The Omnibus Appropriations bill is a real-world example of pork piled upon pork equals passage.
Happens every year right around this time. And I find, the issues that I most care about (universal single payer health care, worker's rights to unionize) are continually ignored by both sides equally. While the interests of corporations (cheap overseas labor, Free Trade, tax cuts) have a tendency to win out every time, with both sides equally for it.
So I respectfully disagree- on all the issues I care about, both major parties look EXACTLY the same, and the ideological divides are just a Weapon of Mass Distraction to keep the people from rebelling because they always and forever get screwed.
AND to top it off, we only had one ballot measure with any contraversy over the vote at all- and that's because it was so poorly worded that nobody could figure out how to vote on it. Never did find out- did 35 pass or fail (it was within 500 votes either way two days after the election, depending on the newspaper you read or the TV station website you hit).
Why? It's pseudocode, and anybody with a software engineering degree knows enough C, Pascal, and Basic to read it just fine. It doesn't need to compile.
In any county where there is a close race, check the laws on recount and find enough people to insist upon a recount. Should be done countrywide at this point, given the problems we've seen.
Why the whole freakin' country can't just go to a proven system like Oregon's mail in ballots checked by scantron is beyond me. If it's good enough technology for SAT tests, it's damned well good enough technology for elections.
And the worst of it is, it sounds to me exactly like when my step-grandfather had siliconitis- and ignored it for 50 years. Did so much damage to his lungs that he was on oxygen for the rest of his life. If I was this guy, I'd keep taking the amoxycillian until all the little beasties were dead, but I'd also INSIST upon living in an oxy-enriched atmosphere, perhaps even a bubble, for a while until the lungs healed.
And damnit- eat something- 145 lbs and 6'2" is NOT a healthy weight when dealing with major lung damage.
Yeah- but it will happen after time. After all- the only character with pain in the original Stargate Movie was Jack O'Neil- fresh from the death of his son, ready to blow up himself with a nuclear weapon to prevent the Gua'uld from coming to Earth.
You mentioned Brent Spinner- what do you think of his acting as an earlier version of Dr. Soong in the last three episodes of Enterprise? (on the plus side- at least *somebody* writing for those episodes had researched the Eugenics Wars, TOS, TNG, and probably also TWK, and merged the Soong Family interest in Eugenics quite smoothly into the Soong Family interest in Cybernetics).
So the key is to steal the smart card, kill the owner, hide the body, and then infiltrate with no problem because nobody has reported the smart card to be missing.
Without a pin number, all this means is that Bill Gates has now offered open season on Microsoft Employees.
Corporations lie because their only value is profit. The obvious way to get them to stop lying is to deny them profit- even if it means large numbers of people starve in the process.
Tax records show that Bush & Cheney have been much more generous charitable givers than Kerry & Edwards, but you keep telling yourself whatever you gotta tell yourself to make it okay that you are voting against the principles of your own religion.
Ah, but how generous are Bush and Cheney with GOVERNMENT money? Are they willing to give up say, 1% of all corporate profits to insure that no woman is forced into an abortion ever again?
Then again, I suppose you think of taxing poor working families to give AFDC checks to poor non-working families the only real definition of "Charity." Too bad for that argument that the Bush administration did nothing to change Clinton-era welfare systems in the first term, apart from broadly extending Unemployment benifits.
Once again, idiots, being against Bush doesn't mean being for Clinton. One can be equally against both. Heck- I'm equally against Kerry on that score- his wife is yet another one of the parasites that I wish we could rid society of. But unemployment benefits do not an anti-ABORTION program make; I was thinking more about universal health care with a requirement that every woman who tested positive for pregnancy have an ultrasound before any decisions were made.
As long as in return for checking that box, I get fair value of goods and services, I have no problem purchasing those goods and services from the government instead of from Private Industry. In return for my 90% tax rate, I want the following (based on what people in Norway get for their 90% tax rate):
Free food, clothing, shelter at a basic level, with luxury items purchased in my remaining 10%. Free computer, TV, Electricity and Phone New Car every 5 years 1-Month Mediteranian Vacation for "Seasonal Affection Disorder" every February. Government also provides for the common defense- by buying me a weapon and giving me a two-week vacation every 10 years to make sure I'm proficient with my weapon, along with one weekend a year in my local militia. Free Universal Health Care, Single Payer, $5 copayment for any service or perscription
Give me all of that, and I'll have no problem paying 90% income taxes. I would HOPE that you would have no problem living in such a system either- but perhaps you conservatives are too stupid to figure out how to prosper when everything is handed to you?
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If he's only into this for say 3 years, that means that there is reasonable doubt that for any given song or set of songs, he hasn't listened to them and therefore isn't guilty of anything wrong.
And in fact, given the number of OTHER than music MP3s floating around- between software pirates, kiddie porn, and fakes put up by the ??AA organizations themselves, one has to wonder just how many of the files he's downloaded are actually what they say they are.
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Parent is a karma whore...
So is most everybody posting under their real name- so what?
And you sort it how? My father has a Master's degree in Agriculture- and still got fired from a job for mixing standard rye with a special bluegrass-rye hybrid used for planting putting greens (and worth $20,000/ton, as opposed to the regular stuff). There was no known method for sorting it.
