I have a 10Mib/s bandwidth and I don't use p2p or download any copyrighted material I didn't purchase. Most of my bandwidth I use to download Linux distros and for various Linux forums.
http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20071023002351958 There is a section on evangelism steps to take to build support, which he calls guerilla marketing, or "The Slog" and and that's the section that includes using supposedly "independent" analysts and consultants:
-- Analysts: Analysts sell out - that's their business model. But they are very concerned that they never look like they are selling out, so that makes them very prickly to work with.
-- Consultants: These guys are your best bets as moderators. Get a well-known consultant on your side early, but don't let him publish anything blatantly pro-Microsoft. Then, get him to propose himself to the conference organizers as a moderator, whenever a panel opportunity comes up. Since he's well- known, but apparently independent, he'll be accepted - one less thing for the constantly-overworked conference organizer to worry about, right?
The source for the original document written by James Plamondon, first trainer of "Technical Evangelists" (TE) for Microsoft, is at the Comes vs Microsoft lawsuit website. An article titled "Evangelism is War!", px03096.pdf, page 53.
The "Slog" and the "Stacked Panel" are very interesting reads and describes EXACTLY how Microsoft stuffed the ISO committees when it stuffed the OOXML "standard" down IT's throat. It also explains what they are doing NOW with the European FOSS Strategy paper. http://wikileaks.org/wiki/How_to_Hijack_an_EU_Open_Source_Strategy_Paper
lobbied Congress with perks and "campaign contributions" to kill initiatives to install fiber optic cable as a community service/commodity, claiming "unfair" competition. The telcos promised they would complete buiding the fiber optic future in the 1990s, got tax breaks and rate relief to the tune of HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS, pocketed the cash and then promptly forgot their promise. I still have UNUSED fiber optic cable running through my yard from our canceled community project. As a result, I have to pay $72US for 10Mb/s bandwidth and TimeWarner and the other cable/Telecos are constantly trying to think up new ways to create artificial scarcity of bandwidth in order to charge more rent for an outdated wire pipe. These thieves have PROVEN in the past that they cannot be trusted and are too greedy to be given the opportunity to steal again.
It's time the people took back control of the Internet, complete the Fiber Optic (or better) technology and make it a service like electric, water and sewer, cheap and affordable to EVERY house.
The anti-Linux propaganda du jour, being dutifully parroted by "news" publications everywhere, is that Windows now owns 96% of the netbook market, and that Linux netbooks are returned four times more than windows netbooks. Both are untrue and have been debunked repeatedly. Yet they persist -- why?
I think Microsoft is growing increasingly desperate, and in hard economic times is finding equally desperate publications who will say anything for a few bucks. Which may be a harsh judgment, but I would rather believe that than believe they simply don't care to do even the simplest, most basic fact-checking, or are such hard-core Microsoft fanboys that they are only pretending to be journalists when they are really stringers for Microsoft's marketing department. How else can we explain the same nonsense repeated endlessly, their allergies to saying "Windows" and "malware" in the same sentence, the short shrift given to non-Windows software, the mind-boggling assumption that Windows is computing?...
As it is not part of Microsoft's business plan to participate in a genuinely competitive marketplace, expect to see this sort of thing become even more prevalent. If that is possible; I thought the FUD and anti-Linux propaganda had already reached the saturation point, but it looks like I was wrong....
[Microsoft's Brandon] LaBlanc opened [his blog post] by claiming that almost all netbooks sold today are sold with Windows. Well, no, not really. The numbers LaBlanc cites are from NPD's sales survey. NPD focuses on brick-and-mortar U.S. sales, not overall sales. Notice how many Linux systems you see at Best Buy? NPD numbers say a lot more about retail channel sales than it does over-all sales. Besides, as Canonical's director of business development Kenyon wrote, "However here is an interesting fact--when customers are offered choice on equally well-engineered computers around a third will select Ubuntu over XP.
I can't wait for all the rationalizations by his supporters and deflections to how much worse GWB supposedly was.
I can't either. I expect to see a pandemic of political whiplash cases as they reverse their political "opinion" about wireless taps, etc., in order to goose-step with Obama.
Not being able to see the laser beam from NK, it would appear to be just a malfunction.... an act of Nature... the fuel tank just ruptured and exploded.
And then there's the rules against Christian valedictorians exercising their "Free" speech rights IF they mention God or Christ, or pupils being expeled from public school for reading a Bible on a school bus on the way to school.
I was once told, point blank, by a captain of the New Castle police department that, quote "his job was not to protect me from criminals, his job was to arrest me for not toeing the line."
He probably told you that because he is a psychopath with a badge and a gun.
But, according the the Supreme Court, he is correct.
The seminal case establishing the general rule that police have no duty under federal law to protect citizens is DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services (109 S.Ct. 998, 1989; 489 U.S. 189 (1989)).
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1976377/posts: "Police have no legal duty to respond and prevent crime or protect the victim. There have BEEN OVER 10 various supreme and state court cases the individual has never won. Notably, the Supreme Court STATED about the responsibility of police for the security of your family and loved ones is "You, and only you, are responsible for your security and the security of your family and loved ones. That was the essence of a U.S. Supreme Court decision in the early 1980's when they ruled that the police do not have a duty to protect you as an individual, but to protect society as a whole."
