The same can be said about the elimination of the wolf packs that used to roam the Appalachians and surrounding areas. Now there are so many deer running around folks hit them daily. And since Hunters are 'bad people,' you get to have a new hood ornament on your drive to work. But I guess folks want to make sure little Susie and Jimmy are 'safe' in their back yard.
Ok AC, I'll bit some more. First off, I'm glad that based upon that one post you could tell so much about me. I didn't bantor or throw jabs, I just provided another path of thought. You should try reading more, Capt James McCarthy is a character from a series of books (Matter for Men, David Gerrold..Still waiting David!) not my occupation. I never once said that folks shouldn't be held responsible.
And just to get things correct, there is enough blame to get spread all around over the last 20 years, pinning every current issue on the current administration, though plausable, is not very rationial. You can fault them for not fixing issues that were present when they came into office, and the potential cause for issues you read about in McPaper. But to hold them as the only cause is very short sighted.
I do know that folks are so polerized when it comes to politics and religion that trying to invoke deep thought into the situation is a moot point. They have made up their mind and that is that. No fact or argument is worthy of their consideration.
"As they are highly ideological, driven men, I doubt they are too wishy washy to have made a decision."
You've just described every leader in the world. At least you got that correct. And based upon the United States habit of forgetfullness, the next leader is always going to be a great leader and solve all the issues. The propaganda of "I have all the answers if you put me in the White House" have already begun.
"Or the ones who let their vice-president command that no intercepts be performed of aircraft flying towards the twin towers, while they stared frozen-faced at a child's storybook, doing nothing while the plan unfolded. Those are shoes I would not choose to walk in, out of contempt."
Contempt? Really? I know it's going to be tough to look at this with a logical perspective for many folks (pick your side), but this event is incorrectly represented. Since there was no precedent for these types of attacks, if the US Govt. shot down these planes, then they would be chastized by everyone for being to reactionary. So they made a choice, right or wrong I don't know. If these planes were shot down over New York where would the debris land and how many would it kill. Then it would be stated when the best time to shoot the planes out of the air? Downward sprial kind of thing here.
Anyhoo, aside from the fact that Bush, Blair, Chavez, Putin, Jong, etc, etc, etc. are all crappy leaders IMO, I think it is the simplest thing to do is be critical without all of the facts. I suppose it is easier to lead from our couches then from the Oval Office itself. Any leader (take your pick) is there for one reason and one reason only. Power. The rest of us are pieces on the board. Now it could also be said that Big Business/Global Elite are moving the pieces, but you get the drift.
And this brings us to 2008 when Bush is gone and folks will magically stop complaining. The Democrats want to have Bush hand over a clean and no issue Country to them. Now that's a good one. A truly good leader takes on problems and solves them, not require they all be solved prior to their arrival.
Actually, a non-compete is pretty much worthless anyway. A company cannot stop you from earning a living. This has been beaten down in courts already, but companies still try to use the non-compete as a hammer.
"We all find it easy to bash Microsoft, their products, and their practices, and quite rightly so, but you can't really argue with Gates's way of using his riches. Even the most cynical would have to admit his heart is in the right place."
Correct. His heart is with his money and control of said wealth. Soon he'll have control of Buffett's billions as well. I mean the Gates foundation has/will have huge influance everywhere that cash lands. He/Gates Foundation looks good in the papers while he uses that influance to push folks/companies in whatever direction he wants. I'd be curious to see the agreements that the foundation requires when money is given. Based upon the MS format of agreements, I'd be suspect.
They also use the Foundation to do other interesting things:
"Take it for what it is, relax, and try to imagine those 2,000 servers in a secret cave under your house, manipulating the stock market in your favor. That's what I do."
Actually, I think these systems generate the 'Jabba the Hutt' like features of Lucas we see on interviews. Those chin ripples look so real.
If I'm not mistaken, though IANAE [Economist], after switching from the Gold Standard, the current currency system was designed to devalue over time. I think a dollar is to devalue to a penny after 20 or so years. I've heard why this is in the design to help predict inflation, but I can't remember. Perhaps a Economist out there can shed some light?
