Well it's a good thing you don't have my real name to use. Because I COULD sue you. And I could win. It's harder to proved defamation, slander, etc. when you're a public figure. I am not.
I would imagine most of the comments I just read were by those who have never even seen or listened to Beck's show. Why? Because I have. Beck BACKS UP claims and does more research than most main stream media, who generally worship at the feet of the democrat party. The quotes he provides are on video and can be looked up on You-Tube. Often they are taken from the person's own speeches (and no, not out of context). It's simply rather difficult, for example, for White House officials to deny their admiration for communist dictator Mao Tse Tung, although I imagine that frosts their gonads that Beck keeps exposing their beliefs.
Calling the accusation of fictional rape of a young girl parody is ridiculous. Stooping to that level means you are simply trying to assassinate a person's character. But when it's done against a conservative, it's called parody. If it was done to a liberal, it would be defamation and slander.
And we know the left (with an agreeable media) NEVER tries to take down someone they don't like. Just like the claims of Rush Limbaugh and racism...oh wait!
If this is even true...shouldn't the fact that this guy has a predisposition toward violence merit MORE time, not less? If anything it would show he's more unstable and a future danger to society.
Why even bother looking at this stuff.. there's all kinds of other areas that could realistically be addressed. For example phone books! The amount of resources spent printing and distributing something that 70% of the time probably ends up in a land fill untouched is astounding.
Or for that matter...THEIR book. Why did they bother publish on tree-killing paper since most of them will no doubt end up in a landfill?
I have to agree. I actually read BOTH articles and there were no real examples, except the mention of some alleged sexist remarks at a keynote speech...which I didn't read and therefore won't comment on. It's like they're equivocating a low percentage of women in FOSS = sexism vs. just a general lack of interest. It may be that women programmers would rather get paid or can't afford...or have the time to make ongoing contributions to open source. Correlation is not causation.
Or, if you prefer, listen to the horror stories female developers tell about sexist remarks or being asked out for dates. Look at the constant trolls on the mailing lists for female developers.
Okay, yes there are always trolls anywhere...but is being asked on a date that bad? I mean at least you have something in common. And if the lead developer is smart he'll smack down the trolls or stalkers because it's stupid to lose a programmer who's willing to work for free and contribute.
Amen and I wish I had some mod points. That used to be the American dream...that a person could start in a mail room and work their way up the ladder. I've got to wonder who still believes that myth. That's one of the great problems with big business these days. The CEOs and upper management didn't grow with the company. They don't CARE about the company. They only care about their stock options and stay 5 years at most before moving on to gut their next conquest.
Yes you CAN start your own business--that's about the only way to become a CEO without being a golden boy (mostly) and come from an ivy-leagued school. You actually have to WORK to do that, however, not just lay-off half the staff and attend meetings. People run companies like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic these days.
Yes, we have a 1997 Mitsubishi Galant (stick) with 250K miles, is on it's last legs and runs, but couldn't pass inspection last March. But even IT gets more than 18 MPG! Most of the cars that would qualify would be SUVs or pickups that are worth more than the $4,500 you'd get.
Problem #2 is we usually prefer to buy a car that is 1-2 years old which adjusts for the depreciation you get the minute you drive a new car off the lot.
(Also surely this Microsoft & Amazon PR stunt is actually the opposite of success?... Because if any company released a truly desirable product people would be willing to pay a premium to own that product. Yet Microsoft & Amazon are trying to claim success by reducing its price... (talk about lies, damned lies and PR)).
First off, EVERYONE was running a sale on the upgrade. That was a Microsoft offer, not Amazon's. Just like getting a laptop with Vista now, will earn you a free upgrade.
Business drop the price all the time to see if they can sell more items. They make less of a profit per item, but make up for that in quanity. Very useful in the software business where the materials involved (disc and packaging) in the product cost pennies.
