because Microsoft is an American company and every product sold by them directly benefits the US economy.
By your reasoning, if congress was spending $.60 of every $1.00 at Joe's Adult Fun Emporium, it would be perfectly OK, as "Joe's" is an American company, and every dollar spent there goes back into the American economy.
While I do agree that it is better for our govt to spend money on products and services from American suppliers rather than sending that money overseas to foriegn companies, I still believe that it is reasonable too as how and where our tax dollars are being spent.
Whoever modded this "insightful" is missing the point (although I am thankful for the mod points), as I posted in hopes that someone would be able to provide an answer or, better yet, a link to some sort of documentation that shows either an over all spending by the US govt by vendor or to some individual department (or agency) budgets showing thier spending per vendor.
I do not know if such documentation is available, and I have not found anything close to this in my studies (I read a lot of government documents).
What about state budgets? Do any state governments provide publicly viewable per-vendor budget declarations?
I think that it is reasonable for citizens to request this kind of information, as most taxpayers might like to know who our tax dollars are going to, how much of our tax dollar is spent on administration of the programs, and how much is spent in purchasing agreements for the infrastructure being used to run our governments.
but there's no money being made in trying to corner that market.
The problem at MSN is not that they are selling dialup, but that they thought that it would be proffitabl;e to spend $314 Million on advertizing a service that sells for so little in a market that has so many competitors.
I wonder how much profit AOL actually sees from thier service. I'm guessing very little if any.
Attempting to dominate the dialup service market through extensive advertising seems more a play to attract investors or increase stock market value than it does an attempt to make an honest living.
is a few people selling CDs from non-RIAA bands, public domain stuff, and legitimately purchased recordings.
I'm sure these rent-a-cops won't know the difference and a couple of well-publicised lawsuits for false arrest, impersonating a police officer, rackateering, and harrassment/intimidation will very quickly turn the public opinion against the recording companies.
There is no right to take the law into your own hands, no matter how deep your pockets are, and these assh*les need a lesson.
a situation where I think RFID is the Right Way To Do It(tm). If the casinos are using RFID to verify that the chips are actually thier chips before payout, and to prevent employees from walking out with stolen chips, then that's thier right and this seems a reasonably innocuous measure.
I'm sure that there's lots of people who are crying "invasoon of privacy", etc, but this is one situation where you truly decided to play by thier rules when you walked through that door, and keeping track of thier own property is in no way an invasion of thier employees or thier customers privacy.
When an Indian company produces products comparable to HP's for a fraction of the cost, her executive position will effectively have been outsourced.
This is one of the primary motivations for a company to outsource to other countries. The jobs they are providing keep technologically educated Indians from having the motivation (ie: need) to create a self sufficient tech economy in India that might include manufacturing andIndian owned product development.
In other words, outsourcing tech jobs is simply another form of neocolonialism, attempting to create a tech economy in other countries that is entirely dependant upon the us tech ecoomy before those countries can manage to build thier own, independant tech economies.
I'ts not so different than traditional colonialism, except that there no exporting of one's own labor force to the colonized country.
In the past, countries would simply send thier no longer needed labor force abroad, today they simply hope that they'll cease to exist.
if bin laden wanted to look into all of the major corporations bank accounts to find out which institution would be best to attack, he could exploit the FBI's power and send out forged letters
Actually, he'd [robably just call up one of his buddies from the CIA and have them do it for him, but the effect would still be the same.
if you give them too much free power, there is a better possibility that it will somehow get used wrong.
Thier power is already is being used wrongly, and most employees at financial and other institutions don't kniow enough to deny law enforcement when they are asked for something that the agents do not have the right to access. This is the sort oflegislation that gets passed after the data has already been collected and the agencies want to take it to court.
The message is not "netsend is hacking" it's "don't demonstrate our ignorance infront of students causing further loss of control".
No, the message is that the teacher has not bothered to learn the subject she has been assigned to teach, and that rather than regain control by assigning the student a presentation on the command, how it works, and how to disable it in windows, she decided to prove her incompetancy by blowing the whole situation out of proportion. A talented teacher learns to make use of the particular talents of thier students no matter who the student is or what reputation that student has. This is an old and long tested method of not only establishing control of a situation where a student might have an advantage in a particular area of knowledge, and it is also an effective method for gaining the respect of students who might otherwise resent a teacher who seems unresponsive to expressions of talent or skill rather than obediance.
