What makes them good? Are they as good as those who didn't take paycuts and ended up making as much as they ended up taking home?
If John Bloe takes a 75% cut in pay to lets say $100,000. Is he *better* than someone who doesn't take a pay cut and ends up with $100,000?
It gets really murky really fast. Be carefull who you call Good and Evil ( a lesson our president could stand to learn), in the end you don't really have a clue when it comes down to judging people.
But we can say that taking a 75% pay cut was a good action. I don't mena to say that there isn't an absolute good or evil, but it applies to actions only, not people.
Just my random 2cents. Not very well thought out, but I'll post it anyways.
"OS X applications never require a multi-button mouse, but they almost universally support them"
Not to nitpick or start a flame war, but isn't that like how microsoft word doesn't require a keyboard( office ships with voice recognition)? Mac OS is by far the best desktop OS out there and it does support two buttoned mice completely. I just wish they weren't so stubborn about some things.
I think thats where we're logically headed. We've completely outgrown our current constitution. It would be nice to tidy it up in light of today's realitiies, but it will always be dificult because the current system screwed up as it is benifits some people in power. Those people will always resist a change regardless of its merits, simply because it reduces their power. But I think that its clear we need to reduce the power of the federal government, or change the way its elected to help reign in the power it does have.
That means change. Because the authors did nto have any way under the current government to make any changes ( they were denied representation in parliment) they felt their actions were acceptable.
Now, after they created a form of governemnt that allows us to make those changes in a peaceful way, there should be no need to perform such actions.
Yeah, actually I did. I thought about it for 2 seconds but spell chekcing for slashdot is like um I doun't know... Getting a hair cut before visiting your parents..? Spitting int he ocean? Seperating your trash before dumping it in the occean? You may or might not get the idea based on these. I'm just drawing blanks here. If I want to be taken serously.. I'm not going to stop at posting on slashdot.
This is a scary as the survaliance system is to me. If we do live in a democroacy then the people who put the survalence systems in were elected officials who we have decided are compenant to make improtant decisions. So a vigilante group has decided that they don't like this decision and have taken action themselves instead of organising a grass roots political oposition to the decsion. That is scary. We have as much to fear from vigilante groups of hackers as we do from overzelous goverments. I know I'll get the typical responses pertianing to the failure of democroacy and the lack of properly educated voters in the system, but on sheer principle its still scary. I also suppose that I could throw in a terrible potential if acts of this nature continue, but I think thats obvious and my example would be either too far fetched or too plausible, giving other people with a lower moral standard another idea.
That wasn't funny at all. I don't see why mod's would take time out of their day to makes sure that was recognised as funny. It just doesn't make sense. Hmm, let me see....
But predictably, I observed the negitive information and it erased the information that I had discovered negitive information.
Sorry, with only the bachlors degree in physics the only thing I can contribute to the conversation is my weak sence of hummor. Go a head, mod me down. I think we are all stupider having read this and may God have mercy on my soul.
I dissagree. The problem isn't that there is a breakdown between propery and responsibility. The responsibility is held by those with power, not neccisarly property. I think you know that, so this is more of a clarification than a correction. The problem is that we haven't doen a good job holding those in power( ceo's exectuives board members) responsible. Worse things can happen to them than getting fired, but it doesn't happen often enough. Enron is one of the few cases where the execs are being punished for their wrong doing. Obviously, in that case you shouldn't punish the stockholders who were the real victums.
Have you looked at the discrepencies between pre kindergarden tests and future sat scores? Thats not going to work well and will lead to gross ineficencies in the economy. So no, its not the same. Even in the fictional world of Gattica, people still have the freedom to choose their future occupation.
I understand the basic critisism you are trying to make,even if the analogy is a bit off. Obviously, there are some situations where morality overrules any solution that is easier and cheaper than another solution. However, gun control is not one of them.
Your personal experience undoubtably means a lot to you. Thanks for sharing. However, not everyone has parents as intellegent as yours, nor is every child as obiedient and intellegent as you were. So we can spend a lot of time and money trying to educate children and parents, or we can pass a law making smart guns the law. Which do you thing is easier and cheaper for the government to do?
