I don't understand the hub-ub about rigging elections. Just because the voting machines are electronic does not make them "easier" to cheat with in elections. Bush was able to do it in 2000 in a district controlled by democrats with punchcards. Given his limited intellect it would seem anyone could do it.
Considering that Europe is light years ahead of the US in wireless phone ownership. When a 'study' reports that Europe will lead the US in WiFi deployment, all I can say is
No Duh!
Yeah and China is light years ahead of the US in space exploration because their program is growing faster.
$150 a month for reasonable bandwidth. Cable and DSL in some areas charge more for businesses than residences.
Businesses would probably have to pay for installation, setup and all tech support. $200 will buy you a consumer level unit not a commercial one. I would say setup is closer to $500 (with installation costs from the ISP) with an average reoccuring charge for maintence and access at $200.
This turns out to be a lot of money for small cafes that sell donuts and coffee. If you were internet illiterate and someone approached you and said that they would provide the equiptment and internet access for free allowing you to advertise that you have wifi -or- you could float the bill and the responsibility, which would you choose?
Some larger chains like Panera Bread (breafast/lunch shop) do provide free access. However they get stung because with a high volume of customers during the morning-afternoon hours people are content on spending 1$ on a cup of coffee and sitting there for two hours. Actual customers that do not even seek access have no where to sit.
No this isnt a conspiracy against the working man, the shops just want to stay profitable. I doubt a cafe or a bookstore for that matter will make millions.
The ability of Bush apologists to forget something that happened just six months ago amazes me.
Just become we havent found them doesnt mean they dont exist. To claim that they are false means that you have evidence that the do not exist. Any Sources? Did you go to Iraq and dig around? Didnt think so.
Finding Saddam is proving to be a tough enough challenge. What makes you think finding weapons that he could have hidden years ago are easier?
I do think that some of the intelligence the US acquired was poor but usually when there is smoke there is fire.
Interesting you should mention that education is ont of the strongest factors is determining political alignment.
So how does that relate to the fact that engineering schools (real ones not "Texas Tech" or the like) are more conservative that liberal arts schools? At an engineering school you will very rarely see demonstrations. It used to be that white men dominated this area but now engineering schools seem to be right around 60-40.
I know this is a fact in the midwest and on the east coast but west coast seems to be a little different (in more ways than one;)).
Engineering schools also tend to have higher ACT and SAT scores than liberal arts schools along with fewer students from "wealth" (In my mind wealth is more than 150k a year family income). It is a very competitive field in general. Most of the people I went to school with had student loans and came from middle-lower class families (40-60k family income)
Surely you arent suggesting that all these conservative people are uneducated? I mean the mere fact that all these "money hungry" and "racist" executives with MBAs and other degrees are conservative, kind of defeats that argument doesnt it?
I guess you are referring to the DNC chairman, Random DNC senators presidential candidates, Clinton staffers, and ACLU lawyers (I watch every night for comic relief and this sums up his "liberal" guests in the last two weeks). Bill is definitely not a conservative. He knows this the RNC knows this, FOX knows this. He is just a moderate with a temper and his own show. I have seen him tear apart conservative law makers just as harshly as liberal ones. He enjoys confrontation.
Seriously if you dont watch it you shouldnt comment on it. Oh wait this is slashdot =)
Saddam Hussein was first recruited by the US Goverment to assassinate the democratically elected head of Iraq.
No he wasn't. Where you get this stupid idea, ABCNews?
In Chile the US backed a coup that overthrew a democratically elected goverment and replaced it with a facist dictator who murdered thousands of his own people.
Let me guess you are in favour of suing Gun manufacturers for building a gun that was used in a murder. That speaks for itself.
This is NOT a good record.
Wrong again, the US does have a good record, just not a spotless one.
The US doesn't want a war in India because there are far too many people in India, and India has a well equipped army who would inflict massive casulties. This is the same reason China is never going to be a target.
Why the crap would the US attacked India? Boredom? (Go ahead say we already have). And China? Why? You are right though about one thing, Why would the US invade a country with a comparable Army MOTO? Pure genius.
