Read the article this pointed to. It refutes all the "lies" you documented here. As for comments by other politicians, that is certainly not proof of anything.
Did you read the whole article? Gore supported the expansion of ARPANET into what is now the Internet, by getting funds and publicity. That's what politicians do.
- The "created the internet" is a misquote.
- I don't know about the union song story.
- The girl standing in class was based on talking to the father of the girl and a newspaper article. The quote about the equipment WAS a lie. The girl did only have to stand for one day, but because a boy gave her his desk; he had to stand. Read salon.
- Gore DID visit the flood victims; the 'lie' was that he went with a deputy, not the head of FEMA.
OTOH, Bush lies:
- He said Gore was outspending him. The opposite is true.
- He accused Gore of "fuzzy math" when Gore said that Bush was giving more in tax breaks to the top 1% of earners than he was planning to spend on defense, education and health care combined. The following day he admitted that Gore's statment was true.
- He disappeared for a year when he was in the Air National Gaurd. He's never explained that. He was allowed to 'make up' the time by serving in Colorado. He was in school at Harvard at the time.
Well, if you're porting your product to Solaris, or anything other than windows, you have to rewrite all MFC code.
That's enough for me right there, especially now that I've dont it a few times.
And my opinion of MFC is very low. The MSDN documentation is either very good or completely useless, and if it's useless you're screwed. Plus they use all these idiotic macros and renamed data types. Plus, you have to put up with Simonyi's idiotic idea of variable naming (click here for rant..).
My understanding is that the 'slumlord' story was ultimately a crock. The plumbing problems were caused by the tenant, and Gore (strangely enough) relied on his property manager. Do you really think someone paying $400 a month for a house could write Al Gore directly?
The 'invented the internet' story has been debunked as nauseum. Pick something else.
The 'marriage penalty' was a BAD bill - it did not address anything about difference between rates. It could have simply said "Married couples will be allowed to file as single if they wish". Instead, it was a convulated piece of crap designed to help the rich at the expense of everyone else (by the way, I qualify as one of those 'rich'. It's still a screwed up bill).
I think the 'cracker' was someone who worked at 2600, but not a software guy - a graphical designer?
Read the report. Yes, the Rand Corporation did do a study concluding that Texas was above average from 1990-1996. Bush took office in 1995. The study concluded that it was due to:
- emphasis on pre-K
- smaller class sizes for the youngest students
- getting teachers what they needed to do their
jobs
Note that all these things will take years for the benefits to be measured. In short, it was done before Bush took office, and in fact the Republicans (including Bush) vigorously opposed the measures taken - note by looking at them that they take MONEY.
Details? What has George W. Bush accomplished in his life that would make him a leader and universal role model? Remember, it has to be something he accomplished himself, not something his parent's friends got for him.
School? With his grades, you and I would *never* have been accepted to the schools he attended.
Business? First he was bailed out by Daddy's friends, then the city of Arlington made him rich by buying the Rangers their stadium.
Government? He's held one elective office - governor of a state that allows the governor little freedom to accomplish anything. Except for executing people, he hasn't accomplished anything there either.
Role model? Arrested for pranks, barely got through school, joined Air National Gaurd to skip Vietnam (and disappeared for several months during his 'active' duty), drifted through life as an amiable party boy until six years ago.
Microsoft didn't buy CP/M, they bought DOS (a competitor, from Seattle Computing).
Microsoft didn't make the PC affordable; that was IBM, which actually made it inexpensive by making it clonable (possibly due to antitrust actions by the DOJ).
I used CP/M and it was very similar to DOS. Definitely not innovative enough for IBM to pick it only on its merits - read any Bill Gates or Microsoft book not written in-house and you'll find out the story of how MS landed the IBM contract.
Bill Gates' only innovation that I've heard of was mainframe emulation of PC hardware, done on Harvard's computer (actually by Paul Allen, who was not a student). So one innovation, by a former partner illegally using someone else's computer, is it for MS.
Yup, slandering on the web is just as bad as slandering anywhere else.
But, did the school officials and police target the paper for slandering his friend, and/or the other websites mentioned that also slandered her? Didn't say anything about, and I doubt it.
He went too far, but a week in jail as a result? Shouldn't happen.
The AT&T analogy is wrong here. They didn't get sued by the government over their local service monopoly. They were sued because they would not open up their networks to other long distance carriers. So the Baby Bells were created and had to deal with each long distance company in the same way.
And, (FYI) as someone who worked for a Baby Bell not long after the breakup, no one particularly liked and definitely did not favor AT&T over any other company in its dealings. In fact, they were a demanding pain in the ass. With Microsoft's well-known affinity for creating in-house independent groups that are each responsible for their own profits, I think the separate MS companies would start hating each other pretty quickly. That should remove some concerns about the 'baby bills' cooperating.
