Do you imagine you could put some huge golden arches up in front of a restaurant and not get sued because they were not the exact mathematical curve of the McCarpet ones?
I'll bet if I called them the Golden Arcs, and sold a sandwich called the Big Mic, I could get away with it.;-)
That number is the total number of deaths, not just those that were killed in the field of battle. That number is above 50,000.
You are wrong. Even factoring in those mortally wounded and deaths from disease, the death toll from the entire Gettysburg Campaign wouldn't even approach 50,000. You are referring to the commonly used-estimate of around 50,000 casualties in three days of battle at Gettysburg but making the common mistake of substituting deaths for all casualties.
From the NPS' Gettysburg website: "It was also the bloodiest single battle of the war, resulting in over 51,000 soldiers killed, wounded, captured or missing."
Hell lets throw out all that modern technology and go back to the "good old days" like during the Civil War, where over 50,000 died in one three day battle (thats around twice the total number of deaths in the entire Iraq war). I mean because of the horrors of war back then, people were so peaceful and never engaged in violence to settle a dispute.
If you are referring to Gettysburg, which was a three day battle and easily the largest engagement of the War, your number of "over 50,000 died" is a bit high. There were under 50,000 total casualties, which includes deaths (of which there were between 5000 - 7000), woundings, and missing (usually meaning captured).
If such a strategy unquestionably worked and helped The Good Blue States defeat The Evil Red States, why isn't it being considered as an option in Iraq? Armies are great at killing people and blowing stuff up but they make lousy police forces and negotiators.
Don't forget that Sony is a content company . . .
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. . . and it was to be expected they'd behave as such (you know, "protecting their intellectual property"). What you're seeing is neat in that a company that owns gazillions in copyrighted material is finally acknowledging that mp3 is OK by building and shipping mp3-playing devices.
Will Sony start selling mp3s of their content over the web? Hell no . . . you will never see the content owners sell soft copies of their stuff without DRM . . . but this is at least a step in the right direction for those that want better portability of the content across devices and platforms.
While this will prevent spammers from bumping up their sites' Page Rank (probably their primary motivation for comment spam anyway), it doesn't prevent their bots from spamming targeted blogs etc. in the first place. That is still best handled by the blog software providers.
For example, WordPress has a variety of different plugins for handling comment spam. The best one I've seen renders a series of characters graphically (a la TicketBastard) which the user (a human, of course) has to type into a text field on the comment form before their comment is accepted. Blogs implementing this type of mechanism typically have spam coming from bots drop down to zero.
No, the point was to eliminate a competitor through acquisition and enable the combined Oracle / PeopleSoft / JD Edwards to better compete in a market dominated by SAP.
Any suggestion of Oracle attempting to create a monopoly through this move is nonsense -- their market share in enterprise applications is still a pimiple on SAP's ass, even when you combine the three companies now under the Oracle banner.
What a troll. It has absolutely nothing to do with the economy, and is exactly what happens during all tech aquisitions, regardless of overall economic conditions. The jobs aren't going to India -- they're being eliminated completely.
The first to go are redundant positions, i.e., HR, finance / legal, etc. Then most of the rest (dev, PS, and sales / marketing) are typically kept for a time to absorb what they know, and then axed. The creme of the crop are kept or induced to stay, but, like the article says, most of the PeopleSoft folks I know would rather quit than work for Orifice / Horricle.
One of the was that a site build credibility is through at least the appearance of impartiality, especially on high-profile subject matter like politics. The GWB article is one big bashfest -- really, a blatant, unending laundry list of attacks. Regardless of whether or not you love or hate the man, there's no way the article can be called unbiased.
I find it interesting that there is no mention of Martin Luther King Jr.'s documented, well-known infidelity in his article, and JFK's womanizing is given a total of one paragraph -- actually, make that two sentences -- in his article. If Wikipedia wants to be taken seriously as a source when it comes to political topics, the editors need to make sure that all points of the political compass are equally represented.
