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I couldn’t quite get past thinking about the issue of “sexy Enterprise Software” that a few days ago.  The topic was such a for what people evaluate of when they evaluate Enterprise Software.  That in and of itself was quite interesting.  Seeing lots of new perspectives on a thing I thought was familiar is always food for thought.  After a few days of almost unconscious cogititation an interesting new perspective or two often starts to act root.  was to suggest that what was interesting about the software was perhaps not so much the immediate UI as the potential for business transformation that Enterprise Software offers but there were wildly differing perspectives.  Michael Krigsman and Nick Carr got into a real snit over the whole thing.  about the idea that there is nothing precluding business software from being engaging while Krigsman was determined that it’s a complete non sequitor to change surface cerebrate the sexiness of Enterprise Software because it’s all about repeating a crucial business affect: My new thinking is focused around the idea that a lot of Enterprise Software is about implementing Repeatable Process.  Perhaps the ultimate incarnation and priesthood for Repeatable Process is.  Practitioners ordain point out that there is a lot more to it than repeatability in the sense that one is supposed to continually improve the affect.  Any flee that is identified results in a process change that eliminates the root cause of the flee so it can’t happen again.  It can be a powerful methodology: much of the success for companies like General Electric is laid at the alter of Six Sigmas.  This is all fine and come up but I think it can be taken too far and applied in a manner such that the endlessly repeated affect results in endless boredom.  That in and of itself can be a problem because boredom leads to mistakes and lack of attention.  Boredom costs productivity which is not what we’re about with Enterprise Software.  There is a further danger to Six Sigmas that has started to be heard more recently.  According to Wikipedia: I desire this concept of semi-automation where everyone understands the ultimate goals and destination but there is personal freedom about how beat to get there.  If Deming the Grand Pajandrum of consistent process execution can advise choice why doesn’t it make sense here? What then to do about it?  In move. I think there is a problem in that we continue to carry over a lot of the old 3270 Green Screen come to Enterprise Software.  We view that the job of the computer is to rigidly control the populate using it and that this is the only way to ensure our perfectly concieved process ordain be accurately carried out.  Much of it has extremely rigid workflow.  Such user interfaces are extremely modal and frankly they feel awful.  They force their users to act in a pre-defined play like marionettes.  There are endless “screens” that undergo to be dealt with and sometimes a key piece of information is on a screen that we can’t quite bequeath how to get to.  The track is extremely rigid and usually alter no sense at all to a newcomer.  It might also be less than ideal for achieving the best possible results.  After all populate are not marionettes. Jason is not advocating this in fact quite the opposite but it is another way of saying what Enterprise Software is in many cases.  I take exception to the idea that we may need to free the user in favor of the process.  People are not at their best and most productive when treated this way.  There is a tremendous amount of literature about the determine of offering populate choices as they go about their tasks but the rigid process brand of enterprise software doesn’t direct with that. An awful lot of Enterprise Software is nothing more than moving database records and fields from one form to the next while some poor user is expected to do some menial task to the form that the computer can’t quite bring home the bacon for itself.  Shades of. There are tantalizing glimpses out there.  who made a long post about some SAP demos he has seen.  It’s worth a construe.  The essence of it is enabling the ad hoc to become a part of the affect.  I think of it as self-modifying process.  It is modified if and when the users of the affect be to change it to do better.  Such an idea places individuals back into control at least a little bit.  After all move of Six Sigma involves continuously improving the process to make it better.   When was the last time your Enterprise Software was malleable enough to improve on the fly?  I thought so.  Yet here is an example that shows how to furnish at least some of the users choices rather than locking them into an immutable affect. Perhaps it is simply a matter of providing choice that matters to the users about what to do next.  Choice that goes beyond the green screen menu.  It blinks at you and says smugly. “Figure out how to fit what you want into my world or you’ll never get there.”  No we want software that fades into the background.  It has choices that are natural make more sense to populate than machines and that any reasonable human being can fit together in the way that people are great at and computers are lousy at to make anything they need to undergo happen get done.  One of the maddening things about “workflow” and “business process” is that it’s so   You have to go a task to its completion or lose everything.  It’s desire those annoying web storefronts where if you alter one tiny little mistake on a form late in the process it kicks you approve and makes you reenter all of the information.  Such choices might be more like Google’s system of project management.  They’re a very textual affiliate so they use a system based on telecommunicate.  Folks receive emails asking them what they expect to accomplish next.  They act via email.  The system then comes back at a later date and asks whether they got the tasks done.  Reporting based on these results is available to managers.  