"It is well-settled fact of American law that the police have no legal duty to protect any individual citizen from crime, even if the citizen has received death threats and the police have negligently failed to provide protection."
Sources:
7/15/05 SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES No. 04-278 TOWN OF CASTLE ROCK, COLORADO, PETITIONER v. JESSICA GONZALES, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS NEXT BEST FRIEND OF HER DECEASED MINOR CHILDREN, REBECCA GONZALES, KATHERYN GONZALES, AND LESLIE GONZALES
On June 27, in the case of Castle Rock v. Gonzales, the Supreme Court found that Jessica Gonzales did not have a constitutional right to individual police protection even in the presence of a restraining order. Mrs. Gonzales' husband with a track record of violence, stabbing Mrs. Gonzales to death, Mrs. Gonzales' family could not get the Supreme Court to change their unanimous decision for one's individual protection. YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN FOLKS AND GOVERNMENT BODIES ARE REFUSING TO PASS THE Safety Ordinance.
(1) Richard W. Stevens. 1999. Dial 911 and Die. Hartford, Wisconsin: Mazel Freedom Press.
(2) Barillari v. City of Milwaukee, 533 N.W.2d 759 (Wis. 1995).
(3) Bowers v. DeVito, 686 F.2d 616 (7th Cir. 1982).
(4) DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services, 489 U.S. 189 (1989).
(5) Ford v. Town of Grafton, 693 N.E.2d 1047 (Mass. App. 1998).
(6) Warren v. District of Columbia, 444 A.2d 1 (D.C. 1981).
"...a government and its agencies are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any particular individual citizen..." -Warren v. District of Columbia, 444 A.2d 1 (D.C. App. 1981)
(7) "What makes the City's position particularly difficult to understand is that, in conformity to the dictates of the law, Linda did not carry any weapon for self-defense. Thus by a rather bitter irony she was required to rely for protection on the City of NY which now denies all responsibility to her."
Riss"Police have no legal duty to respond and prevent crime or protect the victim. There have BEEN OVER 10 various supreme and state court cases the individual has never won. Notably, the Supreme Court STATED about the responsibility of police for the security of your family and loved ones is "You, and only you, are responsible for your security and the security of your f
RICO has metastasized from its original intent, which was to deal more effectively with the perceived problem of organized crime. Federal prosecutors have discovered that RICO is a powerful weapon that can be wielded against most business owners, should the feds choose to target them. Rudy Guiliani's prosecution of Michael Milken and other Wall Street luminaries in the 1980s--the springboard from which Guiliani rose to become first the mayor of New York City and ultimately a popular public speaker collecting $75,000 per speech--involved some of the early attempts to expand criminal RICO provisions to prosecute private business figures who clearly were not mafiosi. Today, federal prosecutors use RICO routinely to win easy convictions and prison terms for individuals who in the course of business run afoul of federal regulations. For every John Gotti who is brought down by RICO, many obscure business owners and managers are also successfully prosecuted under this law.
In tracing the development of RICO, we find that the law was little more than a "bait-and-switch" statute that has had little or no effect in stopping or inhibiting the crimes--murder, rape, robbery, and so forth--that most concerned the public in 1970. Instead, RICO has enabled federal prosecutors in effect to circumvent the constitutional separation of powers between the national and the state governments. Since RICO's passage, the once-clear jurisdictional boundaries between state and federal law enforcement have been erased as more and more individuals find themselves in the federal dock with almost no chance of acquittal.
The idea for the acronym RICO came from the character Rico played by Edward G. Robinson in the 1930s gangster movie Little Caesar. Nixon signed the bill into law on October 15, 1970, declaring that the new law would "launch a total war against organized crime, and we will end this war" (qtd. in "Nixon" 1970). Indeed, the new law empowered federal law enforcement authorities to engage in activities that seemingly deprived defendants of due process of law as guaranteed by the Constitution. Writes Daniel Fischel:
To achieve its objective of preventing the infiltration of legitimate businesses by organized crime, RICO gave the government sweeping new powers, including the power to freeze a defendant's assets at the time of indictment and confiscate them after conviction. Traditionally, criminal defendants are presumed to be innocent and face punishment only after conviction. RICO, by allowing the government to seize entire businesses connected even indirectly with a defendant at the time of indictment, before any proof of guilt, is a major exception to this general principle. The government is authorized, in effect, to act as prosecutor, judge, and jury in the same case. The government under RICO is also able to make it more difficult for the accused to wage a defense by, for example, seizing the funds that a defendant would have used to hire an attorney. And if a defendant is convicted, RICO provides for onerous criminal penalties. (1995, 122-23)
In answer to your statement that it "could never happen" you should know that RICO is used at least 10,000 times a year in the US, mostly against ordinary citizens like you and me. Most raids are made on the basis of information from jail house snitches who are trying to make a "deal".
Like the infamous "PATRIOT ACT", the RICO ACT is an abomination to the Constitution. With its expansive vagueness prosecutors can use it to criminalize any activity for any reason or no reason and be fairly sure of a conviction. As Justice Robert Jackson [warned], few things are as dangerous as a prosecutor who finds a target, the
Will IBM drop their support for Linux and switch to Solaris and OpenSolaris for their hardware? They won't if they want to continue to receive the support of the FOSS community, which they have been enjoying for some time now, otherwise they will be seen as exploiters, like so many who use the FOSS community during their beta period but take their product proprietary. Are you reading this Skype? Get that 4.0 Linux version out NOW!
