Corporate America is whining because someone rained on their parade while the politicians scramble to grandstand on this.
Yeah, this guy is probably a jerk but I'll bet he was as surprised as anybody else to hear news of the spread of this virus. Yessir, I imagine there was an extreme pucker factor. So, he's now being skewered as a Mega-vandal.
Yep, most of the people in prison today are there for drug "offenses". I read a stat on Excite yesterday saying 1 out of every 34 americans is in jail.
As far as the bit about society voting on what constitutes a crime and comparing violent crimes to vices, such arguments don't follow. Histroy has show us that arbitrary redefinition of vices as crimes incites crime. Prohibition created a criminal cartel monopoly. The War on drugs has done the same and the forfeiture laws have corrupted public officials. Drug abuse is bad; drug laws make it worse.
The H1-B program should be shut down. Having indentured workers in the industry hurts workers, both H1-B and citizens. It would be better to just let them in, i.e. give them green cards. Then they can negotiate for a higher wage. The H1-B program is a good deal for companies because indentured workers are cheap workers.
Our immigration policy makes no sense. We make it too hard for productive people to come here from China and India, for example. But then, we let Castro dump his prisons and insane asylums on Florida. We allow people to immigrate who will mooch off "the system". The policy is bass-ackards. The H1-B visa was probably created as a workaround but it is being abused.
I think you missed the point. The H1-Bs are not free to change jobs. They will be deported because they will lose their sponsorship.
You mention that you "don't try to get a law passed making car prices more attractive...". Good. Perhaps others should follow your example. Industry is not. They lobbied hard for this H1-B visa program which amounts to a labor subsidy. Not only are the H1-Bs paid way below the prevailing wage and not only do they take jobs that would otherwise go to US citizens, their presence depresses all our wages, including yours. This ain't a simple matter of free market supply and demand. The presence of these indentured workers distorts the relationship between supply and demand.
I think Mr. Katz has overstated the problem. Others have pointed out that money isn't that much of an obstacle since even a modest computer can be configured to connect you to the net if you're sufficiently motivated and knowledgeable. Does everyone HAVE to be on the net? no. Does everyone HAVE to go to college? no. My advice to high school kids today is take a long hard look at the trades. Just try and get a plumber to answer the phone. Good luck! Most have more work than they can do. They make real good money, probably more that most programmers. Yeah! And they aren't cast out when they turn 50. Does your average plumber need the net today? probably not. Most people are inclined to pick up the phone book and go to the yellow pages.
It might be feasible to outfit the windows with a nearly transparent, fine wire mesh to prevent them from acting as cavity radiators to the passengers and crew.
I'm not sure what some folks are defining as rich but I'm skeptical of their claims of becoming weathy enough to retire at 40. A few of the hundreds of engineers and programmers I've worked with have become wealthy enough that they no longer had to work and were able to maintain a fairly opulent lifestyle.
Stock options tend to be a soggy deal for most. Taxes on capital gains and lump sum bonuses eat up a mighty big chunk.
Yeah, well therein lies the problem. Enforcement. Goons enforce picket lines and membership in the conventional unions. Cross a picket line and you get the crap beat out of you. Refuse to join and the goons will pay you a visit. I don't think most geeks would have the belly for it.
Protecting against companies who would manufacture CDs, tapes, records, etc., then distribute them is one thing but hassling mom 'n pop businesses for playing the radio is silly.
I've no sympathy for the music industry. For decades, they've screwed musicians. Now they are going after fans.
Yep. They don't want to have to convert formats. I like to go text only unless someone specifically asks for Word. But it's the specificity of the buzzword searches that I find more objectionable. It has be likened to ordering pizza with the exact combination of toppings. Employers are shooting themselves in the foot with this practice.
Some of the best ideas are timeless. Another post cited cars and guns. You find something that works and you stick with it until there is something better. The age of an idea has nothing to do with it's validity. All that matters is whether it works. Linux corrects the Windows mistake. When Windows 2000 comes out it'll take 2000 flushes before it goes around the bowl and down the hole.
I don't think flaming is constructive. It is unlikely to convert anyone. Power driven arguments and foul mouthed ranting will drive people away. I watched the lunatic fringe of the libertarian party do this to themselves. I shy away from such people. They are a vexation on my spirit.
