that qualifies as acceptable. I say this from the stand point of that there are more than enough Congressmen who look at the NASA budget as source of funds and would love to abscond with this money all under the cover of "protecting life". Someone will always eventually found to assign blame to but in the end it comes down to dollars. The amount spent on the shuttles outweighs the payoff. Throw in a few high profile accidents and the "reasonable side" will come out screaming how these billions could be better spent elsewhere. They would gladly let the private side spend the money and assume the risk because if its successful it opens a new revenue stream of fees and taxes.
I would love to see more, but in an era where the only thing stimulated is special interest groups that deliver votes can we really expect NASA to continue getting money? Science and Math don't deliver votes. They are however a convenient mechanism to divert money to organizations that sound as if they would improve those areas but rarely if ever do.
that women will swallow might just excuse the taste of some diet drinks, let alone the taste of some diet food.
I know, crude, but the Pepsi commercial was just going at it from the guy point of view, I guess for things women put up with everyday... glass ceiling, mammograms, and childbirth....
or is this a case of "they are all crooks but my guy isn't"? It is the same logic that prevents action on schools because "our" school is fine, it is the other guy's school who is failing.
Many of the bonuses are contractually owed. If a person meets their contract they should be paid.
We berate companies for losing billions yet the US government, CONGRESS, gets a free pass for deficit spending and losing billions if not trillions.
The culpability starts at the Federal Government. They set a horrid example then expect people to act otherwise.
The stimulus bill is a perfect example of just how dysfunctional that organization is yet they get to tell others that it the others who have a problem.
with Congress and those two quasi-private but really federally run groups called Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Better yet, all those Congressmen who got sweetheart mortgage deals suddenly no longer need to come clean because they bought off the companies adversely affected by their actions with our tax dollars.
On topic:
I really dislike the summary which wants to relate what this guy did with interoperability. Since when is promoting cheating, breaking the EULA, and profiting off of it, interoperability?
I just want to know the obvious creeps are getting a free pass from the Republicans and the press. The problem with a "Cult of Personality" President is that the usual concerns don't question or challenge him. That is the real danger and a good number of his appointments demonstrate that clearly.
All in all we end up with the realization that after the election the dream world ceases to exist.
I read the negative reviews first. I will read some of the positive reviews but I start at the bottom and if I don't get turned off by them as I work my way up then I will probably buy the item.
See, in the enterprise environment that I work in the majority of our big hardware is leased. I am quite willing to use what I can to maintain performance and reliability. That being said my system is built entirely on 15K drives of various sizes. I am not worried about five years or so of read/write that SSD drives have, all I want to see is a track record. I expect to replace most of the drives I have now within five years so this "five year limit" many like to toss out is immaterial to me. Reliability over that lifetime is of more importance.
Besides, the nice benefit of SSD drives is I don't need special enclosures (read: ones that can handle the torque these puppies can put out)
How many of our own children have died in the past year to auto accidents? How many of our people have died in them? How many die to starvation because its not politically correct to remove the tyrants in power?
I will say this about astronauts and soldiers. Both sign up even after seeing the numbers because they envision something greater than themselves and are willing to pay the ultimate price to see it through. I wish I still had that courage (served from 85 to 89). Sometimes we forget just how much is paid for because people love life so much that they will do what it takes to make it better for the rest of us.
We turn a blind eye to "common" deaths and exaggerate the impact of the uncommon. I don't see to minimize Iraq but I have friends who went through Vietnam and Iraq has nothing on that. In fact two of them have children in or having served in Iraq and neither expressed any concern after talking to their children about it. I fully expect the tone about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to change simply because of who is in office.
So Michael Dell OWES it to us. His hard work, his identifying a need and filling it, somehow makes him indebted to society as a whole because that is what is morally right? So guilt the producers of wealth by claiming that the non producers are the only reason why they were able to produce in the first place.
Have your read Atlas Shrugged? Perhaps you should. The most selfish people in this world are those who demand others to give of themselves.
I am a trader. I earn what I get in trade for what I produce. I ask for nothing more or nothing less than what I earn. That is justice. I don't force anyone to trade with me; I only trade for mutual benefit. Force is the great evil that has no place in a rational world. One may never force another human to act against his/her judgment. If you deny a man's right to Reason, you must also deny your right to your own judgment. Yet you have allowed your world to be run by means of force, by men who claim that fear and joy are equal incentives, but that fear and force are more practical.
