I'm sorry you feel that 30 million fellow citizens and counting without health insurance suddenly being able to get insurance is such a burden for you when you probably already have health insurance and so the only way it will affect you is by lowering your premiums, oh the corruption!
While you have a point that power corrupts you chose a very poor example. How about warrant-less wiretaps? There's a good example, suspending habius corpus for prisoners? I have no idea how it became acceptable to torture based on how a person is classified.
It's better to focus on abuses of power as those abuses have the ability to affect us all! If they can justify torture for one instance they start down the road of SOP for more cases. The citizenry should not be afraid of the police but that is where we have found ourselves.
The lack of accountability is where the real problem is. Pfizer getting off is bullshit, there are re-mediation routes that don't have to end in people not getting their medication and that still hold corporate leadership accountable. If corporations are people then they can be thrown in prison just like people or they can have wages garnished until the punishment is met.
Sounds like 10s of the thousands is pretty accurate then given that Phoenix has a number of 4 lane roads, something like a few dozen. I honestly am surprised how few accidents there are given how many cars are on the road.
I would say encouraging roadside parking is indeed the opposite of safer conditions especially given that on my roads at least there are maybe 4 accidents a day during rush hour. During that time 10s of thousands even 100s of thousands of cars have driven on it. At some point you have to accept that there is a certain amount of risk you take when you drive.
We all hate getting slowed up by an accident during rush hour but reducing our speed extending the length of time on the road and increasing congestion in areas already congested I don't don't see as a net benefit. I see it like guns, you will never make a setup that is functional and idiot proof so you accept that there is a certain amount of risk involved and do your best to both educate and be educated because you lose more than you win if you go without. Naturally those unwilling to take the risk have alternatives too.
Given that Oracle has a java client and java is supported on OS/2 how did Oracle drop OS/2? Even with 10 and 11g you can still connect from a OS/2 box although I would say your application has some fundamental design flaws if workstations are directly connecting to a database.
Also, some the biggest general ledger applications deployed are running on MS SQL, that includes Great Plains and Navision.
As for Oracle Power Objects you have the same situation, Oracle has another product that achieves the same functionality and more and it evolved into that. Much like Oracle Forms and Reports 10g has no 11g version, Oracle didn't drop support for Forms and Reports services though, they came out with a new product and have a clear and rather easy transition path provided you have a good amount of Oracle infrastructure.
MSSQL timestamp is a really weak argument as well as there is nothing that forces you to use it's timestamp which we'll agree is different from what you get with Oracle, MySQL, and Postgresql. We get around that by converting to strings since we work with multiple platforms. Each of them have serious strengths and of course, serious weaknesses. I personally believe that the only product worthy of such animosity is mysql because the developers clearly knew nothing about databases in it's design. Naturally they even admit that. They learned along the way and have created a flexible product but it has all the problems that Oracle had 20 years ago and the MSSQL had 15 years ago. When you rely on your application for data integrity you will run into problems again and again and again.
Sounds to me like you weren't happy being forced off dying platforms, given how long Oracle extended support for both it seems you were quite stubborn. EOL for Power Objects was in 1995 and support actually ended in 2000. That is one seriously long transition period.
What product has Oracle ever dropped support for? What is your objection to MSSQL? SQL 2005/2008 are damn fine products which perform extremely well. Sounds to me like you're the one that is ignorant with blanket policies against industry standard tools.
Of course I run Oracle, MySQL, and MS SQL in my datacenter all without problems and some under nice and heavy loads. About the only sensible stance you have is with Postgresql which is far and away better than MySQL which in my opinion sucks pretty bad.
A declaration of war must specify a specific party with a specific criteria for victory. With the authorization of force specifying the parties involved in 9/11 Iraq was not contained within this declaration. So unless there was another one, all actions in Iraq were not sanctioned by congress.
When did this happen? A formal declaration of war was never voted unless I missed something. I do remember in 2002 there was an authorization of force for any party connected to 9/11 but it has long been established that Iraq had nothing to do with it.
Except that every one of the printers I rented for my event, about 20 or so still don't support IPv6, they are Ricoh multi-function units that would cost thousands the buy. They are supposedly enterprise ready machines.
