Strange. I've never had a problem educating my management when I had to. That's through 5 Naval commands and three civilian jobs over a 25 year career. Maybe you should quit taking so much pride in your sig and realize that management isn't always the problem?
Clearly, you've been stuck drinking Anheiser-Busch products. For which, I heartily apologize on behalf of the US beer drinking population.
Might I suggest sampling any one of the thousands of microbrews before giving up completely on American beer?:)
Anchor Brewery in San Francisco is one of the bigger and better known. It's probably the easiest to find overseas.
Personally, I'm partial to a couple of local breweries; James Page and Summit. Then there's all the Oregonian breweries, Pennsylvanian, New York, Massachuesetts, Wisconsin..... Utah's Polygamy Ale (because one is never enough!)...:)
I can't speak for the conditions in every state (or country, for that matter). However, I can tell you that Minnesota state law requires all employers grant 6 weeks of parental leave at the birth of the child. That grant is regardless of gender. I'm a guy, and yes, I took the full six weeks after the birth of both of my kids. My ex and I alternated so our babies had a full 12 weeks of at least one parent's attention at the start of their lives.
I can't imagine anyone not doing that, if given the opportunity. If your kids aren't the most important factor in your life, what on earth are you doing having them??
You're right. It's not theft. It's copyright infringement. Thanks to the rather odd situation that we have in the US, each instance of copyright infringement can cost the violator $150,000 per incident!
Yep, taking GPL'ed code and not following the license terms because it's not theft is real smart. It's been a while since I've been bankrupt. Maybe I should do the same thing!:lol:
I used to get ITN's evening news broadcast on the local public TV channel. Sadly, it disappeared several years ago.:(
UK attitudes are different enough from US attitudes that it's hard for me to label the Beeb's leanings as right or left. I regard it as certainly more international in scope than any US TV news source. This leads to its sense of detachment, I think. Although I've noticed over time that even here, the BBC tends to concentrate on countries that grew out of the Empire. Not necessarily a bad thing, after all. If it weren't for the BBC, who would know Canada existed? (ducks)
You would not believe what a difference this makes. During the last Gulf War I watched some CNN and MSNBC. It was embarrassing. A lot of it was cultural differences, but the blatant jingoism and emotionalism made, to me, a complete mockery of the whole concept of independent journalism ---I found it hard to accept what I was watching as being anything but outright propaganda.
Really, you can't watch any single news channel if you want to get anything like a balanced sense of what's going on. As a US news junkie, this is how I see the various news organizations that I check into at least occasionally:
CNN == Somewhat to the right of middle in their editorial stance. Try to get their facts right at least some of the time.
MSNBC == So completely corporate owned and controlled they don't see the joke in embedding Microsoft in the channel name. Mostly unwatchable.
FOX == An entertainment channel pretending to be a news channel for morons. Completely unwatchable by anyone with more than two brain cells to rub together.
Al Jazeera == Manages to alienate nearly everybody. Generally, I regard this as a positive sign that a news organization may actually be good about digging out the truth. Unfortunately, like many Arab TV news sources it tends to suffer from diving so deep into the emotional details of a story that it tends to lose sight of the big picture. Tough to get in the US. I've taken to checking their Website occasionally.
BBC == Generally pretty good at the big picture. Sucks at translating that into what it means for the regular Joe. Tends to exhibit a Euro centric first and British centric second stance at times. Still, it's the only source readily available in the US for much of what happens outside the top two or three stories that CNN&Co. are running.
The Economist == IMO the best news magazine for in depth analysis of all kinds of issues.
New York Times == Generally a liberal bias. Mostly sound reporting with occasional serious missteps. Good editorial page with a spectrum of voices.
Wall Street Journal == Generally a fiscally conservative stance. Beyond that, hard to predict what slant they'll take on any given story. I used to read their daily Profiles section religiously, as I found them both entertaining and educational. I was exposed through the Profiles to many ideas and people that I wasn't aware of. I don't have ready access to the WSJ anymore, so I don't know what it's like nowadays.
