Bottom-scraping would be faulting Bush for doing things that Clinton did. Don't forget that Eschelon and Carnivore began as part ofClinton's policies.
They were shitty policies back then, and they still are now since they didn't leave the whitehouse with him. When I say bottom-scraping, I'm talking about how for the past several presidents, from BOTH major parties, nobody has demanded that each president perform better than the last. Soon, we'll hit the bottom of the barrel.
So yes, I am faulting Bush for doing the same things that Clinton did, because I expect and demand better from my leaders.
Get an RPG controller. Designed for navigating the game with one hand while using the free hand for maps and notes. Or, you can use that other joystick.
No, but it's clear that you've joined the rest of the bottom-scrapers when you excuse the Republican party's performance based on Clinton's. For best results, I suggest using soap.
As for my age, I remember a time when I lived in the best damn country in the world. What are the Republicans aiming for this year? Is it "a little better than Saddam's Iraq" or "a little better than China"? I quit getting the newsletter when I dropped out in disgust, so I'm afraid I'm a little out of touch.
The warrants can be granted retroactively, provided that notification is provided on time ("on time" also being after the fact!) Not to mention the fact that FISA itself was basically created out of thin air, and Bush could have staffed it with however many cronies it would take to get his rubber stamps delivered on time. The fact is, Bush was literally given a blank check, and his administration has proceeded to scribble on it in crayon and bawl like a little girl when it was rejected.
On what count? Some guy releases information about a properly conducted, fully legal undercover operation by the CIA, and you're claiming this is exactly equal to some guy releasing information about misconduct by the government and should therefore be labeled the same way?
Do Republicans even know what it's like to be clean anymore? A few people caught an unplesant odor when Enron folded shortly after top-secret talks with Cheney. Nearly everyone could smell the fish when KBR got no-bid contracts from the government to deal with the middle-east. Now the party smells like rot, thanks to Abramoff. Is having a nasal lobotomy a requirement for being a Republican these days?
So now a mentally unstable guy leaks lies about the NSA, and the government disavows them as the ranting of a guy off his meds? No? Instead the place stinks to high heaven as the administration dances about "investigating the leak". Just remember, leaking non-classified information about non-existant operations ain't treason.
And please, take a shower! I know basement-dwelling geeks who reek less than the Republicans.
Eh, you're making a mistake by lumping it all in as FAT. FAT12 was released in 1981, and any implementation using the 1981 version of it would certainly not be covered by patents. FAT16 was released in 1984 with msdos 3, which means that if Microsoft had waited the full year allowed after publication, and filed extensions for the full 20 year patent coverage, that its protection would have expired last year.
The solution then, is to make a tiny FAT16 partition on each device holding whatever device driver is used to access the rest, provided for osx, windows, and linux.
You miss the same thing that Bush supporters and detractors alike miss, repeatedly.
We are not at war.
Every time Bush or a supporter says "so-and-so must be done because of the war on terror" or "this right must be suspended because of the war on terror", remind them that the United States has not declared a war in over half a century.
Many employers keep people at or below 32 hours so that they don't have to provide benefits to the employees.
Nobody has to provide benefits to their employees, there is no law mandating that part time, or even full time, employees get health insurance or other benefits...
oh wait, you mean the CEO signed a contract with a group health insurer stating that every employee meeting a certain criteria will be enrolled on the health plan so that the CxOs could get their viagra cheap? I think you're using a misleading version of "have to" here.
Oh, I'm familiar with them, but I'd say as long as you kept out of the hentai sims, you can find some with decently thought out branching stories. I don't think they'd qualify as museum-quality works of art, but they're no more pathetic than Choose Your Own Adventure books. Sakura Taisen's implementations tend to not have much inherent replayability since (at least in the earlier games) the choices don't influence the plot much, however it does lead to variation in dialog, which beats hearing about "the country to the north is full of monsters" over and over.
it's a half-step away from a dating simulator, and I just can't imagine it being popular in the US.
Yeah, obviously Americans would never play a game where the dialog is more than some guy repeating "Guards patrol the castle walls" over and over every time you talk to him.
Actual US citizens are reproducing too slowly to replace the working US population.
