Or rather, it allows people to display their technical merit or lack thereof without tainting my social standing with negativity. Therefore I am seen as constructive whereas someone with your attitude would be moderated flamebait.
Gotta point back to the age-old supply v demand question...
If the supply is so short why are the salaries stagnant?
I've never been involuntarily out of work, but I know that companies are doing what they can to drive down the cost of entry-level employees. Luckily, the company I work for uses internships to train kids up to positions rather than H1B them to death. However, my brother is a HR type (right now he consults while instructing at a Naval nuke school) and he knows there isn't a skill shortage. There's a skill shortage at the rate the employer wants to pay. If you pay a unbonded, and uninsured lawn care company who hires questionably documented employees, you are guilty of the same sin.
Same goes for the number of CS degrees declining... If the pay and the jobs were waiting, the kids would line up for the degree. They know that the employer is just waiting for an enabling technology or skill critical-mass that makes off-shoring their job profitable.
Give respect, receive respect is a lazy thinker's mantra to excuse bad behavior. I give respect whether or not it is deserved, and believe it or not it leaves me a superior position.
Employee loyalty is highly conditional. Depends on where you work.
Starting out with a negative attitude is likely to have you treated negatively. A self-fulfilling prophecy initiated by your behavior.
On to the Article:
1.Tech Savvy Purchasing.
Maybe, but from the way the article was phrased it seems like they will be easier to marks for the advertising drones. So far, it seems this is true. Our interns are far more likely to ask if there is a product for a given task, rather than ask if a tool already possessed is adequate for our needs. (Obviously anecdotal.)
Also IT GenY people seem more likely to see IT as a stepping stone to an easy management position. Good self-serving business acumen, but poor analysis of the market.
2.Changing Job Roles and Responsibilities "Everybody in my generation wants to be a leader," says Healy. "There are 22 year-olds who already say they want a leadership position, and they're ready for that. I think it's a pretty cool thing."
This is particularly troubling. I find this as I work with elite and aspiring athletes. Most of them think that they are far better than they are. This stunts their ability to work and grow. They are less likely to stick around and pay dues. This behavior extends into the workplace. GenY'rs seem to have a compulsion to speak when they should be listening.
This could be good if you think a bunch of self-serving ladder climbing egomaniacal syncophants is good.
3.Greening Up the Data Center
Yep. Already seeing this as well. Some of it is valid but a lot of the proposed projects are over-hyped and poorly researched. Some poor schmoe has nearly been sacked because his overzealousness in pushing virtualization where it need not be.
This reaches back to my previous statement about GenY's propensity to buy into marketing.
4. Ending Consumer vs. Enterprise
Ummm... No. The technology for enforcing this delineation is becoming more mature and feasible. This will enable us (Global Security Wonks) to keep the line clearly demarked through such things as temporal workspaces carried around on flash drives. You can carry your work environment with you, but that environment will be hardened to protect our assets, not yours.
A wide distribution of technology does allow some bleed-over but it won't expand as much as this author seems to believe. Also GenY will probably get savvy to the idea that publishing your life online opens it to scrutiny, which is not necessarily a good thing.
5.Bridging the Gap Between Business and IT
Hrmmm... Possibly true, but again I think this is a marketing issue. I think the GenY management types will be easier to sell to. Good for IT, but not necessarily good for the business.
As for the panoramic vision statement... I think that is a result of the current work environment. Businesses are more demanding. They want someone who can anticipate the next step in the business model rather than someone who presses a button when the light turns red. GenY will benefit from this, but this attribute is hardly unique to them.
Mostly, it's more of the same. Some new ideas will stick, some will stink.
I would love to take the salary deduction that I get because of "employer-provided" healthcare and be able to set it aside as a health-fund on which I could collect interest. Add that to my savings in premiums and I would be a happy camper. Instead, I get to live with the lie that my employer provides healthcare and still pay premiums.
Still, I prefer this system to a system where you can't opt to pay cash for faster service and still have that condition treated by the 'state' system, or a system where you have to wait on a drug lottery if you have a rare or advanced stage cancer, or where your triplets are sent all over hell and a half acre because there can't be any exceptions based on your family situation, as that would be unfair to the rest of the recipients of the state provided system.
