Birthed by it, yes...but jolly well neither grown nor sustained by it. We forget that, once the revolution ended, the foundation allowing those upstarts to survive and thrive was laid down by unglamorous compromise and consensus-building, allowing people with dramatically divergent viewpoints on everything from government power to personal freedom to both co-exist and act effectively to deal with looming threats to their existence. Sound familiar these days?
You want to solve problems? So solve them. At some point the mob shouting has to die down, the cheap signaling of bumper-sticker populism needs to get out of the way and people need to work towards real consensus on how to solve real problems. The screaming does absolutely nothing. Other than remind me of my 6-year old daughter throwing a tantrum when she doesn't get her way.
Not easy, not sexy and certainly not nearly as cathartic as screaming "Obama the Socialist" (or, to be fair, "Bush the Idiot Emperor" in times past). And it does require compromise and change. God forbid, I know. But since no one on any side of this latest 21st-century American collective existential crisis seems to be truly happy with the status quo, aren't we asking for some kind of change anyway?
Quit your collective yapping, all of you, and do something productive. Deal with the reality that the world you're familiar with from the past is changing and how we collectively engage it is going to change as well, one way or another. And then try to build a reality that incorporates what you respect with the ability to accommodate the world as it is now.
And, for the love of real discourse, lose the bloody bumper stickers...
Meaning: before IP was invented, just a few hundred years ago, writers made no money.
Not in a worldwide marketplace they didn't. Dickens' works were egregiously pirated in the United States, lifted directly from imported British periodicals. Kipling, Twain, Conrad had similar problems. Those are the bigger fish; you can probably project yourself what the plight of the smaller fry was. They all enjoyed some copyright protection in their home countries but anywhere else...good luck, mate.
Could very well be, but then what of the following, taken from David Brooks' writeup describing the HotMail conversion (emphasis added)
The conversion of the Hotmail web servers to Windows is an ongoing project with several rationales. The team was hoping for better utilization of the existing hardware resources. The superior development and internationalization tools are important. A Microsoft property should eat its own dogfood. Finally, we wished to use the conversion experience as a model for other UNIX conversions that we hope to carry out in the future.
The word, however, wasn't the point in referencing the post. The intended take-away was Microsoft's prior dodgy track record when doing infrastructure swap-outs on some of their newly-acquired products, swap-outs driven by factors which clearly included strong doses of NotInventedHere.
Given the background and consequence similarities between this and past episodes like HotMail, its a valid line of speculation with some historical precedent. Not that it will ever be anything more than speculation, of course.
You're complaining about a piddly-wit mayor? Of our two most recent ex-governors, one is up the river and the other is likely joining him in a couple years. Our junior senator essentially bought his way into the job and got caught. And that's before we even bring Mayor "Chucky" Daley and his bankrupt-the-state 2016 Olympics and endemic "pay to play" city infrastructure contracts into the mix.
I feel bad for the agony being experienced by MI right now, but you're not even in the same league as the Land of Lincoln in the corruption department. And be grateful for that...
IIRC, WI corp. tax is ~ 7.9 or 8 percent. IL corp. tax is 7.3 (for now...we'll see what happens when Gov. Quinn's budget and funding proposals finish going through the General Assembly sausage machine.) That's before Mayor Daley and his buddies sweeten the deal with TIFs and such. So, yes, they'd be getting a little bit of a boost by playing tax rate arbitrage here.
In the big picture, though, you're right; it seems hard to believe on first read, doesn't it? Illinois truly is Bizarro State in many ways; its hard to think of it as business competitive in any capacity...
There's no award for Shinto either. Or Tao. Or Sikkhism (apologies if this isn't the proper plural form.) Or Jainism.
Are these groups also not liked, as you put it? They're certainly not banned. Nor are Wiccans, I suspect.
Or is there some other potential factor? Presence of membership in Scouting? Lack of a 3rd party group willing to identify an award criteria and work with the BSA to recognize the criteria? Lack of interest in the first place?
You (and many others on this thread) keep throwing around language like "hate", "banned", "don't like" and so on. Is there some generally acceptable evidence of these attitudes throughout the BSA as a whole?
Don't lob around blanket indictments without something to substantiate them. "The Wiccans don't have a recognized religious emblem" doesn't cut it as such.
Well, it's nice that they allow Scouts to wear the religious emblems of various religions, including the UUs -- but, note that these religious emblems are NOT awarded by BSA, but by the religious organizations themselves.
True--but that's true of all the various religious emblems. Each has some 3rd party group that actually awards the emblem. The BSA does authorize the emblem to be worn, which I suppose is tacit recognition of the "legitimacy" of the award, whatever that may mean. But, as the link demonstrates, they don't appear to be playing favorites with the Jews, as the post I responded to was claiming.
note that specifically the wearing of pentacles, the religious symbol of many pagans, is strictly prohibited.