My mistake, I knew that we're currently reproducing above the replacement rate, but wasn't aware that the baby boomers themselves didn't make the replacement rate, and we didn't catch up. Needed more research;)
Aside from that, the issue is that the floor of the bottom if the barrel is dropping out from under the lower class thanks to inflation. Minimum wage was last bumped (on the nation-wide level) in 1997. Since then, inflation has driven prices up roughly 20% (from http://inflationdata.com/Inflation/Inflation_Rate/ InflationCalculator.asp which seems to be selling investment tips, bias possibly overstating inflation to scare people... or understating it to make their investments look better?). When I went to school, I worked a part time job full time to pay for college during the 30 weeks a year when I was in college and still have some cash for clothing and computer parts for the summer. Looking at the same public college now, the cheapest dorm room ($1200/15 week semester, still competitve with apartments unless you cram three to an economy, yet twice what i paid before they were air-conditioned), full time tuition (about $3000/semester, resident, almost twice what I paid) and a modest meal plan (10 meals a week: $1000/semester... I've forgotten what I paid) for a total of $10400 a year, working about 50 solid 40 hour weeks breaks even, assuming you manage to deduct enough of it to avoid taxes and you don't have any emergencies or unpaid leave. At the current rate of inflation, how long will it be before "burger flipper" isn't a job capable of getting a kid an education?
Why is buying stock different from buying anything else? If you bought a car, and someone came around and smashed it up with a sledgehammer, would you say "oh gee, I should have figured the risk of someone smashing up my car with a sledgehammer into my purchase" and go on your merry way, or would you demand that that person pay you for the damage?
So people buy stock, and the CFO pulls out a figurative sledgehammer and flattens the stock's value through illegal activity, why is this different? Because it was a gambling game that turned out rigged?
I think it might be a lot simpler and fairer to just expect investors to take responsibility for their own investments.
Ah, the personal responsibility card. Except I'm not seeing where you are calling for the CFO and/or whoever else was in on this fraud to be held personally responsible for their actions.
True, people aspiring to be a burger-flipper are aiming low, however, you call these jobs "entry level" but what are they "entry" to? Even if you move up into management, there are only so many managers per burger joint. The baby boomers moving out will certainly free up a lot of headroom in the market (assuming corporate pensions, the stock market, and social security last long enough to convince them to retire) but even so, for every baby boomer retiring in the US, there's a little more than one grandchild entering the workforce and looking to get their foot in the door.
Just admit it. You think that anyone with enough drive and capacity to produce enough income
And yet, if everyone had infinite drive and capacity, we'd still have "haves" and "have nots" because even if everyone was a rocket scientist PhD who could read a book in an afternoon and instantly "retool" to any other profession, there'd still be more people than things for those people to do. Especially things for people to do that pay "middle-class" salaries.
But hey, let's say that the job market magically expands for a couple of hundred million engineers, designers, doctors, lawyers, programmers and so on, and everyone gets a nice job paying a sufficient salary to make sure they can afford some kind of personal housing, as well as food and some spending money, who the hell is going to flip you a $3 burger?
Hm, the really interesting stuff shows up when you search on intergeneric.
According to this report, intergeneric hybrids in fish are more likely to be fertile than some intrageneric hybrids. Furthermore, even in hybrids generally labelled "sterile" there are occasional mutations that produce fertile versions of that hybrid.
The Flying Spaghetti Monster has made his presense known unto us! He has touched this weed and conferred upon it this immunity to the unbeliving farmers' poisons so as to punish those who refuse to admit his existance!
All praise the flying spaghetti monster, who though this weed, has touched us all with his Noodly Appendage!
DNS is nearly impossible to maintain competitively, and naturally the participants will not want to exert any extra effort over what is required to secure their own personal profit.
The problem here is that while there is basically an infinite supply of domain-space (ignoring the quality difference between domains, say sex.com vs afj32f3-f3fanee.ffff12), and thus there could be an infinite supply of domain-space sellers, the infrastructure required to support this is currently non-existant as well as being outside of the control of the would-be domain-space merchants.
