Not surprising. Heck, I'm not so sure this is even a Neocon issue. I could have seen Clinton and Gore signing on. It's that exhilarating smell of fascism in its springtime everywhere.
That was just a "few bad apples". For every kid wantonly sodomized it appears several Iraqis were beaten to death with a cleanly puritanical dispassion. Which just goes to show, it really _is_ the sex that catches our interest.
transformed itself from a software company that published software for the Zoomer and Newton, into a hardware company with the wildly successful Pilot in 1996."
The hardware was crap. That has been my business motto about Palm: "A fine concept made flesh in cheap crap."
I believe mine said made in Mexico. It was one of the ones that would drain a charge in four days. Unfortunately, while I usually let stuff lie around, my wife convinced me to toss it before the class action suit's resolution was announced the other month.
These young'ns. A little plague gets loose and people get all a-tither. Heck, I visited a few relatives in late August in the middle of Anthrax country and haven't turned blue yet:
what about the man-bites-dog scenerio where the techs should know better?
What about the IT department that leaves your server's admin password on a piece of paper beside your server? About the busy support that tells the user the data on their boot-unrecoverable desktop is "gone, just gone. Here, let me get things started by reformatting for you!" Couple things I've seen. And a couple things that made me an enemy of that IT department when I pointed them out (and stepped between the tech and the reformat to do the PC data restore for the department in that case).
If we limit our nuking to third, and perhaps the occasional second, world nation, will the handful of nations capable of nuking us back take action? Almost certainly not. That's what they've concluded, isn't it, and they are almost certainly right.
However, if the rest of the world thereafter shunned the U.S. like apartheid South Africa (who incidentally probably wish they had maintained their nuclear program now), things would get interesting because the real war is economic.
Well, we could be talking statistical probabilities. You may be right that there will be an army of grandmothers doing a little web and email who will be obvilious that they are running this or that Windows. But it is also likely that there will be a vocal minority who will be angry that their neighbor's Windows came with a PVR and their's didn't, etc., etc.
There must be some marketing principle this brand fractionalization or "fuzzifying" violates.
This will surely annoy and confuse the ordinary consumer. As well as disgusting those more knowledgeable about computers who are just as happy to tweak things themselves.
Not dissimilar to the ton of reviews about how one linux distribution's default desktop looks cooler than the next -- but I suppose we don't want to go there. It does, however, give MS some parity with linux. Now reviewers will have seven versions of Windows to write boring comparisons about.
Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller claims in the future some civil rights may have to 'erode', in order to keep everyone in the country safe
So true, so true. To keep "everyone in the country safe" I would suggest:
1. Confinement in a sturdy, block structure outside a tornado, hurricane or earthquake zone. 2. Mandatory curfew for a good night's sleep 3. A calorie-restricted diet based on the best current food pyramid 4. An hour of mandatory treadmill per day 5. Perhaps a daily glass of wine but no other alcohol, smoking or drugs. 6. In-cell employment. Commuting kills. 7. Structured and highly enforced local social activities 8. Frequent mandatory medical examination and testing 9. In light of these restrictions, elimination of all suicide promoting devices.
With proper diet, exercise, rest, medical attention and security, much can be done to promote lifespan of the stock.
(Which is all to say that these politico demagogues rely heavily on the population's statistical innumerancy to tell them horror stories about why they must give up their freedoms for threats _way_ down on the list of what will actually kill them.)
Absolutely. Not intelligent control of the _situation_ to preserve life and reduce suffering. _Their_ control. They treated New Orleans like they treat Iraq: military lockdown with total disregard for the people. It is an example up close and brought home of how, first and foremost, the U.S. has a military response to all chaos. Remember the words of Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard:
"Three quick examples. We had Wal-Mart deliver three trucks of water. FEMA turned them back. They said we didn't need them. This was a week ago. FEMA, we had 1,000 gallons of diesel fuel on a Coast Guard vessel docked in my parish. When we got there with our trucks, FEMA says don't give you the fuel. Yesterday -- yesterday -- FEMA comes in and cuts all of our emergency communication lines. They cut them without notice. Our sheriff, Harry Lee, goes back in, he reconnects the line. He posts armed guards and said no one is getting near these lines"
If someone wants to say they are treating New Orleans like a military exercise in total removal/cleansing, who has the evidence to refute it? Whatever they think their motivations are, their _mindset_ is painfully obvious by their selective actions and inactions. "As long as we've got them concentrated in Thunderdome and the remaining exits to the city have armed guards so they can't get out themselves, we'll think about dropping in some Disani in three or four days for the ones who survive that long without water." What other interpretation is possible when they TURN BACK water trucks and then take DAYS to get people water in a Carribean summer? What other interpretation is possible when we witness the schizophrenic disjunction that FEMA says they can't get in while every network on the continent has their anchors in Thunderdome literally crying about the inhumanity? It is appropriate to say this administration has a "dangerous" mindset.
