This guys tower is going to come down the first time it is iced over and the wind blows strong. The weak point of the tower is the welded base plate. The place where the tower meets the ground will have the strongest amount of stress on it. It will be stress pushing in one direction. If he uses guy wires it will be even worse. It will be a twisting motion at the base. As far as I can tell, the site was not slashdot ready, he never used rebar to make a cage for the base. If he never took the tower completely apart there could be other weak points he does not even know about. His story should be a primer of how not to erect a tower.
I had a 48 foot rohn tower I used for Amateur radio use and it was a tad overloaded. My hole was more of a polygon than a square and besides a very strong rebar cage for the base and the tower legs which were sunk 3 feet into the concrete, I used a little over two yards of concrete. This may sound like overkill but with the tower load I wanted it strong. Good thing. We had some of the strongest pacific storms after that tower went up. It took winds in excess of 100MPH. That wind uprooted orchards in our area and knocked over a few towers. Mine was hardly moving.
I bet that DC voltage is generated by AC and stepped up to the voltage before being converted to DC. The reason AC made it in to our homes was the fact it could be stepped up and down and transmitted with few losses over cheap cables. Edison used expensive and some what rare copper wire.
If you want some fun reading check out Margaret Cheneys(sp) Tesla (Man out of time). The man was a genius and quite strange. The deal he made with Westinghouse would have made him the richest man in the world but he gave it all away in the name of science. A very cool read.
While old tom did all he could to derail AC power he could not overcome the main short coming of DC power, line loss. If Edison had his way we would have to have power station every few blocks. When Tesla invented the polyphase generator it was possible to step up the generated power, transmit it long distances and step it down for home use.
Learn to elaborate when you write a post. The sites you mentioned I have no problems with. I have every newsgroup on comcast that giganews has. You have not proved your point that comcast is filtering anything.
Give me a site that is up and working and that I cannot reach via comcast and I will agree with you 100 percent. Otherwise if the tin foil fits, wear it.
Why the van showed up to fix your connection? I can think of two reasons.
1. There was something wrong with it that prevented you from reaching those sites.
or
2. You are such an important person in the free speech movement that comcast is spying on you. They were there to install stealth bugging equipment to keep comcast informed of your radical activities because without you, the radicals will fail.
Myself and all of those not wearing tin foil hats are betting it is number one.
As it turns out Creatives Strategy for making an iPod killer was to make players in truly puke inspiring colors and it increase song capacity by dropping the 128K standard and doubling capacity by replacing it with the oxymoron "high quality" 64k WMA format. I guess they though people would not notice, they did.
Here is a hint creative. Make sure all demo units actually work! Having them crash after 5 minutes of playing with them is not a good selling point. Will actually it is, for Apple.
Even though I am basically an Apple person I did check every MP3 player in order to save a few bucks. I was less than impressed. I bought my iPod about 2 years ago and I am looking to get another one as my old one is now full.
Well let us not forget the media edition of XP as well. Microsofts pro features could be added to the home addition, there are not really that much to add or take away as the case may be. As far as the basic one that they think will stop pirates, well it won't work. If they offer a better version then pirates will want that one....here and aboard. As far as an EU version with media player I doubt Microsoft dodged a bullet their either. Since they have stopped development of the Mac version of Media Player to view Version 10 media player content you need windows....period. They should have at least kept some development going for OS X just to say they support other platforms. It is a cheap insurance policy.
I am an MCSE and Windows 2000 is still a strong player in that arena as there is but one version to worry about supporting in a business or education sense. It will remain to be seen which will be the major players in the US market but supporting all those in an education market will be a headache at best. It will not be so bad in a business market as it will be easier for the IT department to force one version on all employees.
I hope it works out for them and they get their security act together, it would make my job much easier. Something as simple as requiring a password for ALL program installs would go a long way to helping that out. With XP you never know when some program will download and install something without your permission.....let's face it, too many users are running in admin mode under XP Pro than they should be. I am guilty of that myself.
The debt still went up...Let's have one that shrinks the debt....period. Doing that would require us to call in all the loans we have been giving to other countries, something no politician is going to do. It would mean both rasing taxes AND cutting services. Neither party will agree to both. We passed a law here in California to stop services to non-citizens to stop the drain on our state budget......our state government chose to ignore the law and still provide those services. Think of that, the people spoke and the government did not listen.
I was all for removing Saddam from power but not for the same reasons as the current administration. The number one reason is that the UN mandated it. When Saddam tossed the weapon inspectors out he was in violation of the resolution the UN had mandated. No one seemed upset that he had thumbed his nose to what he agreed to do and that the UN had mandated. No one cared that those countries in the UN were doing an end run around the sanctions and were doing business with him anyway. As far as I am concerned we should be out of Iraq now....we have been there way too long.
Here is a few more things that I am for: Pro-choice!, Anti-Gun laws!, I am for the separation of church and state and consider myself an atheist. That said I hate atheists that treat atheism as a religon, if you band together and try to impose your message on everyone aren't doing the same thing the religons do? Watch Penn & Tellers Bullshit on showtime, I consider them to be about 99 percent inline with my views.
I am not saying that one was singled out. I was talking about the abramoff case....well actually a mailing list originally. The point I made about abramoff is that some of the democrats going after the republicans had gifts from lobbyists that the submitted to the government as gifts from lobbyists, then changed them to something else when the press found out.
Trust me I am not saying one side does it and the other does not.....both sides are guilty of many things. I am just saying that the democrats that I have seen seem to have more double standards....both sides do and there may not be much of a difference but I think there is one. A far as the special prosecutor is concerned it was a bad idea to have one but it was a position that the democrats created and used twice against a president. In all instances it has shown to do little good.
