Of professional billing? I do all my billing for my little computer consulting company in a spreadsheet- list the items done in the first column, list the price per hour for that item in the second, number of hours in the third and total in the fourth. Record total of totals in a second sheet for who got billed and when.
Given modern communications, why the heck is this even an issue? Can't the candidate just stay home and broadcast his speech everywhere (like Perot did) in a half hour infomercial?
It makes some sense for local races- but no sense at all for national ones, unless you want the whole concept of citizenship to lose all meaning.
Which is precisely what Mexico City wants- there's still a large number of politicians in Mexico who think that the United States stole Southern California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas from them in war, and would very much like it back. There have been speeches to that effect in Mexico- that as many Mexicans as possible should move north, get the vote, get petitions on the ballot to secede from the Union, and take back Aztlan. The whole political agrument hinges on a good deal of Aztec Nationalism still felt among the native population- what they'd really like to do is grab the Southwest United States and Northern Mexico and become their own country again.
Google's got the whole story from Nigerian yellow cake to centerfuge tubes, which convinced W that there WAS an active nuclear program. The administration slowly backed off this position, but the only real defense of their early stance is that Iraq's nuclear scientists were lying to Saddam himself. Of course, they did say that if we waited for actual evidence, the final smoking gun would be a mushroom cloud in Manhattan- and that was the reason Kerry (and the rest of Congress) voted to give W permission to look into the matter of invading Iraq with UN support (yes, the actual bill did say that W ONLY had permission to go into Iraq with support from the UN- and technically Bush could be impeached for this if he wins a second term). EVERYBODY who listened to Bush's speeches on the topic in 2002 and 2003 expected to find nukes- even his detractors. I challenge you to find a single opinion back then that said we would only find conventional chemical weapons- such as sarin gas spreaders- and not a single weapon of MASS destruction- such as a nuke or a biological weapon. Mass destruction in the classic sense means hundreds of thousands of victims with a single strike- like the Mongol attack of the Black Death on Constantinople, or droping the bomb on Hiroshima. That's what people are afraid of, and that's what Bush said we had to go to Iraq to prevent. Thus the fact that we haven't found a single laboratory for making biological or nuclear weapons is extremely significant to the whole WMD debate.
(Most just accept the opinions spoon fed to them by the Media, whichever way you think it's biased)
I'm pretty sure that the media is biased towards the people owning the conglomerates that put out the media. Whatever makes them money is good, whatever costs them money is bad, no other values at all.
Perhaps because that price is so high that it keeps a large percentage of the population disinfranchised? And because even a local campaign without a corporate backer can run into hundreds of thousands of dollars of cost?
That's the excuse- but is it really true that the 7 major metropolitan areas have more than 50% of the population of the country? I have some doubts about that one.
But the answer is easy- LAND & INTERNET GIVEAWAYS. Since India has taught us that in an information economy location doesn't matter, small counties can gain population quite easily by purchasing land, dividing it up into Wi-Fi enabled homesteads, and giving them away for free. What city dweller doesn't dream of having their own yard?
I mean that the government know that you're a citizen already
In Oregon, by law, state government and sub categories thereof are forbidden from actually accessing this information for any decision dealing with civil rights & responsibilities. So, no, they don't know that you are a citizen already- and unless you've informed them, they don't even know that you are a resident.
Im sure it doesn't change anything, but the voting system and democracy in the US is in my eyes seriously broken. I hope that the people in the US have a different view on this.
I fully agree- and the law above just proves the point!
Ideally, to make sure that the 10 million illegal aliens don't swing elections...not that anybody's actually CHECKING as near as I can tell- you can register to vote by snail mail or web anywhere in Oregon, you get your ballot in the mail, fill it out, and send it in. The only thing they have to go on that you are a citizen is your word on a single check box on the form.
On this issue- why would that be odd? After all, there ain't no real viable libertarian party, and let's face it, no real viable fiscal liberal party either. It's amazing how many people are completely left out of the two party system.
Especially since if we could just make it secure, computer tabulation of votes during the month long election could give us a real time look at the election (most people don't realize this, but due to universal mail in voting my home state of Oregon can have ballots turned in, but not counted, as early as October 6th if the mail delivery is on time).
True enough- and I personally rather like the idea of a truly free market. I just don't see how to get there, even starting from scratch. Any given market will eventually have a core of people setting the rules through pure economic force. In every evolutionary system, parasites will arise to fill niches left uncovered.
So the answer is to NOT let the system be evolutionary to begin with.
Oregon Department of Transportation. And while the grand majority don't have access to install a service pack, this is a buracracy using some creaky old software that simply won't run without some users having local admin access. And since www.microsoft.com isn't blocked at the proxy server, there's nothing really to stop them.
