I would point out that standard company culture would almost encourage this sort of behavior at MS. Heck, I'm willing to bet most of their employees signed on for a free copy of MSDN Universal....
RTFA- or better yet browse to $Windows\Help\Tours\WindowsMedia\Audio\WAV yourself and open up any given wav file in your favorite text editor of choice- the username of the known cracker for the pirated version is right there for anyone to see.
Part of the problem is that the rural area I grew up in never had anything as nice as pizza deliveries or broadband or cable TV- and never will either thanks to some over zealous Mennonites. But the original comment was due to a large ammount of disdain for what I've seen of city life since; many of these people who were born and raised in the cities couldn't find water in a thunderstorm if it wasn't treated with chemicals, pressurized for them, and comming out of a tap....
Ideally, in a free market, that would cause inflation to the point that the $5.75=$1 before minimum wage; with the country's currency devalued in the world market.
I say if you're going to have a minimum wage, couple it with a maximum wage- and let the free market decide what your money is worth in compairison to everybody else.
If you really wanted to do something about outsourcing at this point, peg $1=$1 Lira, Italian. Devalue the currency until our workers can compete again.
My brother used to say that out West they used to be so conservative that they looked liberal. Back 20 years ago, people used to mind their own business, and expected you to mind yours. They didn't want you to legislate their private lives, and expected the same from you. Those days are gone.
Looking at the county by county maps of California, Oregon, and Washington, about 200 miles in from the coast you get those kind of people still.
If you had RTFA'd- you'd know that they were talking SIGNIFICANTLY more rural than that- by a couple of orders of magnitude (the CEO of this corp is from a town of 640....I guess they probably don't count pigs....)
Oh, I was thinking about places like Condon or Fossil Oregon- where the nearest pizza delivery joint is 50 miles away in The Dalles- and yet they're theoretically a good candidate for exactly this type of revolution because they've got wind farms to provide electricity REAL local, and Oregon Department of Transportation has teamed up with Verizon to get fiber to every cattle ranch....
If soldiers and commanders committed war crimes, why wouldn't we want that? Would we not want it to happen just because it's "our guys"?
Congradulations- now you're thinking like a good Bush Cabinet Level employee. OF COURSE we can't actually declare war or do something stupid like sign the world court treaty- it would open our guys up to foreign control.
Plus- don't look behind the curtain just yet, as the Wizard of Oz is still working on how exactly to transfer 50% of the US Treasury into the hands of the contractors....
Besides, changing ohio STILL won't win it for Kerry.
According to the final tallies at http://www.electoral-vote.com/, Kerry currently has 252 EVs, Bush 286. Flip Ohio's 20 votes- and Kerry has 272 Evs to Bush's 266. Thus Kerry will win. So sorry- you're wrong- changing Ohio WOULD win it for Kerry. Of course, the FIRST count in Ohio isn't done yet (absentee and provisional ballots legally will be able to be counted tomorrow), so we'll have more data then.
The margian really wasn't that big. 47% of Catholics voted for Kerry.
Only those of us who hate fundamentalism more than we hate abortion...either that or know that the best weapon against abortion is Charity and thus Kerry was the pro-seamless-garment-of-life candidate all along.
If Congress had declared war, by international treaty our soldiers would be facing international war crimes tribunals rather than simple court martials for Abu Gharib and the like- and such international tribunals would not stop with low-ranking soldiers, but travel up the chain of command to Bush himself. Do your really want that?
Preferably something to flash card. I've run into errors in the PocketPC system from time to time that can only be recovered with a hard reset- and for that, you want a daily backup to flash card.
In addition to this, I find AvantGo to be highly usefull, as well as good Bluetooth GPS unit and software (currently using a no-name bluetooth GPS unit and iGuidance, but it's all pretty similar, except for Microsoft Streets and Trips 2004, which for some reason can't keep up with my car and keeps loosing track of the serial port at 65 MPH). You'll also want one of the many freeware task handlers- the task handler that comes with the IPAQ is total crap.
Experiences in using flash memory for backups on PocketPC:
#1: Rewrite limits. Currently, flash memory has about a 1 million rewrite limit theoretically. In practice, though, I had a CompactFlash card (no real different technology from the USB drives other than interface to system) fail after about a year of daily backups.
#2: Time-to-destruction- I once left pictures of my honeymoon for nearly 6 months in my digital camera, also using flash memory. After 6 months, the files had a 50% corruption rate. So I wouldn't consider this a very long term storage solution- at least not without refresh.
Asside from those concerns, it's a very cool idea- especially if you kept the backup software on the key and increased your potential by using say, 7 keys (one for each day of the week) and kept the backups off site.
World Book Encyclopedia is one that I know about that does this- it's well known by most teachers as well (or used to be, anyway, before the web) because it's in every library and it's easy to catch kids plagerizing this way. Usually it's in out of the way entries- like in my example pulled at random from a non-commercial one. Who the hell cares what the unemployment rate of Angorra is anyway?
