Quite frankly, I don't believe that choices of for office should be about individuals. They should be about parties, specifically positions that parties represent, issues such as education, defense, environment, foreign affairs etc.
So why vote for people at all?
The terminus of this thought line is total democracy, where every decision is made by polling all those to be affected. There are many advantages to such a system, and enough disadvantages that your Constitution forbids it ('tyranny of the minority').
Bernie Sanders may be one of the greatest guys around, but the present system leaves him nowhere to go and little to acheive.
Which is, of course, a symptom of the problems with party politics. I would argue, though, that as long as he holds his office and can use it to help the citizens of his district (not least by denying it to a party member) and as a platform to express sensible ideas on many issues, he has achieved much. Indeed, his greatest value to your country may be that, merely by existing as an independent, he shows that independent candidature is possible (serious question : how many Americans know that somebody running for public office need not be a party member?).
The price is that all parties would need to think on a national level instead of state.
Thinking is easy, paying for airtime etc. is not.
Need to read up on the historical aspects....
The present state system is designed to insure the continuance of the present monopolies and destroy the possiblitiy of any real progresss of independent.
What do you expect them to do, make it easier for themselves to be kicked out of office? Most modern political parties have only one policy - Get Into Power And Stay There. Witness our (.uk) marvellous 'New Labour' party, whose only hope of getting into government was to completely reinvent itself, and is currently committed to any policy it thinks will keep it there. Appropriately, it is led by a man who seems to have only a nodding acquaintance with the truth and no sense of responsibility whatsoever. Personally (are you listening, Echelon?) I would happily contribute to an 'Assassinate Tony' fund if I could be sure of the desired effect.
The other parties?
Well, we have:
The Conservatives - Nothing to see here, move along.
The UK Independence Party - A joke, led by a daytime TV host.
The Liberal Democrats - An unfunny joke, neither particularly liberal nor democratic.
Honestly, 'None Of The Above' would probably win a significant proportion of the vote here.
the citizens vote for parties as represented by their local figures. Which leaves independents like Vermont's Bernie Sanders where, exactly? Just a Google search on the guy will tell you how much more worthwhile he is than any Republicrat. Watch 'Outfoxed' and 'Orwell Rolled in His Grave' for more of his opinions.
No matter how you see it, do you really think these people would be in your country without invitation? That the EU unilaterally foisted it's banana-republic election inspectors on the good ol' US of A? No, they are there because your government wants them there. They are wanted in order to give a greater appearance of legitimacy (no, flameboys, I am not saying your elections are illegetimate). The situation is analogous to the accreditation of diplomats - their diplomatic status is given by the host country in recognition of the sovereign status of the foreign nation. These people are there precisely because America is dedicated to democracy. If America is insulted, then it has insulted itself.
However, I hold on to some live recordings because bands sometimes play unreleased songs, do covers, and add quirks into existing songs. Tell it! I admin the website for my brother's band Ahymsa (see sig), which has a few mp3's available for download. I keep telling him that the ones most often hit are the live recordings, and I'm forever pestering him for more. Unfortunately, the small venues (pubs and clubs) the band currently play tend not to have facilities for making recordings (some do, and at least one will, for a fee, provide you with a DVD of your performance along with copyright so that you can dupe and sell it). Even the most basic crossed-mics-at-the-back-of-the-room job would be something. There seems to be an extra kudos about stuff that 'you just can't buy'.
And IMHO, Kubrick is by far the greater artist of the two
Which is as it should be. Kubrick was an artist, Clarke is a scientist who writes RC70 SF. Kubrick's business was asking questions, Clarke's is answering them.
IBM is pushing the opposite. The OS is free and people have to pay for the hardware.
Which makes much more sense. Physical things need manufacturing, transporting, care and feeding. Data can (now) be duplicated and transmitted at cost approaching zero. Unless every app you run becomes web-based, with the work being done by a remote machine (a la X or VNC), there's nothing worth subscribing to.
You should mail this to yourself, keep it sealed, and submit it as prior art when XYZ corp gets a patent for it. No need, it's now SlashArchived with date and time stamp (and when Google cache it it will be GoogleArchived as well - long enough for the Wayback Machine to get it too?) The web can usefully (and worryingly/annoyingly) persistent.
So you spent more on SuSe Pro then an OEM copy of Windows XP Home would have run you.
And how many web/email/file/print/ftp/ssh servers, ditto clients, media players (non DRM), office suites, graphic/photo editors, news readers, IRC clients, renderers, archivers, CD/DVD burners, security tools, encryption tools and (countless) cheesy but addictive little games does XP come with?
I love this quote from here. Prosecutor Jerry Wilson says he isn't abusing the law, which defines chemical weapons of mass destruction as "any substance that is designed or has the capability to cause death or serious injury" and contains toxic chemicals.
I guess Union Carbide et al are just going to have to get out of the US then.
"You were able to do this, that, and the other, but we don't like that, so from now on you can only do this and the other, not that, and even then, when you do the other, you can only do it like...".
Damn straight! I don't allow root logins to any of my machines or any of the services running on them, local or remote. Login as a valid user, then su or sudo if I need root privileges - and restrict the users who can su.
Similar shenanigans.......
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Here and here. The genuine article has even changed the title of its home page to draw attention to the problem. Mind you, when somebody can't even lookforthe site probably deserves to be scammed.
