So if I sit in front of Google's NYC office and pick random employees to follow around with a camera or hire a team of paparazzi to chase Larry Page and Sergey Brin around everywhere they go there shouldn't be a problem?
I could make this even worse by mentioning the costs of needlessly invading Iraq in search of WMD or talk about all the wonderful pork projects and "terror funding" that gets wasted but there are people who have written books on the subject and detail this much better than I ever could.
Don't try your to encourage your child to do anything for which they don't have a natural inclination, they will end up hating anything you try to push them towards to forcefully. Give them a well rounded education and make programming one of many things you expose them to, this was what my parents did and I am thankful for it. I lost count of how many people I met in college whose parents had enthusiastically encouraged them to learn one topic or another, especially the children of professors. Some people took off with whatever topic their parents introduced to them but most of them ended up switching majors 4 or 5 times and spending years and many dollars on undergraduate education. Demand excellence in whatever your child has interest in, with the caveat that as they get closer to 18 they have a plan on how they will feed themselves (so you want to be an actor Johnny? Great, better double major in something practical otherwise you'll be waiting tables cause I won't be paying your bills).
It amazes me how many people think this bill provides some sort of amnesty from criminal prosecution. This bill gives telecoms civil amnesty, given the proper government is voted in the executives at the telecoms may very well be brought up on criminal charges and be put in prison.
You do realize that doing something like this publicly would backfire in the worst ways imaginable? You would immediately increase the value of the works and some incredibly wealthy person or corporation may just buy everything out right in the hope that you pay him/her even more money than you had originally planned.
Nothing except the law that he's about to vote for, which will make it so that his AG can't even bring that cases to court.
Very sadly you are uninformed yet modded informative, which shows your ignorance as well as the ignorance of the people modding you. The FISA amnesty only provides CIVIL amnesty, criminal charges are not addressed at all.
This is a BRILLIANT move. It allows him to pick up votes from people who felt who wouldn't be "tough on terror" (Yes I know giving telecoms immunity doesn't make us safer but unfortunately a large portion of the US population does). Once he becomes president there is absolutely nothing keeping him from having his AG nail the telecoms to the cross.
If the goal is to punish the telecoms which would you rather have?
1.) Obama votes against amnesty and looses the election because of it, leaving McCain in the whitehouse to ensure the telecoms never get prosecuted.
2.) Obama votes for amnesty now gets a seat in the white house and then proceeds to have his AG go after everyone and anyone involved in domestic spying.
This is a matter of the least bad choice, from his perspective. I'm sure he would like to have the telecoms prosecuted but making a stand now is not in the best interests of the ultimate goal of prosecuting them.
I agree it can be done but more often than not these sort of things just don't get done. In the example that you have given the cost required for these changes was a small percentage of the cost of before the change. In the case of electronics, they are so cheap that even the smallest increase in cost is a large increase in cost.
Make manufacturers bear the ENTIRE cost of properly and safely disposing of their products, and overnight we'd have cleaner, greener, more long-lasting and durable products.
Very idealistic of you but manufacturers will NEVER bear the cost, it will be passed on to the consumer who will then bitch and moan to their government representation that they are being gouged. The manufacturers will then play the victim, "It's the big bad government restricting our ability to provide you with cheap goods". Now Mr. John Q. Politician is stuck in a real crap hole because the next election is coming up soon and his constituents are angry at him because they are paying what they perceive is too much for certain goods. Also the manufacturers lobby who funded his last campaign are threatening to fund his competition who has promised to rescind any laws that keep the manufacturers from doing business as usual. To compound John Q. Politician's problems the manufacturers are saying they will have to move their factories to more friendly territory in Asia so they can continue to stay competitive providing cheap goods. This would cause thousands of jobs to be lost among Mr John Q. Politicians constituency and many thousands more job losses among the constituency of his colleagues who will refuse to endorse him if he goes against a bill that will hurt their own chances of re-election.
Now he is facing pressure from his constituency, lobbyists, and even his own colleagues.
