If you really want to show that you want fewer of them, go vote Libertarian (assuming that you support all forms of deregulation among businesses and want to work for the "eventual repeal of all taxes" (if I'm remembering the official party platform plank's wording properly) as well). If you want to show that you want fewer of them and don't support that other stuff, vote Green.
Totally wrong.
As someone else has pointed out, Green & Libertarian are as irrelevant to the IP question as Democrat & Republican. Greens are pro open source, seemingly because they believe it to be anti-corporation. Aside from that, no help.
A few prominent Libertarians are anti intellectual property because they realize that it is created by government intervention. This is not the position of the Libertarian Party, nor of the Cato Institute, so I don't think there have ever been any Libertarian candidates that are anti-IP. They're all too in love with the idea of property. GW's Ownership Society lip service probably gave them all a woody.
And I dispute that Democrats are significantly less pro-IP, your little statistic notwithstanding. I'm a Democrat from California, but I have to admit that Feinstein & Clinton did not represent my interests on these issues. Honestly, I feel like Feinstein is representing my interests about 5% of the time.
Because the previous poster's comment was factually incorrect. None of Kerry's testimony was false or misleading. If you read the full transcript, it's rather honorable.
Ah, a representative of the Michael Moore-school of selective quoting.
This is a dialog. You are the only person I am responding to. I trust that anyone can read exactly what you said. I was attempting to direct your attention to specific elements of your post. I did not intend to misrepresent your position, and I did not intend to weaken your point. I honestly didn't understand it.
I certainly don't understand it any better now that you've reinserted the rest of that sentence. Don't be a dick.
Did not the 2000 election in Florida result in a statewide hunt for hanging chad?
Sure.
It seems that you are advocating applying this nationally.
There is a war on between MS, Apple, and Real to have their proprietary format become the defacto standard.
But if they get reverse engineered everywhere, they wouldn't be proprietary anymore, now would they.
Actually, Real would probably welcome it.
Not if.rm files had nothing to do with Real anymore. They're the only ones that can't bundle their player with the operating system. I think there was a court case about that somewhere...
I encourage all the Apple fans to think carefully about what position they take on the issue of format and DRM.
I hope you aren't talking about me. I think what Real has done is great. I'd also like Apple to support the playback & creation of.rm files in Quicktime. Not that it'll happen.
You must live in a highly populated state. Those of us in less populous areas appreciate the two baseline electoral votes we get -- just like the big states!
So long as everyone understands that there's nothing inherently better about the current system. I'm sure Bush appreciates the two baseline votes you get, too. Just like Gore appreciates the winner-takes-all nature of the electoral vote. By changing either one of these games, you'd have changed who became president in 2000.
But there's no essential reason that y'all in the wide-open-spaces need to be protected from us city folks any more than we need to be protected from y'all. Fair enough?
What would you do if the next version of Quicktime could play.rm files, even ones with DRM? Suppose that they respect the DRM, and only play on authorized computers. Suppose Quicktime Pro were capable of creating.rm files with DRM.
My understanding was that new nuke plants weren't being built because no one would insure them unless they were indemnified by the gov't.
Pro-nuke folks always say it's because the government is preventing the building of nukes, but their opposition seems to be saying "Ok, build the nukes if you can insure them." not "No nukes here."
I'm *totally* unsure of the actual political situation. I just do not accept the common wisdom that we don't have nuclear power plants 100% because of NIMBY types.
Even then it only works until the spammers hijack the machine of some dumb sap who's a legitimate customer of such an ISP, and send under his name. It does you and me no good at all, either way.
Um, no. In that case, spam prevention would be way, way easier. Spam from spammer@yahoo.com would have to actually come from Yahoo. That would make my f*ing day.
Note that for for one hundred years prior to the existance of The Fed, the purchasing value of a dollar was virtually unchanged!
Post Fed, post gold standard, post secured currency, the value of the dollar's purchasing power has dropped 97%. With Greenspan's current uber-loose credit scheme and our fractioanl reserve (aka fractional safety) banking system, this has vastly increased the amount of money circulating even in the last decade, secured now mostly by residential real estate.
