Most Java IDE's make renaming a piece-of-cake. Eclispse and IntelliJ both do it very well IME. As for naming a variable or package "enum", what ID10T Java developer would do that? I come from a C/C++ background and would never name a variable or package "enum" or struct or class or int or string or... Seriously, what silly Java developer named a variable or package "enum"? Please, if there is _one_ Java develper out there that did name a variable or package "enum", please reply to this post as an AC with the reason _WHY_ you did that!
Stop the FUD. Mono has this covered here. A small part of the FAQ
Mono implements the ECMA/ISO covered parts, as well as being a project that aims to implement the higher level blocks like ASP.NET, ADO.NET and Windows.Forms
All MS could make Mono take out would be ASP.NET, ADO.NET and Windows.Forms if the Mono project could not find prior art. That still leaves the majority of Mono including the entire OSS stack such as GTK#, QT#, wx.NET (sweet x-platform on Mono), mono-cairo, Database providers, and tons of other technology that make for a nice Linux and x-platform development environment. So to correct your FUD, MS cannot "rip" Mono out from under anyone. The worse case senario is the removal of ASP.NET, ADO.NET and Windows.Forms. Though that would usually be pretty easy to work around and keep the API's the same. There is really no way for MS to take away Mono.
I remember reading about Open Source Risk Management. Pretty funny that they found 283 patent violations in just the Linux kernel and "just happen" to sell Linux "insurance".
Exactly how did they find all those "patent violations"? There are thousands and thousands of patents and there is no way they could know all of the possible patents out there. It would take a very long time and many programmers and lawyers. Did they just go through every kernel related patent and then check if the Linux kernel had something similar? I bet most of these 283 patent "violations" are bogus and even if they are not, I bet the patent themselves would not stand up in court. I read something like 80% or so of software patents do not stand up in court. If that is true then that means that there are really only a possible 56 patent violations.
I don't have any third party plug-ins for explorer.exe. It just crashes on me. It is not an every hour type of thing, but usually once a week. I am never able to reproduce it manually, just random bugs that get hit from the way I use my desktop.
I have never noticed a leak from explorer, however as you pointed out, the files get locked too often and for too long. I do a lot of work moving around files and directories. I have to manually close and restart explorer at least once a day with taskmgr due to explorer locking some file or directory.
Besides, I'm sure Microsoft has looked into patents that Linux might violate, becuase they're looking to destroy Linux, and a legimate patent claim would certaintly help. If they had found something, I'm sure they would have used it by now.
Well, the only thing MS could sue over would be patent violations of MS patents. Florian Müller who claims to have examined _all_ of the Linux kernel and found 283 patent violation, might not have found any MS held patents. Howver, I doubt Florian Müller's claims are correct on the number of patent violations. It would take tons of research not to mention complete knowlege of all US software patents to know what to even look for. That is why I doubt Florian Müller's claims.
Is there anything Microsoft could do that would gain the friendship of OSS'ers without damaging it's shareholders?
There are tons and tons of things MS could do without damaging it's shareholders. They could start by using more open protocols, specs and document formats. As I pointed out, MS could release one of their bigger apps as a GPL compatible Open Source apps (GPL compatible would actually be in MS's best interests since no other company could come along and take away what MS contributed under a GPL licens and make it proprietary). Not an app that MS sells or generates revenue from, but one of the tons of other apps that they give away with their other software or OS's. As I stated, I would love to fix up the horrid code base of explorer.exe, the desktop shell and file manager that gives me most of my problems with WinXP Pro. They could release _all_ the docs/specs for their network protocols. I could go on and on about the simple things MS _could_ do (but probably never will do) that would never damage their shareholders. I have worked for 3 fortune 500 companies and would never expect MS to just hand over the kitchen sink. That would be stupid and damaging to their shareholders. At the end of the day, MS needs to be a commercial comapany and act like one. However, they could allow more interoperation with their applications and OS's. These simple steps would make a world of differnece with the Free/Open software communities.
