Screw that, the ISP's aren't in the *AA's pockets, well other than the ones owned by member corps. Independent ISP's like the one I work for detest this kind of garbage, as it is in my opinion a cheap wiretap for the *AA. We keep logs, but they get the info without a court order. Make the *AA and their big money lawyers get a search warrant for our logs, and then it will be fair. Make them pour through a couple of gigs of logs everyday instead of us (Not that it takes a good admin any time to dig through his own logs, but its not my job to do the RIAA's dirty work, I bet they don't even know about grep.). Internet service is the same thing as telephone service, uses the same equipment and carriers, make the legal system use the same set of rules.
EZCDCreator's little task bar utility does suck, I finally killed it and things work great on my XP Pro machine. My CD-RW (TDK 24x10x40) shiped with Nero, but would only encode 5 songs to MP3, so I decided to tell them to piss-off.
...In other news today the MPAA and RIAA, along with Cactus Data Shield corp are invesigating a new DRM technique involving viruses which will not reproduce after a point mutation. RIAA Chairperson Hillary Roasen has this to say "Die you fucking pirates", and now in sports....
Reminds of a fellow undergrad at UK. He moved to KY from one of the Baltic republics (Latvia or Estonia, can't remember) like when he was 13, so he has this wild slavic accent, but uses american slang. I used to think of Pitr from User friendly whenever he would give a talk in our research methods class.
Thats one of the problems with the fractionalization of the political systems here in the US, once you get past state representative races, canidates tend to toe the party line instead of voting in the best interest of their constituency. I lean to the republican side on many issues, but for others I am a bit of a black sheep. One issue with your statement about preventing equal rights for gays. I'm a firm beliver in that our nation needs to respect the rights of all people, as outlined by the Constitution as a whole. What I and many republican's detest is programs that favor one group over another. Hate crimes laws are one example. It shouldn't matter if a person kills someone over money, a signifigant other, their color, their sexual orientation, or for sport. Murder is murder, robbery is robbery, punish the action, not the thoughts of the offender. Affirmative action quotas or incentives is another. A company should feel free to promote, hire, or contract with the individual who will fit best, whether based on talent, merit, or cost. If it does not affect the persons ability to do the job, why should it even be a factor? Personally, if sweeping campaign finance reform was enacted, with strict enforcement, our system of government would work the kninks it has developed since WWII. Ban corporate, union, and lobbyist donations, but allow individuals to donate as much as they chose to a canidate. Remove election subsidizing from the Gov't as well. The polictical parties should only be clearinghouses for information, research, and development of campign materials. Once the stream of money->canidate is established, you will see a cleaner political system where all parties from fringe to mainstream are involved based on their ability to motivate like-minded individuals to support their platform.
Monster and Ebay have passport authenticators too, so that would drive a large number, by taking 3 out of the top 10 web "brands" (Ebay/Monster/M$FT holdings), Microsoft is going to attempt to drive all online purchases through their grubby paws. AOLTW, Yahoo and Amazon need to get the whole liberty alliance going to drive some competition against it (Excite is dying and google has no real interest in any of this hogwash). Not that I trust any of those corps as far as I can throw them, but maybe they can stall the beast for a short period of time.
Nationalized health-care is neither liberal nor non-liberal. It is leftist, granted (and still adopted by most west-european countries, even those without strong socialistish governments).
We already have a good health-care system in the US, even though some reform is needed (Are the drug companies price gouging? Do insurance companies use objective criteria to place patients in their respective risk pools? Are HMO's/PPO's practicing medicine without a license?). A full nationalization could give the US a system similar to the Canadian or French health programs, which don't work and chew an inordinate amount of their national budget for the QoS that is given.
Fear of polluting the globe to death is not limited to liberal or socialists.. I hope
I'm not a big fan of fossil fuels, but its the best solution we have at the momment for personal transportation. I think people would buy a fuel cell/hybrid/full electric if the auto manufacturers actually built a car that looked good, was big enough to tote the family around comfortably, and wasn't a death trap compared to the rest of the vehicles on the road. We do need to reduce our dependence on oil from non-friendly nations, I would love to see an American company say flat out they will only use New World and/or European oil, I think it would draw in people sick of funding terrorists and America bashers. Obectivity needed to be used in the case of ANWR, the plans called for total impacted land as a result of drilling to be less than 2000 acres out of an area the size of South Carolina, I could live with that to add 10% more crude to domestic production. We do need to build more fission plants for bulk electricity as it is the cleanest soultion availabile, but for what dams have been created, hydroelectric generators should be installed to add additional grid capacity.
