Re: Available consultant Vijay for Unix System Admin with sun Solories Expireance.

On 5 May 2008, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.unix.admin, in article
<slrng1tluc.2h83.read_the_sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, jpd wrote:

Moe Trin <ibuprofin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

There might be less evidence if you used a variation on RFC1097. I'm
honestly surprised that hasn't been incorporated in hypertext or the
various scripting languages already.

``Cause of death: subliminally stabbed. over the internet.''

"I don't know, Inspector - it appears that he died from self-inflicted
but repeated blows to the head by a blunt object - possibly the keyboard."

Despite often reported abuses, we have the same expectations here.

Which then brings up the interesting question why Joe Arpaio is still in
office. Maybe it's different for elected sheriffs? Elected anythings?

elected and re-elected (twice). A lot of people like what he does
overall. (He does go out of his way to present a good image of
upholding the law, being tough on criminals, etc. His "Tent City"
``jail'' is an example of that.) The result is a lack of decent
candidates to run against the incumbent. And our polititians in
their wisdom would never allow a "None of the Above" choice.

But it gives the _appearance_ of doing "something".

I had already seen that, though not there, as it too often turns out to
be an excercise in raising my blood pressure. thedailywtf is something
I can laugh about. Would I be in a position to engineer anything, I'd
consider it a mandatory reference of what not to do, though.

Unfortunately, most of the rules have no automatic end if they turn out
to be useless, and politicians would NEVER think to manually revoke
such mistakes. Daylight Savings Time is a good example. The "Uniform
Time Act of 1966 (15 U.S.C. 260a(a)) was amended by Public Law 109-58
to lengthen the duration of Daylight Savings Time. Section 'c' of that
law required "not later than 9 months after the effective date" the
Energy "Secretary" shall "report to Congress on the impact of this
section on energy consumption in the United States". Section 'd' of that
act says "Congress retains the right to revert the Daylight Saving Time
back to the 2005 time schedules once the Department study is complete."
Oh, yeah - that's sure to happen.

Too bad too many people still fall for the ``security circus''; it's
highly annoying for those of us who see right through it, and has real
detrimental effects on privacy and civil liberties, for exactly no gain
to the people.

The air security rules have increased the ground delays significantly.
For a one hour (schedule times) trip, I now have to _add_ an hour on
the departure end, and a half hour on the arrival end (beyond the
times of several years ago, and this doesn't include the times to and
from the airport. In Europe, you at least have the alternative of
grabbing the train. Here in Phoenix, we don't even have passenger
train service - the nearest stop is about 50 KM to the South in the
desert - I think there are two trains a day to the East (El Paso, TX)
and West (Los Angeles). For that one hour trip to LA, it's actually
faster for me to grab a private plane (cruise speed 230 KM/H) at the
local G/A airport. For the shorter trip to Las Vegas, the common
personal car will probably have a shorter overall (door-to-door) time.

In fact, it also seems to foster dishonesty and outright theft among
the enforcers.

Oh, you mean something like Senator Ted Kennedy's name showing up on
the 'no-fly' list (March 2004)? I'm surprised. as many federal laws
and regulations have weasel-words such that they don't apply to
senators and congress-critters, and anyway - you REALLY don't expect
them to fly on a common airliner with ordinary _people_ do you? It's
a huge security problem, where voters would be screaming at them about
some perceived injustice/stupidity caused by congress. ;-)

the language that is _taught_ (rather poorly by the way) is English.

So it isn't just excessive use of 13375p34k, the kids really haven't
been taught any better.

In another newsgroup, someone mentioned questioning people on the
street and proposing that the average person couldn't name (any)
eight (US) presidents (GWBush the current is the 43rd president). I
suspect this to be an honest assessment, even though I had no trouble
naming the last 13 in order (Hoover, FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy,
LBJ, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, GHWBush, Clinton, GWBush). I'm older
and our schooling was quite different. Hell, there was a map of the
world on the classroom wall, and we were taught how to read it, and
something about those foreign lands. Guilders? Yeah, I know about those.
Marks? Which one - Finnish Markka or German (which one) Mark? How about
the "franc" (again, which one, as just like the "dollar", "peso", and
"pound", the name is used in several countries).

It does bring up whether public schools can't be replaced by something
more effective while ensuring close-to-100% levels of functional
literacy for everybody, including the poor and the illegals.

Probably won't fly - we already have a controversy over public verses
private verses schools operated by religious organizations and so on.
Then there is the fact that education is _generally_ a state rather
than national issue (though the national legislature dangles the
carrot of federal money if the state requirements follow federal
guidelines). In the mean time, the cash registers in the fast
food joints have icons denoting the individual food items - and
$DEITY help you if you give the clerk an unexpected amount of coin
to pay the bill (I owe 5.14, and give the clerk 6.04 so I don't
get pennies in the change - no, that blows their talentless minds).

Old guy
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