Voting for a candidate because they have no chance of winning?
It has nothing to do with loyalty, but ethics and conviction. Don't dilute your own opinion and voice just because it's unpopular - a little thing called the American Revolution never would've happened had we done that.
But thank you, for implying that my voice, or the voice of countless hundreds of thousands of supporters is a complete waste - I hope you're content with the corrupt, two-party, winner-take-all, electoral system that has been failing for a decade now - but I for one will not shut up and WILL vote for whomever I damned well please because I agree with their ideas, their proposals and goals for the nation.
In short: Screw you, you're everything that is wrong with America.
Perhaps then, you can explain to me how we achieved the genetic diversity to sustain a species if it all began with a single, completely evolved and modernly literate man?
Or perhaps you can explain why human fossils found in Africa are older than any yet found on the Arabian peninsula (where they would be infinitely better preserved)?
Or why the Bible never once mentioned a dinosaur? Or a Buffalo? Or a penguin? Or a Polar Bear?
Or how the earth managed to survive a worldwide flood with only two of each animal being spared, and emerge with species of butterflies and plants that were unknown to humans until 2007?
Creationism is only implausible if ignorant, uneducated people continue to take The Bible literally. Yes, almost everything in Science is considered a theory - but some theories, like plate tectonics, are demonstrably factual in almost every sense.
So what you're saying...is that by some grand design, all school boards everywhere are controlled by the Illuminati?
And if what're you saying is really true..that people are being duped into ditching their faith, then why was someone like G.W. allowed (this New World Order presumably would haver enough power to influence a little election) to take office, elected by faith based groups and every Mary Christian and Joe Hard-Worker out there?
And why does 70% of the world's population still hold to faith-based practices. Is the New World Order trying to manipulate the Congo, and have the Tribesmen believe in nothing?
Or are you shortsighted...did you not take into account that America and it's beliefs aren't the 'world'? Some school, somewhere teaches faith, and creation...and rich people pay lots of money for their bratty little kids to be out of their hair for 13 years of education.
The New World Order doesn't exist as you paint it. It exists in another form...and it's figure head is a portrait of Benjamin Franklin.
It's all about money my friend, not beliefs. If anything, this NWO you speak of is keeping people in line...keeping them going to their construction sites and sunday school meetings - teaching them to be content, work hard, and enjoy their free time raising kids and drinking beer by the lake.
It's a beautiful life to some, enough of a challenge to make it not boring, but filled with enough ignorance to make it amazing. THATS what we're being duped into, a life of work. To support others with more money...and that , my friend, is what goes all the way to the top.
Evolution isn't part of a grand design. The grand design is right in front of you. A scientific theory can only influence so much.
See....put aside your apparent unwarranted HATE for a moment to revel in the goodness that is Halo.
I have seen few games have so much detail and attention put into them...and has thankfully resisted being completely market driven (i.e. released before it could be done right...to make more money quicker).
The simple fact is here that, gasp, law enforcment actually BELIEVE this help.
Just as you believe in Open Source, or some believe Allah. Misguided and the wrong step it may be, but give the boys in blue a break. Paranoia has gotten to such a level that people actually think the police WANT a police state. All they want are tools to help them do their jobs - such systems would require HUGE amounts of trust, and a proper political system in place to enforce checks and balances.
What you all fail to understand is that by using a credit card, or debit card, or phone card, or cell phone, or Safeway card, or Car insurance, or Broadband connection, etc, etc, etc...YOU CAN ALL BE FOUND IF THEY WANTED TO FIND YOU
SDon't misunderstand me...I'm not for this at all...but the words "Police State" were dropped too often in other replies.
Just as Bush actually believes he's doing whats best for the country (whether his choices are the best or not), law enforcement officals ACTUALLY believe this will help them do their job
So in conclusion...get a life, and stop feeling watched, followed, oppressed and that your liberties are being stepped on for a malcious cause.
If you're in a business environment without an Exchange server...still use Outlook.
Thunderbird DOES NOT handle large volumes of e-mails, and has about half the actual functionality of Outlook (their calendar plug-in is a joke.)
I was impressed with Firefox so I thought I'd try the switch. With a mixed up storage system that isn't easily moved (not without getting assloads of different folders everywhere) and it now taking 4 mins and 37 seconds to open a message...Outlook still takes the cake.
Now, if Ximian stopped being elitist and made Evolution for Windows, I'd drop Outlook in a second.
I would GLADY replace Word...but what would I do without Outlook?
...and if any of you say 'Firebird' I'll...I'll..I dunno, make a quip about your questionable heritage.
No, seriously though. The altOffice (alternative office, duh) programs I've seen have all been wonderful..with a glaring lack of replacement for Outlook (which is pretty much the only reason we use MSOffice. Nothing for Windows (that's also free) has even come close to having Outlook's functionality. If it's not weird, unreliable directory structres (Firebird), it's a terrrible GUI (Pegasus) - yes, that matters, everyone else on the planet needs a program to look good. Not one alternative e-mail client for WIndows (Come ON already, Ximian) has meeting invites, journal, or Rules importing (very, VERY important) from Outlook itself.
