You say that powerful senior senators bring home pork for their constituents, but Orrin Hatch doesn't. Utah is well below average in federal largesse in spite of its thirty-year senator.
Utahns just feel comfortable with Hatch and Ashdown hasn't given them a good enough reason to reconsider. Mostly that's because Ashdown doesn't have enough money to blanket the state with media and the right wedge issues to make it stick.
It's also because Utah votes very Republican so it's hard to make a case to just swing voters and win, Ashdown has to win over a large proportion of the Republicans, too.
The same dynamic keeps most senators reelected. This is very different from the Ted Stevens (Pork-Alaska) and Robert Byrd (Pork-WV) approach where they really do bring in barrels of federal cash; only a few senators can manage that.
Too bad, because Ashdown would be the one voice that could really get digital freedom issues a hearing on Capitol Hill.
And the rest of you slashdotters haven't helped much in the fund raising, either. Head over to Pete's Site and give a little.
The only cities in which you can really reasonable say you don't need a car are San Francisco (and environs), [parts of] Los Angeles, and New York City.
Better strike LA from that list and add Chicago and D.C., Philly, and Boston.
That's not true at all. I was writing Web 2.0 applications long before modern XMLHttpRequest and the like. But compatilibity with IE4 and IE5 was so bad that a lot of the layout and interactivity tools needed wouldn't render consistently.
It took years of quirk mapping and web standards workarounds to get off the ground for web applications to work right. And that is a direct result of Microsoft's deliberate squelching.
I can't find a touchpad with a third button and/or scrollwheel (usually clickable) on any laptop from any manufacturer today. Three years ago they were available from a lot of brands.
I doubt anyone even manfacturers such touchpads anymore.
Which is sad for users, especially Unix users.
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some fsck*tard Californian fails to comprehend that it's physically impossible proceed past a wall of stopped traffic and rear ended it (twice in Oregon, once in New York, once in Alberta, every time by a Californian driver with Cali plates).
Of course, the problem is that driving through a wall of stopped traffic is impossible in Oregon, New York, and Canadia. In California, the opposite — sensible — solution is practiced.
The amount of wrestling I'd have to do with XP to deal with it on a day-to-day basis would justify the effort of switching to Ubuntu in two days or less.
And that is not just because Ubuntu has become a fantastic easy install and simple to use system. It's because XP has become a sea of ads and Dell installs mountains of adware and permanent-nagware and "free trial" attempts to sell me another piece of software.
It does take time to download, though, so with no connection at home, you're stuck with whatever they fed you.
I recently acquired this Dell Inspiron 6400 and used it just long enough to download Ubuntu 6.06 (dapper!). Even the few hours it took to torrent the Ubuntu DVD was a nightmare.
It turns itself off if you don't fiddle with it enough. Everything gets an antivirus warning. Windows is even more of a nasty bear than I remember from giving it up six years ago. Explorer still doesn't have tabs. Did the rest of you realize that Explorer still doesn't have tabs? And it has very wierd ideas of how you should be allowed to set it up. I downloaded Firefox first so I could then use it to download a BitTorrent client.
The default installation of Windows and WordPrefect Office takes up 19 Gigs of hard disk. How did I ever get all this same stuff on a 1 Gig drive back in the 90's?
Ubuntu sets up the hardware right (with a resolution tweak needed for them large screen), PLF loads Decss and codecs fine, and the result is a rock solid full-service no-nonsense system in one fell swoop. Plus I never even get offered any viruses (and no open ports by default). I don't get why anyone still uses the Micro$oft virus trap anymore.
Move on up to 2.4.10 now!
2.4.9 had serious problems.
Journaled filesystems rock; especially if you ever have the misfortune to need to reboot. And 2.4.9 supports only resierFS and it has giant data-losing bugs in the 2.4.9 integration. Reiser works great in 2.4.10. 2.6 adds XFS and JFS, too.
But there's no free market here no matter what. The majority of internet users are hooked in through local telephone companies (ILECs) and cable companies. Most endpoints in the USA are accessed by only one possible wire connection and 95+% are accessed by no more than two.
That means almost all endpoints face a monopoly provider. There is no free market when the city or county prohibits build out of alternative connections and collects franchise fees for the monopoly providers.
But a free market with fifty different companies each having rights of way across public property and every private property in the city the way phone companies do isn't really practical. It's a physical limitation as much as a regulatory one.
You can argue today that the citizens of the cities should have come together at the founding and agreed to build municipal access conduit and allowed everyone to put in cables who could rent space. But that is not unlike the system we have with democratically elected city governments and franchise agreements. IT would have the same problems.
