Did Lakeland get hit at all? It is pretty far inland from what i recall (lived in Winter Haven for 6 years in the late 80's). Both towns are pretty far inland and seeing how much of a hurricanes damage comes from the todel forces, if your in the (semi) center of the state, then the damage you have to worry about is wind (which of course, is severe being a Cat 4).
which is covered by lots of patents, and even though they grant use of those patents roylaty free, they still keep F/OSS from using them because they a specificly exempted.
screw that just learn how to solder your own boards and/or physicaly modify bought hardware. as long as you don't advertise that your doing it, they won't know, and won't prosecute you for violating the DMCA.
Ya, true, eventually ISP's will require this crap to connect to their networks, but with the way the USA is head, (outsourcing, and brian drain of all the scientific minds), we'll be a third world country soon.
I will say this, as a mormon, I would seriously like to see Darl McBride excommunicated, at least have his temple recomend, he is not being very "...honest in all of [his] dealings with [his] fellow men".
no no no, Bush is too stupid to be a Dark lord of the Sith.
However, Cheney could be a dark lord, as well as Karl Rove, who of course would be the master. Darth Rove and Darth Cheney, ya that sounds a lot better!
Your forgetting the "neccesary and proper" clause tacted onto the end of Article 1. That, combined with the interstate commerace clause, gives congress all the authority in the world to do whatever the hell they want.
Now, extend that view to a strict construtionist view and see how quickly we can go to (and are already at) a very scary place.
Grrrr, this is disappointing. I was going to mod this thread, but instead I find myself having to clarify a glowing error.
...the US is moving away from liberal democracy.
At no point in history has the United States of America been a democracy. The U.S.A. was founded as a Republic upon Republican (not to be confused with the party) principles. The only other example of a Republic in the history of the world is Rome, (and look where that Republic ended up).
If one actually READS the federalist papers, Madison and Hamilton are fearful of Democracy, and direct rule by the people, as where most of the "founding fathers" (another incorrect term seeing that the median age for the revolutionaries was 30).
The sky is blue is a statment that can be backed up by fact. You can look at the light spectrum and indeed say that the sky is blue (just one of many ways). You can NOT do the same with an embryo in determining when it is a person and when it is not. (or even harder, attempting to prove when the soul enters the body at all. That one will require you to first prove the exsitence of a soul. Good luck with that.;-))
So the cell divides and multiples, what makes that diffrent from any other animal cell or for that matter, plant cell, out there? Just because it is derived from a human does not automaticly mean it is a person and we should grant it human rights. If the cell was not in a petrie dish, it would DIE. It can not survive outside the (artifically constructed) womb ergo it is not a person.
What I see as interesting is the fact that Bush's adminstaration is worried that legeslation is about to pass that would raise the mandated limits on stem cell research. Now, looking at the US Congress, and I dunno about the House, but the Senate has a sizable amount of Mormon senators, who, although many classify them as neo cons, (and on many of the Duyba's issues the are right in line with the RNC) on the issue of stem cell's they are in the EXACT OPPOSITE opion of the presidents. This may be what the president is worried about. That because of these mormon senators, who don't hold the same view on stem cells as the rest of the RNC (and protestants for that matter) this bill could pass Congress.
I know there is a sizable amount of Mormon represenatives in the house, however, I don't know if it is enough to break the rest of the RNC.
There are, of course other republicans who are not Mormon who do not hold to the same ideal as the majority of the RNC, and these, coupled with the Mormon represenatives, along with the democrats, are most likly what Duyba fears will get the bill past Congress and to his desk.
I think for 99.9999% of a residential ISP's customers, having their access to DNS blocked would not be noticably different from disconnection.
Have you BEEN on the Comcast forums recently? Comcast is having a lOT of trouble with their DNS servers and it is effecting EVERYBODY.
Last week when it happened I just switched my DNS addresses to MIT's, (though now I have a nice list of addy's just in case MIT's goes down). I have been instructing my friends on how to change the default DNS listings because they are being effected themselves. Once they change them, they have no problems. Hell, I didn't even know Comcast was having problems AGIAN yesterday because I just kept system with the MIT addy's.
I have to think that if trojans are effectivly DDOSing Comcast's servers, if there is not some ultior motive behind this. DNS servers are the life blood of the Internet, to take them down means we would all have to know numbers to get around the Internet, and while I keep a few IP addy's in my bookmarks just in case, to except joe user to is rediculus.
Of course it is probably just Comcast, who, as a regulated monopoly, has no incentive to upgrade services, because for many, Cable Internet is the only "broadband" (HA!) available. I would wouldn't be surprised if rates go up agian to cover the cost of whatever "upgrade" Comcast comes up with to solve this problem.
Until then I am keeping my DNS addresses pointed to MIT's servers and I am NOT going to be using Comcasts.
