If the ERP system is not working for you, then just hiring internal developers is not the solution to your problem. You need to go back and find out what went wrong, and where it went wrong in your system design and architecture process. It sounds like the problem you have isn't "not enough code", but rather, poor management of the design process. It sounds like you guys are mixing methodologies that aren't intended for an ERP projects of this scale. In fact, based on what you describe (user-driven development), the users weren't very involved in the early design to lay out what their needs are for this system, especially on the reporting end. So your BI system got the Business side right, but it seems the Intelligence part is lacking.
TLDR: go back to the drawing board and figure out where the design was fudged. Then, take the time to produce a proper design with proper user input. Lastly, select a methodology that works with your organization's structure and is in-line with the business strategy. Make sure to include the proper people in the design committee (especially top management), and produce a proper design document that the users will sign-off on. Only then can you begin to shop around for the solution that best fits your needs...and it may even be Oracle...but at least you will be able to better guide your consultants in them providing you with exactly what the users actually need. Also, consider the roll-out process...look at a pilot roll out, or another phased approach...don't EVER do cut-over!
I use to have your problem. Then I went out and bought a Synology 211 NAS. I love it. It has a fantastic interface (DSM 4.0). It is set up for Raid 1 at the moment with mirroring. I have had integrity issues with my drives where I had to rebuild one of the drives. Other than that, I love the peace of mind I now have. Plus it is so compact... check it out.
The problem with what has been alleged is that it now gives more ammunition to those against SaaS over the web. On the other hand, it makes it all the more important that these companies be forced to use SSL for login sessions.
On a side note, this sounds way too stupid to have actually occurred. If Mark actually did these things, I feel much more confident in my own intelligence (in comparison to his own, and what I previously thought of it).
"Go is not meant to innovate programming theory. It's meant to innovate programming practice."
I have done a lot of reading about Golang and have followed the community since its launch. The people involved are great, and the language is extremely straight-forward. I would put it up against any other language as a first-learned programming language. Golang is a "patterns" based language -- like javascript. This makes it EXTREMELY flexible. It is, however, very different from non-pattern based languages, such as C/C++, ruby, python, etc. Perhaps one of the reasons I have great appreciation for it is because I fell in love with javascript (the good parts), after watching the videos at: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/110371/what-javascript-tutorials-on-the-web-would-you-recommend/111177#111177
I see a lot of potential for this language. I have recently been really impressed by javascript, as a completely different approach to programming thanks to closures (I'm coming from C/C++ & Python). I think golang is everything that made javascript a huge leap forward in programming methods back in the 90s, nothing that makes it bad, and add a great multi-threading layer on top of that.
While the libraries are still lacking, that says nothing about the language itself. Libraries come over time. Though, I must say that the base libraries that the language was launched with provide enough for people to do some great stuff.
I would say it is because balancing a game as complex as ones with classes + skills is a order of magnitude greater than doing the same for a level based system. These days, with companies wanting a quicker release in order to profit from the game sooner, it is very difficult to get the funding to develop a skills based game. I say skills based, but usually those include a lot of other aspects of UO like housing and such.
Please stop following the outdated property rights model. We have the tools and technology to start the shift towards the Chicago school's economic model to intellectual property.
Society needs a re-focusing of the driver for innovation. People should still be paid for their work, however, it should not be a pay-per-use model of intellectual property. There is a good example of this in Canada with the CD tax. When you purchase the recordable media you pay a tax that goes to artists for their work. In exchange you acquire the right to make copies of your music CDs. This is a good beginning, but there is no desire to develop it as it would take the power away from the publishers, and give it back to the artists. Publishers would no longer be the middle man that has made them so rich. Intellectual property laws are no longer appropriate for the new creative landscape. However, they don't need to change, they need to be completely removed and re-thought from scratch. Existing laws and any potential changes will never succeed in what people imagine they exist to achieve: artistic freedom through compensation for efforts expended.
The emphasis of intellectual property rights are on the individual and on the "I made it" or "I invented it". The whole founding principle behind copyright was in-fact to give authors the right to control who publishes their book. It was a direct attack on the way too powerful publishing industry at the time (see context of Statute of Anne UK).
