He is doign things which will astound... and its on Qt, so it'll work on anyplatform Qt will compile in, which, at last check is far more than Flash is supported on.
Then don't. Fertility drugs turn women into lower mamals by having litters. Though we don't have the insight right now, I bet in 50 years, we'll figured out why God didn't want you to breed. All life exists for you to breed, and in some species will change sexes, or occasionally produce a viable hybrid offsprring. Given life's penchant for procreation, the fact that god has said NO to a couple should be taken as an extremely stong hint that it just shouldn't be done.
Adopt. There are tons of kids waiting for parents who actually want to have kids.
Just because we can, doesn't mean its right. Or smart.
Can someone tell me how to do a glow effect? Its a gradiant where the core is either not filled or solid of the gradiant start color, then fades to the gradient stop color radially, outwards. Imagine a physical sign, like on a buildingwith neon behind it. You can't see the neon, but you can see the glow on the wall behind the sign.
This is the one thing I can't figure out how to do. Mostly because of courners. If I peacie it todether, the corners never look even. (Not to mention a huge hassle!)
1994 I worked at a Boy scout summer camp from may to August several summers. We worked outdoors, and slept in canvas tents that onyl had palletes for floors. I had terrible hay fever and probably other allergies. I popped benedryl every day, I went around groggy all the time - that is until I ran out. When I ran out (and the trading post had none either) I suffered for a whole day. I went through boxes of facial tissues. I awoke the next day, allergy free! I decided to test whether I was onto something. For two weeks, I never got that opportunity. I was allergy free. Then I had a day of allergies. I declined the benedryl and buddied up with the facial tissues. Two more allergy free weeks went by.
Another example: We had dogs growing up. Never was I allergic. Now, after living dogless for 5+ years, I experience a mild allergic reaction to dogs. If I say in the environment with the dog, it subsides for as long as I am around the dog.
I can only conclude that it is best to let your bosy react in whatever way it deems apropriate, provided it is not life threatening. When you take a drug, you destabilize the system that is your body. Thes destabilzations are called side-effects. And every drug has them.
I am not the only one coming to this conclusion. Trama centers used to as a matter of standard operting procedure would administer an anti-coagulant (or a blood clotter, I can't remember, but it is not important) There was recently published (~5 years) a study that found that patients who were NOT administered the drug as a matter of standard procedure healed and were released two weeks sooner than those who had received the drug.
Lets face it, the drug companies are out to make money, to sell product. Maybe benedryl is just one that its use requires its further use until allergens are removed from the environment.
In the system of checks and balances, and under the constitution the legislature can force the decision of the courts. The courts have to follow all just laws, as well as legislative intent.
Surpreme Court Decision 04-473 was a victory for corrupt government executives everywhere. I call upon you to draft & support legislation which protects whistle blowers.
Our constiution has a first amendment right to petition the government for redress of greviences. The DOJ has argued, in court, that there exists no oblibation for the government to respond to such petitions. Such a position is perposterous. Governments are instituded among men for the sole purpose of the protection of inalienable rights, and to provide just and equitible resolutions when infractions occur. There exists no reason why the government in its role as protector of the People's rights shouldbe allowed to squelch the voices of those who report on internal corruption. If the DOJ gets its way, the People, the foundation of the power of the government, will have no means to police its own government.
The government should be afraid of its people, not the people afraid of their government. This includes whistleblowers.
The monitered person can distribute the calls through multiple phone lines. With cooperation, a group of individuals can pool phones to use and this system won't detect them. What is detectible is how many phone lines are registered to a person.
However the government has yet to catch up to the real world. I can disitalyl distribute the message through the internet using techniques that would not arouse suspicion, partivularly with al the online gaming of today.
It would do well for you to read the consitution, Article 1, then read the 16th Amendment again. Repeat. You will soon see that the 16th does not in anyway modify the original taxing powers of congress, as you seem to believe. We know this because the Surpreme court has said so, and held so in many cases.