Blogs == Range from great to awful. The best ones are focussed on very narrow subjects, which allows for really digging into a subject. The best for me are Groklaw and Dear Raed (run by a couple of Iraq based bloggers) plus a handful of the blogs linked off Dear Raed.
Sorry I'm so late getting back to this. I am running Steam with HL, CS, DoD, HL2, and CS:S loading up and playing fine. I'm using Transgaming's latest version of Cedega to do this.
CS:S looks and runs sweet. I'm also anxiously waiting for DoD:S.:)
The only thing that's not working, and it's definitely a problem, is the mic under CS:S. Someone opened a vote to get it fixed at Transgaming in December, I think.
I've copied down your ICQ number. Look for me to send a request to add you to my buddy list.
My experience has been a lot more positive. I've been subscribing to Match.com for a grand total of a month. I've had 5 women contact me first (4 winks and an email).
I've initiated contact of another 5. 2 of those responded back. One has gone as far as a first date that went very well. We're getting together again later this week.
I was up front about everything. Granted, it helps that I make a decent income. However, I think what also counts a lot has been my honesty and humor. Be up front about being a geek. Some women love it!
God, I'm tired of this rant. I've seen it several times in different places.
Look, international law exists. My great-uncle made quite a handsome living teaching the subject for almost 40 years at the U of MN. When he died, his estate donated almost 10,000 books on the subject to the U's law library.
No, it is NOT the same as law under national governments. So what? Get over it.
While I am not personally familiar with XP, I do have several friends who use it regularly. One of them recently installed XP in 6 minutes on a bare hard drive. I asked him twice if that included SP2. He said it did. (shrug)
Take it for what it's worth. Apparently, XP can be installed as fast as or faster than Linux.
Now, do I care? Hell no! I run Gentoo, fer chrissake!:lol:
How can it be a prima face infringement until it is demonstrated through the legal system that allofmp3 really doesn't have legal licenses to the music? The RIAA may claim that they do not, but have they demonstrated that fact to the court's satisfaction yet?
Note: I am not an allofmp3 user. I rarely buy music of any sort, and have downloaded exactly one tune online. I'm just very interested in copyright issues in general because of my use of F/LOSS.
I look forward to the magic day when cops will just say "ah, screw it" and routinely ignore things... making it completely obvious that certain laws are illegitimate if they constantly make most of us criminals.
Already happens in Minnesota. The head of the state highway police posted a bulletin about 15 years ago (back when the speed limit was 55 mph everywhere) not to bother stopping anyone doing less than 65 mph. He wanted his troopers dealing with accidents and serious driving offences, not writing ineffectual tickets.
This was the first official recognition that I had seen of the fact that if conditions warrant it, traffic flows about 10 mph over the speed limit in this state. It seems to be true regardless of location or speed limit. The existence of that bulletin was one of the factors that finally saw the speed limit go back up to 65 (70 on the interstates) outside the beltway on 4 lane highways.
Traffic in the fast lane on US 94 out of downtown Minneapolis is running nearly 15 mph over the speed limit in the middle of the day. Sit in that lane going only 10 mph over the limit, and you'll have a line of cars going by you on your right side.:)
I was on active duty in Pearl Harbor when it happened. Scuttlebutt was that the ship went dead in the water when the workstations bluescreened. Something about some control functions in a different app not being available. The enginerooms themselves were fine.
They rebooted the workstations, reconnected the control app, and steamed back into port. I guarantee that if the scuttlebutt was true, there were more than a few asses chewed over that one. The Navy prefers redundant systems in case, you know, someone shoots holes in the primary!:)
Then again, there's the fact that scuttlebutt is only as reliable as the person buying the next round.:D
(1) Tell me again; what European country has the lowest incident of violent crime rate in Europe, and is even more hardcore than America about the right to posess firearms?
