"TSA by having the HEAD OF THE F***ING TSA tell us about the awesomeness of his department, and completely ignoring the issues raised by the petitioners isn't making a joke of the process?"
It didn't make a joke of the process it just proved the process itself was a joke.
"If you look at the link you provided, it clearly states that the goal was 25,000, not 100,000."
39,573 at 11:38pm, 1/16/13. 40,000 in 4 days, at that rate only 6 days to 100,000 anyway. I guess they better think of a worthy response as many of these people keep things working and most likely voted for the man. Better pucker up.
Great, a "lawyer" who barely passed the bar, with no budget, and who doesn't want the job is going to defend him against a veteran prosecutor with pubic support and infinite resources. I'm sure that will work out well for the kid. The slow grind alone over something so simple has probably been sheer hell. At this point, I'm sure he wasn't irrational at all. He saw his options and realized this was all that was left. Killing yourself isn't easy but was all he thought he had left. Maybe now something will be done about prosecutorial reform. I remember something about the ' the alter of liberty must be fed with the blood of martyrs and tyrants'. Let's make this martyr count.
"...It is to show large scale support or opposition for something. It is to let the public, and the government, know that a lot of people want something. It is impressive by its size."
Yes, because the politicos know to ignore it will be disruptive to their next run for election.
"A protest is NOT to disrupt activity"
Yes it is to disrupt activity. That's the point otherwise you are agreeing with the status quo by default. From a practicality standpoint, if it doesn't disrupt something, no one is going to care. The very nature of a protest is to disrupt since you are disagreeing with someone. Believe or not a in consumer to business point of view taking your money elsewhere is a protest and disruptive to the companies profits. Stop looking at protest halfway. Remember the independence of the US was an act of disruption protesting to the then political situation with England.
"False it's only "Federal Personal Income Tax" that they pay most of, the tax that hits rich people with independent/self employed incomes. The bottom pays payroll taxes which aren't counted, factor those in and rich people pay less than their share."
You left out those rich using capital gains for income. You know the 15% people, at least the ones paying up to 15% which is probably nobody, right Mitt. Like Mitt, I'm sure most are paying less. They definitely aren't paying their fair share as it's highly likely they used lots of public provided systems to get where they are and still probably do.
"It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality', which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to paedophilia."
You know you could have waited till April 1st and won an award. Posting now is just plain stupid.
"press were busy holding him up as some kind of Jesus figure"
Never mind during the month of crying over the death of S. Jobs, two other figures of much more critical importance died(Ritchie and McCarthy). The stories(footnotes really) of their death were completely drowned out by the S. Jobs eulogizing by the media. The whole mess was embarrassing. Stallman's response was well deserved. Death does not get you "off the hook" and deservedly so.
"The company can set whatever policies it likes for interaction with it's systems, and you can take your labor anywhere you like if you're not on board with those policies. The company is under no obligation to "prove" anything."
The employee is under no obligation to do anything outside the work he/she agreed to do, period. And the work obligation is contingent on getting paid. Beyond that my on/off life is none of the employers business, you'll never pay me that good. As for policies, how about building networks without gaping holes in them then such employee irritating policies wouldn't be needed. Oh ya, that would take work and cost slightly more money as opposed to the work reduction of irritated employees.
rant
If you use an id card and are dictated about how you live at work you've already reached the "papers please" for work life, next step government for your non-work life, then business and government merge. Nice knowing ya./slight rant
"1 you don't have a "cell phone" you have a Mobile Computing Device (that does phone calls)"
Given, So is the microwave in the lunchroom, the printer, the deskphone, your car, etc.
"2 you don't have to be connected to your personal/business world 24/7/52"
You have no right to tell me what I have to do or don't have to do in my personal/business world.
Next two lines are just stupid. MCPs are bought and kept with your person to be used where ever you are not sitting in a box.
"BYOD policies are STUPID if your business requires cells/MCPs then ISSUE THEM"
Then use them for business only and keep your personal cell for your personal business. And IT use static address and hard-wired network connections for real security instead of being lazy about it with wireless and dhcp.
"You get paid to work, not deal with personal matters."
No, I work to get paid so I can have more of a personal life. The job is a means to an end not the "end all, be all" of life. Also I use personal devices so I can protect the privacy of my personal life from my employer who hasn't any right to know about it. The work phone for non-business use was necessary in earlier times, it isn't now with everyone having their own personal carry around phone. If you don't think my personal independence is worth how much I make for the company, fire me and my abilities to bring value will go to someone else, maybe even your competitors who respect my independence more than you.
