Those of us who still participate in discussion forums via Email or Usenet have a ~70 character character limit on URLs. If it exceeds that amount it will break across multiple lines and no longer function. Although readers could just copy-n-paste all the piece together, the TinyURL provides a way to convenient way to avoid that.
You read my mind. Even if this "301Works.org" succeeds, they could go bankrupt as well, and then you still have the same problem.
Furthermore, what does it matter if http://tinyurl.com/e10zz stops working ten years from now? Nobody cares. Odds are good the link wouldn't work even if the TinyURL was preserved, due to the natural tendency of websites to rearrance their directories. (Note: Remove the last z if you want to see naked women.)
Expede these words! My inwit directs me that our own tung should be written siker cleane and pure, unmixt and unmangeled with borowing of other tunges, which can only leave the readers yblent. I kan reach no other endsay. The foresayers wherein if we take not heed by tiim, ever borowing and never paying, she shall be fain to keep her house as bankrupt. Now if ye wil excuse me, mine wyf and I must celebrate our marriage yeartide.
This is why Comcast, Cox, and other cable providers are negotiating with syfy.com, tnt.com, and other channels to move their content behind a central wall. They only want the content to be available to subscribers, not people like me (who have no cable). Of course Comcast makes this sound like a great deal, which will provide users with even more content, but I'm not seeing it. And I don't feel like paying $65/month just to watch Ghost Hunters or Monk online.
That thing still hanging around? Jeez. I wrote that when I was like, 10. Damn internet - nothing disappears. I shoulda known buying that 0.3 k modem was a bad idea.
I have received your request that I censor the names of your clients. After careful consideration, I arrived at the following carefully nuanced reply: "Fuck off."
Heil Hitler and the German Reich, New York Times editor
Slashdot is a U.S. website and outside the juris diction of the German state. Furthermore if Germany tried to impose its law, such as through blocking slashdot or wikipedia.com, then they'd reveal themselves to be no better than China.
>>>comparing the autonomy of states in the USA to [member states] in the EU is apples to oranges.
Not really. Where the EU is, right now, is comparable to where the U.S. was in the early 1800s. There were many laws that the U.S. passed, and which the states refused to enforce (nullification), because they maintained themselves to be sovereign.
Also please note I corrected your sentence. "Member state" is the correct terminology, per the EU website. Check it out for yourself.
>>>The EU has mechanisms for enforcing one states judgements in another state. I assume the US has too:
You assume wrong. This is why I can have an unpaid ticket in California, but safely "hide" from it in Virginia. Ditto many other examples, like child support or unpaid taxes.
Now most states have extradition agreements with one another, but this is by no means universal. If California declared "murderers names can not be published," that rule might be enforced by its neighbors Oregon and Nevada per a gentlemna's agreement, but it would not be enforced by the other states. Other states wouldn't give a damn what California thinks.
I voted R because I live in a swing state, where it could have gone either way, and I absolutely did not want to see a commun... er, Democrat in office. Democrats ignore the Constitution, and think it's okay to take my money and use it to buy some smoker a new pair of lungs. I consider that theft and unconstitutional.
I don't think the Libertarians or any other third party has a chance to win the presidency (it has never happened). But third parties have won plenty of seats in Congress and the local Legislatures - I think that's where they should focus their attention.
I honestly don't think anybody could have won against Obama, not even a Ronald Reagan. Maybe if you went waaaaay back in time a Teddy Roosevelt would have enough charisma to beat Obama, but even that's iffy considering Obama got almost 100% of the black votes (which is understandable given the history-setting precedent).
Obama is a great speaker who knew how to rally the American people. Plus he had a lousy republican president and a lousy economy in his favor. In my opinion he was unbeatable. Almost any Democrat candidate would also be difficult to beat given the previous 8 years.
Yes I've picked-up a few of the dual DVD-HDDVD discs for cheap as well. BUT what happens when your HD DVD player dies? You won't be able to find a replacement to play all those HDDVD discs. You'll either have to buy them a second time on Bluray, or just go "oh well" and throw those movies in the trash.
