Here is my problem with John F. Kerry. He has had 20 something years in the Senate to author any legislation he thinks is good for America. Exactly what is his record on producing such legislation. Name 10. Name 9. Name 2. He has been sitting on his ASS for 20 years. 20 years of Senate, and still we don't know where he stands. It seems as if he is for and against everything. Prolife and prochoice. Pro Gun, anti gun.
You've just explained why Kerry would make a good Libertarian candidate. He knows there are multiple sides to any issue, isn't afraid to change his mind, and obviously has helped to limit big government by not expanding it through stupid new laws. Bush in contrast knows only one side of any issue - this looks decisive to those with an IQ of 100 or less, is obviously antiliberty - otherwise Ashcroft would be looking for a job, and has problems with his father that are a significant hazard to the nation and should not be ameliorated in the Whitehouse showing Dad how it should be done.
Actually, the way the Gov't works, they may turn around and tell you that your imagery includes areas of sensitive nature. You are offered the choice of handing that data over on threat of pain, or the level of resolution at which you can release the data may be legally limited.
For instance, no U.S. civilian can legally acquire high resolution imagery of any part of the nation of Israel. The maximum resolution legally available is either one or two meters (two I believe). This limitation is inconvenient for research, but generally the Israelis are more accomodating than our own dear feds. The explicit rationale for this limitation has never been explained and "security" hides so many sins, it is ridiculous to speculate. Protecting Israel from US civilians has never seemed like a reasonable justification.
You missed my point. Bush is safe appearing to the average person because he is so bloody average. He doesn't have ideas, strokes of genius or any flare of intellectual activity that could lead the population to distrust him. His verbal stumbles are amusing, but nothing I don't hear every day from newscasters and a plethora of other public figures that never learned much about the language.
I wouldn't vote for Gore either. His wife and John Ashcroft would make a good pair, and that seems to suggest that Gore was just as poor a political choice as Bush. Laura at least keeps her opinions to herself. BTW, Gore voted for the establishment of the public internet and was an important force in getting it early support. He never claimed to have invented it. He simply tried to grab some legitimate credit when keeping quiet would have served him better.
The codes are there in any formatted document, whether it is created in WP or Word or OpenOffice. The only question is whether you can see and edit the codes or not when something goes haywire and confuses the bejabbers out of your GUI.
I get it with a series of asterisks. I like to use three or five as a section break, which would auotmagically and stupidly turn into a line. The current default behaviour of Word is often stupid beyond belief. I occasionally find myself wondering who would want it to behave like that. I liked Word for Windows v. 1, but then I also liked Wordstar and especially New Word with its built in patching ability so that you could set up printers.
I have had a "Linux" keyboard for three years at least, with Tux where the Windows key would be and a "Linux tm" marked key between the right "Tux" and Ctrl keys. Very nice touch (in my opinion). I bought it from Linux Mall and is branded as "Linux Cool Keyboards."
Not according to his SAT scores and his grades. GWB is nearly dead average. His verbal skills are a little better than the average guy's. The only reason you think he's smarter than his opponents is because HE DOESN'T HAVE ideas. You could consider his win as the triumph of the average man in democracy, and an object lesson in why it's a bad idea to let an average person run your life. Just be glad he thinks "...we're out of sanctions..." GWB re Iran, 2004
He was slightly lower than average on his math score, and - frightening thought - BETTER than average verbally. He was a big vote draw in Rio Linda too.
Yes, the Supreme Court has upheld the right of the President to suspend some of these rights in time of war. Unfortunately for Herr Bush, we are not at war. "What's this" you say? Not at war? What about the War on Terror? The Court has (thus far) only upheld these suspensions when the country is in a state of declared war. Bush has attempted to circumvent the Court's wrath by denying his victims the right to see a lawyer or even appear in court. Fills you with warm fuzzies doesn't it?
Actually, and this is a problem with the constitution in my book, National Emergencies also permit the suspension of civil rights. This is one reason the extreme, off-edge of a spherical planet, far-right wing wackos (EOTEOASPFRWW) don't like FEMA. The president can declare a national emergency all by himself. War has to be declared by congress.
The guard should have been commended and the commander transferred. Knowing a face doesn't mean you know it's recent history. For all that guard could know, even if he knew the commnder's face, he couldn't know if the commander's lack of id wasn't due to a change in status- as in longer allowed on base, information that hadn't yet trickled down him. Then as you say, there's a 100 percent ID check requirement in force. The face is not the ID.
Oh, I agree. How his name got there, and why it took so long for a prominent figure to get off is pretty damn bad. You and I would stand little chance.
Make that 'no chance.'
