1) President Bush empowered himself to take the civil liberties away from US Citizens.
No, John Kerry empowered President Bush to take away civil liberties away for US Citizens. Remember, the Patriot act was pass by CONGRESS with strong BIPARTISAN support.
The spectre of the Patriot act has gotten to the point where it is roughly the equvlant fo the boogie man. Vote Deomocrat or John Ashcroft will come get you.
Don't get me wrong, there are aspects of the Patriot Act I really don't like, but it is not the overpowering shadow on our civil rights that everyone is trying to convince us it is.
And the oil...your reaching there. If he hadn't guarded the oil fields and they got trashed (like kuqwaits in the first Gulf War) you woudl be complaining about how bush let the enviornment get damaged.
I'm a Canadian that feels deeply disappointed that so many Americans can still vote for someone like Bush. Yikes!
Oh piss off! Your elections are so freaking boring that you gotta bitch about ours. If you don't like the results of our elections move to Ca...nevermind.
As a Senator, Kerry voted for the DMCA. And in the six years since the DMCA was passed, Kerry has done nothing to fix the DMCA. Nor has he even suggested changing it. Now while he has state he is "open to examining", he has done little as a member of the legislative branch (where the DMCA would have to be fixed) to do anything that might suggest anything might be done about it.
If we get a President Kerry, or even a President Bush, I doubt that any change to the DMCA is going to be brought about by the executive branch. It's goign to come from the Judical branch saying this ain't constitutional, or the legislative branch saying "boy we screwed the pooch on this one" or better "Damn we gotta figure out how to get the RIAA to pursue terrorist, they have a lot more leeway on what they can do."
Okay the User interface rocks. The thumb wheel is the best I've seen since the scroll wheel on the Ipod. The Rio DJ is great. Especially the way varitey of modes of selecting what your in the mood for. Music from varous decades, Genres or just artist. All randomised for your pleasure. It had a solid feel to the build. It was a dense player, but not heavy to the point where it unpleasent. My only grip on the build was that it seemed a little thick. It wasn't somethign you could stick in your pocket easily. But the rubberised grip did make it easy to hold on too. The rio music manager is one of the best windows music rippers/managers that I have seen. It was easy and intuitive to use. It did not howver inculde a mp3 encoder, which was fine, I used ogg. I really liked the ablity to rip batches of CD. I would often rip 20 to 25 albums in a hour or two and then let them encode overnight. I still use it to this day.
Now for the bad stuff. It could not be used as an external hard drive without the Rio-somthing-or-another java utility becaus of som e proprietary filesystem they used. The case that came with it was crappy. I prefered the one that came with my iRiver HP-140. Now Why, you may ask, do I have a iRiver HP-140 AND a Rio Karma? Thats simple, because a month after my three month warrenty (thats four months for those not keeping track) ran out on the Karma, the fscking hardrive crapped out. Now I'm not saying that Rio is knowingly producing shoddy hardware, but I ain't buying anymore Rio hardware until thier warrenty reflects the supposed quality of thier product. Especially on something as pricey as the Rio Karma.
Ballot access. They have gone through and gotten on enough ballots where they could get 270 electoral votes and be the next president. If the dudes from the Turtle Party and Party-X are on enough state ballots, they should be included too. Though I really doubt they can get 270 votes much less 270 electoral college votes.
Okay how about this standard. Every canidate that has a chance of winning by virtue of being on ballot on enough states to get 270 electoral votes. Or better yet, on 2/3rds of state ballots. Yes this would exclude write in's. But tough nuts for them. This would give use, the way things are now, about 5 canidates at the debates, with out having to include the nuts in the Spider Revolutionary resurgance tofu eating party.
I know that libertarians are strong defenders of property rights including "intellectual property". What, if any, limitation should be on the duration of copyrights? Are they too long, too short, or just right? How would you like to see the length of copyrights defined?
