The real problem is that Microsoft doesn't let its programmers finish what they write. They are moved on to other projects, or the software is shipped before it is ready. This is just one example: Can Microsoft squash 63,000 bugs in Windows 2000?
In my experience, Windows XP has been the Windows ME of the Windows 2000 family.
Now, with Service Pack 2, Windows XP is beginning to look shippable.
A very good social skill to have is to be able to recognize when you are being abused. (This is not a reference to Bush supporters.) The pattern has been this: There begins to be a discussion about some problem created by Microsoft lack of idealism. Then people begin fighting among themselves, and the original subject is forgotten.
There is a restaurant in Portland, Oregon called Brasserie Montmartre. At one time they had an illusionist there during dinner time. While you were eating you could ask him for a demonstration of what he could do.
We knew he would try to fool us, so we would watch very closely. Once, about three feet away from me, he pulled out a 6-inch metal disk and banged it on the table, and then made it disappear. The science of illusion is very advanced. No one watching has a clue how it is done.
But I don't think illusion is necessary. Any group of people who would kill 100,000 people and show no grief or remorse would steal an election by cruder means.
True Christians don't lie.
True Christians don't support violence.
Don't try to avoid awareness of your responsibility. Protest, or the blood is on your hands, too.
How is it possible to make money, knowing the login name and password for a bank's customer? The only actions allowed are transferring money from one account to another, ordering new checks, and finding the check amounts and account balance.
The U.S. government has killed at least 3,000,000 people since the end of the 2nd World War. (There are credible estimates of 6,000,000.) None of those people were threatening the United States. There are very serious problems in the United States. However, most people don't want to educate themselves about the problems. They want the government to lie to them.
If you truly love your country, you will not just enjoy the advantages, you
will be there for your country when there are problems.
The view of many people in the U.S. is becoming dangerously different then the view of the rest of the world. George W. Bush is easily recognized for what he is in the rest of the world. Here people want to believe the lies.
Here's a quote from the article: "How can America be so ignorant? How can half of the most prominent nation on earth vote for an outright liar like George W Bush?"
If you don't know George W. Bush is a chronic liar, you just don't understand U.S. politics, and you don't understand people.
The U.S. government has invaded more countries than any other in the entire history of the world.
The U.S. government has bombed
24
countries since World War 2. The system of violence works by creating
fear in U.S. citizens so richpeople
can profit. The problem happens largely because the U.S. government has a
break-the-law department called the CIA. Secret government is not democratic.
Interesting. A Slashdot editor just subtracted 2 points from the moderation of
the parent comment. It's easy to see it was an editor because editor
moderation does not change the moderation statistics at the bottom.
I suggest that everyone take some time to understand how much
America is becoming despised in the rest of the world. To the Slashdot editor:
What I have said is mild and very well documented compared to what is being
said outside the United States.
This once-great country... [is now] a fearful, backward-looking and
very small nation.
... power-crazed clique of Doctor Strangeloves...
... America chose a man without morals or vision. An economic
incompetent who inherited a $2 billion surplus from Clinton, gave it in tax
cuts to the rich and turned the US into the world's largest debtor nation.
The self-righteous, gun-totin', military lovin', sister marryin',
abortion-hatin', gay-loathin', foreigner-despisin', non-passport ownin'
red-necks, who believe God gave America the biggest dick in the world so it
could urinate on the rest of us and make their land "free and strong".
Today is a sad day for the world, but it's even sadder for the
millions of intelligent Americans embarrassed by a gung-ho leader and backed
by a banal electorate,...
THEY say that in life you get what you deserve. Well, today America
has deservedly got a lawless cowboy to lead them further into carnage and
isolation and the unreserved contempt of most of the rest of the world.
This once-great country has pulled up its drawbridge for another four
years and stuck a finger up to the billions of us forced to share the same
air. And in doing so, it has shown itself to be a fearful, backward-looking
and very small nation.
This should have been the day when Americans finally answered their
critics by raising their eyes from their own sidewalks and looking outward
towards the rest of humanity.
