This is about state employee pensions, which can be exceptionally generous, especially within the education systems.
But federal employee unions have little bargaining power, while state ones are often very powerful. What Walker wanted to reduce the benefits to for his state employees is still much better than what federal employees get.
The ratio of administrators to teachers has skyrocketed, so you pay for a lot of people who don't teach. And don't get me started on all the money thrown at PC issues at colleges.
"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted and you create a nation of law-breakers."
She was a bit whacko in ways, but man did she hit the nail on the head with this one.
Seriously, all you have is a mouse in BIOS (something you should enter once or twice EVER, and a 3TB root file system (where a smaller SSD for the same money is much smarter choice). Whatever, you think that's great. But EFI is the worst possible way to get there.
I like both features, and from a user perspective EFI gets me there.
No one needs a floppy to install an OS from the network. It's a boot option IN THE BIOS.
Netboot vs. connecting to the Internet (even over wireless) and installing an OS from the Internet.
MAC's have EFI to support their secure boot,
Macs (abbreviation for Macintosh in the plural, not the acronym for Media Access Control in the possessive) have UEFI because in the switch from PPC, BIOS just didn't cut it compared to the Open Firmware used on the PPC Macs. Apple isn't the type to downgrade to older technology when making a switch.
None of the things you list have any business being in the bios. BIOS should small, dumb, and fast. EFI is bloated and buggy and only fast on select machines.
If it's only fast on select machines, that probably means the others were programmed by people like these bitching because they don't know how to properly implement UEFI.
Bush tried to enact stricter controls long before the crisis, but was continually rebuffed by the likes of Chris Dodd (the guy who got the favorable CountryWide loan) and Barney Frank. The latter is the guy who in response to a 2003 Bush proposal for tighter accounting of Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac said they "are not facing any kind of financial crisis" and wanted to "roll the dice a little bit more" in relation to such institutions.
There's enough blame for all sides, corrupt Republican and Democrat politicians, and Republican and Democrat supporters lining up for their handouts from said politicians.
I just find it funny and sad how the Democratic Party has managed to brainwash much of the public into thinking they are for the little guy instead of the bankers and corporations. The uninformed automatically think it's the Republican politicians lining the pockets of their fat cat friends, not knowing the Democrats do it at least as much.
After the first couple dozen F-22s are lost, and the first several thousand enemy planes, the enemy will be reduced to sending barely-trained newbies up to fight. The kill ratio will get larger and larger.
The Tiger II tanks weren't all they were made out to be, prone to failure and poorly built especially near the end of the war. Tactics used by the Germans didn't help, storing rounds in the turret, using it in sandy environments, and letting themselves get flanked so the light side armor could be hit.
Contrast: The 1,900 American M1 tanks used in Desert Storm. I think we may have had one damaged due to enemy tank fire. The M1's armor, firepower and night vision (plus tactics and training to use them effectively) made the enemy tanks almost completely ineffective. Almost all losses were due to friendly fire. You could have thrown ten times as many Iraqi tanks at them, and the results would have been the same.
They are charging him with "causing intentional damage to a protected computer." But since he did it in coordination with others, they can add the "conspiracy to" charge as well.
Conspiracy is also used when people are planning a crime, and there is clear evidence of such, but they haven't yet commited the crime. If you don't like this concept, maybe you'd rather the police sit back and let a group plotting to kill you do it so the prosecutor can get actual murder charges instead of just conspiracy to murder.
Just never seen or heard of an installation. Every Windows shop I went, when they wanted a UNIX tool they either used a Windows port of it or installed a *NIX machine.
Boot drives: Because you don't want it doesn't mean people don't. We are already encountering this problem just for accessing drives as 3 TB drives become more common.
Graphical boot: I quite like it. Boot up with Option key pressed, see a nice list of drives to boot from, click the one you want.
Intall OS over network: You can't boot into BIOS and click to reinstall your OS over the Internet. This isn't the same as needing a boot floppy that pulls down an image from your local server (which I was admittedly doing in the mid 90s with Linux).
16-bit: Legacy, want to get away from legacy and be more modern and stable.
