Thats because the people actually wanted Clinton in office,
Clinton only ever received a plurality of the popular vote, and with lower turnout. So where do you get that people wanted Clinton but don't want Bush?
Virginia is still in the transition to electronic machines. At my polling place there was one WINvote machine and five mechanical ones. You can't swipe a smartcard in the mechanical ones.
In the rest of the democratic world, as far as I know, this is illegal. It seems to us that it goes against having a fair election. And yet in America it is normal practice. Why?
Because the democratic process exists to safeguard our rights. Sacrificing freedom of the press for fair elections negates the whole point for having the elections.
On the other hand, it seems like these days the definition of "democracy" has been stretched so much that it covers pretty much anything, so long as the rulers are chosen via an election in which *some* people are allowed to vote.
What do you mean "these days". That's how democracy's been defined since the Greeks invented the word. What, do you think everyone in Athens could vote?
He said, "Being a presidential contender is someone who has a chance to garner enough electoral votes to win the election." That's a mathematical definition of the term contender, OK?
Who cares about the mathematical definition? As a practical matter, a chance of winning means that they'll get votes from people other than their family and Ayn Rand readers -- which pretty much rules out the Libertarians.
Those are rules that you just made up, on whether you should be eligable to use university property and government money?
Who said the Libertarians and Greens aren't allowed to use public university property? If they want to have a debate, they're perfectly free to go to colleges and ask for fora. However, that doesn't give them the right to participate in debates arranged by other groups.
Yes, I understand "it's not ready yet". If people are downloading it and using it, it's ready.
That's the case for proprietary software, where a company tasks a select group with developing a program. But the whole point of open-source is that anyone with enough know-how can contribute, and for that to happen, the program should be available to interested parties as early as possible.
One of Hatch's staffers illegally cracked several Democrats' computers in the Senate.
The Dems apparently misconfigured their computers so that confidential files were visible and accessible to anyone on the Senate network. What the aide did was unethical, but to call it "cracking" is absurd.
The problem with Jabber is that your ability to log onto other networks is dependant upon third-party servers. First off, Jabber.org's list of public servers and their capabilities is a PITA to read. (Why do you have to go to the website in the first place? Shouldn't the list be maintained in such a way that you can access it from Jabber clients?) When you think you've found a server with everything you want, it turns out that the list is wrong or something's broken on the server and you end up having to use two or three servers. And the next time you log on, one of those servers will be down so you have to search out yet another one.
At least with programs like Trillian and Gaim, things only break when the protocols change -- and things would be equally broken if you were using an out-of-date version of Y!M; it's just that Yahoo has the update available immediately while we have to wait for Trillian, Gaim, etc. to reverse engineer the changes.
Don't be a dumbass. That Yahoo has -- if they so choose -- legal recourse against Trillian (and Gaim, and Jabber, and Miranda) is pretty obvious to anyone who's thought about it for five minutes. Pushing it out of our minds and pretending otherwise won't change that. It's like saying if Einstein hadn't written to FDR no one would've come up with the atom bomb.
There are two separate login screens -- one with drop-down menus for when you aren't logged into any accounts, and one with checkboxes for when you are. The first is the best looking of all Gaim's windows, but it's also the least useful -- I never want to log onto just one account, and even if I did, the check-box window could do that.
Pretty much every function requires a separte window -- buddy lists, chat dialogues, logins, room lists -- instead of using tabs and frames to keep everything in one place.
You can only create private chatrooms from the buddy list, not chat windows.
The UI components are too bulky -- i.e., buttons are larger than they need to be and there's lots of dead space. You could probably reduce the windows by 50% without touching the content areas.
I guess I could pay for a blogger account on the off chance that I'd get a gmail invite, but I doubt that will happen.
Unless you want to host images, Blogger's a free service. Just sign up, post "I am the walrus, I am the eggman" so your account will qualify as active and you should get an invite the next time you login.
What you have to understand is that from where I'm sitting, it's theoretical to me.
I do not think that word means what you think it to mean. I mean, by that definition you could say, "from where I'm sitting London is theoretical to me.'
All of these services are just an excuse to gather a huge number of e-mail addresses
And how exactly are they going to do that? Jabber servers don't require an email address to create an account.
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Oh, come on. TBE's context menus are stupidly huge.
And 100% customizable.
Tab->Edit Context Menu
Personally I wish Firefox had a similar option so I could get rid of useless options like "Send Link" and "Copy Link Location" without having to edit userChrome.css.
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I think the most telling thing about Goodger is that he absolutely hates TBE, probably the most popular extension out there, because it makes drastic alterations to the code, but he's made no effort to change Firefox so that TBE would be unnecessary.
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Qute was a great Default theme.
In your opinion. Personally I can't stand it, and it's the first thing I change when I install a new version of any Mozilla program. I prefer Noia and Mostly Crystal for Firefox and Thunderbird, and Pinball for Sunbird. They make much better use of toolbar space than Qute.
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The comptuer game from a few years ago was based on, not George Orwell's WotW
How does that one end? The narrator looks in a window and sees the Martians eating with some fat-cat business men and can't tell them apart?
