This is why the pushed Foley out just as soon as they found out he was flirting with young male pages.
Oh wait... they didn't.
Oh wait... it was a pretty open secret he was gay given the frequent male companion he took to events.
The republican party won't push out someone with power because they are gay.
However, since the party is against gays, an openly gay person can become a liability. Only when it becomes known to the electorate will the party push them out.
We need a new party: Socially liberal and Ruthlessly fiscally conservative.
Randy: Can I get you something? Second Jive Dude: 'S'mofo butter layin' me to da' BONE! Jackin' me up... tight me! Randy: I'm sorry, I don't understand. First Jive Dude: Cutty say 'e can't HANG! Jive Lady (a 60ish white lady): Oh stewardess! I speak jive. Randy: Oh, good. Jive Lady: He said that he's in great pain and he wants to know if you can help him. Randy: All right. Would you tell him to just relax and I'll be back as soon as I can with some medicine? Jive Lady: Jus' hang loose, blood. She gonna catch ya up on da' rebound on da' med side. Second Jive Dude: What it is, big mama? My mama no raise no dummies. I dug her rap! Jive Lady: Cut me some slack, Jack! Chump don' want no help, chump don't GET da' help! First Jive Dude: Say 'e can't hang, say seven up! Jive Lady: Jive ass dude don't got no brains anyhow! Hmmph!
One wonders if the better strategy would not have been to utterly crush Iraq and the immediately withdraw the army so it could be reused again. Almost on the first day of the peace, it was apparent that there were not enough troops to win the peace. However, with a huge ready army on tap and ready to act, all the players would have to be a bit more careful. With the army tied down in Iraq, they have a free hand.
So is admitting under oath that you used a weapon when you are a convicted felon.
The judge, prosecution and defense didn't even blink an eye when a witness on an arson case made this statement.
Bottom line: Now, and maybe always, the law is selectively enforced.
Usually so it can be cost effective and catch as many bad guys as possible.
But you cross the wrong people, and it is going to selectively enforced against you to punish you.
We are all breaking various laws constantly every day. (You think not? You never even go 1MPH over the speed limit like the guy in my last defensive driving class (21 in a 20!) or you always signal lane changes on the freeway?) You never ever had a spam that had an inappropriate picture in it? Because if they want they can make your life hell for the cached copy of that picture on your hard drive. Etc. Etc.)
Companies that will happily intern you while you are a junior with no experience will turn their nose up at you after you graduate.
There are two keys to college if all you are doing is getting a bachelor's degree for a job.
1) Take your core classes first. 2) Intern.
Brains and freaks who are doing it because they completely love the work and who write compilers for fun instead of going out, probably do not need to worry about #2 so much provided they have a steller GPA.
--- As for the experience. 1) Go to www.openoffice.org. Find a project to work on. Work on that project and get it installed into the code.
Voila- experience.
Will you *PLEASE* put rectangular cut and paste into Openoffice? B)
I used to spend 4 days a week coding, 1 day a week on documentation. Meetings and paperwork (and CMP goals, and tracking CMP goals) now consume roughly 4 days a week of my time.
No joke- most the *senior* java developers on my row have written under 1000 lines of code in the last 12 months.
They are starting to drift away to smaller companies where they can actually work.
All this because of Enron and not one programmer was involved in that mess.
The problem is then an American company must compete with a Chinese company in the European market.
The American product is $150,000. The Chinese product is $75,000.
The American company goes out of business.
ULTIMATELY, our wages need to be the same as theirs when you consider political stability, corruption, property rights, etc.
This is Japan of the 80's all over again. India and China will come up to speed in about 10 years. Right now they have 50 to 100% wage inflation every 3 years. The next generation of Chinese and Indians will be a lot less hard workers. Two generations from now, they will *probably* be a lot like Europeans, Japanese, and Americans with regard to their work ethics.
The children of rich parents rarely see the point in working as hard as their parents did.