MS _could_ have an extremely loyal community just like the Free/Open source software communities. However I do not see that ever happening because of the actions of MS. If MS never changes, then MS will continue to just have a community of developers and admins who need MS since that is how those developers/admins (including me) make their living. Without change, MS will never get the passion for development/administration of their platforms that Linux, *BSD and Mac OS X has.
Your point could very well be the case. Maybe a "blood-sucking-lawyer" could help us out here?:)
There is some reason whey the FSF does not consider this license a Free Software license or GPL compatible, and I am sure it is not just because "it is a license that MS uses". The FSF has a pretty darn good lawyer/Professor of Law & Legal History named Eben Moglen, so I don't think the "it is a license that MS uses so we won't" argument will stick.
You could give it a try. I have run tons of C# ASP.Net apps under Linux/Apache thanks to Mono. I haven't tried this app yet though.
If you look down at the "20 Sep 2004" entry on the above link you will find a nice new gtk# installer for integrating gtk# gui apps into MS Visual Studio.Net 2003.
You can find more about Mono's ADO.net and ASP.Net here and here respectively.
why we can't just once acknowledge them for taking a positive step without making some cheap jab like this.
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How immature can you get?
If someone constantly took jabs at you and kicked you while you were down, would you trust them the next time they held out their hand? I wouldn't. It will take a while for MS to build _any_ trust in the OSS/FSS communities, especially the Free Software community.
If you look at the few Open source apps MS has released, they have all been very insignificant. MS will impress me when they make one of their bigger apps Open Source and Free Source. I am not talking about one of their apps that they sell or generate direct revenue from. I am talking about the tons of other apps they include with their OS or other software that they do not sell. I know i would like to get my hands on explorer.exe the desktop shell and file manager. That code is crap and is always crashing on me even in WinXP SP2. It locks just about every file it touches when you use the explorer.exe file manager requiring using task manager to kill and restart it. It is the biggest headache for me using WinXP at work.
To me this just seems like a PR effort from MS so they can say "me too" when asked about Open Source. Free Software is by far more important to me then Open Source. I don't care if I can look at the code, I want to be able to do something with the code. Free Software gives you the rights to be able to do something with the code while Open Source doesn't alwasy give you those rights. For example, can I take the FlexWiki code MS is releasing and fork it and do something with it MS does not like or agree with? Are there patents encombering FlexWiki? I cannot get to the site right now to check.
Ok, I just got to the site and read this from the license (IANAL).
As a condition to exercising the rights and licenses granted hereunder, each Recipient hereby assumes sole responsibility to secure any other intellectual property rights needed, if any. For example, if a third party patent license is required to allow Recipient to distribute the Program, it is Recipient's responsibility to acquire that license
To me (IANAL), that doesn't sound too good. It looks like MS trying to keep a back-door in their "open" source code just in case they have something in there that they can require a license for. Exactly how is this Open Source if it can be encumbered by patents and other "IP"?
I don't think it was even as simple as a ID10T problem. In the article, it states that _only_ two companies switched back. Not much to cry about. They were probably "MS Only" shops that hired "VB Only" "developers" who couldn't program their way out of a paper bag. I have ran into far too many people who call themselves programmers only to learn that they know nothing other then VB. Anyway, from the article
but Linux became an issue when Combe's Web applications needed a database, and the only option available to the company was one from Oracle Corp.
This is total MS FUD. What are these guys smoking? If you need a commercial DB under Linux, they _all_ run under Linux, DB2, Sybase and Oracle. The only one ofcourse is obviously MS SQL sever from MS. There is also PostgreSQL and MySQL, and MySQL offers commercial support. As soon as I read this part of the article, I knew it was MS FUD.
There will be a bunch of MS apologist to this topic saying how "real" this is. Howver, it is nothing but FUD. Come on now, the _only_ commercial DB available to the company is Oracle? It looks like MS paid or gave two small companies a nice discount for these statements trying to kill two birds with one stone (Oracle and Linux).