I hated Reagan when he was elected. Boy I was pissed but I wound up liking him a lot. The military was in said shape when he became president. Ask anyone who was in the service in the 70's. If the Russians would have started a land war in Europe in the 70's we would have lost big time as we had a hard time keeping our tanks running. I think you will find that Clinton grew the debt as well. Just not as much. I agree that the debt is a bad thing but neither party really cares about it.
Well, no, as you dig deeper into the facts, you do bring up important points. Clinton was busy working for the American people, and indeed there was no victim.
It was not really the blow job but the lying to the American people and to the court system. People say Bush did the same. So people should hate both of them for lying. What if Bill had the clap or Herpes...would there have been a victim is Monica contracted an STD?
See, there are more similarities here than even I expected... I recently got a blow job, and I accidently got scratched by some teeth. The fallator did not do it on purpose... and it was a woman, so I did not get upset.;-)
That happens to me a lot as well, but I really did get hit by a shotgun blast. I used to hunt as well and when you are hunting you announce where you are if you move out of position. That is part of the hunter safety course that is mandatory for a hunting license.
Back to the point in an attempt to show how the similarities can be just as important as the differences. While the Cheney incident was an accident (there was a victim) that occured while Cheney was not serving the American people (and it arguable if he would have been doing so, even if he shot someone in the face in the oval office), it is my understanding that in both cases, someone was more than happy to be shot in the face;-) I don't recall Monica Lewinsky apologizing to Bill Clinton for any hardship she caused him, though. I guess that is the real difference... clearly Cheney hangs out with a more thoughtful compassionate type of folk....;-)
As far as I am concerned Cheney is ripe for going after for the things he has done but this is not one of them. If the democrat focus on stuff like this it will probably cost them the next election. I hate to say it but Hillary is looking more presidental everyday. I would rather see someone like McCain in office. I have said it before in other forums that if the democrats followed 5 simple rules they would have won both the 2000 and 2004 elections. I would even be willing to share these with the democratic party......for a price. I would even take no money if they were not elected....if they followed the rules I lay down for them. Any takers? I think 1 million is a fair price.
Hmmmm one in White House, one on private time out of white house. Are you saying that Bill got an accidental blow job? I have had lots of "on purpose" blow jobs but never an accidental one.
I have been hit with a shotgun blast myself. I was working near duck hunter who did not see me. It stung a little but that was all. The hunter did not do it on purpose....it was a woman, so I did not get upset. Accidents do happen.
Is there any chance the Cheney will take Hillary hunting?
Well, a hint: If you want to be taken seriously by any politician, you have to use a stamp. The order of "importance" (not that any are necessarily acted upon quickly) is letter, then phone call, then email. Just like most people take a real letter delivered to them as being more important than an email, politicians are the same. Maybe you should take away from this that you should taylor your actions to your audience. Your surprise at having an email ignored and your email added to an email list is humorous.
Actually a few years earlier I sent emails to all my representatives both republicans and democrats including Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein. I sent the exact same email to each one and it was worded very neutrally. Not one democrat responded, not even a form letter. In contrast, every republican not only emailed me back but several called my on the phone and set up meetings with either themselves or their interns. Every republican got back to me. To be fair I sent the email to all the democrats again. Nothing, zero, nada. A few years later when the problem I had came up again on boxers agenda I contacted her again. That's when the newsletters started. I never got a proper reply.
Really? I see it the other way around. The Republicans claim "conservatism" and are radical liberals, outspending the Democrats by a huge margin, and pushing through all sorts or progressive legislation. The Democrats voted for the regulations that got Jim Wright (a Democrat) kicked out of the position of House Majority Leader when proposed by Republicans (while under "investigation" not an indictment). The Democrats were for the anti-corruption rules. However, the Republicans repealed their own rules when it applied to a Republican. The weasel bastards didn't care one flip about corruption in politics. They encouraged it within their party. They only cared about punishing people that don't believe the way they do. In both cases, Democrats voted for tighter regulations against corruption, and in both cases the Republicans voted to punish Democrats or help themselves. Neither stance is "conservative".
The Republicans are the best party at lying. They tell the people what they want to hear. "I can balance the budget by cutting taxes and greatly increasing spending to help you out." For some reason, people prefer the pretty lie to the ugly truth. Taxes would be about 30% lower if the debt was paid off. If you want 30% lower taxes without having to cut a penny, then vote against all Republicans. And no, despite the lies of the Republicans, spending and taxes are not related. If it was the zero-sum game they pretend, then a deficit wouldn't be possible
I know that makes me sound like a Democrat, but I'm really a conservative in search of a party (and no, the LP isn't an option, but that's another set of posts). I want the government to get the hell out of my private life and my pocket book, and the Republicans want in both, even worse than the Democrats. - Vote Democrat if you are a conservative, they are certainly more conservative than the Republican Party has been since 1988 (and no, I don't vote Democrat that much, but I honestly can't see how a single conservative could vote for the Republicans).
I agree almost totally with what you said. I don't see much differences between the parties. I should clarify it a bit. When I said democrats had a bit more of a double standard I did not limit that to politicians but the party members as well. If I post something calling the democrats on it then I get a reply that says the republicans are worse and they give examples. When I give them examples of democrats doing exactly the same thing then they reply back with a personal attack. If I post, not always on slashdot, that both parties are guilty and should be punished then the democats attack me but I never hear anything from a republican. Both parties are guilty of voting down reform laws. I am all for them....big time.