What do you suppose Mr. Politician does? Stick to his guns and fight the good fight? Hell no he doesn't. He votes to rescind any law that forces the manufacturers to bear any costs that will be pushed onto consumers. Why? because if he doesn't he will be voted out of office and the guy who takes his office will do what he refused to.
Is it right? No. Do I agree with it? No. But thats the way it is.
Desktop icons were deprecated in favor of a folder view applet, that you can have on your desktop, so you can still have desktop icons on your desktop via the applet.
From Aaron Seigo's blog:
"Hey!" I hear you say, "I see icons on that desktop!" That's quite right. (And, I must say, you are quite observant today.;) So what was a mumbling about earlier then when I said the icons were gone?
Well, we now have a folder view applet courtesy of Frederik Höglund. It can view any folder you want, including the desktop folder. You can also set a filter, making it possible to, for instance, view just images or whatever. It uses KIO so you can view remote folders as well. You can drag items to and from it, delete files, scroll, etc. It lines everything up in a nice grid and uses the same drawing routines that Dolphin, Konqueror, KRunner and others use from kdelibs for the icons.
As you can see they didn't get rid of desktop icons, they made having desktop icons BETTER.
Taking the lead of what exactly? Gnome has followed a trend of removing features and giving users few options while KDE has been giving users more features and more options.
Some people feel that completely removing options is a good idea because they are looking to target corporations and limiting options makes support easier, but I have always felt that KDE's approach is much better. Give the users all the options they could imagine and then let them decide what is best. With KDE's approach you can always have some sort of locked down "corporate default" setting that would make support easier but with Gnome's approach what do you do when a user wants a feature that has been removed?
You can laugh at the quality of US military recruits, but they can function even if their command structure is destroyed. A lot of foreign soldiers shit their pants when that happens.
Funny, the Iraqi's seem to have done the same.
I actually agree with the Libertarian party on many things and I actually considered joining the Libertarian party at one point in late 1999. Unfortunately I had a bad experience at two separate libertarian party meetings in NJ and in Oklahoma where I was explicitly told after the meeting by a few members that I was not welcome back due to the melanin that I produce. After these incidents I pretty much swore off every becoming a Libertarian.
My only issue with the Libertarian party's platform is that I actually believe that there are some worthwhile projects that government funds should be put into, but I believe that any such projects should have a very high level of accountability involved; and when I say very high level of accountability I mean Chinese style accountability where you face a firing squad for mismanagement of funds.
So no one gets the wrong idea about where I stand, I am an Obama supporter, but Amtrak is probably the best example of an inefficient poorly run organization that you can find. They continue to receive government funding and bailouts even they have no plan to ween themselves off of government funding they have been receiving since the 70s. Furthermore, even with the all of the government funding that they have received over the years their service is HORRENDOUS and this is coming from someone who used Amtrak for almost 6 years when I was in college and then for two years after I graduated.
I've been on no less than 7 rides to Upstate NY to/from NYC that were suppose to be 5.5 hours long and ended up being almost 12 hours long and one that ended up being almost 20 hours. I've been on a ride that was suppose to be a little over a day long that turned into almost 3 days. A friend of mine found a ticket collector going through her personal belongings and when she reported it no action was taken. These are the thing I have time to type but there was much much more. Bottom line, Amtrak is the Ghetto of transportation in the US.
Here in Manhattan people BUY parking spaces for $225K+. Within a quarter mile of my office there are no less than 6 parking lots charging $45 a day and I've even seen a private "luxury lot" that charged $150 a day.
Political and non-profit organizations are exempt from Do Not Call laws. Also caller id spoofing is not illegal.
Grom he actual bill that was passed:
IN GENERAL - It shall be unlawful for any person within the United States, in connection with any telecommunications service or IP-enabled voice service, to cause any caller identification service to knowingly transmit misleading or inaccurate caller identification information with the intent to defraud, cause harm, or wrongfully obtain anything of value, unless such transmission is exempted pursuant to paragraph (3)(B).
Unless the Obama camp was attempting to defraud, cause harm, or wrongfully obtain anything of value from you it is perfectly legal for them or any other organization to spoof their caller id.
On the other hand, you could have something like Brazil, Blade Runner or 2001: A Space Odyssey. Movies that had different or strange special effects with more supporting features than just that.
