Oh geez can you imagine if the Internet had been around when Anne Frank was alive? That diary would have been a lot shorter but at least it would been online and she could have liveblogged the whole Holocaust to the rest of the world:
6 June 1944 I see the world gradually being turned into a wasteland. I hear the ever approaching thunder which will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions of people and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I somehow feel that all this will come right again, that also this savagery will stop, that there will be peace and tranquillity in the world once again. Until that time, I must hold onto my ideals. Perhaps the day will come when I'll still be able to realise them. Comments(468) Trackback(11)
July 1, 1944 If I'm watched to that extent, I start by getting snappy, then unhappy and finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I so would like to be, and what I could be, if, there weren't any other people living in the world. Comments(594) Trackback(9)
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I agree that ebay has a horrible interface, but that obviously has little to do with their choice of platform. Ebay invests very little in their interface because they're well aware everyone knows everyone else is using it so they're stuck with it.
"but much of the software you run on your typical cellphone is written in Java. "
Which doesn't mean it's good.
The GP didn't say it was good or bad; just that people don't realize how much stuff they use is Java based when they equate Java with crappy Swing apps that they purposefully never use.
I've never seen a post that was any good with a sentence in it starting with "oh wait", so I suspected I was wasting time reading this. And then I find this at the end:
Java, a blight not unlike VB. Yeah, I went there.
Why didn't you say at the beginning you were a VB programmer? I would have skipped ahead.
Well people call me crazy, but for years I've been doing my part to stay "green" and ameliorate this problem simply by not polluting the water supply. My garage is full of thousands of jars of urine and excrement tainted by drugs that are not in your water thank you very much.
Voice has no future. They can innovate all they want but people just do not feel comfortable talking to inanimate objects, especially when other people can overhear. My cellphone has a voice feature (say the name and it dials the number) and I never use it. I've never seen anyone else do it either. You look like a dork. Have you ever checked your mail on your phone while sitting in a bathroom stall? Can you imagine talking to the phone to do it? It's already gross when people take phone calls in the bathroom. One guy where I work does it- he's always taking a crap and you can hear him getting into fights with his wife as he grunts on the toilet. It's like eating a sandwich in there- just wrong.
Yeah but he made a huge innovation in materials science just by typing into an eighties Mac for a few seconds. Who knew 100 keystrokes on a Mac would be all you would need for transparent aluminum? Although I'm sure Richard Pryor's character in Superman III could have done it too.
But the Hatch Act is still idiotic. It's stupid to have to switch back and forth between email accounts, and people at all levels keep getting it wrong anyway. And as far as government resources go, I know that I get franked snail mail from my congresspeople at least once a year. The point of the mail is apparently to tell me how great and wonderful they are. It's just a slightly veiled political pitch. I'm sure the expense of all the franked mail in a year is well over the price of running a few decent email servers.
You're listening to too much talk radio. The Hatch Act is almost 70 years old. It doesn't say anything about email. It simply forbids the use of government resources for partisan political activities.
Even if it were questionable whether they violated the Hatch Act by moving their email discussions to private servers, the reason they did it in the first place was so they could freely conspire to violate the Hatch Act again via misuse of the Department of Justice- another government resource- to hound political opponents. There were two violations of the Act here, not just the minor one everyone talks about. People have been trying to obfuscate by pretending that the only violation involved email and retention of government records. But the more egregious violation of the Act (misuse of the DOJ) cannot be addressed now, simply because they succeeded in obstructing justice with their lesser violation. What they did was basically equivalent to illegally using a shredder to shred evidence of illegality. We can't talk about what was shredded, so we have to talk about how they shredded it.
Politicians often mix their official government functions with their political activities, and send emails on the wrong account, etc. Or they use franking privileges to send nice letters about themselves to their constituents. But the cost of postal resources, or the "price of running a few decent email servers", really doesn't amount to a hill of beans. In this case the RNC, not the government, paid for the electricity to run their own mail servers, so we taxpayers should be happy, right? I bet they use their own shredders and electricity when they shred government records. Whoop-de-doo. But let's not pretend that's what this is all about. They sent emails using the "wrong account" intentionally in order to hide the bad acts they were committing in their official government capacity. The law against this is not idiotic.
