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surely it can't stand up in court if their not prepared to disclose what the problem is"
Sorry if I sound a bit thick but my understanding is that this NDA that McBride is forcing people to sign has legal support in the form of the DMCA. Is this what's going on?
I briefly used an AOL dial-up account before I got DSL. I never told a single soul about my AOL email address and never used it. After a few months I thought I'd check my AOL email for the first time just for the hell of it. There were about 500 messages in there, all of it spam.
"This bill is not going to single-handedly eliminate all the spam in the universe overnight all by itself, therefore it's a waste of time and not worth the bother and typical of big government trying to control things and yadda yadda yadda...."
Scotland has gotten a lot of investment from companies that have built call centres there. Apparently to English ears the Scottish accent is associated with honesty and integrity.
I'm glad that the first post on this thread was made by someone who is actually aware of the fact that Flash is capable of more than just animations with a 'skip intro' button. XML parsing, video streaming and all the other cool features of Flash make me wonder why people are still comparing it to SVG.
...since Flash 6, video playing in your web browser just got a whole lot easier. Goodbye to the terrible spectre of embedded Real Player. Flash 6 in conjunction with 3rd party tools like Sorrenson (sp?) Squeeze gives some pretty amazing video compression.
I agree with you about Flash animations and the 'skip intro' stigma. People who think that this is all Flash is capable of clearly don't know what they're talking about, as is frequently evidenced whenever Flash is mantioned around here.
...widespread right-wing conspiracy theories have done great harm by galvanizing election officials to be dismissive of re-opening their consideration of the issue.
The submitter has not given one scrap of evidence to back up this claim. The story in the link does not point to any "election officials being galvanised into being dismissive" of anything. This is nothing but empty rhetoric.
I couldn't agree more. The sneering wording of that article made me sick.
"A new conspiracy theory is taking hold across the Internet. "
"the conspiracy theory's plot is fairly consistent"
"Web sites are raging with indignation about this perceived injustice. "
"the theorists' concerns, verging on paranoia in some cases, [doesn't say which cases]"
They author of that article hasn't produced a scrap of evidence to refute the claims, but chooses instead to dismiss them by implication and innuendo, casting progressives in the same light as those who believe in alien abduction.
All excellent points that I was already aware of and nowhere did I say that the hydrogen economy would not see a reduction in pollution. I'm all in favour of seeing a reduction in pollution overall and moving what little there is to somewhere outside the city.
My point, albeit a pedantic one, was that the original source of the power is not 'water' as the wording of the article stated.
Reduce, reuse, recycle, and run your car on water? Yes, you heard right! Welcome to the 21st century, where many believe that fuel cells, which produce only water as a byproduct, are the next wave of environmentally sound energy sources for motor vehicles.
Why oh why oh why oh why can people not get it into their heads that fuel cells are a means of storing energy that has to come from some electrolysis process that will have its own by-products besides water? It's like people who talk about "steam power" when they really mean "coal power."
"I just don't buy it," said Bruce Perens, a Berkeley, Calif.-based Linux developer and open source advocate. " This is just an effort to discredit the open-source community.
"If there were real threats, the police would be there instead of husky fellows with radio tubes in their heads," he said.
Damn good point.
So. Where were the cops then? When are we gonna see some of these 'zealots' as McBride calls them running away with their shirts off and getting thrown to the ground and arrested by the cops with a footnote to say that 'all suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law?'
'You can't say, "We want it to be totally free and unrestricted and on the other hand we want it to work smoothly and civilly," he said.'
Cool. Can we expect tolls to be introduced on America's congested freeways at peak time then? Sorry if I sound a bit off-topic, but it just strikes me as unusual that an American politician would actually dare to suggest that you get what you pay for. Has he no intention of being re-elected?
See also an experiment that consisted of a public/private partnership getting a whole town wired up. From this article:
The organization and the IT assets are owned 51% by Eircom and 49% by the town of Ennis itself. A full 83% of the residents took Eircom up on the offer of low-priced PCs, paying about $300 each. And 4,300 Ennis residents received more than 24,000 hours of training at local schools and libraries.
Excellent points all round. See also this report from Greg Palast at BBC Newsnight that shows one of the conspirators _literally_ running away when confronted by the fact that the state of Florida paid a lot of money to have a purge list from the electoral roles checked for its accuracy, but the work was not carried out.
Thousands of innocent black and latino voters were prevented from voting. Gore "lost" by less than 600 votes.
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Fatwallet is another cool website that I would never have heard of if it weren't for this. There's no such thing as bad publicity.
It's like the Fox News Channel giving Al Franken's book sales a huge boost by suing the guy.
I briefly used an AOL dial-up account before I got DSL. I never told a single soul about my AOL email address and never used it. After a few months I thought I'd check my AOL email for the first time just for the hell of it. There were about 500 messages in there, all of it spam.
"This bill is not going to single-handedly eliminate all the spam in the universe overnight all by itself, therefore it's a waste of time and not worth the bother and typical of big government trying to control things and yadda yadda yadda...."
Scotland has gotten a lot of investment from companies that have built call centres there. Apparently to English ears the Scottish accent is associated with honesty and integrity.
I'm glad that the first post on this thread was made by someone who is actually aware of the fact that Flash is capable of more than just animations with a 'skip intro' button. XML parsing, video streaming and all the other cool features of Flash make me wonder why people are still comparing it to SVG.
I agree with you about Flash animations and the 'skip intro' stigma. People who think that this is all Flash is capable of clearly don't know what they're talking about, as is frequently evidenced whenever Flash is mantioned around here.
"This isn't going to single-handedly rid the world of spam overnight all by itself, ergo there's no point in even trying this."
Nobody expects this stuff to be Phd thesis standard, but a bit of accuracy and honesty is not too much to ask.
The day we stop believing in democracy is the day we lose it.
My point, albeit a pedantic one, was that the original source of the power is not 'water' as the wording of the article stated.
Grrrrrrrr!
So. Where were the cops then? When are we gonna see some of these 'zealots' as McBride calls them running away with their shirts off and getting thrown to the ground and arrested by the cops with a footnote to say that 'all suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law?'
Fine. Let's tear up the interstates then, it was big government that built them wasn't it?
Wow! Elected government actually doing something that the market failed to deliver? Do you think they're some sort of Communists?
Carbon Fibre in a PC case? WTF? Is it to absorb the impact of a crash? To save weight during acceleration?
Personally, I'm a 69 man.
Dunno. Maybe he hadn't read The Best Democracy Money Can Buy by Greg Palast. That contains plenty of damning evidence.
... that SCO will stick a link to _this_ Forbes article on the front page of their website?
Thousands of innocent black and latino voters were prevented from voting. Gore "lost" by less than 600 votes.