And TV isn't free to begin with. We all pay for cable. It is amazing how many of us forget that.
What is cable? I still wrap myself in foil and pray that I can get 4/5 local channels on the average day. (okay, so not quite, but really, I don't know many people that even have cable, availability is an issue, but still...)
ABC,NBC,CBS,FOX,PBS,UPN,and a few others that I don't know the names of, are all free services. All I have to do is buy a TV, but the service itself is free.
Yeah, right... the US government REALLY wants to do business with Cuba. The whole 40-year-embargo thing is just a front
Of course, opening trade with Cuba would actually probably be better for US governmental interests. Can you imagine what would happen if people in Cuba knew what modern goods looked like? They still drive cars from 50s down there.
If the US opened trade with Cuba the people living there would probably have alot better lives, and, (I am not endorsing any type of gov't or economy here), it would also probably lead the overthrow of the government and replacing it with a democracy or something similar.
So why don't we trade with Cuba? Every politician in DC probably already smokes cuban cigars anyway, right?
I'm curious what/if any Linux document editing programs can display all the Russian characters? It sounds like that is part of the reason for using Windows at least on some of the systems that the Astro/Cosmonauts use for workstations.
There is no indication of an actual BSOD, since there is no indication of MS Windows being used. And how exactly would you get a BSOD screenshot unless you were using VMWare or something? Seems rather impossible to me.
Yeah, I know it was sarcastic, that's why it was confusing. It sounded like you were trying to contradict what I was saying, but then you also were agreeing with me. Oh heck, it's too late and the meds are getting to me.
Of course, it would be pretty stupid to assume that altering of documents by politicians or other people is anything new. This sort of thing has been going since the beginning of time.
Take the Ems telegram for example, seriously altered, and sparked a war between France and what would become Germany. Of course, we now know that it was altered, but at the time no one knew what happened.
If you think that people altering documents for their own good is anything new and ruins good historical records, you need to wise up and take a history class. This is nothing new, and we still have a good idea of what happened.
Really, the best practical jokes/pranks are done when they are least expected. Not on April 1st. They would be funnier if they just popped up at random dates such as March 17th or maybe October 26th. Then people might actually believe more of them. Most of us know to be skeptical of anything out of the ordinary being announced on April 1st.
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To deal with telemarketers, you can tell them to put you on their no-call list. They typically have sixty days to get you off their lists. After that, you can sue them AND collect $500 per call (I think that's right). Just document the calls and build an audit trail.
Yeah, that works. If you have the time to waste pursuing all of them, and then, after you pay court/lawyer fees, etc. and wasted all of your time, hanging up would have been alot easier.
I don't understand why anyone would switch their vote. You vote for who you want in the office, only thing is that if there is a revote, the election is changed from being a vote between 5 or 6 candidates, to between 2. Although, people that voted for Nader originally know that he probably didn't have much chance in winning.
I just wish it was possible to assume that people who voted for Nader would still vote for him the second time around to voice their support for him. Nader didn't steal votes from Al Gore any more than George W Bush did. He won votes for himself of citizens. I wish people would stop saying that anyone stole votes from anyone else. It's total BS.
Actually, it is close enough to 50%, that it should be okay. Not as bad as, I don't know how low it was, but Perot had some 19% of the vote, I think he may have had 30-some? Anyone want to give some actual numbers here?
Okay, from my previous experience at an ISP, I know that with some phone companies, it is possible to get lines into a building with a lead number that is from a different area code if needed.
This is great for smaller ISPs, since it allows to cover a larger area without more office space. And since people can be dialing in from further away say 100 miles or more, even if they are dialing a number which is local to them, their IP address will show that they are at the address of your ISP, (most likely obtained from a WHOIS query, this is how visual route works.. someone else already linked to it, and I don't know the address)
So, in reality, you could be getting ads localized for your ISP which could be several hundred miles away, and quite possibly do you no good, or more accurately, the advertiser no good.
Actually.. I used to work at an ISP and when you get SMTP flooded in the same day some place like this is scanning your network, it is hard to not to considering them as a possible source. In fact, since we had the IP Address of the place that was repeated pinging our servers every couple of seconds (possibly checking to see if we were up, but it turned out otherwise) we managed to track it down to a phone number. So we called them, and asked them to stop, and they put us on some list so they wouldn't ping us anymore.
