Oh, I'm sure they'll pick someone from the NSA who will report to the NSA, and the report will be sealed and we'll get to watch a press conference where the President intones very seriously "I won't comment on the contents of the report, but suffice to say you can trust me and there's nothing to worry about."
And in other unrelated news, the Incredible Hulk has come out as gay. "Me like wearing the pink undies." he was quoted as saying. Reports suggest he's dating Aquaman, though Aquaman's agent had not returned our calls by press time.
Translation: The whole thing is a monumentally tragic, Constitution-violating fuck up, brought to you by two successive Administrations and a Congress that couldn't give a flying fuck about the Constitution.
I started out with Slackware, but package management proved a bit of a headache. Redhat was next, but I confess I never gave it much of a chance. I went to Ubuntu, but had some real problems, particularly with some Apache 2. At that point I said "f--- it" and went to Debian, around version 5. I tried out Centos, figuring I should give the Redhat ecosystem a try again, and while it's a pretty good, somehow I like Debian the best, and returned to Wheezy for my new KVM servers.
Microsoft can't. It's making too much money off of dubious patents that Google licenses for Android,. not to mention the money it makes from licensing ActiveSync.
Poor Microsoft, the company whose motto was at one time "It's not done until Lotus won't run!" The company that intentionally used a non-compliant Kerberos variant to foul up interoperability with *nix systems. The company that went out of its way to kill Netscape and then let the web rot for five years with IE6. The company that intentionally violated its Java licensing agreement with Sun in an attempt to enact its major philosophy; "Embrace, Extend and Extinguish".
Yes indeed, what goes around does indeed come around.
We're pretty afraid to answer that one. The stock answer usually is "It would depend on the position that was available." Again, when you're interpreting references in this litigious age, you have to make your answers carefully, and as the potential employer you have to carefully interpret the reference that your given.
That's because you're a bunch of fucking Communists. The true American way is to kick their fucking asses out the door after you've raped them for the pathetic wage slaves they are. Now THAT'S freedom!
When I call to get references for a potential employee, I either get "Bob is an ace. Absolute genius. We're gonna miss him totally!" or we get "Bob worked here between August 2010 and July 2013."
While the former may not be completely reliable as to how good Bob is, just getting the latter tends to raise questions.
Then that's a problem I have with my doctor. I have yet to see any test he ordered be turned down. This is a bizarre bit of logic you're applying here.
It's little wonder a Copt would feel this way. Often times it was only Muburak and the Army that kept Egyptian Christians from being massacred by the Muslim Brotherhood and other related Islamist groups.
I'm not sure what the Egyptian Army was to do. The protests against Morsi and the MB were massive, and I think it's well justified to call this a popular uprising.
Here in the West we're largely used to peaceful transfers of government and political parties, despite some ideological differences, tending to stick to the middle ground on most issues. While there are certainly protest movements, we haven't had them at the fever pitch that has been seen in the Arab Spring. For better or for worse we still, at least nominally, believe in the political process as the appropriate channel for change.
In countries like Egypt, where democracy has never really existed, and the democratic institutions that are there are more shams or for show than functional governmental and political entities, there is little or no civic notion of political process. A strong man falls, another takes his place. That seems to have been what Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood had decided, that somehow the uprising against Mubarak was simply another iteration of the same old process, and now Morsi could take his rightful place as King of the Mountain, inflict his movement's policies and his political allies on the populace by tossing out everyone from school principles to the head of a symphony orchestra with Muslim Brotherhood members.
So, for me, while I think it's troubling that the Army again asserted itself into the political process, the problem seems to be a distinct lack of political process. Clearly there are serious flaws in the constitution that was promulgated, and ultimately few checks on the powers of the Egyptian President and his cronies. This is something of a reset, but whether it will produce better results or not is difficult to say. One thing that has happened is that the Egyptian opposition groups and parties realize that their disunity is what delivered Morsi and the MB the last election, and that if they're serious about a change in the way the government works, they're going to have to stop the internecine warfare.
Yes, I'm sure. But you have to have a good insurance plan.
I'm sorry, health care ain't perfect up here, but when I see what saw of my acquaintances south of the border have to put up with, I wouldn't wish the US "system" on my worst enemy.