"Excessive" gun control is a term not commonly understood outside US of A; and certainly controls suggested by Woody & Klingon would be pretty much mainstream anywhere else (and laissez-faire fire arms tactics would be a fringe movement). However, restrictions are seldom related to liberalism... so it's just that people for (sane) gun controls are labeled liberals or communists or whatever; instead of there being ideological connection.
The 1937 and 1968 gun laws placed reasonable restrictions on gun ownership and destructive device possession, those laws ensure that gun and ammunition taxes are funneled into wildlife conservation and keep nutjobs from owning fully automatic weapons (machine guns), unsafe weapons (Zip guns, sawed-off shotguns) and rocket launchers. The 1993 Brady act however had several thorny issues. First of all, banning weapons just based on their outward appearance is just plain silly, guns should be judged based on their usefulness for personal defense or hunting, not because they have an unconvential look. The background check mechanism I don't mind now that it is done in real time, the whole waiting period was not needed. Enforcement of the 1937 and 1968 laws are all that is needed, if those laws were used to the greatest power, if an individual used a gun in a violent manner, they would be confined away from society for a signifigant period of time, like they need to be.
Tax and spend economics are leftist, but not liberal (liberals probably would tend to be somewhere between vulture capitalism and centralized communism).
I don't mind paying taxes, but I would like to see results when my money is poured into a project. I drive on public roads, I enjoy having the worlds greatest armed forces defending our freedoms. At the same time, does Head Start actually help prepare children for school or is it free day care for unfit parents or do welfare recipients utilize the programs available to dig themselves out of poverty to become productive and happy members of society, or are they freeloading off my hard-earned paycheck? Do we need another self-propelled artillery piece or a tilt-wing airplane?
"Abortion-on-demand" is, once again, phrase only understood in religion-ridden countries, plus USA. Having abortion available is the standard in western countries, and except for some of more catholic-oriented countries (Ireland, Italy?) it seldom is considered to be any sort of a problem. Neither socialism nor liberalism has much to say about this subject, although communist countries used to have reasonably loose rules regarding abortion (possibly related to official loathing of religions communist regimes had).
Abortion rides the left wing in the US, especially late-term varieties, both Ms. Rodham-Clinton and Mr. Gore have supported abortion measures, which I was using to demonstrate their leanings.
FWIW, I think that mr. Gore was too much of a corporate and religious-right asskisser (during campaing... probably nothing genuine, I hope), and his wife hysteric "somebody please think of our children" idiot, supporting censorship.
And mrs. Clinton had weird ideas about who actually was voted as the acting president. So my biggest worry would be tarnishing reputation of liberals or socialists, not that these terms were used "against" the aforementioned couple.
Gore is not very realistic when it comes to several environmental issues and his fisical policy, which are my main gripes with the man. As for his supposed ass kissing of the religous right, you must remember he is from the south, and just like Mr. Clinton, he attempted to portray a bit of down-to-earth charm and moderate tendencies by courting these groups. Unfortunately, Clinton had just pulled the same stunt 8 years earlier and everyone remembered how things had changed post election. Gore didn't even win his "home" state because of the clinton backlash (Other than his stint in vietnam and college, I believe his primary residence has been in DC, thanks to his dad, who was a good democrat, much like several others who have been replaced by todays leftist democrats). As for Tipper, let me go on record saying she is a stupid bitch on par with Hillary Rosen. Let the damned market decide what is obscene, if it is, people won't buy it. I mean, would some of the late Beatles albums have been banned from wal-mart because of their blatant drug references? Or how about Jimi Hendrix's violent and sexually explicit songs, would they have carried a warning sticker or have edited versions? As for Hillary, she just seems shady in my book and her policies don't line up well with mine or most of america, but you wacky new yorkers elected her, so she's your problem now.
