FCC people are afraid of giving someone the plan to make an announcement and not have a press conference -- which is already in the mainstream press -- so much that they feel they need to be anonymous?
Does this show the current state of mind at FCC under Mr. Powell? What's the deal with that? These people work for us, supposedly.
Hey, no worries about him needing to learn to count change accurately. The engineering folk have created this nifty gadget that will dump the exact change into a little cup for the customer.
All he has to do is be able to push the correct buttons for the items the customer wants on a membrane keyboard, and we made that easy too -- it's colorized according to the food or product types.
Oh, I'd say maybe if it's deployed correctly -- yes.
It's not deployed correctly anywhere I've ever seen it and usually some idiot with zero background in GUI design and only limited database knowledge (hey remember, it's supposed to do all that for you!) laid out the interface. Many times that person is a consultant who's long-gone before the system is truly in production and people find its quirks and ask for changes... thus, those never get done either.
It's typical "datbase do everything or Hulk SMASH!" crap that CEO's buy thinking it makes their organizations more efficient, without EVER measuring the different amount of time it takes an employee to actually accomplish a task with and without it.
You know, it could actually be *gasp* that no one on campus other than CS majors really gives a rat's ass about computers in general... but that might be just too obvious, eh?
Some biz majors are interested in learning how to drive MS Office, and some math and science majors want to learn Excel -- but not a damn one of them cares in the slightest what platform those run on.
They want a machine that does those things as cheaply as possible. They don't care that there's a machine out there that does it "better" -- if it costs more, they don't want it.
I believe if you look at building codes, it's required to place a certain number of outlets along any wall that has ANY of them or you must get a waiver.
I think the original purpose of this was to discourage the use of cheap extension cords.
Also I have no idea if it's only a residential thing, or if it also applies to businesses. I just read it somewhere when looking up some information on electrical codes for residential use in the U.S.
Why? If you're looking for that numbnuts from Texas, he's always on vacation at his "ranch".
They have to keep him away from Washington where real power-brokers and people with a clue about politics live and work. He's an embarassment when he's there.
Just let him hang out down in Cowpattie, TX as long as he wants. Find him some horsies or something to ride, would ya?
If it were in the company's best interest to help out, they would. This is the sad reality of "company-worship" that many people get into -- thinking that companies should be some sort of social nanny is completely non-sensical, and the people running those companies know that.
That profit you speak of isn't profit in the sense you can go out and spend profit that you make. That profit is actually OWNED by someone -- or a lot of someones. They're called shareholders.
If the shareholders wish to do some (wait for it...) PROFIT-TAKING and sell their shares in the company and send money to the disaster areas, then they certainly can do so.
In other words, if you're an investor you have the power to do exactly what you claim the company should do. And that power is rightly in your hands and in the hands of every BP stockholder.
Claiming that a company should do it is just rationalization and trying to take the responsibiliy for being human out of the human's hands and into the pseudo-human entity called the Corporation.
Governments are the entity in society that handles the "common good" type things, not Corporations.
If Corporations seem greedy, it's many times because their shareholders demand it.
Seems like you'd want to.htaccess that dir and pass user/pass information to curl, as well as use https.
Perhaps some error-checking for a failed download too.
You could also create SSH keys for each machine and do the curl part with scp, and revoke specific keys if you ever saw anything screwy going on security-wise with any of your boxes.
Yes, many of the required costs were paid out by the cable companies long ago, but don't they have the right to recoup their investments?
Not really. They gambled on a loss-leader. If people decide the "real" price of Cable TV is too high, their business model takes a nose-dive and crashes. Market-economy.
I gotta side with the other dude here, man. You badly worded your original message and he took it at face-value. I read your original that way too.
Plus it's still a retarded idea.
For any debris to be dangerous it would have to be travelling at a relative velocity to ISS to puncture it. The external tank of the Shuttle isn't much to stop that.
Large debris at slow speeds would just slam the ET into the station - so there's no point there other than spreading out the results of an impact.
If ISS needed a debris shield, I'm kinda betting that smarter folks would have already hung one on it. The thing is engineered to survive the average sized average speed debris it will encounter in its orbital lifetime, plus some.
So the real issue here is: Why do you assume the ISS needs a debris shield, and second, why assume that the very smart folks at a number of space agencies haven't already done hundreds of man-hours of work thinking about that very same issue long before you did?
I'd say you're the ass-uming person in this discussion, right from the start. The logic might escape you, however.
Instead of shorter words, perhaps less words and more thinking are in order.
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People who want you to produce children... let's start with that: That would be, Bush.
His tax cuts always give more to people with children. Talk about pushing a social agenda via refund!
These "business types" of which you speak know nothing of true business if their company is not making a profit.
It'd be much more fun if Mr. Powell had a "Wardrobe Malfunction" on Friday, but I'm sure he doesn't have a sense of humor about such things.
FCC people are afraid of giving someone the plan to make an announcement and not have a press conference -- which is already in the mainstream press -- so much that they feel they need to be anonymous?
Does this show the current state of mind at FCC under Mr. Powell? What's the deal with that? These people work for us, supposedly.
Hey, no worries about him needing to learn to count change accurately. The engineering folk have created this nifty gadget that will dump the exact change into a little cup for the customer.
