so my win2k desktop is currently sitting in a garage ready to be redeployed in my dorm room this fall...what are the chances that 1) windowsupdate.com is still working, and 2) i can patch my machine before a worm finds it?
or would it be also advisable to turn off all the frickin' services before i plug it into the net?
Clean elections-- Do you honestly believe that money needs to be removed from the elections equation? How will this ensure an efficient solution if no one is allowed to contribute to a candidate s/he endorses, and how will this ensure that majority candidates will not be swamped by the radicals that flood out of the woodwork by a more equitable playing field? How much money would each candidate get out of the public funding pool? What happens if too many candidates run and not enough money is available?
Justice System-- While I agree in principle that the death penalty is bad policy, please offer a concrete solution to take care of the the problems that arise with letting more convicted felons into already overcrowded prisons. If I read your website right, you seem to advocate loosening sentences for as-yet-not-elaborated-on cases. Do give something substantial here.
Budget Woes-- Please, please, please tell us what you will do to *solve* the budget problems, other than "make courageous decisions."
Health Care-- Please elaborate on how Vermont's health care system, which serves a population of 613,090 (probably less than LA's population even), will scale up to serve California's population of 34,501,130.
Legalization of Marijuana-- Although I may be in the minority on this issue, do you think that allowing another mind-altering, functionally-impairing substance on the market is a good thing? Is burning paper and plant leaves good for the environment? What about secondhand smoke? What about commercialization of marjiuana, which will inevitably put additives in to make it smoother and more carcinogenic?
Economic Prosperity-- Please, once again, tell us what you will do about this, other than "take a page from President Clinton."
Overall, I think you introduce many ideas which are great but will be extremely costly to California. Given your repeated use of the words "fiscal discipline," I am less convinced that you have a consistent theme running throughout your platform. California cannot afford to partially fund every political candidate, provide universal health care, and achieve fiscal solvency. This does not include the costs of regulating marijuana and investing in clean energy technologies, which will add to the burden. As you would have Arnold do, please clearly elaborate on what policy initiatives you will undertake, how you would fund them, why they will work, and not what things are like.
I understand what you mean when you say that Bush and Davis show that political experience is overrated. But I think that's a ludicrous characterization of an obvious point: experience does not guarantee success, but can you have success without experience? What is your experience in the field of public speaking and policy analysis? As someone who has been involved with high school policy debate and still is involved with college parliamentary debate, I often feel there is a depth to issues that most ordinary people don't understand, a depth that usually comes through a careful, two-sided analysis of issues that is, more often than not, unique to some kind of analytical, political activity. Please provide evidence (or at least convince me) that you have this depth.
i was thinking you could set up a network of these at traffic intersections to determine the optimal stoplight pattern. but has anything already solved that?
i suppose once microsoft found out that, back in the day, win95 sales were good despite the inherent crash-happiness, bug fixes took a lesser priority over devloping new software. and it may also be the consumers' fault for not demanding better products, and the market's fault (read: Monopoly-Soft) for not having better and accessible alternatives ready. if you had open source versions of all critical apps that were properly bug tested, it's doubtful that people would pay lots of money for crappy commerical products.
The second part of the book is about dealing with significant others, children, and co-workers. The first chapter has sections on different relationship pairings (introvert male with extrovert female, introvert female with extrovert male, introvert with introvert). These are insightful and, frankly, would have saved me some grief had I read them a number of years ago.
i haven't rtfa or ptfg (played the games), but to encourage this sort of thing seems bad. as stated above, it would be a gaping loophole in tax laws (money laundering) and potentially unstable given the nature of what programmers might do to the game environment (making a rare item common). the legal liabilities that arise from staking real value on an MMORPG certainly won't be waived, as every greed-minded person who decides to make gainful employment off of an MMORPG decides to sue (class action, no doubt) the gaming company for changing availability of items or other sorts of variables or not protecting the servers from the spilled bottle of soda and the downtime thereof.
