The government being involved use to mean one had more freedom. If you haven't noticed the corporations are more powerful than the government now. The government involvement isn't to restrict your freedom, it is to save you from having the corporations define what your freedom is. Since the corporations are not elected and not accountable to you in anyway you might want to think a little bit about that stance. At least the government (in theory) is suppose to be accountable to you. The corporations are accountable to their shareholders interests.
If having the government involved was such a bad thing to do these countries would probably not have gone that route:
That isn't being a Socialist it is being a neo-capitalist. Making everyone buy for-profit Health Insurance helps Health Insurers make more profits. A Socialist plan would be for a state agency to handle paying for care for everyone.
The best plan out there is H.R. 676. That bill has 38 co-sponsors in the House right now. You can call it socialized or communized medicine but it still the plan we should implement in my opinion.
Neither Obama's plan or Hillary's plan would go as far as H.R. 676 but hopefully it is the first step towards eventually getting there.
I liked it. It was a fun movie for me to watch. However, I only agree with your point 4. I loved the special effects and how they used the monster in the story. I.e. when they showed it, what it did, how it looked, the army shooting at it. All of that was awesome. With the rest though, the characters in particular, I just couldn't buy it. It didn't seem to me to be what real people shooting something would be doing or how they would be acting. A hard thing to do but I thought they were way off the mark.
Definitely a fun movie though. I would like to see more. Maybe another movie with another piece of evidence. You could go a lot of different directions with it.
With so many different tracks it is hard to say. There is a big difference between writing internal business software and writing software for a company that sells software. I could go on about 50 other career paths besides those two but I am sure you get the point.
As others have pointed out you will likely be doing Project Management, even if you aren't a "project manager" and some skills appropriate to that are worth while to learn. Along with that, so much work is outsourced you might end up doing a lot of Systems Integration as well, where you pull together outsourced projects in to the greater whole of what the business does.
A solid understanding of the basics of straight SQL would be my best advice. This knowledge combined with your data structures knowledge in C++ and Java give you the foundations of what all business software is.
If you want to go in to graphics programming, game programming, or work for a big software company I wouldn't know what to work on. All my work has been with business software internal to the business.
But, puhlease give up the single-issue bullshit. The enemy of good is perfect. You will never find a candidate -- mainstream or fringe -- that perfectly represents every one of your hot button issues, whatever they may be.
Of course you can, yourself. One can always run for office themselves. I for one would like the additional choices.
We have been using SSD's for years where I work in database servers as well. Usually not for the whole database but find what parts of the database need to be the fastest/get used the most, allocate them to the SSD's and vroooom!
I was watching the movie The Lives of Others a few weeks back. Summary of the movie is it details East Germany spying on its own population after the end of WWII when the Communist party there was taking full control. They were monitoring everyone, but the catch was they used this information in really nasty ways. Bringing people in and interrogating them for 48 hours straight, arresting people, sending them for "training" for weeks on end if unruly. This all got me to thinking and asking the question "what if they didn't do the nasty things?". Because if they didn't do the nasty things a lot people, probably nearly all, would not have really done anything about the monitoring and surveillance.
This is basically what this guy is saying. We will monitor everything and know everything about you just not come to your house and arrest you because of it. Trust us because we are nice.
Well in my opinion the United States made it a very long time as a country without any intelligence, we could do just fine without them again if we have to.
The main demographic to hit is the commuters as it is the biggest. I don't think anyone is to worried about trucks or long vacation drives yet. That will be a number of years out. Getting the commuters switched over will help with all the smog in the cities. It will also kick start the infrastructure needed for charging stations and maintenance shops for the new technology. Once you have that the rest gets easier. Commuters are without doubt the first step one has to take though.
I remember the issues with the book. However I do wish you would publish a monthly magazine highlighting the hot topics of the month and reference some of the better points brought up in the discussions on the site.
Charge like 20-50 bucks a year and throw a symbol of some sort next to the names of those users subscribing. This would help with revenue, give us a service we would like, and keep the Corporate overlords off your backs for a while due to the increased revenue.