Brazil? Blade Runner? This is speed racer we are talking about.......SPEED RACER. A cartoon where one of the main characters got into trouble with his pet monkey chim chim. The main antagonist was a Mr. X a guy who was so subtle that he had a giant X on over his mask just to make him more mysterious.
Illegal immigration is nothing like file sharing. There are perfectly legal routes to gaining citizenship and it baffles me that people act as if they have some sort of right to US citizenship. I have family members who are in Haiti and Jamaica who have been trying to gain US citizenship for years and in some cases decades. They had many opportunities to come here illegally but they chose to respect US laws and wait their turn. Some of them have worked their entire lives and spent thousands of dollars just to earn US citizenship. It irritates all of them when there is talk of amnesty or easing immigration laws because people decide to break the rules. This has been a large topic of conversation in my family for awhile now and the consensus is that they feel like their sacrifice to get into the country means nothing if the laws are changed to appease people who break the law.
The argument that the process is too difficult or too expensive is total crap. As I stated earlier many of my family members are from Haiti(the poorest country in the western hemisphere and one of the poorest countries in the world). The standard of living in Haiti makes Mexicans look wealthy in comparison yet I know dozens of Haitian immigrants who worked hard (in Haiti) saved their money and gained their citizenship legally. If people from the poorest country in this hemisphere can come to the US the right way why is it that Mexicans can't do the same?
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So if I sit in front of Google's NYC office and pick random employees to follow around with a camera or hire a team of paparazzi to chase Larry Page and Sergey Brin around everywhere they go there shouldn't be a problem?
Many people, regardless of their "party" or lack thereof, are fiscally conservative
Every time I hear someone say my fellow Americans are fiscally conservative I get a good laugh out of it. You must have missed out on the whole mortgage crisis and the fact that 43% of Americans spend more than they make thus continuing their slide into debt and eventual bankruptcy.
America is such a fiscally conservative country that we bailout banks to the tune of 25 billion dollars , repeatedly bailed out airlines for a couple of dozen billion every couple of decades, bailed out S&L associations costing the American taxpayer another 124 billion, subsidize the agricultural industry at 16 billion dollars a year.
I could make this even worse by mentioning the costs of needlessly invading Iraq in search of WMD or talk about all the wonderful pork projects and "terror funding" that gets wasted but there are people who have written books on the subject and detail this much better than I ever could.
These people want to remove prepared statements and stored procedures? When they are probably one of the best ways to prevent sql injection??
Don't try your to encourage your child to do anything for which they don't have a natural inclination, they will end up hating anything you try to push them towards to forcefully. Give them a well rounded education and make programming one of many things you expose them to, this was what my parents did and I am thankful for it. I lost count of how many people I met in college whose parents had enthusiastically encouraged them to learn one topic or another, especially the children of professors. Some people took off with whatever topic their parents introduced to them but most of them ended up switching majors 4 or 5 times and spending years and many dollars on undergraduate education. Demand excellence in whatever your child has interest in, with the caveat that as they get closer to 18 they have a plan on how they will feed themselves (so you want to be an actor Johnny? Great, better double major in something practical otherwise you'll be waiting tables cause I won't be paying your bills).
Engineering of a very complex systems overrunning budget and schedule limits and this is news?
News would be if they were under budget and finished a year early.
It amazes me how many people think this bill provides some sort of amnesty from criminal prosecution. This bill gives telecoms civil amnesty, given the proper government is voted in the executives at the telecoms may very well be brought up on criminal charges and be put in prison.
You do realize that doing something like this publicly would backfire in the worst ways imaginable? You would immediately increase the value of the works and some incredibly wealthy person or corporation may just buy everything out right in the hope that you pay him/her even more money than you had originally planned.
Nothing except the law that he's about to vote for, which will make it so that his AG can't even bring that cases to court.
Very sadly you are uninformed yet modded informative, which shows your ignorance as well as the ignorance of the people modding you. The FISA amnesty only provides CIVIL amnesty, criminal charges are not addressed at all.
Or with Dave Chapelle's balls FLASH LINK!!!! You've been warned.
