I was in the rest room with the Director of "Organizational Effectiveness"(think of the consultants in Office Space). We were both using the urinals.
Now, I think it's one thing to *answer* the phone while you're in the bathroom. It could be a *really* important phone call coming in. I can accept that in certain cases.
It's another to *INITIATE* a phone call WHILE YOU'RE TAKING A PISS.
And it wasn't some urgent phone call to the CEO. it was just a quick call to his adminsitrative assistant.
I would've been floored if I weren't so icked out about the bathroom floor.
What if US workers agreed to work for the same or lower rates as overseas workers? Cost is the employer's motivator. Just because you may live in the US does not mean you are guarenteed a higher quality of life than other people on this planet.
The problem is differences in cost of living. The dollar goes a lot further in India than it does in even the cheapest parts of the US.
For $X/a month, a worker in India would probably have a *higher* standard of living than a US worker being paid the same amount.
It isn't that US workers are demanding high pay to live a life of luxury; it's that the cost of living here requires them to. But I guess it's US workers' fault that they aren't willing to relocate their families to a foreign country to continue working.
First they harp on the three sets of ledgers. Well what's the big diff. They say that this somehow allows more leeway to fudge, well actually it doesn't. The fact is that you have to know that there are three sets and exactly which sets of reports get their data from which sets (a very lame attempt at security thru obscurity?). Having a single ledger means that you only have to go to a single place to mess with things.
I think you're missing the problem. Different reports are done from different ledgers.
Ledger 1 is the untampered data. Ledger 2 is the one you would tamper.
The vote tally is done off of Ledger 2. You change things subtly here and there and voila, your guy wins.
Let's say people suspect something is up so they start doing spot checks of certain precincts. Reports for those are fed from Ledger 1, which is valid. Those check out and everyone thinks nothing is wrong.
Now do you understand? If you have one ledger, a spot check might discover data has been tampered with. With two ledgers, you can tamper with the data used for aggregates and leave the details people will look at alone.
Now, if you had three different ledgers in three different locations and on each one, you could run the same set of reports, that would be a bit better. Someone would have to tamper with at least two ledgers to change the results.
Well yes he has but instead of some sort of vast conspiracy
So why wouldn't he admit his partial ownership of ES&S until several months after it was first disclosed? Why did his Chief of Staff threaten the editor of the Hill to kill the story about his stake in ES&S?
I recall reading about some odd precinct tallies in Nebraska. Stuff like heavily Democrat districts voting for Hagel in overwhelming margins and whatnot. I assume the auditless voting mechanisms makes investigation somewhat difficult...
Look, the republicans are not smart enough to fix an electronic voting machine and the democrats would fix it so that the votes were split between 3 different right in canidates.
Chuck Hagel is the Senator from Nebraska. 80% of its ballots are done electronically. It just so happens that Hagel owns a stake in the company(ES&S) that produced those voting machines. And he failed to disclose as much too.
Searching Google for more information turned up this confidence building bit:
"ES&S's machines are not tampered with. I've seen them in action. They are, in fact, buggier than hell. The software running them is not very stable code, and that's why there is so many problems with the machines."
That essentially what my roommates and I have at our house. Except we used push pins to get cables up and out of the way.
Problem: Shitty wiring in the house prevents the DSL modem from working reliably inside the house.
Solution: Open up the phone box in the garage, disconnect a couple things and plug the DSL modem directly into it. It's not like we use the landline for voice anyways.
Problem: The DSL modem is in the garage. The router and all the computers are on the other side of the house.
Solution: Run 100 feet of bright blue cable along the top of the walls and ceilings with push pins through the garage, the kitchen, the foyer, the hallway and into the office.
Problem: Not all the computers are in the office.
Solution: Run more cable; use more push pins.
The setup works great and amazingly enough, people don't notice the cable. You'd think blue cable going around off-white walls and ceilings would be noticeable, but apparently not.
