WTF? Apparently AK Marc has been feeding at the federal teat for so long, he doesn't realize that it is possible to build roads without Congress paying for it. Ted Stevens and your other fellow Republicans should be so proud of you.
Here's an example quote, which I pulled directly from Vitter's own campaign web site:
Vitter Statement on Protecting the Sanctity of Marriage
"This is a real outrage. The Hollywood left is redefining the most basic institution in human history, and our two U.S. Senators won't do anything about it.
We need a U.S. Senator who will stand up for Louisiana values, not Massachusetts's values. I am the only Senate Candidate to coauthor the Federal Marriage Amendment; the only one fighting for its passage. I am the only candidate proposing changes to the senate rules to stop liberal obstructionists from preventing an up or down vote on issues like this, judges, energy, and on and on." stated David Vitter.
Campaigning on "THE SANCTITY OF MARRIAGE" and then hiring a hooker once he gets to DC, that's why he deserves the new asshole he's getting torn.
Of course, the whole Vitter situation is completely unrelated to Stevens and his corruption charge.
You ignore one small detail: Microsoft is a convicted criminal monopolist. They are not allowed to (among other things) leverage their OS dominance into coercing people or companies to buy other MS products. This example is the other way around (using DX10 games to push Vista sales) but any such behavior on Microsoft's part is questionable under their legal status.
No, that's just revisionist bullshit. It's been demonstrated multiple times in both the media and in the courtroom that Intelligent Design(tm) is exactly equal to Creationism with the religous serial numbers filed off. All of ID's earliest proponents are "former" creationists, their first major publication was a 99% verbatim creationist essay retro-edited to delete mentions of God, and of course, when citizens/judges/schoolboards pushed ID out of their local curricula, Pat Robertson and friends gravely announced that these foolish people were endangering their immortal souls.
Cedric Tsui, eh? A young asian male, just like the VT shooter and this videogame terrorist kid. Please report to the campus counselor's office for immediate internment. You did say you "would prefer to have one hundred thousand over reactions", right?
Jerry: I don't understand. Do you have my data?
IT: We have your backup, we just can't restore it.
Jerry: But the backup keeps the data here, that's why you have the backup!
IT: I think I know why we have backups.
Jerry: I don't think you do. You see, you know how to MAKE the backup, you just don't know how to RESTORE the backup. And that's really the most important part of the backup: the restoring. Anybody can just make them.
Shut up with your stupid "But Clinton did it too" garbage. Yes, Clinton fired most of the US Attorneys at the start of his first term. Guess what? So did Reagan. So did Bush Sr. And... here's the good bit... so did Bush Jr. What you say? Your idols Hannity and Limbaugh never told you that part?
US Attorneys are bound by federal law to be non-partisan public servants. They should not be fired mid-term unless they are caught in some gross act of crime or dereliction. And definitely not because their prosecutions are insufficiently skewed against your political opponents.
To put this matter to rest, here are some relevant paragraphs of article text (thank you, worldwide university subscription):
Method Procedure: photographic stimuli
Thirty women from the UCLA campus (mean age = 21.07 years old; SD = 2.35; range 18-37) posed for two standing full-body digital photographs with their hands placed at their sides (Canon PowerShot S410, 4.0 Megapixels). Women identified themselves as African American (n = 1), Asian American (n = 10), Caucasian (n = 6), Hispanic/Latino (n = 7), and mixed race or "other" (n = 6). One photograph was taken on a high fertility day of the cycle (follicular phase) and one on a low fertility day of the cycle (luteal phase). Photographs were taken in the same location under standardized lighting conditions against a plain blue background. All women reported regular menstrual cycles (ranging between 26 and 35 days), were partnered (involved in a "committed romantic relationship" with a man), and none had used oral or other hormonal contraceptives within the last three months. Because previous studies have found stronger ovulatory effects in partnered than in non-partnered women (e.g., Havlicek et al., 2005 and Pillsworth et al., 2004), we limited our investigation to partnered women.
