You said it yourself, gays are likely an underrepresented group amongst the geek community. Thus, if you simply polled geekdom on sexual orientation, you would likely not get a big clump of people claiming to be gay. If you did the same amongst artists, you would likely get a large showing. Nothing odd here.
As for geeks and sexuality, and your statement that you believe there are fewer heteros amongst the geeks, I would wager that geeks as a class are simply undersexed/sexless not out of an innate disdain for sex but due to lack of ability to bag babes. Inept, clumsy, prone to wax "poetic" on python coding, or the "beauty" of assembly language. They likely have hetero drives but no hetero success. Thus, they must try to convince themselves that it really isn't that important (sex...OH YES IT IS GEEK!) and that they can do without it (keep repeating that as you - not YOU, the collective geek you - spank the monkey over a poster of Natalie Portman in a Star Wars poster.
Heh. The rules/laws would only need to be revoked if they were wrong in the first place. Since they were "God's laws" they can't be wrong, but since they were revoked by Gawd, they were wrong and God made a boo-boo. "Oops, sorry guys, my bad. All that killing, raping, discrimination, etc, all on my say so. I've had a change of heart. We'll just revoke all that previous stuff...sorry about your da and ma who got creamed by my mistaken previous laws."
Yes, thank GAWD for FEMA. They were there recently (near Grissom by the way) after the flooding that occurred in the county. Lots of lost and damaged homes - people are still recovering.
I was on duty at Grissom right in the middle of it. I ran into a couple fo the "evil" FEMA dudes at a local hotel. Evil schmucks - all regular guys and gals like my neighbors. No doubt, under their pullover FEMA t-shirts they had body armor and enough firepower to make Duke Nukem envious.
You honestly don't know word one about what your are talking about. FEMA exists, yes, because they are NEEDED. Who else is going to respond (and respond quickly) to a disaster to make sure that people have shelter, food, medical treatment, and that resources are made available for cleanup and rebuilding? Think that "just happens" on its own? Nope. The guvmnt is DOING ITS JOB when it sends in FEMA and the Guard after a disaster of some type.
Under Natl Guard rule (after hurricanes, flooding, etc) they are there to provide aid but also to keep order, prevent looting, etc. Their rules for dealing with such are quite a bit different than normal cops. Get over it. It has ALWAYS been that way (and you will welcome FEMA and the Guard if ever you are caught up in the midst of a huge disaster, whether it is a massive tornado wiping out EVERYTHING you own, monstrous hurricans, or a terrorist attack - you would prefer nothing happen when some terror group - perhaps a "Patriot Movement" group - releases sarin or plague in your area? Or perhaps someone sets off a dirty bomb...FEMA has no place? The Guard has no place? Federal Emergency Management Administration. Their job is to manage recovery after disasters/emergency situations. Under the most extreme situations, the Prez can CONSTITUTIONALLY declare martial law - that's built in by design for good reason - to prevent chaos, anarchy, lawlessness, and to aid in rapid recovery to normal. Get over it and grow up.
I suppose all state pennitentiaries or federal prisons are actually "evil" prison camps intended to imprison general citizenry...and they should all therefore be eliminated. No more prisons. Yeah, that sounds good.
Naturally, I am wasting breath here. Some people are determined to live a fantasy out of a video game, and pretend they're some kind of Rambo-like hero waiting to save the day. Go back to your boring, quiet job at the gas station or with the sanitation department. My trash is ready to be taken to the dump.
Relax sister. When you get past puberty and have become comfortable with your, ahem, orientation, you'll quit being all touchy about the light questions concerning one's sexuality.
Your accounting is off. Let's see, there were what, somewhere near 11 clear handles replying to the original female outing post, plus several ACs. Given a general prevalence of homosekshul-type persons in the broad populace (10% or less), we can conclude that 1 or 2 of you respondants are gay.
The evidence that the female isn't female is that her boyfriend "rolls his eyes" when s/he mentions the evil of SCO, etc. A real man doesn't do a girly eye rolling, especially when it comes to talk of hardware, technology, and the like. S/he comes off more masculine in this regard and could thus be a gay dude who is the more masculine member of the pair.
On the other hand, he could just be a total loser (eye rolling sissy) and SHE has rotten taste in the dude department, a common problem with the female of the species.
