But almost everybody has at least one "windows only" program they must run. That is what keeps Windows on most machines. It could be a game, Office, or even iTunes to work with your iphone.
Nope your wrong. I use Open Office but it really isn't all that much like the current version of Word. Calc has real issues compared to Excel. For the Price OO is really very good but it isn't Office. Also some people don't want to have to "figure it out" they just want to get the job done. So, no you are wrong.
They may use BGAN for moral internet access. The Military has it's own networks for secured communications that are isolated from the internet. And no they are not gong to share. From what I have heard they are short of bandwidth as it is.
The PDK will help The old SDK is just too limited. Okay swap the out Androids IM and add WebOS's IM. Actually I want my old feature phones batter life. I want two full days with recharging but that may be asking too much. Oh and I forgot A better media player than all of them. I want more format support than any of them currently offer IMHO.
Not really. If you had read the post you would have said. I was trying to explain this to a person that thinks all Republicans are stupid and evil. Actually up till the late 1960s and 1970s Republicans where far more supportive of Civil Rights than the Democrats of the time. A lot of that had to do with the fact that at the time the two Democratic strong holds where the south and the Unions. The Unions where very anti-civil rights until the mid to late 60s because they saw African Americans as competition to their workers. The South was well the south. Look up George Wallace. Of course it isn't all that clear cut. You did have the liberal wing of the Democratic party that was mainly from the North East that was pro civil rights. And then you had a Democrat that frankly I consider an unsung hero of the Civil rights moment which was Truman. It was Truman that integrated the military which was a really brave thing for a man from Missouri to to. He was not really from the Liberal North East wing of the Party but I guess he was just a really good man. It was also an ideal time because it was so rapidly downsizing anyway that retention really wasn't an issue. But my point as you can see is that there are now and always have been good and bad people in both parties. To say that Republicans are all stupid racists is wrong. My facts are correct. They where correct when I stated them before. A large part of it was a divide between north and south but at the same time the Republican party did have a much better record of civil rights support at that time in history. There was a lot of African American support for the Republican party at that time and until the 1930s African Americans almost exclusively supported the Republican party. FDR did change that a good bit but then FDR really changed everything a good bit.
As I said good people in both parties. My goal is to end the cheerleading vilification mentality by showing people that their preconceived notions are wrong. At the same time I am trying to get the Republican party to move back towards the center where it really belongs. The Democratic party is such a mixed bag right now. I would like to believe that it is mainly in the center but with a bunch of loud mouth extremist loons that get all the attention. Or maybe they are just like the Republicans just with a different flavor of loons.
I doub't it. First they would have to wade though endless software patents and try and find none infringing ways to do things. WebOS is actually a really good OS for mobile devices and that is not an easy thing to make. Take a look at WinMo as an example of how hard it can be.
Well RIM really doesn't have a good OS going forward at this point. If they could integrate WebOS with their push email and messenger then use their great keyboard you could have a very hot device. For Apple it would be to have the patents so no one could use them to defend themselves from Apples patents. For Google it would be have the patents to defend themselves from Apple and probably Microsoft. For Nokia it would probably to have patents to use to attack Apple with.
My sneaking feeling is that Palm has a lot of patents on sync. The Palm devices where really the first device I remember that did a desktop sync like the iphone / ipod does. I believe that is why Apple never went through with their threats at Palm. Those patents could mean that Apples iTunes and Microsoft's Activesync are all infringing. Of course this is all a guess off the top of my head.
Honestly WebOS is great mobile OS. The SDK sucked but they are fixing that. The UI is very good and it is easy to use. The prefect mobile phone IMHO would be. The WebOS UI. With Android's or iPhone's app store. With RIM's Email, messaging, but with Android'ss gmail and IM support. Garmin's navigation. On HTC, Samsung, and or Motorola's hardware. With iPhone4's battery life. And with Microsoft's Zune pass.
Not really. I have used this user name on IRC and even BBS for years before I got on slashdot. Usenet as well. Frankly it is really too attached to my real life for comfort probably.
