You appear to not be aware of this, but Conservative sites are largely funded by Mellon-Scaife, Koch and other sugar daddies working through "grassroots organizations". Not advertising. PajamasMedia was an attempt to follow the model created by the BlogAds used on the liberal sites, and while it has had some limited success it doesn't generate near the revenue for the sites.
Anyway, that's what this bill was about. Trying to force conservative blogs out of the closet and admit who they were getting paid by. It's too bad it failed, as that sunshine would have been quite enlightenining to people who have been hiding in the closet for so long.
Anyway, I just always thought it funny that conservative blogs rely on a communist economic model, and liberal blogs are largely funded through free market operations.
That's a hard one. James Buchanan is certainly a notable WPE winner.
But all he did was nothing to stop the Civil War. Bush has done everything in can think of to destroy our countries value system.
I fear when historians write "The Rise and Fall of the American Empire", they'll view GW Bush as the turning point of the decline. Unless we can change direction.
And trust me, I voted for Jesse Ventura and he won.
But a Third Party cannot succeed, unless one of the other two major parties just fundamentally collapses. Maybe we're seeing that today a bit with the Republicans. If they could fuck up things worse, I don't know how. But I rather doubt it. The last time this happened was when the Whigs turned into the Republicans in 1860.
You're far better off trying to change one of the parties from the inside, as has happened with the Democrats over the past 6 or so years.
Although I didn't know the name of the radio station, I simply heard that some station out in california was oging to run this contest. Considering I live 2000 miles east of their, I'm not a listener.
I'm not one to support frivolous lawsuits, but when I first heard about this contest a week or so back I wondered if they were aware that drinking too much water can be extremely dangerous. Apparently not, the "you can quit at any time if you feel bad" wasn't much of a disclaimer. From all the reports I've read, they didn't even consult with doctors.
I'm sad that my initial assumption that this would turn out bad came true. I'd rather be wrong on things like this.
My background is a combination of hobbyist and ComSci. I started in junior high with BASIC, and did C development for a time, got into infrastructure and now work exclusively with C#.
PHP is definately a hobbyist language. We need those, because there always needs to be a place for people to learn.
But I think what we in the industry need to do is a better job of explaining why things are bad, and why and *WHEN* you'd be better off moving to something different.
I think the mistake that I've seen PHP make is actually to try to focus on making PHP more of a grownup language, and less of a useful language. As such the more recent versions of the framework are not near as popular as version 4 was. What they risk by trying to be more like say Java or C#, is they risk having the hobbyists move on to something different. They will never compete with Java or C#, so why try? Keep your niche happy.
So I see your point, but maybe what you are really saying is that you personally have outgrown PHP and it's time to move on to something different.
Given your example of a chainsaw, you might want to google words such as anti-kickback chain, chain brake, hand guards and/or just the general chainsaw safety keywords.
Here's the answer: don't buy HD-DVDs and BDs that require HDCP. Duh. Vote with your feet. If enough people really put their money where their mouth is (as opposed to what they normally do, which is just paying lip-service), and truly advocated that others do the same, it will make a difference. Sadly, most people are so weak in their convictions that when their favorite movie comes out requiring HDCP, they will just buy it no matter what.
You mean like how none of us bought DivX and Circuit City finally gave up?
Naw, it could never happen. These giant corporations control everything. They use advertising to force us to buy their stuff, and we have no control at all over them!
Ahh, I can picture the/. headline now followed up with a bunch of whining about how Microsoft is refusing to cooperate with the industry to provide HD content.
I've been using it at home for a few weeks. The first couple of days it took some getting used to.
But now I'm finding that it's much more intuitive. Especially dealing with some layout features, fonts, styling and such.
Will it be able to make phonecalls?
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That's my biggest problem with most of the cell phones out today. They can play music, games, look pretty.
But very few of them do the basics well... i.e. make phone calls. My old Nokia would lose signal. My new Samsung, the vibrate isn't powerful enough, and the ring isn't loud enough.
Oh yeah, but sure, it has a camera phone and will do all these other cool worthless things.
I doubt Apple is entering this market to make a cell phone. They probably just want to make an iPod that can occasionally make phone calls.
Clearly this guy was setup by Democrats trying to make him look bad. It was probably Democrats who gave him the idea of having his record changed in the first place.
Hell, the guys stringing him along were probably Democrats! So that makes this whole thing a BI-Partisan scandal!
Damn Democrats! you just can't trust them. They're always out to make you look like a fool!
Between Democrats and the Damn Liberal Media who reported this... It's a wonder the Republicans get any good news out./snark
I think the past six years of Bush/Republican rule have shown the importance of this statement. If you want to defend your freedoms, you must be able to do it yourself for the politicians certainly have no interest in doing so.
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So it's ok if Republicans do it... just not Democrats?
Interesting.
You appear to not be aware of this, but Conservative sites are largely funded by Mellon-Scaife, Koch and other sugar daddies working through "grassroots organizations". Not advertising. PajamasMedia was an attempt to follow the model created by the BlogAds used on the liberal sites, and while it has had some limited success it doesn't generate near the revenue for the sites.
Anyway, that's what this bill was about. Trying to force conservative blogs out of the closet and admit who they were getting paid by. It's too bad it failed, as that sunshine would have been quite enlightenining to people who have been hiding in the closet for so long.