What I would like to see are shorter contract terms. WHY should I be locked into a 1 or 2 year contract with an early termination fee?
It cost hundreds of dollars for a cell phone company to add a new customer. That includes advertising and the free cell phone you got with that contract. You don't seriously think AT&T Wireless just absorbs the cost of that $200 cell phone, do you?
Of course, if you don't want to sign a 1-2 year contract, you don't have to. You'll just have to buy your own phone.
However, she shot a COMPUTER PROGRAM, that didn't die. It's brains didn't blast all over the wall and it's corpse did not slump to the ground in a bloody mess. It fucking dissapeared, only to come back later COMPLETELY UNHURT. (just like real life!)
I guess you missed the Agent's body turning back into the helicopter pilot, who was now dead from the gunshot.
The Oracle told Neo that he was not The One. However it could be argued that The Oracle is so unique that the "rule" you are implying does not apply.
Oracle: But you already know what I'm going to say. Neo: I'm not the One. Oracle: Sorry, kid. You've got the gift but it seems like you're waiting for something. Maybe your next life, who knows?
Neo is something new, a true One, and his difference stems from his love for Trinity.
Who got Trinity interested in Neo to begin with? The Oracle. She told Trinity that she would fall in love with the One.
She kind of attracted to the Neo when he first shows up and when it appears that he might the One, she decides she has to fall in love with him.
The Oracle manipulated things so that Neo would be able to make a real choice when he makes it to the Architect. She's interested in the future, remember? And they're going to have to get there together...
What I'd like is to get rid of income tax with-holding. If everyone had to sign over $10,000-$50,000 every year in April, there'd be a lot more folks willing to string up every legislator with an idea for more taxes...
What I'd like to do is send a bill for $20,000-$30,000 to each living person in the United States for *their share* of the national debt every time they start complaining about taxes.
We could cut *everything* outside of the military, medicare/aid and social security and still be running a deficit in the hundreds of billions.
Eastern Washington which is rural and Republican balked at statewide taxes for a desperately needed transportation package. Whether the one that eventually passed was any good is another question...
Anyways, they didn't want *their* money being used to fix "Seattle's problems."
In fact, some proposed that transportation taxes should be required to be spent in the county they were raised in. Then they kind of went quiet.
They probably found out that Seattle/Puget Sound was heavily subsidizing transportation throughout the state and they'd be *fucked* if they had to cope with the meager dollars raised in their own counties.
The Blue States are subsidizing the Red States. Which people are more likely to complain about those "welfare queens"?
Until Joe Sixpack gets a divorce and his wife decides to bring up his predilection for writing NC-17 slashfic on mailing lists.
But there are plenty of people who DO need privacy and DO need encryption and they DO NOT wear tin-foil hats.
I think it's not a matter of whether everyone *needs* privacy because they do; the question is *when* you'll need it. Forsaking it now will spell trouble later on...
France and Germany have 9%-11% unemployment. 50% to 80% higher than ours in teh US.
US and European unemployment rates are not comparable because, in the US, if you stop drawing unemployment, they stop counting you as "unemployed". The official rate in the US is 6% presently, I believe. The true unemployment rate has been estimated to be at least 2-3% above that.
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In the 2000 Florida recount mess both sides were trying to toss out chunks of absentee ballots on what I consider pretty flimsy reasoning.
You mean flimsy reasoning like
'This person already voted.'
'This ballot wasn't signed.'
'The envelope is postmarked *after* the election.'
?
I was in the rest room with the Director of "Organizational Effectiveness"(think of the consultants in Office Space). We were both using the urinals.
Now, I think it's one thing to *answer* the phone while you're in the bathroom. It could be a *really* important phone call coming in. I can accept that in certain cases.
It's another to *INITIATE* a phone call WHILE YOU'RE TAKING A PISS.
And it wasn't some urgent phone call to the CEO. it was just a quick call to his adminsitrative assistant.
I would've been floored if I weren't so icked out about the bathroom floor.
