Sugar is not bad, what is bad is the amounts of sugar people subject their bodies to.
How many soft drinks, sweets, ice-creams, cakes, etc do you eat daily? Have you checked the added sugar in industrialized food?
Get counting, you will soon realize that if you have a weight problem, the insane amounts of sugar you are taking are a big contributing factor.
As for the people fearing aspartame: obesity has so many bad effects in your health that in a cost-benefit analysis one should be able to risk brain cancer (very debatable) if in exchange one loses weight. No brainer to me (pun semi-intended).
Goverments should balance between those two values and cost. Goverments should not use always the best tool for the work nor the cheapest one, if that tool hinders transparency and accountability.
Goverments have (or should have) more concerns than cost and efficency, goverments can't be cheap bastards all the time since they should defend core values comaptible with democracy.
Oh sorry, I forgot you are most likely USian and that the current political winds in the US do not support transparency and accountability. Sorry, my bad.
Did you spend on training before (or did you learn employees figure it all out because MS software is "easy"?
How much MS support staff was replaced?
How much office space was freed by former MS support people?
etc.
You cunningly choose to ignore the savings.
Most importantly, you forgot to put a price to the fact that with Linux and OSS you become again the owner of your IT infrastructure and data. Put a price to that.
The wasteful way of life in the US society is contributing to it becoming less competitive (but not so much that you are too bad off. Stop whining, the US has it good, people normally have food and a roof on the top of their heads).
The important thing is to understand the concept. your fingers, an abacus or a calculator are the right tool for the job depending on your social context.
In a society where even mobile phones have calculators and where every single computer (an article obiquituous in most societies nowadays) pops up a calclculator with one or two clicks, the calculator seems like the obvious, necessary too to perform arithmetic.
IT people of all ages very often say the same urban legend.
The truth is that at any age you find people that know little and people with loads of skill and talent.
If people are not learning to program in assembly language an obscure microprocessor is because it is a skill no longer needed, computing has moved one or two abstraction levels and most profesionals do not need to trouble themseleves with such topics.
any country has the right and the duty to attempt to avoid the circumvention of its employment laws
Well yes, if the alleged circumvention happens in above hypotetical country.
No if it happens elsewhere, like India, where it may not be illegal to discriminate based on age.
The historical circumstances of each place are different, and your country does not have any rigth to make others conform to your own standards (which regarding worker protection are substantially lower to many other places, India included, where unions are very powerful).
It was "look, we are using our freedom to have guns in a negative fashion".
He never advocates against the riht to bear arms and point to other places on this planet (Canada) where they have the same amounts of guns but that for some reason are not killing each other.
The day political commentary becomes illegal (something some people on this discussion seem to desire) then yes, you could equate Mr Moore to Halliburton....
Censorship: The act, process, or practice of censoring.
tr.v. censored, censoring, censors: To examine and expurgate.
A company can also censor something. Your obtuse definition of censorship is so stupid and antiquated that does not stand the most basic linguistic scrutiny....
George Bush is responsible for Iraqi women being raped
There is no worst blind than the one that chooses not to see, from General Taguba's report (look for it, don't be lazy):
Taguba's report listed some of the wrongdoing:
Breaking chemical lights and pouring the phosphoric liquid on detainees; pouring cold water on naked detainees; beating detainees with a broom handle and a chair; threatening male detainees with rape; allowing a military police guard to stitch the wound of a detainee who was injured after being slammed against the wall in his cell; sodomizing a detainee with a chemical light and perhaps a broom stick, and using military working dogs to frighten and intimidate detainees with threats of attack, and in one instance actually biting a detainee.
Now, Mister or Miss double-speak-horza, how do you call all of the above?
Humilliation?
Sure, use your game of words to disguise the truth, and look up a dictionary, then you will realize that all of the above is torture , pure and simple.
What a fucked mentality that thinks all the above is just "humilliating"....
Is Bush responsible for the above? I say yes, since this individual has shown a conductual pattern to disregard the most basic human rights in order to achieve his purposes, Guantanamo being a point in case.
