Either your reading level is at the 3rd grade or English is not your first language, otherwise you would have realized I did not make a baseless assumption.
I never made any claim that all of the signers were unqualifed. I am making the claim that many of the signers are guility of the "expert syndrome".
It's the "expert syndrome". Too many highly intelligent people think that because they are an expert in one field, they are automatically qualified in another field. Thus you have physicists signing petitions for medical or global warming causes, thinking their expertise as a physicist someone carries into completely unrelated fields.
I have no problem with Nobel laureates signing as a private person, but I agree, they cheapen themselves when they use their award to gain status.
If a convicted drug dealer who is let out on parole, he would have to let the police search his home any time they felt like it. That's a standard part of parole terms.
As part of the cease fire agreement with Saddam (from Desert Storm 1), Saddam had agreed to allow UN weapon inspectors to search any place and at any time.
If said drug dealer started interfering with police searches, the police would get might suspicious and assume he was hiding drugs. Saddam was simply the drug dealer on parole and he violated the terms of his parole.
No, we didn't sell Saddam any WMDs. At one point (way back when we were having problems with Iran) an American chemical company did sell them ingredients for some chemical weapons in violation of the law. When it was discovered the chemical company was slapped with a big ass fine (though not big enough since they weren't put out of business).
You are correct in saying that Iraq had WMDs since Saddam used chemical weapons on Iran and on his own people. He may not have had any recently, but he certainly acted like he did by interfering with the UN weapons inspectors constantly and finally kicking them out of Iraq altogether.
Isn't it great how the total banning of all guns in England have eliminated gun related crime. Let's not forget the added benefit of it being illegal to use force to prevent a mugging. The proliferation of CCTV to monitor everything in public has turned England into a paradise.
Considering all the hype and massive delays to make the game perfect, I better have an orgasm when I play the damn thing when it finally gets released or I'm going to be deeply disappointed.
Under this administration? This kind of shit has been going on for decades. The entertainment industry has a death grip on the penises of so many politicians, both demos and repubs, that they can do pretty much what they want. They recording industry is caught in payola schemes and price fixing every couple of years and gets a light slap on the hand, then they go back to business as usual. It happens when the demos are in power, too.
It's a bad precedence to assume you need to be a journalist to have First Ammendement protection. EVERYBODY has the full Rights of the First Ammendment. This kind of shit can get up to the Supreme Court where a ruling could decide that only journalists have that protection. Do we really want that?
I work for a company that does online and automated telephone hiring, so I have a small bit of experience in this area.
Hiring costs are a big deal, especially for large companies. A crapload of stuff can be automated. For example, if there's a minimum age requirement, the application software can automatically ignore all the 17 year olds who applied for a bartending job instead of having some HR person manually go through a stack of applications to sort out the idiots who applied even though they couldn't legally qualify. Trimming down the applicants to those who meet the minimum job requirements can save lots of time and money.
It's also easier to re-evaluate previous applicants when there are new job openings. Just because someone hired for one job doesn't mean you want to ignore them for future jobs. An automated system makes this possible. Paper applications are too much of a pain to review months later.
Data retention is another big deal. I know in California you are required to retain applications for one year (might be a Federal law, not sure). It's a damn sight easier to keep the data in electronic form rather instead of a big ass filing cabinet filled with thousands of applications you will never look at (nothing says you have to look at the applications, just retain them).
Gibson has released an ethernet capable guitar. It also includes the traditional 1/4" connector. I'm still trying to figure out exactly why an ethernet adapter is needed on a guitar.
If anyone had bothered to read the proposed ammendment, they would have seen it needed to be defeated. As is typical of Congress, the naming was exactly the opposite of its actual pupose. It would have made it easy for the big telcos to blackmail^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H charge fees to companies for better connectivity. Thus, companies like Amazon could be guaranteed the best possible connection, while small startups without the big pockets would have been screwed. It would have also forbidden the FCC from setting policies and regulations (which is supposed to be their job) and only deal with situations on a case by case basis - thus guaranteeing they wouldn't do anything since they do not have the manpower or the budget to do so.
I used to work for a e-commerice bookseller. We delt with millions of bookcover images and ImageMagick was a golden for mass manipulation of images.
For ecommerce image manipulation, I found a handy tool called 'phpThumb'. It generates resized images on the fly and caches the results for performance. I worked for an online musical instrument shop and found it to be an incredible timesaver, not just for me, but for the data entry people, too. When a page design required yet another size image for products, I didn't have to go in and run a script on 20,000 products. I just specified the image size in the html image tag's url (handled by smarty). Just make sure the base image is at least as big as the largest image you will need and everything is cool. The data entry people no longer needed to generate multiple sizes of the product image. They just uploaded a single image.
That would be "privateering". A country would issue a letter of marque to a ship-owner/captain giving them leave to attack all of their country's enemies". Sometimes a priviteer's definition of "country's enemies" was a bit loose, though.
