Sorry if I can't build up any outrage over this. Wikipedia needs to remove the biased log in its own eye before bitching about specks in the eyes of others. This is what you get when you allow anyone to edit any article.
Approximately 95% of Ron Paul's funding comes from individual voters, and not corporations or PACs. And I'm being conservative with that number. Yet he's raising millions despite limits to contributions. I seem to recall that the average donation was around $300.
This isn't a corporate campaign, this is a grass roots effort by individuals from all walks of life. I haven't seen anything like this in my lifetime. It may not be enough to match the corporate take of Hillary or Rudy, but it's certainly enough to shake some cobwebs out of the system.
Frankly, the huge steaming piles of legalese makes me suspect that the intent of the GPL is to be huge steaming pile of legalese. Nothing more, nothing less. The "Free Software" part is just an excuse to pile on more steaming clauses.
An additional $1k-2k more income...at the cost of limiting entry into the field. That's what unions are for, to limit the competition. Back in the days when you had a lifelong career, it may have made sense. But we change careers far too often these days, an the technology is changing too rapidly. Unionization would mean continual recertification, always working your way up from apprentice.
Sorry Bob, we can't hire you. We really do need your extensive ASP.net knowledge, but at $350 an hour, we just can't afford you. We can start you out as janitor, though. After ten years of sucking up to the senior architect (who has a law degree and can't write a "hello world" program, btw), we might be able to promote you to level I code maintenance tech.
You also get the associated drop in product quality. Fix the bug I created last commit? Hell no, that's not in my job description!
The counting machine is not an evil, stop treating it as such. If there is a challenge to a county's or results, then THAT county can have a hand recount. But to suggest that every county must have a hand count in every instance is extreme.
Too bad, you're state is still being sued. The people behind this lawsuit are extremely dogmatic, and require hand counting. Scanning paper ballots won't be allowed in their universe.
Except that this lawsuit is to outlaw ALL counting machines. Hand counting is expensive and less accurate, yet that is what these people insist on, nothing less. States are willing to change their systems if you work with them. Just don't be religiously dogmatic, refusing all compromises. Unwillingness to budge on hand counting only guarantees you a protracted and expensive fight.
I personally see nothing wrong with counting machines. Yet some of you act like Herman Hollerith was the instigator of a massive shadow conspiracy. The requirements for valid voting are few: 1) recountability; 2) certification; and 3) transparency. The off-the-shelf Diebold machines won't pass muster, but most of the tried and true optical and punch systems will.
Oh, and next time don't wait until two months before the primaries start. Sheesh.
Ballot boxes are a state level issue. Suing to force hand counting is the wrong approach. What business is it of New York's how California tallies its votes? In addition, suing before the fact is bizarre. Just because it isn't paper and pencil and hand counted doesn't mean a crime will be committed.
Lawsuits cause bad will. Really they do. Just ask anyone who has been sued. Suing all fifty states is just going to get fifty Secretaries of State pissed at you. Instead you should working with them to change to a more open and transparent system. Demonstrate to them how your preferred system will be more accurate and cheaper to administer.
It's a unilateral violation of the trust contract between employees and the employer.
A sense of trust and loyalty between company and employer used to be common. It was a recognition that the relationship was mutually beneficial and voluntary. But that has been lost with many large companies recently. The relationship now is closer to that of master and servant.
A couple years ago I left the Siemens leviathan, for a small fifty man company. I've never been happier. Better pay, better respect, interesting work. My work takes me inside lots of other companies, and I see the same thing there. Smaller companies have happier employees doing more interesting work, while large companies are full of melancholy drones.
Everyone knows that if you have a problem, you pass a law and it goes away! There's no need to arm corporate datacenter thugs with children killing automatic firearms. Just outlaw robbing datacenters!
The fact that the Democrat Party gets privileges from the government, makes it no less a private organization. Imagine saying AT&T is part of my city government just because my city government handed it an exclusive cableco contract.
