It's a voting machine. It's pretty easy to design it from the ground up. All it has to do is count. It's not an unreasonable requirement. What it does is rule out overly complex solutions. I don't know why the US can't just pay some people to count the votes.
Is counting a vote really so costly that you could not say afford to pay someone I dunno, lets pick something unreasonable like a dollar to count a vote. Lets say you count the votes 3 times, and every single man woman and child in the US votes.
You are looking at something like 1 billion dollars.
Or, 3 dollars per person, or lets say 25 cents a month to have a democracy.
If a democracy isn't 25 cents per month more valuable than other forms of governance perhaps we should scrap the whole experiment and declare it a failure.
Athiests dont have religious beliefs. Thus people are able to critize our beliefs and we not theirs. i get this shit all the time, whenever some idiot says something ridiculous and then hides behind religion. Religion gets exempted all the time for their beliefis but athiests are never given the same benefit. Take for example Contenscious Objector status, you aren't allowed to object on a rational framework that killing is immoral, only a deeply held religious belief.
Other great examples are bicycle helmet exemptions for sikhs. Or multiple wife exceptions for Muslim immigrants (in Canada). Religious exemptions just go to show how trivial and unimportant our laws are, basically saying if you believe in a fairy tale then you dont have to follow the law.
I forgot how the gov't forces us to use open source applications. And shuts down the press when they talk about commercial software. China has almost nothing to do with communism anymore, and a whole lot more to do with fascism.
Exactly. I mean its not like you could build a brick box that would provide boyant for the weight of wall and then build the wall on top of the box.
I think the analogy you are looking for is "It's like building a battleship on the ocean".
Personal music copying is legit, and bought and paid for through media levies.
Why would I ever buy from Apple/other DRM music provider for an extra 99 cents what I've already bought from my friends on BitTorrent.
Faster, better selection, and a more flexible format.
Yeah, he just wrote the book on how to detect rootkits, and play with the internals of Windows. Maybe Warner Von Braun isn't the rocket scientist slashdot makes him out to be. I'm sure that cutting and pasting text from a EULA would be beyond him.
I used to work for a company that paid people to manually post these spam comments. This was back in early 2000 though and the spam comments were for a pump and dump stock scam. (At least, for the day I worked there this is what I figured out).
Both non-integrated, and non-hierarchical. It is the relation that defines the organization of the data. It sounds more like they patented relational databases than XML.
Does anyone realize that when fossil fuels are burnt to supply electricity it is usually coal and not oil/natural gas?
Next point, instead of no one being able to use electricity why don't we tell a few hippies to shut up and build a nuke or build a hydroelectric dam.
Everyone switching to a Pentium M won't do shit to oil consumption. The solution is to tell the hippies to shut up and start building some nukes.
We don't need to find alternative energy sources, we just need to get rid of the red tape and let the power infrastructure be built. When gas prices go high enough the market will signal that the time is right for the change.
The irony of global warming is that a few degrees increase in heat would probably dramatically lower the oil consumption in the US. Plus, I live in Canada, to tell you the truth I'd be pretty happy if it was 10 degrees warmer in the winter. The only countries that really need to worry are countries that are starving to death anyways. For Europe and North America warming will be a big boon.
No.
Entrapment is the police repeatedly asking you to do something illegal.
Putting tracking devices in movies does not ENCOURAGE you to break the law.
A good example of entrapment would be something like sending you a copy of the DVD screener and then sending an undercover officer to your door telling you he'll give you $10,000 dollars to make him a copy.
The problem is that the planet exists on such a massive scale and with so many inputs that frankly it is beyond anyones comprehension how it works exactly. If you move the date of "industrialization" from 1700 to 1500, suddenly, temperatures have cooled since the start of industrialization. Also, living in Canada I could give two shits about it being warmer. All it means is we'll have more water to sell to the dehydrated rest of the world, and as long as we let the yanks in on our little scheme no one is going to f with us.
Oh and whatever will we do if the ocean becomes more acidic. Maybe dump some tums in the ocean. Let me put it this way, when global warming becomes a problem, we'll build a machine to fix it. Thats the thing about humanity, if we can build something to make the problem we can build something to fix it.
Also, if the China, Africa and India want to eat in the next 25 years, they better start hoping the northern parts of Canada and Russia become arable.
