I don't really see that I'm making your point. Laws also don't always reflect morality or right and wrong.
From a libertarian perspective -- and Paul does claim to be a libertarian -- one does not have to -- and indeed as a moral responsibilit not to -- obey unjust laws.
If you dig into the issue a little bit more you will realize that the remarks were made during a very short period of time, spanning maybe a year or two. According to what Paul has said, that was a time of transition in the newsletter and he wasn't at all involved in the day to day operations.
Oh please, would you believe George Bush if he offered an excuse as stupid as that. And even assuming, arguendo, that his version is true, that doesn't bode well for his managerial skills.
Abolish NASA and the Department of Education, create a neo-isolationist foreign policy, repeal the 14th Amendment... yeah, those are great ideas.
And before any Paulites mod me down for saying he wants to repeal the 14th Amendment, listen to his own words. Yes, the man opposes the passage in the Amendment which made blacks citizens of the United States. But he's not a cryptoracist. Oh no.
All the anti-sat weapons I've read about can only reach LEO, which makes them good against the majority of satellites up there, but not GPS, which are MEO, or comm sats, which are geosync.
Then don't buy things (as someone below your comment has said) if you don't need them. Or, you might be interested in trying what these folks set out to do.
Those people aren't fighting the system -- they're just leaching off it. Their scrounging is only sustainable as long as the rest of us discard usable products for them to pick up.
So you don't need a Real ID if you're over 50 in 2014... but how do you prove that you're over fifty. If a non-Real ID will suffice, then a terrorist could get a fake one with his DOB listed as 1963 and he could get on the plane.
The Commodore had a great implementation of the shift-lock key -- if you pressed it, it would make an audible click and lock in the down position. It wasn't something you could do accidentally.
Actually the Mythbusters episode largely disproved the thermite theory -- the doping used was chemically related to thermite but nowhere near as flammable, and while it did exacerbate the fire, the hydrogen was the primary component.
I never understood why the US keeps mucking about with these increasingly bizarre voting systems. Pretty much every other democracy - Western democracy - I know off either has a 1) parliamentary system, or 2) uses multiple votes.
The US Congress is run on a parliamentary model -- the Speaker of the House is equivalent to the Prime Minister, and Congressional committees to ministries. The difference is we don't trust them to run the government, so we separated the power into two branches -- the President runs the government, the Congress sets laws and budgets.
The fact that third party candidate are called spoilers is a indicator that the system is not fair.
No, it's an indicator that people assume that third party candidates are "taking" votes away from one of the main two -- that everyone who voted Perot would've gone Bush, or Nader Gore in a two-party race. Voting for a third-party is "throwing away" a vote in the same way that voting Democrat in Texas.
The electoral college is from a time where small states feared to be ignored. Now it's almost the reverse. Iowa and NH get way more attention than the bigger states.
You're conflating primaries with the general elections. Iowa and New Hampshire are considered significant because they make sure their primaries and caucuses take place well before the others. In the actual Presidential election they play very little role except in close races.
Why should McAfee care if their AV program gets pulled into the GPL? They make their money by offering subscriptions to their virus definitions, which they should be able to do under the GPL. Sure, if the program's open sourced anyone else could distribute their own definitions, but I doubt they'd be as good as McAfee's -- ClamWin's supposed to be the best open source AV, and in tests it only detects half as many problems as Norton and McAfee.
I believe the MP3s are compressed when you download them and the DL manager uncompresses them for you. It also interfaces with iTunes and adds the files to your library so you don't have to go into the "Add File" dialogue.
It also helps if you experience a problem while downloading. The way it works, you download a file which tells the DL manager how to get the MP3s. If your connection craps out or Windows crashes in the middle of the download, you only have to open the file and it'll restart the download.
Amazon uses VBR with the average song being between 196 and 256kbps. At that quality an MP3 is indistinguishable from a CD even on high-end speakers. The only advantage of AAC is that it can achieve those rates with smaller file sizes. Since the vast majority of files sold by Apple are ony 128kbps with DRM, there's no contest here.
