendor who had just gotten into the game (and oh by the way, the OS is tweaked heavily to support a database that has very limited deployment), I'd be laughed out of the room. Especially when it's from a vendor like Oracle that has historically has given us rotten service in the first place.
We buy appliances for single purpose applications, not server farms. I'd be told to come back with a vendor with a proven track record.
So, let's revisit this question in 5 or 10 years. If Oracle has developed a proven track record of consistent support over time, developed a more generic distro (or created a black box deployment model), and vastly improved their customer service, we'll talk.:)
I understand that as a geek it's really hard to let go of bit twiddling. I had the same struggle 25 years ago before I got out as a ET1. However, you I have to tell you that you never understood one very basic fact of enlisted service in the USN.
As a PO2, your primary job was to train the PO3s, SNs, SAs, and SRs to replace you. You were supposed to be passing on your skills to others. Your secondary job was to supervise that same group of individuals to take care of the gear. Your tertiary job was to be "called when the gear and chips were down and the clock ticking..." Your Div O knew that, but clearly didn't know how to tell you that.
The one thing that I'm really puzzled by is why your chief or LPO didn't pull you aside to explain this most basic of facts of Navy life to you? They should have known this.
Maybe you haven't been paying attention. For the past four months, all the CEOs of all the banks have been singing the praises of communism. They were so convincing, in fact, that the government handed them $350 billion with no strings attached (which they promptly spent on themselves, bonuses for their lackeys, and on buying distressed companies).
While government leaders were well-intentioned in setting up the Troubled Asset Relief Program, it's a "lousy program," U.S. Bancorp CEO Richard Davis said at a business leaders forum Tuesday.
U.S. Bank was told, not asked, to participate in the program, which is a Darwinian attempt to "synthesize" weaker banks into stronger banks through consolidation, Davis said at the forum, held at Thrivent Financial for Lutherans in Minneapolis.
How about an honest to God statewide initiative to provide 1:1 desktop computer access to all secondary students? Indiana's leading the way, boys. As a resident of Minnesota with a couple kids in junior high, I'm extremely jealous.
OK, I see what you were trying to say. I would contend that the actual cost would have been, at best, more like 1 * Pheonix + (4 * 0.2 Phoenix). You're still dealing with bleeding edge technology operating under the most severe conditions imaginable. This is not easy stuff we're talking about doing here, after all.
For example, if there had been 5 Phoenix landers instead of one (five landers incidentally would have cost less than five times the cost of one Phoenix lander), we'd be able to compare the legs of the working vehicles.
I've read through this sentence 5 times and I still don't see how your math works. 5 times anything costing X will equal 5X in any math book that I saw (mumble) decades ago. What am I missing?
But more to the point.. Even with a reduction in funding for high schools, the equipment that I described is easily within reach of a freshman college course (which is what the OP was about). Or rather, if your college does NOT have access to an oscilloscope and other basic equipment, just drop out and go to some other university because you deserve a real education.
1) A laser 2) More than one o'scope (which if I recall correctly, cost about $10,000 apiece at the time) 3) At least one magnet that weighed more than 100 pounds, with the implication that smaller ones were also readily available. 4) Microwave emitters 5) You were able to do something called the Millikan's (sp?) Oil Experiment which I've never heard of. A quick googling seems to indicate that some sort of electrical field generator was necessary.
In the '70s my brand new (built in '72) high school in northern Minnesota had:
1) A handful of scales with assorted weights up to about 2 kg 2) Some small mirrors and prisms 3) 10 year old text books brought up from the old school 4) very little else.
We also had a brand new track and field layout, a brand new Olympic class swimming pool and dive pool, and an updated hockey rink and football field. Not hard to tell where our the voters' priorities were in our school district, eh?:(
Now, I'll grant you that we were on the far end of the spectrum from you in terms of equipment. We had a new hire physics teacher who had joined the teachers' staff the year before I got there. Rumor had it that when he saw the state of the lab he just shook his head.
