I'd like to see something like a fixed number of votes per state and thus give each state a equal voice to the number of political parties on the ballet
That's it! That's the campaigning tactic the candidates forgot! Maybe the republicans can do "La Boheme" and the Democrats could do "Madame Butterfly." I the Green party would do well with "Rent."
What the supreme court determined in Roe v. Wade was that an unborn child has no constitutional protections, having not been specifically mentioned in that document.
Hopefully, like it did for women and non-caucasian people over the last century and a half, the court will one day realize that children in utero are not property but are indeed people and deserve the same protection and rights as any other person - life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
A fetus is a small (i.e. less than fully grown/developed) person (i.e. organism with the full complement of human chromosomes) who will, unhindered, grow into a big person. Sounds like a baby to me. Sounds like my daughter.
Some folks contend that a fetus is just a collection of cells. Unlike the collection of cells that I gather swiping a q-tip inside my cheek, however, a fetus can and will grow into a person unless forcibly prevented from doing so.
Spent 80ish bucks on a set from Radio Shack (900 MHz) a few weeks ago so my daughter could fall asleep to Blue's Clues books on tape without strangling herself. They sound decent - maybe like a $20-30 pair of wired 'phones. They have a very nice feature in that the (broadcasting) antenna also has a plug to recharge the batteries on the 'phones. Range is quite nice, too. I was all around the house with them no prob.
We just got the Tigger movie for my daughter's 3rd birthday yesterday. I was able to fast forward past all the ads, etc with my standard Sony DVD player - no problem.
Well, I'm one of those apparent anomalies. I've had @Home for over a year now and everything has been essentially perfect. Linux firewall and all. VNC to/from work all the time. In fact, the guy at the local office told me which modem to buy that won't obey the upstream cap (Com 21). The speed is great (often 800K during the day) - it's almost never down. I even had decent luck with customer service - I bought a Samsung modem from eBay and they tried to help me troubleshoot the thing. It never worked, but I don't think there's much more they could have done.
I have proof that this rebooting happens frequently. How else would you explain all of the unmatched socks in my drawer? It's an inconsistent state. In fact, why do you think it's called fsck? The alien bugs that fun the Matrix are clearly running some form of *nix.
OTOH, I have a SQL editor (SQL Navigator) that pops up when a query is finished. While I should be annoyed, I actually kinda like it. I kick off a mambo query, switch over to Slashdot, and it lets me know when it's done and I can get back to real work.
I want to build a Junkbuster for meatspace. Either in the software for the wearable or in the car windshield. Look at a billboard - it turns into a trippy flashing winamp/xmms plugin instead. Hear a commercial on the radio - it turns into birds chirping or more of the same song that was on or Yoko Ono having sex, for that matter. Anything but the damn commercial. Of course, I'd have to turn to a non-NPR station to test it:-)
First of all, you'd probably run it over 802.11 which runs at something like 11Mbps, so you'd certainly have a good chunk of bandwidth to play with. Secondly, if you used a protocol like VNC, you're not pumping every pixel for every refresh cycle. You're passing only what changes. This works remarkably well and I use it frequently across the net from home to work and vice versa (where the bottleneck is my cable modem's 128Kbps upstream speed). No, this thing across an 11Mbps wireless link would really rock. I think I'm going to have to build one.
No kidding. You should see my cats get all hopped up on catnip. I'm waiting for them to start raves in my basement and carry pacifiers around with them.
In case anyone didn't get this far, I must offer a section from page 7. Lanier talks about memetics and McLuhan and the various ideas about people existing to propagate memes or machines or whatever. He quotes anthropologist Steve Barnett who points out that it would be just as reasonable to assert that "A person is shit's way of making more shit."
Man, I must have really disturbed my officemates with how hard I laughed on that one!
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that would be orfay at-thay attermay
Now you can sue me. I cracked your encryption scheme.
Those are good packages, but give the Devil his due: The Gimp != Photoshop. The Gimp is great, but there are still plenty of places where Photoshop simply outshines.
We still don't have a Quicken (yes, gnuCash is quite swell and all). We still don't have a DreamWeaver (yes, I use and enjoy Emacs:-)). We still don't have a good SQL editor/environment. We have a lot, but we have a long way to go. In the words of Roger Waters, "The Tide is Turning."
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That's it! That's the campaigning tactic the candidates forgot! Maybe the republicans can do "La Boheme" and the Democrats could do "Madame Butterfly." I the Green party would do well with "Rent."
We don't live in a democracy. We live in a republic. All votes don't count equally.
That would be , not .
What the supreme court determined in Roe v. Wade was that an unborn child has no constitutional protections, having not been specifically mentioned in that document.