Sure I sent here my email address, as a complaint. I could have signed up for her newsletter via the link provided to do so on her site. Instead I signed up for it without being told I was doing so. Since that time I have been getting email from other democratic causes. I am also pretty sure they did not share my email address with the republicans.
My email address was used in a way that was not mentioned on her site. It might not be exactly the same as the other case but you must admit that it comes pretty damn close. I never pressed the fact with her because I had a bigger complaint I was trying to get across, which never happened as my email was never actually read by anyone. When I sent an email disagreeing with her position I would receive an email back thanking me for my support for her position and a list of what I could do to help her get that position across.
I know my email makes it sound like I am a republican but I am an independent and I vote for the best person regardless of what party they are with. They can be democrat, republican or a third party. Over the past 12 years I can't say I have seen much difference between the two big parties. However I do see the democrats having more of a double standard. I am not saying that republicans don't do this either, I think democrats do it more. I used to be a democrat and I think it hurts the party. Take the abramoff case. The same democrats that are being vocal about how bad this was a few months ago had trips and gifts listed as paid for by lobbyists. This happened during the DeLay investigation and when the press found out this fact these people changed the name of the lobbyist to something else. Get out of jail free card. Maxine Waters refused refund any money or relist her trips with the government. They were still listed as lobbyist paid for, yet no action was taken against her. As far as I am concerned they all should be kicked out of office, republicans and democrats both.
Democrats have done exactly the same thing. Kennedy and L.B.J. did all those things you mentioned. I kept my post on topic, you had to go off topic to try and make a point.
I do thank you however, you made my point for me with your post.
I sent a complaint into Barbara Boxers email address and was added to her political email list. No one even read the email because it thanked me for my support. I was complaining of her support of the issue. However since she is a democrat I doubt anyone would call her on this. Democrats are usually given a pass in matters like this.
Windows Vista home. Windows Vista Pro Windows Vista Server
As far as I am concerned the home version should not be released. Bundle all the media center shit into the pro version. Keep it simple, make it easy. If this is truly microsofts plan, kiss any thing they have said about security out the....er....window.
Anything but that philosophy guy, right? Another education wasted.
Well yes if you expecting to go to the top of the business world with a philosophy degree. I would probably not fire a nuclear physicist for a business either. Unless I was looking for either a philosopher or a nuclear physicist. Common Sense.
Absolutely incredible. Big business is so much smarter than everyone else, isn't it? Hiring managers can sit there and proclaim someone to have a lack of intellect based solely on the major they dedicated their education to. Absolutely incredible. And people actually have to ask why half the working-age adults are not employed full-time.
I never said that either. Big business does not mean they are mensa members either. Again it comes back to education and common sense. If you spent most of your time in school studying the snowfall in the Andes you might not be as qualified as a business major. Common Sense.
The more businesses have that attitude the more education will suffer. The literacy rate will continue to drop and society will suffer as a result. People have no reason to go to college if the social contract is ignored.
No it will not. Again I think this goes back to the education system. People are told do want you want you are a special person. Well that is not true. You can't always do what you want and be successful.....it sucks but that is the way it is right now...planetwide. Gotta feel bad for those people in Russia were even the mobsters are all college grads. They actually had a socialist contract but it did them little good. Of course under it they could not complain if they wanted to live but at least now that can bitch about it. The literacy rate will continue to drop but not for the reasons you mentioned. They will drop because teachers get tenure with two years of work. It is hard to remove a tenured teacher. Hell even if the teacher is sleeping with the students they have to think very hard at what action to take against the teacher. Often they do what is called "dumping the trash". The let the teacher go but give him or her a glowing review so that they are hired by another school. Never mind the fact they are a child molester.
And they failed, just like I have. All of their efforts along with all of mine have been destroyed by office politics and greed.
They owned their own home...not a great one but they owned it, they ate, they were happy. They may have been poor by our standards but they were not by theirs. They succeeded better than Donald Trump. They were raised in one of the poorest states in the south and worked hard for next to nothing for a large part of their lives. When they moved to California it was like the land of milk and honey. No grapes of wrath for them.
Maybe this should be taught to people before they shovel their money into a worthless education.
This is what I have been saying. In life their are winners and losers. Having games were no one is keeping score sounds all warm and fuzzy and is not wrong to do but it does not prepare the children for a life were they are expected to win. That may hurt your view of the world but it is that way the world over. Even the tribal chief in Africa has more cows that the lowest of the tribe. It was that way with the American Indians as well. True they had a lot more things right than we do but they had winners and losers. One thing they did do was impart to their children a view of the world as it was. Greed was there as well. If another tribe had more or tried to take from their tribe they went to war and protected or took what they needed.
Maybe that is why I have done well at the jobs I have done. I was great to the customers even if I did not like them. I did what was expected of me with complaint....well few complaints. I did what I did very well. One thing I did insist on that work was work and home was home. I had some bosses that wanted to blur the two. Make the business intruded into the ho
Just made my point. Why wouldn't a degree in Philosophy help in the business world? Does business exist in some kind of alternate dimension where philosophy doesn't? Someone who completed a degree in Philosophy is probably brilliantly intelligent and someone who can analyze business problems from a variety of perspectives. They are probably also above-average writers and problem-solvers.
But it's not on the list of buzzword-majors so it doesn't count. Might as well have spent the tuition money on a cruise. Another education actively wasted by business on purpose.
Well if I was hiring someone for a business I would give the nod to the business major. If your major was in philosophy and you want a job in big business then you are not as smart as you think you are. While I think education is very important it does not mean that you are a mensa member when you graduate. If my major was dead languages I would not expect to be a manager in a fortune 500 company.
