Maybe he thought he would get more credit for himself this way. Maybe he thought MS would have said they discovered it themselves. That may sound selfish to some, but maybe he has a family to feed.
I cannot BELIEVE that so many supposedly educated people such as we have here on/. do not even realize how bad our voting system is. They are not ever aware of the alternatives such as prop. rep and approval voting etc.
And then we have the whole "horse race" viewpoint that the establishment media has pushed upon and that we fall for...
I am seriously thinking of moving to Europe where people take running their country and govt seriously. The voter apathy has caused this country to fall seriously behind the western euro social democracies such as Denmark, Sweden, etc. These countries know how to control the elite. Just look at their social benefits: free schooling, free student stipends, 5 weeks vacations plus numerous other days off. Far more accessible welfare and unemployment.....
He has strongly advocated moving immediately single payer health care. Polls show that 70+% of the public ALSO wants single payer health care.
But the Democratic frontrunners (Dean-Clark-Kerry) DO NOT call for single payer health care.
The majority of the public also support decriminalization of marijuana. So does Kucinich, but not Dean-Clark-Kerry.
Also, Dean is a Bush clone. He even went to a more prestigious prep school than Bush. Dean's grandmother invited Bush grandmother to her wedding. Dean and Bush even went to Yale at the same time. They are both Old Money Bluebloods, and that is who they are going to look after and have empathy with.
Kucinich OTOH is a card carrying union member from a working class background. His family never even owned a home when he was growing up. More than once they had to sleep in the family car between homes.
Now if you are a rich investor or a CEO, then Bush or Dean is your man. Otherwise, you want someone who has the background and experience to understand what the average person goes through.
Businessmen and investors know that sometimes you have to take some risks; you have to change and grow.
And we citizens own this countries. We have invested our lives in it. So why on earth are we afraid to vote for change? Why do we keep electing Republicrats?
Yes, of course, Kucinich will not be able to make all the changes he wants and that we need. But we need someone who will fight for the citizen against established power. Kucinich has already and repeatedly shown that he has a serious grudge against established power.
We already have 500 Republicrats in the House and the Senate. You have heard of "checks and balances"? Well, Kucinich is the check and balance we need.
Chomsky is PLAINLY wacked out for suggesting that the USA with its extremely low voter turnout as compared to other western democracies...and that leads to corporate control of our govt. Just how paranoid and insance that Chomsky must be to suggest such a thing....
Chomsky explains all this in his writings. Basically, what with the extremely low voter participation rates in this country, we have pretty much given over control of the state to corporate interests. The govt and the media collaborate with corporate interests to make sure we are a captive audience for advertising, and a captive labor pool.
that is why the UK govt has sold out the people, just like in the USA. But look to the other EU countries. Not quite the same, is it? That is because THEY have proportional representation....
Also, with respect to the dole, in addition to the 80 pounds ($125 or so) per week, you also get cheap housing, right? Well, here in the USA, the unemployment is also less than $125/wk and it runs out in about 6 months. And then all we have is food stamps which is about $100/month or so....
The Navy sux, you know it, and I know, and every swingin' dick knows it.
I was an Electronics Tech, as well...and I know the score!
The Navy is organized for the benefit of the Lifers (those who have been in a long time and have seniority) and officers. Do not join the Navy. THis is Fair Warning!
I have a fairly powerful PC (512M DDR RAM and this is like a 1.6 GHZ CPU) using dialup.
What happens is that once I begin reading a./ thread (e.g., "Walmart now selling music online" etc.), CPU usages moves slowly toward 100%.
ALso, at the same time, the HTTP transactions between all the open Internet Explorer windows will cease (and I typically have as many as 6-12 other windows open reading several other websites simultaneously). For example, when I began reading this particular thread I had several other websites open reading news, politics, etc. And I can do this all day, switching between a dozen or more websites, and while a page is loading, I will be reading another page I have already downloaded.
And it works fine. I have a 56K dialup on mylinuxisp.com here in Houston ($10, great service, highly recommended). Right now I am using a good winmoden (Supra). But sometimes I use an external modem (same problem using that modem).
But when I try to read slashdot threads, the HTTP transactions activity (as evidenced by two the little CRT emblems that make up the HTTP/modem status activity indication in the botton right corner of the screen on the status bar) slow down to nothing, and CPU usage moves to near 100%.
THe only cure is to close group (close all open IE windows), and open up all new windows, and then pick up the pages I was reading using the History tabs.
I do a LOT of websurfing. ANd I read my huge webpages during the day. But no other web pages seem to cause this problem.