The best answer should be that the President should never made decisions for political reasons. But, that's a standard that has been violated by every president since General Washington.
Yes, and since "historians are still debating the first president" it's supposedly premature to judge this president's activities until all of us are dead. But I somehow doubt George Washington ever ordered his Attorney General to concentrate on investigating members of the Democratic-Republican Party as opposed to Federalists. Of course you can say "all politicians do this", since it really can't be avoided, but usually it means pet projects in one's district, meaningless crowd-pleasing hearings about baseball and steroids, naming post offices after people, etc. We've never had a thug for president who actually used the justice system and the prisons to target members of the opposition party.
There's also the Hatch Act, which (among other things) prevents government computers from being used for political activities. Emails regarding political activities went through the RNC servers (or, in the case of the Clinton Administration, the DNC servers); emails regarding activities as President, i.e. the Presidential Records, are supposed to go through the White House email system, where they are backed up and archived. So, you cannot infer an intent to violate the Presidential Records Act merely from the fact that outside services were used.
There, I helped you out with a few BOLD tags. Your mistake is assuming that an email either falls under the scope of partisian political activity or represents communication at official levels regarding government business. They sent emails that were both.
When you're having an email conversation (for example) about which U.S. Attorneys should be fired by the president for prosecuting Republican offenses or for not going after Democrats in election years, and what the cover stories for the firings should be, you're mixing political partisan activity and official government business. Since these emails were illegal for government officials to be sending, they obviously didn't use the White House email infrastructure to send them. Even these guys weren't that stupid. They were dumb enough, though, to indicate in WH emails when they were going to continue certain conversations, regarding planned activities to be carried out in an official capacity, in nongovernmental channels (RNC, gwb43.com, Yahoo Mail) to avoid them from ever becoming public.
But the purpose of the Hatch Act (passed in 1939) isn't just to protect Outlook servers from private or partisan use- it forbids the use of any federal agencies or resources to assist in partisan activities. That would include both WH email servers and the U.S. Department of Justice.
All their interesting stuff went through private mail servers at the RNC to evade responsibility for document retention under the Presidential Records Act. The RNC systematically destroys its emails and Bush has even invoked executive privilege in ordering the RNC to defy Congressional subpoenas to produce them.
FYI: Field offices are in the field. The office in DC would be the FBI HQ.
FBI HQ is on Pennsylvania Avenue, but the Washington Field Office is a few blocks away. P.S. If anyone needs used hard drives I have like 500 of them at my apartment that only saw light use (backing up emails and whatnot). My wife wants me to get rid of them because she needs the closet space.
C'mon - comparing flying a single person to Mars with no chance of coming back is like Lindburgh flying to Paris??? Is he saying that Mars is populated with (to quote the Simpsons) cheese-eating surrender monkeys? Or maybe he's suggesting that upon arriving at Mars, the astronaut will have an unlimited supply of hot women and baguettes?
If Mars isn't careful, it could become the "France of the 21st century".
There's a simple, unambiguous test anyone can apply to objectively determine whether a theory is scientific. That is: is the theory falsifiable? Does the theory make predictions that could potentially be proven wrong by evidence? Intelligent Design fails this test.
If we found out that there was no God then Intelligent Design would of course be proven false so Intelligent Design is falsifiable although it is not false because obviously God exists so when the Rapture comes all you atheists who say we evolved from monkeys (when there are still monkeys HAH) are going to hell for trying to falsify such a self-evident theory and I hope you die in a fire hopefully lit by Christians but right now I must pray for forgiveness because I suggested Intelligent Design might be falsifiable. (P.S. God just spoke to me now during prayer and told me to tell you Jesus thinks you're a jerk.)
