Gotta love living in this great state of Michigan. Our governer decides to bankrupt educational funding by attempting to give every 6th grade student a laptop, then takes it away because the state goes into a huge deficit (gee, wonder why?). Yeah, give 6th graders laptops because they're responsible enough to have them, right? Now because that program (which was Granholm's "brilliant" idea to begin with) costed so much money, much of the state funding for community colleges have been cut drastically and tuition rates have skyrocketed trying to help out the deficit the public schools have. Of course now she looks like she saved the day because she's knocking out some of the state's debt by stopping the program. It'd be nice for people to actually see beyond the BS - she came up with a stupid idea (good intentions though) and it cost the state a ton of cash. Now she's cutting funding for her stupid idea because she realized she screwed up.
That should've been a clue that Michigan's "leaders" are clueless when it comes to technology and the costs involved. Now this. How in the hell does she plan on going after spammers? Will she end up attempting to convict someone who was a zombie spam host because she and the rest of Michigan's leadership are clueless?
Again, the intentions are good, but once again, not thought out at all.
Yeah, this is *exactly* what I was talking about. If you have several open proxies available to you, it would be hard for anyone to block *all* of them. I saw the program you're referring to demonstrated on TechTV about a year ago or so. It was called Internet Anonym Pro.
Because they also actively block the proxy servers maybe?
Open proxies from misconfigured servers pop up constantly all over the world. I find it hard to believe that they could block every single one. Perhaps they could block full subnets of US/CA/AU broadband providers, but that would be a bit extreme (even for China?).
Just curious, if they can't host their blogs within China, why can't they do it elsewhere? Like perhaps in the US, Australia, or Canada?
Also, if they can't *view* certain websites, what's keeping them from using a proxy (possibly an open proxy list) within their web browser to circumvent China's methods of blocking?
One would think that they can only block items for so long until their methods are circumvented. After all, where there's a will, there's always a way. Sounds like a huge cat and mouse game indeed.
I'm from the Midland, Michigan area and was with Charter for several years before I moved to a new house. I then had a chance to switch to DSL and never looked back. Here are the pros and cons of each service:
Charter: Pros:
News service - a full list of all your favorite binary newsgroups. This was great, of course, until I downloaded at the full 1.5mb for a week straight. Then they capped my download rate for newsgroups down to 256kb. Nice.
IP address - they considered it DHCP, but my IP address changed four times in three years. I call that pretty damn static.
Cons:
Downtime - about 5 full days per year.
Espensive - for the "best" service 256kb/1.5mb, $70.00 per month (about a year ago).
Speed - slower than the best DSL service - SBC is 512kb/3.0mb.
Port-blocking - want to run a Web server? Mail server? FTP server? Sorry, those ports are blocked. Non-standard ports for you, pal.
Multiple PCs - they stressed (at the time) that they didn't want you having multiple PCs behind a router (this cut into being able to sell multiple IP addresses). I was told it was against the TOS and my service could be cut off. My reply: "PFFT!"
My worst experience was just before I moved - service was out for a week and their helpdesk lines were flooded with a 2 hour wait at any given time during that week (their helpdesk staff were only there til 10:00pm at night). The reason for the service being down - they decided to change the name and IP address of their DNS servers and didn't bother to tell anyone. A simple email a week ahead of time to all of your customers explaining what was going on along with how to change the DNS IP addresses (for the noobs) and the new IP addresses would've helped! Duh!
SBC/Yahoo Pros:
Downtime - maybe 5 minutes in the last year I've been with them. All at a consistent 512kb/3.0mb.
Cheap - $36.99 per month for their fastest service which soon was $29.99 per month (I signed up earlier than the latest/greatest deal;P). Almost half as much as cable for twice the speed down and up.
Speed - fast as I need it to be really. I game quite a bit and have a web server (with lots of vacation pictures, family pictures, etc), mail server, and IRC server running 24/7.
Port-blocking - non-existant. The only thing I have ran across is sending mail using my own mail server - it's blocked because it's not part of the SBC domain (at least that's my guess). I can receive all the mail I want using my own DYNDNS forwarder. It's probably a spam blocking measure or something.
