Out of all G7 countries, Canada is the only one whose ecomony is now growing at over 3%. And that's in spite of the fact that the high oil prices affect them much more than the US (it's colder up there, and they need that oil for heating as well as manufacturing and driving).
I strongly suspect that Canada will become one of the greatest ecomonic powers sometime this century (and the US will decline; remember Asimov's Foundation? you can smell the decay of the great empire around here)
What if you reverse the roles, the rootkit starts up first and loads a virtualized OS? Like a windows box with a keylogger running another OS in vmware?
I think that's what this blue pill is supposed to do: emulate all of the hardware to match a normal system so that the OS is none the wiser.
Calculations (assuming 12-20 million 'illegals,' not including their children that you would also have to deport):
12 million / 300 million = 4% (1 in 25)
20 million / 300 million = 7% (1 in 14)
As for the rest of your comment, I would assume most of those marching are actually legal (the 'illegals' are too scared to draw attention to themselves). I would also assume you are not serious about calling for these people to be executed, and your comment just reflects your frustration with the status quo.
We can now return to business as usual: border open to terrorists, an influx of poor illeterate dirtfarmers (12 million today, 14 million next year, 20 by the end of this decade), and the outsourcing of jobs and R&D (next Intel, IBM, General Electric, Boeing, Google, Microsoft will not be in America).
You are forgetting you are talking about 20 million people who are already here. They aren't rich as it is, but if you cut off their income what do you think will happen?
Do you realise that you are proposing to forcibly starve 20 million people and children? Turn 20 million homeless? To give 20 million helpers to the mob/drug lords/gangs/anything that will feed the 'illegal' families?
More importantly, Mexico does not want these illegals any more than you do. And how would you prove whom to send where? Most 'illegals' don't have their name/number/country of birth tattooed on their forehead, you know. Most people will not leave because they have nowhere to go since they have no home outside of here.
What you are proposing would deter new immigrants from coming here illegaly, it would not get those already here to leave.
REAL ID bill just specifies which IDs can be used for federal identification purposes (board a plane, collect certain funds/post bail, enter certain federal buildings). If you don't need to fly, cross the border, or post bail, you don't have to get this kind of ID.
With this bill, everybody would be de facto required to have such an ID or be jailed and deported. With this bill, nobody could get a job, marry, or vote without a REAL ID. Again, to merely live here, you would have to get an ID of the approved list.
You do realize we would have to deport one out of every 10-20 people in America, don't you? With the kind of misery that would generate and the amount of wealth that would eat up, I am not sure even the nativist bigots would be willing to stay back here.
At various times, Germany and Spain have tried rounding up and getting rid of 1/100th of their population and look how well that turned out for them.
No, it should not. There is still competition out there between the manufacturers. Here is an example:
If Lenovo sets the minimum price for its laptops to $1000 you would still be able to buy laptops from other manufacturers for under $1000.
All the Supreme Court did was establish that the manufacturers can set prices for their own products, not for all the products of the same type across the board. If the manufacturers want to shoot themselves in the foot, let them; the internet outlets should still be able to stay competitive due to lower business costs.
As an internet shopper, I am pleased by this decision because this will also mean the end of the stupid bargain/rebate/shoparound/missed discount remorse routine.
That $500+ PC they will be selling will probably cost them under $200 to produce and distribute.
Since they cannot make their money selling OS licenses in India, they will make that $300 per PC the way Apple does it now: by selling overpriced hardware.
Monetary system, military/defence, police + legal/court system, general infrastructure including roads, granaries, irrigation and sewage systems, support for universities, poets and philosophers?
Unless you need your server to provide Mac-specific services (ARD,.Mac, NetInfo, AFP, Apple NetBoot) it's just as easy (and much cheaper) to use FreeBSD.
In fact, with some extensive config hacks you can replace the entire OS X server's functionality with FreeBSD or Darwin.
Or how about trying to listen to non-RIAA music? There are plenty of third party recordings that are made available for free or almost for free to anyone directly by artists, performers, even some record companies. Lots of classical pieces performed by the universities' choirs and orchestras are put out there for free
While I sympathize with you, you don't exactly have the rights to listen to music for free unless the copyright holder gives it to you. If you don't like it, you can get back at them by not paying attention to their crap, and actually supporting their competitors.
