What your really talking about is managed trade, not free trade.
No, it's free trade. "Free trade" and "capitalism" are, by definition, the system of the USA. If the USA changes that system, it's still free trade and capitalism. Trust me. I know what I'm joking about.
Last time I checked, not everybody used the qwerty keyboard layout. So no, you don't necessarily need to have a disease or a severe hangover to make that typo.
in addition, the IT admins for our 2000+ high school didnt know what puTTY was and kept removing it from my personal storage folder out of fear of what it was. not to mention they stored their win2k domain password as one of the usernames (in the format "adminPASSWORD") in case they happened to forget it somehow.
Pssht. You got lucky. My school's sysadmin seems to be cut from the same mold---and the other sysadmins I know agree. Our sysadmin would never have the problem with PuTTY because it's irrelevant; all outgoing ports are blocked, and the only way to make any outgoing connection is through a censorware HTTP proxy. There's an account with all priviledges on the computers called Backup Administrator, and the sysadmin doesn't know what it's for, what the password is, or who created it. Yet for some reason, it stays around.
There was an interesting incident last year that I started. The win2k "net send" command let students send popup messages to each other over the network. I told one guy, he told some others, and pretty soon the whole school was doing it. Now, there was no legitimate use for this command, so the obvious thing to do is to disable the messenger service. It's trivial, but the sysadmin didn't know how and didn't have the initiative to find out. Instead, a new rule appeared in the announcements: using net send was against the rules and would cause loss of computer priviledges for two weeks. It was hard to enforce, and it didn't solve the problem.
Fortunately, I don't get bothered by this guy too much. I know the password for Backup Administrator.;-)
A way that could eliminate this nasty kind of strategic voting is approval votes. Basically, you cast a vote for all the candidates you think would do well in office. That way you can vote for a third party candidate without "wasting your vote", because you can also vote for a major candidate. It win't happen (sigh), but I can dream, can't I?
I wouldn't want to be running any mailing lists under your taxation plan. Sourceforge, for example, would have to shell out lots of money for a legitimate service.
If you once knew about windows, chances are you can still find things in the GUI. And if you can do that, you can solve about half of the windows problems out there.
Yes, the American Medical Association in particular needs to crack down on the rising problem of huge minion armies and genetically engineered plagues. The dentists have been doing pretty well in comparison; they only had the army of cloned totally obedient barbarian armies that make necklaces from the teeth of their slain enemies marching on Dublin last year to mar their reputation.
When calculators are used right, they can be excellent tools in math classes. For example, when you're studying combinatorics, it's important to know the definition for permutations and where the definition came from. If you're using permutations later as part of a larger problem, a calculator can be used to speed things up considerably. I mean, who in their right mind would want to calculate something like 12! mentally or on paper when a calculator was available? The concepts are still taught, but you don't need to spend excessive time on arithmetic.
I don't think that calculators are used as a substitute for understanding very often. Sometimes you'll get an exception---like the time I answered a question I didn't understand on the ACT by plugging numbers into my calculator---but they aren't common enough to warrant not using calcuators.
How exactly do you "properly" design an ecommerce site that has thousands of products?
You don't. Big e-commerce sites are always improperly designed, and this is an inherent property of any site that has more than 343 pages in a strict tree structure. It's amazing that anyone manages to buy anything online; you'd think that the rules would keep them away from e-commerce sites.
Or, we could realize that, in order to make a good web site, you should just make a good web site.
No, I don't trust my ISP to do so. They do pretty well, but it still isn't perfect. So I opted out, and I do my own spam filtering. The thing is, the people who buy things from spam are usually to lazy and/or clueless to set up filtering or to opt out of ISP filtering. If the filtering gets so good it would be acceptable at the ISP level, I think it should be considered. If enough ISPs put filtering in place, it could really hit the spam indistry where it counts---profitability.
You're either missing the point or trolling. I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume the former.
This gives credibility to spammers as long as they label their spams in an unspecified way and include a working way to opt out. It overrides tougher state laws, and so it makes things less tough on spammers, while appeasing voters who just look at the headlines. And you.
Yeah, I wasn't actually saying that this YOU CAN SPAM act was a good thing. It turns out that I was completely wrong about the labeling; there's no uniform standard for labeling, so this just gives spammers easy legitimacy in the eyes of the law. I hope that it'll make it slightly easier for filters to pick out labeled spam (by matching tokens like "dv"), so they can be more certain about the classification, but that's a pittance compared with the disadvantages of this pathetic excuse for the excrement of representative government.
ISPs can block spam before it reaches their customers. I know this because my ISP does it, though I don't know if it's entirely legal. I propose that if an ISP gets the ability to filter spam well, they should offer a free service to their customers to do so---an opt-out service, so you're signed up by default. It would be such a delicious little joke on spammers' "business methods".:-)
Wow, I retract my comment about this making spam from the US trivial to filter out. This looks like just a voter-appeasement act that leaves the spammers with as much leeway as they want.
Congressional scum meet spamming scum. Who is worse?
If spam is labeled, it'll be easy for ISPs to kill it, and advantageous to to so as quickly as possible---they don't like spam wasting bandwidth any more than you do.
