I worked on the hill and have friends still up there.
Here are some facts.
A congressman has about 7 staffers.
A congressman has about 700,000 people in his district.
If you want to get attention, send a standard letter. You are likely to get a good response.
The congressman himself isn't the person you want to talk to - you want to talk to his legislative aide who covers the area you are concerned about.
While a trip all the way to Washington is a good way to get your voice heard, you can also set an appointment up at your congressman's district office to make your message heard.
When contacting the office, always say FIRST that you are in his district.
The best way to make your voice heard is to join an organization with people of similar minds that has representation in Washington. Just like lawyers in a court of law, these organizations have experienced lobyists who know best how to make your case on your behalf to the representative.
If you're not registered to vote and/or don't vote often, the member of congress has access to that information. Be active.
Hi,
The poster is incorrect in their statement that the cards would not have prevented the terrorists.
Quiet a few of them were in the country past their visa. Using the airport gate as a checkpoint with these cards would have resulted in them being detained by the INS.
And I have no problem with the idea of these cards.
If you don't agree with a company's license, don't buy the product. If they wanted to, they could require that to use the product, you must stand on your head while performing Bach's third on a pan flute. Besides, there are plenty of free products that do a better job, IMO, than FP2k.
Just one thing that you have encrypted that is so important that the government's law enforcement agencies can't view it in the event they believe it may be related to a terrorist act?
I'm just really curious what it is that you have to hide. Don't be specific, but not too general so that I don't know what it is.
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Remember the old GI Joe cartoons - a military unit in a constant battle with a terrorist group - Cobra?
That's what the US needs. A persistent military force that will not tolerate some foreign agent with guns and suicidal tendancies to stand in some 3rd world country and forment/plan/engage attacks on the US.
bin Laden (that's pronounced lah-DEEN) has attached us and many other counries before and has cells in about 30 countries, yet we've largely tolerated his actions, not acting difinitivly to end his actions. That needs to change.
We need to go after these cells like vampire hunters - and persistently. When we are done with his, we hit the sandanistas in Columbia/South America, the Hamas in Syria/India, the IRA in Northern Ireland, and don't stop - ever. GO GI JOE!
That is a total load of BULLSHIT. The Social Security system delivers you a grand total of a 1.3% return on your investment. You'd be better off taking the money and buying US treasury bonds. I have used all platforms and still prefer using MS. They do make businesses happy. I'm a developer and I'd be pretty pissed if I had to make different versions of my software for every spork of linux or Sun or whatever. Broken contracts? That's a civil matter to be decided in court. Oh, what now, MS has bought the courts to? Is that your defense? There is nothing wrong with using a loss leader. Just because you don't APPROVE of their business tactics (just who the hell cares what you think anyway), it doesn't mean it is or should be illegal.
So good luck teaching grandma all the differnet chmod commands and all that other sh!t you need for Linux while every body else is in the fast lane getting what they need done with XP. I'm absolutly fed up with pinko andi-MS propaganda and lies.
It's not a matter of financial contributions. Republicans in general believe in the market place sorting things out. If you really think that Linux is better, then you have to market it and convince people to switch - don't look to the government to make it easier.
Business is pretty cutthroat, but in all cases the competition is directed at who can make the consumer happiest. MS has suceeded here better than anyone else. That's why they have a dominant market position.
I have yet to meet anyone who can convince me that natural monopolies are bad for the economy.
BTW - if you want to go after a real monopoly, consider the US Postal Service or the Social Security system.
Some of you/. readers who are 'anime' fans ought to consider growing up. No, this isn't flame. I think the almost daily posts on anime on a technology sites make the entire group look bad.
I tried watching some of this stuff (it's cartoons) for a little while but the plot made absolutly zero sense and the animation was on the level of speed racer.
When will the slashbots get over the fact that they really don't have a right to privacy and that, in the greater scheme of things, allowing the government to search email with cause is of no harm to anyone.
I'm sure no one here or at the FBI cares which/. editors are subscribed to pet sex sites.
The key for KOFFICE gaining widespread usage in corporate and industrial environments is an accesible API. Having an API in an open source environment can mean more flexibility, giving KOFFICE an advantage over the closed MS Office API .
If you are looking at what the current API resources are for KOffice, click here.
You gave the customer information to Onsale (just as you do anywhere when you pay with a credit card). Onsale was bought by Egghead. Not surprisingly, that data when to Egghead. What did you expect them to do? Throw it away?
Fry's electronics bought a part of Egghead (the part that had your customer data.
The bottom line is that one company had your information in the beginning and now one company, which is a dirivative of that first company, has that same info.
And what's the worse they can do with that information? Try to give you a good deal on a product?
