I'm going to do something surprising for a political person: I am going to be completely and totally honest. I didn't listen to a word you said after the "teaparty/retard" portmanteau. If you cannot speak to me or others without the teenage/childish insults, and handle an adult-to-adult conversation with respect towards one another, then you have nothing to say that I want to hear.
"Congresswoman Giffords was known for her desire to crack down on illegal aliens and secure the southern border, putting her at odds with Obama and the Democrat-controlled Congress." I doubt anybody affiliated with Obama would do this, but can easily imagine ACORN or similar organization doing it. The other possibility is that it's just a nut, like the guy who flew his plane into the IRS building.
We'll just have to wait and see. Of course the Dems/MSNBC are already blaming people like me (tea partier) and I didn't have anything to do with it. BTW it was a citizen with a gun that killed the nutjob and restored peace. That's precisely what guns are for: To protect yourself, your family, and your neighbors from nutters.
Try Socializing..... uh... I mean that is..... what we have to do is..... redistribute the wealth in Democrat-dominated Maryland. (Approximately 70% of the seats are held by the D's.) Maryland is a pretty nice state, so long as you avoid slum areas.
More like one article EVERY WEEK for most of 2010. "AU government wants to apply nation-wide filtering." "AU ministry releases blacklist of sites." "ISP volunteers to do test-run for the filtered internet." And so on.
It was HILLARY CLINTON who was caught stealing credit card numbers. Gee, a Clinton breaking the law - I'm shocked. (Almost as shocked that Bush was a dumb president - pretty much called that one back in 2000. My brother voted for him; I refused.)
Anyone notice Obama is acting a lot like Bush lately? I would have expected a "give me your damn twitter accounts!" coming from the Bush government, but not under Obama who was supposed to end that nonsense. ALSO I wonder what the politicians fear wikileaks so much? I'm tempted to set-up a twitter account and "friend" Wikileaks just for the sake of solidarity. Maybe they'll come after facebook next. Or Michael Moore (he supports the website). .
>>>Move to where is the only real question.
Pretty much. The European Union is not any more free than the American Union. China is definitely out, and Australia/Canada are less free then even the US. (Australia is filtering the net, arrests people who DRAW sex images of children, and Canada recently forced a reporter/artist to submit to questioning when he included a Muslim in his cartoon.) Ironically the freest state might be the former soviet union, now known as the Russian Federation. Too bad it's so damn cold there.
(1) You should not have been modded troll even though I completely-and-totally disagree with you. Everyone has a right to an opinion, even if it's wrong.;-)
(2) If there was a dead body, it's not going anywhere. The police can see the judge first thing in the morning, swear an oath that they smelled something rotting, and then obtain a warrant listing the item they are searching for (the dead body or animal).
(3) While that may seem a time-consuming process, that IS what the law requires police to do ("no search without warrant supported by an oath". If you don't like said law, then amend the Constitution to make it more lenient.
In my state if you are a third party, like Libertarian or Communist or Constitutionalist or Green, you must either win 10% of the previous vote or collect signatures from 5% of the population. Since the standard is set so high, the ballot is effectively banned to anybody but the R and D parties. It's a way for them to maintain their control.
Ironically if the R or D parties don't meet these standards (don't get 10% of the vote, or 5% of signatures), it doesn't matter. They are automatically added.
We had these in the US (mostly in the Eastern member states). They lasted about fifty years until the Supreme Court declared them illegal and nulled them.
It'd be cheaper to just buy used laptops off ebay. An old Windows 98 or XP laptop can be had for less then $50, wiped with a fresh XP Restore CD or Puppy Linux CD (or both), and then given to any poor kid in your neighborhood so they can get online. DSL costs just $15/month.
My laptop only cost $30 plus shipping from ebay. Yeah it's slow (700 megahertz) but it has enough RAM (1/3 gigabyte) to run Firefox and get online. As you said, for most people that's all they care about. A cheap computer that can give them net access... and that's the point of the OLPC project.
RQ: This OLPC claims it has minimal power consumption. How do customers know, before they buy, how much their new laptop or desktop will use for consumption? Mine desktop uses 110 watts which is a heck of a lot, and I'd love to downgrade to, say, 25 watts.
No. The drug dogs are already present at every one of these stops.
