... if the mass media did it's job, of informing people, more people would demand they be allowed to debate.
Uh, as far as I know, the media did report the arrests. Few people actually cared that a couple of minor party candidates were not invited and got busted trying to crash the event.
Note that this doesn't mean that I agree that these candidates should not be invited or that I do not find the level of disinterest sad. I'm only that saying that the media did point out what happened. All-in-all, it's more a commentary on the high bar of popular inertia that you'll need to overcome to change any of this.
instead of paying one hacker for a day to write a Perl script to hard wire all the salary data in the database to minimum wage.
Does Perl have access to whichever old ISAM routines are running on the (probably) IBM 3070-era mainframe still in use? Perhaps if one is luckier, the payroll will be running under something like PR1MOS for which a C compiler (let alone a Perl implementation) doesn't even exist. You younguns don't remember all of the crap hardware/software that this stuff was designed/runs on.
Because ABC needs to keep good relations with the people they act as uncritical information conduits for. Otherwise, how could they keep their positions as PR^Wnews leaders?
Or perhaps, like most of those who have bought the story of America being a "classless society", don't take the time to actually study the subject and so do not judge class accurately. Because, believe me, even if you don't see class, a lot of others do. But, if you want to indulge your fantasy a bit longer, go ahead. Just let me know when you are invited to Summer with the DuPonts or have cocktails with the Philadelphia Dorrances.
Who said anything about your choice being wrong? Or me choosing for you? The bottom line is that, even though you choose a lifestyle where having a car is mandatory, it is a choice. Asserting that having an automobile is mandatory in America (via exemplars of people who made choices that require it), is still an invalid assertion (regardless of the number who make the same choice). But don't worry, your choice will be made for you soon enough, either through the economics of fuel prices or by an inability to obtain enough fuel to support your lifestyle. I won't be the one doing it, though (well, not any more than the rest of your oil consuming countrymen).
I think it's much easier to claim that it's due to American arrogance than to do a few minutes worth of research into locations in the US where it's almost a necessity to have a vehicle. Where I currently live, it's at least a 30 minute drive to the grocery store during which time you cover approximately 12 miles of windy, mountain roads and lose around 2000 feet of altitude.
Unless you are a park ranger, a rancher, or a worker at an observatory, I believe your "choice" of place to live has more bearing on your transportation options than does "necessity".
The problem really is that US cities and suburbs were designed ONLY for cars, and not for pedestrians.
But you can change this. Portland, Oregon (my fair city) has shown that with the proper land use planning laws and proper incentives, you can build a city that is eminently walkable and bikeable, as well as driveable. Portland isn't all the way there yet, but a journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step. Plus, it's a lot more likely future short term then Mr. Templeton's robocars.
Given the actual potential for people working together in this society and the sheer amount of work it will take to move us to a non-oil-based economy, I believe your last line should be:
"You are the last generation that will need to learn to drive. To your children, it will be an option. To your grandchildren, knowing how to drive a car will be a quaint (and bitterly remembered) concept when compared with knowing how to saddle and ride a horse."
You see, the last line was over the top and screwed things. The last lines should have been:
Some network and computer professionals are attributing the increases to the recent outlawing of encryption technologies. However, Thomas Andrews, Home Secretary for Network Infrastructure Security dismissed these accusations as overblown and said "The restriction of encryption to police and security use is a necessary step to fight terrorism and stop the spread of child pornography."
In an unrelated development, several network and computer professionals have been detained and are assisting the police with their investigation of potential domestic terrorism as evidenced by advocation of the use of illegal encryption technologies.
Most of the web banking systems are done by three or four main vendors (actually, since CheckFree bought Corillian, two or three) who customize the back-end interfaces of their standard systems and then re-skin them for the individual banks. As such, I'm only surprised that the percentage isn't higher.
Tell me more about this cotton candy technology? Is it superior.
Yes it is... quite superior. However, you also need teams of ponies and a rainbow to power the cotton candy machine. Providing these might cause a slight delay in implementation. Well worth it, though...
I'd worry a lot more about things like fuel efficiency and alternative energy sources for their cars. That'd keep a lot more drivers on the road (of all ages).