Is that good or bad? Why? Honestly, I don't know, and I suspect that economists could come down on both sides of that issue.
I assume you've tried opening the "Display Properties" screen, clicking the "Advanced" button on the settings tab, and then clicking on the "List All Modes..." button on the adapter tab, right?
That would be my first guess. Sometimes folks only try the slider...
To me, this represents Kevin Smith taking the final plunge into sheer hackdom.
Whatever. It's not like Kevin Smith (or most of the other folks that get this criticism) ever pretended to anything other than hackdom. He wanted to make movies that entertained people, & he wants to get paid. I swear, someday someone's going to say that Adam Sandler, or Affleck & Damon "sold out" and I'm going to spontaneously combust in frustration. It can't be "selling out" if their original goal was popular success & money.
Even if google incorporated word identification in their login (and they didn't), that wouldn't block third party email notifiers. Your email notifier has a person to use as a resource. You.
Your email notifier would just have to ask you to identify the word in the png every so often. Barely even inconvenient.
Kindof. If this patent is different from sudo, Microsoft would have a better shot at using it to attack Linux, should Linux ever incorporate this patented mechanism in a new feature.
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Internet 2 uses it exclusively.
Boy, are you wrong.
WRONG.
(Just that sentence, of course. The rest of your post is right.)
Wrongity-wrong-wrong-wrong.
If you really want to show that you want fewer of them, go vote Libertarian (assuming that you support all forms of deregulation among businesses and want to work for the "eventual repeal of all taxes" (if I'm remembering the official party platform plank's wording properly) as well). If you want to show that you want fewer of them and don't support that other stuff, vote Green.
Totally wrong.
As someone else has pointed out, Green & Libertarian are as irrelevant to the IP question as Democrat & Republican. Greens are pro open source, seemingly because they believe it to be anti-corporation. Aside from that, no help.
A few prominent Libertarians are anti intellectual property because they realize that it is created by government intervention. This is not the position of the Libertarian Party, nor of the Cato Institute, so I don't think there have ever been any Libertarian candidates that are anti-IP. They're all too in love with the idea of property. GW's Ownership Society lip service probably gave them all a woody.
And I dispute that Democrats are significantly less pro-IP, your little statistic notwithstanding. I'm a Democrat from California, but I have to admit that Feinstein & Clinton did not represent my interests on these issues. Honestly, I feel like Feinstein is representing my interests about 5% of the time.
None of Kerry's testimony was false or misleading.
His statement about Kerry being full of shit implies that something is inaccurate about his testimony.
If that's not what the poster meant, then I don't understand his complaint.
Because the previous poster's comment was factually incorrect. None of Kerry's testimony was false or misleading. If you read the full transcript, it's rather honorable.
Ah, a representative of the Michael Moore-school of selective quoting.
This is a dialog. You are the only person I am responding to. I trust that anyone can read exactly what you said. I was attempting to direct your attention to specific elements of your post. I did not intend to misrepresent your position, and I did not intend to weaken your point. I honestly didn't understand it.
I certainly don't understand it any better now that you've reinserted the rest of that sentence. Don't be a dick.
Did not the 2000 election in Florida result in a statewide hunt for hanging chad?
Sure.
It seems that you are advocating applying this nationally.
I'm not. Why does it seem that way?
This sort of thing always makes me roll my eyes, and I'm a Kerry supporter.
Same for everybody else.
That's why Clinton told him to stfu regarding his service in Vietnam.
"If I'm lyin' I'm flyin' and I ain't seen a bird all day."
I swear to God, I don't understand your problem.
What Kerry said, including the quote you've selected, was true. And what's with the ellipsis? Does the full quote not prove your point as well?
In what regard was this statement incorrect or dishonorable? (Or "FULL OF SHIT"?)
It's "bear with me", not "bare with me".
P.S. I put the punctuation outside the quotations intentionally.
You're assuming so many different things in your post that I don't know where to begin.
Many developed nations have figured out how to accurately, precisely, and cheaply count votes on a national level.
But the current system is better: rather than a nationwide hunt for hanging chad
Agreed. The current system is better than a nationwide hunt for hanging chad. Do you know anyone that has advocated such a system? Me neither.