I won't. Instead, I'll pay x hundred $ for a kick-ass CPA, like I always do, who already forgot more about the tax laws than I'd ever want to know, who can handle my stock options and separate sole proprietorship and charitable contributions and new house interest and the fact that I just got married but didn't change my withholding . ..
I've come out in the black since I started using to my CPA, and I'll trade money for time any day.
I maintain a fairly large PHP / CSS-based site. I use Dreamweaver MX 2004, and it's always get the code tab open -- except when I'm dealing with tables. Yeah, of course I know how to hand-code tables, but man, to be able to graphically split and combine cells, and completely reformat tables -- where by hand I'd have to edit each cell / row manually -- is a huge timesaver.
I also like PHP's Site Maintenance features and have found it to be flexible enough to handle a variety of different testing environments (local over the network, FTP, etc.). And finally, its site-wide search and replace capabilities are excellent.
Could I get away with a freeware editor and some sort or grep-type functionality? Sure . . . but in general Dreamweaver is a really solid tool specifically geared towards web development, and like someone already mentioned, nothing else comes close. The only problems are its steep price tag and mediocre CSS capabilities.
+5 Informative? Come on. Salon, worthy scientific publication that it is, is about as unbiased as Fox News. I suggest folks be more careful getting scientific facts from sources which are obviously slanted either way -- left or right -- on the political spectrum, as such sites always have their own agendas to advance.
Not one but four, and it's not a big deal to you because you're the one who has to pay for it.
they probably became homeless when the developers paid off the city and took away their homes to build your condos.
Nice try, but these condos we built in 1986 on a vacant lot. And, BTW, this isn't some girl, but a 37 year old WHITE woman, so don't even try to play the race card.
Obviously this woman needed help, nice to know her neighbors that live in the same building would rather lock her up and take away her HOME instead of *gasp* trying to help her.
Several residents did talk to her, and the condo board repeatedly warned her before taking police and legal action.
Addiction of any sort is a sickness, not a crime, ask any doctor in the world if your too high and mighty to take an anonymous cowards word for it.
It may be an illness, but it was HER choice, not mine, for her to start using drugs, and therefore she is responsible for her own condition. HER choice. SHE chose to use the drugs. That's like saying I should pay for someone's lung cancer treatment because they chose to destroy their lungs by smoking for 40 years, or I should have to pay to keep someone plugged in who chose not to wear a helmet and smashed their brains out against a bridge pier and is now a vegetable. It's fucking ridiculous and, even if there are some who think that, yes, I should have to pay for the actions of idiots, just because you brought a medical condition upon yourself, it doesn't give you the right to commit crimes against other people. I don't even think you guys in Europe (or Canada, or wherever) are allowed to do that.
And BTW, I would be more than happy that some of my tax dollars went towards her cell because since she's gone there is NO CRIME HERE. Not a single incident.
Please re-read my original post. SHE WAS IN REHAB REPEATEDLY. It didn't work. What the fuck other recourse did we have? Shall I just stand by until one of the coked-up freaks she gave the condo access codes to decided to rob me at gunpoint or rape my wife? Again, it's very easy for you to judge what I've said until you've actually lived through the same situation. And then a guarantee you your view on hard drug use and the environment it creates will change.
If people like you feel so bad for her, why don't YOU take her in?
Don't you get it? She WAS in rehab -- repeatedly, for months at a time. It didn't work. If we're worried about tax dollars, don't waste any more on a broken process.
We're NOT talking about alcohol -- we're talking about terribly addictive drugs which cause people to do absolutely anything to get their next fix, regardless of whether or not they have the money. The theft, robbery, etc. will continue, and now you'll have people sticking up the pharmacy for the coke. And as for buying coke at CVS, she couldn't even pay $10 for a rock of crack (let's not even talk about the $100s in back association fees she owed) -- she was asking other residents for money to support her drug habit. But it's not the drug use that pissed us off -- in fact, the quickest resolution would have been if she OD'd -- it was all of the crime that went along with it.
Personally, I could care less if people get stoned in the privacy of their own house, behind closed doors, as long as it doesn't bother their neighbors. The problem is, in this case, it didn't do down that way, pot WAS a stepping stone, and she turned into a fucking crack whore (let's call a spade a spade -- she fucked for money for drugs).
