I still don't see how the fact that different places have different customs means that they can't be governed in common.
Because it's a whole lot more than customs--we have totally different views of the world. Are you going to start telling Arabs that their women have to be allowed in the workplace, government, or army? I think they should be allowed to do what they like. After all, it's THEIR country. Likewise, do you think some idiot from Europe should be able to tell me that I can't own a gun to defend myself with because it doesn't make sense to them? Like bloody hell. We simply don't agree on so many things (and I'll DIE before you take my way of life away--seriously).
Additionally, what about needs? Do you seriously believe that laws that are good for an industrialized port city like New York will apply to rural farming villages in Africa (or in Kansas, for that matter)?
In my (perhaps limited) experience, different states of the USA have different outlooks, but nevertheless manage to subscribe to federal government.
First, there's quite a bit of common culture and belief in the 50 states. But most importantly, MOST decisions are left up to the states (and county/local governments). And even some of that has been eroded since the Constitution was written.
However, France can only *do* something about it if Yahoo has servers or offices in France (I don't know if that's the case). And even then, they can only make things hard for the people who are actually *in* France. This is the way it should be.
As a non-US citizen I don't quite understand the fuzz arount this - after all, you often have identify yourselves (even for a bottle of %%%), and whether that is via a driver's license or a soc.sec.# or any other is irrelevant.
Who said we like things the way they are now? Many of us would like to move away from this.
Don't get paranoid here!
Our national political culture is based on the assumption that government is naturally evil and that those in power are greedy for more power (evil human nature). You're probably from Europe, where everyone blindly trusts in government as a beneficial force. This is a difference of opinion that will probably never be resolved. Nor does it need to be. That's why you don't live in the US and I don't live wherever you live!
I just heard that all the indices and warning signs about 09/11 have been in the FBI/CIA/NSA databases loooong before. Yet no one was able to filter out the unnecessary bloat.
The only bloat is in bureaucracy itself. This happened because of utter incompetence and laziness in government agencies. An ID card WOULDN'T have helped in any way.
If you think I'm going to let someone use one of those damn tattoo things on me, you're nucking futs! Those things HURT! Plus, they mar your appearance! FORGET IT!
In America, there is a deeply entrenched belief in the slippery slope theory--for good reason, IMNSHO. We also tend to believe that government is inherently evil and tends to grab for as much power as it can get. Again, I think there's good reason to think this.
Europeans, on the other hand, think this is paranoid and stupid. We simply look at things differently and there's no need to try to get either one to change. Sorry, but that's just how it is.
Driver's license will suffice in most cases since it has your picture on it. When accepting employment, you have to combine different forms of ID (there are different combinations) like birth cirtificate and driver's license to prove that you're legal.
Dead on. And let's just look at some of the things SSNs are required for. Like, a FISHING LICENSE! WTF?!? I have to have my SSN just to go fishing? This is insane, people. (BTW, I understand having to have a fishing license in a state park. I just don't understand what a SOCIAL SECURITY number has to do with it. Social Security is for a government retirement fund, remember.)
Absolutely. This was the real problem with these guys who took over the planes. The INS (or FBI or CIA, can't remember) KNEW about these guys. They had some kind of document about keeping a watch on them. Somebody at the INS got lazy and decided it wasn't urgent and let it so. That's the nature of government bureaucracy. The sysadmins I've talked to who work(ed) for government say that security is impossible. There's so much red tape, and so many constricting rules, and the pay is so bad that they just can't get good people...or good security.
And in another year, we'll be back where we started.
Kind of scary. It always seems to be either careless apathy or raging stupidity. Can't we ever get people to think soberly about the dangers facing us without going off the deep end?
I agree that there are bad elements on both sides. However, I must point out that viewing copyright and patent as property rights is wrong. The Constitution (and other writings of the authors of that document) make it plain that copyright and patent are MONOPOLY rights. They enable a publisher to have a short term monopoly (14 years, originally) for the purpose of recouping publishing costs. It has zilch to do with property.