Under current rules in the Senate they can't just try. Anything either side doesn't like they filibuster (the virtual filibuster, not the real one, because no one actually filibusters anymore, they just threaten to) and require a cloture vote 3/5's (60 votes) of the Senate to move anything even to a vote.
So the Senate is pretty much out of commission for now.
Searching on virtual filibuster you can see a lot of people do not like them operating this way. They would prefer if the parties actually hated a bill so much, make them filibuster it for days on end, instead of just the virtual filibuster which requires them to essentially do nothing but say it.
They do nothing because it is politically advantageous for them to do nothing. The president is unpopular, the more he does the more it will hurt the Republicans in the next election.
The public knows the reason nothing can get done in congress is because there are still too many batsh*t crazy, fascist enabling Republicans left in the Senate. In 2008 the public will take care of this problem at the ballot box.
I remember their setup in the "Linux Pavillion" that year. I think they had a flat screen with/. on it behind them and small laptops they were using to access/. read submissions, etc. I was too intimidated by their awesomeness to chat with them though.
My wife a few years back got a phone plan through Cingular (now they are part of AT&T). She wanted to be able to send images using her phone. They told her over the phone how to do this. She tried to do this and the sending still didn't work. She was about to go on vacation and didn't think anything of it and planned on figuring it out once she got back. After coming back from vacation her bill was 1800 dollars. She was getting billed for trying to connect to a network something like every 80 seconds for a certain amount. This billing was happening even when she was talking on the phone with someone else. I talked to Cingular and told them they didn't render us any services or provide any product for the 1800 dollars and hence we wouldn't be giving them free money. The image she wanted to send never sent. They disagreed and demanded we pay the bill. I said no way. I mean if she was able to be on the Internet and the bill was higher than expected fine, I could pay extra for not finding out the real charges for such a service but the emailing didn't even work.
They sent it to collections and once there I sent collections a physical letter explaining the situation and they never put it on our credit, they thought it was unfair on Cingulars part as well. Sucked having to switch to a different carrier though. If they would have just knocked that ridiculous charge off the bill they would have kept my wife and I as customers (and we may have thought about getting an iPhone).
Re:The Saddam/911 link is a bad example
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I think it was used as the example for reasons of the repercussions of that specific propaganda, not the percent of sheeple who believe it.
Also, as stated in the article, people are much more likely to believe a myth that they simply want to believe, regardless of truth. People want to believe their tax dollars (and blood) are funding a valiant effort that is good against an evil enemy. Hence, any myth brought up that makes the enemy sound more evil, is also more likely to be believed regardless of how true it is.
Your phrasing it like belief in a religion. It is a scientific theory. Phrase it like "I'm curious, is there anybody on the stage that disagrees with the current mainstream scientific conclusions on evolution?"
Better yet, simplify it and ask "do you believe human beings came to be from evolving from monkeys or apes, or were created by God?". That one gets right to the point.
I have evidence and believe to be true that no one purely lives in the first. For to live solely in the first is to deny ones own humanity.
Love
Caring
Mercy
Knowledge
You believe all of these qualities to be true (and probably pretty important) in humans, yet you have no factual scientific proof to show they exist or any way to scientifically define them.
Ummm, who exactly gets to decide this? Because the track record of the Executive branch is about as bad as it gets in determining actual risks vs. it serves our agenda to say they are a risk, risks.
There is likely enough gases trapped internally to Mars to create the atmosphere we would need. Mars no longer has plate techtonic movement like Earth, which on Earth gets the gases we need back out to the atmosphere. To get some action, probably not full plate techtonics, but at least enough to release those gases we already have an example of what is needed by the way the Earth gets its gases, via stress from the moon. We need to farm comets and other mass to impact with Mars moon until we increase its mass enough to disturb Mars internally, releasing those gases. It shouldn't be to difficult to model in the next 50 years directing bodies in to that moon and the model of how much stress would be needed.
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She will NOT have more delegates (even with Super Delegates thrown in):
http://demconwatch.blogspot.com/
LOL, having to go through the same stuff here. My wife busted out the entire run of Touched by an Angel on DVD. Oh my, talk about pain.
