I agree that it's well past the time we need auto crypto. Having suffered through the trenches of IT tech support, I have no idea how this could realistically be achieved for the average user. If it can be figured out it'd have to be helpful for the fight against spam too.
I'm also waiting for the day when android, Iphone, or other programmable cells have the CPU processing required to encrypt voice on the fly.
You're right about the current meaning of the label conservative. Too bad people lump politicians under Liberal and Conservative but the popular beliefs of them can co-exist under the title Libertarian.
The libertarian ideal can be tied together with the foundations of the conservative movement in a way that makes the religious right pandering politicians sputter.
Libertarians want the hallmarks of the Goldwater republicans - smaller government, reduced oversight, and usually a strong military for defense. They also love the personal freedoms from the Bill of Rights, are usually fine with you smoking pot in your own home and doing most anything you want that doesn't harm others on your own land.
This is why Ron Paul had such a diverse range of supporters - he is a libertarian at heart and also a conservative.
Simply having an ID card that gives your religion is scary enough. Well unless you're in the UK. Having a card saying you're a Jedi wouldn't be all that bad.
I just don't see the previous 900 billion spent on this mess mentioned that often. Is this to sugar coat that it's now at almost 2 trillion to protect corporate cronyism?
What I really love is how each and everyone who spoke during the voting called it crap. Swimming in sewage, bleeding out - some really graphic analogies. So why didn't they vote for something that was actually constructive!
I like the Kick the Traitors out idea. Next election cycle I hope just saying 'my opponent voted for the bailout' would be enough to get someone else elected. But I'm too cynical to believe that will actually work.
I'd assume the feds will fight this tooth and nail also. It'd make tapping phone lines harder so they'd be against it.
Take a look at what they did with CALEA to effectively make open Wifi a very scary proposition. They wouldn't want cell phones to be any less controlled.
People mention unicorns all the time. This is news for nerds so why don't people mention time travel when discussing the Bible?
Revelations is one of the books of the bible. A frightening large percentage of Americans believe it will occur within their lifetime. However by definition it is in the future. Hence it is either
A) Time Travel, coming back from the future to tell everyone what occurred.
B) There is no free will. We are machines pre-programmed to do as we do, the end result is already known.
I'm all for the time travel aspect when talking about the Bible with anyone. Believers want to think they have free will - it's actually a tenant of the Catholic church. Therefor it must be time travel and that leads to much amusement on my part during the discussion.
Pelosi, the spineless wonder of the Democrat leadership. All these blatant breaking of laws by the executive branch (Loss of millions of emails, secret meetings for our Energy policy, warrantless wiretaps, breaking of Geneva convention on torture of prisoners) and she has said impeachment is off the table.
So much for checks and balances between our branches. We now truly have an imperial presidency.
That was one of the big issues of the - now repealed - '96 telco reform act. Each incumbent local exchange carrier (Monopoly) would have to give access to their network. However there was no guideline that they couldn't give themselves access also.
The problem was that they would always find ways to sell the service to themselves far cheaper than any competition could get it. It was impossible to compete against say Verizon DSL by buying wholesale access to Verizon networks and rolling out your own DSL.
Of course the best part was all the large ILECs simply stopped having the infrastructure available to even offer broadband. Then their argument, which eventually won the repeal of the '96 reform act, was 'why should we build out a broadband network that we don't make any money at. Repeal the law about us having to share and we'll gladly give broadband to everyone'. The government repealed the law that gave competition at least a ghost of a chance in order to help the common person get broadband, don'tchaknow.
That was the official line that Fred Upton, then chair of the House subcommittee on telecommunications, gave me when I asked him why he wanted to repeal the '96 reform act. Years later and Fred's own district still has horrid broadband connections (Sorry, the local paper herald palladium has a bad online presence).
I'm usually against as much regulation as possible but to level the monopoly playing field your suggestion is spot on.
10th amendment of the constitution, what the lawmakers swear to uphold - The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
Marriage, Education, Abortion, etc should all be a state level issue
Why should the monopolies in the US plop down more lines when they can keep getting subsidies and billions given to them to 'roll out broadband'.