The Democrat Party definitely should not have those government ties, of course. But it's still private. I see nowhere in the Constitution where it says to set up Democrat and Republican parties. They are private organizations with voluntary membership, who are sucking at the teat of big government. As such they're no different than some otherwise "private" corporations. We need to eliminate the political privilege parties get, and make them pay for their own damned primaries.
Change happens. It's the nature of the universe. People whining that things need to stay the way they are need to grow up. I don't care if you're Santa Clara developers having to compete against Mumbai developers, or Blockbuster having to compete against Netflix. Adapt or die.
Change happens. When I was a kid there were no video stores, DVD or VHS or Beta. I remember when they came in. Remember when it was a choice between Beta and VHS, and later when Beta users bitched about how unfair change was. I remember when there was a choice between VHS and DVD, and later when VHS users bitched about how unfair change was. And I then there's now when there's a choice between understocked stores with rude clerks and convenient online rental services, and how the bitching is starting.
Video stores are not that old. I'm not going to cry over their disappearance.
All politics is local, and you succeed in politics by geting involved at the local level. Some people in the South Carolina GOP didn't want Ron Paul as a candidate. But his supporters got involved locally, at the county level, and things changed. He got into the debates and he's going to be on the ballot.
If Colbert wanted to be in the Democrat Primary in South Carolina, his supporters should have gotten active in South Carolina. They didn't. And so he's not going to be on the ballot.
The nomination isn't going to be handed to anyone, even if their granddaddy started the old boy power network. You you don't have supporters who will get off their ass and campaign, then you won't get the nomination. No matter who you are.
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Sorry if I can't build up any outrage over this. Wikipedia needs to remove the biased log in its own eye before bitching about specks in the eyes of others. This is what you get when you allow anyone to edit any article.
Sometimes I think BusyBox was created just so people could bitch about embedded manufacturers.
If Ron Paul does manage to win some primaries, I fully expect the mainstream media to blame it on spammers. Sigh.
Approximately 95% of Ron Paul's funding comes from individual voters, and not corporations or PACs. And I'm being conservative with that number. Yet he's raising millions despite limits to contributions. I seem to recall that the average donation was around $300.
This isn't a corporate campaign, this is a grass roots effort by individuals from all walks of life. I haven't seen anything like this in my lifetime. It may not be enough to match the corporate take of Hillary or Rudy, but it's certainly enough to shake some cobwebs out of the system.
Frankly, the huge steaming piles of legalese makes me suspect that the intent of the GPL is to be huge steaming pile of legalese. Nothing more, nothing less. The "Free Software" part is just an excuse to pile on more steaming clauses.
An additional $1k-2k more income ...at the cost of limiting entry into the field. That's what unions are for, to limit the competition. Back in the days when you had a lifelong career, it may have made sense. But we change careers far too often these days, an the technology is changing too rapidly. Unionization would mean continual recertification, always working your way up from apprentice.
Sorry Bob, we can't hire you. We really do need your extensive ASP.net knowledge, but at $350 an hour, we just can't afford you. We can start you out as janitor, though. After ten years of sucking up to the senior architect (who has a law degree and can't write a "hello world" program, btw), we might be able to promote you to level I code maintenance tech.
You also get the associated drop in product quality. Fix the bug I created last commit? Hell no, that's not in my job description!
Sigh. As I said, wait until you start getting spam...
Wait until you have to abandon IM because of spam...
The counting machine is not an evil, stop treating it as such. If there is a challenge to a county's or results, then THAT county can have a hand recount. But to suggest that every county must have a hand count in every instance is extreme.
It doesn't have to be initially counted by hand, but at any stage of the process, the vote should be hand verifiable.
That is not what the lawsuit is demanding (or it wouldn't be suing ALL 50 states). The lawsuits demands hand counting. Period.
Ordinary vote counting systems won't be allowed. You must have hand counting.
I suspect that this lawsuit was designed to be thrown out or lost, so that they can claim conspiracy.
Too bad, you're state is still being sued. The people behind this lawsuit are extremely dogmatic, and require hand counting. Scanning paper ballots won't be allowed in their universe.