All he has to do is be able to push the correct buttons for the items the customer wants on a membrane keyboard, and we made that easy too -- it's colorized according to the food or product types.
Oh, I'd say maybe if it's deployed correctly -- yes.
It's not deployed correctly anywhere I've ever seen it and usually some idiot with zero background in GUI design and only limited database knowledge (hey remember, it's supposed to do all that for you!) laid out the interface. Many times that person is a consultant who's long-gone before the system is truly in production and people find its quirks and ask for changes... thus, those never get done either.
It's typical "datbase do everything or Hulk SMASH!" crap that CEO's buy thinking it makes their organizations more efficient, without EVER measuring the different amount of time it takes an employee to actually accomplish a task with and without it.
One could argue that there's been plenty of time to fix SMTP and thrash through any competing standards by now.
Meanwhile various fixes for WEP are already in-place and available.
You know, it could actually be *gasp* that no one on campus other than CS majors really gives a rat's ass about computers in general... but that might be just too obvious, eh?
Some biz majors are interested in learning how to drive MS Office, and some math and science majors want to learn Excel -- but not a damn one of them cares in the slightest what platform those run on.
They want a machine that does those things as cheaply as possible. They don't care that there's a machine out there that does it "better" -- if it costs more, they don't want it.
I believe if you look at building codes, it's required to place a certain number of outlets along any wall that has ANY of them or you must get a waiver.
I think the original purpose of this was to discourage the use of cheap extension cords.
Also I have no idea if it's only a residential thing, or if it also applies to businesses. I just read it somewhere when looking up some information on electrical codes for residential use in the U.S.
Brian's so quiet about setting records... I talked to him a week ago and didn't know he'd set another one.
Freakin' brainiac.
What's not mentioned in the parent is that he hand-builds all of the radios for those frequencies.
Go Brian!
73 DE WY0X...
Why? If you're looking for that numbnuts from Texas, he's always on vacation at his "ranch".
They have to keep him away from Washington where real power-brokers and people with a clue about politics live and work. He's an embarassment when he's there.
Just let him hang out down in Cowpattie, TX as long as he wants. Find him some horsies or something to ride, would ya?
No no no.
"A strange game. The only winning move is not to play."
If it were in the company's best interest to help out, they would. This is the sad reality of "company-worship" that many people get into -- thinking that companies should be some sort of social nanny is completely non-sensical, and the people running those companies know that.
That profit you speak of isn't profit in the sense you can go out and spend profit that you make. That profit is actually OWNED by someone -- or a lot of someones. They're called shareholders.
If the shareholders wish to do some (wait for it...) PROFIT-TAKING and sell their shares in the company and send money to the disaster areas, then they certainly can do so.
In other words, if you're an investor you have the power to do exactly what you claim the company should do. And that power is rightly in your hands and in the hands of every BP stockholder.
Claiming that a company should do it is just rationalization and trying to take the responsibiliy for being human out of the human's hands and into the pseudo-human entity called the Corporation.
Governments are the entity in society that handles the "common good" type things, not Corporations.
If Corporations seem greedy, it's many times because their shareholders demand it.
Straight, not "strait".
Yeah, it's always better when CRAP is open-source, right? LOL...
The whole "Red State" and "Blue State" things drive me mad. I'm in a "Red State" where the vote was pretty "Purple".
When all you have is a hammer...
Heh... if the car has ABS, your natural reaction wasn't so bad, really. ;-)
Well there's a "vi-mode" for Word out... someone could do an "emacs-mode". :-)
http://dready.org/blog/section/viword/
Clunky but fun.
Seems like you'd want to .htaccess that dir and pass user/pass information to curl, as well as use https.
Perhaps some error-checking for a failed download too.
You could also create SSH keys for each machine and do the curl part with scp, and revoke specific keys if you ever saw anything screwy going on security-wise with any of your boxes.
Yes, many of the required costs were paid out by the cable companies long ago, but don't they have the right to recoup their investments?
Not really. They gambled on a loss-leader. If people decide the "real" price of Cable TV is too high, their business model takes a nose-dive and crashes. Market-economy.
So your corollary states:
The laws suck, so naturally the solution is to figure out how to pay more lawyers.
(Argh. WTF?)
I gotta side with the other dude here, man. You badly worded your original message and he took it at face-value. I read your original that way too.
Plus it's still a retarded idea.
For any debris to be dangerous it would have to be travelling at a relative velocity to ISS to puncture it. The external tank of the Shuttle isn't much to stop that.
Large debris at slow speeds would just slam the ET into the station - so there's no point there other than spreading out the results of an impact.
If ISS needed a debris shield, I'm kinda betting that smarter folks would have already hung one on it. The thing is engineered to survive the average sized average speed debris it will encounter in its orbital lifetime, plus some.
So the real issue here is: Why do you assume the ISS needs a debris shield, and second, why assume that the very smart folks at a number of space agencies haven't already done hundreds of man-hours of work thinking about that very same issue long before you did?
I'd say you're the ass-uming person in this discussion, right from the start. The logic might escape you, however.
Instead of shorter words, perhaps less words and more thinking are in order.
Build it a little Faraday cage if you think anyone really cares about your phone call's content.
Those that would have reason to really care have other ways to listen in, anyway.
You missed that he's not a U.S. Citizen. No payouts for non-Citizens, but he pays in via FICA taxes on his payroll check.