...We seem to bend over backwards for the US at this point,... We request that you to bend over the other way to simplify future interactions.
Thank you for your cooperation.
But it is so galling that these idiots who claim to want to defend the country see no problems with attempting to dismantle the very things that MAKE this country what it is. Where is this disconnect happening in their heads? I put this to my young sons:
Somebody wants to take your favorite toy. You could break it apart is small pieces and bury those pieces in the ground so they can't find it. Now I have 2 questions:
1) Is your toy now safe? They both answered yes. 2) Did you protect your toy? They both answered no.
A 4 and a 7 year old get it, why can't the idiot neocons?
I agree, but this is one of those really difficult problems as it requires drawing a "line" and the line is arbitrary.
Take this (completely made up but potentially real) situation:
A bar is required to be handicapped accessible. In that bar is a mechanical bull. If the bar is ADA compliant, shouldn't the bull be too? Isn't it arbitrary exclusion to the wheelchair bound to not be able to ride the bull?
Admittedly, this is a goofy case but it displays how difficult it is to draw the line. It certainly makes sense to have things like municipal offices, etc handicapped accessible, but does everything need to be? A handicap by definition means that some mediums are going to inaccessible to you.
The ADA over-represents a minority, but its intent is good. One main problem is its treatment of a failure to consider this minority constituting active discrimination.
And because the line is so hard to draw you end up with some really goofy extensions. I lived in Naperville, IL and at one point they were considering requiring that all new home built be ADA compliant. So if you built a house, and were not handicapped you would still be required to comply (at significant additional cost and a with a serious restriction in design options).
To the OP, web access for the blind is certainly good but is it an inalienable right? I thought the way things worked was that the market sorts it out. One store has an accessible website, one doesn't so the first store gets the blind folks business, simple as that. How/when has that changed?
Man walks into a doctor with stomach pain and a a fever. The doctor (who has not seen him previously) examines him.
"Mr. Johnson, you have a appendicitis. Your appendix will have to come out or it will kill you."
With that the doctor grabs a scalpel, pushes the patient down and carves out his appendix. The vestigial organ is somewhat inflamed, but not in danger of bursting. It certainly should have been removed, but there was time. The patient dies.
[the curtain falls]
What connection does our little vignette have?
Well, in the big picture, the doctor did do the right thing. Did that make the outcome good?
Of course not. He had no history, he had no patience, he had woefully incomplete information and understanding.
THAT is what the administration did wrong. Removing Hussein arguably falls into the "good"category. But their justifications and the manner in which they went about it have been terribly, horribly flawed and resulted it the hideous morass we are stuck in now.
As for "nothing went wrong", please remove your head from the orifice it is in before you run out of air and hurt yourself.
This has got to be the 5th or 6th reference I have seen to this in 2 days. Who is pushing it? Generally some lone nut is not going to get this much media play.
That is what I thought. What, I don't have to use the bloated fancy graphic system that will eat cycles and waste my time with pointless fades, transitions, lens flares, etc?
And this is bad for me how? Isn't it Aero that would be forcing machine upgrades? MS really has its head deep in its orifice this time.
To expand on this (was shooting for FP), just how much money has this idiot wasted on POINTLESS records? Its one thing to actually push the envelope in a useful fashion, something that actually advances us. But this douchebag is setting records of the 19th century. What is the point? You want to be remembered for something Fosset? How about using the money to help somebody out instead.
Agreed. I certainly expect it pan out to nothing, but if there is something to look at, the discoverer is doing the right thing by placing it up for review (unlike Fleischman (sp?) & Pons). If there is nothing, it will shake out as such.
I don't get the problem. The story is the thing. I couldn't care less if it were Charles Manson submitting in the story is relevant and interesting. Who the submitter is DOES NOT MATTER.
The critical point you are missing here is that the scientific method is used in the "observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanation of phenomena".
ID does not, it is just a "hope" (can't remember who I heard term it this way, but I think it captures it well). ID is just bunch of guys effectively going "Nuh-uh".
There are areas of evolution that we don't fully understand and there is the (uberultraslim) chance that as understanding increases that evolutionary theory will be abandoned in favor of some better theory. If that is where the evidence leads, so be it. But I think the more likely is the continued refinement of evolutionary theory is what he future holds.
And that is where the difference lies. I, as an adherent to reason and science, am willing to change my belief based on evidence. The ID doofs cling tenaciously to their fantasy regardless.
Computer Associates (at least when I was there. Oh my am I happy that I am not now) had the same retarded system. I was on a team that busted our behinds to create a PC version of a highly complex mainframe app and everyone on the team was really good, but somebody had to get rated low. Wasn't me, but it sucked ever so much...
