Can you point out where in the Constitution that it prohibits the recording of calls that were made?
The 4th amendment. Listen, the government can't just but into your life for any extent whenver it feels like.
The actual conversations are NOT being recorded and stored. It simply makes a record that Joe Blow called Muhammed Ihateamericans on a certain date.
Irrelevent. Its not the governments business as to what I am doing when I am not suspected of doing anything. And its all calls, not just to suspected terrorists. Stop trying to phrase things so that anyone that disagrees is a terrorist. Most calls are from Joe Blow to aunt sue. Give it a rest already.
This has been legal for the Federal Government to do this for a long time. In fact, such things have been taking place for decades.
Its legal when they get a supoena, which is similar to a warrant. This is illegal as the vast majority are not suspected of anything.
The fact that linear is or is not in the book doesn't matter. The point is valid; you don't argue complex economic systems from a beginners course. I think you may have missed the point.
All we had to do was to get things we already do onto paper!
Yikes; sounds like a lot of paper. I wonder if the real cost will be maintaining those documents, which is the case when you have classical development and reams of requirements documentation.
RDC is still a GUI, this means I cannot use it from my phone, pda, old computer,etc.
Ya, because alot of admins need to get to their work computer from some old dustbucket they are still clinging too. If your PDA is running Windows, you probably can get to the box via RDC. Do you really want an admin trying to fix a critial problem on his cell phone?? My god, what a lame attempt to bash using a GUI. Big fucking deal.. we've moved out of the 70s you know.
In addition, the menus may not be "hidden", but they can be a pain to find, compared to grepping. Any time you have to dig through something in a GUI that is more than three levels deep it is hidden in my estimation.
Funny, I haven't had any problem finding anything.. but I guess if you hate GUIs so much there's nothing anyone can do for you. Please, stick to your green screen terminal in the basement. The rest of us will move on with newer technology.
1. I do know what I am doing. I even have a nifty degree to prove it.
Apparently you don't, if you can't administer a Windows server effectively. Let me gues, its an InfoTech or InfoSys degree, or better yet, MIS. Yippie. Worthless degrees.
2. Crash frequently is something you may be defining differently, to me any machine that cannot maintain a year of up time is crashing too frequently. The crashes we are currently experience are due to software that crashes and brings down the whole machine. How a piece of user land software can do this to a supposed server OS boggles my mind.
Funny, since we haven't had any crash in over 3 years. Let me know when you find a user land program that crashes Win2k3. Oh, and to be fair, don't run it as an Admin.. since I know of user space programs which can bring down a linux box when you're running as root too. Its pretty clear your experience with windows servers is using the Win9x series as a server..
3. Unless it is a major security issue kernel upgrades are not done in a manner that would affect uptime from a user's point of view. A new server is built it is put in place then the old one can be upgraded and moved back to or repurposed. This can be done in windows as well but then it would have to be done once a month.
Wow, more ignorance on your part as well. You've never used any modern windows OS have you? I'm sorry, but if you have ONE server that can NEVER go down, you're not doing yoru job right. A server that critial should always have a backup. Taking 2 minutes to reboot a server after installing security patches isn't a big deal.
4. I have yet to have a Linux (RHEL) update so completely change a machine that software could not be made to work; as in XPSP2.
What software are you refering to? We don't have any problems running any software we need on XPSP2. I suspect this is more incompetance on your part.
I would love to see data to back up this paying more in the long run. I cannot imagine it to be true unless they are hiring unqualified people.
You mean unqualified like you? The studies are out there, go look. Oh, and paying $10,000 for software licenses and $70,000 for an admin is cheaper over, say 5 or 6 years than paying $0 in software licenses (which, less face it, compaines pay for the RHEL) and $85,000 a year.
The fact that they use XP in a situation where uptime is not a major factor, nor reliability an issue tells me nothing I did not already know. That being that Windows has its place, on desktops. I think it is a fine desktop OS.
Most office workers need their PCs all day to do their job. If their PC is down, they don't get work done. Uptime during business hours is critial. Windows has been doing just fine running many of the companies I've been employed at.