So we have a limit on the freedom of markets available. When we have abundant last mile providers and each home in America has five or ten choices of broadband provider then no company would be able to abuse net neutrality. So we won't need it.
But today we have everyone facing monopoly or cartel duopoly. One way providers want to abuse the monopoly is by extorting money through net non-neutrality. But the money they would extort is really a side effect of the municipal monopoly. They could never make money like that in a free market.
So it makes sense from a free-market perspective to prohibit the non-neutral extortion.
I bought the generic brand acetominophen for toddlers. Acetominophen for toddlers comes in a thick liquid with a dropper so that kids can suck it up easily.
My little girl liked the Tylenol (TM) brand so much that when she had a need for it, she would eagerly lean up out of the crib for it. The generic brand quickly turned her off. Sometimes it's just about the flavor.
So that's one (and only one) drug where I buy the name brand and try to ignore the extra 50% markup.
Check thomas.loc.gov for H.R. 2281 from the 105th congress. (Thanks, Newt!) Sorry, Thomas has a strict policy against deep links. (Next time, try to do better, Newt!) Here's an excerpt.
H.R. 2281 Digital Millennium Copyright Act
Introduced by Rep Howard Coble (R-NC) and in the Senate by Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), may they suffer for their perfidy.
7/29/1997:
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary...Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property [copyright issues].
5/22/1998:
Referred jointly and sequentially to the House Committee on Commerce [technology and internet issues]
5/22/1998:
Referred jointly and sequentially to the House Committee on Ways and Means [taxation and revenue issues]
8/4/1998 2:26pm:
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. [no recorded vote in the House]
And for the Senate side:
4/30/1998:
Committee on Judiciary ordered to be reported an original measure.
5/14/1998:
Passed Senate with an amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 99-0. Record Vote No: 137.
Furthermore, dad's should have an option to "divorce" the child. In which case, the father get's no paternity rights, but doesn't have to pay any support. Abortion is a legal avenue for the woman to choose
Sammy, if the man doesn't want any responsibility for children, he should simply learn to keep his legs together. A baby is proof that he made his choice nine months earlier.
Women are given way too many right[sic] when it comes to single parenting.
I don't even know what to think responding to this sentence. Both my parents have been single parents in various circumstances and it is darn hard; few people choose it and those who face the challenge deserve all the support they can get.
As for universal paternity tests at birth and felony charges against deadbeats, I'm all for it. There should be no shirkers allowed.
Remember the Onion headline: Dead Beat Dad Beat Dead.
load the necessary files early on (which is done by Windows itself since this is a plugin for IE, which is part of the OS) and now you can't delete the files because they're in use.
I know this was a problem with the FAT file system used by the old minimal boot-loader MS-DOS. But now that Microsoft and Dave Cutler have rebuilt their operating system from the ground up on NT technology and created the super-efficent reverse-engineering-proof Windows 2000/XP family that's not a problem.
Surely somebody in the NTFS development team knew about inodes, right? Even Microsoft wouldn't screw up so badly as to leave that out.
The last time the games really mattered was in 1936, when Jesse Owens beat out Hitler's alleged Master Race competitors.
Don't forget to visit the University of Utah's Nazi Olympics exhibit detailing the
sordid history of olympic organizing and nobility
of some athletes. It's at the Marriott Library,
3rd floor, one block NE of the Opening Ceremony at
Rice Stadium. And it's a vary fancy professional
exhibit with video and great pictures and interp.
Did you know that before the SLC bid scandal, the
only reason a member of the International Olympic
Committee had ever been kicked off was for being
insufficently anti-semitic?
First, no one I've ever voted for has won their election. That means I am taxed without representation.
My so-called "representitives" at the Federal level consist of Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinswine, and some party hack I can't even remember the name of.
If you don't even know your federal rep's name, you are certainly part of the problem.
You can change how elected representatives act. I have sucessfully obtained votes and sponsorship for measures I favor using some of these methods.
Sending money. Congressmen love money.
Calling offices or sending hand written letters and persuading a few dozen friends to write also.
Visiting home or D.C. offices with a dozen advocates also supporing your opinion. (Call in advance and you'll talk directly to the congressman if you have two or more advocates.)
If this OpenOffice supports linux, then why
does each user require his own installation?
Shouldn't it be possible (at 250 MB+ per user)
to share some of those files? Or is the OO/SO
team committed to a world without user identities
and effective multi-user security? That is, a
Windoze(tm)-everywhere world?
If you want "expedited service," where they'll change ownership within about two business days, there's an
additional $199 service charge!!
I tried to get NSI to transfer a domain name for me for US$199. First, they didn't respond to email requests and then their web form simply directed me to contact a special email account, which also did not respond (still hasn't ten months later).