Another item to consider is the fact that s/he is a geek paired up to a non-geek. I. Think. Not. Geeks are a herd animal. They thrive only in the presense of other geeks (they need to feed off each others "grand exploits" online, or to brag about who's code is cleaner, who's perl script is the most obfuscated, or who's computer can roll out the highest framerates). A girl geek would be hooked to a boy geek, equally pasty, equally skinny.
A GAY guy geek, no doubt a rare creature, is likely to need an opposite. Two hairdressers don't go together - a hairdresser and a "manly" business type, or construction worker are more likely. So...
Ah hell, with at best a 10% chance of this person being a gay guy or a straight female with bad taste in boyfriends, I gotta go with the safe bet. Its a girl.
Oh yeah...a suggestion for the mouth breathers that go for all this FEMA/New World Order/UN takeover/detention center crap. Flit about the woods in Oregon (wont say where) and you might well stumble on a PRISON CAMP that isn't on ANY maps that is run by the US GOVERNMENT! Actually, run by the military (wont say which branch). You will see barbed wire, American citizens being required to do hard labor year 'round, with armed military guards WEARING BLACK NONDESCRIPT UNIFORMS!
I've been there, I know. I did labor in that camp. It rather sucked in a cool way. It is used to teach SURVIVAL and escape and evasion tactics to military personnel that require it. That's right, they (the guv'mnt) create these "labor camps" and man them with evil military instructors to teach military personnel what to expect if captured during wartime, what sort of interrogations to expect, and how to resist. They also give you training on how to escape and evade.
Go out there as some ya-hoo with a camera and you could produce a spiffy New World Order warning website complete with pictures depicting a "secret" and operational prison camp for Americans. A little (or a lot) of ignorance could be nicely focused into a totally moronic direction and some paranoid delusion about FEMA, etc, could be promulgated based on totally disjointed, out of context photos. Sounds ripe for some "Patriot" to pluck. What say you...have a go? It would be just as good as the links above, and just as valid and "confirmatory" of some paranoid fantasy.
What a bunch of poo. I WORK at Grissom ARB (not AFB anymore) and it IS closed down except for a small - pathetically small - core section dedicated to the Reserves. Air Force Reserves (Tanker Squadron, just reduced in size by half a dozen aircraft due to force restructuring - the aircraft have moved to another Reserve unit, don't recall which) is the main host. Other tenet units include very small Navy and Army Reserve units - I work in the shared building with the Navy. The rest of the base is a ghost town; run down bunch of 50's era buildings, some being used by small businesses. The old base housing area is now a fully open civilian housing development. Former military building from Grissom's heyday are now restaurants, VFW posts, and the like.
The state penitentiary is down the road on what USED to be Grissom AFB property. It is a STATE PEN, not a FEMA/Government "detention center" as members of the "Patriot Movement" seem to want to believe. Sheesh.
The base itself, what's left of it, is in danger of being closed down all the way. At that point, like every other closed military base derived from the force reductions after Desert Storm, it would be "sold" to civilian concerns to be used as industrial parks, housing, etc, perhaps even small civil airports.
Your links are nice, paranoid, Deus Ex-inspired cowflops. Some people, bored by the way their lives really are, feel the need to dress up their boring, dreary reality with "exciting" fantasy where they can pretend to be one of the select few "in the know" and may be the hero of the hour with their silly fatigues, toy guns (vs real military hardware), toy "training" (actually gripe/paranoia-spreading meetings about the evil, so-90's, New Word Order where the uneducated "educate" the less educated).
Nothing to see here (or anywhere in the links provided) folks, just fantasizing and paranoia.
The scientology thing is kind of a funny one. Though they pay taxes (rightfully, not being a "true" religion) they are benefiting, me thinks, from the Bushie nonsense about paying religious groups to do what should rightfully be government social support work. Perhaps I am misremembering...didn't scientology get government (tax) dollars to do social support? Or perhaps it was just Tom Cruise Missile trying to get monies on behalf of scientology (while seeking aid in squelching the official anti-scientology legal rulings in Europe/Germany)?
As I recall, this was precisely one of the very things warned about when Bushie came up with the idiotic idea of giving government funds to religious orgs to do social service work in lieu of the government. And it is coming to pass. The loons are getting money for being looney and spreading the lunacy.
NAMBLA is, by definition, a bunch of supremely perverted freaks...but freaks STILL have a right to free speech no matter what. You cannot silence them and not lead to a road where other, "offensive" speech is also OK for banning. You can't.
