Also I read a lot of the allegations against Ayers during the election campaign, and the guy was obviously somewhat nutty and disingenuous in terms of how he described what he did, but I specifically have not heard any non-discredited allegation that he "intentionally made homemade explosives that killed people", unless you're misusing the term "intentionally" to just mean "he made explosives" rather than "that killed people". Indeed, I'm not even aware of a bomb he made that actually killed people, though bombs made by his collegues certainly did - Ayers' girlfriend Diana Oughton managed to make one, for instance. Unfortunately for Oughton, the victim of her bomb was herself.
Ayers was the leader of the Weather Underground, and as such, he ordered the bomb-making. He did nothing himself, he always had idiots more than willing to do his dirty work. You might be confused because of the fact that he never went to jail, but that's because the FBI decided to break the law in pursuing him and the case against him was dropped. His famous line was "Guilty as hell, free as a bird."
So, he's a "boogey man" because Sarah Palin says so, or, because he spent years as a domestic terrorist supposedly protesting the Vietnam War yet doing more bombings after the war was over than during the war?
For those of you who don't get it, the guy killed innocent people. He was incompetent enough to rarely succeed, but he has expressed no remorse for his actions.
For the non IT person, it's almost the equivalent of a taxi firm only hiring drivers who have experience driving 2001 Ford Galaxy vans with the 5.0 Liter V8 engine.
Actually, it's the equivalent of finding a taxi driver who is experienced in driving an 1905 model Delorean. Spot on, otherwise.
On a side note, I thought the US was build on people coming from bad situations to live the American dream, you guys sure have changed your mindset lately.
If that was the case, there wouldn't be any complaints, because then they wouldn't be getting paid less. It's the fact that they're only temp workers that get paid up to 23 percent less than Americans in the same positions that cheeses people off. Level playing field--fine. Unfair playing field where management lies about not being able to find qualified personnel and then turns around and pays substantially lower salaries--not good.
And, to continue, the "lower pay" part is illegal. I have actually looked into it (from a business standpoint) before, and, as a business owner, I have to basically sign an affidavit that I will pay the same rate to the foreign worker as a similarly qualified US worker, and I have to swear that I can't find anyone in the US to fill the job.
My wife came over on an H1A originally as a nurse, and it was the same story. The nursing home was getting Filipino nurses to come over so they could pay them shit wages that Americans wouldn't even consider. The Filipinos also put up with *anything* because they could be sent back to the Philippines with a signature from the director.
I have a friend who's in the same shitty position now as a computer programmer - the company illegally didn't pay him for 8 months while he was "benched", but he won't sue them because he wants to be in the US so bad. They owe him tens of thousands of dollars. He ended up finding the current contract that he's working by himself, but still is working through the agency that dicked him over. Looking them up on the internet, he's not the only one they've done this to.
Anyway, it's a mess, but if the US simply enforced the law, particularly the "equal pay" part, the problem would go away.
The M68K and TMS9900 were both direct descendants of the PDP-11, not the PDP-10. Each took the CISC concept in a slightly different direction, but if you learned any of them at the machine-code level you could quickly pick up the others. The main concept is that an instruction is essentially one word, with an operator being somewhere in the high bits and the operand(s) being in the lower bits. Similar addressing modes, too.
The VAX was similar, but on steroids and with wildly varying instruction lengths. Actually, operators on the VAX are mainly one byte with variable length operands.
The court ruled that 'it's up to the General Assembly â" not the courts nor the state Justice Cabinet â" to bring domain names into the definition of illegal gambling devices.
Yeah, up to the General Assembly. That is, when they gain the power to enter into the international treaties that it would require to do this.
Do they not have one judge in that state who can step up and put an end to this shameful display of ignorance and idiocy?
The "lesson" is that "uncultured" people probably have as much a right to live as anyone else, and the only "lesson" you teach from the barrel of a gun is that gun-barrels are for teaching lessons.
And, yet, oddly those whom we "taught a lesson" in WWII at the barrel of a gun have taken it to heart and are now great international citizens.
