You misunderstood my comment. The formula to determine the numbers of Electors is identical to the formula to determine the number of Representatives. Yet Cobb calls the Electoral College racist but is silent about the House of Representatives. I want to know, does the Green Party consider the mere existance of the House of Representatives to be racist?
Why is it called Gnomedex? Perusing the site it doesn't seem to have anything to due with Gnome. The conference schedule is chock full of stuff about blogging and "Managing your Digital Lifestyle", but nothing at all about Gnome.
Your vote for a third party candidate will do MORE to raise the quality of the next four years than a vote for Kerry would.
When people don't vote for the two major parties, the two major parties sit up and take notice. Nader's "spoilage" of the last election was written off by the Democrats as a fluke, merely a product of Nader's name recognition. Ditto for the Republican's dismissal of Perot. As long as they think these are flukes, they'll continue to conduct business as usual.
But if they start to see that these aren't flukes, they'll sit up and take notice. They'll stop running centrist candidates in the false assumption that their non-centrist core won't jump ship. They'll start fielding candidates you might actually <gasp> appeal to you!
It will also cause immediate change during the interim four years. Democrats will start paying attention to Green issues. Republicans will start paying attention to Libertarian issues.
But it won't happen if you vote Kerry. If you do that you send the message to the Democrats that you prefer business-as-usual centrist flipflopping yalie bluebloods. You'll tell them that Nader's spoilage was a fluke and that Green members are really Democrats in disguise because they dutifully vote Democrat when ordered to do so.
p.s. I don't wish to offend any members of other third parties. My arguments above apply equally well to you.
No need to mail back a flourescent light bulb rebate. Stopping the subsidy will raise energy prices which will encourage people to conserve energy by buying flourescent light bulbs.
His rational behind calling the Electoral College racist is interesting. Because of the 3/4 person formula, slave states got more electoral votes.
But this also applies to the number of representatives in Congress! Is Cobb saying that we have a racist Congress because there are too many members? Wow! Talk about taking quotas to the extreme!
In contrast, windows is significantly more expensive
Not true at all. Just witness the reaction to anyone claiming Mac OSX as an alternative to Windows whenever the monopoly subject comes up. Everyone who claims that Microsoft is gouging the market suddenly reverse themselves and point to OSX as proof that Microsoft is dumping.
A PC with Windows is considerably cheaper than a Macintosh with OSX. It may not be cheaper than Linux or BSD, but those systems are essentially non-commercial give-aways (only the support is commercial).
Internet Explorer is integrated to the kernel level only because the Windows desktop is integrated to the kernel level. Remove IE and your break the Windows desktop. Remove Konqueror and you break the KDE desktop.
Where Microsoft differs is that it has made no provisions for an alternative to IE, while KDE imposes no barriers to replacing Konqueror.
Most "true" conservatives in the US are borderline libertarians. When you remove the neocons, theocrats, country club conservatives and corporate welfare types from the Republican Party, you're left with something that looks suspiciously like a group of mainstream leaning libertarians.
Some of the pillars of conservative thought have even called themselves libertarian. Buckley, Goldwater, etc.
You must have gone to a bad school then. While ridicule is going to happen to every child at some point, I simply did not see it as the normal every day order of things. Anything can be used as the instrument of ridicule, but it could as easily be the color of the shoelaces as the the contents of the lunch box.
I am being truthful when I said I didn't observe any ridicule based on the victim's diet. I guess to children that isn't important enough to make fun of.
So you agree with me. Allowing meat discriminates against vegetarians.
I'm doing no such thing! I'm only presenting the analogy to demonstrate how baseless your argument is. I used to be a teacher and I did indeed have vegetarian students. Some were even vegetarian due to <gastp> religious reasons! But I never noticed even one instance of the vegetarians being picked on or ridiculed because they brought vegetarian lunches to school.