Since that time there has also been the issue of attribution. This was mostly due to the fact that you needed to attribute the work in order to claim copyright and thereby control the work (see publisher battle in previous paragraph).
Lastly, there has been an element of profit introduced, more so recently, but also in the past. Don't forget that before there was the global market place and the invention of the printers people earned their living (or death in the case of Aristotle), through recognition for their works. These days people are no longer making a "living", but rather making their fortunes via the same. Now, there is nothing wrong with this. However, when it becomes the driving force as opposed to contributing to the story of humanity, then there is a problem. This is the great shift that intellectual property laws embrace and were engineered to contribute to from the beginning (accidentally or not).
These days there has been a re-emergence of publishers as an enemy to the artist, and there is a great need for a new "Statute of Anne" to address this. Creators need to start concentrating on the contribution to the humanity, rather than getting bogged down in who should gets a cut. It is only when this shift occurs will humanity be able to shed their shackles of intellectual mediocrity. It is only when there is less concern for profits and more for intangible value added to society will we see some great innovation.
Learn about the Chicago economic theory regarding intellectual property rights.
During my architecture / engineering classes days, I found the winning combination was Laptop + digital camera.
Towards the end of the year, everyone in class had a camera, and the profs would actually play along and ask if everyone has finished taking a picture before erasing the board.
The above was WAY better than any pen and paper. This is because the professor would often make mistakes as they draw and would erase parts. In addition, they would use multiple colours to make the image communicate more information. Impossible to capture this without a digital camera.
Today: I would do Ipad + digital camera for any class... I would just dump the camera pictures into a folder labeled for that lecture along with my.odf /.doc / what-ever text format.
I have been an apple user and STRONG proponent since the 6400 days. Though, these days I am no longer a proponent, simply a happy user of the hardware I purchased previously. However, even this is changing, as with every update to the OS, more and more of the sky is being blocked out with the OS becoming more and more closed. This seems like a direct attack at the heart of *nix, which has been the poster-child of openness (Linux/BSD). Microsoft is already on life-support, but the family is selfish and unwilling to let go, and simply pull the plug. Apple seems to be racing with great zeal for the same fate.
The way apple has been making their system more and more closed (ever since they closed-sourced the OSX kernel), has been a steady decline into a place where apple will no longer be the "Alternative".
It seems they are terrified of the prospect of losing their main revenue stream: hardware. However, they changed their business model ever since the old iMac (colored) came out. Where they are no longer just hardware, they are a user experience. On the other hand, they still seem to be terrified of the prospect of a repeat of what happened in the early 90s when they opened their hardware to other non-apple producers and almost went out of business due to cheaper supply of apple hardware from non-apple producers. Sadly, they don't want to accept the new business model as being a solution to this problem. It seems as though they have one leg in the past and one racing for the future. If they don't be careful, this may rip their company apart.
To Apple: Openness != lower profits. However, openness is the future, I think this is an established business reality at this point. Stop waging war on this, you will lose, and we the people WILL win in the end. So while you may win a few battles with release of some neat things (iPad), you will lose the war, because those you depend on most dearly will abandon you...and they are not the consumer, as you may think... this will begin with the fall of your King. Who has lost his path, perhaps even led astray by those advisors he trusts most. Because they know he is short on time. They know there will be strife. So they are trying to shut all the exits from the outside, so those inside will have no way out. The momentum in the wrong direction is so great at this point, that sadly, there is very little chance the company will be able to stear clear of the rocks ahead.
"Here lays the broken spirit of Apple - April 1, 1976 - January 27, 201X"
After a quick read through part of the document linked to, it sounds like this was a partnership as per the law (if you act and give the impression that you are partners, under the law, you are to those parties who you created the impression to). So there would be breach of fiduciary duty on Fusion Garage's part... This looks like a lawyer's wet dream in some respects... Though it will be interesting how the lawyers will play this...
Also...what is TC trying to get out of this? All they will likely get is an injunction (maybe interlocutory--thereby preventing sale of the Joojoo in the US before it even launches). There DOES seem to be some copyright involved (design of the tablet), as the copyright on the software is apparantly owned by Fusion Garage.
