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Farther along there's a picture of Bush Laden taped to a window. Also, there's a Fake Ham hanging out on a street corner.

Farther along there's a picture of Bush Laden taped to a window. Also, there's a Fake Ham hanging out on a street corner.

One click forward yields "Image no longer available" - I wonder what that was? One more click farther along yields ghost and a guitar player.

One click forward yields "Image no longer available" - I wonder what that was? One more click farther along yields ghost and a guitar player.

One click forward yields "Image no longer available" - I wonder what that was? One more click farther along yields ghost and a guitar player.

http://tinyurl.com/modthisup

Actually, it still is quite fast. Nobody wants to risk further damage to the machine just to get the first data in a few months earlier. Ok, except maybe for a few grad students and post docs whose time is running out...
All the gory details on the decision making process can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/chamonix2009

In the mean time we can run the Tevatron a little bit longer... :-)

Yes, I know it's huge but it's the only way I know how to do it.

http://tinyurl.com/

God help the meta-moderator that comes across this post. : p

Yes, I know it's huge but it's the only way I know how to do it.

http://tinyurl.com/

Pointers!

Unfortunately, the cities are not marked, so I can't tell if those yellow spots cover my city or not.
Not so hard to figure out what to do next: http://tinyurl.com/afjvct

Sources:

with direct quotes from MSFT's Allchin, actual survey of .NET files in Vista versus Longhorn, and more.

http://tinyurl.com/cj8f4q

http://tinyurl.com/b4hw8c

http://tinyurl.com/nj5ds

Sources!

Sources:

with direct quotes from MSFT's Allchin, actual survey of .NET files in Vista versus Longhorn, and more.

http://tinyurl.com/cj8f4q

http://tinyurl.com/b4hw8c

http://tinyurl.com/nj5ds

Sources!

Sources:

with direct quotes from MSFT's Allchin, actual survey of .NET files in Vista versus Longhorn, and more.

http://tinyurl.com/cj8f4q

http://tinyurl.com/b4hw8c

http://tinyurl.com/nj5ds

Sources!

I remember hearing about a guy who walked into a CompUSA, plugged his iPod into a Mac, and dragged MS Office onto his iPod and walked out. Here's the story: http://tinyurl.com/dgf47d

Try out Amazon MP3.

It's cheap, DRM-less, and easy. Plus, it runs on Linux just fine (32-bit has packages, force it on 64-bit, use getlibs, and it works fine).

YEARwithoutDRM

"Please note that AmazonMP3.com is currently only available to US customers."

Yeah, it works. When you are in US.

Try out Amazon MP3.

It's cheap, DRM-less, and easy. Plus

... it can't be used outside the USA either. Great alternative there.

Try out Amazon MP3.

It's cheap, DRM-less, and easy. Plus, it runs on Linux just fine (32-bit has packages, force it on 64-bit, use getlibs, and it works fine).

YEARwithoutDRM

http://tinyurl.com/cxhhtp

Sorry that it's not open source, but it is at least free-as-in-beer abandonware these days:

http://tinyurl.com/d29zce

In a sort of circular reference, he's actually linked here from Twitter... http://twitter.com/bobbyllew

bobbyllew RT @jonnywatson: @bobbyllew You should be very proud.Red Dwarf has made it to the big leagues.. on slash.dot!! http://tinyurl.com/d73jtt about 9 hours ago from TweetDeck

It is an ongoing process and some issues like jury nullification had original constitutional protection, and others are simply state laws. Some like the Senate filibuster are purely administrative. Almost all were started after 1880.

I would only include issues that I believe weaken the traditional political power of the average U.S. citizen. It is not something that everyone would agree on. One exception that should be memtioned is that the history of popular sovereignty in the U.S. does show an ever increasing franchise, although with a continued erosion of the power of that franchise To put it another way, the franchised citizenry as a group has far less political power relative to the government today than they would have had prior to in say 1880 or earlier.

If it had been dramatic change it would be better known. It's not something that has a specific date.