If Slashdot didn't have the disclaimer, they would have to censor posters. The servers would melt down under the responses if they did that.
Slashdot could require posters to give real information about themselves so they can be contacted, but that would get an even better response. I mean, how many posters here use their real names?
So they have the disclaimer, and the posters can say anything they want. Now people are whining because they want attribution, or want their anonymity protected completely, or they hate Katz, but posted anyway. Talk about a no-win situation.
If you don't want anyone reading your posts, don't post. It's that simple.
> It is legitimate law-abiding gun owners who have been harmed the most by Columbine.
How?
Have their guns been taken away? No. Have they had to register guns that weren't registered? No. Have they been banned from buying more guns? No. Have any legitimate law-abiding gun owners been arrested and prosecuted? If so, please tell me the name & place.
I think you missed the socialogical significance of the Super Bowl. Watching it has little to do with whether you are a sports fan or not. Americans watch the game for three reasons:
1. It's an excuse to drink & eat a lot 2. To rate the commercials 3. To make fun of the halftime show
It's not a violation of geek mores to laugh at things and get drunk.
The problem with requiring full compliance in home offices is that, if it's too expensive to allow employees to work from home, employers simply won't allow it. I'd rather work from home if possible.
However, if your company requires you to work from home and doesn't have a permanent place for you in the office, you should be able to get a least a desk, chair & phone. The company will still be saving on facilities costs.
Could you state the rulings that Judge Jackson has made concerning Microsoft that have been overturned, what appeals court overturned them and the basis for the ruling?
I've been using Netscape Communicator 4.51 both at work and at home for the last year and a half.
I often have 12+ windows open and very rarely have problems. The biggest problem I have is opening large Word documents - i'tll kill NT about 10% of the time.
I use NT at work, 95 at home.
I quit using IE at home because it locked up several times.
OK, I made an analogy that seemed to sail over people's heads.
Computers are used to evaluate personality tests for jobs, acceptace for mortgage applications. You fill them out. Now, had that responsibility over to someone who hates you. You won't get that job, you won't get that mortgage. No house, no living.
As for that teacher that hated me and how that couldn't affect the m-2k scenario: remember that the ADMINISTRATION, not the student, fills out the evaluation.
That particular teacher almost got me suspended for 'participating' in a near-riot fight. Several students told him I was there, so he told the principal I was there. The only thing that stopped me from getting suspended was that another teacher told the principal that I was with her. Nothing happened to the teacher.
On the other hand, in high school the vice principal in charge of discipline loved me because I never caused trouble, unlike my brother. He actually stopped me from getting suspended once. If he had been in charge of adminstering the test, I would have passed with flying colors no matter what.
...to judge what school administrators input about a student
Would you want the ability to buy a house, get a job, anything in your life to be in the hands of your worst enemy?
That's a distinct possibility if you're gathering data on individuals based on other people's perceptions of that person. It's pretty useless at best, and DANGEROUS at worst.
When I was in middle school, I had a teacher that hated me for some reason. Everyone caught on, and I could successfully get blamed for anything that happened in class. If that teacher had had control of someething like this, I would have been out on my ass. No future for you!!
I'm not particularly paranoid, but boy, this really worries me.
The biggest problem with campaign finance laws is that they are designed to restrict many kinds of free speech.
Statements like this one drive me crazy. They make the assumption that, if you give money to a political candidate, they will use absolutely use the money to support your views. There are no guarantees of this, and therefore, it is not a freedom of speech issue. The politician or party are going to use the money to win elections, not to support you. Remember that.
Back in the 60s and 70s, when computers were becoming important and coders were needed but there were no trained ones available, several of the big companies (IBM and AT&T, for example) tried to figure out which college majors would provide the best programmers (besides math, of course). It was discovered that music majors often made good programmers, so apparently some of the same skills are present in the two groups.
As a supposition backed up with no facts, it's possible, making the assumption that you're mildly autistic, that part of that autism (ability to concentrate without external stimuli interfering) balances out other parts (general clumsiness).
In many of those societies that don't have 'please' etc., they have a tradition of starting every conversation with long observations about the weather, family, etc, and do not get down to business until the social amenities are completed. Inefficient, but necessary for them...
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Read the article this pointed to. It refutes all the "lies" you documented here. As for comments by other politicians, that is certainly not proof of anything.
Did you read the whole article? Gore supported the expansion of ARPANET into what is now the Internet, by getting funds and publicity. That's what politicians do.
Read the whole article, not just a single quote.
- The "created the internet" is a misquote.
- I don't know about the union song story.