If the RIAA wants something and says it's good for music fans, you can be sure it will be something to further enforce their monopoly and abuses as well as extract more money out of your pockets while further limiting our ability to listen to music when and how we want to.
Simple rule of thumb, if the RIAA is for something, I am automatically against it.
What does the income tax have to do with funding the military? Look at the numbers, the income tax takes up a relatively small portion of available funds. The income tax was considered a bad thing by the writers of the Constitution and tried to prevent a perpetual tax without enumeration. Congress was _supposed_ to declare how much money they needed to collect first, then base any taxing on that number. Politicians didn't like to justify stealing money from the public beforehand, so they removed that requirement with an amendment.
As for what part of the government should we get rid of due to a drop in funding. How about the Department of Education? It's not like the Federal Government has any legal right to mess with education.
Amendment 10: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Since the Constitution does not mention education, the matter is reserved to state and local government.
Under California law, your employee is required to give you two breaks during the day on the clock if you work an eight hour shift. At my last job they were so anal they tried to insist I clock out for my two breaks. Not only did I always ignore this demand, I printed out the part of the labor code that specified my break rights and posted it prominently.
Now I work at a better paying job where there is no time clock and my boss smokes more than me. When I take a smoke break, it's usually with my boss and we discuss work related issues. It improves our productivity (and we're sticking with that story).
One way I controlled my daughter's AIM time was to proxy her system through my server running Squid and use iptables to block connections to the AIM servers at certain hours. This rule also blocks AOL web pages, but it's not like anyone is missing anything.:)
iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp --destination-port 80 -d 64.12.0.0/16 -j DROP iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp --destination-port 80 -d 205.188.0.0/16 -j DROP
Originally I used a cronjob to turn it on and off. I've since added an extension that allows rules to be time based. It allows you to add this to a rule:
-m time --timestart 22:30 --timestop 15:00 --days Mon,Tue,Wed,Thu,Fri
As a parent, there's nothing stopping you from confiscating any objectionable games that she does manage to buy
By your logic, my daughter should be allowed to buy alcohol. If I don't want her to have it, I should just confiscate the bottle and punish her. The stores won't be interfering with my parental choices since they won't prevent her from purchasing the booze.
So the judge doesn't think I have a right to decide what my child has access to?
Tell you what, your honorless, why don't you drag your sorry ass over here and take care of my teenage daughter since you have denied me a simple ability I might need as a parent. I may not ever need that tool, but I damn well think it should be my right to decide, not yours. However, since you have decided you know best how to take care of her, enjoy the job.
Before anyone flames me, I doubt there are any games I would not let her rent, but it's still my damn decision.
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Either your reading level is at the 3rd grade or English is not your first language, otherwise you would have realized I did not make a baseless assumption.
I never made any claim that all of the signers were unqualifed. I am making the claim that many of the signers are guility of the "expert syndrome".
It's the "expert syndrome". Too many highly intelligent people think that because they are an expert in one field, they are automatically qualified in another field. Thus you have physicists signing petitions for medical or global warming causes, thinking their expertise as a physicist someone carries into completely unrelated fields.
I have no problem with Nobel laureates signing as a private person, but I agree, they cheapen themselves when they use their award to gain status.
If a convicted drug dealer who is let out on parole, he would have to let the police search his home any time they felt like it. That's a standard part of parole terms.
As part of the cease fire agreement with Saddam (from Desert Storm 1), Saddam had agreed to allow UN weapon inspectors to search any place and at any time.
If said drug dealer started interfering with police searches, the police would get might suspicious and assume he was hiding drugs. Saddam was simply the drug dealer on parole and he violated the terms of his parole.
No, we didn't sell Saddam any WMDs. At one point (way back when we were having problems with Iran) an American chemical company did sell them ingredients for some chemical weapons in violation of the law. When it was discovered the chemical company was slapped with a big ass fine (though not big enough since they weren't put out of business).
You are correct in saying that Iraq had WMDs since Saddam used chemical weapons on Iran and on his own people. He may not have had any recently, but he certainly acted like he did by interfering with the UN weapons inspectors constantly and finally kicking them out of Iraq altogether.
Isn't it great how the total banning of all guns in England have eliminated gun related crime. Let's not forget the added benefit of it being illegal to use force to prevent a mugging. The proliferation of CCTV to monitor everything in public has turned England into a paradise.
I can't find the WGA installation package for my SuSE Linux box. What am I going to do?
Considering all the hype and massive delays to make the game perfect, I better have an orgasm when I play the damn thing when it finally gets released or I'm going to be deeply disappointed.
1. Create a monopoly with an OS so insecure that it's virtually useless.
2. Offer a paid service to provide improved security.
3. Profit!
We should have seen this coming.
Under this administration? This kind of shit has been going on for decades. The entertainment industry has a death grip on the penises of so many politicians, both demos and repubs, that they can do pretty much what they want. They recording industry is caught in payola schemes and price fixing every couple of years and gets a light slap on the hand, then they go back to business as usual. It happens when the demos are in power, too.