At the end of the day, Oracle is the _second_ largest software company. And Oracle has been pushing Linux hard with their "Unbreakable Linux" and even recommending Linux for all new installs. I doubt Oracle would gamble their one and only cash cow (Oracle) on Linux if Oracle didn't have anything to back it up.
I have been a programmer at 3 fortune 500 companies and I have been with the current one for about 4 years now. The DBA's where I work refuse to run Oracle on _anything_ but Solaris and Linux and want Linux for all new installs. The DBA's get what DB they want on what platform they want because they have proven themselves to be top-notch with protecting the fortune 500's data. To me that is saying a lot.
And if people want to use GPL software to help run their close-source business, then that's great - so long as they release any changes along with the binary.
Any company can take any GPLed code and use it internally for their business processes. Then can tweak the code all they want and never give away one line of code as long as the code is used internally. However, if that company tries to distribute a binary outside of their company, then yes, they would have to release the source code. The company is an end user just like anyone else. I can take a GPLed app like GAIM and change it and never release those changes as long as I keep it internally and not try to distribute a binary.
How is everyone taxed the same in a flat tax system? Does everyone pay $2,000 a year each? No. Each person pays the same percentage that works out to paying less if you make less or paying more if you make more.
Your perception of reality is warped. There is nothing racist about me. I do have "real" black friends at my church, you know as you put it the ones that are not "bling bling". However, racism is NOT a white vs black thing. I grew up a white boy in Trenton NJ. Have you been there? Mostly black and Hispanic. It is one of the places where if you are white and walking down the street, blacks would come after you. If you think racism is just white vs black, please go and walk down a street in Compton at night. You will be attacked by black people just because you are white. So racism exists in the world and
I went home on break and heard my parents, whom I considered to be so open minded (and still consider to be open minded) say things that I probably at one point wouldn't have even noticed. Racist things. Not nigger or lynchmob stuff. They didn't hate black people. But they weren't sensitive, at all.
Oh come off it. Why in the world do I need to be sensitive to blacks? Do blacks need to be sensitive to whites? You are the racist. You are the one who is giving them special treatment because of their skin color. Affirmative action and being sensitive for blacks is actually the most racist modern day treatment of blacks. I look at any skin color as I look at myself. I don't care what your skin color is. You have the same shot as me to make it in the USA whether your black, white, Hispanic, etc. Actually, blacks, Hispanics and other "minorities" have MORE of a chance then me. There are so many schools and companies the allow students in or hire employees to meet some type of government quota. If you want to think there is prejudice against anyone in modern USA it is against your typical white male. I as a white guy am the one that could be turned down from a school because a "minority" with poorer grades then me get picked. I as a white guy am the one that could be turned down a job because a "minority" with less skills then me get picked for a job.
I work for a fortune 500 that have a VERY diverse employee population of 140,000. My programming team consists of the following:
1. White male Christian (Me)
2. Muslim from Saudi Arabia
3. White Male Jew
4. American Asian
5. American Phillipino
6. White male
We all work great together as HUMANS. We don't show special treatment to anyone because of their ethnicity. We work with other teams all the time that have just about any race you can think of, Blacks, Hispanics, Whites, Asians, Indians, etc. Again, we all work together well as HUMANS without showing special or sensitive treatment to anyone. Now imagine how one of our black team members would feel if we treated them special just because of their skin color. That would be isolating them and THAT would be racist. The type of treat you suggest IS RACIST. We treat each person on the team the same. You are judged by what your abilities are and nothing more. Oh, and when I say we are not sensitive, that doesn't mean we treat one another poorly. For example, with such diverse ethnicity, we are sensitive to other religions and traditions. However there is never special treatment for an individual because of their skin color. That is RACISM and sadly people like you will never understand that and will continue the whole race issue for years to come.
it comes from ALL sides.
