Understood. and I didn't mean to be nit picky but there is a world of difference between:
basically doing everything he can to destroy freedoms and turn us into a police state.
and
"I wish he could/would do more to restore our the freedoms that others took away or eroded."
It appears that there are many in your society that really do believe the former simply because it has been repeated over and over by people with an agenda. I think as a thinking person you have an obligation to question yourself before repeating other people's propaganda. I am sure it was not your intention to be a tool for the plutocrats.
OK So if I have read your reply correctly what you are saying is:
why hasn't Obama pushed congress harder to repeal laws past by congress under the Bush administration
why is he not acting to push congress to curb the over reach of the Border protection services
and you want him to exercise more control over the TSA and tell them exactly how to balance traveler security vs personal invasion.
About the TSA he has said "I understand people’s frustrations, and what I’ve said to the TSA is that you have to constantly refine and measure whether what we’re doing is the only way to assure the American people’s safety. And you also have to think through are there other ways of doing it that are less intrusive," Obama said."
Now if he explicitly told the TSA to stop pat downs or scans or whatever and there was an incident, you would probably be calling for his impeachment for interfering with the good work of the agency. I can hear the pundits now: "If it hadn't been for Obama interfering with the TSA for political gain, those people would be alive today."
So instead of saying Obama has done more to limit freedom then anyone else, you should have said "Why hasn't he done more to repeal the freedom limit actions of others."
Just saying most of the stuff your complaining about was started by other people and the only way for him to do anything about them is through a republican led congress.
A libertarian state would last 2 seconds. That's how long it would take for two or more citizens to realize that they could join together, pool their resources and subjugate those around them for fun and profit.
I understand the appeal of libertarianism but I have zero idea how anyone could ever create a libertarian state (if such a thing even makes sense). In some ways it's like a paradox. You can only create a libertarian "state of civilization" if you FORCE everyone else in the world to do it at the same time and somehow prevent them from forming their own collectives. Kinda runs counter to the whole philosophy doesn't it?
Or lets put it another way. Who is going to protect your libertarian freedoms? Yourself? That won't work will it. So maybe a bunch of libertarians get together and decide to "volunteer" to coordinate the defense of their mutual freedoms. So they build a wall and take turns patrolling it. This works fine and they live happily and have kids. Those kids grow up and some say "I don't want to walk the wall and you can't force me because we are libertarians." Do you throw them out side the walls? It's their personal choice right? They can volunteer to patrol the walls or they can choose to leave and not have the protection of the walls.
So if you call yourself a libertarian you can either pay your taxes and be happy about it, or you can LEAVE!
basically doing everything he can to destroy freedoms and turn us into a police state.
I am not an American, nor do I live in America. Can someone please explain to me exactly what Obama has done to deserve this type of accusation?
I agree with your analysis but not your conclusion. When you say "Per capita metrics only make sense when comparing between countries with similar industrial outputs and economies." you are meaning to say that it is not fair to make this comparison?
per capita measurements in terms of GHG emissions are meant to provide an ethical baseline. It does not matter if you choose to live in the north pole or the equator, you have no more "right" to pollute then anyone else. To say we use more energy because we are more industrialized explains the higher energy use but is not any kind of justification or reason to excuse it. Rather it just becomes more obligation for us to find none polluting energy sources.
Per capita is the ONLY fair measure, and can not be excused away because of locale or level of industrialization. I truly hope you understand that.
On a related note, here in British Columbia we instituted a Carbon tax. The people who live in the north of the province complained that they should receive a rebate because it is colder where they lived, and they had to drive further distances, and had to own trucks. That argument misses the entire point of the carbon tax as a way of internalizing and making transparent and otherwise invisible externalized cost of carbon fuels. These people were probably correct that they will pay more carbon tax then those living in the south. But rather then ask for a rebate, they are supposed to add that additional cost onto the products we receive from the north such as minerals and lumber. The whole idea is for the cost of carbon use to be internalized completely into the price mechanisms of our economies. Providing a rebate would make the entire exercise pointless.
Simon that is a very apt analogy. The three legged stool approach to US government helps to check abuses by anyone leg.
