Hitting the bong over the next 4 years will definately help us forget about the 7 trillion dollar deficit. It might be 14 trillion in 4 years, but who cares Jeb?!
No, you've hit the heart too. Since the Patriot Act allows no need to provide reasons or permission, there are no facts to see or prove or disagree with.
I can't understand the willfull ignorance of the Republicans calling the kettle black in the situation of Florida!
The media 'says' Gore won, then said Bush won. Then because the race is so close, it's the Democrats fault for wanting recounts? Deep down, you have to admit, that you KNOW the Republicans would have done the same thing if the results were reversed.
The Florida was much closer than what is happening in Ohio. And don't forget that 3 independent recounts in Florida showed Gore winning by 534.
Wrong, he's telling those 140,000 voters that their vote doesn't statistically count when the current vote tally is at a difference of 108,000 in favor of Bush.
I'm surprised you didn't say 250,000 voters, since that's what one Democrat spouted. Spin, spin, spin, spin, spin. It's amazing that the democrats are saying 250,000, and the Republicans say 100,000. Who can you believe? No one.
I'm a Democrat, and am VERY concerned about what this lazy president is going to do to this country over the next 4 years, especially since he doesn't need to worry about looking good for the next election.
However, even I know the margin in Ohio is no where near Florida's margin. 2.5% difference. At least Iowa should be waiting at 1.0% difference. But with only 7 electorals....
We're talking about waiting 30 days to get all the absentee ballots in. The provisional ballots are going to be about 80% allowed, and even counties that were heavily favored Kerry in Ohio are still only 70% Kerry. No way you'll get enough of those 140,000 (or even 200,000) to swing that high to Kerry. Sad, but true.
Considering that 3 different third-party recounters came back with Gore winning by 534 votes, I can only imagine why!
What I can't understand is why it was ok for the Republicans to step in and steal Florida in the first place after it was already called, but then when it was time to find out who 'really won', they get to label the Democrats as stalling.
Truth is, both sides wanted to win, and did whatever sleazy menuevers they could to win.
Ohio was no where near as close, and I can see why Kerry conceded. I do hope that the full counts come in, I'm curious to see how close everything truly was, even if it's 30 days from now.
I have LONG looked around for references to the legality of downloading.
As you know, almost everything in court right now is the DISTRIBUTION (uploading) of copyright material that you don't have permission to do so.
Very very little about downloading. I believe it's because the RIAA does NOT want to fight that grey line, and end up losing it.
Adding to the confusion is the media which are either biased or just lazy in saying everythign is about downloading. So-and-so is being sued for downloading 1000 or more songs. The truth is (found by reading the article) that the person actually allowed UPLOADING of 1000+ songs.
According to your own link, it is illegal to download. It does NOT differentiate whether or not you own it:
"What the Courts Have to Say
For all the public confusion, a long series of court rulings has made it very clear that it's against the law both to upload and download copyrighted music without permission."
By owning a CD, you do have rights under Fair use to make your own copies from that CD. It still does NOT give you the right to download those songs that are copies made from a different CD.
Don't get me wrong, I doubt they'd take it to court, but they have mentioned this exact thing in interviews that is illegal.
As Russ Feingold has pointed out, the Patriot Act allowed a massive amount of things the FBI has beeng trying to get passed for over 20 years. These are privacy issues that Legislation voted against over and over again, over the past 20 years. All voted in now under the umbrella of fear.
There is a REASON why they were saying NO to this for 20 years.
However, I'm guessing that after listening to his phone conversations (without a warrant) they were able to find out he HAD friends, and now were able to move in and interregate him on the matter.
Well, those are local referendums. Mine was "Should the city be allowed to build a public pool in one of the city parks".
Important stuff.
You're not going to see a federal referendum on the ballot. Those things are going to be covered (hopefully) by the people running for president or state. Of course, you already know that.
So I guess I"m just saying, just like ther's no referendum about the war in Iraq, they're not going to ask about gay marriage.
And sex is very much already defined by most people as being between a man and a women too, right? Wrong, sex can be between the same sex.
I can only hope than in 25 years our children or grandchildren will be reading their history books scratching their heads wondering why we were so boneheaded at the turn of the century
Just like I did as a kid, wondering why people were so boneheaded before Civil liberties were given to black people, allowing them to *gasp* go to the same school as white people without having bricks thrown at them.
