Had we lost the war we wouldn't be observing Independence day at all. The reason we observe it on July 4th is because that was the day on which the Declaration of Independence was signed and the day on which quite a few individuals more or less signed their own death warrants had the bid failed.
I think it's the right choice as it better exemplifies the spirit of the revolution than the day upon which we succeeded in throwing the Brits out.
Not really, he gave us $4tn in deficits, several bubbles in the equities market and led the nation to increasingly hand over its money to the rich on the basis of a completely disproven theory of economics. Hell, even Reagan himself know that tax cuts for the rich were not a panacea which is why he raised them that second year in office.
If you're going to relay that anecdote you might want to point out that the individual was a journalist and made the comment on live TV while he was acting in an official capacity. This wasn't a matter of some random individual calling the President a dick on his or her free time.
That's not really that big of a deal, he was looking for the Indian subcontinent it doesn't really matter what you call it, he was looking for the land that is present day India. The bigger issue is that he wasn't concerned with falling off the edge of the world.
The reason why the fall into the domain of the US is that historically we were the least likely to pull this sort of crap. But, I don't think it'll last long if we continue abusing that privilege.
They almost certainly do, even if you ignore the obvious immediate cost of putting one in. There's more maintenance that's required to put one in. The lane markings alone are significantly higher than what one would pay with a traditional intersection. On top of the additional space they take up and the extra paving.
That being said, I doubt that the cost of maintenance is high enough to justify not doing it. The cost of building one is a far larger concern.
I noticed that when I was in Berkeley a couple years ago, the drivers were astonishingly bad drivers. And not bad like the drivers around here that are mostly just bad, they were bad and extremely aggressive. Not once did I hop in a car without wondering if it was going to be the last ride.
Around here the main problem we have is with cars being a bit too laid back at stop lights and waiting too long before accelerating, or not taking their turn at four way stops, but all in all I rarely have to worry about death while driving around town due to bad driving.
There's a few intersections around here that would potentially benefit from a roundabout, however, there's also serious problems in developed areas with adding them as the amount or space needed is significantly larger than for a normal intersection.
Depends where in the country you're living. One of the main reasons why we have gridlock around here is too much cooperation and too many ill timed traffic control devices. But the current revision of the MUTCD does have provisions for a roundabout and provided that the cities don't cheap out on their signs there shouldn't be too much trouble getting people to understand how to drive it.
Traffic circles are more like miniature roundabouts. We've had ones here for decades, although I don't know of a single actual roundabout here. And you drive them as such. The main issue is that you can only handle vehicles coming in two directions at a time with them. And they're mainly a way of slowing traffic at intersections. But on the plus side you don't need to seriously redesign your street to integrate them. They've added several around my parent's place since I was born.
We have a lot of four way stops and people routinely don't know how to use them properly. But, the downside is usually more congestion than more accidents.
I was a little bit shocked that the first roundabout that I've ever seen in the US was out in virtually in the middle of nowhere right next to a freeway in WI.
If it's a vulnerability thing, then what you really need to do is go over to Adobe and bitch smack the moron there that decided that it was a good idea to include scripting and linking abilities into a document format. And if you choose the Seattle branch you're just a short ways from MS so you can bitch slap the hell out of them for doing the same sort of bullshit with.DOC.
Documents are for reading, if you want people to be able to fill in a form, then they should have to use a separate program. It's just way too easy to exploit that "feature" when very few people actually want to edit their PDFs anyways. I can't personally recall the last time that I needed that functionality.
At bare minimum that really ought to be 1 upper, 2 digits, 7+ length and no words. And that's an extremely low standard at this point given the state of affairs these days. It always bothers me when sites require me to use no more than 16 characters. It's not realistic to expect people to memorize all these unique passwords so you may as well require them to use a 30 character password.
One of the very serious problems right now is punishing companies for trying to avoid infringing on anybody's patents. Get caught infringing you'll pay damages, be stupid enough to have conducted a patent search prior to being sued and you'll be looking at treble damages typically.
The same way they did prior to copyrights. There would be a wealthy land owner who would basically sponsor the work. That owner would by virtue of controlling the creation be in control of it.
If anything the version of patents up until relatively recently that was in place democratized the area as it allowed somebody to get some sort of payment without having to have a long list of inventions. There have been generous folks over the millenia that have given their inventions away, but there'd be fewer inventions and we'd be much further behind where we are today.
There's still no paper trail under this scheme and there isn't any way of the voter verifying that the vote was properly registered. Which was the kind of problem which led to both elections that resulted in Bush winning.
