OK, I may have been mislead. My only source of information, that I cited, was the 9/11/01 commission.
But nonetheless, these guys are at least as smart as street gangs that use revolving embedded codes, and use courier and snail mail more than standard cell/sat/POTS systems.
If the cryps and the bloods can do it, so can [bm]illionaires that specialize in playing these games.
Shh, I can hear the "chatter" as we speak. Be quiet!
I like building my own PC's, being able to upgrade this part or the other, and being able to compare prices so I can minimize my expense as much as possible.
Some people build their own cars, motorcycles, houses, and airplanes.
They are a minority for some reason, but they do exist.
"Why" it's false or "whose fault it is" are irrelevant.
Not necessarily. There are download sites on the internet for Apple, Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, etc systems where none of the junk will work on Windows no matter how hard you try.
These are specific services that have chosen to target a specific platform and call it good enough, which may be. I don't know, I'm not familiar with any of those services (and they won't work on any of my computers, so I guess I never will:)
I would bet there is a simple way for these companies to support standards vs the last two releases of Windows, but that was not concern for them. Neither is it a concern for Apple to port OS X to a SPARC platform.
"My" internet works fine with my Mac, Linux, and Solaris boxes.
It's not perfect. Nothing is perfect. How close to perfect do you have to get to be good enough?
Keeping all of the files on a networked filesystem via an encrypted channel that is backed up, redundant and secure.
Who in their right mind keeps important files on a laptop? Especially if those files are valuable to those outside of the organization that owns the laptop.
It didn't work for the South, it didn't work for the folks at Waco, and it didn't work at Ruby Ridge.
I will beg to differ here. It worked in Waco, but took one year for it to take effect.
One year to the day, a US military trained individual carried out the largest terrorist attack on US soil at the time. It is still only second to the recent airplane thing.
I get bashed when I mention this, and I think its stupid that someone had to destroy an entire government building and kill so many people including children, but pause and think a second.
After the Oklahoma City bombing, and the reasons (right, wrong, insane, or imaginary) behind it, do you think there will be another Waco or Ruby Ridge incident today?
I don't think so. Oh, and McVeigh was a libertarian and a NRA member.
Hold on with the nutcase thoughts and overrated, flamebait, and troll mods here.
I would rather not have to think about this crap and just be a hippie and have fun, but sometimes it takes anger and force to wake people up.
I'm not a bible thumper, but even the presumed passive martyr called Jesus got pissed off and made a stand. Read Matthew 21:12.
As a rule, anger and violence is not the answer. But with any rule, there are exceptions.
The NRA leans very heavily to the Republican party. It's likely that many (if not most) voted for Bush at least twice. Damn single issue voters, they can't see the forest for the trees.
True, the NRA guys tend to be more Republican vs Democrat, but they also openly state that they will stand by an incumbent regardless of party affiliation.
I'm a Libertarian, and don't see too much of a difference between the dominant two parties, but I will say that I'm more democratic vs republican, but there are little real differences between them today.
The NRA is supposedly the most influential lobby groups in the US. And, yes, we/they are a bunch of narrow minded, cant see the forest for the trees, bunch of people like any extremist group. But I feel more comfortable living in a country that has a NRA like group and a 2nd amendment. The NRA ignores the part about the "well regulated militia", and I'm a little more open to have some form of regulation there.
But when things like the police illegally taking people's firearms in New Orleans after the hurricane when its up to the citizens to protect themselves in such a situation, and then the liberties that we have lost in the name of the "War on Terror". Well, these things need to stop.
I'm not advocating an armed march on the White House (yet:), but its important that the people in the government know that we are aware of our rights and are willing to fight for them.
The US constitution is excellent, and when elected officials that are supposed to "uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States." Well, its up to us to make sure this happens.
Actually, I wonder why government run schools and curriculums play so little emphasis on history and civics.
