but make a protocol that doesn't allow anonymous sending of mail and you defeat spam.
Dur, turning off email defeats spam. That doesn't make it a good solution. Forcing people to indentify themselves isn't going to halt spam. It doesn't stop junkmail in your USPS mailbox, does it? It never kept phone solicitors from calling you, did it?
Oh yeah, laziness and greed are gonna be SO easy to just stamp out. It's definitely not as hard as, say, using the farking shift key.
Spam is not a technological problem, it's a social problem. Find me a widespread social problem that was easy to fix and I'll show you a magical fantasy land with unicorns and easy living.
Actually, I could conceive a brilliant software engineer coming up with a universal translation mechanism that turns x86 assembler into functionally equivalent PowerPC assembler, or vice-versa, or to other platforms. I believe IBM had been funding research in thsi area for quite some years now.
And there are more than a few published but not issued patents for exactly this. And when you're talking about x86 to PowerPC, you probably aren't insane. When you're talking x86 to and from some crazy ass systolic array processor, then you're out of your gourd.
Just keep an eye on those published-yet-unissued PGPubs. Some people would have you believe they can translate machine code for systolic array processors into machine code for your PDA.
In theory, it could be done. Just map your architecture back to a Turing machine and map a Turing machine to the new architecture. In practice, you're out of your gourd. Try performing a single floating point division on a Turing machine and see how many steps it takes... now try doing a 1,000,000 x 1,000,000 matrix inversion.
So many people in this field talk about Mac to/from PC conversions like they've solved every problem in the universe. All things considered, those are very similar architectures compared to some of the more exotic chips from the last 30 years.
The ROM solution is the best I've heard thus far, but it still suffers from the validation problems.
The use of consumer groups (I presume you mean something like a citizens watchdog group rather than a consumer advocacy group, which is almost inherently politically biased) means that the "eyes" won't be on the system when it is actually in use. Will the ROM chips be physically secure? Will the manufacturing process be secure? Is the watchdog group going to travel to location and ensure that the ROM they examined is actually what is being manufactured?
ALL of this is off-site validation, for lack of a better term, and all of this is a down-grade from the paper voting system. Am I supposed to approve of all of this potential for crooked elections because a handful of people are confused by the paper ballots? Electronic voting is a solution in search of a problem, and it isn't even a good solution. The only advantage to electronic voting that I can see is the jobs created by its adoption, but like a lot of military spending, it's just pissing money into the wind.
Just because you personally can't imagine a valid solution to this problem doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Yes, you're right, but that is not the problem.
The problem is that there is no feasible way to prove that the instructions in main memory on every voting machine corresponds, without exception, to the source code on a piece of paper.
You can't trust the compiler: http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Back_door
You can't trust the hardware - it would be trivial to implement instructions that dump the "right" code from memory while running something else.
Never in history has society had a need to mistrust their computers. They have always been tools built and instructed to help us out. If it fucks up, well we must have misused the tool. Electronic Voting is an entirely different use for computers and very few people understand the subtle difference. This is the first time in history where something critical is being trusted to computers while someone else has something to gain by misusing the tool.
A hammer is a hammer, but when for the first time I'm holding the nail with my fingers and giving you the hammer. And what the fuck for? Because a handful of people can't handle the paper system? Hell, let that handful of people use the electronic voting system. I'll be voting by paper (absentee if necessary) until I die.
Don't forget that engineering companies have reputations, and releasing flawed critical systems is a good way to ruin it.
Yeah, but nothing is illegal unless you get caught. The problem isn't HOW to perform the validation, the problem is that you NEED validation in the first place. Yes, people can burn your paper ballots and forge some replacements, but we have 225 years of dealing with that problem. We don't even have a reasonable handle on spam, identity theft, or porn pop-ups in elementary school library.
