Why is this marked under Politics? If he was trying to use this to present a political viewpoint yeah, but he's just trying to route some information in a more efficient fashion...
I suppose next you'll put stories about people trying to get Linux adopted for government use as politics... (Wait... Bill Gates WOULD see that as political...)
It's like 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon... I work on some hardware that's non-Microsoft OS based and can support non-Microsoft codecs.. but only to a certain extent. When you start having to integrate with companies that integrate with/use/license/develop Microsoft stuff, things get... complicated...
Microsoft's not concerned about OSS in general because it can still serve their interests. (y'know like making apps for Windows.NET or facilitiating the use of their proprietary languages).
Stopping DVD's (and eventually all content loaded media) stops Linux from progressing in the future.
Linux can counter with an open-source CODEC that manufacturers can easily support with a minimum of effort and then indies in the content scene can write to that. But then Microsoft can always incorporate that CODEC into their player. So Microsoft always stays one step ahead. To stop Microsoft you either have to close-source the codec or follow another Microsoft-tactic of binding the codec to Linux in some way that Microsoft can't duplicate.
I've not done it myself, but I seem to remember that you have to sign the ballot when you send it in. (To verify you're the one making the vote).
On the flip side, with email voting you don't have to do it in front of the commander. I presume the limited fax machine availability means they're in the CO offices.
"The fax machine is already in use...just leave that ballot on my desk Private Johnson, I'll see to it that it gets sent!"
Okay, emailing a vote is not exactly secure, but how secure is faxing a vote?
Oh sure, they can "see" a signature but how many people in the voting office are going to check the signature against the one on file? (IE, how many dead people vote in elections?)
Because if you have to upgrade to Longhorn at an exhorbitant cost in both software and IT costs to handle the installation in your corp... Maybe you'd just prefer to "upgrade" to Linux...
I love the story so much I don't want to be teased by it. I KNOW it's going to be good, I know it's going to have suprises. I don't want any hints, I want to savor it as I experience it!
That has to say something about its quality.
Of course, Sci-fi will cancel it when they see the low trailer hits...
"Young fool... only now do you begin to understand..."
"And now, young Skywalker... you will watch more of my movies!"
BAAAZAPZAPZAPZAPZAPZAPZAP!!! "Jar Jar appears in Episode 8 as leader of Naboo!", "Han Solo was never freed from the caronite in Empire, that was his clone!" "Boba Fett ISN'T DEAD!!!"
"...What are you talking about? Did you mean to say "the right" here? George Bush and the Republican party is conservative/right; they are usually the one's agitating for violence as a means to an end."
You mean like Kennedy and Vietnam/Cuba? Carter and Iran? Clinton and Bosnia and Iraq? Roosevelt and Japan?
Or did you mean like Nixon and China? Reagan and Palestine after the bombing?
Both parties (all parties/countries...except maybe Canada) will advocate violence to further their views and beliefs when certain lines have been crossed. Even you. Political alignment has little to do with that.
Doesn't this also protect the incarcerated person from potential police abuse? (How about webcams that aren't broadcasted but still record everything to a "citizen's committee"?)
There have been unverifiable analog voting machines in use that do not keep a paper trail in use for the last 50 years. It never seemed to be a problem before.
In fact it was a "verifiable paper voting system" used in Florida that was the cause of much "corruption".
How's it gonna look on the news when you go to destroy a voting machine to "bring liberty back to the people" effectively cutting off people's right to vote?
If you don't like the system, get involved. Become a voting poll worker. Watch for corruption on the inside. That's all the civil disobedience you need.
Yeah, they're expensive. But if you "multi-task" the shuttles so that they're doing combination duties of sending up supplies, crewmen rotation, etc... Stuff that would've had to have been done anyway... you can (in theory) knock down some of the fixed cost by sending up satellite components as well.
I'm all for expanding the reach of earth life, but to play devil's advocate here... What's the point of sending out human "contamination" to the rest of the cosmos?
There was no valid scientific reason for sending men to the moon either. Everything they did could've been done cheaper and more safely with probes.
What the ISS *is* good for (if they'd ever fund it to allow it to be) would be a good launch point for probes and satellites. Assuming you can get the shuttle program back on-line, you'd just lift up the parts you need, assemble at the station and launch from there. Surely that has to be cheaper than building a one-shot custom use heavy lift rocket to get a satellite into orbit.
No kidding... I set mine for 400 and I'm getting nearly "instantaneous" complete page draws and I barely miss the.15 of a second longer it takes! (I'm on a T1 at work)
Piss-poor analogies aside, you DO realize that there's a difference between funding a governmental service and government telling you how to live your life under the guise of being "safe"?
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How about John Edwards military record? Oh wait... he doesn't HAVE one because he didn't even sign up for the National Guard...
Why is this marked under Politics? If he was trying to use this to present a political viewpoint yeah, but he's just trying to route some information in a more efficient fashion...
I suppose next you'll put stories about people trying to get Linux adopted for government use as politics... (Wait... Bill Gates WOULD see that as political...)
