Re:How many times can the Democrats pull this crap
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Indecision 2002
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From poll taxes to roadblocks in Florida, thwarting the democractic process is extremely damaging to society in the long run.
No.
Wrong.
What's damaging to society in the long run is cynical losing candidates and their backers defaming the process with irresponsible and unfounded allegations. If you want people to take elections seriously, establish rules and go by them. Don't play games after the fact. Don't expend thousands of words explaining why the whole thing was a fraud.
Remember, if you don't vote you don't have the right to complain about who's in office.
Well, anybody who pays taxes has the right to complain about how those taxes are spent, wether or not they vote.
I've seen that 'get involved, or you have no say' ploy used over and over by people into politics. How about we just shut down their game once in awhile when it gets particularly crooked, instead.
Micrografx 'In-A-Vision' (vector based drawing package) was the first 'killer app' for Windows. It came bundled with a runtime version of Windows 1. Some of us were using Windows for serious work back then. I started running Windows at version 2 on my turbo (10 MHz) XT with a Hercules graphic card and continued running Windows on that hardware for a long time, well into the launch of Windows 3.1. I remember the coolness of extended memory when I got my first 286 motherboard, and the further coolness of Enhanced Mode when I got my first 386.
Looking back, I should have taken out a bank loan and gotten a SparcStation, but we grow due to the challanges of adversity.
The first 'Killer App' for the personal computer (lower case) was VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet. It came out before the IBM PC. In fact, for it's first year on the market, it ran only on the Apple II personal computer. This fact about VisiCalc is the real, quasi-secret reason that Apple Computer succeeded. Businessmen would go into a computer shop and say 'I want a VisiCalc,' meaning they wanted an Apple II with VisiCalc. Apple tends to spread revisionist history about some inherent superiority in their products, but the fact is that exclusive VisiCalc support had more to do with their early success in the business market than anything else.
IBM is a convicted monopoly. Nintendo should have been a decade ago.
Why should being a convicted monopolist mean you are required to give away your SDK for free? They're competing against other companies, not every fifteen year old with a subnet of 386 boxes in his mom's basement.
I remember once that a medical device I was designing used a voice-coil buzzer for it's audio annunciator. It drew considerable current. Marketing wanted me to put in code to sound the beeper when low battery was detected.
I discovered it could make one small peep before the 'low battery alarm' completely killed off all remaining power.
I'm sure if you sold somebody a computer underclocked to 2 milliHertz they would just assume it was defective and return it. I mean, let's be real, it would take four days to get through the POST, so everybody would assume it was just defective.
Now, if Microsoft were pooling their copyrights with a consortium of other companies to form a trust, what you said, and that news article from two years ago might have more merit.
That's similar to the way Nintendo, Sony, Sun, IBM, and any number of other vendors who support third party developers for their platform(s) are allowed to charge whatever they want for the SDK, right?
The last thing you need in an accident is a bunch of loose capacitors and crap being blown into your face.
I used to want to get a blunderbuss to shoot chip components at people. That pesky AVX SMD capacitor vendor shows up again in the lobby; *blam* shoot 'em with a blend of 0805 chip capacitors and MELF resistors.
There is no such thing as a 'national popular vote.' There's no formal method for determining such a number. Those numbers are just journalists and statisticians playing around with apples and oranges.
Microsoft spent millions of dollars in the touch-n-feel lawsuit defending the right of people of all kinds to appropriate User Interface elements. If Apple had won, the legal precedent would be that we would all have to kow-tow to Apple to implement a GUI.
This fact is seldom acknowledged in the lust to savage Microsoft for anything and everything.
One of the stages of growing up is discovering you do NOT know it all. The leaflets you passed out were rash and proposed simplistic solutions. Etc. etc.
And, as we all know, only rich people deserve "luxury" items. Poor people in second and third world countries should just eek out a pitiful, impoverished existence, devoid of even the simple pleasure of seeing a movie. How dare they want more than that from life?
No, actually, poor people should just die and become the fertilizer used to grow the corn fed to the unhappy cow whose skin is made into the rawhide chew that rich ladie's little pink poodle.
(fuggin' 'tardboy. quit seeing the world through your shaded class-warfare glasses)
Sure they can have it both ways. There's a fresh new crop of idealist Freshmen coming along each fall. All these 'radicals' have to do is convince 10% of them to 'fight the man' and they've got a 'movement for freedom' to justfy their lack of a life and reinforce their paranoia that 'the conspiracy' is for real.
Plus a pool of young idealistic freshmen women to ball. Yeah, I've been there. I know how 'radicals' operate.
Ah yes, the New York Times, one of Americas biggest bastions of liberalism, one of the papers that goes at Ashcrofts and Bushs throat whenever the opportunity arises, is going to help Ashcroft 'crush your cherisied right to privacy.'
Dual booting sucks. Back when I did things like that what I needed was always on the other system. It's so much better to just have two systems networked together. If you are crowded for space, get a KVM switch.
Someone who just plain prefers Solaris to Linux (believe it or not, they exist)
What a fantastic marketplace! There could be... dozens of folks like that!
The real surpising thing is, they'll actually pay money for their software! So if you add in the 'multiplier factor' (amount of money willing to pay times number of users) you arrive at a number infinitely greater than the number of Linux users.
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From poll taxes to roadblocks in Florida, thwarting the democractic process is extremely damaging to society in the long run.
No.
Wrong.
What's damaging to society in the long run is cynical losing candidates and their backers defaming the process with irresponsible and unfounded allegations. If you want people to take elections seriously, establish rules and go by them. Don't play games after the fact. Don't expend thousands of words explaining why the whole thing was a fraud.
Remember, if you don't vote you don't have the right to complain about who's in office.
Well, anybody who pays taxes has the right to complain about how those taxes are spent, wether or not they vote.
