In police states like these formerly free United States, everyone is a criminal because there are so many laws. Too many laws for any one human to even learn, let alone remember for any given situation. So when the government wants to make you an arbitrary criminal for whatever reason, they have that power. It's too bad that the Constitution didn't have a word limit on the total number of laws in existence. For example, 100,000 words would be a good total limit for laws. About the size of a standard novel. Readable by most people. And then a rule that says you must get rid of an equal number of words/laws when you make a new law. So there's a legal equilibrium and things like the DMCA wouldn't have a chance. And there would be less need for lawyers because ordinary people would know the laws and be able to interpret them themselves.
As an aerobatics pilot who routinely pulls 6 Gs for a second or two at most, I suspect roller coasters are somewhat less than that, and the Gs last for only fractions of seconds rather than a second or two. I've never blacked out at 6 G's but have seen grey edges on my vision. There is a phenomenon called "The Wobblies" that can happen to dehydrated aerobatics pilots. The cilia of the inner ear get hypersensitive during dehydration, possibly because some salts that are normally in solution in the inner ear precipitate out and irritate the cilia. So, if you want to avoid the wobblies, drink up!
Yes. They Blow Up when flashed at with a xenon flashtube (standard camera flash). The reason they blow up is that they're black (carbon, remember) and so small that the energy they absorb from a camera flash can't be dissapated fast enough, so they get superhot and "Blow Up."
What? Are you nuts? Countries like Germany that just reduced their capital gains taxes for shareholders to zero are going to eat our lunch. Increasing capital gains is so twen-cen authoritarian. You didn't notice that countries like Russia and China are trying to dig themselves out of the economic black hole of "To each according to his need"?
2) Roll back H1-B quotas to 1990 levels. There is no reason to single out programmers for competition from overseas when lawyers, doctors, teachers, firemen and policemen don't face this competition.
Well, why shouldn't everyone face labor competition? Because they're "American," and thus should be content with asking too much money for incompetence and ignorance? I don't think so. Remember the American car companies of the 1970's.
One change that would help Americans would be to get rid of the stupid labor monopoly for lawyers that makes criminals of people who give legal advice without the sanction of the ABA. This is a far more dangerous and debilitating monopoly than the "Microsoft monopoly" ever could be. And also, never voting for a lawyer for any public office would help. Voting for a lawyer is like voting for a fox to make the rules about how to guard the hens.
3) Make health insurance portable.
It would have always been portable had the authoritarians in charge during WWII in America ("It takes a fascist to fight a fascist!") not enforced wage and price controls on the American workforce, thus causing the employers of the time to resort to "free" (and thus not included in the wage controls) health care to entice the best workers. After WWII, the Congress was gulled into keeping up the "free" pretence by not taxing health care provided as a benefit by an "employer." Self-employed people, or people who buy their own insurance aren't allowed to deduct their costs. Thus, the current government-distorted situation where health insurance is tied to a particular employer rather than bought and paid for by the employee. The best way to make health insurance portable would be to allow *EVERYONE* to deduct healthcare costs and get the government out of the healthcare business, a business that governments are astonishingly bad at, as proven by the National Health Service in Britain.
The real easy-to-remember rule is that if it's a contraction of it is, then it's it's. If it isn't a contraction of it is, then it's its. Just substitute it is in place of the word in question, and if that fits, use it's. Otherwise use its.
So you think federalizing airport security will make us more secure? Has the Federal drug war gotten rid of the drug problem? Has the FAA kept hijackers from airplanes? Has the Federal War on Poverty gotten rid of poverty? Why is it that the massive failures of Federal programs are always forgotten when some new "crisis" comes up?
If you want more security on airplanes, arm the pilots. Or even better yet, let those citizens with concealed carry permits carry their defense with them onto any airplane.
Or don't you trust "ordinary Americans?" And if you do not trust them, why? Is it possible that the American government has indoctrinated most Americans with the idea that they are helpless and that only the Federal government can solve their problems?
And if you are not an American, what expertise do you have that makes you an authority for Americans?
If you take the 10,369 statistic apart a bit, you'll likely find that many of those "statistics" were drug dealers and drug lords trying to defend their legally defenseless turf from their competitor drug lords and drug dealers.
The insane War on Drugs has militarized our American inner cities with police using legal guns to shoot and kill innocent bystanders, and druggies using "illegal" guns to shoot back at police and at competitors.
Drug dealers can't go to court to solve turf problems, nor can they go to court to gain relief from some junkie who just ripped them off. Their only relief is to use their "illegal" gun to administer instant "justice."
