You are right in only a very narrow literal sense.
There is actually a big practical difference now though. Stuff not enumerated in the Constitution reverts to the states, then to the people. In other words, that stuff is only a personal "right" if no other government entity, from your state down to your homeowner's association, feels the need to regulate it. Basically, all that stuff is fair game for any piddly little tinpot government you happen to find yourself living under.
Rights enumerated as such in the Constitution however are now (since the Civil War, basically) held to be beyond *any* government abridgement.
In other words, if the constitution says X (say, the ability to grow grapes) is a right, then *no* government can make a law abridging that. However, if the constitution is silent on the subject of X, that just means it is the state's job to regulate X. You only have a "right" to X if no government feels like getting involved.
This comes from an old myth that the political right likes to tell about themselves.
In ths story, they are the folks who stand for freedom by fighting for things like State's Rights and limited government. To everybody else, it may look like they are trying to retard social progress by grasping at any argument that can be used to prevent the government from changing old unjust laws, but that's not what's going on at all!
COBOL is one of the few languages that is completely standardized. IO, formatting, everything works the same EVERYWHERE. Certainly, the column nature of coding in the language is annoying, but not much more than BASIC was with it's numbering scheme. As far as the programs that chug through industrial-sized databases go few touch as many records as COBOL does.
This comment was found in a time-capsule we buried 35 years ago in 1978, along with a six-pack of Shlitz.
Sad to say, the beer had gone kinda skunky, but I think the comment is still good, isn't it?
These organizations are requesting either 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(6) exemption in order to collaboratively develop new software. The members of these organizations are usually the for-profit business or for-profit support technicians of the software.
There is no specific guidance at this point. If you see a case, elevate it to your manager.
It appears that the fear here is that for-profit companies have the potential to evade taxes by relabeling their code as "OpenSource", and turning their development staff into 501C employees (supported by donations from the for-profit company). For that reason, they want someone with a wee bit more training than your average low-level screener looking at applications.
IMHO allowing this would be a Good Thing from the standpoint of social policy, as the resulting software could be used by anyone, rather than just that one company. But deciding on what is good social policy to allow is Congress' job, not the IRS's.
What is a 'wider distribution'? You mean men are more versatile than women, more random, more prone to doing things, what?
I've heard this theory elaborated before (by a female physicist btw). Supposedly, if you look at physical things like height or weight distributions, you'll find much more variance amongst male human beings than you will with females. In other words, if you found the 100 people in the world with the highest BMI and the lowest BMI, a preponderance of both groups will be men.
The theory is, if you could apply the same measurements to more subjective things like "intelligence", you would find the same things: both the 100 (or 1000 or whatever) dumbest and the 100 smartest people in the world will be mostly men.
I'll go on record as saying I'm not sure I buy this logic at all, but perhaps that's just because I'm male and I heard it from a female first.;-)
If you find yourself asking technical questions about dogmatic theological details like this, you are really missing the whole point. Religons are a kind of philosophy, and as such they suffer from the problem that they cannot be simultaniously all-encompassing(complete) and self-consistent. I believe mathematics even has a theorem to that effect.
So trying to pick at a philosiphy to find either incompleteness or inconsistency will work, but it really proves nothing new, and is a waste of time. What's important is if your philosophy(and/or religon) helps you organize your life and the universe around you in productive and rewarding ways.
...and it should just be a help, not a dictation. That means you have to really grok the important basics (eg: The Golden Rule), and let the nitty details be details. That way if someone tries to tell me that I have to treat someone else like crap (a clear violation of the Golden Rule) because that person is X and one passage in the Bible says "Thou shalt not suffer X to live", I have no problem telling Mr. Bible Verse Quoter to go take a hike. I *know* The Golden Rule is more important than Bible Verse X, and if he doesn't know that, he's has totally misunderstood Christianity, no matter how much of my Book he knows by heart, or how many people watch him on TV, or how many people go to his "church".
So my suggestion to you is to quit worrying about what precisely it means to be the "only begotten son of God", or weather the Monephyistites or Arayans had a better conception of the Trinity that we do today, or whatever. Your time is far better spent reading Augustine's The City of God, The Cost of Discipleship, or Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Unfortunately, particularly in non-IT shops, office admin is much like being the IT janitor.
