I'd say most businesses' accounting, print and file servers could be allowed to power down from closing time until opening the next day.
But, if you are in an office like mine, we have batch jobs that are constantly being run during that time frame. Sure, some departmental servers could be powered down, but it would be more effective to have everyone shutdown their desktops when they leave for the night (Of course the real solution to the CA problem is to build some new power plants, which they haven't done for a decade).
So you choose your technology based on Wall St. speculation? I'm not a greedy, money-grubbing day trader who worships stock price. RH's stock price is probably were it aught to be, and where MSFT will be once Free Software becomes the dominant force in the 'software industry'.
You've got to be kidding. It's been widely known that the US and other countries use depleted uranium rounds for years. Their extra mass helps make them good anti-tank rounds for the A-10, for example.
He didn't get impeached because he got a blowjob in the Oval Office. He got impeached because he lied under oath, encouraged subordinates do the same thing, and obstructed justice among other things. Go re-read Starr's report and this time skip to the last section where he outlined the laws broken. Thank you for reinforcing my opinion that all leftists are sex-obsessed idiots.
I did after you provided the link. I'd like to know how they consider the output of their 110 pound dog Buster worthy of the term PooPoo Grande. It's obvious that they've never had to deal with a well-fed Mastiff. There's a breeder in CA that has a 270 lb dog that could probably supply them with more crap than they could ever need.
LA decreased their pollution (but apparently back on the rise). Houston stayed the same. Considering the increased truck traffic due to NAFTA, that's ok. Just imagine what it will be like in a couple of years when Mexican trucks will be able to drive all across the US & Canada instead of only within a few miles of the border. And they don't have to follow our safety or pollution standards at all. fun, fun, fun.
Don't forget that natural gas supplies are tightening because of all the public land that is now off limits to gas & oil exploration due to the monuments that Clinton created in an effort to create a legacy. Sorry Bill, you're still a felon in my book.
But what you are advocating is to arbitrarily raise wages to some level that some politician and/or social planner pulls out of their butt. The money doesn't magically appear out of nowhere and in response the employers can hire less people, raise prices on their services, suck it up out of any profits, or some combination. It upsets the supply/demand equilibrium and will eventually drive up costs in other areas, effectively negating the original increase. The way for min. wage workers to increase their income is to get experience and skills, thus making them more valuable to employers. If their HS was so inadequate that their graduates can't come out of the chute getting something better than an min wage job, then it should be bulldozed. BTW, saving or investing is putting money INTO the economy, not out. Where do you think venture capitalists & banks get their money? Investors & people who have savings/money market accounts.
Yes, I do think people are inheritly bad, and have to be taught right & wrong. With a large percentage of the population being raised or having been raised by the day care centers or the schools, it's no wonder that crime isn't worse. If people are going to have kids, they had better decide if they want good moral kids or do they want a glut of excess material that 2nd incomes give them. And yes, I do think Hollywood glamorization of crime makes it worse. It desensitizes people to it and it makes a life of crime seem ok or at least a lot easier than being honest. Education is still available via loans, grants, & scholarships. If all else fails, join the military and get the training plus college funds after you leave.
You don't have to shoot, much less kill anyone to deter crime w/ a firearm, so I'm not quite sure what you mean by "extend your personal freedom". Most gun nuts that I know use them for hunting, target shooting, and just in case they need them for self defense. If they are using it to lay their hands on your property or to threaten you, that's criminal behavior that could be performed with other tools too. Most gun owners aren't criminals, so why associate them with the ones that are?
True, but you also have to realize that at the time several parts of the colonies would have been on the 'frontier' where having firearms to defend oneself from predators (humans included) was a necessity. I'm sure it's included for practical and political reasons.
