I for one am shocked -SHOCKED- to see such behavior from a party that espouses both "small government" and keeping it's nose out of our business. This is completely out of character with the current administration, and I'm sure will be responsibly acknowledged and dealt with. Expect a public mea culpa from the president shortly.
Shocked? Didn't the Regan/Bush(s) terms prepare you for this? The Republicans are on their 5th presidential term in 25 years and not a single Republican term has shown fiscal responsibility. Debt and big government has flourished under Republican rule.
Whistle blowing is still allowed if you are connected to the White house and you are outing a CIA agent for no good reason.
Also, if you have the right connections you can shoot a man from 20 feet away and wait till you sober up the next day to talk to the police and tell them he was 90ft away.
I worked at Disney from the 95 to 2000 when I was in high school and college. A lot of change occured at Disney during the 90's. When I left it seemed like a lot of the "Disney Magic" had left. In 95 a disney job was one of the highest paid hourly jobs in Central FL. In 2000 a Disney job was one of the lowest paying jobs. The employees weren't as proud of the company and this was pretty evident to me as I worked seasonal. Eisner really screwed the company over for short term goals in the 90's. Hopefully Jobs will take over Disney and restore its glory.
I don't think 2004 was fixed. However, I do think that there are a lot of corrupt and inept voting machine distributors and politicians. I don't understand why we can't hold voting machines to the same standard as ATM's.
I do however think that 2000 was rigged. You had a supreme court justice say on the record that she hoped a republican would be elected so she could retire. This doesn't make the court ruling fair. I was in college at FSU at the time and police did have checkpoints setup around black communities. I don't understand why police checkpoints would be necessary in the U.S.A on election day...
This administration is above the law as witnessed last week with the Chenney shooting. The police waiting 13 hours to investigate shows that they had no jurisdiction over the matter. Cheney admitted to having 1 beer. With heart meds 1 beer alone could have intoxicated him. Even more disturbing is that anyone that is familiar with riffles knows that a 28 gauge shotgun with birdshot can barely penetrate jackets and hunting clothing at 90 feet. To bury a bird shot deep enough to cause a heart attack the victim would have to be inside 20ft. Interesting ballistic analisys on bird shot.
Okay I read the article and don't understand how this works. No one else on Slashdot has posted an explenation of how this works. Can some one please elaborate on this post? All I see right now is stupid jokes...... Which may mean that slashdot operates like the quantum computer. It all makes sense now....
Damn, only plus 2 for a cheat code that almost every kid with an NES new? I once busted that code out in a party at college. Granted it was around CS and Engeenering students...
Games like Contra where you were supposed to die a bunch and could put in another quarter to get some more lives, didn't work too well when your NES lacked a coin slot.
That is why they placed a cheat in the game....
up , up , down , down , left,right , left , right , B, A, start
Here's the deal with the SUV bashing: It's nothing more than guilt-ridden scapegoating.
Unless you are already living off the grid, growing all your own food, and never traveling farther from your home than you can walk, you have no moral standing to criticize my choice of vehicles.
No actually we do have the moral standard to criticize. To live in the U.S you need to have a car to work and live. Some people need a large truck or SUV due to their business or family. Which is fine. No rational person will criticize those drivers. However, there is a diffrence between need and excessive and conspicuous consumption.
The average SUV owner has an SUV for their ego. A lot of people drive luxury cars to stroke their ego. However, a luxury car doesn't have the excessive environmental impact like an SUV. I suspect you fit into this category of an EGO driver. They want something big and bad to drive to work in. Sure they are the only one in the car and they only use it to commute to work and to the store. However, They don't care if it....
1. Causes more wear and tear on our roads. Thus we are subsudizing your desires to drive a vehicle which appeals to your ego.
2. Is not safer than your average well made sedan or wagon. SUV's are more likey to flip and seriously injure the driver. Our health insurance is higher as a result. Once again we are subsidising your desires to drive a vehicle which appeals to your ego...