That's what ultimately happened to my Betamax collection. Tons of tapes and no way to play them. Some of the movies I repurchased, but for the most part I feel I wasted my money
Perhaps you should just quietly report this stuff to RIAA/MPAA/software association (whichever is applicable), and let them handle it. If they don't do anything (and they probably won't), then they apparently don't care, so why should you?
Me I just try to make myself invisible, hang onto my job, and take my paycheck. I want to retire when I'm 45-50 and I can't achieve that goal if I get noticed and then laidoff
>>>I believe they altered it to make it fit the US culture, mini series format, product placement and got a pit of writers in to add some jokes and make it run for half a dozen series. >>>
What the heck are you talking about? You're probably correct about the "writers" aspect (that's how TV is done here - group writing), but it's definitely not a "mini-series". It's the standard 20-22 episodes per year that virtually all U.S. television shows follow. A U.S. miniseries is typically 3-4 episodes and then done.
- Start by making the Constitution more than just a piece of paper. That was the major mistake the founders made - they thought swearing an oath to obey the law would be enough, but clearly it isn't. There needs to be a separate council of the States which takes bills from the president and says, "This is constitutional" or "This is unconstitutional", and their word would be final.
That would operate as a check on the current paradigm where the central government can violate the original State-created contract without fear.
This has been true since the days of the hand-driven, hand-loaded, wooden printing press. A newspaper needs subscribers, and if sensationalist stories get more subscribers, then that's how the paper will read.
>>>Perhaps investing in developing the new technologies we would need to get our asses to Mars would create all sorts of new jobs.
"Yes sir. We created all kinds of jobs. They cost a million dollars each and only pay around 0.1 million each, but hey, at least they are working." - I think I'm going to go break some windows now, so I can create work for glaziers.
Or perhaps you have you not heard of ZIP? It can compress text to 10 or even 5 percent original size. The Netscape accelerator works on the same principle.
Yeah for $10 more per night (last I checked). That adds-up fast when you spend a couple weeks in the same location. Sometimes I get lucky and find a place with a wired cable connection, for free, but if not then I use the phoneline.
Besides dialup is really not as bad as everyone claims. You can't watch hulu.com, but you can watch youtube, listen to streaming radio, or read news sites. You can even bittorrent over dialup (albeit slowly).
Slashdot Mirror
Here you go:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&rls=GGLG%2CGGLG%3A2005-26%2CGGLG%3Aen&q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fsearch%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26c2coff%3D1%26rls%3DGGLG%252CGGLG%253A2005-26%252CGGLG%253Aen%26q%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.google.com%252Fsearch%253Fhl%253Den%2526lr%253D%2526c2coff%253D1%2526rls%253DGGLG%25252CGGLG%25253A2005-26%25252CGGLG%25253Aen%2526q%253Dhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.google.com%25252Fsearch%25253Fsourceid%25253Dnavclient%252526ie%25253DUTF-8%252526rls%25253DGGLG%25252CGGLG%25253A2005-26%25252CGGLG%25253Aen%252526q%25253Dhttp%2525253A%2525252F%2525252Fwww%2525252Egoogle%2525252Ecom%2525252Fsearch%2525253Fsourceid%2525253Dnavclient%25252526ie%2525253DUTF%2525252D8%25252526rls%2525253DGGLG%2525252CGGLG%2525253A2005%2525252D26%2525252CGGLG%2525253Aen%25252526q%2525253Dhttp%252525253A%252525252F%252525252Fuk2%252525252Emultimap%252525252Ecom%252525252Fmap%252525252Fbrowse%252525252Ecgi%252525253Fclient%252525253Dpublic%2525252526GridE%252525253D%252525252D0%252525252E12640%2525252526GridN%252525253D51%252525252E50860%2525252526lon%252525253D%252525252D0%252525252E12640%2525252526lat%252525253D51%252525252E50860%2525252526search%252525255Fresult%252525253DLondon%25252525252CGreater%252525252520London%2525252526db%252525253Dfreegaz%2525252526cidr%252525255Fclient%252525253Dnone%2525252526lang%252525253D%2525252526place%252525253DLondon%252525252CGreater%252525252BLondon%2525252526pc%252525253D%2525252526advanced%252525253D%2525252526client%252525253Dpublic%2525252526addr2%252525253D%2525252526quicksearch%252525253DLondon%2525252526addr3%252525253D%2525252526scale%252525253D100000%2525252526addr1%252525253D%2526btnG%253DSearch%26btnG%3DSearch&btnG=Search
Those of us who still participate in discussion forums via Email or Usenet have a ~70 character character limit on URLs. If it exceeds that amount it will break across multiple lines and no longer function. Although readers could just copy-n-paste all the piece together, the TinyURL provides a way to convenient way to avoid that.