I don't know if they're independent or not. But everyone should realize that just because a band is signed to an "independent" label doesn't mean they're *really* independent. Many so-called independent labels are actually subsidiaries of the big RIAA labels.
I guess not too many of these people are listening
They're listening. They're just tuned into a different channel. Businesspeople rate success monetarily. Microsoft makes a *lot* of money, therefore they are a Good Company (tm).
I think he's referring to Alpha's code morphing technology that I asked about in an earlier post here. I saw something about it a year or two ago and think it was called Allegro or something. But I may be confused.
Didn't DEC have a code morphing project for Alpha? I can't remember what it was called (Allegro maybe?) Anyway, the last time I payed serious attention to Alpha, I was reading some Compaq documentation on their x86->Alpha code morphing stuff. It did constant background profiling on all x86 applications, IIRC, and became increasingly intelligent about the translation until it got to the point that it was almost like running native code. If anyone has any pointers on this, I'd like to look back into that.
You might be able to do that. I don't understand how the code morphing works; but the name seems to imply that it takes instructions from other architectures and translates them on the fly into native code. If that's how it works (and DEC had something similar for Alpha--can't remember what it was called right now) then you should be able to just multitask various non-native applications just as easily as you could native applications. And, if not, I understand that the chips were really cheap (somebody in this discussion mentioned 30-40 dollars). You could just get three or four of these things and have each one dedicated to a particular ISA.
Or, as Fats Waller put it, "It ain't braggin' if you can back it up." There seem to be so many companies with only one half of this equation or the other (great technology and sucky marketing vs. great marketing and no technology).
Heh, yes we all love Linux. But can we say that it has "won"? When there are enough good applications running under Linux that it ceases to become a meaningful excuse for people not running it (while there might be other excuses), then I'll consider this a success. It's a success for me right now. But not in the general commercial world.
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Because it's a whole lot more than customs--we have totally different views of the world. Are you going to start telling Arabs that their women have to be allowed in the workplace, government, or army? I think they should be allowed to do what they like. After all, it's THEIR country. Likewise, do you think some idiot from Europe should be able to tell me that I can't own a gun to defend myself with because it doesn't make sense to them? Like bloody hell. We simply don't agree on so many things (and I'll DIE before you take my way of life away--seriously).
Additionally, what about needs? Do you seriously believe that laws that are good for an industrialized port city like New York will apply to rural farming villages in Africa (or in Kansas, for that matter)?
In my (perhaps limited) experience, different states of the USA have different outlooks, but nevertheless manage to subscribe to federal government.
First, there's quite a bit of common culture and belief in the 50 states. But most importantly, MOST decisions are left up to the states (and county/local governments). And even some of that has been eroded since the Constitution was written.
However, France can only *do* something about it if Yahoo has servers or offices in France (I don't know if that's the case). And even then, they can only make things hard for the people who are actually *in* France. This is the way it should be.
Yep, welcome to internationalism. Thank the UN.
I sure as hell hope not. I'm completely sick of internationalism.
Who said we like things the way they are now? Many of us would like to move away from this.
Don't get paranoid here!
Our national political culture is based on the assumption that government is naturally evil and that those in power are greedy for more power (evil human nature). You're probably from Europe, where everyone blindly trusts in government as a beneficial force. This is a difference of opinion that will probably never be resolved. Nor does it need to be. That's why you don't live in the US and I don't live wherever you live!
I just heard that all the indices and warning signs about 09/11 have been in the FBI/CIA/NSA databases loooong before. Yet no one was able to filter out the unnecessary bloat.
The only bloat is in bureaucracy itself. This happened because of utter incompetence and laziness in government agencies. An ID card WOULDN'T have helped in any way.
Come on, moderators--rate this up!