The government being involved use to mean one had more freedom. If you haven't noticed the corporations are more powerful than the government now. The government involvement isn't to restrict your freedom, it is to save you from having the corporations define what your freedom is. Since the corporations are not elected and not accountable to you in anyway you might want to think a little bit about that stance. At least the government (in theory) is suppose to be accountable to you. The corporations are accountable to their shareholders interests.
If having the government involved was such a bad thing to do these countries would probably not have gone that route:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c5/WORLDHEALTH2.png
You will notice on that map Iraq and Afghanistan have Universal Government run coverage provided by the tax payers of the United States.
That isn't being a Socialist it is being a neo-capitalist. Making everyone buy for-profit Health Insurance helps Health Insurers make more profits. A Socialist plan would be for a state agency to handle paying for care for everyone.
The best plan out there is H.R. 676. That bill has 38 co-sponsors in the House right now. You can call it socialized or communized medicine but it still the plan we should implement in my opinion.
Neither Obama's plan or Hillary's plan would go as far as H.R. 676 but hopefully it is the first step towards eventually getting there.
I liked it. It was a fun movie for me to watch. However, I only agree with your point 4. I loved the special effects and how they used the monster in the story. I.e. when they showed it, what it did, how it looked, the army shooting at it. All of that was awesome. With the rest though, the characters in particular, I just couldn't buy it. It didn't seem to me to be what real people shooting something would be doing or how they would be acting. A hard thing to do but I thought they were way off the mark.
Definitely a fun movie though. I would like to see more. Maybe another movie with another piece of evidence. You could go a lot of different directions with it.
With so many different tracks it is hard to say. There is a big difference between writing internal business software and writing software for a company that sells software. I could go on about 50 other career paths besides those two but I am sure you get the point.
As others have pointed out you will likely be doing Project Management, even if you aren't a "project manager" and some skills appropriate to that are worth while to learn. Along with that, so much work is outsourced you might end up doing a lot of Systems Integration as well, where you pull together outsourced projects in to the greater whole of what the business does.
A solid understanding of the basics of straight SQL would be my best advice. This knowledge combined with your data structures knowledge in C++ and Java give you the foundations of what all business software is.
If you want to go in to graphics programming, game programming, or work for a big software company I wouldn't know what to work on. All my work has been with business software internal to the business.
Of course you can, yourself. One can always run for office themselves. I for one would like the additional choices.
At least here on Slashdot we can all easily tag him as a foe for future reference.
We have been using SSD's for years where I work in database servers as well. Usually not for the whole database but find what parts of the database need to be the fastest/get used the most, allocate them to the SSD's and vroooom!
I was watching the movie The Lives of Others a few weeks back. Summary of the movie is it details East Germany spying on its own population after the end of WWII when the Communist party there was taking full control. They were monitoring everyone, but the catch was they used this information in really nasty ways. Bringing people in and interrogating them for 48 hours straight, arresting people, sending them for "training" for weeks on end if unruly. This all got me to thinking and asking the question "what if they didn't do the nasty things?". Because if they didn't do the nasty things a lot people, probably nearly all, would not have really done anything about the monitoring and surveillance.
This is basically what this guy is saying. We will monitor everything and know everything about you just not come to your house and arrest you because of it. Trust us because we are nice.
Well in my opinion the United States made it a very long time as a country without any intelligence, we could do just fine without them again if we have to.
The main demographic to hit is the commuters as it is the biggest. I don't think anyone is to worried about trucks or long vacation drives yet. That will be a number of years out. Getting the commuters switched over will help with all the smog in the cities. It will also kick start the infrastructure needed for charging stations and maintenance shops for the new technology. Once you have that the rest gets easier. Commuters are without doubt the first step one has to take though.
I remember the issues with the book. However I do wish you would publish a monthly magazine highlighting the hot topics of the month and reference some of the better points brought up in the discussions on the site.
Charge like 20-50 bucks a year and throw a symbol of some sort next to the names of those users subscribing. This would help with revenue, give us a service we would like, and keep the Corporate overlords off your backs for a while due to the increased revenue.