I got a bit of a laugh reading the abstract, particularly this:
If your country was invaded and occupied by a foreign power, would you blow yourself up to fight back?
Great question! Let me know if that ever happens.
Seriously. In Iraq, the suicide bombers are largely al Qaeda imports - they're not Iraqis and they're not trying to get their country back. They want to take over and impose their lovely brand of Sharia law on the populace. Look at what they did in Fallujah before being kicked out.
In Afghanistan, the suicide bombers are Taliban idiots who - wait for it - want the Taliban to regain power so they can impose their lovely brand of Sharia law on the populace. Look at what they did in Afghanistan before being kicked out.
Lastly, holy crap, can we get over the immature "Bush's war on terror" shit? Seriously. He's out. The Democrats in office backed him up, and they are sending plenty of signals that nothing's changing on that front. Get over it.
Then how do you explain their abysmal sales? Piracy? No, the years-long established boycott is working, but they're not blaming me and our boycott, they're blaming you and your piracy.
Their sales are explained in a couple of ways. First and foremost, their sales were bouyed for a few years after the advent of CDs (the 90's) by people replacing vinyl with CDs. I gave them a lot of money to do just that. Then I stopped. Second, their current music is substandard by any measure - they are so desperate to just use a formula that there's little risk-taking nowadays.
Then there's digital downloads. They could have entered this game early and easily made the move from CDs to downloads. Instead, Steve Jobs dragged them kicking and screaming into it, and it still took him, what, 7 or 8 years to finally get them to give up on DRM? Their cluelessness has definitely hurt them.
Finally, their sales aren't off that much. They're down 10-20% from the high. No big surprise given the above.
I remember during the last recession (circa 2002) when the MPAA was trying to push through their "superdmca" bill in the states, and I sat across from their slimy lawyer Geoff Beauchamps in a meeting with our state representative. He lamented that the record industry's sales were off by 10%. I asked him how they'd kept their sales up that well in a recession, as mine were off by 50% (I wasn't kidding). Music is non-essential, people are going to buy bread before they buy a CD.
Anyway, they've spent years digging the hole that they're in, and most of what they're doing now is looking for a better shovel.
Also, I've seen lots of office workers exchange pictures via pasting them in Word and emailing the doc files to each other, instead of learning that pictures can also be saved as files.
Sigh. Got a Word doc from a missionary friend that I support over Christmas. Opened it up and it was a picture of him and the family - no text or anything else.
I have a perpetual issue with customers using Word to type in plain text data for me to import. I mean, I'll ask for a simple list of words, e.g. a category list for a web site, and I'll get a Word doc with the items inside. So I have to fire up openoffice just to get at the text.
I know, it sounds minor, but it really is a pain in the ass when I should be able to copy them straight out of the email. It at least doubles the time I spend on a simple task.
Education is the key, but it's an arduous process.
Reader bezking points out CNN's story on the report, which says that problems with the astronauts' restraint systems were the ultimate cause of death for the seven astronauts on board.
The *ultimate* cause is because the thing blew up. The specific cause of their deaths is that their restraints allowed their upper bodies to be tossed like rag dolls while the vehicle was breaking up, causing their heads to hit inside their helmets or just generally shaking them too hard. It's hardly relevant unless they could have survived reentry with no vehicle from 200,000 feet up.
Actually, Apple is very common on college campuses, and iWork is a great alternative for spreadsheet, word processing, and presentation. And it's $80 or $90.
I also use NeoOffice, which is slow but works well enough for me.
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Also I read a lot of the allegations against Ayers during the election campaign, and the guy was obviously somewhat nutty and disingenuous in terms of how he described what he did, but I specifically have not heard any non-discredited allegation that he "intentionally made homemade explosives that killed people", unless you're misusing the term "intentionally" to just mean "he made explosives" rather than "that killed people". Indeed, I'm not even aware of a bomb he made that actually killed people, though bombs made by his collegues certainly did - Ayers' girlfriend Diana Oughton managed to make one, for instance. Unfortunately for Oughton, the victim of her bomb was herself.
