Yes! I agree! All you Republicans go out and vote for Ron Paul! Especially in the general election! That will show the establishment that they can't kick you around any more!
I wonder if the balance between the moral/ethical breach of compliance vs. pressure applied by the government is the same in this case. (Do we actually know how much pressure or threat, if any, was used to get the telecoms to cooperate?)
Well, by giving them immunity, you'll never know, will you?
In reality, the pressure was probably of the following form: If you cooperate with us , we'll give you lots of money; if you don't, you won't get another Government contract for the next 4-8 years (you do know that the taps started before 9-11, don't you?).
Remind me never to get a TV job in Europe. Especially if you gotta date guys.
Re:Pro-science can be bad too
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If you go by a strictly scientific viewpoint, such [eugenics programs] are defensible.
Actually, those who use this argument show an extremely poor understanding of biological science. In general, genetic diversity is a good thing. By taking our ideas about what are "good" traits within our current environment and breeding selectively for those, we open ourselves to biological disaster when the environment changes. Not to mention that these traits are usually chosen for aesthetic, and not particularly biologically utilitarian, purposes. That religious moralists always trot out this chestnut as an argument that "we need religion" shows both their biological ignorance and their desire to "Godwin" the debate.
Can you explain it in terms of other things that I'm already comfortable and familiar with?
Yeah. It's sort of like a new Windows OS release. It's almost entirely not unlike the last version and thus holds a high quantity of originality that can be marketed to users (or in your case, viewers).
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But what is the alternative?
Use Lisp and s-expressions.
Re:"How will you use XML in years to come?"
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Would you like to live in a world of S-expressions?
If you're giving me a choice... why yes, please! Where can I get one of these worlds you're talking about?
We already have that, in case you haven't noticed. We have Euros, Rubles, Yuan, Yen, and a half dozen or so other currencies that people can put their money into. In addition, we have several liquid cash equivalents, everything from stocks to bonds to mutual funds to commodity contracts to mortgage-backed securities. All of these, each day, every day, are priced with respect to each other and are worth whatever the market says they're worth. This includes the dollar (and gold itself, by the way). Wanting to couple the dollar to the price of gold would have no effect because the real value of the dollar is already coupled to gold as well as to the value of every other liquid asset in existence. If you want your currency to be gold, buy gold when you get paid and sell just enough each day to buy what you need. If you don't want to do that, you're just bitching about transaction costs, in which case, you really don't have enough gold to worry about anyway. Either that, or you're holding gold and want to see it spike when the dollar becomes linked to it, in which case you're looking for the government to declare a winner in convertible assets.
I think you must be confusing [McCain] with someone else.
Yeah, last I heard, Rush or Hannity or Ann Coulter or some other guy was saying he used to have sex with donkeys or Congress with Democrats, or something like that.
P.S. They said that Romney was once a governor on Massachusetts, too, or something. Plus, he was a Mormon, or moron, or something else. And don't get me started on what they said about Huckabee or Huckleberry, or whatever his name is. And that's why we all love Ron Paul!!!
I live in Oregon, so I don't have to choose until May!
My number one and two candidates have both left the race, so I'm already down to the bottom of the barrel. The good news is that the bottom of the Democratic Party's barrel is still an order of magnitude better than any of the Republican candidates out there, so I can vote for either of these candidates with an extremely clear conscience. There's not difference in policy between either and there are too many firsts in either candidate to have any particularly certain model of electability.
My plan is to wait until early May or so, see who seems ahead at that time and vote for that candidate (if neither are ahead, I'll flip a coin while filling out my ballot). And then I'll support and vote for whomever turns out to be the Democratic candidate in the general election. With any luck, I won't even have to decide, because I am really happy about voting for either of these candidates compared to any of their potential Republican rivals.
post a thoughtful comment about India's space exploration, maybe admiring their abilities and scholastic achievements...
Good God man, why? This is Slashdot, not The Journal of International Relations! Where else would we show off our subtle and sophisticated Western wit (or at least half of it)?
How about blaming Mormons for David Koresh and Wacko?
Well, you could do that, but seeing as the Branch Davidians were an offshoot of the Seventh Day Adventists, you might be a slight bit off target. I know that sometimes you can't tell your cults without a scorecard (especially here in America), but this was big enough that folks should be able to keep it straight.
... wanting to do away with the Federal Reserve and put the US on a gold/silver standard, a fine idea from the 1880's, that caused huge deflationary pressures and regular economic chaos, including such things as bank crashes (remember them?), boom/bust cycles that impoverished millions every few years, and regular economic depressions.
... wanting to do away with anti-trust laws.
... wanting to do away with the UN, WTO, and all other global NGOs.
... destroy Social Security and Medicare.
... remove evry vestige of a social safety net except private charity (since we all saw how well that worked before the New Deal).
... remove Civil Rights enforcement because "Government can't end bigotry" (maybe not, but it can sure as hell ensure that those who do pay a steep price for it).
