Does this mean that Robert Novak has to reveal his sources in the Valerie Plame story? Since that involves TREASON, which is a bit more serious than revealing trade secrets, doesn't this ruling apply there as well?
Check out the last issue of Discover... the one that had the big "Evolution proved" headline on the cover. It was a fascinating article. I'm sure you can grab a back-issue or find the story on line somewhere.
It is not like they have bosses who say "Here's a lie. We are paying you to say it."
Then why are their "talking points" almost identical across the spectrum of right-wing commentators... almost verbatum? You can sample a variety of shows and find the same words in the same order on the same day.
SOMEONE is paying them to say things, giving them talking points, and having them drill it into the watching public's psyche.
And journalism has everything to do with Democracy. Democracy doesn't work unless you have an informed populace. Democracy also dies behind closed doors, which is why the Bush Administration's hyper-secrecy is such a troubling problem. Without investigative journalists to root out the truth and disect and fact-check what the leaders are saying, the people cannot be truly informed, but only brainwashed.
I signed up with AT&T CallVantage nine or so months ago, when it first became avaiable in this area.
I LOVE it.
It has tons of features, and it's great to be able to get email notifications at work of calls I received at home, and then be able to check my messages via the web right then and there.
The quality is good, the service has been good, and they keep adding features while lowering the price (it started out at $39.95/month, and they dropped th price twice while I was still in the "first six months half price" period).
My total phone bill has dropped to about one third what it was, and I have more calling features than I had before.
Take gay-bashing for instance. While you may think things are okay because you live in NYC or LA or some place where such crimes are treated like actual crimes... there are people in back-woods Mississippi, where juries and judgies tend to think "Eh, he was just a fag, probably had it comming" (or similar things in the case of race).
These protections are necessary because entire classes of people suffer not just societal but systemic discrimination. It wasn't THAT long ago that even in the big cities, crimes against openly gay people were shuffled to the bottom of the stacks.
When someone commits a crime of pure bias (a gay bashing, a racial lynching) designed to intimidate an entire class of people, then that crime deserves a stiffer penalty, and it should NOT be easy to brush the crime under the carpet just because the Judge and the Jury share the offender's bias.
If you were a member of such a minority, you'd understand a little more clearly. Even if you were close friends with members of such minorities, ones who didn't grow up in more enlightened big cities, you'd understand the necessity of such things.
1) We grade murder by degrees already, including "intent" -- which you'd have to classify as a "thought crime", no? Yet nobody seems to have any problem with this.
2) "Hate Crime" is substantially different than a normal crime. In a normal crime, like a robbery, the crime is perpetrated with an intent of stealing something from someone. In a "hate crime", the crime is perpetrated with the intent of instilling fear and/or sending a message to a whole community. It's more like an act of terror. An example is a random "gay bashing", where a random individual is beaten up (or to death) simply for being gay. The act strikes fear into the whole community, because it could have been any one of them. A similar thing is behind, say, the dragging death of a black man behind at truck. This isn't some petty criminal trying to steal a few bucks. This is clearly a bigoted person attacking an entire class or community by proxy. The crime is different, the reaction to the crime is different, the intent is different.
When people say "all crimes are hate crimes" it just annoys me because that sort of simplistic sloganeering really covers over what is really going on here... and that is an act not JUST of a criminal act against an individual, but an act of terror and intimidation against an entire community, stemming from nothing more than an ignorant bigotry; a hatred of an entire class of people. A "hate crime".
Yeah, well, Lieberman is a Democrat sorta like Zell Miller is... in name only. Similar to I guess Olympia Snow is a Republican in name only. The lines are sometimes fuzzy.
I really wish you'd stop trying to confuse the issue with facts!:-)
Obviously you're exactly right, but for some reason a great many people don't see it this way. Interestingly, these people (right-wing Christian Fundamentalists and many conservative Republicans) are also constantly railing against the "Nanny-State" of the looney left. Do they even see the contradiction? They think the government SHOULD censor TV content, but should stay away from things like helmet laws? I'm not sure I get the mentality behind all this, personally.
