Then charge them income taxes, make it higher than normal to provide for the rest of us. It's not a problem of "Build a better fence!"
"Illegal immigration sucks money from the economy and stresses our entire infrastructure." only because we don't track it and charge them taxes, because we want to use big words like "Fence" and "Get 'er done!" and "Shoot fence hoppes on sight" to get elected, not solve the problem. It's only a fence, it's only a wall, it won't stop anything. The solution is to find a happy median for us to both watch who comes into our country and make it more profitable for them to register as an international worker or whatever it's called and it's more profitable for us to enforce it to companies(no more exclusions because they are a large company) and make it profitable for companies to have their employees register in the program and pay taxes as well.
Or switch to the Fair Tax System, eliminating income tax and placing it all on sales tax. (And if you're not familiar, check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Tax for both pros and cons).
Bah, it says slows down to a halt not some immediate halt or the car turning off. AND! Cars that have trouble do this already, people run out of gas(yes, on the highway in high speed traffic). The cars don't come to an immediate stop and the way this sounds is as if it slows down probably even slower than just turning off would make you slow down. And I would think the hazard lights would come on too. But I seriously doubt this would cause people to lose their lives, it's not like it makes an immediate stop, and if you're hit they're probably driving too close.
However, I think a bigger problem is the fact that stop lights don't make sounds when changing to green yellow or red. I mean, we need the colors so that deaf people can drive, but since there seem to be more blind drivers on the road these days how do they know when to go?
(Come on down to Dallas, people just sit at green lights until they turn red, then they remember to go).
People also drink and get home safely, by bus, driving themselves, taxi, or otherwise. Whereas some people don't drink, go to church, and regularly beat their wife and children, pee on the floor. And hell, slow drivers cause accidents too. Lots of people can run someone over and completely blackout, all without alcohol. These things aren't related, and you relating them causes me to think you are already drunk. But that doesn't mean you are.
There's no shame in not drinking though, but to associate them is just silly. Voting republican, IMO, causes more deaths each year than drinking. But that's my opinion, and doesn't make it right.
I think a year or two ago. But I've heard they're pretty bad, maybe the new ones are better. Heck, they used to start at $55 for dimmable if memory serves, for $18 I need to try. Google Helps Too.
That's just awesome. It's just as accessible as the Oxfam, less boring, and more straightforward. You can repost it on MySpace or wherever you need to.
Aside from that, regional trademarks == bad bad bad. Form Blue Mountain's wikipedia entry: "Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee is protected worldwide as a certification trademark meaning that only coffee certified by the Coffee Industry Board of Jamaica can be labeled as such."
So, say the Ethiopian Board of Coffee doesn't like a farmer, I mean hell, there's a lot of problems in that area, it'd be pretty easy to pick some farmers you don't like, whoever the new gov't is, and put a lot of people out of work.
No, but it does go a long ways to getting us off of the foreign oil teet. The original post in this thread said foreign oil teet, not to quit using oil altogether. Different things, the US produces lots of oil too. Small steps too, you can't just eliminate anything all at once.
5. Make US employers provide health insurance. Yes, all of them. Call it the cost of doing business in the USA.
No, quite the contrary, make it ILLEGAL for employers to provide health insurance. Make it a free market instead of a limited one like it is now. Where, "You have to have health insurance from me, or my friends, and we're all in it together."
A small free market is finally developing, awhile ago it costs hundreds per month for health insurance for myself, I wouldn't be able to be a contractor. Make it so it is a free market, where price is a driving factor, and where people can choose. If one company chooses for several thousand people, there is no free market(only in a broader sense). Reducing health care costs means opening it up. Let the employers pay you what they would pay the health insurance co's, as well as the extra people in HR to manage that stuff, and let the health insurance companies actually fight for your business instead of buying the VP of HR dinner and a new car to determine this stuff.
Huh? It's easy, it's just a drop down to change the SMTP server. I do it all the time to test qmail setups on different servers. There's even a few add ons you can use, like this one and this one. I guess maybe it works different than you expect, but it works well for me.
Part of the problem is the game is just in bad taste, religious things inside, it uses the name of one group to display what are commonly thought not to be their beliefs(whether it be true in practice, different story).
