He believes in the Constitution, but he doesn't believe there should be a separation of church and state? Read his Christmas 2003 message if you don't believe me.
I was forced to send out this message earlier this week, after very soundly endorsing Ron Paul to my coworkers and friends. I suggest that you read it if you are a Libertarian-leaning person, as I am:
I owe everyone an apology. It is with profound sadness and disappointment that I must withdraw my support of Ron Paul for President. It turns out that he is a well-documented theocratic racist.
I'll include the writing that I came across that destroyed my hopeful optimism. The chink in his armor was his hardline stand against women's reproductive rights... something I thought I could chalk up to his experiences and a long-practicing OB/GYN. It turns out that his convictions are religious in nature. The bottom line is that, like most libertarians and constitutionalists, I strongly favor a wholly secular state, regardless of my personal religion. Ron Paul absolutely does not. And following a little bit of googling, I found that he has also made numerous clearly bigoted, remarks regarding stereotypical african american youth.
This is a man that I cannot, and will not, support in public office. My apologies for my previous endorsement without sufficient research; I was wrong and I have been corrected. Fortunately there is plenty of time before the election for a real leader to emerge.
Bet that I will not be holding my breath, however.
---- Statement from Ron Paul December 29, 2003
As we celebrate another Yuletide season, it's hard not to notice that Christmas in America simply doesn't feel the same anymore. Although an overwhelming majority of Americans celebrate Christmas, and those who don't celebrate it overwhelmingly accept and respect our nation's Christmas traditions, a certain shared public sentiment slowly has disappeared. The Christmas spirit, marked by a wonderful feeling of goodwill among men, is in danger of being lost in the ongoing war against religion.
Through perverse court decisions and years of cultural indoctrination, the elitist, secular Left has managed to convince many in our nation that religion must be driven from public view. The justification is always that someone, somewhere, might possibly be offended or feel uncomfortable living in the midst of a largely Christian society, so all must yield to the fragile sensibilities of the few. The ultimate goal of the anti-religious elites is to transform America into a completely secular nation, a nation that is legally and culturally biased against Christianity.
This growing bias explains why many of our wonderful Christmas traditions have been lost. Christmas pageants and plays, including Handel's Messiah, have been banned from schools and community halls. Nativity scenes have been ordered removed from town squares, and even criticized as offensive when placed on private church lawns. Office Christmas parties have become taboo, replaced by colorless seasonal parties to ensure no employees feel threatened by a "hostile environment." Even wholly non-religious decorations featuring Santa Claus, snowmen, and the like have been called into question as Christmas symbols that might cause discomfort.
Earlier this month, firemen near Chicago reluctantly removed Christmas decorations from their firehouse after a complaint by some embittered busybody. Most noticeably, however, the once commonplace refrain of "Merry Christmas" has been replaced by the vague, ubiquitous "Happy Holidays." But what holiday? Is Christmas some kind of secret, a word that cannot be uttered in public? Why have we allowed the secularists to intimidate us into downplaying our most cherished and meaningful Christian celebration?
The notion of a rigid separation between church and state has no basis in either the text of the Constitution or the writings of our Founding Fathers. On the contrary, our Founders' political views were strongly informed by their religious beli
Funny you should mention this during one of my rare comment thread reads.
The fact that the slashdot "editors" do absolutely no editing (spellchecking, corroboration, or clarification) before they post submissions is a real pain point. It was fine in 1998, when I first registered an account... but now with sites like boingboing making regular corrections/additions/issuing mea culpas on mistakes, slashdot doesn't shine quite as brightly.
I understand they exist mostly as an article aggregator, instead of a legitimate journalistic endeavor, or even a full-fledged blog, but even fark.com edits their headlines when they're misleading or flat-out wrong.
I'm not saying this is the case with this particular article, but over eight years, you see a lot of... stuff.
I thought you said SLIGHTLY higher price, not "we charge you $750 to assemble off the shelf components and put it in a one-off case with our logo on it."
First of all, there has YET to be a consumer-class video card that costs $700. The most recent release, the 7800GTX/512, was only $649, and I will agree that it was wildly overpriced. Yes, prices have been escalating, but you could have written this 3 years ago as "I grow tired of new $500 video cards every 6 months."