In this case, the issue is probably moot---the files here are for public consideration, not slashdotting. They want people to look at their example files, so they put in whitespace. Simple.
Besides, doesn't mod_gzip reduce a lot of the whitespace overhead?
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It states that it will not override state laws having to do with deception. That's a long way from not overriding state laws.
No, it's free trade. "Free trade" and "capitalism" are, by definition, the system of the USA. If the USA changes that system, it's still free trade and capitalism. Trust me. I know what I'm joking about.
Last time I checked, not everybody used the qwerty keyboard layout. So no, you don't necessarily need to have a disease or a severe hangover to make that typo.
Pssht. You got lucky. My school's sysadmin seems to be cut from the same mold---and the other sysadmins I know agree. Our sysadmin would never have the problem with PuTTY because it's irrelevant; all outgoing ports are blocked, and the only way to make any outgoing connection is through a censorware HTTP proxy. There's an account with all priviledges on the computers called Backup Administrator, and the sysadmin doesn't know what it's for, what the password is, or who created it. Yet for some reason, it stays around.
There was an interesting incident last year that I started. The win2k "net send" command let students send popup messages to each other over the network. I told one guy, he told some others, and pretty soon the whole school was doing it. Now, there was no legitimate use for this command, so the obvious thing to do is to disable the messenger service. It's trivial, but the sysadmin didn't know how and didn't have the initiative to find out. Instead, a new rule appeared in the announcements: using net send was against the rules and would cause loss of computer priviledges for two weeks. It was hard to enforce, and it didn't solve the problem.
Fortunately, I don't get bothered by this guy too much. I know the password for Backup Administrator. ;-)
I'm going to guess that they're good at looking at "bottom lines", talking to investors, looking snazzy in a suit, and high-level schmoozing.
A way that could eliminate this nasty kind of strategic voting is approval votes. Basically, you cast a vote for all the candidates you think would do well in office. That way you can vote for a third party candidate without "wasting your vote", because you can also vote for a major candidate. It win't happen (sigh), but I can dream, can't I?
I wouldn't want to be running any mailing lists under your taxation plan. Sourceforge, for example, would have to shell out lots of money for a legitimate service.
If you can drive up spammers' bandwidth bills and make the return less than $0, then you'd have something really nice going.
Never. .biz is a good token for my bayesian filter. I guess the sleazy sound must attract spammers like moths to a flame.
I tell you, this is the most compelling argument I've ever heard for a redundant TLD.
If you once knew about windows, chances are you can still find things in the GUI. And if you can do that, you can solve about half of the windows problems out there.
Yes, the American Medical Association in particular needs to crack down on the rising problem of huge minion armies and genetically engineered plagues. The dentists have been doing pretty well in comparison; they only had the army of cloned totally obedient barbarian armies that make necklaces from the teeth of their slain enemies marching on Dublin last year to mar their reputation.
For some more along those lines, check out this article about "intelligent design theory".
It's much cheaper to have a baby the normal way. Really, why do people associate cloning with human rights violations?
I don't think that calculators are used as a substitute for understanding very often. Sometimes you'll get an exception---like the time I answered a question I didn't understand on the ACT by plugging numbers into my calculator---but they aren't common enough to warrant not using calcuators.
FYI, To get Firebird to open popups as tabs, you need the Tabbrowser Preferences extension. Enjoy.
You don't. Big e-commerce sites are always improperly designed, and this is an inherent property of any site that has more than 343 pages in a strict tree structure. It's amazing that anyone manages to buy anything online; you'd think that the rules would keep them away from e-commerce sites.
Or, we could realize that, in order to make a good web site, you should just make a good web site.
One web site please, hold the suck.
No, I don't trust my ISP to do so. They do pretty well, but it still isn't perfect. So I opted out, and I do my own spam filtering. The thing is, the people who buy things from spam are usually to lazy and/or clueless to set up filtering or to opt out of ISP filtering. If the filtering gets so good it would be acceptable at the ISP level, I think it should be considered. If enough ISPs put filtering in place, it could really hit the spam indistry where it counts---profitability.
Well, Paul Graham would probably indent his Lisp code, or he doesn't deserve to be called a Lisp advocate. :-)
This gives credibility to spammers as long as they label their spams in an unspecified way and include a working way to opt out. It overrides tougher state laws, and so it makes things less tough on spammers, while appeasing voters who just look at the headlines. And you.
ISPs can block spam before it reaches their customers. I know this because my ISP does it, though I don't know if it's entirely legal. I propose that if an ISP gets the ability to filter spam well, they should offer a free service to their customers to do so---an opt-out service, so you're signed up by default. It would be such a delicious little joke on spammers' "business methods". :-)
Congressional scum meet spamming scum. Who is worse?
I think we should save yodabyte for 2^900. Or, better yet, yibibyte. :-)
If spam is labeled, it'll be easy for ISPs to kill it, and advantageous to to so as quickly as possible---they don't like spam wasting bandwidth any more than you do.
What kind of a name is that?
Besides, doesn't mod_gzip reduce a lot of the whitespace overhead?