Bush never says ANYTHING bad! He always has SOMEONE ELSE say it FOR him! Look at the Swift Boat veterans, a hatchet job devoid of truth if there ever was one! Yet Bush has "plausible deniability".
WHAT A CROCK OF SHIT!!!
THEY (and others) do has dirty work FOR him. In some ways, Bush is like a mafia Dom. He gives the orders, and others get their hands dirty doing his bidding while his hands stay completely clean!
The Sempron might be a budget CPU, but Frys
practically GIVES them away! Yesterday, I bought an Elitegroup K7VTA3 motherboard and a 2.4 gig boxed Sempron (with fan). The cost? 60 bucks for BOTH of them!
Couple this with an 18 dollar 60 gig drive from Office Depot (earlier this week), 512 Megs of DDR memory for 60 bucks (Frys), a 20 dollar case/PS, a 25 dollar video card, a 20 dollar CD burner, a free copy of Linspire (Lindows), and Open Office.org and you've got one hell of a computer for well under 200 bucks!
True, it wouldn't satisfy 'bleeding edge' people, but I'll wager that it would work just fine for the other 99.75% of us out there.....
Burk Technology used to market a 900 meg unlicensed 1 watt duplex tranceiver with a 115.2k max throughput. Using two five element yagis and 100 feet of 9913 coax on each end (an FCC Part 15 approved package sold by Burk), I ran a 100% reliable line of sight data link between two mountain tops 28 miles apart.
Actually, I was able to lower the power down to 100 Mw (.1 watt) before the link started to fade.
All in all, a cheap solution to control an FM transmitter atop a mountain where no phone service was available.
I pulled it out of a trash can, actually, It needed a flyback transformer, which cost something like 100 bucks at the time. Fortunately, my dad had a close friend that owned a TV repair shop and he was able to use one from a more common TV set (I think it was an RCA). The picture was pretty good. Mine had an analog clock on the right side that could turn the TV on (an alarm TV!). The screen rotated so you culd see it from anywhere in the room.
Alas, when my family moved when I was 15, it stayed and likely wound up in a landfill.
A truly stunning TV...As a 11 year old I didn't appreciate it fully though.
"You win some, and some get stolen," Rep. C.L. Butch Otter, R-Idaho, a sponsor of the defeated provision and one of Congress' more conservative members, told a reporter.
The republican party of today will do whatever is necessary to get what they want! Bush didn't carry Florida? We'll fix that...just give us a few days. Want an oppressive law passed? No problem - just print it out in the middle of the night. Want to invade a country? No problem - just make claims that they sponsor terrorism.
In fact...let's use people's FEARS against them! After all, if you make people scared, you can control them!
The republican party of today makes me want to puke! Even their own conservative members are sick of them!
Did any of you notice how they began trashing Edwards mere minutes after Kerry asked him to be VP? Their campaign has been 100% negative. What really made me laugh though was two things that Bush said: The first one was to chide Edwards about his lack of International experience. Seems to me that he has more then BUSH HAD when he was running for President! The second thing was about his comments comparing Edwards with Cheney. Bush said Cheney was ready to be "a heartbeat away from the Presidency". If I had been THAT reporter, I would have followed up with: "Well, at least Edwards' heart BEATS properly"!! Seriously though, shouldn't Cheney's constant heart problems, angioplasties, etc. be an issue?
Finally, let's not forget about yesterday's unspecific terrorism warning du jour, where Al Quaida is going to try and svcrew up our election. I see it as more fear mongering by the incumbents.
Am I wrong?
"Vietnam and China had the world's highest rates, with pirated versions accounting for 92 percent of all computer software installed in each country, followed by the Ukraine with 91 percent, Indonesia at 88 percent, and Zimbabwe and Russia with 87 percent each."
Software piracy in these countries is NOT done with p2p programs, it's done with CD's and DVD's! The reason piracy is so rampant there is that the burners and medium has become really cheap!
Not to mention that with hardware costs dropping in these countries, more people have access to computers, all of which need software to run.
The one BIG FLAW in all these arguements is this:
How many of the people who steal software/music/movies would have actually bought it/them?
Until this question is accurately answered (hint: it's not even CLOSE to 100% as the BSA, RIAA and MPA would have you believe), the debate on p2p will always be an invalid one, and the laws proposed and/or passed to "protect chldren" from the rampant dangers of copyright infringement will always be suspect.
True conservatives DO want Govt. out of peoples' lives as much as possible. Peoblem is, they represent the minority of the republican party today. The majority are what I call NEO Conservatives. These people, mostly right wingers WANT the government to intrude into its citizens' lives - as long as it's pushingg THEIR dogma upon them!!
