It was created so that, should the people decide that the government has become unbearable, they have all they need to start an armed insurgency. The tradeoff is that they also have all they need to randomly shoot people.
If you are going to commit treason against your government, don't you think that you wouldn't mind getting weapons and explosives illegally, or that there would be a market willing to sell them to you?
Well if that's the case, why not force all adults to carry weapons at all times? Heck, we could probably save money cause we could totally get rid of the police!
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I'm not going to upgrade to a flat panel until two things happen: They're under $400 and my current CRT, which is less than a year old, breaks down. I don't watch enough TV to make it worth a thousand bucks.
I was thinking more along the lines of "forging the document." Sure, you can forge the headers, but you can also block the caller id on your phone, or fax it from just about anywhere with an open RJ11 jack if you really wanted to spoof your number.
There's been a long-time link between the entertainment industry and the Democratic party. The first stop after winning the primary for almost every candidate is in Hollywood, where they shmooze it up with wealthy producers and record company execs to get enough money to run a campaign that stands a snowball's chance in hell of winning.
Even though Howard Dean is the face of the "new" Democratic party, I'm pretty sure that there are still a bunch of folks in the DNC who are loyal to the old ways of doing things. And many of the power brokers in the DLC, the elitist snobs who see voters as commodities and bloggers as barbarians at the gate, are also loyal to the old moneyed interests.
I can tell you that the top liberal bloggers and their readers are pretty upset by this hiring. I don't think it's going to last long. And if this shill loses her cushy job because a bunch of people don't like her, I won't lose any sleep.
But, then again, I'm a web developer. The only applications I use on a regular basis that are on my machine are a text editor, and IM client, and (ugh) Outlook. Everything else runs on a server.
So switching to that in my personal life was fairly easy. Since I'm not on my own computer most of the time, having my email and calendars and address book on a web service is extremely convenient.
Yeah, a lot harder to spoof. I'd have to print out a document that I forged before faxing it. Or edit the document in any one of a myriad image editing programs and fax it from my computer anyway.
Tell that to my credit union or any of my insurers. Even though I have a scanner and can send them encrypted PDFs, they insist that I fax them various bits of information for "security purposes." This isn't much of a problem since my computer has a built-in fax modem, but why they don't accept encrypted PDFs is beyond me. It's just as secure as a fax.
Look at it this way: With solar panels the waste is kept at one location and can be reclaimed. Coal power plants spew toxic chemicals into the atmosphere and around the world. I can't eat more than 8oz of wild-caught fish in my state because of coal power plants in the midwest spewing mercury, along with other heavy metals.
I wouldn't put the blame squarely on Apple. Distribution agreements have kept good content out of the hands of people in other countries for decades. It's only since the advent of broadband Internet access that people have been able to get first-run content from other places without waiting.
There's a pretty good article about this over on Mind Jack
I find it interesting that you aren't considering that Bush is part of the problem. After all, he could have gotten rid of Rove or Gonzalez at a word, but didn't. So either he doesn't know what the people he's appointed are doing, or he knows about it and approves. Either way he isn't fit to be president.
While you do lose a few features (I'm dying for a good enclosure w/ one button backup), it's cheaper and you have more selection. Plus, the software that comes with external hard drives is such crap anyways (Seagate and BounceBack Crippled/Express Edition).
Why use a one button backup when it's pretty trivial to write a shell script that'll do an Rsync backup?
Thanks for the tip about buying the enclosure and the drive separately. I've been looking for a 250GB+ drive to do Rsyncs of my laptops to, and then let my mini manage syncing them to my web host.
That's why I write web apps and host them locally. I've got one that I use to track my car's fuel economy that I wrote in RoR, but it doesn't exist anywhere but on my Powerbook.
Oh, you're in a place with actual broadband internet. I'd imagine that some school in Nowhere, PA would be able to survive with a $400 beige box because they're lucky if they get 3 megabit DSL.
You might want to look at Astaro. I've heard good things about their content filtering and scalability. Just say that you're doing it to protect the children, and they'll start throwing money at you.
I set up my old 400Mhz Power Mac G4 running a PPC Linux variant and squid when I lived with my mother-in-law so that her 13 year old son couldn't get on naughty websites. It cost me exactly $0 since I had the thing laying around, and worked perfectly fine as an Internet Proxy.
I'd imagine you could spend about $400 and about 1 day building a machine to do this exact thing. Heck, if it made my job easier I'd build the thing in my spare time and donate it to the school.
The content coming over the wires or through the pipes isn't a natural monopoly. The wires themselves are the natural monopolies. That's why I think that the wires and pipes should be controlled by government-owned corporations who lease access to companies.
I'm able to choose who I buy my electricity, natural gas, and local phone service from, and I can get satellite Internet, but I've got two choices when it comes to broadband Internet, and they both suck. (Satellite broadband has too much lag for my purposes.) It would be much better for my city to buy the dark fiber under the streets, send it the 20 feet into my house, and have me buy Internet service from a company who leases the lines.
This would make broadband ISPs much more like dial-up ISPs were in the mid-1990s. Anyone could start a company with a modem bank. If they had good service, they survived. If they didn't, they folded. But creating a duopoly does nothing to help protect the consumer or ensure good service.
Believe me, if Comcast didn't charge me $15 more per month to get broadband without basic cable, which incidentally costs $15 per month, I'd drop my cable in a heartbeat and get all my content off of iTunes and BitTorrent. It would actually be cheaper for me to do that if they didn't artificially inflate their prices.
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If you are going to commit treason against your government, don't you think that you wouldn't mind getting weapons and explosives illegally, or that there would be a market willing to sell them to you?
