* (The real blame lies with the 1990s president who repealed the Glass-Steagall of 1933 which allowed banks to invest in risky stocks, and thereby created the current crisis. But the media is being hush-hush about that. Don't want to risk losing the Obama election.)
I find it interesting that the president takes the "blame" for a legislation that 8 of 535 representatives passed. does anyone think that a veto would work in this case?
It sounds to me that a great many of our representatives (and society in general) drank the reganesque policies of trickle-down and voodoo economics, possibly because the economy looked so good at the time, possibly for other reasons as well.
Also, you can't be both an atheist (KNOWING there is no god) and an agnostic (admitting you cannot possibly KNOW if god exists).
Can we please stop defining, and redefining words to make our points? I accept and agree with your definition of agnostic, however an atheist denies the existence of a god, the word does not speak to what he claims to know (at least according to the dictionary I use)
Perhaps I misunderstand you, but I believe that at any frequency there is a vast difference between EM waves and Percussion waves For instance electricity even if in the frequency of sound produces no sound. OTOH sound waves, properly amplified, and of the proper frequency cannot power my radio (then again you can't even get a D.C. sound)!
"Added to which, the GPL - probably the most popular OSS license - does not require "modification" to apply its restrictions, it merely requires "inclusion"."
IANAL and it has been a while since I even read the GPL, But IIRC I am free to use / modify any GPL program completely unrestricted up to the point I redistribute, because really, who would care whose programs I use privately (assuming I am not pirating a proprietary code)?
So as I understand it Spacely Sprockets can build whatever system using Spring or whatever, modify it so that it works the best (for them!) and can only redistribute the modified code under GPL. What is less clear (to me) is what if they only wanted to distribute patches of their own code without distributing the Spring source. I suspect that the same rules apply, but again IANAL.
I suspect that where you and I differ is that I have no problem with an ISP or other service provider being PREPARED to assist in an investigation. To use the classic and obvious example, if police come across blatant child porn photos on the internet, I really and truly believe that they should be able to go to to the ISP and say, "Hey, who uploaded these pictures?" Now, if the police show up and say, "Hey, who uploaded this picture of Bush with a Hitler mustache photoshopped on?" then you and I will stand together in opposing such abuse.
Yes, we do differ there! I prefer to believe that "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated" and IMHO that includes that the government is not entitled to keep copies of my correspondence on the off chance that they may make something I've said or up/downloaded illegal. OTOH I believe that if they suspect anyone of engaging in an illegal act they certainly have the right to get a warrant to snoop on my activities. so long as the Judicial dept is not left out by "no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
**** quoted material from U.S. Constitution Amendment #4, in case you haven't read that lately:-P
The proper term is pantywaist. Hmm.. I knew I should have checked that! It seeems weird though. as I had assumed it derived from literally waste of a panty
I support this measure and I support Clinton's as well. Bush is not my hero and I don't hate Clinton. Have a nice day. Guess I misunderstood your intention...
Oh, by the way...what did you think of the law that was passed during the Clinton administration? Actually, I'd just about rather go to Gitmo than to be dragged into another useless political discussion. Sorry, but I don't recall which law you are referring to, but assuming that it may be as wasteful as this is likely to become and, let's face it, this along with many of the domestic policies of late, are leading to a bureaucracy where there will be a dossier on every individual with the complete history of each of us (and one must assume most of the developed world) to make it nice and easy for the respective governments to be able to keep even more political prisoners anyone listening??? Orwell got the year wrong but really, compare these policies + make the comparison of Newspeak to Political Correctness.. oh there I go again and I didn't want to get into this discussion, UGH!
To what end are you needing to change the subject? Are you such a panty waste that you cannot stand to see your hero denigrated that you need to see if anyone is willing to throw some crap at someone you hate or (more likely) do you feel that in some way, a little clinton bashing will make what the current administration is / has done more pallatable.
