No, not this name, my real name. How dare he tarnish that beautiful name (he even spells it the proper way - with a 'K') by siding with SCO in this lawsuit? I wonder if I can sue him for defamation or something...
I think the actual music they were listening to was the people playing the drums and various instruments that you heard at the start of the dancing. It became overlayed at some point by some techno for our benefit, but I didn't take that to be what *they* were hearing.
They are two completely different crimes. Theft actually removes something of value from someone's possesion. Copyright infringement is more like jay walking. Actually, no. Jaywalking could harm you (or someone's car), where violating copyright can't do anything by annoy those who rely on its outdated concept for their money.
In general, I just think that the fewer people who even have the possibility of screwing up your systems, the better. It's easier to hire a few qualified people who have to maintain a few boxes than a bunch of not so qualified people to maintain a bunch of boxes.
Not to mention how much easier it is to upgrade everyone at once.
So which is more expensive, having a huge desktop support staff that is going to be needed by every user at least once a year or a smaller support staff to take care of the servers that shouldn't (if managed properly) even go down once a year?
Seems like a no-brainer to me.
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> That is the whole point of the graph, the changes in the compressed waveform dictate SOUND changes
And that doesn't matter *at all* unless your ears can hear those changes.
If you use low-powered throw away pcs acting as X terminals as your desktops, you have just solved all of you problems. Desktop support becomes a matter of replacing the hardware when it breaks.
I don't think that's just for Wine. I think its the minimum you'd like to try any games at. I play GTA3 on a Duron 950 and it is a little slow, but playable.
>In light of the fact that the article does not go into detail on how the study was devised, I can't just blindly accept it. Chances are it was not a true experiment, it sounds epidemiological in nature, without controls, and the website hosting the article [environmen...guards.com] doesn't exactly appear unbiased. I'm a scientist - I try to consider the sources in determining causality. What what the N on that study?
Ironically enough, the federal government funded that particular study.
The article itself is apparently only available on LexisNexis (0891-5709) if you have access.
>What was the design? Who funds RAND?
RAND is a generally conservative research institute.
> Don't get me wrong, I think extra drug/rehab is a great idea, but getting rid of the enforcement aspect could be quite catastrophic.
Why do you think it would need any more enforcement than our current laws covering Alcohol?
"Treatment is seven times more cost-effective than domestic drug enforcement in reducing cocaine use and 15 times more cost-effective in reducing the social costs of crime and lost productivity."
And how would you know if there really were or were not any planned attacks? The government could just put out a press release every six months saying that they had stopped the latest evil attack on the Fatherland...err, Homeland and that the terrorists have been shipped off to Cuba. Whether or not any of it happened is irrelevant - people like you can wave their flag a little harder while having Big Brother's fist jammed a little more tightly up their ass.
If all of the Florida libertarians had voted for Gore in the last election, their 16,415 votes would have meant you'd be calling Mr. Gore president right now. Hell, if we'd all switched our voted to Democrat, several of the close states would have gone the other way.
And that's not even considering the Nader votes...
>It's worrisome enough to make a libertarian like me want to vote democrat the next time around.
DingDingDing!
That is exactly what has happened to me too. I never thought I would vote Democrat out of fear of the Republican candidate, but this president has already done more to destroy our constitutional rights in 2 years than anyone I can remember. I *will* be voting Democrat next time (unless they nominate that wonk Lieberman).
If it's illegal based upon the fifth amendment, it's completely, mind-bogglingly illegal based upon the sixth:
"In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence."
We can't even keep our cruise missiles from flying into Iran. If you don't think people are losing their homes and families *as we speak*, you are painfully naive.
As if we would give 1 shit if Iraq wasn't sitting on the second largest oil reserve in the world. There are plenty of brutal dictators in the world that will never get the attention that we are giving Iraq because they have nothing we want.
I always love being called a moron by someone who doesn't realize that "you're" is a contraction.
>try actually reading about or watching what is happening instead of shooting your ignorant mouth off and jumping on the cool "gwb sux" band wagon.
First, little George does suck, and I've been on that bandwagon since I heard he was running for president.
Second, I am reading and watching all of the war coverage. You should pull your nose out of Bill O'Reilly's ass long enough to change the channel off of Fox News. You'd be amazed at what the rest of the world's media (not under the thumb of the US government) is saying about this illegal war.
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Erik Hughes?!? Erik Hughes!!!
That dirty rat bastard has my name!
No, not this name, my real name. How dare he tarnish that beautiful name (he even spells it the proper way - with a 'K') by siding with SCO in this lawsuit? I wonder if I can sue him for defamation or something...
>There are no such things as Native Americans, we all migrated here at one time or another from Eurasia.
Does "The people who's land we stole" have a better ring to it?
Other people behaving badly does not give us an excuse to do the same.
