Much as a law could be passed tommorow taxing women twice as much as men, couldn't a bill be passed that took away equal rights in the EU tommorow? These two things probably won't happen, but my point is that women aren't taxed more NOW, and ANYTHING could happen tommorow. Just because something could technically happen doesn't mean it will.
Let's put it this way. Previously the GeForce 2 support was only availible via Nvidias site. Now the driver comes with the normal XFree86 distribution.
This "troll" is correct. The only reason water helps put out gas fires is that it cools the surrounding area. Since there aren't solid objects to cool in the air, water would do nothing in stopping the fire.
Just because the government has the right to log everything doesn't mean it actually can. The amount of storage needed to do all of that would be immense.
The Electoral College is a VERY good thing for a lot of people. It makes candidates visit the little states and care about their issues. If the election was done by popular vote than they could visit California, New York, Texas, and Florida over and over again and only worry about issues there. The reason that the College still exists is because these little states won't consent to doing away with it, it helps them too much and makes things fair. Besides you can't change the rules for electing the president in the middle of the game, as the Democrats are trying to do.
It is very good that there has finally been a move to end this election dispute. Vice President Gore should concede the election and take a loss. He has lost three times already. The original count, machine recount, and now the hand recount. Three strikes and you're out is a good rule to go by. This has got to end somewhere, Mr. Vice President. The more Gore lets this thing go on, the worst his image will become, no matter how close he is to winning. If a football game is lost by 1 point, it is still lost. So once again, do everyone a favor and concede, you lost fair and square.
I read every slashdot story on their site, and my social life is fine. If my job was to work on slashdot I'd read it even more carefully. I am merely a zealot, not a high priest of slashdot.
The American Constitution doesn't contain laws. The American Constitution provides guidelines for the governments. Federal laws are called Federal Statues.
There is a plugin in which you leave the graphical licq running on your computer and you can telnet into the program and do stuff like send messages remotely. It's pretty cool.
I think if you're a native speaker of English, and you can't understand a person speaking when they're trying to speak English, you can say that they're incompetent.
I know people have said it before me, and still more will say it. It's their service. Their protocols have pretty much been reversed engineered, opening the protocols themselves won't do much. Whatever happened to capitalism? This isn't like the Microsoft trial, AOL does nothing to stop competitors. People actually LIKE aim and their friends use it, that's why people use it. Noone is forced to use it like you're almost forced to use Windows. AOL pays money for bandwidth to provide the service, another company shouldn't be able to go on AOL's servers without their permission. Anyone can write an IM protocol anyway.
Good post but saying that DeCSS lets you photocopy your own books is wrong. DeCSS would let you read your books which are written in an encryption scheme. You could copy encrypted books with a photocopy machine.
The name DVDster implies that it would be a program which shares DVDs over the internet. The correct name would be DeCSSster. This has been done with several open source file sharing programs which share any file. This is not interesting at all. Someone can just put the DeCSS stuff on one of those file sharing systems.
Maybe I am just ignorant of the political system, but aren't the 3 brances of the government supposed to be seperate? The White House is part of the executive brance and it's talking about something that should be up to the judicial brance in the trial. Not only this, there was a Senate hearing on Napster, so the legislative brance is involved too. How is Napster having a fair chance to survive when all 3 branches of the government are going up against it? This just shows that our government isn't working how the founding fathers intended it to work. If the big companies who finances political compaigns don't like something, then the whole government attacks it. I thought the whole point of 3 brances is so that if one did something weird, then the other 2 would keep it from turning really bad.
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Much as a law could be passed tommorow taxing women twice as much as men, couldn't a bill be passed that took away equal rights in the EU tommorow? These two things probably won't happen, but my point is that women aren't taxed more NOW, and ANYTHING could happen tommorow. Just because something could technically happen doesn't mean it will.
Actually, black males have been able to vote since the Amendment XIV of the constitution, 1868.
