And of course using email clients with spam filters won't stop it from taking up bandwidth. The spam has to be stopped before it is sent across the world to your client, not after.
Though I wouldn't classify popups and flash banners as spam. They pay the website to have their ads displayed (unless they are part of an adware program, but thats another story). Thus I have trouble seeing them take down the net as the hosts can regulate them. They thus cannot take up more bandwidth than the hosts allow them to.
Why insist on running as a third party candidate? Why not run in the primaries with one of the major parties? It seems that holds a much better chance at getting your view out to the public (look at what McCain achieved in 2000, and Dean in 2004). Whats more, doesn't one appearing as a perpetual loser in the general election just make one's platform look more extremist and less credible?
"In a two-party system you will automatically get two extreme views, left and right, because the two parties have to exaggerate their differences to get as many voters as they can"
So thats why the 2004 candidates are Gary Bauer and Howard Dean.
In reality, the reason it appears we have extreme candidates is because they are two faced glad hands who try to appeal to both moderates and extremists. Sometimes they succeed with both (Reagan, Clinton), other times they fail with both and look like moderates to the extremists and extremists to the moderates.
"A multi-party system allows for nuances, which is good because opinions of the voters are better represented in the government (so many % extreme right, so many % extreme left, so many % somewhere in the middle, etc.)."
Except then pluralities who get 20% of the vote rule the nation. Its much easier for an extremist party to get 20% of the vote than it is the 48% they need with only minimal 3rd party interference.
Look at the last election in France. They have a multi-party system and it ended up coming down to Chiraq and Le Pen.
Hell ya, they love it when I make fun of guys like you. You are the type who, in a desperate attempt to part with your virginity, complains to them "if you are not going to put out on the first date, you really shouldn't wear an outfit that shows that much skin". They hate you as much as everyone on slashdot does.
If I lived in such a country I would appreciate having a choice of what OS to run. Currently I run Linux, but because I want to not because I have to.
Who knows, Windows may well develop to the point where it is again the superior operating system. And if Office (which is MS's realy money-maker) were to support Linux and supported open file formats, I would most likely be willing to purchase it even while using Linux.
Due to the fact that you are the only person I have ever seen complain to anyone about karma bonuses, I have no problem ignoring some anonymous coward with no life whatsoever. In fact, I'll post with karma bonuses on "completely inane posts" even more often just to spite you.
My university (Virginia Tech) has a huge number of Mac labs (including the Math Emporium, a seperate building filled with hundreds of Macs used by math students, mostly to use programs like Matlab and Mathematica), plus a number of Linux and Unix machines (though they are primarily used by the CS department for obvious reasons). Plus when shopping for universities I noticed a number of them had Mac labs, many putting their focus on Macs instead of PCs (which I would say is a mistake, after all PCs are more popular in the real world).
I'm sorry, your argument that all universities have been "bought out" by MS is unsound.
I see you have yet to mend your habit of having nothing close to a life. Please remedy.
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Sports programs are often paid for from a seperate pocket than academics, so the whole "my tuition is being wasted on football" argument doesn't hold water. This is the case at my university (Virginia Tech, which has a large sports program) and many others. Sports programs are more than capable of paying for themselves.
Considering how inaccurate most/. summaries are anyways, I actually think this isn't bad. It forces people to RTFA instead of making dumbass comments based on some editor's crappy interpretation.
"Leaving a nuclear reactor in a developing country which can potentially become unstable during the 30 years of service of the reactor doesn't seem to be terribly safe."
Would you prefer they try to build their own? Or just remain third world shitholes with no power grid? I'm sure they would design it with multiple safeguards (it will be 11 years before they even plan on having a prototype done so don't tell me our current technology doesn't allow that).
My 'company' needs to have an accurate assessment of how you drive in order to know what to charge you, as your likelihood of getting in an accident is very much dependent on the decisions you make while you drive.
As for comparisons to commercial airlines, that is a huge stretch. There is a world of a difference between commercial airlines and private automobiles.
And with the 'misused' statement, I have no idea what will happen with this technology in the future. I lack the needed psychic powers to foresee the future. What I do know is that this use of the technology in a voluntary agreement between vehicle owners and insurance companies has no violations of privacy involved, and to restrict what they can do only violates the rights of the vehicle owners and insurance companies to enter in a voluntary contract.
I've had a lot of fun with tailgaiters when I drive. I refuse to speed up when being tailgaited. In fact, I generally slow down until the guy behind me gets really pissed. I'll resume my normal speed when he moves back or I'll go even faster if he tries to pass. Though don't do that if you live in an area where road rage shootings are common.
