I probably share more moral beliefes with people in Iran than I do in California
I tend to doubt it. Killing innocent people because of "tough nuggets" that they had something you want and not enough resources to defend it is not a "moral" belief of any group of people I've ever heard of. Everyone, be they Christian, Muslim, Jew or Atheist, pretty much agrees that is theft and murder. Everyone, except radical, right-wing, gung-ho warheads, I guess.
You're forgetting that they are complaining because this is a religious argument, not a technical one. From the article:
"While some OpenOffice.org members expressed concern about Java being used at all, most accepted the argument that these features did not affect core functionality, and were of interest to only a small minority of users."
...taking a year off could give me time to find more direction and focus.
You're not really going to take a year to "focus". That's a convenient excuse for just not doing it. If you don't want to go to school, then don't do it. If you're not sure, there's no harm in taking some classes while you're deciding (assuming financing is not the issue).
Maybe I'm just an old-timer, but in my day we'd spooge free trips to conferences from employers, and talk to other people while there.
Yeah, you're from the old-school when employers valued people enough to provide training. Go to a conference? Hell, I feel fortunate they let me out of my cube long enough to use the bathroom.
I've been running email, web, ssh and samba services under Debian Woody for quite a while now. It is still humming along nicely and not giving me any problems whatsoever. In fact, in all the time I've been running stable, there have been exactly two instances where a feature I wanted required that I install newer versions of software. Security issues are still being promptly plugged and I have had no issues along those lines. I'll grant you I may not be typical but I would MUCH rather the release took a few more months than have to contend with problems caused by impatience at not having all the latest, "gee-whiz" features.
What does the interstate commerce clause have to do with contractual employment? Were these out-of-state workers or something?
The clause has been interpreted _extremely_ broadly over the years. However, if the worker in question was working on a product that would be shipped across state lines, that's grounds enough to invoke it.
I'm not going to go into the Schiavo case as it is wa-a-a-y off-topic. The "facts", as you state them, are incorrect.
Unfortunatly, no one listened, and the few skilled network techs at the state IS dept were bailing left and right due to budget cuts.
Given Governor Ahh-nuld's cuts to education, this will probably be just the beginning. Pretty soon, data storage will consist of a monkey with a paper sack.
From numerous places, implicit and explicit. The interstate commerce clause, for one, gives the Federal Government pretty broad (sometimes overly broad) powers: Article I. Section. 8.
Clause 3: To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
The states themselves have even broader powers to regulate commerce and contracts. The Schiavo case is little more than a platform from which the radical right can grandstand. It will, however, cause them to increase their efforts to undermine the separation of powers and judicial review which has been a hallmark of this country for centuries.
...there is still the question of whether the state has the right to interfer in private voluntary contracts.
Granted there are bad laws, however, the state CLEARLY has the right (and responsibility) to "interfere" in voluntary contracts. In particular, when there is an imbalance of power between a person who needs to keep from starving to death and a corporation dangling loose change in front of them, the state has a moral obligation to even the playing field.
Contract! That should be enough information right there.
Well, almost enough information. You also need to know what laws and legal precedence might apply to the situation. Then you need to know what issues are not clearly spelled out in the contract (there are always some). Then, that's all you need to know. Assuming "you" are the judge in this matter. Oops - I forgot!! We aren't allowed to take it before a judge because any claims in a court MUST be trivial and, after all, a corporation surely wouldn't try to do something deceitful. Now let's all recite the "Myth of the Hot Coffee Lawsuit" and let the corporations get back to making their profits.
rue... but seriously, the US and China aren't anywhere near being in the same league oppression wise.
Undeniably true. However, taking China as a cautionary tale and tracking the direction "oppresiveness" in the USA is taking, no one can seriously claim that the USA is getting better. Except, of course, the radical right.
Remember, past "experience" is no guarantee of future performance. At all. Ever.
On the contrary, past behavior is the BEST predictor of future performance. A person who has a history of taking intitiative and solving problems will be the person who continues to do so. I bet you're one of those people that asks questions like, "why are manhole covers round" at interviews.
Yahoo! coming out with it's very own Yahoo! 360, which combines blogging, social networking, music, mobile connectivity, local searches (for restaurants and businesses) as well as photo-sharing
Just one question: Can't Yahoo! pay for their advertising like everyone else?
