Your statement doesn't even make sense. Who would go through all of the trouble and cost of getting a visa just to collect unemployment and/or welfare? I hope you realize that in the US, those benefits pay very, very little. Furthermore, many types of visas are ineligible for those benefits.
The idea of someone coming here to "live off the government" is a joke.
Imagine if "Bin Laden determined to strike in the U.S." went to the media instead of the authorities.
It almost did. Judy Miller, of the Plame case, was trying to write an article on possible al Qaeda attacks. Unfortunately she never got enough information to put together an article.
The President of the United States can, in "time of war," "set aside" any law he/she (ha!) so chooses.
No, he may not, unless you're a GOPist.
About 350 total before GW Bush. GW Bush has set aside ~750 in his term alone.
Based on these figures, it sounds like you're referring to "signing statements". While these statements are very troubling and have yet to be reviewed by the Court, they are not "set-asides" of the law.
This "oversight" canard is such a joke. Yes, some select members of Congress were told (anywhere from 4-8 people). First off, this disclosure was in violation of the law. The full committees must be notified except for black ops (can't remember the TLA for this right now), which this does not qualify as. Second, these Congressmen are only told. The "oversight" has no approval or veto component. Furthermore, they are sworn to absolute secrecy and cannot under any circumstances divulge anything, at all, to anyone (including their spouses and most trusted staffers and colleagues), about the disclosures until they are made public by other means. This is why you have a very small number of people who have known about it for several years but are just now talking about it.
Furthermore, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) wrote a hand-written letter to Cheney years ago saying he objected to the program when it was disclosed to him. The letter was, of course, ignored by the Adminstration.
You are incorrect, although only in very limited circumstances. From wiki:
In criminal and civil law, barratry is the act or practice of bringing repeated legal actions solely to harass. Usually, the actions brought lack merit. This action has been declared a crime in some jurisdictions. For example, in the U.S. state of California, barratry is a misdemeanor.
Weatherbug is what I call "functional spyware" in that it does provide a real function in addition to it's spying functions. Most spyware now fits this profile, but the original spyware, Gator, did not.
When removing functional spyware you must attempt to provide a replacement application that can do the same function. The user in your scenario can't be bothered to go to a website to get the weather, so you might want to try finding another weather tray tool. I don't know of any off the top of my head but there have to be several out there.
Furthermore, Weatherbug is a special case as they've managed to grow into a legitimate brand. The weather promo here on ABC in DC is the "Weatherbug Network". For the average user, something like that really legitimizes the software, whether it's deserved or not.
People just don't care, and I don't expect to ever understand why.
It doesn't sound like you're trying to understand. From what I can tell (2 mins on google), Weatherbug modified their program and it is no longer spyware.
first off.. this so called "study" being offered by organizations which are supposed to be factual news sources uses only 502 people to infer the opinion over over 350 million us citizens.
Statisticians everywhere know that you only need a sample of 300-600 to be representative for most populations. Just about every opinion poll you read about has a sample size of 1,000 or less.
The bias that is introduced by the survey technique is recognized by statisticians. In general, these polls do not attempt to correct for the bias, but it is something that must be kept in mind. It is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to conduct a survey that controls for every bias, short of sampling everyone in the population (i.e. the Census).
iirc, one 'executive' has pled guilty, along with a few lower employees. However the big two are still on trial so the statement may technically be true, I think it's disingenuous to say that "The executives broke the law".
Something doesn't add up. If the strikes weren't really helping the workers, as you claim, why were they voting for them? If the leadership wasn't representing the workers, why were they voted for? Why was membership in the national union continued despite these problems?
Uhh.. it sounds like your problem isn't with SOX, but with dirty consultants. I hope your company had the sense to not pay them or pursue legal action.
On it's face your post appears insightful but on further reading I'm compelled to say that you don't actually say anything.
The analogy to a formula team simply isn't apt. Mechanical design and aesthetic design are two wholly different fields, not to mention the obvious practical differences.
Then you go into a bit about how a new design would be interesting, but bog it down with hypotheticals that don't make any sense.
Taco said he wanted 'outside the box' but at the same time he gave a laundry list of things that couldn't be changed. He got exactly what he asked for, imo.
Think of how many developers use windows on a dialy basis. I'm sure that if they had access, most of the bugs would be fixed by now, or at least, it wouldn't be as bad as it is.
While I'm sure some things would be fixed, do you really think that the problems with Windows are so easily fixed that a developer in their spare time would be able to do it? Remember, MS isn't Linux. There are thousands of full-time employees working on these products. It just can't be that simple, or it would have been fixed by now.
IMO the problems with Windows are fundamental and come from the way Windows is built upon many different layers with compatibility hacks at every step of the way. Yeah, I'm sure there are some buffer overflows or other relatively minor bugs that might be caught, but in terms of 'fixing windows', open source probably isn't going to do it without a ground-up rebuild.
Food and energy is not removed from the CPI. However, most news articles and economic columns, etc, these days look at 'core-CPI' to estimate inflation. 'Core-CPI' is the CPI minus food and energy. If you go here, you'll see that "all items" is the top choice, with "all, less food and energy" underneath.
It wasn't the presence of Hillary that killed health care reform. It was triangulation by the Clintons. They were trying to please everyone and created an overly complex system that ended up pleasing no one.
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The dumb ones generally dont know a word doc from an EXE so hopefully they are also avoiding most attachments.
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Whew. That was refreshing. Thanks!
Your statement doesn't even make sense. Who would go through all of the trouble and cost of getting a visa just to collect unemployment and/or welfare? I hope you realize that in the US, those benefits pay very, very little. Furthermore, many types of visas are ineligible for those benefits.
