Very bad comparison. Most folks' tv and 'Net comes from *wired* (or fibre). You can't offshore the jobs that these people do, with the infrastructure *here*, any more than you can offshore desktop support for your CEO.
Wish I could join a union, but they've got the regs written for computer professionals that it's pretty much impossible.
1. The US Constitution says that treaties count as law of the land. 2. In 1953, the Department of Defense adopted the principles of the Nuremberg Code as official
policy" of the United States. (Hasting Center Report, March-April 1991) - so he not only has
the duty to follow "lawful orders", but equally to "refuse to follow lawful orders" (the Nazis in
the camps were "just following orders".) http://www.omjp.org/ArtLarryDi... 3. In general, studies show that torture actually doesn't work - the person being tortured will
tell you whatever you want to hear... *not* necessarily the actual facts (is that right,
Cardinal Torquemada?
And I was just talking to a friend last night, who'd been in combat in 'Nam, and saw torture *used* (and was stopped from killing the person being tortured to save them from worse). None of you assholes who are for torture have ever been there, or know someone who was there, so bugger off.
Is a specific cow, or pet that special? And if so, why on *earth* would you think a cloned one would act the same?
And people... there are these people called "twins", or "triplets", etc, and they all turn out differently. What would you expect to get by cloning someone?
And it's a long term thing, if you're cloning your favorite movie star, or politician...
The poster you're responding to was incorrect. HOWEVER, from 2001 THROUGH 2005, Cheney was receiving his golden parachute from Halliburton, *while* he was there when Halliburton got its no-bid contracts for Iraq. Maybe you're too young to remember the first year or so, where the US troops there were *literally* not getting enough water every day, due to "insurance issues" for Halliburton and its subsidiaries (who were doing it, instead of the Quartermaster Corps).
Well, no. a) where are most metropolitan areas located? On rivers or oceans. NYC's talking huge seawalls, Miami's trying to figure out if it will exist above water in a decade or two, and this is true around the world.
b) It all affects the climate. Note that a) Syria's several years into the worst draught in many, many years. A large part of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is over control of water. And then there's Phoenix and LA.... and the California Central Valley, that's drawing huge amounts of water, and the aquifers are running out, as they are in the midwest. You can't conceive of actual famine; too many in the world can.
Completely. Look at the rates they're charging. Do any of you know how that works? The prisoner gets one person (it may be more in federal, but this is how it was when I had someone in jail in Brevard Co, FL), and that person needs to prepay the company - $50, please, at least), and they get to call specific numbers, and no one else. And they've only got certain hours... usually, when most folks are at work.
Studies show that the less the contact with the outside world, the higher the recidivism rate. So the "service providers" are assuring their profits....
mark, who'd like all their management behind bars"
So, 40 millionaires wrote a letter. How many *more* live in NY? Raising taxes would get a *lot* more money than it would from 40 families.
What is it then - moronic libertarians who are *sure* they're going to be multimillionaires any minute now, and don't want to pay more taxes when they are? (Hint: no, you're not going to be rich any time soon.)
Fifteen years ago, cellphones were getting smaller and smaller. Among the results of that were a) lots of lost phones, and b) morons entertaining half an el car (e.g. in Chicago), because they'd YELL so that they could keep the phone next to their ear, and so the mike would pick up what they had to say.
Now... what are *you* going to do to support the miniaturized replacements - give all of us who need to deal with them a way to shrink our hands and fingers? Or is this just some dim-witted idea to sell more patch cords, since the smaller ones a) won't lock as well, and b) will break more easily.
The City should use eminent domain and take over large blocks, and rent them to public school teachers, college instructors, and make it available after that for people with an income up to 1.5 times the poverty level.
And you libertarian assholes, as Phil Ochs sang, "go find yourself another country to be part of".
mark "oh, that's right, you don't believe in countries"
As opposed to the rest of the world, where most of will never see double-digit raises? And training - do mean something other than online stupid courses, with content we already know?
They still can't hit a target most of the time, and that's when they *know* when and where the launch will be, and they put a radio tracking beacon on the missile to be hit.
This time, can we please use the correct name - it's Battlestar America, not Star Wars. (Yes, there was an episode of the original Battlebarf where they found a world with two superpowers, and when they pushed The Button, the Galactica zapped all 30,000 nuclear missles....)
Maybe Ted Cruz could lead a rag-tag band of idiots looking for where they came from.... I'd say the seventh planet in the solar system would be about right.
On the other hand... this would be a perfect mechanism for what's happened to our hero in Neuromancer, when we first meet him, with the parts of his brain fried....
Absolutely - are you trying to interfere with every 'Net CEO's God (tm) given right to screw all the rest of us to the wall, and charge more than the market can bear?
All these complaints about regulation... first, why were they passed originally? Just *possibly* because the wealthy and companies were so busy screwing us that we, the people, decided to do something about it?
