Don't fight this bill, or any other measure of it's type.
Why?
At this point, the only way to stop this is to let it go too far...way too far. Yes, it's a risk, we could end up in a 1984 type situation, but I think it's the only way to wake up the average Joe to the problem.
See, when we fight this in a long, drawn out fashion, the population becomes numbed to the fighting. "Oh, it's just them libruls yellin' again..." We also serve to slow down the societal effects of the bad guys, giving the averate Joe time to get used to it, time to adjust.
But if we let go, the bad guys might get cocky. (They are already, to a great extent.) If they try to take over too fast they could shock the average Joe awake.
Maybe.
I know, to the activist this sounds like insanity. You think you've got to fight as hard as you can to win. Sometimes, though, the best strategy is to let the bull charge past. Then, if you're lucky, you can stab him in the ass.
What you are thinking only helps Glaucoma in the sense that the pressure on the eye is somewhat (temporarily) relieved.
Yeah, and we all know that temporarily alleviating a problem is completely useless and never a good thing.
Damn. Guess I've got to toss all my ibuprofin, asprin, blood pressure meds, cholesterol meds, vitamins... You know, all that stuff you've got to take repeatedly to have any benefit.
Oh, and all that food I have to eat every few hours to, you know, live.
Sorry, but both parties have collected power to the Federal Government through out our history. This process accelerated after the Civil War and continues today.
Right. That's why this announcement happened right after Bush's reelection. And several other announcements from other agencies, all asserting further powers through similar arguments, have also happened...right after the election.
None of it is connected, of course, to the fact that Republicans control the entire government, and that control just became more solid.
So right there that told me A) inertia will keep them using Windows until they die and B) many people think the Mac is the only alternative (and are too expensive)
And it should have told you C) a cheap, reliable computer or internet appliance running Linux could convert them.
But... Keeping red states poor and uninformed is essential to continued right wing dominance of the country. That's why "rural sourcing" will never be allowed to work.
I'm sure having a volatile, quickly burning, quickly dissipating gas is lots more dangerous...
And you'd be surely wrong. See, hydrogen, being the lightest element and thus lighter than air, goes straight up when released. Gasoline vapor density, being heavier than air, causes the vapor to "pool" around the lowest point near the point of release.
Do you want the flammable gasses you use to stick around if they leak out?
Today, scientists can't say anything that appears to agree with the church, because they'll loose their funding, their credibility and possibly their lives.
Oh, please. That's positively delusional.
Give me one, JUST ONE, example of a scientist being killed for expressing an opinion that agrees with a church.
I think it's a bit too early yet to criticise the field of AI for not being scientific. Remember, we humans messed around with electricity for about 70 years before we even found a use for it, let alone understood what caused it. We need to explore, daydream, and play around for a bit before we can get down to some serious science. And, by "a bit," I mean around 50 more years.
And we don't even have powerful enough computers yet to play with. It's kind of like criticising blacksmiths for not having a systematic way to create a 747....there is very little in common between a human and a computer.
Nobody wants to hire a team of ontological engineers to map information they already have in human accessible form into some highly structured, machine parseable format, and pay them to keep that information up-to-date.
Please don't tell that to the company I'm interviewing with on Friday.:)
Are you actually alleging that ALL THREE e-voting vendors - ES&S, Diebold, and Sequoia - have found some way to add votes only to the Republican candidates, undetected?
So, if they were undetected, how could we have a story on/. about them?
And 2/3rds of the stories linked were about a nonpartisan type of failure, which wouldn't necessarily give advantage to either candidate.
With this many fallicies in the first sentence of your post, why should I read the rest?
Besides, suggesting that the election machine companies are acting together is not farfetched. Their ownership is rather tight with each other.
The Democrats were given the "Perfect Storm" election
And yet you still supported the candidate who presided over that perfect storm. Kerry can't help it if there are some people who wouldn't vote for a Democrat even if Bush allowed a nuclear strike on Washington. Just wait, we may yet get to test that...
Besides, the election was just about even, in popular and electoral vote. You say Kerry was unelectable, yet 49% of the voting public disagree with you. YOu clearly show your bias and lack of logic.
But if a God/Creator exists, and is all powerful, then our Universe could have been - actually, must have been - "intelligently designed".
Um, why? The existence of a creator does not mean it had to be an intelligent creator. Just because YOU can't think of a way the universe could be created by an unintelligent creator doesn't mean that it can't be the case.
