EULAs haven't even been proven to be enforcable in court.
EULA's were held to be enforcable by the Federal District court in St. Louis in the Blizzard v. BNETD case. The court ruled that BNETD did not have the right to reverse engineer the network protocol because the EULA prevented them from doing so. It seems crazy, but it's true. The eff is appealing to the 8th Circuit of Appeals.
It's not double standards. Previous to 9/11 I do not recall U.S. Television News ever showing dead bodies. The guy being run over in Tiananmen Square was shown live I'm told, but I don't recall them having rebroadcast it later. History programs would show bodies from the Holocaust and news programs may have done the same for other acts of genocide, but I don't clearly recall. I think papers would put dead bodies on the inside under certain circumstances. Showing dead bodies was a big American cultural taboo previous to 9/11. I've been told in Spanish countries they would show bodies all the time.
During and since 9/11, things have changed. They did show people jumping out of the buildings and falling to their death though they didn't show them hit. With the beheadings in Iraq, they would show them blindfolded and then basically tell people the rest was on the internet. When those American contractors bodies were hung from that bridge in Fallujah they showed it from a distance where the bodies could not be identified individually. Recently, before the tsunami, it seems they have been showing us bodies all the time, and I don't even remember whose. Three years ago I could not imagine the media showing us some of the images of tsunami victims they are showing us, and now I can not imagine the media not showing us some images of victims.
9/11 and subsequent events have changed the American media and people's idea of how tragic events should be covered. The American media still hasn't quite worked out how these sort of events should be covered, and that's why no one in that article gave anything remotely resembling a coherent response. They're making ad hoc decisions on a case by case basis on whether or not it is "necessary" to show bodies for viewers to understand the story.
As an American I am usually pretty sceptical, distrustful, and suspicious of our media and their intentions, but in this case, both the tsunamis specifically and showing dead bodies generally, I beleive the media is asking itself hard questions about when and under what circumstances they should show bodies, and struggling to come up with answers. In short it's not double standards, it's a changing standard.
Instead we're told pork-barrel projects such as Social Security, Medicare, Health-Care and welfare are a huge waste of tax dollars yet ALL of them could have been solvent for our lifetime had we not insisted on these useless "defense" programs and wars.
The Social Security trustfund runs out of money in 2042. I was born in 1979 and reach retirement age (67) in 2046. Social Security starts paying out more money than Social Security taxes takes in in 2018 and the rest of the goverment will have to start paying back money it borrowed from Social Security under several (all?) Republican and Democrat administrations. It will be interesting to see if that happens. Medicaid and Medicare are even worse off fiscally. The Social Security debate isn't that these programs are a waste. It's that they have their own taxes (payroll taxes) by which they are funded, and if those taxes are not increased, benefits cut, or some other measure taken they will go bankrupt. These programs go bankrupt on their own with or without "useless defense programs and war".
I'm not sure when, but the alsa people finally did allow kernel level sound mixing (for applications that have native alsa support only). Speaking of difficult documentation, find dmix on that page.
I realize this is off-topic, but how is pf on netbsd coming along, and on freebsd for that matter? Is this the right site to be looking at? Does anyone have any experience with it? How stable and well does it run? It says pf on net still doesn't have altq integration. That's a shame because the altq documentation use to say to up the number of time slices the scheduler makes from 100 to 1000 times a second, which Open doesn't let you do. Are you still suppose to do that on Free and Net? For that matter how does pf's altq integration handle now on Open? Last time I tried it (long time ago) it wasn't recommended for people with an uplink as small as I had (128k) and did not work that well when I tried anyway, but it looks like the examples use that now.
Kerry could have won easily if he had moderated his extreme views on abortion, stem-cell research, and taxes.
I consider myself a pro-life extremist. Kerry's views on stem-cell research are not extremist. They are consistent with the views of the majority of Americans. 2/3rds of Americans support stem-cell research. I am against it, but even I have a bit of an internal struggle about it because it is so very early in human development when the fetuses are destroyed. And even I don't support the extreme way Bush bans federal funding so that universities that take any federal money can not perform stem-cell research even if they get the money for the stem-cell research and the lab it is done in from some other source.