Multiple PCs - they flat out said they could care less how many PCs I have behind my router/switches. The one tech guy I talked to before I signed up for service said his friend had 20 people at a LAN party behind one SBC connection which also hosted a Q3 server available to the public. They just don't care.
Cons:
Newsgroups - they suck. No *real* binary groups (pr0n, mp3s, videos, etc). This was a tough one for me, but it was worth it.
IP address - DHCP for sure...my IP address changes at least once a week. Definitely a service you need when using SBC and DYNDNS: ez-ipupdate (or something else if you use Windows;P).
Gotta love living in this great state of Michigan. Our governer decides to bankrupt educational funding by attempting to give every 6th grade student a laptop, then takes it away because the state goes into a huge deficit (gee, wonder why?). Yeah, give 6th graders laptops because they're responsible enough to have them, right? Now because that program (which was Granholm's "brilliant" idea to begin with) costed so much money, much of the state funding for community colleges have been cut drastically and tuition rates have skyrocketed. Of course now she looks like she saved the day because she's knocking out some of the state's debt by stopping the program. It'd be nice for people to actually see beyond the BS - she came up with a stupid idea (good intentions though) and it cost the state a ton of cash. Now she's cutting funding for her stupid idea because she realized she screwed up.
That should've been a clue that Michigan's "leaders" are clueless when it comes to technology and the costs involved. Now this. How in the hell does she plan on going after spammers? Will she end up attempting to convict someone who was a zombie spam host because she and the rest of Michigan's leadership are clueless?
Again, the intentions are good, but once again, not thought out at all.
Making the accusation that I know little about Windows or Linux is simply absurd (since you don't really know me - duh), but admittedly, I know little about clustering. I was simply making an observation based on the amount of processors (or rather nodes, as I was corrected by another user;)) used as well as the possible cost of using Windows in a multiple-processor environment vs Linux. This would be yet another reason why Linux was chosen over Windows other than the first obvious reasons you sort of pointed out. I certainly wasn't expecting someone to use Windows in a huge ass cluster like that unless it was Microsoft themselves creating the cluster.
I didn't bother going any further than the top 10, but when asked by a co-worker "wow...none are running Windows and most are using Linux"...and not to sound like a total linux geek or windows basher, but none of the top 10 are running windows. Reason: Microsoft charges much more for multiple processor support for their OS.
BlueGene/L - eServer Blue Gene Solution
Livermore,
United States
Processors: 65536
It would astronomically increase the cost of the cluster. Windows 2003 Enterprise edition only handles up to 8 processors (and 32 gigs of ram), so any more than that, and you'll have to buy the OS over and over again (my assumption) - 8192 times that is... ( 65536 total processors / 8 processors per Windows install )
Read up on the Salem Witch Trials. That happened here and was one of many abuses by religious fanatics that led to the common sense realization that allowing religious entities any power in government is *always* a bad idea.
Is that the basis for seperation of church and state? I certainly didn't read that anywhere. Do you have a link to a credible source?
Commonly stated but absolutely false. It was founded based on rational humanism.
So it was based on Buddhism? Interesting.
A. Your reasoning is simple and incomplete.
B. Protestants are Christians.
A. Yeah, complete with a link to read. Apparently you didn't feel the need.
B. Dandy, but either way, there was a need to change the way things were done - we were not going to FORCE someone to believe in something (which is also underlined by freedom of religion allowing us to believe in nothing if we so choose).
They are being used as they were intended.
You have done nothing to show otherwise. All you did was take a complex subject, attempt to simplify it to a single cause and completely fail to realise that even that backed up my point totally while ignoring the many other examples that show the same thing.
