Since I'm not a US citizen I feel amazed that even I am more aware of Dr. Paul's politics than you even if you aren't a US citizen.
Dr. Paul is actually stating that he himself is not gay and he does not act in the lifestyle but if you wish to all the best. He would like to see prayer in schools but he does not want to enforce it. He does not want to enforce any of the subjects you state (ie abortion) he feels it is ultimately you and your states decision on how you carry out your life but if you ask him he would rather you keep your baby.
So really you are the "circular progressive" in this case (the one with his head up his ass;)) His positions from the beginning have been that of a fatherly figure stating that he does not want to interfere with your life as much as possible but is willing to offer advice if you ask.
The whole idea of advertisement is to reach as many people as possible, how can you say that not having the ability to post on any billboard is a good thing?
More over from a business standpoint by one company turning down a new site which has the potential of becoming an old site, the new site will have to goto another ad company to bring in revenue, won't doing this make it more difficult to bring in the 'diamond in the rough'? Don't most companies/sites start off new?
The internet is far from static, even old companies/sites can/will loose the ability to become effective 'billboards'. The beautiful thing about it is many new sites will spring up in its place, why does it make so much sense to ignore these sites?
FTA: "In every other part of life, we're going the other way," he said. "I think it's a giant step backward. I can predict our elections will be no more secure and they will be less accurate - that's what the evidence shows."
John Willis, Maryland's former secretary of state and a government professor at the University of Baltimore
Mr. Willis seems to buy today's system. I do think this can be an asset but buying something like this and they tell you not to look under the hood, thats a problem. Even with a "perfect system" there should always be at least 30-40% that are done randomly by paper ballots. This could be done surprisingly simple by designating 3 or 4 out of 10 booths per location a simple paper ballot counted by hand. This way there are too many people involved to take advantage of them all as well with paper only one sheet can be forged at a time;) You would have an immediate idea of how poler's are deciding and have a balance and check with the paper.
To improve the system even better in terms of security, the electronic component of the system should be open, standardized and engineered to be assembled by parts that even small towns can obtain and assemble. For example old computer parts that can be tested and benchmarked, much of it will be safe as they can provide their functions reliably as long as it is structurally sound.
Your basing your whole argument on the assumption that Apple would cut and paste a mack book latch onto the mac air? Apple is all about engineering, if you think they would go through all that trouble to design something and then finish it off with a hack then you are talking about the wrong company. I can guarantee you Apple can come up with a design that would allow the battery to be accessed with out a screw driver and with out some big tab sticking out of the bottom. If anything the next generation should shoot for 10hrs of usage on a single battery, power consumption as well as battery design is making leaps forward everyday.
On top of it all you compare a system that needs attention to power every 5 hours to a watch that needs attention maybe every month? I know that my watches are fairly simple and the batteries last over a year but maybe you have something different. If you were changing/charging your watch battery every 5 hours would you still be going to someone to do it for you? Then you compare an engines transmission to the laptop battery? Wouldn't the equivalent of the cars transmission be the motherboard? Could I now say changing batteries is equivalent to getting a new engine? Maybe a battery is really a CPU ? Cause from what I've heard a car also has a battery and that battery lasts much longer then 5 hours(provided the car is running;)
I just get peeved when people pull dumb comparisons out of their ass. The battery is what enables a system to carry out its function, I'm sure with the design of the air the battery is about all you will be able to touch, but again it is the only thing included in the design that will effect the system functionality to the point where the user has to be concerned. If you had to fill your gas tank for a full hour for every 5 hours of driving it might not be that big of a deal unless you need to keep on driving.
I think just as it is the right of a company to set their prices I should be able to set mine. Maybe this manager doesn't have the resources to support the type of work he needs done. As a somewhat young worker in the IT / programming area this man proclaiming I am not worth what I am getting paid is outrageous. Especially now that retiring programmers and the legacy of code they leave behind. There will be fewer to replace them and more to do, these guys deserve to be able to set any price they please as far as they can find someone willing to pay it. So in short anyone who complains that the cost of what they need to function is too much I think they can't afford it to begin with.
There's a way! I just sent out the patent, I'm calling it "compiling". See you "compile" the "source code" then you can check to see using a program that I will write called "diff"(like difference) to see if the files differ. If they do then its not the same! Wow I'm gonna be rich!
