I don't mind the keyboard design of my old T22, it works just fine for me in the field. My problem is with the nudger IBM decided to use instead of a strokepad mouse. Hate it, hate it, hate it.
As far as a desktop keyboard goes, I use an old Micron RTS5158 that's lasted a helluva lot longer than other keyboards I've tried, including some 70 & 80 buck Microsofts. The feel is perfect for me, and I love the feedback. And yes, I type on it several hours every day.
The trouble was, it was just too difficult to fire anybody. In the litigation-happy workplace that was late 20th century America, a guy had to practically set fire to his cubicle with two secretaries tied to chairs inside it before he could be let go.
He's Management. They're always the last ones out the door because they don't trust anybody else, and they wanna steal all the best stuff. They hate competition for the goodies...
Nope, they are going to move NASA over to the DOD budget and cut both. The Ares project is dead and the death of ISS is not far off. On the other hand, if they get rid of Hansen and the rest of his global warming buddies, it might be a good deal.
More like, move NASA over to DoD and get rid of all those pesky civilian applications that have nothing to do with killing anything you percieve as an 'enemy' with extreme prejudice, like those pesky scientists wanting to talk with Martians or saying things like "Hey, we really need to put boots on Mars, think of all the cool shit we can learn!" Now, for them to get any funding above the level of coffee money, they're gonna have to say something like, "Hey, we really need to put boots on Mars. Think of all the cool military applications we can cook up!"
It's beginning to appear to me that any space colonisation efforts are going to be wearing military uniforms, and the foremost leaders won't be speaking English as a first language...
This is gonna sound cold but I really don't give a shit about Afghani schoolchildren or women. I give a shit about seeing a Government come to power in Afghanistan that can keep their own fanatics from flying airplanes into our buildings. I don't believe that such a Government has come to power yet -- hence we need to remain there.
Actually, the guys who flew into the WTC were Saudis for the most part, no Afghans were involved. And those guys' connection with Bin Laden was more of a bunch of guys hitting up a banker for a loan; Bin Laden's checks had stopped bouncing for a change.
Afghanistan circa 2001 was kind of like Cambodia circa 1970, in that 'the government' had very little control outside of the capital. In 1970 Cambodia, once you got outside of Royal Family-controlled Phnom Penh, you were up to your ass in Khmer Rouge. Likewise, in Afghanistan in '01, step outside the city limits of Kubul, you don't see anybody claiming to be Taliban. When the US, fully knowing the situation there, demanded the Taliban cough up Bin Laden Right Fucking Now Or Else, the Taliban flat out told them 'We can't.' Not "We won't', but 'We can't'. The main reason Bin Laden was out there in a cave 500 miles due west of the 20th Century to begin with was because the Afghani government couldn't get to him out there.
Actually, Apple is very common on college campuses, and iWork is a great alternative for spreadsheet, word processing, and presentation. And it's $80 or $90. I also use NeoOffice, which is slow but works well enough for me.
NeoOffice is just OO ported to OS X and hacked on a bit for a closer fit with the OS.
It's not so much that they succeed in business, what they do succeed at is debunking the myth that all science and innovation comes from the ivory towers of academia or the razorwire topped walls of the military. The new 'hot' sciences, robotics and biotech, have much lower entry points due to cheap desktop computers and equipment. SOMETHING will come of this. Whether Joe Sixpack likes it or not has yet to be determined...
What I said was, if you want a lobby's campaign contribution, you'll vote in their interest. Without campaign contributions, you have no chance of being elected to office, except maybe as dogcatcher in some town that's just a wide spot in the road where you know everybody. And I never said that once in office, the politician will do what's right for 'the good of the people'. History tells me different, that an 'honest politician' is one that stays bought. There's always another election coming up, and if a politician wants in on it, they'll need campaign contributions. You think those tv ads are free??? At the bottom of the screen and at the last few seconds, there's always a disclaimer that a given ad was 'Paid for by the Committee to Elect (insert name here)'. Tv & radio stations and print media (newspapers, magazines, etc) are businesses. They're in business to make money. They make money by selling advertising. The people who make those tv and radio ads are paid to do it, they don't work for free. Where's that money come from? In a politician's case, from campaign contributions.
