The same people who are paying all of the Senators and House members that are campaigning for McCain, Obama, and Clinton, and the same people who were paying the same politicians in 2004, 2000, 1996, 1992,... etc:
People paying federal income tax.
The difference is, Bush is very much a public figure and a politician, and the rules are different for them. Personally, I don't like that; I'd rather politicians not fuck off all the time during their term. But we're talking about a world where Congress takes the entire month of August off and has a four day work-week, and I believe don't meet between mid/late November and mid/late January. John Kerry missed something like 80% of Senate votes while campaigning for the presidency (may have been lower, but it was definitely over 50%). If they're going to campaign and such they shouldn't accept a salary for it.
I think McCain, Obama, and the rest all should have to resign from their posts to campaign. If they don't win, tough shit, they can make a living overcharging for speaking engagements. Then during the campaign they'll be replaced and someone will actually do the job. I'd allow an exception for reasonable campaigning during re-election attempts, but only if they agree to term limit the Congress.:)
The only other occasion I can think of off the top of my head where something like this happened is when the World Wrestling Federation tried to lawyer the (much older) World Wildlife Fund out of its right to use "WWF". What is it they call the giant men who grope each other these days? I can't recall, but it certainly doesn't have an "F" at the end of it.
Um, no, and you're really, really off base here.
They had an agreement that allowed the wrestling-WWF to use the "WWF" so long as they didn't step on the wildlife-WWF's toes in any way. Then after a while the wrestling-WWF started doing stuff that the wildlife-WWF didn't like as they got more "racy" and, well, basically turned into "let's see how far we can go!" type stuff (including, and I'm not kidding, an 80 year old former female wrestler giving birth to an adult human hand). The wildlife-WWF didn't want to be associated with that sort of junk(understandable at this point), and sued to have them stop using "WWF". At no point did the wrestling-WWF initiate any sort of lawyering against the wildlife-WWF. Now they call themselves "World Wrestling Entertainment." I mean, hell -- would YOU want to be associated with them?
The "WWE" has enough facts that make them look like a bunch of creeps that there's no need to spread falsehoods (even if it's not intentional) about them. It's basically Jackass in tights without the funny. I mean, really -- adult human hand birthing? And that's just ONE of the absurd things I can think of off the top of my head... and those are limited to just the few horrifically stupid and atrocious things I know of that they did. Fortunately, the stupid epidemic is wearing off and their ratings have been in decline. Unfortunately, their viewership seems to be watching American Idol instead...
Er, you do know there's a (far kookier) religion called the Nation of Islam, right? It's not the same as Islam. I'm not disagreeing with your point about Islamic nations, though.
"Sites that split one-page articles into 11 webpages" = on the list of Most Annoying Webpages. I wish slashdot would knock it off with the links to them. I go to RTFA, see "Page 1 2 3 4 5..." and immediately close the tab. Sorry, but that would mean loading their 100kb page eleven times for 1kb of text. Not worth it when I already know what software irritates me. Yes, I have broadband, but I also have better shit to do (like make this comment!).
I hate saying this, but at least blogs put all the content on one page, with at most a "click to read more" link so as to not overrun the main page. Sure, 99.999...% of blogs are crap, but 100% of sites that break up their content like ZDnet does are crap.
I agree, on all points. Anyone that suspicious either is nuts or has reason to be suspicious, and either way, they are in trouble.
I'd like to know why "booting from a Linux CD" isn't an option, though. Even if she has to use Windows for something work related, if she's doing anything where she wants privacy, what's wrong with a LiveCD? You can use AIM and Firefox. A LiveCD and a thumbdrive she can hide for files would work pretty well for that, and she doesn't have to be that bright to do it.
I use Ubuntu, and 8.04 also shipped with FF3beta. Which surprised me mostly because 8.04 is the long-term-support version. I always got the impression that means it's built to be as stable as possible.
I don't really mind less mature software myself, for my personal desktop, as long as it's reasonable. I've not really had a problem with FF3b myself, yet, so that's all fine with me. I'm really glad we have the diversity among distros, though -- it's one of the things that appealed to me about Linux before the switch over from Windows.
