err, humans evolved hundreds of thousands of years ago, not 2000. We have recorded history going back over 5000 years. The world didn't begin on JC's birthday, ya know...
Don't forget the delegation of law-making power to the many alphabet-soup agencies now running the US. Completely unconstitutional but hey, who cares...
His point was that many Canadians are forced to go across the border and pay for US health care because, unlike in our wonderful system, they can actually get treated before they die.
It doesn't matter how "free" the system is (and based on my tax bill, I'd have to say I'm still paying quite a lot for medical insurance), if it doesn't work, and most government programs don't, it doesn't do you any good.
The Ice Ages were brief intervals. AFAIK throughout most of the last few hundred million years, anyhow, the Earth has been, if anything, warmer than it is now.
.com et al were supposed to be for US companies. Hardly their fault people around the world started using them.
I'm Canadian, and have several.com's, but I have no trouble with the US setting the rules. If they want to fuck with.ca (like ICANN trying to impose their domain conflict rules on all the ccTLD's), that's a different matter.
They oppose registration because they know, for a fact, that it's the next step on the way to confiscation. Hell, HGI brags about that being their end goal.
Of course, 84% of those gun deaths were suicides... and the study excluded all uses of guns that didn't result in a death, which ruled out >98% of defensive uses of guns.
Many of us can't use S/MIME certificates, because there is no open implementation (due to the RSA patents). Also, the dependency on a CA, especially Verisign (who owns Thawte, by the way), is not really appealing to me at least.
I dunno. The guys running the Soviet Union, with their cabins out in the woods, playgrounds on the Black Sea, and limousines didn't seem to be too equal with the "workers" standing in line for bread in Moscow.
No other system has produced a society where "poor" people drive cars, own their own trailers, and eat at McDonald's.
Yeah, the rich have a lot of money, but there aren't very many of them. Wealth accumulation is a constant problem - you get an aristrocracy by default. But overall, capitalism as practised by the western democracies has proven to be by far the best system for delivering wealth gains across the board. Sure it's not perfect, but then what is?
Most blue-chips, like GM, pay dividends. It's mostly the tech sector and small firms that grow quickly enough to show quick profits on the stock price side.
There are even many mutual funds specializing in dividend-paying stocks, if you want to go that way.
He just meant that you need to compile with higher limits and defaults set (like # of expected users). Though I think you can tweak most of the limits at runtime if you want.
Yeah well, at least in Britain, when they do get around to outlawing video games, they'll already have cameras setup everywhere to help enforce the new stupid law;)
Above.net dropped packets bound for a couple of my systems last year, because I was a secondary DNS provider for ORBS, who Above.net was in a pissing contest with (mostly due to MAPS wanting to create a monopoly on anti-spam services, but also due to some questionable things the ORBS operator was doing from New Zealand).
It's a fine line. Clearly, above.net has the right to do anything they want with their systems, and I fully support that right (it's the only thing that allows us to fight SPAM at all).
However, their customers should know what they're doing so they can make an informed choice about who they get service from.
Dave Rand, the MAPS board member and CTO of Above.net, actually sent me a note threatening to block my employer's class C if I so much as connected to any of above.net's mail servers, just because I was associated with ORBS.
Bottom line - Rand's a dick. But, MAPS does good things and Above.net supporting them helps keep the real SPAM under control.
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err, humans evolved hundreds of thousands of years ago, not 2000. We have recorded history going back over 5000 years. The world didn't begin on JC's birthday, ya know ...
Don't forget the delegation of law-making power to the many alphabet-soup agencies now running the US. Completely unconstitutional but hey, who cares ...
His point was that many Canadians are forced to go across the border and pay for US health care because, unlike in our wonderful system, they can actually get treated before they die.
It doesn't matter how "free" the system is (and based on my tax bill, I'd have to say I'm still paying quite a lot for medical insurance), if it doesn't work, and most government programs don't, it doesn't do you any good.
more like 3 or 4 years
The Ice Ages were brief intervals. AFAIK throughout most of the last few hundred million years, anyhow, the Earth has been, if anything, warmer than it is now.
.com et al were supposed to be for US companies. Hardly their fault people around the world started using them.
.com's, but I have no trouble with the US setting the rules. If they want to fuck with .ca (like ICANN trying to impose their domain conflict rules on all the ccTLD's), that's a different matter.
I'm Canadian, and have several
Except abortion providers, of course.
I used to work for these guys, and they have some good solutions.
The techs and support guys are mostly pretty sharp, and great guys (having beer with a bunch of them in a couple of hours, in fact).
I second the recommendation.
If you're helping pay the rent for the crackhouse, then yeah, you should go to jail.
Your financial support of a spam-friendly ISP is what keeps them in business.
They oppose registration because they know, for a fact, that it's the next step on the way to confiscation. Hell, HGI brags about that being their end goal.
Based on the communistic space treaties the US signed onto, no one can legally own anything in space for anyone to tax, so it's a non-issue.
probably cause the main dude's navel gazing would drive anyone nuts watching it on the screen. kind of like turning Thomas Covenant into a TV show.
yep, pretty much ;)
The Moon was already been declared to be some communist, shared property of all mankind thing by one of the earlier space treaties I believe.
Which is of course why no one will ever spend money developing anything there.
well, except the right to bear arms of course.
Of course, 84% of those gun deaths were suicides ... and the study excluded all uses of guns that didn't result in a death, which ruled out >98% of defensive uses of guns.
Wasn't there a Slider's episode like that?
Many of us can't use S/MIME certificates, because there is no open implementation (due to the RSA patents). Also, the dependency on a CA, especially Verisign (who owns Thawte, by the way), is not really appealing to me at least.
PGP is the best we've got.
The problem is your broken MUA, not mutt.
I dunno. The guys running the Soviet Union, with their cabins out in the woods, playgrounds on the Black Sea, and limousines didn't seem to be too equal with the "workers" standing in line for bread in Moscow.
No other system has produced a society where "poor" people drive cars, own their own trailers, and eat at McDonald's.
Yeah, the rich have a lot of money, but there aren't very many of them. Wealth accumulation is a constant problem - you get an aristrocracy by default. But overall, capitalism as practised by the western democracies has proven to be by far the best system for delivering wealth gains across the board. Sure it's not perfect, but then what is?
Most blue-chips, like GM, pay dividends. It's mostly the tech sector and small firms that grow quickly enough to show quick profits on the stock price side.
There are even many mutual funds specializing in dividend-paying stocks, if you want to go that way.
At least the corporations earn the money, instead of just stealing (err, taxing) it.
He just meant that you need to compile with higher limits and defaults set (like # of expected users). Though I think you can tweak most of the limits at runtime if you want.
Yeah well, at least in Britain, when they do get around to outlawing video games, they'll already have cameras setup everywhere to help enforce the new stupid law ;)
Above.net dropped packets bound for a couple of my systems last year, because I was a secondary DNS provider for ORBS, who Above.net was in a pissing contest with (mostly due to MAPS wanting to create a monopoly on anti-spam services, but also due to some questionable things the ORBS operator was doing from New Zealand).
It's a fine line. Clearly, above.net has the right to do anything they want with their systems, and I fully support that right (it's the only thing that allows us to fight SPAM at all).
However, their customers should know what they're doing so they can make an informed choice about who they get service from.
Dave Rand, the MAPS board member and CTO of Above.net, actually sent me a note threatening to block my employer's class C if I so much as connected to any of above.net's mail servers, just because I was associated with ORBS.
Bottom line - Rand's a dick. But, MAPS does good things and Above.net supporting them helps keep the real SPAM under control.