Even if you are afraid of the worse of the Coke/Pepsi candidates getting in, and therefore vote for the lesser or greater Hamiltonian parties we have today, you should still vote third party some of the time.
Specifically, if the race is polling such that the outcome is not in doubt (either for or against your candidate) then your vote becomes meaningless in deciding the outcome. At that point VOTE YOUR CONSCIENCE, (e.g. if you want Libertarian ideals, vote L)
It is a small thing, but every little scratch we can put in the prison walls of the two party system helps.
I'd use noscript but I want the internet to work. Seriously, I like protection and stuff but that thing is overkill. blacklist-based ad blockers are a million times better and a billion times less annoying.
I use noscript because I want my machine to keep working. The time cost of allowing specific sites as needed is more than offset by the time savings in general internet speed and not dealing with the ramifications of getting nailed by the latest drive by rootkit.
I fully understand that this is less of an issue in Linux and Mac environments, but I still primarily live in a Windows world. Firefox and NoScript is (imo) a no brainer there.
Postini is an anti-spam/anti-virus mail filtering service that sits between your mail system and the internet. Companies (mostly) use it to stop malicious emails getting into their internal mail systems. GMail is a web-mail system which is probably protected by Postini also since Google owns both.
for most RBL's there is no accountability or appeal. They get to publicly call you a bad name (intentionally damaging your reputation and encouraging others to act on it), and expect you to just take it. They act completely irresponsibly, and assert that, effectively, accountability doesn't scale -- they couldn't possibly review all the businesses they slander via their algorithm. '.
Spamhaus is no more accountable than the rest, but their removal mechanism is fast and clean. You're describing something more like SORBS that causes more harm than good in the fight against spam.
The choice is invalid multiple ways anyway. Remember the old slogan "make love not war" It'd be great if that was the choice mankind faced, but it isn't and, acknowledging the occassional Helen of Troy exception, never has been
Terrorists, pedophiles, lightning strikes, shark attacks, and meteor strikes are potentially terrible devistating things, worse than what government would typically do, but government interaction is an everyday certainty.
Yes, but not to the extent the US does. Ask Simon Singh. . . . . . . .
(Yes, I know he won out eventually after a great deal of time and legal expense. Not every particle physicist has bestselling books, BBC documentaries, newspapers, and international networks of supporters behind them)
"Now, though, with the FCC breathing down carriers' necks about tiered usage plans, it's only a matter of time before regulators catch wind of just how many times we're being charged for the exact same thing"
Granted we're paying multiple times as noted, but...
Why would the government care to do anything about it? I can buy a song on cassette, album, cd, mp3... government hasn't regulated that. Why would it regulate multiple data-plan channels?
I see the guy I was responding to was even modded 'insightful' for aiming his righteous indignation at someone for misunderstanding 'Free Software'. Even though they were quite careful to use 'free software' (going so far as to use 'free' when it was the first word of the subject).
I agree with his points, but they weren't germane to the post he pointed them at.
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You don't want to see either being made.
At least that's the expression as I always heard it :-)
(And to continue the thought - too much of either will kill those forced to consume them)
Even if you are afraid of the worse of the Coke/Pepsi candidates getting in, and therefore vote for the lesser or greater Hamiltonian parties we have today, you should still vote third party some of the time.
Specifically, if the race is polling such that the outcome is not in doubt (either for or against your candidate) then your vote becomes meaningless in deciding the outcome. At that point VOTE YOUR CONSCIENCE, (e.g. if you want Libertarian ideals, vote L)
It is a small thing, but every little scratch we can put in the prison walls of the two party system helps.
Point of order... are Norway and Finland really to the 'right' of anyone?
I'd use noscript but I want the internet to work. Seriously, I like protection and stuff but that thing is overkill. blacklist-based ad blockers are a million times better and a billion times less annoying.
I use noscript because I want my machine to keep working. The time cost of allowing specific sites as needed is more than offset by the time savings in general internet speed and not dealing with the ramifications of getting nailed by the latest drive by rootkit.
I fully understand that this is less of an issue in Linux and Mac environments, but I still primarily live in a Windows world. Firefox and NoScript is (imo) a no brainer there.
Wouldn't that be wheezer?
Because of the confusion that seems rampant...
Postini is an anti-spam/anti-virus mail filtering service that sits between your mail system and the internet. Companies (mostly) use it to stop malicious emails getting into their internal mail systems. GMail is a web-mail system which is probably protected by Postini also since Google owns both.
I blame the two party 'system'
> Now, if we were only allowed to reprocess the damned fuel
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for most RBL's there is no accountability or appeal. They get to publicly call you a bad name (intentionally damaging your reputation and encouraging others to act on it), and expect you to just take it. They act completely irresponsibly, and assert that, effectively, accountability doesn't scale -- they couldn't possibly review all the businesses they slander via their algorithm. '.
Spamhaus is no more accountable than the rest, but their removal mechanism is fast and clean. You're describing something more like SORBS that causes more harm than good in the fight against spam.
This .
The choice is invalid multiple ways anyway. Remember the old slogan "make love not war" It'd be great if that was the choice mankind faced, but it isn't and, acknowledging the occassional Helen of Troy exception, never has been
Terrorists, pedophiles, lightning strikes, shark attacks, and meteor strikes are potentially terrible devistating things, worse than what government would typically do, but government interaction is an everyday certainty.
A digger.
It isn't that expensive to deport, and the system is much more secure afterwards.
Wait, does the UK have free speech like America?
Yes, but not to the extent the US does. Ask Simon Singh.
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(Yes, I know he won out eventually after a great deal of time and legal expense. Not every particle physicist has bestselling books, BBC documentaries, newspapers, and international networks of supporters behind them)
"Now, though, with the FCC breathing down carriers' necks about tiered usage plans, it's only a matter of time before regulators catch wind of just how many times we're being charged for the exact same thing"
Granted we're paying multiple times as noted, but...
Why would the government care to do anything about it? I can buy a song on cassette, album, cd, mp3... government hasn't regulated that. Why would it regulate multiple data-plan channels?
CyanobacGovernment isn't there to do its 'job'. It is there to grow and consume resources put out by its food source (us).
Teaching the food source that government is the answer to every problem is simply a survival mechanism.
I'd eat there (if you could reduce the calorie and saturated fat content at least)
And could we have the smoking section outside so we don't have to smell it?
Soo, you are saying that this research into an icy mudball is all wet?
Bad law can fail a thousand times, but it only needs to pass once.
FTA - "The issue, he said, is the fear of piracy and how to set a common digital rights management system to thwart it."
That is the stumbling block. Not a common format, a common DRM.
/nod
I was trying to be...tactful...
I see the guy I was responding to was even modded 'insightful' for aiming his righteous indignation at someone for misunderstanding 'Free Software'. Even though they were quite careful to use 'free software' (going so far as to use 'free' when it was the first word of the subject).
I agree with his points, but they weren't germane to the post he pointed them at.
Timeouts
I want the phone that goes to 11g
Sorry, i haven't been paying attention in recent years. Has the convention changed? - free as in beer, Free as in freedom...right?
are now 'burglary tools'
This link just tells me I don't have iTunes :-)