anyway, i don't know if this can happen, but what if someone created a superpowerful character that went around PKing a few rich characters every once in a while? and making money off of it? person who died would sure lose out (hope s/he wasn't playing seriously), and person who PKed would be richer however much more s/he could sell the stuff for on ebay.
such introduction of the real world into MMORPGs would signal the death of any such MMORPG as a everyone's game and resurrect it as a game for the rich or obssessed. when it comes down to it, that's the whole point of games, isn't it? they don't matter in the real world.
i haven't RTFA, but segways seem like a good way to clog up sidewalks a la traffic jams. i mean, people slowing down and speeding up, the traffic compression effect all over again, just on the sidewalks. and they take up more space than your average human.
oh wait. the government doesn't need to countersue, it'll just prosecute for terrorism. what's this? oooooohh, tsk tsk. that's covered by the Patriot Act y'know. national security and all.
in lieu of prosecution, i can hear DoD closed door proceedings now:
I'm worried for a friend of mine who runs an informative site on Arab nations. It seems that excersise of First Amendment rights puts a big bullseye for Patriot Act and all sorts of unnecessary national defense matters.
"SCO has not been trying to spread fear, uncertainty and doubt to end users. We have been educating end users on the risks of running an operating system that is an unauthorized derivative of UNIX."
Yeah, in the same manner that one Mafia family doesn't try to kill members of a different family, but merely educates them in how they chose the wrong mob. What a piece of semantic BS.
Album format would not be dead if (wait for stunning concept): ALL the songs were GOOD. But since only about 1-2 tracks per album are worth listening to, that's what we want. Filler material sucks.
Well, if you count television broadcast of the games as piracy maybe MLB could make a case...after all, people at home watching the game on their bums coulda paid to be at the stadium watching the game on their bums. But that would be retarded.
I doubt Lynds will be remembered a la Zeno et al. 2500 years from now for reasking the question of what's divisible and what's not. I'm really quite surprised at the underratedness of this newsitem, for having been out on the press for at least a month now.
And isn't "Independent Communications Consultant" just another way to say "we ran out of real material so we just took the next freelance writer's submission?" (ok, i'm sorry, that was flamebait)
here's a link to the sequel to Lynd's paper discussed in the article: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00001197/. of note: the original paper is not linked to, and the entry was created by Lynds himself.
while i tend to think that open information initiatives like MIT's DSpace (dspace.org) are great and wonderful things, papers that have not undergone rigorous peer review, like this one, tend to bring me back to reality.
but hey, i'm happy he's being published somewhere and that people aren't rudely rejecting him. i can very much believe the claim that the work deals with the philosophical nature of science, but don't go trying to push the mathematics of something like this through a university department.
and time, like the previous 3 dimensions, can be described as being an axis along which one travels in the 4th dimension. if time is not a physical quantity, or at least discretely described, then neither are any of the quantities in the previous 3, and then oh no, what's the use of living? [/rant]
"...such as those processing data from onboard radar."
oops, IFF locked up. oops, missiles fired. run for cover.
i doubt the -22 has a terrain-following program, but if it does...try not to use it. keep some distance between you and the ground. you need at least 36 seconds of freefall's worth of altitude to survive.
If you're from these states, consider writing to them as consituents of their political body: Ted Stevens, Alaska
George V. Voinovich, Ohio
Norm Coleman, Minnesota
Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania
Robert F. Bennett, Utah
Peter G. Fitzgerald, Illinois
John E. Sununu, New Hampshire
Richard C. Shelby, Alabama
Carl Levin, Michigan
Richard J. Durbin, Illinois
Thomas R. Carper, Delaware
Mark Dayton, Minnesota
Frank Lautenberg, New Jersey
Mark Pryor, Arkansas
Ask them politely and articulate to them exactly what's wrong with RIAA's interpretation of copyright infringement and/or their FUD tactics. This is how politics is done.
I recommend writing to *your own* congressspeople, asking them to look at his initiatives and support them. Preferably with a well-written statement outlining exactly what copyright infringement is and why the RIAA overreacts.
Welcome to the American political system. Decontamination showers that way.