Yes, Apple offers DRM free music, but they only have a deal with one label. Initially they tried to charge an additional $.30 per song (though whole albums were priced the same), but then Amazon started offering DRM free music for $.89-.99 per song and under $9.99 per album, forcing iTunes to change their pricing structure. Now everything costs $.99/song regardless of quality.
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Nor is this the only case where Paul takes an un-libertarian stance. He opposes free trade, and spouts conspiracy theories about the North American Union, which puts him in Black Helicopter land.
Abolish NASA and the Department of Education, create a neo-isolationist foreign policy, repeal the 14th Amendment ... yeah, those are great ideas.
And before any Paulites mod me down for saying he wants to repeal the 14th Amendment, listen to his own words. Yes, the man opposes the passage in the Amendment which made blacks citizens of the United States. But he's not a cryptoracist. Oh no.
So you've developed crappy software, you don't want to put the effort into making it good, but you still think people will pay you money?
You are Bill Gates, and I claim my five dollars.
A good, heavy beer is food -- haven't you ever heard ti referred to as "liquid bread".
The only problem is that American brewers don't produce good beers.
All the anti-sat weapons I've read about can only reach LEO, which makes them good against the majority of satellites up there, but not GPS, which are MEO, or comm sats, which are geosync.
No, yer a fish, dude.
So you don't need a Real ID if you're over 50 in 2014 ... but how do you prove that you're over fifty. If a non-Real ID will suffice, then a terrorist could get a fake one with his DOB listed as 1963 and he could get on the plane.
If by "usually" you mean "never". Amazon uses VBR that ranges between about 192 and 256kbps depending upon the song.
The Commodore had a great implementation of the shift-lock key -- if you pressed it, it would make an audible click and lock in the down position. It wasn't something you could do accidentally.
What good does sooper dooper ultra fast connections do if they cap how much data you can transfer?
Actually the Mythbusters episode largely disproved the thermite theory -- the doping used was chemically related to thermite but nowhere near as flammable, and while it did exacerbate the fire, the hydrogen was the primary component.
No, it's an indicator that people assume that third party candidates are "taking" votes away from one of the main two -- that everyone who voted Perot would've gone Bush, or Nader Gore in a two-party race. Voting for a third-party is "throwing away" a vote in the same way that voting Democrat in Texas.
You're conflating primaries with the general elections. Iowa and New Hampshire are considered significant because they make sure their primaries and caucuses take place well before the others. In the actual Presidential election they play very little role except in close races.
Think MySpace only it looks like a corporate website c.1999 instead of a Geocities page c.1996. Oh, and with pointless activities.
Why should McAfee care if their AV program gets pulled into the GPL? They make their money by offering subscriptions to their virus definitions, which they should be able to do under the GPL. Sure, if the program's open sourced anyone else could distribute their own definitions, but I doubt they'd be as good as McAfee's -- ClamWin's supposed to be the best open source AV, and in tests it only detects half as many problems as Norton and McAfee.
Yeah, this'd be great. "Hey baby, I'm a private dick. I pack a Samsung 5gig loaded with Ophcrack, and I'm licensed to use it."
I believe the MP3s are compressed when you download them and the DL manager uncompresses them for you. It also interfaces with iTunes and adds the files to your library so you don't have to go into the "Add File" dialogue.
It also helps if you experience a problem while downloading. The way it works, you download a file which tells the DL manager how to get the MP3s. If your connection craps out or Windows crashes in the middle of the download, you only have to open the file and it'll restart the download.
Amazon uses VBR with the average song being between 196 and 256kbps. At that quality an MP3 is indistinguishable from a CD even on high-end speakers. The only advantage of AAC is that it can achieve those rates with smaller file sizes. Since the vast majority of files sold by Apple are ony 128kbps with DRM, there's no contest here.
Yes, Apple offers DRM free music, but they only have a deal with one label. Initially they tried to charge an additional $.30 per song (though whole albums were priced the same), but then Amazon started offering DRM free music for $.89-.99 per song and under $9.99 per album, forcing iTunes to change their pricing structure. Now everything costs $.99/song regardless of quality.
They'll sue Sony for making unauthorized copies of their CDs.
If the labels want to jack up the prices, why are they going through Amazon, which is generally cheaper than iTunes?