Thou shalt no kill(or murder, when is killing not murder? Only when it's an accident, war is still murder) and turn the other cheek, completely being turned away here, as well as proselytizing(I come only for the children of Israel).
It's like if I did a video game, "Catholic Follies" where you run around with a bag of chips and soda looking for choir boys, and just used the excuse, "Well, that's how it is"
Sure, free speech wise it's fine, but it's in _really_ bad taste.
Everyone is good and bad depending where you are. I had comcast, never had any trouble, then Time Warner got into the market here in DFW and when they switched us to "RoadRunner" I had no internet for a week, and the programming update reset my HD box to only output non HD controls(so no guide or menu whatsoever on the HD output). Calling them ALL WEEK I spent on hold for about four hours, and I never got to talk to anyone useful. Eventually my internet came back up, it was out Friday night thru Monday afternoon, not the first monday, the next Monday, so really a little over a week. When I did talk to someone, "We're upgrading our service right now, there may be outages" doesn't excuse a week without internet at home. I had to dial up through T-Mobile, which, as you know, does not compare to Cable or DSL. I work from home, so I'm kicking them to the curb, getting Speakeasy DSL for Biz, which has been on order for well over a month at this point.
But I loved comcast. Oh, and when Time Warner became comcast down in Houston, no problems what so ever.
So, it's different everywhere you are. Yeah, it's "migration pains" or whatever but a busy signal for a week, no internet, and no one who could tell me why or give me an ETA, is not acceptable. Cable TV goes out with it, because I haven't been able to watch it catching up on work. I'll just get a mac mini and an iTunes subscription thank you very much.
But, if I still had comcast, I'd still be with them. Although FiOS is supposed to be much faster. (ooh, and now that my internet is working again with TWC, it's about 3/4 the speed it once was).
How many others do the logic bomb or other white collar crimes who don't have a record of burglary and aggravated assault? What was Ken Starr's background? Murder?
The most dangerous ones are the ones who come back empty. Sucks when this happens, and a background check wouldn't have hurt, but you gotta watch your people closely and hope for the best. IT is very dangerous, aggravated assault or not, you can easily get screwed over.
It's the total solution. I mean completely. With some good rules: 1) No repeating letters or numbers 2) Must contain upper and lower case 3) Must have at least 4 numbers 4) No letter or number can be in the same place as the last four passwords 5) Daily checks to make sure it's not written down anywhere on the monitor, in the desk, or in their wallet. 6) Change password daily
And before you know it, not even the employees will know their passwords. How the hell can they give it to an attacker if they don't know it?
As long as there are employees, there's someone to give out the passwords, so you have to take them away from the employees. If you don't, no matter what you do about changing passwords, it won't work.
"By way, profited HOW? This is costing us, not making us money. The Oil for Food fiasco was profit motivated, not the deposizing of Saddam."
You mean, profited WHO. You misspelled who. I mean, c'mon, $25 and up hammers? I'm a more well informed buyer than the whole of the US Gov't? Are you kidding me? No, it didn't make the US any money, but tanks, armor, hammers, and other stuff, are not free. And in a no-bid situation, you're just throwing money away.
Who knows, Halliburton may have been the best one to go with, but since they had no incentive to cut any prices, as well as the other suppliers for this whole thing, because of the no-bid, there was no reason to cut prices.
In Dallas people already drive like there are no traffic signs, lines in the streets, or lights. Hell, I live on a one way street and people go both directions everyday.
Nuance creates Dragon Naturally Speaking, and version 9 is the best so far. Yeah, it's not great for programming, but it gives my hands a break for IMs and E-Mails, as well as has a speech-to-text for MP3's from my voice recorder(yes, not a big feature for most people, but it is for me). 8 was good, but you had to train it, I've barely had to correct 9 at all.
Kind of like leaving the kitchen light on, the light pours out the window? And leaving the window unlocked, says, "Come on in!" to anyone out there? Not breaking into the house, it was open! And the light was just going everywhere, so I want to interact with it.
File bug reports. I've had 0 problems so far, and yes, it's faster than FF 1.5 by a long shot. Just because it's broken for you doesn't mean it's broken for everyone else in the world. Not trying to be rude/offensive, but, file bug reports and help get it fixed! If you are having trouble probably someone else is having the same trouble or problems.
