I think that the idea is that no demon can force you to make such a pact. They can try to trick you, but when it comes right down to it you have to make the decision yourself. You can't even claim that you didn't understand what you were agreeing to because anybody capable of summoning a demon is (or should be) able to understand exactly what the end result of any pact is going to be.
Even their damn name is synonymous with the word search.
Just because you refer to searching as "Googling" doesn't mean that you have to use them for your searches. As I mentioned in another post I use Startpage.com when I want to google for something.
You might try Startpage.com because it doesn't keep track of your IP, does everything over https and doesn't remove punctuation "to get you more results" when you put the quotation marks around a phrase to make sure that you only saw results with the exact phrase. Much better than Google!
We can strive to ensure that everyone has the same opportunities.
That we can. What we can't do (without things like quotas) is ensure equality of outcome, which is what this article is really about. No matter how neutral and objective Microsoft's hiring practices are, they can't hire women who don't apply there and won't hire women who aren't qualified. There's also, of course, the problem that HR is again confusing credentials for ability, but that's an ongoing issue that's as much of a problem for men with great computer skills but no degree as it is for women.
1. I am an American citizen, and I have the right to enter my country.
Wrong! The first and only thing she says is, "I want my lawyer!" Then she waits until the lawyer's there, and follows his or her advice to the letter. At this point, she's not in a court and there's nothing to stop the Immigration agents from assuming that her use of the Fifth Amendment implies that she's got something to hide.
If there's enough of an atmosphere there will be erosion caused by wind. It doesn't take much air movement to create noticeable erosion when you have hundreds of millions of years for it to work.
I was alive in the Mariner days ('62) but too young to remember that series....
I remember Sputnik and having a hard time understanding how it stayed up there. I still haven't lost my sense of wonder at all of the marvelous things we've done, seen and learned in my lifetime.
It turned a recession into a depression (which we pretend we don't have by simply declaring that non-workers are "no longer in the labor force", which is like saying I'm not fat because these pounds are no longer in my weight force).
There's nothing new about that trick. For at least forty years that I know of, the unemployment rate hasn't counted how many people are out of work, it's been counting how many people are collecting Unemployment Benefits. Once those run out, they stop counting you. And it doesn't matter in the slightest which party is in charge either, they both do it.
That's what may be needed in the long run. For right now, I'm working on the assumption that they're still worth salvaging but the only way they'll do what's needed is to be forced to reform whether they want to or not.
Not just transatlantic. How about flights from Hawaii to Australia, New Zeeland or the far east, with refueling at Midway? Those are long, long flights today even with the fastest airliners. And, possibly, from the West Coast to Hawaii if there's an airport that's willing to handle them.
It's not that payment of taxes is actually optional - it's just that the people see it that way.
If so, just put the screws on the current government to enforce the tax code as written, including the collection of back taxes with interest and penalties. Then, if that doesn't bring in enough money, start eliminating some of the more absurd loopholes. The point is, the problem isn't that there's not enough money in Greece for them to pay up and get things moving again, it's the simple fact that the Greeks aren't willing to do what's needed.
If they were able to do that, would it be a good idea?
I don't know, but if nothing else, it would show the world that they are actually willing to pay what they owe and are trying to act in a fiscally responsible way. Do you have a different plan to offer that has even the slightest chance of working?
One thing we do know is that Greece will never be able to pay its debts as long as paying taxes is optional. If they made it mandatory, including paying back taxes and enforced their tax laws there's no reason that they couldn't pay what they owe, given time. Alas, the only way that's ever going to happen is if the rest of the world refuses to help them until they stop acting like deadbeats, but that's a form of tough love that I can't see the Europeans showing because next time it might be them on the short end of the stick.
Raising taxes won't have any effect because payment of taxes is optional, and most people choose not to.
Now that's something I didn't know and it explains quite a bit about the situation. What was the rationale behind this and did anybody actually expect people to pay their taxes if it were optional? If I were in charge of the negotiations for a bailout, making taxes mandatory would be my first, non-negotiable condition.
You misunderstand. The song wasn't written in 1952, it was a prominent part of an Los Angeles TV show that started in that year. Just about anybody who grew up there in those days knows the words, although they may not know the song's name. It's rather like asserting copyright over the tune of The Bear Went Over The Mountain, which can be traced back to the Crusades.
In the long run, of course, it benefits them too. Not only does it pay off their debts, it gets them back into the habit of paying their taxes. And, of course, getting their finances back into proper order will help them rebuild their economy. They may not like it, but I'll bet they'll like having the rest of Europe let their country collapse even less.
Well, then just use NATO, as I originally suggested, but without any US forces because Greece doesn't owe us any money and it's really none of our business.
Even better, use something like The Birthday Party Polka, which isn't copyrighted at all, and has been use since at least 1952, making it hard for anybody to claim the rights at this late date.
I came to the conclusion weeks ago that having NATO, or some other group of European nations occupy Greece, enforce the existing tax laws (including prosecuting those who won't pay) and using the resulting revenue to pay off Greece's debts was the only way they'd ever see their money. I also suspect that this will never happen because today's European governments don't have the guts to do what's needed.
If what you want is a bloated resource hog, Gnome 3 does that best of all. KDE is also bloated, but not quite as badly. If you actually want to use your computer for something more than running the DE, use Xfce, FVWM, Openbox or one of the many Linux DEs that isn't devoted to taking up as much of your system resources as possible.
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I think that the idea is that no demon can force you to make such a pact. They can try to trick you, but when it comes right down to it you have to make the decision yourself. You can't even claim that you didn't understand what you were agreeing to because anybody capable of summoning a demon is (or should be) able to understand exactly what the end result of any pact is going to be.