Fine. Then society shouldn't lie to people. I expect a career around which I can build a home and a family. That's what my parents and grandparents worked so hard for. They weren't cheated out of their hard work. My generation is the FIRST IN HISTORY that will do WORSE than the previous one.
Your parents and grandparents worked hard so you would not have to....we will probably never work as hard as they did. My grandparents were borderline poor but they were very happy. I have done much better than my grandparents. Do I think business is always fair....no way! Is life always fair....nope.
The teaching was rather simple: Go to school. Work hard. Get a good job. You'll succeed.
I did the first three, and I did them well. The fourth was a lie. If I succeed it will not be because I "got a good job." It will be because I did twice the work.
Pretty much everyone I know that has followed that advice has succeeded but as with life it will always be in varying degrees. Sometimes it does take twice the work and I have done that. When I became injured there was only one business that let me down. The Government! I paid into social security for just this reason but I was turned down. I had medical proof and several surgeries behind me and I was turned down. Other people that I know were given it without the need for proof or wanting to get better. Most of the people in the local SS office if they were citizens had only been citizens for a year or two. When I saw the judge I was the only English speaking person on the docket that morning. I paid money into the account so if I became unable to work it would help me out. Business with their insurance programs saved me.
People always argue those statistics. The reason they do is because it's really difficult to admit that business is fucking people over like that. But they are.
I am sure some do but I don't see them all doing it.
Only a claim, right? Sounds more and more like an interview. "So, you claim to have a degree..." and once I prove it they say "well, degrees aren't worth what they used to be worth..." and on it goes until they say "I'm very sorry but you're not qualified to paste bullshit into Powerpoint presentations." And resume #873 gets reverse-vaccuumed into the shitpipe.
Not at all and not my point. Having a degree is a very good thing, most of the time. If your degree is in Philosophy it will probably not help you in the business world. A degree could make you overqualified for some jobs but all in all a degree is a great thing to have.
Must be nice to automatically get hired whenever you want. What would be better is if people had no problem keeping a job. My parents average length of employment was well over 20 years. Mine is just under 12 months.
Yes it is, I have had to turn jobs because I was wanted by several business at the same time. I seem to get bored with a job in the 5 to 7 year time frame and I move on. I have always been a person who was requested because I treat my customers well. In one job I had more customers than probably anyone else....period. It tool 3 people to replace me when I left.
My parents and grandparents all combined were laid off precisely once. I have been laid off, "downsized" or outright fired (usually with the rest of my group/team/division) ten times.
My generation is being fucked over on a scale that is beyond belief. It's wrong.
Both my parents have had many jobs over the years. We had good times, we had lean times but I never went hungry. I don't know what you really expect. No one owes you anything. Maybe you were part of that "every thing is owed to me" type of teaching I was talking about. Maybe you have proved my original point or maybe you are in the wrong business.
Hell I have even taken jobs just for fun! Trust me I am a very Type B kind of person. I would call myself lazy in fact. When I am at work I find the easiest way to do the job as best I can and I always seem to succeed. Some would say I am lucky but I am the most unluckiest person on the planet or at least it feels that way some times.
Not being able to work the last 5 years has been the worst thing in my life. I am used to being able to buy what I wanted, when I wanted. That is no longer the case. I have to count every penny. You may feel life is treating you badly but it could be much, much worse. I would trade places with you in a second.
You say you went to a university, what was your major? My sister went to college late in life...she never even really had a job and was hired on the spot soon after graduation and is working at the same place to this day. I have worked at various jobs since I was 14, sometimes two at once and never had a problem getting a job. Due to a back injury I have been out of the workforce for 5 years but I have been retrained in IT and now hold several certifications. If I was able to return to work today....I could have a job, today.
I have never been fired from any of my jobs. I have always quit to move on to other things.
I would like to see the figures that back up your claim that half of working age adults are not employed full time.
The person I am talking about had so many jobs and while not all were winners he had a few where he was getting paid very well and was a permanent employee when he got himself fired. He was not fired without reason, he would not do his job, he tell the boss he did not know what he was doing or he just plain missed so much work they could not count on him. Even a union he belonged to dropped him because he was not a good employee.....it is pretty bad when a union drops you.
As far a permanent employee goes, no one is guaranteed a job for life......not even in Japan anymore.
The Lack of Literacy can be traced backed to today's educational system. Where teachers can get tenure for two years of work and their goal is to get on the school administration. This creates as educational system that is top heavy with managers and with few employees who care to teach. Why do you think teachers are so scared of pay being tied to the students performance. If a students grades are posted so everyone can see them they use a number so the student does not face any peer pressure. They are being taught from a young age that winning does not matter. That is not how the real world works.
I have seen what happens with this school system. I know a person who cannot hold a job as he thinks that he knows everything and he should run the business two days after being hired in the lowest position. He now has two kids, can't keep a job and found that the easy life he had in high school was not the same when he went to college....and then dropped out.
The main reason to buy it is so that Michael Desmond gets his check from Microsoft for writing the review.
Every one of his ten reasons to buy is a feature that OS X has had for at least a year.....if not longer. As a matter of fact when Vista is released to the masses I imagine most features will look like copies of present OS X software. Microsoft is not really known for creativity and by Bills own words they take whatever has already been done and try to make it better.
Unless they require a password for ALL software installs their security is going to fail in a big way. My prediction.....their security will actually be an inroad for infecting the computer.
