Can you direct me to some statements/postings/blogs by someone who could be considered "left" and who wants the US to be more like Cuba (in terms of individual liberties, free market, and all that; and not more like Cuba in terms of health care)?
Wouldn't that be, as stated in this thread, more of a fringe opinion?
No, I don't think the left argues that Cuba is some kind of paragon of liberty. They argue that the policy towards Cuba should be something like that towards China, one of engagement that will encourage them to move towards free market reforms, which will lead to individual freedoms.
Stating that "the left" has some rosy idea about Cuba makes people say, well, nobody has the right answer, both sides are equally bad. That isn't the case.
The blog post (or was it a response to a blog posting) by the official suggests that the TSA bases its policies on the important assumption that terrorists are more intelligent than passengers.
I, for one, will be getting fast downloads during the game. I'll be receiving an 15-20 Mbps MPEG-TS stream (after conversion) containing the live game broadcast from my antenna.
So the Protect America Act will expire, huh? OK, so what will happen? I think what the congress-people and the potus are afraid of is that if it does expire, nothing will happen. Before the act was in place, the security agencies has enough powers and enough information about an impending strike (that happened on a certain day); they just weren't co-ordinated enough, or agile enough to prevent it.
Why do we have to bear the burden of someone else's disorganization by incursions into our freedoms?
Especially with these "1984"-style naming of legislations - "Patriot" act, "Help America Vote Act", "Protect America Act."
Well, congratulations the to NYT for the extremely timely reporting, more than a year after the elections they're talking about, and more than 3 years after the election when the HAVA voting machines were first used. Also, years after articles in magazines such as Harpers and many progressive sites, not to mention news report the day after the elections about voting machines failures, and statistical anomalies in the declared election results vs exit polls, not to mention anomalies such as number of undervotes bigger than the total number of voters in some precincts.
And as for the machines themselves, you have to try to make machines and voting systems as pathetic as these. Pure incompetence alone cannot account for this.
Yeah, the 3000 series is nothing like the Thinkpads. Besides, I'm not sure anything without a Trackpoint can legitimately be called a Thinkpad, or Ideapad for that matter.
Oh, there have been protests. A lot of them over nonsense such as "pro-life", etc. There have been significant ones such as the anti-war marches, the immigrants ones last year, and the 1M man march. The comments about gun owners merely polishing their guns and not doing anything, however, still hold. The gun-owners, if they can be said to be represented by the vehemently-pro-gun right wing radio, universally mocked these protests and protesters. Also, unlike in France, the so-called news here minimized or outright ignored these protests.
Maybe they want to see what they can make us do. They said one time you couldn't carry water bottles on-board. Then you could carry them on as long as they were purchased after the security check. I don't know what it is now... then they said that cosmetics, shampoos, soaps, etc. containing liquids had to be less that 4 oz and all of them had to fit in a quart bag, my sizes might be off, but something like that. Why quart size? Maybe it's a carefully determined threshold, above which everyone is still resentful, but not so much that they'd protest. Or maybe they made it up, as long as they were making stuff up anyway. Or maybe the water-boarded guy said they had a plot to use 2 quart bags.. then they water-boarded him some more and he said one-and-a-half qt bags; so they decided they'd allow only 1 qt bags so that the evil ones did have anything to blow up. Now it's 1 spare battery (or whatever number). I suppose we hear that and go, hey, they allow a spare, and that's good around. I mean, who needs a hundred spares anyway? And so we accept one more thing, more or less unquestioningly.
I know this sounds like a slippery slope argument, but this stuff is being made up as we go along. They got the idiot shoe guy trying to light a match, so they said we've got to take our shoes off and run them through the machines. I mean, this could go on ad infinitum.
MATLAB did the same thing to us, made us pay maintenance for all the years that it had lapsed, because we wanted to upgrade an users' desktop to the latest version.
Any way, left turns onto a highway do, indeed, use gas, particularly if there's heavy traffic. But at an intersection, particularly with a left turn arrow, it uses no more gas than a right turn. You have to use as much gas idling to wait for traffic turning right from a side street as you do waiting for traffic turning left on to a side street.
The likelihood of being able to make a right turn without stopping is higher than for a left turn, particularly when no left turn light is provided at the light. So if the gas mileage killers are stops, more right turns still use less gas than lefts.
