I'm sure they expected a drop in approval after putting the help calls in the hands of people who have engrish as a second language. Most people aren't honestly going to do anything about it. The approval ratings drop but it is unlikely we will see a mass migration to another computer provider. I bet the number of people who take the quality of support into buying a computer(or anything else for that matter) is insignifigant. This obviously only applies to home users, as a IT professional you damn well better take quality of support into it because thats your job.
For me, it has little affect because I build my own machines or buy apple(support with apple is IMO absolutely amazing).
The worst part of all this however is the way I get treated when I did have to talk to the dell people. They acted as though it was my fault that I couldn't understand the accent and mumbling over the ambient noise in the background. Also they just downright refused to listen when I was telling them I had already tried some of the procedures before.(apple generally believes you but asks that you do it again with a meaningless twist. this accomplishes both assuring to the tech that you have tried it without affending a tech savy user).
Now Tron completely leaves any resemblance of possibility behind and uses Sci-Fi to explore religion, creation and the meaning of life. Its probably the most philosophically deep work of science fiction IMO. I say that because there are aspects for you to consider both on the surface and buried within the fabric of the film. As far as I'm concerned it makes the Matrix seem infantile when it comes to questioning our perception of reality.
The nay-sayers will probably talk about how unrealistic it was but I wasn't aware science fiction had to be even close to reality. If you can't invoke your imagination go read the encyclopedia(if you want that in film form, perhaps I'll film myself reading it for you:)).
At the very least Tron is the best movie that explores computer science. Its portrayal of computer systems and programmers while definitely cheesy has some incredibly long lasting and far reaching influence in the films made since then.
If you are would you be interested in trading votes with me? I'll trade one vote in Connecticut for one vote in any of the swing states. Heres how it works, you vote for who I want and I vote for who you want. Heres a list of the swing states and there corresponding electoral value:
Arizona -- 10
Arkansas -- 6
Colorado -- 9
Florida -- 27
Iowa -- 7
Louisiana -- 9
Maine -- 4
Michigan -- 17
Minnesota -- 10
Missouri -- 11
Nevada -- 5
New Hampshire -- 4
New Mexico -- 5
Ohio -- 20
Oregon -- 7
Pennsylvania -- 21
Tennessee -- 11
Virginia -- 13
Washington -- 11
West Virginia -- 5
Wisconsin -- 10
My preference would be Florida, Ohio, or Pennsylvania.
I can authoritively say that an attack will come on the internet in the next 24 hours. But I am unsure how successful it will be. Aleksandr Gostev seems to think it will be highly successful but without a doubt attacks will come in the next 24 hours.
How many 'attacks'(defaced websites, DOS attacks, etc) are attempted daily, regardless of what day of the year it is? 100, 1000,10000, more? Gostev is just making a guess at the success of tomorrows attacks. Cyber terrorists indeed, the day i become afraid and terrorized because of a DOS attack or a webpage getting defaced is the day I deserve to be beaten to a bloody pulp.
Nor has it produced much of anything worthwhile. MS was not formed in the UK. Neither was SUN, Netscape, Ford, etc...
This implies that the companies you listed are worthwhile. Furthermore, the parent is right but mostly being a troll. Your point actually proves his argument. Why would a company want to be based in a country that will side with consumers over said corporation. All them companies were founded in america for a reason. Because they toss money at the US government and presidential candidates and then in turn officials/presidents look the other way while these scumbags run to the bank.
There is no way in hell I'd start a business in the UK, its too damn hard to be evil there. In america evil is encouraged/rewarded.
I was never quite sure what people were so up in arms about spam for. The only time I ever got craptons of spam was willfully so on my university e-mail account in order to fill the mail box so I could honestly say, my mailbox was closed and I didn't get that notice. What I found a ammusing was simply how other students at my school would bitch and complain about getting spam day in and day out and delete offers from the same spammers each day. Never thinking to follow the unsubsribe link or do the reply procedures.
As an endnote, after a few months of my account cripple with spam, I went through and followed the unsubcribe links for each mail that I got. Deleted them and repeated until after about 2 weeks I was no longer receiving spam(aside from the university's student announements which I considered to be the worst perpetrator of spam in existence).