"Linux does not have that incentive (at least in many cases) and so they are ok with breaking things and telling the users to update"
Then how about FreeBSD/PCBSD. With PCBSD pbi system for installing programs it's just a click to install and with its base in FreeBSD, backward compatibility is definitely better than linux.
"I will put a cuddly baby penguin into a wood chipper every day until FreeBSD x11-drivers/xf86-video-nouveau catches up to Linux!::evil laugh::...::cry::"
"At least, ignoring one or two minor aberrations. Though they did work as intended. .."
It's been more than two aberrations. But just those two aberrations had killed more people than car accidents over years in that era. Also car accidents are one-off incidents that don't have long term effects as opposed to nuclear where the long term effects aren't taken into account when figuring the body count.
" failed bankrupted green-energy companies such as Solyndra (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solyndra) and many others. If the energy source is non-viable economically and market can not support it"
You do know Solyndra and many of the other failed companies were started under Bush right? Executive corruption and Chinese dumping on our markets sunk them more than any mistakes by the Obama administration. Economic viability means very little in a monopolistic market where small players get crushed by massive heavily subsidized government manipulating monopolistic jugernauts that had their start when there was barely any competition or market to speak of. Until we actually have a "free market" start-ups will have to be subsidized heavily just to even have a chance. That means there will be failures, nature of the beast.
I remember when President Carter tried to get synthetic fuel research and production off the ground. The oil companies and various others gave it lip service than sank it at the first opportunity.
"It's just another made-up name to mislead and / or scare the bejeezus out of people. "
All the cliff is is the resumption of normal tax rates before 2002 that the reductions of same were supposed to be very temporary to alleviate problems at the time, not go on for decades and the damage that it has caused. The spending cuts are just to make up for the overspending for two unwanted wars and contractor corruption running parallel to them without raising taxes to pay for it. Never mind that conditions have changed in the world and we don't need to spend so much anymore except to line the pockets of congressman and/or their parties.
"Democrats are incapable of seriously negotiating with Republicans,"
That because for the last several terms the republicans haven't been negotiating, just dictating. The only bills that have passed the house have been political bills written to kiss ass to their base electorate(or strategic attempts to embarrass the president) knowing full well that the democrats won't touch them. Fact is the democrats are fed up with their bullshit and have the last election to support their view. Until the republicans are willing to negotiate in good faith(not my way or the hi-way) very little is going to get done.
The republicans declared war on Obama before he was even in office. They barely acknowledged he was elected. And have systematically been compromising the government trying to get rid of him ever since. The republicans job was to run the country until the next election cycle. Instead they've spent most of their energy trying to embarrass the president. What do you call trying to unseat a legally elected and legally operating president during his term in office?/observation and a conclusion that already been done once with Bill Clinton.
" We're proportionately worse off, and we're going to pay for it with higher taxes and poorer services over the two decades. Wasting billions on this foolish renewable scheme was just irresponsible."
Maybe you should think about how much longer your non-renewables will last with those turbines producing power to offset their use. Not all costs and rewards are monetary. If you're worried about energy loss from unstable generation cycles install an energy storage system to balance the output. The added flexibility of multiple sources also adds some reward. You're being so short-sighted and self-serving, stop.
"...than coal or oil, and we have oceans of it in Western Canada."
Just think of how much those oceans will be worth when everyone else's has run out. That and the future generations that won't be freezing to death due to lack of energy.
"Maybe a simple solution is to not tax corporations income at all and to pass the taxable income to the owners of the corporations"
Except corporations are legal citizens and should pay taxes given that legal status, just like the rest of us. Otherwise, strip them of their legal and other supports and treat them like simple businesses again with all the risk and direct accountability that goes with it.
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"TSA by having the HEAD OF THE F***ING TSA tell us about the awesomeness of his department, and completely ignoring the issues raised by the petitioners isn't making a joke of the process?"
It didn't make a joke of the process it just proved the process itself was a joke.
"What we need is a petition system for congressional bill consideration."
But then it'd be a direct democracy and we could kill those motherfuckers screwing around on the public dough.
"If you look at the link you provided, it clearly states that the goal was 25,000, not 100,000."
