Seriously, there are reasons to support a National ID. I could take that argument up separately. But what I want to comment on is this. Isn't it a little bit disturbing, that among those of us who are opposed to the idea, there is a feeling of intimidation about registering dissent with the Department of Homeland Security? It reminds me eerily of a teacher querying a fourth grade class, "is there anyone here who objects to saying the Pledge of Allegiance?, If so raise your hand and you may wait out in the hallway, while the rest of us say the pledge."
When I was asked by an employer to do something that could make me liable for damages, I did what you suggested. My boss was unwilling to put in writing what he wanted me to do. They didn't put it in writing so I didn't do it. I got away with it. I think the reason I got away with it was because I was a union member working under a union contract. Alas, in the United States today, most workers are "at-will" employees without union protection. If I had pulled a stunt like that in a non-union shop, I'd have most likely been sent down the road. My advice to the original poster would be just do as your told and turn them in anonymously.
From the users' perspective this doesn't make the comparison unfair. Suppose you were comparing two automobiles. By your logic it would be unfair to consider that one of them is street legal, and the other could only be made so by the purchase of after-market add-ons.
Are Guantanamo Prisoners considered POW's now? The last I heard the Bush administration had categorized them as "enemy combatants"; a term intended to hold them beyond the jurisdiction of the Geneva Conventions, the criminal justice system, or any other legal standard that would impose decency upon their captors. I would like to ask Americans this question: Would you find it acceptable if captured Americans were treated exactly the way that Guantanamo Prisoners are treated? Would you not claim that they were being deprived of their rights?
If I were in combat I would want the enemy to know that if he surrenders, he will not be treated as prisoners have been in Abu Ghraib or Guantanamo. I would want the enemy to surrender willingly, not fight to the death to avoid the fate of an American gulag.
I see a lot of comments here on "forcing" the officials involved (especially the principal) to apologize to the boy, to the community, etc. What does it mean to be "forced to apologize"? We can make consequences for them if they refused to apologize, such as jail or job loss. But who the hell wants a phony apology from someone who's only saying the words to save their own neck? The only apology I would want to hear is from someone who says they're sorry because they realize they have actually caused me some harm and they feel bad about what I had to go through. A forced apology is not a real apology at all.
I'm not a coder, (IANAC?) but I think that programming languages have selected particular keyboard combinations to handle certain programming tasks because of the ease with which those combinations could be implemented on the QWERTY layout. In light of that, I'm not sure the switch is as useful to coders as it would be to others. But I am a Dvorak typist. I originally switched hoping to increase my typing speed. I never got the increased speed I was looking for, but I did notice that I could type more with less pain in my hands and fingers. It seldom causes any problems. One would be that an administrator logging into my machine remotely at work will find that as they attempt to login, they will get gibberish until I either log out or remap the keyboard for them, but that's rare. Even using someone else's machine isn't a problem, since, keyboards can be remapped so easily. Just don't forget to change them back when you finish.
UNION!? HOW DARE YOU TALK ABOUT UNIONS!? No one is more adamantly opposed than I to... oh, the boss just left. OK. Yeah, you're probably right. But I don't want my boss to hear me say it. If he did, I would have wasted so much time kissing his ass.
Diebold could have a case if, the state issued a set of criteria (all of which were quantifiable and accurately measured) in the RFQ. The state has an obligation to the people of Massachusetts to select the best product. But the state would have some wiggle room if any of those selection criteria were not quantifiable, (such as the lack of confidence in the electoral process associated with the Diebold name). Those sorts of criteria could outweigh all the others. It's unlikely the state didn't leave that wiggle room in its decision-making process. If Diebold wins this I'm going to have to consider suing all of the employers who didn't hire me.
I tried out a few of them. Aardvark seems to best fit what I was looking for. Now I can read smirkingchimp.com with the text blown up large and spread across the entire screen width. Thanks.