I guess my point is that for the most part repeat spam shouldn't be a problem because it can be stopped. Now learning how to not subject yourself to new spam is a valuable thing. And way more useful than some filter/firewall bloat.
First off I dont know where you get off saying that I support banning or blaming large vehicles. I was never defending that stance but apparently it works better for you if I do. I said they should have special licenses. I further stated that stricter requirements for getting any drivers license would be a good idea(this is what I was refering too when i said it might have helped, the kid may have avoided the crash had he been a better driver). From now on I understand that each phrase I utter must defined in absolute literal and clear language as hoping you to infer the larger point is not possible.
It seems you have no clue what observations vs personal attacks are... I'm tired of attempting to hammer sense into someone incapable of composing arguments without personal attacks. Your continued use of them demonstrates your inability to formulate arguments. Even if I am a hypocrite as you claim, it has no benefit to your argument. I could be a liar and murderer, still does nothing to help your argument. Stick to the point or go back to argument school. Personal attacks even if true are still fallacies.
As for your claim that my saying you wanted money is a personal attack. I admit it was rather harsh, but your claim that you were saying that to demonstrate that my changes would only help those in the future...I don't buy that. I know no policy I can come up with will have a time machine like effect do you know that time machines don't exist? Again NO policy or change will help your brother. You want to help him sue. Im not saying this to discredit you(as it doesn't affect my argument in any way shape or form since its entirely irrelevent), I would just like to inform you of your options.
Your last post proves you have nothing to say. Licensing does keep bad drivers off the road. Truck drivers who get in accidents will no longer drive those large trucks. If we didn't license them they could repeatedly get into accidents. Drunk drivers in normal cars lose there licenses, now for the most part they aren't on the road(some may break the law, others get license back after a time). But someone can't repeatedly get drunk and drive around. Because we give out licenses, my 8 yr old cousin who has never driven before can't drive. I'd have to expect he is a bad driver(but he could be good) yet he isnt currently allowed to drive. But hey its obvious licensing does nothing to keep bad drivers off the road.
I'm done, reply with more personal attacks, you seem to think they help you debate your case...
If you are making less than $2000 a year, I doubt you can even read.
This shows median salaries in India based on certification. The median salary for someone with a MSCE gets $4560 a year. Getting an MSCE is way above reading.
I couldn't find any sources on secretary salaries in India, but I bet its less than that and secretaries probably need to be very proficient in reading and other office skills including computer use(but not always). India seems like a prime target for this kind of product, lots of people making less than 2k a year, who can read and are probably interested in computers.
After reading numerous references to huts and clean drinking water I figured I'd have to comment. People living in huts with no power in the back woods of africa where the drinking water is vile are not making $2000 a year. If they did make that much they could move to some country where there is power and where 2k will get them enough food/clean water. 2k is a reasonable salary in some countries, just because its nothing here we assume that 2k is nothing everywhere. 2k american dollars... I bet thats enough to survive with some left over in alot of places.
Having said that even though I think people in these places in this situation could afford it I'm not sure it will be largely successful. I do however think there will be takers.
Sure, he may end up with his license revoked (though that would probably have happened had he been driving a pickup with a standard license), but that does nothing to help my brother.
But that does nothing to help my brother.. this implies that you are looking for some solution that will help your brother, I offered my defense that we are not looking for a solution to help your brother we are looking for one to decrease the likelyhood of fatal accidents through licensing. Again want to help your brother SUE.
Well someone has a short attention span. This whole debate came as a result of the claim that it is the existence of SUVs, minivans, and Hummers that caused the kids death. Thus arguments that defend their existence certainly are neither red herrings nor strawmen.
It appears as though you apply my claim of red herring to other peoples arguments rather than mine. I was never arguing that large vehicles should be outlawed or banned. I was posing the possibility that more licensing and stricter guidelines for driving them are necessary. When posing a valid reason for using them as a mark against my argument your argument looks something like this: there is a valid reason for me to use it, therefore no licensing/special training should be required. Which is in fact a red herring.
