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Meanwhile the taxpayers (business or consumer taxpayer) have capped or cut back on spending on their kids or assets. In the real world its survival of the fittest; we growth these critical items (kids and assets) because they will be out legacy and the investment that feeds us later in the game.
I know government does provide value, but the continued spending rampage is ridiculous.
Because I seem to remember you weren’t very upset when it was Republicans spending without any way of balancing the budget. The Bush spending rampage helped get us to this point.
That much of Bush’s spending was off-budget, by way of supplemental appropriations.
To Bush, a budget was just a piece of paper (sort of like the Constitution).
sort of like the constitution in Bush world.
Bush started spending like a drunken sailor except, as Ronald Reagan memorably said, that’s unfair to drunken sailors, who “are at least spending their own money.”
Well, if they are Navy sailors, then in Libertad’s world they are merely government employees and they are spending our tax dollars. “The Government” should cut how much we pay sailor-employees because somehow that will benefit someone else who has racked up credit card debt, or something or other.
Somehow it seems like right-wing crackpots like Libertad never, ever, pay their dues by military service. I paid mine back in the Vietnam unpleasantness, though in the military lottery, I never left stateside. Nixon starting pulling troops back and though I expected to go to the Nam, it never happened. C’est la guerre.
I deeply hoped that peace would endure for the duration of my tour of duty. President Obama hit just the right note in his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech: Reasonable people of good will cannot simply eschew all violence without ceding the world to the most ruthless. But we most certainly can abhor violence, and dedicate our strength (economic, political, and military) to the goal of continuing to improve the human condition, here and elsewhere, now and in the future, with both humility and determination, to the best of our limited ability to do so.
We belong to families, to communities, to a nation, and to humanity. Our service to each should strive to be in service to all.
And thank you for your service.
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I think I won an Army contract on the East Coast over a month ago (they haven’t confirmed;) but it can’t be awarded because it’s new work, and only ongoing stuff is funded under CR’s. Except emergencies, and this isn’t exactly a national emergency.
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As I recall, during a “Continuing Resolution” agencies can only spend at last year’s rate, the Congressional mark of the budget, or the Presidential mark, whichever is less.
It’s a pain in the butt. Makes contracting hard. Been there, done that.
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This omnibus bill doesn’t include the DoD budget, which is being held up to help get the cap on the national debt raised.
The current CR expires 18 December, according to Thomas at the Library of Congress.
I was going to put one of my sons in charge of that project. He can’t wait forever, and may end up committing to another project.
One of the comments at the Post: Congress is a monopoly; break it up.
From the article:
Not sure how that “caps” anything, whatever “caps” means.
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They all revolve around working in close coordination with Army clients, requiring a pretty good knowledge of the institution’s culture.
One is overseas; one’s at Fort Carson; and the one I’m most confident about getting is in Virginia.
If you think the Virginia one is a good fit, keeping in mind that my son gets the first shot at it, contact me at the words stabilize and Iraq, connected by an underscore, in the yahoo mail system.
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I tried to send a test email…not sure it worked.
I’m reluctant to send personal inf into cyber space without knowing where it’s going.
But I think I know what you are doing, and I think I may fit
We’re thinking of getting one because my wife is tired of being bugged by viruses. I’m okay with my new Dell backed by MacAfee but we’re both beginning to think IMac would be less stressful for her. Interested to know if any of you Mac users have had problems with viruses and the like?
1. Visit your local Apple Store (mid-week afternoon is best as it less crowded) and talk with the sales people there. The quality of the screen will blow you away.
2. Surf to http://myfirstmac.com/ which is clearly aimed at the new-to-the-Mac person.
3. There are zero known viruses or malware in the wild that target Mac OS X (the operating system). I am a total nerd and have never installed any anti-virus or anti-malware software on my Mac. I did on my Windows machines though.
4. Call me at +1.303.744.9024 if you want to talk or send me an email dave@barnesfamily.com
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Not al applications exist in Mac OS.
So I run VMware Fusion and launch it when I must have WIndows (XP).
I run Word, Excel, PowerPoint in native MacOs.
Reboot fixes 99% of problems – not counting user error. And even sometimes that.
Time Machine totally rox.
I could go on and on with the pluses – there are many.
However, Mac is pricier. And the more devout Mac-heads can be annoying.