Google's Adsense makes something accessible to small players that is hard to do otherwise - soliciting and managing business relationships with advertisers and web sites, and integrating an apparently fair revenue model into it too. Amazon's HaaS isn't that radical/new. For one thing, fragmented computing/networking resources were already available as Virtual Private Server or Virtualized Environments. Perhaps not as fine-grained but cheaper than Amazon.
Given Amazon's linear pricing, their granularizing everything makes me nervous... how often do I have to watch my meter as I run my apps? A VPS with fixed limits on everything except total bandwidth used, at its price point, is something I'm more comfortable with at this point.
Maybe sooner (than pigs will fly), because the candidates are already being asked questions that need scientific knowledge, such as global warming, or analytical skills, such as terrorism. But I don't know if anything useful can be determined from their answers, because the answers are about attracting voters, not about showing knowledge or grasp. Consider the following answer from Mike Huckabee...
"Oh, I believe in science. I certainly do," he said. "In fact, what I believe in is, I believe in God. I don't think there's a conflict between the two. But if there's going to be a conflict, science changes with every generation and with new discoveries and God doesn't. So I'll stick with God if the two are in conflict."
I agree, once we go out into the so-called real world from school, no one is obligated anymore to keep things interesting and fun. Employers, for example, will instead arrange work things to (in theory) maximize their economic benefit. There will always be people educated in less gadget-rich environment who will find such work quite interesting.
The question then is whether the skills and faculties developed in an exciting and engaging educational environment are economically useful. Kids tinkering in their garage have started successful companies.. but is it enough to have only those skills around?
Some time ago, it was reported that Bangalore could lose jobs because the software shops were fed up with the congestion there. Infosys opened 1000s of new jobs in other cities (http://bangalorebuzz.blogspot.com/2006/01/infy-to -expand-outside-bangalore.html). Maybe Bangalore decided they'd better pay some attention to the problem.
The default for incoming is port 80. Port 8080 is popular too. These are for people connecting to your web server. Blocking these doesn't affect outgoing connections, that is, your browsing experience.
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Can you direct me to some statements/postings/blogs by someone who could be considered "left" and who wants the US to be more like Cuba (in terms of individual liberties, free market, and all that; and not more like Cuba in terms of health care)?
Wouldn't that be, as stated in this thread, more of a fringe opinion?
No, I don't think the left argues that Cuba is some kind of paragon of liberty. They argue that the policy towards Cuba should be something like that towards China, one of engagement that will encourage them to move towards free market reforms, which will lead to individual freedoms.
Stating that "the left" has some rosy idea about Cuba makes people say, well, nobody has the right answer, both sides are equally bad. That isn't the case.
Well then, they don't teach chain saw safety, or drill safety, in schools. Why does this reasoning justify teaching gun safety?
The blog post (or was it a response to a blog posting) by the official suggests that the TSA bases its policies on the important assumption that terrorists are more intelligent than passengers.
I, for one, will be getting fast downloads during the game. I'll be receiving an 15-20 Mbps MPEG-TS stream (after conversion) containing the live game broadcast from my antenna.
So the Protect America Act will expire, huh? OK, so what will happen? I think what the congress-people and the potus are afraid of is that if it does expire, nothing will happen. Before the act was in place, the security agencies has enough powers and enough information about an impending strike (that happened on a certain day); they just weren't co-ordinated enough, or agile enough to prevent it.
Why do we have to bear the burden of someone else's disorganization by incursions into our freedoms?
Especially with these "1984"-style naming of legislations - "Patriot" act, "Help America Vote Act", "Protect America Act."
Well, congratulations the to NYT for the extremely timely reporting, more than a year after the elections they're talking about, and more than 3 years after the election when the HAVA voting machines were first used. Also, years after articles in magazines such as Harpers and many progressive sites, not to mention news report the day after the elections about voting machines failures, and statistical anomalies in the declared election results vs exit polls, not to mention anomalies such as number of undervotes bigger than the total number of voters in some precincts.
And as for the machines themselves, you have to try to make machines and voting systems as pathetic as these. Pure incompetence alone cannot account for this.
Yeah, the 3000 series is nothing like the Thinkpads. Besides, I'm not sure anything without a Trackpoint can legitimately be called a Thinkpad, or Ideapad for that matter.
