Who cares? He drives a Taxi. It's not the greatest income in the world. I doubt he has many assets worth trying to win in a judgement.
The medallions (license) they have to drive the taxi cab can cost close to a million dollars in some cities. They are next to impossible to get. So he does have something to lose.
And this does smell of something illegal... or in his best case scenareo, of something that will bring about a lawsuit where maybe he can claim stupidity and that there were no losses suffered by the plantiff.
Let's imagine the following scenario. There is a guy named Tim running for congress. I like what Tim stands for. I decide, without consulting Tim, to purchase some tv ads that explain why I like Tim. Tim gets elected. One day, I phone Tim's office and ask if he has time to meet with me. There is some pending legislation that I am concerned about. Tim is free to grant me the meeting or not. I am free to continue to like Tim or not.
I think this is easy. Right now there is a law on the books that says former members of congress can NOT lobby for a certain period of time after they leave congress. I would say, if you want to contribute money to a campaign, then fine, but you should not be allowed to lobby. It would eliminate any chance of bribary.
I read the other series of posts you had with the other guy. The differance between a lobbyist and a news paper editor is HUGE. a news paper editor does not stand to gain anything from the politician. A lobbyist needs the politician to get something he wants. So a lobbyist gives money for a "campaign" to get help with legislation. That is the problem, the link between giving money and getting legislation you want. The link must be eliminated. If you want legislation, then you should be able to lobby as much as you want, but not have influance like giving money.
it took me awhile after I left government to get my footing back in journalism. I had to learn all over again that what's important for the journalist is not how close you are to power but how close you are to reality.
But everyone has a different "reality". The guy who lives in a ghetto probably sees very differnt things than the guy in suburbia with the gated communities. But in reality, nothing is differnt than perception. I think the problem is the people in the gated communities have such blinders on they don't understand the rest of the world. They are like the monday morning quaterback who says "if only they would get a job.... blah blah blah". Then they realize the person is working overtime and they say "if only they would get a better job blah blah blah". A good journalist shows it how it really is, without any value statements.
But I approach the end of my own long run believing more strongly than ever that the quality of journalism and the quality of democracy are inextricably joined
I would agree with that statement. Ever since new stations hire people like Fox does, their reputation goes into the toilet. For example, people like Orielly are nothing but paparazzi in disguise. Didn't he work for inside edition or some equally worthless tabloid? And now he is a news reporter? Wouldn't that be about the same if Jerry Springer decided to anchor the news?
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But because of the damage and the risk that the conventional explosives could be detonated, the crew was granted permission to jettison the nuclear bomb into the Atlantic Ocean off Savannah.
The bomb was dropped from an altitude of about 7,200 feet at an air speed of about 200 knots. The B-47 crew did not see an explosion when the bomb hit the ocean.
What confidance: the B-47 crew did not see an explosion when the bomb hit the ocean. Could you imagine looking down and seeing that thing blow? Savanah never would have become popular after "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil". Savanah would not be there any more.
This reminds me of the TV series "Sledge Hammer". Trust me... I know what I'm doing
That's an interesting way to look at it. Can you give an idea of how you would word a new law that would prevent (directly or indirectly) Microsoft from lobbying on this issue? How would this law be enforced? What would the penalties be? Please consider, while doing this, that your law must not violate first amendment protections for freedom of speech.
There is no reason to limit what Microsoft can say. What should be limited is the conflict of interest caused when someone gives a poltician money for a campaign, then comes back later and asks for something. The way to stop this problem is to limit how much a person can give to a campaign and to limit soft moeny. One alternative would be any candidate who gets on a ballot for federal office (for example, congress) would get $250,000 to run a campaign, and could accept no outside money. It makes it fair because both sides get an equal amount of money, both sides can spend it any way they chose and say anything they want. And it prevents some lobbyist from comming back to a congress memeber 10 months after an election and saying "we really were glad to help you out with money when you ran for office last time, now we need some help with legislation...".
MS is doing what any other smart buisness is doing. The problem is the lobbying laws, or lack of them. If people don't want big huge firms paying for candidates to win elections, then lobbying them; then we need to have public pressure on legislators to enact new campaign contributation laws. We should not expect big companies to police themseleves, they exsist to make money and they can get greedy.
it is something like this that will push workers to form a union. who would want to work for a pay rate that could change so easily because someone else decides they will undercut everyone else?
many times, you get what you pay for. higher wages attract better people. i would not want to be in a hospital when the "best bid" was on duty.
I am saving $10 a month on electricity from one easy change. I replaced the kitchen lights (there were three 100 watt bulbs before) with fluorescent lights. In the past, I tried to pay attention to turning the lights off before bed so I would not waste electricity or shorten bulb life. With the fluorescent lights, I now don't care if the lights stay on all night long, I still pay so much less money.
