Ah, no, this is not a comparable metaphor. The T-shirt manufacturer has overhead on each unit produced. Microsoft does not. They could offer a simple, one price per license pricing plan.
Right, of course, a 10 page manual, oversized box, and cd w/ case is worth a $150 markup?
I understand that Dell is offering windows for $52 dollars as part of the bundle, but then why cant I get a license key for $52 bucks sans all the other crap (I know someone with a copy, I just need a valid license key).
The fact is that the strange pricing of windows in bundles is indicitive of Microsoft's continuing efforts to unfairly leverage their marketplace advantage. They know there are options out there that are cheaper, better, or both. To respond to that "threat" they offer "bulk discounts" and maybe "incentives" to vendors to bundle the OS with the PC.
You have to wonder why. They could sell the OS at a simple flat rate off of an FTP server to anyone.
I admire the author's perseverence and intent, and I did not RTFA but I think he got reamed. Here is what Dell charges for a copy of XP home.
A $52 refund? Good try.
This guy should be arrested already, right? For solicitation to commit a felony? In fact, shouldnt the FBI have picked him up already?
Someone really needs to press this with the proper authorities. If this is a real solicitation then he should be worrying about bail money now. And if it IS a case of entrapment then Attrition.org should be considering civil action against the government for even TRYING such bullshit.
That's not SUCH a bad idea. If a particular criminal behavior is curable then maybe it's not such a bad idea to rehabilitate the person rather than put them in prison.
For instance take the case of the pedophililac. If it was in the USA the guy would probably be convicted and forced to do all the things that sex offenders have to do here, like register with the police and tell their neighbors. But if he has a legitimate medical condition that causes pedophilia, and it can be cured, why not cure him and spare him the life destroying consequences of a sexual predator conviction? If we can actually rehabilitate him...then why not.
I know this is a slippery slope...one with lots of different cliffs to fall off of...but maybe we can actaully help some people if we're careful.
Does this mean that Heisenberg's Uncertainty is no longer uncertain?
I always thought that the reason you couldn't know both speed and position was because the energy of the photon changed the position of the observed particle. Now, if you can see detail from in a range that is a fraction of the wavelength of light then aren't you also observing detail from a place where the photons aren't interacting with you?
That is to say...
If uncertainty is the space under the curve of a cycle of light, and you are able to see detail finer than that wavelength then are you seeing into the area of uncertainty?
As a group, armed citizens frighten politicians. When the policy maker thinks about how to reform elections, or how far the police are allowed to go in making a search the politician must, at some level, consider the possibility of angry armed citizens roaming the streets. When the president proposes a law, when congress passes on it, and when the courts rule on it, they must consider whether or not the decision will send us into revolution.
Most of the time the issues in question are not serious enough to warrant the consideration of revolution for the government or the people. Sometimes, however, the government goes too far, and the people are obliged to defend themselves.
It is interesting to note that in places where genocide happens gun abolition goes first.
I am overly strident in my hatred of Microsoft. They do have some good qualities, like an excellent hardware department. They dont force you into a particular piece of hardware for their OS. Ummm...they make a great flight sim...
On the other hand many of their business practices have been ethically questionable. Buying companies only after they've stolen code (way back in the days of windows 3.1,3.11,3.2,3.21. 3.1 was regular, 3.11 had disk compression, 3.2 removed disk compression when MS was sued, and 3.21 replaced disk compression after MS bought the company. This all happened in under 45 days. See what I mean?) They suffer from all the flaws of a company that must rely on selling the next big thing so we never see them refine something. Instead we always get the next diamond in the rough, full of bugs and flaws.
Most troubling for me is their continued unwillingness to release a complete spec for windows. I can respect their desire to sell their code, and I respect their right to keep the actual code a secret. How you get things done in a program is what defines the efficency of the software. It's what actually makes one piece of software superior to another. It's why people download winamp instead of sticking to WMP. So there is value in code and you have a right to not share your code if you dont choose to.
What I find most daunting is that no one else has a chance to build a competing, compatible product. There are no competing windows-compatible kernels or distros on the market from the private or FOSS communities. If MS would make a complete specification for windows available then we would see competing, compatible OS'es. And, frankly, I dont care if they restrict access to purely commercial projects, any level of compatible competition would be nice.