Or we could just recognize that there will always be the possibility that we could get in an accident with a driver of a larger vehicle (actually in this instance the quality of the driver doesn't matter as the accident was the student's fault) and design our vehicles to take that into account.
I did already say that accidents will happen no matter what... In my first post..While accidents will still happen this effectively minimizes the chance of said accident. But you in your hummer on the otherhand can be as poor of a driver as you want(if you can afford the insurance costs). It appears it is you who have the short attention span.
(actually in this instance the quality of the driver doesn't matter as the accident was the student's fault)
agreed. However in my last post I posed the possibility that maybe licenses should be harder to get for everybody. In that case my solution may have helped.
One's prejudice gets really bad when one mistakes it with reality. Most bigots can at least recognize when something they percieve is based on their prejudice.
Yet another personal attack. And just like the last one completely irrelevant.
And if they do so they must be only driving a large car to compensate for their small penis size, right? Believe it or not, there are legitimate reasons to drive a large car.
Now who is building up the strawmen? I never suggested there is no reason to drive a large car, I just think people should be forced to go through more training, more licensing, and overall a more rigorous process before getting behind the wheel of one. I guess what I should have said is... It is too easy to get a normal drivers license, because it is too easy bad drivers get licensed. Bad drivers are more dangerous behind the wheel of a larger vehicle. Therefore, we should try to make sure that people who drive larger vehicles are safer.
For instance would you prefer one soccer mom carpooling half a dozen kids to practice in a minivan or half a dozen soccer moms each driving one kid to practice?
Red herring, this has nothing to do with the argument at hand, put up your smoke screens and fallacious reasoning elsewhere.
Oh I get it. I don't subscribe to your blind ideology so I must be in it for the money. Fuck you you bigoted piece of shit.
When all else fails a good personal attack will surely prove your point. But since you seem to be so angry I will provide a defense for what I said. You were seeking restitution for your brother's accident. You were not seeking to make it less likely for future dangerous accidents to take place. Restitution/revenge in our litigation society typically means "let's sue". So before you start asking about your come-upings what about making it less likely for future accidents to happen. I'd be all for a dose of it being much harder to get behind the wheel all across the board.
Sure, he may end up with his license revoked (though that would probably have happened had he been driving a pickup with a standard license)
Actually your completely wrong here. His commercial lincense would almost certainly be revoked but his standard drivers license would not for the situation you describe. Failure to maintain safe driving distances is not an offense which warrants losing your normal license. In fact, I'm pretty sure that if he had been in a pickup with a standard license, he would have the same or less points on his license than if he had been stopped for speeding.
As proof of my normal license claim my girlfriend was stopped in traffic and a car hit her vw jetta from behind without ever touching the brakes. Her car at a dead stop, the car that impacted her was doing about 65. The jaws of life were required to extract both parties from their cars. Now the person who hit her, even though displaying gross negligence and in my opinion the crash was a demonstration that shows that the driver was unfit to drive still has their license. The person was handed a ticket although I don't recall what was the charge.
There are always going to be idiots. But your suggestion that idiots to good driver ratio is the same for truck drivers(or worse) than normal licenses is moronic to say the least. Do you believe that any person could meet the requirements to get a commercial license? Most truck driving companies will not hire you in order to train and eventually help you get your commercial license if you have any points or accidents on your normal license. Even if they aren't your fault!!! That screening process right there lowers the likelyhood of an accident. Also experience with driving is a must before getting behind the wheel of a commerical truck. But the day you get your normal license you could hop behind the wheel of a hummer or other large non-commercial vehicle, drive that around and be a menace to the other drivers on the road.
Get yourself a clue, and by that I mean. Perhaps you should understand that different vehicles demand a different skillset/experience in order to drive. Hummers, big trucks, and semi trucks are among those that other drivers benefit from having licensed and more experience drivers behind the wheel. If you want immediate gratification/revenge for what he did to your brother why not go the route of litigation? Seems big monetary settlements are all people who pose your argument seem to understand.
