The law as it stands now prohibits gambling, yet people still gamble.
Theft, murder, etc. are all against the law yet, sadly, they still take place on a regular basis. No law is ever 100% effective, although there is the hope that it will dissuade some.
Well, if you look at the issue of gambling, the government generally gets a share of the profits (once again it's the Canadian situation that I'm more familiar with so I'm not sure how it applies down south). AFAIK, the current gambling restrictions in the US actually allows for limited gambling to take place, as long as no borders are crossed, although I'm not sure whether borders are defined as state, or national ones. By gaining a bit of cash from legalized gambling, the government is then able to afford to cover the costs of any necessary social programs, whereas when the gambling takes place in an external environment they would not have this benefit. I do think that if you allow people to gamble by visiting casinos, it does seem a little bit inconsistent to not allow them this option online, although I think that there are some benefits to the government to ensure that this only takes place within their jurisdiction.
As far as the drug situtation is concerned, I do personally feel that the US is going overboard with its anti-drug policies. I view it somewhere in the same neighborhood as smoking and alcohol, although I suppose that it can have more immediate consequences with short-term use (ie. drug overdoses).
I do agree that there should be some sort of equivalent to Alcoholics Anonymous for drug addicts. A person might smoke a joint once, and then be frightened of exposure, any thus may not go into treatment (if ever) until at a later stage of addiction, where it may be more difficult to reverse the trend. Additionally, I would imagine that the present illegal-but-available status of drugs tends to point teenager in this direction as a means of asserting their independence.
I do think that forgiveness/compassion is a necessary component of a justice system that aims to be effective, rathering than a simple concentration on punishment.
It's really funny to me that we have this "separation" of Church and State yet we have to worry about "values"? Blue Laws, gambling restrictions, anti-abortion, etc, are all issues stemming from *religious* beliefs whether those in office say they are or not.
I've heard many times the argument that a persons' right to due something ends when their fist hits another individual 's nose. Ignoring moralistic motivations, there can be a "hit" on another person's wallet in order to pay for social programs that may be required to deal with gambling addictions, or perhaps to cover the additional healthcare costs associated with smoking (I'm Canadian... with our "wonderful" socialistic healthcare system which many not apply to you Americans). Hence, there can also be practical reasons keeping many of these laws in place.
There's 2 rules: love your god, and love your neighbor... He didn't stand outside of abortion clinics and call people names.
If life begins at conception, then wouldn't there be something wrong with doing nothing about abortion though?
Consider that in my province of residence, so much as silently holding a sign within 50 meters of an abortion clinic is against the law. Even a peaceful form of protest is disallowed.
It may be a little bit overkill for recording a radio program (although I've used the software for that before), but why not try the (open source) Audacity?
Do you really feel like upgrading the OS of your web server every six months or so? (hopefully Fedora legacy will be successful and take some of the bite out of this though)
Authors like CS. Lewis express it best when he says through his writing you don't have to even believe in the same God to go to heaven.
I've read a fair bit of C.S. Lewis, but I've yet to come across something along those lines in there. What (book, chapter, page?) specifically are you drawing this conclusion from?
I don't think that being able to run Quicktime counts. It's about the most disgusting movie player I've ever seen (can't even view fullscreen w/o spending extra $$$, and it'll bombard you with ads on every startup)
I like a lot of stuff that Apple does, but on my iBook I've got an MPlayer port installed so that I have as little need of Quicktime as possible.
Quicktime seems to me to be about the most miserable excuse for a movie player on the planet. (eg.) I don't feel like spending extra money, beyond the premium for apple hardware, just so that I can play something in fullscreen.
I'm currently using a MacOSX port of MPlayer, which despite its quirks is far better than Quicktime for most things.
Annoying the newer Linksys 802.11b cards also use a broadcom chipset now, but keep the same model number as the earlier linux compatible cards. This I found out the hard way.
Someone else discovered that adding Option "XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps" "Yes" to your video card config in xf86 v.4 would solve that problem. Maybe it'll also solve your i815 problem.
Why don't you take a nice close look at LinuxAndMain.com. There dep points out that there will be no desktop version of this UnitedLinux. It seems in many other ways as well, that with this release they'll be leaving the "typical" linux user behind to focus on the enterprise markets. And if then we see software be packaged only for this UnitedLinux, what are we then to do?
What most Americans don't know is that Canada's Confederation (in 1867) was based on the promise of a coast to coast railroad (that is, the Atlantic and Pacific coast).
I hate to burst your bubble, but no, confederation was not based on the railway link. What you might be thinking of though was that it took the promise of a rail link to get British Columbia to join in 1871.
For something like $8.88/yr you get your domain registration and with it free email forwarding, url forwarding/cloaking, and some basic dns services (A records, CNAMES, etc.).
ps2pdf ships with most Linux distributions as part of Ghostscript I believe. Just print to a file and then convert it.
On the windows end, you might want to check out FreePDF. It gives you instructions on how to mix the previously mentioned ghostscript, as well as a few other tools, to give you the ability to print to pdf format from any windows application.
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The law as it stands now prohibits gambling, yet people still gamble.
Theft, murder, etc. are all against the law yet, sadly, they still take place on a regular basis. No law is ever 100% effective, although there is the hope that it will dissuade some.
