If by "turned the cameras on and stepped back" you mean "sent an army of investigators to BFE, Alaska to partake in the largest muckraking and personal attack smear machine in a generation," then I agree with you. Where were all of the reporters crawling all over Chicago asking the tough questions about Obama's unlikely meteoric rise from obscurity to prominence in the most politically-corrupt city outside Washington, D.C.?
Nowhere, because the media already knew about Obama. However, Palin was a total unknown and information needed to be gathered.
Where were all of the pop culture celebrity hit pieces against Michelle and the girls? Why was The Messiah's family off-limits, but it was open-season on the Palins?
Palin and her family was an easier target. Besides, I remember a few things going against Michelle, anyway. The whole country and respect statement she made was shouted by the rooftops for days on end.
Go ahead and have the false feeling of a downtrodden minority somewhere else.
Fair enough, I work for a City government and know the public can request my e-mails, Internet history, etc., so I am more wondering if these applications become searchable, requestable public record.
That would be beautiful. I can't wait to see the day when sunshine requests aren't even necessary because it's all already provided over teh intarwebs. Though, maybe just a lofty goal for transparency advocates.
And the greatest thing the totalitarian, racist and violent political ideology called "catholicism" ever did was convince people it's a religion. Said ideology controls a few dozen states at least, and it does so through oppression, killings and war (which is why it's fundamentally incompatible with democracy).
but can there editors be used from within the web browser embedded into a site so that it can be modified from any computer the owner is working at?
once this is built into the browsers it could be used to created an editor such as this without the need to reverse engineer or license junk
This was actually Berners-Lee's original intent. If I recall, the first browser he built specifically had this functionality. However, the uptake wasn't that good when Mosiac came out and it kind of fell into an obscure thought(until wikis).
And we already have this. First you have committees fool around with the bills, then congress does their whole amendment junk(or line items if you will), then it goes for a final vote. This process you describe already goes down.
The kind of line item you imagine might allow the executive branch to change the meaning of a law which disallowed a specific act/event into one that specifically required that same act/event.
Thats why I wanted a congressional line-item-veto type thing. Where rather than voting for Bill number 2323, they would vote on bill number 2323 item 1, if that passes than the one item becomes law without the bill going to the congressional equivalent to development hell.
We have something like that. It's called bills. Instead of having another level of abstraction, get back to putting these 'items' into separate bills. Your idea wouldn't change a thing.
references please. I'd love it if such a study really existed.
There are lots of different studies in different cancer arenas that all seem to come to similar conclusions. That ingredients in marijuana stifle or kill cancer.
Ok, when you live in a smaller town with a local newspaper (think population below 10k people) the one thing they like to fill the pages with is local and county police reports. In there you find SIGNIFICANT numbers of traffic stops and arrests involving people driving high on marijuana. Now, if it's happening at that rate in a small town then what do you think is happening in the big cities?
I generally agree but need to nitpick on one thing. Small towns kind of make you want to alter your mindframe. If you've got nothing better to do than get stoned/drunk/whatever, that's what you'll end up doing.
Correlation != Causation bla blah. Also, I live in a town of 900.
And I should be safe to walk the streets wherever I please in my country but that's not true either.
I don't want to pay 100x the taxes so there's a cop on every corner; so I live with the fact that I can't take a late night stroll around Compton.
Bad analogy. In your analogy, you'd be locked up or fined if you were mugged or attacked in some way like the users of the computers in the above posts. It may not be smart, but should the victim but punished?
Last time I checked, installing solar panels wasn't a matter of mixing some ingredients together in a paver and laying them down. It takes real manpower, far more than paving, and even with some extra labor, you still can't lay solar anywhere near as fast as paving a road. Your statement about the total effort required is pretty simplistic and doesn't take into account the extreme differences in effort required. A single crew can pave miles per day. In comparison, a single crew can install solar panels on one house rooftop in a day.
You're assuming that it's going on houses and there's not a set process. Consider this, in the desert, like the GP was talking about, you have flat ground with easy access. Send two guys to put in some sort of framework to mount the panels to and that'll be their job. Then a truck and two more guys to come around and mount the panels and hook them into the grid.
