That is what is called legislating from the bench.
If congress/states can't make a law on it constitutionally, they can't make it illegal-- which the courts point out to them, periodically. Unless there is a law making something illegal, it's legal.
The bigger question (and I don't know the answer) is how does the wireless-only demographic compare with similar demographic that is polled... namely the young voter.
Closely; several stories have quotes from Zogby to answer that. As a one-point sample:
Considering that the under 30 age group has the worst turnout record this is probably meaningless.
Possibly. However, the Zogby poll also indicated 97.2% of the cell phone users polled planned to vote (2.3% planned not to,.5% uncertain). The claimed error margin for the poll is 1.2%.
If accurate, either text messaging cell phone users are much more politically active than the average GenX slacker, or Bush has successfully and massively mobilized the youth vote for the first time since 1972. Of course, he's mobilized it mostly against himself, but it still may prove his most lasting contribution to American politics... except his administration's share of the federal debt deficit. =)
And by "basic rights", consider this: Bush may well get to make up to four Supreme court appointments. Replacements might well be for one liberal and one moderate, along with two of the conservatives. We shouldn't be worried only about the Court revisiting Roe v. Wade; we should be worried about revisiting Brown v. Board... or for that matter, West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish.
It would appear that a large fraction of US voters trust one or the other, believe that the speeches will actually correlate with future performance, and generally trust their gut feelings about the candidates' "character" and "values."
Large, but not all of us. I trust Kerry about as far as the Secret Service guarding him would let me kick him, and think he's lying through his hat making promises to get himself elected.
On the other hand, that latter is a plus in my book. I think he'll flip flop to whatever makes sense to him at the time he decides, rather than sticking blindly to campaign promises and policies with disregard to evolving situations. Bush, in my opinion, has been a Geopolitical, Environmental, and Fiscal disaster. And to seal my vote, the libertarians nominated a nut job so far out that I can't support him in good concience-- ruining my previous perfect Libertarian voting record.
Kerry sucks. But we're still (barely) at the "Ballot Box" stage to defend liberty, and so he's the lizard I'm voting for.
I agree. This is essentially letting others get multiple votes through you, which is obviously unfair when phrased as such.
I would disagree, slightly. At least you're getting the opinion of someone you consider better able to make a judgement than you are... which in a sense why we use a Republican form of democracy. Better, however, is if you can't meet your civic obligation of becoming a voter suitably informed on the issues to express an intelligent opinion while voting:
1) Find the biggest, dumbest jackass in your circle of acquaintance
2) Politely and interestedly ask them how they plan to vote, and why.
3) Then vote the other way.
If you honestly believe that either candidate from the Big Two will be an equal disaster for the country-- which several of my freinds do-- feel free to support 3rd party candidates. I would disagree, but can see the position; I neither like nor trust either candidate; Bush, however, seems to lack all sense of moderation.
The current president has not only managed to drive me back from voting my previously perfect libertarian slate, but his anti-coattails managed to add the local Democratic candidate for the House to my intended slate this year, given the howling bigot the Republicans have in office. A pity my home state will only swing if God passes a minor (1 in 100) miracle.
one of God's days is much longer than one of our days
If it makes you happier:
The bible oft compares God to light.
The mind of God may well "travel" at near light speed.
Relativity says that when you travel close to light speed, time distorts.
Ergo, a day for God conceivably is a billion years for mankind.
You can also use general relativity, and park god next to a black hole. There's also an information theory arguement involving god's omniscience which gives the same result, although I didn't know enough physics to remember and understand it when I first encountered it.
You're putting TELNET down if you think its importance was limited by security and bandwidth.
I don't. I think its present importance is limited by security, period. I intended the Internet as the "it" being no more changed than the computer itself, save progress in Security, bandwidth, and accessibility. Telnet is still completely adequate for all of those-- except security. For that, it pretty much bites. And, I admit, I'll use it when I'm feeling lazy-- on a physically isolated LAN under my full control. =)
I'm not even sure its safe to called the ARPANET the internet, considering how limited it was
FTP is quite old, and was quite useful even before gopher and later http made zipping files back and forth trivial. The genius of Berners-Lee was rather like the mythical invention of the Recees Peanut Butter Cup. He figured out a way to combine a hypertext markup scheme with internet file transfer. The individual component ideas had been lying around for at least seven years (and possibly since the dawn of ARPANET) when he put them together in a limited whole. Active scripting was a bit more clever an idea, but only marginally.