The Homeland Gestapo was trying to intimidate me, and thought I would eventually give me consent. After an hour they realized I'm not letting them see inside my trunk, and would rather stand there all day rather than let them do a warrantless search, so they let me drive off and continue my vacation. Yes that's right - I was a tourist (oooh got to watch out for those dangerous guys in bermuda shorts).
Neither is government. If it was, the Bailout Bill would not have passed when it was opposed by 75% of americans. Or the healthcare bill passed when it was opposed by 70% of Americans. You are naive to think government is controlled by us. It's controlled, primarily, by the Democrats-Republican Duopoly and their war against one another.
Also you missed my key point. The solution to a Monopoly held by the US government is not for voters to pack-up and move to some other Monopoly Government (example: canada) which is equally Anti-choice/anti-individual liberty. The solution is to regulate that Monopoly and limit its power so it is weak and basically harmless. Hence: The Constitution.
"The purpose of a constitution is to bind up the several branches of government by certain supreme laws, which, when they transgress these laws, their acts shall be nullities." - Thomas Jefferson, 1790
Not when it's done at the DVD level, directly from one form of data (480) to another form (1080). There is no loss in that upconversion process..... not like you'd see with the Lossy Analog laserdisc upscaling.
BTW I don't know why you're so resistant? If you're happy with your original trilogy laserdisc, cool, but why not upgrade to the superior 2004 DVD release? Why continue using the old, inferior, composite video stored on the LD. That's akin to still using records when CDs or Super-CDs have better specifications.
>>>"TransGaming Cedega, the software forked from Wine that allows running Windows games under Linux, is being discontinued and replaced by TreeGame Linux."
IMHO this all boils down to various Governments wanting to maintain their MONOPOLY on the right to spy. Take the example of Britain where Google got in trouble because their CameraCar caught somebody's wash hanging outside. First off Google did nothing wrong - if you have your undies in view of the front street, then you're just plain stupid. Second you have no right to forbid Google or Me or anybody else from photographing it.
But the UK government decided otherwise, ordered google to erase the undies image, and fined them. Meanwhile that same UK government has cameras installed on every fucking street that are capturing everything from Undies hanging in front yards to... well, fucking.
But that's okay. It's okay for the Government to maintain its Monopoly to spy on us. Google and other private photographers get slapped down; but the government invades our privacy every day.
No it isn't. YOU'RE the guy who brought-up the recording of somebody's daughter ("upload video of your daughter on the toilet"), and I responded to that by saying, IF she's doing it in the front yard then yes a guy with a camera has every right to record it. There is no expectation of privacy in a public view.
Now INSIDE your house, then yes said "daughter" has a right to privacy. And I addressed that in a separate post: "A reasonable limit might be to disallow recording of any sound (or sight) that is not detectable by human ears/eyes."
>>>I suppose you find it easier to just let government corruption continue unabated.
Strawman argument. I never said that, but I'd still rather have the protections given to me by the current Law of the Republic (rights to free speech, trial, privacy, etc) then to have a Democracy where my voice would be drowned-out by a 51% majority of uneducated boobs that would lock me up simply because I'm gay. Or black. Or asian. Or atheist. Or anti-War on Terror. Or whatever.
As for the problems we face today, most would disappear if we followed the 9th and 10th Amendments instead of ignoring them. No more bailouts of AIG, or forced purchasing of hospital insurance I don't want, or war on (some) drugs, or giving "stimulus money" to General Motors, and so on. Congress is forbidden, by the tenth, to do those things.
A reasonable limit might be to disallow recording of any sound (or sight) that is not detectable by human ears/eyes.
So if the sound is below, say, 10 dB then it would be forbidden by private persons/companies to record it. Or if the EM captured is below 50 lux(?) that too would be forbidden to record. That would stop them from using super-sensitive equipment to hear conversations in the kitchen, or take a peak into darkened bedrooms.
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And what is the militia? According to the United State Legal Code, it includes all able-bodied persons 18 or older.
>>>They're blaming nutbag teatards
I'm going to do something surprising for a political person: I am going to be completely and totally honest. I didn't listen to a word you said after the "teaparty/retard" portmanteau. If you cannot speak to me or others without the teenage/childish insults, and handle an adult-to-adult conversation with respect towards one another, then you have nothing to say that I want to hear.