I don't recall for certain, but I believe that they were doing some sort of network uptime tests or something like that, and I can't remember the name of the company, but if your a sys admin, and someone is pinging one of your routers continually, you damn well better stop them, or figure out who they are before you just let it go.
maybe. it's a form of it if you ask me, and it's the best way to get things done. i shouldn't need to mention Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. or Ghandi (if I could spell his first name I would type it)
Do you really think that any candidate, especially this close to the election has the opportunity to respond to every question? This is why they have staff! Even congressmen and senators have staff to take care of this stuff for them. Have you ever written your legislatures? Most of the time they don't answer you either, their staff will. It's no surprise at all he didn't answer. Their answers reflect his as good as possible, otherwise he wouldn't have hired them. It's called trust.
Okay, it has been a long time since I have looked at a human skull, and I'm not an anatomy major or anything, but the only part I saw resembling a skull was the two supposed "eye holes" that appear. Other than that, any shape above or below the eye holes looks nothing like a skull. Looks more like some cartoon eyes out in the middle of nowhere than a skull. Oh well... Maybe my imagination just isn't that great. Maybe some should mirror this with a picture of a skull next to it, rotated similarly and see how similar they look.... i would, but I have to go to class
That might be a little bit extreme. I voted by mail this year, since I'm at college, and once I got my ballot, I took the time to find what I could about candidates I had not heard of before. It took a very long time, and I found it difficult to find adequate information on all of them. If I had gone to vote on election day, I would have been even less informed.
Perhaps a more viable solution would be to send out literature a few weeks prior to the election on websites and other places to contact each person running for office or find out what it is they plan to do.
That, and get rid of straight-party tickets. I hate that. You don't even have to look at the people's names you are voting for, just check a box, and it will vote for every single republican on the ballot. While most people would still vote all republican or all democrat or libertarian or whatever who had intended on doing so, we certainly should not make it any easier for them. What's next, a box on the front that says "vote for everyone pro-life" and you check that and it takes care of the rest? Blah.
Misinformation and an uninformed public are a few of the major problems with the elections.....
You mean "He called the shit poop!". - Billy Madison
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Actually "A computer" was someone who computer numbers. I'm thinking of guys like Babbage and Turing, they were computers. Guys who figured out tables of square roots and trig functions. Those are computers. I wonder what they used for operating systems?
Well, regardless if whether or not the link is broken, I think the obvious answer to this question is that the electoral college system in the United States is indeed outdated.
If I remember correctly from government class, it was orginally created because those in charge of the government did not trust the common people with little or no education to be able to vote responsibly, so they implented this as a system of being able to override that. This way, the wealthy few were in charge of the rest of the nation. (see previous article with letter by Brin)
The electoral college is broken. You can win an election without getting a majority because of it. There are many proposed solutions, but this problem has been known of for years. The people in charge don't want it changed, because then they may no longer be in charge.
Personally, I think the best solution is to get rid of it. If you get the most votes in the election, you win. Period.
If that doesn't work, divide the electoral votes by congressional district, rather than state. Doesn't give California and New York so much swing anymore since it would be broken down. Or, divide the electoral votes up percentage wise among candidates in each state. (For example, Nader gets 45% of the votes in California, Gore gets 50% and, Bush gets 5%, if CA had 100 electoral votes, Nader would get 45, Gore would get 50, and Bush would get 5) This would mean that those voting for Nader or Bush in CA votes would still have meaning, and not be tossed out the window.
So get rid of it, or divide them evenly, pretty much the same result.
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What is cable? I still wrap myself in foil and pray that I can get 4/5 local channels on the average day. (okay, so not quite, but really, I don't know many people that even have cable, availability is an issue, but still...)
ABC,NBC,CBS,FOX,PBS,UPN,and a few others that I don't know the names of, are all free services. All I have to do is buy a TV, but the service itself is free.
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Of course, opening trade with Cuba would actually probably be better for US governmental interests. Can you imagine what would happen if people in Cuba knew what modern goods looked like? They still drive cars from 50s down there.
If the US opened trade with Cuba the people living there would probably have alot better lives, and, (I am not endorsing any type of gov't or economy here), it would also probably lead the overthrow of the government and replacing it with a democracy or something similar.
So why don't we trade with Cuba? Every politician in DC probably already smokes cuban cigars anyway, right?
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Then that would be a picture, not a screenshot...
I'm curious what/if any Linux document editing programs can display all the Russian characters? It sounds like that is part of the reason for using Windows at least on some of the systems that the Astro/Cosmonauts use for workstations.
There is no indication of an actual BSOD, since there is no indication of MS Windows being used. And how exactly would you get a BSOD screenshot unless you were using VMWare or something? Seems rather impossible to me.
Yeah, I know it was sarcastic, that's why it was confusing. It sounded like you were trying to contradict what I was saying, but then you also were agreeing with me. Oh heck, it's too late and the meds are getting to me.
