CompUSA has always been a huge, shining repository of stupidity. They may indeed have what you need - if you have the time to examine everything in the store. But never expect intelligence from any of the employees.
I have never had a good shopping experience with CompUSA and I, for one, will be glad to see them close down. So this is a good start.
Sure. Provided you can get past the rampant ageism among employers who dislike hiring anyone with grey hair - partly because they don't want their insurance premiums to go up, partly because older programmers get paid more for their experience, and finally because they prefer college-hires with more "up to date" "skill sets". As if.
...it's management. But customers get the dirty end of the stick because no one is allowed to criticize management and live. After all, there are so many software people out there, and they're all pretty much identical, right?
Principle, so no, I would not support such a format. My primary objection: this technology provides no automatic means for a copyrighted item to move into the public domain. If anything it helps encourage and support the idea of eternal copyrights. The Constitution of the US provided for copyrights - "for a limited time" - in order to encourage the production of intellectual property. To that end police power, paid by our taxes, would enforce the copyright with the understanding that when the copyright expired the IP would drop into the public domain, where it would be available for new uses of the property. Immortal copyrights (even the functionally-immortal system we have now) have no such bargain built into them. Copyrights last effectively forever, so police power paid for with our taxes continue to enforce the copyright forever. Why should anyone have to pay taxes to support the profits from privately held copyrights? Why should we all have to pay so Disney and Sony and who-all-else can make more money?
A via Jupiter route enables a package to use just enough delta-v to reach Jupiter and hook around using it's gravity to bring it into a straight-to-the-sun drop.
...all that radioactivity equals power. If we reprocessed it in a breeder reactor we would get copious amounts of power and the end result will be less radioactive and thus easier to store. But we don't, because we are too scared of nuclear power in general and breeders reactors using plutonium in specific.
There is no "dark side of the moon". The moon must rotate in order to keep one side facing the earth so it has a two week day and a two week night - both sides. There is a "far side" of the moon, which is the side we don't see from Earth.
As noted previously, no one with a pre-existing condition is allowed to emigrate, so this is an exaggeration at best, and an outright lie at worst.
B; Everyone automatically pays into the healthcare fund so it can be maintained
Even the homeless and jobless? Or the politicians, who ought to be homeless and jobless?
C; Good quality in healthcare is guaranteed by state checkups.
Had a major problem with my heart crop up. I needed a pacer. From the time the decision was made, to the time the incision was being stitched up, was three days. And that is normal. in New England. Now, how long would it take in Canada or the UK or some other socialized medicine country? Hint: the answer will not be in days, nor, in all likelihood, in weeks. Possibly not even months.
> How about moving to a civilized country ? > You know, one of those where it's recognized that decent healthcare for everyone is a good thing.
Not one single country with socialized medicine will allow anyone with a major pre-existing condition to emigrate, so their health care is not for "everyone". And that is not civilized in my book, cobber.
...the same problem as American business: Management. Specifically, management that only exists to improve it's own lot and does so without in any way improving the quality of their management.
I can't think of a single problem that has come up in education that has been really and truly solved. Gun violence? Make it illegal to wear a trench coat. Weapons in schools? Let's not let that honor-roll senior - with a plastic knife...in her car...off site - graduate. Accountability for bad teachers? NEA: Like hell. Actually testing students to see where they fall and what needs to be done to help them? Oh, that's discriminatory. Respect the opinions of others? Certainly! We'll respect any opinion we already agree with. Anything else is pure racism, in'nit?
No. No, it can't be fixed. Nor can it be done away with, there are too many special interests swilling at the public tough.
You know, no matter how many times you say it, it's still wrong. The facts are simple: a) the planet is warming up and b) we don't know why. We suspect that human activity may have something to do with it, but there is not yet reasonable proof. And we need that proof before we commit the entire planet to a plan of action that will cost trillions of dollars, because if it turns out to be wrong, we won't have the money or resources to address the real problem when and if we finally discover it.
And the debate goes on.
With algore, the debate has ended, because his constituancy consists of the extreme loony left who never debated anything anyway.
In short, this film is propaganda, nothing more, and it has no place here.
I still find it incredible that anyone would be surprised to find algore mouthing a falsehood, when there's not a one of them who doesn't know perfectly well that he spent eight years learning at the feet of the master.
> However, if people expect these to be permanent, *then* they > start making long term adaptations. Now, if we have a gas tax > and use the proceeds to clean up or compensate the damage from > pollution, and people still drive the same... er... what's > the problem?
