The pledge of alliegance: One Nation, under God, with Liberty and Justice for all (except in Inglewood, CA, where it's One Nation, under God, with Liberty for the Whites and Justice for the Whites.) Dang, what a beautiful nation
By the way, if you were in Japan, on vacation, let's say, and you prayed? Under what (G/g)od's jurisdiction would you be?
The thing is: God is not nationalist. He doesn't care about nations. He doesn't care that the person praying is white or black, male or female, rich or poor, American, European, or Chinese.
To associate God the creator of the Universe with a particular nation is misleading at best about God's true nature. So I say, get it off the pledge. It doesn't belong there.
This may look like a troll, but it isn't. It's a provocative thought. You've heard of those haven't you?
Granted, if they stayed the same between calls. And if the IP address of the client was not checked. And if the timeout was not set ridiculously low like we do. And we do pass a lot of them over https.
I used to live in France, took the subway, train, RER, bus, etc. It was cost and time effective then. In Los Angeles, riding public transportation is more expensive than car ownership (less govt subsidies of service, lower fuel cost for vehicles) and more time consuming (I have to go downtown to go to Santa Monica from where I am--a 20 miles detour)
It's ok if there's no incentive for you to keep the other country/corporation from aquiring the technology. Let's say that instead of a blueprint for a house, it's a blueprint for a faaster-than-sound trnsport device capable of carrying a heavy regiment, and has vertical takeoff and landing capability, and, oh, did I mention it's all-weather?
I bet you the architects of those plans are going to be well paid, and well monitored--"No, Kameraden, joo kannicht go tafelink im Amerika..."
I have deployed solutions out there that are stateful, do not use cookies, and are very well received by my clients (sorry no links, corporate extranets if you must know). The statefulness is maintained via strings in the querystrings. Last version of Python has this capability built in (which I will be migrating to shortly). Yes it's a bitch to code, but it's eveer so sweet. And there's no privacy concerns, since there's no trace on the machine whatsoever.
The problem with that is that the library wants the book back. It forever belongs to the library. We want the book to travel, to be read by people, to be kept and cherished by one who has been touched, and re-read many times.
If there was a way for the AOL system to act as a peer-to-peer system, then once a user (A) has begun caching the stream, another user (B) could start streaming the cache from user (A). That way, the router itself would not have to do too many simultaneously, and the great majority of AOL users would actually be streaming from someone else's cache.
I know, lots of potential pitfalls.
But since AOL already installs its software on user's computers, and a lot now are starting to be on cable modems, this could work.
For that matter, why not have files that have soundbytes such as: Boycott the RIAA, because they are trying to destroy this network. Don't buy from... and list all the labels that belong to the RIAA (informative). And then put that file in anything from Britney (no great loss) and nsync... Actually, p2p would then be recognized as a public forum for free speech (recorded audio voice) and it would be unconstitutional to try to shut it down...
I don't expect the cops to prevent burglaries but I do expect them to catch the burglars so the burglars get raped behind bars instead of burglarizing more homes in my hood.
Likewise I don't expect the government to stop terrorists from blowing up things (it's unrealistic to think they could anyway), i do want them to go after the terrorists, their buddies, and stick it to them hard. (like they did to the talibans)
I would say to the Saudis and the Syrians and especially Arafat: Another peep out of any of you people and we declare full, unconditional war on you. With tactical nukes.
And so they get the message loud and clear, we nuke Baghdad, twice. It worked on the Japanese.
Am married to Japanese so don't go off on me about that.
We were at war then. We are at war now. They were willing to commit suicide, fight to the death, and were fanatically following the Emperor. They changed their tune.
Likewise with the Middle East. They need to realize that we are not some third-world country they can terrorize with screams and shooting in the air from an AK47. They have reached a point where they can no longer control themselves. If we don't conrol them, the world will just go up in flames.
How much you want to bet that ship captains don't know how engines work? It's like asking whether truck drivers know how a diesel engine works. Of course they know.
And I bet the ship captain knows too. There would be something funny about a freighter captain not knowing how the engine works as his/her ship battles a typhoon in the middle of the night 600 miles from the coast of China.
Now, he may not know how to tear it apart and reassemble it, but he will know how it works, how much to ask out of it, how long it needs to warm up, how much fuel it takes at what speed, how much maintenance it needs, and so on.
