Maybe if we're really lucky, we'll throw him under the bus for war crimes and somehow find a way to totally undermine the whole US military (yeah, you're going to sign up and do our war fighting when we won't protect you from the UN.
Wow is that way out there Republican propaganda. People have signed up for military duty for many decades knowing that the US signed the Geneva Convention and that they were to uphold those standards during their military duty. They also knew there could be consequences from them if they broke them. Holding folks accountable who followed clearly illegal orders isn't going to scare away people with real senses of duty and morality from going into the military. The ones without senses of morality we can do without. Things like what happened at Abu Grab certainly hurt the war effort, and our country, far more than it helped.
Certainly you did. I didn't whine. I stated that I thought Rummy and the rest of the administration should go to jail for war crimes. That's not whining. It's stating my opinion. You told me to stop whining. Implying that I should shut up and not voice my opinion. I called you on being a hypocrite. Putting war criminals in jail certainly is constructive in my opinion. And it's far different from suing people with frivolous lawsuits as you compared it to in your earlier posts. If you disagree fine, but if you disagree with me and tell me not to whine, I'm completely free and justified in telling you to do the same.
And I'm sure you were out there telling the Neo-Cons not to 'whine' about stuff they didn't like during the past 6 years, right? right?
Why are you calling me a whiner? It's tearing us apart. Can't you just see my point of view and silently disagree? Why are you whining about my reaction to the neo-cons? Whining about others whining? You must be a neo-con hypocrite. Stop whining about my being glad the neo-cons are losing power. Be nice and disagree in silence.
Sorry. No. I tell you what. I'll tone down the rhetoric when Rummy and the rest of the crew in the current administration are in jail where they belong. The neo-cons are the one's who are supposed to believe in turning the other cheek. Those hypocrites haven't done it, so I'm certainly not going to do it first after they've been slapping away for years.
must disagree with your premise. 6.5 years ago the world was indeed telling the US that there was cause for war.
Ummm, NO. The UN inspectors stated quite clearly that they had been looking all over the place and there were no WMDs to be found. The only thing they found were some ancient/outdated/time-depleted canisters of nerve gas that *we* had given Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war. That's it. The UN inspectors were quite clear, so the 'wholw world' wasn't anywhere close to telling us there was a call for war. The UN was opposed to the war.
Stop trying to rewrite history for the neo-cons. They skewed the data they presented and ignored data that contradicted their story. They went against the UN. The world did NO tell the US there was cause for war. And sanctions are not war, despite what any of your neo-con buddies tell you.
Oh, so now that the Democrats have some power, they are supposed to be all nice, but when it was only Republicans at the top, they were calling Democrats opposed to the war traitors, terrorists, etc.
Screw the Neo-cons. I don't care how much you puke. The great 'uniter not a divider' of the neo-cons polarized us to this point. If they don't like being on the other end of the stick, too bad.
Making a law for that is dumb. Really really dumb. We don't need more laws.
If you want hardware without an OS, but it from a company who sells it that way. They exist.
Most customers (not myself, but most) want the OS already installed so they don't have to do it, and so that they know it is fully supported (drivers, etc) on the hardware.
Dell and many other companies charge more for *nix because they are expected to support the OS they ship with their hardware. The windows community is huge, so their cost for building up the support infrastructure (knowledge base, writing manuals for their support techs, etc, etc) can be spread over a huge number of customers. Their *nix customers are a much smaller market. They still have the expense of researching and creating tech support manuals for it, and training all their techs, but that cost gets spread over a much much smaller number of customers. So while their cost for the OS itself is less (or nothing), the higher per-customer support cost can easily make the overall *nix offering more expensive than windows. It's no deep dark anti-*nix bias, it's the realities of cost structure.
hoodwinked? Why did you think he or the Republicans, who have been spend crazy since the Reagan era, would suddenly actually be in favor of smaller government, rather than just claiming they are so, as they've done for ~30 years now while building a bigger government than the Democrats ever did?
And instead of hiring a guy who actually fought in a war to prosecute one, you hired a mental midget who skipped out on his turn to serve.