I don't think that raising the minimum wage is going to help. Most people making minimum wage are kids living at home with their parents. Raising it will only increase the costs of those goods & services provided by the businesses providing minimum wage jobs or reduce the amount of people that they can hire. The crime situation is more due to lack of morals. I don't know how many times I've seen some woman on tv complaining that their son/boyfriend were jailed or shot because they were stealing a car or dealing drugs. They see nothing wrong with those actions. It also doesn't hurt that we have Hollywood glamorizing those activities and hyping a get rich quick, instant gratification lifestyle. I don't think the Govt can really do anything to make legal life "attractive" without screwing it up.
How much time is actually spent on those subjects in class or on a college entrance exam? We probably spent one or two days maximum on them near the end of the year in HS biology from what I remember. IMHO, there are much more important things that aren't being taught or are being done poorly than to worry about that.
It's not like people CHOOSE to have a mental illness or addiction.
Now I will agree with you on the mental illness part. But did these addicts have someone grab them and forced them to take these drugs? Probably not. By choosing to ingest these chemicals, they chose their livestyle. They should be helped to free themselves from this addiction, but we certainly shouldn't subsidise this behavior.
I don't think I'd want federal control of the education system. I can't recall any Federal one-size-fits-all social program that has really been successful. What really bothers me is that US public education hasn't always been crappy. They should take a look at what really worked in the past and go with that. At least with local control, the school district can do just that. When my oldest brother was in grade school, the school in our town started using the latest & greatest 'Whole word/language' method of teaching kids to read. After a couple of years, they saw that overall the kids weren't doing as well as they should, so they switched back to phonics and the situation improved. My parents have said that they could definitely tell the difference between the reading ability of their children that were in the different programs.
IMHO, campaign finance reform should be as follows: allow the individual contributions to be indexed to inflation and the donor lists must be made public. This would apply to both individual candidates and political parties. Volunteering or providing workers would be considered a contribution at an hourly rate. I think most people are fed up with the mass dumping of cash into political machines or the 'free' use of unions for political foot soldiers. I know I am.
Consumer Reports did a study when Clinton proposed his national health care plan comparing the cost of health care in the US over the years and compared it to other industrialized countries. It found that before Medicare/Medicaid were put into effect, the percent of GDP spent on medical care was about the same for all the countries studied. After the US Govt began subsidizing medical care, the percent of GDP that the US spent went up dramatically. Why? Because the govt didn't put much for restrictions or safegards into the system and this prompted hospitals and doctors to jack up prices, since they knew the Feds were basically giving them a blank check. This allowed them to raise costs for everyone, but since the insurance companies took up the slack, most people didn't notice it. It was only later that attempts were made to control costs, but the damaged had already been done. Heck, the state I'm living in has it's own socialized health care system modeled after Billary's. It is rife with fraud, corruption, and threatens to overwhelm the state's budget.
Before govt intervention, the system worked. People got the quality of service they could afford. People that couldn't pay, could still go to university or church/charity run hospitials. Federal intervention screwed it up. Single payer 'equal' health care makes about as much sense as trying to make the housing market 'equal', IMHO. The result will be that it's bad for everyone.
That's assuming that the forced sharing results in a good service provided to the public. However, that's certainly not always the case. Especially with regards to the public school system in many areas of the US. In many cases, the poor are kept in that situation by the ridiculous welfare laws and the rotten union controlled public schools (which receive tons of public financing). I wish the public schools did a good job. Some do, but not enough and IMHO, the powers-that-be aren't going to want to change the situation.
Unless those foreigners invade the USA. Then citizens are obliged to help protect their homeland.
Talk to people that live or have businesses near the Mexican border. According to them, it's already happening and the US Govt. does jack shit when it comes to protecting them from Mexican criminals (& sometimes rogue police/army units). In some cases, Mexican soldiers crossed into the US and shot at Border Patrol officers.
