Well said and quite true. Entropy is absolutely the nature of government, Franklin said as much as he stepped out of the constitutional convention with the ink still wet...
I knew about the denatured alcohol, but not the additives to opiates. It might be worth adding that making industrial alcohols poisonous is mostly for taxation. For instance you can (with a supposedly easily obtained permit) make alcohol for fuel, but it must be made in-consumable, however if you use that to drive on public roads you still need to pay a tax on it. Same old story... The "do gooders" insist on the rules and the bureaucrats, criminals and middle men capitalize on it.
Well said. If you ask me the biggest problem with deploying Linux in the work place is the "No one ever got fired for buying M$" line. Now that Linux is becoming more venerable, that thinking will and has become less popular. In fact these days, the mention of using Open Source in your IT infrastructure is sort of catch phrase. I was always certain Linux would do well in the server market, it just makes so much sense, as for the desktops... I think corporations really don't want their users doing anything more (gaming etc) than they can do with Linux for free, so once the emotional attachment to the windows GUI is recognized more, I suspect we will see a lot more linux desktops too, especially in the corporate world.
Well, if you subscribe to the theory that the less government does the better, this may be good news, on the other hand... Democrats, argh it is a scary thought. What is it they are good at?
So, we just throw our hands up and cross over completely? Are you willing to have an RFID chip implanted as well? I don't believe the government or anyone in particular is out to get me, but I hate the idea, privacy is good thing we are giving it away by the fist full lately. They may as well just scrap the social security cards anyway, it is a system that will inevitably fail, I don't plan on getting any benefits. Lets move in the right direction instead of shoveling away our individuality and freedom.
NO, Is right. Most of our safety and well being as citizens can be satisfied by a relatively small set of laws, after that the advances in safety, prosperity and happiness are minimal. Life isn't safe and it doesn't fit neatly into a database either. Risk and a certain degree of randomness are facts like death that must just be accepted and dealt with. When we don't deal with it we loose things that we can have like freedom.
I once hosted a designer who insisited on all passwords being the user name backwards for all clients. Recipe for disaster for sure. Is that #2 or #3 in the password hackers manual?
Start your stop watches and let's see how long before a patch is forthcoming. To my mind that is the real test Then compare that time to M$' response time.
It's not like the patch is really the problem. We are not, nor do we aspire to be FrontPage developers. We like to use MS for support for such matters. When a clients web from or webot or whatever isn't working and the standard fixes don't work, it helps to contact MS and speak with a FP developer. If you aren't running supported extensions you don't have that.
I'm still waiting to hear from Microsoft regarding that fix. We like to use officially supported software, so we don't have to be "FrontPage gurus" in order to allow some of our clients to use FrontPage. Plus, we are a Registered Web Presence Provider for Microsoft® FrontPage® version 2002 and all of that... -Eric
I couldn't agree more. Ok so some of you like it, that's fine, but worthy of awards? Come on.. I'm also wondering how many little girls have been beaten up because they did their best Buffy impression on someone who didn't watch the show..
I personally think they should remove both of Larry Ellisons testicles and implant GPS devices so that the govt. can better protect him by knowing where he is. Let's face it Franklin said it best " Those that would give up Freedom for Security deserver neither" Actually that qoute is often see with several variations and sometimes accredited Thomas Jefferson. All I am certain of is that there is a lot of truth it.
Enough is enough already let's face it, living is dangerous and no matter what you do you can't get around it. Let's at least do it with a bit of dignity and a lot of freedom. Why should we change the very best thing going because of some fanatical backwards terrorists that would like nothing better than for us to all give up our freedom for fear of them.
I for one am now going to run not walk away from Oracle. MySQL and PostgreSQl for from now on...
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Almost all of them are after our rights, that's how they get and keep power. They just do it in different ways.
Well said and quite true. Entropy is absolutely the nature of government, Franklin said as much as he stepped out of the constitutional convention with the ink still wet...
I knew about the denatured alcohol, but not the additives to opiates.
It might be worth adding that making industrial alcohols poisonous is mostly for taxation.
For instance you can (with a supposedly easily obtained permit) make alcohol for fuel, but it must be made in-consumable, however if you use that to drive on public roads you still need to pay a tax on it.
Same old story... The "do gooders" insist on the rules and the bureaucrats, criminals and middle men capitalize on it.
Well said. If you ask me the biggest problem with deploying Linux in the work place is the "No one ever got fired for buying M$" line. Now that Linux is becoming more venerable, that thinking will and has become less popular. In fact these days, the mention of using Open Source in your IT infrastructure is sort of catch phrase. I was always certain Linux would do well in the server market, it just makes so much sense, as for the desktops... I think corporations really don't want their users doing anything more (gaming etc) than they can do with Linux for free, so once the emotional attachment to the windows GUI is recognized more, I suspect we will see a lot more linux desktops too, especially in the corporate world.
Well, if you subscribe to the theory that the less government does the better, this may be good news, on the other hand... Democrats, argh it is a scary thought. What is it they are good at?
Well there you have it, it should be an opt in only program, I wouldn't want to deprive you of your right to give up your privacy.
So, we just throw our hands up and cross over completely? Are you willing to have an RFID chip implanted as well? I don't believe the government or anyone in particular is out to get me, but I hate the idea, privacy is good thing we are giving it away by the fist full lately. They may as well just scrap the social security cards anyway, it is a system that will inevitably fail, I don't plan on getting any benefits. Lets move in the right direction instead of shoveling away our individuality and freedom.
NO, Is right.
Most of our safety and well being as citizens can be satisfied by a relatively small set of laws, after that the advances in safety, prosperity and happiness are minimal. Life isn't safe and it doesn't fit neatly into a database either. Risk and a certain degree of randomness are facts like death that must just be accepted and dealt with. When we don't deal with it we loose things that we can have like freedom.
I once hosted a designer who insisited on all passwords being the user name backwards for all clients. Recipe for disaster for sure. Is that #2 or #3 in the password hackers manual?
Start your stop watches and let's see how long before a patch is forthcoming. To my mind that is the real test Then compare that time to M$' response time.
It's not like the patch is really the problem. We are not, nor do we aspire to be FrontPage developers. We like to use MS for support for such matters. When a clients web from or webot or whatever isn't working and the standard fixes don't work, it helps to contact MS and speak with a FP developer. If you aren't running supported extensions you don't have that.
I'm still waiting to hear from Microsoft regarding that fix. We like to use officially supported software, so we don't have to be "FrontPage gurus" in order to allow some of our clients to use FrontPage. Plus, we are a Registered Web Presence Provider for Microsoft® FrontPage® version 2002 and all of that...
-Eric
I couldn't agree more. Ok so some of you like it, that's fine, but worthy of awards? Come on..
I'm also wondering how many little girls have been beaten up because they did their best Buffy impression on someone who didn't watch the show..
Really? I have a very hard time seeing what anyone sees in "Buffy" . Besides it being mildly amusing I just don't see it..
I personally think they should remove both of Larry Ellisons testicles and implant GPS devices so that the govt. can better protect him by knowing where he is. Let's face it Franklin said it best " Those that would give up Freedom for Security deserver neither" Actually that qoute is often see with several variations and sometimes accredited Thomas Jefferson. All I am certain of is that there is a lot of truth it.
Enough is enough already let's face it, living is dangerous and no matter what you do you can't get around it. Let's at least do it with a bit of dignity and a lot of freedom. Why should we change the very best thing going because of some fanatical backwards terrorists that would like nothing better than for us to all give up our freedom for fear of them.
I for one am now going to run not walk away from Oracle. MySQL and PostgreSQl for from now on...