I have not taken a history course since my last one in high school ten years ago. I have no particular interest in history. I got 31 right. That the voters and officials are doing so badly is a good sign that something has gone wrong with both our education system and our democracy.
Yes. The web search/advertising market was very young, Yahoo! and MS's search engines sucked, their designs were fundamentally wrong for the direction the web was going, they showed no indication that they were going to make any meaningful changes.
The CPU market was not young, Intel and AMD had decent products, and they were pouring resources into R&D.
Can we please cut it out with the everybody-interested-in-technology-is-a-fat-slob jokes? And the everybody-interested-in-technology-is-socially-inept-and-has-no-luck-with-the-opposite-gender jokes? Seriously, it's getting old.
The outcome of the Linksys situation was that code was released giving people enough information to run Linux on consumer hardware. I can't imagine they have changed Ghostscript in any way that would be useful or interesting to consumers.
At the location where I voted, they were being very careful that the number next to the name matched the number on the machine. I stayed and watched for a while, and every handful of votes the guy next to the machine and the lady with the piece of paper made sure they were at the same number.
What attitude? Recognition that the politicians are willing to screw their constituents for money and power? Which country are you from in which that is not the case? I might like to move there.
You want to tell the US government to go fuck itself. So do a huge number of US citizens, myself included.
But do you really think that the leaders of the other first world and developing countries are not the same kind of power-hungry, lying, cheating politicians, and that they will not work with others of the same ilk to get more power at your expense?
Then why do they need to record the number the machine assigned to my vote? That I walked into the machine and pulled the lever should just get a check next to my name.
I voted today in New York State. The poll workers recorded each voter's name and the number the voting machine assigned to his vote. I asked them why and they replied that the board of elections told them to.
What is going on? The board of elections can now see who everybody voted for. I thought we had the right to a secret ballot.
He plans to charge employers that do not offer meaningful coverage more than what those who do offer meaningful coverage already pay. Thus, employers will take the cheaper option of providing meaningful coverage. In effect, he wants to mandate what health coverage employers provide to their employees.
Please point out where in the constitution it says that the federal government has the authority to stipulate how much employers must spend in benefits for their employees. (Hint: it does not.)
Or else he is lying. Like when he said that he opposed telecom immunity before he voted for it. Or when he said that he would use public campaign financing if McCain did, and then did not.
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I have not taken a history course since my last one in high school ten years ago. I have no particular interest in history. I got 31 right. That the voters and officials are doing so badly is a good sign that something has gone wrong with both our education system and our democracy.
You only need write access to your home directory to install the flash plugin for Firefox.
Yes. The web search/advertising market was very young, Yahoo! and MS's search engines sucked, their designs were fundamentally wrong for the direction the web was going, they showed no indication that they were going to make any meaningful changes.
The CPU market was not young, Intel and AMD had decent products, and they were pouring resources into R&D.
Bell doesn't have a de facto monopoly. They have a legislated monopoly, courtesy of your government.
"public inertia gathers to dump them on the curb."
When has public displeasure ever resulted in a government program getting dumped?
Sure, we got out of Vietnam, and you may argue that public opposition had a lot to do with it, but the exact same programs are now active in Iraq.
Not exactly the same way. Adults learn to be subtle, to ensure plausible deniability, to employ double-talk, and to cover their asses.
Kids call it bullying. Adults call it politics.
EAL does not mean what you think it does.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaluation_Assurance_Level
Oh please. Adults act exactly the same way.
Obeying the law is quaint. I will just tell that to the traffic pigs.
No it hasn't. Bush & Co. spent years planning their assault on the constitution.
Exactly which part of the constitution are we deliberately misinterpreting to give the federal government the authority to do this?
Can we please cut it out with the everybody-interested-in-technology-is-a-fat-slob jokes? And the everybody-interested-in-technology-is-socially-inept-and-has-no-luck-with-the-opposite-gender jokes? Seriously, it's getting old.
I use OpenWRT. It is great. You missed the point. With Linksys, the code in question was a modified version of Linux. That is what got released.
In this case, the code is a probably not modified version of Ghostscript. If it gets released, it won't help anybody.
The outcome of the Linksys situation was that code was released giving people enough information to run Linux on consumer hardware. I can't imagine they have changed Ghostscript in any way that would be useful or interesting to consumers.
At the location where I voted, they were being very careful that the number next to the name matched the number on the machine. I stayed and watched for a while, and every handful of votes the guy next to the machine and the lady with the piece of paper made sure they were at the same number.
You'll find that in the laws of the individual states.
What attitude? Recognition that the politicians are willing to screw their constituents for money and power? Which country are you from in which that is not the case? I might like to move there.
You want to tell the US government to go fuck itself. So do a huge number of US citizens, myself included.
But do you really think that the leaders of the other first world and developing countries are not the same kind of power-hungry, lying, cheating politicians, and that they will not work with others of the same ilk to get more power at your expense?
Then why do they need to record the number the machine assigned to my vote? That I walked into the machine and pulled the lever should just get a check next to my name.
I figured the machine printed a paper ballot with the number stamped on it. I should have checked the machine's make and model.
I voted today in New York State. The poll workers recorded each voter's name and the number the voting machine assigned to his vote. I asked them why and they replied that the board of elections told them to.
What is going on? The board of elections can now see who everybody voted for. I thought we had the right to a secret ballot.
Because the local ISPs will throw money at city councils to have them kill the projects.
He plans to charge employers that do not offer meaningful coverage more than what those who do offer meaningful coverage already pay. Thus, employers will take the cheaper option of providing meaningful coverage. In effect, he wants to mandate what health coverage employers provide to their employees.
Please point out where in the constitution it says that the federal government has the authority to stipulate how much employers must spend in benefits for their employees. (Hint: it does not.)
Or else he is lying. Like when he said that he opposed telecom immunity before he voted for it. Or when he said that he would use public campaign financing if McCain did, and then did not.
Why should a kid get an inferior education just because of the number he got in the lottery?
I would support school selection based on performance, but you can't start that until middle school.
I am very in favor of kids going to school nearby and walking there.
Really, I am in favor of dropping public education entirely. But as long as we are going to keep it, let us make sure it works.