Actually it *is* the first thing you learn, from a technical POV. If you have spent time to code a website up, you have time to create a form of backup. I have always taken the view that when I save a file, or make a backup that is the last data checkpoint I know I don't want to lose. And.5 TB isn't much and it doesn't take time - heck it shouldn't be much more than a copy-paste.
Now, there are a billion things with a new venture, that is very true, but one has to prioritize.
The problem is, that those that are liberal think of themselves as centralists \ moderates to validate their opinion and that becomes pervasive in their reporting. Now on the left we have MSNBC with their inspiring "worse, worser, worsest" mantra and on the right we have the ever forgiving O'Reilly from Fox. There's also Rush on the right but on the left is Rather, Bill Maher, Moore and a whole slew of other commentators. And in pop culture, SNL \ Daily Show \ Colbert Report \ The View as obvious examples, that are so left leaning. Was there a Lil' Clinton show on Comedy Central that I missed? Perhaps they're going to be adding Lil'Obama...'cos if they weren't biased they'd have done it right?
So you can bleat on all day until you're blue in the face about the liberal bias "myth" but it doesn't make it any less true. Now obviously anyone is entitled to their opinion, that I'm ok with - just don't tell me its not biased.
And why do you see it in terms of dollar / Iraqi life ? Do you think the US government is somehow saving up to kill people in Iraq ? If you want to start that game we could easily say that chances of being killed by Hussein infinitely reduced down to zero. Like yours, its a ludicrous factoid that completely obscures whats going on.
I would have to agree...whats marring the inauguration is this constant venom and hatred for the previous administration. One might disagree and thats perfectly ok - but a facebook heading I saw "wish there was a statue of Bush, like there was Sadam, that we could knock down and pull through the streets". I also asked my brother-in-law what is it that you hate about Bush and where is the evidence to support your opinion...he replied "my opinion is evidence". Now there are some that can talk intelligently about what Bush has done wrong and cite evidence, but the overwhelming populace is riding on this hatred and when asked they don't seem to know why.
So its upto Facebook and Myspace to do what they want [legallity aside] since it is their website after all. However isn't the counter argument the one used here on/. all the time - that if you don't want to listen or watch things on TV or radio to use the Off button ? I mean who and in what circumstances are nursing mothers thrusting pictures in front of you?
And this nebulous "change" meaning one thing to one person and something else to another is a great big elephant trap Obama has laid for himself. Sure it'll get you popular and into office, but at some point a lot of people are going to be disappointed. This is precisely what happened to Blair in 1997 - he focused on polls and was very popular a few months in until it slowly ebbed away when he didn't deliver. Polls this month or the next 6 are meaningless until we actually see what he does and the outcomes.
Fuel alternatives for automobiles is a failing industry - really? Taxpayers back everything by virtue of being taxpayers. They back education, social security, the police and fire departments, defence and of course welfare. Hey, low interest loans (please read, not bailout) for cleaner and alternative fuel research is as good as anything else.
Then he shouldn't have promised the earth to the electorate. And its always fair - its not about the cards the incoming President is dealt, but how he plays the hand. His success depends on what he does and not on how much he can spend.
Well everyone could provide anecdotal evidence to prove anything...but the point the GP was getting at (I would suggest) is that there are tendencies for what men and women lean towards. Women, as a group, tend towards more human and vocational types of careers and jobs. Men, as a group, tend to work in mathematical\logic solving fields. Both are equally valuable in our society, but the work men tend to go into is financially better off due to supply\demand and that job tends to have a concept of profit and loss. And thats the GPs point. Its forcing from the POV that one shouldn't artifically attract one group of people into a field just to even up some set of statistics.
Never heard of Coco though Apple have a language called Cocoa. I must admit you're the first programmer I've heard of turning down a language based upon what its name is.
True in one sense, but European history is filled conflicts, largely due to geography allowing nations to assert power over other nations. This then leads to "bad blood". Lets remember WW2 was mostly induced by the reminants of WW1. However what I think has "saved" the US from despotism is its governmental system which is extremely formalized, including a devolved separations of power. The British system, for instance, is very much a developing system without even a written constitution.
oh please...there are "tards" (as you so eloquently put it) on both extremes. I don't paint left wingers with the same brush as Stalin just as I shouldn't be painted with some racist overtone. The point the picture [terribly] put it is that most on my side of the aisle are wondering what exactly is going to change and how? The message of "change" has come from just about every candidate if it was popular - Reagan, Clinton, Bush (2), Kerry and now Obama. Have they changed in the way they promised? And as the Obama appointees are shaping up its looking more like the Clintons are back in so not much change there. The point the GP is making is right on - lets not start the accomplishment celebrations until they've actually happened...2 months before he's actually started is a tad premature. And besides, there is precedence for this - Labour (UK) in '97 - almost identical to the Obama campaign in so many respects...and that administration is now loathed and renegaded on so many of their promises.
