Yeah, but who the hell wants to be buried and visited like some sort of shrine for the next decade or so? Cremate me please, it's the only way to go......
rather I figured that after 4 years there'd be enough elections that you could have the majority of the positions be replaced (and thus the vote could/would go a different way).
The full House is up every two years. That's 1/2 of 1/3 of the Federal Government and more than enough to change what's going on in Washington if the people aren't happy with it. Remember the House is the chamber that has to originate all spending bills.....
That's not illegal in the United States. We have no Official Secrets Act. It's illegal for someone with a security clearance to leak information but it's not illegal for the person that receives said information to publish it.
Not relating to terrorism, extremism, drugs, porn, anarchy/sedition, blasphemy, etc.
With the exception of terrorism, none of those are illegal. There are websites that will tell you how to set up a grow-op and keep it hidden from the police. There are websites advocating the overthrow of the Federal Government. All perfectly legal and protected by the 1st amendment. A website that advocates terrorism wouldn't be illegal either -- the ones that have gotten into trouble were the ones that were running forums that supported terrorist communications.
The technology did not exist to allow ISP's to treat traffic differently
Yes it did. We were running QoS at my Mom-and-pop ISP back in 2000. It was the only way to provide decent service to our business customers when Napster and Kazaa first appeared on the scene.
DPI was around back then too. There was a program called Etherpeek (which is still around I believe) that could even give us a real time running list of the URLs that our customers were visiting. It cost serious money and there are free tools today that will do a better job but it was still effective enough for our needs.
It doesn't matter if you use cellular or satellite your data is still extremely likely to run over their networks.
Actually, in this day and age the Tier 1 networks aren't as important as they used to be. The bulk of my traffic on Roadrunner comes in on Time Warner's own (tbone) backbone. They have peering arrangements with most of the major content distribution networks. The only time I've seen traffic traceroute onto Level 3 is for oddball connections (torrents to European hosts and the like)
That's because he should have started a war. I'm forced to wonder if we would have had all these problems with Middle Eastern extremists if Jimmy Carter had gone Roman on the Iranians for holding our citizens hostage. Instead he did nothing other than authorize a doomed-from-the-start military operation and came off looking like the weakest President of the 20th century.
If you aren't prepared to kill people to protect American lives you have no business sitting in that office.
China wouldn't go to war with their largest trading partner over North Korea. They'd probably respond by applying pressure elsewhere (Taiwan) and betting that the US was too preoccupied to respond effectively.
Besides, the US wouldn't necessarily have to get involved in a Korean War 2.0 The South Koreans have all the hardware, training and manpower they would need to defeat the North in a clash of arms. The only reason the Chinese are leery of this outcome is because they don't want millions of refugees pouring across the Yulu river.
Doesn't, to my knowledge, keep a man-sized safe in his office.
Please explain to me why so many people are obsessed over the fact that a high level government official with access to all sorts of classified information would keep a safe in his office. Frankly, I'd be surprised if they didn't.....
If it weren't for these fools living in the Red States, war wouldn't be considered acceptable. Most people in the civilized Blue States would not stand for money being wasted like that.
You are an idiot. Off the top of my head:
Wilson - Democrat - WW1
FDR - Democrat - WW2 (FDR went even further than most, he had the US Navy attacking German warships months before war was declared by Germany or authorized by the Congress)
Truman - Democrat - Korea
JFK/LBJ - Democrats - Vietnam
And those are just the major wars. Democrats have engaged in their share of police actions too.
My thought process with the PIN is that it will buy enough time for me to call Verizon and have the phone shut off and blacklisted. Having the phone stolen is bad enough -- I don't want to have to deal with a huge bill because they decided to run it up before I was able to report it stolen.
Buy a screen protector. This is the one that I got for my Droid-X. It still collects finger oils but it's much less obnoxious and easier to read. I only have to clean mine every few days now and can get away with wiping it down with a t-shirt or some such.
the Android set-up doesn't actually use a keyboard: just dots, which you're supposed to join in the same order.
