It sometimes still amazes me when I meet liberals who don't understand that many people who "make $1M" actually don't keep most of it even before taxes because they run sole proprietorships or partnerships.
Maybe that's because those liberals only consider people with an actual personal income of a million or more to "make $1M". Nobody actually says "Dan the contractor", who grossed $1M last year before taking into account his business expenses and labor costs is a millionaire, unless they're trying to score some points dishonestly about how taxing the rich really hurts the little guy instead.
Citizen: "An earth quake happened?! You said there was a low risk?! What the hell?" Seismologist: "Exactly, I said low risk, not no risk. That something is unlikely to happen does not mean it can't, or won't happen. There is no way to be completely certain of the odds of an event like an earthquake".
Granted,my 5th-grade science is a little rusty, but I though gravity was a Law? As in, if a theory has enough corroborating evidence the scientific community agrees that it deserves to be promoted to a Law.
Theories do not get "promoted" to become laws. "Law" is an outdated term and is no longer used because it implies something immutable or final. "The Laws of Physics don't allow for that!". Science is always open to being challenged and rethought, so therefore "theory" is now as good as it gets. I believe your understanding of "Theory -> Law" is actually better described by "Hypothesis -> Theory".
Really? Girls in need of rescue were outlawed before alcohol was?...back to school with you. This time, don't leave until you know the difference between "heroin" and "heroine".
Okay, betterunixthanunix made a typo, but while you seem to know that heroin and heroine are different, you don't seem to know what a heroine actually is. Hint: needing to be rescued does not make a girl a heroine. You lose at internets sir.
I know you're trying to be sarcastic, but everything you just said is actually true. All the stuff you see in the media is really a carefully orchestrated misdirection, designed to keep people from wanting to come here. There's actually only 53 of us over here on the entire continent! The rest? Androids and holograms designed to make it look more crowded. Why am I telling you this? I'm bored, it's really quite lonely being one of only 9 people in the entire northeast.....
I'm not so sure about that. From where I sit that's only really true if you base "center" relative to where FOX is. To me it tends to look more like FOX is very far right, and the other networks are center-right with occasional forays to the center or center-left. "Center" is one of those things that's pretty slippery when it comes to defining though, as 10 different people will probably put it in 10 different places, so YMMV.
If you want to pay a doctor precisely as much as a janitor, you'll soon find that no one's going to bother with 12 years of post-high-school education to become a doctor.
I've heard this before, but I don't think it's actually true. There are more rewards involved with a career than just money, there's drive and passion and social status to consider as well. Becoming a doctor purely because it pays well is probably a horrible idea, the doctors I've known who did that are generally horrible doctors, and you can usually identify them pretty damn quickly. There are plenty of other careers where this is true as well. Cops, firemen, paramedics, teachers, research PhDs, the list goes on and on. These people don't necessarily choose their profession based on the income they expect, they often pick the work first and then worry about what it pays later and in some of those cases a janitor can rival what they'll make but without the physical danger or extensive education required by those positions. If it was purely a matter of money, people would probably not go through the bother involved in working to get the jobs I listed here.
For the record, no, I do not believe a janitor and an M.D. should make the exact same amount, but I don't think the argument that nobody will be a doctor if they can be a janitor instead really holds water.
BTW: As far as I am concerned no hurricane in my entire lifetime has had a major impact on the 'Northeast' (i.e. the 6 New England states). This trolling guy from Massachusetts says Pennsylvania is about as much 'Northeast' as Westchester County is 'Upstate New York'. Pennsylvania and anything south is at best 'Mid-Atlantic'.
"Northeast" and "New England" really aren't the same thing. The northeast region is New England, plus N.Y., N.J. and Pennsylvania.
Ah, now I get it, and yeah, I can see that. I used to actually seek out crash-test dummies to be lab partners when I wanted to just do the thing without anyone getting in my way. If they wanted to learn, great, if they wanted to sit in the corner and lick the windows, that was fine too. I'd be annoyed though if they were sticking me with them to fill out the football team if I didn't want them to.
I don't get this...are you saying that the teachers were just copying your grades into the jocks' records, or that all twelve of them were actually copying all of your work? If it's the former, why did they fail when you purposely bombed out? Why wouldn't the teachers just use the grades from someone else who did get an A, or just put A's on their papers regardless of what the real grade was? If it was the latter, why would the jocks keep copying from you even though they were getting F's on their papers, were they really so dumb that they couldn't figure out after a few times that you were a bad choice to copy from? I'm not seeing how this could play out this way unless the "conspirators", either teachers or students were so profoundly stupid that they probably couldn't have even come up with the initial idea to cheat, let alone be successful at it for at least a little while.