It's a pretty small quibble. I use Dropbox, Google Drive and a USB connection to my computer to move data on and off my Nexus 7. I'd wager even if I had an SD slot, I'd rarely use it.
As a Canadian I have yet to see the very interference of the government into my health. I have never had any government official stop me getting an x-ray, stomp on my doctor when he ordered an ECG, or any of the other numerous tests and prescriptions he has ordered for me.
It's true that there are flaws, but when my wife was diagnoses with a life threatening cancer, no time wastes in diagnostics and in the two surgeries that followed. Better still, I was unemployed by the second surgery and we didn't have to bankrupt ourselves to save her life.
I've been digging into Powershell because, as you say, it's the only decent game in town for Windows, so if you're doing any kind of major scripting, it's the beast you have to use. But I find it obscenely verbose. *nix userland utils may be very cryptic, but I spend a helluva lot less time in actual man-hours typing them out, and where I have to deal with any kind of inconsistency in output (which, if you use GNU utils, isn't that great anyways), there is still good ol' sed, which once you master regular expressions, can pretty much do anything.
I don't exactly see a lot of difficulty with system level scripting either, although this is considerably more system dependent. At least in Linux, where I've done most of my work in the last ten years, you've got/proc where you can find, and in many cases alter, core kernel functionality with ease. I can't think of anything Powershell could bring to the *nix table that hasn't already been around one way or another for decades.
I still just wish that MS had built a decent sh variant with extensions for all the Windows "specialness".
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Oh, I'm sure they'll pick someone from the NSA who will report to the NSA, and the report will be sealed and we'll get to watch a press conference where the President intones very seriously "I won't comment on the contents of the report, but suffice to say you can trust me and there's nothing to worry about."
And in other unrelated news, the Incredible Hulk has come out as gay. "Me like wearing the pink undies." he was quoted as saying. Reports suggest he's dating Aquaman, though Aquaman's agent had not returned our calls by press time.
Can we wantonly spy on your Internet activities?
YES WE CAN!
Can we store your email and search it at our leisure?
YES WE CAN!
Can we create a judicial overview process so flimsy and one-sided that there's almost no chance of any request being turned down?
YES WE CAN!
Don't worry, son. Just take this pen and sign. I can assure that you're a true patriot.
And keep that bag on your head now. Only terrorists peek.
Translation: The whole thing is a monumentally tragic, Constitution-violating fuck up, brought to you by two successive Administrations and a Congress that couldn't give a flying fuck about the Constitution.
What a pathetic situation.
I started out with Slackware, but package management proved a bit of a headache. Redhat was next, but I confess I never gave it much of a chance. I went to Ubuntu, but had some real problems, particularly with some Apache 2. At that point I said "f--- it" and went to Debian, around version 5. I tried out Centos, figuring I should give the Redhat ecosystem a try again, and while it's a pretty good, somehow I like Debian the best, and returned to Wheezy for my new KVM servers.
Yes, it only goes to prove my axiom "The only thing worse than science journalism are /. summaries."
Microsoft can't. It's making too much money off of dubious patents that Google licenses for Android,. not to mention the money it makes from licensing ActiveSync.
+10 Unintentional Irony
Poor Microsoft, the company whose motto was at one time "It's not done until Lotus won't run!" The company that intentionally used a non-compliant Kerberos variant to foul up interoperability with *nix systems. The company that went out of its way to kill Netscape and then let the web rot for five years with IE6. The company that intentionally violated its Java licensing agreement with Sun in an attempt to enact its major philosophy; "Embrace, Extend and Extinguish".
Yes indeed, what goes around does indeed come around.
Good for Microsoft, defending all eight of its Windows Phone customers.
We're pretty afraid to answer that one. The stock answer usually is "It would depend on the position that was available." Again, when you're interpreting references in this litigious age, you have to make your answers carefully, and as the potential employer you have to carefully interpret the reference that your given.
That's because you're a bunch of fucking Communists. The true American way is to kick their fucking asses out the door after you've raped them for the pathetic wage slaves they are. Now THAT'S freedom!
