Don't give them any ideas. Next, they'll want to vote as well.
And its not like they can't afford a long strike to get it - they don't have to worry about putting food on the table for little Johnny-bot and Janie-bot.
I won't call you anti smoking nazis, a little too harsh.
The label fits me, and I'm proud of it. Before they banned smoking in restaurants, I made it a point of dragging as many other non-smokers into the smoking section. Sometimes, there would then be no seats left for the smokers, so the whole restaurant suddenly became "non-smoking." Other times, it still had a discernable effect on the overall air quality.
It was funny watching people Friday night, with a combination of rain and snow coming down, and they're sitting freezing at tables outside a restaurant (you're allowed to smoke outdoors if the area isn't enclosed) "enjoying" their cigarettes.
This will be the first winter of the smoking ban, and my bet is a lot of people are going to quit. The rest will hopefully thaw out sometime next spring.
Your "statistical analysis" is off by many orders of magnitude. Go contemplate the "birthday problem" for a while, as well as the non-randomness of markers in any given population which includes many people related to each other.
It doesn't matter - its just to pass the stupid email validation and rub their nose in it when they think the population is behind them. You can use george.bush@whitehouse.gov - though if you do, please make the message VERY supportive of them - (add in allusions to terr'rists on the net and how spamhaus is helping hide WMDs in North Korea and Syria).
Gogle isn't "faster and easier". Postnuke just has you fill in the field for the sponsors anme, a limit to the number of views you want to set (or just leave it blank for unimited) in the rotation, and the link you want the banner to go to. That's it. No other preparation necesary - no preparing different forms of contents, etc. It gives views, click counts, and percentages.
I'm somewhat unclear on this, and I watched 80% of the flash demo linked above before getting insanely bored (mostly due to the pace) and letting my ADHD take over.
OMG I must have ADHD as well - I couldn't stand more than 30 seconds of it - just clicked on every link in the left-hand side, saw it was "more of the same"... and was out of there!
Maybe if we want real information (like a web page that describes it) we should just google for it... oops... "google website optimizer" just returns articles that link to the same damn presentation.
Maybe google should have practiced what they preach and done their own "web site optimization" by having several different versions (flash, web pages) available. Didn't they get the memo - flash-only is evil?
The cops have been known to be dicks at times, but if you know your rights, they back down pretty quickly. They know that we support them, we just don't want them interfering with our legal rights.
From a marketing point of view, Novell won't want to associated with it either. If they show support for him, and he is found guilty, it's a marketing nightmare for Novell.
Are you kidding - this stuff practically writes itself.
"Novell and ReiserFS - we have THE killer linux filesystem!"
"Novell and ReiserFS - your files are as secure as the county lockup."
"Novell and ReiserFS - while the jury's out, we continue give you a choice of file systems"
"Novell and ReiserFS - exabytes of data - and only one piece of information missing..."
"Novell and ReiserFS - no dead inodes, no dead files, no dead bodies..."
Unlike Canada (or other places), US citizens are not required to have ID
Canadians aren't required to carry ID. I usually don't when I'm walking my dogs. Police can ask you to identify yourself if they have cause. That identification is merely you giving them your name and address. No physical proof is required (yes, I put this to the test one day during a mass protest - we ALL left our IDs at home on purpose:-)
In this case, it was the provincial government itself that pulled off the fraud - by refusing to use an updated list.
The problem is that the city of Montreal for years underfunded its emplyee pension plan and infrastructure (water, etc), instead wasting money elsewhere. So, when it became apparent that Montreal needed money or it would go broke, the province decided to merge it in with its wealthier suburbs. Of course, the reason the suburbs were wealthier is because they didn't spend spend spend. So they now pay for Montreals' problems.
The current government got elected on a promise to hold a fair demerger referendum. They reneged on that promise by:
using an old list
requiring that the majority of possible voters, not just people who actually voted, vote to demerge.
In other words, if you didn't vote (because you had moved) your "vote" was automatically counted as a "NO".
This is one of the things Charest is going to pay for - reneging on his promise for a fair referendum. Lying c*cks*ck*r is one of the more polite things people said afterwards.
I remember when he was running for the Conservative Party leadership - I was talking to some reporters, and I said "This guy doesn't make sense...he's contradicting himself." She said something very revealing - that Charest had a reputation among reporters for saying to each group what he thought that group wanted to hear, and that if what he said this morning contradicted what he said this afternoon, tough shit, and that trying to get it through an editor was next to impossible - they were all afraid of being accused of "witch hunting".
Next election, I'm voting PQ... again. I'm a stauch federalist, but this guy stinks.
"See this empty ballot box? No votes cast yet. We close it, take a nice campaign donation, and abracadabra - the box is now overflowing with votes. Oops - it's a dingo - and it seems to have eaten your candidate."