There are *lots* of scientists who believe in supernatural beings. They just don't try to run their science that way.
Science needs no religion. Scientists are just human and may.
We humans are brainwashed by our parents before our rational mind starts working. We are afraid of the dark. We are afraid of dying. When we are in too much pain, there is some scientific evidence that believing certain irrational things activates parts of our body that relieves our pain or makes it easier to endure.
And this is part of why coffee is $1 here (ignoring starbucks) and.25 in developing countries without these and many other laws (each of which costs only pennies to implement) that protect us, the under privelaged, the disabled, the environment, and baby jesus.
I hope they pass some of these laws in india and china soon or they are going to eat us alive in a stew of our own making.
Totally agree and I say this everytime we have another conservation or "things are getting bad post".
TOO MANY PEOPLE.
I thought if we had 3 billion people the world would be okay but the last time I looked this up, I saw research saying that 2 billion is really the sustainable number with current technology- over 2 billion humans, the world starts wearing down.
Man... Are you a libertarian too? I guess some people prefer to be part of a tiny but losing cause over success.
You are not going to get the support until your market is large- probably 20% of the home user/desktop market.
You care if they run windows because every rational person with a good idea looks at the two markets and develops for windows so you have limited hardware and software support.
If your goal is for linux to be the private domain of tech heads, then that's the right path.
If your goal is to reduce Windows to under 50% of the market, then the *attitude* has to change as much as the technology.
Requiring recompilation of drivers immediately reduces it to an elite group of people among a tiny group of people.
I get your response... it is "I want linux to remain my own private domain! We don't need any users who are so dumb that they can't recompile their own drivers."
Fry's complete system for $229. The hardware would cost me that much to scratchbuild it.
The price you pay is pretty variable.
My current main box was $300- I upgraded it for about $229 to compete with $1100 (at the time) boxes and it's whisper quiet.
I'm definately moving away from Windows more each year tho. Almost every app you need you can find an opensource version that runs both on windows and on linux/mac.
I'll own a cheap windows computer ($499) which I use for the required games (mostly EQ) and I'll continue the path I started in 2000 into non-windows land for everything else. I hear that EQ sometimes run well under wine- if they get it 100%, then incentive to use windows is going to be very small.
I am able to get office for $20 so I'll use it when appropriate but otherwise use openoffice for home use.
At this point, I probably give microsoft about $30 to $40 bucks once every 3 years. Wherever they are making their billions from, it was never from em. My total microsoft expendatures since 1995 are about $400 bucks and that includes a natural keyboard.
Is it safer to hire * a citizen with security clearance to do the coding? * a citizen of a country we are friendly with? * a citizen of a country we are neutral with? * a citizen of a country we are hostile but not at war with? * a citizen of a country we are currently at war with to do the coding?
Now keep in mind, that even if we are not in an open bullets flying war with China, they are still basically at economic war with us and very hostile. And that lots of people all over the world are very hostile to the US.
Some projects just really need to be kept in house.
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True.
This is why the pushed Foley out just as soon as they found out he was flirting with young male pages.
Oh wait... they didn't.
Oh wait... it was a pretty open secret he was gay given the frequent male companion he took to events.
The republican party won't push out someone with power because they are gay.
However, since the party is against gays, an openly gay person can become a liability. Only when it becomes known to the electorate will the party push them out.
We need a new party: Socially liberal and Ruthlessly fiscally conservative.
Airplane:
Randy: Can I get you something?
Second Jive Dude: 'S'mofo butter layin' me to da' BONE! Jackin' me up... tight me!
Randy: I'm sorry, I don't understand.
First Jive Dude: Cutty say 'e can't HANG!
Jive Lady (a 60ish white lady): Oh stewardess! I speak jive.
Randy: Oh, good.
Jive Lady: He said that he's in great pain and he wants to know if you can help him.
Randy: All right. Would you tell him to just relax and I'll be back as soon as I can with some medicine?