Take, for instance, http://www.new.net/ who already offers a domain-space alternative to the government run ICANN monopoly. As far as I can tell they have failed to convince any nameserver software vendor to make the changes to the software necessary in order to support multiple root networks, and instead have turned to rely on modifying Windows's TCP/IP stack (which has been known to break it badly enough to deny all internet access) and which has apparently installed adware in the past (see http://www.cexx.org/newnet.htm ) in order to support their alternative domain system.
Having 10 separate root networks might be cool to try, but in practice, you might get lucky if two or three become popular enough to convince a majority of the ISPs to configure their nameservers to attempt to relay to them (I suspect that the current ICANN situation will convince nameserver vendors to change their code where new.net failed). The remainder will then have to feed off of the suckers... send out mail saying that if they don't buy slashdot.org on foonic, then they'll sell it to someone else and who knows what will happen then (though with 1% of the resolution market, the answer is "probably not much"). Of course, this assumes that an "msnic" doesn't appear, charge $1 per domain for registration, take the world by storm, then turn around and demand that if ISPs want their clients to resolve the most popular domains in the world, they'll have to sign contracts banning them from allowing their clients to resolve using any other network. Afterwards, renewal on those $1 domains will be $50.
The point isn't to profit, the point is to opensource their software.
Besides, you think geeks care how many thousands of dollars they throw at crazy shit, as long as it looks like something cool to do? If it were possible to buy 50.01% of MSFT, they'd be all over it. I can see it now, MSFT stock certificate shirts at ThinkGeek, only $1592!
The problem with the plan is that the vast majority of these companies own the majority of the voting shares of their own stock, themselves, and only sell either a minority of full stock or lower-class shares to the plebes and geeks, or else never go public at all.
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Bottom-scraping would be faulting Bush for doing things that Clinton did. Don't forget that Eschelon and Carnivore began as part ofClinton's policies.
They were shitty policies back then, and they still are now since they didn't leave the whitehouse with him. When I say bottom-scraping, I'm talking about how for the past several presidents, from BOTH major parties, nobody has demanded that each president perform better than the last. Soon, we'll hit the bottom of the barrel.
So yes, I am faulting Bush for doing the same things that Clinton did, because I expect and demand better from my leaders.
Get an RPG controller. Designed for navigating the game with one hand while using the free hand for maps and notes. Or, you can use that other joystick.
I suppose you think Clinton was squeaky clean?
No, but it's clear that you've joined the rest of the bottom-scrapers when you excuse the Republican party's performance based on Clinton's. For best results, I suggest using soap.
As for my age, I remember a time when I lived in the best damn country in the world. What are the Republicans aiming for this year? Is it "a little better than Saddam's Iraq" or "a little better than China"? I quit getting the newsletter when I dropped out in disgust, so I'm afraid I'm a little out of touch.
The warrants can be granted retroactively, provided that notification is provided on time ("on time" also being after the fact!) Not to mention the fact that FISA itself was basically created out of thin air, and Bush could have staffed it with however many cronies it would take to get his rubber stamps delivered on time. The fact is, Bush was literally given a blank check, and his administration has proceeded to scribble on it in crayon and bawl like a little girl when it was rejected.
Should be pretty easy to just send a huge list and make a kids list from the 'prohibited' email addresses.
That's too much work. Just swing by the office with a couple of twenties, and you'll probably go home with the list that day.
On what count? Some guy releases information about a properly conducted, fully legal undercover operation by the CIA, and you're claiming this is exactly equal to some guy releasing information about misconduct by the government and should therefore be labeled the same way?
Do Republicans even know what it's like to be clean anymore? A few people caught an unplesant odor when Enron folded shortly after top-secret talks with Cheney. Nearly everyone could smell the fish when KBR got no-bid contracts from the government to deal with the middle-east. Now the party smells like rot, thanks to Abramoff. Is having a nasal lobotomy a requirement for being a Republican these days?
So now a mentally unstable guy leaks lies about the NSA, and the government disavows them as the ranting of a guy off his meds? No? Instead the place stinks to high heaven as the administration dances about "investigating the leak". Just remember, leaking non-classified information about non-existant operations ain't treason.
And please, take a shower! I know basement-dwelling geeks who reek less than the Republicans.
That just makes it worse. If FISA was doing it's job as a lapdog, why did Bush feel the need to break the law to get around them?
