Not accurate weeny, look at it this way - even the homeless in America have internet access - all public libraries have banks of computers with a minimum of a T1 ( in minnesota, it's a T3) these are free for anyone to use. Further more, all schools in minnesota are wired as well as the class rooms themselves. I know of no businesses here that are not wired, including all government agencies.
THere is no way this is accurate, based on a simple analsys in this way, per capita usage in the US is most likely 1.5 as opposed to the Euro.5.
Look at it this way, politicos in the US are arguing over a 5.6% unemployment and calling it "terrible" while in Europe, you have had an endimic 12% unemployment rate for nearly 20 years now - if that happened in America, there would be armed revolt in the streets.
You will never ever equal the US in terms of any measure of wealth, we will always be better off then you - assuming that the neo-liberal-communists in America (democrats) are kept at bay, anyway.
Europe's only hope of equalling the US is the lame assed kyoto treaty, which would in effect let them compete against the US with both our (figurative) hands tied behind our backs, even then we would most likely win.:-)
Unlimited dial-up in the US is about $9.00/mo Unlimited DSL and cable start at around $29.00/mo
this is because the market here is saturated, given the US only has HALF as many people as Europe has, (Morons) it means we have twice the per capita usage as you Europe.
Because Europe is a back ward socialist state, rather then a market economy, you will always lag behind the US. Just compare your jobless rate and rate of pay to the US - your pathetic.
Look at it this way, the US has to quietly manage Europe for 57 years now - the longest period of peace in Europe's history, because you werent even smart enough to do it for yourselves until we taught you how.:-)
Switching to film in this instance is a no brainer guys, it runs a long the lines of "simplicity is beauty"
In other words, your looking for a kludge when there is no need for one - at all, the film does it, it does it better then digital (a point of light in the sky, i.e. a star or astroid is not the same as a car crashing into a wall or a bullet piercing glass) the film does it waaaay cheaper and better then you could possibly duplicate it with digital right now, so why bother? Because you might be able to? Someday, maybe.
I spent 3 years at the U of Minnesota's college of art and design, studying film - all aspects of it. Film, simply put, has a quality that digital can not touch, it holds life, digital, mean while, looks, feels and tastes artificial. Not to mention that there is no where near the depth of field in digital right now as opposed to real film.
To put this another way, if I choose to scan a 35 mm print for reproduction (instead of going back to the darkroom) to even get close to the quality of that darkroom print I must scan at a minimum of 600X600 dpi, sometimes (my relisys scanner can do realtime 9000 dpi- not software interpolation) higher- for an 8x10 print, this means (equivalent of one frame, if you will) a file of between 80 and 120 MB - go ahead and do that at 12,000 FPS, aint gonna happen in this lifetime.
Don't believe me ? Then ask your self why high end Photography isn't done digitally. Digital pics are only used to set the shots up - not for the real thing.
One further point - if your studying the impact of a bullet on this years replacement for kevlar, or what happens when a 80mm round hits an abrahms tank, you not only NEED SUPER HI RES, but you sure as hell don't want to look at it at 128x128 - thats what an instamatic from kodak used.
Problem here is, none of you know anything about film.
You are also wrong on the point of the palace coup, each state sent a representitive to the CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION - they didn't just show up and do it on their own.
It was sold, as you put it, because each state had to ratify it, like a treaty, dumb ass.
Before you make ignorant statements such as the above. While liberal revisionist judges have impuned the Constitution in the last 30 years, The federalist papers were written to give historical context to the provisions of the Document itself, why they did what they did.
People explicity refers to the US citizenry which was in existance - 1792 as opposed to 1777, we had won our independance and had been functioning as a confederation, like the current E.U., which was not working. So the idea of "people" referring to some vast loosely nit group of world citizens is pure bunk - the world, and these men in particular, were very Nationalistic, otherwise, the peace treay with englan would have merely demanded representation in Parliment.
You people should sue your parents for allowing you to be educated in public schools.
