"There is value in a machine's configuration! The customizations, tweaks, and even icon arrangements people create to make their systems work and lives easier are time-consuming to recreate, and there can be a major loss of productivity if they have to re-do it all from scratch"
That's what ROAMING PROFILES are for. IF it's a business context with more than 4 PC's, they should be logging into a linux box, and have that windows stuff stored on the backed-up-nightly server.
You're enabling and supporting an administration that ties people to chairs and beats them?
Once you fall for the Fear Card being played, and toss away Due Process, you are EXACTLY as Evil as any Nazi was, the only differences being the methods and bodycount.
"My girlfriend drives a 2003 New Beetle. It is nearing 100000km now. Only problems so far was a punctured radiator (hardly VW's fault) and a loose electrical connection that made the dashes light flicker from time to time."
We had an intermittent FAILURE to start which ulitimately ( $500 labor, $10 wire ) was traced to a corroded wire/poor ground.
Watch that flickering dash light problem. It'll likely get worse.
As a Passat Owner and Driver since 1999 and the wife has a Jetta from 1998, let me comment on the reliability and build quality of VW products.
They suck.
That said, these jokers can't even design an ABS controller that lasts 5 years. How the hell do they think that they're QUALIFIED to design a life critical componant like this?
As before, to the person denied due process for political expediency, it matters not if they're tied to a chair and beaten to death, or marched into a gas chamber.
The ONLY difference at this point are the methods and the bodycount.
Try getting organized effectively with your social networks completely mapped by the Government, and them monitoring any important communication among the members. Combine that with compulsory registration of assault rifles, and a ban on drilling neighborhood militias.
Until, as we are learning in Iraq, messages aren't passed via email, IM, cellphone, landline, etc. Then it's just pissing away a billion taxpayer dollars. And we just discuss it at potluck dinners. That's when the infiltration/subversion happens.
When the FIRST person was denied due process, tied to a chair and beaten to death in the "War on Terror", we ( The USA ) became exactly as evil as the Nazis.
The ONLY differences are (so far) the methods and bodycount.
"or suspending them for illegal activites. Then they're reporting them to the police.
How is this bad?"
You have CAUSE and EFFECT reversed.
You get arrested, charged, adjudicated, THEN WHEN YOUR ACTIVITIES ARE FOUND TO BE ILLEGAL, Suspended.
Suspension for "Illegal activities", PRIOR to Due Process, is a DENIAL of Due Process.
And when the US withheld due process to the FIRST PERSON in the name of what's expedient, we became exactly as evil as Nazis. The only difference being the number of victims.
Because to the person deprived of due process, it's irrelevent if they're tied to a chair and beaten to death or walked into a gas chamber.
"I can solve the space access problem with a few sentences.
Be it enacted by the Congress of the United States:
The Treasurer of the United States is directed to pay to the first American owned company (if corporate at least 60% of the shares must be held by American citizens) the following sums for the following accomplishments. No monies shall be paid until the goals specified are accomplished and certified by suitable experts from the National Science Foundation or the National Academy of Science:
1. The sum of $2 billion to be paid for construction of 3 operational spacecraft which have achieved low earth orbit, returned to earth, and flown to orbit again three times in a period of three weeks.
2. The sum of $5 billion to be paid for construction and maintenance of a space station which has been continuously in orbit with at least 5 Americans aboard for a period of not less than three years and one day. The crew need not be the same persons for the entire time, but at no time shall the station be unoccupied.
3. The sum of $12 billion to be paid for construction and maintenance of a Lunar base in which no fewer than 31 Americans have continuously resided for a period of not less than four years and one day.
4. The sum of $10 billion to be paid for construction and maintenance of a solar power satellite system which delivers at least 800 megaWatts of electric power to a receiving station or stations in the United States for a period of at least two years and one day.
5. The payments made shall be exempt from all US taxes.
That would do it. Not one cent to be paid until the goals are accomplished. Not a bit of risk, and if it can't be done for those sums, well, no harm done to the treasury."
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"There is value in a machine's configuration! The customizations, tweaks, and even icon arrangements people create to make their systems work and lives easier are time-consuming to recreate, and there can be a major loss of productivity if they have to re-do it all from scratch"
That's what ROAMING PROFILES are for. IF it's a business context with more than 4 PC's, they should be logging into a linux box, and have that windows stuff stored on the backed-up-nightly server.
IF your folks are worried about a reinstall, they're NOT ready to survive a catastropic harddrive crash.
Much less full reload to clear an infection.
When you fell for the Fear Card, and gave up Due Process, and tortured your very first prisoner to death, you became EXACTLY as Evil as any Nazi was.
The ONLY differences being the methods and bodycount (so far.)
Do you think to the VICTIM it matters one bit if it's one, or 12 million?
In other words:
AMERICANS ARE INCAPABLE OF FABRICATING A SATURN 5 FROM MEASURED BLUEPRINTS.
Solution:
Outsource to China.
America DID dissolve. When Congress adjourned in Spring of 1861, the Federal Republic under the Constitution of The United States was put to bed.
When Lincoln appointed FakeCongress on 4-July-1861, he put a pretty face on what has been a military dictatorship.
Show me when FakeCongress was replaced with a real congress, and the wartime emergency government actually replaced. I can't find the paperwork.
You're enabling and supporting an administration that ties people to chairs and beats them?