Yeah, you'd have to throw out that whole Constitution thingy to federalize election standards. Each state can determine how their representatives to the electoral college are chosen. That should stay that way, we are a Republic of somewhat independent states.
It is currently philosophically or politically stylish to erode state's rights in the face of debacles like Katrina, and Florida's voting issues, but that erodes an essential balance of power proposition in our government. I like being able to hold my local officials accountable if they don't handle a situation in a graceful manner (Blanco, Nagin, I'm looking at you.) I like living in a concealed-carry state (although I don't have a permit for such). I like being able to vote with my feet when I feel a state has their taxation all botched up (Hello, CA).
I agree that voting fraud is a pain-in-the-ass but that's for each state to figure out their risk profile.
Please reread my post. I never asserted that the Dems had the majority at the time. I asserted that they exerted considerably political pressure via an aggressive PR campaign to nationalize the security infrastructure. For further information please note the post earlier in the conversation from Sen Tom Daschle. Also refer to Sen Chuck Schumer and Sen Hillary Clinton's opinions on the matter.
Schumer, Kennedy, and Daschle in particular ran PR on their homepages regarding getting people to pressure the President and Congress to establish the TSA.
I wonder how people feel about the fact that the most secure airport in the country is currently not run by "highly-trained gov't employees" but "lowest cost contractors". (Last time I heard it was SFO.)
Not to be a jerk or anything but that's what volunteer organizations and charities are for. I personally am a huge backer of faith-based orgs (They seem to be more organized and active in this part of the US) even though I am an atheist. Luckily, I'm also a pragmatist. If someone is doing a good job who cares how they spend their free time?
The other question to ask there is: If you had been a terrorist who smelled of gasoline, and they had given you a pass, and the flight had subsequently been scattered all over the fruited plain... Would you absolve everyone of responsibility? Would you campaign for tort reform absolving the gov't and the airlines of responsibility in terrorist actions?
IF all you got was a pat down and someone looking through your bags then you were treated no worse than the patrons of many nightclubs and strip clubs that I have worked the door for. 2hrs is a ridiculously long time to be held, but what else did you expect when the Dems were crying for a gov't agency to take over airline security.
It's a bed you and your neighbor helped make. Not some evil gov't conspiracy. Best get to work unmaking it.
Adidas made shoes that came with round nylon and flat nylon laces. The Puma indoor soccer shoe in particular uses flat nylon laces. They continuously come untied unless you knot your laces.
Dunham made shoes that came with round nylon laces and the more athletic shoe models used a weird curvy nylon lace that was supposed to stay tied forever, but failed. I still love and buy Dunham's though. Great shoes that come in 4E!
As a Marine, I have to say that the hacker mentality is very at home in the military. Provided the hacker can use some self-discipline to focus his energy on productive pursuits. Taking apart a piece of classified gear to fix something even though your technically not supposed to == good, talking shit or breaking something cuz it's cool != good.
In the Marines we are taught that the operations theater offers no quarter to those who cannot adapt. The hacker mentality makes you more effective, and versatile which ultimately helps you survive.
The pay. That sucks. If the Marines gave out bonus pay for high-level geeks the way the Navy does for Nukes I might still be active duty. (I'm not just talking about multiples for re-enlistment. Nukes get all sorts of bonuses for various certifications and duty stations. {Two of my brothers are E-6 nukes.})
What I'm saying is that your fact finding is a little anemic, and the studies that infer the sort of results that you claim, are in fact quite flawed.
I would be more worried about carb and/or lactose tolerance than I would be concerned about hormones in the milk. For one, hormones to be taken orally must be protected by adding an alkyl group so that the digestive system doesn't destroy them. This goes for estrogen, testosterone, insulin, and just about any other hormone that you can name. Second, growth hormone is so fragile that it cannot be protected by alkylization. It must be injected to be affective. Third, growth hormone is species specific otherwise we would never had heard of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease. That disease came from harvesting HGH(human growth hormone) from cadavers and injecting it directly into your bloodstream. Unfortunately, this also allowed the prion that had infected the host to be directly transported into your system. rBGH, which can be found in trace levels, is only active in cattle.
If you are worried about the hormone, and antibiotic levels in your milk, I would be more worried about your drinking water as the drugs that end up there tend to be specific to humans and of more varied use.
