What would be funny for a student to do....hand in compiled programs with a 97 pages of rambling EULA the teacher needs to accept to install....All the program does is print the assignment question and an A+ 100%. The content is the students "intellectual property".
I have this problem with corporate internal sites...both my own company and others where I consult for sufficient duration to use their systems. Many large corporate installs have "Common Office Environment" builds...users do not have the ability to install software (although non-registry punching installs can get around this) and the only IE is installed.
Since only IE is installed...internal sitedevelopment teamss have the requirement "work with IE", rather than to follow standards x,y, and z.
Adopt an rediculous position that cannot be supported with facts or logic and label anyone that challenges it a extremist fanatical zealot.
What I find amusing is that someone modded this Troll (I presume for the statement above.)
Missing is the statement above whether the fanatical zealots are the "religious right" that piss off the liberals or the "tree hugging liberals" that the NeoCons get disgusted with.
It is the polarizing statements like I just made here that are the problem. We as a country can operate just fine with a variety of opinions and ideologies. It is a problem when debate and spirited discussion is replaced by sentiments of treason and corruption held against anyone with a difference in view or opinion.
It all depends on how you define winning. Does it mean having a few senators and congressmen in your pocket? Does it mean having a public debate where it is clear that your position is correct? Does it mean spreading enough FUD that people are confused/fearful enough not to take an "undesirable" action?
My interpretation of a Microsoft win is to perpetuate a perception that OSS is a hippy commune free for all not to be trusted by the government. It fits with the current mode of debate in DC. Adopt an rediculous position that cannot be supported with facts or logic and label anyone that challenges it a extremist fanatical zealot.
Comparative religeon is worthless, with or without the damn Koran.
So understanding how others think is useless? We will need to build a lot of bombs to kill everyone that our xenophobic reflexes deem threatening.
Our foreign policy can be summed up with "we will kill you until you agree with us!". Rumsfeld lumped the Germans in with Cuba and Iran for not supporting the beginning of the Iraq war. This complete intolerance for debate lat alone disent is very dangerous. It is absolute poppycock that the arab world hates us for our freedome and values...they hate us because we do talk a better game than we play with respect to our policies.
If 5 of the FBI's most wanted were in the same full hotel and we knew they would leave before law enforcement could get there would it be acceptable to hit it with a cruise missle? How does the moral algebra change if the hotel is in Lebanon or Iraq.
Willful ignorance is not a good education or foreign policy.
And this is the way of thinking that is dangerous and how it limits us.
Suppose...You can study comparative religions as long as they don't read the Koran...you can study atmospheric science as long as the material is approved by the former Exxon executive working as an appointee in the department of education...you become an OB/GYN as long as you sign a form that you will not counsel minors on birth control...
The "I don't want to pay for it" arguement doesn't hold up. I never go to Alabama so I want the percentage of my taxes that go to interstate highways in Alabama back. It's mine mine mine mine mine mine mine.
The RIAA is not really interested in money. How much does their team of lawyers cost? How much money do you suppose they can squeeze out of this dead guy. It doesn't add up from a financial standpoint. In the case of Lay he milked millions out of Enron during its death spiral so it is a more target rich environment.
Democratic: Representative government where the people have free access to information about the government and the goverments access to information about citizens has checks and balances.
Authoritarian: Government based on manipulation of power where access to government information is limited and access to citizen information by government is unfettered.
Ask yourself which direction the US government is heading.
Heck, they let Ken Lay rest in peace while there are thousands out there that would have rather he rest in pieces. Granted on the civil side the cases march on...but that's about money not justice.
A downshift has a similar effect! Actually my point is when the traffic on the right is going 10-15 MPH slower...so here the right lane is the limit +5 to +10 and the left lane is 10+ over that...and then some dickhead in a Tahoe doesn't think 85 MPH is fast enough. If I got pulled over for 85 in a 65 zone I doubt the ticket would be for impeding.
I have noticed a correlation between big SUV's and driving habits. It is very common to see Tahoe's and Suburban's out in the left lane pushing. Regardless of how fast you are going and what is happening in the other lanes they will ride up on the car in front of them and intimidate them into speeding up or moving over. The BMW's and other sports sedans do pylon drills through the other cars.
The automotive companies have actually done some fantastic things over the last 30 years with respect to occupant safety. Now the driving public needs to do their part and stop driving like they have a "New Game" menu selection on their dash.
With other genetically altered crops (e.g. corn) surrounding fields end up with genetic material from the bioengineered stock. For example in some parts of the world where the use a portion of their harvest for planting the next year, engineered seed has caused a problem. This risk could be managed I am sure, but that safflower field looks innocent enough and the consequences could be considerable.
There would be even more concern if this were a crop with a higher level of human daily consumption. Wouldn't it be great if for instance we created a bunch of people resistent to a treatment because they ate bread made from wheat in a region tainted by genetically manipulated crops grown by/for a pharmicutical company?
