I'd rather him promise nothing than promise to continue to throw money at conservative causes (such as further integration of church and state) or even more money at the war (even monies which were originally intended for humanitarian aid).
Hopefully on appeal the Supreme Court accepts this case.
More than just that, hope that someone else wins in November and appoints some less conservative individuals to take their seat among the other justices.
I guess people are taking what I said as if I really cared... Let me point out my question (Wouldn't that be an effective countermeasure or is it more beneficial just to ignore the problem because it happens so infrequently?)
I really had no idea if adding a new windshield that protected people from lasers would be beneficial for the pilots. I am all for leaving most everything unprotected (ahem) as getting hurt is part of the life process. Being exposed to things that harm you can and will make you more resistant (in more ways than one) later.
is every new way to hurt somebody going to be another weapon in the terrorist arsenal? Are we going to assume that everytime something happens to someone, a terrorist is behind it? I for one am tired of our leaders trying to make us afraid.
Of course. Someone must be blamed and the "terrorists" are easy targets. It's like the God fallacy... Because we have nothing to explain it a single "supreme being" must have done it.
What I want to know is can they install laser protective windshields instead of handing out the glasses? I mean, how often in this day and age do they have to tell colors from the cockpit window on the ground? Wouldn't that be an effective countermeasure or is it more beneficial just to ignore the problem because it happens so infrequently?
You know what would be hysterical in the sequel? If they used good CGI that was actually adding another dimension to the film and not just wasted because the director had money! Oooh another funny thing would be to have a good script. Dialogue between Star Warsish characters would just be hysterical! Ahahha!
I have a feeling that they aren't going to show a young Dark Helmet. Instead they are going to show an old and feeble one that has to take Viagra to get his Schwartz up.
Hey Brooks, if you use that line you have to pay me. You know, the Secret Window and all that jazz (but only the stuff from 50+ years ago because that might not be copyrighted anymore).
Yet another classic ruined by an unnecessary sequel.
It's a slippery slope you see. Soon the assholes will want backdoors to encryption programs or they will ban them outright. Obviously only a terrorist wouldn't want the government to see their traffic.
This isn't tin foil hat material folks... This is really what's going to happen if we continue down the road we have been traveling. If we don't stop it at the polls this year it's not going to be easily turned around.
Governments (regardless of party affiliation) love to have power. If one party can get the public brainwashed into believing that the measures they are taking are both necessary and acceptable the other side isn't going to complain when they have just that much more control over the population...
VOTE IN NOVEMBER AND PUT AN END TO THIS HORSESHIT.
Why the hell are they asking people for arguments against it? It's obvious it's unnecessary. We have processes in place to allow for wiretaps. The processes might not be easy and that's a GOOD THING.
Get your fucking warrant, set up your equipment, and do your thing. If that takes too long and you miss your chance to get what you need, tough fucking shit. I have no sympathy for you.
Just because we were attacked (and have threats of more) recently does NOT mean that we should treat every god damn citizen like a criminal. Why can we not learn from the past? McCarthyism/Cold War??? Come on, wake up, do NOT stand for this bullshit.
We are citizens and we have rights as such. Why the hell are we allowing the government to walk all over us? Make your complaints known to the FTC and in the polls in November.
It amazes me they are both (Bush and Kerry) so fearful of getting a question they aren't ready for or being upstaged by someone actually in touch with true American feelings that they are their debate-fixing group make it impossible to find out anything that resembles the truth.
I have never actually watched Kerry be interviewed by anyone and stumble through the questioning but I have watched (and read) through this interview where the questions were submitted in advance and yet the President still did not look prepared for the questions/style he was presented with.
It made me feel like we were being led by someone completely unprepared to lead this country when we need it most (ie when he stared like a deer in headlights in the classroom after hearing of the second plane hitting the WTC).
While I have mentioned that the American public may seem to side even more with someone that has problems during an interview I don't think that it gives him any more credibility to those of us that may still be sitting on the fence.
Still, I'll watch, if only in the hopes that Bush will stumble badly over a fact or two.
Yet it seems that people favor that. They think that he is more like one of them when he sounds like a bumbling idiot. It's like the Law and Order episode that showed a celebrity event planner with a facial tick. The tick forces everyone to let their guard down... The majority of the American public think that you should make mistakes even when you are leading this country through a deadly war. They seriously believe that a wartime economy (including diverting relief funds to continue the fighting) is a good thing. They also believe that we should be overly paranoid about the world around us and that we should have a leader who is on the offensive against these forces of evil!