The same argument could be made of the US during the 19th Century. England hated us because we ripped off there Copyrights and "IP" and they couldn't do a damned thing about it.
History has a tendency to repeat it's self, or it could just be karma.;-)
I guess with the inclusion of Mono with in NLD 10 we are going to see Microsoft take them to court over IP concerns. Wonder if Novell could handle a nice lawsuit from Redmond?
If they cant, Utah County is down another tech company sense SCO is all but defeated...
and that would be true if we weren't talking about CHICAGO. You know who the Mayor of Chicago is right? Well let me clue you in his name is Richard M. Daley, and he GETS HIS WAY.
If that is so, then why such an out roar over the EU Commission passing Software Patients? If/When the Constitution is passed, it can be brought back up for a vote, and summarily dismissed as the trash it is.
For that matter what keeps the US from doing the same thing when a new, not so corporate whore of an administration, is elected? Though the Republicrats would never think of going against there constituency.
I truly hope the EU will eventually see, it looks now they will see the hard way. That adoption of Software patients will allow US Corporations to rule over the EU with an iron fist. If the EU wants independence from the corporate whore that is the US they need to eventually reject software patients.
It does make sense when you realize American corporations have been the ones lobbying the EU for the directive on software patients. The American Corporations knew from the get go (and that is why they have been applying for patients left and right)that should the EU declare software patients legal, they would be at a huge advantage in the up coming patient war because they would have their US patients to fall back on.
US Corporations have a helluva lot more financial resources then ANY EU corporations and will drive any opposing corporation in the ground, just like they do over here in the US.
This is indeed a sad day for democracy, we shall have to wait and see if the EU parliament will pass this with a majority. If they do, I fear we will be entering into a new dark age, one this time that is not ruled by kings and nobles, but CEO's and board of directors.
As for the Main Street deal, that was a simple misunderstanding about what was sold to the church and what was not. The Church bought the property fair and square, justly compensating the city for the property. When it was found out in court that the easement was not sold to the Church, the Church again made a just offer to the city for the easement. It was a business deal nothing more.
The Mormon Church does not control Utah. Mormon's control Utah, NOT the Church. Many (read: 99%) of Mormons are mislead in that they are mere sheep who can not even fan tom what their religion really means to them. Mormonism is an intellectual religion. The religion was founded on asking questions, and missionaries from the Church encourage thoughtful contemplation of the meaning of life in respect to the restored Gospel of Jesus Christ.
As a disclaimer, the 99% refers to Utah Mormons. Yes there is a deference, Utah Mormons live in what Mormons outside Utah call 'The Bubble' and are sheltered from real life. Mormons outside of Utah tend to be a lot more accepting of others beliefs then the Utah Mormons.
I don't know about statistics to back this up, but I do know that the male members of the Mormon Church receive a chastising lecture on the 'evils' of pornography twice a year.
You could probably make a drinking game out of it, it happens that often (that is if you drink, which being Mormon and attending those kinda meetings you most likely do not).
Certainly if the majority of the citizens of the US think it's okay for churches to be used as electoral tools for political parties, then I guess that's what will happen.
Just for the record, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has a constantly reaffirmed it's political neutrality.
In fact the current President of the Church opposes President Bush's controversial "Faith Based Initiatives"
Now the church leaders as a whole can not really help the fact that 99% of the Mormon populace decides to align it's self with one party (today it is the Republicans, back when Utah was petitioning for statehood it was the Democrats).
Until you consider the demographic that Enterprise caters to. Enterprise is on at the same time Stargate SG:1 is on. Sure one can watch Enterprise first and watch Sci Fi's repeats of SG-1, Atlantis and Battlestar Galactica, but that is for the well informed. If it is just the average joe they then have e to pick one show over the other.
It will never happen (but I can dream can't I) but it would be great if Sci Fi picked up Enterprise and threw it on the Friday night line up. again it would never happen (Sci Fi owned by Universal VS the United Paramount Network (UPN)) but that would be the most logical.
Staying in my little dream world though, Enterprise would take a cut in their budget if it did move to Sci Fi...
...they would have to contact all contributors, no?
This is why many FOSS projects require you to give up your claims to ownership over the patch that you wrote for X piece of software. Thus giving the FOSS project ownership of that patch and then allowing them to do what ever the hell the what, in terms of licensing, to said GPL'd project.
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Did Lakeland get hit at all? It is pretty far inland from what i recall (lived in Winter Haven for 6 years in the late 80's). Both towns are pretty far inland and seeing how much of a hurricanes damage comes from the todel forces, if your in the (semi) center of the state, then the damage you have to worry about is wind (which of course, is severe being a Cat 4).
which is covered by lots of patents, and even though they grant use of those patents roylaty free, they still keep F/OSS from using them because they a specificly exempted.
screw that just learn how to solder your own boards and/or physicaly modify bought hardware. as long as you don't advertise that your doing it, they won't know, and won't prosecute you for violating the DMCA.
