I think that almost anyone can become a programmer. What they lack is the ability to put-up with the mind-numbing boredom that programming represents, just as many people lack the ability to listen to a teacher drone in a classroom about math or science or english verb tenses. Many people would rather be doing something else. (Just like right now I'd rather be watching a movie instead of coding..... oh wait, that is what I'm doing. Well technically I'm doing both.)
Well I've worked both private and public, and there's a definite difference. The public sector is "easier" with less workload and no deadlines. And yes the pay is better (was the highest-paying job I ever had). Had I stayed I could have retired at 60 and received a big fat pension for the next 30-40 years sucking money from blue-collar taxpayers (who can ill-afford the burden).
In the USA of the late 1800s they didn't need a law to make unions legal. They already had the right to assemble peacefully and exercise the right of free speech or free press to put-out their union protests/complaints. The GP poster made it sounds like law came first to legalize unions. No. The unions came first through the inalienable natural rights of being human (read the Declaration of Independence some time) including the right of free expression, free speech, free assembly, free press, and so on.
Non-relevant to the original organization of the unions in the late 1800s USA. They didn't need a law to makr unions legal. They already had the right to assemble peacefully and exercise the right of free speech or free press to put-out their union protests/complaints.
>>>Because they work at a place, same as anybody else?
No because government workers already have a mechanism to stop abuse by the politicians: Their vote. And the vote of their neighbors when they hear about mistreatment.
The union is un-necessary and in fact has tipped the balance too far (bus driver getting retirement at 55; basically ~30 years pay for not working). Even socialist "new deal" president FDR said unionizing government jobs made no sense. It isn't necessary.
And once again some douchebag thinks modpoints are meant to be used to Punish posts he doersn't like. Go suck a rotten egg. If you disagree use the Reply button not the "- 1 punish this poster" button.....
I think that almost anyone can become a programmer. What they lack is the ability to put-up with the mind-numbing boredom that programming represents, just as many people lack the ability to listen to a teacher drone in a classroom about math or science or english verb tenses. Many people would rather be doing something else. (Just like right now I'd rather be watching a movie instead of coding..... oh wait, that is what I'm doing. Well technically I'm doing both.)
By that logic building drones & blowing them up in wars is "good" for the economy too. The truth is that spending money on items that will be destroyed (or abandoned to rust) is no more helpful than smashing windows to create jobs for glassmakers. It's the Broken Window Fallacy..... or the Cash for Clunkers fallacy.*
* * I took advantage of this "deal". My new low MPG car is actually a worse polluter than my old high MPG car according to greenercars.org. Way to go Congress. Nice job bozos.
>>> I enter life at the tail end of it falling, then in the 80's it doubled as a percentage of GDP..... Then in the 90's we got good jobs with the debt was falling
You clearly have NO idea what you're talking about. Look at the treasury.gov website. The public debt has never fallen..... not since the 1940/50s under Truman/Eisenhower. The public debt went up in the 60s and 70s because of the war and the oil crisis. Went up in the 80s and 90s too. There is not one single instance on treasury.gov that the debt went down in the 70s or 90s (as you falsely claim).
I refuse to be censored by/. moderators. I HAVE an opinion and I'm not xchangign just becaus you're a Dmocrat that hates free specch.
What on earth have the trillions of dollars spent since 1980 accomplished? Pretty pictures. A few minor changes in science textbooks ("Saturn has dozens of rings not just two big ones"). Anything else? The money would be better spent feeding the hungry, creating more jobs at home, studying the earth's climate, or simply paying down the insane ~$190,000 per American home government debt. (Add another $100k for personal mortgage/credit card debt.)
That's not an answer. That's acting like a cop who beats a victim just because he holds the authority and nobody can stop him. Just because you hold moderator points does not mean you use them to punish the person or post. In fact/. rules specifically forbid such usage, and instead encourage you to REPLY to posts rather than mod them down.
What on earth have the trillions of dollars spent since 1980 accomplished? Pretty pictures. A few minor changes in science textbooks ("Saturn has dozens of rings not just two big ones"). Anything else? The money would be better spent feeding the hungry, creating more jobs at home, studying the earth's climate, or simply paying down the insane ~$190,000 per American home government debt. (Add another $100k for personal mortgage/credit card debt.)
And a society that takes away the "free" in market to force people to buy a product they don't want is also a "bad thing". It's reminiscient of the old company towns where you Had to buy the company product.
