The USSC didn't take power away from state government, it gave back power to the Florida legislature. The Florida SC ignored laws and essentially wrote it's own legislation with it's ill-founded ruling. Now they're looking like jackasses because of it.:)
Disclaimer: I didn't vote for either one of these clowns.
You've got it backwards! Tech screws things up.
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Technology is why things usually get screwed up. With pens and paper, no one can seriously say they screwed up. It's when we let loose idiots with machines that things go wrong. Idiots, after all, don't deal well with technology- electronic, mechanical, or otherwise.
Totally electronic voting is especially dangerous. What's to stop someone from deleting votes just like I delete files on my PC? Nothing, that's what. Physical paper ballots are much harder to get rid of without leaving behind evidence.
I'm glad my district still uses paper and pencil to conduct elections. It might be slow, but it's accurate and it discourages fraud. Technology has it's place, but the voting booth isn't one of them!
My class took part in D.A.R.E. during the first year it was introduced to North Carolina's elementary schools. I was completely ignorant of the illegal drug scene before D.A.R.E.. After D.A.R.E. I knew how to identify, take and buy all sorts of illegal drugs. He (the officer) also introduced us to the concept of property confiscation. He drove a nice black Camaro with "DARE" painted on the hood. They had taken it from someone accused of dealing drugs.
I think G.W. was referring to their whacked out website, not the internet in general. Get a grip. Both of these candidates have the IQ of a chimpanzee. The only real difference is that Mr. Gore is an EVIL chimpanzee.
Censorship in the Netherlands? Yippee skip. They have no 1st Amendment, no Bill of Rights. Hell, political parties can be banned in the Netherlands. A bit more censorship isn't going to hurt them. Europeans love censorship, be it political, artistic or sexual.
At least they're doing it for a plausable reason this time. I sure as Hell don't want little kids to happen across porno in my local library. The same goes for adults. After all, the libraries don't stock Playboy magazines. Why should they offer online versions of the same crap?
If school kids want to see porno, they can sneak around and login from home like everybody did when I was in highschool.:)
They must be a subsidiary of Airborne Express. Those idiots once left a $460.00 package addressed to me in front of an unoccupied house accross the street during the busiest rain spell we've had in years.
As one might guess, it sat there for days before the neighbors came home from their trip and told me about it. The box was so water damaged it fell apart in my hands. The company had to send me a new unit.
Most people in the consumer newsgroups told me this is a common problem with Airborne Express deliveries, though I don't know how accurate a statement that is. I surely was accurate in my case.
I suppose things could be worse- I could be a Russian.:)
In the early 1990's one of our state colleges sold off it's obsolete Cray for one dollar. The catch? Whoever wanted to buy it also had to spend thousands removing the wiring and cooling systems.
I've always wondered if they got that idea from Mr. Hainey of Green Acres.
I think it's great that they're bringing back extinct species. Those of you who view this as a bad thing need to get your heads out of your buttholes and stop watching Jurrassic Park reruns.
As my old commandant said, "Horror movies are my favorite genre, but there's no animal on Earth I can't stop with a well-placed gunshot".
If I remember correctly, Cartoon Network ran it sometime last year. Robotech came on at 6am when it premiered in my area, so getting up early was more of a problem for me than being late for school. It seemed like I was the only kid at VanStory Elementary who watched it.;P
It remains my favorite series to this day and was a large influence on my asthetic taste development.
And what do you spend your nights watching? Whacky shows like Malcom and Seventh Heaven? I'd pay money to have those idiotic sitcoms replaced with a decent 80's cartoon.
Cherry 2k seemed like a teenybopper flick meant soley to show T&A at first. But, after I watched the whole thing, it made me realize just how much electronic inventions influence society. Every review I've seen condemns it as a low budget piece of crap, but I loved it.
I look forward to the day when robots like Cherry2k will be for sale. The nice folks at realdoll.com have made a good stab at it, but their product simply gives me the creeps. If you don't know what Cherry 2000 is about, then go look it up at imdb.
One day in the future we're going to have affordable, realistic robots and a lot of bored frustrated human females.:)
No kidding. My local Babbage's still has a copy of Quake II for Linux sitting on their bargain shelf. I think they keep it around as some sort of store mascot.
Game companies might be the first people, in a way, who have attempted to minimize the materials needed to sell a software title off the shelf.
After initial sales are over, they usually revert to a "bargain bin" box content that includes a skimpy black and white manual (if that) and little else.
My copy of SWOTL, for instance was an old title by the time I bought it back in 1992. It came with a small, plain booklet. But other SWOTL players tell me their copy came with a well bound full color manual. My copy of Aces of the Deep, however, came with NO manual.
Of course, the companies do this to maximize profit, but it's nice to know they're conserving supplies at the same time. The seasoned gamer, after all, doesn't really need to read that "G" is for Landing Gear and "F" is for Flaps.;)
I like the fact that it's being remade, but the screenshots let me down. The original game's Victorian-era setting really contributed, I think, to the overall experience. The new characters appear to be modern people.
