But you still have that freedom: cigarettes aren't banned, they just aren't as cheap as they otherwise could be.
I mean, it's not as if they'd be free without the taxes on them. You pay sales tax on everything else you buy. Excuse me if I don't think that having a slightly higher sales tax on one particular product, for purely pragmatic reasons, is a fundamental human rights issue.
To all those who bashed the 'evil' republicans the past 10 years... will you now bash the 'evil' democrats with equal fervor?
Well, I'm looking at the roll call here, and I'm seeing 105 Yea to 128 Nay for the Dems and 188 Yea to 1 (one) Nay for the Repubs.
So, um. No, I don't think "equal fervor" is called for here. For one party, less than half of them supported this bullshit, and for another party, 99.5% of them did.
What, did you fail your undergraduate formal languages class? Theoretical computer science 101: a Turing machine with multiple state sets and read/write heads, e.g. a parallel Turing machine, is computationally equivalent to the standard one. I'd type out a formal proof but I've got real work to do. Go back to school.
Vista is not nearly as bad (and for that matter XP is not nearly as good) as the Slashdot echo chamber makes it out to be. We had the same type and level of whining when switching from 2000 to XP, or from 98SE to 2000. Anyone here want to go back to either of those two?
or incorporation of the software in some locked-down bullshit, effectively taking away the users' freedom to modify the software without running afowl of older versions of the GPL.
y'know, the whole reason why v3 was created in the first place.
Well, console devs have managed to get Le Mans-style racing games to feel realistic instead of arcadey (namely, Forza Motorsport and Gran Turismo), so I'm not too worried about the choice of platform in particular.
Only solution. Either the wife is spying on the guy, in which case she doesn't trust him, or the guy is baselessly convinced that his wife is spying on him, in which case he doesn't trust her. Either way, this relationship is doomed.
Electronic voting machines and the media aren't responsible for Ron Paul's loss. The fact is that the vast majority of the American public doesn't like Ron Paul and doesn't like his policy ideas. Seriously, moving our currency back to the system that failed America during the Great Depression? Disbanding the Department of Education and the FDA? These aren't ideas that most Americans agree with, and that's why Paul isn't going to be President. Ain't democracy wonderful?
The idea is that it discourages a large corporation from having a small author whacked so that the author's work becomes public domain (and therefore exploitable).
Well, as has been mentioned, Ubuntu doesn't install any daemons listening on any port, at all, by default, so there's that, and as for the actual package list, I'm sure it's on the online documentation somewhere for people that need to have it before the system is actually installed.
Your ISP is not the government. You have no right to tell your ISP what they can and cannot block from you other than the right that you always have to take your business elsewhere.
The First Amendment reads "Congress shall pass no law abridging" etc. etc. When the hell did your ISP become Congress?
Accidental security hole, deliberate rootkit, what's the difference, right?
Oh, wait, I forgot: fuck Heinlein's Razor; every mistake is deliberate! nVidia is consipiring with Microsoft and Halliburton to take control of your computer and obfuscate the true nature of The Milkman. It's all clear to me now!
Steam uses something vaguely BT-based, too, if I recall. At least, I know they hired Bram Cohen to unfuck their download system after the HL2 release fiasco.
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But you still have that freedom: cigarettes aren't banned, they just aren't as cheap as they otherwise could be.
I mean, it's not as if they'd be free without the taxes on them. You pay sales tax on everything else you buy. Excuse me if I don't think that having a slightly higher sales tax on one particular product, for purely pragmatic reasons, is a fundamental human rights issue.
Carlin never wrote that essay, and in fact referred to it as "a sappy piece of shit."
http://www.georgecarlin.com/home/dontblame.html
neutron stars emit radio waves at regular intervals.
black holes emit nothing.
To all those who bashed the 'evil' republicans the past 10 years... will you now bash the 'evil' democrats with equal fervor?
