attract a decent admin and IT staff who will demand more pay. Which means... that taxes will have to be increased.
I could see the department pointing to this argument next time the budget is produced, but I don't buy it. The issue is not that they have insufficient resources to hire qualified IT staff, it is that they are too short sighted to see that a qualified staff will lead to lower costs in the long run.
I hope Colorado voters wonder why the department had enough money to mail out 30 day extensions to everyone; that cannot be innexpensive (even assuming 1/12th of registered vehicles). I am willing to bet that the department has also had major hardware upgrades in the last couple years. It is planning and working with what is available, not causing an uproar and trying to get more that we want our governments to be doing.
I can't go to my boss and say I need a raise because I don't know how to take care of my computer. Don't let your state ask you for a raise with that excuse.
We need to restore justice to the system. Stockholders are owners, and should be liable for the consequences of that ownership like any other owners. I have no doubt that the market will come up with "portfolio insurance" to protect the stockholders from ruinous claims, but that in itself will provide a market check on unrestrained, unaccountable growth -- companies which act irresponsibly will find that their stockholders can't buy, or have to pay unreasonably high, insurance premiums, and therefore aren't interested in having the stock.
The Initiative for Software Choice (ISC)... wrote letters to Reynolds and other legislators stating that the bill would create a climate
favoring open-source software and "harm Oklahoma's public administration, its IT industry and workers" by eliminating competition.
My head is still spinning. This seems to mean that Microsoft (ISC's backer) is stating they cannot compete with OSS without laws creating barriers to adoption. I read the rest of the article looking for clearification, but just saw more examples of Microsoft pumping large sums of money into politics to make sure they don't have to compete. Microsoft has a history of purchasing competitors and there aren't too many companies they can point at next time they get hauled off to court for in a monopoly suit. Those they can point at are either open source (OO.org, Linux, apache, mysql, Mozilla) or have been working to build a relationship with the OSS community (IBM, Sun).
Is this lobbying effort going to build the winning anti-trust case against them?
For the last couple months Google has done similar ads in the Mensa publication. I think it speaks well of the company that they try to weed out candidates by testing problem solving rather than by who has the prettiest resume.
With open borders, the problems of illegal immigration will disappear. Once the borders are open, all immigrants will be legal.
The problems illegal immigration currently causes are to the immigrants, not the native born. A steady supply of cheap labor helps many parts of our country. The labor cannot effectively organize or question management, as they can call the federal government to remove those that dare speak up; replacement labor is available.
If you think that the problem with illegal immigrants is taking jobs from American Citizens, try roofing in 100 degree heat one day.
What if voting machines conspired to elect a whacko to presidental office? Do you really want to think how many people would be killed if we a madman in the Whitehouse?
IANAL, but writing stuff all over the sidewalk (over an extended area) - even in chalk - has to be against some local laws.
Yes, this may be in violation of some local ordinance. What concerns me is that the arresting officers and their superiors are not sure what ordinance it violates, so they confiscate his property and arrest him anyway.
A free society dies when law enforcement can begin arresting people and look for an illegal act later. If proffesionals are no longer sure of what is legal, how is an ordinary citizen able to stay within the law?
We had markets, then we had capitalism, and socialism was a reaction to industrial-era capitalism. There's been an assumption that since communism failed, capitalism is triumphant, therefore humans have stopped evolving new systems for economic production.
I would assume the 'markets' he is referring to are a group of vendors bartering with customers way back before laws were created to regulate the trading. This has evolved to a highly regulated form of capitalism found in most western nations and in some cases the regulation has become enough to call it socialism.
If the ideal of global competition being opened and forcing the removal or regulations that keep obsolete industries working, it sounds like we are moving right back to where we started.
Visit a flea market and talk prices with some vendors. That is the only place I see open capitalism, and I find it refreshing.
Before the cow died I put in about six years in one of their shops and watched spyware grow. I learned how to deal with the problem more quickly.
Rename registry run keys (I append a + sign)
Newer versions on Windows delete all Browser "Helper" Objects in the registry
Create move items in Startup group to a new directory (startold)
Comment out RUN= and LOAD= in win.ini
Make sure SHELL= in system.ini only lists explorer or progman
Reboot, the nasty ones will repopulate their entries. Eliminate with prejudice.
With the number of times I did this, the process was about 60 seconds + reboot time (a little longer with XP) before going though and deleting the applications.
I started a slow change from Windows to Linux in late '98 and tried out many different distributions and settled on Slackware pretty quickly.
I have had installation nightmares with Mandrake, Suse, Redhat, Yellow Dog, and I'm sure there have been more. I have less trouble configuring Slack and keeping it updated. I did have to learn Linux in the process, but that was what I set out to do when moving from Windows.
