They like the service and it's too much work to set one up for yourself. That's basically how all web businesses continue to exist. So people use meaningless arguments like "you are overstating the case". That concedes the point while trying to minimize its impact.
There's an immense store of goodwill towards Poland in the US, despite the ludicrous actions of our corporations and government. When it counts, it will be repaid.
Actually, they are. My example: I think if you polled the Democrat caucus in Congress back in 2009-10, you would have found a strong consensus for a single payer health care program, but look what actually got passed. They had the votes at times and places to get that with no Republican help. They failed to due to fractures in the caucus and re-election fears.
I don't think it was intended as an insult by the GP. It's just hard to concentrate on green issues when you're having a hard time making ends meet - Maslow's pyramid of needs and all of that.
There might be synergies between upscale liberals and blacks, but show me the synergies between union voters and upscale liberals, or between union voters and blacks? Hispanic issues are often completely at odds with the entire rest of the spectrum. There are going to be synergies here and there, but everyone has an agenda, and none of them really match.
You're thinking about this, but you aren't coming to the right conclusion. The Democratic party is actually *more* fragmented than the Republicans. You could do similar to what you did for the Republicans for the Democrats:
1 - Upscale liberals 1 - Blacks 1 - Union voters 1 - Hispanics (the fuzziest part of all since they are only 60-70% for Democrats)
As a Democrat, depending on the demographics of your area, you probably have to please at least two of these constituencies to get re-elected. You have to please all four in a national election year. Especially, you have to pander to Hispanics who aren't a solid bloc anyway (ask a Mexican and a Puerto Rican whether they feel any close bond...) and are likely to bolt the party if you offend them.
The typical US citizen is a functional retard. It's true. That said, the government has taken a long time to get this corrupt.
As for why the rising hasn't happened yet, I haven't found one thing yet that the government has done that affects me when I close the door to my house. Inside, it's still pretty much the same as the 70s/80s/90s...more gadgets, better food, but same quality of life. When that changes, I (and others like me) will be inspired to unlock the gun safe and take some action. I'm not highly interested in having my daughters caught in a firefight for any lesser reason.
If you go to Korea, you'll see tons of replicant merchandise for sale locally. The problem for Apple is that no matter how successful they are in pushing design patents in Europe and the US, the vast majority of the world's population will be inundated with clone merchandise which Apple will never see a red cent of. Do you think the Korean/Chinese/Indian/smaller player governments will do anything concrete about this? Of course not. Also, patents run out and get invalidated.
Fighting with Samsung like this is a delaying tactic. It's a losing game for them. Anyone not shorting Apple after Jobs' passing is missing the boat.
In practice, third parties haven't worked like this in the US. They are issue based and rise and fall based upon their particular issue. They are a factor for a few elections and disappear, and any effect they had on the major candidates is difficult to discern.
The voting system in the US is not very conducive to third parties in any event. Your system is clearly designed to afford maximum representation to fringe parties.
I have a good friend who votes for write-ins or Constitution Party type people every election for this reason. I get his point. I get your almost identical point. I just don't feel much like wasting my vote, and wasting is assuredly what it would be. It was nice to have him write in my name for NJ Governor a couple years back, though.
Speak for yourself, I hate that effin song. And i'm assuredly a Republican. Next thing, you'll be saying all Republicans want to ban abortion and birth control and be wrong again.
Sometimes you're just a Republican because the other side is even more odious. Not to mention arrogant and presumptuous.
What, so people like the aforementioned guy who got 'hacked' can happily pull levers for politicians who believe in censorship? How exactly are you going to educate them?
An elderly gentleman accosted me afterwards and said that he had been "hacked" and that if I were ever hacked I would support the government clamping down in the internet. I tried to explain SOPA to him, but it was a lost cause.
And THIS is why the eternal september was a bad thing. Giving network connected computers to functional retards results in censorship. Thanks, AOL and company. Time to start a new network, I guess.
And just as I don't get to decide what people and what language you are comfortable with in your spare time, you don't get to decide for me.
But women want to! Enough bitching and we'll be mandated to 'accomodate' them in leisure time activities as well as the workplace. Which means bending over backwards, always. Females are (almost always) insecure in all environments where being the alpha female isn't worth much. So they call it gender bias and try to create an environment where that kind of petty cutthroat competition is somehow a plus. I can't think of many places where hating your coworkers and refusing to talk to a significant percentage of them is useful, but that doesn't stop the attempt.