... who thinks that the best answer to environmental issues is to "respect private property rights" because things like pollution can always be solved by the magic of the Free Market.
Yes, Ron Paul - the man who makes Mike Gravel look sane! Nutty as a Scientologist and just as practical! Waste your vote today!
I think the fallacy here is that they're probably counting technologies as "broadband" that shouldn't really be considered.
Yes - that's one thing they're doing. Anything above 200 Kbit/second is being counted as broadband. Another thing they're doing is aggregating data by zip code. So if there's any provider that delivers service at this blazingly fast speed, they count the entire zip code as having access. Great, eh?
In other words, you are buying into to all the anti-science propaganda.
Uh, no. Right now, we don't know what particular amino acids these bases will code for and how the proteins produced would fold. In general, we have no idea of the bioactivity of the proteins that would result from DNA using these new base pairs. But one thing is certain - we have not evolved alongside DNA having these base pair and, therefore, something unusual that comes from this DNA is not likely to have ever been seen by an organism on this planet. That raises the risk of this research significantly. Should the research, be stopped? No. But they had better be pretty damn careful.
After all, the ACLU claims to be in favor of "civil liberties" (it's in their name, after all), but then they're in favor of gun control, which goes against a very important civil liberty to many Americans.
The ACLU focuses mainly on First, Fourth, Eighth, and Fifteenth Amendment issues, something you'd know if you actually checked their web site. They also don't do much with Amendments Three, Seven, Nine, and Ten because, for the most part, those are mainly settled law these days. Sadly, with the current administration's actions, they've had to expand into the Fifth and Sixth Amendment actions, too.
They have explicitly not done anything with the Second, because (if you haven't noticed) there is already a rather large national organization taking that particular fight to the courts. In fact, the ACLU is neutral with respect to firearm control unless, for some reason, governments are being discriminatory in their enforcements of these laws and, in most of those cases, it usually results in reducing barriers for particular people obtaining firearms.
You'd have known this if you actually investigated the ACLU rather than echoing right-wing talking points, so you're either ignorant or being purposely dishonest. I don't bitch at the NRA for not defending my right to have my own SAM (for my protection, of course), so I don't see why you're bitching about the ACLU when they choose to let another organization take up the cause of a particular amendment. For the most part they've done a hell of a lot of good. And, if you check, you'll see that they've taken up a lot of cases against both Democratic and Republican run governments on the sides of both the right and the left. For someone who values "liberty" as much as you claim to, I'm surprised that you are bitching about an organization that is promoting rights in any form. In fact, from the vapid partisanship of your post, you seem to be more of a Republican Lib-wanabee rather than a real Libertarian.
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Yes! I agree! All you Republicans go out and vote for Ron Paul! Especially in the general election! That will show the establishment that they can't kick you around any more!
Well, by giving them immunity, you'll never know, will you?
In reality, the pressure was probably of the following form: If you cooperate with us , we'll give you lots of money; if you don't, you won't get another Government contract for the next 4-8 years (you do know that the taps started before 9-11, don't you?).
Remind me never to get a TV job in Europe. Especially if you gotta date guys.
Actually, those who use this argument show an extremely poor understanding of biological science. In general, genetic diversity is a good thing. By taking our ideas about what are "good" traits within our current environment and breeding selectively for those, we open ourselves to biological disaster when the environment changes. Not to mention that these traits are usually chosen for aesthetic, and not particularly biologically utilitarian, purposes. That religious moralists always trot out this chestnut as an argument that "we need religion" shows both their biological ignorance and their desire to "Godwin" the debate.
Don't worry, the press is fair and balanced - if she or Obama farts, they'll talk about that, too.
... for foisting XML on the world.
It was the code name for Red Hat 9, released on Mrch 31, 2003.
Yeah. It's sort of like a new Windows OS release. It's almost entirely not unlike the last version and thus holds a high quantity of originality that can be marketed to users (or in your case, viewers).
Use Lisp and s-expressions.
If you're giving me a choice... why yes, please! Where can I get one of these worlds you're talking about?
I think you have underestimated the "firepower of this FULLY ARMED and OPERATIONAL battle station!" Or nukes... Or other things we got...
We already have that, in case you haven't noticed. We have Euros, Rubles, Yuan, Yen, and a half dozen or so other currencies that people can put their money into. In addition, we have several liquid cash equivalents, everything from stocks to bonds to mutual funds to commodity contracts to mortgage-backed securities. All of these, each day, every day, are priced with respect to each other and are worth whatever the market says they're worth. This includes the dollar (and gold itself, by the way). Wanting to couple the dollar to the price of gold would have no effect because the real value of the dollar is already coupled to gold as well as to the value of every other liquid asset in existence. If you want your currency to be gold, buy gold when you get paid and sell just enough each day to buy what you need. If you don't want to do that, you're just bitching about transaction costs, in which case, you really don't have enough gold to worry about anyway. Either that, or you're holding gold and want to see it spike when the dollar becomes linked to it, in which case you're looking for the government to declare a winner in convertible assets.