Priorities, priorities. Your legacy is always about how your actions show what you value most. I'm wrong?
Yes, I suppose when a major U.S. city is destroyed, that is an excellent time to follow Africa's paradoxically late "lead" and just pass over copper and even fiber in some cases.
200 years ago, most of the USA was filled with people who could not read or write. Yet, they formed a country with great prosperity. And they believed in GOD.
Good thing God gave them all those slaves, eh?
Slaves, slaves, everybody always bitches about the slaves. If a farmer paid the equivalent of a freeman's salary for a year to buy a slave at least he had to protect his investment. Same as grease, oil changes and other maintenance on the tractor.
What about the potato famine Irish? Get a factory job in the U.S. like a Chinese sweat shop working seven days a week at starvation wages until a flywheel belt takes off your arm and you bleed to death because there aren't any OSHA laws. No maintenance. You find another Irish the next day after you've gotten the blood mopped up. 100% on their own until a mean death in a short life and no cost to the factory owner.
Basically, the 19th century sucked no matter what your research watching Little House on the Prairie would lead you to believe.
Don't even get me started on the Indians. Give them a smallpox infested blanket and they'll give your whole clan free farms. They were pathetically easy shooting compared to, e.g. the Zulu, and "gave" us an incredibly rich continent to exploit.
God worked in mysterious ways to bring great prosperity to America.
I've suspected overlap as long as I can remember because of prehistoric legends like the Nordic trolls that live under bridges and will steal you away.
Considering the state of popular American thought though that doesn't sound so profound at the moment because I have to admit it is only (very) quantitatively distinct from the "We can remember dragons so people lived with the dinosaurs!" school.
Yes, but nature protects the stupid. Those Mork and Mindy episodes won't make it out of the solar system. Sort of like the porn one downloads on the home WiFi network.
Scientific American had an article that suggusted any civilization advanced enough to have colonized a couple systems is almost certainly beaming communication instead of broadcasting it. Lots of luck setting the improbability drive to a location in the beam path.
Mix together garbage bag material space habitats and Bruce Sterling's idea that you would _want_ cockroaches in order to eat the sluffed off skin and stuff and it looks like interplanetary settlements will be about as glamorous as I envisioned life in a vacuum-sealed can would be.
Yup. After his role as Bester, Koenig is one of my favorite SciFi oldsters. If only the books of Bester's life story could be filmed, _then_ he would play the role he was destined for.
Remember, "we're all individuals. We've all got to start thinking for ourselves." (in chorus)
This article is nothing. Where is the outrage over Software Assurance? What has that gotten companies? And, on the other hand, my wife and I are already running Debian Sarge with a Gig of Ram and 128 meg video cards.
Exactly. This all comes out of the 80's MBA culture, doesn't it? "Managing" is "Managing" and "Managing" is its own specialization. You wouldn't expect an IT person to be an expert on "Managing" so don't expect an expert on "Managing" to be an IT expert.
Which sort of ignores a 1000-year tradition of master/apprentice guild culture in specializations.
A psychologist's compilation book on the topic of achievement (Before the Gates of Excellence) that I read around 1990 reported that the male population has greater variability -- more geniuses but equally more idiots.
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Typical liberal. Thinking more than one step beyond the obvious.
Stop that! It isn't seen as patriotic these days.
Well, you know _somebody's_ going to say it.
Not surprising. Heck, I'm not so sure this is even a Neocon issue. I could have seen Clinton and Gore signing on. It's that exhilarating smell of fascism in its springtime everywhere.