I will grant that it's a good thing TELNET is dying in favor of SSH-- security (network and computer alike) has made great progress since then. So has bandwidth. So has accessibility to the general public. But it's no more funamentally different in terms of power than modern desktop computers are compared to those of days of yore.
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But steve got the best dibs on a prophet name
I dunno, the Gates of Heaven or Hell has a certain promise to it.
Linus... well, there's a minor reference in the Second Letter to Timothy (4:21), but it's really unimpressive.
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It's OK if you have a deep personal relationship with your Macintosh....
You PAID for it.
Yeah, that was what I tried telling the judge about the hooker, but he didn't buy that theory. =)
Then you are not a Mac User, your just happen to use a Mac.
I think the term you are looking for isn't "User" but rather Bigot. I use a Mac at work. I even like it. I even didn't mind adding Mac troubleshooting skills to my Windows and Linux skills-- it wasn't that different. I would even go so far as to say that I prefer doing 90% of my Real Work at a Mac. (Games are another story.) But I while I think the iPod is kinda cool, I'm not planning on replacing my Archos Jukebox 20 until it keels over dead... which, incidentally, won't be due to the batteries. I have better ways to waste my money than donating to the Church of Steve.
I'd also disagree slightly with the assessment of the review. Based on what's said, there may be some interest in the material to anthropologists (amateur and professional) who study computer nerds. If I see the book at Barnes & Noble, I might sit down and leaf through it for an hour or two. I might check it out if it hits the local library. I wouldn't spend real money on it, though.
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In 1556, not long after the Portuguese first set foot in Brazil, the Bishop Pero Fernandes Sardinha was shipwrecked on its shores and set about introducing the gospel of Christ to the native "heathens." The locals, impressed with the glorious civilization the bishop represented and eager to absorb it in its totality, promptly ate him.
Now, if only they had retained that attiude for Windows missionaries. =)
In practice it means you can exclude healthy straight non-old males. Anyone else you better be arresting them for theft or they need to be causing an extreme disturbance.
Personal enemies are also generally acceptable-- people you have met elsewhere, gotten to know by name, and learned hate their guts.
When I was working in a (hellish) restaurant as a manager, I tossed out (amoung many others) at various separate times an ex-girlfreind, the guy an ex-GF rudely dumped me for, and a despised former coworker from another job, telling them they should feel free to come back when someone else was working, but I didn't want to deal with them. Mostly I just threw out those making an extreme disturbance, but these are a few of the people on this planet who I can remain neither calm nor civil to while talking with them for more than 30 seconds.
The ex-GF and the guy both had the sense to leave, but the ex-coworker claimed it was because I was racist and sexist, necessitating calling the cops. Coincidentally, the cop who showed up was also a black female. I pointed out the two other black female customers in the store, smilingly (teeth clenched) explained that I didn't care that she was black, didn't care that she was female, but did care that she was both personally known to me and in my opinion an asshole (and several other choice terms), that I didn't care to put up with her, and that she was welcome to come back any time that I wasn't the manager, but I wanted her gone lest I lose my temper.
The cop was happy to help. The twit left screaming about suing me and the store... but she never did. She eventually ended up effectively banned from the store, as various other managers (including the two black women managers) got pissed at her and also kicked her out as an asshole. =)
In part, he's also hoping to get a measure of which polls are accurate, and who's not. Several discrepancies in contemporary poll results by different companies indicate bias in their population normalizing models. Or in other words, someone's cooking the books, and it would be nice to know who for the next time around.
What makes you think that geeks wouldn't have a firm opinion about the
religious zealot
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running the White House? True, not all Slashdotters are male SF Fan, heterosexual-in-theory and monosexual-in-practice, liberal-to-libertarian hacker whackos. However, there's (apparently) a strong correlation to each of these characteristics individually. Virtual communities, like most other forms of community, form around COMMONalities. Those who don't like the neighborhood, move on. (This may or may not be a good thing, but it is easily observed in internet groups.)
