And that is the problem. It shouldn't be run at all. The government was meant to be a Constitutionally Limited Republic. That is to say, the Constitution was written to limit the power of the Government. Quite clearly, we have gone too far away from that. The Unites States has decided upon security over freedom. This must change. The question is, how is this done?
So rather than two Federal Marshalls in ties having a discussion with the gentleman, the Feds come in Police State style, tossing American citizens around like ragdolls and trampling the Constitution and the natural rights of man.
No, because diesel doesn't use spark plugs. That is why it is so much more reliable than petrol. Plus, diesel gets more MPG. Diesel is better than petrol.
You've not worked in a corporate environment, have you? This is how networks need to work in a modern regulatory environment. Gone are the days when anyone could do whatever the heck they felt like. If the IT guys are not in control of their network, you have the potential for a multimillion dollar lawsuit. Further, the person who added the device to the network in contradiction to the Information Security Policy faces the possibility of jail time if this is found out and there is a data breach.
Millions of records potentially lost means tens of millions of dollars permanently lost due to credit monitoring and the subsequent class action lawsuits. Information Security is no joke and it isn't a power trip.
That machine on the network without IT approval is a violation of HIPAA Security Rule. Frankly, the fact that your ISO hasn't written you up means he is too nice of a guy. Yeah, you need to give IT access, and then thank them for not written you up and turning your name over to the BoD.
Yes. You cannot appreciate the forced slavery, the lack of property laws, the disappearances, the forced abortions, the starvation that takes place in China unless you have been there. (And I'm not talking about Beijing or Shanghai, you lazy CNN hacks.)
Gravity worked in the same manner before Einstein defined it that it does now. Observation does not change constants.
And your foolish solipsism does not belong in any rational conversation. There is no faith required in knowing that gravity will work the same way tomorrow as it has since the beginning of time. Repeatable observation does not require faith. That is the fundamental difference between science and religion.
In no manner is science based on faith. Science is the understanding that the physical universe has constant forces and results are repeatable. Gravity worked yesterday, it works today, and it will work tomorrow. It will always work in the same manner that it works at present. That is science. Faith is believing that gravity would work unless an intelligence decides it should not. Science is knowing that gravity will work based on past verifiable experience and is unaffected by any intelligence.
Academic luddites (read non-IT people), much like corporate luddites, will do what other people tell them to in regards to pretty much everything technology.
In this case, there is a very good chance that the MPAA or RIAA or some other anti-freedom group gave Boston a list of signs of illegal downloading among college students. Wireless routers would be at or near the top of this list. Why? Anything that supports networking obviously also supporting pirating songs.
It's like the Java Bear hoax e-mail. If an official looking organization or person or e-mail tells luddities to do something with technology, they do it.
The Air Force has two jobs. 1. Maintain the nuke silos. 2. Support the Corps and Army.
It is no longer has a strategic bombing function in 4th generational warfare, except in so far as it bombs stuff to establish a safe environment to operate non-stealthy air operations. Today's Air Force exists solely to keep the folks on the ground safe. Its job is to keep Marines and Soldiers in supply and safe from other airplanes. To that end, I would suggest that the Air Force supports the Marines.
The use of petrol is a detriment to our society. Those who use less of it should be rewarded and those who use more of it punished. There definitely needs to be petrol excise taxes.
The detriment is environmental and military. We maintain an enormous navy to protect the supply routes from the Middle East to Europe, China, Japan, and United States. We maintain an enormous Marine Corp to ensure that any oil producing country that threatens these supplies will be dealt with. We maintain an enormous Air Force to supply and support that Marine Corp. We maintain an enormous Army..... well, I'm not sure why we maintain an enormous Army, probably to support the Marine Corp with slightly less well trained and qualified soldiers.
The environmental detriments are obvious, although they are improving significantly. If we could get some more SUV commuters off the roads, we'd be better yet.
I thought people on here were smarter than this fluff. I did too. I guess I need to spell it out.
You seem to misunderstand the concept of trends. The Y generation (or cohort if you like) is developing into the workplace. Low and behold, the women in this cohort are making more money than the men. This is the first time this has ever happened (Margret Mead's lies aside). Further, the women under the age of 30 (the Y cohort) are getting promotions faster than the men and they are earning increases in income faster than men.