No. But don't tell that to those who believe the 9/11 mythology.
Cell phones will work during flights; they'll just consume massive amounts of resources on the ground.
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What if US workers agreed to work for the same or lower rates as overseas workers? Cost is the employer's motivator. Just because you may live in the US does not mean you are guarenteed a higher quality of life than other people on this planet.
The problem is differences in cost of living. The dollar goes a lot further in India than it does in even the cheapest parts of the US.
For $X/a month, a worker in India would probably have a *higher* standard of living than a US worker being paid the same amount.
It isn't that US workers are demanding high pay to live a life of luxury; it's that the cost of living here requires them to. But I guess it's US workers' fault that they aren't willing to relocate their families to a foreign country to continue working.
REAGAN ACTUALLY SAYING THAT DURING IRAN-CONTRA.
Honestly, would it hurt to have a passing familiarity with the subject before bitching and moaning about "political flamebait"?
Just brilliant isn't it? Next we'll be mailing crack houses letters informing them of the raid 3 weeks later.
They should open the letter just in time to see the SWAT team beat their door down.
First they harp on the three sets of ledgers. Well what's the big diff. They say that this somehow allows more leeway to fudge, well actually it doesn't. The fact is that you have to know that there are three sets and exactly which sets of reports get their data from which sets (a very lame attempt at security thru obscurity?). Having a single ledger means that you only have to go to a single place to mess with things.
I think you're missing the problem. Different reports are done from different ledgers.
Ledger 1 is the untampered data.
Ledger 2 is the one you would tamper.
The vote tally is done off of Ledger 2. You change things subtly here and there and voila, your guy wins.
Let's say people suspect something is up so they start doing spot checks of certain precincts. Reports for those are fed from Ledger 1, which is valid. Those check out and everyone thinks nothing is wrong.
Now do you understand? If you have one ledger, a spot check might discover data has been tampered with. With two ledgers, you can tamper with the data used for aggregates and leave the details people will look at alone.
Now, if you had three different ledgers in three different locations and on each one, you could run the same set of reports, that would be a bit better. Someone would have to tamper with at least two ledgers to change the results.
Well yes he has but instead of some sort of vast conspiracy
So why wouldn't he admit his partial ownership of ES&S until several months after it was first disclosed? Why did his Chief of Staff threaten the editor of the Hill to kill the story about his stake in ES&S?
I recall reading about some odd precinct tallies in Nebraska. Stuff like heavily Democrat districts voting for Hagel in overwhelming margins and whatnot. I assume the auditless voting mechanisms makes investigation somewhat difficult...
Look, the republicans are not smart enough to fix an electronic voting machine and the democrats would fix it so that the votes were split between 3 different right in canidates.
Take a gander at this article from the Hill.
Chuck Hagel is the Senator from Nebraska. 80% of its ballots are done electronically. It just so happens that Hagel owns a stake in the company(ES&S) that produced those voting machines. And he failed to disclose as much too.
Searching Google for more information turned up this confidence building bit:
"ES&S's machines are not tampered with. I've seen them in action. They are, in fact, buggier than hell. The software running them is not very stable code, and that's why there is so many problems with the machines."
That essentially what my roommates and I have at our house. Except we used push pins to get cables up and out of the way.
Problem: Shitty wiring in the house prevents the DSL modem from working reliably inside the house.
Solution: Open up the phone box in the garage, disconnect a couple things and plug the DSL modem directly into it. It's not like we use the landline for voice anyways.
Problem: The DSL modem is in the garage. The router and all the computers are on the other side of the house.
Solution: Run 100 feet of bright blue cable along the top of the walls and ceilings with push pins through the garage, the kitchen, the foyer, the hallway and into the office.
Problem: Not all the computers are in the office.
Solution: Run more cable; use more push pins.
