"back in the day" as a developer I routinely worked 60 hour weeks. Some of us worked 80-100. Very little of that was slack - we were in constant "panic mode"
So, would you say that working 80 hours a week turns out twice the work -- of the same quality -- that working 40 hours a week does? I would bet that the extra time in "panic mode" was put in to appease managers, etc., and was not nearly the calliber of work that could be done by more relaxed employees. If your job stresses you to the point that your marriage falls apart, your on-the-job performance is probably also suffering. The 80-hour week may not be a myth, but the productive 80-hour week -- week after week -- certainly is.
A quick trip to Google tells us that oxygen has a molecular weight of (roughly) 16.
That's the average atomic weight of Oxygen. We breathe O2, which has a molecular weight of 32. As another reply mentioned, a mole of any gas at STP is 22.4L. So 9g of oxygen is 9/32 * 22.4 L, or 6.2 L.
20% O2 is nice and breathable, so you could make 5x as much air by using "recyclable" nitrogen as filler. That would be over 30L of air from 9g of oxygen.
Actually, power lies with guns (as it always has), whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive that it is the Duty of the People to alter or abolish it.
You're an idiot, and this is just an assaninely stupid statement.
I think the commenter was using the word guns metaphorically. The statement "power lies with guns", would therefore mean that power comes from the threat of force, whether with machete, rifle, ICBM or hand phaser, or more generally with the police and military.
If I'm wrong, and it was meant literally, I trust the original poster will correct me.
Second, it doesn't follow that just because you're working outside of the state that you aren't making use of the state's resources. Ever wonder why so many businesses are located in Manhatten? Its not because of the low-low prices of real-estate.
I may have eaten a Georgia peach, a Florida Tangerine, a Texas Grapefruit and a California orange today. Not to mention the Oklahoma oil and a car from Michigan. So I guess that one could argue that I'm using those states' resources, too, but please don't. I really don't want to pay state income tax to 48 states I don't work in whose "resources" I indirectly use.
As for Wired news posting this info, I am sure others have thought this, and maybe some have said it, but it's worth saying again: DOWNLOAD AND ARCHIVE the Wired info! This way it can't be "disappeared" in a "server accident"..
May I see your "DOWNLOAD AND ARCHIVE", and suggest that some also "SHARE" the document as well? Fire up your guntellas and torrents and whatever the kids are using today and get that out there for everyone. Then we can say "p2p == Freedom".
Sorry to intevene here, sir, but I need to put forward a very important issue. Are the body counts of Stalin and Hitler adequately described by integers?
A body count can be described by integers, its a number of bodies that can be counted.
Of course the total human cost is far greater than the sum of those dead, injured, and scarred. And since you might say a human life is of infinite value to an individual and his/her friends, family and community, then any number times infinity is still infinite.
But it does matter. There are "ordinary" homicidal psychos who may kill people by the tens, affecting the lives of hundreds and thousands. And as terrible as that is, it is even worse when homicide is practiced on a global scale, and the numbers are in the tens of millions killed and billions harmed by the loss. Not because you can quantify the loss, but because you can't.
I realize that you are pointing out the accent-thing to (Texas vs. Georgia) to compare Bush to Stalin. But honestly, isn't that a bit of a stretch? They didn't have the same tailor, either. And Bush is clean-shaven.
Bush may not be an exact reincarnation of either Hiter or Stalin but still be a political danger. Some of the more important similarities are the methods used to consolidate power, including methods used by their movements. E.g. 9/11 and the Reichstag Fire. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire
Or maybe scapegoating: the Christian Nationalist movement has been vilifying homosexuals in order to unify their base and draw in other fundamentalists. Previously, Southern Baptists focused their hatred on Jews and Blacks and Catholics. But this was counterproductive to expanding the movement -- there are a lot of very right-wing Catholics in the USA, excluding them limits the growth and power of the movement. Focusing on a smaller minority is a good political move for them, and the Chancellor would be proud.