Hey, I once fixed my mom's Mac by wedging a dime between the motherboard and the case. (There was some odd contact going on there.) That worked for about four years, until the beast was replaced.:)
Um, so what's so different about the fetus's personhood 1 day before the third trimester?
It's not viable, even with serious equipment.
See, the funny thing is this: the very equipment and medical techniques that will allow younger fetuses to live outside the womb will also enable...wait for it...reproductive cloning! Yes, folks, in the name of reducing abortions (if they can't outlaw them completely) conservatives will have to make manufacturing babies a reality. Ain't that the dandiest contradiction.:)
Well, I'm not completely hip on what criteria are used to classify a fossil as being a member of a new species, but that's the point. I'm not about to question an expert in the field based on some random idea. I'm not saying it's not possible for a species' phenotype to be systematically and consistently altered by an environmental vector. Heck no! But you've got to prove it.
And a nutritional deficiency seems like a more persistent and effective way to alter the phenotype than disease. A disease can be evetually overcome, and there's sure to be some immunity within the population.
And the Neanderthal/iodine connection looks interesting. What other predictions, other than skeletal structure, has the theory made? Have they been tested? i.e. were fossils of iodine rich food found for the time period when Neanderthals "died out," for example?
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Don't fight this bill, or any other measure of it's type.
Why?
At this point, the only way to stop this is to let it go too far...way too far. Yes, it's a risk, we could end up in a 1984 type situation, but I think it's the only way to wake up the average Joe to the problem.
See, when we fight this in a long, drawn out fashion, the population becomes numbed to the fighting. "Oh, it's just them libruls yellin' again..." We also serve to slow down the societal effects of the bad guys, giving the averate Joe time to get used to it, time to adjust.
But if we let go, the bad guys might get cocky. (They are already, to a great extent.) If they try to take over too fast they could shock the average Joe awake.
Maybe.
I know, to the activist this sounds like insanity. You think you've got to fight as hard as you can to win. Sometimes, though, the best strategy is to let the bull charge past. Then, if you're lucky, you can stab him in the ass.
All of those make this action by the FCC look minor league.
Oh, so attempting to control the last method of freely and cheaply broadcasting information is "minor league"?
What you are thinking only helps Glaucoma in the sense that the pressure on the eye is somewhat (temporarily) relieved.
Yeah, and we all know that temporarily alleviating a problem is completely useless and never a good thing.
Damn. Guess I've got to toss all my ibuprofin, asprin, blood pressure meds, cholesterol meds, vitamins... You know, all that stuff you've got to take repeatedly to have any benefit.
Oh, and all that food I have to eat every few hours to, you know, live.
Sorry, but both parties have collected power to the Federal Government through out our history. This process accelerated after the Civil War and continues today.
Right. That's why this announcement happened right after Bush's reelection. And several other announcements from other agencies, all asserting further powers through similar arguments, have also happened...right after the election.
None of it is connected, of course, to the fact that Republicans control the entire government, and that control just became more solid.
No, couldn't be connected with that.
So right there that told me A) inertia will keep them using Windows until they die and B) many people think the Mac is the only alternative (and are too expensive)
And it should have told you C) a cheap, reliable computer or internet appliance running Linux could convert them.
You've hit the nail on the head.
But... Keeping red states poor and uninformed is essential to continued right wing dominance of the country. That's why "rural sourcing" will never be allowed to work.
I'm sure having a volatile, quickly burning, quickly dissipating gas is lots more dangerous...
And you'd be surely wrong. See, hydrogen, being the lightest element and thus lighter than air, goes straight up when released. Gasoline vapor density, being heavier than air, causes the vapor to "pool" around the lowest point near the point of release.
Do you want the flammable gasses you use to stick around if they leak out?
Didn't think so...
Today, scientists can't say anything that appears to agree with the church, because they'll loose their funding, their credibility and possibly their lives.
Oh, please. That's positively delusional.
Give me one, JUST ONE, example of a scientist being killed for expressing an opinion that agrees with a church.
Just one. That's all I ask.
Plus, there's that Lobot backstory I'm itching to see.
Reductio ad absurdum is a rhetorical tool of the dark side, padawan. Do not be seduced by it.
New and original ideas surrender, film at 11
What, just because they're exploring a universe and theme and all of it's possibilities, that's uniriginal?