Once you fall for the Fear Card being played, and toss away Due Process, you are EXACTLY as Evil as any Nazi was, the only differences being the methods and bodycount.
Shit.
In a FREE COUNTRY, My *FREEDOM* trumps your false sense of 'security'.
Draw your own conclusions about whether the US of A is 'Free'.
"What is wrong with mandatory drug testing?"
The rights given us by Our Creator are absolute, and recognition of your privacy is acknowleged in the 4th Amendment guarantees.
So, since The Man has no WARRANT for a search, and PROBABLE CAUSE doesn't exist, it's UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
Now if people BEND OVER FRONTWARDS to comply, that's THEIR problem.
To continue the thread,
The Constituion might not be a Suicide Pact,
BUT
The Declaration of Independence is the Death Penalty for Bad Gov't.
"My girlfriend drives a 2003 New Beetle. It is nearing 100000km now. Only problems so far was a punctured radiator (hardly VW's fault) and a loose electrical connection that made the dashes light flicker from time to time."
We had an intermittent FAILURE to start which ulitimately ( $500 labor, $10 wire ) was traced to a corroded wire/poor ground.
Watch that flickering dash light problem. It'll likely get worse.
Any suggestions?
As a Passat Owner and Driver since 1999 and the wife has a Jetta from 1998, let me comment on the reliability and build quality of VW products.
They suck.
That said, these jokers can't even design an ABS controller that lasts 5 years. How the hell do they think that they're QUALIFIED to design a life critical componant like this?
That's why you get the source.
"But I'm seriously tired of everyone making comparisons to the Nazi's for every decision that they don't like."
Hitler got the German People to trash thier Democratic Due Process using Fear.
Bush got the American People to trash their Democratic Due Process using Fear.
What's the difference?
"But until then, we are not Nazi's."
As before, to the person denied due process for political expediency, it matters not if they're tied to a chair and beaten to death, or marched into a gas chamber.
The ONLY difference at this point are the methods and the bodycount.
Try getting organized effectively with your social networks completely mapped by the Government, and them monitoring any important communication among the members. Combine that with compulsory registration of assault rifles, and a ban on drilling neighborhood militias.
Until, as we are learning in Iraq, messages aren't passed via email, IM, cellphone, landline, etc. Then it's just pissing away a billion taxpayer dollars. And we just discuss it at potluck dinners. That's when the infiltration/subversion happens.
But I'm getting ahead of this part of the topic.
When we withheld due process from the VERY FIRST PERSON, we became EXACTLY as bad and evil as and Nazi.
The ONLY differences being methods and bodycount.
To the person tied to a chair and beaten to death, or marched into the gas chamber, it doesn't matter that "there's only one"...
When the FIRST person was denied due process, tied to a chair and beaten to death in the "War on Terror", we ( The USA ) became exactly as evil as the Nazis.
The ONLY differences are (so far) the methods and bodycount.
BINGO.
You've just put all the "Little Fish" out of business.
"do we really need "due process" before kicking him out of the school?"
According to the 14th Ammendment of the Federal Constititution, yes.
Of course, the Nazis would say that, "We are at War on Drugs, so what matter if some juvinile deliquent suffers a MINOR deprivation of rights?"
And we see where that logic ends up.
"or suspending them for illegal activites. Then they're reporting them to the police.
How is this bad?"
You have CAUSE and EFFECT reversed.
You get arrested, charged, adjudicated, THEN WHEN YOUR ACTIVITIES ARE FOUND TO BE ILLEGAL, Suspended.
Suspension for "Illegal activities", PRIOR to Due Process, is a DENIAL of Due Process.
And when the US withheld due process to the FIRST PERSON in the name of what's expedient, we became exactly as evil as Nazis. The only difference being the number of victims.
Because to the person deprived of due process, it's irrelevent if they're tied to a chair and beaten to death or walked into a gas chamber.
And attitudes like yours enable it.
If the ladies were properly armed with handguns, this sort of thing wouldn't happen.
"So I'll take NASA."
That's working out SO well, isn't it?
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Jerry Pournelle Wrote:
"I can solve the space access problem with a few sentences.
Be it enacted by the Congress of the United States:
The Treasurer of the United States is directed to pay to the first American owned company (if corporate at least 60% of the shares must be held by American citizens) the following sums for the following accomplishments. No monies shall be paid until the goals specified are accomplished and certified by suitable experts from the National Science Foundation or the National Academy of Science:
1. The sum of $2 billion to be paid for construction of 3 operational spacecraft which have achieved low earth orbit, returned to earth, and flown to orbit again three times in a period of three weeks.
2. The sum of $5 billion to be paid for construction and maintenance of a space station which has been continuously in orbit with at least 5 Americans aboard for a period of not less than three years and one day. The crew need not be the same persons for the entire time, but at no time shall the station be unoccupied.
3. The sum of $12 billion to be paid for construction and maintenance of a Lunar base in which no fewer than 31 Americans have continuously resided for a period of not less than four years and one day.
4. The sum of $10 billion to be paid for construction and maintenance of a solar power satellite system which delivers at least 800 megaWatts of electric power to a receiving station or stations in the United States for a period of at least two years and one day.
5. The payments made shall be exempt from all US taxes.
That would do it. Not one cent to be paid until the goals are accomplished. Not a bit of risk, and if it can't be done for those sums, well, no harm done to the treasury."
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The problem is our GOVERNMENT DOESN'T WANT TO DO IT