If you're gonna use that angle, then you have to provide the data, or at least point to a source
What about megabytes of log entries from infected IIS servers every day? I don't have a single entry from an infected UNIX system. Queries for "/default.ida" are so common that I long ago set it up for a redirect to www.microsoft.com.
Blah... If you want efficient cost cutting, fire the CEO and all the beancounters in between who can't see beyond the end of the quarter and stockholder's asses. These people are trashing corporations in name of quick profit on Wall Street even if it means destroying the company in the process. The CEOs are by then fully vested and long gone to the next demolition derby. It makes me sick.
I don't know man... but just the thought of "Vaccum Tubs that use too much heat" makes me wonder what else the joint venture between NASA and Jacuzzi are up to...
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Aston Martins, mamma mini-vans, and red-neck giant tires stupid trucks all serve the same purpose. They take you from point A to point B. There is a distinction between tasteful design, practical, and just bad taste. It's irrelevant if you cannot afford it. Just recognize the distinction.
. The very term "political correctness" is an abomination. It explicitly assumes that there is a type of politics that is correct
No, it doesn't. Your sentiment is correct but not the definition (I especially liked the fascism analogy btw). It means something that may not be accurate but it is politically acceptable. Acceptable to all regardless of their believe systems or points of view, which is utopia. Some one above made a good analogy with Draino and Koolaid.
The system is tilted on both extremes. The real deficit (and main problem) is the lack of something in between, otherwise known as "common sense".
What if tomorrow DVD's are replaced by some other technology? Within a few years you no longer can find a DVD player to replace yours that just died. Now you have a collection of DVDs which contain the material you paid a license to watch. Your options are to pay again to have something you already have and paid for or to break the law and copy the data to a new medium. Why is that a crime?
What percentage of those eligible are aware of the suit? Of those, how many bother to file it? The claimed 7% seems pretty high as it is. Why bother to file this (spending the time to look for the required paper work, giving away information you may not want to share) only to get a few bucks? It's not worth it. Class action law suits are never worth anything unless you are the attorneys filing it. Those are the only ones making any money out of all this (and absurd amounts at that).
What is really funny about this, is that they contradict the same believe system they swear by. I'm specifically speaking of Christians here, the weird evangelicals who are taking control over this country.
I'm really tired of seeing these idiotic bumper stickers proclaiming their love for Jesus as if you don't, you don't deserve to live. From what I know, what Jesus tried to tell people was to have love in your heart, be tolerant, inclusive, care for others, etc. These people are anything but that. They have nothing but deep hate for those who aren't clone of themselves, they are extremely intolerant, highly exclusive, and don't give a fuck about you unless you belong to the same clan as they do.
This, by the way, is a verbatim description of the radical Muslims they so specially hate.
I wouldn't be too pissed (or too eager to admit). Some folks in that list are analogous to putting Britney Spears in the top 20 singers in the world. It may be true in terms of popularity but it has nothing to do with real importance or anything that would be remembered 5 years down the road.
Using this logic, the channel up, channel down, and power button on your remote control and in the front panel of the TV are going to be illegal. If you use them with the intent of skipping the commercial and watch something else while the commercial is playing, you will be braking the law.
which oddly enough is almost exactly the same as experienced in Burkina Faso
Many parts of America are no difference than Burkina Faso. In the end, only those who care vote. I'm not sure what would be having a bunch of dim witted, don't know nothing, don't care about nothing voting. Democracy is exercised by voting your opinion and expectations. If you don't give a damm, you would only be making selections at random.
The day I can elect to "incorporate" myself in the Cayman Island and chose to pay taxes there instead of filing a 1040 here. That's the day I will agree that we ALL benefit. So far, we have a very skewed system that allows corporations all these "freedoms" while we, the regular folk are allowed nothing.
Not that you would want to, but just try packing your bags and landing in Bangalore (or anywhere on this planet for that matter) and start looking for a job. You would be "deported" so fast your head you spin. Free markets may be good, provided it applies to all involved.
the activities that will migrate offshore are predominantly those that can be viewed as requiring low skill since process and repeatability are key underpinnings of the work. Innovation and deep business expertise will continue to be delivered predominantly onshore." Not coincidentally, these are also the tasks that generate high wages and large profits and drive the U.S. economy.
This is what strikes me as interesting. Most articles in defense of outsourcing (and offshoring, which is a more correct term in this case) allude to the fact these jobs sent abroad are "low tech" jobs. That does not reflect what I've seen around those who I know and work with. Entire R&D engineering teams have been laid off and replacement hired abroad. These guys had PhDs and many, many years of experience behind them.
I don't have enough information to form a proper opinion on the overall good or bad of off-shoring but it does feel like at least some of this companies are shooting themselves on their respective feet in name of the "hype". It's the need to impress share holders and make up quarter numbers. By the time they realize the company is down to nothing because they don't have a product to sell, those executives and shareholders are going to be long gone to the next pillage and rape, I mean, running other companies.