And how is that different than some mob boss, complaining, as he's arrested and led away, about government regulation interfering with an "honest" businessman?
mark "there are two kinds of Republicans and Libertarians: millionaires, and suckers"
Back during the first huge 'Net scam, Cantor & Siegel, they "defended" themselves by, among other things, asserting that there was no "community", it was all one big advertising venue.
Hey, guy, you want a "relationship"? Look me up, and I'll shove your head through a wall, and while you're in there, I'll take your wallet. That is what you think of as a "relationship", right? You show it to us, and we have to buy it, never mind whether we want it or not?
Those of you who've actually done, or tried to do serious recording: are all the programs mentioned in this thread equal for ->all types of music-, or would you use one, say, for working on classical music themes, but that one wouldn't work well at all for rap, and would that, or either, work with rock or folk?
I agree about pulseaudio. I used to run Suse, then, around '10, I switched to CentOS (same as RHEL). What audio issues I had have 80%, at least, been due to network issues. Mostly, it pretty much just works... and I've been listening to streaming media, every day, since I figured out streaming media 10 or so years ago.
Of course, I'm not a True Audiophile (for example, I didn't rush out to buy the "cryogenically-treated audio cables for $1k...), I just want to listen to music - and that ranges from folk to classical.
mark, tired of Macaholics who don't, in fact, really want to learn their tools, just
wave their hands and make magical incantations
And what about the politics of buying legislators? Primo example: Boeing moving its headquarters from Seattle to Chicago, and based on media reports, it was pretty openly about getting tax breaks from the city council.
And how about the companies that move to break their unions? Hell, the steel plant my father worked at in the fifties ran away to the South for just that reason, along with cheaper labor.
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Very bad comparison. Most folks' tv and 'Net comes from *wired* (or fibre). You can't offshore the jobs that these people do, with the infrastructure *here*, any more than you can offshore desktop support for your CEO.
Wish I could join a union, but they've got the regs written for computer professionals that it's pretty much impossible.
mark
1. The US Constitution says that treaties count as law of the land.
2. In 1953, the Department of Defense adopted the principles of the Nuremberg Code as official
policy" of the United States. (Hasting Center Report, March-April 1991) - so he not only has
the duty to follow "lawful orders", but equally to "refuse to follow lawful orders" (the Nazis in
the camps were "just following orders".) http://www.omjp.org/ArtLarryDi...
3. In general, studies show that torture actually doesn't work - the person being tortured will
tell you whatever you want to hear... *not* necessarily the actual facts (is that right,
Cardinal Torquemada?
And I was just talking to a friend last night, who'd been in combat in 'Nam, and saw torture *used* (and was stopped from killing the person being tortured to save them from worse). None of you assholes who are for torture have ever been there, or know someone who was there, so bugger off.
mark
Is a specific cow, or pet that special? And if so, why on *earth* would you think a cloned one would act the same?
And people... there are these people called "twins", or "triplets", etc, and they all turn out differently. What would you expect to get by cloning someone?
And it's a long term thing, if you're cloning your favorite movie star, or politician...
mark
The poster you're responding to was incorrect. HOWEVER, from 2001 THROUGH 2005, Cheney was receiving his golden parachute from Halliburton, *while* he was there when Halliburton got its no-bid contracts for Iraq. Maybe you're too young to remember the first year or so, where the US troops there were *literally* not getting enough water every day, due to "insurance issues" for Halliburton and its subsidiaries (who were doing it, instead of the Quartermaster Corps).
So, yes, he was being paid by them.
mark
"Billions is hyperbole".
Well, no.
a) where are most metropolitan areas located? On rivers or oceans. NYC's talking huge seawalls, Miami's trying to figure out if it will exist above water in a decade or two, and this is true around the world.
b) It all affects the climate. Note that a) Syria's several years into the worst draught in many, many years. A large part of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is over control of water. And then there's Phoenix and LA.... and the California Central Valley, that's drawing huge amounts of water, and the aquifers are running out, as they are in the midwest. You can't conceive of actual famine; too many in the world can.
mark
If this ain't Nazism, nothing is.
No, Godwin's law doesn't apply when you're talking about the real thing.
mark
Completely. Look at the rates they're charging. Do any of you know how that works? The prisoner gets one person (it may be more in federal, but this is how it was when I had someone in jail in Brevard Co, FL), and that person needs to prepay the company - $50, please, at least), and they get to call specific numbers, and no one else. And they've only got certain hours... usually, when most folks are at work.
Studies show that the less the contact with the outside world, the higher the recidivism rate. So the "service providers" are assuring their profits....
mark, who'd like all their management behind bars"
So, 40 millionaires wrote a letter. How many *more* live in NY? Raising taxes would get a *lot* more money than it would from 40 families.