Frankly, that's exactly how I'd describe it. (In fact, have).
I do systems software development myself (device drivers, custom IP stacks, etc). We actually have three totally "IT" separate support groups here, under completely different management chains, that I have to deal with regularly. There's the folks who maintain my development PC and network (who I was talking about previously), the folks who maintain the systems we deliver our products on while we are working on them (under my same management chain), and the folks who maintain our products after they are delivered and accepted by our customers. If your "IT" folks combine the services of one of the two later groups, that's different, but here that first group really is like "IT janitors", so it makes perfect sense that I use the same help ticket system to report a crashed hard drive as I use to report an overflowing toilet.
Managerially in house? Perhaps. Physically in-house? That's essential. We have hundreds of PCs here, an in my experience only about 75-50% of my tickets can be solved remotely.
Where we work, all that stuff is handled by the same help ticketing system, and routed to the appropriate parties based on what the problem is. So the "blinds fell off the window" issue would go to facilities, the "printer is broken" call would go to the people maintainting the printers, and the actual IT issues go to IT.
To take things a step further, IT works behind a door that only IT badges can open, and their only (public) phone number is just a human who will create a ticket for you (if for example, your problem is that your PC won't boot, so you can't create a ticket yourself).
Actually, I'd argue that a far better person to document a routine is someone who didn't write it. The author is liable to be too blinded by what he thinks it is doing to see what it is actually doing. Far better to have documentation written by someone who was forced to preruse the code and figure out what is actually going on.
I go to one of the old "mainline" churches. It is a cultural feature there that you are not supposed to applaud performances, as they are (supposedly) done for the glory of God, not self aggrandizement.
However, it occasionally still happens, which makes it a really interesting study. Our choir director was asked about it, and he said it was his observation that it tended to happen much more often when a peice ends suddenly after a very loud part. His theory was that sudden silence feels out of place, so the parishoners feel the need to fill it with something. After a couple more years of watching it myself, I believe he may be onto something.
So I would suspect the frequency and volume of applause probably has a lot more to do with how the preceeding piece ended than with they quality of the performance. As a performer, if you want applause, just make sure your final note/line/whatever is as loud as possible!
It makes great electoral sense for them. A place where communications are so stretched that everybody is literally years behind the times would make for perfect Republican voters.
How could I, or anyone else for that matter, write documentation for features that are completely undocumented and have an ambiguous name?
So what you're saying is that you'll write documentation when you have some good documentation to write it from?
Shame nobody ever wrote documentation on how to make a wheel or fire. Then we wouldn't still be stuck in these caves eating nothing but fruit that happens to fall off of trees and roll into the cave...
With my last series 4 it actually took no less than 5 service visits over three weeks from Cox, trying a grand total of something like 15 different cable cards, before they found a set that would work ("pair" was their technical term, I think). I even at one point had a TiVo rep talking to a Cox rep on the line with me. I understood from the service guys that having to try multiple cards is a fairly typical experience (although my case is a bit on the extreme side). Its been great since then though.
Whatever it is that is making those cable cards so flaky *really* needs to be gotten to the bottom of and fixed. However, I've got a sneaking suspicion that the issue is on the cable company's side, and they have no incentive whatsoever to make the things work better.
I have three (operating) TiVos in my house right now. With a wife and three kids that seems to be the magic number that prevents (most) TV viewing strife. When the Series 5 comes out, they will doubtless run one of those deals where I can upgrade for $100 or so again, so most likely I will get one.
I've talked with everyone about cutting the cable and just doing Netflix or something, but there's things they all watch that aren't easy to get that way. For me its live sports. Good luck watching live Tottenham Hotspurs games on Sunday mornings in Oklahoma without some kind of home cable service. I know you can usually find some kind of stream from Russia or something if you surf around, but the quality is total crap compared to my HD TV.
So you say they make some money on the side selling their patents? Well, if that gets me a cheaper deal on my Series 5 upgrade, I'm all for that.
The Act allows for them to apply to the minister for an exemption, upon granting the state will pay the cost.
The law as written was meant to ensure companies are responsible for the archaeological costs incurred from digging up their land instead of saddling the taxpayer.