That's like saying FDR didn't actually imprison japanese-and-german-Americans. He just ordered other diplomats to do it.
"Off with their heads! Off with their heads!"
sound like a reasonable UK response to you?
Yeah sure blame Palin, but ignore Van Jones and other Dems who are calling for "revolution" and "off with their heads". That is okay of course.
Is this the comment you wanted me to see?
"Congresswoman Giffords was known for her desire to crack down on illegal aliens and secure the southern border, putting her at odds with Obama and the Democrat-controlled Congress." I doubt anybody affiliated with Obama would do this, but can easily imagine ACORN or similar organization doing it. The other possibility is that it's just a nut, like the guy who flew his plane into the IRS building.
We'll just have to wait and see. Of course the Dems/MSNBC are already blaming people like me (tea partier) and I didn't have anything to do with it. BTW it was a citizen with a gun that killed the nutjob and restored peace. That's precisely what guns are for: To protect yourself, your family, and your neighbors from nutters.
Hyuh?
>>>Banana Republicistan
Try Socializing..... uh... I mean that is..... what we have to do is..... redistribute the wealth in Democrat-dominated Maryland. (Approximately 70% of the seats are held by the D's.) Maryland is a pretty nice state, so long as you avoid slum areas.
>>>I swear everyone on Slashdot saw one article
More like one article EVERY WEEK for most of 2010. "AU government wants to apply nation-wide filtering." "AU ministry releases blacklist of sites." "ISP volunteers to do test-run for the filtered internet." And so on.
That's dumb.
I like posting anonymously. That way, whatever I post, can't come back to haunt me years later.
Don't mince words.
It was HILLARY CLINTON who was caught stealing credit card numbers. Gee, a Clinton breaking the law - I'm shocked. (Almost as shocked that Bush was a dumb president - pretty much called that one back in 2000. My brother voted for him; I refused.)
Anyone notice Obama is acting a lot like Bush lately? I would have expected a "give me your damn twitter accounts!" coming from the Bush government, but not under Obama who was supposed to end that nonsense. ALSO I wonder what the politicians fear wikileaks so much? I'm tempted to set-up a twitter account and "friend" Wikileaks just for the sake of solidarity. Maybe they'll come after facebook next. Or Michael Moore (he supports the website).
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>>>Move to where is the only real question.
Pretty much. The European Union is not any more free than the American Union. China is definitely out, and Australia/Canada are less free then even the US. (Australia is filtering the net, arrests people who DRAW sex images of children, and Canada recently forced a reporter/artist to submit to questioning when he included a Muslim in his cartoon.) Ironically the freest state might be the former soviet union, now known as the Russian Federation. Too bad it's so damn cold there.
(1) You should not have been modded troll even though I completely-and-totally disagree with you. Everyone has a right to an opinion, even if it's wrong. ;-)
(2) If there was a dead body, it's not going anywhere. The police can see the judge first thing in the morning, swear an oath that they smelled something rotting, and then obtain a warrant listing the item they are searching for (the dead body or animal).
(3) While that may seem a time-consuming process, that IS what the law requires police to do ("no search without warrant supported by an oath". If you don't like said law, then amend the Constitution to make it more lenient.
>>>ballots to Republican and Democrat.
In my state if you are a third party, like Libertarian or Communist or Constitutionalist or Green, you must either win 10% of the previous vote or collect signatures from 5% of the population. Since the standard is set so high, the ballot is effectively banned to anybody but the R and D parties. It's a way for them to maintain their control.
Ironically if the R or D parties don't meet these standards (don't get 10% of the vote, or 5% of signatures), it doesn't matter. They are automatically added.
>>>"Voting Exam"
We had these in the US (mostly in the Eastern member states). They lasted about fifty years until the Supreme Court declared them illegal and nulled them.
It'd be cheaper to just buy used laptops off ebay.
An old Windows 98 or XP laptop can be had for less then $50, wiped with a fresh XP Restore CD or Puppy Linux CD (or both), and then given to any poor kid in your neighborhood so they can get online. DSL costs just $15/month.
My laptop only cost $30 plus shipping from ebay. Yeah it's slow (700 megahertz) but it has enough RAM (1/3 gigabyte) to run Firefox and get online. As you said, for most people that's all they care about. A cheap computer that can give them net access... and that's the point of the OLPC project.
