If the "left" is so smart, then why can't they win an election?f the "left" is so smart, then why can't they win an election?
hmmm, good point, possibly because, as one of the previous posters mentioned, the left has more of a desire to consider different perspectives and options instead of lining up and repeating emotional slogans from personal leaders without considering their ideas and statements. (e.g. Clinton says something, and you'd have to filter on whether it makes sense and what his reasons are, Bush says something and, to some people anyway, it's literally the God's honest truth, whatever it is)
If we followed the "liberal leanings", there would still be slavery
I don't even understand this statement:)
communism,
Communism never existed (and I personally don't think it's particularly possible except perhaps in conjunction with a Democratic process), it's a, cough, red herring. (I couldn't help myself). Totalitarion dictatorships and oligarchies have often gone by this name though..
Saddam would still be raping and killing people in Iraq.
As opposed to the US doing the job for him?, What was the count?, 100-150K civilians killed so far due to our invasion. People tortured and raped by the US (I don't know the number but, on the plus side, probably less than Saddam's regime). 1500 US Citizen-Soldiers killed, 10k+ wounded. The US pushing for Democracy throughout the world based on the use of "might is right" idealogy?
I call shenanigans. I submit that there is not one single individual in the United States who holds a valid, accredited high school graduation certificate who is functionally illiterate.
I submit that you may technically be correct. Here is a link
http://www.nifl.gov/nifl/faqs.html, also, http://www.nifl.gov/reders/reder.htm is pretty cool.
anyway, from a 1992 U.S. study,
...Between 21 and 23 percent of the adult population, or approximately 44 million people, according to the National Adult Literacy Survey (NALS), scored in Level 1 (see description above)...
...More than 60 percent didn't complete high school...
...Almost all adults in Level 1 can read a little but not well enough to fill out an application, read a food label, or read a simple story to a child...
Level 1 is the lowest level (most illiterate?), I don't believe level 2 would actually qualify as a 12th grade reading level either. I think level 3 is considered basic literacy, but I'll ignore the 50 million or so people in level 2 anyway.
The number above is actually 62 percent according to the 1992 National Adult Literacy Survey (NALS). So the number of illiterate high school graduates is 44mil *.38, which is a bit under 17 million.
So you're right!, there is not one single individual illiterate high school graduate, there are literally millions of them....
but it's pretty safe to say that most P2P users are violating copyright law, or have violated copyright law in the past.
Hmm, given the U.S.'s current copyright law, especially as interpreted by the MPAA/RIAA/most large corporations, you could just as well say that most (insert anything here: citizens, humans?) are violating copyright law, or have violated copyright law in the past (I'm sure I've sung Happy Birthday at a restaurant before).
Which kind of makes it a pointless statement. Unless, of course, it's meant to imply that U.S. copyright law no longer serves its orignally intended purpose.
well, a sample population of one person on the farthest possible end of the bell curve is a pretty crappy sample. sorry.
I think he's saying that if his choice is two appaerntly biased conflicting studies or an expert opinion, he'd go for the expert opinion.
I don't think he's saying he would create his own study of one person and prove statistically that there is a 100% correlation between the fastest typist and DVORAK...:)
Wow, It definitely depends where you are. I live in a relatively small college town (60k people) and off the top of my head there are at least eight coffee shops and two Starbucks. 5 of the 8 have free wireless. Free as in, just for the cost of your coffee. Both Starbucks have pay wireless. The hours open are equivelant.
The only reason I can figure that Starbuck's doesn't go bankrupt is brand recognition alone. Well, not quite true, one of them has a good location and a pretty decent atmosphere but the other one.... Hmm, Starbucks or better coffee, better atmosphere, free wireless, open, it scares me that marketing makes that much of a difference.
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they had Bush signs up, so that sold me on Starbucks once and for all.
As for the Bush signs, that would probably unsell me even more, although I'm not sure that's possibel for SB's. But, of the five free wireless shops, 3 definitely wouldn't put up a Bush signs and two of those would probably get a patron/employee revolt if they did. So, that would leave you at least 2-3 places left to choose good coffee and get free wireless from;).]
The rule of man over the rule of law is what results in Pol Pot, Idi Amin, Adolf Hitler, and Joe Stalin: "We want this political result, but the law doesn't allow it. To hell with the law."
hmm, you mean like putting people in jail without representation, without charges, without notification (i.e. even admitting that they were even jailed), for an indeterminant amount of time. That would cover the laws included in at least the 4,5 and 6th amendments or maybe you mean that congress has the power to 'declare war', so we must not actually be at war:) (IMO Congress deserves a lot of blaim for letting the President be 'at war' without Congress declaring war, they should either declare war or not allow it. This wishy-washy, we'll fund a war but not decare one is morally and ethically bankrupt)
That's why the US Supreme Court voted 5-4 to end the entire Florida fiasco, 7-2 to prevent selective recounts, and 9-0 (read the whole damn decision!) to rebuke the Florida Supreme Court for being a bunch of overreaching results-oriented idiots.