As you say: there's an off-switch and a channel changing device, let alone the V-chip.
I guess they want the government to be a nanny to their kids, just not THEM? Or something. I dunno. It's not like it makes any sense at all.
But in trying to research my problem, I noticed a heck of a lot of other people were experiencing the same problems I am with the new Ad-Aware SE verions. All versions prior to them ran fine on my system. Currently all the other adware and spyware removal tools I have run clean.
I've gotten Ad-Aware to run through if I configure it to not do a deep-scan of the registry AND to not scan anything under the C:\Windows directory. Any attempt to do either thing results in a seriously hung computer.
Recent versions of Ad-Aware always hang my computer. They cannot run a complete scan at all. I've seen other reports on this, and I've tried most of the work-around suggested, but all to no effect. Or at most I'll get past one hang only to get hung up on another one just a few moments later.
Generally the hangs are in attempting a deep scan of the registry, or while scanning somewhere in my Windows directory.
I haven't been able to successfully run it since upgrading almost a year ago. I've upgraded since then to keep the latest version, but there has been no change in my ability to run it.
I'm running WinXP SP2 on a 2Ghz Pentium 4 processor with 512Meg of RAM and an 80Gig hard drive.
Anyone else having these problems or know of any sure-fire work-arounds? Or even what the real root cause of the problem is?
Your experience is obviously unique, as I've never experienced any such problems either. I just tried it on half a dozen Windows systems, from Win98 (earliest I have available) on up. Every time, Windows simply gave me the error dialog and continued smoothly once I re-inserted the disk.
Maybe you have some hardware issues or something? I can't recall ever blue-screening due to a disk not being in the drive, even all the way back to DOS days. No hangs or crashes. Just that "Abort/Retry/Fail" in the case of rights, and "Please insert a disk into drive X" in the case of reads. Always and forever.
Pop-Up windows which steal focus immediately from whatever task has focus (active rather than passive bulletins) Ever been typing something, and hit ENTER just as something pops up? Gee, what the heck was that about?
Windows is really bad at this, including in WinXP.
I was performing a very lengthy download in the background of a multi-hundred megabyte file from a website. While that was proceeding, I was typing in an on-line forum, similar to Slashdot here.
Well, of course, as I was typing along, the download finished, and Windows XP popped up this little dialog saying "Copying to destination", since Windows downloads to a temp folder first, not directly to the location you specified. Worse, instead of just doing a 'move', it actually COPIES the file, so it takes a long time for large files.
Anyway, make a long story short, that dialog popped up and stole focus JUST as I was typing the letter that is the accellerator key for the "Cancel" button on that dialog... which canceled the copy. Poof, file gone. I had to restart the download from scratch.
Stupid piece of crap computer. There are just so many things wrong with the whole scenereo... why would it COPY instead of just move a directory entry and be done with it? Why would it pop up a dialog? Why would that dialog steal focus? Why would it have a cancel button on it anyway? And why would that cancel button have an accelerator key that is very commonly used ("n" in this case, I believe)?
Basically it means that when downloading files, you cannot type anything else until the transfer is complete, for fear of accidentally aborting it.
Really, really bad design and implementation, Microsoft.
Often it is difficult to figure out why certain options are dimmed and under what context they will become active. I don't see a better alternative though other than better documentation, and since no one reads software manuals that wouldn't help much. I certainly don't want more text explaining the situation to clutter up menus even further.
Why not just allow an explanatory tool-tip to pop up when you hover over the grayed out menu item?
This issue is forever flumoxing me in several Microsoft applications, including MSDev/VS.Net
Recent versions of Ad-Aware always hang on me. They cannot run a complete scan at all. I've seen other reports on this, and I've tried most of the work-around suggested, but all to no effect. Or at most I'll get past one hang only to get hung up on another one just a few moments later.
Generally the hangs are in attempting a deep scan of the registry, or while scanning somewhere in my Windows directory.
