How about changing us away from a 2-party system. How about counting *every* absentee vote, regardless of whether the race is close or not. How about not announcing even preliminary results until all votes have been made and all absentee votes have been counted. It's way too open in the US. People getting ready to vote at 3 or 4 PM may watch the news, see that one candidate is winning (when about 25% of the vote has been tallied, if that) and not go to vote when they could have possibly made a difference seeing as the votes they saw were from a different state or district.
He just is saying that the more freedoms that are removed the more terrorist cells could be found. Problem is, that means you don't get very much leeway in what you get to do even if you're not a terrorist.
The problem is that some people *can* see the difference. I know some people that can endure a 60 Hz CRT computer screen all day with no problem, but I know other people who get headaches from it.
I'ts like any sense; some people have a more developed sense of something than other people.
It's not that we did nothing, it's that what was done was more appropriate than making laws that make it legal to have undocumented warrants and unwarranted wiretaps, even on non-terrorists. They need to prove nothing really for these, as well as the fact that when they do prove things, it doesn't have to have anything to do with terrorism. Maybe I'm wrong, but the Patriot act was *supposed* to be to protect against terrorists...
Bush's regime would have you believe terrorists just came to be 3 years ago. They don't want you to think about the fact that there have been terrorist attacks before and we didn't need things like the Patriot act to make ourselves feel safe....
I actually have a couple dells, 6 and 8 years old, still running on all the original hardware. They may be pretty slow compared to newer computers, but they still run. Now, a Dell from 2-3 years ago is probably not running anymore unless the person got the extended warranty, since Dell's quality went to shit in the past 4 years.
I agree that I largely hate Dell machines, but when you get them free you generally don't argue. I also hate most other machines, but lately Gateway and eMachines have had good quality. The only problems I've seen with *them* in the past 2 years have been user error. You are correct about NEC and IBM being probably the most stable prefabs, however.
You also don't tell us how old you are, just that you have been building computers since you were 11. You could be 13 now for all we know. (at least for what the average user knows)
I received a death threat for looking at this guy's love interest when she was single. And I wasn't even looking at her in a lewd way, I just sort of glanced because she was pretty.
They eventually did start going out, but he gave me a death threat before even their first date, and she wouldn't listen when I said I thought he was bad news....
Like he said, legitimate use. I don't honestly see why they need to make it look like Bob's Help Desk, which is hired by HP to take calls, needs to look like they're HP themselves. Maybe it would wake people up to the fact that by and large help desk employees don't give a flying fuck about them and merely want to keep their call time down to keep a job.
As long as you're registered with the other party, or not registered at all, they will keep calling you til election day. They don't care as much about the die-hard supporters as they do about converting the other people. Plus, the fact that you said no makes them call back more, just like a child who won't stop saying "please mommy" in that annoying ass voice when they want candy and you don't want to give it to them.
The whole cell phone thing can be done because they also check to see if the call is coming from their own network. If you tried calling from your home phone with some sort of Caller ID spoofing, it would still reject the call since it can tell that you are not calling from a wireless phone.
The multiple phones I was talking about are a person has a cell phone for their own use, then the company gives them one so they can contact the employee but the employee can't use it for anything else, they maybe have a second phone for same company from a different department or diferent location, and then a pager that gets set off by remote admin software on a server.
Keep in mind this is from a sysadmin standpoint. Also, this isn't the most common arrangement, but isn't exactly rare, either.
And, yes, I know this is horribly redundant, but that's how a lot of US companies work, even today. It's stupid, but the US has always seemed to lag behind when it comes to new telecom advancements.
My guess is that RHEL is better and more quickly supported. Also, RPM updates are very nice, especially since they are certified to work on specific implementations of the OS and hardware.
For me, I probably won't use OpenBSD (or any other BSD at this point) because I'm a little lazy and don't like having to build from scratch, or even use tarballs that may not work 100% right away, when the RPMs usually do.
Thanks. I did ask for a correction if I was wrong. I was just going by what I had known.