A lot of your overly concerned parents are forgetting how innocent childhood really was. To my students, the vegetarians didn't eat meat simply because they didn't eat meat. No need to attach any labels. No need to provide sensitivity classes. Likewise, when I was a child we had several Jehovah Witnesses who didn't say the pledge of allegiance when the rest of us did. It was no big deal to us.
Huh? Maybe I should turn the question on you. Where was the "force" in there? The answer is that it's not. You argument is akin to saying voluntary meat in lunches at school (even if mom packed them at home) forces vegetarians to eat meat. After all, those that don't eat meat would be held up to ridicule!
The ACLU has long since stopped being an advocate for the first ammendment, and is now an advocate for a very malleable and leftist interpretation of the first ammendment.
The big advantage to.NET/Mono is the ability to easily use a common set of libraries from any (.NET/Mono compatible) language.
It's about time! Everyday when I come into work, I have all these software maintainers waiting for me with a common plea: please code my application with ten different languages! It's nice to know that I can know fulfill their request and provide them with unending job security.
I comprehend all of it. Since schools are dependent upon federal funding (due to federal mandates), any loss of those funds is indeed "punishment". This isn't about new funds, it's about old existing funds. It's no different than punishing states by withholding highway funds.
The Govt should stay the fuck out of my religion, my sexuality and the four walls of my humble abode.
Yet you have no problem with them going into your four walls and forcing your children into their schools?
It seems that one business or another owns every member of Congress
As a fan of Representative Ron Paul, I would like you to tell me which corporation "owns" him? I could also name another dozen reps I'm convinced couldn't be purchased at any price.
p.s. "business" is not synonymous with "corporation", so stop using those words as synonyms.
1)Voted YES on allowing school prayer during the War on Terror
So you're suggesting we throw little Timmie and Susie in jail for voluntarily praying? How dare they say grace before lunch! Some kid from Contra Costa County might see them!
(2)Voted YES on giving federal aid only to schools allowing voluntary prayer
Of course we want to continue rewarding those schools that throw Timmie and Susie in jail. It's horrible that schools allow such voluntary activities.
I can understand you having a problem with forced, coerced, and even encouraged school prayer. But voluntary? I can't understand that position at all. To expect that children can leave their parent's beliefs, morals, and upbringings at the school door is beyond silly.
Why is it anytime the US passes a stupid law the Europeans come out of the woodwork like ants all giving their thanks that they don't live there, yet whenever an EU nation passes a stupid law they're completely silent?
At least the US doesn't have cameras on every screet corner and doesn't though people in jail for encrypting their email. The US may be moving in that direction, but you guys are ALREADY THERE!
I can clearly see the differences in linux distro's. But other than portability, and security, what other differences/uses are there?
Frankly, who cares about the differences? The purpose of the BSDs isn't to be different.
This is very different from the Linux community. Linux users, in general, tend to chase after the latest "hot" distro. Almost like flash mobs. The latest seems to be Ubuntu skyrocketing up the distrowatch charts. I can't understand why someone happy with their current distro would switch just because everyone's talking about something new. But apparently a lot of you do.
I think one of the biggest advances in software development in the past ten years, big enough to qualify for Brook's "silver bullet", are processors fast enough to eliminate the tediousness of the edit-compile-test cycle. If I keep my classes small and cohesive (like they should be), then compiling a small change only takes a few seconds. And that's without any precompiled headers!
When "make install" takes longer than "make", you've reached a critical point for *something*!
In Marx's time, class was nearly synonymous with caste. Class was something you were born into and could only leave through a lifetime of hard effort. Bob Cratchit had no hope of ever reaching Scrooge's class. But times have changed.
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You misunderstood my comment. The formula to determine the numbers of Electors is identical to the formula to determine the number of Representatives. Yet Cobb calls the Electoral College racist but is silent about the House of Representatives. I want to know, does the Green Party consider the mere existance of the House of Representatives to be racist?
