That's because both these forms of government are really ideals, and in order to achieve them, a totalitarian government must be implemented, which essentially means that the idea cannot be achieved. It's a Catch 22.
Every so often a news item comes out about the benefits of coffee or whatever, followed by the news item that comes out within weeks that completely contradicts it. Happened before and it will happen again.
And somebody on/. will kick and scream about duplicate stories.
I know she has used it to create a server version that runs completely off CD, making the system partition cracker-proof. Since Gwyn is also into audio/video processing, anything's possible.
...as if this was supposed to be some sort of huge secret or something!
I remember visiting the Science and Tech Museum here in Ottawa way back in 1977, the 60th anniversary of the USSR. The Soviets had an exhibition of their space program, including a model Vostok and Sputnik 1, some stuff about the recently completed Apollo/Soyuz joint mission...and a model Lunokhod, which ran on a little track on a grayish moon surface. Most interesting! Somewhere, I still have a brochure or two from it.
So this was hardly any sort of secret, the USSR being very solvent at the time.
The rest of the world uses even more antiquated voting equipment...paper, pens, sealed cardboard boxes! If it boils down to costs, switch back to these, and save a bundle!
I do not understand why you Americans go for these Rube Goldberg methods of casting a vote come election time. I can understand the need to be able to count the ballots quickly, so go for cumputerized voting if you must, but why not use the KISS approach for what should be a required paper trail? Seems to work just fine in the rest of the voting world, and there's no silly assed questions concerning "hanging chads".
...and the evidence I see is abundantly clear! I see the byproducts of their pleasure all over the place, from the packages to the butts. I see little piles of butts at traffic intersections and in parking lots where these people choose to empty their ashtrays. I see people tossing their still-lit butts out of car windows. (A good friend of mine lost his truck to fire when one of these hit his hay-bale laden truck at highway speed, burning it to the ground in minutes.)
If you don't have to put up with this trash all over the place, then consider yourself lucky. It's a part of daily existence where I am. despite fairly and increasingly stringent anti-smoking regulations.
I can deal with the problem of smokers not being able to quit their filthy disgusting habit, but how about the more sociopathic problem that seems to plague the better part of them, therefore society as a whole?
Ever notice what happens when a smoker opens up a fresh pack? The plastic wrap goes onto the ground. Then, once the smoke is finished, it goes onto the ground too. When the pack is finished, it tends to end up on the ground too. In other words, smokers are some of the most sociopathic polluting assholes on the planet! Ever have a look around a typical smoking area around, say, a public building? Butts everywhere, despite the usual presence of buttcans and ashtrays. They don't use them or need them, because they consider the world as their ashtray!
Fucking assholes! These people don't need a vaccine to deal with their smoking problem. They need a simple boot in the ass, or several hundred as the case may be, to teach them a much needed lesson about simple politeness and courtesy! All before even getting into the usual controversies about polluting the air that I have to breathe without my consent.
...is what I have been using almost for the past decade, not that I have a laptop...or a NOTEBOOK...to put into the damn thing. Just makes for a damn huge briefcase/lunchbag/toolbag/purse. I'd love to find another one in this PDA infested world!
If you want to get a decent quality case, think along the lines of Pelican or Storm cases, either of which will survive an air crash!
I know somebody who had on his resume, when asked about his goals and aspirations, something along the same lines. His answer: Master of time, space and the Universe. When asked about it on an interview, his answer was simple...if you're going to play, play to win! He got the position.
"About 100,000 voters the counties of Prescott-Russell and Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry were registered to cast their ballots online."
The article specifically mentions Prescott-Russell, in eastern Ontario, just east of the city of Ottawa. Where the hell did you get Toronto out of that?...or maybe I've just fed a troll...
...and I'll tell you, if this works anything like some of the municipal services, they're fscked! Prescott-Russell is a backwater. Half the places there are still on dialup, for starters. The road and water systems are a shambles. My ex is going to have to shell out an extra $2K this year to help upgrade everything. Never a cop in sight, so the kids in their damn rice-boy POS cars run rampant on the residential streets. Meanwhile, the little guy in his white pickup who enforces municipal bylaws seems everywhere, looking for those hapless individuals who run their lawn sprinklers on the wrong day, or have a hedge 6 inches too high. Shows where the priorities are. I think this election is going to be a farce!
