Before I go off on one point, let me say that more defense for the 1st admendment/free speach in these posts.
To own firearms is one of the best means of keeping government in check.
However, the U.S.'s 2nd admendment is most effective when the populous it governs is bound by a sense of morality; why else would a group of people be allowed/given a right to own guns except they be expected to behave according to some level of morality?
There were over a dozen stated reasons for going after Sadaam, but those reasons and Iraq are not my point! What is my point is that the ones, in my opinion, who want to keep people dumbed-down are the media, particularly when they consistantly only provide one side to the story or are heavily biased. Liberals are particularly guilty in this.
Also, I disagree that the problem is that there is a 2 partly system and that they are all corrupt. If that's the case, then you need to remember whom you've voted for while keeping in mind that in a democracy, the voters get what they deserve... at least that's one someone once said;)... or you should go ahead and state that all Americans are corrupt also; which would include you! Hey! Why then should I trust you! I am of course exagerating.
Running for office would be gigantic and desasterous for most... but, helping someone who could/should is different and very doable. One of the reasons, I think, we don't go about being much proactive about getting someone we wish into office, is because we have not sought to find out what it takes to do so nor have we believed it would make a difference. Parties get together because they have to choose to agree about this, that, or the other and not make a big deal about the rest of their opinions in order to pursue their goals. This kind of action requires team work and sacrifice on one level or another.
Just don't be passive about it. We can all make a difference.
This really seems absurd to me since you have the ability to vote, unless your a felon, and the ability to run for office (or at least support someone for office). More poignantly, you can run for office even if you can't vote because you're a felon (I could be wrong about that to some extent: think of judges!... and then Marion Barry!).
So, I hope that if you so fear your government that you'd turn that fear into something positive and make some good changes (even if we disagree about what that means).
Since almost 100% of my current CDs are CD-Rs, I just stack them right back where I got them... well, where I got the previous batch from: the packaging spool.
I do have a question of my own: what do you do with too many jewel cases?
Are there any 'honest' places to work any more (where promotions/awards are based on work preformed and bureaucracy, and politics aren't encouraged to supplant the 'mission),
or has America become one big living Dilbert strip?"
Yes
Yes
Perhaps
Yes: there are many, many companies that see retrofitting structure/orginization as acceptable despite it being the absolute most inefficient means of implementing it. My opinion is that this is ultimately the bosses responsibility/fault.
Yes: but I don't know if on all counts. Tomorrow I start with a company because of who they are towards their employees. Of all their benefits, the only one(s) that are not available from the first day are some dealing with stocks. Some of the other benefits are free lunches and masseous every other week. So far it seems, from speaking with current employees, that people leave this company for significantly higher paying jobs as inhouse consultants/support.
Perhaps: From the way it seems a good deal of Americans express what is valuable to them, this might be the case. I hope not because eventually such a place colapses from the inside out.
I guess this means laptop designers will have no excuse to not make a battery that fits in multiple models even if that means models that are 'generationally' different.
So, when they don't do such design, we'll know it's most likely because of bad design in the first place or sheer I-don't-care-what-you-think-give-me-your-money-... -again kind of attitude.
I'm not saying they don't have a right to do so. What I am saying is that the company that doesn't do so might have the consumer's pleasure more at heart.
I'm actually starting a position on Monday that is a little more than 45% of a pay cut, for a little while. It still won't be up to where it currently is for a while (maybe even years).
So, yeah, I'm extremely happy and I didn't even hate this job. Which means I'm not escaping to something else to get away from where I am now.
And I stand by my previous statements... because they're accurate.
I hate to say it this way, but suck it up... as a brain sucks up knowledge. While you're at it, get accustomed to them and how they are written.
That being said, some day, if you're really going to be an *Nix admin, you'll be glad you had them.
You might want to check the very good advice is this free book:
LINUX: Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition. There is a PDF version out there, but, must of the links to it are to a non-existant directory (just like the link at the top of that HTML version).
He actually gives a good method, even a defense if you will, albeit in few words, about how to read man pages: essentially 3 times (or more).
Man pages are quite the bitter medicine, but they CAN be good for you.
Best of luck. The Linux admin market is heating up (at least in Dallas/Ft. Worth).