However, I do agree with part of your experience. If you are prone to indigestion, sleeplessness, poor sleep patterns, acne, and/or general malaise one should definitely pursue getting an allergen panel done. Gluten is another lurking allergen that can cause many different symptoms but is easy enough to avoid.
I have never had any allergies (except sage and urushiol) ever. I was one of those sad sacks that received a 'never missed a day of school' medal. I have never missed a day of work or school because of illness in 25yrs. I have been ill on occasion but luckily it always seems to fall on the weekend.
Currently, I am on a very strict weightlifting and throwing routine that has me drinking 1 gallon of whole milk from a standard grocery store per day.
No consequences what so ever.
Do not attribute your own experiences to the rest of the world, you will probably be wrong at some point.
Really, eh? UK is beating us at being libertarian? The most observed society in world where you can be compelled to offer up passwords to encrypted data is more free? Interesting conclusion.
Canada the bastion of freedom? A place where freedom of speech is abridged regularly? e.g. the Kempling case, Westboro baptist church denied entry, and defacing the Koran is punishable by law?(Ezra Levant) Where you can be prosecuted for hate-speech for calling Americans bloodthirsty? (University of British Columbia Prof. Sunera Thobani)
Your reality must be an interesting place to live.
The US definitely has issues that are questionable, and in some cases outright BS (DMCA, SCOTUS emminent domain decision) but we are hardly the fascist state you would believe us to be. Get over it and do something about the problems that we do have.
There are some valid issues raised there. Unfortunately, according to the nature of man everyone is a hypocrite, you just have to wait long enough for them to espouse views that seem mutually exclusive. Those views may not at odds at all, provided you have the correct context.
Cramer, of Kudlow and Cramer, is a shill and villain. He himself admits that at times he has manipulated reporters to get a better stock price for himself. (That goes back to my First LAW: Trust no-one on television.)
Tax breaks for oil companies? It's actually a suspension of wack-ass royalties or a method of paying a company back for royalties they have to pay to another government on oil. Otherwise, they don't drill or do neat things like bitumen reclamation because it would take at least fifteen years to break even. (Unless you don't like plastics, nuclear materials, and your car I would look elsewere.) It's an attempt to balance out gov't interference with more gov't interference. Sort of like tax rebates, not the optimal solution but better than a sharp stick in the eye. (Disclosure: I work for one of the top 10 oil companies in the world. I used to work for a largish movie studio, trust me, Hollywood's fucking you hard. The oil guys are generally cleaner about their business.)
I'm atheist, and I'm anti-gay marriage. Not in the ceremonial sense of the word. I think you can do whatever you like as far as ceremonies are concerned. However, I do think that the gov't should encourage breeding amongst people who are productive as they tend to produce more productive people. (There is a bell curve here, the 2nd generation wealthy tend to be schleps.) Gay's have a particularly hard to cross threshold regarding the breeding thing. It's inconvenient and inefficient for them.
Flag burning sucks. What a bestial and primitive way to express yourself. It is protected speech. If only I could get punching people like that in the nose declared protected speech. Almost makes me as angry as those wack-ass evangelicals screaming at soldier's funerals.
As an atheist, I have never found it difficult to express my views. As a rule atheists spend more time attempting to restrict religious people than the reverse. Mucking about with Christmas and Hannukah traditions is just rude. Your argument is a bit of a canard. Atheists need to spend less time trying convert people and more time showing that you can lead a moral and kind life without a paternal heirarchy based on imaginary friends.
You've forgotten who benefits most from redirecting liability from the user to the manufacturer.
The lawyers.
Some lawyer, somewhere, thought he could win or did win a suit for every warning label that you see. From the 'Do not leave the driver's seat while the vehicle is in Drive, even when Cruise Control is engaged' to the 'Do not touch the chain while the saw is operating' stupidity.
Sure, that was a response of the local government to people vandalizing the neighbors yards and homes, in addition to the constant barrage of the unwashed masses banging on their door asking to use the restroom, or even better crapping in their yard.
Object lesson, if you plan to camp out and protest on private land, or on public property near private land, please make sure there are bathroom facilities before you do so.
Luckily for the federal gov't the protesters were so ill-behaved that locals had to do something about it before things went from bad to worse.
