People are getting internet via cable in Iraq? Things sure have come along since I was working on it, everything was satellite just a few years ago. Certainly all the military stuff was, as the only terrestrial microwave links went through Jordan and Syria.
You've fallen into my trap. Now I'm going to open a pizzeria called "Restaurant X" just so I can have the courts give me a copy of Slashdot's user database.
The statement was that the Centreville Dunkin Donuts was "of the most dirty and unsanitary-looking food-service places I have seen".
It makes no claims as to the store's cleanliness relative to legal health code standards:
It only makes claims relative to the restaurants the author has visited.
Obviously, not all restaurants have identical levels of sanitation.
Therefore, even among those which have passed inspection, there are varying levels of cleanliness.
And most or all restaurants that most people visit have passed inspection.
Therefore, the statement can easily be true without implying any claims of failure to abide by legal filth thresholds. In fact, it's far more likely that it doesn't imply such a claim.
But the statement, as cited in the article, could not be proven slanderous without a thorough audit of the sanitation at all the restaurants the speaker has visited. And the burden of proof is not on the defense.
You're confused. It's his donuts (at the Centreville Dunkin Donuts) that are made of douchebags. Slimy, dripping, thrice-used douchebags from the women's prison. Or at least that's what I heard.
Doesn't seem like a very informed opinion (at least based on what you've written so far).
This change, if actually implemented, will be with us for a while and will place a significant burden on DNS providers. Better to do it right, than to go with the first thing that comes along.
But it's in Australia... With the new netfilters the gov't is mandating, you won't be able to access porn. Hell, SlashDot will be filtered because it mentions porn.
More to the point, because it's in Australia, transferring data at 21Mbps will cost about $500 per minute.
A few days ago I spent about 3 hours trying to print mailing labels using OpenOffice.
First, it wouldn't let me use a spreadsheet as a data source so I had to convert my data to OpenOffice Base.
Creating the database was preposterously complicated, principally because I had to issue a number of manual SQL commands before it would set up a primary key that would allow creating new rows using a form. Not for the faint of heart.
Then, it took me about a zillion tries to get the template set up in Writer. Each time I made a mistake or something didn't turn out right, I had to start over from scratch because there were some steps that seemed impossible to adjust after the fact.
Finally, when I got it to almost work, it turned out that it would only generate one page of labels (24 of them) no matter how many rows were in the database. I found some tips online and followed those, but the best I ever got was one correct page and then lots of subsequent pages with the same labels repeating many times.
After that I threw my hands up in despair and broke out MS Word and Excel. Did the whole thing from start to finish in 10 minutes, and I've never used Word to make labels before.
I have still after all this time never actually met a Linux user.
Well that's just plain weird. Or you run in an exceptionally homogenous crowd.
Every developer I know has a Windows desktop at home. And I know 100s of developers from all over the world.
Almost every developer I know these days uses a Mac laptop, unless they only develop Windows apps (and even some of those tote the fruit). And I am all over the world.
a British court ruled that Sealand was outside of British jurisdiction, which atleast means they are not beholden to the British.
No.
A British judge decided that he didn't want to hear a case because it felt that his coirt did not have jurisdiction.
That doesn't suddenly turn Sealand into a sovereign entity.
If you get busted for speeding, and the night court judge lets you off because he buys your story that you are the ambassador from Noglorpistan, that doesn't mean that Noglorpistan has magically become a country.
A non-OpenSource operating system of any origin or maker is prone to being end-of-life'd leaving people very much obsoleted out of the use of otherwise very good hardware. To some degree this is also true of OpenSource software, but not nearly to the same degree.
RedHat loves to EOL its distributions, leaving no upgrade path that doesn't involve rebuilding the machine from scratch. I have since started switching all our machines to Debian, which is more open source and apparently more sensitive to the realities of the server room (as opposed to the bullet points of the conference room next to the CIO's office).
No need. I have friends who've tried to quit, and it's been very easy to tell from a few feet away when they were recently "cheating". The odor is a lot stronger and more persistent than you seem to think it is.
You look like you're confusing Islam-the-religion with government-regimes-that-happen-to-have-a-muslim-majority-and-therefore-claim-to-muslim.
You in turn are confusing Islam-as-it's-actually-practiced with pie-in-the-sky-utopian-Islam-that-doesn't-exist.
Your vision of Islam is as ridiculous as a vision of Christianity where every believer gives away all their worldly posessions and goes around inviting people to slap them on the cheek all the time.
A religion is what people actually do with it, not some fantasy world you conjure up with preposterously charitable cherrypicking from its holy book.
Terrorism and other sorts of brutal mass-homicides tend to be particularly horrific because of the senseless nature of such killings. These are deliberate attempts to inflict as much suffering and death upon people as possible.
Speeding is worse. At least terrorists believe they are serving some higher cause. People who kill by speeding are just selfish assholes without even the justification of some warped morality. Add that to the fact that they kill far more people than terrorists ever could and I think it's clear what the greater tragedy is.
