I go to maybe one or two movies a year. And they better be damn good movies. The last one I went to in a theater, I think, was Shrek 2 and only because my daughter bugged the hell out of me. Before that it was Hulk.
I don't rent movies. I don't do pay per views. I wait. I am patient. I wait for Blockbuster to finish quenching the surge of demand for a new movie, and then I buy it when it hits the "Pre-Viewed" rack. Even then I wait until they run the "2 for $20" sale. That's when I stock up. I walk out once or twice a month with an armload of DVD's.
Sooner or later I'll purge the collection and recoup some of those costs via eBay. For now, though, it's kinda cool knowing that I legally own over 400 DVD's and not a cent of my money has gone to the MPAA.
Actually no I didn't. I think that both candidates have forgotten this. Please don't mistake my questions for support of gun control. On the contrary, the questions are for the purpose of asking both candidate to explain their appearance of hypocrisy on the issue.
As an active member of a volunteer homeland defense force (militia), I'm the last person who wants to see erosion of the second amendment.
I would like to hear from Mr. Kerry his direct response to allegations that he has broken multiple gun control laws and at least one that never made it to law (but he supported) when accepting an auto loading (or, in his words, "rapid fire") shotgun while on the campaign trail. This gun was accepted outside of his state of residency so there are multiple potential felony offenses here if he accepted the gift and took it home to Massachusetts. The value of the gun exceeds the maximum cash donation under current campaign finance laws, as well.
From Mr. Bush, I would like to know if he has a permit for the revolver he keeps in the oval office. As we all know, the District of Columbia has some of the strictist gun control laws in the country. Yet Mr. Bush keeps a gun in a federal office, and regularly shows it off to guests.
If I could have a followup, I'd like to ask both candidates to clarify allegations of hypocrisy on gun control issues. For example, Mr. Kerry claims to be pro-Second Amendment, though his Senate voting record clearly shows he is one of the most anti-gun politicians in US history. From Mr. Bush I would like to know why he claims to support tougher gun control legislation, but then doesn't follow through with action.
Why are Libertarian-minded people so fixated on winning the executive branch when really that cannot happen until the party is accepted as mainstream by the public at large? Wouldn't it make more sense to stay focused on the legislature? The legislature, after all, presents hundreds of opportunities every couple of years for Libertarians to win a chance at influencing policy. The legislature controls what bills the president gets to sign. And the legislature controls spending.
I didn't know until today that there was a Libertarian running for senate in my state (Pennsylvania) and only then I found out because I looked hard for her. I've yet to see a single sign outside or a single campaign button or bumper sticker. This, in my opinion, is where the party needs to really focus its limited resources.
You can get on the all-call on the phone system and pipe in the country-western classic "Take This Job & Shove It". I had a job I hated badly and had a hotkey for playing that song to make it expedient to do it when I was ready.
In the end, I never did. Didn't want to burn any bridges. But it felt nice to have a fun plan ready for execution.
I am in the burbs, just barely outside the city limits. So maybe it is just something within city limits. RCN is quite popular out here. I know about half of my neighbors are on RCN. They market around this neighborhood quite aggressively (as does Comcast).
RCN tried to start offering cable TV, internet and phone service in Philadelphia a few years ago, and Comcast used their influence to throw up so many roadblocks, that RCN gave up and went away.
No they didn't. I've been an RCN customer for a year now (in the Philly market)
We've been stuck in a rut with the shuttle program. Since it is not likely that NASA will be putting the orbiters out for a yard sale, perhaps a hurricane would be just the thing to kick our space program in the ass and innovate.
Seriously, George, if you're reading this, share some control with some of your trusted friends. Episodes I & II were so terribly bad. If you do VII-IX, please for the love of Yoda get your good buddy Steven Spielberg on the project and let him deal with the actors.
Kennedy is, after all, a radical leftist. He goes off on angry tirades about the president on public record. He is alleged to have murdered an American.
" Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law? Or is there one system for the average citizen and another for the high and mighty? " ~ Senator Ted Kennedy, 1973
Apparently the latter is true; the rest of us can't just pick up the phone and ask Tom Ridge to fix the no-fly list.
Maybe next time he flies he should use a pseudonym. Something really innocent sounding. Like maybe Mary Jo Kopechne.
"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." Amendment IX, Bill of Rights, US Constitution
If you're going to stop flying, do it all the way. I haven't flown in four years. It has nothing to do with my sense of personal security. It has everything to do with my sense of dignity, my right to privacy. The draconian measures that have been put in place since 9/11 warrant a complete change of lifestyle for me in which I will refuse to fly on commercial airlines until they are withdrawn. This likely means that if I ever fly again, it will be by private charter.
This guy epitomizes an inconsiderate motorcycle rider. He's cutting people off, running red lights, passing people on the inside during a turn. Riders like this make it that much harder for responsible riders to get along with the cars on the road.
So when am I going to be able to get a Bluetooth-enabled hearing aid so I can interface with my PC, my cell phone and other devices? Hearing aids seem like one of the killer apps for Bluetooth yet they don't seem to exist yet.
