Partisan means more than having a position. Someone who is partisan seeks victory at any cost for their side. It's considered a destructive extreme.
Unfortunately, politics in the United States have become so very partisan that most open discussion of this sort will devolve quickly into shouting matches between kneejerk liberals and dittoheads.
forget about playing any music from an external drive, the files must be local in order for them to play
What a weird accusation. I do some tech support for Radio Volta (me), which recently moved to Ubuntu desktops, and the music they play on the studio PC is NFS mounted from another Ubuntu workstation.
It worked for me, and the DJs are a bunch of Windows-lovin' crybabies, so I'm sure I'd hear about it if there were problems.
Was the impeachment just a bunch of pussy-deprived Republicans struggling to understand "cool"?
Clue to potential sexual harassers: "I did not sleep with that woman" was no hipper than "I am not a crook". If anything it was creepier.
Anyway, without debating who lied first, worst, or most "hip", I think your premise is mistaken in crediting Bush apologists with even a tit-for-tat ethical standard. The real guiding principal is "It's okay when Republicans do it."
Here's a handy list. At least twenty (20) fairly well-known US releases outlast The Ten Commandments. Among them, two Lord of the Rings installments (in their extended versions, at least one of which was shown in theatres), Gone With The Wind (in its 90s theatrical reissue) and Woodstock.
Warhol had several movies over 5 hours, among them Sleep and Empire, tho these might more reasonably be called "portraits that move" than "movies".
(Incidentally, Chelsea Girls is over 6 hours of footage, but since it is shown on two projectors simultaneously it takes only 3 1/2 hours to watch. And it's much more entertaining than Empire and Sleep.)
Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz was originally shown in the US as a 16-hour feature (screened in 2 eight-hour sessions), and received critical acclaim in that form. However, it has generally been shown in installments since then. It was originally a 14 (?) episode TV mini-series in Germany.
I remember sitting thru Chantel Ackerman's films je, tu, il, elle (having not gotten much sleep the night before) and Jeanne Dielman, and both seemed to last all day. Turns out they run 90 and 200 minutes, respectively. That said, if you want to see what it's like to spend an entire day with a movie character, these are like that.
I watched it on DVD only to listen to the directors' commentary, but it wasn't very enlightening. They made one comment in the beginning about how much people hated the episode, but then they were careful to not talk about the plot, but to focus on the technical aspects of the episode.
The DVD had two commentaries for that episode. The 2nd was a "writers commentary" and probably had a bit more of what you wanted (tho much time is wasted discussing conditions in the Writers' Room and whatnot).
BTW, Jurassic Bark it is my favorite episode. People who protest how depressing it was seem like wimps to me.
IT's widely said that you can go between the two without difficulty.. it's not like learning one precludes using the other.
I'll vouch for this. I can switch between Dvorak and QWERTY instantly, and there wasn't much confusion during the learning process (details follow).
I learned using Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor. Excellent package, but the demo version ticked me off cos it doesn't explain before you start that you're only gonna learn 1/3 the alphabet for free. It's cheaper than Mavis (nice gal, but I think she only knows QWERTY, and she has an unseemly crush on Bill Gates), much easier than the free stuff (including dvorak7min with "nastiness", and the online Basic Course in Dvorak).
Other than having my fingers conditioned to find the home keys quickly, knowing QWERTY didn't help me learn Dvorak. It felt like I was learning typing over again, but I think I learned faster than were I a keyboard newb.
I found that if I didn't know where a key was, my finger gravitated toward the QWERTY location. However, once I'd hit the lesson for a particular key, the QWERTY reaching would stop even tho I didn't quite remember the Dvorak location. That was the full extent of the confusion for me.
Since all my typing is on computers, if I had to learn all over again, I'd just learn Dvorak.
Data saved in portable format, preferably something XML
However, the way the question was asked (or phrased by Cliff) suggests not so much an application as a system.
It should be possible to cobble something from a script and some metadata reading utilities. Start with mp3info (or whatever) & vorbiscomment (or whatever), and gradually add functionality for metadata in other documents.
Ideally the collected data should lend itself toward data queries and use (perhaps directly but more likely thru some derived output) by other applications (for example, generating MP3 playlists).
This would be a lot more "open" than any freeware app, and potentially more powerful. Eventually this system might duplicate the functionality of (OSX) Spotlight (which I've never used and may be misunderstanding) or something.