Yeah, it's still good, you just have to add that twist. Biology seems to be popular these days, business, marketing, others like that sure are helpful. Straight computer science? Well, you'll probably be just a code monkey. Learn statistics if math is your thing, we're always looking for people who can turn numbers into useful statistics, but program it to make it flexible. You don't have to have a double major, not that that ever hurts, but a minor or even a few electives.
VoIP stuff seems to be a big thing, especially in developing countries(ever wanted to travel?), learn codecs, learn how to program codecs, learn how to hack Asterisk and SipX and some of ht eothers, play with Asterisk@Home.
Oh, this isn't an Ask Slashdot? Sure looks like one.
Gizmondo doesn't count, it was doomed to failure from the get go. I mean, come on, paying to develop a typing tutor for a handheld that lacks a keyboard?
Yeah, we enjoy non-politically-correct jokes. We've already done the American Redneck jokes to death(see: Jeff Foxworthy) as well as doing the redneck suburbanites(see: Blue Collar Comedy).
Great, I wonder how many future USB keys this will be a problem with. I just bought a set of 3 keys with some U3 crapola on it and it doesn't let me format it, comes with 2 partitions, on with auto-start, and the only way to remove them(because I have a usb hard drive and a usb cd drive) is to disconnect EVERYTHING usb except the key and run the format on it. Yeah, totally kills my day since a lot of my usb periphs are hooked up to the back of the comp and there's a mess of wires down there. If this had a virus on a write-protected overriding windows-formatting stuff, that'd be just great too.
wtf? No, it won't. You're answer is the one that will kill OSS, "Yes, we do have this other tool available for you that meets your needs and does what you want perfectly, but I suppose we could re-write this other, mostly unrelated tool, to do what you want." No, the correct answer is, you want to draw, then go use a drawing program.
No, it's not the parents responsibility. It's their responsibility to raise them right, for them to not do this, and when they do, realize they made a mistake during the growing up process, and repeatedly hit the child till they learn.
Or, not quite that, but discipline. It should, however, be handled completely outside the courts, it's just too silly and goes to show that much of america's sue-happy people were raised correctly either, and it's time to hit the parents and the sue-happy adults.:)
Welcome "Microsoft and Internet Explorer 7 to regain marketshare" to Debian and the linux world in general. I never knew IE7 had linux support! I can't wait until I can do this in FreeBSD: cd/usr/ports/www/linux-msie7 make install
Frickin' sweet.:)
(yes, sarcasm, duh. This person doesn't realize that IceWeasel is essentially the same as Firefox has been in the past on Debian, with a name change. Yeah, they may make it functionally different, but they could've done that before too.)
As others have said, debian's obvious solution was to move it to the non-free repository. I don't use debian myself, but I use Freespire(yeah, w/e, I use FreeBSD for everything, I just wanted a mythbox that didn't require me to do the kernel by hand or install it by hand) but if FF disappears, I'll make sure to install it.
There's a lot of Moz/FF bashing in this article too. So, I will repeat myself. Debian users aren't "Free Software Extremists." They're only extreme, there's nothing about free software in Debian, it's "kinda sorta free" in the same way IE7 is free. There's limitations there, for both IE7 and GPL software. There, have some debian bashing back. It's a good platform, and I enjoy Freespire and recommend it to those who just "want to play with Linux" because it gets past all the hard crap.
What debian needs to do it quit putting in patches, or submit them for QA testing. All FF wants is a product that works at a reasonable quality, not a POS product with their name and brand on it. Completely reasonable.
But yeah, Debian has chosen what to do(instead of nonfree as others have suggested) and it's fine. Can we all get on with our lives? I know that the Moz people will help Debian do what it needs to do in order to go with their "free" software philosophy, life goes on, and iceweasel isn't ported to Windows or anywhere else. Sheesh people, come on. Frickin' drama queens man. I guess out of all the Moz bashing it must be the deb people who are the drama queens here, there's enough drama in the Moz world already generated internally.:)
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Then charge them income taxes, make it higher than normal to provide for the rest of us. It's not a problem of "Build a better fence!"
