Bud, I live in the sticks, tobacco farmers, factory workers, dope growers/manufacturers and people drawing a check off of uncle sam is who lives in my neighborhood (if you can call it that)
Christ man! Where's your heart? Controlled by my brain and limited by my wallet
Would you really want poor people in your neighborhood to have no access to medical services? Wouldn't mind these if they weren't abused (by illegals in CA) and actually worked. Hang out at an ER at night and see how many "poor" come in with stuff that could be handled much cheaper at a normal doctors office (or health dept) during normal hours and is not an emergency. Plus, I like not having a French or Canadian medical system where only the rich can get competent care in a timely manner by going to other countries
For poor kids to not be offered a publicly funded education? Free public education for K-12 is a valid expense I have no problem paying, head start is a drain of money that produces no results in the classroom. Not sure why it exisits other than providing child care, which could be done much cheaper without certified teachers
If I could chop away at the budget, the military would be one of my first candidates. Hope you (and the rest of the free world) speak Arabic or Chinese and have no problem betraying your country(ies). National defense is one of the things the Constitution specifically tells the Federal Gov't to do.
I'm talking about my portion that goes to New Deal and Great Society programs (Social Security, Medi*, Head Start, et al.) Frankly, I enjoy roads, fire depts (I live in a volunteer fire dept area anyways), a strong military, and a reasonable police force, I have no qualms paying for them, its the freeloaders I'm pissed about.
One question, do you have a problem with Greenpeace, the AFL-CIO, or the Bhudist Monks Association making political donations? If so you are showing some extreme hipocracy. I'm all for making eligible voters the only legal campaign contributors (with unlimited amounts BTW), but until the law is changed to stop all "group" donations, be it the NRA or the NOW or Greenpeace or Halibutron, don't try to restrict someones right to free speech based on their wealth.
Don't know where you live but the war is still going on around my ranch, Crank (methamphetamine), booby-trapped pot patches (on other peoples and/or federal land), docs prescribing OxyContin (Hillbilly Heroin/OC) like vitamins and that lovely "hard" narcotics (Coke, Heroin) trade traveling the interstate. I frankly would enjoy not stepping into the path of someones homemade claymore mine if I decide to go hunting and I really could do without my Crankhead neighbor killing me or my family on the road. No sane person would legalize heroin, cocaine or meth, so we need to maintain severe penalties on anyone using or profiting from their use.
is much more akin to what went wrong with marxism/leninism than single payer healthcare.
Its a slipery slope, FDR started this BS with the new deal in the 30's, widows and orphans assistance, which has balloned into a big-ass drain on my paycheck that I'll never get a penny of. LBJ continued with socialism lite with the great society, paying (and feeding and housing) people to not work. In 70 years we have gone from a pull yourselves up by the bootstraps mentality to "ho hum, if I screw up, the gov't will take care of me" . That is highly dangerous and leads to nothing but class warfare, which is beneficial if you are trying to start a workers revolt to set up your communist paradise, but deadly to a country that should reward greatness.
I really wish there was a way I could sign a contract that says "I will not use the socialist services provided by the gov't and I refuse to pay for them" and not go to the pen for tax evasion.
Communism had its chance, it proved itself a failure at Plymouth in the 1620's and we watched it crumble in the 80's, let it die, it has proven itself worthless to humanity time and time again.
Tic-Tac-Toe playing chicken is a drawing point for residents of Natchez, MS, Reno, NV and Cherokee, NC, which I have personally lost to. On a side note, I did get to watch a de-clawed bear slap the hell out of a hillbilly that day, so it was a good one for my ten-year-old mind at the time.
This test device uses a long lived isotope. It is conceivable that someone might find a short lived isotope that could detonate, and then in an hour or day, the radiation levels would fall back to background levels. Frankly, 31 years makes these prototypes useless in a tactical manner, much the same as a pure fission weapon is worthless if you want to hold ground, but can save millions of lives if used strategically, like in WWII. I also take issue to your assertion that islamists aren't trying to build nukes. Iraq, Iran, and Pakistan have all sought or have active nuke programs in the last 10 years, and are a signifigant threat.