As soon as animal rights activists stop taking all the modern medicine that is based off animal research and found their own line of "pure" science using only human research, I'll start listening to them.
I'd kill to be able to efficiently run ASP.NET on Linux.
VS.NET is an excellent dev environment with good tools but Windows 2003 is clunky as a server. And MS SQL is a lot of money for a whole bunch of features most people never use. (I'm talking about federated databases, clustering, etc., NOT transactions, stored procs, etc)
Install XP Professional (maybe Home too) / Windows 2000 / Windows 2003
Install IIS & Front Page Extensions from Windows Components installer (Control Panel -> Add / Remove Software -> Windows Components)
Install Web Matrix or VS.NET.
Develop, Deploy, Serve.
Seriously, I've gotten Samsung's Linux drivers to work in OpenBSD with out emulation. Their printers work like a charm with cups + ghostscript. Even works with Windows via Samba.
Something like this: Samsung ML-2250 is what I would recommend because it supports PCL6 and has memory upgradable using standard SODIMM laptop ram. The GDI printers work great too they just offload too much work on to the CPU.
Actually a Chinook skycrane should be able to lift the volume of popcorn you'd need. Fabricate a large canvas bag to hold the popcorn and a quick release mechanism. Lift bag over target, release. While not quiest, it is quick enough to make up the difference. You'd probably be looking at around $2000-$5000 to rent the helicopter for an hour.
I'd rent an industrial size garbage bin or other large container and fill it with the appropriate amount of kernels and use steel tubes with holes drilled in them to work as a large scale range. Place tubes under container, hook up to propane tank + regulator, ignite.
As for delivery there isn't a very good silent way to deliver the popcorn, probably the best idea would be to use a compressed air gun and front end loader to load the hopper.
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It's a voting machine. It's pretty easy to design it from the ground up. All it has to do is count. It's not an unreasonable requirement. What it does is rule out overly complex solutions. I don't know why the US can't just pay some people to count the votes.
Is counting a vote really so costly that you could not say afford to pay someone I dunno, lets pick something unreasonable like a dollar to count a vote. Lets say you count the votes 3 times, and every single man woman and child in the US votes.
You are looking at something like 1 billion dollars.
Or, 3 dollars per person, or lets say 25 cents a month to have a democracy.
If a democracy isn't 25 cents per month more valuable than other forms of governance perhaps we should scrap the whole experiment and declare it a failure.
what if I link to MS code with out a license? same thing. except getting sued into oblivion. instead of having to rewrite some GPL code.
Athiests dont have religious beliefs. Thus people are able to critize our beliefs and we not theirs. i get this shit all the time, whenever some idiot says something ridiculous and then hides behind religion. Religion gets exempted all the time for their beliefis but athiests are never given the same benefit. Take for example Contenscious Objector status, you aren't allowed to object on a rational framework that killing is immoral, only a deeply held religious belief. Other great examples are bicycle helmet exemptions for sikhs. Or multiple wife exceptions for Muslim immigrants (in Canada). Religious exemptions just go to show how trivial and unimportant our laws are, basically saying if you believe in a fairy tale then you dont have to follow the law.
I forgot how the gov't forces us to use open source applications. And shuts down the press when they talk about commercial software. China has almost nothing to do with communism anymore, and a whole lot more to do with fascism.
Exactly. I mean its not like you could build a brick box that would provide boyant for the weight of wall and then build the wall on top of the box. I think the analogy you are looking for is "It's like building a battleship on the ocean".
Personal music copying is legit, and bought and paid for through media levies. Why would I ever buy from Apple/other DRM music provider for an extra 99 cents what I've already bought from my friends on BitTorrent. Faster, better selection, and a more flexible format.
Imagine how much that would piss off RMS. If only I had mod points.
Yeah, he just wrote the book on how to detect rootkits, and play with the internals of Windows. Maybe Warner Von Braun isn't the rocket scientist slashdot makes him out to be. I'm sure that cutting and pasting text from a EULA would be beyond him.
I used to work for a company that paid people to manually post these spam comments. This was back in early 2000 though and the spam comments were for a pump and dump stock scam. (At least, for the day I worked there this is what I figured out).
RDBMS systems do it all day long.