And for a few hours early yesterday, when the exit polls predicted a
John Kerry victory, it seemed they had.
But then the horrible, inevitable truth hit home. They had somehow
managed to re-elect the most devious, blinkered and reckless leader ever put
before them. The Yellow Rogue of Texas.
A self-serving, dim-witted, draft-dodging, gung-ho little rich boy,
whose idea of courage is to yell: "I feel good," as he unleashes an awesome
fury which slaughters 100,000 innocents for no other reason than greed and
vanity.
A dangerous chameleon, his charming exterior provides cover for a
power-crazed clique of Doctor Strangeloves whose goal is to increase America's
grip on the world's economies and natural resources.
And in foolishly backing him, Americans have given the go-ahead for
more unilateral pre-emptive strikes, more world instability and most probably
another 9/11.
Why else do you think bin Laden was so happy to scare them to the
polls, then made no attempt to scupper the outcome?
There's only one headline in town today, folks: "It Was Osama Wot Won
It."
And soon he'll expect pay-back. Well, he can't allow Bush to have his
folks whoopin' and a-hollerin' without his own getting a share of the fun, can
he?
Heck, guys, I hope you're feeling proud today.
To the tens of millions who voted for John Kerry, my
I did not say anything about people who migrate in the opposite direction.
I did not intend to say that rural people are not intelligent. My most important point is that only a very small percentage read non-fiction books.
It is a theory. If you have a better theory for why the distribution of votes is so obviously skewed, please mention it.
Okay, I'm still working on the theory. Maybe this is a better way to express it:
The problem seems to be that there are two cultures. ALL the politicians belong to the urban culture. The people who live in the rural areas live in the rural culture. People from the rural culture do not detect when people of the urban culture are lying. Karl Rove has found a method of manipulation that is not detected by people from the rural culture. He and George Bush are chronic liars, and people from the rural culture think they are Christians! This method of manipulation depends on rural people not being informed, which depends on them not reading non-fiction books about politics.
You gave a very angry response, but you did not answer the question: Did you read the books about the Bush Administration? Did you read even one? If you didn't, then you cannot be informed.
If you don't like the theory presented, and it is not proven, for sure, then advance a theory of your own.
The problem is that there are two cultures, exactly as you demonstrate in your comment. ALL the politicians belong to the urban culture. The people who live in the rural areas live in the rural culture. People from the rural culture do not detect when people of the urban culture are lying. Karl Rove has found a method of manipulation that is not detected by people from the rural culture. He and George Bush are chronic liars, and people from the rural culture think they are Christians!
Your problem, however, is not with my comment. Your problem is with the urban culture. There is a cultural breakdown happening in the United States, and, if you will investigate, the people who are discriminating against you are probably not getting along with other people, either. Their complaints against you are just an excuse.
He was just making a comment about something that has been shown to be true.
A Saudi friend of mine met a woman here in the U.S. who was very interested in him. She asked him where Saudi Arabia was, and found that she did not even know the location of his continent. This dampened any possibility of romance.
You're right. A lot of research should be done. What is true is that
anyone who reads non-fiction about U.S. politics would not vote for George W.
Bush. It's that black-and-white.
Many people who read books read only light fiction.
Someone needs to do some research. I agree with that. Obviously the
Democratic Party didn't do it.
Here's an excellent
comment from another Slashdot story, considerably edited, about Bush
Administration policies that should cause people to reject him:
Fiscal responsibility. Bush has gone from surpluses to a record
deficit. The administration has no plans to change this.
Personal Liberty. The Bush adminstration has undermined the
rule of law by declaring American citizens as enemy combatants and denying
them trials.
Foreign Policy Realism. Traditionally governments have based
their foreign policy on realistic assumptions and a narrow definition of
national interest, not idealism-based foreign policy. This has been horribly
undermined by the Iraq War which was based on the idea of "making the Middle
East safe for democracy", an unrealistic notion that a people with no history
of democratic thinking will change rapidly. Will the families of the 100,000
Iraqis who have been killed so far forgive the United States, or will they
become enemies?