...have a better paycheck than you and me ever will?
Speak for yourself!
With that attitude that's exactly what you'll likely end up with. Unless you dream about __fill-in-the-blank__ then, fine, give in and don't expect good things to come your way or to become of your best efforts.
I have heard the commercial... and I'm not impressed with the whole concept. It just seems like a poor means of getting movies in that it also seems very limited in the choices it can give you. I have cable TV and I don't bother with having movie channels because I'd rather go to Blockbuster and rent and watch something when I feel like it and not when it happens to be on.
Apparently their lawyers think they can get away with lying to the public. I think once the public, and some ambulance chasers (you know what I mean!), get technically savvy about what these ISPs are doing, there'll be a class action lawsuit... man, that would be huge.
From what I've seen in a corporate environment, like 14,000-ish employees, is that to change things that involve other people is like changing the momentum of a large object: you have to push and push and push. The change will happen, but it just takes longer.
Aside from that, I believe there are somethings that can just get in the way:
beaurocrosy
money
portability of product
The first two are interchangable according to the context of the change and I just put portability in there to keep some sort of technical focus.:)
Volcanoes and their natural buddies you try to blame for stuff have been around forever, but our current environmental problems haven't. Sorry, we can't explain away climate change, mass extinction, ozone depletion and accelerated erosion. It's fact. No one who knows anything about it is currently arguing that. We are the current critical cause. Get over it, and start taking responsibility.
Climate change, mass extinctions, erosion, and most likely ozone depletion have also been around 'forever'... Has man been around so long that he is also responsible for extinctions that happened before he 'stepped out of the trees'?
You have spoken correctly in saying that I am a creationist. What you don't understand is that as a creationist I boldly, directly declare man's absolute responsibility for the state of the world/environment as we currently experience it; I declare man's full, miserable responsibility for it. What I also boldly and directly declare is that your deductions as to causes and the solutions thereto are what I am at odds with.
Clearly not all ozone depletion is caused by CFCs, but I don't think there's been any significant debate in a long time that CFCs majorly upset the balance.
And that is exactly my point. Thank you for your acknowledgement.
This is a process that has been happening for decades. The atmosphere moves.
Correct: decades. Therefore it should take decades for nature to fix itself. However, it hasn't taken as much time.
fate of most of Earth's life hangs in the balance.
This is nothing less than your ilk thinking man is just soooooo powerful and great and wise (scientist have named us Homo Sapien Sapien - the Wise Wise Man afterall). Where we are not.
If you would do your research you would find the greatest polluters, particularly of CO2, are volcanos not man.
And, besides, my logic is not my own, it was pulled from
(anyone old enough to remember Nuclear Winter models from the 1980's?)
which were put forth by the liberal media of the 1980's. Go harsh and filthy mouthed with them, because that's where your eco-religious beef lies with.
And while you're at it you should educate yourself with the other posts to this story. It'd do you well, because I have no questions for such rudeness.
If the majority of CFCs omitted into the atmosphere where done in the Northern Hemisphere, why did the the hole in the ozone end up over the South Pole/Southern Hemisphere? It makes absolutely no sense: it's against reason to blame the CFCs to the extent they have been blamed. And finally, the article admits/gives focus to other, natural culprits.
If there are other reasons to ban CFCs, then fine, ban them. But, to ban them because something done in Michigan causes a hole in the ozone layer over Australia... please, it's just not logical and I doubt there is scientific evidence to support it. Thus, to accept this premise is to accept it by faith.
(anyone old enough to remember Nuclear Winter models from the 1980's?)
No, I don't let kids out of school without speaking to their mother first.
!!!???
Utterly a sign of fear and incompetence. At least you might have been able to pull the principal from across the hall to talk some sense into that one.
But I'm really, really glad it worked out for you, your brothers, and your mom.
While I personally do find it appealing, I do think it is important that someone find it appealing.
One reason I think it important is the usefulness of Morse code: it was used to blink out the word torture by one of our Vietnam POWs during a filmed interview where he was required to pretend everything was hunky dory in the Hanoi Hilton. While this use it extreme, I think Morse code would be as quick a means of communicating as text messaging via cell phone. That is, the implementation and mastery of Morse code into a cell phone could/would be just as quick and effective means of communication as today's text messaging.