In HS, I took 4 years of math, 4 years of foreign language (3 if I stuck with one language), 3 or 4 years of English, 3 or 4 years of science, yet one year of history, and 1/2 to 1 year of a joke "US government" class taught by the basketball coach who liked to fuck the hot senior girls.
I have 6 years of college (undergrad/masters) and took zero history, per the requirements, which I regret now.
111 Million other americans (according to their numbers) hate this idea.
Now that's a lot of pissed off people.
To put this in perspective, the 1992 LA riots were caused by a couple thousand black and latinos.
100+ million organized, trained, armed, and literally "dead serious" people can do a LOT of damage.
Yes, the US military is second to absolutely no one in this world. But its proven that they are not very good a gorilla warfare, which is what a 100+ million uprising within the country would be.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." -- Thomas Jefferson
To make this like a meeting and have an action item to leave with, this translates into
1) Openly speak out. Yes, Bush should be impeached. Removed from office? Dunno, but impeachment is the first step to figure this stuff out.
2) Join the NRA and learn how to protect yourself and your family _AND_ buy at least 20-30,000 rounds of ammo.
Americans have become such lazy pussies over the years, I guess because they don't think too much, and times have been good for a while, but that is changing, and we need to change in turn.
We need to be outraged about the BS this government is doing nowadays. No, its not OK to tap my phone. Worried about terrorism, protect our borders thank you. You have the personnel and equipment, now go do your job. With the millions of people walking into our country every year, and the tons of "illegal" goods coming by boat, airplane, tunnels, car, and tractor trailer, its trivial to do a substitute on the cargo for "terrorist" goods and services.
We run this country, not the government. The government works for us, remember?
The "Psyops" the government has waged against people in the US and abroad has worked very well on the weak minded people. These manipulations of the government by citing the "War on terror" and the "Save the children" campaigns are clever, and have worked for a while on stupid people, but those days are over.
Also every time this wiretap nonsense gets mentioned, remember that al Queda (according to the 9/11/01 report) got away with the attacks because _they did NOT use any electronic form of communication_.
Tapping phones and all of the other illegal shit the government is doing is only a form of terrorism against the people of this country. None of these current efforts will affect the "bad guys".
Another reason is that gasprices in the US are incredibly low from a european point of view
And currently, e85 is subsidized by the US government. Wait until people get hooked on it, and then, it will be the same or more than gas (which is already e10 or so already depending on your location and time of year). In the "free" market, they call it bait and switch.
I'm adamantly opposed to government subsidies. It screws up the real free market.
I mean, I know no label really wants to sell old Prince videos, but somehow they're huge on YouTube.
A little offtopic, but bootlegged Prince stuff is very popular, and I have a neat conspiracy-conspiracy theory to follow.
There is tons of "bootlegged" Prince stuff out there, and Prince freaks buy it just like they pay $300-$400 for tickets to see him every time he plays a live gig because they always sell out. The most infamous bootlegged album is "The Black Album" that came out in the late 80s. I knew a guy who owned a used record store that pretty much payed his rent with bootlegged Prince stuff, or at least that is what he said. As weird as Prince is, I believe that he purposely allows bootlegged versions of his stuff to float around to add mystique to himself between the fans and himself.
My conspiracy-conspiracy theory is this. I believe that there will always be conspiracy theorists, and the government and people like Prince realize this, and they actually help leak material to the underground to keep people guessing.
I'm a wannabe conspiracy theorist, but one thing that gets me is how is there always so much conflicting and what kills me is the quality of _low quality_ "evidence" out there. Stuff like the infamous "bin Laden" FBI tape that is of such low quality, I don't know how anybody in the past 10 or 15 years could make such a low quality video unless they did it on purpose. And the simple volume of conflicting information is simply baffling. For a long time I believed there was at least more of a conspiracy theory behind the JFK assassination. Guess what changed my mind? I downloaded the Zabruder(sp?) film off of google videos and watched it for myself. The infamous Oliver Stone "back and to the left" thing went out the window. That guy was taken out by a hit that went out of his throat and that killer head shot from up and behind him. Its clear when you watch it (and scary). But 30+ years of conspiracy would have just disappeared if the government had released the tape a long time ago, but noooo, lets keep the people guessing, and keep those Prince concerts sold out:)
Needless to say, today we are an all-HP shop. We have a local reseller who provides excellent on-site service, and who I can reach directly; no IVR, no switchboard; I call my tech directly.
