You also take this oath that binds you to protect the constitution, not the government, and this is what threatens Obama and his cronies.
Here's the oath:
I, (NAME), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.
The orders part is further defined to be LAWFUL orders as per the UCMJ. Ultimately, the only source of lawful orders is the Constitution. Should an order be in violation of the Constitution, it is unlawful and anyone who obeys such an order is in violation of everything this country is supposed to stand for.
Obama knows that the military's allegiance is ultimately to the constitution and not his regime, and consequently this is why he has declared veterans and other patriots to be terrorists and has positioned the TSA and his Homeland Security police force as a counter to the military. This isn't about mental health, its about asserting control.
Manning was a tool for Wikileaks and a soldier who violated the oath he took when he enlisted. He deserves to be executed for his treason, not celebrated.
Ditto. Fry the worthless POS's stealing this stuff, they obviously aren't providing any valuable service or even a small benefit to society. I guess we could send them all to the welfare states of america on the coasts, if they like em so much.
airbus is a corporation. they only thing that they care about is what wall street and the markets think. if you think they give a damn about your safety except where it makes the the investors happy, you are a fool.
If they had actually done an ROI study on the purchase, they wouldn't be all that happy. Gas would have to more than triple in cost before I would see any reasonable return on investment from the increased costs I would see from the higher payments, the higher insurance costs because it was new, and the higher property taxes I would pay. Never mind that buying a hybrid so you can feel good about yourself actually required the consumption of more resources to produce your new car versus just keeping the one you already had.
Yeah but we can't get decent diesel vehicles in the US because the left is focused on trendy things like hybrid technology, makes them feel better about themselves. I've got friends that have had VW TDIs for many years, through multiple model years, and they routinely best hybrid fuel economy. I bought a Ford Festiva in 1991 that got 40 mpg from day one, it was just under $9000 new sticker price. WHICH, tells you why there are no reasonably priced fuel efficient vehicles, no profit margin and not sexy enough.
Congress is the "who" behind the stripping of your rights, and you actually believe they give a damn what you think? Sad. Actually, you do need to fight the people paid to support them, they are responsible for willingly committing acts of in violation of the constitution, no matter what the courts, also co-opted by the government and its corporate masters. Face it, the government isn't on your side anymore, if they ever were, and pandering to them to fix the very problems they cause is alot like pouring gasoline on a fire to put it out.
I have an F350 diesel and a Jeep Wrangler, and an RV, and a boat. I figure I own more of the road than you due to the road taxes I pay, and I'll do damn well as I please to do, including driving MY CHOICE of vehicle, without bowing to your kind's socialistic tendencies to obliterate both the hobbies and endeavors I choose to participate in which drive my vehicle choices. I'll damn certain not let you or some other hippy loser dictate those choices. So you "get your head out of your ass," and while you're at it, best stay in your big city with all of the pretty little baubles that your kind loves so much. You keep your oppressive police presence, the continual erosion of privacy, the crime, and the multitude of other ills you city folks and their pundits love to spout off about. I will, on the other hand, actually go out into the world and enjoy it, along with the risks to personal safety and revel in the rewards of being free of morons like you. And when the shit hits the fan, us "ignorant folk" with our big vehicles and freedom loving tendencies will be there to bail you morons out, as has happened every other time in the past.
Incandescent technology isn't being banned, just being pushed to evolve a little. If you need to dim look for 29, 43, 53, and 72, watt halogen bulbs. These replace 40, 60, 75, and 100 watt standard bulbs respectively and comply with the new law. These are marketed under the Eco Smart brand by Phillips, Super Saver by Sylvania (Made in USA too), GE also sell them. These are more pricey than standard bulbs and the Sylvaina ones are 1/4 inch less in diameter, but are a suitable replacement.
"These are more pricey"....
which is the real reason the law was passed, to take a commodity product/industry and generate more revenue by requiring new light sources. I'm all for energy conservation but let's call a spade a spade, this isn't about energy conservation, it is about political favors for a special interest.