Jive Lady: Jus' hang loose, blood. She gonna catch ya up on da' rebound on da' med side.
Second Jive Dude: What it is, big mama? My mama no raise no dummies. I dug her rap!
Jive Lady: Cut me some slack, Jack! Chump don' want no help, chump don't GET da' help!
First Jive Dude: Say 'e can't hang, say seven up!
Jive Lady: Jive ass dude don't got no brains anyhow! Hmmph!
Everything is funny.
Death.
Adultery.
Hell I have a friend who jokes about Aids and he had a few of his friends die of it.
Laughter is the best medicine.
So then on the little private sites where you have 5 people sharing from you, the damages would be $3.50?
One wonders if the better strategy would not have been to utterly crush Iraq and the immediately withdraw the army so it could be reused again. Almost on the first day of the peace, it was apparent that there were not enough troops to win the peace. However, with a huge ready army on tap and ready to act, all the players would have to be a bit more careful. With the army tied down in Iraq, they have a free hand.
So is admitting under oath that you used a weapon when you are a convicted felon.
The judge, prosecution and defense didn't even blink an eye when a witness on an arson case made this statement.
Bottom line:
Now, and maybe always, the law is selectively enforced.
Usually so it can be cost effective and catch as many bad guys as possible.
But you cross the wrong people, and it is going to selectively enforced against you to punish you.
We are all breaking various laws constantly every day. (You think not? You never even go 1MPH over the speed limit like the guy in my last defensive driving class (21 in a 20!) or you always signal lane changes on the freeway?) You never ever had a spam that had an inappropriate picture in it? Because if they want they can make your life hell for the cached copy of that picture on your hard drive. Etc. Etc.)
This is why I advise *EVERYONE* to *INTERN*.
Companies that will happily intern you while you are a junior with no experience will turn their nose up at you after you graduate.
There are two keys to college if all you are doing is getting a bachelor's degree for a job.
1) Take your core classes first.
2) Intern.
Brains and freaks who are doing it because they completely love the work and who write compilers for fun instead of going out, probably do not need to worry about #2 so much provided they have a steller GPA.
---
As for the experience.
1) Go to www.openoffice.org.
Find a project to work on.
Work on that project and get it installed into the code.
Voila- experience.
Will you *PLEASE* put rectangular cut and paste into Openoffice? B)
My productivity is down 75% since 2001.
I used to spend 4 days a week coding, 1 day a week on documentation.
Meetings and paperwork (and CMP goals, and tracking CMP goals) now consume roughly 4 days a week of my time.
No joke- most the *senior* java developers on my row have written under 1000 lines of code in the last 12 months.
They are starting to drift away to smaller companies where they can actually work.
All this because of Enron and not one programmer was involved in that mess.
The problem is then an American company must compete with a Chinese company in the European market.
The American product is $150,000.
The Chinese product is $75,000.
The American company goes out of business.
ULTIMATELY, our wages need to be the same as theirs when you consider political stability, corruption, property rights, etc.
This is Japan of the 80's all over again. India and China will come up to speed in about 10 years. Right now they have 50 to 100% wage inflation every 3 years. The next generation of Chinese and Indians will be a lot less hard workers. Two generations from now, they will *probably* be a lot like Europeans, Japanese, and Americans with regard to their work ethics.
The children of rich parents rarely see the point in working as hard as their parents did.
Sort of.
There are *lots* of scientists who believe in supernatural beings.
They just don't try to run their science that way.
Science needs no religion.
Scientists are just human and may.
We humans are brainwashed by our parents before our rational mind starts working. We are afraid of the dark. We are afraid of dying. When we are in too much pain, there is some scientific evidence that believing certain irrational things activates parts of our body that relieves our pain or makes it easier to endure.
I'm like a maxwell smart villian myself.
Quite franky, I find religion hard to believe.
I think the author was trying to save space and used a signed byte so it fluctuates between -127 and +128.