But NOTHING -- no "illness" (which you neglect to mention was caused by a series of poor life decisions) or anything else -- gives someone the right to steal our property, disturb the peace, violate the legal rules of our condo association, etc. We worked too hard for what we have, and if rehab doesn't work, fucking LOCK HER UP.
Again, once YOU have actually lived with someone like this as a neighbor for more than six months, I'll bet hard cash you'll change your tune very quickly.
You've never lived next to a heavy drug user or dealer, have you? Recently we had the pleasure of having one of the residents in our small 10 unit mid / upscale condo get hooked on crack. It was progression from her years of "casual" partying with pot, meth and X. When she was away trying to get clean at rehab, it was relatively quiet except for the people ripping the screens off her windows and climbing in her condo at 3 in the morning to steal God knows what. When she was back, it was hell for everyone in our community -- constant traffic in and out of her unit at all hours of the day and night, theft from cars of various property around the condo, "people" in our parking area getting high and leaving trash and drug paraphanelia everywhere, vandalism in the form of slashed tires when she didn't uphold her end of the deals she'd made, homeless individuals screaming "cunt" and "fucking crack whore" in front of her unit at 4 in the morning, you name it. No one living here felt safe, and the police did nothing because she was too "small time" to warrant their attention. Only constant, expensive letters from our attorney to her and her father finally got her to sell the property and move her ass out of here.
Don't give me this holier-than-thou bullshit about how drug dealers are harmless and drug use is a "victimless crime." In my experience that talk always comes from people who have never had to live through a junkie inflicting their misery on others. This woman wasn't violent but she surrounded herself with others who were, and for what she did to the members of our community and the danger she exposed eveyone of us to she should rot in jail. When you've had a desparate addict as a neighbor knocking on your door at 11:00 PM looking for baking soda to cook up their next rock, then tell me that drugs aren't all that bad. Until then, fuck off, and take that assanine plank from the Libertarian platform with you -- it's one of the chief reasons us mainstream physcal conservatives won't touch the party with a 10 foot pole.
. . . the REAL reason this technology came about is because no one was ever able to figure out how to get a pill bottle through a printer or typewriter . . .
As one of many who briefly had a small fortune in stock options in the late '90s, I can tell you from experience:
ALWAYS take more cash before more options
Sell you options the nanosecond that you can, take the money, SMILE, and don't obsess on the share price
Immediately set aside 40% (or whatever your financial advisor tells you) of the proceeds to PAY THE TAXES due on what you just made! If you don't you are guaranteed to take it up the ass at tax time.
If you want to file an 83(b) election, make sure you do it at the beginning of the current year so you've got plenty of time ('til the end of the current tax year) to decide whether and when to sell some or all of them.
Pay the money for a decent CPA / tax advisor, who knows more about this you'll ever want to. AVOID the asshole "advisors" at the brokerages; all they want you to do is keep socking more funds into their firms and keep the commissions rolling in!
. . . why not just vote via absentee ballot? I'm a Florida resident and I did. You've still got plenty of time.
Also, I think some credit is due to Florida for wisely giving people a chance to vote early. It's more convenient for the voting public, and allows officials to use the equipment with real votes before November 2, which is just not the same as testing stuff in a lab.
This is the first time that electronic voting has ever been offered in many parts of our state. Instead of constant bitching, whining, and criticism, acknowledge that there are problems and things will be difficult the first few times, and have a little faith in people to fix the problems with the machines. The folks in the trenches fixing the problems are most likely not part of some evil Republican conspiracy to delete Kerry votes or change them to Nader votes -- they're probably just hardworking IT guys and girls like you who take pride in their jobs and just want to see things go smoothly.
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Do you imagine you could put some huge golden arches up in front of a restaurant and not get sued because they were not the exact mathematical curve of the McCarpet ones?
I'll bet if I called them the Golden Arcs, and sold a sandwich called the Big Mic, I could get away with it. ;-)
That number is the total number of deaths, not just those that were killed in the field of battle. That number is above 50,000.
