Hurrrr let's link to the onion and pretend it's news!
Good God, why is this garbage on the front page?
Back in January 2001 The Onion ran an article about a (totally fictitious and made up by them) Bush televised address about what to expect from his administration. It was titled "Bush:'Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over'". Looking at it today it reads not like satire but like an incredibly accurate prediction of what actually happened, so I wouldn't be too quick to dismiss this latest Onion offering as not being news. After all, if Slashdot can offer subscribers news from the mysterious future...
Lawmakers don't do this, lobbyists do. They hire people to stand in lines for them so that when a committee meeting that's considering a matter of concern to them finally starts they have a guarantee of getting one of the limited number of seats available to the public in the room in which the committee is meeting. While their stand-in is standing in for them they're off somewhere else getting something else done instead of just standing around in a line waiting for congresscritters to start a meeting.
There's nothing idiosyncratic about a heater core leak...
As a matter of fact, I learned the hard way that late 60s Fords were especially prone to having this problem.
When that radiator fails, it will leak from under the dash onto the floorboards.
Except that if the leak is near the top of the heater core it won't necessarily leak until the engine is hot enough for the thermostat to open, at which point it will exit the leak as steam and deposit a thin film of anti-freeze all over the inside of the windshield.
Of course if you want a Ford with a wet floorboard, get one of the ones that ran the brake line to the rear wheels through the passenger compartment under the back seat carpet and wait for it to spring a leak.
Has anyone checked out whether Sessions has any personal interest in this bill, or whether he might be getting a kickback?
From the WashPo article--
"Political action committees of financial institutions were the largest single category of industry donors to Sessions, with $52,300 in the current election cycle, the center said. That represented nearly a quarter of PAC contributions he received as of midyear 2007."
It's always better to buy congresscritters ahead of time and keep them in your pocket until needed.
ISPs could offer 'x' number of bytes free per month with account, charge extra for any above that. This would make sure that ISPs keep track of who was sending how much. The problem comes from "evildoers" who send in bulk, so this would catch them, or at least make it unprofitable for them to flood the "tubes" with their stuff. If someone's computer was taken over and being used, they'd soon be made aware when their ISP sent a message saying "You used up your quota in the first 3 minutes of this billing period".
The 3872 number is only well-known because of the period when there were fake Bruces, more than one, on Slashdot...I had to make a point of telling folks that the "Real Bruce Perens" had that specific ID. This led to the Eminem parody.
That Eminem thing must have been something I passed on due to only being on dial-up 'cause I don't remember it, but I do remember changing my sig to something like "the real unitron is user 5733, but doesn't rate an imposter" (and naturally soon thereafter someone registered something like un1tron:-)
I do remember registering sometime soon after getting here just as the Halloween Papers scandal broke.
I don't remember seeing a post from you when everybody got into a discussion of who got an account here when and what user id number ranges co-incide with what dates, so, do you by chance remember (about) when you got your famous 3872 id number?
What reason does a seller have for charging more than the actual shipping costs...
It allows them to have an artificially low selling price for the item. eBay charges them a percentage of the selling price (before shipping), so the lower the selling price the less the seller has to pay eBay.
Apparently the rule about posts pointing out spelling and/or grammar errors always containing spelling and/or grammar errors applies even when one is pointing out one's own mistake(s).
The activation voltage of a transistor is variable- it's a property of the materials its made of..7 is a common one and thus used in a lot of texts, but it isn't set in stone.
--unintentional pun alert--If you count silcon as a stone then actually it is. It takes between 0.6 and 0.7 volts to get a silicon PN junction to conduct, but that's Bipolar Junction Transistors, and Field-Effect Transistors are a different situation where you don't want the junctions to conduct.
The amazing thing is that they were able to get the transistors to bias at that voltage. That was my first reflex thought (due to what I learned when), but I suspect that we're talking about Field-Effect Transistors where an electrostatic field affects the resistance of a unipolar channel and not Bipolar Junction Transistors where you need twice that much electrical pressure to get the base-emitter junction to conduct.
minus the silly greater-than-zero requirement for a winner
But that's one of the best parts. It puts teeth into voting "none of the above" and nobody gets in who's opposed by a majority. I look forward to the day when the results of an election are "Everybody thinks all of you stink on ice. Go away and let some new people start campaigning." It would encourage those who otherwise might never run but who the voters might actually prefer if given the choice. Might even get us more statesmen and fewer politicians.
By preventing Nader votes from diluting Gore votes and Buchanan votes from diluting Bush votes, and by forcing a clearer ballot layout (Buchanan readily admits that a lot of votes he got in certain districts were almost certainly from people who were trying to vote for Gore) the system I propose would likely have produced a wider difference between Gore and Bush, which would have resulted in less pressure for recounts.
