I am not prepared, at this time, to argue with you.
I will state that your link is of questionable value and here is why I believe that to be true:
First, there is the question of their estimate of interest on national debt. There is no basis for this other than their say so.
Second, I have some serious questions about the 162 Billion they casually add for GWOT. Even a casual reading of the website shows a serious problem with this.
In the future please try to link to non-partisan sites for information. With WRLs reputation and the inaccuracies on display in that budget breakdown I'm having difficulty taking them seriously.
Thank you for service to our country and my post shouldn't be read as an attack on you personally.
Your argument, while technically accurate, is simply ridiculous.
It's clear from the numbers I posted that military spending represents less than 25% of the total budget.
It's also clear that social spending is upwards of 50% of the total budget.
So let me clarify, if you cannot achieve the promised social nirvana with expenditures of 1.9 TRILLION (that word deserves to be capitalized) ***per year*** then what makes you think that having an additional paltry 214 billion or so is going to make a difference? (214 Billion represents roughly 30% of the military budget.)
Further, you state that military spending is somehow "entitlement" spending but you see nothing wrong with CHIP (entitlement) SS (entitlement) Medicare/Medicaid (entitlement), plus innumerable safety net programs (entitlement).
Taken in gross amounts based on YOUR categories your argument is ridiculous from top to bottom.
Your comment makes me rage. If you were close enough I kick you in the junk so hard your grandchildren would still be feeling it...if you were still capable of having them.
The military is NOT the "largest entitlement program in the country." It's not even fucking CLOSE.
Maybe you should take your ignorant self over to http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=1258 and read the very simple article that breaks out the spending. The U.S. Military budget is about 20%, Social Spending is about 55%!
So no, I'm not kicking you in the junk for slagging the military although that irritates me as well. I'm kicking you in the junk for being ignorant of the real budget numbers.
This article, and many more like it, prove the existence of a growing "Nanny State.". I often read people dismissing "Slippery Slope" arguments but here is a real life example.
Someone passed a guideline to try and help children eat healthier and suddenly children are being punished for possessing a piece of candy.
It doesn't take a genius to see how this is going to play out in other realms such as healthcare and finance. After all, the bureaucratic morons running the schools are essentially the same bureaucratic morons that you'll find doing the administrative work in local, state, and federal governments.
No, not all of the administrators in a school or the government are morons. Many of them are intelligent and capable people. The problem is that they're outnumbered by the morons.
How does iTunes and their _billions_ of downloads, many of them paid, jive with your theory? Don't forget Amazon and their hefty number of digital music sales either.
There are many, many, people purchasing digital content online. Yes, there are many who don't but that doesn't invalidate the idea, or the reality, that people WILL pay for what they want.
All of that sounds to me like "Internet Explorer is built too deeply into the operating system to be removed. It cannot be replaced because too many critical systems services rely on it."
Funny how books should be priced at what the publisher wants but MUSIC ***had*** to be priced at what Jobs wanted, now isn't it?
Almost like they're trying to gain an advantage over a competitor.
I am absolutely PISSED at the disruption to the e-book market by the iPad and Steve "Look at my fucking turtleneck" Jobs. There was a new book coming out at that time that I really wanted in e-book form and couldn't get because suddenly the publisher was in a fight with Amazon over pricing. In fact a month after release Jim Butcher's Changes is STILL not available for the Kindle because of the price war that Stevie kicked off.
So you've got a couple of Christian Crazies in your office talking about maybe doing something. Big fucking deal. Get back to me when they're chopping peoples heads off or murdering them for cartoons.
As I read your second sentence an interesting notion occurred to me. Could it not be argued that having to sign up as a developer is essentially a knowledgeable user license?
There's been many jokes, some serious, over the years here on/, about a "user license" program for computers. If you could be verified as a "knowledgeable user" then you would be able to access all of your computers configuration settings. It's been posited that this would reduce the amount of spam, botnet infections, and spyware infections in the wild.
I doubt that this is Apple's intent and I'm not sure I agree with it. It does however make a certain amount of sense. If you're not smart enough to sign up as a dev then you're not smart enough to be given complete control of your internet connected device.
"States need to recognize that they have lost the battle with online retailers and instead do what they can to lower the cost of business for in-state retailers."
They don't believe that they've lost and I have to agree with them.
It's now technically possible to get what they want. The state of taxation for online purchases is currently in legal limbo. Congress keeps extending the "tax free" period but as the budget crisis deepens more and more state governments are going to pummeling their Congressional Legislatures to do something.
I look for the tax free period to go away the next time it expires (November 1, 2014).
Which wouldn't break North Carolina's heart AT ALL. If you went to a "brick and mortar" store to purchase your item it sure would make their tax collection efforts a lot easier now wouldn't it?
There is no real downside to the State of N.C. in this action. If they win and Amazon gives them what they want they get extra money. If Amazon "goes nuclear" and refuses to ship to N.C. then it drives customers into the traditional B&M stores where the state can collect sales tax. If the state loses and Amazon doesn't hand the purchase histories over then what are they out? A paltry million or so for the cost of the legal gyrations?