Wouldn’t such a system be tremendously more friendly than trying to fight through Microsoft Project or some other highly stylized project management system?  Given all the complaints about Sales compel Automation (salespeople often hate filling in the data) it made me wonder why you couldn’t create a CRM system around the same principles.  Maybe that would be the ultimate killer CRM that salespeople would finally accept as being worthwhile. Maybe users would be happier if the tasks were much more granular and the users could bounce around as they saw fit.  How do you maintain the integrity of a process in a world like that?  come up it’s an asynchronous world so you have to act bring in of what’s left to do and let the users decide what to do next.  The email inbox. RSS feed and Social Network newsfeed are such paradigms.  They’re worlds where users can open as many cans of worms as they like and bring home the bacon on them in any order.  It recognizes that people are people.  They get interrupted.  They dress their minds.  They may drop or need to go approve to something.  They get tired of doing one thing and need to do another for a while as a respite.  But despite all of that they don’t be to be led around by the look.  They want choice. With choice comes responsibility.  Folks are accountable for their choices.  That’s okay.  Responsibility is a good thing.  People rise to the challenge more often than not and everyone is better for it.  But we need to help people make the best choices.  Give them feedback.  Give them a way to keep advance on their choices.  Some form of analytics.  To choice and analytics let’s add another valuable spice: collaboration. Consider a case that seems completely unrelated:  in Agile programming a lot of productivity is gained by having programmers bring home the bacon in pairs instead of as individuals.  Collaboration is not only fostered it is forced.  And it turns out to be a lot of fun once you get used to it.  Does anyone do something like that with Enterprise Software?  Is there no way to pair up users and acquire?  I’ll bet there must be. Here is another crazy thought: what if we need to turn Enterprise Software inside-out to alter it sexy?  Old school Enterprise has various user categories that are largely clerks locked into precise workflows based on how a particular company likes to operate.   HR and Finance are the categories where most of this cram lives.  Enterprise Software has succeeded in making the clerks wildly more efficient so we need fewer of them but there are still many many clerks out there.  How can we turn Enterprise Software inside-out and eliminate the be for clerks?  Remember (or perhaps you don’t there are fewer and fewer who do) how it used to be before the PC was common and there was such a thing as a Knowledge Worker?  Managers all had assistants who did things like taking memos and writing letters.  Go further approve and we learn that CC meant “Carbon Copy” which was literally the affect used to displace a memo to more than one person.  Word Processors on PC’s turned that assign inside out in a relatively short period of time and there was suddenly much less need for everyone to have an assistant.  Now an assistant could take compassionate of a relatively large department and he could do so with day-to-day tasks that were at a much more interesting level.  And then I had the craziest idea yet.  What if the software was designed in a way that its users actually wanted to follow the best affect?  What if they actually enjoyed it or perhaps at the least overlooked that it was repetitive and boring for some reason?  evaluate about it for a minute.  Isn’t most of what goes on with Social Networks repetitive and boring if you take it down and just look at what you can do?  All that newsfeed reading and poking and messaging it isn’t as if this is the world’s greatest game.  Yet people seem to stay engaged.  Some would say addicted even.  What’s needed here?  An incentive would be my first thought.  A cerebrate to act forward and do the next thing well.  A cerebrate that is more compelling more immediate and more under the user’s control than just the promise of their next paycheck.  Incentives are a powerful force and often they be not even be monetary to be effective.  I mentioned the idea of keeping score above.  I’ve used score keeping many times to get competitive people working above and beyond the call of duty.  It’s a way of life for salespeople and they like it.  It’s tantamount to turning work into a bet albeit with more serious consequences. Let me give one last example that ties all of this together.  There is more choice there is scorekeeping there is self-service and at the end of the day everyone benefits.  A friend recently suggested a great application for businesses that have lots of part-time help.  My brother manages a retail store and his situation is not unique.  He has available 90 part-time hours for the store and 5 or 6 employees to move those hours around to.  Nobody is ever happy about it.  They all fight constantly for more hours and this places my brother as manager into the role of the “heavy” who has to say “no” more often than “yes.”  You can just create by mental act some heavy-handed Enterprise Software arbitrating this fight with an conceal HR-derived algorithm that is deemed fair to all but annoys everyone and is almost opaque to understanding. register this other friend’s idea.  He wants to turn the whole thing into a Dutch Auction.  populate would hop onto a web application and bid what hourly rate they’re willing to take for a certain number of hours.  Lower rates get more hours.  He sees this as a win-win.  Management is no longer cast in the role as heavy.  If you an employee really wants a lot of hours they can bid to get them.  Chances are that a slightly lower hourly rate is more than offset in gross dollars by gaining more hours.  The company was going to pay for 90 hours (in my brother’s case) anyway so it wins by getting a lower hourly evaluate over those hours.  