Ken Brown has, in this article, completely exposed himself for what he is; a propagandist. He is the paid puppet of a party hostile to Linux and GNU-licensed software. Don't take my word for it. Read the article. Check out the sort of contemptful words used when describing anything to do with Linux or Linus Torvalds.
Anyone with half a clue can read a little ways into this and see that this is just one or more large software companies hiding and using a (poor) stick puppet to try to put some legitimacy on their dirty tactics.
OpenBSD comes out of the box with a great firewall (that will also handle your NAT). The firewall can easily handle packet queueing and prioritization. Tell the firewall how much bandwidth you have to work with, set your host up with priority over your traffic, even break it down by protocol if you want.
Wouldn't Windows users have to migrate to Linux first?
This is a false assumption. KDE runs great on OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Darwin, etc. and that is just on the x86 platform (since Windows only runs on x86 anymore)
A lot of Sun lemmings here will diss the Ultra 5 because it is one of the most PC-like Suns you'll ever find. I picked up one a few years ago for $300. 333MHz processor (2MB cache), 256MB RAM, etc. First thing I did was rip out the 9GB HDD and replace with a 40GB model. This alone did much to eliminate the performance bottlenecks this model is prone to. I could just as easily have put in a 9GB SCSI drive and controller I had around but the capacity was more important at the time.
Originally it ran OpenBSD, which works pretty well on this hardware. I needed some modern conveniences like PAM and NSS so I upgraded to Aurora Linux. I'm still running Aurora on that box now, and as my uptime posted up there will attest it is a stable box. The last time it was booted was when I re-racked the server on some new industrial shelving I got at home.
I'm very happy with it. Right now it has a few primary uses:
File Server - Running NFS and Samba, my home directories and other shared files can be reached from any computer in the house (current count a little over 2 dozen).
Squid - I have all my web browsers using this machine as a proxy server.
syslog - All my *NIX boxen send copies of their syslog events here.
DHCP/DNS/NTP - These services could probably run on a pocket calculator, or maybe my old VAX, but the Ultra 5 is seriously underworked.
I have quite a few Sun and other oddball machines. I manage quite a few Sun & Linux boxen at $WORK. I rather like my lowly Ultra 5 and think that it deserves more credit than it has been given to date.
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I go to maybe one or two movies a year. And they better be damn good movies. The last one I went to in a theater, I think, was Shrek 2 and only because my daughter bugged the hell out of me. Before that it was Hulk.
I don't rent movies. I don't do pay per views. I wait. I am patient. I wait for Blockbuster to finish quenching the surge of demand for a new movie, and then I buy it when it hits the "Pre-Viewed" rack. Even then I wait until they run the "2 for $20" sale. That's when I stock up. I walk out once or twice a month with an armload of DVD's.
Sooner or later I'll purge the collection and recoup some of those costs via eBay. For now, though, it's kinda cool knowing that I legally own over 400 DVD's and not a cent of my money has gone to the MPAA.
Actually no I didn't. I think that both candidates have forgotten this. Please don't mistake my questions for support of gun control. On the contrary, the questions are for the purpose of asking both candidate to explain their appearance of hypocrisy on the issue.
As an active member of a volunteer homeland defense force (militia), I'm the last person who wants to see erosion of the second amendment.
I would like to hear from Mr. Kerry his direct response to allegations that he has broken multiple gun control laws and at least one that never made it to law (but he supported) when accepting an auto loading (or, in his words, "rapid fire") shotgun while on the campaign trail. This gun was accepted outside of his state of residency so there are multiple potential felony offenses here if he accepted the gift and took it home to Massachusetts. The value of the gun exceeds the maximum cash donation under current campaign finance laws, as well.
From Mr. Bush, I would like to know if he has a permit for the revolver he keeps in the oval office. As we all know, the District of Columbia has some of the strictist gun control laws in the country. Yet Mr. Bush keeps a gun in a federal office, and regularly shows it off to guests.
If I could have a followup, I'd like to ask both candidates to clarify allegations of hypocrisy on gun control issues. For example, Mr. Kerry claims to be pro-Second Amendment, though his Senate voting record clearly shows he is one of the most anti-gun politicians in US history. From Mr. Bush I would like to know why he claims to support tougher gun control legislation, but then doesn't follow through with action.
So then we have, what, global cooling?
And this is a bad thing?
Why are Libertarian-minded people so fixated on winning the executive branch when really that cannot happen until the party is accepted as mainstream by the public at large? Wouldn't it make more sense to stay focused on the legislature? The legislature, after all, presents hundreds of opportunities every couple of years for Libertarians to win a chance at influencing policy. The legislature controls what bills the president gets to sign. And the legislature controls spending.
I didn't know until today that there was a Libertarian running for senate in my state (Pennsylvania) and only then I found out because I looked hard for her. I've yet to see a single sign outside or a single campaign button or bumper sticker. This, in my opinion, is where the party needs to really focus its limited resources.
s/care/car/
There are an estimated 30,000,000 assault rifles in the United States. 0.01% of those are estimated to have been involved in crimes.
Ted Kennedy's care is responsible for more deaths in America than 29,997,000 assault rifles.