Really? So what if get moderated down? It costs you no money out of pocket. It will not cost you your job. As I posted early in this thread I think people should have the option to post as an AC but that it should count on your karma. Yes it would cut down on the huge fools from spouting off. As to the group think? I never mod down anyone for disagreeing. I only mod down for bad manners.
But really why worry about the approval of the masses on Slashdot? What does it really matter? If someone is going to mark me as a troll because they didn't agree with me or didn't get my joke I really don't care. There are idiots everywhere. And yes I feel for the moderation to work it has to applied to all posts. Now not wanting to have it attached to your name is understandable. Not wanting to be responsible for it at least in the minimal way that Slashdot imposes is just silly. But that is just my opinion.
Well You see I don't have a problem with posting as an AC. I just think it should count on your karma when you do. It may stop a few of the troll like posts. And frankly if you do not have the courage to post it with a karma hit then it isn't worth posting.
You see I think only the first and the second as trolls. The second is rude. The third is opinion. Notice that you think it is great idea so some of the comments you see as trolls may really just be a different view point. Frankly I don't know enough about it but I would ask a few questions if I was you. 1. Cost of the ticket. 2. Travel time. 3. Mass transits at the cities. 4. Cost and payback time.
Frankly a train that isn't any faster than driving and costs more than driving is going to be a none starter. If there isn't enough traffic then it isn't worth doing. But that is just my opinion and off subject. They are planing one in my state as well but the numbers are just really scary.
I wouldn't call it perfect we still have ACs Frankly I find it amusing when ever I see a post that says "I am posting this as an AC to avoid the karma hit" Really? Well then please do not post it.
I have to ask this. The stories about hi-speed rail. Are the trolls you are speaking of really trolls or people that you disagree with? An example of a troll is someone that says this is another of Obama's communist plans. Some one saying that it will be a waste of money is an honest disagreement.
But he has a point. Part of me would like to see ACs banned on Slashdot. But then I think that sometimes people could want to post something without it being tied to their name. Maybe because of work. What I would like see is for you to be required to have an account on Slashdot and have the option to post as an AC but still have it count on your Karma. It would probably reduce the really bad posts by %5 at max.
But I have got to be honest. Have any of you ever read the comments on most newspaper sites? How about on CNN. On average the posts on Slashdot are far more intelligent and good mannered than what I see on most News sites! Frankly it isn't a good state of affairs when Slashdot is a bastion of good manners!
As if this will make any difference to the masses? Please nobody will care about this. If it mattered Verizon wouldn't have any customers at all since it has a long history of locking down phones are removing functionality. This just isn't on most users radar.
Not really misleading at all. The first two civil rights acts of the 20th century where because of the efforts of President Eisenhower. It was also President Eisenhower that used federal troops to protect African american students going to white schools in the south. But yes the vote was very much North vs South and most Republicans where in the North So no I do not think it is misleading. As the the parties changing? Of course the change but frankly the issue is more that the extremists on both sides have gotten too much power. Would I like to see the Republicans move more to the center again? Yes I would. Nixon while vilified did a lot of things that would seem almost liberal today. He signed the first nuclear arms control treaty. "Kenndy was a huge hawk and used the "missile gap" in his campaign. He signed the bill creating the EPA. He signed the Clean Water Act. And he normalized relations with China... I am not sure how I feel about that one. But his legacy was one of pro environment and pro diplomacy. There are good people IN BOTH PARTIES. Vilification of the "others" is the tactic of tyrants. It is also a great from of self aggrandizement and disillusion. I am so much more enlightened and smarter because I belong to this group! Bull. Guess what good and smart people can even disagree on many issues. Many issues come down to what each thinks is best but in many cases there is no scientific proof that one is right or wrong. The yelling and hate need to stop. The first step is to realize that one needs to forget about parties when they vote in the general elections and start looking at individuals. Second is voters need to stop being "supporters" and party members. We are the boss conducting a job interview. The candidates are not heroes. They are our employees.
So stop trying to justify the evils or polarization and vilification. It happens on both sides. Trust me there are people that think I am a screaming liberal because I do not tolerate people insulting President Obama. There are people that think that I am screaming conservative because I dare to say that I do not agree with President Obama's polices and I do not think he is a good president. This isn't a game folks and we are not fans. Put away the tee shirts, the buttons, and the silly hats. Let us reason together. And let use treat people with respect and good manners even when we do not agree. But we can also not wait until the "they" agree to do it. All changes start with ourselves.