I second that. This story, http://www.noogenesis.com/pineapple/fisherman.html, is what convinced me that working 80 hour weeks wasn't worth it, no matter how impressive my resume looked, or my responsibilities were, nor where I got to travel on the company dime, nor who was patting me on the back. I left that corporate world eight years ago and took a job, still in I.T., making 30k less per year but only working 35 hours a week on average. I'm still there, working 35 hours a week. I live in a 80k house, almost paid off, and drive old cars that I work on, and I earn (and use) 300 hours of time off each year.
The good life is out there, even for I.T. workers, if you're willing to go find it.
I have 20 people who support 7,500 endpoints, nearly 1,500 printers, 450 servers, and over 500 switches across a multi-site facility. Consider also ensuring that data is backed up, secured, and that disaster recover works they way you planned, or the difficulty in finding people who can solve problems, which is what being a good I.T. professional is actually all about.
I outsource to vendors because I simply haven't got a chance in hell to support it any other way.
For a talking head, such as Paul Venezia to have the audacity to think he knows jack about the enterprise is an insult to those of us who do, and indicative of what is really wrong in I.T.; people who have neither the intellect nor aptitude for information technology being in positions to influence the industry, like the editors for rags like InfoWorld.
Maybe at Google, or Microsoft, or any of the other "places to be" the half-life is 15 years, but most I.T. professionals don't work in that world. We work in mom-and-pop, and small-to-medium sized shops, supporting them, the countless 1000's of other small or large I.T. shops that actually consist of the bulk of the real world. We may consume the products that these "places to be" produce, but we're the ones that actually use them in a meaningful fashion and generate the pressure of implementation behind their technologies, and we do it for our entire careers. That's the problem with talking heads, they don't represent the real world that most people work in but they have undue influence on the perception of the real world. While his observations might be relevant for the rock star shops, he has hardly any bearing in my world.
This is why the world hates scientists. Sure, politicians and terrorists uses the weapons but it is the scientists who give us atomic bombs, the threat of nuclear winter, super viri, and now an engineered avian flu that can kill off half the planet's population.... what next? This asshat's ego is what has caused this, and all of the other asshats who contribute to weapons of mass destruction. Raccoon city here we come!
I'm going to say that no, it would not be Kosher to those movements for whom Kosher matters, the names of which vary depending upon what country you are living in.
For example, Kosher cheese can be made with animal-sourced rennet (non-Kosher) because the rennet itself is so different than the original source animal it came from, but the vat-grown meat (which I would not eat no matter how good it tastes, nothing to do with Kosher or not) would not be different than the original source in composition but only in how it was "raised."
Personally, these things disturb me on a level that I can't quote put my finger on.
Check into the concept of a demarchy, posited in the Revelation Space series of books. Kind of like what you'd end up with crowd sourced democracy, a democratic anarchy. I don't want to live in it.
No one is anti-science so get off your high horse. But really, does it make sense to shit in one's backyard? You science types make all of these experiments up in your heads, go beg for public money to make them happen, and don't truly have idea one about what will happen or how it will affect the Earth. It ain't like we got a backup plan if they really do cause something terrible to happen. Just because they haven't screwed the pooch for all of us yet, doesn't mean they should continue to get a free pass. Why don't you take your advanced degree and go do something beneficial for humanity, like flip burgers or cook fries (we all like fries) and then the limit of your harm equation will be burning your stupid ass on hot oil or maybe burning down Joe's burgers instead of melting the planet or placing a long distance call in the inhibitors. Hey here's an idea, even if giant lasers are cool and all, but fix something instead of waste money.... say spend some effort on finding and developing a nice, clean energy supply that doesn't pollute and can be had cheaply and easily, thereby freeing us from the clutches of the petroleum/coal overlords.
We'd all be able to survive without the Internet. YOU would have to get off your pasty white ass and venture outside, maybe pick up a ball, or a frisbee, or a HAM radio or something, but yeah, you'd survive just fucking fine. AND, in many respects, humanity would be a lot better off with the entitlement mentality that allows some stupid fucktard to make a statement implying the Internet access is a freaking necessity. Morons.