The definition of 'wearing' is important. If you're talking about just plastering a patch on the uniform, then yes, this is correct. But that isn't restricted to just pagan members of the U-U's. I'm Jewish, but can't throw a mogen David on my kids' scout uniforms either. Nor can my Episcopalian neighbor's kids sew on a crucifix. What can and can't be displayed on the uniform is pretty tightly controlled by the BSA. I might be missing something, but I'm not seeing favoritism there.
If the complaint is that the U-U's proposed a pentagram as the emblem for the reward and that was rejected, that's another story entirely. But not one I've ever heard.
While I share your disdain for the Bush administration you appear to be overlooking the fact that both houses of Congress responsible for crafting and approving the US budget (including this particular embarrassment) were controlled by the Democratic Party. Plenty of opportunity for them to do something about this and nothing was done.
You're welcome to your partisan opinions (it is Slashdot after all) but at least apportion blame fully where it is due.
I'm thinking that maybe she's waiting around just to be the "I told you so" candidate... if Obama loses in November, she can basically own/pwn the Democrat Party right there, and be perfectly set for 2012.
If that's truly what she wants, she'd probably best hit the mute button and stand down now lest she end up being viewed as Ralph Nader instead--hopelessly fracturing the party core and letting an election once seen as a shoo-in Democrat victory slip away.
Not that I'm calling for her to stand down, but if this is indeed her secret strategy her time is probably better spent now in fence-mending so that she might actually accrue some goodwill ahead of November.
Of course if Obama wins the election she's pretty much done anyway (at least for President), so I guess she figures to go out with guns blazing.
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-- "This country was founded on sedition"
Birthed by it, yes...but jolly well neither grown nor sustained by it. We forget that, once the revolution ended, the foundation allowing those upstarts to survive and thrive was laid down by unglamorous compromise and consensus-building, allowing people with dramatically divergent viewpoints on everything from government power to personal freedom to both co-exist and act effectively to deal with looming threats to their existence. Sound familiar these days?
You want to solve problems? So solve them. At some point the mob shouting has to die down, the cheap signaling of bumper-sticker populism needs to get out of the way and people need to work towards real consensus on how to solve real problems. The screaming does absolutely nothing. Other than remind me of my 6-year old daughter throwing a tantrum when she doesn't get her way.
Not easy, not sexy and certainly not nearly as cathartic as screaming "Obama the Socialist" (or, to be fair, "Bush the Idiot Emperor" in times past). And it does require compromise and change. God forbid, I know. But since no one on any side of this latest 21st-century American collective existential crisis seems to be truly happy with the status quo, aren't we asking for some kind of change anyway?
Quit your collective yapping, all of you, and do something productive. Deal with the reality that the world you're familiar with from the past is changing and how we collectively engage it is going to change as well, one way or another. And then try to build a reality that incorporates what you respect with the ability to accommodate the world as it is now.
And, for the love of real discourse, lose the bloody bumper stickers...
All written using Visual Assembler for Windows, right?
Not in a worldwide marketplace they didn't. Dickens' works were egregiously pirated in the United States, lifted directly from imported British periodicals. Kipling, Twain, Conrad had similar problems. Those are the bigger fish; you can probably project yourself what the plight of the smaller fry was. They all enjoyed some copyright protection in their home countries but anywhere else...good luck, mate.
Dammit where are mod points when I really could use them? Modders, please mod immediate parent up.
Parent, thank you for taking the time to actually read the backing article and recognize the actual issue under dispute ...notification, *not* privacy.
You did read the supplied link before replying, yes? It mentions two other "data points", WebTV being memorable.
The 2008 London Stock Exchange meltdown comes to mind as well.
Could very well be, but then what of the following, taken from David Brooks' writeup describing the HotMail conversion (emphasis added)
Source: http://www.securityoffice.net/mssecrets/hotmail.html
The word, however, wasn't the point in referencing the post. The intended take-away was Microsoft's prior dodgy track record when doing infrastructure swap-outs on some of their newly-acquired products, swap-outs driven by factors which clearly included strong doses of NotInventedHere.
Given the background and consequence similarities between this and past episodes like HotMail, its a valid line of speculation with some historical precedent. Not that it will ever be anything more than speculation, of course.
Oh, sure, they've got a history of horrible transitions. HotMail comes to mind immediately.
See "dogfooding" within the following:
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/10/12/microsofts_sidekick_pink_problems_blamed_on_dogfooding_and_sabotage.html
Don't go there. He'll get angry when he sees you've botched his name. And you wouldn't like him when he's angry...