I am not a teacher, but this is how several talented teachers kept me in a school when I was seriously considering dropping out due to the absolute ignorance and resentment (towards all of thier students) that was displayed by several of the other "educators" (and administrators) in that district.
I was very lucky to encounter those exceptional eduicators that I did.
A calorie is a measure of heat which even further confuses the issue.
How much heat is required at your house to give a temperature of 20 degrees, and what temperature would you read at your friends house, given there was truly only half of the heat that there is at yours? (Air temperature only, please account for environmental differences including variations in humidity and air density between the two locations.)
But how does one do that across an entity as large as a government?
Publish a namespace reference as a RFC, dictate that all governmental entities that are having custom apps developed adhere to those guidelines, and that they submit addendum to the maintainer of those guidelines when they are adding named feilds to the list.
The programmers have access to the spec before they bid on the job, and the spec is included with the customers criteria.
If you read the materials provided in the link, you'll see that the counter argument to HIV=AIDS is also based on the scientific method, and is backed by the very same persons who research the current accepted theory is based on. What the majority of allegations that these scientists and doctors are making are based upon is that the conclusion that HIV=AIDS is not what thier research indicated, but was only one of the unproven possibilities. There are also allegations that the reported isolation of the HIV virus was not conclusive and that the rules for accepting the discovery were changed to the extent that no other virus isolation has ever been accepted under such lax analysis.
President Mbeki may be remembered by history as a scientific illiterate, but the shame is that the science he based his belief upon is not bad science.
Read the link, and know who's researcgh you are criticizing before you condemn them. I do not pretend to know the truth on this one, but this would not be the first time that the medical community was led by strongly held misconceptions that ignored strong expirimental data in favor of research that gave a more politcally acceptable answer.
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Those points are all very typical far-left thought.
It may be true that most of those who are willing to state these points are branded as being "far-left", but each of his points are based on factual evidence:
1) The US is a terrorist state. it sponsors terrorism in the rest of the world to support its corporates objectives.
2) America loves freedom & democracy. Only in America and only to the extent required by the shackles of it's constitution. elsewhere its OK so long as it doesnt get in the way of American policy.
I think most/. readers are fully aware of the evidence for point number three.
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Is this the number of Israeli citizens that were killed, or the number of people that were only Israeli citizens?
I've lost the link, but I believe that it is the number of persons who were Israeli citizens only.
I think the key stumbling block for those who believe there was a conspiracy that involved more than Al-Quaeda is that they are stumped by a narrow minded assumption that it must be "the other" that carried out the planning and execution of these attacks, which is demonstrably false if one were to consider the evidence that the Maine was destroyed by a bomb set by Americans who wished for a continuation of the policy of "Eminent Domain", by which many influential families were able to signifigantly increase thier land holdings, and establish plantations in Guam, Cuba, and the Phillipines.
There is also an assumption held by most US conspiracy theorist that if any of the conspirators were Jewish, then it must be a Jewish conspiracy. This is also demonstrably untrue, given the evidence that the conspiracy to protect American business interest by means of a coup and the assasination of President Allende in Chile (1973) was very much planned by Henry Kissenger, yet many of the otheres involved (including President Nixon) were often rather vocal (albeit in private) about thier own anti-semitism.
There is also a possibility that these alleghations are being used as an intentional distraction to prevent 9-11 conspiracy investigators from looking at possibly more easily confirmable evidence implicating, either through negligence or by intent, involvement by members of our own intelligence services and/or Bush administration advisors.
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Pointing out the evidence implicating Israel in 9/11
I have yet to see anything that actually implicates Israel or Israel's intellegence agencies in the attack of September Eleventh, but there is ample record of the United States supporting terrorist organizations, including Al-Qaeda, and there has been disturbing evidence implicating US intelligence personel in a previous attack on the WTC in 1993, as well as the recent discovery of high level FBI personel being deeply involved in the career of a Boston mob leader, Whitey Bulger (the FBI allowed several people to be wrongly executed for crimes they knew had been carried out by Whitey Bulger's operation).
Pointing out that the war on drugs is genocide.
The War on Drugs is not genocide no matter what definition you apply. But it has become quite a money maker for law enforcement agencies through the seizure of property. If you also allow for the truth that the War On Drugs is what keeps the price (and profits) high, you now associate the War On Drugs with the ability of our Intelligence Agencies to illegally fund terrorism while hiding thier involvement from Congress (and the Amercan people). The "genocide" argument here is as much a distraction from the real issues as the "Israel" argument is for 9-11.
Pointing out that feminism has ruined America.