(2) Will you PLEASE look at the climatological record over tens of thousands of years before getting all excited about humankind's impact on global warming? I'm not saying that 6+ billion people aren't having a greater impact than less than 500,000 did one hundred thousand years ago. I'm just not convinced at this point that global warming should be as much of a factor in our thinking as other environmental issues.
Oh, I don't know. I think Slashdot qualifies as enterprise class, don't you? Almost one million subscribers, Lord alone knows how many lurkers, thousands of hits per minute, etc.
However, I must say that I have no idea what it's an enterprise of.:)
a.1) Most people do not know that Cylons have human looking counterparts. In order to prevent panic, the senior command and its civilian counterpart has chosen not to announce the fact. Therefore, no major change in security procedures is possible.
a.2) Armories on US Naval vessels are typically placed under lock and key, sometimes with Marine guards, sometimes with sailors, sometimes mixed. (This is important to know because it is clearly apparent that at least some of the writing staff is intimately familiar with US Naval fleet operatoins to anyone who has been 'haze grey and underway.') We already know that the Marines are busy throughout the fleet trying to act as cops (a job that they are really bad at, as Adama pointed out when the President requested them). Therefore, the armories would have to be guarded only by sailors who have plenty of other duties already.
a.3) In any case, the only instances when we've seen an unguarded armory was a hidden unmanned supply station (which I admit I was really puzzled by) and the small arms locker that was locked with access granted only to authorized personnel. I could buy that on a ship with all of its personnel strained to the utmost in simple survival.
b) Your point? While hydrogen is readily available, where's all the oxygen going to come from?
c) You have CLEARLY never studied the lead up to major wars.:) The generals are always prepared to fight the last one, not the one that they actually have to deal with.
d) Interesting point. However, the Galactica was an old ship that was being retired. He still had every major ship system properly isolated. I can see the possibility of a communication channel being used as a connection to a slave circuit not occurring to him. Esp. as we know that it was deliberately inserted over time through a series of seemingly innocuous actions by a trusted software developer.
e) Oh, I don't know. Good camo is always hard to develop, and typically expensive when compared to alternatives that just go BANG. Besides, the armored badasses are handy to have around. A lot harder to destroy.:)
f) Metal fatigue will happen. It will especially occur in any case where the crew, no matter how good, begins to slack off because they think it no longer matters. Again, the Galactica was designated for retirement. No maintenance chief in his right mind is going to worry about replacing every single minor worn component if s/he thinks it'll never get used again.
g) Point. OTOH, I have personally witnessed maintenance guys create miracle after miracle in order to keep gear running that should've been scrapped decades earlier. Still, those Vipers keep getting blown up, banged up, and generally shot up. The number of hangar queens could easily exceed the number of flying birds soon.
They chose to use a level of detail that they clearly aren't up to.
The Lancet article was a peer-reviewed estimate of Iraqi civilian casualties...
I read it, I'm just not sure that I buy it completely. I'll grant you that secondary effects of the war are probably going to kill more people in the long run that bullets do. That always happens, regardless of the time of the conflict. It's one reason why you find so few veterans who think war is a great way to solve anything.
The choice between what Bush is doing and Saddam is a false dichotomy....
You're assuming something about my position that is not true. I said in my GP post that I thought Bush went into this war for all the wrong reasons. Part of that is because I predicted to my friends last year that this war was a mistake because I was positive that Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney, & Co. had absolutely no clue as it pertained to the Iraqi civilian attitudes. The proof in that was their complete surprise when our troops weren't welcomed with open arms.
Not really; the turnout was less than in South Vietnam in 1967.
True, but I'm not sure that the situations are completely analogous. Very different political situations. Don't forget, in South Vietnam you had a regime that had taken over in a particularly bloody fashion in '62 or '63. I think people in South Vietnam wanted a clean government, but really didn't expect to get one.
Actually, it wasn't even the high numbers in Iraq that impressed me as much as widespread pictures of people celebrating in the streets after. It looked very much like an affirmation of their identities as Iraqis as opposed to Kurds, Sunnis, what have you. That's not to say that there isn't a ton of work to be done, but it was a positive first step.