Small Government. Under the Bush administration the growth of
discretionary domestic goverment spending has outstripped the growth under
Clinton. The money has gone to large corporations owned by friends of the
administration. Good government does not favor taking money from taxpayers to
give to multinational corporations.
The Bush adminstration has a formula that happens to work:
1) Find someone who can be personally engaging. He does not need to
have analytical ability. He must be willing to do whatever he is told. The
less he thinks, the better.
2) Get people like Karl Rove and Dick Cheney to tell him what to do.
3) When caught in a lie, tell another lie. This overloads most
people's sense of reality.
4) Sell pieces of the government to anyone who will pay.
Re:I agree! Also, UI code is not worth dis-assembl
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Moderators should be required to pass a multiple-choice test that shows they understand the moderation system. Moderation is not meant to suppress someone else's opinion, but it is being used that way.
A "Troll" is someone who intentionally posts misleading information. The Troller does not believe what he is saying.
"Flamebait" is a comment posted with an intent to start a pointless argument.
The parent comment is, "It just shows what everyone has known...
that ignorant hick-country rednecks vote for Shrub."
I don't agree with the comment, but it is not a Troll or Flamebait.
I intensely disagree with the opinion in the link provided in the parent comment. However, should it have been suppressed by modding as Flamebait? If you have been reading about international affairs, you know this is the opinion of literally hundreds of millions of people:
Four more years of garbage.
Four more years of bullshit, lies, mass deception.
Four more years where the world, hopefully, will tell the damn stupid yankees to go fuck themselves in their warped country.
Four more years of those same damn stupid yankees making fools of themselves by being the terminally stupid assholes they are.
Oussama Bin Laden!
the world needs you more than ever. Get your marbles together, and with a bit of imagination, you can cut the whole oil supply to the United States of America, and either bring those stupid yankees down on their knees, or make them adopt a much less ruinous way of life that is more respectful of the planet.
Go, Oussama! Go sink those oil tankers plying the sea!
Go sever that thin lifeline that keeps those stupid yankees alive!
The planet will be eternally grateful once you bring those fuckers down.
How to understand the presidential election results.
If you haven't read any books about U.S. politics, then you probably
don't know much about the activities of the U.S. government.
You cannot rely for information on TV or newspapers, or any
advertising-supported media. Advertising-supported media exists to make money,
not to inform. Advertisers are understandably careful not to alienate anyone.
It is not possible to develop an accurate opinion of government activities
only by listening to the carefully crafted phrases from media employees who
would lose their jobs if they seemed to indicate a preference for one
candidate over another.
It's a fact that Bush supporters often have a poor understanding of
his actions rather than what he wants people to believe. One example of
support for this is the following article:
Bush Supporters Misread Many of His Foreign Policy Positions.
The county-by-county results showing not only who won, but the number, are
extremely interesting. So is the USA Today result map. They show what might be expected. Those who live in rural
counties vote for Bush. In the past century, the more intelligent, educated,
and ambitious people have migrated away from the farms to places with more
opportunities. The less educated have stayed behind. Those who live in rural
counties are less likely to read, and therefore are not well-informed.
Those who don't read are fooled by Karl Rove's lies. Here are
books about Karl Rove's methods:
Boy Genius: Karl Rove, The brains behind the remarkable political triumph of George W. Bush by Lou Dubose, Jan Reid, and Carl M. Cannon, 2003, PublicAffairs. Reviews:
Powell'sBarnes & NobleAmazon
Part of the secret of Karl Rove's success is that U.S. voters don't want to
believe there is widespread corruption in their government. Lies that
are extreme and unrelenting enough are accepted.
President George W. Bush has a habit of giving disrespectful nicknames
to those with whom he works. "Boy Genius" is one of Mr. Bush's nicknames for
Karl Rove. Mr. Bush also calls Karl Rove, "Turd Blossom". The term refers to a
flower that grows in the feces of a cow.
