Religion IS the reason why poor people vote for Republicans against their own self interests. The Republicans do nothing to help the poor and much that hurts the poor. The only reason for poor people to vote for Republicans is that the Republican party has been taken over by the Christian Right.
Many of the British who first migrated to the US went for religious freedom, especially for freedom from the Church of England. There were two wars fought between the US and England (the US war for independence and the war of 1812). One of the major reasons for the wars between the US and England involved freedom of religion.
Many of the British who first migrated to Australia were either prisoners or government administrators. From the very start, the government of Australia was a colony that mirrored British laws and traditions and has never really been at odds with the British. That mirroring included the Australians respecting the Church of England.
The SCO thing may have backfired on this latest MS attempt. SCO planted the seeds of doubt in the heads of PHBs and by now most of the PHB realize that it was all bullshit. Hopefully, many or most of the PHBs learned a lesson from SCO and will ignore the MS bullshit. SCO may be less of an opening salvo and more of an immunization. SCO was a company too, and Daryl appears to have said some shit without checking with the lawyers.
I seem to remember that QUADraphonic 8-track was obsolete before the warranties ran out on the players, although QUAD 8-track lasted longer than any of the quad vinyl record formats. I built a Heathkit quad integrated amp (it was cheap because it was discontinued), although I never used it with a quad source.
I currently pay about 10 cents per kilowatthour (it varies). US residential electricity rates averaged about 10 US cents per kilowatthour in 2004. Hawaii was the most expensive at over 18 cents per kilowatthour. In 1980 I paid just over 1 cent per kilowatthour in Sacramento, CA (SMUD).
"Personally, I prefer to not divert power from the plane's engines.
MY GOD, I had NO idea that iPods use enough power to tax a jetliner's engines. Do they require 3 phase power, or will they work from US standard 120/240 volt split phase power? How much do they cost to run for one month, assuming 6 hours of use a day and 10 cents per KWh?
Being anti-gay-marriage specifically and deliberately hurts gays, and as such is anti-gay.
Bill Maher does not appear to be against heterosexual marriage. He has said "I don't know why people never listen to me when I say I'm not against marriage -- just against it for me. And even that could change someday."
And then there is Santorum, who has made a number of hurtful anti-gay statements, including equating homosexuality with incest, polygamy and adultery -- while he was chairman of the Republican Senate Caucus. Santorum got his due a few days ago.
Stephen Laffey wrote: "I have never once seen a happy homosexual. This is not to say there aren't any; I simply haven't seen one in my lifetime. Maybe they are all in the closet. All the homosexuals I've seen are sickly and decrepit, their eyes devoid of life."
There are many more anti-gay (and not just anti-gay marriage) quotes from Republican representatives or candidates available.
The legality of tools or substances does not always reflect their usefulness, it reflects political or business agendas.
At the present time, DRM is not illegal and I would not want to see laws against DRM. Using root kits to enforce DRM should be illegal.
I won't be using any DRM'd files in 70 years as I will likely be long gone from old age. The "just use non-DRM'ed files when the copyright expires" argument is bullshit. If all of the copies of a particular performance were DRM'ed, there will not be any legal non-DRM'ed versions available, and it is entirely possible that the DRM decryption software may no longer be available.
If DRM went away tomorrow, many problems will be fixed and many others could be fixed. The only problems would be for the currently existing copies of DRM'd material.
"Yeah, and the original intent of the Internet wasn't porn. You can't villify a tool simply because it's misused.
Porn is as much a part of the original intent of the internet as any of the other currently popular uses. You can villify the use of a tool when it is misused, you should also villify the user of a tool when the user abuses the tool.
"The drawbacks of its implementation may include preventing a legitimate licensee from playing the audio or video files on his/her various devices, but that is most definitely not the original intent."
It might be possible that it wasn't the original intent of content providers to use DRM to force users to buy multiple copies of the same material in order to use it on multiple devices, but I am sure that they now consider it to be a dandy feature; a feature that they don't want to lose.
