I can't stand to see this post at only a +2. If I had modpoints... but, alas. Anyway, I see many replies to this saying that the poster was factually wrong. This is not true. The post recount-recount found two things:
One: Because of the pressure on Gore, he chose to focus his recount effort on only about four counties. If there were a full recount in those four counties and no others, he would have lost. This is what most Republicans quote. However, note the dependance of this result upon a flawed legal strategy that happened after the vote took place.
Two: If every ballon in FL were recounted, Gore would have won. End. Dot. Period.
Still more interesting tho, were the ballots that weren't cast at all: many blacks were improperly and incorrectly cast as felons, and denied voting rights. Hence, a significant (9K votes at least) portion of the electorate never was able to vote, due to the actions of ChoicePoint, a database company owned by Republicans, and hired by K. Harris, campaign manager for Bush in FL. How do you spell conflict of interest? If you really think that ChoicePoint did their job impartially, I have a nice bridge to sell you.
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If we couldn't get a supersonic jet to be profitable for less than $2K/ticket, how the hell is a hypersonic jet going to be profitable. I mean, sure, it carries twice the passengers, but if its going twice as fast, can we expect it to burn more fuel, too?
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Personally, I would love to use Debian, but the installer frankly sucks, and I'm too new to Linux to do it myself yet. Now that anaconda may be ported to Debian, tho, it's bye-bye Red Hat.
I don't mean to X-Bash- leave that for xterm and Konsole- but I, for one, am ready to welcome our YWindows overlords, whenever they get here. I like the idea of rewriting from scratch once in a while, which is why I love the idea of scrapping X and going with Y. I mean, X is good, no doubt, but it shows its age. Transparent windows, more often than not, only show the underlying wallpaper and not the interlaying windows. Often, X just locks under load. Still, it is, under normal business circumstances, stable and functional.
How long will it take for the few MS fanboys around to say that this why Windows is better? Let me pull a Rumsfield (pre-emptive retaliation, that is...). Everyone gets comprimised once in a while. At least Debian is open about it, and not sitting on an insecure system because it's more profitable to let a bad product go then to risk bad press from releasing a security bulletin.
Go watch Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. It'll help chill some of the glee with which you seem to look forward to networked brains. I know, I know, you were being sarcastic... sorry.
From Fight Club: "On a long enough timescale, everyone's survival rate drops to zero." Note: I might be misquoting slightly, so spare the -1, Wrong mods on this...
Fine and dandy, but what about the case at hand? This IS NOT theft. Need me to say it again? This IS NOT theft. Theft only applies in an case where the possesion of a work by one party implies the lack of possesion by another party- that is, the work is exclusive. There only exist as many copies as are explicitly made. By the RIAA's logic, reading RIAA's website is theft, because you have now copied their copyrighted information three times: once over the Internet to your computer, and possibly into a cache, once from your computer to your monitor, and through the air, possibly exposing others to the information, and you copied the information from your eyes to your brain, where you can further spread it through word-of-mouth. Obviously, RIAA wants people reading their website (/.ing aside...), thus they are either being hypocritical or not considering their claims well enough. Once again, this IS NOT theft.
Even better: if they can publicly show that these people's rights were actually preserved, I would be very impressed. Problem is, that's proving the negative, a difficult task, if not impossible. Also, given Ashcroft's record, you'll excuse me holding out a healthly, if large, amount of distrust toward any action of his. If these actions wind up being good, then so be it. In the meantime, I will expect the worst and hope for the best.
I wonder when someone will patent thinking and breathing. In today's society, finding a prior art for thinking would be tough, so I'd say that's a safe patent... breathing, now that's a different matter...
Lovely. Yet another attempt to bash Gore over a statement he never made. Gore said that he is the father of the Internet, from the perspective that it was his bills that gave DARPA the funding it needed to create the Internet. Whether or not this meant he was the Father of the Internet is highly debateable, but at the very least, he did not say that he invented the Internet, despite what the O'Riley's of the world would have you believe.
That's the very thing. Instead of a stick, like "do this or you die," or a carrot, like "do this and you get to live," Linus and Stallman seem to take the approach that "you don't need us to live... go do this yourself and find your own damn carrot." This is ultimately more empowering, and more effective. After all, if Gates and Ballmer died tomorrow, and MS was disbanded, what would happen to the MS developers? They'd be scattered to the winds, with little to no common interests, and with no means of self-support or means of furthering their work. If Linus and Stallman died tomorrow, all the developers would continue working on whatever the hell they wanted, because they wouldn't have to rely on Linus and Stallman for the resources used in producing software.