Iranians are not organized (the people), you cannot expect to achieve anything until you get organized. Start building groups, decentralized cells that operate on their own without a centralized leadership. Read and learn! Most of the Iranian supporters of Mousavi are intelligent, that is your weapon.
Learn about tactics, sabotage, etc., and gather supplies you will need. You cannot gather in groups and attack the police using the police's own tactics of large-scale street battles. You need insurgency, and sabotage.
You are intelligent Iranians, you can get into employment and infiltrate agencies that no other Iranian can. The only way a government can be brought down is with an insurgency from within. Look at the Soviet collapse for an idea of how this is done.
Most importantly, build international support, you cannot do this on your own. There are many organizations that would support a move towards democracy with supplies and money.
Without the above, you cannot achieve anything except suffering for those who would most likely be wanting to help the cause.
You want to add a user?
Fill out form A, B, B-2, and C-3
People tend to take paperwork seriously (ie. they take user setup into consideration when hiring new people if they have to fill out paperwork).
HELP DESK:
Have users fill out a dynamic form that also functions as a helper. Some of these can be designed in such a way as to have the user solve a lot of the simple problems on their own, while filling out the form, without it ever being completed and sent in.
I call it formalization... works great in big organizations where people are used to filling out paperwork... not so good in small-medium sized orgs where you are in close proximity with the others in the company...
Also...and most importantly...well designed forms will provide you with all the information you need, while being realistic to what information the users know how to find...
There are other questions being raised here. This may be a direct attack on the you post I profit web 2.0 model. Perhaps this will force publishers to do ad-revenue sharing with content providers. I remember reading a while back about youtube paying content providers some amount of money from the ad-revenue their videos generate. How is this any different?
This is a natural step in the evolution of the web 2.0 model (web 2.5?).
Perhaps this is not such a bad thing, it may bring more attention to the issue than there is currently. Maybe if some people start to experience and understand what the lack of net-neutrality actually causes, they will be more likely to be more involved in ensuring net-neutrality is enforced.
However, I must admit that if net-neutrality is lost, it may be impossible to re-gain--much like public health-care in the US will be next-to-impossible to get.
What consumers need are more consumer lobby groups. I am certainly very willing to pay an extra 1% tax just to get the benefit of such a lobby group. Oh, wait, we are already paying for the government, why not get them to do something?...oh...right...never mind.
Depending on how they formated the question they could get the population to go either way. Therefore, until
it is possible to see the data and possibly have the same work be repeated by a more unbiased organization.
I tend to doubt any statistical results being put forward by an organization that stands to benefit from one result.
Wow, their stock is going down faster than a hooker on Main St. My put options are looking really sweet right now!! Woohoo!!!! You can always count on Apple to screw something major up when releasing something that would otherwise be revolutionary.
Thank you Steve Jobs and AT&T.
The LG brother device of the iPhone is starting to look really damn sweet at this point.
It seems that history is important afterall, as it seems no one here seems to know the it. Everyone seems to have some bits of information either based on antizionist information or on zionist information, sometimes even a little of both.
This is precisely what history classes are for. They are supposed to teach you everything that happend. Then, once you have heard everything, you are supposed to learn how to be critical of what you were taught.
What is happening hear is that a bunch of morons are running around selling their own brand of history
What makes me really lose my mind is how the schools can even consider the fact that muslims don't believe the world is round as a good reason to not teach about the planets.
Ok ok, I know this song... AMERICA IS THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE! Anyone that states otherwise will be labeled a heretic and burned at the stake!
They say history repeats it-self. Does that then mean that people will soon believe the world is flat again? I wonder...
Get back on topic people, this is not about what you "believe" this is about what is real and what is hear-say.
Just because the stereotypical Muslim is described as a human that can barely think, let alone think for them-selves, it does not mean that it is true. There are muslims out there whom are critical about this garbage that is being preached. There are also those that are against this whole movement to turn all the school's curriculum's into religious teachings. These Muslims, however, are VERY few in number, and don't tend to be very vocal about their beliefs. Therefore, all that is left are the people with half a brain and a book that promises to provide the other half (the extremist version of the Koran, not the moderate one).