The false appeal here is that they would be diving into a Linux laptop without knowledge of linux, bash, using source code etc. While much of that knowledge is not necessary for business applications, I think eery Linux user shoud have some scripting capabilities to make full use of their OS.
Which, if true, will need to change for Linux to severely cut into the 94% market share that Windows has.
Besides, few end-users ACTUALLY make full use of their operating system - a point missed by most of the tech community. Because they are our livelyhood, they're also are lives (most of the time.) For everyone else, it's just a computer. Many facets of the Linux/Windows/Whatever battle don't even apply to the people the results will affect: Mom, Dad, Jimmy Five year old, Missy High School Report - none of these people will, or should for the matter, need to know how to use WSH, PERL to use their computer as they want.
Diversity, OpenSource, and Choice are great...but the tech community is taking itself far too seriously in this matter.
I notice the average vocabularical IQ drops about 50 points once 3pm EST hits.
Anyways, not suprising that this is a problem. HOWEVER, again a training issue. MOST media players with high levels of functionality (WinAmp, WMP, Real, etc. etc.) have some form of Spyware built right in as it is. (Used, of coure, primarily or exclusively by the author/Compant). Most of which also give you the option to turn it off.
But as with most semi-malicious/privacy breaking code, it was probably done quickly and sloppily, leaving lots of little holes open for those who have nothing better to do than browse porn and write viruses.
I fail to see where the 'huge security problem' lies.
So it tells you the firewall is up when it 'may' be down. If you can't remember wether you put it up or not, PUT IT UP ANYWAYS DUMBASSES!! (Not that I'd trust a Windows Personal Firewall anyways - wasn't UPnP supposed to revolutionize something?)
This is a training issue. Just as anyone who hasn't used Linux before would need help setting it up, anyone using Windows will need to know how to not be a dumbass; 99% of all security issues I've come across could've been prevented with liberal application of common sense.
I think it is supposed to be taken as the Roots that belong to Spam are U.S.
It's a possesive like Jim's Car.
It is niether Jim is Car, or Jim has car
It could just as easily be refering to Jim's US Roots.
Are any of us suprised?
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While I do get the few 'nigerian national' emails, most of them seem to be in pretty g00d 3ngli$h.
What do I do find morally distrubing is that there are geeks out there making assloads of cash providing a conduit for this spam with high powered servers and keeping the senders essentially nameless.
Now the two who replied first can figure out how to bust into my home network, just what I need.
Of the few exploit/hacking books I've read they seem more like "This is how much I (the author) know, that you don't" instead of informative, factual exchange of security-minded information.
I may jump on this one, if not just to see if they laid the hubris on heavy this time...and, well, also because of the simple fact that the future is going to be completely wireless.
I wish I could mod the editors. -1 redundant
YES, we know Linux is the solution to world hunger.
YES, Mircosoft is evil and expensive.
YES, rednecks now have access to linux like the rest of the educated tech society. Move on and post the XBOX2 schematics.:)
...this could develop into a wonderful device for the physically disabled geeks out there.
Certain hand/arm disformaties or Nuerological Degeneration diseases can have their affect on the use a of a PC nullified with proper application of this tool (as opposed to attention/finger dexterity demanding keyboards and mice).
Unfortunately, I doubt the funding is out there to adopt this technology to disabled persons uses, much less actually get it to them:-\ .
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Voting for a candidate because they have no chance of winning? It has nothing to do with loyalty, but ethics and conviction. Don't dilute your own opinion and voice just because it's unpopular - a little thing called the American Revolution never would've happened had we done that. But thank you, for implying that my voice, or the voice of countless hundreds of thousands of supporters is a complete waste - I hope you're content with the corrupt, two-party, winner-take-all, electoral system that has been failing for a decade now - but I for one will not shut up and WILL vote for whomever I damned well please because I agree with their ideas, their proposals and goals for the nation. In short: Screw you, you're everything that is wrong with America.
Perhaps then, you can explain to me how we achieved the genetic diversity to sustain a species if it all began with a single, completely evolved and modernly literate man? Or perhaps you can explain why human fossils found in Africa are older than any yet found on the Arabian peninsula (where they would be infinitely better preserved)? Or why the Bible never once mentioned a dinosaur? Or a Buffalo? Or a penguin? Or a Polar Bear? Or how the earth managed to survive a worldwide flood with only two of each animal being spared, and emerge with species of butterflies and plants that were unknown to humans until 2007? Creationism is only implausible if ignorant, uneducated people continue to take The Bible literally. Yes, almost everything in Science is considered a theory - but some theories, like plate tectonics, are demonstrably factual in almost every sense.
And if what're you saying is really true..that people are being duped into ditching their faith, then why was someone like G.W. allowed (this New World Order presumably would haver enough power to influence a little election) to take office, elected by faith based groups and every Mary Christian and Joe Hard-Worker out there?
And why does 70% of the world's population still hold to faith-based practices. Is the New World Order trying to manipulate the Congo, and have the Tribesmen believe in nothing?
Or are you shortsighted...did you not take into account that America and it's beliefs aren't the 'world'? Some school, somewhere teaches faith, and creation...and rich people pay lots of money for their bratty little kids to be out of their hair for 13 years of education.