Now we have a very good, strong set of base apps for the GNU/Linux OS that goes well beyond what comes with Windows. Think about it. Out of the Red Hat^H^H^HDebian box^H^H^Hdistro, you get OpenOffice.org and KOffice for office apps, Mozilla, Lynx, Galeon and Konqueror for browsers, Pine, Balsa, Evolution and Mozilla for e-mail, a webserver, IRC server, FTP server, News server, two SQL servers (at least!) and now this! Windows gives you IE and... Notepad. Way to go, GNU/Linux!
Is it possible to feel patriotic and disenchanted at the very same time? Though the likes of Bush would have you believe not, I belive it is, and that in fact bis the most common form of patriotism alive today. By this, I mean that when one acheives the realization of a country's faults, and loves it still, to the point of criticizing these faults in an effort to improve it, one is expressing one of the deepest forms of patriotism. Deeper still is the ability to look abroad and say, "we must avoid becoming them!" After all, a wise man learns from his mistakes, while a wiser man learns from the mistakes of others.
That still gives you 100 yrs, right?
Seriously, tho, that would be one of statistician's largest pet peeves: thinking that because outcome X has not occured at all in a period in which it is predicted to occur, that X is overdue to occur. IIRC, this is the Gambler's Fallacy. Somehow I'm reminded of the joke where three statisticians go duck hunting. First one shoots, and misses- too high. Second one shoots, and misses- too low. Third one yells, "We got 'em!"
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I can't stand to see this post at only a +2. If I had modpoints... but, alas. Anyway, I see many replies to this saying that the poster was factually wrong. This is not true. The post recount-recount found two things:
One: Because of the pressure on Gore, he chose to focus his recount effort on only about four counties. If there were a full recount in those four counties and no others, he would have lost. This is what most Republicans quote. However, note the dependance of this result upon a flawed legal strategy that happened after the vote took place.
Two: If every ballon in FL were recounted, Gore would have won. End. Dot. Period.
Still more interesting tho, were the ballots that weren't cast at all: many blacks were improperly and incorrectly cast as felons, and denied voting rights. Hence, a significant (9K votes at least) portion of the electorate never was able to vote, due to the actions of ChoicePoint, a database company owned by Republicans, and hired by K. Harris, campaign manager for Bush in FL. How do you spell conflict of interest? If you really think that ChoicePoint did their job impartially, I have a nice bridge to sell you.
If we couldn't get a supersonic jet to be profitable for less than $2K/ticket, how the hell is a hypersonic jet going to be profitable. I mean, sure, it carries twice the passengers, but if its going twice as fast, can we expect it to burn more fuel, too?
Personally, I would love to use Debian, but the installer frankly sucks, and I'm too new to Linux to do it myself yet. Now that anaconda may be ported to Debian, tho, it's bye-bye Red Hat.
I don't mean to X-Bash- leave that for xterm and Konsole- but I, for one, am ready to welcome our YWindows overlords, whenever they get here. I like the idea of rewriting from scratch once in a while, which is why I love the idea of scrapping X and going with Y. I mean, X is good, no doubt, but it shows its age. Transparent windows, more often than not, only show the underlying wallpaper and not the interlaying windows. Often, X just locks under load. Still, it is, under normal business circumstances, stable and functional.
Finally, my .sig will make sense!!!
Yeah, and you make it with the middle button!
Better than to debian.org to check to see the news... server comes back up, crippled, sees /. and runs again...
When I posted, I didn't know it was a password leak... sorry. /me is reminded why to RTFA...
How long will it take for the few MS fanboys around to say that this why Windows is better? Let me pull a Rumsfield (pre-emptive retaliation, that is...). Everyone gets comprimised once in a while. At least Debian is open about it, and not sitting on an insecure system because it's more profitable to let a bad product go then to risk bad press from releasing a security bulletin.
Go watch Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. It'll help chill some of the glee with which you seem to look forward to networked brains. I know, I know, you were being sarcastic... sorry.
