God, I hope you don't really believe the things You say. Democracy is not what you have, on paper and by name maybe, but reality is different
Guess you're right on that one. The US is a constitutional republic that elects its leaders using democratic means.
Who in the right mind would give America power to decide for others, I know I didn't
Hmmmm... That's a tough one.
Oh, lets try this: Europe (which had all of the undisputed SuperPowers for a couple of hundred years) totally fucked themselves in two conflicts that nearly destroyed their cultures, societies, peoples, etc.
The US took control by default. We were the last ones standing in the way of complete Soviet domination.
Now whether you think complete domination by a communist government is a good thing or not, I can't say. That is something the folks of Central Europe could answer quite well. Perhaps you should ask them whether having the US around to keep the pressure on the Soviet Union was a good thing.
And we will be glad to ask you next time we are going to kick the shit out of another country - and then ignore your advice.
Explanation
You mean rationalization for your hate, don't you?
1. Whenever US interferred in some nation they caused more pain and sorrow than it was.
A little more historical perspective on your screed would be helpful, wouldn't it?
Are you suggesting that the US had a hand in every botched exercise in nation building? Explain the problems of Palestine, India, and Indochina to us when the US was busy beating the shit out of itself while these areas were being colonized.
Oh, you mean it WASN'T the American's decision to "nation build" in these regions?
2. Whenever US calls their judgement, who the fsck gives them right, but they still do
That is what you get to do when you are the undisputed global power.
You might want to look at the record of those who preceded us.
3. Most of the last wars (10 or 20) in the world were actualy caused by US
See my response to #2. When you are the undisputed world power, every punk on the block wants a shot at you.
4. Most of the wars were longer because of US
How long should they have been?
If we were to nuke every enemy we had, they would be over quite quickly. Is that what you are suggesting?
Conclusion. I hope you'll get a new Vietnam (read as ASS KICKED)
Not likely to happen, but thanks for your warm support.
BTW, your country is next.
I guess I hate America and what it represents (or you can call it a lie), not Americans, there's many people from US whom I know who are just plain people, no politics, no bullshit.
That statement tells us a lot about you:
1. You hate America, and by extension, Americans 2. You do not understand America or its people 3. You do not understand politics.
p.s. Please, get a new sucker to be president, Bush is not sane, or get a better remote (democracy)
If it gives you any comfort, I didn't vote for Bush and I do not support much of his domestic or foreign policy. But he is the President and I do support him in this particular action.
It may come as a shock to you, but the American public is not a monolithic entity that is swayed either one way or another by the opinions of its leaders. We generally support people who take military action to defend our interests (like the French do in Algeria) and our security. This may not make everyone in the world happy, but that is the way things worked out.
When your country is the undisputed global power, you will be the one typing this reply.
You white collar workers sound amazingly like the blue collar labor of 20 years ago. American workers were losing jobs to Asia and Latin America while many of you were still crapping your diapers. Tech workers have avoided substantive discussion of labor rights anywhere on this board unless it affects you and your skill set.
Why? Because you like to get cheap electronics, automobiles (relatively speaking), and food.
Where were you when Kenworth shipped their jobs to Mexico? Where was the outrage from tech workers when automotive assembly jobs were being shipped overseas?
Face it: Your skills have become a global commodity that can move to regions of lower wages just as easily as the employee working the assembly line. The only way you can preserve your jobs for Americans is to purge yourself Free Trade rhetoric and start signing the song of protectionism.
But that would eventually end up costing you more of your annual income. When you get protection for your profession, other industries will be lining up to get theirs. Pretty soon you are paying $8US for a head of lettuce because you have to pay minimum wage to a US citizen rather than $2/hr to an illegal.
And as has been already been pointed out by other posters, these people need to make a living too. The money they send home improves the standard of living in their own country which stabilizes their society and lessens the possibility that the US will have to intervene with foreign aid, or worse, the military.
When you push on one side of the balloon, the other side starts to bulge.
The link mentions something about a PUD, which in Washington means a public utility district. They are able to run any service they want because they own the right of way. In Eastern Washington there is at least one other fiber pipe that is serviced by a PUD.
This probably does make the baby bells unhappy, but I guess that is too bad.