I have a question for all the people in this counry who are against gay marriage:
Exactly how does a gay couple getting married affect you negatively?
Please be specific.
A large percentage of people in this country see gay marriage as a government endorsement of a religious value and therefore a violation of the seperation of church and state. Before your head explodes over the obvious contradiction, let me say marriage is both a religious institution and a state institution which we are not suppose to have in this country. That marriage has become both of those is kind of an accident. On one hand not having gay marriage is a government sponsored religious decision against gays. It prevents gay partners from visiting each other in hospitals, getting insurance coverage, and getting tax benifits. On the other hand as previously stated government sponsored gay marriage is seen by many people in this country as a government endorsement of a religious value. Probably the best solution consistent with our separation of church and state doctrine is to pass civil unions for homosexuals and eventually turn all marriage licenses to civil union licenses, leaving marriage as an institution to the churches. This will take a long time, but I think we will ultimately do the right thing.
The successful passment of state constitutional amendments banning gay marriage can be seen more as a reaction against judicial activism more than against gay marriage, excluding Ohio of course where the amendment included civil unions. It even passed in Oregon for God's sake, hardly a bastion of right-wing thought or gay-haters. Just because people voted against gay marriage doesn't mean they hate gays. It doesn't mean they think gay partners shouldn't get to visit each other in the hospital. It doesn't mean they think gay partners shouldn't get insurance benifits. It doesn't mean they think gay partners shouldn't get tax benifits. Granted some people may hate gays, but I really doubt it's upwards of 60% of mid-west voters.
According to CNN, 22% of voters stated that "Moral Values" were their primary concern in the election. Of those, 79% voted for Bush.
Since when was George W. Bush the poster child for Moral Values?
I'm guessing judicial appointments were not an option on the exit poll. Kerry's vote against a ban on partial birth abortion, excluding when the life of the mother was in danger, was seen as an extreme pro-choice position. He voted against it because it did not protect the health of the mother. The reason it did not protect the health of the mother was because of concern over how courts would interpret the word health. There can be a spectrum of positions on the abortion issue and not just the all or nothing position some people have taken. The pro-choice at all points in the pregnancy position of the Democratic party is making them unacceptable in the South, Midwest, and Heartland. It is probably what cost the Senate Minority Leader his seat. It did not help Kerry that the gay marriage court decision came from his state. The decision was seen in large parts of this country as being based on judges' personal positions. It was seen as the judges redefining the meaning of the word marriage because it did not mean what they wanted it to. Recent news about the poor health of the Supreme Court Justice reminded a lot of people this president would appoint 3 or 4 Supreme Court justices, and Kerry was seen as someone who would appoint justices that people would find unacceptable.
11 of 11 states that had "define mariage" proposals on the ballot passed them, most by a landslide. Maybe I'm naive, but I learned something new about this country last night.
This can be seen as a reaction against judicial activism more than against gay marriage, excluding Ohio of course where the amendment included civil unions. It even passed in Oregon for God's sake, hardly a bastion of right-wing thought or gay-haters. Just because people voted against gay marriage doesn't mean they hate gays. It doesn't mean they think gay partners shouldn't get to visit each other in the hospital. It doesn't mean they think gay partners shouldn't get insurance benifits. It doesn't mean they think gay partners shouldn't get tax benifits. It means they want legislatures to write laws not judges. Granted some people may hate gays, but I really doubt it's upwards of 60% of mid-west voters.
Gay marriage is a difficult issue in this country because marriage is a religious institution and a state institution. We are not suppose to have those in this country and that marriage has become both of those is kind of an accident. On one hand not having gay marriage is a government sponsored religious decision against gays. It prevents gay partners from visiting each other in hospitals, getting insurance coverage, and getting tax benifits. On the other hand government sponsored gay marriage is seen by many people in this country as a government endorsement of a religious value. Probably the best solution consistent with our separation of church and state doctrine is to pass civil unions for homosexuals and eventually turn all marriage licenses to civil union licenses, leaving marriage as an institution to the churches. This will take a long time, but I think we will ultimately do the right thing. People in the middle of this country can be capable of nuance on cultaral issues as long as they are not looked down upon and treated as ignorant gay hating hicks.
