Take a look at the following statistics on your beloved Canadian crime rate stats, and it will become clear while Canada may have fewer murders largely due to lower population density, we have NO monopoly on violent crime.
(All data represents incidents per 100,000 population)
In 1977, Canada and the USA were at 447 and 241 serious assults respectively. In 1993, Canada and the USA were at 916 and 440 serious assults respectively. Canada not only went up way more, but already dwarfed the US in serious assults. (2.0 vs 1.8 increase)
In 1977, Canada and the USA were at 3 and 8.8 murders respectively. In 1993, Canada and the USA were at 2 and 9.5 murders respectively. The difference is not that breath taking.
This reasoning fails to make sense since right now less populous battleground states are "drowning out" the bigger ones that lean one way or the other in a way that they are deciding who is elected. In other words, a more committed majority state can be disregarded for the benefit of winning the minority battleground states.
So you're complaining that the entire US isn't run by only NY/CA? Should the entire country be ruled by a minority of the states?
Moreover, the federal elections should not be about states, but about all citizens in the country. You cannot make a compelling case to anyone that if you live in one state your vote = 1 vote towards presidential election, but in another state your vote = 1.2 votes towards the same election. And besides that, your vote will not count at all towards electoral vote because most of your *state* leans the other way.
I'm thinking you should read the federalist papers. The very very basic and oversimplified idea is that the federal government's job is to govern the states and provide for defense, not to wipe your mouth when you dribble and give you a job when you don't have one. So yes, the federal election is about the states; that's what your senatorial, representative, state and local elections are for. Even while this is true, you still have a say! You get to vote for the president, and the electoral college uses its votes in some cases all for the winner, and in some cases distributed according to the results in the state.
It should always be that 1 citizen = 1 vote towards the federal election, not a state all-or-nothing tally; no matter where you live. Sure, people living in more populated areas will have more effect on less populated states or counties. The principle here is majority rule, minority rights [state.gov]. The electoral college doesn't guarantee that.
No, because you cannot have a demographic and geographic tyranny of the majority. You must normalize the results based at least on geography due to differing interests, economies, social conditions, etc. Just about EVERY state has wildly different economic and social interests from NY and CA, but those interests would be totally squelched in your scenario.
"I know I certainly don't make a habit of requesting voter blacklists to see if I'm still allowed to vote. I just kindof assume that what with my not being a felon and all, that I'm still allowed. Perhaps I'm just naive."
Everyone who was on that list was notified via postal mail that they were on it, and were also told how to appeal the entry. It's so simple even a hanging chad could figure it out.
"...And it's irrelevant anyway; any illegal disenfranchisment should be abhorrant to every American."
How about proving any disenfranchisement? (Also, maybe you could check your spelling) You're just angry your horse lost the race. Boo hoo. You don't talk about how the race was called early for Gore while voting was still open in the conservative panhandle, causing thousands of conservative voters to give up and go home. Congress has passed laws against early calls because this phenomena is proven, and known, and can give the media power to influence elections.
"Given the choice between letting felons vote and denying the vote to legit voters, I'd let the felons vote any day. Good for the districts who chose to do so. (Better yet, good for the vast freaking majority of the country that just lets released felons vote. Blocking the felon vote is a waste of time.)"
You offer no proof legitimate votes were in any way discounted. How about the effort to throw out valid overseas votes by military personnel? The dems argued those votes invalid because they were not postmarked prior to election close as required by state law, but: 1. The votes the dems wanted thrown out were locked in the safe and counted before close of polls 2. The military mail distribution does not have/require postmarks 3. An exception to that law was made earlier by a Florida state court specifically for military overseas ballots because of #2.
So before you go talking about disenfranchised voters, look in the mirror.
I suppose you didn't know that 1. Every person on that list had months to appeal their entry on the list 2. The names improperly on the list were of a demographic more likely to vote for Bush. 3. Many districts just ignored the list because of the improper inclusions on it, allowing felons to vote who shouldn't have
In four years you still can't get over the fact that George W. Bush won the election.
Don't forget to include an "opt-out" option. If he so opts, he can simply stop recieving the garbage. Otherwise, the deliveries will be automatically renewed. Of course, he would have to remember which of his aliases he used to "subscribe" to this service with. Hey, Mr Spammer, did you try "Slimy.Cocksucker@fuckhead.com"?
This is all well and good, but a can of SPAM and a few laxatives and later, a snail-mailbox full of the results may be more poetically fitting...
ADHD is a often bad diagnosis. It's like saying "My kid is too kid-like." I'll explain...
