Don't worry, though, California's got extra bonuses for welfare recipients and illegal aliens, and now that the illegal residents of California can get driver's licenses, they have everything they need to register to vote for the people that gave them those licenses. After all, it may be illegal for them to live in California, and it may be illegal for an illegal immigrant to vote, but all you need to vote in California is a driver's license.
Why do people keep using the "register to vote" excuse to be against driver licenses for illegal immigrants? On this forum, people should be smarter and suggest to fix the real problem, the document requirements for voter registration.
For full disclosure, I'm not a US citizen but I have had a CA driver's license for 10 years but I know it's illegal for me to register to vote. Are you suggesting I should give up my CA license and drive whithout a license or insurance because of the posibility somebody in my position registers to vote illegally???
My understanding is that they are quickly becoming an intrigal part of the on-board computer. If that's true then removal might not be very safe and would definitely void your warranty....
and probably limit/void your insurance coverage which is most likely more damaging than your car warranty in case of a crash...
...be smart enough to "know" what sub-functions each function you are using needs to be loaded. [...] Where is that capability? Why aren't compilers smarter?
Some compilers are smarter but there are restrictions on what can be built, and you lose some benefits of shared libraries.
For instance, some Eiffel compilers can do that and the code is not too different from a garbage collector mechanism. It's not trivial but it's possible (and I'm speaking from experience implementing it in an Eiffel compiler and debugging them on large customer systems...).
Believe me, the "rah rah" of the good ol' bible thumpers bothers me as much as anyone. The trouble is, I expect it's the same everywhere: the "peasants" can't be bothered to learn anything but what the "praetors" tell them.
I have to disagree, at least when you consider Europe. The average person on the street is much more aware of what's going on in the world. Part of it is because of the size of its member countries, you just cannot ignore your neighbors but if you look at the evening news or the mainstream press there, international events are discussed more and it's not limited to European events, i.e. it covers events in the entire world.
Also, I was not thinking of the uneducated peasant struggling to feed his family but the average, university educated person but your comment "Problem is, the average Joe here just doesn't care about the rest of the world" sums it all pretty nicely but personaly, I put part of the blame for that on the media, although you could argue that they feeding the public what it wants which of course brings us reality shows, sound bites in the news instead of real journalistic analysis,...
Have you considered the idea that perhaps most Americans like the idea of making the world more like us? Just wondering...
The problem with this statement is that most Americans are quick to say "we're the best country in the world, we've got the best democracy,..." but they haven't been out of the US or only in a "all of Europe in a week" tour and haven't lived in a different country to be able to judge for themselves and considering the infinitesimal amount of world news in the US mainstream media, they're just regurgitating the propaganda they have been fed with. It's always amazing how fast Americans point to the commie propaganda but fail to realize that they too are subjected to propaganda...
Note that this is not a personal attack on your comment as I don't know what kind of international exposure you got.
Holy shit! Now *why* have I not heard anything about that story at all? I heard plenty about the Iraqi guy who snuck around the hospital and brought a map to the marines, etc...nothing about an attempted delivery by ambulance, or any of that.
That's because the US media in general did a really poor job at objective reporting during and after the war. As a side note, yesterday on CNBC, there was a short debate where C. Amampour (spelling?) from CNN admitted that all the media was censored or did some self censorship during the war and Mrs Clark, former spokewoman from the Pentagon, made some "interesting" comments not too far from the style of the Iraqui Information Minister... but let me go back to the point.
I think the BBC did really good reporting of the war, not only showing one side of the story as was the case with all US mainstream media (CNN, CNBC, press,...). At the time, I was looking at the US main stream media, BBC and the French news and recommended to my non-french speaking friends to look at the BBC to get a more balanced (Copyright Fox News) view of the events. As always, it helps to know the bias of a source and look at the reporting in that perspective. That is valid even for Fox News...
Also, how could she get such a nice book deal and still be considered a national hero (noticed how cheap that word has become recently?) if the general public is aware of the manufacturing of a PR event to boost morale at home during the war?
I support the war, because I hate Saddam, but this smells distinctly bad, if it's true.
