I would like to know exactly how.. Lamar Alexander, Joseph Biden, Dianne Feinstein, and Lindsey Graham came up with this need for legislation ?
Of all the problems in the US, and around the world, they decide that this is something they should work on. Ignore all the letters from the people they represent, and take care of special interests. This is what is wrong with our government. I am sure each and every one of these people have received thousands of letters on Iraq, and healthcare, and numerous other problems from everyday voting citizens. I would love to see the letters they have received that convinced them that this was an issue that needed their attention over all these other issues. I doubt they can produce even one that came from a private voting citizen.
I am not defending those caught, but what about this...
Say you were in a strange city, a little tipsy, and what the hey it's your birthday (whatever)
You scan through the yellow pages and come across the Escort section, and dial em up.
They send you your date for the evening after of course getting you credit card info.
As to what happens between you and your "date" on this night... that doesn't matter.
A few months go by and your at home and the FBI knocks at your door to ask you about some
charges you made on your card. "What was this for ?", "Did you pay for sex ?" etc.. etc..
Is this ok ?
Do you think that this could happen in the US ?
I don't think they are now, but the Lithuanian lita was "fixed" at 4 lita's to the dollar. In a case like that the dollar would define the value of the lita... but since they are going to adopt the Euro in the future I think this has probably changed. In the case of the Euro vs the Dollar, and most other currencies, they fluctuate independently of each other, so there is no set corelation.. and in fact you get different exchange rates from banks that are on the same street.
It's not the nightmare you suggest. Most hardware just works. I don't even agree with this checking compatability list thing.. You just get a live CD distro, and SEE if it works. If something doesn't work then you research the problem.. most likely there is a solution.. the easy solution may be different hardware, the harder soltion may be a more complicated software fix.. But you do the research and decide your solution based on what your comfortable with, before you commit the distro to a hard drive install. If neither solution is acceptable, you can try an alternate distro, if it's still no good, then you admit defeat and accept that this stuff is just not your cup of tea. That doesn't make it bad, it's just not for you, and your parameters.
Right now, Doom3 and other games are incompatable with my hardware.. I live with it (actualy without it) but I don't blame ID or the other game creators if I am not willing to adapt (at this time). The solution is there for me, it's up to me to decide whether or not to impliment it..
For Linux, I agree with you.. can't comment on other Unix systems. I am annoyed that most distro's stopped including it by default. If I had an install that went bad for the X-server configuration, I found mc very handy. I suppose the other editors are just as good, but I found it useful to have file and directory and editing capabilities all rolled into one.. And most people with previous MS-DOS editing experience would have no problem using mc. I think for an editor that you are trying to use without "having used it before", it's hard to beat.
Now on the GUI front.. I think there are many other editors I would use instead... but to each their own.
Synaptic does a pretty good job of organizing available programs by category, but of course there are things outside of the standard distro repositories that you wouldn't know about unless you knew to install them. I guess this is where you go back to google, and the various distro community forums. This is how I learned of Automatix for Ubuntu which takes care of installing alot of those 3rd party things that I used to have to do myself. Still, when things come up.. like something that won't play on a browser, I just look at it as a challenge and research it until I can do it. But then I'm patient and pretty stubborn.
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Most smokers wouldn't even argue the indoor public places issue. There are not even laws required to implement such things.. a simple no smoking sign would work. It's the regulation of bars that most have a problem with. The problem with legislating such things is it's always over done.
I didn't mean to imply that you were the one who modded me. You do at least seem to be willing to look at the issue.
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I like how I am given the off-topic mod.. In your "hints", 1, 2, and kinda 3 you are talking about bars. Since the topic at hand is to eliminate harmful practices, is it not relevant to point out that alcohol related deaths and injuries are more proven than passive smoke ?
That drinking could be taken away, just as easily as smoking is also relevant, considering the facts. The anti smoking crowd lives in their own hypocritical world apparently.
So how are those reduced health care insurance premiums working out for you ?
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We often hear this argument about passive smoke, and I even know people who cover their mouth around smokers as if there were Ebola germs or something. I have a feeling that you probably know someone, or an acquaintance or relative of someone who was killed or injured due to alcohol and an automobile. I have extreme doubts that you can name a person, even those that you don't even know, that you can show was killed or injured by passive smoke. So people defend their right to drink smoke free, when the alcohol is the more deadly of the two.
