IAAL (I Am A Lawyer) and this is entirely meaningless unless it is ruled by the supreme court. Hopefully on appeal the Supreme Court accepts this case.
You don't understand. Hopefully the USSC does NOT hear this case. If they refuse to hear it, the current ruling stands.
If you purchased an iMac, you did that at least a couple years after Jobs renigged on the contracts with PowerComputing, Umax, Motorola, et. al.
I bought a rev a iMac from an Apple dealer that I used to work for. It was broken and wouldn't work. I got it for $20.
As for the 'resultant changes to the hardware' Jobs and Company as only improved Apple hardware.
None of my peripherals would work with a new Mac. If I was going to have to buy it all from scratch, I was going to go with a platform that allows me to play the games I wanted to.
I'd also encourage you to shut down the iMac and just let the Performa 6400 function as both a 'linux server' and your 'web server'. No need for two computers to be jacking up your electric bill. And you can run the 6400 headless.
I'm running both of the headless. I removed the logic board as well as the analog/power board from the iMac shell and put them in a custom enclosure.
I'm also running the distributed.net client on both of them. The iMac is surprisingly fast at cracking keys.
I don't know of any states which place polling stations inside penitentiaries, however.
By reading up on the subject I was able to find out that Maine, Vermont and Massachusetts allow inmates to vote. I don't know if that means polls inside of the prisons or absentee ballots.
I just downloaded and played StarChamber after reading this story. It seemed really cool at first, but it looks like this "free" game is just a way to hawk their Virtual Trading Cards.
If Iraq had had an election in which Tariq Aziz was in charge of the election and Saddam Hussein had been elected would anyone believe it had been a fair election? Same thing applies here, the process should be seen to impartial and it isn't.
Um, Iraq had SEVERAL elections in which Saddam was elected president. No one else in the world cared if it was legit or not.
Glenda Hood, (aka an elector for George W. Bush in 2000) recently attempted to disqualify 22,000 African Americans (likely Democrats), but only 61 Hispanics (likely Republicans), as alleged felons.
The Democrats are taking part in the same type of racial stereotyping that they accuse Republicans of. They are assuming that these black people are likely Democrats and that the latino people are likely Republicans soley because of the color of their skin.
Did they take the time to look at the voter registrations?
If you're still saving up, by the time you finally do decide to ante up, you'll be able to afford a sweet ass computer to go along with whatever burner you choose.
Pay anywhere between $1.99 and $4.99 so that you can use your own bandwidth to download a movie. You have ONE 24 hour window to watch the movie. You can't burn it to DVD. You have to pay to watch it again after the window is over.
If the popular vote was implemented before 2000 we wouldn't be suffering from the insane megalomanical texan from hell(aka as 'w' in the sheep-fucker/slave master circles).
Dude, seriously, the election is over. Your guy lost. Get over it. Even we conservatives eventually stopped crying about how Perot cost us the 1992 election.
Given the rules that were in place on election day 2000, Al Gore lost. It's as simple as that. Now, you want to look back and say "Well, if the rules had been different, we would have won!" Maybe, but they weren't different.
Moreover, not every absentee ballot was counted. They didn't need to be. In California alone, Gore won by such a margin that even if every absentee ballot was cast for Bush it wouldn't have changed the result of that state's election. But, it is possible that the uncounted absentee ballots would have been enough to cause a swing in the popular vote. We'll never know.
Unfortunately I live in a conservative state, where my voice won't be heard.
I'm from Pittsburgh. It's an odd place. TONS of hunters and religious conservatives, but lots of union democrats. It shapes up that all of the county offices are held by Democrats, the govornor is a Democrat, but our Senators are Republicans.
In 2000, my state went to Gore. Know what? My vote didn't matter either. My uncounted vote for Bush cancels out your uncounted vote for Gore.
Back when I had a 1x writer. It was a deal and a half back then. Give the market some time, they'll come down to $1 a disc eventually..