Likewise the product manager and/or planner may not know how to compile C++ code, but he/she should understand what headers are, what OO is, what procedure calls, COM, and that sort of things are. He/she should also know how much work is involved, and how to allocate the right amount of personnel resources, hardware resources, software resources, adequate office space, adequate working environment, adequate communication channels between workers, and so on and so forth. This sort of knowledge does not come in easy, and if the Board Of Director in their Wise and Excellent Counsel fail to realize that a marketing VP cannot lead a team of programmer, then the future is grim, and maybe the typhoon will take that company down to great unchartered depths.
Well, they do have advertisers, hum, I mean, sponsors...
And imagine if people were not able to go to their site through a link that wasn't "Authorized". People would wonder what kind of sheep-herding they had fallen into.
Instead of having 4 programmers work on that gnarly DLL, you have 1 (or 2) work on it. The other 2 work on ANOTHER gnarly DLL.
You do make a good point about design. I say that if the problem and solution cannot be articulated on paper (or whiteboard with colored markers), then no amount of coding is going to work correctly.
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The pledge of alliegance: One Nation, under God, with Liberty and Justice for all (except in Inglewood, CA, where it's One Nation, under God, with Liberty for the Whites and Justice for the Whites.)
Dang, what a beautiful nation
By the way, if you were in Japan, on vacation, let's say, and you prayed? Under what (G/g)od's jurisdiction would you be?
The thing is: God is not nationalist. He doesn't care about nations. He doesn't care that the person praying is white or black, male or female, rich or poor, American, European, or Chinese.
To associate God the creator of the Universe with a particular nation is misleading at best about God's true nature. So I say, get it off the pledge. It doesn't belong there.
This may look like a troll, but it isn't. It's a provocative thought. You've heard of those haven't you?
Granted, if they stayed the same between calls.
And if the IP address of the client was not checked.
And if the timeout was not set ridiculously low like we do.
And we do pass a lot of them over https.
But thanks for the heads up.
I used to live in France, took the subway, train, RER, bus, etc. It was cost and time effective then. In Los Angeles, riding public transportation is more expensive than car ownership (less govt subsidies of service, lower fuel cost for vehicles) and more time consuming (I have to go downtown to go to Santa Monica from where I am--a 20 miles detour)
It's ok if there's no incentive for you to keep the other country/corporation from aquiring the technology. Let's say that instead of a blueprint for a house, it's a blueprint for a faaster-than-sound trnsport device capable of carrying a heavy regiment, and has vertical takeoff and landing capability, and, oh, did I mention it's all-weather?
I bet you the architects of those plans are going to be well paid, and well monitored--"No, Kameraden, joo kannicht go tafelink im Amerika..."
that's sweet...
I have deployed solutions out there that are stateful, do not use cookies, and are very well received by my clients (sorry no links, corporate extranets if you must know). The statefulness is maintained via strings in the querystrings. Last version of Python has this capability built in (which I will be migrating to shortly).
Yes it's a bitch to code, but it's eveer so sweet. And there's no privacy concerns, since there's no trace on the machine whatsoever.
You come live here a while (San Fernando Valley, on Los Angeles' north side) and then decide whether cars are needed.
Until then, take your rethoric elsewhere.
If your site won't work without cookies, I'm not going there.
You may use cookies for added functiunality, but don't requre cookies. It's bad design.
The problem with that is that the library wants the book back. It forever belongs to the library. We want the book to travel, to be read by people, to be kept and cherished by one who has been touched, and re-read many times.
I tried to read that when i came out... I got about 1/2 way, then stopped. It was useless.
If there was a way for the AOL system to act as a peer-to-peer system, then once a user (A) has begun caching the stream, another user (B) could start streaming the cache from user (A). That way, the router itself would not have to do too many simultaneously, and the great majority of AOL users would actually be streaming from someone else's cache.
I know, lots of potential pitfalls.
But since AOL already installs its software on user's computers, and a lot now are starting to be on cable modems, this could work.
For that matter, why not have files that have soundbytes such as: Boycott the RIAA, because they are trying to destroy this network. Don't buy from... and list all the labels that belong to the RIAA (informative). And then put that file in anything from Britney (no great loss) and nsync... Actually, p2p would then be recognized as a public forum for free speech (recorded audio voice) and it would be unconstitutional to try to shut it down...
I think they mean asteroids around the sun, within Mercury's orbit.