This is a BRILLIANT move. It allows him to pick up votes from people who felt who wouldn't be "tough on terror" (Yes I know giving telecoms immunity doesn't make us safer but unfortunately a large portion of the US population does). Once he becomes president there is absolutely nothing keeping him from having his AG nail the telecoms to the cross.
If the goal is to punish the telecoms which would you rather have? 1.) Obama votes against amnesty and looses the election because of it, leaving McCain in the whitehouse to ensure the telecoms never get prosecuted.
2.) Obama votes for amnesty now gets a seat in the white house and then proceeds to have his AG go after everyone and anyone involved in domestic spying.
This is a matter of the least bad choice, from his perspective. I'm sure he would like to have the telecoms prosecuted but making a stand now is not in the best interests of the ultimate goal of prosecuting them.
I agree it can be done but more often than not these sort of things just don't get done. In the example that you have given the cost required for these changes was a small percentage of the cost of before the change. In the case of electronics, they are so cheap that even the smallest increase in cost is a large increase in cost.
Make manufacturers bear the ENTIRE cost of properly and safely disposing of their products, and overnight we'd have cleaner, greener, more long-lasting and durable products.
Very idealistic of you but manufacturers will NEVER bear the cost, it will be passed on to the consumer who will then bitch and moan to their government representation that they are being gouged. The manufacturers will then play the victim, "It's the big bad government restricting our ability to provide you with cheap goods". Now Mr. John Q. Politician is stuck in a real crap hole because the next election is coming up soon and his constituents are angry at him because they are paying what they perceive is too much for certain goods. Also the manufacturers lobby who funded his last campaign are threatening to fund his competition who has promised to rescind any laws that keep the manufacturers from doing business as usual. To compound John Q. Politician's problems the manufacturers are saying they will have to move their factories to more friendly territory in Asia so they can continue to stay competitive providing cheap goods. This would cause thousands of jobs to be lost among Mr John Q. Politicians constituency and many thousands more job losses among the constituency of his colleagues who will refuse to endorse him if he goes against a bill that will hurt their own chances of re-election.
Now he is facing pressure from his constituency, lobbyists, and even his own colleagues.
What do you suppose Mr. Politician does? Stick to his guns and fight the good fight? Hell no he doesn't. He votes to rescind any law that forces the manufacturers to bear any costs that will be pushed onto consumers. Why? because if he doesn't he will be voted out of office and the guy who takes his office will do what he refused to.
Is it right? No. Do I agree with it? No. But thats the way it is.
It's speculated that this distracts the other team slightly due to the psychological aspect of people turning red when angry."
I'm black, I can't turn red you insensitive clod.
You Never watch tv. Congratulations.
Desktop icons were deprecated in favor of a folder view applet, that you can have on your desktop, so you can still have desktop icons on your desktop via the applet.
;) So what was a mumbling about earlier then when I said the icons were gone?
From Aaron Seigo's blog:
"Hey!" I hear you say, "I see icons on that desktop!" That's quite right. (And, I must say, you are quite observant today.
Well, we now have a folder view applet courtesy of Frederik Höglund. It can view any folder you want, including the desktop folder. You can also set a filter, making it possible to, for instance, view just images or whatever. It uses KIO so you can view remote folders as well. You can drag items to and from it, delete files, scroll, etc. It lines everything up in a nice grid and uses the same drawing routines that Dolphin, Konqueror, KRunner and others use from kdelibs for the icons.
As you can see they didn't get rid of desktop icons, they made having desktop icons BETTER.
Image of icons on the desktop via the applet Original Blog Post
Taking the lead of what exactly? Gnome has followed a trend of removing features and giving users few options while KDE has been giving users more features and more options.
Some people feel that completely removing options is a good idea because they are looking to target corporations and limiting options makes support easier, but I have always felt that KDE's approach is much better. Give the users all the options they could imagine and then let them decide what is best. With KDE's approach you can always have some sort of locked down "corporate default" setting that would make support easier but with Gnome's approach what do you do when a user wants a feature that has been removed?
You can laugh at the quality of US military recruits, but they can function even if their command structure is destroyed. A lot of foreign soldiers shit their pants when that happens.