I have HP equipment and can say the same about support.
HP has the best support staff and excellent equipment (higher end for me).
I'm a very happy customer, but they make it hard to buy their equipment for some reason, maybe I need to find a reseller?
No one buys a console because of the power of the hardware, they buy it for the games that are on it. Therefore the PS3 will be sold to those who play games that will be exclusive to the PS3.
Not necessarily. I will buy a PS3 simply because of the power of the hardware, and I'll like to see the intense graphics and good gameplay on my HDTV.
My last console was an Atari 2600.
My point, is that there is a blend of hardware and software. Often, hardware leads software, but with OSS, this has changed.
Macs may of had a better GUI before OSX, but I could not ever get into them because the OS was unstable. Maybe if I spent some time and learned the workarounds like I do with current buggy Mac OSes (Tiger is buggy!), but with unprotected memory and having bomb error messages all the time, Macs did not appeal to me. Neither did Windows ever really appeal much to me aside from Win95. Honestly, that was a pretty decent OS at the time. I started using Linux in 94, but I used Win95 up to about 1997, and after the last time that Windows got hozed, I realized that Linux was better, despite some of the creature feature apps that was available for Windows.
Used Linux for a while, and then Apple started getting a stable release of their GUI with real UNIX under the hood (OSX 10.3).
Even at $500 or $600 a PS3 will be the best gaming platform that I could buy without spending $2k+, and then I would have to endure Windows. For $5-600, you get dual display HDTV resolution graphics, and good 3d graphics and good sound and very likely good software. A mid-range video card costs this (high end is currently between $1,000 to $1,600+). A moderate sound card costs this (high end is between $400 and $1k+). A good monitor costs this or much more.
I'm a strange "early" or "late" adopter. I early adopt stuff as soon as its either 1st to market or clearly the best bang for the buck for a multi-use system. These new PS3s are going to be amazing.
If you don't like the price or performance of a computer today, wait a minute.
These computers will eventually cost less than $2k. I work with "high end" HPC types of machines, and my G4 laptop would have been on the top500 list a decade or so ago.
With "high tech" the bleeding edge is always going to cost, but also it sells. In a few years we will all have this kind of equipment as part of an "average" PC. But, we still won't be able to afford or justify the cost of the new good stuff.
Does anyone pause and think about the amazing ease with which, say a 12 year old can access this stuff?
Does anyone know that odds are a 12 year old won't know what to do with the stuff?
Maybe I was a slow developer, but at 12 I did not understand sex or even how to masturbate to ejaculation. I knew my dick would get hard from time to time, and it felt good to touch it, but my hormones and brain was not ready for sex yet.
I guess this is yet another "save the children" campaign.
But guess what? Most people that abuse children are trusted friends or family members, not some slashdot geek in his mom's basement in Maine going after the poor children looking at websites at the library in California.
The problem is not MySpace or Slashdot, its that the US is full of lonely scared sick people that take it out of the easiest victims that they can, children. And although it is pretty common to do minor pedophilia, severe and chronic abuse is very rare.
So brilliant legislators, what is next? Outlawing telephones, children in public places, school, libraries, music, TV, well, everything besides the privilege of paying taxes?
Dipshits.
Keep taking our liberties, and you will understand what the 2nd amendment is all about.
My african greys call each other by name when asking for anything.
Fill us in. I've only heard parrots say simple, seemingly random things to people or just utterances out loud. I've never heard of them talking to each other.
What do they ask for, and how? Give us a little dialog please....
Allowed to be played? As in by the same stations that are frantically trying to sell whatever latest artist the big labels have signed? I often listen to music older than a couple of years, its quality has nothing to do with the radio play-list.
