So then it's ok for CNN, a news-source for millions of people, to just ignore whether the article is correct?
Just because CNN has turned into a refering media outlet in this case, that does not imply that they are not responsible for the stuff they put up on their site.
In this case, nobody likes banner ads, and everyone selfishly wants to block them. If everyone did this, content on the web would be diminished, because fewer people could afford to produce web content full-time, and more content would go to subscriber-pay sites.
The reason people don't like banner ads is not exactly a opinion they where born with. The advertisers and site owners should blame themselfes if you ask me... No one hates a small banner but everyone despises that large flashing banner.
And everyone will not block ads. Everyone should have a firewall, and everyone needs antivirus, but I guess that less than half of the internet users have both. When people start installing this advertisers can start to integarte the ads in the page or in a page leading to the article. For example in order to read the latest/. discussion you would have to click on the linux.com banner you get when you click on the frontpage-link.
My post is not an ad for Norton and I'm not affiliated with them, but:
-People trust Norton.
-People need Norton (or similar program) for firewall or antivirus.
-People rather wants to install one large pack of software than many small programs.
-People thinks default settings are good.
-People want something that works, and most of the stuff Norton make just works. 99% don't have the skills to set up a working proxy server that can block ads.
-People use IE and NA with ad blocking works with IE.
In theory, with no banners or ads you would need less bandwith. You can move around a lot of text and small pictures with a 10 GB monthly transfer or a 128kb uplink.
I'm looking forward to less bloated pages on the net.
Communism/socialism would be wrong even if it worked, because it entails a loss of individual freedom.
Why are you dragging in Communism?
The above poster mentioned Finaland and Norway, they are social-democratic countries with a market economy but also with some governmental regulations. Finland is a EU and Euro member, Norway is a EEC member. Both have massive amounts of their incomes from trade with other countries.
When you lump socialism together with communism you are degrading the difference between those two ways of running a country.
There is still a substantial part of the companies that have computers running Windows 98 and NT (3.11/4). When they have to replacee their computers ageing bought from 1994-1999 many of them will upgrade to Win 2000 or 2003.
Of course some of them *can* continue to use these old OS but most are reluctant to do so because of lack of support and patches.
Untill someone comes up with the next absolutly killer app that requires tons of horsepower
Most OS and software gets bloated, adds new features and capabilities, use more memory and requires more CPU power than it did a year ago.
I'm not sure about wheter the Brownshirts actually imtimidated a large percentage of the population. I had the impression that they where leading the violence against jews, intelectuals, communists, other policticans etc., but I think that the majority of the people in Germany supported these actions inderectly/passivly because of the economic downturn and the humiliation in the early thirties.
Anyway,I agree with you that Germany never acquired deep support for democracy in years 1920-1930.
And the books...funny thing but three days ago I finished "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich"(!). Great book. A litle long though. But I think the Gulag Archipelago is even better.
It had a great impact on my thinking and political wievs when I read it when I was 17. Actually it changed my life and its probably the best book I have ever read. The sad thing is that this book has only beacome more relevant the last years.
As some person wrote on Amazon:
Gulag provided for me a powerful and shocking history lesson I had never been taught in high school or college. So much has been taught on Hitler, but barely anything of substance on Soviet Communism.
This is The Book for referals of why authoritarian regimes is a bad thing.
I find Russian history interesting and have later read "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich", "The First Circle" and several other books on the topic. Right now I'm reading "900 days; The Siege of Leningrad" by Harrison Evans Salisbury.
Well in this specific case (Germany) a well-armed population could not have prevented the tragedy simply because the majority thought that Nazi-Germany was a Good Thing(TM).
Ironically a well armed population in US won't stop PATRIOT Act I and II because the majority trust the government. And I am not sure if that will change if there comes a extended PATRIOT Act II or a PATRIOT Act III.