Well... there is a bit of a math problem with this. There are billions and billions of people out there. You will be long gone, dried up, starved, and dead before any sort of equilibrium will ever be reached. China is only now starting up its consumer engines. This planet is doomed. Let me rephrase that, humans are doomed. The planet will recover just fine without us.
But you're assuming the primary reason people homeschool their kids is religious in nature. I've never heard this. Usually it's to avoid a by-the-numbers education.
Funny. I never thought of it in that context either. I guess that has to do with where I live (Northern California). I now see that this is perfectly fitting for somewhere in the bible belt. In our circle of friends, three families home-school their children. One family runs a groceries business, another is a UNIX consultant (has been for 20 years), and the third is a high level employee at Intel. Religion is the last thing in their minds. The reasons they home school is pretty much the same. Public schools are producing homogenized, lowest denominator, can't think different people. As an example, one family (who sends their children to the public school system) has a daughter who ranks 2nd in her class. Each year the school picks the first two kids for a special award. This year, they decided they had to pick a boy and a girl (in order to be "equal"). They dropped her and had to go down to the 8th in the queue (ranking) in order to get the boy. Is this fair? What is this telling the kids?
My daughter, who is in 4th grade, had already read all the books the teacher had asked the class to read this year. She asked if she could read one other book she had being wanting to read. The teacher told her she could not read it because it was "too hard" for the other kids and she would have an unfair advantage. Unfair what? Basically, you are put down if you think different or if you have "an advantage" over the other kids. You are told to be "equal", which invariably means being brought down to the lowest denominator. It's this "feel good" politically correct bullshit we live in.
America has lost respect for its people. People don't respect each other or themselves (how else do you explain an epidemic of obscenely obese people?) Oh! You can't say that. It's politically incorrect. Fuck it. It's a bunch of fat, lazy ass, wanting to feel good, useless pile of crap.
I'm not arguing the wisdom of home schooling, but I certainly see why those who choose to do so, do it.
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If you're gonna use that angle, then you have to provide the data, or at least point to a source
What about megabytes of log entries from infected IIS servers every day? I don't have a single entry from an infected UNIX system. Queries for "/default.ida" are so common that I long ago set it up for a redirect to www.microsoft.com.
For further reference you should then read mans.
Because I hate dragging my DEC Terminal to the bathroom. Besides, my RS232 cable is only 25' long.
btw... "mans"? shouldn't that be "men"?
Blah... If you want efficient cost cutting, fire the CEO and all the beancounters in between who can't see beyond the end of the quarter and stockholder's asses. These people are trashing corporations in name of quick profit on Wall Street even if it means destroying the company in the process. The CEOs are by then fully vested and long gone to the next demolition derby. It makes me sick.
What about the terabytes of texture maps and the terabytes of rendered images that must be transferred back and forth?
I don't know man... but just the thought of "Vaccum Tubs that use too much heat" makes me wonder what else the joint venture between NASA and Jacuzzi are up to...
Aston Martins, mamma mini-vans, and red-neck giant tires stupid trucks all serve the same purpose. They take you from point A to point B. There is a distinction between tasteful design, practical, and just bad taste. It's irrelevant if you cannot afford it. Just recognize the distinction.
The very term "political correctness" is an abomination. It explicitly assumes that there is a type of politics that is correct
No, it doesn't. Your sentiment is correct but not the definition (I especially liked the fascism analogy btw). It means something that may not be accurate but it is politically acceptable. Acceptable to all regardless of their believe systems or points of view, which is utopia. Some one above made a good analogy with Draino and Koolaid.
The system is tilted on both extremes. The real deficit (and main problem) is the lack of something in between, otherwise known as "common sense".
What if tomorrow DVD's are replaced by some other technology? Within a few years you no longer can find a DVD player to replace yours that just died. Now you have a collection of DVDs which contain the material you paid a license to watch. Your options are to pay again to have something you already have and paid for or to break the law and copy the data to a new medium. Why is that a crime?
why not stickers on every single book?
quantum theory is a theory...
This is "Cobb County, Georgia". Quant'hm what?string theory is a theory...
general relativity is a theory...
He was making a point and the point is valid. Getting Stern and Jackson confused is not much of a strecth...
I guess the job of going through submissions has been outsourced to India too...
What percentage of those eligible are aware of the suit? Of those, how many bother to file it? The claimed 7% seems pretty high as it is. Why bother to file this (spending the time to look for the required paper work, giving away information you may not want to share) only to get a few bucks? It's not worth it. Class action law suits are never worth anything unless you are the attorneys filing it. Those are the only ones making any money out of all this (and absurd amounts at that).
