It's very common for research universities to take students from around the globe. This isn't unique to the US, either. For example, here's some Oxford's PhD students in CS:
That applies to publicly available published works. This material isn't published. Fair use does not apply to something which you can only bo obtained under contract of non-disclosure. Every Apple service manual is considered to be confidential, and its content is a trade secret. At the bottom of every page there is a statement that it is confidential, and reproduction is prohibited. Also, as I said earlier, Apple regularly goes after people who do publish or reproduce manuals in whole or part and wins.
>Mac fanbois will of course totally defend their noble defense of their 'intellectual property' even though this case is a textbook example of fair use.
You preemptive ad hominem aside, Apple is not trying to delete the thread, just remove an image from one of their service manuals. How is posting sections of a service manual fair use? Service providers and others who are given access to those manuals sign an agreement that they will not do the very thing that was done.
Perhaps Apple is embarrased by this, but the behavior doesn't really offer proof. Apple has send Cease and Desist letters to sites posting service manuals and images out of service manuals many times before.
Unlike Open Source projects Apple has to do a lot of regression testing and QA, and already isn't perfect there. I imagine they take a lot of time already. Imagine having to run all those tests on five or so filesystems not only for all the OS bits, but for all their other software projects.
Also imagine Disk Utility having a popup to format a Disk that made users choose between:
Then try to explain to Grandma which is the correct one for them to choose in a litle help blurb.
Sometimes Apple has to make choices as to which is the best approach which limit things that might annoy power users, but make things simpler for everyone else. If Apple took the Linux approach, OS X would run on every piece of hardware out there, would have three or four window managers, five filesystems, fourty text editors, and would be hated by typical users for the brief time Apple was around before they went out of business.
ARD was the a rebranding of Apple Network Assistant (ANA) with OS X compatibility. Early versions of ARD were ANA compatible. ANA has been around since at least '95, I'm not sure of the original release date, I only recall the first time seeing it in '95. The 2.0.1 update came out in '96, so the original version was out well earlier than that for certain.
There was a long period of time where Intel cleaned AMD's clock, and significantly surpassed them both in performance and stability. During that time did you say that you would never buy AMD? If so why did you change your mind? If not, well, that's what you are doing now, it was just as stupid then as it is now.
The truth is that there is a performance competition going on. AMD may have the edge now, but there is no guarantee that they will keep it. There's no way to effectively predict what the CPU world will look like in five years. Loyalists who choose to use inferior technology in the future because they love some company (a company that would happily sue fanboys into oblivion if it would raise their stock price by a penny) are just going to be stuck with a lesser technology and a warm feeling about wasting their dollars on it.
"Also, while there are some GUI configuration tools for apache from various sources, all of them suck rocks through a straw to the point that it's EASIER to look up arcane flags and configuration settings and type them into a text editor than it is to click a button."
While I'm probaly not the best judge since I think Apache is easy to set up (the 'arcane flags' are documented in the comments in the config file), I found webmin makes a nice and usable GUI for Apache.
>but how does Apple deal with bugs in Mac OS 8 and Mac OS 9?
They released OS X to deal with the security nightmare of OS 9 (and prior).
Basically once you booted OS 9 (and prior) you were root. They added a feature to give you a login window, but once you were in and could launch an app you owned the machine. Since OS 9 didn't respect filesystem privileges locally (only via sharing), anyone at the console owned every file on the machine. Since OS 9 did not have any memory protection, once you launched an app, you could write to any part of the memory, your app, another app, the system, whatever. There were a lot of old Mac OS viruses that were released, they predominantly were not fixed with software updates, but with anti-virus software.
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The perception that PHP is insecure is based on the fact that it was in the past incredibly insecure, not just because of bad programmers, but by design as a language/deployment environment. Perhaps it was too long ago for you top recall, but it used to be that register_globals was on by default. register_globals was inherently insecure, and including it in the language at all was a huge security compromise, and pathetically enough since there are still PHP packages out there that depend on it, it has not been removed from PHP.
Also letting include() take a URL is batshit crazy. While handy (like most security compromises), it means that if anyone can figure out a way to sneak a string in to that include call, then they can import any malicious code they want. register_globals was often a handy way to do that in the past...
There are a few other things that I think are a sign of poor security design, but most would likely just cause language wars, so I will leave it to those above to illustrate that PHP, especially in its earlier incarnations had a poor design with respect to security.