I don't know (or remember) enough of the details to agree or disagree with you on this. Although I'd go along with both your argument and with the reverse. Anytime a voting outcome is within the error of margin of the voting method, the outcome is going to be decided by a political decision. In this case, I'm shocked, shocked that gambling is..., I mean that the court where 7/7 judges were nominated by Democrats supported the Demorcatic Party candidate and the court where 7/9 judges were nominated by Republicans supported the Republican party candidate.
While it may be a bad sign for the independence of the judicial branch, it's hardly suprising.
(of course, having the whole state re-vote and hoping the outcome wasn't in the margin of error may have been a good choice, at least to try it once. I don't know the Florida voting laws well enough (ok, at all;) ) to know if this would have been legal, but it does seem like it would have been the right thing to do, sigh...)
My own experience with talking to Verizon customer support and sales is similar. What comes out of their mouths has no realationship to truth or to them actually doing anything. It's completely random and much wores than if they always told lies, at least then you'd know what isn't true. But for them, it's not always lies, it's not always truth, who know's if what they say means anything at all?
Verizon?, who cares if you can here them now?, even if it's intelligible, it's meaningless.
I have worked for military, top tier financial and law enforcement entities (I am not the AC poster, BTW). In the military, no matter how high your security clearance is, if you don't "need to know" something to carry out the job at hand, then you will not get to know it. If you do need to know it and have a high enough clearance, then you will get to know it. That is a security through obscurity policy that helps to make a nation safer.
While adding obscurity to a secure system is not necessarily a bad thing. (Why not make it harder, especially if the costs in time and aggravation are low.) It isn't something that should be counted on.
But the above isn't really security through obscurity. It is really a two tiered access control. At the first tier you must have the appropriate clearance level or above to access data at that classification level. The second tier is more amibigous, but you must have a reason to actually access the information. Access control is generally a good thing.
Obscurity, would be more like having a single room for all confidential, secret and top secret files which are in turn stored in unlocked filing cobinets. The files are randomly ordered and numbered. Anyone can access the room, but you have to know the number on the file your looking for to find it easily out of alll the files in the room. It's obscure. It's a lot more difficult to find specific information. It's not secure.
And think about this when the world goes IPv6, no worry about running out of numbers, but do you want to re-programme your internal house network when you move ?
My understanding is that with IPv6, you shouldn't have to re-progam anyway. Your IPv6 devices should be able to communicate with each other using the link-local (or possibly site-local) address space and they should be able to automatically get the global net address and communicate globally using that. Depending on your setup, you don't even need DHCP.
<BLOCKQUOTE>At a certain number of points on a license, drivers will not be able to use air bags. A few more points, and no seatbelts. And then after that, the doors and front windshield will be removed. And finally, after a whole lot of points, a big spike gets installed on the steering wheel. Drivers can wait the time it takes for their points to expire, or they can choose to drive very carefully.</BLOCKQUOTE>
After I finished laughing, I had to agree and I think the idea needs to be expanded:
The points should be allocatable by other drivers... 'that crazy bastard that just passed me on the shoulder, zap, he gets a crazy point'
Which bring me to the next topic, We need two sets of points: idiot points & crazy points.
Guy driving in the fast lane at 60 with the number two lane empty?, he gets an idiot point. Guy sitting, stopped, at the stop sign, that waits for me to drive 50 yards up to the stop sign and come to a full and complete stop before he goes, that loser gets an idiot point.
Guy crossing three lanes of traffic at 90 while every one else is going 70, he gets a crazy point. Guy tail-gaiting on the freeway when I'm passing cars in the lane to the right, he gets a crazy point. (rationally, anyone that tail-gaits a car at 70 MPH probably deserves a crazy point)
Crazy point punishment is the above (I particularly like the spike;) ).
Idiot point punishment is a little different: at a certain number of points, they get more airbags. A few more points and they get more seat belts. 4,5,6 point, etc. After that, a helmet and a full protective suit are required. Finally, after a whole lot of points, their car is anchored to the ground with large metal cables.
I'm afraid he was optimistic about the US seeing things for what they are. What'll really happen is that the US will respond to the horrific moral outrage of the UN resolution by declaring war on resolutions and then promptly invading the moon.