As for a GAIM version -- blah. I have a few gripes about the current version of pidgin, but GAIM 1.5.whatever* had some infuriatingly stupid limitations.
* I also forget, but it was the "stable" release; GAIM's 2.0s were all betas.
...That's why I'm making comparisons. I played a lot of Doom I and II. I could probably still find my way around the first three episodes of Doom I and the first half or so of Doom II. Do you remember any of the enemies other than the Imp and Zombie Marines? Like, say, the ones with horns?
I don't remember anything about the Doom movie that was really specific to Doom, other than the first-person scene, and the Imp-like alien.
I agree that Mugabe and the like need to go, and so do the voters in Zimbabwe, but I don't know that population control is necessary. There are population issues in China and India, as well, and they manage to avoid the same sort of hell that a lot of Africa is in.
Education, infrastructure, and Mugabe hanging by his feet like a piñata would be a good start.
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The same people who are paying all of the Senators and House members that are campaigning for McCain, Obama, and Clinton, and the same people who were paying the same politicians in 2004, 2000, 1996, 1992, ... etc:
:)
People paying federal income tax.
The difference is, Bush is very much a public figure and a politician, and the rules are different for them. Personally, I don't like that; I'd rather politicians not fuck off all the time during their term. But we're talking about a world where Congress takes the entire month of August off and has a four day work-week, and I believe don't meet between mid/late November and mid/late January. John Kerry missed something like 80% of Senate votes while campaigning for the presidency (may have been lower, but it was definitely over 50%). If they're going to campaign and such they shouldn't accept a salary for it.
I think McCain, Obama, and the rest all should have to resign from their posts to campaign. If they don't win, tough shit, they can make a living overcharging for speaking engagements. Then during the campaign they'll be replaced and someone will actually do the job. I'd allow an exception for reasonable campaigning during re-election attempts, but only if they agree to term limit the Congress.
I get the feeling it's how well known his characters are. I imagine far, far more people know who Mario is than any one of Miyazaki's characters.
When I called for examples, I was speaking of government monopolies designed to financially enrich people to the exclusion of others.
;)
Do Congressional "self-pay-raise" policies count?
I'll do you one better with video:
http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/80-year-old-mae-young-gives-birth-to-a-human-hand/6934915/
(When I found that typing "WWE birth hand" I thought to myself, "Damn, Google is amazing.")
The only other occasion I can think of off the top of my head where something like this happened is when the World Wrestling Federation tried to lawyer the (much older) World Wildlife Fund out of its right to use "WWF". What is it they call the giant men who grope each other these days? I can't recall, but it certainly doesn't have an "F" at the end of it.
Um, no, and you're really, really off base here.
They had an agreement that allowed the wrestling-WWF to use the "WWF" so long as they didn't step on the wildlife-WWF's toes in any way. Then after a while the wrestling-WWF started doing stuff that the wildlife-WWF didn't like as they got more "racy" and, well, basically turned into "let's see how far we can go!" type stuff (including, and I'm not kidding, an 80 year old former female wrestler giving birth to an adult human hand). The wildlife-WWF didn't want to be associated with that sort of junk(understandable at this point), and sued to have them stop using "WWF". At no point did the wrestling-WWF initiate any sort of lawyering against the wildlife-WWF. Now they call themselves "World Wrestling Entertainment." I mean, hell -- would YOU want to be associated with them?
The "WWE" has enough facts that make them look like a bunch of creeps that there's no need to spread falsehoods (even if it's not intentional) about them. It's basically Jackass in tights without the funny. I mean, really -- adult human hand birthing? And that's just ONE of the absurd things I can think of off the top of my head... and those are limited to just the few horrifically stupid and atrocious things I know of that they did. Fortunately, the stupid epidemic is wearing off and their ratings have been in decline. Unfortunately, their viewership seems to be watching American Idol instead...
You could just e-mail yourself the link. Not that this post has hurt your karma any, just a suggestion.
I do that for trivial things I want to share between Windows/Linux/different computers (ie, things not worth getting out a thumb drive for.)
