I find it interesting that this rate directly coincides with the American Economy decicing to take a nice little plunge in the toilet from around the same time.
Most people view the internet, or even a computer, as a luxury item, and therefore, the monthly access fee will be one of the first things cut when times get tight.
As for lack of new growth, for most people, a PC is still a multi hundred dollar investment, and if you are not sure you are not going to have a job next week, most people will not make the investment.
1) It has been shown that over 57,000 Florida voters were wrongly removed from the voting roles in Florida by a company that has close ties to both George W and Jeb Bush. The main reason it came to light is because the head of a local Democratic office was suspended for having a felony record, which in fact did not exist. It was later found that 97% of the people removed had no felony record. Guess what party they all belonged to?
2) The Kyoto agreement was signed by President Clinton. That legally makes the treaty agreement. Congress must then vote on it, if they approve, it goes into effect, if not, we withdraw. There was never a congressional vote on it, GW just "Unsigned" (his word) it.
5)The United States develops and produces Chemical and Biological weapons, for purpouses of "Defense", despite the facvt that we already have massive stockpiles of these weapons.
Actually, John Ashcroft was the primary author of the USA PATRIOT act, it passed congress, most representatives not bothering to read it (And I will be thankful to Dennis Kucinich to my dying day to making a stand against it), and then Bush signed off on Ashcrofts approval.
Oh, BTW, this is the same Ashcroft that lost an election to a dead man and Bush appointed.
So yes, Bush ahd a LOT to do with this particularly foul piece of legislation.
The key difference here is that what they did to Mitnick was illegal at the time. What they are doing to this guy is totally legal now thanks to the USA PATRIOT act.
You say we are headed towards a fascist police state
If the Administration was truly interested in preventing terrorism, they had more than ample opportunity to arrest/assasinate Bin Laden when he was in Qatar (our current command operations base interestingly enough) for Kidney Dialysis on 2000
Or maybe we would not have sent the Taliban a few hundred million dollars in March of 2001
He gave a large amount of money to a legiteamite charity that is fighting its listing as a terrorist organization. The vevidence used to freeze its assets is shaky at best, and would never survive a judicial review, so the DOJ has been dragging its feet, anbd trying to force through legislation that totally suspends any rights to Habeus Corpus that we have left.
As for 9-11, you are obviously of the "Oh my God! Heathen Muslims are trying to kill America because they hate Freedom" clique.
The real illegality is taking art, which should be freely available, and reducing it in concept to property.
It is about as inane as mineral rights. The mineral wealth of a nation should belong to the people of a nation, not its elites. The same is true for any wealth, artistic, economic, etcetera.
By supporting the music industry, all you are doing is enforcing the serfdom of the artists themselves.
And this is why. Assuming you have the computer, phone line and small monthly fee(depending on service) Email a an effective and free form of coomunications. In effect, you are already paying for it, when you pay for your monthly service. Adding a fee for E-mail would in effect be an "E-Mail tax", but instead of going to public works or anything like that, it goes to line the pockets of the sellers of the E-stamps.
Thin this may actually be a bid to make Amazon a profitable entity?
I have not been paying much attention to thier profit reports of late, but it seems that royalties, even very small royalties, on this would put them over the top.
Either that or do away with banner ads altogether, which I cannot really complain about:-)
As a Christian, I see the violence, and the ideas and values that lead to violence as abhorrent before God.
You know, He was not kidding when he said Love your enemy and Turn the other cheek.
I see the application of vilence as the antithesis of the ideas and values supposedly espoused in the west, further exposing the hypocrisy of western leaders.
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Closer to 20%, but yes, it is pretty sad.
You say that like in the Christian media God approves of good old American 100% dead tree and cellulite pr0n
I find it interesting that this rate directly coincides with the American Economy decicing to take a nice little plunge in the toilet from around the same time.
Most people view the internet, or even a computer, as a luxury item, and therefore, the monthly access fee will be one of the first things cut when times get tight.
As for lack of new growth, for most people, a PC is still a multi hundred dollar investment, and if you are not sure you are not going to have a job next week, most people will not make the investment.
That'll be some kind of rude awakening when the three humans who post comments on /. finally realize everyone else is a bot.
Good, maybe then the Signal to Noise ratio will improve
I have, err, kind Of.
I run Linux on both!