The problem is the United States gov't is addicted to money. Raising the gas tax produces more revenue which provides more pork. It will eventually force down the use of gas, dropping gas tax receipts for pork already committed. This requires raising gas or other taxes in order to pay for the new pork. Since gov't will never, ever, just raise the tax the minimum needed, this will boost revenue, leading to more pork. We see this same cycle over and over and over and over again and again and again. Why in God's name would any sane person suggest this? Market changes are bad enough for anyone not named Hilton or Rockefeller, but at least they won't force up taxes in an insane positive-feedback spiral.
Letting the gov't raise taxes to solve anything is like trying to solve the drug problem by giving out crack. Although considering what that would do to the drug cartels, it actually makes more sense than raising taxes. The US gov't has far too much money already.
> a learning process modeled on Microsoft's management techniques
Microsoft gets sued for it's "management techniques"!
Those would be just the ticket for running a hi-max prison, so long
as we didn't mind the escapes during blue screens. But for a school?
That's child abuse! Hell, that's teacher abuse!
What did those poor kids ever do to you? Or do you figure making them hate computers will make all our jobs more secure?
The choices are very slim. They are, in decreasing order of desireability, Tcl, Python, Component Pascal, Oberon/2, or Smalltalk. C, Java, C# (properly pronounced "D-flat" as any music major could tell you), and Fortran (no matter what freakin' year) are child abuse.
...and how can I tell? Because Bill's lips were moving. No one who watched or read _anything_ about the anti-trust trial could ever believe that Microsoft would not lie through their corporate teeth if they thought it would make them a dime or protect them from any kind of competition.
And by the way: Bill giving away billions that he bilked from customers is not charity. You have to give away your _own_ money for it to be charity.
Stevens is a total, complete, asshole of the very brownest kind. Alaska actually gives money to its' tax "payers" every year from all the income they get from oil kickbacks...sorry, "usage fees"...yet Alaska is still consistantly the 2nd or 3rd in the country for Federal revenue payments. Stevens (and I am NOT making this up) is the same genius who stood up at the podium in the Senate and screamed "NO!" when someone suggested they give up some of their Federal - not state, not oil, just Federal, and not all of them by any means - funds to help cover the disaster in New Orleans. And he did keep them from cutting a single dime from the bushels of money earmarked for Alaska.
The man is an unmitigated disgrace. In a sane government he would have been tossed into prison years ago.
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CompUSA has always been a huge, shining repository of stupidity. They may indeed have what you need - if you have the time to examine everything in the store. But never expect intelligence from any of the employees.
I have never had a good shopping experience with CompUSA and I, for one, will be glad to see them close down. So this is a good start.
> Liability
Yup. And every click-though "agreement" absolves software vendors of any trace of it.
> Are these kinds of organized 'advocate mobs' going to be the future of internet activism?
One can only hope...
Sure. Provided you can get past the rampant ageism among employers who dislike hiring anyone with grey hair - partly because they don't want their insurance premiums to go up, partly because older programmers get paid more for their experience, and finally because they prefer college-hires with more "up to date" "skill sets". As if.
What does Einstein's preference for speakers and headphones have to do with it? He's dead, he can't hear anything!
...it's management. But customers get the dirty end of the stick because no one is allowed to criticize management and live. After all, there are so many software people out there, and they're all pretty much identical, right?
Principle, so no, I would not support such a format. My primary objection: this technology provides no automatic means for a copyrighted item to move into the public domain. If anything it helps encourage and support the idea of eternal copyrights. The Constitution of the US provided for copyrights - "for a limited time" - in order to encourage the production of intellectual property. To that end police power, paid by our taxes, would enforce the copyright with the understanding that when the copyright expired the IP would drop into the public domain, where it would be available for new uses of the property. Immortal copyrights (even the functionally-immortal system we have now) have no such bargain built into them. Copyrights last effectively forever, so police power paid for with our taxes continue to enforce the copyright forever. Why should anyone have to pay taxes to support the profits from privately held copyrights? Why should we all have to pay so Disney and Sony and who-all-else can make more money?
A via Jupiter route enables a package to use just enough delta-v to reach Jupiter and hook around using it's gravity to bring it into a straight-to-the-sun drop.
...all that radioactivity equals power. If we reprocessed it in a breeder reactor we would get copious amounts of power and the end result will be less radioactive and thus easier to store. But we don't, because we are too scared of nuclear power in general and breeders reactors using plutonium in specific.
There is no "dark side of the moon". The moon must rotate in order to keep one side facing the earth so it has a two week day and a two week night - both sides. There is a "far side" of the moon, which is the side we don't see from Earth.
> A; Everyone has access to proper healthcare.
As noted previously, no one with a pre-existing condition is allowed to emigrate, so this is an exaggeration at best, and an outright lie at worst.