These guys can probably throw up many dozens or even hundreds per day as long as the mount and hookup is easy. Then the process is repeating it and replacing failed panels in a continuous way. There's no climbing onto unstable and angled rooftops, no real skill needed in positioning it, and a very orderly installation that doesn't really need a lot of skill.
This can be done in a much easier and efficient way than road paving.
Wouldn't a password vault or encrypted text file on a non-networked pc be much simpler? (Not to mention more likely to actually be updated on a regular basis?)
Someone will still need the password to decrypt the store. I have used the envelope thing repeatedly. I also recommend drawling lines and/or signing your name across the various seams of the envelope. That way, if someone steams it open, you can usually tell if it's been resealed.
Check the envelope daily and if it's been tampered with, start your change procedure.
That kind of goes against the whole accessability/semantic Web argument. Why wouldn't you use tables for your tabular data? You probably want the parser to know what it's handling.
The visibility part turned me off. If it was a straight cash and carry deal it might be worth evaluating. But a conference in D.C.? Are they serious?
After years of observing our government's futile tech implementation convulsions I would do anything in my power to keep my name and rep clear of initiatives like this.
I don't get it. The government isn't even involved. It's just a non-profit transparency NGO.
I think you guys are missing the point entirely. What would be the point of copyright or patents when all goods can be made for free? If replicators come to being, the only thing that would have any real worth is energy.
And it's highly arguable that that would even cost anything as generators and solar panels will be free to make with replicators and a little effort.
On this day, long past would be the days of spending all our time on gathering food or things we can use to barter for food.
is this just a list of data from other government sites? why no central proxy, web services, atom feeds, or other useful features besides just linking?
So far, yes. But it sounds like they will eventually become a clearing house of the data. It's a start.
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If by "turned the cameras on and stepped back" you mean "sent an army of investigators to BFE, Alaska to partake in the largest muckraking and personal attack smear machine in a generation," then I agree with you. Where were all of the reporters crawling all over Chicago asking the tough questions about Obama's unlikely meteoric rise from obscurity to prominence in the most politically-corrupt city outside Washington, D.C.?
Nowhere, because the media already knew about Obama. However, Palin was a total unknown and information needed to be gathered.
Where were all of the pop culture celebrity hit pieces against Michelle and the girls? Why was The Messiah's family off-limits, but it was open-season on the Palins?
Palin and her family was an easier target. Besides, I remember a few things going against Michelle, anyway. The whole country and respect statement she made was shouted by the rooftops for days on end.
Go ahead and have the false feeling of a downtrodden minority somewhere else.
Fair enough, I work for a City government and know the public can request my e-mails, Internet history, etc., so I am more wondering if these applications become searchable, requestable public record.
That would be beautiful. I can't wait to see the day when sunshine requests aren't even necessary because it's all already provided over teh intarwebs. Though, maybe just a lofty goal for transparency advocates.
LIES!
Still better than Butte!
The FOIA only applies to the federal government. You're looking for Montana Public Records Act.
And the greatest thing the totalitarian, racist and violent political ideology called "catholicism" ever did was convince people it's a religion. Said ideology controls a few dozen states at least, and it does so through oppression, killings and war (which is why it's fundamentally incompatible with democracy).
There, fixed that for you.
but can there editors be used from within the web browser embedded into a site so that it can be modified from any computer the owner is working at? once this is built into the browsers it could be used to created an editor such as this without the need to reverse engineer or license junk
This was actually Berners-Lee's original intent. If I recall, the first browser he built specifically had this functionality. However, the uptake wasn't that good when Mosiac came out and it kind of fell into an obscure thought(until wikis).
And we already have this. First you have committees fool around with the bills, then congress does their whole amendment junk(or line items if you will), then it goes for a final vote. This process you describe already goes down.
The kind of line item you imagine might allow the executive branch to change the meaning of a law which disallowed a specific act/event into one that specifically required that same act/event.
Thats why I wanted a congressional line-item-veto type thing. Where rather than voting for Bill number 2323, they would vote on bill number 2323 item 1, if that passes than the one item becomes law without the bill going to the congressional equivalent to development hell.
We have something like that. It's called bills. Instead of having another level of abstraction, get back to putting these 'items' into separate bills. Your idea wouldn't change a thing.
references please. I'd love it if such a study really existed.
