Oh please, of course Israel did it. Israel is the most despicable terrorist state in the world. The pinpricks the Palestinians commit against Israel are trivial compared to the murderous rampages of the IDF. They have no intention of stopping until they've slaughtered every Arab baby in the world. The moral powers of the world must soon choose to stop the heinous aggression or wait until Israel decides it wants Europe too.
Anything out of Microsoft about Bing is PR with limited accuracy or any usefulness to predicting future value. Bing can not be considered of value so long as MS continues to pump out bogus queries to websites in an effort to falsify stats for the purpose of making website owners believe Bing provides more traffic than it truly does. Of my 4 websites, the number of fake Bing visitors has hit as much as 9% of total traffic. It's unfortunate that Microsoft would rather fake traffic than provide a truly valuable search tool to attract consumers.
The U.S. government maintains a "secret" program in partnership with the telecom monopolies to monitor all Internet traffic for "illegal" activity. Under the program, anyone arrested is not permitted to speak about it, EVER!
The U.S. government implements a level of IP laws and copyright (will Mickey Mouse ever reach the public domain?) that far exceed those of any other country.
The U.S. government refuses to allow Internet gambling solely because it might interfere with the billions it takes in from it's own gambling operations.
When the U.S. government meets the standards it sets for everyone else, THEN you Americans will have the right to whine. In the meantime, continue fueling your cars with Venezuelan oil, buying so much from China that your country is going bankrupt, and using your U.N. Security Council veto to prevent Israel from being held accountable for the war crimes it commits because the rest of us love to see you make fools of yourselves as your nation sinks into the abyss.
The US already collects vasts amount of information as part of the visa application process for any foreign national, all paid by the applicant.
Different countries pay different amounts. I wish the $10 would be the case. Chileans pay $131 just for a visitor's visa, and that doesn't even include all the expenses in getting the required paperwork.
The US unfriendliness towards visitors you mention has been here for a long time, and it's manifested in many different ways, some subtle, some not.
After spending six weeks and $400 of needless nuisance fees and charges, I was forbidden by the U.S. State Department from accompanying my Filipino wife into the U.S. Embassy where she was asked two pointless questions, then denied a 2 week tourist visa needed to accompany me back to the U.S. for a brief business related trip.
The U.S. State Department is so broken it encourages illegal immigration by denying legal tourist and work visas. That's why there are 14 million illegal aliens who waltzed across the Texas border to work illegally and supply drugs to the likes of Rush Limbaugh.
I don't care what DHS has on me. If they want me they can come and get me, I won't be coming back on my own.
Why is it that every argument for alternatives to school focus on the single aspect of public schools needing to teach to the average student. A lot more than memorizing the times table happens in schools. Also, since most schools in America have barely a 6 hour day, what's preventing all the anti-public-schoolites from "unschooling" or "home schooling" their kids at some point during the other 18 hours each day?
Just once I'd like to see someone with an alternative to public schools show me how their idea will scale, because that's what is required for public schools to function. Home schooling works because only those for whom it works do it. I assume the only reason "unschooling" is demonstrating any level of success is because there is a similar bias based on those using it.
Take any of these methods and roll them out across the city of Detroit. Show me those numbers and then I'll tell you whether your idea is better or worse than public schools.
In my 20 years of programming experience, as both a consultant and captive employee, most failures proved to be caused by incompetent/incoherent management, a sales force that sold something totally different than what was being built., or a poisoned corporate culture that resulted in a team at each others' throats. If you want to test me, then I think it's only fair that I get to test you. If you want to talk to my last 3 employers, then I should be permitted to talk to the last three employees you terminated. Needless to say, I'm now quite happily self employed.
The general market for cheap hosting is overcrowded. There's no money and customer support is very similar to sticking pins in your eyes.
Instead, find a niche market such as privately owned restaurants, jewelers, or topless dancers. The more you work with them the more you learn about their needs. In a short time you'll understand their business so well that building and hosting sites becomes trivial. You end up with very little support because you can anticipate needs and problems so well.