There was reverse racism
Huh? What the heck is reverse racism? Racism is racism. It is white guys like you who use those terms that keep racism alive. I bet your a big supporter of affirmative action? Social plans like that is what will keeps racism alive. The sensitive and "enlightened" white man like you will come along and have all the answers for the poor black man. With affirmative action to give them special treatment and heck lets tax the white man and give "retribution" payments to all the blacks in the USA even
I am sorry to hear that. I was born and raised in the USA. I had no idea it took that long to get citizenship. It is really sad if you ask me. The process should take no more then 6 months. IMO, if it takes more than 6 months, then you should be allowd to vote.
Huh? Boy you have some issues. Do you even know what "chauvinism" means? I don't think so. Let me give you the definition from dictionary.com
chau-vin-ism
1. Militant devotion to and glorification of one's country; fanatical patriotism.
Excatly where in my post did I show ANY of those traits? I did not. I just want to know _WHY_ in the world does the green party _think_ that I as white man who has NEVER owned a slave owe anything to a blackman? I do not support racism or slavery and would never stand for it. Yet, somehow the Green party thinks that just because I am WHITE I owe something to a person who happens to be black. That is just crazy IMO.
I have several friends who just happen to have darkeer skin then me. They are all very successful and have WORKED for what they have. They ALL agree with me that no one alive today owes anyone else anything.
There is no one "holding back the black man" today. I have worked for 3 fortune 500 companies so far in my career. All three hired people based on their performance and abilities. Infact, tha current fortuen 500 that I work for has an excellent white CEO that is about to retire, and guess who is going to replace him? Yes, a black SVP. I won't give it away, but this black SVP is one excellent business man. He has top-notch ethics and knows his stuff. That is why he got the job. NOT because he just happens to have darker skin then me.
Do you have any links to this information? I don't think making $75k is "everyone is making a lot of money". Here is a pic of my humble home (we just moved and I need to do some landscaping). It is not huge, and I make $75k, so please tell me how I am "making a lot of money".
Wow! I say you get out of CA. I bought a 2-story 2,400 sq ft. home 10 miles from Walt Disney World for $190,000. Here is a pic of my home which you can get for about $215,000 now.
We still have some work to do like landscaping, etc. However it is not a bad buy for the price we paid.
I don't think you know what it means. Firefox/Mozilla will do single sign-on without prompting from a white-list unlike MS's IE zones. See my post here. Firefox/Mozilla has supported this for a few versions. Though it is not broken like IE zones and assume where you want your credentials sent. An adim can send down a Firefox/Mozilla profile that will allow Firefox/Mozilla to single sign-on to any corporate lan, it just doesn't do it by default wich is better security IMO.
If you think the average black household--real median household money income: $29,177--should be paying $4,376 a year in taxes, that's cool. They're just bearing the same burden as the rest of us.
There would have to be a low income line where you pay ZERO taxes if you fall below that line. I think a household income of $30,000 today would qualify for ZERO takes. IMO a good minimum household income to pay the 15% tax would be around $45,000 or so.
Maybe that's alot in idaho or wherever BFE you live, but it's not for me.
That is the problem. You have people who live in Goober Idaho thinking that $75K a year makes you rich. It depends on where you live. I live about 10 miles from the tourist hot-spot of the world, Walt Disney World. While from your description of where you live I doubt our cost of living is as high as where you are. Howver, $75k here does not make one rich or even "well-to-do", it is probably the average household income.
That is not a bad idea. My utopian tax plan would be a 15% tax on your income. Right off the top of your pay check or any income you get or make. You do not get any income tax back. However, you also are not taxed multiple times on the same income. For example, if you go out to eat, you do not pay taxes. If you buy gas you do not pay taxes etc. There will be no tax on purchases of any kind. You only pay 15% when you get income. The 15% is paid on total income before any one or any company could do "creative accounting" and there would be no tax breaks except for those under a certain income level who would pay ZERO taxes.