You may be correct in your premises, but not in your conclusions.
The problem is that most of today's smart youth are indeed videogame junkies with a lack of patience, but we need them to develop into tomorrow's politicians, scientists, programmers, doctors, businessmen, and engineers. This will require different tools for teachers at schools and libraries.
The truth is, most kids just aren't going to spend several hours going to the library, finding the right book, and reading some 10-20 pages to find the relevant info when they belive they can find that same info via google in 10 minutes.
Mind you, digitalizing the libraries is a far easier task than reaching the other 50%+ of kids whose parents don't value education or give a fuck that their kids are sucked into the ghetto/gang culture.
I think this is one of those CA bills in search of a problem.
No employer currently requires (or even asks for) the use of RFID implants. Most places are happy when an employers carries theirs as a badge.
I might go so far as to say these implants will never be required since the passive RFID provides static identification only, not authentication, so implanting them gives very little additional security over a photo-ID badge (unlike fingerprints, voice verification, PINs, etc.)
Meanwhile, I'll focus on hiring the best workers possible, regardless of where they are from, and eventually run these other guys out of business anyway.
What if that 'best worker possible' is a foreigner? You'd still need to do what this law firm did: show that no Joe Blow with a C+ average and VB.net 'experience' is able to do the job.
It's not like those conservatives would turn around and vote for a democrat. The net result is that slightly fewer Republicans will turn up to vote in the next election but many more Latinos.
Considering that 40-50% of Latinos already vote for Bush, for Republicas it may be well worth pissing off a few nativists by passing the bill.
Face it, the politicians don't give a fuck what you think.
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Out of all G7 countries, Canada is the only one whose ecomony is now growing at over 3%. And that's in spite of the fact that the high oil prices affect them much more than the US (it's colder up there, and they need that oil for heating as well as manufacturing and driving).
I strongly suspect that Canada will become one of the greatest ecomonic powers sometime this century (and the US will decline; remember Asimov's Foundation? you can smell the decay of the great empire around here)
What if you reverse the roles, the rootkit starts up first and loads a virtualized OS? Like a windows box with a keylogger running another OS in vmware?
I think that's what this blue pill is supposed to do: emulate all of the hardware to match a normal system so that the OS is none the wiser.
That's why she needs to 'touch' both in some way, yet activate the exploit on only one of them, then ask them which one it is.
It is trivial to figure out if something has changed, but it's much harder to determine if the change is malicious.
Calculations (assuming 12-20 million 'illegals,' not including their children that you would also have to deport):
12 million / 300 million = 4% (1 in 25)
20 million / 300 million = 7% (1 in 14)
As for the rest of your comment, I would assume most of those marching are actually legal (the 'illegals' are too scared to draw attention to themselves). I would also assume you are not serious about calling for these people to be executed, and your comment just reflects your frustration with the status quo.
Good thing you killed the bill.
We can now return to business as usual: border open to terrorists, an influx of poor illeterate dirtfarmers (12 million today, 14 million next year, 20 by the end of this decade), and the outsourcing of jobs and R&D (next Intel, IBM, General Electric, Boeing, Google, Microsoft will not be in America).
You are forgetting you are talking about 20 million people who are already here. They aren't rich as it is, but if you cut off their income what do you think will happen?
Do you realise that you are proposing to forcibly starve 20 million people and children? Turn 20 million homeless? To give 20 million helpers to the mob/drug lords/gangs/anything that will feed the 'illegal' families?
More importantly, Mexico does not want these illegals any more than you do. And how would you prove whom to send where? Most 'illegals' don't have their name/number/country of birth tattooed on their forehead, you know. Most people will not leave because they have nowhere to go since they have no home outside of here.
What you are proposing would deter new immigrants from coming here illegaly, it would not get those already here to leave.
REAL ID bill just specifies which IDs can be used for federal identification purposes (board a plane, collect certain funds/post bail, enter certain federal buildings). If you don't need to fly, cross the border, or post bail, you don't have to get this kind of ID.
With this bill, everybody would be de facto required to have such an ID or be jailed and deported. With this bill, nobody could get a job, marry, or vote without a REAL ID. Again, to merely live here, you would have to get an ID of the approved list.