Israel does a much better job, but then they don't substitute technology for the human brain. The federal approach has been and continues to be monolithic stupidity (less expensive than educated human intelligence) supplemented by 'oh-wow' technology. It's a wonder that he STILL isn't on the list. Ted Kennedy might be known widely among those of us who are literate and follow politics some. But the average american these days seems to confuse current events with day-time soap operas. The average citizen can't tell you who their senators are, and there are only two per state.
If Grokster would have lost then every hacker that had ever worked on a piece of software that copied bits (from cp to ftpd) could have been liable for someone else's bad actions.
I wouldn't stretch it quite that far, but possibly. Good luck tracking them all down, though.
Perhaps you should stretch it that far. There is no appreciable distinction to be drawn. Especially consider utilities such as ftp. But cp, mv and all the rest of them in Windows, DOS and CP/M as well.
Go to volcanic island. Locate large slipping rock. Make gravel and dispose of gradually filling pot holes in Italian roads and New York's city streets.
No, it was not. The "original" complaint was that IBM contributed code that IBM developed in AIX and therefore - according to the nebulous process that passes for reasoning at SCOG - the code "belonged" to SCOG. SCOG is claiming that under the contract to which they are the successors of interest, facilities such as the JFS which IBM developed without any help or imput from SCOG, belong to them.
It is a matter of what is making the "boom" and how far off it is. As another poster notes, the crack of a whip is a tiny sonic "boom." The kind caused by jets vary in intensity depending on distance. From a distance of a mile or more they sound like thunder, which oin a sense is a sonic boom as well. The sound is caused by the abrupt displacement of surrounding air by intensely heated air along the course of the lightening. Close up they can be painful and structurally damaging. I think the Israelis made low-level (near roof-top) supersonic passes over Cairo during one of the Arab-Israeli conflicts.
Minnesotans, Wisconsin folks, and similar denizens of the region west of the Great Lakes,both north and south of the border say it, as well as "ey" and "there y' go," which my wife insists my family uses in a very differnt manner. My dad and grandparents were from Ontario and used "ey" rarely, and you could barely catch the oddity of the vowels in "about." To me it has always sounded more like "a boat" than "a boot."
...how many desktops will there be before one of them becomes truly useful...
The answer obviously depends on what "truly useful" is to you. This kind of question is simply pointless. They are all demonstrably "useful" else they would not BE in use. The fact that each attracts it's fanatical adherents reflects individual zealotry rather than rational choice: "...there are six and sixty ways, of constructing tribal lays, and every one is right..."
The sole purpose of such encryption would be to protect the company's monopoly on charging for maintenance.
No amount of technological jiggery-pokery could "protect" a copyright. Copyright law protects copyright. Copyright is a legal fiction that extends the [western] idea of fairness and has no roots in reality. The DMCA is a bad law because it's irrational and is being applied irrationally. Breaking a code to access protected information might at best be considered tresspass in a rational court under a rational law.
He had has a lot of other "facts" wrong. He indicates that fedora core2 costs $199 at one point, and also implies that to install Linux on a Windows partition reqauires buying some partitioning software, which is wrong, since at least Mandrake and SuSE will repartion a disk no-destructively. As a journalist goes, his ability looks limted.
You know, times HAVE changed. If you want to sit in your house and wait for the next activist (Okalahoma City) to go looney - that is of course you right. However - I'd rather be proactive than reactive. This man will have his day in court and may or may not be found guilty.
Neither you nor the government have any legal right to be "proactive" in any fashion that negates an individual's constitutional rights. You can move away if you think someone is a hazard, or complain to the authorities, who should probably ignore you unless you have more than a worry to offer. Also, the man is not a car and it is unconstitutional and I would suggest unethical and immoral to treat him as one, unless of course you don't mind being treated as one yourself. That was an issue settled by the Civil War.
Check out All You Zombies by Heinlein. If you can't find it in print, there is a text of it at the URL below. Libby's story was really a little more straight forward. Grandfather, hah!
I believe that Robert Heinlein actually capped this long ago in a short story titled - IIRC - All You Zombies. If you have not read it, I won't spoil it by telling the paradox that RAH came up with.
Could it be that you negelected to read the article, or even to search for "koalas" and "ecological damage" on Google before responding? Australia is a continent. Kangaroo Island is just that - an island - and you don't even have to visit Australia to find that out.
It has been "found" at Thera, and also on the Ampere Seamount 400 odd miles west of Gibraltar, Captain Nemo knew where it was, there are at least two cities off the east and west coasts of India that I have seen linked to Atlantis by the more excitable western (the Indians know better) "theorists", and there's group searching for it off the Atlantic coast of France, and of course the mysterious roads or sidewalks or volcanic dikes off Bimini. And physcists get upset when someone mentions "cold fusion!!"