Dune
Solaris
The Lathe of Heaven
A Canticle for Leibowitz
The Difference Engine
I'm sure all of these pop up in someone else's comments somewhere in this thread; if so, just add my vote to them.
Good luck...
I see your Michigan and raise you my Illinois.
You're complaining about a piddly-wit mayor? Of our two most recent ex-governors, one is up the river and the other is likely joining him in a couple years. Our junior senator essentially bought his way into the job and got caught. And that's before we even bring Mayor "Chucky" Daley and his bankrupt-the-state 2016 Olympics and endemic "pay to play" city infrastructure contracts into the mix.
I feel bad for the agony being experienced by MI right now, but you're not even in the same league as the Land of Lincoln in the corruption department. And be grateful for that...
I find your lack of faith disturbing.
IIRC, WI corp. tax is ~ 7.9 or 8 percent. IL corp. tax is 7.3 (for now...we'll see what happens when Gov. Quinn's budget and funding proposals finish going through the General Assembly sausage machine.) That's before Mayor Daley and his buddies sweeten the deal with TIFs and such. So, yes, they'd be getting a little bit of a boost by playing tax rate arbitrage here.
In the big picture, though, you're right; it seems hard to believe on first read, doesn't it? Illinois truly is Bizarro State in many ways; its hard to think of it as business competitive in any capacity...
Lego Duke Nukem
I'll be interested in seeing how he (and similar visionaries) plan to map science lab work into a virtually located education.
Actually only one component will be written in CCCP...the GPU drivers.
Obviously you've never worked with APL before.
Super powerful, to be sure, but that notation...
{ shudders }
and while not one of the heralded 4-digit user ID's, an 6-digit id starting '159' would seem to indicate he's been aware of /. for sometime as well...
Stop! I haven't finished digesting the first 3 puns yet. Even if they're easy to understand and fairly alimentary in nature...
Set Firefox 3 to launch GMail for mailto links
IMO getting the handler set up properly shouldn't be nearly this fussy, but it does work; I use it myself.
HTH...
There's no award for Shinto either. Or Tao. Or Sikkhism (apologies if this isn't the proper plural form.) Or Jainism.
Are these groups also not liked, as you put it? They're certainly not banned. Nor are Wiccans, I suspect.
Or is there some other potential factor? Presence of membership in Scouting? Lack of a 3rd party group willing to identify an award criteria and work with the BSA to recognize the criteria? Lack of interest in the first place?
You (and many others on this thread) keep throwing around language like "hate", "banned", "don't like" and so on. Is there some generally acceptable evidence of these attitudes throughout the BSA as a whole?
Don't lob around blanket indictments without something to substantiate them. "The Wiccans don't have a recognized religious emblem" doesn't cut it as such.
True--but that's true of all the various religious emblems. Each has some 3rd party group that actually awards the emblem. The BSA does authorize the emblem to be worn, which I suppose is tacit recognition of the "legitimacy" of the award, whatever that may mean. But, as the link demonstrates, they don't appear to be playing favorites with the Jews, as the post I responded to was claiming.
The definition of 'wearing' is important. If you're talking about just plastering a patch on the uniform, then yes, this is correct. But that isn't restricted to just pagan members of the U-U's. I'm Jewish, but can't throw a mogen David on my kids' scout uniforms either. Nor can my Episcopalian neighbor's kids sew on a crucifix. What can and can't be displayed on the uniform is pretty tightly controlled by the BSA. I might be missing something, but I'm not seeing favoritism there.
If the complaint is that the U-U's proposed a pentagram as the emblem for the reward and that was rejected, that's another story entirely. But not one I've ever heard.
Care to comment on the following?
Religious Awards for Boy Scouts
This would seem to indicate quite the number of religious groups "playing nice" with Scouting. Including the Unitarian-Universalists.
While I share your disdain for the Bush administration you appear to be overlooking the fact that both houses of Congress responsible for crafting and approving the US budget (including this particular embarrassment) were controlled by the Democratic Party. Plenty of opportunity for them to do something about this and nothing was done.
You're welcome to your partisan opinions (it is Slashdot after all) but at least apportion blame fully where it is due.
If that's truly what she wants, she'd probably best hit the mute button and stand down now lest she end up being viewed as Ralph Nader instead--hopelessly fracturing the party core and letting an election once seen as a shoo-in Democrat victory slip away.
Not that I'm calling for her to stand down, but if this is indeed her secret strategy her time is probably better spent now in fence-mending so that she might actually accrue some goodwill ahead of November.
Of course if Obama wins the election she's pretty much done anyway (at least for President), so I guess she figures to go out with guns blazing.
From old age or the beer?