Where I am currently employed, we have migrated many users to OSS software so that we may eventually abandon windows all together. I was not the one to suggest this. The bean counters did, and upper management when they
Taping a note to your front door that reads 'only enter if you live here' doesn't accomplish a lot if you leave the door open all the time.
Please, stop with stupid analogies. They are never helpful. You can leave your door open all the time, that doesn't give anyone the right to go in! In Vermont, thats criminal trespass, and the fine is much larger than the other forms of trespass defined in the act.
I did some research and this is a state by state deal. Most states do support it in any case.
Unfortunatly most don't, since they will claim the polls are open after work... which, as I stated, doesn't exactly encourage already busy people to vote.
Care to back this up with something more offical?
Its not for speed limits, but they did use a similar trick: http://www.wndu.com/news/062001/news_8430.php . I'm actually suprised you don't remember the stories that came out when the feds decided that 65 MPH would be ok for states to allow. Or are you too young to remember when 55 was the most states would be allowed to set for maximum speed? Found a link regarding federal speed limits: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Maximum_Spee d_Limit . See the second at the bottom. Nevada attempted to raise the speed limits, and the federal government withheld funding (which was already approved). The lawmakers knew the feds would use the funding ploy to keep them in line, and specifically included a clause to invalidate the law if the feds did in fact withhold funding... probably because they wanted to support the higher limits (which I assume Nevadians(?) wanted) but the feds wouldn't let them.
I never said it was perfect but nor did I say it was broken to the point where states should simply disregaurd the federal government either.
I didn't say they should totaly disregard it; they should just disregard federal laws which are not within the federal governments scope. And why shouldn't they? The feds are overstepping their bounds as set in the Constitution. You're under no obligation to follow laws which are unconstitutional, even if they haven't been ruled as such yet.
IIRC employers must give employees an opertunity to vote.
Not to my knowledge, at least anywhere I've lived. Most polls ARE open past work hours, but a lot of people chose not to go I think after they've put in 8+ hours at work. Yes you can say they're just being lazy... but that doesn't solve anything. Give them more free time to be involved in politics, and maybe they would be.
Jsut as a side note: there is no federal speed limit anymore.
Sure there is. It doesn't say 'no state shall set speed limits over 65.' It says 'Any state which speed limits over 65 wont get funding.' Technically you're right, but this seems to be blackmailing states with thier own money.
Aside from that state regulation of tv and radio is unrealistic because of the distances these signals can be broadcast (across all types of borders). Open air bandwidth needs regulated for the good of public safty and commerce (imagine changing standards on transmissions and the issues that would cause with, say, aircraft).
Notice I didn't say anything about spectrum allocation; I was discussing FCC regulations on content.
But in some ways I do agree, the federal government doesn't need to be involved with many things but that's one of the faults of a federal government.
Glad to hear. personally there's almost nothing I think they should be involved in. You can almost never say 'this will be good for all 300 million people.'
The way to change the control of the federal government has to come by voting in the right people into the federal government. States can not just mandate control over previous federal law on a whim.
Why not? If the system really is as broken as you seem to acknowledge, why would it be wrong for an entire state to say 'We will no longer abide by federal laws when those laws wrongly take rights away from the states or its people, or overstep the bounds of the role of the federal government as defined by the Constitution.'
Personally I wish my state would do that. Imagine, an entire state refusing to pay income tax and stop complying with the federal laws which, at the heart of things, are unconsitutational? It would surely be an event to witness.
My original point is that the violation of rights is no longer considered a violation by the mainstream, or the media. That is the tragedy. If a large vocal outcry over these violations were to occur, there might be an end, or reduction, to them, however, all the masses ever hear is more and more about how this is a good thing for their safety.
Point taken, and yes it is sad.
Violation of rights has to have a context. I can claim that drunk driving laws are a violation of my right to drink and drive, but the laws say I have no such right.