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This guys tower is going to come down the first time it is iced over and the wind blows strong. The weak point of the tower is the welded base plate. The place where the tower meets the ground will have the strongest amount of stress on it. It will be stress pushing in one direction. If he uses guy wires it will be even worse. It will be a twisting motion at the base. As far as I can tell, the site was not slashdot ready, he never used rebar to make a cage for the base. If he never took the tower completely apart there could be other weak points he does not even know about. His story should be a primer of how not to erect a tower.
I had a 48 foot rohn tower I used for Amateur radio use and it was a tad overloaded. My hole was more of a polygon than a square and besides a very strong rebar cage for the base and the tower legs which were sunk 3 feet into the concrete, I used a little over two yards of concrete. This may sound like overkill but with the tower load I wanted it strong. Good thing. We had some of the strongest pacific storms after that tower went up. It took winds in excess of 100MPH. That wind uprooted orchards in our area and knocked over a few towers. Mine was hardly moving.
I bet that DC voltage is generated by AC and stepped up to the voltage before being converted to DC. The reason AC made it in to our homes was the fact it could be stepped up and down and transmitted with few losses over cheap cables. Edison used expensive and some what rare copper wire.
If you want some fun reading check out Margaret Cheneys(sp) Tesla (Man out of time). The man was a genius and quite strange. The deal he made with Westinghouse would have made him the richest man in the world but he gave it all away in the name of science. A very cool read.
While old tom did all he could to derail AC power he could not overcome the main short coming of DC power, line loss. If Edison had his way we would have to have power station every few blocks. When Tesla invented the polyphase generator it was possible to step up the generated power, transmit it long distances and step it down for home use.
Learn to elaborate when you write a post. The sites you mentioned I have no problems with. I have every newsgroup on comcast that giganews has. You have not proved your point that comcast is filtering anything.
Give me a site that is up and working and that I cannot reach via comcast and I will agree with you 100 percent. Otherwise if the tin foil fits, wear it.
Why the van showed up to fix your connection? I can think of two reasons.
1. There was something wrong with it that prevented you from reaching those sites.
or
2. You are such an important person in the free speech movement that comcast is spying on you. They were there to install stealth bugging equipment to keep comcast informed of your radical activities because without you, the radicals will fail.
Myself and all of those not wearing tin foil hats are betting it is number one.
As it turns out Creatives Strategy for making an iPod killer was to make players in truly puke inspiring colors and it increase song capacity by dropping the 128K standard and doubling capacity by replacing it with the oxymoron "high quality" 64k WMA format. I guess they though people would not notice, they did.
Here is a hint creative. Make sure all demo units actually work! Having them crash after 5 minutes of playing with them is not a good selling point. Will actually it is, for Apple.
Even though I am basically an Apple person I did check every MP3 player in order to save a few bucks. I was less than impressed. I bought my iPod about 2 years ago and I am looking to get another one as my old one is now full.
Well let us not forget the media edition of XP as well. Microsofts pro features could be added to the home addition, there are not really that much to add or take away as the case may be. As far as the basic one that they think will stop pirates, well it won't work. If they offer a better version then pirates will want that one....here and aboard. As far as an EU version with media player I doubt Microsoft dodged a bullet their either. Since they have stopped development of the Mac version of Media Player to view Version 10 media player content you need windows....period. They should have at least kept some development going for OS X just to say they support other platforms. It is a cheap insurance policy.
I am an MCSE and Windows 2000 is still a strong player in that arena as there is but one version to worry about supporting in a business or education sense. It will remain to be seen which will be the major players in the US market but supporting all those in an education market will be a headache at best. It will not be so bad in a business market as it will be easier for the IT department to force one version on all employees.
I hope it works out for them and they get their security act together, it would make my job much easier. Something as simple as requiring a password for ALL program installs would go a long way to helping that out. With XP you never know when some program will download and install something without your permission.....let's face it, too many users are running in admin mode under XP Pro than they should be. I am guilty of that myself.
Microsoft never fails to bring new meaning to the words "Dumbass" with each new release.
Their should be only two Vistas.
Vista and Vista Server.
The debt still went up...Let's have one that shrinks the debt....period. Doing that would require us to call in all the loans we have been giving to other countries, something no politician is going to do. It would mean both rasing taxes AND cutting services. Neither party will agree to both. We passed a law here in California to stop services to non-citizens to stop the drain on our state budget......our state government chose to ignore the law and still provide those services. Think of that, the people spoke and the government did not listen.
I was all for removing Saddam from power but not for the same reasons as the current administration. The number one reason is that the UN mandated it. When Saddam tossed the weapon inspectors out he was in violation of the resolution the UN had mandated. No one seemed upset that he had thumbed his nose to what he agreed to do and that the UN had mandated. No one cared that those countries in the UN were doing an end run around the sanctions and were doing business with him anyway. As far as I am concerned we should be out of Iraq now....we have been there way too long.
Here is a few more things that I am for: Pro-choice!, Anti-Gun laws!, I am for the separation of church and state and consider myself an atheist. That said I hate atheists that treat atheism as a religon, if you band together and try to impose your message on everyone aren't doing the same thing the religons do? Watch Penn & Tellers Bullshit on showtime, I consider them to be about 99 percent inline with my views.
No, I got the satire.
I am not saying that one was singled out. I was talking about the abramoff case....well actually a mailing list originally. The point I made about abramoff is that some of the democrats going after the republicans had gifts from lobbyists that the submitted to the government as gifts from lobbyists, then changed them to something else when the press found out.
Trust me I am not saying one side does it and the other does not.....both sides are guilty of many things. I am just saying that the democrats that I have seen seem to have more double standards....both sides do and there may not be much of a difference but I think there is one. A far as the special prosecutor is concerned it was a bad idea to have one but it was a position that the democrats created and used twice against a president. In all instances it has shown to do little good.