That was just a "few bad apples". For every kid wantonly sodomized it appears several Iraqis were beaten to death with a cleanly puritanical dispassion. Which just goes to show, it really _is_ the sex that catches our interest.
transformed itself from a software company that published software for the Zoomer and Newton, into a hardware company with the wildly successful Pilot in 1996."
The hardware was crap. That has been my business motto about Palm: "A fine concept made flesh in cheap crap."
I believe mine said made in Mexico. It was one of the ones that would drain a charge in four days. Unfortunately, while I usually let stuff lie around, my wife convinced me to toss it before the class action suit's resolution was announced the other month.
Now her's is showing the same sympthoms.
I believe the last time this was posted verbatim, we had decided it was astroturf from the RIAA.
These young'ns. A little plague gets loose and people get all a-tither. Heck, I visited a few relatives in late August in the middle of Anthrax country and haven't turned blue yet:
http://www.rcgazette.com/news/082905.htm
what about the man-bites-dog scenerio where the techs should know better?
What about the IT department that leaves your server's admin password on a piece of paper beside your server? About the busy support that tells the user the data on their boot-unrecoverable desktop is "gone, just gone. Here, let me get things started by reformatting for you!" Couple things I've seen. And a couple things that made me an enemy of that IT department when I pointed them out (and stepped between the tech and the reformat to do the PC data restore for the department in that case).
If we limit our nuking to third, and perhaps the occasional second, world nation, will the handful of nations capable of nuking us back take action? Almost certainly not. That's what they've concluded, isn't it, and they are almost certainly right.
However, if the rest of the world thereafter shunned the U.S. like apartheid South Africa (who incidentally probably wish they had maintained their nuclear program now), things would get interesting because the real war is economic.
Well, we could be talking statistical probabilities. You may be right that there will be an army of grandmothers doing a little web and email who will be obvilious that they are running this or that Windows. But it is also likely that there will be a vocal minority who will be angry that their neighbor's Windows came with a PVR and their's didn't, etc., etc.
There must be some marketing principle this brand fractionalization or "fuzzifying" violates.
This will surely annoy and confuse the ordinary consumer. As well as disgusting those more knowledgeable about computers who are just as happy to tweak things themselves.
Not dissimilar to the ton of reviews about how one linux distribution's default desktop looks cooler than the next -- but I suppose we don't want to go there. It does, however, give MS some parity with linux. Now reviewers will have seven versions of Windows to write boring comparisons about.
Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller claims in the future some civil rights may have to 'erode', in order to keep everyone in the country safe
So true, so true. To keep "everyone in the country safe" I would suggest:
1. Confinement in a sturdy, block structure outside a tornado, hurricane or earthquake zone.
2. Mandatory curfew for a good night's sleep
3. A calorie-restricted diet based on the best current food pyramid
4. An hour of mandatory treadmill per day
5. Perhaps a daily glass of wine but no other alcohol, smoking or drugs.
6. In-cell employment. Commuting kills.
7. Structured and highly enforced local social activities
8. Frequent mandatory medical examination and testing
9. In light of these restrictions, elimination of all suicide promoting devices.
With proper diet, exercise, rest, medical attention and security, much can be done to promote lifespan of the stock.
(Which is all to say that these politico demagogues rely heavily on the population's statistical innumerancy to tell them horror stories about why they must give up their freedoms for threats _way_ down on the list of what will actually kill them.)
Absolutely. Not intelligent control of the _situation_ to preserve life and reduce suffering. _Their_ control. They treated New Orleans like they treat Iraq: military lockdown with total disregard for the people. It is an example up close and brought home of how, first and foremost, the U.S. has a military response to all chaos. Remember the words of Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard:
m ents/
"Three quick examples. We had Wal-Mart deliver three trucks of water. FEMA turned them back. They said we didn't need them. This was a week ago. FEMA, we had 1,000 gallons of diesel fuel on a Coast Guard vessel docked in my parish. When we got there with our trucks, FEMA says don't give you the fuel. Yesterday -- yesterday -- FEMA comes in and cuts all of our emergency communication lines. They cut them without notice. Our sheriff, Harry Lee, goes back in, he reconnects the line. He posts armed guards and said no one is getting near these lines"
http://thinkprogress.org/2005/09/04/worst-abandon
If someone wants to say they are treating New Orleans like a military exercise in total removal/cleansing, who has the evidence to refute it? Whatever they think their motivations are, their _mindset_ is painfully obvious by their selective actions and inactions. "As long as we've got them concentrated in Thunderdome and the remaining exits to the city have armed guards so they can't get out themselves, we'll think about dropping in some Disani in three or four days for the ones who survive that long without water." What other interpretation is possible when they TURN BACK water trucks and then take DAYS to get people water in a Carribean summer? What other interpretation is possible when we witness the schizophrenic disjunction that FEMA says they can't get in while every network on the continent has their anchors in Thunderdome literally crying about the inhumanity? It is appropriate to say this administration has a "dangerous" mindset.