I am from Texas. I go to church every week. I supported the Iraq War at the start for countless reasons. I voted for president Bush. President Bush has not been a very good president. He has not executed this war very well leaving many pro-war people with doubts. He has needlessly alienated many allies in the way in which he has spoken and conducted our diplomacy. The same thing could have been done differently. He has not been fiscally conservative. While I do not think it is
I'd like to hear what Americans think about results and exit polls for eastern states being published before polls in western states have closed.
In the rest of the democratic world, as far as I know, this is illegal. It seems to us that it goes against having a fair election. And yet in America it is normal practice. Why?
Because our goverment was created before such a thing was possible and momentum carries a lot of weight around here. I was pretty sure after the media called Florida for Gore in the 2000 election an hour before polls had closed in the western much more Republican part of the state, that we would have laws to stop it this time, but our attention was directed elsewhere in the insuing disaster that resulted. We did have a few hearings in Congress on the subject and the media promised to do really better this time around. I am really against the publishing of exit polls before the election is over in all states. It makes me feel good to know this election could come down to Hawaii which is 5 hours behind the Eastern Time Zone
Another Bush presidency combined with a Republican-controlled House and Senate will allow them to stack the deck with more hard-right, anti-freedom justices like Scalia and Thomas.
The House does not matter in regards to appointments. All presidential appointments are confirmed only by the upper house of Congress, the Senate. Most people think the Senate will stay in Republican hands, but it could go either way.
He told Colin Powell privately that France would not use its veto in the security council about 48 hours before announcing France would veto the resolution. We understand that ya'll didn't like us going to war and were not going to support us in any way, but we didn't think you would do anything to try to stop us. It really screwed over Blair who said he would not go to war without a security council resolution knowing we could probably get the votes for it. Other than that it's probably just anti-French sentament(sp?), which at times has been just a good ribbing haha time thing, like we do with jokes about Canada being our 51rst state or largest natioinal park, but now has turned pretty ugly against the French.
But I digress. From a business perspective, patent and copyright systems in the US is broken and are not working as intended. The efforts to force these broken systems upon the rest of the world (to protect american companies and interests) is not going down to well.
To be fair to us, we did have a perfectly fine copyright system until signed the Berne Convention and imported a European view of copyright. The patent system we broke ourselves.
Awhile back, Via released the specs to the CLE266 chipset, which is an on motherboard graphics chipset most commonly used on their mini-itx boards. They have also bought S3. A few months ago S3 released the DeltaChrome S4 and S8 in Europe and Asia, no North American release yet. They have claimed they are going to release open source linux drivers for the card at some point in the near future. The price point for the performance they are offering would be just about right with open drivers. Also they are releasing a version of the card called OmniChrome which has a tv tuner powered by the Techwell TW9905 which already has linux support. Here is a Techbits.ca review of the OmniChrome. If they do pony up the open drivers, an S3 graphics card will definitely be the next graphics card I buy. We'll see if it happens. I'm gonna go read the lkml thread the kernel trap article refers to now. Should be interesting stuff.
Gobolinux has directories named after programs and keeps all the program's files in a subdirectory named after the version of the program. Various symbolic link tricks are used to allow programs to see other programs' libraries and such. You can just rm -rf a program directory to remove the program as long as no other program depends on it. They include a script to determine a programs dependencies so running that script over all the programs and grepping the output to see if anything depends on a particular program is pretty easy. You can not move programs around like you can on the Mac because linux programs are not really designed that way. They internally refer to the location of other programs and even themselves in all sorts of ways. The only program I am aware of that can be moved like that is OpenOffice.org. There is another one, but I can not think of it right now.
As others have mentioned, the best cards with open drivers are based on ATI's R200 chipset. These cards include the Radeon 8500 and 9100, and FireGL 8700 and 8800. While the FireGL 8800 is probably fastest, it is also crazy expensive. The 9100 is a rebadged 8500 with different core and memory clock speeds. I have been told the 8500 should be faster, but have never seen any benchmark proving one to be faster than the other.
I am not sure how fast the ViaCLE266 is, but it does not matter since it is a chipset for motherboards, and I do not think it is available as a card. I read a review somewhere claiming it was decent, which given the time since the 8500's release may mean it is the roughly the same, worse, or better. It has totally open drivers.