The way it is now, I get about 30% taken out of my pay check. Then I take my family out to eat and we pay taxes with the money I already paid 30% taxes on. I fill up my gas tank and pay taxes on that gas with the same money that was already taxed. I go to the store and buy a TV and pay taxes on that TV with the money I already payed taxes on, etc, etc. On top of all these taxes I pay, I have to pay for health insurance, life insurance, car insurance, Social Security (what crap), mortgage, home insurance, electricity bill, phone bill, cable bill, groceries, the list goes on and on as most older/.ers know. The funny thing is that I even pay taxes on my phone bill, cable bill, electricity bill, water bill, sueage bill, etc, etc. It is really sad how much of my money goes to the government for taxes AFTER I have already paid my taxes!
I have no problem on a local level. At a local level I can be more in touch with those running for office and have more influence. However, I do not think non-citizens should have a right to vote on a state or national level. If you want that right, become a citizen.
Flat taxes are great if you think that redistribution of wealth is bad and everyone has to take care only of their own hide.
Redistribution of wealth is bad. Why should someone _take_ my money and put it where _they_ think it best. I give 10% of my income to my church and another 5% or so to charities that I believe in. I don't want my money going to support a cause I do not agree with.
I thought that the founding fathers's plan was a Land of Opportunity for everyone
It was. But that land of opportunity didn't mean taking away from me to make an opportunity for someone else. We do not live in the middle ages. There are stories all the time of a smart poor kid who makes it to the top somewhere. The only limiting factor in the USA is personal ambitions.
You should also learn the concept of disposable income. If I make $10,000 a year and rent an apartment, I might have, at best, a few hundred dollars of disposable income.
I agree with you 100% here. The flat tax rate would have a minimum income. If you do not meet that income, you pay ZERO taxes. So for someone making only 10,000 a year, that would all stay in their pocket. The goal of lower taxes and a flat tax system is to put more money back into _everyones_ pockets and not just the poor. Raise everyone up an income bracket if possible. Put more disposable income into the hands of all US citizens and that money would go right back to the economy. With that money in the economy it would help small businesses which account for the majority of business in the USA. We will always have poor people. Most people are poor because of lack of personal motivation. With a decent living wage, there is no reason everyone cannot have an acceptable quality of life. Just don't take away from my quality of life to make someone elses better.
I didn't mean average Americans make $75,000 or so. I meant average as in I am not rich, do not own a mansion, do not own my own jet, do not have a lot of political pull and I am not a movie "star" : )
Also, it's rather naive to talk about "tax percentages" as if there were only one tax out there and it affected everyone equally.
It is not really. I live in Florida where I do not pay a state tax. However, about 30% of my weekly income is taken out. I think it is a fair question that anyone can understand. Americans want the bottom-line and not a run around about the tax system being too complicated for them to understand. At each payday, an American wants to know what total percentage will be taken by the government, whether that is state or federal doesn't matter. How much of _my_ money are you (the government) taking from me and why.
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Most Java IDE's make renaming a piece-of-cake. Eclispse and IntelliJ both do it very well IME. As for naming a variable or package "enum", what ID10T Java developer would do that? I come from a C/C++ background and would never name a variable or package "enum" or struct or class or int or string or ... Seriously, what silly Java developer named a variable or package "enum"? Please, if there is _one_ Java develper out there that did name a variable or package "enum", please reply to this post as an AC with the reason _WHY_ you did that!
Exactly how did they find all those "patent violations"? There are thousands and thousands of patents and there is no way they could know all of the possible patents out there. It would take a very long time and many programmers and lawyers. Did they just go through every kernel related patent and then check if the Linux kernel had something similar? I bet most of these 283 patent "violations" are bogus and even if they are not, I bet the patent themselves would not stand up in court. I read something like 80% or so of software patents do not stand up in court. If that is true then that means that there are really only a possible 56 patent violations.
I have never noticed a leak from explorer, however as you pointed out, the files get locked too often and for too long. I do a lot of work moving around files and directories. I have to manually close and restart explorer at least once a day with taskmgr due to explorer locking some file or directory.