This really excites me, Apple doesn't really ever toss a sub par product on the market, they really cant afford to with their image. And with Jobs reputation for pushing the envelope on design, I wouldn't be surprised if this tablet is a usable computer for the average person. Unlike the previous tablets which for the most part are crap despite MS predictions that they would own the market. If any tablet will redefine the way I compute, it will be an apple one.
EXCEPT semi-trailers, buses, dump trucks, garbage trucks all require(for the most part, some exceptions on dump trucks i believe) special licenses. Meanwhile any moron with a shitty driving record can get behind the wheel of a hummer and hurt someone. This renders your argument useless because in order for you to continue driving one of those large vehicles you have to be a safe driver. While accidents will still happen this effectively minimizes the chance of said accident. But you in your hummer on the otherhand can be as poor of a driver as you want(if you can afford the insurance costs).
True, but my point is that van gogh didnt say, this brush is the best above all others including the chisel. The point about paying I suppose is rather misleading, Van Gogh wouldn't pick the 'best tool' over something that did the job(in his case a painting) properly for example van gogh wouldnt pick up a special or particularly well made paint that was blue in order to paint grass when he has some lesser quality green paint sitting right there. I do disagree with your ascertion that to be a programmer is to be an artist. I am both an artist(film, photography, music) and a programmer I don't find the two to be at all alike. Art is appreciated for its esthetic value, and programs are entirely built for the functional. A program may in fact have esthetic value, but that couldn't be a sole reason for its existence.
Seeking the best tool in the land does you absolutely no good if nobody will pay you to use it.
I personally think that flame wars concerning which programming language is better are pretty useless. Honestly, I think of all the different languages as a big tool box or set of wrenchs. I'd be stupid to argue that a 5mm allen key is better than a 1/2 inch wrench. I'd also be pretty foolish to think that an adjustable wrench is a valid replacement for many wrenchs of different sizes.
My advice to programmers: Use the right tool for the job, don't force the job to comply with what you consider to be the best tool.
to creepy with racist overtones (like the person who argued that the Indians who were harassing female coworkers were just adjusting to our own culture and in their culture it was perfectly OK)
This attitude is something that I have no tolerance for, and so far I am fortunate to not have dealt with it at my job. The idea that we should turn back years of much needed social change in our country because some asshat from a sexist country comes here and desides that american women NEED to be put in their place is absolutely ridiculous.
I'm perfectly happy to tolerate/embrace the way you pray, eat, or conduct yourself privately. But when it comes to respecting women, we shouldn't be asking for it, we should be demanding it.
Bandwidth costs come to mind as one of the most important wastes. When a company(or a person like me for that matter) pays for a internet pipe they expect it to be usable for legitimate business. So when their connection is overrun with virus traffic, the service they paid for is now slowed or broken.
I think that virus writers should help pay for my cable modem and monthly service charges. Since they see fit to degrade the speed at which I can get internet content. Wouldn't you like a faster internet void of viruses?
Its high time people start to wake up and get rid of the attitude that virus writers/hackers aren't really harming anybody. Or that they don't make companies lose money. Whether you want to admit it or not, virus writing/hacking is bad and costs $$ for companys and even for you or I.
Its replacement also isn't a 'replacement' the James Webb space observatory looks at a completely different set of wave lengths. Its about as much of a replacement as a boat is a replacement for a car.
Alot of people seem to be saying how awful/useless this is and how sun is dying. Those who don't are talking about the various tech aspects that make solaris a viable thing to use. Both sides are failing to see the main reason why Sun would want to do this IMO. In order to be able to say to potential customers, look you have these architecture machines, our OS can run on them. I know that I would be much more interested in hearing some company pitch a solution if all my various architectures could be supported by one OS. My Power arch machines, my x86 machines, and of course the fancy new sparc stations they are trying to sell me could now all run solaris. I would love to hear that, I'd be say great, I can cut IT costs by having the support team worry about only one OS and the migration would be cheaper because I could reuse the expensive Power machines that we bought a few years back.
