It is illegal to shoot game from inside a vehicle in most states. It is also usually illegal to shoot from or across a public road. Even if a poacher weaseled out of the deer shoot, he'd still go down for the way he tried to do it. All the stings I've seen on TV were set up next to roads.
I will be glad to take the blame for ignoring an imaginary problem. Enjoy the popularity of your hack cult while it lasts. One day it it will never be mentioned outside the pages of books dedicated to phrenology, mesmerism, and other 'sciences' among which global warming deserves a seat. Now if you'll excuse me, I must fire up my evil SUV and destroy the known universe!
I for one will be glad to take the blame for ignoring an imaginary problem. Enjoy the popularity of your hack cult while it lasts. One day it it will never be mentioned outside the pages of books dedicated to phrenology, mesmerism, and other 'sciences' among which global warming deserves a well earned seat.
The problem with this and with any sort of receipt is that it destroys the anonymity of the vote. Someone could be pressured into revealing their ballot reciept or the information required to access it. You can bet your bottom dollar that union thugs and similar underworld types would take advantage of a receipt system, if one was instituted.
I'm sure they do love the system. That's the scary part. It's also sad. The countries where these systems are blossoming are the same countries that sacrificed for decades to defeat the exact kind of societies they are turning into. When I was a kid there was a rumor that the KGB had all the parks in Moscow bugged. The idea that 'good guys' like the UK, Holland, and etc. would consider using such systems was simply not contemplated.
You proved his point with your own post. The council considered punishing people for exercising their freedom of choice. This has been the goal of the global warming crazies all along. This is why they talk about taxes and legislation so much.
Global warming has nothing to do with the environment and absolutely nothing to do with science. It is a movement to punish people for engaging in free will and capitalism. It is just Soviet marxism wrapped in a pretty green banner.
I would have to agree. I can't plug in my 486 and fire up Doom III. That doesn't mean game development is hampering the use of computers as gaming platforms. It just means the hardware has some finite limitations that can't be overcome.
Nobody likes it when their personal sacred cow is taken out for slaughter. Methodology might have something to do with it. The RIAA and MPAA send out legal notices to blind grandmas and little kids. All the PearOS folks have to do to catch the offending party is download a file the suspects are putting out for public consumption.
What interests me is the whole idea of a Mac emulator. It is a neat idea, but I've never seen a high demand for a mac emu- at least not the sort of demand that would inspire one to think there is a paying market niche.
Proprietary components seem to be the norm in factory built desktops these days. It inspired me to learn about building my own PC. I replaced my Dell Dimension XPS-T with a homebuilt and haven't looked back.
I don't mind the use of proprietary parts. They're OK for "Grandma's Email Machine". But they can make things hard for a 1st time component upgrader who just wants a better video card or whatnot.
Whenever I see news about 'extreme right' public demonstrations in Germany, the gatherings are attended by hundreds and often many thousands of people. They march, they speak, they carry banners. They are well organized and very disciplined compared to their American fringe counterparts.
Here in America were such political speech laws don't exist (yet), public gatherings of similar groups rarely number over 20 or 30 people who are usually shouted down or ignored. Many of their publicized events result in nobody showing up at all.
If political censorshop was really effective I would expect to see the exact opposite thing on our respective sides of the pond. I can only draw the conclusion that Germans consider themselves mentally inferior to Americans and unable to cope with the level of freedom we enjoy in this area.
But that is OK. Being freer than the rest of the world is what makes us special- while it lasts.
That is an absurd comparison. You might as well cross out "1836 covered wagon" and replace it with a random noun. Actually you might as well cross out all the nouns and replace them with random nutty words.
Here we go:
Much like a jelly could handle deep insurance salesmen better than a Polka guitar.
My Canon bubble jet (came free with an old Dell) went through cartridges like candy. Eventually I stopped using it. It gathers dust on the far left corner of my computer desk today. These modern printers sure are frail compared to my old daisy wheel and dot matrix printers. They could print reams of paper before they dried up and sit silent for months at a time.
I can keep ink from drying up in my 50 year old Esterbrook fountain pen. Apparently doing the same thing in a computer printer is beyond the capabilities of modern science.
Why in the world do you think it is normal or acceptable for an elementary school student to carry any sort of ID in the first place? This is not a private school. It is a government-run public school. It frightens me to see how desensitized people are these days to these major surrenders of privacy and responsibility. Don't you realize what they are doing? Wake the Hell up!
First of all those accounts existly only for as long as you are part of the institution and I have never heard of any spammer using an edu account.