Little by little the full reach of a willful policy to use torture to obtain information is emerging. If Mr. Bushs did not know about it he was surrounded by a bunch of liars or inept people, reason enough to consider him responsible since he is the ultimate person that dicates how his troops should beahve in such situations,
Had he issued clear orders to fully respect prisioner's human rights he and his administration would not be on this mess, but he has choosen to contravene all intenrational conventions regarding prisioners of war and to close his eyes in front of egregious violations of human rights since the inception of Guantanamo.
You and many other people may choose to ignore this, the facts sepak for themselves.
In regard to human rights in the US, I am bored to point out numerous human rigths abuses organizations that beg to differ with people like you.
The US executes people with mental illnesses, and minors, does not respect the Vienna convention regarding access of foreign nationals to their diplomatic representatives, allows widespread violence and rape in prisions.
You may choose to decide that the US ia a human rights paradise. It is not, if you happen to have a certain colour of skin, or little money to defend yourself.
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How much maths may one need for that?
... have a problem for every solution.
If you hate what you are doing, or are incapable, the only honest thing is to stop becoming vicitm and starve to death.
If somebody with enough education to be designing websites starves to death for lack of work, they deserve to starve.
Still I want to see proof that people are starving to death for lack of jobs in the US IT industry.
Whinning, whinning and whinning is the only think I see here....
Sugar is not bad, what is bad is the amounts of sugar people subject their bodies to.
How many soft drinks, sweets, ice-creams, cakes, etc do you eat daily? Have you checked the added sugar in industrialized food?
Get counting, you will soon realize that if you have a weight problem, the insane amounts of sugar you are taking are a big contributing factor.
As for the people fearing aspartame: obesity has so many bad effects in your health that in a cost-benefit analysis one should be able to risk brain cancer (very debatable) if in exchange one loses weight. No brainer to me (pun semi-intended).
Why is it relevant to know the brand of the water you drink. Why, why, why?!?!?
Water is water, you know, H2O plus a few minerals dependinf on the source.
Arghhhhh!
They will look as dumb as when they realized the Internet was the next big thing.
But oh boy, see where they are now, some people believe they invented it....
Goverments should balance between those two values and cost. Goverments should not use always the best tool for the work nor the cheapest one, if that tool hinders transparency and accountability.
Goverments have (or should have) more concerns than cost and efficency, goverments can't be cheap bastards all the time since they should defend core values comaptible with democracy.
Oh sorry, I forgot you are most likely USian and that the current political winds in the US do not support transparency and accountability. Sorry, my bad.
How many MS licenses would you stop using?
Did you spend on training before (or did you learn employees figure it all out because MS software is "easy"?
How much MS support staff was replaced?
How much office space was freed by former MS support people?
etc.
You cunningly choose to ignore the savings.
Most importantly, you forgot to put a price to the fact that with Linux and OSS you become again the owner of your IT infrastructure and data. Put a price to that.
The salary has to be paid anyway, so frankly you have no point there.
Popularity does not grant you a trademark.
Why is that so difficult to grasp?
I have never seen a platform that is capable to spawn so many viruses and worms every week.
You could not do that in a shitty platfrom in which everything was down half the time.
Show us a step to unisntall the GUI from Windows.
After that I want to run MS branded Web and DB servers.
ANd all should be documented, not dirty hacks.
Their are not stamped "For US citizens only".
The wasteful way of life in the US society is contributing to it becoming less competitive (but not so much that you are too bad off. Stop whining, the US has it good, people normally have food and a roof on the top of their heads).
The important thing is to understand the concept. your fingers, an abacus or a calculator are the right tool for the job depending on your social context.
In a society where even mobile phones have calculators and where every single computer (an article obiquituous in most societies nowadays) pops up a calclculator with one or two clicks, the calculator seems like the obvious, necessary too to perform arithmetic.
IT people of all ages very often say the same urban legend.
The truth is that at any age you find people that know little and people with loads of skill and talent.
