1. Get your brother's and father's friends to steal the election for you and become president 2. Clear brush on your ranch all summer, ignoring warnings that bin Laden wants to fly airplanes into buildings (until he does) 3. Convince your gullible voter base that you have made them safer because it only happened once and win re-election 4. Profit!!!
Nobody with half a brain thinks Gore won because of the popular vote.
We believe he won because, if everyone eligible to vote in Florida had been allowed to vote, and if every vote had been counted, he would have won in the electoral college, too.
O&A are just two more no-talent losers in a long line of Howard wannabes. They are on crack to even think they are in the same league as Howard. Nobody is going to sign up for satellite for those two idiots. On the other hand a lot of people will get Sirius just to hear Howard.
Word. XM is no use to me. I'm sure Sirius will come out with something similar and hopefully the price will come down by Jan 1, 2006.
If Satellite Radio truly is the wave (no pun intended) of the future I wonder if there will eventually be a shakeout. With Howard on Sirius, will XM become the BetaMax of Satellite?
And when congress and the president give the FCC the right to fine individual proadcasters up to $500,000 per incident, without warning, with no clearly defined standards as to what constitutes indecency, that's not chilling to free speech at all, is it?
One foundamental error in today's operating systems is that they are datatype-agnostic.
Sorry but this (mis)use of the word "agnostic" really irks me. Surely you don't mean that today's operating systems think that the existence of datatypes is "unknowable"? Why can't you just say datatype-independent?
boy that's just stupid. you really believe that? i bet you believe in those black helicopters too.
No less plausible than the premise that GWB actually cares about the issues facing working Americans.
Let's face it, it has been almost 16 years since the American people actually wanted a Republican president. Despite this fact, the Neo-Cons now running the Republican party have decided that it is their god-given right to be in power. Unfortunately their so-called "base" (read: the people that actually believe their lies) is not big enough so they must resort to other means. But it's OK, they deserve to win.
Stern broadcasts from WXRK, which is part of Infinity Broadcasting (Viacom). Stern was broadcast on only six ClearChannel stations before being dropped.
FCC cases are probably still pending against Infinity, who may not lie down as fast as ClearChannel since Stern represents a big chunk of their bottom line.
I don't know about today but, when I took CS in the early '80s at a Top-3 Canadian University, there were more required Math courses than required CS courses, probably because the School of CS was relatively new then and had grown out of the Math Department.
While I probably haven't directly used 99% of the Math that I learned in school, what I believe I gained was the ability to solve problems and to think abstractly, analytically, and rigorously.
Well, instead of having Campaign Finance laws I would much rather have politicians with the backbone to say to their contributors: "I'll take your money but I am going to vote my conscience and in the best interests of my constituents...
I do agree with you that there needs to be a clear and objective standard as to what is indecent. But I can't beleive that describing oral sex, in great detail, to an 8 year old girl can in any sane society be considered anything else than indecent.
The irony is that Oprah recently broadcast a far more explicit description of oral sex than Howard Stern ever has (transcript) and no-one is looking to fine Oprah. While the transcript from Howard's show is filled with euphemisms and code words that would go right over a child's head, the Oprah show spelled it out in plain English.
Which do you think is more damaging to an 8-year-old child?
Howard's show is usually over by 10:30am, probably before most kids' first recess, while Oprah is on after school in many markets. I have a hard time believing that properly supervised kids have either the access or the interest in listening to Stern for it to even be an issue.
In any case, like you, I agree there should be some standards; let's just define them clearly and objectively and apply them equally to everyone.
The school bus driver who puts Howard Stern on the radio when children are on the bus and the principal who allows him to be played in the schoolyard both need to be fired. I can't control whether a teacher plays porno tapes in class but I have a reasonable expectation that it won't happen without having to make porn illegal for everyone.
I have kids and I don't need the government or the FCC or the religious right to raise them. I've got that covered, thanks just the same. Guess what.. kids are going to hear and see bad stuff and parenting is not about burying your head in the sand and pretending it doesn't exist, it's about teaching them how to tell the good from the bad.
In any case, notwithstanding the fact that ClearChannel is firmly in bed with the Bush camp and yanked Stern just days after he became critical of Bush, the issue is not with them. They have every right to make a business decision to broadcast or not broadcast whatever they like. Their listeners will vote with their radio dials.