To approach this honestly you have to consider the source of the complaint. Lieberman is hardly worried about Al Qaeda videos. Lieberman is heavily backed by AIPAC (the right wing Israeli lobby group) and the most extreme right wing elements in the Israeli government. He's the closest thing to an Israeli seat in the U.S. Congress.
His real concern is that Israel is afraid of having their illegal and immoral actions in Gaza and the West Bank exposed. Many reporters are afraid of entering Gaza fearing that they too will be slaughtered by an Israeli tank group.
However, these actions haven't stopped YouTube uploads of camera phone videos, like the targeting of a reporter last month. That's what really worries Lieberman's backers.
The U.S. veto on the U.N. Security Council has prevented Israel from international retribution. But the country still fears the consequences that may result from further videos of their illegal and immoral actions becoming public. And that is what Lieberman's efforts are really all about.
If the same thing happened in any number of U.S. supported countries, he'd be dead now, and nobody in the U.S. would have read about it.
Check out some of what goes on in Saudi Arabia. And don't forget that Israel regularly 'accidentally' kills reporters for exposing their crimes against the Palestinians.
I live with BrightHouse service. They have a tiered pricing model. I started out with their top level plan and found I had problems during peak periods of the day. I reduced to the middle tier, then the bottom tier. No difference at all levels. You can't really enforce tiers when you have 40 connections sharing a single community hub because, during peak periods, the span between the hub and origination point become saturated.
I'm in favor of metered bandwidth with a cap, where the base rate is determined by the cap.
Right wing conservatives who think evolution is a fraud and want to use the Supreme Court to force their personal beliefs upon the rest of America are not "Christians". There is nothing "Christian" about their beliefs. They are nothing more than a gang of hate mongers that use a professed faith in Christianity for political purposes and fund raising.
Maybe when the smoke clears there will be no impact in Sweden. But claims of one rogue employee in Sweden doesn't explain the sudden rise in membership across so many other countries preparing to vote.
Its been my experience that most techies are political morons. The primary evidence being that, even as the Republican Congress voted to increase the number of H1B visas by 500% thereby destroying the job security of thousands of programmers and engineers, those same programmers and engineers gladly voted Republican in anticipation of getting a $300 tax loan that the Republicans borrowed from China, added to the nation's deficit, and pretended was a tax cut.
Okay, so some of the ads go to businesses that exist for the purpose of doing harm. I wonder how that compares to the Yellow Pages and Newspsper advertising? How many of their advertisers are not legitimate? How many of their advertisers will give you something you don't want?
Is this problem really unique to search engines?
What a shame that techies seldom get it right. During the Clinton administration all you people did was whine about high taxes. Then you voted for George Bush and watched as he destroyed your industry.
Now you cheer an overzealous FBI because they attacked a spammer. Hopefully, the results will be less of a disaster than your quest for lower tax rates.
How about focusing on the right solutions... 1. Protect America - An overzealous FBI is far worse than spammers. 2. Sender Authentication - Fix the SMTP protocol. 3. Doing it Right doesn't Pay - Make it illegal to blackhole legal solicitations. 4. Level the Playing Field - Provide email marketers with the same rights as USPS marketers or limit USPS marketers to the limited rights of email marketers.
Keep doing what you're doing and all the spammers will move to countries that need the money, the spam problem will get worse, and the FBI will be visiting you in the middle of the night to make sure you're voting for the right candidate.
Don't you just love it when incompetent government employees create so many problems that administrators, who know even less (Unix hardware?), decide to tell them how to do their jobs.
And then they expect us (taxpayers) to pay whatever the costs of their incompetence.
Oh please. Ask any small business whether Google has done anything to warrant being called evil.
Google's income is dependent upon click fraud committed against small private business owners who don't have the resources to fight back. Experts suggest that up to 40% of Google's profits are generated by fraud. Yet the company chooses to do nothing to combat it.
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Two of the worst customer service companies in existence. About the only way to contact either company is through a class action lawyer.