My Droid-X has a PIN option as well as the pattern phrase. We told all of our users to use the PIN -- this "exploit" was apparent to us as soon as we held one of our droids up to a light and noticed the finger oils all over the screen.
It's not "childish", it's realistic. The American people will not long tolerate a Government that puts us at a competitive disadvantage in the global economy. It will be voted out of office and replaced with a less idealistic government.
It "destroys" the economy when all of the players in said economy (i.e: China) don't have to play by the same rules. Signing a treaty that compels us to switch to expensive energy sources while China continues to build coal power plants will have negative repercussions.
This is a rural area, but the overwhelming majority of it has access to at least DSL. The local telco (Frontier) put a lot of effort into deploying remote DSLAMs. You can see them all over the place on country roads around these parts. It may not be as fast as cable but it's quite workable -- the slowest connections are 1.5mbit/s. Many can get faster than that. Time Warner has also made an effort to extend their cable network out into the rural areas around here though they don't have the same footprint that Frontier does. Even so, there are a fair number of people on rural roads that have access to both cable and DSL.
It baffles me that Frontier can manage to do this in spite of being heavily saddled with debt (contrasted to Verizon or AT&T) but other telcos can't manage to do it. I'm loathe to give a phone company credit for anything but Frontier has actually done right by this area.
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Except of course in 1994, 2006, 2008 and in all likelihood 2010......
Yes, the vast majority keep their seats, but enough turned over in those years to make a real difference on the national scene.
Nah, I want an open air Roman style cremation. Think the County Health Department will give me any fits with that? ;)
Yeah, but who the hell wants to be buried and visited like some sort of shrine for the next decade or so? Cremate me please, it's the only way to go......
rather I figured that after 4 years there'd be enough elections that you could have the majority of the positions be replaced (and thus the vote could/would go a different way).
The full House is up every two years. That's 1/2 of 1/3 of the Federal Government and more than enough to change what's going on in Washington if the people aren't happy with it. Remember the House is the chamber that has to originate all spending bills.....
Not unauthorised communication of military
That's not illegal in the United States. We have no Official Secrets Act. It's illegal for someone with a security clearance to leak information but it's not illegal for the person that receives said information to publish it.
Not relating to terrorism, extremism, drugs, porn, anarchy/sedition, blasphemy, etc.
With the exception of terrorism, none of those are illegal. There are websites that will tell you how to set up a grow-op and keep it hidden from the police. There are websites advocating the overthrow of the Federal Government. All perfectly legal and protected by the 1st amendment. A website that advocates terrorism wouldn't be illegal either -- the ones that have gotten into trouble were the ones that were running forums that supported terrorist communications.
The technology did not exist to allow ISP's to treat traffic differently
Yes it did. We were running QoS at my Mom-and-pop ISP back in 2000. It was the only way to provide decent service to our business customers when Napster and Kazaa first appeared on the scene.
DPI was around back then too. There was a program called Etherpeek (which is still around I believe) that could even give us a real time running list of the URLs that our customers were visiting. It cost serious money and there are free tools today that will do a better job but it was still effective enough for our needs.
It doesn't matter if you use cellular or satellite your data is still extremely likely to run over their networks.
Actually, in this day and age the Tier 1 networks aren't as important as they used to be. The bulk of my traffic on Roadrunner comes in on Time Warner's own (tbone) backbone. They have peering arrangements with most of the major content distribution networks. The only time I've seen traffic traceroute onto Level 3 is for oddball connections (torrents to European hosts and the like)
I see two wins (WW1/WW2), one loss (Vietnam) and one tie (Korea) there.....
That's because he should have started a war. I'm forced to wonder if we would have had all these problems with Middle Eastern extremists if Jimmy Carter had gone Roman on the Iranians for holding our citizens hostage. Instead he did nothing other than authorize a doomed-from-the-start military operation and came off looking like the weakest President of the 20th century.
If you aren't prepared to kill people to protect American lives you have no business sitting in that office.