Ayers was the leader of the Weather Underground, and as such, he ordered the bomb-making. He did nothing himself, he always had idiots more than willing to do his dirty work. You might be confused because of the fact that he never went to jail, but that's because the FBI decided to break the law in pursuing him and the case against him was dropped. His famous line was "Guilty as hell, free as a bird."
So, he's a "boogey man" because Sarah Palin says so, or, because he spent years as a domestic terrorist supposedly protesting the Vietnam War yet doing more bombings after the war was over than during the war?
For those of you who don't get it, the guy killed innocent people. He was incompetent enough to rarely succeed, but he has expressed no remorse for his actions.
Right, because you can trust local law enforcement to never abuse a new power.
Seriously, it's for the the public good. You don't want people to be able to upload the videos before their phones are stolen...
Actually, it's the equivalent of finding a taxi driver who is experienced in driving an 1905 model Delorean. Spot on, otherwise.
On a side note, I thought the US was build on people coming from bad situations to live the American dream, you guys sure have changed your mindset lately.
If that was the case, there wouldn't be any complaints, because then they wouldn't be getting paid less. It's the fact that they're only temp workers that get paid up to 23 percent less than Americans in the same positions that cheeses people off. Level playing field--fine. Unfair playing field where management lies about not being able to find qualified personnel and then turns around and pays substantially lower salaries--not good.
And, to continue, the "lower pay" part is illegal. I have actually looked into it (from a business standpoint) before, and, as a business owner, I have to basically sign an affidavit that I will pay the same rate to the foreign worker as a similarly qualified US worker, and I have to swear that I can't find anyone in the US to fill the job.
My wife came over on an H1A originally as a nurse, and it was the same story. The nursing home was getting Filipino nurses to come over so they could pay them shit wages that Americans wouldn't even consider. The Filipinos also put up with *anything* because they could be sent back to the Philippines with a signature from the director.
I have a friend who's in the same shitty position now as a computer programmer - the company illegally didn't pay him for 8 months while he was "benched", but he won't sue them because he wants to be in the US so bad. They owe him tens of thousands of dollars. He ended up finding the current contract that he's working by himself, but still is working through the agency that dicked him over. Looking them up on the internet, he's not the only one they've done this to.
Anyway, it's a mess, but if the US simply enforced the law, particularly the "equal pay" part, the problem would go away.
The M68K and TMS9900 were both direct descendants of the PDP-11, not the PDP-10. Each took the CISC concept in a slightly different direction, but if you learned any of them at the machine-code level you could quickly pick up the others. The main concept is that an instruction is essentially one word, with an operator being somewhere in the high bits and the operand(s) being in the lower bits. Similar addressing modes, too.
The VAX was similar, but on steroids and with wildly varying instruction lengths. Actually, operators on the VAX are mainly one byte with variable length operands.
Sorry, I know this is boring...
At least, it *should* be :)
My wife too - just buy more memory and stop by the computer every now and then and use "apple-tab" and "apple-q" on everything...
According to the guy who broke into her account and read every single email, there was nothing interesting there.
But, I'm sure you have information that he didn't...
Yeah, up to the General Assembly. That is, when they gain the power to enter into the international treaties that it would require to do this.
Do they not have one judge in that state who can step up and put an end to this shameful display of ignorance and idiocy?
The "lesson" is that "uncultured" people probably have as much a right to live as anyone else, and the only "lesson" you teach from the barrel of a gun is that gun-barrels are for teaching lessons.
And, yet, oddly those whom we "taught a lesson" in WWII at the barrel of a gun have taken it to heart and are now great international citizens.
I got a bit of a laugh reading the abstract, particularly this:
If your country was invaded and occupied by a foreign power, would you blow yourself up to fight back?
Great question! Let me know if that ever happens.
