I've got an invention that will work: the calculator.
Simply calculate the chances of dying in a terrorist attack, let alone one on a plane, realize you don't need that much security, and reverse all the changes you've made over the last few years.
"So what? Answer me this: In America, who has sovereignty? We the actual citizens, or foreigners?"
US Constitution Article VI, clause 2: "This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the Land; and the judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding."
Looks like the foreigners have sovereignty if we sign a treaty with them that doesn't violate the Constitution.
"Unless of course someone can nominate a third option with features comparable to the ones on offer from the other two corporate behemoths."
You mean like the iRex iLiad?
1. The ability to download free books negates any cost argument.
2. You can loan any non-protected e-book to a friend. And you wouldn't need to actually loose your use of the book to do so.
3. I can download any book whose copyright has expired. Thousands of books for free, no late fees, and I can take all of them with me wherever I go.
4. Why would you buy a book you don't intend to keep? and why does this concern you if, as you say, you get so little money for it?
5. Don't buy DRM protected e-books.
"I'm usually only reading two or three, and it's no real big deal to pack three books on a trip."
Try packing two or three software/programming reference books, you'll quickly see the utility of an e-book.
I just use autoincrement_increment and autoincrement_offset for my MySQL nodes. I'm not familiar with other distributed DBs, but I would assume they have something similar.
Not quite what I meant. The constitution lists government powers, not citizen's rights. We always had the right to privacy. Just like we had the right to bear arms before the second amendment was written. Which is why it says the government may not infinge on our right to bear arms and not that the people have a right to bear arms. The right already existed.
"The "right of privacy" is a judicial construct. I'm not saying that it is a bad construct, but you'll never see the word "privacy" in the Constitution."
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Slashdot Mirror
When they put a human inside, I'll be impressed.
He wasn't under school control at all. He never even set foot on school grounds that day.
And then there's Maude!
Google has ads?
You forgot the part about installing a dedicated firewall.
I'm buying a bike.
They released hand recognition based games the same day they released the Playstation Eye.
I've got an invention that will work: the calculator. Simply calculate the chances of dying in a terrorist attack, let alone one on a plane, realize you don't need that much security, and reverse all the changes you've made over the last few years.
I generally run 720x480 on my plasma screen watching DVDs.It seems to work well enough.
They tried. They couldn't find it with both hands.
"So what? Answer me this: In America, who has sovereignty? We the actual citizens, or foreigners?" US Constitution Article VI, clause 2: "This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the Land; and the judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding." Looks like the foreigners have sovereignty if we sign a treaty with them that doesn't violate the Constitution.
"Unless of course someone can nominate a third option with features comparable to the ones on offer from the other two corporate behemoths." You mean like the iRex iLiad?
1. The ability to download free books negates any cost argument. 2. You can loan any non-protected e-book to a friend. And you wouldn't need to actually loose your use of the book to do so. 3. I can download any book whose copyright has expired. Thousands of books for free, no late fees, and I can take all of them with me wherever I go. 4. Why would you buy a book you don't intend to keep? and why does this concern you if, as you say, you get so little money for it? 5. Don't buy DRM protected e-books. "I'm usually only reading two or three, and it's no real big deal to pack three books on a trip." Try packing two or three software/programming reference books, you'll quickly see the utility of an e-book.
I just use autoincrement_increment and autoincrement_offset for my MySQL nodes. I'm not familiar with other distributed DBs, but I would assume they have something similar.
Google is the only bidder that doesn't control any internet backbones.
If the electronic data is destroyed, you can just re-download it from Amazon. So in essence, it IS backed up. Granted a local copy is preferable.
Not quite what I meant. The constitution lists government powers, not citizen's rights. We always had the right to privacy. Just like we had the right to bear arms before the second amendment was written. Which is why it says the government may not infinge on our right to bear arms and not that the people have a right to bear arms. The right already existed.
"The "right of privacy" is a judicial construct. I'm not saying that it is a bad construct, but you'll never see the word "privacy" in the Constitution." The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Sturmgeist is a Norwegian metal band.
Don't vim and emacs run on OSX?
I don't know. Beethoven deserved the money. Christina Aguilera? Not so much.
Good thing he isn't using Xboxes. He wouldn't be able to hear himself think.
The same reason you shouldn't be able to patent mathematical equations. It stifles innovation. Besides, you're still protected by copyright.
Labor and public tax money. You forgot that. Speaking of, where is the fiber optic network we paid for?
Programmers shouldn't even be ABLE to patent anything. Software patents should be abolished.