Why is it called Gnomedex? Perusing the site it doesn't seem to have anything to due with Gnome. The conference schedule is chock full of stuff about blogging and "Managing your Digital Lifestyle", but nothing at all about Gnome.
Your vote for a third party candidate will do MORE to raise the quality of the next four years than a vote for Kerry would.
When people don't vote for the two major parties, the two major parties sit up and take notice. Nader's "spoilage" of the last election was written off by the Democrats as a fluke, merely a product of Nader's name recognition. Ditto for the Republican's dismissal of Perot. As long as they think these are flukes, they'll continue to conduct business as usual.
But if they start to see that these aren't flukes, they'll sit up and take notice. They'll stop running centrist candidates in the false assumption that their non-centrist core won't jump ship. They'll start fielding candidates you might actually <gasp> appeal to you!
It will also cause immediate change during the interim four years. Democrats will start paying attention to Green issues. Republicans will start paying attention to Libertarian issues.
But it won't happen if you vote Kerry. If you do that you send the message to the Democrats that you prefer business-as-usual centrist flipflopping yalie bluebloods. You'll tell them that Nader's spoilage was a fluke and that Green members are really Democrats in disguise because they dutifully vote Democrat when ordered to do so.
p.s. I don't wish to offend any members of other third parties. My arguments above apply equally well to you.
No need to mail back a flourescent light bulb rebate. Stopping the subsidy will raise energy prices which will encourage people to conserve energy by buying flourescent light bulbs.
His rational behind calling the Electoral College racist is interesting. Because of the 3/4 person formula, slave states got more electoral votes.
But this also applies to the number of representatives in Congress! Is Cobb saying that we have a racist Congress because there are too many members? Wow! Talk about taking quotas to the extreme!
Don't yell at me! I'm only pointing out the hypocrisy of the "Microsoft rules the world" mob.
1) Microsoft has taken away my choice
2) Answer: There's always the Mac
3) No! It's more expensive! How dare you contradict me!
In contrast, windows is significantly more expensive
Not true at all. Just witness the reaction to anyone claiming Mac OSX as an alternative to Windows whenever the monopoly subject comes up. Everyone who claims that Microsoft is gouging the market suddenly reverse themselves and point to OSX as proof that Microsoft is dumping.
A PC with Windows is considerably cheaper than a Macintosh with OSX. It may not be cheaper than Linux or BSD, but those systems are essentially non-commercial give-aways (only the support is commercial).
Internet Explorer is integrated to the kernel level only because the Windows desktop is integrated to the kernel level. Remove IE and your break the Windows desktop. Remove Konqueror and you break the KDE desktop.
Where Microsoft differs is that it has made no provisions for an alternative to IE, while KDE imposes no barriers to replacing Konqueror.
Most "true" conservatives in the US are borderline libertarians. When you remove the neocons, theocrats, country club conservatives and corporate welfare types from the Republican Party, you're left with something that looks suspiciously like a group of mainstream leaning libertarians.
Some of the pillars of conservative thought have even called themselves libertarian. Buckley, Goldwater, etc.
You must have gone to a bad school then. While ridicule is going to happen to every child at some point, I simply did not see it as the normal every day order of things. Anything can be used as the instrument of ridicule, but it could as easily be the color of the shoelaces as the the contents of the lunch box.
I am being truthful when I said I didn't observe any ridicule based on the victim's diet. I guess to children that isn't important enough to make fun of.
Yeah I know. But I still remember with fondness those days when I would start a compile and then go home for the evening...
So you agree with me. Allowing meat discriminates against vegetarians.
I'm doing no such thing! I'm only presenting the analogy to demonstrate how baseless your argument is. I used to be a teacher and I did indeed have vegetarian students. Some were even vegetarian due to <gastp> religious reasons! But I never noticed even one instance of the vegetarians being picked on or ridiculed because they brought vegetarian lunches to school.
