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The only way this happens is if the school board of wealthy Contra Costa County continues to fob its financial responsibilities off on everyone except the poeple really responsible: the taxpayers/voters of Contra Costa. Maybe, if they actually have to pay up, they won't elect such crooks to the school board next time.
Sounds like it's time to bankrupt them again, and maybe privatize them. Someone has to hold these buffoons accountable. Or maybe the not-so-poor denizens of Contra Costa County can pay their own bills!
It's not "partisan stereotypes" but the fundamental reason the two parties are called what they are. I agree with you that neither of them have anything except the interests of their party at heart.
The Democrats, in effect, are just as elitist as the Republicans, and neither are true to the ideals they were founded on, or pronounce. I despise them both.
On topic: Governments, and the trustees appointed to them, should be held accountable for their actions. Don't bail Contra Costa County out.
How about not letting governments borrow at all, except in time of war? Oh wait, that's already in the constitutions of the state and federal govt., but is conveniently ignored, since everything is a "National Emergency".
Bread, circuses, and whatever else paid for with someone else's money (in this case, far in the future) is what you get with a Democracy, which is why the US was founded as a Republic. Funny how this happens in a place run by Democrats.
No, I say that the line has to be drawn somewhere, and having the shareholders of IBM, or the taxpayers of significantly less prosperous counties (through the state government) bail out ultra-libs who hire flim-flam men and then keep putting off paying the piper is a good place to draw it. Contra Costa County is rich. Raise your sales taxes, raise your property taxes, or have your schools go bankrupt and get taken over by the state, which will fire your activist administrator bloat. I'm sick of the rest of the state subsidizing the bay area, which is the richest part of it.
Lessee, the school district has such lousy financial controls that they can't account for the systems, and they can't pay for them. Typically, the socialist argument is to not hold them accountable. I say bankrupt the district and put some people in who won't let $5M get STOLEN.
Nothing is "as simple as that". It's the TCO that matters, which takes into account the cost of staffing etc. I use Linux for my production and development platforms, exclusively, but I'm not under any illusions that it's "free". It's "free as in beer", as in I owe the community a round if I get mine.
For many environments, Windows is effectively free, since it comes pre-loaded, and there is no discount available for a "bare bones" or Linux machine. The admin cost is NOT, however. Like it or not, the average small business guy can set up a small LAN of XP systems to share files and printers, but wouldn't have a prayer of doing so with Linux.
TOTAL cost of ownership is what matters.
Now, for these "I didn't make any money so I did nothing wrong" Indian socialists, they have no excuse, except that they don't want to have to support what they sell, and more of their customers probably understand windows than Linux. Maybe RMS can explain the difference between Socialism and Theft to them.
Except Linux isn't free, when you include support costs and the reality of dealing with the leading distros. As this mail from Red Hat support to me today (regarding the fact that I can't get the bcraid driver to compile against the RHEL 4 U4 -55 errata kernel) shows, the leading Linux vendors have worse CS than MS (who will, at least, reply with something more than a brush off to Windows driver complaints, in my experience).
Quoted mail below (edited to beat the lameness filter on slashdot):
Case Title : Need to compile bcraid for errata kerne -55
Last Update Comment as of 20-MAY-2007 11:21:44 :
Greetings & Welcome to Red Hat Global Support,
I am sorry to let you know that you have only "Production Support Scope of Coverage" and this issue involves an in-compatible third party package. We will not be able to support this issue. I request you to please contact your third party vendor source of this SDK or search this issue in any of the on-line forums or mailing-lists.
I am changing the status of this service request as "Pending Closure", this issue will "auto close" in next 7days. Let us know if there is something else we can help with in this issue.
Lots of extraneous bs redacted, but the gist is: we don't care, thanks for the $595/yr, now go solve it yourself.
Well, if the English Language were consistent, it would be Congress.
"No one's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.", Mark Twain
When people do that to me, I just start talking in Gaeilge (Irish Gaelic, I speak it). Most get the drift.
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Anyone with any serious skills, history in the industry, or not really in need of a job is not going to (probably wouldn't legally be able to, due to conflicting contractual obligations, say if they were an author or regular speaker for conferences) agree to this.