Up here you're not registered with any political party. Its not like there are registered Liberal or Conservative or NDP or Green or Bloc voters. The whole concept of registering as a republican or democrat escapes us - and I think that's a good thing.
I was initially against voter registration and having to show ID, but you know something? It works.
We have various methods to keep both sides honest here in Quebec.
Your name has to be on the permanent voting list - all citizens over 18 are on it, except people who have committed an electoral crime in the past 5 years. The local voters list is distributed to your area well in advance of the elections, so there's no chance to get a bunch of fake voters on it, and it gives people who slipped through the cracks a chance to update their info (for example, if they moved).
You have to first present ID to get your ballot. Your name is then removed from the list. The people (there are 2 for each box or "polling station") are appointed by the two parties who got the most ballots in the previous election - so they're watching each other, and making sure that nobody tries to pull a fast one.
Before they give you your ballot, they sign the tear-off stub or counterfoil. When you present your ballot to be put in the box, they remove the stub after verifying their signature, and you put your ballot in the box. No chance to conceal a half-dozen ballots in your hand.
The ballot boxes are opened and counted on iste. No chance for something to happen in transit. Then, after the count is made and everyone signs off on it, the ballots are put back in the box and the box re-sealed. Recounts are automatic for all results where there is less than 100 votes separating the winner from second place, and any candidate can ask for a judicial recount.
We've disallowed all donations of money, goods or services except from individuals, and those are capped at $3k per annum. All donations totaling over $200/year/person have to be reported, identifying the donor - and these lists are made public.
We tried electronic voting machines for one election, and quickly abandoned them - it was actually quicker, as well as being more transparent, to process ballots by hand, and there were no problems with power, questionable software, etc.
Still, there are those who want to go back to using pine cones and beaver chips instead of a paper ballot.
That's not a bad idea. And when they're finished, they can just lock their computer to that screen... anyone else wanting to use it will have to click click click click click click click click click click click click...
And there's no reason to believe that Vista will do anything but sell like hotcakes (after all, there are more reasons to go from XP to Vista than there were to go from 2k to XP), so there won't be any of the user backlash that most Slashdotters pretend they see in the future.
For those who missed the "irony" tags - people didn't switch from 2k to XP - they went from Win9x to XP - the 2k users continually dug in their heels when it came to switching. And certainly nobody I know even has Vista on their radar...
Really, is there ANYBODY who knows a real live "Joe Sixpack end user" who is even aware that Vista exists? Its pretty bad when both OSX and Linux have a bigger awareness in the general community than linux's new flagship.
People will continue running XP long after its end-of-lifed, mostlyt to play games. And the antivirus vendors will cash in on this, by selling patching services to fix bugs in XP long after Microsoft stops supporting it - because its "good enough" for most users.
Its not like you need the source code to patch. Virus writers "patch" XP all the time.
(or drag it to a corner of the screen where it sits with other unstoppable inscrutable popup windows until you reboot).
Finally, a reason for the masses to go to a dual-monitor setup. Drag that old obsolete 12" monochrome monitor and hercules card out and just "drag-and-ignore".
Slashdot Mirror
See - it wasn't a total waste after all :-)
Don't give them any ideas. Next, they'll want to vote as well.
And its not like they can't afford a long strike to get it - they don't have to worry about putting food on the table for little Johnny-bot and Janie-bot.
Maybe their validation is dumber than I imagined - if you don't put an email addy, it passes ...
The FP was talking about hardware firewalls, not the so-called Windows "firewall".
The label fits me, and I'm proud of it. Before they banned smoking in restaurants, I made it a point of dragging as many other non-smokers into the smoking section. Sometimes, there would then be no seats left for the smokers, so the whole restaurant suddenly became "non-smoking." Other times, it still had a discernable effect on the overall air quality.
It was funny watching people Friday night, with a combination of rain and snow coming down, and they're sitting freezing at tables outside a restaurant (you're allowed to smoke outdoors if the area isn't enclosed) "enjoying" their cigarettes.
This will be the first winter of the smoking ban, and my bet is a lot of people are going to quit. The rest will hopefully thaw out sometime next spring.
Your "statistical analysis" is off by many orders of magnitude. Go contemplate the "birthday problem" for a while, as well as the non-randomness of markers in any given population which includes many people related to each other.
It doesn't matter - its just to pass the stupid email validation and rub their nose in it when they think the population is behind them. You can use george.bush@whitehouse.gov - though if you do, please make the message VERY supportive of them - (add in allusions to terr'rists on the net and how spamhaus is helping hide WMDs in North Korea and Syria).
Just a quick note ... their contact form script requires a valid email address. Why not use nospam@360insight.com ... or admin@360insight.com, etc.