Oh, and I know that the US isn't even close to a large part of the world.... I was just saying they are a pretty large force. I don't think I've really heard of any place but the US having people with multiple phones/pagers, etc (I've seen people who are businessmen or sysadmins with 2-4 cell phones and 1-4 pagers). Seems like a bit of overkill to me, but I could be wrong again.
I also have heard of Vodafone and yes, they are in the US. Though they mostly work through domestic wireless providers.
There are very few companies without a hand in the US. Vodafone is one that is wildly successful outside the US (from what I've found on them) but only a small force in the US.
Blah, blah, blah. I should stop posting after midnight. I tend to ramble like a man 4 times my age....
I believe T-Mobile is. They were originally a European company before they bought a wireless co or 2 in the US. And I also believe before they got into the US they were the biggest in the world (maybe minus the US). But I'm also just talking from memory, and I'll be the first to say my human memory is nowhere near as exact as computer memory.
If people that actually care about their country are the exception, then maybe we should have some sort of change in the laws to facilitate getting those uncaring people away from the polls on election day.
Whether or not he gets the right scores, seeing as he likely was working on his campaign instead of watching the game and got the info from an aide, is the least important thing he can possibly be wrong about.
Generally when using the mouse as a joystick replacement the position changes are changed to acceleration, and the higher the acceleration the further from the zero position the joystick would be. So, when you stop moving the mouse the "joystick" returns to the zero position.
He's also saying the coldest it gets is only a few degrees negative C. To someone from the US that means that it's still above 0 on the F scale. I don't know about you, but I wish the weather here would stay that warm during most of winter....
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How about changing us away from a 2-party system. How about counting *every* absentee vote, regardless of whether the race is close or not. How about not announcing even preliminary results until all votes have been made and all absentee votes have been counted. It's way too open in the US. People getting ready to vote at 3 or 4 PM may watch the news, see that one candidate is winning (when about 25% of the vote has been tallied, if that) and not go to vote when they could have possibly made a difference seeing as the votes they saw were from a different state or district.
I think you mean Khitomer Massacre.
He just is saying that the more freedoms that are removed the more terrorist cells could be found. Problem is, that means you don't get very much leeway in what you get to do even if you're not a terrorist.
He'd probably end up quitting like Trent Reznor did with Doom3 when it was taking too long.
The problem is that some people *can* see the difference. I know some people that can endure a 60 Hz CRT computer screen all day with no problem, but I know other people who get headaches from it.
I'ts like any sense; some people have a more developed sense of something than other people.
It's not that we did nothing, it's that what was done was more appropriate than making laws that make it legal to have undocumented warrants and unwarranted wiretaps, even on non-terrorists. They need to prove nothing really for these, as well as the fact that when they do prove things, it doesn't have to have anything to do with terrorism. Maybe I'm wrong, but the Patriot act was *supposed* to be to protect against terrorists...
There may be now since they're using a processor similar to the G5 in the new Xbox........
Bush's regime would have you believe terrorists just came to be 3 years ago. They don't want you to think about the fact that there have been terrorist attacks before and we didn't need things like the Patriot act to make ourselves feel safe....
I actually have a couple dells, 6 and 8 years old, still running on all the original hardware. They may be pretty slow compared to newer computers, but they still run. Now, a Dell from 2-3 years ago is probably not running anymore unless the person got the extended warranty, since Dell's quality went to shit in the past 4 years.
I agree that I largely hate Dell machines, but when you get them free you generally don't argue. I also hate most other machines, but lately Gateway and eMachines have had good quality. The only problems I've seen with *them* in the past 2 years have been user error. You are correct about NEC and IBM being probably the most stable prefabs, however.
You also don't tell us how old you are, just that you have been building computers since you were 11. You could be 13 now for all we know. (at least for what the average user knows)
I received a death threat for looking at this guy's love interest when she was single. And I wasn't even looking at her in a lewd way, I just sort of glanced because she was pretty.
