"Pro-big-government and anti-individual liberty" describes the Republican party platform for the last 40 years. By the definition I always hear, there are almost no conservatives left in this country. All I see are corporatists, shameless corporatists and a smattering of outliers, most of whom will run from their principals in a split second if they deem it politically necessary.
Correct. In CA, the populace can vote initiatives (which can include huge bonds) with 50% + 1 vote while the legislature needs a 2/3 vote to raise taxes or even pass a budget.
I'm sorry, but I worked in a lot of manufacturing plants during the eighties and nineties, and I saw the abuses firsthand. I saw a guy whose job consisted of moving barrels of lubricant back and forth, because the union prevented management from installing a fucking pipe.
Yeah my Dad worked for GM in the 70's installing upholstery. He said one guy just walked around the plant all day saying hi to people and according to others who had been there for years that's all he had done for as long as they'd been there.
But taking the worst example of union corruption and extrapolating it out is not fair. The union I belong to is nothing like the mobster run auto unions of the 70's and 80's.
The only non-executives here making 70-80k a year are tenured faculty that have been here for at least a decade and certain IT people and people do get fired here.
Besides, I went to UofT (worked a number of years before the university and all the time through university and took a loan for one year, paid all by myself, paid the loan out once was out of school, so I wanted to learn and I was paying for it) so many people want to go to universities and they PAY for this, they know what they are doing this for.
UofT is a public institution. Amusing you got no grants, fee waivers or aid, you paid for the 20% or the actual cost of your education. The rest was paid for by tax dollars.
Same with schools, there are private schools and I would never give my kid to a public one,
We just transferred both our boys to another school district after receiving a notice that, under the NCLBA, because our kids school was a giant bucket of fail we had the right to transfer our kids to a neighboring district. In the old "failing" school, it wasn't teachers who we perceived as being the problem; it was the administrators and, to some degree, the parents. The local school has a demographic of 15% upper middle class to wealthy households and other rest is working-poor or impoverished.
The attitude of the administrators and parents (all from the 15%) was one of "Woe is us. Most of our kids are poor. We are doomed.". The test scores reflect their attitude.
My wife tried to get involved by joining the various governance groups but she was met by a tidal wave of defeatism and eventually gave up. The first thing she asked them was why they didn't employ a grant writer. Their response was that they were expensive and grants are hard to get. As someone who attended a poor school district herself, she was floored by the short-sightedness of that statement.
Fast forward to our kids' new school: The demographics in the new school are 1% middle-class and 99% working poor or impoverished, yet the test scores are better, and when you visit the school, it was evident that the people who run it care. While the previous school is run down with dead grass and weeds abound, and the paint is faded and peeling, the new one is landscaped like a country club, the paint is fresh and vibrant and while the buildings are old, nothing is in disrepair. And of course, the new school employs a grant writer.
Whereas the old principal was never to be seen except for the mandatory meetings and would literally turn and walk a different way to avoid contact with parents, the new one stands out at the entrance of the school in the morning an enthusiastically greets the children (ALL BY NAME) and does the same when school gets out. He's like a local weatherman and that type of unbridled enthusiasm is contagious.
Anyhow, the point of my rant is that the teachers didn't seem to be the difference between the two schools. It was the leadership. We actually really liked our sons old teacher. It's too bad we couldn't take her with us.
There are well-managed, enlightened unions: but the Teachers Union and most industrial/manufacturing labor organizations are anything but.
Teachers and industrial/manufacturing labor unions are the only unions that are left since the government assault on organized labor started in the early 80's. Union membership in this country has declined from 24.1% in 1979 to around 10% today.
By your logic, things should be much better now that the bast majority of workers are on their own. But things are not better. Median wages have gone down and wealth disparity has increased steadily since 1980.
Your original claim was that, "Windows is the only OS that support driveby.infections without interaction with the user".
All major desktop OSs run software (flash, adobe reader, safari, firefox) that regularly feature vulnerabilities, that if targeted, would allow for drive-by infections without interaction with the user. Given that fact, all major desktop OSs support drive-by infections without interaction with the user.
If your cables are corrupting data, your computer probably won't even boot!
+1
We've had flaky SATA cables in several our PCs at work. Symptoms included BSOD, spontaneous reboots, system lockups and missing hard drives during the POST. It took us awhile to figure it out, as we kept focusing on the usual culprits for those type of problems. The missing hard drives helped clue us in.
Sound was the last thing on our minds when it came to these systems.
Kickbacks are illegal just like "payola" is illegal but they sill find a way to happen. I mentioned payola because my Dad was a radio DJ for a huge metro radio station when he was young and he's described the exact same situation in his industry as mentioned above with the NHS.
Not all smart phones have such shoddy GPS capabilities.
My Touch Pro 2 doesn't require cell tower assistance to lock on. I verified that a month ago when I went camping in an area with no cell service. It locked on in wooded areas with no problem, though it did only find about 4-6 satellites.
Though if I was going on a serious backwoods hiking trip I would opt for a "real" GPS unit myself.