"No one uses pennies. I've got a huge jar of them. Ever since the "Leave a penny, take a penny" concept took off, pennies have been effectively junk."
I use pennies all the time. Either for exact change or to receive bills back instead of change.
I also would be really, really happy if everyone who doesn't care for pennies sent them to me. I'll be happy to have a couple of billion pennies. It converts to bills quite well.
Surf the Web, receive/send email, watch videos, secure the system, and know what exactly what the system is doing or not doing, all at a cost of nothing but time. Games are dependent upon platform they are developed for.
That should hit the 90 percentile.
"In 1000 years, people may try to read that data, but then they'll quickly loose interest when they realize it's in an ancient proprietary format that can only be interpreted with an application that hasn't existed for hundreds and hundreds of years. And who says technology will be more advanced in the far future than it is now, allowing people to read it regardless?"
"Value of watching your power meter run backwards when you're giving power to the grid.... PRICELESS!"
Or from the Power Company perspective:
Being able to make _you_ wait for your money.
Your political rant of GW also being at fault for a blogger aside (???), the fact of the matter is that the weather will change. Period. Human cause/affected or otherwise. For some reason folks are being told that if humans change their patters of behavior weather will stop changing. I think that the general masses need to understand that weather change is going to happen and science can predict, to a degree, of how _fast_ it _may_ change. Weather change from human introduced CO2 (regardless of camp you are in) is just one threat to the planet (caldera,asteroid,etc..). It just happens to be one that humans could potentially change.
Websphere is the framework that other apps build on. Policy based web apps and portals. It's bloated and can be very cumbersome, but does include everything including the kitchen sink when it comes to policy based security. The only thing I don't like is when loading another application from IBM, it will require websphere. But I still love Tivoli and IBM products are a tenfold better then that of BMC.
"If you ask a bricklayer to lay bricks in anything other than a straight line, you'll run into problems," said Soar. "But if you ask the robot to make a squiggly line it really doesn't care."
I'm sure there are many a brickmason who can run bricks in many formations besides a straight line. I'm positive on this fact because the brickmasons who did my foundation was anything but straight.
According to your second source: "rise well above pre-industrial levels. Carbon dioxide levels have increased from 280 ppm in 1750 to over 375 ppm today - higher than any previous levels that can be reliably measured (i.e. in the last 420,000 years)."
And according to your first source: "The page you requested was not found In 15 seconds you will be automatically transferred to the home page..."
But because of the link type you posted, I'll assume you pulled your first fact from the article: "The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere before the industrial revolution was 280 ppm, while it's more than 380 ppm nowadays. This is the highest concentration since at least 600.000 years"
Do you see the problem here? Science needs to be more accurate for credability. 180,000 year difference is quite a disparity. This is exactly why the topic is argumenative.
I know it's human nature that we consider ourselves the center of the Universe (remember those days?), but why do we consider it to be humans fault for this one year warming? A potential factor I'll agree with. But in all of this data, has the factors of the Earth's core heating up, Sun heating up, orbital pattern change have a play in it as well? I think it goes beyond just having large SUV's that could be the cause. And lets not rule out the possiblity that this 'warming' is inevitable even if we were still in caves. You mean to tell me that the planet has to play by our rules and never change or change slowly enough that we can maximize our profits? Since when? I got an idea, let's go ask the caldera in Yellowstone not to erupt. Although I'm sure that is humans fault as well.
Very true. Having a customer put their requirements on a sheet of paper is beyond painful for all involved. (normally, the customer never knows what they truely want anyways). Sadly, the thing that gets done more often then not is an application is designed by the devlopers, placed in production, then the customers follow with information about what they like, don't like, or want. It's ass backwards, but job security for all.
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The same can be said about the elimination of the wolf packs that used to roam the Appalachians and surrounding areas. Now there are so many deer running around folks hit them daily. And since Hunters are 'bad people,' you get to have a new hood ornament on your drive to work. But I guess folks want to make sure little Susie and Jimmy are 'safe' in their back yard.