Their behavior can be stopped and prosecuted but you cannot silence their free speech rights.
As for nativity...it has no meaning to me, as it depicts myth and nonsense. That said, you cannot OK nativity and not also allow, equally, ANY other religious nonsense from being "officially" displayed either, including wiccan, buddhist, shinto, voodoo, muslim, moonie...each EQUALLY "legitimate" religions (as far as the word legitimate can be stretched for ANY religion) and equally deserving of the SAME rights as nativity believers. Also, you have to allow for atheist displays alongside too. Sorry, you cannot have special display status for the one on official government territory/property and not give equal status to any and all other religious displays. Anything else means government sanctioned religion or government sponsored religion, or "official" religion.
Here's what I find most ironic about this crap... Thomas Jefferson created the "wall between church and state" in order to secure support for the Constitution, etc, from Baptists who feared the Catholic's would take power. Who is it, by and large, who is now all in favor of removing the wall between church and state? The goddamned BAPTISTS and other like-minded loons. It is BAAAAD if those Papists have government control but A-OK if WE have control.
The absolute wall must remain, period, or you get one of two things (usually both depending on when the revolution starts up): a Taliban-like insane government rife with civil rights violations or sectarian violence and fighting. Religion and government mixing means both and therefore, old Thomas was absolutely right. The strict wall must remain unbroken.
Nice troll and quite off-topic, but I'll bite. You are free to practice YOUR religion publicly. What you CANNOT do is, in ANY way, compel ANYONE else to partake or live according to your religion. You also cannot use the blanket of the government (not state nor federal) in an attempt to try to enshrine your religion into official recognition, special standing, or official policy or law. Your religion is YOURS, not mine, not your neighbor's, just yours. You and your ignorant kids are quite able to be religious lunatics all they want. You (and they) simply cannot get official sanction or the ability to force others into your way of (non)thinking.
So...watch Poindexter. Perhaps he is going to resign his post and take up the job of running Florida's TIA project, his baby.
Poindexter and all associated with him (Reagan, Bush Sr., Bush Jr) are ALL adept at violating the law, lying to Congress about it, and shifting blame. No doubt, this is all just their way of getting their illegal and immoral projects through regardless of what the public or Congress wants.
Thus, have the other linux distros sue in their respective countries, not in the US. The damage being done by SCO is international, not restricted to the US.
Sure, SCO is down in Germany but they are STILL hurting SUSE nonetheless with their broadside attack on linux itself. SUSE should sue in Germany, Mandrake in France, and RedFlag in China(?). Get SCO scrambling to simultaneously defend themselves in independent courts around the world.
Well, to a certain extent he was correct in this. If the industry rep that preceded you gave the Rep a check for $20,000 to say "nay" on a piece of legislation, then you come in and give the Rep a "measely" $2000 to say "yeah", there will be no bit flip on that Rep's vote from nay to yeah. The $20,000 vote bid trumps the $2000 bid. The nays have it.
Since it is a secret bidding process, sort of like when putting offers on a house, you can't one-up the previous briber by giving $21,000. You THOUGHT $2000 was generous and workable, you just didn't know about that $20,000 trump card.
The only useful and valid voting system would be rank order voting so that there isn't a winner-take-all setup. You vote for your #1 choice down to your #5 (or whatever choice). The vote then becomes more interesting and competitive - and gives other parties more of a chance at a win.
Better still (and MORE valid) would be the above system tied to a proportional representation system. You would ensure that more than 2 parties get into congress and help ensure that any legislation would be more broadly acceptable since much would require coalitions between various parties rather than the current Republinazis vs Demoblicans. You would see Greens + Independents + Demos, Libertarians + Demos + Independents, Repubes + Independents + Libertarians, etc. No one would get to simply railroad through some insane legislation based on one party's extremist agenda.
No good. The voting machines in the security/insecurity report produce 3 versions of the vote count database. The one that is actually used for counting is tamperable with nothing more than Excel (or any compatible spreadsheet app). Since there are multiple copies of the vote count database, all the fraudulent criminals in charge need do is present the REAL results as you say - everyone checks the list and sees their vote is "correct". What actually goes to count for who wins and loses could be a tampered copy that you would never see. As far as you (and everyone else that checked) is concerned, the vote was valid but the results that produced the "winner" are tampered with and not valid.
There should ALWAYS be a hard copy of the votes, preferably checked for accuracy by each voter after they vote, that can be used for a recount if called for. This would render any electronic tampering moot.