What is really funny about this, is that they contradict the same believe system they swear by. I'm specifically speaking of Christians here, the weird evangelicals who are taking control over this country.
I'm really tired of seeing these idiotic bumper stickers proclaiming their love for Jesus as if you don't, you don't deserve to live. From what I know, what Jesus tried to tell people was to have love in your heart, be tolerant, inclusive, care for others, etc. These people are anything but that. They have nothing but deep hate for those who aren't clone of themselves, they are extremely intolerant, highly exclusive, and don't give a fuck about you unless you belong to the same clan as they do.
This, by the way, is a verbatim description of the radical Muslims they so specially hate.
Go figure...
I wouldn't be too pissed (or too eager to admit). Some folks in that list are analogous to putting Britney Spears in the top 20 singers in the world. It may be true in terms of popularity but it has nothing to do with real importance or anything that would be remembered 5 years down the road.
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Using this logic, the channel up, channel down, and power button on your remote control and in the front panel of the TV are going to be illegal. If you use them with the intent of skipping the commercial and watch something else while the commercial is playing, you will be braking the law.
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which oddly enough is almost exactly the same as experienced in Burkina FasoMany parts of America are no difference than Burkina Faso. In the end, only those who care vote. I'm not sure what would be having a bunch of dim witted, don't know nothing, don't care about nothing voting. Democracy is exercised by voting your opinion and expectations. If you don't give a damm, you would only be making selections at random.
And that pesky little problem that not everybody lives in Arizona. How about the cost (monetary and evironmental) of batteries? Spent cells?
I thought that was the republican party.
The day I can elect to "incorporate" myself in the Cayman Island and chose to pay taxes there instead of filing a 1040 here. That's the day I will agree that we ALL benefit. So far, we have a very skewed system that allows corporations all these "freedoms" while we, the regular folk are allowed nothing.
Not that you would want to, but just try packing your bags and landing in Bangalore (or anywhere on this planet for that matter) and start looking for a job. You would be "deported" so fast your head you spin. Free markets may be good, provided it applies to all involved.
Sure... When are you moving to Paraguay? Name one fucked up country of 100 years ago that is not a fucked up country today...
This is what strikes me as interesting. Most articles in defense of outsourcing (and offshoring, which is a more correct term in this case) allude to the fact these jobs sent abroad are "low tech" jobs. That does not reflect what I've seen around those who I know and work with. Entire R&D engineering teams have been laid off and replacement hired abroad. These guys had PhDs and many, many years of experience behind them.
I don't have enough information to form a proper opinion on the overall good or bad of off-shoring but it does feel like at least some of this companies are shooting themselves on their respective feet in name of the "hype". It's the need to impress share holders and make up quarter numbers. By the time they realize the company is down to nothing because they don't have a product to sell, those executives and shareholders are going to be long gone to the next pillage and rape, I mean, running other companies.
Well... there is a bit of a math problem with this. There are billions and billions of people out there. You will be long gone, dried up, starved, and dead before any sort of equilibrium will ever be reached. China is only now starting up its consumer engines. This planet is doomed. Let me rephrase that, humans are doomed. The planet will recover just fine without us.
Are these the same people who built the new terminal at Charles De Gaulle?
What makes you think he's not full of shit? :)
Funny. I never thought of it in that context either. I guess that has to do with where I live (Northern California). I now see that this is perfectly fitting for somewhere in the bible belt. In our circle of friends, three families home-school their children. One family runs a groceries business, another is a UNIX consultant (has been for 20 years), and the third is a high level employee at Intel. Religion is the last thing in their minds. The reasons they home school is pretty much the same. Public schools are producing homogenized, lowest denominator, can't think different people. As an example, one family (who sends their children to the public school system) has a daughter who ranks 2nd in her class. Each year the school picks the first two kids for a special award. This year, they decided they had to pick a boy and a girl (in order to be "equal"). They dropped her and had to go down to the 8th in the queue (ranking) in order to get the boy. Is this fair? What is this telling the kids?
My daughter, who is in 4th grade, had already read all the books the teacher had asked the class to read this year. She asked if she could read one other book she had being wanting to read. The teacher told her she could not read it because it was "too hard" for the other kids and she would have an unfair advantage. Unfair what? Basically, you are put down if you think different or if you have "an advantage" over the other kids. You are told to be "equal", which invariably means being brought down to the lowest denominator. It's this "feel good" politically correct bullshit we live in.
America has lost respect for its people. People don't respect each other or themselves (how else do you explain an epidemic of obscenely obese people?) Oh! You can't say that. It's politically incorrect. Fuck it. It's a bunch of fat, lazy ass, wanting to feel good, useless pile of crap.
I'm not arguing the wisdom of home schooling, but I certainly see why those who choose to do so, do it.