The first problem can be dealt with by using candidate numbers. The second problem is harder. Even if you seal the printers, one can figure out who voted what by remembering the sequence of voters.
And what country is that? This is talking about US elections, and the US is not a democracy. Yes, yes, you are a flaming Republic. I'm sick of hearing it. By that standard there are hardly any democracies in the world, since most of them have constitutions, laws and courts. A total democracy, where two wolwes and a sheep votes on what to have for dinner, is bad, because everybody belongs to some kind of minority.
You are like the guy who thought there actually was a place named "Gunpoint" where people kept getting held up. "Stephen King" is a name used for an unknown male person. Much like "John Doe" was used in the past. It was changed because more people where named "John Doe" than "Stephen King", so less people get scared by reading the news story. The name used for a female, previously Jane Doe, is "Natalie Portman". That also explains why "Natalie Portman" is often found naked and petrified, since females are more likely to be sexually molested.
X-Prize, the SpaceShipOne We got the X-Files, X-Windows, Windows XP, and Mac OS X. Then Babylon 5 fans start talking about "the One", and now everybody wants to jump on the "One" bandwagon: "The One" (Neo in the Matrix), "The One" (the Jet Li movie), "AmigaOne" and now "SpaceShipOne". Thank God they didn't name it SpaceShipZero. The distance to ZeroWing would be just to small.
1. No. I wasn't referring to the Microsoft settlement. It was a more of a general rant against rather meritless cases pressed by companies against individuals with low income. Not so in this case.
2. I thought there was. But it is possible to get it, right.
I have yet to see a client walk in my door who had his problems created by an attorney. I was thinking about the actual lawsuit. I might have lost a little perspective getting worked up over those lawsuits designed to make the defendant go broke from the legal fees. Will the bills wait untill the final appeal? Then perhaps the plaintiff will have to pay the legal costs?
I shouldn't have to have a doctor to keep me healthy. My doctor just infected you with the flue. Now you have to hire a doctor to get well.
You shouldn't need 6 years of schooling to understand engineering. My engineers built a superconducting railroad through your kitchen. Now you have to hire an engineer to move the track.
There shouldn't be a need for a profession based on the manipulation of data at all. My computer programmer just infected you with a computer virus. Now you have to hire a computer programmer to remove it, or you will have to pay-per-view for all your music and movies. And for your own letters as well.
My wizard just cast a "punify" spell on you. Now you have to hire a wizard of your own to lift the spell.
The thing is that most of the problems you need to hire a lawyer to fix, were made by another lawyer in the first place. Much like bad plumbers.
But what do you expect? The Capitol is full of lawyers. They even sit in the Supreme Court and decide what they think should be constitutional.
if people were only needed for the power-producing capabilities (which has already been beaten to death as impractical/impossible, lossy system, etc.), then it would make more sense to have them cerebrally brain-dead.
Before I saw the movie, I wondered about wether the machines used humans
as an un-interruptable power supply for when those fabled fusion reactors broke down. (Rubber band drives on jet planes anybody?)
as an un-interruptable power supply for the power they were able to steal from Zion.
as engines for the fuel from the dead people of the war. Seriously time-limited.
for revenge. Because "we" "used" them, they want to use us.
After seeing the movie it occured to me: I had a hunch before that maybe the "Real World" -- the Dark World -- is also a simulation of some kind. This idea was strengthened by Neo being able to use his powers in the Dark World as well as in the Matrix. If that is correct, any in-consistencies, like why they keep us around, can be explained like glitches in the program. Makes me wonder: How many levels are there. Is it all a game? Is it just a dream? Is it going to be one of those moments when the characters of the movie figure out that they are in a movie, and decide to escape, never to be seen again?
The uniforms of the Microsoft soldiers have patches, and more patches, and even more layers of patches... and you can still see their underwear through the holes left behind. -- Paul Mischler
Now that I think about it, how do you "harpoon" an asteroid anyways. Are we going to use a thick rope and a spear? Or is Moby Dicking it the wrong way to go?
That is pretty old-fashioned. Today, they use an explosive grenade that explodes on impact. The explosion either knocks the asteroid unconsious or kills it. Then, NASA can pull it into Earth and fire a frickin' laser beam into it to make sure it's dead.
