I know youre only joking but Im curious about US law on this issue. In Germany this would a definete case of inside trading and its considered a crime.
How is it inside trading? Insider trading is typically when someone acts on company information that is NOT available to the general public. Anything discussed here on slashdot is by nature already available to the public, and we have a link to that information (article) for each story, and then all the comments are public for anyone to view.
A mutual fund is a bunch of people putting their money together and buying stock, and you can have stock clubs (groups of friends pool their money to buy stock) and none of that's illegal. The closest thing to illegal is if we have bad intent, like we're trying to artificially change the price of the stock.
But if they consider that a crime, they'd need to prosecute SCO first, because they're doing it in secret, and lying about it.
Wow, I can't imagine a more unexpected actual explanation:-)
In that same book, there was a question "what if a 4 ton truck traveling at 45 miles per hour collided with a stationary bull weighing 600 pounds?". We were all coming up with vectors, impact energy, etc, but the answer in the back of the book was "The bull would probably die".
The bullet is enormous...there is no escaping! Jumping...is useless!
Is that from a AP physics textbook question, where a hunter fires a bullet at a squirrel, and the question asks whether the squirrel should jump to avoid it, but he shouldn't jump since he'll fall at the same rate that the bullet falls?
And I wrote this to Schumer and Clinton, New York senators:
Senator (Clinton/Schumer)
Please, please support Senator Graham's Voter Verification Act, proposed on Dec 9th 2003. (http://graham.senate.gov/pr120903.html) It includes vital voting machine requirements, such as an auditable paper trail and software source code that is viewable by any citizen.
What if at your bank there were no human tellers, and whenever you deposited money into an ATM there, it wouldn't give you a paper receipt, and you'd not be told your balance until (the bank says) it reached zero? Would you trust that bank? Of course you wouldn't, but that's exactly what Americans are being asked to do with current electronic voting systems.
I'm a programmer myself, and I could never trust something as important as my vote to a closed, secret, black box, designed by a private corporation, especially where I have no idea whether my vote was counted and have no way to find out.
Casino machines in Nevada are more strongly regulated than voting machines! Can you believe that?
Please, I urge you to support Bob Graham's Voter Verification Act. Democracy depends on it.
I just sent this email via the form on his website:
Senator Graham,
Although I am a New York resident, I am affected by federal legislation no matter which state's representative proposes it.
That said, I am THRILLED by your Voter Verification Act!
Important basic voting machine rules, such as having the voting system leave a paper trail and having the source code be viewable by any citizen, seem like such simple requirements to implement, yet I'm baffled as to why it hasn't been done yet!
I am proud that my fellow Americans in Florida have elected a Senator who is going to address this issue: an issue that gets right down into the core of Democracy.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I pray that this legislation passes in its current, strongly worded form. Please do not back down on the viewable source code and paper trail requirements.
I will be very interested to find out which (if any) corporations lobby against it, as I cannot think of a single ethical reason these voting machine rules should not be in place.
Sincerely, (my name)
I'll also be writing my own Senators, Chuck and Hillary.
You could easily put together a computer with similar specs for around $300, and that's paying retail for single items. AOL is not taking any risks on this one.
New Dells
on
AOL's $299 PC
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· Score: 2, Informative
New Dells (even lowest models) come with 6 months of aol or earthlink dial-up, so this 12 months thing is really not worth it. I'm sure other companies have similar arrangements.
I see AMD advertisements on the web all the time, but they don't seem to have much of the "big name maker" market. Why not? Is Intel so intreched that their value doesn't even matter any more?
Some companies, like HP, Alienware and MicronPC, use AMD processors in about half of their line.
Dell, however, gets a HUGE discount from Intel as long as they only use Intel processors. So much so that it's cheaper than using AMD processors, plus they get all the benefits of Intel's very recognizable slogan and television commercials, whereas AMD has only recently begun to take out magazine ads, and is rarely seen on television.
Yet another slashdot story filled with rampant speculation and innuendo.
So, let's all rant and rave for 500 messages. Then, in 3 days, the real story will come out and be the complete opposite. And it won't ever be mentioned again on slashdot.
Hurry, we only have three days! Unless of course the article gets reposted, which should buy us at least one more day of ranting before the truth comes out.