Looks like Google is on their way to being yet another mindless company run by lawyers for wall street.
Kind of explains why the google toolbar and browser sync are such memory leaking, system crashing , pigs.
OK, so you're called "citizens" but without the basic premise that creates citizenship: that you, not the state, are sovereign. How can you be "citizens" in the traditional sense of the word, when you don't live in a Republic?
Last I checked, the UK doesn't have a written constitution (a contract between the sovereign people and their government).
Doesn't change the fact that, by trampling on individual rights to self defense, Blair et al have increased, rather than decreased, crime. The solution to which is more and more surveilance by the police.
As Ben Franklin said: "They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security." What he failed to mention is that they usually get neither, often becoming victims of the very "security" apparatus they create by giving up liberty.
For the criminals!
And the solution is to force vendors to give the government more tools to monitor you!
Oh, wait, you aren't citizens, but subjects. Your rights are privileges granted by the monarch, and so can be revoked at the pleasure of the government.
Yeah, although I don't think there's any legal RIGHT to it (Paisley notwithstanding), and that's not the blueshirt/gombeenman Republic, now is it? I left in 1984, it's changed a lot (for the better, IMO) since then. Charlie Haughey was a special kind of hypocrite, but he really was the embodiment of the country he ruled.
Boot licking, now there's a comment that could/should be moderated Troll.
You have no idea what I have done, or continue to do, to make America what it stands for. Let's start with 13 years service in the US Army, membership in the EFF, and actual local environmental stewardship.
What do you do, other than insult people you don't know?
yep, America was once much freer than it is today, before "Big Government" which got co-opted by the "Industrial Military Complex". It still has a basic legal framework that allows the people to turn back that tide, unlike the European countries where the State, not the People, are Sovereign.
So, Citizen, I've stepped up, at the cost of my own blood, I might add. WTF have you done? What do you continue to do?
She's a Law Professor, using an excerpt of a broadcast, the minimally necessary portion of it, in order to create a derivative work or commentary (her class).
I wish there was an HTML tag for patriotism. If you don't like the USA, then don't read below.
Unlike the ROW, which, despite your self important (usually the result of an inferiority complex) kafeeklatsh derision of US, is actually a corporatist dirigiste (with the state being the largest corporation) hell-hole, the US is still a common-law, the law applies to everyone, power is delegated from the people to the state, entity, even if it doesn't always seem that way.
In this case, you've got someone who knows the law, and has the corporatists by the jock-strap. The NFL are toast.
God Bless the USA. BTW: I'm an Immigrant from Europe, Ireland Specifically. When I left, my Mum asked me why, I said "Because in America, you have the right to be wrong, in Ireland, you only have the right to be right." Irish by birth, US Citizen by choice.
Except the fact that there's nothing Canada has to offer that we can't find elsewhere, for the same or less cost. You miss that point.
I got a DUI, I paid my fine, did the time, and I know going to Canada will be a hassle, so guess what: I WON'T BOTHER!!
Canadians that want to do business with me will come to the US, and I will go elsewhere on holiday. No loss for me, mega $$ of foreign currency lost for Canada.
I got the penalty for what I did, which means I got what I deserved. I did the crime, I did the time. My point was that, perhaps, the penalty exceeds the crime.
Regardless, I haven't had anything to drink and driven since I got released from jail after the arrest, and that was long before I went to court.
In the current context, I think not being admitted to Canada for at least 5, and maybe 10, years is a bit over the top, when you consider that most violent criminals get away with it.
P.S. I bet you live somewhere where you can easily walk to a bar/restaurant. Let's see what happens when you are older and need to move to the suburbs where you can't. You haven't had a DUI, "YET". I hope you never do. Learn from the consequences I posted. Take a cab, no matter how far, it's cheaper.
Because Canada's idea of a "serious offence" is ridiculous, in much the same way as some of the US ideas about what is a "serious offense" are. Canada has no limitation on date of the "offence", which the US does (statute of limitations). The result is that decent people are getting turned away from Canada under laws intended to stop felons from seeking refuge there.
