So, the republicans will undo Lincoln's work at freeing the slaves and allow it to be state rights? Oh, wait. That is what the south wanted in the first place (which was under democrat control).
There is a constitutional amendment eliminating slavery. There is no such amendment regarding abortion.
As somebody proposed to me, if lose of upper brain function is considered death, then why not let the opposite of it be considered life. Basically, outlaw Abortion at the point where it can be PROVEN that upper brain functions starts (which is probably somewhere in the 2'nd trimester).
Brain function SHOULD be considered the beginning of life. There is much dispute about when that begins, some claim as early as 8 weeks after conception and others claimed as late as the third trimester(those people had to revise their positions when we had premature babies born before the beginning of the third trimester).
Whatever the case may be, when an EEG detects brain activity, the baby should be safe.
But we also need to return to sensable education and science, such as teaching sex ed with birth control.
I'd even go as far as to advocate universal government subsidized birth control
I know that the politicking about his replacement has already started.
Before anyone gets too carried away about abortion litmus tests, remember this.
US Constitution Article VI
Clause 3: The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
Pretty much every oath taken in this country, from being sworn into a courtroom to being sworn in as POTUS, is linked through words and actions to Christianity.
Since when do the Christians have a monopoly on God? Muslims, Jews and some others also believe in a singular "God" as well.
Just hope this won't immediatly swing the issues of legal abortion and religious coersion too far to the right when all is said and done.
This may sound like I'm trolling you, in all honesty I may be, but it is not intentional.
Why the hell do you think we elected GWB to the Whitehouse twice?
He isn't really a fiscal conservative, from what I understand he has outspent Clinton. He was the social conservative with the best chance of winning in 2000.
And what's so activist about wanting to reverse a judicial mistake?
It's our desire to have abortion decided by the states again, as in was before 1973. In places like New York, New Jersey, New England and California abortion laws will most likely remain unchanged but the rest of the country will probably enact some common sense limitations.
Not every distro is Debian. If the maintainers of the distro aren't free software zealots, they can add these things.
I use Mandrake.
Yeah if you were a computer nerd...[Blah Blah Blah]
Do people expect to buy cars and never have to put gas in them or change the oil? Why should they expect to use something as complex as a computer while having no knowledge of what happens inside of them?
If you couldn't be bothered, then you shouldn't bother.
The en masse migration of grandmothers and children to the world of computers has only succeeded in bringing us things like CPIA, chain letter virus hoaxes and the Blaster worm.
IIRC, he did most of the development for BC3000 on his own. I know that Take2 did some work and provided some artwork for it, all controversy aside it seems he did quite well off of it.
Until recently it seems Apple had a fairly decent rep on Slashdot.
That was right up until Apple started to behave like other predatory corporations that I don't need to mention.
Using lawyers to shutdown a news story that you don't like is a SHITTY thing to do.
Screwing over your retailers by directly competing with them is a SHITTY thing to do.
Screwing over your customers by making a retroactive change to your extended warranty program is a SHITTY thing to do.
Refusing to work with other companies like Real and then crying like babies when Real works out an interoperability solution without you is an annoying thing to do.
Apple is a company. Just like any other. They will behave in a shitty matter when that's what returns the best results for their investors. They might have some cooler tech than most other companies, but their tactics and methods are just as shitty as everyone else's.
If AMD were to go to a big Intel based manufacturer, like Dell and purchase their top of the line and have a neutral 3rd party conduct the testing Intel has nothing to complain about. They're not going to claim that Dell doesn't know how to properly configure a machine.
Not only must a good manager know how to manage well, you must also know how to be well managed.
If your manager makes a mistake, correct him/her about it as soon as time permits. If s/he is stubborn and refuses to change an idiotic decision, don't be afraid to go over said manager's head. Go to his/her boss and explain why the mistake will hurt the company.
Crying and wallowing in misery because of someone else's mistake never helps anyone.
Just like any other, they will do whatever they have to do ot make maximum profits.
The idealism that the Steves showed in the 70's and 80's went away. Those young hippy throwbacks grew up, cut their hair and now have children and families to care about. (Except Woz of course, he is still and will always be the man because he understand that you can be both successful and idealistic) They can't risk losing it all anymore.
Apple is just another corporation (Albeit one with some pretty cool technology), it's not Heaven's embassy on earth.
You should be able to protest the President on any patch of public land OR on any patch of private land that you have the owner's consent to be on.
You should be able to protest abortion clinics on any patch of public land OR on any patch of private land that you have the owner's consent to be on.
I would love it if I could snap my fingers and make child pornography disappear forever, but I'm not willing to give up my free speech rights to do it.
Yes, you should be able to post the home address of someone who is unpopular on slashdot.
