It sounds reasonable except where it forces the taxpayer to pay whether they need or want service. Households can either just pay the bill for their private services on top of the taxes that fund the public one, or they can cancel their private service and live with the public. I'd rather choose from competing private entities, or if I cannot afford it, opt out and save the money for more important things. The power of controlling where your own money is important, and it matters to the poor a lot more simply because they have fewer dollars to spend. Obviously, private providers are against state competition as its participation along with its power to regulate create a conflict of interest.
Now, if there's a lack of competition then the state should encourage that instead of discouraging it with lobbied monopolies.
When "her body, her right, her choice" is also no longer his responsibility then we'd have made a large step towards equality.
In the case of computer science programs, if the girls truly can hack it with the boys, then they don't NEED special treatment nor should they get it. Giving it to them would deny them the chance to prove their worth to themselves and to others (boys and girls both). Expecting both sexes to be interchangeable automatons is the most destructive sexually discriminating position of all. It is an affront to individual freedom and diversity.
Why are we letting the government regulate stupid shit like this? So are the kids supposed to stay inside and play video games instead? Bumps, bruises, getting teased, and learning to deal with losing/competition are life lessons.
Usually, people making such accusations are the ones who like to move goal posts. Today's regulation, tax, and borrowing is never enough for tomorrow, right? The government is too big to fail, too? It's bad enough that the banks were treated this way (if that wasn't a prime example of the 1% treading on the rest of us, what is?).
I've never advocated for anarchy. All I said was that the state should have to work within budgets just like the rest of us, whether we're the top 1% or the bottom 99. I don't mind hitting up the top 10% or so to help pay off the debt, esp the large organizations that've benefited from taxpayer loans over the years, but the system that allowed the abuse to happen still needs to be fixed first. The democrat and republican parties are too mired in their ideological purity and/or political alliances to do this.
Sure it's already downloaded, but noscript prevents the exploit javascript from executing in the browser. With softfirewalls like zonealarm, it's blocked before it hits the application but after it's processed by the protocol stack.
Exactly. If this plan also included banning the limitless deficit spending, as well as substantial simplification of the tax code, I'd support this. Close the loopholes for the 1%, reduce government expenditures and force it to levy specific taxes that fund specific needed public programs. Reduce the bloat of those programs and junk the rest. Reduce or eliminate all other tax besides income. Leftover cash goes back to the taxpayer as refunds. No more slush funds. No more state sponsored monopolies. The state should not be aiding multinationals' ability to corner markets.
Otherwise, you're right, 2 trillion will just disappear across the event horizon of the growing deficit singularity with no effect.
So lets put them in a pit with george soros and the koch brothers.. the resulting release of energy will power our society for the next 100 billion years.
The radeon driver maintainers don't understand the concept of handling exceptions. I realize gpu drivers are crazy complex nowadays, but it seems like they don't even try.
Younger people don't have the life experience to realize the implications of encroaching states, making the idea of 'lets all work together towards the radiant future a powerful lure. They were brought up in the most recent iterations of the pro-state propaganda in the public schools and universities which encourage and value individual achievement a lot less than just a few generations ago. Those in previous generations who grew up with one system and watched their kids go through the other realize what was sacrificed.
Anecdotally, I think that younger people ARE aware and disapprove but I think they're less likely to do anything about it.
Recovering from a malware infestation on a single user machine is about as simple as restoring an image.. You don't need a VM for that. Security requires good software, not shit wrapped up in virtualized bandaids.
No, corporations have low/no tax burden because the ruling class running them use the republicans to lobby the state for exemptions.. When people get sick of this, they vote in the socialists who then grow the size of the state, passing new taxes, regulations, and expenditures that end up hurting everyone, including the middle/lower classes they claim to care about. When people get sick of THAT, they vote the republicans back in, who then reenforce the loopholes protecting the ruling class from these new encroachments. During election years, we get to hear how much more they're going to 'reach across the aisle' by increasing our deficit for the next go around, driving up inflation and taxes, which, again, hurt the middle/lower classes much more than the ruling elite. I just wonder when people will stop bandwagoneering for these ivy league lawyer brat tyrants, regardless of party.