Yeah, last I heard, Rush or Hannity or Ann Coulter or some other guy was saying he used to have sex with donkeys or Congress with Democrats, or something like that.
P.S. They said that Romney was once a governor on Massachusetts, too, or something. Plus, he was a Mormon, or moron, or something else. And don't get me started on what they said about Huckabee or Huckleberry, or whatever his name is. And that's why we all love Ron Paul!!!
My number one and two candidates have both left the race, so I'm already down to the bottom of the barrel. The good news is that the bottom of the Democratic Party's barrel is still an order of magnitude better than any of the Republican candidates out there, so I can vote for either of these candidates with an extremely clear conscience. There's not difference in policy between either and there are too many firsts in either candidate to have any particularly certain model of electability.
My plan is to wait until early May or so, see who seems ahead at that time and vote for that candidate (if neither are ahead, I'll flip a coin while filling out my ballot). And then I'll support and vote for whomever turns out to be the Democratic candidate in the general election. With any luck, I won't even have to decide, because I am really happy about voting for either of these candidates compared to any of their potential Republican rivals.
Good God man, why? This is Slashdot, not The Journal of International Relations! Where else would we show off our subtle and sophisticated Western wit (or at least half of it)?
Well, you could do that, but seeing as the Branch Davidians were an offshoot of the Seventh Day Adventists, you might be a slight bit off target. I know that sometimes you can't tell your cults without a scorecard (especially here in America), but this was big enough that folks should be able to keep it straight.
... wanting to do away with the Federal Reserve and put the US on a gold/silver standard, a fine idea from the 1880's, that caused huge deflationary pressures and regular economic chaos, including such things as bank crashes (remember them?), boom/bust cycles that impoverished millions every few years, and regular economic depressions.
... wanting to do away with anti-trust laws.
... wanting to do away with the UN, WTO, and all other global NGOs.
... destroy Social Security and Medicare.
... remove evry vestige of a social safety net except private charity (since we all saw how well that worked before the New Deal).
... remove Civil Rights enforcement because "Government can't end bigotry" (maybe not, but it can sure as hell ensure that those who do pay a steep price for it).
... who thinks that the best answer to environmental issues is to "respect private property rights" because things like pollution can always be solved by the magic of the Free Market.
Yes, Ron Paul - the man who makes Mike Gravel look sane! Nutty as a Scientologist and just as practical! Waste your vote today!
... of a Slashdot Ron Paul supporter:
Ron Paul! Ron Paul! Ron Paul!
ThankyouI'llbehereallweek! Trytheveal!
Yes - that's one thing they're doing. Anything above 200 Kbit/second is being counted as broadband. Another thing they're doing is aggregating data by zip code. So if there's any provider that delivers service at this blazingly fast speed, they count the entire zip code as having access. Great, eh?
You'll have to do it from the ground because Google Maps will only show you the ones they want you to see.
Uh, no. Right now, we don't know what particular amino acids these bases will code for and how the proteins produced would fold. In general, we have no idea of the bioactivity of the proteins that would result from DNA using these new base pairs. But one thing is certain - we have not evolved alongside DNA having these base pair and, therefore, something unusual that comes from this DNA is not likely to have ever been seen by an organism on this planet. That raises the risk of this research significantly. Should the research, be stopped? No. But they had better be pretty damn careful.
Well, I think that Larry Craig learned a lot in that airport restroom!
The ACLU focuses mainly on First, Fourth, Eighth, and Fifteenth Amendment issues, something you'd know if you actually checked their web site. They also don't do much with Amendments Three, Seven, Nine, and Ten because, for the most part, those are mainly settled law these days. Sadly, with the current administration's actions, they've had to expand into the Fifth and Sixth Amendment actions, too.
They have explicitly not done anything with the Second, because (if you haven't noticed) there is already a rather large national organization taking that particular fight to the courts. In fact, the ACLU is neutral with respect to firearm control unless, for some reason, governments are being discriminatory in their enforcements of these laws and, in most of those cases, it usually results in reducing barriers for particular people obtaining firearms.
You'd have known this if you actually investigated the ACLU rather than echoing right-wing talking points, so you're either ignorant or being purposely dishonest. I don't bitch at the NRA for not defending my right to have my own SAM (for my protection, of course), so I don't see why you're bitching about the ACLU when they choose to let another organization take up the cause of a particular amendment. For the most part they've done a hell of a lot of good. And, if you check, you'll see that they've taken up a lot of cases against both Democratic and Republican run governments on the sides of both the right and the left. For someone who values "liberty" as much as you claim to, I'm surprised that you are bitching about an organization that is promoting rights in any form. In fact, from the vapid partisanship of your post, you seem to be more of a Republican Lib-wanabee rather than a real Libertarian.
So you're saying that it's a pretty easy choice between Open Source and the alternative?
Yeah! Instead we find them prosecute and find them guilty and then they get pardoned! Oh wait...