I love the "Microsoft is more predictable" comment. I ran a bank of only about 25 Windows 2003 boxen and predictability was the LAST word I would use to describe them. The became unpredictable very quickly and a reboot was the only way to get them back, often times a cold reboot because they would mysteriously stop responding to network.
My current Linux bank does exactly what I tell it to do, no more and no less. That is predictable.
For testing and prototyping before moving to the real thing. SQL Express is wonderful for my small business writing database applications. I don't use MSSQL in production, but I would love to support it for customers that do. Express edition allows me to test my application on MSSQL without having to pay the licencing fees. This helps Microsoft too by having more applications that work with MSSQL, so it's a win-win situation.
Now I'd never use it as a primary back end DB except maybe in an embedded application.
You still need a "based on" clause, since some things (like criminality) should be segregated in the law in most people's opinion. The current text, Section 1, "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex." seems appropriate, not singling out women. I'd like that last part to read "on account of race, sex, religion, or foreign national origin", but that might be asking for an unrealistic freedom utopia:) The current text of the 15TH allows congress to restrict or grant rights to individual races as long as they don't interfere with their right to vote.
Doubtful. The internet is swamped by paid for porn advertisments and penis enlargement pills... but I still found your comment to reply to. The signal to noise ratio on the internet is very low and no amount of legislation will change that. DISTINCT messages still seem to get through (thanks to search technologies and "reputation"). Constricting new content is not the way to improve signal.
You are yourself making the assumption that unions are always for the in support of the working man and that environmentalist groups are always for protecting the environment. Often I find that that they are more pro-democrat (or pro-racket in the case of unions) than pro-the cause they claim to support.
Republicans can be against a Union, yet still support the views of the working class, or be against a conservationist group yet still want environmental protection.
I agree with the GP. Campaign fincance restrictions are limiting free speech. I think my party is a bit split on the issue though. It is to our advantage to have the restrictions, being a less funded party, but it goes against some of the tenets of the party to be for such restrictions. Personally though I think the restrictions are illegal.
If the Democratic party collapses, we won't be a 1 party system. The Libertarian party will fill in the gap. Political party systems always find equilibrium with 2 parties, more than that and the parties combine during shared battles, less than that and the unheard minority bands together under a new umbrella.
Personally, I left the Republican party for the Libertarians primarily over the national debt issue...
Things must be pretty good if the only thing left to fight about is whether the state will officially recognize a class of private personal relationship:)
Why are you "strongly against" something you admit is a clarification of the status quo? Can you envision the creation of laws under the potentially amended constitution that you find objectionable that would not be possible under the current?
Personally, I think the proposed amendment should include a race clause also and end any future debate.
The multi party system always breaks down to 2 parties. The 2 parties aren't invulnerable though (and have been replaced multiple times in the past.) When a party does collapse though, it happens quickly and is replaced quickly, and brings to the table a new sanity in the remaining old party.
I've adopted the Libertarian party now, and my great dream is that the Dems continue on their path to wackiville and self destruct, leaving the new tax-and-spend Republicans having to reform in response to sane debate from the Libertarians finally.
McCain is a partyless one trick pony who can at most win a single election. We should all get together and vote with the 3rd largest party, and the only one that has a chance in hell to replace one of the existing.
On your second point, "I didn't read the bill before I voted for it" is an unacceptable excuse. Sure, I don't expect my representative to read every line of legislation before voting on it, but I *DO* expect every line to have been givin a cursory reading by a member of his staff and glaringly questionable lines brought to their attention so they CAN read it. In the case of 3am releases for 8am votes... screw that, voting yes on such a thing should be political suicide.
I don't care if the martians just invaded New York, executive power can take care of the today, representative government needs to be reading the frickin bills and any representative who uses the "I didn't read it" on anything is blacklisted in my book.
I was paying a gob when I got seperated in spousal support and left with only the clothes on my back. Being a developer I needed a computer quickly and cheaply. I slapped one together for $20 and wasn't about to spend 5x's the price of the system on an OS... so I installed linux. It just worked. Being a developer, I needed 10's of Thousands of dollars worth of windows dev tools on the machine, my Linux box came with all of their equivelents installed by default.
As I started my home business, I needed to set up a home network. Not knowing what I needed or how to install and run it, I decided to "try out" all the services in linux to see how they fit together... I wasn't about to spend money on software I didn't know I needed. Now I have 20 or so Linux boxes all doing their job in my network and running flawlessly.
I still have 1 windows machine around which I use to test my software on before I ship it, because most likely my customers are running windows... but other than testing it's retired. I have a very nice corporate network with LDAP, Source control, bug tracking, dev workstations, automatic updates, firewalls, databases, web servers, etc... all put together on ancient machines that probably can't even install a modern supported windows OS. I have learned to build and maintain a network and development environment with almost no cash outlay. I can run an entire company on a bunch of sub 1Ghz machines that I got for free or nearly so. If I had to stick with Windows, I simply wouldn't have been able to afford the capital outlay to go into business for myself.
