"I guess loyalty has gone the same way as traditional family values and faith in God."
Ahem.
Over 80% of the nation's population is Christian. The are blue laws to prevent the sale of alcoholic beverages during certain days (Sunday) or completely in roughly 80% of the United States.
There are over one hundred cable channels nationwide devoted entirely to Christian programming.
Nearly very company in the U.S. is closed on Christmas.
"In God We Trust" is printed on all U.S. money.
And yet, every day someone claims religious persecution of the Christian religion.
Four hurricanes in Florida is nothing compared to this.
Imagine if this happened just off the Eastern U.S. coast during June or July. It would wipe out Miami, Daytona, Jacksonville, Charleston, Myrtle Beach, Wilmington and Norfolk. It would kill 100,000+ and possibly destroy the economies of three or four states.
Geez, and the reason the U.S. has building codes and early warning devices is because we're RICH. Most people in these countries would kill to make 10,000 a year.
It may be due to the pop up ad suppression of FireFox. I can't use IE anymore, except for testing.
After switching to FireFox for a while, if you go back to IE you wonder how anyone can browse with all the pop ups flying all over the place. And a lot of clicks could be 'accidental' clicks. I've had popups come up while I was browsing, and I had clicked inside the popup just because I was clicking through quickly.
FireFox is spreading through my own company like wildfire. I really think Microsoft will be forced to address the growing FireFox use before long, but it will take a lot for me to switch over to IE again.
- What types of purchases you make - What types of books you read ( or don't read ) - What types of web sites you visit - Which routes you take to your relatives house - Which routes you take to work - What time you wake up and go to bed - What reasons you ever visited a doctor
All we need is a threat from outer space. Aliens? Asteroids? Comets?
Hasn't this ploy always worked? Convince the people they are being attacked and they'll go along with anything? All Fox News has to do is start blaring about a "Lucifer's Hammer" inevitably strking Earth, or better yet, statements how terrorists will strike next from satellites ala every '80s sci fi movie and people will clamor for space development.
And more money goes to the big corps like Halliburton, and very little of the NASA budget goes into exploring space or developing anything useful like a faster-than-light drive.
Didn't most long term predictions (I know, I know, grain of salt, grain of salt) from the 60's and 70's indicate warp drives would be completed by around 2008? That's just fantasy thinking now.
What an amazing argument. Someone poses heavy data analyis, which you dismiss by saying "none of those figures are true."
No response, no opposing data, nothing. You just said it wasn't true.
Kind of like George Bush saying he's a Christian, I guess. He doesn't go to church, can't actually quote the bible, gives no real evidence of having actually adopted the Christian lifestyle...but he says it, so it's true, I guess.
I don't really understand the logic of this. Why would you say Bush won Florida, so therefore any evidence of tampering must be irrelevent?
This is like someone robbign a bank and then claiming they would not need to rob a bank because they now have plenty of money.
The truth is, every state shold have transparent voting. Any credible tech programmer who reads about Access databases, DES ( not 3DES ) encyrption, hard coded keys, open modems and politacally active software manufacturers would seriously question ANY results.
If the shoe was on the other foot, the Republicans would be screaming bloddy murder.
Actually, it's not just about increasing wages. Kerry's platform states that companies should not be able to circumvent U.S. labor policy ( like having bathrooms in the workplace ) by simply moving the production overseas. The law should be that if you do business in the U.S., you have to meet U.S. regulations. Bush's policies are to allow companies to police themselves. Enron, anyone?
Add on top of that, Bush gives tax breaks to companies moving overseas, and you've got horrible job growth and wages in the U.S., but corporations are raking it in. Well, the insurance, drug and oil companies are. Banks are taking it on the chin, which is why the banking industry backs Democrats.
Corporations pay shills like Rush Limbaugh to argue against wage increases, but there are far more sound economic reasons to increase wages than just "because companies want cheap labor".
I agree in concept, except when 70 users becomes 20,000 users.
UNIX, Novell, Microsoft all have tools to give the rights access rights to the people who should have them, but large corporations rarely invest in that kind of detail. Too often I've found developers who cannot administer their own machines or customer service reps who can install whatever spyware they like.
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I think in psuedocode.
"I guess loyalty has gone the same way as traditional family values and faith in God."
Ahem.
Over 80% of the nation's population is Christian.
The are blue laws to prevent the sale of alcoholic beverages during certain days (Sunday) or completely in roughly 80% of the United States.
There are over one hundred cable channels nationwide devoted entirely to Christian programming.
Nearly very company in the U.S. is closed on Christmas.
"In God We Trust" is printed on all U.S. money.
And yet, every day someone claims religious persecution of the Christian religion.
Four hurricanes in Florida is nothing compared to this.
Imagine if this happened just off the Eastern U.S. coast during June or July. It would wipe out Miami, Daytona, Jacksonville, Charleston, Myrtle Beach, Wilmington and Norfolk. It would kill 100,000+ and possibly destroy the economies of three or four states.
Geez, and the reason the U.S. has building codes and early warning devices is because we're RICH. Most people in these countries would kill to make 10,000 a year.
not just the big three...cable outlets have become howitzers of gossip and bias as well.
Do real geeks reply on /. with anonymous usernames?
