It is on C-SPAN (or is in C-SPAN2) every Sunday evening. They broadcast the House of Commons in both Great Britian and Canada. Furthermore, I believe it is all ministers who must defend themselves in the House of Commons, not just the Prime Minister.
I completely agree with the idea. However, the absurd level of admiration that we Americans hold for the office of President would prevent it from being as effective here as it is in other countries. I believe Congress members actually have the right to question the President during the State of the Union address. Could you imagine the witch hunt that would ensue if any Congress members actually used this right?
While I would like to see more uniform voting procuedures, I don't believe we should concentrate this power in the Federal Government. I'd much rather see States agreeing to use the same procedures. While we wouldn't achieve a uniform national voting protocol, we would alleviate many of the procedural voting problems we have today without forcing less-able states to achieve the same as a the more-able states (e.g. not all states can afford enough touchscreen voting machines).
On a related note, I heard a portion of your interview on NPR a week or two ago. It wasn't very clear from your answers whether you accepted the Supreme Court's assertion that corporations are protected by the 13th ammendment. I came away from the interview believing you did accept the assertion. While not a direct contradiction, the LP platform supports ending "sovereign immunity" for governments, but it doesn't seem to mention anything regarding the rights of corporations.
"And what about the concern that you'll run out of disk space, especially since the redundant data required for RAID will effectively expand the total data size? It won't happen. That's because compression will probably cover the data expansion, and anyone who enters the system will have to offer-up their storage before they get to use any"
Except most people would compress the data before backing it up and everyone except w4r3z fr33kz know that compressing a.zip file in another.zip file doesn't work too well.
"You can't give 10 gigs and use 20, but you CAN give 10 gigs and use eight and it might take a month or a year to even use that eight."
So, then, how is this better than using Baxter (or, worse, your competitor's buy-once-use-everywhere product) on my own private network, not paying you a monthly fee, and using the money I save to buy more hard drives so that the backup and restore isn't artificially slow?
How cool would it be if each member of a band played in their own sound-proof studio, hearing each other and themselves through headphones, with each of their performances being recorded separately. You, the end-user, could then remove individual instruments, or all but one for your own personal solo. On top of the cool end-user features, this would make it far easier to sample the music and probably expose more patterns, etc to be used in compression techniques.
Of course, first we have to get the record companies to embrace sampling and end-user control. I'm not in a band -- I'm lucky if I can keep a beat on my knee -- but I would wager the band "chemistry" would suffer as well.
Or they could do what they are doing; let the game developers mold their own market in whatever ways allow them to bring online games to market in an equitable form. That is, they are content in profitting from the increased game sales for their systems and the related increase in their own sales that online games will bring rather than demanding to be the patriach of it all -- a stark contrast to the Microsoft v. EA conflict.
I said he isn't being charged with murder. You seem to agree with that: "He hasn't been charged with ANYTHING at this point."
As an aside, I made the comment about banning the moderator because neither the commenter nor the moderator had read the link in the post, showing how the PATRIOT Act is involved.
The Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989 was amended by the PATRIOT Act. Prior to these amendments, he would have been well within his rights.
The article doesn't say what the man is charged with. The subpoenas cite violating the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989. Nothing in that act prohibits murder. Therefore, he is not being charged with murder.
Whomever rated the above comment 5:Interesting should be banned.
Being an optimistic, I'm hoping it is capital meant to kick start IPv6 deployment and/or litigation funds for the "you don't shut down spammers, we reassign your netblock" policies that are probably inevitable.
I would consider this to be "abusing their monopoly power." Shouldn't the law consider it the same, thus allowing the DoJ to bring another anti-trust suit?
Oh wait... Bush would just quash this one like he did the last.
A few years ago Slashdot ran a story about a product that was used to cut a single frame per second out of television broadcasts in order to fit in an extra commercial. Maybe they used a similar trick:]
Your boss is right, in the context of hiring a new programmer into a mature programming team. Because this is probably his most common situation, his generalization is correct for him, in his current position.
The point of diminishing returns on a chart of experience vs. time is definitely around 2 years. The extreme problems that can arise from the mistakes a younger (2 years experience) programmer will make can be catastrophic. Likewise, hiring an entire department of younger programmers would likely loose you your job as a hiring manager.
If you hire a younger programmer into a department with an average experience of ~5 years, the mistakes that younger programmers make can be mitigated far earlier, preventing them from causing catastrophic problems. This same situation allows you to harness the knowledge of a wide array of experience levels. It also usually helps you hire programmers before another company over-pays them, causing them to ask you for more money than they are worth.
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He was hired by Valve to integrate the technology into Steam. I'm sure he's not working for bread and water.
Bram Cohen's BitTorrent should give you some hope.
My thesaurus lists "tactics" as a synonym for "strategy."
I posted the link as evidence of the sheep effect (i.e. blaming other states for being sheep) not to blame Iowa.
