Ins't anecdotal evidence fun! By contrast I live far away from my family and we send each other packages via USPS all the time. Our experience has been helpful courteous counter employees, timely intact deliver of packages and letters to our door steps, and all at a lower cost than the alternatives.
The first thing that needs to happen is more people need to get educated. Lots of people knew this was happening, but it was hard to get others to pay attention. Perhaps now that a fairly mainstream publication is running with the issue will get some legs. There litteraly exists a special class of people who because of this get free money. They are not the 1% That occupy is trying to gin up out rage against, most of those people earn theirs, this is more like the.01%. They are the worst sorts of criminals stealing from the mouths of every child in this nation and the adults who should know better alike and they quite litteraly outside the reach of law and oversight.
We can guess their names if we look carefully enough, they need to found and lynched
I am not a Microsoft fanboi by any stretch and those were all valid criticisms of Exchange 2003 and prior, however Exchange 2007 and later have a pretty clean architecture and good support for open standards. The only real argument against is that, it is very expensive and you might really only need mail in which case you can get carrier class mail handling with FOSS.
Yes, provided we are talking about an Exchange 2007 or later environment you can scale as big as need, Provided:
1. You have adequate hardware resources 2. You have selected an appropriate deployment strategy for your organizations size, and anticipated growth. If you expect to grow big but currently are not you do need to make some architectural decisions which will raise upfront costs.
*Modern* Exchange is among Microsoft's products that really can be considered carrier grade. Like all MS products through there is plenty of rope for the improperly trained to hang themselves with. Its not hard for an rank amateur to get Exchange running well enough even for a fairly large organization for years, and suddenly find they have steered themselves down the wrong architectural path are about to hit a wall and have only very expensive, in both time and money terms ways out.
Which is exactly my original point. It does make sense to you because its not consistent with your experience. You have to know a great deal about corporate IT before you get it.
Odds are now days that build server is a VM. Why because the local fire Marshall will only allow the electric utility to install so much capacity in the building your business is located in, they can't just keep standing up servers forever, so they vitalize. There is no machine to install that SATA disk from Fry's into!
Next yes your enterprise SAN solution which no doubt supports SATA drives as a "cheaper" bulk storage solution for volumes that don't have to perform as fast still won't run that SATA disk from Fry's! It has to be the one in the custom chassis from your vendor running their firmware. If you plug ANY other into by bogging something up they won't support the entire SAN, clearly that is not going to be OKAY by management.
So yes just adding a few TB to the SAN is going run $500+ in the ideal case.
Next comes the backup issue. Experience has made many admins to backup EVERYTHING because they know users are dishonest. That dev/test box gets used for production work, its always "oh well we doing this one off for *important* customer...."
Three letter agancies grabbed all the capable folks 6 months ago. What is left is script kiddies. Remember how they vowed to destroy Facebook? Someone should remind them the 5th of November was weeks ago.
MTBF for HDD and SSD are both ludicrously high these days
I can understand describing it as good enough for most people, pretty long, very good for the relatively low cost, etc,etc.
I would not apply the term ludicrously high, however. I mean its not really ever a good time for a drive to fail. I don't care if you do have RAID ADG, even in those configurations sometimes when a single drive dies bad things happen; even when its just the tech hot-swapped the wrong disk.
There is no such thing as "less harmful" where censorship is concerned. We know for the experience every society has had with it going back to the start of the written word, that once you start censoring it never stops. Today its websites that might be violating copyright, tomorrow its anything a senator does not like said about him, the day after its whatever some corporation does not want you be able to publish.
All public censorship is harmful, and it should always be opposed vehemently.
Lending is not the same as selling a product. When McDonalds sells you a Big Mac its largely inconsequential what happens to you later. You have the product, they have your money the transaction is complete.
When a bank gives you a loan its either because you want the convenience being able to purchase something today you lack the capital for or because you have an investment plan that will return more then they bank can get elsewhere. In the first case the interest is the price you pay for the convenience and in the latter the interest is the banks cut. In both cases its not a single event where you sign some papers and then have nothing more to do with each other. Your interests are supposed to be tied together for the duration of the loan.