Bullshit. GDP was rising sharply and private sector unemployment was dropping (BTW, government jobs were not counted when calculating unemployment statistics back then) sharply up until the recession of 1937.
FDRs policies did not get us out of the Great Depression (which was only called that in the US).
By the standard definition of a depression (a period of rapid economic contraction) the depression ended in 1933, as by that year the economy was growing at an inversely proportional rate to it's decline between 1929 and 1933. High unemployment still remained for many years, but news job can only be created so fast. 1929 was the peak of a giant credit bubble, which was similar in size to the credit bubble that burst in 2008. It's only logical that it took many years for jobs to recover, as much of the wealth right before the bubble burst was credit based, i.e. *fake*.
The current bubble collapse we're experiencing was caused by policies provided by Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton (under a Republican congress). So at least there I agree with you.
Nonsense. Carter had nothing to do with it. The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 is primary catalyst of the 2008 credit bubble. Clinton is certainly responsible for signing it. Even Greenspan, one of the primary drivers behind the free-market mania of the 90's admits today that it was a giant mistake.
You are bringing back nightmares. I remember screwing around with config.sys/autoexec.bat for days trying to get Front Page Sports: Football to work with sound. I needed just a little more RAM ("conventional?") but it seemed no matter what I did, I was always a few K short. Finally, after probably hundreds of tries, I got the game to load with sound. Then, not being wise enough (I was 10 years old) to leave well enough alone, I made another change, and probably due to being so tired from staying up all night,I forgot what change I made. I never got it to work again.
No need to care what Apple says. Flash has been and is available on other smartphone platforms with hardware similar to the iPhone for years now. It runs like shit on those, so I don't see any reason why it wouldn't run like shit on the iPhone.
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People who earn $250,000 a year are not rich
You are delusional.
50% of households in the country makes less than $45,000 per year.
3.17% of households in make $150,000 or more.
1.5% of households in the country makes $250,000 or more.
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What is this "Democrat party" you speak of?
Did you mean the Democratic party?
Bonus question: Do you understand why you are using the term "Democrat" instead of "Democratic"?
Buck Foise.
"Pro-big-government and anti-individual liberty" describes the Republican party platform for the last 40 years. By the definition I always hear, there are almost no conservatives left in this country. All I see are corporatists, shameless corporatists and a smattering of outliers, most of whom will run from their principals in a split second if they deem it politically necessary.
Correct. In CA, the populace can vote initiatives (which can include huge bonds) with 50% + 1 vote while the legislature needs a 2/3 vote to raise taxes or even pass a budget.
To paraphrase another slashdotter's sig...
"If Microsoft did not exist it would be necessary for the market to create one."
I'm sorry, but I worked in a lot of manufacturing plants during the eighties and nineties, and I saw the abuses firsthand. I saw a guy whose job consisted of moving barrels of lubricant back and forth, because the union prevented management from installing a fucking pipe.
Yeah my Dad worked for GM in the 70's installing upholstery. He said one guy just walked around the plant all day saying hi to people and according to others who had been there for years that's all he had done for as long as they'd been there.
But taking the worst example of union corruption and extrapolating it out is not fair. The union I belong to is nothing like the mobster run auto unions of the 70's and 80's.
The only non-executives here making 70-80k a year are tenured faculty that have been here for at least a decade and certain IT people and people do get fired here.
Besides, I went to UofT (worked a number of years before the university and all the time through university and took a loan for one year, paid all by myself, paid the loan out once was out of school, so I wanted to learn and I was paying for it) so many people want to go to universities and they PAY for this, they know what they are doing this for.
UofT is a public institution. Amusing you got no grants, fee waivers or aid, you paid for the 20% or the actual cost of your education. The rest was paid for by tax dollars.
Same with schools, there are private schools and I would never give my kid to a public one,
LOL.
We just transferred both our boys to another school district after receiving a notice that, under the NCLBA, because our kids school was a giant bucket of fail we had the right to transfer our kids to a neighboring district. In the old "failing" school, it wasn't teachers who we perceived as being the problem; it was the administrators and, to some degree, the parents. The local school has a demographic of 15% upper middle class to wealthy households and other rest is working-poor or impoverished.
The attitude of the administrators and parents (all from the 15%) was one of "Woe is us. Most of our kids are poor. We are doomed.". The test scores reflect their attitude.
My wife tried to get involved by joining the various governance groups but she was met by a tidal wave of defeatism and eventually gave up. The first thing she asked them was why they didn't employ a grant writer. Their response was that they were expensive and grants are hard to get. As someone who attended a poor school district herself, she was floored by the short-sightedness of that statement.
Fast forward to our kids' new school: The demographics in the new school are 1% middle-class and 99% working poor or impoverished, yet the test scores are better, and when you visit the school, it was evident that the people who run it care. While the previous school is run down with dead grass and weeds abound, and the paint is faded and peeling, the new one is landscaped like a country club, the paint is fresh and vibrant and while the buildings are old, nothing is in disrepair. And of course, the new school employs a grant writer.