Hopefully, like it did for women and non-caucasian people over the last century and a half, the court will one day realize that children in utero are not property but are indeed people and deserve the same protection and rights as any other person - life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Damn. There goes all my karma.
A fetus is a small (i.e. less than fully grown/developed) person (i.e. organism with the full complement of human chromosomes) who will, unhindered, grow into a big person. Sounds like a baby to me. Sounds like my daughter.
Some folks contend that a fetus is just a collection of cells. Unlike the collection of cells that I gather swiping a q-tip inside my cheek, however, a fetus can and will grow into a person unless forcibly prevented from doing so.
Spent 80ish bucks on a set from Radio Shack (900 MHz) a few weeks ago so my daughter could fall asleep to Blue's Clues books on tape without strangling herself. They sound decent - maybe like a $20-30 pair of wired 'phones. They have a very nice feature in that the (broadcasting) antenna also has a plug to recharge the batteries on the 'phones. Range is quite nice, too. I was all around the house with them no prob.
We just got the Tigger movie for my daughter's 3rd birthday yesterday. I was able to fast forward past all the ads, etc with my standard Sony DVD player - no problem.
Wow! I never knew Gary Larson reads slashdot. Welcome!
Well, I'm one of those apparent anomalies. I've had @Home for over a year now and everything has been essentially perfect. Linux firewall and all. VNC to/from work all the time. In fact, the guy at the local office told me which modem to buy that won't obey the upstream cap (Com 21). The speed is great (often 800K during the day) - it's almost never down. I even had decent luck with customer service - I bought a Samsung modem from eBay and they tried to help me troubleshoot the thing. It never worked, but I don't think there's much more they could have done.
Junkbuster.
Litigenic? I love it. Is that like, really attractive lawyers who spend half of their time in the courtroom and half in a photo-op?
Descartes walks into a cafe. The waiter says, "Would you care for coffee?" Descartes says "I think not," and promptly vanishes.
I have proof that this rebooting happens frequently. How else would you explain all of the unmatched socks in my drawer? It's an inconsistent state. In fact, why do you think it's called fsck? The alien bugs that fun the Matrix are clearly running some form of *nix.
I gave up after a few readings. I did think it was German. Thanks for the post - it made me look that much closer.
OTOH, I have a SQL editor (SQL Navigator) that pops up when a query is finished. While I should be annoyed, I actually kinda like it. I kick off a mambo query, switch over to Slashdot, and it lets me know when it's done and I can get back to real work.
They look like cheap V-Tech kids toys you see at K-Mart.
Software giants like Micros~1 serialize their data CDs all the time. I wouldn't think it would be hard to serialize a music CD.
It appears MS has changed their tune on this one very quickly:
New NakedPC Policy
I want to build a Junkbuster for meatspace. Either in the software for the wearable or in the car windshield. Look at a billboard - it turns into a trippy flashing winamp/xmms plugin instead. Hear a commercial on the radio - it turns into birds chirping or more of the same song that was on or Yoko Ono having sex, for that matter. Anything but the damn commercial. Of course, I'd have to turn to a non-NPR station to test it :-)
First of all, you'd probably run it over 802.11 which runs at something like 11Mbps, so you'd certainly have a good chunk of bandwidth to play with. Secondly, if you used a protocol like VNC, you're not pumping every pixel for every refresh cycle. You're passing only what changes. This works remarkably well and I use it frequently across the net from home to work and vice versa (where the bottleneck is my cable modem's 128Kbps upstream speed). No, this thing across an 11Mbps wireless link would really rock. I think I'm going to have to build one.
No kidding. You should see my cats get all hopped up on catnip. I'm waiting for them to start raves in my basement and carry pacifiers around with them.
In case anyone didn't get this far, I must offer a section from page 7. Lanier talks about memetics and McLuhan and the various ideas about people existing to propagate memes or machines or whatever. He quotes anthropologist Steve Barnett who points out that it would be just as reasonable to assert that "A person is shit's way of making more shit."
Man, I must have really disturbed my officemates with how hard I laughed on that one!
that would be orfay at-thay attermay
Now you can sue me. I cracked your encryption scheme.
My God! I now have religion! I now worship whoever made this video.
Those are good packages, but give the Devil his due: The Gimp != Photoshop. The Gimp is great, but there are still plenty of places where Photoshop simply outshines.
:-)). We still don't have a good SQL editor/environment. We have a lot, but we have a long way to go. In the words of Roger Waters, "The Tide is Turning."
We still don't have a Quicken (yes, gnuCash is quite swell and all). We still don't have a DreamWeaver (yes, I use and enjoy Emacs