Whe I was in training at Great Lakes, the Fire Control school was having difficulty in retaining one of the finest Naval Electronic Combat Control Systems instructors available, mostly because the then Secretary of Defense held that very opinion. The attempts to remove this fine instructor, who had more years experience, and was far more familiar with this equipment than any other enlisted personel available, were a rediculous distractionthat had nothing to do with "feminism" and everything to do with the boneheadedness of persons who were unable to understand that one does not need a dick swinging between thier legs in order to be able to kill people for thier country (On the other hand, one does need a strong back and self discipline). Feminism (the idea) has not harmed America any more than the end of segregation has, and like in the case of segregation, the problems that have occured have been the direct result of those reationaries who were creating unnecessary conflict knowing fiull well that, like was demonstrated in the article, that the majority of people would voice opinions on the side of convention, even if they did not necessarily believe those opinions to be accurate.
I'm sure there are others, but I expect this is enough to score me -1, Heretic.
I'm sure that you like to think of yourself as a heretic, but the truth is that you've just attached yourself to yet another "fasionable" set of ideas that migh be called "the politcally correct of the politically incorrect" (to coin a phrase). You'll never truly deserve the title "heretic" until you find that both the left and the right are attacking what you think (or say, if you decide to ignore the advice contained in the article).
I like this approach, and will likely participate, but I do wonder how the project can avoid malicious data poisoning using zombie submitters and forged examples.
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The veld is an open grassy plateau in South Africa (where veld goats are a native species), and last I heard, Mongolia was still just north of China.
Of course this reply does mean that I just bit, doesn't it. Oh well.
btw: Cacti are native only to the Americas and Africa.
Oops, bit again, guess I just can't help myself. Nice troll anyway.
steve albini's the problem with music is a well-documented accounting of how bands on major labels get hooped by clawback clauses.
My bookmark for that document is outdated and I'll be glad to have found it again. Thanks.
well actually they kinda are if they talk to god and all
Being Trappists, they're sure as he^H^H^H^H^Hnot talking much to anyone else!
Oh yeah, they also make realy good jam!
... from stenographic content unless he's being framed.
because Microsoft is an American company and every product sold by them directly benefits the US economy.
By your reasoning, if congress was spending $.60 of every $1.00 at Joe's Adult Fun Emporium, it would be perfectly OK, as "Joe's" is an American company, and every dollar spent there goes back into the American economy.
While I do agree that it is better for our govt to spend money on products and services from American suppliers rather than sending that money overseas to foriegn companies, I still believe that it is reasonable too as how and where our tax dollars are being spent.
Whoever modded this "insightful" is missing the point (although I am thankful for the mod points), as I posted in hopes that someone would be able to provide an answer or, better yet, a link to some sort of documentation that shows either an over all spending by the US govt by vendor or to some individual department (or agency) budgets showing thier spending per vendor.
I do not know if such documentation is available, and I have not found anything close to this in my studies (I read a lot of government documents).
What about state budgets? Do any state governments provide publicly viewable per-vendor budget declarations?
I think that it is reasonable for citizens to request this kind of information, as most taxpayers might like to know who our tax dollars are going to, how much of our tax dollar is spent on administration of the programs, and how much is spent in purchasing agreements for the infrastructure being used to run our governments.
Does anyone know how much the US government spends on Microsoft software every year?
I've been curious about this for quite some time now, but have been unable to find a budget analysis broken down by vendor.
but there's no money being made in trying to corner that market.
The problem at MSN is not that they are selling dialup, but that they thought that it would be proffitabl;e to spend $314 Million on advertizing a service that sells for so little in a market that has so many competitors.
I wonder how much profit AOL actually sees from thier service. I'm guessing very little if any.
Attempting to dominate the dialup service market through extensive advertising seems more a play to attract investors or increase stock market value than it does an attempt to make an honest living.
Just like we did in the dark ages.
Welcome to the neo-Hobbesian nightmare.
is a few people selling CDs from non-RIAA bands, public domain stuff, and legitimately purchased recordings.
I'm sure these rent-a-cops won't know the difference and a couple of well-publicised lawsuits for false arrest, impersonating a police officer, rackateering, and harrassment/intimidation will very quickly turn the public opinion against the recording companies.
There is no right to take the law into your own hands, no matter how deep your pockets are, and these assh*les need a lesson.
a situation where I think RFID is the Right Way To Do It(tm). If the casinos are using RFID to verify that the chips are actually thier chips before payout, and to prevent employees from walking out with stolen chips, then that's thier right and this seems a reasonably innocuous measure.
