"Because we went to war against another country against our powerful allies' wills"
Name one ally we opposed. You can't. Canada,France, and Germany were not allies, as they clearly sided with Saddam and made it quite clear that they wanted to keep his regime propped up. France was even supplying Saddam's nuclear war program.
The US does not need to change on this. Time for France and Germany to admit they were wrong to side with Saddam and get on board.
But it is a stretch to conjure this "right" when it is not in the constutition.
"There is also no Right to Bear Arms, per se"
It is referred to explicitly: a right to keep and bear arms. Not so with privacy.
"I have found that most people who like to say there is no Constitutional right to privacy use this as code to say:"
Shows the kind of mistakes you make when you put words into someone's mouth and judge them on what you wish they said instead of what they said. As for me, you could not be more wrong: to me, it is code to say that this right is needed and it is bad that it is not there.
Stretching things such as "being secure in their persons" or "protected from illegal search and seizure" beyond their meaning still does nothing at all about protecting your privacy if a company wants to sell personal data it has on you (it already has the info: no illegal search; and the data is in its repositories well-clear of your person at this point). It can help with privacy in your home, but not very far beyond that.
However, you misunderstand me beyond the statement of this fact. I wish there were a right to privacy: it would be a great idea for an amendment. Since there is no right to privacy, government and corporations and others run roughshod over privacy.
"Fess up, what you mean when you say "no right to privacy" is "women are men's property and their bodies to be controlled by the god-fearin' folk.""
If I were against privacy for these reasons, I'd actually probably be for it so I could marry my sister and live in a Montana shack in peace.
Except there is no constitutonal right to privacy
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Except there is no Constitutional right to privacy. Penumbrae, vapors, and cumulo-nimbus can be inferred through imagination based on existing parts of the document to imply one, but it just does not exist: one can just as easily make up "implied" parts that negate a "Right to Privacy".
The term "trusted" is accurate for this.
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You have the wrong definition of "trust" in mind.
You need to look further down on the list of definitions "trust" to find the appropriate one:
"A combination of firms or corporations for the purpose of reducing competition and controlling prices throughout a business or an industry."
I misread this one as "Mario Gets Advanced Again, Panties On". I supposed that if he were advanced with his panties off, then it would be R-Rated. My mistake.
The run of the mill AOL account lacks standard features such as spam filtering and a way to save e-mails intact. How can it be stripped down even more than this?
"this magnificent galaxy is nearly one-fifth the diameter of the full moon."
The moon's diameter is 2140 miles. This equates to a galaxy less than 450 miles wide. How many stars can you fit into such a Minnesota-sized galaxy? How can you make it small enough to be accidentally swallowed by a small dog?
Ralph Nader, a big critic of the Microsoft monopoly, is very rich from investments in Cisco, which has much more of a monopoly control in its field ('Net routers) than Microsoft has over the "The Desktop".
Show your displeasure and refuse to vote for Nader. Oops, forgot, he only represents the interest of 1% of the voters already. There has to be some other way to get at this sanctimonions hypocrite. I know, buy yourself a Corvair!
Does anyone know of any archives of historic and otherwise public-domain (IP-hassle free) images? Something that might allow sharing (contributions) from the community?
Someone suggested Deviantart, but it appeared to be only recent artwork.
Remember Ice Pirates? They had some kind of funny kung fu robots in that film. The robots had a bad habit of pulling out the lynch pin in their solar plexus area and then falling into many pieces.
Who said anything about secure?
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Of course the pirates and crackers will quickly bust and run rings around whatever Microsoft does in the DRM field. It will still, however, make the machines with the OS harder to use.
Keep putting it off. Please !
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The way things are going, the next version of Microsoft's OS will have many more security holes and even more "Palladium" evilness and DRM restrictions on what I can co with my own content on my own machine. Hold of on this as long as possible, Bill. Get the current one working first.
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"Because we went to war against another country against our powerful allies' wills"
Name one ally we opposed. You can't. Canada,France, and Germany were not allies, as they clearly sided with Saddam and made it quite clear that they wanted to keep his regime propped up. France was even supplying Saddam's nuclear war program.
The US does not need to change on this. Time for France and Germany to admit they were wrong to side with Saddam and get on board.
He was misheard. He was really claiming to generate bugs faster than Linux.
(though, truth be told, they generate more bugs than a 5-month-long New York City garbageman strike)
But it is a stretch to conjure this "right" when it is not in the constutition.
"There is also no Right to Bear Arms, per se"
It is referred to explicitly: a right to keep and bear arms. Not so with privacy.
"I have found that most people who like to say there is no Constitutional right to privacy use this as code to say:"
Shows the kind of mistakes you make when you put words into someone's mouth and judge them on what you wish they said instead of what they said. As for me, you could not be more wrong: to me, it is code to say that this right is needed and it is bad that it is not there.
