One of the most frustrating, maddening things about this administration is disregard for the people's will. Bolton was a good example. He was only supported by the president and Republicans. When appointing someone that represent the American people you need to have the support of the American people not just your party.
It's in that same spirit that I'm voting Republican in the next presidential election. Do you REALLY think one party rule is going to better under Democrats? I like the idea of one party controlling the White House and the other controlling Congress. It forces people to work together. Something this country BADLY needs now... and for the world as well before we damage things even more.
When I worked for the Army I had to unilaterally implement FOSS solutions because the people who controlled the purse strings knew nothing about technology. They were dazzled by Oracle, M$ and every other vendor. One young green suiter from the front office put it to me this way: "Just say that this great open source solution will cost you X million dollars and take two years to implement. That's the only thing we understand".
No one should be surprised that Microsoft sees no conflict with anything that makes them money. I seriously don't mean this to be a troll but it's true.
Google is a publicly traded company and as such here's what's important
to them.....
Making money for their stockholders.
That means doing things like creating spyware if it helps their bottom line. The mantra of "Do no evil" becomes null and void once you become a publicly traded company. They should change their motto to "We do less evil than everyone else".
Google is going to do what is best in their corporate interest.
Surprised? Don't be. It's business
The downside to Flickr, Blogger and other providers of services to the masses are the Terms of Service which generally give them the right to re-appropriate your content for their own uses.
So if you were, say traveling around the world and want to document it, best to use a combination like MovableType and Gallery so you retain complete control.
If you are concerned about copyright I can't imagine why ANYONE would use a service provider like Google, Yahoo, etc.
Or at least use it enough to "see more here"... and refer them to your real site.
I got tired of IT and decided to just take off traveling for a bit and discovered what I enjoy. So I come back here to the States for six months (April - September), make my ridiculous money for those six months, save about 1K a month and then take off to a third world country for October - March. I own my land here outright, I live within my means and in the winter months I enjoy my time exploring spending 4.00 a day for my hotel room in Marrakech or traveling around Thailand (monthly rent 160.00). As long as you're not trying to live in Europe or Japan, you can go pretty far on 1K a month.
Life is short and no one on their death bed ever says "Oh boy I sure wish I could have worked more!!!!"
And the price for the domain wouldn't be just a few dollars: it could be something like $50,000 -- making it prohibitively expensive to most copycats. Banks would love this
We here at the Commmerce Bank of Beverly Hills will not pay $50,000... Milburn Drysdale, President
I'm not entirely sure why the France bashing continues. Frankly it appeared that they were right regarding Iraq. France is certainly one of the greatest allies this country has had, in fact we wouldn't be this large had Napolean not sold us the Louisiana Purchase to pay for his war with England. If anything we owe them quite a bit and their only crime is that they are just as patriotic to their country as we are to ours.
Now with that being said, do you know why there are trees on the Champs D'Elysees? So the Germans can march in the shade!
The force in this case is that you're the IT guy. Can anyone think of the best thing about being the IT guy?
Anyone? anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
You can talk over people's heads and just make stuff up! Seriously. I ask myself this as the IT guy all the time: "Hmmm... do I really want to explain this or do I just want to make something up to get rid of this person?".
Many times, it's make something up. Besides pointing out the obvious illegality, you can just mention that everytime Office is opened the serial number is reported back to Redmond. If two people have it open at the same time then "BAM!" Microsoft sees a possible piracy issue.
Remember as the IT Guy that you possess specialized knowledge not unlike a doctor or a lawyer: professions where making stuff up is a time honored tradition.
I know there are those that compare Slashdot and Digg and they couldn't be more apples and oranges. I come to Slashdot when I would like some intellectual insight and I go to Fark when I want something funny.
I go to Digg when I want OMG!!!! L33T Fanboi yatayata...
Digg is, in short, a wasteland. The submissions are great but if one wrote the book on it, "Pooh foraging for honey" would read like Tolstoy.
Google is a publicly traded company and as such here's what's important
to them.....
Making money for their stockholders.
There's a fluffy bunny love for Google that everyone has but they may as well change their motto from "Do no evil" to "We do less evil than everyone else". A monopolist Google is no better than Microsoft. I'm not a fan of Microsoft, but giving too much control to any company, much less a publicly traded one, is a horrific idea.
Google is going to do what is best in their corporate interest.
Surprised? Don't be. It's business
That precedent was Scientology busting anon.penet.fi remailers. The US does not control the internet and hopefully as time goes by legal jurisdictions around the world will rule against heavy handed American tactics.
Yeah but at least you probably have something resembling news. Here in the states news actually died a long time ago. Now it's more of finding an outlet that validates one's belief system.
Edward R Murrow is NOT rolling in his grave.
He was cremated.
Anyone familiar with the Mayan Calendar? December 21, 2012 (13.0.0.0.0 in the Mayan Calendar) Coincidence?"
In Dubuque Iowa a woman severely burns her hand at the same exact moment her daughter is giving her boyfriend a hand job 8 miles away in his car.. Coincidence?
Anyone remember when IBM was the Microsoft of it's day? Ultimately Microsoft will learn the lesson that it needs to transition from a company that create standards to one that contributes to them.
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Good! About damn time!
One of the most frustrating, maddening things about this administration is disregard for the people's will. Bolton was a good example. He was only supported by the president and Republicans. When appointing someone that represent the American people you need to have the support of the American people not just your party.
It's in that same spirit that I'm voting Republican in the next presidential election. Do you REALLY think one party rule is going to better under Democrats? I like the idea of one party controlling the White House and the other controlling Congress. It forces people to work together. Something this country BADLY needs now... and for the world as well before we damage things even more.
