Now if you want to talk about racism, let's talk about my favourite sport, American Football, where you have the Washington Redskins a team with an overtly racist name and racist mascot. Would a team called the LA Niggers or the Miami Dagos be acceptable? No? Then why is the Washington Redskins, a name that's offensive and derogatory towards Native Americans, OK? How about the Kansas City Chiefs? And the mascot for the Cleveland Indians?
I'd love to see the LA Niggers, if only to see how people try and dance around the team name. Would they publish the scores as LA N****rs, blur out the name, or add some filter that turns it into 'La Attractive and successful African Americans'?
Anyway, it wouldn't be the Miami Dagos, It's be the Boston DAgos and the Miami Spics. Get your racial slurs right.
Have you ever noticed how quickly major pieces of software are cracked after release? My guess is that they unofficially provide people with information to make this possible.
Some of those cracked copies are used by legitimate customers to get around onerous copy-protection code.
Where is this documented? I can see special forces doing this, but not regular troops. The two weapons sound rather different and in the heat of battle one would run the possibility of being shot by their comrades. You are more or less trading off one evil for another, no?
I don't know about vietnam, but the guys in Iraq sure seem to like the AK.
Suppose I fly into your town and take a ten mile taxi ride from the airport into downtown wherever, but instead of paying the taxi driver, I jump out and run for it when we arrive. I have deprived him of no physical property, nor do I possess anything of his. Have I done anything wrong? Did I commit a crime? What crime? Make sure you exclude any mention of potential lost revenue in your explanation, and be sure to detail exactly how something of his has had its value diminished.
You're kidding, right? Skipping out on a fare is breach of contract, not theft. You haven't stolen anything, but you have defaulted on a service contract - transportation for money.
Even worse is that they outsourced the compilation of the list to a private company...
Who then purged all former felons from the rolls, even those who have the right to vote (i.e. felons in new york). After this came to light, Jeb demanded that they petition their original state to have their right restored, and new york said that they hadn't lost the right in the first place, so they couldn't restore it. It reads like something Kafka deammt up.
The reason that they don't choose an open source implementation is not because it isn't cost effective. It's because the IT department isn't smart enough to do it.
Close, but not quite. The IT department has a canned set of solutions based on the prejudices of whoever runs the place, and he usually formed those prejudices back when he was young. That's why you don't let IT do anything that requires innovation.
Now apoligize for not reading my comment more carefully.
No thank you. Your post tarred all of IT with the same brush, implying that we are, as a group, talenless hacks who have an inflated sense of self worth.
I'm ready for when most IT workers lose the attitude of super genius because they can install a modem (who uses a modem?).
Sure thing, Skippy. Pull your head out and look around. The people that deserve the big bucks do more than hardware monkey work. They manage the network, install automated monitoring software that tells them when shit breaks, automate backups, implement disaster recovery, handle network security, do load testing and performance tuning for enterprise apps, and generally keep the company running.
So, A G5 running at 2.5GHz can't be compared to an Athlon running at 2.5GHz on clock speed alone, for example.
However, if you look at Apple's rigged demo (the photoshop test), there's almost a factor of two difference. It's probably not quite that extreme for the rest of the system, but it looks like G5s are faster than the AMD64, clock for clock. Or, they could be the same speed, but the pshop filter is multithreaded.
The complex of agreed upon treaties and the laws enacted by the various signatories thereof are what comprises "international law".
First off, don't quote the dictionary as evidence of anything other than common usage. It just makes you look like an ass. Second, international law differs from other kinds of law in that it is largely unenforced on member states. As another poster pointed out, there is no world government. It's more like a bunch of unruly kids in a sandbox.
However, international treaty is held to supersede the constitution, thus conveniently bypassing any constitutional protections in place.
In what dreamworld? the constitution is the supreme law. International treaties themselves are just paper - it is only local laws that implement those treaties that hold any force, and they are also subject to the constitution.