In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the new government found this law patently unconstitutional- as Iraq's new Constitution requires that laws do not conflict with Islamic Law, and I'm willing to bet that like all other sacred texts from desert civilizations, there's something in the Koran somewhere about famine prevention.
Palour Magic Tricks- I'd get three friends together and we'd make holograms in the rain from our PDAs. Alternatively, I could use a color version for the ultimate pocket presentation system- just use bluetooth to connect it to my IPAQ and a driver to work with Pocket PowerPoint.
1) PDA Classic, (2) PDA-Phone, (3) PDA-Email, and (4) PDA-Wireless. Palm seems to be moving from type 1 to type 2, while RIM is focused on Type 3, and WINCE on type 4. I think for many of us, our expectation was for PALM to do #1, and #3/#4 (both email and real 802.11x wireless). Type 2 is really where Handspring went, and their acquisition meant Palm became mainly #1 and #2. So the real question is can one vendor do all types?
My IPAQ does 1,3, and 4 all minimally well. The lack of SSL, webmail, and VPN support in Pocket Outlook is what kills #3- and limits me to using Activesync for e-mail....on the plus side, at least it's all against the same copy of Outlook.
I've also seen WinCE based phones that do 1, 2, and 3 very well- and a new IPAQ that does all 4 (yes, it actually has digital PCS, Bluetooth, and 802.11g radios built in- but it's got a sucky battery life).
However, I'd emphasize that Pocket Outlook and Pocket IE are the weak points in this chain- their lack of support of some very basic protocols and markup languages are a big hole.
Classic Latin didn't. Vulgar Latin, which was used by the Church since St. Jerome translated the Mass and the Bible from Greek and Hebrew into "the language of the people" did and does. The Vulgate is full of J's.
Actually, that's pretty standard for a German->English machine translation; the syntax of their sentences is slightly different than ours. If you really want to read some Yoda-speak, pick a Polish or Russian page....or if you want to hear it just go to The Molvanian Entry into Eurosong Contest.
Who needs the linked JPG? Just go to the directory in question: $WINDOWS\Help\Tours\WindowsMediaPlayer\Audio\Wav , pick a WAV file, right click, choose Open With, and Pick Notepad. Scroll down to the last line and you can see the evidence for yourself.
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It helps if you don't assume you'll only get 2^15-1 voters in any given precinct.....
The Omnibus Appropriations bill is a real-world example of pork piled upon pork equals passage.
Happens every year right around this time. And I find, the issues that I most care about (universal single payer health care, worker's rights to unionize) are continually ignored by both sides equally. While the interests of corporations (cheap overseas labor, Free Trade, tax cuts) have a tendency to win out every time, with both sides equally for it.
So I respectfully disagree- on all the issues I care about, both major parties look EXACTLY the same, and the ideological divides are just a Weapon of Mass Distraction to keep the people from rebelling because they always and forever get screwed.
Every 6 years- and it's because those gun toting trailer park residents, once unemployed, may just be paying you a visit....
AND to top it off, we only had one ballot measure with any contraversy over the vote at all- and that's because it was so poorly worded that nobody could figure out how to vote on it. Never did find out- did 35 pass or fail (it was within 500 votes either way two days after the election, depending on the newspaper you read or the TV station website you hit).
Why? It's pseudocode, and anybody with a software engineering degree knows enough C, Pascal, and Basic to read it just fine. It doesn't need to compile.
In any county where there is a close race, check the laws on recount and find enough people to insist upon a recount. Should be done countrywide at this point, given the problems we've seen.
Why the whole freakin' country can't just go to a proven system like Oregon's mail in ballots checked by scantron is beyond me. If it's good enough technology for SAT tests, it's damned well good enough technology for elections.
And the worst of it is, it sounds to me exactly like when my step-grandfather had siliconitis- and ignored it for 50 years. Did so much damage to his lungs that he was on oxygen for the rest of his life. If I was this guy, I'd keep taking the amoxycillian until all the little beasties were dead, but I'd also INSIST upon living in an oxy-enriched atmosphere, perhaps even a bubble, for a while until the lungs healed.
And damnit- eat something- 145 lbs and 6'2" is NOT a healthy weight when dealing with major lung damage.
Yeah- but it will happen after time. After all- the only character with pain in the original Stargate Movie was Jack O'Neil- fresh from the death of his son, ready to blow up himself with a nuclear weapon to prevent the Gua'uld from coming to Earth.
You mentioned Brent Spinner- what do you think of his acting as an earlier version of Dr. Soong in the last three episodes of Enterprise? (on the plus side- at least *somebody* writing for those episodes had researched the Eugenics Wars, TOS, TNG, and probably also TWK, and merged the Soong Family interest in Eugenics quite smoothly into the Soong Family interest in Cybernetics).
It helps to be on broadcast- not everybody spends the extra money on DSS or Cable.
So the key is to steal the smart card, kill the owner, hide the body, and then infiltrate with no problem because nobody has reported the smart card to be missing.
