Not all religious persons are closed minded, although my personal experience says that it is a 'leading indicator' quite often. Quakers are prime examples. Jimmy Carter is just as religious as GW Bush (many people are not aware of how religious he really is), they just differed in how it let their spiritual views dictate their political actions. Carter tends to view religion as a more personal relationship, whereas Bush sees it as an obligation to play the deciding roll in all decisions. Regardless of your political leanings, they do typify two very different views on how religion affects political decisions.
I lived in Kansas when in the military, and in North Dakota as a child of someone in the military. While there are always exceptions, I found midwesterners tend to have a higher degree of respect for others. Perhaps because they have a long history of needing to depend on one another dating back to the 1800s, and in part it gets handed down from generation to generation. Generally, they seem less likely to consider others "disposable" for their own purposes, which is the feeling I tend to get in major urban areas. They might not "like" what you do, or agree with it, but tolorance doesn't require you condone something. Some might even consider homosexuality "a sin" but would say it is your sin to commit, and that the state doesn't have a right to prevent you from doing so, and they are less likely to push their own views off on you.
Iowa was also among the first to legalize marriages of blacks and whites. Slavery was never legal in Iowa. Believe it or not, people in "fly over country" are not nearly as backward as some would think. They have been the "first to" do a lot of things. Most of the people I have known from Iowa were pretty progressive in their thinking. Lots of farmers and people who live in the country, yes, but not bigotted.
Thomas Crapper helped popularize the toilet, as well as come up with a few innovations. I am not sure what Stephen Colbert has done in the same respect to warrant comparison.
I thought the earth has actually been getting cooler since 2004. I also thought the earth constantly went through cycles of heating and cooling. What we do does affect the planet, by all means. How MUCH it is affecting is still very much up for debate.
Me, I like better fuel economy standards and tighter restrictions on discharges into lakes and streams, mainly because I breathe air and drink water. Unfortunately, the environment is now a tool for getting funding and to get that funding, you must agree with "conventional wisdom". THAT is why so many scientists agree. I'm sure that back in the 1600s, you had to agree that the earth was flat to get funding as well.
The best science that money can buy isn't always the best science.
Distasteful and unnecessary are correct. Inappropriate and unprofessional also apply. Torture, likely not since it wasn't "public" humiliation. Although I can't disagree with the outcome (I am against capital punishment except in military situations regarding genocide, such as this), the trial itself was a bit of a farce as well.
In my case, they were just images demonstrating the art exists, they were scuptures, thus not actually infringing the artists right to display or profit from their work. In the other instance, the artist sold photographs of the sculpture, and was having cops harass tourists (really) who were simply snapping photos while on vacation. It wasn't about anyone else even trying to sell "competing" images.
Wrong. In Europe, they may have the right to do so in most places, but it is absolutely NOT a right in the US. There is no "freedom of panarama" here. I had several images deleted off of Wikipedia for this same reasons. They were pictures from an art festival in a hick town, but they were of "copyrighted art" (fiberglass sculptures of farm animals) and thus, it is illegal to distribute pictures of them without the artists permission, in writing, as they are automatically copyrighted by the artist, not the photographer. This is supposed to cover any building built since the 1970s (when copyright law changed) and any art still covered under copyright.
I forget the exact details, but a tourist taking a picture of a scupture in Chicago started the whole affair, and yes, he lost in court. And yes, the law isn't enforced very often either.
Just one more fucked up legal situation in the US.
and all those people using it are taxpaying residents, regardless of where they work. There are plenty of reasons to rag MS, this just ain't one of them, unless you are just a zealot who looks for any opportunity to find fault in MS, in which case, your opinion is worthless.
Sounds like a good plan for the city, a good offer by Microsoft, and a win/win for the taxpayers. On all other points, yea, Microsoft sucks, just not on this one.
More people than who run it on Linux, that is for sure. We have it on all the computers here that didn't already have Office preinstalled (meaning most of them). I have both on my computer, although I use OO most of the time, as I like their spreadsheet app better than office.