As the states budget crisis deepens you're going to see more of this and before this budget mess is over, if it's ever over, you're going to see some kind of tax scheme put onto online purchases.
You're missing the fundamental issue. Upgrading to.95 _was_ the minimum requirement. You should have gone to your clients and said "This work needs to be performed to keep your AntiVirus current for your email server.".
They've been warning users for 6 months that this was coming. The new style signature files for.95 and up were GOING to crash.94 installations. They're mirrors can't support supplying both old and new style signatures and the.95+ clients would have been _less secure_ because of a constrained signature file size. On top of all that if you'd go read their statement they ALSO cannot support an auto upgrade to.95 because of server constraints.
Also, I have a feeling that if they had found a way to force everyone to.95 we would have had people on here screaming about how the forced update broke their server and that they shouldn't have done that.
Face it, they gave six months warning. You, and everyone else, had plenty of time to get their poop in a group and upgrade to the latest package.
It's VERY BAD for you to breathe in Silica dust whether it's Asbestos based or not. The microscopic crystals plug the lungs and cannot be cleared causing respiratory difficulty or even failure.
An automobile's air filter will plug within minutes of being introduced to volcanic ash. Plug to the point of keeping the engine from running.
This was experienced during the Mt. Saint Helen's eruption in the United States. Stores sold out of pantyhose in very short order because people were using them to filter the ash so it wouldn't plug up the regular air filter.
Comparing the numbers between the MS WM and the Apple Marketplace (iTunes) is worse than meaningless. There are far, far, more apps than 872 for the WinMo platform and to pretend otherwise is disingenuous.
There is no practical way to get a firm count of the number of applications available for the WinMo platform. Is it on par with the iPhone? I have no idea but like the other poster I'd bet that it is and your proof of the contrary is no proof at all.
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Even more, your typed notes are not aggregated, just stored. The only data that is aggregated and used is what, if any, passages you highlighted!
This whole story is sensationalist and the moron /.'ers who didn't bother to RTFA and engage their brains are even worse.
Sir,
I am not prepared, at this time, to argue with you.
I will state that your link is of questionable value and here is why I believe that to be true:
First, there is the question of their estimate of interest on national debt. There is no basis for this other than their say so.
Second, I have some serious questions about the 162 Billion they casually add for GWOT. Even a casual reading of the website shows a serious problem with this.
In the future please try to link to non-partisan sites for information. With WRLs reputation and the inaccuracies on display in that budget breakdown I'm having difficulty taking them seriously.
Thank you for service to our country and my post shouldn't be read as an attack on you personally.
Your argument, while technically accurate, is simply ridiculous.
It's clear from the numbers I posted that military spending represents less than 25% of the total budget.
It's also clear that social spending is upwards of 50% of the total budget.
So let me clarify, if you cannot achieve the promised social nirvana with expenditures of 1.9 TRILLION (that word deserves to be capitalized) ***per year*** then what makes you think that having an additional paltry 214 billion or so is going to make a difference? (214 Billion represents roughly 30% of the military budget.)
Further, you state that military spending is somehow "entitlement" spending but you see nothing wrong with CHIP (entitlement) SS (entitlement) Medicare/Medicaid (entitlement), plus innumerable safety net programs (entitlement).
Taken in gross amounts based on YOUR categories your argument is ridiculous from top to bottom.
Your comment makes me rage. If you were close enough I kick you in the junk so hard your grandchildren would still be feeling it...if you were still capable of having them.
The military is NOT the "largest entitlement program in the country." It's not even fucking CLOSE.
Maybe you should take your ignorant self over to http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=1258 and read the very simple article that breaks out the spending. The U.S. Military budget is about 20%, Social Spending is about 55%!
So no, I'm not kicking you in the junk for slagging the military although that irritates me as well. I'm kicking you in the junk for being ignorant of the real budget numbers.
This article, and many more like it, prove the existence of a growing "Nanny State.". I often read people dismissing "Slippery Slope" arguments but here is a real life example.
Someone passed a guideline to try and help children eat healthier and suddenly children are being punished for possessing a piece of candy.
It doesn't take a genius to see how this is going to play out in other realms such as healthcare and finance. After all, the bureaucratic morons running the schools are essentially the same bureaucratic morons that you'll find doing the administrative work in local, state, and federal governments.
No, not all of the administrators in a school or the government are morons. Many of them are intelligent and capable people. The problem is that they're outnumbered by the morons.
How does iTunes and their _billions_ of downloads, many of them paid, jive with your theory? Don't forget Amazon and their hefty number of digital music sales either.
There are many, many, people purchasing digital content online. Yes, there are many who don't but that doesn't invalidate the idea, or the reality, that people WILL pay for what they want.
All of that sounds to me like "Internet Explorer is built too deeply into the operating system to be removed. It cannot be replaced because too many critical systems services rely on it."