The real issue is the selective enforcement by the FCC and the lack of any clear and objective standard as to what is indecent. Stern is positively tame compared to some of the things that Oprah has broadcast but somehow she is immune because she's considered "educational" or because "she does good things". If there were clear and unambiguous guidelines as to what constituted indecency, Stern would follow them. As it is, the FCC seem to make the rules up as they go along and enforce them selectively and often retroactively. The latest round of fines against Stern were for a broadcast that occurred three years ago! And in case nobody noticed, he's been doing the same show for over 20 years. What made the FCC suddenly sit up and take notice? Plus these charges would never stand up in court; the FCC makes sure that never happens by threatening huge fines and non-renewal of broadcast licenses. The broadcasters have no choice but to cave in. If this is constitutional it's a sad day for America.
You can tell me that you need to have a good love story to make a Hollwood movie tick: but I don't buy that you have to make fun of the short race that gets played by midgets (versus the hobbits, who are just as small and played by average sized actors).
Umm... You do know that John Rhys-Davies is 6'1" tall, right?
Sure, things like TV shows and digital video movies won't look any better, but filmed movies will.
Pretty much all prime-time TV shows are shot on film or HD video; many are already broadcast in HD. Get ready to start replacing those X-Files and Buffy box sets, too.
Can anyone even name a feature that has been added since Office 97 that anyone actually cares about? As far as I can see in Office 2003 most of the so-called "improvements" since 97 are just new superficial and annoying ways to do the same thing. Does anyone really need more than Office 97 functionality?
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1. Get your brother's and father's friends to steal the election for you and become president
2. Clear brush on your ranch all summer, ignoring warnings that bin Laden wants to fly airplanes into buildings (until he does)
3. Convince your gullible voter base that you have made them safer because it only happened once and win re-election
4. Profit!!!
Nobody with half a brain thinks Gore won because of the popular vote.
We believe he won because, if everyone eligible to vote in Florida had been allowed to vote, and if every vote had been counted, he would have won in the electoral college, too.
O&A are just two more no-talent losers in a long line of Howard wannabes. They are on crack to even think they are in the same league as Howard. Nobody is going to sign up for satellite for those two idiots. On the other hand a lot of people will get Sirius just to hear Howard.
Word. XM is no use to me. I'm sure Sirius will come out with something similar and hopefully the price will come down by Jan 1, 2006.
If Satellite Radio truly is the wave (no pun intended) of the future I wonder if there will eventually be a shakeout. With Howard on Sirius, will XM become the BetaMax of Satellite?
And when congress and the president give the FCC the right to fine individual proadcasters up to $500,000 per incident, without warning, with no clearly defined standards as to what constitutes indecency, that's not chilling to free speech at all, is it?
Don't ever read anything by David Brin. If this is his idea of something worth writing I would hate to see one of his novels.
One foundamental error in today's operating systems is that they are datatype-agnostic.
Sorry but this (mis)use of the word "agnostic" really irks me. Surely you don't mean that today's operating systems think that the existence of datatypes is "unknowable"? Why can't you just say datatype-independent?
boy that's just stupid. you really believe that? i bet you believe in those black helicopters too.
No less plausible than the premise that GWB actually cares about the issues facing working Americans.
Let's face it, it has been almost 16 years since the American people actually wanted a Republican president. Despite this fact, the Neo-Cons now running the Republican party have decided that it is their god-given right to be in power. Unfortunately their so-called "base" (read: the people that actually believe their lies) is not big enough so they must resort to other means. But it's OK, they deserve to win.
Ummm, no.
Stern broadcasts from WXRK, which is part of Infinity Broadcasting (Viacom). Stern was broadcast on only six ClearChannel stations before being dropped.
FCC cases are probably still pending against Infinity, who may not lie down as fast as ClearChannel since Stern represents a big chunk of their bottom line.
Wrong.
The inferno trademark was filed by Discreet Logic in 1993 and registered in 1997.
I don't know about today but, when I took CS in the early '80s at a Top-3 Canadian University, there were more required Math courses than required CS courses, probably because the School of CS was relatively new then and had grown out of the Math Department.
While I probably haven't directly used 99% of the Math that I learned in school, what I believe I gained was the ability to solve problems and to think abstractly, analytically, and rigorously.