And I’d skip the Apple store- MicroCenter is easier. Mac cubby in the back left.
“And the more devout Mac-heads can be annoying.”
I think it is easier to buy at MicroCenter, but I think you can get better advice at the Apple Store.
Me, I buy online. LAComputerCompany.com or Amazon.com
..and I’m a huge fan of ExperCom.com.
I used to deal with LA Computer Company a lot when I was in (duh) LA, but that was mostly rentals for editing and special effects work. Good folks.
I’m also past the Platform Wars. I have a PC for encoding, but three Macs help me get the work done. AND I’ve still got two SGI 02’s in the basement.
Get a Mac for doing life stuff, but if you’re a gamer or a tweaker, get a PC.
Actually Sun has a great product called Virtual Box, it allows for even the GM 965 Macs to have video acceleration. Its open source and free and works really well. I’m using it to run Linux and it runs the 3d Compiz Cube with out any problems.
And for anti-virus get Avast – rock solid, no pain, and catches everything.
and a big bottle of Advil.
Or get a Mac — my father, who was a PC-using systems manager before he retired some years ago, finally tired of PC hassles and got a MacBook a couple years ago and has never looked back, he loves it.
i’m a techie and until a year ago was PC and linux only from my 286/DOS days. I finally replaced my third Dell laptop with a MacBook and it’s like I’ve found the rapture. Will never, ever ever ever ever go back
agree
but I had Dell laptops until last year as well, and would never ever buy another Dell. The keys kept coming off, the entire case cracked, the battery was terrible, the DVD drive broke, etc. etc. Dell no longer deserves the reputation they once had for quality.
Its tough to see his face and knowing he’s asked Santa for this but won’t get it.
Where is our handout for keeping my mortgage, making the payments and being a good homeowner?
Where is our handout for keeping our vehicles in good shape, using less gas, and not overloading junk yards?
Where is our handout for not being levered to the hilt?
Why are our financials taking a hit while you big government types grow the local, state and federal budgets.
That’s right you little peons, the state budget is rising. What they’ll spend in 2010-2011 is more then they’ll have spent in Fiscal Year 2009-2010.
Work harder. Get a second job. Drop your health insurance. Quit taking medicine. Cut back on food. Don’t heat your house.
That’s what everyone else does.
subsidizing behaviors that produce positive externalities, is exactly the kind of thing that I think a progressive government should do. Of course, you are not the only social actor whose actions or structural integrity has an impact on the well-being of others. So, a government designed to be the agent of our well-informed and rational collective will (or in our collective interest) has to attend to those other demands as well.
You argue out of both sides of your mouth: resentful that your good behaviors aren’t subsidizes, and resentful that government would dare to do anything else in the public interest other than subsidize your good behaviors. As always, you are a paragon of enlightened wisdom.
See, this is where you end up with teen pregnancy.
It’s also clear you are living beyond your means.
Not only that, but if you were a good person, you would be making more money.
(At least this is what the televangelists claim.)
and moved out of your grandmom’s basement, you’d be able to buy a Mac?
And I’m sorry, did they cancel the mortgage deduction? People who pay mortgages (i.e., your grandmom) still get a big tax break. And the rest of the stuff you described about your grandmom still leave her with more money in her pocket, so, um, yeah. There’s her handout.
However, we never buy the consumer level stuff – that is cheap. We get the Inspiron instead of the Dimension for the desktop. For laptops I think it’s the Lattitude.
You don’t need to get their workstations, but do get the business systems. Much more solid.
It was a piece of junk.
Seriously, it’s like you guys are comparing Yugos and Land Rovers.
But don’t forget, they still have the same hard drives, the most vulnerable component, as anyone else. And I suspect the same mobo sources.
My Macaholic friend has had his share of problems, including a bad mobo in the last week of warranty.
There are third party companies like Garmin GPS that doesn’t make their SW to run on Mac. Lots of others, Garmin is the only one I can instantly recall.
Not $aying Mac$ aren’t great machine$, but a$ I $aid, they $hould be.
Perhaps you’re comparing entry-level PCs with high-end Macs used by design and video professionals when you find that price differential? Pound for pound, Macs are more expensive, though not five times the price of comparable PCs, but you get what you pay for.
Your point about hard drives is a good one, they’re the most vulnerable hardware in any personal computer. One reason Mac’s wireless, continuous, automatic backup feature is worth the few extra bucks you’ll pay for a Mac.