"Illegal immigration sucks money from the economy and stresses our entire infrastructure." only because we don't track it and charge them taxes, because we want to use big words like "Fence" and "Get 'er done!" and "Shoot fence hoppes on sight" to get elected, not solve the problem. It's only a fence, it's only a wall, it won't stop anything. The solution is to find a happy median for us to both watch who comes into our country and make it more profitable for them to register as an international worker or whatever it's called and it's more profitable for us to enforce it to companies(no more exclusions because they are a large company) and make it profitable for companies to have their employees register in the program and pay taxes as well.
Or switch to the Fair Tax System, eliminating income tax and placing it all on sales tax. (And if you're not familiar, check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Tax for both pros and cons).
Bah, it says slows down to a halt not some immediate halt or the car turning off. AND! Cars that have trouble do this already, people run out of gas(yes, on the highway in high speed traffic). The cars don't come to an immediate stop and the way this sounds is as if it slows down probably even slower than just turning off would make you slow down. And I would think the hazard lights would come on too. But I seriously doubt this would cause people to lose their lives, it's not like it makes an immediate stop, and if you're hit they're probably driving too close.
However, I think a bigger problem is the fact that stop lights don't make sounds when changing to green yellow or red. I mean, we need the colors so that deaf people can drive, but since there seem to be more blind drivers on the road these days how do they know when to go?
(Come on down to Dallas, people just sit at green lights until they turn red, then they remember to go).
People also drink and get home safely, by bus, driving themselves, taxi, or otherwise. Whereas some people don't drink, go to church, and regularly beat their wife and children, pee on the floor. And hell, slow drivers cause accidents too. Lots of people can run someone over and completely blackout, all without alcohol. These things aren't related, and you relating them causes me to think you are already drunk. But that doesn't mean you are.
There's no shame in not drinking though, but to associate them is just silly. Voting republican, IMO, causes more deaths each year than drinking. But that's my opinion, and doesn't make it right.
Teachers, post a video of yourself giving the kid detention for a month.
I think a year or two ago. But I've heard they're pretty bad, maybe the new ones are better. Heck, they used to start at $55 for dimmable if memory serves, for $18 I need to try. Google Helps Too.
That's just awesome. It's just as accessible as the Oxfam, less boring, and more straightforward. You can repost it on MySpace or wherever you need to.
Aside from that, regional trademarks == bad bad bad. Form Blue Mountain's wikipedia entry:
"Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee is protected worldwide as a certification trademark meaning that only coffee certified by the Coffee Industry Board of Jamaica can be labeled as such."
So, say the Ethiopian Board of Coffee doesn't like a farmer, I mean hell, there's a lot of problems in that area, it'd be pretty easy to pick some farmers you don't like, whoever the new gov't is, and put a lot of people out of work.
No, but it does go a long ways to getting us off of the foreign oil teet. The original post in this thread said foreign oil teet, not to quit using oil altogether. Different things, the US produces lots of oil too. Small steps too, you can't just eliminate anything all at once.
5. Make US employers provide health insurance. Yes, all of them. Call it the cost of doing business in the USA.
No, quite the contrary, make it ILLEGAL for employers to provide health insurance. Make it a free market instead of a limited one like it is now. Where, "You have to have health insurance from me, or my friends, and we're all in it together."
A small free market is finally developing, awhile ago it costs hundreds per month for health insurance for myself, I wouldn't be able to be a contractor. Make it so it is a free market, where price is a driving factor, and where people can choose. If one company chooses for several thousand people, there is no free market(only in a broader sense). Reducing health care costs means opening it up. Let the employers pay you what they would pay the health insurance co's, as well as the extra people in HR to manage that stuff, and let the health insurance companies actually fight for your business instead of buying the VP of HR dinner and a new car to determine this stuff.
Huh? It's easy, it's just a drop down to change the SMTP server. I do it all the time to test qmail setups on different servers.
There's even a few add ons you can use, like this one and this one. I guess maybe it works different than you expect, but it works well for me.
Part of the problem is the game is just in bad taste, religious things inside, it uses the name of one group to display what are commonly thought not to be their beliefs(whether it be true in practice, different story).