For example, look at Pat Buchanan. He's really upset at what his party has become. A true conservative would be, because they want Govt. OUT of people's lives. I had thought that John McCain was a true conservative too, but after I saw him drop to his knees and blow G.W. Bush last week, I write him off as a simple opportunist.
Watch out about doing the extraordinary!Otherwise, it become ordinary, then expected....
If you're always pulling rabbits out of hats for your employer, instead of appreciating it, they will begin to EXPECT it from you. Then the one time you CAN'T, you will be PUNISHED!
Don't let the extraordinary become ordinary!
I have a friend who swears that a: "Planned outage" once in a while can make them appreciate you more....
I saw that you wish to make all P2P applications illegal. Indeed, your quote said:
"It is illegal and immoral to induce or encourage children to commit crimes,"
I have a request, Senator Hatch. Instead of making software programs, illegal can we make GUNS illegal? After all, it's been proven time after time that guns: "Induce or encourage children to kill each other" (my quote). To me, keeping kids alive is MUCH MORE IMPORTANT then keeping them from downloading the latest Britney Spears single off the Internet! Of course, I suppose if you let kids kill each other, then they can't download things - Right?
Perhaps this is your logic in trying to 'protect' kids from the wrath of the RIAA, while supporting the guns that they use to kill each other. If this is indeed the case, then perhaps you should encourage the RIAA and MPAA to distribute guns to children.
Of course, what I've just typed is 100% absurd, but no more so then your proposal to make p2p programs illegal. Not only is your proposed law absurd, but it also is quite likely unconstitutional. See, we have a Supreme Court in this country, which in the "Betamax" decision many years ago declared that techology that can be used for both illegal and legal puproses cannot be banned. Again, the MPAA was fighting Sony in this case to stop the VCR from existing. Ironically, the VCR (via movie rentals on tape) became one of their biggest profit centers.
Of course, if you're truly hell bent on shredding everyone's Constitutional rights, while you're at it, it would help the book industry by banning the copier, scanner and laser printer. This would also keep children (and adults) from breaking the law.
OH...and let's also make alcohol illegal (again!). That will discourage childern from drinking (and driving!).
Mr. Hatch, what I mainly want from my government is to keep me safe from enemies, foreign and domestic. That's it. I don't WANT you to be my nanny, nor do I want you to insert yourself into how I raise my children! Since you all seem to be doing a lousy job of keeping us safe from enemies, why not make that job #1 instead of wasting time keeping childern safe one MP3 at a time?
I find it ironic that our beloved Govt. PAYS FOR online anonymizers so residents of Mainland China can remain anonymous from THEIR government, yet OUR Govt. no longer allows ITS CITIZENS the same umbrella of anonymity!
I'm sure their TOS has soemthing in there that says they can do whatever they want to do with your mail.
You know...that thing you clicked but didn't read - the thing that Northwest judge said didn't apply to you!
Wait - that means that what they are doignis illegal then, dpesn't it?
"Verizon and QWest is already ahead of the game since they are already offer "Naked DSL" options that allows users to buy broadband services alone."
Verizon does not offer the option of naked DSL in California. I know, because I just tried to order it and was told it is not available.
I know they plan to test the concept in some eastern states.
I'm now wondering if this decision would force Verizon to begin offering naked DSL here as well.
Call Northwest's telephone reservations number. Book a cheap ticket...THEN tell the person you want them to read you every word on their privacy policy. If they ask why, site this court case
Make sure you interrupt them at least a dozen times to re-read paragraphs.Tell them there's static on the line. Keep them going ON THEIR 800 nickel for at least an hour or two.
Finally, tell them you've changed your mind about the ticket and hang up.
I figure they have at most about 1000 telephone reservation people at a given time - less late at night. It would be fairly easy to bring their reservation system to its knees by complying with this judge's requirements. After all, THEY made the rules - all you're doing is following them!
None of this matters because regardless of what the voters vote in Florida G.W. Bush WILL WIN FLORIDA again!
Brother Governor Jeb and his (alleged) lover, Secretary of State Glenda E. Hood will do whatever necessary to FIX it for the President...just like they did in 2000....
And...if it goes to the Supreme Court (again), Cheney's hunting buddy William "Billy boy" Rehnquist (who also happens to be the chief Justice) will fix it there (again, just like he did before).
What the voters want doesn't matter to these Calvinists..remember, Bush is President because he's ENTITLED to be!
