Scenario: Dean is nominated (with the help of Gore's support) Dean loses to Bush That leaves either Hillary or Gore to run against a no-name Repub in 2008.
If the Dems with this time, (Dean, Lieberman, or Clark), Gore and Hillary out of the running until 2012. Too long to wait.
City funds (your taxes) subsidising porn? Will the city be able to fend off a sizeable, vocal group that does not want their tax dollars used in delivering questionable material to other citizens? Or will they roll over and block that "questionable" material? (Scale this up the the entire Internet and UN control)
What controls will be placed on log files? If the city 'owns' the logs on city-owned servers/routers, will the police or DA be required to get a warrant before searching the logs for whatever it is they are looking for?
What restrictions are placed on usage? Personal servers, etc.
City-wide, free, Net access is great, but there are a LOT of questions to be answered first.
Then government representatives will be able to make political hay by showing up for photo-ops when the toolbooths are converted back for real-live-people mode.
Even better, when they do away with the toll booth altogether.
Virginia Beach did this a few years ago, and it worked out great.
My eventual plan is to set up a site on a mountain with a fairly high gain omnidirectional antenna, and then anyone who wants to connect to the LAN just points at it with a primestar dish. If i can find sponsors I will even make it 802.11G and connect it to the internet.
All 3 are taxable/controlled items
All 3 are routinely smuggled items
Illegal trade in all 3 is by the same cartels/organized crime groups/Mafiosi
It's cheaper and safer than having an agency for each.
In any case, what we *can* say with certainty is that a kind of aggressive/macho/anti-social culture does develop around certain online games.
Remove the word online, and you may have a point. The same thing happens among fans and players of other 'sports'. Even among parents of school age players.
No. IMHO, it is still a *right*. You choose to give it away, as in the case of a criminal. Or it can be violated, as in the case of an agency inadvertantely exposing it. But it is still a right.
Similarly, just because I can temporarily take away your *right* to freedom, by kidnapping you, does not make it any less of a right.
The only way to deal fairly with this is to make sure the rules of the game don't change,
But the rules will change anyway. What was once farmland becomes suburban subdivisions. What was once the 'hood becomes an urban renewal project. And those shifts can be influenced in the long term by favorable zoning laws and tax breaks.
Completely static or shifting districts both have significant problems in implementation.
The closest thing you can do is to permanently fix some method (algorithm) for drawing boundaries, which takes humans out of the loop forevermore; from that point forward, the rules of the game are at least known, so they don't change drastically every time a new party gets a 51% majority.
Which unfortunately ignores shifting population demographics.
Why do I still pay taxes? I could as well pay directly to the US Government since they control our defense.
Well....you could pony up and pay for your own defense, instead of depending on the US to provide massive amounts of troops and equipment to assist you.
The Windows box also has no modem or floppy drive.
You're right. I didn't notice that.
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My point is supersonic travel will always be at least a "going concern" and one day perhaps profitable.
Not according to Air France and Brit Air. They tried it for years, then finally gave up. They *only* reason they kept the Concorde going was status. It was definately a loss leader.
"Perhaps" and "one day" does not go over well with stockholders. Even less with taxpayers if it were a government funded project.
Mapping the higher order functions (if there are any) of the teenage and prepubescent female brain is nigh impossible.
On the other hand, predicting what will be popular might be very easy. Next big pop hit = whatever the record companies tell them it will be.
Witness the last American Idol. Who did the sheeple choose? The large black guy, Rueben. Months later, who do you hear the most about? The Howdy Doody lookalike who came in second place, Clay.
Since public wireless does exist, and isn't that uncommon, you can safely assume that if you run across an UNSECURED signal its for public use
How so? Just because it is 'there' does not automatically equal anyone can use it. It obviously belongs to someone. Just as obviously, you should ask them, and not assume that everything is there just for your use.
However, considering 90% of home broadband is flat rate, ( and a lot of dedicated business service is too ) since when is the bandwidth being 'stolen'?
Since a lot of broadband is flat rate price, but metered as far as a bit limit, IMHO that should be stealing. If my connection is limited to 1GB d/l per day (as some cable companies do), and you, the wardriver uses up 950MB...I no longer have use of my bought and paid for bandwidth. Even if no actual additional charges are incurred.
I really hope Wal-Mart decides to sell notebooks with both Lindows and Windows. It will never be mentioned in the press, but many people would buy the cheaper of the two, then chuck Lindows and replace it with a pirated copy of Windows. They know that seeing two identical machines side by side in Wal-Mart, people will see how expensive Windows really is.
Non-Windows (Lindows, SuSE, etc) PC's are not really cheaper at Walmart than Windows PC's. Look at equivalent spec machines, and the difference is very, very little. Don't believe me? Look it up. The $200 PC's are 1.2 Duron's. Once you get to 2+GHz machines (Celeron or P4) at ~$4-500, the price difference is nil.
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Dean is also the Dem's best hope. For 2008.
Scenario:
Dean is nominated (with the help of Gore's support)
Dean loses to Bush
That leaves either Hillary or Gore to run against a no-name Repub in 2008.
If the Dems with this time, (Dean, Lieberman, or Clark), Gore and Hillary out of the running until 2012. Too long to wait.
It looks better than the previous scheme, which charged a fixed amount per megabyte of storage.
Sure. Beat you with a stick rather than a metal baton.
City funds (your taxes) subsidising porn? Will the city be able to fend off a sizeable, vocal group that does not want their tax dollars used in delivering questionable material to other citizens?
Or will they roll over and block that "questionable" material? (Scale this up the the entire Internet and UN control)
What controls will be placed on log files? If the city 'owns' the logs on city-owned servers/routers, will the police or DA be required to get a warrant before searching the logs for whatever it is they are looking for?
