It could have been Rove, he's a deadly sneaky guy with a large sphere of influence in the GOP.
Bush can't veto it because he has to keep face for his conservative base.
Show me evidence of the correlations of all of the above.
However I must take a particular stab at your construction assertions. Ok, US build per square foot is double the rest of the world. The average US income is also a lot higher than the rest of the world. Is it really that odd that services like constructions would be scaled towards accordingly? Your comments about innovation and materials: are not the engineers responsible for that? Last time I checked they weren't union, unless you go to Europe.
The steel industry would be dying in the United States reguardless. If it was not unionized the workers would be getting paid that much less, working that much more, and the benefits would be even fewer. A steel worker's job is incredibly uncomfortable (read: hot as hell), demanding (blast furnaces often run 24/7 on two 12 hour shifts), and dangerous (large machinery, liquid metal, you do the math). Without unions watching their asses the grunts could easily get screwed, and it would make it that much harder for the families of the men to get compensation if they're an accident. The point is this: this is the kind of job you either get paid a good bit to do or you send to X third world country to someone who will take whatever job they can get no matter the risk.
Any links to al-Qaeda are minor at best. The Baath Party is very secular; al-Qaeda is a theocratic militant organizion. Idealogically opposed.
From what I understand, Osama supposedly went to the ruling Saudis and offered to take care of Saddam around the time of the First Gulf War, though I cannot validate such. I will assert that my source is a highly educated, well-read individual who's past revealations include the fact that Chalabi was a snake long before any mainstream press wrote about it.
The simple fact is the link is not sufficent for "Regime Change" or as I prefer to call it, eliminating a sovergn(sp?) nation.
I went to a religious high school. I left far less religious than I entered. But there's no denying that my education was of a higher quality than the public alternative. That is why it cost so much. And do not think for a second that the quality of the education was related to the religious environment. The "Religion Classes" were the easiest and most worthless classes they offered, and were manditory.
I went through nearly the hardest cirriculum the school had to offer, and actually exhausted the school in that had I not taken college courses half the time my senior year they would not have been able to provide me a full schedule. I worked by ass off for a 3.8 something out of 4 with no possibility of going beyond 4.0. Even so I only squeaked into the top 25% of my class in the last semester, thanks to condition termed "senior-itis" I was lucky enough not to catch.
My little brother went to a public school, and eventually started boycotting homework. He didn't do shit and ended up with the same GPA as me, only he was in the top 10% of his class.
Now when it came time to apply to college, I got screwed. They look at class rank like it means something, whereas one of my valictorians took the easiest path possible to get a 4.0. I had to settle for a middle-weight public college when I'd been trained for damn near ivy-league.
Now to the real point. The students in the school were about 33% heavily academic, 33% normal, and 33% rich little bastards who were inheriting daddy's buisiness anyway. Reguardless, the class difficulty overall was much higher than the analogous public school. You had to work your mind hard for an A in most of the classes; my brother slept through class.
There's also the attitude. My private school had all the teachers in your face, making sure you were learning and were prepared. To be blunt, they just don't give a fuck in public schools. My brother told me stories about the principal running around every day doing his damnest to get problematic kids (and these are good kids too, I know them personally) expelled just to make his life easier. My brother was included in that group. From my point of view, he's trying to ruin these kids' lives because he's lazy.
Religion has nothing to do with quality education; but if public schools don't shape up then parents have little choice but to cough up the extra dough for a real education. And we all know most parents don't have that extra dough.
I've always held the sneaking suspecion that the poor quality of public education had a more sinister source. It just seems so strange how impotent the institutions seem. There are countless things hammered into my head in my public elementary days that I view as transparent propaganda and in some instances outright lies. I can't say for certain whether or not this system has actually sold the poor down the river, but I can say for sure that an ignorant populace is easier to control.
...fraud by the fist-full? Is this government going to expend the resources to do this right? Anyone with even a light background in cryptographicly secure communications knows this is not simple problem this is.
Ok. They're big tools with a lot of power that almost no one who uses it bothers to learn or misses. That right there is the essence of the problem with office. Too big, too complex. They'd be much better off releasing a smaller tighter core application with a lot of plugability IMHO.