The reason the US gets to act this way is the same reason the UK acted this way in the 19Century...
Imperialism is a thing of the past. Oh wait let me guess the US invaded Iraq for Oil and has no intention of ever leaving. Stop reading Al Jazera or whatever liberal propoganda you found and start looking at the facts.
Camp X-Ray being one of the worst examples of human rights being denied that any civilised country has ever seen.
Lets see...
Forcing prisoners to drink gasoline and then shooting them to see if they explode.
Throwing prisoners off different height buildings and keeping statistics on how many survive.
Taking bets on how long prisoners can survive without water or food.
Hanging them upside-down from the ceiling for a month for adultry.
Having government officials pick women up off the street for Saddam's son to rape, then having his guards kill her and then hide the body.
Try again chief. I dont completely agree with camp-x-ray either but you are either ignorant or trolling. I hope its the latter.
(No these arent media hypes or BS, they came from Saddam's own advisors and guards.)
Or is it that if the US does it this means it is "good" research, but if someone else does it then it is "bad" research.
There are plenty of countries that perform and participate in dangerous WMD oriented research. The US targets countries that have bad track records wrt human rights and irresponsibility. If those lunatics North Korea were to start advertising the same research most of the planet would have a far different opinion on them given their track record.
I would agree that the research is disturbing but its purpose is undoubtably to create a cure for related virii. The people of the US have obviously decided that WMDs are simply for defense after WWII. Very doubtful they would ever be used but the mere threat is enough to disuade most countries.
Why am I not surprised that a senior government beauracrat wants to take all of my personal information and put it in one easy to subpoena location?
Yeah out of 250 million uninteresting people they would pick you. You stand a better chance of getting struck by lighting, unless you have done something to warrant it. (Holding a lighting rod - Breaking the Law)
And how long has Linux had support for SMP and pthreads now?
I wouldnt say BSD is dying, but it sure isn't evolving. BAS is hardly keeping up with the field. Too bad because if Linux does not survive the SCO wars BSD could provide a viable alternative with the right guidance.
The ole "BSD is the most secure OS" doesnt cut it anymore.
Say what you want about Star Trek in general, but the design of the "movie" Entreprise is one of the prettiest, most graceful vehicles ever built.
Shouldnt that have been modded "Funny"?
Yeah because it makes sense that site is the only one who has his press releases. I am sure MIB is making sure all the major networks and mirrors have removed their copies from archive as well.
Seriously, grow up.
Your argument makes no sense. According to the "godless" we are animals and are natural so why should we restrain from wiping a species off the face of the earth while other species have done so since the beginning of time?
Locusts, Fire, bacteria, virii..... All have a seemingly negative impact on earth at times.
If you really want to do mother nature a favor get a car with an engine that gets 1MPG so that we can rid this beautiful earth of this horrible black oil forever!
Exactly. Private schools do not want children who are not motivated or can't contribute. When a parent has to pay for his child to go to school they are much more likely to take an interest.
Unfortunately low income parents do not always have the luxury of time and money. Lets see how DCs vouchers fair.
Isn't it amazing that schools always seem to have money for this crap and yet cannot seem to educate literate graduates or provide pencils, books and paper for their students?
Isn't it amazing how most private schools can produce better test scores and have a higher percentage of graduates and college graduates than public schools with only half the budget?
Who is responsible for a child's education, the parents or the government?
Stay on target.
Just think if we used popular vote for the presidential election, Al Gore would be president.
On the other thing think of all the things he could have invented....
Yeah never mind the fast majority of people have no ill affects when drink water and using toothpaste containing flouride. Also ignore that fact that people who drink water without flouride on a regular basis have far more dental problems.
Everything is harmful to someone...
I love offtopics;)
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Now those goofy conservatives will finally see that Solar Warming is a real and dangerous threat to earth's future.
It is interesting that these flares happened just after the chinese finally made it to space...
