I think lower voter turnout is due to that fact that two parties have managed to make other parties irrelevent. The consitution wasn't setup to favor a two party system, and many of the founders didn't like the idea of political parties at all.
Now, the FEC is putting up barries to third parties. That needs to be fixed.
As far as "worshiping" our founders; well, many of the things you advocate they advocated as well.
Personally, if I EOL a product of mine, I wouldn't want NEW distributions to be occuring either. It sounds more like HP is distributing some MS software specified to Win98 they don't want distributed anymore. Also keep in mind we're only hearing HP's particular slant on the reasons; perhaps they are trying to shift blame to MS because they don't want to stock the relevent disks, and this is a way not to piss off the three people still running Win98.
Er, that's because there's no such thing as an FTP attachment? If you are referring to links, then I'm not aware of any virus checkers that automatically download and check HTTP links either.
Can anybody translate this into something that makes sense?
Yes, virus checkers can check the HTTP stream and abort the download if they find something. I think Norton was doing this in early 2001, I don't know if they still are.
Ya know, I'm finding it difficult to believe you're not just trolling. My point was that cats (and indeed, most, if not all organisms) have defenses, and are therefore by definition not defenseless.
If you have a defense, but it's totally ineffective, can you still REALLY call it a defense? I didn't say cats can bite and scratch. What I said was that the fact that the cat can do that is completely irrelevent when a human wants to harm a cat. Would you argue a person's immune system is a defense against HIV?
As a matter of fact, no. I am not defenseless, merely threatened. As a matter of fact, depending on the level of skill of the gun's holder (and the circumstances wherein I could find myself staring at the wrong end of a weapon), a few moments later might find me holding the firearm, and them nursing a freshly broken wrist. Sorry, but the more you try to argue your (fallacious) point, and still insist on missing mine, the less I feel like I'm having an intelligent discussion, and the more I feel like we're just out in the sandlot having a urination competition.
Point taken. Lets suppose you're already tied up. That's my point, you're ignoring that the defense is 100% useless. I've never heard of anyone trying to harm a cat where the cat came out beating the human. At best, the cat can hope to run away. In the case of a house cat, that's not an option.. the cat has no way to exit the house without human intervention.
For those of you who are not intellectually inclined (I won't name names, but the numbers 7, 1, 8, 4, and 9 come to mind), a "urination competition" is simply another way to say "pissing contest". By the way, you win. I will stop trying to correct your accuracy, and just let you be stupid. Happy now? Good.
Sorry, you're the stupid one, and an ass. But please, feel free to tell me how a house cat can realistically defend itself against a human wishing to do it harm. Go ahead and tell me that it can scratch. Ya, no shit, but that won't stop the human from harming the cat, will it? Let me be as clear as I possibly can, because you're a nitpicking moron: CATS HAVE NO EFFECTIVE DEFENSE AGAINST A HUMAN.
As for alcohol, according to this 39% are alcohol are involved. "There were 16,885 alcohol-related fatalities in 2005 - 39 percent of the total traffic fatalities for the year."
So, I guess I need to revise my statement 61% of all accidents are caused by distracted drivers.
Feline defenses include (but are not limited to) claws, teeth, and speed. Claws to make you let go of them when they decide you should not have snatched them up, teeth to be more aggressive in making you let go, and speed to get away from you when you do let go, now that your arm is bleeding from the wrist to the shoulder.
Yes, and all those are useless once you grab it behind the neck. I own six cats, I do have experience with their "defeneses." At worse, I have cuts and maybe small bruises for a few days. It's possible to corner a cat, especially when it's in your house.
By your logic, many other animals are "defenseless". After all, humans have guns and napalm.
If someone is holding a gun at you, are you not defenseless against it? You are, and in this regard, so are animals. That's why we've been so good at pushing a great number to extinction.. and sometimes that's not even our goal.
Poison ivy's effect on epidermis is another example of a defense mechanism. I have yet to see poison ivy kill a human, either... but I watched a marine rip his own tongue out after eating some on a dare.