Well if that's the case, why not force all adults to carry weapons at all times? Heck, we could probably save money cause we could totally get rid of the police!
I'm not going to upgrade to a flat panel until two things happen: They're under $400 and my current CRT, which is less than a year old, breaks down. I don't watch enough TV to make it worth a thousand bucks.
Why port it when Adium is far prettier than any gAIM setup I've ever seen, and is built on the same codebase.
I was thinking more along the lines of "forging the document." Sure, you can forge the headers, but you can also block the caller id on your phone, or fax it from just about anywhere with an open RJ11 jack if you really wanted to spoof your number.
There's been a long-time link between the entertainment industry and the Democratic party. The first stop after winning the primary for almost every candidate is in Hollywood, where they shmooze it up with wealthy producers and record company execs to get enough money to run a campaign that stands a snowball's chance in hell of winning.
Even though Howard Dean is the face of the "new" Democratic party, I'm pretty sure that there are still a bunch of folks in the DNC who are loyal to the old ways of doing things. And many of the power brokers in the DLC, the elitist snobs who see voters as commodities and bloggers as barbarians at the gate, are also loyal to the old moneyed interests.
I can tell you that the top liberal bloggers and their readers are pretty upset by this hiring. I don't think it's going to last long. And if this shill loses her cushy job because a bunch of people don't like her, I won't lose any sleep.
But, then again, I'm a web developer. The only applications I use on a regular basis that are on my machine are a text editor, and IM client, and (ugh) Outlook. Everything else runs on a server.
So switching to that in my personal life was fairly easy. Since I'm not on my own computer most of the time, having my email and calendars and address book on a web service is extremely convenient.
Actually, the "smoke pot" part of the platform is about the only thing I agree with. Laissez-faire economics never sat well with me.
Yeah, a lot harder to spoof. I'd have to print out a document that I forged before faxing it. Or edit the document in any one of a myriad image editing programs and fax it from my computer anyway.
Tell that to my credit union or any of my insurers. Even though I have a scanner and can send them encrypted PDFs, they insist that I fax them various bits of information for "security purposes." This isn't much of a problem since my computer has a built-in fax modem, but why they don't accept encrypted PDFs is beyond me. It's just as secure as a fax.
What are you doing on a ranch that uses 11kW of energy? Growing pot underground?
Look at it this way: With solar panels the waste is kept at one location and can be reclaimed. Coal power plants spew toxic chemicals into the atmosphere and around the world. I can't eat more than 8oz of wild-caught fish in my state because of coal power plants in the midwest spewing mercury, along with other heavy metals.
I wouldn't put the blame squarely on Apple. Distribution agreements have kept good content out of the hands of people in other countries for decades. It's only since the advent of broadband Internet access that people have been able to get first-run content from other places without waiting.
There's a pretty good article about this over on Mind Jack
I find it interesting that you aren't considering that Bush is part of the problem. After all, he could have gotten rid of Rove or Gonzalez at a word, but didn't. So either he doesn't know what the people he's appointed are doing, or he knows about it and approves. Either way he isn't fit to be president.
Don't they understand that computers mean nothing can ever be truly deleted?
Why use a one button backup when it's pretty trivial to write a shell script that'll do an Rsync backup?
Thanks for the tip about buying the enclosure and the drive separately. I've been looking for a 250GB+ drive to do Rsyncs of my laptops to, and then let my mini manage syncing them to my web host.
How about HTML 2.0?
That's why I write web apps and host them locally. I've got one that I use to track my car's fuel economy that I wrote in RoR, but it doesn't exist anywhere but on my Powerbook.
No, the RIAA and MPAA will just assume that people can't live without their crap and that the loss of sales is due to increased piracy.
Oh, you're in a place with actual broadband internet. I'd imagine that some school in Nowhere, PA would be able to survive with a $400 beige box because they're lucky if they get 3 megabit DSL.
You might want to look at Astaro. I've heard good things about their content filtering and scalability. Just say that you're doing it to protect the children, and they'll start throwing money at you.
I tried that method when I was shopping for broadband. Both companies laughed at me when I said I'd go somewhere else.
In other words: Your methodology only works when there's more than one competitor in the marketplace.
I set up my old 400Mhz Power Mac G4 running a PPC Linux variant and squid when I lived with my mother-in-law so that her 13 year old son couldn't get on naughty websites. It cost me exactly $0 since I had the thing laying around, and worked perfectly fine as an Internet Proxy.
I'd imagine you could spend about $400 and about 1 day building a machine to do this exact thing. Heck, if it made my job easier I'd build the thing in my spare time and donate it to the school.
The content coming over the wires or through the pipes isn't a natural monopoly. The wires themselves are the natural monopolies. That's why I think that the wires and pipes should be controlled by government-owned corporations who lease access to companies.
I'm able to choose who I buy my electricity, natural gas, and local phone service from, and I can get satellite Internet, but I've got two choices when it comes to broadband Internet, and they both suck. (Satellite broadband has too much lag for my purposes.) It would be much better for my city to buy the dark fiber under the streets, send it the 20 feet into my house, and have me buy Internet service from a company who leases the lines.
This would make broadband ISPs much more like dial-up ISPs were in the mid-1990s. Anyone could start a company with a modem bank. If they had good service, they survived. If they didn't, they folded. But creating a duopoly does nothing to help protect the consumer or ensure good service.
Believe me, if Comcast didn't charge me $15 more per month to get broadband without basic cable, which incidentally costs $15 per month, I'd drop my cable in a heartbeat and get all my content off of iTunes and BitTorrent. It would actually be cheaper for me to do that if they didn't artificially inflate their prices.
Do you know how difficult it is to find a black and white TV these days?