Ahh. So all they really have to do is hire a lawyer to get that paperwork filled out properly and shepherd it through the system, and once that is all complete they will probably have access back to their property?
To quote that great ancient philosopher Lando Calrissian: This deal's getting worse all the time!
Yup. This appears to be the one and only issue man has found where Republicans are willing to go on record supporting the position of President Obama whole-heartedly.
Most of the heat from the complaints about this program are actually coming from the left.
Add to the fact that most in-vehicle theft is performed with a broken window
Isnt that kinda dangerous for the burglar? Walking around with a broken window to be used to break into a car is unwieldy, and they can easily cut themselves...
At some point in there, the encryption has to end, and a logic 0 or 1 has to be sent to some device to unlock the door. If you found that point, and had a way to get into it...
For instance, say someone like Honda didn't feel like making every single door lock a smart device with its own KeeLoq decoder, but instead they have one central KeeLoq and then send an "unlock the doors" command to the electronic door solenoids. Now suppose somebody finds a backdoor way onto the bus that sends that command.
Actually if you break a large object into many small objects the pieces still have the same total kinetic energy.
It isn't the kinetic energy in space that's the problem. The problem is the kinetic energy at point of impact with the earth's surface.
If you spread that same energy out over hundreds (or perhaps thousands) of miles instead of one small impact crater, there is a very real qualatative difference. Not to mention the fact that the more surface area per mass an object has, the more of it will burn up in the atmosphere (further disspating the kinetic energy it had in space). Small objects tend to burn up completely.
Think about it this way: Would your property fare better in a hailstorm with thousands of pea-sized hailstones hitting your yard, or just one large hailstone with the same total mass?
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If only "the citizens" had the ability to vote for the folks in charge of the executive branch...
You are right in only a very narrow literal sense.
There is actually a big practical difference now though. Stuff not enumerated in the Constitution reverts to the states, then to the people. In other words, that stuff is only a personal "right" if no other government entity, from your state down to your homeowner's association, feels the need to regulate it. Basically, all that stuff is fair game for any piddly little tinpot government you happen to find yourself living under.
Rights enumerated as such in the Constitution however are now (since the Civil War, basically) held to be beyond *any* government abridgement.
In other words, if the constitution says X (say, the ability to grow grapes) is a right, then *no* government can make a law abridging that. However, if the constitution is silent on the subject of X, that just means it is the state's job to regulate X. You only have a "right" to X if no government feels like getting involved.
This comes from an old myth that the political right likes to tell about themselves.
In ths story, they are the folks who stand for freedom by fighting for things like State's Rights and limited government. To everybody else, it may look like they are trying to retard social progress by grasping at any argument that can be used to prevent the government from changing old unjust laws, but that's not what's going on at all!
COBOL is one of the few languages that is completely standardized. IO, formatting, everything works the same EVERYWHERE. Certainly, the column nature of coding in the language is annoying, but not much more than BASIC was with it's numbering scheme. As far as the programs that chug through industrial-sized databases go few touch as many records as COBOL does.
This comment was found in a time-capsule we buried 35 years ago in 1978, along with a six-pack of Shlitz.
Sad to say, the beer had gone kinda skunky, but I think the comment is still good, isn't it?
Open Source Software
These organizations are requesting either 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(6) exemption in order to collaboratively develop new software. The members of these organizations are usually the for-profit business or for-profit support technicians of the software.
There is no specific guidance at this point. If you see a case, elevate it to your manager.
It appears that the fear here is that for-profit companies have the potential to evade taxes by relabeling their code as "OpenSource", and turning their development staff into 501C employees (supported by donations from the for-profit company). For that reason, they want someone with a wee bit more training than your average low-level screener looking at applications.
IMHO allowing this would be a Good Thing from the standpoint of social policy, as the resulting software could be used by anyone, rather than just that one company. But deciding on what is good social policy to allow is Congress' job, not the IRS's.
What is a 'wider distribution'? You mean men are more versatile than women, more random, more prone to doing things, what?
I've heard this theory elaborated before (by a female physicist btw). Supposedly, if you look at physical things like height or weight distributions, you'll find much more variance amongst male human beings than you will with females. In other words, if you found the 100 people in the world with the highest BMI and the lowest BMI, a preponderance of both groups will be men.