We also, along with Bittain and France, created all or most of the Middle east countries, prior to 1918, they were all under the control of the Ottoman Empire, who sided with Germany in WW1 - the result, like Austria-Hungry and the German Empire, was that the LOSERS lost their respective empires.
The Sauds were not the inherent heirs to their region, the Hashimites were, but England none the less gave the region to the Saud family, which is why they rule it today.
THe Hashimites rule Jordan today and they, before the Bathe's deposed and murdered him, ruled Iraq as a constitutional Monarchy
UMM- You never have fewer rights under state law then you do under Federal Law, the US constitution always trumps state constitutions, ALWAYS. In cases where the US constitution gives rights to the States to enact law on their own, it is implicit that they may not remove rights guranteed under the US Constitution.
Furthermore, this is not a state law matter in the slightest bit - it is clearly a Federal Case in that it involves Interstate Commerce, as opposed to Intra-State Commerce, one of the first Items on the agenda of the Constitutional convention was the problem of who should regulate Interstate commerce, this was deemed by all to be of neccessity the Fed's domain, otherwise we were in danger of ending up like the then (and until only 3 years ago) Euro trash, with states imposing duties and such on goods and services provided by vendors from a neighboring state.
As per the rest of it, it has long been held that unless the computer is yours, you have no expectation of privacy - ergo, they have no basis for a hopeful Appeal on the Federal level, and the Washington State Supreme court has no jurisdiction.
As per the argument this is "International Law". It is'nt, we, the US, are a Soveriegn Nation and have no duty to let criminals breaking the law here in the US go to be tried by an International Court, quite the contrary, our government has a duty to the Citizens of the US to protect them from the criminals - just as it has a duty to protect us from middle east assholes, and DOES NOT need the approval of some Euro trash to do so.
Thats because your most likely to young to recall all the shenanagins the Russians used to pull in the past when their spies were caught over here. The always pull stunts like this. The US will not be handing any of it's FBI agents over to the Russians.
As per tournabout business and entrapment, non-US citizens here on vacation DO NOT enjoy the same rights as Americans do. Nothing in the constitution says we have to extend those rights to everyone in the world.It specifically specifies US citizens.
Can you say "Chrysler" ? Iacocca was the first CEO to ask for help from the AMerican people - we gave it, it was worth it.
Can you say "the world's largest rail transportation system" ? The US has thrown away more track then Europe has today, again, it was built with the aid of the American public.
It's not always bad to help Corporations, but usually it is.
Umm - you must have had your head up your arse for the last 3 years - the.com bubble as well as the telecom bubble popped in the fall of 1999/march of 2000 - a year or more before Bush took office.
Now thats why politicians don't listen to geeks, you need to pull your head out once and a while and sniff the real air.
I just happen to live 3 miles from Mpls-Stp international airport, which is itself adjacent to Fort Snelling National Park - it not only freezes here, the Mississippi itself 9it runs through the park along with the Minesota River) completely freezes over - there has been no loss of aquatic life, none. In fact, when Cousteau's Mississippi expedition came here some 18 years ago - they were publically surprised at how clean the river and it's bottom were even then - it has only gotten cleaner since then.See- SEWER systems are in place to prevent run-off, but we do use tons of salt here every year for clearing the ice from freeways and other roads, they apparently have had no ill effect either.
I'd love to know where you came up with that crock of baloney.
Yes, and according to NASA's own research of Atmospheric temperatures as well as oceanic floor corings and ice corings, we are in an over all COOLING trend. http://www.ghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/MSU/hl_temp_ glbave.h tml
Of course that isn't to say that we are still under going a short term warming trend since Europes mini ice age of the 17th and 18th centuries - didn't know about those, now did you ? Thought not, better to buy into hysterical rhetoric then look at real stats.
Actually it does have futures trading - what do you think the hoopla with Qwest and global crossings is all about right now? Enron sold bandwidth as well, and operated a spot market for it.
