Because Bush hired him *because* of such attitudes toward the country and its people. After all, to Bush, the Constitution is "just a god damned piece of paper".
These uncivilized people see public policy and people's rights merely as a speed-bump on their road to greed and power.
A class action lawsuit against parents who don't take any responsability for raising their children, but instead insist that it's *everyone else's* responsibility... and then sue every time little Billy or Suzy wanders into unsupervised trouble...
Oh wait. Lawyers don't like class-action lawsuits unless big companies with lots of money are involved. And, it makes too much sense. Oh well.
Dear parents: Stop waxing your cars in your 2 car garage, showing off the boat, planning your vacation home, watching TV, and worrying about your next career move to keep up with the Jonses down the street, and instead... spend a little time with your 2.5 children. And no, buying them a dog to keep them "out of your hair" doesn't count as "meaningful family activity." Besides... you'll just abandon or neglect the dog as soon as it outgrows the puppy stage.
If there's a KNOWN TERRORIST on the other end of the line, then there shouldn't be a problem getting a quick and speedy warrent from a judge. But there's the catch -- the system isn't quick and speedy. Why? We could debate that on many levels. I think it's mostly bogged down with what amounts to frivolous lawsuits. The correct solution is to fix the system to handle more volume (or reduce the volume) -- not simply bypass the system of checks and balances because it's inconvenient.
What about that nifty aerogel stuff they used for the Stardust mission? It seems like they could put several large steerable "sponges" made of this stuff to "soak up" things like the bits of paint and plastic and so forth. From what we've seen of the Stardust samples, it seems to have worked well, and I would assume that these particles are not so dissimilar from the comet dust as to not work.
Perhaps these sponges could soak up the small stuff, then be deorbited (or harvested and reclaimed). But the question still remains about the large debris.
While I don't know whether this is a before or after picture, I can tell you that it was taken Aug 18th, 2003 18:36:19. I'll leave the rest of the exercise to the reader.:)
Okay. I seem to have been incorrect here, older releases are WHQL certified. But, I spent a good 15 minutes checking the latest version from nVidia.com and I don't see any indication that it is WHQL certified.
As for ATI, I noted that my knowledge was mere suspicion in my post. Indeed I did not and will not bother to check it. I do not, nor ever will again own any piece of ATI hardware until they decide to support Linux. *shrug*
But, to tell you the truth, what I stated earlier was not based on the drivers I downloaded from nVidia, but rather Microsoft's own Windows Update. Windows Update (until very recently) wanted to install ("update") me to a very old nVidia driver, despite my having already downloaded and installed the latest from nVidia.
Maybe I am completely mistaken and am recalling some other piece of hardware for which there is new (and better) drivers for which the WHQL certified version are old and have problems. Maybe I am smoking crack. Oh well...
Only use WHQL certified drivers and you won't see STOP crashes.
While there is some truth to this, if you do this you will end up running very old (and sometimes quite buggy) video drivers. I haven't seen any recent video drivers that are WHQL certified. At least, not nVidia drivers. I suspect this is the same case with ATI as well. Probably not as much so for run-of-the-mill 2D cards.
While I've always loved to joke about how Windows blue screens at the drop of the hat, I have to say that XP has been relatively stable, both at work and at home.
The only time I've had my XP box regularly bluescreen was when I was using a quad-head configuration (two dual-head nVidia cards, one AGP, the other PCI) and booting into Linux. If I did a warm reboot from Linux into Windows, it would bluescreen every time. Power off the system, and it would boot up fine. I suspect someone was making some incorrect assumptions the state of video RAM when initializing the drivers.
Actually, "Google" was more of an accidental misspelling of "Googol".
Had a spell-checker been handy at the moment, google.com would probably have been googol.com. (And then sued by the greedy family of the person who coined the word "googol" who are suing anyway.)
Microsoft should be required to provide updates and service packs to unlicensed / pirated copies of Windows, because these problems affect everyone, not just the copyright infringing users. Or, they should be required to enforce their copyright and actively persue infringing parties -- both corporate and home users.