No, I want us to continue to pay interest on national debt forever to all debt holders, of which foreign countries are minority.
23% is Directly owned by foreign countries/corporations. They are the direct loaners. A good percentage of other 1st tier debt is resold, and among the buyers of those are foreign countries/corporations/citizens as well. That's 23++ percent of interest we are throwing away. If we pay off the debt we could then invest that money instead of throwing it away, and earn interest on it ourselves.
Your foreign national phobia doesn't hold any water, either.
It's not a phobia. I'm not scared of other countries. I just think it's quite stupid to pay them interest forever instead of earning the interest ourselves.
My god are you screwed up. You want us to continue to pay interest on a national debt forever - to foreign countries. The money won't vanish, our debts will vanish and then we can start *earning* interest each year on investments, rather than *paying* interest each year to foreign nationals, NOT to Americans as you would have everyone believe. Stop with the Voodoo economics.
the public gains interest bearing assets that increase it's net wealth (in the form of T-bonds and the like)
23% of the national debt is directly owned by foreign nations and corporations. Another large chunk is indirectly owned by foreign interests who have bought a chunk of it through an American primary holder.
Those foreign interests are the ones gaining a lot of the interest. Not the American public. Claiming the American public is getting the interest is being at best only partly truthful, if not outright lying about the situation.
It is impossible for the government to go bankrupt - they control the money supply.
Bzzt. That might be true if they controlled the money supply used by all the people they own money to. One of the (many) huge holes to your argument is that foreign countries and interests make up 23% of the debt owners. It's actually more than that if you break up some of the other categories and see that there are foreign investors in many of those.
Those folks won't accept 'funny money' that the government prints up if they think the dollar is unstable/worthless. They'll want it in real currency.
Wrong. Paying off the debt would only manage to transfer the debt burden from the debt holders, who hold the debt as an income-producing asset, to tax payers, who receive no financial benefit from paying the extra taxes.
You mean it would transfer the money that is currently being pumped outside the country (interest to foreign debt holders) back into the pockets of Americans who could then earn the interest themselves.
Keeping up with the idiot neo-con BS I see... Lots of BS.
Who spent us into the huge National Debt?
Reagan, Bush, and Bush II. You can keep claiming Democrats are the big spenders, but the facts disagree entirely with you.
Look at the debt over the years. Pay attention to the years when it goes on an upward curve.
Reagan era: 1980-1988 Bush I era: 1988-1992 Clinton era: 1992-2000 Bush II era: 2000-->
Looking at the graph you see a huge upturn when Regan comes into office, and it keeps on going up at that steep angle until Clinton comes in, when it starts leveling off (and actually going down corrected for inflation). Then under Bush II it takes off for the sky at a higher rate than ever before. And this is with Bush II having both houses fully Republican. The neo-cons are spend crazy. They've had a lot of years to decrease big government, but all they have been doing is increasing it.
If you claim Democrats spent us into the huge debt, you are lying or stupid. Since you are a neo-con, I'll assume both.
If you vote Democrat you are NOT going to like it unless of course you want us to cut and run in Iraq.
It's called learning from the past. Vietnam ring any bells? You can't force people to take on a form of government they don't want. In a recent poll 60% of Iraqi's supported attacks on American troops. Not just wanted American troops to leave, actually supported them being attacked. Sorry, we haven't won any hearts or minds. We are just making more enemies. Staying gains us nothing, they aren't 'coming around to our way of thinking'.
(and let another Saddam come to power..or worse)
Only a dictatorship of some sort can force those three peoples who hate each other (Kurd's, Sunni, Shia) to keep one government rather than split up, as they are eventually going to, into 3 separate countries. We are babysitting a civil war and it's going to stay that way until we leave and they break up. Either way, all we are doing is creating a new generation who hate us even more, producing more future terrorists. This ain't winning the war on terror. It's shooting yourself (ourselves) in the foot.
ignore the NK threat
You mean get so entrapped in unnecessary foreign wars that you have no excess military muscle to show, and have NK know it? Sorry, the Neo-cons have made sure our threats mean nothing to NK.
pay higher taxes (1st thing Dems will do is repeal the Bush tax cuts, especially the child tax credit)
HAHHAHA, god Neo-cons are idiots. I'm an old-time fiscal conservative, which means I absolutely hate the Republican party since the neo-cons took it over. Here's a clue. If you like low taxes, don't deficit spend out the wazoo. Republicans have created a vastly bigger 'big government' than the Democrats ever did. Think the tooth fairy is going to pay for that? No, sorry neo-cons, Jesus isn't whipping out his wallet either. You and I have to pay for this huge monstrosity of a government the Repubs have built. That takes tax money.
