It is Sirius; they bought Stern for $500 million. I imagine they are hemerraging even more moneny now that XM's Opie & Anthony took over his old slot on FM. Must kill him that they are broadcasting in his studio for the first half of the show.
Guess who Owns a big stake in XM... Clear Channel. They are more than happy to suck on that Payola teat in the XM world. It is really stinking easy to pick out the XM channels that are sucking that teat hard BTW. they sound exactly like your regular FM clear Channel station.
True, but there are 60 other music channels.
I've never heard any radio station playing all the songs on XMLM.
How are you connecting your XM to your radio? Are you using the FM transmitter? The FM transmitter is very weak, and always seems to have some distortion (I have a Roady2).
I use my via a tape deck (which supports Dolby, the indicator lights when XM is playing) and it sounds great. An even better connection would be to some input on your head unit, if it has such a connection.
It depends on the unit; mine doesn't store songs, but I can store data about a song so that the unit will tell me when its playing on another station. Pretty cool feature, I don't miss songs I really like.
While what you say is true, they do have to PAY you for the property they are seizing. They don't just take it. So its not quite the same as when a patent expires.
That's fine if you don't want a story cluttering up your deathmatch...but how about some variety to the gameplay? Some interesting levels with varied geography, unique weapons that are a challenge to use effectively, or simply messing with the physics from time to time... Anything to break up the monotony that was Q3A.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Q3A supposed to be network deathmatch only, with no single player option?
Please, give it a rest already. People still know the difference between a video game and real life. If they think that what's acceptable in a video game is acceptable in real life, then you have failed to do your job as a parent.
I played all the games that the congressment were upset about in the mid to late 90s quite a bit. In real life, I've never attacked anyone.
This guy just didn't look for himself. The distros that he looked at all have companies backing them and are the most popular because of this fact.
Ya, because they should pick a distro with no company backing, no one they can call or email. They should be happy to even be allowed to post to a newgroup, let alone get an answer.
Instead of doing that, he should have invested some time to checking out some others more suited to new users. The distros that come to mind are SimplyMEPIS, PCLinuxOS, and Kanotix. All his Ipod and multimedia problems would have been solved if he'd have chosen these.
Those problems may be solved, but will his printer work just fine? Or will he have to consult a list and buy one of those?
A: A crime is a crime, why shouldn't you be arrested for it? If you don't want to be arrested, don't do it.
Because being arrested for a 'crime' which hasn't hurt anyone is a bit excessive? Oh sorry, I forgot the government is always right in everything it does, and you should always follow all laws.
B: Say a really serious crime has been commited and you are suspect number one. If the police get hold of a DNA sample at the scene, test it and it doesn't match the DNA you have on record, you're off the suspect list. OK, so that's a little unrealistic, but you'll be further down the list at least.
More likely they'll manufacture evidence to 'prove' you are guilty. Here's a helpful hint; the police don't care if they actually arrest the right person, they just want to arrest someone.
Usually they use it to run credit checks. The people that pick dumb plans and have $150 bills every month tend to not be able to afford it... and tend to go bankrupt or never pay.
There's a simple solution to this; require a security deposit and / or terminate service as soon as someone doesn't pay their bill on time.
Its part of the checks and balances; likely to prevent knee jerk reactions from people in a panic. They are in for life so that they can make the unpopular but correct decision of siding with civil rights when everyone else is paniced, say after a terrorist attack. It doesn't mean, however, they they always do the right thing.
May want to read up on the writings of the framers.. it will give you some good insight.
If you know your machine may be used to elect officals of government, I believe its your moral responsiblity to only do so in a quality way. This 'lets do it to make a quick buck' isn't an excuse. Car manufacturers are supposd to live up to certain safety standands, but someone building a voting machine (which is I would say is even more important than building a safe car) doesn't need to meet any?
There are lemon laws for cars; I would expect a much higher standard for someone building voting machines. You say the lowliest poll work is supposed to evalutate the machines; I doubt they ahve the technical ability to hack in using a wireless laptop.
Your reasoning is complete nonscense; Diebold knows exactly waht they are doing, they are supposed to be the 'experts' and to say its ok for them to make a quick buck at the expense of our government is mind-blowingly stupid.
I think that was meant with some sarcasm, but of course their is some truth to it. After all, if we were allowed to vote for, and always voted for what makes you the individual best off, then no member of a minority group would ever be given any power or rights. That is why the founding fathers made the Constitution, to guarantee certain rights wouldn't be taken away based on some "mob rule" vote.
Nope, no sarcasm. What you said here is exactly what I was getting at.