Don't forget there are a lot of Arabs that are against these muslim extremists, but have no one else to turn to for support against them. Therefore, they simply have no choice but to go with it.
So back on topic.
Learn to be critical of what you read and people sell as fact.
Oh my god, it has finally happened. Double-speak is here. My family left the Soviet Union to escape this sort of thing
just to find it creep into the US. I guess that saying is true about how there is a danger of becoming like those you
fight (or something to that effect).
Omg hahaha.
Fuel-cell? I would hate to see the repair costs on something like that...tune-up = $1000.
This is destined for failure as it still doesn't solve the problem of where to refuel.
As the article states, tracking someone through tracking currency on that person is stupid. The point braught up is what happens when the person puts the coin in a pop machine. Basically, tracking someone through currency of that form could only work in a controlled environment where the person is within range and AS LONG AS THEY DONT SPEND MONEY! The funny thing is is that the coin in Canada is partly there to spur spending as no one likes having coins in their pocket. THerefore, this is officially the stupidest place to put a tracking device. THEREFORE, it is probably some corporate spies rather than government spies (as the article points out there are tons of them at tech trade-shows).
This just in...Canada has weapons of mass distraction! We must liberate their water from them!...dont laugh it is the oil of the future.
I guess the next logical step is for someone to put this mod into "War Games" and have a christmas special. Have to re-dub the actors though...
"oh god! Stop the count-down, christmas must not come early this year!"
They are simply trying to make a balance in the industry to Oracle Linux + DB by concentrating on partnering with RedHat & Novell as those are the only two other businesses that are competing with Oracle Linux. Together they are forming a united front so as to force a balance of power in the DB market (including OS for DB).
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If the ERP system is not working for you, then just hiring internal developers is not the solution to your problem. You need to go back and find out what went wrong, and where it went wrong in your system design and architecture process. It sounds like the problem you have isn't "not enough code", but rather, poor management of the design process. It sounds like you guys are mixing methodologies that aren't intended for an ERP projects of this scale. In fact, based on what you describe (user-driven development), the users weren't very involved in the early design to lay out what their needs are for this system, especially on the reporting end. So your BI system got the Business side right, but it seems the Intelligence part is lacking.
TLDR: go back to the drawing board and figure out where the design was fudged. Then, take the time to produce a proper design with proper user input. Lastly, select a methodology that works with your organization's structure and is in-line with the business strategy. Make sure to include the proper people in the design committee (especially top management), and produce a proper design document that the users will sign-off on. Only then can you begin to shop around for the solution that best fits your needs...and it may even be Oracle...but at least you will be able to better guide your consultants in them providing you with exactly what the users actually need. Also, consider the roll-out process...look at a pilot roll out, or another phased approach...don't EVER do cut-over!
I use to have your problem. Then I went out and bought a Synology 211 NAS. I love it. It has a fantastic interface (DSM 4.0). It is set up for Raid 1 at the moment with mirroring. I have had integrity issues with my drives where I had to rebuild one of the drives. Other than that, I love the peace of mind I now have. Plus it is so compact... check it out.
The problem with what has been alleged is that it now gives more ammunition to those against SaaS over the web. On the other hand, it makes it all the more important that these companies be forced to use SSL for login sessions.
On a side note, this sounds way too stupid to have actually occurred. If Mark actually did these things, I feel much more confident in my own intelligence (in comparison to his own, and what I previously thought of it).
"Go is not meant to innovate programming theory. It's meant to innovate programming practice."
I have done a lot of reading about Golang and have followed the community since its launch. The people involved are great, and the language is extremely straight-forward. I would put it up against any other language as a first-learned programming language. Golang is a "patterns" based language -- like javascript. This makes it EXTREMELY flexible. It is, however, very different from non-pattern based languages, such as C/C++, ruby, python, etc. Perhaps one of the reasons I have great appreciation for it is because I fell in love with javascript (the good parts), after watching the videos at: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/110371/what-javascript-tutorials-on-the-web-would-you-recommend/111177#111177
I see a lot of potential for this language. I have recently been really impressed by javascript, as a completely different approach to programming thanks to closures (I'm coming from C/C++ & Python). I think golang is everything that made javascript a huge leap forward in programming methods back in the 90s, nothing that makes it bad, and add a great multi-threading layer on top of that.
