You're too late, that particular horse bolted back when they allowed divorce. The traditional family myth harks back to a time when parents regularly died in their thirties; (stuff about broken families deleted)
A) Divorce has been around for a very, very long time. Marriage has been around for at least a couple of weeks longer:)
B) Broken families have always been there - you are right.
C) None of that says anything about the real issue in marriage, which is a social unit designed to raise children who happen to be fairly unproductive to society until they grow up. Without the family unit, who cares for the children? That is the real issue in civil unions - they give benefits reserved for a structure intended to raise children to people who the vast majority of the time will not create or raise a child.
hey companies whine about how if you mandate lower prices yadda yadda they won't be able to fund their research blah blah, but they're paying more in marketing than they are in research anyway.
THere's got to be a reason that drug companies will cut anything... but coninue to spend on marketing.
Maybe some of us overteched companies could learn something?
We don't whine, we do useless stuff like support charities, create enterprises that keep people employed and fight to keep this country one where you can say: Bush is an evil fuck" in public without fear of jail. The useful stuff we do includes buying union built SUVs, lending money to people so they can buy their own home, and of course, making sure farmers can stay competitive on the global market... oh yeah, we also try to keep taxes low because high taxes suck.
This war was a horrible idea, poorly executed, and has increased the danger to America while draining it of treasure and international goodwill
Actually, as wars go, it was brilliantly executed, with a minimal loss of life and has a chance of success. Wars do take longer than a football game or world series to decide.
I love how all the discussion of marriage leaves out the most important part: children. At the end of the day, the traditional family has been society's way of creating social units to ultimately raise the next generation.
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given US-EU tensions and Swiss-EU tensions,
The US-EU tensions are the usual... the last 50 years was great because we had a common enemy. The tough part of being neutral is that people like you because you don't take sides and people hate you because you wont take sides.
Europe's interests and the interests of us upstarts in the new world aren't always so well aligned with europe.
You need capitalists on your side to win. Calling a capitalist a "Nazi" neither helps your case as well as being an oximoron - A capitalist national-socialist? Please.
True capitalists do not believe that regulation of free trade is the answer. And intellectual property is most definately regulation.
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I don't fully understand this american hatred of Switzerland, since it mostly seems to fall in one of two categories: The Banks hiding illegal money and Switzerland's neutrality
I don't think Americans or our government dislike the Swiss at all. We have immense respect for a country that consistently stands up for what it believes in and is a very responsible and trusted player on the world stage. More so that us Americans.
...but the idea that new legislation is going curb the tax advantages of outsourcing is ludicrous.
Right you are, ken: You just can't address a disparity in wage ($8-$15 per hour versus $1-$5 per hour) with a tax loophole. It's a cost issue, not a tax issue. Outsourcing and offshoring are not one and the same. Outsourcing is moving business functions out of your company to a contractor who could be anywhere in the world. Kerry can't do a thing about Outsourcing as it would violate many, many trade agreements and would put us in a worse foreign relations situation than Iraq did. Offshoring tyipcally involves setting up a subsidiary in a foreign country and moving business functions there. There is a tax loophole that can be fixed, but it still wouldn't stop the tide as companies using an offshoring strategy would simply change models to outsourced.
The moral of the story is that all of those trade agreements that enjoyed huge bipartisan support in the 80s and 90s were probably not a good idea.
Politicians see the power of free information, especially in the way it affects their ability to campaign
I can assure you that incumbents see the internet as a very dangerous enemy as it gives a very loud voice to what they precieve are small, underfunded, fringe opposition groups.
Incumbent politicians are the ones with the votes - that is why you should be very afraid of DCMA 2.0
I'd say we block the US back to the stone age, and let them rot in their IP-infested hole until they realize they have fallen so far behind the times, they need to do something about their problem.
Don't worry - the global market will take care of this. In the us the IP zealots remind me of the kids that would say "No one can have french fries because I GOT THEM FIRST!" Come on.
Yes, Democrats were sent in, but only to to try to keep the vote blockers under control, not to do their own blocking of Republican votes. Again, perhaps more nobility than these ugly circumstances warrant.
LOLx2 Come on. The whole point of what is going on in Florida by both sides is to set the election to be determined by the courts if it is close. The Dems win in state courts, the republicans at the US Supreme court. The gamble the dems are taking is that the appeal will not make it to the Supreme Court fast enough.
All the paritsan politics aside, the process needs some reform to get the political operatives off the premisis.
Wow. Slashdot Politics really is as bad as I thought if it advocates that Kerry actually has a position. That is like saying that Bush speaks perfect english.
I'm sorry but Kerry has one consistent position: he's not Bush. Everything else that comes out of his mouth is spin. That said, Bush is the same thing: he's not Kerry and everything that comes out of his mouth is spin.