Wrong, they committed the crime here in the US, not abroad, it would be nice if Slashdotters read the constitution and the relevant Laws before making assessments which have no bearing on reality.
Now me? after posting that first one, I had a talk with a lawyer from the Minesota Attorney General's office and explained to him why he will lose in court against me, should he decide to proceed with a particular case. He will lose to me because, unlike the flunkys at the local OSHA office, I know the rules under the Laws by which they have jurisdiction.
It's simple, state and local jurisdictions have no say over anything that involves interstate communications - such as the internet.
For more clarification, if you steal a car and drive it around the city it was stolen in, even the state it was stolen in, then it is a "local" crime and the county/state authorities will prosecute you for it.
If, however, you steal it and decide to drive it to the neighboring state, it is now "interstate transportation of a stolen vehicle" and subject to Federal Jusrisdiction.
SInce the ISP's pipes are connected to the world at large, it becomes a matter of "interstate" and hence the Feds. This is why the States have thus far not been able to able to (nor will they ever be allowed to) regulate ecommerce, etc. The states are prohibited by the constitution from attempting any regulation of "interstate commerce" this is strictly- and for good reason, a Federal matter.
Thus it matters not whether they own the cable modems or not, what matters is that took, without due payment, bandwidth (which is a commodity) which is not local in nature but, in fact, international in nature. Hence the reason why it is theft, you moron chips, not simply a breach of contract.
The U.S. invented the internet- ICANN was granted it's authority by the US government - it's ours (I'm an american) to do with as we please, don't like it? start your own internet, that way we can block it and all the damn spam that comes out of the rest of the world.
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Not accurate weeny, look at it this way - even the homeless in America have internet access - all public libraries have banks of computers with a minimum of a T1 ( in minnesota, it's a T3) these are free for anyone to use. Further more, all schools in minnesota are wired as well as the class rooms themselves. I know of no businesses here that are not wired, including all government agencies.
.5.
:-)
THere is no way this is accurate, based on a simple analsys in this way, per capita usage in the US is most likely 1.5 as opposed to the Euro
Look at it this way, politicos in the US are arguing over a 5.6% unemployment and calling it "terrible" while in Europe, you have had an endimic 12% unemployment rate for nearly 20 years now - if that happened in America, there would be armed revolt in the streets.
You will never ever equal the US in terms of any measure of wealth, we will always be better off then you - assuming that the neo-liberal-communists in America (democrats) are kept at bay, anyway.
Europe's only hope of equalling the US is the lame assed kyoto treaty, which would in effect let them compete against the US with both our (figurative) hands tied behind our backs, even then we would most likely win.
Unlimited dial-up in the US is about $9.00/mo
:-)
Unlimited DSL and cable start at around $29.00/mo
this is because the market here is saturated, given the US only has HALF as many people as Europe has, (Morons) it means we have twice the per capita usage as you Europe.
Because Europe is a back ward socialist state, rather then a market economy, you will always lag behind the US. Just compare your jobless rate and rate of pay to the US - your pathetic.
Look at it this way, the US has to quietly manage Europe for 57 years now - the longest period of peace in Europe's history, because you werent even smart enough to do it for yourselves until we taught you how.
Switching to film in this instance is a no brainer guys, it runs a long the lines of "simplicity is beauty"
In other words, your looking for a kludge when there is no need for one - at all, the film does it, it does it better then digital (a point of light in the sky, i.e. a star or astroid is not the same as a car crashing into a wall or a bullet piercing glass) the film does it waaaay cheaper and better then you could possibly duplicate it with digital right now, so why bother? Because you might be able to? Someday, maybe.
I spent 3 years at the U of Minnesota's college of art and design, studying film - all aspects of it. Film, simply put, has a quality that digital can not touch, it holds life, digital, mean while, looks, feels and tastes artificial. Not to mention that there is no where near the depth of field in digital right now as opposed to real film.
