The problem there is 'policy' not 'science'.
I like the IETF model: "We reject kings, presidents, and voting. We believe in rough consensus and running code".
Oh, but nothing large-scale and important could ever be accomplished without Democracy
One suspects that might have been the point.
The IRS already spends $300 million/year (FY2014) on this supposed "modernization," and thats down from previous years ($330 million/year for FY2012 and FY2013) So over the last decade they have blown through billions on "modernization."
With this sort of budget, they could have built several Titan supercomputers per year (in 2012 it was the fastest supercomputer ever built) and still had billions of dollars left over.
The agency actually currently blows through a total of $11.7 billion/year.
It seems to me that they already have an order of magnitude more money than they need and the problem for them is that when push comes to shove their budget could easily be cut in half several times, which if it happened would mean the big-whigs over at the IRS would suddenly lose their power to wastefully spend many billions of dollars per year. Obviously that outcome is frowned upon by those that control that money.
That some people defend this practice with statement like "Given that the alternative is either not having civilization or living in a permanent Mexican standoff " shows that those people really have no idea how much money these government agencies are spending. There is a reason that 4 of the 5 richest counties in the United States surround Washington D.C:
#1 Loudoun County, Virginia. 35 miles from D.C
#2 Howard County, Maryland. 27 miles from D.C
#3 Fairfax County, Virginia. 11 miles from D.C
#4 Hunterdon County, New Jersey. 160 miles from D.C.
#5 Arlington County, Virginia. 5 miles from D.C.
...than one of those bloated, slow-loading, all-Flash restaurant front-ends that take 20 seconds to load and animate before they show you the location, hours of operation, or any menus.
Reminds me of the Indiana Pi Bill. It's not even that the Indiana Rep. felt strongly that Pi equals 3.2, but he was unqualified to understand the subject, but had no problem passing a law based on 'expert' testimony.
Classic Dunning-Kruger all over town.
And inducement to break a contract is a crime in most jurisdictions, doubly so with color of law. The lawsuits should be fun.
Tried it again recently, and I was able to add a four-minute video from my phone, cut out a chunk, add a transition and a fade-in and fade out, and took me less than half an hour.
It's true, that would have taken me five minutes in iMovie in 2000, but at least it didn't crash, which is what happened every previous time I've tried that.
What could the system possibly be doing while I sit there thinking about what I want to move next?
They are very good. They get all the notes of the original as close to exactly-right as you could possibly expect of a production. I would go so far as to say a studio would do worse because they'd want to interject some new concept.
It takes me 5 minutes of each episode to get used to "Kirk's" higher-pitched voice, but that incongruity fades rather quickly. And, sorry, but I keep expecting Grant to unleash a robot.
Regardless, the first three were better "TV" than most of what's on broadcast today. And I suppose there's an outside chance that the success of "Continues" will have an influence on how Paramount views the fanbase.
I'm bummed that Ian's GR concerning init system equality failed
Why? What that GR said was that packages that didn't support all init systems would be removed from Debian -- i.e. if it had passed Xfce4 would simply be removed.
This is the GR:
https://www.debian.org/vote/20...
the intent of which was to insure that alternate init systems continued to work, not to remove packages that didn't support that. Making a bug RC could potentially cause a package to be removed if the bug was ignored and unfixed, but any DD can NMU the package to fix an RC bug at any time, so packages like Xfce4 being removed as a result of an init system RC bug is fairly unrealistic IMHO.
Nero had his fiddle. History rhymes.
Look, if there's a need for cyberwarfare (let's assume the premise) then bring it under the Pentagon and let the NSA get back to purely defensive infrastructure stuff. There should not be a rogue civillian agency making War, if for no other reason than that the real Generals need full situational awareness.
I wish I had the actual news story to show you. The point was, he believed exactly what you do. But it wasn't true.
He thought that he could confess, retract the confession, and they couldn't convict him without some other evidence, because he wasn't really guilty.
He believed false convictions in a murder case just couldn't happen in this country.
However, as the New Yorker article said http://www.newyorker.com/magaz... when a jury has a confession, they always believe it. Even if the suspect retracts it, even he was manipulated into confessing, even if the police lied, and even if there's independent evidence that he's innocent.
Those kids really screwed the public over with their lies. We wasted over a million dollars and well over two man-years because they decided to lie and take credit for something they didn't do. I was shocked when I was in NYC in 2002 when they were released. There was no talk of charging for their crimes. They kept the police from pursuing the real rapist which allowed him to hurt other women. They are responsible.
The kids weren't responsible for those lies. They told the truth at first. They were coerced, manipulated and told to lie by the cops, who used methods like the Reid Technique which have been proven to produce false confessions. The cops were responsible for those lies, for wasting over a million dollars and for not convicting the real rapist. And that's what the courts decided when they awarded the kids millions in damages.
You might as well prosecute the defendants in the Stalin purge trials for lying.
The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time. -- Merrick Furst