I think you really need to read about what you post. "Dynamic Tidal Power (DTP) is a new concept involving the construction of very long dams of about 30 to 50 km, extending from the coast straight out into the ocean, with a perpendicular barrier at the far end, forming a large 'T' shape." That very long dame going 30 to 50 km out into the sea is the mother of all Jetties. It would have a huge effect on the flow of water and sediment along the cost. Maybe you know little to nothing about the sea but there are often strong currents that flow along the costs that are vital to the ecology of the cost lines. Even a small jetty well under 1 km in length can cause a lot of problems along the coast line. And I fear that you also have no idea what a storm surge is. It isn't a title surge. It is a wall of water that a hurricane pushes in front of it. The east coast of Florida is lucky because we do a lot of big storm surges because of the shape of our coast and the seabed. You put a 50km dam anywhere on the coast and get a storm hitting that area correctly and instead of 2 to five meter surge you could see a ten plus meter surge. Which will take the damage from the millions to the 10 of billions in places. Not only that but it could take the death toll from zero to hundreds or thousands depending on the evacuation. Only a child or someone that doesn't live near the sea would think that you could put a huge dam 50 km out into the sea and not have huge consequences. So no I think you have fallen in love with this mega project and are dismissing the potential issues it could cause. You simply call them engineering challenges and they are that. Can they be resolved? Maybe. But the engineering challenges, uncertainty, and frankly costs of this project are much greater than a nuclear power plant. And frankly the likely ecological impact as well. Just think of the cost and difficulty of building a 50KM dam out into the sea! And then building the T shape at the end of it! Then think how vulnerable it is to storm damage. Thanks but no thanks. This is well into the pipe dream category. You like to use the words retarded and moron. I suggest that stop using middle school tactics and consider that as in all proposed "big ideas" that the risks are under explored and often over looked while the costs and difficulties are under estimated. Here is an example of you not thinking clearly about the problems. Sediments will not just stuck in the turbines the will be dropped all along the dam up to the turbines. It will also tend to starve other locations of those sediments. Like everything else in nature sediments are not good or bad. The right amount is vital. Too much is terrible. Too little is terrible. That is just one really big issue with this. Next issue for you. Many types of fish and wild life migrate up and down coasts. That dam will cause them issues and going through turbines is not usually a good thing for fish.
So you can keep calling name because I dare to point out just how risky this mega structure really is all you want but the risks are very real and not easy to dismiss if you know even a little bit about the ocean.
No. If you one parent is a US citizen you have Us citizenship. If not then every child born to a US serviceman overseas would be in question. It isn't an issue because none of the children have ever had to be naturalized. McCain is less of an issue since The Panama canal zone was was at that time a US territory/protectorate and his parents where I assume US citizenship. There is so many legal presidents for this that it really shouldn't be an issue. It really isn't an issue since he was born in Hawaii.
Sorry I left out "If you want to vote in the primaries" You do not have to join the party but in many states you will then have no say in the primaries. Frankly not enough voters vote in the primaries so often the parties get stuck with the extreme members being a large percentage of the primary voters. But I did flubb it when I left out that voting in primary part. I was thinking ahead of my typing.
Oracle could leverage Open Solaris as the ideal Oracle platform. They could push for high end web solutions to use Oracle+Solaris+Java. So yes it could be a really good solution for them. Also if they can get enough people using OpenSolaris they will have a well trained pool of sysadmins. OpenSolaris could compete with RHEL and Sun/Oracle can sell support like Red Hat.
Probably. I do not seem myself as a conservative or a liberal. As soon as you identify yourself with a group like that you are in effect becoming part of the problem of polarization and not part of the solution. However making a comment about Democrats or Republicans is offensive. You must join one party or the other in most locations in the US. However I can see your point. However the technical information presented about the safety of nuclear power in the same posts and how it targeted the unthinking and or manipulative arguments of the anti-nuclear extremists to me showed a narrow targeting of the insult to those that are worthy of the title IMHO.