Everyone in modern society more or less has to accept a certain amount of inevitable risk, such as the well-known risks we all take getting into a car.
The risk of getting into a car is not inevitable. Driver behaviour has a tremendous amount of impact on how dangerous a ride will be - both for the people in that car, and others as well.
I'd actually say that the US needs a CTO, who would be responsible for identifying the most promising technologies to subsidize the development of.
I quite agree. Many countries have such a position and when well done (see Japan) it can be quite effective. I believe the US could do a better job of this than Japan.
On the other hand, the government needs someone to fix the government's information technology problems, which is an entirely different job, and seems to be what Obama's looking for. I'm not sure why this post isn't called "Secretary of Information Technology", actually, which would be more in line with other executive branch government posts and distinguish clearly between the two possible job descriptions.
Unfortunately, I think you're correct here too, in that this is what Obama's probably looking for.
I have a couple problems with this. First of all, I don't see why this isn't a GSA function. The government has problems with real estate management; is that suddenly a cabinet position too? IT is a tool for the government, and the government's use of IT is not a policy matter on the level of cabinet secretary.
Also, from my experience in the government, competence varies dramatically from one place to the next. While having an IT czar would probably elevate some of the real laggard departments, it would also stamp out the pockets of genius to be found here and there. The guy who's singlehandedly enabling ground-breaking research in some corner of NIH isn't going to stick around when word comes down from the new federal IT overlord that all his machines have to run Windows Vista.
Because it doesn't work. This kind of idea could only come from someone who didn't understand cities at all.
They are organic creatures, and attempts to create them from the top down by fiat always end up in depressing Canberra/Brasilia/Putrajaya failures -- Places that people only live in because:
A) They are not special people but the government is providing a subsidy to get someone, anyone in there.
B) They are special people and the government is coercing them (at some level) to live there.
This gets you a toxic brew of malaise and discontent which results in a dull, lifeless shell of a city. It's exactly the opposite of what you need in order to stimulate maximum innovation and discovery.
Clearly this means the aliens have had a chance to figure out how the telescope works and alter it so that it conveniently fails to see their massive flotilla en route to Earth.
You're probably going to find that pointlessly alienating cyclists (or any other segment of the labour pool) will give you lower-quality staff, as you have fewer of them to choose from.
I agree though, giving every employee a console is a bad idea. Not because you're giving every single one a console, but because you aren't encouraging socializing.
Your employer may be required to give you a lunch break, but they are not required to let you use your desk for it. If you want to be left alone, exercise your right to go elsewhere. Surely there is some place where you can eat your own lunch that can't be seen from your desk.
Once you graduate to having a door you can close, then you can simply do that.
Sitting in front of someone who has a pressing problem, and telling them you don't feel like dealing with their problem right now, will always cause bad feelings, no matter how much you may be within your rights. Do it if you choose, but don't expect that it won't change how people see you.
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People are getting internet via cable in Iraq? Things sure have come along since I was working on it, everything was satellite just a few years ago. Certainly all the military stuff was, as the only terrestrial microwave links went through Jordan and Syria.
You've fallen into my trap. Now I'm going to open a pizzeria called "Restaurant X" just so I can have the courts give me a copy of Slashdot's user database.
The statement was that the Centreville Dunkin Donuts was "of the most dirty and unsanitary-looking food-service places I have seen".
It makes no claims as to the store's cleanliness relative to legal health code standards:
It only makes claims relative to the restaurants the author has visited.
Obviously, not all restaurants have identical levels of sanitation.
Therefore, even among those which have passed inspection, there are varying levels of cleanliness.
And most or all restaurants that most people visit have passed inspection.
Therefore, the statement can easily be true without implying any claims of failure to abide by legal filth thresholds. In fact, it's far more likely that it doesn't imply such a claim.
But the statement, as cited in the article, could not be proven slanderous without a thorough audit of the sanitation at all the restaurants the speaker has visited. And the burden of proof is not on the defense.
You're confused. It's his donuts (at the Centreville Dunkin Donuts) that are made of douchebags. Slimy, dripping, thrice-used douchebags from the women's prison. Or at least that's what I heard.
Doesn't seem like a very informed opinion (at least based on what you've written so far).
This change, if actually implemented, will be with us for a while and will place a significant burden on DNS providers. Better to do it right, than to go with the first thing that comes along.
More to the point, because it's in Australia, transferring data at 21Mbps will cost about $500 per minute.
What is even one thing about the page that makes you think it's a "US page"?
I'm not Australian (Lord be praised) and this was obvious to me within half a second.
A few days ago I spent about 3 hours trying to print mailing labels using OpenOffice.
First, it wouldn't let me use a spreadsheet as a data source so I had to convert my data to OpenOffice Base.
Creating the database was preposterously complicated, principally because I had to issue a number of manual SQL commands before it would set up a primary key that would allow creating new rows using a form. Not for the faint of heart.