If we have to name it "Civil Union" so that they can have the same federal rights, yet not encroach into the sacred religious drame, then fine. Why can 2 heterosexual people get married at Town Hall, or married by Elvis/Alien/Monster in Las Vegas, and still be called a "marriage under god?"
I'm not even on the side of the smokers, but I'm definately not on your side. I have a young relative with Cystic Fibrosis, and if we're in a situation where her breathing might become impaired, she'll don a mask. We've either asked people to politely quit smoking, or leave if it was at the end of our meal. When we're sick ourselves and handling her, we'll don masks ourselves.
But mandate laws around you? Grow a backbone and quit whining on a web site.
It is just as illegal to copy an album you own vs. an album you don't own. This has been brought up in an RIAA inteview years ago.
Don't ask me why. I suppose it'd be like saying you're allowed to steal a copy of the CD from a store as long as you had already owned it once before (and maybe it got ripped off).
HardOCP has a ton of users, and I am guessing people like to join a winner, so they get even more. That's cool and all. And I could care less if people join other teams, just surprised slashdot had so few.
Your troll was fine, just too well written. A real rant would have been shorter.
The same thought has crossed my mind. But with pressures to win, I really doubt most of those 'latebreaking' incriminating stories are actually true.
Besides, Candidate Q could do something bad 2 days after being elected, and no one could change their vote then.
Voting early for your candidate helps the early-day polls. And as you know, people like to vote for a winner. People are encouraged to vote early for this reason.
Yea right. With the republicans secretly redistricting...
Just kidding about blaming the republicans. I'm not sure why that would hurt only the republicans, or why the liberal radio station I flip to from Rush is blaming it as a Republican conspiracy.
I look at Bush & Cheney and see the epitome of the 'good-ol-boy' network. Back door deals, friends of Enron, Halliburton, & Suadi Arabia.
I find it hard to ignore that the 2 times we've been at war with Iraq, it's been with a Bush in office. The cost is still rising, another 70 billion just been asked for. With this kind of money, we could have searched every inch of Afganistan twice.
As far as taxes go, I have NEVER had a problem paying my taxes when the economy is great, and my paychecks roll in. There are more taxes to COLLECT when more people are working and spending.
Bush should have kept my $300 check. It pales in comparison to the bonus check we get on good years. The year I got a $300 check from Bush, not only did I get no bonus, we had to fire 100 people. It could have been me.
I'm not going to be able to change your mind. So I'll just point out again that I think people see what they want to see. I know during the debates, I sure did. Talked to some Republicans the next day who loved Bush's performance. !!?
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Hitting the bong over the next 4 years will definately help us forget about the 7 trillion dollar deficit. It might be 14 trillion in 4 years, but who cares Jeb?!
Or maybe that's what you meant.
SETI@HOME team was in the thousands i think.
The media 'says' Gore won, then said Bush won. Then because the race is so close, it's the Democrats fault for wanting recounts? Deep down, you have to admit, that you KNOW the Republicans would have done the same thing if the results were reversed.
The Florida was much closer than what is happening in Ohio. And don't forget that 3 independent recounts in Florida showed Gore winning by 534.
I'm surprised you didn't say 250,000 voters, since that's what one Democrat spouted. Spin, spin, spin, spin, spin. It's amazing that the democrats are saying 250,000, and the Republicans say 100,000. Who can you believe? No one.
I'm a Democrat, and am VERY concerned about what this lazy president is going to do to this country over the next 4 years, especially since he doesn't need to worry about looking good for the next election.
However, even I know the margin in Ohio is no where near Florida's margin. 2.5% difference. At least Iowa should be waiting at 1.0% difference. But with only 7 electorals....
We're talking about waiting 30 days to get all the absentee ballots in. The provisional ballots are going to be about 80% allowed, and even counties that were heavily favored Kerry in Ohio are still only 70% Kerry. No way you'll get enough of those 140,000 (or even 200,000) to swing that high to Kerry. Sad, but true.
Considering that 3 different third-party recounters came back with Gore winning by 534 votes, I can only imagine why!
What I can't understand is why it was ok for the Republicans to step in and steal Florida in the first place after it was already called, but then when it was time to find out who 'really won', they get to label the Democrats as stalling.
Truth is, both sides wanted to win, and did whatever sleazy menuevers they could to win.