As much as I think drunk driving is wrong, I also think its wrong to criminalize things which may or may not harm someone... I think its better to wait until those harms come to pass. In this case, if you kill someone because you are drunk behind the wheel, it can be classified as 1st degree murder. This has the advantage of not throwing someone into court that didn't actually harm anyone, and also has the advantage that the drunk driver won't get away with a slap on the wrist (which is the reality with DD laws).
We are rapidly approaching the day that a claim that prosecution for spending time with known criminals is a violation of the freedom of association will not be valid either.
Which is unfortunate, since you may not even know the person is a criminal. Personally I don't think I should have to do a background check before I talk to someone. And it opens up other scenarios as well.. what if the background check was incorrect?
We have already passed the time when you could claim a right to fly. Try having your name on the do-not-fly list and try getting it back off that list, or even finding why your name was put onto it.
Lost rights need not be lost forever. We need to continue to the fight, not only to keep the rights we have, but to stop others from being violated.
In the end, no 'evil' government can survive. They will eventually put enough people into enough misery that they will change things any way possible.
Not necessarily. We have all worked in places where things would "disappear". If someone is in a really bad financial situation they may walk off with equipment (PCs, memory, CPUs, monitors, test equipment, etc..).
Most stealing is done by managers, is it not? And I don't think debt is the reason people steal from their employer. They probaly could afford it if they wanted, but would rather just take it. At any rate, you can't prove a causation between someone in debt and their willingness to steal. Its simply a logical fallacy. Being in debt does not mean you have no morals, after all.
A credit check is probably cheaper than a drug test and could be an indication of other addictions like gambling.
As long as the addication doesn't interfere with job performance, I fail to see how its relevent. Again, there's no corrolation between being in debt and having a gambling problem. To think that you could deduce that from a credit report is silly, at best. At worst, I would think its slander (or libel).
That's why I always make sure the mortgage is paid before starting on a crack binge;-)
I'd say that's always good advice;-)
You may not like or agree with it but that is how potential employers see you.
Which is why I do not think that employers should be allowed to ask for credit reports when someone applies.
Actually I think the idea of credit reports at all is pretty bad. They unfairly represent big business and banking. Now if there was an agency that tracked how often business screws people over, then we might have something.
Its basis is the first amendment, the right of peaceful assembly. There are specific laws re-enforcing this as well, although I'm not able to quickly find it (guilt by association turns up an awful lot of hits, and it will take me a while to find the law).
From my understanding of it, the ATF simply didn't like Koresh and his group and wanted to take them out, even though they hadn't done anything to warrant it.
Actually our framers thought that it was a patriots duty to violently overthrow their government when it has become an oppressor. Hopefully it won't come to that, because if it did, who knows what kind of government would be built? Would it be a rebirth of what our framers had in mind, or would it be similar to what Stalin had?
Lets face it though; in the end, you unfortunalty need violence. Honestly, do you really think power hunger people will care what some paper says?
Ask any battered wife how effective a restraining order is. My wife got one against her ex, but the cop advised her (off the record, of course) to buy a gun. You can NEVER rely on someone else to protect you, thats just the way it is.
Maybe it's these kinds of people who let things get bad because their too gutless to take 5 minutes out of their busy day and let their elected officals know what they're thinking.
It would be helpful if that Tue in Nov. was a holiday that all employers were required to give off. Even if they were required to only give half a day.
Lets also not forget that there are simply too many issues which shouldn't even be discussed at a federal level, and yet there they are. Why should the feds tell people what the drinking age is? Speed limits? Or what may or may not be said on the radio or tv? That should be up to the states, which you have much more control over. As it is, there aren't really any state candidates that really represent my views, let alone federal.
If you want people to vote more, you need to remove much of the federal government. Let the states compete for the best government.. after all, if you really are sick of your state government, at least you can move.
Or would you like to explain why Zacarias Moussaoui will be spending his life in prison, if not for "guilt by association"? These days it called "conspiring" and you can and will be persecuted (s.i.c.) for it, at will, any time you 1) make the wrong person mad at you, 2) get in the way, 3) happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, 4) happen to fit a profile when a scapegoat is needed, 5) happen to fit a profile when a media distraction is needed.