I was diagnosed with ADHD as a child because I could not pay attention in class. The real issue was I had/have a hearing disorder that makes it very difficult for me to zero in on specific sounds and tune others out.
This bogus diagnosis led to improper treatment. Sure, the drugs helped, but the underlying problem was not addressed, and I did not reach my full potential.
Do not trust western medicine like it's never wrong.
First, there is no one size fits all canned argument. You need to identify a few things before you even ask this question:
1. For what kind of server[s] do you want OSS adoption 2. How many of them are deployed 3. etc etc
Then, rate these in order of importance, and your bullet point cost/benefit arguments to the director or executive will be more succinct. You see, you don't want a hodge podge of OSS evangelizing, you want relevant points given the specifics of your organization.
Or, if you just really want them to be conviced to go with OSS, just make it seem impossible to do with commercial stuff.
Actually, I'd love to be worth about 1/5 of my current earning potential. Recruiters are telling me they don't want to place me in jobs because they think I've made too much in the past, and think I'd get bored and leave.
Oh well, I have excellent karma here on slashddot, and I can live another year on last year's earnings. HA HA HA HA HA HA!!! Life is good.
The crazy thing is, I have a job, but don't get paid. I'm an hourly W2 consultantant w/ doing internal design for a service offering. Sounds better than "between gigs".
...as a defendant you're supposed to be told what you're being sued over or charged with (unless you're a terrorist suspect). The following is just ridiculous...
"The Linux community would have me publish it now, (so they can have it) laundered by the time we can get to a court hearing"
So, is that to say that they do not want the code in question to be replaced or removed? How would the courts look upon this attempt to block a good faith response to their charges?
In any case, any laundering would need to be done in the form of erratta, and SCO could easily go "Hey, look! It was in flurbulator-2.3.12, but it's gone in flurbulator-2.3.12a!!"
-To report a Giant Panda sighting, press 2, followed by the 14 digit code on the bottom of any can of creamed corn.
As already stated on LKML here, it's far more likely that they saw something that had been stolen from Linux or other GNU code in SCO, and thought is was the other way around.
It also isn't clear if SCO is referring specifically to Redhat userland, redhat kernel patches or what. It's only clear that they don't mean specifically the Linux kernal as found on kernel.org.
-If you wish to make a complaint, press 1. If you wish to wish upon a star, makes no difference who you are, press -- what else? -- the star key.
Honestly, it's amazing the kind of crap people think they need in order to learn. I can barely get equipment necessary to do my job (yes, I am not a sheltered student who hasn't yet seen the real world).
Doesn't it make sense to think universities should be trying to make education less expensive rather than making excuses to make it more expensive? Costs cannot rise faster than inflation forever. Lack of access to education is what really keeps the poor poor, widens the class gap, yadda yadda.
This kind of shit pisses me off. I'm working right now getting $0.00 per hour, retraining, etc. I'm working to make myself valuable again, not even getting unemployment. I don't get ANY sort of $$ right now [not since december], and schools are pissing and moaning to ME about how they need $$.
Bottom line, the iPod is unnecessary, you pimple faced all-night-gamer fuck leach.
Mine are very simple suggestions, and probably not exactly what you need, but I need to address some of the ideas being bongled about:
On the physical aspects 1. NO TO PULLING ETHERNET! 2. Cisco Long Reach Ethernet switches allow ethernet signaling over phone wire. Can supply 15Mbps over up to 1500 meters. 3. You can do DSL too
On the logical aspects 1. Only run a transparent proxy, and run it on openBSD 2. Do not worry about viruses. 3. Use a firewall. (You can make your own cisco PIX!) I can't find my links right now, but reply to this if you're interested and I'll find them and give them out. 4. Only supply a connection, the only services you should try to supply are what saves bandwidth like a transparent proxy. 5. How much do you want to spend on public IPv4? Would your tenants like rfc1918 privates?
AI has yet to even define itself, and hence, is troubled by the most fundamental disagreements about just exactly what its questions are, leaving doubt about whether the answers could even be found given the state of the art.
All I ever hear about when folks brag about "advances in AI" are things like some new algorithm which can interpret some form of input which it previously could not, or new theories of machine learning, etc.
No one yet has effectively defined the mechanics which make up "the mind". Folks still argue about whether its even important.
All I want to see is some sort of AI where glorified robotics engineers do not get labeled as "AI research scientists". Classify, and move on. I want to see advances in cognitive neuroscience! Not vague references to AI that make me click the link and be dissapointed.
