I'm still trying to figure out why we should continue to make our vehicles easier to track at all by attaching license plates. I was fine with it until technology made it simple to track and store locations and movements without any suspicion of wrongdoing. In fact, if we had none right now and they tried to push it, we'd fight tooth and nail. When these laws were originally passed for vehicle registration numbers to be conspicuously displayed, the extreme concerns that exist today would have seemed impossible. We only accept the status quo because we never thought to question the difference between the original idea and today's applications.
Unless there's a warrant out, I see no justification for it. It's like the NSA claiming that it's ok because they only look at data they've collected with warrants, but hiding their thousands of violations.
If I have to watch a politician rip off their shirt and engage in combat, I think you're going about it all wrong. Jaime Herrera Beutler [R-WA-3] or Martha Roby [R-AL-2] versus Kyrsten Sinema [D-AZ-9] would be a far better choice.
You seem to assume a large company. I'm a one-man shop at a small business. I report directly to the owner/CEO/whatever he wants to call himself today. My job exists specifically because he doesn't understand today's technology at all.
Well I agree they're doing a piss-poor job of it, but it seems that the more federal involvement we see, the worse both the education and the bang-for-the-buck get. Ronald Reagan once said, "If you serve a child a rotten hamburger in America, federal, state, and local agencies will investigate you, summon you, close you down, whatever. But if you provide children with a rotten education, nothing happens, except that youâ(TM)re liable to be given more money to do it with."
The reboot on the machines in question is extremely fast, actually. The problem is, they simply don't care enough to remember the procedure. I'm dealing with an extremely non-technical crowd.
I'm still trying to figure out why everyone argues that we should spend the money elsewhere instead of simply using it as a reduction to our deficit-plagued budget.
That's perfectly reasonable in an organization with people who will actually attempt to understand what you are saying. I'm in an office where about 50% of my users, despite my taking the time to explain and demonstrate the proper methods for restarting or shutting down their computer, still insist upon holding down the power button without closing anything until it just turns off.
Well, considering Congress is still on vacation and that far more than 50% of Americans want congress to vote against getting involved with Syria, they may as well work on something else when they get back. Here's hoping for a non-intervention in Syria!
Or, more to the point, they don't understand it even if you try to tell them. And many in upper management, if you communicate the problem, will immediately turn it on you, wanting to know why you haven't fixed it already.
That's fine and well in a ballbearing factory where the defective ballbearings are simply rejected and not used. But the NSA is not a ballbearing factory, and instead of being defective, each of those 22,000 violations of constitutionally guaranteed civil rights is a large problem that does not simply disappear due to "reporting and correcting" them. So I'm sorry, but your argument doesn't hold up.
Due to the way the notification arrived and another anon's grammar correction, I unduly made a connection between the two posts. I apologize for the confusion.
We clearly need more of it. The problem is, it doesn't seem to work as well here in the States, especially when we only find out the details after the fact. I would that the US government were as communicative as these Aussies about their bad policies before actually makign them law.
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I'm still trying to figure out why we should continue to make our vehicles easier to track at all by attaching license plates. I was fine with it until technology made it simple to track and store locations and movements without any suspicion of wrongdoing. In fact, if we had none right now and they tried to push it, we'd fight tooth and nail. When these laws were originally passed for vehicle registration numbers to be conspicuously displayed, the extreme concerns that exist today would have seemed impossible. We only accept the status quo because we never thought to question the difference between the original idea and today's applications.
Unless there's a warrant out, I see no justification for it. It's like the NSA claiming that it's ok because they only look at data they've collected with warrants, but hiding their thousands of violations.
If I have to watch a politician rip off their shirt and engage in combat, I think you're going about it all wrong. Jaime Herrera Beutler [R-WA-3] or Martha Roby [R-AL-2] versus Kyrsten Sinema [D-AZ-9] would be a far better choice.
1000 internets to you.
If Google delivers what they actually claim to be working on here, that would go a long way toward restoring some of their credibility.
You seem to assume a large company. I'm a one-man shop at a small business. I report directly to the owner/CEO/whatever he wants to call himself today. My job exists specifically because he doesn't understand today's technology at all.
They're on standard Win 7 Pro. I've even made the start menu's "shut down" button into a "restart" button. Two clicks. That's it.
I think you're vastly overestimating my users.
Well I agree they're doing a piss-poor job of it, but it seems that the more federal involvement we see, the worse both the education and the bang-for-the-buck get. Ronald Reagan once said, "If you serve a child a rotten hamburger in America, federal, state, and local agencies will investigate you, summon you, close you down, whatever. But if you provide children with a rotten education, nothing happens, except that youâ(TM)re liable to be given more money to do it with."
The reboot on the machines in question is extremely fast, actually. The problem is, they simply don't care enough to remember the procedure. I'm dealing with an extremely non-technical crowd.
I'm still trying to figure out why everyone argues that we should spend the money elsewhere instead of simply using it as a reduction to our deficit-plagued budget.
If I needed an opinion on something, I certainly wouldn't pick you to get them from.
That's perfectly reasonable in an organization with people who will actually attempt to understand what you are saying. I'm in an office where about 50% of my users, despite my taking the time to explain and demonstrate the proper methods for restarting or shutting down their computer, still insist upon holding down the power button without closing anything until it just turns off.
Well, considering Congress is still on vacation and that far more than 50% of Americans want congress to vote against getting involved with Syria, they may as well work on something else when they get back. Here's hoping for a non-intervention in Syria!
They forgot "synergy" and "best practices".
Or, more to the point, they don't understand it even if you try to tell them. And many in upper management, if you communicate the problem, will immediately turn it on you, wanting to know why you haven't fixed it already.
That's fine and well in a ballbearing factory where the defective ballbearings are simply rejected and not used. But the NSA is not a ballbearing factory, and instead of being defective, each of those 22,000 violations of constitutionally guaranteed civil rights is a large problem that does not simply disappear due to "reporting and correcting" them. So I'm sorry, but your argument doesn't hold up.
Agreed.
Be that as it may, you know when the author of the PATRIOT Act goes to the side these organizations are on, things have gotten bad in Washington...
I was just thinking the same thing, and that I should have gotten into the coat business now that Hell is freezing over.
Due to the way the notification arrived and another anon's grammar correction, I unduly made a connection between the two posts. I apologize for the confusion.
don't you have a grammar nazi rally to attend somewhere else right now?
I agreed up until you said that we are represented. I'd say we are, at best, occasionally placated.
Would is a verb. My usage may be a bit archaic, but valid nonetheless.
We clearly need more of it. The problem is, it doesn't seem to work as well here in the States, especially when we only find out the details after the fact. I would that the US government were as communicative as these Aussies about their bad policies before actually makign them law.
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I hope al Qaeda shares their findings with everyone else who might need that information.