But surely was a very brave man to be willing to fight for what he believed in, against the country he dispises in a land so far from his own and should be respected accordingly.
Fine with me. Then he should have renounced his U.S. citizenship and gone to Afghanistan to take a bullet with the rest of them, or end up in Gitmo as an enemy combatant.
I have no sympathy for the guy, except for where his rights as a U.S. citizen were clearly violated by the feds.
The feds pick you up because you had the same name as a terrorist (mistaken ID happens all the time at airport security now), so they wanna hang on to you for a while. During this time your family is going nuts worried you've been killed, you may have lost your job due to not showing, and all the while missing persons reports fall on deaf ears. Meanwhile, you're being interrogated daily without access to an attorney and are getting ready to say anything that will finally let you out to tell your family you're okay. If they hold you long enough, maybe your wife and kids will get evicted from the house and be living on the streets.
Yep, I can say I'm gonna lose sleep over this one.
Disappearing people is a tactic of a totalitarian state. There's a right way to keep someone in jail, and it's called being held without bond.
Yes. Well, we do but it's about the same value as an Iraqi Dinar these days. I've looked at the 6th Amendment, and it doesn't seem to apply much in his case since he never went to trial, but it applies a LOT in other cases, especially "to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor" when the government isn't letting people use witnesses locked up in Gitmo, ostensibly for national security reasons.
But for reference, let's look at the 5th Amendment:
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury: Since the prevailing wisdom is that a good DA can indict a ham sandwich, I assume this was done.
nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself: I do wonder what was being done for those five weeks being held without a lawyer.
nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law: Sadly, these days a judge saying "okay, you can hold him without charges" is probably considered due process.
Plea bargains are a travesty of justice. Telling someone "we can prosecute you for a crime on which there is the death penalty, or you can plead guilty to a lesser charge" creates a grave risk of making the innocent plead guilty.
I know plea bargaining can be abused, but to do away with the practice would be a gross violation of the rights of defendants -- they have a right to plea guilty for whatever reason.
That's not to say the process couldn't use some safeguards though.
Supporters said Linux software, whose popular mascot is a penguin, was under testing for better-security ratings.
WTF does Linux's mascot have to do with being under testing for better ratings? Is the reporter trying to convey the impression that Linux is isn't serious business since it has a cute mascot instead of a corporate logo?
No matter how many emails you send in, how many phone calls, how many pickets, it doesn't matter.
Depending on your congressman, it can work. They are generally smart people who can be convinced if a logical argument is presented. However, that may change his vote, but what about the others?
You have a choice. Either get thousands of intelligent (that's the hard part) people in each district to talk to their representatives at a grass-roots level, or be rich and pay lobbyists to do it in D.C. Obviously, the simpler way is to have lots of money.
Did the US people want the Patriot Act?
Yes. Actually, many in Congress didn't want it or weren't even allowed to see it before voting, but had to vote for it or commit political suicide. That's why laws are now being introduced to scale it back. P.J. O'Rourke was right -- most laws are introduced to fix the mistakes of the old ones.
I do think that a hybrid system, such as the systems which count paper ballots automatically might be acceptable,
That's what I've always thought. Why not just a machine like a cash register with a 2x2,000 foot rolls of paper in the back? When votes are registered, the paper trail is written. One roll gives receipts to the voter and the other is shipped election commission for safekeeping.
The point with Open Source is that then everyone could independently review the system to check for security flaws rather than relying on a company like Diebold saying its grossly flawed system is secure because it was reviewed by an (unknown to us) independent source.
"They've done a really brilliant job in leveraging their strengths in the desktop operating system and applications and tying it to the server," says Davis.
Um, isn't that exactly why they were under investigation in the EU?
It'll be Republicans who introduce something like this next year. The two parties are like a penny. It has heads and tails sides, but it's still the same thing (and they're worth about as much, too).
No professional ones would be cheap, but instead of buying InDesign, PageMaker might have been better because of its simplicity.
If you have a bit more of a budget than for InDesign, FrameMaker is about the best thing out there. It's fairly easy and has great long-document and book management features -- all with XML. FrameMaker might be a bit of overkill, but at least it's overkill in the document management area that you need.