Will IBM release ClassPath under the GPL2, making Java ENTIRELY GPL? They will if they want Java to remain competitive to.NET and expand.
If they cannot offer me what I want (unencumbered digital music), then I simply do not buy from them.
THAT is the solution to the problem, NOT illegal file sharing.
Money talks. Politicians listen to money. In fact, if yours are like ours, MONEY is the ONLY thing they listen to, which is why lobbyists bring suitcase loads of it to washington to bribe the politicians. They call it "campaign contributions". Ya, right.
Turn on TV to watch public television (here in Nebraska it is NET) and you'll see a series of video clips used as fillers between shows. In the middle of the series is one of Bush taken at a low angle. Bush is waving his hand but in slow motion it looks like he is trying to cover the lens. To enforce that impression the very next photo is of a Chinese policeman who IS trying to cover the lens with his hand. Those two clips were NOT put in juxtaposition by accident. They were edited to deliver that impression. THAT is subliminal bias.
Then, there is the news the George Stephanopoulos, former Clinton political advisor and now an ABC news Washington correspondent, is/was meeting daily with Pres. Obama to give advice on handling the press, until news of the meeting leaked and exposed him for what he is: a Democrat political operative.
Saturday Night Live gave a skit about the subprime load fiasco. It was one of the few skits on that show which presented a humorous representation of the facts but it was immediately pulled by NBC because it did not jive with the official line of the Democrat party. They didn't get all of the videos. Here is one: http://msunderestimated.com/SNLBailoutSkit.wmv
Since I bought my Sony VAIO VGN-FW140E/H last August I have been using Mandriva 2009 PWP, featuring KDE 4.1.3. It did not support the G45 video chip, so I had to settle for a VESA video setting at 1440X900 and was one of many who posted a bug report at the xorg bugzilla site. The fix for the grey screen was found in February so I expected the fix to trickle down to Mandriva in the late summer.
I heard that Jaunty Jackalope was sporting KDE 4.2, so I booted the LiveCD to check it out. I was STUNNED to see a 3D accelerated video WITH 1600X900 resolution. The sound was fantastic, too.
This laptop has been runnning Kubuntu 9.04 since ALPHA6 and KDE is now at 4.2.1. It is very fast and stable and fits this Sony like a silk glove!
His statements not withstanding, Red Hat announced a short while ago that they were "re-entering" the Desktop market. It's beginning to look like RH has a leadership problem where the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing or saying.
Novell's Hovsepian said he made "the deal" with Microsoft because HE could not sell SUSE Linux against XP Pro. Will RH sign a similar "deal" with Microsoft for the same reason? Is a trend being established where Linux companies hire big name CEOs with WINDOWS experience only to learn they have NO knowledge of Linux or how to sell it against Windows, and soon give up?
His statement about "usability" is laughable and ludicrous. Millions of Linux Desktops around the world are giving their users a fast, stable, functional AND secure environment.
This Sony VAIO VGN-FW140E/H laptop is running Kubuntu 9.04 ALPHA 6 (that's right - ALPHA, and it is rock solid stable for me) with KDE 4.2.1 like a silk glove. It used to run VISTA Home Premium but Jaunty Jackalope is better looking and works better than VISTA. There is nothing I want to do that Jaunty can't do, and do better than any version of Windows I've ever used. I also like the fact that it doesn't tell me what I can and can't do, and it is NOT calling home with my personal info and demographics.
Do school officials get to cherry pick which parts of the Constitution they can violate?
They get to violate a student's free exercise of religion on the grounds that one cannot distinguish between congress making laws and school officials "permitting" references to Christian dieties.
A 13 year old girl taking analgesics to school for menstrual pain is a catagory of crime identical to a drug pusher vending dope and requires "zero tolerance"? Only to those who refuse to think or use common sense, so are brain dead. The more this PC crap takes hold the more it is indistinguishable from Fascism.
they didn't stuff the ISO committees, or bribe Nigerian distributors, nor sabotage the OLPC, hide illegal agreements violating the GPL behind NDAs.... and the list goes on and on and on...
Is this another PROXY lawsuit by Microsoft? (Seeing HP and Dell in the defendants list it seems like punishment for offering Linux on their PC.)
But, combining objects and relational tables? How about PostgreSQL and its ancestors?
Or, Powerbuilder. I used it in the early 1990s to solve some clients problems. Microsoft was the second world wide user of Powerbuilder, in 1986, and even helped work on it in 1989. Maybe that is where this patent originated from?
I didn't vote for the man but I agree with everything he's done so far.
Now if he can just get Universal Health Care going, and bring home our troops from ALL the nations where they are deployed, and redeploy them along our boarders to curtail drug traffic and illegal immigration I would be even more happy.
How can someone like Palin possibly think she is capable of running the country?
Oh... maybe it's because she is successfully governing the state of Alaska, which involves more than just attending Illinois Senate sessions and voting "present" 130 timess or, as a US Senator, missing 314 of 1299 roll call votes (24%) since Jan 6, 2005. http://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400629&tab=votes
Or, because she has experience as a command and chief of a National Guard unit. http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=2483 In the event of an attack, members of the Alaska Army National Guard's 49th Missile Defense Battalion based here would use sophisticated surveillance and radar systems to track the missile through its initial boost phase, explained Maj. Joe Miley, the unit's operations officer. If the missile reached the midcourse phase, the Alaska Guardsmen would await the order to engage it.