However the statement of my signature needs not to consider either. If you look at what is taxed when it comes to "wages" (the word my sig uses, note it does not mention "income") you will find a few definition in the legal code. 26 USC 3401, and 26 USC 3121. Anyone having wages as defined in either section has a liability created in that respective section. (One is the wages and the withholding provisions, the other is Social Security (& Medicare))
The Social Security wage tax is that, a tax on the wages as defined. I ask, do you have qualifying wages for the tax? (This is a Subtitle C tax)
The slightly harder point to argue are the subtitle A taxes, and involves all income, from whatever source derived. The question is though, of what is income? The statutes provide a circular definition. However the Courts have held that "income is not all that comes in" and have also held that "the 16th did not extend [what could be taxed] to new or unexpected subjects".
For the real definition of income, it is nescessary to dive into the historical record. I'd suggest reading the 1909-1913 congressional debates on the subject of the 16th. Having read my own suggested reading, it is completely clear that what *I* make has never been considered "income".
Yes, there are a lot of shisters out there, that will swindle you. But you have to read and understand the law for yourself. The IRS is counting on you being too lazy to actually do that.
Honestly, how many years have you been paying taxes without reading a word of the tax code?
Once, you do, you'll know how the IRS ropes you into a system that is very hard to leave. Even if your findings are not the same as mine, I urge you to read up anyway. It can't hurt.
Remember the IRS is a collection company. They aren't even a part of the federal government. They are the desigated agency for revenue collection. (One person tried to sue the IRS, but the government was forced to pleade in court that the IRS could not represent itself, so the government has to represent the IRS on behalf of the IRS.) They try to collect as much as possible, so you really have to read and decide for yourself.
This lies solely with tour telecom carriers, as it is considered business records. Local, non toll calls should not be recorded, unless they need to be counted (and only the count stored) for limited calling plans.
Withouy readign the case, I would venture to say tha tit was the corporation'ss records that were being searched and voluntarily funrished. This is already well-decided in the case of bank records. While your records match the banks records of an account, the records at the bank are of a business nature and they own that side of them.
The resolution to this problem is to pressure your carrier to not voluntarily comply with the request until a warrant has been issued. The government is free to request anything, the requestee is free to give it.
Churchill v. S.A.D. No. 49 Teachers Ass'n., 380 A.2d 186 (Me. 1977) "[P]ublic bodies or officers may exercise only that power which is conferred upon them by law. The source of that authority must be found in the enabling statute either expressly or by necessary inference as an incidence essential to the full exercise of the powers specifically granted," 380 A.2d, at 192.
Continental Casualty Co., v. United States, 113 F2d. 284 (5th Cir. 1940) "Public officers are merely the agents of the public, whose powers and authority are defined and limited by law. Any act without the scope of the authority so defined does not bind the principal, and all persons dealing with such agents are charged with knowledge of the extent of their authority."
Nonetheless, no matter how "important, conspicuous, and controversial" the issue, and regardless of how likely the public is to hold the Executive Branch politically accountable, post , at 31, an administrative agency's power to regulate in the public interest must always be grounded in a valid grant of authority from Congress. Food & Drug Administration et al v Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. 529 US 120
Flavell v. Dept. of Welfare, City and County of Denver, 355 P.2d 941 (Colo. 1960): "It follows that a collateral attack may be made here for 'acts or orders [of administrative officers or agencies] which do not come clearly within the powers granted or which fall beyond the purview of the statute granting the agency or body its powers [such orders] are not merely erroneous, but are void' * * * 'They [officers or agencies] are without power to act contrary to the provisions of the law or the clear legislative intendment, or to exceed the authority conferred on them by statute," 355 P.2d, at 943.
Lavin v. Marsh, 644 F.2d 1378 (9th Cir. 1981) "Persons dealing with the government are charged with knowing government statutes and regulations, and they assume the risk that government agents may exceed their authority and provide misinformation," 644 F.2d, at 1383.
Outboard Marine Corp. v. Thomas, 610 F.Supp. 1234, 1242 (N.D. Ill. 1985): "Acting without statutory power at all, or misapplying one's statutory power, will result in a finding that such action was ultra vires."
Peters v. Hobby, 349 U.S. 331, 75 S.Ct. 790 (1955): "Agencies, whether created by statute or Executive Order, must of course be free to give reasonable scope to the terms conferring their authority. But they are not free to ignore plain limitations on that authority," 349 U.S., at 345.