I don't think you read my whole post as I said that Bush extending powers paved the way for Obama implying that the ridiculous spending was bad no matter who was doing it. Reading into sentences too much perhaps?
I specifically said that the definition in use is not the correct definition. You are correct on what the actual definition is but congress has not declared war on Iraq and we've been there for many years now. There have been many engagements lasting longer than 90 days that we have participated in without a declaration from congress.
Hence my statement about Congress stopping Bush from spending trillions on Iraq. Many thousands of died as a result and there is no declaration from Congress.
There are those who wish to retain their ethnic heritage. Those people are then not just Americans but chinese-American or African-American. Of course worth noting that all African-Americans I have encountered were white and from South Africa.
Bottom line is I think we agree on, it is no politically correct to call a black person African American just because of the color of their skin. If they are from Africa directly then it's fair because its based on knowing something personal about them.
I believe the new definition is one where a draft can be constituted versus one where a standing army alone is deployed. This of course is not the definition I agree with but it seems to be the one that they role with seeing as how congress has not declared war officially. Naturally expecting congress to do their job would be too much to expect. They could have stopped the ridiculous spending of the Bush era thus preventing Obama from using the new powers that Bush assumed. This would have extended to Iraq although Afghanistan would still have been a target being the source country for 9/11.
Especially when said African American isn't from Africa nor are a few generations of their parents before them. At some point you're simply just American. Saying a black person has black skin shouldn't be considered offensive as you're just stating the obvious. Thank god at my work we don't have this PC problem.
Out of curiosity what was your stance on the whistleblowers for abu ghraib? Freedom of the press is instilled very deeply into the constitution so I'm also curious how you think Wikileaks is acting like they are above the law?
These are honest questions as investigative reporting has gone the way of the dodo with only a few exceptions. How do you feel Wikileaks has violated the public trust so? I don't recall lack of good judgement from their camp but it's entirely possible I missed something.
And that doesn't make it okay for Fox to do. That's besides the point that you're example is her clearly stating an opinion without any context as to presenting it as a fact. Like the original reports on Fox about Obama's birth certificate and misrepresenting the numbers of people involved in rallies that were actively supported by Fox News making it seem like the public has a growing problem with current events when the events at hand actually point in the other direction. It's much like the reporting that everyone hates the healthcare bill except when they are polled on the contents of the bill where they actually rate very highly.
Fox does this at a rate no other organisation can match. The closest bet is MSNBC and even they don't often present opinion as fact.
None of them advertise themselves as being libertarians. O'Reilly and Hannity are staunch republicans, conservative or liberal is not a bias, republican or democrat is. Much like the fact that there are conservative democrats and liberal republicans.
Despite the conclusion you have leapt to I have in fact watched plenty of Fox news as I work at locations that are Fox strangleholds. Additionally much of my family identifies with Fox so going home results in more of the same.
I'll also notice that you didn't comment on what I actually wrote in regards to how content is presented. They present opinions as facts and that is where my complaint was with them. Of course that's in addition to the outright lies they have spread and getting facts wrong often enough that they are either incompetent or screwing up on purpose to further their agenda.
Notepad can easily handle 30meg text files or even 2gig text files. When your list is that long it makes sense to go the server route, but in my experience you only need a couple megs to block the majority of sites and performance is not noticeably impacted then.
A lot of DNS servers support blacklisting. If you have Windows server 2008 or most versions of Bind on the Linux side you can use blacklists like you'd expect. In short, it depends on which DNS server you use. There are other DNS servers for Linux that also support blacklisting.
You sound like Glenn Beck, using scare tactics to shame the citizenry into bending to you will ironically much like the fascists to which you referred.
The reason other networks don't need to be acknowledge for their bias is that they are up front about it. For instance Rachel Maddow and Keith Olberman are both unapologetic and don't present their opinions as unfact in stark contrast to O'Reilly, Beck, Hannity, and all the other talking heads on Fox.
CNN lacks content to have a bias and when they do have content and present news it is presented as news. Their editorial shows are like MSNBC where biases are spelled out from the beginning so again, no need to lump Fox in with them as they are definitely a unique animal. If they didn't present their content as news no one would have a problem with them.
