a defensive exercise. It doesn't matter what you do possibilities like this are always going to happen.
There are always going to be lapses or loopholes and when they happen it's always going to be "OH-MY-GOD-I-CANT-BELIEVE-THIS-IS-POSSIBLE" and then there's some outrage and then either behavior continues or some other "OH-MY-GOD-I-CANT-BELIEVE-THIS-IS-POSSIBLE" thing happens.
It does bring up the point that you shouldn't count on contractors like Lockheed, Northrop, etc to keep us safe, they'll only do what's cheapest.
At the federal agency I work with we physically destroy the hard disks we excess.
Although I can see if some contractor just deleted data and then let the drives out that inevitably some news outlet would discover that Disk Doctor actually exists and then....
yet again...
another..
"OH-MY-GOD-I-CANT-BELIEVE-THIS-IS-POSSIBLE"
Obama socialist?
Even the head of the America's Socialist Party doesn't think so. Propaganda rule #1: At least get the disinformation believable.
Otherwise it just makes Obama haters appear stupid. Just sayin..
from the light pollution to really realize what you're missing. The two times I have been been in awe of the night sky were,
1. In the middle of the Atlantic on a boat
2. In the desert in Mauritania
Also on your astronomical to do list, head to the southern hemisphere. There's a whole different set of stars there. (Besides Nicole Kidman)
Right? At least that's what (almost) everybody keeps telling me. "We need government to regulate business because a free market doesn't work, as we discovered with the current recession." Utah's Legislature is just regulating the advertising market as it's "supposed" to do. They are doing their job, so where's the problem?
Nice attempt at a strawman using an absolute blanket statement (typical Repuglican tactic) but you're wrong. The free market usually works most of the time. Sometimes however regulation is an absolute necessity because companies only have one obligation and that is to make a profit.
Making a profit != Best interests of America
Consider the current economic mess the U.S. is in. I'll throw you this bone, it DID start under Clinton when he pressured Fannie/Freddie to loosen lending requirements to let more people borrow. Fannie and Freddie worked for so many years because they DID have such tight lending requirements.
When it became possible for everyone with a pulse to get a mortgage by not using Freddie/Fannie but with unregulated companies taking their place, you have the rise of the CDOs against mortgage backed securities and the problem with these CDOs is that they can be resold and resold countless times without regulation.
Credit Default Swaps written against these is ultimately what brought America into this. SO it's not a partisan issue although you could say with CDOs/CDS being sold for 8 years under Bush why they never looked into it.
It was pure greed. The system worked fine under Fannie/Freddie when the tight requirements (READ: REGULATION) was in place.
Here's another analogy since I can't write it in crayon for you.
Imagine that your neighbor buys his 16 year old son a $30,000 V8 Mustang to celebrate the kid's newly acquired driver's license. Say you think the kid is going to wreck the car, because you know what a reckless brat he is. So you take out an insurance policy for the value of his car. Only you don't take just one. You take 100, maybe 1000. Say everyone else in your neighborhood does the same thing, because there are no insurance regulations that prevent it. Now you have a $30,000 dollar unsecured asset insured for $300,000,000, underwritten by an entity with nowhere near the assets to cover all the bets if the kid wrecks the car. Throw short sellers into the mix, and you have some of the neighbors giving the kid a fifth of Jack Daniels before his Friday night date.
This is great news. The puritanical and backwards thinking of the W years has hurt America while other countries not hindered by superstition have moved ahead to become leaders in this field.
No wonder America has lost it's edge.Maybe we can get back to the godless heathen science that made us so great.
This is great news. The puritanical and backwards thinking of the W years has hurt America while other countries not hindered by superstition have moved ahead to become leaders in this field.
No wonder America has lost it's edge.Maybe we can get back to the godless heathen science that made us so great.
Apple is a publicly traded company and their only real obligation is making a profit for their shareholders. Yes that means facing some inconvenient truths about Apple like making iPods in the third world and being one of the most ungreen companies ever (to their credit they seem to be working on this). They also do a fair amount of lock in like closing Darwin (What? No one screaming about this? Yeah that's what I thought). In short, corporately speaking there isn't a difference between Microsoft and Apple.
Apple and Microsoft are both publicly traded companies and if Apple has a better product (which they do IMHO, I own a few MacBooks) then no problem. Apple shouldn't be afraid of competition.
It's important to not let the "Microsoft is Evil" and the Hipster-Doofus lovefest for Apple cloud the real issues.
Remember when IBM was the Microsoft of it's day? Hated and reviled just like Microsoft? Ultimately companies that create standards eventually become companies that contribute to them. The transition is never that simple of course, there's always a bunch of FUD and kicking and screaming but once reality sets in you realize that you have to co-exist. Once IBM learned this lesson they became ok guys and then Microsoft became the bad guy.