Yes, you should have the right to lie about them, but they also should have the right to sue you for libel if you do.
Assume for one moment that a future right wing administration makes ACLU or EFF membership a crime. Assume for one moment that a future left wing administration makes NRA membership or Pro Life political activity a crime.
These would all be dissident groups with a lot of support. Just a few thousand people would be enough to keep the data popular enough to remain in circulation on freenet.
Current Freenet development doesn't necessarily reflect future implementations. Instead of using its own protocol with established ports and IP addresses, why couldn't it be used to automate the process of staganographically encoding encrypted information in the images of web sites? All traffic would be on standard ports AND to run of the mill addresses. Nothing would stand out. Freenet development needs to continue so that it can adapt and change to the future needs of its users.
If anyone can give actual provable examples of the US government abridging Constitutionally protected free speech, I'd love to hear it.
This is the devil in the details. One can argue (rather circularly) that if the US Government abridged any speech, then it must not have been constitutionally protected.
The USA Patriot Act makes it illegal to tell anyone(including your own lawyer) that the FBI has served you with one of their secret warrants. What is not unconstitutional about that?
The FACE Act makes it illegal to say or do anything that is perceived as threatening by anyone who works at an abortion clinic. Someone was even incarcerated for parking a Ryder truck across the street from an abortion clinic.
Some easy examples are the people who have been arrested for violating "Free Speech Zones" under President Bush and the woman who was arrested for telling Clinton "You suck" while he was standing at a podium.
It's obvious that you've never played any poker variant that includes rounds of betting. If you've only played draw poker, I can see why you'd think that.
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If we're stupid and we beat your best, twice. That must make you moronic.
LK
So, the republicans will undo Lincoln's work at freeing the slaves and allow it to be state rights? Oh, wait. That is what the south wanted in the first place (which was under democrat control).
There is a constitutional amendment eliminating slavery. There is no such amendment regarding abortion.
As somebody proposed to me, if lose of upper brain function is considered death, then why not let the opposite of it be considered life. Basically, outlaw Abortion at the point where it can be PROVEN that upper brain functions starts (which is probably somewhere in the 2'nd trimester).
Brain function SHOULD be considered the beginning of life. There is much dispute about when that begins, some claim as early as 8 weeks after conception and others claimed as late as the third trimester(those people had to revise their positions when we had premature babies born before the beginning of the third trimester).
Whatever the case may be, when an EEG detects brain activity, the baby should be safe.
But we also need to return to sensable education and science, such as teaching sex ed with birth control.
I'd even go as far as to advocate universal government subsidized birth control
LK
Before anyone gets too carried away about abortion litmus tests, remember this.
US Constitution Article VI
LK
Pretty much every oath taken in this country, from being sworn into a courtroom to being sworn in as POTUS, is linked through words and actions to Christianity.
Since when do the Christians have a monopoly on God? Muslims, Jews and some others also believe in a singular "God" as well.
LK
Just hope this won't immediatly swing the issues of legal abortion and religious coersion too far to the right when all is said and done.
This may sound like I'm trolling you, in all honesty I may be, but it is not intentional.
Why the hell do you think we elected GWB to the Whitehouse twice?
He isn't really a fiscal conservative, from what I understand he has outspent Clinton. He was the social conservative with the best chance of winning in 2000.
And what's so activist about wanting to reverse a judicial mistake?
It's our desire to have abortion decided by the states again, as in was before 1973. In places like New York, New Jersey, New England and California abortion laws will most likely remain unchanged but the rest of the country will probably enact some common sense limitations.
LK
How would they go about proving that it was really you and not someone who has stolen access to your account?
LK
Yup, that explains why the democrats tried to run Kerry against him.
LK
I would imagine that this could make raiding a warez operation even harder.
High speed connectivity on the go would be a dream come true for big time movie, music and software pirates.
LK
The end-user doesn't have to go get the stuff themselves; it's for lazy people./
RedHat, Mandrake, SuSE, Slackware and several others add in many of these things as well.
LK
Wrong accusation, wrong guy. I have photographic proof that I'm not a virgin.
How about you?
LK
Not every distro is Debian. If the maintainers of the distro aren't free software zealots, they can add these things.
I use Mandrake.
Yeah if you were a computer nerd...[Blah Blah Blah]
Do people expect to buy cars and never have to put gas in them or change the oil? Why should they expect to use something as complex as a computer while having no knowledge of what happens inside of them?
If you couldn't be bothered, then you shouldn't bother.
The en masse migration of grandmothers and children to the world of computers has only succeeded in bringing us things like CPIA, chain letter virus hoaxes and the Blaster worm.