If you think for ONE MINUTE that a president might even remotely try to do something with the DCMA that involves giving citizens rights, you are an idiot. Neither of these candidates will lift a finger to help. When the bloviation, spin and pandering stops, what you have is one candidate that favors large, non-union corporations and one that favors large, union corporations. One will fix healthcare by dealing with a provider-cost issue. The other will fix healthcare by dealing with a buyer cost issue. One will pack the court with biased judges. The other will pack the court with biased judges. One changes position to popular demand. The other tries to change popular demand to his position. Oh, yeah, and both will continue to slog it out in Iraq.
Nice choice. I wish the people in this country would stop trying so hard to disagree and get a consensus already on stuff that matters. At least we all agree that we disagree that the country's headed the wrong way. Unfortunately, if bad things happen in the north, the solution is to go south, not northeast or northwest.
* Unfairly prejudicial graphical elements and clip art
* Animations and reconstructions that may come across as more objectively precise than is the case
* "PowerPoint" being used to refer to any graphical presentation, like how people refer to software as "the Microsoft"
That global warming exists? Or in disusing the cause? One of the biggest problems the more extreme environmentalits have is this kind of rhetoric. It speaks so loud that no one can hear what yon are trying to say.
That said, if yon want capitalists to get it, show the impact overtime on thier assets and customer's ability to buy. Everyone is going to starve does not sound very credible, though it may be true
Most of the posts have been reliability yada yada...
Here are the real differences:
Chipsets are different - and focus on throughput. RAM accuracy (yes... there is a difference) Built in pre-failure diagnostics Redundancy Hot swapable components
When you look at pressing desktops into server use, analyze the cost of downtime. Let's say you have a sales team hooked to your server - 8 users. Server is down 1 hour. Sales are $8,000/day. You lose 1/8 of your sales for the day. You just lost $1K in revenue plus your time spent fixing. This happens 10 times... you can see where the desktop gets expensive.
but that there is no way to get enough troops to do everything that the Bush administration wants to do without either reinstating the draft or restoring the confidence of our allies and our citizens.
At this point I think Kerry deserves to win the election. He probably is the better candidate - but I honestly believe he can't win. Here is why Kerry hasn't slammed the door on Bush: This election isn't about 2 years ago or 30 years ago. It's about the next four years.
Kerry is making the same mistakes that Bob Dole and George HW Bush. Kerry is reliving the past. I wish Kerry would stop reliving the past and give us a reason to look at the future. His vision for the future will not sell to most of Americe: Higher taxes and a half-hearted attempt at winning "a grand diversion". Bush has always been very adept at dealing with domestic policy, an I fear that while Kerry will be pointing out past mistakes, Bush will be pushing future solutions... just like he did in 2000 with the drug benefits, no child left behind, etc... like the laws or not, the ideas sold well enough to get him a hair less than half the popular vote...
At the end of the day, I'm not delighted by four years of either of the candidates. They both stink.
RIAA represents the distributors and record companies in their quest to collect money. BMI, SESAC, ASCAP etc collect royalties for everyone else - particularly from broadcast use.
The world doesn't need another seven headed hydra to collect money for artists. It needs to kill the current seven headed one and replace it with an easier to understand single-headed dragon.
Politicians these days will never, ever make strong stands on anything that the pollsters suggest might cost votes. Only greed and a thirst for power matter to most of them.
And ironically, people here would line up to vote for a candidate that was not greedy and did not thirst for power.
In 2002 I helped a relative run for office in a county in east-central indiana. What I learned there is that any system that you don't have to show up and identify yourself before you vote is very easy to defraud. That's why internet voting is scary. It's also why absentee ballots are scary.
Parties would look for nursing homes, hospitals and homebound senior citizens and help people there get absentee ballots. Sounds great until step two: Operatives would then come back and help them fill in the absentee ballots. Amazing how many straight ticket R or D ballots came in. In this particular year, the D's won the foot race to get more ballots.
His implementation of foreign policy was far from perfect but he clearly meant well (for a US president anyway) and the general approach was fairly multilateral by today's standards. eg its conceivable that Clinton might have signed the US up to the "Kyoto Protocol" on carbon emissions.
Not likely. Kyoto Protocol would have been economic suicide for the US and much of Europe.
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You're too late, that particular horse bolted back when they allowed divorce. The traditional family myth harks back to a time when parents regularly died in their thirties; (stuff about broken families deleted)
:)
A) Divorce has been around for a very, very long time. Marriage has been around for at least a couple of weeks longer
B) Broken families have always been there - you are right.
