There are a lot of people who just aren't informed enough to make useful decisions. Hopefully they'll take themselves out of the voting pool and leave voting to people who have at least a little clue.
While I try very hard to not agree with this statement, I have to admit it's true, but the right to vote is granted to every (almost) US citizen. Once we start limiting those that can vote, we are just one step further along the road to Fascism.
Unfortunately our republican overlords don't seem to interested in having the masses informed.
Perhaps having 'brother jed' coming down from the hills to vote would give them a reason to educate the masses.
If you force people to pick one of the listed office-seekers when none of them represent that person's beliefs, you might as well hold a gun to their head and make them choose a particular candidate.
Simple fix to your issue -- add a value of "abstain". Thus if there is no acceptable candidate, you effectivly don't vote. But your abstention is tallied and is not just a "I didn't feel like voting" it's a "Hey dumb-ass you didn't give me an acceptable candidate to vote for."
This could also lead to no candidate getting a majority of the vote.
Wonder what the Dems and Reps in the US would think if nobody got elected (including the incumbent)?
Of course there are a number of issues with that method of voting which would need to be worked out (or not, iirc in the US if there is an issue of no obvious majority then the Supreme Court gets involoved.)
The oldest hardware I own and will be using again(when I have enough space to unpack it again) is an Apple//e. I also have a IIgs and a couple of old mac classics.
I'm thinking of making an apple subnet off of my home network to share files between my primary systems and the apples.
Anybody know if there's a (not even decent) web client (like lynx) for apple dos 3.3 or ProDos?
Actually the legality of fishing stuff out of trashbins depends alot on your local laws.
In Arizona, a trash can (the ones you put out on the street, not sure about the ones inside of malls and the like) are all owned by the city and thus the contents (your neighbors trash) belongs to the city.
Digging through your neighbors trash is considered theft of Government Property, which can be prosecuted as a felony (depending on the value of said trash).
Dumpsters fall into the same category. Most likely because in Phoenix we have Fab Plants for Intel, Motorola (well we used too, now its in China), Honeywell as well as other and they don't like people aquiring their prototypes or rejects.
No one has SCOX to sell short. With the company as tightly held as it is, finding enough shares to actually make a decent profit (after taxes) is almost impossible.
They've already dumped some of their common stock. However, these sales were "Planned" as in a 10b5-1 program that allows Insiders and Directors (holders of 10%+ of total outstanding common stock) to sell without violating SEC regs. If you look at the Form 4's filed with the SEC and visible here you'll see that the majority of the sales were for blocks of 5,000 shares.
SCO's CFO stated in a conference call that the total shares that the executives sold was 117,000. Which is less than 1.5% of the stock owned by insiders and that the majority of that was sold to cover taxes on "Restricted Stock Grants" that the company made to them.
There is a huge difference between common and restricted stock. The main one being that normally the holder of restricted stock cannot sell it for a set period of time, normally anywhere from 1 to 10 years thus locking in the share-holder and effectively basing their rewards upon the success or failure of the company. The reason for the need to pay taxes on the restricted shares is that the IRS views them as "Income" when granted and thus taxes them accordingly.
Actually, it doesn't really look like a pump-n-dump. Looking at the filings on Edgar for SCOX there is a SC 13G "Statement of Aquisition of Beneficial ownership" from a VC firm called Integral Capital Managment LLC, on 8-28-2003 for 680,000 shares. The SCO executive sales could very well have been necessary to free up the shares for this purchase. It will be interesting to read SCO's 10-Q for this quarter when they release it.
With both the 15.2 and the.50, you're looking at more of a anti-material i.e. anti-vehicle weapon.
How about a.338 lapua? "For military extreme long-range anti-personnel purposes, the.338 Lapua is king. Even the.50BMG falls short (Do to accuracy problems with current ammo). This caliber is not recommended for Law Enforcement"
Slackware is more like Guinness (extra stout, not the draught), in the 'slap upside the head' kinda way.
I would put Red Hat somewhere around Caffery's Ale, smooth and pleasing to the palate.
From an Electrician -- Hire a Professional
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To start off, I am an electrician.
Hire a professional, period. It may very well save your life.
Anything higher than about.5 of an amp can kill you and anything higher than about 3 amps will allow the mortuary to not have to charge your widow for your cremation. Just supply the urn, ma'am.
I'm pretty sure that the budget will get modified to accommodate your needs when you tell your boss that the new system cannot be installed due to the shoddy condition of the mains box.
