They DO pollute, they ARE a fire hazard... but the world will be a little poorer when the last kerosine lamp is gone.
and won't know how to find their way in the dark once their batteries can no longer hold a charge and new ones are unavailable.
If they were able to use waste products to make their own bio-fuel to power their lamps, they wouldn't need to buy replacement batteries from Phillips.
By "in-house" I meant that the organisation should reduce reliance on outside companies and maintain control over the work they are paying for itself.
That's what the government managers were doing. They were in charge of ever department, set the work standards, determined funding for each project, etc...the same management type stuff that's done in any other company. How did they not have control over the project?
IMHO, the only reason for hiring contractors was to sidestep the red tape required to fire Federal civilian employees and the Federal pay grade regulations. It was a pretty seamless workplace really and if you didn't know any better, you would think that everyone worked for the Feds: everyone had the same badges, worked in the same offices, had their pictures on the same departmental org charts, got together for workplace sponsored events, etc. On payday, some would get a check stub from the US Treasury, others would get one from some corporation and if there were meetings about benefits plan changes or something else strictly employer based was about the only time you could tell who worked for each organization. Sometimes contractor personnel would get hired by the Feds if they wanted to move up higher in the organization. Hell, union factories are more segmented than that and they technically work for the same company.
The second thing that the government should probably do is to bloody well start doing things in-house again. None of this outsourcing to massive corporations that spend 90% of the money on managerial salaries and bonuses and
What do you consider "in-house"? At the Federal institution that I worked at 15 years ago, I'd say that at least 80% of the on site personnel were contractors. The actual US Govt employees were usually managers or college interns. If the interns wanted a job after graduation, they were hired by the contractor. When the contract was re-negotiated and a different company won the bid, everyone was terminated from the old contractor and hired by the new one. Only the top contractor management would change. All the software development was done on site on Federal govt equipment by contractors and interns.
I've had problems where DNS look ups seem to fail a lot. Click on a link or type something into the search box and Firefox will just sit there for a bit, throw up a page saying that it can't find the address of the website. I hit the retry button a couple of times and it will eventually come up. This is just for the windows machines, not the linux ones. Chrome will do the same thing.
FWIW, Radio Shack sells an antenna that will rotate with a remote control. It looks a bit like the saucer section of the Enterprise from the ST:NG series, except that it's painted black.:)
Most of the original analog TV content was broadcast in the VHF frequency range instead of the UHF range that is being used by most stations for digital. From what I've read, that cuts down the range considerably and if the current stations are broadcasting in low power for digital, that would make the area covered worse too.
The infamous Broadcast Flag--the only element of DRM to have ever loomed over broadcast television--is dead and buried. Besides, none of the DTV converters currently available have any DRM-compliance built in.
FWIW, the converter box that I have will display whether or not that flag has been set for a particular show. Just pull up the program schedule for the channel and most of the shows (except the news) will have a little padlock icon next to it, even with the local PBS station.
Is this your standard response when someone asks _you_ a question? If I wanted to spend the rest of the day browsing around Google results, I'd look myself, but that wouldn't necessarily give me what you were referring to. Sheesh.
It may not be very long, but if deciding something was unconstitutional or not was that easy, there wouldn't be hordes of lawyers and judges spending a lot of time deciding those issues.
The problem with the recorders is that most of them downgrade the signal to 480i. Whether they still do that if you're not using the recorder feature, I don't know. They will only record SD resolution video though. Someone on avsforum will probably know.
I got the previous model of this and it seems to work ok (hey, it was only $25+shipping). It has HDMI (I use a converter cable from monoprice to hook to the DVI port on the TV), VGA, component, & composite outputs. Hooking the 501 up to a VGA input resulted in very harsh bright colors though. I don't know if that was corrected in the 502 model or not.
Also, our previous administration liked to play fast and loose with the definition of "legal". Nonetheless, I like to think I'd have refused to torture people. It doesn't work if your goal is to get accurate information, and the act of torturing does damage to those who commit it, as well as the victims.
Sharp lawyers will find a loophole or technicality in a law in order to satisfy the will of their client. It's what they're paid to do and you'll find it happening in courtrooms around the world. BTW, what exactly do you mean by "does damage to those who commit it"? Examples?
If a given order is believed to be unconstitutional, the soldier has a duty to disobey it.
Most of the people enlisting in the military (any military) aren't lawyers and more than likely aren't going to know if something is unconstitutional. The school system does a poor job when it comes to basic civics education so it wouldn't be surprising.
I get real tired of people who are willing to tell others in tough situations how they "should" act. Think it's that easy? Try it then. Enlist, go through basic, see the kind of mental and physical conditioning soldiers are subjected to. See what the culture and rules are like. Then see if you think it's so easy to just say "Nope, don't like that order, not going to do it."
I doubt any on here are going to take you up on that offer.
True. As long as people keep voting for politicians who promise to give them free stuff, the nanny state will continue to get bigger and more oppressive.
I'm thinking he's been very involved with bullet points #4 & #5 and thinks that the POTUS has the power to do all of that. Unfortunately, he's not alone.:(
In the meantime, many have elected to go with much cheaper solutions. Personal Locater Beacons (PLBs) and SPOT [findmespot.com] are very popular with pilots because they can be had at a fraction of the cost despite their reduced sized and increased capabilities.