The context of "seperation of church and state" has been interpreted differently more recently by paranoid fanatics that think "The Christians are out to get us!". That's my whole point and that's what you appear to be doing. "OMG! My dollar bill says "in god we trust!!1!". I mean really. That's nuts to be offended by that. I'll say it again a little more blunt at the risk of being modded as flamebait, but religion is silly to me - I don't go to church nor will I ever. I see no point in going or associating myself with any religious group, but I could give a crap less what it says on a dollar bill or what's at a courthouse (10 commandments statue, manger scene, etc). I'm not going to flip out and demand bills/coins be changed and the others burned all at my own expense (I pay to have those bills printed too via taxes) based on what a few people interpret incorrectly.
Unfortunately some of us need everything spelled out exactly just to cover every possible scenario rather than use common sense (i.e. the original context of seperation of church and state). Any law is subject to interpretation (and silly misinterpretation as well), but who gives a crap if you see a 10 commandments statue at a courthouse unless you're there a lot. Even then, who cares?? Seriously.
This does NOT mean that having the 10 commandments in the courthouse is a violation. They're not FORCING you to become a "Christian".
Yes it absolutely does. This, more than anything else I'm aware of, is a fundamental violation of the seperation of Church and state.
The reason our "founding fathers" created the seperation of church and state is because England forced religious beliefs on people and if they did not switch or start believing, they were dealt with swiftly. Read up on the War of the Roses which was one of the reasons behind the "seperation of church and state" due to Protestantism. Again, seperation of church and state does means the State cannot force you to choose a certain religion. Generally people nowadays seem to take it way out of context. I mean this country was founded on a Judeo-Christian belief system, but it was not FORCED upon ANYONE (except by extremists of course which are in any religion). Anyways, please get your facts straight (google is your friend and is referenced on Slashdot twice a day sometimes;P) before spouting "Christian brutality!". It was actually because of Protestants in England.
Do people honestly think that putting "In God We Trust" on currency is forcing people or brainwashing people to believe in a certain religion?
No, but that isn't the point. The point is that that is clearly an endorsement by the state of god.
Yeah, must be why the government only allows Christians to work for them too. Please...
Is there any reason for it?
Does it serve any potential good purpose?
Well, if your argument was based on your misconception of "seperation of church and state", I would have to say no and no.
Of course not. It is there solely because religious people wanted to shove their beliefs down other people's throats.
As I said, if you feel that "In God We Trust" is being forced down your throat, I'll be more than happy to assist you in protesting - send all your cash and coin to me, start doing direct deposit at work, and start using using a debit or credit card only. I'm certainly not arguing that forcing religion down someone's throat is a bad thing, but that was not the real debate. The debate is how the words "seperation of church and state" are being interpreted today as opposed to what they were truly based on.
"One nation, under God" is potentially the biggest violation in the seperation of church and state, and yet that violation has been brought up, and cast down. The only one that comes close are "In God We Trust" on the currency, which also has not been removed.
I wish people would realize that "Seperation of church and state" means that the state cannot force a certain religion upon you. This does NOT mean that having the 10 commandments in the courthouse is a violation. They're not FORCING you to become a "Christian".
I agree with the fact you stated above - for public schools, teachers should not expect students to participate in any class prayer no matter the religion, nor should such prayer be performed by a teacher period. However, I believe that any teacher in a public school can wear a necklace with a cross, a yamaka, or whatever they want to. It's their right just as any student has the right to wear any religious symbol they want to.
Do people honestly think that putting "In God We Trust" on currency is forcing people or brainwashing people to believe in a certain religion? Seriously. If people really believe that and are really that offended by one statement on your cash or coin, then boycott all your cash and send it to me.
Last thing - before you bash me for being one religion or another - I don't go to any church and I couldn't tell you the difference between Judism, Baptism, and being a Muslim. Seriously. I'm not a religious person at all, but dang, give this whole "Seperation of church and state" thing a rest already and read up in your history books what the original context of "seperation of church and state" actually meant.
I didn't think I'd ever see that in the same sentence.
Anyways, anything that has to do with "patent reform" that Microsoft backs really makes me leary of what this is actually all about. Are they mad because they missed the boat on a couple of "ideas" they could've scammed from someone else by patenting them first?
If, after countless reviews and endless debate, many Federal agencies are still scoring D or worse on their own evaluations, I cannot find any reason to have any confidence in their ability to secure their systems.