Oh please, of course Israel did it. Israel is the most despicable terrorist state in the world. The pinpricks the Palestinians commit against Israel are trivial compared to the murderous rampages of the IDF. They have no intention of stopping until they've slaughtered every Arab baby in the world. The moral powers of the world must soon choose to stop the heinous aggression or wait until Israel decides it wants Europe too.
Anything out of Microsoft about Bing is PR with limited accuracy or any usefulness to predicting future value. Bing can not be considered of value so long as MS continues to pump out bogus queries to websites in an effort to falsify stats for the purpose of making website owners believe Bing provides more traffic than it truly does. Of my 4 websites, the number of fake Bing visitors has hit as much as 9% of total traffic. It's unfortunate that Microsoft would rather fake traffic than provide a truly valuable search tool to attract consumers.
The U.S. government maintains a "secret" program in partnership with the telecom monopolies to monitor all Internet traffic for "illegal" activity. Under the program, anyone arrested is not permitted to speak about it, EVER! The U.S. government implements a level of IP laws and copyright (will Mickey Mouse ever reach the public domain?) that far exceed those of any other country. The U.S. government refuses to allow Internet gambling solely because it might interfere with the billions it takes in from it's own gambling operations. When the U.S. government meets the standards it sets for everyone else, THEN you Americans will have the right to whine. In the meantime, continue fueling your cars with Venezuelan oil, buying so much from China that your country is going bankrupt, and using your U.N. Security Council veto to prevent Israel from being held accountable for the war crimes it commits because the rest of us love to see you make fools of yourselves as your nation sinks into the abyss.
The US already collects vasts amount of information as part of the visa application process for any foreign national, all paid by the applicant.
Different countries pay different amounts. I wish the $10 would be the case. Chileans pay $131 just for a visitor's visa, and that doesn't even include all the expenses in getting the required paperwork.
The US unfriendliness towards visitors you mention has been here for a long time, and it's manifested in many different ways, some subtle, some not.
After spending six weeks and $400 of needless nuisance fees and charges, I was forbidden by the U.S. State Department from accompanying my Filipino wife into the U.S. Embassy where she was asked two pointless questions, then denied a 2 week tourist visa needed to accompany me back to the U.S. for a brief business related trip. The U.S. State Department is so broken it encourages illegal immigration by denying legal tourist and work visas. That's why there are 14 million illegal aliens who waltzed across the Texas border to work illegally and supply drugs to the likes of Rush Limbaugh. I don't care what DHS has on me. If they want me they can come and get me, I won't be coming back on my own.
Why is it that every argument for alternatives to school focus on the single aspect of public schools needing to teach to the average student. A lot more than memorizing the times table happens in schools. Also, since most schools in America have barely a 6 hour day, what's preventing all the anti-public-schoolites from "unschooling" or "home schooling" their kids at some point during the other 18 hours each day? Just once I'd like to see someone with an alternative to public schools show me how their idea will scale, because that's what is required for public schools to function. Home schooling works because only those for whom it works do it. I assume the only reason "unschooling" is demonstrating any level of success is because there is a similar bias based on those using it. Take any of these methods and roll them out across the city of Detroit. Show me those numbers and then I'll tell you whether your idea is better or worse than public schools.
In my 20 years of programming experience, as both a consultant and captive employee, most failures proved to be caused by incompetent/incoherent management, a sales force that sold something totally different than what was being built., or a poisoned corporate culture that resulted in a team at each others' throats. If you want to test me, then I think it's only fair that I get to test you. If you want to talk to my last 3 employers, then I should be permitted to talk to the last three employees you terminated. Needless to say, I'm now quite happily self employed.
Having elected George Bush TWICE proves America has already reached the pinnacle of stupidity.
The general market for cheap hosting is overcrowded. There's no money and customer support is very similar to sticking pins in your eyes. Instead, find a niche market such as privately owned restaurants, jewelers, or topless dancers. The more you work with them the more you learn about their needs. In a short time you'll understand their business so well that building and hosting sites becomes trivial. You end up with very little support because you can anticipate needs and problems so well.