Hopefully the Democrats won't be as stupid as the Republicans and leave the debt for the future. Paying off your credit cards each month is the only sane way to build a future. Having such a huge national debt building up is forfeiting our future.
see Wall Street go DOWN
Hahahaha, god you neo-cons are funny. Yeah, that Clinton era did just terrible things for Wall Street. What a moron.
increase the chance for another 9/11
Funny, all the liberals I know supported going into Afghanistan. You know, that place the terrorists were actually based out of. Democrats were all for defending ourselves and getting retribution. They, however, limit it to the folks who actually attacked us. Not someone with make-believe WMDs.
see all progress on illegal immigration stop
Once again you prove to be a total idiot. Democrats aren't the ones hiring illegals to work for them cheaply, displacing jobs for legal Americans. Republican businessmen are.
How about instead I teach a wikipedia fanboy the correct way to cite it as a 'reference'.
When linking to it, include the version of the page that you are linking to, so that you and whoever is reading your misguided posts can actually at least be talking about the same page with the same content, rather than you talking about one page, and your reader who reads it 10 hours later seeing a vastly different page that has different content than the one you are trying to reference.
For example, THIS would be the correct way to reference a page from that dubious website so that you and a reader can talk about the same content.
As to your other point, why do you assume I haven't gone to law school? Contracts and laws are very different things. I'd hoped even someone who hasn't gone to law school could figure that out. And I'd certainly think someone who went to it should know, and not post such an assanine post as the original grandparent.
You work for Oracle, and you are complaining it doesn't work under OpenBSD? The fault is your companies, not OpenBSD's. Geez, have your company support the platform or stop bitching about something completely rediculous.
It's like someone working for a Winmodem manufacturer complaining they don't work well under *nix. Duh, write some supporting drivers since you are the one with the documentation and are the ones supporting the product. The documentation for the OS is already out there and available for anyone to use.
It's probably not blocked... for him. I don't doubt that they let high level administrators see everything. This guy just didn't realize what he was seeing that the masses aren't allowed to.
I had the same problem with our help desk at one place I do some work at. I asked them why they firewalled us off us off-campus folks from terminal services. The tech swore up and down that they didn't firewall it off, and he was off campus terminal serving in, just to prove it. It was a few days before he admitted that he'd soonafter found out that the helpdesk folks get ports passed through the firewall that us regular users didn't.
Umm, I'm guessing people who realized it was insightful.
The closest the US gov't has come to regulating the domestic use of encryption was the aborted "clipper chip" fiasco. Traditionally government spooks have relied upon the eggheads at the NSA to be one step ahead of civilian encryption, not secretly leaning on manufacturers to force them to put in back doors.
Riiiiiight. And I'm guessing they take encryption a lot less seriously than paper printed on laserjets. Right? You know, where they are in bed with the inkjet/laserjet printer manufacturers that secretly print out the serial number of the printer, and the date on each page they print.
If you think the government is worried about counterfeiting, but not encryption, I've got a bridge to sell you.
Declare all the "illegal alies" to be "legal aliens" and you have expanded the tax-base. Right there. Out of nothingness. No further effort needed. It's the best deal on the plnet: the US economy did not have to pay for these folks upbringing or education, but when they're fully-matured adults, willing to work, they come here
FYI, many of them bring their kids along when they cross the border. Those kids get a free ride through school while their parents fail to pay income taxes. Also, the ones who don't bring their families with them send the bulk of their paycheck back home, so it leaves the U.S.