As a member of an "IT staff" my job security is not guarenteed through Windows. Even macs gets trashed buddy. I know idiot users who can screw up a well built G4 3 times a week. Although virii and general instability are not as huge of issues, I'm 100% sure that if the market shares of mac and windows were reversed, the recent spyware boom would be on that platform.
That's where IT time is going these days, cleaning up bloody messes because John Q. User wants a poorly drawn monkey dancing in the corner.
The standard user can't use a firewall. They will end up screwing things up; I've seen it many times. They inevitably create a bad policy that breaks something, and I've seen instances where this bluescreened the machine. The firewall needs to be at central node and run by someone qualified, not on workstations. Unfortunately for the instances in which there is no central node (i.e. plugging a workstation right into a broadband connection) then I still say screw the firewall: Just stay on top of updates, and hope for the best. It's how we run our department and the hacks are few, far between, very rarely on a workstation, and always because the system is out of date. Well that's my $.02 anyway.
I agree that "technology" is not the problem, and trying to halt technology is like walling back the tide. It is just going show up somewhere else.
I don't wear the metaphorical tinfoil hat to protect my mind from RFID. The hat is my expectation that any new technology will probably be abused and therefore we should be on the lookout for such things. It is all the extra little things I do to try and keep my life private and free. I assume all my electric transmissions are monitored; eventually technology will catch up to budget and they all will be monitored (assuming this isn't a fact as of now). I'm active within my democracy and I follow current events closely, all from within the uneasy paranoid psuedosafety my tinfoil hat provides.
You're tone takes me as a bit idealistic. I'd like to think that I could work and reform my government into something that I could trust, but my experience with human nature just says no. I've seen corruption and favoritism in every setting from little league to multinational corporations. The hat's always going to stay on, I suggest you start engineering your own.
So... why would not this government you're so scared of put a gun to the metaphorical head of the corporation? That's assuming they even have to user coercion; the lines between industry and goverment look more like gradual transitions from my point of view. With legistlation like the patriot act in place it seems likely to me that they would.
Even more frightening is the idea of government required ID's for individuals. What a horrible choice to be branded electronicly like a cow or face legal consequences.
To conclude, you're right: Corporations are too concerned with profit to infringe on my liberties too much. Also you're wrong: governments are concerned with controlling their populations and RFID tags is a great centrally based way to track people. Is there a government that you trust enough to know your most every movement?
No shit sherlock. That's the quote that started this subthread said "looks" rather than "is". I didn't say Mars has life, I said given the current data it is not a fringe possibility anymore.
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Computers run on logic, logic comes from humans, humans are biological.
Um, how about because we have evidence that suggests little to no current volcanic activity on Mars (it's related to the magnetic field)? That "bias" is knowledge.
The sad fact is that too many ideas get shoved under the "tinfoil hat" category, and many of the proponents of these theories get lumped into the loony category. They get called conspiracy theorists. Now let's look at this election issue. Just from working almost anywhere it can be seen how much more valuable it is who you know rather than what you know. There's no reason a political organization would be that much different. So right there you know there are going to be favors, anyone who believes politicians don't give and recieve favors is a full out fool. So why is it so hard to believe that a politician would get hooked into an election machine company when the CEO is already active within the party? What better position to be in than the man who can hand over primary executive power to the most richest, most powerful nation in the world?
Of course this is all purely speculative (that's my loony disclaimer). But does it really seem that far-fetched? Maybe the pres himself isn't in on it but he isn't the only one who want to see him reelected, and all it takes is one unethical engineer, or in the case of diebold's system whatever hacker takes the time.
Um, I hope you didn't misunderstand my intentions. I enjoy being vocal about my political beliefs only because I have a large collection of information at my disposal (ammo, if you will). That quote you dropped is a fairly big bomb, so I wanted to make sure it's not a dud before I start launching.
P.S. Screw you, the burden of proof is on the presenter.
Who says aging comes from mutations and toxins? I hate to break it to the junk science lovers but there's a bit more to it than that. Lifeforms have a genetic clock, which quite possibly has a time limit on it. You're not gonna tell me toxins and mutations are what take a 2 year old from screaming shorty to full grown person in 16 years.
This link shouldn't have even been posted to/. IMHO
It just doesn't work. lets say you have two ships at point zero. You have a ship moving at.5c from point zero and -.5c (opposite direction) from point zero. The changing distances between these ships isn't c. it's actually.9c because of the transformations needed to go between frames of different velocities (this is relativity).