Funny how books should be priced at what the publisher wants but MUSIC ***had*** to be priced at what Jobs wanted, now isn't it?
Almost like they're trying to gain an advantage over a competitor.
I am absolutely PISSED at the disruption to the e-book market by the iPad and Steve "Look at my fucking turtleneck" Jobs. There was a new book coming out at that time that I really wanted in e-book form and couldn't get because suddenly the publisher was in a fight with Amazon over pricing. In fact a month after release Jim Butcher's Changes is STILL not available for the Kindle because of the price war that Stevie kicked off.
Nope, but it hasn't done so well in 2008-2010 either.
For grins you should look up who performed those dozen other studies and what their relationship is with Mr. Mann.
Things are frequently not as they appear.
I've seen lots of tablets with MS operating systems on them. They're very popular in _medical_ settings.
You've only seen one, I've seen hundreds.
I'm still not saying that they're popular but they're obviously used more often then you're aware of.
So you've got a couple of Christian Crazies in your office talking about maybe doing something. Big fucking deal. Get back to me when they're chopping peoples heads off or murdering them for cartoons.
There is no question that all of those things can be done.
I agree but the difference is largely academic. As long as the states get the money I doubt the mechanism matters much to them.
As I read your second sentence an interesting notion occurred to me. Could it not be argued that having to sign up as a developer is essentially a knowledgeable user license?
There's been many jokes, some serious, over the years here on /, about a "user license" program for computers. If you could be verified as a "knowledgeable user" then you would be able to access all of your computers configuration settings. It's been posited that this would reduce the amount of spam, botnet infections, and spyware infections in the wild.
I doubt that this is Apple's intent and I'm not sure I agree with it. It does however make a certain amount of sense. If you're not smart enough to sign up as a dev then you're not smart enough to be given complete control of your internet connected device.
Gizmodo are jerks and I will no longer go to their website. Outing this guy in the fashion that they chose is just reprehensible.
"States need to recognize that they have lost the battle with online retailers and instead do what they can to lower the cost of business for in-state retailers."
They don't believe that they've lost and I have to agree with them.
It's now technically possible to get what they want. The state of taxation for online purchases is currently in legal limbo. Congress keeps extending the "tax free" period but as the budget crisis deepens more and more state governments are going to pummeling their Congressional Legislatures to do something.
I look for the tax free period to go away the next time it expires (November 1, 2014).
Which wouldn't break North Carolina's heart AT ALL. If you went to a "brick and mortar" store to purchase your item it sure would make their tax collection efforts a lot easier now wouldn't it?
There is no real downside to the State of N.C. in this action. If they win and Amazon gives them what they want they get extra money. If Amazon "goes nuclear" and refuses to ship to N.C. then it drives customers into the traditional B&M stores where the state can collect sales tax. If the state loses and Amazon doesn't hand the purchase histories over then what are they out? A paltry million or so for the cost of the legal gyrations?
As the states budget crisis deepens you're going to see more of this and before this budget mess is over, if it's ever over, you're going to see some kind of tax scheme put onto online purchases.
You're missing the fundamental issue. Upgrading to .95 _was_ the minimum requirement. You should have gone to your clients and said "This work needs to be performed to keep your AntiVirus current for your email server.".
What were they supposed to do exactly?
They've been warning users for 6 months that this was coming. The new style signature files for .95 and up were GOING to crash .94 installations. They're mirrors can't support supplying both old and new style signatures and the .95+ clients would have been _less secure_ because of a constrained signature file size. On top of all that if you'd go read their statement they ALSO cannot support an auto upgrade to .95 because of server constraints.
Also, I have a feeling that if they had found a way to force everyone to .95 we would have had people on here screaming about how the forced update broke their server and that they shouldn't have done that.
Face it, they gave six months warning. You, and everyone else, had plenty of time to get their poop in a group and upgrade to the latest package.
No.
Look for the post by ccandreva to explain why.
All of that typing and all you had to do was go look up silicosis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicosis
It's VERY BAD for you to breathe in Silica dust whether it's Asbestos based or not. The microscopic crystals plug the lungs and cannot be cleared causing respiratory difficulty or even failure.
An automobile's air filter will plug within minutes of being introduced to volcanic ash. Plug to the point of keeping the engine from running.
This was experienced during the Mt. Saint Helen's eruption in the United States. Stores sold out of pantyhose in very short order because people were using them to filter the ash so it wouldn't plug up the regular air filter.
Comparing the numbers between the MS WM and the Apple Marketplace (iTunes) is worse than meaningless. There are far, far, more apps than 872 for the WinMo platform and to pretend otherwise is disingenuous.
There is no practical way to get a firm count of the number of applications available for the WinMo platform. Is it on par with the iPhone? I have no idea but like the other poster I'd bet that it is and your proof of the contrary is no proof at all.
I believe the former and find the latter laughable. I'm sorry if my cognitive malfunctions give you migraines. :-)