*cough* USA invades Iraq TWICE in 12 years *cough* Where is my cheap oil then?
Frankly, I would pay double price for a gallon of gas if it didn't have any Middle East crude in it, but I'm in the minority around here.
Yes the US, NATO countries and the former soviet republics have WMD's, but they have never invaded a neighbor for oil and port access or turned said wmd's against rebellions in their own country. Trying to equate the barbaric Huissein regime with any civilized society is an affront to humanity and submission to his vileness. As much as I hated the USSR and its socialist brethern, at least they knew better than to use such things, as opposed to fanatical islamists who seek to destroy all of Judeo-Christian society who should be their brethren if they followed their prophet.
Heck, I'd just like to see my ISP accept CHAP logons From the freeradius FAQ
4.4.1 But CHAP is more secure, isn't it?
Not really.
Q: Does Section 4.4 really mean I must leave a file lying around with
cleartext passwords for the more than 400 people who'll be using this
thing?
A: Yes.
So what do ISP with (tens of?) thousands of customers do?
You have 2 choices:
1. You allow CHAP and store all the passwords plaintext.
Advantage: passwords don't go cleartext over the phone line between
the user and the terminal server. Disadvantage: You have to
store the passwords in cleartext on the server.
2. You don't allow CHAP, just PAP. Advantage: you don't store
cleartext passwords on your system. Disadvantage: passwords go
in cleartext over the phone line between the user and the terminal server.
Now, people say CHAP is more secure. Now you decide which is more likely:
- the phone line between the user and the terminal server gets sniffed
and a cracker (a GOOD one) intercepts just one password
- your radius server is hacked into and a cracker gets ALL passwords
of ALL users.
Right. Still think CHAP is more secure ? I thought so.
This is a limitation of the CHAP protocol itself, not the RADIUS
protocol. The CHAP protocol *requires* that you store the passwords in
plain-text format.
You think UUNET or AT&T encrypts that traffic on transcontinental fiber runs? PGP is not a fair comparison but it is the least likely to be used by the general public. You can TLS/SSL POP/IMAP/Webmail all day long but that traffic is sent unencrypted over SMTP if it ever leaves your ISP's datacenter
thanks and on the education note, the local schools just got their "report card" back today. I happened to have my scores from the same test lying around in one of my annuals so I decided to make some comparisons. The schools have lost ground to the national average despite having nearly $2000/pupil more than when I attended, and to top it off, vouchers wouldn't do me any good for my (hypothetical) kids, as I live in the boonies where there is no such thing as school choice. I'm seriously thinking about running for the school board just to get a slice of the gravy train since it isn't about education anymore. Stupid NEA, the most worthless of the labor unions!
But the effect is the same...Joe Sixpack's mail just got read. BTW, I work at a mom and pop, we are 1% of AOL's size, but it still means we get the same fscking irate calls and stupid breakage as any other ISP, plus the pressure of the company CEO being right down the hall when the quanno hits the blades.
If they get one of microsoft's private keys whats to stop a hacker from getting mom and pop ISP's private key. No system is completly safe, hell, even the FSF have had a rooted FTP server for 5 months. I'm no MSFT apologist, but lets be realistic here.
I'll take 128-bit RSA over plaintext IMAP, POP3, and SMTP anyday. Joe Six Pack isn't sophisticated enough to use GPG/PGP or Client side certs, most ISP's don't offer TLS mail services, but that little lock icon keeps his pr0n, email forwards, and industrial espionage from being snooped by big brother.
The contaigion was controled by moving infected individuals to TB hospitals. While the method is harsh, it was the only way some communities had from keeping the disease from wiping out entire towns. Leprosy has been controlled in much the same way throughout history as well and most plans for modern smallpox attacks do have strict quarantines to try and limit exposure to the bulk of society.
I'm talking about unlimited hard money to canidates/parties with no soft money. People can still decide to vote as a block, the unions or the NRA are free to hand out voter guides or produce independent ads, but the parties and canidates can have no direct or indirect money except from eligible voters.