S3's DeltaChrome (S4/S8) is suppose to get an open source driver released from S3. Also it has been claimed people who are not S3 have received the specs necessary to write drivers for the card. Via is S3's parent corporation, and these announcements were made at approximately the same time Via opensourced the CLE266 driver and the driver for their hardware mpeg decoder. DeltaChrome cards are not yet available in the United States. They were suppose to be available quite awhile back. They are available in Asia and Europe and have been for a few months now. Any DeltaChrome card (even the budget S4) would smoke an anceint Radeon 8500, but I do not know that I would wait forever for DeltaChrome boards and linux drivers to appear.
That's what primaries are for. And since very few people vote in them, your vote counts much more in choosing who the candidates are in the election than choosing which candidate wins the election. I am really tired of people complaining about the two choices we have now. You had the opportunity to determine what those choices are.
And those decisions never went against the partisan interests involved. Never.
The judge who first ruled did. He was a democratic judge and ruled for the republicans. He was later overturned by a partisan FL supreme court decision, which was later overturned by a partisan US supreme court decision. Not that it would have mattered. The Republican FL state legislature was going to award the electors to Bush.
4. Don't accuse Dems of trying to rig elections when you've got that gerrymandering mess in Texas. Redistricting 3 years after the last one is a pure political play to lock in power. Just because it wasn't illegal, doesn't make it ethical.
Redistricting is traditionally done by the legislature. The previous redistricting was done by the courts in Texas after the legislature failed to reach an agreement on the new districts. After the 2002 elections Republicans had the state legislature, the governors office, and both U.S. Senate seats, but the democrats had the majority of U.S. House seats. How do you think that happened? Gerrymandering mess indeed!
CNN, and other networks, on Election Night in 2000 were reporting live, real time events. It is very understandable why all the networks had trouble calling Florida's vote count.
Which is why of course, they should not have been doing it in the first place. Both Fox and CNN called the election in Florida for Gore an hour before the polls closed in the most Republican part of the state. As small as the margin was in that state, they had to know that calling it early would have an affect on the final results. Calling the election in that case was grossly irresponsible, and I have a hard time forgiving any of the major networks for it.
A google search for "President bush denomination" reveals some interesting information, most of it from the 2000 election. Thesethreelinks where the first to jump out to me as interesting. Bush was raised in Presbyterian and Episcopalian churches which are certainly not on the born again side of the christian theological spectrum. He had a conversion experience in 1985 when he quit drinking and has been an active United Methodist ever since. The term born-again Christian is more often associated with Baptist and non-denominational Baptist like groups than it is with United Methodist who tend to use the term conversion. President Bush is in disagreement with the official position of the United Methodists Church on many issues including but not limited to the death penalty, abortion, gays in the military, affirmitive action, and the 2nd amendment right to bear arms. The United Methodist Church allows and encourages a person's own consceince to determine what is right and thus has a membership with diverse views often in disagreement with the clergey and/or official heirarchy. They are not the sort of denomination that excumminicates or kicks people out for that sort of thing. Politics make strange bedfellows, and President Bush finds himself agreeing with the Baptist position on public policy issues more often than he does his own church and certainly uses Baptist rhetoric and speaking style. This however probably has more to due with the Bush's being Texan than being Christian. I am a Catholic Texan myself and many if not most of the United Methodist I know would probably agree with Bush on most of these positions. See for instance Hank Hill from King of the Hill who is also a United Methodist. I realize he is a cartoon, but he is a cartoon written by an actual Texan not someone from the "outside." The stereotypes and preconceived notions we have about ourselves, say a lot more about us and have a lot more truth to them than the stereotypes of outsiders, see excentric Texan oil barron billionare with big cowboy hat from the Simpsons who says things like "In Texas we got rid of the envirionment. Nobody seems to have missed it," and in the end does not beleive in protecting the environment as Lisa does but stops destroying it because he likes her character, style, actions, or some such thing, just as an excentric Texas oil-man billionare found in so many movies, shows, etc. would. Not that we find that particular stereotype to be negative, insulting, or the like, but it has no particular basis in reality or maybe it does and I just do not know many (read any), Texas oil-men billionares. As a fairly devout Catholic I know I should believe that capital punishment is wrong in a modern society that has the ability to easily imprison people who are a danger to society for the rest of their natural life, but as a Texan I really want those bastards to be killed. In the end fiscal conservitism wins out, and I decide we can imprison one murderer and two rapist or child molesters for life instead of sticking a needle in one murders arm. Drug users are rehabilitable and we should all take a page from of all places Alabama's book and sentence them to mandatory treatment. Their reoffender rate is quite low.
