> Since when is Intelligent Design/Creationism a "theory"? It doesn't even deserve the reputation as theory. Theories are rational, testable and predictive
So, who put you in charge of determining what is rational, testable, and predictive?
Because that's what you are implying in your response to this posting.
When you can step up to the plate and explain exactly where all the matter in the universe comes from, then I'll accept that you MIGHT have some qualification(s) to actually pontificate on the merits of ID.
When you work somewhere what you obtain from that employer belongs to the employer until the employer relinquishes ownership to you.
Would this have even been posted on/. if the guy had set fire to the corporate tower as he walked out the door. I think not. But, what he did was equally malicious.
That if you get on the phone and call these idiots often enough to complain they sometimes get the message.
Just tell them that you will call each time you receive that unsolicited email or phone call from them.
Make absolutely certain that you put the poor staffer on the hotseat. Make sure they fully understand that who they represent is invading your privacy and that you will not tolerate it.
If they try to hang up on you then simply tell them that if they don't hear you out that you are a constituent that will be walking through their front door to give them the piece of your mind in person otherwise. That usually really gets their attention.
Being a bit obnoxious can have it's benefits.
Don't accept crap from those boneheads, you bought and paid for them to be there, get your money's worth!
Don't be deceived. The advocates of global warming could very well be wrong. See this article which cites a Stanford climatologist who advocated in the mid-70s that the world was cooling:
Perhaps the most enlighted part of this short article appears in the last paragraph:
"Science is a self-correcting institution," Schneider says. "The data change, so of course you change your position. Otherwise, you would be dishonest."
Sources report Google is starting it's own religion that will effectively replace all of the other religions in the world. Thus saving the world from itself.
And while they are at it reports are that each new coco-crisp cereal grain will contain a Google branded RFID device which will bring immediate live streaming video to the small intestines of those who eat it.
You and everyone else would be highly offended and possibly out for blood if it were legal to approach children on the sidewalk in front of their house, show one's genitals and then say "Buy viagra, see what it does for me!"
The approach by spamming porn marketers is absolutely no different. Slightly, and I'm not sure if that portrays the right meaning, less obnoxious, but the same approach.
It is in EVERYBODY's interest to have a certain level of sanctity in our society for our children. And that means everybody has to chip in to some degree and be willing to live under a reasonable ruleset that keeps perverse material away from everybody's children.
To say that it is the parent's responsibility is a cop-out and totally un-acceptable. Otherwise, you might as well digress to my example at the beginning of this rant where children would not be able to play in their own front yard with any certainty that they would not be molested by the first pervert that happened to come along.
The San Francisco Bay Area the digital transition will not work without a lot of upgrading on peoples part.
There are multiple transmission locations for TV in the Bay Area. This basically means that unless you have one of those monster antennas on your roof you will need an antenna pointed in the direction of the transmissions. Think multiple antennas. Multiple friends of mine have multiple antennas.
Not only that, but from all accounts of those already trying to receive digital transimissions, including myself, digital signals simply do not travel as far.
Or perhaps lets put it another way, the signal may travel just as far as a current day signal, but at the ranges quite a few people in the SF Bay Area are at from the transmission tower the signal is too weak to register within the digital TV receiver to be accurately display. Thus, either you get a perfect signal (or picture if you will) or you get nothing at all. And a lot more people, including myself, are getting nothing at all on my HDTV since I'm just far enough away that the signal seems to be too weak. And I live in the San Jose area, 30 or so miles from San Francisco as the bird flys.
Lastly, quite a few people in the east of SF live in quite mountainous conditions. Cannot pick up things there either.
I have no idea how relations are today, but at The University of Alabama in the mid 80s people who lived in greek houses and those that lived off-campus were constantly at odds over who should be elected to student council.
Usually the Greeks banded together and block voted their person into office against a normally fractured off-campus crowd.
So for this particular election season a particular popular off-campus person was running for student council president. He was likely to be elected.
The ensuing rivalry from all accounts was as bitter as had been witnessed in a long time. Spying, dirty tricks, etc. were frequently reported.
The student newspaper had withheld judgement but it decided to print a negative article about the greeks' candidate the day before the election.
All was fair about this, it had been done plenty of times before...
But, this particular issue of the paper was different.
It had something incredibly desirable in it. That will be revealed a bit later...
So the day the paper was printed came upon the campus. The paper was delivered in the night to all the free locations all around the campus.
Now that particular day two intrepid mates of mine had a very early engineering class, something insane like 6:30 am, maybe 7am at the latest.