This article that was anchored above in my post explains how 1 teacher dies every day of AIDS. It doesn't have to be sex that gets someone infected. With rates as high as that, the chances would be an elevated chance of transmission also cuts don't heal well and depending on the social norm people may continue to interact with the children even if they are not feeling "well".
Look at their curriculum first off. Who is going to teach these young people what they want / need to know rather than what their government is willing to sponsor. Just to give you a point of reference this paper shows how most students have no curriculum to begin with and are out of school most of the year. There are too many teachers getting infected with AIDS and other diseases even if there is funding. In sub Saharan Africa 30% of teachers get AIDS, exposing children to the virus and of course leaving the children without a teacher to tell them anything.
If they had a way of looking up things that interested them whether it be educational or not it is a light year past what they are getting now. Even if we were to take the $150 per laptop and give them the cash you can note the first paper and look for World Bank restructure, there it tells you even when the countries have money they are instructed by the World Bank what they are allowed to spend on this is quoted "conditions set by the World Bank and IMF within the context of structural adjustment".
The best bet to help these kids is to give them SOMETHING. There are even hits on Google that show the UK is hiring up most of the teachers from 3rd world countries that are any good. These kids have nothing, at least this will give them a chance to augment their lives with some social knowledge and maybe a static copy of Wikipedia. That might give them somewhere to start, something solid, something.
I think the threshold the newer HDTV's have when it comes to SDTV VS DVD is big enough to make people happy with it. I was recently shopping for a HDTV purchase and at the stores most of the time the signal playing on the TV's was about 720p or upscaled DVD. We got the guy to play some SD content, wow it makes a huge difference, it's like watching YouTube full screen 1600x1200. And guess what most of the content that still exists is SD content. So these people are watching this crap when a half decent DVD player at Walmart comes along it looks night and day difference to what they watch most of the day anyway. Now your going to convince them to pay even more to watch the odd 1080p movie and still watch their daily TV stretched to crap? Ya right. I was lucky enough to do a bit more research and got a TV that has a decent upscaling processor so I don't get as much blockyness as many of the other sets I saw that day. Sure 1080p looks really nice on pretty much any TV that supports it but when you can only get to see that quality once in a very long while who's gonna care? Not many really. When broadcast is mostly up to 720p/1080i then maybe people will shell out that little bit extra until then I don't see the big deal.
So what makes you think MS with Alexa is any different? The only difference is that they don't bring that data to your advantage. At least Google takes the information collected to bring you more accurate results for something you are looking for.
In a more realistic stance the current day internet businesses model is like a lightning rod, anyone can succeeded but the rate at which you do is very fast. Many communities on the internet are good at supporting what they feel is important to them an off topic example, look at Ron Paul campaign, it seems the guy really had no other way of making the money he did but when you have an audience this large he has been able to make over 18 million without even a guarantee of any type.
Google is big but its only because they are able to hold on for the ride, instead of looking at them as untouchable you should be looking at them as a corner store in the internet neighborhood. Shortly there will be many stores making money like Google right beside one another. This is the first of many don't be intimidated by the immensity of it all as time passes you will see that Google is only really an example of what can be done and not the pinnacle by a long shot.
I am a Rogers customer right now because I am slightly out of the range of a DSL provider. My connection was erratic especially on torrents didn't matter what kind and where from. Suspicious I got a copy of Wireshark and monitored the traffic, all the packets going out appeared to be ok but all the returning packets on my torrent port were corrupted (CRC error), I brought this to their attention and they said the problem didn't exist. I told them to let their NOC know about this and they refused, they told me to send it to the general email box on their help page.
They say they are testing the waters and they are. Are they testing a way to notify people of their account or are they trying to get people comfortable with them throwing up messages on your screen while you surf? As far as I'm concerned I will cancel and go without rather than putting up with this garbage. As far as I'm concerned the only right they have is to give me the service I'm paying for. As you can probably tell I really just don't trust this company, they don't do their job very well and expect me to put up with it, as far as I'm concerned I will fight this every inch.
What should I do if my MP shrugs me off saying he will ask about my question in Parliament, then tell me he doesn't have time to discuss his point of view of Copyright because of Mulroney?
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Since I'm not a US citizen I feel amazed that even I am more aware of Dr. Paul's politics than you even if you aren't a US citizen.
;)) His positions from the beginning have been that of a fatherly figure stating that he does not want to interfere with your life as much as possible but is willing to offer advice if you ask.