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so my win2k desktop is currently sitting in a garage ready to be redeployed in my dorm room this fall...what are the chances that 1) windowsupdate.com is still working, and 2) i can patch my machine before a worm finds it?
or would it be also advisable to turn off all the frickin' services before i plug it into the net?
Ah, that means the spammers are stupid enough to run around with unpatched Windows machines as well. *yay*
see if any company just lost x amount of dollars in a multiple of $699 =P
On reading your website's issues page:
Clean elections--
Do you honestly believe that money needs to be removed from the elections equation? How will this ensure an efficient solution if no one is allowed to contribute to a candidate s/he endorses, and how will this ensure that majority candidates will not be swamped by the radicals that flood out of the woodwork by a more equitable playing field? How much money would each candidate get out of the public funding pool? What happens if too many candidates run and not enough money is available?
Justice System--
While I agree in principle that the death penalty is bad policy, please offer a concrete solution to take care of the the problems that arise with letting more convicted felons into already overcrowded prisons. If I read your website right, you seem to advocate loosening sentences for as-yet-not-elaborated-on cases. Do give something substantial here.
Budget Woes--
Please, please, please tell us what you will do to *solve* the budget problems, other than "make courageous decisions."
Health Care--
Please elaborate on how Vermont's health care system, which serves a population of 613,090 (probably less than LA's population even), will scale up to serve California's population of 34,501,130.
Legalization of Marijuana--
Although I may be in the minority on this issue, do you think that allowing another mind-altering, functionally-impairing substance on the market is a good thing? Is burning paper and plant leaves good for the environment? What about secondhand smoke? What about commercialization of marjiuana, which will inevitably put additives in to make it smoother and more carcinogenic?
Economic Prosperity--
Please, once again, tell us what you will do about this, other than "take a page from President Clinton."
Overall, I think you introduce many ideas which are great but will be extremely costly to California. Given your repeated use of the words "fiscal discipline," I am less convinced that you have a consistent theme running throughout your platform. California cannot afford to partially fund every political candidate, provide universal health care, and achieve fiscal solvency. This does not include the costs of regulating marijuana and investing in clean energy technologies, which will add to the burden. As you would have Arnold do, please clearly elaborate on what policy initiatives you will undertake, how you would fund them, why they will work, and not what things are like.
Cordially,
Samuel Chang
Georgy,
I understand what you mean when you say that Bush and Davis show that political experience is overrated. But I think that's a ludicrous characterization of an obvious point: experience does not guarantee success, but can you have success without experience? What is your experience in the field of public speaking and policy analysis? As someone who has been involved with high school policy debate and still is involved with college parliamentary debate, I often feel there is a depth to issues that most ordinary people don't understand, a depth that usually comes through a careful, two-sided analysis of issues that is, more often than not, unique to some kind of analytical, political activity. Please provide evidence (or at least convince me) that you have this depth.
Cordially,
Samuel Chang
i was thinking you could set up a network of these at traffic intersections to determine the optimal stoplight pattern. but has anything already solved that?
send 'em to iraq...i think something is missing there.
i suppose once microsoft found out that, back in the day, win95 sales were good despite the inherent crash-happiness, bug fixes took a lesser priority over devloping new software. and it may also be the consumers' fault for not demanding better products, and the market's fault (read: Monopoly-Soft) for not having better and accessible alternatives ready. if you had open source versions of all critical apps that were properly bug tested, it's doubtful that people would pay lots of money for crappy commerical products.
looks like required slashdot reading after all.
so send the code to LucidityZero's friend and they'll fix it.
i haven't rtfa or ptfg (played the games), but to encourage this sort of thing seems bad. as stated above, it would be a gaping loophole in tax laws (money laundering) and potentially unstable given the nature of what programmers might do to the game environment (making a rare item common). the legal liabilities that arise from staking real value on an MMORPG certainly won't be waived, as every greed-minded person who decides to make gainful employment off of an MMORPG decides to sue (class action, no doubt) the gaming company for changing availability of items or other sorts of variables or not protecting the servers from the spilled bottle of soda and the downtime thereof.