Yea, EDS could have fired me for 1% of the $50M+ Dicky Brown walked away with...instead I left for greener pastures with few grand of corporate match in EDS stock in my 401K. I could have driven the company into a death spiral as adeptly as he did given the chance, but alas, that privelege is reserved for good ol' boys.
If your personal experience is with a non-EDS development or system integrator it just shows how common this BS really is.
If you think these guys would wash their hands after they pee for $100K you are mistaken...that would take another zero tagged on the end.
Plame working for the CIA wasn't a secret, you fool!!
Nice that you elevate the debate.
sheesh.
My point was that the vice presidents chief of staff was indicted for for alleged illegal activity and dozens of news cycles have been spent on this series of events. Cheney, Rove, Bush would have rather not have that sort of thing happen. I think we can agree on that.
even the times admits this is a legal program. And SCOTUS has upheld this type of program numerous times.
Again, my point was not whether this investigation technique was legal. My concern is what a party and leadership willing to push the limits of the law, have think tanks propose convoluted interpretations of constitutional law to support their agenda. It is not the best initial intentions that concern me, but the steps likely to follow.
get over yourself.
I am a far humbler man now. I promise to watch Fox news daily, repeat whatever word of the day is on the blue banner behind the CIC at his daily speach to the hand picked 30% that still like him.
better yet....go educate yourself.
Actually I am a rocket scientist. That has left me ill prepared to understand our current administrations moral high ground. I am begining to understand though. Torture is OK as long as you don't kill people...but if you goof and do that is OK if you don't behead them. Stealing is OK if you don't steal as much as the other guy.
Setting aside all of the civil liberties / constitutinal powers arguements, when will access to all of this information become too tempting for the likes of Karl Rove et al keep their hands off?
Ooops too late...actually they crossed the line in a petty way once (w/ Plame) which was just plain stupid. Being ones to learn from their mistakes (unlike the sheep on the other side of the aisle), further use dubiosly collected information for political gain will be much more subtle.
One thing I can say for the current administration is that they believe in the infallibility of everything they do and say.
Our techies say our old bombs are scary and might allow us to blow up the world 27 times over rather than the 100 times over that the systems were designed for...so build new ones.
We are fighting for freedom so incarcaration without trial, cover-ups, domestic spying, torture, rendition...it's all good...we're the good guys.
The trouble is that to take the moral high ground you have to take the high road. Instead we claim moral authority by being less evil than the bad guys. Our nukular research is good...theirs is bad because their religious fanatics quote the Quaran and ours quote the Bible. Sure we torture folks and ooops sometimes even kill them...but that was secret and nobody was supposed to know about that damn liberal media...but at least we don't behead anyone.
Kawasaki did some interesting marketing research. A motorcycle is not typically something someone needs RIGHT NOW. They found that on average people are much more enthusiastic about their purchase if they have to wait. I am not sure if they do it anymore, but even if they had the bike you wanted in inventory you would have to wait 2-3 days while they got it all set up for you. The "compensating male" would spend the next 3 days talking up his new bike and couldn't wait to get on it.
Maybe video games are the same way. I'll stick with Solitaire (spare the stroke jokes please).
How can he have overlooked all these easily found counterexamples?
The government doesn't have the tools necessary to validate this counter-example. It is clear from the governments desire to get at the logs of google searches they do not have access to google. Otherwise the government could determine from their own firewall and server logs the rate of pr0n links returned from innocuous searches.
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But they make up for their shortcomings with pure hubris.
What would be funny for a student to do....hand in compiled programs with a 97 pages of rambling EULA the teacher needs to accept to install....All the program does is print the assignment question and an A+ 100%. The content is the students "intellectual property".
And if we could just figure out a way to get a couple million pirates of the "Aargh! Treasure" variety we could kiss global warming goodbye!
Since only IE is installed...internal sitedevelopment teamss have the requirement "work with IE", rather than to follow standards x,y, and z.
What I find amusing is that someone modded this Troll (I presume for the statement above.)
Missing is the statement above whether the fanatical zealots are the "religious right" that piss off the liberals or the "tree hugging liberals" that the NeoCons get disgusted with.
It is the polarizing statements like I just made here that are the problem. We as a country can operate just fine with a variety of opinions and ideologies. It is a problem when debate and spirited discussion is replaced by sentiments of treason and corruption held against anyone with a difference in view or opinion.
It all depends on how you define winning. Does it mean having a few senators and congressmen in your pocket? Does it mean having a public debate where it is clear that your position is correct? Does it mean spreading enough FUD that people are confused/fearful enough not to take an "undesirable" action?
My interpretation of a Microsoft win is to perpetuate a perception that OSS is a hippy commune free for all not to be trusted by the government. It fits with the current mode of debate in DC. Adopt an rediculous position that cannot be supported with facts or logic and label anyone that challenges it a extremist fanatical zealot.
So understanding how others think is useless? We will need to build a lot of bombs to kill everyone that our xenophobic reflexes deem threatening.