Ya, true, eventually ISP's will require this crap to connect to their networks, but with the way the USA is head, (outsourcing, and brian drain of all the scientific minds), we'll be a third world country soon.
if they where it would give 'golden shower' a whole new meaning.
hast though not watched buffy? it's all about Warren and his sex bots (April and Buffy bot come to mind, both where originaly sex bots).
damn, too bad Willow killed him or there would have been hope fore slashdot geeks!
I will say this, as a mormon, I would seriously like to see Darl McBride excommunicated, at least have his temple recomend, he is not being very "...honest in all of [his] dealings with [his] fellow men".
they'll have to shorten the wingspan a bit to get in to fit throw the gate...
no no no, Bush is too stupid to be a Dark lord of the Sith.
However, Cheney could be a dark lord, as well as Karl Rove, who of course would be the master. Darth Rove and Darth Cheney, ya that sounds a lot better!
Given the 10th Amendment...
Your forgetting the "neccesary and proper" clause tacted onto the end of Article 1. That, combined with the interstate commerace clause, gives congress all the authority in the world to do whatever the hell they want.
Now, extend that view to a strict construtionist view and see how quickly we can go to (and are already at) a very scary place.
Grrrr, this is disappointing. I was going to mod this thread, but instead I find myself having to clarify a glowing error.
...the US is moving away from liberal democracy.
At no point in history has the United States of America been a democracy. The U.S.A. was founded as a Republic upon Republican (not to be confused with the party) principles. The only other example of a Republic in the history of the world is Rome, (and look where that Republic ended up).
If one actually READS the federalist papers, Madison and Hamilton are fearful of Democracy, and direct rule by the people, as where most of the "founding fathers" (another incorrect term seeing that the median age for the revolutionaries was 30).
The sky is blue is a statment that can be backed up by fact. You can look at the light spectrum and indeed say that the sky is blue (just one of many ways). You can NOT do the same with an embryo in determining when it is a person and when it is not. (or even harder, attempting to prove when the soul enters the body at all. That one will require you to first prove the exsitence of a soul. Good luck with that. ;-))
So the cell divides and multiples, what makes that diffrent from any other animal cell or for that matter, plant cell, out there? Just because it is derived from a human does not automaticly mean it is a person and we should grant it human rights. If the cell was not in a petrie dish, it would DIE. It can not survive outside the (artifically constructed) womb ergo it is not a person.
What I see as interesting is the fact that Bush's adminstaration is worried that legeslation is about to pass that would raise the mandated limits on stem cell research. Now, looking at the US Congress, and I dunno about the House, but the Senate has a sizable amount of Mormon senators, who, although many classify them as neo cons, (and on many of the Duyba's issues the are right in line with the RNC) on the issue of stem cell's they are in the EXACT OPPOSITE opion of the presidents. This may be what the president is worried about. That because of these mormon senators, who don't hold the same view on stem cells as the rest of the RNC (and protestants for that matter) this bill could pass Congress.
I know there is a sizable amount of Mormon represenatives in the house, however, I don't know if it is enough to break the rest of the RNC.
There are, of course other republicans who are not Mormon who do not hold to the same ideal as the majority of the RNC, and these, coupled with the Mormon represenatives, along with the democrats, are most likly what Duyba fears will get the bill past Congress and to his desk.
G4 is rapidly circling the drain
Correction, G4 is NOT circling around the drain, it has already gone down the drain, through the pipes, into the sewers and out into the ocean.
I think for 99.9999% of a residential ISP's customers, having their access to DNS blocked would not be noticably different from disconnection.
Have you BEEN on the Comcast forums recently? Comcast is having a lOT of trouble with their DNS servers and it is effecting EVERYBODY.
Last week when it happened I just switched my DNS addresses to MIT's, (though now I have a nice list of addy's just in case MIT's goes down). I have been instructing my friends on how to change the default DNS listings because they are being effected themselves. Once they change them, they have no problems. Hell, I didn't even know Comcast was having problems AGIAN yesterday because I just kept system with the MIT addy's.
I have to think that if trojans are effectivly DDOSing Comcast's servers, if there is not some ultior motive behind this. DNS servers are the life blood of the Internet, to take them down means we would all have to know numbers to get around the Internet, and while I keep a few IP addy's in my bookmarks just in case, to except joe user to is rediculus.
Of course it is probably just Comcast, who, as a regulated monopoly, has no incentive to upgrade services, because for many, Cable Internet is the only "broadband" (HA!) available. I would wouldn't be surprised if rates go up agian to cover the cost of whatever "upgrade" Comcast comes up with to solve this problem.
Until then I am keeping my DNS addresses pointed to MIT's servers and I am NOT going to be using Comcasts.