It's funny how in America they assume that anything public is a tool for propaganda and can't be trusted. But the private media owned by commercial and industrial interest, will somehow be magically more honest. Americans confuse me.
Oh really? So all the rhetoric from the the right about the absolute necessity of balanced budgets is just so much talk? Call the Rupugs what they are, either hypocrites or idiots. All their talk about fiscal responsibility and family values is just cynical psychological emotional framing designed to garner more votes. All that talk has NOTHING to do with the policies or programs they would institute that really are designed to rip off the little guy.
So the repugs talk fiscal responsibility and frame the dems as irresponsible spenders. But when you show dems with a surplus and repugs with deficits you claim what? Either that those repug states are no better and probably worse at guarding the public purse. Or that there actually ARE valid reasons for running deficits. One of these options reveals incompetence then other hypocrisy. Take you pick.
While I agree that you only get as much security as your willing to pay for, you can get a high degree of security with less complication then this. How about air gap and properly paid, highly trained and ful security vetted engineers.
Also, from my own experience working with scada systems most organizations mirror the data over to a decision support service that lacks the control modules. So some of these infections may simply be on the historian not the control system.
I think it is a non-question. If you are a programmer working for the Government or other large corporation as an employee you are most likely already part of a union whether it is a programmer specific union or not. There are also Communication Unions and other related unions that a freelancer could join if they wanted.
I am in Canada I have been a freelancer for almost 20 years but recently I joined a communications union, the dues are similar or less then a professional association. (~ $200/year). There are no restrictions on work that I do outside of the union but if I am doing work as a member of the union I abide by the rules and standards. These are no more or less onerous then any other professional association.
So just because there is no union called "Brotherhood of code monkeys" does not mean that code monkeys are not in unions.
But there are so many ways to implement the same functionality, how about a glow at the bottom that quickly fades out, or the text becomes bolder temporarily. The whole put is just for the system to tell the user that it is not ignoring his command to scroll.
Wait! Did I just give billions of dollars of ideas away?
What? Like run your server under your desk at home powered by solar cells on your roof so your not relying on the power company? and getting an uplink...somehow?
Face it, everything is contingent. I run on AWS now and I used to run a dedicated physical server hosted at the planet, and before that I used to host from under my desk on consumer ADSL. Please explain which of those makes me more or less dependent on services provided by others.
If memory serves this was the same AZ that had troubles the other year. My memory should be pretty good since this is the AZ that my server is in and I am trying to understand what I did in a past life to be in the one AZ out of more then 30 that keeps having troubles:(
Obama will win in a landslide here in Illinois, so a vote for either him or Romney is wasted here.
Wtf? How is Obama going to win a landslide if people decide that they don't need to even bother to vote for him because it would be "wasted" ? Get Out the Vote!
While I appreciate the comments when looking at someone elses code, I find the general readability of the code itself to me more useful.
But more useful still would be a nice graphically diagram of the entire application giving an idea of the components and how they are put together, and where the interfaces are to outside systems. The diagram could include naming conventions and file locations as well and a map to where any important keys are:)
Ok but the Samsung note doesn't do that bouncy thing whatever that is. I just loaded settings and scrolled to the bottom...no bounce.
Note to self, patent white letters on black background.
Wow our experiences vary greatly. I have a Samsung Note and love the hell out of it. Not only is it fast with a large battery, the software I use is amazing and written well. I can RDP, manage EC2 instances, FTP to and from my phone, access Trello, I have a crap load of nature field guides, watch Netflix, man the list goes on.
I looks and feels nothing like an iPhone, how they can include it in the ban is beyond me.
These are personal cheque correct? Cause payrolls etc use lots of cheques. Myself the only time I write a cheque is if someone needs a post-dated payment or deposit.
All my bill paying is online and I have easily gone a year or more between writing cheques and I have a family of 4.