- The girl standing in class was based on talking to the father of the girl and a newspaper article. The quote about the equipment WAS a lie. The girl did only have to stand for one day, but because a boy gave her his desk; he had to stand. Read salon.
- Gore DID visit the flood victims; the 'lie' was that he went with a deputy, not the head of FEMA.
OTOH, Bush lies:
- He said Gore was outspending him. The opposite is true.
- He accused Gore of "fuzzy math" when Gore said that Bush was giving more in tax breaks to the top 1% of earners than he was planning to spend on defense, education and health care combined. The following day he admitted that Gore's statment was true.
- He disappeared for a year when he was in the Air National Gaurd. He's never explained that. He was allowed to 'make up' the time by serving in Colorado. He was in school at Harvard at the time.
Get facts, don't rely on one new source.
Well, if you're porting your product to Solaris, or anything other than windows, you have to rewrite all MFC code.
That's enough for me right there, especially now that I've dont it a few times.
And my opinion of MFC is very low. The MSDN documentation is either very good or completely useless, and if it's useless you're screwed. Plus they use all these idiotic macros and renamed data types. Plus, you have to put up with Simonyi's idiotic idea of variable naming (click here for rant..).
Uh, no.
Do some research.
Read the entire speech to figure out the context.
Or just go away.
Thanks for that URL - it was very enlightening, and pretty well nailed my feelings on the head, and gave me facts to back up my feelings with.
Funny how you never hear about that 1939 ruling from any NRA members.
My understanding is that the 'slumlord' story was ultimately a crock. The plumbing problems were caused by the tenant, and Gore (strangely enough) relied on his property manager. Do you really think someone paying $400 a month for a house could write Al Gore directly?
The 'invented the internet' story has been debunked as nauseum. Pick something else.
The 'marriage penalty' was a BAD bill - it did not address anything about difference between rates. It could have simply said "Married couples will be allowed to file as single if they wish". Instead, it was a convulated piece of crap designed to help the rich at the expense of everyone else (by the way, I qualify as one of those 'rich'. It's still a screwed up bill).
I think the 'cracker' was someone who worked at 2600, but not a software guy - a graphical designer?
Keep trying, dude.
Read the report. Yes, the Rand Corporation did do a study concluding that Texas was above average from 1990-1996. Bush took office in 1995. The study concluded that it was due to:
- emphasis on pre-K
- smaller class sizes for the youngest students
- getting teachers what they needed to do their
jobs
Note that all these things will take years for the benefits to be measured. In short, it was done before Bush took office, and in fact the Republicans (including Bush) vigorously opposed the measures taken - note by looking at them that they take MONEY.
Details? What has George W. Bush accomplished in his life that would make him a leader and universal role model? Remember, it has to be something he accomplished himself, not something his parent's friends got for him.
School? With his grades, you and I would *never* have been accepted to the schools he attended.
Business? First he was bailed out by Daddy's friends, then the city of Arlington made him rich by buying the Rangers their stadium.
Government? He's held one elective office - governor of a state that allows the governor little freedom to accomplish anything. Except for executing people, he hasn't accomplished anything there either.
Role model? Arrested for pranks, barely got through school, joined Air National Gaurd to skip Vietnam (and disappeared for several months during his 'active' duty), drifted through life as an amiable party boy until six years ago.
Rebuttals? Let me know.
... I have not recieved even one reply that attempts to tell me I'm wrong.
You're wrong. Details supplied upon request.
Microsoft didn't buy CP/M, they bought DOS (a competitor, from Seattle Computing).
Microsoft didn't make the PC affordable; that was IBM, which actually made it inexpensive by making it clonable (possibly due to antitrust actions by the DOJ).
I used CP/M and it was very similar to DOS. Definitely not innovative enough for IBM to pick it only on its merits - read any Bill Gates or Microsoft book not written in-house and you'll find out the story of how MS landed the IBM contract.
Bill Gates' only innovation that I've heard of was mainframe emulation of PC hardware, done on Harvard's computer (actually by Paul Allen, who was not a student). So one innovation, by a former partner illegally using someone else's computer, is it for MS.
Yup, slandering on the web is just as bad as slandering anywhere else.
But, did the school officials and police target the paper for slandering his friend, and/or the other websites mentioned that also slandered her? Didn't say anything about, and I doubt it.
He went too far, but a week in jail as a result? Shouldn't happen.
The AT&T analogy is wrong here. They didn't get sued by the government over their local service monopoly. They were sued because they would not open up their networks to other long distance carriers. So the Baby Bells were created and had to deal with each long distance company in the same way.
