the safest in the world despite being, by far, the least regulated
The thing is, the aviation industry is pretty much self policing. If your plane falls out of the sky, it doesn't really matter why, you lose business (this is why I feel airline security should be up to the carriers, not the airports, the government, or independent security firms. If they go bankrupt because they decided to only screen dark-skinned guys and the guy from Oklahoma blew up your plane with a pipebomb, hey, at least it was their choice, and not some president's budget cut). With drugs, some 80 year old dies of a heart attack... eh, he was on the way out anyway. If the people doing the VIGOR study to see if Vioxx helped or provoked ulcers didn't report on the "oh by the way, our test group showed a greater than 400% increase in cardiac incidents" factor, probably no one would ever know.
I don't see where libertarianism suggests government lets corporations run amok
The problem is that depending on which [lL]ibertarian you ask, the parts of government one would devote to corporate malfesance are the first ones on the chopping block!
Since you mention Merck, I've heard quite a few people promising us a paradise of happy, healthy people and cheap drugs, if only that pesky FDA quit requiring that drugs actually be tested before they go to market. Well, it's obvious from the Vioxx issue that the FDA isn't saving everyone, but you'd be hard pressed to convince me that without the FDA, Merck would have produced a better Vioxx that didn't cause cardiac problems or that they would have removed it from the market on their own accord.
Yes, Fox News is definitely to the right of everyone else, but that's because everyone else is so far to the left.
Here's a hint: the real truth slants neither right nor left. If you come across the truth and it looks a little crooked, then you are the one who needs to drink your V8.
The answer to other people leaning left isn't to lean right, it's to stand tall, upright, and proud. To be an example to all that truth is. To be anything else is not "acting as a counterweight", it is to abdicate your authority and join the ragged crowd of liars.
It's a fact that 70% of reporters normally vote for Democrats. Does 70% of the general population?
Only slightly under half of the voting population voted Democratic at the presidential level for 2004. It gets much more interesting when you start looking at lower and lower levels of government. One of the big furors over the elections in Florida was dropped because there people traditionally registered to vote as Democrats for local elections, then turned around and traditionally voted Republican for president, and this confused the election watchers who noted far more people voted Republican for president in some districts than had registered as Republicans. Along these lines it's interesting to note that I can't find any statistics of mayors' party affiliations.
(I am sure there must be a simpler solution to that than take the disk out and do it on another machine)
LD_LIBRARY_PATH and LD_PRELOAD are your friends. Install the "new" old libc into a different directory, and set up wrapper(s) for whatever program(s) needed old libraries that set those variables to use the right library directory.
These sophisticated, visceral, video games which draw the player deep into street level violence and celebrate a gangster life-style are something new.
If by "something new" you mean 7 years old. You'd think it was the end of the world back then, what with crazy drivers running women and children down on the streets... you might even call it a "Carmageddon".
You might even go "Postal" to find out that the "run around town and kill innocent bystanders" idea has been around even longer.
boycotting and/or stealing and/or disabling the DRM on any such protected content anyway.
I just plan on not buying Windows Vista. The Windows OS I have now does everything I need it to do (aka: play games), and for everything else theres Linux. It'll be a long time before game developers abandon earlier versions of windows, and if they don't, that's ok, I've always got my trusty consoles.
My last fender bender cost less than $1000 in all to repair both cars. Guess how much the insurance company raised my rates for the next 4 years or so?
All of those points are good and all, but when cameras threatened to show up where I live, I complained for two reasons, a big one against cameras, and one against the planned implementation.
1) We allow right turn on red here. How can a camera know what you're doing when you cross the line during a red light?
2) The photo taken needs to show both the state of the light and the car. Otherwise, there is no proof that they aren't going off in the middle of a green light.
Meanwhile, the city completely ignored a campaign to have the lights synchronized so that there was a 4-way red light (where nobody was allowed to go) between each phase, which has been proven to almost completely end accidents due to red-light runners (anyone running the light or even a little late would be alone in the intersection), making it obvious that the city just wanted to fiddle with the lights to make money, not to save anyone's lives.