As far as cars go, it seems like to only way to buy American is to buy a Toyota.
OT, but not long ago I got a Kia Sorrento. A friend of mine immediately started with the "you shoulda bought American" routine. He kinda missed that my Kia was made in Georgia, while his Chevy was from Mexico....
I'm sorry to see it go, but I'm not at all surprised. I was a release-day Palm Pre buyer (Sprint), and I LOVED WebOS, but Palm really blew it. If there were more apps and the hardware was better (and upgraded more regularly) I would probably have gone with WebOS over Android or iOS, but in the end they left me hanging with no decent upgrade path (the Pre was an okay first-gen device, but really needed a major followup at the one-year mark) and they just didn't attract the app developers (I mean the major developers, the indie devs were fantastic!). End result, I'm now a happy Android user (HTC Evo), but I still miss the great parts of WebOS (Cards, Konami-code to root, etc).
Well, I'll just keep hoping that some of that good stuff makes it to Android eventually. Last I heard that's where most of the WebOS team ended up.....
As for WebOS in vehicles....great, just what I need. People have enough crap that they play with instead of paying attention to the road, now they're going to be swiping through multiple cards on their in-dash systems looking for things while careening down the highway? Wonderful....
Lucky you. I'm north of NYC as well, and with Boost I get around 15-20 down (22 is the highest I've ever seen). I switched to boost after several solid months of Optimum clocking in around.5 - 2 down (up has never been a problem).
Organizations routinely do the exact same thing with politicians. They set up servers which can fax or email a politician then ask millions of people to use the service to contact their representatives. It would not surprise me at all if the same organizations use auto-dialing services in their lobbying efforts as well. To top it off they also swamp politicians with snail mail.
There's a few differences here though. Firstly, Pulte is not a public servant, it's a privately run business. When you take public office, you're obliged to listen to the grievances and concerns of the public, but as long as he's operating within the law a business owner has no such requirement (although ignoring your customers and employees is a stupid business practice). Next is intent. When those political organizations swamp a politician, the intent is to show overwhelming interest in some political point, not to simply cut that politician's communications until he begs for mercy and does what you want (which is more like blackmail than anything else).
While the court claims the issue was the volume of the communications and not the content.
I disagree. I think that the union in this case intended to paralyze the company's communications with overwhelming traffic, and had basically said "You don't get to do business until you do what we tell you". That's not a negotiating tactic, it's just strong-arming.
The key issue in this case is intent. The case has not gone to trial yet so the court ruled entirely on whether or not the alleged actions were sufficient to prove intent. According to the court, asking people to "fight back" by sending email and calling the company proves intent to cause harm.
I agree with the first part about intent, but I think you went off track at the end. If all the company did was tell members "Let Pulte know about your dissatisfaction", they would probably have been fine. The way they augmented that suggests that they may have been acting more in the spirit of blackmail than negotiation. Generally I'm on the side of labor over management, but in this case I think someone at the union has overstepped their role.
That certainly is not the point of a picket line. You can form a picket line at acompany's location to get attention for your dispute, but you may not actually physically stop people from entering. The point of a picket line is to inform others of your grievance, and to try to get them to side with you, not to blackmail a business by blocking access.
Like it or not, yelling your own free speech isn't criminal, even if it prevents the other side from saying anything.
Your right to free speech does not trump the rights of others. Try walking into a restaurant and screaming "Meat is Murder" over and over at the top of your lungs. The courts will not side with you when the police haul you away for disturbing the peace and trespassing. Now, standing outside holding a "Meat is Murder" sign (assuming you're not on private property or blocking their driveway) is a different story.
The law in question is called the Computer Fraud and Abuse act, and I'd say they're going with the angle of abuse. In this case, LIUNA seems to have been going for what amounts to a DDoS attack against the contractors phones and emails.
To generate a high volume of calls, LIUNA both hired an auto-dialing service and requested its members to call Pulte. It also encouraged its members, through postings on its website, to “fight back” by using LIUNA’s server to send e-mails to specific Pulte executives. Most of the calls and e-mails concerned Pulte’s purported unfair labor practices, though some communications included threats and obscene language.
Now, right or wrong, I can at least see the reasoning of the ruling, and this isn't just a clueless judge saying "Oh noes, they hax0r3d the company interwebs". LIUNA seems to have decided that they were going to use their membership and outside companies to shut down Pulte's communications. That they used individual members instead of a botnet to go after the email server seems irrelevant, the intent was clearly to beat the company into submission, not just to voice dissatisfaction. Had they not hired the guys with the autodialer it would have been much easier to believe they were just trying to make themselves heard.