To prove conspircy, you actually have to prove that the person knew of the plot, not just that they made phone calls to each other. By the way, pointing out violations of rights doesn't mean we don't have those rights, it means we need to remove the people in power.
Text configuration might be a pain for you but in the real IT world it is a blessing, no hidden menus, it can all be done via ssh, etc.
Windows admins don't have to deal with 'hidden' menus. This is a bit of trolling on your part. RDC has been around a while now too, not to mention that many of the admin tools let you connect remotely. Don't comment on something you've never done.
I have no idea what problems you could have had with a usb printer, more likely that was just a bit of trolling.
I have a Lexmark 4200 4 in 1 printer. Linux won't reconize it. USB was working properly, because the USB UPS was working fine.
. I also have a couple windows servers in my server room. They are a pain in the ass, every time they need updates they need rebooted, they crash at least 10 times more frequently than the linux or HP-ux machines and they cost us more.
Bull. You just don't know what you're doing. We have Windows servers here, and in ever job I've had. None of them crashed frequently, if at all. Wait one did, but that was a bad raid controller; Linux fails on that too. Oh, try patching the Linux kernel and not rebooting too. Do you even know what you're talking about?
Before you go shooting off at the mouth with "linux is hard no companies use it, wa wa wa" you might want to realize how many companies do use it in the server room.
I realize that companies use Linux, and figure out how to make it work. They also end up paying more in the long run. These same companies are using XP as a client still.. what does that tell you?
You are the reason it cannot be rolled out to client desktops, you who think any change is bad and anything not MS is bad.
I don't think any change is bad, and I don't think things non-MS are bad. I ran Linux as a server for almost 8 years. I ran it is as a desktop for over 2. I switched back because I just wanted to get things done, not google and read hundreds of thousands of pages to figure out how to do X, when X is a simple option in Windows. People use Windows because they WANT to and Linux doesn't fill all the nitches.
Before you speak about Linux not being fit for an enterprise server talk to a few enterprise administrators.
I have; they perfered Windows. And if you look at my post, I never said it wasn't fit, I said it was taking up too much time to get it working the way I wanted it to, and I really wasn't asking that much of it. FWIW, I've never admined a Windows server before, but I got it up and running much more quickly than I ever did running Linux.
Many examples and you can't find ONE link? Perhaps because that is not what happened. If you find any, please post, but don't forget to post links to the appeals too, I'm sure no homeowner would accept such a judgement and not appeal.
If you can't manage your life or finances, I don't see why any company would want to trust you with any of their money, either.
that only matters if you're applying for a financial position. As a software developer, how does my debt matter one bit? If anything, I'll be more likely to work hard to keep my job, so I can get out of said debt.
That may be better for your safety, keeping you from digging a deeper hole for yourself, or having Fat Tony show up on your doorstep.
Huh? Being in debt and denied jobs because of it make things safer? If anything, it makes things more dangerous. If people can't support themselves through legal means, they'll turn to illegal. Are you goign to let yourself starve to death because you can't get a job? Or will you start stealing to feed yourself?
And the NSA is being more intrusive, they are recording EVERY phone call you make. Credit bureaus DON'T record every little credit card transaction.
We have laws against guilty by associatation. Its actually in one of the amendments.
Prohibiting someone from boarding a plane for the simple act of talking to a criminal is a violation of that right. You need evidence against the person himself.. not that his friend is a criminal.
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Can you point out where in the Constitution that it prohibits the recording of calls that were made?
The 4th amendment. Listen, the government can't just but into your life for any extent whenver it feels like.
The actual conversations are NOT being recorded and stored. It simply makes a record that Joe Blow called Muhammed Ihateamericans on a certain date.
Irrelevent. Its not the governments business as to what I am doing when I am not suspected of doing anything. And its all calls, not just to suspected terrorists. Stop trying to phrase things so that anyone that disagrees is a terrorist. Most calls are from Joe Blow to aunt sue. Give it a rest already.