I buy approximatly every 12 months in the $150 to $200 range, to play the 2-4 news games I buy for my PC every year. That is the price I am willing to pay. Your x700 was a middle of the line card two generations ago, and it won't play FEAR over 30FPS? well, there could be any number of reasons for that. FEAR is pretty much the most graphically-intense game yet released. My brother gets about that performance on his Radeon 200 integrated chipset with a 3800+ processor... do you have other constraints such as memory or processor?
I'm sorry that the technology is outpacing your spending habits, but this is how the market works. Alternatively, you can rewrite your post as "I grow tired of having to shell out $400 for a new video game console, plus $600 for games and accessories, every 2-3 years." The argument would have been equally irrelevent to the actual state of the market, but may be a perfectly valid opinion of how much you're willing to spend, which I'd wager to say not many of us care about.
You'll want to look again. I was running NAV with 6-day-old defs, MS Antispyware, hardware firewall, and latest patches, and I still got hit. Visited a sketchy site, immediately got 15 popped windows. In the 10 seconds it took for me to realize what was going on and pull the cable, this is what I got:
Background set to flashing HTML that said YOUR COMPUTER IS INFECTED MS Antispyware, Spybot S&D, and AdAware (I run all 3) all disabled Task Manager diasbled Computer Management disabled Cookie, autocomplete, and history settings from IE logged and uploaded to specific IP address (fortunately I mainly use The Fox, so minimal impact, but it did snag my hotmail password) Keylogger installed Two faux anti-spyware apps installed themselves and ran, each promising to themove the "infection" for $40 if I purchased right there
It took 3 hours to clean it initially but there were keyloggers in three other lcoations that I found later.
People go online to pull information. Either search for information directly, browse discussions, etc. They don't "watch" the internet. Web marketeers have largely missed this, except from things like Google ads which are targeted towards things people are reading information on. When I see a big truck pop up in the middle of reading sports headlines on sportsline.com (once so good, but I stopped reading when popovers started), I get angry, frustrated, upset, and willing to invest time in either blocking the ads or avoiding the site in the future.
On television, I expect some ads, and sometimes am even entertained by them.
In magazines... wait, what is a magazine again?:) Seriously I picked a couple up in the barber shop lat week and I was like, WTF this thing is 80% ads. I understand they need the ad revenue to print the magazine, and I know they try to study who reads their magazine to match interests, but as someone who isn't easily classified, it's very frustrating to flip past crap to read content.
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· Score: 2, Interesting
The full story. [ananova.com]
Just as a heads up, Ananova has about the same accuracy record in "weird news" stories as, say, the "Weekly World News." (Now with twice the Bat Boy!)
In other words, most 17 year olds write more believable fiction.
My brother in the army went over to Iraq for a second tour in January.
Last month he came home with more than 800 bootlegged DVDs, some of them containing 3 or 4 movies. He says the Iraqi street vendors sell them for 1-3 US dollars. And since that's been pretty much the only thing he can buy (aside from cigarettes), he's buying a lot of them.
Have you been paying attention? Every internal Apple release during the OS X years (since 2000) has hedged Apple's bets by being compiled on Intel as well.
Steve's spinning this as "IBM can't innovate fast enough, and there is no consumer PowerPC processor roadmap. We're falling back on our contingency that we set up 5 years ago."
I doubt cash traded hands, except maybe for resources from each company helping to develop hardware/software.
Why would Apple want to pay MORE MONEY and have MORE HEAT ISSUES to deal with in its processors?
I don't know, but half an hour before your comment was posted, that's exactly what was announced....I've always wondered... what does crow taste like?:)
Circumstantial evidence is not evidence nor may it be used in a court of law.
What planet are you on? Defense attorneys may use the prosecution's circumstantial evidence to point out a weak case and try to create reasonable doubt in the minds of jurors, but evidence is evidence and if it's ruled admissible, circumstantial or not, it IS evidence and it CAN be used.
Apple began the eighties with two major flops under its belt: the Apple III and the LISA.
You used the idiom "under its belt" incorrectly here. The way it is written, the sentence states that at the start of the 1980s, the Lisa and Apple III had already flopped.
You could say "Apple began the nineties with two major flops under its belt," or "Apple had two major flops during the early 1980s."
(I've been reading George Carlin lately... and I used to think I got worked up over some minor misuse of language!:)
...and I'm *STILL* not going to read it, since the rudeness of the UFIAs (much better name than Ufies) on their forums 4 years ago caused me to go away permanently. Illiad's "partially-digested-food-stuck-to-dustpuppy-after- he-climbed-out-of-a-portapotty" scat humor turned me off for good. Oh that, and the fact that after 8 years he still can't draw worth a damn.