There are far too many good folks who have applied for work visas and are waiting to come into the country legally for me to feel bad for folks who break the law by crossing illegally, or think that they should get to stay, while the honest folks who legally apply get wait-listed.
BTW, I am most certainly NOT a repubican. A lot of those idiots complain about illegals while at the same time hiring them to work in their own companies, or as their house cleaner/nanny.
Also, training costs are mostly internal costs, not money that actually leaves the building.
Hey Coward, costs are for salary for the instructors and all the staff who have to attend the training classes, and who aren't doing their productive job during this time. That money is for real paychecks, which go out to real people for doing things unrelated to the companies focus of busieness. It certainly does leave the building.
If you want to argue for a Linux migration, please stick to facts and don't make bullshit like this up. Anyone seeing this will realize Linux supporters don't understand business, and that will taint their view of facts presented by other Linux supporters.
Hey troll, those batteries were made by Sony, and they were used by Apple, and Toshiba, and Compaq, and... well, by most laptop manufacturers. Put the blame on the real manufacturer, Sony.
I think other folks in the thread understand the problem, just not omeomi.
It's not an easy task, but some folks have done the job pretty well. As someone else in the thread pointed out, the Bose headphones do a very good job. Have you ever tried them at a Bose store? They aren't perfect, but about 3 seconds after turning on the power switch, they knock ambiant noise way way down. It seemed like a heck of a lot more than 10db reduction to me.
Video game movies do not always do well.. but they don't, "always do poorly," as you've stated. Sure, Doom barely broke even after dvd/vhs rental (yet they're making a second [last I heard].. so that says something). But Tomb Raider grossed $131M in the US alone, with another $60M in rental market (plus foreign box office, merchandising
Umm, I hate to break this to you, but the main reason I and millions of other men went to see Tomb Raider was to watch Angelina bounce around in tight clothing. I and many many of those others didn't go see Doom or any other video game movie. A video game movie simply isn't a draw to most people. So using Tomb Raider as an example of how profitable an average video-game movie can be not entirely valid. Unless they were going to cast Denise Richards as the Master Chief, and replace that heavily padded combat armored with some spandex/licra, IMHO there's no way in hell they are going to recoup 200 million on that movie.
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Maybe if we're really lucky, we'll throw him under the bus for war crimes and somehow find a way to totally undermine the whole US military (yeah, you're going to sign up and do our war fighting when we won't protect you from the UN.
Wow is that way out there Republican propaganda. People have signed up for military duty for many decades knowing that the US signed the Geneva Convention and that they were to uphold those standards during their military duty. They also knew there could be consequences from them if they broke them. Holding folks accountable who followed clearly illegal orders isn't going to scare away people with real senses of duty and morality from going into the military. The ones without senses of morality we can do without. Things like what happened at Abu Grab certainly hurt the war effort, and our country, far more than it helped.
Certainly you did. I didn't whine. I stated that I thought Rummy and the rest of the administration should go to jail for war crimes. That's not whining. It's stating my opinion. You told me to stop whining. Implying that I should shut up and not voice my opinion. I called you on being a hypocrite. Putting war criminals in jail certainly is constructive in my opinion. And it's far different from suing people with frivolous lawsuits as you compared it to in your earlier posts. If you disagree fine, but if you disagree with me and tell me not to whine, I'm completely free and justified in telling you to do the same.
And I'm sure you were out there telling the Neo-Cons not to 'whine' about stuff they didn't like during the past 6 years, right? right?
Why are you calling me a whiner? It's tearing us apart. Can't you just see my point of view and silently disagree? Why are you whining about my reaction to the neo-cons? Whining about others whining? You must be a neo-con hypocrite. Stop whining about my being glad the neo-cons are losing power. Be nice and disagree in silence.
Sorry. No. I tell you what. I'll tone down the rhetoric when Rummy and the rest of the crew in the current administration are in jail where they belong. The neo-cons are the one's who are supposed to believe in turning the other cheek. Those hypocrites haven't done it, so I'm certainly not going to do it first after they've been slapping away for years.
must disagree with your premise. 6.5 years ago the world was indeed telling the US that there was cause for war.