Under current rules in the Senate they can't just try. Anything either side doesn't like they filibuster (the virtual filibuster, not the real one, because no one actually filibusters anymore, they just threaten to) and require a cloture vote 3/5's (60 votes) of the Senate to move anything even to a vote.
So the Senate is pretty much out of commission for now.
Searching on virtual filibuster you can see a lot of people do not like them operating this way. They would prefer if the parties actually hated a bill so much, make them filibuster it for days on end, instead of just the virtual filibuster which requires them to essentially do nothing but say it.
They do nothing because it is politically advantageous for them to do nothing. The president is unpopular, the more he does the more it will hurt the Republicans in the next election.
The public knows the reason nothing can get done in congress is because there are still too many batsh*t crazy, fascist enabling Republicans left in the Senate. In 2008 the public will take care of this problem at the ballot box.
hard drive from the get go?
I remember their setup in the "Linux Pavillion" that year. I think they had a flat screen with /. on it behind them and small laptops they were using to access /. read submissions, etc. I was too intimidated by their awesomeness to chat with them though.
My wife a few years back got a phone plan through Cingular (now they are part of AT&T). She wanted to be able to send images using her phone. They told her over the phone how to do this. She tried to do this and the sending still didn't work. She was about to go on vacation and didn't think anything of it and planned on figuring it out once she got back. After coming back from vacation her bill was 1800 dollars. She was getting billed for trying to connect to a network something like every 80 seconds for a certain amount. This billing was happening even when she was talking on the phone with someone else. I talked to Cingular and told them they didn't render us any services or provide any product for the 1800 dollars and hence we wouldn't be giving them free money. The image she wanted to send never sent. They disagreed and demanded we pay the bill. I said no way. I mean if she was able to be on the Internet and the bill was higher than expected fine, I could pay extra for not finding out the real charges for such a service but the emailing didn't even work.
They sent it to collections and once there I sent collections a physical letter explaining the situation and they never put it on our credit, they thought it was unfair on Cingulars part as well. Sucked having to switch to a different carrier though. If they would have just knocked that ridiculous charge off the bill they would have kept my wife and I as customers (and we may have thought about getting an iPhone).
I think it was used as the example for reasons of the repercussions of that specific propaganda, not the percent of sheeple who believe it.
Also, as stated in the article, people are much more likely to believe a myth that they simply want to believe, regardless of truth. People want to believe their tax dollars (and blood) are funding a valiant effort that is good against an evil enemy. Hence, any myth brought up that makes the enemy sound more evil, is also more likely to be believed regardless of how true it is.
I think Slashdot should actually do it.
"scholar.slashdot.org"
You could do a number of interesting things to entice the scholarly community to use the service.
Your phrasing it like belief in a religion. It is a scientific theory. Phrase it like "I'm curious, is there anybody on the stage that disagrees with the current mainstream scientific conclusions on evolution?"
Better yet, simplify it and ask "do you believe human beings came to be from evolving from monkeys or apes, or were created by God?". That one gets right to the point.
You believe all of these qualities to be true (and probably pretty important) in humans, yet you have no factual scientific proof to show they exist or any way to scientifically define them.
> (Just for edification, religion and politics aren't supposed to mix in the USA.)
Church and state aren't supposed to mix. Everyone has a religion even if it is to not have a religion.
Ummm, who exactly gets to decide this? Because the track record of the Executive branch is about as bad as it gets in determining actual risks vs. it serves our agenda to say they are a risk, risks.
Yah one would need a real good model to run simulations with to see if it was possible.
There is likely enough gases trapped internally to Mars to create the atmosphere we would need. Mars no longer has plate techtonic movement like Earth, which on Earth gets the gases we need back out to the atmosphere. To get some action, probably not full plate techtonics, but at least enough to release those gases we already have an example of what is needed by the way the Earth gets its gases, via stress from the moon. We need to farm comets and other mass to impact with Mars moon until we increase its mass enough to disturb Mars internally, releasing those gases. It shouldn't be to difficult to model in the next 50 years directing bodies in to that moon and the model of how much stress would be needed.