So I will stand by my statement that people that bring up Chernobyl when talking about modern western nuclear power plants, protest the launch of nuclear powered space probes, and or want all flights banned over national parks are harmful to society as a whole and to environmentalism as a cause and or goal. But I will re-frame from calling them Environuts and will instead use the more more neutral terms, whackattaks, morons, idiots, and clueless fools if you would like.
I guess that you didn't see where they said "political partisans"? Take a look in the mirror dude. It is the same on both sides.
My rule of thumb. Never trust anybody that has a political bumper sticker on their car or claims to be a "supporter".
To give you an example from the other side. I didn't like Obama's space policy before the election. I still don't. When I showed people his policy they said that it wasn't so. When I showed it to them on his own website they said that they are sure he wouldn't do it. When I told the same partisan that it was a Republican president and not Kennedy that put forth not just the first but the first and second Civil Rights acts I was again called a liar. When I showed him that it was true and showed him that by percentage more Republicans supported Kennedy's Civil Rights reforms than Democrats did he went into a fit of rage!
By the way my point was that one shouldn't support or vote for parties but individuals. I was trying to show that that there are good people as well as scum in both parties. You how ever are every bit as much of the problem as the people you dislike so much. Two sides of the same coin.
And I do not like Presidents Obama's space policy. His health care reforms are not terrible but he didn't do enough about drug costs. His energy policy is a nightmare. I do not think he is a good president. But he was born in Hawaii and what people seem to forget is it doesn't matter if he wasn't! You do not have to be born on US soil to be born a US citizen. If one of you parents is a US citizen you are a US citizen! If not then any US living abroad for work, school, or military service that has a child would have issues! That isn't the way it works so no it doesn't matter even if he wasn't born in Hawaii. And being a Muslim doesn't mean you can not be president. Just as being Catholic, Mormon, or Jewish means you can not be a US president. So there!
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But almost everybody has at least one "windows only" program they must run.
That is what keeps Windows on most machines.
It could be a game, Office, or even iTunes to work with your iphone.
Nope your wrong.
I use Open Office but it really isn't all that much like the current version of Word.
Calc has real issues compared to Excel.
For the Price OO is really very good but it isn't Office.
Also some people don't want to have to "figure it out" they just want to get the job done.
So, no you are wrong.
They may use BGAN for moral internet access. The Military has it's own networks for secured communications that are isolated from the internet.
And no they are not gong to share. From what I have heard they are short of bandwidth as it is.
The PDK will help The old SDK is just too limited.
Okay swap the out Androids IM and add WebOS's IM.
Actually I want my old feature phones batter life. I want two full days with recharging but that may be asking too much.
Oh and I forgot A better media player than all of them.
I want more format support than any of them currently offer IMHO.
Not really. If you had read the post you would have said. I was trying to explain this to a person that thinks all Republicans are stupid and evil.
Actually up till the late 1960s and 1970s Republicans where far more supportive of Civil Rights than the Democrats of the time. A lot of that had to do with the fact that at the time the two Democratic strong holds where the south and the Unions.
The Unions where very anti-civil rights until the mid to late 60s because they saw African Americans as competition to their workers.
The South was well the south. Look up George Wallace.
Of course it isn't all that clear cut. You did have the liberal wing of the Democratic party that was mainly from the North East that was pro civil rights.
And then you had a Democrat that frankly I consider an unsung hero of the Civil rights moment which was Truman. It was Truman that integrated the military which was a really brave thing for a man from Missouri to to. He was not really from the Liberal North East wing of the Party but I guess he was just a really good man. It was also an ideal time because it was so rapidly downsizing anyway that retention really wasn't an issue.
But my point as you can see is that there are now and always have been good and bad people in both parties.
To say that Republicans are all stupid racists is wrong. My facts are correct. They where correct when I stated them before.
A large part of it was a divide between north and south but at the same time the Republican party did have a much better record of civil rights support at that time in history.
There was a lot of African American support for the Republican party at that time and until the 1930s African Americans almost exclusively supported the Republican party. FDR did change that a good bit but then FDR really changed everything a good bit.
As I said good people in both parties. My goal is to end the cheerleading vilification mentality by showing people that their preconceived notions are wrong.