And as a second question, what role should the government play in enforcing copyrights? Should it be imposing laws that limit technology that might be used to infringe upon copyrights? Should it be actively pursuing people who violate copyrights through the criminal justice system? Or should that be redressed through civil courts between the copyright holders and infringer?
Every February 2nd we would bring in our favorite SPAM (the meat not the mail) recipes and share them with our co-workers. Most of the time we would even eat what was prepared. Then we would take a moment to reflect on what we had just done, and a little part of us would die inside.
SDF is definatley worth the money. The $36 for a lifetime ARPA account is cheap for what you get. In fact sometimes I feel bad, like I am ripping SMJ off.
The only problem I'v hade with it was when NWLink dropped SDF
If it had been NetBSD it would have been believable. The problem with Slashdot's April Fools stories is that most of them are so obivious as to make you not wonder. The real good ones are the ones that are believable enough to make you wonder.
Candidates eligible for listing are those that have lawfully established and maintained a campaign committee with the Federal Election Commission (candidates can receive contributions only through such committees) and who, according to the FEC's monthly report, have raised/spent in excess of $5,000.
Have those other parties asked to have thier canidates listed? Or is it possible that the anti-capitalist/corporate nature of those parties have precluded them from wanting to be associated with Amazon.com? Of course you could be right, Amazon.com may not want to include parties that think Amazon.com and other corporations kind are evil and should be penalized out of existance or worse yet into government control. God forbid that you be forced to buy a bat for the guy that wants to beat the $h!t out of you.
At $1000 a pop, they should have that $35 billion dollar defict cleared up by next Thursday. And look at all those business that will move thier mail servers back to California just to be protected under this law.
I doubt this will survive the first court challenge. And rightly so. It run right over the first amendment and the commrce clause.
Does this ruling apply to people outside of California? Does this ruling apply to say Matthew Pavlovich, who was removed from the law suit, because he had no connection to California? In a related note raise your middle finger if you think this isn't going to be appealed to the Federal Court system?
Orrin Hatch had two things going against him. One was the fact that he had just days earlier advocated using techincal measures to destroy computers of copyright infringers, and the other as the (R) after his name.
I know i'm gonna get flamed for them, but states that support terrorism are terrorists. Bush said it best right after 9/11. There is no difference between a terrorist orginzation and a state that spports it. Thats was why we went after the Taliban. Hell we gave them 2 monthes to turn over bin Ladin before we went in. And no if you where a german agent in France and you were not a uniformed soldier, they could legally execute you on the spot as a spy. As far as the USSR goes, Soviet citizens must have loved that government. They kept it around so long.
Why are geeks for Dean? Whats he going to do for us?
Its a great learning exprience. I learned more about linux installing gentoo (way back in the old days when it was still using gcc 2.95) than using Red Hat for a year. It may take a while to install and update, but it does teach you whats what on a linux system. That and portage just rocks. There is even a NWN ebuild
Additionally, the philosophical point here is to screw MS.
The point should be to get major computer manufactures to give us the choice on whether we want to pay the "Microsoft Tax" associated with getting a new PC, not to screw Microsoft. The end result of any large amount of SC lawsuits should be an option on the buy a PC from Dell(or anyother big name OEM) that doesn't come with an Microsoft OS.
The problem with Linux advocacy through Microsoft bashing is you wind up sounding like a lot of the Democratic presidental canidates. Your saying why Bush is bad, but your not saying why your better. And if your not better, whats the point of changing things?
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1) President Bush empowered himself to take the civil liberties away from US Citizens.
No, John Kerry empowered President Bush to take away civil liberties away for US Citizens. Remember, the Patriot act was pass by CONGRESS with strong BIPARTISAN support.
The spectre of the Patriot act has gotten to the point where it is roughly the equvlant fo the boogie man. Vote Deomocrat or John Ashcroft will come get you.
