I'm not suggesting that this is a good or a bad idea, but I AM suggesting that it is horrible (and corrupt) when public officials use public (or other people's money) for their own gain. Sure it's not an outright embezzlement like putting money in his pocket would be, but using the money to score political credit with people that will help him make more money...
Well that isn't behavior I like to see lauded as good...
Put up your own money, survey the shareholders, whatever, but to do something with other people's money for your personal benefit... Sometimes this is demanded by the civil servants with money in the fund. For example, NYC cops and firemen did not want their pension money financing Iranian business activity. After pressuring Halliburton, GE, and Conoco-Phillips to stop doing business in Iran, they either stopped their subsidiaries' business activity in the country, or were dropped from the fund. Bill Thompson, NYC Comptroller, testified about this today in the Senate Commerce subcommittee hearing, "Halliburton and U.S. Business Ties to Iran."
I actually want some of the phone features on my desktop; it would be great to have a graphical interface for VM and incoming calls. I know you get this with Skype, but it would be great if the features were available for a corporate PBX and VM system.
Participation in the Darfur media circus IS exactly EVIL.
I agree. As I say on my increasingly popular speaking engagements. If there's a solution to the Darfur problem the market will find the best one in the least time. Too bad Sudan's biggest oil revenue stream (China) doesn't really believe in a free market.
Loads of cash + huge appetite for oil + complete disregard for human rights = on-going genocide.
How often do patents actually help individuals rather than mega-conglomerates? Even if you have a small business with various patents, can you afford to protect them in court? Don't forget the little guys like NTP;)
Shouldn't the tag-line say: 2008 won't be like 2004?
Then it would make sense: "Don't elect a loser to run for your party because he/she is the establishment candidate."
Personally, I thought the ad itself was lame. The idea that someone would make such a biting attack add against someone in their own party was the most compelling part of the story to me.
A related problem is the inevitable politicization of articles and their writers. If I want to read about George W. Bush, abortion, Christianity, the Democratic Party, the Republican Party, etc., etc., I'm not going to trust Wikipedia because the article will be slanted one way now and the other way an hour from now.
Not to mention science with political baggage. I would not want to be in charge of keeping the science haters out of the the Natural Selection or Global Warming/Climate Change articles.
As a professor in the biosciences, I've seen more than one article/entry on Wikipedia, written by an expert in that field that has been absolutely, shamefully and quite inaccurately edited or altered by well meaning individuals that absolutely have no idea what they are doing/saying.
Makes you wonder if these shameless editors worked for the White House
Congress isn't making any such law here, a state legislature is. This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof... shall be the supreme Law of the Land;
Right here. They have the best international affairs long features of any US magazine -- especially their Middle Eastern coverage. Skip the cover an check out the TOC next time you see one.
You're intentionally missing the point. TV dinners are about nutrition/time value. I only work one job and don't have time to cook. My lunch is 15 mins. of/. while I down a Trader Joe's burrito. TV Dinners (or should I say Desktop Lunches?) are a compromise between eating out and finding time to cook.
Google might not pay their employees a salary > $1,000,000 but they might make that much in profit off each employee. It's probably a corporate or property tax break, not a payroll tax break.
Your re-write is not nearly as vague and nonsensical as it should be to be considered corporate speak. Sprinkle in some synergies and stakeholders, and consult "A Mediator's Toolchest" for win, win, win solution.
I should have been more clear. I have no problem helping them with applications like outlook, quicken, etc., but I refuse to spend time fixing problems about issues related to viruses, system crashes, hunting down dirvers, or any problems that require "safe mode." I've spent too much time in the past on this crap, and I find it ridiculous that people accept this as the status quo when there are OSes out there that don't have these problems dominating the user experience. MS will not deal with these issues until uses start walking away until they are fixed.