There are lots of different studies in different cancer arenas that all seem to come to similar conclusions. That ingredients in marijuana stifle or kill cancer.
http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=cancer%20marijuana
It's obvious when someone should/shouldn't be driving. Why is this any different?
Because it's not so obvious when it comes to marijuana, maybe?
By the way, intentional or not, your username is perfect for this discussion, Mr. Spliffington.
Ok, when you live in a smaller town with a local newspaper (think population below 10k people) the one thing they like to fill the pages with is local and county police reports. In there you find SIGNIFICANT numbers of traffic stops and arrests involving people driving high on marijuana. Now, if it's happening at that rate in a small town then what do you think is happening in the big cities?
I generally agree but need to nitpick on one thing. Small towns kind of make you want to alter your mindframe. If you've got nothing better to do than get stoned/drunk/whatever, that's what you'll end up doing.
Correlation != Causation bla blah. Also, I live in a town of 900.
And I should be safe to walk the streets wherever I please in my country but that's not true either.
I don't want to pay 100x the taxes so there's a cop on every corner; so I live with the fact that I can't take a late night stroll around Compton.
Bad analogy. In your analogy, you'd be locked up or fined if you were mugged or attacked in some way like the users of the computers in the above posts. It may not be smart, but should the victim but punished?
Last time I checked, installing solar panels wasn't a matter of mixing some ingredients together in a paver and laying them down. It takes real manpower, far more than paving, and even with some extra labor, you still can't lay solar anywhere near as fast as paving a road. Your statement about the total effort required is pretty simplistic and doesn't take into account the extreme differences in effort required. A single crew can pave miles per day. In comparison, a single crew can install solar panels on one house rooftop in a day.
You're assuming that it's going on houses and there's not a set process. Consider this, in the desert, like the GP was talking about, you have flat ground with easy access. Send two guys to put in some sort of framework to mount the panels to and that'll be their job. Then a truck and two more guys to come around and mount the panels and hook them into the grid.
These guys can probably throw up many dozens or even hundreds per day as long as the mount and hookup is easy. Then the process is repeating it and replacing failed panels in a continuous way. There's no climbing onto unstable and angled rooftops, no real skill needed in positioning it, and a very orderly installation that doesn't really need a lot of skill.
This can be done in a much easier and efficient way than road paving.
I see perl most often in either legacy site...
*cough* slashdot *cough*
Concrete lets off an enormous amount of CO2 and heat in production and setting of it.
Compared to asphalt that's made with rock and petroleum?
In California we have 3 seasons: Spring, Rain and Fire.
Hey, that's almost like Montana. Except it's only two seasons. Snow and Fire.
Damn skippy you're awaiting a TP czar. Hanging-end in front, bottom to top all the way!
(Except when it's particularly messy and you need to mop up. Then top to bottom is acceptable with written permission from your physician.)
So... umm... are you laying down when wiping or something?
That's Tzar to you!
Wouldn't a password vault or encrypted text file on a non-networked pc be much simpler? (Not to mention more likely to actually be updated on a regular basis?)
Someone will still need the password to decrypt the store. I have used the envelope thing repeatedly. I also recommend drawling lines and/or signing your name across the various seams of the envelope. That way, if someone steams it open, you can usually tell if it's been resealed.
Check the envelope daily and if it's been tampered with, start your change procedure.
That kind of goes against the whole accessability/semantic Web argument. Why wouldn't you use tables for your tabular data? You probably want the parser to know what it's handling.
The visibility part turned me off. If it was a straight cash and carry deal it might be worth evaluating. But a conference in D.C.? Are they serious?
After years of observing our government's futile tech implementation convulsions I would do anything in my power to keep my name and rep clear of initiatives like this.
I don't get it. The government isn't even involved. It's just a non-profit transparency NGO.
Who the hell gets bored of sex?!!
He's probably married.
I think you guys are missing the point entirely. What would be the point of copyright or patents when all goods can be made for free? If replicators come to being, the only thing that would have any real worth is energy.
And it's highly arguable that that would even cost anything as generators and solar panels will be free to make with replicators and a little effort.
On this day, long past would be the days of spending all our time on gathering food or things we can use to barter for food.
is this just a list of data from other government sites? why no central proxy, web services, atom feeds, or other useful features besides just linking?
So far, yes. But it sounds like they will eventually become a clearing house of the data. It's a start.