Seriously. In Iraq, the suicide bombers are largely al Qaeda imports - they're not Iraqis and they're not trying to get their country back. They want to take over and impose their lovely brand of Sharia law on the populace. Look at what they did in Fallujah before being kicked out.
In Afghanistan, the suicide bombers are Taliban idiots who - wait for it - want the Taliban to regain power so they can impose their lovely brand of Sharia law on the populace. Look at what they did in Afghanistan before being kicked out.
Lastly, holy crap, can we get over the immature "Bush's war on terror" shit? Seriously. He's out. The Democrats in office backed him up, and they are sending plenty of signals that nothing's changing on that front. Get over it.
Then how do you explain their abysmal sales? Piracy? No, the years-long established boycott is working, but they're not blaming me and our boycott, they're blaming you and your piracy.
Their sales are explained in a couple of ways. First and foremost, their sales were bouyed for a few years after the advent of CDs (the 90's) by people replacing vinyl with CDs. I gave them a lot of money to do just that. Then I stopped. Second, their current music is substandard by any measure - they are so desperate to just use a formula that there's little risk-taking nowadays.
Then there's digital downloads. They could have entered this game early and easily made the move from CDs to downloads. Instead, Steve Jobs dragged them kicking and screaming into it, and it still took him, what, 7 or 8 years to finally get them to give up on DRM? Their cluelessness has definitely hurt them.
Finally, their sales aren't off that much. They're down 10-20% from the high. No big surprise given the above.
I remember during the last recession (circa 2002) when the MPAA was trying to push through their "superdmca" bill in the states, and I sat across from their slimy lawyer Geoff Beauchamps in a meeting with our state representative. He lamented that the record industry's sales were off by 10%. I asked him how they'd kept their sales up that well in a recession, as mine were off by 50% (I wasn't kidding). Music is non-essential, people are going to buy bread before they buy a CD.
Anyway, they've spent years digging the hole that they're in, and most of what they're doing now is looking for a better shovel.
Don't you usually skip to the end when you're ready to finish? ...or is that just me?
I don't know what's scarier - his wanking practices being marked "informative" or the fact that his name is "SQuiRT".
This came to light when they first started itunes plus, and was a /. story then.
Also, I've seen lots of office workers exchange pictures via pasting them in Word and emailing the doc files to each other, instead of learning that pictures can also be saved as files.
Sigh. Got a Word doc from a missionary friend that I support over Christmas. Opened it up and it was a picture of him and the family - no text or anything else.
I have a perpetual issue with customers using Word to type in plain text data for me to import. I mean, I'll ask for a simple list of words, e.g. a category list for a web site, and I'll get a Word doc with the items inside. So I have to fire up openoffice just to get at the text.
I know, it sounds minor, but it really is a pain in the ass when I should be able to copy them straight out of the email. It at least doubles the time I spend on a simple task.
Education is the key, but it's an arduous process.
This is why I use federal reserve notes for everything I can. I bought my Wii with federal reserve notes. I bought my PS3 with federal reserve notes.
And I'm the kind of jerk who buys High Times with a debit card. My FBI file must be a hoot.
I hear he's taking a chair....
Yes, you invest with other people's money. Money they would have invested had it not been taxed away from them.
Hello, broken window...
The *ultimate* cause is because the thing blew up. The specific cause of their deaths is that their restraints allowed their upper bodies to be tossed like rag dolls while the vehicle was breaking up, causing their heads to hit inside their helmets or just generally shaking them too hard. It's hardly relevant unless they could have survived reentry with no vehicle from 200,000 feet up.
...but it doesn't tell me what's happening, sounds sensationalist, and actually uses "Micro$oft" - who types that???
You must be new here...
You know, I could care less, irregardless of how you may feel....
Actually, Apple is very common on college campuses, and iWork is a great alternative for spreadsheet, word processing, and presentation. And it's $80 or $90. I also use NeoOffice, which is slow but works well enough for me.
You're kidding, right? Most exploits go after old, patched IE bugs that are still exploitable because so many people aren't running autoupdate.
Actually, most of us experts are begging people to never again use IE.