Can you back up the statement, "However, you are not blaming the Bush Administration for being involved."
How? Because rich people are friends with rich people? Saprize saprize! Seriously, where is your evidence?
Was Bush an officer of Enron or Anderson? In his office as Governor of TX, did he use influence to help them defraud investors? And if so, where is your proof?
What I said in the parent comment is very easily backed up. Can you back up your claims with proof?
Sometimes I wish the supreme court could have ordered a full recount. As the NY Times (very liberal paper) has pointed out, Bush would have won under a number of recount scenarios.
If I was a betting man, I would not have relied on GOP nominated judges. The lifetime appointment of judges has a funny way of getting them to be a lot more neutral. History shows "conservative" judges ruling very "liberal" on a lot of decisions. In any case, 5 judges were appointed by GOP administrations. That is hardly "packed".
The final argument is that even if in November *some* major money people thought that Bush would change things, that is still there decision. Bush was not yet even President Elect. It is their decision to move money where they move it. Free will is a hell of a kicker. And in any case, I just don't think that the economy can be changed in under a year at minimum. This was a sicking ship long before Bush took the helm.
While I respect your opinion, I don't agree with it at all. You cannot blame Bush for what others decided on speculation of laws and policies that would be made in the next four years.
The simple fact is that the dot com bubble burst. Two many tech related industries grew too fast. Is this Clinton's fault? I really don't like the man, but I don't blame him. I don't think anyone would have foreseen the situation we got ourselves into. I do blame Reno and the feds for not keeping a tighter reign on corporate fraud.
Blame Bush for any number of things, but blaming him for an economy tanking two months in just sounds like a desperate attempt to lay more stuff on him just because you don't like him and want more reasons to not like him.
I understand your argument, but take issue with it on a couple of points:
First, it was not clear who won the election until the Supreme Court decision in mid December.
Second, Bush (nor anyone else that would have been elected president) can hardly be blamed for what others do because he was elected. If others made decisions because of that those are their decisions. I am sure there are also firms that would have made decisions that might have been viewed as adverse if Gore had won.
If I recall it was just two (2) months into Bush's presidency that most economists came out and called it a recession. I don't care if you are Satan himself, you cannot kill the economy in two months.
I am not a Bush fanboy, but I would also like to point out that it is interesting that all the Enron, etc, crap is pointed at Bush when it all occured during the Clinton administration under the nose of Reno.
While I believe that many jobs may be heading overseas, I also think that our universities and tech schools were pooring out IT workers like crazy in the late 1990s, and companies were hiring them in an artificially inflated economy. Anyone remember the certification craze? Instructors were making huge bank! Every college in the nation beefed up their CompSci and computer related programs.
Additionally, there were so many idiots in technology by 2000. Sysadmins that didn't know the dif between Cat3 from Cat5, programmers that didn't know what a for-loop were getting 100k Java jobs, etc, etc, etc. I don't know if there were 400k, but I do think that a lot of people lost jobs that didn't deserve to have them. Also, I have had a lot of very smart friends out of work that did.
Even in 2000 and 2001 there were still tech areas hiring. I really wonder how many of those 400k were jobs that should never have existed in the first place?
I have a friend who uses solar and a rather large bank of batteries attached to his cabin. He stays in it almost every other weekend, but I hear the batteries only take a few days to charge back up off the solar. He has plenty of power for his dorm fridge (only plugs in during the weekend), satelite dish and tv, and lights. Of course, he went the smart way and got LED powered lights, etc. I believe it was quite a bit of up front cost, but not as much as it was going to cost to run power lines into the cabin from the nearest major road.
I did something kinda evil leaving a job a few years ago. While it still brings a chuckle to me everytime I think about it, I burned those bridges. Shoot, I nuked the bridges. Even in a big city IT can be a small community and you never know what the future will bring. Even though it was really funny, I regret it.
Do it with class and style. Go in and give your two weeks with a very respectful letter. But let someone else (a work buddy) know you are doing it before hand and also give them the resignation letter and file if possible.