If you are forced to work on the box yourself, immediately contact OSHA, your local Fire Marshal and your local State or County Building Inspector. They should be able to convince your employer that it would be in their best interest to have the electrical system repaired by a Licensed-Bonded commercial electrician.
Speaking for myself, the fact that WoD is NOT d20 is one of the main reasons I still play it. I see nothing wrong with d20, but the WW system is much cleaner (which is also the reason I still play ShadowRun).
OTOH, I'm not planning on spending the $60+ bucks on DND 3.5 and I'm probably not going to spend it on a "new" version of WoD.
Has anybody else noticed that the only distributions that SCO is even looking at are those that actually are making money?
This appears to be nothing more than a money grab targeted at a portion of the industry where they are failing. One of their execs. (probably the CFO) asked himself one day "How are we going to make any real money of this linux thing?"
"Sue big blue and any other company that is doing it right!, thats the ticket!"
I believe that IBM will end up litigating them into bankrupcy then aquiring all of their assets. Upon which they should can McBride and his crew.
Actually, the engineers knew exactly what would happen when you freeze rubber.
It was the upper management at Morton-Thiokol who made the decision to 'Go for launch'.
A rather interesting book on the subject is "What do you care what other people think" by Richard P. Feynman. He was one of the principle scientists on the Rogers commission that investigated the Challenger "accident".
In looking at the list of states that the defendants are located in, it appears that the majority of them are located in the midwest/eastern section of the US. I also notice that none of them are located in Panip's home state, California.
Could this be because of the local (to the defendants) state IP laws?
IIRC, California has a nasty "frivolous lawsuit" law that could be turned to the defendants advantage, assuming any of them were located in California.
Honestly, I'd like to see them try to sue for this page: IBM pSeries 690 -- 7040-681T
I think they'd get slapped so hard they'd cease to exist.
It would seem that in the case of this test and any other prolific-cancer related tests that Myriad has the CDC (Center for Disease Control) could step in.
Fact: Breast & Skin Cancers could be considered epidemics.
(see the Myriad Genetics genetic tests page for their other tests)
Fact: Said cancers could be considered a threat to the public.
The CDC steps in and takes the patent from the company and there is not a damn thing they can do about it.
(IIRC)- If it is considered to be in the best interest of public health, the CDC has the authority to do it, not withstanding the US Constitution or any other US laws.
Re:One of my favourite quotes...
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Aparently, at least according to the White house legal team, we are still technically at war with Iraq.
There has never a formal cessation of hostilities and therefore G.W. can bomb the hell out of them without Congressional approval.
Using this information, we are still at war and freedoms can be withheld or obstructed by the government as such.
-Enough fact, now down to rant.
To the 49% of the respondents who think that the First Amendment gives to much freedom.
Go away. Find yourself some other place to live. We don't need or waant your kind here.
While I may not approve of what you have to say, I am full prepared to go rough and tumble to make sure you've got the right to say it. if you won't do th same for me, get the hell out.
Go ahead mod me down. I'm sick and tired of the whiney brats that want their freedom but won't extend the same right to someone else.
Actually, when a County employee clicks the "OK" button on the EULA during an install, It's a binding contract between the County & Microsoft, which makes MS a direct contractor to the county.
If this wasn't the case, then MS would not be able to prosecute local government for software piracy (as they were trying to do in Austin, IIRC)
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Actually, the Phalanx weapons system is not designed to destroy incoming planes, but incoming anti-ship missiles.
It's a water cooled 3000+ round/minute gatling cannon commonly referred to as R2-D2. The distinctive white dome is a radar tracking system that tracks every out-going projectile as well as the incoming missile, making minute modifications to it's aim to insure total destruction of the incoming threat.
The system is so sensitive (unless they've dumbed it down) that it will continute firing until there is no piece of the incoming threat larger than a small sparrow.
At that fire rate, the weapon would run out of ammo long before a Kamikaze plane were to disintegrate.
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While I try very hard to not agree with this statement, I have to admit it's true, but the right to vote is granted to every (almost) US citizen. Once we start limiting those that can vote, we are just one step further along the road to Fascism.
Unfortunately our republican overlords don't seem to interested in having the masses informed.
Perhaps having 'brother jed' coming down from the hills to vote would give them a reason to educate the masses.