Ok, some agencies are scoring D or worse, but they average a D+ , so there! Put that in your pipe and smoke it! Woo!
Let's not forget the chant of the manager "Get it in email". In some companies email is also used for the Wheel of Blame, everyones favorite management technique.
Not where I work - my manager doesn't like email because it holds him accountable - therefore he prefers that "we speak to each other one-on-one versus using the 'impersonal' email system". IOW - he can always say "I never said that" rather than be held accountable by email.
Do not talk to someone on the phone. Do not talk to him face to face. Do not IM him (and hey, what IT department hasn't locked IM along with everything else down anyhow). Ask questions and expect answers in email, or do it in meetings with witnesses. Leave a paper trail and keep it documented.
Paper trails are a good thing - especially when it has to do with finances.
This sounds like cynicism, I think it is, but it's not mine. This is how many corporations appear to "work". Email is the ultimate accountability tool.
Well, I like to tell people that if you don't want to be held accountable for your actions, perhaps you shouldn't be working for this company...or at all.:)
If the artists worked together and created a different entity to replace the *AA that actually worked in the best interests of the artists, the *AA would no longer exist. It's unfortunate that the artists can't organize a little better and overthrow the dictatorship that is the *AA.
Griffin said he believes a majority of people "want to make sure that as humankind expands into space the United States is there in the forefront."
"That is why this is important," he said. "It's about where human beings go and what they do when they get there and what that means to the future of the human race."
B.S. - I agree with the above poster when they say "There's ridiculous amounts of money to be made in space...we just need to get up there...and stay up there this time."
The government is not doing this for "the greater good", but rather to fill their own pockets...and the government wants to be the first to get there to claim all that they can. They'll find one way or another to tax everything in space once they can claim it is theirs.
I would think that we'll need space exploration beyond all the glitz and glamour for our own survival. I'm not a tree-hugger or anything, but I live in a town completely polluted by a large chemical company. You can't even swim in the surrounding rivers because of dioxin warnings. Not to mention that "coincidentally" that the soft tissue cancer rate is one of the highest in the nation and much much higher than other areas in Michigan.
So yeah, I see space exploration as a necessity (colonization or the like) and not a money-maker or politician pocket-liner. Unfortunately, it is treated more like the latter.
(II) The seizing or detaining, and threatening to kill, injure, or continue to detain, another individual in order to compel a third person (including a governmental organization) to do or abstain from doing any act as an explicit or implicit condition for the release of the individual seized or detained.
So um...this kind of reminds me of detention in high school. I was seized and continued to be detained in order to compel my parents (3rd person) to get me to stop chewing gum in class. Doesn't this qualify as terrorism?
Also, now that I'm out of high school and working full time (and salaried), does overtime figure into this? I'm being seized and continued to be detained (working over) in order to compel our customers (3rd part) to do business with us. If I don't comply, I can be fired.
Yeah, I know I know, I can hear it now - "use common sense!". The problem is that people (corporations, gov't) can manipulate laws to serve their own personal needs or purpose.
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That should've been a clue that Michigan's "leaders" are clueless when it comes to technology and the costs involved. Now this. How in the hell does she plan on going after spammers? Will she end up attempting to convict someone who was a zombie spam host because she and the rest of Michigan's leadership are clueless?
Again, the intentions are good, but once again, not thought out at all.
Yeah, this is *exactly* what I was talking about. If you have several open proxies available to you, it would be hard for anyone to block *all* of them. I saw the program you're referring to demonstrated on TechTV about a year ago or so. It was called Internet Anonym Pro.
Open proxies from misconfigured servers pop up constantly all over the world. I find it hard to believe that they could block every single one. Perhaps they could block full subnets of US/CA/AU broadband providers, but that would be a bit extreme (even for China?).
Again, it's a huge cat and mouse game...
Also, if they can't *view* certain websites, what's keeping them from using a proxy (possibly an open proxy list) within their web browser to circumvent China's methods of blocking?