Gyroscopic stabilization will not make up for narrow wheelbase. A 4-wheel car is NOT a motorcycle (which can tilt into a turn to counter the centripedal force...this car cannot). Throw in the fact that roads are not flat. They are have a concave surface AWAY from the direction of a turn. This would only add to the lateral instability.
Low center of gravity also will not make up for the lack of stability from a narrow wheelbase. It can help but it is no substitute for wide wheelbase. Virtually any typical sportscar would be able to safely out-corner this Tango at high speed.
If, in the unlikely event, SCO prevails, then M$ will be up to bat next. Gates and company are letting SCO do the deed, throwing themselves on the sacrificial altar hoping the win. If they win, then M$ will be next, following the precedent of SCO. If SCO fails, M$ will just let it slide, acting like the "good guy" playing nice. "Linux has our IP in it but there's room in the world for both of us so we wont do anything about it."
This claim by Gates (hitting on SAMBA, apache, and WINE) is just bluster right now. It will become a true shot across the bow if SCO wins (they wont).
Self-correcting...a flare star would not be a choice either. Flare stars are invariably (thus far) red dwarfs. Nope, can't think of any other option to make the basis of the story (the sun gone lethal) work within a loose shell of reality.
Ah then...a Flare star would be a better choice for the story. The basis for saving the planet could then be either of two huge things: a method to manipulate earth's mag field to deflect the brunt of the flares or a means to manipulate the sun's mag field to block/squelch flareup.
Who in their right mind would drive a car like the tango at 130 MPH? As narrow a footprint that thing has, one slight hiccup on the steering wheel and you'd be doing a long, life-ending tumbler down the road in the blink of an eye.
WIDEN the vehicle if you intend that it be driven at highway speeds (and higher...130 MPH?).
Doesn't always work since when X hard locks/freezes, it takes the keyboard with it. Have you not experienced such lockups before? No mouse, no keyboard inputs possible?
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You said it yourself, gays are likely an underrepresented group amongst the geek community. Thus, if you simply polled geekdom on sexual orientation, you would likely not get a big clump of people claiming to be gay. If you did the same amongst artists, you would likely get a large showing. Nothing odd here.
As for geeks and sexuality, and your statement that you believe there are fewer heteros amongst the geeks, I would wager that geeks as a class are simply undersexed/sexless not out of an innate disdain for sex but due to lack of ability to bag babes. Inept, clumsy, prone to wax "poetic" on python coding, or the "beauty" of assembly language. They likely have hetero drives but no hetero success. Thus, they must try to convince themselves that it really isn't that important (sex...OH YES IT IS GEEK!) and that they can do without it (keep repeating that as you - not YOU, the collective geek you - spank the monkey over a poster of Natalie Portman in a Star Wars poster.
Heh. The rules/laws would only need to be revoked if they were wrong in the first place. Since they were "God's laws" they can't be wrong, but since they were revoked by Gawd, they were wrong and God made a boo-boo. "Oops, sorry guys, my bad. All that killing, raping, discrimination, etc, all on my say so. I've had a change of heart. We'll just revoke all that previous stuff...sorry about your da and ma who got creamed by my mistaken previous laws."
Yes, thank GAWD for FEMA. They were there recently (near Grissom by the way) after the flooding that occurred in the county. Lots of lost and damaged homes - people are still recovering.
I was on duty at Grissom right in the middle of it. I ran into a couple fo the "evil" FEMA dudes at a local hotel. Evil schmucks - all regular guys and gals like my neighbors. No doubt, under their pullover FEMA t-shirts they had body armor and enough firepower to make Duke Nukem envious.
You honestly don't know word one about what your are talking about. FEMA exists, yes, because they are NEEDED. Who else is going to respond (and respond quickly) to a disaster to make sure that people have shelter, food, medical treatment, and that resources are made available for cleanup and rebuilding? Think that "just happens" on its own? Nope. The guvmnt is DOING ITS JOB when it sends in FEMA and the Guard after a disaster of some type.