Because in practice it's not really free. It's been a while since I went to the DMV, but I don't recall those being open 24/7, in other words if you're really that hard up, chances are that you'd have to take a day off work.
But, really the biggest problem is that the level of fraud in that segment of voters isn't any higher than it is in other segments. And while we're at it, why don't we just require that all ballots be signed by the person as well. I mean hell, somebody could put an X and sign that it was a valid vote.
Back in 2005 weren't they caught applying patches to voting machines in Democratic leaning counties in Georgia. Supposedly it was a bug fix, but it was never really explained why the machines happened to be in swing counties that were leaning Democratic. It's entirely possible that there was a reasonable explanation, but without a paper trail or access to the source for both the original and the patch there's no way of knowing for sure.
The really scary thing is that Diebold is heavily into ATMs as well and should really know how to secure the machines.
I'm guessing it's less that it's censored and more that the party controls it and has immediate access to the logs and whatever relevant information they need to come down on the poster. Much of the internet is problematic as Chinese laws don't apply to the server end of services that have no host in China, they can try to get the people making the posts, but it's a lot harder as they have to track the posting in real time rather than peruse the logs after the fact.
There's actually a pretty big difference, unless you're one of the few that gets paid to contribute to a project, all people that work on those projects do so for non-monetary reasons. They might like the project or they find the work to be interesting. Or they might just like contributing to a body of software which allows one to do just about anything without shelling out for licensing fees. I'll be doing some volunteer work on the side for experience and connections, but it's a very different situation than when you're effectively volunteering to work for free so that a for profit venture can make more money.
The beneficiaries of such work are not for profit companies that are using the work as a way of negotiating wages down. I'm sure that open source software does have somewhat of a depressing effect on commercial software, but it's not like there aren't businesses out there that have figured out how to coexist with a free project. Codeweavers is probably one of the best examples giving back nearly all the code they develop to Wine.
I disagree, the fact that many interns are unpaid is a tacit admittance that the regulators that are supposed to prevent exploitation of the worker have been doing a lazy job. Now, there are cases where trading work for training is a reasonable choice. I'm sure there are cases where it's mutually beneficial, but when it gets to the point where one has to or has a strong imperative to take the deal because companies refuse to hire for entry level positions without experience, that's clearly wrong and of great enough scale that something needs to be done.
Plus, my previous employer treated my work as without value so I quit. I told her that if she wasn't going to take the work away that she was requiring me to do off the clock, or pay me for the time then I was going to walk. I did, I just walked right out the door and told a few folks on the way out why I had quit. My current job pays less and provides fewer hours, but after I get a bit of experience the pay and work environment should both be quite a bit better.
I get the feeling that in many fields you're better of volunteering for experience while you look for work. Volunteers are treated substantially better and with the upside being that you can usually get a nice reference from somebody that's truly appreciative.
Paid internships aren't a problem, the unpaid ones however are. As long as companies are allowed to offer unpaid internships there's going to be pressure on companies that want to pay not to. And it's one thing to have unpaid interns exchanging work for training and quite another having them trading work for at most a lettter of recommendation or a line for a CV. The latter being purely exploitative and the former being at least some sort of a deal.
I went that route and avoided doing anything like that and it set me way back. The reason being that I couldn't work during college because of the campus being in far enough outside of town that I couldn't get a bus into town for work and not being work study I couldn't get any jobs on campus as those were all reserved for work study.
Unfortunately, for people who can't afford to volunteer it can be very hard to get a job in one's field and jobs that are not in ones field typically don't count when employers are screening out the first couple rounds of applicants.
Ideally you'd be correct, but as long as HR morons are allowed to set their requirements high to the point of being fraudulent, it's not going to be realistic for students that aren't well connected to be able to just blow off sources of experience and access to connections that easily.
Until the practice is curtailed by the government and minimum wage laws are more adequately policed, I don't see it as being realistic for students in fields where the employer has a lot of power getting way with avoiding the internships.
Visa and Mastercard are payment processors, it's not their place to decide where one can and can't buy things and it's not their place to make moral decisions on behalf of their clients. Given how there are only 4 major options and that American Express and Discover have much smaller networks and are frequently not accepted, I can't see how Visa and Mastercard can possibly be allowed to continue these shenanigans.
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Had we lost the war we wouldn't be observing Independence day at all. The reason we observe it on July 4th is because that was the day on which the Declaration of Independence was signed and the day on which quite a few individuals more or less signed their own death warrants had the bid failed.
