We have a current sitting President that see's nothing in his instance of over ruling scientific findings on stem cell research and yet claiming that other Islamic fundamentalism is wrong..
How does your party stand on the issue of going forward into a secular modern USa society in the US or going into civil war between competing fundamentalism explotation of the world's resources??..
Sigh... he hasn't "over ruling scientific findings", he's used his executive authority to direct federal agencies in what they should do. In "what should we do", he is guided by his faith, as opposed to his whims, feelings, "logic" without any axioms, trendy anti-religiosity, etc.
Oh, and by the way, Islamic fundamentalists cut off innocent people's heads. Your head is perfectly safe, should you decide to visit a fundamentalist Christian church.
BTW, Firefox browser just had a recent flaw (prior to 1.0) so should I switch to I.E., or upgrade to Firefox 1.0? Your logic is swayed by your hatred towards Windows, as most others who will flame me for writing this.
While the submitter's suggestion is indeed off base, you are unhinged. The fact that FireFox has ever had a security flaw makes it no different from IE? That's like saying the fact that {upscale neighborhood} has *ever* had a crime makes it no safer than Compton.
I currently own a nice 36" tv with decent resolution(even though it is analog). Personally, I have no compelling reason to shell out my hard earned cash on a HD-TV.
Preach it, brother. Maybe this switch will finally get us out of watching TV altogether (my family watches very little as it is).
TV isn't a right. TV is for entertainment and education, both of which you can get elsewhere. The government assisting people with television upgrades is such a huge waste of money. If you can't afford a television upgrade yourself, then you have a few years to start saving.
It's the fscking government that's forcing the broadcasters to switch! It wasn't their idea.
So yeah, if it's so much in society's common interest to force this new format, maybe society should pay the bleepin' costs, too.
...we just put an "X" in a "box" on something called a piece of paper. On this piece of paper, which we call a "ballot", there is a list of perhaps 4 or 5 names depending on the number of candidates running. You mark an "X" beside the name of the person you wish to vote for... then you take this "ballot" and place it in a cardboard-box.
Tee hee.
There was never a technical problem, just a political, or perhaps social one, of losers who were willing to do anything, even attack faith in democracy, to win.
I'd love a simple paper ballot. But thanks to Al Gore (Al Gore! All that for Al Gore... shakes head) we live in the world of the post modern election (how did the person mean to vote).
I can't wait to see what the left's lawyers would do with paper and pencil - hanging serifs on the X, instead of hanging chads?
Interesting. What makes.asf and.wmv "usual" formats while.ogg is not? Does "usual" mean industry standard? I didn't know that.asf and.wmv support were de-facto standards yet. Has anybody submitted.ogg to a standards body?
They're "usual" because they are widely used, and supported by players. That's what "usual" means!
As for standards, well, they may be de facto standards. No non-egghead knows what the hell ogg is. I'm not commenting on whether they should or not, but they don't.
I wonder how much google supresses certain news stories that the US fed deems innappropriate?
I doubt at all. I mean, every day there's headlines about this or that bad news from Iraq, or "news" like "Kerry said blah blah...". Not to mention "reputable" exposes from CBS.
I know it's popular for today's youngsters to pose as though they are living in an oppresive dictatorship, but it's bunk, and really insulting to those who actually do.
... not for AOL, but for VPN access when I work off site.
It works great. I'm actually more strongly authenticated that way then when I'm really at work (if you ignore social factors like "who the hell is that?"). I still need my network password to get to shares and email and so forth. And (not that this applies to the AOL situation) the VPN only grants me access to a specified list of servers, not everything theoretically in reach in the {US State Government}'s network.
BTW, those comments like "what business would use AOL"? You might want to grow up a little. Until relatively recently, it made good sense to have dial up accounts for your employees that they could use anywhere in the country, dealing with a large established company for billing and support.
But I'm picturing an Orkut or Friendster or other lame "social network"... would the users have fake pictures that make them look worse and more decayed, rather than better (unlike their living counterparts)?
