Thank you for the clarification, though with the influence religious zealots have in some communities, allowing will have the same effect as mandating. I'm not opposed to the ten commandments per se, (I think they're pretty good;^) but I do have a problem with the motivation behind the amendment and despite what the backers of the legislation might say, it's a religious document and doesn't belong in publicly funded schools. To use this as a tool to reduce school violence and then turning around and voting for easier access to guns is ludicrous. But that's off topic. As long as I'm off topic, the reasons these folks continue to vote for legislation of dubious constitutionality is nothing but pandering to voters and a short-sighted need to "do the right thing." I mean, how many times can they bring up the flag burning issue?
Yeah, you'd think it'd be unconstitutional, and they'd know it, and they wouldn't vote for it. So much for a perfect world. They also just voted to require the ten commandments be put in schools, so they have some experience with unconstitutional legislation. Working in Washington like I do can really make one cynical.
Oh, come on. Goodlatte's a freekin joke. Him and all the other "get the rest of gob'ment off your back so I can git on it" crackers from va. are a joke. Do you really think GTE is going to build an internet backbone straight to your house just because goodlatte is going to force the FCC to stop some regulation of phone companies? Don't you think that maybe the bad ol' phone company doesn't run cable and adsl to your holler because maybe there aren't enough sons of the soil back up in there to cover their costs? Oh yeah, and bring back ma bell, that's a good idea. Maybe we can make it (mandate it, congressman?) that AT&T supplies ALL the bandwidth for all internet traffic, that way we could have a chance to enforce goodlatte's anti-spam portion of his "internet freedom act."
A little too obvious, huh? You're quite right - my skills must be lacking; need more subtlety. I'll keep working on it. I'm heartened by the fact that at least a couple of people thought I was serious.;^)
Why would they include such a dead-end, niche technology like IEEE 1394 when they can adopt the unknown/unproven but clearly superior USB 2? When you consider the Playstation units won't move until next year anyway, they should go ahead and include USB 2 support, which can do everything that 1394 can do cheaper, and do away with that Apple-developed proprietary bus. Besides, with Intel/Microsoft supporting USB 2, it's clearly the way of the future. And Apple will be out of business soon so there won't be anybody advocating 1394.
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Thank you for the clarification, though with the influence religious zealots have in some communities, allowing will have the same effect as mandating. I'm not opposed to the ten commandments per se, (I think they're pretty good ;^) but I do have a problem with the motivation behind the amendment and despite what the backers of the legislation might say, it's a religious document and doesn't belong in publicly funded schools. To use this as a tool to reduce school violence and then turning around and voting for easier access to guns is ludicrous. But that's off topic. As long as I'm off topic, the reasons these folks continue to vote for legislation of dubious constitutionality is nothing but pandering to voters and a short-sighted need to "do the right thing." I mean, how many times can they bring up the flag burning issue?
Yeah, you'd think it'd be unconstitutional, and they'd know it, and they wouldn't
vote for it. So much for a perfect world. They also just voted to require the
ten commandments be put in schools, so they have some experience with unconstitutional
legislation. Working in Washington like I do can really make one cynical.
Oh, come on. Goodlatte's a freekin joke. Him and all the other "get the rest of gob'ment off your back so I can git on it" crackers from va. are a joke. Do you really think GTE is going to build an internet backbone straight to your house just because goodlatte is going to force the FCC to stop some regulation of phone companies? Don't you think that maybe the bad ol' phone company doesn't run cable and adsl to your holler because maybe there aren't enough sons of the soil back up in there to cover their costs? Oh yeah, and bring back ma bell, that's a good idea. Maybe we can make it (mandate it, congressman?) that AT&T supplies ALL the bandwidth for all internet traffic, that way we could have a chance to enforce goodlatte's anti-spam portion of his "internet freedom act."
A little too obvious, huh? You're quite right - my skills must be lacking; need more subtlety. I'll keep working on it. I'm heartened by the fact that at least a couple of people thought I was serious. ;^)
Why would they include such a dead-end, niche technology like IEEE 1394 when they can adopt the unknown/unproven but clearly superior USB 2? When you consider the Playstation units won't move until next year anyway, they should go ahead and include USB 2 support, which can do everything that 1394 can do cheaper, and do away with that Apple-developed proprietary bus. Besides, with Intel/Microsoft supporting USB 2, it's clearly the way of the future. And Apple will be out of business soon so there won't be anybody advocating 1394.