I'm about to have to go out into Salford, where trouble's already kicked off tonight, so that I can escort a young lady home. Already had a bloody close call on the drive home. Could get interesting..
The reply I left for DNS-and-BIND pretty much applies here. Removing "sports scholarships" has absolutely no bearing on physical fitness or even sports in college, aside from the fact that sponsors and ticket-buyers may not be interested in shelling out money for more (potentially) mediocre players. I agree with you that physical fitness *should* play a part in education in general, although through encouragement rather than by requirement. Bottom line, the athletics programs that involve sports scholarships do absolutely nothing for the bulk of the student body as far as fitness goes. These people are already as physically fit as it gets. The overweight nerd whose diet consists of nothing but Code Red, Cheetoes and pizza will never benefit directly from these programs, but perhaps there's a way to lure him away from WoW for a while for some realistic fitness instruction in a gym or weight-room if it's presented correctly.
None of that has anything to do with athletic scholarships. The tiny fraction of students that play in the college league sports hardly makes a dent in the overall physical fitness of the general population of students, and the number of them that are on athletic scholarships even less so. Schools can have sports programs, and fitness programs, and should, but if it's about fitness then it should be open to more than just the "best of the best". The truth of the matter is that sports teams are cash cows for schools, and so they often give these "scholarships" to people who have not demonstrated scholarly ability. Calling it a scholarship is a dodge, why not have communities start their own quasi-professional teams, and pay the players. Some of them might even go to college with that money. Hell, if their grades are good enough, perhaps they'd qualify for a scholarship.
they should be earned for academic or athletic excellence.
Wait, what? Why should "athletic excellence" count for a damn thing? We're talking about education, and furthering ones intellectual pursuits. Why exactly should the fact that someone can throw a ball or run really fast mean they get money for extra education while a smarter (although not brilliant) kid who is a better study does not? If they're good at sports, great, let'em go to football camp or something, but if they want an educational scholarship, perhaps they should display intellectual aptitude. And please don't tell me about how it's because the university can make money off of sports, that doesn't strike me as any better than saying we should have special scholarships for exotic dancers because then the school can open a strip club. Schools are in the education business, not the entertainment industry.
You're kind of proving his point. Your own post implies that the other servers require more work to become a competent admin than the OS X server does. Protip: A business that has a single Mac Mini server probably is not going to have a dedicated IT staff (or even single IT person) hanging around to do administration. It's very possible that the admin is also the owner/accountant/cashier/shipping clerk/janitor and really doesn't have the time or the inclination to go with a "real server" just so he can prove how l33t he is on/.
The choice of OS X Server over Linux or {insert server variant here} says more about the admin than it does the software in question
Seems to say something about both actually....if an inexperienced admin can get the desired results out of an OSX server that would take a more skillful Linux admin to get on other systems, the OSX software would appear to be easier to use. The skill of the admin isn't necessarily indicated though, as an expert is free to use "easier" tools if he likes, but a novice can not necessarily use the most complex ones.
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Maybe that's because those liberals only consider people with an actual personal income of a million or more to "make $1M". Nobody actually says "Dan the contractor", who grossed $1M last year before taking into account his business expenses and labor costs is a millionaire, unless they're trying to score some points dishonestly about how taxing the rich really hurts the little guy instead.
I would change that a little:
Citizen: "An earth quake happened?! You said there was a low risk?! What the hell?"
Seismologist: "Exactly, I said low risk, not no risk. That something is unlikely to happen does not mean it can't, or won't happen. There is no way to be completely certain of the odds of an event like an earthquake".
Theories do not get "promoted" to become laws. "Law" is an outdated term and is no longer used because it implies something immutable or final. "The Laws of Physics don't allow for that!". Science is always open to being challenged and rethought, so therefore "theory" is now as good as it gets. I believe your understanding of "Theory -> Law" is actually better described by "Hypothesis -> Theory".
Okay, betterunixthanunix made a typo, but while you seem to know that heroin and heroine are different, you don't seem to know what a heroine actually is. Hint: needing to be rescued does not make a girl a heroine. You lose at internets sir.
say what now?
Well 'e won't be bothering anyone anymore. 'e's completely 'armless now, innit?
I know you're trying to be sarcastic, but everything you just said is actually true. All the stuff you see in the media is really a carefully orchestrated misdirection, designed to keep people from wanting to come here. There's actually only 53 of us over here on the entire continent! The rest? Androids and holograms designed to make it look more crowded. Why am I telling you this? I'm bored, it's really quite lonely being one of only 9 people in the entire northeast.....