Except that this lawsuit is to outlaw ALL counting machines. Hand counting is expensive and less accurate, yet that is what these people insist on, nothing less. States are willing to change their systems if you work with them. Just don't be religiously dogmatic, refusing all compromises. Unwillingness to budge on hand counting only guarantees you a protracted and expensive fight.
I personally see nothing wrong with counting machines. Yet some of you act like Herman Hollerith was the instigator of a massive shadow conspiracy. The requirements for valid voting are few: 1) recountability; 2) certification; and 3) transparency. The off-the-shelf Diebold machines won't pass muster, but most of the tried and true optical and punch systems will.
Oh, and next time don't wait until two months before the primaries start. Sheesh.
Ballot boxes are a state level issue. Suing to force hand counting is the wrong approach. What business is it of New York's how California tallies its votes? In addition, suing before the fact is bizarre. Just because it isn't paper and pencil and hand counted doesn't mean a crime will be committed.
Lawsuits cause bad will. Really they do. Just ask anyone who has been sued. Suing all fifty states is just going to get fifty Secretaries of State pissed at you. Instead you should working with them to change to a more open and transparent system. Demonstrate to them how your preferred system will be more accurate and cheaper to administer.
That sense of trust ends when you tell me you are leaving.
If your company suddenly distrusts you the instant you give them a two week notice, then they never really trusted you to begin with.
It's a unilateral violation of the trust contract between employees and the employer.
A sense of trust and loyalty between company and employer used to be common. It was a recognition that the relationship was mutually beneficial and voluntary. But that has been lost with many large companies recently. The relationship now is closer to that of master and servant.
A couple years ago I left the Siemens leviathan, for a small fifty man company. I've never been happier. Better pay, better respect, interesting work. My work takes me inside lots of other companies, and I see the same thing there. Smaller companies have happier employees doing more interesting work, while large companies are full of melancholy drones.
So you're getting this clueless US consumer meme from the papers? Television? Osmosis?
Now, I expected the ACLU to be bi-partisan...
...and concerned with my privacy.
Hah!
Hah! Hah!
Do you buy stuff in the US? Then you are a US consumer, and by your assertion, clueless. Thanks for playing.
Non sequitur. But thanks for playing.
Everyone knows that if you have a problem, you pass a law and it goes away! There's no need to arm corporate datacenter thugs with children killing automatic firearms. Just outlaw robbing datacenters!
Sheesh.
The fact that the Democrat Party gets privileges from the government, makes it no less a private organization. Imagine saying AT&T is part of my city government just because my city government handed it an exclusive cableco contract.
The Democrat Party definitely should not have those government ties, of course. But it's still private. I see nowhere in the Constitution where it says to set up Democrat and Republican parties. They are private organizations with voluntary membership, who are sucking at the teat of big government. As such they're no different than some otherwise "private" corporations. We need to eliminate the political privilege parties get, and make them pay for their own damned primaries.
Change happens. It's the nature of the universe. People whining that things need to stay the way they are need to grow up. I don't care if you're Santa Clara developers having to compete against Mumbai developers, or Blockbuster having to compete against Netflix. Adapt or die.
Change happens. When I was a kid there were no video stores, DVD or VHS or Beta. I remember when they came in. Remember when it was a choice between Beta and VHS, and later when Beta users bitched about how unfair change was. I remember when there was a choice between VHS and DVD, and later when VHS users bitched about how unfair change was. And I then there's now when there's a choice between understocked stores with rude clerks and convenient online rental services, and how the bitching is starting.
Video stores are not that old. I'm not going to cry over their disappearance.
I absolutely agree. They have no business using state and federal resources to select their nominee.
All politics is local, and you succeed in politics by geting involved at the local level. Some people in the South Carolina GOP didn't want Ron Paul as a candidate. But his supporters got involved locally, at the county level, and things changed. He got into the debates and he's going to be on the ballot.
If Colbert wanted to be in the Democrat Primary in South Carolina, his supporters should have gotten active in South Carolina. They didn't. And so he's not going to be on the ballot.
The nomination isn't going to be handed to anyone, even if their granddaddy started the old boy power network. You you don't have supporters who will get off their ass and campaign, then you won't get the nomination. No matter who you are.