Sittler v. Board of Control of Michigan College of Mining and Technology, 333 Mich. 681, 53 N.W.2d 681 (1952): " 'The extent of the authority of the people's public agents is measured by the statute from which they derive their authority, not by their own acts and assumption of authority.' " 'Public officers have and can exercise only such powers as are conferred on them by law * * * ' " 'The powers of State officers being fixed by law, all persons dealing with such officers are charged with knowledge of the extent of their authority,' " 53 N.W.2d, at 684.
Stark v. Wickard, 321 U.S. 288, 64 S.Ct. 559, 1944, "When Congress passes an Act empowering administrative agencies to carry on governmental activities, the power of those agencies is circumscribed by the authority granted...," 321 U.S., at 309. [Again, the Court echoed these principles in Soriano v. United States, 494 F.2d 681, 9th Cir., 1974: "[A]n administrative agency is a creature of statute, having only those powers expressly granted to it by Congress or included by necessary implication from the Congressional grant," 494 F.2d, at 683.]
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
In interviews, military officials defended the laser research as prudent, given the potential need for space arms to defend American satellites against attack in the years and decades ahead. "The White House wants us to do space defense," said a senior Pentagon official who oversees many space programs, including the laser effort. "We need that ability to protect our assets" in orbit.
How is a laser going to *protect* anything. Defense shields, mirrors, stealth are all defense. A laser can only be used one way - for offense. I don't forsee ground based laser light shows defense systems that continuously circle our important satellites. If someone were to attack a satellite, say through another satellite or missle system, wouldn't they do it when the US's system is not in line-of-site?
What detection systems exist to identify and monitor "encroaching" ASAT satellites?
His staff (namely a bunch of Neo-Convervatives - including Rumsfeld) has sought to reclaim power after being marginalized in the public mind for a while. We know they invented a terrorist attack (9/11), and used that to engage in a war where the whole point of the war has yet to be found despite a 3 year occupation. The president has blocked scientific research and even debate on any matter that he objects to.
It is good to see that America has begun to remarginalize the government despite the attempts for the government to create panic. The only sad part is that we are not demanded that the past transgressions be repaired. In this situation, no one wins. The american people must hold their government accountable.
Well you are completely wrong on the social security and medicare isseues. There is no garuentee that anyone is will ever see a dime of what "they put into" either program. They are collected as a tax and go into the general treasury. Your wage tax dollars (the tax is collected on "wages" as defined) are not ear-marked in any way. The only thing that keeps congress approriating the money is AARP and the anarchy that would ensue from retitreees losing benefits. Its a non-garenteed hand out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_(Unit ed_States) : Helvering vs. Davis, 301 U.S. 619., decided on the same day, upheld the program because "The proceeds of both [employee and employer] taxes are to be paid into the Treasury like internal-revenue taxes generally, and are not earmarked in any way." That is, the Social Security Tax is constitutional as a mere exercise of Congress's general taxation powers.
If you want to know more, or how to stop paying SSI & medicare, read the book in my signature.
Python (or Ryby) beats the pants off of it. I am programming in VB after a several year gap. Here is what I hate about VB
Nothing - You must use "is", and "is" alone: "if X is Nothing" but "if X is Not Nothing" does not work. Its syntatically legal, but youhave to do if Not(X is Nothing)
Function calling is not uniform - Some calls are "Call Foo()" and others just "Foo"
If you delete an array of pointers (which are set to objects), it deletes the objects too - I use this in mouseover code. I have to manually set them to Nothing before deleting the array.
Several controls just don't work if you have them disabled.
Array subscripting - you can DIM Foo(X to Y) where X is non zero
Option Base - no better way to confuse people than for some modules to use 1 and others 0 in the same project
Windows - the damn event model is inconsistent.
Timers - the docs say interval=0 is the same as disabled. Not true. interval 0 sill allows it to fire 1 more time.
& - it does strings as well as speficy hex
+ - adds a space _sometimes_
No epoch seconds - impossible to do simple date calculations. Timer() is seconds today. All other date funtions are ascii strings MM/DD/YYY or DD/MM/YYYY depending on locale.
Theres more but time for home.