Evil, meet stupid. Stupid... evil. The only question is which is which...
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you say you have a graduate-level degree?
You do know that here in America, they give out MBAs (supposedly a "graduate" degree) to anyone with a pulse, a way to pay tuition, and an asshole, don't you?
The man was either too blind to see the truth about the intelligence or valued loyalty more than the truth. In the end, for either reason, he lied to the American people. He is in no way an ideal Presidential candidate, unless you're hoping for a coup d'etat from Pentagon generals who he would again loyally support. He's a putz.
As one of the few who voted against it, Obama is literally the only sane choice for president.
Obama was in neither the House nor Senate when the Iraq War Resolution was voted on. As such, he could not have "voted on it". He was, at the time, a critic of the war and, since then, although he has continued to speak out against the Iraq war, he has also voted in favor of every war funding resolution that has been sent to the Senate floor while he has been a member.
None of this is to imply that he is not still the best candidate in the race, but people should remember (a) to get their facts straight and (b) that Obama is still a relatively inconsistent politician who still needs his feet held to the fire (as evidenced both by these votes and the recent FISA flip-flop).
Anyone trying to defend C++ as a language should read this. And I speak as a programmer who has used C++ since cfront 1.0 was released to the world.
Useful, yes. Pragmatic, maybe. Design heavily rationalized ex post facto by its creator and its proponents, most certainly. But a well-designed programming language, it is not.
The Fourth Amendment is sooooo pre-9/11. Not to mention that, since it's OK for even telecom corporations to break the... uh, I mean boldly help our Government in the Global War Against Terror, certainly you can't expect the Government itself to turn a blind eye to all of the potentially terrorist-related information flowing across our borders by other means. Nothing to see here, citizen, move along...
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... if the mass media did it's job, of informing people, more people would demand they be allowed to debate.
Uh, as far as I know, the media did report the arrests. Few people actually cared that a couple of minor party candidates were not invited and got busted trying to crash the event.
Note that this doesn't mean that I agree that these candidates should not be invited or that I do not find the level of disinterest sad. I'm only that saying that the media did point out what happened. All-in-all, it's more a commentary on the high bar of popular inertia that you'll need to overcome to change any of this.
instead of paying one hacker for a day to write a Perl script to hard wire all the salary data in the database to minimum wage.
Does Perl have access to whichever old ISAM routines are running on the (probably) IBM 3070-era mainframe still in use? Perhaps if one is luckier, the payroll will be running under something like PR1MOS for which a C compiler (let alone a Perl implementation) doesn't even exist. You younguns don't remember all of the crap hardware/software that this stuff was designed/runs on.
Property #1: the ability to endow a grad student with his PhD and the university with a sizable chunk of grant money.
There. Fixed that for you...
Why hasn't ABC outed the people who lied to them?
Because ABC needs to keep good relations with the people they act as uncritical information conduits for. Otherwise, how could they keep their positions as PR^Wnews leaders?
... only this time it was made to look like a Suicide so we don't need a sick assassin to kill the assassin.
There! Fixed that for you...
don't see social class as noteworthy.
Or perhaps, like most of those who have bought the story of America being a "classless society", don't take the time to actually study the subject and so do not judge class accurately. Because, believe me, even if you don't see class, a lot of others do. But, if you want to indulge your fantasy a bit longer, go ahead. Just let me know when you are invited to Summer with the DuPonts or have cocktails with the Philadelphia Dorrances.
I always thought women were better at math - none of them ever confused six and twelve inches.
Who said anything about your choice being wrong? Or me choosing for you? The bottom line is that, even though you choose a lifestyle where having a car is mandatory, it is a choice. Asserting that having an automobile is mandatory in America (via exemplars of people who made choices that require it), is still an invalid assertion (regardless of the number who make the same choice). But don't worry, your choice will be made for you soon enough, either through the economics of fuel prices or by an inability to obtain enough fuel to support your lifestyle. I won't be the one doing it, though (well, not any more than the rest of your oil consuming countrymen).
I think it's much easier to claim that it's due to American arrogance than to do a few minutes worth of research into locations in the US where it's almost a necessity to have a vehicle. Where I currently live, it's at least a 30 minute drive to the grocery store during which time you cover approximately 12 miles of windy, mountain roads and lose around 2000 feet of altitude.