Oregon is moving toward passage of a measure that would direct all government agencies to 'consider' open source products when making IT procurement decisions.
While that is not an outright requirement, cash strapped states will invariably start looking deeply at their commitments to proprietary software.
My state government is screwed. We are the home of the Beast.
What's really surprising is that it appears SCO believes IBM is run by a pack of idiots. Granted, they have made some rather major strategic mistakes in the past, but I can't think of a time when they ran afoul with intellectual property. As has been amply noted in earlier, IBM is one, if not the leader, of computer technology intellectual property. They have been for decades.
Taking that as a fact, who at IBM, and in the right mind, would allow someone to openly walk out of the corporate front doors with IP and give it away to a bunch of libertarian code monkeys? I work for a company whose second line of business is IP, and I can tell you that I would not have been able to publicly disseminate corporate business secrets without repercussions. My rogue initiative would have lasted maybe two or three weeks until the company got wind of what I was doing and then I would have been shut down, fired, and sued into oblivion.
Why would IBM's IP lawyers let their engineers disclose anyone's secrets, let alone their own, without getting the forms filled out correctly? That behavior just doesn't make sense for a company so steeped in a bureaucratic corporate culture.
That's one of the difficulties noted in the article. The cartoon audio tracks are recorded on high-tech sound gear and are edited with equally high-quality audio edit gear.
Not that getting 'good' quality productions would cost a mint, but there are still blending and overdub techniques that would take some practice in getting right. Consider some of the audio productions of Shakespeare produced on vinyl. The actors are clearly interjecting and interacting in such a way that reproducing that effect from two different locations would be tricky.
I started looking for the legal citations in the Supreme Court decision this year in Eldred v. Ashcroft and couldn't find them. At the time I thought that there should be a publicly accessible database of case law, viewable to anyone with internet access (e.g., public libraries, etc.).
Of course that would require having every geek in their community plopping themselves into a chair at their municipal and county records department with a laptop and a scanner cataloging their local records, eventually building the system out to include state and federal statutes and court decisions.
The effort might eventually gain some momentum if the database became large enough that it could not be ignored by state and federal legislatures. Perhaps we could then get our legal information back from the private contractors.
The public repository system would not preclude corportations like Westlaw and others from building their own indexing and search utilities that they could charge for, provided they were better than the generic tools that came with the public domian database.
The effort might have the positive effect of exposing 'submarine' legislative action to the light of day (bug hunting) as well as leveraging the data away from sole source contractors such as Westlaw and Lexis/Nexis. It might also provide the public with an opportunity to see old and outdated laws for the antiquities that they are so that they could be repealed.
Contamination from Hanford does enter the Columbia River, that is true. Consider, however, that the radioactivity you would be consuming is so dilute and innocuous that your risk from the man-made isotopes would be no greater than the stuff that has eroded off the North American craton.
The current job situation in the IT industry reminds me of the energy industry nearly two decades ago. At that time, I was graduating with a bachelor's degree in geology and was looking forward to employment in an oil or mineral exploration company.
Then the price of oil dropped to less than $20 a barrel.
The immediate fallout was that oil and mineral companies put a hiring freeze on new undergraduates. Several of them were holding on to their graduates and PhDs in the hope that oil prices would recover leaving them with a core exploration group to field when it was needed.
It wasn't long before energy companies started laying off the people with masters degrees and, soon, the PhDs. In short, there was blood in the streets. The old joke was renewed: "Why did the guy with a bachelors in geology fail to get a job at McDonalds? Because he didn't have his PhD."
I couldn't stand the idea of going back to school. I was tired of school (starvation) and wanted to start working again. I gathered up all of my networking contacts and pressed them hard for any job available. None of them were offering jobs in geology. So I started looking in other related industries.
I figured that if I could get inside of Exxon or Shell, then I could post for internal positions when they started arriving. My foray into the petrochemical industry started with a job in a small formaldehyde plant. I was the only operator with a degree. Heck, I was the only one in the plant with more than a high school education. That experience, however, gave me an in-road into another field - industrial hygiene. I went from plant to factory performing routine studies of industrial exposure to workplace hazards. After a few short years, I had learned enough about the field that I considered certifying as an industrial hygienist.