Simple fix to your issue -- add a value of "abstain". Thus if there is no acceptable candidate, you effectivly don't vote. But your abstention is tallied and is not just a "I didn't feel like voting" it's a "Hey dumb-ass you didn't give me an acceptable candidate to vote for."
This could also lead to no candidate getting a majority of the vote. Wonder what the Dems and Reps in the US would think if nobody got elected (including the incumbent)?
Of course there are a number of issues with that method of voting which would need to be worked out (or not, iirc in the US if there is an issue of no obvious majority then the Supreme Court gets involoved.)
The oldest hardware I own and will be using again(when I have enough space to unpack it again) is an Apple //e.
I also have a IIgs and a couple of old mac classics.
I'm thinking of making an apple subnet off of my home network to share files between my primary systems and the apples.
Anybody know if there's a (not even decent) web client (like lynx) for apple dos 3.3 or ProDos?
Why? Because I can.....
Actually the legality of fishing stuff out of trashbins depends alot on your local laws.
In Arizona, a trash can (the ones you put out on the street, not sure about the ones inside of malls and the like) are all owned by the city and thus the contents (your neighbors trash) belongs to the city.
Digging through your neighbors trash is considered theft of Government Property, which can be prosecuted as a felony (depending on the value of said trash).
Dumpsters fall into the same category. Most likely because in Phoenix we have Fab Plants for Intel, Motorola (well we used too, now its in China), Honeywell as well as other and they don't like people aquiring their prototypes or rejects.
Lots of extremely valuable trash.
IIRC, @Stake either began as or incorporated l0pht heavy industries.
What happened to Mudge, CountZero and the other windows hackers that made l0pht what it was? Have they too sold out to M$?
What happened to the program that allowed anybody with console access to an NT machine admin rights with a 3.5" floppy?
Did they suddenly become M$'s bitch or has it been a long time coming?
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No one has SCOX to sell short. With the company as tightly held as it is, finding enough shares to actually make a decent profit (after taxes) is almost impossible.
If you stop and check the listing of the Executives and the board of directors for Drugstore.com, you'll also see that the Chairman of the Board, Peter Neupert and at least one other board member worked for Microsoft before being hired on at Drugstore.com.
Going on that, you'd think that a man with an MBA from Dartmouth would have at least some kind of clue of what makes a good director. Hell, Stanger, the other director with MS ties got his MBA from Berkeley.
Aside from the fact that she happens to be married to the man most people on slashdot liken to the anti-christ, Ms. Gates has got cred of her own.
BA from Duke and an MBA from Duke, plus she sits on the board of Trustees at Duke.
Just because she married Bill doesn't immediately make this a freakin' conspiracy.
They've already dumped some of their common stock. However, these sales were "Planned" as in a 10b5-1 program that allows Insiders and Directors (holders of 10%+ of total outstanding common stock) to sell without violating SEC regs. If you look at the Form 4's filed with the SEC and visible here you'll see that the majority of the sales were for blocks of 5,000 shares.
SCO's CFO stated in a conference call that the total shares that the executives sold was 117,000. Which is less than 1.5% of the stock owned by insiders and that the majority of that was sold to cover taxes on "Restricted Stock Grants" that the company made to them.
There is a huge difference between common and restricted stock. The main one being that normally the holder of restricted stock cannot sell it for a set period of time, normally anywhere from 1 to 10 years thus locking in the share-holder and effectively basing their rewards upon the success or failure of the company.
The reason for the need to pay taxes on the restricted shares is that the IRS views them as "Income" when granted and thus taxes them accordingly.
Actually, it doesn't really look like a pump-n-dump.
Looking at the filings on Edgar for SCOX there is a SC 13G "Statement of Aquisition of Beneficial ownership" from a VC firm called Integral Capital Managment LLC, on 8-28-2003 for 680,000 shares.
The SCO executive sales could very well have been necessary to free up the shares for this purchase.
It will be interesting to read SCO's 10-Q for this quarter when they release it.
With both the 15.2 and the .50, you're looking at more of a anti-material i.e. anti-vehicle weapon.
.338 lapua? .338 Lapua is king. Even the .50BMG falls short (Do to accuracy problems with current ammo). This caliber is not recommended for Law Enforcement"
How about a
"For military extreme long-range anti-personnel purposes, the
or Coors.
Nope, sorry, have to disagree.
Slackware is more like Guinness (extra stout, not the draught), in the 'slap upside the head' kinda way.