Your stuck in room with a guy defacing SCO's web page in the name of some cause and a guy about to hit the button that will destroy a mall in the name of some cause.
You have a gun with one bullet. What do you do? . . . Shoot the spammer. or something like that...;)
trepanning of course... http://www.noah.org/trepan/people_with_ holes_in_th eir_heads.html
>What is the best way to travel about in a war zone?
sounds like a question for Geraldo Rivera (or saddamm)
>What is the best way to tell my spouse that she needs to lose A LOT of weight?
Ask Tom Arnold
>How can I get close to the President while carrying a handgun? Hope the Pres. keeps pushing trickle down theory, and ask John Hinckley (I think, I don't remember the name of the guy who shot Reagan for sure).
Insurance companies are bad by design. Their goal is to generate profit. They inherently generate profit by providing bad service. That is, as with any business, to maximize profit, charge as much as you can and pay out as little as possible. It doesn't matter whether a claim is legitimate or not. Pay as little as possible. In the current situation in the U.S., there is too much that would have to be fixed to make this design work (effective government control, lack of politcal power for non-humans/companies, etc...)
Now when there is a choice to get insurance, this can be mitigated slightly by people just choosing to not get any from companies that obviously treat their customers fairly. When companies are large enough that only a few can monopolies the industry or when getting insurance is mandated by law, well, we're all hosed.
Hmm, measured this way, Microsoft would be just as corrupt as the Clinton administration, but much less corrupt than the the Reagan-Bush administration.;).
Well if you measure corruption by criminal convictions (which given a corrupt government, may be a bad way to measure it but...), I believe the Clinton administration had one felony conviction. I think that was for some shifty real estate deals. The Reagan-Bush administrations had something over 20 felony convictions (I don't remember the exact number, but it does include Pointdexter). Many of these actually were in direct relation to foreign polices and foreign governments (Iran-CONTRA). That is, they were directly related to governing the country.
Given the above, I've got to lean away from the Clinton administration as being the most corrupt of the last 30 years. Although, it is more fun to talk about oral sex than shifting monies around through banks to illegal support some third world organizations. I mean, geeze, that's a real yawner.
The BSD advisory (FreeBSD anyway, I'm assuming the same adviasory for OpenBSD), states that version net-snmp 4.2.3 and above are safe. I'm betting that the BSD folks just got the version off (read it as > 4.2.2 as opposed to or >= 4.2.2 ) and, in any case, erred on the safe side.
I'm not sure wher your living in CA, but I regularly get carded for Alcohol. And to add rant to reason:
Q: Do we live in a free country or a police state?
A: At the age of 34, I need a State authorized identification document with name, address and physical description, including a personal photo, in order to have a beer with lunch. You do the social engineering math...
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If the "left" is so smart, then why can't they win an election?f the "left" is so smart, then why can't they win an election?
:)
hmmm, good point, possibly because, as one of the previous posters mentioned, the left has more of a desire to consider different perspectives and options instead of lining up and repeating emotional slogans from personal leaders without considering their ideas and statements. (e.g. Clinton says something, and you'd have to filter on whether it makes sense and what his reasons are, Bush says something and, to some people anyway, it's literally the God's honest truth, whatever it is)
If we followed the "liberal leanings", there would still be slavery
I don't even understand this statement
communism,
Communism never existed (and I personally don't think it's particularly possible except perhaps in conjunction with a Democratic process), it's a, cough, red herring. (I couldn't help myself). Totalitarion dictatorships and oligarchies have often gone by this name though..
Saddam would still be raping and killing people in Iraq.
As opposed to the US doing the job for him?, What was the count?, 100-150K civilians killed so far due to our invasion. People tortured and raped by the US (I don't know the number but, on the plus side, probably less than Saddam's regime). 1500 US Citizen-Soldiers killed, 10k+ wounded. The US pushing for Democracy throughout the world based on the use of "might is right" idealogy?
I think you want to keep the term 'corporate' though. Corporations are greedier than humans.
(IMO and all that
I submit that you may technically be correct. Here is a link
http://www.nifl.gov/nifl/faqs.html, also, http://www.nifl.gov/reders/reder.htm
is pretty cool.
anyway, from a 1992 U.S. study,
Level 1 is the lowest level (most illiterate?), I don't believe level 2 would actually qualify as a 12th grade reading level either. I think level 3 is considered basic literacy, but I'll ignore the 50 million or so people in level 2 anyway.
The number above is actually 62 percent according to the 1992 National Adult Literacy Survey (NALS). So the number of illiterate high school graduates is 44mil *
So you're right!, there is not one single individual illiterate high school graduate, there are literally millions of them....