I think Microsoft has finally realized that they indeed also need to start playing nice with Linux and that it isn't going away. Is anyone really worried now about Microsoft killing open source anymore? I mean really?
There's a big reason why you're wrong about this. Although reporters are overwhelmingly liberal, it's editors and publishers that decide what actually makes it on the air or in print.
No, more likely you are participating in the common sport from conservatives where, if something doesn't agree with your ideology, you attack the messenger instead of seeing the truth and through the use of clever labeling.
Here's a great example, conservative's use of the term "activist judges". Judges don't bow down to the public or popular whim, they interpret the constitution. So if they rule on something that doesn't agree with conservatives, the name calling begins.
For other clever labeling see the following...
Right to Life
Coalition of the Willing
Partial Birth Abortion
The list goes on and on... and you sir are full of shit.
Now news is more about finding an outlet that validates one's political viewpoints. Thank heavens I can watch BBC news for my world news and more relevant to this thread, read the Economist for my news needs. The Economist is print and I gladly plunk down the 120.00 to have it delivered.
The death of newspapers and print is due partly to the digital revolution but also due to the fact that the product just sucks ass. Compare Time magazine of today to Time magazine of 20 years ago.
And broadcast news? It's very sad when Britney Spers psychological state warrants more news coverage than genocides.
Edward R Murrow would be rolling in his grave...... if he weren't cremated.
Forcing customers to go someplace they don't want to go by raising prices is a Christmas present for Apple
Yep
and those that are positioning Linux on the desktop
Nope
I went to Apple precisely because I got tired of waiting on a good Linux for the Desktop. I know some/.ers agoing to say "There already IS good Linux for the desktop" to which I say "How about a *nix that's as good as OSX?".
'nuff said. Sorry guys, we've been wanting this Linux on the desktop for years now. It's not happening. Thanks Apple!
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a defensive exercise. It doesn't matter what you do possibilities like this are always going to happen. There are always going to be lapses or loopholes and when they happen it's always going to be "OH-MY-GOD-I-CANT-BELIEVE-THIS-IS-POSSIBLE" and then there's some outrage and then either behavior continues or some other "OH-MY-GOD-I-CANT-BELIEVE-THIS-IS-POSSIBLE" thing happens.
....
It does bring up the point that you shouldn't count on contractors like Lockheed, Northrop, etc to keep us safe, they'll only do what's cheapest.
At the federal agency I work with we physically destroy the hard disks we excess.
Although I can see if some contractor just deleted data and then let the drives out that inevitably some news outlet would discover that Disk Doctor actually exists and then
yet again...
another..
"OH-MY-GOD-I-CANT-BELIEVE-THIS-IS-POSSIBLE"
Obama socialist?
Even the head of the America's Socialist Party doesn't think so. Propaganda rule #1: At least get the disinformation believable. Otherwise it just makes Obama haters appear stupid. Just sayin..
There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who know binary and those who don't.
Until they upgrade their capacity. Maybe it's that simple. Maybe it's not a conspiracy to deprive you.
Orrin Hatch has taken over $96,000 From the TV/Movies/Music lobby already.
from the light pollution to really realize what you're missing. The two times I have been been in awe of the night sky were,
1. In the middle of the Atlantic on a boat
2. In the desert in Mauritania
Also on your astronomical to do list, head to the southern hemisphere. There's a whole different set of stars there. (Besides Nicole Kidman)
.comrade
I wish I could mod this up to "6". "Prior Art so Prior It Hurts". I love it.
this is bullshit.
We parse SSNs all day long. I think WE may have prior art.
Tastes Great!
Less Filling!
but it's still not a planet.
Sorry, karma burning a hole in my pocket
stand behind it.....pussies. /. included.
First Utah gives us Orrin Hatch and the DMCA. Then see attempts to regulate keywords. Now this?
Utah, could you just leave the union and maybe we can replace your star with American Samoa?
Right? At least that's what (almost) everybody keeps telling me. "We need government to regulate business because a free market doesn't work, as we discovered with the current recession." Utah's Legislature is just regulating the advertising market as it's "supposed" to do. They are doing their job, so where's the problem?
Nice attempt at a strawman using an absolute blanket statement (typical Repuglican tactic) but you're wrong. The free market usually works most of the time. Sometimes however regulation is an absolute necessity because companies only have one obligation and that is to make a profit.
Making a profit != Best interests of America
Consider the current economic mess the U.S. is in. I'll throw you this bone, it DID start under Clinton when he pressured Fannie/Freddie to loosen lending requirements to let more people borrow. Fannie and Freddie worked for so many years because they DID have such tight lending requirements.
When it became possible for everyone with a pulse to get a mortgage by not using Freddie/Fannie but with unregulated companies taking their place, you have the rise of the CDOs against mortgage backed securities and the problem with these CDOs is that they can be resold and resold countless times without regulation.
