The article says it is only in some issues of Forbes, undoubtedly tied to CIO type subscribers. Still, I think it's pretty cool. 3 hours on a charge, etc. It would be awesome if some people with hardware expertise could get one to experiment on. Or find out it is running linux inside.;)
Well yes it does make you a hate non thinking loon. If the debt were so important, where the FUCK were you before we invaded Iraq? Or passed Medicare Schedule D, otherwise known as that massive giveaway to big pharma?
Why it is republicans are only concerned about the debt when democrats are in charge? When the GOP is in charge, you get massive bloat and spending.
That's one philosophy, but on the other hand I don't see how the needs of a modern 21st century superpower can be handled by a confederacy. Hell, a confederacy didn't work the other 2 times it was tried so I think it belongs in the shitpile of history.
there is no excuse that for example kerry is giving 250 MILLION to eqypt, while we have issues at home.
And I'd say there's no excuse subsidizing corporate American at 10's of billions when we have issues at home. 250 million? That's roundoff in what multinationals avoid paying in taxes.
You have got to be kidding, or have your head all the way up your ass. The GOP is the party that refuses to compromise in this round of budget cuts. I don't understand how republitards are complaining about government cutbacks. Numerous GOP politicians, all retards but still, have claimed the government doesn't create jobs anyway. They're the ones constantly complaining about bloat. Well dumbfucks, this is what things would look like in the world you want to have.
The same number of dollars could have been cut from specific programs in a way that would have had no noticeable impact on critical and important services. Instead, they chose to impact vital services in order to send a message to the public:
Everybody's idea of important services differ, that's the whole problem. And besides, I thought the government was a giant waste that impeded the awesomeness of the free market? Well here's a time for businesses to step the fuck up and show us how totally great things would be if they'd weren't so restrained.
Seriously, what innovation comes out of Open Source?
The biggest innovation out of Open Source, for me, was the bootable "live" CD. The ability to run a modern OS entirely off a CD/DVD and RAM, without installing anything to the harddrive - had all kinds of uses, from emergency recovery disks, to hardware diagnostics, to privacy, etc. And even today, 10 years or more later, Microsoft has some partial solution (Windows to Go, just recently released).
I can't think of anything else off the top of my head at the moment - which doesn't mean there was anything else, just my memory is bad;) - but I'd put the live CD open source innovation way up there. It's easily far, far superior than anything innovated in Vista, 7, 8, etc.
Segura attempted to steal third base too early, before the pitcher delivered the ball. Thus when Braun and Segura both wound up on 2nd, only Braun was out - Segura's attempted steal wasn't legit (Segura should never have left the base) therefore Braun's position was invalid and he was tagged. I think had Segura waited he would have been tagged out, since if his steal attempt was legit then Braun's position was fine and Segura would have been invalid.
Anyway, while going back to the dugout he realized he wasn't out, and apparently there is an loophole in the rules which allowed his to then run to the closest available base to be safe, which happened to be first.
How can people be so wishy-washy about this? A couple of complete assholes have just ruined hundreds of peoples' lives, and people feel conflicted about the manhunt that ended in their death and arrest?
Yes, this is the challenge the U.S. faces; how to govern when half the population are anti-government retards. A further problem is some of the politicians are also retards. Look at Sen. Lindsey Graham. Apparently the right to a trial, right for no cruel and unusual punishment, etc. doesn't exist. But shit, asking to pass a background check before buying an assault weapon - that TYRANNY!! Fucking moron.
Right, so the correct response was to ignore the fact a bombing suspect is on the loose and let mass transit operate normally and people go about their usual business?
It's easy to pontificate when you're safe; something tells me if you or Bruce Schneier were in that area of Boston, you wouldn't be insisting on roaming freely.
Dealing with crap like this is one of the reasons Dell wants to take his company private. He'll have the freedom/ability to act as he sees fit without dealing with shareholder lawsuits at every turn.
Here, are you serious? People skip right over the deaths to complain about their possible future loss of rights. I guess that's easy to complain about in a basement away from risk.
Please, there is plenty of conservative doublespeak too. Hell, just look at them talking about the government - it's incompetent and a waste, except the intel agencies which are all omniscient with information on everything, and they chose what tragedies to let through to strengthen their bureaucracies.
Which is kinda sad that at this point, nobody gives a crap about criminals anymore. Straight to complaints about possible future infringement of rights. It's almost as if nobody cares there were victims, or criminals, but damn another background check would be totally unacceptable.
I increasingly am of the opinion those officials aren't taking a long-enough view to see how their individual actions may affect the nation in the long run. Too often they are so focused on their immediate goal - be it the reduction of crime through semi-legal tactics, ensuring one's agency's budget next year by misallocating funds this year, or improving one's standings in the polls - that they sacrifice the bigger picture, and people are getting hurt because of it. They overlook little evils to pursue what they hope is a good goal, forgetting that not only don't the ends don't justify the means; but that the end itself can become unexpectedly corrupted by those methods.