The banks is supposed to be responsible for protecting their principle, IE they are not supposed to get a big government hand out when they write a bunch of bad loans. The lender and the borrower have an equal responsibility. The lender should do their homework and make sure the probability the borrower will be able to repay them is in line with the amount of interest being asked, and the borrower needs to make sure they can service the debt and profit by their activity.
Applying for a loan with an a negative amortization rate when you can't afford to contribute enough to make it positive is a failure of the borrower, making that loan is failure of the lender. Both the subprime lenders and the borrowers SCREWED UP AND THEY SHOULD SHARE THE PAIN. That is how capitalism is supposed to work, that is what would be FAIR, to them and everyone else, what we got is TOTAL BS. I have exactly ZERO compassion for the borrowers and the same for the banks.
Fun Correction: The program to make the loans was approved under the Bush Administration, they money ended up in Solyndra's hands after the Obama administrations "expedited" the lending approval process.
What is it with Democrats and always trying to lend money to unqualified borrowers?
Remember, alternative energy is likely how our economy will get out of the shitter. There is a lot of innovation that can occur in every place for energy generation, storage, and conservation.
I agree a protectionist posture should be adopted toward China, however I want some justification for the above statement. It seems to be a DNC talking point and nothing more. I have yet to witness any evidence there is anything to it. Alternative energy companies have not, provided any meaningful number of jobs, have proven to be a good investment in terms of share price or return on principle where bonds are concerned, demonstrated much in the way of product which is marketable even with subsidies,... I could go on.
I think its very naive to think any one industry, let alone sector of one industry is going to save our economy, and even if it could I don't think ti would be a recipe for stability. Alternative energy is good and all but I think its getting entirely to much of the mind share right now. Its not a distraction, but I don't see it as being the center piece either.
The cost of Chinese currency is the problem, it does not matter if its because its being manipulated directly by the Chinese government or not. It to cheep and we can't compete effectively. Now before you start saying well that's just to damn bad, consider the cost of labor is so much lower their because the standard of living is so much lower, and it is lower even when it looks like it is not at the surface, take a look the recent rail way disaster, safety is part of what we *want* to consider our high standards. The size of the population is likely not a driver either we have plenty of workers here to produce the things we need and way, our workers are actually more productive by most measures.
If our living, wage, safety, and environmental standards were allowed to sink to those of China, we would be able to offer the world cheaper labor than the Chinese do! Well at least for a little while until our population lost the ability to be as productive, due to poorer health, education, and other less tangible things that allow people to perform at their best.
We are being hollowed out! It is true that a trade war with China over a period of at least a decade would push our standards of living down at least in terms of consumer goods we can afford to buy, until we rebuild and retool our own manufacturing sector. The alternatives however appear to be a race to parity with China, or to continue to paper over the issue with mountains of debt, accounting gimmicks, and neglecting our basic infrastructure; until things literally collapse which has already started to happen, you will recall I35W in Minneapolis a few years ago.
You should have wireless networking in the first place.
Why because you want it?
Your job is not to manage want websites users go to. If their boss wants them to play on facebook all day, it's none of your damn business as the IT dept.
Right up until management says we want to know who is playing on Facebook all day, we want you to prevent malware from hitting systems, we don't want our data uploaded to third parties, etc, etc.
You should be keeping flash player updated in the first place.
Unless you are in the marketing group I would be surprised if you have a legitimate business related need for flash player, in the first place.
You should facilitate installing any required software for them to do their jobs as soon as it is bought and paid for instead of whining about supported software lists.
Right so you will be the one who is responsible when said software quits working, the vendor cannot be found, and 1000s of hours of company labor is locked up in that proprietary format? Can I get that in writing?
You have an attitude problem.
The grandparent poster certainly might, but you seem to as well, clearly you think the entire world revolves around you.
as for certain simple programs, and it takes them weeks to install those programs, costing me hundreds of hours in productivity a year.
So do you think that's because your IT staff sees your requests and says, "Hey you know would be really fun lets wait two weeks to get back with Knave75, so he will be really irritable and give us a hard time!"
My guess it its more a function of its not just installing your simple little app, someone has to write rules for your desktop security agent to let it run, those rules have to be tested. Someone has to make sure the license permits it to be used in a business or purchase a license. Someone has to make sure its not a trojan, because if there is a data leak its IT not you that management is going to blame. Heck there may be even more to it than that depending on the organization. Its not the quick little install you do on home PC.
