"Though, as those polled also don't trust the governmental bodies charged with such security. They also found that more people trust Microsoft with security."
The knee-jerkers are gonna cry 1st amendment(brutally wrong in this case)..etc..etc..
So.. according to the summary...
"The American Civil Liberties Union of Utah is seeking an injunction in federal court in Salt Lake City as part of its lawsuit claiming that the Utah law violates state residents' rights to free expression and unlawfully interferes with interstate commerce." == How does this effect 'free expression' for residents? As usual, the ACLU(your friendly oppressors of rights and liberty) are already out of the gate WRONG. It doest effect 'my rights' if somebody by virtue of some 'other law' that somebody cannot publish or otherwise make something available. By the azzhat ACLU 'reasoning'.. My 1st amendment rights are violated because somebody wont provide me with plans to build a nuclear bomb.
If they want the porn, they can easily have it enabled. I dont see slashdotters screaming '1st amendment' when any other proposed 'blocking' is offered..like on port 25 so long as it can be requested to be allowed. Additionally, here we demostrate more liberal hypocricy. 'Its for the children' has been their montra.. But.. 'block the porn'...and its a 1st amendment right and we need to sue!! ISP's are PRIVATE COMPANIES. You can take em, or leave em. Deal with it. But..just as the ACLU loves to defend NAMBLA, they are at the forefront of disallowing a genuine effort to minimize children's exposure to porn and the parent's RIGHT to make such a decision. They would much rather see any effort for a parent to block such things eliminated from thier repsonsibilities. Typical..
"The legislation requires the attorney general to create an official list of Web sites with material that is deemed harmful to minors." == Hmmm.. g'ment deciding what is smut and what isnt? Dubious at best. I cringe at the thought of the g'ment making such decisions. Why not let the ISP's independently make these lists and make them available for the public to review? Why let some nebulous g'ment 'agency' control this list. A system that has no inherent interests in this list. An agency that would be brutally slow to make any changes or additions/removals and that would NEVER effeciently respond to a customer's concerns. If the ISP is 'mandated' in anyway to deal with this list (which inherently increases the cost in operations), why not let the ISP handle/create any feedback system. Private enterprise can move a heckuva lot faster to address the customer's concerns than some g'ment wonk.
"Under the law, Internet providers in Utah must provide their customers with a way to disable access to sites on the list or face felony charges." And this is a GOOD thing. So the 'short answer' is.. It can be blocked, and you can lift that block if you choose. So why the heck does the freakin' ACLU have anything to say about this?
*prepares for major karma demolition..* Afterall I'm about to respond to a US hating post that recieves points for lies..
====
Let me see. Our government has passed
1. Patriot act I and II that allows them to act hidden from its' citizens. ============ Hidden? How 'creapy'.. Give me one case that proves this? I'll even help you out.. There was one case that the g'ment wanted to know about somebody checking out OBL lovefest books. The library cried about it (all the while claiming they were being censored..go figure) and the g'ment backed off thus allowing the library to effectively protect would could have been some OBL wanna be..
====
2. Runs a prison for "enemy combatants" (not civilians, but not military either) that has been accused by just about every neutral observer of being a gulag. ============ A gulag eh? Yup..we nasty americans.. We are trying so hard! Amnesty calling gitmo a 'gulag' has about the same credibility as Howard dean! Because your abviously some leftwing wacko and thus ignores facts and reality by default.. Lets review gitmo vs the gulags..
Individuals detained: Gulag -- 20 million. Guantanamo -- 750 total.
Number of camps: Gulag -- 476 separate camp complexes comprising thousands of individual camps. Guantanamo -- five small camps on the U.S. military base in Cuba.
Reasons for Imprisonment: Gulag -- Hiding grain; owning too many cows; need for slave labor; being Jewish; being Finnish; being religious; being middle class; having had contact with foreigners; refusing to sleep with the head of Soviet counterintelligence; telling a joke about Stalin. Guantanamo -- Fighting for the Taliban in Afghanistan; being suspected of links to Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups.
Red Cross Visits: Gulag -- none that Bosco could find. Guantanamo -- regular visits since January 2002.
