It is about shutting down small business. In one stroke of a pen the Republican-controlled legislature eliminated 10,000 jobs.
The state runs a lottery which is so crooked it should be described as a tax on the stupid. There are dog tracks and horse track and casinos. But a small business is "evil gambling." If gambling is wrong, shut down the Florida Lottery. But don't run a gambling operation and tell me internet gambling is somehow worse than the crooked lottery you run.
Note the angry tone, echoed by the Headline. Pilots allowed to "Dodge" security. And how did they slip through? By having biometricial data and special identification. Oh! The unfairness! Don't let a pilot hit a retinal viewer connected to the national database and move on to his seat in the plane he is assigned to fly. Make him stand in line in front of me and make him boot his laptop!
"Napkins don't really stack up well against hard drives or even floppy disks for preserving data over time." Really!
We know that Gudea of Lagash reigned from 2144 - 2124 B.C., four thousand one hundred and fifty-five years ago, because clay cuneiform tablets from that time are in the Library of Congress. In China, we have paper records two thousand, two hundred years old. Land records in England can be traced from the Doomsday Book of 1086 until today, and the 925 year-old book can be read today.
Some puffed up salesman tells me “Napkins don't really stack up well against hard drives or even floppy disks for preserving data over time.” How much time have floppies saved data for. How old is the oldest harddrive? (If we still have the first one, fifty-two years.)
Napkins can last for centuries, please spare me the “paperless” propaganda.
The corporate overlords demand it!. When you buy an house, you borrow money from a big corporation. That big corporation makes you buy "insurance" from another big corporation. The individual has no say, you can buy a policy from Tweedledum of Tweedledee, but both have the business model of denying claims.
1. Collect premium.
2. Loss hits homeowner.
3. Deny claim.
4. PROFIT!
That is why during Revolutionary times nobody wrote anonymously. When the Federalists wrote articles expressing why they thought a constitution was a good idea, they published their papers under there own name. Nobody thought you could write items critical of George III under an assumed name.
Sorry for the sarcasm, but, if you don't have anonymous speech, you don't have free speech. However, you have to go to an effort to speak anonymously. Don't put "Tom Payne's Printing" on the bottom of your pamphlets and get all offended when Tom gets served with a subpoena.
This is an engineering problem. Drivers like to drink. A ton of steel, hurtling down the road at a mile a minute, should not be controlled by a drunk. Letting politicians, lawyers and judges solve an engineering problem is stupid.
Building a machine that does not hurt people is not an invasion of privacy. Drunk driving is an engineering problem; if we turned it over to the engineers, perhaps it could get solved.
"We should be using public key encryption with our private keys stored on a USB key." Yeah, that, or get an American Express card and do business with a firm that does not make you pay for goods or services you don't get.
When I lose my AmexCard they overnight me a new one and I'm good to go; what happens when you drop your USB key down the storm drain?
In the United States, employment is terminable at will. This means either party can end the employment for any reason, or no reason at all. In the words of the poet, “you can take this job and shove it, I ain’t working here no more.”
This poster comments on the “rights of yours they have trampled (job, pay, respect).” There is no right to a job, no right to pay not earned and certainly no right to respect. Find a corporation which respects those it employs!
There is no good lawyer who would take a case like this on a contingency; contingency fees are for dead-bang winners. If you lost a leg, you’d get a lawyer to work on a contingency; not when you loose a job.
Oh, “innocent until proven guilty,” that’s when the government tries to send you to prison; in the world of employment, this guy is guilty.
. . . but the Judge is not.
If one reads what the court wrote, http://www.ca7.uscourts.gov/tmp/R31AIRTM.pdf , then it is pretty clear that the court understood how machines work.
If I put a $10,000.00 database on a laptop and give it to a guy to use and he erases it, how is that any different from hacking into my network and erasing the same data base?
This is a short (7 pages) and clear opinion. Perhaps one should read it before declaring the sky is falling.
For thirty-seven cents, I can get a guy to come to my house, pick up a paper copy of my e-mail and carry it across the country to the person I'm writing to. Any spam can be deleted in less than two seconds. Snail mail rocks!
Am I the only guy scared when the goverment wants a Ceaser / Kaiser / Tzar / Czar?
When reading history it seems the only thing the Czar was any good at was killing jews. Is that the answer to ip issues, Pograms?
Do words matter any more?
The notion of the, "reusable space plane," is simply stupid. If the astronauts ran NASA, we would have vehicles, like Saturn V, that lifted mass into space and capsules that bring down only what we need. The shuttle is a boondoggle to throw money to the aerospace industry. The Progress M-50 craft is vastly superior to our shuttle when it comes to lifting weight to orbit.