DoubleClick says that it is 'developing technology that will enable pop-up ads to evade the blocking software.' Why isn't that surprising?"
How is this legal? I express a desire to no be bother with pop up ads. They keep working to find ways to intrude upon my time. Isn't this harrassment? If I tell someone to stop calling me, I can take action if they continue. But for some reason I have no recourse in this case.
"And I was to busy grinning ear to ear to notice any serious bloopers."
Anyone else out there catch themselves grinning like an idiot in the dark during these movies? I know I did.
I was worried when I heard they were being made that they couldn't live up to the material, but Mr. Jackson did himself proud.
Trumpet - Minutes to learn, lifetime to master. One of those games with rules so simple anyone can learn them, but enough random thrown in to make it impossible to ever get too much of an edge. Truly an excellent game.
Royalty - (OK its a card game) If you like Scrabble, you will love royalty
I have worked in "closed source development" shops all my professional life and have never encountered anything close to the extreme example presented in "If We Used a Closed Development Process".
This is just hyperbole and discredits the article to a large extent. Fighting hyperbole with hyperbole is not effective.
(again...the word of the day is HYPERBOLE)
One of the most mind boggling was a recent M$ ad campaign where they provided a "cut out" BSOD that you could tape on your monitor "in case you missed them".
I could not believe the gall that would be required for M$ to taunt is own users for being so stupid as to have used a previous version of their OS.
Good xmas bonuses, bad xmas bonuses.
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Good bonuses I have received:
1) $1000
2) $5000
3) $10000
4) $25 grocery store gift certificate
5) Nothing (see below, as nothing is certainly better then the bad bonuses)
Bad bonuses:
1) a box of the ugliest flowers (I use the term loosely) I have seen. They were from Hawii and had to be at least $100, I did a little research.
2) A (wait for it) small dietetic fruit/snack basket. And bad, sugarless, flavorless snacks at that.
There are others, but the bad ones really stand out. The were both from a company that "Flip" used to run and sold to CA. I found them insulting and incredibly stupid. Better to have gotten nothing.
To the original poster, $1500 is a very nice bonus. Its enough to make a dent in bills or to buy something nice. That makes it a good indication of appreciation.
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...We seem to bend over backwards for the US at this point,... We request that you to bend over the other way to simplify future interactions. Thank you for your cooperation.Well perhaps not force (if it can be helped).
But it is so galling that these idiots who claim to want to defend the country see no problems with attempting to dismantle the very things that MAKE this country what it is. Where is this disconnect happening in their heads? I put this to my young sons:
Somebody wants to take your favorite toy. You could break it apart is small pieces and bury those pieces in the ground so they can't find it. Now I have 2 questions:
1) Is your toy now safe? They both answered yes.
2) Did you protect your toy? They both answered no.
A 4 and a 7 year old get it, why can't the idiot neocons?
Said the man making his point with proper spelling and sentence construction.
I agree, but this is one of those really difficult problems as it requires drawing a "line" and the line is arbitrary.
Take this (completely made up but potentially real) situation:
A bar is required to be handicapped accessible. In that bar is a mechanical bull. If the bar is ADA compliant, shouldn't the bull be too? Isn't it arbitrary exclusion to the wheelchair bound to not be able to ride the bull?
Admittedly, this is a goofy case but it displays how difficult it is to draw the line. It certainly makes sense to have things like municipal offices, etc handicapped accessible, but does everything need to be? A handicap by definition means that some mediums are going to inaccessible to you.
The ADA over-represents a minority, but its intent is good. One main problem is its treatment of a failure to consider this minority constituting active discrimination.
And because the line is so hard to draw you end up with some really goofy extensions. I lived in Naperville, IL and at one point they were considering requiring that all new home built be ADA compliant. So if you built a house, and were not handicapped you would still be required to comply (at significant additional cost and a with a serious restriction in design options).
To the OP, web access for the blind is certainly good but is it an inalienable right? I thought the way things worked was that the market sorts it out. One store has an accessible website, one doesn't so the first store gets the blind folks business, simple as that. How/when has that changed?
It was on Digg (that brain damaged half child of Slashdot) too.
"As quantum networking takes off"...WTF? I like to imagine the future as well but come on...
[the curtain raises]
Man walks into a doctor with stomach pain and a a fever. The doctor (who has not seen him previously) examines him.
"Mr. Johnson, you have a appendicitis. Your appendix will have to come out or it will kill you."
With that the doctor grabs a scalpel, pushes the patient down and carves out his appendix. The vestigial organ is somewhat inflamed, but not in danger of bursting. It certainly should have been removed, but there was time. The patient dies.
[the curtain falls]
What connection does our little vignette have?