To put this another way, if I choose to scan a 35 mm print for reproduction (instead of going back to the darkroom) to even get close to the quality of that darkroom print I must scan at a minimum of 600X600 dpi, sometimes (my relisys scanner can do realtime 9000 dpi- not software interpolation) higher- for an 8x10 print, this means (equivalent of one frame, if you will) a file of between 80 and 120 MB - go ahead and do that at 12,000 FPS, aint gonna happen in this lifetime.
Don't believe me ? Then ask your self why high end Photography isn't done digitally. Digital pics are only used to set the shots up - not for the real thing.
One further point - if your studying the impact of a bullet on this years replacement for kevlar, or what happens when a 80mm round hits an abrahms tank, you not only NEED SUPER HI RES, but you sure as hell don't want to look at it at 128x128 - thats what an instamatic from kodak used.
Problem here is, none of you know anything about film.
But Linux? Thats not right. :-)
It's why we are americans and not Russians, doh!
Can you say "Soveriegn State" ? THought not, your a member of the EU.
You are also wrong on the point of the palace coup, each state sent a representitive to the CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION - they didn't just show up and do it on their own.
It was sold, as you put it, because each state had to ratify it, like a treaty, dumb ass.
Before you make ignorant statements such as the above. While liberal revisionist judges have impuned the Constitution in the last 30 years, The federalist papers were written to give historical context to the provisions of the Document itself, why they did what they did.
People explicity refers to the US citizenry which was in existance - 1792 as opposed to 1777, we had won our independance and had been functioning as a confederation, like the current E.U., which was not working. So the idea of "people" referring to some vast loosely nit group of world citizens is pure bunk - the world, and these men in particular, were very Nationalistic, otherwise, the peace treay with englan would have merely demanded representation in Parliment.
You people should sue your parents for allowing you to be educated in public schools.
It's in the preamble, num nuts."the People of these United States........."
We also, along with Bittain and France, created all or most of the Middle east countries, prior to 1918, they were all under the control of the Ottoman Empire, who sided with Germany in WW1 - the result, like Austria-Hungry and the German Empire, was that the LOSERS lost their respective empires.
The Sauds were not the inherent heirs to their region, the Hashimites were, but England none the less gave the region to the Saud family, which is why they rule it today.
THe Hashimites rule Jordan today and they, before the Bathe's deposed and murdered him, ruled Iraq as a constitutional Monarchy
They were arrested in Washington state, last time I checked, that's in the US, not Russia, though we did take 155 years ago from Canada.
UMM-
You never have fewer rights under state law then you do under Federal Law, the US constitution always trumps state constitutions, ALWAYS. In cases where the US constitution gives rights to the States to enact law on their own, it is implicit that they may not remove rights guranteed under the US Constitution.
Furthermore, this is not a state law matter in the slightest bit - it is clearly a Federal Case in that it involves Interstate Commerce, as opposed to Intra-State Commerce, one of the first Items on the agenda of the Constitutional convention was the problem of who should regulate Interstate commerce, this was deemed by all to be of neccessity the Fed's domain, otherwise we were in danger of ending up like the then (and until only 3 years ago) Euro trash, with states imposing duties and such on goods and services provided by vendors from a neighboring state.
As per the rest of it, it has long been held that unless the computer is yours, you have no expectation of privacy - ergo, they have no basis for a hopeful Appeal on the Federal level, and the Washington State Supreme court has no jurisdiction.
As per the argument this is "International Law". It is'nt, we, the US, are a Soveriegn Nation and have no duty to let criminals breaking the law here in the US go to be tried by an International Court, quite the contrary, our government has a duty to the Citizens of the US to protect them from the criminals - just as it has a duty to protect us from middle east assholes, and DOES NOT need the approval of some Euro trash to do so.
Thats because your most likely to young to recall all the shenanagins the Russians used to pull in the past when their spies were caught over here. The always pull stunts like this. The US will not be handing any of it's FBI agents over to the Russians.