Eh, you're making a mistake by lumping it all in as FAT. FAT12 was released in 1981, and any implementation using the 1981 version of it would certainly not be covered by patents. FAT16 was released in 1984 with msdos 3, which means that if Microsoft had waited the full year allowed after publication, and filed extensions for the full 20 year patent coverage, that its protection would have expired last year.
The solution then, is to make a tiny FAT16 partition on each device holding whatever device driver is used to access the rest, provided for osx, windows, and linux.
You miss the same thing that Bush supporters and detractors alike miss, repeatedly.
We are not at war.
Every time Bush or a supporter says "so-and-so must be done because of the war on terror" or "this right must be suspended because of the war on terror", remind them that the United States has not declared a war in over half a century.
Many employers keep people at or below 32 hours so that they don't have to provide benefits to the employees.
Nobody has to provide benefits to their employees, there is no law mandating that part time, or even full time, employees get health insurance or other benefits...
oh wait, you mean the CEO signed a contract with a group health insurer stating that every employee meeting a certain criteria will be enrolled on the health plan so that the CxOs could get their viagra cheap? I think you're using a misleading version of "have to" here.
Oh, I'm familiar with them, but I'd say as long as you kept out of the hentai sims, you can find some with decently thought out branching stories. I don't think they'd qualify as museum-quality works of art, but they're no more pathetic than Choose Your Own Adventure books. Sakura Taisen's implementations tend to not have much inherent replayability since (at least in the earlier games) the choices don't influence the plot much, however it does lead to variation in dialog, which beats hearing about "the country to the north is full of monsters" over and over.
it's a half-step away from a dating simulator, and I just can't imagine it being popular in the US.
Yeah, obviously Americans would never play a game where the dialog is more than some guy repeating "Guards patrol the castle walls" over and over every time you talk to him.
Do you feel the same about kiddie-pr0n rings?
Why you're absolutely right! We must stop these people before they commit any crimes!
Now do us all a favor and kill yourself before you rape any children.
Actual US citizens are reproducing too slowly to replace the working US population.
;)
/ InflationCalculator.asp which seems to be selling investment tips, bias possibly overstating inflation to scare people... or understating it to make their investments look better?). When I went to school, I worked a part time job full time to pay for college during the 30 weeks a year when I was in college and still have some cash for clothing and computer parts for the summer. Looking at the same public college now, the cheapest dorm room ($1200/15 week semester, still competitve with apartments unless you cram three to an economy, yet twice what i paid before they were air-conditioned), full time tuition (about $3000/semester, resident, almost twice what I paid) and a modest meal plan (10 meals a week: $1000/semester... I've forgotten what I paid) for a total of $10400 a year, working about 50 solid 40 hour weeks breaks even, assuming you manage to deduct enough of it to avoid taxes and you don't have any emergencies or unpaid leave. At the current rate of inflation, how long will it be before "burger flipper" isn't a job capable of getting a kid an education?
My mistake, I knew that we're currently reproducing above the replacement rate, but wasn't aware that the baby boomers themselves didn't make the replacement rate, and we didn't catch up. Needed more research
Aside from that, the issue is that the floor of the bottom if the barrel is dropping out from under the lower class thanks to inflation. Minimum wage was last bumped (on the nation-wide level) in 1997. Since then, inflation has driven prices up roughly 20% (from http://inflationdata.com/Inflation/Inflation_Rate
tested with every concievable input
;)
If I had conceived of it, then I would have dealt with it, and it would not have become a bug
Why is buying stock different from buying anything else? If you bought a car, and someone came around and smashed it up with a sledgehammer, would you say "oh gee, I should have figured the risk of someone smashing up my car with a sledgehammer into my purchase" and go on your merry way, or would you demand that that person pay you for the damage?
So people buy stock, and the CFO pulls out a figurative sledgehammer and flattens the stock's value through illegal activity, why is this different? Because it was a gambling game that turned out rigged?
I think it might be a lot simpler and fairer to just expect investors to take responsibility for their own investments.
Ah, the personal responsibility card. Except I'm not seeing where you are calling for the CFO and/or whoever else was in on this fraud to be held personally responsible for their actions.