They released an update to NT years ago. Right around 2000. They called it windows something. Based on the same portable code of NT. IT lives on, saying its the only one that was designed to be portible is just ignorant. Strictly speaking nt4.0 wasn't designed to be portable, NT was the first version of which was 3.5. So 4.0 is an upgrade to the only os desinged to be portable, just like 2k, xp, and longhorn. Maybe you're confused because it was the only one that was marketed for other non x86 processors. But the new server 2003 version is availiable for Itanium, they are releasing a new version for the AMD_64 instruction set, and a modified version of windows will power the power pc based Xbox 2. So basically , in no sense what-so-ever are you correct.
Sorry to be so nitpickingly correct, but I've got to get my slashdot fix while I can at this point. And basically that means reminding myself how unaware of being ignorant intelligent people can be. It makes you stop and think about other subjects that we don't even claim to be experts in. Many of which are far more important and consequential to the world than anything you will ever read here.
You approached the question as if the robots of each country would reflect the defects of the human football players. I guess thats supposed to be funny. It's much more likely that they would reflect the technological prowless of the sponser country, or maybe the cars that each country produces. Looks like the brittish are really going to suck, but at least they won't be as bad as the french.
You *do* realize that the APU's have no baring whatsoever on the movie. Or at least a very insignificant part of the over all story line. You are really picking nits, if thats the biggest problem with the movies. The whole smith agent entering a human brain thing didn't bother you? Or how about the powers of the one extending beyond the matrix? crasy slashdotters. I think I might have to move to an island without any of you. Oh, wait I'm already doing that. So sorry to interrupt.
The point is that we didn't pay for the government to create acad software package for us. We paid them to protect and serve us. In fufilling that mission, they found it neccisary to create a cad package. As long as they are using it to serve us, our money is being well spent. The government has no obligation to give it back to us. It it really is a good they could have marketed it and sold it. The proceeds could be used to pay for other items they need and reduce the need for taxpayer contributions. Everyone would benifit, not just those with a specialised need for cad software.
Just as we didn't pay for stationary suppies for a federal court house. We paid for a federal judicary system and in that proccess of providing ( or attempting to proivde as some would say) justice they needed stationary. Great. Money well spent and we need not expect them to turn over any of it as it serves the purpose for which we fund the agency.
I understand there are a lot of people on slashdot that would disagree with me on this point, but the fact that they produced easily replicable software instead of a disposible good doesn't really make that much of a differnce in this regards. The point as I see it still stands, we should never expect gifts from the government.
I wasn't sure how to moderate that so I think I'll just comment on it. Is this really an AMD Engineer without a sense of hummor? He seems a bit slow as well. Maybe he just needs a bigger heatsink strapped to his head. Or perhaps his clock rating was relabled by the very same Taiwanese shop! Those bastads! Purposefully, overrating engineer's heads so that they wouldn't figure our they were also relabeling their chips! The brilliance!
Because that's what I look for in a technology product. I don't want soemthing functional,usefull, or practical unless its got some bling. You know, something extra that will make people thing that I'm an amazing person when they look at me. Its like my car, I could just drive a ford, but I prefer driving a Jaguar. Sure its just a label, but people need to know how much better I am then them in a quick glance. In fact I soon plan on enscribing my name on the moon with a giant laser, just so everyone down here knows what the score is.
My company met Moto reps, they tried pushing it for our new network, but its range is pitiful. Depending upon which spec you look at 15 - 30 meters. There are some testimonials I've heard about using them in industrial settings. One guy had a problem with his network every monday morning. Turned out every monday morning, a Semi pulled between his two buildings blocking the signal. The solution? Why add a couple dummy nodes on the roof to route trafic around the truck.
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What makes them good? Are they as good as those who didn't take paycuts and ended up making as much as they ended up taking home?
If John Bloe takes a 75% cut in pay to lets say $100,000. Is he *better* than someone who doesn't take a pay cut and ends up with $100,000?
It gets really murky really fast. Be carefull who you call Good and Evil ( a lesson our president could stand to learn), in the end you don't really have a clue when it comes down to judging people.
But we can say that taking a 75% pay cut was a good action. I don't mena to say that there isn't an absolute good or evil, but it applies to actions only, not people.