Or substitute "corporations/wealthy" for "officials", "reduction of crime" for "tax avoidance", etc. and it kinda reads the same too.
Sure it was - Congress approves a budget (or we get a continuing resolution) and a portion goes to the DoD and intelligence agencies. Were you under the impression Congress dips down and approves every line item in every agency and sub-agency budget?
When AT&T openly colludes with the NSA to pass all traffic to the NSA it's not just AT&T that loses my respect.
Well at least you recognize the substantial corporate cooperation required here. It wasn't just presidential orders (Bush/Cheney) at work here, private corporations had to cooperate. Not sure what the libertarian/free-market hive mind makes of that; most seem to want to conveniently forget about that part of the involvement.
Or is it violating said liberties and privacy that's their Job One?
Their two missions are: signals intelligence (gathering foreign info), and information assurance (protecting some government systems). Violating liberties/privacy isn't either one. As far as the warrantless wiretapping... they did what the administration ordered them too (that was Bush/Cheney if your memory is foggy). Basically, elect better Presidents if that's the overriding concern.
GS-9 is near starting level. I was hired the same time as a guy with 3 years out of college, and he was brought in as a 9.
considering someone with a similar education could earn 90-100k in private industry.
Yes, but with 3 years out of school AND in the Utah area? If you live/work in the Bay Area your perspective on tech salaries is skewed.
Sure, it's better than most people in Utah make, but by no means "good" pay by any objective metric.
Better than most people Utah IS the metric of the local market. Objective metric? WTF, did God write down salary tables for the whole world to adhere to?
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Whoever modded parent insightful can't do math either.
The irony is delicious...
11 Billion barrels is 11,000 Million. 11,000 Million / 19 Million per Month = 579 Months = 48 Years
You somehow translated 19 million barrels per day into 19 million barrels per month. So you are the one off by a factor of 30.
579 months / 30 = ~19 months, right around what the GP said.
And, a quick google seems to confirm these numbers (~19 million barrels per day): http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=33&t=6
Haha, well I thought the free market was the savior and one true holy way to organize everything. Just let them settle it that way, bid it out.
The article says it is only in some issues of Forbes, undoubtedly tied to CIO type subscribers. ;)
Still, I think it's pretty cool. 3 hours on a charge, etc. It would be awesome if some people with hardware expertise could get one to experiment on. Or find out it is running linux inside.
Well yes it does make you a hate non thinking loon. If the debt were so important, where the FUCK were you before we invaded Iraq? Or passed Medicare Schedule D, otherwise known as that massive giveaway to big pharma?
Why it is republicans are only concerned about the debt when democrats are in charge? When the GOP is in charge, you get massive bloat and spending.
Just imagine the trillions we would have if the previous dumbass administration didn't commit fraud and take us into Iraq in the first place.
That's one philosophy, but on the other hand I don't see how the needs of a modern 21st century superpower can be handled by a confederacy. Hell, a confederacy didn't work the other 2 times it was tried so I think it belongs in the shitpile of history.
Once upon a time there was no TSA, until 9/11. Airlines COULD HAVE demanded they take over funding for security, but did you see that happen?
there is no excuse that for example kerry is giving 250 MILLION to eqypt, while we have issues at home.
And I'd say there's no excuse subsidizing corporate American at 10's of billions when we have issues at home.
250 million? That's roundoff in what multinationals avoid paying in taxes.
You have got to be kidding, or have your head all the way up your ass. The GOP is the party that refuses to compromise in this round of budget cuts.
I don't understand how republitards are complaining about government cutbacks. Numerous GOP politicians, all retards but still, have claimed the government doesn't create jobs anyway. They're the ones constantly complaining about bloat. Well dumbfucks, this is what things would look like in the world you want to have.
The same number of dollars could have been cut from specific programs in a way that would have had no noticeable impact on critical and important services. Instead, they chose to impact vital services in order to send a message to the public:
Everybody's idea of important services differ, that's the whole problem.
And besides, I thought the government was a giant waste that impeded the awesomeness of the free market? Well here's a time for businesses to step the fuck up and show us how totally great things would be if they'd weren't so restrained.
Seriously, what innovation comes out of Open Source?
The biggest innovation out of Open Source, for me, was the bootable "live" CD. The ability to run a modern OS entirely off a CD/DVD and RAM, without installing anything to the harddrive - had all kinds of uses, from emergency recovery disks, to hardware diagnostics, to privacy, etc. And even today, 10 years or more later, Microsoft has some partial solution (Windows to Go, just recently released).
