and it never helps anyone's political career to be on a losing presidential campaign.
There are numerous counterexamples (e.g. Richard Nixon) that prove your statement is nonsense. Most politicians have lost a race at one point in their career (Clinton lost a U.S. House race before he became governor of AR). Losing the first time and using the name recognition earned to win during a second try at the same or similar position is a standard way to run for most local, state, and national offices.
The problem with SOAP is that it is too underspecified to guarantee that all products can truly interoperate. When they finally make it complete enough to describe all of the interactions desired by vendors and their customers, they will find that they have rediscovered CORBA.
The same thing has happened with XML. The original XML spec was given out in a little blue-covered 20 page booklet at SGML 95. I would not be surprised today to find that the current XML spec is larger than the current SGML spec.
Not all of us believe that a fetus is a human. For the first three months, at least, and maybe well into the second trimester, a fetus is just a parasitic growth. I see nothing morally repugnant about killing parasites.
My father used to claim that he was in favor of abortion up until $AGE where $AGE = my age + 1. Now that I'm a father myself, I have begun to understand why.
What really counts is not the amount of experience, but whether you have learned anything from that experience. McCain is committed to making the same mistakes all over again. McCain has demonstrated that has learned nothing useful from all of that experience.
Have you ever tried to boil a frog in this fashion? The experiments to show if it is possible are inconclusive.
Professor Doug Melton, Harvard University Biology Department, says, "If you put a frog in boiling water, it won't jump out. It will die. If you put it in cold water, it will jump before it gets hot -- they don't sit still for you."
$45K/year is about what the average household income is in the U.S. Now substitute venture capitalist for recording company in the article. What does the average guy who started a software company get? About the same deal as this mythical band got. The band didn't have to take the contract. Neither does the software engineer. Both can try to make it on their own by growing their customer base organically. But if you decide to take the man's money in order to shortcut the process, why do you think that you are entitled to the riches? It was the VC or recording company that took the risk that you were going to be a flop. It isn't your money that is being risked, it is theirs.
Are you suggesting farm subsidies for Kansas and Nebraska are the price New Yorkers and Californians must pay to avoid tyranny? Sounds like Danegeld to me. I think I'd rather place my trust in rule of law by one-man one-vote majority with guarantees for the civil liberties of individuals such as found in the Bill of Rights rather than have a system where the populous states are forced to pay off tiny minorities who have been granted a disproportionate influence because they happen to live in, say, Rhode Island. What you call a firewall against tyranny is itself just a different kind of tyrannic minority rule based on arbitrary geographic boundaries decided on by drunk surveyors.
Nope, they just were not paying attention or else thought we weren't. They'd bought a number of seats from us and then bought another company whereupon they proceeded to install our app on the desktops of the acquired company without paying us as the contract stipulated. This was 10 years ago. They obviously did not learn much in the interim about the importance of proper record keeping. They made a few too many subprime liar loans in the past 5 years with very little paperwork asked from their borrowers. This has cost them about $30 billion give or take so far.
I wonder how many households are breaking that law. Laboratory glassware makes great kitchen ware. These make nice containers for salad dressing, these are useful for decanting wine, and no kitchen is complete without a set of these. Real kitchen hackers like Alton Brown might even have a set of these in their kitchen.
In a major corporation, fear of massive fines and prosecution is enough to stop them from pirating your software.
Not true. I worked for a smallish software companies that had their software replicated in at least one large customer installation well beyond the number of seats that were actually paid for. When confronted, the reaction was "so sue us..." We eventually settled for about 1/10 of what we would have made if they had obeyed the license terms because the cost of litigation coupled with the delay tactics they could have used would have meant that we would be out of business long before the court case was over. Size just means that they have more resources to defend their slimy actions.
You haven't posted any facts. You've just ranted and made some assertions. Assertions are not the same thing as facts. Declaring that anyone who doesn't agree with you is brainwashed is a case of the rhetorical fallacy known as Begging the Question.
Of the counties mentioned where votes were dropped, Cuyahoga (Cleveland area) is overwhelmingly Democratic. Butler (Cincinnati suburbs) and Montgomery (Dayton), OTOH, are much more Republican.
What we need is an Open Inspections of Electronic Voting Machines Act which would require that any citizen be allowed to inspect the software and security process/procedures used in any electronic voting machine. The manufacturer would still be allowed to copyright the software so that competitors could not copy it. This would go a long way toward convincing me that such machines were trustworthy.
I'm not sure that most voters really care, though. In the recent OH primary, voters were allowed to ask for a paper ballot if they didn't trust the machines. I was the only voter in my precinct who used a paper ballot.