PHP itself has had its fair share of security vulns, for instance:
There are more, but I am too lazy to find a more complete list, and that is enough to illustrate the point.
So while it's true that there are a lot of bad security habits that many PHP programmers have used, PHP's bad reputation is something they have earned all by themselves.
As I understqand it people grind the pill since it is time-released, so they can get the whole hit in one shot. While the antagonist thing might work, I expect some sort clever junkies would figure out how to cut the pills just so to get past it.
As for adding capsicum, it would stop snorting/injection, but they could pulverize the pill and put it in a gelatin capsule to get it past the mouth, and they would still get a rush since it would still hit in one big shot instead of being time-released.
This isn't about partisan politics, the critics of this spying have a very firm basis in law and fact. For God's sake, the NSA's own site says that spying on Americans without a warrant in unconstitutional:
Can you supply a link to a news article where it stated that Congress declared a state of emergency? I have somehow been unaware of this turn of events.
>They are just listening in the case that you are acting strange and trying to make sure you aren't going to kill someone.
Perhaps that's true today, but by definition, we can't know that. More importatly, it's irrelevant. Secret surveillance with no oversight is ripe for abuse, and by the time the abuses come up it may well be too late to stop it. The main defensive system that our government was designed with to protect the government from degenerating into a tyranny is transparency of governance and separation of powers. Bush trying to remove both is a basic attack on the founding principles of our nation.
1) Create a porn site where the user must click through an 'age-verification puzzle' to get to each movie/image gallery. 2) Use the API to find a HIT, sign up to complete it, and post it to the porn site. 3) Profit?
It's not about exactly separating presentation from code - the presentation is also code. It's about separating business logic from display logic. Your example overlooks the key piece, where the business logic to determine $value is done.
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with Postgres performance? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a 4 way Xeon box running Postgres for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to do a simple select from a single indexed table with only 300 rows. 20 minutes. At home, with MySQL on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this rig, the same operation would take about 2 seconds. If that.
In addition, during this select, no other queries are accepted. And everything else on the box has ground to a halt. Even 'top' is straining to keep up.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working with Postgres, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen Postgres that has run faster MySQL. MySQL on a 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than Postgres on a 900 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that Postgres is a superior architecture.
Postgres addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use Postgres over other faster, cheaper, more stable database servers like MySQL.
Thank you for that fascinating string of ad hominems, misinterpretations of both my statements and motives, and uncited factually incorrect assertions. That is certainly a wonderful way to bring up the level of discourse and help others whom you believe misunderstand the situation to come to a better understanding.
As I am in a generous mood, I will go ahead and let you know the thing you desperately need to know:
No matter how earnest or angry you are, citing links to specific non-partisan sources to back up your assertions is much more persuasive than writing things you wished were true punctuated with bits of all caps ranting and using lots of exclamation points.
Here is an example. I have a position. FEMA and the White House screwed up royally in this crisis. Besides the obvious top level things like Bush staying on vacation through the disaster and for days afterwards, besides Condi Rice going on vacation after the crisis started, besides Dick Cheney staying on vacation for a week after the hurricane hit, Mike Brown screwing up so badly he was fired, etc., how else have they screwed up since the disaster started? Take a look at the evidence:
Well, my subtle troll friend, I will give you one reply:
>I work with state-level EMA in a south-central state and am familiar with what the responsibility is at the city, county, state and Federal level. Suuuure you do. How convenient.
>Go read the New Orleans disaster management plan. Read it - it was an unfeasable plan within the timeline and real time restraints, there's been a lot of talk on it, that side of things was in part Nagin's fault, but, let's face it, there never would have been a real feasible plan that would be implemented, it would have involved having a lot of emergency resources constantly standing by which would have been more money than anyone would ever have approved spending.
>Step 1....If it's a catagory (sic) 3 or higher, the levys will fail.
Reread the plan you pretend to be familiar with. The levies were supposed to manage under a Cat 3 - it was a cat 4 or higher that would spill over the levies. That was also what the Army Corps of Engineers and all the other relevant parties had stated.
>Step 2. You must do this with 72 hours left or people will die.
When Katherine got upgraded to a Cat 4. they didn't have 72 hours.