I think it's the right choice as it better exemplifies the spirit of the revolution than the day upon which we succeeded in throwing the Brits out.
Not really, he gave us $4tn in deficits, several bubbles in the equities market and led the nation to increasingly hand over its money to the rich on the basis of a completely disproven theory of economics. Hell, even Reagan himself know that tax cuts for the rich were not a panacea which is why he raised them that second year in office.
If you're going to relay that anecdote you might want to point out that the individual was a journalist and made the comment on live TV while he was acting in an official capacity. This wasn't a matter of some random individual calling the President a dick on his or her free time.
And it was the right thing to do, journalists are not supposed to express personal views with company resources, they're supposed to be trying to be as impartial as possible.
Journalist apologizes for strongly worded criticism of Obama
That's not really that big of a deal, he was looking for the Indian subcontinent it doesn't really matter what you call it, he was looking for the land that is present day India. The bigger issue is that he wasn't concerned with falling off the edge of the world.
The reason why the fall into the domain of the US is that historically we were the least likely to pull this sort of crap. But, I don't think it'll last long if we continue abusing that privilege.
They almost certainly do, even if you ignore the obvious immediate cost of putting one in. There's more maintenance that's required to put one in. The lane markings alone are significantly higher than what one would pay with a traditional intersection. On top of the additional space they take up and the extra paving.
That being said, I doubt that the cost of maintenance is high enough to justify not doing it. The cost of building one is a far larger concern.
I noticed that when I was in Berkeley a couple years ago, the drivers were astonishingly bad drivers. And not bad like the drivers around here that are mostly just bad, they were bad and extremely aggressive. Not once did I hop in a car without wondering if it was going to be the last ride.
Around here the main problem we have is with cars being a bit too laid back at stop lights and waiting too long before accelerating, or not taking their turn at four way stops, but all in all I rarely have to worry about death while driving around town due to bad driving.
There's a few intersections around here that would potentially benefit from a roundabout, however, there's also serious problems in developed areas with adding them as the amount or space needed is significantly larger than for a normal intersection.
Depends where in the country you're living. One of the main reasons why we have gridlock around here is too much cooperation and too many ill timed traffic control devices. But the current revision of the MUTCD does have provisions for a roundabout and provided that the cities don't cheap out on their signs there shouldn't be too much trouble getting people to understand how to drive it.
Traffic circles are more like miniature roundabouts. We've had ones here for decades, although I don't know of a single actual roundabout here. And you drive them as such. The main issue is that you can only handle vehicles coming in two directions at a time with them. And they're mainly a way of slowing traffic at intersections. But on the plus side you don't need to seriously redesign your street to integrate them. They've added several around my parent's place since I was born.
We have a lot of four way stops and people routinely don't know how to use them properly. But, the downside is usually more congestion than more accidents.
I was a little bit shocked that the first roundabout that I've ever seen in the US was out in virtually in the middle of nowhere right next to a freeway in WI.
Actually proper English dictates that with Emacs and Firefox you'd need a partitive, making it versions of Emacs or versions of Firefox.
If it's a vulnerability thing, then what you really need to do is go over to Adobe and bitch smack the moron there that decided that it was a good idea to include scripting and linking abilities into a document format. And if you choose the Seattle branch you're just a short ways from MS so you can bitch slap the hell out of them for doing the same sort of bullshit with .DOC.
Documents are for reading, if you want people to be able to fill in a form, then they should have to use a separate program. It's just way too easy to exploit that "feature" when very few people actually want to edit their PDFs anyways. I can't personally recall the last time that I needed that functionality.
If they were really in it for the lulz they'd be posting accurate information. Such as admitting that Bush didn't win the 2000 Presidential election,
At bare minimum that really ought to be 1 upper, 2 digits, 7+ length and no words. And that's an extremely low standard at this point given the state of affairs these days. It always bothers me when sites require me to use no more than 16 characters. It's not realistic to expect people to memorize all these unique passwords so you may as well require them to use a 30 character password.
One of the very serious problems right now is punishing companies for trying to avoid infringing on anybody's patents. Get caught infringing you'll pay damages, be stupid enough to have conducted a patent search prior to being sued and you'll be looking at treble damages typically.
The same way they did prior to copyrights. There would be a wealthy land owner who would basically sponsor the work. That owner would by virtue of controlling the creation be in control of it.
If anything the version of patents up until relatively recently that was in place democratized the area as it allowed somebody to get some sort of payment without having to have a long list of inventions. There have been generous folks over the millenia that have given their inventions away, but there'd be fewer inventions and we'd be much further behind where we are today.
