In any case, I don't have a car (by choice, you can't imagine how much money I save). So I guess I'll have to wait for the girls to make a bike where the gears are all encased in metal and where the seats come in different colors to match my riding gloves before I can get in on the smugness and macho superiority trip.
When you're on yhour bike, the girls thick sweet fuck-all about your matching gloves and bicycle seat. All they care about is your ass in those lycra pants.
The cards are carrid in a folder to the recorder, who puts them face-down in the reader, which reads and totals them, and feeds them face-down into a box. The box is kept, for manual and electronic recounts.
(I was a candidate rep at the last Montreal election, which used the same machines)
Nitpick: the boxes are sealed with stickers; I was particularly zealous to insure that whenever boxes were changed that they were affixed with plenty of stickers, all of which I subsequently signed...
At least, this system keeps a paper trail just like any manual-counted election. Recounts are thus possible.
The only problem is that there is no way for the election officials and representatives to verify that the software is reliable and has not been tampered with. Perhaps some sort of checksum process similar to what's used in slot machines could do???
And if SCO wins in court or AutoZone settles, does anyone think the press will note the distinction? I can see a headline of "SCO wins suit against company for using Linux."
Unlikely. A settlement will most likely include a confidentiality clause.
My father used to say about Apollo: "take three guys, put'em in a Wolkswagen (beetle); after a week, they must **hate** each other"...
Coming back from the moon, an astronaut once remarked that, going back into the Command Module some 30 minutes after it had splashed-down and was recovered, he was taken aback by the smell. "My god! How could I have stood that smell for so long???" he asked himself...
This is a problem that UUNET tries to remedy, but educating a I-D-10-T customer )not to mention 10,000 customers) about his/their own mail server's open relaying capabilities is difficult to say the least.
No it's not difficult at all. You just plug the plug on them until they fix their servers. They will fix'em pronto!
UUNet should give known spammers on their network their own IP range. If you spam, you get moved into that range. Those who don't want their crap can then easily filter it out by blocking those allocated spammer IPs. And the ISP still gets paid.
This is not necessary, since UUNET is already blocked to the hilt by many blocklists.
Spam doesn't matter to me
Thanks to Mozilla + Bayesian filters.
Are you sure? All your bayesian filters do is automatically "press delete" for you. But you **STILL** have to download the spam, and you **STILL** have to pay for the extra-bandwith you use to do so, and you **STILL** have to pay for the ISP's extra-bandwidth to carry all that spam for you in the first place, and you **STILL** have to pay for the disk space and your computer ressources that's are used to store the spam you don't see, as well as the ISP's ressources eaten-up by the spam.
Filtering is **NOT** the solution. Blocking spamsources at the origin **IS**.
Randism, as ugly as it is, is selfish. The tyranny is limited to "your own stuff". In contrast. Marxists are genocidal megalomaniacs who are driven to a rabid frenzy that there are people somewhere whose private lives are not controlled by them.
This is strange. You just described the american religious right...
Coming from a European background, it truly is shocking to see people making comments like "I hate liberals" and "Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot."
It's very simple, really. Conservatives are angered when they discover that their primitive viewpoint is, well, primitive and intellectually undefendable from a civilization standpoint (what they advocate is a return to the caves, where "might is right" is the dominating philosophy). But they are too much dependent on it to be able to change it, and too proud to admit that they are wrong in the first place. So they become angry at those they blame for their backwardness: the liberals.
And when liberals say "Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot", they are simply stating the truth.
We're conservatives, we're better people than the Left.
Please explain how wanting to be a caveman ("might is right") is better than being progressive ("to each according to his needs")????
Thank-you.
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However, one of the interesting things they show is a plumbing system that takes the hot water going down the drain of your shower and uses it to heat new water going into the shower. I think that she said something like 30% efficiency.
This is not science-fictionic EPCOT-fare, but something that is widely used.
(Reposted, account some tight-assed "moderator" moderating it as flamebait. Must be the new clown on the beat)
The problem is not the laws, it's the police.
It will only get worse unless the deep psyche of policement is radically changed.
Policemen are nothing but meatbag robots whose shrunken brains cannot conceive actions outside a thin set of narrowly-defined rules, and whenever they see something that overstep those rule boundaries, act to irrevovably eradicate the rulebreaker.
Cops do not have the brain power to adjust to differing circumstances, or to properly assess situations according to their context.
If cops were harmless, it would only be a source of hilarity; the problem is that those peabrains have the legal authority to totally destroy lives.
A good place to start would be to make sure policemen get at least three years of college, including a full year of philosophy, both occidental and oriental. Then, they should regularly teach civic classes in schools.
Such a process will inevitably weed-out the control freaks and the abnormally conservative, people who have absolutely no use in an evolved society as citizens and even more so as public officials.
And they should have salaries that are 20% over the median salary of their assignated areas, to safeguard against corruption. Places like New-Orleans where cops are the lowest paid in the USA also have the highest incidence of cop-commited crime.
It will only get worse unless the deep psyche of policement is radically changed.