Hitler and Stalin were both evil. But investing and consolidating power in their executive positions was what really enabled them to do serious harm on a global scale. And that is what we have to defend against today, not just against W, but any potential incumbent of the White House.
That's the truth. I think the real problem is the "Testing cop-out". You get users of any kind of application -- open source, proprietary in-house, off-the-shelf shrinkwrapped -- and nobody wants to get the latest build and test and verify that the bug they wanted fixed really is fixed. Even bug tracking software doesn't fix this fundamental problem: no one wants to own the bug they report.
For better or worse, there really isn't a real "Right to Privacy" in the Constitution.
I heard Pat Roberts (chair of Sen. Intel. Ctte.) on the radio this morning, being quoted as saying that some secrets need to be kept secret despite people's desire to know. So it's good to hear that the government does value some privacy. Just not yours.
They then have to face the consequences of their actions.
By consequences, do you mean we give them some sort of recognition for risking their careers (and more) for the greater good of preserving our Constitutional system of government?
No administration has ever used the intelligence community for partisan poltical gain to the extent that the current one has. None..
Not to nitpick, but this is not unprecedented. Nixon's administration used the intelligence community for exactly this purpose. But then again, Nixon wasun-presidented.
Divulging classified information is not "whistleblowing", no matter how you look at it. There are policies in place to report corruption or illegal activities in regards to classifired material. Leaking the info to reporters is not one of those procedures.
I don't think you're naive, so you're being disingenuous. For one thing, you can't blow the whistle on your boss to your boss. When your boss is the one perpetrating the corruption, you need to go outside the system. If the president can declare anything "classified" for purposes of hiding corruption, the there is no "legitimate" way of reporting the corruption.
Whether or not a program is illegal or unconstittutional, leakers have to expect to take a hit.
This is a particularly misleading argument. You are placing an "oath of secrecy" above the oath to uphold the constitution. If there is no Constitution, there is no America in the sense that we know it.
The whole "lives are at stake" argument is also misplaced. Lives have already been lost. You are writing about taking concrete action to prevent theoretical harm when actual harm has already been done. Crimes have been committed, some known and some unknown. My country's standing in the world has been diminished. If the "procedures" you speak of had been followed by the men in charge in the first place, we wouldn't be in this mess now.
I should NEVER need to open a console (How often do Windows Users need cmd.exe?)
If you move your windoze computer around between networks (without powering down), you're gonna need that command line to run ipconfig. I haven't found any reliable GUI way to tell windows to release/renew DHCP lease. Reboot, I guess.
There's this guy named Jack, and he has a girlfriend named Wendy. Jack loves Wendy a lot. To prove how much he loves her, he gets "Wendy" tattooed on his penis. When it's erect, it says her name, and when deflated, it reads "Wy". So, when she sees her name on his masculine member, she is overwhelmed.
He pops the question, and she accepts. So Jack and Wendy decided to go to Jamaica for their honeymoon. Once there, they try out all the local
culture,including a nude beach. They are having a great time, when Jack decides to get up from sunbathing and get something to drink at the beach
bar.
He walks over to the bar with his deflated love muscle, trying not to let his eyes wander and end up embarrassing himself. He orders a drink from
the guy at the bar, who is also naked. He is surprised to note that the bartender also has "Wy" tattooed on his penis!
Jack says to the guy, "Wow, what a coincidence. So, you have a girlfriend named 'Wendy' and her name is tattooed on your dick too?"
The bartender looks slowly down at Jack's thing, back to his and starts laughing. Flashing a wide grin, he says, "No, mon. Mine says 'Welcome to Jamaica - land of sun and rum. Have a nice day.'
You can impeach a president, but you can't arrest him.
Why not? I don't see anything in the constitution about not arresting the president. I'm pretty much counting on that to restore my faith in this government. I'm not, however, counting on my faith being restored. In the meantime, I'll be voting for acquittal in any jury I serve on.
