Democracy doesn't mean the best man wins, it just means the majority is responsible for who they pick.
Then applying basic Boolean logic and taking into account that Bush didn't win the popular vote in 2000, one concludes that the U.S.A. isn't a democracy. I agree with the conclusion, as it happens, but did you say what you intended to say?
FWIW, although spam is already cooked, it's vastly improved by frying or barbequeing.
As an aside, is/. being/.ed today? It sounds silly put like that, but the page loading times seem to be up quite a bit and my attempt to submit this first time got a 503.
Of course, if you believe that the "will of the people" is real and that it is determined mathematically by the vote, then the vote counting technology is just plain wrong.
If you don't believe that the "will of the people" is real then you may as well have a monarchy. If you do believe that it's real then while a popular vote may not reflect it accurately, what reflects it better?
I suspect that the poster redacted a sentence which talked about e.g. "a democratic, albeit lengthy, process" without understanding the meaning of "albeit".
Since it's the weekend there seems to be a dearth of mods, making this the perfect time for a grammar Nazi to give a lesson in the subjunctive mood. It is used to express a hypothetical. The third person (feminine) imperfect subjunctive of "to be" is "she were".
It would have been more interesting if she were the Q...
More detailed explanations will be easily located with Google.
Why start and use things that you don't need? No printer, why CUPS or lpd? No SMB network, why samba? Do you really need/want Apache, MySQL, pcmcia services (on a desktop), etc, etc, etc, if you just want a fast running machine? Nope.
That's why when I installed my Debian system I didn't tell dselect that I wanted them. Why have them cluttering up my hard drive if I never use them?
Shame you can't mount ftp as read-write, or sftp at all. I'm hoping that's something they're working on.
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You're a brave man. I personally wouldn't have the guts to risk being flamed by hordes of Slashdotters for linking to SCO without the anchor text litigious bastards.
Unless you had already rounded up every single important person in the group, why on Earth would you signal to them that they were under investigation?
Okay, so say I'm in Sofia. In which US state is my local USSS office located? Florida, on the grounds that it's probably the nearest to me? Or do I want the Washington, D.C. office, on the grounds it's probably the one nearest to my embassy?
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More details aren't hard to find: the JVM specification is fairly readable and available from the Sun website.
So you're not a democracy, but you are a representative democracy? Make your mind up...
The Florida recounts weren't of electronic data. If the logs are at all sensible then a bit of Perl / language-of-choice will do the job.
It's not as simple as that, hoser.
Your proxy server blocks the Google cache?
It's also a fuel, and that would have been the most common use of the word when they trademarked it.
More like George Bush writing an English/Spanish dictionary.
That depends. Do you find burly men in Viking helmets attractive?
As an aside, is /. being /.ed today? It sounds silly put like that, but the page loading times seem to be up quite a bit and my attempt to submit this first time got a 503.
Have you read "The Sum of All Fears" by Tom Clancy?
Offering you muffins isn't good enough?
I suspect that the poster redacted a sentence which talked about e.g. "a democratic, albeit lengthy, process" without understanding the meaning of "albeit".
The worst thing about it is that it's against EU and UK law. The outgoing European Commission is just as bad, though.
Shame you can't mount ftp as read-write, or sftp at all. I'm hoping that's something they're working on.
You're a brave man. I personally wouldn't have the guts to risk being flamed by hordes of Slashdotters for linking to SCO without the anchor text litigious bastards.
Okay, so say I'm in Sofia. In which US state is my local USSS office located? Florida, on the grounds that it's probably the nearest to me? Or do I want the Washington, D.C. office, on the grounds it's probably the one nearest to my embassy?