The Cold War is convenient phrase to describe the political climate, not an actual â warâ. It is on the same level as the â warsâ on poverty, drugs and violence.
World War 2 was a real war, with a declaration by Congress. The "war on terror" is not. Thus the other side are not "soldiers" and your comparison is invalid.
Terrorist activity, like it or not, is *criminal* activity and not under the rules of war, regardless of how the press refers to it.
I remember my first day in Calculus 2 in University. Half-a-dozen of us were in class, waiting on the professor and discussing what was taught in the class in the prior hour.
All four walls had blackboards that were covered in a scrawl. Our best guess was Hebrew or another Semitic language.
Then the professor walks in and asks "have you copied down everything from the boards, yet?" We were dumbfounded. His handwriting made the average doctor look like a penmanship winner.
Three of us passed that semester. The rest gave up in despair.
Read the article again and you'll see that they compared the BILLING RATE for contractors. The people doing the work don't get that. Usually 30%+ is taken off the top by the contract house/management company.
Nor did they account for the benefits costs. The true cost of the employee should be salary plus benefits.
I say this as someone who not only has worked both sides of that fence, but is currently hiring for Federal IT (InfoSec) positions. I've seen an average of 100+ applicants for each position advertised and most are contractors desperate to become full-time Feds.
And it may have followed that very closely, for a few years after the war of independence.
It has always been through the threat of violence that the authority is enforced, even in the nascent years of the nation. George Washington, while President, led the military support to quell the Whiskey Rebellion in the early 1790s. The Whiskey Rebellion demonstrated that the new national government had the willingness and ability to suppress violent resistance to its laws.
The consent of the governed is the consent of the group to use violence, when necessary, on the individuals who refuse to go along with the consensus of the whole. It does not mean that each individual has to voluntarily comply with each edict and can opt out if they feel like it.
All governments are socialist in nature. The costs of maintaining the civilization are spread through the population. The only debates are on the number of services provided by the government and the proportions paid by individuals and sub-groups in the population.
Trusted Boot prevents the use of alternative boot disks. It is controlled from chips soldered onto the motherboard and PKI keys.
No key, no boot. Replacing drives or using external drives does not help. There is no "BIOS Reset" option and you can't short jumpers to clear it.
Google uses it on the CR-48 Chromebooks, but also includes a little switch under the battery to turn it off. With it turned on, the system boots only Google-signed images and nothing else. Period.
Interestingly enough, when I pointed out to my son that Gears 3 was out his comment was "I really can't get into a game where all the characters look like they munch steroids for breakfast, lunch and dinner."
IMHO, part of a good game experience is immersing yourself in the fantasy and identifying with the characters. If the characters are too far removed, it makes it harder.
Untrue. I know a couple that use FF as a standard browser. IE is also supported, but the ones I know draw the line at supporting more than 2 browsers.
In fact, where I work, IE is in place only for the occasional ancient site that still uses ActiveX. Say -- Oracle Financials, which seems to only run on IE6.
The satellite allowed the intelligence community to capture the highest-quality imagery it had ever gotten with low-resolution camera, Vick said. It also allowed analysts to get a look at huge swathes of territory with fewer pictures â" a single frame covered about 370 nautical miles, roughly the equivalent of the distance from Cincinnati to Washington.
Well, if you were delusional enough to hold out hope for Meego after it was dropped by Nokia and then "development hold" by Intel, this is your wake-up call.
it's been a while since I've had a catastrophic failure of a book.
Really? Then you aren't trying hard enough. Expose one to enough water and it is ruined, or close enough to warrant a replacement.
Water being left in the rain, or dropped in the ocean/lake/river or even flushed down the toilet by a curious 3-year old child. Spilled drinks can be devastating, depending on the liquid volume.
I've also gotten a few that were part of a bad press run. Ten minutes out of the store, even though brand new, the binding was falling apart. Going back to the store to return it, all of the other ones of that title in stock had the same problem.
Then there is the rare missing page. I think they did an entire episode of M*A*S*H on that once.
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The Cold War is convenient phrase to describe the political climate, not an actual â warâ. It is on the same level as the â warsâ on poverty, drugs and violence.
World War 2 was a real war, with a declaration by Congress. The "war on terror" is not. Thus the other side are not "soldiers" and your comparison is invalid.
Terrorist activity, like it or not, is *criminal* activity and not under the rules of war, regardless of how the press refers to it.
When you get a security clearance and get told explicitly not to do this.