Said one juror: 'The part that surprised me was when I read the First Amendment instructions. I was surprised to learn that people could say whatever they want... providing it would not cause imminent action.'
Here's someone serving on a jury who JUST DISCOVERED what the first amendment to the Constitution is all about! People are ignorant! Is it no surprise that Bush and his cronies can use fear to keep uninformed, ignorant people in the dark?
This is how he gets away with taking away our liberties in the name of "protecting" us!
When I read he earlier story, I was skeptical.
It was so out of character for Microsoft to care about anything but $$$$$. Microsoft acting in an altruistic manner? Microsoft acting for the greater good as opposed to (its) profits? No way! Can't happen!
Class D FM stations were basically put out of business in 1980. Except in Alaska, the FCC doesn't allow new ones. Most of the class D stations converted to class A status (minimum power of 100 watts or equilavent coverage thereof) back in the mid 1908's. Some moved into the commercial band as secondary stations and one or two moved to a new FM frequency, 87.9 FM.
These secondary stations can be displaced by any other station except another class D, a translator or an LPFM.
And, yes more then a few were forced off the air as well....
Fortunately, as mentioned above, class D stations till have priority over translators, and this station can bump an existing translator off the air and take their frequency over if they want. They also have priority over LPFM stations. Their other possibility is to find a frequency in the reserved band where they can run 100 watts. Practically speaking, this isn't really that difficult, as you only need run the 100 watts in one direction. I know of several college FM stations on the east coast that beam a very narrow 100 watt signal straight out to sea, while running class D power in every other direction. Also, the FCC allows these stations to use "off the shelf" directional antennas made by companies like Scala and Winegard that only cost a couple hundred bucks (as opposed to a multi-thousand dollar directions that a commerical broadcaster would use).
Finally, the FM band in Seattle isn't nearly as crowded as you might think; I have two rulemakings for new 6000 watt commerical stations pending in the Seattle area right now.
And, when I read the report and order, the FCC said that they had found several alternate channels where this station could move to. Since it's on an island, and any interference occurring over salt water can be ignored, I'd wager that there's perhaps half a dozen places it can move to. I might even fire up my copy of RF Investigator and check it out for myself.
This station should consider itself lucky, at least there are places where it can move to. I know of one class D community station in the Boston area that signed on in 1959, only to be displaced in 1990 by the third NPR station for Boston. With no place to move, they are only a memory today, leaving their town with no local radio service whatsoever.
True...but unfortunately, they've been able to convince (lobby, bribe, blackmail, or put your own descriptor in here) Congress and the courts that they're right.
So, once again we have the best Govt. $$ can buy!
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Bush never says ANYTHING bad! He always has SOMEONE ELSE say it FOR him! Look at the Swift Boat veterans, a hatchet job devoid of truth if there ever was one! Yet Bush has "plausible deniability".
WHAT A CROCK OF SHIT!!!
THEY (and others) do has dirty work FOR him. In some ways, Bush is like a mafia Dom. He gives the orders, and others get their hands dirty doing his bidding while his hands stay completely clean!
Couple this with an 18 dollar 60 gig drive from Office Depot (earlier this week), 512 Megs of DDR memory for 60 bucks (Frys), a 20 dollar case/PS, a 25 dollar video card, a 20 dollar CD burner, a free copy of Linspire (Lindows), and Open Office.org and you've got one hell of a computer for well under 200 bucks!
True, it wouldn't satisfy 'bleeding edge' people, but I'll wager that it would work just fine for the other 99.75% of us out there.....They're cheap, run on Linux and have already been hacked....
Burk Technology used to market a 900 meg unlicensed 1 watt duplex tranceiver with a 115.2k max throughput. Using two five element yagis and 100 feet of 9913 coax on each end (an FCC Part 15 approved package sold by Burk), I ran a 100% reliable line of sight data link between two mountain tops 28 miles apart. Actually, I was able to lower the power down to 100 Mw (.1 watt) before the link started to fade. All in all, a cheap solution to control an FM transmitter atop a mountain where no phone service was available.
I pulled it out of a trash can, actually, It needed a flyback transformer, which cost something like 100 bucks at the time. Fortunately, my dad had a close friend that owned a TV repair shop and he was able to use one from a more common TV set (I think it was an RCA). The picture was pretty good. Mine had an analog clock on the right side that could turn the TV on (an alarm TV!). The screen rotated so you culd see it from anywhere in the room. Alas, when my family moved when I was 15, it stayed and likely wound up in a landfill. A truly stunning TV...As a 11 year old I didn't appreciate it fully though.