The rest of your post is similarly ill informed, and smacks more of politics than information. Nagin had to make a lot of judgment calls, and not all were great. If you actually look at the timeline and what he did, he performed reasonable well under the pressure. He did get a lot of the evacuation done, he did get the hospitals cleared - it was the doctors who decided who wasn't in a condition to evacuate, he did use buses, fire trucks, and whatever resources he had available to him to evacuate and broadcast warnings. Managing a disaster of that scale takes a lot more than just city resources, which is why LA called in the Feds. early on. The Feds. sat back and picked their asses when they needed to mobilize - doing food drops, deplying the militray, bringing in the far greater resources they can command, and, in general, acting. Their initial delay and incompetence cost more lives than Nagin's flubs.
If you are really a state-level EMA employee, I'd recommend you resign, as you are not really a good fit for that job - I'd recommend something that doesn't involve learning a lot of facts, since you don't seem too talented are reading comprehension since your 'facts' do not relate to reality.
Thanks for the laugh when you switched into defending Bush. You showed your true colors there with clarity.
Note, once again, that I am not a partisan. Both parties can go to hell as far as I am concerned, and I would like nothing other than to see both eliminated, since factionalism is ruining our nation. Note also that Nagin was a republican before he ran for mayor, and donated to Bush's campaign. Blanco certainly screwed up at some points, but, again, on a relative scale of lameness, at least she reacted immediately, unlike Bush/FEMA. I don't feel any need or desire to protect any of them, all of them deserve some scorn for some of their decisions and actions.
I am only interested in coming to an honest unbiased assesment of the facts, something you have not helped at in any respect since you appear to be a liar posing as a state-level EMA employee to try to give your political spin more creedence. That or you are a state level EMA more concerned with politics and covering Bush's sorry ass than you are with telling the truth, which is probably worse.
I realize that it is in vogue among a certain class of partisans to pretend that we can somehow pin the blame for the screwups of the NOLA mayor and LA governor, and I would agree that they made some errors, but the scale of the screwups on part of the Bush administration utterly eclipse them.
The Insurrection Act wasn't brought up by anyone but WH lawyers, BTW, and is a complete red herring - it is paraded around as a fig leaf to try to cover up the administration's sheer incompetence in handling this situation.
Your tarring of Blanco is a repition of a certain political party's talking points and is largely unrelated to the facts. I would recommend you give up politcal parties altogether, neither party really gives a crap about you unless you are a political donor, why support them? I think might find it refreshing, if a little jarring at first. I am happy to be an independent, I don't need to repeat lies to justify anyone's actions.
AFAICT, many of those filing claims have to do it on line. The are running into problems with this setting up computer kiosks at all the shelters, since even if they are setting up a PC with Windows, it has to have the right version of IE, and many of the PCs are donated.
They can't do it via mail - a ton of people lost their homes, and have no address. Even those who have an address in LA, AL, or MI are still in trouble if they were near the disaster area since the postal service has halted mail delivery.
They can't do it via phone - those that have called have reported that FEMA will only mail them a claim form via the phone.
Is there some other method I am overlooking? AFAICT if you lost your house, and you don't have access to the right version of a web browser this is a pretty major issue.
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Flash isn't a villain here, it was used as a research tool. The researchers are using Flash to detect forged SSL Certs.
It's very common for research universities to take students from around the globe. This isn't unique to the US, either. For example, here's some Oxford's PhD students in CS:
http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/...
It's a very positive thing, actually. Provincialism doesn't improve research.
"Fuck unions for making my working conditions dangerous."
Oh, the irony.
not for Perl.
It's not cheap but you can get support for Perl:
http://www.apple.com/support/products/macosxserver_sw_supt.html
I've asked them Perl questions and they've always worked on the questions me (and gotten me a good answer).
That applies to publicly available published works. This material isn't published. Fair use does not apply to something which you can only bo obtained under contract of non-disclosure. Every Apple service manual is considered to be confidential, and its content is a trade secret. At the bottom of every page there is a statement that it is confidential, and reproduction is prohibited. Also, as I said earlier, Apple regularly goes after people who do publish or reproduce manuals in whole or part and wins.
>Mac fanbois will of course totally defend their noble defense of their 'intellectual property' even though this case is a textbook example of fair use.
You preemptive ad hominem aside, Apple is not trying to delete the thread, just remove an image from one of their service manuals. How is posting sections of a service manual fair use? Service providers and others who are given access to those manuals sign an agreement that they will not do the very thing that was done.
Perhaps Apple is embarrased by this, but the behavior doesn't really offer proof. Apple has send Cease and Desist letters to sites posting service manuals and images out of service manuals many times before.