Someone has probably done this already -- the initial post suggests they were doing something like that and hit a wall somewhere. Maybe someone else has taken it further. Or thinks this would be a fun project.
The NAACP suit was not about restoring voting rights to those human defendants, it was attempt to mudsling at Harris and DBT/Choicepoint.
Not to defame hero Katherine Harris or the freedom lovers at ChoicePoint, but that comment on the NAACP suit is certainly groundless and defensive. Besides, these people sling mud on themselves.
Harris and the accountable administrators at ChoicePoint could elevate their status considerably in the conservative movement by serving the prison time they've earned. Too bad there are Republican majorities in every level of government above them, so they'll never be prosecuted.
When you say you have "yet to see one person", you mean in face to face? Cos here's one such person:
Madison County's elections supervisor, Linda Howell, had a peculiarly personal reason for distrusting the central voter file: She had received a letter saying that since she had committed a felony, she would not be allowed to vote.
Friends of freedom ChoicePoint and Katherine Harris play prominent rolls too. Good thing they support the party in power or they'd be in for some serious jail time.
Even you admit the Count Every Vote Act addresses issues not addressed in the bills you mention.
And voting fruad is already illegal, so this is just partisan pandering.
By making it a Federal crime, the offender can be removed from office, after which in some districts there would be a re-vote. This is a pretty strong disincentive. Currently, one pays the fine and then serves the term.
Thanks for taking that brave stand against partisan pandering. Now I trust you'll support this otherwise excellent law when it comes up for a vote in Congress.
Whether one is concerned about election fraud by either Democrats or Republicans (off-topic, by the way), the abovementioned law is a good one. And yet the GOP will not allow it to pass. What's up with that?
What are you smoking? Did no Democrats in Illinois (or my own home state of Louisiana for that matter) ever steal elections?
I never said Democrats never use voter intimidation and commit election fraud. My assertion: "The Republican majority will never let this pass".
Instead of your clever little signature, Thank you!
why don't you use some facts to back up an outlandish statement like that?
Let's see how this vote goes. That'll provide us with the facts you seek.
In particular, the bill restricts the ability of chief state election officials as well as owners and senior managers of voting machine manufacturers to engage in certain kinds of political activity.
This is new. It addresses Diebold's famous conflict of interest.
The bill also makes it a federal crime to commit deceptive practices, such as sending flyers into minority neighborhoods telling voters the wrong voting date, and makes these practices a felony punishable by up to a year of imprisonment.
Another widely-reported concern. The Republican majority will never let this pass.
Democracy expert Ronald Reagan denounced these elections as "not free" for three reasons:
Minimum voting age was 17 (this in a country were the average life expectancy was 35), skewing the vote toward the Sandinistas
Military were allowed to vote (right, good thing we don't allow that in the United States), skewing the vote toward the Sandinistas
Third reason forgotten, sorry it's been a while. If someone remembers, please fill me in (I'm confident it was pathetic tho).
Reagan's government dealt with this purported travesty by (illegally) backing (and then lying to Congress about doing so) (then covertly selling arms to Iran to raise off-ledger funding -- you've heard all this, right?) the "Contras", a mercenary-supplemented team of Somoza partisans.
As the Contras never picked up much popular support -- they were unsavory fascist thugs, PR nightmare all around, and anyway the general populace had few fond memories of Samoza -- they stuck to tearing down whatever the Sandinista government built up, blowing up health clinics, schools, and basicly any improvements the Ortega government implemented. What trolls would (but for lack of CIA training) do to weblogs, the Contras did to Nicaragua. They are also said to have killed a few american pro-Sandinista volunteers, tho apparently not any nuns or reporters.
While Ortega's government enjoyed tremendous popularity in their initial years (someone at Mother Jones mag got in trouble for calling this period "Leninist", meaning the people/proletariat had become the revolutionary vanguard, so to speak, and worked rather selflessly to improve the country), the citizens of Nicaragua voted them out in 1990, mostly over the lack of progress. Ortega, while understandably not happy with the unlucky deal of having Sandinista initiatives sabotaged for 5 years, left the official mansion more peacefully than did Nancy Reagan. Ortega remained the leader of Nicaragua's Sandinista political party.
Vietnam, and Iran, I'll grant you: the US played its hand very badly there.
I notice you are being rather quiet about Iraq.
... coup againt Allende. How much the CIA helped him in that coup is something we won't know until a lot more FOIA documents are released.
And spinning (to put it politely) the CIA-backed coup against Allende. Come on already. If neoconservatives so strongly favor this kind of intervention, why are they so sheepish about admitting it has occurred?
