the Feds, backed by their "own" courts consistently use the idea that if Federal money is involved, no matter how loosely, that this trumps state's rights. This is primarily used to force "unfunded/underfunded mandates" on the states.
You forgot to include this method of Federal retribution to the mix.
Basically, he's announcing a tomb that hasn't been discovered, which might not be a tomb at all, on the off-chance that, should it actually *be* a tomb, he'll get the credit for it.
I'll bet it's Al Capone's other vault that contains the pr0n stash. Go get 'em, Geraldo.
I have heard more and more, from young and and old alike, that even though they are doing nothing wrong they still feel like they are guilty of something while in the presence of the police. I just dont see why they feel the need to be so intimidating and accusatory.
I first noticed this way before 9/11 in our town. The police department uniforms were dark brown shirts and khaki pants with dark brown single stripes running up the sides of the legs. They actually looked sharp and professional. Then it was decided that the uniforms were to be changed to a VERY dark blue (almost black, actually). When I first saw the new uniform on a couple of officers downtown, it made me feel uneasy and I was looking for SS lighting bolts on their lapels. I assume this change was made for the "intimidation factor". But it's hard for police to expect public support when they are trying to exude this Billy Bad-Ass aura.
It would be a lot more fun to tell him to run ifconfig on his XP box, and watch the frustration build as XP can't find the command. It would be more fun than putting an Aggie in a round room and telling him to "pee in the corner".
India may have been insulted by this program. When we say "India", we still envision this stereotype of abject poverty, poor health, and uneaten cattle. I took a marketing class last year and was surprised to find in the textbook that India actually has a large middle class. In fact, this middle class is growing in leaps and bounds.
OLPC may make India feel like they are viewed as a charity case by the rest of the world.
Unfortunately, she had been given a task with no training beforehand. She never heard of things like crosstalk. I kid you not; you could not find a correct A or B termination out of 52 drops. Before I came along, they had been on the phone back and forth with Cisco (it was a Cisco switch) complaining about data loss. Of course, there was nothing wrong with their switch.
And if you disable autonegotiate and set speed and duplex at fixed values, you might even get link.
Providing your CAT5 cabling is terminated properly. When I started my current job, my boss was complaining about dropped packets and data loss. When I hard-set the NICs to 10Mbps, packets stopped dropping.
My predecessor had run all the cabling from the lab computers to the switch in the closet herself. Unfortunately, each cable end she crimped had its own unique order. Not one of them was terminated to standard.
Honestly, they are a public company. If their CEO came out and said "Maximizing revenue isn't our #1 goal" he would be (rightly) fired by the board of directors. If the board refuses to fire him, they would (rightly) be voted out at the next stockholders meeting or the everyone would (rightly) sell the stock and it would tank.
Pfffttt!!! You give WAY too much credit to stockholders.
Maybe people should get a little artistic and learn to play an instrument so they could play music with friends and listen as they played and we would never have to buy music again.
I do like your sentiment. Those of us who have taken the time to learn how to play music realize this.
Unfortunately, most would see it as hard work and hold it in total disdain; as the effort spent in learning a musical instrument does not result in instant gratification. Those who play music are aware that you find gratification in each step of progress they attain.
For every one billion dollar solution, there is a five dollar way to counter it. The weak link is not even in database - although collecting biometric data from 300 million people will be a real pain.
No, collecting biometric data from 300 million people would be the NSA's ultimate wet dream.
"Hmm. The department costs too much in overtime, but we can't cut it or work won't get done and people will notice more problems since I took over. I know I'll show how much in Fringe Benefits we are saving by exhausting our current workforce rather than adding more headcount!"
Had a manager like this at D***. He got a 5-figure bonus one year by saving a ton of money. Know how he did it? He cut out most of the training budget for Optiplex Tech Support (you know who you are, M****** C****).
After that, their idea of training us on new products was to put us in a room, and have us listen to someone read parts of the new product manual. They passed out copies of that manual, and then told us to go back to the phones and support the new product. We rarely got to even see the new hardware we were supposed to support.
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At least NAV didn't delete all their pr0n.
Should be able to fix a lot of CDs if you go to this person.
OLPC may make India feel like they are viewed as a charity case by the rest of the world.
Unfortunately, she had been given a task with no training beforehand. She never heard of things like crosstalk. I kid you not; you could not find a correct A or B termination out of 52 drops. Before I came along, they had been on the phone back and forth with Cisco (it was a Cisco switch) complaining about data loss. Of course, there was nothing wrong with their switch.
My predecessor had run all the cabling from the lab computers to the switch in the closet herself. Unfortunately, each cable end she crimped had its own unique order. Not one of them was terminated to standard.
I find your lack of faith disturbing.
Unfortunately, most would see it as hard work and hold it in total disdain; as the effort spent in learning a musical instrument does not result in instant gratification. Those who play music are aware that you find gratification in each step of progress they attain.
Not a process for the impatient. To those impatient folks, I say: Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time!
After that, their idea of training us on new products was to put us in a room, and have us listen to someone read parts of the new product manual. They passed out copies of that manual, and then told us to go back to the phones and support the new product. We rarely got to even see the new hardware we were supposed to support.