I think most people did not agree with Saddam but that's not enough to justify war if you don't act like the world's bully and want to follow international law.
There should be reporters *still* talking to people about this.
You seem to forget about the short attention span of the public. That doesn't make for interesting sound bite and we have to know whether J-Lo is getting married this week-end or not, have your priorities straight!
He called it "draconian" and said it's powers "fly in the face of a free society," which seems like pretty unreserved criticism to me. What do you guys want from him, a Slashdot-style rant in a single long paragraph replete with poor spelling?
No, a small paragraph with spelling and punctuation errors will be enough;-)
OK, I know, it's a pretty bad attempt at being funny. Hopefully, this post itself doesn't contain too many errors...
The ironic thing is that any determined terrorist will find a way to do what they need, without having to resort to any of the banned items.
This reminds me of the time, just after the shoe bomb incident, of the security check guard that forced me to put all the cables from my laptop bag (mouse, power,...) in my suitcase as they could be used to strangle people. Of course, my leather belt and shoe laces were perfectly acceptable on board in hte cabin. I started to ask questions but once they asked me to move to the table on the side for a more complete check, I decided to cooperate as I didn't want to miss my flight. Of course, this was at the Paris airport so I understood why they were on edge but still...
What? You're still there after all the "freedom fries" crap?;-)
I happen to leave in CA in an area where that's not too much of a problem, college town and all and I only watch Fox News when I want to laugh...
As far as I know the system has always been like that but I'm not that old. I've been in the US over 10 years and now only vote in the presidential elections at the French consulate and as far as I know the system has always been like that, when I was back in France and now at the French consulate.
Just a small correction that doesn't change the overall meaning of your post and as a French living in the US, I have to admit I share your thoughts on the voting system each time it's mentionned in the news.
Furthermore, in many other large-ish countries (such as France, the UK and Germany), voting is still done by making a big honkin' X on a circle next to the name of the guy you want.
That's not really the case for France. Each candidate is represented by one paper card and only one (or zero) card can be inserted in the voting envelope. If the paper is altered in any way, the vote is invalid. Nothing in the envelope means that you abstained from voting but your vote is still counted and doen so independently of the invalid votes (altered card). This reminds me of a discussion I had ten years ago when I first arrived in the US about why this was needed in a true democracy but that's another topic...
Of course, there's also no votes for dozens of propositions at a time so the system may be easier to manage but it's also easier to count votes and prevent fraud.
PS: even if I live in CA, my knowledge of the US system is only through the media as I cannot vote here.
...whenever I see someone make an excited news post about a 0.1 rev to a *mail client*?
It's based on the mozilla source code, and this 0.2 release is based on the latest Mozilla 1.5 beta so it's not really brand new untested source code...
When they start paying income taxes to Uncle Sam, then they will.
And you wonder why the americans are viewed as ignorant of what's going on in the rest of the world. You don't live in a bubble you know as recent events should have demonstrated...
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The thing with the Minitel was that the basic terminal was free and some services like the white/yellow pages were also free as well as some government sites. You could also use it for ecommerce like for instance ordering train tickets and connect to sites related to mail order catalogs.
Also, this was available to the general public and not just for geeks who knew the numbers to dial and had the hardware already.
This wasn't available on ARPANET 20 years ago and as others have posted, the article author confused Internet and the WWW.
It also had a serial port so you could use the painfully slow modem. Ah the memories of connecting my Commodore 64 to get some free/shareware programs a long time ago...
"This program has turned out to be so successful that the NSA actually turns a significant profit (to the tune of several million dollars a year) and sends this profit back into the Federal Treasury. "
I'm impressed, several million dollars a year... How much exactly is their annual operating bugdet coming from the tax payers? Oops, I forgot, the figure is not available...
While it's good to know they recycle, the above quote makes it sound that's they're doing the tax payers a favor but maybe I'm just too cynical.
You could use the LastChangedDate or LastChangedRevision tags. This is taken from the manual:
LastChangedDate
The last time this file changed. Can also be abbreviated as Date. The keyword substitution of $LastChangedDate$ will look something like $LastChangedDate: 2002-07-22 21:42:37 -0700 (Mon, 22 Jul 2002) $.