I abhor diversity when it comes to computers its just a pain in the ass. Any chance I can get to have all my equipment running the same software I'd jump at. Jon's arguments apply mostly to the business end, he isnt trying to pitch superior tech, just a superior business/IT plan.
I wonder if this machine will take into account the valid excuses for exceeding the speed limit(travelling the speed of traffic). It wouldnt be that hard to check all the cars closest to yours on the highway especially if all them things know where they are anyway and see if everyone is traveling that speed. If so then it shouldnt affect your insurance adversely.
AIDS research needs it more is what people seem to be yelling about on here. But as I said in my other post all research is most likely good. Its hard to justify that money should be taken from one bit of scientific research and given to another. If people were saying, we need to increase AIDS research budgets, lets take it from defense or nuclear arms, I'd say hell yeah, but NASA needs it just as much as AIDS research does.
People seem to think of scientific advancement like they think of pumping up skills in a video game. If we have 8 points to distribute we should put them all in strength in order to bash our enemies!!! Isn't it more the case that scientific advancement across the board is the only way to really solve any problems? My bet is that any AIDS treatment will likely depend on technology or instruments developed by NASA.
This attitude also ignores the fact that not every scientist in the US would actively want to research a cure for AIDS, I mean some of them afterall are astronomers, geologists whose interest is not directly AIDS related but in fact could inadvertently help the cure along.
Geologists could discover a mineral analysis method that would later be applied to AIDS and the search for its cure.
Astronomers have already helped, that seti@home project probably has some huge applications in all fields of scientific study. Just goes to show you that people who think we shouldn't be searching for aliens use rather infantile logic in assuming it poses no benefit for humanity if we dont find any aliens.
Taking from NASA in order to cure AIDS is more than likely going to hamper any AIDS cure rather than speed it along.
Whether it be repairing the so-called 'failing' ISS, repairing hubble, or sending up new instruments. As we struggle to keep ISS afloat through repairs, budget issues, and tons of setbacks we are obviously learning alot about how to keep that thing up there. I'm sure as stuff breaks or breaks multiple times, new things are developed to replace the faulty parts. After years and years of doing this NASA has built up alot of practical experience of keeping a piece of junk in space that can support life. Obviously hubble is more important scientificically but we shouldnt underestimate the value of excersises in engineering, maintainence, and beerocracy:). NASA has many responsibilities, learning as much as they can about keeping people alive in an old and finicky spacecraft is about as important as they come....
Everything we do in space is good... barring of course bringing the damn military and weapons into space.. that wont go well for anybody...
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oh I see he skipped bail and they pinned it on his underlings, thats about par.
For me, it has little affect because I build my own machines or buy apple(support with apple is IMO absolutely amazing).
The worst part of all this however is the way I get treated when I did have to talk to the dell people. They acted as though it was my fault that I couldn't understand the accent and mumbling over the ambient noise in the background. Also they just downright refused to listen when I was telling them I had already tried some of the procedures before.(apple generally believes you but asks that you do it again with a meaningless twist. this accomplishes both assuring to the tech that you have tried it without affending a tech savy user).
The nay-sayers will probably talk about how unrealistic it was but I wasn't aware science fiction had to be even close to reality. If you can't invoke your imagination go read the encyclopedia(if you want that in film form, perhaps I'll film myself reading it for you :)).
At the very least Tron is the best movie that explores computer science. Its portrayal of computer systems and programmers while definitely cheesy has some incredibly long lasting and far reaching influence in the films made since then.
Arizona -- 10
Arkansas -- 6
Colorado -- 9
Florida -- 27
Iowa -- 7
Louisiana -- 9
Maine -- 4
Michigan -- 17
Minnesota -- 10
Missouri -- 11
Nevada -- 5
New Hampshire -- 4
New Mexico -- 5
Ohio -- 20
Oregon -- 7
Pennsylvania -- 21
Tennessee -- 11
Virginia -- 13
Washington -- 11
West Virginia -- 5
Wisconsin -- 10
My preference would be Florida, Ohio, or Pennsylvania.
