I'd love it if there were free equivalents, but there simply aren't. A firm I've worked for used Time Matters for case and office management (law office groupware, including a mini-IM system for phone messages; the office went from a mess of pink phone call slips to tidy in a week) and Timeslips for billing. Time Matters will integrate with Timeslips pretty well, too.
A friend and I were going to invest the time to develop an open-source law office groupware suite, but never got off the ground. A system built on PostgreSQL with Jabber to get alerts around was what I had in mind, with either a C# GUI frontend or a web-based frontend with some kind of Java applet or ActiveX control for the realtime-pertinent stuff like phone messages.
I am a long-time TOS Trek Romulan. The quality of RP is outstanding, but activity has dwindled in recent years as quality RPers abandon the text-based format for graphical games.
That said, I'm also part of a new text-based game based around the time of the Enterprise NCC-1701C, of Yesterday's Enterprise fame. Yesterday's Voyage is set to open this fall - sometime in September or October we should be off the ground. Go ahead and telnet to startrekkin.net port 1701 and check us out!
Actually, I was doing fine as it was, but am choosing a change of career entirely. Call me a wanker, but I'm one who's working hard so he doesn't have to work at McDonald's. Ever. Adapt or go extinct. Your choice - but I've made mine.
I'm not a Libertarian. Nor am I at a job that hates outsourcing - I was previously, and I cited it to make the point that some companies choose quality over affordability for their IT labor. If your company is outsourcing, find a better place to work. They do exist. Forcing companies not to outsource will only make them find other ways to save money, such as hiring fewer IT workers to do the same amount of work, and paying them less.
I care about people plenty. What I don't want is the government to enforce that. You're the one here with a low outlook on people - you honestly don't believe that people can be charitable without the government requiring them to be. Libertarians aren't anti-charity. Charities would exist even under anarchy - people are naturally good enough to do that on their own. We don't need the government acting as a massive, compulsory, mismanaged charity in order for people with a harsher life than mine to survive.
But, frankly, if they're not willing to work, fuck 'em. (Not being able to work is different, but socialists^Wliberals have blurred the line so much that laziness is now an inability, not an unwillingness.)
Can you get it set to everything goes in one window, except when you click on the program icon in Windows (or other OS's)? When I hit it on my quicklaunch bar, I want a new window in the foreground, not a new tab in some deeply-hidden browser window I had left minimized for later perusal.
It's funny to me that everyone here gripes about big government this and government intruding on me that, but wants strict government controls on who American companies hire to do their IT work. You can't have it both ways, unless you believe the Democratic Party has some kind of magical ring to that effect.
My personal feeling is that capitalism works. Yeah, some poor bastards are gonna get stepped on, but that happens no matter what and I'd rather be rewarded for my own hard work and ingenuity than have some lazy bastard kept in the gene pool by my efforts. Survival of the fittest.
You can go ahead and say I have no heart. It's not true, and more people would learn how to work their asses off for a living if they actually had to like the American Way requires. (Even the economically freest times in American history just required really hard work - the homesteaders may have got 160 acres for $0, but they had to work their asses off to use and keep that quarter-section.)
Bring on the outsourcing. If quality suffers, there will be companies that provide good American quality at a premium like in every other industry. If it doesn't, then we have nothing to bitch about because it frees us up from the slave labor world of IT to do something worthwhile with our lives. I'm back in school and quit my bitching after a year of barely working (well, 70 hours a week but barely paid)--I found a company that despises IT outsourcing, believing having someone on-site is the rule in IT, not the exception--what are you doing about it? Oh yeah, what you always do when life gets you down - bitching on Slashdot. Good solution, genius.
There's a scene in Futurama (I forget the episode, sorry die-hards) where we see a closet with a bookshelf. On one of the shelves are two books, entitled "P" and "NP". Evidently, in the year 3000 we'll have proven that they are separate problem spaces.
Stupid 'Code' doesn't even preserve formatting. Regardless, that wasn't the only mistake you made. I don't think anyone posting on this thread can read English or do math. We should be competent with at least one of the two, no?