LastChangedRevision
The last revision in which this file changed. Can be abbreviated as Rev. The keyword substitution of $LastChangedRevision will look something like $LastChangedRevision: 144 $.
I don't think you can use the Visa Waiver Program once you've been denied a visa in the past. I don't really remember the details but you may want to check the immigration newsgroups/websites to make sure.
IIRC, denial of a visa is one of the reasons you can use to apply for a visitor visa instead of using the waiver program. Twisted logic, I know but it's the INS we're talking about here...
I heard it too. It was on CNN Headlines News. I didn't have time to investigate it more yesterday but it was about some "expert" commenting on email interceptions about Al Qaeda people regrouping in Pakistan.
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extra disclosure before the possible flame war, I am a legal CA resident.
Why do people keep using the "register to vote" excuse to be against driver licenses for illegal immigrants? On this forum, people should be smarter and suggest to fix the real problem, the document requirements for voter registration.
For full disclosure, I'm not a US citizen but I have had a CA driver's license for 10 years but I know it's illegal for me to register to vote. Are you suggesting I should give up my CA license and drive whithout a license or insurance because of the posibility somebody in my position registers to vote illegally???
and probably limit/void your insurance coverage which is most likely more damaging than your car warranty in case of a crash...
Could some of you using their service describe your experience? Is there any lag, specillay on international phone calls?
Some compilers are smarter but there are restrictions on what can be built, and you lose some benefits of shared libraries.
For instance, some Eiffel compilers can do that and the code is not too different from a garbage collector mechanism. It's not trivial but it's possible (and I'm speaking from experience implementing it in an Eiffel compiler and debugging them on large customer systems...).
Also, caller id does not work with international numbers so if you know somebody overseas, you cannot block all withheld numbers.
I have to disagree, at least when you consider Europe. The average person on the street is much more aware of what's going on in the world. Part of it is because of the size of its member countries, you just cannot ignore your neighbors but if you look at the evening news or the mainstream press there, international events are discussed more and it's not limited to European events, i.e. it covers events in the entire world.
Also, I was not thinking of the uneducated peasant struggling to feed his family but the average, university educated person but your comment "Problem is, the average Joe here just doesn't care about the rest of the world" sums it all pretty nicely but personaly, I put part of the blame for that on the media, although you could argue that they feeding the public what it wants which of course brings us reality shows, sound bites in the news instead of real journalistic analysis, ...
The problem with this statement is that most Americans are quick to say "we're the best country in the world, we've got the best democracy, ..." but they haven't been out of the US or only in a "all of Europe in a week" tour and haven't lived in a different country to be able to judge for themselves and considering the infinitesimal amount of world news in the US mainstream media, they're just regurgitating the propaganda they have been fed with. It's always amazing how fast Americans point to the commie propaganda but fail to realize that they too are subjected to propaganda...
Note that this is not a personal attack on your comment as I don't know what kind of international exposure you got.
That's because the US media in general did a really poor job at objective reporting during and after the war. As a side note, yesterday on CNBC, there was a short debate where C. Amampour (spelling?) from CNN admitted that all the media was censored or did some self censorship during the war and Mrs Clark, former spokewoman from the Pentagon, made some "interesting" comments not too far from the style of the Iraqui Information Minister... but let me go back to the point.
I think the BBC did really good reporting of the war, not only showing one side of the story as was the case with all US mainstream media (CNN, CNBC, press, ...). At the time, I was looking at the US main stream media, BBC and the French news and recommended to my non-french speaking friends to look at the BBC to get a more balanced (Copyright Fox News) view of the events. As always, it helps to know the bias of a source and look at the reporting in that perspective. That is valid even for Fox News...
Also, how could she get such a nice book deal and still be considered a national hero (noticed how cheap that word has become recently?) if the general public is aware of the manufacturing of a PR event to boost morale at home during the war?
I support the war, because I hate Saddam, but this smells distinctly bad, if it's true.
I think most people did not agree with Saddam but that's not enough to justify war if you don't act like the world's bully and want to follow international law.
There should be reporters *still* talking to people about this.