MS _could_ have an extremely loyal community just like the Free/Open source software communities. However I do not see that ever happening because of the actions of MS. If MS never changes, then MS will continue to just have a community of developers and admins who need MS since that is how those developers/admins (including me) make their living. Without change, MS will never get the passion for development/administration of their platforms that Linux, *BSD and Mac OS X has.
Your point could very well be the case. Maybe a "blood-sucking-lawyer" could help us out here? :)
There is some reason whey the FSF does not consider this license a Free Software license or GPL compatible, and I am sure it is not just because "it is a license that MS uses". The FSF has a pretty darn good lawyer/Professor of Law & Legal History named Eben Moglen, so I don't think the "it is a license that MS uses so we won't" argument will stick.
If you look down at the "20 Sep 2004" entry on the above link you will find a nice new gtk# installer for integrating gtk# gui apps into MS Visual Studio .Net 2003.
You can find more about Mono's ADO.net and ASP.Net here and here respectively.
If you look at the few Open source apps MS has released, they have all been very insignificant. MS will impress me when they make one of their bigger apps Open Source and Free Source. I am not talking about one of their apps that they sell or generate direct revenue from. I am talking about the tons of other apps they include with their OS or other software that they do not sell. I know i would like to get my hands on explorer.exe the desktop shell and file manager. That code is crap and is always crashing on me even in WinXP SP2. It locks just about every file it touches when you use the explorer.exe file manager requiring using task manager to kill and restart it. It is the biggest headache for me using WinXP at work.
To me this just seems like a PR effort from MS so they can say "me too" when asked about Open Source. Free Software is by far more important to me then Open Source. I don't care if I can look at the code, I want to be able to do something with the code. Free Software gives you the rights to be able to do something with the code while Open Source doesn't alwasy give you those rights. For example, can I take the FlexWiki code MS is releasing and fork it and do something with it MS does not like or agree with? Are there patents encombering FlexWiki? I cannot get to the site right now to check.
Ok, I just got to the site and read this from the license (IANAL).
To me (IANAL), that doesn't sound too good. It looks like MS trying to keep a back-door in their "open" source code just in case they have something in there that they can require a license for. Exactly how is this Open Source if it can be encumbered by patents and other "IP"?There will be a bunch of MS apologist to this topic saying how "real" this is. Howver, it is nothing but FUD. Come on now, the _only_ commercial DB available to the company is Oracle? It looks like MS paid or gave two small companies a nice discount for these statements trying to kill two birds with one stone (Oracle and Linux).
At the end of the day, Oracle is the _second_ largest software company. And Oracle has been pushing Linux hard with their "Unbreakable Linux" and even recommending Linux for all new installs. I doubt Oracle would gamble their one and only cash cow (Oracle) on Linux if Oracle didn't have anything to back it up.
I have been a programmer at 3 fortune 500 companies and I have been with the current one for about 4 years now. The DBA's where I work refuse to run Oracle on _anything_ but Solaris and Linux and want Linux for all new installs. The DBA's get what DB they want on what platform they want because they have proven themselves to be top-notch with protecting the fortune 500's data. To me that is saying a lot.
How is everyone taxed the same in a flat tax system? Does everyone pay $2,000 a year each? No. Each person pays the same percentage that works out to paying less if you make less or paying more if you make more.
Oh come off it. Why in the world do I need to be sensitive to blacks? Do blacks need to be sensitive to whites? You are the racist. You are the one who is giving them special treatment because of their skin color. Affirmative action and being sensitive for blacks is actually the most racist modern day treatment of blacks. I look at any skin color as I look at myself. I don't care what your skin color is. You have the same shot as me to make it in the USA whether your black, white, Hispanic, etc. Actually, blacks, Hispanics and other "minorities" have MORE of a chance then me. There are so many schools and companies the allow students in or hire employees to meet some type of government quota. If you want to think there is prejudice against anyone in modern USA it is against your typical white male. I as a white guy am the one that could be turned down from a school because a "minority" with poorer grades then me get picked. I as a white guy am the one that could be turned down a job because a "minority" with less skills then me get picked for a job.