You are wrong. Even factoring in those mortally wounded and deaths from disease, the death toll from the entire Gettysburg Campaign wouldn't even approach 50,000. You are referring to the commonly used-estimate of around 50,000 casualties in three days of battle at Gettysburg but making the common mistake of substituting deaths for all casualties.
From the NPS' Gettysburg website: "It was also the bloodiest single battle of the war, resulting in over 51,000 soldiers killed, wounded, captured or missing."
You can also look at Wikipedia's page on the Battle of Gettysburg in case you don't trust a website run by the US Government (spoiler: 51,000 casualties).
I'm guessing you got your info from here, which is also wrong.
Hell lets throw out all that modern technology and go back to the "good old days" like during the Civil War, where over 50,000 died in one three day battle (thats around twice the total number of deaths in the entire Iraq war). I mean because of the horrors of war back then, people were so peaceful and never engaged in violence to settle a dispute.
If you are referring to Gettysburg, which was a three day battle and easily the largest engagement of the War, your number of "over 50,000 died" is a bit high. There were under 50,000 total casualties, which includes deaths (of which there were between 5000 - 7000), woundings, and missing (usually meaning captured).
I do agree with your point that the type of fighting waged during the Civil War was so absolutely horrible that it gave people pause before fighting it. This was by design -- for example, Sherman's stated purpose when when marched from Atlanta to Savannah and then north through the Carolinas with his three corps, essentially destroying everything in his path, was to break civilians' will to fight and support the Confederacy: "We cannot change the hearts of those people, but we can make war so terrible...[and] make them so sick of war that generations would pass away before they would again appeal to it."
If such a strategy unquestionably worked and helped The Good Blue States defeat The Evil Red States, why isn't it being considered as an option in Iraq? Armies are great at killing people and blowing stuff up but they make lousy police forces and negotiators.
. . . and it was to be expected they'd behave as such (you know, "protecting their intellectual property"). What you're seeing is neat in that a company that owns gazillions in copyrighted material is finally acknowledging that mp3 is OK by building and shipping mp3-playing devices.
Will Sony start selling mp3s of their content over the web? Hell no . . . you will never see the content owners sell soft copies of their stuff without DRM . . . but this is at least a step in the right direction for those that want better portability of the content across devices and platforms.
While this will prevent spammers from bumping up their sites' Page Rank (probably their primary motivation for comment spam anyway), it doesn't prevent their bots from spamming targeted blogs etc. in the first place. That is still best handled by the blog software providers.
For example, WordPress has a variety of different plugins for handling comment spam. The best one I've seen renders a series of characters graphically (a la TicketBastard) which the user (a human, of course) has to type into a text field on the comment form before their comment is accepted. Blogs implementing this type of mechanism typically have spam coming from bots drop down to zero.
No, the point was to eliminate a competitor through acquisition and enable the combined Oracle / PeopleSoft / JD Edwards to better compete in a market dominated by SAP.
Any suggestion of Oracle attempting to create a monopoly through this move is nonsense -- their market share in enterprise applications is still a pimiple on SAP's ass, even when you combine the three companies now under the Oracle banner.
What a troll. It has absolutely nothing to do with the economy, and is exactly what happens during all tech aquisitions, regardless of overall economic conditions. The jobs aren't going to India -- they're being eliminated completely.
The first to go are redundant positions, i.e., HR, finance / legal, etc. Then most of the rest (dev, PS, and sales / marketing) are typically kept for a time to absorb what they know, and then axed. The creme of the crop are kept or induced to stay, but, like the article says, most of the PeopleSoft folks I know would rather quit than work for Orifice / Horricle.
One of the was that a site build credibility is through at least the appearance of impartiality, especially on high-profile subject matter like politics. The GWB article is one big bashfest -- really, a blatant, unending laundry list of attacks. Regardless of whether or not you love or hate the man, there's no way the article can be called unbiased.
I find it interesting that there is no mention of Martin Luther King Jr.'s documented, well-known infidelity in his article, and JFK's womanizing is given a total of one paragraph -- actually, make that two sentences -- in his article. If Wikipedia wants to be taken seriously as a source when it comes to political topics, the editors need to make sure that all points of the political compass are equally represented.