If you outlaw guns, not just the criminals will have guns: only the criminals and the government will have guns. Given that, the rest of the citizens are defenseless against the whims of either the government or the criminals. So those two groups will fight for supremacy, and one of them will win. Do you really trust either group to run your life?
PS: The criminals will win - crime is better-organized than government.
Introduction
Gun culture has been a part of the United States since before they formed an independent nation. The Pilgrims are often depicted with their blunderbusses, and the American Revolution was only possible because of the vast number of armed colonial men. The second amendment to our Constitution recognizes that it is every man's right to keep and bear arms without infringement. Every state of the Union and the Federal government itself have enacted laws that restrict this right, some more effective than others and some with more questionable motives than others.
Herein are some facts about gun laws in the United States. Every fact includes a citation for its source. There is no room for sensationalism here: this is not the drinking age, legalization of marijuana, or trade with China. This is one of the most fundamental rights recognized by the Constitution.
Facts About Gun Violence
In 2001, the Center for Disease Control cites 100,411 deaths by ``unintentional injury'' for all races, both sexes, all ages from 1 up. Of these, 800 (0.8%) are by firearm. By comparison, 3,179 drowning deaths, 14,053 poisoning deaths, and 42,271 motor vehicle traffic deaths were cited. These statistics do not include violence, such as suicide or homicide. You are more than 15 times as likely to die by accidental poisoning than by a gun accident.
In the same year, limiting the statistics to children which I shall take to mean those aged 1-17, unintentional injuries were the leading cause of death. Of 7,689 such deaths, 125 (1.6%) were by firearm. By comparison, 132 children died by falling, 526 burned to death, and 4,494 died in traffic. Your child is nearly 40 times more likely to die in a car crash than in a negligent discharge of a firearm.
The US Department of Justice indicates that ``fewer than 2%'' of state prison inmates who possessed a gun in the commission of their crime got the gun from a flea market or gun show. ``Family, friends, a street buy, or an illegal source'' accounted for 80%. Plugging what has been called the ``gun show loophole'' will only shift that tiny percentage to illegal sources.
From the same DOJ source, 15% of state inmates carried a handgun, while ``about 2%'' carried ``a military-style semiautomatic gun''. There is no information given on what the other 83% of inmates were armed with, but they weren't handguns or ``military-style semiautomatic guns'' such as those banned in a 1994 Federal law.
According to the DOJ again, firearms were involved in only 7% of the ``violent crime[s] of rape and sexual assault, robbery, and aggravated and simple assault.'' Banning firearms, even if the perpetrators of these violent crimes did choose to obey gun laws, would reduce these crimes by a maximum of 7%. However, the would-be victims of these crimes who arm themselves legally today would be less able to defend themselves if they could not carry guns and those criminals who commit violent crimes have no logical reason to obey gun laws over the many laws they do not, so it can easily be argued that such violent crimes would actually become more frequent in the event of stricter
gun bans.
Diane Feinstein, the key proponent of banning guns in the US Senate, is from California. When the Federal ban on ``assault weapons'' sunsets in September of 2004, California's state laws will remain and there will be no difference in what guns you can legally have in California. Extending the Federal ban or enacting a new one will not affect California in any way.
Machine guns are entirely outlawed in 17 states. In the other 33, Federal laws have severely restricted machine gun ownership since 1934. A background check, approval of local law enforcement, registration, and $200 tax are all required to acquire a machine gun, silencer, short-barreled (``sawed-off'') shotgun or rifle, grenade, or other destructive device. The 1994 ``assault weapon'' ban does not cover any of these items. Furthermore, any machine gun manufac
The word 'regulated' didn't mean 225 years ago what it does today. It meant 'equipped as a regular' in the army. So a 'well-regulated militia' is just a militia that is well-equipped. How do you get a well-equipped militia of the citizens? Let them keep and bear arms, of course!