Are you referring to 1990's Japan? You do know that was 20 years ago now right? And that Japan is no longer in a depression and is experiencing an economic boom due to nuclear power construction.
Besides that, the U.S. spends the most of its GDP of any nation on earth so there are many more examples and beyond that, healthcare had nothing to do with Japan's problems.
I'm honestly amazed that you feel treating a disease is somehow a show of fear. Cancer is almost always treatable, why would you let it kill you if you had the choice? I don't think you'll find many people that identify with your position.
Life is precious, you only get so much time on this earth to make something of yourself. After that you're done, doomed to get recycled and used as fool for the more fortunate.
I have no idea where you get the idea that preventative care is a myth. That's simply astounding. Two of my coworkers had emergency bypass surgery costing them upwards of 40,000 dollars each in addition to follow ups including stints. In your world they'd be done and I'd be down one of the best coders I've ever had the pleasure of working with.
Another post had it right with changing the oil in your car as well as brakes and filters. It's a lot cheaper to replace the $5 fuel filter every 30k miles rather than $300 for a fuel pump every 30k miles. New tires are great for preventing those nasty accidents too.
I'm concerned that people would share your point of view and as such I feel I have to comment as I share the road with them and I share the burden of their medical costs when they can't pay.
My laptop is 5lbs with the regular battery and about 8lbs with the extended battery. My netbook with a 9cell battery is less than 5lbs and as a side note lifts the netbook up making it easier to type on although it removes the ability to put the netbook into the sleeve it comes with.
Of course when it comes to the weight discussion HP sells lighter laptops, I have an elitebook for a mobile workstation since my work has be traveling a lot. That's why I also have a netbook for the mobile closet setups. HP sells 3lbs laptops that are 5.5lbs with the extended battery which they claim works up to 16 hours. Obviously you and I know that's crap but 10 hours is quite reasonable.
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I'm sorry you feel that 30 million fellow citizens and counting without health insurance suddenly being able to get insurance is such a burden for you when you probably already have health insurance and so the only way it will affect you is by lowering your premiums, oh the corruption!
While you have a point that power corrupts you chose a very poor example. How about warrant-less wiretaps? There's a good example, suspending habius corpus for prisoners? I have no idea how it became acceptable to torture based on how a person is classified.
It's better to focus on abuses of power as those abuses have the ability to affect us all! If they can justify torture for one instance they start down the road of SOP for more cases. The citizenry should not be afraid of the police but that is where we have found ourselves.
The lack of accountability is where the real problem is. Pfizer getting off is bullshit, there are re-mediation routes that don't have to end in people not getting their medication and that still hold corporate leadership accountable. If corporations are people then they can be thrown in prison just like people or they can have wages garnished until the punishment is met.
Sounds like 10s of the thousands is pretty accurate then given that Phoenix has a number of 4 lane roads, something like a few dozen. I honestly am surprised how few accidents there are given how many cars are on the road.
I would say encouraging roadside parking is indeed the opposite of safer conditions especially given that on my roads at least there are maybe 4 accidents a day during rush hour. During that time 10s of thousands even 100s of thousands of cars have driven on it. At some point you have to accept that there is a certain amount of risk you take when you drive.
We all hate getting slowed up by an accident during rush hour but reducing our speed extending the length of time on the road and increasing congestion in areas already congested I don't don't see as a net benefit. I see it like guns, you will never make a setup that is functional and idiot proof so you accept that there is a certain amount of risk involved and do your best to both educate and be educated because you lose more than you win if you go without. Naturally those unwilling to take the risk have alternatives too.
Hate to reply to my own thread but Power objects was released in 1995 not EOL'd. Oracle actually only recently dropped support.
Given that Oracle has a java client and java is supported on OS/2 how did Oracle drop OS/2? Even with 10 and 11g you can still connect from a OS/2 box although I would say your application has some fundamental design flaws if workstations are directly connecting to a database.
Also, some the biggest general ledger applications deployed are running on MS SQL, that includes Great Plains and Navision.
As for Oracle Power Objects you have the same situation, Oracle has another product that achieves the same functionality and more and it evolved into that. Much like Oracle Forms and Reports 10g has no 11g version, Oracle didn't drop support for Forms and Reports services though, they came out with a new product and have a clear and rather easy transition path provided you have a good amount of Oracle infrastructure.