I also saw something cool on the web. Some guy had a small solar panel and battery kit which could hold enough of a charge to run a small air conditioner for most of the day (when there was sunlight). I think that is a cool idea, as most friends who must use window air conditioners always complain how much more their electricity bill is in the summer.
Why can't Earthlink ban certain MAC addresses from its network?
I like this idea, but since most people know how to mask thier MAC address, it probably won't work. But if there was some secure way, based off the MAC that could not be masked, I would be in favor of that. Maybe a program that is needed to connect with the ISP before they let you use their network. It could check the MAC address of the nic card and other hardware, make a unique ID of that user, and use that ID for access to the network. I know one ISP where I live that does something like this, when people first sign up, but the reason they did it was people were getting on their network without paying.
Here is what I did and I get next to no spam. Actually, I have none. I got an account at yahoo, and I made a login which has numbers mixed in, and is not a word from a dictionary. Think taking the first three lettes of your first name, a couple numbers, the first four lettes of your last name, and a couple more numbers. I never post my email address anywhere on the web, and just use it to communicate with people I know. I have a second email address that I give out to everyone, and that one is not bad with spam either. The account that gets 100 spam messages a day is my account that I used to reply to offers from websites, or that I used when posting on the web. It is a shame, because I don't check that last account except once every other month when I have nothing_better_to_do. And every once or twice a year I get an email which is important.
When I was back in school I never had spam in my university account, but that was before the 2002 spike shown on his graph. I wonder if school email accounts are still off limits. When I was in school, I did not get spam there, it was my "free" email accounts that had spam.
The letter, dated 2 September 2004, says that Microsoft's offer came "literally in the last few days" but requires that labels across the entire industry agree upon a specification for the functionality of the protected discs by 20 September.
Trying to push something at the last second never works. There will be mistakes, a need for new patches, who knows.
I would think as long as a CD-Rom can read a disk as a data disk, then this will all be meaningless. Someone will write an application which will skip over the "bonus" track. The only way this can work is if MS decides their windows media player is the only player they will allow. But didn't the courts tell MS they could not do that?
Will they name it the "Blue Screen of Death". LOL. Plus, it will be too tempting for the artist in training to use some spray paint. Maybe someone will paint a penguin. LOL.
You should check out the MIT guide to lockpicking. They have contests, and leave parts of campus locked for students to "crawl around" and break in. Somehow I can't see that on the west coast. Not disciplined enough.:p
The problem with the tech market is too many people got into it. In the late 90s, everyone got in the market, and we all know that many of them were not qualified. Some cab driver learns Word and Dreamweaver, gets a job, and then gets laid off because he never should have been hired in the first place, and he blames George Bush and people in India.
LOL, to come from India to the USA to drive a cab, then stuggle to learn a skill, only to have his job leave back to India.
How about making cab driving a more respectable job? Then maybe he would not have felt pressure to "move up"?
As for Bush job losses, he's running on the same unemployment rate Clinton ran on.
I don't think that is true because 8 years ago when Clinton ran for re-election, everyone I knew was employed. Now I know 2 people who are having a hard time finding work making the same amount they made back then.
How long will that be an excuse? Did we place everything critical to our economy in one place? Come on, while it was a horrible event, it can't be used as an excuse. As one teacher told my class back in college on the first day- "I don't want ANY excuses. I want results".
Plus, it is a little less than honest to use the tragedy as a smokescreen and not discuss the policies which are in place now, that help buisnesses outsource.
Yeah. There has to be something better than studying the cultural basis for medicine, law, science, entertainment, literature, engineering, philosophy and art.
And he liked it. The only guy I knew in college who probably was destined to be a CS guy was a freind who spend all his time outside class programming his own game, setting up a RPG network, always tinkering with computers because that is what gave him pleasure. Same thing with the english major. If he was not in college, chances are he would have been at a Borders Bookstore with a coffie and some book. The ones who are not happy are people who try and be something they are not- the woman who should be studying dance but who went after the money and is frustrated by her java program not compiling.;)
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The medallions (license) they have to drive the taxi cab can cost close to a million dollars in some cities. They are next to impossible to get. So he does have something to lose.
And this does smell of something illegal... or in his best case scenareo, of something that will bring about a lawsuit where maybe he can claim stupidity and that there were no losses suffered by the plantiff.
I think this is easy. Right now there is a law on the books that says former members of congress can NOT lobby for a certain period of time after they leave congress. I would say, if you want to contribute money to a campaign, then fine, but you should not be allowed to lobby. It would eliminate any chance of bribary.
I read the other series of posts you had with the other guy. The differance between a lobbyist and a news paper editor is HUGE. a news paper editor does not stand to gain anything from the politician. A lobbyist needs the politician to get something he wants. So a lobbyist gives money for a "campaign" to get help with legislation. That is the problem, the link between giving money and getting legislation you want. The link must be eliminated. If you want legislation, then you should be able to lobby as much as you want, but not have influance like giving money.