Thou shalt no kill(or murder, when is killing not murder? Only when it's an accident, war is still murder) and turn the other cheek, completely being turned away here, as well as proselytizing(I come only for the children of Israel).
It's like if I did a video game, "Catholic Follies" where you run around with a bag of chips and soda looking for choir boys, and just used the excuse, "Well, that's how it is"
Sure, free speech wise it's fine, but it's in _really_ bad taste.
Hmm..
It'd be hilarious though...
hmmm.........
Everyone is good and bad depending where you are. I had comcast, never had any trouble, then Time Warner got into the market here in DFW and when they switched us to "RoadRunner" I had no internet for a week, and the programming update reset my HD box to only output non HD controls(so no guide or menu whatsoever on the HD output). Calling them ALL WEEK I spent on hold for about four hours, and I never got to talk to anyone useful. Eventually my internet came back up, it was out Friday night thru Monday afternoon, not the first monday, the next Monday, so really a little over a week. When I did talk to someone, "We're upgrading our service right now, there may be outages" doesn't excuse a week without internet at home. I had to dial up through T-Mobile, which, as you know, does not compare to Cable or DSL. I work from home, so I'm kicking them to the curb, getting Speakeasy DSL for Biz, which has been on order for well over a month at this point.
But I loved comcast. Oh, and when Time Warner became comcast down in Houston, no problems what so ever.
So, it's different everywhere you are. Yeah, it's "migration pains" or whatever but a busy signal for a week, no internet, and no one who could tell me why or give me an ETA, is not acceptable. Cable TV goes out with it, because I haven't been able to watch it catching up on work. I'll just get a mac mini and an iTunes subscription thank you very much.
But, if I still had comcast, I'd still be with them. Although FiOS is supposed to be much faster. (ooh, and now that my internet is working again with TWC, it's about 3/4 the speed it once was).
How many others do the logic bomb or other white collar crimes who don't have a record of burglary and aggravated assault?
What was Ken Starr's background? Murder?
The most dangerous ones are the ones who come back empty. Sucks when this happens, and a background check wouldn't have hurt, but you gotta watch your people closely and hope for the best. IT is very dangerous, aggravated assault or not, you can easily get screwed over.
It's the total solution. I mean completely. With some good rules:
1) No repeating letters or numbers
2) Must contain upper and lower case
3) Must have at least 4 numbers
4) No letter or number can be in the same place as the last four passwords
5) Daily checks to make sure it's not written down anywhere on the monitor, in the desk, or in their wallet.
6) Change password daily
And before you know it, not even the employees will know their passwords. How the hell can they give it to an attacker if they don't know it?
As long as there are employees, there's someone to give out the passwords, so you have to take them away from the employees. If you don't, no matter what you do about changing passwords, it won't work.
"By way, profited HOW? This is costing us, not making us money. The Oil for Food fiasco was profit motivated, not the deposizing of Saddam."
You mean, profited WHO. You misspelled who. I mean, c'mon, $25 and up hammers? I'm a more well informed buyer than the whole of the US Gov't? Are you kidding me? No, it didn't make the US any money, but tanks, armor, hammers, and other stuff, are not free. And in a no-bid situation, you're just throwing money away.
Who knows, Halliburton may have been the best one to go with, but since they had no incentive to cut any prices, as well as the other suppliers for this whole thing, because of the no-bid, there was no reason to cut prices.
In Dallas people already drive like there are no traffic signs, lines in the streets, or lights. Hell, I live on a one way street and people go both directions everyday.
Nuance creates Dragon Naturally Speaking, and version 9 is the best so far. Yeah, it's not great for programming, but it gives my hands a break for IMs and E-Mails, as well as has a speech-to-text for MP3's from my voice recorder(yes, not a big feature for most people, but it is for me). 8 was good, but you had to train it, I've barely had to correct 9 at all.
Kind of like leaving the kitchen light on, the light pours out the window? And leaving the window unlocked, says, "Come on in!" to anyone out there? Not breaking into the house, it was open! And the light was just going everywhere, so I want to interact with it.