Policemen are nothing but meatbag robots whose shrunken brains cannot conceive actions outside a thin set of narrowly-defined rules, and whenever they see something that overstep those rule boundaries, act to irrevovably eradicate the rulebreaker.
Cops do not have the brain power to adjust to differing circumstances, or to properly assess situations according to their context.
If cops were harmless, it would only be a source of hilarity; the problem is that those peabrains have the legal authority to totally destroy lives.
A good place to start would be to make sure policemen get at least three years of college, including a full year of philosophy, both occidental and oriental. Then, they should regularly teach civic classes in schools.
Such a process will inevitably weed-out the control freaks and the abnormally conservative, people who have absolutely no use in an evolved society as citizens and even more so as public officials.
And they should have salaries that are 20% over the median salary of their assignated areas, to safeguard against corruption. Places like New-Orleans where cops are the lowest paid in the USA also have the highest incidence of cop-commited crime.
(Reposted a second time, account some asshole yankee moderator moderating it as "flamebait". When will "moderators" understand that they can't win against our sheer numbers???. Morons.)
I can understand their interest in better tracking of inventory, but it done be amazing the lengths they go for profit other than to improve their brands.
They can't improve their products. The majority of stupid unwashed 'mericans rednecks won't want anything that tastes something. Blandness is the name of the game here.
If the product would actually start to taste something, there would be a shitload of dopes who would dump the product altogether, as they would be bound not to like it.
Burper-King has perfected the art of blandness: the last time I ate a whopper, I was amazed that they managed to cram pickles, tomato, sauce and whatnot, and it would still taste nothing at all.
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Nitpick: the boxes are sealed with stickers; I was particularly zealous to insure that whenever boxes were changed that they were affixed with plenty of stickers, all of which I subsequently signed...
At least, this system keeps a paper trail just like any manual-counted election. Recounts are thus possible.
The only problem is that there is no way for the election officials and representatives to verify that the software is reliable and has not been tampered with. Perhaps some sort of checksum process similar to what's used in slot machines could do???
You forgot the "????"!!!!
Coming back from the moon, an astronaut once remarked that, going back into the Command Module some 30 minutes after it had splashed-down and was recovered, he was taken aback by the smell. "My god! How could I have stood that smell for so long???" he asked himself...
... (wave hand) those are not the artworks you're looking for.
YES, I know; but it is not as **EFFECTIVE**
Filtering is **NOT** the solution. Blocking spamsources at the origin **IS**.
And when liberals say "Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot", they are simply stating the truth.
Thank-you.
The problem is not the laws, it's the police.
It will only get worse unless the deep psyche of policement is radically changed.
Policemen are nothing but meatbag robots whose shrunken brains cannot conceive actions outside a thin set of narrowly-defined rules, and whenever they see something that overstep those rule boundaries, act to irrevovably eradicate the rulebreaker.
Cops do not have the brain power to adjust to differing circumstances, or to properly assess situations according to their context.
If cops were harmless, it would only be a source of hilarity; the problem is that those peabrains have the legal authority to totally destroy lives.
A good place to start would be to make sure policemen get at least three years of college, including a full year of philosophy, both occidental and oriental. Then, they should regularly teach civic classes in schools.
Such a process will inevitably weed-out the control freaks and the abnormally conservative, people who have absolutely no use in an evolved society as citizens and even more so as public officials.
And they should have salaries that are 20% over the median salary of their assignated areas, to safeguard against corruption. Places like New-Orleans where cops are the lowest paid in the USA also have the highest incidence of cop-commited crime.
He should have programmed it to call 411 or 611 instead. And a real sonavabitch would have programmed it to call a $65 per minute sex line...
It will only get worse unless the deep psyche of policement is radically changed.
Policemen are nothing but meatbag robots whose shrunken brains cannot conceive actions outside a thin set of narrowly-defined rules, and whenever they see something that overstep those rule boundaries, act to irrevovably eradicate the rulebreaker.
Cops do not have the brain power to adjust to differing circumstances, or to properly assess situations according to their context.
If cops were harmless, it would only be a source of hilarity; the problem is that those peabrains have the legal authority to totally destroy lives.
A good place to start would be to make sure policemen get at least three years of college, including a full year of philosophy, both occidental and oriental. Then, they should regularly teach civic classes in schools.
Such a process will inevitably weed-out the control freaks and the abnormally conservative, people who have absolutely no use in an evolved society as citizens and even more so as public officials.
And they should have salaries that are 20% over the median salary of their assignated areas, to safeguard against corruption. Places like New-Orleans where cops are the lowest paid in the USA also have the highest incidence of cop-commited crime.
Saying that "one might talk" is even cheaper.
Talk is cheap.
If the product would actually start to taste something, there would be a shitload of dopes who would dump the product altogether, as they would be bound not to like it.
Burper-King has perfected the art of blandness: the last time I ate a whopper, I was amazed that they managed to cram pickles, tomato, sauce and whatnot, and it would still taste nothing at all.