But I found an ad in a local newspaper that was offering a job as a well-site geologist who had industrial safety training. Because I had taught industrial safety as a hygienist, I got the job. It was a lateral move with fewer benefits and was a contract position. But it was in geology, a field I had long given up hope of getting a job.
I was eventually hired on permanently and have been here for the last 10 years. I now have more work than I can perform myself. I will have to farm the excess out to people who have more education and work experience than myself.
The point? Don't stop working just because you've graduated and can't get entry-level work in your field. The IT field will eventually shake out the deadwood and under-qualified. If you continue to keep your skills up, the day will come when your skills are not only needed, they are hard to find. This translates into greater job security than if you were to have taken the first job you could find in your field only to be laid off 8 months later.
Since the story on ESRI was rejected, I am asking all Linux scientists who use GIS systems to follow this link to take a survey in support of Linux development.
Since the story on ESRI was rejected, I am asking all Linux scientists who use GIS systems to follow this link to take a survey in support of Linux development.
Since the story on ESRI was rejected, I am asking all Linux scientists who use GIS systems to follow this link to take a survey in support of Linux development.
sadly, a little grammatical mistake makes any discussion on the actual topic impossible.
How true. Which is why it is so important that editorial control be exercised by individuals who are aware of how small details can ruin an otherwise good submission.
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From an AP article yesterday posted at excite.com:
In the Kuwaiti desert south of Iraq, long columns of troops and armored vehicles moved through sandstorms toward the Iraqi border.
Capt. Chris Carter, a company commander in the 64th Armored Regiment, told the troops to remove the American flags from atop their tanks.
"We will be entering Iraq as an army of liberation, not domination, so it would not be right to go in with the American flag flying," he said.
Sounds like the leadership of the American and British militaries want the world to believe that they are not an occupying army.
God, I hope you don't really believe the things You say. Democracy is not what you have, on paper and by name maybe, but reality is different
Guess you're right on that one. The US is a constitutional republic that elects its leaders using democratic means.
Who in the right mind would give America power to decide for others, I know I didn't
Hmmmm... That's a tough one.
Oh, lets try this: Europe (which had all of the undisputed SuperPowers for a couple of hundred years) totally fucked themselves in two conflicts that nearly destroyed their cultures, societies, peoples, etc.
The US took control by default. We were the last ones standing in the way of complete Soviet domination.
Now whether you think complete domination by a communist government is a good thing or not, I can't say. That is something the folks of Central Europe could answer quite well. Perhaps you should ask them whether having the US around to keep the pressure on the Soviet Union was a good thing.
And we will be glad to ask you next time we are going to kick the shit out of another country - and then ignore your advice.
Explanation
You mean rationalization for your hate, don't you?
1. Whenever US interferred in some nation they caused more pain and sorrow than it was.
A little more historical perspective on your screed would be helpful, wouldn't it?
Are you suggesting that the US had a hand in every botched exercise in nation building? Explain the problems of Palestine, India, and Indochina to us when the US was busy beating the shit out of itself while these areas were being colonized.
Oh, you mean it WASN'T the American's decision to "nation build" in these regions?
2. Whenever US calls their judgement, who the fsck gives them right, but they still do
That is what you get to do when you are the undisputed global power.
You might want to look at the record of those who preceded us.
3. Most of the last wars (10 or 20) in the world were actualy caused by US
See my response to #2. When you are the undisputed world power, every punk on the block wants a shot at you.
4. Most of the wars were longer because of US
How long should they have been?
If we were to nuke every enemy we had, they would be over quite quickly. Is that what you are suggesting?
Conclusion. I hope you'll get a new Vietnam (read as ASS KICKED)
Not likely to happen, but thanks for your warm support.
BTW, your country is next.
I guess I hate America and what it represents (or you can call it a lie), not Americans, there's many people from US whom I know who are just plain people, no politics, no bullshit.
That statement tells us a lot about you:
1. You hate America, and by extension, Americans
2. You do not understand America or its people
3. You do not understand politics.
p.s. Please, get a new sucker to be president, Bush is not sane, or get a better remote (democracy)
If it gives you any comfort, I didn't vote for Bush and I do not support much of his domestic or foreign policy. But he is the President and I do support him in this particular action.
