Obviously I'd like them to say "hey, we've been wrong this whole time about these things, and we're sorry we haven't cared about the 4th Amendment's protections, and we won't do it again".
House Republicans are doing this to save money. They don't give a damn about privacy or the Fourth Amendment, the porn scanners are bad because they cost money.
I graduated in '03 and they just cut the CS program this year. I'm not privy to the reasons for it, but I suspect:
1) the dept was too small to be really good, and it's at a smaller university anyway 2) most of the CS grads didn't go on to be computer scientists, but rather programmers and IT monkeys.
The program's been split into the College of Business for an Information Systems-type degree, and the College of Technology for an Electronics Engineering-type degree.
Usenet is still there, but it's less decent-quality articles and more binaries and spam these days.
You can still get the classic text-mode clients too, like slrn or tin or trn. I'm a slrn user myself, came to Usenet relatively late in the game in the late '90s. Initially used lynx on Usenet, which worked fairly well with a couple major limitations: no threading and the built-in editor didn't do line-wrapping.
Don't speak from ignorance, child. I can log into the OS without a network connection. Can't do a whole lot until the connection comes up, but if I'm within range of an SSID it's familiar with, I'm usually connected by the time the rest of the computer's up.
I've got a Cr-48. It's really nice to have it wake up and regain its wireless connexion in five seconds or less, if you're just wanting to quickly look something up. There's no lag from having to run crap like anti-virus either.
The teabaggers are what the Soviets would have called useful idiots. They'll be baited along just like the Christian evangelicals, being told "if you'll just vote enough Republicans into office all your problems will go away!", and somehow never figuring out that they're being had.
Because Republicans are progressives... all the way back to Teddy Roosevelt.
How's it feel to be a fucking retard? TR was the last liberal Republican president. The parties began switching positions about the time of FDR, and this was completed either by the time of McCarthyism or when the Dixiecrats left the Dems to become Republicans because they wanted to continue being racist, and the national Dems weren't having it.
Look, I know Internet Libertarians aren't known for being grounded in reality, commodore64_love, but really.
At the tail end of the Clinton's term, it looked like Judge Jackson was going to split MS up into two or three companies, and we wouldn't have to worry about them for a decade or two until they re-combined like Ma Bell did.
Then Chimpy gets into office and promptly pulls all the experienced lawyers off the case, and suddenly MS gets a slap on the wrist for their trouble. Because anti-trust law is part of the liberal job-killing agenda, you see.
You'll have a valid complaint when you don't use any government services, such as roads, the police, and our military. Until then, you're a moron, and Somalia is that -> way.
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Obviously I'd like them to say "hey, we've been wrong this whole time about these things, and we're sorry we haven't cared about the 4th Amendment's protections, and we won't do it again".
House Republicans are doing this to save money. They don't give a damn about privacy or the Fourth Amendment, the porn scanners are bad because they cost money.
People eat unsweetened yogurt? Yuck.
At least back in the Mercury through Apollo days, it was traditional for one's last meal before liftoff to be steak and eggs.
You should document your code in a non-shitty way. Seriously, if you can't figure out what you did six months later, your doco sucks.
You should really document your code, then.
I graduated in '03 and they just cut the CS program this year. I'm not privy to the reasons for it, but I suspect:
1) the dept was too small to be really good, and it's at a smaller university anyway
2) most of the CS grads didn't go on to be computer scientists, but rather programmers and IT monkeys.
The program's been split into the College of Business for an Information Systems-type degree, and the College of Technology for an Electronics Engineering-type degree.
Usenet is still there, but it's less decent-quality articles and more binaries and spam these days.
You can still get the classic text-mode clients too, like slrn or tin or trn. I'm a slrn user myself, came to Usenet relatively late in the game in the late '90s. Initially used lynx on Usenet, which worked fairly well with a couple major limitations: no threading and the built-in editor didn't do line-wrapping.
I call it like I see it, and you're acting like a bratty teenager.
MAY I SUCK YOUR PENIS SIR?
I like having a proper keyboard.
Don't speak from ignorance, child. I can log into the OS without a network connection. Can't do a whole lot until the connection comes up, but if I'm within range of an SSID it's familiar with, I'm usually connected by the time the rest of the computer's up.
I've got a Cr-48. It's really nice to have it wake up and regain its wireless connexion in five seconds or less, if you're just wanting to quickly look something up. There's no lag from having to run crap like anti-virus either.
Why would you buy one of these if you don't want the operating system?
Fucktard.
The thing about the useful idiots that make them useful is that they don't realize they're being used.
Can't be arsed.
It would have helped if whomever came up with that analogy hadn't said "observer", and instead been more precise.
It's an example of science needing more people who know how to communicate ideas with the common people.
The teabaggers are what the Soviets would have called useful idiots. They'll be baited along just like the Christian evangelicals, being told "if you'll just vote enough Republicans into office all your problems will go away!", and somehow never figuring out that they're being had.
I'll ask you the same question: how's it feel to be a fucking retard?
Because Republicans are progressives... all the way back to Teddy Roosevelt.
How's it feel to be a fucking retard? TR was the last liberal Republican president. The parties began switching positions about the time of FDR, and this was completed either by the time of McCarthyism or when the Dixiecrats left the Dems to become Republicans because they wanted to continue being racist, and the national Dems weren't having it.
Look, I know Internet Libertarians aren't known for being grounded in reality, commodore64_love, but really.
At the tail end of the Clinton's term, it looked like Judge Jackson was going to split MS up into two or three companies, and we wouldn't have to worry about them for a decade or two until they re-combined like Ma Bell did.
Then Chimpy gets into office and promptly pulls all the experienced lawyers off the case, and suddenly MS gets a slap on the wrist for their trouble. Because anti-trust law is part of the liberal job-killing agenda, you see.
Are you getting a Cr-48, or one of the production units?
If it's a production unit, what are your impressions?
Which has fuck-all to do with paying your taxes. If it's that big of a problem, agitate for change from within the system.
You'll have a valid complaint when you don't use any government services, such as roads, the police, and our military. Until then, you're a moron, and Somalia is that -> way.
Sherman did what was necessary to end the war sooner. Tearing up the South's rail net, as these things go, was no atrocity.
You just went full retard. Never go full retard.