Oh please, what politician wouldn't like to cut taxes if they possibly could. Sometimes they even do it at the expense of important programs like health and education, but they do it anyway.
I'm so sick of hearing the argument that if it wasn't for the states then france would still be under germany, therefore they owe the states some kind of special debt.
First of all, the states didn't get into the war until waaay after they should have (they should have joined when Canada did, if not sooner).
Second, the US was only acting to save it's own skin. They didn't join until they were directly attacked, and frankly if their input was so important, and germany was going to be able to unite europe, there would have been nothing the US could do to stop it when the germans came after them next.
Third, why should the US get some special free pass for all time on their insane foreign and domestic policy? Why can't people criticize a country that assasinates elected leaders, sends a Canadian citizen to Syria to be tortured, invades Iraq without permission putting the world at risk of increased terrorist attacks, etc.
I think part of the problem we've been having recently is a sensationalist media combined with a fairly healthy middle class income and easy access to stock trading through the web. Companies can get a lot of investment making grand statements and unfortunantly there will be people who will invest without looking at or understanding the financials.
lol, no, dude, you got the story backwards. In the story it is the ants that work hard and the grasshopper that doesn't. That's all I was saying. I didn't say anything about your applications of the story.
Although, in order for this to work, universal population controls would HAVE TO BE put into place: force a 2 kid max per person law into every country that wishes to trade with us.
Woah there skippy! How about you go first.
You don't need draconian laws to control population. There is only a benifit to having a lot of children when you don't have to pay much for their education and they can contribute. Generally in a rural setting, more children makes sense. They can work the farm and wouldn't need to go to school. They also provide some security for the parents in their old age.
As soon as the standard of living goes up enough, and people live in cities, they will naturally have only two or three children, just because there's so little benifit and so much expense. In fact, in many of the more developed countries the population is decreasing.
So, you want to control world population? More free trade, more globalization and equalization of wages, more respect for the principle that all men were created equal.
Actually, the analogy the RIAA uses is worse. When people download files from your shared directory, it's you who's stealing from the RIAA. I'm always amazed that anyone buys that line.
And while this is true that the very-rich can just hop on their private jets and go to New York... that is not our problem, but theirs. All the country of Canada owes them, is that when their business empires turn out like Enron, a bankrupt ex-CEO still can have his tripple bypass done, even if he is peniless...
Exactly. In fact, the very-rich have already paid for their operation here through taxes. If they want to go to the states that's great, it just means someone else without the money can take their spot in line. Let them pay twice if they can afford it.
THANK YOU! Finally someone who knows what they are talking about. Reading some of the other comments was making me want to tear my hair out. Honestly, just because you've watched steve job's "MHz Myth" movie doesn't mean you know anything about the internals of processors:)
Based on the current copyright laws any "copy" that you make, not matter what form it takes, is still covered under the copyright and therefore the property of the copyright holder. You might have a license to make a copy for personal use but you do not own the file that you copied it into. Therefore it is "file stealing".
OK, your logic doesn't follow. If the copy that you make is still covered by the copyright and therefore property of the copyright holder then all you are doing by making copies is increasing the property of the copyright holder. Therefore, it's the opposite of stealing, since instead of removing property from the owner (copyright holder), you are giving the owner more property. Therefore it is "file copying".
I personally use LaTeX as much as possible, once you get used to it there's just no going back. Can't do that at work though, because every document gets passed around a bit, and people use that collaboration feature in word where you see those little bubbles with people's names indicating who made a change and why.
I googled a bit, and checked the OOo website, but I couldn't find any indication that OO supports this feature. If it doesn't, that's one reason why my company wouldn't switch.
One solution to my LaTeX problem could be to put tex docs in cvs, which is nicer than trying to put a word doc into cvs because at least with tex you can see the changes to the text instead of just to the gibberish inside a.doc.
I dunno, it sounds like a reasonable reaction, but they didn't back it up with money to get a decent firewall, nor did they understand the value/money equation in firewalls.
Maybe it's worth sticking your neck out and sending a letter/formal email about the problem? Even if they don't listen to you at least when you do get infected and they trace the root cause you can keep your job safe.
I was forced to take a lot of comp sci theory classes that have never and will never be useful on the job.