I call nationalized health care, a fear of the internal combustion engine, tax and spend economics, abortion on demand, and excessive gun control pretty damn liberal and leftist in my book.
True, I build my machines for performance, but I was trying to put Moz at an equal footing with IE, since Windows keeps its html render in memory. The K6-II 300 with 256MB of ram (WinME) is bogged while the preloader is turned on, but I don't mind long boots. One thing I do is to create a "games only" user with everything turned off by default, and I switch to it when I want to frag something
One cool thing about the US GNP is that California could break away, and by itself it would the the worlds No 5 economy by GNP/GDP, with the US remaining No 1.
I got to thinking about this, why couldn't it be merged into a gnutella client that includes a mini firewall, based on arin, these are what I came up with
RIAA: 12.150.191.0 - 12.150.191.255 and 208.225.90.120 (UUNet owned, probably just their webserver)
MPAA: 208.50.66.224 - 208.50.66.255
NetPD: No luck 195.82.115.226 is thier mail server, but that is part of a monster mailhost somewhere in the RIPE teritory, anyone want to help?
Does anyone have a list of these companies netblocks? I'd very much like them firewalled into oblivion. Maybe someone could start a ORBZ like list that could be validated against to block these assholes
I think the point I was trying to make is that the pursuit of proving the Riemann Hypothesis, could generate better pay and a more fruitful life for a youngster instead of trying to get that pro sports contract. Whats a math Ph. D. worth these days average in the US? I'd gamble somewhere around $100,000 a year, but please comment if I'm off by a lot. Even a BS in a science + MA in education starts a person out at $28,000/yr just to teach high school kids around here. Thats not a bad living to start out with (Comes to about 13.50/hr to start, which will beat McDonalds any day) plus 2 months of vacation a year. looking at a top out pay grade for a local school district, 70-80 grand/yr are possible if you end up in an administrative role, and we are talking about a rural school district in KY. I'm gambling that in other places pay matches Cost-of-living variations.
What is sad is that a child would have a better chance of proving or disproving the theorem in question as opposed to signing a professional sports contract worth 1 million dollars</doctor>, but which one do more kids attempt.
Hey, don't forget, the bounty on just turning in bin Laden and the doctor is up to total of $52 million, and you don't even have to actually kill them, but that would be an added bonus for me at least. I'd love to get within 400M of either of them, from that range it be a safe, but effective kill.
The music of our teens and 20's will eventually be the greatest era in each of our own minds. Maybe you saw Elvis in '57, the Beatles in '63, Beastie Boys in '86, Nirvana in '91 or even Limp Bizkit in '96 and it will forever warp your mind to all other permutations of music, both before and after.
I grew up in a house where my father had Hendrix, Helecasters, Stones, Chet Atkins, Eagles, and Nirvana in a cd changer sometime in 1993, so I was raised to respect many different forms of music. That screws with a lot of people's minds, and I wonder how they consider themselves "music" fans when they are so entreched into "Rap/Metal will never die" or "AC/DC is the greatest band of all time" or even "After Hendrix died music turned into a big pile of shit".
Don't ever dig yourself into the rut of listening to a single era of music, you miss out on what the pulse of American culture sounds like. Take System of a Down. It is metal but it takes an almost Queen-like interest in opera and adds it to an amazing vocals and lyrics. You might not like it in particular, but it is different from anything else you are going to hear. Creed is loathed for being a "Christian" band and doing a fair ammount of preaching on their tracks, but Scott Stapp is more of a musical student of Jim Morrision than any gospel artist. Hank Williams III is a blend of punk and Honky-Tonk (If you get a chance, check out his show, its nuts, causeheads and rednecks in the same bar, not fighting, just listening to the show). Listen to the music, you might like it, you might not, but hell it was just 5 minutes out of your lives.
Don't worry about the name change at sears point, you'll be able to get it back in a few years when the company goes bankrupt, at leats thats what happened with the Astro's, Titan's, 49er's, and Raven's. I hear that the money is going into track and seating improvments which couldn't hurt, instead of some land developers pocket directly.