B; Everyone automatically pays into the healthcare fund so it can be maintained
Even the homeless and jobless? Or the politicians, who ought to be homeless and jobless?
C; Good quality in healthcare is guaranteed by state checkups.
Had a major problem with my heart crop up. I needed a pacer. From the time the decision was made, to the time the incision was being stitched up, was three days. And that is normal. in New England. Now, how long would it take in Canada or the UK or some other socialized medicine country? Hint: the answer will not be in days, nor, in all likelihood, in weeks. Possibly not even months.
> How about moving to a civilized country ?
> You know, one of those where it's recognized that decent healthcare for everyone is a good thing.
Not one single country with socialized medicine will allow anyone with a major pre-existing condition to emigrate, so their health care is not for "everyone". And that is not civilized in my book, cobber.
I can't think of a single problem that has come up in education that has been really and truly solved. Gun violence? Make it illegal to wear a trench coat. Weapons in schools? Let's not let that honor-roll senior - with a plastic knife...in her car...off site - graduate. Accountability for bad teachers? NEA: Like hell. Actually testing students to see where they fall and what needs to be done to help them? Oh, that's discriminatory. Respect the opinions of others? Certainly! We'll respect any opinion we already agree with. Anything else is pure racism, in'nit?
No. No, it can't be fixed. Nor can it be done away with, there are too many special interests swilling at the public tough.
> We shouldn't assume that there is a "problem" just because
> the universe isn't configured or behaving the way we want
> it to.
True enough. I'm going to add that to my quotes file.
...it's called "X Windows".
The facts are simple: a) the planet is warming up and b) we don't
know why. We suspect that human activity may have something
to do with it, but there is not yet reasonable proof. And we need
that proof before we commit the entire planet to a plan of
action that will cost trillions of dollars, because if it turns
out to be wrong, we won't have the money or resources to address
the real problem when and if we finally discover it.
And the debate goes on.
With algore, the debate has ended, because his constituancy
consists of the extreme loony left who never debated anything anyway.
In short, this film is propaganda, nothing more, and it has no
place here.
...welcome our new electronic overlords, mostly because I don't see how they could possibly govern this planet any worse than homo sap. has.
...that quote as the most concentrated example of misinformation and stupidity thus far in this century.
I still find it incredible that anyone would be surprised to find algore mouthing a falsehood, when there's not a one of them who doesn't know perfectly well that he spent eight years learning at the feet of the master.
> However, if people expect these to be permanent, *then* they ... er ... what's
> start making long term adaptations. Now, if we have a gas tax
> and use the proceeds to clean up or compensate the damage from
> pollution, and people still drive the same
> the problem?
The problem is the United States gov't is addicted to money. Raising
the gas tax produces more revenue which provides more pork. It will
eventually force down the use of gas, dropping gas tax receipts for
pork already committed. This requires raising gas or other taxes in
order to pay for the new pork. Since gov't will never, ever, just
raise the tax the minimum needed, this will boost revenue, leading
to more pork. We see this same cycle over and over and over and over
again and again and again. Why in God's name would any sane person
suggest this? Market changes are bad enough for anyone not named
Hilton or Rockefeller, but at least they won't force up taxes in an
insane positive-feedback spiral.
Letting the gov't raise taxes to solve anything is like trying to
solve the drug problem by giving out crack. Although considering
what that would do to the drug cartels, it actually makes more sense
than raising taxes. The US gov't has far too much money already.
Microsoft gets sued for it's "management techniques"!
Those would be just the ticket for running a hi-max prison, so long as we didn't mind the escapes during blue screens. But for a school? That's child abuse! Hell, that's teacher abuse!
The choices are very slim. They are, in decreasing order of desireability, Tcl, Python, Component Pascal, Oberon/2, or Smalltalk. C, Java, C# (properly pronounced "D-flat" as any music major could tell you), and Fortran (no matter what freakin' year) are child abuse.
And by the way: Bill giving away billions that he bilked from customers is not charity. You have to give away your _own_ money for it to be charity.
Stevens is a total, complete, asshole of the very brownest kind. Alaska actually gives money to its' tax "payers" every year from all the income they get from oil kickbacks...sorry, "usage fees"...yet Alaska is still consistantly the 2nd or 3rd in the country for Federal revenue payments. Stevens (and I am NOT making this up) is the same genius who stood up at the podium in the Senate and screamed "NO!" when someone suggested they give up some of their Federal - not state, not oil, just Federal, and not all of them by any means - funds to help cover the disaster in New Orleans. And he did keep them from cutting a single dime from the bushels of money earmarked for Alaska.
The man is an unmitigated disgrace. In a sane government he would have been tossed into prison years ago.