On the other OTHER hand... The whole school newspaper censorship thing is a red herring.
The school is acting as the publisher of the paper. If the publishers of the New York Times or Washington Post don't like a particular story it doesn't see the light of day The "censored" reporters can bitch and whine to their editors, but there ain't a hell of a lot they can do about it. The school is in the same postion.
We'll see in 2004 if people are ready for an even better Republican candidate.
So you're admitting that Bush was a lousy choice for the Repubs this time? I voted for McCain in the primaries, but NOTA in the general election (Not that it mattered much in here in VA)
Hi, do you know me? I'm not really president, but I play one on TV
He'll coast along using Daddy's 'advisors' to run the country and be out in four (or less if he REALLY fucks up)
Prepare for a bloodbath in the mid term elections though. The attack ads will make this year's crop look like a tea party with Miss Manners
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Plus, do you know for certain there isn't a kind of life there? Think back to real Star Trek and the horta, perhaps horta's live there and we;re about to destroy their habitat.
The problem is that FEDERAL elections are being overseen by local election boards. Republicans may bitch, but Presidential elections should be overseen by a FEDERAL election board. Bugger the local electiion boards. Let them run the elections for local congressman, senator, county boards, sheriff, dog catcher, whatever. Presidential elections are too important to be left to the vagaries of Matilda Foggybottom, the county registrar. Have all the political parties pony up the cash every four years to pay for a fleet of federal election officials to tally the presidential vote. Make it a federal offense (25 yrs... no parole, no questions asked) for local officials to even TOUCH the presidential ballots. Additionally, put a gag order on the candidates if an election is called into question. The first one to break the order is automatically disqualified. (In other words, STFU and count the votes!)
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From the pix I've seen on CNN.com, the interface of the Florida ballot stinks. Punching holes in paper? What is this, the fifties?. Here in Virginia, the ballot is a large white touch screen. The names are all clearly and LARGELY written. When you start there are flashing red LEDS next to each candidate's name. When you touch a candidate's name, their LED changes to steady and the others for that office go out. When there are no more flashing LEDs you can look over the whole thing. If you change your mind, just select another candidate and their LED comes on. When you are satisfied with your choices, there is a LARGE green button at the bottom that says "VOTE". Push that and your choices are added to the totals. No muss, no fuss, no bother and most important NO AMBIGUITY.
Hitler, Stalin, and Mao all killed more people in just this century than were killed in all the
Crusades and Inquisitions combined.
That's only because Richard and Torquemada didn't have weapons of mass destruction at their disposal. The Crusades and the Inquisition were tools of the Government using religion to further their aims (Kind of like the "Religious Right" does today)
Calling myself a tomato wouldn't make me one
Unfortunately a great many 'tomatoes' throughout the ages have waged war against the "infidel" while the 'real' tomatoes looked the other way
Then how does one define "religion?"
There are those who consider practicing celibacy and chanting to be 'deviant' behaviour.
Why is a guy who can call lightning bolts and thunder down and owns a hammer that returns to him when thrown considered a myth, yet a fellow who pisses off the local government, gets nailed to a tree for his troubles and then comes back three days later to party considered devine truth?
Both stories run counter to human experience. Myths and traditions, when used for teaching, can bind a community together and help the new generations come of age with a shared sense of values, but when these parables are put forth as divinely inspired TRUTH instead of being used as hypothetical examples to explain a moral dilemma, they become dangerous in the hands of an ambitious zealot. How many wars have started because one group has thought "We are the posessors of ABSOLUTE TRUTH. Any who do not believe as we do are foul blasphemers and must DIE!"
Religion in general, and Christianity in particular has been responsible for more and bloodier wars than anything else in Human history. Religion is a tool used by the powerful to keep the populace in control. ("Do what I say GOD told me to do or his anger will be great!")
The only good thing to come out of religion has been the music.
Religion is a powerful force even today, and we don't want people abusing its potential to change people's lives. We don't need a new wave of Waco incidents hitting our country.
Need I remind you that the Branch Davidians were a Christian cult?
the letters "P" and "h" are very close together on the keyboard
What keyboard layout are you using?
On a QWERTY keyboard the 'P' is four keys to the right and one row up from the 'H'. Even assuming a Dvorak layout, the 'P' is three to the left and one row up.
I hate to be a pedant (not really;) ) but for "phreaking" to be typoed as "freaking" one must be a pathetically poor typist or else you're using a really funky layout. (But seeing as the original article was in English, I'd have to guess it was typed on a QWERTY keyboard)
"If it's called tourist season, why can't we shoot them?"