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and I'm sure Clinton and his ambulance-chasing buddies had nothing to gain from a witch-hunt against tobacco.
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But who else did you have to choose from, McCain can't afford to kill Social Security, Gore and Nader are most definitely not what you are looking for and Buchannon and Philips, while great men, have no way to get elected.
Some of us screamed and shouted that M-F CFRA was a bad plan from the begining, but no one listened.
I'm much more in favor of individuals making unlimited donations but no group donations at all, no NRA, no labor unions, no Greenpeace, and no Halibutron, since they can't vote, they should not be able to fund canidates, but that might get some people in a tizzy on both sides of the asile and Nader wouldn't like it either.
I'd agree to a term limit amendment if it went something like this..
President - 3 4 year terms
Senator - 2 6 year terms
Representative 6 2 year terms
that gives you at most 42 years in Washington (assuming we kept the same rules on replacement terms for your predecessor dying or resigning), it is not fair that the president is term limited but congress isn't but it has to be done with an admendment to be done right.
I would have applauded greatly if every dollars worth of tax cut had been met with a $1.01 of spending cuts, but at wartime that is a little hard to pull off if you are gunning for reelection next year. Bush will have 4 years with a republican congress to really test out Reganomics in an environment similar to Reagan's second term and I for one will gladly take a 3.75 year massive economic growth period 84-4Q87 (and 3 years of moderate growth until the 1990 tax increase) with another 6-9 month recession if it means my retirement will double itself in that time and I can afford to buy a home and a truck every 3-5 years. First on Bush's choping block on Jan 21 2005 should be the eventual planned phaseout of all of FDR and JBJ's socialist pork. That alone would help the american economy much more than finding those 1000 $600 hammers
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Yes the republicans spent more, but they had more canidates in races, like senate seats, 33 (or 34) seats come up every two years but there were 34 republicans and 30 democrats running in this senate cycle, so the republicans had to spend more to fend off serious challenges to their 49 seats and attempt to pick up seats in disputed areas to get a senate majority back. check this page for the details on the counts of runners.
incumbents tend to win, if they are the best qualified canidate, why shouldn't they?
As for emotional labeling, I was just stating my positions. I still stand by the statement that labor unions do not support their members beliefs by blindly supporting democrat canidates and that it is the liberals who rely on big ticket donors to survive, not 200-1000 donations from Joe and Jane Sixpack
ding ding ding we have a winner folks. But to extend your analogy, what kills more people, breast cancer or colon cancer? Want to take a guess on what has more funding on how to cure it? I won't even go into the whole "We need an AIDS cure yesterday camp" could be solved the same way we controlled leprosy and tuberculosis before we had the marvels of modern science.
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Bud, I live in the sticks, tobacco farmers, factory workers, dope growers/manufacturers and people drawing a check off of uncle sam is who lives in my neighborhood (if you can call it that)
Let's take it point by point
Christ man! Where's your heart?
Controlled by my brain and limited by my wallet
Would you really want poor people in your neighborhood to have no access to medical services?
Wouldn't mind these if they weren't abused (by illegals in CA) and actually worked. Hang out at an ER at night and see how many "poor" come in with stuff that could be handled much cheaper at a normal doctors office (or health dept) during normal hours and is not an emergency. Plus, I like not having a French or Canadian medical system where only the rich can get competent care in a timely manner by going to other countries
For poor kids to not be offered a publicly funded education?
Free public education for K-12 is a valid expense I have no problem paying, head start is a drain of money that produces no results in the classroom. Not sure why it exisits other than providing child care, which could be done much cheaper without certified teachers
If I could chop away at the budget, the military would be one of my first candidates.
Hope you (and the rest of the free world) speak Arabic or Chinese and have no problem betraying your country(ies). National defense is one of the things the Constitution specifically tells the Federal Gov't to do.
I'm talking about my portion that goes to New Deal and Great Society programs (Social Security, Medi*, Head Start, et al.) Frankly, I enjoy roads, fire depts (I live in a volunteer fire dept area anyways), a strong military, and a reasonable police force, I have no qualms paying for them, its the freeloaders I'm pissed about.