It doesn't bring anything YOU want. But when users see what's in the Mac, the largest example of UEFI on the market, they tend to be impressed.
The Mac's installation is actually pretty limited. Everything you can do with user-unfriendly DOS-like menus on BIOS can be done much more user-friendly with UEFI. So some people don't like programming that. Too bad, get a job you're more suited for.
Forbes 400 list, although it's possible my total was old and it's likely a bit higher now. But I just added the Top 50, and it's $730.9 billion. That's about everybody worth over $6 billion.
You keep bringing up the Ottawa Treaty, which bans land mines. Your support of clever designs in land mines violates the treaty you keep mentioning. Do you know the the US has not signed the Ottawa Treaty?
I know we haven't signed it, because it's a stupid treaty. The goal is no more civilian deaths from anti-personnel landmines, and paying to clean up old mines and help civilian victims. We are paying for cleanup and help, and our current mines (outside of the closed-off DMZ) are designed according to the goal of the Ottawa Treaty -- no civilian casualties.
We probably would have signed a treaty that actually reflected the realities of the world.
1600-2600 people in Pakistan killed by drones from 2004 to 2011
Drones don't "kill automatically" as you stated. They kill by direct command from a human, just as pulling the trigger on a gun. But don't let facts get in the way of a good rant.
From 2003 to 2006 the US military killed some 600 000+ people in Iraq, mostly civilians. During which time Iraqis killed some 3000 US and UK soldiers.
I am glad we are much more effective than they are. As to whether the war was a good idea from the beginning, that's a different issue and quite debatable.
So the US attacked Vietnam and used a huge number land mines, similar with some kind of policy modifications in 1990s Iraq
No similarity. Most Vietnam mines were dropped and forgotten soon after. I have never heard of significant contemporary cleanup efforts.
and "only shot about a thousand groups of these" during the 2003 invasion of Iraq (emphasis added).
1991 Gulf War as stated, but don't let the facts get in the way of a good rant. We have not since used mines in Iraq, or at all.
Therefore, by your own admission, the US kills people indiscriminately, automatically.
These were fired out in the desert ahead of specific Iraqi Army troop movements, away from population centers. That is targeted, not indiscriminate. It's called area denial, a valid military tactic designed to make the enemy go where you want him to go, or to make him stop and be a sitting duck. Within two days those mines posed a hazard to no one, since they no longer existed. Any that may have malfunctioned twice posed no hazard within a week or so, having lost the ability for the fuse to activate the explosive.
which you and I agree is a pretty good treaty, if the US were a signer.
No, it's a pretty crappy treaty with a good goal. Guarded and marked minefields and self-destructing or dearming mines should have been allowed since they still achieve the goal.
Are you willing to do the same?
I am not willing to take a kumbaya position that conflicts with the harsh realities of the world. No more killing would be great, but that's not the world we live in. There are people out there who want us dead no matter what we do.
Japan actually attacked us AND had a military to back it up.
These guys actually attacked us several times AND have thousands of well-funded and organized people to back it up with continuing attacks. Just because the nature of the war has changed doesn't change the basic principles at work.
These people are military opponents as Japan was. They are therefore military targets. They are not even signatories of the Geneva Convention, nor have they promised to abide by it, freeing us from even those obligations.
Their first line attackers died the very day they attacked and...in an entire decade, they have mustered jack shit beyond that.
No, they aren't killing our soldiers Afghanistan and Iraq almost every day, with the material backing of countries such as Iran.
Japan was at least a threat beyond the ability to commit a large and tragic crime.
Japan only wanted to hold an Asian Pacific empire. The attack on Pearl Harbor was for fear that we would militarily oppose that empire building. We had the option of simply pulling back our own empire building in the Pacific, and no further war with Japan would have ensued.
Al Qaeda wants nothing less than our destruction, and the destruction of some of our allies. That's a lot worse.
As many have noted, they have come a long way in succeeding. Just look at how far our rights have eroded since 2001, building hatred and mistrust of our own government. Just look at how the wars against them and their allies have worked to bankrupt our economy.
A domain name is a valuable asset, and as such should be treated as property when it comes to 4th Amendment. Seizures require no indictment, no trial, no conviction. The owners get no notification, no chance to challenge the seizures.