Do you ever buy gas one your way to or from work?
Boom. I know which was you go to work.
It may be due to the pop up ad suppression of FireFox. I can't use IE anymore, except for testing.
After switching to FireFox for a while, if you go back to IE you wonder how anyone can browse with all the pop ups flying all over the place. And a lot of clicks could be 'accidental' clicks. I've had popups come up while I was browsing, and I had clicked inside the popup just because I was clicking through quickly.
FireFox is spreading through my own company like wildfire. I really think Microsoft will be forced to address the growing FireFox use before long, but it will take a lot for me to switch over to IE again.
I am familiar with this and other companies. Almost all of the information I listed can be gleaned from your bank statement.
What about:
- What types of purchases you make
- What types of books you read ( or don't read )
- What types of web sites you visit
- Which routes you take to your relatives house
- Which routes you take to work
- What time you wake up and go to bed
- What reasons you ever visited a doctor
And the beat goes on...
All we need is a threat from outer space. Aliens? Asteroids? Comets?
Hasn't this ploy always worked? Convince the people they are being attacked and they'll go along with anything? All Fox News has to do is start blaring about a "Lucifer's Hammer" inevitably strking Earth, or better yet, statements how terrorists will strike next from satellites ala every '80s sci fi movie and people will clamor for space development.
And more money goes to the big corps like Halliburton, and very little of the NASA budget goes into exploring space or developing anything useful like a faster-than-light drive.
Didn't most long term predictions (I know, I know, grain of salt, grain of salt) from the 60's and 70's indicate warp drives would be completed by around 2008? That's just fantasy thinking now.
I've done SSO, using both Liberty and not, many times over the past couple of years.
Generally, between financial applications.
I contribute to QuipWire along with fellow programmers. It's nice to have an outlet.
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In addition, I do coding work on the side, graphic art...and sometimes even construction.
I know some corporations ( like mine ) started blocking access to Penny Arcade at some point over the past year.
That's when I knew they were mainstream.
Good for them.
For some more satire, check QuipWire...
I've wondered for some time when speeds get fast enough, what's to prevent movie delivery to the theaters from being digital?
How about this...a movie theater that can pay per-viewing to the studio?
OF course, most people will just stream movies across anyway...
Oh, well.
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A couple of corporate audit statisticians can cut through fraud and embezzlement and huge corporations without even a paper trail.
They would be able to tell whether fraud occurred. Although this report would be a smaller scale of what they would do.
Yeah, that was Black Box voting's Bev Harris. It looks like she might have found the smoking gun for election fraud in Florida.
This is going to get really ugly.
What an amazing argument. Someone poses heavy data analyis, which you dismiss by saying "none of those figures are true."
No response, no opposing data, nothing. You just said it wasn't true.
Kind of like George Bush saying he's a Christian, I guess. He doesn't go to church, can't actually quote the bible, gives no real evidence of having actually adopted the Christian lifestyle...but he says it, so it's true, I guess.
Yeah, it all makes sense now.
I think the point is that the computers might be decidng the elections already.
The Republicans will care when it happens to them.
I don't really understand the logic of this. Why would you say Bush won Florida, so therefore any evidence of tampering must be irrelevent?
This is like someone robbign a bank and then claiming they would not need to rob a bank because they now have plenty of money.
The truth is, every state shold have transparent voting. Any credible tech programmer who reads about Access databases, DES ( not 3DES ) encyrption, hard coded keys, open modems and politacally active software manufacturers would seriously question ANY results.
If the shoe was on the other foot, the Republicans would be screaming bloddy murder.
They lure them into traps with promises of free viagra and no money down real estate careers.
Actually, it's not just about increasing wages. Kerry's platform states that companies should not be able to circumvent U.S. labor policy ( like having bathrooms in the workplace ) by simply moving the production overseas. The law should be that if you do business in the U.S., you have to meet U.S. regulations. Bush's policies are to allow companies to police themselves. Enron, anyone?
Add on top of that, Bush gives tax breaks to companies moving overseas, and you've got horrible job growth and wages in the U.S., but corporations are raking it in. Well, the insurance, drug and oil companies are. Banks are taking it on the chin, which is why the banking industry backs Democrats.
Corporations pay shills like Rush Limbaugh to argue against wage increases, but there are far more sound economic reasons to increase wages than just "because companies want cheap labor".
"Non-free software can exist, but we shouldn't have to use it. You can if you want to."
I think there should be free cars, houses, books, computers and private jets because right now, all of my available choices are non-free.
Why, oh why, won't those guys building speedboats spend some time building free versions so I can get mine?
Ah, Lieberman. The Republican who accidentally registered as a Democrat and still doesn't know it.
I would hope this new site would be
a) at the very least, equal to the current msn.com
b) better than the search algorithms on microsoft.com
But, no luck. Even search terms that work on MSN pull no results at all. At least the Microsoft site usually provides wildly incorrect results.
I agree in concept, except when 70 users becomes 20,000 users.
UNIX, Novell, Microsoft all have tools to give the rights access rights to the people who should have them, but large corporations rarely invest in that kind of detail. Too often I've found developers who cannot administer their own machines or customer service reps who can install whatever spyware they like.