(I'll leave how Afghanistan is being handed to warlords for someone else to go off on.)
I'll agree that fetus is a word that could be used to describe a prenatal child
Yes indeed. This is a key point of understanding. Happily, we're on the same page.:-)
but the word doesn't have the same aura as the word child.
Aura? Who cares about that when people refer to babies as "fetuses"? This is blatently wrong. Whatever you mean by "aura" -- I'm guessing it's like "tone" or "color", vague hippie lit professor concerns IMHO -- is at best a side issue, at worst a distracting, undefinable tangent. Best not to use it. Let the other side bring up "aura" so they may hang themselves with it. Ha!
"Babies", "persons" and now apparently "children" are clearly, clearly not fetuses. Keep it simple! If we complicate the issue, the foolish people (Or are they insane?!) who misuse the word "fetus" are bound to remain confused.
As I've stated, it's an attempt to cast the conversation in the sort of light that you'd like to see it in.
Someone is doing what? Huh? I'm sorry but this seems like some kinda market-droid speak. Again, the point can be made much more simply. Use Occam's Razor! The issue was this:
the attempt to rebrand baby/person as merely a fetus
Clearly wrong, and easily given the kibosh. We can win on this!
Current Trek probably doesn't provide a qualitatively strong experience to imprint its fandom on the young. It's hard to imagine a kid in 2004 looking at Star Trek and thinking it a great bandwagon on which to jump.
Are my presumptions wrong here? Are teens really hot for Star Trek these days, or have they found something else? In my 40-ish ignorance, I imagine the trend might be something japanese, or out of video game culture
Because blue areas tend to be population centers. Cities, for instance. (Not always tho -- Cincinatti is quite red.)
I wouldn't be surprised to learn some day that there was cheating of the sort being proposed, but until there's evidence -- so far we're having speculation based on very subjective observations -- I don't have any reason to believe it.
It's said that (Kennedy's successor, kids) Lyndon Johnson acknowledged by passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (followed by other civil rights legislation), the Democratic Party lost the South.
Perhaps the Democrats can capture the "moral values" vote by re-embracing segregation. At least it would enable them to steal back Bob Jones University.
Couldn't get thru either on servers 1-8. Still can't get the map. All 3 networks & CNN were too Florida-shocked to call states without obvious majorities. I was wanting more data sooner. Thus a CNN-driven slashdotting.
The cowardly broadcasters were right too. Poll data earlier today had many people convinced Bush had blown it big time, and Kerry was going to run away with the contested states. You could hear the pundits catching themselves constantly, like they knew there'd be a Kerry win but had to keep it secret -- at one point (disgusting George F. Will wannabee) Tucker Carlson (sp? I don't care) blurted out Kerry would win, probably really satisfied with what a genius he would look like by being the first to call it. When Florida went to Bush everyone's tone changed conspicuously.
For what it's worth, electoral[dash]vote[dot]com says Kerry's ahead by one point. Still no image map on #1, and #3 times out.
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Unfortunately, politics in the United States have become so very partisan that most open discussion of this sort will devolve quickly into shouting matches between kneejerk liberals and dittoheads.
It worked for me, and the DJs are a bunch of Windows-lovin' crybabies, so I'm sure I'd hear about it if there were problems.
I think yr making stuff up.
Was the impeachment just a bunch of pussy-deprived Republicans struggling to understand "cool"?
Clue to potential sexual harassers: "I did not sleep with that woman" was no hipper than "I am not a crook". If anything it was creepier.
Anyway, without debating who lied first, worst, or most "hip", I think your premise is mistaken in crediting Bush apologists with even a tit-for-tat ethical standard. The real guiding principal is "It's okay when Republicans do it."
-1, Off-topic, I'll stop here
And that Democrats in general can logically be blamed for spamming by Republican Attorneys General.
Warhol had several movies over 5 hours, among them Sleep and Empire , tho these might more reasonably be called "portraits that move" than "movies".
(Incidentally, Chelsea Girls is over 6 hours of footage, but since it is shown on two projectors simultaneously it takes only 3 1/2 hours to watch. And it's much more entertaining than Empire and Sleep.)
Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz was originally shown in the US as a 16-hour feature (screened in 2 eight-hour sessions), and received critical acclaim in that form. However, it has generally been shown in installments since then. It was originally a 14 (?) episode TV mini-series in Germany.