If you think I'm going to let someone use one of those damn tattoo things on me, you're nucking futs! Those things HURT! Plus, they mar your appearance! FORGET IT!
Europeans, on the other hand, think this is paranoid and stupid. We simply look at things differently and there's no need to try to get either one to change. Sorry, but that's just how it is.
Driver's license will suffice in most cases since it has your picture on it. When accepting employment, you have to combine different forms of ID (there are different combinations) like birth cirtificate and driver's license to prove that you're legal.
Dead on. And let's just look at some of the things SSNs are required for. Like, a FISHING LICENSE! WTF?!? I have to have my SSN just to go fishing? This is insane, people. (BTW, I understand having to have a fishing license in a state park. I just don't understand what a SOCIAL SECURITY number has to do with it. Social Security is for a government retirement fund, remember.)
Damn you know Ellison well! ;-)
Absolutely. This was the real problem with these guys who took over the planes. The INS (or FBI or CIA, can't remember) KNEW about these guys. They had some kind of document about keeping a watch on them. Somebody at the INS got lazy and decided it wasn't urgent and let it so. That's the nature of government bureaucracy. The sysadmins I've talked to who work(ed) for government say that security is impossible. There's so much red tape, and so many constricting rules, and the pay is so bad that they just can't get good people...or good security.
Kind of scary. It always seems to be either careless apathy or raging stupidity. Can't we ever get people to think soberly about the dangers facing us without going off the deep end?
I agree that there are bad elements on both sides. However, I must point out that viewing copyright and patent as property rights is wrong. The Constitution (and other writings of the authors of that document) make it plain that copyright and patent are MONOPOLY rights. They enable a publisher to have a short term monopoly (14 years, originally) for the purpose of recouping publishing costs. It has zilch to do with property.
I don't know if they're independent or not. But everyone should realize that just because a band is signed to an "independent" label doesn't mean they're *really* independent. Many so-called independent labels are actually subsidiaries of the big RIAA labels.
They're listening. They're just tuned into a different channel. Businesspeople rate success monetarily. Microsoft makes a *lot* of money, therefore they are a Good Company (tm).
I think he's referring to Alpha's code morphing technology that I asked about in an earlier post here. I saw something about it a year or two ago and think it was called Allegro or something. But I may be confused.
Didn't DEC have a code morphing project for Alpha? I can't remember what it was called (Allegro maybe?) Anyway, the last time I payed serious attention to Alpha, I was reading some Compaq documentation on their x86->Alpha code morphing stuff. It did constant background profiling on all x86 applications, IIRC, and became increasingly intelligent about the translation until it got to the point that it was almost like running native code. If anyone has any pointers on this, I'd like to look back into that.
You might be able to do that. I don't understand how the code morphing works; but the name seems to imply that it takes instructions from other architectures and translates them on the fly into native code. If that's how it works (and DEC had something similar for Alpha--can't remember what it was called right now) then you should be able to just multitask various non-native applications just as easily as you could native applications. And, if not, I understand that the chips were really cheap (somebody in this discussion mentioned 30-40 dollars). You could just get three or four of these things and have each one dedicated to a particular ISA.
Or, as Fats Waller put it, "It ain't braggin' if you can back it up." There seem to be so many companies with only one half of this equation or the other (great technology and sucky marketing vs. great marketing and no technology).
It's a good idea. Unfortunately, OpenStep/Objective C did it a whole hell of a lot better than Java.
OK. Because I had heard that they were much heavier than air and couldn't get into the atmosphere at all. Thanks.
Heh, yes we all love Linux. But can we say that it has "won"? When there are enough good applications running under Linux that it ceases to become a meaningful excuse for people not running it (while there might be other excuses), then I'll consider this a success. It's a success for me right now. But not in the general commercial world.
Mother who? I know of no such person.
Yep, probably a coincidence when you consider that Time is about as far to the Left as Trotsky.
Did they tell you how CFCs make it into the upper atmosphere? If so, how?