But protection from ciriminals et al is a weak argument for the possesion of individual firearms
Tell that to the millions of citizens (esp. women) that have deterred criminals with their firearms. In most cases, the individual didn't even fire the weapon, but just made it clear to the criminal that they had one and intended to use it. My mother-in-law is one such person. She was in a parking garage at night and noticed some guy come out of the shadows and started to follow her. This made her nervous, so she put her hand on the revolver in her purse. By the time she got to her car the guy almost caught up to her, so she pulled it out and pointed it up in the air at shoulder level so the guy could see it while she opened the car. The guy took off, but in her opinion, she would have probably been assaulted if she hadn't been armed.
Having a low crime rate isn't a good reason to limit people from having the tools to protect themselves. That just lets the criminals know what areas they are less likely to provide any resistance. The rates of burglarly in the UK where someone is at home during the crime is much higher than the US and the resulting probability that the resident will be injured is also much higher. There also some debate that London is actually more dangerous than similar US cities because of this.
You also have to realize that if a company is big enough 'the left hand doesn't know what the right is doing' so to speak. The HR dept may have signed you up for a job that was no longer available and didn't know it until it was too late. Or the CIO may have ordered a hiring freeze due to budget constraints and/or sent your job to an overseas contracting firm. It really sucks, but unless there was a contract specifying that you would be employed by them for a specfic amount of time, I don't know what you can do. I suppose you could report them to the EEOC if you found out that their decision to not employ you was based on something illegal.
I watched that movie again just a few hours ago. A friend of hours and I had commented that you would also have to blow up the off-site backup location too. In my city, there are only a few off-site backup companies, so you could probably knock out the recovery plans for several corporations in one shot.
So do you raid the dumpsters behind plastic surgeons' offices too? =)
I had that happen to me. I moved my family halfway across the country at my own expense and when I went to work at the job I thought I had, I found out that they were still reviewing applicants. I took odd jobs and applied to every programming job I could find for a month until the money ran out. We sold 90% of our stuff, hooked a U-Haul trailer to the Hyundai Excel, and then moved in with in-laws halfway across the country (in the opposite direction this time). I got a contract job 3 days after hitting town (and thankfully, I'm still working there 5.5 yrs later). I had been at this job for about a week or two when my wife got a call at home. It was the first company. They had been trying to get a hold of me because I got the job. Gee, that's nice, but it was a few weeks LATE! As my wife likes to say, it was a nice adventure.
I knew a few guys in college that had accepted job offers from companies only to find out a few weeks before graduation that the position had been eliminated. By that time, if you had multiple offers, you would have already turned them down, so it's back to square one in the job search.
Why not just get a serial A/B switchbox and run the common cable into the com port that the Palm pilot software expects the hot sync cradles to be on. You can still have both cradles hooked up, the palm software should still work, and it's cheap (approx $10-$20 for the box + cable). Sure, you have the minor inconvience of having to flip a switch and remembering if your cradle is on A or B, but it's simple. That is unless you wanted to sync both PDAs at the same time...
I seem to remember that MS developed RTF as a way to exchanging documents between Macs & PCs. As the original poster stated, MS has changed RTF quite a bit over the years, usually to follow the changes that they've made to Word. But at least the changes have been documented and are available on the web. A quick search with google will turn up several of the RTF specs. Most word processors that I know of will support RTF and there is at least one open source word processor (Ted) that uses RTF exclusively. I've used it and it's pretty good.
Convince him that the copy protection scheme would cost consumers & businesses billions of dollars and only benefiting the Hollywood entertainment industry, you know, the guys that dump money on the Democrats by the truckload. Then point out that fighting this would help drain the coffers of your opposition's donors and would be backed by large numbers of individuals and businesses. I'm not much of a political hack, but if this could be protrayed as a way to screw the Democrats and look like a hero to consumers, you would have W going for it in a heartbeat.
I also remember reading recently that the Salt Lake metro area had the highest percentage of residents that owned a computer of any metro area in the US. Politically, it's a solid Republican state. Bush got 70+% of the votes in UT. No wonder I liked living there so much.
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I'd say most businesses' accounting, print and file servers could be allowed to power down from closing time until opening the next day.