I've not seen The Longest and Most Meaningless Movie in the World , but it seems no different than running your screensaver all weekend.
I remember sitting thru Chantel Ackerman's films je, tu, il, elle (having not gotten much sleep the night before) and Jeanne Dielman , and both seemed to last all day. Turns out they run 90 and 200 minutes, respectively. That said, if you want to see what it's like to spend an entire day with a movie character, these are like that.
BTW, Jurassic Bark it is my favorite episode. People who protest how depressing it was seem like wimps to me.
Rinji news o moshiagemasu! Rinji news o moshiagemasu! Gojira ga Ginza hoomen e mukatte imasu! Daishikyu hinan shite kudasai! Daishikyu hinan shite kudasai!
I learned using Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor. Excellent package, but the demo version ticked me off cos it doesn't explain before you start that you're only gonna learn 1/3 the alphabet for free. It's cheaper than Mavis (nice gal, but I think she only knows QWERTY, and she has an unseemly crush on Bill Gates), much easier than the free stuff (including dvorak7min with "nastiness", and the online Basic Course in Dvorak).
Other than having my fingers conditioned to find the home keys quickly, knowing QWERTY didn't help me learn Dvorak. It felt like I was learning typing over again, but I think I learned faster than were I a keyboard newb.
I found that if I didn't know where a key was, my finger gravitated toward the QWERTY location. However, once I'd hit the lesson for a particular key, the QWERTY reaching would stop even tho I didn't quite remember the Dvorak location. That was the full extent of the confusion for me.
Since all my typing is on computers, if I had to learn all over again, I'd just learn Dvorak.
These links aren't hard to find, but here they are for lazy clickers:
http://amarok.kde.org/
http://amarok.kde.org/wiki
- Linux port, KDE-friendly
- Data saved in portable format, preferably something XML
However, the way the question was asked (or phrased by Cliff) suggests not so much an application as a system.It should be possible to cobble something from a script and some metadata reading utilities. Start with mp3info (or whatever) & vorbiscomment (or whatever), and gradually add functionality for metadata in other documents.
Ideally the collected data should lend itself toward data queries and use (perhaps directly but more likely thru some derived output) by other applications (for example, generating MP3 playlists).
This would be a lot more "open" than any freeware app, and potentially more powerful. Eventually this system might duplicate the functionality of (OSX) Spotlight (which I've never used and may be misunderstanding) or something.
Someone has probably done this already -- the initial post suggests they were doing something like that and hit a wall somewhere. Maybe someone else has taken it further. Or thinks this would be a fun project.
Not to defame hero Katherine Harris or the freedom lovers at ChoicePoint, but that comment on the NAACP suit is certainly groundless and defensive. Besides, these people sling mud on themselves.
Harris and the accountable administrators at ChoicePoint could elevate their status considerably in the conservative movement by serving the prison time they've earned. Too bad there are Republican majorities in every level of government above them, so they'll never be prosecuted.
- http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=327
- http://archive.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/08
/ 04/florida/print.html
- http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=2004051
7 &s=palast
- http://www.newtimesbpb.com/issues/2002-10-31/news
/ news2.html
Friends of freedom ChoicePoint and Katherine Harris play prominent rolls too. Good thing they support the party in power or they'd be in for some serious jail time.Lawsuit on same:
- http://www.naacp.org/news/2000/2000-11-28.html
Enjoy.Thanks for taking that brave stand against partisan pandering. Now I trust you'll support this otherwise excellent law when it comes up for a vote in Congress.
- "actual proof"? But your honor, the squad of police investigators I run couldn't possibly have a case on your desk before Monday.
- I notice you feel a need to confine it to the last election. What are you hiding? Huh?
- Here're some links:
- http://www.sundayherald.com/45159
- http://www.sptimes.com/2004/10/29/news_pf/Decisio
n 2004/Dirty_tricks_litter_p.shtml
Whether one is concerned about election fraud by either Democrats or Republicans (off-topic, by the way), the abovementioned law is a good one. And yet the GOP will not allow it to pass. What's up with that?What are you smoking? Did no Democrats in Illinois (or my own home state of Louisiana for that matter) ever steal elections?
I never said Democrats never use voter intimidation and commit election fraud. My assertion: "The Republican majority will never let this pass".
Instead of your clever little signature,
Thank you!
why don't you use some facts to back up an outlandish statement like that?
Let's see how this vote goes. That'll provide us with the facts you seek.
