A Republic is a form of government where power lies with a group of people rather than with one person. Democracy is a form of government where power is equaly shared amongst all citizens. They are not mutually incompatable, in fact all democracies are republics although not all republics are democracys (oligarchy, plutocracy, sovietism, technocracy, etc.).
The United States of America is a representative democratic republic.
"Criminalize the production, sale, distribution or otherwise making available of devices or computer programs who's primary use is toaccess, intercept or interfere with computer systems or communications;" (my emphasis)
Wait a fucking minute here. Illegalize access methods!? Web Browsers, FTP, Telnet.... Any point these gimboids have is located squarely atop their heads.
"It is worth noting that the Roman culture died out."
Our laws, our government, much of our art and philosophy are all Greco/Roman in origin. Christianity gave us the dark ages until Greek and Roman literature and art were rediscovered (from the arabs) lighting off the reinessance.
"They wiped themselves out through their own excesses and the error in their ways."
Funny that they didn't get wiped out until they had converted to christianity... talk about 'error in their ways'. Also, germanic tribes had a bit to do with it.
Yea, don't mass convert your empire to a religion of slaves. 1000 years of dominance, and 200 years of peace in the mediteranean basin, ruined by some asshole from Anatolia.
So why didn't god lay his wrath on the rest of the Roman empire? Pompei is just the best preserved example.... thanks god, for preserving this for all to see. If it was destroyed by some spitefull and petty deity he did a shitty job of it.
"I wouldn't want my kids going down to the library to research something on the Internet and, knowing how searches bring up nonsense 98% of the time, pulling up some elephant sex porn site or something equally as disturbing. Then they'll come home and ask you about it, then what are you going to say?"
Well, maybe, just perhaps, I might try explaining it to him/her. Gods forbid! Educate our children about life rather than shelter them from it? Preposterous!
We are such a sexualy repressed people. Go look at the ruins of Pompey some time, the Romans decorated their houses with murals that depicted what would be today very lewd sexual acts. Our modern morality is a product of the christian church, ergo censoring sexual material violates two clauses of the first amendment.
"I'm more a fan of the traditional American car philosophy of big engine, full-frame, rear-wheel-drive design."
RWD is the only way to go in a performance car, even Honda's S2000 (say what you want, but 240HP out of a 2.0 4-banger is impressive) is a F/R design. Big engines are great if they can keep the car well balanced (ie 427LT Vettes) and for frames... mmmmmm... monocoque.
Me, I'm a sportscar nut. Unfortunately the only american sportscars are Corvettes and Vipers (well, and early T-birds... dream on), far too expensive for me at the moment. Even late 70s 'Vettes with those pitifully stepped on 350s (speaking of low compression) run at least 10k. I'll consider a pony which is why I've been into MOPARs lately, a buddy of mine's uncle has a '70 Challenger R/T with a built 340 in it... but it needs a bunch of bodywork (and paint! It's that Panther Pink... ewwww) and they are asking too much.
If I'm gonna spend that kind of money, I'll look for an old Sunbeam Tiger. Totally undervalued Carol Shelby designed sportscar. Quick with the original 289, ungodly with a 302.
Fairly correct. Mazda has actually never stopped producing rotaries. The RX-7 was phased out in America in '96 but was still produced until last year for the asian market, and the Cosmo (sedan available with a triple rotary 20b) is also extant.
Mazda has been showing it's latest version of the 13b dual rotary lately. The 'Reinesis' plant has 280 HP naturaly aspirated, gets 30+ MPG (stunning for a rotary of that power), can pass low emission standards, and has much improved apex seals. Mazda is supposedly going to put it in the new RX-7, the new MX-6, and possibly an MX-5 (Miata) variant.
As for american wankels, there was also an Astrovette (rear-engined prototype corvette from the early 70s) that sported a quad rotary. Serious power in a quad, Mazda has won the 24 hours of LeMans with quad-rotary cars. An additional note about LeMans is that Mazda has the highest finishing percentage of any manufacturer who has entered more than one race, all with wankels.
My mechanic just got one of those rotary trucks which has survived 25 years with it's weird 1.3 litre. You are right that it sucks with big loads, whatever a wankel is it's not a high torque at low revs engine.