That said, I do believe that more than one state should hold their primary on the same day as Iowa.
It is on C-SPAN (or is in C-SPAN2) every Sunday evening. They broadcast the House of Commons in both Great Britian and Canada. Furthermore, I believe it is all ministers who must defend themselves in the House of Commons, not just the Prime Minister.
I completely agree with the idea. However, the absurd level of admiration that we Americans hold for the office of President would prevent it from being as effective here as it is in other countries. I believe Congress members actually have the right to question the President during the State of the Union address. Could you imagine the witch hunt that would ensue if any Congress members actually used this right?
While I would like to see more uniform voting procuedures, I don't believe we should concentrate this power in the Federal Government. I'd much rather see States agreeing to use the same procedures. While we wouldn't achieve a uniform national voting protocol, we would alleviate many of the procedural voting problems we have today without forcing less-able states to achieve the same as a the more-able states (e.g. not all states can afford enough touchscreen voting machines).
How Beltway Democrats Sank Howard Dean
The link above should be to intercarve.net.
We weren't able to find a suitable control panel so we've created our own.
Perhaps we should allow polling but ban reporting of it for a short period before the elections?
Seth Finklestein once wrote an essay titled "Libertarianism Makes You Stupid" . What are your thoughts on the essay?
On a related note, I heard a portion of your interview on NPR a week or two ago. It wasn't very clear from your answers whether you accepted the Supreme Court's assertion that corporations are protected by the 13th ammendment. I came away from the interview believing you did accept the assertion. While not a direct contradiction, the LP platform supports ending "sovereign immunity" for governments, but it doesn't seem to mention anything regarding the rights of corporations.
So, then, how is this better than using Baxter (or, worse, your competitor's buy-once-use-everywhere product) on my own private network, not paying you a monthly fee, and using the money I save to buy more hard drives so that the backup and restore isn't artificially slow?
How cool would it be if each member of a band played in their own sound-proof studio, hearing each other and themselves through headphones, with each of their performances being recorded separately. You, the end-user, could then remove individual instruments, or all but one for your own personal solo. On top of the cool end-user features, this would make it far easier to sample the music and probably expose more patterns, etc to be used in compression techniques.
Of course, first we have to get the record companies to embrace sampling and end-user control. I'm not in a band -- I'm lucky if I can keep a beat on my knee -- but I would wager the band "chemistry" would suffer as well.
Or they could do what they are doing; let the game developers mold their own market in whatever ways allow them to bring online games to market in an equitable form. That is, they are content in profitting from the increased game sales for their systems and the related increase in their own sales that online games will bring rather than demanding to be the patriach of it all -- a stark contrast to the Microsoft v. EA conflict.
DJB seems to favor the consumer in the EULA debate.
Great film, in many senses.
Was some of the footage take from Jon Pilger's "Breaking the Silence" (circa 2001) or did Jon and Michael just search the same archives?
I said he isn't being charged with murder. You seem to agree with that: "He hasn't been charged with ANYTHING at this point."
As an aside, I made the comment about banning the moderator because neither the commenter nor the moderator had read the link in the post, showing how the PATRIOT Act is involved.
The Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989 was amended by the PATRIOT Act. Prior to these amendments, he would have been well within his rights.
The article doesn't say what the man is charged with. The subpoenas cite violating the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989. Nothing in that act prohibits murder. Therefore, he is not being charged with murder.
Whomever rated the above comment 5:Interesting should be banned.
Being an optimistic, I'm hoping it is capital meant to kick start IPv6 deployment and/or litigation funds for the "you don't shut down spammers, we reassign your netblock" policies that are probably inevitable.
I would consider this to be "abusing their monopoly power." Shouldn't the law consider it the same, thus allowing the DoJ to bring another anti-trust suit?
Oh wait... Bush would just quash this one like he did the last.
Homer Simpson!? Is that guy still around?
A few years ago Slashdot ran a story about a product that was used to cut a single frame per second out of television broadcasts in order to fit in an extra commercial. Maybe they used a similar trick :]
Your boss is right, in the context of hiring a new programmer into a mature programming team. Because this is probably his most common situation, his generalization is correct for him, in his current position.
The point of diminishing returns on a chart of experience vs. time is definitely around 2 years. The extreme problems that can arise from the mistakes a younger (2 years experience) programmer will make can be catastrophic. Likewise, hiring an entire department of younger programmers would likely loose you your job as a hiring manager.
If you hire a younger programmer into a department with an average experience of ~5 years, the mistakes that younger programmers make can be mitigated far earlier, preventing them from causing catastrophic problems. This same situation allows you to harness the knowledge of a wide array of experience levels. It also usually helps you hire programmers before another company over-pays them, causing them to ask you for more money than they are worth.
You would think that the President of a huge Cable company would want to keep George Bush's FCC around.
Bill Gates contributed $2,000 to Mr. 666.