I choose not to give business to many different stores for many different reasons. If you have a problem w/cameras in the dressing rooms don't shop there or don't try on their clothes.
Ah, the good old "vote with your wallet" argument. So tell me, what do you do if they don't tell you they have cameras in the dressing rooms, do you simply assume that there are no cameras there? Or do you assume that the company believes the cameras are so well hidden, nobody will find them and turn it into a morning news "expose"?
If you havn't got anything to hide then you don't have anything to worry about
Then, frankly speaking, you are a very boring person. I'm not even a CEO or anything, and my computer has some pretty sensitive data that may or may not be a boon to an insider trading. A down-on-his luck whiz programmer turned PC repair dude might be able to beat someone's product to market having seen the code. Let's not forget the seedier side of things, especially if you want to see your girlfriend/wife/daughter ever again... if you're paying for a technician to repair your PC, they've got a pretty good idea how much money you've got, and there's probably some file on there thats got the address that goes with your wallpaper photo.
Yes, but it's a very short and not too steep slope from "Have.xxx for porn to use" to "Require porn to use.xxx" to "Require anything that offends me to use.xxx"
If you're honest, anyway. Of course, there's no end of lawyers in the news getting caught billing their lunch hour to three different clients while putting in 30 hours of work a day (and they wonder why they have such a bad reputation).
1) When the dog breeder stops going away for weekends, and starts dressing their dog and talking to it like a human being, they get plenty of ridicule. Same with sports fans that get so obsessed they riot
But not sports fans who go to the game wearing body paint of their team's colors and logo and the big hat with their mascot on top?
Perens is right though. The idea is a good one, but what's needed isn't patents from IBM and Sun, but patents from regular human beings who have never signed an agreement with Microsoft that would keep the patents from being usable in a lawsuit.
Typo or not, the problem is that porn blockers are in general incompetent. For all you know, they had porn blocking installed and had a librarian watching over everyone's shoulder 24/7, and the guy figured out a way around the blocker, then set the weather channel website to be Always on Top, and downloaded his smut in the background.
That still only blocks porn it knows about or can guess by the text in the site. It seems that every three days there's a new goatsecx or lemonparty or tubgirl, and thats just the shock and horror sites. Imageboards are the new place for porn and those are growing like weeds and tend to not have enough text to figure out their porn-ness on the fly.
Say what? Nobody is making anything free here. You can search for the text of a book and see what book it was in, so lets say I remembered some part of a book I read as a kid (say, about some kid who found a box that let him travel between worlds in certain places ("windows" may have been the term) and control his time relative to the time in the worlds he came to, and used that to end a war between humans and aliens by taking all the blasters from the aliens while he had time stopped... I remember parts of the descriptions, about how the blasters were causing people to melt into puddles and some were paused mid scream as they died, but this was only a small part of the whole book, just one of the worlds the boy came into. BTW, if this book sounds familiar let me know. I read it somewhere around 15-20 years ago;) and get the title. If they're sneaky, the title would be a referral link to amazon to buy the thing. If it's in copyright, I wouldn't be able to read it online any more than I can read an entire book on amazon.com.
It's left as an exercise to the reader to determine what spell level the pastor needed to be in order to cast Fire Wall to burn a pile of dungeons and dragons material.
Then when he's finally done, and it's published, submit a story. Then we'll be able to thump our chests and take out our agression on each other as we "discuss" a real study, and not the grade of crap that Jack Thompson flings.
They could try it but it'd be bad publicity, and that's before the government came a knocking for the cigarette taxes, which are a fixed rate per carton, not a % of the price.