Now, to see if this bad boy will run on my iBook tonight
Particles smaller than 10 mm in diameter can be inhaled
Straight from da barrel of mah 9
Seriously though, I hope you mean micrometers instead of millimeters
Anybody with a brain can see that this is the WRONG PATRIOT ACT
H R 659 YEA-AND-NAY 22-JUN-1999 5:36 PM
This act is for the Preservation of national historic sites. Try the USA PATRIOT act
IIRC, there were 49 against, and almost all dems
1) Mike Moore (as much as I loathe him) also unearthed stuff, and frankly, it is because nobody who works in the propoganda industry cares to look
2) It is Illegal for Bush to unsign it. He could have left it launguishing, but was afraid it would pass.
Thank you, I forgot about that part
1) It has been shown that over 57,000 Florida voters were wrongly removed from the voting roles in Florida by a company that has close ties to both George W and Jeb Bush. The main reason it came to light is because the head of a local Democratic office was suspended for having a felony record, which in fact did not exist. It was later found that 97% of the people removed had no felony record. Guess what party they all belonged to?
2) The Kyoto agreement was signed by President Clinton. That legally makes the treaty agreement. Congress must then vote on it, if they approve, it goes into effect, if not, we withdraw. There was never a congressional vote on it, GW just "Unsigned" (his word) it.
5)The United States develops and produces Chemical and Biological weapons, for purpouses of "Defense", despite the facvt that we already have massive stockpiles of these weapons.
Actually, John Ashcroft was the primary author of the USA PATRIOT act, it passed congress, most representatives not bothering to read it (And I will be thankful to Dennis Kucinich to my dying day to making a stand against it), and then Bush signed off on Ashcrofts approval.
Oh, BTW, this is the same Ashcroft that lost an election to a dead man and Bush appointed.
So yes, Bush ahd a LOT to do with this particularly foul piece of legislation.
The key difference here is that what they did to Mitnick was illegal at the time. What they are doing to this guy is totally legal now thanks to the USA PATRIOT act.
You say we are headed towards a fascist police state
I say we have been here for a while now
If the Administration was truly interested in preventing terrorism, they had more than ample opportunity to arrest/assasinate Bin Laden when he was in Qatar (our current command operations base interestingly enough) for Kidney Dialysis on 2000
Or maybe we would not have sent the Taliban a few hundred million dollars in March of 2001
You get George W Bush in office
He gave a large amount of money to a legiteamite charity that is fighting its listing as a terrorist organization. The vevidence used to freeze its assets is shaky at best, and would never survive a judicial review, so the DOJ has been dragging its feet, anbd trying to force through legislation that totally suspends any rights to Habeus Corpus that we have left.
As for 9-11, you are obviously of the "Oh my God! Heathen Muslims are trying to kill America because they hate Freedom" clique.
Get informed, then make assertions.
The real illegality is taking art, which should be freely available, and reducing it in concept to property.
It is about as inane as mineral rights. The mineral wealth of a nation should belong to the people of a nation, not its elites. The same is true for any wealth, artistic, economic, etcetera.
By supporting the music industry, all you are doing is enforcing the serfdom of the artists themselves.
What good will it do you when the supply plane hits the obstacle that blew onto the runway and rips its landing gear off?
Is would it be real time enough to show the the enemy soldier standing directly in front of them about to pop a cap in thier ass.
If not, then I believe this would only be of a limited usage.
Heh, an ex of mine in High School still had one of these things in 1995. Still worked too!
Actually, It is Shub-Niggaroth, Black Goat of the Woods and Fathe of a Thousand Young.
funny, I just run installpkg, and it brings up a package manager in Slackware.
And this is why. Assuming you have the computer, phone line and small monthly fee(depending on service) Email a an effective and free form of coomunications. In effect, you are already paying for it, when you pay for your monthly service. Adding a fee for E-mail would in effect be an "E-Mail tax", but instead of going to public works or anything like that, it goes to line the pockets of the sellers of the E-stamps.
Case in point, bad idea.
Just because it does not work does not nmean you cannot patent it ;-)
I mean, check out the magnet bracelets and whatnot they hawk to the terminally hypochondriac.
Thin this may actually be a bid to make Amazon a profitable entity?
:-)
I have not been paying much attention to thier profit reports of late, but it seems that royalties, even very small royalties, on this would put them over the top.
Either that or do away with banner ads altogether, which I cannot really complain about
As a Christian, I see the violence, and the ideas and values that lead to violence as abhorrent before God.
You know, He was not kidding when he said Love your enemy and Turn the other cheek.
I see the application of vilence as the antithesis of the ideas and values supposedly espoused in the west, further exposing the hypocrisy of western leaders.