I've seen 4 inch LCDs (LCD with just a circuit board) for about $100 when I was looking at solutions for an car MP3 player-I was thinking of mounting one in my steering wheel for WinAmp visuals. Then my wife pointed out that it may be a bit distracting. =)
A quick check on FleaBay shows used ones for about $50-$70 or so.
I've seen 4 inch LCDs (LCD with just a circuit board) for about $100 when I was looking at solutions for an car MP3 player-I was thinking of mounting one in my steering wheel for WinAmp visuals. Then my wife pointed out that it may be a bit distracting. =)
A quick check on FleaBay shows used ones for about $50-$70 or so.
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Actually, it is a federal offense to sell or buy a vote.
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Nope...check the results. Bush actually LOST votes. As for being unofficial...well, they're all officially unofficial, but regardless, the problem remains. When you're talking 327 votes out of 6,000,000+...you better be damn sure you counted right!
Didn't a vote go up for sale on EBay a while back? What's to prevent me from selling my vote now? Send in for an absentee ballot, there you go, it's all yours.
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Uhmmm...what?
1)It should be easy for everyone to vote.
2)Since when did having to do research on a candidate become a requirement for voting? Should we have tests on the issues before votes?
3)If the middle and upper middle class vote from home, then there would be less of a line at the booth. Hence, maybe lower income people would vote more. And, we have 'Net access in libraraies, schools, etc.
4)The system now already favors the middle and upper middle class (and the unemployed, I suppose.) Election day should be a MANDATORY national holiday. It's hard to vote when you're at work.
5)It's already a popularity contest. I don't think we could do much worse.
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What I don't get is if they counted the votes the first time, and came up with Bush +1700 or so, and then REcounted, and came up with Bush +327 or so...how do we know which is right? Or if either of them are? If I count a stack of money, and I get 2 different answers...you better believe that I'm going to count it again and again until I get 2 corrobarating results! If FL can make a mistake by 1400+- votes...why not 1701 votes? (Which would make Gore the winner...)
You know, I don't think socialism is all that bad of an idea. Except for the inherent corruption in our leaders, that is. And for those that say socialism doesn't/can't work, has anyone taken a look at our military lately? I'd say that's a pretty successful slightly-modified-exercise-in-socialism.
Though I didn't want to stop to feed the trolls...
Just thought all should know that most people read the Constitution wrong. The Constitution does not tell us our rights. It tells us the federal governments rights. The "Bill of Rights" was simply an add-on to appease the states, that those particular rights would not be infringed on. That does not mean those are all of our rights, though. In reality, if it's not explicitly stated in the Constitution, then a)the federal government has absolutely NO authority in the matter, and b)it's left up to the states. If the states have no say in the matter, then it's left to the people.
Actually, I doubt that the number of people who would describe themselves as "very or devoutly religious" would even climb to 50%. Of those, I'd say maybe 80% would be Christian-based. (Other religions tend to be more devout...probably because it takes a hell of a lot more faith to be a non-Christian than a Christian here in the States.)
If anyone has an argument on that, I think we could probably pull some numbers.
Why couldn't a gay marriage hold the same status and be subject to the same rules as a "traditional" marriage? Last I checked, they don't make you drop your pants to get a marriage license.
This would prevent "ANY" partnership from being a marriage, unless, either thru same-sex or opposite-sex...they're MARRIED.
Do you really think people thought about these things before they instituted "legalized unions" in the first place?
Well, that's funny. When I fill out an application for a job at Burger King, I'm required to list any prior convictions (and, on some applications, alleged offenses). Moving up in the world, when entrusted with the security of a large companies' network servers, I was required to undergo an extensive background check (not to mention the ubiqutious urine test), which included any alleged or convicted offenses. Somehow, I thinkt hat if Bush feels adamantly opposed to such invasions of privacy...perhaps he would do well to voice his concerns, and to protect us from it as well?
Look forward to it, man! And when they get suspended for anything like this, tell them good job and take them out to lunch! A suspension for standing up for your beliefs is a hell of a lot better than just caving in....