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Oh geez can you imagine if the Internet had been around when Anne Frank was alive? That diary would have been a lot shorter but at least it would been online and she could have liveblogged the whole Holocaust to the rest of the world:
6 June 1944
I see the world gradually being turned into a wasteland. I hear the ever approaching thunder which will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions of people and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I somehow feel that all this will come right again, that also this savagery will stop, that there will be peace and tranquillity in the world once again.
Until that time, I must hold onto my ideals. Perhaps the day will come when I'll still be able to realise them.
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July 1, 1944
If I'm watched to that extent, I start by getting snappy, then unhappy and finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I so would like to be, and what I could be, if, there weren't any other people living in the world.
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The Google spiders were discovered by police to be "likely pedophiles".
Can you imagine if we had this? Half of us would still be thinking Saddam Hussein caused 9/11.
You mean I can't leave my last will and testament on this thing if I plan to be cremated?
I've never seen a post that was any good with a sentence in it starting with "oh wait", so I suspected I was wasting time reading this. And then I find this at the end:
Java, a blight not unlike VB. Yeah, I went there.
Why didn't you say at the beginning you were a VB programmer? I would have skipped ahead.
Do no evil + Do evil = Do everything
Anyone who's fed a dog knows they always want more.
Tell me about it. I've been guzzling water all day and I haven't even gotten a buzz.
Well people call me crazy, but for years I've been doing my part to stay "green" and ameliorate this problem simply by not polluting the water supply. My garage is full of thousands of jars of urine and excrement tainted by drugs that are not in your water thank you very much.
Voice has no future. They can innovate all they want but people just do not feel comfortable talking to inanimate objects, especially when other people can overhear. My cellphone has a voice feature (say the name and it dials the number) and I never use it. I've never seen anyone else do it either. You look like a dork. Have you ever checked your mail on your phone while sitting in a bathroom stall? Can you imagine talking to the phone to do it? It's already gross when people take phone calls in the bathroom. One guy where I work does it- he's always taking a crap and you can hear him getting into fights with his wife as he grunts on the toilet. It's like eating a sandwich in there- just wrong.
Yeah but he made a huge innovation in materials science just by typing into an eighties Mac for a few seconds. Who knew 100 keystrokes on a Mac would be all you would need for transparent aluminum? Although I'm sure Richard Pryor's character in Superman III could have done it too.
But the Hatch Act is still idiotic. It's stupid to have to switch back and forth between email accounts, and people at all levels keep getting it wrong anyway. And as far as government resources go, I know that I get franked snail mail from my congresspeople at least once a year. The point of the mail is apparently to tell me how great and wonderful they are. It's just a slightly veiled political pitch. I'm sure the expense of all the franked mail in a year is well over the price of running a few decent email servers.
You're listening to too much talk radio. The Hatch Act is almost 70 years old. It doesn't say anything about email. It simply forbids the use of government resources for partisan political activities.
Even if it were questionable whether they violated the Hatch Act by moving their email discussions to private servers, the reason they did it in the first place was so they could freely conspire to violate the Hatch Act again via misuse of the Department of Justice- another government resource- to hound political opponents. There were two violations of the Act here, not just the minor one everyone talks about. People have been trying to obfuscate by pretending that the only violation involved email and retention of government records. But the more egregious violation of the Act (misuse of the DOJ) cannot be addressed now, simply because they succeeded in obstructing justice with their lesser violation. What they did was basically equivalent to illegally using a shredder to shred evidence of illegality. We can't talk about what was shredded, so we have to talk about how they shredded it.
Politicians often mix their official government functions with their political activities, and send emails on the wrong account, etc. Or they use franking privileges to send nice letters about themselves to their constituents. But the cost of postal resources, or the "price of running a few decent email servers", really doesn't amount to a hill of beans. In this case the RNC, not the government, paid for the electricity to run their own mail servers, so we taxpayers should be happy, right? I bet they use their own shredders and electricity when they shred government records. Whoop-de-doo. But let's not pretend that's what this is all about. They sent emails using the "wrong account" intentionally in order to hide the bad acts they were committing in their official government capacity. The law against this is not idiotic.
I'd cancel my Verizon DSL and just connect to the neighbor's wireless.