Chances are also that IT being a expense rather than revenue generator is not exactly over staffed. Most of them are probably salary just like you are. They have other things that need getting done, and no they don't want to put in another three unpaid hours today doing all the above so you can have your app. Its not central to mission, even if you are a great guy!
Odds are management does not really care if you lose a couple hundred hours of productivity in a year because IT can't get to your requests sooner. Until it gets to the point where you are no longer willing to put in the over time and they have to add staff, at which time they will decide if it makes more sense to app head count to your group, making it more productive or to add head count to IT, hopefully making everyone slightly more productive. IT is not your problem, upper management most likely is. IT probably does what to help you, its just the 30 other people ahead of you also needing help that stops them.
When IT starts unreasonably hindering that, you see the hostility build.
Actually I think this is a problem somewhat unique to IT. Everyone has a computer at home and therefore thinks they *know* what IT does. They think its just a matter of scale and that the issues they face on their PC are the same ones the IT department deals with. On the other hand hardly anyone runs payroll at home or does the sort of accounting the finance departments handles. The are not doing materials research like the engineering group so they don't constantly second guess those people.
Most users don't have a clue what is reasonable or not. They only think they do. They don't want to be educated or trained either, they one have their own work to think about, and be don't appreciate there is anything to learn.
I keep having finance people tell me they want to use Dropbox! Which my department blocks, we are public company, we can't have people putting financial records on Dropbox, because we really don't know who at dropbox can get the data, under what circumstances, etc as they can change their terms whenever. We'd never survive our next SOX audit! What do the users say, "everyone else is using the cloud!", no everyone else is NOT using the cloud for M&A documents, I assure you. They sent some baby photo's to grandma though so they think they get it.
So you think its a-Ok! for an executive agency to just impose record keeping requirements on a private business! Sorry that is the job of the legislature, dude, the executive is supposed to just be enforcing the law not making it.
If Congress enacts legislation requiring business to keep track of who purchases crystal-idone, fine that is one thing, but its not for a bunch a DEA-aholes to decide.
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I agree with some of what occupy is saying but they don't speak with one voice, and some really misinformed or crazy stuff comes out there.
I mean NPR has if anything given them pretty sympathetic coverage and even listing to some of the people they chose to interview, I could not help but think, how the heck did that guy get accepted by a college in the first place, not being able to pay for is the least his problems. I really wonder what percentage of occupy protestors could manage a high school civics or intro to economics final. I don't think it would be very high.
So why the are not wrong to be upset with the financial industry and government, I can't get on board. I want to know what a movements goals are before I become part of it. If their only goal was to be heard well, we heard them. Now what? Its either time for them to go home, or propose an agenda.
Well if you really confident your enemy is not able to build defenses adequate to protect its Nuclear program from your really big bomb, then maybe it makes sense to tell them.
Hopefully once they know we can get them *anywhere* they will stop doing things we don't like. Which might mean we don't have to use our really big bomb in order to have our way.
Absolutely certain to crash the plane eh? Maybe you missed it when the last two people to get a bomb on a plane epic failed. Just getting a device past security is not enough you also need to have a device that works, which is harder that we thought
Don' t be to certain of that. Every D might die on that Hill but there are enough Tea Party folks who will fight on the other front and none will be able to marshal the votes to stop them either. IF the SCOTUS does void the mandate and keep the rest of the law, and that is a big IF, then I will say their WILL be a prolonged government shutdown, likely a default, and a economic upheaval so big *ANYTHING* will become possible.
I agree with you for the most part but there is more to the advantage of incumbency than just being incumbent. Most states(all?) election law enshrine the two party system. There is not even a clear process for getting on the ballot as third party candidate in many cases. Its not easy to win as write in candidate, for obvious reasons.
What needs to happen is people need to run for state and local office and re-work election law, only then will real change in who gets elected at the federal level happen. Pushing for repeal of the 17th amendment would be a step in right direction as well. The senate would have to respect states rights again or risk not being re-elected.
All that would have been possible, maybe is possible. I helped a friend with his campaign for City government here, and it might be a stepping stone for here to go after the state house. Trouble is many people feel, myself included, that there just is not time for that strategy any more. The public slept to long, and now its going to take uglier measures to save Government for the People, by the People.