The workplace has fundamentally changed. This needs to be addressed.
And I'll say further. The reason why the workplace has fundamentally changed is because we have handicapped boys rather than promoting girls. In the United States the form of feminism as implemented has not been pro-women, but rather it has been misandric. The implementation of the feminist standards has dumbed down the education demanded of boys to suit the demands of the feminist population.
No, the point is that women who go though college are making more than men who go through college. I'm sorry that contradicts your womyn's studies professor, but it is true. Further, women who have not dropped out of the workforce to have children are making more money than men.
It's over. The feminist movement is over. Women have achieved parity with men.
Basically, in places where the average man doesn't burn out his body working on a farm or in construction, women are making more money than men.
The feminist movement is over. They won. Women are now equal or superior to men.
It is time to end Title IX. It is time to bring education standards back up so that we can make sure little Johnny gets the same education little Suzie does.
There is a fine line between bribery and being extorted.
Exactly. Show me a person who has done successful business in China. If that person says he did not bribe anyone, he is a liar. If he did not directly deliver the cash, then one of his subordinates did. It is impossible to do anything in China without bribing people. It is simply the way the culture has evolved there. People bribe. That is what they do. And anyone, business professor, lawyer, State Department Official, who says otherwise is a liar.
This has been going on for at least a decade. I had a floormate in college that used to get drunk and brag about monitoring chatrooms for a private contractor.
This is exactly correct. It seems as if the international community deliberately waited until it was too late so that the rebels could never easily win.
It's kind of like WWI, when the Austrians waited too long to attack the Serbians.
Above is the first comment that mentions Postmodernism in the entire discussion. That may tell us something about the way the/. community understands the world at large.
Postmodernism is obviously the problem. It is a fundamentally flawed philosophy that has severely damaged the university environment in the west. Further, the post-modernist ideals have been co-opted by the conservative Christians to justify their preference for 2000 year old parables over modern science.
Fundamental problems with Postmodernism are: 1. The way that it ignores humanitarian progress in favor of imposed cultural and moral equality. 2. The way that it forces itself into soft and then hard sciences.
There was a time when people needed to analyze and record cultures objectively. Obviously, the racism of colonial Europe and the United States was unacceptable and was rightly changed. However, postmodernism has been mistaken with the change in and removal of racist ideas. Now, instead of people being opposed to racism and focused on the individual, there is an emphasis on the cultural and the relative equality of all cultures and morals. Obviously, not all cultures and morals are equal. Cultures that do not value science and the rights of man are inferior to cultures that do and should be replaced.
The same is true about ideas. Postmodernism would argue that all ideas have equal relevance. This is clearly not the case. Nutters who build perpetual motion machines, build cold fusion machines, draw on powers from the sky horned god and other foolishness should be treated as nutters. That is to say, ignored. The reluctance to do this leads to the greatest problem with Postmodernism.
The biggest problem with Postmodernism, however, is the way that the far right (in Europe, Russia, and particularly the United States) has co-opted it to justify the "faith" they have in God, abortion, climate change, and anything else they damn well feel like. The Right claims the umbrella of cultural oppression when they are presented with facts.
The universities caused the problem and they need to fix it. The social sciences in universities need to abandon postmodernist thought and again embrace science. Cultural relativism needs to come to an end. Slavery, misogyny, and fascist dictatorships have no place in the world today. The same is true with large political parties dominated by religion, be they the Hindi controlled INC, the Christian conservative GOP, or the islamist ABII.
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And that is the problem. It shouldn't be run at all. The government was meant to be a Constitutionally Limited Republic. That is to say, the Constitution was written to limit the power of the Government. Quite clearly, we have gone too far away from that. The Unites States has decided upon security over freedom. This must change. The question is, how is this done?
So rather than two Federal Marshalls in ties having a discussion with the gentleman, the Feds come in Police State style, tossing American citizens around like ragdolls and trampling the Constitution and the natural rights of man.
What is wrong with this country?