But, if you are in an office like mine, we have batch jobs that are constantly being run during that time frame. Sure, some departmental servers could be powered down, but it would be more effective to have everyone shutdown their desktops when they leave for the night (Of course the real solution to the CA problem is to build some new power plants, which they haven't done for a decade).
So you choose your technology based on Wall St. speculation? I'm not a greedy, money-grubbing day trader who worships stock price. RH's stock price is probably were it aught to be, and where MSFT will be once Free Software becomes the dominant force in the 'software industry'.
we never shot uranium core bulletts.
You've got to be kidding. It's been widely known that the US and other countries use depleted uranium rounds for years. Their extra mass helps make them good anti-tank rounds for the A-10, for example.
He didn't get impeached because he got a blowjob in the Oval Office. He got impeached because he lied under oath, encouraged subordinates do the same thing, and obstructed justice among other things. Go re-read Starr's report and this time skip to the last section where he outlined the laws broken. Thank you for reinforcing my opinion that all leftists are sex-obsessed idiots.
I did after you provided the link. I'd like to know how they consider the output of their 110 pound dog Buster worthy of the term PooPoo Grande. It's obvious that they've never had to deal with a well-fed Mastiff. There's a breeder in CA that has a 270 lb dog that could probably supply them with more crap than they could ever need.
LA decreased their pollution (but apparently back on the rise). Houston stayed the same. Considering the increased truck traffic due to NAFTA, that's ok. Just imagine what it will be like in a couple of years when Mexican trucks will be able to drive all across the US & Canada instead of only within a few miles of the border. And they don't have to follow our safety or pollution standards at all. fun, fun, fun.
Don't forget that natural gas supplies are tightening because of all the public land that is now off limits to gas & oil exploration due to the monuments that Clinton created in an effort to create a legacy. Sorry Bill, you're still a felon in my book.
But what you are advocating is to arbitrarily raise wages to some level that some politician and/or social planner pulls out of their butt. The money doesn't magically appear out of nowhere and in response the employers can hire less people, raise prices on their services, suck it up out of any profits, or some combination. It upsets the supply/demand equilibrium and will eventually drive up costs in other areas, effectively negating the original increase. The way for min. wage workers to increase their income is to get experience and skills, thus making them more valuable to employers. If their HS was so inadequate that their graduates can't come out of the chute getting something better than an min wage job, then it should be bulldozed. BTW, saving or investing is putting money INTO the economy, not out. Where do you think venture capitalists & banks get their money? Investors & people who have savings/money market accounts.
Yes, I do think people are inheritly bad, and have to be taught right & wrong. With a large percentage of the population being raised or having been raised by the day care centers or the schools, it's no wonder that crime isn't worse. If people are going to have kids, they had better decide if they want good moral kids or do they want a glut of excess material that 2nd incomes give them. And yes, I do think Hollywood glamorization of crime makes it worse. It desensitizes people to it and it makes a life of crime seem ok or at least a lot easier than being honest. Education is still available via loans, grants, & scholarships. If all else fails, join the military and get the training plus college funds after you leave.
You don't have to shoot, much less kill anyone to deter crime w/ a firearm, so I'm not quite sure what you mean by "extend your personal freedom". Most gun nuts that I know use them for hunting, target shooting, and just in case they need them for self defense. If they are using it to lay their hands on your property or to threaten you, that's criminal behavior that could be performed with other tools too. Most gun owners aren't criminals, so why associate them with the ones that are?
True, but you also have to realize that at the time several parts of the colonies would have been on the 'frontier' where having firearms to defend oneself from predators (humans included) was a necessity. I'm sure it's included for practical and political reasons.