Yes, there are cases where Linux is insecure and unscalable.
Linux is a tool. In and of itself it is neither secure nor insecure. Neither scalable nor unscalable. In the right hands, however, it is far easier to secure a scalable Linux system than many other systems. Claims that Linux is insecure and unscalable are in and of themselves bogus FUD and nothing more.
I'd like to get this story from a source that's not named "Boing Boing" and doesn't use words like "sez" in their articles. Even Fox News would be a better source of information. Maybe.
I'm sorry, but that means nothing to, say, my grandmother.
While I can't ask her to be certain, I feel fairly sure that my grandmother's reaction to the words, "not trusted", would be to not do the thing they wanted you to do.
The war on drugs analogy doesnt work as it essentially targets 99% of the population at one time or the other.
It's a bit more complicated than that. Study after study has shown that the most effective deterrent to crime is not tougher penalties but a higher likelihood of being caught. So many people do drugs, sex and gambling that it is nearly impossible to catch even a reasonably large percentage of the "criminals". It remains to be seen if spammers face a high likelihood of being caught.
Same here. I think CompUSA is a bunch of crooks. Last year I got a Linksys router for Christmas. It was DOA out of the box but, since I didn't have a receipt, CompUSA wouldn't replace it. When I relate this story, I always hear someone else tell me something even worse about CompUSA. One guy bought a $2000 Apple computer that was dead out of the box. CompUSA charges a "restocking" fee. In order to get a working computer, he was forced to pay several hundred dollars more.
Wouldn't it be great if on your annual tax returns you could fill out a form to indicate what percentage of your taxes go to which area of government (defense, education, environment, health care) ?
If that happened, I bet the schools would have enough boooks for all the students and the Pentagon would have to hold bake sales to fund their wars.
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I can tell you that a degree at the Hollywood Upstairs Medical College is not as highly regarded as you might think.
I probably share more moral beliefes with people in Iran than I do in California
I tend to doubt it. Killing innocent people because of "tough nuggets" that they had something you want and not enough resources to defend it is not a "moral" belief of any group of people I've ever heard of. Everyone, be they Christian, Muslim, Jew or Atheist, pretty much agrees that is theft and murder. Everyone, except radical, right-wing, gung-ho warheads, I guess.
You're forgetting that they are complaining because this is a religious argument, not a technical one. From the article:
"While some OpenOffice.org members expressed concern about Java being used at all, most accepted the argument that these features did not affect core functionality, and were of interest to only a small minority of users."
...taking a year off could give me time to find more direction and focus.
You're not really going to take a year to "focus". That's a convenient excuse for just not doing it. If you don't want to go to school, then don't do it. If you're not sure, there's no harm in taking some classes while you're deciding (assuming financing is not the issue).
Maybe I'm just an old-timer, but in my day we'd spooge free trips to conferences from employers, and talk to other people while there.
Yeah, you're from the old-school when employers valued people enough to provide training. Go to a conference? Hell, I feel fortunate they let me out of my cube long enough to use the bathroom.
Now where is that red Swingline stapler, anyway?
I've been running email, web, ssh and samba services under Debian Woody for quite a while now. It is still humming along nicely and not giving me any problems whatsoever. In fact, in all the time I've been running stable, there have been exactly two instances where a feature I wanted required that I install newer versions of software. Security issues are still being promptly plugged and I have had no issues along those lines. I'll grant you I may not be typical but I would MUCH rather the release took a few more months than have to contend with problems caused by impatience at not having all the latest, "gee-whiz" features.
What does the interstate commerce clause have to do with contractual employment? Were these out-of-state workers or something?
The clause has been interpreted _extremely_ broadly over the years. However, if the worker in question was working on a product that would be shipped across state lines, that's grounds enough to invoke it.
I'm not going to go into the Schiavo case as it is wa-a-a-y off-topic. The "facts", as you state them, are incorrect.
Unfortunatly, no one listened, and the few skilled network techs at the state IS dept were bailing left and right due to budget cuts.
Given Governor Ahh-nuld's cuts to education, this will probably be just the beginning.
Pretty soon, data storage will consist of a monkey with a paper sack.
From where does the state get this right?
From numerous places, implicit and explicit. The interstate commerce clause, for one, gives the Federal Government pretty broad (sometimes overly broad) powers:
Article I. Section. 8.
