In addition to what the sibling AC said, how about not taking down brutal despotic regimes and focusing on improving our own lot first? We're going to end up spending hundreds of billions in Iraq, not to mention the additional cost due to Bush's irresponsible defecit spending. That money would have better served our self-interest if it had been spent here.
We use that machine here in New Jersey as well. AFAIK, it does not have a paper trail, aside from counting the total number of votes. This is the same paper trail that was used when we had mechanical machines.
As for Iraq, Saddam's regime murdered 400,000+ of his fellow citizens, violated the sovereignty of neighbors Iran and Kuwait, renegged on a surrender agreement, defied UN resolutions for 12 years, and bought off security counsel members though the "oil for food" racket. I think the U.S. has shown remarkable restraint.
Restraint? Why do you say that? Why is it our job to police everyone else? Or, more accurately, why is it our job to selectively police Iraq and ignore other hotspots such as Sudan and Chechnya?
Ok, class. One more time. There is no such thing as international law. There are international treaties, such as the UN charter...but a law a treaty does not make.
According to the Constitution, treaties, along with the Constitution and laws created under the Constitution, "shall be the supreme Law of the Land." So while treaties are not internationally binding, treaties that the US are signatories to essentially become US law.
Yes. On its face it appears that by spawning more bots you are opening yourself up to increased risk. This is true if you're playing at open tables. However, if you're playing a tourney, being able to spawn 100 or 1,000 bots can greatly improve your chances of placing in the money at the tourney. Yes, you must pay an entry fee for each bot, but for tourneys with a fixed size, that is one less human you are playing against.
For Paradise Poker, the image reading would be easy. If you look in the Paradise Poker install directory, you'll find all the bitmaps the program uses to draw the graphics. Simply compare what's on the screen against the saved bitmaps until you hit a match. Identifying the edges of the cards would be the hardest task, imo, and that would also be pretty simple as the cards always appear at the same locations.
Hint: if an organism that is the product of 6 months of development from a human ova, has full human rights laying in a hospital crib, it should have full human rights anywhere else, reguardless of physical location, or connection to anything or anyONE else.
Hint: The pro-life movement is not about limiting abortions after 6 months or some other deadline. The pro-life movement is about banning abortions in all cases.
If a whistle-blower had released documents from the White House showing the White House consulting with religious leaders or business leaders or pro-life organizations to discuss judicial appointments and how they would be handled, would anybody be asking for the whistle-blower to be prosecuted? No.
Bushit. The White House would prosecute to the fullest extent of the law, and would lead a smear campaign against the individual. Hell, they've already outed a CIA agent for political reasons.
We're getting deep into hypotheticals here because neither of us were actually present for the situation described by the GP.
So this story of people who suddenly aren't so excited when you turn out to only be interested in this silly democracy thing, and not their party in particular, is a little shocking to me.
IMO, the probable reason he was blown off was because he wanted to engage the GOTV workers in a debate about 3rd parties. That's simply not what they were out there to do. So long as they continued to assist him in registering to vote, I don't see a problem.
I hope you understand there is a lot of animosity from Democrats towards 3rd parties after the 2000 election. To have someone interested in registering and then bait you with a question like "Why do people tell me I'm wasting my vote when I vote for a 3rd party?" would piss me off too. Could the GOTV workers have handled it better? Probably. But I don't fault them for what they did, assuming they did not deny the GP the opportunity to register.
sure hope this wasn't on any kind of a network. Last year, Microsoft had 60 (yes, SIXTY) security patches released. That's more than one per week. And yes, each one requires a reboot of the server. Sounds like you and your 180 days are a sitting duck for hackers.
It depends on the nature of the exploits and what he is using the system for. If the exploits are in services that he has shut off, or subproducts he does not use (IE, WMP, etc.), or if he is properly firewalled, he may not need to be patching them to stay secure.
You didn't answer me in the other story.. maybe you will here:
When I mention the fact that people tell me I'd be wasting my vote because I side with Independents, they get all quiet and move on to the next person.
Did the people speaking to you say this to you? They're not out there to counter whatever myths other people have told you. They're there to register you to vote, and hopefully convince you to vote for their candidate. If you make it clear that you're not going to change your mind easily, they won't waste time on you. Did they prevent you from registering?