"...the RX-7 sports coupe, was an excellent car mechanically."
Yup, but don't get me started on their electrical system. Damned cold solders...
"They were about as close to the computer equivalent to the Chrysler Slant-6 as anything I've ever seen. Too bad that they only had 386SX processors."
Sounds right to me, underpowered plant in a nice looking shell. Just like a slant-6 Challenger.;) Me, I want the computer equivelent of a 426 Hemi... or even an LA series like the 340.
Actually, being an RX-7 nut, I want the computer equivelent of the Bi-turbo Mazda 20b triple rotary... the RISC chip of internal combustion.
I've got the same deal, and I love it. My situation may be different than yours though. I am basically support, I am the only tech/admin at this medium sized (50 seats) advertising agency. I am required to be here from 8:30 or so to 5:30 or so because that's when the people I support have to be here. They could easily let the art directors, graphic designers, and copywriters come in whenever they want except that would force management and support (me) to be there pretty much all the time.
It's always seemed like a damn fine deal to me, even considering that I don't particularly enjoy waking up at 7 in the morning. My job is to make things go, if everything is going well I can surf the web, smoke cigarettes, read the paper, or socialise with my predominantly female coworkers(out of 48 employees, 5 of us are male). The amount of slack I have is directly proportional to the quality of my work.
Ah yes, the grammar flame. A veritable classic. Especialy since it has extraneous commas spread throughout. Nice segue to the personal bashing as well. And 'inculcation', the perfect 5 cent word used incorrectly (From you tone, you don't seem willing to use 'frequent instruction') for the cherry on top. I give it three thumbs up.
Your point is excellent and well taken, but the FBI does have a mandate to protect us against foreign enemys within it's jurisdiction. The FBI's jurisdiction however, is limited to the United States. The FBI, historicly, has been the agency that performs counter-intellegence. The CIA is the exact opposite, performing intelegence activities but prohibited from acting within the US.
"I find this interesting, because it suggests that file-sharing may actually help to drive consumer demand for faster, higher-bandwidth connections, larger hard-drives and more powerful machines."
Have you not seen the Dell ads that boast about their machines' ability to download and play MP3s? Note as well part of Microsoft's pitch for WinME is it's built in MP3 player. I think it's already driving demand.
Now, if we can sick M$'s storm-lawyers on the RIAA....
"Anyone know anything about the status of Photoshop and other Adobe graphics apps?"
Status in regards to what? Photoshop 5.5 is great and absolutely screams on a G4 (towers at least, haven't used a cube yet) and what I've seen of v.6 looks pretty good but not a major upgrade. Illustrator 9 is very good as well but also not a major change from v.s 7 and 8. Pagemaker and InDesign still lag woefully behind QuarkXpress in functionality while being miles ahead in stability (you really don't want to get me started on how much it sucks to support a bunch of Quark users). ATM is a pain to install on OS9 machines (needs an update to not crash OS9, but requires a restart after install), but still better than Suitcase or Juggler. Hopefully OSX will have even better font support than OS9's improved font system and we won't need 3rd party apps. As for OSX support from Adobe, they are tied so tightly to Apple that they will definately be developing native versions.
"unlike Napster, which is only well suited for searching out "popular" music you already know about"
I keep hearing this and just have to ask; Are we talking about the same service? I've found tons of stuff that is most certainly not popular (Guitar Wolf, Freakwater, Common Rider) and, by searching by genre, I have found many cool bands that I had never heard of before (The Gourds, Neko Case, Hepcat).
Funny enough, while searching for new bands I came across a Dance Hall Crashers track with an ad at the end of the song. I went to the URL in the ad and found a site touting several very good third wave ska bands, and I even bought a couple of CDs. I think if the song was truncated by the ad I would have been pissed (less so now that I have DSL, but still iratated) and there wouldn't have been a chance in hell of me buying their music.
And, to drag this post into ontopichood, I find Usenet to be very active these days with a much better signal to noise ratio than a few years back. My only problem is that my DSL provider's (Bellsouth) servers only cache 24 hours worth of posts in the binaries groups which makes getting MP3s (or videos) a strugle.
