What you left out though was if she was a good teacher or not. If she was good, it becomes an issue of so what? The notes are a minor issue of someone that knows the material. If not, then I suppose it would be a major issue.
1. Halted the questionable legal proceedings against people held at Guantanamo Bay
This is good change? At least they had trials, now they are stuck in limbo.
They had monkey courts. No trial is better than the alternative "We dont have any real evidence other than you were fighting against us in a war so welcome to Gitmo for life."
2. Ordered the shutdown of the prison at Guantamo Bay
In a year or so, but his exec order failed to provide any instructions on what to do with detainees. The most likely scenario now is that they will be returned to countries where they will be executed without trials. So, from detention to grave, nice change.
Detention, nice word. It sounds like they had to stay a bit and clean the erasers. Most likely no one will take them. Most of them were nothing but irregulars on a battlefield.
3. Ordered the shutdown of CIA "black sites"
Wonderful. We saw what happened when Clinton tied the CIAs hands in the 90's.
Really? What happened? They failed to put a report on dubya's desk that said Osama was going to attack the US?
4. Ordered the CIA to stick to the Army Field Manual for interrogation purposes (read: no more torture)
Since when is the CIA in the Army? FYI, the army special forces trains their recruits by water-boarding them. They also use sleep deprivation, nudity, cold, and other 'interrogation' techniques in the manual. Sounds like no change to me.
They do so to turn them into killing machines. So great, let us make sure that we produce the most hardened jihadists possible. Tell me this, if you got dumped into Gitmo for a few years would YOU come out loving America?
5. Overturned Bush's order to limit release of presidential records and FOIA documentation
This will be tossed out in court. If staff rely on existing rules in the performance of their work, you can't change the rules after the fact and potentially expose sensitive information. It would be like congress passing a law saying Slashdot trolling is illegal, then going back and arresting everyone who posted a troll in the past 10 years. Not legal.
This is going forward. Go read the real order, this brings in daylight which is always a good thing. No one is going to expose CIA operatives like Bush's White House or more importantly fabricate 'sensitive' information like WMDs
6. Began diplomatic overtures to Iran
Bush has made numerous overtures to Iran. The problem is they keep building their reactors, refining facilities, and missiles while continuing to fund terrorist activities.
Yes, labeling them with the moniker of Axis of Evil was a great overture, I am sure it set the tone for all the other overtures just fine.
7. Began talking to Israel, Palestine, Egypt, etc, to hasten resolution of the Israel/Palestine violence
Yeah, because Bush has never talked with any of these countries... and nobody has tried to help them make peace. Wow, Obama is on a totally new track. Hahaha.
Yeah, "Kiss Isreal's ass and then we can really talk" is a heck of a job there Bushie. They were never serious about it and all the participents knew it.
8. Rescinded the Mexico City "gag rule" on government aid to agencies that provide information on abortion
Definitely a change here. Now the government isn't just funding the murder of children, its promoting it too.
yes, let us make moral judgments for people. That always ends well. And if people would actually read the Book they profess to love they would find that it is pro-choice, and Jesus would have been as well.
It wouldn't matter what letter was behind their name, the economy already was going to go in the toilet. I know it is the wet dream of the right to watch the economy go bad whilst a democrat is in power but the road was already paved before he took the oath, thins didn't turn to crap an the 20th. How about a little more 'We the people' and a little less 'Us vs Them'.
Except of course this is exactly what people like Kroll/OnTrack do.
I got to go to a talk by their VP for data recovery. Got to even have lunch with him and chat. One of the people made a comment about his asistent wo had helped him get his powre point set up and what not.
'Oh, no' he says 'He doesn't work for me, he is a lawyer for the company to make sure that I don't say anything I am not supposed to.'
The lawyer then flashed us one of those lawyer I could eat you alive smiles.
After hearing his talk and watching him step around the questions lobbed at him by a group of forensic people we finally got him to admit that melting a drive down was the only way to be 100% sure that he couldn't pull the data off of it. I am sure there was a lot of bluster and bullshit, but at the same time he did get caught out twice which is enough to keep my healthy skepticism.
And just to add a little fuel for thought these are the guys that did data recovery for the space shuttle that burned up in the sky. Bent, burned drives. They claimed 99% data recovery.
Why is USB Handed? What I mean is why does it have a 'direction' that it must be plugged in? Yes I know there is contacts to electricity involved, but still and all, why for the spec didn't someone step up to the plate and say "It should be so you just plug it in in any direction, you know, like almost any electrical chord".
So, as you can see, this "lie" is actually correct in every sense of the word "compensation" worth talking about. The thing that matters is how much it costs the company per 1 hour of labor. That is NOT just their hourly rate. I will agree that many people in the media do not understand what it means when the $70+ per hour rate is quoted, but that doesn't make it any less true for those of use who can actually think.