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Screw that, the ISP's aren't in the *AA's pockets, well other than the ones owned by member corps. Independent ISP's like the one I work for detest this kind of garbage, as it is in my opinion a cheap wiretap for the *AA. We keep logs, but they get the info without a court order. Make the *AA and their big money lawyers get a search warrant for our logs, and then it will be fair. Make them pour through a couple of gigs of logs everyday instead of us (Not that it takes a good admin any time to dig through his own logs, but its not my job to do the RIAA's dirty work, I bet they don't even know about grep.). Internet service is the same thing as telephone service, uses the same equipment and carriers, make the legal system use the same set of rules.
EZCDCreator's little task bar utility does suck, I finally killed it and things work great on my XP Pro machine. My CD-RW (TDK 24x10x40) shiped with Nero, but would only encode 5 songs to MP3, so I decided to tell them to piss-off.
...In other news today the MPAA and RIAA, along with Cactus Data Shield corp are invesigating a new DRM technique involving viruses which will not reproduce after a point mutation. RIAA Chairperson Hillary Roasen has this to say "Die you fucking pirates", and now in sports....
Reminds of a fellow undergrad at UK. He moved to KY from one of the Baltic republics (Latvia or Estonia, can't remember) like when he was 13, so he has this wild slavic accent, but uses american slang. I used to think of Pitr from User friendly whenever he would give a talk in our research methods class.
Wouldn't that be 3 bombs, Trinity, Fat Man, and Little Boy, after that we were actually bluffing.
Sorry wrong answer, this waste can not go critical. Yes it is a case of NIMBY, but lets face it, is their a better solution?
Thats one of the problems with the fractionalization of the political systems here in the US, once you get past state representative races, canidates tend to toe the party line instead of voting in the best interest of their constituency. I lean to the republican side on many issues, but for others I am a bit of a black sheep.
One issue with your statement about preventing equal rights for gays. I'm a firm beliver in that our nation needs to respect the rights of all people, as outlined by the Constitution as a whole. What I and many republican's detest is programs that favor one group over another. Hate crimes laws are one example. It shouldn't matter if a person kills someone over money, a signifigant other, their color, their sexual orientation, or for sport. Murder is murder, robbery is robbery, punish the action, not the thoughts of the offender. Affirmative action quotas or incentives is another. A company should feel free to promote, hire, or contract with the individual who will fit best, whether based on talent, merit, or cost. If it does not affect the persons ability to do the job, why should it even be a factor?
Personally, if sweeping campaign finance reform was enacted, with strict enforcement, our system of government would work the kninks it has developed since WWII. Ban corporate, union, and lobbyist donations, but allow individuals to donate as much as they chose to a canidate. Remove election subsidizing from the Gov't as well. The polictical parties should only be clearinghouses for information, research, and development of campign materials. Once the stream of money->canidate is established, you will see a cleaner political system where all parties from fringe to mainstream are involved based on their ability to motivate like-minded individuals to support their platform.
How can they outlaw diesel, unless those 18-wheelers you see run on fairy dust, diesel can't be outlawed for a very long time.
Monster and Ebay have passport authenticators too, so that would drive a large number, by taking 3 out of the top 10 web "brands" (Ebay/Monster/M$FT holdings), Microsoft is going to attempt to drive all online purchases through their grubby paws. AOLTW, Yahoo and Amazon need to get the whole liberty alliance going to drive some competition against it (Excite is dying and google has no real interest in any of this hogwash). Not that I trust any of those corps as far as I can throw them, but maybe they can stall the beast for a short period of time.
I'll respond point-by-point if you don't mind.
Nationalized health-care is neither liberal nor non-liberal. It is leftist, granted (and still adopted by most west-european countries, even those without strong socialistish governments).
We already have a good health-care system in the US, even though some reform is needed (Are the drug companies price gouging? Do insurance companies use objective criteria to place patients in their respective risk pools? Are HMO's/PPO's practicing medicine without a license?). A full nationalization could give the US a system similar to the Canadian or French health programs, which don't work and chew an inordinate amount of their national budget for the QoS that is given.
