The richest states voted Democrat, but the richest people within those states---the ones who pay the bulk of the taxes you're referring to---voted Republican. On the whole, people who vote Republican typically end up subsidizing people who vote Democrat.
Forcibly confining someone against their will is only acceptable in extreme circumstances, such as if they are likely to kill or injure other people if not so confined.
The grandparent seemed to be insinuating that it's immoral to care only about being associated with child porn, by caring only about being associated with it, not about carrying it at all. The reply was pointing out that if you think it's immoral to carry information blindly, then being a postman is immoral.
"Blog" software predates the existence of a separate category of "blog software", and most of the older stuff works better. SlashCode, I hear, has been known to run several high-traffic sites. There is also Scoop, which was developed for kuro5hin.org, and used at a few other places (like dailykos.org). Both are also much more full-featured than your average "blog software", especially in that they include threaded comments.
While it started from FreeRepublic users, the verb "to freep" now can refer to hordes of people from any political blog, whether right- or left-leaning. The two most common sources of freepers are FreeRepublic itself (right-wing) and DailyKos (left-wing).
I actually find cell phones on public transportation incredibly annoying. The public transportation in Japan has "please do not use mobile phones" on all the subways, and it's infinitely more pleasant.
(Of course, it's infinitely more pleasant for a lot of other reasons too, like running on time down to +/- 15-second accuracy.)
They used to always say you could only use the cell phones when you were parked at the gate with the door open, but lately a few of the flights I've been on have announced that it's okay to use cell phones (but please remain seated) about 30 seconds after landing, while we were still taxiing.
That seems odd---if you're going to have a dedicated right of way anyway, and one below street level at that, why not just put in some rails and make it a train? Aren't most of the expenses in putting in trains getting the right of way purchased and set up in such a way that the trains can run below/above the streets?
It's not entirely equivalent though---there are plenty of "necessities" in the US that are considered luxury items elsewhere. There are plenty of people in the world with no running water or electricity, for example.
As someone who lives on around $30k/year in a major metropolitan area (not SF, though), I'd say it's not even very difficult to do. If I needed to, I could live on $20k without a huge change in lifestyle (just cut out most of the unnecessary expenses, like trips, buying computer stuff, and eating out, and move to a cheaper studio apartment).
Really, my main point is that the US lifestyle is not supportable on a worldwide basis. There are not enough resources for all 6 billion people in the world to live like an average American does. Therefore, of course US wages and salaries will go down as the world starts to equal out.
As a long-time Macintosh user, I demand this bug be fixed, and will not be upgrading until I can be assured my mouse will not be saddled with a second button!
Especially after you've announced that you've developed plans to shut down the GPS system in the event of a terrorist attack. There are probably at least a few terrorists who have newspaper subscriptions, so they are also aware of this.
As someone who likes public transportation, I'd have to say a lot of the stigma is deserved. In every US city I've been in, the bus does not ever come on time, or even close to on time. You're lucky if the damn thing comes within 45 minutes of the scheduled time, and even luckier if it comes on time and actually bothers to stop for you.
Trains are run more automatically, so are a lot more reliable. Not up to Japanese standards, where pretty much a computer runs everything, but better than the damn bus.
If that guy can barely feed his family, and is willing to do good work (on par with yours) for 1/3 of the price, why isn't it fair that the money goes to him? Sure, Americans are much richer than Indians on average, but are you trying to argue that they deserve to be so much richer? Shouldn't people who oppose wealth disparities be happy when more jobs flow away from the US to India?
A huge number of the bloody conflicts of the later half of the 20th century are directly a result of French colonialism.
Remember the Vietnam War and Ho Chi Minh? Well, everyone knows about the US fighting him, but that was only the end of the warFrance started the war in 1945 when they tried to "reclaim" their colony in French Indochina, and continued to fight until they suffered a massive defeat in 1954. When they withdrew in 1954, they signed a cease-fire that partitioned the country into a Communist north and a pro-western but weak south, which set the stage for the subsequent war as the US allied itself with the newly-created(-by-France) South Vietnam.
During this time, there were other revolts happening in Africa, most notably the one in Madagascar, where after a bloody two-year campaign the French successfully suppressed the pro-independence forces (1947-49).
