Of course it's unconstitutional but will the supreme court ACTUALLY overturn it? Remember George "the constitutional is just a godamn piece of paper" Bush has appointed 2 supreme court justices.
Actually, I'd be highly suprised if this EVER made it to the Supreme Court. I heartily believe this will be overturned by any court within Ohio. At least let me have the faith in that. Also, I'll once again say that blaming the current President for EVERY FSCKING THING WRONG IN THIS COUNTRY just goes to show how innane and reactionary you are. Get off this "I hate bush" SHIT... If you don't like his policies get your ass into politics and do something about it. Quit whining on Internet forums about how so-and-so is evil... ESPESCIALLY if you don't have another practical solution for the problems said person is facing.
For reference... EVERY President has appointed Supreme Court justices(if there was an opening in their term) that were aligned with their views. Faulting someone who doesn't agree with you that appoints(with the authority you don't have) someone you disagree with is purely posturing.
By the way... All of the appointees were approved... You don't like it? Call your senator and congressman and ask him/her why they didn't do more to stop the appointment.
This is so unconstitutional... isn't it? It had better be.
Actually, I believe it is. There's this pesky little thing about innocent until proven guilty. I'm sure that it could also be construed as cruel and unusual punishment. I have always been a supporter of aligning sex crimes with murder(my personal opinion) becuase you do end up killing the victim in many small ways. However, this is a step too far.
So is wiretapping w/o a warrant./blockquote
So is lying under oath. As long as we point fingers at the president for EVERYTHING THAT GOES WRONG IN THE COUNTRY, we're living in another state... It's called denial. If you don't like the way things are going... Get in to politics to change it. Otherwise, you're just someone who likes to point and say "It's his/her fault. Nothing will be right till someone who thinks the way I do is in a position of power.
CAN'T YOU ALL SEE??? This is the work of his noodly appendage! We should all marvel at this(and his) wonderous and miraculus feat(and feet)! Anyone saying otherise is just speaking blasphemy!!!
Seriously, if they aren't using some relatively advanced techniques to detect the transferrs (like pattern matching, hueristics, etc.) then all they have to do is alter their encryption schemes and there go those caps.
However, I now no longer want one after I saw this.
And Al Gore and Intuit Chairman Bill Campbell are both Apple board members and advisors to Google.
I'm just waiting for Al Gore to start putting all the profits from the energy conservative iPod Shuffle into a [airquotes] lockbox [/airquotes] to take care of them in their old age.
Keep in mind that the Reagan tax cuts were mostly for the wealthy. I see *nothing* wrong with placing (say) a $5 mil (adjusted for inflation) cap on incomes and taxing everything after that at 90%.
Tell me that when you can make $10 million per year.
On a side note... the USA is based on a mostly capatilist society, not socialist. One of the main reasons we are a powerful nation is that we(in the past) had a STRONG work ethic and can-do attitude. If something didn't go our way, we did our damndest to turn it the direction we wanted. With the institution of Free Money for Life (a bastardized welfare), we now have an attitude of "Who's going to take care of me" and "Why should I get a job when I can have everything given to me on a monthly basis?".
You want to see the US turn around? Start holding people (and in the case of corporations, the board of directors) responsible for their actions. Also, for every frivolous law suit that gets thrown out immediately, the lawyer and plaintiff should have to pay court costs, the defendant's attourney fees, the juror salary for any jurors called in to serve, the electrical bill, the court reporter's salary for that time, the balifs' salaries for that time, and the judges salary for the time that he spent to throw it out. Then we will see stuff start to get better.
The levee system was in disrepair because the federal funding for upkeep had been slashed to pay for the war in Iraq.
Correction: Funding was there, the levee board(local government) was in charge of it's upkeep. And they were pissing the money away.
The Louisiana National Guard were all deployed to Iraq, stationed at Camp Liberty in Baghdad, while Katrina was ravaging the area.
Correction: There is a tennant in the USA that gives states more authority over thier local land than the federal government. Legally, Bush could not have ordered a single, unarmed soldier to step foot into LA without the LA Govener's permission. So, the failing on this one points to Local, State, and Federal government. Bush COULD have called to ask permission, but I don't know if he did or not.
Bush is the commander in chief and the Army Corps of Engineer fall under him.
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Responsibility is his.
Correction: The fault is PARTIALLY his. Laying all of this on Bush's door is the same as the police arresting you as an accomplice in a crime where you'd left your car doors unlocked, with the keys in the ignition, and someone stole your car to comitt the crime.
