Why was the safety monitoring system based on a patently insecure and unreliable operating system, and then exposed to the internet? Probably the machines doing the monitoring weren't directly exposed; they just used the same network for monitoring as for sending email. If everythings on the same subnet, then a few hosts generating constant traffic can bring every machine to a halt, regardless of OS. Perhaps Windows boxen should be confined to their own subnets, with firewalls between them and critical systems?
According the this article, Hillboro, Oregon was "already Intel's largest base of operations" in 2001, and they've added at least one new FAB since then. To the best of my knowlege, all pentium design is now done in Hillsboro. What do they still have in Santa Clara? The legal and marketing departments, as far as I know. "Silicone valley" indeed... next time check your facts before making such assinine statements!
How would an open source project go about making such an agreement?
Ever since the Phonecians invented money, there has only been one answer to questions such as those... how much are you willing to pay for open source access to MSN messenger?
I have an understanding the the pastor that married us that if I get pissed off at my wife and want a divorce, he will try to talk me out of that. Why shouldn't he provide the same service to same-sex couples? Anything you can learn in school, you can learn just be reading the textbooks... so we do people go through the formality of attending a university? Surely that little piece of paper can't be THAT important!
If we cant tax the Rich CEOs, why do we care if they live in our state? I mean if they really want to move let them.
I didn't say don't tax them; what I said was that if you tax them at significantly higher rates than other states, they will respond by moving. Not all tomorrow, but over a decade or so, your tax base evaporates.
The rest of what you said made no sense, if Oregon was so great why isnt silicon valley in Oregon?!Because 30 years ago, it made sense to do business in the silcon valley. Converting orchards to industrial parks was cheap, and the government wasn't as intrusive. Where do you think all of Intel's new fabs are being built? Those pentium chips all come from Oregon, not California!
NOTHING is in portland, theres no one to tax, Cali has all the rich movie stars, alot of them are liberal and wont mind paying higher taxes.
This statement is so assinine that it doesn't bear responding to. Yeah, there's NOTHING in Porland, all right! Except about half a million ex-Californians.
I believe that comes under 5). If corporations are raiding the state treasury, then the politicians are either grossly incompetent, or taking money under the table. The state government has the authority to take over every power production facility in the state under Eminent Domain and put them all back online. If there isn't enough power production capacity in the state, is that the fault of Enron or of the state's planners? Seems to me a strategy of buying all your power from out of state to reduce the pollution in your own state is pretty arrogant and short-sighted. They're the government; Enron can't screw anybody without them providing the vaseline...
To play with the 80-year olds stuck in nursing homes. Japan is on a negative population growth trend; they are due to have more old people than people to care for them real soon. What, you thought the Aibo was designed to be a toy?!?
Uh, I think the Japanese want to mass produce these, which means you'll need about 100,000 girlfriends. If my experiences with just 1 girlfriend is any indication, that can get REALLY expensive. $250 million a year is a bargain by comparison!
Greg, you're right of course, most of the legal advantages of marriage could be acheived indepently though contract law. Since I profess to be a Libertarian, I should have known/remembered this. (In the future I'll attempt to think more and post less.)
The exception I see in the context of this thread is my friends, who are in a same-sex partership. They are foster parents for 5 HIV-infected children that nobody else wants. They are well equiped to care for these children (one of them is an assistant to an AIDS specialist). However, under Florida law, they are prevented from legally adopting these children! Yes, I know the real solution for this is that government has no right to dictate who should and should not adopt. But in the meantime, legal status equivalent to marriage would give these kids the security of knowing that they can't be yanked away at any time from the only parents that have truely cared for them.
Right, so Dick Cheney has a congental heart defect; his problems have nothing to do with that steady diet of Texas beef! Glad you cleared that one up for me! And since my personal conduct has no relationship to my chances of contracting an infective disease, I can party hearty at the disco tonight!
"The right to be covered under their spouse's medical insurance (especially important for us contractors).
Contract issue (between you and your insurer)"
Uh, don't you think I'm at a bit of a disadvantage in negotiating a contract with Blue Cross? And why should everything I do require a lawyer? Don't you think lawyers get enough money in our society as it is? Should I hire a lawyer to draw up a consent decree before I have sex with the woman I picked up in a bar last night? (Yes, Kobe should have, but that's a different story.)