I am responsible for directing technology decisions for a large hospital system and Oracle will get no business recommendations from me for any of their technologies. Last week an Oracle rep called and wanted to talk about database directions and I stopped him, mid-sentence, to tell him that I wasn't interested in hearing anything. He asked why. I told him I don't like patent trolls and Oracle's latest salvo at Google over Android and Java was trolling. He was stupified that I wouldn't want to do business with them because of that. I told him ethics drive my decisions and Oracle failed the test and he should pass it up the line. I doubt he did but I don't care. Don't care about this either, Oracle was always a rotten company to deal with and nothing has changed. I hope Larry's latest blows up in his face.
I've always "placed doubt in the legitimacy of your[my] elected officials"
They're all almost always liars, cheats, hypocrites, scammers, lawyers (evil onpar with pedophiles), or general scum. I don't trust any system where the representation is from a ruling elite, made up of monied families and friends, bought and paid by corporations and unions. Personally, anyone that places any trust in the current system is delusional.
eVoting is just another scam foisted on America that will result in less representative democracy. Any politician in favor of it should be summarily executed.
The nice thing about the Kindle, is that I can buy books pretty much I don't have to clutter up my Kindle with useless stuff due to very significant restrictions in how I use my device. Sure, Amazon has DRM but it's easy to get around and readily done. I can dump PDF, mobi, and text on there just fine and guess what, I can read those items for 10 or 12 days in a row between charges AND in full sunlight. The iPad, well, its an awesome device and the whole touch model represents a serious change in human-computer interaction, not seen since the change from DOS to Windows 20 years ago but for reading, I'll stick with my Kindle (or another e-Ink device).
My dog is most definately sapient. Wisdom can be defined in many ways and most, if not all of the dogs I have ever met are generally more wise than most of the people I have met.
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You also take this oath that binds you to protect the constitution, not the government, and this is what threatens Obama and his cronies.
Here's the oath:
I, (NAME), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.
The orders part is further defined to be LAWFUL orders as per the UCMJ. Ultimately, the only source of lawful orders is the Constitution. Should an order be in violation of the Constitution, it is unlawful and anyone who obeys such an order is in violation of everything this country is supposed to stand for.
Obama knows that the military's allegiance is ultimately to the constitution and not his regime, and consequently this is why he has declared veterans and other patriots to be terrorists and has positioned the TSA and his Homeland Security police force as a counter to the military. This isn't about mental health, its about asserting control.
Manning was a tool for Wikileaks and a soldier who violated the oath he took when he enlisted. He deserves to be executed for his treason, not celebrated.
Ditto. Fry the worthless POS's stealing this stuff, they obviously aren't providing any valuable service or even a small benefit to society. I guess we could send them all to the welfare states of america on the coasts, if they like em so much.
airbus is a corporation. they only thing that they care about is what wall street and the markets think. if you think they give a damn about your safety except where it makes the the investors happy, you are a fool.
If they had actually done an ROI study on the purchase, they wouldn't be all that happy. Gas would have to more than triple in cost before I would see any reasonable return on investment from the increased costs I would see from the higher payments, the higher insurance costs because it was new, and the higher property taxes I would pay. Never mind that buying a hybrid so you can feel good about yourself actually required the consumption of more resources to produce your new car versus just keeping the one you already had.
Yeah but we can't get decent diesel vehicles in the US because the left is focused on trendy things like hybrid technology, makes them feel better about themselves. I've got friends that have had VW TDIs for many years, through multiple model years, and they routinely best hybrid fuel economy. I bought a Ford Festiva in 1991 that got 40 mpg from day one, it was just under $9000 new sticker price. WHICH, tells you why there are no reasonably priced fuel efficient vehicles, no profit margin and not sexy enough.
Right on. That's how the left does it. Feeds and cloths the morons who refuse to do it for themselves, and penalizes those who will work.