The realization of ubiquitous broadband is right up there with Duke Nuke'm Forever, except the telcos have actually figured out how to keep getting paid for a mythical product. The phone companies collected over $200 billion in higher phone rates and tax perks, about $2000 per household and the FCC and legislature keep letting them get away with empty promises. What a great Lobbying effort!
Microsoft used their monopoly position to kill the competition. They then used their massive bank account to ensure their legal and political lobbyists got them out of trouble.
Unless that one issue shows a huge underlying philosophy that can't be accepted by the voter.
I also am a one issue voter this time around. Obama and McCain both supported the warrantless FISA bill. I don't feel either one cares about protection of individual liberties and the idea of following the law. I further saw their support as both giving big monopolies getting what they wanted and the legislative branch not holding the executive branch responsible for breaches in the laws they swore to uphold. That's a vote breaker for me for both of them.
So yes I can somewhat understand the anti-abortion crowd although I think it's misguided as I lean more libertarian. What they're fighting for should be at most a state level issue and shouldn't be part of the federal election. But if someone stands for an issue strongly and doesn't vote for someone because of actual past policies or statements then that's logical enough for me.
NPR Science friday just had a discussion with GeoEye. They will also snap a photo of anyplace you ask them to for a cost. They go into some details of the process and it was a neat little interview. Things like it's in a polar orbit, whipping around the north to south pole every 90 minutes.
If anyone has an elderly grandparent / parent / etc check the crap they receive. The cure for every ache and pain out there arrives all the time in very slick looking 'medical journals'. They all have a cover price on them of $4.95 or something and at a quick glance they look very realistic.
The publishing is really first rate, nice layouts, pictures of doctors, testimonials, etc. There is a little disclaimer somewhere in them that 'these statements aren't approved by the FDA' but it's easy to miss. So you have a little magazine pitching a cure on each page with a lengthy writeup. I have never seen anything listed for less than $20.
I made sure to get the mail every day for the grandparents to weed out this junk after noticing they were buying a lot of crap. I can only assume they buy mailing lists of retired and elderly and make a fortune on this. Probably far more than small dick pills ever could.
At my family plumbing shop a customer had us install a new Kohler toilet. The next day the client called to request a new fixture be put in. The client, an older distinguished gentleman, wouldn't give a reason at first. After a longer discussion he finally gave the reason of 'when I sit down, my testicles touch the water'. The best part? His name was Mr. Float.
Why bother with a graph when they just flip flop on the issues depending on whatever political gain they think they can get?
For example : As recently as Oct of 07 Obama was against telecom immunity in the FISA bill "Senator Obama has serious concerns about many provisions in this bill, especially the provision on giving retroactive immunity to the telephone companies. He is hopeful that this bill can be improved by the Senate Judiciary Committee. But if the bill comes to the Senate floor in its current form, he would support a filibuster of it."
Or McCain ignoring New Orleans last time a hurricane hit, and this time he's in a nearby command center. They're both politicians, they do whatever they think will get them the most politican gain, regardless of past or future viewpoints.
When it's just Lucas writing, he can't do a script that doesn't make the audience twinge a few times. Just like Bush can't deliver a speech without making the audience twinge.
Oh of course whomever set up his email program knew the difference. And not just Bush, but 50 people in the Whitehouse. This was a cheap runaround to the Presidential Records Act. While it was a cheap shot, it was also effective. Millions of emails 'lost', subpeonas to turn emails over ignored - ahhh, the Executive Branch must love all the extra power they've gained over the past 8 years.
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I agree that it's well past the time we need auto crypto. Having suffered through the trenches of IT tech support, I have no idea how this could realistically be achieved for the average user. If it can be figured out it'd have to be helpful for the fight against spam too.
I'm also waiting for the day when android, Iphone, or other programmable cells have the CPU processing required to encrypt voice on the fly.