>>Character DOES matter!
Yes, the arbiters of character... The Republican Party!
The same party that brought you
Watergate
Iran-Contra
Ed Meese
George HW "I wasn't at that meeting" Bush
Newt Gingrich (Book Deal)
and is now saying that everything that "W"
did before age 40 was "youthful indiscretion"
Clinton got nailed because he was the first guy to get laid in the White House since JFK
and then lied about it in a bullshit lawsuit bankrolled by his political enemies. If lying to Congress is against
the law, it's time to haul in Bush (The Elder) and Ronnie Raygun
(although since the latter left office with the same Alzheimer's he came in with, I think he can cop a plea saying he is too
ill to stand trial.)
Gore is catching a ration of shit for collecting $$ from Buddist monks (a group of folks not known for copious amounts of cash laying about)
Why don't the Republicans question where W got his $23 million war chest? All those Big Oil, Multinational Pharmaceutical and NRA bucks a little too embarrassing to talk about?
and on a completely different tack, now with all the BS in the Middle East going on, does Bush the oil man really care if $40/bbl oil prices cause the economy to tank?
The point is, kiddies... if lying disqualifies you from public office, it's time to throw all 535 of those lying thieves on the hill out of office.
Would you charger per bit.... per byte?
Would you charge for useage or perhaps throttle back those who used too much bandwidth?
(Jon Katz leaps to mind for some reason )
Slashdot Mirror
That one's even better. :)
Now break out the ol' perl anagram finder.....
Have I been up too late or does any one else parse "themoscowtimes" as "Them OS Cow Times"
... just wondering
MAB
On the other OTHER hand... The whole school newspaper censorship thing is a red herring.
The school is acting as the publisher of the paper. If the publishers of the New York Times
or Washington Post don't like a particular story it doesn't see the light of day
The "censored" reporters can bitch and whine to their editors, but there ain't a hell of a lot
they can do about it. The school is in the same postion.
"The Measure of a Man"
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Jesse Berst == Gollum?
Bugger all mice anyway... get one of the ridiculously programmable Kensington trackballs
To paraphrase Dr. Peter Venkman:
Yeah....
No human would move a large chunk of steel around Seattle for no apparent reason
The only truly intuitive interface is the nipple
We'll see in 2004 if people are ready for an even better Republican candidate.
So you're admitting that Bush was a lousy choice for the Repubs this time? I voted for McCain in the primaries, but NOTA in the general election (Not that it mattered much in here in VA)
GW will be a rerun of Ronnie "RayGun"
Hi, do you know me? I'm not really president, but I play one on TV
He'll coast along using Daddy's 'advisors' to run the country and be out in four (or less if he REALLY fucks up)
Prepare for a bloodbath in the mid term elections though. The attack ads will make this year's crop look like a tea party with Miss Manners
Plus, do you know for certain there isn't a kind of life there? Think back to real Star Trek and the horta, perhaps horta's live there and we;re about to destroy their habitat.
Repeat after me:
Star Trek is NOT a documentary.
Thank you
So in essence, the software is saying I may not know what pr0n is, but I know it when I see it?
Has anyone else noticed that "Merilus" is an anagram for "Im Luser"
Just a thought....
The problem is that FEDERAL elections are being overseen by local election boards. Republicans may bitch, but Presidential elections should be overseen by a FEDERAL election board. Bugger the local electiion boards. Let them run the elections for local congressman, senator, county boards, sheriff, dog catcher, whatever. Presidential elections are too important to be left to the vagaries of Matilda Foggybottom, the county registrar. Have all the political parties pony up the cash every four years to pay for a fleet of federal election officials to tally the presidential vote. Make it a federal offense (25 yrs... no parole, no questions asked) for local officials to even TOUCH the presidential ballots. Additionally, put a gag order on the candidates if an election is called into question. The first one to break the order is automatically disqualified. (In other words, STFU and count the votes!)
From the pix I've seen on CNN.com, the interface of the Florida ballot stinks. Punching holes in paper? What is this, the fifties?. Here in Virginia, the ballot is a large white touch screen. The names are all clearly and LARGELY written. When you start there are flashing red LEDS next to each candidate's name. When you touch a candidate's name, their LED changes to steady and the others for that office go out. When there are no more flashing LEDs you can look over the whole thing. If you change your mind, just select another candidate and their LED comes on. When you are satisfied with your choices, there is a LARGE green button at the bottom that says "VOTE". Push that and your choices are added to the totals. No muss, no fuss, no bother and most important NO AMBIGUITY.