No, the case law understands that there are numerous distinctions that are too subtle for a wiki article. At this point, you'll have to go to a labor law textbook.
How much are the Chamber of Commerce and the Republican Party paying you? You sound like a typical Republican. You can't win based on facts, so you resort to calling the messenger a liar. The cold hard truth is that 90% of union members are quite satisfied with their union. That is a fact backed up by cold hard evidence (see link above). You have yet to offer a single fact, just a very poorly written jumbled opinion.
It didn't pass. Do you know why?
Yes, because (Watch out! Here comes another one of those inconvenient facts!) unions have a 64% approval rating among the general population in the Western U.S. (see previous survey). Never mind, you'll just hand wave that away by saying 64% of the population is brainwashed.
You are an anti-union bigot. No one has misquoted you. Those were your very words. You don't like the fact that employees have voluntarily banded together into an organization, democratically selected the leaders for their organization, and have authorized those leaders to spend their dues on political lobbying. You seem to believe that this is extortion and bribery. But the U.S. Constitution clearly guarantees the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. Your attempt to separate union members from their union organization is inane. The fact remains that 90% of union members are happy with their union organization.
The organizations today which CALL THEMSELVES UNIONS are actually just extorting money from the workers in return for nothing of value!
Now you have switched and admit unions are providing benefits but that people who have voluntarily banded together and who have struggled hard to obtain some benefit should be forced to give the same benefit to someone who did nothing. TANSTAAFL.
Yes, I get it quite plainly. You are an anti-union bigot who has formed an opinion about something they know very little about.
Let me see if I understand what you said. People who belong to unions and who have a positive regard for their union are brainwashed because they don't have the same low regard for the benefits of that union as you do even though you have likely never belonged to a union and therefore have little or no understanding of what a union does for its membership.
You can learn a lot by listening to people talk. Why everything I know today I've learned from listening to myself talk about things that I knew absolutely nothing about.
I'll bet that you don't belong to a union, have no experience as a union employee, and are just shooting your mouth off. The folks that I know who do belong to unions are quite proud of their unions and the benefits they receive. Polls consistently show that over 90% of union members regard their union positively.
It had everything to do with sharing. Please read the debates that were going on in the early 1990s between particle physicists and others who stood to lose funding. Yes, it would have been nice if the $2 billion had not been spent, but go read up on the concept of sunk cost to understand why that $2 billion already spent was not relevant when deciding whether to spend still more.
But critics say big projects drain funds from small-scale research vital to the creation of new products and jobs and often to the advance of science itself.
"Big science has gone berserk," said Dr. Rustum Roy, professor of materials science at Pennsylvania State University, who is an adviser to the House Committee on Science. "Good minds and a lot of money are going into areas that are not relevant to American competitiveness, American technological health, or even the balanced development of American science."
Dr. George F. Chapline, a physicist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, said the trend bodes ill for the nation. "It is very questionable whether these projects will contribute much to stopping America's industrial decline, and may even exacerbate it," he said.
Moreover, the big instruments can take so long to plan and build, sometimes a decade or more, that they are sometimes seen as obsolete when switched on because science now moves so fast. Perhaps most troubling, this same lag is seen as causing bright graduate students to abandon some fields now dominated by giant instruments as they search for timely projects on which to base their Ph.D. research.
Disclaimer: My father got his start in accelerator physics where he helped design this so our family has some experience with unexpected funding cutbacks.
Great. Now the nitrates are washed off by rainwater where it gets into the groundwater. The Dutch already have a significant problem with nitrate polluted groundwater due to farm animal wastes. The country has about 15 million people (versus about 8 million in Georgia) living in an area about a fourth the size of Georgia. They share the land with 4.7 million cattle, 13.4 million pigs, 44 million laying hens, 41 million broilers, and 1.7 million sheep. Altogether, those animals produce three to four times more manure than is needed to fertilize the country. The nitrate pollution problem is large enough and environmental regs are becoming strict enough that Dutch farmers are moving to midwest states in the U.S. with Right-To-Farm laws and far fewer environmental regs on farms. Dutch owned factory farm egg operations have caused several significant waste runoff problems in Ohio. Tell me again how this new fangled concrete solves the nitrate problem?
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and it never helps anyone's political career to be on a losing presidential campaign.
There are numerous counterexamples (e.g. Richard Nixon) that prove your statement is nonsense. Most politicians have lost a race at one point in their career (Clinton lost a U.S. House race before he became governor of AR). Losing the first time and using the name recognition earned to win during a second try at the same or similar position is a standard way to run for most local, state, and national offices.