Whatever presidents 1 - 42 did or failed to do is irrelelvant, as is what any other country's leader(s) have done in case you were about to make a favorable comparison between Mr. Bush and Mr Hussein or Genghis Khan or whomever (how's that a really pedantic use of a nearly obsolete use of the objective case during a rant!]
Either you agree with the Administration or you don't and according to the latest polls less than 30% of Americans do agree. I can only hope that those who agree with him are those appearing on FOX's "'R' you smarter than a 5th grader (and losing miserably).
Unfortunately or fortunately, we are so cowed or afraid of speaking out that the administration will continue this slide into totalitarianism and we will still be sitting here arguing when they come and take our computers away. (O.K. maybe that's a little reactionary but hey, sue me!)
Is there anyone reading these comparitive articles who has ever been conviced to switch OSs? I suspect not. The reasons I have switched have been that
1) They stopped making TRS-dos
2) No more support for Amigas (any user can tell you this was the best OS ever!)
3) you want how much for a new version of your OS?
The reason these articles are popular is mostly that the users of those OS's need to feel good about their choice. It is rare that there is any useful information, but at least it is funny listening to all the "you're a zealot fanboi" rhetoric.
So women who have sex are not innocent? they deserve no life? If you vaccinate your daughter will she be more likely to have sex and therefore gawd will punish her with this disease (because GAWD so loved the world that he kills us regularly as punishments, contrariwise to the 'sign of the covenant' s/he made after the great flood, or was that covenant only that gawd was sorry he wasted so much water?)
The files were probably on M$s "MyKiddiePr0n" directory of course!
Also and unrelated to that point, if the "hacker" had been busted for "possessing" the porn, would you say that the cops "took a whiz?" 8-P
On a more serious note I'm surprised that no one came forward with more recent charges of molestation... unless he "went soft" of course!
You are in error! The problem is not that money is not worth what it used to be worth. If that were the case we'd have to get rid of all of it even paper money. The problem here is that it costs more in material to make a penny (Obviously this has been true for a while.) than the penny itself is worth.
As to your second point, Do you propose that all items purchased be rounded up to the nearest dollar? Good luck with that!
Wouldn't it be a good idea to post on the subject of TAGS instead of running off at the mouth about some silly sig? Really, name-calling is fine but should be severely curtailed once you reach 5th grade.
While I don't disagree that it is easily as possible for Democrats to be A$$holes as GOPs, In this particular case the bill is written and sponsored by (wait for it) Republicans (who'd a thunk it). Just because the Dems have a (marginal) majority, doesn't make them responsible for everything that happens.
Now I doubt that this bill will pass the full Congress, But I can recommend that folks get off their heinies and write, let the goomers in the Senate know how heinous this is!
--The 5 vowels in the American English Uh Uh Uh Uh Uh (I'd like uh cuhp uhv thuh coffee from Missouruh!)
I suspect people "accidently" find pr0n for the same reasons they "accidentally" get virus infected, i.e. running around clicking every link in sight. Personally I don't believe I have ever gotten to a NSFW site accidentally, nor have I ever received pr0n in email that I didn't ask for. People claim "oh I don't know how I got there" because they're made to feel guilty about sex and continue to lie because (at work), are afraid of being caught. Write down the address or email it to yourself so you can see it at home, DOH!
I don't know, but Thank the GODS there is slashdot, so people who don't care about a subject can run down a few people who do. what would we do without them!
Anytime a "Slashdotter" wants personal and private information about someone who is supporting Windows with some B.S. evidence, He is not allowed, because it is not within his rights, and is irrelevant as to wheter the "evidence" is real.
If all the congressman wanted was to discredit the report, he has all he should need in the article or could ask the same people anyone else could ask (Magazine publishers, others in the field).
This Congressman's actions are at the very least suspicious.
I get that the author never uses Gnome, that much is obvious, if he did he'd know about Gconfd, which will allow him to change this horrible behaviour, and thus take away the only point in his two page diatribe.