Irregardless of the eaxct early time, my friends went off to their class. While waiting for their class, that took a look at the paper.
Low-and-behold there was a coupon in it for two whoppers and two frys for two dollars at the local BK. Now that was great in and of itself, but what made this coupon incredibly desirable was that it didn't have an expiration date.
So, in a pure stroke of pure genious, my friends skipped class and rushed from building to building around campus grabbing all of the newspapers and stuffing them into their light blue rambler.
By all accounts they managed to grab a fast majority of the newspapers which had been distributed earlier that morning. And they did it without being detected.
Personally I knew none of this, I had no idea what my two friends had done.
By midday the fury of the off-campus people was at a boil. Obviously the greeks had stolen all of the newspapers. It was a conspiracy of the grandest nature.
Of course the greeks were at a loss over the entire matter.
The news of the greeks supposed theft traveled quickly and the next day the off-campus candidate was easily elected.
The bad feelings went on until the next year when the greeks probably took back the presidency, I don't remember. I just remember it took a long time for the bad feelings to go away.
A couple months after the election I happened to be over at my friends apartment and I was offered some BK coupons. I gladly accepted and was lead into one of my friend's bedroom. Lining the walls of this bedroom was the most awesome collection of the campus newspaper I had ever seen. Every wall was lined/stacked from floor to ceiling with newspapers.
I was personally provided a five foot high stack of papers.
I ate whoppers off of that stack for easily a year.
After six, or so, months it was funny to walk into the local BK and they would look at the coupon, see the correct address, and they would ask where I got it from since they hadn't seen one. High-turnover you see. This was before the days of laser printers, etc.
As far as I know this story has never been told in a public forum, but it actually happened.
Possible way to stop phishing is to simply flood them with too many responses to their emails.
When you get a phishing email simply go to the pointed site, enter false information and then click the submit button....
For every false set of data they receive they have to try to use that invalid credit card number, ebay password, etc... Thus, costing them extreme amounts of time.
They would achieve much quicker success by just petitioning the FTC, the FCC, and/or the court systems.
Any one of the three organizational units above has consistently shown the propensity to gladly hand over to proviate hands assets the public has repeatly entrusted as public property.
Personally I'm fed up with providing right of ways, local monopolies, etc. only to see the courts, etc. say that those things suddenly exclusively belong to a private company.
Having a deficit does not make government run ineffectively.
Actually one could make a strong argument that it makes government much more effective by providing a second way to manipulate the economy. A push versus pull sort of thing.
Without deficit spending the government could only spend what it had received from taxes in a particular year.
And due to a lack of perfect knowledge as to how much the tax coffers were going to bring in in a particular year the government would be pushed into spending very conservatively, lest it run a deficit.
Planning for long-term projects would be made far more difficult and emergency situations would tend to shutdown the government.
Deficit spending on the other hand allows lawmakers the leisure of knowing that they can start a long-term project and not have to pay cash for it today.
Emergency situations can be dealt with by using Uncle Sam's Visa card and accidental budget overruns (is there such an animal?) can be nullified.
Even more importantly the Federal Reserve can use it's enormous influence in borrowing power terms to micromanage interest rates. You wouldn't want to put Alan Greenspan out of business now would you?
If democrats in significant numbers in both the house and the senate had voted no then NAFTA wouldn't be happening.
Plain and simple.
Especially the Senate, since it, as a body, has for a long time been spilt almost equally between Dems and Repubs.
Or perhaps you like this better:
Without the Democrats in Congress voting for the WTO and NAFTA, nothing happens.
The Democrats in Congress are every just as much to blame for WTO and NAFTA as Bush.
Look, you don't have a frigging leg to stand on buddy. Next time you vote at least vote for someone who shares your views of the world. Because obviously the democrats don't.
> "when Clinton was reelected" in 1996: jobs were falling off the trees
Not quite.
Actually I was doing quite a bit of hiring in 1996 and jobs were not falling off trees. In silicon valley I could find a LOT of VERY qualified applicants in 1996.
It didn't get difficult until 98 or so. And then the CISCO's etc. of the world were snatching up anyone who even knew how to do simple math.
From 1998 to 2000 I was seeing applicant's resumes who had no business doing anything but retail. And then I'm not sure if they could have cut retail.
I remember when Carter was up for re-election in 80. In that situation the prime interest rate was 21 percent, people were waiting in lines for two hours to buy three gallons of gas, and unemployment wasn't good at all. Now that was a miserable time and people were really suffering.
So, things change, as they always will.