Look at history: COINTELPRO, agents provocateurs, enemies lists, McCarthyism.
And this has what to do with this guy?
Having lived through the McCarthy Red Hunt era, I can categorically tell you that you could have been a suspected Communist if you'd worn a red shirt to work on the wrong day. And you could be blacklisted if you couldn't name other Communists for them to chase. There's a similar program working here in my county in Arizona with the sheriff's department for suspected drug dealers in that you 'roll on three, walk away free'. You have to name three drug users or dealers to get off scott free after testifying in open court. Otherwise, you could go to prison for drug offenses even as trivial as possession of a roach or 'paraphenalia'.
What the OP says to me is, he kept quiet to stay under the radar and not become a 'person of interest' in the climate of the times, when our beloved Leader was bellowing 'You are either with us or you're with the terrorrorrorrorrists'. Not having US citizenship at the time, he could have been immediately deported if the government felt he was a risk.
Get your facts straight. The legal justification was not written by the Clinton Justice department.
Oh, so you don't know about the Jamie Gorelick's infamous statement on FISA in 1994: "The Department of Justice believes, and the case law supports, that the president has inherent authority to conduct warrantless physical searches for foreign intelligence purposes." "Inherent authority" means, of course, that Congress cannot take that authority away with a statute, such as FISA.
Notice that opinion was for physical searches for foreign intelligence purposes, not warrantless wiretapping of US citizens. FISA has a system in place already to grant warrants 72 hours after the fact of the search in cases demanding immediate action. IIRC, in the entire history of FISA, only 5 warrant requests were turned down, but later granted when the agents reapplied with proper paperwork. Makes me think FISA is just a rubberstamp patina of legality, but at least we get the rubberstamp and the accountability. With warrantless wiretaps, there is neither.
No, that is correct. Vote against any lobby's interest and you'll never see another dime from them. The telecoms were bigtime contributors the last few years. And without campaign contributions financing your effort, you don't get elected in the US.
ah but see now they won't need to bug you.. they can talk amongst themselves. Leaving us time to play WOW : )
They're not talking amongst themselves, they're conspiring. Make sure your passport is up to date and your reservations are in the airline computer to Rio just in case...
Not to invoke Godwin's Law here, but would you rather had the Boys from Berlin develop the first nuclear weapon during World War 2? Personally, I'm glad the US beat them to it.
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Dammit, I gotta redo my wardrobe. And get a haircut...
As far as a desktop keyboard goes, I use an old Micron RTS5158 that's lasted a helluva lot longer than other keyboards I've tried, including some 70 & 80 buck Microsofts. The feel is perfect for me, and I love the feedback. And yes, I type on it several hours every day.
Oh, come on, I put them out!!!
It gets you out of range of flying chairs?
Um, no, IIRC. MINIX worked on clones back then, circa '87, when they really started to hit the desktop hard.
But there is a cure.
He's Management. They're always the last ones out the door because they don't trust anybody else, and they wanna steal all the best stuff. They hate competition for the goodies...
More likely, press releases. I smell a spin doctor there...
Better question: How many base-pairs does it take to unmake my hot 19 year old neighbor's jeans?
Looks pretty win-win to me...
But those 75,000 are the marketting department. Can't lay them off, who'd sell the software?
Why do you think we started SETI in the first place? We wanted to find intelligent life someplace in the Universe, cause there's fuck-all down here...
More like, move NASA over to DoD and get rid of all those pesky civilian applications that have nothing to do with killing anything you percieve as an 'enemy' with extreme prejudice, like those pesky scientists wanting to talk with Martians or saying things like "Hey, we really need to put boots on Mars, think of all the cool shit we can learn!" Now, for them to get any funding above the level of coffee money, they're gonna have to say something like, "Hey, we really need to put boots on Mars. Think of all the cool military applications we can cook up!"
It's beginning to appear to me that any space colonisation efforts are going to be wearing military uniforms, and the foremost leaders won't be speaking English as a first language...