Bah. I'd be glad to be suspended if I was him. I'd clip every newspaper article I could find on it, and spend the next week or so (however long he was suspended for) chillin'. Then, when college admissions came around, I'd just show them my scrapbook to explain the "suspension". What kind of a college wouldn't respect a high-schooler who stood up for his beliefs? Not a college I would like to go to, that's for sure. Plus, as an added bonus, I know exactly what he should write about for those pesky admission essays! =)
I think the problem is that patents don't recognize the dynamics of technology. A patent on SDRAM/DDR/RDRAM won't be worth anything when the patent expires! In the non-tech world, a telephone can still be produced after the 20 years (is that the correct figure) and still be useful. I think that patents, tech-related at least, should be limited to somewhere between 2-5 years.
And the fact that RAMBUS chose to quietly sit back and watch as SDRAM became a computer industry standard, THEN chose to enforce [questionably attained] patents, smacks of unfairness. This not only harms memory producing corporations (having to pay license fees), but consumers as well, who ultimately will have to pay those license fees. This doesn't really encourage innovation either, as most people with computers aren't going to be able to run out and buy a new one when/if someone comes up with a competing standard.
Not to mention the fact that RAMBUS used unethical and, IMHO, illegal, means to get the patents, and the resulting standards, in the first place.
Doesn't this go against the purpose of P2P file-sharing? You'd be getting it off a server now. Why doesn't BMG simply throw up a website? Wouldn't that be easier? And, how long is it gonna take someone with an OC-3 line to rip the entire catalog and throw it online? (Either on a server or on Gnutella, OpenNAP, etc.) This may fly for a bit, but 6 months from now, we'll all be listening to Napster's eulogy.
Actually this isn't really all that unknown anymore. The PIII 1.13GHz chip REQUIRED a new BIOS and microcode update. Check out Tom's Hardware for their PIII 1.13GHz review (the one that led to the recall, incidentally) for details. But, basically, without the microcode, the processor was very flaky. Tom thinks that it was simply an OC'ed processor, and the microcode was used to disable certain things for stability...that was the impression I got anyway.
First off, Nader supports a MINIMUM LIVABLE wage. You know, so people don't have to work 40 hours a week at $5 an hour and come up with less than $10,000 at the end of the year to show for it.
As for a maximum wage, I've never heard Nader support that. Even so, though, I think it's a damn good idea. There's no reason why the Gates, DuPont's, etc. of the country should be able to simply amass great fortunes on the backs of the middle and lower classes. Some SERIOUS reform needs to go on here. Read the facts, it should make anyone who actually has to WORK for a living livid.
"We've had 10 years of economic growth, but the majority of the workers are making less today, in inflation-adjusted dollars, than they made in 1973 or '79...and work 160 hours longer per year than workers did in 1973"
"There are about 47 million workers, over one-third of the workforce, making less than $10 per hour [around $15000 take home pay], many at $5.25, $6.00, $7.00, with no or few benefits"
"In large companies, people who work in the same enterprise are now earning $1 for every $416 that the CEO takes away. In 1940, it was $1 for every $12."
"...the top 1 percent of households exceeds the combined wealth of the bottom 95 percent of American households. Earlier this year Bill Gates' wealth was equal to the combined wealth of the poorest 120 million Americans"
Don't believe the hype. The economy may be red-hot and growing...but it's only going to the top.
--Prepare for the revolution! T-25 years....
You fucking moron. I hate idiots who proclaim that "you're wasting your vote" if you don't vote for one of the pinheads running under the Republicrat/Demoblican flag. You say "many before us have literally died for [our right to vote]". And yet, you refuse to even entertain the notion that one of the candidates besides the ones funded by Big Business might be a better choice?!? That's a fucking OUTRAGE!!! People died for your sorry ass so that you could have a CHOICE-and when the Republicrats always win...that's no more of a choice than if I ask you if you'd rather die by decapititation or hanging. And you're helping to keep the scam going.
Did you know Jesse Ventura, now Governor of Minnesota, had something like 3% of the polls going into the debates? And he WON! THAT is what makes Democracy work! Not the status quo!
Besides, the whole reason for 3rd party candidates is:
a) to send a wake-up call to the Republicrats<
b) to give people a(nother) voice
c) if they get 5% of the votes, then they get federal matching funds in the next election.
That way, they can have the money to buy your sorry-ass vote just like the Republicrats do now.
VOTE YOUR CONSCIENCE! Your one piddly, miserable ass little vote ain't going to make a wit of difference anyhow.