True, people aspiring to be a burger-flipper are aiming low, however, you call these jobs "entry level" but what are they "entry" to? Even if you move up into management, there are only so many managers per burger joint. The baby boomers moving out will certainly free up a lot of headroom in the market (assuming corporate pensions, the stock market, and social security last long enough to convince them to retire) but even so, for every baby boomer retiring in the US, there's a little more than one grandchild entering the workforce and looking to get their foot in the door.
Just admit it. You think that anyone with enough drive and capacity to produce enough income
And yet, if everyone had infinite drive and capacity, we'd still have "haves" and "have nots" because even if everyone was a rocket scientist PhD who could read a book in an afternoon and instantly "retool" to any other profession, there'd still be more people than things for those people to do. Especially things for people to do that pay "middle-class" salaries.
But hey, let's say that the job market magically expands for a couple of hundred million engineers, designers, doctors, lawyers, programmers and so on, and everyone gets a nice job paying a sufficient salary to make sure they can afford some kind of personal housing, as well as food and some spending money, who the hell is going to flip you a $3 burger?
Hm, the really interesting stuff shows up when you search on intergeneric.
According to this report, intergeneric hybrids in fish are more likely to be fertile than some intrageneric hybrids. Furthermore, even in hybrids generally labelled "sterile" there are occasional mutations that produce fertile versions of that hybrid.
The Flying Spaghetti Monster has made his presense known unto us! He has touched this weed and conferred upon it this immunity to the unbeliving farmers' poisons so as to punish those who refuse to admit his existance!
All praise the flying spaghetti monster, who though this weed, has touched us all with his Noodly Appendage!
Next time you think you have something to contribute to the discussion, please take a moment to hit wikipedia and make sure you're slightly correct.
There's no such thing as completely different species being able to "cross breed".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mule
DNS is nearly impossible to maintain competitively, and naturally the participants will not want to exert any extra effort over what is required to secure their own personal profit.
The problem here is that while there is basically an infinite supply of domain-space (ignoring the quality difference between domains, say sex.com vs afj32f3-f3fanee.ffff12), and thus there could be an infinite supply of domain-space sellers, the infrastructure required to support this is currently non-existant as well as being outside of the control of the would-be domain-space merchants.
Take, for instance, http://www.new.net/ who already offers a domain-space alternative to the government run ICANN monopoly. As far as I can tell they have failed to convince any nameserver software vendor to make the changes to the software necessary in order to support multiple root networks, and instead have turned to rely on modifying Windows's TCP/IP stack (which has been known to break it badly enough to deny all internet access) and which has apparently installed adware in the past (see http://www.cexx.org/newnet.htm ) in order to support their alternative domain system.
Having 10 separate root networks might be cool to try, but in practice, you might get lucky if two or three become popular enough to convince a majority of the ISPs to configure their nameservers to attempt to relay to them (I suspect that the current ICANN situation will convince nameserver vendors to change their code where new.net failed). The remainder will then have to feed off of the suckers... send out mail saying that if they don't buy slashdot.org on foonic, then they'll sell it to someone else and who knows what will happen then (though with 1% of the resolution market, the answer is "probably not much"). Of course, this assumes that an "msnic" doesn't appear, charge $1 per domain for registration, take the world by storm, then turn around and demand that if ISPs want their clients to resolve the most popular domains in the world, they'll have to sign contracts banning them from allowing their clients to resolve using any other network. Afterwards, renewal on those $1 domains will be $50.
That ephemeral, rather than concrete, goods are now being touted as Americas most valuable possessions is nothing short of depressing.
My vorpal sword +10 vs left-handed dragons is my most valuable possession!
The point isn't to profit, the point is to opensource their software.
Besides, you think geeks care how many thousands of dollars they throw at crazy shit, as long as it looks like something cool to do? If it were possible to buy 50.01% of MSFT, they'd be all over it. I can see it now, MSFT stock certificate shirts at ThinkGeek, only $1592!
The problem with the plan is that the vast majority of these companies own the majority of the voting shares of their own stock, themselves, and only sell either a minority of full stock or lower-class shares to the plebes and geeks, or else never go public at all.
Or am I missing something here?
;)
Crash of the oil economy and rising electrical costs.
Or maybe people hoping they can have dual dual-core chips