Everyone say a nice "Thank you" to Google, the hero of the people. They put their money where their mouth is and offered a minimum bid of $4.6billion but only if the certain policies where implemented:
Open applications: Consumers should be able to download and utilize any software applications, content, or services they desire;
Open devices: Consumers should be able to utilize a handheld communications device with whatever wireless network they prefer;
Open services: Third parties (resellers) should be able to acquire wireless services from a 700 MHz licensee on a wholesale basis, based on reasonably nondiscriminatory commercial terms; and
Open networks: Third parties (like internet service providers) should be able to interconnect at any technically feasible point in a 700 MHz licensee's wireless network.
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You already have, your money got Harper elected. Now get off my lawn and out of my countries politics!
About the TSA he has said "I understand people’s frustrations, and what I’ve said to the TSA is that you have to constantly refine and measure whether what we’re doing is the only way to assure the American people’s safety. And you also have to think through are there other ways of doing it that are less intrusive," Obama said."
Now if he explicitly told the TSA to stop pat downs or scans or whatever and there was an incident, you would probably be calling for his impeachment for interfering with the good work of the agency. I can hear the pundits now: "If it hadn't been for Obama interfering with the TSA for political gain, those people would be alive today."
So instead of saying Obama has done more to limit freedom then anyone else, you should have said "Why hasn't he done more to repeal the freedom limit actions of others."
Just saying most of the stuff your complaining about was started by other people and the only way for him to do anything about them is through a republican led congress.
Your aim is true but you have the target wrong.
A libertarian state would last 2 seconds. That's how long it would take for two or more citizens to realize that they could join together, pool their resources and subjugate those around them for fun and profit.
I understand the appeal of libertarianism but I have zero idea how anyone could ever create a libertarian state (if such a thing even makes sense). In some ways it's like a paradox. You can only create a libertarian "state of civilization" if you FORCE everyone else in the world to do it at the same time and somehow prevent them from forming their own collectives. Kinda runs counter to the whole philosophy doesn't it?
Or lets put it another way. Who is going to protect your libertarian freedoms? Yourself? That won't work will it. So maybe a bunch of libertarians get together and decide to "volunteer" to coordinate the defense of their mutual freedoms. So they build a wall and take turns patrolling it. This works fine and they live happily and have kids. Those kids grow up and some say "I don't want to walk the wall and you can't force me because we are libertarians." Do you throw them out side the walls? It's their personal choice right? They can volunteer to patrol the walls or they can choose to leave and not have the protection of the walls.
So if you call yourself a libertarian you can either pay your taxes and be happy about it, or you can LEAVE!
basically doing everything he can to destroy freedoms and turn us into a police state. I am not an American, nor do I live in America. Can someone please explain to me exactly what Obama has done to deserve this type of accusation?
I agree with your analysis but not your conclusion. When you say "Per capita metrics only make sense when comparing between countries with similar industrial outputs and economies." you are meaning to say that it is not fair to make this comparison?
per capita measurements in terms of GHG emissions are meant to provide an ethical baseline. It does not matter if you choose to live in the north pole or the equator, you have no more "right" to pollute then anyone else. To say we use more energy because we are more industrialized explains the higher energy use but is not any kind of justification or reason to excuse it. Rather it just becomes more obligation for us to find none polluting energy sources.
Per capita is the ONLY fair measure, and can not be excused away because of locale or level of industrialization. I truly hope you understand that.
On a related note, here in British Columbia we instituted a Carbon tax. The people who live in the north of the province complained that they should receive a rebate because it is colder where they lived, and they had to drive further distances, and had to own trucks. That argument misses the entire point of the carbon tax as a way of internalizing and making transparent and otherwise invisible externalized cost of carbon fuels. These people were probably correct that they will pay more carbon tax then those living in the south. But rather then ask for a rebate, they are supposed to add that additional cost onto the products we receive from the north such as minerals and lumber. The whole idea is for the cost of carbon use to be internalized completely into the price mechanisms of our economies. Providing a rebate would make the entire exercise pointless.
Simon that is a very apt analogy. The three legged stool approach to US government helps to check abuses by anyone leg.
It's funny how in America they assume that anything public is a tool for propaganda and can't be trusted. But the private media owned by commercial and industrial interest, will somehow be magically more honest. Americans confuse me.
