Also, will the vending machine have to be over 21 to sell alcohol?
They'll probably use something similar to the new cigarette vending machines featuring computer generated personalities that interact with the user.
When I saw this on the Daily Show, I thought it was a joke. The "black guy" personality is a horribly embarassing stereotype. He'd give Jar Jar a run for his money.
"The newspapers' review also discovered that canvassing boards in Palm Beach and Broward counties threw out hundreds of ballots that had marks that were no different from ballots deemed to be valid."
"The papers concluded that Gore would be in the White House today if those ballots had been counted."
You were saying what about people reading more?
What this article does a good job of hiding is that out of the 11 manual count scenarios(differing standards for chads and whatnot), Gore wins in 9 of them. The 2 that Bush wins, and that the media focused nearly exclusively on, required that only part of the state be manually counted.
Oh, and then we have another outright lie from Racciott.
"He won the first count, then the recount, then the manual recounts, and was declared the victor this time by the media."
The manual recounts were never carried out thanks to the USSC. In addition, many Florida counties never carried out the mandatory recount. And I've already addressed the recount bit here. Sorry, but repeating that little tagline over and over doesn't make it true.
Being able to recognize that the world isn't strictly black and white, right and wrong, good and evil is not ignorance.
Which is funny because your original post made just that distinction. "You have nothing to fear from losing your civil liberties as long as you're not one of *those* people."
First, those people were bonifide terrorists.
Then it was any non-citizen with a visa violation.
Then it was any citizen accused of terrorism.
Now it's any citizen *suspected* of terrorism.
Soon it'll be "marginal" political organizations. Then a more mainstream one like Greenpeace. Next thing you know, the "PATRIOT" Act will be used to harass members of opposing political parties.
I hate to use the slippery slope argument, but it's hard not to when we're sliding down headfirst, eyes closed.
At my current job, I've developed a reputation as guru with Microsoft Excel. I don't have encyclopedic knowledge of everything in Excel. Most times when someone has a problem and asks me to help, I don't know the answer.
BUT I've used Excel enough to know how things are laid out and I'm able to find the answer within a minute or two. It's the same with a lot of problems.
The funny thing is that my job is to write queries in SQL and support a Domino database... but the bulk of the acclaim I get in my job is related to what I've done in Excel.
The amazing thing is that it really isn't that much. Read the section on the FAQ. It looks like some $25,000 in expenses.
A more urban co-op could probably avoid half of those costs. ($5k microwave transmittors, $5k DSLAM that can be bought for $1k, $2k to bury lines, etc)
Get some volunteer lawyers and technies with a budget and you can probably do fundraising for whatever money you need. $15 grand to set up a community-co-op isn't that much.
Let's ask Vint Cerf: "While it is not accurate to say that VP Gore invented Internet, he has played a powerful role in policy terms that has supported its continued growth and application, for which we should be thankful."
(Remember, only the Republican party and the Corporate media says Gore "invented the Internet.")
(now Senator) Maria Cantwell's campaign against (then Senator) Slade Gorton.
Her campaign found this absolutely goofy ass picture on Slade's website. So they deep linked to the picture on the front page as part of some bit about Slade's environmental record.
When Slade's campaign first noticed it, his campaign manager first claimed copyright violation and then claimed Maria's people had hacked Slade's website.
Eventually, the technical people at Slade's campaign caught on and replaced the goofy image with an "Elect Slade Gorton" type graphic that invited people to go to his official website.
Maria's campaign removed the deep link and that was the end of the matter.
I have Win98 running on an older box on our home network serving as a glorified file server. It's just sitting at the password prompt. I've stripped off just about everything I can from the machine and still have it run Win98.
And it'll lock up. Not as much lately, but that's probably because we haven't been accessing the hard drive on it as much lately. I keep meaning to find some ultra-basic OS to run on it but I haven't had the time or the energy.
My new computer which has Windows XP is much much more reliable but I have to reboot it at least once a day, not because it locked up/BSOD'd(though I sometimes get that) but because stuff will stop working. Sound will become staticky(Yes I have updated drivers) in games, web browsing will stop working(both IE and mozilla) after a while though other net apps will be working fine. When I was still on dial-up, if I dialed in after disconnecting, the connection would simply not work until I rebooted.