Sorry Bill, but you're wrong, wrong, wrong! Microsoft did not solve this or much of any other problems. Due to their user base sound card companies solved their own problems working with windows, and the same will happen to Linux in due time.
I understand it all too well... It's numbers pure and simple. MP3 will remain top dog because people are used to it and look for it and they know that their computers will run it. When they see ogg, like as not they will pass it by. IMHO the way to change this is to get active, put up plenty of shoutcast style radio stations using OGG and make sure everyone knows about it. This is nothing new if ogg is to survive, it will take a little work. If it is to thrive, it will take a lot of work, and guess who has to do it?
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I find it interesting that the president takes the "blame" for a legislation that 8 of 535 representatives passed. does anyone think that a veto would work in this case? It sounds to me that a great many of our representatives (and society in general) drank the reganesque policies of trickle-down and voodoo economics, possibly because the economy looked so good at the time, possibly for other reasons as well.
Agnostic and Atheist
Why can't I get the same storage service Alberto Gonzolez gets at the RNC?
Was this a survey at Amazon?
Perhaps I misunderstand you, but I believe that at any frequency there is a vast difference between EM waves and Percussion waves For instance electricity even if in the frequency of sound produces no sound. OTOH sound waves, properly amplified, and of the proper frequency cannot power my radio (then again you can't even get a D.C. sound)!
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IANAL and it has been a while since I even read the GPL, But IIRC I am free to use / modify any GPL program completely unrestricted up to the point I redistribute, because really, who would care whose programs I use privately (assuming I am not pirating a proprietary code)?
So as I understand it Spacely Sprockets can build whatever system using Spring or whatever, modify it so that it works the best (for them!) and can only redistribute the modified code under GPL. What is less clear (to me) is what if they only wanted to distribute patches of their own code without distributing the Spring source. I suspect that the same rules apply, but again IANAL.**** quoted material from U.S. Constitution Amendment #4, in case you haven't read that lately :-P
The proper term is pantywaist. Hmm.. I knew I should have checked that! It seeems weird though. as I had assumed it derived from literally waste of a panty
I support this measure and I support Clinton's as well. Bush is not my hero and I don't hate Clinton. Have a nice day. Guess I misunderstood your intention...
Oh, by the way...what did you think of the law that was passed during the Clinton administration? Actually, I'd just about rather go to Gitmo than to be dragged into another useless political discussion. Sorry, but I don't recall which law you are referring to, but assuming that it may be as wasteful as this is likely to become and, let's face it, this along with many of the domestic policies of late, are leading to a bureaucracy where there will be a dossier on every individual with the complete history of each of us (and one must assume most of the developed world) to make it nice and easy for the respective governments to be able to keep even more political prisoners anyone listening??? Orwell got the year wrong but really, compare these policies + make the comparison of Newspeak to Political Correctness.. oh there I go again and I didn't want to get into this discussion, UGH!To what end are you needing to change the subject? Are you such a panty waste that you cannot stand to see your hero denigrated that you need to see if anyone is willing to throw some crap at someone you hate or (more likely) do you feel that in some way, a little clinton bashing will make what the current administration is / has done more pallatable. Whatever presidents 1 - 42 did or failed to do is irrelelvant, as is what any other country's leader(s) have done in case you were about to make a favorable comparison between Mr. Bush and Mr Hussein or Genghis Khan or whomever (how's that a really pedantic use of a nearly obsolete use of the objective case during a rant!] Either you agree with the Administration or you don't and according to the latest polls less than 30% of Americans do agree. I can only hope that those who agree with him are those appearing on FOX's "'R' you smarter than a 5th grader (and losing miserably). Unfortunately or fortunately, we are so cowed or afraid of speaking out that the administration will continue this slide into totalitarianism and we will still be sitting here arguing when they come and take our computers away. (O.K. maybe that's a little reactionary but hey, sue me!)