The following web site contains some additional information. Other issues like effective "corporate personhood," or judicial interpretations of "money as freedom of speech" I am less familiar with.

Political Power in the U.S.

Anonymous Brave Guy wrote:
Laws are what are supposed to protect your rights ....
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True! You could also mention that compared to the nature of U.S. government, Ireland's form of government is relatively democratic. For one thing, they don't equate money with freedom of speech.

In my experience there is a small, but significant, number of people in the U.S.that are naive enough to look to the U.S. Supreme court to defend the peoples "rights." That is not all that different from believing that the Communist party in the USSR would create a workers paradise.

I_Voter

When U.S. "republicans" claim that the U.S. is not a democracy they make a good point, but they always fail to mention that our people's "republic" apparently died about a 100 years ago!

The Constitutional Relationship Between the People and the Law

DamnStupidElf wrote:
No more ridiculous than the artificial limit of supply imposed on things that have a nearly zero cost of reproduction.
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Who do you think you are? Adam Smith?
Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. The maxim is so perfectly self evident that it would be absurd to attempt to prove it. But in the mercantile system the interest of the consumer is almost constantly sacrificed to that of the producer; and it seems to consider production, and not consumption, as the ultimate end and object of all industry and commerce.

Everybody knows Adam Smith was a damm Socialist. Neo-Liberalism is in!
End Sarcasm

I_Voter
My incomplete and depressing web site.
Political Power in the U.S.

I've been looking for some good utility to convert FLACs to MP3 - thanks!

I don't think you looked very hard.

Batman, here's an article by a reputable source, Agence France Presse, which says coal kills 20,000 people every year: http://tinyurl.com/CoalCarnage

I wouldn't think a computer would run very well with this. I remember getting Geodes for Christmas and they were pretty cool to break open and look inside, but I doubt it would be able to run a computer especially after hitting it with a hammer!!!

I agree that in this age selling an OS without browsing capabilities is just DUMB and I even drew a nice cartoon about it. take a look: http://tinyurl.com/IEfree-dumb

> You don't say. http://tinyurl.com/de8ywk

Ehud

I'm confused, your google results confirm what i said, along with everyone else posting. So, thanks? for backing me up i guess.

Ehud

... you have to stop, come back, and scroll again

That's actually not how it worked. You pushed the wheel up or down and depending on how far you moved it it adjusted scroll speed, it actually was a pretty smooth input device, as far as i can remember. However it was limited to just scrolling, and couldn't control all the features of the device like the ipod wheel does. Here's a pic for whoever is interested: http://tinyurl.com/cxqbng

DoofusOfDeath wrote:
These guys are more likable when not in power, I guess.
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Competition is great! Now if we only had a multi-party system, think how many more likable politicians we could have. When U.S. voters purchase their political power, they have limited product availability and that of a very low quality indeed!

I_Voter

My New Web Site:(Under Construction)
Political Power in the U.S.
http://tinyurl.com/2sdtvk

Didn't Naomi Wolf, author of The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot say that she had significant evidence that she was being bugged and her mail being intercepted? I distinctly recall hearing her say this at the Revolution March in DC on July 12, 2008.

I think I got it on video--I'll have to find the video tonight and put it on YouTube.

"If someone pointed a gun at your head and threatened to pull the trigger if you refused to sign a document you knew would lead to a hundred deaths (and you signed!), would that make you ultimately responsible?"

Yes, you are responsible for that what you sign.
The signature is valid as it would be on court.

You should always check what you actually sign. If you do not agree with what you are signing, then you do not sign it. It is simple as that.

Wrong.

Isn't that illegal too....wait does that mean you can't have pictures of naked animals?

You mean, I could get in trouble for pictures such as this? Or this? Or this puppy?

Isn't that illegal too....wait does that mean you can't have pictures of naked animals?

You mean, I could get in trouble for pictures such as this? Or this? Or this puppy?

Isn't that illegal too....wait does that mean you can't have pictures of naked animals?

You mean, I could get in trouble for pictures such as this? Or this? Or this puppy?