File bug reports. I've had 0 problems so far, and yes, it's faster than FF 1.5 by a long shot. Just because it's broken for you doesn't mean it's broken for everyone else in the world. Not trying to be rude/offensive, but, file bug reports and help get it fixed! If you are having trouble probably someone else is having the same trouble or problems.
Yeah, it's still good, you just have to add that twist. Biology seems to be popular these days, business, marketing, others like that sure are helpful. Straight computer science? Well, you'll probably be just a code monkey. Learn statistics if math is your thing, we're always looking for people who can turn numbers into useful statistics, but program it to make it flexible. You don't have to have a double major, not that that ever hurts, but a minor or even a few electives.
VoIP stuff seems to be a big thing, especially in developing countries(ever wanted to travel?), learn codecs, learn how to program codecs, learn how to hack Asterisk and SipX and some of ht eothers, play with Asterisk@Home.
Oh, this isn't an Ask Slashdot? Sure looks like one.
Gizmondo doesn't count, it was doomed to failure from the get go. I mean, come on, paying to develop a typing tutor for a handheld that lacks a keyboard?
Yeah, we enjoy non-politically-correct jokes. We've already done the American Redneck jokes to death(see: Jeff Foxworthy) as well as doing the redneck suburbanites(see: Blue Collar Comedy).
Great, I wonder how many future USB keys this will be a problem with. I just bought a set of 3 keys with some U3 crapola on it and it doesn't let me format it, comes with 2 partitions, on with auto-start, and the only way to remove them(because I have a usb hard drive and a usb cd drive) is to disconnect EVERYTHING usb except the key and run the format on it. Yeah, totally kills my day since a lot of my usb periphs are hooked up to the back of the comp and there's a mess of wires down there. If this had a virus on a write-protected overriding windows-formatting stuff, that'd be just great too.
wtf? No, it won't. You're answer is the one that will kill OSS, "Yes, we do have this other tool available for you that meets your needs and does what you want perfectly, but I suppose we could re-write this other, mostly unrelated tool, to do what you want." No, the correct answer is, you want to draw, then go use a drawing program.
No, it's not the parents responsibility. It's their responsibility to raise them right, for them to not do this, and when they do, realize they made a mistake during the growing up process, and repeatedly hit the child till they learn.
:)
Or, not quite that, but discipline. It should, however, be handled completely outside the courts, it's just too silly and goes to show that much of america's sue-happy people were raised correctly either, and it's time to hit the parents and the sue-happy adults.
Welcome "Microsoft and Internet Explorer 7 to regain marketshare" to Debian and the linux world in general. I never knew IE7 had linux support! I can't wait until I can do this in FreeBSD: /usr/ports/www/linux-msie7
:)
:)
cd
make install
Frickin' sweet.
(yes, sarcasm, duh. This person doesn't realize that IceWeasel is essentially the same as Firefox has been in the past on Debian, with a name change. Yeah, they may make it functionally different, but they could've done that before too.)
As others have said, debian's obvious solution was to move it to the non-free repository. I don't use debian myself, but I use Freespire(yeah, w/e, I use FreeBSD for everything, I just wanted a mythbox that didn't require me to do the kernel by hand or install it by hand) but if FF disappears, I'll make sure to install it.
There's a lot of Moz/FF bashing in this article too. So, I will repeat myself. Debian users aren't "Free Software Extremists." They're only extreme, there's nothing about free software in Debian, it's "kinda sorta free" in the same way IE7 is free. There's limitations there, for both IE7 and GPL software. There, have some debian bashing back. It's a good platform, and I enjoy Freespire and recommend it to those who just "want to play with Linux" because it gets past all the hard crap.
What debian needs to do it quit putting in patches, or submit them for QA testing. All FF wants is a product that works at a reasonable quality, not a POS product with their name and brand on it. Completely reasonable.
But yeah, Debian has chosen what to do(instead of nonfree as others have suggested) and it's fine. Can we all get on with our lives? I know that the Moz people will help Debian do what it needs to do in order to go with their "free" software philosophy, life goes on, and iceweasel isn't ported to Windows or anywhere else. Sheesh people, come on. Frickin' drama queens man. I guess out of all the Moz bashing it must be the deb people who are the drama queens here, there's enough drama in the Moz world already generated internally.