Take the Ems telegram for example, seriously altered, and sparked a war between France and what would become Germany. Of course, we now know that it was altered, but at the time no one knew what happened.
If you think that people altering documents for their own good is anything new and ruins good historical records, you need to wise up and take a history class. This is nothing new, and we still have a good idea of what happened.
Really, the best practical jokes/pranks are done when they are least expected. Not on April 1st. They would be funnier if they just popped up at random dates such as March 17th or maybe October 26th. Then people might actually believe more of them. Most of us know to be skeptical of anything out of the ordinary being announced on April 1st.
To deal with telemarketers, you can tell them to put you on their no-call list. They typically have sixty days to get you off their lists. After that, you can sue them AND collect $500 per call (I think that's right). Just document the calls and build an audit trail.
Yeah, that works. If you have the time to waste pursuing all of them, and then, after you pay court/lawyer fees, etc. and wasted all of your time, hanging up would have been alot easier.
I just wish it was possible to assume that people who voted for Nader would still vote for him the second time around to voice their support for him. Nader didn't steal votes from Al Gore any more than George W Bush did. He won votes for himself of citizens. I wish people would stop saying that anyone stole votes from anyone else. It's total BS.
Actually, it is close enough to 50%, that it should be okay. Not as bad as, I don't know how low it was, but Perot had some 19% of the vote, I think he may have had 30-some? Anyone want to give some actual numbers here?
This is great for smaller ISPs, since it allows to cover a larger area without more office space. And since people can be dialing in from further away say 100 miles or more, even if they are dialing a number which is local to them, their IP address will show that they are at the address of your ISP, (most likely obtained from a WHOIS query, this is how visual route works.. someone else already linked to it, and I don't know the address)
So, in reality, you could be getting ads localized for your ISP which could be several hundred miles away, and quite possibly do you no good, or more accurately, the advertiser no good.
I don't recall for certain, but I believe that they were doing some sort of network uptime tests or something like that, and I can't remember the name of the company, but if your a sys admin, and someone is pinging one of your routers continually, you damn well better stop them, or figure out who they are before you just let it go.
*cough*civil disobediance*cough*.
maybe. it's a form of it if you ask me, and it's the best way to get things done. i shouldn't need to mention Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. or Ghandi (if I could spell his first name I would type it)
Do you really think that any candidate, especially this close to the election has the opportunity to respond to every question? This is why they have staff! Even congressmen and senators have staff to take care of this stuff for them. Have you ever written your legislatures? Most of the time they don't answer you either, their staff will. It's no surprise at all he didn't answer. Their answers reflect his as good as possible, otherwise he wouldn't have hired them. It's called trust.
Perhaps a more viable solution would be to send out literature a few weeks prior to the election on websites and other places to contact each person running for office or find out what it is they plan to do.
That, and get rid of straight-party tickets. I hate that. You don't even have to look at the people's names you are voting for, just check a box, and it will vote for every single republican on the ballot. While most people would still vote all republican or all democrat or libertarian or whatever who had intended on doing so, we certainly should not make it any easier for them. What's next, a box on the front that says "vote for everyone pro-life" and you check that and it takes care of the rest? Blah.
Misinformation and an uninformed public are a few of the major problems with the elections.....
You mean "He called the shit poop!". - Billy Madison
If I remember correctly from government class, it was orginally created because those in charge of the government did not trust the common people with little or no education to be able to vote responsibly, so they implented this as a system of being able to override that. This way, the wealthy few were in charge of the rest of the nation. (see previous article with letter by Brin)
The electoral college is broken. You can win an election without getting a majority because of it. There are many proposed solutions, but this problem has been known of for years. The people in charge don't want it changed, because then they may no longer be in charge.
Personally, I think the best solution is to get rid of it. If you get the most votes in the election, you win. Period.
If that doesn't work, divide the electoral votes by congressional district, rather than state. Doesn't give California and New York so much swing anymore since it would be broken down. Or, divide the electoral votes up percentage wise among candidates in each state. (For example, Nader gets 45% of the votes in California, Gore gets 50% and, Bush gets 5%, if CA had 100 electoral votes, Nader would get 45, Gore would get 50, and Bush would get 5) This would mean that those voting for Nader or Bush in CA votes would still have meaning, and not be tossed out the window.
So get rid of it, or divide them evenly, pretty much the same result.
Maybe it was too subtle. Sarcasm is hard to detect in brief written word. =]
Base eight would actually be 0-7, my apologies.
Base ten= 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9
Base two= 0,1
Base eight= 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
All number systems start at 0. Other wise binary would be 1, 10, and that would cause a lot of problems.