There's also the debacle with Morrowind. The CD copy protection program kept running even after the program started and significantly impaired game performance. Pirates using a no-CD patch were getting a better experience than paying customers.
When Bethseda issued their patch, they made it so that it would patch the no-CD patched version as well because so many people were using it to get around the performance issues.
One interesting point in the article - one mailer supposedly had statistics showing that 70% of their e-mails were opened. Well, that means they were using webbugs - proof that everyone should use mailer agents that either can disable network access or refuse to display HTML.
Why do I suspect that they included Outlook's preview pane in their definition of "opened"?
I couldn't think out any reason to buy such a crippled (and expensive probably also) computer except forcing it by very restrictive law.
There you have it. You simply won't have a choice. All the major computer manufacturers will be on board with only producing Pd hardware and hte major software manufacturers will be on board with only writing software for Pd.
Want to play the latest, greatest games on your PC? You'll need a Pd compliant system to play it on.
Want the newest computer system? You'll have to buy Pd.
Want to upgrade your old non-Pd-compliant system? Too bad. They don't make parts for it anymore.
Sure, there'll be a used-PC market for a while, but eventually, the components will wear out and you'll have little choice but to go with Pd. And there might be a hanful of non-Pd computr manufacturers... but how many people will buy them? All the Mac and Linux users?
Microsoft will still control 95% of the market, which is plenty enough. By that time, they might be able to pay Congress to pass laws banning non-Pd compliant systems to nail that last 5%. Because, obviously, only hackers, pirates and terrorists would want to use a non-Pd system.
I guess EULAs just need to be challenged in court- although i would suspect that any challenge that begins to hold water would be settled, along with an NDA.
They'll just be developed in other countries. You'll be able to import them, somehow.
Only terrorists would do that. You're not a terrorist are you? Then why are you advocating a crminal enterprise that can only aid and abet terrorists? I've got my eye on you, boy.
From now on, if you ever go talk to your terrorist friends, I'm going to know. Then we're going to hold a nice secret military tribunal for you and the rest of your terrorist organization. Don't try to complain about being mistreated; Only the guilty complain about "civil liberties" being "violated." Don't you get it, boy? We're at war with the terrorists and you're either on our side or their side. And it looks more and more like you're on the side of the terrorists.
Now, so far, we still have to have such outdated notions like "evidence" when it comes to putting terrorists like you away. For now. You and your terrorist buddies won't be able to hide being the Constitution for much longer.
Read the news. The Federal Government just made doing what the CEOs of Enron et al did a federal offense, meaning real jail time.
Another chump fooled by "reform."
You can double, triple, quadruple, quintuple or googleplex the sentances for corporate fraud all you want, but it won't make a difference.
This fraud isn't perpetuating because there's some revolving door at the country club prison where corporate executives get caught, do a few months of time and get released only to do it again.
THEY SIMPLY DON'T GET CAUGHT. THEY DON'T GET PROSECUTED. THEY DON'T GET CONVICTED.
And the "reform" bill did NOTHING to change any of that.
If you believe Monsanto's claims that they'll "adapt" their patent enforcement policies to "local traditions", I've got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
By bombing the hell out of the previous regime. There's no question that Karzai is friendly to the US. So there you have it: the US installed a US-friendly regime in Afghanistan.
As for the "election"... If there was a real chance that an unfriendly leader would be elected(ala Vietnam), we would've intervened in some fashion to prevent it. I don't recall there being much in the way of credible alternative to Karzai.
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Johnny! Why aren't you say the pledge?
Sorry, Ms. Cuthbert, I'm having a BSOD at the moment.
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You have obviously never voted. The long wait in line is already bad enough.
I've voted plenty of times in many different counties. I've never had to wait.
If you have long lines, take it up with your county election supervisor.
Also, will the vending machine have to be over 21 to sell alcohol?
They'll probably use something similar to the new cigarette vending machines featuring computer generated personalities that interact with the user.
When I saw this on the Daily Show, I thought it was a joke. The "black guy" personality is a horribly embarassing stereotype. He'd give Jar Jar a run for his money.
"The newspapers' review also discovered that canvassing boards in Palm Beach and Broward counties threw out hundreds of ballots that had marks that were no different from ballots deemed to be valid."
"The papers concluded that Gore would be in the White House today if those ballots had been counted."