I'm sure that there's lots of people who are crying "invasoon of privacy", etc, but this is one situation where you truly decided to play by thier rules when you walked through that door, and keeping track of thier own property is in no way an invasion of thier employees or thier customers privacy.
When an Indian company produces products comparable to HP's for a fraction of the cost, her executive position will effectively have been outsourced.
This is one of the primary motivations for a company to outsource to other countries. The jobs they are providing keep technologically educated Indians from having the motivation (ie: need) to create a self sufficient tech economy in India that might include manufacturing andIndian owned product development.
In other words, outsourcing tech jobs is simply another form of neocolonialism, attempting to create a tech economy in other countries that is entirely dependant upon the us tech ecoomy before those countries can manage to build thier own, independant tech economies.
I'ts not so different than traditional colonialism, except that there no exporting of one's own labor force to the colonized country.
In the past, countries would simply send thier no longer needed labor force abroad, today they simply hope that they'll cease to exist.
Doesn't work if the company contracts everything out.
if bin laden wanted to look into all of the major corporations bank accounts to find out which institution would be best to attack, he could exploit the FBI's power and send out forged letters
Actually, he'd [robably just call up one of his buddies from the CIA and have them do it for him, but the effect would still be the same.
if you give them too much free power, there is a better possibility that it will somehow get used wrong.
Thier power is already is being used wrongly, and most employees at financial and other institutions don't kniow enough to deny law enforcement when they are asked for something that the agents do not have the right to access. This is the sort oflegislation that gets passed after the data has already been collected and the agencies want to take it to court.
The message is not "netsend is hacking" it's "don't demonstrate our ignorance infront of students causing further loss of control".
No, the message is that the teacher has not bothered to learn the subject she has been assigned to teach, and that rather than regain control by assigning the student a presentation on the command, how it works, and how to disable it in windows, she decided to prove her incompetancy by blowing the whole situation out of proportion. A talented teacher learns to make use of the particular talents of thier students no matter who the student is or what reputation that student has. This is an old and long tested method of not only establishing control of a situation where a student might have an advantage in a particular area of knowledge, and it is also an effective method for gaining the respect of students who might otherwise resent a teacher who seems unresponsive to expressions of talent or skill rather than obediance.
I am not a teacher, but this is how several talented teachers kept me in a school when I was seriously considering dropping out due to the absolute ignorance and resentment (towards all of thier students) that was displayed by several of the other "educators" (and administrators) in that district.
I was very lucky to encounter those exceptional eduicators that I did.
A calorie is a measure of heat which even further confuses the issue.
How much heat is required at your house to give a temperature of 20 degrees, and what temperature would you read at your friends house, given there was truly only half of the heat that there is at yours? (Air temperature only, please account for environmental differences including variations in humidity and air density between the two locations.)
But how does one do that across an entity as large as a government?
Publish a namespace reference as a RFC, dictate that all governmental entities that are having custom apps developed adhere to those guidelines, and that they submit addendum to the maintainer of those guidelines when they are adding named feilds to the list.
The programmers have access to the spec before they bid on the job, and the spec is included with the customers criteria.
You are legally allowed to make an archival backup copy for your own use.
Is it possible to play a CSS encrypted image file?
If so, then use "dd" (or whatever Windows users use for the same result.)
If you read the materials provided in the link, you'll see that the counter argument to HIV=AIDS is also based on the scientific method, and is backed by the very same persons who research the current accepted theory is based on. What the majority of allegations that these scientists and doctors are making are based upon is that the conclusion that HIV=AIDS is not what thier research indicated, but was only one of the unproven possibilities. There are also allegations that the reported isolation of the HIV virus was not conclusive and that the rules for accepting the discovery were changed to the extent that no other virus isolation has ever been accepted under such lax analysis.
President Mbeki may be remembered by history as a scientific illiterate, but the shame is that the science he based his belief upon is not bad science.
Read the link, and know who's researcgh you are criticizing before you condemn them. I do not pretend to know the truth on this one, but this would not be the first time that the medical community was led by strongly held misconceptions that ignored strong expirimental data in favor of research that gave a more politcally acceptable answer.
Those points are all very typical far-left thought.
/. readers are fully aware of the evidence for point number three.
It may be true that most of those who are willing to state these points are branded as being "far-left", but each of his points are based on factual evidence:
1) The US is a terrorist state.
it sponsors terrorism in the rest of the world to support its corporates objectives.
