You twist my ideas. I ask not for something reminiscent of the old literacy tests, but the most simple of tests.. caring about the nation. If you don't care enough to get there, you probably have nothing good to say anyways.
Do you really want any tard that has access to the internet to be able to vote by pushing buttons?
This encourages more people to vote, not to think about the issues. IQ and everything else don't matter.
Grr... why should we force uneducated hordes of tards to vote? Why not have the select individuals who actually are motivated enough to get off their arses and down to the polls vote? They are the only ones who care enough, they are the ones who should make the decisions.
You bring up a point... how do you filter out the tards? But hell, the vote represents the people, and if the people are mentally deficient... well.. . Yukon Ho!
Palms have several advantages over laptops in this respect.
As you mentioned, nobody would want to look at 4 color gray porn on a 3(?) inch screen. But that doesn't stop them from reading naughty texts...
Seriously though, a Palm is no worse gaming wise than a TI calculator. I've got Yahzte loaded up on my Calc and nobody cares. The worse you can do with a Palm is SimCity. The real functionality of the palm is the ability to scrawl notes quickly. Sure you can do that with a spiral, but the Palm has other functions, such as custom programs.
The big thing though is teaching the students to become more tech aware. This is what we should be aiming for in the future: a clued populace.
Internet Voting is supposed to add tons of convienience to the voting system, basically bringing the booth into your house. Increases in security have made this idea see more and more of reality lately.
What it actaully does is allow uninformed, unmotivated people to shed their opinion on the future of the nation. The current system is set up so that only people who care enough to scoot their arses to the booth and cast their vote are allowed to vote. Internet voting allows people who don't really care and don't know much about the topics to not move but think to themselves, "Well, lets try some of this voting stuff."
I'm not saying that all people who make it to the voting place are clued, but I am saying that all people who make it to the voting place had enough motivation to make it to the voting place.
Summary: Internet voting allows people who don't care enough to make it to the booth to shape the future of the U.S.
Feel free to disagree, but please don't call me a "ironic cynical fuck" again.
Well, gee. Now what would cause me to be an "ironic cynical fuck"?
Maybe it is our government's policy of doing as it damn well pleases, no matter what happens.
I personally don't get off my ass and protest for two reasons: 1) Every other protest Ive witnessed has had little if no effect and 2) I don't have enough time to correct my governent! Thats what elected officials are for! But they don't appear to be doing their job, now do they?
If a politions starts telling the horde (as in people... unfathomable millions of them...) that the government just screwed something up, well, then that politician wouldn't be doing his job.
The purpose of the government is to get people to believe that the purpose of the government is righteos and just. That they exist for the people, that their entire intention is to help YOU, and try to both pass off all of their actions as this and create other actions to show YOU that they are doing this.
And then someone in the back says, "But we're in a Democracy! We ARE the governemnt." Bullshit. All the President/Congress/Court can do is change the preferences. They clean up. Dont ask me whos in charge. I dont know whos in charge. Most likely nobody. Only one person, nobody, could control something so riduculous and frivolous as a government such as ours.
So who is in charge? Most likely a priciple. Some guideline that is subconsiosly ingrained into politicians so that they believe that they are serving their country by appeasing populaces with laws that support the majority morals and wars that defend all that the US represents.
Communism? Baaaaad. Why? Because there has to be an enemy. Serbia? Baaaaad. Why? Because there has to be an enemy. Drugs? Baaaaaad. Why? Because there has to be an enemy.
So the question begs, "What happened to our Anti-Ballistic Missle Weapons treaties?" Who knows? Who cares? Obviously not the media or government. Not our enemies, not space aliens, not the Jews, not the Mafia. Who cares? People. Who cares about people? I dont know.
Bah! Who do they think they are, putting a limit on their FTP Server! Those gastardly fools! That should be forbidden by law! (So far, four sentences ending with exclaimation marks!)
But seriously, do they ever reach that limit? I never noticed any mention of it before, but then I usually don't download from them...
Well... this is the way it was for me. Before, I had only minimal experience in the _nixes and the install just seemed to be the most no hassel thing I've ever seen. By far easier than installing MSwinedows or MacOS, both of which are ugly to go along with require constant user presence.