It's like 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon... I work on some hardware that's non-Microsoft OS based and can support non-Microsoft codecs.. but only to a certain extent. When you start having to integrate with companies that integrate with/use/license/develop Microsoft stuff, things get... complicated...
Microsoft's not concerned about OSS in general because it can still serve their interests. (y'know like making apps for Windows .NET or facilitiating the use of their proprietary languages).
Stopping DVD's (and eventually all content loaded media) stops Linux from progressing in the future.
Linux can counter with an open-source CODEC that manufacturers can easily support with a minimum of effort and then indies in the content scene can write to that. But then Microsoft can always incorporate that CODEC into their player. So Microsoft always stays one step ahead. To stop Microsoft you either have to close-source the codec or follow another Microsoft-tactic of binding the codec to Linux in some way that Microsoft can't duplicate.
"Cutting off the oxygen supply"
in general?
I've not done it myself, but I seem to remember that you have to sign the ballot when you send it in. (To verify you're the one making the vote).
On the flip side, with email voting you don't have to do it in front of the commander. I presume the limited fax machine availability means they're in the CO offices.
"The fax machine is already in use...just leave that ballot on my desk Private Johnson, I'll see to it that it gets sent!"
Okay, emailing a vote is not exactly secure, but how secure is faxing a vote?
Oh sure, they can "see" a signature but how many people in the voting office are going to check the signature against the one on file? (IE, how many dead people vote in elections?)
Because if you have to upgrade to Longhorn at an exhorbitant cost in both software and IT costs to handle the installation in your corp... Maybe you'd just prefer to "upgrade" to Linux...
Now we're just back to getting "free" features...
I love the story so much I don't want to be teased by it. I KNOW it's going to be good, I know it's going to have suprises. I don't want any hints, I want to savor it as I experience it!
That has to say something about its quality.
Of course, Sci-fi will cancel it when they see the low trailer hits...
I figured I should put one "truth" in there to make the whole thing more legitimate.
Honestly, I'm kind of happy he's going to do it... But I'm also afraid that he's going to keep sucking...
"Young fool... only now do you begin to understand..."
"And now, young Skywalker... you will watch more of my movies!"
BAAAZAPZAPZAPZAPZAPZAPZAP!!! "Jar Jar appears in Episode 8 as leader of Naboo!", "Han Solo was never freed from the caronite in Empire, that was his clone!" "Boba Fett ISN'T DEAD!!!"
AUUUUUGHHH!!!
FATHER! PLEASE!
"...What are you talking about? Did you mean to say "the right" here? George Bush and the Republican party is conservative/right; they are usually the one's agitating for violence as a means to an end."
You mean like Kennedy and Vietnam/Cuba? Carter and Iran? Clinton and Bosnia and Iraq? Roosevelt and Japan?
Or did you mean like Nixon and China? Reagan and Palestine after the bombing?
Both parties (all parties/countries...except maybe Canada) will advocate violence to further their views and beliefs when certain lines have been crossed. Even you. Political alignment has little to do with that.
Doesn't this also protect the incarcerated person from potential police abuse? (How about webcams that aren't broadcasted but still record everything to a "citizen's committee"?)
But it's always under construction with lane restrictions.
You mean like OLE? DDE? The Printer Driver interface where everything is standardized, but nothing prints the same?!
No no... all roads lead to madness on Windows programming. I assure you. (Of course, if you HAVE the roadmap...)
There have been unverifiable analog voting machines in use that do not keep a paper trail in use for the last 50 years. It never seemed to be a problem before.
In fact it was a "verifiable paper voting system" used in Florida that was the cause of much "corruption".
How's it gonna look on the news when you go to destroy a voting machine to "bring liberty back to the people" effectively cutting off people's right to vote?
If you don't like the system, get involved. Become a voting poll worker. Watch for corruption on the inside. That's all the civil disobedience you need.
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the infamous scene in Spiderman 2 where she's chained up...and wet...
Personally I'm waiting for the IMAX version for that scene...
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Yeah, they're expensive. But if you "multi-task" the shuttles so that they're doing combination duties of sending up supplies, crewmen rotation, etc... Stuff that would've had to have been done anyway... you can (in theory) knock down some of the fixed cost by sending up satellite components as well.
I'm all for expanding the reach of earth life, but to play devil's advocate here... What's the point of sending out human "contamination" to the rest of the cosmos?
There was no valid scientific reason for sending men to the moon either. Everything they did could've been done cheaper and more safely with probes.
What the ISS *is* good for (if they'd ever fund it to allow it to be) would be a good launch point for probes and satellites. Assuming you can get the shuttle program back on-line, you'd just lift up the parts you need, assemble at the station and launch from there. Surely that has to be cheaper than building a one-shot custom use heavy lift rocket to get a satellite into orbit.
No kidding... I set mine for 400 and I'm getting nearly "instantaneous" complete page draws and I barely miss the .15 of a second longer it takes! (I'm on a T1 at work)
Piss-poor analogies aside, you DO realize that there's a difference between funding a governmental service and government telling you how to live your life under the guise of being "safe"?