She's also the commander in chief of the Alaska State Defense Force (ASDF), a federally recognized militia incorporated into Homeland Security's counter terrorism plans.
While state governors generally do not need security clearances, as head of the Alaska ANG's 49th MDB, a permanent unit in a constant state of readiness, and the ASDF, part of Homeland Security, she probably has MORE security clearances than most other governors and state legislators or many US Senators. http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/cfr_2003/julqtr/32cfr154.16.htm (4) State governors do not require personnel security clearances. They may be granted access to specifically designated classified information, on a ``need-to-know'' basis, based upon affirmation by the Secretary of Defense or the head of a DoD Component or single designee, that access, under the circumstances, serves the national interest. Staff personnel of a governor's office requiring access to classified information shall be investigated and cleared in accordance with the prescribed procedures of this part when the head of a DoD Component, or single designee, affirms that such clearance serves the national interest. Access shall also be limited to specifically designated classified information on a ``need-to-know'' basis.
Amazingly, while many were quick to denigrate Palin over perceived slights or shortcomings, EVEN to the point of suggesting that because she was a WOMAN and a mother she "wasn't qualified" or shouldn't run for VP (with nary an outcry from extreme "feminists"), they continued on, insisting that two years a governor of a state ranked 47 in population wasn't enough experience to be a VP nominee. Yet, they see no problem with Obama running for President. Palin was a full time governor for 21 UNINTERRUPTED months before accepting the nomination. Obama was sworn in as a US Senator 48 months ago, but 23 months ago he began running for President, and missed nearly 90% of the Senate sessions during some quarters. So, he's had only 25 months experience as a Senator but is more qualified to run for President than Palin was to run for VP?
Nice double standard there, and sexist too.
BTW, Your denigration of Police officers may speak more to your personal experience with them than to their collective character. It suggests that they have arrested you more than once for something... drugs, wife beating, child abuse, peddling, theft, burglary? Which is it?
In small towns and villages, officers are usually respected members of the community, and chosen for that reason. In larger metropolitan areas (except L.A, Chicago, and other areas of high political corruption) putative officers are culled with a variety of physical, mental and emotional examinations, or failure to meet training standards. Those that meet the tests put their lives on the line to protect you
Don't think so? GW "data" is laced with examples of manipulation. The most recent is the July 2008 CO2 readings from Mauna Loa. It seems that the folks "maintaining" the Mauna Loa CO2 data has been caught "Hansenizing" it all the way back to 1974 to ELIMINATE a CO2 reversal. The GW folks are all about using "adjusted" data to support their agenda, Thankfully, the military doesn't buy into their schemes and use REAL temperature data in their guidance equations, otherwise their accuracy might falter from being able to hit a 1 sq meter target to missing by a mile. Here is the data showing the CO2 manipulation, from the posting by Dee Norris.
it would seem, contrary to earlier claims that NOAA only adjusted the recent year, that the dataset back to mid-1974 has been adjusted. I will resist using the term Hansenized until I hear back from Dr Tans.
Here is a comparison of the new and old mean values:
Mauna Loa CO2 Adjustments on Aug 4th 2008 # decimal new old Year Month date mean mean Change 1958 3 1958.208 315.71 315.71 0 1958 4 1958.292 317.45 317.45 0.... snipped for brevity....... check URL for total listing... 2008 6 2008.458 387.87 387.99 0.12 2008 7 2008.542 385.6 384.93 -0.67
Dee Norris (20:05:35) :
I did a quick plot of the differences between the old and new means.
Other than July 2008, the change seems to radiate out from 1994, each oscillation growing larger as time progresses in either direction.
I look forward to NOAA explaining the justification for this sort of adjustment.
This is just one of many examples of data cooking by GW believers. With their GW as a hammer they see everything else as a nail. Earth warming? Proof of GW! Earth cooling? Proof of GW! Drought? Proof of GW. Unusual rain and floods? Proof of GW.
To the GW Faithful EVERY change "proves" GW. This attitude moves them from the area of science to that of Faith. When you can't falsify your hypothesis then your hypothesis is a Faith.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes.
I have a 10Mib/s bandwidth and I don't use p2p or download any copyrighted material I didn't purchase.
Most of my bandwidth I use to download Linux distros and for various Linux forums.
http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20071023002351958
There is a section on evangelism steps to take to build support, which he calls guerilla marketing, or "The Slog" and and that's the section that includes using supposedly "independent" analysts and consultants:
-- Analysts: Analysts sell out - that's their business model. But they are very concerned that they never look like they are selling out, so that makes them very prickly to work with.
-- Consultants: These guys are your best bets as moderators. Get a well-known consultant on your side early, but don't let him publish anything blatantly pro-Microsoft. Then, get him to propose himself to the conference organizers as a moderator, whenever a panel opportunity comes up. Since he's well- known, but apparently independent, he'll be accepted - one less thing for the constantly-overworked conference organizer to worry about, right?