Oh really? So all the rhetoric from the the right about the absolute necessity of balanced budgets is just so much talk? Call the Rupugs what they are, either hypocrites or idiots. All their talk about fiscal responsibility and family values is just cynical psychological emotional framing designed to garner more votes. All that talk has NOTHING to do with the policies or programs they would institute that really are designed to rip off the little guy.
So the repugs talk fiscal responsibility and frame the dems as irresponsible spenders. But when you show dems with a surplus and repugs with deficits you claim what? Either that those repug states are no better and probably worse at guarding the public purse. Or that there actually ARE valid reasons for running deficits. One of these options reveals incompetence then other hypocrisy. Take you pick.
While I agree that you only get as much security as your willing to pay for, you can get a high degree of security with less complication then this. How about air gap and properly paid, highly trained and ful security vetted engineers.
Also, from my own experience working with scada systems most organizations mirror the data over to a decision support service that lacks the control modules. So some of these infections may simply be on the historian not the control system.
I think it is a non-question. If you are a programmer working for the Government or other large corporation as an employee you are most likely already part of a union whether it is a programmer specific union or not. There are also Communication Unions and other related unions that a freelancer could join if they wanted.
I am in Canada I have been a freelancer for almost 20 years but recently I joined a communications union, the dues are similar or less then a professional association. (~ $200/year). There are no restrictions on work that I do outside of the union but if I am doing work as a member of the union I abide by the rules and standards. These are no more or less onerous then any other professional association.
So just because there is no union called "Brotherhood of code monkeys" does not mean that code monkeys are not in unions.
But there are so many ways to implement the same functionality, how about a glow at the bottom that quickly fades out, or the text becomes bolder temporarily. The whole put is just for the system to tell the user that it is not ignoring his command to scroll.
Wait! Did I just give billions of dollars of ideas away?
What? Like run your server under your desk at home powered by solar cells on your roof so your not relying on the power company? and getting an uplink...somehow?
Face it, everything is contingent. I run on AWS now and I used to run a dedicated physical server hosted at the planet, and before that I used to host from under my desk on consumer ADSL. Please explain which of those makes me more or less dependent on services provided by others.
If memory serves this was the same AZ that had troubles the other year. My memory should be pretty good since this is the AZ that my server is in and I am trying to understand what I did in a past life to be in the one AZ out of more then 30 that keeps having troubles :(
Wtf? How is Obama going to win a landslide if people decide that they don't need to even bother to vote for him because it would be "wasted" ? Get Out the Vote!
Perhaps the conceptual MVC should be changed to MVCD
While I appreciate the comments when looking at someone elses code, I find the general readability of the code itself to me more useful.
:)
But more useful still would be a nice graphically diagram of the entire application giving an idea of the components and how they are put together, and where the interfaces are to outside systems. The diagram could include naming conventions and file locations as well and a map to where any important keys are
Ok but the Samsung note doesn't do that bouncy thing whatever that is. I just loaded settings and scrolled to the bottom...no bounce.
Note to self, patent white letters on black background.
Wow our experiences vary greatly. I have a Samsung Note and love the hell out of it. Not only is it fast with a large battery, the software I use is amazing and written well. I can RDP, manage EC2 instances, FTP to and from my phone, access Trello, I have a crap load of nature field guides, watch Netflix, man the list goes on.
I looks and feels nothing like an iPhone, how they can include it in the ban is beyond me.
You simply made suggestions, and the other guys should have known better. IANAL but might it be criminal solicitation?
Which software? For android?
Go watch Soylent Green again. Made in 1973 and premised on Global Warming. So not only was it in the science, it was also in popular culture.
I think you mean fermented not processed.
All tea is from the same plant, everything else are "infusions" eg. "Mint tea is not Tea"
I think it goes like this:
Oolong, semi-fermented
White having the least caffine and black having the most
These are personal cheque correct? Cause payrolls etc use lots of cheques. Myself the only time I write a cheque is if someone needs a post-dated payment or deposit.
All my bill paying is online and I have easily gone a year or more between writing cheques and I have a family of 4.
Easy to fix, do what I do.
"What was the name of your first pet?" 98562
"What was the name of your elementary school?" The color red
It's the internet your supposed to lie to protect yourself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_2008_wireless_spectrum_auction