Dr. Paul is actually stating that he himself is not gay and he does not act in the lifestyle but if you wish to all the best. He would like to see prayer in schools but he does not want to enforce it. He does not want to enforce any of the subjects you state (ie abortion) he feels it is ultimately you and your states decision on how you carry out your life but if you ask him he would rather you keep your baby.
So really you are the "circular progressive" in this case (the one with his head up his ass
Sorry for the bad comment, coffee didn't kick in yet. I was commenting on my misinterpretation that it was 5 years not days.
The whole idea of advertisement is to reach as many people as possible, how can you say that not having the ability to post on any billboard is a good thing?
More over from a business standpoint by one company turning down a new site which has the potential of becoming an old site, the new site will have to goto another ad company to bring in revenue, won't doing this make it more difficult to bring in the 'diamond in the rough'? Don't most companies/sites start off new?
The internet is far from static, even old companies/sites can/will loose the ability to become effective 'billboards'. The beautiful thing about it is many new sites will spring up in its place, why does it make so much sense to ignore these sites?
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Aww common guys he just got it, I'm impressed no one else has picked this baby up yet!
Mr. Willis seems to buy today's system. I do think this can be an asset but buying something like this and they tell you not to look under the hood, thats a problem. Even with a "perfect system" there should always be at least 30-40% that are done randomly by paper ballots. This could be done surprisingly simple by designating 3 or 4 out of 10 booths per location a simple paper ballot counted by hand. This way there are too many people involved to take advantage of them all as well with paper only one sheet can be forged at a time
To improve the system even better in terms of security, the electronic component of the system should be open, standardized and engineered to be assembled by parts that even small towns can obtain and assemble. For example old computer parts that can be tested and benchmarked, much of it will be safe as they can provide their functions reliably as long as it is structurally sound.
I know if I was trying to throw someone off my tracks on Slashdot I would post as an AC.... ummm wait!
Your basing your whole argument on the assumption that Apple would cut and paste a mack book latch onto the mac air? Apple is all about engineering, if you think they would go through all that trouble to design something and then finish it off with a hack then you are talking about the wrong company. I can guarantee you Apple can come up with a design that would allow the battery to be accessed with out a screw driver and with out some big tab sticking out of the bottom. If anything the next generation should shoot for 10hrs of usage on a single battery, power consumption as well as battery design is making leaps forward everyday.
;)
On top of it all you compare a system that needs attention to power every 5 hours to a watch that needs attention maybe every month? I know that my watches are fairly simple and the batteries last over a year but maybe you have something different. If you were changing/charging your watch battery every 5 hours would you still be going to someone to do it for you? Then you compare an engines transmission to the laptop battery? Wouldn't the equivalent of the cars transmission be the motherboard? Could I now say changing batteries is equivalent to getting a new engine? Maybe a battery is really a CPU ? Cause from what I've heard a car also has a battery and that battery lasts much longer then 5 hours(provided the car is running
I just get peeved when people pull dumb comparisons out of their ass. The battery is what enables a system to carry out its function, I'm sure with the design of the air the battery is about all you will be able to touch, but again it is the only thing included in the design that will effect the system functionality to the point where the user has to be concerned. If you had to fill your gas tank for a full hour for every 5 hours of driving it might not be that big of a deal unless you need to keep on driving.
So true.
I think just as it is the right of a company to set their prices I should be able to set mine. Maybe this manager doesn't have the resources to support the type of work he needs done. As a somewhat young worker in the IT / programming area this man proclaiming I am not worth what I am getting paid is outrageous. Especially now that retiring programmers and the legacy of code they leave behind. There will be fewer to replace them and more to do, these guys deserve to be able to set any price they please as far as they can find someone willing to pay it. So in short anyone who complains that the cost of what they need to function is too much I think they can't afford it to begin with.
Mod parent up.
Check out TCP / UDP
It makes you wonder doesn't it. Why is it that after all this technology, prosperity and advancement we still haven't developed the 3rd world?
There's a way! I just sent out the patent, I'm calling it "compiling". See you "compile" the "source code" then you can check to see using a program that I will write called "diff"(like difference) to see if the files differ. If they do then its not the same! Wow I'm gonna be rich!
This article that was anchored above in my post explains how 1 teacher dies every day of AIDS. It doesn't have to be sex that gets someone infected. With rates as high as that, the chances would be an elevated chance of transmission also cuts don't heal well and depending on the social norm people may continue to interact with the children even if they are not feeling "well".