The source for the original document written by James Plamondon, first trainer of "Technical Evangelists" (TE) for Microsoft, is at the Comes vs Microsoft lawsuit website. An article titled "Evangelism is War!", px03096.pdf, page 53.
The "Slog" and the "Stacked Panel" are very interesting reads and describes EXACTLY how Microsoft stuffed the ISO committees when it stuffed the OOXML "standard" down IT's throat. It also explains what they are doing NOW with the European FOSS Strategy paper. http://wikileaks.org/wiki/How_to_Hijack_an_EU_Open_Source_Strategy_Paper
treadmill they will be walking all over Colbert?
Hilarious! I'll wager he gets a kick out of it, too.
lobbied Congress with perks and "campaign contributions" to kill initiatives to install fiber optic cable as a community service/commodity, claiming "unfair" competition. The telcos promised they would complete buiding the fiber optic future in the 1990s, got tax breaks and rate relief to the tune of HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS, pocketed the cash and then promptly forgot their promise. I still have UNUSED fiber optic cable running through my yard from our canceled community project. As a result, I have to pay $72US for 10Mb/s bandwidth and TimeWarner and the other cable/Telecos are constantly trying to think up new ways to create artificial scarcity of bandwidth in order to charge more rent for an outdated wire pipe. These thieves have PROVEN in the past that they cannot be trusted and are too greedy to be given the opportunity to steal again.
It's time the people took back control of the Internet, complete the Fiber Optic (or better) technology and make it a service like electric, water and sewer, cheap and affordable to EVERY house.
http://blog.datamation.com/blog/2009/04/having-fud-with.html
The anti-Linux propaganda du jour, being dutifully parroted by "news" publications everywhere, is that Windows now owns 96% of the netbook market, and that Linux netbooks are returned four times more than windows netbooks. Both are untrue and have been debunked repeatedly. Yet they persist -- why?
I think Microsoft is growing increasingly desperate, and in hard economic times is finding equally desperate publications who will say anything for a few bucks. Which may be a harsh judgment, but I would rather believe that than believe they simply don't care to do even the simplest, most basic fact-checking, or are such hard-core Microsoft fanboys that they are only pretending to be journalists when they are really stringers for Microsoft's marketing department. How else can we explain the same nonsense repeated endlessly, their allergies to saying "Windows" and "malware" in the same sentence, the short shrift given to non-Windows software, the mind-boggling assumption that Windows is computing? ...
As it is not part of Microsoft's business plan to participate in a genuinely competitive marketplace, expect to see this sort of thing become even more prevalent. If that is possible; I thought the FUD and anti-Linux propaganda had already reached the saturation point, but it looks like I was wrong. ...
[Microsoft's Brandon] LaBlanc opened [his blog post] by claiming that almost all netbooks sold today are sold with Windows. Well, no, not really. The numbers LaBlanc cites are from NPD's sales survey. NPD focuses on brick-and-mortar U.S. sales, not overall sales. Notice how many Linux systems you see at Best Buy? NPD numbers say a lot more about retail channel sales than it does over-all sales. Besides, as Canonical's director of business development Kenyon wrote, "However here is an interesting fact--when customers are offered choice on equally well-engineered computers around a third will select Ubuntu over XP.
I can't wait for all the rationalizations by his supporters and deflections to how much worse GWB supposedly was.
I can't either. I expect to see a pandemic of political whiplash cases as they reverse their political "opinion" about wireless taps, etc., in order to goose-step with Obama.
airborne laser, the Boeing YAL-1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airborne_Laser
Not being able to see the laser beam from NK, it would appear to be just a malfunction.... an act of Nature ... the fuel tank just ruptured and exploded.
How very politically correct of you.
Only the "Left" are abused of their Constitutional Rights?
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.monstersandcritics.com%2Fnews%2Fusa%2Fnews%2Farticle_1427176.php%2FDenver_police_arrest_31_protesters_at_convention__Roundup_&ei=VPXXSfKCKo3flQeyx_XJDA&usg=AFQjCNH03EKzw5IFTNb09mjgrNAIWXA4FQ&sig2=pXWeNKe-tOVQu7eULNN0vg
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=2&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.christianlifeandliberty.net%2FFLOREN03.DOC&ei=VPXXSfKCKo3flQeyx_XJDA&usg=AFQjCNGPmBqJJZ63mASkzwJsAq0Lk0eOUw&sig2=-2BszIvllvu23sn_ZPOmfg
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=6&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F1988%2F08%2F29%2Fus%2F31-abortion-protesters-freed-in-atlanta-after-40-days-in-jail.html&ei=VPXXSfKCKo3flQeyx_XJDA&usg=AFQjCNFvIGRUR3cEmt3TtbEY9E24iFxDhQ&sig2=JVuvcaNEbRMS_p5pz0nmlw
ad infinitum....
And then there's the rules against Christian valedictorians exercising their "Free" speech rights IF they mention God or Christ, or pupils being expeled from public school for reading a Bible on a school bus on the way to school.
Penn and Tell have something to say to you:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3091124456074344652
I was once told, point blank, by a captain of the New Castle police department that, quote "his job was not to protect me from criminals, his job was to arrest me for not toeing the line."
He probably told you that because he is a psychopath with a badge and a gun.
But, according the the Supreme Court, he is correct.