Well, in the big picture, the doctor did do the right thing. Did that make the outcome good?
Of course not. He had no history, he had no patience, he had woefully incomplete information and understanding.
THAT is what the administration did wrong. Removing Hussein arguably falls into the "good"category. But their justifications and the manner in which they went about it have been terribly, horribly flawed and resulted it the hideous morass we are stuck in now.
As for "nothing went wrong", please remove your head from the orifice it is in before you run out of air and hurt yourself.
For the record...I think it's stoopid.
OK. That was lame, unlike your comment. I would have given you a point if I had any right now.
And actually, O'Reilly is on Gore's side on this. [cue the bizarro world music]
And this is bad for me how? Isn't it Aero that would be forcing machine upgrades? MS really has its head deep in its orifice this time.
To expand on this (was shooting for FP), just how much money has this idiot wasted on POINTLESS records? Its one thing to actually push the envelope in a useful fashion, something that actually advances us. But this douchebag is setting records of the 19th century. What is the point? You want to be remembered for something Fosset? How about using the money to help somebody out instead.
To reiterate...asshat.
What an asshat.
Agreed. I certainly expect it pan out to nothing, but if there is something to look at, the discoverer is doing the right thing by placing it up for review (unlike Fleischman (sp?) & Pons). If there is nothing, it will shake out as such.
I don't get the problem. The story is the thing. I couldn't care less if it were Charles Manson submitting in the story is relevant and interesting. Who the submitter is DOES NOT MATTER.
The critical point you are missing here is that the scientific method is used in the "observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanation of phenomena". ID does not, it is just a "hope" (can't remember who I heard term it this way, but I think it captures it well). ID is just bunch of guys effectively going "Nuh-uh". There are areas of evolution that we don't fully understand and there is the (uberultraslim) chance that as understanding increases that evolutionary theory will be abandoned in favor of some better theory. If that is where the evidence leads, so be it. But I think the more likely is the continued refinement of evolutionary theory is what he future holds. And that is where the difference lies. I, as an adherent to reason and science, am willing to change my belief based on evidence. The ID doofs cling tenaciously to their fantasy regardless.
Computer Associates (at least when I was there. Oh my am I happy that I am not now) had the same retarded system. I was on a team that busted our behinds to create a PC version of a highly complex mainframe app and everyone on the team was really good, but somebody had to get rated low. Wasn't me, but it sucked ever so much...
Close, but you misspelled it. Its: F-u-c-k-t-a-r-d
DoubleClick says that it is 'developing technology that will enable pop-up ads to evade the blocking software.' Why isn't that surprising?"
How is this legal? I express a desire to no be bother with pop up ads. They keep working to find ways to intrude upon my time. Isn't this harrassment? If I tell someone to stop calling me, I can take action if they continue. But for some reason I have no recourse in this case.
"And I was to busy grinning ear to ear to notice any serious bloopers." Anyone else out there catch themselves grinning like an idiot in the dark during these movies? I know I did. I was worried when I heard they were being made that they couldn't live up to the material, but Mr. Jackson did himself proud.
Trumpet - Minutes to learn, lifetime to master. One of those games with rules so simple anyone can learn them, but enough random thrown in to make it impossible to ever get too much of an edge. Truly an excellent game. Royalty - (OK its a card game) If you like Scrabble, you will love royalty
Hear hear! Excellent game that has wasted many an hour with friends. Constantly replayable.
I have worked in "closed source development" shops all my professional life and have never encountered anything close to the extreme example presented in "If We Used a Closed Development Process". This is just hyperbole and discredits the article to a large extent. Fighting hyperbole with hyperbole is not effective. (again...the word of the day is HYPERBOLE)
One of the most mind boggling was a recent M$ ad campaign where they provided a "cut out" BSOD that you could tape on your monitor "in case you missed them". I could not believe the gall that would be required for M$ to taunt is own users for being so stupid as to have used a previous version of their OS.
Good bonuses I have received: 1) $1000 2) $5000 3) $10000 4) $25 grocery store gift certificate 5) Nothing (see below, as nothing is certainly better then the bad bonuses) Bad bonuses: 1) a box of the ugliest flowers (I use the term loosely) I have seen. They were from Hawii and had to be at least $100, I did a little research. 2) A (wait for it) small dietetic fruit/snack basket. And bad, sugarless, flavorless snacks at that. There are others, but the bad ones really stand out. The were both from a company that "Flip" used to run and sold to CA. I found them insulting and incredibly stupid. Better to have gotten nothing. To the original poster, $1500 is a very nice bonus. Its enough to make a dent in bills or to buy something nice. That makes it a good indication of appreciation.