"If we decide that it's no longer necessary, can we erase any part of the Constitution?" The answer is, Yes. The constitution was made to be altered, revised and rewritten as needed by the society that it governed.
I don't recall anything in the constitution about altering and rewriting it. It can be amended to make changes, but the old stuff stays in there, like a revision history. We didn't change the text of the articles concerning voting, we added amendments that expanded the rights of the constitution.
It's an important difference because it lets us see which amendments worked and which ones did not. It lets us see what changes were made in case we want to roll them back.
It is also interesting to note that the only amendment to be repealed was prohibition. It is also the only amendment that takes rights away from the people. Look at how well banning things worked there!
Let me be absolutely clear. The voice of the electorate changed the course of policy when the time came. I am absolutely positive that while we waited for elections the presence of armed and responsible citizens prevented the wholesale use/abuse of insane laws and court decisions. I honestly think that the only reason the eminent domain debacle was stopped in its tracks was because the government does not want to answer questions of why they have to chase armed citizens from their homes. It's certainly not due to strong statesmanship or federal congressional action. In fact, at those levels we have seen increased authorization for federal use of state troops. There has been a confluence of court decisions, laws, and executive branch activity that limits the rights of the people to participate in government, limiting our representation. There have been numerous governmental actions favoring the rights of corporations over individuals, to the extent of removing citizens from their homes and handing the property to commercial developers. The right to physically defend yourself is growing in importance.
Think of it this way. Where does the true power of a government lie? It lies in the ability to maintain order. Where does the ability to maintain order come from? From the threat of force. Thats why we have armies and police. If the independence of the individual is going to remain as a factor in government then the individual must be a force to consider, hence the need to keep the second amendment. We need it to keep the threat against the government, so politicians and bureaucrats occasionally have to stop and say "The people will never stand for that."
Ok, but the main thrust remains. We are guaranteed a right to live, self determination, and property. The second amendment codifies the implied right to defense of those things.
In the phrase "A well regulated militia" regulated = equipped.
The idea was that in the event of tyranny or invasion the people could form up and defend themselves. We are guaranteed the right to pursue life, liberty, and happiness. To pursue life one must be able to defend it. That is why we are guaranteed the right to keep and bear arms.
By now I would have expected the noise about gun control to die down. It's a losing issue for democrats, and gun ownership may well be the only thing that recently stopped the USA from falling into fascist totalitarianism.
See, Gingrich knows that the most dangerous threat to his party's point of view is free speech, the open exchange of ideas.
He prolly plans on winning the next election by silencing the opposition. They tried to use the cry of "Won't someone please think of the terrorists!" to drown out othe opposition. now he has dreams of calling the police and saying "Yeah, I think so-and-so is saying something that helps the terrorists." He's a fucking facist.
See, you know this is a smokescreen for something else because the terrorists are not coming from the USA. Therefore, the use of free speech is not helping or causing terrorism.
If I had to guess, I bet you'd find fat campaign contributions from RIAA and MPAA in Newt's pocket.
If this is a big concern then the MMO operators should carry the weight of the bill to hire lobbyists. Of course, they dont represent the same economic weight as bandwidth providers.
It seems like a simple thing to figure out. Are the bandwidth providers in a situation where they are in the red? I dont think they are. So, do they need government price protections? I dont think so. This is another case of corporate interests begging for a handout when they want new yachts.
It's always a good laugh to see people point at a the drops of water and say "Thats why the bucket is empty".
The fact is that it's cheaper to send a collection of laptops as software than it is to send it as a pile of books. The argument ONLY makes sense if the people have no education system to begin with. If they have schools then this is an improvement, a chance to work more efficiently and with less cost. Each textbook a student uses costs 100 dollars or more. By getting them laptops they get the whole collection of textbooks for that price (if the local government takes time to publish them digitally).
A similar example is when people call for cuts at NASA. WE need to balance the economy, sure, and we need to cut government spending. These numbers are in the billions and trillions. It's funny to see people point at projects like the supercollider and the space station and say oh lets cut that while blindly wasting money on massive defense projects. how many state of the art aircraft carriers do we need to fight an Iraqi insurgency anyway?