In North Carolina, you must fill out a form requesting that the state not disclose this information in order to "turn it off". The government is supposed to protect it's citizens from this kind of wholesale invasion of privacy. Instead, they want in on this crookedness.
RCA's fate is indeed a very sad tale. I worked in Indianapolis where the televisions were designed as a power supply designer. It was analog heaven. I treasure my experience there. General Electric bought RCA and cannibalized it. They sold the semiconductor division to Harris. They eventually sold the consumer electronics division to Thompson after laying a bunch of us off. They sold the Sanoff Labs in Princeton to SRI. All GE really wanted was NBC. Yessir, good ole Neutron Jack. He gets rid of people and keeps the buildings.
There ain't no telling who really makes the stuff you see with GE or RCA brand labels on it. Hitachi used to make lots of RCA's stuff and Mitsubishi made lots of GE's stuff but lately I don't know who is private labeling their goods.
The problem I've had with Red Hat and Slackware is they would not detect SCSI CDROMs. I am not sure why that has been such a problem. I've seen this with NEC, Phillips, Sony and Mitsumi CDROM drives in combination with an Adaptec 1542 card, a Future Domain TMC850 and a Media Vision PAS-16 card. To install Linux on these systems, I had to copy it to a DOS partition, then install from there. On systems with IDE CDROMs, it installs with very smoothly. Clearly, this is a major installation issue worthy of attention.
However, this IS an installation problem rather than a reliability problem. Once it's running, Linux is rock solid. NT installs fine on most systems but it's reliability is poor. Take your pick. I'm more interested in the long haul.
If parents had more choices, perhaps kids wouldn't be subjected to such bad environments. Trouble is, if you choose not to send your kid to a public school, you still have to pay for the public school. Some parents figure it's worth it and send their kids to private schools or home school their kids anyway. I'm not real sure there much to be gained by subjecting a kid to ridicule and harassment in the name of "socializing" them. Why not explore the magnet school concept further?
Instead, the school administrators and teacher unions will dig in their heels further, turning our public schools into more oppressive garrisons than they already are.
ATTY. GEN. RENO: Again, that comes back to how we raise our young people, how we teach them what's right and what's wrong. Ten years ago you could go to the library and get a book that told you how to make a bomb, but it wasn't as accessible. But you didn't take the book off the shelf. We have got to teach our kids that there are things that you don't do with the Internet and things that you use to broaden your education to learn from and to expand your horizons.
This is malarky! I checked out all kinds of books when I was a teen about chemistry, guns, explosives, electronics (no computers back in the 60's) and then I went to the hardware stores and bought the necessary supplies. I tested my concoctions. I never tried to hurt anyone; I just wanted to see what it would do. Today, I'd be a big time suspect. My point is books were MORE accessible then. Nobody paid attetion to it then because there weren't any incidents like this but the information was very available. More importantly, the materials were very easy for kids to get. The drugstore sold sulfur and sodium nitrate in big plastic jars. Powderize some charcoal and you can make gunpowder.
Here's yet another tale of the cable TV-government bureaucratic juggernaut streamrolling someone. "Avoid being served"... sheesh, my blood is starting to boil at the idea. This reminds me of the movie "Brazil", where a fly falls into a printer, changing a "T" into a "B". The events cascaded.
The cable TV fascists lobbied hard for laws to vigorously, and apparently, mindlessly, prosecute cable fraud. Sadly, only a big dafamation type lawsuit will correct the most egregious of these excesses. I can understnd why she didn't want to sue them.
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Sure you can. However, such legislation will not produce the desired results. They'll legislate something anyway just to make themselves feel better.
"Until that happens, there will a few dozen people jailed for harmless emails considered "obscene", "annoying", or whatever the legal standard is."
Yep, that's how this type of law typically works out. It will be selectively enforced, just like laws against oral sex. I pointed out to a buddy the other day that a person would get less time in jail for actually beating the crap out of someone than for threatening to beat the crap out of someone in an email. All this knee jerk lawmaking is further convoluting the krazy quilt of laws we have in this country.
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Corporate America is whining because someone rained on their parade while the politicians scramble to grandstand on this.
