I'm pretty sure that's NOT why DC didn't have voting representation. The concern was that DC would ultimately become not only the capital of the country but -- as was the case for other "capitals" in Europe -- the largest and most powerful city. Fear of the rise of monarchy was significant. It's also quaint, and these days, detrimental. Basically we have a half a million poor people, without easy mobility, denied voting representation in Congress largely because the Republicans fear that if given the voting rights they deserved as citizens, they'll vote Democrat.
Tell that to the residents of Washington, DC. They must pay federal income tax, but get no representation in Congress. In fact, they are the only principality in the US in which this is the case. One man, zero votes. Taxation without representation. Given that their city is essentially beholden to Congress, whose representatives don't care about them, AND that the residents of DC are by and large black and poor, this is a pretty awful situation.
Here's an interesting tidbit about New Jersey and New York income taxes. Last year, my fiance worked in New Jersey for 2 months, January and February. She then moved to Albany where she worked the remainder of the year for a different employer. She cut all ties to New Jersey once she moved, so none of her work was done there. Last month when she filed her income taxes, lo and behold New Jersey taxes people for their entire annual income, regardless of whether you earned it all in New Jersey or not. She basically had to pay income tax twice.
I doubt this. Like other states, New Jersey has a part-time resident and non-resident tax form which stipulates that your wife is responsible for paying taxes only on income she earned while in New Jersey (see page 7). If she lived in New York but continued working in New Jersey, then the income is split between New York and New Jersey. But that's not what you said.
I know I'm railing against the wind here, but EMAILS IS NOT A WORD. Just as "mails" is not a word. You sound like a dufus for saying "I'm going to put stamps on five mails for you". Likewise, you sound like a dufus for saying "I'm going to send you five emails".
Email, like mail, is a mass noun. You send people email.
The word you're looking for "email messages". Or just "messages".
Reconnaisance aircraft (such as the one recently downed in China).
Co-development of NIMA (now NGA) and NRO.
Here's a hint: NSA's foreign service dwarfs that of CIA's. Just because they're not doing human intelligence doesn't mean they don't spend a ton of money on foreign field agents.
Um... there's only one organization that is permitted to spy inside the US border. The FBI. NSA is specifically required to spy overseas except with special FISA permission.
Your circular point being... ? The EU is presently after Microsoft in court, arguing that it should be fined a whopping sum because of unfair trade due to monopolistic status. Just because the court hasn't ruled yet doesn't mean that the EU shouldn't be going after Microsoft in a way it's not going after Apple.
The NSA and its predecessor agencies have had vast budgets since the Truman administration. What do you think they were doing before 9/11?
Spying on the USSR?
Later: spying on North Korea?
Seriously, is this the only support you have? That in your humble opinion the budget of the NSA has historically been more than it needs to do the huge work it's tasked to do outside the US?
The reason why we know what the NSA was up to recently is because members of the intelligence community leaked it, angrily, despite pressure not to do so due to patriotic crap post-9/11. If we were doing this pre-Bush, you don't think that the lack of that specific pressure would make it MORE likely they'd spill the beans on illegal activities?
Seriously, you don't have any evidence at all, do you? And it's clear to me that you don't actually know anything about how the NSA works.
Um, because Microsoft has a monopoly, and uses its API as a monopoly-propogation mechanism?
How many times do we have to clue you dufuses in that certain rules ONLY APPLY TO MONOPOLIES?
While big government does not equal a police state, it does provide the dark and dank corners for the fungus to grow unchecked and unnoticed.
Ah, the sweet smell of platitudinous nonsense. I can see the police state growing already within the dank corners of, erm, the Social Security Administration, can't you? And NOAA! Oooh, wait, can't you hear the jack boots in Americorps?
I can't figure out the point of the tags. It appears all you can do is publish tags you think are appropriate for the article. But it seems that:
You can't see more than a few tags of what people are adding.
You can't tell who added what tag.
There's no taxonomy -- so if I add "crap", and someone adds "crapola", those are considered different tags.
You can't filter stories by tag! What the hell?
What's the point of this dumb thing?/. has decided to label it "beta", meaning "it doesn't do anything at all". Perhaps Dilbert cartoon will remind them what beta is for.
The poster is a French-speaking person. Programmation is the French word for "programming".
Notice also: take a deep *breathe*.
When chiding Americans for pointing out English errors, it's probably wise to not make hillarious ones yourself. I guess it's time to "notice also" and "take a deep breathe" myself.:-) And I speak French, though it's not my native language. Does that make me a "French-speaking person"?:-)
Although relatively useless (if not harmful), these checked exceptions lead to a minimum of 122 extra CPU cycles per method invocation.
Mmm, the sweet tastiness of a piece of malarky. Care to back up the 122 cycles bit? Last I checked on Hotspot there is literally *zero* overhead for wrapping something in a try {... } catch (Exception e) { }. And why should there be? When an exception is thrown, all Hotspot needs to know is where to unwind the stack. It can look that up in the exception table (a one-liner), and only needs to bother with that after an exception has occurred.
In 2004 (the most recent year of record) the #1 most stolen car was the 1995 Honda Civic. The #2 most stolen car was the 1989 Toyota Camry. The 1991 Honda Accord came in at #3. #4 was the 1994 Dodge Caravan.
So. Not Accords. But get the picture? Nine year old Civics? The most common cars stolen are those which are owned by people living in the neighborhoods where thieves operate.
