Vote Libertarian. Not for long, and don't give them total control. Just enough swaying power to have a voice that says we don't need *SO* much government.
The only answer is to destroy the "one ring to control them all."
Most companies would not do this. Most companies would prefer to have an audit trail. Most companies are lawful (for the most part), or at least fearful enough of the law to be sheepish. They want an audit trail on documents so they know who to pin any transgression of the law on. Yes, your CEO will pin a lawsuit on you if it will save the company money.
An audit trail could also be useful in an embezzlement or industrial espionage investigation. Companies of any size are not a homogenous conglomeration. There are lots of bit players all reading off different scripts. Audit trails allow the big players to ferret out and tag smaller players they don't like.
It was because they were under the age of 18, and we send a lot of people to jail for passing around pictures of people who are under the age of 18.
If you are going to have child pornography laws that criminalize the possession of a picture, how do you make exceptions if the person sending the picture is underage?
I agree 100%... The more "responsibility" the government takes, the less the parents can take. And IMHO that's the fundamental problem that has yet to be addressed... Fewer and fewer parents actually parenting and taking responsibility for their own children.
There. Fixed that for ya.
But, no, seriously. if the governments says your child has to do a,b and c, and has to have x,y, and z (even though it means husband and wife must take second jobs in order to provide them), you've limited what the parents CAN do.
The government must play the roll of providing the lubricant that keeps the wheels of society from galling each other. To much grease, and you clog the machine...Dirty grease will destroy the machine...continue the analogy at your own risk.
The problem is when the government tries to control the players instead of just insuring that informed people have the ability to work with one another.
FDA when they force producers to inform user of the contents of package food *** GOOD. FDA when they decide what foods can and can't be sold *** BAD.
The US Constitution gives the responsibility for maintaining roads and a postal service to the federal government, because this is a sensible way to run a society. With a well kept system of roads, the players in society can interact more easily. A postal system that reaches all allows the players to interact easily. Before Ben Franklin's postal system, there was no way to reliably send a letter to another town, let alone another State. (It was Ben that pushed for the USPS, wasn't it?)
Electricity and data service now falls under the same category as the roads and USPS. It just doesn't make sense to condemn private land to hand over to a private company. Never did. Never will. The government should be responsible for running data and electric lines, and running an exchange that allows private players to interact with one another.
No. The reason the field hasn't advanced is because home automation isn't something computers are good at.
Computers are good at doing the same thing over and over again. When you get into areas where there are a lot of one-off tasks, computers do more to get in the way than to help because of the necessary configuration and setup time.
The way to make computers helpful in home automation is to become a robot and do everything in exactly the same way every day. Even then your automation will be customized for your, and will be mostly useless for your neighbor. Each house will require it's own set of customization, and woe be to the homeowner that decides he wants to change up his schedule or try something different.
The typical enduser will by a programmable thermostat, program it once, and then constantly override it with manual operation. When we can force people to act like robots and live in identical houses, then we will see home automation advance.
In that time there hasn't been a significant increase in natural production of CO2 and an overall increase of CO2 by about 33%.
If as the ice-core data shows, CO2 lags warming, then there would be significant increases of CO2 from increased solar output.
You did modify your numbers in a later post. But the actual numbers are less significant that the fact that you're claiming the warmth follows the rise in CO2, where evidence indicates the CO2 follows the warmth. The natural CO2 is easily explained by warming tundras and less CO2 consumers in the warming oceans.
That species evolve due to external influences. Yes. That men have a common ancestor with monkeys. I haven't a clue. -I wasn't there -there currently isn't conclusive evidence to prove a point either way -and, (most important) it doesn't make a difference until we start giving chimps the right to vote based on this theory.
Do you believe in Big Bang cosmology?
Pfft! Who cares? There are some interesting things going on in the field of quantum physics, but I have zero interest in trying to prove that God doesn't exist so that I can thumb my nose at those "stupid religious fundamentalist." Again, whether the universe went bang, or God said, "Let there be light!" real loud has no effect on my job.
Now, along come climatologists with their data pointing to anthropogenic global warming,
Some climatologists come along with a lot of political baggage, asking to destroy major cultural institutions, with only tenuous indications that the global warming is anthropogenic. Data sets and computer models are destroyed or held in secret. The political entities that want to see major cultural changes grab hold of these climatologist, and conflate global warming with anthropogenic global warming. Strong evidence of the first does not translate to strong evidence of the second.
If Slashdotters haven't drunk your anthropogenic global warming kool-aid, maybe it is because they actually have done some thinking for themselves.
Reminds me of one of those wife-swap shows I watched while stuck somewhere.