Oh yeah. Python? Consistent and extremely flexible. (Ruby too)
VB is the whipping boy of Microsoft. Every iteration changes the language in some crazy way. I started pre-VB, but for the VB line, I started at VB1.0. I've watched it "grow" (I perfer mutate) over the years. I now still do about 90% VB. But I have tired of the language changing every few years. I've fallen in love with Python. It is cross-platform and easier. The only thing needed is a good GUI. I prefer Qt, (which is GPL or commercial). The effort of supporting more than windows in one platform is trivial with python, which opens up the MacOSX market (and linux too.)
Even if you don't need crossplatform, Python has all that COM support and is highly integrated into the Windows OS. To me, it is worth my time to learn python because the languages changes very little. It also is 'cleaner'.
Ruby fans don't flame me. I know the two are close, but I can only recommend what I have used extensively.
As an engineer that worked for them, the NetDVR works extremely well, but in proprietary formats. The NetDVRII works almost as well, but it is more for supporting Verint's IP cameras and higher framerates. They were not done that IP camera integration when I worked there, but the framerates are there. NetDVRII is the future, it looks long and bright.
It's a 1U rack mount unit and supports 4 drives of any size. Each unit supports 16 CCTV cameras.
I did not mean to suggest that MySpace was any more dangerous than the next online dating site, or even a real place in the real world. Just that MySpace is no better than the next place. But its no worse either.
I was actually expecting MySpace to be better because there is the networking aspect. But that seems to mean nothing.
I live in Baltimore County. We just had a arrest of a man who went out on a date with a woman from myspace where he killed her on the date.
Doesn't seem to be far fetched here. Usually, like all of you, think it's being hyped to generate news. But in this case it is very, very real. Just ask her family.
I think she was 27 and he was 22, or something like that. So it's not just a risk for the young ones.
At $0.10 a pop, it is hardly affordble. Figure a conversation takes 20 such messages, that's $2. That's several minutes of talk time, or dozens of minutes spent texting.
Slashdot Mirror
We're getting that now. Qt4 with SVG is doing some incredible things.
Check out Zack Rusin's blog
He is doign things which will astound... and its on Qt, so it'll work on anyplatform Qt will compile in, which, at last check is far more than Flash is supported on.
Then don't. Fertility drugs turn women into lower mamals by having litters. Though we don't have the insight right now, I bet in 50 years, we'll figured out why God didn't want you to breed. All life exists for you to breed, and in some species will change sexes, or occasionally produce a viable hybrid offsprring. Given life's penchant for procreation, the fact that god has said NO to a couple should be taken as an extremely stong hint that it just shouldn't be done.
Adopt. There are tons of kids waiting for parents who actually want to have kids.
Just because we can, doesn't mean its right. Or smart.
Can someone tell me how to do a glow effect? Its a gradiant where the core is either not filled or solid of the gradiant start color, then fades to the gradient stop color radially, outwards.
Imagine a physical sign, like on a buildingwith neon behind it. You can't see the neon, but you can see the glow on the wall behind the sign.
This is the one thing I can't figure out how to do. Mostly because of courners. If I peacie it todether, the corners never look even. (Not to mention a huge hassle!)
1994 I worked at a Boy scout summer camp from may to August several summers. We worked outdoors, and slept in canvas tents that onyl had palletes for floors. I had terrible hay fever and probably other allergies. I popped benedryl every day, I went around groggy all the time - that is until I ran out. When I ran out (and the trading post had none either) I suffered for a whole day. I went through boxes of facial tissues. I awoke the next day, allergy free! I decided to test whether I was onto something. For two weeks, I never got that opportunity. I was allergy free. Then I had a day of allergies. I declined the benedryl and buddied up with the facial tissues. Two more allergy free weeks went by.
Another example: We had dogs growing up. Never was I allergic. Now, after living dogless for 5+ years, I experience a mild allergic reaction to dogs. If I say in the environment with the dog, it subsides for as long as I am around the dog.
I can only conclude that it is best to let your bosy react in whatever way it deems apropriate, provided it is not life threatening. When you take a drug, you destabilize the system that is your body. Thes destabilzations are called side-effects. And every drug has them.
I am not the only one coming to this conclusion. Trama centers used to as a matter of standard operting procedure would administer an anti-coagulant (or a blood clotter, I can't remember, but it is not important) There was recently published (~5 years) a study that found that patients who were NOT administered the drug as a matter of standard procedure healed and were released two weeks sooner than those who had received the drug.