Unlike Open Source projects Apple has to do a lot of regression testing and QA, and already isn't perfect there. I imagine they take a lot of time already. Imagine having to run all those tests on five or so filesystems not only for all the OS bits, but for all their other software projects.
Also imagine Disk Utility having a popup to format a Disk that made users choose between:
EXT3
FAT
HFS+
HFS+ (case sensitive)
JFS
UFS
XFS
ZFS
Then try to explain to Grandma which is the correct one for them to choose in a litle help blurb.
Sometimes Apple has to make choices as to which is the best approach which limit things that might annoy power users, but make things simpler for everyone else. If Apple took the Linux approach, OS X would run on every piece of hardware out there, would have three or four window managers, five filesystems, fourty text editors, and would be hated by typical users for the brief time Apple was around before they went out of business.
ARD was the a rebranding of Apple Network Assistant (ANA) with OS X compatibility. Early versions of ARD were ANA compatible. ANA has been around since at least '95, I'm not sure of the original release date, I only recall the first time seeing it in '95. The 2.0.1 update came out in '96, so the original version was out well earlier than that for certain.
There was a long period of time where Intel cleaned AMD's clock, and significantly surpassed them both in performance and stability. During that time did you say that you would never buy AMD? If so why did you change your mind? If not, well, that's what you are doing now, it was just as stupid then as it is now.
The truth is that there is a performance competition going on. AMD may have the edge now, but there is no guarantee that they will keep it. There's no way to effectively predict what the CPU world will look like in five years. Loyalists who choose to use inferior technology in the future because they love some company (a company that would happily sue fanboys into oblivion if it would raise their stock price by a penny) are just going to be stuck with a lesser technology and a warm feeling about wasting their dollars on it.
"Also, while there are some GUI configuration tools for apache from various sources, all of them suck rocks through a straw to the point that it's EASIER to look up arcane flags and configuration settings and type them into a text editor than it is to click a button."
While I'm probaly not the best judge since I think Apache is easy to set up (the 'arcane flags' are documented in the comments in the config file), I found webmin makes a nice and usable GUI for Apache.
>but how does Apple deal with bugs in Mac OS 8 and Mac OS 9?
They released OS X to deal with the security nightmare of OS 9 (and prior).
Basically once you booted OS 9 (and prior) you were root. They added a feature to give you a login window, but once you were in and could launch an app you owned the machine. Since OS 9 didn't respect filesystem privileges locally (only via sharing), anyone at the console owned every file on the machine. Since OS 9 did not have any memory protection, once you launched an app, you could write to any part of the memory, your app, another app, the system, whatever. There were a lot of old Mac OS viruses that were released, they predominantly were not fixed with software updates, but with anti-virus software.
The perception that PHP is insecure is based on the fact that it was in the past incredibly insecure, not just because of bad programmers, but by design as a language/deployment environment. Perhaps it was too long ago for you top recall, but it used to be that register_globals was on by default. register_globals was inherently insecure, and including it in the language at all was a huge security compromise, and pathetically enough since there are still PHP packages out there that depend on it, it has not been removed from PHP.
m lm lm lv =3&i=50#widely4v =3&i=23#other1v =3&i=28#widely4v =3&i=48#exploit1
Also letting include() take a URL is batshit crazy. While handy (like most security compromises), it means that if anyone can figure out a way to sneak a string in to that include call, then they can import any malicious code they want. register_globals was often a handy way to do that in the past...
There are a few other things that I think are a sign of poor security design, but most would likely just cause language wars, so I will leave it to those above to illustrate that PHP, especially in its earlier incarnations had a poor design with respect to security.
PHP itself has had its fair share of security vulns, for instance:
http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_202005.79.ht
http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_152005.67.ht
http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_142005.66.ht
http://www.sans.org/newsletters/risk/display.php?
http://www.sans.org/newsletters/risk/display.php?
http://www.sans.org/newsletters/risk/display.php?
http://www.sans.org/newsletters/risk/display.php?
There are more, but I am too lazy to find a more complete list, and that is enough to illustrate the point.
So while it's true that there are a lot of bad security habits that many PHP programmers have used, PHP's bad reputation is something they have earned all by themselves.
As I understqand it people grind the pill since it is time-released, so they can get the whole hit in one shot. While the antagonist thing might work, I expect some sort clever junkies would figure out how to cut the pills just so to get past it.