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Here is my problem with John F. Kerry. He has had 20 something years in the Senate to author any legislation he thinks is good for America. Exactly what is his record on producing such legislation. Name 10. Name 9. Name 2. He has been sitting on his ASS for 20 years. 20 years of Senate, and still we don't know where he stands. It seems as if he is for and against everything. Prolife and prochoice. Pro Gun, anti gun.
You've just explained why Kerry would make a good Libertarian candidate. He knows there are multiple sides to any issue, isn't afraid to change his mind, and obviously has helped to limit big government by not expanding it through stupid new laws. Bush in contrast knows only one side of any issue - this looks decisive to those with an IQ of 100 or less, is obviously antiliberty - otherwise Ashcroft would be looking for a job, and has problems with his father that are a significant hazard to the nation and should not be ameliorated in the Whitehouse showing Dad how it should be done.
Actually, the way the Gov't works, they may turn around and tell you that your imagery includes areas of sensitive nature. You are offered the choice of handing that data over on threat of pain, or the level of resolution at which you can release the data may be legally limited.
For instance, no U.S. civilian can legally acquire high resolution imagery of any part of the nation of Israel. The maximum resolution legally available is either one or two meters (two I believe). This limitation is inconvenient for research, but generally the Israelis are more accomodating than our own dear feds. The explicit rationale for this limitation has never been explained and "security" hides so many sins, it is ridiculous to speculate. Protecting Israel from US civilians has never seemed like a reasonable justification.
You missed my point. Bush is safe appearing to the average person because he is so bloody average. He doesn't have ideas, strokes of genius or any flare of intellectual activity that could lead the population to distrust him. His verbal stumbles are amusing, but nothing I don't hear every day from newscasters and a plethora of other public figures that never learned much about the language.
I wouldn't vote for Gore either. His wife and John Ashcroft would make a good pair, and that seems to suggest that Gore was just as poor a political choice as Bush. Laura at least keeps her opinions to herself. BTW, Gore voted for the establishment of the public internet and was an important force in getting it early support. He never claimed to have invented it. He simply tried to grab some legitimate credit when keeping quiet would have served him better.
The codes are there in any formatted document, whether it is created in WP or Word or OpenOffice. The only question is whether you can see and edit the codes or not when something goes haywire and confuses the bejabbers out of your GUI.
I get it with a series of asterisks. I like to use three or five as a section break, which would auotmagically and stupidly turn into a line. The current default behaviour of Word is often stupid beyond belief. I occasionally find myself wondering who would want it to behave like that. I liked Word for Windows v. 1, but then I also liked Wordstar and especially New Word with its built in patching ability so that you could set up printers.
I have had a "Linux" keyboard for three years at least, with Tux where the Windows key would be and a "Linux tm" marked key between the right "Tux" and Ctrl keys. Very nice touch (in my opinion). I bought it from Linux Mall and is branded as "Linux Cool Keyboards."
He's a lot smarter than Gore, ...
Not according to his SAT scores and his grades. GWB is nearly dead average. His verbal skills are a little better than the average guy's. The only reason you think he's smarter than his opponents is because HE DOESN'T HAVE ideas. You could consider his win as the triumph of the average man in democracy, and an object lesson in why it's a bad idea to let an average person run your life. Just be glad he thinks "...we're out of sanctions..." GWB re Iran, 2004
He was slightly lower than average on his math score, and - frightening thought - BETTER than average verbally. He was a big vote draw in Rio Linda too.
Yes, the Supreme Court has upheld the right of the President to suspend some of these rights in time of war. Unfortunately for Herr Bush, we are not at war. "What's this" you say? Not at war? What about the War on Terror? The Court has (thus far) only upheld these suspensions when the country is in a state of declared war. Bush has attempted to circumvent the Court's wrath by denying his victims the right to see a lawyer or even appear in court. Fills you with warm fuzzies doesn't it?
Actually, and this is a problem with the constitution in my book, National Emergencies also permit the suspension of civil rights. This is one reason the extreme, off-edge of a spherical planet, far-right wing wackos (EOTEOASPFRWW) don't like FEMA. The president can declare a national emergency all by himself. War has to be declared by congress.
Evidently not even EOTEOASPFRWW are always wrong.
The guard should have been commended and the commander transferred. Knowing a face doesn't mean you know it's recent history. For all that guard could know, even if he knew the commnder's face, he couldn't know if the commander's lack of id wasn't due to a change in status- as in longer allowed on base, information that hadn't yet trickled down him. Then as you say, there's a 100 percent ID check requirement in force. The face is not the ID.
Oh, I agree. How his name got there, and why it took so long for a prominent figure to get off is pretty damn bad. You and I would stand little chance.
Make that 'no chance.'