Relic released the source to homeworld. It's not an OSI or FSF approved license due to some non-commercial use and non-redistribution clauses, but who cares, close enough for our purposes right. Here are the patches to the linux port. Everything you need to know to get it working is there. Biggest bug is the lack up networking support. Have fun.:)
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EULA's were held to be enforcable by the Federal District court in St. Louis in the Blizzard v. BNETD case. The court ruled that BNETD did not have the right to reverse engineer the network protocol because the EULA prevented them from doing so. It seems crazy, but it's true. The eff is appealing to the 8th Circuit of Appeals.
It's not double standards. Previous to 9/11 I do not recall U.S. Television News ever showing dead bodies. The guy being run over in Tiananmen Square was shown live I'm told, but I don't recall them having rebroadcast it later. History programs would show bodies from the Holocaust and news programs may have done the same for other acts of genocide, but I don't clearly recall. I think papers would put dead bodies on the inside under certain circumstances. Showing dead bodies was a big American cultural taboo previous to 9/11. I've been told in Spanish countries they would show bodies all the time.
During and since 9/11, things have changed. They did show people jumping out of the buildings and falling to their death though they didn't show them hit. With the beheadings in Iraq, they would show them blindfolded and then basically tell people the rest was on the internet. When those American contractors bodies were hung from that bridge in Fallujah they showed it from a distance where the bodies could not be identified individually. Recently, before the tsunami, it seems they have been showing us bodies all the time, and I don't even remember whose. Three years ago I could not imagine the media showing us some of the images of tsunami victims they are showing us, and now I can not imagine the media not showing us some images of victims.
9/11 and subsequent events have changed the American media and people's idea of how tragic events should be covered. The American media still hasn't quite worked out how these sort of events should be covered, and that's why no one in that article gave anything remotely resembling a coherent response. They're making ad hoc decisions on a case by case basis on whether or not it is "necessary" to show bodies for viewers to understand the story.
As an American I am usually pretty sceptical, distrustful, and suspicious of our media and their intentions, but in this case, both the tsunamis specifically and showing dead bodies generally, I beleive the media is asking itself hard questions about when and under what circumstances they should show bodies, and struggling to come up with answers. In short it's not double standards, it's a changing standard.
The Social Security trustfund runs out of money in 2042. I was born in 1979 and reach retirement age (67) in 2046. Social Security starts paying out more money than Social Security taxes takes in in 2018 and the rest of the goverment will have to start paying back money it borrowed from Social Security under several (all?) Republican and Democrat administrations. It will be interesting to see if that happens. Medicaid and Medicare are even worse off fiscally. The Social Security debate isn't that these programs are a waste. It's that they have their own taxes (payroll taxes) by which they are funded, and if those taxes are not increased, benefits cut, or some other measure taken they will go bankrupt. These programs go bankrupt on their own with or without "useless defense programs and war".
I'm not sure when, but the alsa people finally did allow kernel level sound mixing (for applications that have native alsa support only). Speaking of difficult documentation, find dmix on that page.
I realize this is off-topic, but how is pf on netbsd coming along, and on freebsd for that matter? Is this the right site to be looking at? Does anyone have any experience with it? How stable and well does it run? It says pf on net still doesn't have altq integration. That's a shame because the altq documentation use to say to up the number of time slices the scheduler makes from 100 to 1000 times a second, which Open doesn't let you do. Are you still suppose to do that on Free and Net? For that matter how does pf's altq integration handle now on Open? Last time I tried it (long time ago) it wasn't recommended for people with an uplink as small as I had (128k) and did not work that well when I tried anyway, but it looks like the examples use that now.