The root of what the GP is saying is that 'true' communism is a utopia that is essentially impossible to achieve...and consequently you get repressive totalitarian dictators coming out of them.
Well, I think the individual gains far more from any disease prevention than the government saves in money...and of course it also depends on how much the government is spending on each case Alzheimers. Further fuel for the debate is the consideration of how much money (and effort) it takes to research and develop these medicines and their high risk of failure. If the case that we expect the government to just pay companies for the ones that work those companies will be bankrupt in days.
So to sum up...since you're "lower middle class" you're not going to be paying much in taxes but you want your taxes lowered even more, get free healthcare (because we all know healthcare costs just grows on trees), free college tuition and then complain you're not going to get anything from the $700B bailout plan....tell me where in your post is the "ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country" mentality?
You might not recall videos on YouTube re:how to mug someone with a knife, but then 99% don't use YouTube to look up that stuff. YouTube are doing 'their bit' to stop the idiots that do.
You say that you're in the US, so you're not funding them.
Actually we in the US are funding them, but I suspect to much lesser degree. PBS (who in part get funded by the US taxpayer) buys the rights to view BBC content.
You could also point out why should one pay full retail cost for BBC DVDs etc. At the end of the day, whether these things are covered or not under the TV license, the *real* cost of operating the BBC is what they're trying to cover. In my view the TV license covers basic tv viewing (and radio); everything else has to get paid for somehow. Actually I think the TV license is a pretty outdated model when you consider how things have changed over 20 years with VHS \ DVD \ internet.
ok, let me rephrase; China and India need to be tied to Kyoto with no special exceptions. There is no tangible point in signing up to a treaty if you're not held accountable to do anything.
But we don't actually know what the fault was...it took 20 calls, probably all saying "hey we can't find anything wrong" and then this tech guy comes out and says the same thing. The ISP are responsible for the wire to your house; from then on its your responsibility.
If your business (and/or life) relies on the computer you better have the support in place to get things fixed, or do it yourself. There are way too many people out there that want the fruits of a computer \ internet but think it should all magically work flawlessly all the time. Hopefully this is a wake up call for her.
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Actually it *is* the first thing you learn, from a technical POV. If you have spent time to code a website up, you have time to create a form of backup. I have always taken the view that when I save a file, or make a backup that is the last data checkpoint I know I don't want to lose. And .5 TB isn't much and it doesn't take time - heck it shouldn't be much more than a copy-paste.
Now, there are a billion things with a new venture, that is very true, but one has to prioritize.
Well when the press overwhelmingly describe themselves as liberal (or slanted in a particular direction) its a serious concern: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1919999
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1001/campaign-media
The problem is, that those that are liberal think of themselves as centralists \ moderates to validate their opinion and that becomes pervasive in their reporting. Now on the left we have MSNBC with their inspiring "worse, worser, worsest" mantra and on the right we have the ever forgiving O'Reilly from Fox. There's also Rush on the right but on the left is Rather, Bill Maher, Moore and a whole slew of other commentators. And in pop culture, SNL \ Daily Show \ Colbert Report \ The View as obvious examples, that are so left leaning. Was there a Lil' Clinton show on Comedy Central that I missed? Perhaps they're going to be adding Lil'Obama...'cos if they weren't biased they'd have done it right?
So you can bleat on all day until you're blue in the face about the liberal bias "myth" but it doesn't make it any less true. Now obviously anyone is entitled to their opinion, that I'm ok with - just don't tell me its not biased.
And why do you see it in terms of dollar / Iraqi life ? Do you think the US government is somehow saving up to kill people in Iraq ? If you want to start that game we could easily say that chances of being killed by Hussein infinitely reduced down to zero. Like yours, its a ludicrous factoid that completely obscures whats going on.
I would have to agree...whats marring the inauguration is this constant venom and hatred for the previous administration. One might disagree and thats perfectly ok - but a facebook heading I saw "wish there was a statue of Bush, like there was Sadam, that we could knock down and pull through the streets". I also asked my brother-in-law what is it that you hate about Bush and where is the evidence to support your opinion...he replied "my opinion is evidence". Now there are some that can talk intelligently about what Bush has done wrong and cite evidence, but the overwhelming populace is riding on this hatred and when asked they don't seem to know why.
So its upto Facebook and Myspace to do what they want [legallity aside] since it is their website after all. However isn't the counter argument the one used here on /. all the time - that if you don't want to listen or watch things on TV or radio to use the Off button ? I mean who and in what circumstances are nursing mothers thrusting pictures in front of you?