I got my first CD Burner in 1997. I paid $299 for an external SCSI from JVC when internals were going for the same price. The discs were outrageously expensive. I would need to do a good 15-20 minutes of prep work before I burned a disc just to make sure I wouldn't have a buffer underrun. They were WAY too expensive to waste.
The current argument is for 2 same sex people getting married, and if there should be a constitutional ban on that (which I say no!).
No, the current argument is one side saying that society has the right to define marriage and the other side is saying that society can't impose one definition of marriage upon people who don't agree.
Personally, I'd like to have two wifes. When one is being particularly bitchy, I can roll over to be with the other. But society has decided that three people can't enter a marriage. Society has also decided that people of the same gender can't enter a marriage.
With no moon, the tides would stop. Without tides, the oceans would become large pools of stagnant water. They'd putrify like one gigantic toilet that never gets flushed.
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IAAL (I Am A Lawyer) and this is entirely meaningless unless it is ruled by the supreme court. Hopefully on appeal the Supreme Court accepts this case.
You don't understand. Hopefully the USSC does NOT hear this case. If they refuse to hear it, the current ruling stands.
LK
How about releasing "Spaceballs The Flamethrower"?
Everytime I go to the mall and ask if it's available yet, they call security on me.
LK
You are a dumb ass. Not only did you not RTFA, you didn't even read the fucking summary.
LK
Why?
Because if there is no limit, then ANYONE could enter the debates.
I'm not yet 35, but I could declare myself a candidate and get in on the debates if there are no limits on who can enter.
It's idiocy to have no limits. The only questions are where they are and who sets them.
LK
Look again, I'm "Person:3".
LK
If you purchased an iMac, you did that at least a couple years after Jobs renigged on the contracts with PowerComputing, Umax, Motorola, et. al.
I bought a rev a iMac from an Apple dealer that I used to work for. It was broken and wouldn't work. I got it for $20.
As for the 'resultant changes to the hardware' Jobs and Company as only improved Apple hardware.
None of my peripherals would work with a new Mac. If I was going to have to buy it all from scratch, I was going to go with a platform that allows me to play the games I wanted to.
I'd also encourage you to shut down the iMac and just let the Performa 6400 function as both a 'linux server' and your 'web server'. No need for two computers to be jacking up your electric bill. And you can run the 6400 headless.
I'm running both of the headless. I removed the logic board as well as the analog/power board from the iMac shell and put them in a custom enclosure.
I'm also running the distributed.net client on both of them. The iMac is surprisingly fast at cracking keys.
LK
I don't know of any states which place polling stations inside penitentiaries, however.
By reading up on the subject I was able to find out that Maine, Vermont and Massachusetts allow inmates to vote. I don't know if that means polls inside of the prisons or absentee ballots.
LK
No one has done /. better, and no one has done iTunes better, and didn't someone say, "Bring 'em on." Nah...
What the fuck are you talking about you karma whore?
I just downloaded and played StarChamber after reading this story. It seemed really cool at first, but it looks like this "free" game is just a way to hawk their Virtual Trading Cards.
Thanks, but no thanks.
LK
If Iraq had had an election in which Tariq Aziz was in charge of the election and Saddam Hussein had been elected would anyone believe it had been a fair election? Same thing applies here, the process should be seen to impartial and it isn't.
Um, Iraq had SEVERAL elections in which Saddam was elected president. No one else in the world cared if it was legit or not.
LK
Those gnaa posts and the website are too stupid to be offensive to anyone. Except maybe competent trolls and web designers.
LK
Glenda Hood, (aka an elector for George W. Bush in 2000) recently attempted to disqualify 22,000 African Americans (likely Democrats), but only 61 Hispanics (likely Republicans), as alleged felons.
The Democrats are taking part in the same type of racial stereotyping that they accuse Republicans of. They are assuming that these black people are likely Democrats and that the latino people are likely Republicans soley because of the color of their skin.
Did they take the time to look at the voter registrations?
LK
the felons can't vote, cry me a river. maybe they should have thought of that before committing a felony?
Not necessarily. In many states, felons can petition to have their voting rights restored.