I don't know where you live, but it sounds like you get your info from western europe propaganda. That's hardly better than fox or msnbc over here. It's nearly impossible to find good journalism these days, so the best any of us can do is get news from multiple sources and connect the implied dots. Don't let them channel your thinking.
old sff pc with two gigabit nics and a separate switch.. Install linux or bsd of your choice and configure, or use distros tailored to the purpose like zeroshell or m0n0wall.
It's easy for the state to subsidize bread (and circuses) when it's taking 50 to 80% of citizens' income (income+VAT). The US is also dealing with aging infrastructure, part of the cost of being first.
Actually, I do understand perfectly well how badly it works. However I doubt most of 'the rest of the world' knows enough even to know what it really wants. It takes what it gets.
I was mainly talking about tasks flash was typically used for such as playing media files. Playing them in a local player designed for the client's hardware and OS interface results in a much better experience than browser-wrapped script and a plugin that's been broken since 1997 (talk about 90s). This is especially true for limited systems like mobile but also holds true for top end desktops thanks to the megabytes of javascript embedded in sites nowadays.
Well designed native applications are plenty portable on today's platforms, which have interfaces much more elegant than javascript and flash. The catch is they do require the developer to plan a little bit and know what he's doing. Security wise, at least they can be downloaded and run in jails if the source is questionable. Good luck securing all that cross domain script. All web 2.0 has done is move the security problem from the OS, which was hit or miss, to the browser, which is completely incapable of it.
..and yet with all that specialization in storage and value added 'service', we still see daily stories telling us all how they can't keep a few russian/chinese/korean teenage crackers out of their systems and away from their customers' info. Then there's all the lost productivity from employees struggling with all that 3rd rate middleware between them and their tasks. Oh, and how many of these 'service' companies are operating under NSLs?
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It sounds reasonable except where it forces the taxpayer to pay whether they need or want service. Households can either just pay the bill for their private services on top of the taxes that fund the public one, or they can cancel their private service and live with the public. I'd rather choose from competing private entities, or if I cannot afford it, opt out and save the money for more important things. The power of controlling where your own money is important, and it matters to the poor a lot more simply because they have fewer dollars to spend. Obviously, private providers are against state competition as its participation along with its power to regulate create a conflict of interest.
Now, if there's a lack of competition then the state should encourage that instead of discouraging it with lobbied monopolies.
When "her body, her right, her choice" is also no longer his responsibility then we'd have made a large step towards equality.
In the case of computer science programs, if the girls truly can hack it with the boys, then they don't NEED special treatment nor should they get it. Giving it to them would deny them the chance to prove their worth to themselves and to others (boys and girls both). Expecting both sexes to be interchangeable automatons is the most destructive sexually discriminating position of all. It is an affront to individual freedom and diversity.
Not if the system requires them to take those introductory classes in order to get access to the more challenging ones. This is typical.
But were they suspended for it or just given a talking to by the principal or some office administrator?
Acknowledging that affirmative action is inherently discriminatory is not hatred of women.
Actually, they really have outlawed and/or regulated it in several states, because it encourages "anti social" behavior.
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http://www.nydailynews.com/new...
Why are we letting the government regulate stupid shit like this? So are the kids supposed to stay inside and play video games instead? Bumps, bruises, getting teased, and learning to deal with losing/competition are life lessons.
Yes, but you do have to pay them back. 'forgiven' debts are simply passed on to the rest of us. The debt doesn't just disappear.
Usually, people making such accusations are the ones who like to move goal posts. Today's regulation, tax, and borrowing is never enough for tomorrow, right? The government is too big to fail, too? It's bad enough that the banks were treated this way (if that wasn't a prime example of the 1% treading on the rest of us, what is?).
I've never advocated for anarchy. All I said was that the state should have to work within budgets just like the rest of us, whether we're the top 1% or the bottom 99. I don't mind hitting up the top 10% or so to help pay off the debt, esp the large organizations that've benefited from taxpayer loans over the years, but the system that allowed the abuse to happen still needs to be fixed first. The democrat and republican parties are too mired in their ideological purity and/or political alliances to do this.
Sure it's already downloaded, but noscript prevents the exploit javascript from executing in the browser. With softfirewalls like zonealarm, it's blocked before it hits the application but after it's processed by the protocol stack.