Ohio was no where near as close, and I can see why Kerry conceded. I do hope that the full counts come in, I'm curious to see how close everything truly was, even if it's 30 days from now.
I have LONG looked around for references to the legality of downloading.
As you know, almost everything in court right now is the DISTRIBUTION (uploading) of copyright material that you don't have permission to do so.
Very very little about downloading. I believe it's because the RIAA does NOT want to fight that grey line, and end up losing it.
Adding to the confusion is the media which are either biased or just lazy in saying everythign is about downloading. So-and-so is being sued for downloading 1000 or more songs. The truth is (found by reading the article) that the person actually allowed UPLOADING of 1000+ songs.
According to your own link, it is illegal to download. It does NOT differentiate whether or not you own it:
"What the Courts Have to Say For all the public confusion, a long series of court rulings has made it very clear that it's against the law both to upload and download copyrighted music without permission."
By owning a CD, you do have rights under Fair use to make your own copies from that CD. It still does NOT give you the right to download those songs that are copies made from a different CD.
Don't get me wrong, I doubt they'd take it to court, but they have mentioned this exact thing in interviews that is illegal.
There is a REASON why they were saying NO to this for 20 years.
However, I'm guessing that after listening to his phone conversations (without a warrant) they were able to find out he HAD friends, and now were able to move in and interregate him on the matter.
Important stuff.
You're not going to see a federal referendum on the ballot. Those things are going to be covered (hopefully) by the people running for president or state. Of course, you already know that.
So I guess I"m just saying, just like ther's no referendum about the war in Iraq, they're not going to ask about gay marriage.
I can only hope than in 25 years our children or grandchildren will be reading their history books scratching their heads wondering why we were so boneheaded at the turn of the century
Just like I did as a kid, wondering why people were so boneheaded before Civil liberties were given to black people, allowing them to *gasp* go to the same school as white people without having bricks thrown at them.
If we have to name it "Civil Union" so that they can have the same federal rights, yet not encroach into the sacred religious drame, then fine. Why can 2 heterosexual people get married at Town Hall, or married by Elvis/Alien/Monster in Las Vegas, and still be called a "marriage under god?"
But what are people so afraid of?
I'm not even on the side of the smokers, but I'm definately not on your side. I have a young relative with Cystic Fibrosis, and if we're in a situation where her breathing might become impaired, she'll don a mask. We've either asked people to politely quit smoking, or leave if it was at the end of our meal. When we're sick ourselves and handling her, we'll don masks ourselves.
But mandate laws around you? Grow a backbone and quit whining on a web site.
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Don't ask me why. I suppose it'd be like saying you're allowed to steal a copy of the CD from a store as long as you had already owned it once before (and maybe it got ripped off).
Except the joysticks.
Your troll was fine, just too well written. A real rant would have been shorter.
Besides, Candidate Q could do something bad 2 days after being elected, and no one could change their vote then.
Voting early for your candidate helps the early-day polls. And as you know, people like to vote for a winner. People are encouraged to vote early for this reason.
Oops, sorry, he's Independent.
Vote for Badnarik!
Just kidding about blaming the republicans. I'm not sure why that would hurt only the republicans, or why the liberal radio station I flip to from Rush is blaming it as a Republican conspiracy.
They actually asked for it, man.
Repeat that in a real sentence, and maybe I can answer it.
I look at Bush & Cheney and see the epitome of the 'good-ol-boy' network. Back door deals, friends of Enron, Halliburton, & Suadi Arabia.
I find it hard to ignore that the 2 times we've been at war with Iraq, it's been with a Bush in office. The cost is still rising, another 70 billion just been asked for. With this kind of money, we could have searched every inch of Afganistan twice.
As far as taxes go, I have NEVER had a problem paying my taxes when the economy is great, and my paychecks roll in. There are more taxes to COLLECT when more people are working and spending.
Bush should have kept my $300 check. It pales in comparison to the bonus check we get on good years. The year I got a $300 check from Bush, not only did I get no bonus, we had to fire 100 people. It could have been me.
I'm not going to be able to change your mind. So I'll just point out again that I think people see what they want to see. I know during the debates, I sure did. Talked to some Republicans the next day who loved Bush's performance. !!?
Will it make your iPod quit working? Or make you love your iPod less?
And you could steal a copy, and give it to me. P2P stealing! I like it.