If the Congress passes a law that encroaches on American's Constitutional rights, the courts can nullify the law by the doctrine of judicial review. Are Americans similarly protected against treaties whose enforcement within our border would violate our Constitutional rights?
If so, does the court get to nullify the whole treaty, or just its local enforcement?
Instead of arguing, whether immigrants are useful or detrimental overall, the right argument is based on Human Rights. I simply don't understand, how an American (except, perhaps, the Native Americans) can sleep at night rejecting the right to move to this country to someone else.
You know, you're right. Of course by that same reasoning, you have no right to keep someone out of your living room, either, since that (probably) was land stolen from some native Americans.
Actually, I'm not trying to be a prick. I've tried for a while to think if there's justice to be had here, and I think that the truth is that just about any piece of land has been stolen or killed-for so many times that we could never figure out who the original, innocent settler was. And even then, it's not clear to me that it's just for land to be passed by heredity. IIRC, most indian tribes murdered each other as well.
So (as a probably completely wrong example) if the Narragansetts held some land when the Pilgrims got here, but they murdered the local Pequots before the Pilgrims arrived, is it really fair to give the land back to the surviving decendents of the Narragansetts? (Don't even get me started on the Mexican-American War.)
So I've given up on finding something that's just, because it's not clear even what fair would be for the topic. But on the flip side, there really are problems with unchecked immigration, such as that it makes economic planning hard, and you can essentially get a flash mob in a country but (in your way of thinking) can't even fairly complain.
Let me give an absurd example to test the edges of your reasoning. Suppose things are tense with China (which they actually are), and China has a brilliant idea. Rather than getting in a fight with us, they send over 25% of their population as immigrants in two years, which I suspect would make them the majority of the U.S. population. Then, those "immigrants" vote to dismantle the U.S. military, hand over all oil contracts to China, and elect a totalitarian socialist government. From what I can tell of your reasoning, this isn't something we could justly object to.
What's a smart college bound kid going to do? Go into math and science when he's competing against people that will always work for a lot less than he wants to make, or go into law and become an ambluance chasing attorney?
Oh great, make him choose between working for M$ or SCO???
Scientists at aircraft giant Boeing are testing the tamper-proof autopilot system which uses state-of-the-art computer and satellite technology.
For something *that* secure, I'm sure they're using Vista. I can see it now, "It looks like you're trying to let someone take over your aircraft by remote control. Allow or deny?"
But more seriously, how could a system like that EVER be trusted? M$ spend lots of time and way more money trying to make Vista secure, and it's already cracked. Same for HD-DVD DRM. And if terrorist really can't think of anything better, they can do this:
Put a strong jammer in a pickup truck or a Cessna, and have it near the plane at the time of hijacking.
Take over a plane as it's taking off or landing, and jam the remote control signal at the same time.
Crash the plane into the airport concourse, another plane, whatever. The sky's the limit!
And my friend has quite a few of the teacher's passwords from shoulder surfing... You should see the emails these "educators" send. They can barely spell! I'm starting to think that most teachers just simply don't care anymore.
Friend, if you care more about teachers' careless spelling than you do about invading persons' privacy and abusing a position of trust, then I have to agree that you have a serious gap in your education.
They were apparently criticizing the Canadians for having the strongest civil liberties (in this area) in the G7. I thought the U.S.'s foreign policy was to spread liberty? I'm confused now...
I've sometimes considered teaching, but after seeing what a relative went through when earning her teaching certificate, there's no way in hell I'd do it under the current system.
At least in her classes, the students were apathetic and disrespectful. In her assessment, basically zero learning occurred.
Contrast that to what I get when I teach my kids at home. We snuggle up and read a homeschooling book about astronomy, and they actually learn. We pop in a "Magic Schoolbus" DVD rental, and even I learn stuff about human physiology, etc. My 6 year old knows multiplication table up through 7's, and reads at a 3rd-grade level.