You can get on the all-call on the phone system and pipe in the country-western classic "Take This Job & Shove It". I had a job I hated badly and had a hotkey for playing that song to make it expedient to do it when I was ready.
In the end, I never did. Didn't want to burn any bridges. But it felt nice to have a fun plan ready for execution.
I am in the burbs, just barely outside the city limits. So maybe it is just something within city limits. RCN is quite popular out here. I know about half of my neighbors are on RCN. They market around this neighborhood quite aggressively (as does Comcast).
RCN tried to start offering cable TV, internet and phone service in Philadelphia a few years ago, and Comcast used their influence to throw up so many roadblocks, that RCN gave up and went away.
No they didn't. I've been an RCN customer for a year now (in the Philly market)
We've been stuck in a rut with the shuttle program. Since it is not likely that NASA will be putting the orbiters out for a yard sale, perhaps a hurricane would be just the thing to kick our space program in the ass and innovate.
You don't want to look, but you have to.
Seriously, George, if you're reading this, share some control with some of your trusted friends. Episodes I & II were so terribly bad. If you do VII-IX, please for the love of Yoda get your good buddy Steven Spielberg on the project and let him deal with the actors.
Kennedy is, after all, a radical leftist. He goes off on angry tirades about the president on public record. He is alleged to have murdered an American.
" Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law? Or is there one system for the average citizen and another for the high and mighty? "
~ Senator Ted Kennedy, 1973
Apparently the latter is true; the rest of us can't just pick up the phone and ask Tom Ridge to fix the no-fly list.
Maybe next time he flies he should use a pseudonym. Something really innocent sounding. Like maybe Mary Jo Kopechne.
"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
Amendment IX, Bill of Rights, US Constitution
If you're going to stop flying, do it all the way. I haven't flown in four years. It has nothing to do with my sense of personal security. It has everything to do with my sense of dignity, my right to privacy. The draconian measures that have been put in place since 9/11 warrant a complete change of lifestyle for me in which I will refuse to fly on commercial airlines until they are withdrawn. This likely means that if I ever fly again, it will be by private charter.
Something like that would be grounds for a big fine and probably loss of license in Pennsylvania.
This guy epitomizes an inconsiderate motorcycle rider. He's cutting people off, running red lights, passing people on the inside during a turn. Riders like this make it that much harder for responsible riders to get along with the cars on the road.
So when am I going to be able to get a Bluetooth-enabled hearing aid so I can interface with my PC, my cell phone and other devices? Hearing aids seem like one of the killer apps for Bluetooth yet they don't seem to exist yet.
Ken Brown has, in this article, completely exposed himself for what he is; a propagandist. He is the paid puppet of a party hostile to Linux and GNU-licensed software. Don't take my word for it. Read the article. Check out the sort of contemptful words used when describing anything to do with Linux or Linus Torvalds.
Anyone with half a clue can read a little ways into this and see that this is just one or more large software companies hiding and using a (poor) stick puppet to try to put some legitimacy on their dirty tactics.
Use wget from a few well connected machines to spider the 419'ers fake sites in an endless loop. Shouldn't take long to wipe 'em out. :-)
OpenBSD comes out of the box with a great firewall (that will also handle your NAT). The firewall can easily handle packet queueing and prioritization. Tell the firewall how much bandwidth you have to work with, set your host up with priority over your traffic, even break it down by protocol if you want.
Wouldn't Windows users have to migrate to Linux first?
This is a false assumption. KDE runs great on OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Darwin, etc. and that is just on the x86 platform (since Windows only runs on x86 anymore)
1:18pm up 124 days, 20:14, 2 users, load average: 0.08, 0.02, 0.01
A lot of Sun lemmings here will diss the Ultra 5 because it is one of the most PC-like Suns you'll ever find. I picked up one a few years ago for $300. 333MHz processor (2MB cache), 256MB RAM, etc. First thing I did was rip out the 9GB HDD and replace with a 40GB model. This alone did much to eliminate the performance bottlenecks this model is prone to. I could just as easily have put in a 9GB SCSI drive and controller I had around but the capacity was more important at the time.
Originally it ran OpenBSD, which works pretty well on this hardware. I needed some modern conveniences like PAM and NSS so I upgraded to Aurora Linux. I'm still running Aurora on that box now, and as my uptime posted up there will attest it is a stable box. The last time it was booted was when I re-racked the server on some new industrial shelving I got at home.
I'm very happy with it. Right now it has a few primary uses:
I have quite a few Sun and other oddball machines. I manage quite a few Sun & Linux boxen at $WORK. I rather like my lowly Ultra 5 and think that it deserves more credit than it has been given to date.
I find it surprising that more businesses aren't aware of the benefits of switching to Linux desktops that are X thin clients.
Most of the vendors who used to sell X11 terminals have bailed out and instead are selling RDP/ICA terminals, which are useless.
LTSP is an awesome project and is close to bringing back cheap toaster-like terminals for the masses.
Most of this behaviour just doesn't seem to happen in N. America, or at least here in Canada. Thank goodness.
You've obviously never heard of Derrickito.