So much ignorance, so few options to eliminate it.
At least consider that just because you are an expert in being a loser nerd, doesn't mean you are also an expert at legal issues, ethics, economics, or anything else.
"M$ will NEVER make significant money from Internet-based subscription services. People don't like to pay for stuff they think they can get for free off the Web. Lots of companies have tried this route and failed - and M$ doesn't seem to have more clues about the Internet-as-a-business-model than anyone else."
Here's a huge group of internet-based subscription services: ISPs! Also, Fuckedcompany.com, sex sites, a few others can do it if it's done right.
"M$ will NEVER make any serious inroads into the big corporate datacenters - contrary to what their PR and the press will tell you. I work in Big Corporate Land and can tell you that any M$ technology that's snuck onto the raised floor is going buh-bye in favour of Unix..Net is a junky vision and is just a rehash of ActiveX, DNA, and whatever other names they've used"
You can't use anecdotal info versus imperical survey data. For example, in my main office, our huge, massive, enterprise systems used them.
".Net is a junky vision and is just a rehash of ActiveX, DNA, and whatever other names they've used in the past. It's more marketing concept than it is a set of solutions. The folks who adopt.Net in any meaningful way are the same folks who develop with ActiveX, OLE, MTS, etc. today. I don't see any new markets opening up with.Net."
Eh? It hasn't come out yet. Besides, ActiveX is pretty damn cool.
"Finally, M$ on everything we touch? Don't make me laugh! They have screwed up more often than they haven't - settop box software, PDAs, phones. Need I go on?"
In other words, they aren't afraid to take risks. But your examples are pretty bad. Set top boxes? Which one? I know their interactive TV thing isn't working too great, but there are three set tup boxes that are/are likely to command and conquer: X-Box, WebTV, Tivo.
And their PDA's are causing Palm to lose market share an (IIRC) lay people off. And they've got Stinger ready for the cell phone market.
I don't think their big and bloated, either. Investors have a way of knowing better than most people and it isn't reflected in their stock pricse.
I realize that typical Slashdotter-types have little knowledge of constitutional law or legal theory or the history of this country, so they can't really grasp the problem with this decision.
What the judges did here was legislate. Just read their decision. This is a clear violation of their oaths to rule on the merits of the law and the merits of the law alone.
This decision is definitly going to be appealed to the Federal courts where they have little tolerance for judges substituting their opinions for jurisprudence.
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MAybe one of you faggots, er, experts can make a beowulf cluster of Rio Recievers to listen to my N'Sync EXTRA loud.
Also, I do not see anything that suggests that the forged headers/spam email were sent by the Jones campaign.
A common classic campaign tactic is to take your opposition's bumper stickers and plaster them on car's front windshields when no one is around.
This is just the same tactic being done in cyberspace.
Of course, the inaccuracies here are pretty typical of a slash dot post.
And if Samba's so fucking great, I would have heard of it.
Here are some facts.
A congressman has about 7 staffers.
A congressman has about 700,000 people in his district.
If you want to get attention, send a standard letter. You are likely to get a good response.
The congressman himself isn't the person you want to talk to - you want to talk to his legislative aide who covers the area you are concerned about.
While a trip all the way to Washington is a good way to get your voice heard, you can also set an appointment up at your congressman's district office to make your message heard.
When contacting the office, always say FIRST that you are in his district.
The best way to make your voice heard is to join an organization with people of similar minds that has representation in Washington. Just like lawyers in a court of law, these organizations have experienced lobyists who know best how to make your case on your behalf to the representative.
If you're not registered to vote and/or don't vote often, the member of congress has access to that information. Be active.
Quiet a few of them were in the country past their visa. Using the airport gate as a checkpoint with these cards would have resulted in them being detained by the INS.
And I have no problem with the idea of these cards.
If you don't agree with a company's license, don't buy the product. If they wanted to, they could require that to use the product, you must stand on your head while performing Bach's third on a pan flute.
Besides, there are plenty of free products that do a better job, IMO, than FP2k.
Just one thing that you have encrypted that is so important that the government's law enforcement agencies can't view it in the event they believe it may be related to a terrorist act?
I'm just really curious what it is that you have to hide. Don't be specific, but not too general so that I don't know what it is.
Remember the old GI Joe cartoons - a military unit in a constant battle with a terrorist group - Cobra?
That's what the US needs. A persistent military force that will not tolerate some foreign agent with guns and suicidal tendancies to stand in some 3rd world country and forment/plan/engage attacks on the US.
bin Laden (that's pronounced lah-DEEN) has attached us and many other counries before and has cells in about 30 countries, yet we've largely tolerated his actions, not acting difinitivly to end his actions. That needs to change.