3. Kill the person in the Honda Civic that they hit. Once again insurance prices....
4. Increases our dependence on foreign oil. Yep thanks to you we can spend a little more time in Iraq and the middle east....
5. Increase the cost of gas. Since you are using more gas to get to work. We also have to pay more due to supply and demand from consumption.
6. Increase polution. That brown smog cloud over Atlanta just got a little browner thanks to your SUV.
The desire for one to drive an SUV when there is no need ( business or family ) for an SUV is SocioPathic.
This all reeks of the arguments made by some cirgarette smokers in the early 90's. They argued that it was their right be able to smoke on airplanes , buses, etc...
Great post. I completely agree with you that there are two many good natured environmental moves that actually aren't that good for the environment. Great point about compact flourecents only making sense in stable lighing environments like living rooms. Another great example is the new PVC windows. The window industry is marketing them as energy efficient windows. The problem is they only last 20 years and over the 20 years they won't safe enough energy to offset the costs of production and installation. It's actually better to keep your wooden frame windows that can last 100 years if kept painted.
Obtaining alcohol from corn/cane sugar (never understood why Americans love getting their sugar from corn, blech!) costs far more in energy to run the harvesting/transport/refining equipment than you get out of the alcohol in the end.
Yep that is "Big Corn" talking. The Corn industry has a strong lobying arm and continues to waste our tax money on this. I was glad that Bush said we have an Oil addiction. However, as soon as he mentioned ethanol I knew he wasn't serious about curing America's addiction. The real promise lies in diesel which is already in our infrastructure and could easily replace gasoline in the next few years if things get serious. If 1/3 of our autos switch to diesel we could safe roughly the amount of oil we import from the Saudis. Combine that with the prospect of Bio-diesel and diesel-hybrid engines and you get some seriously green engines in a couple of years compared to what we have now.
3. The idea of a "war" against such an amorphous and vague group is ridiculous.
War on Al Qaeda is about the same as war on pirates in centuries past, or various guerilla groups. Nothing silly about it at all.
Oh, you mean like the Pirates sponsored by the British Empire....
Kind of like Reagan sponsoring OBL and fundamentalists in the 1980's.
Rogue groups have to get sponsorship from some where. Alqueda is a spawn of our own foreign policy. Iraq has nothing to do with Terrorism. Our targets should have been set for Saudi Arabia. But , why ruin a good relationship for 3 thousand lives, a couple of buildings and airplanes....
I read the article and didn't see how this is anything new.
I loved the tips section about using correct spelling! If your resume doesn't have the correct spelling then you may not be found during a search....Duh!!!!
You obviously have never worked in a Major corporation or if you have you did not pay much attention. I have never seen a vendor upgrade systems in a matter of days unless all hell has broken lose. Most providers that large businesses outsource to such as IBM or EDS are slow. There is a lot of red tape because a huge corporation can not have 1 roque employee crash their sysems or set up an environment which is not maintainable by another team.
Contractors will rip you off if you aren't careful. Out sourcing is also popular with managers because...
1. You can get cheaper labor overseas.
2. The vendor provides a service you can't provide.
2. You can throw someone else under the bus if the project is tanking.
If my creative team needs some more file-sharing space, is the business better served by me going out to Best Buy (ick) and getting a $400 NAS that I can hook up in 15 minutes (and takes my departmental IT guy 5 minutes to include in backups), or waiting 9 months for a $30K/year file server to be deployed to some server room in another time zone?
If you feel like having your team's work backed up on a NAS server from Best Buy go ahead. Just don't complain when it breaks and your boss asks what the f*ck you were thinking in the first place. 30K/year is an exageration as you can probably have the SAN team just allocate more space to the server. Your teams value to the company is worth hundreds of thousands and maybe millions of dollars to the company per year. Do you feel safe placing it on $400 NAS that doesn't even have raid? Seems like a simple choice to me...