No, I mean allowed by the fans. Typically, if its 2+ years old, its viewed as, well, old. Its an observation, not a judgment.
Same with sex or music or whatever, what you do on your own time behind closed doors does not affect me. I don't care. There is music I like that my friends or whatever don't, but we can at least agree on something. Its not that big of a deal. I'm not going to have a good time listening to something that everybody else hates regardless of how much I may care for it. Same goes with timing. If its early in the night, I'm not going to play some mellow, laid back song, something more upbeat. Later in the night, the mellow laid back song might work.
But then you detest the music, so you wouldn't see it as likely. But as I and others get older and begin to fossilize, I dare say there will be a radio station that I can seek solace in with some classic Eminem and remind myself of "real music".
Time will tell. I even like some of Eminem's older stuff. Much better than most other music in that genre. Pretty intense actually. But 10 years from now, I don't see people listening to Eminem any more than they do "Ice Ice Baby" aside for amusement.
Again, I don't care what people listen to. Different strokes for different folks, but I am making an argument that I believe hip-hop and whatnot is something that will not stand the test of time. I could be entirely wrong, time will tell. Hey, I can chill and nod my head to that blowjob song too:) I just get bored of the repetition after 10 or 20 minutes. Its definitely talented, especially on the production side, I just find it boring.
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OK, I may have been mislead. My only source of information, that I cited, was the 9/11/01 commission.
But nonetheless, these guys are at least as smart as street gangs that use revolving embedded codes, and use courier and snail mail more than standard cell/sat/POTS systems.
If the cryps and the bloods can do it, so can [bm]illionaires that specialize in playing these games.
Shh, I can hear the "chatter" as we speak. Be quiet!
I like building my own PC's, being able to upgrade this part or the other, and being able to compare prices so I can minimize my expense as much as possible.
Some people build their own cars, motorcycles, houses, and airplanes.
They are a minority for some reason, but they do exist.
"Why" it's false or "whose fault it is" are irrelevant.
:)
Not necessarily. There are download sites on the internet for Apple, Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, etc systems where none of the junk will work on Windows no matter how hard you try.
These are specific services that have chosen to target a specific platform and call it good enough, which may be. I don't know, I'm not familiar with any of those services (and they won't work on any of my computers, so I guess I never will
I would bet there is a simple way for these companies to support standards vs the last two releases of Windows, but that was not concern for them. Neither is it a concern for Apple to port OS X to a SPARC platform.
"My" internet works fine with my Mac, Linux, and Solaris boxes.
That's like satan giving george bush a cookie.
Bush quit eating cookies, drinking alcohol, doing cocaine, AND taking things offered by Satan when he was "born again".
Give the guy a break!
It's not perfect. Nothing is perfect. How close to perfect do you have to get to be good enough?
Keeping all of the files on a networked filesystem via an encrypted channel that is backed up, redundant and secure.
Who in their right mind keeps important files on a laptop? Especially if those files are valuable to those outside of the organization that owns the laptop.
It didn't work for the South, it didn't work for the folks at Waco, and it didn't work at Ruby Ridge.
I will beg to differ here. It worked in Waco, but took one year for it to take effect.
One year to the day, a US military trained individual carried out the largest terrorist attack on US soil at the time. It is still only second to the recent airplane thing.
I get bashed when I mention this, and I think its stupid that someone had to destroy an entire government building and kill so many people including children, but pause and think a second.
After the Oklahoma City bombing, and the reasons (right, wrong, insane, or imaginary) behind it, do you think there will be another Waco or Ruby Ridge incident today?
I don't think so. Oh, and McVeigh was a libertarian and a NRA member.
Hold on with the nutcase thoughts and overrated, flamebait, and troll mods here.
I would rather not have to think about this crap and just be a hippie and have fun, but sometimes it takes anger and force to wake people up.
I'm not a bible thumper, but even the presumed passive martyr called Jesus got pissed off and made a stand. Read Matthew 21:12.