All-male workplaces work better but run afoul of regulation. The only way to make adequate sense of it is to realize that most jobs are make-work and efficiency isn't very highly valued. Therefore, creating an inefficient bitch-fest is not that much of a negative.
Women who try to swim in a man's world and do so by rejecting the stereotypical female role in business as outlined above have my undying respect.
Until people stop reading. I stopped reading the trade rags a decade ago because of all the sponsored content and the fact that they gave zero insight. If/. is just trade rag bullshit, then why even come here?
Contractor CACs (the vast majority) expire with the contract year, usually. The interpretation of the rules by local staff is the arbiter of how it is done. Basically, they shouldn't be issuing the CAC for option years that have not been paid for.
They are frequently reissued and new certs generated. This causes its own issues, though. The reissued cards cost money and time, and they cause an issue when trying to decrypt old mail, for instance. Specifically, you can't.
The whole PKI infrastructure thing has not been a glowing success in its largest known implementation.
The only equivalent in a Unix concept is running as root. Which I am aware that people do, but it's hard to share that root access around. Not so in the ACL based Windows.
No, I dont' misunderstand UAC. Turning UAC off removes the prompting for elevation of privileges. Combined with administrative access to the box, this enables you to operate entirely in the XP mode of full admin access without limitation or even warning.
I think you misunderstand. Try running as a local administrator on a system with UAC turned on. You get a significant level of prompting even though you should require no privilege escalation.
1) While most users do not need admin access and by default Vista and 7 do not give it to you, I still see people assigning admin rights to themselves and deactivating UAC as a prerequisite to using the computer, which puts the lie to your top two paragraphs. Once they take those two steps, the machine might as well be XP. They actually do it for (to them) legitimate reasons - software related and habit being the two largest.
2) IE9 still runs any script presented to it that passes a very crude ruleset based on zones. You Microsoft shills (sorry, that's how you come off) always try to compare Firefox without plugins with IE. IE has no facility for blocking scripts and flash selectively that doesn't cost more than a browser is worth. Noscript and ABP are a few mouse clicks away. You can have all the sandboxing in the world, but not letting the script run in the first place is the only effective defense against drive-by malware installs.
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They like the service and it's too much work to set one up for yourself. That's basically how all web businesses continue to exist. So people use meaningless arguments like "you are overstating the case". That concedes the point while trying to minimize its impact.
Unfortunately, some politician is going to smell opportunity and make them regret it.
There's an immense store of goodwill towards Poland in the US, despite the ludicrous actions of our corporations and government. When it counts, it will be repaid.
Actually, they are. My example: I think if you polled the Democrat caucus in Congress back in 2009-10, you would have found a strong consensus for a single payer health care program, but look what actually got passed. They had the votes at times and places to get that with no Republican help. They failed to due to fractures in the caucus and re-election fears.
I don't think it was intended as an insult by the GP. It's just hard to concentrate on green issues when you're having a hard time making ends meet - Maslow's pyramid of needs and all of that.
There might be synergies between upscale liberals and blacks, but show me the synergies between union voters and upscale liberals, or between union voters and blacks? Hispanic issues are often completely at odds with the entire rest of the spectrum. There are going to be synergies here and there, but everyone has an agenda, and none of them really match.
You're thinking about this, but you aren't coming to the right conclusion. The Democratic party is actually *more* fragmented than the Republicans. You could do similar to what you did for the Republicans for the Democrats:
1 - Upscale liberals
1 - Blacks
1 - Union voters
1 - Hispanics (the fuzziest part of all since they are only 60-70% for Democrats)
As a Democrat, depending on the demographics of your area, you probably have to please at least two of these constituencies to get re-elected. You have to please all four in a national election year. Especially, you have to pander to Hispanics who aren't a solid bloc anyway (ask a Mexican and a Puerto Rican whether they feel any close bond...) and are likely to bolt the party if you offend them.
FFS who would name a plant something like Andropogon gayanus ?
I'd happily read his stuff if the citation also included "lying sack of shit". Which is most appropriate.
The typical US citizen is a functional retard. It's true. That said, the government has taken a long time to get this corrupt.
As for why the rising hasn't happened yet, I haven't found one thing yet that the government has done that affects me when I close the door to my house. Inside, it's still pretty much the same as the 70s/80s/90s...more gadgets, better food, but same quality of life. When that changes, I (and others like me) will be inspired to unlock the gun safe and take some action. I'm not highly interested in having my daughters caught in a firefight for any lesser reason.