The best answer should be that the President should never made decisions for political reasons. But, that's a standard that has been violated by every president since General Washington.
Yes, and since "historians are still debating the first president" it's supposedly premature to judge this president's activities until all of us are dead. But I somehow doubt George Washington ever ordered his Attorney General to concentrate on investigating members of the Democratic-Republican Party as opposed to Federalists. Of course you can say "all politicians do this", since it really can't be avoided, but usually it means pet projects in one's district, meaningless crowd-pleasing hearings about baseball and steroids, naming post offices after people, etc. We've never had a thug for president who actually used the justice system and the prisons to target members of the opposition party.
There's also the Hatch Act, which (among other things) prevents government computers from being used for political activities. Emails regarding political activities went through the RNC servers (or, in the case of the Clinton Administration, the DNC servers); emails regarding activities as President, i.e. the Presidential Records, are supposed to go through the White House email system, where they are backed up and archived. So, you cannot infer an intent to violate the Presidential Records Act merely from the fact that outside services were used.
There, I helped you out with a few BOLD tags. Your mistake is assuming that an email either falls under the scope of partisian political activity or represents communication at official levels regarding government business. They sent emails that were both.
When you're having an email conversation (for example) about which U.S. Attorneys should be fired by the president for prosecuting Republican offenses or for not going after Democrats in election years, and what the cover stories for the firings should be, you're mixing political partisan activity and official government business. Since these emails were illegal for government officials to be sending, they obviously didn't use the White House email infrastructure to send them. Even these guys weren't that stupid. They were dumb enough, though, to indicate in WH emails when they were going to continue certain conversations, regarding planned activities to be carried out in an official capacity, in nongovernmental channels (RNC, gwb43.com, Yahoo Mail) to avoid them from ever becoming public.
But the purpose of the Hatch Act (passed in 1939) isn't just to protect Outlook servers from private or partisan use- it forbids the use of any federal agencies or resources to assist in partisan activities. That would include both WH email servers and the U.S. Department of Justice.
All their interesting stuff went through private mail servers at the RNC to evade responsibility for document retention under the Presidential Records Act. The RNC systematically destroys its emails and Bush has even invoked executive privilege in ordering the RNC to defy Congressional subpoenas to produce them.
FYI: Field offices are in the field. The office in DC would be the FBI HQ.
FBI HQ is on Pennsylvania Avenue, but the Washington Field Office is a few blocks away. P.S. If anyone needs used hard drives I have like 500 of them at my apartment that only saw light use (backing up emails and whatnot). My wife wants me to get rid of them because she needs the closet space.
C'mon - comparing flying a single person to Mars with no chance of coming back is like Lindburgh flying to Paris??? Is he saying that Mars is populated with (to quote the Simpsons) cheese-eating surrender monkeys? Or maybe he's suggesting that upon arriving at Mars, the astronaut will have an unlimited supply of hot women and baguettes?
If Mars isn't careful, it could become the "France of the 21st century".
I'm not impressed either. *I* helped install the secret surveillance system between DNC headquarters and the FBI Washington Field Office.
There's a simple, unambiguous test anyone can apply to objectively determine whether a theory is scientific. That is: is the theory falsifiable? Does the theory make predictions that could potentially be proven wrong by evidence? Intelligent Design fails this test.
If we found out that there was no God then Intelligent Design would of course be proven false so Intelligent Design is falsifiable although it is not false because obviously God exists so when the Rapture comes all you atheists who say we evolved from monkeys (when there are still monkeys HAH) are going to hell for trying to falsify such a self-evident theory and I hope you die in a fire hopefully lit by Christians but right now I must pray for forgiveness because I suggested Intelligent Design might be falsifiable. (P.S. God just spoke to me now during prayer and told me to tell you Jesus thinks you're a jerk.)
Every computer language I've ever learned since BASIC I learned initially by reading in the bathroom
So which language wastes more water, Ruby or Java?
They thought for a little while that the Earth might just make it, but now it's pretty clear to everybody that's not going to happen.
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