It doesn't matter how tightly electronic voting is validated. You couldn't even print out the source code for the machine on every voting receipt - how can you trust that what was printed is what was actually compiled? It's a faulty idea. Punch paper; give a receipt; count paper. If someone is unable to punch paper, so sorry - that doesn't justify forcing the entire nation to vote using "magical boxes of trust and NO YOU CAN'T LOOK INSIDE IT! TRUST US!".
Take a gander at PayPal - it's a concept similar to electronic voting and it has a history of foul ups. PayPal can't even help me buy a collectible PEZ dispenser without dicking me around, and now I'm supposed to trust a similar system in a national election? It's preposterous.
Nothing is 100% secure, right? I mean what stops someone from taking all paper votes from a particular state and burning them and just tossing in a few million of forged papers?
I haven't participated in running an voting location, but I believe this is dealt with by having lots of eyes on the paperwork as well as a representative from both major parties. It's not perfect, but you can say this - for all the problems they had in Florida, people replacing the votes with forged votes was not the issue.
So bring back the punch cards + receipts, I say.
Fuckin a man. There is no incentive for the people with power to run a fair election. That's why we have so many eyes on the paper system. When you go to electronic voting, 1) few people understand the technology well enough to appreciate the potential for security breach, and 2) the ability to put a lot of eyes on the voting count is practically eradicated.
"Oh, but you'll still have a paper receipt that you can count!" So why the fuck wouldn't you count that paper receipt in the first place? Technology aside, there is simply no reasonable basis for blindly trusting that the machines will work fairly.
That problem right there could be eliminated by loading instructions into rom at a factory. Good luck clobbering that.
Woah there, because corporations don't have political interests? All this would do is make it easier for the corporation to adjust the votes to match their interests.
I've posted elsewhere about the differences between ATMs and voting. ATMs work because if they don't, the bank is screwed. Electronic voting won't work because if it's screwed up, the only people who lose are the voters and the minority party.
There is literally NO INCENTIVE for the people with power to support a fair electronic voting system. There are at least a dozen ways to get crooked code onto the machine and basically no way to find out about it short of taking the machine apart.
By the way, this is a bi-partisan rant. I don't want anybody advocating electronic voting. The concept is not sound.
ATMs work because the institution has a vested interest in keeping everything on the level. Electronic voting will fail because the institution has a vested interest in making sure the results are "adjusted".
Spin the tables - tell your bank that you're going to withdraw $100 and demand unrestricted access to the vaults for 5 minutes. If you think that's a dumbass idea, then you think electronic voting is a dumbass idea.
I'm not so sure. It's clearly legal, but if the Democrats started bending over backwards to get Jerry Falwell or other candidates who are, for lack of an easier label, "Radical Christian Fundamentalists", it would surely detract more from Bush's voting foundation than the Democrats.
It might be legal, but I have hard time believe that it's ethical.
between cell phones and computers. This thing has a processor, an embedded os and a hard drive. It's on a network, it's got a keyboard and color display.
I have an OLD Sony Ericsson T610.
It has a processor, embedded OS, bluetooth, keypad, and a color display.
Not sure exactly what constitutes high-quality sound equip in your mind, but I run my computer through a mixer and into my home audio system. My scene is home/hobby digital audio music recording. I think I have 5.1 mixing capability on my soundcard but I don't use it.
I really don't understand why people shell out so much money for the entirely crappy speakers from Creative or for these other "computer" sound systems. If you're willing to pay for quality audio, then you will be buying quality audio equipment, not some chintzy computer speakers to "Boost your gaming performance!!!"
What's more is that I'm pretty sure it's not true. I remember reading (maybe in the Anarchist Cookbook or some other reputable source) how ATMs are connected via telephone cable to the "central headquarters". The 4-conductor telephone cable is not used in the same fashion as with the telephone system, however.
I remember reading that the ATM sends transaction data back to HQ, and if the transaction is authorized, a signal is sent on one of the conductors which is dedicated to the authorization signal. They were saying that it was possible to splice this conductor out of the wiring and - if you cut it at the right time - the authorization request would time out and the machine would give you the money but HQ would not deduct it from the account.