Asteroid conservation organisations are against the harpooning, but have no tangible arguments left. Since asteroids are extremely numerous, and modern catch methods are within animal welfare standards, the conservationists now claim that asteroids have intrinsic rights, Asteroid Rights. Namely: The right to have their orbital characteristics un-affected other bodies. The right not to be used as hiding places for space ships or telepaths. The right to not be blasted by Star Destroyers. The right to control their own resources, and grant their own mining rights to whoever they choose. When pressed on who should represent the asteroids and work as mining rights proxies, the conservation organisations said "us". Suddenly, most space mining companies had changed their status to non-profit organisations.
I am *definitely* sure the world will end then. I mean, All those Unix servers, Amigas, some of the Macs, if people didn't fix it at Y2K, who is going to remember in such an odd year as 2038?
The UNIX 2038 C/C++ bug won't hit the Amiga before 2046. It is really the same bug, namely the use of a signed 32 bit integer to count seconds from a starting point in time, called an epoch. UNIX counts secons from 1. January 1970, while the Amiga counts seconds from 1. January 1978. So the Amiga programs using the old C/C++ time function, will have to be recompiled. The Amiga OS (classic) will keep time untill 7. February 2114, when it will think it's 1978. So, if I don't get my AmigaONE by then, I might get some problems. (Besides being over 120 years old.) Read more.
It is Lutheran protestant mission. Founded by Norwegian Lutheran Mission Union. The missionaries came from the fjords of western and southern Norway. They assembled in Trondheim, from whence they sailed on May 5. They arrived in Nigeria, where they taught Nigerians how to read and write in the mission school and gave them Spam for lunch with spam, sausage, spam, spam, spam, spam, eggs, spam, spam, lutefisk, spam, spam, spam, spam.........
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The first problem can be dealt with by using candidate numbers.
The second problem is harder. Even if you seal the printers, one can figure out who voted what by remembering the sequence of voters.
And what country is that? This is talking about US elections, and the US is not a democracy.
Yes, yes, you are a flaming Republic. I'm sick of hearing it.
By that standard there are hardly any democracies in the world, since most of them have constitutions, laws and courts.
A total democracy, where two wolwes and a sheep votes on what to have for dinner, is bad, because everybody belongs to some kind of minority.
Nope, it still sonds like bullshit to me.
Did you read the comments saying:
Lufthansa Systems belongs to the worldwide leading IT-serviceproviders for the airlines.
This means that the customers are the airlines not the passengers.
Just what I was thinking.
Dance monkey boy!
I could say "I told you so!", but I won't.
You are like the guy who thought there actually was a place named "Gunpoint" where people kept getting held up.
"Stephen King" is a name used for an unknown male person. Much like "John Doe" was used in the past.
It was changed because more people where named "John Doe" than "Stephen King", so less people get scared by reading the news story.
The name used for a female, previously Jane Doe, is "Natalie Portman".
That also explains why "Natalie Portman" is often found naked and petrified, since females are more likely to be sexually molested.
X-Prize, the SpaceShipOne
We got the X-Files, X-Windows, Windows XP, and Mac OS X.
Then Babylon 5 fans start talking about "the One", and now everybody wants to jump on the "One" bandwagon: "The One" (Neo in the Matrix), "The One" (the Jet Li movie), "AmigaOne" and now "SpaceShipOne".
Thank God they didn't name it SpaceShipZero. The distance to ZeroWing would be just to small.
Fortunately, freedom of speech grants the right to say something; not the right to force others to listen.
Thanks for clearing that up.
Now I can throw away all those "Dixie Chicks" CDs.
My vacuum cleaner is now a screen capture utility! Can I get a Hoover with USB?
Yes. USB solutions are now available for the Amiga.
1. No. I wasn't referring to the Microsoft settlement. It was a more of a general rant against rather meritless cases pressed by companies against individuals with low income. Not so in this case.
2. I thought there was. But it is possible to get it, right.
3. I know. See 1.
4. Good to know.
Thanks for the info.
Me (pro se).
I have yet to see a client walk in my door who had his problems created by an attorney.
I was thinking about the actual lawsuit.
I might have lost a little perspective getting worked up over those lawsuits designed to make the defendant go broke from the legal fees.
Will the bills wait untill the final appeal? Then perhaps the plaintiff will have to pay the legal costs?
I shouldn't have to have a doctor to keep me healthy.
My doctor just infected you with the flue. Now you have to hire a doctor to get well.
You shouldn't need 6 years of schooling to understand engineering.
My engineers built a superconducting railroad through your kitchen. Now you have to hire an engineer to move the track.
There shouldn't be a need for a profession based on the manipulation of data at all.
