Still think this is good advice? Worse is when the vendor forces the update silently w/o informing the user. Then suddenly your PC is broke or browser and you don't know why.
It makes newbies runaway from GNUlinux rather than try it, and even experienced people like me say, "I'm tired of 10 different variants of Mozilla browsers, and the desktop changing every release. I'm going back to Win or Mac OS for some multiyear stability."
>>>Paul has been gaining delegates and winning states (at least 8 so far)
It's now 12 states where he holds the delegate majority. After this weekend's conventions it will likely be 14.
>>>He never has and will not run as a "third-party" candidate
Except when he did. He quit the Republicans and ran as a Libertarian in 1988. That's when he discovered that 3rd parties don't have a chance in hell of winning the presidency, so he went back to the Republicans and started working *within* the party to steer things back to the principles of Goldwater and Reagan. (And also to push his main agenda: To reverse Nixon's decision to end the gold-backed dollar.)
You were marked +3 informative and should not have been.
According to http://thereal2012delegatecount.com/ Romney has about ~300 confirmed delegates (keyword: confirmed) versus Paul's ~100 confirmed. That's it. For example, Romney won the popular vote but Paul won the majority of delegates in Massachusetts. Those persons belong to Paul not Romney.
Any other numbers you see are GUESSES, because those states like Florida, Alaska, Idaho have not held their delegate-electing conventions yet.
>>>>>Paul has been gaining delegates and winning states (at least 8 so far)
It's now 12 states. After this weekend it will likely be 14.
>>Yes, I'm sure that all those delegates that are technically not bound to Romney will suddenly discover their deep and unabiding love for Paul
No need. They already love Paul. There are already known Paulbots who got themselves elected in states like Massachusetts. The Paulbots versus the Romneybots is ~70% to 30%..... and we're seeing that same pattern in state after state.
>>I really wonder what will happen to all you Paul-fans when Romney gets the overwhelming number of delegates during the Convention
Nothing. Because I'm expecting it. Yes I want Paul to win but I'm not naive'. I expect Romney to win the 1st round delegate voting ~60% to 40% (same result as Virginia when Paul/Romney ran head-to-head). The end. He's got the support of the RNC Leadership and they WILL make him win, no matter what it takes.
If it turns-out I'm wrong, and Paul pulls a miracle to win the convention, I'll give the guy $5,000 with a note, "I was wrong to doubt you."
Someone wasn't paying attention. The 14th amendment does not apply to the issuance of gay marriage licenses (so ruled the Supreme Court). The U.S. has no more authority to overrule what local people desire via their legislature, than does the E.U. to force the Greeks or Poles or Spaniards to issue gay marriage licenses.
Probably not Ron Paul supporters. The people who gave speeches in Maine and Nevada (which Paul won) were not Paul supporters either. They were behind Romney and pushing Romney's pro-Iran war agenda.
Forgot the link. You can also take a look at wikipedia which has now setup 2 separate maps: The popular vote and the delegate count. It shows, for example, that Romney won the most votes in Maine but that Paul won the most delegates, therefore PAUL takes the state.
Then I'll just repeat the same request: DEAR POLITICO: Please give us a citation where Ron Paul or his manager said --- We are "ending" our campaign. --- I'm sure if you asked them directly (and someone like CNN probably will), they would both laugh at the idea as ridiculous. Slashdot/Politico are just exerting their OPINIONS and expecting us to buy the rhetoric like brainwashed sheeple.
(1) He's not allowed, according to Ron. (2) He's retiring from congress. He told Judge Napolitano a year ago he's sick of politics. (3) Last time he did not run third party but instead founded the Campaign for Liberty. I suspect that is where he will put his focus.
>>> if Texas wants to enact a law saying gays and blacks have to sit at the back of the bus, thats OK with R Paul
Um no. The Supreme Court already ruled that segregation is a violation of the equality amendment. (14? 16? I forget). As for Obama's position: Marriage licenses are not granted by the Congress. They are granted by the People and their Legislatures. The U.S. has no authority to overrule what local people desire, anymore than the E.U. has the authority to force the Greeks or Poles or Spaniards to issue gay marriage licenses.
False. According to this website Romney has about ~300 confirmed delegates (keyword: confirmed) versus Paul's ~100 confirmed. That's it. Any other numbers you see are GUESSES, because those states have not held their delegate-electing conventions yet. http://thereal2012delegatecount.com/
For example, Romney won the popular vote but Paul won the majority of delegates in Massachusetts. Those persons belong to Paul not Romney. (Of course it's possible Paul has no plans to push the issue... and will just let Romney have his delegates. We'll have to wait and see.)