Don't get me wrong, there are aspects of the Patriot Act I really don't like, but it is not the overpowering shadow on our civil rights that everyone is trying to convince us it is.
And the oil...your reaching there. If he hadn't guarded the oil fields and they got trashed (like kuqwaits in the first Gulf War) you woudl be complaining about how bush let the enviornment get damaged.
I'm a Canadian that feels deeply disappointed that so many Americans can still vote for someone like Bush. Yikes!
Oh piss off! Your elections are so freaking boring that you gotta bitch about ours. If you don't like the results of our elections move to Ca...nevermind.
As a Senator, Kerry voted for the DMCA. And in the six years since the DMCA was passed, Kerry has done nothing to fix the DMCA. Nor has he even suggested changing it. Now while he has state he is "open to examining", he has done little as a member of the legislative branch (where the DMCA would have to be fixed) to do anything that might suggest anything might be done about it.
If we get a President Kerry, or even a President Bush, I doubt that any change to the DMCA is going to be brought about by the executive branch. It's goign to come from the Judical branch saying this ain't constitutional, or the legislative branch saying "boy we screwed the pooch on this one" or better "Damn we gotta figure out how to get the RIAA to pursue terrorist, they have a lot more leeway on what they can do."
Okay the User interface rocks. The thumb wheel is the best I've seen since the scroll wheel on the Ipod. The Rio DJ is great. Especially the way varitey of modes of selecting what your in the mood for. Music from varous decades, Genres or just artist. All randomised for your pleasure. It had a solid feel to the build. It was a dense player, but not heavy to the point where it unpleasent. My only grip on the build was that it seemed a little thick. It wasn't somethign you could stick in your pocket easily. But the rubberised grip did make it easy to hold on too. The rio music manager is one of the best windows music rippers/managers that I have seen. It was easy and intuitive to use. It did not howver inculde a mp3 encoder, which was fine, I used ogg. I really liked the ablity to rip batches of CD. I would often rip 20 to 25 albums in a hour or two and then let them encode overnight. I still use it to this day.
Now for the bad stuff. It could not be used as an external hard drive without the Rio-somthing-or-another java utility becaus of som e proprietary filesystem they used. The case that came with it was crappy. I prefered the one that came with my iRiver HP-140. Now Why, you may ask, do I have a iRiver HP-140 AND a Rio Karma? Thats simple, because a month after my three month warrenty (thats four months for those not keeping track) ran out on the Karma, the fscking hardrive crapped out. Now I'm not saying that Rio is knowingly producing shoddy hardware, but I ain't buying anymore Rio hardware until thier warrenty reflects the supposed quality of thier product. Especially on something as pricey as the Rio Karma.
Ballot access. They have gone through and gotten on enough ballots where they could get 270 electoral votes and be the next president. If the dudes from the Turtle Party and Party-X are on enough state ballots, they should be included too. Though I really doubt they can get 270 votes much less 270 electoral college votes.
Okay how about this standard. Every canidate that has a chance of winning by virtue of being on ballot on enough states to get 270 electoral votes. Or better yet, on 2/3rds of state ballots. Yes this would exclude write in's. But tough nuts for them. This would give use, the way things are now, about 5 canidates at the debates, with out having to include the nuts in the Spider Revolutionary resurgance tofu eating party.
Nice sig, especially given the context of the story. That being said you should add Democrats have CBS.
Also, its Foxnews. Fox TV is the channel that does Mad TV, That 70's Show and the Simpson's.
I know that libertarians are strong defenders of property rights including "intellectual property". What, if any, limitation should be on the duration of copyrights? Are they too long, too short, or just right? How would you like to see the length of copyrights defined?
And as a second question, what role should the government play in enforcing copyrights? Should it be imposing laws that limit technology that might be used to infringe upon copyrights? Should it be actively pursuing people who violate copyrights through the criminal justice system? Or should that be redressed through civil courts between the copyright holders and infringer?