In a strong and well educated democracy the population will either vote down laws that reminds them of authoritarian regimes or fight them with more violent means. But as in "Nazi-Germany", even a well-armed population won't stand up against a dictatorship if they think it's a Good Thing(TM)
Funny, but you forgot about the other side of the story.
Some years later a evil caveman starts his "sell non-working stone stone axe" scam. Victims of the scam rise up against the life treathening sales practise and use real stone-axes to chop up scam-caveman.
Maybe that is a part of the problem; that someone getting their news from Fox would actually belive that "Do Democrats cause cancer?" was a real news crawl...
True, and I agree that from a philosohical wiev that Open Source is supposed to be about freedom of choice.
However from Vietnam's angle this is probably more a trade issue that a political statement.
For them this makes perfectly sense. Without knowing that much about the Vietnamese economy I would think that they are struggling with the trade balance. An since thay are a member of WTO they can't enforce laws that favor local products. And they have to pay for the MS licenses they use in the government.
So for them, as they can save some needed cash on software thats the way to go. Hard to blame them for that.
If Microsoft where a Vietnamese company I would have liked to see the US politican not trying to make Open Source manatory....
As you can see there was not any negative growth before Q1 2001. Can hardly blame Bush for that, but its hard to blame Clinton either for the bursth of the stock buble and the subseeding crack.
But whats really anoying about Bush is the tax cuts to the rich. Cutting taxes in the way Bush has done is a very ineffective way of helping a economy. The idea that a rich person that gets to pay less tax automaticly wil start investing those money instead just does not cut it.
And there will be a platform for some of the candidates:
-It's unlikely that the economy will recover enough and create enough jobs for it not to be a issue.
-Iraq....
Plus trhere will allways be political issues that the democrats and republicans can argue about.
But Iraq is different. They proved their unstable-ness and general malaise towards the concept of human rights. it was brought before the UN, voted on, and agreed.
Agreed? On what?
No UN resolution opened up for a US invasion on Iraq. Go to the UN site yourself and read resolution 1441.
The Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act is the federal law that governs consumer product warranties. Passed by Congress in 1975, the Act requires manufacturers and sellers of consumer products to provide consumers with detailed information about warranty coverage. In addition, it affects both the rights of consumers and the obligations of warrantors under written warranties.
Nothing about cars as far as I can see..
However as a IANAL, I can see that there is a lot of leagal speak about "limited warranty" and "requirements" for the law to apply so comments from law gurus are appreciated.
Clippy: "It looks like you are trying to press the trigger on your weapon, would you like some help?"
1. Learn how to reload you new high tech gun with a 20 minute walk-through.
2. Install new Patriot-skins on the hud of you display.
3. Get help on the installing the latest Friendly Fire buffer overflow.
4. Return home and shoot the person who made this sytem.
I'm not sure on this. I though about the solution you are proposing and it provides better flexibility.
On the other hand it would be nice for those that don't have their own proxy to have a implementation at browser level. And for using multiple anonymous proxies a browser-side implementation is better, I think.
Anyway, I'll submit a feature request to Firebird as soon as possible.
I'm not that familiar with american and canadian law in this area, but I would think that even if the area is public, there is no "right" to see the contents in the black box before there has been a action in public space thats clearly illegal.
I would say that as lon as one does not break any rules ones actions are private.
The police, courts and public should not make these devices mandatory, optional with lower insurance yes, but not mandatory for some false sence of "evidence" after some hypothetical accident.
If a society wants to prevent accidents; there are at least five things one should do before this. This is on the the "justice-side" of accidents and applying the argument (tread-starter) that this could prevent accidents is somewhat senseless since there are other incentives the government could apply that are much more effective.
Short term fluctations in price don't affect consumer habbits.
In order to take effect the increased price must be long lasting.
I think that with a long lasting gas price at 2.30-2.50 people would have started to buy more fuel efficient cars. They would have demanded better cars, used cars slighly less and used more mass transportation where available.