I'm not so sure about that. From where I sit that's only really true if you base "center" relative to where FOX is. To me it tends to look more like FOX is very far right, and the other networks are center-right with occasional forays to the center or center-left. "Center" is one of those things that's pretty slippery when it comes to defining though, as 10 different people will probably put it in 10 different places, so YMMV.
I've heard this before, but I don't think it's actually true. There are more rewards involved with a career than just money, there's drive and passion and social status to consider as well. Becoming a doctor purely because it pays well is probably a horrible idea, the doctors I've known who did that are generally horrible doctors, and you can usually identify them pretty damn quickly. There are plenty of other careers where this is true as well. Cops, firemen, paramedics, teachers, research PhDs, the list goes on and on. These people don't necessarily choose their profession based on the income they expect, they often pick the work first and then worry about what it pays later and in some of those cases a janitor can rival what they'll make but without the physical danger or extensive education required by those positions. If it was purely a matter of money, people would probably not go through the bother involved in working to get the jobs I listed here.
For the record, no, I do not believe a janitor and an M.D. should make the exact same amount, but I don't think the argument that nobody will be a doctor if they can be a janitor instead really holds water.
If it makes you feel any better, I LOL'd a little
"Northeast" and "New England" really aren't the same thing. The northeast region is New England, plus N.Y., N.J. and Pennsylvania.
Ah, now I get it, and yeah, I can see that. I used to actually seek out crash-test dummies to be lab partners when I wanted to just do the thing without anyone getting in my way. If they wanted to learn, great, if they wanted to sit in the corner and lick the windows, that was fine too. I'd be annoyed though if they were sticking me with them to fill out the football team if I didn't want them to.
I don't get this...are you saying that the teachers were just copying your grades into the jocks' records, or that all twelve of them were actually copying all of your work? If it's the former, why did they fail when you purposely bombed out? Why wouldn't the teachers just use the grades from someone else who did get an A, or just put A's on their papers regardless of what the real grade was? If it was the latter, why would the jocks keep copying from you even though they were getting F's on their papers, were they really so dumb that they couldn't figure out after a few times that you were a bad choice to copy from? I'm not seeing how this could play out this way unless the "conspirators", either teachers or students were so profoundly stupid that they probably couldn't have even come up with the initial idea to cheat, let alone be successful at it for at least a little while.
OT, but not long ago I got a Kia Sorrento. A friend of mine immediately started with the "you shoulda bought American" routine. He kinda missed that my Kia was made in Georgia, while his Chevy was from Mexico....
I'm sorry to see it go, but I'm not at all surprised. I was a release-day Palm Pre buyer (Sprint), and I LOVED WebOS, but Palm really blew it. If there were more apps and the hardware was better (and upgraded more regularly) I would probably have gone with WebOS over Android or iOS, but in the end they left me hanging with no decent upgrade path (the Pre was an okay first-gen device, but really needed a major followup at the one-year mark) and they just didn't attract the app developers (I mean the major developers, the indie devs were fantastic!). End result, I'm now a happy Android user (HTC Evo), but I still miss the great parts of WebOS (Cards, Konami-code to root, etc).
Well, I'll just keep hoping that some of that good stuff makes it to Android eventually. Last I heard that's where most of the WebOS team ended up.....
As for WebOS in vehicles....great, just what I need. People have enough crap that they play with instead of paying attention to the road, now they're going to be swiping through multiple cards on their in-dash systems looking for things while careening down the highway? Wonderful....
Lucky you. I'm north of NYC as well, and with Boost I get around 15-20 down (22 is the highest I've ever seen). I switched to boost after several solid months of Optimum clocking in around .5 - 2 down (up has never been a problem).
There's a few differences here though. Firstly, Pulte is not a public servant, it's a privately run business. When you take public office, you're obliged to listen to the grievances and concerns of the public, but as long as he's operating within the law a business owner has no such requirement (although ignoring your customers and employees is a stupid business practice). Next is intent. When those political organizations swamp a politician, the intent is to show overwhelming interest in some political point, not to simply cut that politician's communications until he begs for mercy and does what you want (which is more like blackmail than anything else).
I disagree. I think that the union in this case intended to paralyze the company's communications with overwhelming traffic, and had basically said "You don't get to do business until you do what we tell you". That's not a negotiating tactic, it's just strong-arming.