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I've seen 4 inch LCDs (LCD with just a circuit board) for about $100 when I was looking at solutions for an car MP3 player-I was thinking of mounting one in my steering wheel for WinAmp visuals. Then my wife pointed out that it may be a bit distracting. =)
A quick check on FleaBay shows used ones for about $50-$70 or so.
I've seen 4 inch LCDs (LCD with just a circuit board) for about $100 when I was looking at solutions for an car MP3 player-I was thinking of mounting one in my steering wheel for WinAmp visuals. Then my wife pointed out that it may be a bit distracting. =) A quick check on FleaBay shows used ones for about $50-$70 or so.
Actually, it is a federal offense to sell or buy a vote.
Nope...check the results. Bush actually LOST votes. As for being unofficial...well, they're all officially unofficial, but regardless, the problem remains. When you're talking 327 votes out of 6,000,000+...you better be damn sure you counted right!
Didn't a vote go up for sale on EBay a while back? What's to prevent me from selling my vote now? Send in for an absentee ballot, there you go, it's all yours.
Uhmmm...what?
1)It should be easy for everyone to vote.
2)Since when did having to do research on a candidate become a requirement for voting? Should we have tests on the issues before votes?
3)If the middle and upper middle class vote from home, then there would be less of a line at the booth. Hence, maybe lower income people would vote more. And, we have 'Net access in libraraies, schools, etc.
4)The system now already favors the middle and upper middle class (and the unemployed, I suppose.) Election day should be a MANDATORY national holiday. It's hard to vote when you're at work.
5)It's already a popularity contest. I don't think we could do much worse.
What I don't get is if they counted the votes the first time, and came up with Bush +1700 or so, and then REcounted, and came up with Bush +327 or so...how do we know which is right? Or if either of them are? If I count a stack of money, and I get 2 different answers...you better believe that I'm going to count it again and again until I get 2 corrobarating results! If FL can make a mistake by 1400+- votes...why not 1701 votes? (Which would make Gore the winner...)
You know, I don't think socialism is all that bad of an idea. Except for the inherent corruption in our leaders, that is. And for those that say socialism doesn't/can't work, has anyone taken a look at our military lately? I'd say that's a pretty successful slightly-modified-exercise-in-socialism.
and there's not a whole load of "passive christians"?
Though I didn't want to stop to feed the trolls... Just thought all should know that most people read the Constitution wrong. The Constitution does not tell us our rights. It tells us the federal governments rights. The "Bill of Rights" was simply an add-on to appease the states, that those particular rights would not be infringed on. That does not mean those are all of our rights, though. In reality, if it's not explicitly stated in the Constitution, then a)the federal government has absolutely NO authority in the matter, and b)it's left up to the states. If the states have no say in the matter, then it's left to the people.
Actually, I doubt that the number of people who would describe themselves as "very or devoutly religious" would even climb to 50%. Of those, I'd say maybe 80% would be Christian-based. (Other religions tend to be more devout...probably because it takes a hell of a lot more faith to be a non-Christian than a Christian here in the States.) If anyone has an argument on that, I think we could probably pull some numbers.
Why couldn't a gay marriage hold the same status and be subject to the same rules as a "traditional" marriage? Last I checked, they don't make you drop your pants to get a marriage license. This would prevent "ANY" partnership from being a marriage, unless, either thru same-sex or opposite-sex...they're MARRIED. Do you really think people thought about these things before they instituted "legalized unions" in the first place?
Yeah...and we'll be damned if we'll sacrifice tradition for equality.
Well, that's funny. When I fill out an application for a job at Burger King, I'm required to list any prior convictions (and, on some applications, alleged offenses). Moving up in the world, when entrusted with the security of a large companies' network servers, I was required to undergo an extensive background check (not to mention the ubiqutious urine test), which included any alleged or convicted offenses. Somehow, I thinkt hat if Bush feels adamantly opposed to such invasions of privacy...perhaps he would do well to voice his concerns, and to protect us from it as well?
Look forward to it, man! And when they get suspended for anything like this, tell them good job and take them out to lunch! A suspension for standing up for your beliefs is a hell of a lot better than just caving in....