My VP-6 w/ 2x 1Ghz PIII is still my main home PC. My board fortunately seems to have dodged the stolen-formula Taiwanese capacitor problem that plagued Abit and others around 1999/2000 and led to a class action suit and settlement.
The problem with SOAP is that it is too underspecified to guarantee that all products can truly interoperate. When they finally make it complete enough to describe all of the interactions desired by vendors and their customers, they will find that they have rediscovered CORBA.
The same thing has happened with XML. The original XML spec was given out in a little blue-covered 20 page booklet at SGML 95. I would not be surprised today to find that the current XML spec is larger than the current SGML spec.
Can you say Slippery Slope Fallacy?
Not all of us believe that a fetus is a human. For the first three months, at least, and maybe well into the second trimester, a fetus is just a parasitic growth. I see nothing morally repugnant about killing parasites.
My father used to claim that he was in favor of abortion up until $AGE where $AGE = my age + 1. Now that I'm a father myself, I have begun to understand why.
What really counts is not the amount of experience, but whether you have learned anything from that experience. McCain is committed to making the same mistakes all over again. McCain has demonstrated that has learned nothing useful from all of that experience.
Have you ever tried to boil a frog in this fashion? The experiments to show if it is possible are inconclusive.
Professor Doug Melton, Harvard University Biology Department, says, "If you put a frog in boiling water, it won't jump out. It will die. If you put it in cold water, it will jump before it gets hot -- they don't sit still for you."
My guess is the quote is from this guy.
$45K/year is about what the average household income is in the U.S. Now substitute venture capitalist for recording company in the article. What does the average guy who started a software company get? About the same deal as this mythical band got. The band didn't have to take the contract. Neither does the software engineer. Both can try to make it on their own by growing their customer base organically. But if you decide to take the man's money in order to shortcut the process, why do you think that you are entitled to the riches? It was the VC or recording company that took the risk that you were going to be a flop. It isn't your money that is being risked, it is theirs.
Are you suggesting farm subsidies for Kansas and Nebraska are the price New Yorkers and Californians must pay to avoid tyranny? Sounds like Danegeld to me. I think I'd rather place my trust in rule of law by one-man one-vote majority with guarantees for the civil liberties of individuals such as found in the Bill of Rights rather than have a system where the populous states are forced to pay off tiny minorities who have been granted a disproportionate influence because they happen to live in, say, Rhode Island. What you call a firewall against tyranny is itself just a different kind of tyrannic minority rule based on arbitrary geographic boundaries decided on by drunk surveyors.
The next stage is to flood the internet with random data.
Some of us have been doing that for years.
Nope, they just were not paying attention or else thought we weren't. They'd bought a number of seats from us and then bought another company whereupon they proceeded to install our app on the desktops of the acquired company without paying us as the contract stipulated. This was 10 years ago. They obviously did not learn much in the interim about the importance of proper record keeping. They made a few too many subprime liar loans in the past 5 years with very little paperwork asked from their borrowers. This has cost them about $30 billion give or take so far.
I wonder how many households are breaking that law. Laboratory glassware makes great kitchen ware. These make nice containers for salad dressing, these are useful for decanting wine, and no kitchen is complete without a set of these. Real kitchen hackers like Alton Brown might even have a set of these in their kitchen.
In a major corporation, fear of massive fines and prosecution is enough to stop them from pirating your software.
Not true. I worked for a smallish software companies that had their software replicated in at least one large customer installation well beyond the number of seats that were actually paid for. When confronted, the reaction was "so sue us..." We eventually settled for about 1/10 of what we would have made if they had obeyed the license terms because the cost of litigation coupled with the delay tactics they could have used would have meant that we would be out of business long before the court case was over. Size just means that they have more resources to defend their slimy actions.
Everyone else understands that it will be a gradual process of attrition.
Everyone except their shareholders.
You haven't posted any facts. You've just ranted and made some assertions. Assertions are not the same thing as facts. Declaring that anyone who doesn't agree with you is brainwashed is a case of the rhetorical fallacy known as Begging the Question.
Of the counties mentioned where votes were dropped, Cuyahoga (Cleveland area) is overwhelmingly Democratic. Butler (Cincinnati suburbs) and Montgomery (Dayton), OTOH, are much more Republican.
What we need is an Open Inspections of Electronic Voting Machines Act which would require that any citizen be allowed to inspect the software and security process/procedures used in any electronic voting machine. The manufacturer would still be allowed to copyright the software so that competitors could not copy it. This would go a long way toward convincing me that such machines were trustworthy.