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They have added a new kink to the submission voting. When voting +1 you get a choice of posting it to the front page or to the new topical sections.
OK, ebbv doesn't like it and for some reason can't ignore it (3 stories in 3 months, ye gods what a flood) so no more K5 stories. Do we all get to verbottenize topics we don't like? 'Cause I'm not the biggest Linux fan in the world...
And here's a little hint for ya E; if you don't want to be seen as a troll, avoid name calling.
"Frankly, you won't get that if your system is Blue, Orange, or Green."
Not necesarily, clients always get a kick out of our 'hall of iMacs'. Many of our copywriters work in this one area that is sort of a hall with open offices along one side. The desks face the hall and each one has a blueberry iMac on it which complements (to a degree) the decor. It looks quite good and very modern. The secretary's and boss's graphite iMacs are, admittedly, even more impressive to the suits. We've also got some green ones and red ones, but we kind of hide 'em since they clash. Funny enough, here in big orange country, not one person has asked for an orange one. No wonder Apple quit making it if even people in Tennessee weren't buying 'em.
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A Republic is a form of government where power lies with a group of people rather than with one person. Democracy is a form of government where power is equaly shared amongst all citizens. They are not mutually incompatable, in fact all democracies are republics although not all republics are democracys (oligarchy, plutocracy, sovietism, technocracy, etc.).
The United States of America is a representative democratic republic.
"Criminalize the production, sale, distribution or otherwise making available of devices or computer programs who's primary use is to access , intercept or interfere with computer systems or communications;" (my emphasis)
Wait a fucking minute here. Illegalize access methods!? Web Browsers, FTP, Telnet.... Any point these gimboids have is located squarely atop their heads.
Our laws, our government, much of our art and philosophy are all Greco/Roman in origin. Christianity gave us the dark ages until Greek and Roman literature and art were rediscovered (from the arabs) lighting off the reinessance.
"They wiped themselves out through their own excesses and the error in their ways."
Funny that they didn't get wiped out until they had converted to christianity... talk about 'error in their ways'. Also, germanic tribes had a bit to do with it.
So why didn't god lay his wrath on the rest of the Roman empire? Pompei is just the best preserved example.... thanks god, for preserving this for all to see. If it was destroyed by some spitefull and petty deity he did a shitty job of it.
Well, maybe, just perhaps, I might try explaining it to him/her. Gods forbid! Educate our children about life rather than shelter them from it? Preposterous!
We are such a sexualy repressed people. Go look at the ruins of Pompey some time, the Romans decorated their houses with murals that depicted what would be today very lewd sexual acts. Our modern morality is a product of the christian church, ergo censoring sexual material violates two clauses of the first amendment.
RWD is the only way to go in a performance car, even Honda's S2000 (say what you want, but 240HP out of a 2.0 4-banger is impressive) is a F/R design. Big engines are great if they can keep the car well balanced (ie 427LT Vettes) and for frames... mmmmmm... monocoque.
Me, I'm a sportscar nut. Unfortunately the only american sportscars are Corvettes and Vipers (well, and early T-birds... dream on), far too expensive for me at the moment. Even late 70s 'Vettes with those pitifully stepped on 350s (speaking of low compression) run at least 10k. I'll consider a pony which is why I've been into MOPARs lately, a buddy of mine's uncle has a '70 Challenger R/T with a built 340 in it... but it needs a bunch of bodywork (and paint! It's that Panther Pink... ewwww) and they are asking too much.
If I'm gonna spend that kind of money, I'll look for an old Sunbeam Tiger. Totally undervalued Carol Shelby designed sportscar. Quick with the original 289, ungodly with a 302.
Mazda has been showing it's latest version of the 13b dual rotary lately. The 'Reinesis' plant has 280 HP naturaly aspirated, gets 30+ MPG (stunning for a rotary of that power), can pass low emission standards, and has much improved apex seals. Mazda is supposedly going to put it in the new RX-7, the new MX-6, and possibly an MX-5 (Miata) variant.