I would put Red Hat somewhere around Caffery's Ale, smooth and pleasing to the palate.
To start off, I am an electrician.
.5 of an amp can kill you and anything higher than about 3 amps will allow the mortuary to not have to charge your widow for your cremation. Just supply the urn, ma'am.
Hire a professional, period. It may very well save your life.
Anything higher than about
I'm pretty sure that the budget will get modified to accommodate your needs when you tell your boss that the new system cannot be installed due to the shoddy condition of the mains box.
If you are forced to work on the box yourself, immediately contact OSHA, your local Fire Marshal and your local State or County Building Inspector.
They should be able to convince your employer that it would be in their best interest to have the electrical system repaired by a Licensed-Bonded commercial electrician.
Speaking for myself, the fact that WoD is NOT d20 is one of the main reasons I still play it.
I see nothing wrong with d20, but the WW system is much cleaner (which is also the reason I still play ShadowRun).
OTOH, I'm not planning on spending the $60+ bucks on DND 3.5 and I'm probably not going to spend it on a "new" version of WoD.
Has anybody else noticed that the only distributions that SCO is
even looking at are those that actually are making money?
This appears to be nothing more than a money grab targeted at a portion of the
industry where they are failing. One of their execs. (probably the CFO)
asked himself one day
"How are we going to make any real money of this linux thing?"
"Sue big blue and any other company that is doing it right!, thats the ticket!"
I believe that IBM will end up litigating them into bankrupcy then aquiring all of their assets.
Upon which they should can McBride and his crew.
I look at unemployment as salary my previous employer didn't pay me.
Of course here in Arizona I can only get a max of $205 a week (after working for 2.36 years making $600+ a week).
I also no longer have medical insurance, as the cut-off level for state medical insurance is less than what I get from unemployment.
So its either starve and get med ins. or eat and dont.
It was the upper management at Morton-Thiokol who made the decision to 'Go for launch'.
A rather interesting book on the subject is "What do you care what other people think" by Richard P. Feynman. He was one of the principle scientists on the Rogers commission that investigated the Challenger "accident".
Laid-off......
He makes mention of sleeping in some unusual places, but he never mentions a towel!
Could this be because of the local (to the defendants) state IP laws?
IIRC, California has a nasty "frivolous lawsuit" law that could be turned to the defendants advantage, assuming any of them were located in California.
Honestly, I'd like to see them try to sue for this page: IBM pSeries 690 -- 7040-681T
I think they'd get slapped so hard they'd cease to exist.
- Fact: Breast & Skin Cancers could be considered epidemics.
- Fact: Said cancers could be considered a threat to the public.
The CDC steps in and takes the patent from the company and there is not a damn thing they can do about it.(see the Myriad Genetics genetic tests page for their other tests)
(IIRC)- If it is considered to be in the best interest of public health, the CDC has the authority to do it, not withstanding the US Constitution or any other US laws.
There has never a formal cessation of hostilities and therefore G.W. can bomb the hell out of them without Congressional approval.
Using this information, we are still at war and freedoms can be withheld or obstructed by the government as such.
-Enough fact, now down to rant.
To the 49% of the respondents who think that the First Amendment gives to much freedom.
Go away.
Find yourself some other place to live. We don't need or waant your kind here.
While I may not approve of what you have to say, I am full prepared to go rough and tumble to make sure you've got the right to say it.
if you won't do th same for me, get the hell out.
Go ahead mod me down. I'm sick and tired of the whiney brats that want their freedom but won't extend the same right to someone else.
First they came for the gypsies..........
Actually, when a County employee clicks the "OK" button on the EULA during an install, It's a binding contract between the County & Microsoft, which makes MS a direct contractor to the county.
If this wasn't the case, then MS would not be able to prosecute local government for software piracy (as they were trying to do in Austin, IIRC)
It's a water cooled 3000+ round/minute gatling cannon commonly referred to as R2-D2.
The distinctive white dome is a radar tracking system that tracks every out-going projectile as well as the incoming missile, making minute modifications to it's aim to insure total destruction of the incoming threat.
The system is so sensitive (unless they've dumbed it down) that it will continute firing until there is no piece of the incoming threat larger than a small sparrow.
At that fire rate, the weapon would run out of ammo long before a Kamikaze plane were to disintegrate.
How about a full re-post of the highlights of the discussion thread for those of us behind extremely restrictive firewalls?
pluglist.mybutt.net is blocked as a sex site here.