Within the next 90 days, start selling a $19.95 device at WalMart that includes a digital antenna and RF converter box. Then start running an informercial which loudly screams "Don't get left behind, if your TV is not digital by 2007, you won't be able to watch American Idol! It's like getting a whole new TV for just $19.95 plus $12.95 shipping and handling! ACT NOW! We take credit cards..." Run this for a couple of months, followed by a bunch of fast-talking 30-second spots that run every 7 minutes on all major channels.
I guarantee you that every Joe Schmoe and their grandma will have one within 18 months, including the 4 ladies on the bus who spent 25 minutes the other day trying to convince their friend to go "AOL for Broadband" on a new SBC DSL connection...
(They also tried to figure out what DSL stood for. They settled on "Digital Satellite Link." I was behind them supressing laughter. I would have politely given them as much tech info as they wanted, but they seemed like the type of people who don't like smart-asses 20-somethings making them feel stupid by actually providing unsolicited factual information.)
Actually, you may have been intending humor, but there are cases where the drive's mechanisms (spindle motor, controller board) may be dead but the platters intact and full of data.
I agree with my grandparent post. If the drive isn't spinning up or recognized by BIOS (technically "dead"), how are you going to wipe the data besides destroying the platters or at least degaussing.
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He believes in the Constitution, but he doesn't believe there should be a separation of church and state? Read his Christmas 2003 message if you don't believe me.
I was forced to send out this message earlier this week, after very soundly endorsing Ron Paul to my coworkers and friends. I suggest that you read it if you are a Libertarian-leaning person, as I am:
I owe everyone an apology. It is with profound sadness and
disappointment that I must withdraw my support of Ron Paul for
President. It turns out that he is a well-documented theocratic
racist.
I'll include the writing that I came across that destroyed my hopeful
optimism. The chink in his armor was his hardline stand against
women's reproductive rights... something I thought I could chalk up to
his experiences and a long-practicing OB/GYN. It turns out that his
convictions are religious in nature. The bottom line is that, like
most libertarians and constitutionalists, I strongly favor a wholly
secular state, regardless of my personal religion. Ron Paul
absolutely does not. And following a little bit of googling, I found
that he has also made numerous clearly bigoted, remarks regarding
stereotypical african american youth.
This is a man that I cannot, and will not, support in public office.
My apologies for my previous endorsement without sufficient research;
I was wrong and I have been corrected. Fortunately there is plenty
of time before the election for a real leader to emerge.
Bet that I will not be holding my breath, however.
----
Statement from Ron Paul
December 29, 2003
As we celebrate another Yuletide season, it's hard not to notice that
Christmas in America simply doesn't feel the same anymore. Although an
overwhelming majority of Americans celebrate Christmas, and those who
don't celebrate it overwhelmingly accept and respect our nation's
Christmas traditions, a certain shared public sentiment slowly has
disappeared. The Christmas spirit, marked by a wonderful feeling of
goodwill among men, is in danger of being lost in the ongoing war
against religion.
Through perverse court decisions and years of cultural indoctrination,
the elitist, secular Left has managed to convince many in our nation
that religion must be driven from public view. The justification is
always that someone, somewhere, might possibly be offended or feel
uncomfortable living in the midst of a largely Christian society, so
all must yield to the fragile sensibilities of the few. The ultimate
goal of the anti-religious elites is to transform America into a
completely secular nation, a nation that is legally and culturally
biased against Christianity.
This growing bias explains why many of our wonderful Christmas
traditions have been lost. Christmas pageants and plays, including
Handel's Messiah, have been banned from schools and community halls.
Nativity scenes have been ordered removed from town squares, and even
criticized as offensive when placed on private church lawns. Office
Christmas parties have become taboo, replaced by colorless seasonal
parties to ensure no employees feel threatened by a "hostile
environment." Even wholly non-religious decorations featuring Santa
Claus, snowmen, and the like have been called into question as
Christmas symbols that might cause discomfort.
Earlier this month, firemen near Chicago reluctantly removed Christmas
decorations from their firehouse after a complaint by some embittered
busybody. Most noticeably, however, the once commonplace refrain of
"Merry Christmas" has been replaced by the vague, ubiquitous "Happy
Holidays." But what holiday? Is Christmas some kind of secret, a word
that cannot be uttered in public? Why have we allowed the secularists
to intimidate us into downplaying our most cherished and meaningful
Christian celebration?
