"I find that you've completely discredited yourself in your apology for Drupal's inadequacy in serving their customers."
Drupal is a software package. No customers are down as a result. I can certainly admit that Drupal fucked up. With those traffic numbers I would have moved to my own set of boxes awhile ago.
"I find that you've completely discredited yourself in your apology for Drupal's inadequacy in serving their customers. Customers want reliability - it's one reason we switch to Linux from Microsoft when we can. That means that when they need to get info from the vendor, especially in an emergency, unavailability is a bottleneck they can't mitigate. Only you said it's "world ending", the hyperbolic distortions of someone who isn't interested in the facts, or learning anything. You just want to have it your way, with your fetish for Drupal."
Dude what fetish? I just used it for one project and was pleasantly surprised. Why all these personal attacks? What Drupal customers haven't been serviced as a result?
I can question your insight on several grounds. First off I have been on the business development side of the house for years. While this is certainly a problem, it's not the end of the world for Drupal. I have sold open source ecommerce systems since 1994 with the launch Hot Hot Hot, the hot sauce store launched by Presence Information Design. So that's roughly 11 years of sales experience in this particular field.
I sold an open source software company to good old VA.
You offer NO credentials about what you do or from what data set you are drawing your conclusions. You haven't established your authority yet.
Truthfully this is a huge screw up but they are handling it well. So it's hardly world ending for drupal.
Did I say anything about you being a marketdroid? I am hardly a hobbyist. I have founded several companies and have worked on the business development side of the house for years. My last company was sold to good old VA Software
"You are a hobbyist - open source doesn't have to be anything to you, except open, and source."
"Or it's suitable only for hobbyists, and people like you who are scared of success in the market."
Nice ad hominem attacks. As far this goes, its a minor affair, in fact I would use it as clear selling tool that we have exceeded our goals in growth. We didn't anticipate growth being this strong.
My point is this is a minor hiccup in a company's growth. As far being a successful businessman I have had more than my fair share of successes and failures.
Growing pains happen in every company. How you handle them is entirely indicative of the quality of the company.
Stop it with the ad hominem attacks, it's not helping your argument.
So when MS went down because of a DOS attack, they makes them a poor business partner? They are the richest company in the world, they should always be up right? My point is that sometimes things happen in business that you cannot plan for. Perhaps they were planning on upgrading. I doubt very much this will have ANY impact on drupal's long term acceptance in the community.
BTW I find the lectures about what you think customers want somewhat annoying. Customers care about having their own systems up and running. While it might be a cause for concern, it's hardly world ending.
I didn't call this a RICO case. I merely said that RICO cases have less than savory witnesses who plead their way to testifing. That's my only point. Not that this would fall under the RICO Act or this is a RICO case. If you will re-read my point, it should become clearer that I was talking about the credibility of the witness.
Evidence just like that stands up all the time. In fact almost all RICO cases are setup just like that. Of course that wouldn't be your only evidence - the bank records showing a withdrawl of X amount and a deposit in the same amount to the spyware providers.
I assume you have never seen a single episode of "Law & Order" but it works this way. The spyware company gets a subpoena. Good Eliot Spitzer notes, "Mr. Spyware provider under current NY State you will be going to jail 5 years of each occurrance of your spyware. I will reduce your sentence or drop the charges if you tell me who paid you to develop the spyware." The vendor not wishing to go to jail spills the beans. When engaged in illegal activity, this sort of thing happens all the time.
There's this thing called subpoena. They subpeona your financial records, your tax records. You don't comply, you go to jail for contempt. Paying it as a bonus to your boss won't get rid of the fact the transaction took place.
Not really - the AG would simply follow the money, right back to you. Spizer is going after willful ignorance, namely when you suspect there's a problem but chose just not to investigate it too closely thus remaining willfully ignorant.
I was in fifth grade. I then used the "Tang" as wine in a school play, getting the kids pretty well buzzed. It was incredibly funny at the time. The nuns did appreciate that I was able to change "Tang" to Wine.
Well with the common good portion added, home owners association fees would not count. Why? Because they are fees for the common good of the association, more akin to union dues.