Every February 2nd we would bring in our favorite SPAM (the meat not the mail) recipes and share them with our co-workers. Most of the time we would even eat what was prepared. Then we would take a moment to reflect on what we had just done, and a little part of us would die inside.
Okay You really don't have to go to Mexico. It just seemed like a good excuse to go to Tijuana.
Will it be above Duke Nukem Forever?
SDF is definatley worth the money. The $36 for a lifetime ARPA account is cheap for what you get. In fact sometimes I feel bad, like I am ripping SMJ off.
The only problem I'v hade with it was when NWLink dropped SDF
If it had been NetBSD it would have been believable. The problem with Slashdot's April Fools stories is that most of them are so obivious as to make you not wonder. The real good ones are the ones that are believable enough to make you wonder.
How does Amazon select candidates for listing?
Candidates eligible for listing are those that have lawfully established and maintained a campaign committee with the Federal Election Commission (candidates can receive contributions only through such committees) and who, according to the FEC's monthly report, have raised/spent in excess of $5,000.
Have those other parties asked to have thier canidates listed? Or is it possible that the anti-capitalist/corporate nature of those parties have precluded them from wanting to be associated with Amazon.com?
Of course you could be right, Amazon.com may not want to include parties that think Amazon.com and other corporations kind are evil and should be penalized out of existance or worse yet into government control. God forbid that you be forced to buy a bat for the guy that wants to beat the $h!t out of you.
At $1000 a pop, they should have that $35 billion dollar defict cleared up by next Thursday. And look at all those business that will move thier mail servers back to California just to be protected under this law.
I doubt this will survive the first court challenge. And rightly so. It run right over the first amendment and the commrce clause.
Anybody stupid enough to pay $20 for a MP3 is a RIAA wet dream.
Does this ruling apply to people outside of California? Does this ruling apply to say Matthew Pavlovich, who was removed from the law suit, because he had no connection to California? In a related note raise your middle finger if you think this isn't going to be appealed to the Federal Court system?
Would you be giving away the end or be commenting on the quality of the movie?
Orrin Hatch had two things going against him. One was the fact that he had just days earlier advocated using techincal measures to destroy computers of copyright infringers, and the other as the (R) after his name.
And everyday is beat up on SCO day....except for the second Tuesday in monthes containing a "r".
I know i'm gonna get flamed for them, but states that support terrorism are terrorists. Bush said it best right after 9/11. There is no difference between a terrorist orginzation and a state that spports it. Thats was why we went after the Taliban. Hell we gave them 2 monthes to turn over bin Ladin before we went in. And no if you where a german agent in France and you were not a uniformed soldier, they could legally execute you on the spot as a spy. As far as the USSR goes, Soviet citizens must have loved that government. They kept it around so long.
Why are geeks for Dean? Whats he going to do for us?
Of course, if there was ever need for proof that there's a sucker born every minute, just check out this quote from the Wired article:
There was a picture on the top of the page that said, 'As Seen on TV,' and I guess that made me think it was legit.
What channel are they watching?
Dude I thoguht you where kidding, but I checked. Sweeeet
Its a great learning exprience. I learned more about linux installing gentoo (way back in the old days when it was still using gcc 2.95) than using Red Hat for a year. It may take a while to install and update, but it does teach you whats what on a linux system. That and portage just rocks. There is even a NWN ebuild
Additionally, the philosophical point here is to screw MS.
The point should be to get major computer manufactures to give us the choice on whether we want to pay the "Microsoft Tax" associated with getting a new PC, not to screw Microsoft. The end result of any large amount of SC lawsuits should be an option on the buy a PC from Dell(or anyother big name OEM) that doesn't come with an Microsoft OS.
The problem with Linux advocacy through Microsoft bashing is you wind up sounding like a lot of the Democratic presidental canidates. Your saying why Bush is bad, but your not saying why your better. And if your not better, whats the point of changing things?