Seeing the heartbreaking gap between what most kids can learn, and what most kids do learn in public school, keeps me from ever wanting to perpetuate that environment. I'm considering working with small groups of kids and possibly even doing some math teaching to home-schooled kids. But public schools - no way. It's mostly a waste.
I have no interest in learning php, ruby or other languages despite all their advantages. Because at work that's not what we use and I'd rather re-use my skills rather than split into a new branch just because im having something on the side.
It sounds like you've identified some pros and cons for each of Windows and Linux. With Windows, you get the familiar (i.e., you can stick with asp.net). With Linux, you get the cheap. You may need to just decide which matters more to you.
But consider this: learning PHP and/or Ruby on Rails is a one-time investment for you (you may eventually decide you want more extensive knowledge of MySQL, Apache, and Linux, but that can probably wait for a while). In contrast, the cost savings of using free software for your server-side web stuff are perpetual. And as you tackle larger and larger sites, the software cost stays $0, whereas Windows Server licensing costs will be proportionate to the number of boxes (or is it CPUs?) the site needs.
But you also asked about why the switch is worth it. Speaking for myself, it's that I just don't have to worry about licensing at all. I never have to wonder if I'm going to have to get on the phone with someone from Microsoft to get my OS activated on a different machine than it was previously installed on. I never have to worry about buying extra licenses so that I can work on a work project at home. And as with Google, I never need to worry about extra software costs as I scale my site to more hardware to handle greater visitor loads.
So basically, using OSS just makes a whole category of things to worry about (licensing legality / costs) go away. For free. That lets me better focus on more important things.
It seems to me that if the conjecture of a genetic basis is right, then this probably does little to help agnostics like me decide whether or not God exists. Here's why...
If God doesn't exist, then a genetic basis gives a potentially adequate explanation for religiosity. So the genetic basis doesn't disprove atheism.
If God does exist, then this is consistent with the theology (Christian, at least) that God has built us to know Him. (Assuming for the sake of argument that God can and does work through evolution and genetics.) So the genetic basis wouldn't seem to disprove Christianity (and thus theism in general) either.
They regard anything they do beyond the EULA a favor for which you should be grateful, just like they regard anything their software ever does for you. They think you should be so grateful that you do as they say.
Don't you even feel a little silly about mis-characterizing the attitude of MS employees that way? Even non-evil software companies strive for some limit on their liability and responsibility, because it's just really hard to get complex software to always work. If you were subject to constant lawsuits, you'd be sunk.
It's true the EULAs are written in the vendors' best interests, and that shrink-wrap licenses should be unenforcible, and that retail software should be subject to fitness-for-purpose laws. But to characterize the MS people as swaggering a$$holes wearing jack-boots and refusing to look up from their lavish meal while you beg before them on your knees is just, well, silly.
"I've trained my whole life, and many megawatts have been wasted," says Mr. Woodring
Cranking out "many megawatts" (which is energy per unit time) is beyond extreme sports - he's better than a frickin' Diesel generator! I want to be on his team!
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Heh... true in a funny way. A good day for law-abiding Canadians who don't want to let the terrorists win by tricking them out of their civil liberties. And good news for terrorists who want to operate more effectively in Canada. Both groups win by their own measures of success.
I find myself at a funny point now. Ubuntu is certainly my distro of choice, and its the only OS I really use. But now that it works well enough for me to focus on my work rather than having to wrestle with the OS, I don't really care that much about one upgrade to the next.
I've did install Feisty Herd 4 (+ update) on my HP laptop to see if they fixed the ACPI issues that have always plagued me. (Won't suspend or hibernate when I close the lid.) No real improvement there (although if I manually make it suspend, it does act a little more normal after waking up than it does with Edgy.) But without that improvement, I just find myself kind of, I dunno... content with Edgy. It's a nice but slightly disappointing place to be.
Have you looked into working at a Navy lab (NUWC, NSWC) or a test range? There's lots of variety in the work if you seek it, and as an added bonus you get to ride on subs and surface ships if that's your thing.