Yeah, this guy is probably a jerk but I'll bet he was as surprised as anybody else to hear news of the spread of this virus. Yessir, I imagine there was an extreme pucker factor. So, he's now being skewered as a Mega-vandal.
I'll bet he won't be the last one to do this.
Yep, most of the people in prison today are there for drug "offenses". I read a stat on Excite yesterday saying 1 out of every 34 americans is in jail.
As far as the bit about society voting on what constitutes a crime and comparing violent crimes to vices, such arguments don't follow. Histroy has show us that arbitrary redefinition of vices as crimes incites crime. Prohibition created a criminal cartel monopoly. The War on drugs has done the same and the forfeiture laws have corrupted public officials. Drug abuse is bad; drug laws make it worse.
There were several theatres in Raleigh during the 70s where people would smoke pot and hash, particularly during the late shows.
The H1-B program should be shut down. Having indentured workers in the industry hurts workers, both H1-B and citizens. It would be better to just let them in, i.e. give them green cards. Then they can negotiate for a higher wage. The H1-B program is a good deal for companies because indentured workers are cheap workers.
Our immigration policy makes no sense. We make it too hard for productive people to come here from China and India, for example. But then, we let Castro dump his prisons and insane asylums on Florida. We allow people to immigrate who will mooch off "the system". The policy is bass-ackards. The H1-B visa was probably created as a workaround but it is being abused.
I think you missed the point. The H1-Bs are not free to change jobs. They will be deported because they will lose their sponsorship.
You mention that you "don't try to get a law passed making car prices more attractive
This ain't a simple matter of free market supply and demand. The presence of these indentured workers distorts the relationship between supply and demand.
I think Mr. Katz has overstated the problem. Others have pointed out that money isn't that much of an obstacle since even a modest computer can be configured to connect you to the net if you're sufficiently motivated and knowledgeable. Does everyone HAVE to be on the net? no. Does everyone HAVE to go to college? no. My advice to high school kids today is take a long hard look at the trades. Just try and get a plumber to answer the phone. Good luck! Most have more work than they can do. They make real good money, probably more that most programmers. Yeah! And they aren't cast out when they turn 50. Does your average plumber need the net today? probably not. Most people are inclined to pick up the phone book and go to the yellow pages.
It might be feasible to outfit the windows with a nearly transparent, fine wire mesh to prevent them from acting as cavity radiators to the passengers and crew.
You can stay as late as you want, so long as you're here by 8 in the morning.
I'm not sure what some folks are defining as rich but I'm skeptical of their claims of becoming weathy enough to retire at 40. A few of the hundreds of engineers and programmers I've worked with have become wealthy enough that they no longer had to work and were able to maintain a fairly opulent lifestyle.
Stock options tend to be a soggy deal for most. Taxes on capital gains and lump sum bonuses eat up a mighty big chunk.
Yeah, well therein lies the problem. Enforcement. Goons enforce picket lines and membership in the conventional unions. Cross a picket line and you get the crap beat out of you. Refuse to join and the goons will pay you a visit. I don't think most geeks would have the belly for it.
Protecting against companies who would manufacture CDs, tapes, records, etc., then distribute them is one thing but hassling mom 'n pop businesses for playing the radio is silly.
I've no sympathy for the music industry. For decades, they've screwed musicians. Now they are going after fans.
Yep. They don't want to have to convert formats. I like to go text only unless someone specifically asks for Word. But it's the specificity of the buzzword searches that I find more objectionable. It has be likened to ordering pizza with the exact combination of toppings. Employers are shooting themselves in the foot with this practice.
Some of the best ideas are timeless. Another post cited cars and guns. You find something that works and you stick with it until there is something better. The age of an idea has nothing to do with it's validity. All that matters is whether it works. Linux corrects the Windows mistake. When Windows 2000 comes out it'll take 2000 flushes before it goes around the bowl and down the hole.
I don't think flaming is constructive. It is unlikely to convert anyone. Power driven arguments and foul mouthed ranting will drive people away. I watched the lunatic fringe of the libertarian party do this to themselves. I shy away from such people. They are a vexation on my spirit.
