I'm surprised with their picks of cities. Why? Well, if they're going to go for the whole car-chase movie feel, you'd think they would pick cities that have had a lot of action and car-chase movies in. They already covered Miami (Driver, and upcoming in Driver 3), San Fransisco (Driver), and New York (Driver 2), so that should have narrowed it down a bit. If I got to pick a city, these are what I would narrow it down from:
Portland, Oregon: Yeah, I'm biased, I was born at and grew up in the Elliot and West Slope neighborhoods. But it frequently is used for movie shoots. Antitrust was filmed and set in Portland and featured a car chase across town from someplace downtown eastside to a TV studio located where Raleigh Hills Elementary School is in real life (not sure what building they used for the movie, but it's nothing anywhere along Schools Ferry Road where the chase ended in the movie). More recently, The Hunted had a long chase all over downtown (with some movie magic to make geography more convienent), culminating in a fight on the roof of a TriMet MAX train (never mind that in real life, the train doesn't spend what seems like 30 miles on the Hawthorne Bridge (it goes about four blocks across the Steel Bridge and there haven't been tracks on the Hawthorne Bridge since Portland Traction went out of business decades ago), and that the overhead lines make standing on the roof of a moving train impossible).
Vancouver, British Columbia: The most generic American city on the planet. Most action movies you see set in American cities are filmed in Vancouver, anymore. Along Came a Spider was filmed in Vancouver, with some stock footage used between scenes to make it look more like Washington, DC. But watch the scenery: The street signs are uniquely Canadian, and you can spot more Vancouver, BC landmarks in the movie than Washington, DC landmarks. And Washington, DC doesn't have that many Douglas Fir trees. A couple decent car chases in that movie. It's also a favorite city to film Jackie Chan movies.
If you do use any blacklist to reject, be sure to make it clear in the bounce message that this was your doing, not the blacklist. Read spamcop for a while and you start noticing that morons thinking Spamcop is blocking their mail is somewhat common.
I told my son that if he wants to stay in that school then the Linux stays on his PC and M$ is forbidden on his machine. If he changes it or let's someone change it, that's it. He goes to local community college with the local idiot beerheads..
Gasoline fumes are almost as flammable as natural gas. While this isn't as much of an issue in Oregon where they have trained people pumping gas (and thus not spilling it everywhere and keeping fumes down to a minimum), it doesn't change the fact it's just plain stupid to pump gas while running the engine or using a cellphone, two-way radio or smoke in a gas station. Police will give you a ticket for even trying if they see you doing it here, and gas stations won't serve you if you are. Self-service is banned in Oregon for fire prevention and air quality reasons, so if you piss off the station, no fuel for you.
Yikes, some states still allow you to register to vote on site? Even before vote by mail, you weren't allowed to vote unless you registered a month in advance after a couple years into statehood when it was discovered that we should be a Canadian province and not a US state as a result of voting fraud from two Canadian fugatives illegally voted for statehood in the late 1830s.
Speaking of which, I'd be more than happy to see Oregon correct the mistake retroactively.
If they're not prepared to take a hour to vote every few years maybe they shouldn't be voting.
Oregon has regular elections every November, and usually between the initiative process and the Oregon legislature, we usually get two or three special elections for ballot measures every year. Oregonians usually end up voting between three and five times a year, not once every few years.
If I don't bother reading it before I get to the polls, that's my own damn fault.
Yeah, that's true. The problem is, not everybody has time to wait in line an hour to vote (longer in LA County, California) because the pissants already in the voting booths couldn't be bothered to come prepared with their picks, nor does everybody have the time or inclination to sleep on the steps of a public school to get in before them. I think this is one of the reasons TV advertising is so effective in California but has been practically useless compared to the voter's pamphlet in Oregon since vote-by-mail started.
The rest of your post wasn't very well researched. Go search oregon.gov and educate yourself about the antifraud measures, it's not precisely brief or easy to condense.
Risk of getting turned in is way too high in Oregon. The people want the system to work the way it's supposed to. I guess we're just Canadian that way.