I came from Indianapolis. It's on the far west end of the Eastern time zone. Maybe it should be on Central time, but its not. Result, on EST in the Winter, I went to school in the dark. In the summer, even without dst the sun was up 'til around 8:15. I'm surprised at Indiana going to EDT. That means it won't even be close to getting dark in June until 9:30 PM. Who the hell voted for this?
I need something like Nuke Anything Enhanced, except that I want to eliminate everything else except the content I'm interested in. I have a small laptop with a 10-inch screen. I resize the fonts in Firefox so that my tired old eyes can see them. If there are 4 columns in the page, one with content and 3 with menus and ads, then with the enlarged font, the content column may have only 3 to 5 words per line. This leads to lots of scrolling. But with a "Nuke Everything Else" extension, the content would fill out the page. Another way to do the same would be an extension that opened up the one item in a separate tab or window by itself.
That is not what "right to work" means. "Right-to-Work" states are those which have laws preventing labor unions from implementing contracts that require exclusivity for their members to hold the jobs that the union represents. You can quit your job in any state unless you've signed some contract to the contrary.
Oh, come on Kenny, Earl just wants to cross you off his list.
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"Bush won because many voters, myself included, thought Bush was responsible for cleaning up his own mess..."
Let me get this straight: You let a monkey run about throwing crap at everyone. Then, you have the opportunity to put the monkey back in his cage, but instead you let him back out so that he can clean up all the crap he threw? How's that logic working so far?
Many of you may not be old enough to remember Barney Miller. It was a comedy show about New York Cops in the 1970's. There was an episode where a particularly brainy detective named Dietrich exasperated a polygraph examiner in an internal investigation by getting Truthful readings when he stated that he was born "a long time ago... in a galaxy far away".:-)
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Seriously, there are reasons to support a National ID. I could take that argument up separately. But what I want to comment on is this. Isn't it a little bit disturbing, that among those of us who are opposed to the idea, there is a feeling of intimidation about registering dissent with the Department of Homeland Security? It reminds me eerily of a teacher querying a fourth grade class, "is there anyone here who objects to saying the Pledge of Allegiance?, If so raise your hand and you may wait out in the hallway, while the rest of us say the pledge."
I must admit the "I for one" joke has run its course. I got modded redundant and no one else even said it.
Let me be the first to say that I for one ...
When I was asked by an employer to do something that could make me liable for damages, I did what you suggested. My boss was unwilling to put in writing what he wanted me to do. They didn't put it in writing so I didn't do it. I got away with it. I think the reason I got away with it was because I was a union member working under a union contract. Alas, in the United States today, most workers are "at-will" employees without union protection. If I had pulled a stunt like that in a non-union shop, I'd have most likely been sent down the road. My advice to the original poster would be just do as your told and turn them in anonymously.
LOL, Some of them speak Farsi. If I was modding you'd be funny.
From the users' perspective this doesn't make the comparison unfair. Suppose you were comparing two automobiles. By your logic it would be unfair to consider that one of them is street legal, and the other could only be made so by the purchase of after-market add-ons.
Are Guantanamo Prisoners considered POW's now? The last I heard the Bush administration had categorized them as "enemy combatants"; a term intended to hold them beyond the jurisdiction of the Geneva Conventions, the criminal justice system, or any other legal standard that would impose decency upon their captors. I would like to ask Americans this question: Would you find it acceptable if captured Americans were treated exactly the way that Guantanamo Prisoners are treated? Would you not claim that they were being deprived of their rights?
If I were in combat I would want the enemy to know that if he surrenders, he will not be treated as prisoners have been in Abu Ghraib or Guantanamo. I would want the enemy to surrender willingly, not fight to the death to avoid the fate of an American gulag.
I see a lot of comments here on "forcing" the officials involved (especially the principal) to apologize to the boy, to the community, etc. What does it mean to be "forced to apologize"? We can make consequences for them if they refused to apologize, such as jail or job loss. But who the hell wants a phony apology from someone who's only saying the words to save their own neck? The only apology I would want to hear is from someone who says they're sorry because they realize they have actually caused me some harm and they feel bad about what I had to go through. A forced apology is not a real apology at all.