In North Carolina, you must fill out a form requesting that the state not disclose this information in order to "turn it off". The government is supposed to protect it's citizens from this kind of wholesale invasion of privacy. Instead, they want in on this crookedness.
Last night it was not responding. Today, there's a goofy looking logo.
http://www.fcc.org
I'm glad I'm not waiting for a new call sign. Yessir.
That's not always feasible. Companies generally get to know more about you than you get to know about them.
Fender benders will be spectacular.
RCA's fate is indeed a very sad tale. I worked in Indianapolis where the televisions were designed as a power supply designer. It was analog heaven. I treasure my experience there. General Electric bought RCA and cannibalized it. They sold the semiconductor division to Harris. They eventually sold the consumer electronics division to Thompson after laying a bunch of us off. They sold the Sanoff Labs in Princeton to SRI. All GE really wanted was NBC. Yessir, good ole Neutron Jack. He gets rid of people and keeps the buildings.
There ain't no telling who really makes the stuff you see with GE or RCA brand labels on it. Hitachi used to make lots of RCA's stuff and Mitsubishi made lots of GE's stuff but lately I don't know who is private labeling their goods.
The problem I've had with Red Hat and Slackware is they would not detect SCSI CDROMs. I am not sure why that has been such a problem. I've seen this with NEC, Phillips, Sony and Mitsumi CDROM drives in combination with an Adaptec 1542 card, a Future Domain TMC850 and a Media Vision PAS-16 card. To install Linux on these systems, I had to copy it to a DOS partition, then install from there. On systems with IDE CDROMs, it installs with very smoothly. Clearly, this is a major installation issue worthy of attention.
However, this IS an installation problem rather than a reliability problem. Once it's running, Linux is rock solid. NT installs fine on most systems but it's reliability is poor. Take your pick. I'm more interested in the long haul.
If parents had more choices, perhaps kids wouldn't be subjected to such bad environments. Trouble is, if you choose not to send your kid to a public school, you still have to pay for the public school. Some parents figure it's worth it and send their kids to private schools or home school their kids anyway. I'm not real sure there much to be gained by subjecting a kid to ridicule and harassment in the name of "socializing" them. Why not explore the magnet school concept further?
Instead, the school administrators and teacher unions will dig in their heels further, turning our public schools into more oppressive garrisons than they already are.
ATTY. GEN. RENO: Again, that comes back to how we raise our young people, how we teach them what's right and what's wrong. Ten years ago you could go to the library and get a book that told you how to make a bomb, but it wasn't as accessible. But you didn't take the book off the shelf. We have got to teach our kids that there are things that you don't do with the Internet and things that you use to broaden your education to learn from and to expand your horizons.
This is malarky! I checked out all kinds of books when I was a teen about chemistry, guns, explosives, electronics (no computers back in the 60's) and then I went to the hardware stores and bought the necessary supplies. I tested my concoctions. I never tried to hurt anyone; I just wanted to see what it would do. Today, I'd be a big time suspect. My point is books were MORE accessible then. Nobody paid attetion to it then because there weren't any incidents like this but the information was very available. More importantly, the materials were very easy for kids to get. The drugstore sold sulfur and sodium nitrate in big plastic jars. Powderize some charcoal and you can make gunpowder.
Here's yet another tale of the cable TV-government bureaucratic juggernaut streamrolling someone. "Avoid being served" ... sheesh, my blood is starting to boil at the idea. This reminds me of the movie "Brazil", where a fly falls into a printer, changing a "T" into a "B". The events cascaded.
The cable TV fascists lobbied hard for laws to vigorously, and apparently, mindlessly, prosecute cable fraud. Sadly, only a big dafamation type lawsuit will correct the most egregious of these excesses. I can understnd why she didn't want to sue them.
Sure you can. However, such legislation will not produce the desired results. They'll legislate something anyway just to make themselves feel better.
"Until that happens, there will a few dozen people jailed for harmless emails considered "obscene", "annoying", or whatever the legal standard is."
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Yep, that's how this type of law typically works out. It will be selectively enforced, just like laws against oral sex. I pointed out to a buddy the other day that a person would get less time in jail for actually beating the crap out of someone than for threatening to beat the crap out of someone in an email. All this knee jerk lawmaking is further convoluting the krazy quilt of laws we have in this country.
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