That's a nice story, but let's look at reality: when government fails, the people responsible aren't fired and the budget isn't cut -- most often they are rewarded with even more power and revenue.
Sounds just like corporate america.
That only happens for a little while until they drive all their customers away and go bankrupt. The government can't go bankrupt, it'll just steal more of your money to cover their stupidity.
What makes you think I supported going to War in 1941 or 1916? Those were European Wars and NONE of our business. Let the Europeans squabble amongst themselves w/o American interference.
If we had left them alone, it would have been just another European bloodbath like all the previous European wars (the Coalition wars, Napoleonic wars, Crimean war, etc). But Woodrow Wilson, after promising us that he would stay neutral, jumped into WW1 and escalated it to a global war.
As for the Japanese attack, it was already declared by Japan to be a war on the US, so future casualties were coming. Inaction was not an option.
I think that was the idea behind Afghanistan. Al-Qaeda had "declared war" (as much as they could, since they're not a country) on us and future attacks were coming. We tried to secure our country the best we could and attacked and destroyed the center of the organization and the leaders harboring them. We screwed several things up (like not catching Bin Laden), but we hurt them enough to prevent any large-scale organized attacks for a while, leaving the few attacks that have happened up to lone crazies who always end up botching them.
Iraq on the other hand was just one of the many stupid countries (North Korea, Iran, etc) that liked to stick its tongue at us, and we spent tons of money and the blood of our troops on it without much gain. Sure we liberated the people for a little while until some other twerp takes over, but we could have put all the money into Madoff Investments and it would have been better than the war with Iraq.
"There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him." - Professor Bernardo de la Paz, from The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
No it doesn't. I can't run anything in or out over port 25. I have to send email through their SMTP servers, and even then I can't send email except from addresses approved through their Yahoo! Mail interface, which they limit to 10 addresses.
<rant type="anger vent">I hate AT&T DSL! Their connection is decent when it works, but having to reboot my DSL modem every 15 minutes because it lost the connection really sucks. Playing TF2 is fine when it behaves, impossible when it decides to go on the fritz. The service is very intermittent during thunderstorms, and rather unpredictable otherwise. When I can get something else decent (Verizon FIOS would be perfect), I'm going to dump AT&T faster than toxic waste.</rant>
Republicans have circle jerks at the thought of extending presidential power and the Democrats are currently in power so at least some of them will be short-sighted enough to vote for this shit.
Are you kidding? Democrats want to extend presidential power just as much as or more than Republicans. The debate nowadays has shifted from "small government" vs "big government" to "big government with Democrats in control" vs "big government with Republicans in control". Democrats will vote for this because it gives them more power and Republicans will vote against it because it gives more power to the Democrats, but Republicans will abuse it too when they get power again.
And they were incorrect about the big slide. It's actually about 9 stories tall, going from the 10th floor to the 1st.
They were probably thinking of the "big" slide in the main entrance, the 9 story slide is buried deep in the caves where stuffy journalists aren't likely to go.
This place is amazing. I went with a bunch of my college student friends and we had a blast. Getting lost in the caves, finding yet another secret passage, and pummeling kids with bouncy balls (and them pummeling us right back) was incredible. The next time I visit St. Louis, I'm going back there.
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I've been saying this for years! The only barrier that keeps competition away is the very large infrastructure costs. The main problem I see with this solution is that it would be easier for the government to filter the connections, but with the current ISPs starting to do this already it's becoming less of an issue.
Mod parent up! This situation is more like an undercover agent befriending a suspect to learn information than him wiretapping his phone or searching his house. If they were subpoenaing Facebook or Twitter for private information, than it would require a warrant. But friending them with a fake account (which they could reject) or looking at their public profiles is nothing that a normal person couldn't do.
I'm running 32-bit apps (and Iron) under Windows 7 64-bit. Drivers must be 64-bit, and 16-bit apps won't run, but most apps should be fine. In fact, if you want to use Flash you'll have to use a 32-bit browser because Adobe is dragging it's heels and won't release a 64-bit version of it. The GP is just being a troll, ignore him.
Seriously though, the good thing about Google Wave is that they are allowing you to use it on your own server. I don't trust my email to them, but it'd be different if I could run an open-source version of their Gmail system on my own server. The issue I have with Google is control. I don't trust them to control my data, but I like their products and if I could use their products to control my own data, I'd do it.
