This could be a good thing. If enough "small" problems like this crop up, maybe that will help give some momentum to the idea that we need to audit the living hell out of the entire 2004 election. Not with an eye toward overturning Dubya's win or anything drastic like that, but with an eye toward finding and fixing any and all problems before the next run. I just don't see how that's anything other than common sense; we've done a fairly drastic overhaul of our electoral system over the past few years, so who could possibly say with a straight face that checking its accuracy after the fact is not absolutely essential?
I'm not saying it should be banned. I'm saying that the belief that banning it would cause the associated revenues to vanish in complete and utter violation of the second law of thermoeconomics is ludicrous. If you ban automobiles, every family now has tens of thousands to dollars to spend on walking shoes and iPods.
Note that I am a reformed smoker, and object to the idea of the government banning tobacco on the same grounds that I object to them banning cocaine: I don't use it, but I should have the right to. Their current posture on similar matters requires them to bring tobacco under the umbrella of the DEA in order to have any sort of consistency. So either ban tobacco, or stop prosecuting pot smokers. Either one of those two would be an improvement, but only one of them would be just.
If there's a product which clearly falls under a government agency's mandate, but doesn't because of political machinations (bribes, intimidation, and lies), it's tobacco.
When you consider that this is an industry with the power to make the airport security folks (TSA, DHS, etc.) overlook a third of the passengers carrying self contained incendiary devices in their pockets, it should come as no surprise that the FDA isn't allowed to notice them, either.
would mean a loss of enormous amounts of revenue, a loss of large numbers of jobs in the tobacco industry...
Every time I see an otherwise indefensible industry defended with this reasoning, I can't help but think that it's a closed system; money previously spent on smokes would then be spent on other things. It's like saying that if Ford went under, Americans would spend 14% (or whatever their market share is) less on cars, and our economy would suffer.
they're plenty sharp enough to realize that adding 1/3 the American public to the consumers of illegal drugs by making the second most popular (or third, if you count caffeine) "recreational drug" illegal as well is a really bad idea.
That I agree wholeheartedly with. Of course, I still think it oughta happen. Treat tobacco as the truly dangerous drug that it is, and you'll see the War On Some Drugs brought to a screeching halt within about nineteen minutes.
But that was still a *new* right. It was a right I agree with though.
Interesting way to look at it. Do you feel that being able to marry someone of a different skin color was not a 'right' until it was codified into law as such?
Or was it a 'right' that existed all along, and the law was merely ammended to point out that it could no longer be actively denied?
At least the guys in Mumbai are *trying* to enunciate.
(I grew up somewhere that has a native accent thicker than Brooklyn's, and currently live in North Carolina, so I have a legal right to make these jokes)
the term fascism has just as obscure a meaning as conservatism, if not more so
Isn't an 'obscure' meaning a good thing in this context? I take that to mean narrowly defined, a quality in which terms like 'liberal' and 'conservative' are sorely lacking.
Sure, but will those flaws in Firefox as serious as the flaws in IE?
Probably not, but I'd rather see a combination of a) attackers sticking primarly with MSIE, and b) attacks against Mozilla/Firefox being less severe.
I'm actually quite glad that Gecko is unlikely to surpass MSIE in marketshare, and even more glad that that Mac is unlikely to surpass Windows. Aside from the sheer coolness of being in the minority (I may be an elitist asshole, but unlike the average Windows user, I get laid on a regular basis), there's safety in numbers when it comes to life on the 'net.
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Have at it.
I've been saying that for over five years, and I don't think more than about a dozen people have gotten it. (kinda says something about my friends, eh?)
Fortunately, I don't have a pithy one liner in regards to the flex-shaft attachment. I intend to keep it that way.
I went outside, found a good spot where it was framed *just so* with trees, set up my tripod, and started shooting every thirty seconds with my Nikon 4300.
Got about two dozen beautiful shots of the moon. Then it went away. And I was left standing in front of my apartment building next to five feet of tripod, taking pictures of urban light pollution's glow on the underside of a squillion gallons of water vapor. Yeah, real fucking impressive.
I agree that the spread here is wide, but the statistical majority is definitely what the conventional wisdom would consider 'left.'
Whether you'd like to draw any conclusions about that being the result of the undoubtedly higher intelligence (trolls excluded, of course) of the populace of a tech board is entirely your call.
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This could be a good thing. If enough "small" problems like this crop up, maybe that will help give some momentum to the idea that we need to audit the living hell out of the entire 2004 election. Not with an eye toward overturning Dubya's win or anything drastic like that, but with an eye toward finding and fixing any and all problems before the next run. I just don't see how that's anything other than common sense; we've done a fairly drastic overhaul of our electoral system over the past few years, so who could possibly say with a straight face that checking its accuracy after the fact is not absolutely essential?
