While networking by carrier pigeon is mostly a joke, there is some serious bandwidth potential in trained birds that we might as well remember exists just in case we ever really need it.
And if you don't end up needing it, here's a recipe that might come in handy.
These days, it's the anti-religious guys who get their panties in a bunch over movies they haven't seen or don't understand. Amazing how times change, ennit?
I've read a lot of statutes in my day, believe me immunity for government officials (in criminal cases at least) is very, very rare.
I guess I was thinking about the general problem of lawmakers passing laws that they themselves are exempt from. For example, the laws that do not apply to congress.
It's an interesting and timely story considering some recent news from Alabama. To quote Birmingham's WERC News Radio:
"The Alabama Constitution says legislators can't be arrested for some crimes while in session. Among those crimes they can be arrested for... treason, felonies, violation of their oath of office and breach of the peace. The lawmakers began talking about changing the law after Representative Alvin Holmes was stopped last week by a Montgomery County sheriff's deputy for suspicion of drunk driving. Even though the deputy says he smelled alcohol, he couldn't arrest the Holmes, so they took him home. Holmes says he is being harassed by racist deputies."
Yes, I know the Slashdot story related a proposed bill in New Mexico, but I wonder if legislators there (or in other states) would be exempt from those laws, as is so often the case?
"Last May, 29 percent of adult Internet users in the United States reported that they had engaged in file sharing; that figure dropped to 14 percent in a survey conducted in November and December."
So did 15 percent of people get their file sharing virginity back?
No, they just stopped blabbing to pollsters about it.
Just now I checked their website I see no free Windows version at all.
Correct, it's no longer available. To quote the Qt Free Edition FAQ, "Trolltech supports free software development on platforms where contributing to Free Software/Open Source development is part of the platform strategy. At the time being it does not seem natural for us to release a free edition for Qt/Windows."
Right. Uh-huh. We never saw *this* coming. No sireeee. Electronic voting is *reliable*, *safe*, and *fun for the whole family*, and anything else is against the word of the Fuehre...er, I mean, is Anti-American.
You said it. Those evil Republicans even fixed it so that no Democrats were even listed on the ballot in this election.
Yes, because immediately after a president enters office, of course the entire economy and world policital environment changes overnight.
Well, consider the homeless problem that we heard about on a daily problem during the Reagan and Bush, Sr. administrations. As soon as Clinton took office, we stopped hearing about it, so that problem was apparently solved overnight.
The ignorance of the poster, Michael, on science is glaring and obvious... Then again, the poster checked into all of this before making hs accusatory and 100% factual title right?
... rock singer Robert Palmer has died of a heart attack at age 54.
Good grief, I saw this before I had checked any of the "real" news sites and assumed it was your basic AC gag. Granted, the post is still offtopic, but Robert Palmer did in fact die of a heart attack early Friday morning.
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They will think you are so nuts that if you are any good, they will put you in an office to hide you from others. If not, they will can you, and you will be motivated to find someplace else to work.
Don't know about that. This strategy never worked out for Les Nessman at WKRP in Cincinnati.
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No, they just stopped blabbing to pollsters about it.
... don't forget about FOX, which is written in C++ but has bindings for other programming languages as well.
Correct, it's no longer available. To quote the Qt Free Edition FAQ, "Trolltech supports free software development on platforms where contributing to Free Software/Open Source development is part of the platform strategy. At the time being it does not seem natural for us to release a free edition for Qt/Windows."