While the libraries are still lacking, that says nothing about the language itself. Libraries come over time. Though, I must say that the base libraries that the language was launched with provide enough for people to do some great stuff.
I would say it is because balancing a game as complex as ones with classes + skills is a order of magnitude greater than doing the same for a level based system. These days, with companies wanting a quicker release in order to profit from the game sooner, it is very difficult to get the funding to develop a skills based game. I say skills based, but usually those include a lot of other aspects of UO like housing and such.
Please stop following the outdated property rights model. We have the tools and technology to start the shift towards the Chicago school's economic model to intellectual property.
Society needs a re-focusing of the driver for innovation. People should still be paid for their work, however, it should not be a pay-per-use model of intellectual property. There is a good example of this in Canada with the CD tax. When you purchase the recordable media you pay a tax that goes to artists for their work. In exchange you acquire the right to make copies of your music CDs. This is a good beginning, but there is no desire to develop it as it would take the power away from the publishers, and give it back to the artists. Publishers would no longer be the middle man that has made them so rich. Intellectual property laws are no longer appropriate for the new creative landscape. However, they don't need to change, they need to be completely removed and re-thought from scratch. Existing laws and any potential changes will never succeed in what people imagine they exist to achieve: artistic freedom through compensation for efforts expended.
The emphasis of intellectual property rights are on the individual and on the "I made it" or "I invented it". The whole founding principle behind copyright was in-fact to give authors the right to control who publishes their book. It was a direct attack on the way too powerful publishing industry at the time (see context of Statute of Anne UK).
Since that time there has also been the issue of attribution. This was mostly due to the fact that you needed to attribute the work in order to claim copyright and thereby control the work (see publisher battle in previous paragraph).
Lastly, there has been an element of profit introduced, more so recently, but also in the past. Don't forget that before there was the global market place and the invention of the printers people earned their living (or death in the case of Aristotle), through recognition for their works. These days people are no longer making a "living", but rather making their fortunes via the same. Now, there is nothing wrong with this. However, when it becomes the driving force as opposed to contributing to the story of humanity, then there is a problem. This is the great shift that intellectual property laws embrace and were engineered to contribute to from the beginning (accidentally or not).
These days there has been a re-emergence of publishers as an enemy to the artist, and there is a great need for a new "Statute of Anne" to address this. Creators need to start concentrating on the contribution to the humanity, rather than getting bogged down in who should gets a cut. It is only when this shift occurs will humanity be able to shed their shackles of intellectual mediocrity. It is only when there is less concern for profits and more for intangible value added to society will we see some great innovation.
Learn about the Chicago economic theory regarding intellectual property rights.
During my architecture / engineering classes days, I found the winning combination was Laptop + digital camera.
Towards the end of the year, everyone in class had a camera, and the profs would actually play along and ask if everyone has finished taking a picture before erasing the board.
The above was WAY better than any pen and paper. This is because the professor would often make mistakes as they draw and would erase parts. In addition, they would use multiple colours to make the image communicate more information. Impossible to capture this without a digital camera.
Today: I would do Ipad + digital camera for any class... I would just dump the camera pictures into a folder labeled for that lecture along with my .odf / .doc / what-ever text format.
Works great!
I have been an apple user and STRONG proponent since the 6400 days. Though, these days I am no longer a proponent, simply a happy user of the hardware I purchased previously. However, even this is changing, as with every update to the OS, more and more of the sky is being blocked out with the OS becoming more and more closed. This seems like a direct attack at the heart of *nix, which has been the poster-child of openness (Linux/BSD). Microsoft is already on life-support, but the family is selfish and unwilling to let go, and simply pull the plug. Apple seems to be racing with great zeal for the same fate.
The way apple has been making their system more and more closed (ever since they closed-sourced the OSX kernel), has been a steady decline into a place where apple will no longer be the "Alternative".