Indict.
I want to believe.....
That being said... the U.S. government is remarkably inept at keeping secrets much less orchestrating a cover up of this size.
Same is true of most conspiracy theories.
When will these organizations learn that by trying to suppress this stuff that they only generate more publicity for it?
When I worked for the Army I had to unilaterally implement FOSS solutions because the people who controlled the purse strings knew nothing about technology. They were dazzled by Oracle, M$ and every other vendor. One young green suiter from the front office put it to me this way: "Just say that this great open source solution will cost you X million dollars and take two years to implement. That's the only thing we understand".
No one should be surprised that Microsoft sees no conflict with anything that makes them money. I seriously don't mean this to be a troll but it's true.
Google is a publicly traded company and as such here's what's important to them.....
Making money for their stockholders.
That means doing things like creating spyware if it helps their bottom line. The mantra of "Do no evil" becomes null and void once you become a publicly traded company. They should change their motto to "We do less evil than everyone else".
Google is going to do what is best in their corporate interest. Surprised? Don't be. It's business
The downside to Flickr, Blogger and other providers of services to the masses are the Terms of Service which generally give them the right to re-appropriate your content for their own uses.
So if you were, say traveling around the world and want to document it, best to use a combination like MovableType and Gallery so you retain complete control. If you are concerned about copyright I can't imagine why ANYONE would use a service provider like Google, Yahoo, etc.
Or at least use it enough to "see more here"... and refer them to your real site.
I got tired of IT and decided to just take off traveling for a bit and discovered what I enjoy. So I come back here to the States for six months (April - September), make my ridiculous money for those six months, save about 1K a month and then take off to a third world country for October - March. I own my land here outright, I live within my means and in the winter months I enjoy my time exploring spending 4.00 a day for my hotel room in Marrakech or traveling around Thailand (monthly rent 160.00). As long as you're not trying to live in Europe or Japan, you can go pretty far on 1K a month.
Life is short and no one on their death bed ever says "Oh boy I sure wish I could have worked more!!!!"
And the price for the domain wouldn't be just a few dollars: it could be something like $50,000 -- making it prohibitively expensive to most copycats. Banks would love this
We here at the Commmerce Bank of Beverly Hills will not pay $50,000... Milburn Drysdale, President
I'm not entirely sure why the France bashing continues. Frankly it appeared that they were right regarding Iraq. France is certainly one of the greatest allies this country has had, in fact we wouldn't be this large had Napolean not sold us the Louisiana Purchase to pay for his war with England. If anything we owe them quite a bit and their only crime is that they are just as patriotic to their country as we are to ours.
Now with that being said, do you know why there are trees on the Champs D'Elysees? So the Germans can march in the shade!
The force in this case is that you're the IT guy. Can anyone think of the best thing about being the IT guy?
Anyone? anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
You can talk over people's heads and just make stuff up! Seriously. I ask myself this as the IT guy all the time: "Hmmm... do I really want to explain this or do I just want to make something up to get rid of this person?".
Many times, it's make something up. Besides pointing out the obvious illegality, you can just mention that everytime Office is opened the serial number is reported back to Redmond. If two people have it open at the same time then "BAM!" Microsoft sees a possible piracy issue.
Remember as the IT Guy that you possess specialized knowledge not unlike a doctor or a lawyer: professions where making stuff up is a time honored tradition.
I know there are those that compare Slashdot and Digg and they couldn't be more apples and oranges. I come to Slashdot when I would like some intellectual insight and I go to Fark when I want something funny.
I go to Digg when I want OMG!!!! L33T Fanboi yatayata...
Digg is, in short, a wasteland. The submissions are great but if one wrote the book on it, "Pooh foraging for honey" would read like Tolstoy.
Google is a publicly traded company and as such here's what's important to them.....
Making money for their stockholders.
There's a fluffy bunny love for Google that everyone has but they may as well change their motto from "Do no evil" to "We do less evil than everyone else". A monopolist Google is no better than Microsoft. I'm not a fan of Microsoft, but giving too much control to any company, much less a publicly traded one, is a horrific idea.
Google is going to do what is best in their corporate interest.
Surprised? Don't be. It's business
There's no right way to eat a rhesus
I AM Dolly Perkins you insensitive clod!!!!
Can anyone reference a national system that was successfully replaced?
Yes, the United States government right after the 2008 presidential election
The Henry Earl extension! If you don't know about Henry Earl, read up on him here. Show the brother some love.
That precedent was Scientology busting anon.penet.fi remailers. The US does not control the internet and hopefully as time goes by legal jurisdictions around the world will rule against heavy handed American tactics.
It's sad that our journalism sucks so much.
Yeah but at least you probably have something resembling news. Here in the states news actually died a long time ago. Now it's more of finding an outlet that validates one's belief system.
Edward R Murrow is NOT rolling in his grave.
He was cremated.
how much of that money? Probably zero.
"our Clinton administration policies didn't work out very well"
Considering that Orrin Hatch (R-Idiot-Utah) wrote the damn bill.
Republicans are best at passing the buck, they take responsibility for nothing. EVER.
Anyone familiar with the Mayan Calendar? December 21, 2012 (13.0.0.0.0 in the Mayan Calendar) Coincidence?"
In Dubuque Iowa a woman severely burns her hand at the same exact moment her daughter is giving her boyfriend a hand job 8 miles away in his car.. Coincidence?
Anyone remember when IBM was the Microsoft of it's day? Ultimately Microsoft will learn the lesson that it needs to transition from a company that create standards to one that contributes to them.
No examples of Schwartzian transform? I'm disappointed in you all.