As far as freedom of choice is concerned (I can not pay this or choice another provider), that is indicative of whether or not the entity is a government. If you have no choice, it's most likely a government. As someone said earlier about Borders, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it probably a duck.
I will agree that many third world nations problems stem from a lack of funds. Other examples such a Nigeria, a country with an abundance of oil wealth is pretty poorly run. So just not having money, and you cannot blame the prejudices of the world community for Nigeria's problems.
As far as my statement about your proposed government and third world nations, I will retract it. A largely world governmental entity such as that would undoubtedly poorly run. It would just be to unresponsive to local conditions. The bigger the entity, the bigger the institional inertia and bureacracy.
Illegal immigrants pay roughly $9 billion a year into the Social Security fund. How? They supply their employers with false social security numbers which the employer then withholds the appropriate Social security. Most of the people who are illegal aliens are not being "payed" (nice spelling) under the table. They hold a normal job and usually have a set of docs that look normal. Employers cannot screen whether or not a Social Security number is real. Btw those immigrants will never collect Social Security as they don't have a Social Security number.
A world administration equals a world government as this is a "governmental" function. You cannot propose certain governmental functions be taken over by a unnamed world entity and not claim that entity would have governmental power. Unless of course you could opt out and chose another entity. Is there freedom of choice under your system?
As far as having misconceptions about typical third nations, exactly what are they? I really haven't stated any, have I? I merely pointed out that your proposal would result in a massive income redistribution to the third world, effectively raising the standard of living there while lowering it in the first world. That's too be expected in such a proposal. For some people this is a worthy aim. For me it is not.
Please avoid personal attacks such as "Please educate yourself." At no time have I leveled such attacks at you.
Repeat after me. Just because something is government mandated - that doesn't make it a tax. I just today dropped my vehicle to be repaired. It had about $6k of hail damage. The insurance is footing the bill. Tax or is it really insurance. I think it's insurance.
"Based on the Universal Declaration of Human rights"? In that document they declare that insurance is a tax?
I have driven without insurance - I was found legally obligated for the damages in a accident. I paid the bill. Calling insurance a tax because its manadatory is silly.
Roads as general network effect is fine. However the thing that is not impacted is the cost of the road. My point is that roads are often built with local funds. The exception in the US was the Interstate highway system which was a tremendous success and actually supportive of your argument.
Pre fab buildings? This is an improvement? Nope. It is cheaper though. A standized curriculm has nothing to do with a global government providing a massive set of efficiencies - which is the crux of your argument. Service based industries such as schools do not scale well.
I suspect that under your proposed world government everything would run about as well as a typical third world nation as any world government would spread its dollars out, resulting in a massive re-distribution to the poorer countries.
None of the examples you cite did you call it taxation. There is a key difference between insurance and taxes. You do not have to pay the "insurance" tax. I suggest next time you walk into a retail establishment, demand not to pay the sales tax and watch the reaction. You said "just depends how you define taxation." Since you called your health insurance and not a health tax, I think it's safe to say that it's not a tax. By stretching the definition of tax to include every thing you spend money on you lose the definition of a tax.
1. It's manadatory. 2. It goes to the government. 3. You cannot switch providers of government unless you physically move.
You certainly can vote for/against the guy who sets up the tax. Just vote in your local election. Sales tax is set up the local and state goverment. Wanna get rid of the tax pull the lever for Libertarian then.
No. Borders has a substantial physical presence in CA. They then set up a complicated legal structure designed to shield them from paying CA sales tax. The court said, "This is a dodge. You are the same company trying to look like two seperate ones." Your company in Mexico doesn't nor will it ever until you have a substantial physical presence in the state.
While this might work on telcom projects, things like roads are not subjects to network effects (building of roads doesn't make road adaption cheaper elsewhere). Efficiencies of scale work for certain projects but you don't explain how that will help with local schools or potable water.
This means Borders must collect CA sales tax on orders shipping to CA. That's it. They set up this convoluted legal structure to avoid paying that tax and the court said these are substantially the same entity.
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Dude - You aren't quoting me. I didn't write that. Pay attention to who is posting.
"I find that you've completely discredited yourself in your apology for Drupal's inadequacy in serving their customers."