The marine may be toungeless, but I bet the plant was burnt in short order. So, which one is still alive?
I'm unaware of any house cat ever being able to kill a human. If the human is intent on killing the cat, the cat will die.
So, you're suggesting homicide as a solution? Interesting neighbor you must be...
Nope, merely pointing out the disregard for life that the OP has. If he thinks its ok to kill a cat because it's annoying, he probably thinks it's ok to handle people in the same way, and that's what I was pointing out.
You don't see a conflict between the expert saying the evidence was gather properly being the same as the person that actually gathered the evidence? If you're not licensed, you may not know the rules required for evidence gathering. At least, that's what the states may be saying.
I know! Won't go down too well with the advertisers though.
Well, if one state can do it, so can others.
My point exactly. Now if we can get a driving test hard enough to weed out drivers that can get distracted, we'd be onto something!
Not sure that's possible, but I do think in general the tests should be more difficult and take into account reaction time.
You answered yourself there.
Well, you can't clip part of my statement. People drive cars that aren't their own which handle differently, yet do so without incident. So what is inheritently more difficult about learning to handle a bus rather than say a big U-Haul?
And lets remove advertising billboards while we are at it.
Excellent idea! Actually Vermont had banned such billboards, it's actually quite nice.
May I suggest that you are easily amazed. "quite a few" is not a quantative measurement, you cant use it to correlate distractions to accidents. While I'd wager that that over 50% of drivers get distracted daily while driving, the accident rate its quite a lot less.
I'm willing to be that near 100% of accidents though are directly caused by distracted drivers.
May I also suggest that driving a vehicle the size of a buss is a little more complicated than your avarage car.
How so? They handle differently, but so do all cars and trucks. Semis are a bit different, since you have two attached pieces, no one single vehicle.
You can quite easily drive a car while having a coversation.
You think you can; in reality how closely you're paying attention to the conversation probably depends on what is going on around you.
People listen to the news on the radio in their cars.
Listening takes less than having a convesation. Again however, how closely you can pay attention depends on the situation. I've tried listening to an audio book; much of the content was lost, because I have to shift my attention at various times when traffic is heavy.
There are constant trafic announcements and none of this increases the chance to have an accident.
I wouldn't be suprised if some accidents are caused by minor distractions. But if you know otherwise, post some links to conclusive studies.
Now you could argue that it diverts attention significantly enough to cause an accident... But then so do police cars and speed cameras... Maybe we should not have those on the roads too hmm? After all, I could be glacing at that police car instead of putting my breaks on one day...
I actually agree with both of those things. People start paying more attention to the cop than other cars, and it leads to problems. Nevermind the fact tha many slam on their brakes as soon as they see one to drive 15 mph UNDER the limit. Oh, and improperly set speed limits (which are the staggering majority) DO cause an increase in accidents. Stepping up enforcement just creates more revenue for insurance companies and government.
I'm referring to all the data aware components of Visual Studio for ASP.NET. They are under the heading of "Data Controls" in the toolkit. It wouldn't allow me to drop one on the design form without installing Microsoft Office. There are more than one of them. The Datasource, the Datagrid, etc.
None of those controls require Office, I'm sorry to say. I've had VS on my machine without office, and it's never required me to install Office to use the designer.
Sorry, writing a script and maintaining a text configuration file are not the same thing. I never said anything about learning something they don't know, either, I simply said there are valid reasons to NOT know Linuxx or solaris already.
Anyone care to guess how many inkjet printers and scanners went to an early grave in response to Microsoft driver issues on the 3.1/95/98/NT/2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7 treadmill?
Not many, given that MS has typically made backward compatiblity a big priority. We still have our plant manager using an LPT printer from the last 80s hooked to a computer with WinXP.
Well, let us know when the US gets a taste of decent mobile voice, as there are still many areas where "you can't expect it to work in your house!" is a common message from customer service reps.
But I will tell you that Outlook specially asked (I didn't offer) to use MS Word. If I remember correctly, it apparently couldn't (or wouldn't) display a particular email. But no it doesn't require Word, I assume it would have found some way to display the email in question without word.