Harder to learn? What have you been smoking? They are just as easy (or difficult for some) to learn as Linux. The hardest thing is going back and forth because the commands are often similar but different. As for easiest install... its NetBSD by far. You basically download it and hit install. I had no trouble installing it and I had no idea what I was doing.
Feel free to think differently.
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FreeBSD is okay but I installed NetBSD for the first time with no help and no experience installing a *nix. Easy? I should say so... Of course this was on a Mac IIci, but that shouldnt matter.
Well.. your advice works if you have used Linux previously (and I know the asker did and probably so do most people here)... but I was raised on BSD and to me some of the Linux themes seem odd and queer... so its not necessarily unintuitive, its just different.
What do you mean "suffered human footprints"? Are we not inhabitants of this planet as well? I've got news... believe it or not we are part of nature too, although we sometimes disrupt severly what happens around us, just us being there does not ruin it.
Are you sure? I thought it was asymptotic... the size of the key wouldn't make much difference between say a 10 char key versus one twice its size, because once you get into the huge range, the end result would only be slightly more secure.
Or maybe I've misunderstood, but I though that this was the reason people don't see a reason to encrypt with a 10 char key.
Hate to break it to you, but technically that would be Micros~1 because that is only 8 chars.
AOL would not be smart to release an open source version of their software. That would go completely against what they have been trying to do for so long: create an AOL Intranet. Releasing an open source version of their software would allow anyone to have their own AOL based mini-net, which would make AOL lose money, not gain it.
Service software like AOL should not go open source, that defeats the purpose of service software.
Applications, servers, and OSes make sense open source, AOL just doesn't.
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You twist my ideas. I ask not for something reminiscent of the old literacy tests, but the most simple of tests.. caring about the nation. If you don't care enough to get there, you probably have nothing good to say anyways.
Do you really want any tard that has access to the internet to be able to vote by pushing buttons?
This encourages more people to vote, not to think about the issues. IQ and everything else don't matter.
Grr... why should we force uneducated hordes of tards to vote? Why not have the select individuals who actually are motivated enough to get off their arses and down to the polls vote? They are the only ones who care enough, they are the ones who should make the decisions.
No, I dont.
You bring up a point... how do you filter out the tards? But hell, the vote represents the people, and if the people are mentally deficient... well.. . Yukon Ho!
Palms have several advantages over laptops in this respect.
As you mentioned, nobody would want to look at 4 color gray porn on a 3(?) inch screen. But that doesn't stop them from reading naughty texts...
Seriously though, a Palm is no worse gaming wise than a TI calculator. I've got Yahzte loaded up on my Calc and nobody cares. The worse you can do with a Palm is SimCity. The real functionality of the palm is the ability to scrawl notes quickly. Sure you can do that with a spiral, but the Palm has other functions, such as custom programs.
The big thing though is teaching the students to become more tech aware. This is what we should be aiming for in the future: a clued populace.
Internet Voting is supposed to add tons of convienience to the voting system, basically bringing the booth into your house. Increases in security have made this idea see more and more of reality lately.
What it actaully does is allow uninformed, unmotivated people to shed their opinion on the future of the nation. The current system is set up so that only people who care enough to scoot their arses to the booth and cast their vote are allowed to vote. Internet voting allows people who don't really care and don't know much about the topics to not move but think to themselves, "Well, lets try some of this voting stuff."
I'm not saying that all people who make it to the voting place are clued, but I am saying that all people who make it to the voting place had enough motivation to make it to the voting place.
Summary: Internet voting allows people who don't care enough to make it to the booth to shape the future of the U.S.
Feel free to disagree, but please don't call me a "ironic cynical fuck" again.
Well, gee. Now what would cause me to be an "ironic cynical fuck"?
Maybe it is our government's policy of doing as it damn well pleases, no matter what happens.
I personally don't get off my ass and protest for two reasons: 1) Every other protest Ive witnessed has had little if no effect and 2) I don't have enough time to correct my governent! Thats what elected officials are for! But they don't appear to be doing their job, now do they?
Well... call me stupid but why wouldn't this protect against Cruise Missiles?
Enter crowd control.