Damn straight! Tax the rich at 110%, and make sure that the rest of them all quickly move to Oregon!
A tax structure that's out of line with the surrounding states is, in the long run, suicidal. California's problems stem from 1) overregulation of businesses, 2) extremely high real estate costs, 3) lack of tax revenue from real estate due to prop 13, 4) spending too much on social programs, 5) political corruption skimming too much off the government. These all combine to make doing business in California more expensive then elsewhere, leading to an exodus of business and skilled workers over the past 20 years. Just shifting the tax burden isn't going to magically fix the problem; in fact, it will most likely make it worse. Hint: Portland Oregon is already doing everything it can to attract the film industry; you can make a film there for half the cost of doing it in Hollywood.
I expect any serious writer or lecturer to first consider their audience when writing or giving a speech. In this case, her ICQisms were absolutely appropriate... she wasn't writing for your English 101 professor!
I can't imagine why people feel so threatened by gay marriage.
Because bigots always want to have things both ways; they want to criticize homosexuals for thier "promiscuity" while simultaneously denying them access to an institution which promotes fidelity through a publicly witnessed oath. Sort of like the old south, where blacks lived in shacks with no running water and worked in the hot sun all day, then were considered inferior because the "smelled different". Same as it ever was, you can't counter ignorance with logic...
So you don't beleive even married people should have:
The right to be covered under their spouse's medical insurance (especially important for us contractors).
The right to inherit from a spouse without explictly stating so in a will.
The right to joint custody of children.
The right to make medical decisions for their spouse when they are unable to do so themselves
The right to joint ownership of assets
etc., etc. Perhaps you should look into what these "privileges" are before you say nobody should have them. The tax break for joint filing is the only legal "privilege" that is even debatable with a straight face.
Uh, that's the problem... you think you're driving perfectly fine, but your reaction times and judgement are adversely effected (although you may be more focused on your driving; I can't remember the specific studies on this).
that's why he's going for a Business degree. If he went for a CS degree, he'd be mobbed on a daily business. But in the business program, he's pretty much anonymous. "Who is that geeky looking misfit, anyway?" "Cocks... what kind of a name is 'Cocks'?"
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Why was the safety monitoring system based on a patently insecure and unreliable operating system, and then exposed to the internet? Probably the machines doing the monitoring weren't directly exposed; they just used the same network for monitoring as for sending email. If everythings on the same subnet, then a few hosts generating constant traffic can bring every machine to a halt, regardless of OS. Perhaps Windows boxen should be confined to their own subnets, with firewalls between them and critical systems?
Yes, but you STILL can't produce a baby in 1 month by getting 9 women pregnant!
According the this article, Hillboro, Oregon was "already Intel's largest base of operations" in 2001, and they've added at least one new FAB since then. To the best of my knowlege, all pentium design is now done in Hillsboro. What do they still have in Santa Clara? The legal and marketing departments, as far as I know. "Silicone valley" indeed... next time check your facts before making such assinine statements!
I was making a reference to a Clarence Darrow quote. See if you can find it here And yes, I misspelt "Phoenicians".
Not if you've got $250 million in your pocket!
by the way, isn't "$250 million dollars" redundant?
Ever since the Phonecians invented money, there has only been one answer to questions such as those... how much are you willing to pay for open source access to MSN messenger?
I have an understanding the the pastor that married us that if I get pissed off at my wife and want a divorce, he will try to talk me out of that. Why shouldn't he provide the same service to same-sex couples? Anything you can learn in school, you can learn just be reading the textbooks... so we do people go through the formality of attending a university? Surely that little piece of paper can't be THAT important!
I didn't say don't tax them; what I said was that if you tax them at significantly higher rates than other states, they will respond by moving. Not all tomorrow, but over a decade or so, your tax base evaporates.
The rest of what you said made no sense, if Oregon was so great why isnt silicon valley in Oregon?!Because 30 years ago, it made sense to do business in the silcon valley. Converting orchards to industrial parks was cheap, and the government wasn't as intrusive. Where do you think all of Intel's new fabs are being built? Those pentium chips all come from Oregon, not California!
NOTHING is in portland, theres no one to tax, Cali has all the rich movie stars, alot of them are liberal and wont mind paying higher taxes.
This statement is so assinine that it doesn't bear responding to. Yeah, there's NOTHING in Porland, all right! Except about half a million ex-Californians.
