Right, cause the Democrats are so much better. They always want to engage in proper debate, so long as those who do not agree with them are safely behind a cage in a designated "free speech zone" far enough away that none of the Dems have to hear them.
Campaign finance reform is promised by everyone, yet they never follow through. Why reform the system that just worked to get you elected? What if changing it means it will be harder to get elected in the future?
Destroy any vehicle, yes. Not necessarily kill the occupants. How a vehicle deals with being "destroyed" and where the energy is absorbed makes the difference. The test vehicle in question was not designed with collision safety in mind at all (from what I have been reading).
Heck a bad enough rear end fender bender could have killed the driver.
Sorta true, but not completely. There is still a significant population (at least in the US) that looks at safety as a major purchasing point. So it is not only government regulations that are pushing for safer vehicles. Unfortunately there is a relatively ignorant population that equates Large SUV with safety, especialy tragic when these people have absolutely no idea how to drive a large vehicle and don't understand that interta can work against them as well.
Actually hummer pruchases get you HUGE tax breaks. Basically it is a perversion of an old law to make it easier to buy farm equipment, it has now been applied to large SUVs. The tax break nearly pays for the Hummer. Pretty silly huh?
Let's see, un-roadworthy car in a head on collision after veering into the oncoming lane. I'd venture to guess he wouldn't have survived if it were a motorcycle he hit. Of course, like you I do not know, but physics is not on his side in either case.
This is why auto manufacturers spend so much money on engineering crumple zones and testing with crash dummies, etc.
Putting solar panels on what amounts to an oversized bicycle with a control stick and letting it loose on the highway is simply a bad idea.
I actually pick and choose. BSD license for an library or middleware componant that someone may have a legit use for including in something commercial (I personally don't care). GPL for end user type applications.
Top be fair, those vehicles are much more tightly regulated, and the drivers have to go through much more training and rick losing their commercial driver's license at the slightest infraction.
SUV's on the other hand can be driven by any drooling morning who can pass the ludicrously easy driver's test.
Agreed about Michael though, he is a total disgrace to slashdot. Someone died here in an accident that has nothing to do with a hummer but of course he had to come out and throw in that remark.
At least he didn't come out and say it was Bush's fault though, maybe he is taking his meds:)
That's great, but this was a mini-van. And it could have vert well been a Hybrid Civic, the same outcome would likely have occured. The point is you don't make a car unsafe (hitting a silid enough stationary object would have destroyed it) just to gain better fuel efficiency.
Ownership is getting back to the policical. I'm talking economic, in which capitalism says that everyone is better off when you try to make the most money, and the market dictats price and what not.
Ultimatly though, Open Source is more about the market dictating than the current state of commercial software (which the government is heavily involved in).
If open source wins (whatever that means, from my prespective it has already won) it will be because the market decided it.
I'm also not saying that the GPL is communistic (in the karl marx sense), just that it's a step closer to that than capitalism in my book, via the forced sharing of your work.
Agreed, but I'm a little wary of the word "forced" there. Nobody is forcing anything, if you choose to use the software you abide by the license, this is no different for commercial software either.
Right, but it is interesting that you have to rely on a cartoon to demonstrate "real communism" Has there ever been a instance of real communism in the world?
In my experience, Open Source (while often associated with the left) seems to reach across all political idealogies. What is weird to me is that people keep thinking of it as communism and to me is it the purest form of democracy.
Sure it does, assuming you remove it from the previous computer. Most people I know throw old computers out, or whip them and donate them to a local school. Actually that isn't completely true, most people I know use the free copy of Windows they got from the University.
Why does it have to be pirated? It may be a copy the person legitimately got with a previous computer, then decided they wanted to upgrade to a new computer (but were happy with the version of Windows they were running.
You're kidding, right? Sure, his tactics are cheap in the short-term. So is eating a Happy Meal for lunch. It's when I continue to eat Happy Meal day after day ad infinitum that it becomes expensive.
I wasn't thinking for the whole country, just that it seemed to be working there. Which I kinda have to retract anyway, since after looking into it I see that they are paying out the ass to settle lawsuits.
We already have a higher proportion of our population incarcerated than any other industrialized country-- and more even than some of the totalitarian countries!