NO ONE is willing to pay a premium for something in this economy that's not a NEED. Sure, I would LOVE to upgrade (well more like retire) my 2.1 GHz PC and build a Quad-Core with a nice 1GB video card (and of course I have to upgrade my HD because that format has changed to SATA.) But I can't afford it and my current PC running XP is doing just fine.
But it's like you're saying, "Oh that dirty, rotten microsoft. They're having a SALE--how dare they!" Damn I'm GLAD they're having a sale, because I sure can't afford the retail and neither can a lot of other people.
I have a laptop that came with Vista. Personally, I've never had any problems with it. (Of course, it was built to work with Vista, so YMMV.) I even run really old, classic games with DOSBox on it! My only quibble (after turning off the truly dumb, UAC feature) is that you have to have a better system to run something (like a game) with Vista than you do to run the same thing on XP. However, since I don't normally play commerical games on this, that hasn't been much of a problem. And I found the voice recognition program included to be superior to even Draggon Naturally Speaking and you didn't need as long to train it.
I've got some problems with Microsoft, but this isn't one of them.
At least you still HAVE tests. I don't know how it is in other states, but here, you don't even have to TAKE a driving test. You don't even have to take driver's ed. You just have to take a course on-line (or have mommy or daddy say they taught you and you know how to drive.) Then you just take the writen (which you can also take online.)
Needless to say I've seen driving habits getting worse and worse--it's amazing there isn't at least 2-3x the number of accidents between crazy drivers and/or cell phone takers who clearly aren't paying attention. Throw in other distractions, sleep deprived or drunk drivers and you see what I mean.
Personally I would like to see mandatory tests ever 7-10 years and every 3 after you reach 65. Unless you take refresser courses (and some companies madate courses) it's easy for even the best of drivers to fall into bad habits.
It's NOT just billing...many medical places are getting rid of their hard copy paper records and relying on electronic ones. My allergist did this (staff was not real happy about having to rely on laptops.) So that puppy holds all your medical records and a hospital doing same would not be able to transfer over any records such as what drugs you're allergic to or what the previous attanding physician prescribed.
I think it really shows just how much MORE paperwork they have to deal with. As the computers have decreased in size and cost and increased in capability, the paperwork involved has increased. No one would have be able to handle this much paperwork having to rely on handwritten or even typed records. (In theory we should be decreasing workload, but instead they think of more things they can do or require and so the workload increases.)
Secretaries are either evolving or dying off because once future managers began learning computer skills, they no longer needed to have someone else type up their dictation or letters. And of course it saved company $$. Only the most senior staff get a personal secretary because they have the status and I suspect most are the leftover codgers who never learned to type.
Could you *get* a trademark for the name and then go after them on bad faith?
(If someone else owns that trademark, I'd think about changing my bussiness name to something else, lest those who own the trademark come after me at some point!)
Normally Firefox DOES ask if you want to install a new extension. However, it seems the boys at Redmond just got around that security catch. Gee, an add-on that makes a competing browser vulnerable and is virtually impossible to uninstall--who'd have seen THAT coming?
You can apparently disable the thing by going into the add-ons and clicking the disable button. (Someone will have to research whether the disable actually works or just makes you THINK it did....) It should also be noted that it becomes disabled if you upgrad to the latest beta version of Firefox 3.5 because it's not compatible. Also portable Firefox on USB drives are not affected.
Well, let's not forget that he's done the voice of Garfield and Bosley in the remake of Charlie's Angels. Real stand out parts. Yes, I'm being sarcastic here. The last movie I saw him in that not only I liked, but was a standout role was "What about Bob." One could argue Groundhog Day (I never saw that one.) He's been busy, but hasn't had a real hit since the 90's. For Sigourney Weaver (who's not yet listed as a returning cast member in IMDB) it was The Village, which wasn't a great role, but she did a nice job. Props also for remaining a working actress when most actresses over 40 are cast aside for the young and perky.
