Please don't say that. The two major parties want people to think that. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. For that matter, it tends to only be true about wider elections (others have third party people in often enough). In those very same elections, it is already basically predetermined how they will go (any question on how California will vote?) and so does it mean a vote for the non-incumbent major party is wasted? Really, a vote for a third party in any election that is foregone is a much less wasted vote than one for the major two parties. It raises the third parties out of obscurity.
Google "states with no sales tax". Click the top link. Read the third sentence: "Sales taxes are assessed by every state except Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire and Oregon."
Google is your friend. And much faster than posting.
P.S.: Why am I not surprised NH does not have a sales tax?
MS has performed a TREMENDOUS service to MANY of those who like to use computers. Bill Gates' quest to dominate has much helped the x86 chipset to become a standard[...].
That was not a service. God, I wish some better chip had become the standard. Even Intel has tried to get rid of it without success.
This is all food for thought. The only point I would like to address at this time is:
I don't understand why people are so quick to cry foul when the government does it directly yet are perfectly content to actively give private entities all of that data. For example...how monumentally stupid is it to cry that the government is trying to illegally read everyone's email and then sign up for gmail?
I actually don't give information if I can help it. No club cards, no big-name email addresses, no personal information on web sites except where I see a direct benefit as a result. I have read Scroogled....
1) The government getting data from a company requires an extra step. Thus, it is (maybe only slightly) harder, and (again, maybe only slightly) more visible. Even if the entity is "effectively owned" by the government. Notice AIG suing the government?
2) The less that the government does, the harder it is for the government to hide what it does.
3) Did I say either was good? Or even okay? A being better than B does not mean B is not bad.
4) I have no idea where you got that I "believe that a private entity holding all of that information is somehow immune to government influence".
5) Given the choice of the government and corporate entities both having databases and only corporate entities having databases, yes, I prefer the latter. You don't?
From the description, they are not connected to the Internet ("two simple workstations, linked with a network cable"), so security bugs are likely not an issue.
Natural born does not mean that it can't be a test tube baby. When that statement was written, test tube babies weren't even in anyones imagination yet. It means they have to be born on US soil.
Wrong (at least, probably). The general consensus is that "natural born citizen" means someone born a citizen. However, there has been no majority court ruling on this exact topic.
There are three general ways of gaining citizenship. First is by jus soli, that is, being born under the jurisdiction of the USA. This is guaranteed by the 14th amendment. This is definitely "natural born". Note that this does not automatically apply to unincorporated territories (say, the US Virgin Islands). Whether the citizenship at birth granted here (say, Puerto Rico) is "natural born" or not is not definite, but generally accepted.
The next is naturalization, that is, you were not a citizen at birth, and you were made a citizen after the fact. These are definitely not "natural born".
The last is being born a citizen by jus sanguinis, which means being born a citizen by right of parents being citizens. The exact conditions of this depends on law that has changed over time. There is some question as to whether these people are "natural born", but the general consensus is that they are.
There is also question that talks about people who were born, and then laws concerning eligibility for citizenship changed -- do the new or the old laws apply? This was asked about McCain, and is not clear.
Another note is that when you are born in a non-American hospital, you do not receive an American birth certificate, but rather you have to register the birth after the fact, and you do not get the same thing. Doesn't mean that the birth was not of a citizen.
In sum, the common opinion is that Presidential candidates need to be born citizens, and the real question was whether Obama met that standard, and that was shown that he does.
Another thing about Apple back in the day was the rumour that Mac OS would support true virtual memory "real soon now" once hard drives became a standard feature. Apparently they were too busy crowing about the lack of 8.3 to pull this off. It didn't come true until the first release of OS X. Thus the nearly twenty year gap between my first Mac purchase and my second one.
Virtual memory was around since System 7 in 1991. It may have had somewhat different behavior from other OSs' implementations, but that was due to historical reasons.