The idea of someone coming here to "live off the government" is a joke.
Imagine if "Bin Laden determined to strike in the U.S." went to the media instead of the authorities.
It almost did. Judy Miller, of the Plame case, was trying to write an article on possible al Qaeda attacks. Unfortunately she never got enough information to put together an article.
You're right. He's not a whistleblower. He's a hero and a true patriot.
The President of the United States can, in "time of war," "set aside" any law he/she (ha!) so chooses.
No, he may not, unless you're a GOPist.
About 350 total before GW Bush. GW Bush has set aside ~750 in his term alone.
Based on these figures, it sounds like you're referring to "signing statements". While these statements are very troubling and have yet to be reviewed by the Court, they are not "set-asides" of the law.
This "oversight" canard is such a joke. Yes, some select members of Congress were told (anywhere from 4-8 people). First off, this disclosure was in violation of the law. The full committees must be notified except for black ops (can't remember the TLA for this right now), which this does not qualify as. Second, these Congressmen are only told. The "oversight" has no approval or veto component. Furthermore, they are sworn to absolute secrecy and cannot under any circumstances divulge anything, at all, to anyone (including their spouses and most trusted staffers and colleagues), about the disclosures until they are made public by other means. This is why you have a very small number of people who have known about it for several years but are just now talking about it.
Furthermore, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) wrote a hand-written letter to Cheney years ago saying he objected to the program when it was disclosed to him. The letter was, of course, ignored by the Adminstration.
Weatherbug is what I call "functional spyware" in that it does provide a real function in addition to it's spying functions. Most spyware now fits this profile, but the original spyware, Gator, did not.
When removing functional spyware you must attempt to provide a replacement application that can do the same function. The user in your scenario can't be bothered to go to a website to get the weather, so you might want to try finding another weather tray tool. I don't know of any off the top of my head but there have to be several out there.
Furthermore, Weatherbug is a special case as they've managed to grow into a legitimate brand. The weather promo here on ABC in DC is the "Weatherbug Network". For the average user, something like that really legitimizes the software, whether it's deserved or not.
People just don't care, and I don't expect to ever understand why.
It doesn't sound like you're trying to understand. From what I can tell (2 mins on google), Weatherbug modified their program and it is no longer spyware.
Which oath is that?
1. That's a stupid argument to begin with and I shouldn't even dignify it with a response, but some dumbass believes it's "insightful"...
2. At least we know what we're sending to the IRS. Can't say the same for the NSA.
3. Taxes are necessarily to support the society you enjoy. All you anti-tax freaks seem to forget this.
first off.. this so called "study" being offered by organizations which are supposed to be factual news sources uses only 502 people to infer the opinion over over 350 million us citizens.
Statisticians everywhere know that you only need a sample of 300-600 to be representative for most populations. Just about every opinion poll you read about has a sample size of 1,000 or less.
The bias that is introduced by the survey technique is recognized by statisticians. In general, these polls do not attempt to correct for the bias, but it is something that must be kept in mind. It is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to conduct a survey that controls for every bias, short of sampling everyone in the population (i.e. the Census).
iirc, one 'executive' has pled guilty, along with a few lower employees. However the big two are still on trial so the statement may technically be true, I think it's disingenuous to say that "The executives broke the law".
Something doesn't add up. If the strikes weren't really helping the workers, as you claim, why were they voting for them? If the leadership wasn't representing the workers, why were they voted for? Why was membership in the national union continued despite these problems?
Unions work when they are democratically led.
Uhh.. it sounds like your problem isn't with SOX, but with dirty consultants. I hope your company had the sense to not pay them or pursue legal action.
Thank you Enron, for making your dishonesty international
Don't like it? Trade in Toronto. Next please!
The executives of Enron broke the law. Let me repeat, in case you didn't hear: the executives of Enron broke the law.
Considering that Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling are still on trial, this is not true, in the legal sense.
On it's face your post appears insightful but on further reading I'm compelled to say that you don't actually say anything. The analogy to a formula team simply isn't apt. Mechanical design and aesthetic design are two wholly different fields, not to mention the obvious practical differences. Then you go into a bit about how a new design would be interesting, but bog it down with hypotheticals that don't make any sense.
Taco said he wanted 'outside the box' but at the same time he gave a laundry list of things that couldn't be changed. He got exactly what he asked for, imo.
Think of how many developers use windows on a dialy basis. I'm sure that if they had access, most of the bugs would be fixed by now, or at least, it wouldn't be as bad as it is.
While I'm sure some things would be fixed, do you really think that the problems with Windows are so easily fixed that a developer in their spare time would be able to do it? Remember, MS isn't Linux. There are thousands of full-time employees working on these products. It just can't be that simple, or it would have been fixed by now.
IMO the problems with Windows are fundamental and come from the way Windows is built upon many different layers with compatibility hacks at every step of the way. Yeah, I'm sure there are some buffer overflows or other relatively minor bugs that might be caught, but in terms of 'fixing windows', open source probably isn't going to do it without a ground-up rebuild.
Food and energy is not removed from the CPI. However, most news articles and economic columns, etc, these days look at 'core-CPI' to estimate inflation. 'Core-CPI' is the CPI minus food and energy. If you go here, you'll see that "all items" is the top choice, with "all, less food and energy" underneath.
Right, but most people don't eat foie gras.
It wasn't the presence of Hillary that killed health care reform. It was triangulation by the Clintons. They were trying to please everyone and created an overly complex system that ended up pleasing no one.
If you're going to give an anecdote like that, please include the city name.
It sounds like what you need is a sane workflow. A collaboration tool will certainly help, but you've got other issues.
"I did not know that."