Congress is the "who" behind the stripping of your rights, and you actually believe they give a damn what you think? Sad. Actually, you do need to fight the people paid to support them, they are responsible for willingly committing acts of in violation of the constitution, no matter what the courts, also co-opted by the government and its corporate masters. Face it, the government isn't on your side anymore, if they ever were, and pandering to them to fix the very problems they cause is alot like pouring gasoline on a fire to put it out.
I have an F350 diesel and a Jeep Wrangler, and an RV, and a boat. I figure I own more of the road than you due to the road taxes I pay, and I'll do damn well as I please to do, including driving MY CHOICE of vehicle, without bowing to your kind's socialistic tendencies to obliterate both the hobbies and endeavors I choose to participate in which drive my vehicle choices. I'll damn certain not let you or some other hippy loser dictate those choices. So you "get your head out of your ass," and while you're at it, best stay in your big city with all of the pretty little baubles that your kind loves so much. You keep your oppressive police presence, the continual erosion of privacy, the crime, and the multitude of other ills you city folks and their pundits love to spout off about. I will, on the other hand, actually go out into the world and enjoy it, along with the risks to personal safety and revel in the rewards of being free of morons like you. And when the shit hits the fan, us "ignorant folk" with our big vehicles and freedom loving tendencies will be there to bail you morons out, as has happened every other time in the past.
Incandescent technology isn't being banned, just being pushed to evolve a little. If you need to dim look for 29, 43, 53, and 72, watt halogen bulbs. These replace 40, 60, 75, and 100 watt standard bulbs respectively and comply with the new law. These are marketed under the Eco Smart brand by Phillips, Super Saver by Sylvania (Made in USA too), GE also sell them. These are more pricey than standard bulbs and the Sylvaina ones are 1/4 inch less in diameter, but are a suitable replacement.
"These are more pricey"....
which is the real reason the law was passed, to take a commodity product/industry and generate more revenue by requiring new light sources. I'm all for energy conservation but let's call a spade a spade, this isn't about energy conservation, it is about political favors for a special interest.
I second that. This story, http://www.noogenesis.com/pineapple/fisherman.html, is what convinced me that working 80 hour weeks wasn't worth it, no matter how impressive my resume looked, or my responsibilities were, nor where I got to travel on the company dime, nor who was patting me on the back. I left that corporate world eight years ago and took a job, still in I.T., making 30k less per year but only working 35 hours a week on average. I'm still there, working 35 hours a week. I live in a 80k house, almost paid off, and drive old cars that I work on, and I earn (and use) 300 hours of time off each year.
The good life is out there, even for I.T. workers, if you're willing to go find it.
I have 20 people who support 7,500 endpoints, nearly 1,500 printers, 450 servers, and over 500 switches across a multi-site facility. Consider also ensuring that data is backed up, secured, and that disaster recover works they way you planned, or the difficulty in finding people who can solve problems, which is what being a good I.T. professional is actually all about.
I outsource to vendors because I simply haven't got a chance in hell to support it any other way.
For a talking head, such as Paul Venezia to have the audacity to think he knows jack about the enterprise is an insult to those of us who do, and indicative of what is really wrong in I.T.; people who have neither the intellect nor aptitude for information technology being in positions to influence the industry, like the editors for rags like InfoWorld.
Maybe at Google, or Microsoft, or any of the other "places to be" the half-life is 15 years, but most I.T. professionals don't work in that world. We work in mom-and-pop, and small-to-medium sized shops, supporting them, the countless 1000's of other small or large I.T. shops that actually consist of the bulk of the real world. We may consume the products that these "places to be" produce, but we're the ones that actually use them in a meaningful fashion and generate the pressure of implementation behind their technologies, and we do it for our entire careers. That's the problem with talking heads, they don't represent the real world that most people work in but they have undue influence on the perception of the real world. While his observations might be relevant for the rock star shops, he has hardly any bearing in my world.
This is why the world hates scientists. Sure, politicians and terrorists uses the weapons but it is the scientists who give us atomic bombs, the threat of nuclear winter, super viri, and now an engineered avian flu that can kill off half the planet's population.... what next? This asshat's ego is what has caused this, and all of the other asshats who contribute to weapons of mass destruction. Raccoon city here we come!