RQ:
This OLPC claims it has minimal power consumption. How do customers know, before they buy, how much their new laptop or desktop will use for consumption? Mine desktop uses 110 watts which is a heck of a lot, and I'd love to downgrade to, say, 25 watts.
No. The drug dogs are already present at every one of these stops.
The Homeland Gestapo was trying to intimidate me, and thought I would eventually give me consent. After an hour they realized I'm not letting them see inside my trunk, and would rather stand there all day rather than let them do a warrantless search, so they let me drive off and continue my vacation. Yes that's right - I was a tourist (oooh got to watch out for those dangerous guys in bermuda shorts).
>>>monopolies aren't controlled by voters
Neither is government. If it was, the Bailout Bill would not have passed when it was opposed by 75% of americans. Or the healthcare bill passed when it was opposed by 70% of Americans. You are naive to think government is controlled by us. It's controlled, primarily, by the Democrats-Republican Duopoly and their war against one another.
Also you missed my key point. The solution to a Monopoly held by the US government is not for voters to pack-up and move to some other Monopoly Government (example: canada) which is equally Anti-choice/anti-individual liberty. The solution is to regulate that Monopoly and limit its power so it is weak and basically harmless. Hence: The Constitution.
"The purpose of a constitution is to bind up the several branches of government by certain supreme laws, which, when they transgress these laws, their acts shall be nullities." - Thomas Jefferson, 1790
>>>Any conversion is lossy
Not when it's done at the DVD level, directly from one form of data (480) to another form (1080). There is no loss in that upconversion process..... not like you'd see with the Lossy Analog laserdisc upscaling.
BTW I don't know why you're so resistant? If you're happy with your original trilogy laserdisc, cool, but why not upgrade to the superior 2004 DVD release? Why continue using the old, inferior, composite video stored on the LD. That's akin to still using records when CDs or Super-CDs have better specifications.
>>>"TransGaming Cedega, the software forked from Wine that allows running Windows games under Linux, is being discontinued and replaced by TreeGame Linux."
Huh? What?
IMHO this all boils down to various Governments wanting to maintain their MONOPOLY on the right to spy. Take the example of Britain where Google got in trouble because their CameraCar caught somebody's wash hanging outside. First off Google did nothing wrong - if you have your undies in view of the front street, then you're just plain stupid. Second you have no right to forbid Google or Me or anybody else from photographing it.
But the UK government decided otherwise, ordered google to erase the undies image, and fined them. Meanwhile that same UK government has cameras installed on every fucking street that are capturing everything from Undies hanging in front yards to... well, fucking.
But that's okay. It's okay for the Government to maintain its Monopoly to spy on us.
Google and other private photographers get slapped down; but the government invades our privacy every day.
>>>And that's a strawman.
No it isn't. YOU'RE the guy who brought-up the recording of somebody's daughter ("upload video of your daughter on the toilet"), and I responded to that by saying, IF she's doing it in the front yard then yes a guy with a camera has every right to record it. There is no expectation of privacy in a public view.
Now INSIDE your house, then yes said "daughter" has a right to privacy. And I addressed that in a separate post: "A reasonable limit might be to disallow recording of any sound (or sight) that is not detectable by human ears/eyes."
>>>I suppose you find it easier to just let government corruption continue unabated.
Strawman argument. I never said that, but I'd still rather have the protections given to me by the current Law of the Republic (rights to free speech, trial, privacy, etc) then to have a Democracy where my voice would be drowned-out by a 51% majority of uneducated boobs that would lock me up simply because I'm gay. Or black. Or asian. Or atheist. Or anti-War on Terror. Or whatever.
As for the problems we face today, most would disappear if we followed the 9th and 10th Amendments instead of ignoring them. No more bailouts of AIG, or forced purchasing of hospital insurance I don't want, or war on (some) drugs, or giving "stimulus money" to General Motors, and so on. Congress is forbidden, by the tenth, to do those things.
A reasonable limit might be to disallow recording of any sound (or sight) that is not detectable by human ears/eyes.
So if the sound is below, say, 10 dB then it would be forbidden by private persons/companies to record it. Or if the EM captured is below 50 lux(?) that too would be forbidden to record. That would stop them from using super-sensitive equipment to hear conversations in the kitchen, or take a peak into darkened bedrooms.