I'd actually pursue Morse code if I didn't think my atrocious (took a while to get that word) spelling would be a hinderance. But, if I found out it might actually help my spelling, I might then spend some time on it. I say some, because having learned Spanish and the Dvorak keyboard layout, I know what it takes to learn another language: time and attention.
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Then it's a matter of whether what needs/should be changed is worth fighting, even dying, for.
Before I go off on one point, let me say that more defense for the 1st admendment/free speach in these posts.
To own firearms is one of the best means of keeping government in check.
However, the U.S.'s 2nd admendment is most effective when the populous it governs is bound by a sense of morality; why else would a group of people be allowed/given a right to own guns except they be expected to behave according to some level of morality?
I too have been a teacher and recognize that home schooling is the better way to go.
There were over a dozen stated reasons for going after Sadaam, but those reasons and Iraq are not my point! What is my point is that the ones, in my opinion, who want to keep people dumbed-down are the media, particularly when they consistantly only provide one side to the story or are heavily biased. Liberals are particularly guilty in this.
Also, I disagree that the problem is that there is a 2 partly system and that they are all corrupt. If that's the case, then you need to remember whom you've voted for while keeping in mind that in a democracy, the voters get what they deserve... at least that's one someone once said ;)... or you should go ahead and state that all Americans are corrupt also; which would include you! Hey! Why then should I trust you! I am of course exagerating.
Running for office would be gigantic and desasterous for most... but, helping someone who could/should is different and very doable. One of the reasons, I think, we don't go about being much proactive about getting someone we wish into office, is because we have not sought to find out what it takes to do so nor have we believed it would make a difference. Parties get together because they have to choose to agree about this, that, or the other and not make a big deal about the rest of their opinions in order to pursue their goals. This kind of action requires team work and sacrifice on one level or another.
Just don't be passive about it. We can all make a difference.
Good question (proceeded by good points).
I was seeing this as another point of failure and potential abuse by Microsoft towards/against the manufacturer.
From your sig:
This really seems absurd to me since you have the ability to vote, unless your a felon, and the ability to run for office (or at least support someone for office). More poignantly, you can run for office even if you can't vote because you're a felon (I could be wrong about that to some extent: think of judges!... and then Marion Barry!).
So, I hope that if you so fear your government that you'd turn that fear into something positive and make some good changes (even if we disagree about what that means).
The packaging spool.
Since almost 100% of my current CDs are CD-Rs, I just stack them right back where I got them... well, where I got the previous batch from: the packaging spool.
I do have a question of my own: what do you do with too many jewel cases?
I guess this means laptop designers will have no excuse to not make a battery that fits in multiple models even if that means models that are 'generationally' different.
So, when they don't do such design, we'll know it's most likely because of bad design in the first place or sheer I-don't-care-what-you-think-give-me-your-money-... -again kind of attitude.
I'm not saying they don't have a right to do so. What I am saying is that the company that doesn't do so might have the consumer's pleasure more at heart.
I'm actually starting a position on Monday that is a little more than 45% of a pay cut, for a little while. It still won't be up to where it currently is for a while (maybe even years).
So, yeah, I'm extremely happy and I didn't even hate this job. Which means I'm not escaping to something else to get away from where I am now.
And I stand by my previous statements... because they're accurate.
I hate to say it this way, but suck it up... as a brain sucks up knowledge. While you're at it, get accustomed to them and how they are written.
That being said, some day, if you're really going to be an *Nix admin, you'll be glad you had them.
You might want to check the very good advice is this free book: LINUX: Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition. There is a PDF version out there, but, must of the links to it are to a non-existant directory (just like the link at the top of that HTML version).
He actually gives a good method, even a defense if you will, albeit in few words, about how to read man pages: essentially 3 times (or more).
Man pages are quite the bitter medicine, but they CAN be good for you.
Best of luck. The Linux admin market is heating up (at least in Dallas/Ft. Worth).
Speak for yourself!
With that attitude that's exactly what you'll likely end up with. Unless you dream about __fill-in-the-blank__ then, fine, give in and don't expect good things to come your way or to become of your best efforts.