To approach this honestly you have to consider the source of the complaint. Lieberman is hardly worried about Al Qaeda videos. Lieberman is heavily backed by AIPAC (the right wing Israeli lobby group) and the most extreme right wing elements in the Israeli government. He's the closest thing to an Israeli seat in the U.S. Congress. His real concern is that Israel is afraid of having their illegal and immoral actions in Gaza and the West Bank exposed. Many reporters are afraid of entering Gaza fearing that they too will be slaughtered by an Israeli tank group. However, these actions haven't stopped YouTube uploads of camera phone videos, like the targeting of a reporter last month. That's what really worries Lieberman's backers. The U.S. veto on the U.N. Security Council has prevented Israel from international retribution. But the country still fears the consequences that may result from further videos of their illegal and immoral actions becoming public. And that is what Lieberman's efforts are really all about.
If the same thing happened in any number of U.S. supported countries, he'd be dead now, and nobody in the U.S. would have read about it. Check out some of what goes on in Saudi Arabia. And don't forget that Israel regularly 'accidentally' kills reporters for exposing their crimes against the Palestinians.
It does seem to know that Osama Bin Laden is hiding in Waziristan. However, it can't seem to locate the WMD in Iraq.
Could someone please check to make sure there aren't any missing government laptops in the caverns.
I live with BrightHouse service. They have a tiered pricing model. I started out with their top level plan and found I had problems during peak periods of the day. I reduced to the middle tier, then the bottom tier. No difference at all levels. You can't really enforce tiers when you have 40 connections sharing a single community hub because, during peak periods, the span between the hub and origination point become saturated.
I'm in favor of metered bandwidth with a cap, where the base rate is determined by the cap.
I know lots of male scientists and engineers who voted for George Bush, twice. At least Astrology is sometimes right.
Right wing conservatives who think evolution is a fraud and want to use the Supreme Court to force their personal beliefs upon the rest of America are not "Christians". There is nothing "Christian" about their beliefs. They are nothing more than a gang of hate mongers that use a professed faith in Christianity for political purposes and fund raising.
Maybe when the smoke clears there will be no impact in Sweden. But claims of one rogue employee in Sweden doesn't explain the sudden rise in membership across so many other countries preparing to vote.
> No, you're just a typical Republican apologist
Its been my experience that most techies are political morons. The primary evidence being that, even as the Republican Congress voted to increase the number of H1B visas by 500% thereby destroying the job security of thousands of programmers and engineers, those same programmers and engineers gladly voted Republican in anticipation of getting a $300 tax loan that the Republicans borrowed from China, added to the nation's deficit, and pretended was a tax cut.
Okay, so some of the ads go to businesses that exist for the purpose of doing harm. I wonder how that compares to the Yellow Pages and Newspsper advertising? How many of their advertisers are not legitimate? How many of their advertisers will give you something you don't want? Is this problem really unique to search engines?
What a shame that techies seldom get it right. During the Clinton administration all you people did was whine about high taxes. Then you voted for George Bush and watched as he destroyed your industry.
Now you cheer an overzealous FBI because they attacked a spammer. Hopefully, the results will be less of a disaster than your quest for lower tax rates.
How about focusing on the right solutions...
1. Protect America - An overzealous FBI is far worse than spammers.
2. Sender Authentication - Fix the SMTP protocol.
3. Doing it Right doesn't Pay - Make it illegal to blackhole legal solicitations.
4. Level the Playing Field - Provide email marketers with the same rights as USPS marketers or limit USPS marketers to the limited rights of email marketers.
Keep doing what you're doing and all the spammers will move to countries that need the money, the spam problem will get worse, and the FBI will be visiting you in the middle of the night to make sure you're voting for the right candidate.
Don't you just love it when incompetent government employees create so many problems that administrators, who know even less (Unix hardware?), decide to tell them how to do their jobs. And then they expect us (taxpayers) to pay whatever the costs of their incompetence.
Oh please. Ask any small business whether Google has done anything to warrant being called evil. Google's income is dependent upon click fraud committed against small private business owners who don't have the resources to fight back. Experts suggest that up to 40% of Google's profits are generated by fraud. Yet the company chooses to do nothing to combat it.