I guess their mottos are, "Please support Democracy and register to vote (as long as you vote for us)"
No offense, but duh. If you thought it was anything more, you were being quite naive. However, did these people actually prevent you from registering or withdraw their assistance after you mentioned you were independent?
Every time that happens, I see why I side with the independents.
Does Cuba have a system in place whereby normal people can introduce changes to their government?
Does America? The answer is no. An accurate statement would be: America has a system in place whereby a group of people can introduce changes to their government. If your group isn't big enough, no one's listening.
What do you have against leaving the country? If a majority of the people here have beliefs that are different from mine, maybe it's time to find a new country. Would you say that those fleeing Cuba are spineless?
If you don't like something in your country, take a stand and try to change it.
Yes, that's why he said if Bush wins the election. He's trying to change it by electing Kerry, I would imagine.
Fuck you and every spineless jerk that thinks running away will solve anything.
I don't think those of us who are talking about leaving think it will solve anything, except that we won't have the problem of living under Bush anymore. You have a problem with your logic. You seem to think there is some sort of magic bullet that will turn this country smart again. Let me clue you in: almost 50% of this country voted for Bush the first time. He didn't win by some technicality. He has a lot of support. You talk about change, and yet, you suggest nothing yourself. What do you plan to do if Bush gets re-elected? What can you do to stop a 2nd Bush presidency after 11/02/04?
You have no idea how much your nonchalant response makes me want to tell you to FSCK OFF with extreme prejudice.
Nor do I care! I'll present my opinion without regard for your or anyone else's situation, thank you. If you have a different opinion because of your personal experience, that's great. While I've been fortunate enough to never have to go through what you have been through, that isn't going to change my belief: I don't want to work for someone who doesn't respect me. You want me to believe that I should be a slave to my employer because you had a hard time finding a job?
Poor Person: "I'm poor, but I don't want handouts from the government, so I'll vote Republican."
To which I said, that is fucking stupid. If you don't want the handouts, don't take them. However, if you're against handouts in the general case (not just their personal case), that's fine.
It's correct that people are being fired for political beliefs. My personal opinion is that I wouldn't want to work for anyone who would fire me based on my political beliefs, so I wouldn't mind getting fired for posting some rant.
I don't know if you're being excessively paranoid. I don't know your work environment. However, it is my belief that while some politically-related firings are going on, it is not a widespread occurrence and your generalization of America in your initial post was inaccurate, as evidenced by the fact that many people, both on slashdot and other sites, continue to post political rants without a pseudonym and without a problem.
The reason many poor people support Bush is not because they are Christians, it is because they don't want handouts from the Dems.
That's fucking stupid. Government assistance programs are optional. So these people may have some illogical stigma against receiving a helping hand, but no one's going to force money down their throats.
Bush supports research/development and deployment of a missile defense system. Seeing as how he started this shortly after getting into office it seems that he was very [insightful] now that we know North Korea has nuclear weapons and probably warheads that are capable of reaching U.S. soil.
A serious missile defense is 10 years off. Have you read about any of the tests? The thing DOESN'T WORK and Bush wants to deploy it. That is why Kerry is against it. Spending 10 billion to deploy a defense with the effectiveness of a paper towel is a waste.
Hello? North Korea HAS nuclear weapons NOW, and they're not being very cooperative.
Cooperative about what? And why should they be cooperative? Bush has made it clear that the word of the USA is worth nothing. John Kerry is the only candidate that can change that.
(We've not gone quite as far south as Russia, but Bush says he looked into Putin's soul and found a friend... and, no, I don't feel confortable posting this under my real name. Yes, it's that bad now in America.)
Look I hate Bush as much as anyone else, but that simply isn't true. Go to any left blog and look at some of the ranting there. Do you think those people are being tracked and locked up?
For example, on the stem cell question, Bush makes it quite clear that people should stop thinking of stem cell research as a solution to all medical problems, and especially NOW, at the current time, we shouldn't be giving false hope to people who have recently been diagnosed.
For a crowd that is against the establishment, it really surprises me how often the "They own it, they do what they want" argument is parrotted in these types of discussions.
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I don't think either/any candidate is so horrible that the damage couldn't be pretty much undone by electing the 'right' candidate in another 4 years.
You can't just hit Ctrl-Z and undo Supreme Court appointments.
In addition to what the sibling AC said, how about not taking down brutal despotic regimes and focusing on improving our own lot first? We're going to end up spending hundreds of billions in Iraq, not to mention the additional cost due to Bush's irresponsible defecit spending. That money would have better served our self-interest if it had been spent here.