And then there's your 'brother-love' morality. Why is it moral to serve others, but not yourself? If enjoyment is a value, why is it moral when experienced by others, but not by you? Why is it immoral to produce something of value and keep it for yourself, when it is moral for others who haven't earned it to accept it? If it's virtuous to give, isn't it then selfish to take?
Your acceptance of the code of selflessness has made you fear the man who has a dollar less than you because it makes you feel that that dollar is rightfully his. You hate the man with a dollar more than you because the dollar he's keeping is rightfully yours. Your code has made it impossible to know when to give and when to grab.
I can talk my way out of the scenario you presented easily.
1. You won't move 2. You don't have the skills I need 3. You think your worth more than I think the job is 4. Your attitude sucks (by your posting I doubt I'd want you around, sound like a fairness whiner
Really, #1 and #2 are big reasons why H1-B work so well. People go where the jobs are, people with families rarely do, or worse act insulted if asked to.
The majority of jobs people bitch about H1Bs taking aren't being filled by locals because too many are not local to the job or they don't have the skill. Toss in people with chips on their shoulders and I am going to look at people who are EAGER to work and do good work.
Too many see their job at 9 to 5 regardless if it is not. Look, I am on salary. If something comes up I am not beyond putting in more than forty to get the job done. Those things happen. The problem is too many people I have worked with don't think like that and then wonder why they get passed over or go first.
It sucks.
However those jobs are not ours to dictate who they go to. If I create the job opportunity I can decide how it is filled. Whats next? Assigning people to jobs even if they don't qualify all to meet some arbitrary quota? We know what happens when that is done.
We can produce food for many times what is on this planet. The only difference is that diets will adjust to which food products can be readily produced. Do you understand how much land that is suitable for farming isn't even used?
Susan Solomon is a CO2 freak. Her contention has been that we produce too much CO2 but every time I have read her interviews she spouts the changes in how much we produce without going into how much is naturally occurring. In other words, it looks bad if you just see how much more we produce but mankind has nothing on the mother nature's numbers.
Hyperbole for the win by the way, we have lots of fish, the key is who is farming it and where. Certain vocal industries are decrying loss of fishing but what good does putting a restriction on where our people can fish if our neighbors don't.
The whole problem with the GW is caused by man is that it really is "GW is profitable to certain men". Cap and Trade is the outcome these people want because it will make them money. In the mean time poor chinese and africans will lose their lands to damns and energy projects that benefit the rich world and a few rich people.
Lovely.
Man isn't the cause of global warming but men will certainly find a way to profit off of it
Plus concentrating on browsers is something that some people can understand which covers the real issue of, how do we extract more tax dollars from this money machine called Windows?
Oh, that's right, portray our solution good for THE CHILDREN! Crap, its a computer program... uh, its good for European companies which in turn is good for THE CHILDREN.
Really sometimes I think stuff like this sticks around simply because its far easier that doing something hard, y'know, like dealing with terrorism or such.
Then suddenly Opera could bitch about alphabetical order being unfair to them.
The whole solution stinks. Pick the top three by market share and put them on the desktop like internet services are. To have Opera claim MS "monopoly" excludes them is ludicrous, most people don't know of them and many who do would never have known of them except because of the lawsuit.
We can't succeed on our own, but if we leverage Microsoft's large install base by getting it declared illegal or harmful we can force our way onto millions of PC, whether or not people actually want our stuff. After it is good stuff because we say so! I know, lets go after iPhones next because its not fair that Apple has a monopoly there.
Because it is coming. There are too many potential voters for either the Democrats or Republicans to ignore. About everything you claim that H1Bs did can be applied to current illegal immigrants who will most likely within two years be granted amnesty. Or does this only account if it affects jobs at "our" level?
I disagree with the Senator on the stand point of that if it makes the business better long term then they need to be able to keep people who are here legally. Protectionism is wrong at any level. It is the consistent meddling in business that has led to the current failure in lending markets, higher prices (sugar is the grand daddy of them all), and upcoming docket of lawsuits because of new laws coming which purposely allow people to sue from time began over offenses.