Session scheduling and luteinizing hormone (LH) testing were conducted using the procedures described in Gangestad et al. (2002). There were three sessions--an initial session for cycle history assessment and scheduling and subsequent high and low fertility sessions. After initial sessions, women were scheduled to return for the next possible session (low or high) given their current cycle day. Low fertility sessions were scheduled to occur 4-10 days prior to the estimated day of next menstrual onset. Actual menstrual onset was reported by 66.7% of women after their low fertility session; for the balance of participants, menstrual onset was estimated using cycle length and the last date of menstrual onset. On average, based on these information sources, low fertility sessions took place 5.87 days prior to menses (SD = 2.5; three women participated within 48 h of menstrual onset and possibly could have experienced premenstrual symptoms; therefore, days-to-menstrual-onset is included in the analyses presented below). High fertility sessions were scheduled to occur 15-17 days prior to the next estimated menstrual onset. Participants also reported to the laboratory to complete urine tests beginning two days prior to their high fertility session and continuing for three days after this session or until an LH surge was detected. Using an unmarked commercially available urinary stick ovulation test (Clearblue(TM)), all women were judged to have an LH surge between three days after and two days before their high fertility session. An LH surge typically proceeds ovulation by 24-48 h (Guermandi et al., 2001); thus, all women were likely to be near ovulation during their high fertility session. Within the fertile window of the cycle, conception risk increases as ovulation approaches (Wilcox et al., 1995). We therefore estimated days-to-ovulation (by adding two to days-to-LH surge; mean = 3.03, SD = 1.40) and included this estimate in the analyses reported below.
These 30 women were a subset of 58 originally recruited for the study. Women ineligible for inclusion in the study either showed no evidence of an LH surge (n = 4), were rescheduled for low fertility sessions (due to their own time constraints) on days falling outside of the range of the luteal phase days (n = 3), did not consent to having photos taken (n = 7), consented to having their photos taken but did not consent to having their photos judged by people other than the researchers (n = 7), or did not complete all sessions (n = 7). There were no significant differences in relationship satisfaction, sociosexuality (Simpson and Gangestad, 1991), age, or relationship length between women retained in the study and those who were ineligible.
It's true. The Bush administration stole the crown of "biggest weasels" from slick Willie Clinton years ago. They are the grand masters of implying bold statements while actually phrasing things as to be unaccountable. Sheer brilliance.
It took a bit longer than anyone would have guessed, but at long last everyone in this photo has retired. I bet there will be some Kurdish street parties tonight.
It would defeat one of the problems with DRM: non-portability.
No, it wouldn't, and that's the problem. Thanks to things like DMCA, even though you would own a GPL copy of DRM source code, it would still be illegal for you to actually USE that code to play DRM media on non-licensed platforms. Try distributing a fork of that code and you'd get the RIAA/MPAA/etc on your ass in a hurry.
So... Yunick's wondrous new engine is dirty and difficult to maintain, but the only POSSIBLE reason why it isn't being used today is that every CEO in Detroit, from Lee Iacoca back then through Bill Ford Jr today, would rather teeter on the brink of bankruptcy with billions of dollars in losses, than risk offending their secret masters in OPEC. Yeah, that makes perfect sense.
So I found Smokey Yunick in Popular Science, and I have to say... bullshit. He was lying. If he really had an engine that gave American-level horsepower at 60mpg in a standard size car, SOMEONE would have publicized it, SOMEONE would have funded him. There were (and still are) WAY too many nationally-recognized investigative reporters (60 Minutes, Consumer Reports, etc) who would have loved to do independently-verified road tests and tell us about the guy who could save us from the oil crisis, except that "the Man" is keeping him down. There were (and still are) WAY too many wealthy investors in America alone who would have loved to throw megabucks at this guy, even if they didn't expect to make a return, solely for the fame of being the CEO of the company who saved us from the oil crisis.
If it were true, it would have happened. Proof by contrapositive.
Popular Science? You mean the magazine whose next issue claims car-sized invisibility cloaks are just around the corner? And makes similarly ridiculous claims that don't pan out every single month? If that's your most reputable reference for a purported technology, it's LESS likely to be true than if you said it was invented by elves.
You are mistaking loudness for consensus. Surprising as it may appear, a majority (or at least a very strong plurality) of Slashdotters run Windows as their primary OS. And *nix pragmatists are comparable in number to your *nix idealist faction.
I'm glad there are folks like you, willing to boycott hardware for the sake of OSS purity. I hope someday Nvidia capitulates. But unless they're draize-testing babies or dumping toxic waste in the rain forest, I'm using whatever best meets my needs.
Enron is very relevant to the huge amount of auditing infrastructure that so many IT grunts were required to add to their corporate systems in the past few years.
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WTF? Apparently AK Marc has been feeding at the federal teat for so long, he doesn't realize that it is possible to build roads without Congress paying for it. Ted Stevens and your other fellow Republicans should be so proud of you.
Campaigning on "THE SANCTITY OF MARRIAGE" and then hiring a hooker once he gets to DC, that's why he deserves the new asshole he's getting torn.
Of course, the whole Vitter situation is completely unrelated to Stevens and his corruption charge.You ignore one small detail: Microsoft is a convicted criminal monopolist. They are not allowed to (among other things) leverage their OS dominance into coercing people or companies to buy other MS products. This example is the other way around (using DX10 games to push Vista sales) but any such behavior on Microsoft's part is questionable under their legal status.