LK
Nvidia's drivers are freely available to everyone. Sun is similarly free with Java. What is so special about Linspire's inclusion of them?
LK
Zip makes such large archives compared to rar, ace, and several other formats I'm not sure if it's even worth it anymore.
If they improved the algorithm in WinZip 10 maybe they can make it more competitive.
LK
IIRC, he did most of the development for BC3000 on his own. I know that Take2 did some work and provided some artwork for it, all controversy aside it seems he did quite well off of it.
LK
That's why there aren't any Apple clone computers. Please don't post if you don't know what your talking about.
Take your own advice. PowerComputing, Umax, Daystar and several others made PowerMac Clones.
There are no currently manufactured Apple Clones, but Mac Clones exist. You can buy them on eBay.
LK
Until recently it seems Apple had a fairly decent rep on Slashdot.
That was right up until Apple started to behave like other predatory corporations that I don't need to mention.
Using lawyers to shutdown a news story that you don't like is a SHITTY thing to do.
Screwing over your retailers by directly competing with them is a SHITTY thing to do.
Screwing over your customers by making a retroactive change to your extended warranty program is a SHITTY thing to do.
Refusing to work with other companies like Real and then crying like babies when Real works out an interoperability solution without you is an annoying thing to do.
Apple is a company. Just like any other. They will behave in a shitty matter when that's what returns the best results for their investors. They might have some cooler tech than most other companies, but their tactics and methods are just as shitty as everyone else's.
LK
If AMD were to go to a big Intel based manufacturer, like Dell and purchase their top of the line and have a neutral 3rd party conduct the testing Intel has nothing to complain about. They're not going to claim that Dell doesn't know how to properly configure a machine.
LK
Not only must a good manager know how to manage well, you must also know how to be well managed.
If your manager makes a mistake, correct him/her about it as soon as time permits. If s/he is stubborn and refuses to change an idiotic decision, don't be afraid to go over said manager's head. Go to his/her boss and explain why the mistake will hurt the company.
Crying and wallowing in misery because of someone else's mistake never helps anyone.
LK
Just like any other, they will do whatever they have to do ot make maximum profits.
The idealism that the Steves showed in the 70's and 80's went away. Those young hippy throwbacks grew up, cut their hair and now have children and families to care about. (Except Woz of course, he is still and will always be the man because he understand that you can be both successful and idealistic) They can't risk losing it all anymore.
Apple is just another corporation (Albeit one with some pretty cool technology), it's not Heaven's embassy on earth.
LK
You should be able to protest the President on any patch of public land OR on any patch of private land that you have the owner's consent to be on.
You should be able to protest abortion clinics on any patch of public land OR on any patch of private land that you have the owner's consent to be on.
I would love it if I could snap my fingers and make child pornography disappear forever, but I'm not willing to give up my free speech rights to do it.
Yes, you should be able to post the home address of someone who is unpopular on slashdot.
Yes, you should have the right to lie about them, but they also should have the right to sue you for libel if you do.
LK
Assume for one moment that a future right wing administration makes ACLU or EFF membership a crime. Assume for one moment that a future left wing administration makes NRA membership or Pro Life political activity a crime.
These would all be dissident groups with a lot of support. Just a few thousand people would be enough to keep the data popular enough to remain in circulation on freenet.
Current Freenet development doesn't necessarily reflect future implementations. Instead of using its own protocol with established ports and IP addresses, why couldn't it be used to automate the process of staganographically encoding encrypted information in the images of web sites? All traffic would be on standard ports AND to run of the mill addresses. Nothing would stand out. Freenet development needs to continue so that it can adapt and change to the future needs of its users.
LK
If anyone can give actual provable examples of the US government abridging Constitutionally protected free speech, I'd love to hear it.
This is the devil in the details. One can argue (rather circularly) that if the US Government abridged any speech, then it must not have been constitutionally protected.
The USA Patriot Act makes it illegal to tell anyone(including your own lawyer) that the FBI has served you with one of their secret warrants. What is not unconstitutional about that?
The FACE Act makes it illegal to say or do anything that is perceived as threatening by anyone who works at an abortion clinic. Someone was even incarcerated for parking a Ryder truck across the street from an abortion clinic.
Some easy examples are the people who have been arrested for violating "Free Speech Zones" under President Bush and the woman who was arrested for telling Clinton "You suck" while he was standing at a podium.
LK
Oh what a delicious irony. Insecurity and the Dept of Security.
Yes, that was the joke. I know I'll sleep better tonight knowing that you got it.
LK
It's obvious that you've never played any poker variant that includes rounds of betting. If you've only played draw poker, I can see why you'd think that.
LK
This is not 1964, earrings in men(well, at least in the ears) are no big deal anymore.
LK