39,573 at 11:38pm, 1/16/13. 40,000 in 4 days, at that rate only 6 days to 100,000 anyway. I guess they better think of a worthy response as many of these people keep things working and most likely voted for the man. Better pucker up.
"federal public defender"
Great, a "lawyer" who barely passed the bar, with no budget, and who doesn't want the job is going to defend him against a veteran prosecutor with pubic support and infinite resources. I'm sure that will work out well for the kid. The slow grind alone over something so simple has probably been sheer hell. At this point, I'm sure he wasn't irrational at all. He saw his options and realized this was all that was left. Killing yourself isn't easy but was all he thought he had left. Maybe now something will be done about prosecutorial reform. I remember something about the ' the alter of liberty must be fed with the blood of martyrs and tyrants'. Let's make this martyr count.
celle
"Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon and stand a post. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you're entitled to!"
Bullshit. Do you think that gives you any special rights? Fuck you I fight my own battles and they aren't necessarily the same as yours.
"(also realizing that you are still paying full price to Netflix, but not able to access it for two weeks)"
Sounds like grounds for a lawsuit or class action to me.
"...It is to show large scale support or opposition for something. It is to let the public, and the government, know that a lot of people want something. It is impressive by its size."
Yes, because the politicos know to ignore it will be disruptive to their next run for election.
"A protest is NOT to disrupt activity"
Yes it is to disrupt activity. That's the point otherwise you are agreeing with the status quo by default. From a practicality standpoint, if it doesn't disrupt something, no one is going to care. The very nature of a protest is to disrupt since you are disagreeing with someone. Believe or not a in consumer to business point of view taking your money elsewhere is a protest and disruptive to the companies profits. Stop looking at protest halfway. Remember the independence of the US was an act of disruption protesting to the then political situation with England.
"False it's only "Federal Personal Income Tax" that they pay most of, the tax that hits rich people with independent/self employed incomes. The bottom pays payroll taxes which aren't counted, factor those in and rich people pay less than their share."
You left out those rich using capital gains for income. You know the 15% people, at least the ones paying up to 15% which is probably nobody, right Mitt. Like Mitt, I'm sure most are paying less. They definitely aren't paying their fair share as it's highly likely they used lots of public provided systems to get where they are and still probably do.
"It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality', which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to paedophilia."
You know you could have waited till April 1st and won an award. Posting now is just plain stupid.
"press were busy holding him up as some kind of Jesus figure"
Never mind during the month of crying over the death of S. Jobs, two other figures of much more critical importance died(Ritchie and McCarthy). The stories(footnotes really) of their death were completely drowned out by the S. Jobs eulogizing by the media. The whole mess was embarrassing. Stallman's response was well deserved. Death does not get you "off the hook" and deservedly so.
"found it's current IP (no hostname was provided by the client), found the offending phone, and very nearly shoved it the arse of the owner."
Maybe you should give the guy a finders fee for finding a design flaw in your network.
"The company can set whatever policies it likes for interaction with it's systems, and you can take your labor anywhere you like if you're not on board with those policies. The company is under no obligation to "prove" anything."
The employee is under no obligation to do anything outside the work he/she agreed to do, period. And the work obligation is contingent on getting paid. Beyond that my on/off life is none of the employers business, you'll never pay me that good. As for policies, how about building networks without gaping holes in them then such employee irritating policies wouldn't be needed. Oh ya, that would take work and cost slightly more money as opposed to the work reduction of irritated employees.
rant /slight rant
If you use an id card and are dictated about how you live at work you've already reached the "papers please" for work life, next step government for your non-work life, then business and government merge. Nice knowing ya.
"1 you don't have a "cell phone" you have a Mobile Computing Device (that does phone calls)"
Given, So is the microwave in the lunchroom, the printer, the deskphone, your car, etc.
"2 you don't have to be connected to your personal/business world 24/7/52"
You have no right to tell me what I have to do or don't have to do in my personal/business world.
Next two lines are just stupid. MCPs are bought and kept with your person to be used where ever you are not sitting in a box.
"BYOD policies are STUPID if your business requires cells/MCPs then ISSUE THEM"
Then use them for business only and keep your personal cell for your personal business. And IT use static address and hard-wired network connections for real security instead of being lazy about it with wireless and dhcp.
"You get paid to work, not deal with personal matters."