Crazy woman from Florida was just flabbergasted that the mid-west farming family she was bunking with had never had chicken marsala(sp?). She was later outdone when one of the farm chickens is found dead. Goes through all sorts of histrionics to 'revive' the chicken, and finally settles for giving it a Christian burial, as the farm children looking on in bemused confusion.
Is is companionship, or is it food? It is just hilarious to watch the less thoughtful among us struggle with this question.
As the owner of two dogs, sign me up. I demand environmental offset credits for the offal that my dogs prevent from going directly into landfills and being converted into methane.
Good try, but sorry. McDonald's has already laid claim to those credits.
There should be very little, particularly as the Windows kernel hasn't undergone any massive reworking, however, there are two particularly likely cases:
a) As another poster mentioned, poorly designed software which relies on API functionality that is subject to change. Seriously, Windows software does this all the time, and not just small-time developers, huge software companies (ala. IBM/Google/etc...) have in the past and I suspect continue to use Windows "features" that aren't meant to be used by anyone outside of Microsoft. This typically means using undocumented APIs or API calls that Microsoft does not expect anyone to use, and thus when they change them (which should be fine, no-one should be using them), things break horribly. The other obvious example is dumb assumptions (running as an Administrator is a classic example) but there are many other more subtle ones.
Except that Microsoft has a history of using back door APIs that are significantly more efficient than the published APIs to accelerate their own applications. No-one should be using those APIs...except for the companies that actually...you know...want to effectively COMPETE with Microsoft.
To bad they don't have a command like where they could just stop the install and warn the user that their computer might explode from having the unsupported software of a competitor installed.
Oh, how I long for the good old days (circa 1994 or so).
Yeah, but not as bad as spending 520 days in a Mars trip simulation, only to come out and find that once you come out: "yeah, we actually invented this really cool new engine like the week after you guys went in."
Maybe I am "one of those guys", but I don't see the difference between giving the bats to the "you can't picket here" crowd vs the "you can't work here crowd".
I had not heard the term "employee cartel" before, but it is a very apt term. You say the laws force employers to negotiate, but what is the point of negotiating when the choices are "do as we say" or "die". That is not negotiation. It is extortion.
Unions do not interfere with the operation of the market for labor until the government passes laws to abolish the market for labor.
in quite a few countries the use of scabs to subvert legal strikes is illegal.
/Mikael
And you don't see a problem with that? You don't like the contract I offer you, so I offer it to someone else. I'll agree that you have a right to stand up and tell everyone that I'm a cruel, heartless prick, but why should you have a right to forbid me to make a contract with someone else?
FYI, in the US the vaccines are made available to everyone and often pushed onto many. Some schools are making the vaccine a requirement for attendance. Anyone who questions the efficacy/safety is official regarded as a heretic or imbecile.
Personally, I've never had the flu vaccine. I have a strong system, and don't get sick as long as I get outside for fresh air on a regular basis. People occasionally smirk when I tell them that I don't take the shots.
Health care or health insurance? They are not the same thing. One is health care, the other is a way to pay for health care.
Here insurance costs $1000 a month, because that is what it costs to deliver the care. It costs that much to deliver the care for a variety of reasons: -we all demand very expensive tests and procedures -we all demand very expensive one-on-one attention as we're receiving the very expensive tests and procedures -we all reserve the right to sue the pants off the doctor if we die of our illness anyway
You can't expect the insurance company to pay all that without passing the cost on to you, and the government, which is totally parasitic by nature, has no choice but to pass those costs on to you.
The only way to reduce the cost of health care is to, you know, reduce the cost of health care. Having "the rich" pay for your health care will not reduce its cost. In fact, it is more likely to drive up the costs, as it continue to separate the person receiving the goods from the person who pays for it.
Exactly... life is short... I wouldn't work for someone who expects programming to be a 24/7 activity or something other than 9 to 5.
That's funny, I wouldn't hire a 20-something that wanted to program 24/7. I'm old and married. I'd want to hire a 20-something that has a life, so that I could live vicariously through them. Who cares what the Big-O classification is for some Java method you wrote in your spare time? I want to hear about partying with young ladies and doing things athletic. I can be old and pedantic all by myself.
*Hobbling today. Pulled something in my foot while trying to run wind sprints with my younger son. Getting old is a bitch.
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So, are you saying you don't like Calabash?
Vote Libertarian. Not for long, and don't give them total control. Just enough swaying power to have a voice that says we don't need *SO* much government.
The only answer is to destroy the "one ring to control them all."
Vote Barr next time.
with the exception that you obviously are shill for MS spouting revisionist history, you're right on the money there.
http://www.inlumineconsulting.com:8080/website/nt.sekrits.html
So, you're claiming that a web server (IIS) is part of the OS?