You were saying what about people reading more?
What this article does a good job of hiding is that out of the 11 manual count scenarios(differing standards for chads and whatnot), Gore wins in 9 of them. The 2 that Bush wins, and that the media focused nearly exclusively on, required that only part of the state be manually counted.
Oh, and then we have another outright lie from Racciott.
"He won the first count, then the recount, then the manual recounts, and was declared the victor this time by the media."
The manual recounts were never carried out thanks to the USSC. In addition, many Florida counties never carried out the mandatory recount. And I've already addressed the recount bit here. Sorry, but repeating that little tagline over and over doesn't make it true.
Maybe not an obnoxious Clippy offering to "help" someone vote for President but just information buttons.
Not sure about an intiative? Click here to the entire text of it along with submitted Pro/Con statements.
Who are these candidates? Click here to view statements from their campaigns.
I don't see any reasons why the electronic voting machines shouldn't be able to include *already existing* information from the voter's guide.
Being able to recognize that the world isn't strictly black and white, right and wrong, good and evil is not ignorance.
Which is funny because your original post made just that distinction. "You have nothing to fear from losing your civil liberties as long as you're not one of *those* people."
First, those people were bonifide terrorists.
Then it was any non-citizen with a visa violation.
Then it was any citizen accused of terrorism.
Now it's any citizen *suspected* of terrorism.
Soon it'll be "marginal" political organizations. Then a more mainstream one like Greenpeace. Next thing you know, the "PATRIOT" Act will be used to harass members of opposing political parties.
I hate to use the slippery slope argument, but it's hard not to when we're sliding down headfirst, eyes closed.
Exactly.
At my current job, I've developed a reputation as guru with Microsoft Excel. I don't have encyclopedic knowledge of everything in Excel. Most times when someone has a problem and asks me to help, I don't know the answer.
BUT I've used Excel enough to know how things are laid out and I'm able to find the answer within a minute or two. It's the same with a lot of problems.
The funny thing is that my job is to write queries in SQL and support a Domino database... but the bulk of the acclaim I get in my job is related to what I've done in Excel.
The amazing thing is that it really isn't that much. Read the section on the FAQ. It looks like some $25,000 in expenses.
A more urban co-op could probably avoid half of those costs. ($5k microwave transmittors, $5k DSLAM that can be bought for $1k, $2k to bury lines, etc)
Get some volunteer lawyers and technies with a budget and you can probably do fundraising for whatever money you need. $15 grand to set up a community-co-op isn't that much.
Let's ask Vint Cerf:
"While it is not accurate to say that VP Gore invented Internet, he has played a powerful role in policy terms that has supported its continued growth and application, for which we should be thankful."
(Remember, only the Republican party and the Corporate media says Gore "invented the Internet.")
(now Senator) Maria Cantwell's campaign against (then Senator) Slade Gorton.
Her campaign found this absolutely goofy ass picture on Slade's website. So they deep linked to the picture on the front page as part of some bit about Slade's environmental record.
When Slade's campaign first noticed it, his campaign manager first claimed copyright violation and then claimed Maria's people had hacked Slade's website.
Eventually, the technical people at Slade's campaign caught on and replaced the goofy image with an "Elect Slade Gorton" type graphic that invited people to go to his official website.
Maria's campaign removed the deep link and that was the end of the matter.
I have Win98 running on an older box on our home network serving as a glorified file server. It's just sitting at the password prompt. I've stripped off just about everything I can from the machine and still have it run Win98.
And it'll lock up. Not as much lately, but that's probably because we haven't been accessing the hard drive on it as much lately. I keep meaning to find some ultra-basic OS to run on it but I haven't had the time or the energy.
My new computer which has Windows XP is much much more reliable but I have to reboot it at least once a day, not because it locked up/BSOD'd(though I sometimes get that) but because stuff will stop working. Sound will become staticky(Yes I have updated drivers) in games, web browsing will stop working(both IE and mozilla) after a while though other net apps will be working fine. When I was still on dial-up, if I dialed in after disconnecting, the connection would simply not work until I rebooted.
There's also the debacle with Morrowind. The CD copy protection program kept running even after the program started and significantly impaired game performance. Pirates using a no-CD patch were getting a better experience than paying customers.