A friend of mine used his uni account for many years after graduation. My brother used his for three years after graduation. I'd have to say you're right about *.edu domains being low-risk spam sources, but some folks do retain the use of their uni accounts for some amount of time after they set off for parts unknown.
If I remember correctly (?) the Betamax people screwed themselves by refusing to let other folks make betamax format VCR tapes w/o paying royalties, or something along those lines. I suspect Betamax machines cost more than VHS machines because they were never produced on the same massive scale. In any case I watched a lot of movies in Betamax format as a child and never observed a difference in picture quality. That might be due to the fact that our movie library was made up of old video store rental stock.
It is proposed because a lot of colleges and students accept funding from the federal government. A lot of crazy things go on in places that accept government money, because the government can say "Do X or we'll yank your funding!". Those who accept help from the devil should expect to play by the rules of the devil.
Some folks want to have their cake and eat it too. But I'm just a nutball Libertarian who saw things like this coming from a mile away. Pay no attention to me.
They're targeting the largest group of people who play games. Most gamers use Windows. And those linux users who do play games usually know enough about computers to set up a dual boot OS system.
Games is one reason why I keep a Windows XP partition on my PC. I guess WINEX is nice for people who don't want to do a full install of Windows, but I prefer the convenience of playing a game in the OS for which it was originally targeted.
Linux doesn't support my Minolta film scanner either, but that is another story...
Your dislike of the Lite-On brand surprises me. I avoid Sony drives because home PC components are not their speciality. This is probably why they are hawking rebadged Lite-On drives in the first place.
My CD-RW was sold under the CenDyne brand name, but is really a rebadged Lite-On 48x12x48x drive. It is utterly reliable and one of the better PC hardware component purchases I've ever made.
We start gunning people down and gettting 'explodinated' by the feds. I don't look forward to this scenario. I'm a good shot but a lousy runner...
Paper trailing is the only thing I trust. Nobody can fake several hundred thousand physical ballots in the blink of an eye. I can't say the same for electronic voting of any sort.
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It is illegal to shoot game from inside a vehicle in most states. It is also usually illegal to shoot from or across a public road. Even if a poacher weaseled out of the deer shoot, he'd still go down for the way he tried to do it. All the stings I've seen on TV were set up next to roads.
I will be glad to take the blame for ignoring an imaginary problem. Enjoy the popularity of your hack cult while it lasts. One day it it will never be mentioned outside the pages of books dedicated to phrenology, mesmerism, and other 'sciences' among which global warming deserves a seat. Now if you'll excuse me, I must fire up my evil SUV and destroy the known universe!
I for one will be glad to take the blame for ignoring an imaginary problem. Enjoy the popularity of your hack cult while it lasts. One day it it will never be mentioned outside the pages of books dedicated to phrenology, mesmerism, and other 'sciences' among which global warming deserves a well earned seat.
I'm glad you live there too. Please stay there.
The problem with this and with any sort of receipt is that it destroys the anonymity of the vote. Someone could be pressured into revealing their ballot reciept or the information required to access it. You can bet your bottom dollar that union thugs and similar underworld types would take advantage of a receipt system, if one was instituted.
He mentioned shooting. I saw nothing about execution by the state.
I'm sure they do love the system. That's the scary part. It's also sad. The countries where these systems are blossoming are the same countries that sacrificed for decades to defeat the exact kind of societies they are turning into. When I was a kid there was a rumor that the KGB had all the parks in Moscow bugged. The idea that 'good guys' like the UK, Holland, and etc. would consider using such systems was simply not contemplated.
You proved his point with your own post. The council considered punishing people for exercising their freedom of choice. This has been the goal of the global warming crazies all along. This is why they talk about taxes and legislation so much.
Global warming has nothing to do with the environment and absolutely nothing to do with science. It is a movement to punish people for engaging in free will and capitalism. It is just Soviet marxism wrapped in a pretty green banner.
They didn't get rid of the unconstitutional parts of McCain-Feingold. I don't see why they'd overturn other unconstitutional speech laws.
I would have to agree. I can't plug in my 486 and fire up Doom III. That doesn't mean game development is hampering the use of computers as gaming platforms. It just means the hardware has some finite limitations that can't be overcome.
Nobody likes it when their personal sacred cow is taken out for slaughter. Methodology might have something to do with it. The RIAA and MPAA send out legal notices to blind grandmas and little kids. All the PearOS folks have to do to catch the offending party is download a file the suspects are putting out for public consumption.
