For me the most difficult thing is convincing my two year old that she doesn't need to sit in my lap when I sit at the computer. And then demand I play songs from the PBS web site on my computer.
That is historical bullshit. The Nazi's were socialists, since socialists aren't typically typically thought of as conservative, I don't understand why you would classify the Nazi's as conservative. The whole left-right, conservative-liberal gov't classifications are all bullshit anyways. The best way to classify gov't is on an anarchy-totalitarism scale. The Nazi's were a totalitarian system. The Communists are a totalitarian system. New Zeeland by passing laws like this is moving towards totalitarian society. I would encourage any Kiwi reading this to throw the bastards out when next given the chance.
So, if somebody slaughters your family, and criminal investigators find detailed directions to your house, diagrams of the surrounding landscape, and various observational details (i.e. lights go out from 10:00 pm - 10:30 pm), and photos of the owner's prized rifle, yet they have no warrant, you would want this person to go unpunished? The government isn't using this as a submissive measure, it's using this as a measure to uphold justice and national security.
With evidence like this, obtaining a warrant would be a matter of child's play. Your strawman argument lacks straw.
Are you playing devils advocate? Or are you really that stupid? Why not put a camera in the bedroom of your house and connect it to the police station (ala 1984). I mean what do you have to hide.
Novell is a wee bit big to be absorbed by caldera. The parts of SCO they bought are much bigger than caldera. But novell dwarfs SCO. And they really aren't all that related anymore.
I have some cousins that not only couldn't name the major party candidates. They likely couldn't even tell you the capital of the state we live in.
Such ignorance unfortunately is common. Most of them could do quite well at a quiz of who are the qb's for all the NFL teams. But ask them who their senators and representative in congress are...
This is rather shortsighted. Often the votes that affect you the most are local in nature. Ballot issues, local politicians, etc. By not voting you lose the ability to affect local issues.
Long ago and far away, the idea was that stable, long-term employment once meant a bond between employer and employee. You found a good company and worked there, possibly for decades, and the company paid your bills, took care of your health, and saw you into a secure retirement. That didn't always happen, but it was the ideal of the modern industrial age, also know as the pre-Internet era. The system was both secure and paternalistic.
This system predates the modern industrial age. It was quite common in medivial europe. It was called serfdom.
Why can't people accept this novel concept "Personal Responsibility". I don't want my employer to "pay my bills". I want them to pay me for my work. I don't want secure, I want to be free. In the long run, free is more secure than paternalistic.
But don't kid yourself that it's not "evil" to use advertising dollars to influence editorial content.
The term for this is "masochism". Like someone should finance their own pain and torture. I would encourage you to remove your rose colored glasses.
Now what apple is doing is stupid. I'm not opposed to what they are doing but, I would take a much more subtle approach. Just cut your advertising in half with the magazines in question. When they come to ask you why. (And they definately will). Just let them know that you aren't going to finance an organization that seems to spend all it's time slamming you. They'll get the hint.
It's not an urban legend. According to this story it cost 2 million dollars to develop this pen, in mid 1960's. If you translate that to today's money that got to be at least 20 million dollars.
I think we started out with the goal of losing no lives. We lost more anyway, but I'm not sure the Soviets #1 goal was to lose no lives.
I rather doubt this. Our goal was to beat the Soviets. To have a goal like this in manned space travel is rather silly anyways. While risks are minimized, rockets have this disconcerting tendency to go boom. If our goal were to lose no lives we wouldn't have gone into space. I understand that even today the space shuttle has about a 1 in 200 chance of blowing up. If my car had this tendency, I would die on average twice a year.