As updated versions of other distros come around, I give them a test drive on my laptop and always end up moving back to Slack. It just works and you don't have any little utilities trying to take over your config files.
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I could see the department pointing to this argument next time the budget is produced, but I don't buy it. The issue is not that they have insufficient resources to hire qualified IT staff, it is that they are too short sighted to see that a qualified staff will lead to lower costs in the long run.
I hope Colorado voters wonder why the department had enough money to mail out 30 day extensions to everyone; that cannot be innexpensive (even assuming 1/12th of registered vehicles). I am willing to bet that the department has also had major hardware upgrades in the last couple years. It is planning and working with what is available, not causing an uproar and trying to get more that we want our governments to be doing.
I can't go to my boss and say I need a raise because I don't know how to take care of my computer. Don't let your state ask you for a raise with that excuse.
Does this explain it for you?
My head is still spinning. This seems to mean that Microsoft (ISC's backer) is stating they cannot compete with OSS without laws creating barriers to adoption. I read the rest of the article looking for clearification, but just saw more examples of Microsoft pumping large sums of money into politics to make sure they don't have to compete. Microsoft has a history of purchasing competitors and there aren't too many companies they can point at next time they get hauled off to court for in a monopoly suit. Those they can point at are either open source (OO.org, Linux, apache, mysql, Mozilla) or have been working to build a relationship with the OSS community (IBM, Sun).
Is this lobbying effort going to build the winning anti-trust case against them?
For those interested, it is available in Real or WMF format.
Seriously, the US numbers put Kerry ahead of Bush 3-1, which makes it about as reliable as a /. poll.
It looks like Microsoft may have its new WinFS after all...
For the last couple months Google has done similar ads in the Mensa publication. I think it speaks well of the company that they try to weed out candidates by testing problem solving rather than by who has the prettiest resume.
Without removing your shoes, please count to twenty.
The problems illegal immigration currently causes are to the immigrants, not the native born. A steady supply of cheap labor helps many parts of our country. The labor cannot effectively organize or question management, as they can call the federal government to remove those that dare speak up; replacement labor is available.
If you think that the problem with illegal immigrants is taking jobs from American Citizens, try roofing in 100 degree heat one day.
It seems only common sense to not allow the average user to mount a partition. As for getting this on your Linux machines, try man fstab.
I'm afraid I'll have nightmares from that for weeks now.
I'd say about 12,000.
Wouldn't it be more interesting to rename Linux distros?
Will they be going after Lynx users now?
I'd say there are a fair number of listings for a site that has been up one week.
http://i-neighbors.org/usa.php?rank=state
Hmm, I always thought that interoperability implied multiple platforms.
Yes, this may be in violation of some local ordinance. What concerns me is that the arresting officers and their superiors are not sure what ordinance it violates, so they confiscate his property and arrest him anyway.
A free society dies when law enforcement can begin arresting people and look for an illegal act later. If proffesionals are no longer sure of what is legal, how is an ordinary citizen able to stay within the law?
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/banned-books. html
(Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom and Gremlins) Now I feel old
I'd have to say you can't quite 'buy' loyalty. What IBM has done earned the respect of an army of geeks.
Seperate but equal?
I would assume the 'markets' he is referring to are a group of vendors bartering with customers way back before laws were created to regulate the trading. This has evolved to a highly regulated form of capitalism found in most western nations and in some cases the regulation has become enough to call it socialism.
If the ideal of global competition being opened and forcing the removal or regulations that keep obsolete industries working, it sounds like we are moving right back to where we started.
Visit a flea market and talk prices with some vendors. That is the only place I see open capitalism, and I find it refreshing.
- Rename registry run keys (I append a + sign)
- Newer versions on Windows delete all Browser "Helper" Objects in the registry
- Create move items in Startup group to a new directory (startold)
- Comment out RUN= and LOAD= in win.ini
- Make sure SHELL= in system.ini only lists explorer or progman
Reboot, the nasty ones will repopulate their entries. Eliminate with prejudice.With the number of times I did this, the process was about 60 seconds + reboot time (a little longer with XP) before going though and deleting the applications.
Regedit is your friend.
That's counting the decimal point, right?
I have had installation nightmares with Mandrake, Suse, Redhat, Yellow Dog, and I'm sure there have been more. I have less trouble configuring Slack and keeping it updated. I did have to learn Linux in the process, but that was what I set out to do when moving from Windows.
As updated versions of other distros come around, I give them a test drive on my laptop and always end up moving back to Slack. It just works and you don't have any little utilities trying to take over your config files.