MSSQL timestamp is a really weak argument as well as there is nothing that forces you to use it's timestamp which we'll agree is different from what you get with Oracle, MySQL, and Postgresql. We get around that by converting to strings since we work with multiple platforms. Each of them have serious strengths and of course, serious weaknesses. I personally believe that the only product worthy of such animosity is mysql because the developers clearly knew nothing about databases in it's design. Naturally they even admit that. They learned along the way and have created a flexible product but it has all the problems that Oracle had 20 years ago and the MSSQL had 15 years ago. When you rely on your application for data integrity you will run into problems again and again and again.
Sounds to me like you weren't happy being forced off dying platforms, given how long Oracle extended support for both it seems you were quite stubborn. EOL for Power Objects was in 1995 and support actually ended in 2000. That is one seriously long transition period.
What product has Oracle ever dropped support for? What is your objection to MSSQL? SQL 2005/2008 are damn fine products which perform extremely well. Sounds to me like you're the one that is ignorant with blanket policies against industry standard tools.
Of course I run Oracle, MySQL, and MS SQL in my datacenter all without problems and some under nice and heavy loads. About the only sensible stance you have is with Postgresql which is far and away better than MySQL which in my opinion sucks pretty bad.
A declaration of war must specify a specific party with a specific criteria for victory. With the authorization of force specifying the parties involved in 9/11 Iraq was not contained within this declaration. So unless there was another one, all actions in Iraq were not sanctioned by congress.
When did this happen? A formal declaration of war was never voted unless I missed something. I do remember in 2002 there was an authorization of force for any party connected to 9/11 but it has long been established that Iraq had nothing to do with it.
Please enlighten me if I'm incorrect.
Except that every one of the printers I rented for my event, about 20 or so still don't support IPv6, they are Ricoh multi-function units that would cost thousands the buy. They are supposedly enterprise ready machines.
This of course depends on your definition of supports as there is no DHCP client for IPv6. In a lot of setups this is however unnecessary.
I don't think you read my whole post as I said that Bush extending powers paved the way for Obama implying that the ridiculous spending was bad no matter who was doing it. Reading into sentences too much perhaps?
Are you suggesting a couple of programmers on the city's payroll instead of the private contractors they hired would cost more than 722 million?
I specifically said that the definition in use is not the correct definition. You are correct on what the actual definition is but congress has not declared war on Iraq and we've been there for many years now. There have been many engagements lasting longer than 90 days that we have participated in without a declaration from congress.
Hence my statement about Congress stopping Bush from spending trillions on Iraq. Many thousands of died as a result and there is no declaration from Congress.
There are those who wish to retain their ethnic heritage. Those people are then not just Americans but chinese-American or African-American. Of course worth noting that all African-Americans I have encountered were white and from South Africa.
Bottom line is I think we agree on, it is no politically correct to call a black person African American just because of the color of their skin. If they are from Africa directly then it's fair because its based on knowing something personal about them.
I believe the new definition is one where a draft can be constituted versus one where a standing army alone is deployed. This of course is not the definition I agree with but it seems to be the one that they role with seeing as how congress has not declared war officially. Naturally expecting congress to do their job would be too much to expect. They could have stopped the ridiculous spending of the Bush era thus preventing Obama from using the new powers that Bush assumed. This would have extended to Iraq although Afghanistan would still have been a target being the source country for 9/11.
Especially when said African American isn't from Africa nor are a few generations of their parents before them. At some point you're simply just American. Saying a black person has black skin shouldn't be considered offensive as you're just stating the obvious. Thank god at my work we don't have this PC problem.
Most delicious analogy ever! I could really go for a pizza right now, curse skipping breakfast!
Out of curiosity what was your stance on the whistleblowers for abu ghraib? Freedom of the press is instilled very deeply into the constitution so I'm also curious how you think Wikileaks is acting like they are above the law?
These are honest questions as investigative reporting has gone the way of the dodo with only a few exceptions. How do you feel Wikileaks has violated the public trust so? I don't recall lack of good judgement from their camp but it's entirely possible I missed something.