I can't think of anything else off the top of my head at the moment - which doesn't mean there was anything else, just my memory is bad ;) - but I'd put the live CD open source innovation way up there. It's easily far, far superior than anything innovated in Vista, 7, 8, etc.
Segura attempted to steal third base too early, before the pitcher delivered the ball. Thus when Braun and Segura both wound up on 2nd, only Braun was out - Segura's attempted steal wasn't legit (Segura should never have left the base) therefore Braun's position was invalid and he was tagged. I think had Segura waited he would have been tagged out, since if his steal attempt was legit then Braun's position was fine and Segura would have been invalid.
Anyway, while going back to the dugout he realized he wasn't out, and apparently there is an loophole in the rules which allowed his to then run to the closest available base to be safe, which happened to be first.
How can people be so wishy-washy about this? A couple of complete assholes have just ruined hundreds of peoples' lives, and people feel conflicted about the manhunt that ended in their death and arrest?
Yes, this is the challenge the U.S. faces; how to govern when half the population are anti-government retards.
A further problem is some of the politicians are also retards. Look at Sen. Lindsey Graham. Apparently the right to a trial, right for no cruel and unusual punishment, etc. doesn't exist. But shit, asking to pass a background check before buying an assault weapon - that TYRANNY!! Fucking moron.
If they had let people out earlier would he have been found earlier?
Or he might have been healthy enough to kill the owner of the boat when he went to look at the tarp.
Funny thing is if they had waited until night to lift the ban he might have slipped away.
Or he might have bled to death.
Isn't the stupid speculation, what-if armchair quarterbacking fun to do?
Are you seriously calling Law Enforcement 'trained professionals'? Lately, some of the arrests/videos/incidents I have seen
And what percentage of all arrests in the entire country are these example a portion of? Compared to what percentage of civilian shooting?
Right, so the correct response was to ignore the fact a bombing suspect is on the loose and let mass transit operate normally and people go about their usual business?
It's easy to pontificate when you're safe; something tells me if you or Bruce Schneier were in that area of Boston, you wouldn't be insisting on roaming freely.
Dealing with crap like this is one of the reasons Dell wants to take his company private. He'll have the freedom/ability to act as he sees fit without dealing with shareholder lawsuits at every turn.
sense of decency
Here, are you serious? People skip right over the deaths to complain about their possible future loss of rights.
I guess that's easy to complain about in a basement away from risk.
Please, there is plenty of conservative doublespeak too. Hell, just look at them talking about the government - it's incompetent and a waste, except the intel agencies which are all omniscient with information on everything, and they chose what tragedies to let through to strengthen their bureaucracies.
Which is kinda sad that at this point, nobody gives a crap about criminals anymore. Straight to complaints about possible future infringement of rights. It's almost as if nobody cares there were victims, or criminals, but damn another background check would be totally unacceptable.
I increasingly am of the opinion those officials aren't taking a long-enough view to see how their individual actions may affect the nation in the long run. Too often they are so focused on their immediate goal - be it the reduction of crime through semi-legal tactics, ensuring one's agency's budget next year by misallocating funds this year, or improving one's standings in the polls - that they sacrifice the bigger picture, and people are getting hurt because of it. They overlook little evils to pursue what they hope is a good goal, forgetting that not only don't the ends don't justify the means; but that the end itself can become unexpectedly corrupted by those methods.
Or substitute "corporations/wealthy" for "officials", "reduction of crime" for "tax avoidance", etc. and it kinda reads the same too.
Sure it was - Congress approves a budget (or we get a continuing resolution) and a portion goes to the DoD and intelligence agencies.
Were you under the impression Congress dips down and approves every line item in every agency and sub-agency budget?
When AT&T openly colludes with the NSA to pass all traffic to the NSA it's not just AT&T that loses my respect.
Well at least you recognize the substantial corporate cooperation required here. It wasn't just presidential orders (Bush/Cheney) at work here, private corporations had to cooperate. Not sure what the libertarian/free-market hive mind makes of that; most seem to want to conveniently forget about that part of the involvement.
Or is it violating said liberties and privacy that's their Job One?
Their two missions are: signals intelligence (gathering foreign info), and information assurance (protecting some government systems). Violating liberties/privacy isn't either one. As far as the warrantless wiretapping... they did what the administration ordered them too (that was Bush/Cheney if your memory is foggy). Basically, elect better Presidents if that's the overriding concern.
GS-9 is near starting level. I was hired the same time as a guy with 3 years out of college, and he was brought in as a 9.
considering someone with a similar education could earn 90-100k in private industry.
Yes, but with 3 years out of school AND in the Utah area? If you live/work in the Bay Area your perspective on tech salaries is skewed.
Sure, it's better than most people in Utah make, but by no means "good" pay by any objective metric.
Better than most people Utah IS the metric of the local market. Objective metric? WTF, did God write down salary tables for the whole world to adhere to?