In an earlier time, the voters would have approved of broadband access as a public utility without much hesitation. We still have some public utilities today in the wake of those times (thank God). But such debates today are off-limits due to corporate ownership of the media. Notice how quickly Obama threw the single-payer advocates under the bus when the debates over health care began. That was a complete capitulation to the health insurance industry.(And some of you are naive enough to believe Obama is a liberal or even a socialist). Look for the Mayor of Seattle to be demonized as a "communist" throughout the right wing echo chamber.
I love it when the scientists try to distill their work for the layman and resort to these sorts of explanations. In this case, here's what I got from the summary. The universe was full of things. God wanted to measure one of the things and when he did so an unmeasured "control" thing popped into existence because of some sort of uncertainty principle. In fac, the control popped into existence for each of the things in the universe. So every thing was now a pair of things, one from the universe where one or more things was measured, and another in the original, unmeasured universe, and the divergence of the properties between the pairs of things is what we experience as time.
Apparently, in France the government has the authority to distinguish between a cult and a religion. The U.S. government (and its states) would be expressly prohibited from having this authority by the 1st amendment to the U.S. constitution. I think the U.S. Constitution is correct in this regard. Government shouldn't have the authority to declare whether any religion is legitimate or not.
Python is being suggested frequently here. If you do go with that, I'd strongly suggest taking a look at the Spyder IDE: http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/ It's especially useful for scientific work and entirely cross-platform. I even have it running under FreeBSD.
Am I the only one who sees the irony in the "Communist Party" overseeing "the privatization of state-owned assets"? It's like "we'll go instantaneously from the extreme totalitarian left to the extreme totalitarian right without passing through any democratically controlled space in between. Oh, but we'll hang on that 'Communist' brand name because to admit that didn't work would be losing face."
I take it from the anti-spending tirade that you're among those who think that overly inflated teacher salaries are at the root of the failure of education in the U.S. I thought about becoming a school teacher once. Many people who know me have commented that I would be a very good teacher. But I became an engineer instead. Why do you suppose I decided to withhold my services as a school teacher?
... anymore, if that's what the page has to look like. Why is the actual content of the article confined to such a narrow column. I can't even de-widthify it with the HacktheWeb plugin. I typically zoom text only in Firefox and with that approach here there's only room for a sentence or so with each story (if that much). Is this going to render well in w3m? Because sometimes I like to browse from the console.
There's a rumor that Apple is going to show its appreciation to all of the Chinese sweatshop workers who made this possible by giving them a free iPhone with service. Is that true?
... roll out that Linux version of Microsoft Office. I suspect its development has been secretly undertaken for quite some time now among those who have access to the source codes, whether Microsoft's executives know it or not.
In practice, if you want to install a port on FreeBSD that needs to be compiled with gcc instead of clang, the installation will just pull gcc in as a build dependency. Other than the fact that the compilation will take a little while longer, you probably won't even notice it.
1. As to your first example, that wasn't my experience having spent many years working under union contracts. Yes, union seniority, is given preference in the approval of vacation scheduling. But, under union rules, the schedule, once approved, would not permit a senior employee to arbitrarily bump another employee out of an approved vacation. There could be exceptions under extenuating circumstances, e.g. they once needed me to reschedule my vacation so that another employee could attend his brother's funeral. I don't recall whether I had seniority over that employee or not, but it wouldn't have mattered. We weren't as inflexible as you characterize us to be. 2. In every discussion of unionization I've ever encountered, the anti-union side will eventually chime in with the apocryphal account of their acquaintance's uncle (or an uncle's acquaintance), who lost his thumb in an industrial accident because of a drunk union employee, whom the union would then not "allow" to be fired. Well, that story is just nothing but pure bullshit. Tell me, is the allegedly "drunk" employee ever entitled to any due process at all? Who said he was drunk? Was it confirmed, or should he just be fired because someone stated that he was drunk? This is a story that anti-union management types like to bounce around in their echo chambers until they've convinced themselves that it must be true. A simple investigation of the facts invariably finds otherwise. But since you prefaced your account with "in several cases", please cite a real example of it somewhere. I have never seen one. But I have seen union employees be fired for being drunk. The union got them due process, but it didn't help them because they actually WERE drunk. 3. If an employee cannot, or will not, perform his duties, he can be easily dismissed by any competent manager, assuming the manager has read the employee's union contract. If the manager has not read it, why has he been given a position in management? Again, there is an issue of due process involved here, a concept that the anti-union crowd has a hard time getting their heads wrapped around.