I don't understand the hub-ub about rigging elections. Just because the voting machines are electronic does not make them "easier" to cheat with in elections. Bush was able to do it in 2000 in a district controlled by democrats with punchcards. Given his limited intellect it would seem anyone could do it.
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this is an attempt by RedHat to stop catering to the working man and simply give in to large corporations.
Would you expect anything different with Bush in the whitehouse?
Considering that Europe is light years ahead of the US in wireless phone ownership. When a 'study' reports that Europe will lead the US in WiFi deployment, all I can say is No Duh!
Yeah and China is light years ahead of the US in space exploration because their program is growing faster.
Only on slantdot.
A spot costs 200$.
$150 a month for reasonable bandwidth. Cable and DSL in some areas charge more for businesses than residences.
Businesses would probably have to pay for installation, setup and all tech support. $200 will buy you a consumer level unit not a commercial one. I would say setup is closer to $500 (with installation costs from the ISP) with an average reoccuring charge for maintence and access at $200.
This turns out to be a lot of money for small cafes that sell donuts and coffee. If you were internet illiterate and someone approached you and said that they would provide the equiptment and internet access for free allowing you to advertise that you have wifi -or- you could float the bill and the responsibility, which would you choose?
Some larger chains like Panera Bread (breafast/lunch shop) do provide free access. However they get stung because with a high volume of customers during the morning-afternoon hours people are content on spending 1$ on a cup of coffee and sitting there for two hours. Actual customers that do not even seek access have no where to sit.
No this isnt a conspiracy against the working man, the shops just want to stay profitable. I doubt a cafe or a bookstore for that matter will make millions.
The ability of Bush apologists to forget something that happened just six months ago amazes me.
Just become we havent found them doesnt mean they dont exist. To claim that they are false means that you have evidence that the do not exist. Any Sources? Did you go to Iraq and dig around? Didnt think so.
Finding Saddam is proving to be a tough enough challenge. What makes you think finding weapons that he could have hidden years ago are easier?
I do think that some of the intelligence the US acquired was poor but usually when there is smoke there is fire.
Interesting you should mention that education is ont of the strongest factors is determining political alignment.
;)).
So how does that relate to the fact that engineering schools (real ones not "Texas Tech" or the like) are more conservative that liberal arts schools? At an engineering school you will very rarely see demonstrations. It used to be that white men dominated this area but now engineering schools seem to be right around 60-40.
I know this is a fact in the midwest and on the east coast but west coast seems to be a little different (in more ways than one
Engineering schools also tend to have higher ACT and SAT scores than liberal arts schools along with fewer students from "wealth" (In my mind wealth is more than 150k a year family income). It is a very competitive field in general. Most of the people I went to school with had student loans and came from middle-lower class families (40-60k family income)
Surely you arent suggesting that all these conservative people are uneducated? I mean the mere fact that all these "money hungry" and "racist" executives with MBAs and other degrees are conservative, kind of defeats that argument doesnt it?
Seems to me your statment holds no truth.
to find the dumbest, most extreme left wingers
I guess you are referring to the DNC chairman, Random DNC senators presidential candidates, Clinton staffers, and ACLU lawyers (I watch every night for comic relief and this sums up his "liberal" guests in the last two weeks). Bill is definitely not a conservative. He knows this the RNC knows this, FOX knows this. He is just a moderate with a temper and his own show. I have seen him tear apart conservative law makers just as harshly as liberal ones. He enjoys confrontation.
Seriously if you dont watch it you shouldnt comment on it. Oh wait this is slashdot =)
Saddam Hussein was first recruited by the US Goverment to assassinate the democratically elected head of Iraq.
No he wasn't. Where you get this stupid idea, ABCNews?
In Chile the US backed a coup that overthrew a democratically elected goverment and replaced it with a facist dictator who murdered thousands of his own people.
Let me guess you are in favour of suing Gun manufacturers for building a gun that was used in a murder. That speaks for itself.
This is NOT a good record.
Wrong again, the US does have a good record, just not a spotless one.
The US doesn't want a war in India because there are far too many people in India, and India has a well equipped army who would inflict massive casulties. This is the same reason China is never going to be a target.