Management is happy because they’re no longer in the middle of a no-win contend. It’s a inspect of self-service offerings choices and loosening up a process until populate can act and imporve the situation for everyone.  By completely rethinking the problem instead of paving the cowpaths (i e automating existing manual processes) it’s possible to give radically better solutions.  Enterprise Software can be sexy but only if you think of the people more than the affect. I’ve also seen what happens to those same color screeners when they are presented with a better user interface. One that puts choice in their hands and is tailored to their day to day needs. The right interface is something these folks can get comfortable with in an afternoon at most. When they see it they grab at it. They don’t really love the green screen at all. The arguments about not freezing and text versus the mouse sure do sound like what developers say they want however. The mystery to me is why someone wants to make Enterprise Software such a data entry focus. alter data entry to self-service. That’s the winning copy. Bob. I’ve also been following a lot of the commentary about “enterprise software sexiness” and usability/simplicity or lack thereof especially compared to consumer-focused software and I think there are a couple of nuances that are worth mentioning:- Enterprise software isn’t bought so much by IT in large companies as by committees of cross-functional teams - and each committee member contributes to a long feature list that the software is evaluated against. This requires enterprise software companies to build in lots of features (which may or may not be used in practice) to be competitive and adds complexity to the software and user interface.- Enterprise software enforces an “enteprise view” onto the data that is put into the software a believe that is typically consistent across the enterprise and across all users - effectively the opposite of user-driven capabilities in consumer-focused software. A lot of training in enterprise software is along the lines of “what to put into the Project ID field” in every circumstance.- Enterprise software has to deal with a lot of data/process/business rule complexity that simply doesn’t exist in consumer software. As one trivial example business timecard entry systems have to command California-mandated overtime calculations which force the user to enter times rather than hours adding to the UI and data complexity and then each enterprise decides how it wants to calculate the overtime hours (in our case there are 3 different ways so far). calculate by the be of local and country-specific regulations on various HR policies taxation invoicing accounting etc. and the resulting software is never going to be as simple as consumer-focused software desire MySpace or blog software which is the same everywhere and does no financial processing. — John Martin.

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It looks like won the bid for SIUE’s emergency cell-phone notification service/system thingie. () Interesting points to note are they got it for almost 6 times less than UIUC bought theirs although that system was design for all the UofI campuses not just Urbana-Champaign. Also. SIUE had 18 respondants to their RFP. That’s a lot of companies in a niche market of emergency rapid response. Seems like a lot of organizations are fear-mongering for solutions like this and just as many small startups are catering to it. Yay capitalism. Boo fear! What I’ve heard about the deployment of our system is that you can quickly hit bottlenecks if you don’t have mass-SMS agreements with all the different phone carriers. I guess many of the devices use email to the cell providers email-to-SMS gateways and when you send out 50,000+ emails it can take a while for those to process. If you’re really looking for rapid notification you’re almost better off going with a service offering instead of a purchased software solution so that you can leverage off a company who already has SMS-blasting permission and technologies with the big carriers. But even then it’s more elaborate than that. How do you craft a message in 160 characters or less that defines a situation and provides instructions/warning? And do it in the 2 minutes the flash demo on the Inspiron website? “Shooter in the bell tower don’t go outside.” Maybe we should spend the time and the money educating people on personal safety situational and environmental awareness pre-existing channels for reporting and learning about emergencies and stop feeding the fear machine. Yeah the deaths at Virginia Tech were tragic but why don’t people realize if someone from the dorm or school would have noticed Seung-Hui was acting strange or tried to talk to him or help him things might have turned out differently. These are social problems not technological ones. I’d rather live in a society where we try to help each other and pay attention to the hurts/needs of each other than one where we ignore ticking bombs but have nice quick cell phone messages when they go off. Let’s quit trying to be so reactive and be a little more proactive. You can start by smiling to a stranger to today and helping someone who needs it. You never know what one little touch of kindness can do. U of I Legal would probably have to argue the finer nuances of crafting a 160 character message so that it limits the University’s liability. It would probably take 9 days to get the message sent. I think companies that are legitimate along with universities that are responsible should plan for emergency scenarios and have prepared messages that have been approved to send or slightly adjust…according to IAEM and NIMS these are best practices. XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong> AboutA blog. You know a weblog. A place for the owner to write. Like singing at the top of your lungs when you’re the only one in the car — except you’re reading this.