And this nebulous "change" meaning one thing to one person and something else to another is a great big elephant trap Obama has laid for himself. Sure it'll get you popular and into office, but at some point a lot of people are going to be disappointed. This is precisely what happened to Blair in 1997 - he focused on polls and was very popular a few months in until it slowly ebbed away when he didn't deliver. Polls this month or the next 6 are meaningless until we actually see what he does and the outcomes.
Please read the article blurb - not even the article itself is necessary. They're asking for low interest loans.
Fuel alternatives for automobiles is a failing industry - really? Taxpayers back everything by virtue of being taxpayers. They back education, social security, the police and fire departments, defence and of course welfare. Hey, low interest loans (please read, not bailout) for cleaner and alternative fuel research is as good as anything else.
Its a low interest load, not a bailout. The government aren't paying back the principal.
Then he shouldn't have promised the earth to the electorate. And its always fair - its not about the cards the incoming President is dealt, but how he plays the hand. His success depends on what he does and not on how much he can spend.
Well everyone could provide anecdotal evidence to prove anything...but the point the GP was getting at (I would suggest) is that there are tendencies for what men and women lean towards. Women, as a group, tend towards more human and vocational types of careers and jobs. Men, as a group, tend to work in mathematical\logic solving fields. Both are equally valuable in our society, but the work men tend to go into is financially better off due to supply\demand and that job tends to have a concept of profit and loss. And thats the GPs point. Its forcing from the POV that one shouldn't artifically attract one group of people into a field just to even up some set of statistics.
Never heard of Coco though Apple have a language called Cocoa. I must admit you're the first programmer I've heard of turning down a language based upon what its name is.
True in one sense, but European history is filled conflicts, largely due to geography allowing nations to assert power over other nations. This then leads to "bad blood". Lets remember WW2 was mostly induced by the reminants of WW1. However what I think has "saved" the US from despotism is its governmental system which is extremely formalized, including a devolved separations of power. The British system, for instance, is very much a developing system without even a written constitution.
oh please...there are "tards" (as you so eloquently put it) on both extremes. I don't paint left wingers with the same brush as Stalin just as I shouldn't be painted with some racist overtone. The point the picture [terribly] put it is that most on my side of the aisle are wondering what exactly is going to change and how? The message of "change" has come from just about every candidate if it was popular - Reagan, Clinton, Bush (2), Kerry and now Obama. Have they changed in the way they promised? And as the Obama appointees are shaping up its looking more like the Clintons are back in so not much change there. The point the GP is making is right on - lets not start the accomplishment celebrations until they've actually happened...2 months before he's actually started is a tad premature. And besides, there is precedence for this - Labour (UK) in '97 - almost identical to the Obama campaign in so many respects...and that administration is now loathed and renegaded on so many of their promises.
If the University doesn't deliver the mail isn't that some sort of mail fraud? Or am I missing something...
The root of what the GP is saying is that 'true' communism is a utopia that is essentially impossible to achieve...and consequently you get repressive totalitarian dictators coming out of them.
Well, I think the individual gains far more from any disease prevention than the government saves in money...and of course it also depends on how much the government is spending on each case Alzheimers. Further fuel for the debate is the consideration of how much money (and effort) it takes to research and develop these medicines and their high risk of failure. If the case that we expect the government to just pay companies for the ones that work those companies will be bankrupt in days.
oh, and quite agree, yay America.
You might not recall videos on YouTube re:how to mug someone with a knife, but then 99% don't use YouTube to look up that stuff. YouTube are doing 'their bit' to stop the idiots that do.
You say that you're in the US, so you're not funding them.
Actually we in the US are funding them, but I suspect to much lesser degree. PBS (who in part get funded by the US taxpayer) buys the rights to view BBC content.
You could also point out why should one pay full retail cost for BBC DVDs etc. At the end of the day, whether these things are covered or not under the TV license, the *real* cost of operating the BBC is what they're trying to cover. In my view the TV license covers basic tv viewing (and radio); everything else has to get paid for somehow. Actually I think the TV license is a pretty outdated model when you consider how things have changed over 20 years with VHS \ DVD \ internet.
ok, let me rephrase; China and India need to be tied to Kyoto with no special exceptions. There is no tangible point in signing up to a treaty if you're not held accountable to do anything.
If your business (and/or life) relies on the computer you better have the support in place to get things fixed, or do it yourself. There are way too many people out there that want the fruits of a computer \ internet but think it should all magically work flawlessly all the time. Hopefully this is a wake up call for her.
which is why it is so important for China and India be tied to the Kyoto treaty.
Well spotted - the GP opener was clearer a test to separate the pros from the amateurs.