So, most Slashdotters lean one way, while most Born-Again-Christians lean another. Beeg Fat Hairy Deel. If you don't like it, submit more Pro-Bush coverage stories, or more Anti-Kerry coverage stories. If they have a defensible point, they might get through.
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If congress/states can't make a law on it constitutionally, they can't make it illegal-- which the courts point out to them, periodically. Unless there is a law making something illegal, it's legal.
You say Poe-Tay-Toe, I say Poe-Tah-Toe....
Closely; several stories have quotes from Zogby to answer that. As a one-point sample:
"The results of this text-message poll mirror what we're seeing in our more conventional polls," said John Zogby, CEO and president of Utica, N.Y.-based Zogby International. "Among 18-29 year-olds, Kerry leads the President by 14 points-55% to 41% in our current daily tracking poll-virtually identical to these results. Our text-message poll seems to have been validated by this experiment. All in all, I think we've broken some new ground in polling."
We shall see.
Possibly. However, the Zogby poll also indicated 97.2% of the cell phone users polled planned to vote (2.3% planned not to, .5% uncertain). The claimed error margin for the poll is 1.2%.
If accurate, either text messaging cell phone users are much more politically active than the average GenX slacker, or Bush has successfully and massively mobilized the youth vote for the first time since 1972. Of course, he's mobilized it mostly against himself, but it still may prove his most lasting contribution to American politics... except his administration's share of the federal debt deficit. =)
Optimist. Try "until January 20".
Closer to a more traditional sporting event, if not so polite and civilized.
Large, but not all of us. I trust Kerry about as far as the Secret Service guarding him would let me kick him, and think he's lying through his hat making promises to get himself elected.
On the other hand, that latter is a plus in my book. I think he'll flip flop to whatever makes sense to him at the time he decides, rather than sticking blindly to campaign promises and policies with disregard to evolving situations. Bush, in my opinion, has been a Geopolitical, Environmental, and Fiscal disaster. And to seal my vote, the libertarians nominated a nut job so far out that I can't support him in good concience-- ruining my previous perfect Libertarian voting record.
Kerry sucks. But we're still (barely) at the "Ballot Box" stage to defend liberty, and so he's the lizard I'm voting for.
I would disagree, slightly. At least you're getting the opinion of someone you consider better able to make a judgement than you are... which in a sense why we use a Republican form of democracy. Better, however, is if you can't meet your civic obligation of becoming a voter suitably informed on the issues to express an intelligent opinion while voting:
1) Find the biggest, dumbest jackass in your circle of acquaintance
2) Politely and interestedly ask them how they plan to vote, and why.
3) Then vote the other way.
The current president has not only managed to drive me back from voting my previously perfect libertarian slate, but his anti-coattails managed to add the local Democratic candidate for the House to my intended slate this year, given the howling bigot the Republicans have in office. A pity my home state will only swing if God passes a minor (1 in 100) miracle.
If it makes you happier:
The bible oft compares God to light.
The mind of God may well "travel" at near light speed.
Relativity says that when you travel close to light speed, time distorts.
Ergo, a day for God conceivably is a billion years for mankind.
You can also use general relativity, and park god next to a black hole. There's also an information theory arguement involving god's omniscience which gives the same result, although I didn't know enough physics to remember and understand it when I first encountered it.
I don't. I think its present importance is limited by security, period. I intended the Internet as the "it" being no more changed than the computer itself, save progress in Security, bandwidth, and accessibility. Telnet is still completely adequate for all of those-- except security. For that, it pretty much bites. And, I admit, I'll use it when I'm feeling lazy-- on a physically isolated LAN under my full control. =)
FTP is quite old, and was quite useful even before gopher and later http made zipping files back and forth trivial. The genius of Berners-Lee was rather like the mythical invention of the Recees Peanut Butter Cup. He figured out a way to combine a hypertext markup scheme with internet file transfer. The individual component ideas had been lying around for at least seven years (and possibly since the dawn of ARPANET) when he put them together in a limited whole. Active scripting was a bit more clever an idea, but only marginally.