This was insecure, but it required you to fool around with the wiring (very visible) for a one-shot attempt (unreliable) and required you to have access to an account (very trackable). I may have munged a bunch of the details, but the gist of it is an accurate depiction of what I read. Accurate in reality? Couldn't say.
I can't imagine why an ATM would be connected to the internet. I'd imagine that every freshman in CS would consider that a disasterous idea.
The difference between an ATM and vote counting is that with an ATM, the corporation has a vested interest in making sure the accounting is done properly. In vote counting, the individual has a vested interest in making sure the accounting is done properly.
When we're placing votes on the Diebold machine, WE are the bank, except we are kept as far away from the accounting as possible. You try working that arrangement out with the bank. You ask for $100, they let you into the vault, and you show them the $100 bill when you leave.
They can trust ya!
The fact that Diebold makes a lot of ATMs does not make the electronic voting idea valid. They might be the most qualified to make the machines, but the idea is not sound.
To accuse an entire religion of what a few criminals did is ludicrous.
Thanks for making my case against you, moron.
I note that there were no bombings of white churches by black Christians, yet the religion was the very same.
Fewer than 20% of Muslims are Arabic, dipshit. You don't hear about the other 80% so much, do you?
Perhaps, just perhaps, there was another cause to the racism in the south other than Christianity. Or does that challenge your conformant world view?
Haha, yeah. You're a certifiable fuck-up. You made the case that Muslims were against free speech because of a handful of incidents, and now you're defending all of Christianity against a handful of incidents.
And I'm sure that you're going to realize that Muslims do not hate America/free speech/women's rights, but political radicals who have used Islam as a recruiting tool have. With that in mind, do try to keep yourself from making misinformed statements of religious bigotry.
And, after all my insulting and name calling, you think I might have a point, I recommend "Major Themes of the Qur'an" by Fazlur Rahman, which explains what is actually IN the Koran and how it is actually interpreted around the world these days (incredibly different from what CNN or Fox News would have you believe), and "Covering Islam" by Edwared Said, which very dutifully examines how the western world has formed its opinion of Islam over the last 200 years - a discussion almost wholly devoid of religious issues.
On a project to turn some old scsi drives into a MIDI instrument, I *LOVE* the sounds really old scsi drives make (think 4GB micropolis drives). Plan to use it in a composition:)
I'm not trying to be a smartass, but wha?? Do you mean that you're tying to make a MIDI patch of the hard drive sounds? If you make a MIDI instrument out of the hard drive, it won't sound like the hard drive..
I guess I'm asking if you're trying to sample the hard drive or use the scsi port wiring and connector to directly interface to a MIDI port. If it's the sampling, I might be able to help.
PBS is pro-microsoft (they are sponsored and since they haven't mentioned Linux once. They also advertise for MS on TV, so much for "public" broadcasting)
I, for one, am SHOCKED that PBS would NOT offend the trillion dollar corporation that sponsors them. Oh wait, I'm not stupid.
HOW CAN YOU GET MORE REPUBLICAN THEN IBM?
By not offering subsidized health care, life insurance, and retirement plans. DUH.
Plus I am a very conservative person here in nebraska. I beleive in freedom, guns to protect freedom, and free speach, and freedom of information.
What are you babbling about now? I didn't ask to hear anybody's life story. What the hell does being a "conservative person" have to do with freedom, gun rights, and free speech? Those things show your support for the Constitution, something that has been trampled upon by the REPUBLICANS in recent years.
Fuck socialism. Realy.
Retard. Good luck paying for your health care by yourself. If you accept a single cent of social security or unemployment, you are living a lie. If your kids go to a public school rather than forking over cash for a private school, you are enjoying the benefits of socialism, dumb ass.
Libertarian is most closely ties into Linux and free software then anything else, and thus Linux has more in common with the average freedom loving midwest guy then a communistic guy in California.
I don't even know what "Libertarian is most closely ties into Linux" means, but you're not making yourself look ANY smarter. The Libertarian platform is ultra-conservative in policy but includes NONE of the issues that the Republican party is using to get elected.
