This past election cycle I was very impressed by my states handling of elections. They have reaffirmed their commitment to paper ballots and optical scanners. They have even gone so far as to buy machines that would fill in the paper ballots for disabled persons using touch screen technology.
I'm a geek. I loves my shiny bits of technology BUT when it comes to voting I just feel safer with something tried, true and an audit trail.
...and I'll probably keep saying it but I still like idea of fixing the distribution system and making the money on volume sales and concerts and just ignore piracy. (as far as music goes)
If you sell albums for $5 it's so damn affordable that it's almost easier to buy it than try to track down a copy someplace and "liberate" it. The only problem is that the music industry has such a screwed up distribution system that they can't "afford" to reduce the price of the media because the whole current system would collapse.....which would be fine by me.
There is a difference between starting with a Belief and starting with a theory. When starting with a theory you should to be open to altering your orinal hypothesis if your findings lead towards a different conclusion. A Belief that requires faith tends to be much less flexible.
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Ever since Altered Carbon I've been REALLLY wanting this guy to write more books. My brother got me a first edition signed copy of Angels from the UK a while back. It was a departure from Altered but it also showed that this character and the world he lives in has many excellent posibilities. I'm hooked.
I personally don't understand what the heck is wrong with optical scanners that use paper ballots. It's simple cost effective and you have a paper trail. You could setup some sort of a system that prints the ballots at each polling site to speed the prior setup currently needed. (right now the ballots are pre printed at outsourced printing companies...well at least in MN)
This push for touch screens confounds me. Being a gadget nut this goes contrary to all my instincts but when it comes to voting,(especially what happened in the last presidential ellection) I want easily usable, simple technology voting machines that in the end the voters intent is easily determined. If someone can't figure out how to fill in big ass circles with a marker on a piece of technology* that has been around for thousands of years then they dont deserve to vote anyway.
survive. Drop CD prices to $4.99!! Personally i would rather have my music on CD if I could buy 3 or 4 CD's for the same price as one Brittany Spears album. I would be plenty happy to buy TONS of music. I just can't justify spending $15 on a damn CD that I don't even know for sure I like. So what do I do? Download a couple of songs and give it a spin, find out I don't like the CD and never buy it. CD's only cost $0.01's to manufacture anyway. Pellets go in, CD's come out. Come on tell me, if you could buy a CD for the same price as a gut bomb at Macindon's would you buy a handful on a whim?
(reposted from "Would Free Music Sell Cars?" makes more sense in this discussion)
survive. Drop CD prices to $4.99!! Personally i would rather have my music on CD if I could buy 3 or 4 CD's for the same price as one Brittany Spears album. I would be plenty happy to buy TONS of music. I just can't justify spending $15 on a damn CD that I don't even know for sure I like. So what do I do? Download a couple of songs and give it a spin, find out you don't like the CD and never buy it. CD's only cost $0.01's to manufacture anyway. Pellets go in, CD's come out. Come on tell me, if you could buy a CD for the same price as a gut bomb at Macindon's would buy a handful on a whim?
Sorry about the length. I seem to have gotten carried away.
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Sites like yours do nothing more than whip parents frenzy and instill fear uncertainty and doubt.
I would really appreciate it if you would site specific studies and sources of information when you decided to post information on your site. This information would allow me to educate myself on the studies that have been performed. It's also good policy to quote a selection of studies that disagree with your opinions.
Giving parents information about how to make sure their child has age appropriate material is far better than telling them that their "A" honor role student that happens to like playing video games is a potential drop out and sleazy killer. It's our job as parents to make sure that not only are children protected from things that would harm them but also explain to them what's going on. Children should have a good base in reality and be able to take in the world around them and make reality distinctions.
I have to say I take some of your blather a little personally. I'm not a big game player and I am a parent but according to the statement below, as a computer enthusiast I'm "emotionally unhealthy, Mentally instable and a social outcast". Now I read a lot of books and immerse myself in someone else's world unbothered and un-harassed by the realities of real life for hours at a time, what kind of sicko does that make me?
"Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPG) is a digital escape from the real world for emotionally unhealthy and mentally unstable people. It is a place for computer enthusiasts and social outcasts to gather un-bothered and un-harassed by the realities of real life."
Shrique
Charter member and founder of FAUIOS ("Fathers Against Unsubstantiated Internet Opinion Sites")and the father of a gorgeous little girl.
Just in case your wondering you might want to stop by http://slashdot.org/articles/02/12/30/1820236. shtm l?tid=133 and check out what your average "computer enthusiast" thinks about your site and it's information.
Gaping even, huge even. At the moment it doesn't really matter. mozilla has such a small % of hte whole thing even if someone did actually try to exploit it they wouldn't get enough information to really use it.
Well it sounds like your one of those 1/10th of 1% of the people that this wasn't designed for. Go use your damn IE and have a blast. I personally like the way Mozilla works and have never had a complaint.
Oh and I don't like to have to install another app just to make sure the browser I'm using isn't spying on me. It's an extra bit of thing that he developers should have thought through from the getgo and added that in. Blah blah blah MS sucks.
I'm running Mozilla 1.0 under Windows 2k and it's been more stable than any other browser I've used. Matter of fact I don't think it's EVER crashed on me. I'm on the machine 10 hours a day using tons of different apps and I can still go 14 days without a reboot. Even then I only reboot because it's been so long.
The Tabs feature is it's best feature by far. I'm a total fanatic and will recommend this browser to anyone. Anyone have any experience with Mozilla and XP?
Personally I think that the first book IS about a couple of Hobbits being dragged along like so much baggage. Remember they don't really do much until later on in the series. Once Frodo splits off and starts to undertake his own part of the story does the focus really come to the Hobbits. They aren't a powerful race and aren't that good at fighting. If you want a book about a Hobbit that get's into the action you should read The Hobbit.
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This past election cycle I was very impressed by my states handling of elections. They have reaffirmed their commitment to paper ballots and optical scanners. They have even gone so far as to buy machines that would fill in the paper ballots for disabled persons using touch screen technology.
I'm a geek. I loves my shiny bits of technology BUT when it comes to voting I just feel safer with something tried, true and an audit trail.
...and I'll probably keep saying it but I still like idea of fixing the distribution system and making the money on volume sales and concerts and just ignore piracy. (as far as music goes)
If you sell albums for $5 it's so damn affordable that it's almost easier to buy it than try to track down a copy someplace and "liberate" it. The only problem is that the music industry has such a screwed up distribution system that they can't "afford" to reduce the price of the media because the whole current system would collapse.....which would be fine by me.
There is a difference between starting with a Belief and starting with a theory. When starting with a theory you should to be open to altering your orinal hypothesis if your findings lead towards a different conclusion. A Belief that requires faith tends to be much less flexible.
Ever since Altered Carbon I've been REALLLY wanting this guy to write more books. My brother got me a first edition signed copy of Angels from the UK a while back. It was a departure from Altered but it also showed that this character and the world he lives in has many excellent posibilities. I'm hooked.
I just want him to write more.
I personally don't understand what the heck is wrong with optical scanners that use paper ballots. It's simple cost effective and you have a paper trail. You could setup some sort of a system that prints the ballots at each polling site to speed the prior setup currently needed. (right now the ballots are pre printed at outsourced printing companies...well at least in MN)
This push for touch screens confounds me. Being a gadget nut this goes contrary to all my instincts but when it comes to voting,(especially what happened in the last presidential ellection) I want easily usable, simple technology voting machines that in the end the voters intent is easily determined. If someone can't figure out how to fill in big ass circles with a marker on a piece of technology* that has been around for thousands of years then they dont deserve to vote anyway.
* paper for you slow folks
survive. Drop CD prices to $4.99!! Personally i would rather have my music on CD if I could buy 3 or 4 CD's for the same price as one Brittany Spears album. I would be plenty happy to buy TONS of music. I just can't justify spending $15 on a damn CD that I don't even know for sure I like. So what do I do? Download a couple of songs and give it a spin, find out I don't like the CD and never buy it. CD's only cost $0.01's to manufacture anyway. Pellets go in, CD's come out. Come on tell me, if you could buy a CD for the same price as a gut bomb at Macindon's would you buy a handful on a whim?