I'm not sure that most voters really care, though. In the recent OH primary, voters were allowed to ask for a paper ballot if they didn't trust the machines. I was the only voter in my precinct who used a paper ballot.
No, the case law understands that there are numerous distinctions that are too subtle for a wiki article. At this point, you'll have to go to a labor law textbook.
How much are the Chamber of Commerce and the Republican Party paying you? You sound like a typical Republican. You can't win based on facts, so you resort to calling the messenger a liar. The cold hard truth is that 90% of union members are quite satisfied with their union. That is a fact backed up by cold hard evidence (see link above). You have yet to offer a single fact, just a very poorly written jumbled opinion.
It didn't pass. Do you know why?
Yes, because (Watch out! Here comes another one of those inconvenient facts!) unions have a 64% approval rating among the general population in the Western U.S. (see previous survey). Never mind, you'll just hand wave that away by saying 64% of the population is brainwashed.
You are an anti-union bigot. No one has misquoted you. Those were your very words. You don't like the fact that employees have voluntarily banded together into an organization, democratically selected the leaders for their organization, and have authorized those leaders to spend their dues on political lobbying. You seem to believe that this is extortion and bribery. But the U.S. Constitution clearly guarantees the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. Your attempt to separate union members from their union organization is inane. The fact remains that 90% of union members are happy with their union organization.
Closed shops were made illegal in the U.S. 60 years ago.
You made the demonstrably ignorant claim that:
The organizations today which CALL THEMSELVES UNIONS are actually just extorting money from the workers in return for nothing of value!
Now you have switched and admit unions are providing benefits but that people who have voluntarily banded together and who have struggled hard to obtain some benefit should be forced to give the same benefit to someone who did nothing. TANSTAAFL.
Yes, I get it quite plainly. You are an anti-union bigot who has formed an opinion about something they know very little about.
Let me see if I understand what you said. People who belong to unions and who have a positive regard for their union are brainwashed because they don't have the same low regard for the benefits of that union as you do even though you have likely never belonged to a union and therefore have little or no understanding of what a union does for its membership.
Gracie Allen once said:
You can learn a lot by listening to people talk. Why everything I know today I've learned from listening to myself talk about things that I knew absolutely nothing about.
Seems to apply well to you.
I'll bet that you don't belong to a union, have no experience as a union employee, and are just shooting your mouth off. The folks that I know who do belong to unions are quite proud of their unions and the benefits they receive. Polls consistently show that over 90% of union members regard their union positively.
It had everything to do with sharing. Please read the debates that were going on in the early 1990s between particle physicists and others who stood to lose funding. Yes, it would have been nice if the $2 billion had not been spent, but go read up on the concept of sunk cost to understand why that $2 billion already spent was not relevant when deciding whether to spend still more.
But critics say big projects drain funds from small-scale research vital to the creation of new products and jobs and often to the advance of science itself.
"Big science has gone berserk," said Dr. Rustum Roy, professor of materials science at Pennsylvania State University, who is an adviser to the House Committee on Science. "Good minds and a lot of money are going into areas that are not relevant to American competitiveness, American technological health, or even the balanced development of American science."
Dr. George F. Chapline, a physicist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, said the trend bodes ill for the nation. "It is very questionable whether these projects will contribute much to stopping America's industrial decline, and may even exacerbate it," he said.
Moreover, the big instruments can take so long to plan and build, sometimes a decade or more, that they are sometimes seen as obsolete when switched on because science now moves so fast. Perhaps most troubling, this same lag is seen as causing bright graduate students to abandon some fields now dominated by giant instruments as they search for timely projects on which to base their Ph.D. research.
Disclaimer: My father got his start in accelerator physics where he helped design this so our family has some experience with unexpected funding cutbacks.
Great. Now the nitrates are washed off by rainwater where it gets into the groundwater. The Dutch already have a significant problem with nitrate polluted groundwater due to farm animal wastes. The country has about 15 million people (versus about 8 million in Georgia) living in an area about a fourth the size of Georgia. They share the land with 4.7 million cattle, 13.4 million pigs, 44 million laying hens, 41 million broilers, and 1.7 million sheep. Altogether, those animals produce three to four times more manure than is needed to fertilize the country. The nitrate pollution problem is large enough and environmental regs are becoming strict enough that Dutch farmers are moving to midwest states in the U.S. with Right-To-Farm laws and far fewer environmental regs on farms. Dutch owned factory farm egg operations have caused several significant waste runoff problems in Ohio. Tell me again how this new fangled concrete solves the nitrate problem?