Huh? I earn X dollars and because the company owes Bob Y dollars means I earn X+Y dollars? Perhaps your thinking skills aren't quite what you think they are. Bob may have earned X and Y' dollars, but you cant blame me for that number. In any event Y used to be a very small number. Now through corporate malfeasance, corporate greed and government Laissez Faire Y has become huge, and everyone wants to point a finger at the union. The big 3 could have always walked away from their unions. I hear that sort of thing echoed from the anti union folk all the time. "I will cut my own deals thanks" Detroit made a deal. Dont blame the unions because the management were idiots. Were the unions grasping? Yep. Was management idiots for giving into it? Yep. Who is still around to get the blame? Only the unions. Management skates away as normal.
Good call. Take an overpriced industry that is quickly being outsourced and unionize it. That should work out perfectly with no long-term negative consequences.
Let us try this again:
Take an overpriced industry that is quickly being outsourced and do nothing. That is working out perfectly with no long-term negative consequences.
They also happen to be very good at recovering data from smashed drives. They just don't make that very public. I got to hear the Kroll/OnTrack VP speak one time at a small forensic conference. Spooky stuff. These are the guys that do data recovery for the FBI/CIA/NSA. They aren't just good at what they do... they are unbelievable. Me, I am not important enough to care about. I write mine over three times, then open up the drive and score the each side of each platter a number of times with the screw driver I opened it with. I know they still could get the data if they wanted it, but I figure I am not worth enough to even care about. If I were, I would melt them down and cast busts of Dear Leader with them. It isn't that hard to make a charcoal fed 2000 deg furnace for under $50.
Are you asking me to delete my Copyrighted works? Sir, I will hand you my camera and *you* can commit the felony. A *copy* of them is over $100k per the DMCA, imagine what the original is worth....
Do you realize that for every one of us there are two, count them, TWO nipples? And almost half of us have some serious fatty tissue behind those nipples! I mean we can't have children seeing the things can we? Keep their shirst on! I mean the single best thing for a newborn to suckle on should be shameful and weird. Babies eat from bottles right? And watching a baby nurse... well I know all kinds of people that it turns on... OK not even one. Its a bewb - BAN it!
To add a little icing to that cake I can tell you that your school paid for that copy of Office for you, all you paid was for the shiny CD/DVD it came on. Admittedly they get a great cut from the retail price, but they still paid money for it. Lastly something the GP misses entirely is that he (and perhaps you) have never read the EULA for your copy. Though long, boring and wordy there is a reason it is called a 'student' copy of Office. To shorten it up for you, never type up something official on it, like a document for work or a legal anything, do either in any form and you have broken the license. So much as writing your accountant about your taxes on it with a spreadsheet of your monthly cable bill is enough to break it. In short it was made to write papers for class on, that is all.
Not being a network person and working at a college that is pure Cisco on the networking side, what percent of the market do they own? Close enough that one of the big boys might gripe a bit about (ahem) unfairly leveraging their markets?
Though HAL was the voice of AI, I had always hoped that we would be able to get to the point where we could perfectly replicate her voice. It would have been fitting that in the 24th century that her voice really would have been the voice of the computer. God Speed and God Bless Majel, we are all richer for your life here.
To answer your last statement first, I agree they are two different things. Not even on the same plane really.
To answer your first question though, yes, I do believe that faith hold up the infrastructure of the world, but hear me out. I don't mean Faith with a capital "I'm close to being a cross" F. I mean with all the little bits and big bits of small f faith that go on every day.
For example I have faith that I will have a job tomorrow. I have faith that I will have electricity tomorrow. I have faith that my spouse is not out fooling around on me. I have faith that the world will be a better place over time, I have faith that the new administration will be better.
Without these sorts of faiths a regular life would be impossible.
That is what I was trying to point out.
Without those little f faiths you would have anarchy. And that is how I always read the "I have no faith in anything" posts. I always think yeah you do, or you would literally go nuts.
Now I admit I go a giant step forward (and you would say ridiculously far so) and have Faith as it is commonly thought of, I see it as a calyx thing.
Face it, the only thing that can motivate people to mass-murder is an irrational, unjustified belief in some sort of bullshit worldview.... The most monstrous crimes against humanity have invariably been inspired by unjustified belief. It is the propensity for people to ignorantly believe in religious or religion-analogous movements that is the problem
And the only thing that can motivate them to stark rationalism is? I dont see where Atheism is the answer. If I read you right it is Faith itself and not religion that is the problem. So why not hate every faith based thing? Why chose religion for your ire?
Face it, the only thing that can motivate people to mass-murder is an irrational, unjustified belief in some sort of bullshit worldview.