I don't think that raising the minimum wage is going to help. Most people making minimum wage are kids living at home with their parents. Raising it will only increase the costs of those goods & services provided by the businesses providing minimum wage jobs or reduce the amount of people that they can hire. The crime situation is more due to lack of morals. I don't know how many times I've seen some woman on tv complaining that their son/boyfriend were jailed or shot because they were stealing a car or dealing drugs. They see nothing wrong with those actions. It also doesn't hurt that we have Hollywood glamorizing those activities and hyping a get rich quick, instant gratification lifestyle. I don't think the Govt can really do anything to make legal life "attractive" without screwing it up.
How much time is actually spent on those subjects in class or on a college entrance exam? We probably spent one or two days maximum on them near the end of the year in HS biology from what I remember. IMHO, there are much more important things that aren't being taught or are being done poorly than to worry about that.
Either way, it's still pretty pathetic...I guess some people have way too much time on their hands.
It's not like people CHOOSE to have a mental illness or addiction.
Now I will agree with you on the mental illness part. But did these addicts have someone grab them and forced them to take these drugs? Probably not. By choosing to ingest these chemicals, they chose their livestyle. They should be helped to free themselves from this addiction, but we certainly shouldn't subsidise this behavior.
I don't think I'd want federal control of the education system. I can't recall any Federal one-size-fits-all social program that has really been successful. What really bothers me is that US public education hasn't always been crappy. They should take a look at what really worked in the past and go with that. At least with local control, the school district can do just that. When my oldest brother was in grade school, the school in our town started using the latest & greatest 'Whole word/language' method of teaching kids to read. After a couple of years, they saw that overall the kids weren't doing as well as they should, so they switched back to phonics and the situation improved. My parents have said that they could definitely tell the difference between the reading ability of their children that were in the different programs.
IMHO, campaign finance reform should be as follows: allow the individual contributions to be indexed to inflation and the donor lists must be made public. This would apply to both individual candidates and political parties. Volunteering or providing workers would be considered a contribution at an hourly rate. I think most people are fed up with the mass dumping of cash into political machines or the 'free' use of unions for political foot soldiers. I know I am.
Consumer Reports did a study when Clinton proposed his national health care plan comparing the cost of health care in the US over the years and compared it to other industrialized countries. It found that before Medicare/Medicaid were put into effect, the percent of GDP spent on medical care was about the same for all the countries studied. After the US Govt began subsidizing medical care, the percent of GDP that the US spent went up dramatically. Why? Because the govt didn't put much for restrictions or safegards into the system and this prompted hospitals and doctors to jack up prices, since they knew the Feds were basically giving them a blank check. This allowed them to raise costs for everyone, but since the insurance companies took up the slack, most people didn't notice it. It was only later that attempts were made to control costs, but the damaged had already been done. Heck, the state I'm living in has it's own socialized health care system modeled after Billary's. It is rife with fraud, corruption, and threatens to overwhelm the state's budget.
Before govt intervention, the system worked. People got the quality of service they could afford. People that couldn't pay, could still go to university or church/charity run hospitials. Federal intervention screwed it up. Single payer 'equal' health care makes about as much sense as trying to make the housing market 'equal', IMHO. The result will be that it's bad for everyone.
That's assuming that the forced sharing results in a good service provided to the public. However, that's certainly not always the case. Especially with regards to the public school system in many areas of the US. In many cases, the poor are kept in that situation by the ridiculous welfare laws and the rotten union controlled public schools (which receive tons of public financing). I wish the public schools did a good job. Some do, but not enough and IMHO, the powers-that-be aren't going to want to change the situation.
Unless those foreigners invade the USA. Then citizens are obliged to help protect their homeland.
Talk to people that live or have businesses near the Mexican border. According to them, it's already happening and the US Govt. does jack shit when it comes to protecting them from Mexican criminals (& sometimes rogue police/army units). In some cases, Mexican soldiers crossed into the US and shot at Border Patrol officers.