If management likes they way you are quiting you just made a good name for yourself. If they throw you out on your ass it will get around that you tried to resign respectfully because others will know your intentions via your letter given to a friend.
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The latter is quite possible. I think I remember him mentioning that there had been a nearby circuit in place that he was able to talk them into using.
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I was specifically thinking of a friend who did this in rural Iowa. I think he got his T1 loop with internet for a little over $300, and then shared it out with some Cisco aironet equipment to his neighboors. I could be wrong on the numbers as it has been a while since I have spoken with him about it. I know that he got it down to a low enough price so it was economical, and set up a little squid proxy so his neighboors didn't use up all the bandwidth surfing.
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In my past experience working for an ISP in rural SD, most customers do get at least 28.8. Getting more than 28.8 becomes difficult but often a good modem will get you higher speeds on a crappy phone line. Personally I had a line with some static and went from around 32 to 53.3 just from buying a really good US Robotics external modem. I am talking about actually telneting into the portmaster at the ISP and checking the connection speed. We always recommended customers do this, and it often worked ery well.
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$259.95 per month for 1.5 megabits per second
A T1 isn't much more than this. If I were a local business, I would just buy the T1 and share it out with a few others to defray the costs.
I use Wells Fargo. I had some trouble a couple of years ago with Mozilla and their online banking. I emailed them explaining what browser I was using (Mozilla) and within a week it was supported. That is the longest period of time that I can remember them not supporting my browser, and they actually were supporting older Nutscrape browsers at that time.
Having read up on SPF long before MS got involved, I had such hope that this would help to secure email and kill spam. The reliance on a proven system like DNS seemed like an awesome idea. I wonder what parts of SPF can be considered prior art to MS's patent, and how it was licensed before MS came into the picture. Can we use a pure SPF implimentation an avoid the MS crud? If not, can we come up with a similar system? I think this is a concept that we need implimented asap.
With the rejection by Apache, hopefully the rest of the FOSS will follow and then the industry at large.
Will this make it much easier for the government to monitor our email, VOIP, and IM? I think there are ISPs that only cooperate if there is a warrant to do so. What privacy will we have under this system if the city is more than happy to just cooperate with orgs like the FBI? Also, since this is a municipal service are we "virtually" give up our rights to privacy using it like walking out onto a public street?
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How? Because rich people are friends with rich people? Saprize saprize! Seriously, where is your evidence?
Was Bush an officer of Enron or Anderson? In his office as Governor of TX, did he use influence to help them defraud investors? And if so, where is your proof?
What I said in the parent comment is very easily backed up. Can you back up your claims with proof?
If I was a betting man, I would not have relied on GOP nominated judges. The lifetime appointment of judges has a funny way of getting them to be a lot more neutral. History shows "conservative" judges ruling very "liberal" on a lot of decisions. In any case, 5 judges were appointed by GOP administrations. That is hardly "packed".
The final argument is that even if in November *some* major money people thought that Bush would change things, that is still there decision. Bush was not yet even President Elect. It is their decision to move money where they move it. Free will is a hell of a kicker. And in any case, I just don't think that the economy can be changed in under a year at minimum. This was a sicking ship long before Bush took the helm.
Uh, that is why I said I think they are more indy. I was trying to point out that if you are looking for a lot of mainstream music this is not place.
Metallica: 0 Music Albums
Foo Fighters: 0 Music Albums
Franz Ferdinand: 0 Music Albums
Modest Mouse: 0 Music Albums
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The simple fact is that the dot com bubble burst. Two many tech related industries grew too fast. Is this Clinton's fault? I really don't like the man, but I don't blame him. I don't think anyone would have foreseen the situation we got ourselves into. I do blame Reno and the feds for not keeping a tighter reign on corporate fraud.
Blame Bush for any number of things, but blaming him for an economy tanking two months in just sounds like a desperate attempt to lay more stuff on him just because you don't like him and want more reasons to not like him.