Since you don't seem to know, the Republican party will generally protect the business against the individual. Drilling in ANWR, drilling in the Guld of Mexico, NAFTA, sending American jobs overseas, relieving employers from providing health care, and sure as bears shit in the woods, protecting Microsoft's ability to make profits and pay taxes - in other words, NOT SUPPORTING LINUX, WHICH REPRESENTS NO CORPORATION, NO PROFITS, AND NO TAX DOLLARS. (People can make money -using- linux, but linux itself is basically profitless, especially in comparison to Microsoft.)
And since you don't seem to be aware, the Democratic party will generally protect the individual from the corporation. Affirmative action, workplace safety laws, the right to unionize, and consumer protection laws. Huh, rub both of them brain cells together - Microsoft -> monopoly -> hurts consumer, helps corporation -> linux may help the consumer and hurt the monopoly -> DEMOCRATIC ISSUE.
Winston Churchill said that the best argument against democracy was a five minute conversation with the average voter. To the best of my knowledge, he didn't even go to Nebraska.
Viva la Freedom!
More like, Viva la Freedom to be uneducated.
At this point, I'm confident that I'm just feeding a troll.
In addition to what other posters have replied, there are some state governments in the NE (New Hampshire, I think, but I could be wrong) that are trying to adopt open source software. Also, the whole concept of governments using open source software for the good of the people would probably be closer to the Democratic philosophy than the Republican. There are severaly -strongly- Democratic states in the northeast.
California is definitely a haven for incredible lawsuits, from ruling that "master" and "slave" designations in computer hard drives is a civil rights issue to declaring that people don't really "own" pets - they are the pet's "guardian".
When we sold "Last Temptation of Christ, some Christians boycotted, some urged others to boycott, and some wrote letters to the newspapers.
And when they tried to put niggers in the white schools, it was Christians who put bombs in black churches and murdered little girls (you can find that information in a book.) And when white trash sluts claimed they were raped by niggers, it was white Christian men who lynched them without a trial (you can find that information in a book.) And when gay men are brutally murdered, it's because the Bible says being gay is a sin (you can find that in a book also.)
Thank your lucky stars that contributing to the retardedness of the world isn't a crime, because you're a center of anti-intelligence.
No Christian church has the right to control what's in a public state school. This is in stark contrast to Islamic control of schools in certain mideast nations.
This is complete bullshit. This is exactly how things have -actually- been conducted in American history despite laws to the contrary. Why did we even fucking HAVE the Scopes Monkey Trial? It was because THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH WAS CONTROLLING WHAT WAS IN A PUBLIC STATE SCHOOL. Fucking Christ on a pogo stick, and you used to work in a bookstore? Let me recommend that you READ a BOOK once in awhile.
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Dur, turning off email defeats spam. That doesn't make it a good solution. Forcing people to indentify themselves isn't going to halt spam. It doesn't stop junkmail in your USPS mailbox, does it? It never kept phone solicitors from calling you, did it?
Spam is not a technological problem, it's a social problem. Find me a widespread social problem that was easy to fix and I'll show you a magical fantasy land with unicorns and easy living.
Eh, just to be perfectly clear, I'm talking about published patent applications, not patents. You can search for them here: http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/search-adv.htm
And there are more than a few published but not issued patents for exactly this. And when you're talking about x86 to PowerPC, you probably aren't insane. When you're talking x86 to and from some crazy ass systolic array processor, then you're out of your gourd.
Just keep an eye on those published-yet-unissued PGPubs. Some people would have you believe they can translate machine code for systolic array processors into machine code for your PDA.
In theory, it could be done. Just map your architecture back to a Turing machine and map a Turing machine to the new architecture. In practice, you're out of your gourd. Try performing a single floating point division on a Turing machine and see how many steps it takes... now try doing a 1,000,000 x 1,000,000 matrix inversion.