It's allowed a single section of the world to weild incredible economic power over others, and has allowed a group of religious extremists more money than they really deserve. Saudi Arabians (not the entire country, mind you - just folks with way too much money on their hands) exporting schools to Afganistan with a branch of extreme Islam that pretty much hates, well,[...]
Check out BNP differences; there is no such thing as the Arabic or OPEC world wielding economic power over anything.
And OPEC knows that if they jack the price up it will result in quicker inovation and adoption of alternative energy forms.
Deserve? So whe "deserves" the oil money?
Cut the crap. It's *their* oil on *their* ground and if they want to sell it at $50 barrell they have the right to do that. Just becasue the US economy needs more oil at a lower price than it produces by it self does not mean that USA has some right to buy oil at $15 a barrel.
And those who fund terrorist don't do it becasue they have extra money from oil sales.
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However, I agree with you that as long as oil price stay at current levels nothing will be done to increase independance from OPEC, there is to people with interest in keeping the status quo close to power. And as long as there is oil for the bext 75-100 year (estimates from OPEC, UN, EU, USA) I'm looking forward to the nice media coverage of Gulf War 3.
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Just because CNN has turned into a refering media outlet in this case, that does not imply that they are not responsible for the stuff they put up on their site.
And everyone will not block ads. Everyone should have a firewall, and everyone needs antivirus, but I guess that less than half of the internet users have both. When people start installing this advertisers can start to integarte the ads in the page or in a page leading to the article. For example in order to read the latest /. discussion you would have to click on the linux.com banner you get when you click on the frontpage-link.
-People trust Norton.
-People need Norton (or similar program) for firewall or antivirus.
-People rather wants to install one large pack of software than many small programs.
-People thinks default settings are good.
-People want something that works, and most of the stuff Norton make just works. 99% don't have the skills to set up a working proxy server that can block ads.
-People use IE and NA with ad blocking works with IE.
In theory, with no banners or ads you would need less bandwith. You can move around a lot of text and small pictures with a 10 GB monthly transfer or a 128kb uplink.
I'm looking forward to less bloated pages on the net.
The above poster mentioned Finaland and Norway, they are social-democratic countries with a market economy but also with some governmental regulations. Finland is a EU and Euro member, Norway is a EEC member. Both have massive amounts of their incomes from trade with other countries.
When you lump socialism together with communism you are degrading the difference between those two ways of running a country.
Of course some of them *can* continue to use these old OS but most are reluctant to do so because of lack of support and patches. Most OS and software gets bloated, adds new features and capabilities, use more memory and requires more CPU power than it did a year ago.
Anyway,I agree with you that Germany never acquired deep support for democracy in years 1920-1930.
And the books...funny thing but three days ago I finished "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich"(!). Great book. A litle long though. But I think the Gulag Archipelago is even better.
It had a great impact on my thinking and political wievs when I read it when I was 17. Actually it changed my life and its probably the best book I have ever read. The sad thing is that this book has only beacome more relevant the last years.
As some person wrote on Amazon:
This is The Book for referals of why authoritarian regimes is a bad thing.
I find Russian history interesting and have later read "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich", "The First Circle" and several other books on the topic. Right now I'm reading "900 days; The Siege of Leningrad" by Harrison Evans Salisbury.
Ironically a well armed population in US won't stop PATRIOT Act I and II because the majority trust the government. And I am not sure if that will change if there comes a extended PATRIOT Act II or a PATRIOT Act III.
In a strong and well educated democracy the population will either vote down laws that reminds them of authoritarian regimes or fight them with more violent means. But as in "Nazi-Germany", even a well-armed population won't stand up against a dictatorship if they think it's a Good Thing(TM)
Funny, but you forgot about the other side of the story.
Some years later a evil caveman starts his "sell non-working stone stone axe" scam. Victims of the scam rise up against the life treathening sales practise and use real stone-axes to chop up scam-caveman.
Maybe that is a part of the problem; that someone getting their news from Fox would actually belive that "Do Democrats cause cancer?" was a real news crawl...
Read my question again.