That alone to a THINKING socialist wouldn't be evil- not giving it away for cost+ is evil, but is practiced by every single corporation in the world that has any sort of a lock on patents or an oligarchy in the market. Which makes the market itself evil for not setting prices at a fixed cost+ (or, in old Guild Economy terms, a Just Price for a Just Wage). Supply and demand is always inherantly injust to somebody- sometimes to the consumer when demand is high and supply is low, sometimes to the company when supply is high and demand is low (as in the case at this point)- and sometimes, very rarely, to the point that cost- becomes the price. A rational, logic based economy would not allow such things to happen; but the free market is anything but rational.
How muc WMD must be found to convice a Bush-hating liberal? I bet you could never find enough.
How about a single case of Nigerian Yellow Cake (as was promissed we'd find in the State of the Union in 2003)? A single weapon big enough to cause "a mushroom cloud in Manhattan", also another Bush visual for the war in Iraq? He promised NUKES. Not stuff that every Japanese Shinto Separatist had already used on a train with minimal casualties, such as sarin gas.
Um, RTFA. People AREN'T buying them, there exists a huge oversupply in the warehouses. Capitalism demands that they should lower prices, cut production, or both in this situation.
That may be the case. Did I mention that ITs response, when everyone in the office scratched their heads over this insecurity, was to "turn on the firewall"? Is there any good reason to allow RDC on a default installation for an office machine? Is there any good reason why a remote login should have the authority to kick out a console login?
The reason to allow RDC is so that when the lusers call, you can RDC into their machine and fix the problem. And the remote login ALWAYS had the authority to kick out a console login- that's how the admin gains control of the machine so that they can install software. If they're doing it properly, it's blocked at the corporate firewall and nobody can log in AT ALL from home.
Administering a large corporation is not the same as doing so on your home LAN- AT ALL. It's a different playing field entirely, and behind the firewall, you want the maximum possible transparency for your techs whil reducing holes for stuff people bring in bypassing the firewall. It's quite the balancing act.
They know how to- they don't know what to do with it yet, that's why we're testing. To find out which programs do what, so that we can set the groups adaquately. Right now the group policy is set to disable XP2 completely in case some idiot does install it. And there are 4,500 machines behind the firewall on ODOT's network.
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And what is that supposed to mean in comparison to actual votes at the end of the race?
Of professional billing? I do all my billing for my little computer consulting company in a spreadsheet- list the items done in the first column, list the price per hour for that item in the second, number of hours in the third and total in the fourth. Record total of totals in a second sheet for who got billed and when.
Given modern communications, why the heck is this even an issue? Can't the candidate just stay home and broadcast his speech everywhere (like Perot did) in a half hour infomercial?
It makes some sense for local races- but no sense at all for national ones, unless you want the whole concept of citizenship to lose all meaning.
Which is precisely what Mexico City wants- there's still a large number of politicians in Mexico who think that the United States stole Southern California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas from them in war, and would very much like it back. There have been speeches to that effect in Mexico- that as many Mexicans as possible should move north, get the vote, get petitions on the ballot to secede from the Union, and take back Aztlan. The whole political agrument hinges on a good deal of Aztec Nationalism still felt among the native population- what they'd really like to do is grab the Southwest United States and Northern Mexico and become their own country again.
Google's got the whole story from Nigerian yellow cake to centerfuge tubes, which convinced W that there WAS an active nuclear program. The administration slowly backed off this position, but the only real defense of their early stance is that Iraq's nuclear scientists were lying to Saddam himself. Of course, they did say that if we waited for actual evidence, the final smoking gun would be a mushroom cloud in Manhattan- and that was the reason Kerry (and the rest of Congress) voted to give W permission to look into the matter of invading Iraq with UN support (yes, the actual bill did say that W ONLY had permission to go into Iraq with support from the UN- and technically Bush could be impeached for this if he wins a second term). EVERYBODY who listened to Bush's speeches on the topic in 2002 and 2003 expected to find nukes- even his detractors. I challenge you to find a single opinion back then that said we would only find conventional chemical weapons- such as sarin gas spreaders- and not a single weapon of MASS destruction- such as a nuke or a biological weapon. Mass destruction in the classic sense means hundreds of thousands of victims with a single strike- like the Mongol attack of the Black Death on Constantinople, or droping the bomb on Hiroshima. That's what people are afraid of, and that's what Bush said we had to go to Iraq to prevent. Thus the fact that we haven't found a single laboratory for making biological or nuclear weapons is extremely significant to the whole WMD debate.
(Most just accept the opinions spoon fed to them by the Media, whichever way you think it's biased)
I'm pretty sure that the media is biased towards the people owning the conglomerates that put out the media. Whatever makes them money is good, whatever costs them money is bad, no other values at all.
Perhaps because that price is so high that it keeps a large percentage of the population disinfranchised? And because even a local campaign without a corporate backer can run into hundreds of thousands of dollars of cost?
That's the excuse- but is it really true that the 7 major metropolitan areas have more than 50% of the population of the country? I have some doubts about that one.