Tis is ridiculous. We had that kind of houses for YEARS in europe, at least in germany. And its not a niche-market around here but mainstream. Due to the fact that energy and heating costs are very high in germany a lot of people consider a "low-energy-house" or even a "zero-energy-House". But im happy to see that america finally found out about some enviromentally sound ideas from last century. Whats next cleaner air? Less fuel? Kyoto?
So, basically, you're proud that your energy costs are high, and you don't like Americans. Gotcha. It's so refreshing to see this rare point of view, almost unheard of on Slashdot.
Oh and on question 3... is "fissile materials" really a word?
Well, it's two words, but yes, it is a normal term... or sounds normal to this former Navy nuke.
The whole "Bush is dumb" thing gets really boring... neither of them is a scientist, nor does either of them study router tables or web server logs. So?
I've heard this argument before, but I just don't get it. Do you honestly feel that an athiest is some kind of wild-man who runs around in a totally sociopathic way?
No, but the athiest is somebody who has a cultural inheritence from societies who's morals were shaped by religion.
And you do see a drift, over time, towards that wild man thing. The 60's flower children had a huge cultural inheritence of religion-based stability, so they just assumed that if you did away with all that morality jazz we'd all just live in peace and free love harmony. Didn't quite work out that way, did it? And every generation since has less and less of that inheritence of morality.
Bush's supporters have been shown to vote for him soely on moral ground.
And? Why shouldn't somebody need to be moral to hold a position of great responsibility?
The poorest county in america voted more then 80% for Bush. Why you ask? Because Bush has the Christian Right, a sizeable population.
This is an odd argument. I hadn't noticed that the poor and uneducated of the inner cities, for example, were voting Republican. It's also a rather offensive, sneering argument that relieves you of the need to think, ironically.
Bush can screw the enviroment,
He has done no such thing.
tax people into the ground,
Um, he's the guy who cut taxes. Kerry wants to raise them, er, repeal the cuts, er, something, unless you actually ask him, or something.
reinstate the draft,
That is a Moore-ian fantasy.
declare war on canada and mexico
Are we into Saturday Night Live now, or what?
If people will wake up and realize that voting for Bush without understanding the issues is killing our country, then perhapse they will change... but until then bush can look forward to having all the bible thumpers under his belt, and abusing his power more and more. Ah well, personally, I think you should have to have a slashdot account to vote this year.
That this sort of bigotry is considered "insightful" is just pathetic.
...but you cannot have a religious fundamentalist oil baron as president and expect him to respect pure science. I would take it a step further and say that you cannot have a truly religious person be impartial, unbiased, and untainted when making any type of policy-wide science-related decision. It's oil and water; religion and science just don't gel. Oh yeah, people say then can and do, but those people are usually of the religiously inclined, who are trying to stay true to their belief system without looking like a progress-hating ignoramous.
Sorry to reply twice, but this is a separate thought.
Does it really "bear repeating"? Is it like a new idea, completely unexplored by the news media and pop culture? Will we not hear this point of view if you don't repeat it?
Do you realize that this is the completely conventional, mainstream view of pop culture?
I would take it a step further and say that you cannot have a truly religious person be impartial, unbiased, and untainted when making any type of policy-wide science-related decision. It's oil and water; religion and science just don't gel. Oh yeah, people say then can and do, but those people are usually of the religiously inclined, who are trying to stay true to their belief system without looking like a progress-hating ignoramous.
Another way of saying that is: If you are religiously inclined, you may not like being bashed, so you try to explain to the basher why he is wrong. If you are not religiously inclined, you can either just remain silent, or join in the bashing.
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I'd like to see posters in this discussion indicate if they have kids or not. I'm going to guess that those who post "not over my dead body/evil CIA tracking device/civil liberties being eroded by govt." are the single adults who've never lost a small child they are responsible for in a large, crowded public place.
Damn straight. If I ever take my eyes off my kids in public, it's by accident. I don't see why a tag that assists me in doing the exact same thing is evil.
So I decided to search for "Alexa" since the web search results were "enhanced" by Google and Alexa. Along side the search results were the image results. A naked "Alexa" appears as the first results.
Of course, I tried this, um for research purposes only.
This is the freakin' default! Aggh! (I was at work too...).