But don't get me wrong. I would LOVE to see a really fun movie, even a remake, especially with this very talented group. My point simply was that while the first was original and funny the second one fell flat which more often than not happens with a sequel. If you liked it, good for you, but I think the reviews and the box office would disagree. It just didn't seem to have the chemistry any more. Not just Murray and Weaver, but the whole crew didn't seem to click like they did in the first one. Also, I would argue that the insufferable city asshole, Walter Peck, was a better foil than the snooty cello player with a god complex. But mostly I think in the first movie let Bill Murray be Bill Murray. Most of it seemed ad-libbed by him (in a good way.) I don't know if they ran out of good lines for GBII or if it was attempted to even out the humor, but Murray needs to be the crazy one. (Notable exception to Rick Moranis' supporting role.) Nothing wrong with others playing the straight man (or woman).
If anyone cares to notice, we're all recalling the original Ghostbusters which was great. That's because the Ghostbusters II (which also had the original cast) SUCKED big time!
Unfortunately, I think this may be a case of, "Hey none of us are getting gigs, let's do a remake!"
Sometimes you can't go back. {sigh} But I hope I'm wrong.
Every time I raise a question like this, it provokes the ire of law students and lawyers who say that judges are the real experts on what is legally correct, and it's not appropriate for lay people to comment.
Law students are just as arrogant as the members of the press! Judges all know best? Remember that when one rules against your argument, f-tard!
Ida was unearthed by an amateur fossil-hunter some 25 years ago in Messel pit, an ancient crater lake near Frankfurt, Germany, famous for its fossils.
She was cleaned and set in polyester resin - and incredibly, was hung on a mystery German collector's wall for 20 years.
Sky News sources say the owner had no idea of the unique fossil's significance and simply admired it like a cherished Van Gogh or Picasso painting.
But in 2006, Ida came into the hands of private dealer Thomas Perner, who presented her to Prof Hurum at the annual Hamburg Fossil and Mineral Fair in Germany - a centre for the murky world of fossil-trading.
No, she really didn't realize. Many of the tabs were duplicates of each other. She was going though email and would click on a link and each time it opened in a new tab. Course if she close the browser, it saved her place, but she didn't think to go back to a previous tab--instead she'd go back to the email and click the same link again.
Seriously though the idea of programming ritual is not that different from writing anything else from articles to novels. Sometimes I listen to instrumental (less distracting), but sometimes for a fictional piece, I listen to the type of music my character would "listen" to. (Don't laugh, I happen to know a published author who's main character has a Facebook page.) It makes the character more real and puts you in their mindset. And I usually read the piece out loud at least once, usually to my spouse. I catch a lot of mistakes that way. (Probably not recommended for coders;-)
I had to check out my mom's PC this weekend after the vague complaint that it was "messing up" "crashing" and "she was irritated." Turned out what was crashing was Firefox because she had about 30 tabs opened! Every time she wanted to go to something or back to something she's click on a link and open another tab. She has the same problem with Eudora (I'm thinking of moving her over to Thunderbird and making everything open in a new WINDOW because she can't seem to get the concept of one window, several tabs and that there is a limit.
My other pet peeve is when you get someone who not only "gets" that they're viruses out there, they're paranoid and every time something happens to their computer, they think it's a virus or a hacker attack. (This was not a person going to risky sites either.)
I've got to give a shout out to LogMeIn which offers a FREE, secure way to connect up to another computer and is especially helpful for the Mom or BFF computer that you have to keep tech supporting. I can log in and install updates or take a look at what's going on instead of having to deal with a vague description that is NEVER correct. About the only thing the free version doesn't do is allow you to transfer files directly from your computer to theirs, but that's easy enough to get around. It's been a godsend.
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Well it's a good thing you don't have my real name to use. Because I COULD sue you. And I could win. It's harder to proved defamation, slander, etc. when you're a public figure. I am not.
No he doesn't. Others have done so, but he has not.
Get your facts straight.