A bit of an aside, but that's why I would recommend Computer Engineering. There's much less abstract work, you get to do things like write your own kernel, make a simple processor in VHDL, some cryptanalysis, I even took a course in databases. On the down side, if you're actually into programming you'll probably do more Laplace/Fourier transforms than you would like.
I think it's great to get the big picture. By the time I graduated I pretty much knew the basics of how everything worked in a computer from the silicon->transistors->logic gates->simple circuts->processors (in detail)->kernel->general application programming, with some knowledge about the internals of databases and distributed archicetures thrown in for good measure. It's nice to have all the inner workings of computer completly demystified.
Meh, just saw something on the news today about the need for selective cutting and burning in national parks. We need fire protection in the forests to help our cities close to the forests, but it leads to an artifically high level of growth that is dangerous and leads to the fire problems we've been having in the last few years.
lol, I'm so far to the left it's not even funny. Read that book I linked too, Amazing Grace, it's quite good for showing the value of the social safety net (or lack thereof). The thing is, I also take a world view. It's hard to argue for protectionism when you think that everyone in the world is of the same value, and should have the same opportunity for a good life.
Look, no one's going to starve to death in the states, that's what the social safety net is for. If anyone's going to starve it's sure not going to be some unemployeed programmer, it'll be someone born into disease and poverty in the south bronx.
Just be glad you don't live in a part of the world that has realproblems and hope that if your job goes overseas it will raise the standard of living for the people who really need it.
Marx also said that capatilism wasn't advanced enough to support communism at the time of his writing. Marx was all about productive forces, and communism was supposed to happen when we went from a situation of relative scarcity to abundance.
If you imagine a world with free electricity due to fusion power, and sufficiently advanced robotics such that providing a basic standard of living for everyone isn't too expensive, communism sounds pretty reasonable. So just sit back, wait for your robotic butler to be invented, and look forward to the revolution.:)
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Oh please, what politician wouldn't like to cut taxes if they possibly could. Sometimes they even do it at the expense of important programs like health and education, but they do it anyway.
It may be waterproof, but does it float? If it didn't I wouldn't take this thing fishing.
Please tell me what elected leaders we have assassinated.
Sure thing. The CIA assasinated Jacobo Arbenz in 1954, Guatemala.
I'm so sick of hearing the argument that if it wasn't for the states then france would still be under germany, therefore they owe the states some kind of special debt.
First of all, the states didn't get into the war until waaay after they should have (they should have joined when Canada did, if not sooner).
Second, the US was only acting to save it's own skin. They didn't join until they were directly attacked, and frankly if their input was so important, and germany was going to be able to unite europe, there would have been nothing the US could do to stop it when the germans came after them next.
Third, why should the US get some special free pass for all time on their insane foreign and domestic policy? Why can't people criticize a country that assasinates elected leaders, sends a Canadian citizen to Syria to be tortured, invades Iraq without permission putting the world at risk of increased terrorist attacks, etc.
I think part of the problem we've been having recently is a sensationalist media combined with a fairly healthy middle class income and easy access to stock trading through the web. Companies can get a lot of investment making grand statements and unfortunantly there will be people who will invest without looking at or understanding the financials.
Hopefully the dot-com bust cured some of that.
lol, no, dude, you got the story backwards. In the story it is the ants that work hard and the grasshopper that doesn't. That's all I was saying. I didn't say anything about your applications of the story.
Although, in order for this to work, universal population controls would HAVE TO BE put into place: force a 2 kid max per person law into every country that wishes to trade with us.
Woah there skippy! How about you go first.
You don't need draconian laws to control population. There is only a benifit to having a lot of children when you don't have to pay much for their education and they can contribute. Generally in a rural setting, more children makes sense. They can work the farm and wouldn't need to go to school. They also provide some security for the parents in their old age.
As soon as the standard of living goes up enough, and people live in cities, they will naturally have only two or three children, just because there's so little benifit and so much expense. In fact, in many of the more developed countries the population is decreasing.
So, you want to control world population? More free trade, more globalization and equalization of wages, more respect for the principle that all men were created equal.
And if that country only got where it was by exploiting people in other countries?
good try, but you got it backwards. Ants work hard, it was the grasshopper that got the SUV.
Actually, the analogy the RIAA uses is worse. When people download files from your shared directory, it's you who's stealing from the RIAA. I'm always amazed that anyone buys that line.
Don't forget, in Canada we get a cool iron ring.