No, I work to get paid so I can have more of a personal life. The job is a means to an end not the "end all, be all" of life. Also I use personal devices so I can protect the privacy of my personal life from my employer who hasn't any right to know about it. The work phone for non-business use was necessary in earlier times, it isn't now with everyone having their own personal carry around phone. If you don't think my personal independence is worth how much I make for the company, fire me and my abilities to bring value will go to someone else, maybe even your competitors who respect my independence more than you.
" You get paid to work, not deal with personal matters."
No, I work to get paid so I can have more of a personal life. The job is a means to an end not the "end all, be all" of life. Get over it.
"Linux does not have that incentive (at least in many cases) and so they are ok with breaking things and telling the users to update"
Then how about FreeBSD/PCBSD. With PCBSD pbi system for installing programs it's just a click to install and with its base in FreeBSD, backward compatibility is definitely better than linux.
"systemd can go die in a fire along with it's retarded friend d-bus."
And don't forget the tentacled friend pulse-audio.
"I will put a cuddly baby penguin into a wood chipper every day until FreeBSD x11-drivers/xf86-video-nouveau catches up to Linux! ::evil laugh:: ... ::cry::"
Double that for the x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati.
"At least, ignoring one or two minor aberrations. Though they did work as intended. . ."
It's been more than two aberrations. But just those two aberrations had killed more people than car accidents over years in that era. Also car accidents are one-off incidents that don't have long term effects as opposed to nuclear where the long term effects aren't taken into account when figuring the body count.
" failed bankrupted green-energy companies such as Solyndra (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solyndra) and many others. If the energy source is non-viable economically and market can not support it"
You do know Solyndra and many of the other failed companies were started under Bush right? Executive corruption and Chinese dumping on our markets sunk them more than any mistakes by the Obama administration. Economic viability means very little in a monopolistic market where small players get crushed by massive heavily subsidized government manipulating monopolistic jugernauts that had their start when there was barely any competition or market to speak of. Until we actually have a "free market" start-ups will have to be subsidized heavily just to even have a chance. That means there will be failures, nature of the beast.
I remember when President Carter tried to get synthetic fuel research and production off the ground. The oil companies and various others gave it lip service than sank it at the first opportunity.
"It's just another made-up name to mislead and / or scare the bejeezus out of people. "
All the cliff is is the resumption of normal tax rates before 2002 that the reductions of same were supposed to be very temporary to alleviate problems at the time, not go on for decades and the damage that it has caused. The spending cuts are just to make up for the overspending for two unwanted wars and contractor corruption running parallel to them without raising taxes to pay for it. Never mind that conditions have changed in the world and we don't need to spend so much anymore except to line the pockets of congressman and/or their parties.
"Democrats are incapable of seriously negotiating with Republicans,"
That because for the last several terms the republicans haven't been negotiating, just dictating. The only bills that have passed the house have been political bills written to kiss ass to their base electorate(or strategic attempts to embarrass the president) knowing full well that the democrats won't touch them. Fact is the democrats are fed up with their bullshit and have the last election to support their view. Until the republicans are willing to negotiate in good faith(not my way or the hi-way) very little is going to get done.
The republicans declared war on Obama before he was even in office. They barely acknowledged he was elected. And have systematically been compromising the government trying to get rid of him ever since. The republicans job was to run the country until the next election cycle. Instead they've spent most of their energy trying to embarrass the president. What do you call trying to unseat a legally elected and legally operating president during his term in office? /observation and a conclusion that already been done once with Bill Clinton.
" We're proportionately worse off, and we're going to pay for it with higher taxes and poorer services over the two decades. Wasting billions on this foolish renewable scheme was just irresponsible."
Maybe you should think about how much longer your non-renewables will last with those turbines producing power to offset their use. Not all costs and rewards are monetary. If you're worried about energy loss from unstable generation cycles install an energy storage system to balance the output. The added flexibility of multiple sources also adds some reward. You're being so short-sighted and self-serving, stop.
"...than coal or oil, and we have oceans of it in Western Canada."
Just think of how much those oceans will be worth when everyone else's has run out. That and the future generations that won't be freezing to death due to lack of energy.
"Maybe a simple solution is to not tax corporations income at all and to pass the taxable income to the owners of the corporations"
Except corporations are legal citizens and should pay taxes given that legal status, just like the rest of us. Otherwise, strip them of their legal and other supports and treat them like simple businesses again with all the risk and direct accountability that goes with it.
"They're going to risk a murder rap to steal your pistol. "
They'd have to be caught first and the rate things are going those guns will be worth a lot.