As it stands, Microsoft can enforce this at whim. They even benefit from this as they get people "hooked" on software at home where the users are pirating because they simply can't or don't want to pay for it, and then these users come to require and use this software at their office where licenses will more often than not be purchased. In other words, Microsoft is trying to benefit from both sides of the camp. They should be required to stand on one side or the other.
I see no problem with them following up on something potentially suspicious. However, that's not what they were doing. They were harassing an innocent citizen for no good reason. What does long hair have to do with it? That's where this became harassment.
So, you're saying that asking why he wears long hair is relevant to making sure he's on the "up and up'? Sorry, I don't think so. This is harassment, pure and simple. It's part of the right doing its job to reshape the US into their own little theocratic image. This scares the hell out of me. I wonder how long until some G-man is asking people why *I* wear long hair, am a member of the EFF, and outwardly encourage the removal of the current unelected administration.
This whole FiaSCO has me both entertained and worried. Common sense suggests that SCO is about to become a greasy spot on the bottom of IBM's shoes. However, in the US, common sense is barred from court rooms, and SCO could turn out to be a bigger thorn than anyone imagined.
But... I can't help being reminded of Monty Python and the Holy Grail... where SCO is playing the role of the Black Knight.
We don't want the government be able to pass a law forcing us to keep data against our wishes. It boils down to the founding fathers considering the right to privacy to be much more important than meting out ultimate justice.
It would be evil to force us to keep up with our own data. Absolutely terrible. And the threat to privacy? We could never allow such things to come to pass in the land of the free.
Besides... they need to get rid of all that bulky paper data to make room for the new Total^H^H^H^Herrorist Information Awareness database.
Indeed, but I haven't used a television set for anything other than a video monitor for years -- my televisions never leave the "A/V LINE" or channel 3. It's usually the VCR, cable box, or some other "set top" box doing the tuning.
However, my interest would be in bringing this theoretical tuner hardware together with the PS2 Linux Kit. Local hard drive, plus LAN access... drop in Ogle, MythTV, and lots of other goodies in... and we're getting somewhere.:)
It just strikes me odd that they would advertise this thing as tuner software when it has absolutely nothing to do with tuning. I would have suspected at least limited PVR capabilities (other than sheer remote playback).
Or is this QCast Tuner missing a tuner of some sort?
If it's just networked media player software, why in Ford's Flivver are they referring to it as as tuner software? Neither the main slashdot review, nor any of the reviews in the comments mention the presence (or the lack thereof) of a tuner. The ThinkGeek information doesn't mention anything about a tuner in the specs either.
While this sounds like a neat thing, it seems awfully limited... especially without any tuner to mention. Though I already have the PS2 Linux kit which allows me to do a whole lot more than this, the idea of a tuner on the PS2 would be nice.
>my favorite is that Marijuana use funds terrorism.
Well, apparently it scares the heebie-jeebies out of John Ashcroft, and terrorism is about instilling fear...
So does a bare breasted female statue... what's next? Enjoying the nude female will be an act of terrorism? Sheesh. What ever happened to seperation of church and state? Oh yeah... it was all a myth to begin with. Silly me... what was I thinking?
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And why Bush has not fired him for that comment.
Because Bush hired him *because* of such attitudes toward the country and its people. After all, to Bush, the Constitution is "just a god damned piece of paper".
These uncivilized people see public policy and people's rights merely as a speed-bump on their road to greed and power.
-Twi
A class action lawsuit against parents who don't take any responsability for raising their children, but instead insist that it's *everyone else's* responsibility... and then sue every time little Billy or Suzy wanders into unsupervised trouble...
Oh wait. Lawyers don't like class-action lawsuits unless big companies with lots of money are involved. And, it makes too much sense. Oh well.