I'm not a coder, (IANAC?) but I think that programming languages have selected particular keyboard combinations to handle certain programming tasks because of the ease with which those combinations could be implemented on the QWERTY layout. In light of that, I'm not sure the switch is as useful to coders as it would be to others. But I am a Dvorak typist. I originally switched hoping to increase my typing speed. I never got the increased speed I was looking for, but I did notice that I could type more with less pain in my hands and fingers.
It seldom causes any problems. One would be that an administrator logging into my machine remotely at work will find that as they attempt to login, they will get gibberish until I either log out or remap the keyboard for them, but that's rare. Even using someone else's machine isn't a problem, since, keyboards can be remapped so easily. Just don't forget to change them back when you finish.
"I have a lot of great memories about my place (presses button) and now they're gone."
Someday maybe a chimp will even become Presid... Oh Wait.
UNION!? HOW DARE YOU TALK ABOUT UNIONS!? No one is more adamantly opposed than I to ... oh, the boss just left. OK. Yeah, you're probably right. But I don't want my boss to hear me say it. If he did, I would have wasted so much time kissing his ass.
Maybe when I get a newer faster computer, but for now I'm sticking with fvwm and tkdesk.
Diebold could have a case if, the state issued a set of criteria (all of which were quantifiable and accurately measured) in the RFQ. The state has an obligation to the people of Massachusetts to select the best product. But the state would have some wiggle room if any of those selection criteria were not quantifiable, (such as the lack of confidence in the electoral process associated with the Diebold name). Those sorts of criteria could outweigh all the others. It's unlikely the state didn't leave that wiggle room in its decision-making process. If Diebold wins this I'm going to have to consider suing all of the employers who didn't hire me.
I tried out a few of them. Aardvark seems to best fit what I was looking for. Now I can read smirkingchimp.com with the text blown up large and spread across the entire screen width.
Thanks.
I came from Indianapolis. It's on the far west end of the Eastern time zone. Maybe it should be on Central time, but its not. Result, on EST in the Winter, I went to school in the dark. In the summer, even without dst the sun was up 'til around 8:15. I'm surprised at Indiana going to EDT. That means it won't even be close to getting dark in June until 9:30 PM. Who the hell voted for this?
I need something like Nuke Anything Enhanced, except that I want to eliminate everything else except the content I'm interested in. I have a small laptop with a 10-inch screen. I resize the fonts in Firefox so that my tired old eyes can see them. If there are 4 columns in the page, one with content and 3 with menus and ads, then with the enlarged font, the content column may have only 3 to 5 words per line. This leads to lots of scrolling. But with a "Nuke Everything Else" extension, the content would fill out the page. Another way to do the same would be an extension that opened up the one item in a separate tab or window by itself.
"not too techie, not too geeky, not too clever, plenty of explosions, hero gets the girl"
But wasn't that what made the original series successful?
That is not what "right to work" means. "Right-to-Work" states are those which have laws preventing labor unions from implementing contracts that require exclusivity for their members to hold the jobs that the union represents. You can quit your job in any state unless you've signed some contract to the contrary.
Oh, come on Kenny, Earl just wants to cross you off his list.
"Bush won because many voters, myself included, thought Bush was responsible for cleaning up his own mess..."
Let me get this straight: You let a monkey run about throwing crap at everyone. Then, you have the opportunity to put the monkey back in his cage, but instead you let him back out so that he can clean up all the crap he threw? How's that logic working so far?
Ford was worried that the aftermarket fuzzy dice hanging from the rear view window might cause people to have a negative perception of the Pinto.
My Dead Man's Switch detonates a small thermonuclear device that I have hidden somewhere where my enemies are abundant...:-)
Dear Dept of Homeland Security official, this is a joke.
But then Darth Cheney will be the emperor.
Many of you may not be old enough to remember Barney Miller. It was a comedy show about New York Cops in the 1970's. There was an episode where a particularly brainy detective named Dietrich exasperated a polygraph examiner in an internal investigation by getting Truthful readings when he stated that he was born "a long time ago ... in a galaxy far away". :-)