Bush's Brain: How Karl Rove made George W. Bush presidential by James Moore and Wayne Slater, 2003, John Wiley & Sons, New York, New York, USA. Reviews:
Powell'sBarnes & NobleAmazon
One of the Amazon reviews quotes the book: "Karl Rove matters to all
Americans, many who have never even heard his name. While the president chafes
at the description of Rove as 'Bush's Brain,' he can hardly deny that every
policy
The fans are not balanced correctly even when they are new! We've bought 50 of one model of fan recently and all the ones we've tried, 25 maybe, are unbalanced.
A fan mounted near or on a hard drive MUST be vibration insulated. We use nylon plastic straps.
There is a class of voters, and a class of Slashdot members, who know little but are sure they are right. My comment above is definitely not a Troll or Offtopic. There should be a Disagree moderation.
Business rules are too numerous to dis-assemble.
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There are two kinds of programs, basically. There are those that implement some programming or mathematical algorithm. If you have the assembly language, it is not very difficult to discover the algorithim.
Most Java, however, doesn't deal with protocols or fundamental algorithms. Most Java implements business rules. Each rule is not worth much, but the entire manner of operation of Amazon's web site, for example (which may not be written in Java), contains literally thousands of business rules which would be very valuable for a competitor to know. As a practical matter, it is very difficult to turn thousands of anything in assembly language back into higher level code.
Slashdot Mirror
The real problem is that Microsoft doesn't let its programmers finish what they write. They are moved on to other projects, or the software is shipped before it is ready. This is just one example: Can Microsoft squash 63,000 bugs in Windows 2000?
In my experience, Windows XP has been the Windows ME of the Windows 2000 family.
Now, with Service Pack 2, Windows XP is beginning to look shippable.
A very good social skill to have is to be able to recognize when you are being abused. (This is not a reference to Bush supporters.) The pattern has been this: There begins to be a discussion about some problem created by Microsoft lack of idealism. Then people begin fighting among themselves, and the original subject is forgotten.
There is a restaurant in Portland, Oregon called Brasserie Montmartre. At one time they had an illusionist there during dinner time. While you were eating you could ask him for a demonstration of what he could do.
We knew he would try to fool us, so we would watch very closely. Once, about three feet away from me, he pulled out a 6-inch metal disk and banged it on the table, and then made it disappear. The science of illusion is very advanced. No one watching has a clue how it is done.
But I don't think illusion is necessary. Any group of people who would kill 100,000 people and show no grief or remorse would steal an election by cruder means.
True Christians don't lie.
True Christians don't support violence.
Don't try to avoid awareness of your responsibility. Protest, or the blood is on your hands, too.
But they replaced the obvious explanation with an explanation that requires a LOT more explaining.
Is Google indexing the Web, or not?
You are right. It is possible to ask the bank to turn off bill pay, but it is normally on.
It's as if Google managers said this:
"We were not trying to hide photos the Bush administration wants you to forget. We are just a poor quality search company."
You can ONLY transfer money from one of your own accounts to another of yours.
How is it possible to make money, knowing the login name and password for a bank's customer? The only actions allowed are transferring money from one account to another, ordering new checks, and finding the check amounts and account balance.
The U.S. government has killed at least 3,000,000 people since the end of the 2nd World War. (There are credible estimates of 6,000,000.) None of those people were threatening the United States. There are very serious problems in the United States. However, most people don't want to educate themselves about the problems. They want the government to lie to them.
If you truly love your country, you will not just enjoy the advantages, you will be there for your country when there are problems.
The view of many people in the U.S. is becoming dangerously different then the view of the rest of the world. George W. Bush is easily recognized for what he is in the rest of the world. Here people want to believe the lies.
Here's an example from The Daily Star, in Bangladesh: Ohio has failed the world.
Here's a quote from the article: "How can America be so ignorant? How can half of the most prominent nation on earth vote for an outright liar like George W Bush?"
If you don't know George W. Bush is a chronic liar, you just don't understand U.S. politics, and you don't understand people.
The U.S. government has invaded more countries than any other in the entire history of the world.
The U.S. government has bombed 24 countries since World War 2. The system of violence works by creating fear in U.S. citizens so rich people can profit. The problem happens largely because the U.S. government has a break-the-law department called the CIA. Secret government is not democratic.