I hated Reagan when he was elected. Boy I was pissed but I wound up liking him a lot. The military was in said shape when he became president. Ask anyone who was in the service in the 70's. If the Russians would have started a land war in Europe in the 70's we would have lost big time as we had a hard time keeping our tanks running. I think you will find that Clinton grew the debt as well. Just not as much. I agree that the debt is a bad thing but neither party really cares about it.
Well, no, as you dig deeper into the facts, you do bring up important points. Clinton was busy working for the American people, and indeed there was no victim.
... I recently got a blow job, and I accidently got scratched by some teeth. The fallator did not do it on purpose ... and it was a woman, so I did not get upset. ;-)
;-) I don't recall Monica Lewinsky apologizing to Bill Clinton for any hardship she caused him, though. I guess that is the real difference ... clearly Cheney hangs out with a more thoughtful compassionate type of folk .... ;-)
It was not really the blow job but the lying to the American people and to the court system. People say Bush did the same. So people should hate both of them for lying. What if Bill had the clap or Herpes...would there have been a victim is Monica contracted an STD?
See, there are more similarities here than even I expected
That happens to me a lot as well, but I really did get hit by a shotgun blast. I used to hunt as well and when you are hunting you announce where you are if you move out of position. That is part of the hunter safety course that is mandatory for a hunting license.
Back to the point in an attempt to show how the similarities can be just as important as the differences. While the Cheney incident was an accident (there was a victim) that occured while Cheney was not serving the American people (and it arguable if he would have been doing so, even if he shot someone in the face in the oval office), it is my understanding that in both cases, someone was more than happy to be shot in the face
As far as I am concerned Cheney is ripe for going after for the things he has done but this is not one of them. If the democrat focus on stuff like this it will probably cost them the next election. I hate to say it but Hillary is looking more presidental everyday. I would rather see someone like McCain in office. I have said it before in other forums that if the democrats followed 5 simple rules they would have won both the 2000 and 2004 elections. I would even be willing to share these with the democratic party......for a price. I would even take no money if they were not elected....if they followed the rules I lay down for them. Any takers? I think 1 million is a fair price.
Hmmmm one in White House, one on private time out of white house. Are you saying that Bill got an accidental blow job? I have had lots of "on purpose" blow jobs but never an accidental one.
I have been hit with a shotgun blast myself. I was working near duck hunter who did not see me. It stung a little but that was all. The hunter did not do it on purpose....it was a woman, so I did not get upset. Accidents do happen.
Is there any chance the Cheney will take Hillary hunting?
Well, a hint: If you want to be taken seriously by any politician, you have to use a stamp. The order of "importance" (not that any are necessarily acted upon quickly) is letter, then phone call, then email. Just like most people take a real letter delivered to them as being more important than an email, politicians are the same. Maybe you should take away from this that you should taylor your actions to your audience. Your surprise at having an email ignored and your email added to an email list is humorous.
Actually a few years earlier I sent emails to all my representatives both republicans and democrats including Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein. I sent the exact same email to each one and it was worded very neutrally. Not one democrat responded, not even a form letter. In contrast, every republican not only emailed me back but several called my on the phone and set up meetings with either themselves or their interns. Every republican got back to me. To be fair I sent the email to all the democrats again. Nothing, zero, nada. A few years later when the problem I had came up again on boxers agenda I contacted her again. That's when the newsletters started. I never got a proper reply.
Really? I see it the other way around. The Republicans claim "conservatism" and are radical liberals, outspending the Democrats by a huge margin, and pushing through all sorts or progressive legislation. The Democrats voted for the regulations that got Jim Wright (a Democrat) kicked out of the position of House Majority Leader when proposed by Republicans (while under "investigation" not an indictment). The Democrats were for the anti-corruption rules. However, the Republicans repealed their own rules when it applied to a Republican. The weasel bastards didn't care one flip about corruption in politics. They encouraged it within their party. They only cared about punishing people that don't believe the way they do. In both cases, Democrats voted for tighter regulations against corruption, and in both cases the Republicans voted to punish Democrats or help themselves. Neither stance is "conservative".
The Republicans are the best party at lying. They tell the people what they want to hear. "I can balance the budget by cutting taxes and greatly increasing spending to help you out." For some reason, people prefer the pretty lie to the ugly truth. Taxes would be about 30% lower if the debt was paid off. If you want 30% lower taxes without having to cut a penny, then vote against all Republicans. And no, despite the lies of the Republicans, spending and taxes are not related. If it was the zero-sum game they pretend, then a deficit wouldn't be possible
I know that makes me sound like a Democrat, but I'm really a conservative in search of a party (and no, the LP isn't an option, but that's another set of posts). I want the government to get the hell out of my private life and my pocket book, and the Republicans want in both, even worse than the Democrats. - Vote Democrat if you are a conservative, they are certainly more conservative than the Republican Party has been since 1988 (and no, I don't vote Democrat that much, but I honestly can't see how a single conservative could vote for the Republicans).
I agree almost totally with what you said. I don't see much differences between the parties. I should clarify it a bit. When I said democrats had a bit more of a double standard I did not limit that to politicians but the party members as well. If I post something calling the democrats on it then I get a reply that says the republicans are worse and they give examples. When I give them examples of democrats doing exactly the same thing then they reply back with a personal attack. If I post, not always on slashdot, that both parties are guilty and should be punished then the democats attack me but I never hear anything from a republican. Both parties are guilty of voting down reform laws. I am all for them....big time.