It may come as a shock to you, but the American public is not a monolithic entity that is swayed either one way or another by the opinions of its leaders. We generally support people who take military action to defend our interests (like the French do in Algeria) and our security. This may not make everyone in the world happy, but that is the way things worked out.
When your country is the undisputed global power, you will be the one typing this reply.
You white collar workers sound amazingly like the blue collar labor of 20 years ago. American workers were losing jobs to Asia and Latin America while many of you were still crapping your diapers. Tech workers have avoided substantive discussion of labor rights anywhere on this board unless it affects you and your skill set.
Why? Because you like to get cheap electronics, automobiles (relatively speaking), and food.
Where were you when Kenworth shipped their jobs to Mexico? Where was the outrage from tech workers when automotive assembly jobs were being shipped overseas?
Face it: Your skills have become a global commodity that can move to regions of lower wages just as easily as the employee working the assembly line. The only way you can preserve your jobs for Americans is to purge yourself Free Trade rhetoric and start signing the song of protectionism.
But that would eventually end up costing you more of your annual income. When you get protection for your profession, other industries will be lining up to get theirs. Pretty soon you are paying $8US for a head of lettuce because you have to pay minimum wage to a US citizen rather than $2/hr to an illegal.
And as has been already been pointed out by other posters, these people need to make a living too. The money they send home improves the standard of living in their own country which stabilizes their society and lessens the possibility that the US will have to intervene with foreign aid, or worse, the military.
When you push on one side of the balloon, the other side starts to bulge.
There are no easy answers to globalized labor.
True, but when have content providers ever factored into the consideration of the pirate?
Les anglais sont des crapauds que le vacilate et mangent des anguilles.
The link mentions something about a PUD, which in Washington means a public utility district. They are able to run any service they want because they own the right of way. In Eastern Washington there is at least one other fiber pipe that is serviced by a PUD.
This probably does make the baby bells unhappy, but I guess that is too bad.
Oregon is moving toward passage of a measure that would direct all government agencies to 'consider' open source products when making IT procurement decisions.
While that is not an outright requirement, cash strapped states will invariably start looking deeply at their commitments to proprietary software.
My state government is screwed. We are the home of the Beast.
My apologies.
I also would like to apologize to the radical leftist code monkeys, the fringe right code monkeys, etc.... ad infinitum.
What's really surprising is that it appears SCO believes IBM is run by a pack of idiots. Granted, they have made some rather major strategic mistakes in the past, but I can't think of a time when they ran afoul with intellectual property. As has been amply noted in earlier, IBM is one, if not the leader, of computer technology intellectual property. They have been for decades.
Taking that as a fact, who at IBM, and in the right mind, would allow someone to openly walk out of the corporate front doors with IP and give it away to a bunch of libertarian code monkeys? I work for a company whose second line of business is IP, and I can tell you that I would not have been able to publicly disseminate corporate business secrets without repercussions. My rogue initiative would have lasted maybe two or three weeks until the company got wind of what I was doing and then I would have been shut down, fired, and sued into oblivion.
Why would IBM's IP lawyers let their engineers disclose anyone's secrets, let alone their own, without getting the forms filled out correctly? That behavior just doesn't make sense for a company so steeped in a bureaucratic corporate culture.
Ask Oppenheimer or Feynman or Einstein.
I would, but they are all dead.
That's one of the difficulties noted in the article. The cartoon audio tracks are recorded on high-tech sound gear and are edited with equally high-quality audio edit gear.
Not that getting 'good' quality productions would cost a mint, but there are still blending and overdub techniques that would take some practice in getting right. Consider some of the audio productions of Shakespeare produced on vinyl. The actors are clearly interjecting and interacting in such a way that reproducing that effect from two different locations would be tricky.
It would certainly be fun to try.
Miniature video loops of the full-screen movies showing the atomospheric testing program can be viewed at this DOE website
I started looking for the legal citations in the Supreme Court decision this year in Eldred v. Ashcroft and couldn't find them. At the time I thought that there should be a publicly accessible database of case law, viewable to anyone with internet access (e.g., public libraries, etc.).
Of course that would require having every geek in their community plopping themselves into a chair at their municipal and county records department with a laptop and a scanner cataloging their local records, eventually building the system out to include state and federal statutes and court decisions.