And that doesn't make it okay for Fox to do. That's besides the point that you're example is her clearly stating an opinion without any context as to presenting it as a fact. Like the original reports on Fox about Obama's birth certificate and misrepresenting the numbers of people involved in rallies that were actively supported by Fox News making it seem like the public has a growing problem with current events when the events at hand actually point in the other direction. It's much like the reporting that everyone hates the healthcare bill except when they are polled on the contents of the bill where they actually rate very highly.
Fox does this at a rate no other organisation can match. The closest bet is MSNBC and even they don't often present opinion as fact.
None of them advertise themselves as being libertarians. O'Reilly and Hannity are staunch republicans, conservative or liberal is not a bias, republican or democrat is. Much like the fact that there are conservative democrats and liberal republicans.
Despite the conclusion you have leapt to I have in fact watched plenty of Fox news as I work at locations that are Fox strangleholds. Additionally much of my family identifies with Fox so going home results in more of the same.
I'll also notice that you didn't comment on what I actually wrote in regards to how content is presented. They present opinions as facts and that is where my complaint was with them. Of course that's in addition to the outright lies they have spread and getting facts wrong often enough that they are either incompetent or screwing up on purpose to further their agenda.
Notepad can easily handle 30meg text files or even 2gig text files. When your list is that long it makes sense to go the server route, but in my experience you only need a couple megs to block the majority of sites and performance is not noticeably impacted then.
A lot of DNS servers support blacklisting. If you have Windows server 2008 or most versions of Bind on the Linux side you can use blacklists like you'd expect. In short, it depends on which DNS server you use. There are other DNS servers for Linux that also support blacklisting.
You sound like Glenn Beck, using scare tactics to shame the citizenry into bending to you will ironically much like the fascists to which you referred.
The reason other networks don't need to be acknowledge for their bias is that they are up front about it. For instance Rachel Maddow and Keith Olberman are both unapologetic and don't present their opinions as unfact in stark contrast to O'Reilly, Beck, Hannity, and all the other talking heads on Fox.
CNN lacks content to have a bias and when they do have content and present news it is presented as news. Their editorial shows are like MSNBC where biases are spelled out from the beginning so again, no need to lump Fox in with them as they are definitely a unique animal. If they didn't present their content as news no one would have a problem with them.
Are you referring to 1990's Japan? You do know that was 20 years ago now right? And that Japan is no longer in a depression and is experiencing an economic boom due to nuclear power construction.
Besides that, the U.S. spends the most of its GDP of any nation on earth so there are many more examples and beyond that, healthcare had nothing to do with Japan's problems.
I'm honestly amazed that you feel treating a disease is somehow a show of fear. Cancer is almost always treatable, why would you let it kill you if you had the choice? I don't think you'll find many people that identify with your position.
Life is precious, you only get so much time on this earth to make something of yourself. After that you're done, doomed to get recycled and used as fool for the more fortunate.
I have no idea where you get the idea that preventative care is a myth. That's simply astounding. Two of my coworkers had emergency bypass surgery costing them upwards of 40,000 dollars each in addition to follow ups including stints. In your world they'd be done and I'd be down one of the best coders I've ever had the pleasure of working with.
Another post had it right with changing the oil in your car as well as brakes and filters. It's a lot cheaper to replace the $5 fuel filter every 30k miles rather than $300 for a fuel pump every 30k miles. New tires are great for preventing those nasty accidents too.
I'm concerned that people would share your point of view and as such I feel I have to comment as I share the road with them and I share the burden of their medical costs when they can't pay.
My laptop is 5lbs with the regular battery and about 8lbs with the extended battery. My netbook with a 9cell battery is less than 5lbs and as a side note lifts the netbook up making it easier to type on although it removes the ability to put the netbook into the sleeve it comes with.
Of course when it comes to the weight discussion HP sells lighter laptops, I have an elitebook for a mobile workstation since my work has be traveling a lot. That's why I also have a netbook for the mobile closet setups. HP sells 3lbs laptops that are 5.5lbs with the extended battery which they claim works up to 16 hours. Obviously you and I know that's crap but 10 hours is quite reasonable.