As for adding capsicum, it would stop snorting/injection, but they could pulverize the pill and put it in a gelatin capsule to get it past the mouth, and they would still get a rush since it would still hit in one big shot instead of being time-released.
This isn't about partisan politics, the critics of this spying have a very firm basis in law and fact. For God's sake, the NSA's own site says that spying on Americans without a warrant in unconstitutional:
http://www.nsa.gov/coremsgs/corem00003.cfm
It doesn't get more clear cut than that.
Can you supply a link to a news article where it stated that Congress declared a state of emergency? I have somehow been unaware of this turn of events.
>They are just listening in the case that you are acting strange and trying to make sure you aren't going to kill someone.
Perhaps that's true today, but by definition, we can't know that. More importatly, it's irrelevant. Secret surveillance with no oversight is ripe for abuse, and by the time the abuses come up it may well be too late to stop it. The main defensive system that our government was designed with to protect the government from degenerating into a tyranny is transparency of governance and separation of powers. Bush trying to remove both is a basic attack on the founding principles of our nation.
Here's another variation:
1) Create a porn site where the user must click through an 'age-verification puzzle' to get to each movie/image gallery.
2) Use the API to find a HIT, sign up to complete it, and post it to the porn site.
3) Profit?
It's not about exactly separating presentation from code - the presentation is also code. It's about separating business logic from display logic. Your example overlooks the key piece, where the business logic to determine $value is done.
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with Postgres performance? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a 4 way Xeon box running Postgres for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to do a simple select from a single indexed table with only 300 rows. 20 minutes. At home, with MySQL on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this rig, the same operation would take about 2 seconds. If that.
In addition, during this select, no other queries are accepted. And everything else on the box has ground to a halt. Even 'top' is straining to keep up.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working with Postgres, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen Postgres that has run faster MySQL. MySQL on a 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than Postgres on a 900 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that Postgres is a superior architecture.
Postgres addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use Postgres over other faster, cheaper, more stable database servers like MySQL.
Your post seems oddly familiar...
Perl 6 is a mistake
Perl 6 is a mistake
Perl 6 is a mistake
This is really getting to be a bit tiresome.
BTW, moderators, please stop modding this troll up over and over every time Perl comes up.
Thank you for that fascinating string of ad hominems, misinterpretations of both my statements and motives, and uncited factually incorrect assertions. That is certainly a wonderful way to bring up the level of discourse and help others whom you believe misunderstand the situation to come to a better understanding.
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As I am in a generous mood, I will go ahead and let you know the thing you desperately need to know:
No matter how earnest or angry you are, citing links to specific non-partisan sources to back up your assertions is much more persuasive than writing things you wished were true punctuated with bits of all caps ranting and using lots of exclamation points.
Here is an example. I have a position. FEMA and the White House screwed up royally in this crisis. Besides the obvious top level things like Bush staying on vacation through the disaster and for days afterwards, besides Condi Rice going on vacation after the crisis started, besides Dick Cheney staying on vacation for a week after the hurricane hit, Mike Brown screwing up so badly he was fired, etc., how else have they screwed up since the disaster started? Take a look at the evidence:
Some have denied that FEMA was responsible, or wasn't called in until after the disaster hit. This is false:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/08/20 050827-1.html
The White House held up deployment of other state's Nat'l Guard in LA:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050903/ap_on_re_us/ka trina_national_guard
Bush dragged his feet on rubber stamping deploying the navy - it was his job to authorize their use and he sat on his hands. The USS Bataan, a naval vessel with helicopters, doctors, hospital beds, food, and water had been cruising off the Gulf since the Friday before the hurricane unable to act for more than a week:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi -0509040369sep04,1,4144825.story?page=1&coll=chi-n ewsnationworld-hed
FEMA sent back volunteers with flotilla of 500 boats:
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0509/01/acd
FEMA prevented a convoy of Wal-Mart trucks from delivering food and water:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9179790/
FEMA won't accept Amtrak's help in evacuations:
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/84aa35cc-1da8-11da-b40b-0 0000e2511c8.html
FEMA turned away power generators:
http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/WWLBLOG.ac3fcea
FEMA prevented the Coast Guard from delivering diesel fuel:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/05/national/nationa lspecial/05blame.html?ex=1283572800&en=1d14ebfbd94 2a7d0&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
FEMA won't allow Red Cross deliver food:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05246/565143.stm
FEMA blocks morticians from entering New Orleans:
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=15147862 &BRD=1817&PAG=461&dept_id=68561&rfi=6
FEMA snubbed Chicago's offer o
Well, my subtle troll friend, I will give you one reply:
...If it's a catagory (sic) 3 or higher, the levys will fail.
