"...the CIO for the city of Philadelphia, explaining why she thinks it's time to break the telcos de-facto monopoly and for public agencies to start offering public services."
...then why has the City so hardily endorsed th running of public schools by private companies. Which, coincidentally, has apparently been successful.
Canada can afford the luxury of privacy, here's why:
Canada differs from the United States in it's chosen defense mechanism. While the U.S. employs brute force, Canada employs the political/social equivalent of neoteny, the biological trait commonly referred to as "cuteness". Canada has cultivated a national persona of cuddly harmlessness. This is exactly what creatures with little in the way of natural defenses but a lot of potential predators do. In the animal world it is accomplished with soft fur and big, round, pleading eyes. In the political world it is is accomplished by having a non-threatining military, an economic system based on beer, and a liberal, open society. Domestic anti-privacy measures would work at cross-purposes with this defense mechanism. So far, it seems to be working. Of course being the cute kitten living next door to the big ugly, yet friendly to you, grizzly has it's advantages too.
No, it goes like this:
Lie - Not telling the truth
Damn Lie - Knowingly not telling the truth
Statistics - Knowingly not telling the truth using Powerpoint or Excel
Why try to bolster your position by feigning outrage at the fact that these measures would prevent DVD's from being donated to charity? I can't think of a single humanitarian crisis or catastrophe that would be ameliorated by distributing the shill that comes out of Hollywood to the suffering.
P.S. Anyone mentioning (beyond this mention) airdropping 'Fahrenheit 9/11' into Iraq should be appropriately moderated
I can verify that. When I was stationed along the border in Germany in the 80's, we actually had a classified contignecy plan for what we were to do if the Space Shuttle crash landed in, what was then, East Germany.
Footnote: Before you report me to Homeland Security for devulging this, the plan has most likely been declassified as there is no more East Germany;)
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It's akin to a black person discussing being Asian. They're not Asian and have never been Asian and are never going to be Asian.
Unless said person is Tiger Woods
"...the CIO for the city of Philadelphia, explaining why she thinks it's time to break the telcos de-facto monopoly and for public agencies to start offering public services."
...then why has the City so hardily endorsed th running of public schools by private companies. Which, coincidentally, has apparently been successful.
It's becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish between reading /. and http://www.thenation.com/
Very Cool. Hopefully, before long, a web service interface will be available so I can plug lat/long from my gps into it.
Canada can afford the luxury of privacy, here's why:
Canada differs from the United States in it's chosen defense mechanism. While the U.S. employs brute force, Canada employs the political/social equivalent of neoteny, the biological trait commonly referred to as "cuteness". Canada has cultivated a national persona of cuddly harmlessness. This is exactly what creatures with little in the way of natural defenses but a lot of potential predators do. In the animal world it is accomplished with soft fur and big, round, pleading eyes. In the political world it is is accomplished by having a non-threatining military, an economic system based on beer, and a liberal, open society. Domestic anti-privacy measures would work at cross-purposes with this defense mechanism. So far, it seems to be working. Of course being the cute kitten living next door to the big ugly, yet friendly to you, grizzly has it's advantages too.
No, it goes like this: Lie - Not telling the truth Damn Lie - Knowingly not telling the truth Statistics - Knowingly not telling the truth using Powerpoint or Excel
Your algorithm is slightly flawed. there is no penalty for failing to save all trapped people, such as:
if isBurning($building) {
putOn($costume);
foreach $person (@trappedPeople) {
try{
save($person);
$karma++;
}
catch failureToBeHeroicError with
{
$karma--;
}
}
}
Leaving people in a burning building, regardless of the number you saved, will definitely take some shine off your image.
I wonder if the chosen color scheme of the topic belies a particular political slant.
Why try to bolster your position by feigning outrage at the fact that these measures would prevent DVD's from being donated to charity? I can't think of a single humanitarian crisis or catastrophe that would be ameliorated by distributing the shill that comes out of Hollywood to the suffering. P.S. Anyone mentioning (beyond this mention) airdropping 'Fahrenheit 9/11' into Iraq should be appropriately moderated
I can verify that. When I was stationed along the border in Germany in the 80's, we actually had a classified contignecy plan for what we were to do if the Space Shuttle crash landed in, what was then, East Germany. Footnote: Before you report me to Homeland Security for devulging this, the plan has most likely been declassified as there is no more East Germany ;)