I'll tell you what. Make a manned mission (a reasonable one, say a couple years for flight to and fro, and a year on the planet) and I'll go find out if it's toxic, has electrical properties, etc. It's a gamble I would take in exchange for the experience. -nB
I will assume you mean our illicit drug laws (as opposed to the law about importing prescription meds which I largely agree with).
I have to think that if most illegal drugs were treated like alcohol (specifically relating to public intoxication, DUI, coming to work drunk earns a pink slip) then the black market economy would collapse (a good thing), and we could focus on treatment for those who want it (a good thing), and better enforce the few remaining drugs that are genuinely bad. While I personally would tan my kids' hides if I caught them doing X or speed (and related) I see that as my right (and responsibility) as a parent.
Back on topic though, I am really saddened by my government's actions, and it's not really the president's fault (sure he's complicit), it is our system's fault. If either we had both parties agree that social support programs were necessary and the only difference of opinion was how to implement the programs, or if both parties were focused on private charity and support being the way to go, this country would be vastly improved. Fact is, that career politicians look after their career first and the public second. That is the root of the problem. One of my co-workers said he felt that every term in office should be followed by a term in jail, I'm almost inclined to agree.
Now that I have young kids I have an excuse to watch it again. I love that movie because the story and such while good are fine, the muppet work is awesome. -nB
Yes they do, but the big difference as I see it is that they are up-front about it. Google: We give you free e-mail, with spam filtering in exchange for advertisements on the side bar. Hotmail: ditto, oh, and we let pay for spam through too, but we didn't say that.
"Do No Evil" is only as effective as your definition of "evil".
Do no evil is only as effective as your product (users) sees it. If they leave in droves for the next !evil then so will your customers (advertisers in Google's case). It is fairly self limiting.
Now, you may retain enough users to still be profitable with the spam, ala hotmail, but I think the Gmail userbase is a bit less spam accepting. -nB
Why not leave the post but allow a "retracted" tickbox? Thus at least the owner of the comment can effectively say "I was wrong, boneheaded, whatever" without having to post another comment and wait two minutes to do it? and all that shows up it a one-liner under the comment: This comment has been retracted by its poster
"neither tyme was I even called" most awesome word selection error ever! I'm used to the their/there/they're and read through them, but that one caught my eye;) -nB
They only were found guilty because they were incompetent and had no idea how to construct a bomb, coupled with their lack of devotion to suicide bomb. If you have someone willing to end their own life to take yours there is very little preemptive work you can do to stop them. If I build a bomb, line the outside with ball bearings, nails, sharks with lasers (tiny sharks, I admit), all within my house in a room without windows, then strap it to myself and put an overcoat appropriate to the season on (loose fitting linen for the summer perhaps?), and drive my car to a crowded place (mall?) how do you stop that? How do the cameras really help after the fact? Point is that the cameras are fine for domestic crime tracking, but for genuine Islamic extremist terrorism they are rather useless. -nB
-55 to 125 C in most extended temp specifications, but remember the age of the units and the fact they've seen no preventive maintenance and the reliability at the extremes rapidly degrades. -nB
I'm guessing that everyone missed the whole, hair visibly shorter bit? I swear that roll was likely 6 months old. The guy in the photos wasn't near in his twenty's either, likely closer to mid 40's. As I said in an earlier post, the law had nothing to do with my attitude, had the age of consent been 12 I still would have been uneasy about those photos. It wasn't plain 'ol straight sex or lesbian porn, and through some of it I don't think the girl was faking being unhappy. As to the beaten up comment (other posts, just consolidating at the end of the thread), I didn't say it was right (though I can not say I stepped in to stop it either). The child was easily 10ish and that is *very* wrong. -nB
You are of course completely correct, but my morals are not allowed to dictate my courtesy and responsibility to my customers, that, in part, is what the law is for. If I had my way I would not have accepted that line of work. When one of my "better" customers tried to hire me as his photographer I declined on my on morality. That he brought in $3500 a month in photofinishing was good for my store and wallet, but I was not about to go into that industry so directly as to be a photographer, even for the money he was offering ($1500/wk +5% of the gross). In hindsight I sometimes wish I had done it, as I would have a house for my kids to play in, but I don't think that I would want to volunteer at my daughters preschool.
"what do you do?" I'm a photographer "O really? That's cool, do you work for the newspaper?" no, AG productions "What do they do, movies?" Nah, porn. Like Penthouse, only rougher and more disgusting. "..."
Honestly? yes. Would I have the added burden of knowing that there was a crime committed and that at some level I was complacent about the fact? no.
In all reality, I see 16-21 as a gray zone, some females are women (physical and mental maturity both count) some are not within that range. Younger and I can not believe that the mental maturity has caught up with any physical maturing and if by 21 they have not "grown up" then they are not likely to without some sort of life altering event (much like one of my cousins). Myself I like the mid/late twenty somethings for eye candy.
-nB
On a side note, you would not believe how twisted some nutters are about their porn, man I'm glad digital cameras are good/cheap enough. One guy brought in a roll of film with hardcore sandwitching some kids birthday party on the roll. Geeze!