4. Let me share an example of my own, regarding due process. I once had a co-worker who was accused of theft of company property. He was instructed by company security, that he was being fired, but that they would not file charges if he returned the property. He denied having committed the thefts. Security informed him that they had undeniable video-taped evidence of him stealing the property. He asked to see the evidence, but the request was denied. He was fired for about a year and a half. He was subsequently re-hired and given full back pay for the entire time period of his absence, plus an additional settlement that the company had to pay for libel. I don't honestly know whether or not my co-worker was guilty of stealing, but I know that he was denied due process. And that is the reason that I backed him up, and it's one of the reasons that I think it's better to be a member of a union.
Yes, as a mechanical engineer, I'm supposed to appreciate how efficiency makes everything better. But, as an observer of economics, I can't help but notice that our national economy doesn't function as well as it did decades ago, in terms of making the common working man more prosperous and economically secure, precisely because it is now more efficient. I'm assured by those with economics degrees that eventually, efficiency will make things better. But I have to ask, what do they mean by "eventually"? Will I live long enough to see it?
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Can we mod him up because he used the adverb, "funnily".
According to a reliable rumor that I just started, Erin Brockovich is being held in Guantanamo Bay prison. A government spokesperson, who shall remain nameless, would neither confirm nor deny the rumor.
That's a good description. I would add that each develops with a different open source philosophy; Linux under GPL, the BSD's under the BSD license. Proprietary software companies use CopyRight to preserve power for themselves. The GPL answer to it is CopyLeft, (I'll share with you, but only if you agree to share with everyone else). The BSD answer is CopyFree (I'll share with you. Period. I have faith that some good will come out of it). Perhaps both approaches in parallel are needed to prevent CopyRight holders from gaining absolute control over how we use computers.
I live in Las Vegas. I think more prayers are uttered on the casino floor every hour than are spoken in all the churches in the world over a year. The vast majority of those who say these prayers are losers. They don't say much about their results. The few who are winners recount to anyone who will listen how they were blessed by their deity.
"After all, science has brought us not only longer lives, but more fulfilling, healthier lives with less suffering."
Well, that depends on to whom you are referring when you say "us".
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"How many people run FreeBSD on their desktop?" No one really knows for sure. I count as 1. If (and only if) your hardware can run it, you're better off running a FreeBSD desktop than Linux. If your hardware is incompatible with FreeBSD, then run Linux. If the hardware won't run Linux, then either run Windows or buy new hardware. (Don't run Windows). As long as you're buying new hardware make sure you can run FreeBSD on it.
I think he could still be convicted for the evidence that was seized without his encryption. He may or may not be guilty. (You're assertion that "he clearly committed a crime" is premature. Have you seen the evidence?.) The evidence should be considered by a jury. But the order to make him decrypt his own hard drive is being batted around as a violation of the fifth amendment. One judge says it is, another its not, etc. If it is a violation, then the portion of evidence that was obtained in this way will be considered inadmissible in court.
The fifth amendment: No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation
Unfortunately, most Americans today would throw out the fifth amendment (and most of the rest of their Constitutional rights) in exchange for promises of protection from terrorists, pedophiles, etc. For most Americans now the notion of due process is a quaint notion that should be dispensed with as quickly as possible. This is what happens when a nation fail to educate its citizens.
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In an earlier time, the voters would have approved of broadband access as a public utility without much hesitation. We still have some public utilities today in the wake of those times (thank God). But such debates today are off-limits due to corporate ownership of the media. Notice how quickly Obama threw the single-payer advocates under the bus when the debates over health care began. That was a complete capitulation to the health insurance industry.(And some of you are naive enough to believe Obama is a liberal or even a socialist). Look for the Mayor of Seattle to be demonized as a "communist" throughout the right wing echo chamber.