I completely sympathize with your post. However, coming from another previously dirt-floor poor person, I think you might be a little too despondent for the poor people. They have more than a few examples of how to work out of their situation. My uncle is a classic example. My father and his four eldest have worked their way out of the mire and muck but my uncle still doesn't see why he's still struggling to not be poor. The problem is simple. He refuses to change. When he sees a good opportunity that he would like to take advantage of and he doesn't have the funds on hand to do so, he doesn't think "What can I change so that I do have the funds next time?", he instead thinks, "Fuck my luck."
My wife and I volunteer with several kids from my Dad's church along with my cousins from both uncles... The number one lesson we teach through art, sports, animal husbandry, and outdoorsmanship? Self-empowerment.
The OLPC is the best damn thing since sliced bread... If we can leverage it correctly. Teach the kids that they have power over something, that little PC is a good starting point, and they might start to see that they can cultivate change in their lives and get something a little better.
Of course I'm not all 'bluesky' sales about the thing, but life is full of trials and crushing defeats anyway... Why not try to get somewhere nice between the troughs.
Microsoft ISA is bloated and not easy to configure without careful reading, but it does do the job it is intended for poorly Fixed that for ya... There are good SSL proxies out there. ISA is not one of them.
Not to pick a nit but that's a 'dock' familiarity issue. ObjectDock in Windows, Dock in Mac, and the iBar(Dock) in E17 work the same, if you want to remove an app, just drag it off the dock.
I think they should've gone a little more window-esque for the consumer market. Perhaps they could have thought ahead and given a little tour of the machine. As it is, I keep my Ubuntu systems running gnome because it has some features in common with Winders. XFCE would have been a better choice here, methinks.
(Elive used to have a cool tutorial for E16, if they could do the same for E17 then I would let my wife loose on it.)
Why do people find it necessary to denigrate those that they do not agree with? Every weekday is a little holy day and the significance only varies by which yardstick you measure it. Personally, I like the Germanic tradition of observing the power of my mighty lords each day of the week. Happy Moon's day today, and Happy Tyr's day tomorrow.
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Or rather, it allows people to display their technical merit or lack thereof without tainting my social standing with negativity. Therefore I am seen as constructive whereas someone with your attitude would be moderated flamebait.
Gotta point back to the age-old supply v demand question...
If the supply is so short why are the salaries stagnant?
I've never been involuntarily out of work, but I know that companies are doing what they can to drive down the cost of entry-level employees. Luckily, the company I work for uses internships to train kids up to positions rather than H1B them to death. However, my brother is a HR type (right now he consults while instructing at a Naval nuke school) and he knows there isn't a skill shortage. There's a skill shortage at the rate the employer wants to pay. If you pay a unbonded, and uninsured lawn care company who hires questionably documented employees, you are guilty of the same sin.
Same goes for the number of CS degrees declining... If the pay and the jobs were waiting, the kids would line up for the degree. They know that the employer is just waiting for an enabling technology or skill critical-mass that makes off-shoring their job profitable.
Give respect, receive respect is a lazy thinker's mantra to excuse bad behavior. I give respect whether or not it is deserved, and believe it or not it leaves me a superior position.
Employee loyalty is highly conditional. Depends on where you work.
Starting out with a negative attitude is likely to have you treated negatively. A self-fulfilling prophecy initiated by your behavior.
On to the Article:
1.Tech Savvy Purchasing.
Maybe, but from the way the article was phrased it seems like they will be easier to marks for the advertising drones. So far, it seems this is true. Our interns are far more likely to ask if there is a product for a given task, rather than ask if a tool already possessed is adequate for our needs. (Obviously anecdotal.)
Also IT GenY people seem more likely to see IT as a stepping stone to an easy management position. Good self-serving business acumen, but poor analysis of the market.
2.Changing Job Roles and Responsibilities
"Everybody in my generation wants to be a leader," says Healy. "There are 22 year-olds who already say they want a leadership position, and they're ready for that. I think it's a pretty cool thing."
This is particularly troubling. I find this as I work with elite and aspiring athletes. Most of them think that they are far better than they are. This stunts their ability to work and grow. They are less likely to stick around and pay dues. This behavior extends into the workplace. GenY'rs seem to have a compulsion to speak when they should be listening.
This could be good if you think a bunch of self-serving ladder climbing egomaniacal syncophants is good.
3.Greening Up the Data Center
Yep. Already seeing this as well. Some of it is valid but a lot of the proposed projects are over-hyped and poorly researched. Some poor schmoe has nearly been sacked because his overzealousness in pushing virtualization where it need not be.
