I am not a member of the NRA and have no immediate intentions of becoming one, but I cannot see how their position can be labeled "extreme". As far as I can tell, they simply want to maintain the status quo and uphold the second amendment.
After Columbine, Charlton Heston, President of the NRA, said something to the effect of, "If they had had armed guards in that school, this would have never happened." To me, the notion that there should be armed guards in our schools is extreme, not to mention insane.
'If there had been even one armed guard in the school he could have saved a lot of lives and perhaps ended the whole thing instantly,' Mr Heston said. 'I'm afraid you have to blame their parents.'
So the solution to gun violence is more guns. In any case, I think the real problem is that the wording of the Second Amendment is not at all clear:
Amendment II
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Ok, so where does this say that everybody has a right to own a gun? I'm certainly no student of history, but if I remember correctly, at the time the Bill of Rights was drafted, the United States had no standing army, so "a well regulated militia" of 'civilians' was the country's first line of defense. Well, now we have a standing army, so I guess "A well regulated Militia" is no longer necessary to the security of a free State, and so this amendment is obsolete.
Regardless of what you think of the above interpretation, I do not see how it is at all clear that the Framers of the Constitution intended simply to allow all citizens to have guns from the wording of the second amendment. It was an amendment intended to ensure that the Militias which defended this country at that time would continue to exist. Well, citizen militias no longer exist (at least not the ones like those in the 18th century - the militias of Timothy McVeigh aren't exactly what the Framers had in mind, I'm sure) and as far as I can tell, so has the entire basis for the second amendment.
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How is this cutting edge? I guess you think that tacking on "on the internet!" to any business model is "cutting-edge"? I mean, how is buying groceries on the internet! cutting edge? Grocery stores have had home delivery for decades; this is really nothing new at all.
These cases are being brought on behalf of purchasers of the MPG3xx series hard disk drives, irrespective of the entity from whom it was purchased. Additionally, Hewlett-Packard is sued in connection with its sale of the hard drives as components in certain HP computers and its processing of warranty claims. Please note that the MPG3xx hard drives were also distributed to retailers and to other computer manufacturers, although none of them have been made a party to the litigation at this time.
Well, that's clearly an option as well, but given that the current crop of college students seem to think unlimited access to Kazaa et al. is a god-given right, I think the odds of that happening are mighty slim. Plus, maybe he "needed" kazaa in order to download the latest movie, because he's too cheap to pay the $4 to rent the DVD. Kids today are very strange.
How about all the students who want to use Kazaa go to the dean and offer pay $500 or $1000 more per year to cover the bandwidth costs. I'm sure if you got 50 or so students willing to do this the school might reconsider. Bandwidth rates are only around $700-$1000 per megabit per month, at least they were back in January when I got hosting.
Oh, what's that? You don't want to pay for everybody to use Kazaa? Well I'm sure other students don't want to pay for you to use kazaa, nor do the alumni, nor do the taxpayers (if you or your school receive any financial aid, which is almost a certainty).
If you want to saturate a network connection downloading movies and mp3 files, how about you move off campus and get DSL/Cable rather than ruining the network for people trying to get real stuff done?
J. No provision of this Final Judgment shall: 1. Require Microsoft to document, disclose or license to third parties: (a) portions of APIs or Documentation or portions or layers of Communications Protocols the disclosure of which would compromise the security of a particular installation or group of installations of anti-piracy, anti-virus, software licensing, digital rights management, encryption or authentication systems, including without limitation, keys, authorization tokens or enforcement criteria; or (b) any API, interface or other information related to any Microsoft product if lawfully directed not to do so by a governmental agency of competent jurisdiction.
So basically MS can get out of this entire thing by claiming that whatever API they want to protect is vital to Windows's security - or they can change it to make it so it actually IS vital.
It doesn't strike you as slightly unfair to compare a "slightly used" vehicle with a brand new one?
Comparing a pretty low end 2003 F-150, MSRP of $19,455 (and this is not including any maintenance costs), would probably be more appropriate. You know, on a personal level.
Another thing I don't understand is why people think the electricity in an electric car is free. You pay for electricity just like you pay for gas. An electric car will make your utility bill skyrocket, no?
Seriously though, the amount of spam people receive just isn't a problem. The folks who like to complain about it are just doing it to brag about how much time they spend on line and how connected they are. Enacting laws to charge spam senders for sending mail to individuals is silly; it'll cause more problems than it solves.