Gogle isn't "faster and easier". Postnuke just has you fill in the field for the sponsors anme, a limit to the number of views you want to set (or just leave it blank for unimited) in the rotation, and the link you want the banner to go to. That's it. No other preparation necesary - no preparing different forms of contents, etc. It gives views, click counts, and percentages.
OMG I must have ADHD as well - I couldn't stand more than 30 seconds of it - just clicked on every link in the left-hand side, saw it was "more of the same" ... and was out of there!
Maybe if we want real information (like a web page that describes it) we should just google for it ... oops ... "google website optimizer" just returns articles that link to the same damn presentation.
Maybe google should have practiced what they preach and done their own "web site optimization" by having several different versions (flash, web pages) available. Didn't they get the memo - flash-only is evil?
The article is talking about "webisodes" - 3-minute promotional mini-episodes you can get off the net - not BSG itself.
I'm waiting for the DVD, like the last 2-1/2 seasons. Much more fun to watch it all in a couple of sittings.
Send in 6 to negotiate. That cylon seems to get her way most of the time, for some reason.
The cops have been known to be dicks at times, but if you know your rights, they back down pretty quickly. They know that we support them, we just don't want them interfering with our legal rights.
Makes it sound like the new "Hotel California".
Q: What happens when you cross SubVersion with ReiserFS? ...
A: You can check your files out any time you like, but they'll never leave
Are you kidding - this stuff practically writes itself.
Canadians aren't required to carry ID. I usually don't when I'm walking my dogs. Police can ask you to identify yourself if they have cause. That identification is merely you giving them your name and address. No physical proof is required (yes, I put this to the test one day during a mass protest - we ALL left our IDs at home on purpose :-)
In this case, it was the provincial government itself that pulled off the fraud - by refusing to use an updated list.
The problem is that the city of Montreal for years underfunded its emplyee pension plan and infrastructure (water, etc), instead wasting money elsewhere. So, when it became apparent that Montreal needed money or it would go broke, the province decided to merge it in with its wealthier suburbs. Of course, the reason the suburbs were wealthier is because they didn't spend spend spend. So they now pay for Montreals' problems.
The current government got elected on a promise to hold a fair demerger referendum. They reneged on that promise by:
In other words, if you didn't vote (because you had moved) your "vote" was automatically counted as a "NO".
This is one of the things Charest is going to pay for - reneging on his promise for a fair referendum. Lying c*cks*ck*r is one of the more polite things people said afterwards.
I remember when he was running for the Conservative Party leadership - I was talking to some reporters, and I said "This guy doesn't make sense ...he's contradicting himself." She said something very revealing - that Charest had a reputation among reporters for saying to each group what he thought that group wanted to hear, and that if what he said this morning contradicted what he said this afternoon, tough shit, and that trying to get it through an editor was next to impossible - they were all afraid of being accused of "witch hunting".
Next election, I'm voting PQ ... again. I'm a stauch federalist, but this guy stinks.
Sounds like a setup for David Copperfield.
"See this empty ballot box? No votes cast yet. We close it, take a nice campaign donation, and abracadabra - the box is now overflowing with votes. Oops - it's a dingo - and it seems to have eaten your candidate."
Up here you're not registered with any political party. Its not like there are registered Liberal or Conservative or NDP or Green or Bloc voters. The whole concept of registering as a republican or democrat escapes us - and I think that's a good thing.
I was initially against voter registration and having to show ID, but you know something? It works.
We have various methods to keep both sides honest here in Quebec.
We tried electronic voting machines for one election, and quickly abandoned them - it was actually quicker, as well as being more transparent, to process ballots by hand, and there were no problems with power, questionable software, etc.
Still, there are those who want to go back to using pine cones and beaver chips instead of a paper ballot.
That's not a bad idea. And when they're finished, they can just lock their computer to that screen ... anyone else wanting to use it will have to click click click click click click click click click click click click ...
For those who missed the "irony" tags - people didn't switch from 2k to XP - they went from Win9x to XP - the 2k users continually dug in their heels when it came to switching. And certainly nobody I know even has Vista on their radar ...
Really, is there ANYBODY who knows a real live "Joe Sixpack end user" who is even aware that Vista exists? Its pretty bad when both OSX and Linux have a bigger awareness in the general community than linux's new flagship.
People will continue running XP long after its end-of-lifed, mostlyt to play games. And the antivirus vendors will cash in on this, by selling patching services to fix bugs in XP long after Microsoft stops supporting it - because its "good enough" for most users.
Its not like you need the source code to patch. Virus writers "patch" XP all the time.
Is that you Hans? http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/so-i-marri ed-a-kernel-programmer
Finally, a reason for the masses to go to a dual-monitor setup. Drag that old obsolete 12" monochrome monitor and hercules card out and just "drag-and-ignore".