No, that's just revisionist bullshit. It's been demonstrated multiple times in both the media and in the courtroom that Intelligent Design(tm) is exactly equal to Creationism with the religous serial numbers filed off. All of ID's earliest proponents are "former" creationists, their first major publication was a 99% verbatim creationist essay retro-edited to delete mentions of God, and of course, when citizens/judges/schoolboards pushed ID out of their local curricula, Pat Robertson and friends gravely announced that these foolish people were endangering their immortal souls.
Cedric Tsui, eh? A young asian male, just like the VT shooter and this videogame terrorist kid. Please report to the campus counselor's office for immediate internment. You did say you "would prefer to have one hundred thousand over reactions", right?
Jerry: I don't understand. Do you have my data?
IT: We have your backup, we just can't restore it.
Jerry: But the backup keeps the data here, that's why you have the backup!
IT: I think I know why we have backups.
Jerry: I don't think you do. You see, you know how to MAKE the backup, you just don't know how to RESTORE the backup. And that's really the most important part of the backup: the restoring. Anybody can just make them.
Shut up with your stupid "But Clinton did it too" garbage. Yes, Clinton fired most of the US Attorneys at the start of his first term. Guess what? So did Reagan. So did Bush Sr. And ... here's the good bit ... so did Bush Jr. What you say? Your idols Hannity and Limbaugh never told you that part?
US Attorneys are bound by federal law to be non-partisan public servants. They should not be fired mid-term unless they are caught in some gross act of crime or dereliction. And definitely not because their prosecutions are insufficiently skewed against your political opponents.
Funny - Walden O'Dell, the CEO who infamously promised to deliver Ohio's votes to Bush in 2004, resigned in 2005.
Dude, except for WoW. that game. duh
It's true. The Bush administration stole the crown of "biggest weasels" from slick Willie Clinton years ago. They are the grand masters of implying bold statements while actually phrasing things as to be unaccountable. Sheer brilliance.
It took a bit longer than anyone would have guessed, but at long last everyone in this photo has retired. I bet there will be some Kurdish street parties tonight.
campaign was beginning.
Peter King: What happen ?
IT guy: Somebody set us up the Googlebomb.
Secretary: We get Newsday.
Peter King: What !
. . . So, have you had enough, or must I continue?
Good catch. But it's only a runner-up compared to "our enemies never stop thinking about ways to harm our country, and neither do we".
So... Yunick's wondrous new engine is dirty and difficult to maintain, but the only POSSIBLE reason why it isn't being used today is that every CEO in Detroit, from Lee Iacoca back then through Bill Ford Jr today, would rather teeter on the brink of bankruptcy with billions of dollars in losses, than risk offending their secret masters in OPEC. Yeah, that makes perfect sense.
So I found Smokey Yunick in Popular Science, and I have to say ... bullshit. He was lying. If he really had an engine that gave American-level horsepower at 60mpg in a standard size car, SOMEONE would have publicized it, SOMEONE would have funded him. There were (and still are) WAY too many nationally-recognized investigative reporters (60 Minutes, Consumer Reports, etc) who would have loved to do independently-verified road tests and tell us about the guy who could save us from the oil crisis, except that "the Man" is keeping him down. There were (and still are) WAY too many wealthy investors in America alone who would have loved to throw megabucks at this guy, even if they didn't expect to make a return, solely for the fame of being the CEO of the company who saved us from the oil crisis.
If it were true, it would have happened. Proof by contrapositive.
Popular Science? You mean the magazine whose next issue claims car-sized invisibility cloaks are just around the corner? And makes similarly ridiculous claims that don't pan out every single month? If that's your most reputable reference for a purported technology, it's LESS likely to be true than if you said it was invented by elves.
You are mistaking loudness for consensus. Surprising as it may appear, a majority (or at least a very strong plurality) of Slashdotters run Windows as their primary OS. And *nix pragmatists are comparable in number to your *nix idealist faction.
I'm glad there are folks like you, willing to boycott hardware for the sake of OSS purity. I hope someday Nvidia capitulates. But unless they're draize-testing babies or dumping toxic waste in the rain forest, I'm using whatever best meets my needs.
Push that Backslash radio button all the way to the left. Off my homepage now!
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Corrections: it's John Lydon, and he didn't actually get snared by the list, but he would have been.
Hey, I'm not saying it's a bad thing, but however you look it was a lot of work to implement.
If Kenny Boy hadn't crashed and burned, most IT folks would never have heard of Senators Sarbanes and Oxley. That's what it's all about.
Enron is very relevant to the huge amount of auditing infrastructure that so many IT grunts were required to add to their corporate systems in the past few years.
IMO, that Onion article is so funny because it's true (other than the absolute head count).
Huh? There's plenty of Libertarian hippies. Not quite as many as gun-nuts or anarcho-capitalists, but they're in there.