The seminal case establishing the general rule that police have no duty under federal law to protect citizens is DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services (109 S.Ct. 998, 1989; 489 U.S. 189 (1989)).
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1976377/posts:
"Police have no legal duty to respond and prevent crime or protect the victim. There have BEEN OVER 10 various supreme and state court cases the individual has never won. Notably, the Supreme Court STATED about the responsibility of police for the security of your family and loved ones is "You, and only you, are responsible for your security and the security of your family and loved ones. That was the essence of a U.S. Supreme Court decision in the early 1980's when they ruled that the police do not have a duty to protect you as an individual, but to protect society as a whole."
"It is well-settled fact of American law that the police have no legal duty to protect any individual citizen from crime, even if the citizen has received death threats and the police have negligently failed to provide protection."
Sources:
7/15/05 SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES No. 04-278 TOWN OF CASTLE ROCK, COLORADO, PETITIONER v. JESSICA GONZALES, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS NEXT BEST FRIEND OF HER DECEASED MINOR CHILDREN, REBECCA GONZALES, KATHERYN GONZALES, AND LESLIE GONZALES
On June 27, in the case of Castle Rock v. Gonzales, the Supreme Court found that Jessica Gonzales did not have a constitutional right to individual police protection even in the presence of a restraining order. Mrs. Gonzales' husband with a track record of violence, stabbing Mrs. Gonzales to death, Mrs. Gonzales' family could not get the Supreme Court to change their unanimous decision for one's individual protection. YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN FOLKS AND GOVERNMENT BODIES ARE REFUSING TO PASS THE Safety Ordinance.
(1) Richard W. Stevens. 1999. Dial 911 and Die. Hartford, Wisconsin: Mazel Freedom Press.
(2) Barillari v. City of Milwaukee, 533 N.W.2d 759 (Wis. 1995).
(3) Bowers v. DeVito, 686 F.2d 616 (7th Cir. 1982).
(4) DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services, 489 U.S. 189 (1989).
(5) Ford v. Town of Grafton, 693 N.E.2d 1047 (Mass. App. 1998).
(6) Warren v. District of Columbia, 444 A.2d 1 (D.C. 1981).
"...a government and its agencies are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any particular individual citizen..." -Warren v. District of Columbia, 444 A.2d 1 (D.C. App. 1981)
(7) "What makes the City's position particularly difficult to understand is that, in conformity to the dictates of the law, Linda did not carry any weapon for self-defense. Thus by a rather bitter irony she was required to rely for protection on the City of NY which now denies all responsibility to her."
Riss"Police have no legal duty to respond and prevent crime or protect the victim. There have BEEN OVER 10 various supreme and state court cases the individual has never won. Notably, the Supreme Court STATED about the responsibility of police for the security of your family and loved ones is "You, and only you, are responsible for your security and the security of your f
Your example would never happen.
Apparently you have never heard of the RICO Act, a law passed to fight organized crime.
http://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?a=215
RICO has metastasized from its original intent, which was to deal more effectively with the perceived problem of organized crime. Federal prosecutors have discovered that RICO is a powerful weapon that can be wielded against most business owners, should the feds choose to target them. Rudy Guiliani's prosecution of Michael Milken and other Wall Street luminaries in the 1980s--the springboard from which Guiliani rose to become first the mayor of New York City and ultimately a popular public speaker collecting $75,000 per speech--involved some of the early attempts to expand criminal RICO provisions to prosecute private business figures who clearly were not mafiosi. Today, federal prosecutors use RICO routinely to win easy convictions and prison terms for individuals who in the course of business run afoul of federal regulations. For every John Gotti who is brought down by RICO, many obscure business owners and managers are also successfully prosecuted under this law.
In tracing the development of RICO, we find that the law was little more than a "bait-and-switch" statute that has had little or no effect in stopping or inhibiting the crimes--murder, rape, robbery, and so forth--that most concerned the public in 1970. Instead, RICO has enabled federal prosecutors in effect to circumvent the constitutional separation of powers between the national and the state governments. Since RICO's passage, the once-clear jurisdictional boundaries between state and federal law enforcement have been erased as more and more individuals find themselves in the federal dock with almost no chance of acquittal.
The idea for the acronym RICO came from the character Rico played by Edward G. Robinson in the 1930s gangster movie Little Caesar. Nixon signed the bill into law on October 15, 1970, declaring that the new law would "launch a total war against organized crime, and we will end this war" (qtd. in "Nixon" 1970). Indeed, the new law empowered federal law enforcement authorities to engage in activities that seemingly deprived defendants of due process of law as guaranteed by the Constitution. Writes Daniel Fischel:
To achieve its objective of preventing the infiltration of legitimate businesses by organized crime, RICO gave the government sweeping new powers, including the power to freeze a defendant's assets at the time of indictment and confiscate them after conviction. Traditionally, criminal defendants are presumed to be innocent and face punishment only after conviction. RICO, by allowing the government to seize entire businesses connected even indirectly with a defendant at the time of indictment, before any proof of guilt, is a major exception to this general principle. The government is authorized, in effect, to act as prosecutor, judge, and jury in the same case. The government under RICO is also able to make it more difficult for the accused to wage a defense by, for example, seizing the funds that a defendant would have used to hire an attorney. And if a defendant is convicted, RICO provides for onerous criminal penalties. (1995, 122-23)
In answer to your statement that it "could never happen" you should know that RICO is used at least 10,000 times a year in the US, mostly against ordinary citizens like you and me. Most raids are made on the basis of information from jail house snitches who are trying to make a "deal".
