America's the most expensive area in the world to live. Just look at the prices in New York City!
That's not really a good comparison, because prices in New York City are almost always higher than anyplace else in the country. An accountent once told me that some of his clients had franchises in several states and the ones in NYC had special menus with higher prices. He explained that unions there had made it so expensive to do business that there wasn't any other choice if you wanted to have an outlet there. Don't know for sure it it's still true, as it was about twenty years or so ago, but I'd not be surprised if it is.
Thank you for a lucid, well-reasoned explanation of the other poster's position. You did a far better job than the OP did, because you did so in an objective fashion, avoiding ad hominem aruments, or emotion. Keep up the good work. If I obfiscated the issue, as you claim, it wasn't by intent.
An excellent, lucid explanation of the Incompleteness Theorem with one, small but important point left out. Goedel proves that in any appropriate system there's a statement that can neither be proven nor disproven within the system. In the unlikely event that the appropriate string for arithmatic were generated, there'd be no way within arithmatic to prove it true, but there might be ways using higher math, because that would be "stepping outside" the appropriate system.
And you can wiggle all you want, but it's quite clear where people's priorities are when they think it's just as bad (or even worse) to lie about one's personal life than it is to lie about public policy.
Those are the facts. You are dressing up the massive Republican political hackjob on Clinton as "obstruction of justice", and equating that with lying us into war.
You can wiggle and dance all you want, but it won't change the fact that the actual charge was "obstruction of justice." As far as Clinton getting out of an admission of (possible) guilt because he used a very limited definition insisted on by the other side, good for him! The other landsharks tried to squeeze him into a corner and let him slip out through a hole in the wall. Their fault, and I congratulate him on taking advantage of it.
Not being a doctrinaire anything, I'm willing to be objective and give credit where credit is due, even to an opponent. As far as Bush goes, there's more and more I don't like about him every day, but I still think he's better than either Gore or Kerry, but that's just an opiniion, and I have no proof.
I repeat, the Reps in congress tried to make it as difficult as possible for Clinton to do his job and kill bin Laden, the person behind 911.
It would have been hard to kill "the person behind 911" back when Clinton was President, as it hadn't happened yet. At the time, there was no compelling reason to take him out, and the Republicans shouldn't be blamed for not being clarvoyent enough to know what he was going to do years later. However, keep it up if that's what floats your boat. I'm amused by your attempts to obfiscate the issue and make every democrat that ever lived look like a saint and every republican a devil incarnate.
3> At the same time, the Republican Congress impeached Clinton for lying about a blowjob.
That's a very strnge way of spelling "obstruction of justice," because that's what the impeachment was officially about. You can argue all you want over whether or not he obstructed justice in that civil suit and I'll not reply; it's over and done with and I don't really care that much anymore. However, when you claim it was "about a blowjob," you're simply trying to hide the facts. Considering how much people like you bash Bush about that, you're not setting a good example of how he should behave.
However, the fact that you do not have to rebuild the system because only one user got nailed by the attack is never mentioned.
If you RTFA and pay attention to it, you'll see that the author was talking about a single user system. If that user's private data gets hosed, the system might as well be hosed as well. There aren't any other users to keep on truckin' while the backup gets restored. Yes, I agree with you when you say that having the system iteslf staying up is a benefit, but it doesn't keep the box productive if it's a desktop box that never has multiple concurrent logins.
The article claims that, "After Akhenaten's death, a mysterious ruler named Smenkhkare appeared briefly and exited with hardly a trace." However, everything I've ever read on the subject says that Smenkhare was Tutankhamun's older brother, and was co-ruler briefly during their father's reign, but died young. I've never heard of a claim that Smenkhare ruled on his own at any time. I'm not saying that this discredits the report, but that it makes me wonder just how accurate the rest of the historical parts are.
Civil disobedience certainly implies a willingness to accept those things which you cannot change without resorting to violence, but I wouldn't say that's the essence of it.
As I understand it, Civil Disobedience is fighting against a specific law that you believe to be wrong, and possibly unjust, without attacking the system behind the law. This is done by breaking the law in question to create a test case and defending yourself by attacking the validity of the law. If you're right, the law is overturned and you go free. If not, you're expected to take your lumps. However, judges generally take motive into account at sentencing time and tend not to throw the book at you in such cases.
They should have an International Virus Standards Committee, so that we can waste lots of time and money deciding what the next virus should be named...
Standards are such a wonderful thing; there's so many to chose from.
It also allows the anti-virus companies to inflate their claims of how many threats they can stop. By listing the same one under every name it's known by, they make it look like they're even more protective than they are. Don't know if any of them actually do this, but it's certainly a possibility.