You're right about the current meaning of the label conservative. Too bad people lump politicians under Liberal and Conservative but the popular beliefs of them can co-exist under the title Libertarian. The libertarian ideal can be tied together with the foundations of the conservative movement in a way that makes the religious right pandering politicians sputter.
Libertarians want the hallmarks of the Goldwater republicans - smaller government, reduced oversight, and usually a strong military for defense. They also love the personal freedoms from the Bill of Rights, are usually fine with you smoking pot in your own home and doing most anything you want that doesn't harm others on your own land.
This is why Ron Paul had such a diverse range of supporters - he is a libertarian at heart and also a conservative.
You know you can go to a church and read porn? The bible's got some twisted stuff in it.
Having had a religion class every school day growing up, I can say that kids develop a knack for finding the good parts.
Other countries allow this. If I recall New Zealand has a few postal companies and sending mail was reasonable.
Simply having an ID card that gives your religion is scary enough. Well unless you're in the UK. Having a card saying you're a Jedi wouldn't be all that bad.
I just don't see the previous 900 billion spent on this mess mentioned that often. Is this to sugar coat that it's now at almost 2 trillion to protect corporate cronyism?
What I really love is how each and everyone who spoke during the voting called it crap. Swimming in sewage, bleeding out - some really graphic analogies. So why didn't they vote for something that was actually constructive!
I like the Kick the Traitors out idea. Next election cycle I hope just saying 'my opponent voted for the bailout' would be enough to get someone else elected. But I'm too cynical to believe that will actually work.
I'd assume the feds will fight this tooth and nail also. It'd make tapping phone lines harder so they'd be against it.
Take a look at what they did with CALEA to effectively make open Wifi a very scary proposition. They wouldn't want cell phones to be any less controlled.
People mention unicorns all the time. This is news for nerds so why don't people mention time travel when discussing the Bible?
Revelations is one of the books of the bible. A frightening large percentage of Americans believe it will occur within their lifetime. However by definition it is in the future. Hence it is either
A) Time Travel, coming back from the future to tell everyone what occurred.
B) There is no free will. We are machines pre-programmed to do as we do, the end result is already known.
I'm all for the time travel aspect when talking about the Bible with anyone. Believers want to think they have free will - it's actually a tenant of the Catholic church. Therefor it must be time travel and that leads to much amusement on my part during the discussion.
I have high hopes that the Robotech movie will lead to some new and good Mecha games.
Sears? Oh right, that subsidiary of Kmart. What an unglamorous end, becoming a blue light special.
Pelosi, the spineless wonder of the Democrat leadership. All these blatant breaking of laws by the executive branch (Loss of millions of emails, secret meetings for our Energy policy, warrantless wiretaps, breaking of Geneva convention on torture of prisoners) and she has said impeachment is off the table.
So much for checks and balances between our branches. We now truly have an imperial presidency.
That was one of the big issues of the - now repealed - '96 telco reform act. Each incumbent local exchange carrier (Monopoly) would have to give access to their network. However there was no guideline that they couldn't give themselves access also.
The problem was that they would always find ways to sell the service to themselves far cheaper than any competition could get it. It was impossible to compete against say Verizon DSL by buying wholesale access to Verizon networks and rolling out your own DSL.
Of course the best part was all the large ILECs simply stopped having the infrastructure available to even offer broadband. Then their argument, which eventually won the repeal of the '96 reform act, was 'why should we build out a broadband network that we don't make any money at. Repeal the law about us having to share and we'll gladly give broadband to everyone'. The government repealed the law that gave competition at least a ghost of a chance in order to help the common person get broadband, don'tchaknow.
That was the official line that Fred Upton, then chair of the House subcommittee on telecommunications, gave me when I asked him why he wanted to repeal the '96 reform act. Years later and Fred's own district still has horrid broadband connections (Sorry, the local paper herald palladium has a bad online presence).
I'm usually against as much regulation as possible but to level the monopoly playing field your suggestion is spot on.
That wouldn't be surprising as it worked so well for Apple.
