I find it highly unlikely that it will be. The Federal Government has been usurping more and more power over the past 100 years (Dems and Repubs) in ways that clearly go against the intent of the Constitution.
Consider if you will this Supreme Court case:
The Court's 1942 decision in Wickard vs. Filburn gave Congress the power to regulate anything. In that case, the Court remarkably held that the interstate commerce clause could be used to regulate an individual farmer's wheat production or his family's consumption. The reasoning was that since the farmer grew his own wheat, he affected interstate commerce; otherwise, he might have purchased wheat that had moved in interstate commerce.
So, in this case, even though the television sets are not engaging in interstate communication, they are receiving a signal that very likely is, and therefore, the government's resposibility to regulate cannot end at reception... or some other similar crap.
Now I'm depressed...
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
you'd have nice rotating blocks (in a tic-tac-toe pattern) with alternating pictures of the candidates (as in the bonus game in Super Mario World after collecting 100 stars).
If you can make Mario hit the blocks so that your candidate shows up three in a row, your vote counts. Get more than three in a row for multiple votes.
Get three Nader's and you get a sunflower suit
If you get no matches, it's a vote for Bowser.
(I'll leave it to others to come up with the prizes for Kerry and Bush, though I'm looking for something along the lines of Tanooki suit of Mass Destruction...)
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
In related news, the number of lottery winners has increased exponentially over the past several days with one in three computer owners being declared winners. Lottery sponsors were puzzled as to what could have caused the outbreak, but say they are not worried as all of the unexepcted lottery winners have been fatally struck by lightning.
Rap inflects global popular culture from music to fashion. Linux poses a real threat to Microsoft. The Sims is among the most popular computer games ever. These far-flung developments have all been driven by Pro-Ams
<sigh> and then there is Slashdot...
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
Another alternative is, of course, to post it on Slashdot. But the question that lingers, is how in the hell did a little unknown magazine end up signing up 36 million people?
There is a more likely scenario: there is only one customer but he signed himself up 36 million times.
Welcome back biker04564346, you are using 0% of 3,600,000,000 GB
(yeah, yeah, I know each account would only see 1/36,000,000th of the space, but I was going for funny)
If I'm reading these numbers right, there is (at least) one thing that is interesting.
The "Best Practices" (hereafter BPG) group claimed 14% of their IT budget was spent on Infosecurity, while the "Average Group" (hereafter AG) spent 9%, while the difference in number of people on full time security in the BPG was approximately 430 and the AG was only around 160.
Or in numbers, a BPG company spends $140,000 of its $1,000,000 IT budget (these are fake numbers) and hires 430 people while a AG company spends $90,000 from it's IT budget of the same amount and picks up 160 people.
90,000 -> 140,000 increase of 56% 160 -> 430 increase of 169% 430 people with an average salary of 325.58 160 people with an average salary of 562.50 Thats a salary difference for "average" employees of 73%
My point is hiring more (potentially) less qualified people may do more than spending more. This is of course if I've read the graphs right, am thinking correctly, and have done this hasty math correctly.
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
They just deliver better results and are more useful to the average user. And if that makes them better... [whispers to aide]what was my point again[/whisper]...we have a cartoon butler!!
Is it bad that after reading this article, my sole reaction was to run through our building yelling "USB belt buckles!!" like some sort of geek version of Paul Revere...
I'm so embarrassed....
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
Somewhere in the world, bathed in the light of a monitor displaying this Slashdot article, someone with their nose resting on their mouse is smiling...
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
I'd estimate that I made it to, oh, say question 24 before the story went live and site died as fast as you can say "Please estimate the air speed of an unladen swallow"
-- I write stuff, but not that well and not that often...
I saw a movie about this exact same thing. Luckliy Robert Redford and his team won and the world was made safe from Ben Kingsley, but it was touch and go there for a little bit.
I was worried.
The one way to tell for sure if the good guys win, is if the Republican National Committee goes bankrupt and GreenPeace gets a sizable donation. Also, you might see Sydney Poitier in Tahiti and Dan Akroyd in a brand spanking new RV.
Humans are bugs, err, humans are viruses. Correction: Humans have bugs.
Programs are like onions. Ogres are like onions. Donkeys like cake.
Mac Office X is the red-headed step child of Microsoft development efforts
Microsoft is a lot like the police.
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
Catching Blondie's reunion tour broadcast at 4 in the morning wasn't an option for XM satellite radio subscriber
So he stayed up till 4AM programming.
Yes, but only once, and in doing so, he taught the world how to fish.
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
To quote a popular saying, He who counts the votes, elects. The only way to ensure the safety of ballots is to distribute the counting of ballots among a larger number of people.
The more centralized the ballot counting, the easier it is to corrupt, the more distributed it is, the more difficult it is to corrupt and the greater the likelihood of exposure.
And by distributed, I'm not talking about computers networks, I'm talking about people.
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
There is no one else to blame but individual Americans.
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
Slashdot Mirror
I find it highly unlikely that it will be. The Federal Government has been usurping more and more power over the past 100 years (Dems and Repubs) in ways that clearly go against the intent of the Constitution.
Consider if you will this Supreme Court case:
The Court's 1942 decision in Wickard vs. Filburn gave Congress the power to regulate anything. In that case, the Court remarkably held that the interstate commerce clause could be used to regulate an individual farmer's wheat production or his family's consumption. The reasoning was that since the farmer grew his own wheat, he affected interstate commerce; otherwise, he might have purchased wheat that had moved in interstate commerce.