How much wood used in construction is discarded as waste and how much of it is burned or rots? It is also a question of how long the wood in your house will remain in it's current state. It is not rotten or burned right now; how long will it remain in that condition? It is likely that the wood in your furniture, house and other building will probably last for many tens of years, and possibly hundreds of years, but it is likely that it will eventually burn or rot. Same thing with paper, although paper probably has a shorter expected life and I have heard that paper is actually preserved pretty well when it is buried in a landfill.
"Dark Side" has sold about 40 million copies worldwide and still sells at least 8,000 copies a week. What album released within the past 5 years is in line for a similar trend?
The last Pink Floyd album was released in 1995 and it sold very well. In 2005, there was a Pink Floyd reunion on Live 8, this performance was credited with a dramatic increase in Pink Floyd album sales. The band broke up, but it is not washed up.
Yeah, I kind of agree with you about T-Rex and the Clash. You can blame T-Rex for "glam-rock". The Clash's London Calling is widely considered to be one of the greatest rock music albums.
Giving software and hardware away for free may be aligned with consumers, however it is not being aligned with customers. The difference being that consumers are masses of people who buy crap because they have no choice, and customers are people who have choices and you sell goods to.
By contrast, the "bureaucrats" in charge of medical licensing today are medical experts. Politicians have nothing to say about the subject.
It must be nice to live in a country where politicians don't control medical licensing. In the US, the bureaucrats in charge of medical licensing are usually political appointees.
Why is it that so many devices that have no need to draw power when turned off have no aty to turn them completely off? My paper shredder has an optical on/off switch tht draws power all the time. My coffee maker draws power all the when it is turned off. Many items draw power just because it has a remote remote control or a clock, why does my microwave oven need to draw power all the time just to power a clock that is not used for operation? (it does not have an auto turn-on based on time of day). I have a stereo that I don't use the remote to turn it on and off, why can't I turn it completely off?
I rather prefer a front yard that has rocks rather than turf as you don't have to water or mow rocks. I used to live in an area that was a high plains desert and xeriscaping (which includes lots of rocks) is a most logical method of landscaping in areas that have little rainfall.
Ok, so who is representing the guy who lives paycheck to paycheck and would be homeless (along with his wife and children) if his job got outsourced? I don't know of a single lobbyist who works for free, do you?
It The group that you describe believes that the Republicans represents them -- it's who they vote for. It used to be that the labor unions lobbied for laws that would help these people.
I purchased one of the last CRT WEGA TVs that Sony made (before the rootkit fiasco). It has a 3:4 aspect tube but it also displays 1080i. The picture doesn't wash out time during the time of the day when the sun shines into the room where the TV is located -- unlike my LCD computer monitor. The only problems are that it is HUGE, it weighs over one hundred kilograms (most of which is in the front glass of the CRT), and it is made by Sony.
"supply it solely to investigation agencies. This should also prevent antivirus manufacturers from incorporating it into their databases and having their tools recognise it. According to the manufacturer, firewalls do not present a problem.
Installation of the software wiretap is to be carried out on the instructions of a judge only. The ISPs of the persons under investigation will then slip the program onto their computers."
It says that the software will be supplied solely to investigation agencies to foil antivirus manufacturers. In the next paragraph, it says that the program will be provided to ISPs. The paragraphs are mutually exclusive, they can't keep it exclusive to investigation agencies and also provide it to ISPs. If ISPs are provided with the software it can be assumed that the software is in the wild, even if the ISPs don't have a clue about how they are going to 'slip' it onto a customer's computers.
1. An investigator at an agency types up a court order that specifies a requirement that the ISP "slip" the provided software on a customer's computer.
2. Judge signs the court order just like he always does, without having a clue about the technical jargon.
3. ISP receives the court order and a CDROM containing the program.
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Religion IS the reason why poor people vote for Republicans against their own self interests. The Republicans do nothing to help the poor and much that hurts the poor. The only reason for poor people to vote for Republicans is that the Republican party has been taken over by the Christian Right.