What really matters is no the most common car stolen but the car with the highest rate of theft. And for that, the top ten are: 1999 Acura Integra, 2002 BMW M Roadster, 1998 Acura Integra, 1991 GMC V2500, 2002 Audi S4, 1996 Acura Integra, 1995 Acura Integra, 2004 Mercury Marauder, 1997 Acura Integra, 1992 Mercedes-Benz 600. Someone likes those Integras.
Thing is, theft rate doesn't help your dorky argument. Because not only are there few Macs being broken into or zombied or attacked by virii, but Apple's *rate* is nearly zero as well.
Absolutely. Because as we all know, British and Australian politicians wouldn't *ever* stoop that low in the name of creating some of the more draconian anti-privacy laws in existence in the western world.
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I'm pretty sure that's NOT why DC didn't have voting representation. The concern was that DC would ultimately become not only the capital of the country but -- as was the case for other "capitals" in Europe -- the largest and most powerful city. Fear of the rise of monarchy was significant. It's also quaint, and these days, detrimental. Basically we have a half a million poor people, without easy mobility, denied voting representation in Congress largely because the Republicans fear that if given the voting rights they deserved as citizens, they'll vote Democrat.
Tell that to the residents of Washington, DC. They must pay federal income tax, but get no representation in Congress. In fact, they are the only principality in the US in which this is the case. One man, zero votes. Taxation without representation. Given that their city is essentially beholden to Congress, whose representatives don't care about them, AND that the residents of DC are by and large black and poor, this is a pretty awful situation.
I doubt this. Like other states, New Jersey has a part-time resident and non-resident tax form which stipulates that your wife is responsible for paying taxes only on income she earned while in New Jersey (see page 7). If she lived in New York but continued working in New Jersey, then the income is split between New York and New Jersey. But that's not what you said.
No scrollbars in Safari. But try making the window small and watch the face freak out.
Good integration with iTunes, and with the iTunes Music Store.
Oh, and the scrollwheel.
Until then, I'll still be stuck with intentionally Java-broken phones. Unity my butt.
Email, like mail, is a mass noun. You send people email.
The word you're looking for "email messages". Or just "messages".
Eschelon. Intercepting international satellite transmissions.
Tapping submarine trunk cables to the Russian fleet.
Cracking foreign encryption algorithms (like GOST).
Reconnaisance aircraft (such as the one recently downed in China).
Co-development of NIMA (now NGA) and NRO.
Here's a hint: NSA's foreign service dwarfs that of CIA's. Just because they're not doing human intelligence doesn't mean they don't spend a ton of money on foreign field agents.
Um... there's only one organization that is permitted to spy inside the US border. The FBI. NSA is specifically required to spy overseas except with special FISA permission.
Your circular point being... ? The EU is presently after Microsoft in court, arguing that it should be fined a whopping sum because of unfair trade due to monopolistic status. Just because the court hasn't ruled yet doesn't mean that the EU shouldn't be going after Microsoft in a way it's not going after Apple.
Spying on the USSR?
Later: spying on North Korea?
Seriously, is this the only support you have? That in your humble opinion the budget of the NSA has historically been more than it needs to do the huge work it's tasked to do outside the US?
The reason why we know what the NSA was up to recently is because members of the intelligence community leaked it, angrily, despite pressure not to do so due to patriotic crap post-9/11. If we were doing this pre-Bush, you don't think that the lack of that specific pressure would make it MORE likely they'd spill the beans on illegal activities?
Seriously, you don't have any evidence at all, do you? And it's clear to me that you don't actually know anything about how the NSA works.
You have no evidence for this at all. Which, I guess, is why /. awarded you with a +4:informative!
Um, because Microsoft has a monopoly, and uses its API as a monopoly-propogation mechanism? How many times do we have to clue you dufuses in that certain rules ONLY APPLY TO MONOPOLIES?
Now THAT was an informative comment. I learned something today.
Ah, the sweet smell of platitudinous nonsense. I can see the police state growing already within the dank corners of, erm, the Social Security Administration, can't you? And NOAA! Oooh, wait, can't you hear the jack boots in Americorps?
Not to be pendantic, but for this sentence to be correct, NASA would have to be part of the US Military. It is not.
Zipcar's been in the US since 2000 as well. Business Week's a little slow on the draw.
What's the point of this dumb thing? /. has decided to label it "beta", meaning "it doesn't do anything at all". Perhaps Dilbert cartoon will remind them what beta is for.
SCORES appeared in 1988. The first PC virus was written in 1986. Several mass-distributed PC virii appeared in 1987.
More to the point, SCORES and its ilk worked pre-OS X operating systems. A huge, HUGE difference.
Um... Wonka? SableVM? And the best open-source small Java VM out there: JamVM? How hard were these to google?
So. Not Accords. But get the picture? Nine year old Civics? The most common cars stolen are those which are owned by people living in the neighborhoods where thieves operate.
What really matters is no the most common car stolen but the car with the highest rate of theft. And for that, the top ten are: 1999 Acura Integra, 2002 BMW M Roadster, 1998 Acura Integra, 1991 GMC V2500, 2002 Audi S4, 1996 Acura Integra, 1995 Acura Integra, 2004 Mercury Marauder, 1997 Acura Integra, 1992 Mercedes-Benz 600. Someone likes those Integras.
Thing is, theft rate doesn't help your dorky argument. Because not only are there few Macs being broken into or zombied or attacked by virii, but Apple's *rate* is nearly zero as well.
Absolutely. Because as we all know, British and Australian politicians wouldn't *ever* stoop that low in the name of creating some of the more draconian anti-privacy laws in existence in the western world.