So, in this case, even though the television sets are not engaging in interstate communication, they are receiving a signal that very likely is, and therefore, the government's resposibility to regulate cannot end at reception... or some other similar crap.
Now I'm depressed...
--
Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
you'd have nice rotating blocks (in a tic-tac-toe pattern) with alternating pictures of the candidates (as in the bonus game in Super Mario World after collecting 100 stars).
If you can make Mario hit the blocks so that your candidate shows up three in a row, your vote counts. Get more than three in a row for multiple votes.
Get three Nader's and you get a sunflower suit
If you get no matches, it's a vote for Bowser.
(I'll leave it to others to come up with the prizes for Kerry and Bush, though I'm looking for something along the lines of Tanooki suit of Mass Destruction...)
--
Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
Hmmm.....laptop?
Maybe you're not familiar with how this works. You submit the story, we make the jokes.
You owe someone a +5 Funny.
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it's all part of the new Slashdot Comment subsidy program.
In related news, the number of lottery winners has increased exponentially over the past several days with one in three computer owners being declared winners. Lottery sponsors were puzzled as to what could have caused the outbreak, but say they are not worried as all of the unexepcted lottery winners have been fatally struck by lightning.
Rap inflects global popular culture from music to fashion. Linux poses a real threat to Microsoft. The Sims is among the most popular computer games ever. These far-flung developments have all been driven by Pro-Ams
<sigh> and then there is Slashdot...
--
Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
Another alternative is, of course, to post it on Slashdot. But the question that lingers, is how in the hell did a little unknown magazine end up signing up 36 million people?
There is a more likely scenario: there is only one customer but he signed himself up 36 million times.
Welcome back biker04564346, you are using 0% of 3,600,000,000 GB
(yeah, yeah, I know each account would only see 1/36,000,000th of the space, but I was going for funny)
groan... I think I even previewed this...
according to this page, Krita means "done"
well according to this page, Krita means "done"
I don't think this was one of the meanings they intended.
If I'm reading these numbers right, there is (at least) one thing that is interesting.
The "Best Practices" (hereafter BPG) group claimed 14% of their IT budget was spent on Infosecurity, while the "Average Group" (hereafter AG) spent 9%, while the difference in number of people on full time security in the BPG was approximately 430 and the AG was only around 160.
Or in numbers, a BPG company spends $140,000 of its $1,000,000 IT budget (these are fake numbers) and hires 430 people while a AG company spends $90,000 from it's IT budget of the same amount and picks up 160 people.
90,000 -> 140,000 increase of 56%
160 -> 430 increase of 169%
430 people with an average salary of 325.58
160 people with an average salary of 562.50
Thats a salary difference for "average" employees of 73%
My point is hiring more (potentially) less qualified people may do more than spending more. This is of course if I've read the graphs right, am thinking correctly, and have done this hasty math correctly.
--
Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
"Google is not better than us," said Jim Lanzone
...we have a cartoon butler!!
They just deliver better results and are more useful to the average user. And if that makes them better... [whispers to aide]what was my point again[/whisper]
it won't fit and I don't use the same one every time.
so, no. It's part of my post. Sorry.
Is it bad that after reading this article, my sole reaction was to run through our building yelling "USB belt buckles!!" like some sort of geek version of Paul Revere...
I'm so embarrassed....
--
Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
Somewhere in the world, bathed in the light of a monitor displaying this Slashdot article, someone with their nose resting on their mouse is smiling...
--
Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
I'd estimate that I made it to, oh, say question 24 before the story went live and site died as fast as you can say "Please estimate the air speed of an unladen swallow"
--
I write stuff, but not that well and not that often...
this should be a torrent for it. I am still downloading it, so I don't know for sure yet.
China goes nuclear?!?
That doesn't make sense. You'd think they'd be happy about getting all that energy...
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Just because you don't get it, that doesn't mean you have to mod it down.
yeah, I'm wondering how many people will get the reference. Sneakers in one of my favorite movies ever.
Glad to know others like it as well.
I saw a movie about this exact same thing. Luckliy Robert Redford and his team won and the world was made safe from Ben Kingsley, but it was touch and go there for a little bit.
I was worried.
The one way to tell for sure if the good guys win, is if the Republican National Committee goes bankrupt and GreenPeace gets a sizable donation. Also, you might see Sydney Poitier in Tahiti and Dan Akroyd in a brand spanking new RV.
--
Pain?
Try Prison.
Humans are bugs, err, humans are viruses. Correction: Humans have bugs.
Programs are like onions. Ogres are like onions. Donkeys like cake.
Mac Office X is the red-headed step child of Microsoft development efforts
Microsoft is a lot like the police.
--
Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
Catching Blondie's reunion tour broadcast at 4 in the morning wasn't an option for XM satellite radio subscriber
So he stayed up till 4AM programming.
Yes, but only once, and in doing so, he taught the world how to fish.
--
Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
We have the mod points everyday, Dexter...
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You can't even do our secret handshake
To quote a popular saying, He who counts the votes, elects.
The only way to ensure the safety of ballots is to distribute the counting of ballots among a larger number of people.
The more centralized the ballot counting, the easier it is to corrupt, the more distributed it is, the more difficult it is to corrupt and the greater the likelihood of exposure.
And by distributed, I'm not talking about computers networks, I'm talking about people.
--
Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
They might as well, every body else is....
Remind anyone of that scene in the movie 'Wild Wild West' where they extract the last thing the dead guy saw?
To be honest, I pretty much try to avoid anything that reminds me of Wild Wild West...
There is no one else to blame but individual Americans.
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.