The Libertarian Party even takes this view, and it's completely unrelated to legalizing drugs.:)
It's not encouraging at all that he has and enjoys a TiVo. Most of the strongest anti-gun pundits have guns of their own, and many have concealed-weapon permits. You're failing to grasp the underlying concept: they want to have all the rights, and leave you with none. The same thing applies here. You can't oppress people if they're in the same caste as you.
Don't even worry about it - there's no reason to go to college these days, anyhow. 5 years ago, you could make as much with a high school diploma as with a PhD. Now, it's the same, except the numbers are much lower.
There's a scene in Futurama (Luck of the Fryrish) where the gang is at a horse race and the Professor loses his bet because his horse loses "in a quantum finish", upon which he exclaims the grandparent's quote.
Another gem from the horse race is the "Horse D'ouevres" stand, which claims "All our horses are horse-fed, for that double horsed-in goodness."
PS: The reason I stay out of local election process rules is that I strongly believe in states' rights. And no, I don't call it the War of Northern Agression.;)
As we saw in 2000, cheating in even one county can make or break the election (not just for the winner and loser, but it can literally break the election process). That's intolerable to me.
My personal views on US elections are more centered on the Electoral College and bringing it outside the abusive control of the major parties by restoring it to how it was originally intended. Some minor reforms* to the EC would make our system more inclusive of minor parties than it currently is, and also rejuvenate voter interest because they won't feel that their vote is pointless.
* - Closed ballot, so the major parties can't fine their electors for flip-flopping; selection of electors by voting district rather than one-takes-all per state; naming electors rather than just the candidates they promise to blindly vote for on the ballot; etc.
Slashdot Mirror
I'd love it if there were free equivalents, but there simply aren't. A firm I've worked for used Time Matters for case and office management (law office groupware, including a mini-IM system for phone messages; the office went from a mess of pink phone call slips to tidy in a week) and Timeslips for billing. Time Matters will integrate with Timeslips pretty well, too.
A friend and I were going to invest the time to develop an open-source law office groupware suite, but never got off the ground. A system built on PostgreSQL with Jabber to get alerts around was what I had in mind, with either a C# GUI frontend or a web-based frontend with some kind of Java applet or ActiveX control for the realtime-pertinent stuff like phone messages.
Did Kerry vote on the PATRIOT Act? If so, for or against; and did he read it?
You're absolutely wrong - you're applying the general case to me, and I am never the general case. :P
I am a long-time TOS Trek Romulan. The quality of RP is outstanding, but activity has dwindled in recent years as quality RPers abandon the text-based format for graphical games.
That said, I'm also part of a new text-based game based around the time of the Enterprise NCC-1701C, of Yesterday's Enterprise fame.
Yesterday's Voyage is set to open this fall - sometime in September or October we should be off the ground. Go ahead and telnet to startrekkin.net port 1701 and check us out!
Actually, I was doing fine as it was, but am choosing a change of career entirely. Call me a wanker, but I'm one who's working hard so he doesn't have to work at McDonald's. Ever. Adapt or go extinct. Your choice - but I've made mine.
I'm not a Libertarian. Nor am I at a job that hates outsourcing - I was previously, and I cited it to make the point that some companies choose quality over affordability for their IT labor. If your company is outsourcing, find a better place to work. They do exist. Forcing companies not to outsource will only make them find other ways to save money, such as hiring fewer IT workers to do the same amount of work, and paying them less.
I care about people plenty. What I don't want is the government to enforce that. You're the one here with a low outlook on people - you honestly don't believe that people can be charitable without the government requiring them to be. Libertarians aren't anti-charity. Charities would exist even under anarchy - people are naturally good enough to do that on their own. We don't need the government acting as a massive, compulsory, mismanaged charity in order for people with a harsher life than mine to survive.
But, frankly, if they're not willing to work, fuck 'em. (Not being able to work is different, but socialists^Wliberals have blurred the line so much that laziness is now an inability, not an unwillingness.)