This has been legal for the Federal Government to do this for a long time. In fact, such things have been taking place for decades.
Its legal when they get a supoena, which is similar to a warrant. This is illegal as the vast majority are not suspected of anything.
This was funny when people first started it, but can we give this joke a rest now?
The fact that linear is or is not in the book doesn't matter. The point is valid; you don't argue complex economic systems from a beginners course. I think you may have missed the point.
Maybe so, but on the whole, isn't it better to protect the investor and the marketplace from corporate criminals?
The marketplace and big investors ARE criminals.
All we had to do was to get things we already do onto paper!
Yikes; sounds like a lot of paper. I wonder if the real cost will be maintaining those documents, which is the case when you have classical development and reams of requirements documentation.
RDC is still a GUI, this means I cannot use it from my phone, pda, old computer,etc.
Ya, because alot of admins need to get to their work computer from some old dustbucket they are still clinging too. If your PDA is running Windows, you probably can get to the box via RDC. Do you really want an admin trying to fix a critial problem on his cell phone?? My god, what a lame attempt to bash using a GUI. Big fucking deal.. we've moved out of the 70s you know.
In addition, the menus may not be "hidden", but they can be a pain to find, compared to grepping. Any time you have to dig through something in a GUI that is more than three levels deep it is hidden in my estimation.
Funny, I haven't had any problem finding anything.. but I guess if you hate GUIs so much there's nothing anyone can do for you. Please, stick to your green screen terminal in the basement. The rest of us will move on with newer technology.
1. I do know what I am doing. I even have a nifty degree to prove it.
Apparently you don't, if you can't administer a Windows server effectively. Let me gues, its an InfoTech or InfoSys degree, or better yet, MIS. Yippie. Worthless degrees.
2. Crash frequently is something you may be defining differently, to me any machine that cannot maintain a year of up time is crashing too frequently. The crashes we are currently experience are due to software that crashes and brings down the whole machine. How a piece of user land software can do this to a supposed server OS boggles my mind.
Funny, since we haven't had any crash in over 3 years. Let me know when you find a user land program that crashes Win2k3. Oh, and to be fair, don't run it as an Admin.. since I know of user space programs which can bring down a linux box when you're running as root too. Its pretty clear your experience with windows servers is using the Win9x series as a server..
3. Unless it is a major security issue kernel upgrades are not done in a manner that would affect uptime from a user's point of view. A new server is built it is put in place then the old one can be upgraded and moved back to or repurposed. This can be done in windows as well but then it would have to be done once a month.
Wow, more ignorance on your part as well. You've never used any modern windows OS have you? I'm sorry, but if you have ONE server that can NEVER go down, you're not doing yoru job right. A server that critial should always have a backup. Taking 2 minutes to reboot a server after installing security patches isn't a big deal.
4. I have yet to have a Linux (RHEL) update so completely change a machine that software could not be made to work; as in XPSP2.
What software are you refering to? We don't have any problems running any software we need on XPSP2. I suspect this is more incompetance on your part.
I would love to see data to back up this paying more in the long run. I cannot imagine it to be true unless they are hiring unqualified people.
You mean unqualified like you? The studies are out there, go look. Oh, and paying $10,000 for software licenses and $70,000 for an admin is cheaper over, say 5 or 6 years than paying $0 in software licenses (which, less face it, compaines pay for the RHEL) and $85,000 a year.
The fact that they use XP in a situation where uptime is not a major factor, nor reliability an issue tells me nothing I did not already know. That being that Windows has its place, on desktops. I think it is a fine desktop OS.
Most office workers need their PCs all day to do their job. If their PC is down, they don't get work done. Uptime during business hours is critial. Windows has been doing just fine running many of the companies I've been employed at.
Where I am currently employed, we have migrated many users to OSS software so that we may eventually abandon windows all together. I was not the one to suggest this. The bean counters did, and upper management when they
Taping a note to your front door that reads 'only enter if you live here' doesn't accomplish a lot if you leave the door open all the time.