The fairest way to have your vote count (and if the state is solid red or blue, it won't) is to have national instant run-off voting.
Approval voting.
IRV still has spoilers.
There is a war on between MS, Apple, and Real to have their proprietary format become the defacto standard.
.rm files had nothing to do with Real anymore. They're the only ones that can't bundle their player with the operating system. I think there was a court case about that somewhere...
.rm files in Quicktime. Not that it'll happen.
But if they get reverse engineered everywhere, they wouldn't be proprietary anymore, now would they.
Actually, Real would probably welcome it.
Not if
I encourage all the Apple fans to think carefully about what position they take on the issue of format and DRM.
I hope you aren't talking about me. I think what Real has done is great. I'd also like Apple to support the playback & creation of
You must live in a highly populated state. Those of us in less populous areas appreciate the two baseline electoral votes we get -- just like the big states!
So long as everyone understands that there's nothing inherently better about the current system. I'm sure Bush appreciates the two baseline votes you get, too. Just like Gore appreciates the winner-takes-all nature of the electoral vote. By changing either one of these games, you'd have changed who became president in 2000.
But there's no essential reason that y'all in the wide-open-spaces need to be protected from us city folks any more than we need to be protected from y'all. Fair enough?
What would you do if the next version of Quicktime could play .rm files, even ones with DRM? Suppose that they respect the DRM, and only play on authorized computers. Suppose Quicktime Pro were capable of creating .rm files with DRM.
Why shouldn't Apple do this?
My understanding was that new nuke plants weren't being built because no one would insure them unless they were indemnified by the gov't.
Pro-nuke folks always say it's because the government is preventing the building of nukes, but their opposition seems to be saying "Ok, build the nukes if you can insure them." not "No nukes here."
I'm *totally* unsure of the actual political situation. I just do not accept the common wisdom that we don't have nuclear power plants 100% because of NIMBY types.
Even then it only works until the spammers hijack the machine of some dumb sap who's a legitimate customer of such an ISP, and send under his name. It does you and me no good at all, either way.
Um, no. In that case, spam prevention would be way, way easier. Spam from spammer@yahoo.com would have to actually come from Yahoo. That would make my f*ing day.
My understanding was that LA has had smog since before the invention of the automobile, due to the geography of the valley.
Supposedly it had smog from campfires when it was inhabited by native Americans.
Is it illegal to sell gold-backed banknotes in the USA?
Note that for for one hundred years prior to the existance of The Fed, the purchasing value of a dollar was virtually unchanged!
Post Fed, post gold standard, post secured currency, the value of the dollar's purchasing power has dropped 97%. With Greenspan's current uber-loose credit scheme and our fractioanl reserve (aka fractional safety) banking system, this has vastly increased the amount of money circulating even in the last decade, secured now mostly by residential real estate.
Is that good or bad? Why? Honestly, I don't know, and I suspect that economists could come down on both sides of that issue.
I assume you've tried opening the "Display Properties" screen, clicking the "Advanced" button on the settings tab, and then clicking on the "List All Modes..." button on the adapter tab, right?
That would be my first guess. Sometimes folks only try the slider...
Fair enough.
To me, this represents Kevin Smith taking the final plunge into sheer hackdom.
Whatever. It's not like Kevin Smith (or most of the other folks that get this criticism) ever pretended to anything other than hackdom. He wanted to make movies that entertained people, & he wants to get paid. I swear, someday someone's going to say that Adam Sandler, or Affleck & Damon "sold out" and I'm going to spontaneously combust in frustration. It can't be "selling out" if their original goal was popular success & money.
Even if google incorporated word identification in their login (and they didn't), that wouldn't block third party email notifiers. Your email notifier has a person to use as a resource. You.
Your email notifier would just have to ask you to identify the word in the png every so often. Barely even inconvenient.
But they didn't do that anyway. Whatever.
Kindof. If this patent is different from sudo, Microsoft would have a better shot at using it to attack Linux, should Linux ever incorporate this patented mechanism in a new feature.
But yeah. You're right.
I'd love to live in a dark, gritty Blade Runner style world.
I thought that was supposed to be a dystopic vision of the future.