Why a passport? I'd rather not have Microsoft anywhere near my state's voting records, and non-citizens (thus, people required to have a passport) can't vote anyway.
Seriously. Oregon solved this problem, and it didn't take a whole lot of technology to do it.
Oregon abolished the polling place. That's right, we haven't had a voting booth set up for an official election in Oregon starting with the 2000 Presidential Election (don't blame us, we didn't vote for him, and we didn't leave home to vote against him!).
So how do Oregonians vote? In the comfort of their own homes. About six weeks before election day, every residence with a mailbox gets a voter's guide that comes with a voter registration card (if you're not registered and want to vote, you turn it in at least 30 days before the first election you want to vote in). A week or two after that, your ballot, secrecy envelope and return mailing envelope come in the mail. You punch out the appropriate holes on the punch card. Stuff your ballot in the secrecy envelope, stuff the secrecy envelope in the mailing envelope, and put your signature on the back, and either mail it or drop it off at the elections office, or if it's within a week of election day, at any of dozens handy points at various public facilities (libraries, town squares, city halls, courthouses, election offices, etc) staffed by elections officials specifically to collect ballots.
But how does Oregon prevent voting fraud? Easy. We check signatures on the envelopes against the voter registration. Not sure what the sample rate is, but fraud has not been an issue. If you don't get the ballot and you were supposed to, you go down to the elections office, show your ID, they verify your registration and they void out the missing ballot (so even if someone turns it in, when they go to scan the barcode before checking sigs, they see it's void and throw it out). They issue you a ballot and hand it to you and you're on your way.
What does all this mean? Well, for starters, you get three or four weeks with your ballot instead of three or four minutes. Time is on your side in making an informed, well-thought decision without having to stress out that you're missing out on having a life to go down to the polls and vote.
They're nothing but spam promoting a hackney fix to a broken security model. Virus scanners aren't the right answer, switching OS's is. Just treat them as spam.
*AA isn't doing this. [RI|MP]AA is. The difference? Well, the American and Canadian Automobile Associations, Alcoholics Anonymous, and other *AA's probably don't have anything to do with it...
...and according to Consumer Reports in another article tonight, it's starting to happen. Community support is always going to give you better quality. However, the community is also working for free and isn't going to tollerate people who expect to have their hand held and their diaper changed. There is *lots* of easy to understand Linux documentation there, the problem is many users act like they should be actively pushed away from having to think, instead of encouraged to.
You're right, newbies do tend to get treated somewhat harshly. But they need to ask a good question.
When I worked tech support, this was my attitude:
I don't care if you're the Prime Minister of Norway, you put me on hold for more than 10 seconds, I assume you're deliberately trying to wreck my call times and I hang up. I can move on to the next caller and reduce the hold time if I'm not dealing with morons who think techs are willing to sacrifice call times when that's what their performance is rated on.
3) Don't be afraid to yell back if you're having a bad day.
When I was working Tier 2 for @Home at the shithole @Home contracted to do their support, I made a fatal mistake: I had nothing but short calls all day, had a 96-ounce soda with lunch and was planning for a bathroom break and thought "One more call, then I'll go hit the can."
Well, next call was a total idiot. In 90 minutes, I couldn't get him to the point of having the Network Control Panel open. I had to explain to him several times how to right-click. Getting him to double-click was entirely hopeless.
At this point, my temper is short, my patience is shot, and my bladder is ready to explode. Here's how the end of the call went:
Caller: How do I right click? Me:(something in brain snaps, I accidentally hit the speakerphone button which was stupidly placed and identical in appearance to the mute button I intended to hit right next to it, Aspect really needs to fix that retarded design on the Telesets) You GODLESS COUCHFUCK! Cubemate Bob: Baloo... Me:(still ranting)How clueless can one person be? CB:(louder) Baloo! Me:(still ranting)I've been on the phone with you for an hour and a half and explained how to right click in excruciating detail six times, and your sheer incompetance has prevented me from even beginning to troubleshoot your problem! CB:(shouting) BALOO! Me:(turning around) Dammit, Bob, what is it? CB: You're not on mute! Me:(realising it's really a lost cause now) FUCK! (slaps Release (hang up) button)
Yes, I did get call coached on that. My supervisor thought it was so hilarious he tore up the review instead of holding it against me.