Coincidentally (or not?), 1954 was the year that tensions boiled over in Algeria, where France had been confiscating Muslim land and giving it to French settlers for decades. The Algerian National Front started a guerilla conflict, which raged until they forced a French withdrawal in 1962.
The total number of people killed by the French in these attempts to maintain colonial subjugation number in the millions.
Doing military service does not change their citizenship status at all. All Puerto Ricans have full citizenship.
They cannot vote for federal races because the US is a federal system whereby states are represented in Congress and the Presidency, so US citizens who do not live in a US State have no state to represent them. This is identical to the situation in Washington, D.C.
When I want updates from sites, I subscribe to an email feed, and stick it in its own mailbox. I agree that some standardized format and display would be nice, but you can send XML over email too, so what's needed is a reader that I can point to an IMAP mailbox full of XML mails.
An alternate approach would be to do the same thing with a news server. Why keep refreshing a feed for updates instead of letting it notify you when it has updates?
AOL has local access numbers everywhere, whereas most cheap dial-up ISPs don't. If you travel a lot, the local dial-up is nice.
As a "portal", it depends on what you like. My parents like it, and I know some other people who do as well. The email is also easier to use than setting up POP3 or IMAP plus SMTP, especially if you want to use it from multiple locations, although with gmail that may no longer be a major strength (but most people who sign up for AOL don't have the infinite stream of gmail invites we technically-oriented people do).
To do the right thing, it's really simple for you The copyright law, it will tell you what to do Buy one, for every computer you use Anything else is like going to the store Taking the disk, and walking out the door It's called thievin', stealin', taking what's not yours Is that really where you want your life to go? Think about it, I don't think so. Don't copy! Don't copy that floppy!
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The richest states voted Democrat, but the richest people within those states---the ones who pay the bulk of the taxes you're referring to---voted Republican. On the whole, people who vote Republican typically end up subsidizing people who vote Democrat.
Forcibly confining someone against their will is only acceptable in extreme circumstances, such as if they are likely to kill or injure other people if not so confined.
Allowing a judge to sentence anyone to prison for copyright infringement is ridiculous. The maximum sentence should be a fine.
you could also try building a cartridge reader, i suppose
I give it a 5.
The grandparent seemed to be insinuating that it's immoral to care only about being associated with child porn, by caring only about being associated with it, not about carrying it at all. The reply was pointing out that if you think it's immoral to carry information blindly, then being a postman is immoral.
Living in desirable (and therefore expensive) areas isn't a basic human right. I can't afford to live in SF, so I don't.
"Blog" software predates the existence of a separate category of "blog software", and most of the older stuff works better. SlashCode, I hear, has been known to run several high-traffic sites. There is also Scoop, which was developed for kuro5hin.org, and used at a few other places (like dailykos.org). Both are also much more full-featured than your average "blog software", especially in that they include threaded comments.
While it started from FreeRepublic users, the verb "to freep" now can refer to hordes of people from any political blog, whether right- or left-leaning. The two most common sources of freepers are FreeRepublic itself (right-wing) and DailyKos (left-wing).
I actually find cell phones on public transportation incredibly annoying. The public transportation in Japan has "please do not use mobile phones" on all the subways, and it's infinitely more pleasant.
(Of course, it's infinitely more pleasant for a lot of other reasons too, like running on time down to +/- 15-second accuracy.)
They used to always say you could only use the cell phones when you were parked at the gate with the door open, but lately a few of the flights I've been on have announced that it's okay to use cell phones (but please remain seated) about 30 seconds after landing, while we were still taxiing.
That seems odd---if you're going to have a dedicated right of way anyway, and one below street level at that, why not just put in some rails and make it a train? Aren't most of the expenses in putting in trains getting the right of way purchased and set up in such a way that the trains can run below/above the streets?
It's not entirely equivalent though---there are plenty of "necessities" in the US that are considered luxury items elsewhere. There are plenty of people in the world with no running water or electricity, for example.