Deaths as a Result of Poor Treatment: Gulag -- at least two to three million (Bosco understates). Guantanamo -- no reports of prisoner deaths.
Kinna blows a hole in your higher karma score huh? But as stated.. Never let facts and reality get int he way of liberals.. =====
3. Invaded a country on made-up false pretenses. ============ Yup.. 'made up' huh? Your still clinging to your bumpersticker rhetoric. To agree with you we'd have to once again ignore reality. You know.. like every other nation submitting the.02 on Iraq and agree'ing that saddam had WMDs.. He also had USED WMD's, and even PUTIN, just before the invasion stated that saddam possessed wmd's. Of course we have the UN to thank for dragging its feet and allowing saddam to hide his military hardware.. You know.. like the bunch of jets found buried in the sand.. or how about just this week when they found a HUGE weapons cache sever football fields large? =====
4. Holds a gag order on a women who has interesting evidence on the current admin (and apparently others) ============ I havent heard about this.. I guess it must appear on move.org's latest 'headlines' ====
5. Allows a traitor to stay in the white house. ============ What? Did clinton visit recently? (Oh my!! a clinton slam.. I'll be modded into oblivion!!) ====
6. Etc.etc. etc. ============ More BS..BS..BS..and more BS from your ilk.. ====
Is it paranoid to point out how our government operates? I can remember back in the mid 70s when everybody said that the papers were being paranoid about our upper government being in collusion on a break-in. In fact, so many republicans ran around denouncing anybody who spoke out against the admin, while ignoring all the evidence. In light of Nixon, Reagan, and GWB, Somethings remain the same. ============ Its not paranoid to point of 'real' faults of the US g'ment.. I do it all the time.. but I do it with reality backing up my points. Unfortunately your silly hate-america-first-reality-be-damned attitude has alot to be desired...
Especially slavery, segregation and so on. Many are quick to point out country where 1st rate citizen and second rate citizen exists, but rather forget the tiny little bit about slavery and segragation later.
======== Really? Where have you been? Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton call your office...
I'm a dope..while you post AC.. Ahh..yes.. I post my thoughts.. then you would point me to other posts.. I have no problem reading.
So.. While I put up my thoughts after reading some 'mild' opposition from hardcore libs..and at the same time seeing so much conservative/republican bashing(obvious and veiled) getting mod'd up... To you, that makes me a dope?
Err..lemme take a wild guess... Errr..your a liberal! Your hypocricy is a dead give away...
Oh...dont let me forget.. (Stands on chair) Hey!! Over here!! Look!! I'm a conservative on/. !!! Mod me down!!
From the so-called defenders of 'tolorance' and Free speech comes the wacky left to squash the voices of others.
Its only free-speech if its liberal free speech.
Kinna reminds me of UNFIT FOR COMMAND. Rather than addressing the points in the book, the Kerry camp attacks the 'messenger' as well as pressuring TV station not to run the Swifties ads against Kerry. (He's already been thoughly nailed on the Christmas in Cambodia 'story' that was 'seared into his brain'...) Like I've always said, Never let the facts get in the way of the liberals...
I dont live and die by Karma. I live in reality So..All you liberals...MOD AWAY! It will make you feel good mod'ing down an conservative... (Gee..this post should net me a -37 !!!)
As predicted..TYPICAL.. I state the NYT skews the news.. BANG! -1 Flamebait
A response to my post that pokes at Fox news.. BANG! +2 Insightful..
Lets ignore the TOPIC of the NYT's relevence..and bring FNC into it... So..hammer a somewhat conservative outlet that is only ONE OUTLET VS 98% OF ALL OTHERS and score points on/.
I guess its not 'free speech' unless its liberal speech eh? Liberals have the NYT's Boston Globe..Washington Times..ABC/CBS/NBC/CNN et al... Along comes FNC..and suddenly its a 'right wing conspiricy'... Those that cry about FOX NEWS are simply your typical Kool-Aid drinking liberals.. Get over it... FNC is competetition..You know COMP-E-TITION..that 'capitalisitic' idea that so many dislike. Its funny tho...FNC..that lone 'righ-wing outlet' is regularly STOMPING CNN and others in the ratings.. Go figure!
