Incidentally, for anyone rooting for Washington, this is the same football team that managed to lose to the Cleveland Browns not too long ago. So the Packers have a pretty decent chance.
As a resident of Lakewood, OH, I'm pissed off that you've now distracted my police department with calls for John Gaughan. Couldn't you have picked something else, like, say, Ashcroft's office?
This kind of move cuts down on vendor lock-in if and only if the dominant vendor (in this case m$) chooses to conform to the standard rather than do their own thing. So don't hold your breath.
Shortly after the mess that was the 2000 election, Fidel Castro offered to send Cuban election observers to Florida. I guess he does have a sense of humor.
Do you really want US elections decided on these rules:
* Don't complain about lack of options. You've got to pick a few when you do multiple choice. Those are the breaks.
* This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
How about the alternative argument posed by Douglas Adams:
Assume infinite area of the universe (quite possible), but only a finite number of inhabited planets.
Therefore, the population density of the universe is 0, so any people you see are the result of a deranged imagination.
Since the population density of the universe is 0, the population of Earth is 0. Therefor, humans do not exist, and Linux, humans' creation, cannot exist.
The SCOTUS said that Florida had to follow its own laws for elections (instead of ignoring their own laws and having recounts until Al Gore was satisfied.) What's so unreasonable about that?
{I am related to an appellate lawyer, so I have some clue as to what I'm talking about in the following.} That is simply an incorrect reading of the Supreme Court's ruling (available here).
The way the relationship goes between state and federal courts is that the state's highest court (in this case, the Florida Supreme Court) is the final authority on the interpretation of state law, for which federal courts have no jurisdiction. SCOTUS can intervene only when, by the Supremacy Clause, federal law or the US Constitution contradicts the state court's decision.
The justification for the SCOTUS decision of Bush vs Gore in Bush's favor was on the theory that since there was no universal standard of counting votes, voters in Florida were not recieving equal protection under the law, violating the 14th Amendment. The Supreme Court never contradicted the Florida Supreme Court's interpretation of Florida law, because they have no power to do so.
The problem with calls to unify the Linux desktop is that people on all sides want to unify the Linux desktop around their own. The Gnome people want the KDE folks to port all their apps to Gnome and disappear, while KDE wants Gnome to quit being wierd and help out their project. It makes a certain amount of sense that this would happen, because people on both sides have put an awful lot of time and effort into their respective projects and don't want it to get flushed down the drain. Of course, there may be some ego issues involved too, but I Am Not A Desktop Coder.
Last I checked, The American Way (TM) involved competitive markets ensuring that the group that could produce a product for the lowest price won. Open source software produces their product for an extremely low price (donations to the FSF, etc) and creates competitive markets of distributing, supporting, and modifying F/OSS. Plus the shift to services means that the jobs F/OSS creates have to stay in the US instead of moving to India.
So, yes, the shrink-wrapped-box software industry executives may end up screwed. But programmers and other computer professionals will still have jobs, the smart executives will change their business around, and generally land on their feet. This was simple a model of creating software getting competed out of the market.
Having run around in the wilderness of the northeast US since the age of 4, I can safely say that a hiker's best protection is the existance of other hikers in the area. Unless you know what you're doing, you hike in groups, so if Bad Stuff happens your groupmates can either help you out or get someone who can help you out.
As far as hiking alone is concerned, I like doing that much more than groups, but even then I get an idea of who is on the same trail going the same direction that will know if something goes wrong. Logbooks at trailheads are good, as are shelter logs if there are overnight stays involved.
Incidentally, I grew up in New Hampshire, where every year a few idiots try to climb Mt Washington (windspeed 100 km/h, temperature -15 C) in January, and then wonder why they're getting frostbite and hypothermia about halfway up. Darwin in action!
Little boxes on the hillside, and they're all made out of ticky-tacky. Little boxes on the hillside, and they all look just the same. -Malvina Reynolds.
Wierd Al Yankovic already did the parody 'Like a Surgeon' (with only slightly different verses) on his 1985 album 'Dare to be Stupid'. The chorus was exactly the same as the one listed here.
As far as what would happen if Kerry were elected, I doubt he would institute a draft unless the alternative was foreign troops on US soil. Remember, he was in Vietnam unlike Air National Guard boy. Also, he will have a reelection to worry about, which Bush won't.
My own position on the draft is that I will go to jail before being drafted. I might even consider getting shot by the government rather than get drafted. But you're absolutely right that now the 20-somethings have parents and parents' friends who were draft dodgers and can help them out, which was more than the Baby Boomers had.
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Incidentally, for anyone rooting for Washington, this is the same football team that managed to lose to the Cleveland Browns not too long ago. So the Packers have a pretty decent chance.
As a resident of Lakewood, OH, I'm pissed off that you've now distracted my police department with calls for John Gaughan. Couldn't you have picked something else, like, say, Ashcroft's office?
This kind of move cuts down on vendor lock-in if and only if the dominant vendor (in this case m$) chooses to conform to the standard rather than do their own thing. So don't hold your breath.