Yeah like I have a lotta influence over Rick Fucking Santorum. This country ain't run by the likes of me.
Hmm. And which party is the majority in Congress?
This bill is a symbol. They don't expect it to pass.
The Sandinistas overthrew the corrupt, repressive, nun-killing, on-camera newsreporter-killing, martial law rule of the democratically elected Anastasio Somoza in 1979. Junta rule lasted until 1984, when free elections were held with no assistance from the United States. Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega received a majority of the popular vote.
Democracy expert Ronald Reagan denounced these elections as "not free" for three reasons:
- Minimum voting age was 17 (this in a country were the average life expectancy was 35), skewing the vote toward the Sandinistas
- Military were allowed to vote (right, good thing we don't allow that in the United States), skewing the vote toward the Sandinistas
- Third reason forgotten, sorry it's been a while. If someone remembers, please fill me in (I'm confident it was pathetic tho).
Reagan's government dealt with this purported travesty by (illegally) backing (and then lying to Congress about doing so) (then covertly selling arms to Iran to raise off-ledger funding -- you've heard all this, right?) the "Contras", a mercenary-supplemented team of Somoza partisans.As the Contras never picked up much popular support -- they were unsavory fascist thugs, PR nightmare all around, and anyway the general populace had few fond memories of Samoza -- they stuck to tearing down whatever the Sandinista government built up, blowing up health clinics, schools, and basicly any improvements the Ortega government implemented. What trolls would (but for lack of CIA training) do to weblogs, the Contras did to Nicaragua. They are also said to have killed a few american pro-Sandinista volunteers, tho apparently not any nuns or reporters.
While Ortega's government enjoyed tremendous popularity in their initial years (someone at Mother Jones mag got in trouble for calling this period "Leninist", meaning the people/proletariat had become the revolutionary vanguard, so to speak, and worked rather selflessly to improve the country), the citizens of Nicaragua voted them out in 1990, mostly over the lack of progress. Ortega, while understandably not happy with the unlucky deal of having Sandinista initiatives sabotaged for 5 years, left the official mansion more peacefully than did Nancy Reagan. Ortega remained the leader of Nicaragua's Sandinista political party.
I notice you are being rather quiet about Iraq. And spinning (to put it politely) the CIA-backed coup against Allende. Come on already. If neoconservatives so strongly favor this kind of intervention, why are they so sheepish about admitting it has occurred?(I'll leave how Afghanistan is being handed to warlords for someone else to go off on.)
"Babies", "persons" and now apparently "children" are clearly, clearly not fetuses. Keep it simple! If we complicate the issue, the foolish people (Or are they insane?!) who misuse the word "fetus" are bound to remain confused.
Someone is doing what? Huh? I'm sorry but this seems like some kinda market-droid speak. Again, the point can be made much more simply. Use Occam's Razor! The issue was this: Clearly wrong, and easily given the kibosh. We can win on this!Who's saying otherwise? And who's saying people are just fetuses? I don't think I've ever heard that either. That's just crazy talk.
Really I'm with you on this, man.
Current Trek probably doesn't provide a qualitatively strong experience to imprint its fandom on the young. It's hard to imagine a kid in 2004 looking at Star Trek and thinking it a great bandwagon on which to jump.
Are my presumptions wrong here? Are teens really hot for Star Trek these days, or have they found something else? In my 40-ish ignorance, I imagine the trend might be something japanese, or out of video game culture
I wouldn't be surprised to learn some day that there was cheating of the sort being proposed, but until there's evidence -- so far we're having speculation based on very subjective observations -- I don't have any reason to believe it.
It's said that (Kennedy's successor, kids) Lyndon Johnson acknowledged by passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (followed by other civil rights legislation), the Democratic Party lost the South.
Perhaps the Democrats can capture the "moral values" vote by re-embracing segregation. At least it would enable them to steal back Bob Jones University.
The cowardly broadcasters were right too. Poll data earlier today had many people convinced Bush had blown it big time, and Kerry was going to run away with the contested states. You could hear the pundits catching themselves constantly, like they knew there'd be a Kerry win but had to keep it secret -- at one point (disgusting George F. Will wannabee) Tucker Carlson (sp? I don't care) blurted out Kerry would win, probably really satisfied with what a genius he would look like by being the first to call it. When Florida went to Bush everyone's tone changed conspicuously.
For what it's worth, electoral[dash]vote[dot]com says Kerry's ahead by one point. Still no image map on #1, and #3 times out.