I used to be in the photo business, before my company got bought by Ritz Cameras and driven into the dirt. We had a policy about porn, if the printer doesn't want to print it, then you wait till someone else (willing) is in to do the work. If the printer is under 18 (we had a couple in my district, mostly on summer jobs) then you had to wait. If it was illegal (animals, etc.) then you better not have used your real name 'cause the cops are coming. If it was Child porn then we beat you up while the cops are on the way (really happened, cops didn't arrest our guy, but told him to hope the CP guy didn't realize he could press charges).
We had one issue where the girl looked a little young, so we gave the guy a chance to have her, with ID come in and she could pick up the photos. She showed up, and the ID was good (honestly didn't look fake), thing is, her hair was noticeably shorter in the pics and she had turned 18 only a week? before. we let her have the photos, for lack of proof that she was underage, but it made my stomach churn. -nB
I was always uneasy about the "(at your option) later versions" portion of the GPL, I took Linux's lead and went V2 only for what little bits I've done. I figured that since I am the only dev on my projects it would be trivial to later re-license a later version of the GPL if I liked it. So far I really don't, so V2 it is. On a side note, I've sold most of my code privately for closed source implementations (non-exclusive), and while I'm not retiring, the money was good enough to pay for a year of UC Davis for my wife's education. How many other devs have done the same I wonder? -nB
I swear the indy near my house makes it on "concessions" just like the movie theaters. He sells all sorts of random stuff (and the biggest baddest selection of energy drinks). That is where he makes his money. $2.50 for a rock star, when I can buy them for a buck each at costco. The gas (at an average of $0.04 cheaper than anyone else/gal) is just to get you in there.
Funny thing is, I don't want to be CEO, heck I don't want to be CxO at all. Sure the money is good, but the stress levels are such that it ain't worth it to me. My place is in an R&D lab. It's where I'm happy, the money is good enough (barely, but we're surviving), and I can reasonably expect to leave my work at work on most days.
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that would be awesome...
So why not sig your all important link?
I'll tell you what.
Make a manned mission (a reasonable one, say a couple years for flight to and fro, and a year on the planet) and I'll go find out if it's toxic, has electrical properties, etc.
It's a gamble I would take in exchange for the experience.
-nB
I will assume you mean our illicit drug laws (as opposed to the law about importing prescription meds which I largely agree with).
I have to think that if most illegal drugs were treated like alcohol (specifically relating to public intoxication, DUI, coming to work drunk earns a pink slip) then the black market economy would collapse (a good thing), and we could focus on treatment for those who want it (a good thing), and better enforce the few remaining drugs that are genuinely bad. While I personally would tan my kids' hides if I caught them doing X or speed (and related) I see that as my right (and responsibility) as a parent.
Back on topic though,
I am really saddened by my government's actions, and it's not really the president's fault (sure he's complicit), it is our system's fault. If either we had both parties agree that social support programs were necessary and the only difference of opinion was how to implement the programs, or if both parties were focused on private charity and support being the way to go, this country would be vastly improved. Fact is, that career politicians look after their career first and the public second. That is the root of the problem. One of my co-workers said he felt that every term in office should be followed by a term in jail, I'm almost inclined to agree.
-nB
The dark crystal.
Now that I have young kids I have an excuse to watch it again. I love that movie because the story and such while good are fine, the muppet work is awesome.
-nB
Yes they do, but the big difference as I see it is that they are up-front about it.
Google: We give you free e-mail, with spam filtering in exchange for advertisements on the side bar.
Hotmail: ditto, oh, and we let pay for spam through too, but we didn't say that.
-nB
"Do No Evil" is only as effective as your definition of "evil".
Do no evil is only as effective as your product (users) sees it. If they leave in droves for the next !evil then so will your customers (advertisers in Google's case). It is fairly self limiting.
Now, you may retain enough users to still be profitable with the spam, ala hotmail, but I think the Gmail userbase is a bit less spam accepting.
-nB
Why not leave the post but allow a "retracted" tickbox? Thus at least the owner of the comment can effectively say "I was wrong, boneheaded, whatever" without having to post another comment and wait two minutes to do it? and all that shows up it a one-liner under the comment:
This comment has been retracted by its poster
-nB
"neither tyme was I even called" ;)
most awesome word selection error ever!
I'm used to the their/there/they're and read through them, but that one caught my eye
-nB
Honestly not to be an ass, but:
They only were found guilty because they were incompetent and had no idea how to construct a bomb, coupled with their lack of devotion to suicide bomb. If you have someone willing to end their own life to take yours there is very little preemptive work you can do to stop them. If I build a bomb, line the outside with ball bearings, nails, sharks with lasers (tiny sharks, I admit), all within my house in a room without windows, then strap it to myself and put an overcoat appropriate to the season on (loose fitting linen for the summer perhaps?), and drive my car to a crowded place (mall?) how do you stop that?
How do the cameras really help after the fact? Point is that the cameras are fine for domestic crime tracking, but for genuine Islamic extremist terrorism they are rather useless.
