That quote is taken a bit out of context. Depending on how you read into it, he may actually be saying that he believes its his job to ensure freedoms such as free speech endure (which the ACLU is exercising.)
The whole quote is:
"I'm glad I live in a country where the ACLU can criticize me and vigorously debate the issues," Ashcroft says. "I consider it my job as attorney general to make sure that this and all our freedoms endure."
Sony has its own MMORPG -- Everquest. And they do ship it on their own notebooks and PCs. I do not see Sony putting another company's product (no matter the deals) in front of their own source of profit.
Gentoo supports this out-of-the-box (is that an appropriate phrase for gentoo really, heh?.) as well as the other major distros thanks to the aforementioned sgi.com XFS 2.4 kernel patch.
It is still great news to see this going into 2.5 -- 2.6 should be an excellent and well-evolved kernel.
Seems to be the best approach (short of actually talking face-to-face with them) to reach a representative.
I can remember once in high school where they 'make' us a write letter to our Representatives, Senators, Governor, etc. I actually received a response from my Rep about some educational issues / policies at the time. This was only a few years back (late 90s), so I can't imagine much as changed.
However, I've *never* gotten much (if any) response from email.
I think it shows that a well-written letter shows effort, and showing effort is an effective way to get across the message that 'you care.'
This doesn't really work. An adept fax-spammer is probably going to be wardialing for fax machine connections, so it would only be a (short) matter of time before the problem started again.
Plus, a lot of companies like to be able to publically publish their fax numbers...
Medicine is a poor example because in this category of products generic is usually *exactly* the same chemically and much cheaper; Brand names are worthless.
Your statement regarding the infrastructure already existing for the current cable and DSL providers points at one of the real problems -- telcos and cable cos are the only ones able to *easily* offer broadband because they own a monopoly on the right-of-way of lines in most regions in the US.
I would most definitely have an unfair and consumer-harmful monopoly over the trucking/shipping industry if I owned all the roads (and the right-of-way to use said roads) in any significant region of the US.
Actually, it could possibly be quite profitable for someone who had access to the DNS server to do such a thing as this. I would bet there's enough Mac users on the SWBell DSL network to find at least a few credit card numbers, addresses, names, ssn's, etc.
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That quote is taken a bit out of context. Depending on how you read into it, he may actually be saying that he believes its his job to ensure freedoms such as free speech endure (which the ACLU is exercising.)
The whole quote is:
I would consider FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD to be separate entries (not different versions of the same.)
Also, you forget QNX and AtheOS!
Sony has its own MMORPG -- Everquest. And they do ship it on their own notebooks and PCs. I do not see Sony putting another company's product (no matter the deals) in front of their own source of profit.
Gentoo supports this out-of-the-box (is that an appropriate phrase for gentoo really, heh?.) as well as the other major distros thanks to the aforementioned sgi.com XFS 2.4 kernel patch. It is still great news to see this going into 2.5 -- 2.6 should be an excellent and well-evolved kernel.
Seems to be the best approach (short of actually talking face-to-face with them) to reach a representative.
I can remember once in high school where they 'make' us a write letter to our Representatives, Senators, Governor, etc. I actually received a response from my Rep about some educational issues / policies at the time. This was only a few years back (late 90s), so I can't imagine much as changed.
However, I've *never* gotten much (if any) response from email.
I think it shows that a well-written letter shows effort, and showing effort is an effective way to get across the message that 'you care.'
Wow. I know what I want to do for a living now!
This doesn't really work. An adept fax-spammer is probably going to be wardialing for fax machine connections, so it would only be a (short) matter of time before the problem started again.
Plus, a lot of companies like to be able to publically publish their fax numbers...
Medicine is a poor example because in this category of products generic is usually *exactly* the same chemically and much cheaper; Brand names are worthless.
The summary of the article should read either 20 kilometers or 12 miles (not 12 kilometers) as the article mentions.
Sadly, the "textonly" page includes a jpg...so much for lynx!
Your statement regarding the infrastructure already existing for the current cable and DSL providers points at one of the real problems -- telcos and cable cos are the only ones able to *easily* offer broadband because they own a monopoly on the right-of-way of lines in most regions in the US.
This is one of the reasons for the New York appeals court opening up the option of bringing antitrust lawsuits against the baby bells (in particular Verizon aka BellAtlantic) for having an anticompetitive advantage over other broadband providers.
I would most definitely have an unfair and consumer-harmful monopoly over the trucking/shipping industry if I owned all the roads (and the right-of-way to use said roads) in any significant region of the US.
Actually, it could possibly be quite profitable for someone who had access to the DNS server to do such a thing as this. I would bet there's enough Mac users on the SWBell DSL network to find at least a few credit card numbers, addresses, names, ssn's, etc.