You can name a handful of holdouts like Peter Jennings and George S., but news sources on TV as a whole lean to the right. Especially as you look at the upper ranks of the networks, and who's really in charge. Also look at what percentage of anti-war vs. pro-war opinions they present, etc.
In "Dude, Where's My Country?" Michael Moore explains much better than I could how the country is not actually getting more conservative, and I'd just mince his words if I tried here. But it's in one of the later chapters, if you're gonna look.
Arnold: He's actually one of the least conservative republicans I can think of. He's refreshingly moderate, and doesn't seem to have any of the old fashioned wholesomeness (see his Oui interview) that conservatives hold dear.
Maybe they could figure out a way to put the mouthpiece on a pinky wring. Then you could stick your thumb in your ear and extend your pinky to use the phone.
That would be AWESOME! I would seriously buy one of those, just cause it'd be so weird.
My plan makes muslims happy because, currently, Israel has an artificial but certain upper hand (several billion $ from US, superior military, withholding palestinians' money). Israel, for a "developed" country, is severely over-doing it in their retaliations, not caring about civilian casualties and attacking residential areas. Palestinian fighters are no better; putting their loved ones in harms way by operating out of their private homes, etc. But someone needs to step up and do something.
If the US goes in now and yells Halt, the muslims will appreciate it, because palestine currently is in a lousy position, and we have historically been very biased towards israel in these matters. And the US can use all the muslim support we can get these days.
Yeah, if I were getting attacked by apache helicopters which take out 3 homes and 12 children in order to kill one Hamas member, I wouldn't feel so bad about suicide bombing israel either.
Both countries are acting like children, and Daddy USA needs to step in and lay down the law, and stop financing Israel.
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I know youre only joking but Im curious about US law on this issue. In Germany this would a definete case of inside trading and its considered a crime.
How is it inside trading? Insider trading is typically when someone acts on company information that is NOT available to the general public. Anything discussed here on slashdot is by nature already available to the public, and we have a link to that information (article) for each story, and then all the comments are public for anyone to view.
A mutual fund is a bunch of people putting their money together and buying stock, and you can have stock clubs (groups of friends pool their money to buy stock) and none of that's illegal. The closest thing to illegal is if we have bad intent, like we're trying to artificially change the price of the stock.
But if they consider that a crime, they'd need to prosecute SCO first, because they're doing it in secret, and lying about it.
Wow, I can't imagine a more unexpected actual explanation :-)
In that same book, there was a question "what if a 4 ton truck traveling at 45 miles per hour collided with a stationary bull weighing 600 pounds?". We were all coming up with vectors, impact energy, etc, but the answer in the back of the book was "The bull would probably die".
The bullet is enormous...there is no escaping! Jumping...is useless!
Is that from a AP physics textbook question, where a hunter fires a bullet at a squirrel, and the question asks whether the squirrel should jump to avoid it, but he shouldn't jump since he'll fall at the same rate that the bullet falls?
Hillary and Chuck Schumer aren't going to oppose this legislaton. Gee, I wonder who will...
:-)
Yeah, I totally agree... It's hard to be an activist when your state gov't takes the same side as you
And it you instead put in
;
:-)
document.write( unescape( 'http://www.google.com%01%00@www.yahoo.com' ) )
it will crash IE 6 when it tries to load the page.
I found this out the hard way!
And I wrote this to Schumer and Clinton, New York senators:
Senator (Clinton/Schumer)
Please, please support Senator Graham's Voter Verification Act, proposed on Dec 9th 2003. (http://graham.senate.gov/pr120903.html) It includes vital voting machine requirements, such as an auditable paper trail and software source code that is viewable by any citizen.
What if at your bank there were no human tellers, and whenever you deposited money into an ATM there, it wouldn't give you a paper receipt, and you'd not be told your balance until (the bank says) it reached zero? Would you trust that bank? Of course you wouldn't, but that's exactly what Americans are being asked to do with current electronic voting systems.
I'm a programmer myself, and I could never trust something as important as my vote to a closed, secret, black box, designed by a private corporation, especially where I have no idea whether my vote was counted and have no way to find out.
Casino machines in Nevada are more strongly regulated than voting machines! Can you believe that?
Please, I urge you to support Bob Graham's Voter Verification Act. Democracy depends on it.