The theory is, if you could apply the same measurements to more subjective things like "intelligence", you would find the same things: both the 100 (or 1000 or whatever) dumbest and the 100 smartest people in the world will be mostly men.
I'll go on record as saying I'm not sure I buy this logic at all, but perhaps that's just because I'm male and I heard it from a female first. ;-)
At the risk of feeding a troll here...
If you find yourself asking technical questions about dogmatic theological details like this, you are really missing the whole point. Religons are a kind of philosophy, and as such they suffer from the problem that they cannot be simultaniously all-encompassing(complete) and self-consistent. I believe mathematics even has a theorem to that effect.
So trying to pick at a philosiphy to find either incompleteness or inconsistency will work, but it really proves nothing new, and is a waste of time. What's important is if your philosophy(and/or religon) helps you organize your life and the universe around you in productive and rewarding ways.
...and it should just be a help, not a dictation. That means you have to really grok the important basics (eg: The Golden Rule), and let the nitty details be details. That way if someone tries to tell me that I have to treat someone else like crap (a clear violation of the Golden Rule) because that person is X and one passage in the Bible says "Thou shalt not suffer X to live", I have no problem telling Mr. Bible Verse Quoter to go take a hike. I *know* The Golden Rule is more important than Bible Verse X, and if he doesn't know that, he's has totally misunderstood Christianity, no matter how much of my Book he knows by heart, or how many people watch him on TV, or how many people go to his "church".
So my suggestion to you is to quit worrying about what precisely it means to be the "only begotten son of God", or weather the Monephyistites or Arayans had a better conception of the Trinity that we do today, or whatever. Your time is far better spent reading Augustine's The City of God, The Cost of Discipleship, or Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Unfortunately, particularly in non-IT shops, office admin is much like being the IT janitor.
Frankly, that's exactly how I'd describe it. (In fact, have).
I do systems software development myself (device drivers, custom IP stacks, etc). We actually have three totally "IT" separate support groups here, under completely different management chains, that I have to deal with regularly. There's the folks who maintain my development PC and network (who I was talking about previously), the folks who maintain the systems we deliver our products on while we are working on them (under my same management chain), and the folks who maintain our products after they are delivered and accepted by our customers. If your "IT" folks combine the services of one of the two later groups, that's different, but here that first group really is like "IT janitors", so it makes perfect sense that I use the same help ticket system to report a crashed hard drive as I use to report an overflowing toilet.
Managerially in house? Perhaps. Physically in-house? That's essential. We have hundreds of PCs here, an in my experience only about 75-50% of my tickets can be solved remotely.
Where we work, all that stuff is handled by the same help ticketing system, and routed to the appropriate parties based on what the problem is. So the "blinds fell off the window" issue would go to facilities, the "printer is broken" call would go to the people maintainting the printers, and the actual IT issues go to IT.
To take things a step further, IT works behind a door that only IT badges can open, and their only (public) phone number is just a human who will create a ticket for you (if for example, your problem is that your PC won't boot, so you can't create a ticket yourself).
Actually, I'd argue that a far better person to document a routine is someone who didn't write it. The author is liable to be too blinded by what he thinks it is doing to see what it is actually doing. Far better to have documentation written by someone who was forced to preruse the code and figure out what is actually going on.
As a performer, if you want applause, just make sure your final note/line/whatever is as loud as possible!
...interesting coincidence that my bottom of the page /. quote of the day is:
"If it's not loud, it doesn't work!" -- Blank Reg, from "Max Headroom"
I go to one of the old "mainline" churches. It is a cultural feature there that you are not supposed to applaud performances, as they are (supposedly) done for the glory of God, not self aggrandizement.
However, it occasionally still happens, which makes it a really interesting study. Our choir director was asked about it, and he said it was his observation that it tended to happen much more often when a peice ends suddenly after a very loud part. His theory was that sudden silence feels out of place, so the parishoners feel the need to fill it with something. After a couple more years of watching it myself, I believe he may be onto something.
So I would suspect the frequency and volume of applause probably has a lot more to do with how the preceeding piece ended than with they quality of the performance. As a performer, if you want applause, just make sure your final note/line/whatever is as loud as possible!