Looks good for jobs at home or non-critical jobs at work for now, but...
$1000 may be expensive for a program, but we use more than that in film and plates every day.
No kidding. With InDesign's high-res, perfect display, once we got our color set up with the wide-format printer and the color copier (Fiery RIP) we could be confident that what we saw on the screen was what would be output, or at least so close that the clients would never notice.
The alternative was a 4'x8' color poster that was junk at quite a price, not to mention the time it would take to fix, re-rip and reprint with an anxious client waiting.
And, like you but worse, we sent stuff out of house for commercial printing. Getting up to the proof for the run of a catalog then noticing things aren't right is not cheap. Correct, print new film, burn new plates, unmount plates, remount new ones, re-register, etc. = not cheap at A1 sizes.
I would also like to know how good the PDF export is, which is crucial since we always used PDF for transport to printers and publications. At least with InDesign I could know my export to PDF was perfect.
It's not the CPU, or even the graphics processing, really, it's the bandwidth of the system.
On the workstation end, he was referring to the G5, with a dual 1GHz hypertransport bus and 2.1 GB/s vs. 1.6 (Tezro) graphics bandwidth and 6.4 GB/s vs. 3.2 memory bandwidth.
I don't know why, but he is. Therefore, they're doing lots of stuff not normally done, like naming airports after him. I'll be there will be a stamp out before he's been dead for 10 years.
Actually, with science, there's always a jury out.
However the data sets used in these studies are so small they aren't statistically relevant.
The dataset in the BMJ article began with over 118,000 people 30+ years ago, including 35,000 nonsmokers living with smokers. This huge, long-term dataset resulted in, you guessed it, a very tiny correlation, but not the 20-30% usually quoted.
One flawed EPA study is the basis for almost all passive smoking bans.
my point remains the same. smoke does real damage to people,
For second-hand smoke, it appears the jury is still out. A recent study in the British Journal of Medicine on American Cancer Society data shows almost no increase in smoking-related problems for non-smoking spouses living with smokers for the last 30+ years.
The study was done by two British scientists funded by tobacco industry interests; however, this isn't your standard biased American Tobacco Institute study. It actually got published in a prestigious peer-reviewed scientific journal.
and the cost of health care is distributed to everyone
First, smokers generally pay higher premiums.
Second, do you drink alcohol, eat trans-fats, eat red meat, play football, ski or have a non-ergonomic setup at that computer you're on? Do you not exercise regularly? Do you do anything that is detrimental to your health, or omit that which you should be doing to promote your health?
If so, you are raising my insurance premiums so I demand that your habits be banned.
Living in a free country means accepting other peoples' habits so that yours, too, can be accepted.
however, when you smoke in a public place you are harming others.
This can be extended to SUVs, too. The danger to my in my tiny 1,600lb car is just too much, so I want them banned. (not)
Make the drinking age 21 or High School graduation.
How about using Germany as a model: 18 for everything, although kids of 16 can still buy beer and wine IIRC. This way they know how to drink and handle their alcohol, and it isn't special anymore by the time they get their driver's license at 18.
Wasn't a main point of the PATRIOT act that providers of any communications couldn't notify the suspect if eavesdropping was occuring? Turning off encryption would be as good as admitting that, so it's probably illegal to notify.
Apple is probably introducing single processor machines now because 1) even single gives a good speed boost for current users, 2) even single gives performance parity with an average PC desktop, 3) there aren't enough PPC 970s going around yet to give all duals at a good price.
By next year I figure Apple will probably make all of them dual processor, not just to keep up with Intel/AMD, but because that's what this chip is built for, and where its performance shines. This is why the dual-processor benchmarks go much better for Apple.
So I don't really care about the single processor benchmarks, because I know that I need to go dual if I want to get the most out of the G5's potential.
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But surely was a very brave man to be willing to fight for what he believed in, against the country he dispises in a land so far from his own and should be respected accordingly.
Fine with me. Then he should have renounced his U.S. citizenship and gone to Afghanistan to take a bullet with the rest of them, or end up in Gitmo as an enemy combatant.