I'm sorry, but as the drafted family IT consultant, I've had significantly different experiences between OS X and XP. OS X is parent proof. Just pull it out of the box, turn it on, connect to the internet and you're off. All of the firewalls are on by default, the iLife programs are intuitive, easy to learn, and don't require downloading. All I had to do was show them how to get their AOL e-mail with Mail and how to set up their IM account with iChat (save your AOL flame for a different post, we're moving in baby steps here). Now when I visit home, I don't spend 30% of the time trying to clear all the spyware and bot net nodes off their machine. They even admit that the experience between the two machines is night and day. My in-laws just bought a windows machine, and I refuse to answer questions about XP issues. I told them to get a Mac or pay Geek Squad to come over 3-4 times a year.
Not to mention that Vista is supposed to be a major platform change. A better comparison would be WinXP:Vista vs. OS 9:OS X. MSFT is half a decade behind when it comes to consumer OS development.
Exits are a "Survey" not a Poll
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The premise of this book has a fatal flaw: Exits are not designed to validate elections; they are used to better understand the role of demographics, campaign issues, and other things not collected on the actual ballot. They should not be used to validate elections because they are a survey, and therefore measure reported behaviour rather than actual behaviour.
"If you pay for a cheap unit and they give you an expensive one with the additional features disabled instead, you have no cause to whine about it being disabled, since you didn't pay for it - you got it for free."
That's not the point. Apple is pointing to SOX -- saying they MUST charge more. We're saying that rationale is bullocks, and they should just admit that this is a strategy to increase margins.
I don't think you can teach interpersonal skills in a class. It takes time and practice to learn how to live in a way where you act towards people in a way they want to be treated, not in a way you think you have the right to treat them. The best way to learn empathy is to put yourself in situation where your success depends on how well you can understand and act on other people's needs. Getting a girlfriend, waiting tables/tending bar, or taking up babysitting are a couple ways to practice this.
Why would you use Tivo for this? If you want to digitally record TV and transfer video to other devices, why wouldn't you ditch the Tivo and get a mac mini and eyeTV?
It sounds to me like you are an annoying guy who is obsessed with coffee that works with a guy who bitches about nerds on the Internet, but instead of complaining to him about it, you bitch on the Internet about machismo...
Maybe Gates, or some other MS employees should leave, start a new company from scratch, design an OS that meets the future needs of computing, and then get acquired by MS where they can bring their new OS mainstream.
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Well that isn't behavior I like to see lauded as good...
Put up your own money, survey the shareholders, whatever, but to do something with other people's money for your personal benefit... Sometimes this is demanded by the civil servants with money in the fund. For example, NYC cops and firemen did not want their pension money financing Iranian business activity. After pressuring Halliburton, GE, and Conoco-Phillips to stop doing business in Iran, they either stopped their subsidiaries' business activity in the country, or were dropped from the fund. Bill Thompson, NYC Comptroller, testified about this today in the Senate Commerce subcommittee hearing, "Halliburton and U.S. Business Ties to Iran."
I actually want some of the phone features on my desktop; it would be great to have a graphical interface for VM and incoming calls. I know you get this with Skype, but it would be great if the features were available for a corporate PBX and VM system.
Too bad Sudan's biggest oil revenue stream (China) doesn't really believe in a free market.
Loads of cash + huge appetite for oil + complete disregard for human rights = on-going genocide.
Don't forget the little guys like NTP
Shouldn't the tag-line say: 2008 won't be like 2004?
Then it would make sense: "Don't elect a loser to run for your party because he/she is the establishment candidate."
Personally, I thought the ad itself was lame. The idea that someone would make such a biting attack add against someone in their own party was the most compelling part of the story to me.
RTFA yourself:
The modified mosquitoes had a higher survival rate and laid more eggs.
Ergo, more mosquitos.
Keep reading:
However, when both sets of insects were fed non-infected blood they competed equally well.
A related problem is the inevitable politicization of articles and their writers. If I want to read about George W. Bush, abortion, Christianity, the Democratic Party, the Republican Party, etc., etc., I'm not going to trust Wikipedia because the article will be slanted one way now and the other way an hour from now.
