I read the first 10 or 15 replies, and only 1 or 2 were not well thought out. I don't know if these were from slashdot readers, but I hope not. If these are from the non slashdotters, then maybe the general public is beginning to understand how badly they have been ripped off.
The first is essentially being dishonest, while the second means that your vote is basically useless: You voted, but you will not under any circumstances be represented. The only advantage to this over not voting is really just to artificially enhance the voter turnout numbers, to no particular advantage to your position.
Why does everyone think that voting for a third party is throwing away a vote? If I make the effort to go to the polls and cast a vote for a third party candidate, the other candidates now know that someone who VOTES does not agree with EITHER of the major parties candidates.
As for not being represented, just because you didn't vote for someone, doesn't mean they don't have to listen to you, they are still your representative. If you do happen to vote for the winner, what do think is going to happen, you now get to call them and say "I voted for you, do what I say"? I don't think so.
If 20-30% of the voters went out and did this, I think BOTH parties would start to take notice. Until this happens, political parties have no reason to change the party line.
Just to reiterate, if you don't vote, you have no right to complain about who was elected. The only wasted vote is the one that is not cast. If you vote for candidates who do not have similar beliefs, don't be surprised when they do things that upset you.
Ghost (and I imagine other disk duplication programs) now have the ability to generate unique ID numbers, thus allowing for safe disk duplication in a NT environment.
Your adaptec 2920 is a bastard leftover from their acqusition of future domain or somebody. It has to be one of the only PCI scsi cards that uses PIO instead of DMA. In other word, no, don't even think about it;-)
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Shiite, ubertroll is the *PERFECT* name for this guy.
I don't get it. If I buy a bone china set to use for hammering nails, that is my fault, especially if it doesn't work. If someone sells it too me at a negative profit, that is their fault. When will companies get it through their collective heads that we don't want to rent/license things, we want to buy them and use/abuse them as we see fit.
Thank you! Finally someone with a brain and a child. You nailed it. With love and support a child can grow up to be a responsible adult. There is not some magic age when a child becomes responsible. Some people can reach an "adult" maturity level in there teens. Some never do.
Sheltering children from the hard cruelty of the real world is a very hard thing to do responsibly, and putting the burden on software/daycare/teachers is a recipe for failure.
You seem to be under the assumption that companies producing censorship software really care about being a good citizen and helping the parents of Amerikkka produce smart, responsible adults. In reality, all they want to do is make money and force their views on the users of their product. If you have the same belief system as these companies, then by all means, use their products. But don't think for a minute that your views == my views, and that I just need to be shown the "light"
One reason that companies would not want to have outsiders control the sites that were blocked by their software would be control. It seems that THEY want to control what you see, hear, believe, which would not be a change from the last couple of hundred years. Any view that does not agree with theirs is to be squashed, not allowed to be evaluated on its merits and judged by each individual
Who gets to be in control of this "standard"? The religious leaders of the country? In the majority(read: mob) rules of the US, anyone who is not a Jew or some form of Christian, would not be counted, because we don't have the numbers.
Knowing what your kids are looking at and talking to them about it is the only realistic, non orwellian, way that these things can be regulated. Look at the browser history on your kids computer, look at the proxy logs(if you have them), look at the sites they are surfing to and talk to them about the ones that concern you.
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Americas hangups about nudity and sexuality are the root cause of all of hoopla regarding pr0n on the net, and it is really sad. There is nothing wrong with a breast, penis, or vagina except that the moralists of this country view them as dirty. By attaching a stigma/taboo to these things, young people are going to be more curious and want to search out information about these things. The sad part is that when they find out that sex can be safe and enjoyable, despite the drivel their local god-monger has been telling them, it will just cause them to rebel against the percieved unjust authority.
Here's my question - should we vote for the one that most closely does (either Gore or McCain, I'm not really sure which) and at least try to get the lesser of the evils, or should we make a statement by choosing a third party candidate that won't win, but whose thinking is more in line with our own?
Why is it that anytime someone mentions voting for a third party candidate, it automatically becomes a wasted vote? Is voting for the winner the only thing that is important?
The way I see it, if I actually drag my ass down to the polling place on election day, my vote counts either way. Either I vote for one of the mainstream candidates, indicating that I also believe in their poicies or platforms, or I vote for someone else, indicating my disgust with the status quo. If more people, who don't agree with the Republicrat/Demipublican party policies got out and VOTED AGAINST them, maybe they would be encouraged to change their platforms.
I have voted Libertarian for the last 3 presitdential election, and have not considered any of those votes wasted. I consider them the registering of a complaint against the current two party system. If 10% of the people who don't vote because the don't like the candidates went out and voted AGAINST them, I think the stir created would be quite a story.
I remember seeing some stories about some states possibly having a "none of the above/they all suck" option on the ballot. Anybody know which, if any states have actually allowed something like this?
I would be careful about trying that argument, given the rate at which peoples' bandwidth is increasing. In 5 or 10 years, pirating DVDs may become practical.
And In 5 or 10 years, movies will still be coming out on dvd. Yea, right.
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Gee, I guess I have spent too much of my life watching the Simpsons. I actually knew 8 of these without having to power up the vcr.