Under Natl Guard rule (after hurricanes, flooding, etc) they are there to provide aid but also to keep order, prevent looting, etc. Their rules for dealing with such are quite a bit different than normal cops. Get over it. It has ALWAYS been that way (and you will welcome FEMA and the Guard if ever you are caught up in the midst of a huge disaster, whether it is a massive tornado wiping out EVERYTHING you own, monstrous hurricans, or a terrorist attack - you would prefer nothing happen when some terror group - perhaps a "Patriot Movement" group - releases sarin or plague in your area? Or perhaps someone sets off a dirty bomb...FEMA has no place? The Guard has no place? Federal Emergency Management Administration. Their job is to manage recovery after disasters/emergency situations. Under the most extreme situations, the Prez can CONSTITUTIONALLY declare martial law - that's built in by design for good reason - to prevent chaos, anarchy, lawlessness, and to aid in rapid recovery to normal. Get over it and grow up.
I suppose all state pennitentiaries or federal prisons are actually "evil" prison camps intended to imprison general citizenry...and they should all therefore be eliminated. No more prisons. Yeah, that sounds good.
Naturally, I am wasting breath here. Some people are determined to live a fantasy out of a video game, and pretend they're some kind of Rambo-like hero waiting to save the day. Go back to your boring, quiet job at the gas station or with the sanitation department. My trash is ready to be taken to the dump.
Relax sister. When you get past puberty and have become comfortable with your, ahem, orientation, you'll quit being all touchy about the light questions concerning one's sexuality.
Your accounting is off. Let's see, there were what, somewhere near 11 clear handles replying to the original female outing post, plus several ACs. Given a general prevalence of homosekshul-type persons in the broad populace (10% or less), we can conclude that 1 or 2 of you respondants are gay.
The evidence that the female isn't female is that her boyfriend "rolls his eyes" when s/he mentions the evil of SCO, etc. A real man doesn't do a girly eye rolling, especially when it comes to talk of hardware, technology, and the like. S/he comes off more masculine in this regard and could thus be a gay dude who is the more masculine member of the pair.
On the other hand, he could just be a total loser (eye rolling sissy) and SHE has rotten taste in the dude department, a common problem with the female of the species.
Another item to consider is the fact that s/he is a geek paired up to a non-geek. I. Think. Not. Geeks are a herd animal. They thrive only in the presense of other geeks (they need to feed off each others "grand exploits" online, or to brag about who's code is cleaner, who's perl script is the most obfuscated, or who's computer can roll out the highest framerates). A girl geek would be hooked to a boy geek, equally pasty, equally skinny.
A GAY guy geek, no doubt a rare creature, is likely to need an opposite. Two hairdressers don't go together - a hairdresser and a "manly" business type, or construction worker are more likely. So...
Ah hell, with at best a 10% chance of this person being a gay guy or a straight female with bad taste in boyfriends, I gotta go with the safe bet. Its a girl.
You're awfully sensitive about this aren't you? You must be gay. C'mon, give it up. You're a "Queer Eye" aintsha?
Give me a break. Of COURSE she's a female. Have you not seen "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy"? Not a one of them is a computer geek.
We got ourselves a female.
Oh yeah...a suggestion for the mouth breathers that go for all this FEMA/New World Order/UN takeover/detention center crap. Flit about the woods in Oregon (wont say where) and you might well stumble on a PRISON CAMP that isn't on ANY maps that is run by the US GOVERNMENT! Actually, run by the military (wont say which branch). You will see barbed wire, American citizens being required to do hard labor year 'round, with armed military guards WEARING BLACK NONDESCRIPT UNIFORMS!
I've been there, I know. I did labor in that camp. It rather sucked in a cool way. It is used to teach SURVIVAL and escape and evasion tactics to military personnel that require it. That's right, they (the guv'mnt) create these "labor camps" and man them with evil military instructors to teach military personnel what to expect if captured during wartime, what sort of interrogations to expect, and how to resist. They also give you training on how to escape and evade.
Go out there as some ya-hoo with a camera and you could produce a spiffy New World Order warning website complete with pictures depicting a "secret" and operational prison camp for Americans. A little (or a lot) of ignorance could be nicely focused into a totally moronic direction and some paranoid delusion about FEMA, etc, could be promulgated based on totally disjointed, out of context photos. Sounds ripe for some "Patriot" to pluck. What say you...have a go? It would be just as good as the links above, and just as valid and "confirmatory" of some paranoid fantasy.