As per tournabout business and entrapment, non-US citizens here on vacation DO NOT enjoy the same rights as Americans do. Nothing in the constitution says we have to extend those rights to everyone in the world.It specifically specifies US citizens.
Then vote or donate to the Republican caucus, not one of them has fostered a bill like this, nor have any endorsed it.
Remember, it was G.W.Bush's Texas attroney General who forced the clinton judiciary to act on the Microsoft Anti-trust case in the first place.
Can you say "Chrysler" ? Iacocca was the first CEO to ask for help from the AMerican people - we gave it, it was worth it.
Can you say "the world's largest rail transportation system" ? The US has thrown away more track then Europe has today, again, it was built with the aid of the American public.
It's not always bad to help Corporations, but usually it is.
Umm - you must have had your head up your arse for the last 3 years - the .com bubble as well as the telecom bubble popped in the fall of 1999/march of 2000 - a year or more before Bush took office.
Now thats why politicians don't listen to geeks, you need to pull your head out once and a while and sniff the real air.
I just happen to live 3 miles from Mpls-Stp international airport, which is itself adjacent to Fort Snelling National Park - it not only freezes here, the Mississippi itself 9it runs through the park along with the Minesota River) completely freezes over - there has been no loss of aquatic life, none. In fact, when Cousteau's Mississippi expedition came here some 18 years ago - they were publically surprised at how clean the river and it's bottom were even then - it has only gotten cleaner since then.See- SEWER systems are in place to prevent run-off, but we do use tons of salt here every year for clearing the ice from freeways and other roads, they apparently have had no ill effect either.
I'd love to know where you came up with that crock of baloney.
Yes, and according to NASA's own research of Atmospheric temperatures as well as oceanic floor corings and ice corings, we are in an over all COOLING trend._ glbave.h tml
http://www.ghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/MSU/hl_temp
Of course that isn't to say that we are still under going a short term warming trend since Europes mini ice age of the 17th and 18th centuries - didn't know about those, now did you ?
Thought not, better to buy into hysterical rhetoric then look at real stats.
Yes, and 1000 years ago the Vikings were farming were there are now glaciers.
More junk science which appeals to moronic nerds and their gut reactions.
Actually it does have futures trading - what do you think the hoopla with Qwest and global crossings is all about right now? Enron sold bandwidth as well, and operated a spot market for it.
Damn some slashdotters are ignorant.
Wrong, they committed the crime here in the US, not abroad, it would be nice if Slashdotters read the constitution and the relevant Laws before making assessments which have no bearing on reality.
Now me? after posting that first one, I had a talk with a lawyer from the Minesota Attorney General's office and explained to him why he will lose in court against me, should he decide to proceed with a particular case. He will lose to me because, unlike the flunkys at the local OSHA office, I know the rules under the Laws by which they have jurisdiction.
It's simple, state and local jurisdictions have no say over anything that involves interstate communications - such as the internet.
For more clarification, if you steal a car and drive it around the city it was stolen in, even the state it was stolen in, then it is a "local" crime and the county/state authorities will prosecute you for it.
If, however, you steal it and decide to drive it to the neighboring state, it is now "interstate transportation of a stolen vehicle" and subject to Federal Jusrisdiction.
SInce the ISP's pipes are connected to the world at large, it becomes a matter of "interstate" and hence the Feds. This is why the States have thus far not been able to able to (nor will they ever be allowed to) regulate ecommerce, etc. The states are prohibited by the constitution from attempting any regulation of "interstate commerce" this is strictly- and for good reason, a Federal matter.
Thus it matters not whether they own the cable modems or not, what matters is that took, without due payment, bandwidth (which is a commodity) which is not local in nature but, in fact, international in nature. Hence the reason why it is theft, you moron chips, not simply a breach of contract.
The U.S. invented the internet- ICANN was granted it's authority by the US government - it's ours (I'm an american) to do with as we please, don't like it? start your own internet, that way we can block it and all the damn spam that comes out of the rest of the world.
:-)