This ain't "big brother" watching you. This is a case of corporate espionage and what one corporate executive had to do to stop it. Phones were not tapped nor offices bugged. She hired a "private dick" to do the tracing. It does raise an interresting question about corporate officers who betray their fiduciary responsability to the shareholders and company employees. But the juvenile attitude of "taking the man down" seems to blind most folks on the web and in the press.
Let's face it, honor and integrity are meaningless today. 90% of you are ready to string Mrs. Dunn up. Meanwhile there is a corporate officer who was scrwing over the shareholders by leaking corporate planning to the press and you want to give him a pat on the back. I see the same thing in world politics.
I bought the entire original 3 seasons on DVD and sat down with my kids last night to watch the first eposode. It was the one with the shapeshifting alient who kills humans by sucking all the salt from their bodies. After the show my oldest son asked "if all the special effects and props are like this episode or do they get better". My youngest wouldn't take a shower by himself. Jusdt like a good book, the most important part of the experience happens between your ears.
And I'm sure we helped Germany plenty before Hitler rose to power too. How can I put ths so even YOU can uderstand: crazy people with nuclear weapons is bad.
Seriously folks, what if a popular product like FF decided to drag feet on supporting a new MS product. Pretend we're talking a year from now and MS is trying to roll out Vista and the 40% of the population that will be using FF by then balks because FF won't run properly. Extremely unlikely but an interresting though nontheless expecially when you recall the days when MS would break competitors apps running on Windows.
Even is we're only talking a max accuracy of 75%, the impact on potential terrorists will be much higher. One more hurdle for them to jump. I wonder if they bothered to test this on subjects under the influence of depressants? I'veh eard it isn't unusual for terrorists to take drugs to get in the correct state of mind.
I remember those supposed "blogs" from politicians before. Most are merely static sites put up to add a checkbox on someones list. Politicians are too busy unplugging the internet pipes to actually bother posting.
doesn't lie to us - humans lie and the government is staffed by humans
get things so horribly wrong - humans err and the government is staffed by humans
take extraordinary action like starting wars over those mistaken notions - hindsight is 20/20. most of those notions are actually proven correct though. But you won't listen or research.
Maybe it would help if they didn't miss events like Katrina - we actually did a wonderful job
during Katrina you just have unrealistic expectations as a poor grasp of the logistics.
rampant bribery in Washington - see the first two
could listen to the people - for the most part they do and unpopular legislation doesn't last too long. Just because you assume your opinion is the majority opinion don't make it so.
executive compensation and mean compensation - I agree that we need to have some reform since there is an inherent conflict of interest between senior management and corporate board deciding compensation. T osome degree the market will punish transgressors.
stand on the debt load - Definetly another conflict of itnerest. The federal govt has become too powerful in this respect. Liberals aren't any better thoough.
Now, you completely miss my point. If the only truth you glean is through the narrow, filtered peephole the press in the US is giving you then you have no idea what FUD is when you hear it.
Study hisotyr a little better. The whole reason we have a government with checks and balances is because the framers knew there will be issues with people correctly interpretign and applying laws...as well as abusing power. Pople aren't perfect to every single thing that happens within the system won't be correct. But in the end most wrongs are righted (as best they can). also consider that most of the "abuses" you THINK you know about are part of the FUD spread by meembers of the press (and the legislature) with an agenda.
"occasional death due to terrorist bombing"
So...
6 planes go crashing to the ground kill all passengers (6X400) = 2800 Dead + cost to airline industry and economy due to travel disruptions.
Thats pretty much the death toll of amiercan lives since we invaded Iraq.
Cynicism in the US is reaching an all-time high. Half the population blames the government or accuses it of conspiracy no matter what the government does. We need more effective ways of countering the enemy's FUD. We have multiple CSPAN channels broadcasting government live and embedded reporters and still most of the citizenry would rather read and believe tabloids, kooks and extremist blogs. Guess what, you are the government. You are the military. Look at the history of the world and realize that there ARE people who will kill you because they don't like your GOD or covet what you have or have been taught since childhood to hate you out of existence.
Schools are the worst. It's like a suck contest. Blackboard sucks but it took tons of sucky college IT departments to make them so popular in spite of their suckiness. I recently spent several weeks working on a proposal to improve a local university's web presence and I was astounded at what a mess they had. IT was like a huge collection of buggy software with no coherent interface. So we spent >$40K coming up with a proposal/bid only to have them say, "thanks for the bluprint, I guess we'll do it ourselves". Right, whatever.
1) Subscribe to Kiplinger magazine and read it every month
2) When picking investments you must balance time,sinze of the investment, rate of return and risk. If you have the choice between paying off a 10% credit card or a 6% CD the choice is obvious. If the choice is between a 4% student loan and a 10% stock investment the choice should also be obvious. Ideally you should be saving at least 1/3 of your income. Take that money an invest it to make some sort of decent return. In school this will be painfull but you will thank yourself later. Spending money on your education is an investment.