And, (FYI) as someone who worked for a Baby Bell not long after the breakup, no one particularly liked and definitely did not favor AT&T over any other company in its dealings. In fact, they were a demanding pain in the ass. With Microsoft's well-known affinity for creating in-house independent groups that are each responsible for their own profits, I think the separate MS companies would start hating each other pretty quickly. That should remove some concerns about the 'baby bills' cooperating.
All this would be laughable if it weren't so sad.
If Slashdot didn't have the disclaimer, they would have to censor posters. The servers would melt down under the responses if they did that.
Slashdot could require posters to give real information about themselves so they can be contacted, but that would get an even better response. I mean, how many posters here use their real names?
So they have the disclaimer, and the posters can say anything they want. Now people are whining because they want attribution, or want their anonymity protected completely, or they hate Katz, but posted anyway. Talk about a no-win situation.
If you don't want anyone reading your posts, don't post. It's that simple.
> It is legitimate law-abiding gun owners who have been harmed the most by Columbine.
How?
Have their guns been taken away? No.
Have they had to register guns that weren't registered? No.
Have they been banned from buying more guns? No.
Have any legitimate law-abiding gun owners been arrested and prosecuted? If so, please tell me the name & place.
I think you missed the socialogical significance of the Super Bowl. Watching it has little to do with whether you are a sports fan or not. Americans watch the game for three reasons:
1. It's an excuse to drink & eat a lot
2. To rate the commercials
3. To make fun of the halftime show
It's not a violation of geek mores to laugh at things and get drunk.
>All, need I say, supported by Klinton, Janet Reno and the CIA.
Could you give concrete examples of this support? And compare & contrast to the policies of the preceding Republican administrations?
The problem with requiring full compliance in home offices is that, if it's too expensive to allow employees to work from home, employers simply won't allow it. I'd rather work from home if possible.
However, if your company requires you to work from home and doesn't have a permanent place for you in the office, you should be able to get a least a desk, chair & phone. The company will still be saving on facilities costs.
Could you state the rulings that Judge Jackson has made concerning Microsoft that have been overturned, what appeals court overturned them and the basis for the ruling?
I've been using Netscape Communicator 4.51 both at work and at home for the last year and a half.
I often have 12+ windows open and very rarely have problems. The biggest problem I have is opening large Word documents - i'tll kill NT about 10% of the time.
I use NT at work, 95 at home.
I quit using IE at home because it locked up several times.
OK, I made an analogy that seemed to sail over people's heads.
Computers are used to evaluate personality tests for jobs, acceptace for mortgage applications. You fill them out. Now, had that responsibility over to someone who hates you. You won't get that job, you won't get that mortgage. No house, no living.
As for that teacher that hated me and how that couldn't affect the m-2k scenario: remember that the ADMINISTRATION, not the student, fills out the evaluation.
That particular teacher almost got me suspended for 'participating' in a near-riot fight. Several students told him I was there, so he told the principal I was there. The only thing that stopped me from getting suspended was that another teacher told the principal that I was with her. Nothing happened to the teacher.
On the other hand, in high school the vice principal in charge of discipline loved me because I never caused trouble, unlike my brother. He actually stopped me from getting suspended once. If he had been in charge of adminstering the test, I would have passed with flying colors no matter what.
Sorry for the apparent confusion.
Would you want the ability to buy a house, get a job, anything in your life to be in the hands of your worst enemy?
That's a distinct possibility if you're gathering data on individuals based on other people's perceptions of that person. It's pretty useless at best, and DANGEROUS at worst.
When I was in middle school, I had a teacher that hated me for some reason. Everyone caught on, and I could successfully get blamed for anything that happened in class. If that teacher had had control of someething like this, I would have been out on my ass. No future for you!!
I'm not particularly paranoid, but boy, this really worries me.
The biggest problem with campaign finance laws is that they are designed to restrict many kinds of free speech.
Statements like this one drive me crazy. They make the assumption that, if you give money to a political candidate, they will use absolutely use the money to support your views. There are no guarantees of this, and therefore, it is not a freedom of speech issue. The politician or party are going to use the money to win elections, not to support you. Remember that.
Back in the 60s and 70s, when computers were becoming important and coders were needed but there were no trained ones available, several of the big companies (IBM and AT&T, for example) tried to figure out which college majors would provide the best programmers (besides math, of course). It was discovered that music majors often made good programmers, so apparently some of the same skills are present in the two groups.
As a supposition backed up with no facts, it's possible, making the assumption that you're mildly autistic, that part of that autism (ability to concentrate without external stimuli interfering) balances out other parts (general clumsiness).
Or, you're not autistic at all.
Who can tell? But I think it bears looking into.
In many of those societies that don't have 'please' etc., they have a tradition of starting every conversation with long observations about the weather, family, etc, and do not get down to business until the social amenities are completed. Inefficient, but necessary for them...