So many people in this field talk about Mac to/from PC conversions like they've solved every problem in the universe. All things considered, those are very similar architectures compared to some of the more exotic chips from the last 30 years.
The use of consumer groups (I presume you mean something like a citizens watchdog group rather than a consumer advocacy group, which is almost inherently politically biased) means that the "eyes" won't be on the system when it is actually in use. Will the ROM chips be physically secure? Will the manufacturing process be secure? Is the watchdog group going to travel to location and ensure that the ROM they examined is actually what is being manufactured?
ALL of this is off-site validation, for lack of a better term, and all of this is a down-grade from the paper voting system. Am I supposed to approve of all of this potential for crooked elections because a handful of people are confused by the paper ballots? Electronic voting is a solution in search of a problem, and it isn't even a good solution. The only advantage to electronic voting that I can see is the jobs created by its adoption, but like a lot of military spending, it's just pissing money into the wind.
Yes, you're right, but that is not the problem.
The problem is that there is no feasible way to prove that the instructions in main memory on every voting machine corresponds, without exception, to the source code on a piece of paper.
You can't trust the compiler:
http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Back_door
You can't trust the hardware - it would be trivial to implement instructions that dump the "right" code from memory while running something else.
Never in history has society had a need to mistrust their computers. They have always been tools built and instructed to help us out. If it fucks up, well we must have misused the tool. Electronic Voting is an entirely different use for computers and very few people understand the subtle difference. This is the first time in history where something critical is being trusted to computers while someone else has something to gain by misusing the tool.
A hammer is a hammer, but when for the first time I'm holding the nail with my fingers and giving you the hammer. And what the fuck for? Because a handful of people can't handle the paper system? Hell, let that handful of people use the electronic voting system. I'll be voting by paper (absentee if necessary) until I die.
Yeah, but nothing is illegal unless you get caught. The problem isn't HOW to perform the validation, the problem is that you NEED validation in the first place. Yes, people can burn your paper ballots and forge some replacements, but we have 225 years of dealing with that problem. We don't even have a reasonable handle on spam, identity theft, or porn pop-ups in elementary school library.
It doesn't matter how tightly electronic voting is validated. You couldn't even print out the source code for the machine on every voting receipt - how can you trust that what was printed is what was actually compiled? It's a faulty idea. Punch paper; give a receipt; count paper. If someone is unable to punch paper, so sorry - that doesn't justify forcing the entire nation to vote using "magical boxes of trust and NO YOU CAN'T LOOK INSIDE IT! TRUST US!".
Take a gander at PayPal - it's a concept similar to electronic voting and it has a history of foul ups. PayPal can't even help me buy a collectible PEZ dispenser without dicking me around, and now I'm supposed to trust a similar system in a national election? It's preposterous.
I haven't participated in running an voting location, but I believe this is dealt with by having lots of eyes on the paperwork as well as a representative from both major parties. It's not perfect, but you can say this - for all the problems they had in Florida, people replacing the votes with forged votes was not the issue.
So bring back the punch cards + receipts, I say.
Fuckin a man. There is no incentive for the people with power to run a fair election. That's why we have so many eyes on the paper system. When you go to electronic voting, 1) few people understand the technology well enough to appreciate the potential for security breach, and 2) the ability to put a lot of eyes on the voting count is practically eradicated.
"Oh, but you'll still have a paper receipt that you can count!" So why the fuck wouldn't you count that paper receipt in the first place? Technology aside, there is simply no reasonable basis for blindly trusting that the machines will work fairly.
Woah there, because corporations don't have political interests? All this would do is make it easier for the corporation to adjust the votes to match their interests.
I've posted elsewhere about the differences between ATMs and voting. ATMs work because if they don't, the bank is screwed. Electronic voting won't work because if it's screwed up, the only people who lose are the voters and the minority party.
There is literally NO INCENTIVE for the people with power to support a fair electronic voting system. There are at least a dozen ways to get crooked code onto the machine and basically no way to find out about it short of taking the machine apart.
