And if you look at your clock at 5, and then send a message on your girlfriend's blog/mailserver/etc that you'll be at omegaburger in two hours and want to grab dinner together, and your girlfriend looks at the posting time of your message (4), and then at her clock, your burger is going to be mighty cold by the time you get there.
I can't speak for our Windows bretheren, but our AIX boxes required absolutely no patching. Our servers calibrate against a UTC source, and the patch IBM offers only affects the optional right-hand portion of $TZ in/etc/environment...A field that doesn't exist if you're MST-7 w/o DST.
GoDaddy's response is entirely sensible.
Unless, of course, people try to connect to their server from outside of the timezone, say on a website that takes the current time converts it to the user's timezone (set by a cookie or account preferences) and shows it to them such as 99.9% of the forum and blog software out there (lol, slashdot can display everything in utc and let the users figure it out themselves)
Good thing that none of the sites GoDaddy hosts runs any software like that, right?
Habeas corpus has long been determined not to apply to foreigners
That's funny, the federal Attorney General representing the federal government told Congress that habeas corpus doesn't apply to anyone. It's not in the Constitution, he insists: "the Constitution doesn't say, 'Every individual in the United States or every citizen is hereby granted or assured the right to habeas.'"
You cannot have a right that precludes me from having a right.
All rights are restrictions on the behavior of others. As such, society determines that some rights are more important than others. I can carry a gun, but I had better have a good reason if I shoot you with it, and "because he hurt my feelings" isn't.
then it is fair game for anyone to speek out against too. Even if that means resolving you animynity.
Just because someone is incapable of coping with an anonymous critic doesn't mean that their right to not have their feelings hurt trumps a person's right to criticize anonymously. Speaking out against a critic doesn't "mean resolving their anonymity" unless the only thing you've got are ad hominem attacks.
the old-school balance the budget Republicans, and the neo-con Republicans.
The problem is that the two look exactly alike to me. Same problem with the Libertarian Party: some of them are libertarians, the rest are corporatist nutters, but until the respective parties purge their nutters, I can't vote for either based simply on name alone (which, really, is a good thing).
Now, if I could convince everyone else of that, then we might be on our way to being back in control of our government rather than leaving it in the hands of whoever happens to be wearing the party mask.
If that opinion is what you believe, why do you need to hide? If you hide out of fear of a violent reprisal, then the problem is that you are not truely secure in your rights to life and liberty.
The country has basically decided that rights should only be protected from the government, and that companies and individuals can trample these rights all they want, and in fact the government can hire, ask, or even order those companies and individuals to trample on your rights without infringing on them itself.
What's really at issue here is the right to publish anonymously vs. the right to remain anonymous. The former exists, the latter does not.
Is that like how the Constitution provides specific grounds for revoking habeas corpus, but it's OK if the government ignores it because you don't have the right in the first place?
How can one claim that someone has the right to "publish anonymously" if a person cannot be anonymous?
those who abuse the market will lose out quite naturally.
Why?
If an ISP charges Google extra for their users to use their search site (or get redirected to someone who will pay, or just not have their site come up at all), what is Google going to do, cancel their cable subscription? Or maybe when people call up and ask about this, only to be told that Google must be down, but you can go to www.isppartnersearch.com to search the web, the percentage of people smart enough to realize that this is bullshit will bankrupt the company when they (if they bother to) cancel?
If I run a used car lot, I could go around firebombing my competitors' lots and have the same effect, by destroying my competitors and their inventory the value of my cars goes up. Fortunately for used car salespeople, the government says that's illegal. But if a cable company wipes out competitors' VoIP connections in order to drive up the value of their VoIP offering, something is supposed to "naturally" cause them to "lose"? If you could see the invisible hand, you'd see that it's giving them a great big thumbs up.
I agree with the other guy. Breaking up "Ma Bell" was dumb, all it did was create lots of little regional monopolies. Didn't like the service? Well, you could always move across the country. Far more good was done by forcing the phone companies to allow people to buy their own phones from anyone who made a compliant phone.
But wouldn't that put the ISP at a big disadvantage compared to another ISP that continues to upgrade the speed of connections and not charge the content providers?