Since Macs can run anything written for Windows, who cares if there are a few programs that haven’t ported to the Mac OS yet? Depending on your profession, you’ll also find plenty of programs — including killer useful utilities, in addition to industry-standard applications — that aren’t written for PCs either, and those machines can’t run Mac-only software, no way, no how.
If your time, frustration, ease of use and elegance aren’t worth anything to you, how come you’re not using pen and paper — that’s basically free.
Just a price I quickly found on Amazon for a 13″ screen Mac and what I see almost every Sunday for a 15″ PC lappy. I do understand that the PC won’t have a decent word processing program w/o paying for the limited access Word, and other differences, but hey, that’s why Open Office was made. (And to show you how antiquated I am, my favorite wp program is WordPerfect, still using v.12 of 2000.)
Besides the lack of Garmin SW, I also just remembered that the admittedly few Nokia cell phone programs I’ve worked with only interface with Outlook or Lotus Notes.
I have Carbonite backup for $55/year. Works great.
I guess one of the bottom lines is are you comfortable with one company controlling the whole show, or do you prefer a more diversified sourcing? Frankly, the former makes me nervous on some inner, probably unsubstantiated, basis.
And then there’s the matter of what I could do with an extra $1,139……. Some of us just do not have that kind of cash laying around.
As I said, great machines. And they should be.
You can get a good Mac laptop for $970 on Amazon, and I’d hope anyone shopping for a Mac would do more than the quick (and misleading) search you did.
Mac doesn’t make laptops as stripped down and limited as the $400 PC laptops widely available — you’ve got to get up into the $600 range to start seeing the same features, and then you’ve still got the problems of Windows.
Microsoft is finally releasing Outlook for Mac as part of its Office suite in a few months. Lotus Notes has been available on Macs for years.
Macs aren’t for everyone, nor should they be. But don’t rely on long-outdated reasons for disliking them.
While I would say a good price at one moment from one vendor is good, it’s not the general experience. The one I quoted was the least expensive I could find on the first page to show up at Amazon.
MS and Apple used to have an Outlook version, didn’t they? Or am I thinking of Word only?
I’ve never known anyone with Lotus Notes outside of a corporate environment. Not that I’ve seen everything.
The inexpensive PC’s are so stripped down except for the teaser Office. Otherwise, a huge number of freeware alternatives, as mentioned. One thing I’ve learned, especially doing photo and video work, is that no one tool does it all, the best. I’ll use four or five different programs to work on a batch of digital photos. While several might have the same functions outwardly, one might do it much more elegantly than the others. So, that’s the one I use at that point.
My Macaholic friend recently working with a friend on Windows 7. This man, who’se never had a kind word for PC’s or Windows was very impressed. And in the general press, unlike Vista, no one is saying anything bad about 7.
Maybe they made it good as Snow Panther. Ha ha…..
They might have! But keep in mind, Panther was three whole operating systems ago, and has been available since 2003. That’s another “you get what you pay for” instance for PC buyers, always playing catch-up with an OS that’ll perform like Mac’s in a few years. Except Mac never had a disaster like Vista, so that’s not entirely right. Of course, this matters to some buyers and doesn’t to others, so make of it what you will.
Microsoft has bundled something called Entourage, instead of Outlook, in its Office suite for Macs since the beginning. Mac users are lucky in one respect — MS has stopped supporting Internet Explorer for Macs since no one on that platform used that awful browser except to check compatibility for pages that work great on every other browser but somehow keep looking awful in IE.
And a price differential of “three to five times” compared to one-and-a-half times is a substantial difference. The first you’d dismiss outright with silly Yugo-Range Rover comparisons, where the other bears consideration if you think your time and enjoyment has some value too. Besides, remember what this is all about, whether Libertad should get his kid a Mac or a PC. Advising him to go with the Yugo and hang on for dear life with a good anti-virus program doesn’t seem like the kindest advice.
instead of a full-blown iMac. You can re-use the Monitor and mouse (if it’s USB), and get a nice keyboard from Kensington or Logitech for about $40.
Fully Tricked-out iMac: $1999
Fully tricked out Mac Mini: $799.
Lots of folks use racks of Mac Mini’s as servers, rather than pay thru the nose to HP or Dell for rack servers.
http://www.dannychoo.com/post/…
First, if you are behind a router, 95% of possible problems dissapear.
