> Your open source software blocker is being > paid off by the vendors. Maybe not in cash, > might be just in dinners, trips to "conferences", > or perhaps just in building his ego.
Or perhaps he's getting paid off by protecting his wife from finding out about those lap dances...
I think Third parties could do themselves more good by concentrating on local positions before they try to be taken seriously in state and national positions.
That's gotta be the most idiotic reason to vote. Vote for no reason other than to vote. Vote for the sake of voting. You don't need to know or care about the issues. Heck, you don't even need to know that there are issues.
Just vote.
As for me, I'm not voting for the socialist-sympathizing baby-killer.
> Burning the CD converts those bits into an analogue waveform,
I think this depends on how you do the rip and burn. If you rip by sending the audio through the D-to-A converter, then resample it back to digital through the A-to-D converter on your audio hardware before burning the CD, then yes you've made an unnecessary analog conversion.
But most rip-and-burn software isn't going to do that, because that would be silly.
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Who ever sets their VCR clock?
But you haven't considered the effect of DST on Time Cube!
A different problem arises:
When I lived in Arizona, I was always confused about whether we were on California time or New Mexico time.
DST lasts 2/3 of the year now.
We would need to set the clock 40 minutes forward for the compromise.
"Standard" time only lasts 4 months out of the year nowadys.
Standard Time not so standard anymore.
the Russian Government announces bankruptcy, can't afford to buy supplies and software for schools.
OK.
But will it be invisible to those who would exercise fair use rights?
Is that the kind that silently reports you to The Authorities when you do something naughty with information?
It's different because it's Open Source!
I live about a half mile from the Black Hole.
Probably has anything you could want, if only you could find it amongst all the junk.
Can I reel you in now?
Matt Mason was a toy.
So, he's a journalist, too!
Yeah,
That was where the nuclear armed Great Britain invaded Argentina's sovereign territory known as, Las Malvinas, right?
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> Your open source software blocker is being
> paid off by the vendors. Maybe not in cash,
> might be just in dinners, trips to "conferences",
> or perhaps just in building his ego.
Or perhaps he's getting paid off by protecting his wife from finding out about those lap dances...
...Sleep Furiously!
We already have metagovernment.
It's called soap box, ballot box, jury box and ammo box. To be used in that order.
Yes, but if you don't have the freedom to give up your freedom, then that's not freedom!
Not only will your toothbrush have an IP address, but even the packaging it came in!
The secret ones that the NSA doesn't want you to know about, of course.
You're assuming that the ISP will then give you a static IPv6.
Well, maybe they will -- for $10 / month.
I think Third parties could do themselves more good by concentrating on local positions before they try to be taken seriously in state and national positions.
Grassroots, not AstroTurf.
Nader, of course.
Please, if you like Nader, then vote for him. Please.
Yeah, yeah. "Just vote!"
That's gotta be the most idiotic reason to vote.
Vote for no reason other than to vote. Vote for the sake of voting.
You don't need to know or care about the issues.
Heck, you don't even need to know that there are issues.
Just vote.
As for me, I'm not voting for the socialist-sympathizing baby-killer.
> That said... you want 'Real Change'?
Obama likes to make a big deal that John McCain voted with George Bush 95% of the time.
Presumably, that's bad .
Presumably, that's bad because Bush's approval rating is something like 29%.
Presumably, that's why Obama keeps telling us we need to vote for change.
But... Barack Obama voted with Democrats 96% of the time.
And the Democrat-controlled Congress' approval rating is something like 13%.
So... Where is the change that Obama will be bringing?
> Burning the CD converts those bits into an analogue waveform,
I think this depends on how you do the rip and burn.
If you rip by sending the audio through the D-to-A converter, then resample it back to digital through the A-to-D converter on your audio hardware before burning the CD, then yes you've made an unnecessary analog conversion.
But most rip-and-burn software isn't going to do that, because that would be silly.