(and we ourselves haven't lived up to the standards that a 'lawful' war would require).
How do you figure that?
China wouldn't go to war with their largest trading partner over North Korea. They'd probably respond by applying pressure elsewhere (Taiwan) and betting that the US was too preoccupied to respond effectively.
Besides, the US wouldn't necessarily have to get involved in a Korean War 2.0 The South Koreans have all the hardware, training and manpower they would need to defeat the North in a clash of arms. The only reason the Chinese are leery of this outcome is because they don't want millions of refugees pouring across the Yulu river.
Doesn't, to my knowledge, keep a man-sized safe in his office.
Please explain to me why so many people are obsessed over the fact that a high level government official with access to all sorts of classified information would keep a safe in his office. Frankly, I'd be surprised if they didn't.....
If it weren't for these fools living in the Red States, war wouldn't be considered acceptable. Most people in the civilized Blue States would not stand for money being wasted like that.
You are an idiot. Off the top of my head:
Wilson - Democrat - WW1
FDR - Democrat - WW2 (FDR went even further than most, he had the US Navy attacking German warships months before war was declared by Germany or authorized by the Congress)
Truman - Democrat - Korea
JFK/LBJ - Democrats - Vietnam
And those are just the major wars. Democrats have engaged in their share of police actions too.
My thought process with the PIN is that it will buy enough time for me to call Verizon and have the phone shut off and blacklisted. Having the phone stolen is bad enough -- I don't want to have to deal with a huge bill because they decided to run it up before I was able to report it stolen.
Buy a screen protector. This is the one that I got for my Droid-X. It still collects finger oils but it's much less obnoxious and easier to read. I only have to clean mine every few days now and can get away with wiping it down with a t-shirt or some such.
Lock it anyway unless you want some asshat to steal your phone and run up your bill before you notice it.
the Android set-up doesn't actually use a keyboard: just dots, which you're supposed to join in the same order.
My Droid-X has a PIN option as well as the pattern phrase. We told all of our users to use the PIN -- this "exploit" was apparent to us as soon as we held one of our droids up to a light and noticed the finger oils all over the screen.
You have an amazing talent for attributing things to me that I never said. Is it natural or did you have to practice at it?
It's not "childish", it's realistic. The American people will not long tolerate a Government that puts us at a competitive disadvantage in the global economy. It will be voted out of office and replaced with a less idealistic government.
If one country does not switch away from fossil fuels, the others can simply tax goods imported from that country.
You mean the same way we tariff their goods to make up for the fact that they have no labor or environmental laws? Oh wait, we don't.......
This would mitigate the negative repercussions you mention.
And probably come with more when they retaliate by slapping tariffs/taxes on American goods. Damned if you do and damned if you don't it seems.
It "destroys" the economy when all of the players in said economy (i.e: China) don't have to play by the same rules. Signing a treaty that compels us to switch to expensive energy sources while China continues to build coal power plants will have negative repercussions.
They are a bunch of loonies.
This is a rural area, but the overwhelming majority of it has access to at least DSL. The local telco (Frontier) put a lot of effort into deploying remote DSLAMs. You can see them all over the place on country roads around these parts. It may not be as fast as cable but it's quite workable -- the slowest connections are 1.5mbit/s. Many can get faster than that. Time Warner has also made an effort to extend their cable network out into the rural areas around here though they don't have the same footprint that Frontier does. Even so, there are a fair number of people on rural roads that have access to both cable and DSL.
It baffles me that Frontier can manage to do this in spite of being heavily saddled with debt (contrasted to Verizon or AT&T) but other telcos can't manage to do it. I'm loathe to give a phone company credit for anything but Frontier has actually done right by this area.
Really? California has the third highest unemployment rate in the US. It's third or fourth in the country for foreclosures. Sacramento is broke and has the lowest credit rating of the 50 states.
Seems pretty gutted to me.
Guess there are some real advantages to a oligarchy over a democracy.
I'll pass.