DHS was created in response to the 9/11 attacks as a purely political move to make it look like we were serious about fighting terrorism. It created a huge bureaucracy, gave it an impossibly broad mandate, and made it more difficult for existing agencies (that were moved under DHS because they were at least tangentially related to protecting the country against various things) to do their jobs. As a result, the government is far less capable of intelligently defending against attack than it was before. It is only capable of wildly overreacting to perceived threats (like someone slipping through airport security with 4 ounces of hand soap rather than the mandated maximum of 3), again so it can appear as if it is on top of things.
DHS was a bad idea that was implemented poorly out of a panicked need to do *something* following the attacks.
Why would anyone go to "www.yahoo.com" anyway? If you're using Yahoo for your email, go to "my.yahoo.com" instead and customize the page. I never see that sort of bubble gum crap on my front page because I don't have that module. With the My Yahoo customization and adblocker, I get a nice, subdued page with news coming in from various reputable wire services.
Of course, using the site in conjunction with adblocker in order to make it look good probably isn't what they had in mind, but oh well.
IBM should insist on an audit by the district in order to find out what happened to these machines. If requested, IBM could even supply an auditor or two in order to help the school get to the bottom of this issue. $5 million in misplaced equipment is a big deal for a poor district, and they should jump at the chance to have IBM assist.
If the audit is completed, and if the district makes its payments on time, IBM could then make a $5 million charitable donation to the district.
That way, IBM would get good press, the district would hopefully straighten up their records, and everyone would be happy.
The primary criticism of the Bush "prosperity" is that the economic growth is being driven primarily by firms outsourcing high-paying jobs overseas. So, the bulk of the wealth that is being created is going to the already very wealthy, while the middle class is exchanging their previous high-paying jobs for lower paying jobs. Most of the jobs being created are low-paying service sector jobs.
Yes, there is widespread speculation that a recession is coming, fueled mainly by the crisis in the housing market, but people speculate about the market all the time. This speculation is coming from economists in general, and is certainly not limited to the left wing.
Also, the Film Actors Guild (FAG) was a fictional organization in the film "Team America: World Police". The acronym is part of the humor. So, while your point of view is legitimate, you may want to research your assertions before throwing bile at fictional entities.
Also, while Moore undoubtedly plays up certain aspects of his films for entertainment value and to prove his point, he does often bring up quite a few good points that are solidly based on fact. To ignore a point of view out of hand merely because it comes from a source you find distasteful is closed-minded.
Perhaps the idea is to shut off their microphones when they run out of time.
Electrical shocks. Send them steadily more powerful electrical shocks until they shut up. At the very least, it will make the debates more entertaining.
The perpetrator outweighed her by 40 pounds, I doubt the victim would be able to overpower her. Besides, even if she told everyone in the Starbucks that the person she had just hit over the head had stolen her identity, there's a pretty good chance the well-meaning patrons would not believe her and would have let the thief go and held the woman so police could arrest her for assault. And the previous poster basically summarized quite well the problems that would arise with using a gun.
It's a built-in safety mechanism. If they can't get it done by Friday morning American EST, they'll just claim they meant Australian EST the whole time.
Actually, it requires "chilled water." I took a tour of this thing when it came to the local Sun campus, and it really is quite an amazing piece of engineering. Basically, you need one (small) cargo container for the data center itself, and a chiller for the water. They are able to carry the cargo container and a chiller around in a standard sized 18-wheeler. Obviously, if you were trying to take this into a disaster area, you'd need another truck or two to carry generators and fuel.
Inside the building, they had a bunch of photoshopped pictures of these black boxes in various locations like on top of an offshore oil rig, stacked 3 high in a warehouse, and sitting on top of a skyscraper. The photoshopping was fairly good, but you could tell the photos were faked, mostly because at the time only 2 black boxes had actually been built, and one of them was outside in the parking lot.
That's pretty much how it works these days. The corporation writes the bill, then hires lobbyists to make sure it passes through Congress. Other corporations may then hire other congress people to attach irrelevant riders to these bills authorizing various pork barrel projects. If a lobbyist encounters a congress person who is not willing and eager to go along, they may need to take that congress person on a "fact finding mission" to a Caribbean resort in order to persuade them with various perks. If that doesn't work, they can be persuaded with Polaroids portraying them engaged in various perversions with said perks.