I consider myself a pro-life extremist. Kerry's views on stem-cell research are not extremist. They are consistent with the views of the majority of Americans. 2/3rds of Americans support stem-cell research. I am against it, but even I have a bit of an internal struggle about it because it is so very early in human development when the fetuses are destroyed. And even I don't support the extreme way Bush bans federal funding so that universities that take any federal money can not perform stem-cell research even if they get the money for the stem-cell research and the lab it is done in from some other source.
A large percentage of people in this country see gay marriage as a government endorsement of a religious value and therefore a violation of the seperation of church and state. Before your head explodes over the obvious contradiction, let me say marriage is both a religious institution and a state institution which we are not suppose to have in this country. That marriage has become both of those is kind of an accident. On one hand not having gay marriage is a government sponsored religious decision against gays. It prevents gay partners from visiting each other in hospitals, getting insurance coverage, and getting tax benifits. On the other hand as previously stated government sponsored gay marriage is seen by many people in this country as a government endorsement of a religious value. Probably the best solution consistent with our separation of church and state doctrine is to pass civil unions for homosexuals and eventually turn all marriage licenses to civil union licenses, leaving marriage as an institution to the churches. This will take a long time, but I think we will ultimately do the right thing.
The successful passment of state constitutional amendments banning gay marriage can be seen more as a reaction against judicial activism more than against gay marriage, excluding Ohio of course where the amendment included civil unions. It even passed in Oregon for God's sake, hardly a bastion of right-wing thought or gay-haters. Just because people voted against gay marriage doesn't mean they hate gays. It doesn't mean they think gay partners shouldn't get to visit each other in the hospital. It doesn't mean they think gay partners shouldn't get insurance benifits. It doesn't mean they think gay partners shouldn't get tax benifits. Granted some people may hate gays, but I really doubt it's upwards of 60% of mid-west voters.
I'm guessing judicial appointments were not an option on the exit poll. Kerry's vote against a ban on partial birth abortion, excluding when the life of the mother was in danger, was seen as an extreme pro-choice position. He voted against it because it did not protect the health of the mother. The reason it did not protect the health of the mother was because of concern over how courts would interpret the word health. There can be a spectrum of positions on the abortion issue and not just the all or nothing position some people have taken. The pro-choice at all points in the pregnancy position of the Democratic party is making them unacceptable in the South, Midwest, and Heartland. It is probably what cost the Senate Minority Leader his seat. It did not help Kerry that the gay marriage court decision came from his state. The decision was seen in large parts of this country as being based on judges' personal positions. It was seen as the judges redefining the meaning of the word marriage because it did not mean what they wanted it to. Recent news about the poor health of the Supreme Court Justice reminded a lot of people this president would appoint 3 or 4 Supreme Court justices, and Kerry was seen as someone who would appoint justices that people would find unacceptable.
This can be seen as a reaction against judicial activism more than against gay marriage, excluding Ohio of course where the amendment included civil unions. It even passed in Oregon for God's sake, hardly a bastion of right-wing thought or gay-haters. Just because people voted against gay marriage doesn't mean they hate gays. It doesn't mean they think gay partners shouldn't get to visit each other in the hospital. It doesn't mean they think gay partners shouldn't get insurance benifits. It doesn't mean they think gay partners shouldn't get tax benifits. It means they want legislatures to write laws not judges. Granted some people may hate gays, but I really doubt it's upwards of 60% of mid-west voters.
Gay marriage is a difficult issue in this country because marriage is a religious institution and a state institution. We are not suppose to have those in this country and that marriage has become both of those is kind of an accident. On one hand not having gay marriage is a government sponsored religious decision against gays. It prevents gay partners from visiting each other in hospitals, getting insurance coverage, and getting tax benifits. On the other hand government sponsored gay marriage is seen by many people in this country as a government endorsement of a religious value. Probably the best solution consistent with our separation of church and state doctrine is to pass civil unions for homosexuals and eventually turn all marriage licenses to civil union licenses, leaving marriage as an institution to the churches. This will take a long time, but I think we will ultimately do the right thing. People in the middle of this country can be capable of nuance on cultaral issues as long as they are not looked down upon and treated as ignorant gay hating hicks.