Why? I was around when it was happening. I AM the citation that's needed. But to make you happy, 30 seconds with Google will give you
http://www.inlumineconsulting.com:8080/website/nt.sekrits.html
Netscape cared enough to reverse engineer the APIs that IIS were using.
http://www.inlumineconsulting.com:8080/website/nt.sekrits.html
Most companies would not do this. Most companies would prefer to have an audit trail. Most companies are lawful (for the most part), or at least fearful enough of the law to be sheepish. They want an audit trail on documents so they know who to pin any transgression of the law on. Yes, your CEO will pin a lawsuit on you if it will save the company money.
An audit trail could also be useful in an embezzlement or industrial espionage investigation. Companies of any size are not a homogenous conglomeration. There are lots of bit players all reading off different scripts. Audit trails allow the big players to ferret out and tag smaller players they don't like.
It was because they were under the age of 18, and we send a lot of people to jail for passing around pictures of people who are under the age of 18.
If you are going to have child pornography laws that criminalize the possession of a picture, how do you make exceptions if the person sending the picture is underage?
I agree 100%... The more "responsibility" the government takes, the less the parents can take. And IMHO that's the fundamental problem that has yet to be addressed... Fewer and fewer parents actually parenting and taking responsibility for their own children.
There. Fixed that for ya.
But, no, seriously. if the governments says your child has to do a,b and c, and has to have x,y, and z (even though it means husband and wife must take second jobs in order to provide them), you've limited what the parents CAN do.
The government must play the roll of providing the lubricant that keeps the wheels of society from galling each other. To much grease, and you clog the machine...Dirty grease will destroy the machine...continue the analogy at your own risk.
The problem is when the government tries to control the players instead of just insuring that informed people have the ability to work with one another.
FDA when they force producers to inform user of the contents of package food *** GOOD. FDA when they decide what foods can and can't be sold *** BAD.
The US Constitution gives the responsibility for maintaining roads and a postal service to the federal government, because this is a sensible way to run a society. With a well kept system of roads, the players in society can interact more easily. A postal system that reaches all allows the players to interact easily. Before Ben Franklin's postal system, there was no way to reliably send a letter to another town, let alone another State. (It was Ben that pushed for the USPS, wasn't it?)
Electricity and data service now falls under the same category as the roads and USPS. It just doesn't make sense to condemn private land to hand over to a private company. Never did. Never will. The government should be responsible for running data and electric lines, and running an exchange that allows private players to interact with one another.
No. The reason the field hasn't advanced is because home automation isn't something computers are good at.
Computers are good at doing the same thing over and over again. When you get into areas where there are a lot of one-off tasks, computers do more to get in the way than to help because of the necessary configuration and setup time.
The way to make computers helpful in home automation is to become a robot and do everything in exactly the same way every day. Even then your automation will be customized for your, and will be mostly useless for your neighbor. Each house will require it's own set of customization, and woe be to the homeowner that decides he wants to change up his schedule or try something different.
The typical enduser will by a programmable thermostat, program it once, and then constantly override it with manual operation. When we can force people to act like robots and live in identical houses, then we will see home automation advance.
In that time there hasn't been a significant increase in natural production of CO2 and an overall increase of CO2 by about 33%.
If as the ice-core data shows, CO2 lags warming, then there would be significant increases of CO2 from increased solar output.
You did modify your numbers in a later post. But the actual numbers are less significant that the fact that you're claiming the warmth follows the rise in CO2, where evidence indicates the CO2 follows the warmth. The natural CO2 is easily explained by warming tundras and less CO2 consumers in the warming oceans.
Do you believe in the theory of evolution?
That species evolve due to external influences. Yes.
That men have a common ancestor with monkeys. I haven't a clue.
-I wasn't there
-there currently isn't conclusive evidence to prove a point either way
-and, (most important) it doesn't make a difference until we start giving chimps the right to vote based on this theory.
Do you believe in Big Bang cosmology?
Pfft! Who cares? There are some interesting things going on in the field of quantum physics, but I have zero interest in trying to prove that God doesn't exist so that I can thumb my nose at those "stupid religious fundamentalist." Again, whether the universe went bang, or God said, "Let there be light!" real loud has no effect on my job.
Now, along come climatologists with their data pointing to anthropogenic global warming,
Some climatologists come along with a lot of political baggage, asking to destroy major cultural institutions, with only tenuous indications that the global warming is anthropogenic. Data sets and computer models are destroyed or held in secret. The political entities that want to see major cultural changes grab hold of these climatologist, and conflate global warming with anthropogenic global warming. Strong evidence of the first does not translate to strong evidence of the second.
If Slashdotters haven't drunk your anthropogenic global warming kool-aid, maybe it is because they actually have done some thinking for themselves.