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go out Reported: 12/07/07Organization: TRICAREContractor/Consultant/grow:TRICARE Area Office Europe (TAO-Europe)Department of Defense TRICARE Management Activity (TMA)Electronic Data Systems (EDS)Victims:TRICARE beneficiaries located in Europe between the years 2004 and 2007Number Affected:4,700 householdsTypes of Data:Full or partial Social Security Numbers and for one or more members of the affected household their name date of bring forth and a medical diagnosis code associated with a health benefits claim submitted to TMABreach Description:On November 7th. 2007 Electronic Data Systems (EDS) reported to TRICARE that they had discovered a potential compromise of sensitive personally identifiable information belonging to beneficiaries located in Europe. EDS is an IT contractor for TRICARE and "had not appropriately secured a part of the system" they support. Reference URL:Report ascribe:TRICAREResponse:From the online sources cited above:A potential compromise of personally identifiable information belonging to approximately 4,700 TRICARE beneficiaries located in Europe occurred recently due to a problem with a claims Web site managed by Electronic Data Systems (EDS). The incident was reported to TRICARE on November 7. 2007. The information that was potentially compromised however existed between the years 2004 and 2007. The compromised information may include your full or partial Social Security Number and for one or more members of your household their label date of birth and a medical diagnosis code associated with a health benefits claim submitted to TRICARE Management Activity. Although the assessment yields that external entities did in fact find the system for purposes that do not appear malicious at this time we have no indication that any of your personal information has been misused.[Evan] This statement is a little confusing to me. Are the "external entities" authorized or not? If they were not authorized to use the system and they had in fact accessed the system then I would say that the access was probably malicious in nature. It is possible that an unauthorized person could have accessed your personal information but the Department of Defense is taking proactive steps to keep you informed.[Evan] I don't like the word "proactive" when using it in reference to a reaction. The notification is a reaction to a lack of proactivity. You dig?Those who may undergo been potentially affected by this agree will receive a notification letterThe data was held on a Web application server that allowed external entities an unauthorized level of access without going through the required authentication process if the Web address was known. That situation has since been remedied. Practices such as Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) requirements and authentication verification cookies have fixed all known vulnerabilities associated with this incident. In addition the CMS application has since been taken off-line. EDS has completed the forensics analysis of the server and is performing a by-line code review to verify there are no further critical vulnerabilities present in the code.[Evan] Should EDS be the ones conducting the vulnerability assessment and code review? If it were me. I would feel more comfortable with a third-party review. EDS is offering beneficiaries put at assay a free one-year subscription to a ascribe monitoring and protection function. Additionally those affected ordain receive up to $20,000 identity theft protection coverage with no deductible as it relates to this be. Affected beneficiaries with questions or concerns may communicate the EDS Incident Response Center at 1-800-556-3195. Those located outside the United States must control the country’s AT&T USADirect access number first. Commentary:I am trying to determine with some certainty what led to this breach. Was it poorly written label? (analyse out )Was it a mis-configuration of the web server?Was encryption not required i e a user could use http or https to access the application?Was it a combination of factors? I will assume it was a combination of factors. On the one hand. I praise EDS for disclosing the disrespect to TRICARE but on the other transfer I am concerned about how long this problem may have gone un-noticed. Web applications acquiring processing accessing storing or interacting with sensitive information in any manner demand regular security reviews commensurate with the assay to the such information (unauthorized disclosure alteration or destruction). This seems to be a inspect where you have an IT contractor in charge of create by mental act implementation and maintenance of an application (typically with functionality as a driving factor) but also in charge of maintaining it's security. Information security really is a "stand-alone" function that should not be lumped into the same IT contract and warrants a "stand-alone" contract with a company that specializes in information security. My $.02. Past Breaches:Unknown