I meant LLC. See, that's why I need a CPA. :-D
So how will you be doing this year's taxes?
I won't. Instead, I'll pay x hundred $ for a kick-ass CPA, like I always do, who already forgot more about the tax laws than I'd ever want to know, who can handle my stock options and separate sole proprietorship and charitable contributions and new house interest and the fact that I just got married but didn't change my withholding . . .
I've come out in the black since I started using to my CPA, and I'll trade money for time any day.
I maintain a fairly large PHP / CSS-based site. I use Dreamweaver MX 2004, and it's always get the code tab open -- except when I'm dealing with tables. Yeah, of course I know how to hand-code tables, but man, to be able to graphically split and combine cells, and completely reformat tables -- where by hand I'd have to edit each cell / row manually -- is a huge timesaver.
I also like PHP's Site Maintenance features and have found it to be flexible enough to handle a variety of different testing environments (local over the network, FTP, etc.). And finally, its site-wide search and replace capabilities are excellent.
Could I get away with a freeware editor and some sort or grep-type functionality? Sure . . . but in general Dreamweaver is a really solid tool specifically geared towards web development, and like someone already mentioned, nothing else comes close. The only problems are its steep price tag and mediocre CSS capabilities.
How can we get our Iranian friends back in the Web?
Let them earn that right for themselves.
Salon published a letter to the editor today
+5 Informative? Come on. Salon, worthy scientific publication that it is, is about as unbiased as Fox News. I suggest folks be more careful getting scientific facts from sources which are obviously slanted either way -- left or right -- on the political spectrum, as such sites always have their own agendas to advance.
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Not one but four, and it's not a big deal to you because you're the one who has to pay for it.
they probably became homeless when the developers paid off the city and took away their homes to build your condos.
Nice try, but these condos we built in 1986 on a vacant lot. And, BTW, this isn't some girl, but a 37 year old WHITE woman, so don't even try to play the race card.
Obviously this woman needed help, nice to know her neighbors that live in the same building would rather lock her up and take away her HOME instead of *gasp* trying to help her.
Several residents did talk to her, and the condo board repeatedly warned her before taking police and legal action.
Addiction of any sort is a sickness, not a crime, ask any doctor in the world if your too high and mighty to take an anonymous cowards word for it.
It may be an illness, but it was HER choice, not mine, for her to start using drugs, and therefore she is responsible for her own condition. HER choice. SHE chose to use the drugs. That's like saying I should pay for someone's lung cancer treatment because they chose to destroy their lungs by smoking for 40 years, or I should have to pay to keep someone plugged in who chose not to wear a helmet and smashed their brains out against a bridge pier and is now a vegetable. It's fucking ridiculous and, even if there are some who think that, yes, I should have to pay for the actions of idiots, just because you brought a medical condition upon yourself, it doesn't give you the right to commit crimes against other people. I don't even think you guys in Europe (or Canada, or wherever) are allowed to do that.
And BTW, I would be more than happy that some of my tax dollars went towards her cell because since she's gone there is NO CRIME HERE. Not a single incident.
Please re-read my original post. SHE WAS IN REHAB REPEATEDLY. It didn't work. What the fuck other recourse did we have? Shall I just stand by until one of the coked-up freaks she gave the condo access codes to decided to rob me at gunpoint or rape my wife? Again, it's very easy for you to judge what I've said until you've actually lived through the same situation. And then a guarantee you your view on hard drug use and the environment it creates will change.
If people like you feel so bad for her, why don't YOU take her in?
Don't you get it? She WAS in rehab -- repeatedly, for months at a time. It didn't work. If we're worried about tax dollars, don't waste any more on a broken process.
We're NOT talking about alcohol -- we're talking about terribly addictive drugs which cause people to do absolutely anything to get their next fix, regardless of whether or not they have the money. The theft, robbery, etc. will continue, and now you'll have people sticking up the pharmacy for the coke. And as for buying coke at CVS, she couldn't even pay $10 for a rock of crack (let's not even talk about the $100s in back association fees she owed) -- she was asking other residents for money to support her drug habit. But it's not the drug use that pissed us off -- in fact, the quickest resolution would have been if she OD'd -- it was all of the crime that went along with it.