Of course, when I was in the hospital emergency room and I said I didn't want to give them my social security number, they said they would treat me until I did. I backed down.
You shouldn't have backed down. ERs are required by law to treat emergant cases.
One of the bills would require that companies can't refuse business with someone that doesn't provide the SSN. I would hope that it would prohibit companies from putting more burdens on people that do so.
I would love to see a bill as simple as that in place; why do you need to give you SSN for a fucking cell phone?
But, guess what? The Supreme Court is the controlling legal authority. Your opinion (and mine) on the constitutionality of pen traps doesn't matter before the law.
Actually it does. In the end, it is always supposed to be the people that have the final say. Thats why juries can choose not to convict if they feel a law is not just.
On the contrary, the point is that even a beginner's course can expose an argument as completely flawed. The opposite is not true, of course.
This is true when the beginner's text doesn't over simplify the subject which it is trying to explain. Economics books do this a great deal. As another poster put it, you're not going to argue with Hawking siting Newtonian physics.
This all started with some poor clueless slashdotter arguing that supply and demand were bogus because we had seen a tripling of oil prices but not a tripling in demand. Surely even you can spot the fallacy in that argument?
I agree that the argument there is in fallacy. However, two wrongs don't make a right so to speak, and a beginners text on economics doesn't really explain the economy that well at all.
All those economic forecasts are basically guessing, because in the end, they don't really know what people will do given a situtation. I have more faith in a weather forecaster than an 'analyst' or economics guru.
What you are proposing is a democracy, which is not something we want. Majority rule is calld mob rule for a reason. We have a republic to help protect the rights of the minority.
I think the best thing we can do is repel the amendment which allows the public to vote for Senators. The election of Sentators should be done by state legislatures, not the people.
Currently the rights of state governments is being ignored, and its not a good thing.
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It is Sirius; they bought Stern for $500 million. I imagine they are hemerraging even more moneny now that XM's Opie & Anthony took over his old slot on FM. Must kill him that they are broadcasting in his studio for the first half of the show.
Guess who Owns a big stake in XM... Clear Channel. They are more than happy to suck on that Payola teat in the XM world. It is really stinking easy to pick out the XM channels that are sucking that teat hard BTW. they sound exactly like your regular FM clear Channel station.
True, but there are 60 other music channels.
I've never heard any radio station playing all the songs on XMLM.
How are you connecting your XM to your radio? Are you using the FM transmitter? The FM transmitter is very weak, and always seems to have some distortion (I have a Roady2).
I use my via a tape deck (which supports Dolby, the indicator lights when XM is playing) and it sounds great. An even better connection would be to some input on your head unit, if it has such a connection.
It depends on the unit; mine doesn't store songs, but I can store data about a song so that the unit will tell me when its playing on another station. Pretty cool feature, I don't miss songs I really like.
While what you say is true, they do have to PAY you for the property they are seizing. They don't just take it. So its not quite the same as when a patent expires.
Wow, nice troll.
Care to back up that assertion with some fact? I thought not.
That's fine if you don't want a story cluttering up your deathmatch...but how about some variety to the gameplay? Some interesting levels with varied geography, unique weapons that are a challenge to use effectively, or simply messing with the physics from time to time... Anything to break up the monotony that was Q3A.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Q3A supposed to be network deathmatch only, with no single player option?
Please, give it a rest already. People still know the difference between a video game and real life. If they think that what's acceptable in a video game is acceptable in real life, then you have failed to do your job as a parent.
I played all the games that the congressment were upset about in the mid to late 90s quite a bit. In real life, I've never attacked anyone.
This guy just didn't look for himself. The distros that he looked at all have companies backing them and are the most popular because of this fact.
Ya, because they should pick a distro with no company backing, no one they can call or email. They should be happy to even be allowed to post to a newgroup, let alone get an answer.
Instead of doing that, he should have invested some time to checking out some others more suited to new users. The distros that come to mind are SimplyMEPIS, PCLinuxOS, and Kanotix. All his Ipod and multimedia problems would have been solved if he'd have chosen these.
Those problems may be solved, but will his printer work just fine? Or will he have to consult a list and buy one of those?
A: A crime is a crime, why shouldn't you be arrested for it? If you don't want to be arrested, don't do it.
Because being arrested for a 'crime' which hasn't hurt anyone is a bit excessive? Oh sorry, I forgot the government is always right in everything it does, and you should always follow all laws.
B: Say a really serious crime has been commited and you are suspect number one. If the police get hold of a DNA sample at the scene, test it and it doesn't match the DNA you have on record, you're off the suspect list. OK, so that's a little unrealistic, but you'll be further down the list at least.