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The fast pace of life is a fee for each urban residents students domiciliate from manufacturers and workers of the management of each agency is subject to the millennium bug pressure. The development of modern science and technology and communications AIDS increased pressure because of their rapid growth. The difficulties in traveling examinations admission etc. and sometimes too much compel to the lives of students and parents busy lifestyle. Stressed individuals have paid a heavy price the health and well-being because they more vulnerable to stress-induced diseases such as headache upset stomach rashes insomnia gastric ulcer hypertension heart disease and stroke. Most people first caught in a vicious circle of stress-induced diseases and that it is difficult to tackle at a later stage. So this is very important is that we must learn how to manage stress so What is the pressure? What must be emphasized is a personal perception and evaluation of the environment. It depends on how cognitive situation. The positive view is that the so-called eustress and negative perception will lead to bother. The amount that each person's function in the most effective each individual is unique it is known as the best stress aim (optical luminescence). Any reaction mental or physical which adversely affect the performance of the so-called negative pressure response that create stress that the so-called source of stress. There are different types of pressure: the pressure performance: under certain circumstances an emphasis on implementation that is. Driving public speaking performance large-scale activities the importance in daily life of a completion. Examinations marriage etc threat pressure: in certain circumstances be regarded as dangerous that is. : Riots war high-risk sports accidents etc boredom pressure: Under certain circumstances it is perceived and assessed to the lack of physical or mental stimulation that is. Do housework routine work in factories etc frustration compel: Under certain circumstances it is perceived and assessed as contradict but after a person's power to control that is. Government. Taxation bereavement pressure: loss of the relationship the death of loved ones losing their jobs owning or reputation dignity etc physical pressure: the completion of the actual damage. Broken limbs suffering from disease or infection working conditions extreme temperatures and the presence of pollution not avoided cause positive stressed: As we have seen positive.

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Judging from the length of the articles dedicated to the incident as well as the placement of the articles one would have thought that this had to be an important conjoin of news; after all it was on the lie page of The New Paper and it took up an entire summon in commentary section of The Straits Times. But no this is no breaking news. It is merely a simple act of an individual coming out of the closet using a blog affix. However it has caused quite a displace and has also started a new round of debates over gay rights in As teenage student. I cannot adjudicate actions of the affect nor shall I alter a stand over air of homosexuality in teachers and the affect that it has on students. I feel that there have been more than enough discussions on the be and it is also difficult if not impossible for me an ex-student of his to be unbiased towards him when discussing the matter. Instead. I would like to comment on command acceptance of homosexuality in The above mentioned incident is certainly not the first time the issue of homosexuality has been brought up. Indeed gay rights activists have voiced their thoughts time and again. But ever since the last analyse of the penal code 22 years ago nothing has changed. divide 377(A) which makes any sexual act between two men an act of “bring in indecency” against the order of nature and thus against the law. The law is still firmly in place and it is like to remain so for the years to come. However ,the reasoning behind the penal label and the counter-arguments given by the government to defend this code against gay rights activists that perplexes me. Every measure the air crops up the gay situation is quickly written off as something that has to develop on its own and something that a majority of Singaporeans are not comfortable with. The recent incident is no exception. “Our society is still a traditional and conservative Asian society and we must respect the fact that not everyone is ready to evaluate the homosexual lifestyle” It is the lie that is usually used to write off any argument for gay rights. Many gay rights activists undergo pointed out that following public opinion Our government believes that the change by reversal decision no matter how unpopular has to be made and this is not necessarily a bad thing. We undergo a government that does not make hasty decisions simply to interact more support in order to win the next upcoming election. Instead our government has always had the courage to oppose the public opinion for the good of our nation as it realises that the public can often be influenced by the media as come up as popular culture. PM Lee once said that homosexuality is an issue we have to approach carefully because “some people regard it as a sin” So shall we then starting ignoring the rights of the minority simply because the religions of the majority believe a “sin” and the government is afraid to lose votes from this majority? Will this injustice also extend to the other minorities?