One thing is for certain, with a 9% Congressional approval rating, we don't have either!
They don't get to buy back shares under market, they pay the sell the ask price. Buying treasury stock is a bother the shares will be worth more later the same bet any investor makes on the long side. Generally for a healthy company this pushes the stock price up, which is good for the investors who are not selling, their real owners. I don't see how a seller is any more screwed selling shares back to the firm than selling them to me.
You have a Constitutional right to peaceful assembly but it does not say you have the right to assemble just any place you want. If you want to have people camp on your own lawn for months, I am cool with that.
The park is a public place, everyone contributed to its construction or its up keep based on a tax policy that was determined to be fair and arrived at by an elected body. I don't know about your city but in mine you can hold events in the park by sign up. Its first come first server, you book your time and you LEAVE when your time is over. That is the social contract. There are more rules governing how much time you can book etc etc..
When you over stay your booked time and interfere with someone else you are indeed infringing upon their rightful use of the park. You had your turn, its another citizen's turn now.
Not to defend BT, but just because it does not represent something specific does not make it so different form other currencies.
You might just as well say
Dollars would be a lot more valuable if your currency held the promise of something. For example selling shares in the nations store of gold makes much more sense than doing massive printing for the sake of wasting cotton, wood fiber and ink. I've wondered before if there was anything to Dollars, but I really can't think of them as a currency.
Yes I realize that one *value* aspect of the dollar is it can satisfy tax obligations but even that is pretty artificial construct.
Fuck your event, and fuck everything else being disrupted by #OWS too. We have serious problems in our society which have made these people feel otherwise disenfranchised...
So you are angry that so many people are disenfranchised and you turn around and say "Fuck your event" to someone who has just as much right to use that park as you and the OWS protestors do.
This is the real problem with the OWS movement. For every one person in it who is honestly concerned that something has perverted, "Truth, Justice, and the American Way" There are 10 people who really just feel cheated, entitled, and angry but have no problem turning around and abusing others the very same ways they think they have been abused.
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Ins't anecdotal evidence fun! By contrast I live far away from my family and we send each other packages via USPS all the time. Our experience has been helpful courteous counter employees, timely intact deliver of packages and letters to our door steps, and all at a lower cost than the alternatives.
The first thing that needs to happen is more people need to get educated. Lots of people knew this was happening, but it was hard to get others to pay attention. Perhaps now that a fairly mainstream publication is running with the issue will get some legs. There litteraly exists a special class of people who because of this get free money. They are not the 1% That occupy is trying to gin up out rage against, most of those people earn theirs, this is more like the .01%. They are the worst sorts of criminals stealing from the mouths of every child in this nation and the adults who should know better alike and they quite litteraly outside the reach of law and oversight.
We can guess their names if we look carefully enough, they need to found and lynched
I am not a Microsoft fanboi by any stretch and those were all valid criticisms of Exchange 2003 and prior, however Exchange 2007 and later have a pretty clean architecture and good support for open standards. The only real argument against is that, it is very expensive and you might really only need mail in which case you can get carrier class mail handling with FOSS.
Yes, provided we are talking about an Exchange 2007 or later environment you can scale as big as need, Provided:
1. You have adequate hardware resources
2. You have selected an appropriate deployment strategy for your organizations size, and anticipated growth. If you expect to grow big but currently are not you do need to make some architectural decisions which will raise upfront costs.
*Modern* Exchange is among Microsoft's products that really can be considered carrier grade. Like all MS products through there is plenty of rope for the improperly trained to hang themselves with. Its not hard for an rank amateur to get Exchange running well enough even for a fairly large organization for years, and suddenly find they have steered themselves down the wrong architectural path are about to hit a wall and have only very expensive, in both time and money terms ways out.
Which is exactly my original point. It does make sense to you because its not consistent with your experience. You have to know a great deal about corporate IT before you get it.
Odds are now days that build server is a VM. Why because the local fire Marshall will only allow the electric utility to install so much capacity in the building your business is located in, they can't just keep standing up servers forever, so they vitalize. There is no machine to install that SATA disk from Fry's into!