It's funny you should mention the selling of controversial items. I once wrote a satirical letter to eBay asking them to ban the sale of all German WW2 medals and uniforms. Some paper pusher took my note seriously and replied with a typically corporate letter about eBay supporting the standard diversity party line.
Lo and behold, a few months later a story on (I think) wired.com came out about how organized whine groups were seriously asking them to ban the sale of "hate materials". I almost spit my orange juice on the keyboard laughing.
eBay used to be a good place to sell things. They even allowed FFL firearms sales before the men in black uniforms (i.e. BATF) issued threatening opinions about the legality of such sales.
Now, in my opinion, eBay is slowly turning into the "AOL of online auction sites". It will soon be a safe, cuddly site on which the Sheeple can buy and trade Pokemon cards, antique knitting needles and commemorative Elvis plates without the danger of viewing "socially awkward" items.
To be fair, I have sold a few things on eBay in the past. But I cancelled my account when they banned firearms sales. Although I'm not a gun owner, I don't support the restraint of legal commerce or civil rights for legalistic reasons. eBay can kow-tow to the government with someone else's money.
Since when did college pukes make up the vast majority of Napster's user base? All of my friends use it. I use it. None of us have set foot on a college campus (unless community college counts).
Four years ago a vengful ex stole one of my favourite CD's. I wonder if it's piracy for me to download tunes made from that album. Probably so, eh?
So how does this froggy judge intend to enforce his ironically fascist ruling? Foreign judicial branches have no more sovereign power over American companies than my dog Spot.
Or did Clinton give them that power in exchange for a campaign donation? =)
It's a shame that guy didn't have the spare dough to defend his site. He is clearly in the right. And if he isn't, that makes translators like Babelfish and go.com wrong. After all, they translate sites into something that is pretty darned close to gibberish.
FYI: Jive translators have been around in one form or another for years. I remember using an MS-DOS command line version on my 286-8mhz. Some people used it to post in Prodigy message bases. Very, very annoying.:)
Espresso is probably the first non-desktop PC I've seen that interests me. However, that weak graphics solution would have to go! I might buy one if it had some sort of mini-Matrox G400 setup, say with 16 megs of video RAM? Smaller is better, but not if it's in reference to size and performance.
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The USSC didn't take power away from state government, it gave back power to the Florida legislature. The Florida SC ignored laws and essentially wrote it's own legislation with it's ill-founded ruling. Now they're looking like jackasses because of it. :)
Disclaimer: I didn't vote for either one of these clowns.
Technology is why things usually get screwed up. With pens and paper, no one can seriously say they screwed up. It's when we let loose idiots with machines that things go wrong. Idiots, after all, don't deal well with technology- electronic, mechanical, or otherwise.
Totally electronic voting is especially dangerous. What's to stop someone from deleting votes just like I delete files on my PC? Nothing, that's what. Physical paper ballots are much harder to get rid of without leaving behind evidence.
I'm glad my district still uses paper and pencil to conduct elections. It might be slow, but it's accurate and it discourages fraud. Technology has it's place, but the voting booth isn't one of them!
klinkWell then, why don't we just tax everyone 100%? Then the economy, according to your logic, will never go bad.
My class took part in D.A.R.E. during the first year it was introduced to North Carolina's elementary schools. I was completely ignorant of the illegal drug scene before D.A.R.E.. After D.A.R.E. I knew how to identify, take and buy all sorts of illegal drugs. He (the officer) also introduced us to the concept of property confiscation. He drove a nice black Camaro with "DARE" painted on the hood. They had taken it from someone accused of dealing drugs.
Draw your own conclusions.
I think G.W. was referring to their whacked out website, not the internet in general. Get a grip. Both of these candidates have the IQ of a chimpanzee. The only real difference is that Mr. Gore is an EVIL chimpanzee.
Censorship in the Netherlands? Yippee skip. They have no 1st Amendment, no Bill of Rights. Hell, political parties can be banned in the Netherlands. A bit more censorship isn't going to hurt them. Europeans love censorship, be it political, artistic or sexual.
At least they're doing it for a plausable reason this time. I sure as Hell don't want little kids to happen across porno in my local library. The same goes for adults. After all, the libraries don't stock Playboy magazines. Why should they offer online versions of the same crap?
If school kids want to see porno, they can sneak around and login from home like everybody did when I was in highschool. :)
They must be a subsidiary of Airborne Express. Those idiots once left a $460.00 package addressed to me in front of an unoccupied house accross the street during the busiest rain spell we've had in years.
As one might guess, it sat there for days before the neighbors came home from their trip and told me about it. The box was so water damaged it fell apart in my hands. The company had to send me a new unit.
Most people in the consumer newsgroups told me this is a common problem with Airborne Express deliveries, though I don't know how accurate a statement that is. I surely was accurate in my case.
I suppose things could be worse- I could be a Russian. :)
In the early 1990's one of our state colleges sold off it's obsolete Cray for one dollar. The catch? Whoever wanted to buy it also had to spend thousands removing the wiring and cooling systems.