Fear of polluting the globe to death is not limited to liberal or socialists.. I hope
I'm not a big fan of fossil fuels, but its the best solution we have at the momment for personal transportation. I think people would buy a fuel cell/hybrid/full electric if the auto manufacturers actually built a car that looked good, was big enough to tote the family around comfortably, and wasn't a death trap compared to the rest of the vehicles on the road. We do need to reduce our dependence on oil from non-friendly nations, I would love to see an American company say flat out they will only use New World and/or European oil, I think it would draw in people sick of funding terrorists and America bashers. Obectivity needed to be used in the case of ANWR, the plans called for total impacted land as a result of drilling to be less than 2000 acres out of an area the size of South Carolina, I could live with that to add 10% more crude to domestic production. We do need to build more fission plants for bulk electricity as it is the cleanest soultion availabile, but for what dams have been created, hydroelectric generators should be installed to add additional grid capacity.
"Excessive" gun control is a term not commonly understood outside US of A; and certainly controls suggested by Woody & Klingon would be pretty much mainstream anywhere else (and laissez-faire fire arms tactics would be a fringe movement). However, restrictions are seldom related to liberalism... so it's just that people for (sane) gun controls are labeled liberals or communists or whatever; instead of there being ideological connection.
The 1937 and 1968 gun laws placed reasonable restrictions on gun ownership and destructive device possession, those laws ensure that gun and ammunition taxes are funneled into wildlife conservation and keep nutjobs from owning fully automatic weapons (machine guns), unsafe weapons (Zip guns, sawed-off shotguns) and rocket launchers. The 1993 Brady act however had several thorny issues. First of all, banning weapons just based on their outward appearance is just plain silly, guns should be judged based on their usefulness for personal defense or hunting, not because they have an unconvential look. The background check mechanism I don't mind now that it is done in real time, the whole waiting period was not needed. Enforcement of the 1937 and 1968 laws are all that is needed, if those laws were used to the greatest power, if an individual used a gun in a violent manner, they would be confined away from society for a signifigant period of time, like they need to be.
Tax and spend economics are leftist, but not liberal (liberals probably would tend to be somewhere between vulture capitalism and centralized communism).
I don't mind paying taxes, but I would like to see results when my money is poured into a project. I drive on public roads, I enjoy having the worlds greatest armed forces defending our freedoms. At the same time, does Head Start actually help prepare children for school or is it free day care for unfit parents or do welfare recipients utilize the programs available to dig themselves out of poverty to become productive and happy members of society, or are they freeloading off my hard-earned paycheck? Do we need another self-propelled artillery piece or a tilt-wing airplane?
"Abortion-on-demand" is, once again, phrase only understood in religion-ridden countries, plus USA. Having abortion available is the standard in western countries, and except for some of more catholic-oriented countries (Ireland, Italy?) it seldom is considered to be any sort of a problem. Neither socialism nor liberalism has much to say about this subject, although communist countries used to have reasonably loose rules regarding abortion (possibly related to official loathing of religions communist regimes had).
Abortion rides the left wing in the US, especially late-term varieties, both Ms. Rodham-Clinton and Mr. Gore have supported abortion measures, which I was using to demonstrate their leanings.
FWIW, I think that mr. Gore was too much of a corporate and religious-right asskisser (during campaing... probably nothing genuine, I hope), and his wife hysteric "somebody please think of our children" idiot, supporting censorship. And mrs. Clinton had weird ideas about who actually was voted as the acting president. So my biggest worry would be tarnishing reputation of liberals or socialists, not that these terms were used "against" the aforementioned couple.
Gore is not very realistic when it comes to several environmental issues and his fisical policy, which are my main gripes with the man. As for his supposed ass kissing of the religous right, you must remember he is from the south, and just like Mr. Clinton, he attempted to portray a bit of down-to-earth charm and moderate tendencies by courting these groups. Unfortunately, Clinton had just pulled the same stunt 8 years earlier and everyone remembered how things had changed post election. Gore didn't even win his "home" state because of the clinton backlash (Other than his stint in vietnam and college, I believe his primary residence has been in DC, thanks to his dad, who was a good democrat, much like several others who have been replaced by todays leftist democrats). As for Tipper, let me go on record saying she is a stupid bitch on par with Hillary Rosen. Let the damned market decide what is obscene, if it is, people won't buy it. I mean, would some of the late Beatles albums have been banned from wal-mart because of their blatant drug references? Or how about Jimi Hendrix's violent and sexually explicit songs, would they have carried a warning sticker or have edited versions? As for Hillary, she just seems shady in my book and her policies don't line up well with mine or most of america, but you wacky new yorkers elected her, so she's your problem now.