This reaches back to my previous statement about GenY's propensity to buy into marketing.
4. Ending Consumer vs. Enterprise
Ummm... No. The technology for enforcing this delineation is becoming more mature and feasible. This will enable us (Global Security Wonks) to keep the line clearly demarked through such things as temporal workspaces carried around on flash drives. You can carry your work environment with you, but that environment will be hardened to protect our assets, not yours.
A wide distribution of technology does allow some bleed-over but it won't expand as much as this author seems to believe. Also GenY will probably get savvy to the idea that publishing your life online opens it to scrutiny, which is not necessarily a good thing.
5.Bridging the Gap Between Business and IT
Hrmmm... Possibly true, but again I think this is a marketing issue. I think the GenY management types will be easier to sell to. Good for IT, but not necessarily good for the business.
As for the panoramic vision statement... I think that is a result of the current work environment. Businesses are more demanding. They want someone who can anticipate the next step in the business model rather than someone who presses a button when the light turns red. GenY will benefit from this, but this attribute is hardly unique to them.
Mostly, it's more of the same. Some new ideas will stick, some will stink.
I would love to take the salary deduction that I get because of "employer-provided" healthcare and be able to set it aside as a health-fund on which I could collect interest. Add that to my savings in premiums and I would be a happy camper. Instead, I get to live with the lie that my employer provides healthcare and still pay premiums.
Still, I prefer this system to a system where you can't opt to pay cash for faster service and still have that condition treated by the 'state' system, or a system where you have to wait on a drug lottery if you have a rare or advanced stage cancer, or where your triplets are sent all over hell and a half acre because there can't be any exceptions based on your family situation, as that would be unfair to the rest of the recipients of the state provided system.
Heh.
Yeah, you'd have to throw out that whole Constitution thingy to federalize election standards. Each state can determine how their representatives to the electoral college are chosen. That should stay that way, we are a Republic of somewhat independent states.
It is currently philosophically or politically stylish to erode state's rights in the face of debacles like Katrina, and Florida's voting issues, but that erodes an essential balance of power proposition in our government. I like being able to hold my local officials accountable if they don't handle a situation in a graceful manner (Blanco, Nagin, I'm looking at you.) I like living in a concealed-carry state (although I don't have a permit for such). I like being able to vote with my feet when I feel a state has their taxation all botched up (Hello, CA).
I agree that voting fraud is a pain-in-the-ass but that's for each state to figure out their risk profile.
Please reread my post. I never asserted that the Dems had the majority at the time. I asserted that they exerted considerably political pressure via an aggressive PR campaign to nationalize the security infrastructure. For further information please note the post earlier in the conversation from Sen Tom Daschle. Also refer to Sen Chuck Schumer and Sen Hillary Clinton's opinions on the matter.
Schumer, Kennedy, and Daschle in particular ran PR on their homepages regarding getting people to pressure the President and Congress to establish the TSA.
I wonder how people feel about the fact that the most secure airport in the country is currently not run by "highly-trained gov't employees" but "lowest cost contractors". (Last time I heard it was SFO.)
Not to be a jerk or anything but that's what volunteer organizations and charities are for. I personally am a huge backer of faith-based orgs (They seem to be more organized and active in this part of the US) even though I am an atheist. Luckily, I'm also a pragmatist. If someone is doing a good job who cares how they spend their free time?
The other question to ask there is: If you had been a terrorist who smelled of gasoline, and they had given you a pass, and the flight had subsequently been scattered all over the fruited plain... Would you absolve everyone of responsibility? Would you campaign for tort reform absolving the gov't and the airlines of responsibility in terrorist actions?
IF all you got was a pat down and someone looking through your bags then you were treated no worse than the patrons of many nightclubs and strip clubs that I have worked the door for. 2hrs is a ridiculously long time to be held, but what else did you expect when the Dems were crying for a gov't agency to take over airline security.
It's a bed you and your neighbor helped make. Not some evil gov't conspiracy. Best get to work unmaking it.
Adidas made shoes that came with round nylon and flat nylon laces. The Puma indoor soccer shoe in particular uses flat nylon laces. They continuously come untied unless you knot your laces.