We use that machine here in New Jersey as well. AFAIK, it does not have a paper trail, aside from counting the total number of votes. This is the same paper trail that was used when we had mechanical machines.
As for Iraq, Saddam's regime murdered 400,000+ of his fellow citizens, violated the sovereignty of neighbors Iran and Kuwait, renegged on a surrender agreement, defied UN resolutions for 12 years, and bought off security counsel members though the "oil for food" racket. I think the U.S. has shown remarkable restraint.
Restraint? Why do you say that? Why is it our job to police everyone else? Or, more accurately, why is it our job to selectively police Iraq and ignore other hotspots such as Sudan and Chechnya?
Ok, class. One more time. There is no such thing as international law. There are international treaties, such as the UN charter...but a law a treaty does not make.
According to the Constitution, treaties, along with the Constitution and laws created under the Constitution, "shall be the supreme Law of the Land." So while treaties are not internationally binding, treaties that the US are signatories to essentially become US law.
Yes. On its face it appears that by spawning more bots you are opening yourself up to increased risk. This is true if you're playing at open tables. However, if you're playing a tourney, being able to spawn 100 or 1,000 bots can greatly improve your chances of placing in the money at the tourney. Yes, you must pay an entry fee for each bot, but for tourneys with a fixed size, that is one less human you are playing against.
For Paradise Poker, the image reading would be easy. If you look in the Paradise Poker install directory, you'll find all the bitmaps the program uses to draw the graphics. Simply compare what's on the screen against the saved bitmaps until you hit a match. Identifying the edges of the cards would be the hardest task, imo, and that would also be pretty simple as the cards always appear at the same locations.
Wasn't it enabled by default?
Hint: if an organism that is the product of 6 months of development from a human ova, has full human rights laying in a hospital crib, it should have full human rights anywhere else, reguardless of physical location, or connection to anything or anyONE else.
Hint: The pro-life movement is not about limiting abortions after 6 months or some other deadline. The pro-life movement is about banning abortions in all cases.
If a whistle-blower had released documents from the White House showing the White House consulting with religious leaders or business leaders or pro-life organizations to discuss judicial appointments and how they would be handled, would anybody be asking for the whistle-blower to be prosecuted? No.
Bushit. The White House would prosecute to the fullest extent of the law, and would lead a smear campaign against the individual. Hell, they've already outed a CIA agent for political reasons.
Miranda could have chosen to "tell on" his boss. But then he's at risk of losing his job(obviously)
And that's why we have whistleblower laws. Generally speaking, you cannot be retaliated against for reporting an employer who is breaking the law.
Government: It is on your side.
We're getting deep into hypotheticals here because neither of us were actually present for the situation described by the GP.
So this story of people who suddenly aren't so excited when you turn out to only be interested in this silly democracy thing, and not their party in particular, is a little shocking to me.
IMO, the probable reason he was blown off was because he wanted to engage the GOTV workers in a debate about 3rd parties. That's simply not what they were out there to do. So long as they continued to assist him in registering to vote, I don't see a problem.
I hope you understand there is a lot of animosity from Democrats towards 3rd parties after the 2000 election. To have someone interested in registering and then bait you with a question like "Why do people tell me I'm wasting my vote when I vote for a 3rd party?" would piss me off too. Could the GOTV workers have handled it better? Probably. But I don't fault them for what they did, assuming they did not deny the GP the opportunity to register.
sure hope this wasn't on any kind of a network. Last year, Microsoft had 60 (yes, SIXTY) security patches released. That's more than one per week. And yes, each one requires a reboot of the server. Sounds like you and your 180 days are a sitting duck for hackers.
It depends on the nature of the exploits and what he is using the system for. If the exploits are in services that he has shut off, or subproducts he does not use (IE, WMP, etc.), or if he is properly firewalled, he may not need to be patching them to stay secure.
You didn't answer me in the other story.. maybe you will here:
When I mention the fact that people tell me I'd be wasting my vote because I side with Independents, they get all quiet and move on to the next person.
Did the people speaking to you say this to you? They're not out there to counter whatever myths other people have told you. They're there to register you to vote, and hopefully convince you to vote for their candidate. If you make it clear that you're not going to change your mind easily, they won't waste time on you. Did they prevent you from registering?