From Fight Club: "On a long enough timescale, everyone's survival rate drops to zero."
Note: I might be misquoting slightly, so spare the -1, Wrong mods on this...
Fine and dandy, but what about the case at hand? This IS NOT theft. Need me to say it again? This IS NOT theft. Theft only applies in an case where the possesion of a work by one party implies the lack of possesion by another party- that is, the work is exclusive. There only exist as many copies as are explicitly made. By the RIAA's logic, reading RIAA's website is theft, because you have now copied their copyrighted information three times: once over the Internet to your computer, and possibly into a cache, once from your computer to your monitor, and through the air, possibly exposing others to the information, and you copied the information from your eyes to your brain, where you can further spread it through word-of-mouth. Obviously, RIAA wants people reading their website (/.ing aside...), thus they are either being hypocritical or not considering their claims well enough. Once again, this IS NOT theft.
Even better: if they can publicly show that these people's rights were actually preserved, I would be very impressed.
Problem is, that's proving the negative, a difficult task, if not impossible. Also, given Ashcroft's record, you'll excuse me holding out a healthly, if large, amount of distrust toward any action of his. If these actions wind up being good, then so be it. In the meantime, I will expect the worst and hope for the best.
I wonder when someone will patent thinking and breathing.
In today's society, finding a prior art for thinking would be tough, so I'd say that's a safe patent... breathing, now that's a different matter...
Lovely. Yet another attempt to bash Gore over a statement he never made. Gore said that he is the father of the Internet, from the perspective that it was his bills that gave DARPA the funding it needed to create the Internet. Whether or not this meant he was the Father of the Internet is highly debateable, but at the very least, he did not say that he invented the Internet, despite what the O'Riley's of the world would have you believe.
That's the very thing. Instead of a stick, like "do this or you die," or a carrot, like "do this and you get to live," Linus and Stallman seem to take the approach that "you don't need us to live... go do this yourself and find your own damn carrot." This is ultimately more empowering, and more effective. After all, if Gates and Ballmer died tomorrow, and MS was disbanded, what would happen to the MS developers? They'd be scattered to the winds, with little to no common interests, and with no means of self-support or means of furthering their work. If Linus and Stallman died tomorrow, all the developers would continue working on whatever the hell they wanted, because they wouldn't have to rely on Linus and Stallman for the resources used in producing software.
You kidding? Windows does that to me all the time!
It weighs a little over 10g...
It doesn't weigh anything in grams... that's its mass. Its weight is in Newtons or pounds.
Now we have a very good, strong set of base apps for the GNU/Linux OS that goes well beyond what comes with Windows. Think about it. Out of the Red Hat^H^H^HDebian box^H^H^Hdistro, you get OpenOffice.org and KOffice for office apps, Mozilla, Lynx, Galeon and Konqueror for browsers, Pine, Balsa, Evolution and Mozilla for e-mail, a webserver, IRC server, FTP server, News server, two SQL servers (at least!) and now this! Windows gives you IE and... Notepad. Way to go, GNU/Linux!
Is it possible to feel patriotic and disenchanted at the very same time?
Though the likes of Bush would have you believe not, I belive it is, and that in fact bis the most common form of patriotism alive today. By this, I mean that when one acheives the realization of a country's faults, and loves it still, to the point of criticizing these faults in an effort to improve it, one is expressing one of the deepest forms of patriotism. Deeper still is the ability to look abroad and say, "we must avoid becoming them!" After all, a wise man learns from his mistakes, while a wiser man learns from the mistakes of others.
Perhaps they'll do the exact opposite and add freedom of information to the Declaration of Human Rights...
Still pretty low, unless you are wearing a blindfold... and walk in to the suckers...
That still gives you 100 yrs, right?
Seriously, tho, that would be one of statistician's largest pet peeves: thinking that because outcome X has not occured at all in a period in which it is predicted to occur, that X is overdue to occur. IIRC, this is the Gambler's Fallacy. Somehow I'm reminded of the joke where three statisticians go duck hunting. First one shoots, and misses- too high. Second one shoots, and misses- too low. Third one yells, "We got 'em!"
They announced MegaCD games, but I can't wait for Knucles Chaotix to be released. That was one sweet mother of a game...
xine tells me that it can't play these because they're in "gif video format," something that seems unlikely. Any advice?