As a rule, anger and violence is not the answer. But with any rule, there are exceptions.
The NRA leans very heavily to the Republican party. It's likely that many (if not most) voted for Bush at least twice. Damn single issue voters, they can't see the forest for the trees.
:), but its important that the people in the government know that we are aware of our rights and are willing to fight for them.
True, the NRA guys tend to be more Republican vs Democrat, but they also openly state that they will stand by an incumbent regardless of party affiliation.
I'm a Libertarian, and don't see too much of a difference between the dominant two parties, but I will say that I'm more democratic vs republican, but there are little real differences between them today.
The NRA is supposedly the most influential lobby groups in the US. And, yes, we/they are a bunch of narrow minded, cant see the forest for the trees, bunch of people like any extremist group. But I feel more comfortable living in a country that has a NRA like group and a 2nd amendment. The NRA ignores the part about the "well regulated militia", and I'm a little more open to have some form of regulation there.
But when things like the police illegally taking people's firearms in New Orleans after the hurricane when its up to the citizens to protect themselves in such a situation, and then the liberties that we have lost in the name of the "War on Terror". Well, these things need to stop.
I'm not advocating an armed march on the White House (yet
The US constitution is excellent, and when elected officials that are supposed to "uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States." Well, its up to us to make sure this happens.
Bring back civics classes!
Actually, I wonder why government run schools and curriculums play so little emphasis on history and civics.
In HS, I took 4 years of math, 4 years of foreign language (3 if I stuck with one language), 3 or 4 years of English, 3 or 4 years of science, yet one year of history, and 1/2 to 1 year of a joke "US government" class taught by the basketball coach who liked to fuck the hot senior girls.
I have 6 years of college (undergrad/masters) and took zero history, per the requirements, which I regret now.
Hmm, what did Aleister Crowley, say? --
"Knowledge shared is power lost."
Gotcha.
111 Million other americans (according to their numbers) hate this idea.
Now that's a lot of pissed off people.
To put this in perspective, the 1992 LA riots were caused by a couple thousand black and latinos.
100+ million organized, trained, armed, and literally "dead serious" people can do a LOT of damage.
Yes, the US military is second to absolutely no one in this world. But its proven that they are not very good a gorilla warfare, which is what a 100+ million uprising within the country would be.
Get ready.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." -- Thomas Jefferson
To make this like a meeting and have an action item to leave with, this translates into
1) Openly speak out. Yes, Bush should be impeached. Removed from office? Dunno, but impeachment is the first step to figure this stuff out.
2) Join the NRA and learn how to protect yourself and your family _AND_ buy at least 20-30,000 rounds of ammo.
Americans have become such lazy pussies over the years, I guess because they don't think too much, and times have been good for a while, but that is changing, and we need to change in turn.
We need to be outraged about the BS this government is doing nowadays. No, its not OK to tap my phone. Worried about terrorism, protect our borders thank you. You have the personnel and equipment, now go do your job. With the millions of people walking into our country every year, and the tons of "illegal" goods coming by boat, airplane, tunnels, car, and tractor trailer, its trivial to do a substitute on the cargo for "terrorist" goods and services.
We run this country, not the government. The government works for us, remember?
The "Psyops" the government has waged against people in the US and abroad has worked very well on the weak minded people. These manipulations of the government by citing the "War on terror" and the "Save the children" campaigns are clever, and have worked for a while on stupid people, but those days are over.
Also every time this wiretap nonsense gets mentioned, remember that al Queda (according to the 9/11/01 report) got away with the attacks because _they did NOT use any electronic form of communication_.
Tapping phones and all of the other illegal shit the government is doing is only a form of terrorism against the people of this country. None of these current efforts will affect the "bad guys".
Another reason is that gasprices in the US are incredibly low from a european point of view
And currently, e85 is subsidized by the US government. Wait until people get hooked on it, and then, it will be the same or more than gas (which is already e10 or so already depending on your location and time of year). In the "free" market, they call it bait and switch.