>I work with state-level EMA in a south-central state and am familiar with what the responsibility is at the city, county, state and Federal level.
Suuuure you do. How convenient.
>Go read the New Orleans disaster management plan.
Read it - it was an unfeasable plan within the timeline and real time restraints, there's been a lot of talk on it, that side of things was in part Nagin's fault, but, let's face it, there never would have been a real feasible plan that would be implemented, it would have involved having a lot of emergency resources constantly standing by which would have been more money than anyone would ever have approved spending.
>Step 1.
Reread the plan you pretend to be familiar with. The levies were supposed to manage under a Cat 3 - it was a cat 4 or higher that would spill over the levies. That was also what the Army Corps of Engineers and all the other relevant parties had stated.
>Step 2. You must do this with 72 hours left or people will die.
When Katherine got upgraded to a Cat 4. they didn't have 72 hours.
The rest of your post is similarly ill informed, and smacks more of politics than information. Nagin had to make a lot of judgment calls, and not all were great. If you actually look at the timeline and what he did, he performed reasonable well under the pressure. He did get a lot of the evacuation done, he did get the hospitals cleared - it was the doctors who decided who wasn't in a condition to evacuate, he did use buses, fire trucks, and whatever resources he had available to him to evacuate and broadcast warnings. Managing a disaster of that scale takes a lot more than just city resources, which is why LA called in the Feds. early on. The Feds. sat back and picked their asses when they needed to mobilize - doing food drops, deplying the militray, bringing in the far greater resources they can command, and, in general, acting. Their initial delay and incompetence cost more lives than Nagin's flubs.
If you are really a state-level EMA employee, I'd recommend you resign, as you are not really a good fit for that job - I'd recommend something that doesn't involve learning a lot of facts, since you don't seem too talented are reading comprehension since your 'facts' do not relate to reality.
Thanks for the laugh when you switched into defending Bush. You showed your true colors there with clarity.
Note, once again, that I am not a partisan. Both parties can go to hell as far as I am concerned, and I would like nothing other than to see both eliminated, since factionalism is ruining our nation. Note also that Nagin was a republican before he ran for mayor, and donated to Bush's campaign. Blanco certainly screwed up at some points, but, again, on a relative scale of lameness, at least she reacted immediately, unlike Bush/FEMA. I don't feel any need or desire to protect any of them, all of them deserve some scorn for some of their decisions and actions.
I am only interested in coming to an honest unbiased assesment of the facts, something you have not helped at in any respect since you appear to be a liar posing as a state-level EMA employee to try to give your political spin more creedence. That or you are a state level EMA more concerned with politics and covering Bush's sorry ass than you are with telling the truth, which is probably worse.
It was the White House that held up deployment of other state's Nat'l Guard in LA, not Blanco:a trina_national_guard
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050903/ap_on_re_us/k
I realize that it is in vogue among a certain class of partisans to pretend that we can somehow pin the blame for the screwups of the NOLA mayor and LA governor, and I would agree that they made some errors, but the scale of the screwups on part of the Bush administration utterly eclipse them.
The Insurrection Act wasn't brought up by anyone but WH lawyers, BTW, and is a complete red herring - it is paraded around as a fig leaf to try to cover up the administration's sheer incompetence in handling this situation.
Your tarring of Blanco is a repition of a certain political party's talking points and is largely unrelated to the facts. I would recommend you give up politcal parties altogether, neither party really gives a crap about you unless you are a political donor, why support them? I think might find it refreshing, if a little jarring at first. I am happy to be an independent, I don't need to repeat lies to justify anyone's actions.
>There are other methods to file your claim
AFAICT, many of those filing claims have to do it on line. The are running into problems with this setting up computer kiosks at all the shelters, since even if they are setting up a PC with Windows, it has to have the right version of IE, and many of the PCs are donated.
They can't do it via mail - a ton of people lost their homes, and have no address. Even those who have an address in LA, AL, or MI are still in trouble if they were near the disaster area since the postal service has halted mail delivery.
They can't do it via phone - those that have called have reported that FEMA will only mail them a claim form via the phone.
Is there some other method I am overlooking? AFAICT if you lost your house, and you don't have access to the right version of a web browser this is a pretty major issue.