Dear parents: Stop waxing your cars in your 2 car garage, showing off the boat, planning your vacation home, watching TV, and worrying about your next career move to keep up with the Jonses down the street, and instead... spend a little time with your 2.5 children. And no, buying them a dog to keep them "out of your hair" doesn't count as "meaningful family activity." Besides... you'll just abandon or neglect the dog as soon as it outgrows the puppy stage.
-Twi
I assume the bottled water and light sticks will be given away for free, given the $100 price of entry? :D
-- Twi
If there's a KNOWN TERRORIST on the other end of the line, then there shouldn't be a problem getting a quick and speedy warrent from a judge. But there's the catch -- the system isn't quick and speedy. Why? We could debate that on many levels. I think it's mostly bogged down with what amounts to frivolous lawsuits. The correct solution is to fix the system to handle more volume (or reduce the volume) -- not simply bypass the system of checks and balances because it's inconvenient.
- Twi
Isn't it scary that our government can record our phone calls, but here we all are wondering about the legality of our recording our own phone calls?
*shivers*
Of course it will! The real question is how much of an impact will it have? And that just depends on how fast it's moving when it hits the ground. :)
-Twi1
What about that nifty aerogel stuff they used for the Stardust mission? It seems like they could put several large steerable "sponges" made of this stuff to "soak up" things like the bits of paint and plastic and so forth. From what we've seen of the Stardust samples, it seems to have worked well, and I would assume that these particles are not so dissimilar from the comet dust as to not work.
Perhaps these sponges could soak up the small stuff, then be deorbited (or harvested and reclaimed). But the question still remains about the large debris.
-Twilight1
While I don't know whether this is a before or after picture, I can tell you that it was taken Aug 18th, 2003 18:36:19. I'll leave the rest of the exercise to the reader. :)
Cheers,
Twilight1
Am I the only one who thought of "Serial Experiments Lain" when I saw this?
-Twilight1
Wow... Just... Wow.
How about looking on ATI.com and nVidia.com?
Okay. I seem to have been incorrect here, older releases are WHQL certified. But, I spent a good 15 minutes checking the latest version from nVidia.com and I don't see any indication that it is WHQL certified.
As for ATI, I noted that my knowledge was mere suspicion in my post. Indeed I did not and will not bother to check it. I do not, nor ever will again own any piece of ATI hardware until they decide to support Linux. *shrug*
But, to tell you the truth, what I stated earlier was not based on the drivers I downloaded from nVidia, but rather Microsoft's own Windows Update. Windows Update (until very recently) wanted to install ("update") me to a very old nVidia driver, despite my having already downloaded and installed the latest from nVidia.
Maybe I am completely mistaken and am recalling some other piece of hardware for which there is new (and better) drivers for which the WHQL certified version are old and have problems. Maybe I am smoking crack. Oh well...
-Twilight1
Only use WHQL certified drivers and you won't see STOP crashes.
While there is some truth to this, if you do this you will end up running very old (and sometimes quite buggy) video drivers. I haven't seen any recent video drivers that are WHQL certified. At least, not nVidia drivers. I suspect this is the same case with ATI as well. Probably not as much so for run-of-the-mill 2D cards.
While I've always loved to joke about how Windows blue screens at the drop of the hat, I have to say that XP has been relatively stable, both at work and at home.
The only time I've had my XP box regularly bluescreen was when I was using a quad-head configuration (two dual-head nVidia cards, one AGP, the other PCI) and booting into Linux. If I did a warm reboot from Linux into Windows, it would bluescreen every time. Power off the system, and it would boot up fine. I suspect someone was making some incorrect assumptions the state of video RAM when initializing the drivers.
-Twilight1
So what exactly would artificial pron be? The mind boggles!
MMmmmm... hentai...
. o (Oh crap... was that my outside voice again?)
-Twilight1
Actually, "Google" was more of an accidental misspelling of "Googol".
Had a spell-checker been handy at the moment, google.com would probably have been googol.com. (And then sued by the greedy family of the person who coined the word "googol" who are suing anyway.)