Yes, President Carter. Double-didgit inflation, taxes so high that they broke the econom, etc. were all Carter. Carter has done far more for the US after his presidency than he ever did for the country while in office.
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How bout we just stick to web browsing???
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Firefox is a Web Browser. That's it. Nothing all that special. However, if you start to branch out and throw lots of untested software into this massive jumble of code, it's going to get slow, buggy, and will once again be relegated to the back burner. I would think that this team would realize this above almost everything else.
For Desktops:
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2x physical ram, capped at 512MB
reason: Most everything the user wants to do involves "twitch" access. By wich I mean this: If it ain't fast, it's crap. Paging to disk.... is flat out SLOW.
For Servers:
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2x physical ram, up to (HD usable space / 10);
reason: Servers have variable load requirements. You never know from one day to the next what your load will be.(sure you can estimate, but that goes beyond general fromulas) By having massive amounts of pageable to disk memory(in an envrionment where response time is not a big as uptime) you have the advantage of absorbing that excess work.
His DUTY was to INFORM his management, government, congressman, intelligence services, etc. that he had SERIOUS concerns relative to the project he was leading. Anything less is unworthy of the status of Lead Engineer
While his employers probably will administratively punish and / or fire him, because his actions may save my coastie brothers and sisters in the long run,I tip my hat off to you. Sometimes you gotta grab life by the horns, to do the right thing.
Also, to add to this from an Engineer standpoint. If you are an Engineer in Training(EiT) or Professional Engineer(PE) and you are serious about your job and your career, you are aware that there is a code of ethics for any Engineer; therefore, this IS the ONLY OPTION left. If this guy (as a PE I would assume) has gone through his management and Congress the only option is then to alert the the general public as a matter of ethics, espescially if he believe tests were altered/forged.
In the end this must be said. This man is upholding the highest standards of what an "Engineer" is. If he ever faces legal action, I will gladly donate to his cause. Also, I would hope that the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) should not only suggest many good lawyers, but they should offer much assistance to this man as possible.
He is in the most difficult place an Engineer could be. Chose between your family(supporting them with a career) or his duty as an Engineer.
Next case: RIAA versus Google; Google is accused of funding piracy
Next case: Google versus the United Kingdom; Google is accused of funding the manufacture of items useful to terrorism (as the Federation Against Copyright Theft tells us, piracy funds terrorism)
Next case: RIAA versus Canonical; Canonical is accused of supplying Azureus, a piracy tool, to people
Next case: RIAA versus GNOME Foundation; the GNOME Foundation is accused of supplying a GUI library to piracy tools
WHEN DOES IT END?
Right about the time you get off that slippery slope fallacy.
Who says that they aren't already paying you to watch it by keeping all the "premium" channels in a price range that's reasonable and ensures quality programming?
They usually don't? How do you know? How long has GE food been around, and to what extent has it been produced? We don't have enough empirical data as of yet to come to the conclusion that they are "never harmful to humans".
Officially, genetic engineered food has been around since Mendelev. But, slective breading(and genetic engineering) has been around since the dawn of agriculture. American cotton is genetically engineered to be a blend of two other types, chemically resistant wheats and beans exist...
Has "Genetic Engineered food" become todays version of nano technology's "Grey Goo"?
The solution to education is that we elevate it to status that it deserves. Talk to many successfull people, and I'd wager that they could point to less than five (5) teachers that made a difference in their life and learning. Our Education system has these major ERRORS in it's design.
1.) Grade school is focused on churning out people who meet an arbitrary number on college entrance exams
2.) College is focused on churning out as many BS students as possible.
3.) It's too easy to get a teaching certificate
3.) ALL CLASSROOM TEACHERS ARE PAID TOO LITTLE
Solve problems 1, 2, and alter those to focus on critical thinking and you'll see a major difference in our children. Solve problem 3, 4, and we will never have to speak about teacher shortages again.
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nice AC post... however, it was evident in the "bash bush bullet points" that he was referring to bush
For reference... EVERY President has appointed Supreme Court justices(if there was an opening in their term) that were aligned with their views. Faulting someone who doesn't agree with you that appoints(with the authority you don't have) someone you disagree with is purely posturing.
By the way... All of the appointees were approved... You don't like it? Call your senator and congressman and ask him/her why they didn't do more to stop the appointment.