Bottom line : ALL the worst corporate abuses from Enron to Tyco to Martha Stewart to Computer Associates ALL took place under the super sleazy, super corrupt Democratic Party Clinton administration.
One name: Michael Milken.
Its the great Goerge Bush who's had to come in and clean up the terrible mess left by the Clinton sleaze bucket.
Is this the same guy who doesn't read newspapers, or even his father's book? He certainly proved his dad right, though.
Which administration did the Time Warner/Turner merger take place in? Which administration was the AOL Time Warner merger first proposed? Which administration allowed SBC to gobble up the majority of the former Baby Bell telcos? T'was not the George W. Bush Administration.
When did the infamous freshman Republicans show up and halt the federal budget for a month? What year did congress declare that profit was the only measure of corporate success? Just because a democrat is in the whitehouse doesn't mean that there aren't a big pile on congresscritters doing everything they can to take him down (along with their usual antics).
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Now if you want to talk about racism, let's talk about my favourite sport, American Football, where you have the Washington Redskins a team with an overtly racist name and racist mascot. Would a team called the LA Niggers or the Miami Dagos be acceptable? No? Then why is the Washington Redskins, a name that's offensive and derogatory towards Native Americans, OK? How about the Kansas City Chiefs? And the mascot for the Cleveland Indians?
I'd love to see the LA Niggers, if only to see how people try and dance around the team name. Would they publish the scores as LA N****rs, blur out the name, or add some filter that turns it into 'La Attractive and successful African Americans'?
Anyway, it wouldn't be the Miami Dagos, It's be the Boston DAgos and the Miami Spics. Get your racial slurs right.
OK, then how about premeditated versus non-premeditated murder versus murder in self defense.
There's no such think as murder in self defense - if it's legitimate self defense, then it's just killing.
Have you ever noticed how quickly major pieces of software are cracked after release? My guess is that they unofficially provide people with information to make this possible.
Some of those cracked copies are used by legitimate customers to get around onerous copy-protection code.
In addition... On average, a city pays $50/ton to throw away garbage.... and $150+/ton to recycle it.
Back when DC had a recycling program, it cost less, per unit weight, than the trash disposal program. Of course, they shut it down, citing cost.
Where is this documented? I can see special forces doing this, but not regular troops. The two weapons sound rather different and in the heat of battle one would run the possibility of being shot by their comrades. You are more or less trading off one evil for another, no?
I don't know about vietnam, but the guys in Iraq sure seem to like the AK.
It becomes immediately obvious that small planes are attracted to golf courses like tornadoes to trailer parks.
What better place to land a small plane with engine trouble? Also, this is why all Air Force bases have large golf courses around the runways.
in my Japanese history class (well no shit I'd hear about it there)
Ironically, world war 2 is little known in Japan itself.
The casualties are noteworthy because they're the only people killed inside the United States by a foreign military since the Brits burned DC in 1812.
Didn't the Canadians come after us later in the 1800s after we failed to properly invade them>
Suppose I fly into your town and take a ten mile taxi ride from the airport into downtown wherever, but instead of paying the taxi driver, I jump out and run for it when we arrive. I have deprived him of no physical property, nor do I possess anything of his. Have I done anything wrong? Did I commit a crime? What crime? Make sure you exclude any mention of potential lost revenue in your explanation, and be sure to detail exactly how something of his has had its value diminished.
You're kidding, right? Skipping out on a fare is breach of contract, not theft. You haven't stolen anything, but you have defaulted on a service contract - transportation for money.
You mean 8 [and not 4?]. This is a computer, you're legally bound to use a power of 2.
And this got a 5 insightful, how?
Even worse is that they outsourced the compilation of the list to a private company...
Who then purged all former felons from the rolls, even those who have the right to vote (i.e. felons in new york). After this came to light, Jeb demanded that they petition their original state to have their right restored, and new york said that they hadn't lost the right in the first place, so they couldn't restore it. It reads like something Kafka deammt up.