Why the crap would the US attacked India? Boredom? (Go ahead say we already have). And China? Why? You are right though about one thing, Why would the US invade a country with a comparable Army MOTO? Pure genius.
The reason the US gets to act this way is the same reason the UK acted this way in the 19Century...
Imperialism is a thing of the past. Oh wait let me guess the US invaded Iraq for Oil and has no intention of ever leaving. Stop reading Al Jazera or whatever liberal propoganda you found and start looking at the facts.
Camp X-Ray being one of the worst examples of human rights being denied that any civilised country has ever seen.
Lets see...
Forcing prisoners to drink gasoline and then shooting them to see if they explode.
Throwing prisoners off different height buildings and keeping statistics on how many survive.
Taking bets on how long prisoners can survive without water or food.
Hanging them upside-down from the ceiling for a month for adultry.
Having government officials pick women up off the street for Saddam's son to rape, then having his guards kill her and then hide the body.
Try again chief. I dont completely agree with camp-x-ray either but you are either ignorant or trolling. I hope its the latter. (No these arent media hypes or BS, they came from Saddam's own advisors and guards.)
Or is it that if the US does it this means it is "good" research, but if someone else does it then it is "bad" research.
There are plenty of countries that perform and participate in dangerous WMD oriented research. The US targets countries that have bad track records wrt human rights and irresponsibility. If those lunatics North Korea were to start advertising the same research most of the planet would have a far different opinion on them given their track record.
I would agree that the research is disturbing but its purpose is undoubtably to create a cure for related virii. The people of the US have obviously decided that WMDs are simply for defense after WWII. Very doubtful they would ever be used but the mere threat is enough to disuade most countries.
Why am I not surprised that a senior government beauracrat wants to take all of my personal information and put it in one easy to subpoena location?
Yeah out of 250 million uninteresting people they would pick you. You stand a better chance of getting struck by lighting, unless you have done something to warrant it. (Holding a lighting rod - Breaking the Law)
I love Slantdot paranoia.
And how long has Linux had support for SMP and pthreads now?
I wouldnt say BSD is dying, but it sure isn't evolving. BAS is hardly keeping up with the field. Too bad because if Linux does not survive the SCO wars BSD could provide a viable alternative with the right guidance.
The ole "BSD is the most secure OS" doesnt cut it anymore.
CW: Do you think this is the year of opportunities for IT? De Jager: Yes, I think there is going to be a huge growth period.
He is obviously a nut. In April 2000 the market began to see signs of weakening and continued to nose dive for the next 2 years.
Oh wait I am on slashdot, Damnit Bush!
Say what you want about Star Trek in general, but the design of the "movie" Entreprise is one of the prettiest, most graceful vehicles ever built. Shouldnt that have been modded "Funny"?
I think just by reading your post, I actually became dumber.
Yeah because it makes sense that site is the only one who has his press releases. I am sure MIB is making sure all the major networks and mirrors have removed their copies from archive as well. Seriously, grow up.
Your argument makes no sense. According to the "godless" we are animals and are natural so why should we restrain from wiping a species off the face of the earth while other species have done so since the beginning of time? Locusts, Fire, bacteria, virii..... All have a seemingly negative impact on earth at times.
If you really want to do mother nature a favor get a car with an engine that gets 1MPG so that we can rid this beautiful earth of this horrible black oil forever!
Exactly. Private schools do not want children who are not motivated or can't contribute. When a parent has to pay for his child to go to school they are much more likely to take an interest. Unfortunately low income parents do not always have the luxury of time and money. Lets see how DCs vouchers fair.
Actually they are "minors" not "people" or "adults". Maybe we should allow them to vote?
most people called to get rid of BBC on their local cable?
Just think if we used popular vote for the presidential election, Al Gore would be president. On the other thing think of all the things he could have invented....
Yeah never mind the fast majority of people have no ill affects when drink water and using toothpaste containing flouride. Also ignore that fact that people who drink water without flouride on a regular basis have far more dental problems. Everything is harmful to someone... I love offtopics ;)