It isn't THAT the government regulates internet traffic it is HOW.
There are many laws that are bad, illformed and outright corrupt put forth in government but that doesn't mean that the idea of laws and government itself is bad or corrupt.
Being like a child is fine when one is young but a menace when one is an adult.
The problem is that this story seems to focus on the child-likeness w/o working towards any growth. It only seems to want to verify the unverified(actually probably proven wrong) assumption of the poster and not seek the truth.
It isn't the floating part that I'm wondering about it is the tower...why do you have so much in a tower? Wouldn't it be simpler/safer just to put all that as a ring?
Indeed it is right to lose proportion because no attempt to keep proportion has been made in the first place.
It was simply stated that the boss would have right to do what he/she liked depending on what you said as a given without any proportion as a generalization.
In other words the previous poster was just pointing out the generalization and how overly broad it was.
Starving the beast is the line used once tax cuts fail to produce improved economic growth and the line used when people don't take any responsibility for being part of the government(aka the beast). It is easier to simply remove funding than to trouble oneself to argue and work for constructive change.
What isn't said is that given the concentration of wealth in the United States it is starving one beast to feed another. The beast of democratic bureaucracy would make a fine meal for the beast of capitalist oligarchy.
Except we don't KNOW that repeat offenders are likely or unlikely to modify their behavior. At least without studying the problem and gathering some data. There have been many examples of things we "knew" to be true but when data was collected turned out not to be the case. Stereotypes often fall into this just for a quick example.
Also we are not looking into WHY the behavior happens in the first place.
Furthermore our system of justice subscribes to several principals, among them is one called due process. While three-strikes and similar laws do not necessarily violate that principal they often do serve to abridge it.
Yes. In fact it is standard FOSS procedure. You don't like how one application suite works use what you like change what you don't and release back to the community. If the main distribution takes the changes into itself then don't fork. If they don't and the changes build up to a critical mass you have your own fork or shell add-on.
Being susceptible to interference does not mean that a minimum size is required or has been reached for the detector.
You could just as easily and with as much validity use the same argument on the old style large satellite dishes. However for most consumers' needs the new smaller ones work just as well, are easier to deploy and cheaper.
These new arrays when they come to market will probably be just as good for the average consumer, smaller and thus easier to deploy.
I'm already getting sat radio through a device that could almost be hand-held for my car. Video signal is just more throughput.
No, it is non-existent to my knowledge. This particular lab is not on a support contract anymore, at least I don't think it is. It is a community college lab and the money is being gathered to replace the computers, which should come in the next 6 months.
Most labs are under support through our IT department. I don't know the details but I think they are all Dell techs, or at least Dell trained.
I wish that were the case. We still have a contract with them.
Still I'd welcome new Dell computers into the lab that needs them if the other option is no new computers at all. It would be nice to have machines with more than 2 gigs of ram.
No there is a great deal of creative value. Winning these types of cases can mean the difference of millions of dollars and these letters work to win such cases. That is a lot of value. It might not be artistic value but it is still value.
Using only Closed Source or only Open Source guarantee you'll be using some inferior software as neither has all of the best software.
Some Open Source is better than the Closed alternatives, some Closed is better than the Open alternatives.
Also MS requires a bit of retraining. Look at the transitions in the past few versions of MS Office, big retraining needs there. VS Open Office which has been much stabler at least as far as its interface from one version to the other.
There are no good guidelines. If there were better thinkers than us would have solved this problem long ago.
Ok so by some reasonable definitions an embryo can be considered alive and unique, but that still doesn't mean it has the same worth a human has; it has the potential to gain that worth but has not yet done so, and probably never will.
Acknowledging such a unique life does not change my argument that the embryo has sufficient intrinsic value to be worthy of what we generally call human rights, as I nor anyone cannot survive without quashing unique living things everyday.
Except embryo's are not human offspring and the majority never could be.
There are far more in cold storage than could ever possibly be brought to term. They are just collections of human genetic material with the potential for growth into human life IF they are implanted into a womb and are successfully brought to term. Even then once born then what? There are already too many orphans in this ever more crowded world.
If they are human offspring then what of sperm and egg? Where do you draw the line? Because they joined together?
Humans have rights not because of the genetic codes in our cells but because of our individual experience, potential and the investiture of others.
They may become people only under the right conditions and for the vast majority those conditions will never come.
The same goes for private schools. There are private schools that take money and do little for students.
The private model is not inherently superior to the public in terms of education gained for a given amount of money per student. Private schools do generally do better but that is because they are able to refuse students, and generally get higher income students with more parental support. Public schools have to take all comers and their income is not derived by the number of students they have to teach.
Yes competition with the promise of income and wealth is often a strong motivator but many seem to forget that it is not the only reason people are motivated to do things.
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It isn't THAT the government regulates internet traffic it is HOW.
There are many laws that are bad, illformed and outright corrupt put forth in government but that doesn't mean that the idea of laws and government itself is bad or corrupt.
Being like a child is fine when one is young but a menace when one is an adult.
The problem is that this story seems to focus on the child-likeness w/o working towards any growth. It only seems to want to verify the unverified(actually probably proven wrong) assumption of the poster and not seek the truth.
