Most of this is because the early voting was mainly pushed by the democratic parties. The absentee votes were quite closer. Most of those who voted early were hyped-up teenagers (aka/. readers) who hate Bush. Let's wait until the first round of exit polls before we look at any data- they'll have a better percentage to gauge from.
Which is very interesting, considering Kerry said he criticised the Clinton administration for not putting military pressure on Iraq...oh wait, the Clinton administration was before Bush, wasn't it? What a shocker... all those liberal-based "news" sources kinda leave that out, don't they?
Seriously though, I have yet to see unpartisan reporting, even here on slashdot. All of it just seems like propoganda.
I do admit there are many who don't understand the world's view of America. I don't see, however, how you can group all Bush supporters into a "stupid" group because of the attitudes of some.
Yes, the first amendment still applies. It is normally crowds like this that cause damage and violence and the police force was used to push the demonstrators into an area where they could better be controlled.
In the case of Hustler v. Falwell, it was judged that fighting words, or words that could incite revolt at their very utterance, were not allowed. It was slanderous remarks coming from the crowd that incited the demonstrators to be pushed back.
What is disgusting is that the article makes no mention of the police also pushing back the people roudily chanting "4 more years" and making obscene gestures/remarks at the ones shouting "3 more weeks." The bias in this article was astounding.
Freedoms must be limited to an extent to allow them to be practiced to their fullest degree.
Yes I want to talk about hypocritical. It was CBS' choice not to air that because of their liberal leanings. Michael Moore chose to go with a distributor who wants to make money- he said himself to download his movie and distribute it illegally contrary to his distributor's license policy. You have the choice of watching Farenheit 9/11 or this anti-kerry documentary. You don't have to watch either. Just because one distrbutor choses to put theirs on TV rather than theaters does not make them evil. Michael Moore could have done the same thing should he have chosen to.
Yeah, I didn't mean it in a harsh way at all and I apologize for that. I just meant to point out that Kerry/Edwards et al were knocked on for about the same length of time as the Bush/Cheney crew. I didn't see any bias in the video.
I had counted all the gay references as 1. If you are to count the money/oil references, they are equivalent. The parodies against each party are equivalent. Kerry/Edwards/Clinton/Heinz/Ginsburgh... was parodied only 2 seconds longer than Bush/Cheney/Scalia/Rhenquist/Daschell... It was a funny parody, there was no bias in it. I believe your views are a bit distorted in one direction...
Um, they were both equally attacked- Bush/Cheney for Halliburton, Kerry/Edwards for being gay... the former is true, the later is not true as far as we know. So, it was a funny parody that equally attacked both sides- I failed to see any bias.
I agree completely with the above opinion. In 1968, George Wallace, though he had some messed up views, managed to get some electoral votes. One newspaper even had him in line to win the presidency. He was shot and killed, though, I think right before election time, or something like that. He still managed to get 15 electoral votes I think it was.
*sarcasm* but none of them would have been able to do their job without the technical prowess of Al Gore. He invented the internet, and with his continued work makes me wonder why he isn't on the list! Of course now, he's a bitter old man...but hey, he should have made the list!
Gentoo packages normally ship with fairly default configuration, especially for servers. It's the installation of the base system that would take any time or small tweaks. The "tuning" part only takes 3 minutes to write a simple/etc/make.conf and/etc/fstab here, and that's a one-time thing.
However, I have been happy with Debian, Slackware, and SuSE servers over the years, too. Though right now, Gentoo is the easiest to keep up to date- a simple cron entry that syncs the local portage tree and sends me an email of what it wants to update is definitely the way to go.
Hey, I owe a debt of gratitude to WinME. As avid Win98 fans, my dad and I went out and bought WinME when it first came out. On all my dad's systems, it works great, and he still uses it. Dunno how, but it...works. On my systems, the story was quite different. I quickly tried to find an alternative to using the inferior operating system and came across linux. I have never looked back. So here's to WinME, the operating system that changed my life for the better! Thank you Microsoft, you have shown me the way:).
Please read the mailing lists and announcements- it's not "leaving in disgust", it's moving on and leaving the development in the capable hands of the developers/NFP board. That said, Daniel has made sundry contributions to linux, especially with Gentoo, and his presence will be missed by the dev team.
ugh, my download rate fell to ~0.52 kB/s, which is down from the 200 kB/s it was....great. Yes, thank you/., I thought more leechers meant I'd go faster. Oh well, when it finishes a few days from now, I'll be sure to turn the upload rate up and leave it going.
http://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/linux/gentoo/releases/x86/2 004.0/livecd/universal/
The oregon mirror also has the livecds, but I'm downloading from them and want my bandwidth:-P. If you wanna use the oregon mirror, you'll have to find it yourself!
It shows why Mandrake should care- there are users out there who would benefit from xfree 4.4. And no, not any distro has this problem- I'm doing fine with gentoo.
Finance is needed because it's very hard to get software writing jobs in America. To get money, you must already have money and a good reputation.
As of right now, most programming jobs are going overseas, specifically to the Indians. It's very hard for a young, new programmer to get a job in modern America, and great deals of luck are required.
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Most of this is because the early voting was mainly pushed by the democratic parties. The absentee votes were quite closer. Most of those who voted early were hyped-up teenagers (aka /. readers) who hate Bush. Let's wait until the first round of exit polls before we look at any data- they'll have a better percentage to gauge from.
Which is very interesting, considering Kerry said he criticised the Clinton administration for not putting military pressure on Iraq...oh wait, the Clinton administration was before Bush, wasn't it? What a shocker... all those liberal-based "news" sources kinda leave that out, don't they?
