You're perfectly right. I mean, it's not like the United States would ever hold one of her own citizens in captivity without formally charging said citizen with a crime or allowing said citizen to speak to a lawyer. And even were such a thing to happen the government would surely at least guarantee that said citizen would eventually get a trial by jury.
It probably wouldn't take too long to get used to, but in that time period, your productivity would suffer.
Or you'd crash and die b/c you have no idea how to control a car properly using a joystick. But yeah, having your productivity suffer, that would really suck too.
Those interested in reading more discussion on the merits of writing code without a computer should refer to this Ask Slashdot feature from earlier this month.
"6. Centralisation of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the state."
-- Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels, The Manifesto of the Communist Party
And your point is what exactly? That the parent is a communist? If centralizing transport powers in the hands of the state is such a lousy thing, I'd like to see you argue against the the govt-regulated highway system we have in the US.
Nor should tax dollars be spent on Bic pens, or Bostitch staplers, or Lockheed jets, or any other product built by an evil moneygrubbing company!
I think you've missed the point made by the parent post. Last time I checked neither Bic, Bostitch, nor Lockheed were declared guilty of illegal business practices by our own Justice Department.
Damn, I had a reeeeal long response all ready and my browser goes and crashes on me. Oh well, it was probably too rambling anyway; lemme just make one or two quick points.
Look, as for Daschle not letting things being put to a vote on the floor, this is congress we're talking about here. Bills (and political appointees) get killed in committee all the time. Fair or unfair, it's how the system works.
Regardless, there are fewer judges being blocked than you seem to think. Democrats have confirmed 57 Bush judicial nominees since assuming control of the Senate.
Incidentally, I think the dems rubberstamp Bush too much. The Patriot Act? WTF were they all smoking?!
Daschle's not being forthcoming with a platform? Two points. One: Elections aren't until November. Two: With all the messes going on in the world, Daschle is getting about zero press time. The news gives him enough time to disagree with Bush about something and that's it.
For the record, I'm not a Democrat but an Independent (hey, just like my username!). I back one of my two Republican senators, but I think the other's a jerk.
I apologize for the brevity of my response, please see my half-assed excuse above.
The fact of the matter is that the people just don't care enough to change anything.
Maybe I'm mistaken, but I thought in the Kazaa default install that just one shared folder was created, meaning that a user would have to actually change a setting under tools/options to share his whole hd.
The average "user" is the son or daughter of the owner of the box and is largly unsupervised in their use. Should it be different? Sure.
Of course it should be different! These unsupervised little rugrats are always hacking into the pentagon's computers or some such thing. It's true, I saw it on a documentary. Or, wait, maybe that was a bad Hollywood movie . . .
And because of that, Bush can't even get Judges approved, much less bills passed, since Dashell is set on being obstructionist. But hey, what do I know, I just pay attention...
Yeah, you're obviously paying lots of attention when you don't even know how to spell the Majority Leader's name.
And if you want to speak of obstructionism, just check out how difficult it was for Clinton to get his political appointees approved.
Anyway, you're basically saying that if the dems don't want to get bush's bills passed then they're somehow not doing their jobs. Sometimes, my friend, dissent is the most patriotic course of action.
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You're perfectly right. I mean, it's not like the United States would ever hold one of her own citizens in captivity without formally charging said citizen with a crime or allowing said citizen to speak to a lawyer. And even were such a thing to happen the government would surely at least guarantee that said citizen would eventually get a trial by jury.
Oh, wait . . .
It probably wouldn't take too long to get used to, but in that time period, your productivity would suffer.
Or you'd crash and die b/c you have no idea how to control a car properly using a joystick. But yeah, having your productivity suffer, that would really suck too.
Flamebait? What kind of idiotic MS sycophants are moderating today?
But I don't write code well at all on paper.
Those interested in reading more discussion on the merits of writing code without a computer should refer to this Ask Slashdot feature from earlier this month.
"6. Centralisation of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the state."
-- Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels, The Manifesto of the Communist Party
And your point is what exactly? That the parent is a communist? If centralizing transport powers in the hands of the state is such a lousy thing, I'd like to see you argue against the the govt-regulated highway system we have in the US.
Nor should tax dollars be spent on Bic pens, or Bostitch staplers, or Lockheed jets, or any other product built by an evil moneygrubbing company!
I think you've missed the point made by the parent post. Last time I checked neither Bic, Bostitch, nor Lockheed were declared guilty of illegal business practices by our own Justice Department.
Being that corporations pay taxes . . .
:)
Hot damn! That's news to me
A good person won't sell a good book: I know I don't. So you are either buying from a bad person, or buying a bad book, or maybe somebody died.
What about space as a legitimate reason to sell? If I still had every book I ever bought, well, I shudder to think what my apartment would look like.
Let the MS bashing begin!
A presentation for Xbox Live, Microsoft's online service for its game console, stressed hack-proof servers.
By the way what exactly is a beowulf cluster?
Read this.
Heh heh. Yeah, the spelling was a cheap shot.
Damn, I had a reeeeal long response all ready and my browser goes and crashes on me. Oh well, it was probably too rambling anyway; lemme just make one or two quick points. Look, as for Daschle not letting things being put to a vote on the floor, this is congress we're talking about here. Bills (and political appointees) get killed in committee all the time. Fair or unfair, it's how the system works.
Regardless, there are fewer judges being blocked than you seem to think. Democrats have confirmed 57 Bush judicial nominees since assuming control of the Senate.
Incidentally, I think the dems rubberstamp Bush too much. The Patriot Act? WTF were they all smoking?!
Daschle's not being forthcoming with a platform? Two points. One: Elections aren't until November. Two: With all the messes going on in the world, Daschle is getting about zero press time. The news gives him enough time to disagree with Bush about something and that's it.
For the record, I'm not a Democrat but an Independent (hey, just like my username!). I back one of my two Republican senators, but I think the other's a jerk.
I apologize for the brevity of my response, please see my half-assed excuse above.
The fact of the matter is that the people just don't care enough to change anything.
Maybe I'm mistaken, but I thought in the Kazaa default install that just one shared folder was created, meaning that a user would have to actually change a setting under tools/options to share his whole hd.
. . . integrating the GUI into the operating system was a dumb idea
Oh yeah, because you just know most users are plenty comfortable with the command line.
The average "user" is the son or daughter of the owner of the box and is largly unsupervised in their use. Should it be different? Sure.
Of course it should be different! These unsupervised little rugrats are always hacking into the pentagon's computers or some such thing. It's true, I saw it on a documentary. Or, wait, maybe that was a bad Hollywood movie . . .
And because of that, Bush can't even get Judges approved, much less bills passed, since Dashell is set on being obstructionist. But hey, what do I know, I just pay attention...
Yeah, you're obviously paying lots of attention when you don't even know how to spell the Majority Leader's name.
And if you want to speak of obstructionism, just check out how difficult it was for Clinton to get his political appointees approved.
Anyway, you're basically saying that if the dems don't want to get bush's bills passed then they're somehow not doing their jobs. Sometimes, my friend, dissent is the most patriotic course of action.