I remember reading something somewhere a few years ago that offered proof that Guy Fawkes was framed. Anything to this?
I also understand that Brits seem to have tossed out the whole Nov 5th thing for the more commercial American import of Halloween, but haven't really picked up on the concept, with many kids showing up on pumpkinless doorsteps sans costume.
Seems to me that Guy Fawkes Night would be a much bigger blast!
"Music and image are completely inseparable, and with the advent of reality TV and the Internet, music consumers aren't about to relinquish power to a solitary deejay and squirm at the fickle whims of their radio reception."
The big problem here is that there never is a solitary DJ behind the mike deciding what is going to be played. Everything is decided remotely, at the network level, and the playlists are all computer generated. The only thing the DJ does anymore is to spout his typically childish drivel into the microphone.
So this begs the question...where does the music come from? If the playlists are generated on a remote computer somewhere according to demographics and marketing, who decides what new up-and-coming bands are worth listening to? Will all music end up being prefab garbage like the BackSync Boys or those cardboard cutout idiots featured on American Idol?
It seems to me that, in order for new music to get airplay, somehwere there has to be local coverage of whatever local music scene. With everything being so tightly controlled at the network level by some nameless faceless marketing drone who decides everything using a spreadsheet, a good deal of what is offered on the radio these days, where does exposure for new music happen? If nobody supports local music, there will be no new music at all, except for the prefab garbage.
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Can one of those Pontiac POS cars even go 157 clicks?
That's because both these forms of government are really ideals, and in order to achieve them, a totalitarian government must be implemented, which essentially means that the idea cannot be achieved. It's a Catch 22.
Every so often a news item comes out about the benefits of coffee or whatever, followed by the news item that comes out within weeks that completely contradicts it. Happened before and it will happen again.
/. will kick and scream about duplicate stories.
And somebody on
Isn't this the flipside of building the Earth 2 to solve the Great Question of Life, The Universe and Everything, for which the answer is 42?
Here's the distro my friend Gwyn created:
http://gwynux.ca
and her homepage:
http://www.toadware.ca
I know she has used it to create a server version that runs completely off CD, making the system partition cracker-proof. Since Gwyn is also into audio/video processing, anything's possible.
...as if this was supposed to be some sort of huge secret or something!
I remember visiting the Science and Tech Museum here in Ottawa way back in 1977, the 60th anniversary of the USSR. The Soviets had an exhibition of their space program, including a model Vostok and Sputnik 1, some stuff about the recently completed Apollo/Soyuz joint mission...and a model Lunokhod, which ran on a little track on a grayish moon surface. Most interesting! Somewhere, I still have a brochure or two from it.
So this was hardly any sort of secret, the USSR being very solvent at the time.
Behind a Ford Pinto and in front of an Audi 5000S!
Ahh, timecards! Remember them? Having to put the flat rock in the dinosaur's mouth at the start and finish of every shift so he could bit it?
Wait a minute...that's Flintstones!
Better than that...get "FUCK YOU" tattooed on the palm of your hand!
The rest of the world uses even more antiquated voting equipment...paper, pens, sealed cardboard boxes! If it boils down to costs, switch back to these, and save a bundle!
...and my three-year-old can mark an X in a box!
I do not understand why you Americans go for these Rube Goldberg methods of casting a vote come election time. I can understand the need to be able to count the ballots quickly, so go for cumputerized voting if you must, but why not use the KISS approach for what should be a required paper trail? Seems to work just fine in the rest of the voting world, and there's no silly assed questions concerning "hanging chads".
Then do your part and get your fellow smokers to do the same!
As for the USA comment, I'm Canadian, you insensitive clod! At least we have a 98% success rate at beer bottle returns!
I don't own a car. I use public transit.
...and the evidence I see is abundantly clear! I see the byproducts of their pleasure all over the place, from the packages to the butts. I see little piles of butts at traffic intersections and in parking lots where these people choose to empty their ashtrays. I see people tossing their still-lit butts out of car windows. (A good friend of mine lost his truck to fire when one of these hit his hay-bale laden truck at highway speed, burning it to the ground in minutes.)