In fact most of the "bad things" that happen in the market are due to government interference. President George "duh" Bush increased outlays on regulatory activities from $26.4 billion to an estimated $42.7 billion, or 62 percent. (Double Bill Clinton's 31% increase in spending.) Bush increased the federal government's regulatory staff by 91,196 employees. Clinton cut it by -969. The number of pages added to the Federal Register reached 88,090 in 2007 up from 64,438 in 2001.
Way to mischaracterize. Most people are not anti-union but anti *taxpayer* union. They don't see why they should have to pay for bus drivers, subway engineers and other taxpayer-supported government jobs for early retirement at age 55, plus guaranteed right not to be fired even if they suck (instead the worker is placed on paid probation for years and years). People are tired of their taxpayer dollars being used to give better jobs than they have.
In a free country like the U.S. you don't need the permission of the government to peaceably-assemble your coworkers & hold meetings to present a unified voice to the company.
>>>Are you implying the wright brothers, who came up with a working airplane design after others had been trying for HUNDREDS of years, were patent trolling?!?
Did you get a 100 on your English SAT? I bet you did. Reread what I wrote and This time try to understand it: "Ever read the Wright Brothers' history on wikipedia? They experienced this same nonsense where people stole their patented ideas on the airplane....."
>>>2) In Canada, setting "traps", even in your own home, is a crime in and of itself. This is to protect fire/ambulance as well as police officers that may need to enter, sometimes to save YOUR sorry ass. Does the US not have an equivalent to this law?
Only if the home (or barn or shed) is not being lived in..... then you cannot set traps to protect the property. If it is an actual residence then you most-certainly can set traps to stop intruders, because then you are protecting your life & the lives of your family. (The Supreme Court made this ruling about forty years ago.)
Posse Comitatus does not forbid the use of soldiers on U.S. territory. It forbids local officials from the using the soldiers. See the wikipedia article that you linked (but were too lazy to read): "the Act does not prohibit members of the Army from exercising state law enforcement... it simply requires that any authority to do so must exist with the United States Constitution or Act of Congress. In this way, most use of the Army and the Air Force at the direction of the President does not offend the statute." In other words Presidents Obama and Bush violated nothing when they used the army on U.S. soil to stop riots.
I agree with this guy. Gamers will jump ship if they think installing Linux will make their games run, say, twice as fast. They are always looking for the best platform available. (Which is why C64 was popular even while the 1983 videogame crash was happening.) (And why most serious gamers owned Amigas in the 80s not PCs.)
>>>Jefferson failed to end his own tyranny over his slaves
Jefferson tried to free his slaves directly but the Bankers refused to let him continue that plan (they claimed the slaves belonged to them, not Thomas). Next he tried passing laws through the Virginia Legislature to emanicipate the slaves, as had happened in the northern legislatures, but none of his submitted bills received enough votes.
He then tried a different tactic of outlawing the state religion, in hopes that abolitionist protestants would gain power & revoke slavery, but he still did not gain enough votes. His final act was to copy George Washington and free the slaves upon his death in 1826.
In my opinion every individual has a right to defend himself when an intruders (or intruders) suddenly busts down the door and puts you in fear for your life. I would have no problems if a resident shot & killed the intruders.
The judge probably has no clue the "stolen" feature copied from Apple can be disabled with a software update. Or maybe he does understand but wants to use the recall as a form of punishment. ASIDE: Ever read the Wright Brothers' history on wikipedia? They experienced this same nonsense where people stole their patented ideas on the airplane, and they had to waste time suing the infringing companies. Patent trolling/theft/lawsuits have been going-on for a long time.
I guess you mean anime dubs. After watching the english versions on TV I've tried watching the original Japanese and guess what? I don't find them to be any better. Sometimes worse. (Example: The Japanese version of FF10's Tidus sounds completely wrong for a scrawny guy like the character.)
And good point about the dual audio. Digital TV was supposed to be better than Analog because of the picture, but also the ability to send multiple languages. Unfortunately the feature is almost-never used. For example Telemundo is supposed to broadcast both english & spanish audio, but every local station I've watched strips the english. Stupido.
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I think that almost anyone can become a programmer. What they lack is the ability to put-up with the mind-numbing boredom that programming represents, just as many people lack the ability to listen to a teacher drone in a classroom about math or science or english verb tenses. Many people would rather be doing something else. (Just like right now I'd rather be watching a movie instead of coding..... oh wait, that is what I'm doing. Well technically I'm doing both.)