Like the infamous "PATRIOT ACT", the RICO ACT is an abomination to the Constitution. With its expansive vagueness prosecutors can use it to criminalize any activity for any reason or no reason and be fairly sure of a conviction. As Justice Robert Jackson [warned], few things are as dangerous as a prosecutor who finds a target, the
But have wonderful falsetto voices!
Will IBM drop their support for Linux and switch to Solaris and OpenSolaris for their hardware? They won't if they want to continue to receive the support of the FOSS community, which they have been enjoying for some time now, otherwise they will be seen as exploiters, like so many who use the FOSS community during their beta period but take their product proprietary. Are you reading this Skype? Get that 4.0 Linux version out NOW!
Will IBM release ClassPath under the GPL2, making Java ENTIRELY GPL? They will if they want Java to remain competitive to .NET and expand.
If they cannot offer me what I want (unencumbered digital music), then I simply do not buy from them.
THAT is the solution to the problem, NOT illegal file sharing.
Money talks. Politicians listen to money. In fact, if yours are like ours, MONEY is the ONLY thing they listen to, which is why lobbyists bring suitcase loads of it to washington to bribe the politicians. They call it "campaign contributions". Ya, right.
Or, make a strong effort to be biased.
Turn on TV to watch public television (here in Nebraska it is NET) and you'll see a series of video clips used as fillers between shows. In the middle of the series is one of Bush taken at a low angle. Bush is waving his hand but in slow motion it looks like he is trying to cover the lens. To enforce that impression the very next photo is of a Chinese policeman who IS trying to cover the lens with his hand. Those two clips were NOT put in juxtaposition by accident. They were edited to deliver that impression. THAT is subliminal bias.
Then, there is the news the George Stephanopoulos, former Clinton political advisor and now an ABC news Washington correspondent, is/was meeting daily with Pres. Obama to give advice on handling the press, until news of the meeting leaked and exposed him for what he is: a Democrat political operative.
Saturday Night Live gave a skit about the subprime load fiasco. It was one of the few skits on that show which presented a humorous representation of the facts but it was immediately pulled by NBC because it did not jive with the official line of the Democrat party. They didn't get all of the videos. Here is one: http://msunderestimated.com/SNLBailoutSkit.wmv
The Dems blame "greedy" wallstreet, and greedy they were, but ACORN and the Dems were the blame. When the Fannie May and Freddie Mac problems were pointed out by some in 2004 and 2006, Congressional hearings on the matter were shut down by the Dems with complaints that those worrying about the subprimes were against "Social Justice", the war cry of ACORN.
http://zardozz.com/zz/2008/09/cspan-tapes-exposes-democrat-support-of-sub-prime-mess.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxgSubmiGt8
There is a website to track media bias:
http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2009/cyb20090326.asp
It give dozens of examples of media bias.
Since I bought my Sony VAIO VGN-FW140E/H last August I have been using Mandriva 2009 PWP, featuring KDE 4.1.3. It did not support the G45 video chip, so I had to settle for a VESA video setting at 1440X900 and was one of many who posted a bug report at the xorg bugzilla site. The fix for the grey screen was found in February so I expected the fix to trickle down to Mandriva in the late summer.
I heard that Jaunty Jackalope was sporting KDE 4.2, so I booted the LiveCD to check it out. I was STUNNED to see a 3D accelerated video WITH 1600X900 resolution. The sound was fantastic, too.
This laptop has been runnning Kubuntu 9.04 since ALPHA6 and KDE is now at 4.2.1. It is very fast and stable and fits this Sony like a silk glove!
Actually, a JACK rabbit with antlers. Ordinary rabbits or bunnies are too small to grow antlers.
And probably frustrated.
His statements not withstanding, Red Hat announced a short while ago that they were "re-entering" the Desktop market. It's beginning to look like RH has a leadership problem where the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing or saying.
Novell's Hovsepian said he made "the deal" with Microsoft because HE could not sell SUSE Linux against XP Pro. Will RH sign a similar "deal" with Microsoft for the same reason? Is a trend being established where Linux companies hire big name CEOs with WINDOWS experience only to learn they have NO knowledge of Linux or how to sell it against Windows, and soon give up?
His statement about "usability" is laughable and ludicrous. Millions of Linux Desktops around the world are giving their users a fast, stable, functional AND secure environment.
This Sony VAIO VGN-FW140E/H laptop is running Kubuntu 9.04 ALPHA 6 (that's right - ALPHA, and it is rock solid stable for me) with KDE 4.2.1 like a silk glove. It used to run VISTA Home Premium but Jaunty Jackalope is better looking and works better than VISTA. There is nothing I want to do that Jaunty can't do, and do better than any version of Windows I've ever used. I also like the fact that it doesn't tell me what I can and can't do, and it is NOT calling home with my personal info and demographics.
That doesn't make sense.
Do school officials get to cherry pick which parts of the Constitution they can violate?
They get to violate a student's free exercise of religion on the grounds that one cannot distinguish between congress making laws and school officials "permitting" references to Christian dieties.