Oh..puleeze.. Since the days of Walter Duranty..to the current political 'reporting'..its all just Democratic propaganda... They have have been proven time..and time again..to be either skewing the truth, not reporting the whole story..or outright lying...
Mod me down... I dont care... Never let it be said that the TRUTH ever gets in the way of liberal outlets...
Pfft..doesnt sound any different then how I drive a Pontiac LS1 powered car..(315hp)
" If you don't know how to drive a hybrid, then you will get poor MPG. Period. Here's how to get high MPG in a hybrid:
1. Make sure the tires are properly inflated (Toyota recommends 33-35 psi, but most Prius owners keep it at 40 psi for better mileage and traction). --LS1 Keep tires below recommended pressure. I run NITTO drag radials at 18psi !
2. When the light turns green, floor it until you get to your target speed (i.e., the speed limit). --LS1 Floor it!! Oh ya!! I can reach ANY target speed in seconds.. Big fuel savings there!
3. Turn on cruise control ASAP. -- LS1 Pfft.. I can just hit that high tech "RESUME" on my LS1
4. Do not accelerate when you know you will have to stop. --LS1 Good advice! But then again, those that dont abide by that all have wrecked cars and may be dead anyway...
5. Avoid tapping on the brake unnecessarily, anticipate the conditions ahead and lower your speed appropriately; when you see the light turn red or heavy traffic ahead, turn off the cruise control and coast. Obviously, if you have to hit the brake because someone darts in front of you, that takes precedence over MPG. --LS1 Hmmm really..I know some tree huggers that would sooner sacrifice an entire town's well being to save a dragonflys..Those same ones may just ram you rather give up a few MPG's that could save a bunnies lungs.
6. Run the AC only when necessary." --LS1 Brilliant!
"31.5 isn't better than what one of the guys at work gets in his escort. And if they aren't more efficient then they are wasted."
31.5?!?! OMG.. Lets compare that to my 8 Cylinder American 315HP LS1 Pontiac Formula... Claims: 26mph highway. Gee.. If I sacrifice 200 LESS Horsepower, I can gain about 6 miles per gallon!! Where do I sign?!?! NOT!!
"Actually, We have one. Its the Compaq X07 Its a nice machine, specs Intel P4 3.0Ghz 800MHZ Nvidia 5950 256mb 120Gig seagate SATA 512mb DDR 400 Dual Channel Coolermaster Wave case all in one reader. 4X DVD+R Creative Labs Audigy2 Platium The case is alumium, and slide out mobo. Makes it almost a dream to work on. The only thing Compaq is the Keyboard, mouse and badge on the computer. Which was replaced immediatly. We like running it in Linux, and occasionally use the winxp pro it came with."
And how much did you pay? I just built one two weeks ago.. (Granted..I didnt have games in mind..it was built for video rendering)
For $1,200.. I got: Northwood 3.2Ghz HT ASUS P4P800 Deluxe MOBO 1 Gig RAM PC3200 1 80GB system drive 1 250GB Data Dive DVD ROM 8X +- DVDRW 4X +- DVDRW FULL tower case- AZTEC with all the goodies. 500 P/S Ports 'all over the case' ATI 9600 AIW Pro
Oh..and my P/S is an ULTRA with the silly LED's too..:-)
Sure you may have gotton some software..and a lil bit of support.. But no need for anything like that here! I'll roll my own anyday befor buying some hyped-up unecessarily expensive 'Consumer' Box...
"The oil companies are funding this research so they can receive the patents on it. Then they basically bury the inventions. Take solar energy. Oil companies own somewhere around 90% of the patents on solar energy. Why do you think they do this? Simple, better to fund the research themselves so they own the patents. This prevents anyone else from actually inventing something new and possibly marketing it. Do you think the oil companies will ever push solar energy? Not on your life. The same goes with ethanol."
======= Oh please get over your paranoid conspirices... Sheesh! Solar is so ineffecient it simply cannot be used in any commercial endevour.
