There is no need to even think about that. As long as the god of the israelis tell them to take the land that belongs to other people there will be war in the middle east.
"The government has a rather silly system for determining budgets. "
It's not silly, it's just that it's pretty hard to guess a year or two ahead how much you need to spend. THe federal govt is constantly passing unfunded mandates and the populace is always screaming about potholes, and the weather is unpredictable. You have no choice but to budget a ton of money.
BTW no state has enough money to do the things they want. No school district is overfunded, no health care system has excess money, no DMV has too much money. You don't think your school district wants to hire more teachers or the DMV does not want to open another office? Sure they do but there isn't enough money to go around.
There does always seem to be lots of money for farm subsidies and other corporate welfare though.
THe opposite of tenure is that you fire everybody before they reach retirement age so you don't have to give them retirement benefits. Tenure was invented to prevent this kind of abuse.
""gotta spend my budget""
If you didn't spend your budget the state will cut it. If you need the money next year you are SOL.
""follow procedure"."
You can't just have anybody order whatever they want and expect the state to pay the bill. You have to have a beuracracy.
""workplace as a supply depot for employees"."
People take pens and paper, no big deal. It'd be pretty damned hard to take a chair or monitor because those things are tagged with asset tags. We do give away old stuff sometimes to employees sometimes though.
" "croneyism and nepotism". "
This is actually harder in govt then private industry. First of all it's actually against the law in govt hiring whereas there are no laws against hiring your son, father, or buddy in the private industry. In fact the vast majority of people that are hired in the private industry are hired because they know somebody in the company already (keep in mind small business hires over 75% of the people in this country).
" I'm also using the Windows driver (usbhid.sys) HID functions. "
Gee I don't know I am not in the.001% of the programmers that need that. Hey wait a minute! You said you were writing a cross platform application!. So were you lying then or are you lying now?
"What the fuck is _your_ problem? You're trying to change my mind?"
As long as there are people like you who look past all the sleazy and unethical things a company does then companies will continue to act sleazy and unethical.
MS knows that as long as they hand out the candy the masses will look past their assholeness. This makes them very happy.
As for me I choose not to give them any money. Just like I buy dolphin safe Tuna and shop downtown rather then wallmart. I know that every day and with every dollar I spend I can either choose to make the world a little better or a little worse. I realize that how I spend my money is infinately more powerful then how I vote and I take care in wielding that power for good.
It's all about my sense of right and wrong. Your sense of right and wrong are obviously different. You are willing to forgive all kinds of nasty behavior as long as the perpetrator sells you something nice.
" 1) I'm a programmer. They don't call it programmer for nothing."
Huh?
"My software is going to be distributed in packages that cost over ten thousand dollars (USD), I'm sure "runtime revolution" is not somthing that will sounds good when the clients ask whats behind the software."
Why would your client care what language it's written in? RR compiles down to native code just like C does. What the fuck is the big deal?
ECMA standards are bullshit. Companies like to submit things to ECMA because it puts the patina of standard on some technology and they still get to charge licencing fees. It's the whole RAND thing.
It's all bullshit business as usual "you must pay us to use your intellectual property" crap.
More likely it's Govt outsourcing. The Bush administration has been on a tear for last four years outsourcing any union job they can and moving union jobs to non union positions anytime they can. You might remember the big fight about how the homeland security dept is not allowed to unionize.
Bush figures that if he weakens or destroys unions then they can't fight him in the next election.
I don't claim that zope is as scalable as websphere. I am simply saying that there is no technical reason for that. In other words the reasons have nothing to do with python it's just that the community doesn't seem to want it bad enough. No itch, therefore no scratch.
Is there a techinical reason for not having a J2EE like environment for python? It seems to me the only reason one does not exist is because the community does not feel like it needs one.
J2EE is insanely complex but I don't think it needs to be that way. Maybe a decent OR layer, a logging API, scheduling, soap server and a servlet hoster is sufficient. All the parts exist they just need to be put together.