I agree with the first part about intent, but I think you went off track at the end. If all the company did was tell members "Let Pulte know about your dissatisfaction", they would probably have been fine. The way they augmented that suggests that they may have been acting more in the spirit of blackmail than negotiation. Generally I'm on the side of labor over management, but in this case I think someone at the union has overstepped their role.
That certainly is not the point of a picket line. You can form a picket line at acompany's location to get attention for your dispute, but you may not actually physically stop people from entering. The point of a picket line is to inform others of your grievance, and to try to get them to side with you, not to blackmail a business by blocking access.
Your right to free speech does not trump the rights of others. Try walking into a restaurant and screaming "Meat is Murder" over and over at the top of your lungs. The courts will not side with you when the police haul you away for disturbing the peace and trespassing. Now, standing outside holding a "Meat is Murder" sign (assuming you're not on private property or blocking their driveway) is a different story.
The law in question is called the Computer Fraud and Abuse act, and I'd say they're going with the angle of abuse. In this case, LIUNA seems to have been going for what amounts to a DDoS attack against the contractors phones and emails.
To generate a high volume of calls, LIUNA both hired an auto-dialing service and requested its members to call Pulte. It also encouraged its members, through postings on its website, to “fight back” by using LIUNA’s server to send e-mails to specific Pulte executives. Most of the calls and e-mails concerned Pulte’s purported unfair labor practices, though some communications included threats and obscene language.
Now, right or wrong, I can at least see the reasoning of the ruling, and this isn't just a clueless judge saying "Oh noes, they hax0r3d the company interwebs". LIUNA seems to have decided that they were going to use their membership and outside companies to shut down Pulte's communications. That they used individual members instead of a botnet to go after the email server seems irrelevant, the intent was clearly to beat the company into submission, not just to voice dissatisfaction. Had they not hired the guys with the autodialer it would have been much easier to believe they were just trying to make themselves heard.
Good luck, and be safe...
Read his post again. Slowly.
The reply I left for DNS-and-BIND pretty much applies here. Removing "sports scholarships" has absolutely no bearing on physical fitness or even sports in college, aside from the fact that sponsors and ticket-buyers may not be interested in shelling out money for more (potentially) mediocre players. I agree with you that physical fitness *should* play a part in education in general, although through encouragement rather than by requirement.
Bottom line, the athletics programs that involve sports scholarships do absolutely nothing for the bulk of the student body as far as fitness goes. These people are already as physically fit as it gets. The overweight nerd whose diet consists of nothing but Code Red, Cheetoes and pizza will never benefit directly from these programs, but perhaps there's a way to lure him away from WoW for a while for some realistic fitness instruction in a gym or weight-room if it's presented correctly.
None of that has anything to do with athletic scholarships. The tiny fraction of students that play in the college league sports hardly makes a dent in the overall physical fitness of the general population of students, and the number of them that are on athletic scholarships even less so. Schools can have sports programs, and fitness programs, and should, but if it's about fitness then it should be open to more than just the "best of the best". The truth of the matter is that sports teams are cash cows for schools, and so they often give these "scholarships" to people who have not demonstrated scholarly ability. Calling it a scholarship is a dodge, why not have communities start their own quasi-professional teams, and pay the players. Some of them might even go to college with that money. Hell, if their grades are good enough, perhaps they'd qualify for a scholarship.
Wait, what? Why should "athletic excellence" count for a damn thing? We're talking about education, and furthering ones intellectual pursuits. Why exactly should the fact that someone can throw a ball or run really fast mean they get money for extra education while a smarter (although not brilliant) kid who is a better study does not? If they're good at sports, great, let'em go to football camp or something, but if they want an educational scholarship, perhaps they should display intellectual aptitude. And please don't tell me about how it's because the university can make money off of sports, that doesn't strike me as any better than saying we should have special scholarships for exotic dancers because then the school can open a strip club. Schools are in the education business, not the entertainment industry.
You're kind of proving his point. Your own post implies that the other servers require more work to become a competent admin than the OS X server does. Protip: A business that has a single Mac Mini server probably is not going to have a dedicated IT staff (or even single IT person) hanging around to do administration. It's very possible that the admin is also the owner/accountant/cashier/shipping clerk/janitor and really doesn't have the time or the inclination to go with a "real server" just so he can prove how l33t he is on /.
Seems to say something about both actually....if an inexperienced admin can get the desired results out of an OSX server that would take a more skillful Linux admin to get on other systems, the OSX software would appear to be easier to use. The skill of the admin isn't necessarily indicated though, as an expert is free to use "easier" tools if he likes, but a novice can not necessarily use the most complex ones.