No, real world examples of this show that the economy shuts down and is replaced by a black market economy which works via capitalism, leaving the government stuck with obligations to the people with little income, leaving the people who "play by the rules" to fight over the scraps while the people who illegally shift to capitalism become wealthy.
That argument assumes that only the government can be relied on to invest in semiconductors. In reality, since the government has little or no profit motive in it's expenditures, it will be MORE likely to "waste" money by spending in areas that are sub-optimal. For instance, a pending semiconductor boom will be invested in heavily by private dollars, whereas government spending is just as likely to put that money into tobacco subsidies. Public spending is handicapped by ignoring the "communication" of the market that is prices and therefore reacts more sluggishly when investing. Private spending has a tendancy to put money where money is needed in the economy naturally, whereas governmental spending requires massive amounts of research into a chaotic system that often turns out wrong. Hence governmental investment (for economic investment purposes only, neccissary public welfare and defense research projects should be evaluated individually) is grossly inferior to just letting the populace keep it's own money and should be eliminated.
That would have been a very nice argument. Unfortunately, his mock trial lasted all of 60 seconds and was allowed to make no arguments, setting the proper precident for future presidents: Scare the senate and you can do anything you damn well please.
IMHO there's a big misnomer going on here. "Linux" is not the platform anymore than NTOSKRNL.EXE is microsoft's platform... it's just a small component of the platform. From that perspective, in my view FC, Gentoo, WindowsXP, Ubuntu, OSX, Solaris, etc.. are all competitors; I put them on equal footing when choosing my platform, I don't lump them into "Windows, Mac, Solaris, Linux x 300". Now the linux variants do have the advantage of more cross-platform compatibility than say Windows to Mac, but they are completely different platforms. In the customer's mind, he should forget the word Linux altogether and determine which platform he really wants. Now sure, there are 10 million choices out there, but saying that RedHat should merge with Ubuntu to keep the choices down is about as productive as recommending that Windows and Solaris should merge because there are too many OS'. "Linux" only makes sense to developers... Customers don't care what's under the hood so stop trying to confuse them. When you ask for a car your salesmen doesn't ask if you want a BrandX alternator then give you 50 choices of wildly different cars... he asks you what you want it to do and then offers a package that works for you.
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With swap being a million times slower than ram, it's always going to be painful regardless of your drive speed.
If there were no Shakespeare then there would be no Joyce, and that would be a tragedy indeed.
I love the "Microsoft is more predictable" comment. I ran a bank of only about 25 Windows 2003 boxen and predictability was the LAST word I would use to describe them. The became unpredictable very quickly and a reboot was the only way to get them back, often times a cold reboot because they would mysteriously stop responding to network.
My current Linux bank does exactly what I tell it to do, no more and no less. That is predictable.
For testing and prototyping before moving to the real thing. SQL Express is wonderful for my small business writing database applications. I don't use MSSQL in production, but I would love to support it for customers that do. Express edition allows me to test my application on MSSQL without having to pay the licencing fees. This helps Microsoft too by having more applications that work with MSSQL, so it's a win-win situation.
Now I'd never use it as a primary back end DB except maybe in an embedded application.
You still need a "based on" clause, since some things (like criminality) should be segregated in the law in most people's opinion. The current text, Section 1, "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex." seems appropriate, not singling out women. I'd like that last part to read "on account of race, sex, religion, or foreign national origin", but that might be asking for an unrealistic freedom utopia :) The current text of the 15TH allows congress to restrict or grant rights to individual races as long as they don't interfere with their right to vote.
illegal as in "in breach of constitutional law".
;)
Not that the current supreme court agrees with me
Doubtful. The internet is swamped by paid for porn advertisments and penis enlargement pills... but I still found your comment to reply to. The signal to noise ratio on the internet is very low and no amount of legislation will change that. DISTINCT messages still seem to get through (thanks to search technologies and "reputation"). Constricting new content is not the way to improve signal.
Your think you can improve the internet's SNR through legislation. Bwahahahahahaaahaa.
Good Luck!
You are yourself making the assumption that unions are always for the in support of the working man and that environmentalist groups are always for protecting the environment. Often I find that that they are more pro-democrat (or pro-racket in the case of unions) than pro-the cause they claim to support.
Republicans can be against a Union, yet still support the views of the working class, or be against a conservationist group yet still want environmental protection.
Libertarian here ;)
I agree with the GP. Campaign fincance restrictions are limiting free speech.
I think my party is a bit split on the issue though. It is to our advantage to have the restrictions, being a less funded party, but it goes against some of the tenets of the party to be for such restrictions. Personally though I think the restrictions are illegal.
Maybe he forgot to read it like all the Democrats did when they voted yes on the Patriot act. Common problem I hear.
If the Democratic party collapses, we won't be a 1 party system. The Libertarian party will fill in the gap. Political party systems always find equilibrium with 2 parties, more than that and the parties combine during shared battles, less than that and the unheard minority bands together under a new umbrella.
Personally, I left the Republican party for the Libertarians primarily over the national debt issue...