Yes, but like you mention this is because we are spending more time/money incarcerating people who are not really doing anything bad (relatively) like smoking pot or picking up hookers. We need to fix this, but that doesn't also mean that we don't need to be harder on the real criminals as well. I still would like some of their taxpayer paid perks taken away.
His tactics are however cheaper for the taxpayers. I think we have seen that spending a ton of money to make prisoners comfortable does not help the crime rate either so we might as well be fiscally responsible about it.
It's the chain gangs and the pink underwear and the striped black 'n white uniforms and the 120F tent cities he runs.
The 120F tent cities seems a bit much, has anyone ever died from that? (I imagine not, or the ACLU would descend on that town like the alien spacecraft in Independence Day). The rest I am all in favor of. How is pink underwear and striped black n white uniforms bad?
I don't think Joe Arpaio (the sheriff's name here for those of you who don't live in Maricopa county, Phoenix or points south) has really done much to lower crime with his "tough ways".
I looked into it quickly and found that it is having little effect. Crime is seems to neither be going up or down. However it is significantly cheaper for the taxpayers.
The guy needs to go. Well, hopefully this coming election.
My understanding is that he is quite popular in the area. I doubt someone running against him on the platform of "making life easier for the criminals at taxpayer expense" is going to make much headway.
But by all means, let's give the prisoners better accomidations that US army troops, Blah blah blah blah blah. What year are you in? 1986? Christ, you sound like a commercial for the Reagan reelect campaign. Go watch Hill Street Blues and STFU.
Dated or not, it doesn't make what he said any less true.
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Right, cause the Democrats are so much better. They always want to engage in proper debate, so long as those who do not agree with them are safely behind a cage in a designated "free speech zone" far enough away that none of the Dems have to hear them.
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If people are willing to pay that price, then it is not overpriced.
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And 8 years ago, and 12 years ago, etc.
Campaign finance reform is promised by everyone, yet they never follow through. Why reform the system that just worked to get you elected? What if changing it means it will be harder to get elected in the future?
You will never see campaign finance reform.
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Destroy any vehicle, yes. Not necessarily kill the occupants. How a vehicle deals with being "destroyed" and where the energy is absorbed makes the difference. The test vehicle in question was not designed with collision safety in mind at all (from what I have been reading).
Heck a bad enough rear end fender bender could have killed the driver.
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You have to drive it in a business context more than 50% of the time, according to the article
you linked to.
No, you only have to claim that. Nobody is actually checking up on that.
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Sorta true, but not completely. There is still a significant population (at least in the US) that looks at safety as a major purchasing point. So it is not only government regulations that are pushing for safer vehicles. Unfortunately there is a relatively ignorant population that equates Large SUV with safety, especialy tragic when these people have absolutely no idea how to drive a large vehicle and don't understand that interta can work against them as well.
Finkployd
Actually hummer pruchases get you HUGE tax breaks. Basically it is a perversion of an old law to make it easier to buy farm equipment, it has now been applied to large SUVs. The tax break nearly pays for the Hummer. Pretty silly huh?
Let's see, un-roadworthy car in a head on collision after veering into the oncoming lane. I'd venture to guess he wouldn't have survived if it were a motorcycle he hit. Of course, like you I do not know, but physics is not on his side in either case.
This is why auto manufacturers spend so much money on engineering crumple zones and testing with crash dummies, etc.
Putting solar panels on what amounts to an oversized bicycle with a control stick and letting it loose on the highway is simply a bad idea.
Finkployd
I actually pick and choose. BSD license for an library or middleware componant that someone may have a legit use for including in something commercial (I personally don't care). GPL for end user type applications.
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Top be fair, those vehicles are much more tightly regulated, and the drivers have to go through much more training and rick losing their commercial driver's license at the slightest infraction.
:)
SUV's on the other hand can be driven by any drooling morning who can pass the ludicrously easy driver's test.
Agreed about Michael though, he is a total disgrace to slashdot. Someone died here in an accident that has nothing to do with a hummer but of course he had to come out and throw in that remark.
At least he didn't come out and say it was Bush's fault though, maybe he is taking his meds
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That's great, but this was a mini-van. And it could have vert well been a Hybrid Civic, the same outcome would likely have occured. The point is you don't make a car unsafe (hitting a silid enough stationary object would have destroyed it) just to gain better fuel efficiency.