(reposted from "Would Free Music Sell Cars?" makes more sense in this discussion)
survive. Drop CD prices to $4.99!! Personally i would rather have my music on CD if I could buy 3 or 4 CD's for the same price as one Brittany Spears album. I would be plenty happy to buy TONS of music. I just can't justify spending $15 on a damn CD that I don't even know for sure I like. So what do I do? Download a couple of songs and give it a spin, find out you don't like the CD and never buy it. CD's only cost $0.01's to manufacture anyway. Pellets go in, CD's come out. Come on tell me, if you could buy a CD for the same price as a gut bomb at Macindon's would buy a handful on a whim?
Heheh, copy this and send it off to a real group if you so choose. (chuckle)
Sorry about the length. I seem to have gotten carried away.
. shtm l?tid=133 and check
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Sites like yours do nothing more than whip parents frenzy and instill
fear uncertainty and doubt.
I would really appreciate it if you would site specific studies and
sources of information when you decided to post information on your
site. This information would allow me to educate myself on the
studies that have been performed. It's also good policy to quote
a selection of studies that disagree with your opinions.
Giving parents information about how to make sure their child has age
appropriate material is far better than telling them that their "A"
honor role student that happens to like playing video games is a
potential drop out and sleazy killer. It's our job as parents to
make sure that not only are children protected from things that would
harm them but also explain to them what's going on. Children
should have a good base in reality and be able to take in the world
around them and make reality distinctions.
I have to say I take some of your blather a little personally.
I'm not a big game player and I am a parent but according to the
statement below, as a computer enthusiast I'm "emotionally unhealthy,
Mentally instable and a social outcast". Now I read a lot of
books and immerse myself in someone else's world unbothered and
un-harassed by the realities of real life for hours at a time, what
kind of sicko does that make me?
"Massive Multiplayer Online Role
Playing Games (MMORPG) is a digital escape from the real world for
emotionally unhealthy and mentally unstable people. It is a place for
computer enthusiasts and social outcasts to gather un-bothered and
un-harassed by the realities of real life."
Shrique
Charter member and founder of FAUIOS ("Fathers Against Unsubstantiated
Internet Opinion Sites")and the father of a gorgeous little girl.
Just in case your wondering you might want to stop by
http://slashdot.org/articles/02/12/30/1820236
out what your average "computer enthusiast" thinks about your site and
it's information.
Gaping even, huge even. At the moment it doesn't really matter. mozilla has such a small % of hte whole thing even if someone did actually try to exploit it they wouldn't get enough information to really use it.
Ah who the hell cares.
Well it sounds like your one of those 1/10th of 1% of the people that this wasn't designed for. Go use your damn IE and have a blast. I personally like the way Mozilla works and have never had a complaint.
Oh and I don't like to have to install another app just to make sure the browser I'm using isn't spying on me. It's an extra bit of thing that he developers should have thought through from the getgo and added that in. Blah blah blah MS sucks.
I'm running Mozilla 1.0 under Windows 2k and it's been more stable than any other browser I've used. Matter of fact I don't think it's EVER crashed on me. I'm on the machine 10 hours a day using tons of different apps and I can still go 14 days without a reboot. Even then I only reboot because it's been so long.
The Tabs feature is it's best feature by far. I'm a total fanatic and will recommend this browser to anyone. Anyone have any experience with Mozilla and XP?
Shrique
We should all go out and buy a couple of singles just to show them that they are heading in the right direction.
Personally I think that the first book IS about a couple of Hobbits being dragged along like so much baggage. Remember they don't really do much until later on in the series. Once Frodo splits off and starts to undertake his own part of the story does the focus really come to the Hobbits. They aren't a powerful race and aren't that good at fighting. If you want a book about a Hobbit that get's into the action you should read The Hobbit.