Otherwise keep those curses to yourself.
Vim and tags.
But, you have got to want to learn it if you are not already required to learn it.
The upside?
Pobresito. Te ha fallado mi humor.
Must not have been any Spaniards at that observatory... at least none with any clout.
Unless there are and they're planning to name it something else later.
I have heard the commercial... and I'm not impressed with the whole concept. It just seems like a poor means of getting movies in that it also seems very limited in the choices it can give you. I have cable TV and I don't bother with having movie channels because I'd rather go to Blockbuster and rent and watch something when I feel like it and not when it happens to be on.
Apparently their lawyers think they can get away with lying to the public. I think once the public, and some ambulance chasers (you know what I mean!), get technically savvy about what these ISPs are doing, there'll be a class action lawsuit... man, that would be huge.
From what I've seen in a corporate environment, like 14,000-ish employees, is that to change things that involve other people is like changing the momentum of a large object: you have to push and push and push. The change will happen, but it just takes longer.
Aside from that, I believe there are somethings that can just get in the way:
The first two are interchangable according to the context of the change and I just put portability in there to keep some sort of technical focus.
Climate change, mass extinctions, erosion, and most likely ozone depletion have also been around 'forever' ... Has man been around so long that he is also responsible for extinctions that happened before he 'stepped out of the trees'?
You have spoken correctly in saying that I am a creationist. What you don't understand is that as a creationist I boldly, directly declare man's absolute responsibility for the state of the world/environment as we currently experience it; I declare man's full, miserable responsibility for it. What I also boldly and directly declare is that your deductions as to causes and the solutions thereto are what I am at odds with.
And that is exactly my point. Thank you for your acknowledgement.
Correct: decades . Therefore it should take decades for nature to fix itself. However, it hasn't taken as much time.
This is nothing less than your ilk thinking man is just soooooo powerful and great and wise (scientist have named us Homo Sapien Sapien - the Wise Wise Man afterall). Where we are not.
If you would do your research you would find the greatest polluters, particularly of CO2, are volcanos not man.
And, besides, my logic is not my own, it was pulled from
(anyone old enough to remember Nuclear Winter models from the 1980's?)which were put forth by the liberal media of the 1980's. Go harsh and filthy mouthed with them, because that's where your eco-religious beef lies with.
And while you're at it you should educate yourself with the other posts to this story. It'd do you well, because I have no questions for such rudeness.
I have to agree.
If the majority of CFCs omitted into the atmosphere where done in the Northern Hemisphere, why did the the hole in the ozone end up over the South Pole/Southern Hemisphere? It makes absolutely no sense: it's against reason to blame the CFCs to the extent they have been blamed. And finally, the article admits/gives focus to other, natural culprits.
If there are other reasons to ban CFCs, then fine, ban them. But, to ban them because something done in Michigan causes a hole in the ozone layer over Australia... please, it's just not logical and I doubt there is scientific evidence to support it. Thus, to accept this premise is to accept it by faith.
(anyone old enough to remember Nuclear Winter models from the 1980's?)
It's possible some of that is skewed by the ability of some browsers to mis-identify themselves.
How much that actually is depends on your optimism/pessimism one way or another.
!!!???
Utterly a sign of fear and incompetence. At least you might have been able to pull the principal from across the hall to talk some sense into that one.
But I'm really, really glad it worked out for you, your brothers, and your mom.
Is that with or without daily reboots?
While I personally do find it appealing, I do think it is important that someone find it appealing.
One reason I think it important is the usefulness of Morse code: it was used to blink out the word torture by one of our Vietnam POWs during a filmed interview where he was required to pretend everything was hunky dory in the Hanoi Hilton. While this use it extreme, I think Morse code would be as quick a means of communicating as text messaging via cell phone. That is, the implementation and mastery of Morse code into a cell phone could/would be just as quick and effective means of communication as today's text messaging.
I'd actually pursue Morse code if I didn't think my atrocious (took a while to get that word) spelling would be a hinderance. But, if I found out it might actually help my spelling, I might then spend some time on it. I say some, because having learned Spanish and the Dvorak keyboard layout, I know what it takes to learn another language: time and attention.
So, thanks for being one of those people.