What restrictions are placed on usage? Personal servers, etc.
City-wide, free, Net access is great, but there are a LOT of questions to be answered first.
tracking device that we all carry
Speak for your self, son. I've successfully avoided that ball and chain, and I plan to keep it that way.
Then government representatives will be able to make political hay by showing up for photo-ops when the toolbooths are converted back for real-live-people mode.
Even better, when they do away with the toll booth altogether.
Virginia Beach did this a few years ago, and it worked out great.
My eventual plan is to set up a site on a mountain with a fairly high gain omnidirectional antenna, and then anyone who wants to connect to the LAN just points at it with a primestar dish. If i can find sponsors I will even make it 802.11G and connect it to the internet.
Hope you have bulletproof lawyers.
what do these three items have in common?
All 3 are taxable/controlled items
All 3 are routinely smuggled items
Illegal trade in all 3 is by the same cartels/organized crime groups/Mafiosi
It's cheaper and safer than having an agency for each.
In any case, what we *can* say with certainty is that a kind of aggressive/macho/anti-social culture does develop around certain online games.
Remove the word online, and you may have a point. The same thing happens among fans and players of other 'sports'. Even among parents of school age players.
its an interesting doco and a must see for anyone with at least half a brain.
And it's perfect for the person with half a brain.
because it can be taken away.. it's a privilege
No. IMHO, it is still a *right*. You choose to give it away, as in the case of a criminal. Or it can be violated, as in the case of an agency inadvertantely exposing it. But it is still a right.
Similarly, just because I can temporarily take away your *right* to freedom, by kidnapping you, does not make it any less of a right.
The only way to deal fairly with this is to make sure the rules of the game don't change,
But the rules will change anyway. What was once farmland becomes suburban subdivisions. What was once the 'hood becomes an urban renewal project. And those shifts can be influenced in the long term by favorable zoning laws and tax breaks.
Completely static or shifting districts both have significant problems in implementation.
The closest thing you can do is to permanently fix some method (algorithm) for drawing boundaries, which takes humans out of the loop forevermore; from that point forward, the rules of the game are at least known, so they don't change drastically every time a new party gets a 51% majority.
Which unfortunately ignores shifting population demographics.
The Georiga Tech graduate finishes and walks right towards the door. On his way out he says "At Tech they teach us not to piss on our hands".
"And at the Air Force Academy, we didn't have to be taught not to pee on our hands."
(Originally heard with Army, Navy, Marine, and USAF graduates)
I think the big difference is timing.
That's why the system is tested and verified months in advance, then locked away and only brought back out on election day.
Yes, the US wants and needs to be there. Europe also wants the US there, to allow funds to be spent on other things.
Why do I still pay taxes? I could as well pay directly to the US Government since they control our defense.
Well....you could pony up and pay for your own defense, instead of depending on the US to provide massive amounts of troops and equipment to assist you.
In a word, this is unfair.
Fair in warfare means "I win".
The Windows box also has no modem or floppy drive.
You're right. I didn't notice that.
My point is supersonic travel will always be at least a "going concern" and one day perhaps profitable.
Not according to Air France and Brit Air. They tried it for years, then finally gave up. They *only* reason they kept the Concorde going was status. It was definately a loss leader.
"Perhaps" and "one day" does not go over well with stockholders. Even less with taxpayers if it were a government funded project.
Add in takeoff, acceleration, deceleration/reentry, and landing, and it could easily be a couple of hours.
Mapping the higher order functions (if there are any) of the teenage and prepubescent female brain is nigh impossible.
On the other hand, predicting what will be popular might be very easy.
Next big pop hit = whatever the record companies tell them it will be.
Witness the last American Idol. Who did the sheeple choose? The large black guy, Rueben. Months later, who do you hear the most about? The Howdy Doody lookalike who came in second place, Clay.
"you vill like vhat ve vant, not what you vant!"
Since public wireless does exist, and isn't that uncommon, you can safely assume that if you run across an UNSECURED signal its for public use
How so? Just because it is 'there' does not automatically equal anyone can use it. It obviously belongs to someone. Just as obviously, you should ask them, and not assume that everything is there just for your use.
However, considering 90% of home broadband is flat rate, ( and a lot of dedicated business service is too ) since when is the bandwidth being 'stolen'?
Since a lot of broadband is flat rate price, but metered as far as a bit limit, IMHO that should be stealing. If my connection is limited to 1GB d/l per day (as some cable companies do), and you, the wardriver uses up 950MB...I no longer have use of my bought and paid for bandwidth. Even if no actual additional charges are incurred.
That is blatantly false.
Or, you could look at 2 Microtels. 1.2 Duron, 40Gb HD, etc, etc.
WinXP for $308
Lindows for $318
The only difference between the machines is the Win box has 128 MB ram, and the Lin box has 265.
And, as I said in the parent, once you get to the 2+ Ghz machines for ~4-500, the price difference disappears.
The Non-Win boxes should be significantly cheaper. But, for whatever reasons Walmart's marketing dept has, they're not.
I really hope Wal-Mart decides to sell notebooks with both Lindows and Windows. It will never be mentioned in the press, but many people would buy the cheaper of the two, then chuck Lindows and replace it with a pirated copy of Windows.
They know that seeing two identical machines side by side in Wal-Mart, people will see how expensive Windows really is.
Non-Windows (Lindows, SuSE, etc) PC's are not really cheaper at Walmart than Windows PC's. Look at equivalent spec machines, and the difference is very, very little. Don't believe me? Look it up. The $200 PC's are 1.2 Duron's. Once you get to 2+GHz machines (Celeron or P4) at ~$4-500, the price difference is nil.
Go look it up.
yep. i forget what those liars...
I believe it was Sony with their cameras.