How is driving on public roads a private thing? Besides, if you want insurance companies to insure your car for a low rate, they have a right to make sure you deserve that low rate.
It certainly beats just giving high rates to 20 year old men because statistically they are more likely to get in an accident.
Will the mods get mad at me if I mention that there is a gmail invite available for a limited time on my blog (same URL as listed as my website)? The rest of my post was relevant, and I love exploiting the popularity of gmail invites.
Define "not at all like the life we find here on Earth". Assuming organic life was able to originate on another planet in similar circumstances as on Earth, many of the same evolutionary pressures acting on terrestrial life will act on extra-terrestrial life. I'm not saying alien life (should it even exist) will look exactly like life on Earth, but evolution has a habit of repeating certain patterns. Look at similar body plans in insects and vertebrates (a clearly defined head region, legs, wings, etc.), despite the fact we evolved on very different parts of the evolutionary tree.
Basic tables, sure. More advanced stuff like spreadsheets? No.
And I don't really care if certain features will be available in the future, I'm interested in an office suite now. By the time AbiWord gets to the point where it has these features, OOo, MSOffice, and KOffice may well have advanced past it. It makes no sense comparing future versions of AbiWord with current versions of other suites.
First, let me state for the record that I'm using AbiWord 2.0.6, which is the current version in Slackware. I believe there is a more current version, so some of this may have been fixed since then.
AbiWord sucks. There I said it. Don't -1 Troll me, I really mean it. Why does this guy like it? It has large (ugly) icons? Please. As far as I can tell, it supports none of the more advanced features that other word processing programs (such as Word, OpenOffice, KWord, etc.) have. The style editor does not seem nearly as advanced as the style editors of the others. I find no support for adding indexes or tables of contents. I can't find any support for inserting special objects like graphs and tables. Pretty much the only thing it has going for it is that it has a small memory footprint, but then again so does vi. That doesn't mean I'm going to use vi to write a paper.
Without these features, AbiWord cannot think about replacing Word (or OO Writer). Maybe WordPad, but it is simply not powerful enough to be a full fledged word processor. Now maybe some of this stuff actually is supported but not easily found, but if someone has to read the manual just to make a simple chart its not going to replace MS Office.
First of all, I'm arguing that the article title is a blatant exaggeration of what actually happened, not that there is nothing wrong with the law. That is a different discussion entirely, one that we could engage in a more objective manner had the article title not been so horribly weighted.
Second, you are the second poster I've seen to claim the officer told the priest to 'move along', so I went back and re-read the article. Nowhere did he say that the officer told him to "move along" or tell him to get off the bench. The closest he came to that was saying "'Why don't you just close that up, sir, or use your computer elsewhere,'", which emphasized an option other than moving (which is the option the priest chose). What source are you getting this "move along" shit from?
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Though I wouldn't classify popups and flash banners as spam. They pay the website to have their ads displayed (unless they are part of an adware program, but thats another story). Thus I have trouble seeing them take down the net as the hosts can regulate them. They thus cannot take up more bandwidth than the hosts allow them to.
Why insist on running as a third party candidate? Why not run in the primaries with one of the major parties? It seems that holds a much better chance at getting your view out to the public (look at what McCain achieved in 2000, and Dean in 2004). Whats more, doesn't one appearing as a perpetual loser in the general election just make one's platform look more extremist and less credible?
So thats why the 2004 candidates are Gary Bauer and Howard Dean.
In reality, the reason it appears we have extreme candidates is because they are two faced glad hands who try to appeal to both moderates and extremists. Sometimes they succeed with both (Reagan, Clinton), other times they fail with both and look like moderates to the extremists and extremists to the moderates.
"A multi-party system allows for nuances, which is good because opinions of the voters are better represented in the government (so many % extreme right, so many % extreme left, so many % somewhere in the middle, etc.)."
Except then pluralities who get 20% of the vote rule the nation. Its much easier for an extremist party to get 20% of the vote than it is the 48% they need with only minimal 3rd party interference.
Look at the last election in France. They have a multi-party system and it ended up coming down to Chiraq and Le Pen.
What "lovey-dovey altruistic bullshit"? Google has been a company looking for profit since the start.
Ha. Methinks thou dost protest too much.
Hell ya, they love it when I make fun of guys like you. You are the type who, in a desperate attempt to part with your virginity, complains to them "if you are not going to put out on the first date, you really shouldn't wear an outfit that shows that much skin". They hate you as much as everyone on slashdot does.
And how much money is your sister's school spending on the lacrosse team?
Who knows, Windows may well develop to the point where it is again the superior operating system. And if Office (which is MS's realy money-maker) were to support Linux and supported open file formats, I would most likely be willing to purchase it even while using Linux.
