Really. Selling prohibited merchandise, abusing youngsters, and doing murder are purely perogatives of Government, and they don't like competition. . .
If your notional techies are "keeping things running", wouldn't you consider them "Essential"??
Cleaners are generally contractors anyway.
As for Park Wardens and such, last time I visited a National Park, I paid an entrance fee for myself and each member of my family. Sounds to me like Wardens, Rangers, etc, should be self-funding.
The vast majority of the "Non-essential" people out of work are bureaucrats of one or another flavor. In these times of austerity, everybody ELSE is cutting back: what makes.GOV any different ?????
That, however, assumes the ability of the Grocery-store printer to handle a wide variety of plastics. Some parts have fairly exacting specs for strenghth, etc. I see INDUSTRIAL printers with multiple types of feedstock, but not really sure that a Consumer-access printer will have that at a reasonable cost in the next few years. . .
Given the fact that we all are, technically, committing scores of crimes based on technical defintions of law and regulation, I would say that judgement is a key factor for a street-level cop. . .
And what rules were broken ? Last time I checked, we still had free speech. IF charging fraud, who was injured and how much did they lose due to this.
This is ADVERTISING. . . .
Really beginning to get tired of all the OSC Hate. OK, so he's not politically correct, and holds an opinion that many find offensive. He also writes well. I'm sure the officers of many companies that make products I regularly use and enjoy are utter bastards, but there's no organized hate of THEM (Why am I suddenly flashing on "Dogma" and the scene in the "Mooby's" Office. ..). . .
I've been playing it since Friday (Sept. 20th). So far ? Fun. And haven't had this much fun since my EQ days. Put my hopes on Hellgate:London, which failed so bad it created a new word: "flagshipped".
Messed with a bunch of other games, and then put my hopes into "The Secret World". Fail again. But Firefall is keeping me entertained WITHOUT spending money: so far, everything CAN be earned, just a lot harder that way. Which isn't really a problem for some of us. I have found that BUYING your way into 7337 status gets boring fast. I prefer the slow burn. . .
Let's talk about the ACTUAL Threat, the Bipartisan "Keep Our Spoiled Butts in Power" party. The longer a pol is in office, the more bought-off he or she gets. . .
The answer, of course, is hard and enforced term limits, so that politicians can only get captured by the system only somewhat, before it kicks them out. . .
Actually, Censorship is about GOVERNMENT suppressing freedom of expression. Privately-owned sites are free to set their own terms. As you are in your own house.
And when sites do restrict anonymity, it happens in the marketplace of ideas. So if people are accepting the non-anonymity policy on a given site, they're the ones at fault, not the site.
Not that it's HARD to create a sock-puppet account. . .
Actually, we started THINKING about it when we started asking the girls what they learned today, and got replies of "Nothing much". Investigating, we found that it pretty much was the case: about half the teachers were just drilling kids on the answers to standardized tests.
We complained. We got nowhere. About that time, being a "Web Designer" started to go away, and the wife decided to work from home, doing free-lance computer graphics. 3 or so months into that, we talked about maybe home-schooling on tech, as the schools weren't teaching it. (BTW, Hacker High School and Python for Kids FTW. . . . )
Full-time home-schooling started several months after that. . ..
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Cue the Brony Apocalypse in 3. . 2. . .1. . . .
Really. Selling prohibited merchandise, abusing youngsters, and doing murder are purely perogatives of Government, and they don't like competition. . .
. . . which is why all traffic to the Patagonia domain is being monitored by the NSA. . .
. . . .who want exceptions carved out, just for them.
Like the C-level people who "need" Facebook and Twitter.
Like the General Counsel who don't want to use the document check-in/check-out system, and THEN complain about losing files.
I could go on, but I'm sure the vast majority of us have had to deal with similar issues. . .
Last time I checked, we didn't elect Congressmen by national popular vote. We elect them by district. That, by the way, is a feature, not a bug. . .
If your notional techies are "keeping things running", wouldn't you consider them "Essential"??
Cleaners are generally contractors anyway.
As for Park Wardens and such, last time I visited a National Park, I paid an entrance fee for myself and each member of my family. Sounds to me like Wardens, Rangers, etc, should be self-funding.
The vast majority of the "Non-essential" people out of work are bureaucrats of one or another flavor. In these times of austerity, everybody ELSE is cutting back: what makes .GOV any different ?????
Oh, I'd say DC is hip-deep in TAR. . . . if the idiots would just GZ their bloviation and just work it out.
Alas, intelligence and rationality are 404 inside the Beltway. . .