That same setting in Outlook may affect viewing emails. Also, if you're talking about outlook 2007, it has a built in previewer for attached files. If someone attaches a word document, you can preview the document itself by single clicking the attachment. Pdfs do the same thing.
I stand by what I said about the Visual Studio components. They had no obvious ties to MS Office, I assume the devs know what the link is.
You stand by it without giving any relevent details. Are you perhaps talking about Document Explorer? That's not part of MS Office, it's a seperate component, I believe used to render the help files. If you're not, then please name the components to which you are refering. I've been doing.Net development for quite a few years now.
And about Windows Media player... this was on my desktop, not a workstation, so no group policy. I had installed VLC, and had it opening all my files, and defintely ogg. A few weeks later, I clicked on an OGG podcast and it opened up in Windows Media. Subsequent media (although I really don't do this often on my Windows machine) all opened in Windows media player.
Perhaps there's something else going on; a file got corrupted and Windows File Protect replaced it with a known good one, which didn't have those settings. Perhaps you have a service running under your account, and Windows can't properly unload your user profile (thus saving changes). There's a multitude of things that could be going wrong which have nothing to do with MS forcing you to change the settings.
I have fiber to the home and currently 5MB down AND up. I could pay a little more and go to 8 MB down and up. Of course the fiber was laid by a city charter, since Verizon couldn't even be bothred to roll out DSL to the most populous area of the city. Your level of success getting something like this off the ground will vary depending on varying levels of local corruption.
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So, what exactly stops Congress from passing laws that continually strip away the power of the courts or the president?
I think lower voter turnout is due to that fact that two parties have managed to make other parties irrelevent. The consitution wasn't setup to favor a two party system, and many of the founders didn't like the idea of political parties at all.
Now, the FEC is putting up barries to third parties. That needs to be fixed.
As far as "worshiping" our founders; well, many of the things you advocate they advocated as well.
Personally, if I EOL a product of mine, I wouldn't want NEW distributions to be occuring either. It sounds more like HP is distributing some MS software specified to Win98 they don't want distributed anymore. Also keep in mind we're only hearing HP's particular slant on the reasons; perhaps they are trying to shift blame to MS because they don't want to stock the relevent disks, and this is a way not to piss off the three people still running Win98.
Er, that's because there's no such thing as an FTP attachment? If you are referring to links, then I'm not aware of any virus checkers that automatically download and check HTTP links either.
Can anybody translate this into something that makes sense?
Yes, virus checkers can check the HTTP stream and abort the download if they find something. I think Norton was doing this in early 2001, I don't know if they still are.
Ya know, I'm finding it difficult to believe you're not just trolling. My point was that cats (and indeed, most, if not all organisms) have defenses, and are therefore by definition not defenseless.
If you have a defense, but it's totally ineffective, can you still REALLY call it a defense? I didn't say cats can bite and scratch. What I said was that the fact that the cat can do that is completely irrelevent when a human wants to harm a cat. Would you argue a person's immune system is a defense against HIV?
As a matter of fact, no. I am not defenseless, merely threatened. As a matter of fact, depending on the level of skill of the gun's holder (and the circumstances wherein I could find myself staring at the wrong end of a weapon), a few moments later might find me holding the firearm, and them nursing a freshly broken wrist. Sorry, but the more you try to argue your (fallacious) point, and still insist on missing mine, the less I feel like I'm having an intelligent discussion, and the more I feel like we're just out in the sandlot having a urination competition.
Point taken. Lets suppose you're already tied up. That's my point, you're ignoring that the defense is 100% useless. I've never heard of anyone trying to harm a cat where the cat came out beating the human. At best, the cat can hope to run away. In the case of a house cat, that's not an option.. the cat has no way to exit the house without human intervention.
For those of you who are not intellectually inclined (I won't name names, but the numbers 7, 1, 8, 4, and 9 come to mind), a "urination competition" is simply another way to say "pissing contest". By the way, you win. I will stop trying to correct your accuracy, and just let you be stupid. Happy now? Good.