It seems they are terrified of the prospect of losing their main revenue stream: hardware. However, they changed their business model ever since the old iMac (colored) came out. Where they are no longer just hardware, they are a user experience. On the other hand, they still seem to be terrified of the prospect of a repeat of what happened in the early 90s when they opened their hardware to other non-apple producers and almost went out of business due to cheaper supply of apple hardware from non-apple producers. Sadly, they don't want to accept the new business model as being a solution to this problem. It seems as though they have one leg in the past and one racing for the future. If they don't be careful, this may rip their company apart.
To Apple:
Openness != lower profits. However, openness is the future, I think this is an established business reality at this point. Stop waging war on this, you will lose, and we the people WILL win in the end. So while you may win a few battles with release of some neat things (iPad), you will lose the war, because those you depend on most dearly will abandon you...and they are not the consumer, as you may think... this will begin with the fall of your King. Who has lost his path, perhaps even led astray by those advisors he trusts most. Because they know he is short on time. They know there will be strife. So they are trying to shut all the exits from the outside, so those inside will have no way out. The momentum in the wrong direction is so great at this point, that sadly, there is very little chance the company will be able to stear clear of the rocks ahead.
"Here lays the broken spirit of Apple - April 1, 1976 - January 27, 201X"
I've got $5 on that the project is http://www.web2py.com/.
After a quick read through part of the document linked to, it sounds like this was a partnership as per the law (if you act and give the impression that you are partners, under the law, you are to those parties who you created the impression to). So there would be breach of fiduciary duty on Fusion Garage's part... This looks like a lawyer's wet dream in some respects... Though it will be interesting how the lawyers will play this...
Also...what is TC trying to get out of this? All they will likely get is an injunction (maybe interlocutory--thereby preventing sale of the Joojoo in the US before it even launches). There DOES seem to be some copyright involved (design of the tablet), as the copyright on the software is apparantly owned by Fusion Garage.
Interesting...
See the following sites:
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Net:Bonding
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1238308
That should give you a good start.
Iranians are not organized (the people), you cannot expect to achieve anything until you get organized. Start building groups, decentralized cells that operate on their own without a centralized leadership. Read and learn! Most of the Iranian supporters of Mousavi are intelligent, that is your weapon. Learn about tactics, sabotage, etc., and gather supplies you will need. You cannot gather in groups and attack the police using the police's own tactics of large-scale street battles. You need insurgency, and sabotage. You are intelligent Iranians, you can get into employment and infiltrate agencies that no other Iranian can. The only way a government can be brought down is with an insurgency from within. Look at the Soviet collapse for an idea of how this is done. Most importantly, build international support, you cannot do this on your own. There are many organizations that would support a move towards democracy with supplies and money. Without the above, you cannot achieve anything except suffering for those who would most likely be wanting to help the cause.
You want to add a user? Fill out form A, B, B-2, and C-3 People tend to take paperwork seriously (ie. they take user setup into consideration when hiring new people if they have to fill out paperwork). HELP DESK: Have users fill out a dynamic form that also functions as a helper. Some of these can be designed in such a way as to have the user solve a lot of the simple problems on their own, while filling out the form, without it ever being completed and sent in. I call it formalization... works great in big organizations where people are used to filling out paperwork... not so good in small-medium sized orgs where you are in close proximity with the others in the company... Also...and most importantly...well designed forms will provide you with all the information you need, while being realistic to what information the users know how to find...
There are other questions being raised here. This may be a direct attack on the you post I profit web 2.0 model. Perhaps this will force publishers to do ad-revenue sharing with content providers. I remember reading a while back about youtube paying content providers some amount of money from the ad-revenue their videos generate. How is this any different? This is a natural step in the evolution of the web 2.0 model (web 2.5?).
This is nothing new, where do you think Soap Opera came from... it was a program made to sell clothes washing soap. Why is this news?
Perhaps this is not such a bad thing, it may bring more attention to the issue than there is currently. Maybe if some people start to experience and understand what the lack of net-neutrality actually causes, they will be more likely to be more involved in ensuring net-neutrality is enforced.