3) Debt is not your enemy. Learn to manage your debt. Borrowing money to earn a higher rate of return elsewhere is often the smart way to go. If you never take a loan or use a credit card you will find yourself in a tough position if you eventually want to borrow money. You have to have a credit history to have good credit.
4) Tax implications can influence you choice of investment. For instance, that 7% homeloan is not as bad as you think becasue you can deduct the massive amounts of interest you pay in the first half of the loan from your taxes. Maybe not too much of an issue when you are only making 20K/year going to school, but it quickly becoems one one you graduate and get that $40K job.
5) Ask and you shall receive. Students and young folks will spend endless hours filling out forms for $2K student loans or grants but don't bother to spending a few minutes to ask family members. The same goes for anything else you need. If you need help don't be afraid to ask for it.
I believe the biggest real threat from either the 9/11 attacks or the French riots is the ability of these actions to unsermine the confidence of people on their government and the encouragement of folks to commit crimes. Like it or not, civility is not the natural state of man. A goodly chunk of the population would surely steal to their heart's content if they knew they would never be caught and punished.
If what you seem to be saying were true then the internet and cheap burnable CDs would have wiped out the record industry because there would be no incentived for artists to sign-up. But in the real world it takes losts of advertising, promotion and wheel-greasing to create a snger/band/TV show worth anything. Sure there is the rare case where some pauper creates a brilliant piece of art in their garage that the whole world starts clamoring for....bat that is the exception. In the real world there tons of folks between the artist and the consumer working to sell a product to that consumer. And those folks work to feed their families like you or I. I'm not advocating draconian IP laws here (I think the exact process I mentioned above already protects the artists and corporations), but let's inject a little reality into both sides of the argument.
Most of your perceptions about the government are derived from eagerations of the press and entertainment cops TV shows. This also appies to 90% of the parents in the US who won't lets their kids play outdoots because of all the psychos and wackos waiting behind the hedges to abduct and molest their stupid kids. Wake up folks. Life has inherent risks and you need to learn to manage those risks.
XML is XML is XML - This sounds more like a complaint about the XML Parsers and DOM manipulators to me. Those will probably improve as XML becomes the format of choice.
Could it be a little revenge for China helping Irans nuclear program and supporting its military in general? More specifically, supplying high grade Uranium gas?
What re really need is an informed public not being misrepresented about the activities of the government. Most of what you assume you know is wrong because the press fed it to your brain that way.
1). This is the same press that has been nailed with scandal after scandal of lying to create sensationalism. I mean, what's the downside of lying here? They fcking hate the administration so a little lie gets them lots of attention and spins the haters even more.
2). You simply can't have a security policy where nutjobs working on secure projects figure their right to blab overrides everyone else's right to use technological advantages to catch the bad guys. This thing is self feeding because the press always tells half the truth and obscures the facts. Fck, most of the population now thinks the only reason we invaded Iraq was either because of WMD or Oil and that the government is listening in on everyone's phone conversations. LIES! LIES! LIES! LIES! Saddest of all, a bunch of you are happy to hear the lies and turn off your brains.
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This ain't "big brother" watching you. This is a case of corporate espionage and what one corporate executive had to do to stop it. Phones were not tapped nor offices bugged. She hired a "private dick" to do the tracing. It does raise an interresting question about corporate officers who betray their fiduciary responsability to the shareholders and company employees. But the juvenile attitude of "taking the man down" seems to blind most folks on the web and in the press.
Let's face it, honor and integrity are meaningless today. 90% of you are ready to string Mrs. Dunn up. Meanwhile there is a corporate officer who was scrwing over the shareholders by leaking corporate planning to the press and you want to give him a pat on the back. I see the same thing in world politics.
I bought the entire original 3 seasons on DVD and sat down with my kids last night to watch the first eposode. It was the one with the shapeshifting alient who kills humans by sucking all the salt from their bodies. After the show my oldest son asked "if all the special effects and props are like this episode or do they get better". My youngest wouldn't take a shower by himself. Jusdt like a good book, the most important part of the experience happens between your ears.
And I'm sure we helped Germany plenty before Hitler rose to power too. How can I put ths so even YOU can uderstand: crazy people with nuclear weapons is bad.
Don't you guys watch the news? They are closing down Cheyenne Mountain and moving the stargate. I bet the Russians are taking it over.
Seriously folks, what if a popular product like FF decided to drag feet on supporting a new MS product. Pretend we're talking a year from now and MS is trying to roll out Vista and the 40% of the population that will be using FF by then balks because FF won't run properly. Extremely unlikely but an interresting though nontheless expecially when you recall the days when MS would break competitors apps running on Windows.