> where the labor, environment and pay conditions are already in the cesspool
So, if that's the case, then why are home prices still rising? Where is that money coming from? I don't think all those bankers out there are accepting bouncing checks for all those mortgages. Nor are they accepting that proverbial cash that grows on trees.
The money is coming from somewhere. Perhaps the unemployment numbers have some truth to them?
Perhaps those that don't have a job are just too lazy to go out and get one?
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> Since when is Intelligent Design/Creationism a "theory"? It doesn't even deserve the reputation as theory. Theories are rational, testable and predictive
So, who put you in charge of determining what is rational, testable, and predictive?
Because that's what you are implying in your response to this posting.
When you can step up to the plate and explain exactly where all the matter in the universe comes from, then I'll accept that you MIGHT have some qualification(s) to actually pontificate on the merits of ID.
Until then I will not hold my breath.
When you work somewhere what you obtain from that employer belongs to the employer until the employer relinquishes ownership to you.
/. if the guy had set fire to the corporate tower as he walked out the door. I think not. But, what he did was equally malicious.
Would this have even been posted on
I'm,
Just wondering what Google is going to do when the Chinese authorities ask for the same search information for which the US has asked.
Will they roll over and provide it, or will they actually resist?
> If Yahoo were to ban the use of "Jesus" in screen names then you'd see some outrage from those "kooky right wing christians".
Yeah but, it's not very likely those kooky right wing christians would be chopping off any heads over the whole matter.
Is,
That if you get on the phone and call these idiots often enough to complain they sometimes get the message.
Just tell them that you will call each time you receive that unsolicited email or phone call from them.
Make absolutely certain that you put the poor staffer on the hotseat. Make sure they fully understand that who they represent is invading your privacy and that you will not tolerate it.
If they try to hang up on you then simply tell them that if they don't hear you out that you are a constituent that will be walking through their front door to give them the piece of your mind in person otherwise. That usually really gets their attention.
Being a bit obnoxious can have it's benefits.
Don't accept crap from those boneheads, you bought and paid for them to be there, get your money's worth!
Don't be deceived. The advocates of global warming could very well be wrong. See this article which cites a Stanford climatologist who advocated in the mid-70s that the world was cooling:
o oling/
http://www.discover.com/issues/feb-06/rd/global-c
Perhaps the most enlighted part of this short article appears in the last paragraph:
"Science is a self-correcting institution," Schneider says. "The data change, so of course you change your position. Otherwise, you would be dishonest."
Credible,
Sources report Google is starting it's own religion that will effectively replace all of the other religions in the world. Thus saving the world from itself.
And while they are at it reports are that each new coco-crisp cereal grain will contain a Google branded RFID device which will bring immediate live streaming video to the small intestines of those who eat it.
Brought to you by Google Rumor Central
Bull,
To your entire premise!
You and everyone else would be highly offended and possibly out for blood if it were legal to approach children on the sidewalk in front of their house, show one's genitals and then say "Buy viagra, see what it does for me!"
The approach by spamming porn marketers is absolutely no different. Slightly, and I'm not sure if that portrays the right meaning, less obnoxious, but the same approach.
It is in EVERYBODY's interest to have a certain level of sanctity in our society for our children. And that means everybody has to chip in to some degree and be willing to live under a reasonable ruleset that keeps perverse material away from everybody's children.
To say that it is the parent's responsibility is a cop-out and totally un-acceptable. Otherwise, you might as well digress to my example at the beginning of this rant where children would not be able to play in their own front yard with any certainty that they would not be molested by the first pervert that happened to come along.
Get real, grow up!
In,
The San Francisco Bay Area the digital transition will not work without a lot of upgrading on peoples part.
There are multiple transmission locations for TV in the Bay Area. This basically means that unless you have one of those monster antennas on your roof you will need an antenna pointed in the direction of the transmissions. Think multiple antennas. Multiple friends of mine have multiple antennas.
Not only that, but from all accounts of those already trying to receive digital transimissions, including myself, digital signals simply do not travel as far.
Or perhaps lets put it another way, the signal may travel just as far as a current day signal, but at the ranges quite a few people in the SF Bay Area are at from the transmission tower the signal is too weak to register within the digital TV receiver to be accurately display. Thus, either you get a perfect signal (or picture if you will) or you get nothing at all. And a lot more people, including myself, are getting nothing at all on my HDTV since I'm just far enough away that the signal seems to be too weak. And I live in the San Jose area, 30 or so miles from San Francisco as the bird flys.
Lastly, quite a few people in the east of SF live in quite mountainous conditions. Cannot pick up things there either.