Bah. I'd be glad to be suspended if I was him. I'd clip every newspaper article I could find on it, and spend the next week or so (however long he was suspended for) chillin'. Then, when college admissions came around, I'd just show them my scrapbook to explain the "suspension". What kind of a college wouldn't respect a high-schooler who stood up for his beliefs? Not a college I would like to go to, that's for sure. Plus, as an added bonus, I know exactly what he should write about for those pesky admission essays! =)
I think the problem is that patents don't recognize the dynamics of technology. A patent on SDRAM/DDR/RDRAM won't be worth anything when the patent expires! In the non-tech world, a telephone can still be produced after the 20 years (is that the correct figure) and still be useful. I think that patents, tech-related at least, should be limited to somewhere between 2-5 years. And the fact that RAMBUS chose to quietly sit back and watch as SDRAM became a computer industry standard, THEN chose to enforce [questionably attained] patents, smacks of unfairness. This not only harms memory producing corporations (having to pay license fees), but consumers as well, who ultimately will have to pay those license fees. This doesn't really encourage innovation either, as most people with computers aren't going to be able to run out and buy a new one when/if someone comes up with a competing standard. Not to mention the fact that RAMBUS used unethical and, IMHO, illegal, means to get the patents, and the resulting standards, in the first place.
Doesn't this go against the purpose of P2P file-sharing? You'd be getting it off a server now. Why doesn't BMG simply throw up a website? Wouldn't that be easier? And, how long is it gonna take someone with an OC-3 line to rip the entire catalog and throw it online? (Either on a server or on Gnutella, OpenNAP, etc.) This may fly for a bit, but 6 months from now, we'll all be listening to Napster's eulogy.
Actually this isn't really all that unknown anymore. The PIII 1.13GHz chip REQUIRED a new BIOS and microcode update. Check out Tom's Hardware for their PIII 1.13GHz review (the one that led to the recall, incidentally) for details. But, basically, without the microcode, the processor was very flaky. Tom thinks that it was simply an OC'ed processor, and the microcode was used to disable certain things for stability...that was the impression I got anyway.
That, my friends, is a wonderful idea. Either that, or just get rid of the damn parties altogether. Nobody ever invites me anyhow.
As for a maximum wage, I've never heard Nader support that. Even so, though, I think it's a damn good idea. There's no reason why the Gates, DuPont's, etc. of the country should be able to simply amass great fortunes on the backs of the middle and lower classes. Some SERIOUS reform needs to go on here. Read the facts, it should make anyone who actually has to WORK for a living livid.
"We've had 10 years of economic growth, but the majority of the workers are making less today, in inflation-adjusted dollars, than they made in 1973 or '79...and work 160 hours longer per year than workers did in 1973"
"There are about 47 million workers, over one-third of the workforce, making less than $10 per hour [around $15000 take home pay], many at $5.25, $6.00, $7.00, with no or few benefits"
"In large companies, people who work in the same enterprise are now earning $1 for every $416 that the CEO takes away. In 1940, it was $1 for every $12." "...the top 1 percent of households exceeds the combined wealth of the bottom 95 percent of American households. Earlier this year Bill Gates' wealth was equal to the combined wealth of the poorest 120 million Americans"
Don't believe the hype. The economy may be red-hot and growing...but it's only going to the top. --Prepare for the revolution! T-25 years....
Okay, maybe he is. I don't know. I don't live in Minnesota! The whole point is that 3rd parties CAN win!
You fucking moron. I hate idiots who proclaim that "you're wasting your vote" if you don't vote for one of the pinheads running under the Republicrat/Demoblican flag. You say "many before us have literally died for [our right to vote]". And yet, you refuse to even entertain the notion that one of the candidates besides the ones funded by Big Business might be a better choice?!? That's a fucking OUTRAGE!!! People died for your sorry ass so that you could have a CHOICE-and when the Republicrats always win...that's no more of a choice than if I ask you if you'd rather die by decapititation or hanging. And you're helping to keep the scam going.
Did you know Jesse Ventura, now Governor of Minnesota, had something like 3% of the polls going into the debates? And he WON! THAT is what makes Democracy work! Not the status quo!
Besides, the whole reason for 3rd party candidates is:
a) to send a wake-up call to the Republicrats<
b) to give people a(nother) voice
c) if they get 5% of the votes, then they get federal matching funds in the next election.
That way, they can have the money to buy your sorry-ass vote just like the Republicrats do now.
VOTE YOUR CONSCIENCE! Your one piddly, miserable ass little vote ain't going to make a wit of difference anyhow.
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