Many of the British who first migrated to the US went for religious freedom, especially for freedom from the Church of England. There were two wars fought between the US and England (the US war for independence and the war of 1812). One of the major reasons for the wars between the US and England involved freedom of religion. Many of the British who first migrated to Australia were either prisoners or government administrators. From the very start, the government of Australia was a colony that mirrored British laws and traditions and has never really been at odds with the British. That mirroring included the Australians respecting the Church of England.
Since Novel started sucking on the MS tit.
The SCO thing may have backfired on this latest MS attempt. SCO planted the seeds of doubt in the heads of PHBs and by now most of the PHB realize that it was all bullshit. Hopefully, many or most of the PHBs learned a lesson from SCO and will ignore the MS bullshit. SCO may be less of an opening salvo and more of an immunization. SCO was a company too, and Daryl appears to have said some shit without checking with the lawyers.
I seem to remember that QUADraphonic 8-track was obsolete before the warranties ran out on the players, although QUAD 8-track lasted longer than any of the quad vinyl record formats. I built a Heathkit quad integrated amp (it was cheap because it was discontinued), although I never used it with a quad source.
The outside, melting part of an iceberg is 0C; the core is considerably colder, about -15C to -20C.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/neic/rankings/stateelectric ityprice.htm
I currently pay about 10 cents per kilowatthour (it varies). US residential electricity rates averaged about 10 US cents per kilowatthour in 2004. Hawaii was the most expensive at over 18 cents per kilowatthour. In 1980 I paid just over 1 cent per kilowatthour in Sacramento, CA (SMUD).
"Personally, I prefer to not divert power from the plane's engines.
MY GOD, I had NO idea that iPods use enough power to tax a jetliner's engines. Do they require 3 phase power, or will they work from US standard 120/240 volt split phase power? How much do they cost to run for one month, assuming 6 hours of use a day and 10 cents per KWh?
"A write in doesn't count if the person written in isn't a registered write in candidate."
It depends upon the jurisdiction whether write-ins have to be registered candidates or not.
Being anti-gay-marriage specifically and deliberately hurts gays, and as such is anti-gay.
Bill Maher does not appear to be against heterosexual marriage. He has said "I don't know why people never listen to me when I say I'm not against marriage -- just against it for me. And even that could change someday."
And then there is Santorum, who has made a number of hurtful anti-gay statements, including equating homosexuality with incest, polygamy and adultery -- while he was chairman of the Republican Senate Caucus. Santorum got his due a few days ago.
Stephen Laffey wrote: "I have never once seen a happy homosexual. This is not to say there aren't any; I simply haven't seen one in my lifetime. Maybe they are all in the closet. All the homosexuals I've seen are sickly and decrepit, their eyes devoid of life."
There are many more anti-gay (and not just anti-gay marriage) quotes from Republican representatives or candidates available.
The legality of tools or substances does not always reflect their usefulness, it reflects political or business agendas.
At the present time, DRM is not illegal and I would not want to see laws against DRM. Using root kits to enforce DRM should be illegal.
I won't be using any DRM'd files in 70 years as I will likely be long gone from old age. The "just use non-DRM'ed files when the copyright expires" argument is bullshit. If all of the copies of a particular performance were DRM'ed, there will not be any legal non-DRM'ed versions available, and it is entirely possible that the DRM decryption software may no longer be available.
If DRM went away tomorrow, many problems will be fixed and many others could be fixed. The only problems would be for the currently existing copies of DRM'd material.
"Yeah, and the original intent of the Internet wasn't porn. You can't villify a tool simply because it's misused.
Porn is as much a part of the original intent of the internet as any of the other currently popular uses. You can villify the use of a tool when it is misused, you should also villify the user of a tool when the user abuses the tool.
"The drawbacks of its implementation may include preventing a legitimate licensee from playing the audio or video files on his/her various devices, but that is most definitely not the original intent."
It might be possible that it wasn't the original intent of content providers to use DRM to force users to buy multiple copies of the same material in order to use it on multiple devices, but I am sure that they now consider it to be a dandy feature; a feature that they don't want to lose.