If a politions starts telling the horde (as in people... unfathomable millions of them...) that the government just screwed something up, well, then that politician wouldn't be doing his job.
The purpose of the government is to get people to believe that the purpose of the government is righteos and just. That they exist for the people, that their entire intention is to help YOU, and try to both pass off all of their actions as this and create other actions to show YOU that they are doing this.
And then someone in the back says, "But we're in a Democracy! We ARE the governemnt." Bullshit. All the President/Congress/Court can do is change the preferences. They clean up. Dont ask me whos in charge. I dont know whos in charge. Most likely nobody. Only one person, nobody, could control something so riduculous and frivolous as a government such as ours.
So who is in charge? Most likely a priciple. Some guideline that is subconsiosly ingrained into politicians so that they believe that they are serving their country by appeasing populaces with laws that support the majority morals and wars that defend all that the US represents.
Communism? Baaaaad. Why? Because there has to be an enemy. Serbia? Baaaaad. Why? Because there has to be an enemy. Drugs? Baaaaaad. Why? Because there has to be an enemy.
So the question begs, "What happened to our Anti-Ballistic Missle Weapons treaties?" Who knows? Who cares? Obviously not the media or government. Not our enemies, not space aliens, not the Jews, not the Mafia. Who cares? People. Who cares about people? I dont know.
Bah! Who do they think they are, putting a limit on their FTP Server! Those gastardly fools! That should be forbidden by law! (So far, four sentences ending with exclaimation marks!)
But seriously, do they ever reach that limit? I never noticed any mention of it before, but then I usually don't download from them...
Maybe I'll sell the Internet to get my eyes fixed.
I know it has less range... but isn't it faster and cheaper? Maybe I've been misled by Pacbell...
Well... this is the way it was for me. Before, I had only minimal experience in the _nixes and the install just seemed to be the most no hassel thing I've ever seen. By far easier than installing MSwinedows or MacOS, both of which are ugly to go along with require constant user presence.
No. And just for reiteration purposes... no. They are both equally easy/difficult to learn.. but the hardest thing is switching between the two.
Harder to learn? What have you been smoking? They are just as easy (or difficult for some) to learn as Linux. The hardest thing is going back and forth because the commands are often similar but different. As for easiest install... its NetBSD by far. You basically download it and hit install. I had no trouble installing it and I had no idea what I was doing.
Feel free to think differently.
But NetBSD has the best logo!
FreeBSD is okay but I installed NetBSD for the first time with no help and no experience installing a *nix. Easy? I should say so... Of course this was on a Mac IIci, but that shouldnt matter.
When idle it had load averages of ~6.5
Well.. your advice works if you have used Linux previously (and I know the asker did and probably so do most people here)... but I was raised on BSD and to me some of the Linux themes seem odd and queer... so its not necessarily unintuitive, its just different.
Well... it would add more retention... so you could RAID your RAM... and then it would be faster.
I believe mashed potatoes ENHANCE memory, not ADD memory. So in that case, it would just make it run faster, not add more to it.
Who needs seek time when you've got BACON BITS!!!
I do say... I can see in the near future:
FIRST EVER WEB SERVER RUN ON A MOUSE!!!
(coming soon)
If its PS2 it shouldn't be very hard to reverse engineer... not that I've ever done this myself.
What do you mean "suffered human footprints"? Are we not inhabitants of this planet as well? I've got news... believe it or not we are part of nature too, although we sometimes disrupt severly what happens around us, just us being there does not ruin it.
Are you sure? I thought it was asymptotic... the size of the key wouldn't make much difference between say a 10 char key versus one twice its size, because once you get into the huge range, the end result would only be slightly more secure.
Or maybe I've misunderstood, but I though that this was the reason people don't see a reason to encrypt with a 10 char key.
Hate to break it to you, but technically that would be Micros~1 because that is only 8 chars.
AOL would not be smart to release an open source version of their software. That would go completely against what they have been trying to do for so long: create an AOL Intranet. Releasing an open source version of their software would allow anyone to have their own AOL based mini-net, which would make AOL lose money, not gain it.
Service software like AOL should not go open source, that defeats the purpose of service software.
Applications, servers, and OSes make sense open source, AOL just doesn't.