The content providers are not buying the service. As the buyer of the service, why should I choose one over the other? If I buy the first one and fancysite.com doesn't work, and I call up my ISP, are they going to accept responsibility or claim that it's not their fault?
So, either it wasn't important that it was going on (in other words, Sweden wasn't fascist even though they did it)
Fascist governments can fail too. In other words, Sweden might have done this in hopes of becoming a fascist government but failed to take the step from "listening to everyone" to "arresting undesirables and claiming that we heard them plot against the government".
It is of interest to note that you don't actually have to "listen to everyone" to make the latter claim, if you publicly claim that you have been tapping all the phones, nobody would question it when you trotted out "evidence" that you heard a particular person plan a bombing. Fascism on the cheap... perhaps Sweden will now trot out their "traitors" to prove to the public that their wiretapping has been working.
Honestly -- lay off the Kool Aid. Take a look at the amount spent on the Iraq war sometime. It's a vast sum; easily enough to have just bought Saddam's cooperation (and let's face it, he was desperate for friends anyway) and all the oil under Iraq.
You forgot, Bush's administration initially stated that Iraqi Oil would pay for reconstruction, of course, he also initially believed that we were going to be greeted as liberators and that this would be a walk in the park.
Naturally, now we've poured far more money into the enterprise than Iraqi oil could ever pay back, especially with us dumping billions into KBR's failed pipelines to nowhere making it even harder to get that oil out.
It's not a conspiracy "theory" when the President himself was running around with the "mission accomplished" banners and making promises he couldn't keep.
as you also have state and local governments that provide the services everyone expects and in fact requires
I already pay them on top of what I pay the federal government. If they have to increase their taxes in order to build bridges to nowhere, then maybe representatives will start to think twice about expensive projects if they can't justify the expense to the public. If the public wants to be irrational about it, eventually they'll be left to stew in their own rot while rational people establish communities where they are willing to fund the upkeep required. If they're really rational, they'll establish communities where that upkeep isn't expensive.
If the test represents a valid set of the things a student should know before exiting a grade level then where is the objection?
It's easy to test skills, i.e. balance a checkbook, perform long division, recite the names of the US Presidents, and so on.
no subjective test is possible.
If all you have are objective skills, why should I hire you when a $500 computer can do it faster? What bubble on a scantron represents your ability to develop new transistor materials to keep us moving along Moore's law? Which half-done essay will tell me whether you can negotiate with an Asian firm to obtain the best price for getting a foundry built for our processors? What number tells me what you'll bring to my company that a $500 computer could not do?
Don't you dare presume to judge what we, the annointed few in teachers union, deign to teach your children.
Which has nothing to do with subjectivity or "political correctness". There should be "hard" skills classes, and the final exams for those classes should be sufficient for demonstrating that a student has those skills. But then there needs to be "soft" skills as well: people skills, critical thinking skills, problem solving skills, the ability to work under pressure and work as a team, creativity, and so on. These things can't be proven through a multiple choice test, and they're more important now than ever, thanks to outsourcing and our students needing something extra to prove themselves more employable than some guy in India.
Things need to be fixed. But turning kids into calculators and encyclopedias isn't going to solve anything but people's obsession with having some numerical method for arranging people in order.
Personally, I think under the income tax system, inheritance should simply be considered "income" and taxed with your income taxes, and that's it.
Of course, I also like the FairTax sales tax system more and more as I think about it, assuming that after we lay off the IRS and pare down government we can get the sales tax rate to something under %20. Bonus points if we can convince companies to mark their prices with tax included.
make robots without emotions - essentially machines, pistons, actuators, CPUs, etc... and WTF, who cares how much you use it
Make the machines, pistons, actuators, CPUs, etc in the shape and size of an anatomically correct 10 year old girl and we'll see have the answer to that question by the end of the day.
IMHO the government doesnt give a shit about you.:P
However if the effort and expenditure required for the government to give a shit about me declines to near zero, then why not?
As other posters have pointed out, the government is welcome to change the law at any time, maybe wearing a yellow shirt will be made illegal (to stop gang violence, of course), and the first thing they'll do is round up everyone who had ever been observed wearing a yellow shirt.