It's Canada's loss. There's not much in Canada that can't be found elsewhere, often at lower cost. Canada's advantage, for US tourists and businesspeople, was convenience and language. The enforcement of this misguided law is hurting Canadians more than anyone else.
Having had a DUI, where no accident occurred, no-one was hurt, and I was so polite that the police parked, instead of towing, my car, I can tell you that DUIs are NOT just glossed over in the US.
As a first time offender, it cost me over $7000 in fines and legal fees, 6 months of "classes", 4 days of trash pickup, 24 hours in jail, enforced "Victim Impact" panel and donation to MADD, and 5 years summary probation.
It will also prevent me from entering Canada for the next 5 years.
That's Canada's loss. Except for one error in judgment, I am a productive, law abiding citizen who, in the past, has done considerable business with Canadian companies. I will, at least for the next 5 years, be doing business with countries that want my presence.
The problem isn't the information sharing: it's the draconian penalties for "per se" crimes, such as marijuana possession or DUI, on both sides of the border.
I would have had a better chance of getting off lightly if I beat someone up.
Well, since it breaks HP Multifunction Devices (scanning software stops working), in my experience, there are a few million people out there who are going to have real problems with this "urgent security update".
I had to backrev to IE6, and even while it was installed, IE7 was pretty crash prone. Naturally, I run Firefox unless I HAVE to run IE.
This, along with all the other reasons trotted out daily in Dilbert, is why the large corporations can't invent anything. The best and brightest won't work for them. The "Search for Talent" was the cover sotry on last week's Economist. Too bad the corporate drones don't get that their risk averseness, in all things, is why they can't hire and retain the best and the brightest. Wait, I'm an entrepreneur, that means I get the smart ones that HP doesn't! Yippeeee!!!!
Foosball, blimps, bring your dog to work, and LAN parties for the gamers aren't frivolity, they help productivity, in my experience. Costs a lot less than hiring private eyes to just keep your employees HAPPY!!!
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Who modded this troll interesting?
The only way this happens is if the school board of wealthy Contra Costa County continues to fob its financial responsibilities off on everyone except the poeple really responsible: the taxpayers/voters of Contra Costa. Maybe, if they actually have to pay up, they won't elect such crooks to the school board next time.
Sorry, wrong on the US constitution, but CA has a balanced budget requirement, which has been honored more in the breach than the observance lately.
Sounds like it's time to bankrupt them again, and maybe privatize them. Someone has to hold these buffoons accountable. Or maybe the not-so-poor denizens of Contra Costa County can pay their own bills!
It's not "partisan stereotypes" but the fundamental reason the two parties are called what they are. I agree with you that neither of them have anything except the interests of their party at heart.
The Democrats, in effect, are just as elitist as the Republicans, and neither are true to the ideals they were founded on, or pronounce. I despise them both.
On topic: Governments, and the trustees appointed to them, should be held accountable for their actions. Don't bail Contra Costa County out.
That was the point I was making, in a poorly articulated snide way.
How about not letting governments borrow at all, except in time of war? Oh wait, that's already in the constitutions of the state and federal govt., but is conveniently ignored, since everything is a "National Emergency".
Bread, circuses, and whatever else paid for with someone else's money (in this case, far in the future) is what you get with a Democracy, which is why the US was founded as a Republic. Funny how this happens in a place run by Democrats.
No, I say that the line has to be drawn somewhere, and having the shareholders of IBM, or the taxpayers of significantly less prosperous counties (through the state government) bail out ultra-libs who hire flim-flam men and then keep putting off paying the piper is a good place to draw it. Contra Costa County is rich. Raise your sales taxes, raise your property taxes, or have your schools go bankrupt and get taken over by the state, which will fire your activist administrator bloat. I'm sick of the rest of the state subsidizing the bay area, which is the richest part of it.
Lessee, the school district has such lousy financial controls that they can't account for the systems, and they can't pay for them. Typically, the socialist argument is to not hold them accountable. I say bankrupt the district and put some people in who won't let $5M get STOLEN.
That barely pays 2-3 months of any operation's overhead, never mind anyone's salary.
Nothing is "as simple as that". It's the TCO that matters, which takes into account the cost of staffing etc. I use Linux for my production and development platforms, exclusively, but I'm not under any illusions that it's "free". It's "free as in beer", as in I owe the community a round if I get mine.
