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  1. Re:Public Employees on NYC To Release Teacher Evaluation Data Over Union Protests · · Score: 0

    This should be obvious... But here goes. As a part of your overall project plan you should have built in metrics to measure your success. If you built in the metrics of "design time", "employee count", and "fleet" then adjust your metrics. "Budget" can be justified by the correct metrics. Some other department can't "own" a metric. Just use the facts you stated here to justify your existance and next time remember these lessons when creating a project plan so you can more accurately estimate your budget. I am an IT manager, so I spend buku dollars and all my business cases and project plans are based on savings in other departments.

  2. The law is how it is enforced on Hunters Shoot Down Drone of Animal Rights Group · · Score: 0

    I hear everyone nitpicking the laws, but the real law is what is enforced. SHARK is like Westboro Baptist Church, except these 'ol boys are not havin' any of it. This is the way these people have lived for two hundred years and a bunch of tree huggers will just get hurt trying to interfere. It is not like they are exterminating these birds. There are untold millions of them turning everything below them white and spreading parasites everywhere. Who knows, maybe they will be at my campsite next with a remote control car taking pictures of my bug zapper.

  3. Re:That's a few weeks if not days of Iraq War in c on White House Wants Devastating Cuts To NASA's Mars Exploration · · Score: 0

    Uhhh, I think it is safe to say that almost everyone in the U.S., even the poverty stricken, have those appliances. We are not India, where they know REAL poverty.

  4. Re:Confused on White House Wants Devastating Cuts To NASA's Mars Exploration · · Score: 0

    Why is everything a political smear? Regardless of the political candidate you support, nobody is perfect and everyone does not hold the same values. Cuts need to be made; we are not living in our means. Cut it. Then we can worry which economic theory will restore the health of the U.S. so we can not only move forward with current plans, but expand astronomically. (I couldn’t resist the pun)

  5. The Bigger Message on Europe's Largest IT Company To Ban Internal Email · · Score: 0

    I think Mr Breton may be going overboard a bit, but the bigger message is accurate and important. Better communication is done in person. There is more to communicating than words. Society is losing inflection, sarcasm, body language, eye contact, and a number of other communication tools we have developed as human beings to text on a screen... And no, LOL and smileys cannot replace them. All the points made here are accurate and good points, but let's not lose the real message the CEO is communicating.

  6. Whew!!! on The World's Smallest Video Camera · · Score: 0

    Whew, I thought they were going to say it was developed for the TSA.

  7. Conspiracy on Yes, an Armadillo Can Give You Leprosy · · Score: 0

    Now I know the real reason we got Texas back from Mexico!

  8. Faith because of faith on Is Science Just a Matter of Faith? · · Score: 0

    Faith (or better, trust) in science is not exclusive of Faith in God. Nor is faith in God exclusive of faith or trust in science. Many trust science because they have faith in the divine creator, God, that designed things to work in the way that they do. There are many things that are touted as science that are merely theories that are not demonstrably repeatable. Is it fair to group "theories" into proven, repeatable, and demonstrable science?

  9. Mentally handicapped on Man Pays $200,000 To Save Fake Online Girlfriend · · Score: 0

    She must have been quite a scam artist to get someone to invest that kind of money and send it to other countries without ever seeing her. Not being mean or insensitive, but anyone that could be taken for such a ride has to be mentally handicapped in some fashion. I don't believe it is pure lonliness or the need to connect. The guy could get conversation from a $20 hooker, and she would be there in person. This is why criminals that prey on handicapped people are the worst slime. The guy is probably a great friend to anyone that will have him...

  10. Let me comfort you... on Ubuntu: Where Did the Love Go? · · Score: 0

    Perhaps this is really just a problem with a secure feeling and warm fuzzies. Let's face it, people in the FOSS community are computer nerds (said in a loving way, as I am one) and that is our best way of scraping out an existance in this world. It is just a distrobution. Even if they do ruin it, the code is open and available everywhere. I love Ubuntu, but if it is sacrificed to the god of corporate bytes, I will simply use immerse myself in another distro. Newbies have a lot of sites and people ready and willing to teach the ways of the Linux world and the open source community. Perhaps this is even the event that will allow me one day to come to work and boot up to a Linux terminal.

  11. I think I saw this on a porn site! on US Secret Service Virtualizes Tiny Town · · Score: 1

    I am sure that in the virtual airport the agents can give virtual pat downs and strip searches. I wonder who cleans up the kiosks???

  12. Pot calling the kettle black on Microsoft Sues TiVo · · Score: 0

    The old phrase, "pot calling the kettle black" comes to mind. What hasn't Microsoft infringed on?