The SPOT messenger is advertised in many hunting and other outdoors magazines. I've thought about getting one for when I go out in areas where cell phone coverage is very unreliable or non-existent. It looks like a slick device. I wonder if there are any ways that it can be expanded. A problem that I can see with it is that requires that the user be able to push a button, so it would be useless if they were knocked unconscious. It would be nice to be able to interface it with some sort of biometric monitor that would trigger the SPOT if the person had a medical emergency.
I guess some of the guys that I knew didn't view it that way. Obtaining the funds was what they did for work. The research was the hobby the funds enabled them to pursue.
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and won't know how to find their way in the dark once their batteries can no longer hold a charge and new ones are unavailable.
If they were able to use waste products to make their own bio-fuel to power their lamps, they wouldn't need to buy replacement batteries from Phillips.
That's what the government managers were doing. They were in charge of ever department, set the work standards, determined funding for each project, etc...the same management type stuff that's done in any other company. How did they not have control over the project?
IMHO, the only reason for hiring contractors was to sidestep the red tape required to fire Federal civilian employees and the Federal pay grade regulations. It was a pretty seamless workplace really and if you didn't know any better, you would think that everyone worked for the Feds: everyone had the same badges, worked in the same offices, had their pictures on the same departmental org charts, got together for workplace sponsored events, etc. On payday, some would get a check stub from the US Treasury, others would get one from some corporation and if there were meetings about benefits plan changes or something else strictly employer based was about the only time you could tell who worked for each organization. Sometimes contractor personnel would get hired by the Feds if they wanted to move up higher in the organization. Hell, union factories are more segmented than that and they technically work for the same company.
Not if they build pipelines out to the well like what is done in the Gulf of Mexico.
What do you consider "in-house"? At the Federal institution that I worked at 15 years ago, I'd say that at least 80% of the on site personnel were contractors. The actual US Govt employees were usually managers or college interns. If the interns wanted a job after graduation, they were hired by the contractor. When the contract was re-negotiated and a different company won the bid, everyone was terminated from the old contractor and hired by the new one. Only the top contractor management would change. All the software development was done on site on Federal govt equipment by contractors and interns.
I've had problems where DNS look ups seem to fail a lot. Click on a link or type something into the search box and Firefox will just sit there for a bit, throw up a page saying that it can't find the address of the website. I hit the retry button a couple of times and it will eventually come up. This is just for the windows machines, not the linux ones. Chrome will do the same thing.
FWIW, Radio Shack sells an antenna that will rotate with a remote control. It looks a bit like the saucer section of the Enterprise from the ST:NG series, except that it's painted black. :)
Most of the original analog TV content was broadcast in the VHF frequency range instead of the UHF range that is being used by most stations for digital. From what I've read, that cuts down the range considerably and if the current stations are broadcasting in low power for digital, that would make the area covered worse too.
FWIW, the converter box that I have will display whether or not that flag has been set for a particular show. Just pull up the program schedule for the channel and most of the shows (except the news) will have a little padlock icon next to it, even with the local PBS station.
Is this your standard response when someone asks _you_ a question? If I wanted to spend the rest of the day browsing around Google results, I'd look myself, but that wouldn't necessarily give me what you were referring to. Sheesh.
It may not be very long, but if deciding something was unconstitutional or not was that easy, there wouldn't be hordes of lawyers and judges spending a lot of time deciding those issues.
The problem with the recorders is that most of them downgrade the signal to 480i. Whether they still do that if you're not using the recorder feature, I don't know. They will only record SD resolution video though. Someone on avsforum will probably know.
The best place to ask is here
If it allows the output of HD resolution content, you can't use the coupon for it.
Sharp lawyers will find a loophole or technicality in a law in order to satisfy the will of their client. It's what they're paid to do and you'll find it happening in courtrooms around the world. BTW, what exactly do you mean by "does damage to those who commit it"? Examples?
Most of the people enlisting in the military (any military) aren't lawyers and more than likely aren't going to know if something is unconstitutional. The school system does a poor job when it comes to basic civics education so it wouldn't be surprising.
I doubt any on here are going to take you up on that offer.
True. As long as people keep voting for politicians who promise to give them free stuff, the nanny state will continue to get bigger and more oppressive.
I'm thinking he's been very involved with bullet points #4 & #5 and thinks that the POTUS has the power to do all of that. Unfortunately, he's not alone. :(
The SPOT messenger is advertised in many hunting and other outdoors magazines. I've thought about getting one for when I go out in areas where cell phone coverage is very unreliable or non-existent. It looks like a slick device. I wonder if there are any ways that it can be expanded. A problem that I can see with it is that requires that the user be able to push a button, so it would be useless if they were knocked unconscious. It would be nice to be able to interface it with some sort of biometric monitor that would trigger the SPOT if the person had a medical emergency.
and a gravytrain of funding. Don't forget that.
If you haven't noticed, this place isn't very pro MSFT.
Have their fax machines run out of paper yet?
FORTRAN for an accounting system? I would have expected COBOL, but FORTRAN?
I guess some of the guys that I knew didn't view it that way. Obtaining the funds was what they did for work. The research was the hobby the funds enabled them to pursue.
counting their money and keeping track of their toys, of course.