How much wood used in construction is discarded as waste and how much of it is burned or rots? It is also a question of how long the wood in your house will remain in it's current state. It is not rotten or burned right now; how long will it remain in that condition? It is likely that the wood in your furniture, house and other building will probably last for many tens of years, and possibly hundreds of years, but it is likely that it will eventually burn or rot. Same thing with paper, although paper probably has a shorter expected life and I have heard that paper is actually preserved pretty well when it is buried in a landfill.
"Dark Side" has sold about 40 million copies worldwide and still sells at least 8,000 copies a week. What album released within the past 5 years is in line for a similar trend?
The last Pink Floyd album was released in 1995 and it sold very well. In 2005, there was a Pink Floyd reunion on Live 8, this performance was credited with a dramatic increase in Pink Floyd album sales. The band broke up, but it is not washed up.
Yeah, I kind of agree with you about T-Rex and the Clash. You can blame T-Rex for "glam-rock". The Clash's London Calling is widely considered to be one of the greatest rock music albums.
Giving software and hardware away for free may be aligned with consumers, however it is not being aligned with customers. The difference being that consumers are masses of people who buy crap because they have no choice, and customers are people who have choices and you sell goods to.
By contrast, the "bureaucrats" in charge of medical licensing today are medical experts. Politicians have nothing to say about the subject.
It must be nice to live in a country where politicians don't control medical licensing. In the US, the bureaucrats in charge of medical licensing are usually political appointees.
Why is it that so many devices that have no need to draw power when turned off have no aty to turn them completely off? My paper shredder has an optical on/off switch tht draws power all the time. My coffee maker draws power all the when it is turned off. Many items draw power just because it has a remote remote control or a clock, why does my microwave oven need to draw power all the time just to power a clock that is not used for operation? (it does not have an auto turn-on based on time of day). I have a stereo that I don't use the remote to turn it on and off, why can't I turn it completely off?
I rather prefer a front yard that has rocks rather than turf as you don't have to water or mow rocks. I used to live in an area that was a high plains desert and xeriscaping (which includes lots of rocks) is a most logical method of landscaping in areas that have little rainfall.
That's why I said that the unions USED TO lobby for workers. I really am dumbfounded as to why blue collar workers vote for the Republicans.
Ok, so who is representing the guy who lives paycheck to paycheck and would be homeless (along with his wife and children) if his job got outsourced? I don't know of a single lobbyist who works for free, do you?
It The group that you describe believes that the Republicans represents them -- it's who they vote for. It used to be that the labor unions lobbied for laws that would help these people.
I purchased one of the last CRT WEGA TVs that Sony made (before the rootkit fiasco). It has a 3:4 aspect tube but it also displays 1080i. The picture doesn't wash out time during the time of the day when the sun shines into the room where the TV is located -- unlike my LCD computer monitor. The only problems are that it is HUGE, it weighs over one hundred kilograms (most of which is in the front glass of the CRT), and it is made by Sony.
I DO hope that the same people who thought up this little trojan idea are not the same people who designed the Swiss internet voting system.
From TFA:
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"supply it solely to investigation agencies. This should also prevent antivirus manufacturers from incorporating it into their databases and having their tools recognise it. According to the manufacturer, firewalls do not present a problem.
Installation of the software wiretap is to be carried out on the instructions of a judge only. The ISPs of the persons under investigation will then slip the program onto their computers."
It says that the software will be supplied solely to investigation agencies to foil antivirus manufacturers. In the next paragraph, it says that the program will be provided to ISPs. The paragraphs are mutually exclusive, they can't keep it exclusive to investigation agencies and also provide it to ISPs. If ISPs are provided with the software it can be assumed that the software is in the wild, even if the ISPs don't have a clue about how they are going to 'slip' it onto a customer's computers.
1. An investigator at an agency types up a court order that specifies a requirement that the ISP "slip" the provided software on a customer's computer.
2. Judge signs the court order just like he always does, without having a clue about the technical jargon.
3. ISP receives the court order and a CDROM containing the program.
4.
5. PROFIT!