It's a bad precedence to assume you need to be a journalist to have First Ammendement protection. EVERYBODY has the full Rights of the First Ammendment. This kind of shit can get up to the Supreme Court where a ruling could decide that only journalists have that protection. Do we really want that?
I work for a company that does online and automated telephone hiring, so I have a small bit of experience in this area.
Hiring costs are a big deal, especially for large companies. A crapload of stuff can be automated. For example, if there's a minimum age requirement, the application software can automatically ignore all the 17 year olds who applied for a bartending job instead of having some HR person manually go through a stack of applications to sort out the idiots who applied even though they couldn't legally qualify. Trimming down the applicants to those who meet the minimum job requirements can save lots of time and money.
It's also easier to re-evaluate previous applicants when there are new job openings. Just because someone hired for one job doesn't mean you want to ignore them for future jobs. An automated system makes this possible. Paper applications are too much of a pain to review months later.
Data retention is another big deal. I know in California you are required to retain applications for one year (might be a Federal law, not sure). It's a damn sight easier to keep the data in electronic form rather instead of a big ass filing cabinet filled with thousands of applications you will never look at (nothing says you have to look at the applications, just retain them).
Gibson has released an ethernet capable guitar. It also includes the traditional 1/4" connector. I'm still trying to figure out exactly why an ethernet adapter is needed on a guitar.
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Enjoy
If anyone had bothered to read the proposed ammendment, they would have seen it needed to be defeated. As is typical of Congress, the naming was exactly the opposite of its actual pupose. It would have made it easy for the big telcos to blackmail^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H charge fees to companies for better connectivity. Thus, companies like Amazon could be guaranteed the best possible connection, while small startups without the big pockets would have been screwed. It would have also forbidden the FCC from setting policies and regulations (which is supposed to be their job) and only deal with situations on a case by case basis - thus guaranteeing they wouldn't do anything since they do not have the manpower or the budget to do so.
For ecommerce image manipulation, I found a handy tool called 'phpThumb'. It generates resized images on the fly and caches the results for performance. I worked for an online musical instrument shop and found it to be an incredible timesaver, not just for me, but for the data entry people, too. When a page design required yet another size image for products, I didn't have to go in and run a script on 20,000 products. I just specified the image size in the html image tag's url (handled by smarty). Just make sure the base image is at least as big as the largest image you will need and everything is cool. The data entry people no longer needed to generate multiple sizes of the product image. They just uploaded a single image.
That would be "privateering". A country would issue a letter of marque to a ship-owner/captain giving them leave to attack all of their country's enemies". Sometimes a priviteer's definition of "country's enemies" was a bit loose, though.
If the RIAA wants something and says it's good for music fans, you can be sure it will be something to further enforce their monopoly and abuses as well as extract more money out of your pockets while further limiting our ability to listen to music when and how we want to.
Simple rule of thumb, if the RIAA is for something, I am automatically against it.
What does the income tax have to do with funding the military? Look at the numbers, the income tax takes up a relatively small portion of available funds. The income tax was considered a bad thing by the writers of the Constitution and tried to prevent a perpetual tax without enumeration. Congress was _supposed_ to declare how much money they needed to collect first, then base any taxing on that number. Politicians didn't like to justify stealing money from the public beforehand, so they removed that requirement with an amendment.
As for what part of the government should we get rid of due to a drop in funding. How about the Department of Education? It's not like the Federal Government has any legal right to mess with education.
Amendment 10: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Since the Constitution does not mention education, the matter is reserved to state and local government.
I support a repeal of the income tax for any reason, what-so-ever.
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That's why I posted it.
Under California law, your employee is required to give you two breaks during the day on the clock if you work an eight hour shift. At my last job they were so anal they tried to insist I clock out for my two breaks. Not only did I always ignore this demand, I printed out the part of the labor code that specified my break rights and posted it prominently.
Now I work at a better paying job where there is no time clock and my boss smokes more than me. When I take a smoke break, it's usually with my boss and we discuss work related issues. It improves our productivity (and we're sticking with that story).
Have you no shame?
One way I controlled my daughter's AIM time was to proxy her system through my server running Squid and use iptables to block connections to the AIM servers at certain hours. This rule also blocks AOL web pages, but it's not like anyone is missing anything. :)
iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp --destination-port 80 -d 64.12.0.0/16 -j DROP
iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp --destination-port 80 -d 205.188.0.0/16 -j DROP
Originally I used a cronjob to turn it on and off. I've since added an extension that allows rules to be time based. It allows you to add this to a rule:
-m time --timestart 22:30 --timestop 15:00 --days Mon,Tue,Wed,Thu,Fri
So the judge doesn't think I have a right to decide what my child has access to?
Tell you what, your honorless, why don't you drag your sorry ass over here and take care of my teenage daughter since you have denied me a simple ability I might need as a parent. I may not ever need that tool, but I damn well think it should be my right to decide, not yours. However, since you have decided you know best how to take care of her, enjoy the job.
Before anyone flames me, I doubt there are any games I would not let her rent, but it's still my damn decision.