"For about 10 years I have worked mostly behind a desk in a cubicle and am starting to feel that this environment is making me miserable. The cheap fluorescent lights, the stuffy air, and the restless feeling I get from just sitting so long are starting to really annoy me
Tell me you didn't believe them when they told you you have a "brain cloud". You didn't believe them, did you???
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Does an ISO submission imply anything about lack of patent encumbrance?
If the Congress passes a law that encroaches on American's Constitutional rights, the courts can nullify the law by the doctrine of judicial review. Are Americans similarly protected against treaties whose enforcement within our border would violate our Constitutional rights?
If so, does the court get to nullify the whole treaty, or just its local enforcement?
You know, you're right. Of course by that same reasoning, you have no right to keep someone out of your living room, either, since that (probably) was land stolen from some native Americans.
Actually, I'm not trying to be a prick. I've tried for a while to think if there's justice to be had here, and I think that the truth is that just about any piece of land has been stolen or killed-for so many times that we could never figure out who the original, innocent settler was. And even then, it's not clear to me that it's just for land to be passed by heredity. IIRC, most indian tribes murdered each other as well.
So (as a probably completely wrong example) if the Narragansetts held some land when the Pilgrims got here, but they murdered the local Pequots before the Pilgrims arrived, is it really fair to give the land back to the surviving decendents of the Narragansetts? (Don't even get me started on the Mexican-American War.)
So I've given up on finding something that's just, because it's not clear even what fair would be for the topic. But on the flip side, there really are problems with unchecked immigration, such as that it makes economic planning hard, and you can essentially get a flash mob in a country but (in your way of thinking) can't even fairly complain.
Let me give an absurd example to test the edges of your reasoning. Suppose things are tense with China (which they actually are), and China has a brilliant idea. Rather than getting in a fight with us, they send over 25% of their population as immigrants in two years, which I suspect would make them the majority of the U.S. population. Then, those "immigrants" vote to dismantle the U.S. military, hand over all oil contracts to China, and elect a totalitarian socialist government. From what I can tell of your reasoning, this isn't something we could justly object to.
Oh great, make him choose between working for M$ or SCO???
For something *that* secure, I'm sure they're using Vista. I can see it now, "It looks like you're trying to let someone take over your aircraft by remote control. Allow or deny?"
But more seriously, how could a system like that EVER be trusted? M$ spend lots of time and way more money trying to make Vista secure, and it's already cracked. Same for HD-DVD DRM. And if terrorist really can't think of anything better, they can do this:Friend, if you care more about teachers' careless spelling than you do about invading persons' privacy and abusing a position of trust, then I have to agree that you have a serious gap in your education.
They were apparently criticizing the Canadians for having the strongest civil liberties (in this area) in the G7. I thought the U.S.'s foreign policy was to spread liberty? I'm confused now...
I can't wait to play Zork on a 64-bit Athlon 5200+!
And it that gets boring, I can play all of Raid over Bungling Bay in 27 millisecond!
I've sometimes considered teaching, but after seeing what a relative went through when earning her teaching certificate, there's no way in hell I'd do it under the current system.
At least in her classes, the students were apathetic and disrespectful. In her assessment, basically zero learning occurred.
Contrast that to what I get when I teach my kids at home. We snuggle up and read a homeschooling book about astronomy, and they actually learn. We pop in a "Magic Schoolbus" DVD rental, and even I learn stuff about human physiology, etc. My 6 year old knows multiplication table up through 7's, and reads at a 3rd-grade level.
Seeing the heartbreaking gap between what most kids can learn, and what most kids do learn in public school, keeps me from ever wanting to perpetuate that environment. I'm considering working with small groups of kids and possibly even doing some math teaching to home-schooled kids. But public schools - no way. It's mostly a waste.