At the same time I am trying to get the Republican party to move back towards the center where it really belongs.
The Democratic party is such a mixed bag right now. I would like to believe that it is mainly in the center but with a bunch of loud mouth extremist loons that get all the attention.
Or maybe they are just like the Republicans just with a different flavor of loons.
I doub't it.
First they would have to wade though endless software patents and try and find none infringing ways to do things.
WebOS is actually a really good OS for mobile devices and that is not an easy thing to make. Take a look at WinMo as an example of how hard it can be.
Well RIM really doesn't have a good OS going forward at this point. If they could integrate WebOS with their push email and messenger then use their great keyboard you could have a very hot device.
For Apple it would be to have the patents so no one could use them to defend themselves from Apples patents.
For Google it would be have the patents to defend themselves from Apple and probably Microsoft.
For Nokia it would probably to have patents to use to attack Apple with.
My sneaking feeling is that Palm has a lot of patents on sync. The Palm devices where really the first device I remember that did a desktop sync like the iphone / ipod does. I believe that is why Apple never went through with their threats at Palm. Those patents could mean that Apples iTunes and Microsoft's Activesync are all infringing.
Of course this is all a guess off the top of my head.
Honestly WebOS is great mobile OS. The SDK sucked but they are fixing that. The UI is very good and it is easy to use.
The prefect mobile phone IMHO would be.
The WebOS UI.
With Android's or iPhone's app store.
With RIM's Email, messaging, but with Android'ss gmail and IM support.
Garmin's navigation.
On HTC, Samsung, and or Motorola's hardware.
With iPhone4's battery life.
And with Microsoft's Zune pass.
Maybe you already are Mel Gibson.
Not really.
I have used this user name on IRC and even BBS for years before I got on slashdot.
Usenet as well.
Frankly it is really too attached to my real life for comfort probably.
Really?
So what if get moderated down? It costs you no money out of pocket. It will not cost you your job.
As I posted early in this thread I think people should have the option to post as an AC but that it should count on your karma.
Yes it would cut down on the huge fools from spouting off.
As to the group think?
I never mod down anyone for disagreeing. I only mod down for bad manners.
But really why worry about the approval of the masses on Slashdot? What does it really matter? If someone is going to mark me as a troll because they didn't agree with me or didn't get my joke I really don't care.
There are idiots everywhere.
And yes I feel for the moderation to work it has to applied to all posts. Now not wanting to have it attached to your name is understandable. Not wanting to be responsible for it at least in the minimal way that Slashdot imposes is just silly.
But that is just my opinion.
Well You see I don't have a problem with posting as an AC. I just think it should count on your karma when you do. It may stop a few of the troll like posts.
And frankly if you do not have the courage to post it with a karma hit then it isn't worth posting.
You see I think only the first and the second as trolls. The second is rude. The third is opinion.
Notice that you think it is great idea so some of the comments you see as trolls may really just be a different view point.
Frankly I don't know enough about it but I would ask a few questions if I was you.
1. Cost of the ticket.
2. Travel time.
3. Mass transits at the cities.
4. Cost and payback time.
Frankly a train that isn't any faster than driving and costs more than driving is going to be a none starter.
If there isn't enough traffic then it isn't worth doing.
But that is just my opinion and off subject.
They are planing one in my state as well but the numbers are just really scary.
I wouldn't call it perfect we still have ACs
Frankly I find it amusing when ever I see a post that says "I am posting this as an AC to avoid the karma hit"
Really? Well then please do not post it.
I have to ask this. The stories about hi-speed rail. Are the trolls you are speaking of really trolls or people that you disagree with?
An example of a troll is someone that says this is another of Obama's communist plans.
Some one saying that it will be a waste of money is an honest disagreement.
But he has a point. Part of me would like to see ACs banned on Slashdot. But then I think that sometimes people could want to post something without it being tied to their name. Maybe because of work.
What I would like see is for you to be required to have an account on Slashdot and have the option to post as an AC but still have it count on your Karma.
It would probably reduce the really bad posts by %5 at max.
But I have got to be honest. Have any of you ever read the comments on most newspaper sites? How about on CNN.