The real point of this article is to dilute the idea that the computing power you had 10 years ago was enough. You could accomplish the same tasks (word processing, web browsing, 3d acceleration) on a postage stamp sized computer today if the software was still available.
See, what Intel, MS, AMD, and lots of other companies are afraid of is that Computing can become as cheap as calculating did. There was a time when calculators were expensive. Now you can but a good scientific one for ten bucks. If Negroponte succeeds with his OLPC project a lot of people are going to start asking "where's mine?" And the fact is thaty laptops are rapidly approaching that price point. Watch the low end prices. Thee are laptops available that cost less than a game console.
What if the owner of the equipment wants to create a free and public digital space? Like...an "island network"? The government in the US can't make laws against free speech and free gathering. The law must provide for open, peaceful gatherings. You cannot outlaw leaving the door unlocked because maybe the owner wants it that way. You can establish however that because the door might be left open for legitimate reasons that the owner must choose to lock it. It's the difference between Breaking & Entering and Illegal Entry. It's different because the act of compromising security increases the severity and the owner must take some responsibility for securing their things.
The question here is not should you vote but rather why do you choose to be uninformed? You SHOULD vote, absolutely. There is no excuse for not voting. You should make an informed choice, absolutely.
See, you are asking "Should I represent myself?" Would you like me to decide for you? Because I voted. I made the decision for you. And so did some old lady with a shopping bag and so did a White Supremacist in Georgia, and so did a Jewish lawyer in Brooklyn, and so did a CEO of an Oil Company, and so did a truck driver, etc, etc, etc. We're all deciding for YOU what kind of world YOU will live in.
It's important for you to vote simply so the politicians know to reach out in your direction next time. You can vote for a third party, or even write in "I dont know what to vote for" but you SHOULD ABSOLUTELY VOTE.
I'm a Democrat/Green. I know you're likely to vote against my agenda. You should still vote.
If you feel uninformed then read up. Trust your decisions. Decide what kind of world you want to live in, decide how you want that to happen, then vote for the candidates who will help you get there.
Otherwise, if you truly feel that you are uninformed, and cannot become informed, well, then thats a whole other bag of cookies.
Well, the song is about Diebold. Fits well into the rhythm. The rest still holds. If you steal too many elections (not you in particular, the general, ambiguous you) by too large a margin then, eventually, you will end up with an oppressed, under-represented, disgruntled populace. When that happens look to history for the rest of the story.
Seriously, let them steal it. Here's a metaphor. If you steal enough from a store the store shuts down and there's nothing left to steal. If they keep stealing elections the democracy will shut down. Then we can put the filthy bastards up against the wall.
Keep stealing and manipulating shit assholes. Eventually the levels of discontent that you are generating will be unstoppable and small pockets of violence and rebellion will break out all across the nation. Police will stop taking orders, military units will stop taking orders, the stolen government will have no support, revolutionaries will free prisoners just to overtax your system. It'll be like the unwinnable war on drugs but far, far worse. IN that scenario your only hope will be to find SOME governing group (similar to Sinn Fein, or the PLO) and beg them for mercy. Don't count on their promises because the memories of the oppressed are long and harsh. It might become a long and bloody experience to re-establish democracy in America, and the blood of the thieves who are committing the crimes will be the currency we use to pay for the renovation. It's gonna look like Latin America up in here before it's over.
So keep your powder dry people. Those of you who oppose the tyranny that is descending over our great nation must learn how to handle and maintain weapons, must learn how to build weapons. And you must strike when the iron is HOT, when the military is exhausted and the government is unpopular.
And now, a quick song
---sung to the tune of Woody Guthrie's Hard Travelling
Diebold's stealing elections, I thought you knowed. Diebold's stealing elections on machines with unknown code. We dont need no double dealing, electronic vote stealing. Diebold's stealing elections, Lord.
Diebold's stealing our votes, the right that makes us free. Diebold's stealing our votes, oh cant you see. How can they say I'm free if their machines can choose for me? Diebold's stealing our votes, Lord.