I'm adamantly opposed to government subsidies. It screws up the real free market.
Skin is an organ, right?
Yup, the biggest one we have.
I mean, I know no label really wants to sell old Prince videos, but somehow they're huge on YouTube.
:)
A little offtopic, but bootlegged Prince stuff is very popular, and I have a neat conspiracy-conspiracy theory to follow.
There is tons of "bootlegged" Prince stuff out there, and Prince freaks buy it just like they pay $300-$400 for tickets to see him every time he plays a live gig because they always sell out. The most infamous bootlegged album is "The Black Album" that came out in the late 80s. I knew a guy who owned a used record store that pretty much payed his rent with bootlegged Prince stuff, or at least that is what he said. As weird as Prince is, I believe that he purposely allows bootlegged versions of his stuff to float around to add mystique to himself between the fans and himself.
My conspiracy-conspiracy theory is this. I believe that there will always be conspiracy theorists, and the government and people like Prince realize this, and they actually help leak material to the underground to keep people guessing.
I'm a wannabe conspiracy theorist, but one thing that gets me is how is there always so much conflicting and what kills me is the quality of _low quality_ "evidence" out there. Stuff like the infamous "bin Laden" FBI tape that is of such low quality, I don't know how anybody in the past 10 or 15 years could make such a low quality video unless they did it on purpose. And the simple volume of conflicting information is simply baffling. For a long time I believed there was at least more of a conspiracy theory behind the JFK assassination. Guess what changed my mind? I downloaded the Zabruder(sp?) film off of google videos and watched it for myself. The infamous Oliver Stone "back and to the left" thing went out the window. That guy was taken out by a hit that went out of his throat and that killer head shot from up and behind him. Its clear when you watch it (and scary). But 30+ years of conspiracy would have just disappeared if the government had released the tape a long time ago, but noooo, lets keep the people guessing, and keep those Prince concerts sold out
Needless to say, today we are an all-HP shop. We have a local reseller who provides excellent on-site service, and who I can reach directly; no IVR, no switchboard; I call my tech directly.
I have HP equipment and can say the same about support.
HP has the best support staff and excellent equipment (higher end for me).
I'm a very happy customer, but they make it hard to buy their equipment for some reason, maybe I need to find a reseller?
No one buys a console because of the power of the hardware, they buy it for the games that are on it. Therefore the PS3 will be sold to those who play games that will be exclusive to the PS3.
Not necessarily. I will buy a PS3 simply because of the power of the hardware, and I'll like to see the intense graphics and good gameplay on my HDTV.
My last console was an Atari 2600.
My point, is that there is a blend of hardware and software. Often, hardware leads software, but with OSS, this has changed.
Macs may of had a better GUI before OSX, but I could not ever get into them because the OS was unstable. Maybe if I spent some time and learned the workarounds like I do with current buggy Mac OSes (Tiger is buggy!), but with unprotected memory and having bomb error messages all the time, Macs did not appeal to me. Neither did Windows ever really appeal much to me aside from Win95. Honestly, that was a pretty decent OS at the time. I started using Linux in 94, but I used Win95 up to about 1997, and after the last time that Windows got hozed, I realized that Linux was better, despite some of the creature feature apps that was available for Windows.
Used Linux for a while, and then Apple started getting a stable release of their GUI with real UNIX under the hood (OSX 10.3).
Even at $500 or $600 a PS3 will be the best gaming platform that I could buy without spending $2k+, and then I would have to endure Windows. For $5-600, you get dual display HDTV resolution graphics, and good 3d graphics and good sound and very likely good software. A mid-range video card costs this (high end is currently between $1,000 to $1,600+). A moderate sound card costs this (high end is between $400 and $1k+). A good monitor costs this or much more.
I'm a strange "early" or "late" adopter. I early adopt stuff as soon as its either 1st to market or clearly the best bang for the buck for a multi-use system. These new PS3s are going to be amazing.