Sincerely,
James Daily
I just sent this email via the form on his website:
I'll also be writing my own Senators, Chuck and Hillary.
What the heck does Buzz Aldrin know, anyway? He hasn't been in space for, like 30 years now! ;-P
You could easily put together a computer with similar specs for around $300, and that's paying retail for single items. AOL is not taking any risks on this one.
New Dells (even lowest models) come with 6 months of aol or earthlink dial-up, so this 12 months thing is really not worth it. I'm sure other companies have similar arrangements.
I see AMD advertisements on the web all the time, but they don't seem to have much of the "big name maker" market. Why not? Is Intel so intreched that their value doesn't even matter any more?
Some companies, like HP, Alienware and MicronPC, use AMD processors in about half of their line.
Dell, however, gets a HUGE discount from Intel as long as they only use Intel processors. So much so that it's cheaper than using AMD processors, plus they get all the benefits of Intel's very recognizable slogan and television commercials, whereas AMD has only recently begun to take out magazine ads, and is rarely seen on television.
Even if a man chops off your hand with a sword, you still have two nice, sharp bones to stick in his eyes.
:-)
i'm crackin' up at your sig
I will be your Overlord!
I, for one, welcome our new... umm... Overlordian Overlord!
The message is now clear: Online piracy has failed!
Good one... send that to Scott Adams :-)
Taxing murders might stop murders.
Taxing childbirth might stop overpopulation.
Give me a fucking break.
Yeah but, unlike murder and childbirth, email isn't a god-given right.
Yet another slashdot story filled with rampant speculation and innuendo.
So, let's all rant and rave for 500 messages. Then, in 3 days, the real story will come out and be the complete opposite. And it won't ever be mentioned again on slashdot.
Hurry, we only have three days! Unless of course the article gets reposted, which should buy us at least one more day of ranting before the truth comes out.
You can name a handful of holdouts like Peter Jennings and George S., but news sources on TV as a whole lean to the right. Especially as you look at the upper ranks of the networks, and who's really in charge. Also look at what percentage of anti-war vs. pro-war opinions they present, etc.
In "Dude, Where's My Country?" Michael Moore explains much better than I could how the country is not actually getting more conservative, and I'd just mince his words if I tried here. But it's in one of the later chapters, if you're gonna look.
Arnold: He's actually one of the least conservative republicans I can think of. He's refreshingly moderate, and doesn't seem to have any of the old fashioned wholesomeness (see his Oui interview) that conservatives hold dear.
Of course, most of the liberal media seems to be in the whitehouse's pocket...
Name ONE liberal media news source that broadcasts on a major television network.
Can't? Good, then stay quiet.
And if there WERE a major liberal media syndicate, why would they be in the pocket of the most conservative white house we've had in decades?
My company filters that site out, it must be good!
:-)
Actually my sig is a futurama quote, but thanks for the link
Maybe they could figure out a way to put the mouthpiece on a pinky wring. Then you could stick your thumb in your ear and extend your pinky to use the phone.
That would be AWESOME! I would seriously buy one of those, just cause it'd be so weird.
will end up thinking he's won, but in reality he loses and has to go start a new Zion with a hot chick in leather pants.
:-)
Starting a new society with a hot chick in leather pants? If that's not winning, I don't know what is
Oracle 10g kind of does this and a heck of a lot more... but I think you have to use applications designed for it in order to work.
This person's asking for Transparent Redundant Data Backup, which doesn't seem so unusual that no one's asked or implemented it before.
My plan makes muslims happy because, currently, Israel has an artificial but certain upper hand (several billion $ from US, superior military, withholding palestinians' money). Israel, for a "developed" country, is severely over-doing it in their retaliations, not caring about civilian casualties and attacking residential areas. Palestinian fighters are no better; putting their loved ones in harms way by operating out of their private homes, etc. But someone needs to step up and do something.
If the US goes in now and yells Halt, the muslims will appreciate it, because palestine currently is in a lousy position, and we have historically been very biased towards israel in these matters. And the US can use all the muslim support we can get these days.
Yeah, if I were getting attacked by apache helicopters which take out 3 homes and 12 children in order to kill one Hamas member, I wouldn't feel so bad about suicide bombing israel either.
Both countries are acting like children, and Daddy USA needs to step in and lay down the law, and stop financing Israel.