What is it then - moronic libertarians who are *sure* they're going to be multimillionaires any minute now, and don't want to pay more taxes when they are? (Hint: no, you're not going to be rich any time soon.)
mark
Fifteen years ago, cellphones were getting smaller and smaller. Among the results of that were a) lots of lost phones, and b) morons entertaining half an el car (e.g. in Chicago), because they'd YELL so that they could keep the phone next to their ear, and so the mike would pick up what they had to say.
Now... what are *you* going to do to support the miniaturized replacements - give all of us who need to deal with them a way to shrink our hands and fingers? Or is this just some dim-witted idea to sell more patch cords, since the smaller ones a) won't lock as well, and b) will break more easily.
mark
So they're proposing robots only? You tender little humans, let me pat your hand, sit there in the shade, and we'll take care of everything...
Screw that. Put people up there, hell, there's be plenty of jobs, including the crowd control and refreshments for those of us in line to go.
mark "what's here for us (pointing to the GOP)?"
I'd say NO, if I gave a flyin' rat's ass about iPhones.
And I don't support with my money people who a) want to be a monopoly, and b) heavily overcharge for commodity hardware.
mark
I mean, the way this sounds, I'm expecting Leannart Pottymouth to move to RUST, so he can have *everything* right (according to him).
mark "die, systemd"
Oh, he can't afford to pay Sally *and* Suzie a living wage? What's the CEO's salary?
Pardon me, I'm having trouble finding the world's smallest violin that I dropped.
mark "and double his taxes, while we're at it"
Nothing at *all* like Lotus 1-2-3 vs. Borland, in the eighties....
mark
The City should use eminent domain and take over large blocks, and rent them to public school teachers, college instructors, and make it available after that for people with an income up to 1.5 times the poverty level.
And you libertarian assholes, as Phil Ochs sang, "go find yourself another country to be part of".
mark "oh, that's right, you don't believe in countries"
As opposed to the rest of the world, where most of will never see double-digit raises? And training - do mean something other than online stupid courses, with content we already know?
mark
The episode was "Experiment in Terra"
mark
They still can't hit a target most of the time, and that's when they *know* when and where the launch will be, and they put a radio tracking beacon on the missile to be hit.
This time, can we please use the correct name - it's Battlestar America, not Star Wars. (Yes, there was an episode of the original Battlebarf where they found a world with two superpowers, and when they pushed The Button, the Galactica zapped all 30,000 nuclear missles....)
Maybe Ted Cruz could lead a rag-tag band of idiots looking for where they came from.... I'd say the seventh planet in the solar system would be about right.
mark
On the other hand... this would be a perfect mechanism for what's happened to our hero in Neuromancer, when we first meet him, with the parts of his brain fried....
mark
Absolutely - are you trying to interfere with every 'Net CEO's God (tm) given right to screw all the rest of us to the wall, and charge more than the market can bear?
All these complaints about regulation... first, why were they passed originally? Just *possibly* because the wealthy and companies were so busy screwing us that we, the people, decided to do something about it?
And how is that different than some mob boss, complaining, as he's arrested and led away, about government regulation interfering with an "honest" businessman?
mark "there are two kinds of Republicans and Libertarians: millionaires, and suckers"
What "relationship"?
Back during the first huge 'Net scam, Cantor & Siegel, they "defended" themselves by, among other things, asserting that there was no "community", it was all one big advertising venue.
Hey, guy, you want a "relationship"? Look me up, and I'll shove your head through a wall, and while you're in there, I'll take your wallet. That is what you think of as a "relationship", right? You show it to us, and we have to buy it, never mind whether we want it or not?
mark
Those of you who've actually done, or tried to do serious recording: are all the programs mentioned in this thread equal for ->all types of music-, or would you use one, say, for working on classical music themes, but that one wouldn't work well at all for rap, and would that, or either, work with rock or folk?
mark
I agree about pulseaudio. I used to run Suse, then, around '10, I switched to CentOS (same as RHEL). What audio issues I had have 80%, at least, been due to network issues. Mostly, it pretty much just works... and I've been listening to streaming media, every day, since I figured out streaming media 10 or so years ago.
Of course, I'm not a True Audiophile (for example, I didn't rush out to buy the "cryogenically-treated audio cables for $1k...), I just want to listen to music - and that ranges from folk to classical.
mark, tired of Macaholics who don't, in fact, really want to learn their tools, just
wave their hands and make magical incantations
I hope they find these scum, take everything they own (it was involved in a felony), and gets each of them 20 years with no parole.
They're almost on par with the scum who cracked Goodwill, and stole customers' card info....
mark
And what about the politics of buying legislators? Primo example: Boeing moving its headquarters from Seattle to Chicago, and based on media reports, it was pretty openly about getting tax breaks from the city council.
And how about the companies that move to break their unions? Hell, the steel plant my father worked at in the fifties ran away to the South for just that reason, along with cheaper labor.
mark