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the safest in the world despite being, by far, the least regulated
The thing is, the aviation industry is pretty much self policing. If your plane falls out of the sky, it doesn't really matter why, you lose business (this is why I feel airline security should be up to the carriers, not the airports, the government, or independent security firms. If they go bankrupt because they decided to only screen dark-skinned guys and the guy from Oklahoma blew up your plane with a pipebomb, hey, at least it was their choice, and not some president's budget cut). With drugs, some 80 year old dies of a heart attack... eh, he was on the way out anyway. If the people doing the VIGOR study to see if Vioxx helped or provoked ulcers didn't report on the "oh by the way, our test group showed a greater than 400% increase in cardiac incidents" factor, probably no one would ever know.
I don't see where libertarianism suggests government lets corporations run amok
The problem is that depending on which [lL]ibertarian you ask, the parts of government one would devote to corporate malfesance are the first ones on the chopping block!
Since you mention Merck, I've heard quite a few people promising us a paradise of happy, healthy people and cheap drugs, if only that pesky FDA quit requiring that drugs actually be tested before they go to market. Well, it's obvious from the Vioxx issue that the FDA isn't saving everyone, but you'd be hard pressed to convince me that without the FDA, Merck would have produced a better Vioxx that didn't cause cardiac problems or that they would have removed it from the market on their own accord.
The US Constitution may limit how the government applies religion, but it cannot limit how the voting public does.
As long as the voting public applies religion without the help of the US government, that's just fine with me and the first amendment.
Yes, Fox News is definitely to the right of everyone else, but that's because everyone else is so far to the left.
Here's a hint: the real truth slants neither right nor left. If you come across the truth and it looks a little crooked, then you are the one who needs to drink your V8.
The answer to other people leaning left isn't to lean right, it's to stand tall, upright, and proud. To be an example to all that truth is. To be anything else is not "acting as a counterweight", it is to abdicate your authority and join the ragged crowd of liars.
It's a fact that 70% of reporters normally vote for Democrats. Does 70% of the general population?
Only slightly under half of the voting population voted Democratic at the presidential level for 2004. It gets much more interesting when you start looking at lower and lower levels of government. One of the big furors over the elections in Florida was dropped because there people traditionally registered to vote as Democrats for local elections, then turned around and traditionally voted Republican for president, and this confused the election watchers who noted far more people voted Republican for president in some districts than had registered as Republicans. Along these lines it's interesting to note that I can't find any statistics of mayors' party affiliations.
(I am sure there must be a simpler solution to that than take the disk out and do it on another machine)
LD_LIBRARY_PATH and LD_PRELOAD are your friends. Install the "new" old libc into a different directory, and set up wrapper(s) for whatever program(s) needed old libraries that set those variables to use the right library directory.
These sophisticated, visceral, video games which draw the player deep into street level violence and celebrate a gangster life-style are something new.
If by "something new" you mean 7 years old. You'd think it was the end of the world back then, what with crazy drivers running women and children down on the streets... you might even call it a "Carmageddon".
You might even go "Postal" to find out that the "run around town and kill innocent bystanders" idea has been around even longer.
boycotting and/or stealing and/or disabling the DRM on any such protected content anyway.
I just plan on not buying Windows Vista. The Windows OS I have now does everything I need it to do (aka: play games), and for everything else theres Linux. It'll be a long time before game developers abandon earlier versions of windows, and if they don't, that's ok, I've always got my trusty consoles.
In soviet Russia, bidet flush you!
"Ignorance is curable, stupidity is terminal"
;)
No idea who said that, but I love it
My last fender bender cost less than $1000 in all to repair both cars. Guess how much the insurance company raised my rates for the next 4 years or so?
Just remember, radio is the same thing as microwave, only on a different frequency.
All of those points are good and all, but when cameras threatened to show up where I live, I complained for two reasons, a big one against cameras, and one against the planned implementation.
1) We allow right turn on red here. How can a camera know what you're doing when you cross the line during a red light?
2) The photo taken needs to show both the state of the light and the car. Otherwise, there is no proof that they aren't going off in the middle of a green light.
Meanwhile, the city completely ignored a campaign to have the lights synchronized so that there was a 4-way red light (where nobody was allowed to go) between each phase, which has been proven to almost completely end accidents due to red-light runners (anyone running the light or even a little late would be alone in the intersection), making it obvious that the city just wanted to fiddle with the lights to make money, not to save anyone's lives.