Er, you do know there's a (far kookier) religion called the Nation of Islam, right? It's not the same as Islam. I'm not disagreeing with your point about Islamic nations, though.
So they're going to consider that the console that is ACTUALLY better for the environment isn't, and end up with a worse console?
Good job, Greenpeace!
I agree.
..." and immediately close the tab. Sorry, but that would mean loading their 100kb page eleven times for 1kb of text. Not worth it when I already know what software irritates me. Yes, I have broadband, but I also have better shit to do (like make this comment!).
"Sites that split one-page articles into 11 webpages" = on the list of Most Annoying Webpages. I wish slashdot would knock it off with the links to them. I go to RTFA, see "Page 1 2 3 4 5
I hate saying this, but at least blogs put all the content on one page, with at most a "click to read more" link so as to not overrun the main page. Sure, 99.999...% of blogs are crap, but 100% of sites that break up their content like ZDnet does are crap.
This doesn't really conflict with what I said.
"If you have to monitor someone, you don't trust them."
And staying stuck in that relationship isn't healthy. Even the Catholic church allows for divorce in the case of adultery.
Dear "Offtopic" Moderator:
Learn to read. I'm clarifying that I want to know something about the topic. That's pretty on topic. I mean, seriously:
"I want to know why:" followed by a line from the summary is offtopic? Whatever you're smoking, you better be sharing.
No, I'm pretty sure GP had that firmly in mind... ;)
There's a huge difference between "she doesn't change the oil" and "I need to monitor every keystroke she makes."
If you need to monitor everything someone does then you don't trust them.
There's a reason I directly quoted the summary; I recognize THAT it's not an option. Why it's not an option is the question.
I agree, on all points. Anyone that suspicious either is nuts or has reason to be suspicious, and either way, they are in trouble.
I'd like to know why "booting from a Linux CD" isn't an option, though. Even if she has to use Windows for something work related, if she's doing anything where she wants privacy, what's wrong with a LiveCD? You can use AIM and Firefox. A LiveCD and a thumbdrive she can hide for files would work pretty well for that, and she doesn't have to be that bright to do it.
Shit, does that mean the PIAA is going to start suing me?
I must correct you, sir.
The kiss of death is Uwe Boll.
Ubuntu has some policy against changing version numbers in a version of Ubuntu. I'm not really sure why, myself.
I believe you're right about that being the first version to correspond to Pidgin.
Oh, okay. It was based on the one game I didn't play (hell I even have the N64 version).
Then the Doom movie has my permission to suck. As you were.
I use Ubuntu, and 8.04 also shipped with FF3beta. Which surprised me mostly because 8.04 is the long-term-support version. I always got the impression that means it's built to be as stable as possible.
I don't really mind less mature software myself, for my personal desktop, as long as it's reasonable. I've not really had a problem with FF3b myself, yet, so that's all fine with me. I'm really glad we have the diversity among distros, though -- it's one of the things that appealed to me about Linux before the switch over from Windows.
As for a GAIM version -- blah. I have a few gripes about the current version of pidgin, but GAIM 1.5.whatever* had some infuriatingly stupid limitations.
* I also forget, but it was the "stable" release; GAIM's 2.0s were all betas.
They had enough to get themselves on the UN Human Rights Council.
Yeah, isn't Debian about the only distro that makes a release using only thoroughly "stable" code?
I tried the preview release of Fedora 9 and found that the new Konsole - has less features!
They must have picked up some Gnome developers!
-- Khaed, who is still looking for the preferences in Gnome Screensaver.
...That's why I'm making comparisons. I played a lot of Doom I and II. I could probably still find my way around the first three episodes of Doom I and the first half or so of Doom II. Do you remember any of the enemies other than the Imp and Zombie Marines? Like, say, the ones with horns?
I don't remember anything about the Doom movie that was really specific to Doom, other than the first-person scene, and the Imp-like alien.
I agree that Mugabe and the like need to go, and so do the voters in Zimbabwe, but I don't know that population control is necessary. There are population issues in China and India, as well, and they manage to avoid the same sort of hell that a lot of Africa is in.
Education, infrastructure, and Mugabe hanging by his feet like a piñata would be a good start.