"Dropping legacy support and not being dependant on RPMs will open up the doorway for my engineers to revolutionize Linux software installation......The second part of this step is to set up an actively developed software repository on the internet. Users aren't stupid... blah blah blah"
1. Why does everyone think RPM is responsible for poorly packaged RPMs? I mean come on! Gentoo, actually, has an awesome system, but it's not entirely due to being RPMless.
2. How about rawhide and redhat contrib? Freshmeat for the daring... I guess the article does have a point, though. Pick a random graphical application on freshmeat and you have a 1 in 7 chance of it being compatible with your system. (gnome 1.4? 2.0? 2.2??? not to mention kde...) FreeBSD has made compat-libs an artform.
I'm a beta tester for TiVo, and I have to say I've not been this enchanted since my laser eye surgury.
In particular, there's a new feature allowing one to watch programs on any other TiVo connected to the same LAN using any opther TiVo. This suggests something similar might be done with software running on some PC on the sam eLAN as well, allowing video extraction.
Now this would be VERY cool. You could stream over the internet using transcoding filters in between, etc..
Let us ponder the future of ourselves as it relates to technology, and the ethics of it all...
So, nowadays mankind shapes the world around them to suit their needs, rather than dieing off until those that suit the environment remain. The problem in this is that it stymies the adaptation of mankind, at least as some see it. If someday all humans are fit to survive, then what's next? How do we change?
Assuming the environment no longer changes us forcably by adaptation, is it then ethical that we take our destiny into our own hands by altering ourselves genetically? Even assuming we know "good" traits from "bad" ones, I suspect so many people would change themselves in so many different ways that there would soon congeal many incompatible species of intelligent beings. From that, wider social rifts between groups of protocyborgs and enhanced humans with 15 inch dicks would happen. Dogs and cats, living together... etc etc.
On the other hand, we could all have the advantage of four asses! Somehow though, Natalie Portman does not seem like such a vision with four asses.
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Take a look at the following statistics on your beloved Canadian crime rate stats, and it will become clear while Canada may have fewer murders largely due to lower population density, we have NO monopoly on violent crime.
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(All data represents incidents per 100,000 population)
In 1977, Canada and the USA were at 447 and 241 serious assults respectively. In 1993, Canada and the USA were at 916 and 440 serious assults respectively. Canada not only went up way more, but already dwarfed the US in serious assults. (2.0 vs 1.8 increase)
In 1977, Canada and the USA were at 3 and 8.8 murders respectively. In 1993, Canada and the USA were at 2 and 9.5 murders respectively. The difference is not that breath taking.
In conclusion, Canada sucks.
http://www.killology.com/art_weap_sum_worldwide.h
So you're complaining that the entire US isn't run by only NY/CA? Should the entire country be ruled by a minority of the states?
I'm thinking you should read the federalist papers. The very very basic and oversimplified idea is that the federal government's job is to govern the states and provide for defense, not to wipe your mouth when you dribble and give you a job when you don't have one. So yes, the federal election is about the states; that's what your senatorial, representative, state and local elections are for. Even while this is true, you still have a say! You get to vote for the president, and the electoral college uses its votes in some cases all for the winner, and in some cases distributed according to the results in the state.
No, because you cannot have a demographic and geographic tyranny of the majority. You must normalize the results based at least on geography due to differing interests, economies, social conditions, etc. Just about EVERY state has wildly different economic and social interests from NY and CA, but those interests would be totally squelched in your scenario.
"I know I certainly don't make a habit of requesting voter blacklists to see if I'm still allowed to vote. I just kindof assume that what with my not being a felon and all, that I'm still allowed. Perhaps I'm just naive."
Everyone who was on that list was notified via postal mail that they were on it, and were also told how to appeal the entry. It's so simple even a hanging chad could figure it out.
"...And it's irrelevant anyway; any illegal disenfranchisment should be abhorrant to every American."
How about proving any disenfranchisement? (Also, maybe you could check your spelling) You're just angry your horse lost the race. Boo hoo. You don't talk about how the race was called early for Gore while voting was still open in the conservative panhandle, causing thousands of conservative voters to give up and go home. Congress has passed laws against early calls because this phenomena is proven, and known, and can give the media power to influence elections.
"Given the choice between letting felons vote and denying the vote to legit voters, I'd let the felons vote any day. Good for the districts who chose to do so. (Better yet, good for the vast freaking majority of the country that just lets released felons vote. Blocking the felon vote is a waste of time.)"