Decriminalizing the ingestion of whatever substances you wish to put into your body, for whatever reasons you may have for that ingestion, would go a long way towards reducing the 10,369 statistic.
But instead, our National Socialist government insists that they have the (unconstitiontional) right to impose National standards on every Social group through out the country regading what you can or cannot ingest. The result is the carnage of the Drug War, and those politicians who are responsible for the carnage continue to claim that they're only continuing it for "the good of the people."
What alternative use does a handgun have?
Well, I assume you might allow that the new Federal Marshals on airplanes might have a use for them.
And, had our politicians not traitorously trashed the second amendment many years ago, the events on September 11 may have been prevented completely. Had any one of the passengers on AA Flight 11 been armed as the second Amendment prevents the government from restricting ("...shall not be infringed." doesn't allow for an infringement on airplanes as an exception) those hijackers wouldn't have even made it to the flight attendants before being challenged and/or shot.
You see, the politicians don't trust ordinary Americans with the right to self-defense. They believe they know better and are less likely to go crazy and use armed force in a detrimental way. (Anybody remember Ruby Ridge and Waco?)
Because most of the people who write and speak for the "media" have been trained at Columbia University, they have an immediate bias against individual self-defense rights. They assume that Americans are incapable of making good decisions regarding the use of armed force. See Eric S. Raymond's thoughts on this. As Raymond points out, yes, there is a vanishingly small minority that cannot, and should not, handle their own self-defense. But if you punish everyone for the inabilities of an extremely small minority, you are doing just what Ben Franklin warns against in my.sig below.
Because it has no objective data to go along with a wild claim. The TiBook is a fine computer, and the only laptop currently able to use 1GB of RAM. But just saying it's cool ain't good enough.
Your guess about expanding the customer base is as good as any I've heard. IFMX has a fairly large base in the GIS world and IBM would like to have that business. Where I work, Informix is the standard database on AIX boxes. IBM would like to supply both, and this is their opportunity to get a toehold where Oracle doesn't do so well.
I'm in Qwestland and pay $30/mo to Qwest and $20/mo to foreThought.net (a Denver local ISP) for two static IPs and two email addresses. I'm getting 52kBYTES/sec download and haven't had a reason to check uploading. You can see whether or not the uploading is working by going here and checking how well my Sparcstation 10 (dual Ross 150's, IBM Apache, Solaris 8) feeds out the HTML. Port scans gladly accepted, since I've got a firewall.
My reality alarm went off when Stephenson claimed that the language the Tagalog tribe wanted to foist off on the rest of the Philippines was called "Pilipina" This actually refers to a female of the species (perhaps a side reference to "Glory"), rather than "Pilipino" which refers to the language.
But there are better ways to use up CO2. All plants take in CO2 and exhale oxygen. Just plant a few trees next to the power plant and direct the exhaust at the trees.
Besides, there's no evidence that current CO2 levels are much higher than prehistorical levels. And besides, global warming is probably a good thing, since it increases arable land area, providing a place for more plants to be grown, thus reducing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.
And furthermore, Gaia is adaptable. If Gaia's temperature increases, more clouds form, reflecting more of the sun's heat away from Gaia, thus reducing the temperature. This is a self-healing system, folks, and no amount of human intervention or hubris has, or can, change the system more drastically than it already has been changed many times before humans had anything to do with it.
I dunno what you'd call and E10K if it isn't "mainframe." Sun may not like the moniker, but an E10K costs like a mainframe, is built like a mainframe and is used like a mainframe.
In case you haven't noticed, we in These United States don't live in a Democracy. In fact, when you pledged your socialist allegiance to the flag in whatever school you went to, you said, "...and to the Republic, for which it stands."
In a Republic, the tyranny of the majority (say, for example, the majority that democratically elected Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany) doesn't count. It's the Constitution that trumps all. And the Constitution says that the Electors elect the President, not some tyrannical majority of the people.
Sorry that your schooling in this was lacking. I suspect it probably took place in a government indoctrination center monopoly public school.
Anybody who's seen IBM's plans for the Power4 chip will be drooling at this point for IBM to incorporate AltiVec into a "consumer-grade" Power4 (dual CPU on chip, SOI, Copper, 1Ghz) that could work quite nicely in a (let's call it) Macintosh P4 Tower.
Doing away with anti-monopoly laws would be a good thing. Then nobody could have an excuse for buying Microsoft. "I'll let the government take care of Microsoft," would ring a bit hollow.