How many 'attacks'(defaced websites, DOS attacks, etc) are attempted daily, regardless of what day of the year it is? 100, 1000,10000, more? Gostev is just making a guess at the success of tomorrows attacks. Cyber terrorists indeed, the day i become afraid and terrorized because of a DOS attack or a webpage getting defaced is the day I deserve to be beaten to a bloody pulp.
This implies that the companies you listed are worthwhile. Furthermore, the parent is right but mostly being a troll. Your point actually proves his argument. Why would a company want to be based in a country that will side with consumers over said corporation. All them companies were founded in america for a reason. Because they toss money at the US government and presidential candidates and then in turn officials/presidents look the other way while these scumbags run to the bank.
There is no way in hell I'd start a business in the UK, its too damn hard to be evil there. In america evil is encouraged/rewarded.
As an endnote, after a few months of my account cripple with spam, I went through and followed the unsubcribe links for each mail that I got. Deleted them and repeated until after about 2 weeks I was no longer receiving spam(aside from the university's student announements which I considered to be the worst perpetrator of spam in existence).
I guess my point is that for the most part repeat spam shouldn't be a problem because it can be stopped. Now learning how to not subject yourself to new spam is a valuable thing. And way more useful than some filter/firewall bloat.
It seems you have no clue what observations vs personal attacks are... I'm tired of attempting to hammer sense into someone incapable of composing arguments without personal attacks. Your continued use of them demonstrates your inability to formulate arguments. Even if I am a hypocrite as you claim, it has no benefit to your argument. I could be a liar and murderer, still does nothing to help your argument. Stick to the point or go back to argument school. Personal attacks even if true are still fallacies.
As for your claim that my saying you wanted money is a personal attack. I admit it was rather harsh, but your claim that you were saying that to demonstrate that my changes would only help those in the future...I don't buy that. I know no policy I can come up with will have a time machine like effect do you know that time machines don't exist? Again NO policy or change will help your brother. You want to help him sue. Im not saying this to discredit you(as it doesn't affect my argument in any way shape or form since its entirely irrelevent), I would just like to inform you of your options.
Your last post proves you have nothing to say. Licensing does keep bad drivers off the road. Truck drivers who get in accidents will no longer drive those large trucks. If we didn't license them they could repeatedly get into accidents. Drunk drivers in normal cars lose there licenses, now for the most part they aren't on the road(some may break the law, others get license back after a time). But someone can't repeatedly get drunk and drive around. Because we give out licenses, my 8 yr old cousin who has never driven before can't drive. I'd have to expect he is a bad driver(but he could be good) yet he isnt currently allowed to drive. But hey its obvious licensing does nothing to keep bad drivers off the road.
I'm done, reply with more personal attacks, you seem to think they help you debate your case...
This shows median salaries in India based on certification. The median salary for someone with a MSCE gets $4560 a year. Getting an MSCE is way above reading.
I couldn't find any sources on secretary salaries in India, but I bet its less than that and secretaries probably need to be very proficient in reading and other office skills including computer use(but not always). India seems like a prime target for this kind of product, lots of people making less than 2k a year, who can read and are probably interested in computers.
Having said that even though I think people in these places in this situation could afford it I'm not sure it will be largely successful. I do however think there will be takers.
But that does nothing to help my brother.. this implies that you are looking for some solution that will help your brother, I offered my defense that we are not looking for a solution to help your brother we are looking for one to decrease the likelyhood of fatal accidents through licensing. Again want to help your brother SUE.
Well someone has a short attention span. This whole debate came as a result of the claim that it is the existence of SUVs, minivans, and Hummers that caused the kids death. Thus arguments that defend their existence certainly are neither red herrings nor strawmen.
It appears as though you apply my claim of red herring to other peoples arguments rather than mine. I was never arguing that large vehicles should be outlawed or banned. I was posing the possibility that more licensing and stricter guidelines for driving them are necessary. When posing a valid reason for using them as a mark against my argument your argument looks something like this: there is a valid reason for me to use it, therefore no licensing/special training should be required. Which is in fact a red herring.
Or we could just recognize that there will always be the possibility that we could get in an accident with a driver of a larger vehicle (actually in this instance the quality of the driver doesn't matter as the accident was the student's fault) and design our vehicles to take that into account.