Why on Earth do you blame the President? What do you think a President can do that would have made anything different? Do you even know what a President does, vs. what Congress does? And do you think that from Government all blessings flow?
SBC is a baby bell in heredity. I'm assuming TDS Metrocom is a CLEC, and that they are in fact using re=sold SBC lines, since I haven't heard tell of any true alternative LECs running their own physical networks. Your lines are still serviced and providiosned by SBC, subcontracted to TDS Metrocom. TDS is probably just operating a more efficient business on a lower profit margin than the front offices of SBC do.
Well, yeah (though it isn't the baby bell that actually can claim lineage here), but your original message seemed to indicate that this situation was a problem.
I'm just saying that it seems to work fine. As a heavily regulated monopoly, SBC's "ownership" is mostly in name anyway, yes? The system you advise basically exists, except the contractor "owns" the lines rather than just services them. As MS discovered with Internet Explorer, "owning" something you can't easily profit from ain't such a great deal, even if it is ubiquitous.
Anyhow, I don't see how prices would be any lower or service any better if the local governments "owned" the network. They would have an almost irresistable incentive (over time) to raise prices without calling it a tax, probably on the "luxury" (broadband) component.
The government's answer to these competitive problems to date in the electric and telecomm markets is to enforce a really stupid form of competition, and require incumbent telcos and power providers to share their physical network with startups (where "share" means basically resell). So now You can choose Traditional Company A, or one of A's 50 crappy resellers who have no physical infrastructure of their own.
Not sure what you're going on about - it works fine where I live. TDS Metrocom smokes SBC in every category, price and service, for phone and data.
It's not like SBC built the damn network anyway - I just loved the commercials they briefly ran about "our lines, our networks". Uh, what about Ma Bell? The baby bell? You SBC guys are the fscking carpet baggers around here.
The whole deliniation of good and evil being a comfort sounds like what it preached every Sunday across the US. Does that make religion a practice of fantasy?
That's what athiests tell themselves, yes, to make themselves feel smart and superior.
In reality, it is the unwillingness to face the reality of good and evil that is simplistic and childish. Recognizing that good and evil are real means work - it means you have to do something about it, within yourself and within the world. So much easier to convince yourself that everything is a shade of gray, and that morality means whatever you feel like doing anyway.
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We have a current sitting President that see's nothing in his instance of over ruling scientific findings on stem cell research and yet claiming that other Islamic fundamentalism is wrong..
How does your party stand on the issue of going forward into a secular modern USa society in the US or going into civil war between competing fundamentalism explotation of the world's resources??..
Sigh ... he hasn't "over ruling scientific findings", he's used his executive authority to direct federal agencies in what they should do. In "what should we do", he is guided by his faith, as opposed to his whims, feelings, "logic" without any axioms, trendy anti-religiosity, etc.
Oh, and by the way, Islamic fundamentalists cut off innocent people's heads. Your head is perfectly safe, should you decide to visit a fundamentalist Christian church.
BTW, Firefox browser just had a recent flaw (prior to 1.0) so should I switch to I.E., or upgrade to Firefox 1.0? Your logic is swayed by your hatred towards Windows, as most others who will flame me for writing this.
While the submitter's suggestion is indeed off base, you are unhinged. The fact that FireFox has ever had a security flaw makes it no different from IE? That's like saying the fact that {upscale neighborhood} has *ever* had a crime makes it no safer than Compton.
As President, you would at best be able to veto bills and direct some agency policies (within the confines of legislation).
Why are you seeking the presidency, particularly? Why is it the best strategy for achieving your goals?
I currently own a nice 36" tv with decent resolution(even though it is analog). Personally, I have no compelling reason to shell out my hard earned cash on a HD-TV.
Preach it, brother. Maybe this switch will finally get us out of watching TV altogether (my family watches very little as it is).
TV isn't a right. TV is for entertainment and education, both of which you can get elsewhere. The government assisting people with television upgrades is such a huge waste of money. If you can't afford a television upgrade yourself, then you have a few years to start saving.
It's the fscking government that's forcing the broadcasters to switch! It wasn't their idea.
So yeah, if it's so much in society's common interest to force this new format, maybe society should pay the bleepin' costs, too.