Trust me, we are at war.
Did you not see the B-52s in Afghanistan?
Did you not notice that we have prisoners?
Did you not notice that it is not a Country that attached us, but a NGO?
What are we supposed to do? Have Congress declare war on an NGO? Who? Al-Quaeda?
Did you not notice that they did just that?
Watch CPAN instead of VH1, dude.
I don't expect the cops to prevent burglaries but I do expect them to catch the burglars so the burglars get raped behind bars instead of burglarizing more homes in my hood.
Likewise I don't expect the government to stop terrorists from blowing up things (it's unrealistic to think they could anyway), i do want them to go after the terrorists, their buddies, and stick it to them hard. (like they did to the talibans)
I would say to the Saudis and the Syrians and especially Arafat: Another peep out of any of you people and we declare full, unconditional war on you. With tactical nukes.
And so they get the message loud and clear, we nuke Baghdad, twice. It worked on the Japanese.
Am married to Japanese so don't go off on me about that.
We were at war then. We are at war now.
They were willing to commit suicide, fight to the death, and were fanatically following the Emperor.
They changed their tune.
Likewise with the Middle East. They need to realize that we are not some third-world country they can terrorize with screams and shooting in the air from an AK47. They have reached a point where they can no longer control themselves. If we don't conrol them, the world will just go up in flames.
I wax poetic in late afternoon...
Dang, in that case, there are many countries that we can officially call "America", since their culture, flavor, and slant ...
well, you get the point...
She wouldn't have made the mistake if the bill was 30 cm X 30 cm and made of aluminum and bright orange either.
So, now our government has to spend more of our tax money (oh, how a-propos) just because foreigners can't count/don't pay attention/are stupid?
It seems like the impossible, but from what I understand the amount of money thrown at this challenge was, ahem, astronomical.
Likewise another Dilbert comes to mind:
Scene 1
Dilbert: "Here is the estimated cost of the project."
(hands PHB a sheet of paper)
Scene 2
PHB: "What can you do with half?"
Dilbert: "Fail"
Scene 3
PHB: "When can you start?"
Dilbert: "I think I already have..."
(sad look on face)
How much you want to bet that ship captains don't know how engines work? It's like asking whether truck drivers know how a diesel engine works. Of course they know.
And I bet the ship captain knows too. There would be something funny about a freighter captain not knowing how the engine works as his/her ship battles a typhoon in the middle of the night 600 miles from the coast of China.
Now, he may not know how to tear it apart and reassemble it, but he will know how it works, how much to ask out of it, how long it needs to warm up, how much fuel it takes at what speed, how much maintenance it needs, and so on.
Likewise the product manager and/or planner may not know how to compile C++ code, but he/she should understand what headers are, what OO is, what procedure calls, COM, and that sort of things are. He/she should also know how much work is involved, and how to allocate the right amount of personnel resources, hardware resources, software resources, adequate office space, adequate working environment, adequate communication channels between workers, and so on and so forth. This sort of knowledge does not come in easy, and if the Board Of Director in their Wise and Excellent Counsel fail to realize that a marketing VP cannot lead a team of programmer, then the future is grim, and maybe the typhoon will take that company down to great unchartered depths.
Like, Dude, hollyweird is gonna be all over that script idea like a slashdot whore looking to score some karma.
Well, they do have advertisers, hum, I mean, sponsors...
And imagine if people were not able to go to their site through a link that wasn't "Authorized". People would wonder what kind of sheep-herding they had fallen into.
Already have.
Under the description of the entity's activities, I wrote:
Working, sleeping, eating, playing...
I also wrote a shitload of shit they're gonna have to read.
See at http://www.christophermahan.com/links/loanapp.asp
Of course, I may not link to them at all, but I'll wait for my approval first, then I'll say I changed my mind.
Well, there needs to be a separation of duties.
Instead of having 4 programmers work on that gnarly DLL, you have 1 (or 2) work on it. The other 2 work on ANOTHER gnarly DLL.
You do make a good point about design. I say that if the problem and solution cannot be articulated on paper (or whiteboard with colored markers), then no amount of coding is going to work correctly.
It's spelled Sepukku.
Please, check your spelling when you flame, will ya?
"Be quiet now, like a good gentleman..."
(10 points if you know what war movie that's from)
(hint: English accent)
(hint: same man also says: "Because we're here")