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Nice line. However, I do live in LA, not in the woods, and they have my street address - that's more than enough info to figure out distance to the CO.
You'd think so, and most often you'd be right. I did tech support for an ISP for a number of years, including DSL issues. I remember one case where a customer was right next door to the CO, but was too far away because he was at the wrong end of the loop. That's right, the loop went out and came back making him the last customer on the circuit. Don't know how it turned out, but I hope the telco was nice enough to run him a special line!
Pluto passes closer to the Sun than Neptune, meaning that it doesn't account for most of the mass at that distance from the Sun.
And this means what? Considering that Pluto is closer to the Sun than Neptune for something less than 1/10 of its orbit, I find it hard to see why it's at all significant.
If it is, it's probably because you've only had one or two entry-level jobs.
Or it might be that you were outsourced after over seven years with the company and have spent over two years finding a new job and can't afford to lose it. Believe me, there's lots more reasons somebody's unwilling to risk losing their job than being at the beginning of a carear.
Nonsense. Disregarding the opinions of another person is the sure sign of lack of professionalism.
I don't think you understood what the Parent meant by that. What he was talking about is giving everybody the same level of service regardless of what you think of them personally. If it's your job to upgrade the RAM of John Doe's server, you're supposed to upgrade it in the same time frame regardless of whether John's your drinking buddy or your worst enemy. Doing otherwise is unprofessional.
And when you do, don't go in with a chip on your shoulder. There's a line I've used dozens of times in taking complaints to managers: "You can't fix a problem until you know it's there." Even if you know your CTO is an empire-building, time-serving obsstrucionist, go in acting as though you think he's more than willing to help get things straightned out once he knows there's a problem. You'll get a lot more cooperation that way, and might even get something constructive done.
Generally, sentences are served concurrently, so that they'd only be up for five years, and that's if there's no parole. It's very rare for a judge to specify that the sentences are consecutive.
I've got news for you mate, just because it's law doesn't mean it's *right*, and just because a kid broke the law doesn't mean you should ruin his life for it.
Taken literally, that would mean that kids shouldn't be punished for rape or murder either; after all, they're against the law.
Now, I don't think you meant it that way, but unless "You did the crime, now do the time." applies to everybody, nobody's going to pay any attention to the law.
Letting all those pigeons get cell phones makes it easier for them to let each other know when some sucker in the park is feeding them. I'm sure Tom Lehrer would be thrilled.
Actually, Pluto only seems to cross Neptune's orbit if everything's drawn in two dimensions. In a three-dimaensional view, it's clear that the orbits don't really cross even though there are times that Pluto's nearer to the Sun than Neptune, such as happened at the end of the last century. Even if Pluto and Neptune were right at the "crossing point" at the same time, they'd still be several billion miles apart.
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I'm on Earthlink, in Los Angeles. 19 hops, total. Until I hit the google servers, they're all Earthlink, right across the country.
That's not really a good comparison, because prices in New York City are almost always higher than anyplace else in the country. An accountent once told me that some of his clients had franchises in several states and the ones in NYC had special menus with higher prices. He explained that unions there had made it so expensive to do business that there wasn't any other choice if you wanted to have an outlet there. Don't know for sure it it's still true, as it was about twenty years or so ago, but I'd not be surprised if it is.
Thank you for a lucid, well-reasoned explanation of the other poster's position. You did a far better job than the OP did, because you did so in an objective fashion, avoiding ad hominem aruments, or emotion. Keep up the good work. If I obfiscated the issue, as you claim, it wasn't by intent.
Ah, yes, Lundmark's Nebula, later known as "Second Galaxy." Home to Boskone until the Lensmen wiped it out.
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An excellent, lucid explanation of the Incompleteness Theorem with one, small but important point left out. Goedel proves that in any appropriate system there's a statement that can neither be proven nor disproven within the system. In the unlikely event that the appropriate string for arithmatic were generated, there'd be no way within arithmatic to prove it true, but there might be ways using higher math, because that would be "stepping outside" the appropriate system.
You mean you think it isn't?
You can wiggle and dance all you want, but it won't change the fact that the actual charge was "obstruction of justice." As far as Clinton getting out of an admission of (possible) guilt because he used a very limited definition insisted on by the other side, good for him! The other landsharks tried to squeeze him into a corner and let him slip out through a hole in the wall. Their fault, and I congratulate him on taking advantage of it.
Not being a doctrinaire anything, I'm willing to be objective and give credit where credit is due, even to an opponent. As far as Bush goes, there's more and more I don't like about him every day, but I still think he's better than either Gore or Kerry, but that's just an opiniion, and I have no proof.