You seem to forget about the short attention span of the public. That doesn't make for interesting sound bite and we have to know whether J-Lo is getting married this week-end or not, have your priorities straight!
OK, enough cynicism for this post.
No, a small paragraph with spelling and punctuation errors will be enough;-)
OK, I know, it's a pretty bad attempt at being funny. Hopefully, this post itself doesn't contain too many errors...
This reminds me of the time, just after the shoe bomb incident, of the security check guard that forced me to put all the cables from my laptop bag (mouse, power, ...) in my suitcase as they could be used to strangle people. Of course, my leather belt and shoe laces were perfectly acceptable on board in hte cabin. I started to ask questions but once they asked me to move to the table on the side for a more complete check, I decided to cooperate as I didn't want to miss my flight. Of course, this was at the Paris airport so I understood why they were on edge but still...
I happen to leave in CA in an area where that's not too much of a problem, college town and all and I only watch Fox News when I want to laugh...
As far as I know the system has always been like that but I'm not that old. I've been in the US over 10 years and now only vote in the presidential elections at the French consulate and as far as I know the system has always been like that, when I was back in France and now at the French consulate.
Furthermore, in many other large-ish countries (such as France, the UK and Germany), voting is still done by making a big honkin' X on a circle next to the name of the guy you want.
That's not really the case for France. Each candidate is represented by one paper card and only one (or zero) card can be inserted in the voting envelope. If the paper is altered in any way, the vote is invalid. Nothing in the envelope means that you abstained from voting but your vote is still counted and doen so independently of the invalid votes (altered card). This reminds me of a discussion I had ten years ago when I first arrived in the US about why this was needed in a true democracy but that's another topic...
Of course, there's also no votes for dozens of propositions at a time so the system may be easier to manage but it's also easier to count votes and prevent fraud.
PS: even if I live in CA, my knowledge of the US system is only through the media as I cannot vote here.
It's based on the mozilla source code, and this 0.2 release is based on the latest Mozilla 1.5 beta so it's not really brand new untested source code...
They don't count.
When they start paying income taxes to Uncle Sam, then they will.
And you wonder why the americans are viewed as ignorant of what's going on in the rest of the world. You don't live in a bubble you know as recent events should have demonstrated...
The thing with the Minitel was that the basic terminal was free and some services like the white/yellow pages were also free as well as some government sites. You could also use it for ecommerce like for instance ordering train tickets and connect to sites related to mail order catalogs.
Also, this was available to the general public and not just for geeks who knew the numbers to dial and had the hardware already.
This wasn't available on ARPANET 20 years ago and as others have posted, the article author confused Internet and the WWW.
It also had a serial port so you could use the painfully slow modem. Ah the memories of connecting my Commodore 64 to get some free/shareware programs a long time ago...
"This program has turned out to be so successful that the NSA actually turns a significant profit (to the tune of several million dollars a year) and sends this profit back into the Federal Treasury. "
I'm impressed, several million dollars a year... How much exactly is their annual operating bugdet coming from the tax payers? Oops, I forgot, the figure is not available...
While it's good to know they recycle, the above quote makes it sound that's they're doing the tax payers a favor but maybe I'm just too cynical.
You could use the LastChangedDate or LastChangedRevision tags. This is taken from the manual:
LastChangedDate
The last time this file changed. Can also be abbreviated as Date. The keyword substitution of $LastChangedDate$ will look something like $LastChangedDate: 2002-07-22 21:42:37 -0700 (Mon, 22 Jul 2002) $.
LastChangedRevision
The last revision in which this file changed. Can be abbreviated as Rev. The keyword substitution of $LastChangedRevision will look something like $LastChangedRevision: 144 $.
I don't think you can use the Visa Waiver Program once you've been denied a visa in the past. I don't really remember the details but you may want to check the immigration newsgroups/websites to make sure.
IIRC, denial of a visa is one of the reasons you can use to apply for a visitor visa instead of using the waiver program. Twisted logic, I know but it's the INS we're talking about here...
I heard it too. It was on CNN Headlines News. I didn't have time to investigate it more yesterday but it was about some "expert" commenting on email interceptions about Al Qaeda people regrouping in Pakistan.