We lost a shuttle because Senator Orrin Hatch (Bush-loving republican, natch) overrode the engineer to throw work to Thiokol. The original design called for one piece boosters which would be transported by barge. Orrin made them cut the booster in half so Thiokol could bid. (There aren't many barge routes in Utah.) The two haves were joined by -- o-rings.
In the United States, there is only one agency with the tradition, tradition and ability to explore. Let's turn the space program over to the Navy and go back to the moon.
Let us recap. Your friends had several contracts to choose from. They picked one and signed it. Later, they did not like the contract.
Isn't that more their fault than the fault of the record company?
You describe four complicated programs you configure and run as well as a week of training needed to run your anti-spam program. Assuming a very low hourly rate, that's $5,000.00 easy.
Why use e-mail when for thirty seven cents you can have a man come to your office and take real mail anywhere you want him to?
With real mail you can learn to throw the spam in the trash in under thirty seconds.
Please explain how you get from a tool whose only use is to kill things to a wireless access point. It seems reasonable that a loaded gun left lying around could hurt someone, but a wireless access point!
I didn't read the article, I didn't read the header and I didn't read the post. . . but, it ought to be clear that this is just another Bill G. rip off.
If he thinks he can just wander around this country and write some sort of book or something, why he's got another whupping coming.
A sensible school board would forbid the use of computers in grades k through 6. There is nothing a computer can do that a teacher and a book can't do better, faster and cheaper.
Computers are like automobiles, powerful, useful tooks that make life better. Like autos, they don't belong in schools.
We had to stop them because they were arresting people without any reason and torturing innocent people for no reason... Oh wait, that's what we did. Sorry.
It seems obvious to me that all men and women have certain rights which belong to them as human beings. If the state won't let us exercise these rights, then the state needs to topple.
Nobody gave me the right to go to mass on Sunday, it's my right and I was born with it. Try and stop me and you'll see just how useless a hunting rifle really is.
The constitution is worthy of protection not because it gives rights, but, because it protects people in the exercise of those rights.
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It is about shutting down small business. In one stroke of a pen the Republican-controlled legislature eliminated 10,000 jobs. The state runs a lottery which is so crooked it should be described as a tax on the stupid. There are dog tracks and horse track and casinos. But a small business is "evil gambling." If gambling is wrong, shut down the Florida Lottery. But don't run a gambling operation and tell me internet gambling is somehow worse than the crooked lottery you run.
Note the angry tone, echoed by the Headline. Pilots allowed to "Dodge" security. And how did they slip through? By having biometricial data and special identification. Oh! The unfairness! Don't let a pilot hit a retinal viewer connected to the national database and move on to his seat in the plane he is assigned to fly. Make him stand in line in front of me and make him boot his laptop!
"Napkins don't really stack up well against hard drives or even floppy disks for preserving data over time." Really! We know that Gudea of Lagash reigned from 2144 - 2124 B.C., four thousand one hundred and fifty-five years ago, because clay cuneiform tablets from that time are in the Library of Congress. In China, we have paper records two thousand, two hundred years old. Land records in England can be traced from the Doomsday Book of 1086 until today, and the 925 year-old book can be read today. Some puffed up salesman tells me “Napkins don't really stack up well against hard drives or even floppy disks for preserving data over time.” How much time have floppies saved data for. How old is the oldest harddrive? (If we still have the first one, fifty-two years.) Napkins can last for centuries, please spare me the “paperless” propaganda.
The corporate overlords demand it!. When you buy an house, you borrow money from a big corporation. That big corporation makes you buy "insurance" from another big corporation. The individual has no say, you can buy a policy from Tweedledum of Tweedledee, but both have the business model of denying claims. 1. Collect premium. 2. Loss hits homeowner. 3. Deny claim. 4. PROFIT!
Close the pod bay doors, HAL.
This sure is far more efficient than using a thumbtack and a cork bulletin board.
That is why during Revolutionary times nobody wrote anonymously. When the Federalists wrote articles expressing why they thought a constitution was a good idea, they published their papers under there own name. Nobody thought you could write items critical of George III under an assumed name. Sorry for the sarcasm, but, if you don't have anonymous speech, you don't have free speech. However, you have to go to an effort to speak anonymously. Don't put "Tom Payne's Printing" on the bottom of your pamphlets and get all offended when Tom gets served with a subpoena.