But protection from ciriminals et al is a weak argument for the possesion of individual firearms
Tell that to the millions of citizens (esp. women) that have deterred criminals with their firearms. In most cases, the individual didn't even fire the weapon, but just made it clear to the criminal that they had one and intended to use it. My mother-in-law is one such person. She was in a parking garage at night and noticed some guy come out of the shadows and started to follow her. This made her nervous, so she put her hand on the revolver in her purse. By the time she got to her car the guy almost caught up to her, so she pulled it out and pointed it up in the air at shoulder level so the guy could see it while she opened the car. The guy took off, but in her opinion, she would have probably been assaulted if she hadn't been armed.
Having a low crime rate isn't a good reason to limit people from having the tools to protect themselves. That just lets the criminals know what areas they are less likely to provide any resistance. The rates of burglarly in the UK where someone is at home during the crime is much higher than the US and the resulting probability that the resident will be injured is also much higher. There also some debate that London is actually more dangerous than similar US cities because of this.
You also have to realize that if a company is big enough 'the left hand doesn't know what the right is doing' so to speak. The HR dept may have signed you up for a job that was no longer available and didn't know it until it was too late. Or the CIO may have ordered a hiring freeze due to budget constraints and/or sent your job to an overseas contracting firm. It really sucks, but unless there was a contract specifying that you would be employed by them for a specfic amount of time, I don't know what you can do. I suppose you could report them to the EEOC if you found out that their decision to not employ you was based on something illegal.
I watched that movie again just a few hours ago. A friend of hours and I had commented that you would also have to blow up the off-site backup location too. In my city, there are only a few off-site backup companies, so you could probably knock out the recovery plans for several corporations in one shot.
So do you raid the dumpsters behind plastic surgeons' offices too? =)
I had that happen to me. I moved my family halfway across the country at my own expense and when I went to work at the job I thought I had, I found out that they were still reviewing applicants. I took odd jobs and applied to every programming job I could find for a month until the money ran out. We sold 90% of our stuff, hooked a U-Haul trailer to the Hyundai Excel, and then moved in with in-laws halfway across the country (in the opposite direction this time). I got a contract job 3 days after hitting town (and thankfully, I'm still working there 5.5 yrs later). I had been at this job for about a week or two when my wife got a call at home. It was the first company. They had been trying to get a hold of me because I got the job. Gee, that's nice, but it was a few weeks LATE! As my wife likes to say, it was a nice adventure.
I knew a few guys in college that had accepted job offers from companies only to find out a few weeks before graduation that the position had been eliminated. By that time, if you had multiple offers, you would have already turned them down, so it's back to square one in the job search.
Why not just get a serial A/B switchbox and run the common cable into the com port that the Palm pilot software expects the hot sync cradles to be on. You can still have both cradles hooked up, the palm software should still work, and it's cheap (approx $10-$20 for the box + cable). Sure, you have the minor inconvience of having to flip a switch and remembering if your cradle is on A or B, but it's simple. That is unless you wanted to sync both PDAs at the same time...
I seem to remember that MS developed RTF as a way to exchanging documents between Macs & PCs. As the original poster stated, MS has changed RTF quite a bit over the years, usually to follow the changes that they've made to Word. But at least the changes have been documented and are available on the web. A quick search with google will turn up several of the RTF specs. Most word processors that I know of will support RTF and there is at least one open source word processor (Ted) that uses RTF exclusively. I've used it and it's pretty good.
Convince him that the copy protection scheme would cost consumers & businesses billions of dollars and only benefiting the Hollywood entertainment industry, you know, the guys that dump money on the Democrats by the truckload. Then point out that fighting this would help drain the coffers of your opposition's donors and would be backed by large numbers of individuals and businesses. I'm not much of a political hack, but if this could be protrayed as a way to screw the Democrats and look like a hero to consumers, you would have W going for it in a heartbeat.
I also remember reading recently that the Salt Lake metro area had the highest percentage of residents that owned a computer of any metro area in the US. Politically, it's a solid Republican state. Bush got 70+% of the votes in UT. No wonder I liked living there so much.