One would think that they can only block items for so long until their methods are circumvented. After all, where there's a will, there's always a way. Sounds like a huge cat and mouse game indeed.
Charter:
Pros:
News service - a full list of all your favorite binary newsgroups. This was great, of course, until I downloaded at the full 1.5mb for a week straight. Then they capped my download rate for newsgroups down to 256kb. Nice.
IP address - they considered it DHCP, but my IP address changed four times in three years. I call that pretty damn static.
Cons:
Downtime - about 5 full days per year.
Espensive - for the "best" service 256kb/1.5mb, $70.00 per month (about a year ago).
Speed - slower than the best DSL service - SBC is 512kb/3.0mb.
Port-blocking - want to run a Web server? Mail server? FTP server? Sorry, those ports are blocked. Non-standard ports for you, pal.
Multiple PCs - they stressed (at the time) that they didn't want you having multiple PCs behind a router (this cut into being able to sell multiple IP addresses). I was told it was against the TOS and my service could be cut off. My reply: "PFFT!"
My worst experience was just before I moved - service was out for a week and their helpdesk lines were flooded with a 2 hour wait at any given time during that week (their helpdesk staff were only there til 10:00pm at night). The reason for the service being down - they decided to change the name and IP address of their DNS servers and didn't bother to tell anyone. A simple email a week ahead of time to all of your customers explaining what was going on along with how to change the DNS IP addresses (for the noobs) and the new IP addresses would've helped! Duh!
SBC/Yahoo
Pros:
Downtime - maybe 5 minutes in the last year I've been with them. All at a consistent 512kb/3.0mb.
Cheap - $36.99 per month for their fastest service which soon was $29.99 per month (I signed up earlier than the latest/greatest deal ;P). Almost half as much as cable for twice the speed down and up.
Speed - fast as I need it to be really. I game quite a bit and have a web server (with lots of vacation pictures, family pictures, etc), mail server, and IRC server running 24/7.
Port-blocking - non-existant. The only thing I have ran across is sending mail using my own mail server - it's blocked because it's not part of the SBC domain (at least that's my guess). I can receive all the mail I want using my own DYNDNS forwarder. It's probably a spam blocking measure or something.
Multiple PCs - they flat out said they could care less how many PCs I have behind my router/switches. The one tech guy I talked to before I signed up for service said his friend had 20 people at a LAN party behind one SBC connection which also hosted a Q3 server available to the public. They just don't care.
Cons:
Newsgroups - they suck. No *real* binary groups (pr0n, mp3s, videos, etc). This was a tough one for me, but it was worth it.
IP address - DHCP for sure...my IP address changes at least once a week. Definitely a service you need when using SBC and DYNDNS: ez-ipupdate (or something else if you use Windows ;P).
That should've been a clue that Michigan's "leaders" are clueless when it comes to technology and the costs involved. Now this. How in the hell does she plan on going after spammers? Will she end up attempting to convict someone who was a zombie spam host because she and the rest of Michigan's leadership are clueless?
Again, the intentions are good, but once again, not thought out at all.
Really: If truth be told
Simple: effortless
So the truth is - they're making no efforts.
And here I thought the term "bork" was some sort of reference to the Swedish Chef. Was it just me?!
Making the accusation that I know little about Windows or Linux is simply absurd (since you don't really know me - duh), but admittedly, I know little about clustering. I was simply making an observation based on the amount of processors (or rather nodes, as I was corrected by another user ;)) used as well as the possible cost of using Windows in a multiple-processor environment vs Linux. This would be yet another reason why Linux was chosen over Windows other than the first obvious reasons you sort of pointed out. I certainly wasn't expecting someone to use Windows in a huge ass cluster like that unless it was Microsoft themselves creating the cluster.
BlueGene/L - eServer Blue Gene Solution Livermore, United States Processors: 65536
It would astronomically increase the cost of the cluster. Windows 2003 Enterprise edition only handles up to 8 processors (and 32 gigs of ram), so any more than that, and you'll have to buy the OS over and over again (my assumption) - 8192 times that is... ( 65536 total processors / 8 processors per Windows install )
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/evaluat ion/overview/enterprise.mspx
Microsoft 2003 Enterprise Server (up to 25 clients) $1,899.00 - Quick Froogle search...