Seriously though, I have yet to see unpartisan reporting, even here on slashdot. All of it just seems like propoganda.
Haha, so true. Considering that it is Maryland which tends to vote democratic, what do you think their OPINION will be?
not sure I understand your comment... what data was taken from what polls?
Though they didn't find WMD, there is proof that Saddam had WMD in 1993 and the summer of 2000 with the intent to use them on Americans, and he surely has been trying to do such.
And Bush's IQ is higher than Kerry's. It's hard for you to make the argument that Bush supporters are dimwitted.
I do admit there are many who don't understand the world's view of America. I don't see, however, how you can group all Bush supporters into a "stupid" group because of the attitudes of some.
Yes, the first amendment still applies. It is normally crowds like this that cause damage and violence and the police force was used to push the demonstrators into an area where they could better be controlled. In the case of Hustler v. Falwell, it was judged that fighting words, or words that could incite revolt at their very utterance, were not allowed. It was slanderous remarks coming from the crowd that incited the demonstrators to be pushed back. What is disgusting is that the article makes no mention of the police also pushing back the people roudily chanting "4 more years" and making obscene gestures/remarks at the ones shouting "3 more weeks." The bias in this article was astounding. Freedoms must be limited to an extent to allow them to be practiced to their fullest degree.
Yes I want to talk about hypocritical. It was CBS' choice not to air that because of their liberal leanings. Michael Moore chose to go with a distributor who wants to make money- he said himself to download his movie and distribute it illegally contrary to his distributor's license policy. You have the choice of watching Farenheit 9/11 or this anti-kerry documentary. You don't have to watch either. Just because one distrbutor choses to put theirs on TV rather than theaters does not make them evil. Michael Moore could have done the same thing should he have chosen to.
Yeah, I didn't mean it in a harsh way at all and I apologize for that. I just meant to point out that Kerry/Edwards et al were knocked on for about the same length of time as the Bush/Cheney crew. I didn't see any bias in the video.
I had counted all the gay references as 1. If you are to count the money/oil references, they are equivalent. The parodies against each party are equivalent. Kerry/Edwards/Clinton/Heinz/Ginsburgh... was parodied only 2 seconds longer than Bush/Cheney/Scalia/Rhenquist/Daschell... It was a funny parody, there was no bias in it. I believe your views are a bit distorted in one direction...
Um, they were both equally attacked- Bush/Cheney for Halliburton, Kerry/Edwards for being gay... the former is true, the later is not true as far as we know. So, it was a funny parody that equally attacked both sides- I failed to see any bias.
I agree completely with the above opinion. In 1968, George Wallace, though he had some messed up views, managed to get some electoral votes. One newspaper even had him in line to win the presidency. He was shot and killed, though, I think right before election time, or something like that. He still managed to get 15 electoral votes I think it was.
*sarcasm* but none of them would have been able to do their job without the technical prowess of Al Gore. He invented the internet, and with his continued work makes me wonder why he isn't on the list! Of course now, he's a bitter old man...but hey, he should have made the list!
yet there's still time in almost every state to register by snail mail, if you feel that strongly about it.
Gentoo packages normally ship with fairly default configuration, especially for servers. It's the installation of the base system that would take any time or small tweaks. The "tuning" part only takes 3 minutes to write a simple /etc/make.conf and /etc/fstab here, and that's a one-time thing.
However, I have been happy with Debian, Slackware, and SuSE servers over the years, too. Though right now, Gentoo is the easiest to keep up to date- a simple cron entry that syncs the local portage tree and sends me an email of what it wants to update is definitely the way to go.
Hey, I owe a debt of gratitude to WinME. As avid Win98 fans, my dad and I went out and bought WinME when it first came out. On all my dad's systems, it works great, and he still uses it. Dunno how, but it...works. On my systems, the story was quite different. I quickly tried to find an alternative to using the inferior operating system and came across linux. I have never looked back. So here's to WinME, the operating system that changed my life for the better! Thank you Microsoft, you have shown me the way :).
I doubt it's anything to worry about. The supernova torrent is only for the iso. The torrent shown on /. has extra docs with it.
Please read the mailing lists and announcements- it's not "leaving in disgust", it's moving on and leaving the development in the capable hands of the developers/NFP board. That said, Daniel has made sundry contributions to linux, especially with Gentoo, and his presence will be missed by the dev team.
ugh, my download rate fell to ~0.52 kB/s, which is down from the 200 kB/s it was....great. Yes, thank you /., I thought more leechers meant I'd go faster. Oh well, when it finishes a few days from now, I'll be sure to turn the upload rate up and leave it going.
http://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/linux/gentoo/releases/x86/2 004.0/livecd/universal/
:-P. If you wanna use the oregon mirror, you'll have to find it yourself!
The oregon mirror also has the livecds, but I'm downloading from them and want my bandwidth
Indeed. Check the topic in IRC:
"ignore slashdot, 2004.0 is not released" It almost is, though.
Wow, it's like you were expecting it to be slashdotted in 5 minutes. Anyways, this is a great case. Those case modders need to find girlfriends...
It shows why Mandrake should care- there are users out there who would benefit from xfree 4.4. And no, not any distro has this problem- I'm doing fine with gentoo.
There are numerous driver updates that greatly affect my laptop's abilities. I need 4.4, so if Mandrake drops it, I won't be using their distro.
search google; fark.com
Finance is needed because it's very hard to get software writing jobs in America. To get money, you must already have money and a good reputation.
As of right now, most programming jobs are going overseas, specifically to the Indians. It's very hard for a young, new programmer to get a job in modern America, and great deals of luck are required.