There's still no paper trail under this scheme and there isn't any way of the voter verifying that the vote was properly registered. Which was the kind of problem which led to both elections that resulted in Bush winning.
Because in practice it's not really free. It's been a while since I went to the DMV, but I don't recall those being open 24/7, in other words if you're really that hard up, chances are that you'd have to take a day off work.
But, really the biggest problem is that the level of fraud in that segment of voters isn't any higher than it is in other segments. And while we're at it, why don't we just require that all ballots be signed by the person as well. I mean hell, somebody could put an X and sign that it was a valid vote.
Back in 2005 weren't they caught applying patches to voting machines in Democratic leaning counties in Georgia. Supposedly it was a bug fix, but it was never really explained why the machines happened to be in swing counties that were leaning Democratic. It's entirely possible that there was a reasonable explanation, but without a paper trail or access to the source for both the original and the patch there's no way of knowing for sure.
The really scary thing is that Diebold is heavily into ATMs as well and should really know how to secure the machines.
I'm guessing it's less that it's censored and more that the party controls it and has immediate access to the logs and whatever relevant information they need to come down on the poster. Much of the internet is problematic as Chinese laws don't apply to the server end of services that have no host in China, they can try to get the people making the posts, but it's a lot harder as they have to track the posting in real time rather than peruse the logs after the fact.
There's actually a pretty big difference, unless you're one of the few that gets paid to contribute to a project, all people that work on those projects do so for non-monetary reasons. They might like the project or they find the work to be interesting. Or they might just like contributing to a body of software which allows one to do just about anything without shelling out for licensing fees. I'll be doing some volunteer work on the side for experience and connections, but it's a very different situation than when you're effectively volunteering to work for free so that a for profit venture can make more money.
The beneficiaries of such work are not for profit companies that are using the work as a way of negotiating wages down. I'm sure that open source software does have somewhat of a depressing effect on commercial software, but it's not like there aren't businesses out there that have figured out how to coexist with a free project. Codeweavers is probably one of the best examples giving back nearly all the code they develop to Wine.
I disagree, the fact that many interns are unpaid is a tacit admittance that the regulators that are supposed to prevent exploitation of the worker have been doing a lazy job. Now, there are cases where trading work for training is a reasonable choice. I'm sure there are cases where it's mutually beneficial, but when it gets to the point where one has to or has a strong imperative to take the deal because companies refuse to hire for entry level positions without experience, that's clearly wrong and of great enough scale that something needs to be done.
Plus, my previous employer treated my work as without value so I quit. I told her that if she wasn't going to take the work away that she was requiring me to do off the clock, or pay me for the time then I was going to walk. I did, I just walked right out the door and told a few folks on the way out why I had quit. My current job pays less and provides fewer hours, but after I get a bit of experience the pay and work environment should both be quite a bit better.
I get the feeling that in many fields you're better of volunteering for experience while you look for work. Volunteers are treated substantially better and with the upside being that you can usually get a nice reference from somebody that's truly appreciative.
Paid internships aren't a problem, the unpaid ones however are. As long as companies are allowed to offer unpaid internships there's going to be pressure on companies that want to pay not to. And it's one thing to have unpaid interns exchanging work for training and quite another having them trading work for at most a lettter of recommendation or a line for a CV. The latter being purely exploitative and the former being at least some sort of a deal.
I went that route and avoided doing anything like that and it set me way back. The reason being that I couldn't work during college because of the campus being in far enough outside of town that I couldn't get a bus into town for work and not being work study I couldn't get any jobs on campus as those were all reserved for work study.
Unfortunately, for people who can't afford to volunteer it can be very hard to get a job in one's field and jobs that are not in ones field typically don't count when employers are screening out the first couple rounds of applicants.
Ideally you'd be correct, but as long as HR morons are allowed to set their requirements high to the point of being fraudulent, it's not going to be realistic for students that aren't well connected to be able to just blow off sources of experience and access to connections that easily.
Until the practice is curtailed by the government and minimum wage laws are more adequately policed, I don't see it as being realistic for students in fields where the employer has a lot of power getting way with avoiding the internships.
Visa and Mastercard are payment processors, it's not their place to decide where one can and can't buy things and it's not their place to make moral decisions on behalf of their clients. Given how there are only 4 major options and that American Express and Discover have much smaller networks and are frequently not accepted, I can't see how Visa and Mastercard can possibly be allowed to continue these shenanigans.