I have no idea how relations are today, but at The University of Alabama in the mid 80s people who lived in greek houses and those that lived off-campus were constantly at odds over who should be elected to student council.
Usually the Greeks banded together and block voted their person into office against a normally fractured off-campus crowd.
So for this particular election season a particular popular off-campus person was running for student council president. He was likely to be elected.
The ensuing rivalry from all accounts was as bitter as had been witnessed in a long time. Spying, dirty tricks, etc. were frequently reported.
The student newspaper had withheld judgement but it decided to print a negative article about the greeks' candidate the day before the election.
All was fair about this, it had been done plenty of times before...
But, this particular issue of the paper was different.
It had something incredibly desirable in it. That will be revealed a bit later...
So the day the paper was printed came upon the campus. The paper was delivered in the night to all the free locations all around the campus.
Now that particular day two intrepid mates of mine had a very early engineering class, something insane like 6:30 am, maybe 7am at the latest.
Irregardless of the eaxct early time, my friends went off to their class. While waiting for their class, that took a look at the paper.
Low-and-behold there was a coupon in it for two whoppers and two frys for two dollars at the local BK. Now that was great in and of itself, but what made this coupon incredibly desirable was that it didn't have an expiration date.
So, in a pure stroke of pure genious, my friends skipped class and rushed from building to building around campus grabbing all of the newspapers and stuffing them into their light blue rambler.
By all accounts they managed to grab a fast majority of the newspapers which had been distributed earlier that morning. And they did it without being detected.
Personally I knew none of this, I had no idea what my two friends had done.
By midday the fury of the off-campus people was at a boil. Obviously the greeks had stolen all of the newspapers. It was a conspiracy of the grandest nature.
Of course the greeks were at a loss over the entire matter.
The news of the greeks supposed theft traveled quickly and the next day the off-campus candidate was easily elected.
The bad feelings went on until the next year when the greeks probably took back the presidency, I don't remember. I just remember it took a long time for the bad feelings to go away.
A couple months after the election I happened to be over at my friends apartment and I was offered some BK coupons. I gladly accepted and was lead into one of my friend's bedroom. Lining the walls of this bedroom was the most awesome collection of the campus newspaper I had ever seen. Every wall was lined/stacked from floor to ceiling with newspapers.
I was personally provided a five foot high stack of papers.
I ate whoppers off of that stack for easily a year.
After six, or so, months it was funny to walk into the local BK and they would look at the coupon, see the correct address, and they would ask where I got it from since they hadn't seen one. High-turnover you see. This was before the days of laser printers, etc.
As far as I know this story has never been told in a public forum, but it actually happened.
> Java is, from a language design standpoint, a joke
For those of us awake at the beginning of Java, Java was anything but a joke. It was almost like manna sent from heaven.
The alternatives were some pretty poor bundled C compilers, GCC 2.x.x, and some pretty lame C++ implementations.
It really gets frustrating waiting five years for someone to actually come up with a C++ compiler that does templates correctly.
> Java is a nice VM....but a mediocre language
If you believe this go treat yourself to GCC 2.9.x. Try to do something with it. It truly sucked.
A,
Possible way to stop phishing is to simply flood them with too many responses to their emails.
When you get a phishing email simply go to the pointed site, enter false information and then click the submit button....
For every false set of data they receive they have to try to use that invalid credit card number, ebay password, etc... Thus, costing them extreme amounts of time.
If,
It takes 1.4 million complaints to get action over the DNC list then I would say the DNC list is somewhat of a failure.
Personally, anything over about 500 complaints is where I would set the limit.
They,
Are barking up the wrong tree.
They would achieve much quicker success by just petitioning the FTC, the FCC, and/or the court systems.
Any one of the three organizational units above has consistently shown the propensity to gladly hand over to proviate hands assets the public has repeatly entrusted as public property.
Personally I'm fed up with providing right of ways, local monopolies, etc. only to see the courts, etc. say that those things suddenly exclusively belong to a private company.
Good graphic,
s _intel_viiv/
The Register has a good graphic per this announcement. See it at the bottom if the following page:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/30/tivo_back
> The concerts were not making use of scarce airwave bandwidth
Yeah right, and I'm sure there were no city or county funds that have went into making the venues those concerts occur at possible.
You know as well as I do that concert halls, arenas, parks all receive local funding and outright gifts, such as land to make them possible.
So don't sit on your high and mighty throne pretending that some liberal musician promoting Kerry isn't using something that is public.
Having a deficit does not make government run ineffectively.