For many environments, Windows is effectively free, since it comes pre-loaded, and there is no discount available for a "bare bones" or Linux machine. The admin cost is NOT, however. Like it or not, the average small business guy can set up a small LAN of XP systems to share files and printers, but wouldn't have a prayer of doing so with Linux.
TOTAL cost of ownership is what matters.
Now, for these "I didn't make any money so I did nothing wrong" Indian socialists, they have no excuse, except that they don't want to have to support what they sell, and more of their customers probably understand windows than Linux. Maybe RMS can explain the difference between Socialism and Theft to them.
Except Linux isn't free, when you include support costs and the reality of dealing with the leading distros. As this mail from Red Hat support to me today (regarding the fact that I can't get the bcraid driver to compile against the RHEL 4 U4 -55 errata kernel) shows, the leading Linux vendors have worse CS than MS (who will, at least, reply with something more than a brush off to Windows driver complaints, in my experience).
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Quoted mail below (edited to beat the lameness filter on slashdot):
Case Title : Need to compile bcraid for errata kerne -55
Last Update Comment as of 20-MAY-2007 11:21:44 :
Greetings & Welcome to Red Hat Global Support,
I am sorry to let you know that you have only "Production Support Scope of Coverage" and this issue involves an in-compatible third party package. We will not be able to support this issue. I request you to please contact your third party vendor source of this SDK or search this issue in any of the on-line forums or mailing-lists.
Refer - http://www.redhat.com/support/policy/soc/producti
I am changing the status of this service request as "Pending Closure", this issue will "auto close" in next 7days. Let us know if there is something else we can help with in this issue.
Lots of extraneous bs redacted, but the gist is: we don't care, thanks for the $595/yr, now go solve it yourself.
Well, if the English Language were consistent, it would be Congress.
"No one's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.", Mark Twain
When people do that to me, I just start talking in Gaeilge (Irish Gaelic, I speak it). Most get the drift.
Anyone with any serious skills, history in the industry, or not really in need of a job is not going to (probably wouldn't legally be able to, due to conflicting contractual obligations, say if they were an author or regular speaker for conferences) agree to this.
Looks like Google is on their way to being yet another mindless company run by lawyers for wall street.
Kind of explains why the google toolbar and browser sync are such memory leaking, system crashing , pigs.
OK, so you're called "citizens" but without the basic premise that creates citizenship: that you, not the state, are sovereign. How can you be "citizens" in the traditional sense of the word, when you don't live in a Republic?
Last I checked, the UK doesn't have a written constitution (a contract between the sovereign people and their government).
Doesn't change the fact that, by trampling on individual rights to self defense, Blair et al have increased, rather than decreased, crime. The solution to which is more and more surveilance by the police.
As Ben Franklin said: "They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security." What he failed to mention is that they usually get neither, often becoming victims of the very "security" apparatus they create by giving up liberty.
For the criminals!
And the solution is to force vendors to give the government more tools to monitor you!
Oh, wait, you aren't citizens, but subjects. Your rights are privileges granted by the monarch, and so can be revoked at the pleasure of the government.
Yeah, although I don't think there's any legal RIGHT to it (Paisley notwithstanding), and that's not the blueshirt/gombeenman Republic, now is it? I left in 1984, it's changed a lot (for the better, IMO) since then. Charlie Haughey was a special kind of hypocrite, but he really was the embodiment of the country he ruled.
Boot licking, now there's a comment that could/should be moderated Troll.
You have no idea what I have done, or continue to do, to make America what it stands for. Let's start with 13 years service in the US Army, membership in the EFF, and actual local environmental stewardship.
What do you do, other than insult people you don't know?
yep, America was once much freer than it is today, before "Big Government" which got co-opted by the "Industrial Military Complex". It still has a basic legal framework that allows the people to turn back that tide, unlike the European countries where the State, not the People, are Sovereign.
So, Citizen, I've stepped up, at the cost of my own blood, I might add. WTF have you done? What do you continue to do?
Umm, methinks you are unfamiliar with US Fair Use Criteria.