General Dynamics offers a product called CoMotion that allows you to visually explore your data and find interesting patterns and trends.

http://www.gdc4s.com/content/detail.cfm?item=32341561-76f9-40f8-8ad5-0f0d66dd240e

CoMotion is a commercial fork of Visage, a collaborative visualization platform designed at Carnegie Mellon University and MAYA Design:

• http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sage/visage.html
• http://www.maya.com/visage/base/papers/mayaDemo.htm
• Google: "visage site:maya.com"

Here you go
NSFW: http://tinyurl.com/9hn2ba

http://tinyurl.com/a5gpfy

CannonballHead wrote:

But I guess government .... can favor different companies ...., based on vested interests of their members.

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The following quote is from James Madison's Federalist Paper #10 -
"A landed interest, a manufacturing interest, a mercantile interest, a moneyed interest, with many lesser interests, grow up of necessity in civilized nations, and divide them into different classes, actuated by different sentiments and views. The regulation of these various and interfering interests forms the principal task of modern legislation, and involves the spirit of party and faction in the necessary and ordinary operation of government." [ Federalist paper #10 ]

Wage interests are not mentioned, because, to use the common phrase of the time, "people who earn their bread from their employer," did not have the vote. Working white males didn't fully gain the right to vote until around 1830.

I_Voter
My New Web Site:(Under Construction)
Political Power in the U.S.
http://tinyurl.com/2sdtvk

Too true -- I've been a CPA for years and, literally, as I was just about to write this comment, a young co-worker came up to me and asked if I had a calculator since he wanted to check numbers on a spreadsheet.

Needless to say, I explained to him that it's certainly possible for a spreadsheet to obfuscate its meaning and "miscalculate" a value, simply recalculating the values on a "virgin" spreadsheet (ideally in a new instance of excel) is superior than checking by hand. (Full Disclosure: didn't use the words obfuscate and instance with him as virtually no accountants would know them)

There's frighteningly still a market for paper-tape based calculators (they cost a lot more than you'd think) for, primarily, older accountants who want everything on a tape total. See how expensive some of the items here are.

I've had supervisors require me to type many values into a single cell as opposed to splitting them across cells just because "that's the way it was done before".

Be wary of most accountants, there's a reason it's not offered as a major at top schools -- having brains in the field is more often a detriment than a benefit.

No no. There's a hidden button which I'll link to indirectly which completely changes all the authors. Warning. Do not follow link without having a non nerd helper on standby. It may have a stronger effect on you than a .cx link.

Click here for a faster way to download Windows 7.

No, it goes:

Israel: <intense, ten days of round-the-clock barrage of artillery shells, H.E., white phosphorus, and assault rifle fire>

Hamas: Silence! I keeeel you!

So here's the definitive crash test results: http://tinyurl.com/6obkkn Looked like a lot of fun,and kinda proved that HD's are the tech version of the plasticbag - they are difficult to get deal with...

Thank you, makes much more sense now. Agence France-Presse strikes again. They converted mph to km/hr VERY precisely.

965,600 km/h = 600,000 mph
804,672 km/h = 500,000 mph

Abstract of presentation (10aPT Tue Jan 6, if you are in Long Beach CA) is at http://tinyurl.com/9d5rec.

Thank you for that new phrase "blind praise". I had been wondering for a really, really long time why I wasn't getting my fair share of that. Now I know. Others have been pulling more than their share from the pot. However, be that as it may ~and is~ I believe I may yet be lifted up to my rightful level. I just hafta work harder => http://tinyurl.com/ParadiseWeightLosst at reminding people I'm no flash in the pan, that's all. Hmm, and keeping ever mindful of the Doctor Who effect that seems to be swallowing up us Old People (57).

The main thing is you can take regular backups of your exchange server. It is not so easy to backup GMail.

Aside from the fact that Google presumably keeps backups, and you're generally not deleting email in the first place, I don't see how it's easier to back up exchange server than Gmail.

It's just IMAP.

Correct link - original was wrong, and lameness doesn't like right one. http://tinyurl.com/7k9jts/