Diebold's stealing our votes, I thoought you knowed. They've been shredding the paper trail at the end of the road. It doesn't matter who you choose, when you're sure you're gonna lose. Diebold's stealing our votes, Lord.
I'm gonna vote with pen and paper I thought you knowed. I'm gonna see it counted at the end of the road. I'm gonna vote with pen and paper so I know that there's a record. And I'm gonna go vote my conscience Lord.
We've been having some hard voting I thought you knowed In California, in Florida, and in O-hi-o Voting can sure be scary when the counting's done binary Diebold's stealing our votes, Lord.
http://www.kfdm.com/engine.pl?station=kfdm&id=1734 3&template=breakout_dayportvideo.shtml&dateformat= %25M+%25e,%25Y
This story is from Texas and reports the same thing.
Seriously, let them steal it. Here's a metaphor. If you steal enough from a store the store shuts down and there's nothing left to steal. If they keep stealing elections the democracy will shut down. Then we can put the filthy bastards up against the wall.
Keep stealing and manipulating shit assholes. Eventually the levels of discontent that you are generating will be unstoppable and small pockets of violence and rebellion will break out all across the nation. Police will stop taking orders, military units will stop taking orders, the stolen government will have no support, revolutionaries will free prisoners just to overtax your system. It'll be like the unwinnable war on drugs but far, far worse. IN that scenario your only hope will be to find SOME governing group (similar to Sinn Fein, or the PLO) and beg them for mercy. Don't count on their promises because the memories of the oppressed are long and harsh. It might become a long and bloody experience to re-establish democracy in America, and the blood of the thieves who are committing the crimes will be the currency we use to pay for the renovation. It's gonna look like Latin America up in here before it's over.
So keep your powder dry people. Those of you who oppose the tyranny that is descending over our great nation must learn how to handle and maintain weapons, must learn how to build weapons. And you must strike when the iron is HOT, when the military is exhausted and the government is unpopular.
And now, a quick song
---sung to the tune of Woody Guthrie's Hard Travelling
Diebold's stealing elections, I thought you knowed.
Diebold's stealing elections on machines with unknown code.
We dont need no double dealing, electronic vote stealing.
Diebold's stealing elections, Lord.
Diebold's stealing our votes, the right that makes us free.
Diebold's stealing our votes, oh cant you see.
How can they say I'm free if their machines can choose for me?
Diebold's stealing our votes, Lord.
Diebold's stealing our votes, I thoought you knowed.
They've been shredding the paper trail at the end of the road.
It doesn't matter who you choose, when you're sure you're gonna lose.
Diebold's stealing our votes, Lord.
I'm gonna vote with pen and paper I thought you knowed.
I'm gonna see it counted at the end of the road.
I'm gonna vote with pen and paper so I know that there's a record.
And I'm gonna go vote my conscience Lord.
We've been having some hard voting I thought you knowed
In California, in Florida, and in O-hi-o
Voting can sure be scary when the counting's done binary
Diebold's stealing our votes, Lord.
OK, so it's gonna have ingame ads and spyware. Two problems.
1)Someone else already mentioned background processes running. Yeah. I always load up my machine with as many background processes and serviceas as I possibly can when I want to have a smooth, efficient gaming experience. Actually, I even use as many command line options as I can to save every last bit of RAM I can (-noipx -nojoy etc.)
2)If this damn thing has commercial sponsorship why do I have to BUY a copy? I dont have to BUY NFL games. Why? Because Budweiser is interrupting the game and selling me BEER. It's the tradeoff of sponsorship vs. purchasing. BF2142 should be free to the consumer. My big hope is that no one buys it.
3) (I know, I said two) Privacy? On box notification? Is there going to be sufficient warning to the user about this? What about firewall issues?
4) (ugh, 2^2 already?) Will my Sony rootkit allow this new spyware to work?
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Ah, no, this is not a comparable metaphor. The T-shirt manufacturer has overhead on each unit produced. Microsoft does not. They could offer a simple, one price per license pricing plan.
Right, of course, a 10 page manual, oversized box, and cd w/ case is worth a $150 markup?
I understand that Dell is offering windows for $52 dollars as part of the bundle, but then why cant I get a license key for $52 bucks sans all the other crap (I know someone with a copy, I just need a valid license key).