Is there anyone reading these comparitive articles who has ever been conviced to switch OSs? I suspect not. The reasons I have switched have been that 1) They stopped making TRS-dos 2) No more support for Amigas (any user can tell you this was the best OS ever!) 3) you want how much for a new version of your OS? The reason these articles are popular is mostly that the users of those OS's need to feel good about their choice. It is rare that there is any useful information, but at least it is funny listening to all the "you're a zealot fanboi" rhetoric.
So women who have sex are not innocent? they deserve no life? If you vaccinate your daughter will she be more likely to have sex and therefore gawd will punish her with this disease (because GAWD so loved the world that he kills us regularly as punishments, contrariwise to the 'sign of the covenant' s/he made after the great flood, or was that covenant only that gawd was sorry he wasted so much water?)
The files were probably on M$s "MyKiddiePr0n" directory of course! Also and unrelated to that point, if the "hacker" had been busted for "possessing" the porn, would you say that the cops "took a whiz?" 8-P On a more serious note I'm surprised that no one came forward with more recent charges of molestation... unless he "went soft" of course!
You are in error! The problem is not that money is not worth what it used to be worth. If that were the case we'd have to get rid of all of it even paper money. The problem here is that it costs more in material to make a penny (Obviously this has been true for a while.) than the penny itself is worth. As to your second point, Do you propose that all items purchased be rounded up to the nearest dollar? Good luck with that!
Wouldn't it be a good idea to post on the subject of TAGS instead of running off at the mouth about some silly sig? Really, name-calling is fine but should be severely curtailed once you reach 5th grade.
While I don't disagree that it is easily as possible for Democrats to be A$$holes as GOPs, In this particular case the bill is written and sponsored by (wait for it) Republicans (who'd a thunk it). Just because the Dems have a (marginal) majority, doesn't make them responsible for everything that happens. Now I doubt that this bill will pass the full Congress, But I can recommend that folks get off their heinies and write, let the goomers in the Senate know how heinous this is! --The 5 vowels in the American English Uh Uh Uh Uh Uh (I'd like uh cuhp uhv thuh coffee from Missouruh!)
I suspect people "accidently" find pr0n for the same reasons they "accidentally" get virus infected, i.e. running around clicking every link in sight. Personally I don't believe I have ever gotten to a NSFW site accidentally, nor have I ever received pr0n in email that I didn't ask for. People claim "oh I don't know how I got there" because they're made to feel guilty about sex and continue to lie because (at work), are afraid of being caught. Write down the address or email it to yourself so you can see it at home, DOH!
I don't know, but Thank the GODS there is slashdot, so people who don't care about a subject can run down a few people who do. what would we do without them!
Anytime a "Slashdotter" wants personal and private information about someone who is supporting Windows with some B.S. evidence, He is not allowed, because it is not within his rights, and is irrelevant as to wheter the "evidence" is real. If all the congressman wanted was to discredit the report, he has all he should need in the article or could ask the same people anyone else could ask (Magazine publishers, others in the field). This Congressman's actions are at the very least suspicious.
I get that the author never uses Gnome, that much is obvious, if he did he'd know about Gconfd, which will allow him to change this horrible behaviour, and thus take away the only point in his two page diatribe.
Sorry Bill, but you're wrong, wrong, wrong! Microsoft did not solve this or much of any other problems. Due to their user base sound card companies solved their own problems working with windows, and the same will happen to Linux in due time.
I understand it all too well... It's numbers pure and simple. MP3 will remain top dog because people are used to it and look for it and they know that their computers will run it. When they see ogg, like as not they will pass it by. IMHO the way to change this is to get active, put up plenty of shoutcast style radio stations using OGG and make sure everyone knows about it. This is nothing new if ogg is to survive, it will take a little work. If it is to thrive, it will take a lot of work, and guess who has to do it?