I haven't been able to successfully run it since upgrading almost a year ago. I've upgraded since then to keep the latest version, but there has been no change in my ability to run it.
I'm running WinXP SP2 on a 2Ghz Pentium 4 processor with 512Meg of RAM and an 80Gig hard drive.
Anyone else having these problems or know of any sure-fire work-arounds?
I've never gotten motion sickness before in any game, ever. Even playing all of the "Descent" games.
But man, after an hour of zooming through canals in that hover-craft, I was so nauseous I was ready to puke! I had to put the game away, and it was a couple of hours before I was feeling okay again.
Go visit the Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 forums, and you'll be amazed at how unbelievably buggy RCT3 is.
They just released the first patch, which barely makes a dent in the problems.
Personally, I don't think I've ever seen such a buggy release as RCT3. It makes HL2 seem completely bug-free by comparison. In fact, there IS no comparison.
I thought of that, and turned off all virus checking, and went further to unload any and all unused services and docked applications, including Instant Messenger and the like.
There was no change or effect on the stuttering.
So I thought maybe it was a texture loading problem or something. I went to the controls and reduced the texture detail and reduced down to bi-linear filtering from tri-linear.
Other than making the game less visually impressive, there was no change or effect on the stuttering.
Amen to that. I can't believe something as obvious as the installer bug got through. It caused me no end of delay until I finally got on line and found out the problem was known and what the work around was.
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Does this mean that Robert Novak has to reveal his sources in the Valerie Plame story? Since that involves TREASON, which is a bit more serious than revealing trade secrets, doesn't this ruling apply there as well?
That was the first question that came to mind after reading all of that and looking at all the pretty pictures.
I also wondered how Anikin could force-choke Padme and then have her die nine months later from the choke?
Um...
I mean, did he see her obviously pregnant? I wouldn't think so. But maybe he did. But would he want to kill his offspring like that? I doubt it.
Check out the last issue of Discover... the one that had the big "Evolution proved" headline on the cover. It was a fascinating article. I'm sure you can grab a back-issue or find the story on line somewhere.
It is not like they have bosses who say "Here's a lie. We are paying you to say it."
Then why are their "talking points" almost identical across the spectrum of right-wing commentators... almost verbatum? You can sample a variety of shows and find the same words in the same order on the same day.
SOMEONE is paying them to say things, giving them talking points, and having them drill it into the watching public's psyche.
And journalism has everything to do with Democracy. Democracy doesn't work unless you have an informed populace. Democracy also dies behind closed doors, which is why the Bush Administration's hyper-secrecy is such a troubling problem. Without investigative journalists to root out the truth and disect and fact-check what the leaders are saying, the people cannot be truly informed, but only brainwashed.
I signed up with AT&T CallVantage nine or so months ago, when it first became avaiable in this area.
I LOVE it.
It has tons of features, and it's great to be able to get email notifications at work of calls I received at home, and then be able to check my messages via the web right then and there.
The quality is good, the service has been good, and they keep adding features while lowering the price (it started out at $39.95/month, and they dropped th price twice while I was still in the "first six months half price" period).
My total phone bill has dropped to about one third what it was, and I have more calling features than I had before.
I simply have nothing bad to say about it.
If I had mod points to give, I'd give them all to this post.
Mod Parent UP!
Has anyone tried Omea Pro?
It's from the makers of one of the best Java IDEs, IntelliJ IDEA.
Here's a link: http://www.jetbrains.com/omea/
To be honest, I think ID4 made ID4 look like a piece of crap.
I watched the first four (aired) episodes of Firefly and wasn't impressed.
Of course, they were shown out of order and that created problems. But ignoring that...
I'm glad I persevered. The last four I saw were some of the strongest hour-long epsiodes of any show I've ever seen. I loved them.
This show was cut down just as it was getting on its feet.
Except that they are needed in many areas.
Take gay-bashing for instance. While you may think things are okay because you live in NYC or LA or some place where such crimes are treated like actual crimes... there are people in back-woods Mississippi, where juries and judgies tend to think "Eh, he was just a fag, probably had it comming" (or similar things in the case of race).