Exactly. If this plan also included banning the limitless deficit spending, as well as substantial simplification of the tax code, I'd support this. Close the loopholes for the 1%, reduce government expenditures and force it to levy specific taxes that fund specific needed public programs. Reduce the bloat of those programs and junk the rest. Reduce or eliminate all other tax besides income. Leftover cash goes back to the taxpayer as refunds. No more slush funds. No more state sponsored monopolies. The state should not be aiding multinationals' ability to corner markets.
Otherwise, you're right, 2 trillion will just disappear across the event horizon of the growing deficit singularity with no effect.
So lets put them in a pit with george soros and the koch brothers.. the resulting release of energy will power our society for the next 100 billion years.
The radeon driver maintainers don't understand the concept of handling exceptions. I realize gpu drivers are crazy complex nowadays, but it seems like they don't even try.
Younger people don't have the life experience to realize the implications of encroaching states, making the idea of 'lets all work together towards the radiant future a powerful lure. They were brought up in the most recent iterations of the pro-state propaganda in the public schools and universities which encourage and value individual achievement a lot less than just a few generations ago. Those in previous generations who grew up with one system and watched their kids go through the other realize what was sacrificed.
Anecdotally, I think that younger people ARE aware and disapprove but I think they're less likely to do anything about it.
They should include ethernet ports right into the machine like they used to. Fuck this ultra thin shit..
don't forget ipfwadm! kernel 2.0.xx
Recovering from a malware infestation on a single user machine is about as simple as restoring an image.. You don't need a VM for that. Security requires good software, not shit wrapped up in virtualized bandaids.
Yes, why resist tyranny? You might lose your watered down beer and tv football privileges.
tor clients connecting to these servers will need the 'classic tor restorer' plugin to restore basic functionality.
No, corporations have low/no tax burden because the ruling class running them use the republicans to lobby the state for exemptions.. When people get sick of this, they vote in the socialists who then grow the size of the state, passing new taxes, regulations, and expenditures that end up hurting everyone, including the middle/lower classes they claim to care about. When people get sick of THAT, they vote the republicans back in, who then reenforce the loopholes protecting the ruling class from these new encroachments. During election years, we get to hear how much more they're going to 'reach across the aisle' by increasing our deficit for the next go around, driving up inflation and taxes, which, again, hurt the middle/lower classes much more than the ruling elite. I just wonder when people will stop bandwagoneering for these ivy league lawyer brat tyrants, regardless of party.
I don't know where you live, but it sounds like you get your info from western europe propaganda. That's hardly better than fox or msnbc over here. It's nearly impossible to find good journalism these days, so the best any of us can do is get news from multiple sources and connect the implied dots. Don't let them channel your thinking.
If you don't need the extra performance, then that $5 board is just fine. Even dual ethernet boards with decent chipsets are ripoffs.
old sff pc with two gigabit nics and a separate switch.. Install linux or bsd of your choice and configure, or use distros tailored to the purpose like zeroshell or m0n0wall.
You're better off with the quad ethernet card being pcie and the wlan card pci, especially if the ethernet is 1gb or more.
It's easy for the state to subsidize bread (and circuses) when it's taking 50 to 80% of citizens' income (income+VAT). The US is also dealing with aging infrastructure, part of the cost of being first.
the rest..
Actually, I do understand perfectly well how badly it works. However I doubt most of 'the rest of the world' knows enough even to know what it really wants. It takes what it gets.
I was mainly talking about tasks flash was typically used for such as playing media files. Playing them in a local player designed for the client's hardware and OS interface results in a much better experience than browser-wrapped script and a plugin that's been broken since 1997 (talk about 90s). This is especially true for limited systems like mobile but also holds true for top end desktops thanks to the megabytes of javascript embedded in sites nowadays.
Well designed native applications are plenty portable on today's platforms, which have interfaces much more elegant than javascript and flash. The catch is they do require the developer to plan a little bit and know what he's doing. Security wise, at least they can be downloaded and run in jails if the source is questionable. Good luck securing all that cross domain script. All web 2.0 has done is move the security problem from the OS, which was hit or miss, to the browser, which is completely incapable of it.
..and yet with all that specialization in storage and value added 'service', we still see daily stories telling us all how they can't keep a few russian/chinese/korean teenage crackers out of their systems and away from their customers' info. Then there's all the lost productivity from employees struggling with all that 3rd rate middleware between them and their tasks. Oh, and how many of these 'service' companies are operating under NSLs?