The notion of a rigid separation between church and state has no basis
in either the text of the Constitution or the writings of our Founding
Fathers. On the contrary, our Founders' political views were strongly
informed by their religious beli
Funny you should mention this during one of my rare comment thread reads.
The fact that the slashdot "editors" do absolutely no editing (spellchecking, corroboration, or clarification) before they post submissions is a real pain point. It was fine in 1998, when I first registered an account... but now with sites like boingboing making regular corrections/additions/issuing mea culpas on mistakes, slashdot doesn't shine quite as brightly.
I understand they exist mostly as an article aggregator, instead of a legitimate journalistic endeavor, or even a full-fledged blog, but even fark.com edits their headlines when they're misleading or flat-out wrong.
I'm not saying this is the case with this particular article, but over eight years, you see a lot of... stuff.
I had AlienWare as the next Dell...
I thought you said SLIGHTLY higher price, not "we charge you $750 to assemble off the shelf components and put it in a one-off case with our logo on it."
First of all, there has YET to be a consumer-class video card that costs $700. The most recent release, the 7800GTX/512, was only $649, and I will agree that it was wildly overpriced. Yes, prices have been escalating, but you could have written this 3 years ago as "I grow tired of new $500 video cards every 6 months."
I buy approximatly every 12 months in the $150 to $200 range, to play the 2-4 news games I buy for my PC every year. That is the price I am willing to pay. Your x700 was a middle of the line card two generations ago, and it won't play FEAR over 30FPS? well, there could be any number of reasons for that. FEAR is pretty much the most graphically-intense game yet released. My brother gets about that performance on his Radeon 200 integrated chipset with a 3800+ processor... do you have other constraints such as memory or processor?
I'm sorry that the technology is outpacing your spending habits, but this is how the market works. Alternatively, you can rewrite your post as "I grow tired of having to shell out $400 for a new video game console, plus $600 for games and accessories, every 2-3 years." The argument would have been equally irrelevent to the actual state of the market, but may be a perfectly valid opinion of how much you're willing to spend, which I'd wager to say not many of us care about.
From What's Inside?: Combined optical digital audio input/audio line in (minijack)
I was lucky no root kits were installed.
You'll want to look again. I was running NAV with 6-day-old defs, MS Antispyware, hardware firewall, and latest patches, and I still got hit. Visited a sketchy site, immediately got 15 popped windows. In the 10 seconds it took for me to realize what was going on and pull the cable, this is what I got:
Background set to flashing HTML that said YOUR COMPUTER IS INFECTED
MS Antispyware, Spybot S&D, and AdAware (I run all 3) all disabled
Task Manager diasbled
Computer Management disabled
Cookie, autocomplete, and history settings from IE logged and uploaded to specific IP address (fortunately I mainly use The Fox, so minimal impact, but it did snag my hotmail password)
Keylogger installed
Two faux anti-spyware apps installed themselves and ran, each promising to themove the "infection" for $40 if I purchased right there
It took 3 hours to clean it initially but there were keyloggers in three other lcoations that I found later.
You will sooner need a license to parent than a license to code.
/tongue in cheek :)
Look at all the damage inflicted on the world by misparented children!
People go online to pull information. Either search for information directly, browse discussions, etc. They don't "watch" the internet. Web marketeers have largely missed this, except from things like Google ads which are targeted towards things people are reading information on. When I see a big truck pop up in the middle of reading sports headlines on sportsline.com (once so good, but I stopped reading when popovers started), I get angry, frustrated, upset, and willing to invest time in either blocking the ads or avoiding the site in the future.
:) Seriously I picked a couple up in the barber shop lat week and I was like, WTF this thing is 80% ads. I understand they need the ad revenue to print the magazine, and I know they try to study who reads their magazine to match interests, but as someone who isn't easily classified, it's very frustrating to flip past crap to read content.
On television, I expect some ads, and sometimes am even entertained by them.
In magazines... wait, what is a magazine again?
The full story. [ananova.com]
Just as a heads up, Ananova has about the same accuracy record in "weird news" stories as, say, the "Weekly World News." (Now with twice the Bat Boy!)
In other words, most 17 year olds write more believable fiction.
Apparently this guy quit too. :)
Amazing what some trolls will pay!
My brother in the army went over to Iraq for a second tour in January.