If you go to Korea, you'll see tons of replicant merchandise for sale locally. The problem for Apple is that no matter how successful they are in pushing design patents in Europe and the US, the vast majority of the world's population will be inundated with clone merchandise which Apple will never see a red cent of. Do you think the Korean/Chinese/Indian/smaller player governments will do anything concrete about this? Of course not. Also, patents run out and get invalidated.
Fighting with Samsung like this is a delaying tactic. It's a losing game for them. Anyone not shorting Apple after Jobs' passing is missing the boat.
In practice, third parties haven't worked like this in the US. They are issue based and rise and fall based upon their particular issue. They are a factor for a few elections and disappear, and any effect they had on the major candidates is difficult to discern.
The voting system in the US is not very conducive to third parties in any event. Your system is clearly designed to afford maximum representation to fringe parties.
I have a good friend who votes for write-ins or Constitution Party type people every election for this reason. I get his point. I get your almost identical point. I just don't feel much like wasting my vote, and wasting is assuredly what it would be. It was nice to have him write in my name for NJ Governor a couple years back, though.
Speak for yourself, I hate that effin song. And i'm assuredly a Republican. Next thing, you'll be saying all Republicans want to ban abortion and birth control and be wrong again.
Sometimes you're just a Republican because the other side is even more odious. Not to mention arrogant and presumptuous.
What, so people like the aforementioned guy who got 'hacked' can happily pull levers for politicians who believe in censorship? How exactly are you going to educate them?
It was better to be under the radar.
An elderly gentleman accosted me afterwards and said that he had been "hacked" and that if I were ever hacked I would support the government clamping down in the internet. I tried to explain SOPA to him, but it was a lost cause.
And THIS is why the eternal september was a bad thing. Giving network connected computers to functional retards results in censorship. Thanks, AOL and company. Time to start a new network, I guess.
And just as I don't get to decide what people and what language you are comfortable with in your spare time, you don't get to decide for me.
But women want to! Enough bitching and we'll be mandated to 'accomodate' them in leisure time activities as well as the workplace. Which means bending over backwards, always. Females are (almost always) insecure in all environments where being the alpha female isn't worth much. So they call it gender bias and try to create an environment where that kind of petty cutthroat competition is somehow a plus. I can't think of many places where hating your coworkers and refusing to talk to a significant percentage of them is useful, but that doesn't stop the attempt.
All-male workplaces work better but run afoul of regulation. The only way to make adequate sense of it is to realize that most jobs are make-work and efficiency isn't very highly valued. Therefore, creating an inefficient bitch-fest is not that much of a negative.
Women who try to swim in a man's world and do so by rejecting the stereotypical female role in business as outlined above have my undying respect.
Until people stop reading. I stopped reading the trade rags a decade ago because of all the sponsored content and the fact that they gave zero insight. If /. is just trade rag bullshit, then why even come here?
Contractor CACs (the vast majority) expire with the contract year, usually. The interpretation of the rules by local staff is the arbiter of how it is done. Basically, they shouldn't be issuing the CAC for option years that have not been paid for.
They are frequently reissued and new certs generated. This causes its own issues, though. The reissued cards cost money and time, and they cause an issue when trying to decrypt old mail, for instance. Specifically, you can't.
The whole PKI infrastructure thing has not been a glowing success in its largest known implementation.
The only equivalent in a Unix concept is running as root. Which I am aware that people do, but it's hard to share that root access around. Not so in the ACL based Windows.
No, I dont' misunderstand UAC. Turning UAC off removes the prompting for elevation of privileges. Combined with administrative access to the box, this enables you to operate entirely in the XP mode of full admin access without limitation or even warning.
I think you misunderstand. Try running as a local administrator on a system with UAC turned on. You get a significant level of prompting even though you should require no privilege escalation.
To rebut specifically:
1) While most users do not need admin access and by default Vista and 7 do not give it to you, I still see people assigning admin rights to themselves and deactivating UAC as a prerequisite to using the computer, which puts the lie to your top two paragraphs. Once they take those two steps, the machine might as well be XP. They actually do it for (to them) legitimate reasons - software related and habit being the two largest.
2) IE9 still runs any script presented to it that passes a very crude ruleset based on zones. You Microsoft shills (sorry, that's how you come off) always try to compare Firefox without plugins with IE. IE has no facility for blocking scripts and flash selectively that doesn't cost more than a browser is worth. Noscript and ABP are a few mouse clicks away. You can have all the sandboxing in the world, but not letting the script run in the first place is the only effective defense against drive-by malware installs.
No.
Soviet nostalgia is a close second to Nazi nostalgia today. In both cases, only obliviousness about the reality of both can propel one to fantasize about them being somehow good.