Just my random 2cents. Not very well thought out, but I'll post it anyways.
"OS X applications never require a multi-button mouse, but they almost universally support them"
Not to nitpick or start a flame war, but isn't that like how microsoft word doesn't require a keyboard( office ships with voice recognition)? Mac OS is by far the best desktop OS out there and it does support two buttoned mice completely. I just wish they weren't so stubborn about some things.
How old is the veal?
I think thats where we're logically headed. We've completely outgrown our current constitution. It would be nice to tidy it up in light of today's realitiies, but it will always be dificult because the current system screwed up as it is benifits some people in power. Those people will always resist a change regardless of its merits, simply because it reduces their power. But I think that its clear we need to reduce the power of the federal government, or change the way its elected to help reign in the power it does have.
"Right to alter or abolish"
That means change. Because the authors did nto have any way under the current government to make any changes ( they were denied representation in parliment) they felt their actions were acceptable.
Now, after they created a form of governemnt that allows us to make those changes in a peaceful way, there should be no need to perform such actions.
Yeah, actually I did. I thought about it for 2 seconds but spell chekcing for slashdot is like um I doun't know... Getting a hair cut before visiting your parents..? Spitting int he ocean? Seperating your trash before dumping it in the occean? You may or might not get the idea based on these. I'm just drawing blanks here. If I want to be taken serously.. I'm not going to stop at posting on slashdot.
This is a scary as the survaliance system is to me. If we do live in a democroacy then the people who put the survalence systems in were elected officials who we have decided are compenant to make improtant decisions. So a vigilante group has decided that they don't like this decision and have taken action themselves instead of organising a grass roots political oposition to the decsion. That is scary. We have as much to fear from vigilante groups of hackers as we do from overzelous goverments. I know I'll get the typical responses pertianing to the failure of democroacy and the lack of properly educated voters in the system, but on sheer principle its still scary. I also suppose that I could throw in a terrible potential if acts of this nature continue, but I think thats obvious and my example would be either too far fetched or too plausible, giving other people with a lower moral standard another idea.
That wasn't funny at all. I don't see why mod's would take time out of their day to makes sure that was recognised as funny. It just doesn't make sense. Hmm, let me see....
Switching to Humor Region 2....
*ROTF*,*LOL* Ok ay... NOW I get it. Good joke!
*hmm everyone seems to be making the same joke. What can I do to comment it in a way that makes me seem witty AND clever?*
*PROCCESSING*
*PROCCESSING*
*PROCCESSING*
*PROCCESSING*
*PROCCESSING COMPLETE. DISPENSE WIT*
I bet SONY put a ROOTKIT on there!!! I am so witty and clever in making this totally unique joke!
Nah, I think they just wanted a guinnea pig. Now when the movie is destroyed *on accident* the world will be a much better place.
But predictably, I observed the negitive information and it erased the information that I had discovered negitive information.
Sorry, with only the bachlors degree in physics the only thing I can contribute to the conversation is my weak sence of hummor. Go a head, mod me down. I think we are all stupider having read this and may God have mercy on my soul.
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I dissagree. The problem isn't that there is a breakdown between propery and responsibility. The responsibility is held by those with power, not neccisarly property. I think you know that, so this is more of a clarification than a correction. The problem is that we haven't doen a good job holding those in power( ceo's exectuives board members) responsible. Worse things can happen to them than getting fired, but it doesn't happen often enough. Enron is one of the few cases where the execs are being punished for their wrong doing. Obviously, in that case you shouldn't punish the stockholders who were the real victums.
Have you looked at the discrepencies between pre kindergarden tests and future sat scores? Thats not going to work well and will lead to gross ineficencies in the economy. So no, its not the same. Even in the fictional world of Gattica, people still have the freedom to choose their future occupation.
I understand the basic critisism you are trying to make,even if the analogy is a bit off. Obviously, there are some situations where morality overrules any solution that is easier and cheaper than another solution. However, gun control is not one of them.