Hmm, given the U.S.'s current copyright law, especially as interpreted by the MPAA/RIAA/most large corporations, you could just as well say that most (insert anything here: citizens, humans?) are violating copyright law, or have violated copyright law in the past (I'm sure I've sung Happy Birthday at a restaurant before).
Which kind of makes it a pointless statement. Unless, of course, it's meant to imply that U.S. copyright law no longer serves its orignally intended purpose.
The better question may be, why do we need the DHS when we have the FBI?
I think he's saying that if his choice is two appaerntly biased conflicting studies or an expert opinion, he'd go for the expert opinion.
I don't think he's saying he would create his own study of one person and prove statistically that there is a 100% correlation between the fastest typist and DVORAK...
The only reason I can figure that Starbuck's doesn't go bankrupt is brand recognition alone. Well, not quite true, one of them has a good location and a pretty decent atmosphere but the other one.... Hmm, Starbucks or better coffee, better atmosphere, free wireless, open, it scares me that marketing makes that much of a difference.
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As for the Bush signs, that would probably unsell me even more, although I'm not sure that's possibel for SB's. But, of the five free wireless shops, 3 definitely wouldn't put up a Bush signs and two of those would probably get a patron/employee revolt if they did. So, that would leave you at least 2-3 places left to choose good coffee and get free wireless from
hmm, you mean like putting people in jail without representation, without charges, without notification (i.e. even admitting that they were even jailed), for an indeterminant amount of time. That would cover the laws included in at least the 4,5 and 6th amendments or maybe you mean that congress has the power to 'declare war', so we must not actually be at war
I don't know (or remember) enough of the details to agree or disagree with you on this. Although I'd go along with both your argument and with the reverse. Anytime a voting outcome is within the error of margin of the voting method, the outcome is going to be decided by a political decision. In this case, I'm shocked, shocked that gambling is..., I mean that the court where 7/7 judges were nominated by Democrats supported the Demorcatic Party candidate and the court where 7/9 judges were nominated by Republicans supported the Republican party candidate.
While it may be a bad sign for the independence of the judicial branch, it's hardly suprising.
(of course, having the whole state re-vote and hoping the outcome wasn't in the margin of error may have been a good choice, at least to try it once. I don't know the Florida voting laws well enough (ok, at all
Don't believe a thing those guys say... (Verizon)
;) )
My own experience with talking to Verizon customer support and sales is similar. What comes out of their mouths has no realationship to truth or to them actually doing anything. It's completely random and much wores than if they always told lies, at least then you'd know what isn't true. But for them, it's not always lies, it's not always truth, who know's if what they say means anything at all?
Verizon?, who cares if you can here them now?, even if it's intelligible, it's meaningless.
(and no, I'm not bitter!
One word...
The internet was never a brand name, thus, there was no need to capitalize it.
English
I have worked for military, top tier financial and law enforcement entities (I am not the AC poster, BTW). In the military, no matter how high your security clearance is, if you don't "need to know" something to carry out the job at hand, then you will not get to know it. If you do need to know it and have a high enough clearance, then you will get to know it. That is a security through obscurity policy that helps to make a nation safer.
While adding obscurity to a secure system is not necessarily a bad thing. (Why not make it harder, especially if the costs in time and aggravation are low.) It isn't something that should be counted on.
But the above isn't really security through obscurity. It is really a two tiered access control. At the first tier you must have the appropriate clearance level or above to access data at that classification level. The second tier is more amibigous, but you must have a reason to actually access the information. Access control is generally a good thing.
Obscurity, would be more like having a single room for all confidential, secret and top secret files which are in turn stored in unlocked filing cobinets. The files are randomly ordered and numbered. Anyone can access the room, but you have to know the number on the file your looking for to find it easily out of alll the files in the room. It's obscure. It's a lot more difficult to find specific information. It's not secure.
My understanding is that with IPv6, you shouldn't have to re-progam anyway. Your IPv6 devices should be able to communicate with each other using the link-local (or possibly site-local) address space and they should be able to automatically get the global net address and communicate globally using that. Depending on your setup, you don't even need DHCP.
Unfortunately, Tibetan monks aren't all that secure and defending them from China may be cost prohibitive.
I almost hate myself for adding this, but.. can't.. stop... the... typing...
and next day's headline?
Receptionist at talent agency institutionalized after receiving call from actress dead twenty years.