Well, instead of having Campaign Finance laws I would much rather have politicians with the backbone to say to their contributors: "I'll take your money but I am going to vote my conscience and in the best interests of my constituents...
Oops, sorry, I fell off my chair laughing.
Now about those laws...
I do agree with you that there needs to be a clear and objective standard as to what is indecent. But I can't beleive that describing oral sex, in great detail, to an 8 year old girl can in any sane society be considered anything else than indecent.
The irony is that Oprah recently broadcast a far more explicit description of oral sex than Howard Stern ever has (transcript) and no-one is looking to fine Oprah. While the transcript from Howard's show is filled with euphemisms and code words that would go right over a child's head, the Oprah show spelled it out in plain English.
Which do you think is more damaging to an 8-year-old child?
Howard's show is usually over by 10:30am, probably before most kids' first recess, while Oprah is on after school in many markets. I have a hard time believing that properly supervised kids have either the access or the interest in listening to Stern for it to even be an issue.
In any case, like you, I agree there should be some standards; let's just define them clearly and objectively and apply them equally to everyone.
You're right, it's so much better to have politicians beholden to large corporations and wealthy contributors than to their constituents.
The school bus driver who puts Howard Stern on the radio when children are on the bus and the principal who allows him to be played in the schoolyard both need to be fired. I can't control whether a teacher plays porno tapes in class but I have a reasonable expectation that it won't happen without having to make porn illegal for everyone.
.. kids are going to hear and see bad stuff and parenting is not about burying your head in the sand and pretending it doesn't exist, it's about teaching them how to tell the good from the bad.
I have kids and I don't need the government or the FCC or the religious right to raise them. I've got that covered, thanks just the same. Guess what
In any case, notwithstanding the fact that ClearChannel is firmly in bed with the Bush camp and yanked Stern just days after he became critical of Bush, the issue is not with them. They have every right to make a business decision to broadcast or not broadcast whatever they like. Their listeners will vote with their radio dials.
The real issue is the selective enforcement by the FCC and the lack of any clear and objective standard as to what is indecent. Stern is positively tame compared to some of the things that Oprah has broadcast but somehow she is immune because she's considered "educational" or because "she does good things". If there were clear and unambiguous guidelines as to what constituted indecency, Stern would follow them. As it is, the FCC seem to make the rules up as they go along and enforce them selectively and often retroactively. The latest round of fines against Stern were for a broadcast that occurred three years ago! And in case nobody noticed, he's been doing the same show for over 20 years. What made the FCC suddenly sit up and take notice? Plus these charges would never stand up in court; the FCC makes sure that never happens by threatening huge fines and non-renewal of broadcast licenses. The broadcasters have no choice but to cave in. If this is constitutional it's a sad day for America.
Nice try but IBM is not a Linux source since it doesn't have its own distribution.
Trademark != Copyright
The Open Group owns the Unix trademark.
This has zero bearing on copyrights.
Reminds me of the joke about the two ocean tankers that collided. One was carrying red paint, the other blue paint.
Both crews were marooned...
RTFA. The author is saying exactly what you are saying.
Except that Daniel Day Lewis is the son of Cecil Day Lewis, the former poet laureate, not C.S. Lewis.
You can tell me that you need to have a good love story to make a Hollwood movie tick: but I don't buy that you have to make fun of the short race that gets played by midgets (versus the hobbits, who are just as small and played by average sized actors).
Umm... You do know that John Rhys-Davies is 6'1" tall, right?
Bad hearing, too. As well as not remembering how to spell Gollum's name (Golem?), he evidently didn't hear how it was pronounced in the movie either.
Sure, things like TV shows and digital video movies won't look any better, but filmed movies will.
Pretty much all prime-time TV shows are shot on film or HD video; many are already broadcast in HD. Get ready to start replacing those X-Files and Buffy box sets, too.
Can anyone even name a feature that has been added since Office 97 that anyone actually cares about? As far as I can see in Office 2003 most of the so-called "improvements" since 97 are just new superficial and annoying ways to do the same thing. Does anyone really need more than Office 97 functionality?
Here's a classic that foreshadowed the rise of object-oriented computing by a couple of decades:
On the Criteria To Be Used in Decomposing Systems into Modules, D.L. Parnas, CACM, Vol. 15, No. 12, December 1972 pp. 1053 - 1058
Available online at http://www.acm.org/classics/may96/