Clause 3: To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
The states themselves have even broader powers to regulate commerce and contracts. The Schiavo case is little more than a platform from which the radical right can grandstand. It will, however, cause them to increase their efforts to undermine the separation of powers and judicial review which has been a hallmark of this country for centuries.
...there is still the question of whether the state has the right to interfer in private voluntary contracts.
Granted there are bad laws, however, the state CLEARLY has the right (and responsibility) to "interfere" in voluntary contracts. In particular, when there is an imbalance of power between a person who needs to keep from starving to death and a corporation dangling loose change in front of them, the state has a moral obligation to even the playing field.
Contract! That should be enough information right there.
Well, almost enough information. You also need to know what laws and legal precedence might apply to the situation. Then you need to know what issues are not clearly spelled out in the contract (there are always some). Then, that's all you need to know. Assuming "you" are the judge in this matter. Oops - I forgot!! We aren't allowed to take it before a judge because any claims in a court MUST be trivial and, after all, a corporation surely wouldn't try to do something deceitful.
Now let's all recite the "Myth of the Hot Coffee Lawsuit" and let the corporations get back to making their profits.
You have to use words like "incentivize" and every sentence must contain the phrase, "at the end of the day".
rue... but seriously, the US and China aren't anywhere near being in the same league oppression wise.
Undeniably true. However, taking China as a cautionary tale and tracking the direction "oppresiveness" in the USA is taking, no one can seriously claim that the USA is getting better. Except, of course, the radical right.
Remember, past "experience" is no guarantee of future performance. At all. Ever.
On the contrary, past behavior is the BEST predictor of future performance. A person who has a history of taking intitiative and solving problems will be the person who continues to do so. I bet you're one of those people that asks questions like, "why are manhole covers round" at interviews.
FWIW, I did a Google search for MEAA. It seems the only information out there is other blogs.
Exactly. The difference being that Windows is much (very much) more difficult to make into a secure, scalable system.
Yahoo! coming out with it's very own Yahoo! 360, which combines blogging, social networking, music, mobile connectivity, local searches (for restaurants and businesses) as well as photo-sharing
Just one question: Can't Yahoo! pay for their advertising like everyone else?
Yes, there are cases where Linux is insecure and unscalable.
Linux is a tool. In and of itself it is neither secure nor insecure. Neither scalable nor unscalable.
In the right hands, however, it is far easier to secure a scalable Linux system than many other systems. Claims that Linux is insecure and unscalable are in and of themselves bogus FUD and nothing more.
I'd like to get this story from a source that's not named "Boing Boing" and doesn't use words like "sez" in their articles. Even Fox News would be a better source of information. Maybe.
I'm sorry, but that means nothing to, say, my grandmother.
While I can't ask her to be certain, I feel fairly sure that my grandmother's reaction to the words, "not trusted", would be to not do the thing they wanted you to do.
The security warning explicitly states, "The security certificate was issued by a company that is not trusted".
I mean, what do people expect? A little hobgoblin to pop out of their computer and whack them in the head with a mallet if they try to click 'yes'?
The war on drugs analogy doesnt work as it essentially targets 99% of the population at one time or the other.
It's a bit more complicated than that. Study after study has shown that the most effective deterrent to crime is not tougher penalties but a higher likelihood of being caught. So many people do drugs, sex and gambling that it is nearly impossible to catch even a reasonably large percentage of the "criminals".
It remains to be seen if spammers face a high likelihood of being caught.
I refuse to spend my own money there.
Same here. I think CompUSA is a bunch of crooks. Last year I got a Linksys router for Christmas. It was DOA out of the box but, since I didn't have a receipt, CompUSA wouldn't replace it. When I relate this story, I always hear someone else tell me something even worse about CompUSA. One guy bought a $2000 Apple computer that was dead out of the box. CompUSA charges a "restocking" fee. In order to get a working computer, he was forced to pay several hundred dollars more.
Stay the hell away from CompUSA
So you're saying the people cannot be trusted to make decisions about where and how their money should be spent?
Wouldn't it be great if on your annual tax returns you could fill out a form to indicate what percentage of your taxes go to which area of government (defense, education, environment, health care) ?
If that happened, I bet the schools would have enough boooks for all the students and the Pentagon would have to hold bake sales to fund their wars.