It was introduced on October 23rd, passed in the House of Representatives on the 24th and in the Senate on the 25th, it created 9 new sections of the U.S. code and substantially amended 108 others.
Still think you would have had time to fully understand what you were voting on?
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Good God, why is this garbage on the front page?
Back in January 2001 The Onion ran an article about a (totally fictitious and made up by them) Bush televised address about what to expect from his administration. It was titled "Bush:'Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over'". Looking at it today it reads not like satire but like an incredibly accurate prediction of what actually happened, so I wouldn't be too quick to dismiss this latest Onion offering as not being news. After all, if Slashdot can offer subscribers news from the mysterious future...
How'd you do with hurdles one and three?
Lawmakers don't do this, lobbyists do. They hire people to stand in lines for them so that when a committee meeting that's considering a matter of concern to them finally starts they have a guarantee of getting one of the limited number of seats available to the public in the room in which the committee is meeting. While their stand-in is standing in for them they're off somewhere else getting something else done instead of just standing around in a line waiting for congresscritters to start a meeting.
Now the campaign slogan "Lessig Is More" will never be used.
As a matter of fact, I learned the hard way that late 60s Fords were especially prone to having this problem.
When that radiator fails, it will leak from under the dash onto the floorboards.Except that if the leak is near the top of the heater core it won't necessarily leak until the engine is hot enough for the thermostat to open, at which point it will exit the leak as steam and deposit a thin film of anti-freeze all over the inside of the windshield.
Of course if you want a Ford with a wet floorboard, get one of the ones that ran the brake line to the rear wheels through the passenger compartment under the back seat carpet and wait for it to spring a leak.
From the WashPo article--
"Political action committees of financial institutions were the largest single category of industry donors to Sessions, with $52,300 in the current election cycle, the center said. That represented nearly a quarter of PAC contributions he received as of midyear 2007."
It's always better to buy congresscritters ahead of time and keep them in your pocket until needed.
Tell that argumentative Won guy that one who breaks into a system is pretty much de facto not trusted. :-)
But the ISPs would save money by not having to pay for all that extra bandwidth used by the bulk mailers.
ISPs could offer 'x' number of bytes free per month with account, charge extra for any above that. This would make sure that ISPs keep track of who was sending how much. The problem comes from "evildoers" who send in bulk, so this would catch them, or at least make it unprofitable for them to flood the "tubes" with their stuff. If someone's computer was taken over and being used, they'd soon be made aware when their ISP sent a message saying "You used up your quota in the first 3 minutes of this billing period".
That Eminem thing must have been something I passed on due to only being on dial-up 'cause I don't remember it, but I do remember changing my sig to something like "the real unitron is user 5733, but doesn't rate an imposter" (and naturally soon thereafter someone registered something like un1tron :-)
I do remember registering sometime soon after getting here just as the Halloween Papers scandal broke.
...they had once posessed as a result of having stolen it from someone else...
...who had once posessed it as a result of...
...ad infinitum.
I don't disagree, but I would add that neither are PCs.
I don't remember seeing a post from you when everybody got into a discussion of who got an account here when and what user id number ranges co-incide with what dates, so, do you by chance remember (about) when you got your famous 3872 id number?
regards,
unitron
Now all I can do is bitch about MS. (not the disease, the other disease)
That depends on how many people try the veal.
It allows them to have an artificially low selling price for the item. eBay charges them a percentage of the selling price (before shipping), so the lower the selling price the less the seller has to pay eBay.
Apparently the rule about posts pointing out spelling and/or grammar errors always containing spelling and/or grammar errors applies even when one is pointing out one's own mistake(s).
Santa Claus's!
Bush got two terms, didn't he?
--unintentional pun alert--If you count silcon as a stone then actually it is. It takes between 0.6 and 0.7 volts to get a silicon PN junction to conduct, but that's Bipolar Junction Transistors, and Field-Effect Transistors are a different situation where you don't want the junctions to conduct.
Or for some of us who suffered through it, not nearly long enough :-)
But that's one of the best parts. It puts teeth into voting "none of the above" and nobody gets in who's opposed by a majority. I look forward to the day when the results of an election are "Everybody thinks all of you stink on ice. Go away and let some new people start campaigning." It would encourage those who otherwise might never run but who the voters might actually prefer if given the choice. Might even get us more statesmen and fewer politicians.
By preventing Nader votes from diluting Gore votes and Buchanan votes from diluting Bush votes, and by forcing a clearer ballot layout (Buchanan readily admits that a lot of votes he got in certain districts were almost certainly from people who were trying to vote for Gore) the system I propose would likely have produced a wider difference between Gore and Bush, which would have resulted in less pressure for recounts.
It was introduced on October 23rd, passed in the House of Representatives on the 24th and in the Senate on the 25th, it created 9 new sections of the U.S. code and substantially amended 108 others.
Still think you would have had time to fully understand what you were voting on?