Here in Texas, we now have all the electricity we need to take on these large environmental projects thanks to the 7 brand new pollution-spewing coal-fired power plants currently being rushed through the approval process.
Secondly, I'm as big a fan of Gomer Pyle as the next guy, but I think spying on Jim Nabors (much less calling him "your" Nabors) is a little over the top.
Sounds like a lack of capacity planning. If the marketroids were planning a huge marketing push, the IT manager should have been given the resources to increase network capacity prior to that push. If the IT manager was given proper warning and funding prior to the marketing campaign, it's his fault for not effectively utilizing it. Either way, the problem could have been avoided with proper management.
First, it's not entirely clear that Lost is a scifi show. The producers have said they won't resort to anything supernatural to explain the stuff that happens on the show, but the longer it runs the more that's in doubt. For now, it's a mystery that is not at all scifi. Maybe a very convoluted soap opera. Everything on the island has so far been either explained with mundane modern (or 20 years ago) technology, or not explained at all. Nothing has been explained by scifi to this point. Maybe the final explanation will involve aliens or something, but nothing like that has been even hinted at at this point.
Second, Jack is kind of a dick, and has been more and more so as time goes on. Personally, I can't stand the character. I get the feeling that if he wasn't so busy yelling all the time, he could have solved the mystery of the island about a year ago. Of all the actors on Lost (who play currently living characters anyway), he's probably the one I'd least want to hear from.
So, some dude talking about Star Wars in Latin is way geekier than Jack from Lost.
Could be. Do honking horns in traffic ever make you want to get out of your BMW and run off into the hills? When you get a fax, do you wonder if there are demons inside the fax machine typing it? Do you ever feel that if a man slips and falls on a sidewalk in front of a public library, he is entitled to no less than two million in compensatory damages, and two million in punitive damages? If so, you may indeed be a caveman.
You've stumbled upon the fabled Secret of Slashdot: The editors know no one actually clicks the links, so they have an automated script that just make stories up in the summary, and links to random pages on the Internet for the "articles".
They came up with this idea when, back in early 1999, CmdrTaco posted a story about a new company offering to sell gravel over the Internet with free shipping. However, instead of posting to the Wired article about the new company, he accidentally posted a link to goatse. Strangely, the only emails he got about the story were people raving about how cool it would be to finally be able to buy gravel over the Internet. NOT A SINGLE PERSON commented on the goatse link! No one was reading the articles!
Ever since then, the editors have been spending most of their time blitzed on rum on a Caribbean beach while the script runs Slashdot.
For years, trolls have been commemorating this event by posting goatse links in the comments. However, most people don't realize the significance of these tributes, and quickly mod them down.
He didn't say Christian, he said Christian Science. Christian Science really does discourage the use of most modern medicine, including blood transfusions. They believe illness can be cured by prayer and growing closer to God, and intervening with conventional medicine will counteract or contradict that process.
The game IS a tech demo, and that's why it's so vitally important that it remain bundled with the console. This console has a totally new control mechanism, it needs a simple bundled game to serve as a tutorial for that mechanism. Removing that game in order to cut the price of the one console that has no one complaining about the price would be ludicrous.
We had a guy come in a few months ago to give a class on upgrading to Solaris 10, highlighting the differences between Solaris 9 and 10. When he got to the ZFS portion, he really did talk about it like that. He basically described ZFS as the filesystem to end all filesystems, the killer app that would revolutionize computing, end file corruption, and bring about world peace.
I'm not sure if that's the way they talk about it internally at Sun, but that's how their instructors portray it out in the field.
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DHS was created in response to the 9/11 attacks as a purely political move to make it look like we were serious about fighting terrorism. It created a huge bureaucracy, gave it an impossibly broad mandate, and made it more difficult for existing agencies (that were moved under DHS because they were at least tangentially related to protecting the country against various things) to do their jobs. As a result, the government is far less capable of intelligently defending against attack than it was before. It is only capable of wildly overreacting to perceived threats (like someone slipping through airport security with 4 ounces of hand soap rather than the mandated maximum of 3), again so it can appear as if it is on top of things.