The book did have a reference to the Martians developing a flying machine after studying ours,
What, did the Martians steal the Time Machine and travel to the 20th Century?
I think Cmdr Taco saw the words "spam" and "python" in the title and decided this must be IT related.
Thats because the people actually wanted Clinton in office,
Clinton only ever received a plurality of the popular vote, and with lower turnout. So where do you get that people wanted Clinton but don't want Bush?
I've heard this argument before, but I don't buy it, if only because most countries with free elections and a free press come down the other way.
Well bully for them. But this isn't one of those countries. Freedom of the press is written into our Constitution; fair elections are not.
The blue cards are smart cards, right?
No, they're blue cards. Plain, cardboard cards.
Virginia is still in the transition to electronic machines. At my polling place there was one WINvote machine and five mechanical ones. You can't swipe a smartcard in the mechanical ones.
In the rest of the democratic world, as far as I know, this is illegal. It seems to us that it goes against having a fair election. And yet in America it is normal practice. Why?
Because the democratic process exists to safeguard our rights. Sacrificing freedom of the press for fair elections negates the whole point for having the elections.
Voting is a right.
So is owning a gun. That doesn't mean people shouldn't say, "If you're an crack-head with anger management problems, please don't buy a gun."
On the other hand, it seems like these days the definition of "democracy" has been stretched so much that it covers pretty much anything, so long as the rulers are chosen via an election in which *some* people are allowed to vote.
What do you mean "these days". That's how democracy's been defined since the Greeks invented the word. What, do you think everyone in Athens could vote?
He said, "Being a presidential contender is someone who has a chance to garner enough electoral votes to win the election." That's a mathematical definition of the term contender, OK?
Who cares about the mathematical definition? As a practical matter, a chance of winning means that they'll get votes from people other than their family and Ayn Rand readers -- which pretty much rules out the Libertarians.
Those are rules that you just made up, on whether you should be eligable to use university property and government money?
Who said the Libertarians and Greens aren't allowed to use public university property? If they want to have a debate, they're perfectly free to go to colleges and ask for fora. However, that doesn't give them the right to participate in debates arranged by other groups.
Why don't they just sell a product instead of a lifestyle ?
I take it Virginia Postrel hasn't been translated into French?
Manufactured goods are cheap. Image is the only thing of value anymore.
Yes, I understand "it's not ready yet". If people are downloading it and using it, it's ready.
That's the case for proprietary software, where a company tasks a select group with developing a program. But the whole point of open-source is that anyone with enough know-how can contribute, and for that to happen, the program should be available to interested parties as early as possible.
One of Hatch's staffers illegally cracked several Democrats' computers in the Senate.
The Dems apparently misconfigured their computers so that confidential files were visible and accessible to anyone on the Senate network. What the aide did was unethical, but to call it "cracking" is absurd.
The problem with Jabber is that your ability to log onto other networks is dependant upon third-party servers. First off, Jabber.org's list of public servers and their capabilities is a PITA to read. (Why do you have to go to the website in the first place? Shouldn't the list be maintained in such a way that you can access it from Jabber clients?) When you think you've found a server with everything you want, it turns out that the list is wrong or something's broken on the server and you end up having to use two or three servers. And the next time you log on, one of those servers will be down so you have to search out yet another one.
At least with programs like Trillian and Gaim, things only break when the protocols change -- and things would be equally broken if you were using an out-of-date version of Y!M; it's just that Yahoo has the update available immediately while we have to wait for Trillian, Gaim, etc. to reverse engineer the changes.
Don't be a dumbass. That Yahoo has -- if they so choose -- legal recourse against Trillian (and Gaim, and Jabber, and Miranda) is pretty obvious to anyone who's thought about it for five minutes. Pushing it out of our minds and pretending otherwise won't change that. It's like saying if Einstein hadn't written to FDR no one would've come up with the atom bomb.
This is the same George Monbiot who thinks the world would be better if airplanes had never been invented?
I guess I could pay for a blogger account on the off chance that I'd get a gmail invite, but I doubt that will happen.
Unless you want to host images, Blogger's a free service. Just sign up, post "I am the walrus, I am the eggman" so your account will qualify as active and you should get an invite the next time you login.
What you have to understand is that from where I'm sitting, it's theoretical to me.
I do not think that word means what you think it to mean. I mean, by that definition you could say, "from where I'm sitting London is theoretical to me.'
All of these services are just an excuse to gather a huge number of e-mail addresses
And how exactly are they going to do that? Jabber servers don't require an email address to create an account.
Oh, come on. TBE's context menus are stupidly huge.
And 100% customizable. Tab->Edit Context Menu
Personally I wish Firefox had a similar option so I could get rid of useless options like "Send Link" and "Copy Link Location" without having to edit userChrome.css.
I think the most telling thing about Goodger is that he absolutely hates TBE, probably the most popular extension out there, because it makes drastic alterations to the code, but he's made no effort to change Firefox so that TBE would be unnecessary.
Qute was a great Default theme.
In your opinion. Personally I can't stand it, and it's the first thing I change when I install a new version of any Mozilla program. I prefer Noia and Mostly Crystal for Firefox and Thunderbird, and Pinball for Sunbird. They make much better use of toolbar space than Qute.