The same argument could be made of the US during the 19th Century. England hated us because we ripped off there Copyrights and "IP" and they couldn't do a damned thing about it.
;-)
History has a tendency to repeat it's self, or it could just be karma.
I guess with the inclusion of Mono with in NLD 10 we are going to see Microsoft take them to court over IP concerns. Wonder if Novell could handle a nice lawsuit from Redmond?
If they cant, Utah County is down another tech company sense SCO is all but defeated...
and that would be true if we weren't talking about CHICAGO. You know who the Mayor of Chicago is right? Well let me clue you in his name is Richard M. Daley, and he GETS HIS WAY.
*points to where Meigs Field use to be*
If that is so, then why such an out roar over the EU Commission passing Software Patients? If/When the Constitution is passed, it can be brought back up for a vote, and summarily dismissed as the trash it is.
For that matter what keeps the US from doing the same thing when a new, not so corporate whore of an administration, is elected? Though the Republicrats would never think of going against there constituency.
I truly hope the EU will eventually see, it looks now they will see the hard way. That adoption of Software patients will allow US Corporations to rule over the EU with an iron fist. If the EU wants independence from the corporate whore that is the US they need to eventually reject software patients.
not just the servers but yourself personally (if not you WILL be sued).
Look to Africa and Asia to be the lead innovators as the EU and America descend into a new dark age.
It does make sense when you realize American corporations have been the ones lobbying the EU for the directive on software patients. The American Corporations knew from the get go (and that is why they have been applying for patients left and right)that should the EU declare software patients legal, they would be at a huge advantage in the up coming patient war because they would have their US patients to fall back on.
US Corporations have a helluva lot more financial resources then ANY EU corporations and will drive any opposing corporation in the ground, just like they do over here in the US.
This is indeed a sad day for democracy, we shall have to wait and see if the EU parliament will pass this with a majority. If they do, I fear we will be entering into a new dark age, one this time that is not ruled by kings and nobles, but CEO's and board of directors.
I live in Utah. I can honestly say that I can go driving for miles on end and not find a single polygamist family for a very long time.
;-)
Their there, take it from someone who served his mission in Salt Lake City.
See my previous post.
As for the Main Street deal, that was a simple misunderstanding about what was sold to the church and what was not. The Church bought the property fair and square, justly compensating the city for the property. When it was found out in court that the easement was not sold to the Church, the Church again made a just offer to the city for the easement. It was a business deal nothing more.
The Mormon Church does not control Utah. Mormon's control Utah, NOT the Church. Many (read: 99%) of Mormons are mislead in that they are mere sheep who can not even fan tom what their religion really means to them. Mormonism is an intellectual religion. The religion was founded on asking questions, and missionaries from the Church encourage thoughtful contemplation of the meaning of life in respect to the restored Gospel of Jesus Christ.
As a disclaimer, the 99% refers to Utah Mormons. Yes there is a deference, Utah Mormons live in what Mormons outside Utah call 'The Bubble' and are sheltered from real life. Mormons outside of Utah tend to be a lot more accepting of others beliefs then the Utah Mormons.
I don't know about statistics to back this up, but I do know that the male members of the Mormon Church receive a chastising lecture on the 'evils' of pornography twice a year.
You could probably make a drinking game out of it, it happens that often (that is if you drink, which being Mormon and attending those kinda meetings you most likely do not).
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Certainly if the majority of the citizens of the US think it's okay for churches to be used as electoral tools for political parties, then I guess that's what will happen.
Just for the record, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has a constantly reaffirmed it's political neutrality.
In fact the current President of the Church opposes President Bush's controversial "Faith Based Initiatives"
Now the church leaders as a whole can not really help the fact that 99% of the Mormon populace decides to align it's self with one party (today it is the Republicans, back when Utah was petitioning for statehood it was the Democrats).
At this risk of being redundant, I'll bite.
Until you consider the demographic that Enterprise caters to. Enterprise is on at the same time Stargate SG:1 is on. Sure one can watch Enterprise first and watch Sci Fi's repeats of SG-1, Atlantis and Battlestar Galactica, but that is for the well informed. If it is just the average joe they then have e to pick one show over the other.
It will never happen (but I can dream can't I) but it would be great if Sci Fi picked up Enterprise and threw it on the Friday night line up. again it would never happen (Sci Fi owned by Universal VS the United Paramount Network (UPN)) but that would be the most logical.
Staying in my little dream world though, Enterprise would take a cut in their budget if it did move to Sci Fi...
...they would have to contact all contributors, no?
This is why many FOSS projects require you to give up your claims to ownership over the patch that you wrote for X piece of software. Thus giving the FOSS project ownership of that patch and then allowing them to do what ever the hell the what, in terms of licensing, to said GPL'd project.