Where u and v are the velocities of those spaceships, the formula is something like this:
Maybe an account, some message board software, or a server was hacked. Even with just one account, invitations to other message boards would probably become several degrees easier.
I can certainly testify of money spent on horrible software in the name of education. I administrate a computer lab in a College of Education, and some of the crap they want me to install would make you puke. Retarded games with unintuitive interfaces is the worst of them, and they are predominantly on the Macintosh side. They're marketed through the textbook companies, which makes me wish I could get a job programming for them; I'd write better software with a pint of tequilla in me.
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It could have been Rove, he's a deadly sneaky guy with a large sphere of influence in the GOP. Bush can't veto it because he has to keep face for his conservative base.
However I must take a particular stab at your construction assertions. Ok, US build per square foot is double the rest of the world. The average US income is also a lot higher than the rest of the world. Is it really that odd that services like constructions would be scaled towards accordingly? Your comments about innovation and materials: are not the engineers responsible for that? Last time I checked they weren't union, unless you go to Europe.
I think you're actually refering to university tenure.
The steel industry would be dying in the United States reguardless. If it was not unionized the workers would be getting paid that much less, working that much more, and the benefits would be even fewer. A steel worker's job is incredibly uncomfortable (read: hot as hell), demanding (blast furnaces often run 24/7 on two 12 hour shifts), and dangerous (large machinery, liquid metal, you do the math). Without unions watching their asses the grunts could easily get screwed, and it would make it that much harder for the families of the men to get compensation if they're an accident. The point is this: this is the kind of job you either get paid a good bit to do or you send to X third world country to someone who will take whatever job they can get no matter the risk.
From what I understand, Osama supposedly went to the ruling Saudis and offered to take care of Saddam around the time of the First Gulf War, though I cannot validate such. I will assert that my source is a highly educated, well-read individual who's past revealations include the fact that Chalabi was a snake long before any mainstream press wrote about it. The simple fact is the link is not sufficent for "Regime Change" or as I prefer to call it, eliminating a sovergn(sp?) nation.
I went to a religious high school. I left far less religious than I entered. But there's no denying that my education was of a higher quality than the public alternative. That is why it cost so much. And do not think for a second that the quality of the education was related to the religious environment. The "Religion Classes" were the easiest and most worthless classes they offered, and were manditory.
I went through nearly the hardest cirriculum the school had to offer, and actually exhausted the school in that had I not taken college courses half the time my senior year they would not have been able to provide me a full schedule. I worked by ass off for a 3.8 something out of 4 with no possibility of going beyond 4.0. Even so I only squeaked into the top 25% of my class in the last semester, thanks to condition termed "senior-itis" I was lucky enough not to catch.
My little brother went to a public school, and eventually started boycotting homework. He didn't do shit and ended up with the same GPA as me, only he was in the top 10% of his class.
Now when it came time to apply to college, I got screwed. They look at class rank like it means something, whereas one of my valictorians took the easiest path possible to get a 4.0. I had to settle for a middle-weight public college when I'd been trained for damn near ivy-league.
Now to the real point. The students in the school were about 33% heavily academic, 33% normal, and 33% rich little bastards who were inheriting daddy's buisiness anyway. Reguardless, the class difficulty overall was much higher than the analogous public school. You had to work your mind hard for an A in most of the classes; my brother slept through class.
There's also the attitude. My private school had all the teachers in your face, making sure you were learning and were prepared. To be blunt, they just don't give a fuck in public schools. My brother told me stories about the principal running around every day doing his damnest to get problematic kids (and these are good kids too, I know them personally) expelled just to make his life easier. My brother was included in that group. From my point of view, he's trying to ruin these kids' lives because he's lazy.
Religion has nothing to do with quality education; but if public schools don't shape up then parents have little choice but to cough up the extra dough for a real education. And we all know most parents don't have that extra dough.
I've always held the sneaking suspecion that the poor quality of public education had a more sinister source. It just seems so strange how impotent the institutions seem. There are countless things hammered into my head in my public elementary days that I view as transparent propaganda and in some instances outright lies. I can't say for certain whether or not this system has actually sold the poor down the river, but I can say for sure that an ignorant populace is easier to control.