I did already say that accidents will happen no matter what... In my first post..While accidents will still happen this effectively minimizes the chance of said accident. But you in your hummer on the otherhand can be as poor of a driver as you want(if you can afford the insurance costs). It appears it is you who have the short attention span.
(actually in this instance the quality of the driver doesn't matter as the accident was the student's fault)
agreed. However in my last post I posed the possibility that maybe licenses should be harder to get for everybody. In that case my solution may have helped.
One's prejudice gets really bad when one mistakes it with reality. Most bigots can at least recognize when something they percieve is based on their prejudice.
Yet another personal attack. And just like the last one completely irrelevant.
Now who is building up the strawmen? I never suggested there is no reason to drive a large car, I just think people should be forced to go through more training, more licensing, and overall a more rigorous process before getting behind the wheel of one. I guess what I should have said is... It is too easy to get a normal drivers license, because it is too easy bad drivers get licensed. Bad drivers are more dangerous behind the wheel of a larger vehicle. Therefore, we should try to make sure that people who drive larger vehicles are safer.
For instance would you prefer one soccer mom carpooling half a dozen kids to practice in a minivan or half a dozen soccer moms each driving one kid to practice?
Red herring, this has nothing to do with the argument at hand, put up your smoke screens and fallacious reasoning elsewhere.
Oh I get it. I don't subscribe to your blind ideology so I must be in it for the money. Fuck you you bigoted piece of shit.
When all else fails a good personal attack will surely prove your point. But since you seem to be so angry I will provide a defense for what I said. You were seeking restitution for your brother's accident. You were not seeking to make it less likely for future dangerous accidents to take place. Restitution/revenge in our litigation society typically means "let's sue". So before you start asking about your come-upings what about making it less likely for future accidents to happen. I'd be all for a dose of it being much harder to get behind the wheel all across the board.
Actually your completely wrong here. His commercial lincense would almost certainly be revoked but his standard drivers license would not for the situation you describe. Failure to maintain safe driving distances is not an offense which warrants losing your normal license. In fact, I'm pretty sure that if he had been in a pickup with a standard license, he would have the same or less points on his license than if he had been stopped for speeding.
As proof of my normal license claim my girlfriend was stopped in traffic and a car hit her vw jetta from behind without ever touching the brakes. Her car at a dead stop, the car that impacted her was doing about 65. The jaws of life were required to extract both parties from their cars. Now the person who hit her, even though displaying gross negligence and in my opinion the crash was a demonstration that shows that the driver was unfit to drive still has their license. The person was handed a ticket although I don't recall what was the charge.
There are always going to be idiots. But your suggestion that idiots to good driver ratio is the same for truck drivers(or worse) than normal licenses is moronic to say the least. Do you believe that any person could meet the requirements to get a commercial license? Most truck driving companies will not hire you in order to train and eventually help you get your commercial license if you have any points or accidents on your normal license. Even if they aren't your fault!!! That screening process right there lowers the likelyhood of an accident. Also experience with driving is a must before getting behind the wheel of a commerical truck. But the day you get your normal license you could hop behind the wheel of a hummer or other large non-commercial vehicle, drive that around and be a menace to the other drivers on the road.
Get yourself a clue, and by that I mean. Perhaps you should understand that different vehicles demand a different skillset/experience in order to drive. Hummers, big trucks, and semi trucks are among those that other drivers benefit from having licensed and more experience drivers behind the wheel. If you want immediate gratification/revenge for what he did to your brother why not go the route of litigation? Seems big monetary settlements are all people who pose your argument seem to understand.
This really excites me, Apple doesn't really ever toss a sub par product on the market, they really cant afford to with their image. And with Jobs reputation for pushing the envelope on design, I wouldn't be surprised if this tablet is a usable computer for the average person. Unlike the previous tablets which for the most part are crap despite MS predictions that they would own the market. If any tablet will redefine the way I compute, it will be an apple one.