When Bethseda issued their patch, they made it so that it would patch the no-CD patched version as well because so many people were using it to get around the performance issues.
Oh, I fully expect them to *try* to cut down the apple tree.
I just didn't expect the *owner* of the apple tree, the NSA, to *let* them cut it down.
One interesting point in the article - one mailer supposedly had statistics showing that 70% of their e-mails were opened. Well, that means they were using webbugs - proof that everyone should use mailer agents that either can disable network access or refuse to display HTML.
Why do I suspect that they included Outlook's preview pane in their definition of "opened"?
the next time some redheck jarhead incoherently screams "Love it or leave it" as a response to any argument, I may have to take him up on that offer.
I couldn't think out any reason to buy such a crippled (and expensive probably also) computer except forcing it by very restrictive law.
There you have it. You simply won't have a choice. All the major computer manufacturers will be on board with only producing Pd hardware and hte major software manufacturers will be on board with only writing software for Pd.
Want to play the latest, greatest games on your PC? You'll need a Pd compliant system to play it on.
Want the newest computer system? You'll have to buy Pd.
Want to upgrade your old non-Pd-compliant system? Too bad. They don't make parts for it anymore.
Sure, there'll be a used-PC market for a while, but eventually, the components will wear out and you'll have little choice but to go with Pd. And there might be a hanful of non-Pd computr manufacturers... but how many people will buy them? All the Mac and Linux users?
Microsoft will still control 95% of the market, which is plenty enough. By that time, they might be able to pay Congress to pass laws banning non-Pd compliant systems to nail that last 5%. Because, obviously, only hackers, pirates and terrorists would want to use a non-Pd system.
I guess EULAs just need to be challenged in court- although i would suspect that any challenge that begins to hold water would be settled, along with an NDA.
They can only settle if *you* agree to settle.
They'll just be developed in other countries. You'll be able to import them, somehow.
Only terrorists would do that. You're not a terrorist are you? Then why are you advocating a crminal enterprise that can only aid and abet terrorists? I've got my eye on you, boy.
From now on, if you ever go talk to your terrorist friends, I'm going to know. Then we're going to hold a nice secret military tribunal for you and the rest of your terrorist organization. Don't try to complain about being mistreated; Only the guilty complain about "civil liberties" being "violated." Don't you get it, boy? We're at war with the terrorists and you're either on our side or their side. And it looks more and more like you're on the side of the terrorists.
Now, so far, we still have to have such outdated notions like "evidence" when it comes to putting terrorists like you away. For now. You and your terrorist buddies won't be able to hide being the Constitution for much longer.
Read the news. The Federal Government just made doing what the CEOs of Enron et al did a federal offense, meaning real jail time.
Another chump fooled by "reform."
You can double, triple, quadruple, quintuple or googleplex the sentances for corporate fraud all you want, but it won't make a difference.
This fraud isn't perpetuating because there's some revolving door at the country club prison where corporate executives get caught, do a few months of time and get released only to do it again.
THEY SIMPLY DON'T GET CAUGHT. THEY DON'T GET PROSECUTED. THEY DON'T GET CONVICTED.
And the "reform" bill did NOTHING to change any of that.
If you believe Monsanto's claims that they'll "adapt" their patent enforcement policies to "local traditions", I've got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
A friend of mine started a parody blog of the blogs that overwrought, overdramatic teens sometimes write. A soap opera in blog format so to speak.
Most people think blogs are uninteresting snippets of uninteresting people. Why not invent an interesting person?
Slashtoasted?
If our Corporate Government keeps up this pace, it'll be time for our own boston tea party, Internet-style.
that a virii could hack a MSN/WebTV unit *and* propagate itself to other MSN/WebTV users.
Microsoft advises affected customers to delete the email and call 1-800-469-3288.
Suggestion for next iteration of virus: dial this number instead.
Exactly how did we do that?
By bombing the hell out of the previous regime. There's no question that Karzai is friendly to the US. So there you have it: the US installed a US-friendly regime in Afghanistan.
As for the "election"... If there was a real chance that an unfriendly leader would be elected(ala Vietnam), we would've intervened in some fashion to prevent it. I don't recall there being much in the way of credible alternative to Karzai.
Johnny! Why aren't you say the pledge?
Sorry, Ms. Cuthbert, I'm having a BSOD at the moment.