" I heard they were bundling an SCO source license in with their Unixware stuff. So they can count Unixware sales as SCO source as well."
And of course the wall street weenies, zdnet, ADTI, yankee group, and gartner are all too stupid to detect this game and will gladly report the increased SCO source figures.
I hope to god they called on their stupidity but somehow I doubt it.
"Yes, that right is constructed so that it doesn't do some people any good--but that doesn't give the courts license to redefine an institution."
I keep telling you. If certain citizens of this country feel that they are being denied rights that other citizens have then they take it to the courts. The courts decide as to whether these people are being denied rights and whether it's OK to deny them those rights.
You seem to believe that the courts don't have the right to decide, that only the legislators (ie the majority) have the right to decide whether somebodies rights are being trampled on. This position is plain wrong. The courts clearly have the right to decide these things.
"That had nothing to do with the definition of marriage; it was a matter people thinking such marriages were undesirable and immoral."
It was illegal for white and black people to marry. It had everything to do with the definition of marriage. Throughout history the definition of marriage has evolved. At one time it was legal to marry 13 year olds, at one time it was legal to marry multiple people, at one time it was illegal to marry a black person if you were white. The definition of marriage changed with time and it will continue to do so.
"I just despise legislating from the judicial bench."
It's not legislating from the judicial bench. The legislature has already spoken and made marriage illegal between homosexuals (for no other reason then it goes against their religion BTW). Now the people who are being denied rights are petitioning the court. Arguing that what the legislature did is unconstitutional in the context of either the US constitution or the their states constitution.
That's the way things work, that's the way they should work. When the majority decides to fuck you over because their god told them to you should be able to go to the courts.
My point is that that is a stupid and senseless thing to say. That's like a murderer saying that he is not all that bad because Jeffrey Dahmer killed more people and ate them. It's not good enough to be better then one of the most vile human beings that ever lived. If you set the bar that low for yourself then I pity you.
As for things being better for the average iraqi that's just billshit. The average iraqi had power, water, and food before the war. Things were even better for the average iraqi before the US lead sanctions. The sanctions made millions of people miserable and caused massive disease and starvation but you know what it was still better then the current condition where hundreds of iraqis die every week from "coalition" bombs and there is no water and power for millions of people.
As for the so called radicals I presume they are motivated by the fact that their country was invaded and is being occupied by Americans who are racially, ethnically and religiously different from them. If the US was invaded and occupied by Iraq I would be fighting too. Would you?
It's obvious you are a supremely ignorant you must be getting all your news from Fox.
There have been at least nine deaths of prisoners, at least six of them have been ruled as MURDER by the armies own medical examiner. So its not just about wearing panties on the head it's about beating people until they die.
What Fox isn't telling you (and the taguba report is) is that dogs had torn up the leg of one prisoner, that women prisoners have been raped, that male prisoners had been crucified to beds and jail doors, that male prisoners were made to mastubate in other male prisoners mouths.
Rumsfeld when asked about the pictures that we are not allowed to see described them as "sick and sadistic". If the pictures he saw were sick and twisted to rumsfeld god only knows how a normal non depraved individual would view them.
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Just like how the hijackers left a videotape of flying instructions and a passport in their car.
Does anybody actually buy this shit?
There is no need to even think about that. As long as the god of the israelis tell them to take the land that belongs to other people there will be war in the middle east.
It's not really for you. It more for corporations who want to share documents without them "leaking" into the wild.
"The government has a rather silly system for determining budgets. "
It's not silly, it's just that it's pretty hard to guess a year or two ahead how much you need to spend. THe federal govt is constantly passing unfunded mandates and the populace is always screaming about potholes, and the weather is unpredictable. You have no choice but to budget a ton of money.
BTW no state has enough money to do the things they want. No school district is overfunded, no health care system has excess money, no DMV has too much money. You don't think your school district wants to hire more teachers or the DMV does not want to open another office? Sure they do but there isn't enough money to go around.