So, in essence, you want to replace elections with moderation? /. :p
We all know how well this works here on
Except that Billy Boy seems to have problems with commandments seven, eight and ten.
7. Thou Shalt Not Steal
8. Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness
10. Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neigbours Goods
In short, Brother... Take thy holier than thou attitude, form it into a cluestick, and smite thyself upside the head with it!
As of the close on 6 Nov 2K:
You're welcome
Hitler, Stalin, and Mao all killed more people in just this century than were killed in all the Crusades and Inquisitions combined.
That's only because Richard and Torquemada didn't have weapons of mass destruction at their disposal. The Crusades and the Inquisition were tools of the Government using religion to further their aims (Kind of like the "Religious Right" does today)
Calling myself a tomato wouldn't make me one
Unfortunately a great many 'tomatoes' throughout the ages have waged war against the "infidel" while the 'real' tomatoes looked the other way
Then how does one define "religion?"
There are those who consider practicing celibacy and chanting to be 'deviant' behaviour.
Why is a guy who can call lightning bolts and thunder down and owns a hammer that returns to him when thrown considered a myth, yet a fellow who pisses off the local government, gets nailed to a tree for his troubles and then comes back three days later to party considered devine truth?
Both stories run counter to human experience. Myths and traditions, when used for teaching, can bind a community together and help the new generations come of age with a shared sense of values, but when these parables are put forth as divinely inspired TRUTH instead of being used as hypothetical examples to explain a moral dilemma, they become dangerous in the hands of an ambitious zealot. How many wars have started because one group has thought "We are the posessors of ABSOLUTE TRUTH. Any who do not believe as we do are foul blasphemers and must DIE!"
Religion in general, and Christianity in particular has been responsible for more and bloodier wars than anything else in Human history. Religion is a tool used by the powerful to keep the populace in control. ("Do what I say GOD told me to do or his anger will be great!")
The only good thing to come out of religion has been the music.
Religion is a powerful force even today, and we don't want people abusing its potential to change people's lives. We don't need a new wave of Waco incidents hitting our country.
Need I remind you that the Branch Davidians were a Christian cult?
Does anyone think the phrase "Windows ME" strikingly resembles the phrase "Rape Me"?
No, but Windows CE abbreviated can certainly make you WinCE
the letters "P" and "h" are very close together on the keyboard
;) ) but for "phreaking" to be typoed as "freaking"
What keyboard layout are you using?
On a QWERTY keyboard the 'P' is four keys to the right and one row up from the 'H'.
Even assuming a Dvorak layout, the 'P' is three to the left and one row up.
I hate to be a pedant (not really
one must be a pathetically poor typist or else you're using a really funky layout.
(But seeing as the original article was in English, I'd have to guess it was typed on a QWERTY keyboard)
"If it's called tourist season, why can't we shoot them?"
Surely we don't want the first men on Mars to plant the red flag of communism on such a brave new world?
Why not?.... After all, it already IS a "Red" planet.
Yes, the arbiters of character... The Republican Party!
The same party that brought you
- Watergate
and is now saying that everything that "W" did before age 40 was "youthful indiscretion"Iran-Contra
Ed Meese
George HW "I wasn't at that meeting" Bush
Newt Gingrich (Book Deal)
Clinton got nailed because he was the first guy to get laid in the White House since JFK
and then lied about it in a bullshit lawsuit bankrolled by his political enemies.
If lying to Congress is against the law, it's time to haul in Bush (The Elder) and Ronnie Raygun
(although since the latter left office with the same Alzheimer's he came in with, I think he can cop a plea saying he is too ill to stand trial.)
Gore is catching a ration of shit for collecting $$ from Buddist monks (a group of folks not known for copious amounts of cash laying about)
Why don't the Republicans question where W got his $23 million war chest?
All those Big Oil, Multinational Pharmaceutical and NRA bucks a little too embarrassing to talk about?
and on a completely different tack, now with all the BS in the Middle East going on, does Bush the oil man really care if $40/bbl oil prices cause the economy to tank?
The point is, kiddies... if lying disqualifies you from public office, it's time to throw all 535 of those lying thieves on the hill out of office.
Would you charger per bit.... per byte?
Would you charge for useage or perhaps throttle back those who used too much bandwidth?
(Jon Katz leaps to mind for some reason )