You DO have the right to marry someone else of the same gender in the US. There are hundreds of gay marriages that occur every day in the US.
What you don't get is the government to recognize it. The government won't treat you like you are married and laws that apply to married people don't apply. But that's not the same as not having the right to marry.
Personally, I think marriage is none of the governments business. It's something that properly belongs in the domain of religion and something the government should have nothing to do with.
Further, his own page, which was linked to from the article, states that he will be working at Microsoft Research. It doesn't take much thought to conclude that it's very unlikely that someone who just got hired at Microsoft Research would have a significant, if any, impact on Vista and Office 12 which are already in Beta.
Who do you think enforces all the other laws on the books? Many laws exist to curb the power of the executive. You don't see them being blatantly violated on a daily basis.
It's a law just like any other law on the books or in the constitution. The Justice Department is nominally charged with enforcement of the law but any individual can bring a suit alleging violations of such laws to the judiciary.
Randomly refuses to respond to keyboard input (Can be worked around by Hiding and Unhiding Firefox) Randomly refuses to respond to mouse scroll events. Sometimes will refuse to respond to being clicked on until you click on the Dock icon first.
Instead of focusing on the real problem, which is that the US is wasting time resources, this solution is just trying to patch on to it by adding extra seconds every so often. If we solved the real problem, which is fat greedy Americans, the rest of the world wouldn't even need to add seconds. Yet again the Bush administration shows that they only care for greedy US corporations and will willingly try and screw the rest of the world and the US in order to serve them.
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Most H1B's are folks who've been in the workforce for a relatively shorter period of time. Most H1Bs are actually dual-status, which means they are applying for a Green Card while working as an H1B. Green Card processing typically takes 4-5 years. They are not classified as H1Bs once they get their Green Cards - which coincides with them acquiring additional experience and raises.
I make more money now than when I was an H1B and it has nothing to do with my visa status and everything to do with the fact that I have more experience doing what I do now than I did before.
Why is it that the US has such issues with China/Cuba/SovietUnion?
We're the only reason your sorry ass isn't speaking Russian right now (or German for that matter). You should be grateful we have such issues with pricks like those.
You'd rather live in the Soviet utopia of engineering advances and everyone living in gulags. Or there's the great Chinese vision of an internet without the word freedom on it. The people willing to risk their lives to get off the island of Cuba aren't just fleeing a poor economy, you know? The word intelligence must mean something else in the land you're from.
This has nothing to do with whether or not good people live in other countries. The UN isn't an organization of the worlds peoples. It's an organization of the worlds governments and in more than half the UN's countries the government has very different interests than the people do.
Poppycock! So if the US paid the UN all the money it wanted and stopped voting on things the world would be a wonderful place with Libya running the Human Rights commission and dictators like Saddam would have nothing to fear as long as they made sure France and Russia were getting exclusive oil contracts.
Maybe you think the world would be a better place if it were run by the likes of China, Cuba and the former Soviet Union. Every intelligent person in the world would disagree with you. The US has been the only thing standing in the way of that.
Does your socialized education system actively brainwash you into believing the garbage you spew or do they just make sure you are stupid so you can absorb this crap from the other morons around you?
They probably realized that the submission was just putting a different spin on the WSJ story about Vista's development process that had been posted a few days ago.
Ladies and Gentlemen, we are witnessing history here. This is the first time Slashdot has actually pulled a story.
USAPhotoMaps is excellent for downloading and viewing USGS topo maps. The interface is terrible and clunky to use but once you figure it out, it's awesome. It also has a database of USGS landmarks that you can use. I use it when planning hiking trips.
I know we hate Microsoft here but VirtualEarth has much higher resolution pictures of many areas. In general, I've found that once you're outside the major metropolitan areas MSNs maps are much better than Google's.
Nay, Im moving to Washington next week to finish up my schooling at UW cause I know MS hires directly out of the UW Seattle CS Department
Please don't tell me that's the only reason you're moving there. Candidates at MS have to meet a certain bar. If you meet that bar, you'll get an offer regardless of where you graduated from. If you don't, you won't. Graduating from the UW CS department will not give you an automatic offer.
They sure as hell moved fast when it was time to attack Iraq. Or when it was time to push the Patriot Act through. Or many other things that directly help whatever agenda they have.
The problem is not that we have too few National Guard troops available. The problem is that most of the resources were moved far from the disaster area to keep them from being destroyed. Resources that weren't moved away were rendered mostly unusable. The disaster area is 90,000 square miles and a lot of the infrastructure in terms of roads and airports was destroyed or rendered unusable. It takes time to get these resources back in in such conditions. New Orleans is on TV the most but the entire Gulf coast has been affected by Katrina. There are two things that should have been done and weren't. One, all possible resources should have been dedicated to getting all people out of NOLA. This wasn't done. Secondly, national guard troops and resources should have been assembled and kept on guard in nearby areas like Houston so they would be in a position to move in as soon as the storm left the area. There's a lot of blame to go around and we should definitely get to the bottom of this. However, now is not the time to do so. At this time the nations thoughts and energies should be focused on saving as many lives as possible while there are still some left to save.
Google keeps and holds its users because searches *work*.
You must not have used Google recently. It's been about 2 years since Google stopped returning useful results. Now, most of the results are crap. Unfortunately, there isn't a better search engine out there.
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You DO have the right to marry someone else of the same gender in the US. There are hundreds of gay marriages that occur every day in the US.
What you don't get is the government to recognize it. The government won't treat you like you are married and laws that apply to married people don't apply. But that's not the same as not having the right to marry.
Personally, I think marriage is none of the governments business. It's something that properly belongs in the domain of religion and something the government should have nothing to do with.
Free speech is the ability to spread your own thoughts and ideas.