I'd like a citation from the articles where Paul or his manager say We are "ending" the campaign. Please. IF you're going to act like FAUX News with distortions THEN I'd like you to back up that distortion with direct-linked quotes ELSE retract. Thank you.
He stopped spending money on ads, and is diverting the money to the state conventions (where he's winning). It seems a logical stance to take if his goal is to win the delegate vote.
Yeah you're right. I don't need a "guburment" conspiracy. The ~300,000 dead persons lying in Iraq plus Afghanistan plus Libya plus Yemen plus Pakistan are enough to damn the current & last presidents to a Nuremberg-style trial for crimes against humanity. And it's impossible to pretend the corpses don't exist.
>>>Before LightSquared failed, the conspiracy theory was that LightSquared had bribed the current administration to let them in even though it would break everyone's satnav.
I've read various articles over the last year that the current administration wanted LightSquared to fail, in order to eliminate competition for a preferred provider (the company that gave campaign donations).
If I lived in the UK could I ask the ISP to give me an unfiltered version? Or has the Parliament arbitrarily decided to be my surrogate dad, and control what I can or can not see? (It must be fun to be treated like a child.)
>>>because there are other browsers available for the iPad
Really? Can I run Mozilla seaMonkey or Firefox? Can I run Opera Mobile or Opera 11? Can I run Non-google Chromium?
ASIDE - Seamonkey is on the same rollercoaster as Firefox, with one release every month. BUT at least they are using sane numbering: 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, et cetera. Seamonkey will be at version 3 sometime next year while Firefox will be at 20.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah but the average user doesn't know that. They hear Redhat, Ubuntu, Lucid, Puppy, and think they are all different OSes. They get confused.
>>>This is slashdot, how do you have only 512MB?!?!?!
This is slashdot, you're a well paid developer. How do you have less than 100K in the bank?
Touche'
Still think this is good advice? Worse is when the vendor forces the update silently w/o informing the user. Then suddenly your PC is broke or browser and you don't know why.
Runs like shit on my 1/2 gigabyte PC. Starts out okay but after about half-an-hour, Chromium spawns 5+ processes that hog memory. It's insane.
Forking is what causes forking confusion.
It makes newbies runaway from GNUlinux rather than try it, and even experienced people like me say, "I'm tired of 10 different variants of Mozilla browsers, and the desktop changing every release. I'm going back to Win or Mac OS for some multiyear stability."
Pretty obvious.
85+ for Windows
12% for Mac OS
2.5% for GNUlinux
>>>Paul has been gaining delegates and winning states (at least 8 so far)
It's now 12 states where he holds the delegate majority. After this weekend's conventions it will likely be 14.
>>>He never has and will not run as a "third-party" candidate
Except when he did. He quit the Republicans and ran as a Libertarian in 1988. That's when he discovered that 3rd parties don't have a chance in hell of winning the presidency, so he went back to the Republicans and started working *within* the party to steer things back to the principles of Goldwater and Reagan. (And also to push his main agenda: To reverse Nixon's decision to end the gold-backed dollar.)
You were marked +3 informative and should not have been.
According to http://thereal2012delegatecount.com/ Romney has about ~300 confirmed delegates (keyword: confirmed) versus Paul's ~100 confirmed. That's it. For example, Romney won the popular vote but Paul won the majority of delegates in Massachusetts. Those persons belong to Paul not Romney.
Any other numbers you see are GUESSES, because those states like Florida, Alaska, Idaho have not held their delegate-electing conventions yet.
>>>>>Paul has been gaining delegates and winning states (at least 8 so far)
It's now 12 states. After this weekend it will likely be 14.
>>Yes, I'm sure that all those delegates that are technically not bound to Romney will suddenly discover their deep and unabiding love for Paul
No need.
They already love Paul. There are already known Paulbots who got themselves elected in states like Massachusetts. The Paulbots versus the Romneybots is ~70% to 30%..... and we're seeing that same pattern in state after state.
>>I really wonder what will happen to all you Paul-fans when Romney gets the overwhelming number of delegates during the Convention
Nothing.
Because I'm expecting it. Yes I want Paul to win but I'm not naive'. I expect Romney to win the 1st round delegate voting ~60% to 40% (same result as Virginia when Paul/Romney ran head-to-head). The end. He's got the support of the RNC Leadership and they WILL make him win, no matter what it takes.
