Congratulations. You managed to drag a whole threat OT and we all get to read each others "I am smarter than you because I am making judgements 'of facts' based on what other people have said (media, etc.)." 1) It is all Off TOPIC 2) BOTH sides are so full of crap and repeating "facts" they don't know. </RANT>
Watch out for password policies though... I used to work for a "large telephone company" and their password policy was it must be 8 characters long, contain 2 numbers,... We did the math on it and it took the amount of allowed passwords down to a very short list!
The popular vote thing... (in NY and CA, most republicans didn't vote for Bush, in those states, why bother. A few HUNDRED THOUSAND votes wouldn't matter.)
Gore got the military vote thrown out. I liked him before, but to say military personnel don't get to vote, and I changed.
It is my belief that the USSC decided correctly in both Bush v. Gore, and in the Mickey Mouse(R)(TM)(C)(XXX)(/.) case. Saying it is up to the legislatures to do the right thing. They interpreted the Constitution. Unfortunately, that is a piece of paper. Like the bible. Different people read different things of it.
Arguing politics is like trying to teach a pig to fly, it wastes your time and annoys the pig
I remember one version of NT (3.5, 3.51, 4.0?) that specifically stated not to use that OS/OE in mission-critical situations (anything involving someone's potential life.) At first I thought it was lawyers covering their butts.... until I actually booted the machine:)
WinDVD et al. stop after 7-8 minutes of a movie unless you pay for it (the software, not the movie.) Think you might have mixed the two up. (I am assuming you are using Windows.)
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Congratulations.
You managed to drag a whole threat OT and we all get to read each others "I am smarter than you because I am making judgements 'of facts' based on what other people have said (media, etc.)."
1) It is all Off TOPIC
2) BOTH sides are so full of crap and repeating "facts" they don't know.
</RANT>
Watch out for password policies though... I used to work for a "large telephone company" and their password policy was it must be 8 characters long, contain 2 numbers, ... We did the math on it and it took the amount of allowed passwords down to a very short list!
The popular vote thing... (in NY and CA, most republicans didn't vote for Bush, in those states, why bother. A few HUNDRED THOUSAND votes wouldn't matter.)
Gore got the military vote thrown out. I liked him before, but to say military personnel don't get to vote, and I changed.
It is my belief that the USSC decided correctly in both Bush v. Gore, and in the Mickey Mouse(R)(TM)(C)(XXX)(/.) case. Saying it is up to the legislatures to do the right thing. They interpreted the Constitution. Unfortunately, that is a piece of paper. Like the bible. Different people read different things of it.
Arguing politics is like trying to teach a pig to fly, it wastes your time and annoys the pig
I remember one version of NT (3.5, 3.51, 4.0?) that specifically stated not to use that OS/OE in mission-critical situations (anything involving someone's potential life.) At first I thought it was lawyers covering their butts.... until I actually booted the machine :)
No wonder M$ apps are so slow and bloated...
All their programmers are out pretending to be helping *nix admins. :)
C++ is far older. C is ancient. Guess we should line up all the C/C++/Perl programmers and shoot them for continuing to use such dinosaurs.
WinDVD et al. stop after 7-8 minutes of a movie unless you pay for it (the software, not the movie.) Think you might have mixed the two up. (I am assuming you are using Windows.)