And of course CEOs and big corporations will not care about any kind of net taxes.
No doubt it will kill the small solo businessperson. But then again, that small solo businessperson does not feed the Senator's bulldog.And of couse John BlueBlood the CEO does not want the small solo businessperson crashing the online party, so therefore expect more taxes on the Internet, formerly known as the Great Equalizer.....
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Also for those unfamiliar with the true nature of American politics, the American Left and the American Right are figurehead-iconic "team sport" political parties that supposedly "represent" American citizens.
In actuality they represent a few large or powerful interest groups, and their main daddy is the corporate lobbies.
GO TEAM GO TEAM GO TEAM!!
RAH RAH RAH!!
BEAT THEM DEMOCRATS!
BEAT THOSE REPUBLICANS!
But pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
American politics is roughly analogous to "professional" American wrestling.....
for selling us out (after trying them in a court of law). Once we publicly hang a few for treason against the people, it will stigmatize corporate sellout, and it will give us better politicians for generations.
After reading an article about how lightning is created (same basic mechanism). My invention was a "fence" apparatus miles long, with little holes in the "wires" of the fence. The wires are just small pipes that are hooked up to a pressurized water source. The water drips out of the holes, and the wind rushes over the dripping water. An electrode "catches" the generated electric potential as the water falls into a collector, which pumps it back to the source. The fence would be placed in areas of the great plains and the west where a lot of wind exists.
I took my idea to a physics professor at the University of Texas-San Antonio in 1992 or so, and he shot down the idea because the efficiency of the basic mechanism was very very low, which is what the article basically says....
We need to develop the proper perspective--America is our jointly owned pproperty. If we have jobs here, that is due to the fact that we have some business advantages, just as any well-situated business does well because it may have a good location, or have an attractive or impressive appearance. So, too, does America have jobs because of some competitive advantage. So these jobs are part of the benefits of being an American citizen, where a citizen is a part-owner of America.
The problem is that we have been bullied and brainwashed into giving up those rights--the unholy collusion the investor class, the media, and the govt has taken away these citizen-owned benefits.
Another benefit of America that we are letting slip through our fingers is the ability we have to control business by virtue of the attractiveness of the huge, easily accessible marketplace we offer. Where else in the world is such a conglomeration of consumer buying power found? We are the 800 lb gorilla of the business world. We can virtually do as we please when it comes to making multinational corporations do our bidding. OF COURSE we can force them to give US the jobs instead of sending them overseas. No one says no to an 800 lb gorilla. But instead we have allowed to investor/management class to cripple us...
America is too big now to be able to control our own govt. Look at what they are doing--cramming in every possible immigrant so as to continue to lower wages and increase real estate values, etc. With so fragmented a populace, how can we possibly fight back against our own govt?
But the internet has already begun to affect public mood and affect the waves. You are correct in that the media tells MOST people what to believe. But the Net's day is coming....and it does....oh boy....I expect to see some ruling elite necks stretched a bit long....
Would it be more effective for a small business that depends on local business (such as a house roofing or a plumbing company) to have a business name and a website that includes the name of the city? For example, "www.dallasplumbing.com" or www.dallas-plumbing.com? Which would be better at getting higher up in the google query? It would seem that with this IP location factor in the query that maybe such a URL scheme would be effective? Your opinions, please.....
The recession of the early 90s was also pretty bad--but that one not very for the technically educated. This time around, it is the educated ones being hurt, and this time they have the internet. The outwelling of anger about outsourcing and immigration which combine to destroy jobs and lower wages for those jobs still left, is being focused by the internet. I am starting to see more acceptance of the european style of govt everywhere.
My techie friend and I have often discussed what is happening here in America. My overall take on it is that a combination of corporate power, governmental power and major media (CorpGovMedia) is running America in a way to increase profits, sort of the way a livestock ranch is run. And the American citizens are the livestock. CorpGovMedia tries to cram more and more livestock onto the ranch.
My techie friend just got back from Australia. He is from Venezuela originally. First thing he tell me after he got back from Australia is that the corporations are screwing Americans. He says life is better in Australia than it is in the USA. He did not specify exactly what, but he is concerned with health care and cheap housing.
Where did he get this idea about the corporations screwing Americans? Not from the major media--from the Internet. The Internet can help us, but we have to use it more efficiently. First we have to break the hold of the major parties on the elections.
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Maybe he thought he would get more credit for himself this way. Maybe he thought MS would have said they discovered it themselves. That may sound selfish to some, but maybe he has a family to feed.