I've seen that 'get involved, or you have no say' ploy used over and over by people into politics. How about we just shut down their game once in awhile when it gets particularly crooked, instead.
Micrografx 'In-A-Vision' (vector based drawing package) was the first 'killer app' for Windows. It came bundled with a runtime version of Windows 1. Some of us were using Windows for serious work back then. I started running Windows at version 2 on my turbo (10 MHz) XT with a Hercules graphic card and continued running Windows on that hardware for a long time, well into the launch of Windows 3.1. I remember the coolness of extended memory when I got my first 286 motherboard, and the further coolness of Enhanced Mode when I got my first 386.
Looking back, I should have taken out a bank loan and gotten a SparcStation, but we grow due to the challanges of adversity.
The first 'Killer App' for the personal computer (lower case) was VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet. It came out before the IBM PC. In fact, for it's first year on the market, it ran only on the Apple II personal computer. This fact about VisiCalc is the real, quasi-secret reason that Apple Computer succeeded. Businessmen would go into a computer shop and say 'I want a VisiCalc,' meaning they wanted an Apple II with VisiCalc. Apple tends to spread revisionist history about some inherent superiority in their products, but the fact is that exclusive VisiCalc support had more to do with their early success in the business market than anything else.
IBM is a convicted monopoly. Nintendo should have been a decade ago.
Why should being a convicted monopolist mean you are required to give away your SDK for free? They're competing against other companies, not every fifteen year old with a subnet of 386 boxes in his mom's basement.
"Damn the batteries, full speed ahead!"
I remember once that a medical device I was designing used a voice-coil buzzer for it's audio annunciator. It drew considerable current. Marketing wanted me to put in code to sound the beeper when low battery was detected.
I discovered it could make one small peep before the 'low battery alarm' completely killed off all remaining power.
underclocked to 2 mHz
I'm sure if you sold somebody a computer underclocked to 2 milliHertz they would just assume it was defective and return it. I mean, let's be real, it would take four days to get through the POST, so everybody would assume it was just defective.
Now, if Microsoft were pooling their copyrights with a consortium of other companies to form a trust, what you said, and that news article from two years ago might have more merit.
*ding*
Insert quarter to play agian.
That's similar to the way Nintendo, Sony, Sun, IBM, and any number of other vendors who support third party developers for their platform(s) are allowed to charge whatever they want for the SDK, right?
Ah, one of those light emitting eproms.
Don't try to use them as panel lights. They're designed for intermittant use only.
The last thing you need in an accident is a bunch of loose capacitors and crap being blown into your face.
I used to want to get a blunderbuss to shoot chip components at people. That pesky AVX SMD capacitor vendor shows up again in the lobby; *blam* shoot 'em with a blend of 0805 chip capacitors and MELF resistors.
You say there's an oil refinery right in the middle of your city? Is it right next door to the iron mine?
There is no such thing as a 'national popular vote.' There's no formal method for determining such a number. Those numbers are just journalists and statisticians playing around with apples and oranges.
Instead, we have a system in which the concerns of a few people in Montana have excessive influence over the whole country.
There's an easy solution to that: Reduce drastically the power of the Federal Government.
Why won't you campaign for such a move?
OpenBSD don't need no steenkin' COPYING file.
Microsoft spent millions of dollars in the touch-n-feel lawsuit defending the right of people of all kinds to appropriate User Interface elements. If Apple had won, the legal precedent would be that we would all have to kow-tow to Apple to implement a GUI.
This fact is seldom acknowledged in the lust to savage Microsoft for anything and everything.
Naw. I just grew up.
One of the stages of growing up is discovering you do NOT know it all. The leaflets you passed out were rash and proposed simplistic solutions. Etc. etc.
Well, lord knows that it's a paramont role for government to ensure that I can get a HDTV at a non-inflated price.
And, as we all know, only rich people deserve "luxury" items. Poor people in second and third world countries should just eek out a pitiful, impoverished existence, devoid of even the simple pleasure of seeing a movie. How dare they want more than that from life?
No, actually, poor people should just die and become the fertilizer used to grow the corn fed to the unhappy cow whose skin is made into the rawhide chew that rich ladie's little pink poodle.
(fuggin' 'tardboy. quit seeing the world through your shaded class-warfare glasses)
Sure they can have it both ways. There's a fresh new crop of idealist Freshmen coming along each fall. All these 'radicals' have to do is convince 10% of them to 'fight the man' and they've got a 'movement for freedom' to justfy their lack of a life and reinforce their paranoia that 'the conspiracy' is for real.
Plus a pool of young idealistic freshmen women to ball. Yeah, I've been there. I know how 'radicals' operate.
Ah yes, the New York Times, one of Americas biggest bastions of liberalism, one of the papers that goes at Ashcrofts and Bushs throat whenever the opportunity arises, is going to help Ashcroft 'crush your cherisied right to privacy.'
Hahahaha! Tell another one!
Dual booting sucks. Back when I did things like that what I needed was always on the other system. It's so much better to just have two systems networked together. If you are crowded for space, get a KVM switch.
How is Wine used to 'interoperate with a Windows Operating System Product'?? Without that 'sole purpose' they're still shut out in the dark.
Wine is generally used to interoperate with Microsoft's Non-Operating System Products, and with third party applications.
The language clearly locks out competing operating systems, and opens the door for apps to further integrate.
Someone who just plain prefers Solaris to Linux (believe it or not, they exist)
... dozens of folks like that!
What a fantastic marketplace! There could be
The real surpising thing is, they'll actually pay money for their software! So if you add in the 'multiplier factor' (amount of money willing to pay times number of users) you arrive at a number infinitely greater than the number of Linux users.
You should be able to netboot it and install NetBSD, if you've got a cable to plug ethernet into it.