No, there is no difference between this and amnesty except it bites those like us. Why protect ourselves if we won't protect lower income workers or do they not count except during elections?
worse, I lost any respect for Republicans for not stopping Geitner at the committee level.
This whole Administration is starting too look like Clinton The New Generation... new face at the top but the base looks rotten.
After Congress gets done stimulating themselves when will someone look at us and see what we want?
Obama was supposed to represent change yet the only change he represents is there is now a "D" next to the office affiliation. Now that he is in all the abuses of power he decried during the campaign are too valuable to be given up even though some should for what is best for America.
I was hoping we were not going to be stuck with another rubber stamping President, because in the end that was Bush's biggest fault. I don't want a President who wants to be friends with Congress. I want a President who is friends with us first. He is supposed to be the voice of the nation, not his party and certainly not special interest. He interests should be us.
There is always a chance he will grow a pair and go a new direction but it doesn't look good that he has passed the first few ramps on the interstate of government. His Gitmo decision sounded real good till you read the fine print, they have a year to change their minds. His appointment scream "continue the course" and this decision is more of the same. His recent declaration that Congress was on the right path with the stimulus package really pissed me off. Right course for who?
I guess the lesson learned under Bush will need four more years to be learned, that for every grandiose name they use just think of the exact opposite and that will be reality.
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that qualifies as acceptable. I say this from the stand point of that there are more than enough Congressmen who look at the NASA budget as source of funds and would love to abscond with this money all under the cover of "protecting life". Someone will always eventually found to assign blame to but in the end it comes down to dollars. The amount spent on the shuttles outweighs the payoff. Throw in a few high profile accidents and the "reasonable side" will come out screaming how these billions could be better spent elsewhere. They would gladly let the private side spend the money and assume the risk because if its successful it opens a new revenue stream of fees and taxes.
I would love to see more, but in an era where the only thing stimulated is special interest groups that deliver votes can we really expect NASA to continue getting money? Science and Math don't deliver votes. They are however a convenient mechanism to divert money to organizations that sound as if they would improve those areas but rarely if ever do.
nuclear explosions whereas climate simulations don't have all the variables.
Actually I think they model the effects on decay in current nuclear weapons. Besides its not something I want them to physically test.
that women will swallow might just excuse the taste of some diet drinks, let alone the taste of some diet food.
I know, crude, but the Pepsi commercial was just going at it from the guy point of view, I guess for things women put up with everyday... glass ceiling, mammograms, and childbirth....
Can we have links to the latest XKCD or whatnot as well?
it probably is the crap in our office coffee machine.
Stuff which makes potting soil look appealing.
Considering its effect on our people perhaps they can link it with a gas recycling facility in the mens room.
or is this a case of "they are all crooks but my guy isn't"? It is the same logic that prevents action on schools because "our" school is fine, it is the other guy's school who is failing.
Many of the bonuses are contractually owed. If a person meets their contract they should be paid.
We berate companies for losing billions yet the US government, CONGRESS, gets a free pass for deficit spending and losing billions if not trillions.
The culpability starts at the Federal Government. They set a horrid example then expect people to act otherwise.
The stimulus bill is a perfect example of just how dysfunctional that organization is yet they get to tell others that it the others who have a problem.
The real entitlement class is the politician.
with Congress and those two quasi-private but really federally run groups called Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Better yet, all those Congressmen who got sweetheart mortgage deals suddenly no longer need to come clean because they bought off the companies adversely affected by their actions with our tax dollars.
On topic:
I really dislike the summary which wants to relate what this guy did with interoperability. Since when is promoting cheating, breaking the EULA, and profiting off of it, interoperability?
Obama or the guy he is appointing?
I just want to know the obvious creeps are getting a free pass from the Republicans and the press. The problem with a "Cult of Personality" President is that the usual concerns don't question or challenge him. That is the real danger and a good number of his appointments demonstrate that clearly.
All in all we end up with the realization that after the election the dream world ceases to exist.
the theater version to not be the best version how can we say this new movie would somehow affect the original when we don't agree which that is?
I actually liked the follow on novel exploring the involvement of the real Rachel and the end of the Tyrol corporation.
I read the negative reviews first. I will read some of the positive reviews but I start at the bottom and if I don't get turned off by them as I work my way up then I will probably buy the item.