Additionally, there is NOTHING to stop some other private interprising person/group from developing a more effecient solar conductor... If somebody were to develop such a device, they should clearly be able to patent it for themselves.
Out in Miami the dropped the use of printers for touch screen voting machines. Of course..they can't be bothered with paper trails when the dem's start whining about ballot counts.. (This was reported by the AP yesterday...)
But then again..there is a reason its called FloriDUH.. (shrug)
"In the white, republican voting areas the voting machines were programmed to buzz and alert the workers to the fact that there was a problem and the ballot would be put through again or the voter got a fresh ballot.
In the black areas the exact same voting machines were programmed to silently eat up the ballot and ignore the vote. "
You DO recall that every last polling place was run by Democrats, the ballots and machines were approved by democrats doncha? So..it must be those nasty republicans eh?
Did you ever get around to reading the REST of the UN charter? In Article 29 of the UN's "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" we read that none of the "rights" supposedly granted therein can be used in a fashion "contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations." Under the UN's formula, the powers of government are completely unaccountable and can be expanded at whim - and individual "rights" are just as easily dispensed with.
Slashdot Mirror
"Though, as those polled also don't trust the governmental bodies charged with such security. They also found that more people trust Microsoft with security."
But..and then...Yet if...Really?..the g'ment...M$...Security?..
(*Head Explodes*)
The knee-jerkers are gonna cry 1st amendment(brutally wrong in this case)..etc..etc..
So.. according to the summary...
"The American Civil Liberties Union of Utah is seeking an injunction in federal court in Salt Lake City as part of its lawsuit claiming that the Utah law violates state residents' rights to free expression and unlawfully interferes with interstate commerce."
==
How does this effect 'free expression' for residents? As usual, the ACLU(your friendly oppressors of rights and liberty) are already out of the gate WRONG. It doest effect 'my rights' if somebody by virtue of some 'other law' that somebody cannot publish or otherwise make something available.
By the azzhat ACLU 'reasoning'.. My 1st amendment rights are violated because somebody wont provide me with plans to build a nuclear bomb.
If they want the porn, they can easily have it enabled. I dont see slashdotters screaming '1st amendment' when any other proposed 'blocking' is offered..like on port 25 so long as it can be requested to be allowed.
Additionally, here we demostrate more liberal hypocricy. 'Its for the children' has been their montra.. But.. 'block the porn'...and its a 1st amendment right and we need to sue!!
ISP's are PRIVATE COMPANIES. You can take em, or leave em. Deal with it. But..just as the ACLU loves to defend NAMBLA, they are at the forefront of disallowing a genuine effort to minimize children's exposure to porn and the parent's RIGHT to make such a decision. They would much rather see any effort for a parent to block such things eliminated from thier repsonsibilities.
Typical..
"The legislation requires the attorney general to create an official list of Web sites with material that is deemed harmful to minors."
==
Hmmm.. g'ment deciding what is smut and what isnt? Dubious at best. I cringe at the thought of the g'ment making such decisions. Why not let the ISP's independently make these lists and make them available for the public to review? Why let some nebulous g'ment 'agency' control this list. A system that has no inherent interests in this list. An agency that would be brutally slow to make any changes or additions/removals and that would NEVER effeciently respond to a customer's concerns. If the ISP is 'mandated' in anyway to deal with this list (which inherently increases the cost in operations), why not let the ISP handle/create any feedback system. Private enterprise can move a heckuva lot faster to address the customer's concerns than some g'ment wonk.
"Under the law, Internet providers in Utah must provide their customers with a way to disable access to sites on the list or face felony charges."
And this is a GOOD thing. So the 'short answer' is.. It can be blocked, and you can lift that block if you choose.
So why the heck does the freakin' ACLU have anything to say about this?
Oops.. I dissed the ACLU..
Mod me down at will...
*prepares for major karma demolition..*
.02 on Iraq and agree'ing that saddam had WMDs.. He also had USED WMD's, and even PUTIN, just before the invasion stated that saddam possessed wmd's. Of course we have the UN to thank for dragging its feet and allowing saddam to hide his military hardware.. You know.. like the bunch of jets found buried in the sand.. or how about just this week when they found a HUGE weapons cache sever football fields large?