One question, do you have a problem with Greenpeace, the AFL-CIO, or the Bhudist Monks Association making political donations? If so you are showing some extreme hipocracy. I'm all for making eligible voters the only legal campaign contributors (with unlimited amounts BTW), but until the law is changed to stop all "group" donations, be it the NRA or the NOW or Greenpeace or Halibutron, don't try to restrict someones right to free speech based on their wealth.
Don't know where you live but the war is still going on around my ranch, Crank (methamphetamine), booby-trapped pot patches (on other peoples and/or federal land), docs prescribing OxyContin (Hillbilly Heroin/OC) like vitamins and that lovely "hard" narcotics (Coke, Heroin) trade traveling the interstate. I frankly would enjoy not stepping into the path of someones homemade claymore mine if I decide to go hunting and I really could do without my Crankhead neighbor killing me or my family on the road. No sane person would legalize heroin, cocaine or meth, so we need to maintain severe penalties on anyone using or profiting from their use.
is much more akin to what went wrong with marxism/leninism than single payer healthcare.
Its a slipery slope, FDR started this BS with the new deal in the 30's, widows and orphans assistance, which has balloned into a big-ass drain on my paycheck that I'll never get a penny of. LBJ continued with socialism lite with the great society, paying (and feeding and housing) people to not work. In 70 years we have gone from a pull yourselves up by the bootstraps mentality to "ho hum, if I screw up, the gov't will take care of me" . That is highly dangerous and leads to nothing but class warfare, which is beneficial if you are trying to start a workers revolt to set up your communist paradise, but deadly to a country that should reward greatness.
I really wish there was a way I could sign a contract that says "I will not use the socialist services provided by the gov't and I refuse to pay for them" and not go to the pen for tax evasion.
Communism had its chance, it proved itself a failure at Plymouth in the 1620's and we watched it crumble in the 80's, let it die, it has proven itself worthless to humanity time and time again.
Tic-Tac-Toe playing chicken is a drawing point for residents of Natchez, MS, Reno, NV and Cherokee, NC, which I have personally lost to. On a side note, I did get to watch a de-clawed bear slap the hell out of a hillbilly that day, so it was a good one for my ten-year-old mind at the time.
This test device uses a long lived isotope. It is conceivable that someone might find a short lived isotope that could detonate, and then in an hour or day, the radiation levels would fall back to background levels. Frankly, 31 years makes these prototypes useless in a tactical manner, much the same as a pure fission weapon is worthless if you want to hold ground, but can save millions of lives if used strategically, like in WWII. I also take issue to your assertion that islamists aren't trying to build nukes. Iraq, Iran, and Pakistan have all sought or have active nuke programs in the last 10 years, and are a signifigant threat.
*cough* USA invades Iraq TWICE in 12 years *cough*
Where is my cheap oil then?
Frankly, I would pay double price for a gallon of gas if it didn't have any Middle East crude in it, but I'm in the minority around here.
Yes the US, NATO countries and the former soviet republics have WMD's, but they have never invaded a neighbor for oil and port access or turned said wmd's against rebellions in their own country. Trying to equate the barbaric Huissein regime with any civilized society is an affront to humanity and submission to his vileness. As much as I hated the USSR and its socialist brethern, at least they knew better than to use such things, as opposed to fanatical islamists who seek to destroy all of Judeo-Christian society who should be their brethren if they followed their prophet.
From the freeradius FAQ
You think UUNET or AT&T encrypts that traffic on transcontinental fiber runs? PGP is not a fair comparison but it is the least likely to be used by the general public. You can TLS/SSL POP/IMAP/Webmail all day long but that traffic is sent unencrypted over SMTP if it ever leaves your ISP's datacenter
thanks and on the education note, the local schools just got their "report card" back today. I happened to have my scores from the same test lying around in one of my annuals so I decided to make some comparisons. The schools have lost ground to the national average despite having nearly $2000/pupil more than when I attended, and to top it off, vouchers wouldn't do me any good for my (hypothetical) kids, as I live in the boonies where there is no such thing as school choice. I'm seriously thinking about running for the school board just to get a slice of the gravy train since it isn't about education anymore. Stupid NEA, the most worthless of the labor unions!