Mind you, this was a guy who was a retired U.S. Navy sub commander who had spent his time in the engine room of nuclear powered subs. He was just his thesis short of a PhD in physics. He had stopped short because he wanted to teach at the high school level. He figured that he would have a hard time getting such a position because he would be seen as overqualified if he had completed his doctorate. (How many teachers at that level have Dr. before their name, I wonder?)
He was a great teacher. Even with the almost complete lack of equipment, he did his best to create opportunities for us to demonstrate the scientific method. I did learn a lot in that class.
Still, you should understand that my high school was probably closer to the norm than yours was. As well equipped as it was, I have to wonder if it wasn't a private school. It was at least a public school in a very affluent neighborhood, and it had a very sympathetic principal and school board to be able to afford that much equipment.
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In response to a crisis that was created by a series of administrations and Congresses that have been alternately controlled by the Dems and the Republicans over the past 20 years. If Obama and Congress hadn't voted in that budget to pay to clean up this mess, where would we be? Staring at conditions rivaling the Great Depression, I'll bet. Now Obama is trying to figure out how we're going to pay off the debt that we've had to incur.
I'm not so sure that this is truly the case any longer. I think it's far more likely that there is a hard core of Republicans who believe this and just about nobody else. It's hard to tell, but Spector's defection back to the Democrats has me wondering if maybe there isn't a solid bloc of moderate Republicans who are trying to figure out how to jettison these toxic idiots right now, along with their fanatical brethren amongst those calling themselves Christian evangelicals.
Wow. Whatever happened to trusting people to do their jobs and just dealing with the outliers? You do realise that your management has virtually guaranteed that any employee who is at all worthwhile is going to be looking for a job elsewhere as soon as this gets around, right?
Two?!? One squad of US Marines is a heavily armed element; 8 or 9 M16s or M4s, a couple of grenade launchers, an M240 or M249 MG, and a bunch of AT4s (replacements for the old LAW rocket). More than enough to deal with the level of threat we're seeing in Somali waters. If the pirates want to rachet up, at least you'd have a force in place to delay them long enough to bring up the Navy.
I grew up in Judy Garland's home town. The old farts still occasionally talk about watching the Gumms getting their toddler up on stage in one of the local theaters before a movie to do a little vaudeville. I grew up watching movies in that town in the '60s and '70s. Even then, while you could see how much the glory of the old theaters had faded, you could still enjoy a show in a really nice environment. Now? Not so much. :(
"You'd also have to reconstruct pretty much all the overpasses, because they're not high enough to accommodate a train. That's way expensive."
Umm, dig down instead of build up?
I'm glad that Apple's UI fits the way that you work. However, stating that
"...it combines a UI on par with or better than Windows with the 'Unix like' functionality offered by Linux"
assumes that you see the the OS/X UI as far better than that of any Linux UI.
That is not necessarily a universal truth. I have access to Macs, Linux, and XP boxes here at work and at home. Of the three, I would far rather use KDE or fluxbox than either XP or OS/X. Therefore, for me, Linux is my OS of choice.
Piffle. In the *incredibly* *really* *real* olden days it was a dull chisel.
What? You think those stone tablets engraved themselves? You try getting a mammoth to boot without one some time. How do you think we ended up with one eating buttercups in a snow storm. Worst case of cross linked parameter files I've ever seen...
So their overall performance is even worse than I realized? Wow.
Odd, isn't it, that despite the more or less continuous stock buyback program for the past 10 years, the price of their stock has remained stagnant? I've often wondered about that...
"To whom is a "free" man responsible?"
Himself. Duh.
Wow. Just a few weeks ago I started re-watching the entire series. I saw that episode about a week ago. Talk about fortuitous timing! :)
Wrong organization. It's the dragsters, not road racers. :)
Like the last 8, 16, 32 haven't been? Powerful groups, almost by definition, are dangerous.
Funny, I work for a U.S. company with more than 50,000 employees. We've got IBM mainframes, AIX, a little Solaris, a little HP-UX, Windows 2003 servers, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. We've got some old databases on the mainframes that have been running the bread and butter apps of our business for more than 30 years, DB2, Oracle, MS-SQL, a little MySQL, a little postgresql. Our use of Oracle is limited to a single relatively large application that happens to be hosted on our HP-UX environment. Still, it's dwarfed by the traffic that flows through all of the other systems.