Lets face it, the drug companies are out to make money, to sell product. Maybe benedryl is just one that its use requires its further use until allergens are removed from the environment.
We're dealing with a Judiciary that has tenure...
In the system of checks and balances, and under the constitution the legislature can force the decision of the courts. The courts have to follow all just laws, as well as legislative intent.
Surpreme Court Decision 04-473 was a victory for corrupt government executives everywhere. I call upon you to draft & support legislation which protects whistle blowers.
Our constiution has a first amendment right to petition the government for redress of greviences. The DOJ has argued, in court, that there exists no oblibation for the government to respond to such petitions. Such a position is perposterous. Governments are instituded among men for the sole purpose of the protection of inalienable rights, and to provide just and equitible resolutions when infractions occur. There exists no reason why the government in its role as protector of the People's rights shouldbe allowed to squelch the voices of those who report on internal corruption. If the DOJ gets its way, the People, the foundation of the power of the government, will have no means to police its own government.
The government should be afraid of its people, not the people afraid of their government. This includes whistleblowers.
The monitered person can distribute the calls through multiple phone lines. With cooperation, a group of individuals can pool phones to use and this system won't detect them. What is detectible is how many phone lines are registered to a person.
However the government has yet to catch up to the real world. I can disitalyl distribute the message through the internet using techniques that would not arouse suspicion, partivularly with al the online gaming of today.
Roger wilco anyone?
I'm still safe. The administration is too lazy to get a warrant. And FISA court does not apply to me, so they'd need a REAL warrant.
It would do well for you to read the consitution, Article 1, then read the 16th Amendment again. Repeat. You will soon see that the 16th does not in anyway modify the original taxing powers of congress, as you seem to believe. We know this because the Surpreme court has said so, and held so in many cases.
However the statement of my signature needs not to consider either. If you look at what is taxed when it comes to "wages" (the word my sig uses, note it does not mention "income") you will find a few definition in the legal code. 26 USC 3401, and 26 USC 3121. Anyone having wages as defined in either section has a liability created in that respective section. (One is the wages and the withholding provisions, the other is Social Security (& Medicare))
The Social Security wage tax is that, a tax on the wages as defined. I ask, do you have qualifying wages for the tax? (This is a Subtitle C tax)
The slightly harder point to argue are the subtitle A taxes, and involves all income, from whatever source derived. The question is though, of what is income? The statutes provide a circular definition. However the Courts have held that "income is not all that comes in" and have also held that "the 16th did not extend [what could be taxed] to new or unexpected subjects".
For the real definition of income, it is nescessary to dive into the historical record. I'd suggest reading the 1909-1913 congressional debates on the subject of the 16th. Having read my own suggested reading, it is completely clear that what *I* make has never been considered "income".
Yes, there are a lot of shisters out there, that will swindle you. But you have to read and understand the law for yourself. The IRS is counting on you being too lazy to actually do that.
Honestly, how many years have you been paying taxes without reading a word of the tax code?
Once, you do, you'll know how the IRS ropes you into a system that is very hard to leave. Even if your findings are not the same as mine, I urge you to read up anyway. It can't hurt.
Remember the IRS is a collection company. They aren't even a part of the federal government. They are the desigated agency for revenue collection. (One person tried to sue the IRS, but the government was forced to pleade in court that the IRS could not represent itself, so the government has to represent the IRS on behalf of the IRS.) They try to collect as much as possible, so you really have to read and decide for yourself.
This lies solely with tour telecom carriers, as it is considered business records. Local, non toll calls should not be recorded, unless they need to be counted (and only the count stored) for limited calling plans.
Withouy readign the case, I would venture to say tha tit was the corporation'ss records that were being searched and voluntarily funrished. This is already well-decided in the case of bank records. While your records match the banks records of an account, the records at the bank are of a business nature and they own that side of them.
The resolution to this problem is to pressure your carrier to not voluntarily comply with the request until a warrant has been issued. The government is free to request anything, the requestee is free to give it.