If it turns-out I'm wrong, and Paul pulls a miracle to win the convention, I'll give the guy $5,000 with a note, "I was wrong to doubt you."
Someone wasn't paying attention. The 14th amendment does not apply to the issuance of gay marriage licenses (so ruled the Supreme Court). The U.S. has no more authority to overrule what local people desire via their legislature, than does the E.U. to force the Greeks or Poles or Spaniards to issue gay marriage licenses.
>>>the local organizers
Probably not Ron Paul supporters. The people who gave speeches in Maine and Nevada (which Paul won) were not Paul supporters either. They were behind Romney and pushing Romney's pro-Iran war agenda.
Forgot the link. You can also take a look at wikipedia which has now setup 2 separate maps: The popular vote and the delegate count. It shows, for example, that Romney won the most votes in Maine but that Paul won the most delegates, therefore PAUL takes the state.
http://thereal2012delegatecount.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_presidential_primaries,_2012
Then I'll just repeat the same request: DEAR POLITICO: Please give us a citation where Ron Paul or his manager said --- We are "ending" our campaign. --- I'm sure if you asked them directly (and someone like CNN probably will), they would both laugh at the idea as ridiculous. Slashdot/Politico are just exerting their OPINIONS and expecting us to buy the rhetoric like brainwashed sheeple.
(1) He's not allowed, according to Ron. (2) He's retiring from congress. He told Judge Napolitano a year ago he's sick of politics. (3) Last time he did not run third party but instead founded the Campaign for Liberty. I suspect that is where he will put his focus.
>>> if Texas wants to enact a law saying gays and blacks have to sit at the back of the bus, thats OK with R Paul
Um no. The Supreme Court already ruled that segregation is a violation of the equality amendment. (14? 16? I forget). As for Obama's position: Marriage licenses are not granted by the Congress. They are granted by the People and their Legislatures. The U.S. has no authority to overrule what local people desire, anymore than the E.U. has the authority to force the Greeks or Poles or Spaniards to issue gay marriage licenses.
False. According to this website Romney has about ~300 confirmed delegates (keyword: confirmed) versus Paul's ~100 confirmed. That's it. Any other numbers you see are GUESSES, because those states have not held their delegate-electing conventions yet. http://thereal2012delegatecount.com/
For example, Romney won the popular vote but Paul won the majority of delegates in Massachusetts. Those persons belong to Paul not Romney. (Of course it's possible Paul has no plans to push the issue... and will just let Romney have his delegates. We'll have to wait and see.)
I'd like a citation from the articles where Paul or his manager say We are "ending" the campaign. Please.
IF you're going to act like FAUX News with distortions
THEN I'd like you to back up that distortion with direct-linked quotes
ELSE retract. Thank you.
He stopped spending money on ads, and is diverting the money to the state conventions (where he's winning). It seems a logical stance to take if his goal is to win the delegate vote.
Yeah you're right. I don't need a "guburment" conspiracy. The ~300,000 dead persons lying in Iraq plus Afghanistan plus Libya plus Yemen plus Pakistan are enough to damn the current & last presidents to a Nuremberg-style trial for crimes against humanity. And it's impossible to pretend the corpses don't exist.
>>>Before LightSquared failed, the conspiracy theory was that LightSquared had bribed the current administration to let them in even though it would break everyone's satnav.
Oh okay.
Thanks for clarifying.
>>>Tor is a network allowing for file exchange which makes it impossible or very difficult to tell the identity of the file sharers
What the fuck is wrong with that?
Bastard. Way to defend censorship. Go saluite your EU flag and then burn in hell, you anti-free speech bastard
What's wrong with the old UHF-TV spectrum (700 Megahertz)? They made use of the higher-UHF bands (800/900 MHz) for cellular expansion in the 80s.
I've read various articles over the last year that the current administration wanted LightSquared to fail, in order to eliminate competition for a preferred provider (the company that gave campaign donations).
If I lived in the UK could I ask the ISP to give me an unfiltered version? Or has the Parliament arbitrarily decided to be my surrogate dad, and control what I can or can not see? (It must be fun to be treated like a child.)
>>>because there are other browsers available for the iPad
Really?
Can I run Mozilla seaMonkey or Firefox?
Can I run Opera Mobile or Opera 11?
Can I run Non-google Chromium?
ASIDE - Seamonkey is on the same rollercoaster as Firefox, with one release every month. BUT at least they are using sane numbering: 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, et cetera. Seamonkey will be at version 3 sometime next year while Firefox will be at 20.