Personally, I could care less if people get stoned in the privacy of their own house, behind closed doors, as long as it doesn't bother their neighbors. The problem is, in this case, it didn't do down that way, pot WAS a stepping stone, and she turned into a fucking crack whore (let's call a spade a spade -- she fucked for money for drugs).
But NOTHING -- no "illness" (which you neglect to mention was caused by a series of poor life decisions) or anything else -- gives someone the right to steal our property, disturb the peace, violate the legal rules of our condo association, etc. We worked too hard for what we have, and if rehab doesn't work, fucking LOCK HER UP.
Again, once YOU have actually lived with someone like this as a neighbor for more than six months, I'll bet hard cash you'll change your tune very quickly.
As I believe someone already mentioned, a loon is a resident of California. There are also several derivative words, e.g. loony.
You've never lived next to a heavy drug user or dealer, have you? Recently we had the pleasure of having one of the residents in our small 10 unit mid / upscale condo get hooked on crack. It was progression from her years of "casual" partying with pot, meth and X. When she was away trying to get clean at rehab, it was relatively quiet except for the people ripping the screens off her windows and climbing in her condo at 3 in the morning to steal God knows what. When she was back, it was hell for everyone in our community -- constant traffic in and out of her unit at all hours of the day and night, theft from cars of various property around the condo, "people" in our parking area getting high and leaving trash and drug paraphanelia everywhere, vandalism in the form of slashed tires when she didn't uphold her end of the deals she'd made, homeless individuals screaming "cunt" and "fucking crack whore" in front of her unit at 4 in the morning, you name it. No one living here felt safe, and the police did nothing because she was too "small time" to warrant their attention. Only constant, expensive letters from our attorney to her and her father finally got her to sell the property and move her ass out of here.
Don't give me this holier-than-thou bullshit about how drug dealers are harmless and drug use is a "victimless crime." In my experience that talk always comes from people who have never had to live through a junkie inflicting their misery on others. This woman wasn't violent but she surrounded herself with others who were, and for what she did to the members of our community and the danger she exposed eveyone of us to she should rot in jail. When you've had a desparate addict as a neighbor knocking on your door at 11:00 PM looking for baking soda to cook up their next rock, then tell me that drugs aren't all that bad. Until then, fuck off, and take that assanine plank from the Libertarian platform with you -- it's one of the chief reasons us mainstream physcal conservatives won't touch the party with a 10 foot pole.
The problems, beyond the expeted small technical ones, have all been due to America not having a worthwhile launch system to do their end of the job.
I like how you left out the part about Russia not being able to pay for their modules so they could be completed and sent up on time.
and the end to local school boards
Yeah, that makes sense, 'cuz what works in the inner city will work just as well in Bumpkinland. I mean, one size fits all, right?
. . . when it meets the business end of an SUV or Hummer in an accident.
. . . the REAL reason this technology came about is because no one was ever able to figure out how to get a pill bottle through a printer or typewriter . . .
As one of many who briefly had a small fortune in stock options in the late '90s, I can tell you from experience:
. . . why not just vote via absentee ballot? I'm a Florida resident and I did. You've still got plenty of time.
Also, I think some credit is due to Florida for wisely giving people a chance to vote early. It's more convenient for the voting public, and allows officials to use the equipment with real votes before November 2, which is just not the same as testing stuff in a lab. This is the first time that electronic voting has ever been offered in many parts of our state. Instead of constant bitching, whining, and criticism, acknowledge that there are problems and things will be difficult the first few times, and have a little faith in people to fix the problems with the machines. The folks in the trenches fixing the problems are most likely not part of some evil Republican conspiracy to delete Kerry votes or change them to Nader votes -- they're probably just hardworking IT guys and girls like you who take pride in their jobs and just want to see things go smoothly.
. . . Peter Jackson began production on his remake of king Kong in the Congo last week . . .