It makes great electoral sense for them. A place where communications are so stretched that everybody is literally years behind the times would make for perfect Republican voters.
How could I, or anyone else for that matter, write documentation for features that are completely undocumented and have an ambiguous name?
So what you're saying is that you'll write documentation when you have some good documentation to write it from?
Shame nobody ever wrote documentation on how to make a wheel or fire. Then we wouldn't still be stuck in these caves eating nothing but fruit that happens to fall off of trees and roll into the cave...
With my last series 4 it actually took no less than 5 service visits over three weeks from Cox, trying a grand total of something like 15 different cable cards, before they found a set that would work ("pair" was their technical term, I think). I even at one point had a TiVo rep talking to a Cox rep on the line with me. I understood from the service guys that having to try multiple cards is a fairly typical experience (although my case is a bit on the extreme side). Its been great since then though.
Whatever it is that is making those cable cards so flaky *really* needs to be gotten to the bottom of and fixed. However, I've got a sneaking suspicion that the issue is on the cable company's side, and they have no incentive whatsoever to make the things work better.
I have three (operating) TiVos in my house right now. With a wife and three kids that seems to be the magic number that prevents (most) TV viewing strife. When the Series 5 comes out, they will doubtless run one of those deals where I can upgrade for $100 or so again, so most likely I will get one.
I've talked with everyone about cutting the cable and just doing Netflix or something, but there's things they all watch that aren't easy to get that way. For me its live sports. Good luck watching live Tottenham Hotspurs games on Sunday mornings in Oklahoma without some kind of home cable service. I know you can usually find some kind of stream from Russia or something if you surf around, but the quality is total crap compared to my HD TV.
So you say they make some money on the side selling their patents? Well, if that gets me a cheaper deal on my Series 5 upgrade, I'm all for that.
The Act allows for them to apply to the minister for an exemption, upon granting the state will pay the cost. The law as written was meant to ensure companies are responsible for the archaeological costs incurred from digging up their land instead of saddling the taxpayer.
Ahh. So all they really have to do is hire a lawyer to get that paperwork filled out properly and shepherd it through the system, and once that is all complete they will probably have access back to their property?
To quote that great ancient philosopher Lando Calrissian: This deal's getting worse all the time!
Yup. This appears to be the one and only issue man has found where Republicans are willing to go on record supporting the position of President Obama whole-heartedly.
Most of the heat from the complaints about this program are actually coming from the left.
Add to the fact that most in-vehicle theft is performed with a broken window
Isnt that kinda dangerous for the burglar? Walking around with a broken window to be used to break into a car is unwieldy, and they can easily cut themselves...
They use a window from another nearby car, silly.
At some point in there, the encryption has to end, and a logic 0 or 1 has to be sent to some device to unlock the door. If you found that point, and had a way to get into it...
For instance, say someone like Honda didn't feel like making every single door lock a smart device with its own KeeLoq decoder, but instead they have one central KeeLoq and then send an "unlock the doors" command to the electronic door solenoids. Now suppose somebody finds a backdoor way onto the bus that sends that command.
In their defense, if the editors didn't make the headlines confusing, most ./ readers wouldn't RTFSummary either.
It must be a real burden to edit a text-oriented website for people who hate to read.
Nope. That still looks a lot more exciting than My Dinner with Andre, a movie about two people having a companionable chat in a restraunt.
It won all kinds of best movie accolades in 1981 too, so I say the sky's the limit for your movie.
When you don't know, its Monsanto!
Actually if you break a large object into many small objects the pieces still have the same total kinetic energy.
It isn't the kinetic energy in space that's the problem. The problem is the kinetic energy at point of impact with the earth's surface.
If you spread that same energy out over hundreds (or perhaps thousands) of miles instead of one small impact crater, there is a very real qualatative difference. Not to mention the fact that the more surface area per mass an object has, the more of it will burn up in the atmosphere (further disspating the kinetic energy it had in space). Small objects tend to burn up completely.
Think about it this way: Would your property fare better in a hailstorm with thousands of pea-sized hailstones hitting your yard, or just one large hailstone with the same total mass?