Stretching things such as "being secure in their persons" or "protected from illegal search and seizure" beyond their meaning still does nothing at all about protecting your privacy if a company wants to sell personal data it has on you (it already has the info: no illegal search; and the data is in its repositories well-clear of your person at this point). It can help with privacy in your home, but not very far beyond that.
However, you misunderstand me beyond the statement of this fact. I wish there were a right to privacy: it would be a great idea for an amendment. Since there is no right to privacy, government and corporations and others run roughshod over privacy.
"Fess up, what you mean when you say "no right to privacy" is "women are men's property and their bodies to be controlled by the god-fearin' folk.""
If I were against privacy for these reasons, I'd actually probably be for it so I could marry my sister and live in a Montana shack in peace.
Except there is no Constitutional right to privacy. Penumbrae, vapors, and cumulo-nimbus can be inferred through imagination based on existing parts of the document to imply one, but it just does not exist: one can just as easily make up "implied" parts that negate a "Right to Privacy".
You have the wrong definition of "trust" in mind.
You need to look further down on the list of definitions "trust" to find the appropriate one:
"A combination of firms or corporations for the purpose of reducing competition and controlling prices throughout a business or an industry."
There was a TV show about this: "My Two Dads". It starred Greg Evigan and that ape, or was it Paul Reiser?
I misread this one as "Mario Gets Advanced Again, Panties On". I supposed that if he were advanced with his panties off, then it would be R-Rated. My mistake.
Next time the government tries to draft you into the army, just say "No thanks, I'd rather engage in some non-combat character development"
The run of the mill AOL account lacks standard features such as spam filtering and a way to save e-mails intact. How can it be stripped down even more than this?
"Objects in Hubble mirror screen might be closer than they appear to be"
"this magnificent galaxy is nearly one-fifth the diameter of the full moon."
The moon's diameter is 2140 miles. This equates to a galaxy less than 450 miles wide. How many stars can you fit into such a Minnesota-sized galaxy? How can you make it small enough to be accidentally swallowed by a small dog?
Ralph Nader, a big critic of the Microsoft monopoly, is very rich from investments in Cisco, which has much more of a monopoly control in its field ('Net routers) than Microsoft has over the "The Desktop".
Show your displeasure and refuse to vote for Nader. Oops, forgot, he only represents the interest of 1% of the voters already. There has to be some other way to get at this sanctimonions hypocrite. I know, buy yourself a Corvair!
Does anyone know of any archives of historic and otherwise public-domain (IP-hassle free) images? Something that might allow sharing (contributions) from the community?
Someone suggested Deviantart, but it appeared to be only recent artwork.
Linux hitmen? The image comes to mind of The Penguin's army of radio-controlled penguins in "Batman 2".
It is good that you go the extra mile and actually document when someone opts in.
Thanks to the spammers, the term "opt-in" has no meaning at all: I've gotten hundreds of spams claiming that I opted in and never did at all.
This whole idea is a joke. It would be treated as something to be worked around.
If they ever got off the ground, they'd be shut down in short order due to the trouble they would be in for being a spam-cannon.
One trend has been penis enlargement spams entitled "Enlarge Up to 3 Inches".
If an increase up to a 3 inch total length is something that would do you good, you've really got a major anatomical problem there, mr bobbit.
"Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated just like my banana breakfast. Eeep! Eeep!"
Remember Ice Pirates? They had some kind of funny kung fu robots in that film. The robots had a bad habit of pulling out the lynch pin in their solar plexus area and then falling into many pieces.
Of course the pirates and crackers will quickly bust and run rings around whatever Microsoft does in the DRM field. It will still, however, make the machines with the OS harder to use.
A 2006 release date will give Microsoft a chance to rip off the visual style of Apple's successor to Panther, whatever that might be
"Where do you want to go today..oops, in 2006?"
The way things are going, the next version of Microsoft's OS will have many more security holes and even more "Palladium" evilness and DRM restrictions on what I can co with my own content on my own machine. Hold of on this as long as possible, Bill. Get the current one working first.
""So which car would go faster, a red one or a blue one?" The blue one of course because it absorbs more of the higher freq. light than the red one. "
No, the red one is faster. Remember the Doppler Shift: the car that is red is the one that has already passed you.
10. "Dude, you're getting new underwear"
9. The Apple Figleaf Newton
8. Atari FunPants, complete with joystick.
7. The deceased laid out in a shroud that is running *BSD, all ready for the funeral.
6. Trademark Gateway-brand white underwear with large brown spots all over it.
5. Levi's button-USB
4. Blue jeans, blue tooth.
3. The digital divide starts to really hit the nudist colonies pretty bad.
2. Hands-free trouser-mouse
1. If you wear clothes, you have to pay $669 to SCO.
0. "I, for one, welcome our new WiFi-enabled parka overlords"