Iran-Contra
Guerilla opponents of American policy are terrorists
El Salvador
Guerilla supporters of American policy are freedom fighters.
Iran-ContraIran Contra
2) America loves freedom & democracy.
Only in America and only to the extent required by the shackles of it's constitution. elsewhere its OK so long as it doesnt get in the way of American policy.
Chile
Dictators can be bought cheaply to hold the peasants in line.
Iraq
I think most
Is this the number of Israeli citizens that were killed, or the number of people that were only Israeli citizens?
I've lost the link, but I believe that it is the number of persons who were Israeli citizens only.
I think the key stumbling block for those who believe there was a conspiracy that involved more than Al-Quaeda is that they are stumped by a narrow minded assumption that it must be "the other" that carried out the planning and execution of these attacks, which is demonstrably false if one were to consider the evidence that the Maine was destroyed by a bomb set by Americans who wished for a continuation of the policy of "Eminent Domain", by which many influential families were able to signifigantly increase thier land holdings, and establish plantations in Guam, Cuba, and the Phillipines.
There is also an assumption held by most US conspiracy theorist that if any of the conspirators were Jewish, then it must be a Jewish conspiracy. This is also demonstrably untrue, given the evidence that the conspiracy to protect American business interest by means of a coup and the assasination of President Allende in Chile (1973) was very much planned by Henry Kissenger, yet many of the otheres involved (including President Nixon) were often rather vocal (albeit in private) about thier own anti-semitism.
There is also a possibility that these alleghations are being used as an intentional distraction to prevent 9-11 conspiracy investigators from looking at possibly more easily confirmable evidence implicating, either through negligence or by intent, involvement by members of our own intelligence services and/or Bush administration advisors.
Pointing out the evidence implicating Israel in 9/11
I have yet to see anything that actually implicates Israel or Israel's intellegence agencies in the attack of September Eleventh, but there is ample record of the United States supporting terrorist organizations, including Al-Qaeda, and there has been disturbing evidence implicating US intelligence personel in a previous attack on the WTC in 1993, as well as the recent discovery of high level FBI personel being deeply involved in the career of a Boston mob leader, Whitey Bulger (the FBI allowed several people to be wrongly executed for crimes they knew had been carried out by Whitey Bulger's operation).
Pointing out that the war on drugs is genocide.
The War on Drugs is not genocide no matter what definition you apply. But it has become quite a money maker for law enforcement agencies through the seizure of property. If you also allow for the truth that the War On Drugs is what keeps the price (and profits) high, you now associate the War On Drugs with the ability of our Intelligence Agencies to illegally fund terrorism while hiding thier involvement from Congress (and the Amercan people). The "genocide" argument here is as much a distraction from the real issues as the "Israel" argument is for 9-11.
Pointing out that feminism has ruined America.
Whe I was in training at Great Lakes, the Fire Control school was having difficulty in retaining one of the finest Naval Electronic Combat Control Systems instructors available, mostly because the then Secretary of Defense held that very opinion. The attempts to remove this fine instructor, who had more years experience, and was far more familiar with this equipment than any other enlisted personel available, were a rediculous distractionthat had nothing to do with "feminism" and everything to do with the boneheadedness of persons who were unable to understand that one does not need a dick swinging between thier legs in order to be able to kill people for thier country (On the other hand, one does need a strong back and self discipline). Feminism (the idea) has not harmed America any more than the end of segregation has, and like in the case of segregation, the problems that have occured have been the direct result of those reationaries who were creating unnecessary conflict knowing fiull well that, like was demonstrated in the article, that the majority of people would voice opinions on the side of convention, even if they did not necessarily believe those opinions to be accurate.
I'm sure there are others, but I expect this is enough to score me -1, Heretic.
I'm sure that you like to think of yourself as a heretic, but the truth is that you've just attached yourself to yet another "fasionable" set of ideas that migh be called "the politcally correct of the politically incorrect" (to coin a phrase). You'll never truly deserve the title "heretic" until you find that both the left and the right are attacking what you think (or say, if you decide to ignore the advice contained in the article).
Is there a correlation between spam and spyware?
Does any spyware collect email addresses from adress books?
Does any spyware submit the user's address with it's data?
Do people who's machines are or have been infected with spyware get more spam?
Just wondering.
It seems that spyware that tracks a users web viewing habits would be a no brainer as a data feed for a targeted spam operation.
Thanks.
I like this approach, and will likely participate, but I do wonder how the project can avoid malicious data poisoning using zombie submitters and forged examples.