I've always wondered if they got that idea from Mr. Hainey of Green Acres.
Or a stupid Democrat who can't spell. Ha!
I think it's great that they're bringing back extinct species. Those of you who view this as a bad thing need to get your heads out of your buttholes and stop watching Jurrassic Park reruns.
As my old commandant said, "Horror movies are my favorite genre, but there's no animal on Earth I can't stop with a well-placed gunshot".
If I remember correctly, Cartoon Network ran it sometime last year. Robotech came on at 6am when it premiered in my area, so getting up early was more of a problem for me than being late for school. It seemed like I was the only kid at VanStory Elementary who watched it. ;P
It remains my favorite series to this day and was a large influence on my asthetic taste development.
And what do you spend your nights watching? Whacky shows like Malcom and Seventh Heaven? I'd pay money to have those idiotic sitcoms replaced with a decent 80's cartoon.
Cherry 2k seemed like a teenybopper flick meant soley to show T&A at first. But, after I watched the whole thing, it made me realize just how much electronic inventions influence society. Every review I've seen condemns it as a low budget piece of crap, but I loved it.
I look forward to the day when robots like Cherry2k will be for sale. The nice folks at realdoll.com have made a good stab at it, but their product simply gives me the creeps. If you don't know what Cherry 2000 is about, then go look it up at imdb.
One day in the future we're going to have affordable, realistic robots and a lot of bored frustrated human females. :)
No kidding. My local Babbage's still has a copy of Quake II for Linux sitting on their bargain shelf. I think they keep it around as some sort of store mascot.
Game companies might be the first people, in a way, who have attempted to minimize the materials needed to sell a software title off the shelf.
After initial sales are over, they usually revert to a "bargain bin" box content that includes a skimpy black and white manual (if that) and little else.
My copy of SWOTL, for instance was an old title by the time I bought it back in 1992. It came with a small, plain booklet. But other SWOTL players tell me their copy came with a well bound full color manual. My copy of Aces of the Deep, however, came with NO manual.
Of course, the companies do this to maximize profit, but it's nice to know they're conserving supplies at the same time. The seasoned gamer, after all, doesn't really need to read that "G" is for Landing Gear and "F" is for Flaps. ;)
I like the fact that it's being remade, but the screenshots let me down. The original game's Victorian-era setting really contributed, I think, to the overall experience. The new characters appear to be modern people.
It's funny you should mention the selling of controversial items. I once wrote a satirical letter to eBay asking them to ban the sale of all German WW2 medals and uniforms. Some paper pusher took my note seriously and replied with a typically corporate letter about eBay supporting the standard diversity party line.
Lo and behold, a few months later a story on (I think) wired.com came out about how organized whine groups were seriously asking them to ban the sale of "hate materials". I almost spit my orange juice on the keyboard laughing.
eBay used to be a good place to sell things. They even allowed FFL firearms sales before the men in black uniforms (i.e. BATF) issued threatening opinions about the legality of such sales.
Now, in my opinion, eBay is slowly turning into the "AOL of online auction sites". It will soon be a safe, cuddly site on which the Sheeple can buy and trade Pokemon cards, antique knitting needles and commemorative Elvis plates without the danger of viewing "socially awkward" items.
To be fair, I have sold a few things on eBay in the past. But I cancelled my account when they banned firearms sales. Although I'm not a gun owner, I don't support the restraint of legal commerce or civil rights for legalistic reasons. eBay can kow-tow to the government with someone else's money.
Since when did college pukes make up the vast majority of Napster's user base? All of my friends use it. I use it. None of us have set foot on a college campus (unless community college counts).
Four years ago a vengful ex stole one of my favourite CD's. I wonder if it's piracy for me to download tunes made from that album. Probably so, eh?
So how does this froggy judge intend to enforce his ironically fascist ruling? Foreign judicial branches have no more sovereign power over American companies than my dog Spot.
Or did Clinton give them that power in exchange for a campaign donation? =)
It's a shame that guy didn't have the spare dough to defend his site. He is clearly in the right. And if he isn't, that makes translators like Babelfish and go.com wrong. After all, they translate sites into something that is pretty darned close to gibberish.
FYI: Jive translators have been around in one form or another for years. I remember using an MS-DOS command line version on my 286-8mhz. Some people used it to post in Prodigy message bases. Very, very annoying. :)
Espresso is probably the first non-desktop PC I've seen that interests me. However, that weak graphics solution would have to go! I might buy one if it had some sort of mini-Matrox G400 setup, say with 16 megs of video RAM? Smaller is better, but not if it's in reference to size and performance.
It's a shame Intel's marketing dept screwed up the ID number and tried to use it for e-commerce.
Informative chip ID's might practically wipe out the fraudulent practice of selling overclocked systems not labeled as such.
Dishonest dealers can mislabel chip cases without much effort, but they can't very well etch fake specification numbers onto the internal silicon.