These protections are necessary because entire classes of people suffer not just societal but systemic discrimination. It wasn't THAT long ago that even in the big cities, crimes against openly gay people were shuffled to the bottom of the stacks.
When someone commits a crime of pure bias (a gay bashing, a racial lynching) designed to intimidate an entire class of people, then that crime deserves a stiffer penalty, and it should NOT be easy to brush the crime under the carpet just because the Judge and the Jury share the offender's bias.
If you were a member of such a minority, you'd understand a little more clearly. Even if you were close friends with members of such minorities, ones who didn't grow up in more enlightened big cities, you'd understand the necessity of such things.
Hate crime isn't about thought crime. Two points:
1) We grade murder by degrees already, including "intent" -- which you'd have to classify as a "thought crime", no? Yet nobody seems to have any problem with this.
2) "Hate Crime" is substantially different than a normal crime. In a normal crime, like a robbery, the crime is perpetrated with an intent of stealing something from someone. In a "hate crime", the crime is perpetrated with the intent of instilling fear and/or sending a message to a whole community. It's more like an act of terror. An example is a random "gay bashing", where a random individual is beaten up (or to death) simply for being gay. The act strikes fear into the whole community, because it could have been any one of them. A similar thing is behind, say, the dragging death of a black man behind at truck. This isn't some petty criminal trying to steal a few bucks. This is clearly a bigoted person attacking an entire class or community by proxy. The crime is different, the reaction to the crime is different, the intent is different.
When people say "all crimes are hate crimes" it just annoys me because that sort of simplistic sloganeering really covers over what is really going on here... and that is an act not JUST of a criminal act against an individual, but an act of terror and intimidation against an entire community, stemming from nothing more than an ignorant bigotry; a hatred of an entire class of people. A "hate crime".
I humbly stand corrected.
Yeah, well, Lieberman is a Democrat sorta like Zell Miller is... in name only. Similar to I guess Olympia Snow is a Republican in name only. The lines are sometimes fuzzy.
I really wish you'd stop trying to confuse the issue with facts! :-)
Obviously you're exactly right, but for some reason a great many people don't see it this way. Interestingly, these people (right-wing Christian Fundamentalists and many conservative Republicans) are also constantly railing against the "Nanny-State" of the looney left. Do they even see the contradiction? They think the government SHOULD censor TV content, but should stay away from things like helmet laws? I'm not sure I get the mentality behind all this, personally.
As you say: there's an off-switch and a channel changing device, let alone the V-chip.
I guess they want the government to be a nanny to their kids, just not THEM? Or something. I dunno. It's not like it makes any sense at all.
I'll try those.
But in trying to research my problem, I noticed a heck of a lot of other people were experiencing the same problems I am with the new Ad-Aware SE verions. All versions prior to them ran fine on my system. Currently all the other adware and spyware removal tools I have run clean.
I've gotten Ad-Aware to run through if I configure it to not do a deep-scan of the registry AND to not scan anything under the C:\Windows directory. Any attempt to do either thing results in a seriously hung computer.
Recent versions of Ad-Aware always hang my computer. They cannot run a complete scan at all. I've seen other reports on this, and I've tried most of the work-around suggested, but all to no effect. Or at most I'll get past one hang only to get hung up on another one just a few moments later.
Generally the hangs are in attempting a deep scan of the registry, or while scanning somewhere in my Windows directory.
I haven't been able to successfully run it since upgrading almost a year ago. I've upgraded since then to keep the latest version, but there has been no change in my ability to run it.
I'm running WinXP SP2 on a 2Ghz Pentium 4 processor with 512Meg of RAM and an 80Gig hard drive.
Anyone else having these problems or know of any sure-fire work-arounds? Or even what the real root cause of the problem is?
Your experience is obviously unique, as I've never experienced any such problems either. I just tried it on half a dozen Windows systems, from Win98 (earliest I have available) on up. Every time, Windows simply gave me the error dialog and continued smoothly once I re-inserted the disk.