On average the posts on Slashdot are far more intelligent and good mannered than what I see on most News sites!
Frankly it isn't a good state of affairs when Slashdot is a bastion of good manners!
Bazinga!
As if this will make any difference to the masses?
Please nobody will care about this. If it mattered Verizon wouldn't have any customers at all since it has a long history of locking down phones are removing functionality.
This just isn't on most users radar.
Not really misleading at all. The first two civil rights acts of the 20th century where because of the efforts of President Eisenhower. It was also President Eisenhower that used federal troops to protect African american students going to white schools in the south.
But yes the vote was very much North vs South and most Republicans where in the North
So no I do not think it is misleading.
As the the parties changing? Of course the change but frankly the issue is more that the extremists on both sides have gotten too much power.
Would I like to see the Republicans move more to the center again?
Yes I would. Nixon while vilified did a lot of things that would seem almost liberal today.
He signed the first nuclear arms control treaty. "Kenndy was a huge hawk and used the "missile gap" in his campaign. He signed the bill creating the EPA. He signed the Clean Water Act. And he normalized relations with China... I am not sure how I feel about that one.
But his legacy was one of pro environment and pro diplomacy.
There are good people IN BOTH PARTIES.
Vilification of the "others" is the tactic of tyrants. It is also a great from of self aggrandizement and disillusion. I am so much more enlightened and smarter because I belong to this group!
Bull.
Guess what good and smart people can even disagree on many issues.
Many issues come down to what each thinks is best but in many cases there is no scientific proof that one is right or wrong.
The yelling and hate need to stop. The first step is to realize that one needs to forget about parties when they vote in the general elections and start looking at individuals.
Second is voters need to stop being "supporters" and party members.
We are the boss conducting a job interview. The candidates are not heroes. They are our employees.
So stop trying to justify the evils or polarization and vilification. It happens on both sides. Trust me there are people that think I am a screaming liberal because I do not tolerate people insulting President Obama. There are people that think that I am screaming conservative because I dare to say that I do not agree with President Obama's polices and I do not think he is a good president.
This isn't a game folks and we are not fans. Put away the tee shirts, the buttons, and the silly hats. Let us reason together. And let use treat people with respect and good manners even when we do not agree.
But we can also not wait until the "they" agree to do it. All changes start with ourselves.
I think you really need to read about what you post.
"Dynamic Tidal Power (DTP) is a new concept involving the construction of very long dams of about 30 to 50 km, extending from the coast straight out into the ocean, with a perpendicular barrier at the far end, forming a large 'T' shape."
That very long dame going 30 to 50 km out into the sea is the mother of all Jetties. It would have a huge effect on the flow of water and sediment along the cost. Maybe you know little to nothing about the sea but there are often strong currents that flow along the costs that are vital to the ecology of the cost lines.
Even a small jetty well under 1 km in length can cause a lot of problems along the coast line.
And I fear that you also have no idea what a storm surge is. It isn't a title surge. It is a wall of water that a hurricane pushes in front of it.
The east coast of Florida is lucky because we do a lot of big storm surges because of the shape of our coast and the seabed. You put a 50km dam anywhere on the coast and get a storm hitting that area correctly and instead of 2 to five meter surge you could see a ten plus meter surge. Which will take the damage from the millions to the 10 of billions in places.
Not only that but it could take the death toll from zero to hundreds or thousands depending on the evacuation.
Only a child or someone that doesn't live near the sea would think that you could put a huge dam 50 km out into the sea and not have huge consequences.
So no I think you have fallen in love with this mega project and are dismissing the potential issues it could cause. You simply call them engineering challenges and they are that. Can they be resolved? Maybe.
But the engineering challenges, uncertainty, and frankly costs of this project are much greater than a nuclear power plant.
And frankly the likely ecological impact as well.
Just think of the cost and difficulty of building a 50KM dam out into the sea!
And then building the T shape at the end of it!
Then think how vulnerable it is to storm damage.
Thanks but no thanks. This is well into the pipe dream category.
You like to use the words retarded and moron. I suggest that stop using middle school tactics and consider that as in all proposed "big ideas" that the risks are under explored and often over looked while the costs and difficulties are under estimated.