If they made a USB interface to the thing, the second button would work wonderfully on a Mac. My IntelliMouse Explorer's second button works just fine on my USB-upgraded 8600. No more hunting for the control key.
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and thus clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." -- H.L. Mencken
So this hobgoblin was planned, not imaginary. Just what the watermelon Greens ordered. Now the government has to step in and "solve" the problem.
I left CA in 1975 and vowed I'd never go back. This is a perfect illustration of the pain that CA government dumps on CAlifornians.
Don't forget that the National Socialists in Germany were democratically elected. And they're still considered to have been the finest example of fascism so far. Although I expect the Green Socialists to give them a good run for their money.:-)
Don't forget to make the.gifs as big as possible. 1MB ought to be the minimum size since you really want a lot of resolution and color on these pictures. Everybody has a T1 line these days anyway.
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In police states like these formerly free United States, everyone is a criminal because there are so many laws. Too many laws for any one human to even learn, let alone remember for any given situation. So when the government wants to make you an arbitrary criminal for whatever reason, they have that power. It's too bad that the Constitution didn't have a word limit on the total number of laws in existence. For example, 100,000 words would be a good total limit for laws. About the size of a standard novel. Readable by most people. And then a rule that says you must get rid of an equal number of words/laws when you make a new law. So there's a legal equilibrium and things like the DMCA wouldn't have a chance. And there would be less need for lawyers because ordinary people would know the laws and be able to interpret them themselves.
As an aerobatics pilot who routinely pulls 6 Gs for a second or two at most, I suspect roller coasters are somewhat less than that, and the Gs last for only fractions of seconds rather than a second or two. I've never blacked out at 6 G's but have seen grey edges on my vision. There is a phenomenon called "The Wobblies" that can happen to dehydrated aerobatics pilots. The cilia of the inner ear get hypersensitive during dehydration, possibly because some salts that are normally in solution in the inner ear precipitate out and irritate the cilia. So, if you want to avoid the wobblies, drink up!
Yes. They Blow Up when flashed at with a xenon flashtube (standard camera flash). The reason they blow up is that they're black (carbon, remember) and so small that the energy they absorb from a camera flash can't be dissapated fast enough, so they get superhot and "Blow Up."
One change that would help Americans would be to get rid of the stupid labor monopoly for lawyers that makes criminals of people who give legal advice without the sanction of the ABA. This is a far more dangerous and debilitating monopoly than the "Microsoft monopoly" ever could be. And also, never voting for a lawyer for any public office would help. Voting for a lawyer is like voting for a fox to make the rules about how to guard the hens.
It would have always been portable had the authoritarians in charge during WWII in America ("It takes a fascist to fight a fascist!") not enforced wage and price controls on the American workforce, thus causing the employers of the time to resort to "free" (and thus not included in the wage controls) health care to entice the best workers. After WWII, the Congress was gulled into keeping up the "free" pretence by not taxing health care provided as a benefit by an "employer." Self-employed people, or people who buy their own insurance aren't allowed to deduct their costs. Thus, the current government-distorted situation where health insurance is tied to a particular employer rather than bought and paid for by the employee. The best way to make health insurance portable would be to allow *EVERYONE* to deduct healthcare costs and get the government out of the healthcare business, a business that governments are astonishingly bad at, as proven by the National Health Service in Britain.The real easy-to-remember rule is that if it's a contraction of it is, then it's it's. If it isn't a contraction of it is, then it's its. Just substitute it is in place of the word in question, and if that fits, use it's. Otherwise use its.
If you want more security on airplanes, arm the pilots. Or even better yet, let those citizens with concealed carry permits carry their defense with them onto any airplane.
Or don't you trust "ordinary Americans?" And if you do not trust them, why? Is it possible that the American government has indoctrinated most Americans with the idea that they are helpless and that only the Federal government can solve their problems?
And if you are not an American, what expertise do you have that makes you an authority for Americans?
Of course, some people self-limit their capabilities.
The insane War on Drugs has militarized our American inner cities with police using legal guns to shoot and kill innocent bystanders, and druggies using "illegal" guns to shoot back at police and at competitors.
Drug dealers can't go to court to solve turf problems, nor can they go to court to gain relief from some junkie who just ripped them off. Their only relief is to use their "illegal" gun to administer instant "justice."
Decriminalizing the ingestion of whatever substances you wish to put into your body, for whatever reasons you may have for that ingestion, would go a long way towards reducing the 10,369 statistic.