I am from Texas. I go to church every week. I supported the Iraq War at the start for countless reasons. I voted for president Bush. President Bush has not been a very good president. He has not executed this war very well leaving many pro-war people with doubts. He has needlessly alienated many allies in the way in which he has spoken and conducted our diplomacy. The same thing could have been done differently. He has not been fiscally conservative. While I do not think it is
You didn't know this? They're called politicians. It happens all the time.
Because our goverment was created before such a thing was possible and momentum carries a lot of weight around here. I was pretty sure after the media called Florida for Gore in the 2000 election an hour before polls had closed in the western much more Republican part of the state, that we would have laws to stop it this time, but our attention was directed elsewhere in the insuing disaster that resulted. We did have a few hearings in Congress on the subject and the media promised to do really better this time around. I am really against the publishing of exit polls before the election is over in all states. It makes me feel good to know this election could come down to Hawaii which is 5 hours behind the Eastern Time Zone
The House does not matter in regards to appointments. All presidential appointments are confirmed only by the upper house of Congress, the Senate. Most people think the Senate will stay in Republican hands, but it could go either way.
No, this vote is for three or four of the judges who will decide the next election
He told Colin Powell privately that France would not use its veto in the security council about 48 hours before announcing France would veto the resolution. We understand that ya'll didn't like us going to war and were not going to support us in any way, but we didn't think you would do anything to try to stop us. It really screwed over Blair who said he would not go to war without a security council resolution knowing we could probably get the votes for it. Other than that it's probably just anti-French sentament(sp?), which at times has been just a good ribbing haha time thing, like we do with jokes about Canada being our 51rst state or largest natioinal park, but now has turned pretty ugly against the French.
To be fair to us, we did have a perfectly fine copyright system until signed the Berne Convention and imported a European view of copyright. The patent system we broke ourselves.
Awhile back, Via released the specs to the CLE266 chipset, which is an on motherboard graphics chipset most commonly used on their mini-itx boards. They have also bought S3. A few months ago S3 released the DeltaChrome S4 and S8 in Europe and Asia, no North American release yet. They have claimed they are going to release open source linux drivers for the card at some point in the near future. The price point for the performance they are offering would be just about right with open drivers. Also they are releasing a version of the card called OmniChrome which has a tv tuner powered by the Techwell TW9905 which already has linux support. Here is a Techbits.ca review of the OmniChrome. If they do pony up the open drivers, an S3 graphics card will definitely be the next graphics card I buy. We'll see if it happens. I'm gonna go read the lkml thread the kernel trap article refers to now. Should be interesting stuff.
Gobolinux has directories named after programs and keeps all the program's files in a subdirectory named after the version of the program. Various symbolic link tricks are used to allow programs to see other programs' libraries and such. You can just rm -rf a program directory to remove the program as long as no other program depends on it. They include a script to determine a programs dependencies so running that script over all the programs and grepping the output to see if anything depends on a particular program is pretty easy. You can not move programs around like you can on the Mac because linux programs are not really designed that way. They internally refer to the location of other programs and even themselves in all sorts of ways. The only program I am aware of that can be moved like that is OpenOffice.org. There is another one, but I can not think of it right now.
As others have mentioned, the best cards with open drivers are based on ATI's R200 chipset. These cards include the Radeon 8500 and 9100, and FireGL 8700 and 8800. While the FireGL 8800 is probably fastest, it is also crazy expensive. The 9100 is a rebadged 8500 with different core and memory clock speeds. I have been told the 8500 should be faster, but have never seen any benchmark proving one to be faster than the other.
I am not sure how fast the ViaCLE266 is, but it does not matter since it is a chipset for motherboards, and I do not think it is available as a card. I read a review somewhere claiming it was decent, which given the time since the 8500's release may mean it is the roughly the same, worse, or better. It has totally open drivers.
S3's DeltaChrome (S4/S8) is suppose to get an open source driver released from S3. Also it has been claimed people who are not S3 have received the specs necessary to write drivers for the card. Via is S3's parent corporation, and these announcements were made at approximately the same time Via opensourced the CLE266 driver and the driver for their hardware mpeg decoder. DeltaChrome cards are not yet available in the United States. They were suppose to be available quite awhile back. They are available in Asia and Europe and have been for a few months now. Any DeltaChrome card (even the budget S4) would smoke an anceint Radeon 8500, but I do not know that I would wait forever for DeltaChrome boards and linux drivers to appear.