If you don't have to put up with this trash all over the place, then consider yourself lucky. It's a part of daily existence where I am. despite fairly and increasingly stringent anti-smoking regulations.
...and back up again!
Thanks!
Never mind that the point I make is valid. The evidence is clear, as I point out. I guess I just got modded down by militant smoker!
I can deal with the problem of smokers not being able to quit their filthy disgusting habit, but how about the more sociopathic problem that seems to plague the better part of them, therefore society as a whole?
Ever notice what happens when a smoker opens up a fresh pack? The plastic wrap goes onto the ground. Then, once the smoke is finished, it goes onto the ground too. When the pack is finished, it tends to end up on the ground too. In other words, smokers are some of the most sociopathic polluting assholes on the planet! Ever have a look around a typical smoking area around, say, a public building? Butts everywhere, despite the usual presence of buttcans and ashtrays. They don't use them or need them, because they consider the world as their ashtray!
Fucking assholes! These people don't need a vaccine to deal with their smoking problem. They need a simple boot in the ass, or several hundred as the case may be, to teach them a much needed lesson about simple politeness and courtesy! All before even getting into the usual controversies about polluting the air that I have to breathe without my consent.
...is what I have been using almost for the past decade, not that I have a laptop...or a NOTEBOOK...to put into the damn thing. Just makes for a damn huge briefcase/lunchbag/toolbag/purse. I'd love to find another one in this PDA infested world!
If you want to get a decent quality case, think along the lines of Pelican or Storm cases, either of which will survive an air crash!
I'm a geek!
I know somebody who had on his resume, when asked about his goals and aspirations, something along the same lines. His answer: Master of time, space and the Universe. When asked about it on an interview, his answer was simple...if you're going to play, play to win! He got the position.
From the article:
...or maybe I've just fed a troll...
"About 100,000 voters the counties of Prescott-Russell and Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry were registered to cast their ballots online."
The article specifically mentions Prescott-Russell, in eastern Ontario, just east of the city of Ottawa. Where the hell did you get Toronto out of that?
...and I'll tell you, if this works anything like some of the municipal services, they're fscked! Prescott-Russell is a backwater. Half the places there are still on dialup, for starters. The road and water systems are a shambles. My ex is going to have to shell out an extra $2K this year to help upgrade everything. Never a cop in sight, so the kids in their damn rice-boy POS cars run rampant on the residential streets. Meanwhile, the little guy in his white pickup who enforces municipal bylaws seems everywhere, looking for those hapless individuals who run their lawn sprinklers on the wrong day, or have a hedge 6 inches too high. Shows where the priorities are. I think this election is going to be a farce!
> They'll be back the next night, hoping you've forgotten them
That's what I mean about being unclear on the concept. It's just the one night, not a whole week.
I remember reading something somewhere a few years ago that offered proof that Guy Fawkes was framed. Anything to this?
I also understand that Brits seem to have tossed out the whole Nov 5th thing for the more commercial American import of Halloween, but haven't really picked up on the concept, with many kids showing up on pumpkinless doorsteps sans costume.
Seems to me that Guy Fawkes Night would be a much bigger blast!
From the article...
"Music and image are completely inseparable, and with the advent of reality TV and the Internet, music consumers aren't about to relinquish power to a solitary deejay and squirm at the fickle whims of their radio reception."
The big problem here is that there never is a solitary DJ behind the mike deciding what is going to be played. Everything is decided remotely, at the network level, and the playlists are all computer generated. The only thing the DJ does anymore is to spout his typically childish drivel into the microphone.
So this begs the question...where does the music come from? If the playlists are generated on a remote computer somewhere according to demographics and marketing, who decides what new up-and-coming bands are worth listening to? Will all music end up being prefab garbage like the BackSync Boys or those cardboard cutout idiots featured on American Idol?
It seems to me that, in order for new music to get airplay, somehwere there has to be local coverage of whatever local music scene. With everything being so tightly controlled at the network level by some nameless faceless marketing drone who decides everything using a spreadsheet, a good deal of what is offered on the radio these days, where does exposure for new music happen? If nobody supports local music, there will be no new music at all, except for the prefab garbage.