And then if you know what emails to not open, there’s the other 5%.
I never, ever have any problems. Yes, I run (open source) clamwin and Spybot every week or so if I remember, but no big deal.
Macs are great machines, not saying otherwise. OTOH, leseeee, $400 vs. $2000. Hmmmm…. They damned well should work better.
I have to say that there is a learning curve, but so far, I am learning to love it. As several have said, the screen (I have the 24″) is amazing. I managed to get a copy of Office for Mac quite cheaply (under $100) and almost everything else is bundled. The applications are great, and everything is so intuitive. Also, the Apple support has been nothing short of amazing.
Not a single concern about viruses in the 6 months I’ve had this new machine, and I think it was one of the best decisions I could have made. As someone who started working on PC’s 25 years ago with an original IBM PC (4 Mhz, with a whopping 20MB hard drive) I was not sure about making the switch. I am really glad I did!
Get a cheap used machine, clean the harddrives and put Ubuntu on it. (half snark, half what I will do when I find a cheep used laptop)
We have had two machines. Excellent support. The first one was for our college kid at the time, then we inherited it. First problem was when it crashed after nine years. Tech support was critically helpful, even though we were well out of warranty. We finally accepted the inevitable, backed up what we could and it died a few weeks later.
Have had the second one for five years, recently had to replaced the video card…ouch. But, other than that, no problems
There are a lot of bells and whistles which we don’t use….but it is absolutely a god send for what we do.
The first virus any of my machines had was direct from Microsoft. I was beta on Windows 2.0 (IIRC) or 286 and had a problem with a floppy. MS sent me a new set and on those floppies was one of the first computer viruses.
“There is nothing we can do about them aside from continuing to publish quality work in quality journals (or calling in a Mafia hit).” 3/12/03
“In an odd way this is cheering news !” Jan/04 on the death of another scientist
“Next time I see (a specific climate skeptic) at a scientific meeting, I’ll be tempted to beat the crap out of him. Very tempted.” 10/09/09
“If they ever hear there is a Freedom of Information Act now in the UK, I think I’ll delete the file rather than send to anyone. Does your similar act in the US force you to respond to enquiries within 20 days? – our (sic) does ! The UK works on precedents, so the first request will test it. We also have a data protection act, which I will hide behind.” Phil Jones 02/02/05
“Personally, I wouldn’t send him anything. I have no idea what he’s up to, but you can be sure it falls into the ‘no good’ category.” Mann 09/02/04
“It is my understanding that IPCC contributors have to be a little careful about getting involved in political matters that could be used to impugn the integrity of the process – well I am starting to do just that.” Crwoley 01/25/05
“I can’t see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin and I will keep them out somehow – even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is.” Jone 07/08/04
“We cannot afford to being caught doing anything that is not within the regulations.” Jensen Aug 2006 whether he can cited from a yet to be published work
These are a sample of the nicer emails they sent in discussing their work
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…
STATEMENT: Unless anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide are reduced by 50-60% cent of current levels by the year 2050, by 2100 our descendants will have to endure global temperatures of between 1.4 to 5.8В°C warmer than the present.
REALITY: This claim is at the heart of the global warming scam. It is based on projections coming out of models run on the most powerful computers which purport to simulate the behavior of the atmosphere as it responds to changes in carbon dioxide
concentrations. The claim that computer models can do this and produce meaningful
results is regarded as nonsense by leading scientists in the fields of fluid mechanics,
numerical modelling of complex systems, and climate science.
So, this current onslaught of CO2 will not be like every other CO2 increase, right? This time, unlike every other time, there will not be an increase in temperatures, right? Even though, IIRC, it is YOUR chart that showed this correlation. And that the CO2 levels now are far, far higher than the previous warming episodes.
Still waiting on that tooth fairy?
taking data, analyzing it, and making predictions based on those analyses applied to that data. You’re position, and the notion that this scientific method applied to the thoroughly-supported evidence of man-made global warming is a “scam,” is at the heart of the anti-scientific, anti-intellectual agenda of the extreme right in America. Since knowledge is your enemy, you attack wherever and however you can.
