I'd put it more strongly.. electing Obama would be the opposite of a solution!!
I think a lot of the "pride in American industry" went away when the majority of businesses stopped being run by the people who built them, and started being run by shiny new business-degree graduates.:(
Very interesting. Practical reform from the ground up. Be sure to include a provision that the Constitution is immune from sunset laws -- I can already hear some clever socialist lawyer thinking about that one!
Hope you don't mind if I pillage your post for the benefit of non-slashdotters.:)
#7 seems harsh if you don't know about the posh surrounds of some white-collar prisons... (when I saw video of one of 'em, I was like, Where do I sign up?!) I'd suggest the sentence apply to the other items as well, and that the duration of sentence be directly proportional to how much the attempted influence exceeds the other provisions (frex, if someone contributed 2x the allowed amount, they do 2 years X 2 = 4 years in prison, etc.)
Yeah, that Hitler's variety of fascism was considered "far right" always seemed crosswise to me, but I couldn't quite tell what was wrong.. having never seen this particular manifesto before.
In fact, now that I think about it, I'm not sure how one CAN have a fascist state without being fundamentally socialist. The former might be viewed as the rigidly-enforced version of the latter.
Second that... My first thought was, Freaking WOW, that's a standup company. So yes -- thanks, Codeweavers!
And now I know what I'll be demo'ing and reviewing at the user group next month... a little free advertising as appreciation for the opportunity to try their software.
Having pollwatched where paper ballots were used, I can attest to that. You get all sorts of weird marks, which clearly indicate one candidate or another, but are not an X and sometimes are nowhere near the box. But I don't recall seeing ANY where it was at all ambiguous who the voter intended to vote for.
Damned good point. How does anyone know that camera-based documentation is any specific voter's experience??
Timestamps can be jiggered (especially for digital cameras) or just plain wrong, so the only way to show it is to make sure the voter can be identified -- which kinda defeats the point of a secret ballot.
Back when Montana used those one-armed bandit style voting machines, you could request and use a PAPER ballot if you wished. Don't other states have this same provision??
(Now MT uses all paper ballots, for accuracy's sake.)
What, he's not allowed to LEARN something? professing to not know something, then trying to learn it, is a contradiction??
At least he knew what he was ignorant of, and evidently set out to rectify that.
Also... I work with seniors on developing their computer skills. Nearly everyone over 55 or so adamantly asserts that they know nothing about computers, even when they are reasonably proficient at everyday tasks. They FEEL ignorant because computerese is a foreign tongue, but they get the job done nevertheless.
In California, you also get a felony rap for defending yourself against that police dog (the law reads something like "for injuring it, attempting to injure it, or interfering with it in the pursuit of its duty"), even if you did absolutely NOTHING else wrong and there is absolutely NO evidence that you did. This law isn't about protecting police dogs; it's about making sure anyone can be converted into a perp, just by siccing the dog on the desired person, and waiting for the victim to hit the dog ("attempting to injure it") while trying to keep from getting mauled. Great for when you have no other evidence of a crime!
I'm sure police-handled robots will get covered by the same law in due course.
Or go live on the far side of the Appalachians, with or without native tribes. But yeah, the main risk was being tracked down and killed by your former neighbours.
Think on THAT while you're fleeing into the Martian back-country... what if your ex-neighbour cuts your air hose?;)
And even if it were a valid concern, you could get around it by using the nuclear engines only once you're outside the atmosphere, where a few bombs worth of radiation more or less makes no difference.
Tho I don't know what that does to the economics of liftoff and payload.
Actually, some were kicked out of their former countries, because they made life so difficult for their neighbours that the gov't got tired of the constant complaints, and told them to leave. And to make a long story short, that's why the Puritans came to America. It wasn't *them* being persecuted; it was them *doing* the persecuting by trying to make their more-normal neighbours conform to their dying (post-Cromwell) social mores.
So sayeth my 11th grade American History teacher, who was very interested in the forgotten backside of history (which often goes quite contrary to the official version). She'd dug up dirt on a lot of our long-ago great leaders as well. Needless to say, everyone paid attention in her class.:)
"Most likely you'll get to experience all new forms of corruption which aren't bound by centuries of safety measures."