Amen brother :)
:)
Things must be pretty good if the only thing left to fight about is whether the state will officially recognize a class of private personal relationship
Why are you "strongly against" something you admit is a clarification of the status quo? Can you envision the creation of laws under the potentially amended constitution that you find objectionable that would not be possible under the current?
Personally, I think the proposed amendment should include a race clause also and end any future debate.
The multi party system always breaks down to 2 parties. The 2 parties aren't invulnerable though (and have been replaced multiple times in the past.) When a party does collapse though, it happens quickly and is replaced quickly, and brings to the table a new sanity in the remaining old party.
amen
Ex-republican here :)
I've adopted the Libertarian party now, and my great dream is that the Dems continue on their path to wackiville and self destruct, leaving the new tax-and-spend Republicans having to reform in response to sane debate from the Libertarians finally.
McCain is a partyless one trick pony who can at most win a single election. We should all get together and vote with the 3rd largest party, and the only one that has a chance in hell to replace one of the existing.
On your second point, "I didn't read the bill before I voted for it" is an unacceptable excuse. Sure, I don't expect my representative to read every line of legislation before voting on it, but I *DO* expect every line to have been givin a cursory reading by a member of his staff and glaringly questionable lines brought to their attention so they CAN read it. In the case of 3am releases for 8am votes... screw that, voting yes on such a thing should be political suicide.
I don't care if the martians just invaded New York, executive power can take care of the today, representative government needs to be reading the frickin bills and any representative who uses the "I didn't read it" on anything is blacklisted in my book.
I was paying a gob when I got seperated in spousal support and left with only the clothes on my back. Being a developer I needed a computer quickly and cheaply. I slapped one together for $20 and wasn't about to spend 5x's the price of the system on an OS... so I installed linux. It just worked. Being a developer, I needed 10's of Thousands of dollars worth of windows dev tools on the machine, my Linux box came with all of their equivelents installed by default.
As I started my home business, I needed to set up a home network. Not knowing what I needed or how to install and run it, I decided to "try out" all the services in linux to see how they fit together... I wasn't about to spend money on software I didn't know I needed. Now I have 20 or so Linux boxes all doing their job in my network and running flawlessly.
I still have 1 windows machine around which I use to test my software on before I ship it, because most likely my customers are running windows... but other than testing it's retired. I have a very nice corporate network with LDAP, Source control, bug tracking, dev workstations, automatic updates, firewalls, databases, web servers, etc... all put together on ancient machines that probably can't even install a modern supported windows OS. I have learned to build and maintain a network and development environment with almost no cash outlay. I can run an entire company on a bunch of sub 1Ghz machines that I got for free or nearly so. If I had to stick with Windows, I simply wouldn't have been able to afford the capital outlay to go into business for myself.
Yea... I tried that with a rabbi and he shot me down.
Sure belief against god should be antitheist... same as a pedaphile should really enjoy feet... but popular usage trumps all.
No, real world examples of this show that the economy shuts down and is replaced by a black market economy which works via capitalism, leaving the government stuck with obligations to the people with little income, leaving the people who "play by the rules" to fight over the scraps while the people who illegally shift to capitalism become wealthy.
Maybe, but the discussion is to the validity of the Laffer curve which deals only in government revenue :)
That argument assumes that only the government can be relied on to invest in semiconductors. In reality, since the government has little or no profit motive in it's expenditures, it will be MORE likely to "waste" money by spending in areas that are sub-optimal. For instance, a pending semiconductor boom will be invested in heavily by private dollars, whereas government spending is just as likely to put that money into tobacco subsidies. Public spending is handicapped by ignoring the "communication" of the market that is prices and therefore reacts more sluggishly when investing. Private spending has a tendancy to put money where money is needed in the economy naturally, whereas governmental spending requires massive amounts of research into a chaotic system that often turns out wrong. Hence governmental investment (for economic investment purposes only, neccissary public welfare and defense research projects should be evaluated individually) is grossly inferior to just letting the populace keep it's own money and should be eliminated.
That would have been a very nice argument. Unfortunately, his mock trial lasted all of 60 seconds and was allowed to make no arguments, setting the proper precident for future presidents: Scare the senate and you can do anything you damn well please.
IMHO there's a big misnomer going on here. "Linux" is not the platform anymore than NTOSKRNL.EXE is microsoft's platform... it's just a small component of the platform. From that perspective, in my view FC, Gentoo, WindowsXP, Ubuntu, OSX, Solaris, etc.. are all competitors; I put them on equal footing when choosing my platform, I don't lump them into "Windows, Mac, Solaris, Linux x 300". Now the linux variants do have the advantage of more cross-platform compatibility than say Windows to Mac, but they are completely different platforms. In the customer's mind, he should forget the word Linux altogether and determine which platform he really wants. Now sure, there are 10 million choices out there, but saying that RedHat should merge with Ubuntu to keep the choices down is about as productive as recommending that Windows and Solaris should merge because there are too many OS'. "Linux" only makes sense to developers... Customers don't care what's under the hood so stop trying to confuse them. When you ask for a car your salesmen doesn't ask if you want a BrandX alternator then give you 50 choices of wildly different cars... he asks you what you want it to do and then offers a package that works for you.