Please, stop with stupid analogies. They are never helpful. You can leave your door open all the time, that doesn't give anyone the right to go in! In Vermont, thats criminal trespass, and the fine is much larger than the other forms of trespass defined in the act.
I did some research and this is a state by state deal. Most states do support it in any case.
e d_Limit . See the second at the bottom. Nevada attempted to raise the speed limits, and the federal government withheld funding (which was already approved). The lawmakers knew the feds would use the funding ploy to keep them in line, and specifically included a clause to invalidate the law if the feds did in fact withhold funding... probably because they wanted to support the higher limits (which I assume Nevadians(?) wanted) but the feds wouldn't let them.
Unfortunatly most don't, since they will claim the polls are open after work... which, as I stated, doesn't exactly encourage already busy people to vote.
Care to back this up with something more offical?
Its not for speed limits, but they did use a similar trick: http://www.wndu.com/news/062001/news_8430.php . I'm actually suprised you don't remember the stories that came out when the feds decided that 65 MPH would be ok for states to allow. Or are you too young to remember when 55 was the most states would be allowed to set for maximum speed? Found a link regarding federal speed limits: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Maximum_Spe
I never said it was perfect but nor did I say it was broken to the point where states should simply disregaurd the federal government either.
I didn't say they should totaly disregard it; they should just disregard federal laws which are not within the federal governments scope. And why shouldn't they? The feds are overstepping their bounds as set in the Constitution. You're under no obligation to follow laws which are unconstitutional, even if they haven't been ruled as such yet.
IIRC employers must give employees an opertunity to vote.
Not to my knowledge, at least anywhere I've lived. Most polls ARE open past work hours, but a lot of people chose not to go I think after they've put in 8+ hours at work. Yes you can say they're just being lazy... but that doesn't solve anything. Give them more free time to be involved in politics, and maybe they would be.
Jsut as a side note: there is no federal speed limit anymore.
Sure there is. It doesn't say 'no state shall set speed limits over 65.' It says 'Any state which speed limits over 65 wont get funding.' Technically you're right, but this seems to be blackmailing states with thier own money.
Aside from that state regulation of tv and radio is unrealistic because of the distances these signals can be broadcast (across all types of borders). Open air bandwidth needs regulated for the good of public safty and commerce (imagine changing standards on transmissions and the issues that would cause with, say, aircraft).
Notice I didn't say anything about spectrum allocation; I was discussing FCC regulations on content.
But in some ways I do agree, the federal government doesn't need to be involved with many things but that's one of the faults of a federal government.
Glad to hear. personally there's almost nothing I think they should be involved in. You can almost never say 'this will be good for all 300 million people.'
The way to change the control of the federal government has to come by voting in the right people into the federal government. States can not just mandate control over previous federal law on a whim.
Why not? If the system really is as broken as you seem to acknowledge, why would it be wrong for an entire state to say 'We will no longer abide by federal laws when those laws wrongly take rights away from the states or its people, or overstep the bounds of the role of the federal government as defined by the Constitution.'
Personally I wish my state would do that. Imagine, an entire state refusing to pay income tax and stop complying with the federal laws which, at the heart of things, are unconsitutational? It would surely be an event to witness.
My original point is that the violation of rights is no longer considered a violation by the mainstream, or the media. That is the tragedy. If a large vocal outcry over these violations were to occur, there might be an end, or reduction, to them, however, all the masses ever hear is more and more about how this is a good thing for their safety.
Point taken, and yes it is sad.
Violation of rights has to have a context. I can claim that drunk driving laws are a violation of my right to drink and drive, but the laws say I have no such right.
As much as I think drunk driving is wrong, I also think its wrong to criminalize things which may or may not harm someone... I think its better to wait until those harms come to pass. In this case, if you kill someone because you are drunk behind the wheel, it can be classified as 1st degree murder. This has the advantage of not throwing someone into court that didn't actually harm anyone, and also has the advantage that the drunk driver won't get away with a slap on the wrist (which is the reality with DD laws).