Oh, there have been protests. A lot of them over nonsense such as "pro-life", etc. There have been significant ones such as the anti-war marches, the immigrants ones last year, and the 1M man march. The comments about gun owners merely polishing their guns and not doing anything, however, still hold. The gun-owners, if they can be said to be represented by the vehemently-pro-gun right wing radio, universally mocked these protests and protesters. Also, unlike in France, the so-called news here minimized or outright ignored these protests.
Maybe they want to see what they can make us do. They said one time you couldn't carry water bottles on-board. Then you could carry them on as long as they were purchased after the security check. I don't know what it is now... then they said that cosmetics, shampoos, soaps, etc. containing liquids had to be less that 4 oz and all of them had to fit in a quart bag, my sizes might be off, but something like that. Why quart size? Maybe it's a carefully determined threshold, above which everyone is still resentful, but not so much that they'd protest. Or maybe they made it up, as long as they were making stuff up anyway. Or maybe the water-boarded guy said they had a plot to use 2 quart bags.. then they water-boarded him some more and he said one-and-a-half qt bags; so they decided they'd allow only 1 qt bags so that the evil ones did have anything to blow up. Now it's 1 spare battery (or whatever number). I suppose we hear that and go, hey, they allow a spare, and that's good around. I mean, who needs a hundred spares anyway? And so we accept one more thing, more or less unquestioningly.
I know this sounds like a slippery slope argument, but this stuff is being made up as we go along. They got the idiot shoe guy trying to light a match, so they said we've got to take our shoes off and run them through the machines. I mean, this could go on ad infinitum.
I don't think they've venturing into Finnish space because they have a navigation problem!
No, he isn't lying.
MATLAB did the same thing to us, made us pay maintenance for all the years that it had lapsed, because we wanted to upgrade an users' desktop to the latest version.
Guess what my desktop runs now?
Well, they got people to pay hundreds for a box with a 300 page book that nobody read and a CD.
They practically invented the EULA for the masses.
They entered new markets by simply buying companies and their portfolios.
They probably weren't the first in any of these, but they perfected integrating these into a government-proof business strategy.
So yeah, they're pretty innovative.
Or is it because it is harder for them to eagerly hand over the identities of the callers to the concerned and not-so-concerned officials?
> Do even Google have this kind of cash?
I think Sergey is going to sell 100 shares.
If you're talking Linux, it's already in the kernel. The module is snd_cmipci.
Google's Adsense makes something accessible to small players that is hard to do otherwise - soliciting and managing business relationships with advertisers and web sites, and integrating an apparently fair revenue model into it too. Amazon's HaaS isn't that radical/new. For one thing, fragmented computing/networking resources were already available as Virtual Private Server or Virtualized Environments. Perhaps not as fine-grained but cheaper than Amazon.
Given Amazon's linear pricing, their granularizing everything makes me nervous... how often do I have to watch my meter as I run my apps? A VPS with fixed limits on everything except total bandwidth used, at its price point, is something I'm more comfortable with at this point.
Maybe sooner (than pigs will fly), because the candidates are already being asked questions that need scientific knowledge, such as global warming, or analytical skills, such as terrorism. But I don't know if anything useful can be determined from their answers, because the answers are about attracting voters, not about showing knowledge or grasp. Consider the following answer from Mike Huckabee...
"Oh, I believe in science. I certainly do," he said. "In fact, what I believe in is, I believe in God. I don't think there's a conflict between the two. But if there's going to be a conflict, science changes with every generation and with new discoveries and God doesn't. So I'll stick with God if the two are in conflict."
Apparently the Nexus 7 did not have the dying problem.
I agree, once we go out into the so-called real world from school, no one is obligated anymore to keep things interesting and fun. Employers, for example, will instead arrange work things to (in theory) maximize their economic benefit. There will always be people educated in less gadget-rich environment who will find such work quite interesting.
The question then is whether the skills and faculties developed in an exciting and engaging educational environment are economically useful. Kids tinkering in their garage have started successful companies.. but is it enough to have only those skills around?
Did they forget some requirements?
Flammability?
Some time ago, it was reported that Bangalore could lose jobs because the software shops were fed up with the congestion there. Infosys opened 1000s of new jobs in other cities (http://bangalorebuzz.blogspot.com/2006/01/infy-to -expand-outside-bangalore.html). Maybe Bangalore decided they'd better pay some attention to the problem.
So you're saying CIA agents can get mod points too?
The default for incoming is port 80. Port 8080 is popular too. These are for people connecting to your web server. Blocking these doesn't affect outgoing connections, that is, your browsing experience.