Seconded - a significant number of UK schools are offering International Baccalaureate qualifications as a supplement or even replacement for/to traditional A (advanced) level courses.
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So why vote for people at all?
The terminus of this thought line is total democracy, where every decision is made by polling all those to be affected. There are many advantages to such a system, and enough disadvantages that your Constitution forbids it ('tyranny of the minority').
Bernie Sanders may be one of the greatest guys around, but the present system leaves him nowhere to go and little to acheive.
Which is, of course, a symptom of the problems with party politics. I would argue, though, that as long as he holds his office and can use it to help the citizens of his district (not least by denying it to a party member) and as a platform to express sensible ideas on many issues, he has achieved much. Indeed, his greatest value to your country may be that, merely by existing as an independent, he shows that independent candidature is possible (serious question : how many Americans know that somebody running for public office need not be a party member?).
The price is that all parties would need to think on a national level instead of state.
Thinking is easy, paying for airtime etc. is not.
Need to read up on the historical aspects....
The present state system is designed to insure the continuance of the present monopolies and destroy the possiblitiy of any real progresss of independent.
What do you expect them to do, make it easier for themselves to be kicked out of office? Most modern political parties have only one policy - Get Into Power And Stay There. Witness our (.uk) marvellous 'New Labour' party, whose only hope of getting into government was to completely reinvent itself, and is currently committed to any policy it thinks will keep it there. Appropriately, it is led by a man who seems to have only a nodding acquaintance with the truth and no sense of responsibility whatsoever. Personally (are you listening, Echelon?) I would happily contribute to an 'Assassinate Tony' fund if I could be sure of the desired effect.
The other parties? Well, we have:
The Conservatives - Nothing to see here, move along.
The UK Independence Party - A joke, led by a daytime TV host.
The Liberal Democrats - An unfunny joke, neither particularly liberal nor democratic.
Honestly, 'None Of The Above' would probably win a significant proportion of the vote here.
Which leaves independents like Vermont's Bernie Sanders where, exactly? Just a Google search on the guy will tell you how much more worthwhile he is than any Republicrat.
Watch 'Outfoxed' and 'Orwell Rolled in His Grave' for more of his opinions.
No, they are there because your government wants them there. They are wanted in order to give a greater appearance of legitimacy (no, flameboys, I am not saying your elections are illegetimate). The situation is analogous to the accreditation of diplomats - their diplomatic status is given by the host country in recognition of the sovereign status of the foreign nation.
These people are there precisely because America is dedicated to democracy.
If America is insulted, then it has insulted itself.
Tell it!
I admin the website for my brother's band Ahymsa (see sig), which has a few mp3's available for download. I keep telling him that the ones most often hit are the live recordings, and I'm forever pestering him for more. Unfortunately, the small venues (pubs and clubs) the band currently play tend not to have facilities for making recordings (some do, and at least one will, for a fee, provide you with a DVD of your performance along with copyright so that you can dupe and sell it). Even the most basic crossed-mics-at-the-back-of-the-room job would be something.
There seems to be an extra kudos about stuff that 'you just can't buy'.
Bollocks. Douglas Adams was a Mac addict. Read 'The Salmon of Doubt' for (extensive) confirmation.
Which is as it should be. Kubrick was an artist, Clarke is a scientist who writes RC70 SF. Kubrick's business was asking questions, Clarke's is answering them.
Ideally the answer would be "Wherever I can do the best work", but we're all human.
Which makes much more sense. Physical things need manufacturing, transporting, care and feeding.
Data can (now) be duplicated and transmitted at cost approaching zero.
Unless every app you run becomes web-based, with the work being done by a remote machine (a la X or VNC), there's nothing worth subscribing to.
No need, it's now SlashArchived with date and time stamp (and when Google cache it it will be GoogleArchived as well - long enough for the Wayback Machine to get it too?)
The web can usefully (and worryingly/annoyingly) persistent.
And how many web/email/file/print/ftp/ssh servers, ditto clients, media players (non DRM), office suites, graphic/photo editors, news readers, IRC clients, renderers, archivers, CD/DVD burners, security tools, encryption tools and (countless) cheesy but addictive little games does XP come with?
ITYM 'felt'
"Ooohhhhh, a new way to prevent somebody stealing my car. Does it run Linux?"
That explains a lot.
Prosecutor Jerry Wilson says he isn't abusing the law, which defines chemical weapons of mass destruction as "any substance that is designed or has the capability to cause death or serious injury" and contains toxic chemicals.
I guess Union Carbide et al are just going to have to get out of the US then.
See here for an illuminating (and disgusting) example.
The mods got the joke even if you didn't.
'"we don't own Windows," Redmond says.'
WTF?
"You were able to do this, that, and the other, but we don't like that, so from now on you can only do this and the other, not that, and even then, when you do the other, you can only do it like ...".
I don't allow root logins to any of my machines or any of the services running on them, local or remote.
Login as a valid user, then su or sudo if I need root privileges - and restrict the users who can su.
Mind you, when somebody can't even look for the site probably deserves to be scammed.
Your eyes are most sensitive in the middle of their operating range, which happens to be.... green.
We should be using transcode, dvdauthor and cdrecord.
GUIs? We don' need no stinkin' GUIs!