Anyway, I just always thought it funny that conservative blogs rely on a communist economic model, and liberal blogs are largely funded through free market operations.
That's a hard one. James Buchanan is certainly a notable WPE winner.
But all he did was nothing to stop the Civil War. Bush has done everything in can think of to destroy our countries value system.
I fear when historians write "The Rise and Fall of the American Empire", they'll view GW Bush as the turning point of the decline. Unless we can change direction.
The whole bill and everything is available on Thomas.
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Do we have a paid grassroots operation here intended to send more people to the cbn.com website.
The nice thing about Bush winning reelection in 2004, is we can all now be assured that he deserves the Worst President Ever label.
It's just too bad it's going to take 30 years to fix the mess he's created.
that the way the exit polling was conducted was flawed, and can be easily misread. This is based on comparing 2006 results to 2004 results...
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Ok, I shouldn't say kos... as it was DemFromCT, but it did get promoted to the front page.
And trust me, I voted for Jesse Ventura and he won.
But a Third Party cannot succeed, unless one of the other two major parties just fundamentally collapses. Maybe we're seeing that today a bit with the Republicans. If they could fuck up things worse, I don't know how. But I rather doubt it. The last time this happened was when the Whigs turned into the Republicans in 1860.
You're far better off trying to change one of the parties from the inside, as has happened with the Democrats over the past 6 or so years.
It's not training.
In 2000 a bunch of people voted for third parties and all we got for it was GW Bush.
The way our Government is setup, as defined by the Constitution, it naturally moves towards two parties. It's the winner take all foundation.
Guess that makes me at fault too, eh?
Although I didn't know the name of the radio station, I simply heard that some station out in california was oging to run this contest. Considering I live 2000 miles east of their, I'm not a listener.
How'd they get the icons from the iPhone when it hasn't been released yet?
You sure they didn't just make their own icons that looked SIMILAR to what had been seen in the media reports on the iPhone?
Because the Libertarians did personal liberties such a favor by backing the President's invasion of Iraq.
Proposals and Law are two different things. I'll fret and claim the sky is falling if and when it's actually passed.
I'm not one to support frivolous lawsuits, but when I first heard about this contest a week or so back I wondered if they were aware that drinking too much water can be extremely dangerous. Apparently not, the "you can quit at any time if you feel bad" wasn't much of a disclaimer. From all the reports I've read, they didn't even consult with doctors.
I'm sad that my initial assumption that this would turn out bad came true. I'd rather be wrong on things like this.
And determined that computers in general were too expensive.
so we called office Depot up and ordered pads of paper and pencils for everyone in the company.
My background is a combination of hobbyist and ComSci. I started in junior high with BASIC, and did C development for a time, got into infrastructure and now work exclusively with C#.
PHP is definately a hobbyist language. We need those, because there always needs to be a place for people to learn.
But I think what we in the industry need to do is a better job of explaining why things are bad, and why and *WHEN* you'd be better off moving to something different.
I think the mistake that I've seen PHP make is actually to try to focus on making PHP more of a grownup language, and less of a useful language. As such the more recent versions of the framework are not near as popular as version 4 was. What they risk by trying to be more like say Java or C#, is they risk having the hobbyists move on to something different. They will never compete with Java or C#, so why try? Keep your niche happy.
So I see your point, but maybe what you are really saying is that you personally have outgrown PHP and it's time to move on to something different.
Given your example of a chainsaw, you might want to google words such as anti-kickback chain, chain brake, hand guards and/or just the general chainsaw safety keywords.
You might learn something.
You mean like how none of us bought DivX and Circuit City finally gave up?
Naw, it could never happen. These giant corporations control everything. They use advertising to force us to buy their stuff, and we have no control at all over them!
Ahh, I can picture the /. headline now followed up with a bunch of whining about how Microsoft is refusing to cooperate with the industry to provide HD content.
I've been using it at home for a few weeks. The first couple of days it took some getting used to.
But now I'm finding that it's much more intuitive. Especially dealing with some layout features, fonts, styling and such.
That's my biggest problem with most of the cell phones out today. They can play music, games, look pretty.
But very few of them do the basics well... i.e. make phone calls. My old Nokia would lose signal. My new Samsung, the vibrate isn't powerful enough, and the ring isn't loud enough.
Oh yeah, but sure, it has a camera phone and will do all these other cool worthless things.
I doubt Apple is entering this market to make a cell phone. They probably just want to make an iPod that can occasionally make phone calls.
Clearly this guy was setup by Democrats trying to make him look bad. It was probably Democrats who gave him the idea of having his record changed in the first place.
/snark
Hell, the guys stringing him along were probably Democrats! So that makes this whole thing a BI-Partisan scandal!
Damn Democrats! you just can't trust them. They're always out to make you look like a fool!
Between Democrats and the Damn Liberal Media who reported this... It's a wonder the Republicans get any good news out.
So you're telling me...
A outbound firewall is going to stop popups, spyware and trojans.
Exactly how. I really would love to hear your explanation.
But I thought that nobody uses Windows XP, and nobody has any plans of migrating to Vista.
/., so it must be true.
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Ned Lamont was a Republican.
What's important is a firewall stops incoming traffic, to prevent worm attacks.
Stopping outgoing traffic is for the obsessively insane.
I think the past six years of Bush/Republican rule have shown the importance of this statement. If you want to defend your freedoms, you must be able to do it yourself for the politicians certainly have no interest in doing so.