And while this is true that the very-rich can just hop on their private jets and go to New York... that is not our problem, but theirs. All the country of Canada owes them, is that when their business empires turn out like Enron, a bankrupt ex-CEO still can have his tripple bypass done, even if he is peniless...
Exactly. In fact, the very-rich have already paid for their operation here through taxes. If they want to go to the states that's great, it just means someone else without the money can take their spot in line. Let them pay twice if they can afford it.
THANK YOU! Finally someone who knows what they are talking about. Reading some of the other comments was making me want to tear my hair out. Honestly, just because you've watched steve job's "MHz Myth" movie doesn't mean you know anything about the internals of processors :)
Based on the current copyright laws any "copy" that you make, not matter what form it takes, is still covered under the copyright and therefore the property of the copyright holder. You might have a license to make a copy for personal use but you do not own the file that you copied it into. Therefore it is "file stealing".
OK, your logic doesn't follow. If the copy that you make is still covered by the copyright and therefore property of the copyright holder then all you are doing by making copies is increasing the property of the copyright holder. Therefore, it's the opposite of stealing, since instead of removing property from the owner (copyright holder), you are giving the owner more property. Therefore it is "file copying".
but "microwave light" is redundant. Since laser stands for light amplified by stimulated emissions of radiation, maser makes more sense.
I personally use LaTeX as much as possible, once you get used to it there's just no going back. Can't do that at work though, because every document gets passed around a bit, and people use that collaboration feature in word where you see those little bubbles with people's names indicating who made a change and why.
.doc.
I googled a bit, and checked the OOo website, but I couldn't find any indication that OO supports this feature. If it doesn't, that's one reason why my company wouldn't switch.
One solution to my LaTeX problem could be to put tex docs in cvs, which is nicer than trying to put a word doc into cvs because at least with tex you can see the changes to the text instead of just to the gibberish inside a
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I dunno, it sounds like a reasonable reaction, but they didn't back it up with money to get a decent firewall, nor did they understand the value/money equation in firewalls.
Maybe it's worth sticking your neck out and sending a letter/formal email about the problem? Even if they don't listen to you at least when you do get infected and they trace the root cause you can keep your job safe.
Wasn't it software firewall software that was compromised? They're completly different things.
Great thinking show:The Daily Show.
No thinking show:Porn. Possibly also Fear Factor and the various dating shows.
I was forced to take a lot of comp sci theory classes that have never and will never be useful on the job.
A bit of an aside, but that's why I would recommend Computer Engineering. There's much less abstract work, you get to do things like write your own kernel, make a simple processor in VHDL, some cryptanalysis, I even took a course in databases. On the down side, if you're actually into programming you'll probably do more Laplace/Fourier transforms than you would like.
I think it's great to get the big picture. By the time I graduated I pretty much knew the basics of how everything worked in a computer from the silicon->transistors->logic gates->simple circuts->processors (in detail)->kernel->general application programming, with some knowledge about the internals of databases and distributed archicetures thrown in for good measure. It's nice to have all the inner workings of computer completly demystified.
Meh, just saw something on the news today about the need for selective cutting and burning in national parks. We need fire protection in the forests to help our cities close to the forests, but it leads to an artifically high level of growth that is dangerous and leads to the fire problems we've been having in the last few years.
lol, I'm so far to the left it's not even funny. Read that book I linked too, Amazing Grace, it's quite good for showing the value of the social safety net (or lack thereof). The thing is, I also take a world view. It's hard to argue for protectionism when you think that everyone in the world is of the same value, and should have the same opportunity for a good life.
Oh no, the sky is falling!
Look, no one's going to starve to death in the states, that's what the social safety net is for. If anyone's going to starve it's sure not going to be some unemployeed programmer, it'll be someone born into disease and poverty in the south bronx.
Just be glad you don't live in a part of the world that has real problems and hope that if your job goes overseas it will raise the standard of living for the people who really need it.
Marx also said that capatilism wasn't advanced enough to support communism at the time of his writing. Marx was all about productive forces, and communism was supposed to happen when we went from a situation of relative scarcity to abundance.
:)
If you imagine a world with free electricity due to fusion power, and sufficiently advanced robotics such that providing a basic standard of living for everyone isn't too expensive, communism sounds pretty reasonable. So just sit back, wait for your robotic butler to be invented, and look forward to the revolution.