Maybe you have some hardware issues or something? I can't recall ever blue-screening due to a disk not being in the drive, even all the way back to DOS days. No hangs or crashes. Just that "Abort/Retry/Fail" in the case of rights, and "Please insert a disk into drive X" in the case of reads. Always and forever.
[shrug]
Pop-Up windows which steal focus immediately from whatever task has focus (active rather than passive bulletins) Ever been typing something, and hit ENTER just as something pops up? Gee, what the heck was that about?
Windows is really bad at this, including in WinXP.
I was performing a very lengthy download in the background of a multi-hundred megabyte file from a website. While that was proceeding, I was typing in an on-line forum, similar to Slashdot here.
Well, of course, as I was typing along, the download finished, and Windows XP popped up this little dialog saying "Copying to destination", since Windows downloads to a temp folder first, not directly to the location you specified. Worse, instead of just doing a 'move', it actually COPIES the file, so it takes a long time for large files.
Anyway, make a long story short, that dialog popped up and stole focus JUST as I was typing the letter that is the accellerator key for the "Cancel" button on that dialog... which canceled the copy. Poof, file gone. I had to restart the download from scratch.
Stupid piece of crap computer. There are just so many things wrong with the whole scenereo... why would it COPY instead of just move a directory entry and be done with it? Why would it pop up a dialog? Why would that dialog steal focus? Why would it have a cancel button on it anyway? And why would that cancel button have an accelerator key that is very commonly used ("n" in this case, I believe)?
Basically it means that when downloading files, you cannot type anything else until the transfer is complete, for fear of accidentally aborting it.
Really, really bad design and implementation, Microsoft.
Often it is difficult to figure out why certain options are dimmed and under what context they will become active. I don't see a better alternative though other than better documentation, and since no one reads software manuals that wouldn't help much. I certainly don't want more text explaining the situation to clutter up menus even further.
Why not just allow an explanatory tool-tip to pop up when you hover over the grayed out menu item?
This issue is forever flumoxing me in several Microsoft applications, including MSDev/VS.Net
Recent versions of Ad-Aware always hang on me. They cannot run a complete scan at all. I've seen other reports on this, and I've tried most of the work-around suggested, but all to no effect. Or at most I'll get past one hang only to get hung up on another one just a few moments later.
Generally the hangs are in attempting a deep scan of the registry, or while scanning somewhere in my Windows directory.
I haven't been able to successfully run it since upgrading almost a year ago. I've upgraded since then to keep the latest version, but there has been no change in my ability to run it.
I'm running WinXP SP2 on a 2Ghz Pentium 4 processor with 512Meg of RAM and an 80Gig hard drive.
Anyone else having these problems or know of any sure-fire work-arounds?
I've never gotten motion sickness before in any game, ever. Even playing all of the "Descent" games.
But man, after an hour of zooming through canals in that hover-craft, I was so nauseous I was ready to puke! I had to put the game away, and it was a couple of hours before I was feeling okay again.
Holy crap!
Go visit the Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 forums, and you'll be amazed at how unbelievably buggy RCT3 is.
They just released the first patch, which barely makes a dent in the problems.
Personally, I don't think I've ever seen such a buggy release as RCT3. It makes HL2 seem completely bug-free by comparison. In fact, there IS no comparison.
Thanks, I'll try that. It only takes me about 5 minutse (not 13) to start playing, but that still seems like forever when you're just sitting there.
I thought of that, and turned off all virus checking, and went further to unload any and all unused services and docked applications, including Instant Messenger and the like.
There was no change or effect on the stuttering.
So I thought maybe it was a texture loading problem or something. I went to the controls and reduced the texture detail and reduced down to bi-linear filtering from tri-linear.
Other than making the game less visually impressive, there was no change or effect on the stuttering.
The problem is obviously from somewhere else.
Amen to that. I can't believe something as obvious as the installer bug got through. It caused me no end of delay until I finally got on line and found out the problem was known and what the work around was.