Tee hee.
There was never a technical problem, just a political, or perhaps social one, of losers who were willing to do anything, even attack faith in democracy, to win.
I'd love a simple paper ballot. But thanks to Al Gore (Al Gore! All that for Al Gore ... shakes head) we live in the world of the post modern election (how did the person mean to vote).
I can't wait to see what the left's lawyers would do with paper and pencil - hanging serifs on the X, instead of hanging chads?
Interesting. What makes .asf and .wmv "usual" formats while .ogg is not? Does "usual" mean industry standard? I didn't know that .asf and .wmv support were de-facto standards yet. Has anybody submitted .ogg to a standards body?
They're "usual" because they are widely used, and supported by players. That's what "usual" means!
As for standards, well, they may be de facto standards. No non-egghead knows what the hell ogg is. I'm not commenting on whether they should or not, but they don't.
I wonder how much google supresses certain news stories that the US fed deems innappropriate?
I doubt at all. I mean, every day there's headlines about this or that bad news from Iraq, or "news" like "Kerry said blah blah ...". Not to mention "reputable" exposes from CBS.
I know it's popular for today's youngsters to pose as though they are living in an oppresive dictatorship, but it's bunk, and really insulting to those who actually do.
OpenOffice?
... not for AOL, but for VPN access when I work off site.
It works great. I'm actually more strongly authenticated that way then when I'm really at work (if you ignore social factors like "who the hell is that?"). I still need my network password to get to shares and email and so forth. And (not that this applies to the AOL situation) the VPN only grants me access to a specified list of servers, not everything theoretically in reach in the {US State Government}'s network.
BTW, those comments like "what business would use AOL"? You might want to grow up a little. Until relatively recently, it made good sense to have dial up accounts for your employees that they could use anywhere in the country, dealing with a large established company for billing and support.
Yeah, I know, enough zombie jokes ...
But I'm picturing an Orkut or Friendster or other lame "social network" ... would the users have fake pictures that make them look worse and more decayed, rather than better (unlike their living counterparts)?
Tis is ridiculous. We had that kind of houses for YEARS in europe, at least in germany. And its not a niche-market around here but mainstream. Due to the fact that energy and heating costs are very high in germany a lot of people consider a "low-energy-house" or even a "zero-energy-House". But im happy to see that america finally found out about some enviromentally sound ideas from last century. Whats next cleaner air? Less fuel? Kyoto?
So, basically, you're proud that your energy costs are high, and you don't like Americans. Gotcha. It's so refreshing to see this rare point of view, almost unheard of on Slashdot.
Oh and on question 3... is "fissile materials" really a word?
Well, it's two words, but yes, it is a normal term ... or sounds normal to this former Navy nuke.
The whole "Bush is dumb" thing gets really boring ... neither of them is a scientist, nor does either of them study router tables or web server logs. So?
I've heard this argument before, but I just don't get it. Do you honestly feel that an athiest is some kind of wild-man who runs around in a totally sociopathic way?
No, but the athiest is somebody who has a cultural inheritence from societies who's morals were shaped by religion.
And you do see a drift, over time, towards that wild man thing. The 60's flower children had a huge cultural inheritence of religion-based stability, so they just assumed that if you did away with all that morality jazz we'd all just live in peace and free love harmony. Didn't quite work out that way, did it? And every generation since has less and less of that inheritence of morality.
Bush's supporters have been shown to vote for him soely on moral ground.
And? Why shouldn't somebody need to be moral to hold a position of great responsibility?
The poorest county in america voted more then 80% for Bush. Why you ask? Because Bush has the Christian Right, a sizeable population.
This is an odd argument. I hadn't noticed that the poor and uneducated of the inner cities, for example, were voting Republican. It's also a rather offensive, sneering argument that relieves you of the need to think, ironically.
Bush can screw the enviroment,
He has done no such thing.
tax people into the ground,
Um, he's the guy who cut taxes. Kerry wants to raise them, er, repeal the cuts, er, something, unless you actually ask him, or something.
reinstate the draft,
That is a Moore-ian fantasy.
declare war on canada and mexico
Are we into Saturday Night Live now, or what?