That's what I was talking about. They were discussing about how America destroyed the Soviet Union economically, and now we are doing the same thing to ourselves.
Except that our current politiscum like to take otherwise innocuous laws and twist them to their own advantage. Remember TARP? It was supposed to help keep the banks stable and encourage lending. Except that it has now been used to give money to businesses (and control their salaries), bail-out automakers and violate bond laws, and the banks are in even worse shape than before. If it works out to only prevent ISPs from blocking and/or throttling sites and services that they don't like (or don't pay them money), then I'm all for it. It's the large potential for abuse that concerns us libertarians, and makes us think that maybe we'd prefer Comcast to throttle our Bittorrent than for the government to block/throttle sites or services that they don't like (such as Wikileaks or Bittorrent).
Yeah, well done chief. How about you take that menace down until the idiot behind the box fixes it? How about that? How on earth does verified network abuse not warrant an immediate disconnect?
Because it's not verified. Comcast has a more difficult task than the normal admin because it has thousands of users, whereas a normal admin would have hundreds in the most extreme case. It can automatically flag suspicious traffic, and have a human manually verify it. Then I could let them disconnect users after repeated notices, but disconnecting them for having "suspicious" traffic is like deleting every email that fails SpamAssassin. There is a potentially high number of false positives and heavy consequences for disconnecting people.
Otherwise, maybe we'll be saying "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a backpack full of usb flash drives," as long as some state borders are left open.
Maybe we'll have a use for that "IP over carrier pigeon" protocol after all!
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That's a nice story, but let's look at reality: when government fails, the people responsible aren't fired and the budget isn't cut -- most often they are rewarded with even more power and revenue.
Sounds just like corporate america.
That only happens for a little while until they drive all their customers away and go bankrupt. The government can't go bankrupt, it'll just steal more of your money to cover their stupidity.
What makes you think I supported going to War in 1941 or 1916? Those were European Wars and NONE of our business. Let the Europeans squabble amongst themselves w/o American interference.
If we had left them alone, it would have been just another European bloodbath like all the previous European wars (the Coalition wars, Napoleonic wars, Crimean war, etc). But Woodrow Wilson, after promising us that he would stay neutral, jumped into WW1 and escalated it to a global war.
As for the Japanese attack, it was already declared by Japan to be a war on the US, so future casualties were coming. Inaction was not an option.
I think that was the idea behind Afghanistan. Al-Qaeda had "declared war" (as much as they could, since they're not a country) on us and future attacks were coming. We tried to secure our country the best we could and attacked and destroyed the center of the organization and the leaders harboring them. We screwed several things up (like not catching Bin Laden), but we hurt them enough to prevent any large-scale organized attacks for a while, leaving the few attacks that have happened up to lone crazies who always end up botching them.
Iraq on the other hand was just one of the many stupid countries (North Korea, Iran, etc) that liked to stick its tongue at us, and we spent tons of money and the blood of our troops on it without much gain. Sure we liberated the people for a little while until some other twerp takes over, but we could have put all the money into Madoff Investments and it would have been better than the war with Iraq.
"There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him." - Professor Bernardo de la Paz, from The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
No it doesn't. I can't run anything in or out over port 25. I have to send email through their SMTP servers, and even then I can't send email except from addresses approved through their Yahoo! Mail interface, which they limit to 10 addresses.
<rant type="anger vent">I hate AT&T DSL! Their connection is decent when it works, but having to reboot my DSL modem every 15 minutes because it lost the connection really sucks. Playing TF2 is fine when it behaves, impossible when it decides to go on the fritz. The service is very intermittent during thunderstorms, and rather unpredictable otherwise. When I can get something else decent (Verizon FIOS would be perfect), I'm going to dump AT&T faster than toxic waste.</rant>
Ah! Someone who actually gets the concept of "liberty" and successfully applies it to the Internet.
Mod parent up!
She's thinking like a Mafia defense lawyer, not a judge.
That's because she was a defense lawyer for the US government, the biggest Mafia in the country.
Republicans have circle jerks at the thought of extending presidential power and the Democrats are currently in power so at least some of them will be short-sighted enough to vote for this shit.