:)
Last month he came home with more than 800 bootlegged DVDs, some of them containing 3 or 4 movies. He says the Iraqi street vendors sell them for 1-3 US dollars. And since that's been pretty much the only thing he can buy (aside from cigarettes), he's buying a lot of them.
Kind of ironic, don't you think?
So basically, in 18 months:
:)
Microsoft will be shipping PowerMacs based on IBM PowerPC processors to developers who are programming on the Xbox360 platform, and
Apple will be shipping PowerMacs running OS X, based on Intel processors, to consumers.
Tell my wife I loved her and sorry about the brains on the monitor, because MY HEAD ASPLODE!
Have you been paying attention? Every internal Apple release during the OS X years (since 2000) has hedged Apple's bets by being compiled on Intel as well.
Steve's spinning this as "IBM can't innovate fast enough, and there is no consumer PowerPC processor roadmap. We're falling back on our contingency that we set up 5 years ago."
I doubt cash traded hands, except maybe for resources from each company helping to develop hardware/software.
Why would Apple want to pay MORE MONEY and have MORE HEAT ISSUES to deal with in its processors?
:)
I don't know, but half an hour before your comment was posted, that's exactly what was announced.
Mea culpa, now I'm eating crow. I posted a reply to the wrong poster. My apologies, grandparent.
:)
I meant to also take you to task for speculating incorrectly, but oh well.
Why would Apple want to pay MORE MONEY and have MORE HEAT ISSUES to deal with in its processors?
...I've always wondered... what does crow taste like? :)
I don't know, but half an hour before your comment was posted, that's exactly what was announced.
Not the end of MS. You'll still have to buy a $2000 Apple-branded PowerMac to run OS X, it'll just have Intel Inside (tm) now.
Our theater at midnight, opening night, had one guy scream at the LUCASFILM logo, "I ALREADY CAME!"
:)
And after the crawl, as they panned down to the space battle, he again yelled, "Oh my pants are so sticky!"
Fanboy, much?
Circumstantial evidence is not evidence nor may it be used in a court of law.
What planet are you on? Defense attorneys may use the prosecution's circumstantial evidence to point out a weak case and try to create reasonable doubt in the minds of jurors, but evidence is evidence and if it's ruled admissible, circumstantial or not, it IS evidence and it CAN be used.
Apple began the eighties with two major flops under its belt: the Apple III and the LISA.
:)
You used the idiom "under its belt" incorrectly here. The way it is written, the sentence states that at the start of the 1980s, the Lisa and Apple III had already flopped.
You could say "Apple began the nineties with two major flops under its belt," or "Apple had two major flops during the early 1980s."
(I've been reading George Carlin lately... and I used to think I got worked up over some minor misuse of language!
No interest in HOW that particular droid got there.
What's your proof he knew it was the same droid?
Protocol droids seemed pretty common, there were ohers seen in the original rilogy, were there not?
...and I'm *STILL* not going to read it, since the rudeness of the UFIAs (much better name than Ufies) on their forums 4 years ago caused me to go away permanently. Illiad's "partially-digested-food-stuck-to-dustpuppy-after- he-climbed-out-of-a-portapotty" scat humor turned me off for good. Oh that, and the fact that after 8 years he still can't draw worth a damn.
Within the next 90 days, start selling a $19.95 device at WalMart that includes a digital antenna and RF converter box. Then start running an informercial which loudly screams "Don't get left behind, if your TV is not digital by 2007, you won't be able to watch American Idol! It's like getting a whole new TV for just $19.95 plus $12.95 shipping and handling! ACT NOW! We take credit cards..." Run this for a couple of months, followed by a bunch of fast-talking 30-second spots that run every 7 minutes on all major channels.
I guarantee you that every Joe Schmoe and their grandma will have one within 18 months, including the 4 ladies on the bus who spent 25 minutes the other day trying to convince their friend to go "AOL for Broadband" on a new SBC DSL connection...
(They also tried to figure out what DSL stood for. They settled on "Digital Satellite Link." I was behind them supressing laughter. I would have politely given them as much tech info as they wanted, but they seemed like the type of people who don't like smart-asses 20-somethings making them feel stupid by actually providing unsolicited factual information.)
Actually, you may have been intending humor, but there are cases where the drive's mechanisms (spindle motor, controller board) may be dead but the platters intact and full of data.
I agree with my grandparent post. If the drive isn't spinning up or recognized by BIOS (technically "dead"), how are you going to wipe the data besides destroying the platters or at least degaussing.