Actually, the guys who flew into the WTC were Saudis for the most part, no Afghans were involved. And those guys' connection with Bin Laden was more of a bunch of guys hitting up a banker for a loan; Bin Laden's checks had stopped bouncing for a change.
Afghanistan circa 2001 was kind of like Cambodia circa 1970, in that 'the government' had very little control outside of the capital. In 1970 Cambodia, once you got outside of Royal Family-controlled Phnom Penh, you were up to your ass in Khmer Rouge. Likewise, in Afghanistan in '01, step outside the city limits of Kubul, you don't see anybody claiming to be Taliban. When the US, fully knowing the situation there, demanded the Taliban cough up Bin Laden Right Fucking Now Or Else, the Taliban flat out told them 'We can't.' Not "We won't', but 'We can't'. The main reason Bin Laden was out there in a cave 500 miles due west of the 20th Century to begin with was because the Afghani government couldn't get to him out there.
Step 2: ????
Step 3: Profit! Er...
NeoOffice is just OO ported to OS X and hacked on a bit for a closer fit with the OS.
It's not so much that they succeed in business, what they do succeed at is debunking the myth that all science and innovation comes from the ivory towers of academia or the razorwire topped walls of the military. The new 'hot' sciences, robotics and biotech, have much lower entry points due to cheap desktop computers and equipment. SOMETHING will come of this. Whether Joe Sixpack likes it or not has yet to be determined...
What I said was, if you want a lobby's campaign contribution, you'll vote in their interest. Without campaign contributions, you have no chance of being elected to office, except maybe as dogcatcher in some town that's just a wide spot in the road where you know everybody. And I never said that once in office, the politician will do what's right for 'the good of the people'. History tells me different, that an 'honest politician' is one that stays bought. There's always another election coming up, and if a politician wants in on it, they'll need campaign contributions. You think those tv ads are free??? At the bottom of the screen and at the last few seconds, there's always a disclaimer that a given ad was 'Paid for by the Committee to Elect (insert name here)'. Tv & radio stations and print media (newspapers, magazines, etc) are businesses. They're in business to make money. They make money by selling advertising. The people who make those tv and radio ads are paid to do it, they don't work for free. Where's that money come from? In a politician's case, from campaign contributions.
Having lived through the McCarthy Red Hunt era, I can categorically tell you that you could have been a suspected Communist if you'd worn a red shirt to work on the wrong day. And you could be blacklisted if you couldn't name other Communists for them to chase. There's a similar program working here in my county in Arizona with the sheriff's department for suspected drug dealers in that you 'roll on three, walk away free'. You have to name three drug users or dealers to get off scott free after testifying in open court. Otherwise, you could go to prison for drug offenses even as trivial as possession of a roach or 'paraphenalia'.
What the OP says to me is, he kept quiet to stay under the radar and not become a 'person of interest' in the climate of the times, when our beloved Leader was bellowing 'You are either with us or you're with the terrorrorrorrorrists'. Not having US citizenship at the time, he could have been immediately deported if the government felt he was a risk.
Notice that opinion was for physical searches for foreign intelligence purposes, not warrantless wiretapping of US citizens. FISA has a system in place already to grant warrants 72 hours after the fact of the search in cases demanding immediate action. IIRC, in the entire history of FISA, only 5 warrant requests were turned down, but later granted when the agents reapplied with proper paperwork. Makes me think FISA is just a rubberstamp patina of legality, but at least we get the rubberstamp and the accountability. With warrantless wiretaps, there is neither.
No, that is correct. Vote against any lobby's interest and you'll never see another dime from them. The telecoms were bigtime contributors the last few years. And without campaign contributions financing your effort, you don't get elected in the US.
The smarter versions are smart enough to stay out of the spotlight. It's easier to get things done without a target painted on you.
On the upside, there's little repercussions from 'upgrading' to a newer model...
They're not talking amongst themselves, they're conspiring. Make sure your passport is up to date and your reservations are in the airline computer to Rio just in case...
Not to invoke Godwin's Law here, but would you rather had the Boys from Berlin develop the first nuclear weapon during World War 2? Personally, I'm glad the US beat them to it.