Are you kidding? Democrats want to extend presidential power just as much as or more than Republicans. The debate nowadays has shifted from "small government" vs "big government" to "big government with Democrats in control" vs "big government with Republicans in control". Democrats will vote for this because it gives them more power and Republicans will vote against it because it gives more power to the Democrats, but Republicans will abuse it too when they get power again.
And they were incorrect about the big slide. It's actually about 9 stories tall, going from the 10th floor to the 1st.
They were probably thinking of the "big" slide in the main entrance, the 9 story slide is buried deep in the caves where stuffy journalists aren't likely to go.
This place is amazing. I went with a bunch of my college student friends and we had a blast. Getting lost in the caves, finding yet another secret passage, and pummeling kids with bouncy balls (and them pummeling us right back) was incredible. The next time I visit St. Louis, I'm going back there.
Mod Parent Up!
I've been saying this for years! The only barrier that keeps competition away is the very large infrastructure costs. The main problem I see with this solution is that it would be easier for the government to filter the connections, but with the current ISPs starting to do this already it's becoming less of an issue.
This is just Lindsay Graham trying to ingratiate himself to the Democrats again.
He shouldn't bother. We're throwing him out with the rest of the scumbags.
Mod parent up! This situation is more like an undercover agent befriending a suspect to learn information than him wiretapping his phone or searching his house. If they were subpoenaing Facebook or Twitter for private information, than it would require a warrant. But friending them with a fake account (which they could reject) or looking at their public profiles is nothing that a normal person couldn't do.
Tech Grouch, is that you?
Anecdotal observation suggests otherwise.
That's why the politicians are exempt.
In Soviet Russia, the TSA withdraws YOU!
You forgot that Iron also has a built-in adblocker. It works a lot better than Adsweep.
Opera does (but it's hard to use). IE and Firefox support them as addons. It's just Safari and Chrome that don't support ad blockers.
I'm running 32-bit apps (and Iron) under Windows 7 64-bit. Drivers must be 64-bit, and 16-bit apps won't run, but most apps should be fine. In fact, if you want to use Flash you'll have to use a 32-bit browser because Adobe is dragging it's heels and won't release a 64-bit version of it. The GP is just being a troll, ignore him.
Seriously though, the good thing about Google Wave is that they are allowing you to use it on your own server. I don't trust my email to them, but it'd be different if I could run an open-source version of their Gmail system on my own server. The issue I have with Google is control. I don't trust them to control my data, but I like their products and if I could use their products to control my own data, I'd do it.
That's what I was talking about. They were discussing about how America destroyed the Soviet Union economically, and now we are doing the same thing to ourselves.
Have you read Pravda lately? Ironically, they sometimes seem to be more insightful than the American media.
Except that our current politiscum like to take otherwise innocuous laws and twist them to their own advantage. Remember TARP? It was supposed to help keep the banks stable and encourage lending. Except that it has now been used to give money to businesses (and control their salaries), bail-out automakers and violate bond laws, and the banks are in even worse shape than before. If it works out to only prevent ISPs from blocking and/or throttling sites and services that they don't like (or don't pay them money), then I'm all for it. It's the large potential for abuse that concerns us libertarians, and makes us think that maybe we'd prefer Comcast to throttle our Bittorrent than for the government to block/throttle sites or services that they don't like (such as Wikileaks or Bittorrent).
Yeah, well done chief. How about you take that menace down until the idiot behind the box fixes it? How about that? How on earth does verified network abuse not warrant an immediate disconnect?
Because it's not verified. Comcast has a more difficult task than the normal admin because it has thousands of users, whereas a normal admin would have hundreds in the most extreme case. It can automatically flag suspicious traffic, and have a human manually verify it. Then I could let them disconnect users after repeated notices, but disconnecting them for having "suspicious" traffic is like deleting every email that fails SpamAssassin. There is a potentially high number of false positives and heavy consequences for disconnecting people.
take all their money, go to south America and bang hookers for fun.
You forgot the part about them becoming the governor of South Carolina first.
Otherwise, maybe we'll be saying "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a backpack full of usb flash drives," as long as some state borders are left open.
Maybe we'll have a use for that "IP over carrier pigeon" protocol after all!
He's a troll, just read his other posts on this article.