I would say that RC cars are indeed a type of robot. In fact, MIT has a webpage on how to convert RC Cars to a robot. See:
http://web.mit.edu/tas/www/traxx/rt_main.htm
I cannot BELIEVE that so many supposedly educated people such as we have here on /. do not even realize how bad our voting system is. They are not ever aware of the alternatives such as prop. rep and approval voting etc.
And then we have the whole "horse race" viewpoint that the establishment media has pushed upon and that we fall for...
I am seriously thinking of moving to Europe where people take running their country and govt seriously. The voter apathy has caused this country to fall seriously behind the western euro social democracies such as Denmark, Sweden, etc. These countries know how to control the elite. Just look at their social benefits: free schooling, free student stipends, 5 weeks vacations plus numerous other days off. Far more accessible welfare and unemployment.....
But the Democratic frontrunners (Dean-Clark-Kerry) DO NOT call for single payer health care.
The majority of the public also support decriminalization of marijuana. So does Kucinich, but not Dean-Clark-Kerry.
Also, Dean is a Bush clone. He even went to a more prestigious prep school than Bush. Dean's grandmother invited Bush grandmother to her wedding. Dean and Bush even went to Yale at the same time. They are both Old Money Bluebloods, and that is who they are going to look after and have empathy with.
Kucinich OTOH is a card carrying union member from a working class background. His family never even owned a home when he was growing up. More than once they had to sleep in the family car between homes.
Now if you are a rich investor or a CEO, then Bush or Dean is your man. Otherwise, you want someone who has the background and experience to understand what the average person goes through.
And we citizens own this countries. We have invested our lives in it. So why on earth are we afraid to vote for change? Why do we keep electing Republicrats?
Yes, of course, Kucinich will not be able to make all the changes he wants and that we need. But we need someone who will fight for the citizen against established power. Kucinich has already and repeatedly shown that he has a serious grudge against established power.
We already have 500 Republicrats in the House and the Senate. You have heard of "checks and balances"? Well, Kucinich is the check and balance we need.
GROW SOME FUCKING BALLS FOR ONCE!
Chomsky is PLAINLY wacked out for suggesting that the USA with its extremely low voter turnout as compared to other western democracies...and that leads to corporate control of our govt. Just how paranoid and insance that Chomsky must be to suggest such a thing....
Chomsky explains all this in his writings. Basically, what with the extremely low voter participation rates in this country, we have pretty much given over control of the state to corporate interests. The govt and the media collaborate with corporate interests to make sure we are a captive audience for advertising, and a captive labor pool.
that is why the UK govt has sold out the people, just like in the USA. But look to the other EU countries. Not quite the same, is it? That is because THEY have proportional representation....
Also, with respect to the dole, in addition to the 80 pounds ($125 or so) per week, you also get cheap housing, right? Well, here in the USA, the unemployment is also less than $125/wk and it runs out in about 6 months. And then all we have is food stamps which is about $100/month or so....
Plus there are more IT jobs there because they don't have H1B visas. Just be sure to have an EU parent or grandparent....
I was an Electronics Tech, as well...and I know the score!
The Navy is organized for the benefit of the Lifers (those who have been in a long time and have seniority) and officers. Do not join the Navy. THis is Fair Warning!
FTN!
I have a fairly powerful PC (512M DDR RAM and this is like a 1.6 GHZ CPU) using dialup.
What happens is that once I begin reading a
ALso, at the same time, the HTTP transactions between all the open Internet Explorer windows will cease (and I typically have as many as 6-12 other windows open reading several other websites simultaneously). For example, when I began reading this particular thread I had several other websites open reading news, politics, etc. And I can do this all day, switching between a dozen or more websites, and while a page is loading, I will be reading another page I have already downloaded.
And it works fine. I have a 56K dialup on mylinuxisp.com here in Houston ($10, great service, highly recommended). Right now I am using a good winmoden (Supra). But sometimes I use an external modem (same problem using that modem).
But when I try to read slashdot threads, the HTTP transactions activity (as evidenced by two the little CRT emblems that make up the HTTP/modem status activity indication in the botton right corner of the screen on the status bar) slow down to nothing, and CPU usage moves to near 100%.
THe only cure is to close group (close all open IE windows), and open up all new windows, and then pick up the pages I was reading using the History tabs.
I do a LOT of websurfing. ANd I read my huge webpages during the day. But no other web pages seem to cause this problem.
Does anyone else get a massive slowdown of their computer when reading slashdot threads?