Whereas the old principal was never to be seen except for the mandatory meetings and would literally turn and walk a different way to avoid contact with parents, the new one stands out at the entrance of the school in the morning an enthusiastically greets the children (ALL BY NAME) and does the same when school gets out. He's like a local weatherman and that type of unbridled enthusiasm is contagious.
Anyhow, the point of my rant is that the teachers didn't seem to be the difference between the two schools. It was the leadership. We actually really liked our sons old teacher. It's too bad we couldn't take her with us.
There are well-managed, enlightened unions: but the Teachers Union and most industrial/manufacturing labor organizations are anything but.
Teachers and industrial/manufacturing labor unions are the only unions that are left since the government assault on organized labor started in the early 80's. Union membership in this country has declined from 24.1% in 1979 to around 10% today.
By your logic, things should be much better now that the bast majority of workers are on their own. But things are not better. Median wages have gone down and wealth disparity has increased steadily since 1980.
I work at a school (not a teacher) am NOT required to join the union, though I have.
...their paychecks depend upon taxpayer generosity...
A curious statement. Perhaps the government should start sending us thank you cards for paying our taxes?
That's just one of the misconceptions windows fan bois use to console themselves.
No. It's what those of us who understand what security is and isn't know.
The truth is that Windows is utterly inferior in matters of security.
Just saying it does make it true.
Windows is less safe, but it is not because of some architectural difference between it and other operating systems.
Your original claim was that, "Windows is the only OS that support driveby.infections without interaction with the user".
All major desktop OSs run software (flash, adobe reader, safari, firefox) that regularly feature vulnerabilities, that if targeted, would allow for drive-by infections without interaction with the user. Given that fact, all major desktop OSs support drive-by infections without interaction with the user.
Head trauma
If your cables are corrupting data, your computer probably won't even boot!
+1
We've had flaky SATA cables in several our PCs at work. Symptoms included BSOD, spontaneous reboots, system lockups and missing hard drives during the POST. It took us awhile to figure it out, as we kept focusing on the usual culprits for those type of problems. The missing hard drives helped clue us in.
Sound was the last thing on our minds when it came to these systems.
Kickbacks are illegal just like "payola" is illegal but they sill find a way to happen. I mentioned payola because my Dad was a radio DJ for a huge metro radio station when he was young and he's described the exact same situation in his industry as mentioned above with the NHS.
As for malpractice reform in Texas, insurance rates have stayed the same in Texas while the caps put in place have made so that only wealthy people can file medical malpractice lawsuits Texas now.
Not all smart phones have such shoddy GPS capabilities.
My Touch Pro 2 doesn't require cell tower assistance to lock on. I verified that a month ago when I went camping in an area with no cell service. It locked on in wooded areas with no problem, though it did only find about 4-6 satellites.
Though if I was going on a serious backwoods hiking trip I would opt for a "real" GPS unit myself.
The recession never had gone away.
Bullshit. GDP was rising sharply and private sector unemployment was dropping (BTW, government jobs were not counted when calculating unemployment statistics back then) sharply up until the recession of 1937.
Of course, after the 40th or 50th app installed, no one reads them anymore and just clicks the OK button...
That reminds me of the criticism of UAC in Windows.
(Not arguing with you here. Just an observation)
FDR did it during the late 30's (remember the Great Depression?) and it caused unemployment to go even higher.
Actually the recession of 1937 happened after FDR *cut* government spending.
Thanks for playing though!
FDRs policies did not get us out of the Great Depression (which was only called that in the US).
By the standard definition of a depression (a period of rapid economic contraction) the depression ended in 1933, as by that year the economy was growing at an inversely proportional rate to it's decline between 1929 and 1933. High unemployment still remained for many years, but news job can only be created so fast. 1929 was the peak of a giant credit bubble, which was similar in size to the credit bubble that burst in 2008. It's only logical that it took many years for jobs to recover, as much of the wealth right before the bubble burst was credit based, i.e. *fake*.
The current bubble collapse we're experiencing was caused by policies provided by Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton (under a Republican congress). So at least there I agree with you.
Nonsense. Carter had nothing to do with it. The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 is primary catalyst of the 2008 credit bubble. Clinton is certainly responsible for signing it. Even Greenspan, one of the primary drivers behind the free-market mania of the 90's admits today that it was a giant mistake.
You are bringing back nightmares. I remember screwing around with config.sys/autoexec.bat for days trying to get Front Page Sports: Football to work with sound. I needed just a little more RAM ("conventional?") but it seemed no matter what I did, I was always a few K short. Finally, after probably hundreds of tries, I got the game to load with sound. Then, not being wise enough (I was 10 years old) to leave well enough alone, I made another change, and probably due to being so tired from staying up all night,I forgot what change I made. I never got it to work again.
I have a Windows Mobile phone. We;re stuck (forever) on version 9.1 (Opera Mobile 10). It works *ok* but the processor in my phone really limits it.
It would probably run a little better if I had one of those snapdragons.
No need to care what Apple says. Flash has been and is available on other smartphone platforms with hardware similar to the iPhone for years now. It runs like shit on those, so I don't see any reason why it wouldn't run like shit on the iPhone.