The fact is that the strange pricing of windows in bundles is indicitive of Microsoft's continuing efforts to unfairly leverage their marketplace advantage. They know there are options out there that are cheaper, better, or both. To respond to that "threat" they offer "bulk discounts" and maybe "incentives" to vendors to bundle the OS with the PC.
You have to wonder why. They could sell the OS at a simple flat rate off of an FTP server to anyone.
Why wont MS engage in fair, simple pricing?
I admire the author's perseverence and intent, and I did not RTFA but I think he got reamed. Here is what Dell charges for a copy of XP home. A $52 refund? Good try.
This guy should be arrested already, right? For solicitation to commit a felony? In fact, shouldnt the FBI have picked him up already?
Someone really needs to press this with the proper authorities. If this is a real solicitation then he should be worrying about bail money now. And if it IS a case of entrapment then Attrition.org should be considering civil action against the government for even TRYING such bullshit.
That's not SUCH a bad idea. If a particular criminal behavior is curable then maybe it's not such a bad idea to rehabilitate the person rather than put them in prison.
For instance take the case of the pedophililac. If it was in the USA the guy would probably be convicted and forced to do all the things that sex offenders have to do here, like register with the police and tell their neighbors. But if he has a legitimate medical condition that causes pedophilia, and it can be cured, why not cure him and spare him the life destroying consequences of a sexual predator conviction? If we can actually rehabilitate him...then why not.
I know this is a slippery slope...one with lots of different cliffs to fall off of...but maybe we can actaully help some people if we're careful.
Happy holidays all.
Does this mean that Heisenberg's Uncertainty is no longer uncertain?
I always thought that the reason you couldn't know both speed and position was because the energy of the photon changed the position of the observed particle. Now, if you can see detail from in a range that is a fraction of the wavelength of light then aren't you also observing detail from a place where the photons aren't interacting with you?
That is to say...
If uncertainty is the space under the curve of a cycle of light,
and
you are able to see detail finer than that wavelength
then
are you seeing into the area of uncertainty?
As a group, armed citizens frighten politicians. When the policy maker thinks about how to reform elections, or how far the police are allowed to go in making a search the politician must, at some level, consider the possibility of angry armed citizens roaming the streets. When the president proposes a law, when congress passes on it, and when the courts rule on it, they must consider whether or not the decision will send us into revolution.
Most of the time the issues in question are not serious enough to warrant the consideration of revolution for the government or the people. Sometimes, however, the government goes too far, and the people are obliged to defend themselves.
It is interesting to note that in places where genocide happens gun abolition goes first.
I am overly strident in my hatred of Microsoft. They do have some good qualities, like an excellent hardware department. They dont force you into a particular piece of hardware for their OS. Ummm...they make a great flight sim...
On the other hand many of their business practices have been ethically questionable. Buying companies only after they've stolen code (way back in the days of windows 3.1,3.11,3.2,3.21. 3.1 was regular, 3.11 had disk compression, 3.2 removed disk compression when MS was sued, and 3.21 replaced disk compression after MS bought the company. This all happened in under 45 days. See what I mean?) They suffer from all the flaws of a company that must rely on selling the next big thing so we never see them refine something. Instead we always get the next diamond in the rough, full of bugs and flaws.
Most troubling for me is their continued unwillingness to release a complete spec for windows. I can respect their desire to sell their code, and I respect their right to keep the actual code a secret. How you get things done in a program is what defines the efficency of the software. It's what actually makes one piece of software superior to another. It's why people download winamp instead of sticking to WMP. So there is value in code and you have a right to not share your code if you dont choose to.
What I find most daunting is that no one else has a chance to build a competing, compatible product. There are no competing windows-compatible kernels or distros on the market from the private or FOSS communities. If MS would make a complete specification for windows available then we would see competing, compatible OS'es. And, frankly, I dont care if they restrict access to purely commercial projects, any level of compatible competition would be nice.
And that's why I hate Microsoft.
I don't recall anything in the constitution about altering and rewriting it. It can be amended to make changes, but the old stuff stays in there, like a revision history. We didn't change the text of the articles concerning voting, we added amendments that expanded the rights of the constitution.