The annual anthropogenic (people generated) emissions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere is around 7 gigatons, less than 1% of the total carbon mass up in the sky — the atmosphere contains 700-750 gigatons of carbon dioxide. Further that 7 gtc is less than 4% of the natural annual emissions from land masses and the oceans. Yes it is true that over 210 gtc is released from the land and ocean annually into the sky (atmosphere).
Oh the irony, that plants use carbon dioxide as humans use oxygen. Yet climate change falsifiers use misleading pictures of steaming power plants to scare the sheeple.
Oh the irony, that your precious Brazil and its whack job liberal president Lula are cutting down the Amazon to plant sugar to fuel their cars and trucks.
Oh the irony, that some in America refuse to properly manage our forests via harvest and plant programs. Oh the irony that some deny Americans a timber industry when we have a bark beetle problem.
Read “Chaos: Making a New Science” by James Gleich; “Gaia” by James Lovelock; and “The Web of Life” by Fritjov Capra. You’ll learn why (accepting for the sake of argument the numbers you have provided without citation) a less than 1% change in the quantity of a particular gas in our atmospheric mix can lead to catastrophic consequences.
Add to that the fact that carbon emissions rates exceed the combination of carbon sequestration and carbon escape into space rates, and you have the problem of an accumulating inbalance, with measured and well understood systemic consequences.
The toxicity of any substance depends on the context: Enclose a human being in a sealed chamber filled with only carbon dioxide, and then tell me with your last gasping breadth how universally benign it is. After all, if plants depend on it, how can it ever, in any context, be a bad thing?
Here’s a simple primer for you.
I consider the deforestation of the Brazilian rain forest to be a huge problem, one that has been going on for decades. I’m not sure what your point is, there or regarding the timber industry, but, then again, that’s the just part of your inexhaustible entertainment value.
Micromanaging, the downfall of James Earl Carter. ps you know the source on this one …. its NASA.
during a total eclipse. If I understand you (never a certainty), you are saying that, since there are unintended consequences to our actions, we should never act. Or, is it just that because there have been unintended consequences in attempts to address environmental contamination, we should never attempt to address environmental contamination? Either way….
It was the Bush Supreme Court that ruled carbon dioxide a pollutant and subject to the regulatory authority of the EPA.
It was the Bush EPA that issued the “endangerment” finding”
Granted, responding to Libby is as useful as talking to a brick wall, but I couldn’t help but point out the ignorance of this comment:
FAIL!
Correction: Plants use oxygen in the same way that humans use oxygen.
Explanation: All living things (plants, animals, fungi, etc) respire. Respiration requires oxygen (and produces carbon dioxide). If plants didn’t respire 24 hours per day, they’d be dead and decomposing.
True, plants also photosynthesize, but this does not mean plants use CO2 in the way that humans use O2.
Libby, you’ve got to pass 7th grade science before you try to claim you know more than practicing climatologists from all around the world.
[Oh, and let’s revisit your canard of why we have a bark beetle problem. One of the major contributors (aside from Smokey the Bear) has been the lack of winters with a persistent, sustained period of deep cold. Why have our winters been so unusually warm as of late? Look up “Addiction, fossil fuel, Exxon-Mobil, willful self-ignorance” and you’ll start getting a handle on the problem.]
and perform the same hat-trick on it. Scientists are human beings, acting like human beings. If that is your air-tight argument that all science should be disregarded, then I can only suggest that you paddle back to shore as quickly as you can.
Why can’t the climate falsifiers discuss how the 375 ppm count has come to be only due to human activity?
I’m sure it has something to do with all these ecologically vial pieces of matter called humans who breathe.
Jabberwalky-esque quality to your posts, that no rational person would be able to replicate by merely trying to do so. Keep up the good work.
on stable-isotope chemistry, particularly carbon-isotope fractionation, then come back and tell us where the CO2 is coming from.
Hint: you probably won’t find the data on Free Republic.
It’s painful to watch him struggle through “Fun with Dick and Jane.” He’d never, ever, be able to handle Scientific American.
I read a few items last week in the library. I’ve not read SA for maybe eight years.
Definitely “SA for Dummies.” Shorter sentences, fewer “big words”, more pictures to break up those terrible masses of text. Instead of experiencing a bit of challenge to follow along, I was bored.
How sad.
from Its All Humor
I’d rank them in the opposite order.
These are awesome – http://www.allowe.com/Humor/bo…
Just wait until the new year when campaign season really gets under way!