No, because diesel doesn't use spark plugs. That is why it is so much more reliable than petrol. Plus, diesel gets more MPG. Diesel is better than petrol.
You've not worked in a corporate environment, have you? This is how networks need to work in a modern regulatory environment. Gone are the days when anyone could do whatever the heck they felt like. If the IT guys are not in control of their network, you have the potential for a multimillion dollar lawsuit. Further, the person who added the device to the network in contradiction to the Information Security Policy faces the possibility of jail time if this is found out and there is a data breach.
Millions of records potentially lost means tens of millions of dollars permanently lost due to credit monitoring and the subsequent class action lawsuits. Information Security is no joke and it isn't a power trip.
That machine on the network without IT approval is a violation of HIPAA Security Rule. Frankly, the fact that your ISO hasn't written you up means he is too nice of a guy. Yeah, you need to give IT access, and then thank them for not written you up and turning your name over to the BoD.
Patriots opt out.
If only it was more like Silvio Berlusconi. Now there is a political entity you can laugh at AND feel good about yourself.
Yes. You cannot appreciate the forced slavery, the lack of property laws, the disappearances, the forced abortions, the starvation that takes place in China unless you have been there. (And I'm not talking about Beijing or Shanghai, you lazy CNN hacks.)
Gravity worked in the same manner before Einstein defined it that it does now. Observation does not change constants.
And your foolish solipsism does not belong in any rational conversation. There is no faith required in knowing that gravity will work the same way tomorrow as it has since the beginning of time. Repeatable observation does not require faith. That is the fundamental difference between science and religion.
In no manner is science based on faith. Science is the understanding that the physical universe has constant forces and results are repeatable. Gravity worked yesterday, it works today, and it will work tomorrow. It will always work in the same manner that it works at present. That is science. Faith is believing that gravity would work unless an intelligence decides it should not. Science is knowing that gravity will work based on past verifiable experience and is unaffected by any intelligence.
Academic luddites (read non-IT people), much like corporate luddites, will do what other people tell them to in regards to pretty much everything technology.
In this case, there is a very good chance that the MPAA or RIAA or some other anti-freedom group gave Boston a list of signs of illegal downloading among college students. Wireless routers would be at or near the top of this list. Why? Anything that supports networking obviously also supporting pirating songs.
It's like the Java Bear hoax e-mail. If an official looking organization or person or e-mail tells luddities to do something with technology, they do it.
The Air Force has two jobs.
1. Maintain the nuke silos.
2. Support the Corps and Army.
It is no longer has a strategic bombing function in 4th generational warfare, except in so far as it bombs stuff to establish a safe environment to operate non-stealthy air operations. Today's Air Force exists solely to keep the folks on the ground safe. Its job is to keep Marines and Soldiers in supply and safe from other airplanes. To that end, I would suggest that the Air Force supports the Marines.
The use of petrol is a detriment to our society. Those who use less of it should be rewarded and those who use more of it punished. There definitely needs to be petrol excise taxes.
The detriment is environmental and military. We maintain an enormous navy to protect the supply routes from the Middle East to Europe, China, Japan, and United States. We maintain an enormous Marine Corp to ensure that any oil producing country that threatens these supplies will be dealt with. We maintain an enormous Air Force to supply and support that Marine Corp. We maintain an enormous Army..... well, I'm not sure why we maintain an enormous Army, probably to support the Marine Corp with slightly less well trained and qualified soldiers.
The environmental detriments are obvious, although they are improving significantly. If we could get some more SUV commuters off the roads, we'd be better yet.
I thought people on here were smarter than this fluff.
I did too. I guess I need to spell it out.
You seem to misunderstand the concept of trends. The Y generation (or cohort if you like) is developing into the workplace. Low and behold, the women in this cohort are making more money than the men. This is the first time this has ever happened (Margret Mead's lies aside). Further, the women under the age of 30 (the Y cohort) are getting promotions faster than the men and they are earning increases in income faster than men.
The workplace has fundamentally changed. This needs to be addressed.
And I'll say further. The reason why the workplace has fundamentally changed is because we have handicapped boys rather than promoting girls. In the United States the form of feminism as implemented has not been pro-women, but rather it has been misandric. The implementation of the feminist standards has dumbed down the education demanded of boys to suit the demands of the feminist population.