I choose not to give business to many different stores for many different reasons. If you have a problem w/cameras in the dressing rooms don't shop there or don't try on their clothes.
Ah, the good old "vote with your wallet" argument. So tell me, what do you do if they don't tell you they have cameras in the dressing rooms, do you simply assume that there are no cameras there? Or do you assume that the company believes the cameras are so well hidden, nobody will find them and turn it into a morning news "expose"?
If you havn't got anything to hide then you don't have anything to worry about
Then, frankly speaking, you are a very boring person. I'm not even a CEO or anything, and my computer has some pretty sensitive data that may or may not be a boon to an insider trading. A down-on-his luck whiz programmer turned PC repair dude might be able to beat someone's product to market having seen the code. Let's not forget the seedier side of things, especially if you want to see your girlfriend/wife/daughter ever again... if you're paying for a technician to repair your PC, they've got a pretty good idea how much money you've got, and there's probably some file on there thats got the address that goes with your wallpaper photo.
Yes, but it's a very short and not too steep slope from "Have .xxx for porn to use" to "Require porn to use .xxx" to "Require anything that offends me to use .xxx"
a billed hour is more than an hour of work.
If you're honest, anyway. Of course, there's no end of lawyers in the news getting caught billing their lunch hour to three different clients while putting in 30 hours of work a day (and they wonder why they have such a bad reputation).
1) When the dog breeder stops going away for weekends, and starts dressing their dog and talking to it like a human being, they get plenty of ridicule. Same with sports fans that get so obsessed they riot
But not sports fans who go to the game wearing body paint of their team's colors and logo and the big hat with their mascot on top?
Perens is right though. The idea is a good one, but what's needed isn't patents from IBM and Sun, but patents from regular human beings who have never signed an agreement with Microsoft that would keep the patents from being usable in a lawsuit.
Typo or not, the problem is that porn blockers are in general incompetent. For all you know, they had porn blocking installed and had a librarian watching over everyone's shoulder 24/7, and the guy figured out a way around the blocker, then set the weather channel website to be Always on Top, and downloaded his smut in the background.
A hardware based porn firewall.
That still only blocks porn it knows about or can guess by the text in the site. It seems that every three days there's a new goatsecx or lemonparty or tubgirl, and thats just the shock and horror sites. Imageboards are the new place for porn and those are growing like weeds and tend to not have enough text to figure out their porn-ness on the fly.
publish their books for free
;) and get the title. If they're sneaky, the title would be a referral link to amazon to buy the thing. If it's in copyright, I wouldn't be able to read it online any more than I can read an entire book on amazon.com.
Say what? Nobody is making anything free here. You can search for the text of a book and see what book it was in, so lets say I remembered some part of a book I read as a kid (say, about some kid who found a box that let him travel between worlds in certain places ("windows" may have been the term) and control his time relative to the time in the worlds he came to, and used that to end a war between humans and aliens by taking all the blasters from the aliens while he had time stopped... I remember parts of the descriptions, about how the blasters were causing people to melt into puddles and some were paused mid scream as they died, but this was only a small part of the whole book, just one of the worlds the boy came into. BTW, if this book sounds familiar let me know. I read it somewhere around 15-20 years ago
ever so convincing take on such blasphemous things
It's left as an exercise to the reader to determine what spell level the pastor needed to be in order to cast Fire Wall to burn a pile of dungeons and dragons material.
Then when he's finally done, and it's published, submit a story. Then we'll be able to thump our chests and take out our agression on each other as we "discuss" a real study, and not the grade of crap that Jack Thompson flings.
They could try it but it'd be bad publicity, and that's before the government came a knocking for the cigarette taxes, which are a fixed rate per carton, not a % of the price.
Which one would make you feel safer? And would you appreciate someone trying to take that comfort away from you?
That depends, which is more effective at filtering pollutants, a full-face gas mask, or living with your head buried one foot under loose sand.