And if you aren't doing anything illegal, you shouldn't mind if the police come into your home without a warrant. Only a criminal would argue against that, right?
Yea....good advice. Just send out a memo that basically condemns the last guy doing IT (who is likely still there doing other tasks), and freak out the management with "we need $25,000 in new software" in a memo you just broadcast to the personel without management position. Be sure to upgrade your resume as well, since management will consider you a troublemaker and find it easier to replace you than fix the problem.
Only a dumbass would just do this without going to management first. They don't want, or need, someone to stir up the pot in public that can fixed over a period of a few months, while you beef up policies in a more orderly fashion.
44% of the server market is surely nothing to sneeze at, but my guess is that IBM still has dreams of getting on the corporate desktop (which is the gateway to the home desktop) and Java, Solaris, Open Office/Star Office, plus all their contributions to Free software is part of the ticket to compete with Microsoft in the next decade. This is particularly true if you believe that the OS will become less important as more applications are created as web applications, making it not matter if the OS is OS X, Win7+, Linux, Solaris or some "new" Java desktop.
Something went wrong here; If this was true wouldn't high unemployment figures be a good thing?
Another strawman.
You build the tractor so the farmer can ride on it instead of behind the plow. The net result is he can provide more food for more people, with less effort. The net result is a better quality of life for all, over time.
Then it was both. Beverly's ship, the U.S.S. Pasteur ventured into Klingon space at Warp 13 during a "future" period when the Federation wasn't exactly getting along with the Klingons. Warf was involved, a good time was had by all. Picard was 70ish. Can't remember the movie, too lazy and appothetic to look it up.
Let's say you are a gun seller, and you have so many people that want to buy guns from you that you have no time to do a background check on all of them.
Speaking as someone who had a valid federal firearms dealer license for many, many years, I can promise everyone that you have no clue what you are talking about. If you sell a gun without submitting for the background check, you lose your license, period. The gun dealer doesn't do the background check, the BATF does, along with assistance from local police. (Long guns require a quick check, 1 to 24 hours, hand guns require the waiting period and a permit) This isn't new, this passed as the Brady Bill many years ago. You can't even sell personally owned guns that you had in your posession before you were licensed to someone.
Getting the license takes many months, a lot of fees, a background check by the FBI and being fingerprinted. Most dealers are not stupid enough to risk their license because "business is good".
And if you did sell a gun to someone without a permit, then they used it in a crime, then yes, you are liable (both in criminal and civil courts) and can spend time in prison, rightfully so.
It would seem that they also believe that the singular reason a game is "good" is related to the programmer's understanding of the hardware. This just isn't true. Plenty of games have nice graphics and a horrid storyline, or are pretty to look at but clunky to play. If programmers spent less time figuring out the hardware, perhaps they could spend more time working on plot, playability, and flow. Or you can be Sony and make excuses after the fact.
Ive been using drive caddies for years. I even have a couple of old drives (250mb IDE) with dos and WFW3.11 (and trumpet winsock) on them, for grins and giggles. I do need to update to SATA caddies, which I have been putting off until the majority of my systems are SATA2, which will happen next week.
Caddies make testing new OS's and configurations so much easier and safer, it more than pays for the expense and the very minor hassle of installing the tray assembly in a CD ROM bay. Of course, with SATA, using an external box will be much easier.
The majority do know what a good search is. The majority can't manage to type in a web address in the address bar, and only know how to type the name in one of the spywear search boxes, but they know what google is. Seriously now.
In this case, the lady was not only ignorant (common) but extraordinarily lazy.
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Not all religious persons are closed minded, although my personal experience says that it is a 'leading indicator' quite often. Quakers are prime examples. Jimmy Carter is just as religious as GW Bush (many people are not aware of how religious he really is), they just differed in how it let their spiritual views dictate their political actions. Carter tends to view religion as a more personal relationship, whereas Bush sees it as an obligation to play the deciding roll in all decisions. Regardless of your political leanings, they do typify two very different views on how religion affects political decisions.