Next yes your enterprise SAN solution which no doubt supports SATA drives as a "cheaper" bulk storage solution for volumes that don't have to perform as fast still won't run that SATA disk from Fry's! It has to be the one in the custom chassis from your vendor running their firmware. If you plug ANY other into by bogging something up they won't support the entire SAN, clearly that is not going to be OKAY by management.
So yes just adding a few TB to the SAN is going run $500+ in the ideal case.
Next comes the backup issue. Experience has made many admins to backup EVERYTHING because they know users are dishonest. That dev/test box gets used for production work, its always "oh well we doing this one off for *important* customer...."
Three letter agancies grabbed all the capable folks 6 months ago. What is left is script kiddies. Remember how they vowed to destroy Facebook? Someone should remind them the 5th of November was weeks ago.
MTBF for HDD and SSD are both ludicrously high these days
I can understand describing it as good enough for most people, pretty long, very good for the relatively low cost, etc,etc.
I would not apply the term ludicrously high, however. I mean its not really ever a good time for a drive to fail. I don't care if you do have RAID ADG, even in those configurations sometimes when a single drive dies bad things happen; even when its just the tech hot-swapped the wrong disk.
There is no such thing as "less harmful" where censorship is concerned. We know for the experience every society has had with it going back to the start of the written word, that once you start censoring it never stops. Today its websites that might be violating copyright, tomorrow its anything a senator does not like said about him, the day after its whatever some corporation does not want you be able to publish.
All public censorship is harmful, and it should always be opposed vehemently.
Lending is not the same as selling a product. When McDonalds sells you a Big Mac its largely inconsequential what happens to you later. You have the product, they have your money the transaction is complete.
When a bank gives you a loan its either because you want the convenience being able to purchase something today you lack the capital for or because you have an investment plan that will return more then they bank can get elsewhere. In the first case the interest is the price you pay for the convenience and in the latter the interest is the banks cut. In both cases its not a single event where you sign some papers and then have nothing more to do with each other. Your interests are supposed to be tied together for the duration of the loan.
The banks is supposed to be responsible for protecting their principle, IE they are not supposed to get a big government hand out when they write a bunch of bad loans. The lender and the borrower have an equal responsibility. The lender should do their homework and make sure the probability the borrower will be able to repay them is in line with the amount of interest being asked, and the borrower needs to make sure they can service the debt and profit by their activity.
Applying for a loan with an a negative amortization rate when you can't afford to contribute enough to make it positive is a failure of the borrower, making that loan is failure of the lender. Both the subprime lenders and the borrowers SCREWED UP AND THEY SHOULD SHARE THE PAIN. That is how capitalism is supposed to work, that is what would be FAIR, to them and everyone else, what we got is TOTAL BS. I have exactly ZERO compassion for the borrowers and the same for the banks.
Fun Correction: The program to make the loans was approved under the Bush Administration, they money ended up in Solyndra's hands after the Obama administrations "expedited" the lending approval process.
What is it with Democrats and always trying to lend money to unqualified borrowers?
Remember, alternative energy is likely how our economy will get out of the shitter. There is a lot of innovation that can occur in every place for energy generation, storage, and conservation.
I agree a protectionist posture should be adopted toward China, however I want some justification for the above statement. It seems to be a DNC talking point and nothing more. I have yet to witness any evidence there is anything to it. Alternative energy companies have not, provided any meaningful number of jobs, have proven to be a good investment in terms of share price or return on principle where bonds are concerned, demonstrated much in the way of product which is marketable even with subsidies, ... I could go on.
I think its very naive to think any one industry, let alone sector of one industry is going to save our economy, and even if it could I don't think ti would be a recipe for stability. Alternative energy is good and all but I think its getting entirely to much of the mind share right now. Its not a distraction, but I don't see it as being the center piece either.
The cost of Chinese currency is the problem, it does not matter if its because its being manipulated directly by the Chinese government or not. It to cheep and we can't compete effectively. Now before you start saying well that's just to damn bad, consider the cost of labor is so much lower their because the standard of living is so much lower, and it is lower even when it looks like it is not at the surface, take a look the recent rail way disaster, safety is part of what we *want* to consider our high standards. The size of the population is likely not a driver either we have plenty of workers here to produce the things we need and way, our workers are actually more productive by most measures.