But everyone has a different "reality". The guy who lives in a ghetto probably sees very differnt things than the guy in suburbia with the gated communities. But in reality, nothing is differnt than perception. I think the problem is the people in the gated communities have such blinders on they don't understand the rest of the world. They are like the monday morning quaterback who says "if only they would get a job.... blah blah blah". Then they realize the person is working overtime and they say "if only they would get a better job blah blah blah". A good journalist shows it how it really is, without any value statements.
But I approach the end of my own long run believing more strongly than ever that the quality of journalism and the quality of democracy are inextricably joined
I would agree with that statement. Ever since new stations hire people like Fox does, their reputation goes into the toilet. For example, people like Orielly are nothing but paparazzi in disguise. Didn't he work for inside edition or some equally worthless tabloid? And now he is a news reporter? Wouldn't that be about the same if Jerry Springer decided to anchor the news?
Now I wish I would have got the metal detector from the Shopping Network. Doh! I could have found my own nuclear bomb.
Just don't try and buy it with a check.
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What confidance: the B-47 crew did not see an explosion when the bomb hit the ocean. Could you imagine looking down and seeing that thing blow? Savanah never would have become popular after "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil". Savanah would not be there any more.
This reminds me of the TV series "Sledge Hammer". Trust me... I know what I'm doing
Put it on ebay. ;)
There is no reason to limit what Microsoft can say. What should be limited is the conflict of interest caused when someone gives a poltician money for a campaign, then comes back later and asks for something. The way to stop this problem is to limit how much a person can give to a campaign and to limit soft moeny. One alternative would be any candidate who gets on a ballot for federal office (for example, congress) would get $250,000 to run a campaign, and could accept no outside money. It makes it fair because both sides get an equal amount of money, both sides can spend it any way they chose and say anything they want. And it prevents some lobbyist from comming back to a congress memeber 10 months after an election and saying "we really were glad to help you out with money when you ran for office last time, now we need some help with legislation...".
And for the record, DRM sucks.
it is something like this that will push workers to form a union. who would want to work for a pay rate that could change so easily because someone else decides they will undercut everyone else?
many times, you get what you pay for. higher wages attract better people. i would not want to be in a hospital when the "best bid" was on duty.
I also saw something cool on the web. Some guy had a small solar panel and battery kit which could hold enough of a charge to run a small air conditioner for most of the day (when there was sunlight). I think that is a cool idea, as most friends who must use window air conditioners always complain how much more their electricity bill is in the summer.
I like this idea, but since most people know how to mask thier MAC address, it probably won't work. But if there was some secure way, based off the MAC that could not be masked, I would be in favor of that. Maybe a program that is needed to connect with the ISP before they let you use their network. It could check the MAC address of the nic card and other hardware, make a unique ID of that user, and use that ID for access to the network. I know one ISP where I live that does something like this, when people first sign up, but the reason they did it was people were getting on their network without paying.
When I was back in school I never had spam in my university account, but that was before the 2002 spike shown on his graph. I wonder if school email accounts are still off limits. When I was in school, I did not get spam there, it was my "free" email accounts that had spam.
Except we used a potato and a beaker with salt water. The power we generated we used to light a bulb. ;)
Trying to push something at the last second never works. There will be mistakes, a need for new patches, who knows.
I would think as long as a CD-Rom can read a disk as a data disk, then this will all be meaningless. Someone will write an application which will skip over the "bonus" track. The only way this can work is if MS decides their windows media player is the only player they will allow. But didn't the courts tell MS they could not do that?
Will they name it the "Blue Screen of Death". LOL. Plus, it will be too tempting for the artist in training to use some spray paint. Maybe someone will paint a penguin. LOL.
That is why I have presets. I switch from station to station. And most of the good rock stations have blocks of music, like 10 songs in a row.
Plus, it is free!
What is so great about XM radio? I use FM radio and don't have any complaints. Is XM more clear or something?
You should check out the MIT guide to lockpicking. They have contests, and leave parts of campus locked for students to "crawl around" and break in. Somehow I can't see that on the west coast. Not disciplined enough. :p
LOL, to come from India to the USA to drive a cab, then stuggle to learn a skill, only to have his job leave back to India.
How about making cab driving a more respectable job? Then maybe he would not have felt pressure to "move up"?
I don't think that is true because 8 years ago when Clinton ran for re-election, everyone I knew was employed. Now I know 2 people who are having a hard time finding work making the same amount they made back then.
Plus, it is a little less than honest to use the tragedy as a smokescreen and not discuss the policies which are in place now, that help buisnesses outsource.
And he liked it. The only guy I knew in college who probably was destined to be a CS guy was a freind who spend all his time outside class programming his own game, setting up a RPG network, always tinkering with computers because that is what gave him pleasure. Same thing with the english major. If he was not in college, chances are he would have been at a Borders Bookstore with a coffie and some book. The ones who are not happy are people who try and be something they are not- the woman who should be studying dance but who went after the money and is frustrated by her java program not compiling. ;)