I would imagine most of the comments I just read were by those who have never even seen or listened to Beck's show. Why? Because I have. Beck BACKS UP claims and does more research than most main stream media, who generally worship at the feet of the democrat party. The quotes he provides are on video and can be looked up on You-Tube. Often they are taken from the person's own speeches (and no, not out of context). It's simply rather difficult, for example, for White House officials to deny their admiration for communist dictator Mao Tse Tung, although I imagine that frosts their gonads that Beck keeps exposing their beliefs.
Calling the accusation of fictional rape of a young girl parody is ridiculous. Stooping to that level means you are simply trying to assassinate a person's character. But when it's done against a conservative, it's called parody. If it was done to a liberal, it would be defamation and slander.
And we know the left (with an agreeable media) NEVER tries to take down someone they don't like. Just like the claims of Rush Limbaugh and racism...oh wait!
If this is even true...shouldn't the fact that this guy has a predisposition toward violence merit MORE time, not less? If anything it would show he's more unstable and a future danger to society.
Why even bother looking at this stuff.. there's all kinds of other areas that could realistically be addressed. For example phone books! The amount of resources spent printing and distributing something that 70% of the time probably ends up in a land fill untouched is astounding.
Or for that matter...THEIR book. Why did they bother publish on tree-killing paper since most of them will no doubt end up in a landfill?
I have to agree. I actually read BOTH articles and there were no real examples, except the mention of some alleged sexist remarks at a keynote speech...which I didn't read and therefore won't comment on. It's like they're equivocating a low percentage of women in FOSS = sexism vs. just a general lack of interest. It may be that women programmers would rather get paid or can't afford...or have the time to make ongoing contributions to open source. Correlation is not causation.
Or, if you prefer, listen to the horror stories female developers tell about sexist remarks or being asked out for dates. Look at the constant trolls on the mailing lists for female developers.
Okay, yes there are always trolls anywhere...but is being asked on a date that bad? I mean at least you have something in common. And if the lead developer is smart he'll smack down the trolls or stalkers because it's stupid to lose a programmer who's willing to work for free and contribute.
Amen and I wish I had some mod points. That used to be the American dream...that a person could start in a mail room and work their way up the ladder. I've got to wonder who still believes that myth. That's one of the great problems with big business these days. The CEOs and upper management didn't grow with the company. They don't CARE about the company. They only care about their stock options and stay 5 years at most before moving on to gut their next conquest.
Yes you CAN start your own business--that's about the only way to become a CEO without being a golden boy (mostly) and come from an ivy-leagued school. You actually have to WORK to do that, however, not just lay-off half the staff and attend meetings. People run companies like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic these days.
Yes, we have a 1997 Mitsubishi Galant (stick) with 250K miles, is on it's last legs and runs, but couldn't pass inspection last March. But even IT gets more than 18 MPG! Most of the cars that would qualify would be SUVs or pickups that are worth more than the $4,500 you'd get.
Problem #2 is we usually prefer to buy a car that is 1-2 years old which adjusts for the depreciation you get the minute you drive a new car off the lot.
(Also surely this Microsoft & Amazon PR stunt is actually the opposite of success? ... Because if any company released a truly desirable product people would be willing to pay a premium to own that product. Yet Microsoft & Amazon are trying to claim success by reducing its price... (talk about lies, damned lies and PR)).
First off, EVERYONE was running a sale on the upgrade. That was a Microsoft offer, not Amazon's. Just like getting a laptop with Vista now, will earn you a free upgrade.
Business drop the price all the time to see if they can sell more items. They make less of a profit per item, but make up for that in quanity. Very useful in the software business where the materials involved (disc and packaging) in the product cost pennies.
NO ONE is willing to pay a premium for something in this economy that's not a NEED. Sure, I would LOVE to upgrade (well more like retire) my 2.1 GHz PC and build a Quad-Core with a nice 1GB video card (and of course I have to upgrade my HD because that format has changed to SATA.) But I can't afford it and my current PC running XP is doing just fine.
But it's like you're saying, "Oh that dirty, rotten microsoft. They're having a SALE--how dare they!" Damn I'm GLAD they're having a sale, because I sure can't afford the retail and neither can a lot of other people.