I like the Electrical Engineers parody.
That's what primaries are for. And since very few people vote in them, your vote counts much more in choosing who the candidates are in the election than choosing which candidate wins the election. I am really tired of people complaining about the two choices we have now. You had the opportunity to determine what those choices are.
The judge who first ruled did. He was a democratic judge and ruled for the republicans. He was later overturned by a partisan FL supreme court decision, which was later overturned by a partisan US supreme court decision. Not that it would have mattered. The Republican FL state legislature was going to award the electors to Bush.
Redistricting is traditionally done by the legislature. The previous redistricting was done by the courts in Texas after the legislature failed to reach an agreement on the new districts. After the 2002 elections Republicans had the state legislature, the governors office, and both U.S. Senate seats, but the democrats had the majority of U.S. House seats. How do you think that happened? Gerrymandering mess indeed!
Which is why of course, they should not have been doing it in the first place. Both Fox and CNN called the election in Florida for Gore an hour before the polls closed in the most Republican part of the state. As small as the margin was in that state, they had to know that calling it early would have an affect on the final results. Calling the election in that case was grossly irresponsible, and I have a hard time forgiving any of the major networks for it.
A google search for "President bush denomination" reveals some interesting information, most of it from the 2000 election. These three links where the first to jump out to me as interesting.
Bush was raised in Presbyterian and Episcopalian churches which are certainly not on the born again side of the christian theological spectrum. He had a conversion experience in 1985 when he quit drinking and has been an active United Methodist ever since. The term born-again Christian is more often associated with Baptist and non-denominational Baptist like groups than it is with United Methodist who tend to use the term conversion. President Bush is in disagreement with the official position of the United Methodists Church on many issues including but not limited to the death penalty, abortion, gays in the military, affirmitive action, and the 2nd amendment right to bear arms. The United Methodist Church allows and encourages a person's own consceince to determine what is right and thus has a membership with diverse views often in disagreement with the clergey and/or official heirarchy. They are not the sort of denomination that excumminicates or kicks people out for that sort of thing.
Politics make strange bedfellows, and President Bush finds himself agreeing with the Baptist position on public policy issues more often than he does his own church and certainly uses Baptist rhetoric and speaking style. This however probably has more to due with the Bush's being Texan than being Christian. I am a Catholic Texan myself and many if not most of the United Methodist I know would probably agree with Bush on most of these positions. See for instance Hank Hill from King of the Hill who is also a United Methodist. I realize he is a cartoon, but he is a cartoon written by an actual Texan not someone from the "outside." The stereotypes and preconceived notions we have about ourselves, say a lot more about us and have a lot more truth to them than the stereotypes of outsiders, see excentric Texan oil barron billionare with big cowboy hat from the Simpsons who says things like "In Texas we got rid of the envirionment. Nobody seems to have missed it," and in the end does not beleive in protecting the environment as Lisa does but stops destroying it because he likes her character, style, actions, or some such thing, just as an excentric Texas oil-man billionare found in so many movies, shows, etc. would. Not that we find that particular stereotype to be negative, insulting, or the like, but it has no particular basis in reality or maybe it does and I just do not know many (read any), Texas oil-men billionares.
As a fairly devout Catholic I know I should believe that capital punishment is wrong in a modern society that has the ability to easily imprison people who are a danger to society for the rest of their natural life, but as a Texan I really want those bastards to be killed. In the end fiscal conservitism wins out, and I decide we can imprison one murderer and two rapist or child molesters for life instead of sticking a needle in one murders arm. Drug users are rehabilitable and we should all take a page from of all places Alabama's book and sentence them to mandatory treatment. Their reoffender rate is quite low.
Relic released the source to homeworld. It's not an OSI or FSF approved license due to some non-commercial use and non-redistribution clauses, but who cares, close enough for our purposes right. Here are the patches to the linux port. Everything you need to know to get it working is there. Biggest bug is the lack up networking support. Have fun. :)
Do you know if there is any chance of dri and x.org merging?