It's sound but there are these little annoying things like evidence for global warming on mars and jupiter.
And this is part of why coffee is $1 here (ignoring starbucks) and .25 in developing countries without these and many other laws (each of which costs only pennies to implement) that protect us, the under privelaged, the disabled, the environment, and baby jesus.
I hope they pass some of these laws in india and china soon or they are going to eat us alive in a stew of our own making.
And they are after a single user, it's probably easier for the government to install a camera in their computer room these days.
It's great this guy created a program to make it easier for them to avoid this problem.
That's the great thing about open source and projects like wiki.
You encounter a problem, it's very easy for people to fix it quickly.
If those 142 items are real, they are probably already being fixed now if not all fixed.
Totally agree and I say this everytime we have another conservation or "things are getting bad post".
TOO MANY PEOPLE.
I thought if we had 3 billion people the world would be okay but the last time I looked this up, I saw research saying that 2 billion is really the sustainable number with current technology- over 2 billion humans, the world starts wearing down.
Man...
Are you a libertarian too? I guess some people prefer to be part of a tiny but losing cause over success.
You are not going to get the support until your market is large- probably 20% of the home user/desktop market.
You care if they run windows because every rational person with a good idea looks at the two markets and develops for windows so you have limited hardware and software support.
Can I have some of that shit you are smoking?
The vast majority of cases are tried in state courts and are never even appealed to federal courts.
I've been on the jury for some and yes a majority *does* presume you are innocent until *PROVEN* guilty.
If your goal is for linux to be the private domain of tech heads, then that's the right path.
If your goal is to reduce Windows to under 50% of the market, then the *attitude* has to change as much as the technology.
Requiring recompilation of drivers immediately reduces it to an elite group of people among a tiny group of people.
I get your response... it is "I want linux to remain my own private domain! We don't need any users who are so dumb that they can't recompile their own drivers."
"Even compiling and installing a driver or two isn't rocket science."
And that's why linux isn't succeeding.
Wiki keeps a history log.
You can easily see every version of any article by browsing it.
Even see why it was changed in some cases.
Not sure how many versions they keep - maybe all.
Win XP Home.
Fry's complete system for $229. The hardware would cost me that much to scratchbuild it.
The price you pay is pretty variable.
My current main box was $300- I upgraded it for about $229 to compete with $1100 (at the time) boxes and it's whisper quiet.
I'm definately moving away from Windows more each year tho. Almost every app you need you can find an opensource version that runs both on windows and on linux/mac.
I'll own a cheap windows computer ($499) which I use for the required games (mostly EQ) and I'll continue the path I started in 2000 into non-windows land for everything else. I hear that EQ sometimes run well under wine- if they get it 100%, then incentive to use windows is going to be very small.
I am able to get office for $20 so I'll use it when appropriate but otherwise use openoffice for home use.
At this point, I probably give microsoft about $30 to $40 bucks once every 3 years. Wherever they are making their billions from, it was never from em. My total microsoft expendatures since 1995 are about $400 bucks and that includes a natural keyboard.
The $600 hammers are a consequence of the vagaries of the contract.
.012" thread, unique bit on top" - one of 21 produced for the entire project.
Naysayers don't point out that the $15 million system was delivered for $15 million.
They don't point out that the "screw" was "99.1% titanium with
They don't point out that the 2 million dollar wing was sold for 1.6 million (tho the $15 million plane was still $15 million).
Huge abuses exist- but some of them are not as bad as the news media makes them out to be.
Okay... let's make it as obvious as possible.
Is it safer to hire
* a citizen with security clearance to do the coding?
* a citizen of a country we are friendly with?
* a citizen of a country we are neutral with?
* a citizen of a country we are hostile but not at war with?
* a citizen of a country we are currently at war with to do the coding?
Now keep in mind, that even if we are not in an open bullets flying war with China, they are still basically at economic war with us and very hostile. And that lots of people all over the world are very hostile to the US.
Some projects just really need to be kept in house.