Make that $5000 PC a $2000 PC
If you don't like the price or performance of a computer today, wait a minute.
These computers will eventually cost less than $2k. I work with "high end" HPC types of machines, and my G4 laptop would have been on the top500 list a decade or so ago.
With "high tech" the bleeding edge is always going to cost, but also it sells. In a few years we will all have this kind of equipment as part of an "average" PC. But, we still won't be able to afford or justify the cost of the new good stuff.
They got Chuck Norris to roundhouse kick the regular light until it started moving backward!
Yeah, but the cool thing is that he did it in the future after he were dead!
Does anyone pause and think about the amazing ease with which, say a 12 year old can access this stuff?
Does anyone know that odds are a 12 year old won't know what to do with the stuff?
Maybe I was a slow developer, but at 12 I did not understand sex or even how to masturbate to ejaculation. I knew my dick would get hard from time to time, and it felt good to touch it, but my hormones and brain was not ready for sex yet.
involved?
I guess this is yet another "save the children" campaign.
But guess what? Most people that abuse children are trusted friends or family members, not some slashdot geek in his mom's basement in Maine going after the poor children looking at websites at the library in California.
The problem is not MySpace or Slashdot, its that the US is full of lonely scared sick people that take it out of the easiest victims that they can, children. And although it is pretty common to do minor pedophilia, severe and chronic abuse is very rare.
So brilliant legislators, what is next? Outlawing telephones, children in public places, school, libraries, music, TV, well, everything besides the privilege of paying taxes?
Dipshits.
Keep taking our liberties, and you will understand what the 2nd amendment is all about.
It doesn't make sense to try to sue your customer
Oh really?
She rejected the evidence and tried to send a SPY into his organization.
OK, but reading the article, I kept thinking to myself, "Who takes these kinds of jobs, and why do they try so hard at them?"
Are these people on commission or are they just naturally assholes and like it that way?
My african greys call each other by name when asking for anything.
Fill us in. I've only heard parrots say simple, seemingly random things to people or just utterances out loud. I've never heard of them talking to each other.
What do they ask for, and how? Give us a little dialog please....
"reasonable doubt" is a legal term, not a scientific one.
Very true, but also proofs are for math, not science.
Allowed to be played? As in by the same stations that are frantically trying to sell whatever latest artist the big labels have signed? I often listen to music older than a couple of years, its quality has nothing to do with the radio play-list.
:) I just get bored of the repetition after 10 or 20 minutes. Its definitely talented, especially on the production side, I just find it boring.
No, I mean allowed by the fans. Typically, if its 2+ years old, its viewed as, well, old. Its an observation, not a judgment.
Same with sex or music or whatever, what you do on your own time behind closed doors does not affect me. I don't care. There is music I like that my friends or whatever don't, but we can at least agree on something. Its not that big of a deal. I'm not going to have a good time listening to something that everybody else hates regardless of how much I may care for it. Same goes with timing. If its early in the night, I'm not going to play some mellow, laid back song, something more upbeat. Later in the night, the mellow laid back song might work.
But then you detest the music, so you wouldn't see it as likely. But as I and others get older and begin to fossilize, I dare say there will be a radio station that I can seek solace in with some classic Eminem and remind myself of "real music".
Time will tell. I even like some of Eminem's older stuff. Much better than most other music in that genre. Pretty intense actually. But 10 years from now, I don't see people listening to Eminem any more than they do "Ice Ice Baby" aside for amusement.
Again, I don't care what people listen to. Different strokes for different folks, but I am making an argument that I believe hip-hop and whatnot is something that will not stand the test of time. I could be entirely wrong, time will tell. Hey, I can chill and nod my head to that blowjob song too
If the company is unwilling to do what is necessary to secure the environment, then as an IS professional you are largely helpless.
Measures against security just like safety are directly proportional to the level of perceived threat.
So in other words it will take a massive breach in their world or to someone they know before the proper measures are taken.
Nobody protects a piggy bank with an armored tank. Fort Knox has an Army base beside it.