Heck- commercial encyclopedias often PLANT false information on purpose. It's an ages old copyright protection technique in case they have to go to court over it. "So, young Johnny, you say that Angorra really does have a 0% unemployment rate? Oh, well it looks like you plagerized the CIA World Book for your school paper", that sort of thing.
Interesting that you'd automatically equate homeless since age 12 with irresponsible; most irresponsible kids would choose to stay with a responsibile parent if they had a choice.
However, as it turns out, in some states the point is moot- they allow the homeless to register with only a hand-drawn map of where their cardboard box is...amazing and a point I will use in my campaign if I ever get the website off the ground.
Thank you- I'll definately use these for my postcards that I create as part of the TechnoSolidarity Campaign- the idea being to appeal to the approximately 100 million potential voters that are so fed up with both major parties that they don't vote.
This is nonsense in more ways than one. First, don't look at government deficits--look at interest rates. When interest rates are high, that means that there is a lot of competition for borrowed money. There is then the potential for government borrowing to crowd out private sector investment.
You act as if you bought the lie that the money supply is infinite- it isn't. Even when interest rates are low, sufficiently high government borrowing will crowd out private sector investment.
But look at current interest rates. They're near 40-year lows. Government borrowing isn't crowding out private investment.
That's what they want you to think- but just try to get a loan at prime. You won't be able to- in fact, you'll end up several points below- because: a. You're not the government, and the government wins out. b. The government has been winning out a lot lately.
Second, companies don't make hiring decisions based on the amount of money they can get. They hire when they can employ that labor profitably. (Interest rates are low, so creditworthy companies shouldn't have trouble borrowing money in any event.)
Ah, I see you've also bought the lie of "creditworthy". The only credit worthy group right now is the government; private industry has spent the last 4 years proving that they have no clue about how to produce anything.
Private employment and investments aren't being expanded because the potential returns on that employment/investments don't look attractive to private investors. There are lots of reasons for that, but attributing it to government deficits is daffy.
However, if the government wasn't borrowing AT ALL- private investment would be the only thing available, and thus all of the investment money would go to private industry.
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I would point out that standard company culture would almost encourage this sort of behavior at MS. Heck, I'm willing to bet most of their employees signed on for a free copy of MSDN Universal....
RTFA- or better yet browse to $Windows\Help\Tours\WindowsMedia\Audio\WAV yourself and open up any given wav file in your favorite text editor of choice- the username of the known cracker for the pirated version is right there for anyone to see.
Part of the problem is that the rural area I grew up in never had anything as nice as pizza deliveries or broadband or cable TV- and never will either thanks to some over zealous Mennonites. But the original comment was due to a large ammount of disdain for what I've seen of city life since; many of these people who were born and raised in the cities couldn't find water in a thunderstorm if it wasn't treated with chemicals, pressurized for them, and comming out of a tap....
Ideally, in a free market, that would cause inflation to the point that the $5.75=$1 before minimum wage; with the country's currency devalued in the world market.
I say if you're going to have a minimum wage, couple it with a maximum wage- and let the free market decide what your money is worth in compairison to everybody else.
If you really wanted to do something about outsourcing at this point, peg $1=$1 Lira, Italian. Devalue the currency until our workers can compete again.
My brother used to say that out West they used to be so conservative that they looked liberal. Back 20 years ago, people used to mind their own business, and expected you to mind yours. They didn't want you to legislate their private lives, and expected the same from you. Those days are gone.
Looking at the county by county maps of California, Oregon, and Washington, about 200 miles in from the coast you get those kind of people still.
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If you had RTFA'd- you'd know that they were talking SIGNIFICANTLY more rural than that- by a couple of orders of magnitude (the CEO of this corp is from a town of 640....I guess they probably don't count pigs....)
Oh, I was thinking about places like Condon or Fossil Oregon- where the nearest pizza delivery joint is 50 miles away in The Dalles- and yet they're theoretically a good candidate for exactly this type of revolution because they've got wind farms to provide electricity REAL local, and Oregon Department of Transportation has teamed up with Verizon to get fiber to every cattle ranch....
it will be good news for American techies-at least the ones in rural communities and those willing to move there
But will they be able to survive without pizza deliveries?
If soldiers and commanders committed war crimes, why wouldn't we want that? Would we not want it to happen just because it's "our guys"?
Congradulations- now you're thinking like a good Bush Cabinet Level employee. OF COURSE we can't actually declare war or do something stupid like sign the world court treaty- it would open our guys up to foreign control.
Plus- don't look behind the curtain just yet, as the Wizard of Oz is still working on how exactly to transfer 50% of the US Treasury into the hands of the contractors....
Besides, changing ohio STILL won't win it for Kerry.
According to the final tallies at http://www.electoral-vote.com/, Kerry currently has 252 EVs, Bush 286. Flip Ohio's 20 votes- and Kerry has 272 Evs to Bush's 266. Thus Kerry will win. So sorry- you're wrong- changing Ohio WOULD win it for Kerry. Of course, the FIRST count in Ohio isn't done yet (absentee and provisional ballots legally will be able to be counted tomorrow), so we'll have more data then.