Why the fsck should *everyone* provide fingerprints to their government?
We shouldn't. Mandatory submitting samples of anything is self-incrimination, and that's protected by the 5th Amendment. I don't care what the Supremes have to say about it. What right do I have to interpret the constitution? I just decided that I'm the decider. So I make those decisions.
Whenever the subject of obeying the law comes up, I just ask myself: "What would the president do?"
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So, would you say that working 80 hours a week turns out twice the work -- of the same quality -- that working 40 hours a week does? I would bet that the extra time in "panic mode" was put in to appease managers, etc., and was not nearly the calliber of work that could be done by more relaxed employees. If your job stresses you to the point that your marriage falls apart, your on-the-job performance is probably also suffering. The 80-hour week may not be a myth, but the productive 80-hour week -- week after week -- certainly is.
That is the perfect example of the "Anger at Slackers" discussed in the program.
That's the average atomic weight of Oxygen. We breathe O2, which has a molecular weight of 32. As another reply mentioned, a mole of any gas at STP is 22.4L. So 9g of oxygen is 9/32 * 22.4 L, or 6.2 L.
20% O2 is nice and breathable, so you could make 5x as much air by using "recyclable" nitrogen as filler. That would be over 30L of air from 9g of oxygen.
I think the commenter was using the word guns metaphorically. The statement "power lies with guns", would therefore mean that power comes from the threat of force, whether with machete, rifle, ICBM or hand phaser, or more generally with the police and military.
If I'm wrong, and it was meant literally, I trust the original poster will correct me.
X-10 the protocol is not bad tech. The company that DBA X10 is another story -- perhaps "25 Most Obnoxious Tech Advertisers".
I think the in-car phonograph beats that.
I may have eaten a Georgia peach, a Florida Tangerine, a Texas Grapefruit and a California orange today. Not to mention the Oklahoma oil and a car from Michigan. So I guess that one could argue that I'm using those states' resources, too, but please don't. I really don't want to pay state income tax to 48 states I don't work in whose "resources" I indirectly use.
So, to follow your reasoning . . .
You could be charged with murder whether or not someone died.You would be "DUI" even if not driving under the influence of anything.
This sentence is written in Chinese.
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Your argument is brilliant.
May I see your "DOWNLOAD AND ARCHIVE", and suggest that some also "SHARE" the document as well? Fire up your guntellas and torrents and whatever the kids are using today and get that out there for everyone. Then we can say "p2p == Freedom".
A body count can be described by integers, its a number of bodies that can be counted.
Of course the total human cost is far greater than the sum of those dead, injured, and scarred. And since you might say a human life is of infinite value to an individual and his/her friends, family and community, then any number times infinity is still infinite.
But it does matter. There are "ordinary" homicidal psychos who may kill people by the tens, affecting the lives of hundreds and thousands. And as terrible as that is, it is even worse when homicide is practiced on a global scale, and the numbers are in the tens of millions killed and billions harmed by the loss. Not because you can quantify the loss, but because you can't.
Bush may not be an exact reincarnation of either Hiter or Stalin but still be a political danger. Some of the more important similarities are the methods used to consolidate power, including methods used by their movements. E.g. 9/11 and the Reichstag Fire. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire
Or maybe scapegoating: the Christian Nationalist movement has been vilifying homosexuals in order to unify their base and draw in other fundamentalists. Previously, Southern Baptists focused their hatred on Jews and Blacks and Catholics. But this was counterproductive to expanding the movement -- there are a lot of very right-wing Catholics in the USA, excluding them limits the growth and power of the movement. Focusing on a smaller minority is a good political move for them, and the Chancellor would be proud.
Hitler and Stalin were both evil. But investing and consolidating power in their executive positions was what really enabled them to do serious harm on a global scale. And that is what we have to defend against today, not just against W, but any potential incumbent of the White House.