The difference between the government and a private entity having the exact same information on a person is that the government has a great deal more power over the person. The government controls the laws, the courts, and the police; it can legally invade your privacy to an extent that a private entity can't, provided it follows the procedures that it controls; it can, unchecked, become a police state or dictatorship. Information is power, and I do not want the government to have the level of power it could, because the government is the supreme power of the land, checked only by entities that individually have less power.
Your username links all your posts together, which means that I can try to glean information from them and build a profile. It also allows me (at least in the case of a relatively unique sounding handle, like yours) to associate this account with accounts elsewhere, such as gaming, accounts, stuff on guitars, or a livejournal. From this, it is clear you are based in/around
Denver, Colorado, you did games, but more in the past, do stuff with guitars, and have legal leanings to the point that you were a law clerk for the Colorado Court of Appeals. It helps that you usually sign your posts --G, so its presence or absence is one indicator of your ownership. Also remember that we just got through seeing an article here on slashdot that just because you do not post identifying information does not mean that you can not be identified.
I haven't done this myself before, but I have observed others type like so on the web before.
So now, that banks are switching to Lynx (the most popular and secure browser in the world), can we also make it mandatory for everyone to use LeetKey always on the Internets? THanks!
I tried to fix it up and post it, but when I clicked the preview button, it said "Filter error: Please use fewer 'junk' characters." I guess even the filter recognizes shit.
Editor's Note:The following was written in the spirit of April Fool's Day. Brian is following the story and if there are real reports of outbreak, he'll report them in a separate post.
They are making damn sure that people know it is fake. Given the notice at the top, it kind of made reading the article pointless. Why have a fake article if you let people know beforehand? (The Onion excepted, of course.)
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Please don't say that. The two major parties want people to think that. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. For that matter, it tends to only be true about wider elections (others have third party people in often enough). In those very same elections, it is already basically predetermined how they will go (any question on how California will vote?) and so does it mean a vote for the non-incumbent major party is wasted? Really, a vote for a third party in any election that is foregone is a much less wasted vote than one for the major two parties. It raises the third parties out of obscurity.
Not any more. It was fixed: http://entertainment.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1201873&cid=27609223
Google "states with no sales tax". Click the top link. Read the third sentence: "Sales taxes are assessed by every state except Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire and Oregon."
Google is your friend. And much faster than posting.
P.S.: Why am I not surprised NH does not have a sales tax?
MS has performed a TREMENDOUS service to MANY of those who like to use computers. Bill Gates' quest to dominate has much helped the x86 chipset to become a standard[...].
That was not a service. God, I wish some better chip had become the standard. Even Intel has tried to get rid of it without success.
Going to the past, the SE had images of the teams that worked on the Mac. Hit the interrupt switch and type "G 41D89A".
When googling for the exact string, I found this page with more eggs from the old days: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/7933/mac.html
Most data is not information.
Most information is not knowledge.
Most knowledge is not wisdom.
From wisdom comes answers.
I don't understand why people are so quick to cry foul when the government does it directly yet are perfectly content to actively give private entities all of that data. For example...how monumentally stupid is it to cry that the government is trying to illegally read everyone's email and then sign up for gmail?
I actually don't give information if I can help it. No club cards, no big-name email addresses, no personal information on web sites except where I see a direct benefit as a result. I have read Scroogled....
Several points:
1) The government getting data from a company requires an extra step. Thus, it is (maybe only slightly) harder, and (again, maybe only slightly) more visible. Even if the entity is "effectively owned" by the government. Notice AIG suing the government?
2) The less that the government does, the harder it is for the government to hide what it does.
3) Did I say either was good? Or even okay? A being better than B does not mean B is not bad.
4) I have no idea where you got that I "believe that a private entity holding all of that information is somehow immune to government influence".
5) Given the choice of the government and corporate entities both having databases and only corporate entities having databases, yes, I prefer the latter. You don't?
From the description, they are not connected to the Internet ("two simple workstations, linked with a network cable"), so security bugs are likely not an issue.
Natural born does not mean that it can't be a test tube baby. When that statement was written, test tube babies weren't even in anyones imagination yet. It means they have to be born on US soil.