You know, this is the mentality of a 2-year-old. "Since the problem does not affect me, it must not really exist!" In any case, the cost of receiving an INDIVIDUAL spam may be trivial, but the problem is that people receive thousands of them. I personally use several DNSBL services to block open relays, I have most of Asia blocked (211.* 210.* 61.*), and I still get 4-6 spams a day. I also have one entire email address blackholed because it's the one I used to use on slashdot and a spambot picked it up, and it denies about 30 connections a day - that's 30 spams I would be receiving - so don't tell me that it's trivial. Time is money, and if I'm one person potentially receiving 40 emails a day, then a network administrator in a company of 100 is easily dealing with 4,000 a day. Do you still think that's trivial?
[10:56:43 evan@lunix evan]$ telnet www.google.com 80 Trying 216.239.37.101... Connected to www.google.com. Escape character is '^]'. HEAD / HTTP/1.1 Host: www.google.com
In all honesty, having a base in Latin has helped me figure out words I haven't seen before and don't have an obvious English derivation -- something like "puerile" for instance.
Also, in 9th grade, Mrs. Toronto insisted we memorize the entire Aeneid. I think we did a page a day, and it lasted about a week before the class revolted. However, to this day, I can tell you: "Arma virumque cano, Italiam fato profugus." Which (I hope) is the first line or two of the Aeneid. It has no practical use, but whenever I talk with long lost Latin classmates, I usually work it into the conversation and we all fall down laughing.
It helped me pick up Spanish MUCH faster than I probably would have had I not taken Latin, and I feel comfortable saying that I'd probably pick up French similarly quickly (though how much of this I owe to Latin is debatable).
Without the actual numbers behind those percentages, the data are basically useless. Maybe on Jan 1 2000 you had 10,000 hits, 2497 of which were AOL, but on Oct 14 2002 you have 1,000,000,000 hits, of which 81,200,000 were AOL. The second does not make AOL a failure any more than the first makes it a success.
Also, these numbers are basically meaningless since the Internet's landscape has changed so dramatically since then -- the rise of Overture/Goto.com as one of the most successful search engines allows site owners to have a lot more control over the traffic that gets directed to them. I.e. just because fewer AOL users are going to YOUR site doesn't mean there are fewer AOL users. And unless those 1000 sites you run are among the 250 or so top portals, your traffic is probably not reflective of the internet as a whole.
Order your Canopy Demo Kit (Part # RLN5460A) by calling (800) 422- 4210. When prompted: press 8, then ext. 6883. Please have your credit card information ready when placing your order. No previous account required.
Whoa! That's going to be a tough sell to the AOL crowd. It's ~100 times the price of a month of AOL service. While I'm glad you were able to find a good alternative to AOL, that's really an unreasonable choice for most people.
"When you buy an R-rated movie at Wal-Mart, at checkout, a thing pops up to remind the cashier to ask you for ID. So yes, Walmart does sell those movies, but no, they don't sell them to under-17 people. And I challenge you to find movies with full frontal nudity on Walmart's shelves."
Also, if you don't support Wal Mart, then why do you go there? And how is it censorship that they refuse to sell things (in their own stores) that they don't like? Would you like the government to force them to sell these things? It's not Wal Mart's fault that the RIAA caves to their wishes. Of all the boycotts I have ever seen, this is truly the stupidest.
I'm pretty sure Wal-Mart sells rated-R movies (including those arguably targeted at the same age group as this game is), so make your own judgement...
When you buy an R-rated movie at Wal-Mart, at checkout, a thing pops up to remind the cashier to ask you for ID. So yes, Walmart does sell those movies, but no, they don't sell them to under-17 people. And I challenge you to find movies with full frontal nudity on Walmart's shelves.
Let me put it this way: most guys would not jump at the chance to beta test a video game in which the main character was an incredibly ripped half-naked man with thong underwear and an incredibly unrealistic buldge in his crotch clearly outlining every detail of his oversized genitals as they freely bounced around in ancient tombs.
A lot of people in this thread are suggesting that Sun offer prettified servers to impress clients. I'll only make an observation that a company has tried selling servers before that had a major selling point of "cool blue light."That companyno longer sells servers.
I always thought everybody knew it was viruses, but kept saying viri for the same reasons they say Linux boxen as the plural form of Linux box -- pseudo-leet-speak maybe? I mean, clearly the plural form of box is boxes -- boxen is derived from the plural of ox, which is oxen. In that case it makes a little sense though, as people do maintain server "farms," so tending your "boxen" likens them to a herd of animals. But it still seems like something people just say to be "cool."
Of course, the thing that really annoys me is virii. Where is that second i coming from?