Both non-integrated, and non-hierarchical. It is the relation that defines the organization of the data. It sounds more like they patented relational databases than XML.
Does anyone realize that when fossil fuels are burnt to supply electricity it is usually coal and not oil/natural gas?
Next point, instead of no one being able to use electricity why don't we tell a few hippies to shut up and build a nuke or build a hydroelectric dam.
Everyone switching to a Pentium M won't do shit to oil consumption. The solution is to tell the hippies to shut up and start building some nukes.
We don't need to find alternative energy sources, we just need to get rid of the red tape and let the power infrastructure be built. When gas prices go high enough the market will signal that the time is right for the change.
The irony of global warming is that a few degrees increase in heat would probably dramatically lower the oil consumption in the US. Plus, I live in Canada, to tell you the truth I'd be pretty happy if it was 10 degrees warmer in the winter. The only countries that really need to worry are countries that are starving to death anyways. For Europe and North America warming will be a big boon.
pwned. dude i can see your server on fire from here.
No. Entrapment is the police repeatedly asking you to do something illegal. Putting tracking devices in movies does not ENCOURAGE you to break the law. A good example of entrapment would be something like sending you a copy of the DVD screener and then sending an undercover officer to your door telling you he'll give you $10,000 dollars to make him a copy.
Just run a copy of VMWare in Linux. Problem solved. I used to run it on a 2nd monitor, worked great.
Java might be a good idea. Lots of tools available for free, and isn't domain specific like PHP.
Yeah, with Windows you pay $325 up front.
The problem is that the planet exists on such a massive scale and with so many inputs that frankly it is beyond anyones comprehension how it works exactly. If you move the date of "industrialization" from 1700 to 1500, suddenly, temperatures have cooled since the start of industrialization. Also, living in Canada I could give two shits about it being warmer. All it means is we'll have more water to sell to the dehydrated rest of the world, and as long as we let the yanks in on our little scheme no one is going to f with us. Oh and whatever will we do if the ocean becomes more acidic. Maybe dump some tums in the ocean. Let me put it this way, when global warming becomes a problem, we'll build a machine to fix it. Thats the thing about humanity, if we can build something to make the problem we can build something to fix it. Also, if the China, Africa and India want to eat in the next 25 years, they better start hoping the northern parts of Canada and Russia become arable.
I guess OS X must be REALLY insecure then.
There is a big difference between RSS being a security risk and a bad implementation of an RSS reader and poor security model being insecure.
As soon as animal rights activists stop taking all the modern medicine that is based off animal research and found their own line of "pure" science using only human research, I'll start listening to them.
I'd kill to be able to efficiently run ASP.NET on Linux.
VS.NET is an excellent dev environment with good tools but Windows 2003 is clunky as a server. And MS SQL is a lot of money for a whole bunch of features most people never use. (I'm talking about federated databases, clustering, etc., NOT transactions, stored procs, etc)
Install XP Professional (maybe Home too) / Windows 2000 / Windows 2003 Install IIS & Front Page Extensions from Windows Components installer (Control Panel -> Add / Remove Software -> Windows Components) Install Web Matrix or VS.NET. Develop, Deploy, Serve.
Seriously, I've gotten Samsung's Linux drivers to work in OpenBSD with out emulation. Their printers work like a charm with cups + ghostscript. Even works with Windows via Samba. Something like this: Samsung ML-2250 is what I would recommend because it supports PCL6 and has memory upgradable using standard SODIMM laptop ram. The GDI printers work great too they just offload too much work on to the CPU.
Actually a Chinook skycrane should be able to lift the volume of popcorn you'd need. Fabricate a large canvas bag to hold the popcorn and a quick release mechanism. Lift bag over target, release. While not quiest, it is quick enough to make up the difference. You'd probably be looking at around $2000-$5000 to rent the helicopter for an hour.
I'd rent an industrial size garbage bin or other large container and fill it with the appropriate amount of kernels and use steel tubes with holes drilled in them to work as a large scale range. Place tubes under container, hook up to propane tank + regulator, ignite. As for delivery there isn't a very good silent way to deliver the popcorn, probably the best idea would be to use a compressed air gun and front end loader to load the hopper.
Taking the power out of the wind reduces wind speed. This could affect things like planetary heat redistribution, reduced precipitation, etc.