You do realize we would have to deport one out of every 10-20 people in America, don't you? With the kind of misery that would generate and the amount of wealth that would eat up, I am not sure even the nativist bigots would be willing to stay back here.
At various times, Germany and Spain have tried rounding up and getting rid of 1/100th of their population and look how well that turned out for them.
No, it should not. There is still competition out there between the manufacturers. Here is an example:
If Lenovo sets the minimum price for its laptops to $1000 you would still be able to buy laptops from other manufacturers for under $1000.
All the Supreme Court did was establish that the manufacturers can set prices for their own products, not for all the products of the same type across the board. If the manufacturers want to shoot themselves in the foot, let them; the internet outlets should still be able to stay competitive due to lower business costs.
As an internet shopper, I am pleased by this decision because this will also mean the end of the stupid bargain/rebate/shoparound/missed discount remorse routine.
That $500+ PC they will be selling will probably cost them under $200 to produce and distribute.
Since they cannot make their money selling OS licenses in India, they will make that $300 per PC the way Apple does it now: by selling overpriced hardware.
Monetary system, military/defence, police + legal/court system, general infrastructure including roads, granaries, irrigation and sewage systems, support for universities, poets and philosophers?
The Colosseum, the Aqueduct, and the Pantheon all survive to today, so the ancient tyrants did do a few things for the people.
Unless you need your server to provide Mac-specific services (ARD, .Mac, NetInfo, AFP, Apple NetBoot) it's just as easy (and much cheaper) to use FreeBSD.
In fact, with some extensive config hacks you can replace the entire OS X server's functionality with FreeBSD or Darwin.
For what it's worth, Microsoft actually has a privacy policy that respects users' privacy.
- RIAA pays taxes
-> taxes fund military
-> military kills them terr'rists, therefore
=> By stealing music you support Bin Laden that likes to rape children! Before you steal music, think of the children!!!
Q.E.D.
Or how about trying to listen to non-RIAA music? There are plenty of third party recordings that are made available for free or almost for free to anyone directly by artists, performers, even some record companies. Lots of classical pieces performed by the universities' choirs and orchestras are put out there for free
While I sympathize with you, you don't exactly have the rights to listen to music for free unless the copyright holder gives it to you. If you don't like it, you can get back at them by not paying attention to their crap, and actually supporting their competitors.
Isn't that the same company that is stonewalling the investigations into illegal wiretaps of Americans?
Ever heard of lobotomy?
Plants also need to not be frozen solid, and not to explode or boil alive.
You may be correct in your premises, but not in your conclusions.
The problem is that most of today's smart youth are indeed videogame junkies with a lack of patience, but we need them to develop into tomorrow's politicians, scientists, programmers, doctors, businessmen, and engineers. This will require different tools for teachers at schools and libraries.
The truth is, most kids just aren't going to spend several hours going to the library, finding the right book, and reading some 10-20 pages to find the relevant info when they belive they can find that same info via google in 10 minutes.
Mind you, digitalizing the libraries is a far easier task than reaching the other 50%+ of kids whose parents don't value education or give a fuck that their kids are sucked into the ghetto/gang culture.
I think this is one of those CA bills in search of a problem.
No employer currently requires (or even asks for) the use of RFID implants. Most places are happy when an employers carries theirs as a badge.
I might go so far as to say these implants will never be required since the passive RFID provides static identification only, not authentication, so implanting them gives very little additional security over a photo-ID badge (unlike fingerprints, voice verification, PINs, etc.)
And it's not like they are 'stealing jobs from Americans' either. As soon as your Xi Jiang gets her green card, she's an American.
Meanwhile, I'll focus on hiring the best workers possible, regardless of where they are from, and eventually run
these other guys out of business anyway.
What if that 'best worker possible' is a foreigner? You'd still need to do what this law firm did: show that no Joe Blow with a C+ average and VB.net 'experience' is able to do the job.
It's not like those conservatives would turn around and vote for a democrat. The net result is that slightly fewer Republicans will turn up to vote in the next election but many more Latinos.
Considering that 40-50% of Latinos already vote for Bush, for Republicas it may be well worth pissing off a few nativists by passing the bill.
Face it, the politicians don't give a fuck what you think.
How would you 'deal' with the immigrants? Round 'em up in some sort of a camp and gas them?