More likely they'll manufacture evidence to 'prove' you are guilty. Here's a helpful hint; the police don't care if they actually arrest the right person, they just want to arrest someone.
I thought this is what everyone in the UK wanted?
Ah of course, we only have rights as spelled out. Shut up troll.
Honestly, if it was an emergency, all you had to do was threaten them with a lawsuit.. that would shut them up quickly.
Maybe you should rethink the priorities of the hospital when they don't want to treat you because thier #1 goal is making a buck.
Usually they use it to run credit checks. The people that pick dumb plans and have $150 bills every month tend to not be able to afford it... and tend to go bankrupt or never pay.
There's a simple solution to this; require a security deposit and / or terminate service as soon as someone doesn't pay their bill on time.
Its part of the checks and balances; likely to prevent knee jerk reactions from people in a panic. They are in for life so that they can make the unpopular but correct decision of siding with civil rights when everyone else is paniced, say after a terrorist attack. It doesn't mean, however, they they always do the right thing.
May want to read up on the writings of the framers.. it will give you some good insight.
It may not be illegal, but it certainly is wrong.
If you know your machine may be used to elect officals of government, I believe its your moral responsiblity to only do so in a quality way. This 'lets do it to make a quick buck' isn't an excuse. Car manufacturers are supposd to live up to certain safety standands, but someone building a voting machine (which is I would say is even more important than building a safe car) doesn't need to meet any?
There are lemon laws for cars; I would expect a much higher standard for someone building voting machines. You say the lowliest poll work is supposed to evalutate the machines; I doubt they ahve the technical ability to hack in using a wireless laptop.
Your reasoning is complete nonscense; Diebold knows exactly waht they are doing, they are supposed to be the 'experts' and to say its ok for them to make a quick buck at the expense of our government is mind-blowingly stupid.
I think that was meant with some sarcasm, but of course their is some truth to it.
After all, if we were allowed to vote for, and always voted for what makes you the individual best off, then no member of a minority group would ever be given any power or rights. That is why the founding fathers made the Constitution, to guarantee certain rights wouldn't be taken away based on some "mob rule" vote.
Nope, no sarcasm. What you said here is exactly what I was getting at.
Of course, when I was in the hospital emergency room and I said I didn't want to give them my social security number, they said they would treat me until I did. I backed down.
You shouldn't have backed down. ERs are required by law to treat emergant cases.
One of the bills would require that companies can't refuse business with someone that doesn't provide the SSN. I would hope that it would prohibit companies from putting more burdens on people that do so.
I would love to see a bill as simple as that in place; why do you need to give you SSN for a fucking cell phone?
But, guess what? The Supreme Court is the controlling legal authority. Your opinion (and mine) on the constitutionality of pen traps doesn't matter before the law.
Actually it does. In the end, it is always supposed to be the people that have the final say. Thats why juries can choose not to convict if they feel a law is not just.
On the contrary, the point is that even a beginner's course can expose an argument as completely flawed. The opposite is not true, of course.
This is true when the beginner's text doesn't over simplify the subject which it is trying to explain. Economics books do this a great deal. As another poster put it, you're not going to argue with Hawking siting Newtonian physics.
This all started with some poor clueless slashdotter arguing that supply and demand were bogus because we had seen a tripling of oil prices but not a tripling in demand. Surely even you can spot the fallacy in that argument?
I agree that the argument there is in fallacy. However, two wrongs don't make a right so to speak, and a beginners text on economics doesn't really explain the economy that well at all.
All those economic forecasts are basically guessing, because in the end, they don't really know what people will do given a situtation. I have more faith in a weather forecaster than an 'analyst' or economics guru.
To be perfectly honest, I can't fault Diebold for this.
I can. Letting greed override everything is inexcusable, especially when their greed may end up destroying our country. Its treason, at best.
What you are proposing is a democracy, which is not something we want. Majority rule is calld mob rule for a reason. We have a republic to help protect the rights of the minority.
I think the best thing we can do is repel the amendment which allows the public to vote for Senators. The election of Sentators should be done by state legislatures, not the people.
Currently the rights of state governments is being ignored, and its not a good thing.
And nothing you said counteracts Diebold CEO's quote.
Rights enshrined in the Constitution do not include the privacy of your phone records.
Yes they do; the government should not be able to look at ANYTHING in your life unless they have probable cause.
If you don't believe me, see what the U.S. Supreme Court had to say in Smith v. Maryland.
Guess what? The supreme court was wrong! And they are wrong quite a bit too.