You offer no proof legitimate votes were in any way discounted. How about the effort to throw out valid overseas votes by military personnel? The dems argued those votes invalid because they were not postmarked prior to election close as required by state law, but:
1. The votes the dems wanted thrown out were locked in the safe and counted before close of polls
2. The military mail distribution does not have/require postmarks
3. An exception to that law was made earlier by a Florida state court specifically for military overseas ballots because of #2.
So before you go talking about disenfranchised voters, look in the mirror.
I suppose you didn't know that
1. Every person on that list had months to appeal their entry on the list
2. The names improperly on the list were of a demographic more likely to vote for Bush.
3. Many districts just ignored the list because of the improper inclusions on it, allowing felons to vote who shouldn't have
In four years you still can't get over the fact that George W. Bush won the election.
Cry baby.
I'm shocked! Where do I sign up to be part of this study?
Don't forget to include an "opt-out" option. If he so opts, he can simply stop recieving the garbage. Otherwise, the deliveries will be automatically renewed. Of course, he would have to remember which of his aliases he used to "subscribe" to this service with. Hey, Mr Spammer, did you try "Slimy.Cocksucker@fuckhead.com"?
This is all well and good, but a can of SPAM and a few laxatives and later, a snail-mailbox full of the results may be more poetically fitting...
Nerve deafness.
ADHD is a often bad diagnosis. It's like saying "My kid is too kid-like." I'll explain...
I was diagnosed with ADHD as a child because I could not pay attention in class. The real issue was I had/have a hearing disorder that makes it very difficult for me to zero in on specific sounds and tune others out.
This bogus diagnosis led to improper treatment. Sure, the drugs helped, but the underlying problem was not addressed, and I did not reach my full potential.
Do not trust western medicine like it's never wrong.
Binary has 8 bits to a byte, DNA has 3 nucleotides to a codon.
I got a big codon while I was reading the linux kernel source.
First, there is no one size fits all canned argument. You need to identify a few things before you even ask this question:
1. For what kind of server[s] do you want OSS adoption
2. How many of them are deployed
3. etc etc
Then, rate these in order of importance, and your bullet point cost/benefit arguments to the director or executive will be more succinct. You see, you don't want a hodge podge of OSS evangelizing, you want relevant points given the specifics of your organization.
Or, if you just really want them to be conviced to go with OSS, just make it seem impossible to do with commercial stuff.
"THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT."
I don't remember any Rush songs like this...
Actually, I'd love to be worth about 1/5 of my current earning potential. Recruiters are telling me they don't want to place me in jobs because they think I've made too much in the past, and think I'd get bored and leave.
Oh well, I have excellent karma here on slashddot, and I can live another year on last year's earnings. HA HA HA HA HA HA!!! Life is good.
"*bang* ...you get a job."
Cool, all that makes me feel better.
The crazy thing is, I have a job, but don't get paid. I'm an hourly W2 consultantant w/ doing internal design for a service offering. Sounds better than "between gigs".
...as a defendant you're supposed to be told what you're being sued over or charged with (unless you're a terrorist suspect). The following is just ridiculous...
"The Linux community would have me publish it now, (so they can have it) laundered by the time we can get to a court hearing"
So, is that to say that they do not want the code in question to be replaced or removed? How would the courts look upon this attempt to block a good faith response to their charges?
In any case, any laundering would need to be done in the form of erratta, and SCO could easily go "Hey, look! It was in flurbulator-2.3.12, but it's gone in flurbulator-2.3.12a!!"
-To report a Giant Panda sighting, press 2, followed by the 14 digit code on the bottom of any can of creamed corn.
As already stated on LKML here, it's far more likely that they saw something that had been stolen from Linux or other GNU code in SCO, and thought is was the other way around.
It also isn't clear if SCO is referring specifically to Redhat userland, redhat kernel patches or what. It's only clear that they don't mean specifically the Linux kernal as found on kernel.org.
-If you wish to make a complaint, press 1. If you wish to wish upon a star, makes no difference who you are, press -- what else? -- the star key.
Honestly, it's amazing the kind of crap people think they need in order to learn. I can barely get equipment necessary to do my job (yes, I am not a sheltered student who hasn't yet seen the real world).
Doesn't it make sense to think universities should be trying to make education less expensive rather than making excuses to make it more expensive? Costs cannot rise faster than inflation forever. Lack of access to education is what really keeps the poor poor, widens the class gap, yadda yadda.
This kind of shit pisses me off. I'm working right now getting $0.00 per hour, retraining, etc. I'm working to make myself valuable again, not even getting unemployment. I don't get ANY sort of $$ right now [not since december], and schools are pissing and moaning to ME about how they need $$.