But instead, our National Socialist government insists that they have the (unconstitiontional) right to impose National standards on every Social group through out the country regading what you can or cannot ingest. The result is the carnage of the Drug War, and those politicians who are responsible for the carnage continue to claim that they're only continuing it for "the good of the people."
Well, I assume you might allow that the new Federal Marshals on airplanes might have a use for them.And, had our politicians not traitorously trashed the second amendment many years ago, the events on September 11 may have been prevented completely. Had any one of the passengers on AA Flight 11 been armed as the second Amendment prevents the government from restricting ("...shall not be infringed." doesn't allow for an infringement on airplanes as an exception) those hijackers wouldn't have even made it to the flight attendants before being challenged and/or shot.
You see, the politicians don't trust ordinary Americans with the right to self-defense. They believe they know better and are less likely to go crazy and use armed force in a detrimental way. (Anybody remember Ruby Ridge and Waco?)
Because most of the people who write and speak for the "media" have been trained at Columbia University, they have an immediate bias against individual self-defense rights. They assume that Americans are incapable of making good decisions regarding the use of armed force. See Eric S. Raymond's thoughts on this. As Raymond points out, yes, there is a vanishingly small minority that cannot, and should not, handle their own self-defense. But if you punish everyone for the inabilities of an extremely small minority, you are doing just what Ben Franklin warns against in my .sig below.
Because it has no objective data to go along with a wild claim. The TiBook is a fine computer, and the only laptop currently able to use 1GB of RAM. But just saying it's cool ain't good enough.
Your guess about expanding the customer base is as good as any I've heard. IFMX has a fairly large base in the GIS world and IBM would like to have that business. Where I work, Informix is the standard database on AIX boxes. IBM would like to supply both, and this is their opportunity to get a toehold where Oracle doesn't do so well.
I'm in Qwestland and pay $30/mo to Qwest and $20/mo to foreThought.net (a Denver local ISP) for two static IPs and two email addresses. I'm getting 52kBYTES/sec download and haven't had a reason to check uploading. You can see whether or not the uploading is working by going here and checking how well my Sparcstation 10 (dual Ross 150's, IBM Apache, Solaris 8) feeds out the HTML. Port scans gladly accepted, since I've got a firewall.
My reality alarm went off when Stephenson claimed that the language the Tagalog tribe wanted to foist off on the rest of the Philippines was called "Pilipina" This actually refers to a female of the species (perhaps a side reference to "Glory"), rather than "Pilipino" which refers to the language.
Besides, there's no evidence that current CO2 levels are much higher than prehistorical levels. And besides, global warming is probably a good thing, since it increases arable land area, providing a place for more plants to be grown, thus reducing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.
And furthermore, Gaia is adaptable. If Gaia's temperature increases, more clouds form, reflecting more of the sun's heat away from Gaia, thus reducing the temperature. This is a self-healing system, folks, and no amount of human intervention or hubris has, or can, change the system more drastically than it already has been changed many times before humans had anything to do with it.
If it quacks like a duck...
In a Republic, the tyranny of the majority (say, for example, the majority that democratically elected Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany) doesn't count. It's the Constitution that trumps all. And the Constitution says that the Electors elect the President, not some tyrannical majority of the people.
Sorry that your schooling in this was lacking. I suspect it probably took place in a government indoctrination center monopoly public school.
Hmmmm... what's this X-box thing??? Is Gates trying to out-Japanese the Japanese?
One can dream...
Not true. You can still buy a 400Mhz G4 tower single processor here.
Nope,that URL has a space in it. It's actually here.
Doing away with anti-monopoly laws would be a good thing. Then nobody could have an excuse for buying Microsoft. "I'll let the government take care of Microsoft," would ring a bit hollow.
If they made a USB interface to the thing, the second button would work wonderfully on a Mac. My IntelliMouse Explorer's second button works just fine on my USB-upgraded 8600. No more hunting for the control key.
So this hobgoblin was planned, not imaginary. Just what the watermelon Greens ordered. Now the government has to step in and "solve" the problem.
I left CA in 1975 and vowed I'd never go back. This is a perfect illustration of the pain that CA government dumps on CAlifornians.
Don't forget that the National Socialists in Germany were democratically elected. And they're still considered to have been the finest example of fascism so far. Although I expect the Green Socialists to give them a good run for their money. :-)
Don't forget to make the .gifs as big as possible. 1MB ought to be the minimum size since you really want a lot of resolution and color on these pictures. Everybody has a T1 line these days anyway.
Well, if you haven't heard of voice-IP convergence or VOIP, then perhaps it shouldn't matter to you.