10th amendment of the constitution, what the lawmakers swear to uphold - The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
Marriage, Education, Abortion, etc should all be a state level issue
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Why should the monopolies in the US plop down more lines when they can keep getting subsidies and billions given to them to 'roll out broadband'.
The realization of ubiquitous broadband is right up there with Duke Nuke'm Forever, except the telcos have actually figured out how to keep getting paid for a mythical product. The phone companies collected over $200 billion in higher phone rates and tax perks, about $2000 per household and the FCC and legislature keep letting them get away with empty promises. What a great Lobbying effort!
Microsoft's $750 million settlement with Netscape says differently. Also the United States Vs Microsoft Antitrust case specifically mentions Netscape.
Microsoft used their monopoly position to kill the competition. They then used their massive bank account to ensure their legal and political lobbyists got them out of trouble.
Unless that one issue shows a huge underlying philosophy that can't be accepted by the voter.
I also am a one issue voter this time around. Obama and McCain both supported the warrantless FISA bill. I don't feel either one cares about protection of individual liberties and the idea of following the law. I further saw their support as both giving big monopolies getting what they wanted and the legislative branch not holding the executive branch responsible for breaches in the laws they swore to uphold. That's a vote breaker for me for both of them.
So yes I can somewhat understand the anti-abortion crowd although I think it's misguided as I lean more libertarian. What they're fighting for should be at most a state level issue and shouldn't be part of the federal election. But if someone stands for an issue strongly and doesn't vote for someone because of actual past policies or statements then that's logical enough for me.
NPR Science friday just had a discussion with GeoEye. They will also snap a photo of anyplace you ask them to for a cost. They go into some details of the process and it was a neat little interview. Things like it's in a polar orbit, whipping around the north to south pole every 90 minutes.
If anyone has an elderly grandparent / parent / etc check the crap they receive. The cure for every ache and pain out there arrives all the time in very slick looking 'medical journals'. They all have a cover price on them of $4.95 or something and at a quick glance they look very realistic.
The publishing is really first rate, nice layouts, pictures of doctors, testimonials, etc. There is a little disclaimer somewhere in them that 'these statements aren't approved by the FDA' but it's easy to miss. So you have a little magazine pitching a cure on each page with a lengthy writeup. I have never seen anything listed for less than $20.
I made sure to get the mail every day for the grandparents to weed out this junk after noticing they were buying a lot of crap. I can only assume they buy mailing lists of retired and elderly and make a fortune on this. Probably far more than small dick pills ever could.
At my family plumbing shop a customer had us install a new Kohler toilet. The next day the client called to request a new fixture be put in. The client, an older distinguished gentleman, wouldn't give a reason at first. After a longer discussion he finally gave the reason of 'when I sit down, my testicles touch the water'. The best part? His name was Mr. Float.
Why bother with a graph when they just flip flop on the issues depending on whatever political gain they think they can get?
For example : As recently as Oct of 07 Obama was against telecom immunity in the FISA bill "Senator Obama has serious concerns about many provisions in this bill, especially the provision on giving retroactive immunity to the telephone companies. He is hopeful that this bill can be improved by the Senate Judiciary Committee. But if the bill comes to the Senate floor in its current form, he would support a filibuster of it."
Then in June Obama supports telecom immunity
Or McCain ignoring New Orleans last time a hurricane hit, and this time he's in a nearby command center. They're both politicians, they do whatever they think will get them the most politican gain, regardless of past or future viewpoints.
Oh you mean McCain won't be having a birthday cake delivered by President Bush when a hurricane hits New Orleans this time around?
Glad to know he cares when votes are at stake.
You know that makes sense!
When it's just Lucas writing, he can't do a script that doesn't make the audience twinge a few times. Just like Bush can't deliver a speech without making the audience twinge.
Oh of course whomever set up his email program knew the difference. And not just Bush, but 50 people in the Whitehouse. This was a cheap runaround to the Presidential Records Act. While it was a cheap shot, it was also effective. Millions of emails 'lost', subpeonas to turn emails over ignored - ahhh, the Executive Branch must love all the extra power they've gained over the past 8 years.