By the way, this is a bi-partisan rant. I don't want anybody advocating electronic voting. The concept is not sound.
Pay up, sucker.
ATMs work because the institution has a vested interest in keeping everything on the level. Electronic voting will fail because the institution has a vested interest in making sure the results are "adjusted".
Spin the tables - tell your bank that you're going to withdraw $100 and demand unrestricted access to the vaults for 5 minutes. If you think that's a dumbass idea, then you think electronic voting is a dumbass idea.
It might be legal, but I have hard time believe that it's ethical.
I have an OLD Sony Ericsson T610.
It has a processor, embedded OS, bluetooth, keypad, and a color display.
It doesn't have a hard drive.
HOLY COW, this phone is a REVOLUTION!
I'm getting my flying car tomorrow!
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I can't deal with this information! I am from America, where everyone has a mobile (we call them cell phones) and carries it everywhere.
eh, nevermind.
I really don't understand why people shell out so much money for the entirely crappy speakers from Creative or for these other "computer" sound systems. If you're willing to pay for quality audio, then you will be buying quality audio equipment, not some chintzy computer speakers to "Boost your gaming performance!!!"
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Obligatory response pointing out that Slashdot is comprised of many people, some of which like recursive jokes, some of which don't.
Well that ought to wrap that up. Move along.
I remember reading that the ATM sends transaction data back to HQ, and if the transaction is authorized, a signal is sent on one of the conductors which is dedicated to the authorization signal. They were saying that it was possible to splice this conductor out of the wiring and - if you cut it at the right time - the authorization request would time out and the machine would give you the money but HQ would not deduct it from the account.
This was insecure, but it required you to fool around with the wiring (very visible) for a one-shot attempt (unreliable) and required you to have access to an account (very trackable). I may have munged a bunch of the details, but the gist of it is an accurate depiction of what I read. Accurate in reality? Couldn't say.
I can't imagine why an ATM would be connected to the internet. I'd imagine that every freshman in CS would consider that a disasterous idea.
When we're placing votes on the Diebold machine, WE are the bank, except we are kept as far away from the accounting as possible. You try working that arrangement out with the bank. You ask for $100, they let you into the vault, and you show them the $100 bill when you leave.
They can trust ya!
The fact that Diebold makes a lot of ATMs does not make the electronic voting idea valid. They might be the most qualified to make the machines, but the idea is not sound.
Thanks for making my case against you, moron.
I note that there were no bombings of white churches by black Christians, yet the religion was the very same.
Fewer than 20% of Muslims are Arabic, dipshit. You don't hear about the other 80% so much, do you?
Perhaps, just perhaps, there was another cause to the racism in the south other than Christianity. Or does that challenge your conformant world view?
Haha, yeah. You're a certifiable fuck-up. You made the case that Muslims were against free speech because of a handful of incidents, and now you're defending all of Christianity against a handful of incidents.
Christianity isn't brutally murdering gays, homophobic psychopaths are.
And I'm sure that you're going to realize that Muslims do not hate America/free speech/women's rights, but political radicals who have used Islam as a recruiting tool have. With that in mind, do try to keep yourself from making misinformed statements of religious bigotry.
And, after all my insulting and name calling, you think I might have a point, I recommend "Major Themes of the Qur'an" by Fazlur Rahman, which explains what is actually IN the Koran and how it is actually interpreted around the world these days (incredibly different from what CNN or Fox News would have you believe), and "Covering Islam" by Edwared Said, which very dutifully examines how the western world has formed its opinion of Islam over the last 200 years - a discussion almost wholly devoid of religious issues.
Yeah same here. It sounds interesting and I'd like to hear the results.
I'm not trying to be a smartass, but wha?? Do you mean that you're tying to make a MIDI patch of the hard drive sounds? If you make a MIDI instrument out of the hard drive, it won't sound like the hard drive..
I guess I'm asking if you're trying to sample the hard drive or use the scsi port wiring and connector to directly interface to a MIDI port. If it's the sampling, I might be able to help.