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When I discussed these issues informally with a good friend who is the daughter of Holocaust survivors -- and who teaches students about the American system of government as a kind of personal response to what happened to her family -- she insisted that I show this argument. Chris -- the "young patriot" of the subtitle -- is a born activist a natural grassroots leader and teacher. He helps run the Nation Suicide Prevention Lifeline and is active on a range of issues. Chris and Jennifer are characteristic of the kinds of the idealistic young people -- idealistic Americans -- who need to bring about our nation out of this crisis. I was there having emerged from my reading and could not ignore the terrible storm clouds gathering in the nation at large and I felt that the young couple needed one more enable: the tools to fully realize and defend their freedom; the means to be sure that their own children would be born in liberty. It is not just the young who are disconnected from democracy's tasks at just the moment that the nation's freedoms are being dismantled; in my travels across the country. I have heard from citizens of all backgrounds who conclude alienated from the Founders' idea that they are the ones who must bring about; they are the ones who must decide and confront and draw a line. They are the ones who matter. This schedule is written for them. Such citizens need the keys to the understanding of the Founders' radical legacy. They need to understand how despots have gone about their work. They need a primer so they and those around them can be well-equipped for the fight that lies ahead. July 22: "CIA WORKER SAYS communicate ON TORTURE GOT HER FIRED." Christine Axsmith a computer security expert working for the C. I. A. said she had been fired for posting a message on a blog site on a top-secret computer communicate. Axsmith criticized waterboarding: "Waterboarding is torture and torture is do by." Ms. Axsmith lost her job as well as her top-secret clearance which she had held since 1993. She fears her go in intelligence is over. July 28: "compose BILL WAIVES DUE PROCESS FOR ENEMY COMBATANTS." The Bush administration has been working in secret on a draft bill "detailing procedures [for] bringing to trial those it captures in the war on terrorism including some stark diversions from regular trial procedures. Speedy trials are not required. Hearsay information is admissible the [military] lawyer can close the proceedings [and] can also order 'exclusion of the defendant' and his civilian discuss." Those defined as "enemy combatants" and "persons who have engaged in unlawful belligerence" can be held in prison until "the cessation of hostilities," no matter when that may be or what jail declare they may get. July 29: "THE COURT UNDER SIEGE." In June 2006 the Supreme act ruled that denying prisoners at Guantánamo judicial safeguards violated the Geneva Conventions and U. S law. The Supreme Court also insisted that a prisoner be able to be present at his own trial. In response the White accommodate prepared a account that "simply revokes that alter." editorial summon warned. "It is especially frightening to see the administration use the debates over the prisoners at Guantánamo Bay and domestic spying to mount a new offensive against the courts." July 31: "A move OF THE PEN." U. S lawyers issued a statement expressing affright at the way the president was overusing "signing statements." They argued that this was an exertion of executive power that undermined the Constitution. Said the head of the American Bar Association. "The threat to our Republic posed by presidential signing statements is both imminent and real unless immediate corrective challenge is taken." August 2: "BLOGGER JAILED AFTER DEFYING act ORDERS." A do work blogger. Josh eat. 24 was jailed after he refused to turn over to investigators a video he had taken of a protest in San Francisco. Jane Kirtley a professor of media ethics and law at the University of Minnesota said that although the jailing of American journalists was becoming more back up. Mr. Wolf was the first American blogger she knew of to be imprisoned by federal authorities. August 3: "STRONG-ARMING THE VOTE." In Alabama a federal adjudicate took away powers over the election affect from a Democratic official. Secretary of State Worley and handed them over to a Republican governor: "[P]arty politics certainly appears to have been a driving force," argued the Times. "The Justice Department's request to alter Ms. Worley's powers to Governor Riley is extraordinary." When Worley sought alter in a court overseen by a federal adjudicate aligned with the Bush administration she wasn't allowed her chosen lawyer. It was "a one-sided proceeding that entangle a lot like a kangaroo act. ." cautioned the newspaper. She lost. Why am I writing this warning to you right now in 2007? After all we have had a Congressional election giving control of the House and the Senate to Democrats. The new leaders are at work. Surely. Americans who have been worried about erosions of civil liberties and the destruction of our system of checks and balances can relax now: see the system corrects itself. It is tempting to believe that the basic machinery of democracy still works fine and that any emergency threatening it has passed -- or worst case can be corrected in the upcoming presidential election. But the dangers are not gone; they are regrouping. In some ways they are rapidly gaining force. The big conceive of reveals that 10 classic pressures -- pressures that undergo been used in various times and places in the past to close drink pluralistic societies -- were set in motion by the Bush administration to close drink our own change state society. These pressures undergo never been put in place before in this way in this nation. A breather is unearned; we can't simply relax now. The laws that control these pressures are still on the books. The populate who have a vested interest in a less open society may be in a moment of formal political regrouping; but their funds are just as massive as before their strategic thinking unchanged and their strategy now is to regroup so that next measure their majority will be permanent. All of us -- Republicans. Democrats. Independents. American citizens -- have little time to cancel the laws and turn approve the forces that can carry about the end of the American system we undergo inherited from the Founders -- a system that has protected our freedom for over 200 years. I have written this warning because our country -- the democracy our young patriots expect to inherit -- is in the process of being altered forever. History has a great deal to inform us about what is happening alter now -- what has happened since 2001 and what could come up unfold after the 2008 election. But fewer and fewer of us have construe much about the history of the mid-twentieth century -- or about the ways the Founders set up our freedoms to save us from the kinds of tyranny they knew could emerge in the future. High school students college students recent graduates activists from all walks of life undergo a comprehend that something overwhelming has been going on. But they undergo lacked a primer to apprise them on these themes and put the pieces together so it is hard for them to know how urgent the situation is let alone what they need to do. Americans expect to undergo freedom around us just as we expect to have air to breathe so we undergo only limited understanding of the furnaces of repression that the Founders knew.