I work for a fortune 500 that have a VERY diverse employee population of 140,000. My programming team consists of the following:
1. White male Christian (Me)
2. Muslim from Saudi Arabia
3. White Male Jew
4. American Asian
5. American Phillipino
6. White male
We all work great together as HUMANS. We don't show special treatment to anyone because of their ethnicity. We work with other teams all the time that have just about any race you can think of, Blacks, Hispanics, Whites, Asians, Indians, etc. Again, we all work together well as HUMANS without showing special or sensitive treatment to anyone. Now imagine how one of our black team members would feel if we treated them special just because of their skin color. That would be isolating them and THAT would be racist. The type of treat you suggest IS RACIST. We treat each person on the team the same. You are judged by what your abilities are and nothing more. Oh, and when I say we are not sensitive, that doesn't mean we treat one another poorly. For example, with such diverse ethnicity, we are sensitive to other religions and traditions. However there is never special treatment for an individual because of their skin color. That is RACISM and sadly people like you will never understand that and will continue the whole race issue for years to come. it comes from ALL sides.
Huh? What the heck is reverse racism? Racism is racism. It is white guys like you who use those terms that keep racism alive. I bet your a big supporter of affirmative action? Social plans like that is what will keeps racism alive. The sensitive and "enlightened" white man like you will come along and have all the answers for the poor black man. With affirmative action to give them special treatment and heck lets tax the white man and give "retribution" payments to all the blacks in the USA even
I am sorry to hear that. I was born and raised in the USA. I had no idea it took that long to get citizenship. It is really sad if you ask me. The process should take no more then 6 months. IMO, if it takes more than 6 months, then you should be allowd to vote.
I have several friends who just happen to have darkeer skin then me. They are all very successful and have WORKED for what they have. They ALL agree with me that no one alive today owes anyone else anything.
There is no one "holding back the black man" today. I have worked for 3 fortune 500 companies so far in my career. All three hired people based on their performance and abilities. Infact, tha current fortuen 500 that I work for has an excellent white CEO that is about to retire, and guess who is going to replace him? Yes, a black SVP. I won't give it away, but this black SVP is one excellent business man. He has top-notch ethics and knows his stuff. That is why he got the job. NOT because he just happens to have darker skin then me.
We still have some work to do like landscaping, etc. However it is not a bad buy for the price we paid.
I don't think you know what it means. Firefox/Mozilla will do single sign-on without prompting from a white-list unlike MS's IE zones. See my post here. Firefox/Mozilla has supported this for a few versions. Though it is not broken like IE zones and assume where you want your credentials sent. An adim can send down a Firefox/Mozilla profile that will allow Firefox/Mozilla to single sign-on to any corporate lan, it just doesn't do it by default wich is better security IMO.
I have no problem locally. That would make sense. I just think if you want to vote on a national level, you should be a citizen.
The way it is now, I get about 30% taken out of my pay check. Then I take my family out to eat and we pay taxes with the money I already paid 30% taxes on. I fill up my gas tank and pay taxes on that gas with the same money that was already taxed. I go to the store and buy a TV and pay taxes on that TV with the money I already payed taxes on, etc, etc. On top of all these taxes I pay, I have to pay for health insurance, life insurance, car insurance, Social Security (what crap), mortgage, home insurance, electricity bill, phone bill, cable bill, groceries, the list goes on and on as most older /.ers know. The funny thing is that I even pay taxes on my phone bill, cable bill, electricity bill, water bill, sueage bill, etc, etc. It is really sad how much of my money goes to the government for taxes AFTER I have already paid my taxes!
I have no problem on a local level. At a local level I can be more in touch with those running for office and have more influence. However, I do not think non-citizens should have a right to vote on a state or national level. If you want that right, become a citizen.