What a bunch of poo. I WORK at Grissom ARB (not AFB anymore) and it IS closed down except for a small - pathetically small - core section dedicated to the Reserves. Air Force Reserves (Tanker Squadron, just reduced in size by half a dozen aircraft due to force restructuring - the aircraft have moved to another Reserve unit, don't recall which) is the main host. Other tenet units include very small Navy and Army Reserve units - I work in the shared building with the Navy. The rest of the base is a ghost town; run down bunch of 50's era buildings, some being used by small businesses. The old base housing area is now a fully open civilian housing development. Former military building from Grissom's heyday are now restaurants, VFW posts, and the like.
The state penitentiary is down the road on what USED to be Grissom AFB property. It is a STATE PEN, not a FEMA/Government "detention center" as members of the "Patriot Movement" seem to want to believe. Sheesh.
The base itself, what's left of it, is in danger of being closed down all the way. At that point, like every other closed military base derived from the force reductions after Desert Storm, it would be "sold" to civilian concerns to be used as industrial parks, housing, etc, perhaps even small civil airports.
Your links are nice, paranoid, Deus Ex-inspired cowflops. Some people, bored by the way their lives really are, feel the need to dress up their boring, dreary reality with "exciting" fantasy where they can pretend to be one of the select few "in the know" and may be the hero of the hour with their silly fatigues, toy guns (vs real military hardware), toy "training" (actually gripe/paranoia-spreading meetings about the evil, so-90's, New Word Order where the uneducated "educate" the less educated).
Nothing to see here (or anywhere in the links provided) folks, just fantasizing and paranoia.
The scientology thing is kind of a funny one. Though they pay taxes (rightfully, not being a "true" religion) they are benefiting, me thinks, from the Bushie nonsense about paying religious groups to do what should rightfully be government social support work. Perhaps I am misremembering...didn't scientology get government (tax) dollars to do social support? Or perhaps it was just Tom Cruise Missile trying to get monies on behalf of scientology (while seeking aid in squelching the official anti-scientology legal rulings in Europe/Germany)?
As I recall, this was precisely one of the very things warned about when Bushie came up with the idiotic idea of giving government funds to religious orgs to do social service work in lieu of the government. And it is coming to pass. The loons are getting money for being looney and spreading the lunacy.
NAMBLA is, by definition, a bunch of supremely perverted freaks...but freaks STILL have a right to free speech no matter what. You cannot silence them and not lead to a road where other, "offensive" speech is also OK for banning. You can't.
Their behavior can be stopped and prosecuted but you cannot silence their free speech rights.
As for nativity...it has no meaning to me, as it depicts myth and nonsense. That said, you cannot OK nativity and not also allow, equally, ANY other religious nonsense from being "officially" displayed either, including wiccan, buddhist, shinto, voodoo, muslim, moonie...each EQUALLY "legitimate" religions (as far as the word legitimate can be stretched for ANY religion) and equally deserving of the SAME rights as nativity believers. Also, you have to allow for atheist displays alongside too. Sorry, you cannot have special display status for the one on official government territory/property and not give equal status to any and all other religious displays. Anything else means government sanctioned religion or government sponsored religion, or "official" religion.
Here's what I find most ironic about this crap... Thomas Jefferson created the "wall between church and state" in order to secure support for the Constitution, etc, from Baptists who feared the Catholic's would take power. Who is it, by and large, who is now all in favor of removing the wall between church and state? The goddamned BAPTISTS and other like-minded loons. It is BAAAAD if those Papists have government control but A-OK if WE have control.
The absolute wall must remain, period, or you get one of two things (usually both depending on when the revolution starts up): a Taliban-like insane government rife with civil rights violations or sectarian violence and fighting. Religion and government mixing means both and therefore, old Thomas was absolutely right. The strict wall must remain unbroken.
Nice troll and quite off-topic, but I'll bite. You are free to practice YOUR religion publicly. What you CANNOT do is, in ANY way, compel ANYONE else to partake or live according to your religion. You also cannot use the blanket of the government (not state nor federal) in an attempt to try to enshrine your religion into official recognition, special standing, or official policy or law. Your religion is YOURS, not mine, not your neighbor's, just yours. You and your ignorant kids are quite able to be religious lunatics all they want. You (and they) simply cannot get official sanction or the ability to force others into your way of (non)thinking.
So...watch Poindexter. Perhaps he is going to resign his post and take up the job of running Florida's TIA project, his baby.
Poindexter and all associated with him (Reagan, Bush Sr., Bush Jr) are ALL adept at violating the law, lying to Congress about it, and shifting blame. No doubt, this is all just their way of getting their illegal and immoral projects through regardless of what the public or Congress wants.