Anyway, how many of those Iraqis went to the polls to vote the Americans out?
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Strange. I've never had a problem educating my management when I had to. That's through 5 Naval commands and three civilian jobs over a 25 year career. Maybe you should quit taking so much pride in your sig and realize that management isn't always the problem?
Strange. I thought being "dominant in trade" was a perfectly sufficient reason to define a nation as a "power".
Clearly, you've been stuck drinking Anheiser-Busch products. For which, I heartily apologize on behalf of the US beer drinking population.
:)
:)
Might I suggest sampling any one of the thousands of microbrews before giving up completely on American beer?
Anchor Brewery in San Francisco is one of the bigger and better known. It's probably the easiest to find overseas.
Personally, I'm partial to a couple of local breweries; James Page and Summit. Then there's all the Oregonian breweries, Pennsylvanian, New York, Massachuesetts, Wisconsin..... Utah's Polygamy Ale (because one is never enough!)...
I can't speak for the conditions in every state (or country, for that matter). However, I can tell you that Minnesota state law requires all employers grant 6 weeks of parental leave at the birth of the child. That grant is regardless of gender. I'm a guy, and yes, I took the full six weeks after the birth of both of my kids. My ex and I alternated so our babies had a full 12 weeks of at least one parent's attention at the start of their lives.
I can't imagine anyone not doing that, if given the opportunity. If your kids aren't the most important factor in your life, what on earth are you doing having them??
You're right. It's not theft. It's copyright infringement. Thanks to the rather odd situation that we have in the US, each instance of copyright infringement can cost the violator $150,000 per incident!
:lol:
Yep, taking GPL'ed code and not following the license terms because it's not theft is real smart. It's been a while since I've been bankrupt. Maybe I should do the same thing!
Go google "Marcus J. Ranum" before you make a complete ass of yourself. Whoops! Too late!
I used to get ITN's evening news broadcast on the local public TV channel. Sadly, it disappeared several years ago. :(
UK attitudes are different enough from US attitudes that it's hard for me to label the Beeb's leanings as right or left. I regard it as certainly more international in scope than any US TV news source. This leads to its sense of detachment, I think. Although I've noticed over time that even here, the BBC tends to concentrate on countries that grew out of the Empire. Not necessarily a bad thing, after all. If it weren't for the BBC, who would know Canada existed? (ducks)
Really, you can't watch any single news channel if you want to get anything like a balanced sense of what's going on. As a US news junkie, this is how I see the various news organizations that I check into at least occasionally:
CNN == Somewhat to the right of middle in their editorial stance. Try to get their facts right at least some of the time.
MSNBC == So completely corporate owned and controlled they don't see the joke in embedding Microsoft in the channel name. Mostly unwatchable.
FOX == An entertainment channel pretending to be a news channel for morons. Completely unwatchable by anyone with more than two brain cells to rub together.
Al Jazeera == Manages to alienate nearly everybody. Generally, I regard this as a positive sign that a news organization may actually be good about digging out the truth. Unfortunately, like many Arab TV news sources it tends to suffer from diving so deep into the emotional details of a story that it tends to lose sight of the big picture. Tough to get in the US. I've taken to checking their Website occasionally.
BBC == Generally pretty good at the big picture. Sucks at translating that into what it means for the regular Joe. Tends to exhibit a Euro centric first and British centric second stance at times. Still, it's the only source readily available in the US for much of what happens outside the top two or three stories that CNN&Co. are running.
The Economist == IMO the best news magazine for in depth analysis of all kinds of issues.
New York Times == Generally a liberal bias. Mostly sound reporting with occasional serious missteps. Good editorial page with a spectrum of voices.
Wall Street Journal == Generally a fiscally conservative stance. Beyond that, hard to predict what slant they'll take on any given story. I used to read their daily Profiles section religiously, as I found them both entertaining and educational. I was exposed through the Profiles to many ideas and people that I wasn't aware of. I don't have ready access to the WSJ anymore, so I don't know what it's like nowadays.