The copyright industry directs its DoJ employees (yes, they have several highly-placed in the Obama DoJ) to take down a domain, the DoJ shows it to a magistrate that only hears their side, and he rubber-stamps the seizure.
They have seized domains so far that were shown to not be engaging in anything illegal. One was basically Google for torrents (of course they're not taking down Google or its torrent results), another was a rap blog that played music given to it by the record labels for promotion purposes, another indexed online sports, and had been twice declared legal in its home country of Spain.
It is a travesty of justice, theft under color of law. Some government employees and their copyright industry handlers need to be in prison.
If your hard drive or SSD dies and you replace it, or if you destroy your version of OS X Lion somehow, the latest Macs, using UEFI, will go out over the network to Apple, download a new copy of Lion, and install it.
Oooh he threatened us....yes we should be so scared shitless that we give up on our entire model of apprehending people and putting them on a fair trial for their well defined crimes, and just kill him for "threatening"
These are threats within the context of a continuing armed conflict in which they have already attacked us several times. When was the last time it was legal policy to arrest opposing soldiers and their leaders in a war and put them on trial? Hell no, you kill them where you find them.
You probably think shooting down Admiral Yamamoto in WWII was a crime. We should have politely asked him and his armed escort to land, arrested him, and put him on trial.
it's painfully obvious that you show little concern for the civilians that get caught up with those malevolent folks
Actually, we try very hard to keep the civilians safe. Long ago we'd have just dropped some cheap bombs or artillery on the house to get the enemy, with a very high probability of rounds directly hitting adjacent houses. Today we use precise and very expensive laser-, camera- and GPS-guided munitions. The government buys two dumb 155mm artillery rounds for less than the price of a base iPad while a precision Excalibur round can buy a decent house in many places, or a fairly high-end luxury car.
It's easy to say that they shouldn't aid or abet the bad guys, but when a bunch of people set up in your house and tell you to keep your mouth shut or they'll shoot your kids, the concept of the greater good goes away in a hurry.
So they get to win a war because they're the ones with the greater moral failing? No. The ones who put civilians in harm's way are the ones responsible for their deaths. Don't expect the drone operator or artillery forward observer to know the difference between a coerced family and collaborators.
In any case, the political power structure will never let either of them achieve a position of real power. For now they're just the clowns of their respective parties, marginalized or ignored to the best of the party's ability.
Too bad, because they're the only two in Congress that I really admire. And this isn't about ideology. I admire Kucinich, although I disagree with him on almost everything.
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Reasoning?
This is about state employee pensions, which can be exceptionally generous, especially within the education systems.
But federal employee unions have little bargaining power, while state ones are often very powerful. What Walker wanted to reduce the benefits to for his state employees is still much better than what federal employees get.
The ratio of administrators to teachers has skyrocketed, so you pay for a lot of people who don't teach. And don't get me started on all the money thrown at PC issues at colleges.
"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted and you create a nation of law-breakers."
She was a bit whacko in ways, but man did she hit the nail on the head with this one.
I like both features, and from a user perspective EFI gets me there.
Netboot vs. connecting to the Internet (even over wireless) and installing an OS from the Internet.
Macs (abbreviation for Macintosh in the plural, not the acronym for Media Access Control in the possessive) have UEFI because in the switch from PPC, BIOS just didn't cut it compared to the Open Firmware used on the PPC Macs. Apple isn't the type to downgrade to older technology when making a switch.
If it's only fast on select machines, that probably means the others were programmed by people like these bitching because they don't know how to properly implement UEFI.
Bush tried to enact stricter controls long before the crisis, but was continually rebuffed by the likes of Chris Dodd (the guy who got the favorable CountryWide loan) and Barney Frank. The latter is the guy who in response to a 2003 Bush proposal for tighter accounting of Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac said they "are not facing any kind of financial crisis" and wanted to "roll the dice a little bit more" in relation to such institutions.
There's enough blame for all sides, corrupt Republican and Democrat politicians, and Republican and Democrat supporters lining up for their handouts from said politicians.