Wow, between docs.sun.com and sunsolve.sun.com I can find just about anything I have ever wanted to know about Sun hardware or software. In fact, most of the time, I find there is too much documentation and have to dig through to find the really important stuff.
I have yet to find a version of real player g2 for Solaris (what I am running at work), or linux(which I am running at home). I do have a copy of Winblows 98 at home, but the 56k connection there will probably leave something to be desired in the quality department.
Of course you could also set your dial string to include *70, or whatever your local phone company uses to block caller id information. Anyway, wouldn't multiple emails with the same number also entitle you to make multiple calls, without being subject to harassment charges?
Of course this doesn't work all that well when the number is long distance. I have tried calling some of these long distance numbers, collect of course. For some reason, they don't accept collect calls. I guess this would put a crimp in their customer service budget.
This all reminds me of the Heinlein book, The man who sold the moon. Where a rocket trip to the moon is financed in part by soda company hoping to get their logo splashed across the face of the moon. Or was it their rival, hoping to stop the same from happening. Have to read that one again to jog the memory
I'm no paper scientist, but I think if companies were able to purchase cheap, DOMESTIC hemp, they would be able to develop the technology necessary to process it economically. Since farmers in the US aren't able to grow hemp, how can they selectively breed it for properties like " fiber strength, economical processing and overall life cycle cost for papermaking" ?
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Ghost (and I imagine other disk duplication programs) now have the ability to generate unique ID numbers, thus allowing for safe disk duplication in a NT environment.
Shiite, ubertroll is the *PERFECT* name for this guy.
Sheltering children from the hard cruelty of the real world is a very hard thing to do responsibly, and putting the burden on software/daycare/teachers is a recipe for failure.
One reason that companies would not want to have outsiders control the sites that were blocked by their software would be control. It seems that THEY want to control what you see, hear, believe, which would not be a change from the last couple of hundred years. Any view that does not agree with theirs is to be squashed, not allowed to be evaluated on its merits and judged by each individual
Who gets to be in control of this "standard"? The religious leaders of the country? In the majority(read: mob) rules of the US, anyone who is not a Jew or some form of Christian, would not be counted, because we don't have the numbers.
Knowing what your kids are looking at and talking to them about it is the only realistic, non orwellian, way that these things can be regulated. Look at the browser history on your kids computer, look at the proxy logs(if you have them), look at the sites they are surfing to and talk to them about the ones that concern you.
rant
Americas hangups about nudity and sexuality are the root cause of all of hoopla regarding pr0n on the net, and it is really sad. There is nothing wrong with a breast, penis, or vagina except that the moralists of this country view them as dirty. By attaching a stigma/taboo to these things, young people are going to be more curious and want to search out information about these things. The sad part is that when they find out that sex can be safe and enjoyable, despite the drivel their local god-monger has been telling them, it will just cause them to rebel against the percieved unjust authority.
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Why is it that anytime someone mentions voting for a third party candidate, it automatically becomes a wasted vote? Is voting for the winner the only thing that is important?
The way I see it, if I actually drag my ass down to the polling place on election day, my vote counts either way. Either I vote for one of the mainstream candidates, indicating that I also believe in their poicies or platforms, or I vote for someone else, indicating my disgust with the status quo. If more people, who don't agree with the Republicrat/Demipublican party policies got out and VOTED AGAINST them, maybe they would be encouraged to change their platforms.
I have voted Libertarian for the last 3 presitdential election, and have not considered any of those votes wasted. I consider them the registering of a complaint against the current two party system. If 10% of the people who don't vote because the don't like the candidates went out and voted AGAINST them, I think the stir created would be quite a story.
I remember seeing some stories about some states possibly having a "none of the above/they all suck" option on the ballot. Anybody know which, if any states have actually allowed something like this?
And In 5 or 10 years, movies will still be coming out on dvd. Yea, right.
Gee, I guess I have spent too much of my life watching the Simpsons. I actually knew 8 of these without having to power up the vcr.
Wow, between docs.sun.com and sunsolve.sun.com I can find just about anything I have ever wanted to know about Sun hardware or software. In fact, most of the time, I find there is too much documentation and have to dig through to find the really important stuff.
I have yet to find a version of real player g2 for Solaris (what I am running at work), or linux(which I am running at home). I do have a copy of Winblows 98 at home, but the 56k connection there will probably leave something to be desired in the quality department.
Of course you could also set your dial string to include *70, or whatever your local phone company uses to block caller id information. Anyway, wouldn't multiple emails with the same number also entitle you to make multiple calls, without being subject to harassment charges?
Of course this doesn't work all that well when the number is long distance. I have tried calling some of these long distance numbers, collect of course. For some reason, they don't accept collect calls. I guess this would put a crimp in their customer service budget.
This all reminds me of the Heinlein book, The man who sold the moon. Where a rocket trip to the moon is financed in part by soda company hoping to get their logo splashed across the face of the moon. Or was it their rival, hoping to stop the same from happening. Have to read that one again to jog the memory
I'm no paper scientist, but I think if companies were able to purchase cheap, DOMESTIC hemp, they would be able to develop the technology necessary to process it economically. Since farmers in the US aren't able to grow hemp, how can they selectively breed it for properties like " fiber strength, economical processing and overall life cycle cost for papermaking" ?