That's the truth. I think the real problem is the "Testing cop-out". You get users of any kind of application -- open source, proprietary in-house, off-the-shelf shrinkwrapped -- and nobody wants to get the latest build and test and verify that the bug they wanted fixed really is fixed. Even bug tracking software doesn't fix this fundamental problem: no one wants to own the bug they report.
-The Simpsons
"The New Kid on the Block"
http://www.snpp.com/episodes/9F06.html
I heard Pat Roberts (chair of Sen. Intel. Ctte.) on the radio this morning, being quoted as saying that some secrets need to be kept secret despite people's desire to know. So it's good to hear that the government does value some privacy. Just not yours.
By consequences, do you mean we give them some sort of recognition for risking their careers (and more) for the greater good of preserving our Constitutional system of government?
Not to nitpick, but this is not unprecedented. Nixon's administration used the intelligence community for exactly this purpose. But then again, Nixon was un-presidented.
I don't think you're naive, so you're being disingenuous. For one thing, you can't blow the whistle on your boss to your boss. When your boss is the one perpetrating the corruption, you need to go outside the system. If the president can declare anything "classified" for purposes of hiding corruption, the there is no "legitimate" way of reporting the corruption.
Whether or not a program is illegal or unconstittutional, leakers have to expect to take a hit.
This is a particularly misleading argument. You are placing an "oath of secrecy" above the oath to uphold the constitution. If there is no Constitution, there is no America in the sense that we know it.
The whole "lives are at stake" argument is also misplaced. Lives have already been lost. You are writing about taking concrete action to prevent theoretical harm when actual harm has already been done. Crimes have been committed, some known and some unknown. My country's standing in the world has been diminished. If the "procedures" you speak of had been followed by the men in charge in the first place, we wouldn't be in this mess now.
I must agree with Winston Churchill: that is a practice up with which I will not put.
A simile is like a metaphor.
If you move your windoze computer around between networks (without powering down), you're gonna need that command line to run ipconfig. I haven't found any reliable GUI way to tell windows to release/renew DHCP lease. Reboot, I guess.
There's this guy named Jack, and he has a girlfriend named Wendy. Jack loves Wendy a lot. To prove how much he loves her, he gets "Wendy" tattooed on his penis. When it's erect, it says her name, and when deflated, it reads "Wy". So, when she sees her name on his masculine member, she is overwhelmed.
He pops the question, and she accepts. So Jack and Wendy decided to go to Jamaica for their honeymoon. Once there, they try out all the local culture,including a nude beach. They are having a great time, when Jack decides to get up from sunbathing and get something to drink at the beach bar.
He walks over to the bar with his deflated love muscle, trying not to let his eyes wander and end up embarrassing himself. He orders a drink from the guy at the bar, who is also naked. He is surprised to note that the bartender also has "Wy" tattooed on his penis!
Jack says to the guy, "Wow, what a coincidence. So, you have a girlfriend named 'Wendy' and her name is tattooed on your dick too?"
The bartender looks slowly down at Jack's thing, back to his and starts laughing. Flashing a wide grin, he says, "No, mon. Mine says 'Welcome to Jamaica - land of sun and rum. Have a nice day.'
Why not? I don't see anything in the constitution about not arresting the president. I'm pretty much counting on that to restore my faith in this government. I'm not, however, counting on my faith being restored. In the meantime, I'll be voting for acquittal in any jury I serve on.
You're up to three hands, man.
Because they say they do? Well I say they don't. How can they say they're right and I'm wrong? Oh yeah, the violence.
We shouldn't. Mandatory submitting samples of anything is self-incrimination, and that's protected by the 5th Amendment. I don't care what the Supremes have to say about it. What right do I have to interpret the constitution? I just decided that I'm the decider. So I make those decisions.
Whenever the subject of obeying the law comes up, I just ask myself: "What would the president do?"