  13. Re:Don't worry big media, the fix is in on Obama Nominates RIAA Lawyer For Solicitor General · · Score: -1

    >> It seems that if another group "wakes up" they will be included in the "same party". A large group has come to their senses and has different priorities than the Dems or Reps. "We the People" are what they are shouting. The media make them out as overly conservative republicans... The truth is if you talk to them, they just want the rights and liberties that the constitution guaranteed and have been taken away. That means the rights and liberties of everyone. Libertrians and anti-corporatists should be backing the Tea Party.

  14. Re:how the Jews (Israel) has come full circle on New Mega-Leak Reveals Middle East Peace Process · · Score: 0

    Everyone is right in from their own viewpoint. Until people in the area try to understand each others viewpoint and just agree to disagree and move forward peacefully, there will continue to be violent conflict... This post sounds extremely ignorant of the complex conditions that exist in the region, but this it really comes down to this issue. Two theocracies will never get along.

  15. Leaking mud on New Mega-Leak Reveals Middle East Peace Process · · Score: 0

    The whole art of negotiation is changing due to these leaks. You would think that a greater transparency would be a byproduct, but there is also the result of increased security and cloak and dagger type of behavior. Then you have leaks that were controlled to either provoke a response or pass on misinformation. All this leads to a level of complexity that surely will hamper any negotiation process. Until we get to a point where the politicians and diplomats can no longer hide anything, (good luck with that) I think these leaks just muddy up the process.

  16. Re:Amazon makes a good call on Amazon Censorship Expands · · Score: 0

    What's new? Just trying to figure this scoring thing out. Thanks for the positive affirmation though!

  17. Re:Will the Bible be next? on Amazon Censorship Expands · · Score: 0

    It may possibly be next. As a Bible believing Christian I would not expect any other belief system to forcibly sell what they deem objectionable. Outside of a different belief system, I would not expect them to sell something that does not make a profit or they deem as inappropriate enough to offend a majority of society. Censorship is generally attributed NOT to a profit system, but to a law declaring that a work can not be distributed. A good example would be trying to sell a Bible in a Muslim country...It is against the law, under penalty of death in some cases. In America and most of the world anyone can sell almost any literary work.

  18. Re:censorship = profit on Amazon Censorship Expands · · Score: 0

    But my point is, they are now making more money because people decided to not support that type of literature. Call them religious nutcases or responsible parents, the bottom line is that a purchase from them equals a vote. Whatever makes them more money at the end of the day will be the deciding factor. It is not an ideal, it is a dollar based business decision.

  19. Re:freedom! on Amazon Censorship Expands · · Score: 0

    It is my understanding that the Kindle books have the same license that most software companies use nowadays... "you don't own the software, you just bought the right to use it until I choose not to allow it anymore. If you already have it downloaded, good for you. If you don't, talk to our customer service department to trade the book for free shipping on a Bible."

  20. Re:Amazon makes a good call on Amazon Censorship Expands · · Score: 0

    How did you score 3 on your comment and I scored 0 saying the same thing from an idealistic perspective?

  21. censorship = profit on Amazon Censorship Expands · · Score: 0

    I personally think all the talk about censorship when referring to a private company is pie in the sky talk anyway. It is all about profit. When they learned that a lot of business was walking out the door because people did not want to support that crap, they pulled it. It is simple as that. Anyone trying to couple ideals like censorship with business will never understand these types of decisions.

  22. Re:This isn't activism on Operation Payback and Hactivism 101 · · Score: 0

    They are protecting freedom of speech only to the extent that others speak what they are ok with. When someone says or does something they don't agree with, they launch a ddos attack. It is more like freedom to say what I want you to say...or else!

  23. Re:Meanwhile, in Japan on 68% of US Broadband Connections Aren't Broadband · · Score: 0

    But technically since the article is about US broadband connections, your comment had nothing to do with the article. Seems to me "Tuan121" had about as much right to his comment as you did... -=Now move along now=-

  24. Re:What the hell is the fuss about on Organs of UK Nuclear Workers Secretly Harvested; Energy Secretary Apologizes · · Score: 1, Insightful

    This is true, and personally I would give anyone anything I am no longer using in the way of body parts after death, but respect should be given to someones wishes. And what about the families? This is devastating to certain belief systems. Where do their rights come in?

  25. Re:What the hell is the fuss about on Organs of UK Nuclear Workers Secretly Harvested; Energy Secretary Apologizes · · Score: 0

    Well then where do internment arrangements and contracts come into play in your scenerio? We pre-plan for our deaths and certain assumptions are made when we make arrangements to be interned. One of those is that when we are buried, it is with all of our parts (that are available of course). How do company or government rights trump that?