...fraud by the fist-full? Is this government going to expend the resources to do this right? Anyone with even a light background in cryptographicly secure communications knows this is not simple problem this is.
Ok. They're big tools with a lot of power that almost no one who uses it bothers to learn or misses. That right there is the essence of the problem with office. Too big, too complex. They'd be much better off releasing a smaller tighter core application with a lot of plugability IMHO.
As a member of an "IT staff" my job security is not guarenteed through Windows. Even macs gets trashed buddy. I know idiot users who can screw up a well built G4 3 times a week. Although virii and general instability are not as huge of issues, I'm 100% sure that if the market shares of mac and windows were reversed, the recent spyware boom would be on that platform.
That's where IT time is going these days, cleaning up bloody messes because John Q. User wants a poorly drawn monkey dancing in the corner.
The standard user can't use a firewall. They will end up screwing things up; I've seen it many times. They inevitably create a bad policy that breaks something, and I've seen instances where this bluescreened the machine. The firewall needs to be at central node and run by someone qualified, not on workstations. Unfortunately for the instances in which there is no central node (i.e. plugging a workstation right into a broadband connection) then I still say screw the firewall: Just stay on top of updates, and hope for the best. It's how we run our department and the hacks are few, far between, very rarely on a workstation, and always because the system is out of date. Well that's my $.02 anyway.
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I don't wear the metaphorical tinfoil hat to protect my mind from RFID. The hat is my expectation that any new technology will probably be abused and therefore we should be on the lookout for such things. It is all the extra little things I do to try and keep my life private and free. I assume all my electric transmissions are monitored; eventually technology will catch up to budget and they all will be monitored (assuming this isn't a fact as of now). I'm active within my democracy and I follow current events closely, all from within the uneasy paranoid psuedosafety my tinfoil hat provides.
You're tone takes me as a bit idealistic. I'd like to think that I could work and reform my government into something that I could trust, but my experience with human nature just says no. I've seen corruption and favoritism in every setting from little league to multinational corporations. The hat's always going to stay on, I suggest you start engineering your own.
Even more frightening is the idea of government required ID's for individuals. What a horrible choice to be branded electronicly like a cow or face legal consequences.
To conclude, you're right: Corporations are too concerned with profit to infringe on my liberties too much. Also you're wrong: governments are concerned with controlling their populations and RFID tags is a great centrally based way to track people. Is there a government that you trust enough to know your most every movement?
No shit sherlock. That's the quote that started this subthread said "looks" rather than "is". I didn't say Mars has life, I said given the current data it is not a fringe possibility anymore.
Computers run on logic, logic comes from humans, humans are biological.
Um, how about because we have evidence that suggests little to no current volcanic activity on Mars (it's related to the magnetic field)? That "bias" is knowledge.
Of course this is all purely speculative (that's my loony disclaimer). But does it really seem that far-fetched? Maybe the pres himself isn't in on it but he isn't the only one who want to see him reelected, and all it takes is one unethical engineer, or in the case of diebold's system whatever hacker takes the time.
P.S. Screw you, the burden of proof is on the presenter.
Can you hand me a source on that quote? Who found and published this letter?
Writing security critical apps in VB makes me want to cry.
Who says aging comes from mutations and toxins? I hate to break it to the junk science lovers but there's a bit more to it than that. Lifeforms have a genetic clock, which quite possibly has a time limit on it. You're not gonna tell me toxins and mutations are what take a 2 year old from screaming shorty to full grown person in 16 years.
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This link shouldn't have even been posted to
Where u and v are the velocities of those spaceships, the formula is something like this:
u' = (u-v)/(1+uv/c^2)
Maybe an account, some message board software, or a server was hacked. Even with just one account, invitations to other message boards would probably become several degrees easier.
It's just a little airborn, it's still good! It's still good! It's gone Homer.
I can certainly testify of money spent on horrible software in the name of education. I administrate a computer lab in a College of Education, and some of the crap they want me to install would make you puke. Retarded games with unintuitive interfaces is the worst of them, and they are predominantly on the Macintosh side. They're marketed through the textbook companies, which makes me wish I could get a job programming for them; I'd write better software with a pint of tequilla in me.