I think the actual music they were listening to was the people playing the drums and various instruments that you heard at the start of the dancing. It became overlayed at some point by some techno for our benefit, but I didn't take that to be what *they* were hearing.
Copyright infringement != Theft
They are two completely different crimes. Theft actually removes something of value from someone's possesion. Copyright infringement is more like jay walking. Actually, no. Jaywalking could harm you (or someone's car), where violating copyright can't do anything by annoy those who rely on its outdated concept for their money.
Seems like they are already stirring things up. Can't have our close friends to the north being naughty now, can we?
Isn't 'fancy dumb terminals' an oxymoron? :)
In general, I just think that the fewer people who even have the possibility of screwing up your systems, the better. It's easier to hire a few qualified people who have to maintain a few boxes than a bunch of not so qualified people to maintain a bunch of boxes.
Not to mention how much easier it is to upgrade everyone at once.
So which is more expensive, having a huge desktop support staff that is going to be needed by every user at least once a year or a smaller support staff to take care of the servers that shouldn't (if managed properly) even go down once a year?
Seems like a no-brainer to me.
> That is the whole point of the graph, the changes in the compressed waveform dictate SOUND changes
And that doesn't matter *at all* unless your ears can hear those changes.
If you use low-powered throw away pcs acting as X terminals as your desktops, you have just solved all of you problems. Desktop support becomes a matter of replacing the hardware when it breaks.
I don't think that's just for Wine. I think its the minimum you'd like to try any games at. I play GTA3 on a Duron 950 and it is a little slow, but playable.
>In light of the fact that the article does not go into detail on how the study was devised, I can't just blindly accept it. Chances are it was not a true experiment, it sounds epidemiological in nature, without controls, and the website hosting the article [environmen...guards.com] doesn't exactly appear unbiased. I'm a scientist - I try to consider the sources in determining causality. What what the N on that study?
Ironically enough, the federal government funded that particular study.
The article itself is apparently only available on LexisNexis (0891-5709) if you have access.
>What was the design? Who funds RAND?
RAND is a generally conservative research institute.
> Don't get me wrong, I think extra drug/rehab is a great idea, but getting rid of the enforcement aspect could be quite catastrophic.
Why do you think it would need any more enforcement than our current laws covering Alcohol?
Actually, it does.
"Treatment is seven times more cost-effective than domestic drug enforcement in reducing cocaine use and 15 times more cost-effective in reducing the social costs of crime and lost productivity."
Looks a bit too computer generated to me. It kinda has that whole 'Scooby Doo' feel to it from these previews.
VB.NET is really just C# with a different frontend. It has about as much in common with VB as java does.
Just do a google search on nph-proxy.cgi. You'll find all kinds of open anonymous proxies that way.
And how would you know if there really were or were not any planned attacks? The government could just put out a press release every six months saying that they had stopped the latest evil attack on the Fatherland...err, Homeland and that the terrorists have been shipped off to Cuba. Whether or not any of it happened is irrelevant - people like you can wave their flag a little harder while having Big Brother's fist jammed a little more tightly up their ass.
Enjoy your cage.
If all of the Florida libertarians had voted for Gore in the last election, their 16,415 votes would have meant you'd be calling Mr. Gore president right now. Hell, if we'd all switched our voted to Democrat, several of the close states would have gone the other way.
And that's not even considering the Nader votes...
>It's worrisome enough to make a libertarian like me want to vote democrat the next time around.
DingDingDing!
That is exactly what has happened to me too. I never thought I would vote Democrat out of fear of the Republican candidate, but this president has already done more to destroy our constitutional rights in 2 years than anyone I can remember. I *will* be voting Democrat next time (unless they nominate that wonk Lieberman).
If it's illegal based upon the fifth amendment, it's completely, mind-bogglingly illegal based upon the sixth:
"In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence."
This one is pretty simple:
http://www.jmarshall.com/tools/cgiproxy/
We can't even keep our cruise missiles from flying into Iran. If you don't think people are losing their homes and families *as we speak*, you are painfully naive.
As if we would give 1 shit if Iraq wasn't sitting on the second largest oil reserve in the world. There are plenty of brutal dictators in the world that will never get the attention that we are giving Iraq because they have nothing we want.
>your a moron.
I always love being called a moron by someone who doesn't realize that "you're" is a contraction.
>try actually reading about or watching what is happening instead of shooting your ignorant mouth off and jumping on the cool "gwb sux" band wagon.
First, little George does suck, and I've been on that bandwagon since I heard he was running for president.
Second, I am reading and watching all of the war coverage. You should pull your nose out of Bill O'Reilly's ass long enough to change the channel off of Fox News. You'd be amazed at what the rest of the world's media (not under the thumb of the US government) is saying about this illegal war.
Right. Our magical missiles would never miss their target.
Moron.
Nothing like blowing the hell out of people's homes to make them not want to run out and join a terrorist group.