As someone who lives on around $30k/year in a major metropolitan area (not SF, though), I'd say it's not even very difficult to do. If I needed to, I could live on $20k without a huge change in lifestyle (just cut out most of the unnecessary expenses, like trips, buying computer stuff, and eating out, and move to a cheaper studio apartment).
Really, my main point is that the US lifestyle is not supportable on a worldwide basis. There are not enough resources for all 6 billion people in the world to live like an average American does. Therefore, of course US wages and salaries will go down as the world starts to equal out.
As a long-time Macintosh user, I demand this bug be fixed, and will not be upgrading until I can be assured my mouse will not be saddled with a second button!
Especially after you've announced that you've developed plans to shut down the GPS system in the event of a terrorist attack. There are probably at least a few terrorists who have newspaper subscriptions, so they are also aware of this.
This is the most clever inclusion of an "I have a large penis" boast I have come across in some time.
As someone who likes public transportation, I'd have to say a lot of the stigma is deserved. In every US city I've been in, the bus does not ever come on time, or even close to on time. You're lucky if the damn thing comes within 45 minutes of the scheduled time, and even luckier if it comes on time and actually bothers to stop for you.
Trains are run more automatically, so are a lot more reliable. Not up to Japanese standards, where pretty much a computer runs everything, but better than the damn bus.
If that guy can barely feed his family, and is willing to do good work (on par with yours) for 1/3 of the price, why isn't it fair that the money goes to him? Sure, Americans are much richer than Indians on average, but are you trying to argue that they deserve to be so much richer? Shouldn't people who oppose wealth disparities be happy when more jobs flow away from the US to India?
A huge number of the bloody conflicts of the later half of the 20th century are directly a result of French colonialism.
Remember the Vietnam War and Ho Chi Minh? Well, everyone knows about the US fighting him, but that was only the end of the warFrance started the war in 1945 when they tried to "reclaim" their colony in French Indochina, and continued to fight until they suffered a massive defeat in 1954. When they withdrew in 1954, they signed a cease-fire that partitioned the country into a Communist north and a pro-western but weak south, which set the stage for the subsequent war as the US allied itself with the newly-created(-by-France) South Vietnam.
During this time, there were other revolts happening in Africa, most notably the one in Madagascar, where after a bloody two-year campaign the French successfully suppressed the pro-independence forces (1947-49).
Coincidentally (or not?), 1954 was the year that tensions boiled over in Algeria, where France had been confiscating Muslim land and giving it to French settlers for decades. The Algerian National Front started a guerilla conflict, which raged until they forced a French withdrawal in 1962.
The total number of people killed by the French in these attempts to maintain colonial subjugation number in the millions.
Doing military service does not change their citizenship status at all. All Puerto Ricans have full citizenship.
They cannot vote for federal races because the US is a federal system whereby states are represented in Congress and the Presidency, so US citizens who do not live in a US State have no state to represent them. This is identical to the situation in Washington, D.C.
When I want updates from sites, I subscribe to an email feed, and stick it in its own mailbox. I agree that some standardized format and display would be nice, but you can send XML over email too, so what's needed is a reader that I can point to an IMAP mailbox full of XML mails.
An alternate approach would be to do the same thing with a news server. Why keep refreshing a feed for updates instead of letting it notify you when it has updates?
Sorry, but the term power user was invented for me.
As coiner of the term, I can confirm this is the case.
AOL has local access numbers everywhere, whereas most cheap dial-up ISPs don't. If you travel a lot, the local dial-up is nice.
As a "portal", it depends on what you like. My parents like it, and I know some other people who do as well. The email is also easier to use than setting up POP3 or IMAP plus SMTP, especially if you want to use it from multiple locations, although with gmail that may no longer be a major strength (but most people who sign up for AOL don't have the infinite stream of gmail invites we technically-oriented people do).
To do the right thing, it's really simple for you
The copyright law, it will tell you what to do
Buy one, for every computer you use
Anything else is like going to the store
Taking the disk, and walking out the door
It's called thievin', stealin', taking what's not yours
Is that really where you want your life to go?
Think about it, I don't think so.
Don't copy! Don't copy that floppy!
If cheapcds.com has it, it's usually $13-$16 (including shipping). They have a surprisingly large selection, too.