How perfect!
A weasel for the BIG weasels!
The republican party of today will do whatever is necessary to get what they want! Bush didn't carry Florida? We'll fix that...just give us a few days. Want an oppressive law passed? No problem - just print it out in the middle of the night. Want to invade a country? No problem - just make claims that they sponsor terrorism.
In fact...let's use people's FEARS against them! After all, if you make people scared, you can control them!
The republican party of today makes me want to puke! Even their own conservative members are sick of them!Did any of you notice how they began trashing Edwards mere minutes after Kerry asked him to be VP? Their campaign has been 100% negative. What really made me laugh though was two things that Bush said: The first one was to chide Edwards about his lack of International experience. Seems to me that he has more then BUSH HAD when he was running for President! The second thing was about his comments comparing Edwards with Cheney. Bush said Cheney was ready to be "a heartbeat away from the Presidency". If I had been THAT reporter, I would have followed up with: "Well, at least Edwards' heart BEATS properly"!! Seriously though, shouldn't Cheney's constant heart problems, angioplasties, etc. be an issue?
Finally, let's not forget about yesterday's unspecific terrorism warning du jour, where Al Quaida is going to try and svcrew up our election. I see it as more fear mongering by the incumbents. Am I wrong?Software piracy in these countries is NOT done with p2p programs, it's done with CD's and DVD's! The reason piracy is so rampant there is that the burners and medium has become really cheap! Not to mention that with hardware costs dropping in these countries, more people have access to computers, all of which need software to run.
The one BIG FLAW in all these arguements is this: How many of the people who steal software/music/movies would have actually bought it/them?Until this question is accurately answered (hint: it's not even CLOSE to 100% as the BSA, RIAA and MPA would have you believe), the debate on p2p will always be an invalid one, and the laws proposed and/or passed to "protect chldren" from the rampant dangers of copyright infringement will always be suspect.
True conservatives DO want Govt. out of peoples' lives as much as possible. Peoblem is, they represent the minority of the republican party today. The majority are what I call NEO Conservatives. These people, mostly right wingers WANT the government to intrude into its citizens' lives - as long as it's pushingg THEIR dogma upon them!! For example, look at Pat Buchanan. He's really upset at what his party has become. A true conservative would be, because they want Govt. OUT of people's lives. I had thought that John McCain was a true conservative too, but after I saw him drop to his knees and blow G.W. Bush last week, I write him off as a simple opportunist.
Watch out about doing the extraordinary!Otherwise, it become ordinary, then expected....
If you're always pulling rabbits out of hats for your employer, instead of appreciating it, they will begin to EXPECT it from you. Then the one time you CAN'T, you will be PUNISHED!Don't let the extraordinary become ordinary!
I have a friend who swears that a: "Planned outage" once in a while can make them appreciate you more....
I saw that you wish to make all P2P applications illegal. Indeed, your quote said: "It is illegal and immoral to induce or encourage children to commit crimes,"
I have a request, Senator Hatch. Instead of making software programs, illegal can we make GUNS illegal? After all, it's been proven time after time that guns: "Induce or encourage children to kill each other" (my quote). To me, keeping kids alive is MUCH MORE IMPORTANT then keeping them from downloading the latest Britney Spears single off the Internet! Of course, I suppose if you let kids kill each other, then they can't download things - Right?Perhaps this is your logic in trying to 'protect' kids from the wrath of the RIAA, while supporting the guns that they use to kill each other. If this is indeed the case, then perhaps you should encourage the RIAA and MPAA to distribute guns to children.
Of course, what I've just typed is 100% absurd, but no more so then your proposal to make p2p programs illegal. Not only is your proposed law absurd, but it also is quite likely unconstitutional. See, we have a Supreme Court in this country, which in the "Betamax" decision many years ago declared that techology that can be used for both illegal and legal puproses cannot be banned. Again, the MPAA was fighting Sony in this case to stop the VCR from existing. Ironically, the VCR (via movie rentals on tape) became one of their biggest profit centers.Of course, if you're truly hell bent on shredding everyone's Constitutional rights, while you're at it, it would help the book industry by banning the copier, scanner and laser printer. This would also keep children (and adults) from breaking the law.
OH...and let's also make alcohol illegal (again!). That will discourage childern from drinking (and driving!).Mr. Hatch, what I mainly want from my government is to keep me safe from enemies, foreign and domestic. That's it. I don't WANT you to be my nanny, nor do I want you to insert yourself into how I raise my children! Since you all seem to be doing a lousy job of keeping us safe from enemies, why not make that job #1 instead of wasting time keeping childern safe one MP3 at a time?