They eventually did start going out, but he gave me a death threat before even their first date, and she wouldn't listen when I said I thought he was bad news....
Like he said, legitimate use. I don't honestly see why they need to make it look like Bob's Help Desk, which is hired by HP to take calls, needs to look like they're HP themselves. Maybe it would wake people up to the fact that by and large help desk employees don't give a flying fuck about them and merely want to keep their call time down to keep a job.
As long as you're registered with the other party, or not registered at all, they will keep calling you til election day. They don't care as much about the die-hard supporters as they do about converting the other people. Plus, the fact that you said no makes them call back more, just like a child who won't stop saying "please mommy" in that annoying ass voice when they want candy and you don't want to give it to them.
The whole cell phone thing can be done because they also check to see if the call is coming from their own network. If you tried calling from your home phone with some sort of Caller ID spoofing, it would still reject the call since it can tell that you are not calling from a wireless phone.
The multiple phones I was talking about are a person has a cell phone for their own use, then the company gives them one so they can contact the employee but the employee can't use it for anything else, they maybe have a second phone for same company from a different department or diferent location, and then a pager that gets set off by remote admin software on a server.
Keep in mind this is from a sysadmin standpoint. Also, this isn't the most common arrangement, but isn't exactly rare, either.
And, yes, I know this is horribly redundant, but that's how a lot of US companies work, even today. It's stupid, but the US has always seemed to lag behind when it comes to new telecom advancements.
I'd liek to know what a good one is. Just asking, since I've beta'd a few and never liked one yet.
My guess is that RHEL is better and more quickly supported. Also, RPM updates are very nice, especially since they are certified to work on specific implementations of the OS and hardware.
For me, I probably won't use OpenBSD (or any other BSD at this point) because I'm a little lazy and don't like having to build from scratch, or even use tarballs that may not work 100% right away, when the RPMs usually do.
Thanks. I did ask for a correction if I was wrong. I was just going by what I had known.
Oh, and I know that the US isn't even close to a large part of the world.... I was just saying they are a pretty large force. I don't think I've really heard of any place but the US having people with multiple phones/pagers, etc (I've seen people who are businessmen or sysadmins with 2-4 cell phones and 1-4 pagers). Seems like a bit of overkill to me, but I could be wrong again.
I also have heard of Vodafone and yes, they are in the US. Though they mostly work through domestic wireless providers.
There are very few companies without a hand in the US. Vodafone is one that is wildly successful outside the US (from what I've found on them) but only a small force in the US.
Blah, blah, blah. I should stop posting after midnight. I tend to ramble like a man 4 times my age....
I believe T-Mobile is. They were originally a European company before they bought a wireless co or 2 in the US. And I also believe before they got into the US they were the biggest in the world (maybe minus the US). But I'm also just talking from memory, and I'll be the first to say my human memory is nowhere near as exact as computer memory.
If people that actually care about their country are the exception, then maybe we should have some sort of change in the laws to facilitate getting those uncaring people away from the polls on election day.
Whether or not he gets the right scores, seeing as he likely was working on his campaign instead of watching the game and got the info from an aide, is the least important thing he can possibly be wrong about.
but then again, the average slashdot reader is also a bit more petty and prone to overreact than the average American.
I'm not saying you're overreacting; I agree that this is a stupid story. It's just that even slashdot readers are idiots about some things.
Generally when using the mouse as a joystick replacement the position changes are changed to acceleration, and the higher the acceleration the further from the zero position the joystick would be. So, when you stop moving the mouse the "joystick" returns to the zero position.
He's also saying the coldest it gets is only a few degrees negative C. To someone from the US that means that it's still above 0 on the F scale. I don't know about you, but I wish the weather here would stay that warm during most of winter....
Whoops, I was still thinking of it as just media files... wasn't thinking of any sort of legality.
I don't see what law was broken if they are solicited mails...
Yes, depending on the phone you can either send to on person, a group of people, or everyone you have in your address book.