Even their damn name is synonymous with the word search.
Just because you refer to searching as "Googling" doesn't mean that you have to use them for your searches. As I mentioned in another post I use Startpage.com when I want to google for something.
You might try Startpage.com because it doesn't keep track of your IP, does everything over https and doesn't remove punctuation "to get you more results" when you put the quotation marks around a phrase to make sure that you only saw results with the exact phrase. Much better than Google!
We can strive to ensure that everyone has the same opportunities.
That we can. What we can't do (without things like quotas) is ensure equality of outcome, which is what this article is really about. No matter how neutral and objective Microsoft's hiring practices are, they can't hire women who don't apply there and won't hire women who aren't qualified. There's also, of course, the problem that HR is again confusing credentials for ability, but that's an ongoing issue that's as much of a problem for men with great computer skills but no degree as it is for women.
1. I am an American citizen, and I have the right to enter my country.
Wrong! The first and only thing she says is, "I want my lawyer!" Then she waits until the lawyer's there, and follows his or her advice to the letter. At this point, she's not in a court and there's nothing to stop the Immigration agents from assuming that her use of the Fifth Amendment implies that she's got something to hide.
If there's enough of an atmosphere there will be erosion caused by wind. It doesn't take much air movement to create noticeable erosion when you have hundreds of millions of years for it to work.
I was alive in the Mariner days ('62) but too young to remember that series....
I remember Sputnik and having a hard time understanding how it stayed up there. I still haven't lost my sense of wonder at all of the marvelous things we've done, seen and learned in my lifetime.
It turned a recession into a depression (which we pretend we don't have by simply declaring that non-workers are "no longer in the labor force", which is like saying I'm not fat because these pounds are no longer in my weight force).
There's nothing new about that trick. For at least forty years that I know of, the unemployment rate hasn't counted how many people are out of work, it's been counting how many people are collecting Unemployment Benefits. Once those run out, they stop counting you. And it doesn't matter in the slightest which party is in charge either, they both do it.
That's what may be needed in the long run. For right now, I'm working on the assumption that they're still worth salvaging but the only way they'll do what's needed is to be forced to reform whether they want to or not.
Not just transatlantic. How about flights from Hawaii to Australia, New Zeeland or the far east, with refueling at Midway? Those are long, long flights today even with the fastest airliners. And, possibly, from the West Coast to Hawaii if there's an airport that's willing to handle them.
It's not that payment of taxes is actually optional - it's just that the people see it that way.
If so, just put the screws on the current government to enforce the tax code as written, including the collection of back taxes with interest and penalties. Then, if that doesn't bring in enough money, start eliminating some of the more absurd loopholes. The point is, the problem isn't that there's not enough money in Greece for them to pay up and get things moving again, it's the simple fact that the Greeks aren't willing to do what's needed.
If they were able to do that, would it be a good idea?
I don't know, but if nothing else, it would show the world that they are actually willing to pay what they owe and are trying to act in a fiscally responsible way. Do you have a different plan to offer that has even the slightest chance of working?
One thing we do know is that Greece will never be able to pay its debts as long as paying taxes is optional. If they made it mandatory, including paying back taxes and enforced their tax laws there's no reason that they couldn't pay what they owe, given time. Alas, the only way that's ever going to happen is if the rest of the world refuses to help them until they stop acting like deadbeats, but that's a form of tough love that I can't see the Europeans showing because next time it might be them on the short end of the stick.
This deal is just a publicity stunt for the US.
There's a famous slogan to describe this sort of thing: "Peace in our time!"
So don't call it NATO. Use troops from the various NATO countries (except the USA) and call it something different.
Raising taxes won't have any effect because payment of taxes is optional, and most people choose not to.
Now that's something I didn't know and it explains quite a bit about the situation. What was the rationale behind this and did anybody actually expect people to pay their taxes if it were optional? If I were in charge of the negotiations for a bailout, making taxes mandatory would be my first, non-negotiable condition.
You misunderstand. The song wasn't written in 1952, it was a prominent part of an Los Angeles TV show that started in that year. Just about anybody who grew up there in those days knows the words, although they may not know the song's name. It's rather like asserting copyright over the tune of The Bear Went Over The Mountain, which can be traced back to the Crusades.
In the long run, of course, it benefits them too. Not only does it pay off their debts, it gets them back into the habit of paying their taxes. And, of course, getting their finances back into proper order will help them rebuild their economy. They may not like it, but I'll bet they'll like having the rest of Europe let their country collapse even less.
Well, then just use NATO, as I originally suggested, but without any US forces because Greece doesn't owe us any money and it's really none of our business.
Even better, use something like The Birthday Party Polka, which isn't copyrighted at all, and has been use since at least 1952, making it hard for anybody to claim the rights at this late date.
I came to the conclusion weeks ago that having NATO, or some other group of European nations occupy Greece, enforce the existing tax laws (including prosecuting those who won't pay) and using the resulting revenue to pay off Greece's debts was the only way they'd ever see their money. I also suspect that this will never happen because today's European governments don't have the guts to do what's needed.
The default DE for Fedora is Gnome, but you can also get a KDE spin as well, so you can try both DEs on the same distro for a fair comparison.
If what you want is a bloated resource hog, Gnome 3 does that best of all. KDE is also bloated, but not quite as badly. If you actually want to use your computer for something more than running the DE, use Xfce, FVWM, Openbox or one of the many Linux DEs that isn't devoted to taking up as much of your system resources as possible.
Do you always respond to your own posts to make it look like somebody agrees with you?
Nice comment, and it just might help newcomers if there were such a manual. Alas, I meant to type RTFA, and used the wrong finger-macro.