Drupal is a software package. No customers are down as a result. I can certainly admit that Drupal fucked up. With those traffic numbers I would have moved to my own set of boxes awhile ago.
"I find that you've completely discredited yourself in your apology for Drupal's inadequacy in serving their customers. Customers want reliability - it's one reason we switch to Linux from Microsoft when we can. That means that when they need to get info from the vendor, especially in an emergency, unavailability is a bottleneck they can't mitigate. Only you said it's "world ending", the hyperbolic distortions of someone who isn't interested in the facts, or learning anything. You just want to have it your way, with your fetish for Drupal."
Dude what fetish? I just used it for one project and was pleasantly surprised. Why all these personal attacks? What Drupal customers haven't been serviced as a result?
I can question your insight on several grounds. First off I have been on the business development side of the house for years. While this is certainly a problem, it's not the end of the world for Drupal. I have sold open source ecommerce systems since 1994 with the launch Hot Hot Hot, the hot sauce store launched by Presence Information Design. So that's roughly 11 years of sales experience in this particular field.
I sold an open source software company to good old VA.
You offer NO credentials about what you do or from what data set you are drawing your conclusions. You haven't established your authority yet.
Truthfully this is a huge screw up but they are handling it well. So it's hardly world ending for drupal.
Did I say anything about you being a marketdroid? I am hardly a hobbyist. I have founded several companies and have worked on the business development side of the house for years. My last company was sold to good old VA Software
"You are a hobbyist - open source doesn't have to be anything to you, except open, and source."
"Or it's suitable only for hobbyists, and people like you who are scared of success in the market."
Nice ad hominem attacks. As far this goes, its a minor affair, in fact I would use it as clear selling tool that we have exceeded our goals in growth. We didn't anticipate growth being this strong.
My point is this is a minor hiccup in a company's growth. As far being a successful businessman I have had more than my fair share of successes and failures.
Growing pains happen in every company. How you handle them is entirely indicative of the quality of the company.
Stop it with the ad hominem attacks, it's not helping your argument.
So when MS went down because of a DOS attack, they makes them a poor business partner? They are the richest company in the world, they should always be up right? My point is that sometimes things happen in business that you cannot plan for. Perhaps they were planning on upgrading. I doubt very much this will have ANY impact on drupal's long term acceptance in the community.
BTW I find the lectures about what you think customers want somewhat annoying. Customers care about having their own systems up and running. While it might be a cause for concern, it's hardly world ending.
Largely because it was a shared host. What's the big deal? They just out grew their environment.
I just finished a project using drupal. I found it pretty solid CMS. The code is clean and relatively easy to manage.
I didn't call this a RICO case. I merely said that RICO cases have less than savory witnesses who plead their way to testifing. That's my only point. Not that this would fall under the RICO Act or this is a RICO case. If you will re-read my point, it should become clearer that I was talking about the credibility of the witness.
Evidence just like that stands up all the time. In fact almost all RICO cases are setup just like that. Of course that wouldn't be your only evidence - the bank records showing a withdrawl of X amount and a deposit in the same amount to the spyware providers.
I assume you have never seen a single episode of "Law & Order" but it works this way. The spyware company gets a subpoena. Good Eliot Spitzer notes, "Mr. Spyware provider under current NY State you will be going to jail 5 years of each occurrance of your spyware. I will reduce your sentence or drop the charges if you tell me who paid you to develop the spyware." The vendor not wishing to go to jail spills the beans. When engaged in illegal activity, this sort of thing happens all the time.
There's this thing called subpoena. They subpeona your financial records, your tax records. You don't comply, you go to jail for contempt. Paying it as a bonus to your boss won't get rid of the fact the transaction took place.
Not really - the AG would simply follow the money, right back to you. Spizer is going after willful ignorance, namely when you suspect there's a problem but chose just not to investigate it too closely thus remaining willfully ignorant.
What Democrats on the bench?
I was in fifth grade. I then used the "Tang" as wine in a school play, getting the kids pretty well buzzed. It was incredibly funny at the time. The nuns did appreciate that I was able to change "Tang" to Wine.
Well with the common good portion added, home owners association fees would not count. Why? Because they are fees for the common good of the association, more akin to union dues.