Although I agree with the need for moderation, if not done right it's pretty bad. The BBC moderates every post before it's posted. I guess to do this they had to eliminate threads, or spend extra time reading parent threads.. (Only reason that comes to mind) To respond to another persons post is pointless, because your response will sometimes be many pages away from the original post, and now completely out of context. This over-moderation also leads to many "your censoring me because..." posts, that I guess that have to post to show it's not true.
Just as a mixed tape is a lesser quality version of the original (unless maybe dat.. do they still sell dat ?) An MP3 is a lesser quality version of an original. When you buy a CD, the songs are not mp3's. There are probably NOW professional mp3's being produced, but ANYONE can make an mp3, and name it whatever they want. Before the mega marketing of mp3's by companies like i-tunes, there were hundreds of thousands of mp3's made by individuals, who owns these ?
By your standards it would be ok if I just made my own collection of various artist mp3's for sharing only with close friends.
I am not quite getting your whole "impersonal" "no creativity" thing. What does this have to do with anything ?.. The creativity, and personal part is done by the "collector".. the social aspect is the sharing part of it.
So religious nutjobs want to come here and kill me, and the best solution is for us to send people over there to kill them first... I see.
I served in the Army. I was ready to defend my country. I am thankful, that I was not in the military when this all went down, because it's a mistake and wrong. To perpetuate it is even more wrong.
If a cop was given information that a van was stolen, sure he has a right to stop it and arrest the people in it. When it is determined that it ISN'T stolen, then you say oop's sorry, you don't seize the van and keep the passengers in jail. Yes the passengers and the driver are going to be pissed, but to keep fucking with them is not going to fix the mistake. The continuing problem with this whole thing is that people REFUSE to believe that we can make a mistake... and be wrong ?, just never happen. It's like a driver going down a road reufusing to admit he's lost.
But everyone should have expected this. When Bush debated Kerry and was asked "What mistakes have you made ?" He couldn't think of a thing. Did he not understand the question ? or the concept of being wrong ?
I agree with you that duel boot is the way to go, especially for new users., although there is also the live CD option for Internet access... In fact, I just had a friend at work who's hard drive crashed on her Windows machine. I gave her an Ubuntu CD to run until she got around to getting her new drive. This worked for her for about 2 weeks and then she brought me the box in to put in her new drive. Of course she had DSL, a modem connection "might" have worked too, but a lot of variables there that could put a kink into it. AOL dialup would not of worked.. certain modems would also be problematic. Anyway, she was happy just to be able to surf the net and check her email with the live CD. I installed duel boot XP -Ubuntu on her new drive, and she's happy. Her impression is that Linux is faster.
Well, he already had Firefox. Plain vanilla thing.. whatever, it's really hard on Linux too. you unzip the file and run. I believe he was installing it for multiuser use.. a little more complicated. I'm sure any Windows newbie can do that on a Windows machine no problem, right ?.. you just install it, log off and log on as another user, and it's just there waiting for you isn't it ?
Some of these things are not the installation. They are modifications to the installation.
The WiFi and modem problems.. sure that's a good point. The rest of your shock at the "horror of it all", shows you don't understand what he was modifying. I am sure that a Windows "power user" tweaking a system would seem just as complicated to the average Windows newbie. I've said it before, I'll say it again.. to do complicated things is, well.. complicated.
Other than the "boom" potential, I see nothing really annoying about unattended bags. What is annoying to me is carry-on luggage period. You have to wonder how much quicker it would be to load and unload a plane if there was zero carry-on., And wouldn't it be nice not to have people opening the overhead compartment to yank down their bag to get some stupid thing out of it in the middle of a flight ?
I would have no problem being charged a say $5 insurance fee to eliminate all carry-on. Then if your bag is lost the Airline would pay you an amount (say $1,000) Those with more than a grand's worth of luggage could pay a little more insurance if they opt to. I'd make it so half, was immediately (non-refundably) paid, with the other half paid if the bags aren't found within 5 days. So you get something for the inconvenience, and the airline has an incentive to find your missing bag.
Well, with most credit cards, your pretty protected against fraudulent charges as it is, but that's pretty good advice.
I also have a rule I follow.. I don't buy anything from any site that I can't get in contact with, by phone, email, and snail mail.. I want all three.. My thought is that if they can't trust me with that information, I can't trust them with my money.