Funny, the Iraqi's seem to have done the same.
I actually agree with the Libertarian party on many things and I actually considered joining the Libertarian party at one point in late 1999. Unfortunately I had a bad experience at two separate libertarian party meetings in NJ and in Oklahoma where I was explicitly told after the meeting by a few members that I was not welcome back due to the melanin that I produce. After these incidents I pretty much swore off every becoming a Libertarian.
My only issue with the Libertarian party's platform is that I actually believe that there are some worthwhile projects that government funds should be put into, but I believe that any such projects should have a very high level of accountability involved; and when I say very high level of accountability I mean Chinese style accountability where you face a firing squad for mismanagement of funds.
So no one gets the wrong idea about where I stand, I am an Obama supporter, but Amtrak is probably the best example of an inefficient poorly run organization that you can find. They continue to receive government funding and bailouts even they have no plan to ween themselves off of government funding they have been receiving since the 70s. Furthermore, even with the all of the government funding that they have received over the years their service is HORRENDOUS and this is coming from someone who used Amtrak for almost 6 years when I was in college and then for two years after I graduated.
I've been on no less than 7 rides to Upstate NY to/from NYC that were suppose to be 5.5 hours long and ended up being almost 12 hours long and one that ended up being almost 20 hours. I've been on a ride that was suppose to be a little over a day long that turned into almost 3 days. A friend of mine found a ticket collector going through her personal belongings and when she reported it no action was taken. These are the thing I have time to type but there was much much more. Bottom line, Amtrak is the Ghetto of transportation in the US.
Here in Manhattan people BUY parking spaces for $225K+. Within a quarter mile of my office there are no less than 6 parking lots charging $45 a day and I've even seen a private "luxury lot" that charged $150 a day.
You had to pay $400 to get your "girlfriend" to go out with you again. Is that you Elliot Spitzer?
Political and non-profit organizations are exempt from Do Not Call laws. Also caller id spoofing is not illegal.
Grom he actual bill that was passed:
IN GENERAL - It shall be unlawful for any person within the United States, in connection with any telecommunications service or IP-enabled voice service, to cause any caller identification service to knowingly transmit misleading or inaccurate caller identification information with the intent to defraud, cause harm, or wrongfully obtain anything of value, unless such transmission is exempted pursuant to paragraph (3)(B).
Unless the Obama camp was attempting to defraud, cause harm, or wrongfully obtain anything of value from you it is perfectly legal for them or any other organization to spoof their caller id.
The best workspace is at home. There is nothing like teleconferencing from your backyard while you sit in the sun enjoying the weather.
On the other hand, you could have something like Brazil, Blade Runner or 2001: A Space Odyssey. Movies that had different or strange special effects with more supporting features than just that.
Brazil? Blade Runner? This is speed racer we are talking about.......SPEED RACER. A cartoon where one of the main characters got into trouble with his pet monkey chim chim. The main antagonist was a Mr. X a guy who was so subtle that he had a giant X on over his mask just to make him more mysterious.
Illegal immigration is nothing like file sharing. There are perfectly legal routes to gaining citizenship and it baffles me that people act as if they have some sort of right to US citizenship. I have family members who are in Haiti and Jamaica who have been trying to gain US citizenship for years and in some cases decades. They had many opportunities to come here illegally but they chose to respect US laws and wait their turn. Some of them have worked their entire lives and spent thousands of dollars just to earn US citizenship. It irritates all of them when there is talk of amnesty or easing immigration laws because people decide to break the rules. This has been a large topic of conversation in my family for awhile now and the consensus is that they feel like their sacrifice to get into the country means nothing if the laws are changed to appease people who break the law.
The argument that the process is too difficult or too expensive is total crap. As I stated earlier many of my family members are from Haiti(the poorest country in the western hemisphere and one of the poorest countries in the world). The standard of living in Haiti makes Mexicans look wealthy in comparison yet I know dozens of Haitian immigrants who worked hard (in Haiti) saved their money and gained their citizenship legally. If people from the poorest country in this hemisphere can come to the US the right way why is it that Mexicans can't do the same?