Then, it took me about a zillion tries to get the template set up in Writer. Each time I made a mistake or something didn't turn out right, I had to start over from scratch because there were some steps that seemed impossible to adjust after the fact.
Finally, when I got it to almost work, it turned out that it would only generate one page of labels (24 of them) no matter how many rows were in the database. I found some tips online and followed those, but the best I ever got was one correct page and then lots of subsequent pages with the same labels repeating many times.
After that I threw my hands up in despair and broke out MS Word and Excel. Did the whole thing from start to finish in 10 minutes, and I've never used Word to make labels before.
Why do you keep italicising "Vista"?
Well that's just plain weird. Or you run in an exceptionally homogenous crowd.
Almost every developer I know these days uses a Mac laptop, unless they only develop Windows apps (and even some of those tote the fruit). And I am all over the world.
No.
A British judge decided that he didn't want to hear a case because it felt that his coirt did not have jurisdiction.
That doesn't suddenly turn Sealand into a sovereign entity.
If you get busted for speeding, and the night court judge lets you off because he buys your story that you are the ambassador from Noglorpistan, that doesn't mean that Noglorpistan has magically become a country.
The fact that you didn't have bandwidth problems is probably closely linked to why you weren't working there past 2002.
The total bandwidth available at HavenCo was considerably less than I get in a DSL connection for EUR 20/month.
RedHat loves to EOL its distributions, leaving no upgrade path that doesn't involve rebuilding the machine from scratch. I have since started switching all our machines to Debian, which is more open source and apparently more sensitive to the realities of the server room (as opposed to the bullet points of the conference room next to the CIO's office).
Smokers are not a protected class; everyone is free to discriminate against them.
Wearing orange spiked hair is also legal, and you can easily get fired from many jobs for that.
No need. I have friends who've tried to quit, and it's been very easy to tell from a few feet away when they were recently "cheating". The odor is a lot stronger and more persistent than you seem to think it is.
You in turn are confusing Islam-as-it's-actually-practiced with pie-in-the-sky-utopian-Islam-that-doesn't-exist.
Your vision of Islam is as ridiculous as a vision of Christianity where every believer gives away all their worldly posessions and goes around inviting people to slap them on the cheek all the time.
A religion is what people actually do with it, not some fantasy world you conjure up with preposterously charitable cherrypicking from its holy book.
Speeding is worse. At least terrorists believe they are serving some higher cause. People who kill by speeding are just selfish assholes without even the justification of some warped morality. Add that to the fact that they kill far more people than terrorists ever could and I think it's clear what the greater tragedy is.
The risk of getting into a car is not inevitable. Driver behaviour has a tremendous amount of impact on how dangerous a ride will be - both for the people in that car, and others as well.
I quite agree. Many countries have such a position and when well done (see Japan) it can be quite effective. I believe the US could do a better job of this than Japan.
Unfortunately, I think you're correct here too, in that this is what Obama's probably looking for.
I have a couple problems with this. First of all, I don't see why this isn't a GSA function. The government has problems with real estate management; is that suddenly a cabinet position too? IT is a tool for the government, and the government's use of IT is not a policy matter on the level of cabinet secretary.
Also, from my experience in the government, competence varies dramatically from one place to the next. While having an IT czar would probably elevate some of the real laggard departments, it would also stamp out the pockets of genius to be found here and there. The guy who's singlehandedly enabling ground-breaking research in some corner of NIH isn't going to stick around when word comes down from the new federal IT overlord that all his machines have to run Windows Vista.
I've gotten T1s pulled up in a matter of days in the USA. Maybe it just takes Sprint that long.
Because it doesn't work. This kind of idea could only come from someone who didn't understand cities at all.
They are organic creatures, and attempts to create them from the top down by fiat always end up in depressing Canberra/Brasilia/Putrajaya failures -- Places that people only live in because:
A) They are not special people but the government is providing a subsidy to get someone, anyone in there.
B) They are special people and the government is coercing them (at some level) to live there.
This gets you a toxic brew of malaise and discontent which results in a dull, lifeless shell of a city. It's exactly the opposite of what you need in order to stimulate maximum innovation and discovery.
Clearly this means the aliens have had a chance to figure out how the telescope works and alter it so that it conveniently fails to see their massive flotilla en route to Earth.
You're probably going to find that pointlessly alienating cyclists (or any other segment of the labour pool) will give you lower-quality staff, as you have fewer of them to choose from.
Also, showers are cheaper than parking spaces.
+1 Insightful
Your employer may be required to give you a lunch break, but they are not required to let you use your desk for it. If you want to be left alone, exercise your right to go elsewhere. Surely there is some place where you can eat your own lunch that can't be seen from your desk.
Once you graduate to having a door you can close, then you can simply do that.
Sitting in front of someone who has a pressing problem, and telling them you don't feel like dealing with their problem right now, will always cause bad feelings, no matter how much you may be within your rights. Do it if you choose, but don't expect that it won't change how people see you.