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After Columbine, Charlton Heston, President of the NRA, said something to the effect of, "If they had had armed guards in that school, this would have never happened." To me, the notion that there should be armed guards in our schools is extreme, not to mention insane.Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/massacre/Story/0,2763,2
So the solution to gun violence is more guns. In any case, I think the real problem is that the wording of the Second Amendment is not at all clear: Ok, so where does this say that everybody has a right to own a gun? I'm certainly no student of history, but if I remember correctly, at the time the Bill of Rights was drafted, the United States had no standing army, so "a well regulated militia" of 'civilians' was the country's first line of defense. Well, now we have a standing army, so I guess "A well regulated Militia" is no longer necessary to the security of a free State, and so this amendment is obsolete.
Regardless of what you think of the above interpretation, I do not see how it is at all clear that the Framers of the Constitution intended simply to allow all citizens to have guns from the wording of the second amendment. It was an amendment intended to ensure that the Militias which defended this country at that time would continue to exist. Well, citizen militias no longer exist (at least not the ones like those in the 18th century - the militias of Timothy McVeigh aren't exactly what the Framers had in mind, I'm sure) and as far as I can tell, so has the entire basis for the second amendment.
Except that the ship ran Linux.
How is this cutting edge? I guess you think that tacking on "on the internet!" to any business model is "cutting-edge"? I mean, how is buying groceries on the internet! cutting edge? Grocery stores have had home delivery for decades; this is really nothing new at all.
This took me 5 seconds. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF -8&q=fujitsu+hard+drive+failure&btnG=Google+Search . I'm not sure what the point of this "Ask Slashdot" is, is the person just trying to inform everybody that there is a problem with Fujitsu drives? I didn't see an actual question in that "Ask Slashdot" except for the ones Cliff tacked on.
Well, that's clearly an option as well, but given that the current crop of college students seem to think unlimited access to Kazaa et al. is a god-given right, I think the odds of that happening are mighty slim. Plus, maybe he "needed" kazaa in order to download the latest movie, because he's too cheap to pay the $4 to rent the DVD. Kids today are very strange.
How about all the students who want to use Kazaa go to the dean and offer pay $500 or $1000 more per year to cover the bandwidth costs. I'm sure if you got 50 or so students willing to do this the school might reconsider. Bandwidth rates are only around $700-$1000 per megabit per month, at least they were back in January when I got hosting.
Oh, what's that? You don't want to pay for everybody to use Kazaa? Well I'm sure other students don't want to pay for you to use kazaa, nor do the alumni, nor do the taxpayers (if you or your school receive any financial aid, which is almost a certainty).
If you want to saturate a network connection downloading movies and mp3 files, how about you move off campus and get DSL/Cable rather than ruining the network for people trying to get real stuff done?
J. No provision of this Final Judgment shall:
1. Require Microsoft to document, disclose or license to third parties: (a) portions of
APIs or Documentation or portions or layers of Communications Protocols the
disclosure of which would compromise the security of a particular installation or
group of installations of anti-piracy, anti-virus, software licensing, digital rights
management, encryption or authentication systems, including without limitation,
keys, authorization tokens or enforcement criteria; or (b) any API, interface or
other information related to any Microsoft product if lawfully directed not to do
so by a governmental agency of competent jurisdiction.
So basically MS can get out of this entire thing by claiming that whatever API they want to protect is vital to Windows's security - or they can change it to make it so it actually IS vital.
It doesn't strike you as slightly unfair to compare a "slightly used" vehicle with a brand new one?
Comparing a pretty low end 2003 F-150, MSRP of $19,455 (and this is not including any maintenance costs), would probably be more appropriate. You know, on a personal level.
Another thing I don't understand is why people think the electricity in an electric car is free. You pay for electricity just like you pay for gas. An electric car will make your utility bill skyrocket, no?
Seriously though, the amount of spam people receive just isn't a problem. The folks who like to complain about it are just doing it to brag about how much time they spend on line and how connected they are. Enacting laws to charge spam senders for sending mail to individuals is silly; it'll cause more problems than it solves.
You know, this is the mentality of a 2-year-old. "Since the problem does not affect me, it must not really exist!" In any case, the cost of receiving an INDIVIDUAL spam may be trivial, but the problem is that people receive thousands of them. I personally use several DNSBL services to block open relays, I have most of Asia blocked (211.* 210.* 61.*), and I still get 4-6 spams a day. I also have one entire email address blackholed because it's the one I used to use on slashdot and a spambot picked it up, and it denies about 30 connections a day - that's 30 spams I would be receiving - so don't tell me that it's trivial. Time is money, and if I'm one person potentially receiving 40 emails a day, then a network administrator in a company of 100 is easily dealing with 4,000 a day. Do you still think that's trivial?
Actually, it was just last month, not yesterday.
Sadly, it runs windows so no one will actually want to use one for real work,
Right, because NOBODY uses Windows at work.