I suspect that, fundamentally, this sentiment is shared by the Bush administration, and a large percentage of people who voted for Bush.
I've studied anger for perhaps 30 years, and I have come to the conclusion that it is a kind of mental illness.
Correction: 64 4-bit hexadecimal keys, for 256 bits total. According to the article, not breakable.
D-Link's install software for the AirPlusXtremeG WiFi adapters generates a 60 digit random hexadecimal number for use as a pre-shared key.
The Daily Mirror is one of the United Kingdom's largest newspapers. Here is their front page on the day after the election (PDF file): Daily Mirror Front Page: How could 59,054,087 people be so dumb?.
Interesting. A Slashdot editor just subtracted 2 points from the moderation of the parent comment. It's easy to see it was an editor because editor moderation does not change the moderation statistics at the bottom.
I suggest that everyone take some time to understand how much America is becoming despised in the rest of the world. To the Slashdot editor: What I have said is mild and very well documented compared to what is being said outside the United States.
The Daily Mirror is one of the United Kingdom's largest newspapers. Here is their front page on the day after the election (PDF file): Daily Mirror Headline: How could 59,054,087 people be so dumb?.
Excerpts:
This once-great country... [is now] a fearful, backward-looking and very small nation.
The self-righteous, gun-totin', military lovin', sister marryin', abortion-hatin', gay-loathin', foreigner-despisin', non-passport ownin' red-necks, who believe God gave America the biggest dick in the world so it could urinate on the rest of us and make their land "free and strong".
Today is a sad day for the world, but it's even sadder for the millions of intelligent Americans embarrassed by a gung-ho leader and backed by a banal electorate,...
Full text:
UK Daily Mirror Editorial:
GOD HELP AMERICA
THEY say that in life you get what you deserve. Well, today America has deservedly got a lawless cowboy to lead them further into carnage and isolation and the unreserved contempt of most of the rest of the world.
This once-great country has pulled up its drawbridge for another four years and stuck a finger up to the billions of us forced to share the same air. And in doing so, it has shown itself to be a fearful, backward-looking and very small nation.
This should have been the day when Americans finally answered their critics by raising their eyes from their own sidewalks and looking outward towards the rest of humanity.
And for a few hours early yesterday, when the exit polls predicted a John Kerry victory, it seemed they had.
But then the horrible, inevitable truth hit home. They had somehow managed to re-elect the most devious, blinkered and reckless leader ever put before them. The Yellow Rogue of Texas.
A self-serving, dim-witted, draft-dodging, gung-ho little rich boy, whose idea of courage is to yell: "I feel good," as he unleashes an awesome fury which slaughters 100,000 innocents for no other reason than greed and vanity.
A dangerous chameleon, his charming exterior provides cover for a power-crazed clique of Doctor Strangeloves whose goal is to increase America's grip on the world's economies and natural resources.
And in foolishly backing him, Americans have given the go-ahead for more unilateral pre-emptive strikes, more world instability and most probably another 9/11.
Why else do you think bin Laden was so happy to scare them to the polls, then made no attempt to scupper the outcome?
There's only one headline in town today, folks: "It Was Osama Wot Won It."
And soon he'll expect pay-back. Well, he can't allow Bush to have his folks whoopin' and a-hollerin' without his own getting a share of the fun, can he?
Heck, guys, I hope you're feeling proud today.
To the tens of millions who voted for John Kerry, my
I did not say anything about people who migrate in the opposite direction.
I did not intend to say that rural people are not intelligent. My most important point is that only a very small percentage read non-fiction books.
It is a theory. If you have a better theory for why the distribution of votes is so obviously skewed, please mention it.
Okay, I'm still working on the theory. Maybe this is a better way to express it:
The problem seems to be that there are two cultures. ALL the politicians belong to the urban culture. The people who live in the rural areas live in the rural culture. People from the rural culture do not detect when people of the urban culture are lying. Karl Rove has found a method of manipulation that is not detected by people from the rural culture. He and George Bush are chronic liars, and people from the rural culture think they are Christians! This method of manipulation depends on rural people not being informed, which depends on them not reading non-fiction books about politics.