I lived in Kansas when in the military, and in North Dakota as a child of someone in the military. While there are always exceptions, I found midwesterners tend to have a higher degree of respect for others. Perhaps because they have a long history of needing to depend on one another dating back to the 1800s, and in part it gets handed down from generation to generation. Generally, they seem less likely to consider others "disposable" for their own purposes, which is the feeling I tend to get in major urban areas. They might not "like" what you do, or agree with it, but tolorance doesn't require you condone something. Some might even consider homosexuality "a sin" but would say it is your sin to commit, and that the state doesn't have a right to prevent you from doing so, and they are less likely to push their own views off on you.
Iowa was also among the first to legalize marriages of blacks and whites. Slavery was never legal in Iowa. Believe it or not, people in "fly over country" are not nearly as backward as some would think. They have been the "first to" do a lot of things. Most of the people I have known from Iowa were pretty progressive in their thinking. Lots of farmers and people who live in the country, yes, but not bigotted.
Thomas Crapper helped popularize the toilet, as well as come up with a few innovations. I am not sure what Stephen Colbert has done in the same respect to warrant comparison.
and you got modded down for your insolence, which is kinda funny in a cosmic sort of way. Then again, so will this post.
I thought the earth has actually been getting cooler since 2004. I also thought the earth constantly went through cycles of heating and cooling. What we do does affect the planet, by all means. How MUCH it is affecting is still very much up for debate.
Me, I like better fuel economy standards and tighter restrictions on discharges into lakes and streams, mainly because I breathe air and drink water. Unfortunately, the environment is now a tool for getting funding and to get that funding, you must agree with "conventional wisdom". THAT is why so many scientists agree. I'm sure that back in the 1600s, you had to agree that the earth was flat to get funding as well.
The best science that money can buy isn't always the best science.
Click-wrap has been held up in court.
Citation needed.
A cat can walk across the keyboard or mouse and "click ok", and no one can prove otherwise, so I doubt it would hold up in the SCOTUS.
Distasteful and unnecessary are correct. Inappropriate and unprofessional also apply. Torture, likely not since it wasn't "public" humiliation. Although I can't disagree with the outcome (I am against capital punishment except in military situations regarding genocide, such as this), the trial itself was a bit of a farce as well.
In my case, they were just images demonstrating the art exists, they were scuptures, thus not actually infringing the artists right to display or profit from their work. In the other instance, the artist sold photographs of the sculpture, and was having cops harass tourists (really) who were simply snapping photos while on vacation. It wasn't about anyone else even trying to sell "competing" images.
What about all the people running SCO software? Aren't both of those people using traditional Unix? ;)
Wrong. In Europe, they may have the right to do so in most places, but it is absolutely NOT a right in the US. There is no "freedom of panarama" here. I had several images deleted off of Wikipedia for this same reasons. They were pictures from an art festival in a hick town, but they were of "copyrighted art" (fiberglass sculptures of farm animals) and thus, it is illegal to distribute pictures of them without the artists permission, in writing, as they are automatically copyrighted by the artist, not the photographer. This is supposed to cover any building built since the 1970s (when copyright law changed) and any art still covered under copyright.
I forget the exact details, but a tourist taking a picture of a scupture in Chicago started the whole affair, and yes, he lost in court. And yes, the law isn't enforced very often either.
Just one more fucked up legal situation in the US.
Ok, fuck anyone who disagrees, that was funny...
and all those people using it are taxpaying residents, regardless of where they work. There are plenty of reasons to rag MS, this just ain't one of them, unless you are just a zealot who looks for any opportunity to find fault in MS, in which case, your opinion is worthless.
Sounds like a good plan for the city, a good offer by Microsoft, and a win/win for the taxpayers. On all other points, yea, Microsoft sucks, just not on this one.
Who runs OO on Windows?