I love it when the scientists try to distill their work for the layman and resort to these sorts of explanations. In this case, here's what I got from the summary. The universe was full of things. God wanted to measure one of the things and when he did so an unmeasured "control" thing popped into existence because of some sort of uncertainty principle. In fac, the control popped into existence for each of the things in the universe. So every thing was now a pair of things, one from the universe where one or more things was measured, and another in the original, unmeasured universe, and the divergence of the properties between the pairs of things is what we experience as time.
Apparently, in France the government has the authority to distinguish between a cult and a religion. The U.S. government (and its states) would be expressly prohibited from having this authority by the 1st amendment to the U.S. constitution. I think the U.S. Constitution is correct in this regard. Government shouldn't have the authority to declare whether any religion is legitimate or not.
Python is being suggested frequently here. If you do go with that, I'd strongly suggest taking a look at the Spyder IDE:
http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/
It's especially useful for scientific work and entirely cross-platform. I even have it running under FreeBSD.
The DNA is long degraded. That's disappointing I was looking forward to barbecuing up mastodon steaks.
Am I the only one who sees the irony in the "Communist Party" overseeing "the privatization of state-owned assets"? It's like "we'll go instantaneously from the extreme totalitarian left to the extreme totalitarian right without passing through any democratically controlled space in between. Oh, but we'll hang on that 'Communist' brand name because to admit that didn't work would be losing face."
I take it from the anti-spending tirade that you're among those who think that overly inflated teacher salaries are at the root of the failure of education in the U.S. I thought about becoming a school teacher once. Many people who know me have commented that I would be a very good teacher. But I became an engineer instead. Why do you suppose I decided to withhold my services as a school teacher?
... anymore, if that's what the page has to look like. Why is the actual content of the article confined to such a narrow column. I can't even de-widthify it with the HacktheWeb plugin. I typically zoom text only in Firefox and with that approach here there's only room for a sentence or so with each story (if that much). Is this going to render well in w3m? Because sometimes I like to browse from the console.
So will 2043 be the year of the GNU/Hurd Desktop?
There's a rumor that Apple is going to show its appreciation to all of the Chinese sweatshop workers who made this possible by giving them a free iPhone with service. Is that true?
... roll out that Linux version of Microsoft Office. I suspect its development has been secretly undertaken for quite some time now among those who have access to the source codes, whether Microsoft's executives know it or not.
In practice, if you want to install a port on FreeBSD that needs to be compiled with gcc instead of clang, the installation will just pull gcc in as a build dependency. Other than the fact that the compilation will take a little while longer, you probably won't even notice it.
8 lawnmower engines Ferrari
But is it still true that 9 pregnant women can produce a baby in only a month?
... we should have what this guy's advocating:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpAyan1fXCE
Who the hell was that guy? Why didn't we elect him?
1. As to your first example, that wasn't my experience having spent many years working under union contracts. Yes, union seniority, is given preference in the approval of vacation scheduling. But, under union rules, the schedule, once approved, would not permit a senior employee to arbitrarily bump another employee out of an approved vacation. There could be exceptions under extenuating circumstances, e.g. they once needed me to reschedule my vacation so that another employee could attend his brother's funeral. I don't recall whether I had seniority over that employee or not, but it wouldn't have mattered. We weren't as inflexible as you characterize us to be.
2. In every discussion of unionization I've ever encountered, the anti-union side will eventually chime in with the apocryphal account of their acquaintance's uncle (or an uncle's acquaintance), who lost his thumb in an industrial accident because of a drunk union employee, whom the union would then not "allow" to be fired. Well, that story is just nothing but pure bullshit. Tell me, is the allegedly "drunk" employee ever entitled to any due process at all? Who said he was drunk? Was it confirmed, or should he just be fired because someone stated that he was drunk? This is a story that anti-union management types like to bounce around in their echo chambers until they've convinced themselves that it must be true. A simple investigation of the facts invariably finds otherwise. But since you prefaced your account with "in several cases", please cite a real example of it somewhere. I have never seen one. But I have seen union employees be fired for being drunk. The union got them due process, but it didn't help them because they actually WERE drunk.