Thus, have the other linux distros sue in their respective countries, not in the US. The damage being done by SCO is international, not restricted to the US.
Sure, SCO is down in Germany but they are STILL hurting SUSE nonetheless with their broadside attack on linux itself. SUSE should sue in Germany, Mandrake in France, and RedFlag in China(?). Get SCO scrambling to simultaneously defend themselves in independent courts around the world.
So true. They normally make heavy use of the time-venerated "stupidhead" descriptor, and somewhat less frequently, the softer "poo-head".
Well, to a certain extent he was correct in this. If the industry rep that preceded you gave the Rep a check for $20,000 to say "nay" on a piece of legislation, then you come in and give the Rep a "measely" $2000 to say "yeah", there will be no bit flip on that Rep's vote from nay to yeah. The $20,000 vote bid trumps the $2000 bid. The nays have it.
Since it is a secret bidding process, sort of like when putting offers on a house, you can't one-up the previous briber by giving $21,000. You THOUGHT $2000 was generous and workable, you just didn't know about that $20,000 trump card.
The only useful and valid voting system would be rank order voting so that there isn't a winner-take-all setup. You vote for your #1 choice down to your #5 (or whatever choice). The vote then becomes more interesting and competitive - and gives other parties more of a chance at a win.
Better still (and MORE valid) would be the above system tied to a proportional representation system. You would ensure that more than 2 parties get into congress and help ensure that any legislation would be more broadly acceptable since much would require coalitions between various parties rather than the current Republinazis vs Demoblicans. You would see Greens + Independents + Demos, Libertarians + Demos + Independents, Repubes + Independents + Libertarians, etc. No one would get to simply railroad through some insane legislation based on one party's extremist agenda.
No good. The voting machines in the security/insecurity report produce 3 versions of the vote count database. The one that is actually used for counting is tamperable with nothing more than Excel (or any compatible spreadsheet app). Since there are multiple copies of the vote count database, all the fraudulent criminals in charge need do is present the REAL results as you say - everyone checks the list and sees their vote is "correct". What actually goes to count for who wins and loses could be a tampered copy that you would never see. As far as you (and everyone else that checked) is concerned, the vote was valid but the results that produced the "winner" are tampered with and not valid.
There should ALWAYS be a hard copy of the votes, preferably checked for accuracy by each voter after they vote, that can be used for a recount if called for. This would render any electronic tampering moot.
Gyroscopic stabilization will not make up for narrow wheelbase. A 4-wheel car is NOT a motorcycle (which can tilt into a turn to counter the centripedal force...this car cannot). Throw in the fact that roads are not flat. They are have a concave surface AWAY from the direction of a turn. This would only add to the lateral instability.
Low center of gravity also will not make up for the lack of stability from a narrow wheelbase. It can help but it is no substitute for wide wheelbase. Virtually any typical sportscar would be able to safely out-corner this Tango at high speed.
If, in the unlikely event, SCO prevails, then M$ will be up to bat next. Gates and company are letting SCO do the deed, throwing themselves on the sacrificial altar hoping the win. If they win, then M$ will be next, following the precedent of SCO. If SCO fails, M$ will just let it slide, acting like the "good guy" playing nice. "Linux has our IP in it but there's room in the world for both of us so we wont do anything about it."
This claim by Gates (hitting on SAMBA, apache, and WINE) is just bluster right now. It will become a true shot across the bow if SCO wins (they wont).
Self-correcting...a flare star would not be a choice either. Flare stars are invariably (thus far) red dwarfs. Nope, can't think of any other option to make the basis of the story (the sun gone lethal) work within a loose shell of reality.
Ah then...a Flare star would be a better choice for the story. The basis for saving the planet could then be either of two huge things: a method to manipulate earth's mag field to deflect the brunt of the flares or a means to manipulate the sun's mag field to block/squelch flareup.
Who in their right mind would drive a car like the tango at 130 MPH? As narrow a footprint that thing has, one slight hiccup on the steering wheel and you'd be doing a long, life-ending tumbler down the road in the blink of an eye.
WIDEN the vehicle if you intend that it be driven at highway speeds (and higher...130 MPH?).
Perhaps what was meant was a Cepheid variable star with a 12,000 yr period? In any case, I wont be reading it.
Doesn't always work since when X hard locks/freezes, it takes the keyboard with it. Have you not experienced such lockups before? No mouse, no keyboard inputs possible?