I'm going to say that no, it would not be Kosher to those movements for whom Kosher matters, the names of which vary depending upon what country you are living in.
For example, Kosher cheese can be made with animal-sourced rennet (non-Kosher) because the rennet itself is so different than the original source animal it came from, but the vat-grown meat (which I would not eat no matter how good it tastes, nothing to do with Kosher or not) would not be different than the original source in composition but only in how it was "raised."
Personally, these things disturb me on a level that I can't quote put my finger on.
Check into the concept of a demarchy, posited in the Revelation Space series of books. Kind of like what you'd end up with crowd sourced democracy, a democratic anarchy. I don't want to live in it.
No one is anti-science so get off your high horse. But really, does it make sense to shit in one's backyard? You science types make all of these experiments up in your heads, go beg for public money to make them happen, and don't truly have idea one about what will happen or how it will affect the Earth. It ain't like we got a backup plan if they really do cause something terrible to happen. Just because they haven't screwed the pooch for all of us yet, doesn't mean they should continue to get a free pass. Why don't you take your advanced degree and go do something beneficial for humanity, like flip burgers or cook fries (we all like fries) and then the limit of your harm equation will be burning your stupid ass on hot oil or maybe burning down Joe's burgers instead of melting the planet or placing a long distance call in the inhibitors. Hey here's an idea, even if giant lasers are cool and all, but fix something instead of waste money.... say spend some effort on finding and developing a nice, clean energy supply that doesn't pollute and can be had cheaply and easily, thereby freeing us from the clutches of the petroleum/coal overlords.
We'd all be able to survive without the Internet. YOU would have to get off your pasty white ass and venture outside, maybe pick up a ball, or a frisbee, or a HAM radio or something, but yeah, you'd survive just fucking fine. AND, in many respects, humanity would be a lot better off with the entitlement mentality that allows some stupid fucktard to make a statement implying the Internet access is a freaking necessity. Morons.
I am responsible for directing technology decisions for a large hospital system and Oracle will get no business recommendations from me for any of their technologies. Last week an Oracle rep called and wanted to talk about database directions and I stopped him, mid-sentence, to tell him that I wasn't interested in hearing anything. He asked why. I told him I don't like patent trolls and Oracle's latest salvo at Google over Android and Java was trolling. He was stupified that I wouldn't want to do business with them because of that. I told him ethics drive my decisions and Oracle failed the test and he should pass it up the line. I doubt he did but I don't care. Don't care about this either, Oracle was always a rotten company to deal with and nothing has changed. I hope Larry's latest blows up in his face.
They're gonna feel like fools when the doom and gloom prophesies don't pan out.
I've always "placed doubt in the legitimacy of your[my] elected officials"
They're all almost always liars, cheats, hypocrites, scammers, lawyers (evil onpar with pedophiles), or general scum. I don't trust any system where the representation is from a ruling elite, made up of monied families and friends, bought and paid by corporations and unions. Personally, anyone that places any trust in the current system is delusional.
eVoting is just another scam foisted on America that will result in less representative democracy. Any politician in favor of it should be summarily executed.
The nice thing about the Kindle, is that I can buy books pretty much I don't have to clutter up my Kindle with useless stuff due to very significant restrictions in how I use my device. Sure, Amazon has DRM but it's easy to get around and readily done. I can dump PDF, mobi, and text on there just fine and guess what, I can read those items for 10 or 12 days in a row between charges AND in full sunlight. The iPad, well, its an awesome device and the whole touch model represents a serious change in human-computer interaction, not seen since the change from DOS to Windows 20 years ago but for reading, I'll stick with my Kindle (or another e-Ink device).
My dog is most definately sapient. Wisdom can be defined in many ways and most, if not all of the dogs I have ever met are generally more wise than most of the people I have met.
Oh wait, who cares but the other bloggers that think the world revolves around them? No one.
Only a bunch of dickhead part-time workers would moderate something like this parent as funny.