C) None of that says anything about the real issue in marriage, which is a social unit designed to raise children who happen to be fairly unproductive to society until they grow up. Without the family unit, who cares for the children? That is the real issue in civil unions - they give benefits reserved for a structure intended to raise children to people who the vast majority of the time will not create or raise a child.
hey companies whine about how if you mandate lower prices yadda yadda they won't be able to fund their research blah blah, but they're paying more in marketing than they are in research anyway.
THere's got to be a reason that drug companies will cut anything... but coninue to spend on marketing.
Maybe some of us overteched companies could learn something?
Going by how the Republicans whine,
We don't whine, we do useless stuff like support charities, create enterprises that keep people employed and fight to keep this country one where you can say: Bush is an evil fuck" in public without fear of jail. The useful stuff we do includes buying union built SUVs, lending money to people so they can buy their own home, and of course, making sure farmers can stay competitive on the global market... oh yeah, we also try to keep taxes low because high taxes suck.
This war was a horrible idea, poorly executed, and has increased the danger to America while draining it of treasure and international goodwill
Actually, as wars go, it was brilliantly executed, with a minimal loss of life and has a chance of success. Wars do take longer than a football game or world series to decide.
I love how all the discussion of marriage leaves out the most important part: children. At the end of the day, the traditional family has been society's way of creating social units to ultimately raise the next generation.
given US-EU tensions and Swiss-EU tensions,
The US-EU tensions are the usual... the last 50 years was great because we had a common enemy. The tough part of being neutral is that people like you because you don't take sides and people hate you because you wont take sides.
Europe's interests and the interests of us upstarts in the new world aren't always so well aligned with europe.
Expect the capitalist-copyright-nazi
You need capitalists on your side to win. Calling a capitalist a "Nazi" neither helps your case as well as being an oximoron - A capitalist national-socialist? Please.
True capitalists do not believe that regulation of free trade is the answer. And intellectual property is most definately regulation.
I don't fully understand this american hatred of Switzerland, since it mostly seems to fall in one of two categories: The Banks hiding illegal money and Switzerland's neutrality
I don't think Americans or our government dislike the Swiss at all. We have immense respect for a country that consistently stands up for what it believes in and is a very responsible and trusted player on the world stage. More so that us Americans.
...but the idea that new legislation is going curb the tax advantages of outsourcing is ludicrous.
Right you are, ken: You just can't address a disparity in wage ($8-$15 per hour versus $1-$5 per hour) with a tax loophole. It's a cost issue, not a tax issue. Outsourcing and offshoring are not one and the same. Outsourcing is moving business functions out of your company to a contractor who could be anywhere in the world. Kerry can't do a thing about Outsourcing as it would violate many, many trade agreements and would put us in a worse foreign relations situation than Iraq did. Offshoring tyipcally involves setting up a subsidiary in a foreign country and moving business functions there. There is a tax loophole that can be fixed, but it still wouldn't stop the tide as companies using an offshoring strategy would simply change models to outsourced.
The moral of the story is that all of those trade agreements that enjoyed huge bipartisan support in the 80s and 90s were probably not a good idea.
Politicians see the power of free information, especially in the way it affects their ability to campaign
I can assure you that incumbents see the internet as a very dangerous enemy as it gives a very loud voice to what they precieve are small, underfunded, fringe opposition groups.
Incumbent politicians are the ones with the votes - that is why you should be very afraid of DCMA 2.0
I'd say we block the US back to the stone age, and let them rot in their IP-infested hole until they realize they have fallen so far behind the times, they need to do something about their problem.
Don't worry - the global market will take care of this. In the us the IP zealots remind me of the kids that would say "No one can have french fries because I GOT THEM FIRST!" Come on.
IP is a dumb idea who's time has gone.
Yes, Democrats were sent in, but only to to try to keep the vote blockers under control, not to do their own blocking of Republican votes. Again, perhaps more nobility than these ugly circumstances warrant.
LOLx2 Come on. The whole point of what is going on in Florida by both sides is to set the election to be determined by the courts if it is close. The Dems win in state courts, the republicans at the US Supreme court. The gamble the dems are taking is that the appeal will not make it to the Supreme Court fast enough.
All the paritsan politics aside, the process needs some reform to get the political operatives off the premisis.
Wow. Slashdot Politics really is as bad as I thought if it advocates that Kerry actually has a position. That is like saying that Bush speaks perfect english.
I'm sorry but Kerry has one consistent position: he's not Bush. Everything else that comes out of his mouth is spin. That said, Bush is the same thing: he's not Kerry and everything that comes out of his mouth is spin.
If you think for ONE MINUTE that a president might even remotely try to do something with the DCMA that involves giving citizens rights, you are an idiot. Neither of these candidates will lift a finger to help. When the bloviation, spin and pandering stops, what you have is one candidate that favors large, non-union corporations and one that favors large, union corporations. One will fix healthcare by dealing with a provider-cost issue. The other will fix healthcare by dealing with a buyer cost issue. One will pack the court with biased judges. The other will pack the court with biased judges. One changes position to popular demand. The other tries to change popular demand to his position. Oh, yeah, and both will continue to slog it out in Iraq.