If I suggested to my senior management that we should move any of our OS support over to a database vendor who had just gotten into the game (and oh by the way, the OS is tweaked heavily to support a database that has very limited deployment), I'd be laughed out of the room. Especially when it's from a vendor like Oracle that has historically has given us rotten service in the first place.
We buy appliances for single purpose applications, not server farms. I'd be told to come back with a vendor with a proven track record.
So, let's revisit this question in 5 or 10 years. If Oracle has developed a proven track record of consistent support over time, developed a more generic distro (or created a black box deployment model), and vastly improved their customer service, we'll talk. :)
That's easy enough to fix. Time to revoke AIG's incorporation charter!
That's the most insightful comment that I've read to date on this whole mess.
I understand that as a geek it's really hard to let go of bit twiddling. I had the same struggle 25 years ago before I got out as a ET1. However, you I have to tell you that you never understood one very basic fact of enlisted service in the USN.
As a PO2, your primary job was to train the PO3s, SNs, SAs, and SRs to replace you. You were supposed to be passing on your skills to others. Your secondary job was to supervise that same group of individuals to take care of the gear. Your tertiary job was to be "called when the gear and chips were down and the clock ticking..." Your Div O knew that, but clearly didn't know how to tell you that.
The one thing that I'm really puzzled by is why your chief or LPO didn't pull you aside to explain this most basic of facts of Navy life to you? They should have known this.
Not every CEO has been whining to the Feds:
How about an honest to God statewide initiative to provide 1:1 desktop computer access to all secondary students? Indiana's leading the way, boys. As a resident of Minnesota with a couple kids in junior high, I'm extremely jealous.
OK, I see what you were trying to say. I would contend that the actual cost would have been, at best, more like 1 * Pheonix + (4 * 0.2 Phoenix). You're still dealing with bleeding edge technology operating under the most severe conditions imaginable. This is not easy stuff we're talking about doing here, after all.
"to correct an egregious departure from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings"
That one. The Appellate Court ruling was wrong on its face. Too bad the Supremes didn't see it that way. :(
I've read through this sentence 5 times and I still don't see how your math works. 5 times anything costing X will equal 5X in any math book that I saw (mumble) decades ago. What am I missing?
QFT!
In the '70s your high school's physics lab had:
1) A laser
2) More than one o'scope (which if I recall correctly, cost about $10,000 apiece at the time)
3) At least one magnet that weighed more than 100 pounds, with the implication that smaller ones were also readily available.
4) Microwave emitters
5) You were able to do something called the Millikan's (sp?) Oil Experiment which I've never heard of. A quick googling seems to indicate that some sort of electrical field generator was necessary.
In the '70s my brand new (built in '72) high school in northern Minnesota had:
1) A handful of scales with assorted weights up to about 2 kg
2) Some small mirrors and prisms
3) 10 year old text books brought up from the old school
4) very little else.
We also had a brand new track and field layout, a brand new Olympic class swimming pool and dive pool, and an updated hockey rink and football field. Not hard to tell where our the voters' priorities were in our school district, eh? :(
Now, I'll grant you that we were on the far end of the spectrum from you in terms of equipment. We had a new hire physics teacher who had joined the teachers' staff the year before I got there. Rumor had it that when he saw the state of the lab he just shook his head.
Mind you, this was a guy who was a retired U.S. Navy sub commander who had spent his time in the engine room of nuclear powered subs. He was just his thesis short of a PhD in physics. He had stopped short because he wanted to teach at the high school level. He figured that he would have a hard time getting such a position because he would be seen as overqualified if he had completed his doctorate. (How many teachers at that level have Dr. before their name, I wonder?)
He was a great teacher. Even with the almost complete lack of equipment, he did his best to create opportunities for us to demonstrate the scientific method. I did learn a lot in that class.
Still, you should understand that my high school was probably closer to the norm than yours was. As well equipped as it was, I have to wonder if it wasn't a private school. It was at least a public school in a very affluent neighborhood, and it had a very sympathetic principal and school board to be able to afford that much equipment.
I knew it would be easy! :D