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Portland, Oregon: Yeah, I'm biased, I was born at and grew up in the Elliot and West Slope neighborhoods. But it frequently is used for movie shoots. Antitrust was filmed and set in Portland and featured a car chase across town from someplace downtown eastside to a TV studio located where Raleigh Hills Elementary School is in real life (not sure what building they used for the movie, but it's nothing anywhere along Schools Ferry Road where the chase ended in the movie). More recently, The Hunted had a long chase all over downtown (with some movie magic to make geography more convienent), culminating in a fight on the roof of a TriMet MAX train (never mind that in real life, the train doesn't spend what seems like 30 miles on the Hawthorne Bridge (it goes about four blocks across the Steel Bridge and there haven't been tracks on the Hawthorne Bridge since Portland Traction went out of business decades ago), and that the overhead lines make standing on the roof of a moving train impossible).
Vancouver, British Columbia: The most generic American city on the planet. Most action movies you see set in American cities are filmed in Vancouver, anymore. Along Came a Spider was filmed in Vancouver, with some stock footage used between scenes to make it look more like Washington, DC. But watch the scenery: The street signs are uniquely Canadian, and you can spot more Vancouver, BC landmarks in the movie than Washington, DC landmarks. And Washington, DC doesn't have that many Douglas Fir trees. A couple decent car chases in that movie. It's also a favorite city to film Jackie Chan movies.
If you do use any blacklist to reject, be sure to make it clear in the bounce message that this was your doing, not the blacklist. Read spamcop for a while and you start noticing that morons thinking Spamcop is blocking their mail is somewhat common.
Attention Portlanders! Schmizza now delivers according to their website!
Will you make me that deal, too?
So if Hams are linux users, does that means spams are Windows users?
Gasoline fumes are almost as flammable as natural gas. While this isn't as much of an issue in Oregon where they have trained people pumping gas (and thus not spilling it everywhere and keeping fumes down to a minimum), it doesn't change the fact it's just plain stupid to pump gas while running the engine or using a cellphone, two-way radio or smoke in a gas station. Police will give you a ticket for even trying if they see you doing it here, and gas stations won't serve you if you are. Self-service is banned in Oregon for fire prevention and air quality reasons, so if you piss off the station, no fuel for you.
Yikes, some states still allow you to register to vote on site? Even before vote by mail, you weren't allowed to vote unless you registered a month in advance after a couple years into statehood when it was discovered that we should be a Canadian province and not a US state as a result of voting fraud from two Canadian fugatives illegally voted for statehood in the late 1830s. Speaking of which, I'd be more than happy to see Oregon correct the mistake retroactively.
Oregon has regular elections every November, and usually between the initiative process and the Oregon legislature, we usually get two or three special elections for ballot measures every year. Oregonians usually end up voting between three and five times a year, not once every few years.
You don't. And it's not a problem, you're required by law to have a valid ID with you in Oregon, anyway.
Yeah, that's true. The problem is, not everybody has time to wait in line an hour to vote (longer in LA County, California) because the pissants already in the voting booths couldn't be bothered to come prepared with their picks, nor does everybody have the time or inclination to sleep on the steps of a public school to get in before them. I think this is one of the reasons TV advertising is so effective in California but has been practically useless compared to the voter's pamphlet in Oregon since vote-by-mail started.
The rest of your post wasn't very well researched. Go search oregon.gov and educate yourself about the antifraud measures, it's not precisely brief or easy to condense.
Risk of getting turned in is way too high in Oregon. The people want the system to work the way it's supposed to. I guess we're just Canadian that way.
There's gotta be an easier way than adding another component.
Why a passport? I'd rather not have Microsoft anywhere near my state's voting records, and non-citizens (thus, people required to have a passport) can't vote anyway.
Oregon abolished the polling place. That's right, we haven't had a voting booth set up for an official election in Oregon starting with the 2000 Presidential Election (don't blame us, we didn't vote for him, and we didn't leave home to vote against him!).