Thirdly I tried to get them on the phone. I spent a total of six hours on hold to end up talking to two people, neither of whom understood the procedure or spoke English intelligibly.
All I really have to say about NSI is that those jerks are either incompetent or evil and I'm guessing that it's just plain incompetent.
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You say that powerful senior senators bring home pork for their constituents, but Orrin Hatch doesn't. Utah is well below average in federal largesse in spite of its thirty-year senator.
Utahns just feel comfortable with Hatch and Ashdown hasn't given them a good enough reason to reconsider. Mostly that's because Ashdown doesn't have enough money to blanket the state with media and the right wedge issues to make it stick.
It's also because Utah votes very Republican so it's hard to make a case to just swing voters and win, Ashdown has to win over a large proportion of the Republicans, too.
The same dynamic keeps most senators reelected. This is very different from the Ted Stevens (Pork-Alaska) and Robert Byrd (Pork-WV) approach where they really do bring in barrels of federal cash; only a few senators can manage that.
Too bad, because Ashdown would be the one voice that could really get digital freedom issues a hearing on Capitol Hill.
And the rest of you slashdotters haven't helped much in the fund raising, either. Head over to Pete's Site and give a little.
The only cities in which you can really reasonable say you don't need a car are San Francisco (and environs), [parts of] Los Angeles, and New York City.
Better strike LA from that list and add Chicago and D.C., Philly, and Boston.
For the record, the bumper sticker read "Vote for the crook. It's important."
That's not true at all. I was writing Web 2.0 applications long before modern XMLHttpRequest and the like. But compatilibity with IE4 and IE5 was so bad that a lot of the layout and interactivity tools needed wouldn't render consistently.
It took years of quirk mapping and web standards workarounds to get off the ground for web applications to work right. And that is a direct result of Microsoft's deliberate squelching.
I can't find a touchpad with a third button and/or scrollwheel (usually clickable) on any laptop from any manufacturer today. Three years ago they were available from a lot of brands.
I doubt anyone even manfacturers such touchpads anymore.
Which is sad for users, especially Unix users.
some fsck*tard Californian fails to comprehend that it's physically impossible proceed past a wall of stopped traffic and rear ended it (twice in Oregon, once in New York, once in Alberta, every time by a Californian driver with Cali plates).
Of course, the problem is that driving through a wall of stopped traffic is impossible in Oregon, New York, and Canadia. In California, the opposite — sensible — solution is practiced.
* man fsck for details
Where do you fond a laptop with a scrollwhell nowadays? I hunted and hunted and there was nothing...
The amount of wrestling I'd have to do with XP to deal with it on a day-to-day basis would justify the effort of switching to Ubuntu in two days or less.
And that is not just because Ubuntu has become a fantastic easy install and simple to use system. It's because XP has become a sea of ads and Dell installs mountains of adware and permanent-nagware and "free trial" attempts to sell me another piece of software.
It does take time to download, though, so with no connection at home, you're stuck with whatever they fed you.
I recently acquired this Dell Inspiron 6400 and used it just long enough to download Ubuntu 6.06 (dapper!). Even the few hours it took to torrent the Ubuntu DVD was a nightmare.
It turns itself off if you don't fiddle with it enough. Everything gets an antivirus warning. Windows is even more of a nasty bear than I remember from giving it up six years ago. Explorer still doesn't have tabs. Did the rest of you realize that Explorer still doesn't have tabs? And it has very wierd ideas of how you should be allowed to set it up. I downloaded Firefox first so I could then use it to download a BitTorrent client.
The default installation of Windows and WordPrefect Office takes up 19 Gigs of hard disk. How did I ever get all this same stuff on a 1 Gig drive back in the 90's?
Ubuntu sets up the hardware right (with a resolution tweak needed for them large screen), PLF loads Decss and codecs fine, and the result is a rock solid full-service no-nonsense system in one fell swoop. Plus I never even get offered any viruses (and no open ports by default). I don't get why anyone still uses the Micro$oft virus trap anymore.
Move on up to 2.4.10 now! 2.4.9 had serious problems. Journaled filesystems rock; especially if you ever have the misfortune to need to reboot. And 2.4.9 supports only resierFS and it has giant data-losing bugs in the 2.4.9 integration. Reiser works great in 2.4.10. 2.6 adds XFS and JFS, too.