EXCEPT semi-trailers, buses, dump trucks, garbage trucks all require(for the most part, some exceptions on dump trucks i believe) special licenses. Meanwhile any moron with a shitty driving record can get behind the wheel of a hummer and hurt someone. This renders your argument useless because in order for you to continue driving one of those large vehicles you have to be a safe driver. While accidents will still happen this effectively minimizes the chance of said accident. But you in your hummer on the otherhand can be as poor of a driver as you want(if you can afford the insurance costs).
The 'astroturfing' campaign by Darl has begun and he is utilizing the 14 year old persona.
True, but my point is that van gogh didnt say, this brush is the best above all others including the chisel. The point about paying I suppose is rather misleading, Van Gogh wouldn't pick the 'best tool' over something that did the job(in his case a painting) properly for example van gogh wouldnt pick up a special or particularly well made paint that was blue in order to paint grass when he has some lesser quality green paint sitting right there. I do disagree with your ascertion that to be a programmer is to be an artist. I am both an artist(film, photography, music) and a programmer I don't find the two to be at all alike. Art is appreciated for its esthetic value, and programs are entirely built for the functional. A program may in fact have esthetic value, but that couldn't be a sole reason for its existence.
I personally think that flame wars concerning which programming language is better are pretty useless. Honestly, I think of all the different languages as a big tool box or set of wrenchs. I'd be stupid to argue that a 5mm allen key is better than a 1/2 inch wrench. I'd also be pretty foolish to think that an adjustable wrench is a valid replacement for many wrenchs of different sizes.
My advice to programmers: Use the right tool for the job, don't force the job to comply with what you consider to be the best tool.
This attitude is something that I have no tolerance for, and so far I am fortunate to not have dealt with it at my job. The idea that we should turn back years of much needed social change in our country because some asshat from a sexist country comes here and desides that american women NEED to be put in their place is absolutely ridiculous.
I'm perfectly happy to tolerate/embrace the way you pray, eat, or conduct yourself privately. But when it comes to respecting women, we shouldn't be asking for it, we should be demanding it.
I think that virus writers should help pay for my cable modem and monthly service charges. Since they see fit to degrade the speed at which I can get internet content. Wouldn't you like a faster internet void of viruses?
Its high time people start to wake up and get rid of the attitude that virus writers/hackers aren't really harming anybody. Or that they don't make companies lose money. Whether you want to admit it or not, virus writing/hacking is bad and costs $$ for companys and even for you or I.
Its replacement also isn't a 'replacement' the James Webb space observatory looks at a completely different set of wave lengths. Its about as much of a replacement as a boat is a replacement for a car.
I abhor diversity when it comes to computers its just a pain in the ass. Any chance I can get to have all my equipment running the same software I'd jump at. Jon's arguments apply mostly to the business end, he isnt trying to pitch superior tech, just a superior business/IT plan.
I wonder if this machine will take into account the valid excuses for exceeding the speed limit(travelling the speed of traffic). It wouldnt be that hard to check all the cars closest to yours on the highway especially if all them things know where they are anyway and see if everyone is traveling that speed. If so then it shouldnt affect your insurance adversely.
People seem to think of scientific advancement like they think of pumping up skills in a video game. If we have 8 points to distribute we should put them all in strength in order to bash our enemies!!! Isn't it more the case that scientific advancement across the board is the only way to really solve any problems? My bet is that any AIDS treatment will likely depend on technology or instruments developed by NASA.
This attitude also ignores the fact that not every scientist in the US would actively want to research a cure for AIDS, I mean some of them afterall are astronomers, geologists whose interest is not directly AIDS related but in fact could inadvertently help the cure along.
Geologists could discover a mineral analysis method that would later be applied to AIDS and the search for its cure.
Astronomers have already helped, that seti@home project probably has some huge applications in all fields of scientific study. Just goes to show you that people who think we shouldn't be searching for aliens use rather infantile logic in assuming it poses no benefit for humanity if we dont find any aliens.
Taking from NASA in order to cure AIDS is more than likely going to hamper any AIDS cure rather than speed it along.
Everything we do in space is good... barring of course bringing the damn military and weapons into space.. that wont go well for anybody...