Ok AC, I'll bit some more. First off, I'm glad that based upon that one post you could tell so much about me. I didn't bantor or throw jabs, I just provided another path of thought. You should try reading more, Capt James McCarthy is a character from a series of books (Matter for Men, David Gerrold..Still waiting David!) not my occupation. I never once said that folks shouldn't be held responsible.
And just to get things correct, there is enough blame to get spread all around over the last 20 years, pinning every current issue on the current administration, though plausable, is not very rationial. You can fault them for not fixing issues that were present when they came into office, and the potential cause for issues you read about in McPaper. But to hold them as the only cause is very short sighted.
I do know that folks are so polerized when it comes to politics and religion that trying to invoke deep thought into the situation is a moot point. They have made up their mind and that is that. No fact or argument is worthy of their consideration.
"As they are highly ideological, driven men, I doubt they are too wishy washy to have made a decision."
You've just described every leader in the world. At least you got that correct. And based upon the United States habit of forgetfullness, the next leader is always going to be a great leader and solve all the issues. The propaganda of "I have all the answers if you put me in the White House" have already begun.
So what are you waiting for? Run for office already! Get off the sidelines and into the game.
"Or the ones who let their vice-president command that no intercepts be performed of aircraft flying towards the twin towers, while they stared frozen-faced at a child's storybook, doing nothing while the plan unfolded. Those are shoes I would not choose to walk in, out of contempt."
Contempt? Really? I know it's going to be tough to look at this with a logical perspective for many folks (pick your side), but this event is incorrectly represented. Since there was no precedent for these types of attacks, if the US Govt. shot down these planes, then they would be chastized by everyone for being to reactionary. So they made a choice, right or wrong I don't know. If these planes were shot down over New York where would the debris land and how many would it kill. Then it would be stated when the best time to shoot the planes out of the air? Downward sprial kind of thing here.
Anyhoo, aside from the fact that Bush, Blair, Chavez, Putin, Jong, etc, etc, etc. are all crappy leaders IMO, I think it is the simplest thing to do is be critical without all of the facts. I suppose it is easier to lead from our couches then from the Oval Office itself. Any leader (take your pick) is there for one reason and one reason only. Power. The rest of us are pieces on the board. Now it could also be said that Big Business/Global Elite are moving the pieces, but you get the drift.
And this brings us to 2008 when Bush is gone and folks will magically stop complaining. The Democrats want to have Bush hand over a clean and no issue Country to them. Now that's a good one. A truly good leader takes on problems and solves them, not require they all be solved prior to their arrival.
"daylight savings times and zones change constantly in australia and everything is fine here, no need to worry"
I take it that you don't work for a "The sky is going to fall unless you get 500 copies of our Timezone Prevention Software" Vendor?
I'm sure there are collages who do. Your login is your full name and your password is your SSN. Have a nice day. ;-)
Those MCSE commercials I hear all the time...
if they would have used Cursive Writing. I'm assuming that they remember cursive writing.
Won't Galactus take care of this when he shows up this later this year?
Actually, a non-compete is pretty much worthless anyway. A company cannot stop you from earning a living. This has been beaten down in courts already, but companies still try to use the non-compete as a hammer.
"We all find it easy to bash Microsoft, their products, and their practices, and quite rightly so, but you can't really argue with Gates's way of using his riches. Even the most cynical would have to admit his heart is in the right place."
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Correct. His heart is with his money and control of said wealth. Soon he'll have control of Buffett's billions as well. I mean the Gates foundation has/will have huge influance everywhere
that cash lands. He/Gates Foundation looks good in the papers while he uses that influance to push folks/companies in whatever direction he wants. I'd be curious to see the agreements that the foundation requires when money is given. Based upon the MS format of agreements, I'd be suspect.
They also use the Foundation to do other interesting things:
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/
"Take it for what it is, relax, and try to imagine those 2,000 servers in a secret cave under your house, manipulating the stock market in your favor. That's what I do."
Actually, I think these systems generate the 'Jabba the Hutt' like features of Lucas we see on interviews. Those chin ripples look so real.