I think the debt is so out of control t
Sure I sent here my email address, as a complaint. I could have signed up for her newsletter via the link provided to do so on her site. Instead I signed up for it without being told I was doing so. Since that time I have been getting email from other democratic causes. I am also pretty sure they did not share my email address with the republicans.
My email address was used in a way that was not mentioned on her site. It might not be exactly the same as the other case but you must admit that it comes pretty damn close. I never pressed the fact with her because I had a bigger complaint I was trying to get across, which never happened as my email was never actually read by anyone. When I sent an email disagreeing with her position I would receive an email back thanking me for my support for her position and a list of what I could do to help her get that position across.
I know my email makes it sound like I am a republican but I am an independent and I vote for the best person regardless of what party they are with. They can be democrat, republican or a third party. Over the past 12 years I can't say I have seen much difference between the two big parties. However I do see the democrats having more of a double standard. I am not saying that republicans don't do this either, I think democrats do it more. I used to be a democrat and I think it hurts the party. Take the abramoff case. The same democrats that are being vocal about how bad this was a few months ago had trips and gifts listed as paid for by lobbyists. This happened during the DeLay investigation and when the press found out this fact these people changed the name of the lobbyist to something else. Get out of jail free card. Maxine Waters refused refund any money or relist her trips with the government. They were still listed as lobbyist paid for, yet no action was taken against her. As far as I am concerned they all should be kicked out of office, republicans and democrats both.
Democrats have done exactly the same thing. Kennedy and L.B.J. did all those things you mentioned. I kept my post on topic, you had to go off topic to try and make a point.
I do thank you however, you made my point for me with your post.
I sent a complaint into Barbara Boxers email address and was added to her political email list. No one even read the email because it thanked me for my support. I was complaining of her support of the issue. However since she is a democrat I doubt anyone would call her on this. Democrats are usually given a pass in matters like this.
They need two versions, three tops.
Windows Vista home.
Windows Vista Pro
Windows Vista Server
As far as I am concerned the home version should not be released. Bundle all the media center shit into the pro version. Keep it simple, make it easy. If this is truly microsofts plan, kiss any thing they have said about security out the....er....window.
Anything but that philosophy guy, right? Another education wasted.
Well yes if you expecting to go to the top of the business world with a philosophy degree. I would probably not fire a nuclear physicist for a business either. Unless I was looking for either a philosopher or a nuclear physicist. Common Sense.
Absolutely incredible. Big business is so much smarter than everyone else, isn't it? Hiring managers can sit there and proclaim someone to have a lack of intellect based solely on the major they dedicated their education to. Absolutely incredible. And people actually have to ask why half the working-age adults are not employed full-time.
I never said that either. Big business does not mean they are mensa members either. Again it comes back to education and common sense. If you spent most of your time in school studying the snowfall in the Andes you might not be as qualified as a business major. Common Sense.
The more businesses have that attitude the more education will suffer. The literacy rate will continue to drop and society will suffer as a result. People have no reason to go to college if the social contract is ignored.
No it will not. Again I think this goes back to the education system. People are told do want you want you are a special person. Well that is not true. You can't always do what you want and be successful.....it sucks but that is the way it is right now...planetwide. Gotta feel bad for those people in Russia were even the mobsters are all college grads. They actually had a socialist contract but it did them little good. Of course under it they could not complain if they wanted to live but at least now that can bitch about it. The literacy rate will continue to drop but not for the reasons you mentioned. They will drop because teachers get tenure with two years of work. It is hard to remove a tenured teacher. Hell even if the teacher is sleeping with the students they have to think very hard at what action to take against the teacher. Often they do what is called "dumping the trash". The let the teacher go but give him or her a glowing review so that they are hired by another school. Never mind the fact they are a child molester.
And they failed, just like I have. All of their efforts along with all of mine have been destroyed by office politics and greed.
They owned their own home...not a great one but they owned it, they ate, they were happy. They may have been poor by our standards but they were not by theirs. They succeeded better than Donald Trump. They were raised in one of the poorest states in the south and worked hard for next to nothing for a large part of their lives. When they moved to California it was like the land of milk and honey. No grapes of wrath for them.
Maybe this should be taught to people before they shovel their money into a worthless education.
This is what I have been saying. In life their are winners and losers. Having games were no one is keeping score sounds all warm and fuzzy and is not wrong to do but it does not prepare the children for a life were they are expected to win. That may hurt your view of the world but it is that way the world over. Even the tribal chief in Africa has more cows that the lowest of the tribe. It was that way with the American Indians as well. True they had a lot more things right than we do but they had winners and losers. One thing they did do was impart to their children a view of the world as it was. Greed was there as well. If another tribe had more or tried to take from their tribe they went to war and protected or took what they needed.
Maybe that is why I have done well at the jobs I have done. I was great to the customers even if I did not like them. I did what was expected of me with complaint....well few complaints. I did what I did very well. One thing I did insist on that work was work and home was home. I had some bosses that wanted to blur the two. Make the business intruded into the ho
Just made my point. Why wouldn't a degree in Philosophy help in the business world? Does business exist in some kind of alternate dimension where philosophy doesn't? Someone who completed a degree in Philosophy is probably brilliantly intelligent and someone who can analyze business problems from a variety of perspectives. They are probably also above-average writers and problem-solvers.
But it's not on the list of buzzword-majors so it doesn't count. Might as well have spent the tuition money on a cruise. Another education actively wasted by business on purpose.