Wrong (at least, probably). The general consensus is that "natural born citizen" means someone born a citizen. However, there has been no majority court ruling on this exact topic.
There are three general ways of gaining citizenship. First is by jus soli, that is, being born under the jurisdiction of the USA. This is guaranteed by the 14th amendment. This is definitely "natural born". Note that this does not automatically apply to unincorporated territories (say, the US Virgin Islands). Whether the citizenship at birth granted here (say, Puerto Rico) is "natural born" or not is not definite, but generally accepted.
The next is naturalization, that is, you were not a citizen at birth, and you were made a citizen after the fact. These are definitely not "natural born".
The last is being born a citizen by jus sanguinis, which means being born a citizen by right of parents being citizens. The exact conditions of this depends on law that has changed over time. There is some question as to whether these people are "natural born", but the general consensus is that they are.
There is also question that talks about people who were born, and then laws concerning eligibility for citizenship changed -- do the new or the old laws apply? This was asked about McCain, and is not clear.
Another note is that when you are born in a non-American hospital, you do not receive an American birth certificate, but rather you have to register the birth after the fact, and you do not get the same thing. Doesn't mean that the birth was not of a citizen.
In sum, the common opinion is that Presidential candidates need to be born citizens, and the real question was whether Obama met that standard, and that was shown that he does.
Another thing about Apple back in the day was the rumour that Mac OS would support true virtual memory "real soon now" once hard drives became a standard feature. Apparently they were too busy crowing about the lack of 8.3 to pull this off. It didn't come true until the first release of OS X. Thus the nearly twenty year gap between my first Mac purchase and my second one.
Virtual memory was around since System 7 in 1991. It may have had somewhat different behavior from other OSs' implementations, but that was due to historical reasons.
Or hold down the mouse button on reboot.
Unless you're vegetarian.
One could look at this situation and say, "If you don't want Google taking pictures of your house, build a ten-foot wall in your front yard."
And of course, my HOA won't allow that, so it isn't an option.
The difference between the government and a private entity having the exact same information on a person is that the government has a great deal more power over the person. The government controls the laws, the courts, and the police; it can legally invade your privacy to an extent that a private entity can't, provided it follows the procedures that it controls; it can, unchecked, become a police state or dictatorship. Information is power, and I do not want the government to have the level of power it could, because the government is the supreme power of the land, checked only by entities that individually have less power.
Especially if they had fricking lasers attached to their fricking heads.
Your username links all your posts together, which means that I can try to glean information from them and build a profile. It also allows me (at least in the case of a relatively unique sounding handle, like yours) to associate this account with accounts elsewhere, such as gaming, accounts, stuff on guitars, or a livejournal. From this, it is clear you are based in/around Denver, Colorado, you did games, but more in the past, do stuff with guitars, and have legal leanings to the point that you were a law clerk for the Colorado Court of Appeals. It helps that you usually sign your posts --G, so its presence or absence is one indicator of your ownership. Also remember that we just got through seeing an article here on slashdot that just because you do not post identifying information does not mean that you can not be identified.
Oh, well. Just FOCC IT.
Um, you're fourth.
I haven't done this myself before, but I have observed others type like so on the web before.
So now, that banks are switching to Lynx (the most popular and secure browser in the world), can we also make it mandatory for everyone to use LeetKey always on the Internets? THanks!
You know, just signing AC doesn't work; you have to click the "Post Anonymously" box.
I tried to fix it up and post it, but when I clicked the preview button, it said "Filter error: Please use fewer 'junk' characters." I guess even the filter recognizes shit.
The article has prominent notices saying it's fake.
Editor's Note: The following was written in the spirit of April Fool's Day. Brian is following the story and if there are real reports of outbreak, he'll report them in a separate post.
They are making damn sure that people know it is fake. Given the notice at the top, it kind of made reading the article pointless. Why have a fake article if you let people know beforehand? (The Onion excepted, of course.)
How about 7?