But the effect is the same...Joe Sixpack's mail just got read. BTW, I work at a mom and pop, we are 1% of AOL's size, but it still means we get the same fscking irate calls and stupid breakage as any other ISP, plus the pressure of the company CEO being right down the hall when the quanno hits the blades.
If they get one of microsoft's private keys whats to stop a hacker from getting mom and pop ISP's private key. No system is completly safe, hell, even the FSF have had a rooted FTP server for 5 months. I'm no MSFT apologist, but lets be realistic here.
I'll take 128-bit RSA over plaintext IMAP, POP3, and SMTP anyday. Joe Six Pack isn't sophisticated enough to use GPG/PGP or Client side certs, most ISP's don't offer TLS mail services, but that little lock icon keeps his pr0n, email forwards, and industrial espionage from being snooped by big brother.
The contaigion was controled by moving infected individuals to TB hospitals. While the method is harsh, it was the only way some communities had from keeping the disease from wiping out entire towns. Leprosy has been controlled in much the same way throughout history as well and most plans for modern smallpox attacks do have strict quarantines to try and limit exposure to the bulk of society.
I'm talking about unlimited hard money to canidates/parties with no soft money. People can still decide to vote as a block, the unions or the NRA are free to hand out voter guides or produce independent ads, but the parties and canidates can have no direct or indirect money except from eligible voters.
and I'm sure Clinton and his ambulance-chasing buddies had nothing to gain from a witch-hunt against tobacco.
But who else did you have to choose from, McCain can't afford to kill Social Security, Gore and Nader are most definitely not what you are looking for and Buchannon and Philips, while great men, have no way to get elected.
I'm much more in favor of individuals making unlimited donations but no group donations at all, no NRA, no labor unions, no Greenpeace, and no Halibutron, since they can't vote, they should not be able to fund canidates, but that might get some people in a tizzy on both sides of the asile and Nader wouldn't like it either.
I'd agree to a term limit amendment if it went something like this..
- President - 3 4 year terms
- Senator - 2 6 year terms
- Representative 6 2 year terms
that gives you at most 42 years in Washington (assuming we kept the same rules on replacement terms for your predecessor dying or resigning), it is not fair that the president is term limited but congress isn't but it has to be done with an admendment to be done right.I would have applauded greatly if every dollars worth of tax cut had been met with a $1.01 of spending cuts, but at wartime that is a little hard to pull off if you are gunning for reelection next year. Bush will have 4 years with a republican congress to really test out Reganomics in an environment similar to Reagan's second term and I for one will gladly take a 3.75 year massive economic growth period 84-4Q87 (and 3 years of moderate growth until the 1990 tax increase) with another 6-9 month recession if it means my retirement will double itself in that time and I can afford to buy a home and a truck every 3-5 years. First on Bush's choping block on Jan 21 2005 should be the eventual planned phaseout of all of FDR and JBJ's socialist pork. That alone would help the american economy much more than finding those 1000 $600 hammers
Yes the republicans spent more, but they had more canidates in races, like senate seats, 33 (or 34) seats come up every two years but there were 34 republicans and 30 democrats running in this senate cycle, so the republicans had to spend more to fend off serious challenges to their 49 seats and attempt to pick up seats in disputed areas to get a senate majority back. check this page for the details on the counts of runners.
incumbents tend to win, if they are the best qualified canidate, why shouldn't they?
As for emotional labeling, I was just stating my positions. I still stand by the statement that labor unions do not support their members beliefs by blindly supporting democrat canidates and that it is the liberals who rely on big ticket donors to survive, not 200-1000 donations from Joe and Jane Sixpack
real versus percieved threats to the long-term survivability of the earth
ding ding ding we have a winner folks. But to extend your analogy, what kills more people, breast cancer or colon cancer? Want to take a guess on what has more funding on how to cure it? I won't even go into the whole "We need an AIDS cure yesterday camp" could be solved the same way we controlled leprosy and tuberculosis before we had the marvels of modern science.