Could we effectively argue then that commercial is even more so since you do not even have the option to create and distribute a derivative work?
Ownership is getting back to the policical. I'm talking economic, in which capitalism says that everyone is better off when you try to make the most money, and the market dictats price and what not.
Ultimatly though, Open Source is more about the market dictating than the current state of commercial software (which the government is heavily involved in).
If open source wins (whatever that means, from my prespective it has already won) it will be because the market decided it.
I'm also not saying that the GPL is communistic (in the karl marx sense), just that it's a step closer to that than capitalism in my book, via the forced sharing of your work.
Agreed, but I'm a little wary of the word "forced" there. Nobody is forcing anything, if you choose to use the software you abide by the license, this is no different for commercial software either.
Right, but it is interesting that you have to rely on a cartoon to demonstrate "real communism" Has there ever been a instance of real communism in the world?
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In my experience, Open Source (while often associated with the left) seems to reach across all political idealogies. What is weird to me is that people keep thinking of it as communism and to me is it the purest form of democracy.
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macs interface is a piece of one mouse button designed crap!
Really, cause I'm using my mac right now with a three button mouse and it works perfectly. I would never use a one button mouse with it.
Free Clue: The interface works perfectly (much better in fact) with a multiple button mouse.
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Sure it does, assuming you remove it from the previous computer. Most people I know throw old computers out, or whip them and donate them to a local school.
Actually that isn't completely true, most people I know use the free copy of Windows they got from the University.
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Why does it have to be pirated? It may be a copy the person legitimately got with a previous computer, then decided they wanted to upgrade to a new computer (but were happy with the version of Windows they were running.
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Jerry Falwell is a religious zealot thinly disguised as an ultra-conservative Christian.
And this has anything to do with a domain name dispute because......
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You're kidding, right?
:P
Sure, his tactics are cheap in the short-term. So is eating a Happy Meal for lunch. It's when I continue to eat Happy Meal day after day ad infinitum that it becomes expensive.
I wasn't thinking for the whole country, just that it seemed to be working there.
Which I kinda have to retract anyway, since after looking into it I see that they are paying out the ass to settle lawsuits.
We already have a higher proportion of our population incarcerated than any other industrialized country-- and more even than some of the totalitarian countries!
Yes, but like you mention this is because we are spending more time/money incarcerating people who are not really doing anything bad (relatively) like smoking pot or picking up hookers.
We need to fix this, but that doesn't also mean that we don't need to be harder on the real criminals as well. I still would like some of their taxpayer paid perks taken away.
About the worst thing I do anymore is speed
That's not so bad, just stay off LSD
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His tactics are however cheaper for the taxpayers. I think we have seen that spending a ton of money to make prisoners comfortable does not help the crime rate either so we might as well be fiscally responsible about it.
Finkployd
It's the chain gangs and the pink underwear and the striped black 'n white uniforms and the 120F tent cities he runs.
The 120F tent cities seems a bit much, has anyone ever died from that? (I imagine not, or the ACLU would descend on that town like the alien spacecraft in Independence Day). The rest I am all in favor of. How is pink underwear and striped black n white uniforms bad?
I don't think Joe Arpaio (the sheriff's name here for those of you who don't live in Maricopa county, Phoenix or points south) has really done much to lower crime with his "tough ways".
I looked into it quickly and found that it is having little effect. Crime is seems to neither be going up or down. However it is significantly cheaper for the taxpayers.
The guy needs to go. Well, hopefully this coming election.
My understanding is that he is quite popular in the area. I doubt someone running against him on the platform of "making life easier for the criminals at taxpayer expense" is going to make much headway.
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but not to the point that you can get yourself into trouble because one of them dies from heat exhaustion or dehydration.
Has that happened?
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But by all means, let's give the prisoners better accomidations that US army troops,
Blah blah blah blah blah. What year are you in? 1986? Christ, you sound like a commercial for the Reagan reelect campaign. Go watch Hill Street Blues and STFU.
Dated or not, it doesn't make what he said any less true.
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In other words, what you see is all there is.
That vast majority of people at every stage of humanity's scientific progress believed this.
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