<BLOCKQUOTE>At a certain number of points on a license, drivers will not be able to use air bags. A few more points, and no seatbelts. And then after that, the doors and front windshield will be removed. And finally, after a whole lot of points, a big spike gets installed on the steering wheel. Drivers can wait the time it takes for their points to expire, or they can choose to drive very carefully.</BLOCKQUOTE>
After I finished laughing, I had to agree and I think the idea needs to be expanded:
The points should be allocatable by other drivers... 'that crazy bastard that just passed me on the shoulder, zap, he gets a crazy point'
Which bring me to the next topic, We need two sets of points:
idiot points & crazy points.
Guy driving in the fast lane at 60 with the number two lane empty?, he gets an idiot point. Guy sitting, stopped, at the stop sign, that waits for me to drive 50 yards up to the stop sign and come to a full and complete stop before he goes, that loser gets an idiot point.
Guy crossing three lanes of traffic at 90 while every one else is going 70, he gets a crazy point. Guy tail-gaiting on the freeway when I'm passing cars in the lane to the right, he gets a crazy point. (rationally, anyone that tail-gaits a car at 70 MPH probably deserves a crazy point)
Crazy point punishment is the above (I particularly like the spike
Idiot point punishment is a little different: at a certain number of points, they get more airbags. A few more points and they get more seat belts. 4,5,6 point, etc. After that, a helmet and a full protective suit are required. Finally, after a whole lot of points, their car is anchored to the ground with large metal cables.
I'm afraid he was optimistic about the US seeing things for what they are. What'll really happen is that the US will respond to the horrific moral outrage of the UN resolution by declaring war on resolutions and then promptly invading the moon.
I already have my deck of moon crater cards...
I second that and I think we should break it down by state as well. I nominate California...
This reminds me of a paraphrased joke:
;)
Your stuck in room with a guy defacing SCO's web page in the name of some cause and a guy about to hit the button that will destroy a mall in the name of some cause.
You have a gun with one bullet. What do you do?
.
.
.
Shoot the spammer. or something like that...
I don't know the answers but I can refer you:
_ holes_in_th eir_heads.html
>How do I perform brain surgery on myself?
trepanning of course...
http://www.noah.org/trepan/people_with
>What is the best way to travel about in a war zone?
sounds like a question for Geraldo Rivera (or saddamm)
>What is the best way to tell my spouse that she needs to lose A LOT of weight?
Ask Tom Arnold
>How can I get close to the President while carrying a handgun?
Hope the Pres. keeps pushing trickle down theory, and ask John Hinckley (I think, I don't remember the name of the guy who shot Reagan for sure).
>How can I steal power from a high tension line?
You don't, you steal it from your neighbor.
Insurance companies are bad by design. Their goal is to generate profit. They inherently generate profit by providing bad service. That is, as with any business, to maximize profit, charge as much as you can and pay out as little as possible. It doesn't matter whether a claim is legitimate or not. Pay as little as possible. In the current situation in the U.S., there is too much that would have to be fixed to make this design work (effective government control, lack of politcal power for non-humans/companies, etc...)
Now when there is a choice to get insurance, this can be mitigated slightly by people just choosing to not get any from companies that obviously treat their customers fairly. When companies are large enough that only a few can monopolies the industry or when getting insurance is mandated by law, well, we're all hosed.
Given the rhetoric about President Reagan and Roman conqueror's naming conventions, I'd go with
'Ronaldus Communistanus'
(especially since this would likely upset a few of his most fervent supporters and I'd enjoy the irony)
Hmm, measured this way, Microsoft would be just as corrupt as the Clinton administration, but much less corrupt than the the Reagan-Bush administration. ;).
Well if you measure corruption by criminal convictions (which given a corrupt government, may be a bad way to measure it but...), I believe the Clinton administration had one felony conviction. I think that was for some shifty real estate deals. The Reagan-Bush administrations had something over 20 felony convictions (I don't remember the exact number, but it does include Pointdexter). Many of these actually were in direct relation to foreign polices and foreign governments (Iran-CONTRA). That is, they were directly related to governing the country.
Given the above, I've got to lean away from the Clinton administration as being the most corrupt of the last 30 years. Although, it is more fun to talk about oral sex than shifting monies around through banks to illegal support some third world organizations. I mean, geeze, that's a real yawner.
The BSD advisory (FreeBSD anyway, I'm assuming the same adviasory for OpenBSD), states that version net-snmp 4.2.3 and above are safe. I'm betting that the BSD folks just got the version off (read it as > 4.2.2 as opposed to or >= 4.2.2 ) and, in any case, erred on the safe side.
I'm not sure wher your living in CA, but I regularly get carded for Alcohol. And to add rant to reason:
Q: Do we live in a free country or a police state?
A: At the age of 34, I need a State authorized identification document with name, address and physical description, including a personal photo, in order to have a beer with lunch. You do the social engineering math...
-Mike