Hmmm... Puritans. Salem witch trials. There's something to what you say, all right... OTOH, early settlers had the whole continent to escape to, if they had the balls and some luck. But those Martian settlers... it's a bit harder to escape when you've got to plan where your next breath of air is coming from.
"I can imagine a future where entire planets are "one" ideology... maybe a Muslim planet, a Christian planet, a Communist planet, a Scientology planet, etc. And probably at war with each other."
Vinyl phonograph albums DO mold (this happened to a friend's collection after their roof got partly knocked off -- they were almost at ground zero for the Northridge quake). They can be cleaned with soap and bleach, but may not be playable again, depending on how "soft" the mold made the vinyl.
I was given some SCSI cards, RAM sticks, and I/O cables that had cig smoke, mold, and gods know what else stuck to them. I washed them with dish soap and pet-urine deodorizer. They still work.
Good insight. I know I've often brought an online argument to a dead halt by dragging forth an abundance of logical thought and associated proofs.
The frustrated non-film-producer brought up the comparison of Wikipedia vs Britannica... what's interesting is that Britannica is also a series of articles by independent parties, which may or may not be vetted by disinterested 3rd parties. The only real difference is that Wikipedia is far more subject to casual editing.
I did something like that last time I migrated data to a new machine.. a lot of it got moved to where I expect to find stuff, but most is still sitting there in straight-across copies of each partition from the previous machine (one partition per base directory). It proved easier to just leave most of it there than to bother moving it to the new location, it doesn't eat that much, compared to newer HD size, and meanwhile it serves as a complete backup for the old machine. And if I need something, it's still in the same directory structure as before, so easy to find.
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I'd put it more strongly.. electing Obama would be the opposite of a solution!!
I think a lot of the "pride in American industry" went away when the majority of businesses stopped being run by the people who built them, and started being run by shiny new business-degree graduates. :(
Very interesting. Practical reform from the ground up. Be sure to include a provision that the Constitution is immune from sunset laws -- I can already hear some clever socialist lawyer thinking about that one!
Hope you don't mind if I pillage your post for the benefit of non-slashdotters. :)
#7 seems harsh if you don't know about the posh surrounds of some white-collar prisons... (when I saw video of one of 'em, I was like, Where do I sign up?!) I'd suggest the sentence apply to the other items as well, and that the duration of sentence be directly proportional to how much the attempted influence exceeds the other provisions (frex, if someone contributed 2x the allowed amount, they do 2 years X 2 = 4 years in prison, etc.)
Yeah, that Hitler's variety of fascism was considered "far right" always seemed crosswise to me, but I couldn't quite tell what was wrong.. having never seen this particular manifesto before.
In fact, now that I think about it, I'm not sure how one CAN have a fascist state without being fundamentally socialist. The former might be viewed as the rigidly-enforced version of the latter.
Ah, didn't know that -- probably didn't have any last time I looked (which has been quite a while -- years??)
Second that... My first thought was, Freaking WOW, that's a standup company. So yes -- thanks, Codeweavers!
And now I know what I'll be demo'ing and reviewing at the user group next month... a little free advertising as appreciation for the opportunity to try their software.
Having pollwatched where paper ballots were used, I can attest to that. You get all sorts of weird marks, which clearly indicate one candidate or another, but are not an X and sometimes are nowhere near the box. But I don't recall seeing ANY where it was at all ambiguous who the voter intended to vote for.
Damned good point. How does anyone know that camera-based documentation is any specific voter's experience??
Timestamps can be jiggered (especially for digital cameras) or just plain wrong, so the only way to show it is to make sure the voter can be identified -- which kinda defeats the point of a secret ballot.
Back when Montana used those one-armed bandit style voting machines, you could request and use a PAPER ballot if you wished. Don't other states have this same provision??
(Now MT uses all paper ballots, for accuracy's sake.)
"Because if I where your boss and found out you voted for Obama I would fire you."
No you wouldn't, because if Obama is elected, you'd go out of business first.
What, he's not allowed to LEARN something? professing to not know something, then trying to learn it, is a contradiction??
At least he knew what he was ignorant of, and evidently set out to rectify that.
Also... I work with seniors on developing their computer skills. Nearly everyone over 55 or so adamantly asserts that they know nothing about computers, even when they are reasonably proficient at everyday tasks. They FEEL ignorant because computerese is a foreign tongue, but they get the job done nevertheless.