I'm geared for survival, and Libertarians (of which I'm not one) aren't anti-charity. They're simply anti-government-handouts.
Is that a new option? I don't have it in 0.9.2, evidently. (Yes, I read the sibling to this comment and still didn't find it.)
Can you get it set to everything goes in one window, except when you click on the program icon in Windows (or other OS's)? When I hit it on my quicklaunch bar, I want a new window in the foreground, not a new tab in some deeply-hidden browser window I had left minimized for later perusal.
I already installed quality control last night. But then I woke up and now I have to use a work-around (class and work).
It's funny to me that everyone here gripes about big government this and government intruding on me that, but wants strict government controls on who American companies hire to do their IT work. You can't have it both ways, unless you believe the Democratic Party has some kind of magical ring to that effect.
My personal feeling is that capitalism works. Yeah, some poor bastards are gonna get stepped on, but that happens no matter what and I'd rather be rewarded for my own hard work and ingenuity than have some lazy bastard kept in the gene pool by my efforts. Survival of the fittest.
You can go ahead and say I have no heart. It's not true, and more people would learn how to work their asses off for a living if they actually had to like the American Way requires. (Even the economically freest times in American history just required really hard work - the homesteaders may have got 160 acres for $0, but they had to work their asses off to use and keep that quarter-section.)
Bring on the outsourcing. If quality suffers, there will be companies that provide good American quality at a premium like in every other industry. If it doesn't, then we have nothing to bitch about because it frees us up from the slave labor world of IT to do something worthwhile with our lives. I'm back in school and quit my bitching after a year of barely working (well, 70 hours a week but barely paid)--I found a company that despises IT outsourcing, believing having someone on-site is the rule in IT, not the exception--what are you doing about it? Oh yeah, what you always do when life gets you down - bitching on Slashdot. Good solution, genius.
Heck, I read about it 10 hours ago on a gun-owners' forum. Slashdot - news for nerds, stuff that mattered yesterday.
There's a scene in Futurama (I forget the episode, sorry die-hards) where we see a closet with a bookshelf. On one of the shelves are two books, entitled "P" and "NP". Evidently, in the year 3000 we'll have proven that they are separate problem spaces.
Stupid 'Code' doesn't even preserve formatting. Regardless, that wasn't the only mistake you made. I don't think anyone posting on this thread can read English or do math. We should be competent with at least one of the two, no?
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Sure, why not?
That's the most visible one I was referring to. There are plenty others, many of them celebrities (honorary members of the elite class).
If you outlaw guns, not just the criminals will have guns: only the criminals and the government will have guns. Given that, the rest of the citizens are defenseless against the whims of either the government or the criminals. So those two groups will fight for supremacy, and one of them will win. Do you really trust either group to run your life?
PS: The criminals will win - crime is better-organized than government.
Introduction
Gun culture has been a part of the United States since before they formed an independent nation. The Pilgrims are often depicted with their blunderbusses, and the American Revolution was only possible because of the vast number of armed colonial men. The second amendment to our Constitution recognizes that it is every man's right to keep and bear arms without infringement. Every state of the Union and the Federal government itself have enacted laws that restrict this right, some more effective than others and some with more questionable motives than others. Herein are some facts about gun laws in the United States. Every fact includes a citation for its source. There is no room for sensationalism here: this is not the drinking age, legalization of marijuana, or trade with China. This is one of the most fundamental rights recognized by the Constitution.
Facts About Gun Violence
In 2001, the Center for Disease Control cites 100,411 deaths by ``unintentional injury'' for all races, both sexes, all ages from 1 up. Of these, 800 (0.8%) are by firearm. By comparison, 3,179 drowning deaths, 14,053 poisoning deaths, and 42,271 motor vehicle traffic deaths were cited. These statistics do not include violence, such as suicide or homicide. You are more than 15 times as likely to die by accidental poisoning than by a gun accident.
