Of course, he wouldn't - the point is that the people in power are the state.
Not in a republic.
The people who would be in prison are all those who criticise Bush, despite the fact that, to many outside observers, they are the people who offer hope for their country.
But they aren't in prison... which is the point that wooshed over your head. All this focusing on one man who will leave office in January is counterproductive, as it is every citizen's responsibility to keep his government in check. As George Washington said, government makes a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
Al Gore wouldn't have launched an unprovoked invasion of a hostile Arab country
Being hostile implies a certain level of provocation. Deciding when to respond to that provocation is a judgment call, and the judgment of the American people at that time was the same as our elected representatives and Chief Executive: enforce Clinton's executive order of 1998 and remove Saddam Hussein.
As for Al Gore, hasn't his inability to manage even his own environmental initiatives-- without making personal attacks on his critics, summarily dismissing evidence that threatens his positions, engaging in elitist hypocrisy, or stubbornly sticking to unreasonable strategies-- made him unsuitable for the presidency?
Hatecrimes are worse than regular crimes because the perpetrator will likely do it again when encountering another member of the target group or may be attempting to get others to do the same.
If a simple mugger needs more money, you don't think he'll do it again?
A witch, based on most Christian teachings, is anyone who doesn't believe in Christ and practices a religion (and more specifically anyone who practices a "nature" or animist religion). Hence, Christians, if they follow the Bible, must kill everyone who is not a Christian.
Wow, you just pointed out your own lie in the same paragraph. A witch is most certainly not "everyone who is not a christian." Also, that order was given specifically to the Hebrews at that specific time, not to all believers. In that group, a person practicing what is generically known as "witchcraft" would be a betrayal against the group.
Better support for hyperthreading and dual core is the only thing I can think of, but even that could easily have been implemented in a service pack for W2k.
I don't think it's reasonable for a customer to expect those for free. Those are non-trivial features. There are also remote desktop/remote assistance, fast user switching, a user-friendly firewall, Cleartype, wireless support, and built-in zip folders.
Now that the ice has been broken, we can look forward to the following editorialized headlines on Slashdot:
- GM releases a new model of SUV: "GM increases carbon output, pisses on environment." - Someone sets ant traps in their kitchen: "Homeowner sets toxic traps, kills thousands." - Someone throws a piece of paper in the trash: "Office worker wastes resources, trees suffer." - CowboyNeal removes his shirt... oh that would be nasty! Let 'im have it!
Ultra-ATA? Ha ha... you are so young. IDE didn't even exist yet when the 5 1/4" floppy first appeared. Those were the days of 5 MB hard disk with ST-506 interfaces, 1-5 MHz CPUs, and 40-column monochrome displays. Now get off my lawn!
Wind and solar don't scale well. Solar requires many toxic chemicals in its manufacture and the collectors degrade to uselessness in about 10 years, sending those toxins to a landfill. Wind power requires large tracts of open land (one large wind vane takes up about as much room as an oil well) and is opposed by many wealthy politicians (Kennedys) and powerful land owners who don't want their view spoiled. There you go.
Wow... did you get your concept of nuclear power from hippie pamphlets from 1973? Here's a physics lesson: radioactive material has a half-life, at which point it loses half of its mass. Its mass is "lost" through the emission of radioactive particles. The faster it decays, the more radiation that is released over time. However, since the mass is decreasing, the amount of radiation quickly subsides over time. The opposite is also true, so the stuff that hangs around a long time gives off relatively small amounts of radiation for its mass over that time.
By the way, France has been 100% nuclear power for some time now, and no flying pigs yet (although cheese-eating surrender monkeys seem to be prevalent).
Environmental groups call carbon sequestration "a scam", claiming that it is too expensive and uncertain to be competitive with non-coal alternatives like wind and solar.
... and conveniently left out nuclear, which is proven and working technology.
Red light camera have nothing to do with "neocons," whatever they are supposed to be. Take at look at this map and try to tell me that the majority of those cities are neocon bastions. I live near Philadelphia and I can guarantee that Mayor "the NRA should apologize for a murderer illegally using an illegally obtained weapon to kill a cop" Nutter is not a neocon.
Actually, it's closer to 1 in 33. Incidentally, I don't go for the "if it saves just ONE person" meme; I throw it into the rubbish heap with "think of the children" and "if you aren't a criminal, you have nothing to worry about."
Actually, MacGyver will have an unfair advantage because Lucas won't allow Han Solo to shoot first. That will give MacGyver plenty of time to make a smoke bomb out of detergent and pickle juice to make his escape.
Any modern file system will fragment if you expand an existing file. It simply has no way to guess how big the file will get when it is created unless your application chooses the proper allocation.