Not to mention science with political baggage. I would not want to be in charge of keeping the science haters out of the the Natural Selection or Global Warming/Climate Change articles.
As a professor in the biosciences, I've seen more than one article/entry on Wikipedia, written by an expert in that field that has been absolutely, shamefully and quite inaccurately edited or altered by well meaning individuals that absolutely have no idea what they are doing/saying.
Makes you wonder if these shameless editors worked for the White House
Could social networking sites be considered peaceable assembly?
ps - VF has some particularly geeky fare this month. Check out the 8 page feature on SAIC.
Right here. They have the best international affairs long features of any US magazine -- especially their Middle Eastern coverage. Skip the cover an check out the TOC next time you see one.
You're intentionally missing the point. TV dinners are about nutrition/time value. I only work one job and don't have time to cook. My lunch is 15 mins. of /. while I down a Trader Joe's burrito. TV Dinners (or should I say Desktop Lunches?) are a compromise between eating out and finding time to cook.
Google might not pay their employees a salary > $1,000,000 but they might make that much in profit off each employee. It's probably a corporate or property tax break, not a payroll tax break.
Your re-write is not nearly as vague and nonsensical as it should be to be considered corporate speak. Sprinkle in some synergies and stakeholders, and consult "A Mediator's Toolchest" for win, win, win solution.
I should have been more clear. I have no problem helping them with applications like outlook, quicken, etc., but I refuse to spend time fixing problems about issues related to viruses, system crashes, hunting down dirvers, or any problems that require "safe mode." I've spent too much time in the past on this crap, and I find it ridiculous that people accept this as the status quo when there are OSes out there that don't have these problems dominating the user experience. MS will not deal with these issues until uses start walking away until they are fixed.
I'm sorry, but as the drafted family IT consultant, I've had significantly different experiences between OS X and XP. OS X is parent proof. Just pull it out of the box, turn it on, connect to the internet and you're off. All of the firewalls are on by default, the iLife programs are intuitive, easy to learn, and don't require downloading. All I had to do was show them how to get their AOL e-mail with Mail and how to set up their IM account with iChat (save your AOL flame for a different post, we're moving in baby steps here). Now when I visit home, I don't spend 30% of the time trying to clear all the spyware and bot net nodes off their machine. They even admit that the experience between the two machines is night and day. My in-laws just bought a windows machine, and I refuse to answer questions about XP issues. I told them to get a Mac or pay Geek Squad to come over 3-4 times a year.
Not to mention that Vista is supposed to be a major platform change. A better comparison would be WinXP:Vista vs. OS 9:OS X. MSFT is half a decade behind when it comes to consumer OS development.
There has been endless debate about this, but a good primer can be found here: http://www.mysterypollster.com/main/2004/11/exit_p olls_what.html
"If you pay for a cheap unit and they give you an expensive one with the additional features disabled instead, you have no cause to whine about it being disabled, since you didn't pay for it - you got it for free." That's not the point. Apple is pointing to SOX -- saying they MUST charge more. We're saying that rationale is bullocks, and they should just admit that this is a strategy to increase margins.
I don't think you can teach interpersonal skills in a class. It takes time and practice to learn how to live in a way where you act towards people in a way they want to be treated, not in a way you think you have the right to treat them. The best way to learn empathy is to put yourself in situation where your success depends on how well you can understand and act on other people's needs. Getting a girlfriend, waiting tables/tending bar, or taking up babysitting are a couple ways to practice this.
Why would you use Tivo for this? If you want to digitally record TV and transfer video to other devices, why wouldn't you ditch the Tivo and get a mac mini and eyeTV?
It sounds to me like you are an annoying guy who is obsessed with coffee that works with a guy who bitches about nerds on the Internet, but instead of complaining to him about it, you bitch on the Internet about machismo...
Maybe Gates, or some other MS employees should leave, start a new company from scratch, design an OS that meets the future needs of computing, and then get acquired by MS where they can bring their new OS mainstream.
I wouldn't doubt that EVERY Microsoft product for the Apple is heading for the chopping block.