I guess their mottos are, "Please support Democracy and register to vote (as long as you vote for us)"
No offense, but duh. If you thought it was anything more, you were being quite naive. However, did these people actually prevent you from registering or withdraw their assistance after you mentioned you were independent?
Every time that happens, I see why I side with the independents.
The irony of that speaks for itself.
Does Cuba have a system in place whereby normal people can introduce changes to their government?
Does America? The answer is no. An accurate statement would be: America has a system in place whereby a group of people can introduce changes to their government. If your group isn't big enough, no one's listening.
What do you have against leaving the country? If a majority of the people here have beliefs that are different from mine, maybe it's time to find a new country. Would you say that those fleeing Cuba are spineless?
If you don't like something in your country, take a stand and try to change it.
Yes, that's why he said if Bush wins the election. He's trying to change it by electing Kerry, I would imagine.
Fuck you and every spineless jerk that thinks running away will solve anything.
I don't think those of us who are talking about leaving think it will solve anything, except that we won't have the problem of living under Bush anymore. You have a problem with your logic. You seem to think there is some sort of magic bullet that will turn this country smart again. Let me clue you in: almost 50% of this country voted for Bush the first time. He didn't win by some technicality. He has a lot of support. You talk about change, and yet, you suggest nothing yourself. What do you plan to do if Bush gets re-elected? What can you do to stop a 2nd Bush presidency after 11/02/04?
You have no idea how much your nonchalant response makes me want to tell you to FSCK OFF with extreme prejudice.
Nor do I care! I'll present my opinion without regard for your or anyone else's situation, thank you. If you have a different opinion because of your personal experience, that's great. While I've been fortunate enough to never have to go through what you have been through, that isn't going to change my belief: I don't want to work for someone who doesn't respect me. You want me to believe that I should be a slave to my employer because you had a hard time finding a job?
The GP presented this mentality:
Poor Person: "I'm poor, but I don't want handouts from the government, so I'll vote Republican."
To which I said, that is fucking stupid. If you don't want the handouts, don't take them. However, if you're against handouts in the general case (not just their personal case), that's fine.
FYI, your post didn't make much sense at all.
It's correct that people are being fired for political beliefs. My personal opinion is that I wouldn't want to work for anyone who would fire me based on my political beliefs, so I wouldn't mind getting fired for posting some rant.
I don't know if you're being excessively paranoid. I don't know your work environment. However, it is my belief that while some politically-related firings are going on, it is not a widespread occurrence and your generalization of America in your initial post was inaccurate, as evidenced by the fact that many people, both on slashdot and other sites, continue to post political rants without a pseudonym and without a problem.
The reason many poor people support Bush is not because they are Christians, it is because they don't want handouts from the Dems.
That's fucking stupid. Government assistance programs are optional. So these people may have some illogical stigma against receiving a helping hand, but no one's going to force money down their throats.
it seems that he was very inciteful
Yes, Bush is very inciteful, that's for sure.
Bush supports research/development and deployment of a missile defense system. Seeing as how he started this shortly after getting into office it seems that he was very [insightful] now that we know North Korea has nuclear weapons and probably warheads that are capable of reaching U.S. soil.
A serious missile defense is 10 years off. Have you read about any of the tests? The thing DOESN'T WORK and Bush wants to deploy it. That is why Kerry is against it. Spending 10 billion to deploy a defense with the effectiveness of a paper towel is a waste.
Hello? North Korea HAS nuclear weapons NOW, and they're not being very cooperative.
Cooperative about what? And why should they be cooperative? Bush has made it clear that the word of the USA is worth nothing. John Kerry is the only candidate that can change that.
(We've not gone quite as far south as Russia, but Bush says he looked into Putin's soul and found a friend... and, no, I don't feel confortable posting this under my real name. Yes, it's that bad now in America.)
Look I hate Bush as much as anyone else, but that simply isn't true. Go to any left blog and look at some of the ranting there. Do you think those people are being tracked and locked up?
For example, on the stem cell question, Bush makes it quite clear that people should stop thinking of stem cell research as a solution to all medical problems, and especially NOW, at the current time, we shouldn't be giving false hope to people who have recently been diagnosed.
So we shouldn't research it, then?
Thank You!
For a crowd that is against the establishment, it really surprises me how often the "They own it, they do what they want" argument is parrotted in these types of discussions.