Thank you. XXXXXXxAfter all, a Coke can that can bug them...with a GPS no less! :)
I find it ironic that our beloved Govt. PAYS FOR online anonymizers so residents of Mainland China can remain anonymous from THEIR government, yet OUR Govt. no longer allows ITS CITIZENS the same umbrella of anonymity!
I'm sure their TOS has soemthing in there that says they can do whatever they want to do with your mail. You know...that thing you clicked but didn't read - the thing that Northwest judge said didn't apply to you! Wait - that means that what they are doignis illegal then, dpesn't it?
Let's say that you have 10 customers now and then next month you grow to 20. You can then proudly exclain that: "(Y)Our sales have doubled!"
Get it?"Verizon and QWest is already ahead of the game since they are already offer "Naked DSL" options that allows users to buy broadband services alone." Verizon does not offer the option of naked DSL in California. I know, because I just tried to order it and was told it is not available. I know they plan to test the concept in some eastern states. I'm now wondering if this decision would force Verizon to begin offering naked DSL here as well.
Make sure you interrupt them at least a dozen times to re-read paragraphs.Tell them there's static on the line. Keep them going ON THEIR 800 nickel for at least an hour or two.
Finally, tell them you've changed your mind about the ticket and hang up.I figure they have at most about 1000 telephone reservation people at a given time - less late at night. It would be fairly easy to bring their reservation system to its knees by complying with this judge's requirements. After all, THEY made the rules - all you're doing is following them!
Brother Governor Jeb and his (alleged) lover, Secretary of State Glenda E. Hood will do whatever necessary to FIX it for the President...just like they did in 2000....
And...if it goes to the Supreme Court (again), Cheney's hunting buddy William "Billy boy" Rehnquist (who also happens to be the chief Justice) will fix it there (again, just like he did before).What the voters want doesn't matter to these Calvinists..remember, Bush is President because he's ENTITLED to be!
Here's someone serving on a jury who JUST DISCOVERED what the first amendment to the Constitution is all about! People are ignorant! Is it no surprise that Bush and his cronies can use fear to keep uninformed, ignorant people in the dark?
This is how he gets away with taking away our liberties in the name of "protecting" us!
Proof again that America runs on greed! :(
It appears I was correct all along... :(
Class D FM stations were basically put out of business in 1980. Except in Alaska, the FCC doesn't allow new ones. Most of the class D stations converted to class A status (minimum power of 100 watts or equilavent coverage thereof) back in the mid 1908's. Some moved into the commercial band as secondary stations and one or two moved to a new FM frequency, 87.9 FM. These secondary stations can be displaced by any other station except another class D, a translator or an LPFM. And, yes more then a few were forced off the air as well.... Fortunately, as mentioned above, class D stations till have priority over translators, and this station can bump an existing translator off the air and take their frequency over if they want. They also have priority over LPFM stations. Their other possibility is to find a frequency in the reserved band where they can run 100 watts. Practically speaking, this isn't really that difficult, as you only need run the 100 watts in one direction. I know of several college FM stations on the east coast that beam a very narrow 100 watt signal straight out to sea, while running class D power in every other direction. Also, the FCC allows these stations to use "off the shelf" directional antennas made by companies like Scala and Winegard that only cost a couple hundred bucks (as opposed to a multi-thousand dollar directions that a commerical broadcaster would use). Finally, the FM band in Seattle isn't nearly as crowded as you might think; I have two rulemakings for new 6000 watt commerical stations pending in the Seattle area right now. And, when I read the report and order, the FCC said that they had found several alternate channels where this station could move to. Since it's on an island, and any interference occurring over salt water can be ignored, I'd wager that there's perhaps half a dozen places it can move to. I might even fire up my copy of RF Investigator and check it out for myself. This station should consider itself lucky, at least there are places where it can move to. I know of one class D community station in the Boston area that signed on in 1959, only to be displaced in 1990 by the third NPR station for Boston. With no place to move, they are only a memory today, leaving their town with no local radio service whatsoever.
Yep...that's what we have.. and will continue to have until people exercise their responsibility and vote all the scoundrels out!
1. Create genetically engineered seed.
2. Spread over someone's property.
3. Sue.
4>???
Profit!
True...but unfortunately, they've been able to convince (lobby, bribe, blackmail, or put your own descriptor in here) Congress and the courts that they're right. So, once again we have the best Govt. $$ can buy!