Well if I was hiring someone for a business I would give the nod to the business major. If your major was in philosophy and you want a job in big business then you are not as smart as you think you are. While I think education is very important it does not mean that you are a mensa member when you graduate. If my major was dead languages I would not expect to be a manager in a fortune 500 company.
Fine. Then society shouldn't lie to people. I expect a career around which I can build a home and a family. That's what my parents and grandparents worked so hard for. They weren't cheated out of their hard work. My generation is the FIRST IN HISTORY that will do WORSE than the previous one.
Your parents and grandparents worked hard so you would not have to....we will probably never work as hard as they did. My grandparents were borderline poor but they were very happy. I have done much better than my grandparents. Do I think business is always fair....no way! Is life always fair....nope.
The teaching was rather simple: Go to school. Work hard. Get a good job. You'll succeed.
I did the first three, and I did them well. The fourth was a lie. If I succeed it will not be because I "got a good job." It will be because I did twice the work.
Pretty much everyone I know that has followed that advice has succeeded but as with life it will always be in varying degrees. Sometimes it does take twice the work and I have done that. When I became injured there was only one business that let me down. The Government! I paid into social security for just this reason but I was turned down. I had medical proof and several surgeries behind me and I was turned down. Other people that I know were given it without the need for proof or wanting to get better. Most of the people in the local SS office if they were citizens had only been citizens for a year or two. When I saw the judge I was the only English speaking person on the docket that morning. I paid money into the account so if I became unable to work it would help me out. Business with their insurance programs saved me.
People always argue those statistics. The reason they do is because it's really difficult to admit that business is fucking people over like that. But they are.
I am sure some do but I don't see them all doing it.
Only a claim, right? Sounds more and more like an interview. "So, you claim to have a degree..." and once I prove it they say "well, degrees aren't worth what they used to be worth..." and on it goes until they say "I'm very sorry but you're not qualified to paste bullshit into Powerpoint presentations." And resume #873 gets reverse-vaccuumed into the shitpipe.
Not at all and not my point. Having a degree is a very good thing, most of the time. If your degree is in Philosophy it will probably not help you in the business world. A degree could make you overqualified for some jobs but all in all a degree is a great thing to have.
Must be nice to automatically get hired whenever you want. What would be better is if people had no problem keeping a job. My parents average length of employment was well over 20 years. Mine is just under 12 months.
Yes it is, I have had to turn jobs because I was wanted by several business at the same time. I seem to get bored with a job in the 5 to 7 year time frame and I move on. I have always been a person who was requested because I treat my customers well. In one job I had more customers than probably anyone else....period. It tool 3 people to replace me when I left.
My parents and grandparents all combined were laid off precisely once. I have been laid off, "downsized" or outright fired (usually with the rest of my group/team/division) ten times. My generation is being fucked over on a scale that is beyond belief. It's wrong.
Both my parents have had many jobs over the years. We had good times, we had lean times but I never went hungry. I don't know what you really expect. No one owes you anything. Maybe you were part of that "every thing is owed to me" type of teaching I was talking about. Maybe you have proved my original point or maybe you are in the wrong business.
Hell I have even taken jobs just for fun! Trust me I am a very Type B kind of person. I would call myself lazy in fact. When I am at work I find the easiest way to do the job as best I can and I always seem to succeed. Some would say I am lucky but I am the most unluckiest person on the planet or at least it feels that way some times. Not being able to work the last 5 years has been the worst thing in my life. I am used to being able to buy what I wanted, when I wanted. That is no longer the case. I have to count every penny. You may feel life is treating you badly but it could be much, much worse. I would trade places with you in a second.
I found this at this site you specified but I could find nothing that says half.
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
You say you went to a university, what was your major? My sister went to college late in life...she never even really had a job and was hired on the spot soon after graduation and is working at the same place to this day. I have worked at various jobs since I was 14, sometimes two at once and never had a problem getting a job. Due to a back injury I have been out of the workforce for 5 years but I have been retrained in IT and now hold several certifications. If I was able to return to work today....I could have a job, today.
I have never been fired from any of my jobs. I have always quit to move on to other things.
I would like to see the figures that back up your claim that half of working age adults are not employed full time.
The person I am talking about had so many jobs and while not all were winners he had a few where he was getting paid very well and was a permanent employee when he got himself fired. He was not fired without reason, he would not do his job, he tell the boss he did not know what he was doing or he just plain missed so much work they could not count on him. Even a union he belonged to dropped him because he was not a good employee.....it is pretty bad when a union drops you.
As far a permanent employee goes, no one is guaranteed a job for life......not even in Japan anymore.
The Lack of Literacy can be traced backed to today's educational system. Where teachers can get tenure for two years of work and their goal is to get on the school administration. This creates as educational system that is top heavy with managers and with few employees who care to teach. Why do you think teachers are so scared of pay being tied to the students performance. If a students grades are posted so everyone can see them they use a number so the student does not face any peer pressure. They are being taught from a young age that winning does not matter. That is not how the real world works.
I have seen what happens with this school system. I know a person who cannot hold a job as he thinks that he knows everything and he should run the business two days after being hired in the lowest position. He now has two kids, can't keep a job and found that the easy life he had in high school was not the same when he went to college....and then dropped out.
The main reason to buy it is so that Michael Desmond gets his check from Microsoft for writing the review.
Every one of his ten reasons to buy is a feature that OS X has had for at least a year.....if not longer. As a matter of fact when Vista is released to the masses I imagine most features will look like copies of present OS X software. Microsoft is not really known for creativity and by Bills own words they take whatever has already been done and try to make it better.
Unless they require a password for ALL software installs their security is going to fail in a big way. My prediction.....their security will actually be an inroad for infecting the computer.