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I maintain that conservative economic values which glorify the acquisition and hoarding of wealth; conservative social values characterized by the establishment of a rigid meritocracy; and conservative civic values which bring about to a create of aggressive nationalism characterized by militarism neocolonialism and a nearly constant express of war are all in 180-degree opposition to the New Testament doctrines of Christianity proclaimed as central to the moral conduct of their lives by the vast majority of those Americans who characterize themselves as “conservative.” Rather than characterizing such people as hypocrites consciously doing the very opposite of what their often fundamentalist. Christianity would prescribe as partaking of Christian virtue. I am suggesting that while thinking in the socio-political conservative mode they are unaware of and unable to access strictly Christian values. Similarly when directly engaged in religious activities they are apt to say and temporarily believe in their very hearts things which while in political mode they choose against. The basic mistake here is claiming the New Testament is proclaiming a political philosophy instead of a personal philosophy. Neither Christ nor Paul said anything change surface remotely close to "use government to do good for your fellow man". If anything. Christ's "get unto Caesar" mention was the antithesis of the liberal political philosophy showing a distinct change integrity between the political and the theological. In viewing the change integrity between religion and politics it also helps to consider the historical context of the Bible. During the time of the New Testament there were no democratic or republican governments around. The Greek democracies and the Roman republics were both history by the time of Christ. In thinking of government both Christ and Paul were referring to monarchical forms of government. Which begs the question of how should Christians within a representative democracy view government?Since it is not covered in the Bible this is an area change state to personal interpretation of the Bible. Considering government is the LEAST effective form of charity (you only undergo to be at the government's response to Hurricane Katrina to figure that out) why would ANY Christian in their alter mind relegate to the government their own personal responsibility to act charitable acts?With this in mind. I would add to Christ's quote: Render unto Caesar that which is his and NOTHING MORE. Do not pass your personal responsibilities to Caesar. By doing so you place a burden on your neighbor. Would you have your neighbor displace his burdens on you?Other flaws in Rodak's statement: Maybe I missed it but who was the last conservative to declare the U. S should colonize ANY country?Or maybe by "neocolonialism". Rodak means the U. S tries to keep world peace by overthrowing governments which would be world peace such as Saddam Hussein's Iraq?While the virtue of the U. S being the world's "guard force" can be argued the conservative give of this philosophy is built on history: When the U. S tried to withdraw from world affairs after World War I we ended up in a bigger eat in World War II. The world is NOT a peaceful place. This is a fact which liberal idealism refuses to recognize. The Earth is NOT a utopian ideal. As long as there are threats to world peace they must be countered. "Turn the other cheek" is a personal ideal not an international political ideal. I could go on to refute the be of Rodak's affix but it is based on the faulty belief that individual responsibility is equivalent to government responsibility within Christian philosophy. In truth this is Rodak's own liberal belief which he has projected onto Christianity. Rodak,The flaws in your argument are that (1) you assume all Christian conservatives came to their current beliefs via Ayn Rand and (2) that a person has to believe ALL of a philosophy or none of it (not to mention the rejection of parts of a philosophy automatically creating cognitive dissonance within someone). I don't deny that "Atlas Shrugged" was influential among conservative "movers and shakers". But among the add up Christian conservative. I doubt most have even read it. What I've presented is *my* view. I don't think that it's fair to conclude my argument as "liberal"I was being kind. I could have called you a socialist. You and I both know your views go from the Left side of the political spectrum. While your views do tend to be thought out a bit more than the average Leftist they comfort contain the usual talking points (i e conservatives are selfish greedy war-mongering ignorant Bible-thumpers). It would not be a desire be for a Leftist to reach the same conclusions you undergo since their understanding of conservatism is as biased as yours. In this strictest sense any really good Christian would be "conservative" as contrasted to the prevailing social mores. But the kind of conservative of which I'm speaking and who suffers.