Without a pin number, all this means is that Bill Gates has now offered open season on Microsoft Employees.
Corporations lie because their only value is profit. The obvious way to get them to stop lying is to deny them profit- even if it means large numbers of people starve in the process.
6 fingers is dominant? What species of primate has 6 fingers or toes?
"I just can't take the lying anymore! ARRGH!!!!!"
Tax records show that Bush & Cheney have been much more generous charitable givers than Kerry & Edwards, but you keep telling yourself whatever you gotta tell yourself to make it okay that you are voting against the principles of your own religion.
Ah, but how generous are Bush and Cheney with GOVERNMENT money? Are they willing to give up say, 1% of all corporate profits to insure that no woman is forced into an abortion ever again?
Then again, I suppose you think of taxing poor working families to give AFDC checks to poor non-working families the only real definition of "Charity." Too bad for that argument that the Bush administration did nothing to change Clinton-era welfare systems in the first term, apart from broadly extending Unemployment benifits.
Once again, idiots, being against Bush doesn't mean being for Clinton. One can be equally against both. Heck- I'm equally against Kerry on that score- his wife is yet another one of the parasites that I wish we could rid society of. But unemployment benefits do not an anti-ABORTION program make; I was thinking more about universal health care with a requirement that every woman who tested positive for pregnancy have an ultrasound before any decisions were made.
As long as in return for checking that box, I get fair value of goods and services, I have no problem purchasing those goods and services from the government instead of from Private Industry. In return for my 90% tax rate, I want the following (based on what people in Norway get for their 90% tax rate):
Free food, clothing, shelter at a basic level, with luxury items purchased in my remaining 10%.
Free computer, TV, Electricity and Phone
New Car every 5 years
1-Month Mediteranian Vacation for "Seasonal Affection Disorder" every February.
Government also provides for the common defense- by buying me a weapon and giving me a two-week vacation every 10 years to make sure I'm proficient with my weapon, along with one weekend a year in my local militia.
Free Universal Health Care, Single Payer, $5 copayment for any service or perscription
Give me all of that, and I'll have no problem paying 90% income taxes. I would HOPE that you would have no problem living in such a system either- but perhaps you conservatives are too stupid to figure out how to prosper when everything is handed to you?
If he's only into this for say 3 years, that means that there is reasonable doubt that for any given song or set of songs, he hasn't listened to them and therefore isn't guilty of anything wrong.
And in fact, given the number of OTHER than music MP3s floating around- between software pirates, kiddie porn, and fakes put up by the ??AA organizations themselves, one has to wonder just how many of the files he's downloaded are actually what they say they are.
Parent is a karma whore...
So is most everybody posting under their real name- so what?
And you sort it how? My father has a Master's degree in Agriculture- and still got fired from a job for mixing standard rye with a special bluegrass-rye hybrid used for planting putting greens (and worth $20,000/ton, as opposed to the regular stuff). There was no known method for sorting it.
In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the new government found this law patently unconstitutional- as Iraq's new Constitution requires that laws do not conflict with Islamic Law, and I'm willing to bet that like all other sacred texts from desert civilizations, there's something in the Koran somewhere about famine prevention.
Palour Magic Tricks- I'd get three friends together and we'd make holograms in the rain from our PDAs. Alternatively, I could use a color version for the ultimate pocket presentation system- just use bluetooth to connect it to my IPAQ and a driver to work with Pocket PowerPoint.
1) PDA Classic, (2) PDA-Phone, (3) PDA-Email, and (4) PDA-Wireless. Palm seems to be moving from type 1 to type 2, while RIM is focused on Type 3, and WINCE on type 4. I think for many of us, our expectation was for PALM to do #1, and #3/#4 (both email and real 802.11x wireless). Type 2 is really where Handspring went, and their acquisition meant Palm became mainly #1 and #2. So the real question is can one vendor do all types?
My IPAQ does 1,3, and 4 all minimally well. The lack of SSL, webmail, and VPN support in Pocket Outlook is what kills #3- and limits me to using Activesync for e-mail....on the plus side, at least it's all against the same copy of Outlook.
I've also seen WinCE based phones that do 1, 2, and 3 very well- and a new IPAQ that does all 4 (yes, it actually has digital PCS, Bluetooth, and 802.11g radios built in- but it's got a sucky battery life).
However, I'd emphasize that Pocket Outlook and Pocket IE are the weak points in this chain- their lack of support of some very basic protocols and markup languages are a big hole.
Classic Latin didn't. Vulgar Latin, which was used by the Church since St. Jerome translated the Mass and the Bible from Greek and Hebrew into "the language of the people" did and does. The Vulgate is full of J's.
Actually, that's pretty standard for a German->English machine translation; the syntax of their sentences is slightly different than ours. If you really want to read some Yoda-speak, pick a Polish or Russian page....or if you want to hear it just go to The Molvanian Entry into Eurosong Contest.
Who needs the linked JPG? Just go to the directory in question: $WINDOWS\Help\Tours\WindowsMediaPlayer\Audio\Wav , pick a WAV file, right click, choose Open With, and Pick Notepad. Scroll down to the last line and you can see the evidence for yourself.