Copyright infringement is spreading someone elses against their wishes.
Further, his own page, which was linked to from the article, states that he will be working at Microsoft Research. It doesn't take much thought to conclude that it's very unlikely that someone who just got hired at Microsoft Research would have a significant, if any, impact on Vista and Office 12 which are already in Beta.
Please put some thought into article summaries.
You choose this, one of the darkest days of the year, to make fun of those of us living in the northern latitudes?
(If you live far enough North, the sun will set over the Southern Horizon today - that is if you see it at all)
Who do you think enforces all the other laws on the books? Many laws exist to curb the power of the executive. You don't see them being blatantly violated on a daily basis.
It's a law just like any other law on the books or in the constitution. The Justice Department is nominally charged with enforcement of the law but any individual can bring a suit alleging violations of such laws to the judiciary.
Randomly refuses to respond to keyboard input (Can be worked around by Hiding and Unhiding Firefox)
Randomly refuses to respond to mouse scroll events.
Sometimes will refuse to respond to being clicked on until you click on the Dock icon first.
I'm going back to the previous version.
Judging by the fact that you used that expression correctly, you don't fit into the demographic here.
Paying more money to teachers makes the NEA happy which is always good for your reelection bid.
And a pretty obvious one at that.
Do try and read what you are moderating.
Instead of focusing on the real problem, which is that the US is wasting time resources, this solution is just trying to patch on to it by adding extra seconds every so often. If we solved the real problem, which is fat greedy Americans, the rest of the world wouldn't even need to add seconds. Yet again the Bush administration shows that they only care for greedy US corporations and will willingly try and screw the rest of the world and the US in order to serve them.
We ARE driving on the right side. You're the ones driving on the left side.
What idiot modded this informative?
Funny? Yes. Informative? No.
Most H1B's are folks who've been in the workforce for a relatively shorter period of time. Most H1Bs are actually dual-status, which means they are applying for a Green Card while working as an H1B. Green Card processing typically takes 4-5 years. They are not classified as H1Bs once they get their Green Cards - which coincides with them acquiring additional experience and raises.
I make more money now than when I was an H1B and it has nothing to do with my visa status and everything to do with the fact that I have more experience doing what I do now than I did before.
The Musical Genome project thinks Eminem is the same thing as Bust a Rhymes.
Why is it that the US has such issues with China/Cuba/SovietUnion?
We're the only reason your sorry ass isn't speaking Russian right now (or German for that matter). You should be grateful we have such issues with pricks like those.
You'd rather live in the Soviet utopia of engineering advances and everyone living in gulags. Or there's the great Chinese vision of an internet without the word freedom on it. The people willing to risk their lives to get off the island of Cuba aren't just fleeing a poor economy, you know? The word intelligence must mean something else in the land you're from.
This has nothing to do with whether or not good people live in other countries. The UN isn't an organization of the worlds peoples. It's an organization of the worlds governments and in more than half the UN's countries the government has very different interests than the people do.
Poppycock! So if the US paid the UN all the money it wanted and stopped voting on things the world would be a wonderful place with Libya running the Human Rights commission and dictators like Saddam would have nothing to fear as long as they made sure France and Russia were getting exclusive oil contracts.
Maybe you think the world would be a better place if it were run by the likes of China, Cuba and the former Soviet Union. Every intelligent person in the world would disagree with you. The US has been the only thing standing in the way of that.
Does your socialized education system actively brainwash you into believing the garbage you spew or do they just make sure you are stupid so you can absorb this crap from the other morons around you?
They probably realized that the submission was just putting a different spin on the WSJ story about Vista's development process that had been posted a few days ago.
Ladies and Gentlemen, we are witnessing history here. This is the first time Slashdot has actually pulled a story.
USAPhotoMaps is excellent for downloading and viewing USGS topo maps. The interface is terrible and clunky to use but once you figure it out, it's awesome. It also has a database of USGS landmarks that you can use. I use it when planning hiking trips.
I know we hate Microsoft here but VirtualEarth has much higher resolution pictures of many areas. In general, I've found that once you're outside the major metropolitan areas MSNs maps are much better than Google's.
Type in your search word and click on the Highlight button.
Unless you mean something different.
Nay, Im moving to Washington next week to finish up my schooling at UW cause I know MS hires directly out of the UW Seattle CS Department
Please don't tell me that's the only reason you're moving there. Candidates at MS have to meet a certain bar. If you meet that bar, you'll get an offer regardless of where you graduated from. If you don't, you won't. Graduating from the UW CS department will not give you an automatic offer.
They sure as hell moved fast when it was time to attack Iraq. Or when it was time to push the Patriot Act through. Or many other things that directly help whatever agenda they have.
Really? How many days did those things take?
The problem is not that we have too few National Guard troops available. The problem is that most of the resources were moved far from the disaster area to keep them from being destroyed. Resources that weren't moved away were rendered mostly unusable. The disaster area is 90,000 square miles and a lot of the infrastructure in terms of roads and airports was destroyed or rendered unusable. It takes time to get these resources back in in such conditions. New Orleans is on TV the most but the entire Gulf coast has been affected by Katrina. There are two things that should have been done and weren't. One, all possible resources should have been dedicated to getting all people out of NOLA. This wasn't done. Secondly, national guard troops and resources should have been assembled and kept on guard in nearby areas like Houston so they would be in a position to move in as soon as the storm left the area. There's a lot of blame to go around and we should definitely get to the bottom of this. However, now is not the time to do so. At this time the nations thoughts and energies should be focused on saving as many lives as possible while there are still some left to save.
Google keeps and holds its users because searches *work*.
You must not have used Google recently. It's been about 2 years since Google stopped returning useful results. Now, most of the results are crap. Unfortunately, there isn't a better search engine out there.