No one has made a [practical] vehicle that runs much above the 40 mpg mark (that I know of)
Your joking right? Try a Volkswagen Turbo Diesel. They sell a Jetta, Golf and Passat. I believe the passat is just under 40. The Volkswagen TDI's are available in the U.S. now. In 2007 you should be able to get a Diesel Honda Accord that will get 45MPG. The Honda is already being sold in Europe. These cars sound pretty pratical as they are the exact same body frame as their petrol couterparts. Unless you have another definition of practical.....
Still, during the current conflict the US has been found to have been paying newspapers to print positive stories about the war to influence public opinion
Bush is doing this with Domestic audiences remember the comercials regarding health care and education that were made to give the appearence of not being government sponsored.
Government projects are generally extremely wasteful. Anything good the government would do will be done more efficiantly when the people involved are not coerced. And besides, if free individuals won't work together to make their own roads, why should they be forced to?
Corporate projects are also extremely wasteful. If you ever work for a major company you will see that things could be done cheaper with a smaller company. However, the big company always gets chosen for their track record and stability. The Government is similar if one person leaves the government it won't fall apart.
Build any roads lately? I bet you use roads on a daily basis.....
History repeatedly shows that the more government tries to get involved, the worse things get.
This really depends. If you are talking about issues on personally morality then you are correct. The alcohol and drug wars are a great example of the government trying to legislate morals. Government can not help a person find inner peace, only the individual can do that.
However, the government is generally succesful when implementing a communities infrastructure. Examples would be TVA and the Highway system. These infrastructures are the foundation of our modern economy. We can thank the government for that.
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I for one am shocked -SHOCKED- to see such behavior from a party that espouses both "small government" and keeping it's nose out of our business. This is completely out of character with the current administration, and I'm sure will be responsibly acknowledged and dealt with. Expect a public mea culpa from the president shortly.
Shocked? Didn't the Regan/Bush(s) terms prepare you for this? The Republicans are on their 5th presidential term in 25 years and not a single Republican term has shown fiscal responsibility. Debt and big government has flourished under Republican rule.
Welcome to Dick Chenney's New America!
Whistle blowing is still allowed if you are connected to the White house and you are outing a CIA agent for no good reason.
Also, if you have the right connections you can shoot a man from 20 feet away and wait till you sober up the next day to talk to the police and tell them he was 90ft away.
Reminds me of the time I woke up in a tub of ice and note to call the hospital imediatly. I still miss my kidney.....
SMB3 didn't come out till 88-89....
SMB1 would be 20 years old with the NES. Either way it's pretty sad that it took you that long to beat SMB3.
I worked at Disney from the 95 to 2000 when I was in high school and college. A lot of change occured at Disney during the 90's. When I left it seemed like a lot of the "Disney Magic" had left. In 95 a disney job was one of the highest paid hourly jobs in Central FL. In 2000 a Disney job was one of the lowest paying jobs. The employees weren't as proud of the company and this was pretty evident to me as I worked seasonal. Eisner really screwed the company over for short term goals in the 90's. Hopefully Jobs will take over Disney and restore its glory.
I don't think 2004 was fixed. However, I do think that there are a lot of corrupt and inept voting machine distributors and politicians. I don't understand why we can't hold voting machines to the same standard as ATM's.
I do however think that 2000 was rigged. You had a supreme court justice say on the record that she hoped a republican would be elected so she could retire. This doesn't make the court ruling fair. I was in college at FSU at the time and police did have checkpoints setup around black communities. I don't understand why police checkpoints would be necessary in the U.S.A on election day...
This administration is above the law as witnessed last week with the Chenney shooting. The police waiting 13 hours to investigate shows that they had no jurisdiction over the matter. Cheney admitted to having 1 beer. With heart meds 1 beer alone could have intoxicated him. Even more disturbing is that anyone that is familiar with riffles knows that a 28 gauge shotgun with birdshot can barely penetrate jackets and hunting clothing at 90 feet. To bury a bird shot deep enough to cause a heart attack the victim would have to be inside 20ft. Interesting ballistic analisys on bird shot.