If people will wake up and realize that voting for Bush without understanding the issues is killing our country, then perhapse they will change... but until then bush can look forward to having all the bible thumpers under his belt, and abusing his power more and more. Ah well, personally, I think you should have to have a slashdot account to vote this year.
That this sort of bigotry is considered "insightful" is just pathetic.
Sorry to reply twice, but this is a separate thought.
Does it really "bear repeating"? Is it like a new idea, completely unexplored by the news media and pop culture? Will we not hear this point of view if you don't repeat it?
Do you realize that this is the completely conventional, mainstream view of pop culture?
I would take it a step further and say that you cannot have a truly religious person be impartial, unbiased, and untainted when making any type of policy-wide science-related decision. It's oil and water; religion and science just don't gel. Oh yeah, people say then can and do, but those people are usually of the religiously inclined, who are trying to stay true to their belief system without looking like a progress-hating ignoramous.
Another way of saying that is: If you are religiously inclined, you may not like being bashed, so you try to explain to the basher why he is wrong. If you are not religiously inclined, you can either just remain silent, or join in the bashing.
I'd like to see posters in this discussion indicate if they have kids or not. I'm going to guess that those who post "not over my dead body/evil CIA tracking device/civil liberties being eroded by govt." are the single adults who've never lost a small child they are responsible for in a large, crowded public place.
Damn straight. If I ever take my eyes off my kids in public, it's by accident. I don't see why a tag that assists me in doing the exact same thing is evil.
So I decided to search for "Alexa" since the web search results were "enhanced" by Google and Alexa. Along side the search results were the image results. A naked "Alexa" appears as the first results.
Of course, I tried this, um for research purposes only.
This is the freakin' default! Aggh! (I was at work too ...).
Thank you, God, for giving me ears of clay :)
it's down 48%.
Thanks, George. You useless freakin Dork.
Why on Earth do you blame the President? What do you think a President can do that would have made anything different? Do you even know what a President does, vs. what Congress does? And do you think that from Government all blessings flow?
SBC is a baby bell in heredity. I'm assuming TDS Metrocom is a CLEC, and that they are in fact using re=sold SBC lines, since I haven't heard tell of any true alternative LECs running their own physical networks. Your lines are still serviced and providiosned by SBC, subcontracted to TDS Metrocom. TDS is probably just operating a more efficient business on a lower profit margin than the front offices of SBC do.
Well, yeah (though it isn't the baby bell that actually can claim lineage here), but your original message seemed to indicate that this situation was a problem.
I'm just saying that it seems to work fine. As a heavily regulated monopoly, SBC's "ownership" is mostly in name anyway, yes? The system you advise basically exists, except the contractor "owns" the lines rather than just services them. As MS discovered with Internet Explorer, "owning" something you can't easily profit from ain't such a great deal, even if it is ubiquitous.
Anyhow, I don't see how prices would be any lower or service any better if the local governments "owned" the network. They would have an almost irresistable incentive (over time) to raise prices without calling it a tax, probably on the "luxury" (broadband) component.
The government's answer to these competitive problems to date in the electric and telecomm markets is to enforce a really stupid form of competition, and require incumbent telcos and power providers to share their physical network with startups (where "share" means basically resell). So now You can choose Traditional Company A, or one of A's 50 crappy resellers who have no physical infrastructure of their own.
Not sure what you're going on about - it works fine where I live. TDS Metrocom smokes SBC in every category, price and service, for phone and data.
It's not like SBC built the damn network anyway - I just loved the commercials they briefly ran about "our lines, our networks". Uh, what about Ma Bell? The baby bell? You SBC guys are the fscking carpet baggers around here.
... are bringing it to its knees ...
The whole deliniation of good and evil being a comfort sounds like what it preached every Sunday across the US. Does that make religion a practice of fantasy?
That's what athiests tell themselves, yes, to make themselves feel smart and superior.
In reality, it is the unwillingness to face the reality of good and evil that is simplistic and childish. Recognizing that good and evil are real means work - it means you have to do something about it, within yourself and within the world. So much easier to convince yourself that everything is a shade of gray, and that morality means whatever you feel like doing anyway.