It sounds like you've identified some pros and cons for each of Windows and Linux. With Windows, you get the familiar (i.e., you can stick with asp.net). With Linux, you get the cheap. You may need to just decide which matters more to you.
But consider this: learning PHP and/or Ruby on Rails is a one-time investment for you (you may eventually decide you want more extensive knowledge of MySQL, Apache, and Linux, but that can probably wait for a while). In contrast, the cost savings of using free software for your server-side web stuff are perpetual. And as you tackle larger and larger sites, the software cost stays $0, whereas Windows Server licensing costs will be proportionate to the number of boxes (or is it CPUs?) the site needs.
But you also asked about why the switch is worth it. Speaking for myself, it's that I just don't have to worry about licensing at all. I never have to wonder if I'm going to have to get on the phone with someone from Microsoft to get my OS activated on a different machine than it was previously installed on. I never have to worry about buying extra licenses so that I can work on a work project at home. And as with Google, I never need to worry about extra software costs as I scale my site to more hardware to handle greater visitor loads.
So basically, using OSS just makes a whole category of things to worry about (licensing legality / costs) go away. For free. That lets me better focus on more important things.
It seems to me that if the conjecture of a genetic basis is right, then this probably does little to help agnostics like me decide whether or not God exists. Here's why...
If God doesn't exist, then a genetic basis gives a potentially adequate explanation for religiosity. So the genetic basis doesn't disprove atheism.
If God does exist, then this is consistent with the theology (Christian, at least) that God has built us to know Him. (Assuming for the sake of argument that God can and does work through evolution and genetics.) So the genetic basis wouldn't seem to disprove Christianity (and thus theism in general) either.
I dunno... what do you guys think?
Which university?
Don't you even feel a little silly about mis-characterizing the attitude of MS employees that way? Even non-evil software companies strive for some limit on their liability and responsibility, because it's just really hard to get complex software to always work. If you were subject to constant lawsuits, you'd be sunk.
It's true the EULAs are written in the vendors' best interests, and that shrink-wrap licenses should be unenforcible, and that retail software should be subject to fitness-for-purpose laws. But to characterize the MS people as swaggering a$$holes wearing jack-boots and refusing to look up from their lavish meal while you beg before them on your knees is just, well, silly.
No, you're thinking of Chuck Norris.
Cranking out "many megawatts" (which is energy per unit time) is beyond extreme sports - he's better than a frickin' Diesel generator! I want to be on his team!
Probably not, because reckoning everyone else to be an idiot is just a sure sign you work in I.T.
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Heh... true in a funny way. A good day for law-abiding Canadians who don't want to let the terrorists win by tricking them out of their civil liberties. And good news for terrorists who want to operate more effectively in Canada. Both groups win by their own measures of success.
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I find myself at a funny point now. Ubuntu is certainly my distro of choice, and its the only OS I really use. But now that it works well enough for me to focus on my work rather than having to wrestle with the OS, I don't really care that much about one upgrade to the next.
I've did install Feisty Herd 4 (+ update) on my HP laptop to see if they fixed the ACPI issues that have always plagued me. (Won't suspend or hibernate when I close the lid.) No real improvement there (although if I manually make it suspend, it does act a little more normal after waking up than it does with Edgy.) But without that improvement, I just find myself kind of, I dunno... content with Edgy. It's a nice but slightly disappointing place to be.
Have you looked into working at a Navy lab (NUWC, NSWC) or a test range? There's lots of variety in the work if you seek it, and as an added bonus you get to ride on subs and surface ships if that's your thing.
Tell me you didn't believe them when they told you you have a "brain cloud". You didn't believe them, did you???
Wah. It's not fair to bash 99% of SUV usage, because 1% of SUV drivers are people like me who actually save fuel by using one. Wah.
Well, the Aussies ought to go incandescent that their recent forward-looking legislation was a waste...
Hey, is this mic turned on?
You newbie, he's using the *Advanced* rules. The question should be, is the OP chaotic good or chaotic neutral?