Afterall I'm about to respond to a US hating post that recieves points for lies..
====
Let me see. Our government has passed
1. Patriot act I and II that allows them to act hidden from its' citizens.
============
Hidden? How 'creapy'.. Give me one case that proves this?
I'll even help you out.. There was one case that the g'ment wanted to know about somebody checking out OBL lovefest books. The library cried about it (all the while claiming they were being censored..go figure) and the g'ment backed off thus allowing the library to effectively protect would could have been some OBL wanna be..
====
2. Runs a prison for "enemy combatants" (not civilians, but not military either) that has been accused by just about every neutral observer of being a gulag.
============
A gulag eh?
Yup..we nasty americans.. We are trying so hard!
Amnesty calling gitmo a 'gulag' has about the same credibility as Howard dean!
Because your abviously some leftwing wacko and thus ignores facts and reality by default.. Lets review gitmo vs the gulags..
Individuals detained: Gulag -- 20 million. Guantanamo -- 750 total.
Number of camps: Gulag -- 476 separate camp complexes comprising thousands of individual camps. Guantanamo -- five small camps on the U.S. military base in Cuba.
Reasons for Imprisonment: Gulag -- Hiding grain; owning too many cows; need for slave labor; being Jewish; being Finnish; being religious; being middle class; having had contact with foreigners; refusing to sleep with the head of Soviet counterintelligence; telling a joke about Stalin. Guantanamo -- Fighting for the Taliban in Afghanistan; being suspected of links to Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups.
Red Cross Visits: Gulag -- none that Bosco could find. Guantanamo -- regular visits since January 2002.
Deaths as a Result of Poor Treatment: Gulag -- at least two to three million (Bosco understates). Guantanamo -- no reports of prisoner deaths.
Kinna blows a hole in your higher karma score huh?
But as stated.. Never let facts and reality get int he way of liberals..
=====
3. Invaded a country on made-up false pretenses.
============
Yup.. 'made up' huh? Your still clinging to your bumpersticker rhetoric.
To agree with you we'd have to once again ignore reality. You know.. like every other nation submitting the
=====
4. Holds a gag order on a women who has interesting evidence on the current admin (and apparently others)
============
I havent heard about this.. I guess it must appear on move.org's latest 'headlines'
====
5. Allows a traitor to stay in the white house.
============
What? Did clinton visit recently?
(Oh my!! a clinton slam.. I'll be modded into oblivion!!)
====
6. Etc.etc. etc.
============
More BS..BS..BS..and more BS from your ilk..
====
Is it paranoid to point out how our government operates? I can remember back in the mid 70s when everybody said that the papers were being paranoid about our upper government being in collusion on a break-in. In fact, so many republicans ran around denouncing anybody who spoke out against the admin, while ignoring all the evidence. In light of Nixon, Reagan, and GWB, Somethings remain the same.
============
Its not paranoid to point of 'real' faults of the US g'ment.. I do it all the time.. but I do it with reality backing up my points.
Unfortunately your silly hate-america-first-reality-be-damned attitude has alot to be desired...
Hmmm.. Must be some kind of disease..
New York Times Syndrome perhaps?
Especially slavery, segregation and so on. Many are quick to point out country where 1st rate citizen and second rate citizen exists, but rather forget the tiny little bit about slavery and segragation later.
========
Really? Where have you been?
Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton call your office...
"If I were to make my own MP3 silent tune of exactly the same length and put it online, would I be infringing their copyright?"
===
Nawww.. Just add 3 more seconds of silence and call it the HOUSE VERSION...
I'm a dope..while you post AC..
/. !!!
Ahh..yes.. I post my thoughts.. then you would point me to other posts..
I have no problem reading.
So.. While I put up my thoughts after reading some 'mild' opposition from hardcore libs..and at the same time seeing so much conservative/republican bashing(obvious and veiled) getting mod'd up... To you, that makes me a dope?
Err..lemme take a wild guess... Errr..your a liberal!