No, the point is that women who go though college are making more than men who go through college. I'm sorry that contradicts your womyn's studies professor, but it is true. Further, women who have not dropped out of the workforce to have children are making more money than men.
It's over. The feminist movement is over. Women have achieved parity with men.
Women under the age of 30 in urban centers make more money than men. More women today are graduating with college degrees than men. This has been happening for years.
Basically, in places where the average man doesn't burn out his body working on a farm or in construction, women are making more money than men.
The feminist movement is over. They won. Women are now equal or superior to men.
It is time to end Title IX. It is time to bring education standards back up so that we can make sure little Johnny gets the same education little Suzie does.
There is a fine line between bribery and being extorted.
Exactly. Show me a person who has done successful business in China. If that person says he did not bribe anyone, he is a liar. If he did not directly deliver the cash, then one of his subordinates did. It is impossible to do anything in China without bribing people. It is simply the way the culture has evolved there. People bribe. That is what they do. And anyone, business professor, lawyer, State Department Official, who says otherwise is a liar.
This has been going on for at least a decade. I had a floormate in college that used to get drunk and brag about monitoring chatrooms for a private contractor.
This is exactly correct. It seems as if the international community deliberately waited until it was too late so that the rebels could never easily win.
It's kind of like WWI, when the Austrians waited too long to attack the Serbians.
It's not a Monday. It's the time change.
There are more accidents after the Spring Time Change. There are more fatalities after the spring time change. Why are we doing this to ourselves?
This is foolish. We should either stay standard time or stay daylight savings time. But this back and forth kills people and productivity.
Why do you believe that what you have experienced in the past has any bearing on what you will experience in the future?
Thank you for precisely pointing out the sort of drivel that the universities need to eliminate from their faculty.
You appear to believe in objective truth. What is the philosophical basis for that belief?
The sticky mess a Mack Truck makes.
Above is the first comment that mentions Postmodernism in the entire discussion. That may tell us something about the way the /. community understands the world at large.
Postmodernism is obviously the problem. It is a fundamentally flawed philosophy that has severely damaged the university environment in the west. Further, the post-modernist ideals have been co-opted by the conservative Christians to justify their preference for 2000 year old parables over modern science.
Fundamental problems with Postmodernism are:
1. The way that it ignores humanitarian progress in favor of imposed cultural and moral equality.
2. The way that it forces itself into soft and then hard sciences.
There was a time when people needed to analyze and record cultures objectively. Obviously, the racism of colonial Europe and the United States was unacceptable and was rightly changed. However, postmodernism has been mistaken with the change in and removal of racist ideas. Now, instead of people being opposed to racism and focused on the individual, there is an emphasis on the cultural and the relative equality of all cultures and morals. Obviously, not all cultures and morals are equal. Cultures that do not value science and the rights of man are inferior to cultures that do and should be replaced.
The same is true about ideas. Postmodernism would argue that all ideas have equal relevance. This is clearly not the case. Nutters who build perpetual motion machines, build cold fusion machines, draw on powers from the sky horned god and other foolishness should be treated as nutters. That is to say, ignored. The reluctance to do this leads to the greatest problem with Postmodernism.
The biggest problem with Postmodernism, however, is the way that the far right (in Europe, Russia, and particularly the United States) has co-opted it to justify the "faith" they have in God, abortion, climate change, and anything else they damn well feel like. The Right claims the umbrella of cultural oppression when they are presented with facts.
The universities caused the problem and they need to fix it. The social sciences in universities need to abandon postmodernist thought and again embrace science. Cultural relativism needs to come to an end. Slavery, misogyny, and fascist dictatorships have no place in the world today. The same is true with large political parties dominated by religion, be they the Hindi controlled INC, the Christian conservative GOP, or the islamist ABII.
The fact that this article does not mention Baidu makes me very suspicious. Its information is fallacious.
I'll have the Tolkien, Tolkien, Tolkien, Tolkien, Tolkien, Tolkien, Tolkien, Lewis, and Tolkien.