Your personal experience undoubtably means a lot to you. Thanks for sharing. However, not everyone has parents as intellegent as yours, nor is every child as obiedient and intellegent as you were. So we can spend a lot of time and money trying to educate children and parents, or we can pass a law making smart guns the law. Which do you thing is easier and cheaper for the government to do?
They released an update to NT years ago. Right around 2000. They called it windows something. Based on the same portable code of NT. IT lives on, saying its the only one that was designed to be portible is just ignorant. Strictly speaking nt4.0 wasn't designed to be portable, NT was the first version of which was 3.5. So 4.0 is an upgrade to the only os desinged to be portable, just like 2k, xp, and longhorn. Maybe you're confused because it was the only one that was marketed for other non x86 processors. But the new server 2003 version is availiable for Itanium, they are releasing a new version for the AMD_64 instruction set, and a modified version of windows will power the power pc based Xbox 2. So basically , in no sense what-so-ever are you correct.
Sorry to be so nitpickingly correct, but I've got to get my slashdot fix while I can at this point. And basically that means reminding myself how unaware of being ignorant intelligent people can be. It makes you stop and think about other subjects that we don't even claim to be experts in. Many of which are far more important and consequential to the world than anything you will ever read here.
Actually most parts of the world, jokes are supposed to be funny. Unlike this one and the one I was complaining about.
You approached the question as if the robots of each country would reflect the defects of the human football players. I guess thats supposed to be funny. It's much more likely that they would reflect the technological prowless of the sponser country, or maybe the cars that each country produces. Looks like the brittish are really going to suck, but at least they won't be as bad as the french.
You *do* realize that the APU's have no baring whatsoever on the movie. Or at least a very insignificant part of the over all story line. You are really picking nits, if thats the biggest problem with the movies. The whole smith agent entering a human brain thing didn't bother you? Or how about the powers of the one extending beyond the matrix? crasy slashdotters. I think I might have to move to an island without any of you. Oh, wait I'm already doing that. So sorry to interrupt.
The point is that we didn't pay for the government to create acad software package for us. We paid them to protect and serve us. In fufilling that mission, they found it neccisary to create a cad package. As long as they are using it to serve us, our money is being well spent. The government has no obligation to give it back to us. It it really is a good they could have marketed it and sold it. The proceeds could be used to pay for other items they need and reduce the need for taxpayer contributions. Everyone would benifit, not just those with a specialised need for cad software. Just as we didn't pay for stationary suppies for a federal court house. We paid for a federal judicary system and in that proccess of providing ( or attempting to proivde as some would say) justice they needed stationary. Great. Money well spent and we need not expect them to turn over any of it as it serves the purpose for which we fund the agency. I understand there are a lot of people on slashdot that would disagree with me on this point, but the fact that they produced easily replicable software instead of a disposible good doesn't really make that much of a differnce in this regards. The point as I see it still stands, we should never expect gifts from the government.
By Tim's logic we should be able to walk into the closest fed building and grabs some stationary. Cause, we paid for it.
I wasn't sure how to moderate that so I think I'll just comment on it. Is this really an AMD Engineer without a sense of hummor? He seems a bit slow as well. Maybe he just needs a bigger heatsink strapped to his head. Or perhaps his clock rating was relabled by the very same Taiwanese shop! Those bastads! Purposefully, overrating engineer's heads so that they wouldn't figure our they were also relabeling their chips! The brilliance!
Because that's what I look for in a technology product. I don't want soemthing functional,usefull, or practical unless its got some bling. You know, something extra that will make people thing that I'm an amazing person when they look at me. Its like my car, I could just drive a ford, but I prefer driving a Jaguar. Sure its just a label, but people need to know how much better I am then them in a quick glance. In fact I soon plan on enscribing my name on the moon with a giant laser, just so everyone down here knows what the score is.
My company met Moto reps, they tried pushing it for our new network, but its range is pitiful. Depending upon which spec you look at 15 - 30 meters. There are some testimonials I've heard about using them in industrial settings. One guy had a problem with his network every monday morning. Turned out every monday morning, a Semi pulled between his two buildings blocking the signal. The solution? Why add a couple dummy nodes on the roof to route trafic around the truck.
While an intern, it was my distinct pleasure to remove 2000 + goto statements from a pascal program that was translated from basic.