Your hypocricy is a dead give away...
Oh...dont let me forget..
(Stands on chair)
Hey!! Over here!! Look!! I'm a conservative on
Mod me down!!
Your post will probably be the most intellegent post made here on this subject...
Too bad you seem to support a REAL LIFE view.. Therefore, your post may be mod'd down into obscurity by the "No blood for Oil" bumper sticker crowd..
From the so-called defenders of 'tolorance' and Free speech comes the wacky left to squash the voices of others.
Its only free-speech if its liberal free speech.
Kinna reminds me of UNFIT FOR COMMAND.
Rather than addressing the points in the book, the Kerry camp attacks the 'messenger' as well as pressuring TV station not to run the Swifties ads against Kerry.
(He's already been thoughly nailed on the Christmas in Cambodia 'story' that was 'seared into his brain'...)
Like I've always said, Never let the facts get in the way of the liberals...
I dont live and die by Karma.
I live in reality
So..All you liberals...MOD AWAY!
It will make you feel good mod'ing down an conservative...
(Gee..this post should net me a -37 !!!)
Somebody check the stats...
I think www.nakednews.com is stealing market share!
Hello Pot..Meet Kettle...
> Liberals have the Washington Times? Really? I'd love to meet the "liberals" behind the Washington Times!
Oops..
I meant the Washington Post...
As predicted..TYPICAL..
/.
I state the NYT skews the news..
BANG! -1 Flamebait
A response to my post that pokes at Fox news..
BANG! +2 Insightful..
Lets ignore the TOPIC of the NYT's relevence..and bring FNC into it...
So..hammer a somewhat conservative outlet that is only ONE OUTLET VS 98% OF ALL OTHERS and score points on
I guess its not 'free speech' unless its liberal speech eh?
Liberals have the NYT's Boston Globe..Washington Times..ABC/CBS/NBC/CNN et al...
Along comes FNC..and suddenly its a 'right wing conspiricy'...
Those that cry about FOX NEWS are simply your typical Kool-Aid drinking liberals..
Get over it... FNC is competetition..You know COMP-E-TITION..that 'capitalisitic' idea that so many dislike.
Its funny tho...FNC..that lone 'righ-wing outlet' is regularly STOMPING CNN and others in the ratings..
Go figure!
Go ahead..mod me down again for THE TRUTH...
Oh..puleeze..
Since the days of Walter Duranty..to the current political 'reporting'..its all just Democratic propaganda...
They have have been proven time..and time again..to be either skewing the truth, not reporting the whole story..or outright lying...
Mod me down... I dont care...
Never let it be said that the TRUTH ever gets in the way of liberal outlets...
The french are just pissed cuz we stole their "Croissant" and turned it into a "Crosandwich"!
Pfft..doesnt sound any different then how I drive a Pontiac LS1 powered car..(315hp)
" If you don't know how to drive a hybrid, then you will get poor MPG. Period. Here's how to get high MPG in a hybrid:
1. Make sure the tires are properly inflated (Toyota recommends 33-35 psi, but most Prius owners keep it at 40 psi for better mileage and traction).
--LS1 Keep tires below recommended pressure.
I run NITTO drag radials at 18psi !
2. When the light turns green, floor it until you get to your target speed (i.e., the speed limit).
--LS1 Floor it!! Oh ya!! I can reach ANY target speed in seconds.. Big fuel savings there!
3. Turn on cruise control ASAP.
-- LS1 Pfft.. I can just hit that high tech "RESUME" on my LS1
4. Do not accelerate when you know you will have to stop.
--LS1 Good advice! But then again, those that dont abide by that all have wrecked cars and may be dead anyway...
5. Avoid tapping on the brake unnecessarily, anticipate the conditions ahead and lower your speed appropriately; when you see the light turn red or heavy traffic ahead, turn off the cruise control and coast. Obviously, if you have to hit the brake because someone darts in front of you, that takes precedence over MPG.
--LS1 Hmmm really..I know some tree huggers that would sooner sacrifice an entire town's well being to save a dragonflys..Those same ones may just ram you rather give up a few MPG's that could save a bunnies lungs.