I will be surprised.
See, in the enterprise environment that I work in the majority of our big hardware is leased. I am quite willing to use what I can to maintain performance and reliability. That being said my system is built entirely on 15K drives of various sizes. I am not worried about five years or so of read/write that SSD drives have, all I want to see is a track record. I expect to replace most of the drives I have now within five years so this "five year limit" many like to toss out is immaterial to me. Reliability over that lifetime is of more importance.
Besides, the nice benefit of SSD drives is I don't need special enclosures (read: ones that can handle the torque these puppies can put out)
How many of our own children have died in the past year to auto accidents? How many of our people have died in them? How many die to starvation because its not politically correct to remove the tyrants in power?
I will say this about astronauts and soldiers. Both sign up even after seeing the numbers because they envision something greater than themselves and are willing to pay the ultimate price to see it through. I wish I still had that courage (served from 85 to 89). Sometimes we forget just how much is paid for because people love life so much that they will do what it takes to make it better for the rest of us.
We turn a blind eye to "common" deaths and exaggerate the impact of the uncommon. I don't see to minimize Iraq but I have friends who went through Vietnam and Iraq has nothing on that. In fact two of them have children in or having served in Iraq and neither expressed any concern after talking to their children about it. I fully expect the tone about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to change simply because of who is in office.
For some numbers worldwide http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2007/pr17/en/index.html
Tell me why we aren't doing more. Its pretty twisted to ignore them too.
because we have our own dumb politicians in America who will do the same to us what yours have done to you.
So Michael Dell OWES it to us. His hard work, his identifying a need and filling it, somehow makes him indebted to society as a whole because that is what is morally right? So guilt the producers of wealth by claiming that the non producers are the only reason why they were able to produce in the first place.
Have your read Atlas Shrugged? Perhaps you should. The most selfish people in this world are those who demand others to give of themselves.
I am a trader. I earn what I get in trade for what I produce. I ask for nothing more or nothing less than what I earn. That is justice. I don't force anyone to trade with me; I only trade for mutual benefit. Force is the great evil that has no place in a rational world. One may never force another human to act against his/her judgment. If you deny a man's right to Reason, you must also deny your right to your own judgment. Yet you have allowed your world to be run by means of force, by men who claim that fear and joy are equal incentives, but that fear and force are more practical.
And then there's your 'brother-love' morality. Why is it moral to serve others, but not yourself? If enjoyment is a value, why is it moral when experienced by others, but not by you? Why is it immoral to produce something of value and keep it for yourself, when it is moral for others who haven't earned it to accept it? If it's virtuous to give, isn't it then selfish to take?
Your acceptance of the code of selflessness has made you fear the man who has a dollar less than you because it makes you feel that that dollar is rightfully his. You hate the man with a dollar more than you because the dollar he's keeping is rightfully yours. Your code has made it impossible to know when to give and when to grab.
Lets get those low end jobs protection too.
After all we want to be fair.
I can talk my way out of the scenario you presented easily.
1. You won't move
2. You don't have the skills I need
3. You think your worth more than I think the job is
4. Your attitude sucks (by your posting I doubt I'd want you around, sound like a fairness whiner
Really, #1 and #2 are big reasons why H1-B work so well. People go where the jobs are, people with families rarely do, or worse act insulted if asked to.
The majority of jobs people bitch about H1Bs taking aren't being filled by locals because too many are not local to the job or they don't have the skill. Toss in people with chips on their shoulders and I am going to look at people who are EAGER to work and do good work.
Too many see their job at 9 to 5 regardless if it is not. Look, I am on salary. If something comes up I am not beyond putting in more than forty to get the job done. Those things happen. The problem is too many people I have worked with don't think like that and then wonder why they get passed over or go first.
It sucks.
However those jobs are not ours to dictate who they go to. If I create the job opportunity I can decide how it is filled. Whats next? Assigning people to jobs even if they don't qualify all to meet some arbitrary quota? We know what happens when that is done.
have to be fixed.
Without Bush how many other items which were invoking all sorts of angst during his Administration will suddenly be passed over?
Do things only matter if its the other side in power?
FISA LEGAL(warrant less wiretaps) Check
Global Warming Can't be fixed Check
So, when does Iran being a real bogeyman get accepted?