It is not arguable that there are many things wrong with the direction the country has been going. Do you disagree with any of the 100 reasons in this article? 100 Facts and 1 Opinion -- The Non-Arguable Case Against the Bush Administration.
You gave a very angry response, but you did not answer the question: Did you read the books about the Bush Administration? Did you read even one? If you didn't, then you cannot be informed.
If you don't like the theory presented, and it is not proven, for sure, then advance a theory of your own.
The problem is that there are two cultures, exactly as you demonstrate in your comment. ALL the politicians belong to the urban culture. The people who live in the rural areas live in the rural culture. People from the rural culture do not detect when people of the urban culture are lying. Karl Rove has found a method of manipulation that is not detected by people from the rural culture. He and George Bush are chronic liars, and people from the rural culture think they are Christians!
Your problem, however, is not with my comment. Your problem is with the urban culture. There is a cultural breakdown happening in the United States, and, if you will investigate, the people who are discriminating against you are probably not getting along with other people, either. Their complaints against you are just an excuse.
"But the survey did not ask those questions."
He was just making a comment about something that has been shown to be true.
A Saudi friend of mine met a woman here in the U.S. who was very interested in him. She asked him where Saudi Arabia was, and found that she did not even know the location of his continent. This dampened any possibility of romance.
You're right. A lot of research should be done. What is true is that anyone who reads non-fiction about U.S. politics would not vote for George W. Bush. It's that black-and-white.
Many people who read books read only light fiction.
Someone needs to do some research. I agree with that. Obviously the Democratic Party didn't do it.
Here's an excellent comment from another Slashdot story, considerably edited, about Bush Administration policies that should cause people to reject him:
Fiscal responsibility. Bush has gone from surpluses to a record deficit. The administration has no plans to change this.
Personal Liberty. The Bush adminstration has undermined the rule of law by declaring American citizens as enemy combatants and denying them trials.
Foreign Policy Realism. Traditionally governments have based their foreign policy on realistic assumptions and a narrow definition of national interest, not idealism-based foreign policy. This has been horribly undermined by the Iraq War which was based on the idea of "making the Middle East safe for democracy", an unrealistic notion that a people with no history of democratic thinking will change rapidly. Will the families of the 100,000 Iraqis who have been killed so far forgive the United States, or will they become enemies?
Small Government. Under the Bush administration the growth of discretionary domestic goverment spending has outstripped the growth under Clinton. The money has gone to large corporations owned by friends of the administration. Good government does not favor taking money from taxpayers to give to multinational corporations.
The Bush adminstration has a formula that happens to work:
1) Find someone who can be personally engaging. He does not need to have analytical ability. He must be willing to do whatever he is told. The less he thinks, the better.
2) Get people like Karl Rove and Dick Cheney to tell him what to do.
3) When caught in a lie, tell another lie. This overloads most people's sense of reality.
4) Sell pieces of the government to anyone who will pay.
Hey, Adrien!
Moderators should be required to pass a multiple-choice test that shows they understand the moderation system. Moderation is not meant to suppress someone else's opinion, but it is being used that way.
A "Troll" is someone who intentionally posts misleading information. The Troller does not believe what he is saying.
"Flamebait" is a comment posted with an intent to start a pointless argument.
The parent comment is, "It just shows what everyone has known... that ignorant hick-country rednecks vote for Shrub."
I don't agree with the comment, but it is not a Troll or Flamebait.
I intensely disagree with the opinion in the link provided in the parent comment. However, should it have been suppressed by modding as Flamebait? If you have been reading about international affairs, you know this is the opinion of literally hundreds of millions of people:
Four more years of garbage.
Four more years of bullshit, lies, mass deception.
Four more years where the world, hopefully, will tell the damn stupid yankees to go fuck themselves in their warped country.
Four more years of those same damn stupid yankees making fools of themselves by being the terminally stupid assholes they are.
Oussama Bin Laden! the world needs you more than ever. Get your marbles together, and with a bit of imagination, you can cut the whole oil supply to the United States of America, and either bring those stupid yankees down on their knees, or make them adopt a much less ruinous way of life that is more respectful of the planet.