The setup works great and amazingly enough, people don't notice the cable. You'd think blue cable going around off-white walls and ceilings would be noticeable, but apparently not.
trying to find some artifact that'll allow them to restore the Reich. Maybe the secret of Atlantis will allow them to resurrect Hitler too...
Beta-testers can't talk because of the NDA.
NDA lifts and lots of people slam the game.
Official board moderators lock and/or delete threads criticizing the game.
The game defenders insists that anyone who doesn't like the game has a problem.
Game has a lot of potential but is largely crap.
What I would like to see are shorter contract terms. WHY should I be locked into a 1 or 2 year contract with an early termination fee?
It cost hundreds of dollars for a cell phone company to add a new customer. That includes advertising and the free cell phone you got with that contract. You don't seriously think AT&T Wireless just absorbs the cost of that $200 cell phone, do you?
Of course, if you don't want to sign a 1-2 year contract, you don't have to. You'll just have to buy your own phone.
However, she shot a COMPUTER PROGRAM, that didn't die. It's brains didn't blast all over the wall and it's corpse did not slump to the ground in a bloody mess. It fucking dissapeared, only to come back later COMPLETELY UNHURT. (just like real life!)
I guess you missed the Agent's body turning back into the helicopter pilot, who was now dead from the gunshot.
The Oracle told Neo that he was not The One. However it could be argued that The Oracle is so unique that the "rule" you are implying does not apply.
Oracle: But you already know what I'm going to say.
Neo: I'm not the One.
Oracle: Sorry, kid. You've got the gift but it seems like you're waiting for something. Maybe your next life, who knows?
Neo is something new, a true One, and his difference stems from his love for Trinity.
Who got Trinity interested in Neo to begin with? The Oracle. She told Trinity that she would fall in love with the One.
She kind of attracted to the Neo when he first shows up and when it appears that he might the One, she decides she has to fall in love with him.
The Oracle manipulated things so that Neo would be able to make a real choice when he makes it to the Architect. She's interested in the future, remember? And they're going to have to get there together...
if you are truly poor in the US, your health care is free - no matter what the Europeans say
If you are truly poor *with kids*, you may qualify for Medicaid.
Otherwise, you're pretty much screwed unless your state has something in place.
What I'd like is to get rid of income tax with-holding. If everyone had to sign over $10,000-$50,000 every year in April, there'd be a lot more folks willing to string up every legislator with an idea for more taxes...
What I'd like to do is send a bill for $20,000-$30,000 to each living person in the United States for *their share* of the national debt every time they start complaining about taxes.
We could cut *everything* outside of the military, medicare/aid and social security and still be running a deficit in the hundreds of billions.
Eastern Washington which is rural and Republican balked at statewide taxes for a desperately needed transportation package. Whether the one that eventually passed was any good is another question...
Anyways, they didn't want *their* money being used to fix "Seattle's problems."
In fact, some proposed that transportation taxes should be required to be spent in the county they were raised in. Then they kind of went quiet.
They probably found out that Seattle/Puget Sound was heavily subsidizing transportation throughout the state and they'd be *fucked* if they had to cope with the meager dollars raised in their own counties.
The Blue States are subsidizing the Red States. Which people are more likely to complain about those "welfare queens"?
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They're called sweatshops.
Notice the hyphen please. Marvel Comics thanks you!
No one cares about what Joe Sixpack's emails are.
Until Joe Sixpack gets a divorce and his wife decides to bring up his predilection for writing NC-17 slashfic on mailing lists.
But there are plenty of people who DO need privacy and DO need encryption and they DO NOT wear tin-foil hats.
I think it's not a matter of whether everyone *needs* privacy because they do; the question is *when* you'll need it. Forsaking it now will spell trouble later on...
France and Germany have 9%-11% unemployment. 50% to 80% higher than ours in teh US.
US and European unemployment rates are not comparable because, in the US, if you stop drawing unemployment, they stop counting you as "unemployed". The official rate in the US is 6% presently, I believe. The true unemployment rate has been estimated to be at least 2-3% above that.