First, it was not clear who won the election until the Supreme Court decision in mid December.
Second, Bush (nor anyone else that would have been elected president) can hardly be blamed for what others do because he was elected. If others made decisions because of that those are their decisions. I am sure there are also firms that would have made decisions that might have been viewed as adverse if Gore had won.
I guess I really don't udnerstand your first sentence.
I am not a Bush fanboy, but I would also like to point out that it is interesting that all the Enron, etc, crap is pointed at Bush when it all occured during the Clinton administration under the nose of Reno.
So just make sure your two beers are both liters/quarts!
That is the funniest fucking post of have seen on /. for a while!
Additionally, there were so many idiots in technology by 2000. Sysadmins that didn't know the dif between Cat3 from Cat5, programmers that didn't know what a for-loop were getting 100k Java jobs, etc, etc, etc. I don't know if there were 400k, but I do think that a lot of people lost jobs that didn't deserve to have them. Also, I have had a lot of very smart friends out of work that did.
Even in 2000 and 2001 there were still tech areas hiring. I really wonder how many of those 400k were jobs that should never have existed in the first place?
Just some random thoughts on the subject.
I have a friend who uses solar and a rather large bank of batteries attached to his cabin. He stays in it almost every other weekend, but I hear the batteries only take a few days to charge back up off the solar. He has plenty of power for his dorm fridge (only plugs in during the weekend), satelite dish and tv, and lights. Of course, he went the smart way and got LED powered lights, etc. I believe it was quite a bit of up front cost, but not as much as it was going to cost to run power lines into the cabin from the nearest major road.
A: If they say, "Something about using the AT command set to fire off a command 40 miles through the air amuses me."
While I can see your argument, the USPS must exist; it is mandated in the United States Constitution.
Do it with class and style. Go in and give your two weeks with a very respectful letter. But let someone else (a work buddy) know you are doing it before hand and also give them the resignation letter and file if possible.
If management likes they way you are quiting you just made a good name for yourself. If they throw you out on your ass it will get around that you tried to resign respectfully because others will know your intentions via your letter given to a friend.
Cheap porn can be brought to us in HD!
The latter is quite possible. I think I remember him mentioning that there had been a nearby circuit in place that he was able to talk them into using.
I was specifically thinking of a friend who did this in rural Iowa. I think he got his T1 loop with internet for a little over $300, and then shared it out with some Cisco aironet equipment to his neighboors. I could be wrong on the numbers as it has been a while since I have spoken with him about it. I know that he got it down to a low enough price so it was economical, and set up a little squid proxy so his neighboors didn't use up all the bandwidth surfing.
In my past experience working for an ISP in rural SD, most customers do get at least 28.8. Getting more than 28.8 becomes difficult but often a good modem will get you higher speeds on a crappy phone line. Personally I had a line with some static and went from around 32 to 53.3 just from buying a really good US Robotics external modem. I am talking about actually telneting into the portmaster at the ISP and checking the connection speed. We always recommended customers do this, and it often worked ery well.
A T1 isn't much more than this. If I were a local business, I would just buy the T1 and share it out with a few others to defray the costs.
I use Wells Fargo. I had some trouble a couple of years ago with Mozilla and their online banking. I emailed them explaining what browser I was using (Mozilla) and within a week it was supported. That is the longest period of time that I can remember them not supporting my browser, and they actually were supporting older Nutscrape browsers at that time.
You mean a course on when Linux crashes? Perhaps a boot disk HOWTO, or suggestion on configuring grub with mulriple kernels....
It seems like your response does nothing to addess the point I raised.
With the rejection by Apache, hopefully the rest of the FOSS will follow and then the industry at large.
Will this make it much easier for the government to monitor our email, VOIP, and IM? I think there are ISPs that only cooperate if there is a warrant to do so. What privacy will we have under this system if the city is more than happy to just cooperate with orgs like the FBI? Also, since this is a municipal service are we "virtually" give up our rights to privacy using it like walking out onto a public street?