(Hint: They (the japanese leaders) did not know about the effects of the Hiroshima bomb when USA bombed Nagasaki.)
However from Vietnam's angle this is probably more a trade issue that a political statement.
For them this makes perfectly sense. Without knowing that much about the Vietnamese economy I would think that they are struggling with the trade balance. An since thay are a member of WTO they can't enforce laws that favor local products. And they have to pay for the MS licenses they use in the government.
So for them, as they can save some needed cash on software thats the way to go. Hard to blame them for that.
If Microsoft where a Vietnamese company I would have liked to see the US politican not trying to make Open Source manatory....
From Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce; Gross Domestic Product (GDP) ;Percent change from preceding period, XLS
As you can see there was not any negative growth before Q1 2001. Can hardly blame Bush for that, but its hard to blame Clinton either for the bursth of the stock buble and the subseeding crack.But whats really anoying about Bush is the tax cuts to the rich. Cutting taxes in the way Bush has done is a very ineffective way of helping a economy. The idea that a rich person that gets to pay less tax automaticly wil start investing those money instead just does not cut it.
And there will be a platform for some of the candidates:
-It's unlikely that the economy will recover enough and create enough jobs for it not to be a issue. -Iraq....
Plus trhere will allways be political issues that the democrats and republicans can argue about.
No UN resolution opened up for a US invasion on Iraq. Go to the UN site yourself and read resolution 1441.
And therefore you had no right to invade Iraq.
From FTC.gov ; Understanding the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act
Nothing about cars as far as I can see..However as a IANAL, I can see that there is a lot of leagal speak about "limited warranty" and "requirements" for the law to apply so comments from law gurus are appreciated.
Clippy: "It looks like you are trying to press the trigger on your weapon, would you like some help?"
1. Learn how to reload you new high tech gun with a 20 minute walk-through.
2. Install new Patriot-skins on the hud of you display.
3. Get help on the installing the latest Friendly Fire buffer overflow.
4. Return home and shoot the person who made this sytem.
On the other hand it would be nice for those that don't have their own proxy to have a implementation at browser level. And for using multiple anonymous proxies a browser-side implementation is better, I think.
Anyway, I'll submit a feature request to Firebird as soon as possible.
And I will submit a feature request to Firebird as soon as possible.
http://www.bway.net/~keith/whrobots/disdirs.html And, yes these files *are* relevant.
And yeah, I'm not looking forward to a possible new IE6 CSS either, that would be like MS Java all over again.
One thing I would like to see in IE is a possibility to have several proxies and IE automaticly selecting the proxy with the lowest latency.
I would say that as lon as one does not break any rules ones actions are private.
The police, courts and public should not make these devices mandatory, optional with lower insurance yes, but not mandatory for some false sence of "evidence" after some hypothetical accident.
If a society wants to prevent accidents; there are at least five things one should do before this. This is on the the "justice-side" of accidents and applying the argument (tread-starter) that this could prevent accidents is somewhat senseless since there are other incentives the government could apply that are much more effective.
In order to take effect the increased price must be long lasting.
I think that with a long lasting gas price at 2.30-2.50 people would have started to buy more fuel efficient cars. They would have demanded better cars, used cars slighly less and used more mass transportation where available.
And OPEC knows that if they jack the price up it will result in quicker inovation and adoption of alternative energy forms.
Deserve? So whe "deserves" the oil money?
Cut the crap. It's *their* oil on *their* ground and if they want to sell it at $50 barrell they have the right to do that. Just becasue the US economy needs more oil at a lower price than it produces by it self does not mean that USA has some right to buy oil at $15 a barrel.
And those who fund terrorist don't do it becasue they have extra money from oil sales.
--
However, I agree with you that as long as oil price stay at current levels nothing will be done to increase independance from OPEC, there is to people with interest in keeping the status quo close to power. And as long as there is oil for the bext 75-100 year (estimates from OPEC, UN, EU, USA) I'm looking forward to the nice media coverage of Gulf War 3.