I just find it funny and sad how the Democratic Party has managed to brainwash much of the public into thinking they are for the little guy instead of the bankers and corporations. The uninformed automatically think it's the Republican politicians lining the pockets of their fat cat friends, not knowing the Democrats do it at least as much.
After the first couple dozen F-22s are lost, and the first several thousand enemy planes, the enemy will be reduced to sending barely-trained newbies up to fight. The kill ratio will get larger and larger.
The Tiger II tanks weren't all they were made out to be, prone to failure and poorly built especially near the end of the war. Tactics used by the Germans didn't help, storing rounds in the turret, using it in sandy environments, and letting themselves get flanked so the light side armor could be hit.
Contrast: The 1,900 American M1 tanks used in Desert Storm. I think we may have had one damaged due to enemy tank fire. The M1's armor, firepower and night vision (plus tactics and training to use them effectively) made the enemy tanks almost completely ineffective. Almost all losses were due to friendly fire. You could have thrown ten times as many Iraqi tanks at them, and the results would have been the same.
The Democrats seriously have a lot of people brainwashed to think they're for the little guy.
The bailout was bipartisan and not targeted to Republican supporters.
Citigroup, the largest recipient, in fact donated much more to Democrats than to Republicans.
They are charging him with "causing intentional damage to a protected computer." But since he did it in coordination with others, they can add the "conspiracy to" charge as well.
Conspiracy is also used when people are planning a crime, and there is clear evidence of such, but they haven't yet commited the crime. If you don't like this concept, maybe you'd rather the police sit back and let a group plotting to kill you do it so the prosecutor can get actual murder charges instead of just conspiracy to murder.
Just never seen or heard of an installation. Every Windows shop I went, when they wanted a UNIX tool they either used a Windows port of it or installed a *NIX machine.
Boot drives: Because you don't want it doesn't mean people don't. We are already encountering this problem just for accessing drives as 3 TB drives become more common.
Graphical boot: I quite like it. Boot up with Option key pressed, see a nice list of drives to boot from, click the one you want.
Intall OS over network: You can't boot into BIOS and click to reinstall your OS over the Internet. This isn't the same as needing a boot floppy that pulls down an image from your local server (which I was admittedly doing in the mid 90s with Linux).
16-bit: Legacy, want to get away from legacy and be more modern and stable.
It doesn't bring anything YOU want. But when users see what's in the Mac, the largest example of UEFI on the market, they tend to be impressed.
The Mac's installation is actually pretty limited. Everything you can do with user-unfriendly DOS-like menus on BIOS can be done much more user-friendly with UEFI. So some people don't like programming that. Too bad, get a job you're more suited for.
Forbes 400 list, although it's possible my total was old and it's likely a bit higher now. But I just added the Top 50, and it's $730.9 billion. That's about everybody worth over $6 billion.
2+ TB GPT boot drives
Graphical pre-boot interfaces with mouse
Graphical installation of my OS over the network
No more legacy 16-bit
From a user perspective, I don't care about all the crap you're talking about. It just works.
I know we haven't signed it, because it's a stupid treaty. The goal is no more civilian deaths from anti-personnel landmines, and paying to clean up old mines and help civilian victims. We are paying for cleanup and help, and our current mines (outside of the closed-off DMZ) are designed according to the goal of the Ottawa Treaty -- no civilian casualties.
We probably would have signed a treaty that actually reflected the realities of the world.
Drones don't "kill automatically" as you stated. They kill by direct command from a human, just as pulling the trigger on a gun. But don't let facts get in the way of a good rant.
I am glad we are much more effective than they are. As to whether the war was a good idea from the beginning, that's a different issue and quite debatable.
No similarity. Most Vietnam mines were dropped and forgotten soon after. I have never heard of significant contemporary cleanup efforts.
1991 Gulf War as stated, but don't let the facts get in the way of a good rant. We have not since used mines in Iraq, or at all.
These were fired out in the desert ahead of specific Iraqi Army troop movements, away from population centers. That is targeted, not indiscriminate. It's called area denial, a valid military tactic designed to make the enemy go where you want him to go, or to make him stop and be a sitting duck. Within two days those mines posed a hazard to no one, since they no longer existed. Any that may have malfunctioned twice posed no hazard within a week or so, having lost the ability for the fuse to activate the explosive.