I believe that comes under 5). If corporations are raiding the state treasury, then the politicians are either grossly incompetent, or taking money under the table. The state government has the authority to take over every power production facility in the state under Eminent Domain and put them all back online. If there isn't enough power production capacity in the state, is that the fault of Enron or of the state's planners? Seems to me a strategy of buying all your power from out of state to reduce the pollution in your own state is pretty arrogant and short-sighted. They're the government; Enron can't screw anybody without them providing the vaseline...
To play with the 80-year olds stuck in nursing homes. Japan is on a negative population growth trend; they are due to have more old people than people to care for them real soon. What, you thought the Aibo was designed to be a toy?!?
Uh, I think the Japanese want to mass produce these, which means you'll need about 100,000 girlfriends. If my experiences with just 1 girlfriend is any indication, that can get REALLY expensive. $250 million a year is a bargain by comparison!
The exception I see in the context of this thread is my friends, who are in a same-sex partership. They are foster parents for 5 HIV-infected children that nobody else wants. They are well equiped to care for these children (one of them is an assistant to an AIDS specialist). However, under Florida law, they are prevented from legally adopting these children! Yes, I know the real solution for this is that government has no right to dictate who should and should not adopt. But in the meantime, legal status equivalent to marriage would give these kids the security of knowing that they can't be yanked away at any time from the only parents that have truely cared for them.
Right, so Dick Cheney has a congental heart defect; his problems have nothing to do with that steady diet of Texas beef! Glad you cleared that one up for me! And since my personal conduct has no relationship to my chances of contracting an infective disease, I can party hearty at the disco tonight!
Uh, just as a guess, 'cause most 14 year old boys are more mature than the average /. reader?
Contract issue (between you and your insurer)"
Uh, don't you think I'm at a bit of a disadvantage in negotiating a contract with Blue Cross? And why should everything I do require a lawyer? Don't you think lawyers get enough money in our society as it is? Should I hire a lawyer to draw up a consent decree before I have sex with the woman I picked up in a bar last night? (Yes, Kobe should have, but that's a different story.)
A tax structure that's out of line with the surrounding states is, in the long run, suicidal. California's problems stem from 1) overregulation of businesses, 2) extremely high real estate costs, 3) lack of tax revenue from real estate due to prop 13, 4) spending too much on social programs, 5) political corruption skimming too much off the government. These all combine to make doing business in California more expensive then elsewhere, leading to an exodus of business and skilled workers over the past 20 years. Just shifting the tax burden isn't going to magically fix the problem; in fact, it will most likely make it worse. Hint: Portland Oregon is already doing everything it can to attract the film industry; you can make a film there for half the cost of doing it in Hollywood.
I expect any serious writer or lecturer to first consider their audience when writing or giving a speech. In this case, her ICQisms were absolutely appropriate... she wasn't writing for your English 101 professor!
You're forgetting the $20,000/year * 70,000 people in jail on drug charges = $1.4 billion per year that they would save on prison costs!
The Hoover Institute, perhaps?
Because bigots always want to have things both ways; they want to criticize homosexuals for thier "promiscuity" while simultaneously denying them access to an institution which promotes fidelity through a publicly witnessed oath. Sort of like the old south, where blacks lived in shacks with no running water and worked in the hot sun all day, then were considered inferior because the "smelled different". Same as it ever was, you can't counter ignorance with logic...
The right to be covered under their spouse's medical insurance (especially important for us contractors).
The right to inherit from a spouse without explictly stating so in a will.
The right to joint custody of children.
The right to make medical decisions for their spouse when they are unable to do so themselves
The right to joint ownership of assets
etc., etc. Perhaps you should look into what these "privileges" are before you say nobody should have them. The tax break for joint filing is the only legal "privilege" that is even debatable with a straight face.
Uh, that's the problem... you think you're driving perfectly fine, but your reaction times and judgement are adversely effected (although you may be more focused on your driving; I can't remember the specific studies on this).
that's why he's going for a Business degree. If he went for a CS degree, he'd be mobbed on a daily business. But in the business program, he's pretty much anonymous. "Who is that geeky looking misfit, anyway?" "Cocks... what kind of a name is 'Cocks'?"
In the same sense that lions have a relationship to zebra...
Aye, there's the rub... you're assuming he's thinking!!!