Our foreign policy can be summed up with "we will kill you until you agree with us!". Rumsfeld lumped the Germans in with Cuba and Iran for not supporting the beginning of the Iraq war. This complete intolerance for debate lat alone disent is very dangerous. It is absolute poppycock that the arab world hates us for our freedome and values...they hate us because we do talk a better game than we play with respect to our policies.
If 5 of the FBI's most wanted were in the same full hotel and we knew they would leave before law enforcement could get there would it be acceptable to hit it with a cruise missle? How does the moral algebra change if the hotel is in Lebanon or Iraq.
Willful ignorance is not a good education or foreign policy.
Suppose ...You can study comparative religions as long as they don't read the Koran...you can study atmospheric science as long as the material is approved by the former Exxon executive working as an appointee in the department of education...you become an OB/GYN as long as you sign a form that you will not counsel minors on birth control...
The "I don't want to pay for it" arguement doesn't hold up. I never go to Alabama so I want the percentage of my taxes that go to interstate highways in Alabama back. It's mine mine mine mine mine mine mine.
I knew that...I was making a rhetorical arguement....kind of a what if line of thought.
The RIAA is not really interested in money. How much does their team of lawyers cost? How much money do you suppose they can squeeze out of this dead guy. It doesn't add up from a financial standpoint. In the case of Lay he milked millions out of Enron during its death spiral so it is a more target rich environment.
Authoritarian: Government based on manipulation of power where access to government information is limited and access to citizen information by government is unfettered.
Ask yourself which direction the US government is heading.
Heck, they let Ken Lay rest in peace while there are thousands out there that would have rather he rest in pieces. Granted on the civil side the cases march on...but that's about money not justice.
A downshift has a similar effect! Actually my point is when the traffic on the right is going 10-15 MPH slower...so here the right lane is the limit +5 to +10 and the left lane is 10+ over that...and then some dickhead in a Tahoe doesn't think 85 MPH is fast enough. If I got pulled over for 85 in a 65 zone I doubt the ticket would be for impeding.
The automotive companies have actually done some fantastic things over the last 30 years with respect to occupant safety. Now the driving public needs to do their part and stop driving like they have a "New Game" menu selection on their dash.
For example in Africa or in Mexico or in ...
There would be even more concern if this were a crop with a higher level of human daily consumption. Wouldn't it be great if for instance we created a bunch of people resistent to a treatment because they ate bread made from wheat in a region tainted by genetically manipulated crops grown by/for a pharmicutical company?
If your personal experience is with a non-EDS development or system integrator it just shows how common this BS really is.
If you think these guys would wash their hands after they pee for $100K you are mistaken...that would take another zero tagged on the end.
Nice that you elevate the debate.
sheesh.
My point was that the vice presidents chief of staff was indicted for for alleged illegal activity and dozens of news cycles have been spent on this series of events. Cheney, Rove, Bush would have rather not have that sort of thing happen. I think we can agree on that.
even the times admits this is a legal program. And SCOTUS has upheld this type of program numerous times.
Again, my point was not whether this investigation technique was legal. My concern is what a party and leadership willing to push the limits of the law, have think tanks propose convoluted interpretations of constitutional law to support their agenda. It is not the best initial intentions that concern me, but the steps likely to follow.
get over yourself.
I am a far humbler man now. I promise to watch Fox news daily, repeat whatever word of the day is on the blue banner behind the CIC at his daily speach to the hand picked 30% that still like him.
better yet....go educate yourself.
Actually I am a rocket scientist. That has left me ill prepared to understand our current administrations moral high ground. I am begining to understand though. Torture is OK as long as you don't kill people...but if you goof and do that is OK if you don't behead them. Stealing is OK if you don't steal as much as the other guy.
Ooops too late...actually they crossed the line in a petty way once (w/ Plame) which was just plain stupid. Being ones to learn from their mistakes (unlike the sheep on the other side of the aisle), further use dubiosly collected information for political gain will be much more subtle.
I don't know... the sand in the shade of my H2 is pretty cool...I have my whole head buried in it.
Our techies say our old bombs are scary and might allow us to blow up the world 27 times over rather than the 100 times over that the systems were designed for...so build new ones.
We are fighting for freedom so incarcaration without trial, cover-ups, domestic spying, torture, rendition...it's all good...we're the good guys.
The trouble is that to take the moral high ground you have to take the high road. Instead we claim moral authority by being less evil than the bad guys. Our nukular research is good...theirs is bad because their religious fanatics quote the Quaran and ours quote the Bible. Sure we torture folks and ooops sometimes even kill them...but that was secret and nobody was supposed to know about that damn liberal media...but at least we don't behead anyone.
This was for the high performance crotch rockets. The premise is that it was getting tuned-up...."this one goes to eleven".
Maybe video games are the same way. I'll stick with Solitaire (spare the stroke jokes please).
The government doesn't have the tools necessary to validate this counter-example. It is clear from the governments desire to get at the logs of google searches they do not have access to google. Otherwise the government could determine from their own firewall and server logs the rate of pr0n links returned from innocuous searches.
You too have been touched by the noodley appendage.