CAN'T YOU ALL SEE??? This is the work of his noodly appendage! We should all marvel at this(and his) wonderous and miraculus feat(and feet)! Anyone saying otherise is just speaking blasphemy!!!
Seriously, if they aren't using some relatively advanced techniques to detect the transferrs (like pattern matching, hueristics, etc.) then all they have to do is alter their encryption schemes and there go those caps.
To the guy who rated me flamebait... (I'm really going for it this time.) Here's $20, buy yourself a sense of humor.
Here's it in geek terms:
Just think of it as a hard reboot for your immune system. Then the newly developed anti-badthingys can go after what has infested your system
Everyone knows we're just a bunch of assholes who live on FARTs anyway.
Correction... when WoW turns 10
I know that that game still has several hundred people per server on a daily basis. Also, when WoW turns 20, then we'll talk.
On a side note... the USA is based on a mostly capatilist society, not socialist. One of the main reasons we are a powerful nation is that we(in the past) had a STRONG work ethic and can-do attitude. If something didn't go our way, we did our damndest to turn it the direction we wanted. With the institution of Free Money for Life (a bastardized welfare), we now have an attitude of "Who's going to take care of me" and "Why should I get a job when I can have everything given to me on a monthly basis?".
You want to see the US turn around? Start holding people (and in the case of corporations, the board of directors) responsible for their actions. Also, for every frivolous law suit that gets thrown out immediately, the lawyer and plaintiff should have to pay court costs, the defendant's attourney fees, the juror salary for any jurors called in to serve, the electrical bill, the court reporter's salary for that time, the balifs' salaries for that time, and the judges salary for the time that he spent to throw it out. Then we will see stuff start to get better.
Correction: There is a tennant in the USA that gives states more authority over thier local land than the federal government. Legally, Bush could not have ordered a single, unarmed soldier to step foot into LA without the LA Govener's permission. So, the failing on this one points to Local, State, and Federal government. Bush COULD have called to ask permission, but I don't know if he did or not.
Correct
Correction: The fault is PARTIALLY his. Laying all of this on Bush's door is the same as the police arresting you as an accomplice in a crime where you'd left your car doors unlocked, with the keys in the ignition, and someone stole your car to comitt the crime.
Yes, President Carter. Double-didgit inflation, taxes so high that they broke the econom, etc. were all Carter. Carter has done far more for the US after his presidency than he ever did for the country while in office.
I believe the article and editorialization need to be marked (-1, Troll)
Firefox is a Web Browser. That's it. Nothing all that special. However, if you start to branch out and throw lots of untested software into this massive jumble of code, it's going to get slow, buggy, and will once again be relegated to the back burner. I would think that this team would realize this above almost everything else.
For Desktops:
--------------
2x physical ram, capped at 512MB
reason: Most everything the user wants to do involves "twitch" access. By wich I mean this: If it ain't fast, it's crap. Paging to disk.... is flat out SLOW. For Servers:
------------------
2x physical ram, up to (HD usable space / 10);
reason: Servers have variable load requirements. You never know from one day to the next what your load will be.(sure you can estimate, but that goes beyond general fromulas) By having massive amounts of pageable to disk memory(in an envrionment where response time is not a big as uptime) you have the advantage of absorbing that excess work.
His DUTY was to INFORM his management, government, congressman, intelligence services, etc. that he had SERIOUS concerns relative to the project he was leading. Anything less is unworthy of the status of Lead Engineer
In the end this must be said. This man is upholding the highest standards of what an "Engineer" is. If he ever faces legal action, I will gladly donate to his cause. Also, I would hope that the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) should not only suggest many good lawyers, but they should offer much assistance to this man as possible.
He is in the most difficult place an Engineer could be. Chose between your family(supporting them with a career) or his duty as an Engineer.
Has "Genetic Engineered food" become todays version of nano technology's "Grey Goo"?
Simply put... Better Education != More Technology
The solution to education is that we elevate it to status that it deserves. Talk to many successfull people, and I'd wager that they could point to less than five (5) teachers that made a difference in their life and learning. Our Education system has these major ERRORS in it's design.
1.) Grade school is focused on churning out people who meet an arbitrary number on college entrance exams
2.) College is focused on churning out as many BS students as possible.
3.) It's too easy to get a teaching certificate
3.) ALL CLASSROOM TEACHERS ARE PAID TOO LITTLE
Solve problems 1, 2, and alter those to focus on critical thinking and you'll see a major difference in our children. Solve problem 3, 4, and we will never have to speak about teacher shortages again.