Damn, I was just about to make a 42 reference! I will have to go back and think of a joke as to why it would result in 42.
Okay I read the article and don't understand how this works. No one else on Slashdot has posted an explenation of how this works. Can some one please elaborate on this post? All I see right now is stupid jokes...... Which may mean that slashdot operates like the quantum computer. It all makes sense now....
Damn, only plus 2 for a cheat code that almost every kid with an NES new? I once busted that code out in a party at college. Granted it was around CS and Engeenering students...
Or did you enjoy "endings" that were one sentence long? Or playing Tiger Heli?
TIger Heli was pretty good in the arcade. Never played the home version...
Games like Contra where you were supposed to die a bunch and could put in another quarter to get some more lives, didn't work too well when your NES lacked a coin slot.
,right , left , right , B, A, start
That is why they placed a cheat in the game....
up , up , down , down , left
Here's the deal with the SUV bashing: It's nothing more than guilt-ridden scapegoating.
Unless you are already living off the grid, growing all your own food, and never traveling farther from your home than you can walk, you have no moral standing to criticize my choice of vehicles.
No actually we do have the moral standard to criticize. To live in the U.S you need to have a car to work and live. Some people need a large truck or SUV due to their business or family. Which is fine. No rational person will criticize those drivers. However, there is a diffrence between need and excessive and conspicuous consumption.
The average SUV owner has an SUV for their ego. A lot of people drive luxury cars to stroke their ego. However, a luxury car doesn't have the excessive environmental impact like an SUV. I suspect you fit into this category of an EGO driver. They want something big and bad to drive to work in. Sure they are the only one in the car and they only use it to commute to work and to the store. However, They don't care if it....
1. Causes more wear and tear on our roads. Thus we are subsudizing your desires to drive a vehicle which appeals to your ego.
2. Is not safer than your average well made sedan or wagon. SUV's are more likey to flip and seriously injure the driver. Our health insurance is higher as a result. Once again we are subsidising your desires to drive a vehicle which appeals to your ego...
3. Kill the person in the Honda Civic that they hit. Once again insurance prices....
4. Increases our dependence on foreign oil. Yep thanks to you we can spend a little more time in Iraq and the middle east....
5. Increase the cost of gas. Since you are using more gas to get to work. We also have to pay more due to supply and demand from consumption.
6. Increase polution. That brown smog cloud over Atlanta just got a little browner thanks to your SUV.
The desire for one to drive an SUV when there is no need ( business or family ) for an SUV is SocioPathic.
This all reeks of the arguments made by some cirgarette smokers in the early 90's. They argued that it was their right be able to smoke on airplanes , buses, etc...
Great post. I completely agree with you that there are two many good natured environmental moves that actually aren't that good for the environment. Great point about compact flourecents only making sense in stable lighing environments like living rooms. Another great example is the new PVC windows. The window industry is marketing them as energy efficient windows. The problem is they only last 20 years and over the 20 years they won't safe enough energy to offset the costs of production and installation. It's actually better to keep your wooden frame windows that can last 100 years if kept painted.
Obtaining alcohol from corn/cane sugar (never understood why Americans love getting their sugar from corn, blech!) costs far more in energy to run the harvesting/transport/refining equipment than you get out of the alcohol in the end.
Yep that is "Big Corn" talking. The Corn industry has a strong lobying arm and continues to waste our tax money on this. I was glad that Bush said we have an Oil addiction. However, as soon as he mentioned ethanol I knew he wasn't serious about curing America's addiction. The real promise lies in diesel which is already in our infrastructure and could easily replace gasoline in the next few years if things get serious. If 1/3 of our autos switch to diesel we could safe roughly the amount of oil we import from the Saudis. Combine that with the prospect of Bio-diesel and diesel-hybrid engines and you get some seriously green engines in a couple of years compared to what we have now.
Sounds like a take off of the Brittish term "Bob's your uncle".
Ex: Just show up at the gate and Bob's your uncle.