Nope, but I learned something from your sig... a good deal of that manifesto exactly parallels socialist goals in this country today.
(And the artwork is very good to stunning. Too bad Hitler didn't stick to art.)
Good point. A trained police dog costs about $10k. How much does a well-programmed police robot cost -- $100k or so??
Yep, I can follow that money as well as anyone!
In California, you also get a felony rap for defending yourself against that police dog (the law reads something like "for injuring it, attempting to injure it, or interfering with it in the pursuit of its duty"), even if you did absolutely NOTHING else wrong and there is absolutely NO evidence that you did. This law isn't about protecting police dogs; it's about making sure anyone can be converted into a perp, just by siccing the dog on the desired person, and waiting for the victim to hit the dog ("attempting to injure it") while trying to keep from getting mauled. Great for when you have no other evidence of a crime!
I'm sure police-handled robots will get covered by the same law in due course.
Well, I've read Williamson's story, and it was one of the scariest things I've EVER read.
1984, Colossus: The Forbin Project, and The Humanoids ... hey, government, those are FICTION, not How-To manuals!!
Or go live on the far side of the Appalachians, with or without native tribes. But yeah, the main risk was being tracked down and killed by your former neighbours.
Think on THAT while you're fleeing into the Martian back-country... what if your ex-neighbour cuts your air hose? ;)
Slashdot ID number. Sorry, you'll have to wait a few decades. ;)
And even if it were a valid concern, you could get around it by using the nuclear engines only once you're outside the atmosphere, where a few bombs worth of radiation more or less makes no difference.
Tho I don't know what that does to the economics of liftoff and payload.
Actually, some were kicked out of their former countries, because they made life so difficult for their neighbours that the gov't got tired of the constant complaints, and told them to leave. And to make a long story short, that's why the Puritans came to America. It wasn't *them* being persecuted; it was them *doing* the persecuting by trying to make their more-normal neighbours conform to their dying (post-Cromwell) social mores.
So sayeth my 11th grade American History teacher, who was very interested in the forgotten backside of history (which often goes quite contrary to the official version). She'd dug up dirt on a lot of our long-ago great leaders as well. Needless to say, everyone paid attention in her class. :)
"Most likely you'll get to experience all new forms of corruption which aren't bound by centuries of safety measures."
Hmmm... Puritans. Salem witch trials. There's something to what you say, all right... OTOH, early settlers had the whole continent to escape to, if they had the balls and some luck. But those Martian settlers ... it's a bit harder to escape when you've got to plan where your next breath of air is coming from.
"I can imagine a future where entire planets are "one" ideology... maybe a Muslim planet, a Christian planet, a Communist planet, a Scientology planet, etc. And probably at war with each other."
Crap, I think I've fallen into Star Trek!!
Buzz Aldrin leaps to mind... after all, it's his idea! :)
Vinyl phonograph albums DO mold (this happened to a friend's collection after their roof got partly knocked off -- they were almost at ground zero for the Northridge quake). They can be cleaned with soap and bleach, but may not be playable again, depending on how "soft" the mold made the vinyl.
I was given some SCSI cards, RAM sticks, and I/O cables that had cig smoke, mold, and gods know what else stuck to them. I washed them with dish soap and pet-urine deodorizer. They still work.
Good insight. I know I've often brought an online argument to a dead halt by dragging forth an abundance of logical thought and associated proofs.
The frustrated non-film-producer brought up the comparison of Wikipedia vs Britannica ... what's interesting is that Britannica is also a series of articles by independent parties, which may or may not be vetted by disinterested 3rd parties. The only real difference is that Wikipedia is far more subject to casual editing.
I did something like that last time I migrated data to a new machine.. a lot of it got moved to where I expect to find stuff, but most is still sitting there in straight-across copies of each partition from the previous machine (one partition per base directory). It proved easier to just leave most of it there than to bother moving it to the new location, it doesn't eat that much, compared to newer HD size, and meanwhile it serves as a complete backup for the old machine. And if I need something, it's still in the same directory structure as before, so easy to find.
Me too.. the most useless of which is a 10mb reel-type tape backup. It powers on, so I presume it still works.
Trouble is, I just hate to throw away working hardware, even if it's older than dirt. So I have an unghodly pile of useless shit.
What I really want is a time machine... I've got a boxful of old RAM that was worth about $15,000 .... just 15 years ago!