DHS was a bad idea that was implemented poorly out of a panicked need to do *something* following the attacks.
This is the sort of thing that happens when you make announcements on Opposite Day.
Why would anyone go to "www.yahoo.com" anyway? If you're using Yahoo for your email, go to "my.yahoo.com" instead and customize the page. I never see that sort of bubble gum crap on my front page because I don't have that module. With the My Yahoo customization and adblocker, I get a nice, subdued page with news coming in from various reputable wire services.
Of course, using the site in conjunction with adblocker in order to make it look good probably isn't what they had in mind, but oh well.
Oooh, burn!
IBM should insist on an audit by the district in order to find out what happened to these machines. If requested, IBM could even supply an auditor or two in order to help the school get to the bottom of this issue. $5 million in misplaced equipment is a big deal for a poor district, and they should jump at the chance to have IBM assist.
If the audit is completed, and if the district makes its payments on time, IBM could then make a $5 million charitable donation to the district.
That way, IBM would get good press, the district would hopefully straighten up their records, and everyone would be happy.
the comparison charts deal strictly with physical attributes, not things like GPS.
Really? I had no idea that "Internet Use", "Video Playback", and "Audio Playback" were physical attributes.
The primary criticism of the Bush "prosperity" is that the economic growth is being driven primarily by firms outsourcing high-paying jobs overseas. So, the bulk of the wealth that is being created is going to the already very wealthy, while the middle class is exchanging their previous high-paying jobs for lower paying jobs. Most of the jobs being created are low-paying service sector jobs.
Yes, there is widespread speculation that a recession is coming, fueled mainly by the crisis in the housing market, but people speculate about the market all the time. This speculation is coming from economists in general, and is certainly not limited to the left wing.
Also, the Film Actors Guild (FAG) was a fictional organization in the film "Team America: World Police". The acronym is part of the humor. So, while your point of view is legitimate, you may want to research your assertions before throwing bile at fictional entities.
Also, while Moore undoubtedly plays up certain aspects of his films for entertainment value and to prove his point, he does often bring up quite a few good points that are solidly based on fact. To ignore a point of view out of hand merely because it comes from a source you find distasteful is closed-minded.
Perhaps the idea is to shut off their microphones when they run out of time.
Electrical shocks. Send them steadily more powerful electrical shocks until they shut up. At the very least, it will make the debates more entertaining.
Sure, but it's a little more effort to go down to the local Fry's for a new memory stick when you're orbiting 200 miles above the Earth.
You really should use preview.
I believe you are referring to these guys.
You're thinking too small. Think "Data Centers in graveyards".
Think of the possibilities: Even after death, you could live on as an Ethernet cable for an AOL mail server!
The perpetrator outweighed her by 40 pounds, I doubt the victim would be able to overpower her. Besides, even if she told everyone in the Starbucks that the person she had just hit over the head had stolen her identity, there's a pretty good chance the well-meaning patrons would not believe her and would have let the thief go and held the woman so police could arrest her for assault. And the previous poster basically summarized quite well the problems that would arise with using a gun.
It's a built-in safety mechanism. If they can't get it done by Friday morning American EST, they'll just claim they meant Australian EST the whole time.
Actually, it requires "chilled water." I took a tour of this thing when it came to the local Sun campus, and it really is quite an amazing piece of engineering. Basically, you need one (small) cargo container for the data center itself, and a chiller for the water. They are able to carry the cargo container and a chiller around in a standard sized 18-wheeler. Obviously, if you were trying to take this into a disaster area, you'd need another truck or two to carry generators and fuel.
Inside the building, they had a bunch of photoshopped pictures of these black boxes in various locations like on top of an offshore oil rig, stacked 3 high in a warehouse, and sitting on top of a skyscraper. The photoshopping was fairly good, but you could tell the photos were faked, mostly because at the time only 2 black boxes had actually been built, and one of them was outside in the parking lot.