6. Run the AC only when necessary."
--LS1 Brilliant!
"31.5 isn't better than what one of the guys at work gets in his escort. And if they aren't more efficient then they are wasted."
31.5?!?!
OMG..
Lets compare that to my 8 Cylinder American 315HP LS1 Pontiac Formula...
Claims: 26mph highway.
Gee.. If I sacrifice 200 LESS Horsepower, I can gain about 6 miles per gallon!!
Where do I sign?!?!
NOT!!
"Actually, We have one. Its the Compaq X07 Its a nice machine, specs Intel P4 3.0Ghz 800MHZ Nvidia 5950 256mb 120Gig seagate SATA 512mb DDR 400 Dual Channel Coolermaster Wave case all in one reader. 4X DVD+R Creative Labs Audigy2 Platium The case is alumium, and slide out mobo. Makes it almost a dream to work on. The only thing Compaq is the Keyboard, mouse and badge on the computer. Which was replaced immediatly. We like running it in Linux, and occasionally use the winxp pro it came with."
:-)
And how much did you pay?
I just built one two weeks ago..
(Granted..I didnt have games in mind..it was built for video rendering)
For $1,200..
I got:
Northwood 3.2Ghz HT
ASUS P4P800 Deluxe MOBO
1 Gig RAM PC3200
1 80GB system drive
1 250GB Data Dive
DVD ROM
8X +- DVDRW
4X +- DVDRW
FULL tower case- AZTEC with all the goodies. 500 P/S Ports 'all over the case'
ATI 9600 AIW Pro
Oh..and my P/S is an ULTRA with the silly LED's too..
Sure you may have gotton some software..and a lil bit of support..
But no need for anything like that here!
I'll roll my own anyday befor buying some hyped-up unecessarily expensive 'Consumer' Box...
"The oil companies are funding this research so they can receive the patents on it. Then they basically bury the inventions. Take solar energy. Oil companies own somewhere around 90% of the patents on solar energy. Why do you think they do this? Simple, better to fund the research themselves so they own the patents. This prevents anyone else from actually inventing something new and possibly marketing it. Do you think the oil companies will ever push solar energy? Not on your life. The same goes with ethanol."
=======
Oh please get over your paranoid conspirices...
Sheesh!
Solar is so ineffecient it simply cannot be used in any commercial endevour.
Additionally, there is NOTHING to stop some other private interprising person/group from developing a more effecient solar conductor...
If somebody were to develop such a device, they should clearly be able to patent it for themselves.
Out in Miami the dropped the use of printers for touch screen voting machines.
Of course..they can't be bothered with paper trails when the dem's start whining about ballot counts..
(This was reported by the AP yesterday...)
But then again..there is a reason its called FloriDUH.. (shrug)
Welcome to the '90's...
Sheesh!
Nice piece of gear!
.. A great deal!
Last year I picked up the Gyration mouse AND wireless keyboard for $99.00
I use it for the 'TV PC'... 25 foot range using RF.
Pretty durable too! Its gotten tossed around with no ill effects...
Odd that some sources are only recognizing it now..(shrug)
"In the white, republican voting areas the voting machines were programmed to buzz and alert the workers to the fact that there was a problem and the ballot would be put through again or the voter got a fresh ballot.
In the black areas the exact same voting machines were programmed to silently eat up the ballot and ignore the vote. "
You DO recall that every last polling place was run by Democrats, the ballots and machines were approved by democrats doncha?
So..it must be those nasty republicans eh?
"This is pretty scary, when are they going to show up to night clubs and bust DJs for public performing the music."
:-)
Pfft..
Have you heard the crap they play in clubs lately?
I'd almost welcome it!
"Take that crap away boys..."
Gee..another promotor of socialism...
Did you ever get around to reading the REST of the UN charter?
In Article 29 of the UN's "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" we read that none of the "rights" supposedly granted therein can be used in a fashion "contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations." Under the UN's formula, the powers of government are completely unaccountable and can be expanded at whim - and individual "rights" are just as easily dispensed with.