Well I've worked both private and public, and there's a definite difference. The public sector is "easier" with less workload and no deadlines. And yes the pay is better (was the highest-paying job I ever had). Had I stayed I could have retired at 60 and received a big fat pension for the next 30-40 years sucking money from blue-collar taxpayers (who can ill-afford the burden).
In the USA of the late 1800s they didn't need a law to make unions legal. They already had the right to assemble peacefully and exercise the right of free speech or free press to put-out their union protests/complaints. The GP poster made it sounds like law came first to legalize unions. No. The unions came first through the inalienable natural rights of being human (read the Declaration of Independence some time) including the right of free expression, free speech, free assembly, free press, and so on.
Non-relevant to the original organization of the unions in the late 1800s USA. They didn't need a law to makr unions legal. They already had the right to assemble peacefully and exercise the right of free speech or free press to put-out their union protests/complaints.
>>>Because they work at a place, same as anybody else?
No because government workers already have a mechanism to stop abuse by the politicians: Their vote. And the vote of their neighbors when they hear about mistreatment.
The union is un-necessary and in fact has tipped the balance too far (bus driver getting retirement at 55; basically ~30 years pay for not working). Even socialist "new deal" president FDR said unionizing government jobs made no sense. It isn't necessary.
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And once again some douchebag thinks modpoints are meant to be used to Punish posts he doersn't like. Go suck a rotten egg. If you disagree use the Reply button not the "- 1 punish this poster" button.....
I think that almost anyone can become a programmer. What they lack is the ability to put-up with the mind-numbing boredom that programming represents, just as many people lack the ability to listen to a teacher drone in a classroom about math or science or english verb tenses. Many people would rather be doing something else. (Just like right now I'd rather be watching a movie instead of coding..... oh wait, that is what I'm doing. Well technically I'm doing both.)
By that logic building drones & blowing them up in wars is "good" for the economy too. The truth is that spending money on items that will be destroyed (or abandoned to rust) is no more helpful than smashing windows to create jobs for glassmakers. It's the Broken Window Fallacy..... or the Cash for Clunkers fallacy.*
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* I took advantage of this "deal". My new low MPG car is actually a worse polluter than my old high MPG car according to greenercars.org. Way to go Congress. Nice job bozos.
>>> I enter life at the tail end of it falling, then in the 80's it doubled as a percentage of GDP..... Then in the 90's we got good jobs with the debt was falling
You clearly have NO idea what you're talking about. Look at the treasury.gov website. The public debt has never fallen..... not since the 1940/50s under Truman/Eisenhower. The public debt went up in the 60s and 70s because of the war and the oil crisis. Went up in the 80s and 90s too. There is not one single instance on treasury.gov that the debt went down in the 70s or 90s (as you falsely claim).
I refuse to be censored by /. moderators. I HAVE an opinion and I'm not xchangign just becaus you're a Dmocrat that hates free specch.
What on earth have the trillions of dollars spent since 1980 accomplished? Pretty pictures. A few minor changes in science textbooks ("Saturn has dozens of rings not just two big ones"). Anything else? The money would be better spent feeding the hungry, creating more jobs at home, studying the earth's climate, or simply paying down the insane ~$190,000 per American home government debt. (Add another $100k for personal mortgage/credit card debt.)
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That's not an answer. That's acting like a cop who beats a victim just because he holds the authority and nobody can stop him. Just because you hold moderator points does not mean you use them to punish the person or post. In fact /. rules specifically forbid such usage, and instead encourage you to REPLY to posts rather than mod them down.
What on earth have the trillions of dollars spent since 1980 accomplished? Pretty pictures. A few minor changes in science textbooks ("Saturn has dozens of rings not just two big ones"). Anything else? The money would be better spent feeding the hungry, creating more jobs at home, studying the earth's climate, or simply paying down the insane ~$190,000 per American home government debt. (Add another $100k for personal mortgage/credit card debt.)
And a society that takes away the "free" in market to force people to buy a product they don't want is also a "bad thing". It's reminiscient of the old company towns where you Had to buy the company product.