That's pretty much how it works these days. The corporation writes the bill, then hires lobbyists to make sure it passes through Congress. Other corporations may then hire other congress people to attach irrelevant riders to these bills authorizing various pork barrel projects. If a lobbyist encounters a congress person who is not willing and eager to go along, they may need to take that congress person on a "fact finding mission" to a Caribbean resort in order to persuade them with various perks. If that doesn't work, they can be persuaded with Polaroids portraying them engaged in various perversions with said perks.
In short: Schoolhouse Rock lied to you.
Here in Texas, we now have all the electricity we need to take on these large environmental projects thanks to the 7 brand new pollution-spewing coal-fired power plants currently being rushed through the approval process.
First of all, you misspelled "Nabors".
Secondly, I'm as big a fan of Gomer Pyle as the next guy, but I think spying on Jim Nabors (much less calling him "your" Nabors) is a little over the top.
Sounds like a lack of capacity planning. If the marketroids were planning a huge marketing push, the IT manager should have been given the resources to increase network capacity prior to that push. If the IT manager was given proper warning and funding prior to the marketing campaign, it's his fault for not effectively utilizing it. Either way, the problem could have been avoided with proper management.
A couple of things:
First, it's not entirely clear that Lost is a scifi show. The producers have said they won't resort to anything supernatural to explain the stuff that happens on the show, but the longer it runs the more that's in doubt. For now, it's a mystery that is not at all scifi. Maybe a very convoluted soap opera. Everything on the island has so far been either explained with mundane modern (or 20 years ago) technology, or not explained at all. Nothing has been explained by scifi to this point. Maybe the final explanation will involve aliens or something, but nothing like that has been even hinted at at this point.
Second, Jack is kind of a dick, and has been more and more so as time goes on. Personally, I can't stand the character. I get the feeling that if he wasn't so busy yelling all the time, he could have solved the mystery of the island about a year ago. Of all the actors on Lost (who play currently living characters anyway), he's probably the one I'd least want to hear from.
So, some dude talking about Star Wars in Latin is way geekier than Jack from Lost.
Maybe I am just a caveman.
Could be. Do honking horns in traffic ever make you want to get out of your BMW and run off into the hills? When you get a fax, do you wonder if there are demons inside the fax machine typing it? Do you ever feel that if a man slips and falls on a sidewalk in front of a public library, he is entitled to no less than two million in compensatory damages, and two million in punitive damages? If so, you may indeed be a caveman.
You've stumbled upon the fabled Secret of Slashdot: The editors know no one actually clicks the links, so they have an automated script that just make stories up in the summary, and links to random pages on the Internet for the "articles".
They came up with this idea when, back in early 1999, CmdrTaco posted a story about a new company offering to sell gravel over the Internet with free shipping. However, instead of posting to the Wired article about the new company, he accidentally posted a link to goatse. Strangely, the only emails he got about the story were people raving about how cool it would be to finally be able to buy gravel over the Internet. NOT A SINGLE PERSON commented on the goatse link! No one was reading the articles!
Ever since then, the editors have been spending most of their time blitzed on rum on a Caribbean beach while the script runs Slashdot.
For years, trolls have been commemorating this event by posting goatse links in the comments. However, most people don't realize the significance of these tributes, and quickly mod them down.
He didn't say Christian, he said Christian Science. Christian Science really does discourage the use of most modern medicine, including blood transfusions. They believe illness can be cured by prayer and growing closer to God, and intervening with conventional medicine will counteract or contradict that process.
The game IS a tech demo, and that's why it's so vitally important that it remain bundled with the console. This console has a totally new control mechanism, it needs a simple bundled game to serve as a tutorial for that mechanism. Removing that game in order to cut the price of the one console that has no one complaining about the price would be ludicrous.
We had a guy come in a few months ago to give a class on upgrading to Solaris 10, highlighting the differences between Solaris 9 and 10. When he got to the ZFS portion, he really did talk about it like that. He basically described ZFS as the filesystem to end all filesystems, the killer app that would revolutionize computing, end file corruption, and bring about world peace.
I'm not sure if that's the way they talk about it internally at Sun, but that's how their instructors portray it out in the field.
I didn't RTFT, so maybe the answer is there, but I don't get the GP post's joke at all.