No, it's a pretty crappy treaty with a good goal. Guarded and marked minefields and self-destructing or dearming mines should have been allowed since they still achieve the goal.
I am not willing to take a kumbaya position that conflicts with the harsh realities of the world. No more killing would be great, but that's not the world we live in. There are people out there who want us dead no matter what we do.
These guys actually attacked us several times AND have thousands of well-funded and organized people to back it up with continuing attacks. Just because the nature of the war has changed doesn't change the basic principles at work.
These people are military opponents as Japan was. They are therefore military targets. They are not even signatories of the Geneva Convention, nor have they promised to abide by it, freeing us from even those obligations.
No, they aren't killing our soldiers Afghanistan and Iraq almost every day, with the material backing of countries such as Iran.
Japan only wanted to hold an Asian Pacific empire. The attack on Pearl Harbor was for fear that we would militarily oppose that empire building. We had the option of simply pulling back our own empire building in the Pacific, and no further war with Japan would have ensued.
Al Qaeda wants nothing less than our destruction, and the destruction of some of our allies. That's a lot worse.
As many have noted, they have come a long way in succeeding. Just look at how far our rights have eroded since 2001, building hatred and mistrust of our own government. Just look at how the wars against them and their allies have worked to bankrupt our economy.
A domain name is a valuable asset, and as such should be treated as property when it comes to 4th Amendment. Seizures require no indictment, no trial, no conviction. The owners get no notification, no chance to challenge the seizures.
The copyright industry directs its DoJ employees (yes, they have several highly-placed in the Obama DoJ) to take down a domain, the DoJ shows it to a magistrate that only hears their side, and he rubber-stamps the seizure.
They have seized domains so far that were shown to not be engaging in anything illegal. One was basically Google for torrents (of course they're not taking down Google or its torrent results), another was a rap blog that played music given to it by the record labels for promotion purposes, another indexed online sports, and had been twice declared legal in its home country of Spain.
It is a travesty of justice, theft under color of law. Some government employees and their copyright industry handlers need to be in prison.
Time for them to find an easier job.
From a user perspective, UEFI rocks.
Graphical picking of boot disk
If your hard drive or SSD dies and you replace it, or if you destroy your version of OS X Lion somehow, the latest Macs, using UEFI, will go out over the network to Apple, download a new copy of Lion, and install it.
Try that with BIOS.
Even if I had the cash, wife veto in 23 milliseconds.
I have never seen one instance of this actually being used in any environment from small up to very large enterprise.
Bought by GM in the 80s
Spun off into its own company in the 90s
Bought by HP in the 2000s
And now? We're in the next decade, time for something to happen. Will this be some kind of a record?
Try theft, larceny, deprivation, mugging, etc.
These are threats within the context of a continuing armed conflict in which they have already attacked us several times. When was the last time it was legal policy to arrest opposing soldiers and their leaders in a war and put them on trial? Hell no, you kill them where you find them.
You probably think shooting down Admiral Yamamoto in WWII was a crime. We should have politely asked him and his armed escort to land, arrested him, and put him on trial.
Actually, we try very hard to keep the civilians safe. Long ago we'd have just dropped some cheap bombs or artillery on the house to get the enemy, with a very high probability of rounds directly hitting adjacent houses. Today we use precise and very expensive laser-, camera- and GPS-guided munitions. The government buys two dumb 155mm artillery rounds for less than the price of a base iPad while a precision Excalibur round can buy a decent house in many places, or a fairly high-end luxury car.
So they get to win a war because they're the ones with the greater moral failing? No. The ones who put civilians in harm's way are the ones responsible for their deaths. Don't expect the drone operator or artillery forward observer to know the difference between a coerced family and collaborators.
In other words, not well at all.
In any case, the political power structure will never let either of them achieve a position of real power. For now they're just the clowns of their respective parties, marginalized or ignored to the best of the party's ability.
Too bad, because they're the only two in Congress that I really admire. And this isn't about ideology. I admire Kucinich, although I disagree with him on almost everything.