Due to the fact that you are the only person I have ever seen complain to anyone about karma bonuses, I have no problem ignoring some anonymous coward with no life whatsoever. In fact, I'll post with karma bonuses on "completely inane posts" even more often just to spite you.
I'm sorry, your argument that all universities have been "bought out" by MS is unsound.
I see you have yet to mend your habit of having nothing close to a life. Please remedy.
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Sports programs are often paid for from a seperate pocket than academics, so the whole "my tuition is being wasted on football" argument doesn't hold water. This is the case at my university (Virginia Tech, which has a large sports program) and many others. Sports programs are more than capable of paying for themselves.
Wake me up when a judge validates one of these patents. Until then, these are just for show.
Considering how inaccurate most /. summaries are anyways, I actually think this isn't bad. It forces people to RTFA instead of making dumbass comments based on some editor's crappy interpretation.
Would you prefer they try to build their own? Or just remain third world shitholes with no power grid? I'm sure they would design it with multiple safeguards (it will be 11 years before they even plan on having a prototype done so don't tell me our current technology doesn't allow that).
As for comparisons to commercial airlines, that is a huge stretch. There is a world of a difference between commercial airlines and private automobiles.
And with the 'misused' statement, I have no idea what will happen with this technology in the future. I lack the needed psychic powers to foresee the future. What I do know is that this use of the technology in a voluntary agreement between vehicle owners and insurance companies has no violations of privacy involved, and to restrict what they can do only violates the rights of the vehicle owners and insurance companies to enter in a voluntary contract.
I prefer to think of the other guy as the one causing accidents and road rage.
Actually if you are driving a car being insured by my company it literally is my business.
"and why wouldn't they be [mandatory]?"
Better question. Why would they be mandatory? I prefer not to ban a technology based on speculation on how politics may react to it.
"Go through the Constitution, and tell me that each one hasn't already been violated by our current administration."
We are talking about private companies, not the federal government. Get your conspiracy theories straight.
I've had a lot of fun with tailgaiters when I drive. I refuse to speed up when being tailgaited. In fact, I generally slow down until the guy behind me gets really pissed. I'll resume my normal speed when he moves back or I'll go even faster if he tries to pass. Though don't do that if you live in an area where road rage shootings are common.
It certainly beats just giving high rates to 20 year old men because statistically they are more likely to get in an accident.
Will the mods get mad at me if I mention that there is a gmail invite available for a limited time on my blog (same URL as listed as my website)? The rest of my post was relevant, and I love exploiting the popularity of gmail invites.
Just because it is ugly doesn't mean it looks like Windows. What specifically was that comment based on?
Define "not at all like the life we find here on Earth". Assuming organic life was able to originate on another planet in similar circumstances as on Earth, many of the same evolutionary pressures acting on terrestrial life will act on extra-terrestrial life. I'm not saying alien life (should it even exist) will look exactly like life on Earth, but evolution has a habit of repeating certain patterns. Look at similar body plans in insects and vertebrates (a clearly defined head region, legs, wings, etc.), despite the fact we evolved on very different parts of the evolutionary tree.
And I don't really care if certain features will be available in the future, I'm interested in an office suite now. By the time AbiWord gets to the point where it has these features, OOo, MSOffice, and KOffice may well have advanced past it. It makes no sense comparing future versions of AbiWord with current versions of other suites.
AbiWord sucks. There I said it. Don't -1 Troll me, I really mean it. Why does this guy like it? It has large (ugly) icons? Please. As far as I can tell, it supports none of the more advanced features that other word processing programs (such as Word, OpenOffice, KWord, etc.) have. The style editor does not seem nearly as advanced as the style editors of the others. I find no support for adding indexes or tables of contents. I can't find any support for inserting special objects like graphs and tables. Pretty much the only thing it has going for it is that it has a small memory footprint, but then again so does vi. That doesn't mean I'm going to use vi to write a paper.
Without these features, AbiWord cannot think about replacing Word (or OO Writer). Maybe WordPad, but it is simply not powerful enough to be a full fledged word processor. Now maybe some of this stuff actually is supported but not easily found, but if someone has to read the manual just to make a simple chart its not going to replace MS Office.
Second, you are the second poster I've seen to claim the officer told the priest to 'move along', so I went back and re-read the article. Nowhere did he say that the officer told him to "move along" or tell him to get off the bench. The closest he came to that was saying "'Why don't you just close that up, sir, or use your computer elsewhere,'", which emphasized an option other than moving (which is the option the priest chose). What source are you getting this "move along" shit from?