If our living, wage, safety, and environmental standards were allowed to sink to those of China, we would be able to offer the world cheaper labor than the Chinese do! Well at least for a little while until our population lost the ability to be as productive, due to poorer health, education, and other less tangible things that allow people to perform at their best.
We are being hollowed out! It is true that a trade war with China over a period of at least a decade would push our standards of living down at least in terms of consumer goods we can afford to buy, until we rebuild and retool our own manufacturing sector. The alternatives however appear to be a race to parity with China, or to continue to paper over the issue with mountains of debt, accounting gimmicks, and neglecting our basic infrastructure; until things literally collapse which has already started to happen, you will recall I35W in Minneapolis a few years ago.
You should have wireless networking in the first place.
Why because you want it?
Your job is not to manage want websites users go to. If their boss wants them to play on facebook all day, it's none of your damn business as the IT dept.
Right up until management says we want to know who is playing on Facebook all day, we want you to prevent malware from hitting systems, we don't want our data uploaded to third parties, etc, etc.
You should be keeping flash player updated in the first place.
Unless you are in the marketing group I would be surprised if you have a legitimate business related need for flash player, in the first place.
You should facilitate installing any required software for them to do their jobs as soon as it is bought and paid for instead of whining about supported software lists.
Right so you will be the one who is responsible when said software quits working, the vendor cannot be found, and 1000s of hours of company labor is locked up in that proprietary format? Can I get that in writing?
You have an attitude problem.
The grandparent poster certainly might, but you seem to as well, clearly you think the entire world revolves around you.
as for certain simple programs, and it takes them weeks to install those programs, costing me hundreds of hours in productivity a year.
So do you think that's because your IT staff sees your requests and says, "Hey you know would be really fun lets wait two weeks to get back with Knave75, so he will be really irritable and give us a hard time!"
My guess it its more a function of its not just installing your simple little app, someone has to write rules for your desktop security agent to let it run, those rules have to be tested. Someone has to make sure the license permits it to be used in a business or purchase a license. Someone has to make sure its not a trojan, because if there is a data leak its IT not you that management is going to blame. Heck there may be even more to it than that depending on the organization. Its not the quick little install you do on home PC.
Chances are also that IT being a expense rather than revenue generator is not exactly over staffed. Most of them are probably salary just like you are. They have other things that need getting done, and no they don't want to put in another three unpaid hours today doing all the above so you can have your app. Its not central to mission, even if you are a great guy!
Odds are management does not really care if you lose a couple hundred hours of productivity in a year because IT can't get to your requests sooner. Until it gets to the point where you are no longer willing to put in the over time and they have to add staff, at which time they will decide if it makes more sense to app head count to your group, making it more productive or to add head count to IT, hopefully making everyone slightly more productive. IT is not your problem, upper management most likely is. IT probably does what to help you, its just the 30 other people ahead of you also needing help that stops them.
When IT starts unreasonably hindering that, you see the hostility build.
Actually I think this is a problem somewhat unique to IT. Everyone has a computer at home and therefore thinks they *know* what IT does. They think its just a matter of scale and that the issues they face on their PC are the same ones the IT department deals with. On the other hand hardly anyone runs payroll at home or does the sort of accounting the finance departments handles. The are not doing materials research like the engineering group so they don't constantly second guess those people.
Most users don't have a clue what is reasonable or not. They only think they do. They don't want to be educated or trained either, they one have their own work to think about, and be don't appreciate there is anything to learn.
I keep having finance people tell me they want to use Dropbox! Which my department blocks, we are public company, we can't have people putting financial records on Dropbox, because we really don't know who at dropbox can get the data, under what circumstances, etc as they can change their terms whenever. We'd never survive our next SOX audit! What do the users say, "everyone else is using the cloud!", no everyone else is NOT using the cloud for M&A documents, I assure you. They sent some baby photo's to grandma though so they think they get it.
So you think its a-Ok! for an executive agency to just impose record keeping requirements on a private business! Sorry that is the job of the legislature, dude, the executive is supposed to just be enforcing the law not making it.
If Congress enacts legislation requiring business to keep track of who purchases crystal-idone, fine that is one thing, but its not for a bunch a DEA-aholes to decide.