There does always seem to be lots of money for farm subsidies and other corporate welfare though.
"How else can he do it?"
Tax more or spend less. There is no other way.
"At least he doesn't appear to be increasing state spending."
Have you ever heard of interest? When you borrow money you have to pay interest. That's an expense.
"Tenure"
THe opposite of tenure is that you fire everybody before they reach retirement age so you don't have to give them retirement benefits. Tenure was invented to prevent this kind of abuse.
""gotta spend my budget""
If you didn't spend your budget the state will cut it. If you need the money next year you are SOL.
""follow procedure"."
You can't just have anybody order whatever they want and expect the state to pay the bill. You have to have a beuracracy.
""workplace as a supply depot for employees"."
People take pens and paper, no big deal. It'd be pretty damned hard to take a chair or monitor because those things are tagged with asset tags. We do give away old stuff sometimes to employees sometimes though.
" "croneyism and nepotism". "
This is actually harder in govt then private industry. First of all it's actually against the law in govt hiring whereas there are no laws against hiring your son, father, or buddy in the private industry. In fact the vast majority of people that are hired in the private industry are hired because they know somebody in the company already (keep in mind small business hires over 75% of the people in this country).
And yet he is borrowing his way out of the deficit.
So far he has talked a lot about cutting programs but he hasn't done much about it. I think this is just more talk.
Your link is dead. I presume it was talking about bluefin tuna which is not what you get in the cans.
" I'm also using the Windows driver (usbhid.sys) HID functions. "
.001% of the programmers that need that. Hey wait a minute! You said you were writing a cross platform application!. So were you lying then or are you lying now?
Gee I don't know I am not in the
"What the fuck is _your_ problem? You're trying to change my mind?"
Nah. Just pointing out that you are an idiot.
As long as there are people like you who look past all the sleazy and unethical things a company does then companies will continue to act sleazy and unethical.
MS knows that as long as they hand out the candy the masses will look past their assholeness. This makes them very happy.
As for me I choose not to give them any money. Just like I buy dolphin safe Tuna and shop downtown rather then wallmart. I know that every day and with every dollar I spend I can either choose to make the world a little better or a little worse. I realize that how I spend my money is infinately more powerful then how I vote and I take care in wielding that power for good.
It's all about my sense of right and wrong. Your sense of right and wrong are obviously different. You are willing to forgive all kinds of nasty behavior as long as the perpetrator sells you something nice.
" 1) I'm a programmer. They don't call it programmer for nothing."
Huh?
"My software is going to be distributed in packages that cost over ten thousand dollars (USD), I'm sure "runtime revolution" is not somthing that will sounds good when the clients ask whats behind the software."
Why would your client care what language it's written in? RR compiles down to native code just like C does. What the fuck is the big deal?
ECMA standards are bullshit. Companies like to submit things to ECMA because it puts the patina of standard on some technology and they still get to charge licencing fees. It's the whole RAND thing.
It's all bullshit business as usual "you must pay us to use your intellectual property" crap.
Two words for you. runtime revolution
I call it as I see it. This is a collasal waste of time. Those hackers should be working on cloning avalon not windows.forms.
I am especially appalled by the idea that they are going to throw away all that they have written already and starting from scratch.
It's their time, it's their money, they have a right to do anything they want but that does not mean I have to agree.
Great. Should be done by the time MS moves to avalon.
More likely it's Govt outsourcing. The Bush administration has been on a tear for last four years outsourcing any union job they can and moving union jobs to non union positions anytime they can. You might remember the big fight about how the homeland security dept is not allowed to unionize.
Bush figures that if he weakens or destroys unions then they can't fight him in the next election.
I don't claim that zope is as scalable as websphere. I am simply saying that there is no technical reason for that. In other words the reasons have nothing to do with python it's just that the community doesn't seem to want it bad enough. No itch, therefore no scratch.