8192 * $1,899.00 = $15,556,608.00
Imagine how much more you could add to your cluster for that kind of cash...
If I'm off-base or wrong in my assumptions, please correct me as this even suprised me after doing the quick research!
Time to switch again...
Ok...
Sorry, but all your Base are belong to OpenOffice.
Is that the basis for seperation of church and state? I certainly didn't read that anywhere. Do you have a link to a credible source?
Commonly stated but absolutely false. It was founded based on rational humanism.
So it was based on Buddhism? Interesting.
A. Your reasoning is simple and incomplete. B. Protestants are Christians.
A. Yeah, complete with a link to read. Apparently you didn't feel the need.
B. Dandy, but either way, there was a need to change the way things were done - we were not going to FORCE someone to believe in something (which is also underlined by freedom of religion allowing us to believe in nothing if we so choose).
They are being used as they were intended. You have done nothing to show otherwise. All you did was take a complex subject, attempt to simplify it to a single cause and completely fail to realise that even that backed up my point totally while ignoring the many other examples that show the same thing.
The context of "seperation of church and state" has been interpreted differently more recently by paranoid fanatics that think "The Christians are out to get us!". That's my whole point and that's what you appear to be doing. "OMG! My dollar bill says "in god we trust!!1!". I mean really. That's nuts to be offended by that. I'll say it again a little more blunt at the risk of being modded as flamebait, but religion is silly to me - I don't go to church nor will I ever. I see no point in going or associating myself with any religious group, but I could give a crap less what it says on a dollar bill or what's at a courthouse (10 commandments statue, manger scene, etc). I'm not going to flip out and demand bills/coins be changed and the others burned all at my own expense (I pay to have those bills printed too via taxes) based on what a few people interpret incorrectly.
Unfortunately some of us need everything spelled out exactly just to cover every possible scenario rather than use common sense (i.e. the original context of seperation of church and state). Any law is subject to interpretation (and silly misinterpretation as well), but who gives a crap if you see a 10 commandments statue at a courthouse unless you're there a lot. Even then, who cares?? Seriously.
Yes it absolutely does. This, more than anything else I'm aware of, is a fundamental violation of the seperation of Church and state.
The reason our "founding fathers" created the seperation of church and state is because England forced religious beliefs on people and if they did not switch or start believing, they were dealt with swiftly. Read up on the War of the Roses which was one of the reasons behind the "seperation of church and state" due to Protestantism. Again, seperation of church and state does means the State cannot force you to choose a certain religion. Generally people nowadays seem to take it way out of context. I mean this country was founded on a Judeo-Christian belief system, but it was not FORCED upon ANYONE (except by extremists of course which are in any religion). Anyways, please get your facts straight (google is your friend and is referenced on Slashdot twice a day sometimes ;P) before spouting "Christian brutality!". It was actually because of Protestants in England.
Do people honestly think that putting "In God We Trust" on currency is forcing people or brainwashing people to believe in a certain religion?
No, but that isn't the point. The point is that that is clearly an endorsement by the state of god.
Yeah, must be why the government only allows Christians to work for them too. Please...
Is there any reason for it? Does it serve any potential good purpose?
Well, if your argument was based on your misconception of "seperation of church and state", I would have to say no and no.
Of course not. It is there solely because religious people wanted to shove their beliefs down other people's throats.
As I said, if you feel that "In God We Trust" is being forced down your throat, I'll be more than happy to assist you in protesting - send all your cash and coin to me, start doing direct deposit at work, and start using using a debit or credit card only. I'm certainly not arguing that forcing religion down someone's throat is a bad thing, but that was not the real debate. The debate is how the words "seperation of church and state" are being interpreted today as opposed to what they were truly based on.
I wish people would realize that "Seperation of church and state" means that the state cannot force a certain religion upon you. This does NOT mean that having the 10 commandments in the courthouse is a violation. They're not FORCING you to become a "Christian".