. . . .who are deemed "non-essential".
Um, if they're not essential, why are they on the payroll in the first place ???
Do you REALLY want to grant root access to the clowns in charge of the US ????
Hell, they make 1-week cram-course MCSE's look good, in comparison. . . .
That, however, assumes the ability of the Grocery-store printer to handle a wide variety of plastics. Some parts have fairly exacting specs for strenghth, etc. I see INDUSTRIAL printers with multiple types of feedstock, but not really sure that a Consumer-access printer will have that at a reasonable cost in the next few years. . .
. . . "don't be evil" ???
No: JarJar Hitler actually says:
"mesa got a Final Solution for de Jedi Problem". . .
. . .until you run into firms that do this, like "TurnItIn.com". That immediately claims all submitted papers as THEIR intellectual property. . . .
Given the fact that we all are, technically, committing scores of crimes based on technical defintions of law and regulation, I would say that judgement is a key factor for a street-level cop. . .
And what rules were broken ? Last time I checked, we still had free speech. IF charging fraud, who was injured and how much did they lose due to this. This is ADVERTISING. . . .
More importantly, how much did the NY AG's office spend to do all this, to collect $350K in fines ??
Somehow, I suspect it was a lot more than $350K. . . .
So.... if they're investigating large-scale, intentional deceit. . .
. . . .shouldn't they be investigating Albany and Washington DC ???
As I recall, the actual lyric is ". . .and a confidante. . . "
Which, unfortunately, I learned from a co-worker had the theme as her ringtone. . . . 10-15 times a day. . . .
True. But his/her official role (as opposed to the real role. . . ) is to provide a semblance of top-cover.
"But our Civil Liberties and Privacy Officer is investigating, and will report their findings when the investigation is complete. . ."
Which will appease all but the loudest sheeple. . .
Really beginning to get tired of all the OSC Hate. OK, so he's not politically correct, and holds an opinion that many find offensive. He also writes well. I'm sure the officers of many companies that make products I regularly use and enjoy are utter bastards, but there's no organized hate of THEM (Why am I suddenly flashing on "Dogma" and the scene in the "Mooby's" Office. . .). . .
I've been playing it since Friday (Sept. 20th). So far ? Fun. And haven't had this much fun since my EQ days. Put my hopes on Hellgate:London, which failed so bad it created a new word: "flagshipped" .
Messed with a bunch of other games, and then put my hopes into "The Secret World". Fail again. But Firefall is keeping me entertained WITHOUT spending money: so far, everything CAN be earned, just a lot harder that way. Which isn't really a problem for some of us. I have found that BUYING your way into 7337 status gets boring fast. I prefer the slow burn. . .
Let's talk about the ACTUAL Threat, the Bipartisan "Keep Our Spoiled Butts in Power" party. The longer a pol is in office, the more bought-off he or she gets. . .
The answer, of course, is hard and enforced term limits, so that politicians can only get captured by the system only somewhat, before it kicks them out. . .
Actually, Censorship is about GOVERNMENT suppressing freedom of expression. Privately-owned sites are free to set their own terms. As you are in your own house.
And when sites do restrict anonymity, it happens in the marketplace of ideas. So if people are accepting the non-anonymity policy on a given site, they're the ones at fault, not the site.
Not that it's HARD to create a sock-puppet account. . .
Actually, we started THINKING about it when we started asking the girls what they learned today, and got replies of "Nothing much". Investigating, we found that it pretty much was the case: about half the teachers were just drilling kids on the answers to standardized tests.
We complained. We got nowhere. About that time, being a "Web Designer" started to go away, and the wife decided to work from home, doing free-lance computer graphics. 3 or so months into that, we talked about maybe home-schooling on tech, as the schools weren't teaching it. (BTW, Hacker High School and Python for Kids FTW. . . . )
Full-time home-schooling started several months after that. . . .
Really ??
http://www.cdc.gov/rabies/
Rabies is a preventable viral disease of mammals most often transmitted through the bite of a rabid animal. The vast majority of rabies cases reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) each year occur in wild animals like raccoons, skunks, bats, and foxes.
The rabies virus infects the central nervous system, ultimately causing disease in the brain and death. The early symptoms of rabies in people are similar to that of many other illnesses, including fever, headache, and general weakness or discomfort. As the disease progresses, more specific symptoms appear and may include insomnia, anxiety, confusion, slight or partial paralysis, excitation, hallucinations, agitation, hypersalivation (increase in saliva), difficulty swallowing, and hydrophobia (fear of water). Death usually occurs within days of the onset of these symptoms.