-nB
-55 to 125 C in most extended temp specifications, but remember the age of the units and the fact they've seen no preventive maintenance and the reliability at the extremes rapidly degrades.
-nB
Wiki link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona_(satellite)
Case in point:/ Dimona_compare_SpyVciv_sat_corona_vs_SPOT This shows a comparison of a commercial sat and a military sat of the same location (many many years old, thus you can bet the military gear has gotten vastly better, whereas the commercial gear is now about where the military gear was then).
http://xbx.networkboy.net/modules/gallery/album09
-nB
I'm guessing that everyone missed the whole, hair visibly shorter bit? I swear that roll was likely 6 months old. The guy in the photos wasn't near in his twenty's either, likely closer to mid 40's.
As I said in an earlier post, the law had nothing to do with my attitude, had the age of consent been 12 I still would have been uneasy about those photos. It wasn't plain 'ol straight sex or lesbian porn, and through some of it I don't think the girl was faking being unhappy.
As to the beaten up comment (other posts, just consolidating at the end of the thread), I didn't say it was right (though I can not say I stepped in to stop it either). The child was easily 10ish and that is *very* wrong.
-nB
Oh, I have no doubts.
I still buy them from him when I'm chumming for one and I'm not on my way home.
-nB
You are of course completely correct, but my morals are not allowed to dictate my courtesy and responsibility to my customers, that, in part, is what the law is for. If I had my way I would not have accepted that line of work. When one of my "better" customers tried to hire me as his photographer I declined on my on morality. That he brought in $3500 a month in photofinishing was good for my store and wallet, but I was not about to go into that industry so directly as to be a photographer, even for the money he was offering ($1500/wk +5% of the gross). In hindsight I sometimes wish I had done it, as I would have a house for my kids to play in, but I don't think that I would want to volunteer at my daughters preschool.
"what do you do?"
I'm a photographer
"O really? That's cool, do you work for the newspaper?"
no, AG productions
"What do they do, movies?"
Nah, porn. Like Penthouse, only rougher and more disgusting.
"..."
Yeah, that would go over well.
-nB
Honestly? yes.
Would I have the added burden of knowing that there was a crime committed and that at some level I was complacent about the fact? no.
In all reality, I see 16-21 as a gray zone, some females are women (physical and mental maturity both count) some are not within that range. Younger and I can not believe that the mental maturity has caught up with any physical maturing and if by 21 they have not "grown up" then they are not likely to without some sort of life altering event (much like one of my cousins).
Myself I like the mid/late twenty somethings for eye candy.
-nB
On a side note, you would not believe how twisted some nutters are about their porn, man I'm glad digital cameras are good/cheap enough. One guy brought in a roll of film with hardcore sandwitching some kids birthday party on the roll. Geeze!
I used to be in the photo business, before my company got bought by Ritz Cameras and driven into the dirt.
We had a policy about porn, if the printer doesn't want to print it, then you wait till someone else (willing) is in to do the work. If the printer is under 18 (we had a couple in my district, mostly on summer jobs) then you had to wait. If it was illegal (animals, etc.) then you better not have used your real name 'cause the cops are coming. If it was Child porn then we beat you up while the cops are on the way (really happened, cops didn't arrest our guy, but told him to hope the CP guy didn't realize he could press charges).
We had one issue where the girl looked a little young, so we gave the guy a chance to have her, with ID come in and she could pick up the photos. She showed up, and the ID was good (honestly didn't look fake), thing is, her hair was noticeably shorter in the pics and she had turned 18 only a week? before. we let her have the photos, for lack of proof that she was underage, but it made my stomach churn.
-nB
I was always uneasy about the "(at your option) later versions" portion of the GPL, I took Linux's lead and went V2 only for what little bits I've done. I figured that since I am the only dev on my projects it would be trivial to later re-license a later version of the GPL if I liked it. So far I really don't, so V2 it is. On a side note, I've sold most of my code privately for closed source implementations (non-exclusive), and while I'm not retiring, the money was good enough to pay for a year of UC Davis for my wife's education. How many other devs have done the same I wonder?
-nB
I swear the indy near my house makes it on "concessions" just like the movie theaters. /gal) is just to get you in there.
He sells all sorts of random stuff (and the biggest baddest selection of energy drinks). That is where he makes his money. $2.50 for a rock star, when I can buy them for a buck each at costco.
The gas (at an average of $0.04 cheaper than anyone else
-nB
Funny thing is, I don't want to be CEO, heck I don't want to be CxO at all. Sure the money is good, but the stress levels are such that it ain't worth it to me. My place is in an R&D lab. It's where I'm happy, the money is good enough (barely, but we're surviving), and I can reasonably expect to leave my work at work on most days.
-nB
please tell me you knew I was referencing the "no one gets fired for buying IBM" joke...
It's early, maybe my brain isn't on yet after last night (I know my hearing isn't)
If I ever become CEO of my company (whatever, that didn't come out quite right) I'm soooo firing people for buying IBM and MS ;-)
-nB
with me
No they don't. They just can't lie about it, but they sure can tapdance around it.
-nB