Ummm, NO. The UN inspectors stated quite clearly that they had been looking all over the place and there were no WMDs to be found. The only thing they found were some ancient/outdated/time-depleted canisters of nerve gas that *we* had given Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war. That's it. The UN inspectors were quite clear, so the 'wholw world' wasn't anywhere close to telling us there was a call for war. The UN was opposed to the war.
Stop trying to rewrite history for the neo-cons. They skewed the data they presented and ignored data that contradicted their story. They went against the UN. The world did NO tell the US there was cause for war. And sanctions are not war, despite what any of your neo-con buddies tell you.
Oh, so now that the Democrats have some power, they are supposed to be all nice, but when it was only Republicans at the top, they were calling Democrats opposed to the war traitors, terrorists, etc.
Screw the Neo-cons. I don't care how much you puke. The great 'uniter not a divider' of the neo-cons polarized us to this point. If they don't like being on the other end of the stick, too bad.
Making a law for that is dumb. Really really dumb. We don't need more laws.
If you want hardware without an OS, but it from a company who sells it that way. They exist.
Most customers (not myself, but most) want the OS already installed so they don't have to do it, and so that they know it is fully supported (drivers, etc) on the hardware.
Dell and many other companies charge more for *nix because they are expected to support the OS they ship with their hardware. The windows community is huge, so their cost for building up the support infrastructure (knowledge base, writing manuals for their support techs, etc, etc) can be spread over a huge number of customers. Their *nix customers are a much smaller market. They still have the expense of researching and creating tech support manuals for it, and training all their techs, but that cost gets spread over a much much smaller number of customers. So while their cost for the OS itself is less (or nothing), the higher per-customer support cost can easily make the overall *nix offering more expensive than windows. It's no deep dark anti-*nix bias, it's the realities of cost structure.
hoodwinked? Why did you think he or the Republicans, who have been spend crazy since the Reagan era, would suddenly actually be in favor of smaller government, rather than just claiming they are so, as they've done for ~30 years now while building a bigger government than the Democrats ever did?
And instead of hiring a guy who actually fought in a war to prosecute one, you hired a mental midget who skipped out on his turn to serve.
You weren't hoodwinked. You were stupid.
No, I want us to continue to pay interest on national debt forever to all debt holders, of which foreign countries are minority.
23% is Directly owned by foreign countries/corporations. They are the direct loaners. A good percentage of other 1st tier debt is resold, and among the buyers of those are foreign countries/corporations/citizens as well. That's 23++ percent of interest we are throwing away. If we pay off the debt we could then invest that money instead of throwing it away, and earn interest on it ourselves.
Your foreign national phobia doesn't hold any water, either.
It's not a phobia. I'm not scared of other countries. I just think it's quite stupid to pay them interest forever instead of earning the interest ourselves.
My god are you screwed up. You want us to continue to pay interest on a national debt forever - to foreign countries. The money won't vanish, our debts will vanish and then we can start *earning* interest each year on investments, rather than *paying* interest each year to foreign nationals, NOT to Americans as you would have everyone believe. Stop with the Voodoo economics.
the public gains interest bearing assets that increase it's net wealth (in the form of T-bonds and the like)
23% of the national debt is directly owned by foreign nations and corporations. Another large chunk is indirectly owned by foreign interests who have bought a chunk of it through an American primary holder.
Those foreign interests are the ones gaining a lot of the interest. Not the American public. Claiming the American public is getting the interest is being at best only partly truthful, if not outright lying about the situation.
It was built by the government.
No. It was built by the lowest bidder.
It is impossible for the government to go bankrupt - they control the money supply.
Bzzt. That might be true if they controlled the money supply used by all the people they own money to. One of the (many) huge holes to your argument is that foreign countries and interests make up 23% of the debt owners. It's actually more than that if you break up some of the other categories and see that there are foreign investors in many of those.
Those folks won't accept 'funny money' that the government prints up if they think the dollar is unstable/worthless. They'll want it in real currency.