I understand your reasoning. I am not a bible scholar, or a religion expert, but from what I understand the god of the Muslim, Jewish, and Christian faith are all the same under the old testament. (if I am wrong I am sure someone will correct me)
I think the parent poster was only quoting scriptures that could be mis-used (mis interpreted) towards bad purpose. As he said, many people "pick & choose" parts of the bible. Jehovah's Witnesses do the same thing in saying that blood transfusions are wrong. The old testament also forbids eating pork, but most modern Christians do it anyway. So the point, not to pick on the Jehovah's Witness crowd, is that some in the various faiths still adhere to things from the old testament like the blood transfusion thing.
To me, the god in the old testament and the new testament are like two different people. I have my own beliefs, and I don't attend any church because I find most of their tactics are similar to those of our government, where they are trying to use fear to control you. If god is anything like George Bush, I'm not going. I hope I'm right and god is a cool dude, and not a dictator.. If I'm wrong, then well what will I be missing ?
How does your optical scanner record the vote ?
What is the difference between your optical scanner reading a graphite record of a vote, and reading a machine printed record of a vote ?
Let's say it's tax time.., You are given three people who all prepare your taxes.., the first one does it all with pencil and scratch paper.. the second uses a calculator.., and the third uses some tax prep software.. Which do you sign ?
Which would you prefer to record your work hours.. a time clock, or a designated receptionist ?
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Of all the problems in the US, and around the world, they decide that this is something they should work on. Ignore all the letters from the people they represent, and take care of special interests. This is what is wrong with our government. I am sure each and every one of these people have received thousands of letters on Iraq, and healthcare, and numerous other problems from everyday voting citizens. I would love to see the letters they have received that convinced them that this was an issue that needed their attention over all these other issues. I doubt they can produce even one that came from a private voting citizen.
posts a question using "some how" ... do you tell them ?
Say you were in a strange city, a little tipsy, and what the hey it's your birthday (whatever)
You scan through the yellow pages and come across the Escort section, and dial em up.
They send you your date for the evening after of course getting you credit card info.
As to what happens between you and your "date" on this night... that doesn't matter.
A few months go by and your at home and the FBI knocks at your door to ask you about some
charges you made on your card. "What was this for ?", "Did you pay for sex ?" etc.. etc..
Is this ok ?
Do you think that this could happen in the US ?
I don't think they are now, but the Lithuanian lita was "fixed" at 4 lita's to the dollar. In a case like that the dollar would define the value of the lita... but since they are going to adopt the Euro in the future I think this has probably changed. In the case of the Euro vs the Dollar, and most other currencies, they fluctuate independently of each other, so there is no set corelation.. and in fact you get different exchange rates from banks that are on the same street.
Right now, Doom3 and other games are incompatable with my hardware.. I live with it (actualy without it) but I don't blame ID or the other game creators if I am not willing to adapt (at this time). The solution is there for me, it's up to me to decide whether or not to impliment it..
Now on the GUI front.. I think there are many other editors I would use instead... but to each their own.
Since you shouldn't have to... I'll point it out..
"Looks really good." = obviously you have seen it.
"Pity the videos are in WMV format and I am running Linux...." = and run Linux.
So your point is that you CAN watch WMV in Linux... /end sarcasm ... yada yada yada.
I knew what you meant, anyway.. now maybe others will catch up.
It's when their vote counts more than mine that I have a problem with considering them a "person".. especially when they can't actually vote.
No burner required.. only patience.
Synaptic does a pretty good job of organizing available programs by category, but of course there are things outside of the standard distro repositories that you wouldn't know about unless you knew to install them. I guess this is where you go back to google, and the various distro community forums. This is how I learned of Automatix for Ubuntu which takes care of installing alot of those 3rd party things that I used to have to do myself. Still, when things come up.. like something that won't play on a browser, I just look at it as a challenge and research it until I can do it. But then I'm patient and pretty stubborn.
I didn't mean to imply that you were the one who modded me. You do at least seem to be willing to look at the issue.
That drinking could be taken away, just as easily as smoking is also relevant, considering the facts. The anti smoking crowd lives in their own hypocritical world apparently.
So how are those reduced health care insurance premiums working out for you ?
We often hear this argument about passive smoke, and I even know people who cover their mouth around smokers as if there were Ebola germs or something. I have a feeling that you probably know someone, or an acquaintance or relative of someone who was killed or injured due to alcohol and an automobile. I have extreme doubts that you can name a person, even those that you don't even know, that you can show was killed or injured by passive smoke. So people defend their right to drink smoke free, when the alcohol is the more deadly of the two.