Nice choice. I wish the people in this country would stop trying so hard to disagree and get a consensus already on stuff that matters. At least we all agree that we disagree that the country's headed the wrong way. Unfortunately, if bad things happen in the north, the solution is to go south, not northeast or northwest.
Why not the Wall Street Journal or something that is more relevant to everyone. Not everyone reads NYT. USA Today would be better...
* Unfairly prejudicial graphical elements and clip art
* Animations and reconstructions that may come across as more objectively precise than is the case
* "PowerPoint" being used to refer to any graphical presentation, like how people refer to software as "the Microsoft"
And this differs from other evidence exactly how?
How is "server ram" any better? RAM is RAM.
* Throughput is different.
* Error Correcting vs. Error identification (parity) if you are lucky in the desktop.
What, did you think the price delta between server and normal was just a marketing ploy?
The fact is, there IS NO OTHER SIDE.
That global warming exists? Or in disusing the cause? One of the biggest problems the more extreme environmentalits have is this kind of rhetoric. It speaks so loud that no one can hear what yon are trying to say.
That said, if yon want capitalists to get it, show the impact overtime on thier assets and customer's ability to buy. Everyone is going to starve does not sound very credible, though it may be true
Buy a couple of 60 GB drives and removable trays.
Done.
Most of the posts have been reliability yada yada...
Here are the real differences:
Chipsets are different - and focus on throughput.
RAM accuracy (yes... there is a difference)
Built in pre-failure diagnostics
Redundancy
Hot swapable components
When you look at pressing desktops into server use, analyze the cost of downtime. Let's say you have a sales team hooked to your server - 8 users. Server is down 1 hour. Sales are $8,000/day. You lose 1/8 of your sales for the day. You just lost $1K in revenue plus your time spent fixing. This happens 10 times... you can see where the desktop gets expensive.
I could see a movie from a game with a decent plot:
* Fallout the movie
* Homeworld
* Max Payne (ok... it's a spoof on movies, so spoof the spoof)
But... Doom? Three possibly worse movies:
* Space Invaders the motion picture.
* Star Control
* Super Mario... oh wait...
Even wolfenstien would be better than doom... I need a medkit.
but that there is no way to get enough troops to do everything that the Bush administration wants to do without either reinstating the draft or restoring the confidence of our allies and our citizens.
I find your lack of confidence disturbing.
W
At this point I think Kerry deserves to win the election. He probably is the better candidate - but I honestly believe he can't win. Here is why Kerry hasn't slammed the door on Bush: This election isn't about 2 years ago or 30 years ago. It's about the next four years.
Kerry is making the same mistakes that Bob Dole and George HW Bush. Kerry is reliving the past. I wish Kerry would stop reliving the past and give us a reason to look at the future. His vision for the future will not sell to most of Americe: Higher taxes and a half-hearted attempt at winning "a grand diversion". Bush has always been very adept at dealing with domestic policy, an I fear that while Kerry will be pointing out past mistakes, Bush will be pushing future solutions... just like he did in 2000 with the drug benefits, no child left behind, etc... like the laws or not, the ideas sold well enough to get him a hair less than half the popular vote...
At the end of the day, I'm not delighted by four years of either of the candidates. They both stink.
RIAA represents the distributors and record companies in their quest to collect money. BMI, SESAC, ASCAP etc collect royalties for everyone else - particularly from broadcast use.
The world doesn't need another seven headed hydra to collect money for artists. It needs to kill the current seven headed one and replace it with an easier to understand single-headed dragon.
Politicians these days will never, ever make strong stands on anything that the pollsters suggest might cost votes. Only greed and a thirst for power matter to most of them.
And ironically, people here would line up to vote for a candidate that was not greedy and did not thirst for power.
In 2002 I helped a relative run for office in a county in east-central indiana. What I learned there is that any system that you don't have to show up and identify yourself before you vote is very easy to defraud. That's why internet voting is scary. It's also why absentee ballots are scary.
Parties would look for nursing homes, hospitals and homebound senior citizens and help people there get absentee ballots. Sounds great until step two: Operatives would then come back and help them fill in the absentee ballots. Amazing how many straight ticket R or D ballots came in. In this particular year, the D's won the foot race to get more ballots.
His implementation of foreign policy was far from perfect but he clearly meant well (for a US president anyway) and the general approach was fairly multilateral by today's standards. eg its conceivable that Clinton might have signed the US up to the "Kyoto Protocol" on carbon emissions.
Not likely. Kyoto Protocol would have been economic suicide for the US and much of Europe.