I seriously hope that someone cuts into Survivor and The Apprentice this week and explains what the "debates" really are (they better be dressed like Burnett or Trump) and that they are worthless or we are going to see yet another 8 point jump in the ratings.
I guess having a bad plan is better than having no plan at all.
Anything these two have to say is bound to be much more open and interesting than what the oligopolists have to say.
Unfortunately it will be worthless. Yeah, it may be interesting, but it will have little to no bearing on the main parties' campaigns, their strategy, or their eventual actions while in the White House.
The Republicans and the Democrats have little interest in what is going on outside of their only little world because no one in the majority really gives a shit either.
Until third party candidates actually have a shot at winning the elections (which will likely never happen in our lifetimes) their outlook on politics, the world, and everything else is utterly useless.
I went to the aqaurium in KY right across the river from Cincinnati. They were taking pictures with digital cameras that had wireless cards. They were free roaming... The pictures could be picked up at the end of the day when you were ready to leave.
It was definitly pretty neat.
If all cameras had this (or any sort of net connection, even via GPRS) it would be great to use a script like galleryadd to pump the photos into your Gallery from the road. I do it via procmail, shell scripts, and galleryadd now with my hiptop's camera (although I suppose you could do it with any camera that allows photos with email attachments).
Arresting these people wouldn't solve the problem overnight, but by christ it'd be a bloody good start.
yes, just like the drug war right? We know that most of the drugs come into the country at certain points and all we have to do is arrest the people behind the importation at those points.
Cut one head off and another one rises to take its place.
7. Whether any of the proposed authentication standards would have to be an open standard (i.e., a standard with specifications that are public).
Of course the standard would have to be open. This shouldn't even be up for discussion. No argument can make security by obscurity work and no argument can get me to change my thinking that we should all be using closed SMTP servers.
Spam is "horrific" and all (BTW I don't get more than 5 a year) but we certainly shouldn't even be considering ending it by choosing applications that will eliminate an open society.
We just got one that's more intrusive than the Thinkgeek ads as I can't exactly block front page stories with squid without losing possible valid content.
I still don't understand why you need to check your email and appointments out on the trail...
Depends on what you are doing on the trail... How about geocaching (logging, cache page loading, etc)? How about photo blogging from the tail so that people can track your progress with only a small delay? How about tracking/sending information about the trail/terrain conditions live?
I could go on.
A PDA with a network connection doesn't necessitate email.
Offer a single repoistory for FLAC/SHN downloads via torrents for live music that's distributible for free.
It will draw people in that are interested in both the live stuff and paying to support the bands that support the free distribution of their music.
Give me that and I'd frequent your store. Hell, I've even been peeking more and more at iTMS because of their large studio collection of the Grateful Dead. They even have a good size collection of other jambands (WSP, SCI).
You are assuming of course that anything you do is of any interest to anyone.
I'm not assuming anything. I am basing my opinions on the laws that have been hastily created to make sure we are "protected" by our friendly government officials from those evil terrorists.
Repeat after me: "You have no right to privacy in public." (especially when you are outdoors)
Slippery slope. Yeah, we have "no right" to privacy in public. Yeah, we know that the government and Major League Baseball have been spying on us for years from the eyes in the skies... What I want to know is what we are doing to stop them from continuing their infiltration into our personal lives that we live behind closed doors.
I guess I am too smart for my own good... It told me to only check Office update as it seemed to know that I was already up-to-date on the OS side.
So I go over there and download/install the updates. The only problem I saw with it was that I had to supply my Office CDs during the install (and it warned that might include a key -- luckily I had both in close proximity). If MSFT fucks up I shouldn't be the one that has to produce the CDs/Key to fix it. MSFT should happily go about the update without needing either of those two things. They shouldn't be allowed to check for piracy during a security fix.
That's at least how I saw it.
So I was all patched up according to the Windows Update and the Office Update sites and I figured I was done. Maybe I was too smart for my own good?
Of course it is a threat... It's a threat because people are able to quickly organize and protest. That is a major threat to public officials that want to ignore the fact that there is dissention.
Afterall isn't that why we are "protecting" our President from those horrible demonstrators? They might actually show him that there is a percentage of the population that doesn't agree with him?
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I'd rather him promise nothing than promise to continue to throw money at conservative causes (such as further integration of church and state) or even more money at the war (even monies which were originally intended for humanitarian aid).
Hopefully on appeal the Supreme Court accepts this case.
More than just that, hope that someone else wins in November and appoints some less conservative individuals to take their seat among the other justices.
I guess people are taking what I said as if I really cared... Let me point out my question (Wouldn't that be an effective countermeasure or is it more beneficial just to ignore the problem because it happens so infrequently?)