Credit Default Swaps written against these is ultimately what brought America into this. SO it's not a partisan issue although you could say with CDOs/CDS being sold for 8 years under Bush why they never looked into it.
It was pure greed. The system worked fine under Fannie/Freddie when the tight requirements (READ: REGULATION) was in place.
Here's another analogy since I can't write it in crayon for you.
Imagine that your neighbor buys his 16 year old son a $30,000 V8 Mustang to celebrate the kid's newly acquired driver's license. Say you think the kid is going to wreck the car, because you know what a reckless brat he is. So you take out an insurance policy for the value of his car. Only you don't take just one. You take 100, maybe 1000. Say everyone else in your neighborhood does the same thing, because there are no insurance regulations that prevent it. Now you have a $30,000 dollar unsecured asset insured for $300,000,000, underwritten by an entity with nowhere near the assets to cover all the bets if the kid wrecks the car. Throw short sellers into the mix, and you have some of the neighbors giving the kid a fifth of Jack Daniels before his Friday night date.
Sometimes regulation is a good thing.
Great! First Utah gives us Orrin Hatch and the DMCA and now this? Can the rest of America vote to replace Utah with Puerto Rico?
This is great news. The puritanical and backwards thinking of the W years has hurt America while other countries not hindered by superstition have moved ahead to become leaders in this field.
No wonder America has lost it's edge.Maybe we can get back to the godless heathen science that made us so great.
Please mod to -1. Offtopic for this thread (post error)
This is great news. The puritanical and backwards thinking of the W years has hurt America while other countries not hindered by superstition have moved ahead to become leaders in this field.
No wonder America has lost it's edge.Maybe we can get back to the godless heathen science that made us so great.
Apple is a publicly traded company and their only real obligation is making a profit for their shareholders. Yes that means facing some inconvenient truths about Apple like making iPods in the third world and being one of the most ungreen companies ever (to their credit they seem to be working on this). They also do a fair amount of lock in like closing Darwin (What? No one screaming about this? Yeah that's what I thought). In short, corporately speaking there isn't a difference between Microsoft and Apple.
Apple and Microsoft are both publicly traded companies and if Apple has a better product (which they do IMHO, I own a few MacBooks) then no problem. Apple shouldn't be afraid of competition.
It's important to not let the "Microsoft is Evil" and the Hipster-Doofus lovefest for Apple cloud the real issues.
More like Microsoft is evolving.
Remember when IBM was the Microsoft of it's day? Hated and reviled just like Microsoft? Ultimately companies that create standards eventually become companies that contribute to them. The transition is never that simple of course, there's always a bunch of FUD and kicking and screaming but once reality sets in you realize that you have to co-exist. Once IBM learned this lesson they became ok guys and then Microsoft became the bad guy.
I think Microsoft has finally realized that they indeed also need to start playing nice with Linux and that it isn't going away. Is anyone really worried now about Microsoft killing open source anymore? I mean really?
Now news is more about finding an outlet that validates one's political viewpoints
Regarding validating political viewpoints, this is more in regards to Fox than any "liberal media" conspiracy.
Ah the "liberal media".. sigh.
There's a big reason why you're wrong about this. Although reporters are overwhelmingly liberal, it's editors and publishers that decide what actually makes it on the air or in print.
No, more likely you are participating in the common sport from conservatives where, if something doesn't agree with your ideology, you attack the messenger instead of seeing the truth and through the use of clever labeling.
Here's a great example, conservative's use of the term "activist judges". Judges don't bow down to the public or popular whim, they interpret the constitution. So if they rule on something that doesn't agree with conservatives, the name calling begins.
For other clever labeling see the following...
Right to Life
Coalition of the Willing
Partial Birth Abortion
The list goes on and on... and you sir are full of shit.
News, at least in the U.S. died a long time ago.
Now news is more about finding an outlet that validates one's political viewpoints. Thank heavens I can watch BBC news for my world news and more relevant to this thread, read the Economist for my news needs. The Economist is print and I gladly plunk down the 120.00 to have it delivered.
The death of newspapers and print is due partly to the digital revolution but also due to the fact that the product just sucks ass. Compare Time magazine of today to Time magazine of 20 years ago.
And broadcast news? It's very sad when Britney Spers psychological state warrants more news coverage than genocides.
Edward R Murrow would be rolling in his grave...... if he weren't cremated.
Forcing customers to go someplace they don't want to go by raising prices is a Christmas present for Apple
/.ers agoing to say "There already IS good Linux for the desktop" to which I say "How about a *nix that's as good as OSX?".
Yep
and those that are positioning Linux on the desktop
Nope
I went to Apple precisely because I got tired of waiting on a good Linux for the Desktop. I know some
'nuff said. Sorry guys, we've been wanting this Linux on the desktop for years now. It's not happening. Thanks Apple!
You may mod me down now.
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