Better stop following that "participating in the human race" idea. It's soooooo passe.
That's 'cause he was fuckin' funny.
d00d, you're getting into a religious fervor here. I refer you back to my blacksmith analogy.
You're saying to the blacksmith, "HAHA! You haven't made a 747 yet!"
Blacksmith says, "I don't have the proper tools. Maybe if I had a better hammer..."
You: "You blacksmiths always say that. HAHA! You'll never make it!"
Eventually a 747 was made. I'll bet, if you'd been around then, you would have criticised the airplane makers every step of the way...
There is no science to their field.
...there is very little in common between a human and a computer.
I think it's a bit too early yet to criticise the field of AI for not being scientific. Remember, we humans messed around with electricity for about 70 years before we even found a use for it, let alone understood what caused it. We need to explore, daydream, and play around for a bit before we can get down to some serious science. And, by "a bit," I mean around 50 more years.
And we don't even have powerful enough computers yet to play with. It's kind of like criticising blacksmiths for not having a systematic way to create a 747.
Uh, yeah. That's why the problem is so hard.
I know! The gall of these people, thinking that a physical system could produce a sentient being! How could they push this snake oil?
Nobody wants to hire a team of ontological engineers to map information they already have in human accessible form into some highly structured, machine parseable format, and pay them to keep that information up-to-date.
:)
Please don't tell that to the company I'm interviewing with on Friday.
The fact of the matter is that if you want to get more information about something, it is easy to go to an outside source to look it up.
The semantic web isn't about human usability. It's about building machine intelligence and knowledge.
I didn't have the receipt when I got my defective laptop power supply replaced. So you're...uh...wrong.
Are you actually alleging that ALL THREE e-voting vendors - ES&S, Diebold, and Sequoia - have found some way to add votes only to the Republican candidates, undetected?
/. about them?
So, if they were undetected, how could we have a story on
And 2/3rds of the stories linked were about a nonpartisan type of failure, which wouldn't necessarily give advantage to either candidate.
With this many fallicies in the first sentence of your post, why should I read the rest?
Besides, suggesting that the election machine companies are acting together is not farfetched. Their ownership is rather tight with each other.
The Democrats were given the "Perfect Storm" election
And yet you still supported the candidate who presided over that perfect storm. Kerry can't help it if there are some people who wouldn't vote for a Democrat even if Bush allowed a nuclear strike on Washington. Just wait, we may yet get to test that...
Besides, the election was just about even, in popular and electoral vote. You say Kerry was unelectable, yet 49% of the voting public disagree with you. YOu clearly show your bias and lack of logic.
But if a God/Creator exists, and is all powerful, then our Universe could have been - actually, must have been - "intelligently designed".
Um, why? The existence of a creator does not mean it had to be an intelligent creator. Just because YOU can't think of a way the universe could be created by an unintelligent creator doesn't mean that it can't be the case.
And you call others arrogant?
As hacky as this sounds, it actually works...
:)
Hey, I once fixed my mom's Mac by wedging a dime between the motherboard and the case. (There was some odd contact going on there.) That worked for about four years, until the beast was replaced.
I'm wondering if they've done enough analysis to see what kinds of medical problems might pop up...
Here, you can test this yourself:
Stick your fingers in your ears and hum.
Dead yet? Keep tryin'...
Yowza!
Um, so what's so different about the fetus's personhood 1 day before the third trimester?
:)
It's not viable, even with serious equipment.
See, the funny thing is this: the very equipment and medical techniques that will allow younger fetuses to live outside the womb will also enable...wait for it...reproductive cloning! Yes, folks, in the name of reducing abortions (if they can't outlaw them completely) conservatives will have to make manufacturing babies a reality. Ain't that the dandiest contradiction.
Well, I'm not completely hip on what criteria are used to classify a fossil as being a member of a new species, but that's the point. I'm not about to question an expert in the field based on some random idea. I'm not saying it's not possible for a species' phenotype to be systematically and consistently altered by an environmental vector. Heck no! But you've got to prove it.
And a nutritional deficiency seems like a more persistent and effective way to alter the phenotype than disease. A disease can be evetually overcome, and there's sure to be some immunity within the population.
And the Neanderthal/iodine connection looks interesting. What other predictions, other than skeletal structure, has the theory made? Have they been tested? i.e. were fossils of iodine rich food found for the time period when Neanderthals "died out," for example?