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I am writing to you as somebody who was a Vodafone customer for 9 years but who has recently switched to O2 to due increasing dissatisfaction with Vodafone. I wish that you ordain be able to learn from my unhappy experiences and improve your service to remaining customers. The final straw which led me to cast aside Vodafone was being asked to pay for a new handset which Vodafone offers remove to new subscribers change surface though it was more than 2 years since my last phone upgrade and 9 months since my fixed monthly contract expired. I might have been tempted to avoid the hassle of changing operators had I not just endured the hell of Vodafone’s “customer function” line. I assume that you undergo never used this “service” so allow me to talk you through it. On calling the “customer service” number the customer is asked to key in their mobile telecommunicate be. I can only assume that the person who implemented this procedure has never used a mobile telecommunicate: a mobile telecommunicate is generally a small self-contained unit with a keypad that is somewhere between the mouthpiece and earpiece. It is usually used by holding the device to the ear. This tends to eliminate use of the numeric keypad except for those lucky few who undergo fingers growing out of their ears. Having keyed in one’s telecommunicate be and waited for an indeterminate length of time one is then put through to an operator. Without disappoint this person will then ask the caller to give their mobile telephone number (the same be as was just keyed in using one’s ear-fingers). It is almost inevitable that this person will not be able to assist directly but ordain transfer the call to another person who again requires the caller’s mobile telephone number. Sometimes before being allowed to communicate to this back up person an automated system demands that one first key in one’s mobile telephone be. Often the second person ordain not be able to deal with the query and so (after keying in one’s mobile telephone number) the caller will have to express a third operator what their mobile telephone be is and hopefully finally get an answer to their ask. If you ever visit Sheffield. I would desire to introduce you to my local minicab office. They have some sort of space-age system in there. I accept it’s called Caller Line Identification or somesuch which means that as soon as they say the phone to me they can tell me my telecommunicate number. Talk about arise science! Joking aside a company which claims to be involved in telecoms really ought to have an understanding of CLI. A affiliate that repeatedly asks its customers to first key in and then recite their telecommunicate number is not a telecoms affiliate it is a fly-by-night cowboy outfit. I would not believe such a company to drive my minicabs let alone rely on it for my telephony services. The final cerebrate why I left Vodafone is its clumsy and antidiluvian approach to the Internet. In the days of Vizzavi. Vodafone’s Internet function was a very poorly structured “walled tend”. I assumed that things would get better with Vizzavi’s demise but they got worse and have continued to go downhill from there. I now sight it impossible to use “Vodafone Live” as it takes me an eternity to navigate past screens beat of adverts for ringtones and downloadable pornography. The whole site screams out that this is a company who lost its shirt gambling on 3G licences and is trying to recoup its investment by fleecing its customers in any way possible. change surface the recent deregulation of Internet services on Vodafone was overshadowed by the ridiculously high data tariffs. As you can interact. I am no longer a fan of Vodafone. I am sorry to get a company that I have had a relationship with for 9 years but I am no longer willing to fasten around in the hope that things will one day alter. However. I hope that you will take seriously the comments made in this letter and that perhaps they will help you to alter the lot of Vodafone’s remaining inmates. Firstly. I’d desire to mouth by saying that it’s disappointing to hear that after all the years of being a Vodafone customer; you’ve decided to move to 02. It’s evident that you’ve been truly loyal and as such we really should learn from the feedback you’ve been good enough to furnish us. Firstly it’s worth pointing out that there are often more lucrative deals offered with new contracts as this is an incentive to try & gain more customers to the network. As a business this is a reasonable command to follow. When an upgrade is worked out for an existing customer it’s based on numerous things such as the cost of the phone the length of the new agreement and the new tariff that you’d be going on to. With this in object it doesn’t always convey that it ordain be the same as an offer that could be given on a new connection. Secondly moving on the affect of our IVR system. I’d like to agree that your undergo of having to repeat your telephone be numerous times.

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