Here is an example of you not thinking clearly about the problems.
Sediments will not just stuck in the turbines the will be dropped all along the dam up to the turbines. It will also tend to starve other locations of those sediments. Like everything else in nature sediments are not good or bad. The right amount is vital. Too much is terrible. Too little is terrible.
That is just one really big issue with this.
Next issue for you.
Many types of fish and wild life migrate up and down coasts. That dam will cause them issues and going through turbines is not usually a good thing for fish.
So you can keep calling name because I dare to point out just how risky this mega structure really is all you want but the risks are very real and not easy to dismiss if you know even a little bit about the ocean.
Solaris and OpenSolaris do have advantages over Linux. ZFS for example.
No.
If you one parent is a US citizen you have Us citizenship. If not then every child born to a US serviceman overseas would be in question.
It isn't an issue because none of the children have ever had to be naturalized.
McCain is less of an issue since The Panama canal zone was was at that time a US territory/protectorate and his parents where I assume US citizenship.
There is so many legal presidents for this that it really shouldn't be an issue.
It really isn't an issue since he was born in Hawaii.
Sorry I left out "If you want to vote in the primaries"
You do not have to join the party but in many states you will then have no say in the primaries.
Frankly not enough voters vote in the primaries so often the parties get stuck with the extreme members being a large percentage of the primary voters.
But I did flubb it when I left out that voting in primary part. I was thinking ahead of my typing.
Oracle could leverage Open Solaris as the ideal Oracle platform.
They could push for high end web solutions to use Oracle+Solaris+Java.
So yes it could be a really good solution for them. Also if they can get enough people using OpenSolaris they will have a well trained pool of sysadmins. OpenSolaris could compete with RHEL and Sun/Oracle can sell support like Red Hat.
Probably.
I do not seem myself as a conservative or a liberal. As soon as you identify yourself with a group like that you are in effect becoming part of the problem of polarization and not part of the solution.
However making a comment about Democrats or Republicans is offensive. You must join one party or the other in most locations in the US.
However I can see your point. However the technical information presented about the safety of nuclear power in the same posts and how it targeted the unthinking and or manipulative arguments of the anti-nuclear extremists to me showed a narrow targeting of the insult to those that are worthy of the title IMHO.
So I will stand by my statement that people that bring up Chernobyl when talking about modern western nuclear power plants, protest the launch of nuclear powered space probes, and or want all flights banned over national parks are harmful to society as a whole and to environmentalism as a cause and or goal.
But I will re-frame from calling them Environuts and will instead use the more more neutral terms, whackattaks, morons, idiots, and clueless fools if you would like.
I guess that you didn't see where they said "political partisans"?
Take a look in the mirror dude. It is the same on both sides.
My rule of thumb. Never trust anybody that has a political bumper sticker on their car or claims to be a "supporter".
To give you an example from the other side. I didn't like Obama's space policy before the election. I still don't. When I showed people his policy they said that it wasn't so. When I showed it to them on his own website they said that they are sure he wouldn't do it.
When I told the same partisan that it was a Republican president and not Kennedy that put forth not just the first but the first and second Civil Rights acts I was again called a liar. When I showed him that it was true and showed him that by percentage more Republicans supported Kennedy's Civil Rights reforms than Democrats did he went into a fit of rage!
By the way my point was that one shouldn't support or vote for parties but individuals. I was trying to show that that there are good people as well as scum in both parties.
You how ever are every bit as much of the problem as the people you dislike so much. Two sides of the same coin.
And I do not like Presidents Obama's space policy. His health care reforms are not terrible but he didn't do enough about drug costs. His energy policy is a nightmare. I do not think he is a good president.
But he was born in Hawaii and what people seem to forget is it doesn't matter if he wasn't!
You do not have to be born on US soil to be born a US citizen. If one of you parents is a US citizen you are a US citizen!
If not then any US living abroad for work, school, or military service that has a child would have issues!
That isn't the way it works so no it doesn't matter even if he wasn't born in Hawaii.
And being a Muslim doesn't mean you can not be president. Just as being Catholic, Mormon, or Jewish means you can not be a US president.
So there!