Pray that East India doesn't treat you the way Dow treated those East Indian citizens during that little chemical accident a few years back...
Would that be the chemical accident where DOW was required to use locals instead of their own trained personnel?
The quote was given in the play as a description of the ideal community if one were king. Part of that ideal is to kill all the lawyers.
You're reading too much into it. That quote was from the drunken ravings of a criminal - of course he wants to do away with all of the lawyers.
That would have been Berkeley then, no? Home of LSD and UNIX IIRC.
You must be thinking of some other Unix (and LSD, too). Unix came from ATT. LSD came from Austria.
The reason that they don't choose an open source implementation is not because it isn't cost effective. It's because the IT department isn't smart enough to do it.
Close, but not quite. The IT department has a canned set of solutions based on the prejudices of whoever runs the place, and he usually formed those prejudices back when he was young. That's why you don't let IT do anything that requires innovation.
How do you explain 5.6% unemployment? The same number that Clinton had that everyone called "great."
they recently stopped counting you as unemployed after about 18 months, so if you don't have a job, you aren't counted in the stats.
Now apoligize for not reading my comment more carefully.
No thank you. Your post tarred all of IT with the same brush, implying that we are, as a group, talenless hacks who have an inflated sense of self worth.
I'm ready for when most IT workers lose the attitude of super genius because they can install a modem (who uses a modem?).
Sure thing, Skippy. Pull your head out and look around. The people that deserve the big bucks do more than hardware monkey work. They manage the network, install automated monitoring software that tells them when shit breaks, automate backups, implement disaster recovery, handle network security, do load testing and performance tuning for enterprise apps, and generally keep the company running.
I've heard stories that certain companies provide their extensions to the Linux kernel as binary-only modules with "GPL" shim layers into them
Nvidia does this with its graphics cards, but I wouldn't call a driver an extension to the kernel.
So, A G5 running at 2.5GHz can't be compared to an Athlon running at 2.5GHz on clock speed alone, for example.
However, if you look at Apple's rigged demo (the photoshop test), there's almost a factor of two difference. It's probably not quite that extreme for the rest of the system, but it looks like G5s are faster than the AMD64, clock for clock. Or, they could be the same speed, but the pshop filter is multithreaded.
The complex of agreed upon treaties and the laws enacted by the various signatories thereof are what comprises "international law".
First off, don't quote the dictionary as evidence of anything other than common usage. It just makes you look like an ass. Second, international law differs from other kinds of law in that it is largely unenforced on member states. As another poster pointed out, there is no world government. It's more like a bunch of unruly kids in a sandbox.
However, international treaty is held to supersede the constitution, thus conveniently bypassing any constitutional protections in place.
In what dreamworld? the constitution is the supreme law. International treaties themselves are just paper - it is only local laws that implement those treaties that hold any force, and they are also subject to the constitution.
Bottom line : ALL the worst corporate abuses from Enron to Tyco to Martha Stewart to Computer Associates ALL took place under the super sleazy, super corrupt Democratic Party Clinton administration.
One name: Michael Milken.
Its the great Goerge Bush who's had to come in and clean up the terrible mess left by the Clinton sleaze bucket.
Is this the same guy who doesn't read newspapers, or even his father's book? He certainly proved his dad right, though.
Which administration did the Time Warner/Turner merger take place in? Which administration was the AOL Time Warner merger first proposed? Which administration allowed SBC to gobble up the majority of the former Baby Bell telcos? T'was not the George W. Bush Administration.
When did the infamous freshman Republicans show up and halt the federal budget for a month? What year did congress declare that profit was the only measure of corporate success? Just because a democrat is in the whitehouse doesn't mean that there aren't a big pile on congresscritters doing everything they can to take him down (along with their usual antics).
The guys who have been around for 5 years are either psychotic or illiterate. Or both.
If they weren't when they got here, they are now.