However, I must admit that if net-neutrality is lost, it may be impossible to re-gain--much like public health-care in the US will be next-to-impossible to get.
What consumers need are more consumer lobby groups. I am certainly very willing to pay an extra 1% tax just to get the benefit of such a lobby group. Oh, wait, we are already paying for the government, why not get them to do something?...oh...right...never mind.
Depending on how they formated the question they could get the population to go either way. Therefore, until
it is possible to see the data and possibly have the same work be repeated by a more unbiased organization.
I tend to doubt any statistical results being put forward by an organization that stands to benefit from one result.
Wow, their stock is going down faster than a hooker on Main St. My put options are looking really sweet right now!! Woohoo!!!! You can always count on Apple to screw something major up when releasing something that would otherwise be revolutionary.
Thank you Steve Jobs and AT&T.
The LG brother device of the iPhone is starting to look really damn sweet at this point.
Oh well, here comes another newton...
It seems that history is important afterall, as it seems no one here seems to know the it. Everyone seems to have some bits of
information either based on antizionist information or on zionist information, sometimes even a little of both.
This is precisely what history classes are for. They are supposed to teach you everything that happend. Then, once you have heard
everything, you are supposed to learn how to be critical of what you were taught.
What is happening hear is that a bunch of morons are running around selling their own brand of history
What makes me really lose my mind is how the schools can even consider the fact that muslims don't believe the world is round as a
good reason to not teach about the planets.
Ok ok, I know this song... AMERICA IS THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE! Anyone that states otherwise will be labeled a heretic and burned
at the stake!
They say history repeats it-self. Does that then mean that people will soon believe the world is flat again?
I wonder...
Get back on topic people, this is not about what you "believe" this is about what is real and what is hear-say.
Just because the stereotypical Muslim is described as a human that can barely think, let alone think for them-selves, it does
not mean that it is true. There are muslims out there whom are critical about this garbage that is being preached. There are also
those that are against this whole movement to turn all the school's curriculum's into religious teachings. These Muslims, however,
are VERY few in number, and don't tend to be very vocal about their beliefs. Therefore, all that is left are the people with half
a brain and a book that promises to provide the other half (the extremist version of the Koran, not the moderate one).
Don't forget there are a lot of Arabs that are against these muslim extremists, but have no one else to turn to for support
against them. Therefore, they simply have no choice but to go with it.
So back on topic.
Learn to be critical of what you read and people sell as fact.
HERETIC!!! He goes against the grain with his success! He is preaching blasphemy against the oil gods!!!
BURN HIM!!!!! BURN HIM!!!!
Oh my god, it has finally happened. Double-speak is here. My family left the Soviet Union to escape this sort of thing
just to find it creep into the US. I guess that saying is true about how there is a danger of becoming like those you
fight (or something to that effect).
Why stop there...
Murderer = Life Enabler
Omg hahaha.
Fuel-cell? I would hate to see the repair costs on something like that...tune-up = $1000.
This is destined for failure as it still doesn't solve the problem of where to refuel.
As the article states, tracking someone through tracking currency on that person is stupid. The point braught up is what happens when the person puts the coin in a pop machine. Basically, tracking someone through currency of that form could only work in a controlled environment where the person is within range and AS LONG AS THEY DONT SPEND MONEY! The funny thing is is that the coin in Canada is partly there to spur spending as no one likes having coins in their pocket. THerefore, this is officially the stupidest place to put a tracking device. THEREFORE, it is probably some corporate spies rather than government spies (as the article points out there are tons of them at tech trade-shows). This just in...Canada has weapons of mass distraction! We must liberate their water from them! ...dont laugh it is the oil of the future.
I guess the next logical step is for someone to put this mod into "War Games" and have a christmas special. Have to re-dub the actors though... "oh god! Stop the count-down, christmas must not come early this year!"
They are simply trying to make a balance in the industry to Oracle Linux + DB by concentrating on partnering with RedHat & Novell as those are the only two other businesses that are competing with Oracle Linux. Together they are forming a united front so as to force a balance of power in the DB market (including OS for DB).
-eof