As for american wankels, there was also an Astrovette (rear-engined prototype corvette from the early 70s) that sported a quad rotary. Serious power in a quad, Mazda has won the 24 hours of LeMans with quad-rotary cars. An additional note about LeMans is that Mazda has the highest finishing percentage of any manufacturer who has entered more than one race, all with wankels.
My mechanic just got one of those rotary trucks which has survived 25 years with it's weird 1.3 litre. You are right that it sucks with big loads, whatever a wankel is it's not a high torque at low revs engine.
"...the RX-7 sports coupe, was an excellent car mechanically."
Yup, but don't get me started on their electrical system. Damned cold solders...
You would kill my 89 GTU in a 1/4 mile, no doubt. A third gen would give you your moneys worth though, especialy road racing.
I wasn't particularly slamming the slant-6, it is a good plant (From what I've heard the 318s and 360s are the dogs). Just not a Hemi or LA.
Sounds right to me, underpowered plant in a nice looking shell. Just like a slant-6 Challenger. ;) Me, I want the computer equivelent of a 426 Hemi... or even an LA series like the 340.
Actually, being an RX-7 nut, I want the computer equivelent of the Bi-turbo Mazda 20b triple rotary... the RISC chip of internal combustion.
It's always seemed like a damn fine deal to me, even considering that I don't particularly enjoy waking up at 7 in the morning. My job is to make things go, if everything is going well I can surf the web, smoke cigarettes, read the paper, or socialise with my predominantly female coworkers(out of 48 employees, 5 of us are male). The amount of slack I have is directly proportional to the quality of my work.
Just curious.
Have you not seen the Dell ads that boast about their machines' ability to download and play MP3s? Note as well part of Microsoft's pitch for WinME is it's built in MP3 player. I think it's already driving demand.
Now, if we can sick M$'s storm-lawyers on the RIAA....
Status in regards to what? Photoshop 5.5 is great and absolutely screams on a G4 (towers at least, haven't used a cube yet) and what I've seen of v.6 looks pretty good but not a major upgrade. Illustrator 9 is very good as well but also not a major change from v.s 7 and 8. Pagemaker and InDesign still lag woefully behind QuarkXpress in functionality while being miles ahead in stability (you really don't want to get me started on how much it sucks to support a bunch of Quark users). ATM is a pain to install on OS9 machines (needs an update to not crash OS9, but requires a restart after install), but still better than Suitcase or Juggler. Hopefully OSX will have even better font support than OS9's improved font system and we won't need 3rd party apps. As for OSX support from Adobe, they are tied so tightly to Apple that they will definately be developing native versions.
I'd hate to see the EULA for Peterson's AI shoes.
Form of.... a candy colered slick as eelshit user interface!
Needless to say, I could be dead wrong.
I keep hearing this and just have to ask; Are we talking about the same service? I've found tons of stuff that is most certainly not popular (Guitar Wolf, Freakwater, Common Rider) and, by searching by genre, I have found many cool bands that I had never heard of before (The Gourds, Neko Case, Hepcat).
Funny enough, while searching for new bands I came across a Dance Hall Crashers track with an ad at the end of the song. I went to the URL in the ad and found a site touting several very good third wave ska bands, and I even bought a couple of CDs. I think if the song was truncated by the ad I would have been pissed (less so now that I have DSL, but still iratated) and there wouldn't have been a chance in hell of me buying their music.
And, to drag this post into ontopichood, I find Usenet to be very active these days with a much better signal to noise ratio than a few years back. My only problem is that my DSL provider's (Bellsouth) servers only cache 24 hours worth of posts in the binaries groups which makes getting MP3s (or videos) a strugle.
And here's a little hint for ya E; if you don't want to be seen as a troll, avoid name calling.
Not necesarily, clients always get a kick out of our 'hall of iMacs'. Many of our copywriters work in this one area that is sort of a hall with open offices along one side. The desks face the hall and each one has a blueberry iMac on it which complements (to a degree) the decor. It looks quite good and very modern. The secretary's and boss's graphite iMacs are, admittedly, even more impressive to the suits. We've also got some green ones and red ones, but we kind of hide 'em since they clash. Funny enough, here in big orange country, not one person has asked for an orange one. No wonder Apple quit making it if even people in Tennessee weren't buying 'em.