I agree with some of what occupy is saying but they don't speak with one voice, and some really misinformed or crazy stuff comes out there.
I mean NPR has if anything given them pretty sympathetic coverage and even listing to some of the people they chose to interview, I could not help but think, how the heck did that guy get accepted by a college in the first place, not being able to pay for is the least his problems. I really wonder what percentage of occupy protestors could manage a high school civics or intro to economics final. I don't think it would be very high.
So why the are not wrong to be upset with the financial industry and government, I can't get on board. I want to know what a movements goals are before I become part of it. If their only goal was to be heard well, we heard them. Now what? Its either time for them to go home, or propose an agenda.
Well if you really confident your enemy is not able to build defenses adequate to protect its Nuclear program from your really big bomb, then maybe it makes sense to tell them.
Hopefully once they know we can get them *anywhere* they will stop doing things we don't like. Which might mean we don't have to use our really big bomb in order to have our way.
Absolutely certain to crash the plane eh? Maybe you missed it when the last two people to get a bomb on a plane epic failed. Just getting a device past security is not enough you also need to have a device that works, which is harder that we thought
Don' t be to certain of that. Every D might die on that Hill but there are enough Tea Party folks who will fight on the other front and none will be able to marshal the votes to stop them either. IF the SCOTUS does void the mandate and keep the rest of the law, and that is a big IF, then I will say their WILL be a prolonged government shutdown, likely a default, and a economic upheaval so big *ANYTHING* will become possible.
I agree with you for the most part but there is more to the advantage of incumbency than just being incumbent. Most states(all?) election law enshrine the two party system. There is not even a clear process for getting on the ballot as third party candidate in many cases. Its not easy to win as write in candidate, for obvious reasons.
What needs to happen is people need to run for state and local office and re-work election law, only then will real change in who gets elected at the federal level happen. Pushing for repeal of the 17th amendment would be a step in right direction as well. The senate would have to respect states rights again or risk not being re-elected.
All that would have been possible, maybe is possible. I helped a friend with his campaign for City government here, and it might be a stepping stone for here to go after the state house. Trouble is many people feel, myself included, that there just is not time for that strategy any more. The public slept to long, and now its going to take uglier measures to save Government for the People, by the People.
One thing is for certain, with a 9% Congressional approval rating, we don't have either!
They don't get to buy back shares under market, they pay the sell the ask price. Buying treasury stock is a bother the shares will be worth more later the same bet any investor makes on the long side. Generally for a healthy company this pushes the stock price up, which is good for the investors who are not selling, their real owners. I don't see how a seller is any more screwed selling shares back to the firm than selling them to me.
You have a Constitutional right to peaceful assembly but it does not say you have the right to assemble just any place you want. If you want to have people camp on your own lawn for months, I am cool with that.
The park is a public place, everyone contributed to its construction or its up keep based on a tax policy that was determined to be fair and arrived at by an elected body. I don't know about your city but in mine you can hold events in the park by sign up. Its first come first server, you book your time and you LEAVE when your time is over. That is the social contract. There are more rules governing how much time you can book etc etc..
When you over stay your booked time and interfere with someone else you are indeed infringing upon their rightful use of the park. You had your turn, its another citizen's turn now.
Not to defend BT, but just because it does not represent something specific does not make it so different form other currencies.
You might just as well say
Dollars would be a lot more valuable if your currency held the promise of something. For example selling shares in the nations store of gold makes much more sense than doing massive printing for the sake of wasting cotton, wood fiber and ink. I've wondered before if there was anything to Dollars, but I really can't think of them as a currency.
Yes I realize that one *value* aspect of the dollar is it can satisfy tax obligations but even that is pretty artificial construct.
Fuck your event, and fuck everything else being disrupted by #OWS too. We have serious problems in our society which have made these people feel otherwise disenfranchised...
So you are angry that so many people are disenfranchised and you turn around and say "Fuck your event" to someone who has just as much right to use that park as you and the OWS protestors do.
This is the real problem with the OWS movement. For every one person in it who is honestly concerned that something has perverted, "Truth, Justice, and the American Way" There are 10 people who really just feel cheated, entitled, and angry but have no problem turning around and abusing others the very same ways they think they have been abused.