One might claim that that would be applying the law retroactively, however that never stopped the government in the past, nor has it in the present, as indicated by the arrest of the Neteller execs who founded the money transfer company before such was made illegal, and by the time the law was passed, were no longer employees or executives of the company.
So I should just keep using my 300+ watt dual p3 with 15 fans going full speed just to keep the thing from melting down in the summer, plus the AC costs from keeping it from melting me down in the summer?
It does everything I need to do at home, but maybe a system like this can do everything I need to do at home cheaper.
For bonus points, I'll even be able to turn my speakers down several notches.
They also have frys.com. I had to dig really deep though to dig out the store information, though. Most sites put "store locator" right on their front page. Maybe they are planning on ditching the brick and mortars... they can save money since they won't have to hire people to try and stop you from leaving with what you bought.
The new online store is a bit awkward, but its great for figuring out the model numbers of things they advertise in their fliers, since the website's item numbers match the ones used in the store.
Pure science is discovering that ions exist, and that you can use ions to push things around.
Applied science is a guy realizing that if he does it just so then the ions can push a spaceship.
Without the discovery of ways to generate high velocity ions, the second guy wouldn't have invented an ion engine.
I suspect that in the long run, pure science will get done, most likely after a lull of 20-30 years when companies have "run out" of things to invent from the current crop of discoveries. Someone will end up trying something totally new and just swallow the risk of an expensive failure, but I doubt it will be anything along the lines of building multi-billion dollar particle accelerators just to find out if there are any other dimensions (who knows, maybe there are, and maybe they could even be made useful, but the expense of finding them and the risk of finding out that they aren't there or that they're not useful... it'd be almost impossible to justify the cost).
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And if you look at your clock at 5, and then send a message on your girlfriend's blog/mailserver/etc that you'll be at omegaburger in two hours and want to grab dinner together, and your girlfriend looks at the posting time of your message (4), and then at her clock, your burger is going to be mighty cold by the time you get there.
I can't speak for our Windows bretheren, but our AIX boxes required absolutely no patching. Our servers calibrate against a UTC source, and the patch IBM offers only affects the optional right-hand portion of $TZ in /etc/environment...A field that doesn't exist if you're MST-7 w/o DST.
GoDaddy's response is entirely sensible.
Unless, of course, people try to connect to their server from outside of the timezone, say on a website that takes the current time converts it to the user's timezone (set by a cookie or account preferences) and shows it to them such as 99.9% of the forum and blog software out there (lol, slashdot can display everything in utc and let the users figure it out themselves)
Good thing that none of the sites GoDaddy hosts runs any software like that, right?
Habeas corpus has long been determined not to apply to foreigners
That's funny, the federal Attorney General representing the federal government told Congress that habeas corpus doesn't apply to anyone. It's not in the Constitution, he insists: "the Constitution doesn't say, 'Every individual in the United States or every citizen is hereby granted or assured the right to habeas.'"
You cannot have a right that precludes me from having a right.
All rights are restrictions on the behavior of others. As such, society determines that some rights are more important than others. I can carry a gun, but I had better have a good reason if I shoot you with it, and "because he hurt my feelings" isn't.
then it is fair game for anyone to speek out against too. Even if that means resolving you animynity.
Just because someone is incapable of coping with an anonymous critic doesn't mean that their right to not have their feelings hurt trumps a person's right to criticize anonymously. Speaking out against a critic doesn't "mean resolving their anonymity" unless the only thing you've got are ad hominem attacks.
the old-school balance the budget Republicans, and the neo-con Republicans.
The problem is that the two look exactly alike to me. Same problem with the Libertarian Party: some of them are libertarians, the rest are corporatist nutters, but until the respective parties purge their nutters, I can't vote for either based simply on name alone (which, really, is a good thing).
Now, if I could convince everyone else of that, then we might be on our way to being back in control of our government rather than leaving it in the hands of whoever happens to be wearing the party mask.
If that opinion is what you believe, why do you need to hide? If you hide out of fear of a violent reprisal, then the problem is that you are not truely secure in your rights to life and liberty.