If I'm not mistaken, though IANAE [Economist], after switching from the Gold Standard, the current currency system was designed to devalue over time. I think a dollar is to devalue to a penny after 20 or so years. I've heard why this is in the design to help predict inflation, but I can't remember. Perhaps a Economist out there can shed some light?
"No one uses pennies. I've got a huge jar of them. Ever since the "Leave a penny, take a penny" concept took off, pennies have been effectively junk."
I use pennies all the time. Either for exact change or to receive bills back instead of change.
I also would be really, really happy if everyone who doesn't care for pennies sent them to me. I'll be happy to have a couple of billion pennies. It converts to bills quite well.
Surf the Web, receive/send email, watch videos, secure the system, and know what exactly what the system is doing or not doing, all at a cost of nothing but time. Games are dependent upon platform they are developed for. That should hit the 90 percentile.
"In 1000 years, people may try to read that data, but then they'll quickly loose interest when they realize it's in an ancient proprietary format that can only be interpreted with an application that hasn't existed for hundreds and hundreds of years. And who says technology will be more advanced in the far future than it is now, allowing people to read it regardless?"
Na, I'm _sure_ Vista will be out by then.....
"Value of watching your power meter run backwards when you're giving power to the grid .... PRICELESS!"
Or from the Power Company perspective:
Being able to make _you_ wait for your money.
Your political rant of GW also being at fault for a blogger aside (???), the fact of the matter is that the weather will change. Period. Human cause/affected or otherwise. For some reason folks are being told that if humans change their patters of behavior weather will stop changing. I think that the general masses need to understand that weather change is going to happen and science can predict, to a degree, of how _fast_ it _may_ change. Weather change from human introduced CO2 (regardless of camp you are in) is just one threat to the planet (caldera,asteroid,etc..). It just happens to be one that humans could potentially change.
Websphere is the framework that other apps build on. Policy based web apps and portals. It's bloated and can be very cumbersome, but does include everything including the kitchen sink when it comes to policy based security. The only thing I don't like is when loading another application from IBM, it will require websphere. But I still love Tivoli and IBM products are a tenfold better then that of BMC.
I know the parent is modded troll, but that _is_ funny.
As for the grandfather post, you seem to forget that this is the new sensitive world, and double standards abound.
"If you ask a bricklayer to lay bricks in anything other than a straight line, you'll run into problems," said Soar. "But if you ask the robot to make a squiggly line it really doesn't care." I'm sure there are many a brickmason who can run bricks in many formations besides a straight line. I'm positive on this fact because the brickmasons who did my foundation was anything but straight.
According to your second source: "rise well above pre-industrial levels. Carbon dioxide levels have increased from 280 ppm in 1750 to over 375 ppm today - higher than any previous levels that can be reliably measured (i.e. in the last 420,000 years)."
And according to your first source: "The page you requested was not found In 15 seconds you will be automatically transferred to the home page..."
But because of the link type you posted, I'll assume you pulled your first fact from the article: "The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere before the industrial revolution was 280 ppm, while it's more than 380 ppm nowadays. This is the highest concentration since at least 600.000 years"
Do you see the problem here? Science needs to be more accurate for credability. 180,000 year difference is quite a disparity. This is exactly why the topic is argumenative.
I know it's human nature that we consider ourselves the center of the Universe (remember those days?), but why do we consider it to be humans fault for this one year warming? A potential factor I'll agree with. But in all of this data, has the factors of the Earth's core heating up, Sun heating up, orbital pattern change have a play in it as well? I think it goes beyond just having large SUV's that could be the cause. And lets not rule out the possiblity that this 'warming' is inevitable even if we were still in caves. You mean to tell me that the planet has to play by our rules and never change or change slowly enough that we can maximize our profits? Since when? I got an idea, let's go ask the caldera in Yellowstone not to erupt. Although I'm sure that is humans fault as well.
Very true. Having a customer put their requirements on a sheet of paper is beyond painful for all involved. (normally, the customer never knows what they truely want anyways). Sadly, the thing that gets done more often then not is an application is designed by the devlopers, placed in production, then the customers follow with information about what they like, don't like, or want. It's ass backwards, but job security for all.
I guess you could go bid on a few thousand lines of code to verify it's efficiency.