As far as freedom of choice is concerned (I can not pay this or choice another provider), that is indicative of whether or not the entity is a government. If you have no choice, it's most likely a government. As someone said earlier about Borders, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it probably a duck.
I will agree that many third world nations problems stem from a lack of funds. Other examples such a Nigeria, a country with an abundance of oil wealth is pretty poorly run. So just not having money, and you cannot blame the prejudices of the world community for Nigeria's problems.
As far as my statement about your proposed government and third world nations, I will retract it. A largely world governmental entity such as that would undoubtedly poorly run. It would just be to unresponsive to local conditions. The bigger the entity, the bigger the institional inertia and bureacracy.
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Illegal immigrants pay roughly $9 billion a year into the Social Security fund. How? They supply their employers with false social security numbers which the employer then withholds the appropriate Social security. Most of the people who are illegal aliens are not being "payed" (nice spelling) under the table. They hold a normal job and usually have a set of docs that look normal. Employers cannot screen whether or not a Social Security number is real. Btw those immigrants will never collect Social Security as they don't have a Social Security number.
A world administration equals a world government as this is a "governmental" function. You cannot propose certain governmental functions be taken over by a unnamed world entity and not claim that entity would have governmental power. Unless of course you could opt out and chose another entity. Is there freedom of choice under your system?
As far as having misconceptions about typical third nations, exactly what are they? I really haven't stated any, have I? I merely pointed out that your proposal would result in a massive income redistribution to the third world, effectively raising the standard of living there while lowering it in the first world. That's too be expected in such a proposal. For some people this is a worthy aim. For me it is not.
Please avoid personal attacks such as "Please educate yourself." At no time have I leveled such attacks at you.
Repeat after me. Just because something is government mandated - that doesn't make it a tax. I just today dropped my vehicle to be repaired. It had about $6k of hail damage. The insurance is footing the bill. Tax or is it really insurance. I think it's insurance.
"Based on the Universal Declaration of Human rights"? In that document they declare that insurance is a tax?
I have driven without insurance - I was found legally obligated for the damages in a accident. I paid the bill. Calling insurance a tax because its manadatory is silly.
Roads as general network effect is fine. However the thing that is not impacted is the cost of the road. My point is that roads are often built with local funds. The exception in the US was the Interstate highway system which was a tremendous success and actually supportive of your argument.
Pre fab buildings? This is an improvement? Nope. It is cheaper though. A standized curriculm has nothing to do with a global government providing a massive set of efficiencies - which is the crux of your argument. Service based industries such as schools do not scale well.
I suspect that under your proposed world government everything would run about as well as a typical third world nation as any world government would spread its dollars out, resulting in a massive re-distribution to the poorer countries.
None of the examples you cite did you call it taxation. There is a key difference between insurance and taxes. You do not have to pay the "insurance" tax. I suggest next time you walk into a retail establishment, demand not to pay the sales tax and watch the reaction. You said "just depends how you define taxation." Since you called your health insurance and not a health tax, I think it's safe to say that it's not a tax. By stretching the definition of tax to include every thing you spend money on you lose the definition of a tax.
1. It's manadatory.
2. It goes to the government.
3. You cannot switch providers of government unless you physically move.
You certainly can vote for/against the guy who sets up the tax. Just vote in your local election. Sales tax is set up the local and state goverment. Wanna get rid of the tax pull the lever for Libertarian then.
No. Borders has a substantial physical presence in CA. They then set up a complicated legal structure designed to shield them from paying CA sales tax. The court said, "This is a dodge. You are the same company trying to look like two seperate ones." Your company in Mexico doesn't nor will it ever until you have a substantial physical presence in the state.
While this might work on telcom projects, things like roads are not subjects to network effects (building of roads doesn't make road adaption cheaper elsewhere). Efficiencies of scale work for certain projects but you don't explain how that will help with local schools or potable water.
taxation is a function of sovereignity. It's entirely a sign of it. When's the last time you paid a tax that didn't go to a government?
This means Borders must collect CA sales tax on orders shipping to CA. That's it. They set up this convoluted legal structure to avoid paying that tax and the court said these are substantially the same entity.