The country has basically decided that rights should only be protected from the government, and that companies and individuals can trample these rights all they want, and in fact the government can hire, ask, or even order those companies and individuals to trample on your rights without infringing on them itself.
What's really at issue here is the right to publish anonymously vs. the right to remain anonymous. The former exists, the latter does not.
Is that like how the Constitution provides specific grounds for revoking habeas corpus, but it's OK if the government ignores it because you don't have the right in the first place?
How can one claim that someone has the right to "publish anonymously" if a person cannot be anonymous?
those who abuse the market will lose out quite naturally.
Why?
If an ISP charges Google extra for their users to use their search site (or get redirected to someone who will pay, or just not have their site come up at all), what is Google going to do, cancel their cable subscription? Or maybe when people call up and ask about this, only to be told that Google must be down, but you can go to www.isppartnersearch.com to search the web, the percentage of people smart enough to realize that this is bullshit will bankrupt the company when they (if they bother to) cancel?
If I run a used car lot, I could go around firebombing my competitors' lots and have the same effect, by destroying my competitors and their inventory the value of my cars goes up. Fortunately for used car salespeople, the government says that's illegal. But if a cable company wipes out competitors' VoIP connections in order to drive up the value of their VoIP offering, something is supposed to "naturally" cause them to "lose"? If you could see the invisible hand, you'd see that it's giving them a great big thumbs up.
You must be too young to remember Ma Bell...
I agree with the other guy. Breaking up "Ma Bell" was dumb, all it did was create lots of little regional monopolies. Didn't like the service? Well, you could always move across the country. Far more good was done by forcing the phone companies to allow people to buy their own phones from anyone who made a compliant phone.
But wouldn't that put the ISP at a big disadvantage compared to another ISP that continues to upgrade the speed of connections and not charge the content providers?
The content providers are not buying the service. As the buyer of the service, why should I choose one over the other? If I buy the first one and fancysite.com doesn't work, and I call up my ISP, are they going to accept responsibility or claim that it's not their fault?
Now do you understand what "nation of laws not a nation of men" means?
Are you trying to say it doesn't mean you're supposed to pardon the men who broke the law?
So, either it wasn't important that it was going on (in other words, Sweden wasn't fascist even though they did it)
Fascist governments can fail too. In other words, Sweden might have done this in hopes of becoming a fascist government but failed to take the step from "listening to everyone" to "arresting undesirables and claiming that we heard them plot against the government".
It is of interest to note that you don't actually have to "listen to everyone" to make the latter claim, if you publicly claim that you have been tapping all the phones, nobody would question it when you trotted out "evidence" that you heard a particular person plan a bombing. Fascism on the cheap... perhaps Sweden will now trot out their "traitors" to prove to the public that their wiretapping has been working.
Honestly -- lay off the Kool Aid. Take a look at the amount spent on the Iraq war sometime. It's a vast sum; easily enough to have just bought Saddam's cooperation (and let's face it, he was desperate for friends anyway) and all the oil under Iraq.
You forgot, Bush's administration initially stated that Iraqi Oil would pay for reconstruction, of course, he also initially believed that we were going to be greeted as liberators and that this would be a walk in the park.
Naturally, now we've poured far more money into the enterprise than Iraqi oil could ever pay back, especially with us dumping billions into KBR's failed pipelines to nowhere making it even harder to get that oil out.
It's not a conspiracy "theory" when the President himself was running around with the "mission accomplished" banners and making promises he couldn't keep.
as you also have state and local governments that provide the services everyone expects and in fact requires
I already pay them on top of what I pay the federal government. If they have to increase their taxes in order to build bridges to nowhere, then maybe representatives will start to think twice about expensive projects if they can't justify the expense to the public. If the public wants to be irrational about it, eventually they'll be left to stew in their own rot while rational people establish communities where they are willing to fund the upkeep required. If they're really rational, they'll establish communities where that upkeep isn't expensive.
If the test represents a valid set of the things a student should know before exiting a grade level then where is the objection?
It's easy to test skills, i.e. balance a checkbook, perform long division, recite the names of the US Presidents, and so on.
no subjective test is possible.