Shortly after the mess that was the 2000 election, Fidel Castro offered to send Cuban election observers to Florida. I guess he does have a sense of humor.
Where do you see the the Free State Project in New Hampshire leading, both for your party and for the nation in general?
Do you really want US elections decided on these rules:
* Don't complain about lack of options. You've got to pick a few when you do multiple choice. Those are the breaks.
* This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
How about the alternative argument posed by Douglas Adams:
Assume infinite area of the universe (quite possible), but only a finite number of inhabited planets.
Therefore, the population density of the universe is 0, so any people you see are the result of a deranged imagination.
Since the population density of the universe is 0, the population of Earth is 0. Therefor, humans do not exist, and Linux, humans' creation, cannot exist.
Alternately:
visitor: "Where's your library at?"
Harvard student: "At Harvard, we do not end our sentences with a preposition."
visitor: "Alright then. Where's your library at, asshole?"
{I am related to an appellate lawyer, so I have some clue as to what I'm talking about in the following.} That is simply an incorrect reading of the Supreme Court's ruling (available here). The way the relationship goes between state and federal courts is that the state's highest court (in this case, the Florida Supreme Court) is the final authority on the interpretation of state law, for which federal courts have no jurisdiction. SCOTUS can intervene only when, by the Supremacy Clause, federal law or the US Constitution contradicts the state court's decision.
The justification for the SCOTUS decision of Bush vs Gore in Bush's favor was on the theory that since there was no universal standard of counting votes, voters in Florida were not recieving equal protection under the law, violating the 14th Amendment. The Supreme Court never contradicted the Florida Supreme Court's interpretation of Florida law, because they have no power to do so.
No one has won the X-Prize yet. If they aren't going into space yet, isn't calling where they're flying from a "spaceport" a bit premature?
IANAL, but is this legal?
I will make it legal. -Sen. McBride
The problem with calls to unify the Linux desktop is that people on all sides want to unify the Linux desktop around their own. The Gnome people want the KDE folks to port all their apps to Gnome and disappear, while KDE wants Gnome to quit being wierd and help out their project. It makes a certain amount of sense that this would happen, because people on both sides have put an awful lot of time and effort into their respective projects and don't want it to get flushed down the drain. Of course, there may be some ego issues involved too, but I Am Not A Desktop Coder.
Last I checked, The American Way (TM) involved competitive markets ensuring that the group that could produce a product for the lowest price won. Open source software produces their product for an extremely low price (donations to the FSF, etc) and creates competitive markets of distributing, supporting, and modifying F/OSS. Plus the shift to services means that the jobs F/OSS creates have to stay in the US instead of moving to India.
So, yes, the shrink-wrapped-box software industry executives may end up screwed. But programmers and other computer professionals will still have jobs, the smart executives will change their business around, and generally land on their feet. This was simple a model of creating software getting competed out of the market.
Having run around in the wilderness of the northeast US since the age of 4, I can safely say that a hiker's best protection is the existance of other hikers in the area. Unless you know what you're doing, you hike in groups, so if Bad Stuff happens your groupmates can either help you out or get someone who can help you out.
As far as hiking alone is concerned, I like doing that much more than groups, but even then I get an idea of who is on the same trail going the same direction that will know if something goes wrong. Logbooks at trailheads are good, as are shelter logs if there are overnight stays involved.
Incidentally, I grew up in New Hampshire, where every year a few idiots try to climb Mt Washington (windspeed 100 km/h, temperature -15 C) in January, and then wonder why they're getting frostbite and hypothermia about halfway up. Darwin in action!
Don't be preposterous. RMS isn't in it for the money. RMS is in it for the women.
A true BOFH would remove all of the user's files as well as destroying the user, to stop the problem at its source.
I think George W's might be this one:
12345
Of course, that may just be the combination on his luggage.
I follow a different definition of drunkenness: "You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on."
Little boxes on the hillside,
and they're all made out of ticky-tacky.
Little boxes on the hillside,
and they all look just the same.
-Malvina Reynolds.
Wierd Al Yankovic already did the parody 'Like a Surgeon' (with only slightly different verses) on his 1985 album 'Dare to be Stupid'. The chorus was exactly the same as the one listed here.
No, it's implausible because BSD is dying.
That would be the Omniscient Power Protocol (O.P.P.), which was developed a decade ago by Naughty by Nature.
Instead of reaching the boiling point, they go supernova.
As far as what would happen if Kerry were elected, I doubt he would institute a draft unless the alternative was foreign troops on US soil. Remember, he was in Vietnam unlike Air National Guard boy. Also, he will have a reelection to worry about, which Bush won't. My own position on the draft is that I will go to jail before being drafted. I might even consider getting shot by the government rather than get drafted. But you're absolutely right that now the 20-somethings have parents and parents' friends who were draft dodgers and can help them out, which was more than the Baby Boomers had.
To answer your question ...
BSD!!