I'm Ron Paul, and I approved this message.
When I call to get references for a potential employee, I either get "Bob is an ace. Absolute genius. We're gonna miss him totally!" or we get "Bob worked here between August 2010 and July 2013."
While the former may not be completely reliable as to how good Bob is, just getting the latter tends to raise questions.
Then that's a problem I have with my doctor. I have yet to see any test he ordered be turned down. This is a bizarre bit of logic you're applying here.
The conundrum here is that they have to find a new phrase for the patent application that doesn't involve "on a computer".
Anti-semitism has a very long history in Egypt, dating back to at least Roman times. There were anti-Jewish riots in Alexandria in the 1st century.
Turkey is at least nominally secular, and it was certainly very intentionally so when it was founded out of the ashes of the Ottoman Empire.
It's little wonder a Copt would feel this way. Often times it was only Muburak and the Army that kept Egyptian Christians from being massacred by the Muslim Brotherhood and other related Islamist groups.
I'm not sure what the Egyptian Army was to do. The protests against Morsi and the MB were massive, and I think it's well justified to call this a popular uprising.
Here in the West we're largely used to peaceful transfers of government and political parties, despite some ideological differences, tending to stick to the middle ground on most issues. While there are certainly protest movements, we haven't had them at the fever pitch that has been seen in the Arab Spring. For better or for worse we still, at least nominally, believe in the political process as the appropriate channel for change.
In countries like Egypt, where democracy has never really existed, and the democratic institutions that are there are more shams or for show than functional governmental and political entities, there is little or no civic notion of political process. A strong man falls, another takes his place. That seems to have been what Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood had decided, that somehow the uprising against Mubarak was simply another iteration of the same old process, and now Morsi could take his rightful place as King of the Mountain, inflict his movement's policies and his political allies on the populace by tossing out everyone from school principles to the head of a symphony orchestra with Muslim Brotherhood members.
So, for me, while I think it's troubling that the Army again asserted itself into the political process, the problem seems to be a distinct lack of political process. Clearly there are serious flaws in the constitution that was promulgated, and ultimately few checks on the powers of the Egyptian President and his cronies. This is something of a reset, but whether it will produce better results or not is difficult to say. One thing that has happened is that the Egyptian opposition groups and parties realize that their disunity is what delivered Morsi and the MB the last election, and that if they're serious about a change in the way the government works, they're going to have to stop the internecine warfare.
You could, you know, not open the story.
Yes, I'm sure. But you have to have a good insurance plan.
I'm sorry, health care ain't perfect up here, but when I see what saw of my acquaintances south of the border have to put up with, I wouldn't wish the US "system" on my worst enemy.
It's a pretty small quibble. I use Dropbox, Google Drive and a USB connection to my computer to move data on and off my Nexus 7. I'd wager even if I had an SD slot, I'd rarely use it.
And what if the consumer has no money or assets to negotiate with?
As a Canadian I have yet to see the very interference of the government into my health. I have never had any government official stop me getting an x-ray, stomp on my doctor when he ordered an ECG, or any of the other numerous tests and prescriptions he has ordered for me.
It's true that there are flaws, but when my wife was diagnoses with a life threatening cancer, no time wastes in diagnostics and in the two surgeries that followed. Better still, I was unemployed by the second surgery and we didn't have to bankrupt ourselves to save her life.
I've been digging into Powershell because, as you say, it's the only decent game in town for Windows, so if you're doing any kind of major scripting, it's the beast you have to use. But I find it obscenely verbose. *nix userland utils may be very cryptic, but I spend a helluva lot less time in actual man-hours typing them out, and where I have to deal with any kind of inconsistency in output (which, if you use GNU utils, isn't that great anyways), there is still good ol' sed, which once you master regular expressions, can pretty much do anything.
I don't exactly see a lot of difficulty with system level scripting either, although this is considerably more system dependent. At least in Linux, where I've done most of my work in the last ten years, you've got /proc where you can find, and in many cases alter, core kernel functionality with ease. I can't think of anything Powershell could bring to the *nix table that hasn't already been around one way or another for decades.
I still just wish that MS had built a decent sh variant with extensions for all the Windows "specialness".