I'm not saying it should be banned. I'm saying that the belief that banning it would cause the associated revenues to vanish in complete and utter violation of the second law of thermoeconomics is ludicrous. If you ban automobiles, every family now has tens of thousands to dollars to spend on walking shoes and iPods.
Note that I am a reformed smoker, and object to the idea of the government banning tobacco on the same grounds that I object to them banning cocaine: I don't use it, but I should have the right to. Their current posture on similar matters requires them to bring tobacco under the umbrella of the DEA in order to have any sort of consistency. So either ban tobacco, or stop prosecuting pot smokers. Either one of those two would be an improvement, but only one of them would be just.
If there's a product which clearly falls under a government agency's mandate, but doesn't because of political machinations (bribes, intimidation, and lies), it's tobacco.
When you consider that this is an industry with the power to make the airport security folks (TSA, DHS, etc.) overlook a third of the passengers carrying self contained incendiary devices in their pockets, it should come as no surprise that the FDA isn't allowed to notice them, either.
Or any other breed of partisan parrots, for that matter.
But that was still a *new* right. It was a right I agree with though.
Interesting way to look at it. Do you feel that being able to marry someone of a different skin color was not a 'right' until it was codified into law as such?
Or was it a 'right' that existed all along, and the law was merely ammended to point out that it could no longer be actively denied?
Hawai'i.
You can't even mimick Hawai'ian style pidgin with creative spelling... you just have to hear it for yourself.
Yet another language barrier to surmount.
At least the guys in Mumbai are *trying* to enunciate.
(I grew up somewhere that has a native accent thicker than Brooklyn's, and currently live in North Carolina, so I have a legal right to make these jokes)
I'd also try "kodak digital camera" -kodak.
But I suppose I'm just that kind of a person.
the term fascism has just as obscure a meaning as conservatism, if not more so
Isn't an 'obscure' meaning a good thing in this context? I take that to mean narrowly defined, a quality in which terms like 'liberal' and 'conservative' are sorely lacking.
Sure, but will those flaws in Firefox as serious as the flaws in IE?
Probably not, but I'd rather see a combination of a) attackers sticking primarly with MSIE, and b) attacks against Mozilla/Firefox being less severe.
I'm actually quite glad that Gecko is unlikely to surpass MSIE in marketshare, and even more glad that that Mac is unlikely to surpass Windows. Aside from the sheer coolness of being in the minority (I may be an elitist asshole, but unlike the average Windows user, I get laid on a regular basis), there's safety in numbers when it comes to life on the 'net.
Is that you, Mr. Burroughs?
please explain why gyms put TVs in front of the exercise equipment
That's because so many of us would work out even less if we had to tear ourselves away from The Feed for that long.
No, you're thinking of KPT.
I'll bet you US$10 cash money that you can get that patented if you're thorough and lawyerly about it.
1. Won't answer until certain we're talking about the same thing
2. Over the last few decades, only one of them has run around conquering shit.
3. Probably (hopefully, too!) not as great a threat, but a threat to the liberties of *many* more people.
4. Not only is the jury still 'out' on that one, the jury is so fucking 'out' they need a GPS unit to find the bathroom.
5. Duh.
A comment I saw in another thread lead me to be browsing your comments, deciding whether or not to mark you 'friend.' This one made it clear.
Grab your passport and go.
Sit around and bitch about it.
Get out there and get people to give a damn.
Speaking solely as a customer, GoDaddy's admin system is awesome.
Actually, I really didn't. I expected Offtopic.
Have at it.
I've been saying that for over five years, and I don't think more than about a dozen people have gotten it. (kinda says something about my friends, eh?)
Fortunately, I don't have a pithy one liner in regards to the flex-shaft attachment. I intend to keep it that way.
Wow, what's with all the overrated mods in this thread? It seems everybody but the trolls are at 0.
Thou shalt not moderate with a killer hangover, folks.
I went outside, found a good spot where it was framed *just so* with trees, set up my tripod, and started shooting every thirty seconds with my Nikon 4300.
Got about two dozen beautiful shots of the moon. Then it went away. And I was left standing in front of my apartment building next to five feet of tripod, taking pictures of urban light pollution's glow on the underside of a squillion gallons of water vapor. Yeah, real fucking impressive.
I agree that the spread here is wide, but the statistical majority is definitely what the conventional wisdom would consider 'left.'
Whether you'd like to draw any conclusions about that being the result of the undoubtedly higher intelligence (trolls excluded, of course) of the populace of a tech board is entirely your call.