Anwar al-Alaki was in actual service? That is, he was enlisted in our military or part of a militia? News to me.
Just accents? How about handwriting.
I remember my first day in Calculus 2 in University. Half-a-dozen of us were in class, waiting on the professor and discussing what was taught in the class in the prior hour.
All four walls had blackboards that were covered in a scrawl. Our best guess was Hebrew or another Semitic language.
Then the professor walks in and asks "have you copied down everything from the boards, yet?" We were dumbfounded. His handwriting made the average doctor look like a penmanship winner.
Three of us passed that semester. The rest gave up in despair.
But the pinch of sarcasm in there changes the recipe from one of failure to one of WOOOSH!
A beautiful rant killed by an ugly fact.
They do not get twice the pay. No way in hell.
Read the article again and you'll see that they compared the BILLING RATE for contractors. The people doing the work don't get that. Usually 30%+ is taken off the top by the contract house/management company.
Nor did they account for the benefits costs. The true cost of the employee should be salary plus benefits.
I say this as someone who not only has worked both sides of that fence, but is currently hiring for Federal IT (InfoSec) positions. I've seen an average of 100+ applicants for each position advertised and most are contractors desperate to become full-time Feds.
It has always been through the threat of violence that the authority is enforced, even in the nascent years of the nation. George Washington, while President, led the military support to quell the Whiskey Rebellion in the early 1790s. The Whiskey Rebellion demonstrated that the new national government had the willingness and ability to suppress violent resistance to its laws.
The consent of the governed is the consent of the group to use violence, when necessary, on the individuals who refuse to go along with the consensus of the whole. It does not mean that each individual has to voluntarily comply with each edict and can opt out if they feel like it.
All governments are socialist in nature. The costs of maintaining the civilization are spread through the population. The only debates are on the number of services provided by the government and the proportions paid by individuals and sub-groups in the population.
You can recover your system -- to a signed boot image.
Trusted Boot prevents the use of alternative boot disks. It is controlled from chips soldered onto the motherboard and PKI keys.
No key, no boot. Replacing drives or using external drives does not help. There is no "BIOS Reset" option and you can't short jumpers to clear it.
Google uses it on the CR-48 Chromebooks, but also includes a little switch under the battery to turn it off. With it turned on, the system boots only Google-signed images and nothing else. Period.
Interestingly enough, when I pointed out to my son that Gears 3 was out his comment was "I really can't get into a game where all the characters look like they munch steroids for breakfast, lunch and dinner."
IMHO, part of a good game experience is immersing yourself in the fantasy and identifying with the characters. If the characters are too far removed, it makes it harder.
Statistically, if he murdered all the sick and uneducated people, we would. Be careful what you wish for.
Untrue. I know a couple that use FF as a standard browser. IE is also supported, but the ones I know draw the line at supporting more than 2 browsers.
In fact, where I work, IE is in place only for the occasional ancient site that still uses ActiveX. Say -- Oracle Financials, which seems to only run on IE6.
No, you're thinking of the Tea Party.
That is funny. I hadn't seen that before. Subtle, but funny.
Here: http://www.gsmarena.com/rumor_intel_to_discontinue_meego_development_temporarily-news-3087.php
and here: http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/09/intel-denies-giving-up-on-meego-but-it-doesnt-mean-much.ars
Well, if you were delusional enough to hold out hope for Meego after it was dropped by Nokia and then "development hold" by Intel, this is your wake-up call.
NASA has a bake sale!? What's next? Engineers on street corners with cups and signs that say "Please Give"?
You're married, aren't you? Sounds like for some time, too.
Dead pixels or dead director?
Wow. Nothing like fucking with the guys on the ISS for lulz. Maybe spot that new Air Force mini spy shuttle, or whatever it is.
Not really. They used to operate as a savings bank, back in the early 20th Century. The reason they stopped had nothing to do with legal protections.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Savings_System
Really? Then you aren't trying hard enough. Expose one to enough water and it is ruined, or close enough to warrant a replacement.
Water being left in the rain, or dropped in the ocean/lake/river or even flushed down the toilet by a curious 3-year old child. Spilled drinks can be devastating, depending on the liquid volume.
I've also gotten a few that were part of a bad press run. Ten minutes out of the store, even though brand new, the binding was falling apart. Going back to the store to return it, all of the other ones of that title in stock had the same problem.
Then there is the rare missing page. I think they did an entire episode of M*A*S*H on that once.