I really had no idea if adding a new windshield that protected people from lasers would be beneficial for the pilots. I am all for leaving most everything unprotected (ahem) as getting hurt is part of the life process. Being exposed to things that harm you can and will make you more resistant (in more ways than one) later.
How are they going to make a 'laser protective windshield"?
The same way that they make the laser protective eyewear that they claim will not allow the pilots to discern colors inside the cockpit?
Oh wait, you didn't read the article so you don't know what you're talking about. Sorry.
is every new way to hurt somebody going to be another weapon in the terrorist arsenal? Are we going to assume that everytime something happens to someone, a terrorist is behind it? I for one am tired of our leaders trying to make us afraid.
Of course. Someone must be blamed and the "terrorists" are easy targets. It's like the God fallacy... Because we have nothing to explain it a single "supreme being" must have done it.
What I want to know is can they install laser protective windshields instead of handing out the glasses? I mean, how often in this day and age do they have to tell colors from the cockpit window on the ground? Wouldn't that be an effective countermeasure or is it more beneficial just to ignore the problem because it happens so infrequently?
You know what would be hysterical in the sequel? If they used good CGI that was actually adding another dimension to the film and not just wasted because the director had money! Oooh another funny thing would be to have a good script. Dialogue between Star Warsish characters would just be hysterical! Ahahha!
I have a feeling that they aren't going to show a young Dark Helmet. Instead they are going to show an old and feeble one that has to take Viagra to get his Schwartz up.
Hey Brooks, if you use that line you have to pay me. You know, the Secret Window and all that jazz (but only the stuff from 50+ years ago because that might not be copyrighted anymore).
Yet another classic ruined by an unnecessary sequel.
It's a slippery slope you see. Soon the assholes will want backdoors to encryption programs or they will ban them outright. Obviously only a terrorist wouldn't want the government to see their traffic.
This isn't tin foil hat material folks... This is really what's going to happen if we continue down the road we have been traveling. If we don't stop it at the polls this year it's not going to be easily turned around.
Governments (regardless of party affiliation) love to have power. If one party can get the public brainwashed into believing that the measures they are taking are both necessary and acceptable the other side isn't going to complain when they have just that much more control over the population...
VOTE IN NOVEMBER AND PUT AN END TO THIS HORSESHIT.
Why the hell are they asking people for arguments against it? It's obvious it's unnecessary. We have processes in place to allow for wiretaps. The processes might not be easy and that's a GOOD THING.
Get your fucking warrant, set up your equipment, and do your thing. If that takes too long and you miss your chance to get what you need, tough fucking shit. I have no sympathy for you.
Just because we were attacked (and have threats of more) recently does NOT mean that we should treat every god damn citizen like a criminal. Why can we not learn from the past? McCarthyism/Cold War??? Come on, wake up, do NOT stand for this bullshit.
We are citizens and we have rights as such. Why the hell are we allowing the government to walk all over us? Make your complaints known to the FTC and in the polls in November.
It amazes me they are both (Bush and Kerry) so fearful of getting a question they aren't ready for or being upstaged by someone actually in touch with true American feelings that they are their debate-fixing group make it impossible to find out anything that resembles the truth.
I have never actually watched Kerry be interviewed by anyone and stumble through the questioning but I have watched (and read) through this interview where the questions were submitted in advance and yet the President still did not look prepared for the questions/style he was presented with.
It made me feel like we were being led by someone completely unprepared to lead this country when we need it most (ie when he stared like a deer in headlights in the classroom after hearing of the second plane hitting the WTC).
While I have mentioned that the American public may seem to side even more with someone that has problems during an interview I don't think that it gives him any more credibility to those of us that may still be sitting on the fence.
Still, I'll watch, if only in the hopes that Bush will stumble badly over a fact or two.
Yet it seems that people favor that. They think that he is more like one of them when he sounds like a bumbling idiot. It's like the Law and Order episode that showed a celebrity event planner with a facial tick. The tick forces everyone to let their guard down... The majority of the American public think that you should make mistakes even when you are leading this country through a deadly war. They seriously believe that a wartime economy (including diverting relief funds to continue the fighting) is a good thing. They also believe that we should be overly paranoid about the world around us and that we should have a leader who is on the offensive against these forces of evil!
I seriously hope that someone cuts into Survivor and The Apprentice this week and explains what the "debates" really are (they better be dressed like Burnett or Trump) and that they are worthless or we are going to see yet another 8 point jump in the ratings.
I guess having a bad plan is better than having no plan at all.
Anything these two have to say is bound to be much more open and interesting than what the oligopolists have to say.