If all you have are objective skills, why should I hire you when a $500 computer can do it faster? What bubble on a scantron represents your ability to develop new transistor materials to keep us moving along Moore's law? Which half-done essay will tell me whether you can negotiate with an Asian firm to obtain the best price for getting a foundry built for our processors? What number tells me what you'll bring to my company that a $500 computer could not do?
Don't you dare presume to judge what we, the annointed few in teachers union, deign to teach your children.
Which has nothing to do with subjectivity or "political correctness". There should be "hard" skills classes, and the final exams for those classes should be sufficient for demonstrating that a student has those skills. But then there needs to be "soft" skills as well: people skills, critical thinking skills, problem solving skills, the ability to work under pressure and work as a team, creativity, and so on. These things can't be proven through a multiple choice test, and they're more important now than ever, thanks to outsourcing and our students needing something extra to prove themselves more employable than some guy in India.
Things need to be fixed. But turning kids into calculators and encyclopedias isn't going to solve anything but people's obsession with having some numerical method for arranging people in order.
Personally, I think under the income tax system, inheritance should simply be considered "income" and taxed with your income taxes, and that's it.
Of course, I also like the FairTax sales tax system more and more as I think about it, assuming that after we lay off the IRS and pare down government we can get the sales tax rate to something under %20. Bonus points if we can convince companies to mark their prices with tax included.
Maybe they can't really get the quality they are looking for, or, at least, not enough of it.
Quality costs money. If companies are not willing to pay more in order to get better quality, then the quality they have now must be just right.
Or are companies stupid?
make robots without emotions - essentially machines, pistons, actuators, CPUs, etc... and WTF, who cares how much you use it
Make the machines, pistons, actuators, CPUs, etc in the shape and size of an anatomically correct 10 year old girl and we'll see have the answer to that question by the end of the day.
Does anyone think that perhaps corporations shouldn't pay taxes at all?
Sure! Once they're no longer considered people, I'll be fine with them not paying taxes just like the rest of us.
IMHO the government doesnt give a shit about you.
However if the effort and expenditure required for the government to give a shit about me declines to near zero, then why not?
As other posters have pointed out, the government is welcome to change the law at any time, maybe wearing a yellow shirt will be made illegal (to stop gang violence, of course), and the first thing they'll do is round up everyone who had ever been observed wearing a yellow shirt.
One might claim that that would be applying the law retroactively, however that never stopped the government in the past, nor has it in the present, as indicated by the arrest of the Neteller execs who founded the money transfer company before such was made illegal, and by the time the law was passed, were no longer employees or executives of the company.
Being a hypocrite doesn't make you wrong, it just makes you a hypocrite.
So I should just keep using my 300+ watt dual p3 with 15 fans going full speed just to keep the thing from melting down in the summer, plus the AC costs from keeping it from melting me down in the summer?
It does everything I need to do at home, but maybe a system like this can do everything I need to do at home cheaper.
For bonus points, I'll even be able to turn my speakers down several notches.
They also have frys.com. I had to dig really deep though to dig out the store information, though. Most sites put "store locator" right on their front page. Maybe they are planning on ditching the brick and mortars... they can save money since they won't have to hire people to try and stop you from leaving with what you bought.
The new online store is a bit awkward, but its great for figuring out the model numbers of things they advertise in their fliers, since the website's item numbers match the ones used in the store.
It started out as a small western chain, but it grew.
Actually, the firefox one "worked" on Linux, it just tried to upload C:\boot.ini which obviously didn't work.
Pure science is discovering that ions exist, and that you can use ions to push things around.
Applied science is a guy realizing that if he does it just so then the ions can push a spaceship.
Without the discovery of ways to generate high velocity ions, the second guy wouldn't have invented an ion engine.
I suspect that in the long run, pure science will get done, most likely after a lull of 20-30 years when companies have "run out" of things to invent from the current crop of discoveries. Someone will end up trying something totally new and just swallow the risk of an expensive failure, but I doubt it will be anything along the lines of building multi-billion dollar particle accelerators just to find out if there are any other dimensions (who knows, maybe there are, and maybe they could even be made useful, but the expense of finding them and the risk of finding out that they aren't there or that they're not useful... it'd be almost impossible to justify the cost).