More people than who run it on Linux, that is for sure. We have it on all the computers here that didn't already have Office preinstalled (meaning most of them). I have both on my computer, although I use OO most of the time, as I like their spreadsheet app better than office.
And the guy in the video has a plate of burgers to prove they did it anyway.
And if you aren't doing anything illegal, you shouldn't mind if the police come into your home without a warrant. Only a criminal would argue against that, right?
Yea....good advice. Just send out a memo that basically condemns the last guy doing IT (who is likely still there doing other tasks), and freak out the management with "we need $25,000 in new software" in a memo you just broadcast to the personel without management position. Be sure to upgrade your resume as well, since management will consider you a troublemaker and find it easier to replace you than fix the problem.
Only a dumbass would just do this without going to management first. They don't want, or need, someone to stir up the pot in public that can fixed over a period of a few months, while you beef up policies in a more orderly fashion.
44% of the server market is surely nothing to sneeze at, but my guess is that IBM still has dreams of getting on the corporate desktop (which is the gateway to the home desktop) and Java, Solaris, Open Office/Star Office, plus all their contributions to Free software is part of the ticket to compete with Microsoft in the next decade. This is particularly true if you believe that the OS will become less important as more applications are created as web applications, making it not matter if the OS is OS X, Win7+, Linux, Solaris or some "new" Java desktop.
Something went wrong here; If this was true wouldn't high unemployment figures be a good thing?
Another strawman.
You build the tractor so the farmer can ride on it instead of behind the plow. The net result is he can provide more food for more people, with less effort. The net result is a better quality of life for all, over time.
Then it was both. Beverly's ship, the U.S.S. Pasteur ventured into Klingon space at Warp 13 during a "future" period when the Federation wasn't exactly getting along with the Klingons. Warf was involved, a good time was had by all. Picard was 70ish. Can't remember the movie, too lazy and appothetic to look it up.
And didn't Beverly's medical ship (in the future) do Warp 13?
I just to know this: If you are traveling faster than light, and you turn on your headlights, do you have to look behind you to see them?
Let's say you are a gun seller, and you have so many people that want to buy guns from you that you have no time to do a background check on all of them.
Speaking as someone who had a valid federal firearms dealer license for many, many years, I can promise everyone that you have no clue what you are talking about. If you sell a gun without submitting for the background check, you lose your license, period. The gun dealer doesn't do the background check, the BATF does, along with assistance from local police. (Long guns require a quick check, 1 to 24 hours, hand guns require the waiting period and a permit) This isn't new, this passed as the Brady Bill many years ago. You can't even sell personally owned guns that you had in your posession before you were licensed to someone.
Getting the license takes many months, a lot of fees, a background check by the FBI and being fingerprinted. Most dealers are not stupid enough to risk their license because "business is good".
And if you did sell a gun to someone without a permit, then they used it in a crime, then yes, you are liable (both in criminal and civil courts) and can spend time in prison, rightfully so.
It would seem that they also believe that the singular reason a game is "good" is related to the programmer's understanding of the hardware. This just isn't true. Plenty of games have nice graphics and a horrid storyline, or are pretty to look at but clunky to play. If programmers spent less time figuring out the hardware, perhaps they could spend more time working on plot, playability, and flow. Or you can be Sony and make excuses after the fact.
Ive been using drive caddies for years. I even have a couple of old drives (250mb IDE) with dos and WFW3.11 (and trumpet winsock) on them, for grins and giggles. I do need to update to SATA caddies, which I have been putting off until the majority of my systems are SATA2, which will happen next week.
Caddies make testing new OS's and configurations so much easier and safer, it more than pays for the expense and the very minor hassle of installing the tray assembly in a CD ROM bay. Of course, with SATA, using an external box will be much easier.
The majority do know what a good search is. The majority can't manage to type in a web address in the address bar, and only know how to type the name in one of the spywear search boxes, but they know what google is. Seriously now.
In this case, the lady was not only ignorant (common) but extraordinarily lazy.