You read my mind. Even if this "301Works.org" succeeds, they could go bankrupt as well, and then you still have the same problem.
Furthermore, what does it matter if http://tinyurl.com/e10zz stops working ten years from now? Nobody cares. Odds are good the link wouldn't work even if the TinyURL was preserved, due to the natural tendency of websites to rearrance their directories. (Note: Remove the last z if you want to see naked women.)
Good grief.
Expede these words! My inwit directs me that our own tung should be written siker cleane and pure, unmixt and unmangeled with borowing of other tunges, which can only leave the readers yblent. I kan reach no other endsay. The foresayers wherein if we take not heed by tiim, ever borowing and never paying, she shall be fain to keep her house as bankrupt. Now if ye wil excuse me, mine wyf and I must celebrate our marriage yeartide.
>>>Popo's corollary: And if you're a far bigger criminal enterprise (cough, Goldman Sachs, cough, JPMC) kick back and laugh
The guy who came-up with the Bernie-Madoff-stylle pyramid scheme called social security should be shot.
This is why Comcast, Cox, and other cable providers are negotiating with syfy.com, tnt.com, and other channels to move their content behind a central wall. They only want the content to be available to subscribers, not people like me (who have no cable). Of course Comcast makes this sound like a great deal, which will provide users with even more content, but I'm not seeing it. And I don't feel like paying $65/month just to watch Ghost Hunters or Monk online.
>>>LOAD "VIRUS",8,1
That thing still hanging around? Jeez. I wrote that when I was like, 10. Damn internet - nothing disappears. I shoulda known buying that 0.3 k modem was a bad idea.
DEAR GERMAN LAWYER:
I have received your request that I censor the names of your clients. After careful consideration, I arrived at the following carefully nuanced reply: "Fuck off."
Heil Hitler and the German Reich,
New York Times editor
Who the frak cares?
Slashdot is a U.S. website and outside the juris diction of the German state. Furthermore if Germany tried to impose its law, such as through blocking slashdot or wikipedia.com, then they'd reveal themselves to be no better than China.
>>>comparing the autonomy of states in the USA to [member states] in the EU is apples to oranges.
Not really. Where the EU is, right now, is comparable to where the U.S. was in the early 1800s. There were many laws that the U.S. passed, and which the states refused to enforce (nullification), because they maintained themselves to be sovereign.
Also please note I corrected your sentence. "Member state" is the correct terminology, per the EU website. Check it out for yourself.
>>>The EU has mechanisms for enforcing one states judgements in another state. I assume the US has too:
You assume wrong. This is why I can have an unpaid ticket in California, but safely "hide" from it in Virginia. Ditto many other examples, like child support or unpaid taxes.
Now most states have extradition agreements with one another, but this is by no means universal. If California declared "murderers names can not be published," that rule might be enforced by its neighbors Oregon and Nevada per a gentlemna's agreement, but it would not be enforced by the other states. Other states wouldn't give a damn what California thinks.