She's a Law Professor, using an excerpt of a broadcast, the minimally necessary portion of it, in order to create a derivative work or commentary (her class).
I wish there was an HTML tag for patriotism. If you don't like the USA, then don't read below.
Unlike the ROW, which, despite your self important (usually the result of an inferiority complex) kafeeklatsh derision of US, is actually a corporatist dirigiste (with the state being the largest corporation) hell-hole, the US is still a common-law, the law applies to everyone, power is delegated from the people to the state, entity, even if it doesn't always seem that way.
In this case, you've got someone who knows the law, and has the corporatists by the jock-strap. The NFL are toast.
God Bless the USA. BTW: I'm an Immigrant from Europe, Ireland Specifically. When I left, my Mum asked me why, I said "Because in America, you have the right to be wrong, in Ireland, you only have the right to be right." Irish by birth, US Citizen by choice.
FYI: This standard excludes the current President of the United States , who had a DUI in his twenties.
Except the fact that there's nothing Canada has to offer that we can't find elsewhere, for the same or less cost. You miss that point.
I got a DUI, I paid my fine, did the time, and I know going to Canada will be a hassle, so guess what: I WON'T BOTHER!!
Canadians that want to do business with me will come to the US, and I will go elsewhere on holiday. No loss for me, mega $$ of foreign currency lost for Canada.
I got the penalty for what I did, which means I got what I deserved. I did the crime, I did the time. My point was that, perhaps, the penalty exceeds the crime.
Regardless, I haven't had anything to drink and driven since I got released from jail after the arrest, and that was long before I went to court.
In the current context, I think not being admitted to Canada for at least 5, and maybe 10, years is a bit over the top, when you consider that most violent criminals get away with it.
P.S. I bet you live somewhere where you can easily walk to a bar/restaurant. Let's see what happens when you are older and need to move to the suburbs where you can't. You haven't had a DUI, "YET". I hope you never do. Learn from the consequences I posted. Take a cab, no matter how far, it's cheaper.
Because Canada's idea of a "serious offence" is ridiculous, in much the same way as some of the US ideas about what is a "serious offense" are. Canada has no limitation on date of the "offence", which the US does (statute of limitations). The result is that decent people are getting turned away from Canada under laws intended to stop felons from seeking refuge there.
It's Canada's loss. There's not much in Canada that can't be found elsewhere, often at lower cost. Canada's advantage, for US tourists and businesspeople, was convenience and language. The enforcement of this misguided law is hurting Canadians more than anyone else.
Having had a DUI, where no accident occurred, no-one was hurt, and I was so polite that the police parked, instead of towing, my car, I can tell you that DUIs are NOT just glossed over in the US. As a first time offender, it cost me over $7000 in fines and legal fees, 6 months of "classes", 4 days of trash pickup, 24 hours in jail, enforced "Victim Impact" panel and donation to MADD, and 5 years summary probation. It will also prevent me from entering Canada for the next 5 years. That's Canada's loss. Except for one error in judgment, I am a productive, law abiding citizen who, in the past, has done considerable business with Canadian companies. I will, at least for the next 5 years, be doing business with countries that want my presence. The problem isn't the information sharing: it's the draconian penalties for "per se" crimes, such as marijuana possession or DUI, on both sides of the border. I would have had a better chance of getting off lightly if I beat someone up.
Well, since it breaks HP Multifunction Devices (scanning software stops working), in my experience, there are a few million people out there who are going to have real problems with this "urgent security update".
I had to backrev to IE6, and even while it was installed, IE7 was pretty crash prone. Naturally, I run Firefox unless I HAVE to run IE.
This, along with all the other reasons trotted out daily in Dilbert, is why the large corporations can't invent anything. The best and brightest won't work for them. The "Search for Talent" was the cover sotry on last week's Economist. Too bad the corporate drones don't get that their risk averseness, in all things, is why they can't hire and retain the best and the brightest. Wait, I'm an entrepreneur, that means I get the smart ones that HP doesn't! Yippeeee!!!!
Foosball, blimps, bring your dog to work, and LAN parties for the gamers aren't frivolity, they help productivity, in my experience. Costs a lot less than hiring private eyes to just keep your employees HAPPY!!!