We are rapidly approaching the day that a claim that prosecution for spending time with known criminals is a violation of the freedom of association will not be valid either.
Which is unfortunate, since you may not even know the person is a criminal. Personally I don't think I should have to do a background check before I talk to someone. And it opens up other scenarios as well.. what if the background check was incorrect?
We have already passed the time when you could claim a right to fly. Try having your name on the do-not-fly list and try getting it back off that list, or even finding why your name was put onto it.
Lost rights need not be lost forever. We need to continue to the fight, not only to keep the rights we have, but to stop others from being violated.
In the end, no 'evil' government can survive. They will eventually put enough people into enough misery that they will change things any way possible.
Not necessarily. We have all worked in places where things would "disappear". If someone is in a really bad financial situation they may walk off with equipment (PCs, memory, CPUs, monitors, test equipment, etc..).
;-)
Most stealing is done by managers, is it not? And I don't think debt is the reason people steal from their employer. They probaly could afford it if they wanted, but would rather just take it. At any rate, you can't prove a causation between someone in debt and their willingness to steal. Its simply a logical fallacy. Being in debt does not mean you have no morals, after all.
A credit check is probably cheaper than a drug test and could be an indication of other addictions like gambling.
As long as the addication doesn't interfere with job performance, I fail to see how its relevent. Again, there's no corrolation between being in debt and having a gambling problem. To think that you could deduce that from a credit report is silly, at best. At worst, I would think its slander (or libel).
That's why I always make sure the mortgage is paid before starting on a crack binge;-)
I'd say that's always good advice
You may not like or agree with it but that is how potential employers see you.
Which is why I do not think that employers should be allowed to ask for credit reports when someone applies.
Actually I think the idea of credit reports at all is pretty bad. They unfairly represent big business and banking. Now if there was an agency that tracked how often business screws people over, then we might have something.
Its basis is the first amendment, the right of peaceful assembly. There are specific laws re-enforcing this as well, although I'm not able to quickly find it (guilt by association turns up an awful lot of hits, and it will take me a while to find the law).
So the gov't should go around shooting crackpots?
From my understanding of it, the ATF simply didn't like Koresh and his group and wanted to take them out, even though they hadn't done anything to warrant it.
Don't know anything about Ruby Ridge, sorry.
I thought it was the A-team. Or Arnold. Er wait, I think he switched teams..
Actually our framers thought that it was a patriots duty to violently overthrow their government when it has become an oppressor. Hopefully it won't come to that, because if it did, who knows what kind of government would be built? Would it be a rebirth of what our framers had in mind, or would it be similar to what Stalin had?
Lets face it though; in the end, you unfortunalty need violence. Honestly, do you really think power hunger people will care what some paper says?
Ask any battered wife how effective a restraining order is. My wife got one against her ex, but the cop advised her (off the record, of course) to buy a gun. You can NEVER rely on someone else to protect you, thats just the way it is.
Its supposed to be the people; hence the second amendment.
Unfortunately, people now think its someone else's job to protect them.
Personally, I think self defense courses should be required, starting in elementry school and continuing until the end of HS.
Maybe it's these kinds of people who let things get bad because their too gutless to take 5 minutes out of their busy day and let their elected officals know what they're thinking.
It would be helpful if that Tue in Nov. was a holiday that all employers were required to give off. Even if they were required to only give half a day.
Lets also not forget that there are simply too many issues which shouldn't even be discussed at a federal level, and yet there they are. Why should the feds tell people what the drinking age is? Speed limits? Or what may or may not be said on the radio or tv? That should be up to the states, which you have much more control over. As it is, there aren't really any state candidates that really represent my views, let alone federal.
If you want people to vote more, you need to remove much of the federal government. Let the states compete for the best government.. after all, if you really are sick of your state government, at least you can move.