Wrong. Paying off the debt would only manage to transfer the debt burden from the debt holders, who hold the debt as an income-producing asset, to tax payers, who receive no financial benefit from paying the extra taxes.
You mean it would transfer the money that is currently being pumped outside the country (interest to foreign debt holders) back into the pockets of Americans who could then earn the interest themselves.
Keeping up with the idiot neo-con BS I see... Lots of BS.
Who spent us into the huge National Debt?
Reagan, Bush, and Bush II.
You can keep claiming Democrats are the big spenders, but the facts disagree entirely with you.
Look at the debt over the years. Pay attention to the years when it goes on an upward curve.
Reagan era: 1980-1988
Bush I era: 1988-1992
Clinton era: 1992-2000
Bush II era: 2000-->
Looking at the graph you see a huge upturn when Regan comes into office, and it keeps on going up at that steep angle until Clinton comes in, when it starts leveling off (and actually going down corrected for inflation). Then under Bush II it takes off for the sky at a higher rate than ever before. And this is with Bush II having both houses fully Republican. The neo-cons are spend crazy. They've had a lot of years to decrease big government, but all they have been doing is increasing it.
If you claim Democrats spent us into the huge debt, you are lying or stupid. Since you are a neo-con, I'll assume both.
If you vote Democrat you are NOT going to like it unless of course you want us to cut and run in Iraq.
It's called learning from the past. Vietnam ring any bells? You can't force people to take on a form of government they don't want. In a recent poll 60% of Iraqi's supported attacks on American troops. Not just wanted American troops to leave, actually supported them being attacked. Sorry, we haven't won any hearts or minds. We are just making more enemies. Staying gains us nothing, they aren't 'coming around to our way of thinking'.
(and let another Saddam come to power..or worse)
Only a dictatorship of some sort can force those three peoples who hate each other (Kurd's, Sunni, Shia) to keep one government rather than split up, as they are eventually going to, into 3 separate countries. We are babysitting a civil war and it's going to stay that way until we leave and they break up. Either way, all we are doing is creating a new generation who hate us even more, producing more future terrorists. This ain't winning the war on terror. It's shooting yourself (ourselves) in the foot.
ignore the NK threat
You mean get so entrapped in unnecessary foreign wars that you have no excess military muscle to show, and have NK know it? Sorry, the Neo-cons have made sure our threats mean nothing to NK.
pay higher taxes (1st thing Dems will do is repeal the Bush tax cuts, especially the child tax credit)
HAHHAHA, god Neo-cons are idiots. I'm an old-time fiscal conservative, which means I absolutely hate the Republican party since the neo-cons took it over. Here's a clue. If you like low taxes, don't deficit spend out the wazoo. Republicans have created a vastly bigger 'big government' than the Democrats ever did. Think the tooth fairy is going to pay for that? No, sorry neo-cons, Jesus isn't whipping out his wallet either. You and I have to pay for this huge monstrosity of a government the Repubs have built. That takes tax money.
Hopefully the Democrats won't be as stupid as the Republicans and leave the debt for the future. Paying off your credit cards each month is the only sane way to build a future. Having such a huge national debt building up is forfeiting our future.
see Wall Street go DOWN
Hahahaha, god you neo-cons are funny. Yeah, that Clinton era did just terrible things for Wall Street. What a moron.
increase the chance for another 9/11
Funny, all the liberals I know supported going into Afghanistan. You know, that place the terrorists were actually based out of. Democrats were all for defending ourselves and getting retribution. They, however, limit it to the folks who actually attacked us. Not someone with make-believe WMDs.
see all progress on illegal immigration stop
Once again you prove to be a total idiot. Democrats aren't the ones hiring illegals to work for them cheaply, displacing jobs for legal Americans. Republican businessmen are.
How about instead I teach a wikipedia fanboy the correct way to cite it as a 'reference'.
When linking to it, include the version of the page that you are linking to, so that you and whoever is reading your misguided posts can actually at least be talking about the same page with the same content, rather than you talking about one page, and your reader who reads it 10 hours later seeing a vastly different page that has different content than the one you are trying to reference.
For example, THIS would be the correct way to reference a page from that dubious website so that you and a reader can talk about the same content.