Although I agree with the need for moderation, if not done right it's pretty bad. The BBC moderates every post before it's posted. I guess to do this they had to eliminate threads, or spend extra time reading parent threads.. (Only reason that comes to mind) To respond to another persons post is pointless, because your response will sometimes be many pages away from the original post, and now completely out of context. This over-moderation also leads to many "your censoring me because..." posts, that I guess that have to post to show it's not true.
By your standards it would be ok if I just made my own collection of various artist mp3's for sharing only with close friends.
I am not quite getting your whole "impersonal" "no creativity" thing. What does this have to do with anything ?.. The creativity, and personal part is done by the "collector".. the social aspect is the sharing part of it.
I served in the Army. I was ready to defend my country. I am thankful, that I was not in the military when this all went down, because it's a mistake and wrong. To perpetuate it is even more wrong.
If a cop was given information that a van was stolen, sure he has a right to stop it and arrest the people in it. When it is determined that it ISN'T stolen, then you say oop's sorry, you don't seize the van and keep the passengers in jail. Yes the passengers and the driver are going to be pissed, but to keep fucking with them is not going to fix the mistake. The continuing problem with this whole thing is that people REFUSE to believe that we can make a mistake... and be wrong ?, just never happen. It's like a driver going down a road reufusing to admit he's lost.
But everyone should have expected this. When Bush debated Kerry and was asked "What mistakes have you made ?" He couldn't think of a thing. Did he not understand the question ? or the concept of being wrong ?
I agree with you that duel boot is the way to go, especially for new users., although there is also the live CD option for Internet access... In fact, I just had a friend at work who's hard drive crashed on her Windows machine. I gave her an Ubuntu CD to run until she got around to getting her new drive. This worked for her for about 2 weeks and then she brought me the box in to put in her new drive. Of course she had DSL, a modem connection "might" have worked too, but a lot of variables there that could put a kink into it. AOL dialup would not of worked.. certain modems would also be problematic. Anyway, she was happy just to be able to surf the net and check her email with the live CD. I installed duel boot XP -Ubuntu on her new drive, and she's happy. Her impression is that Linux is faster.
Well, he already had Firefox. Plain vanilla thing.. whatever, it's really hard on Linux too. you unzip the file and run. I believe he was installing it for multiuser use.. a little more complicated. I'm sure any Windows newbie can do that on a Windows machine no problem, right ?.. you just install it, log off and log on as another user, and it's just there waiting for you isn't it ?
The WiFi and modem problems.. sure that's a good point. The rest of your shock at the "horror of it all", shows you don't understand what he was modifying. I am sure that a Windows "power user" tweaking a system would seem just as complicated to the average Windows newbie. I've said it before, I'll say it again.. to do complicated things is, well.. complicated.
I would have no problem being charged a say $5 insurance fee to eliminate all carry-on. Then if your bag is lost the Airline would pay you an amount (say $1,000) Those with more than a grand's worth of luggage could pay a little more insurance if they opt to. I'd make it so half, was immediately (non-refundably) paid, with the other half paid if the bags aren't found within 5 days. So you get something for the inconvenience, and the airline has an incentive to find your missing bag.
I also have a rule I follow.. I don't buy anything from any site that I can't get in contact with, by phone, email, and snail mail.. I want all three.. My thought is that if they can't trust me with that information, I can't trust them with my money.
I think the parent poster was only quoting scriptures that could be mis-used (mis interpreted) towards bad purpose. As he said, many people "pick & choose" parts of the bible. Jehovah's Witnesses do the same thing in saying that blood transfusions are wrong. The old testament also forbids eating pork, but most modern Christians do it anyway. So the point, not to pick on the Jehovah's Witness crowd, is that some in the various faiths still adhere to things from the old testament like the blood transfusion thing.
To me, the god in the old testament and the new testament are like two different people. I have my own beliefs, and I don't attend any church because I find most of their tactics are similar to those of our government, where they are trying to use fear to control you. If god is anything like George Bush, I'm not going. I hope I'm right and god is a cool dude, and not a dictator.. If I'm wrong, then well what will I be missing ?
And to make things even more fair, a single person with no kids pay MORE taxes than those with kids.. um that's fair isn't it ?
What is the difference between your optical scanner reading a graphite record of a vote, and reading a machine printed record of a vote ?
Let's say it's tax time.., You are given three people who all prepare your taxes.., the first one does it all with pencil and scratch paper.. the second uses a calculator.., and the third uses some tax prep software.. Which do you sign ?
Which would you prefer to record your work hours.. a time clock, or a designated receptionist ?