Go, Oussama! Go sink those oil tankers plying the sea!
Go sever that thin lifeline that keeps those stupid yankees alive!
The planet will be eternally grateful once you bring those fuckers down.
What you said seems right. Here is support for number 1: Bush Supporters Misread Many of His Foreign Policy Positions
How to understand the presidential election results.
If you haven't read any books about U.S. politics, then you probably don't know much about the activities of the U.S. government.
You cannot rely for information on TV or newspapers, or any advertising-supported media. Advertising-supported media exists to make money, not to inform. Advertisers are understandably careful not to alienate anyone. It is not possible to develop an accurate opinion of government activities only by listening to the carefully crafted phrases from media employees who would lose their jobs if they seemed to indicate a preference for one candidate over another.
It's a fact that Bush supporters often have a poor understanding of his actions rather than what he wants people to believe. One example of support for this is the following article: Bush Supporters Misread Many of His Foreign Policy Positions.
The U.S. government is corrupted by extreme conflict of interest. Please don't moderate this down just because you disagree. I can support my position with links to 3 movies and 35 books: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government.
For a quicker overview, see this article: 100 Facts and 1 Opinion -- The Non-Arguable Case Against the Bush Administration.
The county-by-county results showing not only who won, but the number, are extremely interesting. So is the USA Today result map. They show what might be expected. Those who live in rural counties vote for Bush. In the past century, the more intelligent, educated, and ambitious people have migrated away from the farms to places with more opportunities. The less educated have stayed behind. Those who live in rural counties are less likely to read, and therefore are not well-informed.
Those who don't read are fooled by Karl Rove's lies. Here are books about Karl Rove's methods:
Boy Genius: Karl Rove, The brains behind the remarkable political triumph of George W. Bush by Lou Dubose, Jan Reid, and Carl M. Cannon, 2003, PublicAffairs. Reviews: Powell's Barnes & Noble Amazon
Part of the secret of Karl Rove's success is that U.S. voters don't want to believe there is widespread corruption in their government. Lies that are extreme and unrelenting enough are accepted.
President George W. Bush has a habit of giving disrespectful nicknames to those with whom he works. "Boy Genius" is one of Mr. Bush's nicknames for Karl Rove. Mr. Bush also calls Karl Rove, "Turd Blossom". The term refers to a flower that grows in the feces of a cow.
Bush's Brain: How Karl Rove made George W. Bush presidential by James Moore and Wayne Slater, 2003, John Wiley & Sons, New York, New York, USA. Reviews: Powell's Barnes & Noble Amazon
One of the Amazon reviews quotes the book: "Karl Rove matters to all Americans, many who have never even heard his name. While the president chafes at the description of Rove as 'Bush's Brain,' he can hardly deny that every policy
Absolutely true, in my experience.
The fans are not balanced correctly even when they are new! We've bought 50 of one model of fan recently and all the ones we've tried, 25 maybe, are unbalanced.
A fan mounted near or on a hard drive MUST be vibration insulated. We use nylon plastic straps.
Fixed:
The patent in question: #6,460,020
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Bush Supporters Misread Many of His Foreign Policy Positions
Moderation:
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30% Troll
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One thing I've learned about U.S. voters. Many of them have very little idea of the activities of their government. Research shows that's true: Bush Supporters Misread Many of His Foreign Policy Positions.
There is a class of voters, and a class of Slashdot members, who know little but are sure they are right. My comment above is definitely not a Troll or Offtopic. There should be a Disagree moderation.
There are two kinds of programs, basically. There are those that implement some programming or mathematical algorithm. If you have the assembly language, it is not very difficult to discover the algorithim.
Most Java, however, doesn't deal with protocols or fundamental algorithms. Most Java implements business rules. Each rule is not worth much, but the entire manner of operation of Amazon's web site, for example (which may not be written in Java), contains literally thousands of business rules which would be very valuable for a competitor to know. As a practical matter, it is very difficult to turn thousands of anything in assembly language back into higher level code.
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