A lot of your overly concerned parents are forgetting how innocent childhood really was. To my students, the vegetarians didn't eat meat simply because they didn't eat meat. No need to attach any labels. No need to provide sensitivity classes. Likewise, when I was a child we had several Jehovah Witnesses who didn't say the pledge of allegiance when the rest of us did. It was no big deal to us.
Huh? Maybe I should turn the question on you. Where was the "force" in there? The answer is that it's not. You argument is akin to saying voluntary meat in lunches at school (even if mom packed them at home) forces vegetarians to eat meat. After all, those that don't eat meat would be held up to ridicule!
Those senators of course included your beloved John Kerry.
But he changed his mind so it's okay then.
You listed a few Republicans in there...
The ACLU has long since stopped being an advocate for the first ammendment, and is now an advocate for a very malleable and leftist interpretation of the first ammendment.
The big advantage to .NET/Mono is the ability to easily use a common set of libraries from any (.NET/Mono compatible) language.
It's about time! Everyday when I come into work, I have all these software maintainers waiting for me with a common plea: please code my application with ten different languages! It's nice to know that I can know fulfill their request and provide them with unending job security.
What part of the above did you not comprehend?
I comprehend all of it. Since schools are dependent upon federal funding (due to federal mandates), any loss of those funds is indeed "punishment". This isn't about new funds, it's about old existing funds. It's no different than punishing states by withholding highway funds.
The Govt should stay the fuck out of my religion, my sexuality and the four walls of my humble abode.
Yet you have no problem with them going into your four walls and forcing your children into their schools?
It seems that one business or another owns every member of Congress
As a fan of Representative Ron Paul, I would like you to tell me which corporation "owns" him? I could also name another dozen reps I'm convinced couldn't be purchased at any price.
p.s. "business" is not synonymous with "corporation", so stop using those words as synonyms.
1)Voted YES on allowing school prayer during the War on Terror
So you're suggesting we throw little Timmie and Susie in jail for voluntarily praying? How dare they say grace before lunch! Some kid from Contra Costa County might see them!
(2)Voted YES on giving federal aid only to schools allowing voluntary prayer
Of course we want to continue rewarding those schools that throw Timmie and Susie in jail. It's horrible that schools allow such voluntary activities.
I can understand you having a problem with forced, coerced, and even encouraged school prayer. But voluntary? I can't understand that position at all. To expect that children can leave their parent's beliefs, morals, and upbringings at the school door is beyond silly.
Why is it anytime the US passes a stupid law the Europeans come out of the woodwork like ants all giving their thanks that they don't live there, yet whenever an EU nation passes a stupid law they're completely silent?
At least the US doesn't have cameras on every screet corner and doesn't though people in jail for encrypting their email. The US may be moving in that direction, but you guys are ALREADY THERE!
I can clearly see the differences in linux distro's. But other than portability, and security, what other differences/uses are there?
Frankly, who cares about the differences? The purpose of the BSDs isn't to be different.
This is very different from the Linux community. Linux users, in general, tend to chase after the latest "hot" distro. Almost like flash mobs. The latest seems to be Ubuntu skyrocketing up the distrowatch charts. I can't understand why someone happy with their current distro would switch just because everyone's talking about something new. But apparently a lot of you do.
I think one of the biggest advances in software development in the past ten years, big enough to qualify for Brook's "silver bullet", are processors fast enough to eliminate the tediousness of the edit-compile-test cycle. If I keep my classes small and cohesive (like they should be), then compiling a small change only takes a few seconds. And that's without any precompiled headers!
When "make install" takes longer than "make", you've reached a critical point for *something*!
Is allegiance to a political party so strong for most Americans...
Yes. That's why you'll see all those Democrats voting for Kerry even though Cobb better represents their views and opinions.
In Marx's time, class was nearly synonymous with caste. Class was something you were born into and could only leave through a lifetime of hard effort. Bob Cratchit had no hope of ever reaching Scrooge's class. But times have changed.