Let's put it this way. Previously the GeForce 2 support was only availible via Nvidias site. Now the driver comes with the normal XFree86 distribution.
That might count as him agreeing to the license agreement, which is something even he probably doesn't want to do.
This "troll" is correct. The only reason water helps put out gas fires is that it cools the surrounding area. Since there aren't solid objects to cool in the air, water would do nothing in stopping the fire.
Ummm if you do any research at all about Voyager 1 and 2, you'll see that they were NOT sent on the same mission.
Democracy is a form of republicanism.
Just because the government has the right to log everything doesn't mean it actually can. The amount of storage needed to do all of that would be immense.
The Electoral College is a VERY good thing for a lot of people. It makes candidates visit the little states and care about their issues. If the election was done by popular vote than they could visit California, New York, Texas, and Florida over and over again and only worry about issues there. The reason that the College still exists is because these little states won't consent to doing away with it, it helps them too much and makes things fair. Besides you can't change the rules for electing the president in the middle of the game, as the Democrats are trying to do.
It is very good that there has finally been a move to end this election dispute. Vice President Gore should concede the election and take a loss. He has lost three times already. The original count, machine recount, and now the hand recount. Three strikes and you're out is a good rule to go by. This has got to end somewhere, Mr. Vice President. The more Gore lets this thing go on, the worst his image will become, no matter how close he is to winning. If a football game is lost by 1 point, it is still lost. So once again, do everyone a favor and concede, you lost fair and square.
I guess if you try to send him a message now you'll get 100% packet loss. Just some grim humor, not trying to be a troll.
You don't live on the bleeding edge and run Woody. My woody has been quite stable.
I read every slashdot story on their site, and my social life is fine. If my job was to work on slashdot I'd read it even more carefully. I am merely a zealot, not a high priest of slashdot.
In webmail you don't directly talk to SMTP servers. Everything goes through forms on the webmail page.
No Pun Intended, right?
The American Constitution doesn't contain laws. The American Constitution provides guidelines for the governments. Federal laws are called Federal Statues.
So lets have these people send all the e-mails to Kurt The Pope instea.
I believe thats what it is when theres a second or third edition of a book.
There is a plugin in which you leave the graphical licq running on your computer and you can telnet into the program and do stuff like send messages remotely. It's pretty cool.
I think if you're a native speaker of English, and you can't understand a person speaking when they're trying to speak English, you can say that they're incompetent.
I know people have said it before me, and still more will say it. It's their service. Their protocols have pretty much been reversed engineered, opening the protocols themselves won't do much. Whatever happened to capitalism? This isn't like the Microsoft trial, AOL does nothing to stop competitors. People actually LIKE aim and their friends use it, that's why people use it. Noone is forced to use it like you're almost forced to use Windows. AOL pays money for bandwidth to provide the service, another company shouldn't be able to go on AOL's servers without their permission. Anyone can write an IM protocol anyway.
Good post but saying that DeCSS lets you photocopy your own books is wrong. DeCSS would let you read your books which are written in an encryption scheme. You could copy encrypted books with a photocopy machine.
The name DVDster implies that it would be a program which shares DVDs over the internet. The correct name would be DeCSSster. This has been done with several open source file sharing programs which share any file. This is not interesting at all. Someone can just put the DeCSS stuff on one of those file sharing systems.
Maybe I am just ignorant of the political system, but aren't the 3 brances of the government supposed to be seperate? The White House is part of the executive brance and it's talking about something that should be up to the judicial brance in the trial. Not only this, there was a Senate hearing on Napster, so the legislative brance is involved too. How is Napster having a fair chance to survive when all 3 branches of the government are going up against it? This just shows that our government isn't working how the founding fathers intended it to work. If the big companies who finances political compaigns don't like something, then the whole government attacks it. I thought the whole point of 3 brances is so that if one did something weird, then the other 2 would keep it from turning really bad.
How is this informative at all? The only information it seems to contain is "wheee mandrake is great".