I've been meaning to update my test machine running 4.0 for the past few weeks (ahem- months). I almost got to it last week, but thank god I waited! Maybe if I wait a few more months I'll upgrade it to 4.3 instead!
Yeah, but the majority of those 26,000 votes were in black, predominantly democratic precincts, where Democratic "get-out-the-vote" organizers told people to make sure they voted for someone on each page of the multi-page ballot, apparently unaware that the presidential section took up two pages.
Whoah, whoah, whoah... Hold the phone... I haven't been watching TV in over a year. You mean to tell me that the Blue Man Group sold out to Intel? Oh dear...
The funniest thing is that there is actually a profile of Blue Man Group here on the Apple site because they use Macs in their act.
Grad students usually are employees. And even if they weren't, their relationship to the university would still be governed by some kind of contractual relationship, explicitly or implicitly.
Yeah, I know. I was a little quick with my post, but I think I implied that (or at least I meant to). Mostly I was just correcting the guy who said that "Faculty probably have a lot more control over stuff they create than students, regardless of what field it's in."
Let them declare it secure and try to implement it, but several of the member organizations refuse to implement it, and watch SDMI get clobbered in the marketplace.
Wrong. Faculty are employees, and therefore are under contract with the institution. Students, unless they work for the university or have otherwise signed a contract with the university, own their creations by default. (Of course IANAL)
As for the allegations of voting fraud, etc...why is it that every time there's a tight race in an election, everyone automatically assumes that there may be some kind of fraud going on?
Probably because the assumption is that there is always some amount of voter fraud occuring, but only in a close election is it a decisive factor.
What if I accidentally point my browser at the wrong server? I meant to put in a different URL, but ended up pointing at the wrong place. Am I now guilty of "scanning" that machine for a webserver?
Well obviously yes. Clearly the only solution is to require written permission from the operator of any site before visiting it with your browser, otherwise you are just abusing their server's capacity. Hey, no more freeloading! It's time to bring some accountability to the web!
In addition to what everyone has already said about this, there seem to be subtly different objections to censorware. Whereas (apparently) many people here on slashdot (incidentally including myself) are opposed to all forms of censorship as a rule, there are people who would support the use of censorware iff it actually worked, but believe that the whole class of software just can't work reliably; i.e. there just isn't any reliable way to tell objectionable material from acceptable material.
Actually, I meant this section, which is at the beginning of the actual review:
author Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Scott Seebass, Trent R. Hein, et al.
publisher Prentice Hall
ISBN 0130206016
pages 850
rating 9/10
summary The updated third edition of one of the Holy Books Of UNIX.
reviewer Mike Knell
Well, you can't really have a search engine without having an archive, and an archive is pretty useless without having some way of searching it, so....
So what?...snip... We're not all equal. But we all should have equal opportunity. Likewise, we should all be taxed equally.
A sales tax does not tax everyone equally, and is contrary do the concept of equal opportunity, let alone the concept of a flat tax.
A flat tax refers to an income tax that is not graduated -- i.e. everyone (usually above some base income, like triple the poverty line) pays the same percentage of their income in tax. A sales tax does not do this at all, it is a regressive tax, which means that poorer people pay a higher percentage of their income in taxes. This does not provide "equal opportunity", on the contrary it leaves poor people with less or no money to save or invest, ensuring that they cannot ever escape poverty. (Especially since you'd have to drastically raise sales taxes to make up even a small percentage of the revenue lost by eliminating the income tax. I'm all for smaller government, but you still need some money, or are you for eliminating public works altogether?)
The problem is that sales taxes are actually regressive, meaning that poor people end up paying a higher percentage of their income than rich people. That's certainly not fair, is it?
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I've been meaning to update my test machine running 4.0 for the past few weeks (ahem- months). I almost got to it last week, but thank god I waited! Maybe if I wait a few more months I'll upgrade it to 4.3 instead!
Most of your suggestions sound pretty close to what Freenet does. Or at least what it will do when it's finished.
You are buying the music, and the packaging. Or did you keep the record and through out the cover?
You stole my sig! ;-)
(Of course it's just a copy -- for a modest fee I might be willing to license the original to you
Yeah, but the majority of those 26,000 votes were in black, predominantly democratic precincts, where Democratic "get-out-the-vote" organizers told people to make sure they voted for someone on each page of the multi-page ballot, apparently unaware that the presidential section took up two pages.
did they get to keep the Lamborghini?
If not, I'm surprised anyone even showed up!
The funniest thing is that there is actually a profile of Blue Man Group here on the Apple site because they use Macs in their act.
that eye-witness testimony is notoriously unreliable, and both of these cases involved a single eye-witness.
In a related story, Bulgarian scientists working on developing practical time-travel have independantly confirmed this news.
Yeah, I know. I was a little quick with my post, but I think I implied that (or at least I meant to). Mostly I was just correcting the guy who said that "Faculty probably have a lot more control over stuff they create than students, regardless of what field it's in."
Let them declare it secure and try to implement it, but several of the member organizations refuse to implement it, and watch SDMI get clobbered in the marketplace.
Wrong. Faculty are employees, and therefore are under contract with the institution. Students, unless they work for the university or have otherwise signed a contract with the university, own their creations by default. (Of course IANAL)
Probably because the assumption is that there is always some amount of voter fraud occuring, but only in a close election is it a decisive factor.
I particularly look forward to watching Bush back off of his campaign promises one by one as their contradictory nature becomes clear.
What's up with that? At worst it's off-topic, but no more so than several other posts that got modded up!
Well obviously yes. Clearly the only solution is to require written permission from the operator of any site before visiting it with your browser, otherwise you are just abusing their server's capacity. Hey, no more freeloading! It's time to bring some accountability to the web!
In addition to what everyone has already said about this, there seem to be subtly different objections to censorware. Whereas (apparently) many people here on slashdot (incidentally including myself) are opposed to all forms of censorship as a rule, there are people who would support the use of censorware iff it actually worked, but believe that the whole class of software just can't work reliably; i.e. there just isn't any reliable way to tell objectionable material from acceptable material.
Well, you can't really have a search engine without having an archive, and an archive is pretty useless without having some way of searching it, so....
So you didn't see the first line of the article?
A sales tax does not tax everyone equally, and is contrary do the concept of equal opportunity, let alone the concept of a flat tax.
A flat tax refers to an income tax that is not graduated -- i.e. everyone (usually above some base income, like triple the poverty line) pays the same percentage of their income in tax. A sales tax does not do this at all, it is a regressive tax, which means that poorer people pay a higher percentage of their income in taxes. This does not provide "equal opportunity", on the contrary it leaves poor people with less or no money to save or invest, ensuring that they cannot ever escape poverty. (Especially since you'd have to drastically raise sales taxes to make up even a small percentage of the revenue lost by eliminating the income tax. I'm all for smaller government, but you still need some money, or are you for eliminating public works altogether?)
Are you kidding? They buy less stuff on a dollar basis, but they spend much more as a percentage of income.
Yeah, that was pretty much my point.
The problem is that sales taxes are actually regressive, meaning that poor people end up paying a higher percentage of their income than rich people. That's certainly not fair, is it?