Priorities, priorities. Your legacy is always about how your actions show what you value most. I'm wrong?
I guess.
Yes, I suppose when a major U.S. city is destroyed, that is an excellent time to follow Africa's paradoxically late "lead" and just pass over copper and even fiber in some cases.
200 years ago, most of the USA was filled with people who could not read or write. Yet, they formed a country with great prosperity. And they believed in GOD.
Good thing God gave them all those slaves, eh?
Slaves, slaves, everybody always bitches about the slaves. If a farmer paid the equivalent of a freeman's salary for a year to buy a slave at least he had to protect his investment. Same as grease, oil changes and other maintenance on the tractor.
What about the potato famine Irish? Get a factory job in the U.S. like a Chinese sweat shop working seven days a week at starvation wages until a flywheel belt takes off your arm and you bleed to death because there aren't any OSHA laws. No maintenance. You find another Irish the next day after you've gotten the blood mopped up. 100% on their own until a mean death in a short life and no cost to the factory owner.
Basically, the 19th century sucked no matter what your research watching Little House on the Prairie would lead you to believe.
Don't even get me started on the Indians. Give them a smallpox infested blanket and they'll give your whole clan free farms. They were pathetically easy shooting compared to, e.g. the Zulu, and "gave" us an incredibly rich continent to exploit.
God worked in mysterious ways to bring great prosperity to America.
I've suspected overlap as long as I can remember because of prehistoric legends like the Nordic trolls that live under bridges and will steal you away.
Considering the state of popular American thought though that doesn't sound so profound at the moment because I have to admit it is only (very) quantitatively distinct from the "We can remember dragons so people lived with the dinosaurs!" school.
Maybe they should do their community service explaining to people how to use their computers securely.
Yes, but nature protects the stupid. Those Mork and Mindy episodes won't make it out of the solar system. Sort of like the porn one downloads on the home WiFi network.
Scientific American had an article that suggusted any civilization advanced enough to have colonized a couple systems is almost certainly beaming communication instead of broadcasting it. Lots of luck setting the improbability drive to a location in the beam path.
Mix together garbage bag material space habitats and Bruce Sterling's idea that you would _want_ cockroaches in order to eat the sluffed off skin and stuff and it looks like interplanetary settlements will be about as glamorous as I envisioned life in a vacuum-sealed can would be.
Yup. After his role as Bester, Koenig is one of my favorite SciFi oldsters. If only the books of Bester's life story could be filmed, _then_ he would play the role he was destined for.
Didn't the guy maintaining the postgres ODBC driver quit the task a few months ago? I think people are resigned that
Remember, "we're all individuals. We've all got to start thinking for ourselves." (in chorus)
This article is nothing. Where is the outrage over Software Assurance? What has that gotten companies? And, on the other hand, my wife and I are already running Debian Sarge with a Gig of Ram and 128 meg video cards.
Yup. And some of us live in apartments. So, spherically speaking, what is my roam range?
I hear tell there are multi-story buildings with different businesses on different floors too.
Exactly. This all comes out of the 80's MBA culture, doesn't it? "Managing" is "Managing" and "Managing" is its own specialization. You wouldn't expect an IT person to be an expert on "Managing" so don't expect an expert on "Managing" to be an IT expert.
Which sort of ignores a 1000-year tradition of master/apprentice guild culture in specializations.
A psychologist's compilation book on the topic of achievement (Before the Gates of Excellence) that I read around 1990 reported that the male population has greater variability -- more geniuses but equally more idiots.