I have a laptop that came with Vista. Personally, I've never had any problems with it. (Of course, it was built to work with Vista, so YMMV.) I even run really old, classic games with DOSBox on it! My only quibble (after turning off the truly dumb, UAC feature) is that you have to have a better system to run something (like a game) with Vista than you do to run the same thing on XP. However, since I don't normally play commerical games on this, that hasn't been much of a problem. And I found the voice recognition program included to be superior to even Draggon Naturally Speaking and you didn't need as long to train it.
I've got some problems with Microsoft, but this isn't one of them.
"German police can detain people who are not carrying their ID card for up to 24 hours."
Papers, please!
Sigh, if it hasn't happened already, SOMEBODY in the US government is going to try to convince us that we need to be more like India!
However, maybe this current clusterfuck will tie up so many Indian programmers, the US won't be able to export any more jobs.
They haven't even started and already we know where $18,000,000 of our tax dollars is going!
BING = But It's Not Google
At least you still HAVE tests. I don't know how it is in other states, but here, you don't even have to TAKE a driving test. You don't even have to take driver's ed. You just have to take a course on-line (or have mommy or daddy say they taught you and you know how to drive.) Then you just take the writen (which you can also take online.)
Needless to say I've seen driving habits getting worse and worse--it's amazing there isn't at least 2-3x the number of accidents between crazy drivers and/or cell phone takers who clearly aren't paying attention. Throw in other distractions, sleep deprived or drunk drivers and you see what I mean.
Personally I would like to see mandatory tests ever 7-10 years and every 3 after you reach 65. Unless you take refresser courses (and some companies madate courses) it's easy for even the best of drivers to fall into bad habits.
Why don't they train these dogs to hunt down some REAL pirates.
Oh, I forgot, THOSE they just capture, then release!
Damn, governments are stupid....
It's NOT just billing...many medical places are getting rid of their hard copy paper records and relying on electronic ones. My allergist did this (staff was not real happy about having to rely on laptops.) So that puppy holds all your medical records and a hospital doing same would not be able to transfer over any records such as what drugs you're allergic to or what the previous attanding physician prescribed.
I think it really shows just how much MORE paperwork they have to deal with. As the computers have decreased in size and cost and increased in capability, the paperwork involved has increased. No one would have be able to handle this much paperwork having to rely on handwritten or even typed records. (In theory we should be decreasing workload, but instead they think of more things they can do or require and so the workload increases.)
Secretaries are either evolving or dying off because once future managers began learning computer skills, they no longer needed to have someone else type up their dictation or letters. And of course it saved company $$. Only the most senior staff get a personal secretary because they have the status and I suspect most are the leftover codgers who never learned to type.
Could you *get* a trademark for the name and then go after them on bad faith?
(If someone else owns that trademark, I'd think about changing my bussiness name to something else, lest those who own the trademark come after me at some point!)
Normally Firefox DOES ask if you want to install a new extension. However, it seems the boys at Redmond just got around that security catch. Gee, an add-on that makes a competing browser vulnerable and is virtually impossible to uninstall--who'd have seen THAT coming?
You can apparently disable the thing by going into the add-ons and clicking the disable button. (Someone will have to research whether the disable actually works or just makes you THINK it did....) It should also be noted that it becomes disabled if you upgrad to the latest beta version of Firefox 3.5 because it's not compatible. Also portable Firefox on USB drives are not affected.
Well, let's not forget that he's done the voice of Garfield and Bosley in the remake of Charlie's Angels. Real stand out parts. Yes, I'm being sarcastic here. The last movie I saw him in that not only I liked, but was a standout role was "What about Bob." One could argue Groundhog Day (I never saw that one.) He's been busy, but hasn't had a real hit since the 90's. For Sigourney Weaver (who's not yet listed as a returning cast member in IMDB) it was The Village, which wasn't a great role, but she did a nice job. Props also for remaining a working actress when most actresses over 40 are cast aside for the young and perky.