Well at least the russians haven't parked their space station in the outback. I also heard a story about the russian and pens in space. Normal ballpoint pens don't work in space. American solution: Spend lots of money and develop pens that work in space. Russian solution: use pencils. For extra credit guess what a major part of the first mission to skylab was. Well I'll spare the suspense. It was to fix it. You see would couldn't even launch the damn thing without breaking it. Skylab only had three crews before we ran out of money and ultimately treated the aussies to a multimillion dollar fireworks show. I have no clue how many crews mir has had, except it is a damn sight more than three. Considering the harsh enviroment in which mir operates, it has lasted exceptionally well. BTW do you think it is an accident that of the three modules of the ISS currently in space that 2 were built by russians.
I've heard that the definition of a conservative is liberal who has been mugged. So who's going to mug Taco, so we can get a little balance around here.:-)
I know this sounds rather flip. But what do they have on you? I would certainly try this route before I spent a bunch of money consulting a lawyer. If you avoid them enough, it might just go away. I've used this method before to great effect to make some problems go away. (Note this is a bad idea when dealing with financial obligation and tickets. Can you say Bench Warrant? I thought you could.)
If it is in exchange for anything at all. The last company I worked for wanted me to sign a document that basically said I would do all of the patent stuff and also bunch of other stuff. What I got from that was nothing. I rather politely told them to go stuff it.
Would that be like putting up a billboard and saying in the fine print of the billboard "everyone may read this except for employees of company X". I don't see how this is useful at all. Are you saying a judge will rule in your favor because they looked at the page and you told them they couldn't? Somehow I find this hard to believe.
All this stuff is easy compared to porting custom apps. If you've written custom NLMs that run on your server for a specific business purpose. I could be near imposible to port them to linux. And to go the other way, Linux to NetWare. With custom apps that would probably be many times more difficult.
Slashdot Mirror
For me the most difficult thing is convincing my two year old that she doesn't need to sit in my lap when I sit at the computer. And then demand I play songs from the PBS web site on my computer.
Who wouldn't want a free car versus a foosball table you are only allowed to play after hours (They said it makes too much noise).
Out of curiosity, I was wondering how many companies actually got there employees cars. I've only heard of a couple.
That is historical bullshit. The Nazi's were socialists, since socialists aren't typically typically thought of as conservative, I don't understand why you would classify the Nazi's as conservative. The whole left-right, conservative-liberal gov't classifications are all bullshit anyways. The best way to classify gov't is on an anarchy-totalitarism scale. The Nazi's were a totalitarian system. The Communists are a totalitarian system. New Zeeland by passing laws like this is moving towards totalitarian society. I would encourage any Kiwi reading this to throw the bastards out when next given the chance.
So, if somebody slaughters your family, and criminal investigators find detailed directions to your house, diagrams of the surrounding landscape, and various observational details (i.e. lights go out from 10:00 pm - 10:30 pm), and photos of the owner's prized rifle, yet they have no warrant, you would want this person to go unpunished? The government isn't using this as a submissive measure, it's using this as a measure to uphold justice and national security.
With evidence like this, obtaining a warrant would be a matter of child's play. Your strawman argument lacks straw.
Are you playing devils advocate? Or are you really that stupid? Why not put a camera in the bedroom of your house and connect it to the police station (ala 1984). I mean what do you have to hide.
Novell is a wee bit big to be absorbed by caldera. The parts of SCO they bought are much bigger than caldera. But novell dwarfs SCO. And they really aren't all that related anymore.
I have some cousins that not only couldn't name the major party candidates. They likely couldn't even tell you the capital of the state we live in.
Such ignorance unfortunately is common. Most of them could do quite well at a quiz of who are the qb's for all the NFL teams. But ask them who their senators and representative in congress are...
Don't waste your vote. Choice freedom on Nov. 7
It was going to get moderated down, unfortunately flamebait is the closest choice to the real one. "Clueless Luser Rants"
This is rather shortsighted. Often the votes that affect you the most are local in nature. Ballot issues, local politicians, etc. By not voting you lose the ability to affect local issues.
Since the powers that be in slashdot seem a little left wing. Here is a right wing site analyzing the election.
real clear politics
Is this like NC-17 on drugs?