I have no sympathy for the guy, except for where his rights as a U.S. citizen were clearly violated by the feds.
Let's think about this for a moment...
The feds pick you up because you had the same name as a terrorist (mistaken ID happens all the time at airport security now), so they wanna hang on to you for a while. During this time your family is going nuts worried you've been killed, you may have lost your job due to not showing, and all the while missing persons reports fall on deaf ears. Meanwhile, you're being interrogated daily without access to an attorney and are getting ready to say anything that will finally let you out to tell your family you're okay. If they hold you long enough, maybe your wife and kids will get evicted from the house and be living on the streets.
Yep, I can say I'm gonna lose sleep over this one.
Disappearing people is a tactic of a totalitarian state. There's a right way to keep someone in jail, and it's called being held without bond.
But for reference, let's look at the 5th Amendment:
Plea bargains are a travesty of justice. Telling someone "we can prosecute you for a crime on which there is the death penalty, or you can plead guilty to a lesser charge" creates a grave risk of making the innocent plead guilty.
I know plea bargaining can be abused, but to do away with the practice would be a gross violation of the rights of defendants -- they have a right to plea guilty for whatever reason.
That's not to say the process couldn't use some safeguards though.
Supporters said Linux software, whose popular mascot is a penguin, was under testing for better-security ratings.
WTF does Linux's mascot have to do with being under testing for better ratings? Is the reporter trying to convey the impression that Linux is isn't serious business since it has a cute mascot instead of a corporate logo?
Wrong place in the article to put that bit.
Unless you live in a UCITA state, then you're screwed.
I want the Tardis (preferably a fully-functional one), and a Dalek (preferably non-functional)
No matter how many emails you send in, how many phone calls, how many pickets, it doesn't matter.
Depending on your congressman, it can work. They are generally smart people who can be convinced if a logical argument is presented. However, that may change his vote, but what about the others?
You have a choice. Either get thousands of intelligent (that's the hard part) people in each district to talk to their representatives at a grass-roots level, or be rich and pay lobbyists to do it in D.C. Obviously, the simpler way is to have lots of money.
Did the US people want the Patriot Act?
Yes. Actually, many in Congress didn't want it or weren't even allowed to see it before voting, but had to vote for it or commit political suicide. That's why laws are now being introduced to scale it back. P.J. O'Rourke was right -- most laws are introduced to fix the mistakes of the old ones.
I do think that a hybrid system, such as the systems which count paper ballots automatically might be acceptable,
That's what I've always thought. Why not just a machine like a cash register with a 2x2,000 foot rolls of paper in the back? When votes are registered, the paper trail is written. One roll gives receipts to the voter and the other is shipped election commission for safekeeping.
The point with Open Source is that then everyone could independently review the system to check for security flaws rather than relying on a company like Diebold saying its grossly flawed system is secure because it was reviewed by an (unknown to us) independent source.
"They've done a really brilliant job in leveraging their strengths in the desktop operating system and applications and tying it to the server," says Davis.
Um, isn't that exactly why they were under investigation in the EU?
Be sure to emphasize that these two Representatives make all of the Democrats look bad.
So, it's the special-interest beholden, bribe-taking, power-hungry Democrats that make the honest 1% look bad?
It'll be Republicans who introduce something like this next year. The two parties are like a penny. It has heads and tails sides, but it's still the same thing (and they're worth about as much, too).
Hence the term Republicrats.
No professional ones would be cheap, but instead of buying InDesign, PageMaker might have been better because of its simplicity.
If you have a bit more of a budget than for InDesign, FrameMaker is about the best thing out there. It's fairly easy and has great long-document and book management features -- all with XML. FrameMaker might be a bit of overkill, but at least it's overkill in the document management area that you need.
Looks good for jobs at home or non-critical jobs at work for now, but...
$1000 may be expensive for a program, but we use more than that in film and plates every day.
No kidding. With InDesign's high-res, perfect display, once we got our color set up with the wide-format printer and the color copier (Fiery RIP) we could be confident that what we saw on the screen was what would be output, or at least so close that the clients would never notice.