True. And Atheism solves this how? Honestly Atheism is becoming one of them with every post like yours. Welcome Cog of the Machine. And you wind up with a religion flame, yet you encompase every *ism known with that. Anarchy is great until you have to live in it. Can you get a drink from the tap in your house? Does your Internet/phone/TV work? Thank the people that keep Anarchy at bay then.
There'd have been science without religion just as there would be moon landings without Cape Canaveral.
To me that is like advocating Parthenogenesis. The scientific method would have arisen by itself without intervention. Only because in many many cultures across the planet that had the chance - it *never* did, ever. Religion gave context and organization. Ogg may have made stone tools but something else made him human.
*Flaming High Horse*...Preview is your friend. And to answer Dill and Dun - Oddly enough in my D&D campaign you can get a horse that flames (in battle +1d4 to who ever you are fighting (save vs dex for half)). Mostly they are owned by the CN Priests of a Fire (an elf slaying) god of my Campaign.
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What you left out though was if she was a good teacher or not. If she was good, it becomes an issue of so what? The notes are a minor issue of someone that knows the material. If not, then I suppose it would be a major issue.
They had monkey courts. No trial is better than the alternative "We dont have any real evidence other than you were fighting against us in a war so welcome to Gitmo for life."
Detention, nice word. It sounds like they had to stay a bit and clean the erasers. Most likely no one will take them. Most of them were nothing but irregulars on a battlefield.
Really? What happened? They failed to put a report on dubya's desk that said Osama was going to attack the US?
They do so to turn them into killing machines. So great, let us make sure that we produce the most hardened jihadists possible. Tell me this, if you got dumped into Gitmo for a few years would YOU come out loving America?
This is going forward. Go read the real order, this brings in daylight which is always a good thing. No one is going to expose CIA operatives like Bush's White House or more importantly fabricate 'sensitive' information like WMDs
Yes, labeling them with the moniker of Axis of Evil was a great overture, I am sure it set the tone for all the other overtures just fine.
Yeah, "Kiss Isreal's ass and then we can really talk" is a heck of a job there Bushie. They were never serious about it and all the participents knew it.
yes, let us make moral judgments for people. That always ends well. And if people would actually read the Book they profess to love they would find that it is pro-choice, and Jesus would have been as well.
It wouldn't matter what letter was behind their name, the economy already was going to go in the toilet. I know it is the wet dream of the right to watch the economy go bad whilst a democrat is in power but the road was already paved before he took the oath, thins didn't turn to crap an the 20th. How about a little more 'We the people' and a little less 'Us vs Them'.
Sera
Except of course this is exactly what people like Kroll/OnTrack do.
I got to go to a talk by their VP for data recovery. Got to even have lunch with him and chat. One of the people made a comment about his asistent wo had helped him get his powre point set up and what not.
'Oh, no' he says 'He doesn't work for me, he is a lawyer for the company to make sure that I don't say anything I am not supposed to.'
The lawyer then flashed us one of those lawyer I could eat you alive smiles.
After hearing his talk and watching him step around the questions lobbed at him by a group of forensic people we finally got him to admit that melting a drive down was the only way to be 100% sure that he couldn't pull the data off of it. I am sure there was a lot of bluster and bullshit, but at the same time he did get caught out twice which is enough to keep my healthy skepticism.
And just to add a little fuel for thought these are the guys that did data recovery for the space shuttle that burned up in the sky. Bent, burned drives. They claimed 99% data recovery.
Sera
Why is USB Handed? What I mean is why does it have a 'direction' that it must be plugged in? Yes I know there is contacts to electricity involved, but still and all, why for the spec didn't someone step up to the plate and say "It should be so you just plug it in in any direction, you know, like almost any electrical chord".
Unions keep real science teachers employed in knuckle dragger school districts. Tenure can be a beautiful thing.
Huh? I earn X dollars and because the company owes Bob Y dollars means I earn X+Y dollars? Perhaps your thinking skills aren't quite what you think they are. Bob may have earned X and Y' dollars, but you cant blame me for that number. In any event Y used to be a very small number. Now through corporate malfeasance, corporate greed and government Laissez Faire Y has become huge, and everyone wants to point a finger at the union. The big 3 could have always walked away from their unions. I hear that sort of thing echoed from the anti union folk all the time. "I will cut my own deals thanks" Detroit made a deal. Dont blame the unions because the management were idiots. Were the unions grasping? Yep. Was management idiots for giving into it? Yep. Who is still around to get the blame? Only the unions. Management skates away as normal.
Let us try this again:
Take an overpriced industry that is quickly being outsourced and do nothing. That is working out perfectly with no long-term negative consequences.
No union isn't helping either.
I have to agree with Enigma. A wonderful eulogy. Thank you.