3. If an employee cannot, or will not, perform his duties, he can be easily dismissed by any competent manager, assuming the manager has read the employee's union contract. If the manager has not read it, why has he been given a position in management? Again, there is an issue of due process involved here, a concept that the anti-union crowd has a hard time getting their heads wrapped around.
4. Let me share an example of my own, regarding due process. I once had a co-worker who was accused of theft of company property. He was instructed by company security, that he was being fired, but that they would not file charges if he returned the property. He denied having committed the thefts. Security informed him that they had undeniable video-taped evidence of him stealing the property. He asked to see the evidence, but the request was denied. He was fired for about a year and a half. He was subsequently re-hired and given full back pay for the entire time period of his absence, plus an additional settlement that the company had to pay for libel. I don't honestly know whether or not my co-worker was guilty of stealing, but I know that he was denied due process. And that is the reason that I backed him up, and it's one of the reasons that I think it's better to be a member of a union.
Yes, as a mechanical engineer, I'm supposed to appreciate how efficiency makes everything better. But, as an observer of economics, I can't help but notice that our national economy doesn't function as well as it did decades ago, in terms of making the common working man more prosperous and economically secure, precisely because it is now more efficient. I'm assured by those with economics degrees that eventually, efficiency will make things better. But I have to ask, what do they mean by "eventually"? Will I live long enough to see it?
Can we mod him up because he used the adverb, "funnily".
According to a reliable rumor that I just started, Erin Brockovich is being held in Guantanamo Bay prison. A government spokesperson, who shall remain nameless, would neither confirm nor deny the rumor.
Another way of stating it is better to die on your feet, than live on your knees.
That's a good description. I would add that each develops with a different open source philosophy; Linux under GPL, the BSD's under the BSD license.
Proprietary software companies use CopyRight to preserve power for themselves.
The GPL answer to it is CopyLeft, (I'll share with you, but only if you agree to share with everyone else).
The BSD answer is CopyFree (I'll share with you. Period. I have faith that some good will come out of it).
Perhaps both approaches in parallel are needed to prevent CopyRight holders from gaining absolute control over how we use computers.
...and I'm just about to loooose my mind, honey, honey yeah.
I live in Las Vegas. I think more prayers are uttered on the casino floor every hour than are spoken in all the churches in the world over a year. The vast majority of those who say these prayers are losers. They don't say much about their results. The few who are winners recount to anyone who will listen how they were blessed by their deity.
"After all, science has brought us not only longer lives, but more fulfilling, healthier lives with less suffering."
Well, that depends on to whom you are referring when you say "us".
"How many people run FreeBSD on their desktop?"
No one really knows for sure. I count as 1.
If (and only if) your hardware can run it, you're better off running a FreeBSD desktop than Linux. If your hardware is incompatible with FreeBSD, then run Linux. If the hardware won't run Linux, then either run Windows or buy new hardware. (Don't run Windows). As long as you're buying new hardware make sure you can run FreeBSD on it.
I think he could still be convicted for the evidence that was seized without his encryption. He may or may not be guilty. (You're assertion that "he clearly committed a crime" is premature. Have you seen the evidence?.) The evidence should be considered by a jury. But the order to make him decrypt his own hard drive is being batted around as a violation of the fifth amendment. One judge says it is, another its not, etc. If it is a violation, then the portion of evidence that was obtained in this way will be considered inadmissible in court.
The fifth amendment:
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation
Unfortunately, most Americans today would throw out the fifth amendment (and most of the rest of their Constitutional rights) in exchange for promises of protection from terrorists, pedophiles, etc. For most Americans now the notion of due process is a quaint notion that should be dispensed with as quickly as possible. This is what happens when a nation fail to educate its citizens.