Reality would see mto prove that you are at least partyle incorrect.
Even is we're only talking a max accuracy of 75%, the impact on potential terrorists will be much higher. One more hurdle for them to jump. I wonder if they bothered to test this on subjects under the influence of depressants? I'veh eard it isn't unusual for terrorists to take drugs to get in the correct state of mind.
I remember those supposed "blogs" from politicians before. Most are merely static sites put up to add a checkbox on someones list. Politicians are too busy unplugging the internet pipes to actually bother posting.
Now, you completely miss my point. If the only truth you glean is through the narrow, filtered peephole the press in the US is giving you then you have no idea what FUD is when you hear it.
Exactly my point. There is no them.
Study hisotyr a little better. The whole reason we have a government with checks and balances is because the framers knew there will be issues with people correctly interpretign and applying laws...as well as abusing power. Pople aren't perfect to every single thing that happens within the system won't be correct. But in the end most wrongs are righted (as best they can). also consider that most of the "abuses" you THINK you know about are part of the FUD spread by meembers of the press (and the legislature) with an agenda.
"occasional death due to terrorist bombing"
So...
6 planes go crashing to the ground kill all passengers (6X400) = 2800 Dead
+ cost to airline industry and economy due to travel disruptions.
Thats pretty much the death toll of amiercan lives since we invaded Iraq.
Cynicism in the US is reaching an all-time high. Half the population blames the government or accuses it of conspiracy no matter what the government does. We need more effective ways of countering the enemy's FUD. We have multiple CSPAN channels broadcasting government live and embedded reporters and still most of the citizenry would rather read and believe tabloids, kooks and extremist blogs. Guess what, you are the government. You are the military. Look at the history of the world and realize that there ARE people who will kill you because they don't like your GOD or covet what you have or have been taught since childhood to hate you out of existence.
Schools are the worst. It's like a suck contest. Blackboard sucks but it took tons of sucky college IT departments to make them so popular in spite of their suckiness. I recently spent several weeks working on a proposal to improve a local university's web presence and I was astounded at what a mess they had. IT was like a huge collection of buggy software with no coherent interface. So we spent >$40K coming up with a proposal/bid only to have them say, "thanks for the bluprint, I guess we'll do it ourselves". Right, whatever.
"targeted, personalized meetings and activities" Strippers and lap-dances to get the buyers in the right "mood"?
The record industry claimants should get a 20% discount on future Kazaa downloads.
Like the rest of us ever get a real settlement from record indutry abuses.
Prey is so bad it's good?
I believe the biggest real threat from either the 9/11 attacks or the French riots is the ability of these actions to unsermine the confidence of people on their government and the encouragement of folks to commit crimes. Like it or not, civility is not the natural state of man. A goodly chunk of the population would surely steal to their heart's content if they knew they would never be caught and punished.
If what you seem to be saying were true then the internet and cheap burnable CDs would have wiped out the record industry because there would be no incentived for artists to sign-up. But in the real world it takes losts of advertising, promotion and wheel-greasing to create a snger/band/TV show worth anything. Sure there is the rare case where some pauper creates a brilliant piece of art in their garage that the whole world starts clamoring for....bat that is the exception. In the real world there tons of folks between the artist and the consumer working to sell a product to that consumer. And those folks work to feed their families like you or I. I'm not advocating draconian IP laws here (I think the exact process I mentioned above already protects the artists and corporations), but let's inject a little reality into both sides of the argument.
Most of your perceptions about the government are derived from eagerations of the press and entertainment cops TV shows. This also appies to 90% of the parents in the US who won't lets their kids play outdoots because of all the psychos and wackos waiting behind the hedges to abduct and molest their stupid kids. Wake up folks. Life has inherent risks and you need to learn to manage those risks.
XML is XML is XML - This sounds more like a complaint about the XML Parsers and DOM manipulators to me. Those will probably improve as XML becomes the format of choice.
Could it be a little revenge for China helping Irans nuclear program and supporting its military in general? More specifically, supplying high grade Uranium gas?
What re really need is an informed public not being misrepresented about the activities of the government. Most of what you assume you know is wrong because the press fed it to your brain that way.
1). This is the same press that has been nailed with scandal after scandal of lying to create sensationalism. I mean, what's the downside of lying here? They fcking hate the administration so a little lie gets them lots of attention and spins the haters even more.
2). You simply can't have a security policy where nutjobs working on secure projects figure their right to blab overrides everyone else's right to use technological advantages to catch the bad guys. This thing is self feeding because the press always tells half the truth and obscures the facts. Fck, most of the population now thinks the only reason we invaded Iraq was either because of WMD or Oil and that the government is listening in on everyone's phone conversations. LIES! LIES! LIES! LIES! Saddest of all, a bunch of you are happy to hear the lies and turn off your brains.