LK
If you're still saving up, by the time you finally do decide to ante up, you'll be able to afford a sweet ass computer to go along with whatever burner you choose.
LK
Pay anywhere between $1.99 and $4.99 so that you can use your own bandwidth to download a movie. You have ONE 24 hour window to watch the movie. You can't burn it to DVD. You have to pay to watch it again after the window is over.
Netflix is a better deal.
LK
Bush I didn't win the popular vote in 1992.
Neither did Clinton.
LK
If the popular vote was implemented before 2000 we wouldn't be suffering from the insane megalomanical texan from hell(aka as 'w' in the sheep-fucker/slave master circles).
Dude, seriously, the election is over. Your guy lost. Get over it. Even we conservatives eventually stopped crying about how Perot cost us the 1992 election.
Given the rules that were in place on election day 2000, Al Gore lost. It's as simple as that. Now, you want to look back and say "Well, if the rules had been different, we would have won!" Maybe, but they weren't different.
Moreover, not every absentee ballot was counted. They didn't need to be. In California alone, Gore won by such a margin that even if every absentee ballot was cast for Bush it wouldn't have changed the result of that state's election. But, it is possible that the uncounted absentee ballots would have been enough to cause a swing in the popular vote. We'll never know.
Unfortunately I live in a conservative state, where my voice won't be heard.
I'm from Pittsburgh. It's an odd place. TONS of hunters and religious conservatives, but lots of union democrats. It shapes up that all of the county offices are held by Democrats, the govornor is a Democrat, but our Senators are Republicans.
In 2000, my state went to Gore. Know what? My vote didn't matter either. My uncounted vote for Bush cancels out your uncounted vote for Gore.
LK
Back when I had a 1x writer. It was a deal and a half back then. Give the market some time, they'll come down to $1 a disc eventually..
I got my first CD Burner in 1997. I paid $299 for an external SCSI from JVC when internals were going for the same price. The discs were outrageously expensive. I would need to do a good 15-20 minutes of prep work before I burned a disc just to make sure I wouldn't have a buffer underrun. They were WAY too expensive to waste.
LK
Your comparison is terrible..an athlon64 CPU alone would cost more then a whole xbox system.
Your point is valid, but the details are a bit off you can get a new Athlon 64 2800+ for less than the cost of a new ZBox.
An Athlon 64 + Motherboard combo will be more expensive than a new XBox.
LK
Although a lot of people were upset with how Jobs handled the clone wars.
The killing of the clones and the resultant changes to the hardware are the primary reasons why I'm no longer a mac user.
I am using a Performa 6400 as a linux server and I have a machine that used to be an iMac running a web server but I'm done with Apple.
LK
Piss off your hardcore fans and suddenly you find yourself in a world of shit.
Lucas finds himself in the same position as Steve Jobs. He can shit all over the loyal fans and the most hardcore will only become MORE loyal.
LK
I guess these skeptics have never heard of cryopreservative solutions (sophicsticated antifreezes).
Glucose is nature's cryopreservative.
That's how Wood Frogs can freeze solid without massive tissue damage.
LK
The current argument is for 2 same sex people getting married, and if there should be a constitutional ban on that (which I say no!).
No, the current argument is one side saying that society has the right to define marriage and the other side is saying that society can't impose one definition of marriage upon people who don't agree.
Personally, I'd like to have two wifes. When one is being particularly bitchy, I can roll over to be with the other. But society has decided that three people can't enter a marriage. Society has also decided that people of the same gender can't enter a marriage.
It's the same thing.
LK
Though I am curious to know if their is an official plan for countering a colliding asteriod?
They'd probably tell us that the object is going to come close, but miss us.
What's the point in causing a global panic if there's nothing that can be done to stop it?
LK
What would happen if it hit the moon?
All life on the planet would probable die.
With no moon, the tides would stop. Without tides, the oceans would become large pools of stagnant water. They'd putrify like one gigantic toilet that never gets flushed.
It would all go downhill after that.
LK