Reminds me of one of those wife-swap shows I watched while stuck somewhere.
Crazy woman from Florida was just flabbergasted that the mid-west farming family she was bunking with had never had chicken marsala(sp?). She was later outdone when one of the farm chickens is found dead. Goes through all sorts of histrionics to 'revive' the chicken, and finally settles for giving it a Christian burial, as the farm children looking on in bemused confusion.
Is is companionship, or is it food? It is just hilarious to watch the less thoughtful among us struggle with this question.
As the owner of two dogs, sign me up. I demand environmental offset credits for the offal that my dogs prevent from going directly into landfills and being converted into methane.
Good try, but sorry. McDonald's has already laid claim to those credits.
Do you not know what the primary business of any bureaucracy is? It is to GROW.
Rating mobile apps give his little fiefdom unlimited growth potential.
There should be very little, particularly as the Windows kernel hasn't undergone any massive reworking, however, there are two particularly likely cases:
a) As another poster mentioned, poorly designed software which relies on API functionality that is subject to change. Seriously, Windows software does this all the time, and not just small-time developers, huge software companies (ala. IBM/Google/etc...) have in the past and I suspect continue to use Windows "features" that aren't meant to be used by anyone outside of Microsoft. This typically means using undocumented APIs or API calls that Microsoft does not expect anyone to use, and thus when they change them (which should be fine, no-one should be using them), things break horribly. The other obvious example is dumb assumptions (running as an Administrator is a classic example) but there are many other more subtle ones.
Except that Microsoft has a history of using back door APIs that are significantly more efficient than the published APIs to accelerate their own applications. No-one should be using those APIs...except for the companies that actually...you know...want to effectively COMPETE with Microsoft.
To bad they don't have a command like where they could just stop the install and warn the user that their computer might explode from having the unsupported software of a competitor installed.
Oh, how I long for the good old days (circa 1994 or so).
Upon exiting the simulated spacecraft:
"Hi! Thanks for wasting 18 months of your life sitting with five people with bad body odour "
Hence, the search for European volunteers. They're used to the smell.
Yeah, but not as bad as spending 520 days in a Mars trip simulation, only to come out and find that once you come out: "yeah, we actually invented this really cool new engine like the week after you guys went in."
Maybe I am "one of those guys", but I don't see the difference between giving the bats to the "you can't picket here" crowd vs the "you can't work here crowd".
I had not heard the term "employee cartel" before, but it is a very apt term. You say the laws force employers to negotiate, but what is the point of negotiating when the choices are "do as we say" or "die". That is not negotiation. It is extortion.
Unions do not interfere with the operation of the market for labor until the government passes laws to abolish the market for labor.
Are you sure about that?
in quite a few countries the use of scabs to subvert legal strikes is illegal.
/Mikael
And you don't see a problem with that? You don't like the contract I offer you, so I offer it to someone else. I'll agree that you have a right to stand up and tell everyone that I'm a cruel, heartless prick, but why should you have a right to forbid me to make a contract with someone else?
FYI, in the US the vaccines are made available to everyone and often pushed onto many. Some schools are making the vaccine a requirement for attendance. Anyone who questions the efficacy/safety is official regarded as a heretic or imbecile.
Personally, I've never had the flu vaccine. I have a strong system, and don't get sick as long as I get outside for fresh air on a regular basis. People occasionally smirk when I tell them that I don't take the shots.
Health care or health insurance? They are not the same thing. One is health care, the other is a way to pay for health care.
Here insurance costs $1000 a month, because that is what it costs to deliver the care. It costs that much to deliver the care for a variety of reasons:
-we all demand very expensive tests and procedures
-we all demand very expensive one-on-one attention as we're receiving the very expensive tests and procedures
-we all reserve the right to sue the pants off the doctor if we die of our illness anyway
You can't expect the insurance company to pay all that without passing the cost on to you, and the government, which is totally parasitic by nature, has no choice but to pass those costs on to you.
The only way to reduce the cost of health care is to, you know, reduce the cost of health care. Having "the rich" pay for your health care will not reduce its cost. In fact, it is more likely to drive up the costs, as it continue to separate the person receiving the goods from the person who pays for it.
Exactly... life is short... I wouldn't work for someone who expects programming to be a 24/7 activity or something other than 9 to 5.
That's funny, I wouldn't hire a 20-something that wanted to program 24/7. I'm old and married. I'd want to hire a 20-something that has a life, so that I could live vicariously through them. Who cares what the Big-O classification is for some Java method you wrote in your spare time? I want to hear about partying with young ladies and doing things athletic. I can be old and pedantic all by myself.
*Hobbling today. Pulled something in my foot while trying to run wind sprints with my younger son. Getting old is a bitch.