Actually one could make a strong argument that it makes government much more effective by providing a second way to manipulate the economy. A push versus pull sort of thing.
Without deficit spending the government could only spend what it had received from taxes in a particular year.
And due to a lack of perfect knowledge as to how much the tax coffers were going to bring in in a particular year the government would be pushed into spending very conservatively, lest it run a deficit.
Planning for long-term projects would be made far more difficult and emergency situations would tend to shutdown the government.
Deficit spending on the other hand allows lawmakers the leisure of knowing that they can start a long-term project and not have to pay cash for it today.
Emergency situations can be dealt with by using Uncle Sam's Visa card and accidental budget overruns (is there such an animal?) can be nullified.
Even more importantly the Federal Reserve can use it's enormous influence in borrowing power terms to micromanage interest rates. You wouldn't want to put Alan Greenspan out of business now would you?
No I'm not fooling anyone. Don't want to, don't claim to. Facts are facts, they certainly are not spin by any means.
h il lips.PDF
Nancy Pelosi did vote for NAFTA. Just like Bill Clinton did, effectively. Google it. It's right there for all to see.
If you cannot find it then read the nice paper a student wrote concerning the NAFTA vote:
http://www.econ.duke.edu/Journals/DJE/dje2000/p
At the bottom you will find who did and did not vote for NAFTA.
Or just keep your head in the sand and continue to think that there is someone on capital hill who actually gives a damn about you.
I suppose you consider Nancy Pelosi a Dixiecrat? Funny, I thought she was from San Francisco.
Or Nita Lowey, isn't she from New York somewhere???
Or Anna Eschoo, another Dem from Northern California?
Or Gerry Studds, isn't he from Massachussetts?
I don't know what you're smoking, but it's clouded your perception of the world.
As far as being buffaloed, perhaps you should look in the mirror. At least I can accept reality.
If democrats in significant numbers in both the house and the senate had voted no then NAFTA wouldn't be happening.
Plain and simple.
Especially the Senate, since it, as a body, has for a long time been spilt almost equally between Dems and Repubs.
Or perhaps you like this better:
Without the Democrats in Congress voting for the WTO and NAFTA, nothing happens.
The Democrats in Congress are every just as much to blame for WTO and NAFTA as Bush.
Look, you don't have a frigging leg to stand on buddy. Next time you vote at least vote for someone who shares your views of the world. Because obviously the democrats don't.
Democratic members,
Didn't need to vote for it. They knew 'Their man' Clinton would sign it and Gore would be there cheering him on.
And if you choose to ignore/discount the full truth then that's your problem pal.
All,
I know is is that picture of Clinton and Gore say all that needs to be said about NAFTA to me.
> "when Clinton was reelected" in 1996: jobs were falling off the trees
Not quite.
Actually I was doing quite a bit of hiring in 1996 and jobs were not falling off trees. In silicon valley I could find a LOT of VERY qualified applicants in 1996.
It didn't get difficult until 98 or so. And then the CISCO's etc. of the world were snatching up anyone who even knew how to do simple math.
From 1998 to 2000 I was seeing applicant's resumes who had no business doing anything but retail. And then I'm not sure if they could have cut retail.
I remember when Carter was up for re-election in 80. In that situation the prime interest rate was 21 percent, people were waiting in lines for two hours to buy three gallons of gas, and unemployment wasn't good at all. Now that was a miserable time and people were really suffering.
So, things change, as they always will.
> where the labor, environment and pay conditions are already in the cesspool
So, if that's the case, then why are home prices still rising? Where is that money coming from? I don't think all those bankers out there are accepting bouncing checks for all those mortgages. Nor are they accepting that proverbial cash that grows on trees.
The money is coming from somewhere. Perhaps the unemployment numbers have some truth to them?
Perhaps those that don't have a job are just too lazy to go out and get one?
I,
Heard you the first time.
You made your point and I made mine.
If you don't like my point that's fine, and I don't necessarily disagree with yours.
But, I am sick of the one-sided bias that is largely allowed to go unchecked on Slashdot.
It's not fair to cast everything negative that happens in this world as Bush's fault, because it's not!
My point simply shows that there are a lot of people to blame, left, right, upside-down, underneath, where-ever you can find them.
> Bush is the one who decided to finance companies moving their jobs to foreign countries, not Democrats.
1 _- 1_1/President_Clinton_Signs_NAFTA.html
And it was the Democrats, specifically Bill Clinton, that signed NAFTA which made it all possible.
See:
http://encarta.msn.com/media_701507082_76156434
To see Clinton and Gore accepting applause for this travesty.