Sorry, you're the stupid one, and an ass. But please, feel free to tell me how a house cat can realistically defend itself against a human wishing to do it harm. Go ahead and tell me that it can scratch. Ya, no shit, but that won't stop the human from harming the cat, will it? Let me be as clear as I possibly can, because you're a nitpicking moron: CATS HAVE NO EFFECTIVE DEFENSE AGAINST A HUMAN.
Well, maybe I was too hasty in revising my statement; 39% of fatalities involve alcohol, but I wasn't only including fatalities.
Nope. Speeding does not cause accidents. This has been proven. Raising speed limits does not cause an increase in the number of accidents.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4179/is_19990425/ai_n11718981
http://www.hwysafety.com/hwy_montana_2001.htm
http://www.junkscience.com/nov98/peters2.html
As for alcohol, according to this 39% are alcohol are involved. "There were 16,885 alcohol-related fatalities in 2005 - 39 percent of the total traffic fatalities for the year."
So, I guess I need to revise my statement 61% of all accidents are caused by distracted drivers.
In other words, MS stopped supporting EVERYONE doing things with Win98 and ME. Which sounds pretty consistent with an EOL policy.
Feline defenses include (but are not limited to) claws, teeth, and speed. Claws to make you let go of them when they decide you should not have snatched them up, teeth to be more aggressive in making you let go, and speed to get away from you when you do let go, now that your arm is bleeding from the wrist to the shoulder.
Yes, and all those are useless once you grab it behind the neck. I own six cats, I do have experience with their "defeneses." At worse, I have cuts and maybe small bruises for a few days. It's possible to corner a cat, especially when it's in your house.
By your logic, many other animals are "defenseless". After all, humans have guns and napalm.
If someone is holding a gun at you, are you not defenseless against it? You are, and in this regard, so are animals. That's why we've been so good at pushing a great number to extinction.. and sometimes that's not even our goal.
Poison ivy's effect on epidermis is another example of a defense mechanism. I have yet to see poison ivy kill a human, either... but I watched a marine rip his own tongue out after eating some on a dare.
The marine may be toungeless, but I bet the plant was burnt in short order. So, which one is still alive?
Cats? Defenseless? ROFL.
I'm unaware of any house cat ever being able to kill a human. If the human is intent on killing the cat, the cat will die.
So, you're suggesting homicide as a solution? Interesting neighbor you must be...
Nope, merely pointing out the disregard for life that the OP has. If he thinks its ok to kill a cat because it's annoying, he probably thinks it's ok to handle people in the same way, and that's what I was pointing out.
You don't see a conflict between the expert saying the evidence was gather properly being the same as the person that actually gathered the evidence? If you're not licensed, you may not know the rules required for evidence gathering. At least, that's what the states may be saying.
I know! Won't go down too well with the advertisers though.
Well, if one state can do it, so can others.
My point exactly. Now if we can get a driving test hard enough to weed out drivers that can get distracted, we'd be onto something!
Not sure that's possible, but I do think in general the tests should be more difficult and take into account reaction time.
You answered yourself there.
Well, you can't clip part of my statement. People drive cars that aren't their own which handle differently, yet do so without incident. So what is inheritently more difficult about learning to handle a bus rather than say a big U-Haul?
And lets remove advertising billboards while we are at it.
Excellent idea! Actually Vermont had banned such billboards, it's actually quite nice.
May I suggest that you are easily amazed. "quite a few" is not a quantative measurement, you cant use it to correlate distractions to accidents. While I'd wager that that over 50% of drivers get distracted daily while driving, the accident rate its quite a lot less.
I'm willing to be that near 100% of accidents though are directly caused by distracted drivers.
May I also suggest that driving a vehicle the size of a buss is a little more complicated than your avarage car.
How so? They handle differently, but so do all cars and trucks. Semis are a bit different, since you have two attached pieces, no one single vehicle.
You can quite easily drive a car while having a coversation.
You think you can; in reality how closely you're paying attention to the conversation probably depends on what is going on around you.
People listen to the news on the radio in their cars.