It's an important difference because it lets us see which amendments worked and which ones did not. It lets us see what changes were made in case we want to roll them back.
It is also interesting to note that the only amendment to be repealed was prohibition. It is also the only amendment that takes rights away from the people. Look at how well banning things worked there!
Let me be absolutely clear. The voice of the electorate changed the course of policy when the time came. I am absolutely positive that while we waited for elections the presence of armed and responsible citizens prevented the wholesale use/abuse of insane laws and court decisions. I honestly think that the only reason the eminent domain debacle was stopped in its tracks was because the government does not want to answer questions of why they have to chase armed citizens from their homes. It's certainly not due to strong statesmanship or federal congressional action. In fact, at those levels we have seen increased authorization for federal use of state troops. There has been a confluence of court decisions, laws, and executive branch activity that limits the rights of the people to participate in government, limiting our representation. There have been numerous governmental actions favoring the rights of corporations over individuals, to the extent of removing citizens from their homes and handing the property to commercial developers. The right to physically defend yourself is growing in importance.
Think of it this way. Where does the true power of a government lie? It lies in the ability to maintain order. Where does the ability to maintain order come from? From the threat of force. Thats why we have armies and police. If the independence of the individual is going to remain as a factor in government then the individual must be a force to consider, hence the need to keep the second amendment. We need it to keep the threat against the government, so politicians and bureaucrats occasionally have to stop and say "The people will never stand for that."
Ok, but the main thrust remains. We are guaranteed a right to live, self determination, and property. The second amendment codifies the implied right to defense of those things.
In the phrase "A well regulated militia" regulated = equipped.
The idea was that in the event of tyranny or invasion the people could form up and defend themselves. We are guaranteed the right to pursue life, liberty, and happiness. To pursue life one must be able to defend it. That is why we are guaranteed the right to keep and bear arms.
By now I would have expected the noise about gun control to die down. It's a losing issue for democrats, and gun ownership may well be the only thing that recently stopped the USA from falling into fascist totalitarianism.
A clutch alignment tool for a nissan that had no pilot bearing.
Though a lot of people think it's that incense burner I made from a pringles can.
See, Gingrich knows that the most dangerous threat to his party's point of view is free speech, the open exchange of ideas.
He prolly plans on winning the next election by silencing the opposition. They tried to use the cry of "Won't someone please think of the terrorists!" to drown out othe opposition. now he has dreams of calling the police and saying "Yeah, I think so-and-so is saying something that helps the terrorists." He's a fucking facist.
See, you know this is a smokescreen for something else because the terrorists are not coming from the USA. Therefore, the use of free speech is not helping or causing terrorism.
If I had to guess, I bet you'd find fat campaign contributions from RIAA and MPAA in Newt's pocket.
If this is a big concern then the MMO operators should carry the weight of the bill to hire lobbyists. Of course, they dont represent the same economic weight as bandwidth providers.
It seems like a simple thing to figure out. Are the bandwidth providers in a situation where they are in the red? I dont think they are. So, do they need government price protections? I dont think so. This is another case of corporate interests begging for a handout when they want new yachts.
It's always a good laugh to see people point at a the drops of water and say "Thats why the bucket is empty".
The fact is that it's cheaper to send a collection of laptops as software than it is to send it as a pile of books. The argument ONLY makes sense if the people have no education system to begin with. If they have schools then this is an improvement, a chance to work more efficiently and with less cost. Each textbook a student uses costs 100 dollars or more. By getting them laptops they get the whole collection of textbooks for that price (if the local government takes time to publish them digitally).
A similar example is when people call for cuts at NASA. WE need to balance the economy, sure, and we need to cut government spending. These numbers are in the billions and trillions. It's funny to see people point at projects like the supercollider and the space station and say oh lets cut that while blindly wasting money on massive defense projects. how many state of the art aircraft carriers do we need to fight an Iraqi insurgency anyway?
The real point of this article is to dilute the idea that the computing power you had 10 years ago was enough. You could accomplish the same tasks (word processing, web browsing, 3d acceleration) on a postage stamp sized computer today if the software was still available.