My computer programmer just infected you with a computer virus. Now you have to hire a computer programmer to remove it, or you will have to pay-per-view for all your music and movies. And for your own letters as well.
My wizard just cast a "punify" spell on you. Now you have to hire a wizard of your own to lift the spell.
The thing is that most of the problems you need to hire a lawyer to fix, were made by another lawyer in the first place. Much like bad plumbers.
But what do you expect? The Capitol is full of lawyers. They even sit in the Supreme Court and decide what they think should be constitutional.
Before I saw the movie, I wondered about wether the machines used humans
After seeing the movie it occured to me:
I had a hunch before that maybe the "Real World" -- the Dark World -- is also a simulation of some kind.
This idea was strengthened by Neo being able to use his powers in the Dark World as well as in the Matrix.
If that is correct, any in-consistencies, like why they keep us around, can be explained like glitches in the program.
Makes me wonder: How many levels are there. Is it all a game? Is it just a dream?
Is it going to be one of those moments when the characters of the movie figure out that they are in a movie, and decide to escape, never to be seen again?
Don't you have to pass Go first?
:-)
Well, the Amiga allready has ports of Go. No need to duplicate efforts.
The scary thing about this is that I know EXACTLY what you are talking about.
That is what I get for atttending university.
The uniforms of the Microsoft soldiers have patches, and more patches, and even more layers of patches... and you can still see their underwear through the holes left behind. -- Paul Mischler
(Lifted from the bottom of the slashdot page.)
Now that I think about it, how do you "harpoon" an asteroid anyways. Are we going to use a thick rope and a spear? Or is Moby Dicking it the wrong way to go?
That is pretty old-fashioned. Today, they use an explosive grenade that explodes on impact. The explosion either knocks the asteroid unconsious or kills it. Then, NASA can pull it into Earth and fire a frickin' laser beam into it to make sure it's dead.
Asteroid conservation organisations are against the harpooning, but have no tangible arguments left. Since asteroids are extremely numerous, and modern catch methods are within animal welfare standards, the conservationists now claim that asteroids have intrinsic rights, Asteroid Rights. Namely:
The right to have their orbital characteristics un-affected other bodies.
The right not to be used as hiding places for space ships or telepaths.
The right to not be blasted by Star Destroyers.
The right to control their own resources, and grant their own mining rights to whoever they choose.
When pressed on who should represent the asteroids and work as mining rights proxies, the conservation organisations said "us".
Suddenly, most space mining companies had changed their status to non-profit organisations.
I am *definitely* sure the world will end then. I mean, All those Unix servers, Amigas, some of the Macs, if people didn't fix it at Y2K, who is going to remember in such an odd year as 2038?
The UNIX 2038 C/C++ bug won't hit the Amiga before 2046.
It is really the same bug, namely the use of a signed 32 bit integer to count seconds from a starting point in time, called an epoch. UNIX counts secons from 1. January 1970, while the Amiga counts seconds from 1. January 1978. So the Amiga programs using the old C/C++ time function, will have to be recompiled.
The Amiga OS (classic) will keep time untill 7. February 2114, when it will think it's 1978.
So, if I don't get my AmigaONE by then, I might get some problems. (Besides being over 120 years old.)
Read more .
Is Decom Mission catholic or protestant mission?
It is Lutheran protestant mission. Founded by Norwegian Lutheran Mission Union. The missionaries came from the fjords of western and southern Norway. They assembled in Trondheim, from whence they sailed on May 5. They arrived in Nigeria, where they taught Nigerians how to read and write in the mission school and gave them Spam for lunch with spam, sausage, spam, spam, spam, spam, eggs, spam, spam, lutefisk, spam, spam, spam, spam.........
Makes me wonder: Is this Microsoft funding this to help protect people, or to learn how to hit Apple themselves?
"I present to you an urgent and confidential request" Confidential here in Slashdot?
And I thought it was funny when those emails said something like "I am contacting you in this secure fashion". Pretty funny when it's email.
All attendees should be aware that the contact address is wrong. The address on the page is the place where the conference will take place.
For registration, please send the registration fee and your address here:
Fede Raltra
Decom Mission
CRC-240
600 Penn Syl Vania Ave, NW
Wa Shing Ton, D.C. 20580
Nigeria
Sincerely yours
Fede Raltra
"We will search far and wide to find our Frodo."
Send forth the Casting Nasgûl!
It was cast in he fires of Mount Doom.
(Well, it was really forged in the fires of Mout Doom, but the agents of the Treasury Department reacted badly to that wording.)