So how do Oregonians vote? In the comfort of their own homes. About six weeks before election day, every residence with a mailbox gets a voter's guide that comes with a voter registration card (if you're not registered and want to vote, you turn it in at least 30 days before the first election you want to vote in). A week or two after that, your ballot, secrecy envelope and return mailing envelope come in the mail. You punch out the appropriate holes on the punch card. Stuff your ballot in the secrecy envelope, stuff the secrecy envelope in the mailing envelope, and put your signature on the back, and either mail it or drop it off at the elections office, or if it's within a week of election day, at any of dozens handy points at various public facilities (libraries, town squares, city halls, courthouses, election offices, etc) staffed by elections officials specifically to collect ballots.
But how does Oregon prevent voting fraud? Easy. We check signatures on the envelopes against the voter registration. Not sure what the sample rate is, but fraud has not been an issue. If you don't get the ballot and you were supposed to, you go down to the elections office, show your ID, they verify your registration and they void out the missing ballot (so even if someone turns it in, when they go to scan the barcode before checking sigs, they see it's void and throw it out). They issue you a ballot and hand it to you and you're on your way.
What does all this mean? Well, for starters, you get three or four weeks with your ballot instead of three or four minutes. Time is on your side in making an informed, well-thought decision without having to stress out that you're missing out on having a life to go down to the polls and vote.
Encourage your state to abolish the polling place
I'd be happy to help in this, but I'm not entirely sure how to do this in exim4.
They're nothing but spam promoting a hackney fix to a broken security model. Virus scanners aren't the right answer, switching OS's is. Just treat them as spam.
Umm, they're Californian. California is hell. Or are you suggesting they move to one of the more inner rings of hell?
Think about it: If they know about a security hole, they should corner the market and exploit it first to patch the hole.
Look, if you're going to talk networking to a programmer, you gotta simplify it in terms they can understand.
Never mind fetchyahoo could do the same thing for Yahoo and you looked less like a monopolistic shill using Yahoo.
All rise for the Hallelliuah Chorus, we want everything to look right in time for the Second Coming of Jesus, which should be any minute now.
*AA isn't doing this. [RI|MP]AA is. The difference? Well, the American and Canadian Automobile Associations, Alcoholics Anonymous, and other *AA's probably don't have anything to do with it...
You're right, newbies do tend to get treated somewhat harshly. But they need to ask a good question.
When I worked tech support, this was my attitude: I don't care if you're the Prime Minister of Norway, you put me on hold for more than 10 seconds, I assume you're deliberately trying to wreck my call times and I hang up. I can move on to the next caller and reduce the hold time if I'm not dealing with morons who think techs are willing to sacrifice call times when that's what their performance is rated on.
When I was working Tier 2 for @Home at the shithole @Home contracted to do their support, I made a fatal mistake: I had nothing but short calls all day, had a 96-ounce soda with lunch and was planning for a bathroom break and thought "One more call, then I'll go hit the can."
Well, next call was a total idiot. In 90 minutes, I couldn't get him to the point of having the Network Control Panel open. I had to explain to him several times how to right-click. Getting him to double-click was entirely hopeless.
At this point, my temper is short, my patience is shot, and my bladder is ready to explode. Here's how the end of the call went:
Caller: How do I right click?
Me: (something in brain snaps, I accidentally hit the speakerphone button which was stupidly placed and identical in appearance to the mute button I intended to hit right next to it, Aspect really needs to fix that retarded design on the Telesets) You GODLESS COUCHFUCK!
Cubemate Bob: Baloo...
Me: (still ranting)How clueless can one person be?
CB: (louder) Baloo!
Me: (still ranting)I've been on the phone with you for an hour and a half and explained how to right click in excruciating detail six times, and your sheer incompetance has prevented me from even beginning to troubleshoot your problem!
CB: (shouting) BALOO!
Me: (turning around) Dammit, Bob, what is it?
CB: You're not on mute!
Me: (realising it's really a lost cause now) FUCK! (slaps Release (hang up) button)
Yes, I did get call coached on that. My supervisor thought it was so hilarious he tore up the review instead of holding it against me.