anyway, i don't know if this can happen, but what if someone created a superpowerful character that went around PKing a few rich characters every once in a while? and making money off of it? person who died would sure lose out (hope s/he wasn't playing seriously), and person who PKed would be richer however much more s/he could sell the stuff for on ebay.
such introduction of the real world into MMORPGs would signal the death of any such MMORPG as a everyone's game and resurrect it as a game for the rich or obssessed. when it comes down to it, that's the whole point of games, isn't it? they don't matter in the real world.
i haven't RTFA, but segways seem like a good way to clog up sidewalks a la traffic jams. i mean, people slowing down and speeding up, the traffic compression effect all over again, just on the sidewalks. and they take up more space than your average human.
in lieu of prosecution, i can hear DoD closed door proceedings now:
"they want us to pay how much?"
"...the 10th division moves at once."
Warthog Jump! and RedvBlue! oh, wrong thread. =P
edge = SCO vs Microsoft in court. author still loses. welcome to the civil side of the "justice" system.
I'm worried for a friend of mine who runs an informative site on Arab nations. It seems that excersise of First Amendment rights puts a big bullseye for Patriot Act and all sorts of unnecessary national defense matters.
(maybe i should have posted as anon. coward...!)
Album format would not be dead if (wait for stunning concept): ALL the songs were GOOD. But since only about 1-2 tracks per album are worth listening to, that's what we want. Filler material sucks.
probably running kazaa too. not a bug, just an RIAA-approved feature.
Well, if you count television broadcast of the games as piracy maybe MLB could make a case...after all, people at home watching the game on their bums coulda paid to be at the stadium watching the game on their bums. But that would be retarded.
for such a ground-breaking work, you can't get many hits by googling the title. makes you wonder about it.
I doubt Lynds will be remembered a la Zeno et al. 2500 years from now for reasking the question of what's divisible and what's not. I'm really quite surprised at the underratedness of this newsitem, for having been out on the press for at least a month now.
. of note: the original paper is not linked to, and the entry was created by Lynds himself.
And isn't "Independent Communications Consultant" just another way to say "we ran out of real material so we just took the next freelance writer's submission?" (ok, i'm sorry, that was flamebait)
here's a link to the sequel to Lynd's paper discussed in the article: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00001197/
while i tend to think that open information initiatives like MIT's DSpace (dspace.org) are great and wonderful things, papers that have not undergone rigorous peer review, like this one, tend to bring me back to reality.
but hey, i'm happy he's being published somewhere and that people aren't rudely rejecting him. i can very much believe the claim that the work deals with the philosophical nature of science, but don't go trying to push the mathematics of something like this through a university department.
and time, like the previous 3 dimensions, can be described as being an axis along which one travels in the 4th dimension. if time is not a physical quantity, or at least discretely described, then neither are any of the quantities in the previous 3, and then oh no, what's the use of living? [/rant]
"...such as those processing data from onboard radar."
oops, IFF locked up. oops, missiles fired. run for cover.
i doubt the -22 has a terrain-following program, but if it does...try not to use it. keep some distance between you and the ground. you need at least 36 seconds of freefall's worth of altitude to survive.
If you're from these states, consider writing to them as consituents of their political body:
Ted Stevens,
Alaska
George V. Voinovich,
Ohio
Norm Coleman,
Minnesota
Arlen Specter,
Pennsylvania
Robert F. Bennett,
Utah
Peter G. Fitzgerald,
Illinois
John E. Sununu,
New Hampshire
Richard C. Shelby,
Alabama
Carl Levin,
Michigan
Richard J. Durbin,
Illinois
Thomas R. Carper,
Delaware
Mark Dayton,
Minnesota
Frank Lautenberg,
New Jersey
Mark Pryor,
Arkansas
Ask them politely and articulate to them exactly what's wrong with RIAA's interpretation of copyright infringement and/or their FUD tactics. This is how politics is done.
I recommend writing to *your own* congressspeople, asking them to look at his initiatives and support them. Preferably with a well-written statement outlining exactly what copyright infringement is and why the RIAA overreacts.
Welcome to the American political system. Decontamination showers that way.