We need to go after these cells like vampire hunters - and persistently. When we are done with his, we hit the sandanistas in Columbia/South America, the Hamas in Syria/India, the IRA in Northern Ireland, and don't stop - ever.
GO GI JOE!
That is a total load of BULLSHIT.
The Social Security system delivers you a grand total of a 1.3% return on your investment. You'd be better off taking the money and buying US treasury bonds.
I have used all platforms and still prefer using MS. They do make businesses happy. I'm a developer and I'd be pretty pissed if I had to make different versions of my software for every spork of linux or Sun or whatever.
Broken contracts? That's a civil matter to be decided in court. Oh, what now, MS has bought the courts to? Is that your defense?
There is nothing wrong with using a loss leader. Just because you don't APPROVE of their business tactics (just who the hell cares what you think anyway), it doesn't mean it is or should be illegal.
So good luck teaching grandma all the differnet chmod commands and all that other sh!t you need for Linux while every body else is in the fast lane getting what they need done with XP.
I'm absolutly fed up with pinko andi-MS propaganda and lies.
This is just web masturbation. 3 D web browsers are neither a technical accomplishment nor do they lead to greater efficiency on the web.
Besides, if anything like this is going to happen, it will be through plugins like Flash.
It's not a matter of financial contributions. Republicans in general believe in the market place sorting things out.
If you really think that Linux is better, then you have to market it and convince people to switch - don't look to the government to make it easier.
Business is pretty cutthroat, but in all cases the competition is directed at who can make the consumer happiest. MS has suceeded here better than anyone else. That's why they have a dominant market position.
I have yet to meet anyone who can convince me that natural monopolies are bad for the economy.
BTW - if you want to go after a real monopoly, consider the US Postal Service or the Social Security system.
I tried watching some of this stuff (it's cartoons) for a little while but the plot made absolutly zero sense and the animation was on the level of speed racer.
Pretty pathetic, guys.
I'm sure no one here or at the FBI cares which
If you are looking at what the current API resources are for KOffice, click here.
Fry's electronics bought a part of Egghead (the part that had your customer data.
The bottom line is that one company had your information in the beginning and now one company, which is a dirivative of that first company, has that same info.
And what's the worse they can do with that information? Try to give you a good deal on a product?
So much ignorance, so few options to eliminate it.
At least consider that just because you are an expert in being a loser nerd, doesn't mean you are also an expert at legal issues, ethics, economics, or anything else.
"M$ will NEVER make significant money from Internet-based subscription services. People don't like to pay for stuff they think they can get for free off the Web. Lots of companies have tried this route and failed - and M$ doesn't seem to have more clues about the Internet-as-a-business-model than anyone else."
.Net is a junky vision and is just a rehash of ActiveX, DNA, and whatever other names they've used"
.Net in any meaningful way are the same folks who develop with ActiveX, OLE, MTS, etc. today. I don't see any new markets opening up with .Net."
Here's a huge group of internet-based subscription services: ISPs! Also, Fuckedcompany.com, sex sites, a few others can do it if it's done right.
"M$ will NEVER make any serious inroads into the big corporate datacenters - contrary to what their PR and the press will tell you. I work in Big Corporate Land and can tell you that any M$ technology that's snuck onto the raised floor is going buh-bye in favour of Unix.
You can't use anecdotal info versus imperical survey data. For example, in my main office, our huge, massive, enterprise systems used them.
".Net is a junky vision and is just a rehash of ActiveX, DNA, and whatever other names they've used in the past. It's more marketing concept than it is a set of solutions. The folks who adopt
Eh? It hasn't come out yet. Besides, ActiveX is pretty damn cool.
"Finally, M$ on everything we touch? Don't make me laugh! They have screwed up more often than they haven't - settop box software, PDAs, phones. Need I go on?"
In other words, they aren't afraid to take risks. But your examples are pretty bad. Set top boxes? Which one? I know their interactive TV thing isn't working too great, but there are three set tup boxes that are/are likely to command and conquer: X-Box, WebTV, Tivo.
And their PDA's are causing Palm to lose market share an (IIRC) lay people off. And they've got Stinger ready for the cell phone market.
I don't think their big and bloated, either. Investors have a way of knowing better than most people and it isn't reflected in their stock pricse.
Judge Posner has had decisions overturned by the US Supreme Court and this one will join them.
What the judges did here was legislate. Just read their decision. This is a clear violation of their oaths to rule on the merits of the law and the merits of the law alone.
This decision is definitly going to be appealed to the Federal courts where they have little tolerance for judges substituting their opinions for jurisprudence.