The alternative was a 4'x8' color poster that was junk at quite a price, not to mention the time it would take to fix, re-rip and reprint with an anxious client waiting.
And, like you but worse, we sent stuff out of house for commercial printing. Getting up to the proof for the run of a catalog then noticing things aren't right is not cheap. Correct, print new film, burn new plates, unmount plates, remount new ones, re-register, etc. = not cheap at A1 sizes.
I would also like to know how good the PDF export is, which is crucial since we always used PDF for transport to printers and publications. At least with InDesign I could know my export to PDF was perfect.
I have been using Adobe InDesign for some time now, as it was required to make reports at our study.
Wrong tool for the job. It's underpowered in a few key aspects best suited to make reports, and way overkill for the rest of it.
It's not the CPU, or even the graphics processing, really, it's the bandwidth of the system.
On the workstation end, he was referring to the G5, with a dual 1GHz hypertransport bus and 2.1 GB/s vs. 1.6 (Tezro) graphics bandwidth and 6.4 GB/s vs. 3.2 memory bandwidth.
I don't know why, but he is. Therefore, they're doing lots of stuff not normally done, like naming airports after him. I'll be there will be a stamp out before he's been dead for 10 years.
There's no jury out,
Actually, with science, there's always a jury out.
However the data sets used in these studies are so small they aren't statistically relevant.
The dataset in the BMJ article began with over 118,000 people 30+ years ago, including 35,000 nonsmokers living with smokers. This huge, long-term dataset resulted in, you guessed it, a very tiny correlation, but not the 20-30% usually quoted.
One flawed EPA study is the basis for almost all passive smoking bans.
Got a link?
Here's mine.
my point remains the same. smoke does real damage to people,
For second-hand smoke, it appears the jury is still out. A recent study in the British Journal of Medicine on American Cancer Society data shows almost no increase in smoking-related problems for non-smoking spouses living with smokers for the last 30+ years.
The study was done by two British scientists funded by tobacco industry interests; however, this isn't your standard biased American Tobacco Institute study. It actually got published in a prestigious peer-reviewed scientific journal.
and the cost of health care is distributed to everyone
First, smokers generally pay higher premiums.
Second, do you drink alcohol, eat trans-fats, eat red meat, play football, ski or have a non-ergonomic setup at that computer you're on? Do you not exercise regularly? Do you do anything that is detrimental to your health, or omit that which you should be doing to promote your health?
If so, you are raising my insurance premiums so I demand that your habits be banned.
Living in a free country means accepting other peoples' habits so that yours, too, can be accepted.
however, when you smoke in a public place you are harming others.
This can be extended to SUVs, too. The danger to my in my tiny 1,600lb car is just too much, so I want them banned. (not)
ne answer would be to raise the age for voting, military, legal contracts, etc to 21.
We just lowered it to 18 a while ago.
Make the drinking age 21 or High School graduation.
How about using Germany as a model: 18 for everything, although kids of 16 can still buy beer and wine IIRC. This way they know how to drink and handle their alcohol, and it isn't special anymore by the time they get their driver's license at 18.
Wasn't a main point of the PATRIOT act that providers of any communications couldn't notify the suspect if eavesdropping was occuring? Turning off encryption would be as good as admitting that, so it's probably illegal to notify.
Apple is probably introducing single processor machines now because 1) even single gives a good speed boost for current users, 2) even single gives performance parity with an average PC desktop, 3) there aren't enough PPC 970s going around yet to give all duals at a good price.
By next year I figure Apple will probably make all of them dual processor, not just to keep up with Intel/AMD, but because that's what this chip is built for, and where its performance shines. This is why the dual-processor benchmarks go much better for Apple.
So I don't really care about the single processor benchmarks, because I know that I need to go dual if I want to get the most out of the G5's potential.
This simple method is how they could make "top of the line, maxxed out" G5 vs. the top Dell workstation face-off rock:
Run a CAD app (or DB or whatever) with a seven gigabyte dataset.
G5 100x faster, 200x? Would the PC even finish it?
The POWER4 and PPC970 specs have the FSB going at 1/4 of the chip speed, DDR. So whatever the processor speed is, the FSB will be half that.