In fact most of the "bad things" that happen in the market are due to government interference. President George "duh" Bush increased outlays on regulatory activities from $26.4 billion to an estimated $42.7 billion, or 62 percent. (Double Bill Clinton's 31% increase in spending.) Bush increased the federal government's regulatory staff by 91,196 employees. Clinton cut it by -969. The number of pages added to the Federal Register reached 88,090 in 2007 up from 64,438 in 2001.
Same with the recent mortgage crash.
Way to mischaracterize. Most people are not anti-union but anti *taxpayer* union. They don't see why they should have to pay for bus drivers, subway engineers and other taxpayer-supported government jobs for early retirement at age 55, plus guaranteed right not to be fired even if they suck (instead the worker is placed on paid probation for years and years). People are tired of their taxpayer dollars being used to give better jobs than they have.
>>>laws that allowed them to exist.
In a free country like the U.S. you don't need the permission of the government to peaceably-assemble your coworkers & hold meetings to present a unified voice to the company.
>>>Are you implying the wright brothers, who came up with a working airplane design after others had been trying for HUNDREDS of years, were patent trolling?!?
Did you get a 100 on your English SAT? I bet you did. Reread what I wrote and This time try to understand it: "Ever read the Wright Brothers' history on wikipedia? They experienced this same nonsense where people stole their patented ideas on the airplane....."
>>>2) In Canada, setting "traps", even in your own home, is a crime in and of itself. This is to protect fire/ambulance as well as police officers that may need to enter, sometimes to save YOUR sorry ass. Does the US not have an equivalent to this law?
Only if the home (or barn or shed) is not being lived in..... then you cannot set traps to protect the property. If it is an actual residence then you most-certainly can set traps to stop intruders, because then you are protecting your life & the lives of your family. (The Supreme Court made this ruling about forty years ago.)
Posse Comitatus does not forbid the use of soldiers on U.S. territory. It forbids local officials from the using the soldiers. See the wikipedia article that you linked (but were too lazy to read): "the Act does not prohibit members of the Army from exercising state law enforcement... it simply requires that any authority to do so must exist with the United States Constitution or Act of Congress. In this way, most use of the Army and the Air Force at the direction of the President does not offend the statute." In other words Presidents Obama and Bush violated nothing when they used the army on U.S. soil to stop riots.
Maybe instead of acting like a highschooler & insulting people, you should read the message directly above your own, in which the GP explains how badly Win7 is designed:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3118949&cid=41346997
I agree with this guy. Gamers will jump ship if they think installing Linux will make their games run, say, twice as fast. They are always looking for the best platform available. (Which is why C64 was popular even while the 1983 videogame crash was happening.) (And why most serious gamers owned Amigas in the 80s not PCs.)
>>>Jefferson failed to end his own tyranny over his slaves
Jefferson tried to free his slaves directly but the Bankers refused to let him continue that plan (they claimed the slaves belonged to them, not Thomas). Next he tried passing laws through the Virginia Legislature to emanicipate the slaves, as had happened in the northern legislatures, but none of his submitted bills received enough votes.
He then tried a different tactic of outlawing the state religion, in hopes that abolitionist protestants would gain power & revoke slavery, but he still did not gain enough votes. His final act was to copy George Washington and free the slaves upon his death in 1826.
In my opinion every individual has a right to defend himself when an intruders (or intruders) suddenly busts down the door and puts you in fear for your life. I would have no problems if a resident shot & killed the intruders.
>>>>>28 terabytes of transfers done between 9 people
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>>Information in DNA in sperm doesn't count.
For most /.'ers including data transferred by DNA would still leave just 28 terabytes.
The judge probably has no clue the "stolen" feature copied from Apple can be disabled with a software update. Or maybe he does understand but wants to use the recall as a form of punishment. ASIDE: Ever read the Wright Brothers' history on wikipedia? They experienced this same nonsense where people stole their patented ideas on the airplane, and they had to waste time suing the infringing companies. Patent trolling/theft/lawsuits have been going-on for a long time.
I guess you mean anime dubs. After watching the english versions on TV I've tried watching the original Japanese and guess what? I don't find them to be any better. Sometimes worse. (Example: The Japanese version of FF10's Tidus sounds completely wrong for a scrawny guy like the character.)
And good point about the dual audio. Digital TV was supposed to be better than Analog because of the picture, but also the ability to send multiple languages. Unfortunately the feature is almost-never used. For example Telemundo is supposed to broadcast both english & spanish audio, but every local station I've watched strips the english. Stupido.