Dunham made shoes that came with round nylon laces and the more athletic shoe models used a weird curvy nylon lace that was supposed to stay tied forever, but failed. I still love and buy Dunham's though. Great shoes that come in 4E!
Ummm Bitumen reclamation is in production all over Canada right now. ConocoPhillips and PetroCanada do a ton of work with it.
As a Marine, I have to say that the hacker mentality is very at home in the military. Provided the hacker can use some self-discipline to focus his energy on productive pursuits. Taking apart a piece of classified gear to fix something even though your technically not supposed to == good, talking shit or breaking something cuz it's cool != good.
In the Marines we are taught that the operations theater offers no quarter to those who cannot adapt. The hacker mentality makes you more effective, and versatile which ultimately helps you survive.
The pay. That sucks. If the Marines gave out bonus pay for high-level geeks the way the Navy does for Nukes I might still be active duty. (I'm not just talking about multiples for re-enlistment. Nukes get all sorts of bonuses for various certifications and duty stations. {Two of my brothers are E-6 nukes.})
What I'm saying is that your fact finding is a little anemic, and the studies that infer the sort of results that you claim, are in fact quite flawed.
I would be more worried about carb and/or lactose tolerance than I would be concerned about hormones in the milk. For one, hormones to be taken orally must be protected by adding an alkyl group so that the digestive system doesn't destroy them. This goes for estrogen, testosterone, insulin, and just about any other hormone that you can name. Second, growth hormone is so fragile that it cannot be protected by alkylization. It must be injected to be affective. Third, growth hormone is species specific otherwise we would never had heard of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease. That disease came from harvesting HGH(human growth hormone) from cadavers and injecting it directly into your bloodstream. Unfortunately, this also allowed the prion that had infected the host to be directly transported into your system. rBGH, which can be found in trace levels, is only active in cattle.
If you are worried about the hormone, and antibiotic levels in your milk, I would be more worried about your drinking water as the drugs that end up there tend to be specific to humans and of more varied use.
However, I do agree with part of your experience. If you are prone to indigestion, sleeplessness, poor sleep patterns, acne, and/or general malaise one should definitely pursue getting an allergen panel done. Gluten is another lurking allergen that can cause many different symptoms but is easy enough to avoid.
I dunno but I make well over $65K as a glorified sysadmin in a state with a much lower Cost-of-Living than Washington.
So, here we are, back at the beginning. What you may think is market, isn't.
Cute.
I have never had any allergies (except sage and urushiol) ever. I was one of those sad sacks that received a 'never missed a day of school' medal. I have never missed a day of work or school because of illness in 25yrs. I have been ill on occasion but luckily it always seems to fall on the weekend.
Currently, I am on a very strict weightlifting and throwing routine that has me drinking 1 gallon of whole milk from a standard grocery store per day.
No consequences what so ever.
Do not attribute your own experiences to the rest of the world, you will probably be wrong at some point.
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Really, eh? UK is beating us at being libertarian? The most observed society in world where you can be compelled to offer up passwords to encrypted data is more free? Interesting conclusion.
Canada the bastion of freedom? A place where freedom of speech is abridged regularly? e.g. the Kempling case, Westboro baptist church denied entry, and defacing the Koran is punishable by law?(Ezra Levant) Where you can be prosecuted for hate-speech for calling Americans bloodthirsty? (University of British Columbia Prof. Sunera Thobani)
Your reality must be an interesting place to live.
The US definitely has issues that are questionable, and in some cases outright BS (DMCA, SCOTUS emminent domain decision) but we are hardly the fascist state you would believe us to be. Get over it and do something about the problems that we do have.
There are some valid issues raised there. Unfortunately, according to the nature of man everyone is a hypocrite, you just have to wait long enough for them to espouse views that seem mutually exclusive. Those views may not at odds at all, provided you have the correct context.
Cramer, of Kudlow and Cramer, is a shill and villain. He himself admits that at times he has manipulated reporters to get a better stock price for himself. (That goes back to my First LAW: Trust no-one on television.)
Tax breaks for oil companies? It's actually a suspension of wack-ass royalties or a method of paying a company back for royalties they have to pay to another government on oil. Otherwise, they don't drill or do neat things like bitumen reclamation because it would take at least fifteen years to break even. (Unless you don't like plastics, nuclear materials, and your car I would look elsewere.) It's an attempt to balance out gov't interference with more gov't interference. Sort of like tax rebates, not the optimal solution but better than a sharp stick in the eye. (Disclosure: I work for one of the top 10 oil companies in the world. I used to work for a largish movie studio, trust me, Hollywood's fucking you hard. The oil guys are generally cleaner about their business.)