It's nice that you submitted a suggestion, your contribution is great! So do you feel better about yourself now?
Look at their curriculum first off. Who is going to teach these young people what they want / need to know rather than what their government is willing to sponsor. Just to give you a point of reference this paper shows how most students have no curriculum to begin with and are out of school most of the year. There are too many teachers getting infected with AIDS and other diseases even if there is funding. In sub Saharan Africa 30% of teachers get AIDS, exposing children to the virus and of course leaving the children without a teacher to tell them anything.
If they had a way of looking up things that interested them whether it be educational or not it is a light year past what they are getting now. Even if we were to take the $150 per laptop and give them the cash you can note the first paper and look for World Bank restructure, there it tells you even when the countries have money they are instructed by the World Bank what they are allowed to spend on this is quoted "conditions set by the World Bank and IMF within the context of structural adjustment".
The best bet to help these kids is to give them SOMETHING. There are even hits on Google that show the UK is hiring up most of the teachers from 3rd world countries that are any good. These kids have nothing, at least this will give them a chance to augment their lives with some social knowledge and maybe a static copy of Wikipedia. That might give them somewhere to start, something solid, something.
I think the threshold the newer HDTV's have when it comes to SDTV VS DVD is big enough to make people happy with it. I was recently shopping for a HDTV purchase and at the stores most of the time the signal playing on the TV's was about 720p or upscaled DVD. We got the guy to play some SD content, wow it makes a huge difference, it's like watching YouTube full screen 1600x1200. And guess what most of the content that still exists is SD content. So these people are watching this crap when a half decent DVD player at Walmart comes along it looks night and day difference to what they watch most of the day anyway. Now your going to convince them to pay even more to watch the odd 1080p movie and still watch their daily TV stretched to crap? Ya right. I was lucky enough to do a bit more research and got a TV that has a decent upscaling processor so I don't get as much blockyness as many of the other sets I saw that day. Sure 1080p looks really nice on pretty much any TV that supports it but when you can only get to see that quality once in a very long while who's gonna care? Not many really. When broadcast is mostly up to 720p/1080i then maybe people will shell out that little bit extra until then I don't see the big deal.
Finally some one wins at Internet
"but they are not trying to silence your dissidence"
So what about my dissidence?
So what makes you think MS with Alexa is any different? The only difference is that they don't bring that data to your advantage. At least Google takes the information collected to bring you more accurate results for something you are looking for.
In a more realistic stance the current day internet businesses model is like a lightning rod, anyone can succeeded but the rate at which you do is very fast. Many communities on the internet are good at supporting what they feel is important to them an off topic example, look at Ron Paul campaign, it seems the guy really had no other way of making the money he did but when you have an audience this large he has been able to make over 18 million without even a guarantee of any type.
Google is big but its only because they are able to hold on for the ride, instead of looking at them as untouchable you should be looking at them as a corner store in the internet neighborhood. Shortly there will be many stores making money like Google right beside one another. This is the first of many don't be intimidated by the immensity of it all as time passes you will see that Google is only really an example of what can be done and not the pinnacle by a long shot.
That my friend is an extreme that only few would be willing to take on. Wheres Tripple X when you need him?
I am a Rogers customer right now because I am slightly out of the range of a DSL provider. My connection was erratic especially on torrents didn't matter what kind and where from. Suspicious I got a copy of Wireshark and monitored the traffic, all the packets going out appeared to be ok but all the returning packets on my torrent port were corrupted (CRC error), I brought this to their attention and they said the problem didn't exist. I told them to let their NOC know about this and they refused, they told me to send it to the general email box on their help page.
They say they are testing the waters and they are. Are they testing a way to notify people of their account or are they trying to get people comfortable with them throwing up messages on your screen while you surf? As far as I'm concerned I will cancel and go without rather than putting up with this garbage. As far as I'm concerned the only right they have is to give me the service I'm paying for. As you can probably tell I really just don't trust this company, they don't do their job very well and expect me to put up with it, as far as I'm concerned I will fight this every inch.
What should I do if my MP shrugs me off saying he will ask about my question in Parliament, then tell me he doesn't have time to discuss his point of view of Copyright because of Mulroney?
The only thing backing a non backed currency is what the other guy thinks your worth. After a while the only way for someone to pay you is with war.
I think the funny thing is that you're getting defensive over a monkey's ability to outsmart humans ;)