Blogs == Range from great to awful. The best ones are focussed on very narrow subjects, which allows for really digging into a subject. The best for me are Groklaw and Dear Raed (run by a couple of Iraq based bloggers) plus a handful of the blogs linked off Dear Raed.
Sorry I'm so late getting back to this. I am running Steam with HL, CS, DoD, HL2, and CS:S loading up and playing fine. I'm using Transgaming's latest version of Cedega to do this.
:)
CS:S looks and runs sweet. I'm also anxiously waiting for DoD:S.
The only thing that's not working, and it's definitely a problem, is the mic under CS:S. Someone opened a vote to get it fixed at Transgaming in December, I think.
I've copied down your ICQ number. Look for me to send a request to add you to my buddy list.
Too late. :)
My experience has been a lot more positive. I've been subscribing to Match.com for a grand total of a month. I've had 5 women contact me first (4 winks and an email).
I've initiated contact of another 5. 2 of those responded back. One has gone as far as a first date that went very well. We're getting together again later this week.
I was up front about everything. Granted, it helps that I make a decent income. However, I think what also counts a lot has been my honesty and humor. Be up front about being a geek. Some women love it!
God, I'm tired of this rant. I've seen it several times in different places.
Look, international law exists. My great-uncle made quite a handsome living teaching the subject for almost 40 years at the U of MN. When he died, his estate donated almost 10,000 books on the subject to the U's law library.
No, it is NOT the same as law under national governments. So what? Get over it.
Just out of curiosity, what games are you unable to play at this time?
While I am not personally familiar with XP, I do have several friends who use it regularly. One of them recently installed XP in 6 minutes on a bare hard drive. I asked him twice if that included SP2. He said it did. (shrug)
:lol:
Take it for what it's worth. Apparently, XP can be installed as fast as or faster than Linux.
Now, do I care? Hell no! I run Gentoo, fer chrissake!
How can it be a prima face infringement until it is demonstrated through the legal system that allofmp3 really doesn't have legal licenses to the music? The RIAA may claim that they do not, but have they demonstrated that fact to the court's satisfaction yet?
Note: I am not an allofmp3 user. I rarely buy music of any sort, and have downloaded exactly one tune online. I'm just very interested in copyright issues in general because of my use of F/LOSS.
Already happens in Minnesota. The head of the state highway police posted a bulletin about 15 years ago (back when the speed limit was 55 mph everywhere) not to bother stopping anyone doing less than 65 mph. He wanted his troopers dealing with accidents and serious driving offences, not writing ineffectual tickets.
This was the first official recognition that I had seen of the fact that if conditions warrant it, traffic flows about 10 mph over the speed limit in this state. It seems to be true regardless of location or speed limit. The existence of that bulletin was one of the factors that finally saw the speed limit go back up to 65 (70 on the interstates) outside the beltway on 4 lane highways.
Traffic in the fast lane on US 94 out of downtown Minneapolis is running nearly 15 mph over the speed limit in the middle of the day. Sit in that lane going only 10 mph over the limit, and you'll have a line of cars going by you on your right side.
Looked at Xine lately?
I was on active duty in Pearl Harbor when it happened. Scuttlebutt was that the ship went dead in the water when the workstations bluescreened. Something about some control functions in a different app not being available. The enginerooms themselves were fine.
:)
:D
They rebooted the workstations, reconnected the control app, and steamed back into port. I guarantee that if the scuttlebutt was true, there were more than a few asses chewed over that one. The Navy prefers redundant systems in case, you know, someone shoots holes in the primary!
Then again, there's the fact that scuttlebutt is only as reliable as the person buying the next round.
Hey, now, North Dakota is too real! It's what keeps Minnesota from sliding into Montana at a barn dance!
Well, a nice, simple Google search will fill in the details for ya.
(1) Tell me again; what European country has the lowest incident of violent crime rate in Europe, and is even more hardcore than America about the right to posess firearms?