All kidding aside I wonder what the astro turfers will get paid. It might be a way to make a few extra bucks.
Maybe the MS astro turfers can tell us how much they are getting paid so we know what to charge.
Is there a techinical reason for not having a J2EE like environment for python? It seems to me the only reason one does not exist is because the community does not feel like it needs one.
J2EE is insanely complex but I don't think it needs to be that way. Maybe a decent OR layer, a logging API, scheduling, soap server and a servlet hoster is sufficient. All the parts exist they just need to be put together.
Zope is almost there now.
Never argue with an idiot, people might not be able to tell the difference.
Really it's enough just to call him insane.
" I heard they were bundling an SCO source license in with their Unixware stuff. So they can count Unixware sales as SCO source as well."
And of course the wall street weenies, zdnet, ADTI, yankee group, and gartner are all too stupid to detect this game and will gladly report the increased SCO source figures.
I hope to god they called on their stupidity but somehow I doubt it.
Is Enderle married? Does he have kids? Imagine being his kid and reading his articles. That kid is going to be in therapy for a long time.
"Yes, that right is constructed so that it doesn't do some people any good--but that doesn't give the courts license to redefine an institution."
I keep telling you. If certain citizens of this country feel that they are being denied rights that other citizens have then they take it to the courts. The courts decide as to whether these people are being denied rights and whether it's OK to deny them those rights.
You seem to believe that the courts don't have the right to decide, that only the legislators (ie the majority) have the right to decide whether somebodies rights are being trampled on. This position is plain wrong. The courts clearly have the right to decide these things.
"That had nothing to do with the definition of marriage; it was a matter people thinking such marriages were undesirable and immoral."
It was illegal for white and black people to marry. It had everything to do with the definition of marriage. Throughout history the definition of marriage has evolved. At one time it was legal to marry 13 year olds, at one time it was legal to marry multiple people, at one time it was illegal to marry a black person if you were white. The definition of marriage changed with time and it will continue to do so.
"I just despise legislating from the judicial bench."
It's not legislating from the judicial bench. The legislature has already spoken and made marriage illegal between homosexuals (for no other reason then it goes against their religion BTW). Now the people who are being denied rights are petitioning the court. Arguing that what the legislature did is unconstitutional in the context of either the US constitution or the their states constitution.
That's the way things work, that's the way they should work. When the majority decides to fuck you over because their god told them to you should be able to go to the courts.
"My point is that is WAS MUCH WORSE BEFORE."
My point is that that is a stupid and senseless thing to say. That's like a murderer saying that he is not all that bad because Jeffrey Dahmer killed more people and ate them. It's not good enough to be better then one of the most vile human beings that ever lived. If you set the bar that low for yourself then I pity you.
As for things being better for the average iraqi that's just billshit. The average iraqi had power, water, and food before the war. Things were even better for the average iraqi before the US lead sanctions. The sanctions made millions of people miserable and caused massive disease and starvation but you know what it was still better then the current condition where hundreds of iraqis die every week from "coalition" bombs and there is no water and power for millions of people.
As for the so called radicals I presume they are motivated by the fact that their country was invaded and is being occupied by Americans who are racially, ethnically and religiously different from them. If the US was invaded and occupied by Iraq I would be fighting too. Would you?
It's obvious you are a supremely ignorant you must be getting all your news from Fox.
There have been at least nine deaths of prisoners, at least six of them have been ruled as MURDER by the armies own medical examiner. So its not just about wearing panties on the head it's about beating people until they die.
What Fox isn't telling you (and the taguba report is) is that dogs had torn up the leg of one prisoner, that women prisoners have been raped, that male prisoners had been crucified to beds and jail doors, that male prisoners were made to mastubate in other male prisoners mouths.
Rumsfeld when asked about the pictures that we are not allowed to see described them as "sick and sadistic". If the pictures he saw were sick and twisted to rumsfeld god only knows how a normal non depraved individual would view them.