But there's no free market here no matter what. The majority of internet users are hooked in through local telephone companies (ILECs) and cable companies. Most endpoints in the USA are accessed by only one possible wire connection and 95+% are accessed by no more than two. That means almost all endpoints face a monopoly provider. There is no free market when the city or county prohibits build out of alternative connections and collects franchise fees for the monopoly providers. But a free market with fifty different companies each having rights of way across public property and every private property in the city the way phone companies do isn't really practical. It's a physical limitation as much as a regulatory one. You can argue today that the citizens of the cities should have come together at the founding and agreed to build municipal access conduit and allowed everyone to put in cables who could rent space. But that is not unlike the system we have with democratically elected city governments and franchise agreements. IT would have the same problems. So we have a limit on the freedom of markets available. When we have abundant last mile providers and each home in America has five or ten choices of broadband provider then no company would be able to abuse net neutrality. So we won't need it. But today we have everyone facing monopoly or cartel duopoly. One way providers want to abuse the monopoly is by extorting money through net non-neutrality. But the money they would extort is really a side effect of the municipal monopoly. They could never make money like that in a free market. So it makes sense from a free-market perspective to prohibit the non-neutral extortion.
How does onw read these files? I dont think theyre PDF files; Xpdf seems to just go blank.
I bought the generic brand acetominophen for toddlers. Acetominophen for toddlers comes in a thick liquid with a dropper so that kids can suck it up easily. My little girl liked the Tylenol (TM) brand so much that when she had a need for it, she would eagerly lean up out of the crib for it. The generic brand quickly turned her off. Sometimes it's just about the flavor. So that's one (and only one) drug where I buy the name brand and try to ignore the extra 50% markup.
This post was clever and nice and I did like it, but I have one pressing question.
Why is G_d still on bitnet? Can't he upgrade to a regular internet email system?
Rob Bishop (R-Ut) is my congressman. He voted no. I guess I'll be writing a check to a Democrat in 2004.
H.R. 2281 Digital Millennium Copyright Act
Introduced by Rep Howard Coble (R-NC) and in the Senate by Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), may they suffer for their perfidy.
7/29/1997:
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary...Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property [ copyright issues ].
5/22/1998:
Referred jointly and sequentially to the House Committee on Commerce [ technology and internet issues ]
5/22/1998:
Referred jointly and sequentially to the House Committee on Ways and Means [ taxation and revenue issues ]
8/4/1998 2:26pm:
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. [ no recorded vote in the House ]
And for the Senate side:
4/30/1998:
Committee on Judiciary ordered to be reported an original measure.
5/14/1998:
Passed Senate with an amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 99-0. Record Vote No: 137.
Sammy, if the man doesn't want any responsibility for children, he should simply learn to keep his legs together. A baby is proof that he made his choice nine months earlier.
Women are given way too many right[sic] when it comes to single parenting.
I don't even know what to think responding to this sentence. Both my parents have been single parents in various circumstances and it is darn hard; few people choose it and those who face the challenge deserve all the support they can get.
As for universal paternity tests at birth and felony charges against deadbeats, I'm all for it. There should be no shirkers allowed.
Remember the Onion headline: Dead Beat Dad Beat Dead.
It's the Stone Cutters and the Egg Board, up to their usual antics again.
I know this was a problem with the FAT file system used by the old minimal boot-loader MS-DOS. But now that Microsoft and Dave Cutler have rebuilt their operating system from the ground up on NT technology and created the super-efficent reverse-engineering-proof Windows 2000/XP family that's not a problem.
Surely somebody in the NTFS development team knew about inodes, right? Even Microsoft wouldn't screw up so badly as to leave that out.
I understand that CDs float and thus you have no
justification for fearing losing one off the side
of your boat.
-Brian
Did you know that before the SLC bid scandal, the only reason a member of the International Olympic Committee had ever been kicked off was for being insufficently anti-semitic?
It takes two thirds of both houses of the national
legislature to propose a constitutional amendment.
Then it takes three fourths of the states' approval to
ratify it
You can change how elected representatives act. I have sucessfully obtained votes and sponsorship for measures I favor using some of these methods.
If this OpenOffice supports linux, then why
does each user require his own installation?
Shouldn't it be possible (at 250 MB+ per user)
to share some of those files? Or is the OO/SO
team committed to a world without user identities
and effective multi-user security? That is, a
Windoze(tm)-everywhere world?
-Brian
I tried to get NSI to transfer a domain name for me for US$199. First, they didn't respond to email requests and then their web form simply directed me to contact a special email account, which also did not respond (still hasn't ten months later).
Thirdly I tried to get them on the phone. I spent a total of six hours on hold to end up talking to two people, neither of whom understood the procedure or spoke English intelligibly.
All I really have to say about NSI is that those jerks are either incompetent or evil and I'm guessing that it's just plain incompetent.