That pretty much scuttles party politics, doesn't it?
No.
Party politics + how POTUS/VPOTUS were elected prior to the 12th Amendment = misery. Read up on the election of 1800. There's a reason the 12th Amendment passed.
Party politics are going to exist regardless of anybody's attempt to stop them.
How much can your pocket hold? That's up to you and your iPod. It holds up to 20,000 songs, up to 25,000 photos, and up to 100 hours of video -- or any combination of each.
If only Apple new that I like 10 minute songs, 4096x3072 pics, and 3 hour movies.
Yeah.
They really should also market the raw capacity in GB on the Apple Store page. Maybe before the number of songs. In bold.
Sure there is. Keeping logs requires space and you configuring it to run smoothly. Not keeping logs allows you to use smaller HDs and spares you the hassle.
Perhaps you should look into good compression and log rotation. Not hard to set up, saves a lot of space.
So is it likely that you don't keep logs if you say so?
Law enforcement comes to your door because your internet connection was used to access child pornography. You say it wasn't you, but was probably somebody using your anonymizing proxy for which you don't keep logs.
And you expect them just to take your word for it and not execute a search warrant to take your computers for forensic analysis?
Sure, that is why they kept making trivial changes to the win32s api that served little or no technical purpose, requiring a new version of a dll that would break on OS/2. Each time IBM fixed this, they did it again, thereby ensuring people could not run the latest Windows software (including the software sold by MS itself)
If there was a 'strategic' reason for this (preserving customer lockin for example) then surely they did such things in the past, and I have not yet found a reason to believe they changed.
Are you fucking retarded? Seriously.
Microsoft fucking with OS/2's "run Windows apps without buying Windows" and Microsoft fucking with "buy a copy of Windows to run on your Mac" are two completely different things.
What if they ran up student loans and got laid off due to offshoring? That put a lot of people out of work for as long as 5 years, with their next employment being McDonald's!
If ISPs can selectively "throttle" Bit Torrent downloads what is to stop them from throttling child porn, hate sites, drug transactions, etc.
Traffic shaping based exclusively on the protocol being used is not the same thing as content filtering. At all.
Doesn't this fly in the face of the "safe harbor" legislative provision that ISPs are not responsible for the content on their networks? I think if someone were to point this out it might give the ISPs pause if their precious safe harbor provisions were in danger.
If that were true, they would have lost common carrier status when they started filtering port 25.
(Speaking of smugness, could one of you irritating grammar dorks tell me whether the possesive apostrophe in ""netizen"'s" goes inside or outside the closing scare quote?)
Believe me, I understand your position. There was a time several years ago where I felt just as you do now. Work was work and that was all it was. I clock in, life turns off and work turns on. Clock out, the same in reverse. What changed was I became an asset to the area I worked in. I created several programs and systems that made life easier for my co-workers and increased our productivity by 85%. I made a decent living and, with the birth of my 2 beautiful children, felt that I was untouchable. But that is where hurt comes in. I was told time and time again how valuable I was to the company, I've rubbed shoulders with all the higher ups (and had even managed to become good friends with the senior vice president of my division), and when the talks of layoffs began, I was reassured 5 times that my job would not be affected. So the emotion and pain that came with my separation was justified. I became my job and my job became my life. Having it taken away is a horrible feeling. Sure, I will find another job. Sure, I'll make money. But the security of being with an employer for years, the comfort in being loyal and having the company reciprocate, and the ease-of-mind in knowing I have a paycheck is now gone. The trust of any company has been seriously tainted, and I will probably be scarred for the rest of my life because of this. Sure, its not debilitating, but it will haunt me. Now I know just how expendable I truly am in the corporate world.
Believe me, I understand your position. There was a time several years ago where I felt just as you do now. An employee was an employee and that was all it was. He clocked in, life turned off and work turned on. Clock out, the same in reverse. What changed was he became asset to the area he worked in. He created several programs and systems that made life easier for his co-workers and increased our productivity by 85%. We increased revenue substantially, and, with the addition of two new clients, thought that we were untouchable. But that is where hurt comes in. We were told time and time again how valuable the Company was to him. He's rubbed shoulders with all the higher ups (and had even managed to become good friends with the senior vice president of his division), and when the job market started heating up, he reassured us five times that he wasn't interested in another job elsewhere. So the emotion and pain that came with his separation was justified. The Company became him, and he became the Company. Having him taken away is a horrible feeling. Sure, we'll find a replacement. Sure, we'll still have customers. But the security of being with an employee for years, the comfort in being loyal and having the employee reciprocate, and the ease-of-mind in knowing we have a dependable employee is now gone. The trust of any employee has been seriously tainted, and we will probably be scarred for the rest of our existence because of this. Sure, its not debilitating, but it will haunt us. Now we know just how expendable the Company truly is in the corporate world.
If every iTMS track you have has either been from a Pepsi cap or the weekly free download (as mine is), you can still make use of the software without having compromised your ethics.
As long as you didn't pay them for it, you didn't compromise your ethics?
That says more about how committed you are to your ethics than it does about anything else, frankly.
Maybe I'm just weird, but I find BASIC very, very confusing. I look at BASIC code and it's like I can't even grok it. I can't see the program's layout or flow or anything...
Yeah. I agree. C#:
using System;
namespace Hello {
public class HelloWorld {
public static void Main(string[] args) {
string name = "C#";
// See if an argument was passed from the command line
if (args.Length == 1)
name = args[0];
Console.WriteLine("Hello, " + name + "!");
}
} }
makes a lot more sense than VB.NET:
Imports System
Namespace Hello
Class HelloWorld
Overloads Shared Sub Main(ByVal args() As String)
Dim name As String = "VB.NET"
'See if an argument was passed from the command line
If args.Length = 1 Then name = args(0)
Console.WriteLine("Hello, " & name & "!")
End Sub
End Class End Namespace
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Party politics + how POTUS/VPOTUS were elected prior to the 12th Amendment = misery. Read up on the election of 1800. There's a reason the 12th Amendment passed.
Party politics are going to exist regardless of anybody's attempt to stop them.
They really should also market the raw capacity in GB on the Apple Store page. Maybe before the number of songs. In bold.
You'll probably be ridiculed, but you won't be dragged off to Lubyanka. Free speech involves allowing people who don't agree with you to retort.
Law enforcement comes to your door because your internet connection was used to access child pornography. You say it wasn't you, but was probably somebody using your anonymizing proxy for which you don't keep logs.
And you expect them just to take your word for it and not execute a search warrant to take your computers for forensic analysis?
I just don't live in a country where the Gendarmes can say that certain public meetings (for example, to protest a new labor law) are illegal.
Nor do I live in a country where people think "riot" and "legitimate protest" are synonyms.
Maybe you should get your own affairs in order before you start slinging horseshit across the pond.
I know people who criticize my government much more fervently. They've never been taken away to jail, either.
Then again, I guess I don't confuse "vandalism" and "property destruction" with "criticism."
You're almost as good at fearmongering as the Bush administration is.
Microsoft fucking with OS/2's "run Windows apps without buying Windows" and Microsoft fucking with "buy a copy of Windows to run on your Mac" are two completely different things.
If you can get a phone line, you can get a leased line from your telco.
If that were true, they would have lost common carrier status when they started filtering port 25.
If you don't want to pay for music, you should look for music that doesn't cost money.
That says more about how committed you are to your ethics than it does about anything else, frankly.