I agree with the fact you stated above - for public schools, teachers should not expect students to participate in any class prayer no matter the religion, nor should such prayer be performed by a teacher period. However, I believe that any teacher in a public school can wear a necklace with a cross, a yamaka, or whatever they want to. It's their right just as any student has the right to wear any religious symbol they want to.
Do people honestly think that putting "In God We Trust" on currency is forcing people or brainwashing people to believe in a certain religion? Seriously. If people really believe that and are really that offended by one statement on your cash or coin, then boycott all your cash and send it to me.
Last thing - before you bash me for being one religion or another - I don't go to any church and I couldn't tell you the difference between Judism, Baptism, and being a Muslim. Seriously. I'm not a religious person at all, but dang, give this whole "Seperation of church and state" thing a rest already and read up in your history books what the original context of "seperation of church and state" actually meant.
I didn't think I'd ever see that in the same sentence.
Anyways, anything that has to do with "patent reform" that Microsoft backs really makes me leary of what this is actually all about. Are they mad because they missed the boat on a couple of "ideas" they could've scammed from someone else by patenting them first?
Ok, some agencies are scoring D or worse, but they average a D+ , so there! Put that in your pipe and smoke it! Woo!
Waitaminute...that's nothing to celebrate... :(
What's this almost stuff? I smell a stall tactic...
Not where I work - my manager doesn't like email because it holds him accountable - therefore he prefers that "we speak to each other one-on-one versus using the 'impersonal' email system". IOW - he can always say "I never said that" rather than be held accountable by email.
Do not talk to someone on the phone. Do not talk to him face to face. Do not IM him (and hey, what IT department hasn't locked IM along with everything else down anyhow). Ask questions and expect answers in email, or do it in meetings with witnesses. Leave a paper trail and keep it documented.
Paper trails are a good thing - especially when it has to do with finances.
This sounds like cynicism, I think it is, but it's not mine. This is how many corporations appear to "work". Email is the ultimate accountability tool.
Well, I like to tell people that if you don't want to be held accountable for your actions, perhaps you shouldn't be working for this company...or at all. :)
IRC Bots of less than 10 kb compressed do exist and can easily be dropped (EvilBot is a mere 7kb when compressed with UPX).
Goodbye karma...had to do it though...heh
Goodbye karma...had to do it though...
If the artists worked together and created a different entity to replace the *AA that actually worked in the best interests of the artists, the *AA would no longer exist. It's unfortunate that the artists can't organize a little better and overthrow the dictatorship that is the *AA.
"That is why this is important," he said. "It's about where human beings go and what they do when they get there and what that means to the future of the human race."
B.S. - I agree with the above poster when they say "There's ridiculous amounts of money to be made in space...we just need to get up there...and stay up there this time."
The government is not doing this for "the greater good", but rather to fill their own pockets...and the government wants to be the first to get there to claim all that they can. They'll find one way or another to tax everything in space once they can claim it is theirs.
I would think that we'll need space exploration beyond all the glitz and glamour for our own survival. I'm not a tree-hugger or anything, but I live in a town completely polluted by a large chemical company. You can't even swim in the surrounding rivers because of dioxin warnings. Not to mention that "coincidentally" that the soft tissue cancer rate is one of the highest in the nation and much much higher than other areas in Michigan.
So yeah, I see space exploration as a necessity (colonization or the like) and not a money-maker or politician pocket-liner. Unfortunately, it is treated more like the latter.
So um...this kind of reminds me of detention in high school. I was seized and continued to be detained in order to compel my parents (3rd person) to get me to stop chewing gum in class. Doesn't this qualify as terrorism?
Also, now that I'm out of high school and working full time (and salaried), does overtime figure into this? I'm being seized and continued to be detained (working over) in order to compel our customers (3rd part) to do business with us. If I don't comply, I can be fired.
Yeah, I know I know, I can hear it now - "use common sense!". The problem is that people (corporations, gov't) can manipulate laws to serve their own personal needs or purpose.