3. The idea of a "war" against such an amorphous and vague group is ridiculous. War on Al Qaeda is about the same as war on pirates in centuries past, or various guerilla groups. Nothing silly about it at all.
Oh, you mean like the Pirates sponsored by the British Empire....
Kind of like Reagan sponsoring OBL and fundamentalists in the 1980's.
Rogue groups have to get sponsorship from some where. Alqueda is a spawn of our own foreign policy. Iraq has nothing to do with Terrorism. Our targets should have been set for Saudi Arabia. But , why ruin a good relationship for 3 thousand lives, a couple of buildings and airplanes....
Only days ago Bush praised George Deutsch for his work at NASA, "Deutschy your doing a heck of a job!"
I read the article and didn't see how this is anything new.
I loved the tips section about using correct spelling! If your resume doesn't have the correct spelling then you may not be found during a search....Duh!!!!
Yeah I flame you...
You obviously have never worked in a Major corporation or if you have you did not pay much attention. I have never seen a vendor upgrade systems in a matter of days unless all hell has broken lose. Most providers that large businesses outsource to such as IBM or EDS are slow. There is a lot of red tape because a huge corporation can not have 1 roque employee crash their sysems or set up an environment which is not maintainable by another team.
Contractors will rip you off if you aren't careful. Out sourcing is also popular with managers because...
1. You can get cheaper labor overseas.
2. The vendor provides a service you can't provide.
2. You can throw someone else under the bus if the project is tanking.
If my creative team needs some more file-sharing space, is the business better served by me going out to Best Buy (ick) and getting a $400 NAS that I can hook up in 15 minutes (and takes my departmental IT guy 5 minutes to include in backups), or waiting 9 months for a $30K/year file server to be deployed to some server room in another time zone?
If you feel like having your team's work backed up on a NAS server from Best Buy go ahead. Just don't complain when it breaks and your boss asks what the f*ck you were thinking in the first place. 30K/year is an exageration as you can probably have the SAN team just allocate more space to the server. Your teams value to the company is worth hundreds of thousands and maybe millions of dollars to the company per year. Do you feel safe placing it on $400 NAS that doesn't even have raid? Seems like a simple choice to me...
Execellent point. Mod parent up!
No one has made a [practical] vehicle that runs much above the 40 mpg mark (that I know of)
Your joking right? Try a Volkswagen Turbo Diesel. They sell a Jetta, Golf and Passat. I believe the passat is just under 40. The Volkswagen TDI's are available in the U.S. now. In 2007 you should be able to get a Diesel Honda Accord that will get 45MPG. The Honda is already being sold in Europe. These cars sound pretty pratical as they are the exact same body frame as their petrol couterparts. Unless you have another definition of practical.....
Still, during the current conflict the US has been found to have been paying newspapers to print positive stories about the war to influence public opinion
Bush is doing this with Domestic audiences remember the comercials regarding health care and education that were made to give the appearence of not being government sponsored.
Government projects are generally extremely wasteful. Anything good the government would do will be done more efficiantly when the people involved are not coerced. And besides, if free individuals won't work together to make their own roads, why should they be forced to?
Corporate projects are also extremely wasteful. If you ever work for a major company you will see that things could be done cheaper with a smaller company. However, the big company always gets chosen for their track record and stability. The Government is similar if one person leaves the government it won't fall apart. Build any roads lately? I bet you use roads on a daily basis.....
History repeatedly shows that the more government tries to get involved, the worse things get.
This really depends. If you are talking about issues on personally morality then you are correct. The alcohol and drug wars are a great example of the government trying to legislate morals. Government can not help a person find inner peace, only the individual can do that.
However, the government is generally succesful when implementing a communities infrastructure. Examples would be TVA and the Highway system. These infrastructures are the foundation of our modern economy. We can thank the government for that.
Don't get to comfortable. You guys did just elect a Neo-Con....
Fortunately, you guys have a parlimentary system so the Neo-Con won't get too much of a say.