I call nationalized health care, a fear of the internal combustion engine, tax and spend economics, abortion on demand, and excessive gun control pretty damn liberal and leftist in my book.
True, I build my machines for performance, but I was trying to put Moz at an equal footing with IE, since Windows keeps its html render in memory. The K6-II 300 with 256MB of ram (WinME) is bogged while the preloader is turned on, but I don't mind long boots. One thing I do is to create a "games only" user with everything turned off by default, and I switch to it when I want to frag something
PIII 866/512MB of CAS2 PC133 on WinXP, loads just as quick as IE with the preloader turned on.
One cool thing about the US GNP is that California could break away, and by itself it would the the worlds No 5 economy by GNP/GDP, with the US remaining No 1.
Does anyone have a list of these companies netblocks? I'd very much like them firewalled into oblivion. Maybe someone could start a ORBZ like list that could be validated against to block these assholes
About your sig, I prefer the pig latin and elmer fudd versions my self, but Klingon rocks
I think the point I was trying to make is that the pursuit of proving the Riemann Hypothesis, could generate better pay and a more fruitful life for a youngster instead of trying to get that pro sports contract. Whats a math Ph. D. worth these days average in the US? I'd gamble somewhere around $100,000 a year, but please comment if I'm off by a lot. Even a BS in a science + MA in education starts a person out at $28,000/yr just to teach high school kids around here. Thats not a bad living to start out with (Comes to about 13.50/hr to start, which will beat McDonalds any day) plus 2 months of vacation a year. looking at a top out pay grade for a local school district, 70-80 grand/yr are possible if you end up in an administrative role, and we are talking about a rural school district in KY. I'm gambling that in other places pay matches Cost-of-living variations.
What is sad is that a child would have a better chance of proving or disproving the theorem in question as opposed to signing a professional sports contract worth 1 million dollars</doctor>, but which one do more kids attempt.
Hey, don't forget, the bounty on just turning in bin Laden and the doctor is up to total of $52 million, and you don't even have to actually kill them, but that would be an added bonus for me at least. I'd love to get within 400M of either of them, from that range it be a safe, but effective kill.
The music of our teens and 20's will eventually be the greatest era in each of our own minds. Maybe you saw Elvis in '57, the Beatles in '63, Beastie Boys in '86, Nirvana in '91 or even Limp Bizkit in '96 and it will forever warp your mind to all other permutations of music, both before and after.
I grew up in a house where my father had Hendrix, Helecasters, Stones, Chet Atkins, Eagles, and Nirvana in a cd changer sometime in 1993, so I was raised to respect many different forms of music. That screws with a lot of people's minds, and I wonder how they consider themselves "music" fans when they are so entreched into "Rap/Metal will never die" or "AC/DC is the greatest band of all time" or even "After Hendrix died music turned into a big pile of shit".
Don't ever dig yourself into the rut of listening to a single era of music, you miss out on what the pulse of American culture sounds like. Take System of a Down. It is metal but it takes an almost Queen-like interest in opera and adds it to an amazing vocals and lyrics. You might not like it in particular, but it is different from anything else you are going to hear. Creed is loathed for being a "Christian" band and doing a fair ammount of preaching on their tracks, but Scott Stapp is more of a musical student of Jim Morrision than any gospel artist. Hank Williams III is a blend of punk and Honky-Tonk (If you get a chance, check out his show, its nuts, causeheads and rednecks in the same bar, not fighting, just listening to the show). Listen to the music, you might like it, you might not, but hell it was just 5 minutes out of your lives.
What timezone? What about the rest of the world
I'd stick with clay tablets for truly ong term storage, they seem to have pretty good survival rates and are a more established technology.
Don't worry about the name change at sears point, you'll be able to get it back in a few years when the company goes bankrupt, at leats thats what happened with the Astro's, Titan's, 49er's, and Raven's. I hear that the money is going into track and seating improvments which couldn't hurt, instead of some land developers pocket directly.