This is an engineering problem. Drivers like to drink. A ton of steel, hurtling down the road at a mile a minute, should not be controlled by a drunk. Letting politicians, lawyers and judges solve an engineering problem is stupid. Building a machine that does not hurt people is not an invasion of privacy. Drunk driving is an engineering problem; if we turned it over to the engineers, perhaps it could get solved.
Nothing, why?
"We should be using public key encryption with our private keys stored on a USB key." Yeah, that, or get an American Express card and do business with a firm that does not make you pay for goods or services you don't get. When I lose my AmexCard they overnight me a new one and I'm good to go; what happens when you drop your USB key down the storm drain?
In the United States, employment is terminable at will. This means either party can end the employment for any reason, or no reason at all. In the words of the poet, “you can take this job and shove it, I ain’t working here no more.” This poster comments on the “rights of yours they have trampled (job, pay, respect).” There is no right to a job, no right to pay not earned and certainly no right to respect. Find a corporation which respects those it employs! There is no good lawyer who would take a case like this on a contingency; contingency fees are for dead-bang winners. If you lost a leg, you’d get a lawyer to work on a contingency; not when you loose a job. Oh, “innocent until proven guilty,” that’s when the government tries to send you to prison; in the world of employment, this guy is guilty.
. . . but the Judge is not. If one reads what the court wrote, http://www.ca7.uscourts.gov/tmp/R31AIRTM.pdf , then it is pretty clear that the court understood how machines work. If I put a $10,000.00 database on a laptop and give it to a guy to use and he erases it, how is that any different from hacking into my network and erasing the same data base? This is a short (7 pages) and clear opinion. Perhaps one should read it before declaring the sky is falling.
If my employment is "at will," I can leave any time I want. What is the opposite?
For thirty-seven cents, I can get a guy to come to my house, pick up a paper copy of my e-mail and carry it across the country to the person I'm writing to. Any spam can be deleted in less than two seconds. Snail mail rocks!
Am I the only guy scared when the goverment wants a Ceaser / Kaiser / Tzar / Czar? When reading history it seems the only thing the Czar was any good at was killing jews. Is that the answer to ip issues, Pograms? Do words matter any more?
'Cause in a free society that's exactly what we need, government control of who reports the news. Oh, wait, we have that. It's called Fox.
The notion of the, "reusable space plane," is simply stupid. If the astronauts ran NASA, we would have vehicles, like Saturn V, that lifted mass into space and capsules that bring down only what we need. The shuttle is a boondoggle to throw money to the aerospace industry. The Progress M-50 craft is vastly superior to our shuttle when it comes to lifting weight to orbit. We lost a shuttle because Senator Orrin Hatch (Bush-loving republican, natch) overrode the engineer to throw work to Thiokol. The original design called for one piece boosters which would be transported by barge. Orrin made them cut the booster in half so Thiokol could bid. (There aren't many barge routes in Utah.) The two haves were joined by -- o-rings. In the United States, there is only one agency with the tradition, tradition and ability to explore. Let's turn the space program over to the Navy and go back to the moon.
Let us recap. Your friends had several contracts to choose from. They picked one and signed it. Later, they did not like the contract. Isn't that more their fault than the fault of the record company?
You describe four complicated programs you configure and run as well as a week of training needed to run your anti-spam program. Assuming a very low hourly rate, that's $5,000.00 easy. Why use e-mail when for thirty seven cents you can have a man come to your office and take real mail anywhere you want him to? With real mail you can learn to throw the spam in the trash in under thirty seconds.
Please explain how you get from a tool whose only use is to kill things to a wireless access point. It seems reasonable that a loaded gun left lying around could hurt someone, but a wireless access point!
I didn't read the article, I didn't read the header and I didn't read the post. . . but, it ought to be clear that this is just another Bill G. rip off. If he thinks he can just wander around this country and write some sort of book or something, why he's got another whupping coming.
Why does somebody have to get arrested? Justice was served, the state is not your Mommy, it does not gave to butt into every single human transaction.
A sensible school board would forbid the use of computers in grades k through 6. There is nothing a computer can do that a teacher and a book can't do better, faster and cheaper. Computers are like automobiles, powerful, useful tooks that make life better. Like autos, they don't belong in schools.
We had to stop them because they were arresting people without any reason and torturing innocent people for no reason ... Oh wait, that's what we did. Sorry.
It seems obvious to me that all men and women have certain rights which belong to them as human beings. If the state won't let us exercise these rights, then the state needs to topple. Nobody gave me the right to go to mass on Sunday, it's my right and I was born with it. Try and stop me and you'll see just how useless a hunting rifle really is. The constitution is worthy of protection not because it gives rights, but, because it protects people in the exercise of those rights.