In the same year, limiting the statistics to children which I shall take to mean those aged 1-17, unintentional injuries were the leading cause of death. Of 7,689 such deaths, 125 (1.6%) were by firearm. By comparison, 132 children died by falling, 526 burned to death, and 4,494 died in traffic. Your child is nearly 40 times more likely to die in a car crash than in a negligent discharge of a firearm.
The US Department of Justice indicates that ``fewer than 2%'' of state prison inmates who possessed a gun in the commission of their crime got the gun from a flea market or gun show. ``Family, friends, a street buy, or an illegal source'' accounted for 80%. Plugging what has been called the ``gun show loophole'' will only shift that tiny percentage to illegal sources.
From the same DOJ source, 15% of state inmates carried a handgun, while ``about 2%'' carried ``a military-style semiautomatic gun''. There is no information given on what the other 83% of inmates were armed with, but they weren't handguns or ``military-style semiautomatic guns'' such as those banned in a 1994 Federal law.
According to the DOJ again, firearms were involved in only 7% of the ``violent crime[s] of rape and sexual assault, robbery, and aggravated and simple assault.'' Banning firearms, even if the perpetrators of these violent crimes did choose to obey gun laws, would reduce these crimes by a maximum of 7%. However, the would-be victims of these crimes who arm themselves legally today would be less able to defend themselves if they could not carry guns and those criminals who commit violent crimes have no logical reason to obey gun laws over the many laws they do not, so it can easily be argued that such violent crimes would actually become more frequent in the event of stricter gun bans.
Diane Feinstein, the key proponent of banning guns in the US Senate, is from California. When the Federal ban on ``assault weapons'' sunsets in September of 2004, California's state laws will remain and there will be no difference in what guns you can legally have in California. Extending the Federal ban or enacting a new one will not affect California in any way.
Machine guns are entirely outlawed in 17 states. In the other 33, Federal laws have severely restricted machine gun ownership since 1934. A background check, approval of local law enforcement, registration, and $200 tax are all required to acquire a machine gun, silencer, short-barreled (``sawed-off'') shotgun or rifle, grenade, or other destructive device. The 1994 ``assault weapon'' ban does not cover any of these items. Furthermore, any machine gun manufac
First reply dignifying a response...
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The word 'regulated' didn't mean 225 years ago what it does today. It meant 'equipped as a regular' in the army. So a 'well-regulated militia' is just a militia that is well-equipped. How do you get a well-equipped militia of the citizens? Let them keep and bear arms, of course!
The Libertarian Party even takes this view, and it's completely unrelated to legalizing drugs.
It's not encouraging at all that he has and enjoys a TiVo. Most of the strongest anti-gun pundits have guns of their own, and many have concealed-weapon permits. You're failing to grasp the underlying concept: they want to have all the rights, and leave you with none. The same thing applies here. You can't oppress people if they're in the same caste as you.
Don't even worry about it - there's no reason to go to college these days, anyhow. 5 years ago, you could make as much with a high school diploma as with a PhD. Now, it's the same, except the numbers are much lower.
There's a scene in Futurama (Luck of the Fryrish) where the gang is at a horse race and the Professor loses his bet because his horse loses "in a quantum finish", upon which he exclaims the grandparent's quote.
Another gem from the horse race is the "Horse D'ouevres" stand, which claims "All our horses are horse-fed, for that double horsed-in goodness."
PS: The reason I stay out of local election process rules is that I strongly believe in states' rights. And no, I don't call it the War of Northern Agression. ;)
As we saw in 2000, cheating in even one county can make or break the election (not just for the winner and loser, but it can literally break the election process). That's intolerable to me.
My personal views on US elections are more centered on the Electoral College and bringing it outside the abusive control of the major parties by restoring it to how it was originally intended. Some minor reforms* to the EC would make our system more inclusive of minor parties than it currently is, and also rejuvenate voter interest because they won't feel that their vote is pointless.
* - Closed ballot, so the major parties can't fine their electors for flip-flopping; selection of electors by voting district rather than one-takes-all per state; naming electors rather than just the candidates they promise to blindly vote for on the ballot; etc.