Well, if you look at the issue of gambling, the government generally gets a share of the profits (once again it's the Canadian situation that I'm more familiar with so I'm not sure how it applies down south). AFAIK, the current gambling restrictions in the US actually allows for limited gambling to take place, as long as no borders are crossed, although I'm not sure whether borders are defined as state, or national ones. By gaining a bit of cash from legalized gambling, the government is then able to afford to cover the costs of any necessary social programs, whereas when the gambling takes place in an external environment they would not have this benefit. I do think that if you allow people to gamble by visiting casinos, it does seem a little bit inconsistent to not allow them this option online, although I think that there are some benefits to the government to ensure that this only takes place within their jurisdiction.
As far as the drug situtation is concerned, I do personally feel that the US is going overboard with its anti-drug policies. I view it somewhere in the same neighborhood as smoking and alcohol, although I suppose that it can have more immediate consequences with short-term use (ie. drug overdoses).
I do agree that there should be some sort of equivalent to Alcoholics Anonymous for drug addicts. A person might smoke a joint once, and then be frightened of exposure, any thus may not go into treatment (if ever) until at a later stage of addiction, where it may be more difficult to reverse the trend. Additionally, I would imagine that the present illegal-but-available status of drugs tends to point teenager in this direction as a means of asserting their independence.
I do think that forgiveness/compassion is a necessary component of a justice system that aims to be effective, rathering than a simple concentration on punishment.
It's really funny to me that we have this "separation" of Church and State yet we have to worry about "values"? Blue Laws, gambling restrictions, anti-abortion, etc, are all issues stemming from *religious* beliefs whether those in office say they are or not.
... with our "wonderful" socialistic healthcare system which many not apply to you Americans). Hence, there can also be practical reasons keeping many of these laws in place.
I've heard many times the argument that a persons' right to due something ends when their fist hits another individual 's nose. Ignoring moralistic motivations, there can be a "hit" on another person's wallet in order to pay for social programs that may be required to deal with gambling addictions, or perhaps to cover the additional healthcare costs associated with smoking (I'm Canadian
There's 2 rules: love your god, and love your neighbor... He didn't stand outside of abortion clinics and call people names.
If life begins at conception, then wouldn't there be something wrong with doing nothing about abortion though?
Consider that in my province of residence, so much as silently holding a sign within 50 meters of an abortion clinic is against the law. Even a peaceful form of protest is disallowed.
It may be a little bit overkill for recording a radio program (although I've used the software for that before), but why not try the (open source) Audacity?
Sort of like this?
Do you really feel like upgrading the OS of your web server every six months or so? (hopefully Fedora legacy will be successful and take some of the bite out of this though)
The more relevant "size" (for file sharing purposes) -population:
Canada: ~32 million
USA: ~ 290 million (figures from the CIA factbook)
Not quite 10 times the size, but fairly close
I've read a fair bit of C.S. Lewis, but I've yet to come across something along those lines in there. What (book, chapter, page?) specifically are you drawing this conclusion from?
If I could get KMail running with MacOS X (X11 doesn't count), I'd drop Apple's Mail app in the blink of an eye.
Actually they do have their own distro... CERN Linux. It's essentially Redhat with a few modifications.
I like a lot of stuff that Apple does, but on my iBook I've got an MPlayer port installed so that I have as little need of Quicktime as possible.
I'm currently using a MacOSX port of MPlayer, which despite its quirks is far better than Quicktime for most things.
Well, the version of the card isn't specified on the box as far as I can tell, only the model number.
Annoying the newer Linksys 802.11b cards also use a broadcom chipset now, but keep the same model number as the earlier linux compatible cards. This I found out the hard way.
I'd be very surprised if an i810 or a Voodoo 3 could run America's army playably.
I've had no success with an i810. It crashed America's Army on startup.
Did you check the terms of service? There's likely a clause in there that allows them to send these.
Mandrake (9.0) gives you the option in the installer.
Someone else discovered that adding Option "XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps" "Yes" to your video card config in xf86 v.4 would solve that problem. Maybe it'll also solve your i815 problem.
Why don't you take a nice close look at LinuxAndMain.com. There dep points out that there will be no desktop version of this UnitedLinux. It seems in many other ways as well, that with this release they'll be leaving the "typical" linux user behind to focus on the enterprise markets. And if then we see software be packaged only for this UnitedLinux, what are we then to do?
What most Americans don't know is that Canada's Confederation (in 1867) was based on the promise of a coast to coast railroad (that is, the Atlantic and Pacific coast).
I hate to burst your bubble, but no, confederation was not based on the railway link. What you might be thinking of though was that it took the promise of a rail link to get British Columbia to join in 1871.
For something like $8.88/yr you get your domain registration and with it free email forwarding, url forwarding/cloaking, and some basic dns services (A records, CNAMES, etc.).
I think that this is a load of BS 'eh
ps2pdf ships with most Linux distributions as part of Ghostscript I believe. Just print to a file and then convert it.
On the windows end, you might want to check out FreePDF. It gives you instructions on how to mix the previously mentioned ghostscript, as well as a few other tools, to give you the ability to print to pdf format from any windows application.
he was arrested for software sold outside the US
Regnow.com, the company that he used to sell registration keys for his software, lists a Washington address on their website
If only MS put a note in the EULA, as they did in MS Age of Empires II : The Age of Kings, warning me not to make use of it in a nuclear facility.