Like somebody else said, it's fine if you don't like Windows, but comments like these just make you look stupid.
Can you try this from your location?
4 77:S=KDq7RU8rTxNutVf8; expires=Sun, 17-Jan-2038 19:14:07 GMT; path=/; domain=.google.com
[10:56:43 evan@lunix evan]$ telnet www.google.com 80
Trying 216.239.37.101...
Connected to www.google.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.google.com
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 2532
Server: GWS/2.0
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 14:57:57 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Cache-control: private
Set-Cookie: PREF=ID=0133684b35148073:TM=1035471477:LM=1035471
Just curious if they're doing the redirection based on your IP or something the browser is sending.
The SEC Chairman is Harvey Pitt.
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In all honesty, having a base in Latin has helped me figure out words I haven't seen before and don't have an obvious English derivation -- something like "puerile" for instance.
Also, in 9th grade, Mrs. Toronto insisted we memorize the entire Aeneid. I think we did a page a day, and it lasted about a week before the class revolted. However, to this day, I can tell you: "Arma virumque cano, Italiam fato profugus." Which (I hope) is the first line or two of the Aeneid. It has no practical use, but whenever I talk with long lost Latin classmates, I usually work it into the conversation and we all fall down laughing.
It helped me pick up Spanish MUCH faster than I probably would have had I not taken Latin, and I feel comfortable saying that I'd probably pick up French similarly quickly (though how much of this I owe to Latin is debatable).
Without the actual numbers behind those percentages, the data are basically useless. Maybe on Jan 1 2000 you had 10,000 hits, 2497 of which were AOL, but on Oct 14 2002 you have 1,000,000,000 hits, of which 81,200,000 were AOL. The second does not make AOL a failure any more than the first makes it a success.
Also, these numbers are basically meaningless since the Internet's landscape has changed so dramatically since then -- the rise of Overture/Goto.com as one of the most successful search engines allows site owners to have a lot more control over the traffic that gets directed to them. I.e. just because fewer AOL users are going to YOUR site doesn't mean there are fewer AOL users. And unless those 1000 sites you run are among the 250 or so top portals, your traffic is probably not reflective of the internet as a whole.
From the linked page:
Price: $2345.50
Order your Canopy Demo Kit (Part # RLN5460A) by calling (800) 422- 4210. When prompted: press 8, then ext. 6883. Please have your credit card information ready when placing your order. No previous account required.
Whoa! That's going to be a tough sell to the AOL crowd. It's ~100 times the price of a month of AOL service. While I'm glad you were able to find a good alternative to AOL, that's really an unreasonable choice for most people.
"When you buy an R-rated movie at Wal-Mart, at checkout, a thing pops up to remind the cashier to ask you for ID. So yes, Walmart does sell those movies, but no, they don't sell them to under-17 people. And I challenge you to find movies with full frontal nudity on Walmart's shelves."
Also, if you don't support Wal Mart, then why do you go there? And how is it censorship that they refuse to sell things (in their own stores) that they don't like? Would you like the government to force them to sell these things? It's not Wal Mart's fault that the RIAA caves to their wishes. Of all the boycotts I have ever seen, this is truly the stupidest.
I'm pretty sure Wal-Mart sells rated-R movies (including those arguably targeted at the same age group as this game is), so make your own judgement...
When you buy an R-rated movie at Wal-Mart, at checkout, a thing pops up to remind the cashier to ask you for ID. So yes, Walmart does sell those movies, but no, they don't sell them to under-17 people. And I challenge you to find movies with full frontal nudity on Walmart's shelves.
Don't forget this one.
Let me put it this way: most guys would not jump at the chance to beta test a video game in which the main character was an incredibly ripped half-naked man with thong underwear and an incredibly unrealistic buldge in his crotch clearly outlining every detail of his oversized genitals as they freely bounced around in ancient tombs.
Maybe you mean this game?
Stanford also got a Class A, as did Apple Computer and IBM.
http://www.ipindex.net/a/indexa.html
A lot of people in this thread are suggesting that Sun offer prettified servers to impress clients. I'll only make an observation that a company has tried selling servers before that had a major selling point of "cool blue light." That company no longer sells servers.
I always thought everybody knew it was viruses, but kept saying viri for the same reasons they say Linux boxen as the plural form of Linux box -- pseudo-leet-speak maybe? I mean, clearly the plural form of box is boxes -- boxen is derived from the plural of ox, which is oxen. In that case it makes a little sense though, as people do maintain server "farms," so tending your "boxen" likens them to a herd of animals. But it still seems like something people just say to be "cool."
Of course, the thing that really annoys me is virii. Where is that second i coming from?