Long ago and far away, the idea was that stable, long-term employment once meant a bond between employer and employee. You found a good company and worked there, possibly for decades, and the company paid your bills, took care of your health, and saw you into a secure retirement. That didn't always happen, but it was the ideal of the modern industrial age, also know as the pre-Internet era. The system was both secure and paternalistic.
This system predates the modern industrial age. It was quite common in medivial europe. It was called serfdom.
Why can't people accept this novel concept "Personal Responsibility". I don't want my employer to "pay my bills". I want them to pay me for my work. I don't want secure, I want to be free. In the long run, free is more secure than paternalistic.
But don't kid yourself that it's not "evil" to use advertising dollars to influence editorial content.
The term for this is "masochism". Like someone should finance their own pain and torture. I would encourage you to remove your rose colored glasses.
Now what apple is doing is stupid. I'm not opposed to what they are doing but, I would take a much more subtle approach. Just cut your advertising in half with the magazines in question. When they come to ask you why. (And they definately will). Just let them know that you aren't going to finance an organization that seems to spend all it's time slamming you. They'll get the hint.
After all he keeps on shooting himself (and apple) in the foot.
Looking at their web site sure is wierd. It's like time stopped 4 years ago.
Opinions? Is this completely crazy?
:-)
YES. And I hope to hell I beat you for that spot
It's not an urban legend. According to this story it cost 2 million dollars to develop this pen, in mid 1960's. If you translate that to today's money that got to be at least 20 million dollars.
I think we started out with the goal of losing no lives. We lost more anyway, but I'm not sure the Soviets #1 goal was to lose no lives.
I rather doubt this. Our goal was to beat the Soviets. To have a goal like this in manned space travel is rather silly anyways. While risks are minimized, rockets have this disconcerting tendency to go boom. If our goal were to lose no lives we wouldn't have gone into space. I understand that even today the space shuttle has about a 1 in 200 chance of blowing up. If my car had this tendency, I would die on average twice a year.
Well at least the russians haven't parked their space station in the outback. I also heard a story about the russian and pens in space. Normal ballpoint pens don't work in space. American solution: Spend lots of money and develop pens that work in space. Russian solution: use pencils. For extra credit guess what a major part of the first mission to skylab was. Well I'll spare the suspense. It was to fix it. You see would couldn't even launch the damn thing without breaking it. Skylab only had three crews before we ran out of money and ultimately treated the aussies to a multimillion dollar fireworks show. I have no clue how many crews mir has had, except it is a damn sight more than three. Considering the harsh enviroment in which mir operates, it has lasted exceptionally well. BTW do you think it is an accident that of the three modules of the ISS currently in space that 2 were built by russians.
I've heard that the definition of a conservative is liberal who has been mugged. So who's going to mug Taco, so we can get a little balance around here. :-)
I'd like to see their data on me if I got one of these boxes.
"Let's try and target some commercials for him."
"Yeah what commercials does he watch."
"Um none."
"Alright kick in the subliminals."
I know this sounds rather flip. But what do they have on you? I would certainly try this route before I spent a bunch of money consulting a lawyer. If you avoid them enough, it might just go away. I've used this method before to great effect to make some problems go away. (Note this is a bad idea when dealing with financial obligation and tickets. Can you say Bench Warrant? I thought you could.)
If it is in exchange for anything at all. The last company I worked for wanted me to sign a document that basically said I would do all of the patent stuff and also bunch of other stuff. What I got from that was nothing. I rather politely told them to go stuff it.
Would that be like putting up a billboard and saying in the fine print of the billboard "everyone may read this except for employees of company X". I don't see how this is useful at all. Are you saying a judge will rule in your favor because they looked at the page and you told them they couldn't? Somehow I find this hard to believe.
All this stuff is easy compared to porting custom apps. If you've written custom NLMs that run on your server for a specific business purpose. I could be near imposible to port them to linux. And to go the other way, Linux to NetWare. With custom apps that would probably be many times more difficult.