Churchill v. S.A.D. No. 49 Teachers Ass'n., 380 A.2d 186 (Me. 1977) "[P]ublic bodies or officers may exercise only that power which is conferred upon them by law. The source of that authority must be found in the enabling statute either expressly or by necessary inference as an incidence essential to the full exercise of the powers specifically granted," 380 A.2d, at 192.
Continental Casualty Co., v. United States, 113 F2d. 284 (5th Cir. 1940) "Public officers are merely the agents of the public, whose powers and authority are defined and limited by law. Any act without the scope of the authority so defined does not bind the principal, and all persons dealing with such agents are charged with knowledge of the extent of their authority."
Nonetheless, no matter how "important, conspicuous, and controversial" the issue, and regardless of how likely the public is to hold the Executive Branch politically accountable, post , at 31, an administrative agency's power to regulate in the public interest must always be grounded in a valid grant of authority from Congress. Food & Drug Administration et al v Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. 529 US 120
Flavell v. Dept. of Welfare, City and County of Denver, 355 P.2d 941 (Colo. 1960): "It follows that a collateral attack may be made here for 'acts or orders [of administrative officers or agencies] which do not come clearly within the powers granted or which fall beyond the purview of the statute granting the agency or body its powers [such orders] are not merely erroneous, but are void' * * * 'They [officers or agencies] are without power to act contrary to the provisions of the law or the clear legislative intendment, or to exceed the authority conferred on them by statute," 355 P.2d, at 943.
Lavin v. Marsh, 644 F.2d 1378 (9th Cir. 1981) "Persons dealing with the government are charged with knowing government statutes and regulations, and they assume the risk that government agents may exceed their authority and provide misinformation," 644 F.2d, at 1383.
Outboard Marine Corp. v. Thomas, 610 F.Supp. 1234, 1242 (N.D. Ill. 1985): "Acting without statutory power at all, or misapplying one's statutory power, will result in a finding that such action was ultra vires."
Peters v. Hobby, 349 U.S. 331, 75 S.Ct. 790 (1955): "Agencies, whether created by statute or Executive Order, must of course be free to give reasonable scope to the terms conferring their authority. But they are not free to ignore plain limitations on that authority," 349 U.S., at 345.
Sittler v. Board of Control of Michigan College of Mining and Technology, 333 Mich. 681, 53 N.W.2d 681 (1952): " 'The extent of the authority of the people's public agents is measured by the statute from which they derive their authority, not by their own acts and assumption of authority.' " 'Public officers have and can exercise only such powers as are conferred on them by law * * * ' " 'The powers of State officers being fixed by law, all persons dealing with such officers are charged with knowledge of the extent of their authority,' " 53 N.W.2d, at 684.
Stark v. Wickard, 321 U.S. 288, 64 S.Ct. 559, 1944, "When Congress passes an Act empowering administrative agencies to carry on governmental activities, the power of those agencies is circumscribed by the authority granted...," 321 U.S., at 309. [Again, the Court echoed these principles in Soriano v. United States, 494 F.2d 681, 9th Cir., 1974: "[A]n administrative agency is a creature of statute, having only those powers expressly granted to it by Congress or included by necessary implication from the Congressional grant," 494 F.2d, at 683.]
Article the sixth [Amendment IV]
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
The phrasign of the original quote makes me thign they were referrign to the defense of satellites, not of assets.
In interviews, military officials defended the laser research as prudent, given the potential need for space arms to defend American satellites against attack in the years and decades ahead. "The White House wants us to do space defense," said a senior Pentagon official who oversees many space programs, including the laser effort. "We need that ability to protect our assets" in orbit.
How is a laser going to *protect* anything. Defense shields, mirrors, stealth are all defense. A laser can only be used one way - for offense. I don't forsee ground based laser light shows defense systems that continuously circle our important satellites. If someone were to attack a satellite, say through another satellite or missle system, wouldn't they do it when the US's system is not in line-of-site?
What detection systems exist to identify and monitor "encroaching" ASAT satellites?
Time cannot be force.
Force is engergy exerted on matter over time.
Start: Run: Calc
K: Run: kcalc
That's all the math skills I use on a daily basis.
His staff (namely a bunch of Neo-Convervatives - including Rumsfeld) has sought to reclaim power after being marginalized in the public mind for a while. We know they invented a terrorist attack (9/11), and used that to engage in a war where the whole point of the war has yet to be found despite a 3 year occupation. The president has blocked scientific research and even debate on any matter that he objects to.