Seraphim
They also happen to be very good at recovering data from smashed drives. They just don't make that very public. I got to hear the Kroll/OnTrack VP speak one time at a small forensic conference. Spooky stuff. These are the guys that do data recovery for the FBI/CIA/NSA. They aren't just good at what they do ... they are unbelievable. Me, I am not important enough to care about. I write mine over three times, then open up the drive and score the each side of each platter a number of times with the screw driver I opened it with. I know they still could get the data if they wanted it, but I figure I am not worth enough to even care about. If I were, I would melt them down and cast busts of Dear Leader with them. It isn't that hard to make a charcoal fed 2000 deg furnace for under $50.
Are you asking me to delete my Copyrighted works? Sir, I will hand you my camera and *you* can commit the felony. A *copy* of them is over $100k per the DMCA, imagine what the original is worth....
Do you realize that for every one of us there are two, count them, TWO nipples? And almost half of us have some serious fatty tissue behind those nipples! I mean we can't have children seeing the things can we? Keep their shirst on! I mean the single best thing for a newborn to suckle on should be shameful and weird. Babies eat from bottles right? And watching a baby nurse ... well I know all kinds of people that it turns on ... OK not even one. Its a bewb - BAN it!
Such ... a ...waste
To add a little icing to that cake I can tell you that your school paid for that copy of Office for you, all you paid was for the shiny CD/DVD it came on. Admittedly they get a great cut from the retail price, but they still paid money for it. Lastly something the GP misses entirely is that he (and perhaps you) have never read the EULA for your copy. Though long, boring and wordy there is a reason it is called a 'student' copy of Office. To shorten it up for you, never type up something official on it, like a document for work or a legal anything, do either in any form and you have broken the license. So much as writing your accountant about your taxes on it with a spreadsheet of your monthly cable bill is enough to break it. In short it was made to write papers for class on, that is all.
Sera
My...that's a mighty large brief you have there. Care to put it in my briefcase? And just to warn you, when I give testimony I do it loudly.
...quoth the Anonymous Coward. How about you man up Nancy and stand behind your words. Internet Tough Guy much?
Which one are you hooked up to? Mine is as shallow as pond scum.
Sera
Not being a network person and working at a college that is pure Cisco on the networking side, what percent of the market do they own? Close enough that one of the big boys might gripe a bit about (ahem) unfairly leveraging their markets?
Sera
Though HAL was the voice of AI, I had always hoped that we would be able to get to the point where we could perfectly replicate her voice. It would have been fitting that in the 24th century that her voice really would have been the voice of the computer. God Speed and God Bless Majel, we are all richer for your life here.
Seraphim
I guess I haven't explained what I meant so well.
To answer your last statement first, I agree they are two different things. Not even on the same plane really.
To answer your first question though, yes, I do believe that faith hold up the infrastructure of the world, but hear me out. I don't mean Faith with a capital "I'm close to being a cross" F. I mean with all the little bits and big bits of small f faith that go on every day.
For example I have faith that I will have a job tomorrow. I have faith that I will have electricity tomorrow. I have faith that my spouse is not out fooling around on me. I have faith that the world will be a better place over time, I have faith that the new administration will be better.
Without these sorts of faiths a regular life would be impossible.
That is what I was trying to point out.
Without those little f faiths you would have anarchy. And that is how I always read the "I have no faith in anything" posts. I always think yeah you do, or you would literally go nuts.
Now I admit I go a giant step forward (and you would say ridiculously far so) and have Faith as it is commonly thought of, I see it as a calyx thing.
Sera
"All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings." - Denis Diderot
Sera
And the only thing that can motivate them to stark rationalism is? I dont see where Atheism is the answer. If I read you right it is Faith itself and not religion that is the problem. So why not hate every faith based thing? Why chose religion for your ire?
Face it, the only thing that can motivate people to mass-murder is an irrational, unjustified belief in some sort of bullshit worldview.
True. And Atheism solves this how? Honestly Atheism is becoming one of them with every post like yours. Welcome Cog of the Machine. And you wind up with a religion flame, yet you encompase every *ism known with that. Anarchy is great until you have to live in it. Can you get a drink from the tap in your house? Does your Internet/phone/TV work? Thank the people that keep Anarchy at bay then.
Sera
To me that is like advocating Parthenogenesis. The scientific method would have arisen by itself without intervention. Only because in many many cultures across the planet that had the chance - it *never* did, ever. Religion gave context and organization. Ogg may have made stone tools but something else made him human.
Sera
*Flaming High Horse* ...Preview is your friend. And to answer Dill and Dun - Oddly enough in my D&D campaign you can get a horse that flames (in battle +1d4 to who ever you are fighting (save vs dex for half)). Mostly they are owned by the CN Priests of a Fire (an elf slaying) god of my Campaign.
Sera