If people are not learning to program in assembly language an obscure microprocessor is because it is a skill no longer needed, computing has moved one or two abstraction levels and most profesionals do not need to trouble themseleves with such topics.
any country has the right and the duty to attempt to avoid the circumvention of its employment laws
Well yes, if the alleged circumvention happens in above hypotetical country.
No if it happens elsewhere, like India, where it may not be illegal to discriminate based on age.
The historical circumstances of each place are different, and your country does not have any rigth to make others conform to your own standards (which regarding worker protection are substantially lower to many other places, India included, where unions are very powerful).
Nerds shold not have political opinions.
And somebody is forcing you to read this discussion....
....
...).
Moore worst than AL Quaeda.
Yes budy, whatever (no wonder the US can't prodeuce anything better than Bush to lead them
This is stuff that matters for many issues related to topics frequently discussed here.
Censorship and copyright for example.
It was "look, we are using our freedom to have guns in a negative fashion".
He never advocates against the riht to bear arms and point to other places on this planet (Canada) where they have the same amounts of guns but that for some reason are not killing each other.
Honestly, were you watching the same movie?
The day political commentary becomes illegal (something some people on this discussion seem to desire) then yes, you could equate Mr Moore to Halliburton....
Many people in this discussion have abundantly shown that Mr Moore's offerings are genuine documentaries.
To insist on the contrary is sheer baseless stuborness...
Bush and his team, with his isolationist, imperial attitude squandered all that.
The is not such a thing as anti-US sentiment anywhere, it is simply that the US is too unruly to just sit down and say nothing about it.
Heck, surely you would say that somebody complaining because you are beating him with a baseball bat harbours unfounded anti-you sentiments....
Censorship: The act, process, or practice of censoring.
tr.v. censored, censoring, censors: To examine and expurgate.
A company can also censor something. Your obtuse definition of censorship is so stupid and antiquated that does not stand the most basic linguistic scrutiny....
George Bush is responsible for Iraqi women being raped
There is no worst blind than the one that chooses not to see, from General Taguba's report (look for it, don't be lazy):
Taguba's report listed some of the wrongdoing:
Breaking chemical lights and pouring the phosphoric liquid on detainees; pouring cold water on naked detainees; beating detainees with a broom handle and a chair; threatening male detainees with rape; allowing a military police guard to stitch the wound of a detainee who was injured after being slammed against the wall in his cell; sodomizing a detainee with a chemical light and perhaps a broom stick, and using military working dogs to frighten and intimidate detainees with threats of attack, and in one instance actually biting a detainee.
Now, Mister or Miss double-speak-horza, how do you call all of the above?
Humilliation?
Sure, use your game of words to disguise the truth, and look up a dictionary, then you will realize that all of the above is torture , pure and simple.
What a fucked mentality that thinks all the above is just "humilliating"....
Is Bush responsible for the above? I say yes, since this individual has shown a conductual pattern to disregard the most basic human rights in order to achieve his purposes, Guantanamo being a point in case.
Little by little the full reach of a willful policy to use torture to obtain information is emerging. If Mr. Bushs did not know about it he was surrounded by a bunch of liars or inept people, reason enough to consider him responsible since he is the ultimate person that dicates how his troops should beahve in such situations,
Had he issued clear orders to fully respect prisioner's human rights he and his administration would not be on this mess, but he has choosen to contravene all intenrational conventions regarding prisioners of war and to close his eyes in front of egregious violations of human rights since the inception of Guantanamo.
You and many other people may choose to ignore this, the facts sepak for themselves.
In regard to human rights in the US, I am bored to point out numerous human rigths abuses organizations that beg to differ with people like you.
The US executes people with mental illnesses, and minors, does not respect the Vienna convention regarding access of foreign nationals to their diplomatic representatives, allows widespread violence and rape in prisions.
You may choose to decide that the US ia a human rights paradise. It is not, if you happen to have a certain colour of skin, or little money to defend yourself.
... that this gentleman, Mr Moore, is anti-US and unpatriotic?