But the answer is easy- LAND & INTERNET GIVEAWAYS. Since India has taught us that in an information economy location doesn't matter, small counties can gain population quite easily by purchasing land, dividing it up into Wi-Fi enabled homesteads, and giving them away for free. What city dweller doesn't dream of having their own yard?
I mean that the government know that you're a citizen already
In Oregon, by law, state government and sub categories thereof are forbidden from actually accessing this information for any decision dealing with civil rights & responsibilities. So, no, they don't know that you are a citizen already- and unless you've informed them, they don't even know that you are a resident.
Im sure it doesn't change anything, but the voting system and democracy in the US is in my eyes seriously broken. I hope that the people in the US have a different view on this.
I fully agree- and the law above just proves the point!
True enough- but people who don't vote and have never voted never see the ballot, so they don't know that.
My wife voted for Mickey Mouse in the Republican Primary.....
Ideally, to make sure that the 10 million illegal aliens don't swing elections...not that anybody's actually CHECKING as near as I can tell- you can register to vote by snail mail or web anywhere in Oregon, you get your ballot in the mail, fill it out, and send it in. The only thing they have to go on that you are a citizen is your word on a single check box on the form.
On this issue- why would that be odd? After all, there ain't no real viable libertarian party, and let's face it, no real viable fiscal liberal party either. It's amazing how many people are completely left out of the two party system.
DMV records in Oregon- they switched when they couldn't find enough registered voters.
I've yet to buy the book- but that video has given me more laughs than anything I've seen this year! I love it!
By actually giving them a candidate they can agree with?
Wouldn't it be nice if the United States actually had a policy of not having us beholden to foreign interests?
Especially since if we could just make it secure, computer tabulation of votes during the month long election could give us a real time look at the election (most people don't realize this, but due to universal mail in voting my home state of Oregon can have ballots turned in, but not counted, as early as October 6th if the mail delivery is on time).
True enough- and I personally rather like the idea of a truly free market. I just don't see how to get there, even starting from scratch. Any given market will eventually have a core of people setting the rules through pure economic force. In every evolutionary system, parasites will arise to fill niches left uncovered.
So the answer is to NOT let the system be evolutionary to begin with.
Oregon Department of Transportation. And while the grand majority don't have access to install a service pack, this is a buracracy using some creaky old software that simply won't run without some users having local admin access. And since www.microsoft.com isn't blocked at the proxy server, there's nothing really to stop them.
That alone to a THINKING socialist wouldn't be evil- not giving it away for cost+ is evil, but is practiced by every single corporation in the world that has any sort of a lock on patents or an oligarchy in the market. Which makes the market itself evil for not setting prices at a fixed cost+ (or, in old Guild Economy terms, a Just Price for a Just Wage). Supply and demand is always inherantly injust to somebody- sometimes to the consumer when demand is high and supply is low, sometimes to the company when supply is high and demand is low (as in the case at this point)- and sometimes, very rarely, to the point that cost- becomes the price. A rational, logic based economy would not allow such things to happen; but the free market is anything but rational.
How muc WMD must be found to convice a Bush-hating liberal? I bet you could never find enough.
How about a single case of Nigerian Yellow Cake (as was promissed we'd find in the State of the Union in 2003)? A single weapon big enough to cause "a mushroom cloud in Manhattan", also another Bush visual for the war in Iraq? He promised NUKES. Not stuff that every Japanese Shinto Separatist had already used on a train with minimal casualties, such as sarin gas.
And I'm precisely the opposite- On social issues I'm conservative, on economic issues I'm liberal.
I'll be voting for Kerry because Bush has utterly screwed up on truly conservative social issues.
Um, RTFA. People AREN'T buying them, there exists a huge oversupply in the warehouses. Capitalism demands that they should lower prices, cut production, or both in this situation.
That may be the case. Did I mention that ITs response, when everyone in the office scratched their heads over this insecurity, was to "turn on the firewall"? Is there any good reason to allow RDC on a default installation for an office machine? Is there any good reason why a remote login should have the authority to kick out a console login?
The reason to allow RDC is so that when the lusers call, you can RDC into their machine and fix the problem. And the remote login ALWAYS had the authority to kick out a console login- that's how the admin gains control of the machine so that they can install software. If they're doing it properly, it's blocked at the corporate firewall and nobody can log in AT ALL from home.
Administering a large corporation is not the same as doing so on your home LAN- AT ALL. It's a different playing field entirely, and behind the firewall, you want the maximum possible transparency for your techs whil reducing holes for stuff people bring in bypassing the firewall. It's quite the balancing act.
They know how to- they don't know what to do with it yet, that's why we're testing. To find out which programs do what, so that we can set the groups adaquately. Right now the group policy is set to disable XP2 completely in case some idiot does install it. And there are 4,500 machines behind the firewall on ODOT's network.