A 13 year old girl taking analgesics to school for menstrual pain is a catagory of crime identical to a drug pusher vending dope and requires "zero tolerance"? Only to those who refuse to think or use common sense, so are brain dead. The more this PC crap takes hold the more it is indistinguishable from Fascism.
Assume we develop affordable 32 bit quantum computers. How does that change this parallelism problem?
they didn't stuff the ISO committees, or bribe Nigerian distributors, nor sabotage the OLPC, hide illegal agreements violating the GPL behind NDAs.... and the list goes on and on and on...
FISHY to say the least.
Is this another PROXY lawsuit by Microsoft? (Seeing HP and Dell in the defendants list it seems like punishment for offering Linux on their PC.)
But, combining objects and relational tables? How about PostgreSQL and its ancestors?
Or, Powerbuilder. I used it in the early 1990s to solve some clients problems. Microsoft was the second world wide user of Powerbuilder, in 1986, and even helped work on it in 1989. Maybe that is where this patent originated from?
for Microsoft?
Why is that? Because Microsoft is a part owner of /.?
I didn't vote for the man but I agree with everything he's done so far.
Now if he can just get Universal Health Care going, and bring home our troops from ALL the nations where they are deployed, and redeploy them along our boarders to curtail drug traffic and illegal immigration I would be even more happy.
How can someone like Palin possibly think she is capable of running the country?
Oh... maybe it's because she is successfully governing the state of Alaska, which involves more than just attending Illinois Senate sessions and voting "present" 130 timess or, as a US Senator, missing 314 of 1299 roll call votes (24%) since Jan 6, 2005. http://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400629&tab=votes
Or, because she has experience as a command and chief of a National Guard unit.
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=2483
In the event of an attack, members of the Alaska Army National Guard's 49th Missile Defense Battalion based here would use sophisticated surveillance and radar systems to track the missile through its initial boost phase, explained Maj. Joe Miley, the unit's operations officer. If the missile reached the midcourse phase, the Alaska Guardsmen would await the order to engage it.
She's also the commander in chief of the Alaska State Defense Force (ASDF), a federally recognized militia incorporated into Homeland Security's counter terrorism plans.
While state governors generally do not need security clearances, as head of the Alaska ANG's 49th MDB, a permanent unit in a constant state of readiness, and the ASDF, part of Homeland Security, she probably has MORE security clearances than most other governors and state legislators or many US Senators.
http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/cfr_2003/julqtr/32cfr154.16.htm
(4) State governors do not require personnel security clearances.
They may be granted access to specifically designated classified information, on a ``need-to-know'' basis, based upon affirmation by the Secretary of Defense or the head of a DoD Component or single designee, that access, under the circumstances, serves the national interest.
Staff personnel of a governor's office requiring access to classified information shall be investigated and cleared in accordance with the prescribed procedures of this part when the head of a DoD Component, or single designee, affirms that such clearance serves the national interest. Access shall also be limited to specifically designated classified information on a ``need-to-know'' basis.
Amazingly, while many were quick to denigrate Palin over perceived slights or shortcomings, EVEN to the point of suggesting that because she was a WOMAN and a mother she "wasn't qualified" or shouldn't run for VP (with nary an outcry from extreme "feminists"), they continued on, insisting that two years a governor of a state ranked 47 in population wasn't enough experience to be a VP nominee. Yet, they see no problem with Obama running for President. Palin was a full time governor for 21 UNINTERRUPTED months before accepting the nomination. Obama was sworn in as a US Senator 48 months ago, but 23 months ago he began running for President, and missed nearly 90% of the Senate sessions during some quarters. So, he's had only 25 months experience as a Senator but is more qualified to run for President than Palin was to run for VP?
Nice double standard there, and sexist too.
BTW, Your denigration of Police officers may speak more to your personal experience with them than to their collective character. It suggests that they have arrested you more than once for something... drugs, wife beating, child abuse, peddling, theft, burglary? Which is it?
In small towns and villages, officers are usually respected members of the community, and chosen for that reason. In larger metropolitan areas (except L.A, Chicago, and other areas of high political corruption) putative officers are culled with a variety of physical, mental and emotional examinations, or failure to meet training standards. Those that meet the tests put their lives on the line to protect you
Science isn't making shit up...
Don't think so? GW "data" is laced with examples of manipulation. The most recent is the July 2008 CO2 readings from Mauna Loa. It seems that the folks "maintaining" the Mauna Loa CO2 data has been caught "Hansenizing" it all the way back to 1974 to ELIMINATE a CO2 reversal. The GW folks are all about using "adjusted" data to support their agenda, Thankfully, the military doesn't buy into their schemes and use REAL temperature data in their guidance equations, otherwise their accuracy might falter from being able to hit a 1 sq meter target to missing by a mile. Here is the data showing the CO2 manipulation, from the posting by Dee Norris.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/08/04/mauna-loa-co2-january-to-july-trend-goes-negative-first-time-in-history/
This is just one of many examples of data cooking by GW believers. With their GW as a hammer they see everything else as a nail. Earth warming? Proof of GW! Earth cooling? Proof of GW! Drought? Proof of GW. Unusual rain and floods? Proof of GW.
To the GW Faithful EVERY change "proves" GW. This attitude moves them from the area of science to that of Faith. When you can't falsify your hypothesis then your hypothesis is a Faith.