- Twilight1
Microsoft should be required to provide updates and service packs to unlicensed / pirated copies of Windows, because these problems affect everyone, not just the copyright infringing users. Or, they should be required to enforce their copyright and actively persue infringing parties -- both corporate and home users.
As it stands, Microsoft can enforce this at whim. They even benefit from this as they get people "hooked" on software at home where the users are pirating because they simply can't or don't want to pay for it, and then these users come to require and use this software at their office where licenses will more often than not be purchased. In other words, Microsoft is trying to benefit from both sides of the camp. They should be required to stand on one side or the other.
My two cents...
- Twilight1
I see no problem with them following up on something potentially suspicious. However, that's not what they were doing. They were harassing an innocent citizen for no good reason. What does long hair have to do with it? That's where this became harassment.
- Twilight1
So, you're saying that asking why he wears long hair is relevant to making sure he's on the "up and up'? Sorry, I don't think so. This is harassment, pure and simple. It's part of the right doing its job to reshape the US into their own little theocratic image. This scares the hell out of me. I wonder how long until some G-man is asking people why *I* wear long hair, am a member of the EFF, and outwardly encourage the removal of the current unelected administration.
-Twilight1
Either that or this woman has two left hands. Look at the hand in the reflection and look at the hand holding the device. Both left. Wheeee....
- Twilight1
This whole FiaSCO has me both entertained and worried. Common sense suggests that SCO is about to become a greasy spot on the bottom of IBM's shoes. However, in the US, common sense is barred from court rooms, and SCO could turn out to be a bigger thorn than anyone imagined.
But... I can't help being reminded of Monty Python and the Holy Grail... where SCO is playing the role of the Black Knight.
- Twilight1
What's the point? If anything useful attempts to use this spectrum, the FCC will simply sign it over to the corporations.
- Twilight1
Oooh... these people are right out of a Cowboy Bebop episode... Brain Scratch.
^_^
- Twilight1
We don't want the government be able to pass a law forcing us to keep data against our wishes. It boils down to the founding fathers considering the right to privacy to be much more important than meting out ultimate justice.
It would be evil to force us to keep up with our own data. Absolutely terrible. And the threat to privacy? We could never allow such things to come to pass in the land of the free.
Besides... they need to get rid of all that bulky paper data to make room for the new Total^H^H^H^Herrorist Information Awareness database.
- Twilight1
This is the real reason they killed off all the dime stores in the US! It was a conspiracy all along! Run away, run away!
-Twilight1Indeed, but I haven't used a television set for anything other than a video monitor for years -- my televisions never leave the "A/V LINE" or channel 3. It's usually the VCR, cable box, or some other "set top" box doing the tuning.
However, my interest would be in bringing this theoretical tuner hardware together with the PS2 Linux Kit. Local hard drive, plus LAN access... drop in Ogle, MythTV, and lots of other goodies in... and we're getting somewhere. :)
It just strikes me odd that they would advertise this thing as tuner software when it has absolutely nothing to do with tuning. I would have suspected at least limited PVR capabilities (other than sheer remote playback).
- Twilight1
Or is this QCast Tuner missing a tuner of some sort?
If it's just networked media player software, why in Ford's Flivver are they referring to it as as tuner software? Neither the main slashdot review, nor any of the reviews in the comments mention the presence (or the lack thereof) of a tuner. The ThinkGeek information doesn't mention anything about a tuner in the specs either.
While this sounds like a neat thing, it seems awfully limited... especially without any tuner to mention. Though I already have the PS2 Linux kit which allows me to do a whole lot more than this, the idea of a tuner on the PS2 would be nice.
- Twilight1> my favorite is that Marijuana use funds terrorism.
Well, apparently it scares the heebie-jeebies out of John Ashcroft, and terrorism is about instilling fear...
So does a bare breasted female statue... what's next? Enjoying the nude female will be an act of terrorism? Sheesh. What ever happened to seperation of church and state? Oh yeah... it was all a myth to begin with. Silly me... what was I thinking?
- Twilight1