What interests me is the whole idea of a Mac emulator. It is a neat idea, but I've never seen a high demand for a mac emu- at least not the sort of demand that would inspire one to think there is a paying market niche.
Who decided to hire Christopher Eccleston for the Dr. Who role? He looks like Al Bundy with AIDS.
Proprietary components seem to be the norm in factory built desktops these days. It inspired me to learn about building my own PC. I replaced my Dell Dimension XPS-T with a homebuilt and haven't looked back.
I don't mind the use of proprietary parts. They're OK for "Grandma's Email Machine". But they can make things hard for a 1st time component upgrader who just wants a better video card or whatnot.
Whenever I see news about 'extreme right' public demonstrations in Germany, the gatherings are attended by hundreds and often many thousands of people. They march, they speak, they carry banners. They are well organized and very disciplined compared to their American fringe counterparts.
Here in America were such political speech laws don't exist (yet), public gatherings of similar groups rarely number over 20 or 30 people who are usually shouted down or ignored. Many of their publicized events result in nobody showing up at all.
If political censorshop was really effective I would expect to see the exact opposite thing on our respective sides of the pond. I can only draw the conclusion that Germans consider themselves mentally inferior to Americans and unable to cope with the level of freedom we enjoy in this area.
But that is OK. Being freer than the rest of the world is what makes us special- while it lasts.
That is an absurd comparison. You might as well cross out "1836 covered wagon" and replace it with a random noun. Actually you might as well cross out all the nouns and replace them with random nutty words.
Here we go:
Much like a jelly could handle deep insurance salesmen better than a Polka guitar.
Much better.
My Canon bubble jet (came free with an old Dell) went through cartridges like candy. Eventually I stopped using it. It gathers dust on the far left corner of my computer desk today. These modern printers sure are frail compared to my old daisy wheel and dot matrix printers. They could print reams of paper before they dried up and sit silent for months at a time.
I can keep ink from drying up in my 50 year old Esterbrook fountain pen. Apparently doing the same thing in a computer printer is beyond the capabilities of modern science.
Why in the world do you think it is normal or acceptable for an elementary school student to carry any sort of ID in the first place? This is not a private school. It is a government-run public school. It frightens me to see how desensitized people are these days to these major surrenders of privacy and responsibility. Don't you realize what they are doing? Wake the Hell up!
WG
First of all those accounts existly only for as long as you are part of the institution and I have never heard of any spammer using an edu account.
A friend of mine used his uni account for many years after graduation. My brother used his for three years after graduation. I'd have to say you're right about *.edu domains being low-risk spam sources, but some folks do retain the use of their uni accounts for some amount of time after they set off for parts unknown.
Is that you Cott? I loved Renegade. It provided me with the right right combination of configurability and simplicity I was looked for.
If I remember correctly (?) the Betamax people screwed themselves by refusing to let other folks make betamax format VCR tapes w/o paying royalties, or something along those lines. I suspect Betamax machines cost more than VHS machines because they were never produced on the same massive scale. In any case I watched a lot of movies in Betamax format as a child and never observed a difference in picture quality. That might be due to the fact that our movie library was made up of old video store rental stock.
WG
I find your pro-crime stance to be a breath of fresh air.
It is proposed because a lot of colleges and students accept funding from the federal government. A lot of crazy things go on in places that accept government money, because the government can say "Do X or we'll yank your funding!". Those who accept help from the devil should expect to play by the rules of the devil.
Some folks want to have their cake and eat it too.
But I'm just a nutball Libertarian who saw things like this coming from a mile away. Pay no attention to me.
They're targeting the largest group of people who play games. Most gamers use Windows. And those linux users who do play games usually know enough about computers to set up a dual boot OS system.
Games is one reason why I keep a Windows XP partition on my PC. I guess WINEX is nice for people who don't want to do a full install of Windows, but I prefer the convenience of playing a game in the OS for which it was originally targeted.
Linux doesn't support my Minolta film scanner either, but that is another story...
Your dislike of the Lite-On brand surprises me. I avoid Sony drives because home PC components are not their speciality. This is probably why they are hawking rebadged Lite-On drives in the first place.
My CD-RW was sold under the CenDyne brand name, but is really a rebadged Lite-On 48x12x48x drive. It is utterly reliable and one of the better PC hardware component purchases I've ever made.
We start gunning people down and gettting 'explodinated' by the feds. I don't look forward to this scenario. I'm a good shot but a lousy runner...
Paper trailing is the only thing I trust. Nobody can fake several hundred thousand physical ballots in the blink of an eye. I can't say the same for electronic voting of any sort.
wheelg