The effort might eventually gain some momentum if the database became large enough that it could not be ignored by state and federal legislatures. Perhaps we could then get our legal information back from the private contractors.
The public repository system would not preclude corportations like Westlaw and others from building their own indexing and search utilities that they could charge for, provided they were better than the generic tools that came with the public domian database.
The effort might have the positive effect of exposing 'submarine' legislative action to the light of day (bug hunting) as well as leveraging the data away from sole source contractors such as Westlaw and Lexis/Nexis. It might also provide the public with an opportunity to see old and outdated laws for the antiquities that they are so that they could be repealed.
Maybe we should start with a Law Library HOWTO.
I would advise against this line of reasoning unless you have competent, free legal council.
Did I hear someone laughing in the back regarding the latter four words being strung together?
Two justices literally have no balls.
Ginsberg and O' Conner.
...it will be extended another 20 years.
Ad infinitum.
I use IE on Linux with Codeweavers Wine (actually, Codeweavers Office).
It worked just fine.
I'd take that glass of water.
Contamination from Hanford does enter the Columbia River, that is true. Consider, however, that the radioactivity you would be consuming is so dilute and innocuous that your risk from the man-made isotopes would be no greater than the stuff that has eroded off the North American craton.
The current job situation in the IT industry reminds me of the energy industry nearly two decades ago. At that time, I was graduating with a bachelor's degree in geology and was looking forward to employment in an oil or mineral exploration company.
Then the price of oil dropped to less than $20 a barrel.
The immediate fallout was that oil and mineral companies put a hiring freeze on new undergraduates. Several of them were holding on to their graduates and PhDs in the hope that oil prices would recover leaving them with a core exploration group to field when it was needed.
It wasn't long before energy companies started laying off the people with masters degrees and, soon, the PhDs. In short, there was blood in the streets. The old joke was renewed: "Why did the guy with a bachelors in geology fail to get a job at McDonalds? Because he didn't have his PhD."
I couldn't stand the idea of going back to school. I was tired of school (starvation) and wanted to start working again. I gathered up all of my networking contacts and pressed them hard for any job available. None of them were offering jobs in geology. So I started looking in other related industries.
I figured that if I could get inside of Exxon or Shell, then I could post for internal positions when they started arriving. My foray into the petrochemical industry started with a job in a small formaldehyde plant. I was the only operator with a degree. Heck, I was the only one in the plant with more than a high school education. That experience, however, gave me an in-road into another field - industrial hygiene. I went from plant to factory performing routine studies of industrial exposure to workplace hazards.
After a few short years, I had learned enough about the field that I considered certifying as an industrial hygienist.
But I found an ad in a local newspaper that was offering a job as a well-site geologist who had industrial safety training. Because I had taught industrial safety as a hygienist, I got the job. It was a lateral move with fewer benefits and was a contract position. But it was in geology, a field I had long given up hope of getting a job.
I was eventually hired on permanently and have been here for the last 10 years. I now have more work than I can perform myself. I will have to farm the excess out to people who have more education and work experience than myself.
The point? Don't stop working just because you've graduated and can't get entry-level work in your field. The IT field will eventually shake out the deadwood and under-qualified. If you continue to keep your skills up, the day will come when your skills are not only needed, they are hard to find. This translates into greater job security than if you were to have taken the first job you could find in your field only to be laid off 8 months later.
Don't give up.
While I agree with virtually everything you have said, I still believe in having a choice.
And I do use Linux in a desktop environment.
Sorry to disappoint you.
Since the story on ESRI was rejected, I am asking all Linux scientists who use GIS systems to follow this link to take a survey in support of Linux development.
Since the story on ESRI was rejected, I am asking all Linux scientists who use GIS systems to follow this link to take a survey in support of Linux development.
Since the story on ESRI was rejected, I am asking all Linux scientists who use GIS systems to follow this link to take a survey in support of Linux development.
I think stupid slashdot comments get plenty of coverage.
Intelligent submissions rarely make the cut.
Is that the creature that Sam vanquishes by unzipping his costume?
sadly, a little grammatical mistake makes any discussion on the actual topic impossible.
How true. Which is why it is so important that editorial control be exercised by individuals who are aware of how small details can ruin an otherwise good submission.