I will grant that it's a good thing TELNET is dying in favor of SSH-- security (network and computer alike) has made great progress since then. So has bandwidth. So has accessibility to the general public. But it's no more funamentally different in terms of power than modern desktop computers are compared to those of days of yore.
I dunno, the Gates of Heaven or Hell has a certain promise to it.
Linus... well, there's a minor reference in the Second Letter to Timothy (4:21), but it's really unimpressive.
You PAID for it.
Yeah, that was what I tried telling the judge about the hooker, but he didn't buy that theory. =)
I think the term you are looking for isn't "User" but rather Bigot . I use a Mac at work. I even like it. I even didn't mind adding Mac troubleshooting skills to my Windows and Linux skills-- it wasn't that different. I would even go so far as to say that I prefer doing 90% of my Real Work at a Mac. (Games are another story.) But I while I think the iPod is kinda cool, I'm not planning on replacing my Archos Jukebox 20 until it keels over dead... which, incidentally, won't be due to the batteries. I have better ways to waste my money than donating to the Church of Steve.
I'd also disagree slightly with the assessment of the review. Based on what's said, there may be some interest in the material to anthropologists (amateur and professional) who study computer nerds. If I see the book at Barnes & Noble, I might sit down and leaf through it for an hour or two. I might check it out if it hits the local library. I wouldn't spend real money on it, though.
You'll have a Charlie Brown Halloween if you do.
From the article:
In 1556, not long after the Portuguese first set foot in Brazil, the Bishop Pero Fernandes Sardinha was shipwrecked on its shores and set about introducing the gospel of Christ to the native "heathens." The locals, impressed with the glorious civilization the bishop represented and eager to absorb it in its totality, promptly ate him.
Now, if only they had retained that attiude for Windows missionaries. =)
Personal enemies are also generally acceptable-- people you have met elsewhere, gotten to know by name, and learned hate their guts.
When I was working in a (hellish) restaurant as a manager, I tossed out (amoung many others) at various separate times an ex-girlfreind, the guy an ex-GF rudely dumped me for, and a despised former coworker from another job, telling them they should feel free to come back when someone else was working, but I didn't want to deal with them. Mostly I just threw out those making an extreme disturbance, but these are a few of the people on this planet who I can remain neither calm nor civil to while talking with them for more than 30 seconds.
The ex-GF and the guy both had the sense to leave, but the ex-coworker claimed it was because I was racist and sexist, necessitating calling the cops. Coincidentally, the cop who showed up was also a black female. I pointed out the two other black female customers in the store, smilingly (teeth clenched) explained that I didn't care that she was black, didn't care that she was female, but did care that she was both personally known to me and in my opinion an asshole (and several other choice terms), that I didn't care to put up with her, and that she was welcome to come back any time that I wasn't the manager, but I wanted her gone lest I lose my temper.
The cop was happy to help. The twit left screaming about suing me and the store... but she never did. She eventually ended up effectively banned from the store, as various other managers (including the two black women managers) got pissed at her and also kicked her out as an asshole. =)
How much for the latest Area 51 pics?
Ah, but what if the winner starts allowing Canadian drugs to be imported?
Most Slashdot regulars might not know how important spelling is, either.
What makes you think that geeks wouldn't have a firm opinion about the religious zealot currently running the White House? True, not all Slashdotters are male SF Fan, heterosexual-in-theory and monosexual-in-practice, liberal-to-libertarian hacker whackos. However, there's (apparently) a strong correlation to each of these characteristics individually. Virtual communities, like most other forms of community, form around COMMONalities. Those who don't like the neighborhood, move on. (This may or may not be a good thing, but it is easily observed in internet groups.)
So, most Slashdotters lean one way, while most Born-Again-Christians lean another. Beeg Fat Hairy Deel. If you don't like it, submit more Pro-Bush coverage stories, or more Anti-Kerry coverage stories. If they have a defensible point, they might get through.