Listening takes less than having a convesation. Again however, how closely you can pay attention depends on the situation. I've tried listening to an audio book; much of the content was lost, because I have to shift my attention at various times when traffic is heavy.
There are constant trafic announcements and none of this increases the chance to have an accident.
I wouldn't be suprised if some accidents are caused by minor distractions. But if you know otherwise, post some links to conclusive studies.
Now you could argue that it diverts attention significantly enough to cause an accident... But then so do police cars and speed cameras... Maybe we should not have those on the roads too hmm? After all, I could be glacing at that police car instead of putting my breaks on one day...
I actually agree with both of those things. People start paying more attention to the cop than other cars, and it leads to problems. Nevermind the fact tha many slam on their brakes as soon as they see one to drive 15 mph UNDER the limit. Oh, and improperly set speed limits (which are the staggering majority) DO cause an increase in accidents. Stepping up enforcement just creates more revenue for insurance companies and government.
Just what we need, some asshole reading a book on his PDA while driving.
So anyone should be able to walk off the street and present evidence in a court case while claiming they are an expert at gathering said evidence?
Can you provide a link to such a policy on the HP site? How about a scan of said piece of paper?
Sounded like they were talking about buy a computer with Linux pre-installed, not Windows.
I'm referring to all the data aware components of Visual Studio for ASP.NET. They are under the heading of "Data Controls" in the toolkit. It wouldn't allow me to drop one on the design form without installing Microsoft Office. There are more than one of them. The Datasource, the Datagrid, etc.
None of those controls require Office, I'm sorry to say. I've had VS on my machine without office, and it's never required me to install Office to use the designer.
Sorry, writing a script and maintaining a text configuration file are not the same thing. I never said anything about learning something they don't know, either, I simply said there are valid reasons to NOT know Linuxx or solaris already.
Anyone care to guess how many inkjet printers and scanners went to an early grave in response to Microsoft driver issues on the 3.1/95/98/NT/2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7 treadmill?
Not many, given that MS has typically made backward compatiblity a big priority. We still have our plant manager using an LPT printer from the last 80s hooked to a computer with WinXP.
More importantly though, part of the money you're paying to replace Vista with Ubuntu goes to Microsoft
Huh, where do you get that?
Well, let us know when the US gets a taste of decent mobile voice, as there are still many areas where "you can't expect it to work in your house!" is a common message from customer service reps.
But I will tell you that Outlook specially asked (I didn't offer) to use MS Word. If I remember correctly, it apparently couldn't (or wouldn't) display a particular email. But no it doesn't require Word, I assume it would have found some way to display the email in question without word.
.Net development for quite a few years now.
That same setting in Outlook may affect viewing emails. Also, if you're talking about outlook 2007, it has a built in previewer for attached files. If someone attaches a word document, you can preview the document itself by single clicking the attachment. Pdfs do the same thing.
I stand by what I said about the Visual Studio components. They had no obvious ties to MS Office, I assume the devs know what the link is.
You stand by it without giving any relevent details. Are you perhaps talking about Document Explorer? That's not part of MS Office, it's a seperate component, I believe used to render the help files. If you're not, then please name the components to which you are refering. I've been doing
And about Windows Media player... this was on my desktop, not a workstation, so no group policy. I had installed VLC, and had it opening all my files, and defintely ogg. A few weeks later, I clicked on an OGG podcast and it opened up in Windows Media. Subsequent media (although I really don't do this often on my Windows machine) all opened in Windows media player.
Perhaps there's something else going on; a file got corrupted and Windows File Protect replaced it with a known good one, which didn't have those settings. Perhaps you have a service running under your account, and Windows can't properly unload your user profile (thus saving changes). There's a multitude of things that could be going wrong which have nothing to do with MS forcing you to change the settings.
I have fiber to the home and currently 5MB down AND up. I could pay a little more and go to 8 MB down and up. Of course the fiber was laid by a city charter, since Verizon couldn't even be bothred to roll out DSL to the most populous area of the city. Your level of success getting something like this off the ground will vary depending on varying levels of local corruption.