Israel does a much better job, but then they don't substitute technology for the human brain. The federal approach has been and continues to be monolithic stupidity (less expensive than educated human intelligence) supplemented by 'oh-wow' technology. It's a wonder that he STILL isn't on the list. Ted Kennedy might be known widely among those of us who are literate and follow politics some. But the average american these days seems to confuse current events with day-time soap operas. The average citizen can't tell you who their senators are, and there are only two per state.
Perhaps you should stretch it that far. There is no appreciable distinction to be drawn. Especially consider utilities such as ftp. But cp, mv and all the rest of them in Windows, DOS and CP/M as well.
Go to volcanic island. Locate large slipping rock. Make gravel and dispose of gradually filling pot holes in Italian roads and New York's city streets.
No, it was not. The "original" complaint was that IBM contributed code that IBM developed in AIX and therefore - according to the nebulous process that passes for reasoning at SCOG - the code "belonged" to SCOG. SCOG is claiming that under the contract to which they are the successors of interest, facilities such as the JFS which IBM developed without any help or imput from SCOG, belong to them.
It is a matter of what is making the "boom" and how far off it is. As another poster notes, the crack of a whip is a tiny sonic "boom." The kind caused by jets vary in intensity depending on distance. From a distance of a mile or more they sound like thunder, which oin a sense is a sonic boom as well. The sound is caused by the abrupt displacement of surrounding air by intensely heated air along the course of the lightening. Close up they can be painful and structurally damaging. I think the Israelis made low-level (near roof-top) supersonic passes over Cairo during one of the Arab-Israeli conflicts.
Minnesotans, Wisconsin folks, and similar denizens of the region west of the Great Lakes,both north and south of the border say it, as well as "ey" and "there y' go," which my wife insists my family uses in a very differnt manner. My dad and grandparents were from Ontario and used "ey" rarely, and you could barely catch the oddity of the vowels in "about." To me it has always sounded more like "a boat" than "a boot."
...how many desktops will there be before one of them becomes truly useful...
The answer obviously depends on what "truly useful" is to you. This kind of question is simply pointless. They are all demonstrably "useful" else they would not BE in use. The fact that each attracts it's fanatical adherents reflects individual zealotry rather than rational choice: "...there are six and sixty ways, of constructing tribal lays, and every one is right..."
The sole purpose of such encryption would be to protect the company's monopoly on charging for maintenance.
No amount of technological jiggery-pokery could "protect" a copyright. Copyright law protects copyright. Copyright is a legal fiction that extends the [western] idea of fairness and has no roots in reality. The DMCA is a bad law because it's irrational and is being applied irrationally. Breaking a code to access protected information might at best be considered tresspass in a rational court under a rational law.
He had has a lot of other "facts" wrong. He indicates that fedora core2 costs $199 at one point, and also implies that to install Linux on a Windows partition reqauires buying some partitioning software, which is wrong, since at least Mandrake and SuSE will repartion a disk no-destructively. As a journalist goes, his ability looks limted.
You know, times HAVE changed. If you want to sit in your house and wait for the next activist (Okalahoma City) to go looney - that is of course you right. However - I'd rather be proactive than reactive. This man will have his day in court and may or may not be found guilty.
Neither you nor the government have any legal right to be "proactive" in any fashion that negates an individual's constitutional rights. You can move away if you think someone is a hazard, or complain to the authorities, who should probably ignore you unless you have more than a worry to offer. Also, the man is not a car and it is unconstitutional and I would suggest unethical and immoral to treat him as one, unless of course you don't mind being treated as one yourself. That was an issue settled by the Civil War.
Check out All You Zombies by Heinlein. If you can't find it in print, there is a text of it at the URL below. Libby's story was really a little more straight forward. Grandfather, hah!
http://moshkow.rsl.ru/koi/HYNLINE/zomby.txt
I believe that Robert Heinlein actually capped this long ago in a short story titled - IIRC - All You Zombies. If you have not read it, I won't spoil it by telling the paradox that RAH came up with.
Could it be that you negelected to read the article, or even to search for "koalas" and "ecological damage" on Google before responding? Australia is a continent. Kangaroo Island is just that - an island - and you don't even have to visit Australia to find that out.
It has been "found" at Thera, and also on the Ampere Seamount 400 odd miles west of Gibraltar, Captain Nemo knew where it was, there are at least two cities off the east and west coasts of India that I have seen linked to Atlantis by the more excitable western (the Indians know better) "theorists", and there's group searching for it off the Atlantic coast of France, and of course the mysterious roads or sidewalks or volcanic dikes off Bimini. And physcists get upset when someone mentions "cold fusion!!"
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Clinton lied about his sex life. Bush lied about his life.