See, what Intel, MS, AMD, and lots of other companies are afraid of is that Computing can become as cheap as calculating did. There was a time when calculators were expensive. Now you can but a good scientific one for ten bucks. If Negroponte succeeds with his OLPC project a lot of people are going to start asking "where's mine?" And the fact is thaty laptops are rapidly approaching that price point. Watch the low end prices. Thee are laptops available that cost less than a game console.
What if the owner of the equipment wants to create a free and public digital space? Like...an "island network"? The government in the US can't make laws against free speech and free gathering. The law must provide for open, peaceful gatherings. You cannot outlaw leaving the door unlocked because maybe the owner wants it that way. You can establish however that because the door might be left open for legitimate reasons that the owner must choose to lock it. It's the difference between Breaking & Entering and Illegal Entry. It's different because the act of compromising security increases the severity and the owner must take some responsibility for securing their things.
But, this story is from Singapore, and IANAL.
Thank you. He will have to face subpeonas. If he didnt want this to look like a cowardly political move then he should have stepped down long ago.
Sure sure, run away just as we get the chance to ask some real questions.
Seems to me like he's just trying to hide. Cut and run.
Fact is, he'll still have to answer subpeonas.
The question here is not should you vote but rather why do you choose to be uninformed? You SHOULD vote, absolutely. There is no excuse for not voting. You should make an informed choice, absolutely.
See, you are asking "Should I represent myself?" Would you like me to decide for you? Because I voted. I made the decision for you. And so did some old lady with a shopping bag and so did a White Supremacist in Georgia, and so did a Jewish lawyer in Brooklyn, and so did a CEO of an Oil Company, and so did a truck driver, etc, etc, etc. We're all deciding for YOU what kind of world YOU will live in.
It's important for you to vote simply so the politicians know to reach out in your direction next time. You can vote for a third party, or even write in "I dont know what to vote for" but you SHOULD ABSOLUTELY VOTE.
I'm a Democrat/Green. I know you're likely to vote against my agenda. You should still vote.
If you feel uninformed then read up. Trust your decisions. Decide what kind of world you want to live in, decide how you want that to happen, then vote for the candidates who will help you get there.
Otherwise, if you truly feel that you are uninformed, and cannot become informed, well, then thats a whole other bag of cookies.
Ugh, I know I know. I clicked on HTML instead of Plain Old Text by mistake.
I reposted further down.
Well, the song is about Diebold. Fits well into the rhythm. The rest still holds. If you steal too many elections (not you in particular, the general, ambiguous you) by too large a margin then, eventually, you will end up with an oppressed, under-represented, disgruntled populace. When that happens look to history for the rest of the story.
http://www.kfdm.com/engine.pl?station=kfdm&id=1734 3&template=breakout_dayportvideo.shtml&dateformat= %25M+%25e,%25Y
This story is from Texas and reports the same thing.
Seriously, let them steal it. Here's a metaphor. If you steal enough from a store the store shuts down and there's nothing left to steal. If they keep stealing elections the democracy will shut down. Then we can put the filthy bastards up against the wall.
Keep stealing and manipulating shit assholes. Eventually the levels of discontent that you are generating will be unstoppable and small pockets of violence and rebellion will break out all across the nation. Police will stop taking orders, military units will stop taking orders, the stolen government will have no support, revolutionaries will free prisoners just to overtax your system. It'll be like the unwinnable war on drugs but far, far worse. IN that scenario your only hope will be to find SOME governing group (similar to Sinn Fein, or the PLO) and beg them for mercy. Don't count on their promises because the memories of the oppressed are long and harsh. It might become a long and bloody experience to re-establish democracy in America, and the blood of the thieves who are committing the crimes will be the currency we use to pay for the renovation. It's gonna look like Latin America up in here before it's over.
So keep your powder dry people. Those of you who oppose the tyranny that is descending over our great nation must learn how to handle and maintain weapons, must learn how to build weapons. And you must strike when the iron is HOT, when the military is exhausted and the government is unpopular.
And now, a quick song
---sung to the tune of Woody Guthrie's Hard Travelling
Diebold's stealing elections, I thought you knowed.
Diebold's stealing elections on machines with unknown code.