I'm atheist, and I'm anti-gay marriage. Not in the ceremonial sense of the word. I think you can do whatever you like as far as ceremonies are concerned. However, I do think that the gov't should encourage breeding amongst people who are productive as they tend to produce more productive people. (There is a bell curve here, the 2nd generation wealthy tend to be schleps.) Gay's have a particularly hard to cross threshold regarding the breeding thing. It's inconvenient and inefficient for them.
Flag burning sucks. What a bestial and primitive way to express yourself. It is protected speech. If only I could get punching people like that in the nose declared protected speech. Almost makes me as angry as those wack-ass evangelicals screaming at soldier's funerals.
As an atheist, I have never found it difficult to express my views. As a rule atheists spend more time attempting to restrict religious people than the reverse. Mucking about with Christmas and Hannukah traditions is just rude. Your argument is a bit of a canard. Atheists need to spend less time trying convert people and more time showing that you can lead a moral and kind life without a paternal heirarchy based on imaginary friends.
Just one conservative guy's $0.02.
Ummm.... RTFS.
O.S.U.
You've forgotten who benefits most from redirecting liability from the user to the manufacturer.
The lawyers.
Some lawyer, somewhere, thought he could win or did win a suit for every warning label that you see. From the 'Do not leave the driver's seat while the vehicle is in Drive, even when Cruise Control is engaged' to the 'Do not touch the chain while the saw is operating' stupidity.
Thank a lawyer today.
Jeep Patriot... IF you're going to be a goofball, at least be an accurate goofball.
Sure, that was a response of the local government to people vandalizing the neighbors yards and homes, in addition to the constant barrage of the unwashed masses banging on their door asking to use the restroom, or even better crapping in their yard.
Object lesson, if you plan to camp out and protest on private land, or on public property near private land, please make sure there are bathroom facilities before you do so.
Luckily for the federal gov't the protesters were so ill-behaved that locals had to do something about it before things went from bad to worse.
Ok,
I completely sympathize with your post. However, coming from another previously dirt-floor poor person, I think you might be a little too despondent for the poor people. They have more than a few examples of how to work out of their situation. My uncle is a classic example. My father and his four eldest have worked their way out of the mire and muck but my uncle still doesn't see why he's still struggling to not be poor. The problem is simple. He refuses to change. When he sees a good opportunity that he would like to take advantage of and he doesn't have the funds on hand to do so, he doesn't think "What can I change so that I do have the funds next time?", he instead thinks, "Fuck my luck."
My wife and I volunteer with several kids from my Dad's church along with my cousins from both uncles... The number one lesson we teach through art, sports, animal husbandry, and outdoorsmanship? Self-empowerment.
The OLPC is the best damn thing since sliced bread... If we can leverage it correctly. Teach the kids that they have power over something, that little PC is a good starting point, and they might start to see that they can cultivate change in their lives and get something a little better.
Of course I'm not all 'bluesky' sales about the thing, but life is full of trials and crushing defeats anyway... Why not try to get somewhere nice between the troughs.
Take charter flights. Either hired by yourself or your employer.
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB118705417794296758.html
Or get a pilot's license and rent an aircraft.
Not to pick a nit but that's a 'dock' familiarity issue. ObjectDock in Windows, Dock in Mac, and the iBar(Dock) in E17 work the same, if you want to remove an app, just drag it off the dock.
I think they should've gone a little more window-esque for the consumer market. Perhaps they could have thought ahead and given a little tour of the machine. As it is, I keep my Ubuntu systems running gnome because it has some features in common with Winders. XFCE would have been a better choice here, methinks.
(Elive used to have a cool tutorial for E16, if they could do the same for E17 then I would let my wife loose on it.)
Thank you,
From one more embarassed atheist.
Why do people find it necessary to denigrate those that they do not agree with? Every weekday is a little holy day and the significance only varies by which yardstick you measure it. Personally, I like the Germanic tradition of observing the power of my mighty lords each day of the week. Happy Moon's day today, and Happy Tyr's day tomorrow.