Unless you are a park ranger, a rancher, or a worker at an observatory, I believe your "choice" of place to live has more bearing on your transportation options than does "necessity".
The problem really is that US cities and suburbs were designed ONLY for cars, and not for pedestrians.
But you can change this. Portland, Oregon (my fair city) has shown that with the proper land use planning laws and proper incentives, you can build a city that is eminently walkable and bikeable, as well as driveable. Portland isn't all the way there yet, but a journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step. Plus, it's a lot more likely future short term then Mr. Templeton's robocars.
Given the actual potential for people working together in this society and the sheer amount of work it will take to move us to a non-oil-based economy, I believe your last line should be:
"You are the last generation that will need to learn to drive. To your children, it will be an option. To your grandchildren, knowing how to drive a car will be a quaint (and bitterly remembered) concept when compared with knowing how to saddle and ride a horse."
... and send him a horse's head.
I always liked the Curly Howard correspondence better:
Dear Moe -
Having a great time, wish you were here.
Nyuk, nyuk, nyukk...
Give my best to Larry!
Love,
Curly
You see, the last line was over the top and screwed things. The last lines should have been:
Some network and computer professionals are attributing the increases to the recent outlawing of encryption technologies. However, Thomas Andrews, Home Secretary for Network Infrastructure Security dismissed these accusations as overblown and said "The restriction of encryption to police and security use is a necessary step to fight terrorism and stop the spread of child pornography."
In an unrelated development, several network and computer professionals have been detained and are assisting the police with their investigation of potential domestic terrorism as evidenced by advocation of the use of illegal encryption technologies.
Most of the web banking systems are done by three or four main vendors (actually, since CheckFree bought Corillian, two or three) who customize the back-end interfaces of their standard systems and then re-skin them for the individual banks. As such, I'm only surprised that the percentage isn't higher.
Tell me more about this cotton candy technology? Is it superior.
Yes it is... quite superior. However, you also need teams of ponies and a rainbow to power the cotton candy machine. Providing these might cause a slight delay in implementation. Well worth it, though...
I'd worry a lot more about things like fuel efficiency and alternative energy sources for their cars. That'd keep a lot more drivers on the road (of all ages).
Evil, meet stupid. Stupid... evil. The only question is which is which...
you say you have a graduate-level degree?
You do know that here in America, they give out MBAs (supposedly a "graduate" degree) to anyone with a pulse, a way to pay tuition, and an asshole, don't you?
The man was either too blind to see the truth about the intelligence or valued loyalty more than the truth. In the end, for either reason, he lied to the American people. He is in no way an ideal Presidential candidate, unless you're hoping for a coup d'etat from Pentagon generals who he would again loyally support. He's a putz.
As one of the few who voted against it, Obama is literally the only sane choice for president.
Obama was in neither the House nor Senate when the Iraq War Resolution was voted on. As such, he could not have "voted on it". He was, at the time, a critic of the war and, since then, although he has continued to speak out against the Iraq war, he has also voted in favor of every war funding resolution that has been sent to the Senate floor while he has been a member.
None of this is to imply that he is not still the best candidate in the race, but people should remember (a) to get their facts straight and (b) that Obama is still a relatively inconsistent politician who still needs his feet held to the fire (as evidenced both by these votes and the recent FISA flip-flop).
What happened to Palm? What can the company do to effectively compete in the mobile market, and turn its fortunes around?"
Not a thing. Stick a fork in them, they're done.
Anyone trying to defend C++ as a language should read this. And I speak as a programmer who has used C++ since cfront 1.0 was released to the world.
Useful, yes. Pragmatic, maybe. Design heavily rationalized ex post facto by its creator and its proponents, most certainly. But a well-designed programming language, it is not.
The Fourth Amendment is sooooo pre-9/11. Not to mention that, since it's OK for even telecom corporations to break the... uh, I mean boldly help our Government in the Global War Against Terror, certainly you can't expect the Government itself to turn a blind eye to all of the potentially terrorist-related information flowing across our borders by other means. Nothing to see here, citizen, move along...
Action Item!!! - Professional Superhero!