We dont need no double dealing, electronic vote stealing.
Diebold's stealing elections, Lord.
Diebold's stealing our votes, the right that makes us free.
Diebold's stealing our votes, oh cant you see.
How can they say I'm free if their machines can choose for me?
Diebold's stealing our votes, Lord.
Diebold's stealing our votes, I thoought you knowed.
They've been shredding the paper trail at the end of the road.
It doesn't matter who you choose, when you're sure you're gonna lose.
Diebold's stealing our votes, Lord.
I'm gonna vote with pen and paper I thought you knowed.
I'm gonna see it counted at the end of the road.
I'm gonna vote with pen and paper so I know that there's a record.
And I'm gonna go vote my conscience Lord.
We've been having some hard voting I thought you knowed
In California, in Florida, and in O-hi-o
Voting can sure be scary when the counting's done binary
Diebold's stealing our votes, Lord.
http://www.kfdm.com/engine.pl?station=kfdm&id=1734 3&template=breakout_dayportvideo.shtml&dateformat= %25M+%25e,%25Y
This story is from Texas and reports the same thing.
Seriously, let them steal it. Here's a metaphor. If you steal enough from a store the store shuts down and there's nothing left to steal. If they keep stealing elections the democracy will shut down. Then we can put the filthy bastards up against the wall.
Keep stealing and manipulating shit assholes. Eventually the levels of discontent that you are generating will be unstoppable and small pockets of violence and rebellion will break out all across the nation. Police will stop taking orders, military units will stop taking orders, the stolen government will have no support, revolutionaries will free prisoners just to overtax your system. It'll be like the unwinnable war on drugs but far, far worse. IN that scenario your only hope will be to find SOME governing group (similar to Sinn Fein, or the PLO) and beg them for mercy. Don't count on their promises because the memories of the oppressed are long and harsh. It might become a long and bloody experience to re-establish democracy in America, and the blood of the thieves who are committing the crimes will be the currency we use to pay for the renovation. It's gonna look like Latin America up in here before it's over.
So keep your powder dry people. Those of you who oppose the tyranny that is descending over our great nation must learn how to handle and maintain weapons, must learn how to build weapons. And you must strike when the iron is HOT, when the military is exhausted and the government is unpopular.
And now, a quick song
---sung to the tune of Woody Guthrie's Hard Travelling
Diebold's stealing elections, I thought you knowed.
Diebold's stealing elections on machines with unknown code.
We dont need no double dealing, electronic vote stealing.
Diebold's stealing elections, Lord.
Diebold's stealing our votes, the right that makes us free.
Diebold's stealing our votes, oh cant you see.
How can they say I'm free if their machines can choose for me?
Diebold's stealing our votes, Lord.
Diebold's stealing our votes, I thoought you knowed.
They've been shredding the paper trail at the end of the road.
It doesn't matter who you choose, when you're sure you're gonna lose.
Diebold's stealing our votes, Lord.
I'm gonna vote with pen and paper I thought you knowed.
I'm gonna see it counted at the end of the road.
I'm gonna vote with pen and paper so I know that there's a record.
And I'm gonna go vote my conscience Lord.
We've been having some hard voting I thought you knowed
In California, in Florida, and in O-hi-o
Voting can sure be scary when the counting's done binary
Diebold's stealing our votes, Lord.
OK, so it's gonna have ingame ads and spyware. Two problems.
1)Someone else already mentioned background processes running. Yeah. I always load up my machine with as many background processes and serviceas as I possibly can when I want to have a smooth, efficient gaming experience. Actually, I even use as many command line options as I can to save every last bit of RAM I can (-noipx -nojoy etc.)
2)If this damn thing has commercial sponsorship why do I have to BUY a copy? I dont have to BUY NFL games. Why? Because Budweiser is interrupting the game and selling me BEER. It's the tradeoff of sponsorship vs. purchasing. BF2142 should be free to the consumer. My big hope is that no one buys it.
3) (I know, I said two) Privacy? On box notification? Is there going to be sufficient warning to the user about this? What about firewall issues?
4) (ugh, 2^2 already?) Will my Sony rootkit allow this new spyware to work?