Bottom line, the iPod is unnecessary, you pimple faced all-night-gamer fuck leach.
My point about the virus thing is that you simply can't unless you're going to invest a lot of hours worrying about it.
With 160 customers, and not 1600, you're mosre likely not going to be able to afford a nice fluffy customer support.
Supply a disk with Kerio Personal Firewall, some documentation, and limited installation support, and off they go, they've been warned.
How did they fair in the "drag them behind the truck, and dip them in raw sewage" test?
My old goldstar has yet to be beaten, but the MAGs have generally held a strong 2nd place.
-If you would like to report a giant panda sighting, press 9, and give the name of the laundromat
Mine are very simple suggestions, and probably not exactly what you need, but I need to address some of the ideas being bongled about:
On the physical aspects
1. NO TO PULLING ETHERNET!
2. Cisco Long Reach Ethernet switches allow ethernet signaling over phone wire. Can supply 15Mbps over up to 1500 meters.
3. You can do DSL too
On the logical aspects
1. Only run a transparent proxy, and run it on openBSD
2. Do not worry about viruses.
3. Use a firewall. (You can make your own cisco PIX!) I can't find my links right now, but reply to this if you're interested and I'll find them and give them out.
4. Only supply a connection, the only services you should try to supply are what saves bandwidth like a transparent proxy.
5. How much do you want to spend on public IPv4? Would your tenants like rfc1918 privates?
OK, did that help at all?
AI has yet to even define itself, and hence, is troubled by the most fundamental disagreements about just exactly what its questions are, leaving doubt about whether the answers could even be found given the state of the art.
All I ever hear about when folks brag about "advances in AI" are things like some new algorithm which can interpret some form of input which it previously could not, or new theories of machine learning, etc.
No one yet has effectively defined the mechanics which make up "the mind". Folks still argue about whether its even important.
All I want to see is some sort of AI where glorified robotics engineers do not get labeled as "AI research scientists". Classify, and move on. I want to see advances in cognitive neuroscience! Not vague references to AI that make me click the link and be dissapointed.
"Dropping legacy support and not being dependant on RPMs will open up the doorway for my engineers to revolutionize Linux software installation... ...The second part of this step is to set up an actively developed software repository on the internet. Users aren't stupid... blah blah blah"
1. Why does everyone think RPM is responsible for poorly packaged RPMs? I mean come on! Gentoo, actually, has an awesome system, but it's not entirely due to being RPMless.
2. How about rawhide and redhat contrib? Freshmeat for the daring... I guess the article does have a point, though. Pick a random graphical application on freshmeat and you have a 1 in 7 chance of it being compatible with your system. (gnome 1.4? 2.0? 2.2??? not to mention kde...) FreeBSD has made compat-libs an artform.
3. Users aren't stupid??? I stopped reading here.
Gotcha now, Saddam!! Thought you finally found a place to hide, well, you're in for a surprise now!!
Bet it's hard to get good hookers on the moon, too! eros guide has no "moon" section yet, and cel phone reception SUCKS!
Well Saddam, if you are up there, at least your days are numbered now, and you have no access to hookers.
"Fine, I'll go build my own lunar lander! With blackjack and hookers! In fact, forget the lunar lander and the blackjack!" - Bender
This is not reliable source! This is US led propoganda campaign!
Seriously, though, who here could not have predicted this?
I'm a beta tester for TiVo, and I have to say I've not been this enchanted since my laser eye surgury.
In particular, there's a new feature allowing one to watch programs on any other TiVo connected to the same LAN using any opther TiVo. This suggests something similar might be done with software running on some PC on the sam eLAN as well, allowing video extraction.
Now this would be VERY cool. You could stream over the internet using transcoding filters in between, etc..
Go TiVo!!!
Let us ponder the future of ourselves as it relates to technology, and the ethics of it all...
So, nowadays mankind shapes the world around them to suit their needs, rather than dieing off until those that suit the environment remain. The problem in this is that it stymies the adaptation of mankind, at least as some see it. If someday all humans are fit to survive, then what's next? How do we change?
Assuming the environment no longer changes us forcably by adaptation, is it then ethical that we take our destiny into our own hands by altering ourselves genetically? Even assuming we know "good" traits from "bad" ones, I suspect so many people would change themselves in so many different ways that there would soon congeal many incompatible species of intelligent beings. From that, wider social rifts between groups of protocyborgs and enhanced humans with 15 inch dicks would happen. Dogs and cats, living together... etc etc.
On the other hand, we could all have the advantage of four asses! Somehow though, Natalie Portman does not seem like such a vision with four asses.