Cluelessness.
PBS is pro-microsoft (they are sponsored and since they haven't mentioned Linux once. They also advertise for MS on TV, so much for "public" broadcasting)
I, for one, am SHOCKED that PBS would NOT offend the trillion dollar corporation that sponsors them. Oh wait, I'm not stupid.
HOW CAN YOU GET MORE REPUBLICAN THEN IBM?
By not offering subsidized health care, life insurance, and retirement plans. DUH.
Plus I am a very conservative person here in nebraska. I beleive in freedom, guns to protect freedom, and free speach, and freedom of information.
What are you babbling about now? I didn't ask to hear anybody's life story. What the hell does being a "conservative person" have to do with freedom, gun rights, and free speech? Those things show your support for the Constitution, something that has been trampled upon by the REPUBLICANS in recent years.
Fuck socialism. Realy.
Retard. Good luck paying for your health care by yourself. If you accept a single cent of social security or unemployment, you are living a lie. If your kids go to a public school rather than forking over cash for a private school, you are enjoying the benefits of socialism, dumb ass.
Libertarian is most closely ties into Linux and free software then anything else, and thus Linux has more in common with the average freedom loving midwest guy then a communistic guy in California.
I don't even know what "Libertarian is most closely ties into Linux" means, but you're not making yourself look ANY smarter. The Libertarian platform is ultra-conservative in policy but includes NONE of the issues that the Republican party is using to get elected.
Since you don't seem to know, the Republican party will generally protect the business against the individual. Drilling in ANWR, drilling in the Guld of Mexico, NAFTA, sending American jobs overseas, relieving employers from providing health care, and sure as bears shit in the woods, protecting Microsoft's ability to make profits and pay taxes - in other words, NOT SUPPORTING LINUX, WHICH REPRESENTS NO CORPORATION, NO PROFITS, AND NO TAX DOLLARS. (People can make money -using- linux, but linux itself is basically profitless, especially in comparison to Microsoft.)
And since you don't seem to be aware, the Democratic party will generally protect the individual from the corporation. Affirmative action, workplace safety laws, the right to unionize, and consumer protection laws. Huh, rub both of them brain cells together - Microsoft -> monopoly -> hurts consumer, helps corporation -> linux may help the consumer and hurt the monopoly -> DEMOCRATIC ISSUE.
Winston Churchill said that the best argument against democracy was a five minute conversation with the average voter. To the best of my knowledge, he didn't even go to Nebraska.
Viva la Freedom!
More like, Viva la Freedom to be uneducated.
At this point, I'm confident that I'm just feeding a troll.
California is definitely a haven for incredible lawsuits, from ruling that "master" and "slave" designations in computer hard drives is a civil rights issue to declaring that people don't really "own" pets - they are the pet's "guardian".
When we sold "Last Temptation of Christ, some Christians boycotted, some urged others to boycott, and some wrote letters to the newspapers.
And when they tried to put niggers in the white schools, it was Christians who put bombs in black churches and murdered little girls (you can find that information in a book.) And when white trash sluts claimed they were raped by niggers, it was white Christian men who lynched them without a trial (you can find that information in a book.) And when gay men are brutally murdered, it's because the Bible says being gay is a sin (you can find that in a book also.)
Thank your lucky stars that contributing to the retardedness of the world isn't a crime, because you're a center of anti-intelligence.
No Christian church has the right to control what's in a public state school. This is in stark contrast to Islamic control of schools in certain mideast nations.
This is complete bullshit. This is exactly how things have -actually- been conducted in American history despite laws to the contrary. Why did we even fucking HAVE the Scopes Monkey Trial? It was because THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH WAS CONTROLLING WHAT WAS IN A PUBLIC STATE SCHOOL. Fucking Christ on a pogo stick, and you used to work in a bookstore? Let me recommend that you READ a BOOK once in awhile.
hahahaha, I should have modded, not posted, since then I wouldn't have screwed up the italics tag. Just call me Ace, I'm this awesome every day.