Well, I'm looking at the roll call here, and I'm seeing 105 Yea to 128 Nay for the Dems and 188 Yea to 1 (one) Nay for the Repubs.
So, um. No, I don't think "equal fervor" is called for here. For one party, less than half of them supported this bullshit, and for another party, 99.5% of them did.
(no, the one Nay vote is not Ron Paul.)
Anyway, here's the list so you know who to vote against.
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2008/roll437.xml#NV
Don't forget Paul (R-TX), who abstained so he wouldn't stick out from his party line.
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2008/roll437.xml#NV
One Republican voted against. ONE. What the hell?
http://www.betanews.com/article/Next_Office_2007_service_pack_will_include_ODF_PDF_support_options/1211343807
There will be an option in both the installer and options menu to choose ODF as the default format, if you want.
Also, if this bill gets to the Senate, keep your eye on how Obama and McCain decide to vote on it. I know I will.
thank you. But since when have facts discouraged the anti-Obama trolls? "olol he talks about hope and change, he must not have any real policy ideas!"
What, did you fail your undergraduate formal languages class? Theoretical computer science 101: a Turing machine with multiple state sets and read/write heads, e.g. a parallel Turing machine, is computationally equivalent to the standard one. I'd type out a formal proof but I've got real work to do. Go back to school.
Vista is not nearly as bad (and for that matter XP is not nearly as good) as the Slashdot echo chamber makes it out to be. We had the same type and level of whining when switching from 2000 to XP, or from 98SE to 2000. Anyone here want to go back to either of those two?
you must live in an alternate reality where the republican party stands for saner government and a balanced budget.
what's the price of gas over there?
or incorporation of the software in some locked-down bullshit, effectively taking away the users' freedom to modify the software without running afowl of older versions of the GPL.
y'know, the whole reason why v3 was created in the first place.
Well, console devs have managed to get Le Mans-style racing games to feel realistic instead of arcadey (namely, Forza Motorsport and Gran Turismo), so I'm not too worried about the choice of platform in particular.
I save the "no brakes" thing as a surprise.
There's a poorly-defined interoperability clause in the DMCA that's never been used in a courtroom.
Got my genders mixed up. Regardless, my answer still holds.
Only solution. Either the wife is spying on the guy, in which case she doesn't trust him, or the guy is baselessly convinced that his wife is spying on him, in which case he doesn't trust her. Either way, this relationship is doomed.
Electronic voting machines and the media aren't responsible for Ron Paul's loss. The fact is that the vast majority of the American public doesn't like Ron Paul and doesn't like his policy ideas. Seriously, moving our currency back to the system that failed America during the Great Depression? Disbanding the Department of Education and the FDA? These aren't ideas that most Americans agree with, and that's why Paul isn't going to be President. Ain't democracy wonderful?
The idea is that it discourages a large corporation from having a small author whacked so that the author's work becomes public domain (and therefore exploitable).
They should put another warning on the box, under the rating, like the online play warning.
ESRB Warning: Content may change if you change the fucking content yourself.
Well, as has been mentioned, Ubuntu doesn't install any daemons listening on any port, at all, by default, so there's that, and as for the actual package list, I'm sure it's on the online documentation somewhere for people that need to have it before the system is actually installed.
Your ISP is not the government. You have no right to tell your ISP what they can and cannot block from you other than the right that you always have to take your business elsewhere.
The First Amendment reads "Congress shall pass no law abridging" etc. etc. When the hell did your ISP become Congress?
The only people who see it like that are the same people who would rather have an Intel Integrated Whatever than a Radeon 9600.
Accidental security hole, deliberate rootkit, what's the difference, right?
Oh, wait, I forgot: fuck Heinlein's Razor; every mistake is deliberate! nVidia is consipiring with Microsoft and Halliburton to take control of your computer and obfuscate the true nature of The Milkman. It's all clear to me now!
Steam uses something vaguely BT-based, too, if I recall. At least, I know they hired Bram Cohen to unfuck their download system after the HL2 release fiasco.