As to your other point, why do you assume I haven't gone to law school? Contracts and laws are very different things. I'd hoped even someone who hasn't gone to law school could figure that out. And I'd certainly think someone who went to it should know, and not post such an assanine post as the original grandparent.
There. Did *you* learn something?
Did you stop taking classes after the first day? A contract is not a law.
You work for Oracle, and you are complaining it doesn't work under OpenBSD? The fault is your companies, not OpenBSD's. Geez, have your company support the platform or stop bitching about something completely rediculous.
It's like someone working for a Winmodem manufacturer complaining they don't work well under *nix. Duh, write some supporting drivers since you are the one with the documentation and are the ones supporting the product. The documentation for the OS is already out there and available for anyone to use.
What an idiot.
It's probably not blocked... for him. I don't doubt that they let high level administrators see everything. This guy just didn't realize what he was seeing that the masses aren't allowed to.
I had the same problem with our help desk at one place I do some work at. I asked them why they firewalled us off us off-campus folks from terminal services. The tech swore up and down that they didn't firewall it off, and he was off campus terminal serving in, just to prove it. It was a few days before he admitted that he'd soonafter found out that the helpdesk folks get ports passed through the firewall that us regular users didn't.
Umm, I'm guessing people who realized it was insightful.
The closest the US gov't has come to regulating the domestic use of encryption was the aborted "clipper chip" fiasco. Traditionally government spooks have relied upon the eggheads at the NSA to be one step ahead of civilian encryption, not secretly leaning on manufacturers to force them to put in back doors.
Riiiiiight. And I'm guessing they take encryption a lot less seriously than paper printed on laserjets. Right? You know, where they are in bed with the inkjet/laserjet printer manufacturers that secretly print out the serial number of the printer, and the date on each page they print.
If you think the government is worried about counterfeiting, but not encryption, I've got a bridge to sell you.
FYI, many of them bring their kids along when they cross the border. Those kids get a free ride through school while their parents fail to pay income taxes. Also, the ones who don't bring their families with them send the bulk of their paycheck back home, so it leaves the U.S.
There are far too many good folks who have applied for work visas and are waiting to come into the country legally for me to feel bad for folks who break the law by crossing illegally, or think that they should get to stay, while the honest folks who legally apply get wait-listed.
BTW, I am most certainly NOT a repubican. A lot of those idiots complain about illegals while at the same time hiring them to work in their own companies, or as their house cleaner/nanny.
Also, training costs are mostly internal costs, not money that actually leaves the building.
Hey Coward, costs are for salary for the instructors and all the staff who have to attend the training classes, and who aren't doing their productive job during this time. That money is for real paychecks, which go out to real people for doing things unrelated to the companies focus of busieness. It certainly does leave the building.
If you want to argue for a Linux migration, please stick to facts and don't make bullshit like this up. Anyone seeing this will realize Linux supporters don't understand business, and that will taint their view of facts presented by other Linux supporters.
Idiots cheerleading only hurts the cause.
Hey troll, those batteries were made by Sony, and they were used by Apple, and Toshiba, and Compaq, and... well, by most laptop manufacturers. Put the blame on the real manufacturer, Sony.
I think other folks in the thread understand the problem, just not omeomi.
It's not an easy task, but some folks have done the job pretty well. As someone else in the thread pointed out, the Bose headphones do a very good job. Have you ever tried them at a Bose store? They aren't perfect, but about 3 seconds after turning on the power switch, they knock ambiant noise way way down. It seemed like a heck of a lot more than 10db reduction to me.
Umm, I hate to break this to you, but the main reason I and millions of other men went to see Tomb Raider was to watch Angelina bounce around in tight clothing. I and many many of those others didn't go see Doom or any other video game movie. A video game movie simply isn't a draw to most people. So using Tomb Raider as an example of how profitable an average video-game movie can be not entirely valid. Unless they were going to cast Denise Richards as the Master Chief, and replace that heavily padded combat armored with some spandex/licra, IMHO there's no way in hell they are going to recoup 200 million on that movie.