I am using XP home version and the latest Internet Explorer?
And of course CEOs and big corporations will not care about any kind of net taxes.
No doubt it will kill the small solo businessperson. But then again, that small solo businessperson does not feed the Senator's bulldog.And of couse John BlueBlood the CEO does not want the small solo businessperson crashing the online party, so therefore expect more taxes on the Internet, formerly known as the Great Equalizer.....
Also for those unfamiliar with the true nature of American politics, the American Left and the American Right are figurehead-iconic "team sport" political parties that supposedly "represent" American citizens.
In actuality they represent a few large or powerful interest groups, and their main daddy is the corporate lobbies.
GO TEAM GO TEAM GO TEAM!!
RAH RAH RAH!!
BEAT THEM DEMOCRATS!
BEAT THOSE REPUBLICANS!
But pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
American politics is roughly analogous to "professional" American wrestling.....
for selling us out (after trying them in a court of law). Once we publicly hang a few for treason against the people, it will stigmatize corporate sellout, and it will give us better politicians for generations.
After reading an article about how lightning is created (same basic mechanism). My invention was a "fence" apparatus miles long, with little holes in the "wires" of the fence. The wires are just small pipes that are hooked up to a pressurized water source. The water drips out of the holes, and the wind rushes over the dripping water. An electrode "catches" the generated electric potential as the water falls into a collector, which pumps it back to the source. The fence would be placed in areas of the great plains and the west where a lot of wind exists.
I took my idea to a physics professor at the University of Texas-San Antonio in 1992 or so, and he shot down the idea because the efficiency of the basic mechanism was very very low, which is what the article basically says....
I am a published writer, shithead.
The problem is that we have been bullied and brainwashed into giving up those rights--the unholy collusion the investor class, the media, and the govt has taken away these citizen-owned benefits.
Another benefit of America that we are letting slip through our fingers is the ability we have to control business by virtue of the attractiveness of the huge, easily accessible marketplace we offer. Where else in the world is such a conglomeration of consumer buying power found? We are the 800 lb gorilla of the business world. We can virtually do as we please when it comes to making multinational corporations do our bidding. OF COURSE we can force them to give US the jobs instead of sending them overseas. No one says no to an 800 lb gorilla. But instead we have allowed to investor/management class to cripple us...
America is too big now to be able to control our own govt. Look at what they are doing--cramming in every possible immigrant so as to continue to lower wages and increase real estate values, etc. With so fragmented a populace, how can we possibly fight back against our own govt?
But the internet has already begun to affect public mood and affect the waves. You are correct in that the media tells MOST people what to believe. But the Net's day is coming....and it does....oh boy....I expect to see some ruling elite necks stretched a bit long....
Would it be more effective for a small business that depends on local business (such as a house roofing or a plumbing company) to have a business name and a website that includes the name of the city? For example, "www.dallasplumbing.com" or www.dallas-plumbing.com? Which would be better at getting higher up in the google query? It would seem that with this IP location factor in the query that maybe such a URL scheme would be effective? Your opinions, please.....
The rich can only be rich if you are poorer. Richness is inherently RELATIVE. Rich and poor lose meaning without comparison.
...for the maximum amount of money it can get. THEN, and only then, will broadband be cheap.
"For the people, of the people, and by the people"? Hah! Try "For the corps, of the corps, and by the corps"? Hah!
If you want a government that is truly "For the people, of the people, and by the people", then try Japan or any WEstern European country.
The recession of the early 90s was also pretty bad--but that one not very for the technically educated. This time around, it is the educated ones being hurt, and this time they have the internet. The outwelling of anger about outsourcing and immigration which combine to destroy jobs and lower wages for those jobs still left, is being focused by the internet. I am starting to see more acceptance of the european style of govt everywhere.
My techie friend and I have often discussed what is happening here in America. My overall take on it is that a combination of corporate power, governmental power and major media (CorpGovMedia) is running America in a way to increase profits, sort of the way a livestock ranch is run. And the American citizens are the livestock. CorpGovMedia tries to cram more and more livestock onto the ranch.
My techie friend just got back from Australia. He is from Venezuela originally.
First thing he tell me after he got back from Australia is that the corporations are screwing Americans. He says life is better in Australia than it is in the USA. He did not specify exactly what, but he is concerned with health care and cheap housing.
Where did he get this idea about the corporations screwing Americans? Not from the major media--from the Internet.
The Internet can help us, but we have to use it more efficiently. First we have to break the hold of the major parties on the elections.
THey always make sure the fences are good and strong.