The margian really wasn't that big. 47% of Catholics voted for Kerry.
Only those of us who hate fundamentalism more than we hate abortion...either that or know that the best weapon against abortion is Charity and thus Kerry was the pro-seamless-garment-of-life candidate all along.
And Congress did declare war.
Uh, no, they didn't declare war. They gave the President the authority to use force, but stopped short of a true Declaration of War- the likes of which we have not seen since WWII
If Congress had declared war, by international treaty our soldiers would be facing international war crimes tribunals rather than simple court martials for Abu Gharib and the like- and such international tribunals would not stop with low-ranking soldiers, but travel up the chain of command to Bush himself. Do your really want that?
Preferably something to flash card. I've run into errors in the PocketPC system from time to time that can only be recovered with a hard reset- and for that, you want a daily backup to flash card.
I use Sprite Software's Sprite Backup, the commercial version of IPAQ backup.
In addition to this, I find AvantGo to be highly usefull, as well as good Bluetooth GPS unit and software (currently using a no-name bluetooth GPS unit and iGuidance, but it's all pretty similar, except for Microsoft Streets and Trips 2004, which for some reason can't keep up with my car and keeps loosing track of the serial port at 65 MPH). You'll also want one of the many freeware task handlers- the task handler that comes with the IPAQ is total crap.
Experiences in using flash memory for backups on PocketPC:
#1: Rewrite limits. Currently, flash memory has about a 1 million rewrite limit theoretically. In practice, though, I had a CompactFlash card (no real different technology from the USB drives other than interface to system) fail after about a year of daily backups.
#2: Time-to-destruction- I once left pictures of my honeymoon for nearly 6 months in my digital camera, also using flash memory. After 6 months, the files had a 50% corruption rate. So I wouldn't consider this a very long term storage solution- at least not without refresh.
Asside from those concerns, it's a very cool idea- especially if you kept the backup software on the key and increased your potential by using say, 7 keys (one for each day of the week) and kept the backups off site.
World Book Encyclopedia is one that I know about that does this- it's well known by most teachers as well (or used to be, anyway, before the web) because it's in every library and it's easy to catch kids plagerizing this way. Usually it's in out of the way entries- like in my example pulled at random from a non-commercial one. Who the hell cares what the unemployment rate of Angorra is anyway?
Hard run for Clinton- last time he didn't have to deal with easily hacked diebold machines.
Heck- commercial encyclopedias often PLANT false information on purpose. It's an ages old copyright protection technique in case they have to go to court over it. "So, young Johnny, you say that Angorra really does have a 0% unemployment rate? Oh, well it looks like you plagerized the CIA World Book for your school paper", that sort of thing.
No, the money supply isn't infinite. But what evidence do you have that private sector investment is being crowded out?
How about the severe lack of R&D budget in private industry (and the large numbers of MBS's and PhD's out of work because of it?).
However, given your Reuters story, I do doubt some of what my eyes are telling me- and there must be other reasons for it. I'll grant you this one.
Interesting that you'd automatically equate homeless since age 12 with irresponsible; most irresponsible kids would choose to stay with a responsibile parent if they had a choice.
However, as it turns out, in some states the point is moot- they allow the homeless to register with only a hand-drawn map of where their cardboard box is...amazing and a point I will use in my campaign if I ever get the website off the ground.
Thank you- I'll definately use these for my postcards that I create as part of the TechnoSolidarity Campaign- the idea being to appeal to the approximately 100 million potential voters that are so fed up with both major parties that they don't vote.
Well, we COULD let a few of the more conservative ones go- especially the ones with terminal cases of cancer.
Heck, no longer includes options is the least of my worries- no longer includes health insurance is becoming just as common.
And who's to prove that "health" was the real reason for this resignation? Sounds kind of like an excuse to me- one worthy of the BOFH excuse book.
This is nonsense in more ways than one. First, don't look at government deficits--look at interest rates. When interest rates are high, that means that there is a lot of competition for borrowed money. There is then the potential for government borrowing to crowd out private sector investment.
You act as if you bought the lie that the money supply is infinite- it isn't. Even when interest rates are low, sufficiently high government borrowing will crowd out private sector investment.
But look at current interest rates. They're near 40-year lows. Government borrowing isn't crowding out private investment.
That's what they want you to think- but just try to get a loan at prime. You won't be able to- in fact, you'll end up several points below- because:
a. You're not the government, and the government wins out.
b. The government has been winning out a lot lately.
Second, companies don't make hiring decisions based on the amount of money they can get. They hire when they can employ that labor profitably. (Interest rates are low, so creditworthy companies shouldn't have trouble borrowing money in any event.)
Ah, I see you've also bought the lie of "creditworthy". The only credit worthy group right now is the government; private industry has spent the last 4 years proving that they have no clue about how to produce anything.
Private employment and investments aren't being expanded because the potential returns on that employment/investments don't look attractive to private investors. There are lots of reasons for that, but attributing it to government deficits is daffy.
However, if the government wasn't borrowing AT ALL- private investment would be the only thing available, and thus all of the investment money would go to private industry.