It is good to see that America has begun to remarginalize the government despite the attempts for the government to create panic. The only sad part is that we are not demanded that the past transgressions be repaired. In this situation, no one wins. The american people must hold their government accountable.
For more information, see Power of Nightmares (Try the free, open source VLC player if you media player won't play)
Well you are completely wrong on the social security and medicare isseues. There is no garuentee that anyone is will ever see a dime of what "they put into" either program. They are collected as a tax and go into the general treasury. Your wage tax dollars (the tax is collected on "wages" as defined) are not ear-marked in any way. The only thing that keeps congress approriating the money is AARP and the anarchy that would ensue from retitreees losing benefits. Its a non-garenteed hand out.
t ed_States) :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_(Uni
Helvering vs. Davis, 301 U.S. 619., decided on the same day, upheld the program because "The proceeds of both [employee and employer] taxes are to be paid into the Treasury like internal-revenue taxes generally, and are not earmarked in any way." That is, the Social Security Tax is constitutional as a mere exercise of Congress's general taxation powers.
If you want to know more, or how to stop paying SSI & medicare, read the book in my signature.
Function calling is not uniform - Some calls are "Call Foo()" and others just "Foo"
If you delete an array of pointers (which are set to objects), it deletes the objects too - I use this in mouseover code. I have to manually set them to Nothing before deleting the array.
Several controls just don't work if you have them disabled.
Array subscripting - you can DIM Foo(X to Y) where X is non zero
Option Base - no better way to confuse people than for some modules to use 1 and others 0 in the same project
Windows - the damn event model is inconsistent.
Timers - the docs say interval=0 is the same as disabled. Not true. interval 0 sill allows it to fire 1 more time.
& - it does strings as well as speficy hex
+ - adds a space _sometimes_
No epoch seconds - impossible to do simple date calculations. Timer() is seconds today. All other date funtions are ascii strings MM/DD/YYY or DD/MM/YYYY depending on locale.
Theres more but time for home.
Oh yeah. Python? Consistent and extremely flexible. (Ruby too)
wx is my 2nd choice. Qt goes much farther than wx in terms of functionality. Its been a while since I used it though. (3 years)
VB is the whipping boy of Microsoft. Every iteration changes the language in some crazy way. I started pre-VB, but for the VB line, I started at VB1.0. I've watched it "grow" (I perfer mutate) over the years. I now still do about 90% VB. But I have tired of the language changing every few years. I've fallen in love with Python. It is cross-platform and easier. The only thing needed is a good GUI. I prefer Qt, (which is GPL or commercial). The effort of supporting more than windows in one platform is trivial with python, which opens up the MacOSX market (and linux too.)
Even if you don't need crossplatform, Python has all that COM support and is highly integrated into the Windows OS. To me, it is worth my time to learn python because the languages changes very little. It also is 'cleaner'.
Ruby fans don't flame me. I know the two are close, but I can only recommend what I have used extensively.
Verint makes a NetDVR and NetDVRII.
As an engineer that worked for them, the NetDVR works extremely well, but in proprietary formats. The NetDVRII works almost as well, but it is more for supporting Verint's IP cameras and higher framerates. They were not done that IP camera integration when I worked there, but the framerates are there. NetDVRII is the future, it looks long and bright.
It's a 1U rack mount unit and supports 4 drives of any size. Each unit supports 16 CCTV cameras.
I did not mean to suggest that MySpace was any more dangerous than the next online dating site, or even a real place in the real world. Just that MySpace is no better than the next place. But its no worse either.
I was actually expecting MySpace to be better because there is the networking aspect. But that seems to mean nothing.
I live in Baltimore County. We just had a arrest of a man who went out on a date with a woman from myspace where he killed her on the date.
Doesn't seem to be far fetched here. Usually, like all of you, think it's being hyped to generate news. But in this case it is very, very real. Just ask her family.
I think she was 27 and he was 22, or something like that. So it's not just a risk for the young ones.
At $0.10 a pop, it is hardly affordble. Figure a conversation takes 20 such messages, that's $2. That's several minutes of talk time, or dozens of minutes spent texting.
I just don't get it.