I voted R because I live in a swing state, where it could have gone either way, and I absolutely did not want to see a commun... er, Democrat in office. Democrats ignore the Constitution, and think it's okay to take my money and use it to buy some smoker a new pair of lungs. I consider that theft and unconstitutional.
I don't think the Libertarians or any other third party has a chance to win the presidency (it has never happened). But third parties have won plenty of seats in Congress and the local Legislatures - I think that's where they should focus their attention.
I honestly don't think anybody could have won against Obama, not even a Ronald Reagan. Maybe if you went waaaaay back in time a Teddy Roosevelt would have enough charisma to beat Obama, but even that's iffy considering Obama got almost 100% of the black votes (which is understandable given the history-setting precedent).
Obama is a great speaker who knew how to rally the American people. Plus he had a lousy republican president and a lousy economy in his favor. In my opinion he was unbeatable. Almost any Democrat candidate would also be difficult to beat given the previous 8 years.
>>>over a hundred HD movies for $5-$7 a piece
Yes I've picked-up a few of the dual DVD-HDDVD discs for cheap as well. BUT what happens when your HD DVD player dies? You won't be able to find a replacement to play all those HDDVD discs. You'll either have to buy them a second time on Bluray, or just go "oh well" and throw those movies in the trash.
That's what ultimately happened to my Betamax collection. Tons of tapes and no way to play them. Some of the movies I repurchased, but for the most part I feel I wasted my money
Perhaps you should just quietly report this stuff to RIAA/MPAA/software association (whichever is applicable), and let them handle it. If they don't do anything (and they probably won't), then they apparently don't care, so why should you?
Me I just try to make myself invisible, hang onto my job, and take my paycheck. I want to retire when I'm 45-50 and I can't achieve that goal if I get noticed and then laidoff
>>>I believe they altered it to make it fit the US culture, mini series format, product placement and got a pit of writers in to add some jokes and make it run for half a dozen series.
>>>
What the heck are you talking about? You're probably correct about the "writers" aspect (that's how TV is done here - group writing), but it's definitely not a "mini-series". It's the standard 20-22 episodes per year that virtually all U.S. television shows follow. A U.S. miniseries is typically 3-4 episodes and then done.
To fix the USA:
- Start by making the Constitution more than just a piece of paper. That was the major mistake the founders made - they thought swearing an oath to obey the law would be enough, but clearly it isn't. There needs to be a separate council of the States which takes bills from the president and says, "This is constitutional" or "This is unconstitutional", and their word would be final.
That would operate as a check on the current paradigm where the central government can violate the original State-created contract without fear.
This has been true since the days of the hand-driven, hand-loaded, wooden printing press. A newspaper needs subscribers, and if sensationalist stories get more subscribers, then that's how the paper will read.
>>>Perhaps investing in developing the new technologies we would need to get our asses to Mars would create all sorts of new jobs.
"Yes sir. We created all kinds of jobs. They cost a million dollars each and only pay around 0.1 million each, but hey, at least they are working." - I think I'm going to go break some windows now, so I can create work for glaziers.
You don't even need component video. Even with composite or s-video you can see that Bluray provides a better picture.
>>>Does Bluray provide a better picture on regular TVs? Those are honest questions.
Yes it does
I tried to edit that variable in Firefox 3.0, but I don't see it in the about:config list
Try the Galeon, Epiphany, or Camino browsers - your mouth will drop at their speed
That's not even funny.
Or perhaps you have you not heard of ZIP? It can compress text to 10 or even 5 percent original size. The Netscape accelerator works on the same principle.
>>>Even Super 8 has wireless internet now.
Yeah for $10 more per night (last I checked). That adds-up fast when you spend a couple weeks in the same location. Sometimes I get lucky and find a place with a wired cable connection, for free, but if not then I use the phoneline.
Besides dialup is really not as bad as everyone claims. You can't watch hulu.com, but you can watch youtube, listen to streaming radio, or read news sites. You can even bittorrent over dialup (albeit slowly).