Unfortunately it will be worthless. Yeah, it may be interesting, but it will have little to no bearing on the main parties' campaigns, their strategy, or their eventual actions while in the White House.
The Republicans and the Democrats have little interest in what is going on outside of their only little world because no one in the majority really gives a shit either.
Until third party candidates actually have a shot at winning the elections (which will likely never happen in our lifetimes) their outlook on politics, the world, and everything else is utterly useless.
Because who the hell wants to carry around an 8x10 + ungodly fish themed frame with them all day in an aquarium?
The point was that you could have your photo taken anywhere and then you could get the photos at a completely different area of the aquarium later.
It was much more convienient than having to wait in line in your general area and then carry it around with you for the rest of the day.
I went to the aqaurium in KY right across the river from Cincinnati. They were taking pictures with digital cameras that had wireless cards. They were free roaming... The pictures could be picked up at the end of the day when you were ready to leave.
It was definitly pretty neat.
If all cameras had this (or any sort of net connection, even via GPRS) it would be great to use a script like galleryadd to pump the photos into your Gallery from the road. I do it via procmail, shell scripts, and galleryadd now with my hiptop's camera (although I suppose you could do it with any camera that allows photos with email attachments).
Arresting these people wouldn't solve the problem overnight, but by christ it'd be a bloody good start.
yes, just like the drug war right? We know that most of the drugs come into the country at certain points and all we have to do is arrest the people behind the importation at those points.
Cut one head off and another one rises to take its place.
Because, as much as the United States would like to, we cannot control the happenings in the rest of the world?
Spam is here to stay no matter how much fucking legislation is out there.
From Groklaw:
7. Whether any of the proposed authentication standards would have to be an open standard (i.e., a standard with specifications that are public).
Of course the standard would have to be open. This shouldn't even be up for discussion. No argument can make security by obscurity work and no argument can get me to change my thinking that we should all be using closed SMTP servers.
Spam is "horrific" and all (BTW I don't get more than 5 a year) but we certainly shouldn't even be considering ending it by choosing applications that will eliminate an open society.
We just got one that's more intrusive than the Thinkgeek ads as I can't exactly block front page stories with squid without losing possible valid content.
I still don't understand why you need to check your email and appointments out on the trail...
Depends on what you are doing on the trail... How about geocaching (logging, cache page loading, etc)? How about photo blogging from the tail so that people can track your progress with only a small delay? How about tracking/sending information about the trail/terrain conditions live?
I could go on.
A PDA with a network connection doesn't necessitate email.
Offer a single repoistory for FLAC/SHN downloads via torrents for live music that's distributible for free.
It will draw people in that are interested in both the live stuff and paying to support the bands that support the free distribution of their music.
Give me that and I'd frequent your store. Hell, I've even been peeking more and more at iTMS because of their large studio collection of the Grateful Dead. They even have a good size collection of other jambands (WSP, SCI).
You are assuming of course that anything you do is of any interest to anyone.
I'm not assuming anything. I am basing my opinions on the laws that have been hastily created to make sure we are "protected" by our friendly government officials from those evil terrorists.
But, at the same time, why should we pay our tax dollars to have the military spy on US citicens, when they could be looking for terrorists?
Because the public is happy to be lumped into the same group as the terrorists.
Repeat after me: "You have no right to privacy in public." (especially when you are outdoors)
Slippery slope. Yeah, we have "no right" to privacy in public. Yeah, we know that the government and Major League Baseball have been spying on us for years from the eyes in the skies... What I want to know is what we are doing to stop them from continuing their infiltration into our personal lives that we live behind closed doors.
I guess I am too smart for my own good... It told me to only check Office update as it seemed to know that I was already up-to-date on the OS side.
So I go over there and download/install the updates. The only problem I saw with it was that I had to supply my Office CDs during the install (and it warned that might include a key -- luckily I had both in close proximity). If MSFT fucks up I shouldn't be the one that has to produce the CDs/Key to fix it. MSFT should happily go about the update without needing either of those two things. They shouldn't be allowed to check for piracy during a security fix.
That's at least how I saw it.
So I was all patched up according to the Windows Update and the Office Update sites and I figured I was done. Maybe I was too smart for my own good?
You would think so but now that the technology is created those in power are changing what we should be able to do with it.
Of course it is a threat... It's a threat because people are able to quickly organize and protest. That is a major threat to public officials that want to ignore the fact that there is dissention.
Afterall isn't that why we are "protecting" our President from those horrible demonstrators? They might actually show him that there is a percentage of the population that doesn't agree with him?