Or would you like to explain why Zacarias Moussaoui will be spending his life in prison, if not for "guilt by association"? These days it called "conspiring" and you can and will be persecuted (s.i.c.) for it, at will, any time you 1) make the wrong person mad at you, 2) get in the way, 3) happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, 4) happen to fit a profile when a scapegoat is needed, 5) happen to fit a profile when a media distraction is needed.
To prove conspircy, you actually have to prove that the person knew of the plot, not just that they made phone calls to each other. By the way, pointing out violations of rights doesn't mean we don't have those rights, it means we need to remove the people in power.
There is freedom of travel, using the common means of the day. Go google for it yourself.
Text configuration might be a pain for you but in the real IT world it is a blessing, no hidden menus, it can all be done via ssh, etc.
Windows admins don't have to deal with 'hidden' menus. This is a bit of trolling on your part. RDC has been around a while now too, not to mention that many of the admin tools let you connect remotely. Don't comment on something you've never done.
I have no idea what problems you could have had with a usb printer, more likely that was just a bit of trolling.
I have a Lexmark 4200 4 in 1 printer. Linux won't reconize it. USB was working properly, because the USB UPS was working fine.
. I also have a couple windows servers in my server room. They are a pain in the ass, every time they need updates they need rebooted, they crash at least 10 times more frequently than the linux or HP-ux machines and they cost us more.
Bull. You just don't know what you're doing. We have Windows servers here, and in ever job I've had. None of them crashed frequently, if at all. Wait one did, but that was a bad raid controller; Linux fails on that too. Oh, try patching the Linux kernel and not rebooting too. Do you even know what you're talking about?
Before you go shooting off at the mouth with "linux is hard no companies use it, wa wa wa" you might want to realize how many companies do use it in the server room.
I realize that companies use Linux, and figure out how to make it work. They also end up paying more in the long run. These same companies are using XP as a client still.. what does that tell you?
You are the reason it cannot be rolled out to client desktops, you who think any change is bad and anything not MS is bad.
I don't think any change is bad, and I don't think things non-MS are bad. I ran Linux as a server for almost 8 years. I ran it is as a desktop for over 2. I switched back because I just wanted to get things done, not google and read hundreds of thousands of pages to figure out how to do X, when X is a simple option in Windows. People use Windows because they WANT to and Linux doesn't fill all the nitches.
Before you speak about Linux not being fit for an enterprise server talk to a few enterprise administrators.
I have; they perfered Windows. And if you look at my post, I never said it wasn't fit, I said it was taking up too much time to get it working the way I wanted it to, and I really wasn't asking that much of it. FWIW, I've never admined a Windows server before, but I got it up and running much more quickly than I ever did running Linux.
Many examples and you can't find ONE link? Perhaps because that is not what happened. If you find any, please post, but don't forget to post links to the appeals too, I'm sure no homeowner would accept such a judgement and not appeal.
Sounds pretty close to the current client, except the names are now Ahmed and Muslims. Terorism is the new red scare.
If you can't manage your life or finances, I don't see why any company would want to trust you with any of their money, either.
that only matters if you're applying for a financial position. As a software developer, how does my debt matter one bit? If anything, I'll be more likely to work hard to keep my job, so I can get out of said debt.
That may be better for your safety, keeping you from digging a deeper hole for yourself, or having Fat Tony show up on your doorstep.
Huh? Being in debt and denied jobs because of it make things safer? If anything, it makes things more dangerous. If people can't support themselves through legal means, they'll turn to illegal. Are you goign to let yourself starve to death because you can't get a job? Or will you start stealing to feed yourself?
And the NSA is being more intrusive, they are recording EVERY phone call you make. Credit bureaus DON'T record every little credit card transaction.
This i agree with.
We have laws against guilty by associatation. Its actually in one of the amendments.
Prohibiting someone from boarding a plane for the simple act of talking to a criminal is a violation of that right. You need evidence against the person himself.. not that his friend is a criminal.
Not to nitpik, but the NSA was NEVER supposed to be gathering information about US citizens.
Its pretty clear that we need to reduce the goverment, and simply shut down the NSA, CIA and otehr similar agencies.