It isn't the floating part that I'm wondering about it is the tower...why do you have so much in a tower? Wouldn't it be simpler/safer just to put all that as a ring?
No, it wasn't but it WAS in there by beta stage.
What do you mean miss?
Why don't you go visit them? They still exist and are still used. And there are still even developers working in their spare time on them.
If you support them(and bring your friends) they may grow.
Indeed it is right to lose proportion because no attempt to keep proportion has been made in the first place.
It was simply stated that the boss would have right to do what he/she liked depending on what you said as a given without any proportion as a generalization.
In other words the previous poster was just pointing out the generalization and how overly broad it was.
I'm Captain Obvious and I'm here to serve!
Starving the beast is the line used once tax cuts fail to produce improved economic growth and the line used when people don't take any responsibility for being part of the government(aka the beast). It is easier to simply remove funding than to trouble oneself to argue and work for constructive change.
What isn't said is that given the concentration of wealth in the United States it is starving one beast to feed another. The beast of democratic bureaucracy would make a fine meal for the beast of capitalist oligarchy.
True. Indeed tricks for getting a wind powered vessel to go faster than the wind have been around for centuries. It's a common part of sailing.
Except we don't KNOW that repeat offenders are likely or unlikely to modify their behavior. At least without studying the problem and gathering some data. There have been many examples of things we "knew" to be true but when data was collected turned out not to be the case. Stereotypes often fall into this just for a quick example.
Also we are not looking into WHY the behavior happens in the first place.
Furthermore our system of justice subscribes to several principals, among them is one called due process. While three-strikes and similar laws do not necessarily violate that principal they often do serve to abridge it.
Except there is not data being used to establish this. It is just an arbitrary number absolving the legal system of thought, and due process.
Yes. In fact it is standard FOSS procedure. You don't like how one application suite works use what you like change what you don't and release back to the community. If the main distribution takes the changes into itself then don't fork. If they don't and the changes build up to a critical mass you have your own fork or shell add-on.
No they won't. The maintainers told me they really don't mind.
Being susceptible to interference does not mean that a minimum size is required or has been reached for the detector.
You could just as easily and with as much validity use the same argument on the old style large satellite dishes. However for most consumers' needs the new smaller ones work just as well, are easier to deploy and cheaper.
These new arrays when they come to market will probably be just as good for the average consumer, smaller and thus easier to deploy.
I'm already getting sat radio through a device that could almost be hand-held for my car. Video signal is just more throughput.
No, it is non-existent to my knowledge. This particular lab is not on a support contract anymore, at least I don't think it is. It is a community college lab and the money is being gathered to replace the computers, which should come in the next 6 months.
Most labs are under support through our IT department. I don't know the details but I think they are all Dell techs, or at least Dell trained.
Yes. And you, TimeCop, must go back and stop it.
We'd have several [smaller networks] based on protocol[s] other than TCP/IP.
Unless the place you work for signed a contract.
Remember picking vendors is a luxury many do not have.
Oi, don't remind me. Have to wait three weeks for a new case fan. 92mm. Really Dell?
I wish that were the case. We still have a contract with them.
Still I'd welcome new Dell computers into the lab that needs them if the other option is no new computers at all. It would be nice to have machines with more than 2 gigs of ram.
No there is a great deal of creative value. Winning these types of cases can mean the difference of millions of dollars and these letters work to win such cases. That is a lot of value. It might not be artistic value but it is still value.
Why use inferior software?
Using only Closed Source or only Open Source guarantee you'll be using some inferior software as neither has all of the best software.
Some Open Source is better than the Closed alternatives, some Closed is better than the Open alternatives.
Also MS requires a bit of retraining. Look at the transitions in the past few versions of MS Office, big retraining needs there. VS Open Office which has been much stabler at least as far as its interface from one version to the other.
There are no good guidelines. If there were better thinkers than us would have solved this problem long ago.
Ok so by some reasonable definitions an embryo can be considered alive and unique, but that still doesn't mean it has the same worth a human has; it has the potential to gain that worth but has not yet done so, and probably never will.
Acknowledging such a unique life does not change my argument that the embryo has sufficient intrinsic value to be worthy of what we generally call human rights, as I nor anyone cannot survive without quashing unique living things everyday.
Legal, Ethical and Moral often end up in different places.
Except embryo's are not human offspring and the majority never could be.
There are far more in cold storage than could ever possibly be brought to term. They are just collections of human genetic material with the potential for growth into human life IF they are implanted into a womb and are successfully brought to term. Even then once born then what? There are already too many orphans in this ever more crowded world.
If they are human offspring then what of sperm and egg? Where do you draw the line? Because they joined together?
Humans have rights not because of the genetic codes in our cells but because of our individual experience, potential and the investiture of others.
They may become people only under the right conditions and for the vast majority those conditions will never come.
The same goes for private schools. There are private schools that take money and do little for students.
The private model is not inherently superior to the public in terms of education gained for a given amount of money per student. Private schools do generally do better but that is because they are able to refuse students, and generally get higher income students with more parental support. Public schools have to take all comers and their income is not derived by the number of students they have to teach.
Yes competition with the promise of income and wealth is often a strong motivator but many seem to forget that it is not the only reason people are motivated to do things.