To give you an extreme example, imagine a 100 GB volume which has no files. You create a 1 MB file, and your filesystem places it near the top. Now you create a second file, and your filesystem places it... well, it could place it anywhere except that first 1 MB, so let's say it places it right next to the first file. Uh oh, it turn out that you need to write 1 GB of data to that first file and extend it. Now you have two fragments.
Ok, let's assume our file system is magical and knows that you like to extend files to huge sizes. So it places the second file at the end of the disk, instead. Oops, you fooled you file system: this time, you wanted to extend the second file by 1 GB. There is no room to append to the end of the file, so a second extent is created somewhere else and linked to the second file. You have two fragments again.
This is why performance tuning requires that you anticipate data requirements and allocate space accordingly; for example, by setting the initial size of database files to one that should reasonably accommodate the data requirements for the foreseeable future (and not automatically shrinking the database down when records are deleted).
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As for Al Gore, hasn't his inability to manage even his own environmental initiatives-- without making personal attacks on his critics, summarily dismissing evidence that threatens his positions, engaging in elitist hypocrisy, or stubbornly sticking to unreasonable strategies-- made him unsuitable for the presidency?
Let's not pick on the guy just because he misspelled "walla".
The difference is that Vista really does suck.
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Now that the ice has been broken, we can look forward to the following editorialized headlines on Slashdot:
- GM releases a new model of SUV: "GM increases carbon output, pisses on environment."
- Someone sets ant traps in their kitchen: "Homeowner sets toxic traps, kills thousands."
- Someone throws a piece of paper in the trash: "Office worker wastes resources, trees suffer."
- CowboyNeal removes his shirt... oh that would be nasty! Let 'im have it!
Ultra-ATA? Ha ha... you are so young. IDE didn't even exist yet when the 5 1/4" floppy first appeared. Those were the days of 5 MB hard disk with ST-506 interfaces, 1-5 MHz CPUs, and 40-column monochrome displays. Now get off my lawn!
Wind and solar don't scale well. Solar requires many toxic chemicals in its manufacture and the collectors degrade to uselessness in about 10 years, sending those toxins to a landfill. Wind power requires large tracts of open land (one large wind vane takes up about as much room as an oil well) and is opposed by many wealthy politicians (Kennedys) and powerful land owners who don't want their view spoiled. There you go.
By the way, France has been 100% nuclear power for some time now, and no flying pigs yet (although cheese-eating surrender monkeys seem to be prevalent).
"Shake hands with Ben Franklin" sounds more like you're coming into money. Oh, wait...
Yeah, good thing we don't have to worry about that anymore. I'm glad the IRA shut down when it did or there would have been a perfect storm of violence in the UK.
Red light camera have nothing to do with "neocons," whatever they are supposed to be. Take at look at this map and try to tell me that the majority of those cities are neocon bastions. I live near Philadelphia and I can guarantee that Mayor "the NRA should apologize for a murderer illegally using an illegally obtained weapon to kill a cop" Nutter is not a neocon.
Actually, it's closer to 1 in 33. Incidentally, I don't go for the "if it saves just ONE person" meme; I throw it into the rubbish heap with "think of the children" and "if you aren't a criminal, you have nothing to worry about."
Then maybe you should have bought Tracfones with cash at the pharmacy or discount store.
That phrase actually comes from a map made in medieval times.
The only thing that annoys me is calling Revelation "Revelations". It's one vision revealed to John the Evangelist.
The VP does not live in the White House. KTHX
"Robot Chicken" wishes it had that kind of claymation!
McFly wore Calvin Kleins, you insensitive clod!
Actually, MacGyver will have an unfair advantage because Lucas won't allow Han Solo to shoot first. That will give MacGyver plenty of time to make a smoke bomb out of detergent and pickle juice to make his escape.
Any modern file system will fragment if you expand an existing file. It simply has no way to guess how big the file will get when it is created unless your application chooses the proper allocation.
To give you an extreme example, imagine a 100 GB volume which has no files. You create a 1 MB file, and your filesystem places it near the top. Now you create a second file, and your filesystem places it... well, it could place it anywhere except that first 1 MB, so let's say it places it right next to the first file. Uh oh, it turn out that you need to write 1 GB of data to that first file and extend it. Now you have two fragments.
Ok, let's assume our file system is magical and knows that you like to extend files to huge sizes. So it places the second file at the end of the disk, instead. Oops, you fooled you file system: this time, you wanted to extend the second file by 1 GB. There is no room to append to the end of the file, so a second extent is created somewhere else and linked to the second file. You have two fragments again.
This is why performance tuning requires that you anticipate data requirements and allocate space accordingly; for example, by setting the initial size of database files to one that should reasonably accommodate the data requirements for the foreseeable future (and not automatically shrinking the database down when records are deleted).