We can produce food for many times what is on this planet. The only difference is that diets will adjust to which food products can be readily produced. Do you understand how much land that is suitable for farming isn't even used?
Susan Solomon is a CO2 freak. Her contention has been that we produce too much CO2 but every time I have read her interviews she spouts the changes in how much we produce without going into how much is naturally occurring. In other words, it looks bad if you just see how much more we produce but mankind has nothing on the mother nature's numbers.
Hyperbole for the win by the way, we have lots of fish, the key is who is farming it and where. Certain vocal industries are decrying loss of fishing but what good does putting a restriction on where our people can fish if our neighbors don't.
The whole problem with the GW is caused by man is that it really is "GW is profitable to certain men". Cap and Trade is the outcome these people want because it will make them money. In the mean time poor chinese and africans will lose their lands to damns and energy projects that benefit the rich world and a few rich people.
Lovely.
Man isn't the cause of global warming but men will certainly find a way to profit off of it
A nice gunshot sound for when you take a picture, that will surely prove to the police your camera is lawful.
they will even see the picture, now will they?
or better yet, a revolving red light on top so the cops know when they are on tape.
Still, having a cop on tape will not always help you out, it all depends on how hurt the other party was.
I am waiting for "THE CHILDREN" tag...
and as such it is easy to vilify?
Plus concentrating on browsers is something that some people can understand which covers the real issue of, how do we extract more tax dollars from this money machine called Windows?
Oh, that's right, portray our solution good for THE CHILDREN! Crap, its a computer program... uh, its good for European companies which in turn is good for THE CHILDREN.
Really sometimes I think stuff like this sticks around simply because its far easier that doing something hard, y'know, like dealing with terrorism or such.
Then suddenly Opera could bitch about alphabetical order being unfair to them.
The whole solution stinks. Pick the top three by market share and put them on the desktop like internet services are. To have Opera claim MS "monopoly" excludes them is ludicrous, most people don't know of them and many who do would never have known of them except because of the lawsuit.
We can't succeed on our own, but if we leverage Microsoft's large install base by getting it declared illegal or harmful we can force our way onto millions of PC, whether or not people actually want our stuff. After it is good stuff because we say so! I know, lets go after iPhones next because its not fair that Apple has a monopoly there.
Because it is coming. There are too many potential voters for either the Democrats or Republicans to ignore. About everything you claim that H1Bs did can be applied to current illegal immigrants who will most likely within two years be granted amnesty. Or does this only account if it affects jobs at "our" level?
I disagree with the Senator on the stand point of that if it makes the business better long term then they need to be able to keep people who are here legally. Protectionism is wrong at any level. It is the consistent meddling in business that has led to the current failure in lending markets, higher prices (sugar is the grand daddy of them all), and upcoming docket of lawsuits because of new laws coming which purposely allow people to sue from time began over offenses.
No, there is no difference between this and amnesty except it bites those like us. Why protect ourselves if we won't protect lower income workers or do they not count except during elections?
worse, I lost any respect for Republicans for not stopping Geitner at the committee level.
This whole Administration is starting too look like Clinton The New Generation... new face at the top but the base looks rotten.
After Congress gets done stimulating themselves when will someone look at us and see what we want?
Obama was supposed to represent change yet the only change he represents is there is now a "D" next to the office affiliation. Now that he is in all the abuses of power he decried during the campaign are too valuable to be given up even though some should for what is best for America.
I was hoping we were not going to be stuck with another rubber stamping President, because in the end that was Bush's biggest fault. I don't want a President who wants to be friends with Congress. I want a President who is friends with us first. He is supposed to be the voice of the nation, not his party and certainly not special interest. He interests should be us.
There is always a chance he will grow a pair and go a new direction but it doesn't look good that he has passed the first few ramps on the interstate of government. His Gitmo decision sounded real good till you read the fine print, they have a year to change their minds. His appointment scream "continue the course" and this decision is more of the same. His recent declaration that Congress was on the right path with the stimulus package really pissed me off. Right course for who?
I guess the lesson learned under Bush will need four more years to be learned, that for every grandiose name they use just think of the exact opposite and that will be reality.
was more fun reading what you wrote the article