It would have been hard to kill "the person behind 911" back when Clinton was President, as it hadn't happened yet. At the time, there was no compelling reason to take him out, and the Republicans shouldn't be blamed for not being clarvoyent enough to know what he was going to do years later. However, keep it up if that's what floats your boat. I'm amused by your attempts to obfiscate the issue and make every democrat that ever lived look like a saint and every republican a devil incarnate.
That's a very strnge way of spelling "obstruction of justice," because that's what the impeachment was officially about. You can argue all you want over whether or not he obstructed justice in that civil suit and I'll not reply; it's over and done with and I don't really care that much anymore. However, when you claim it was "about a blowjob," you're simply trying to hide the facts. Considering how much people like you bash Bush about that, you're not setting a good example of how he should behave.
If you RTFA and pay attention to it, you'll see that the author was talking about a single user system. If that user's private data gets hosed, the system might as well be hosed as well. There aren't any other users to keep on truckin' while the backup gets restored. Yes, I agree with you when you say that having the system iteslf staying up is a benefit, but it doesn't keep the box productive if it's a desktop box that never has multiple concurrent logins.
The article claims that, "After Akhenaten's death, a mysterious ruler named Smenkhkare appeared briefly and exited with hardly a trace." However, everything I've ever read on the subject says that Smenkhare was Tutankhamun's older brother, and was co-ruler briefly during their father's reign, but died young. I've never heard of a claim that Smenkhare ruled on his own at any time. I'm not saying that this discredits the report, but that it makes me wonder just how accurate the rest of the historical parts are.
As I understand it, Civil Disobedience is fighting against a specific law that you believe to be wrong, and possibly unjust, without attacking the system behind the law. This is done by breaking the law in question to create a test case and defending yourself by attacking the validity of the law. If you're right, the law is overturned and you go free. If not, you're expected to take your lumps. However, judges generally take motive into account at sentencing time and tend not to throw the book at you in such cases.
Standards are such a wonderful thing; there's so many to chose from.
It also allows the anti-virus companies to inflate their claims of how many threats they can stop. By listing the same one under every name it's known by, they make it look like they're even more protective than they are. Don't know if any of them actually do this, but it's certainly a possibility.
You'd think so, and most often you'd be right. I did tech support for an ISP for a number of years, including DSL issues. I remember one case where a customer was right next door to the CO, but was too far away because he was at the wrong end of the loop. That's right, the loop went out and came back making him the last customer on the circuit. Don't know how it turned out, but I hope the telco was nice enough to run him a special line!
And this means what? Considering that Pluto is closer to the Sun than Neptune for something less than 1/10 of its orbit, I find it hard to see why it's at all significant.
Not really. The essence of civil disobedience, as I understand it, is being willing to pay the penalty if you're wrong.
Or it might be that you were outsourced after over seven years with the company and have spent over two years finding a new job and can't afford to lose it. Believe me, there's lots more reasons somebody's unwilling to risk losing their job than being at the beginning of a carear.
I don't think you understood what the Parent meant by that. What he was talking about is giving everybody the same level of service regardless of what you think of them personally. If it's your job to upgrade the RAM of John Doe's server, you're supposed to upgrade it in the same time frame regardless of whether John's your drinking buddy or your worst enemy. Doing otherwise is unprofessional.
And when you do, don't go in with a chip on your shoulder. There's a line I've used dozens of times in taking complaints to managers: "You can't fix a problem until you know it's there." Even if you know your CTO is an empire-building, time-serving obsstrucionist, go in acting as though you think he's more than willing to help get things straightned out once he knows there's a problem. You'll get a lot more cooperation that way, and might even get something constructive done.
Generally, sentences are served concurrently, so that they'd only be up for five years, and that's if there's no parole. It's very rare for a judge to specify that the sentences are consecutive.
No, no, no! That's EXTERMINATE! ELIMINATE! DISTROY! Don't you know anything about how those Daleks work?
Taken literally, that would mean that kids shouldn't be punished for rape or murder either; after all, they're against the law.
Now, I don't think you meant it that way, but unless "You did the crime, now do the time." applies to everybody, nobody's going to pay any attention to the law.
Letting all those pigeons get cell phones makes it easier for them to let each other know when some sucker in the park is feeding them. I'm sure Tom Lehrer would be thrilled.
Actually, Pluto only seems to cross Neptune's orbit if everything's drawn in two dimensions. In a three-dimaensional view, it's clear that the orbits don't really cross even though there are times that Pluto's nearer to the Sun than Neptune, such as happened at the end of the last century. Even if Pluto and Neptune were right at the "crossing point" at the same time, they'd still be several billion miles apart.