But don't get me wrong. I would LOVE to see a really fun movie, even a remake, especially with this very talented group. My point simply was that while the first was original and funny the second one fell flat which more often than not happens with a sequel. If you liked it, good for you, but I think the reviews and the box office would disagree. It just didn't seem to have the chemistry any more. Not just Murray and Weaver, but the whole crew didn't seem to click like they did in the first one. Also, I would argue that the insufferable city asshole, Walter Peck, was a better foil than the snooty cello player with a god complex. But mostly I think in the first movie let Bill Murray be Bill Murray. Most of it seemed ad-libbed by him (in a good way.) I don't know if they ran out of good lines for GBII or if it was attempted to even out the humor, but Murray needs to be the crazy one. (Notable exception to Rick Moranis' supporting role.) Nothing wrong with others playing the straight man (or woman).
If anyone cares to notice, we're all recalling the original Ghostbusters which was great. That's because the Ghostbusters II (which also had the original cast) SUCKED big time!
Unfortunately, I think this may be a case of, "Hey none of us are getting gigs, let's do a remake!"
Sometimes you can't go back. {sigh} But I hope I'm wrong.
Every time I raise a question like this, it provokes the ire of law students and lawyers who say that judges are the real experts on what is legally correct, and it's not appropriate for lay people to comment.
Law students are just as arrogant as the members of the press! Judges all know best? Remember that when one rules against your argument, f-tard!
separating actual news from opinion
Is such a thing possible on the internets?
There's actual news on Slashdot?
Not just that, it was allegedly found by an amateur and hung in a collector's living room for 20 years!
Ida was unearthed by an amateur fossil-hunter some 25 years ago in Messel pit, an ancient crater lake near Frankfurt, Germany, famous for its fossils.
She was cleaned and set in polyester resin - and incredibly, was hung on a mystery German collector's wall for 20 years.
Sky News sources say the owner had no idea of the unique fossil's significance and simply admired it like a cherished Van Gogh or Picasso painting.
But in 2006, Ida came into the hands of private dealer Thomas Perner, who presented her to Prof Hurum at the annual Hamburg Fossil and Mineral Fair in Germany - a centre for the murky world of fossil-trading.
So the word, "fake" has crossed my mind too!
No, she really didn't realize. Many of the tabs were duplicates of each other. She was going though email and would click on a link and each time it opened in a new tab. Course if she close the browser, it saved her place, but she didn't think to go back to a previous tab--instead she'd go back to the email and click the same link again.
Substitute Twitter for reddit. :D
Seriously though the idea of programming ritual is not that different from writing anything else from articles to novels. Sometimes I listen to instrumental (less distracting), but sometimes for a fictional piece, I listen to the type of music my character would "listen" to. (Don't laugh, I happen to know a published author who's main character has a Facebook page.) It makes the character more real and puts you in their mindset. And I usually read the piece out loud at least once, usually to my spouse. I catch a lot of mistakes that way. (Probably not recommended for coders ;-)
I had to check out my mom's PC this weekend after the vague complaint that it was "messing up" "crashing" and "she was irritated." Turned out what was crashing was Firefox because she had about 30 tabs opened! Every time she wanted to go to something or back to something she's click on a link and open another tab. She has the same problem with Eudora (I'm thinking of moving her over to Thunderbird and making everything open in a new WINDOW because she can't seem to get the concept of one window, several tabs and that there is a limit.
My other pet peeve is when you get someone who not only "gets" that they're viruses out there, they're paranoid and every time something happens to their computer, they think it's a virus or a hacker attack. (This was not a person going to risky sites either.)
I've got to give a shout out to LogMeIn which offers a FREE, secure way to connect up to another computer and is especially helpful for the Mom or BFF computer that you have to keep tech supporting. I can log in and install updates or take a look at what's going on instead of having to deal with a vague description that is NEVER correct. About the only thing the free version doesn't do is allow you to transfer files directly from your computer to theirs, but that's easy enough to get around. It's been a godsend.