(2) Will you PLEASE look at the climatological record over tens of thousands of years before getting all excited about humankind's impact on global warming? I'm not saying that 6+ billion people aren't having a greater impact than less than 500,000 did one hundred thousand years ago. I'm just not convinced at this point that global warming should be as much of a factor in our thinking as other environmental issues.
Oh, I don't know. I think Slashdot qualifies as enterprise class, don't you? Almost one million subscribers, Lord alone knows how many lurkers, thousands of hits per minute, etc.
:)
However, I must say that I have no idea what it's an enterprise of.
a.1) Most people do not know that Cylons have human looking counterparts. In order to prevent panic, the senior command and its civilian counterpart has chosen not to announce the fact. Therefore, no major change in security procedures is possible.
a.2) Armories on US Naval vessels are typically placed under lock and key, sometimes with Marine guards, sometimes with sailors, sometimes mixed. (This is important to know because it is clearly apparent that at least some of the writing staff is intimately familiar with US Naval fleet operatoins to anyone who has been 'haze grey and underway.') We already know that the Marines are busy throughout the fleet trying to act as cops (a job that they are really bad at, as Adama pointed out when the President requested them). Therefore, the armories would have to be guarded only by sailors who have plenty of other duties already.
a.3) In any case, the only instances when we've seen an unguarded armory was a hidden unmanned supply station (which I admit I was really puzzled by) and the small arms locker that was locked with access granted only to authorized personnel. I could buy that on a ship with all of its personnel strained to the utmost in simple survival.
b) Your point? While hydrogen is readily available, where's all the oxygen going to come from?
c) You have CLEARLY never studied the lead up to major wars.
d) Interesting point. However, the Galactica was an old ship that was being retired. He still had every major ship system properly isolated. I can see the possibility of a communication channel being used as a connection to a slave circuit not occurring to him. Esp. as we know that it was deliberately inserted over time through a series of seemingly innocuous actions by a trusted software developer.
e) Oh, I don't know. Good camo is always hard to develop, and typically expensive when compared to alternatives that just go BANG. Besides, the armored badasses are handy to have around. A lot harder to destroy.
f) Metal fatigue will happen. It will especially occur in any case where the crew, no matter how good, begins to slack off because they think it no longer matters. Again, the Galactica was designated for retirement. No maintenance chief in his right mind is going to worry about replacing every single minor worn component if s/he thinks it'll never get used again.
g) Point. OTOH, I have personally witnessed maintenance guys create miracle after miracle in order to keep gear running that should've been scrapped decades earlier. Still, those Vipers keep getting blown up, banged up, and generally shot up. The number of hangar queens could easily exceed the number of flying birds soon.
Well, I disagree.
Well, they are selling thin clients as POS terminals. Does that count as a desktop?
I read it, I'm just not sure that I buy it completely. I'll grant you that secondary effects of the war are probably going to kill more people in the long run that bullets do. That always happens, regardless of the time of the conflict. It's one reason why you find so few veterans who think war is a great way to solve anything.
You're assuming something about my position that is not true. I said in my GP post that I thought Bush went into this war for all the wrong reasons. Part of that is because I predicted to my friends last year that this war was a mistake because I was positive that Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney, & Co. had absolutely no clue as it pertained to the Iraqi civilian attitudes. The proof in that was their complete surprise when our troops weren't welcomed with open arms.
True, but I'm not sure that the situations are completely analogous. Very different political situations. Don't forget, in South Vietnam you had a regime that had taken over in a particularly bloody fashion in '62 or '63. I think people in South Vietnam wanted a clean government, but really didn't expect to get one.
Actually, it wasn't even the high numbers in Iraq that impressed me as much as widespread pictures of people celebrating in the streets after. It looked very much like an affirmation of their identities as Iraqis as opposed to Kurds, Sunnis, what have you. That's not to say that there isn't a ton of work to be done, but it was a positive first step.
All of 'em!