The New World Order doesn't exist as you paint it. It exists in another form...and it's figure head is a portrait of Benjamin Franklin.
It's all about money my friend, not beliefs. If anything, this NWO you speak of is keeping people in line...keeping them going to their construction sites and sunday school meetings - teaching them to be content, work hard, and enjoy their free time raising kids and drinking beer by the lake.
It's a beautiful life to some, enough of a challenge to make it not boring, but filled with enough ignorance to make it amazing. THATS what we're being duped into, a life of work. To support others with more money...and that , my friend, is what goes all the way to the top.
Evolution isn't part of a grand design. The grand design is right in front of you. A scientific theory can only influence so much.
Maybe video games really do desensitize the masses to terrrible events, violence and death.
I have seen few games have so much detail and attention put into them...and has thankfully resisted being completely market driven (i.e. released before it could be done right...to make more money quicker).
The simple fact is here that, gasp, law enforcment actually BELIEVE this help.
Just as you believe in Open Source, or some believe Allah. Misguided and the wrong step it may be, but give the boys in blue a break. Paranoia has gotten to such a level that people actually think the police WANT a police state. All they want are tools to help them do their jobs - such systems would require HUGE amounts of trust, and a proper political system in place to enforce checks and balances.
What you all fail to understand is that by using a credit card, or debit card, or phone card, or cell phone, or Safeway card, or Car insurance, or Broadband connection, etc, etc, etc...YOU CAN ALL BE FOUND IF THEY WANTED TO FIND YOU
SDon't misunderstand me...I'm not for this at all...but the words "Police State" were dropped too often in other replies.
Just as Bush actually believes he's doing whats best for the country (whether his choices are the best or not), law enforcement officals ACTUALLY believe this will help them do their job
So in conclusion...get a life, and stop feeling watched, followed, oppressed and that your liberties are being stepped on for a malcious cause.
I'm so sick of you elitist linux-ites making unfounded and ignorant statements just because it follows your religion.
Thunderbird DOES NOT handle large volumes of e-mails, and has about half the actual functionality of Outlook (their calendar plug-in is a joke.)
I was impressed with Firefox so I thought I'd try the switch. With a mixed up storage system that isn't easily moved (not without getting assloads of different folders everywhere) and it now taking 4 mins and 37 seconds to open a message...Outlook still takes the cake.
Now, if Ximian stopped being elitist and made Evolution for Windows, I'd drop Outlook in a second.
Amen.
If only I had mod-points
Connections...internet pun...thats funny :-D.
I would GLADY replace Word...but what would I do without Outlook?
No, seriously though. The altOffice (alternative office, duh) programs I've seen have all been wonderful..with a glaring lack of replacement for Outlook (which is pretty much the only reason we use MSOffice. Nothing for Windows (that's also free) has even come close to having Outlook's functionality. If it's not weird, unreliable directory structres (Firebird), it's a terrrible GUI (Pegasus) - yes, that matters, everyone else on the planet needs a program to look good. Not one alternative e-mail client for WIndows (Come ON already, Ximian) has meeting invites, journal, or Rules importing (very, VERY important) from Outlook itself.
Word I can live with out, Outlook I can't.
Which, if true, will need to change for Linux to severely cut into the 94% market share that Windows has.
Besides, few end-users ACTUALLY make full use of their operating system - a point missed by most of the tech community. Because they are our livelyhood, they're also are lives (most of the time.) For everyone else, it's just a computer. Many facets of the Linux/Windows/Whatever battle don't even apply to the people the results will affect: Mom, Dad, Jimmy Five year old, Missy High School Report - none of these people will, or should for the matter, need to know how to use WSH, PERL to use their computer as they want.
Diversity, OpenSource, and Choice are great...but the tech community is taking itself far too seriously in this matter.
:-p
Anyways, not suprising that this is a problem. HOWEVER, again a training issue. MOST media players with high levels of functionality (WinAmp, WMP, Real, etc. etc.) have some form of Spyware built right in as it is. (Used, of coure, primarily or exclusively by the author/Compant). Most of which also give you the option to turn it off.
But as with most semi-malicious/privacy breaking code, it was probably done quickly and sloppily, leaving lots of little holes open for those who have nothing better to do than browse porn and write viruses.
Though I think we'll both be modded as trolls.
So it tells you the firewall is up when it 'may' be down. If you can't remember wether you put it up or not, PUT IT UP ANYWAYS DUMBASSES!! (Not that I'd trust a Windows Personal Firewall anyways - wasn't UPnP supposed to revolutionize something?)
This is a training issue. Just as anyone who hasn't used Linux before would need help setting it up, anyone using Windows will need to know how to not be a dumbass; 99% of all security issues I've come across could've been prevented with liberal application of common sense.
...ooops, check 'Grammar' above
It's a possesive like Jim's Car.
It is niether Jim is Car, or Jim has car
It could just as easily be refering to Jim's US Roots.
What do I do find morally distrubing is that there are geeks out there making assloads of cash providing a conduit for this spam with high powered servers and keeping the senders essentially nameless.
Of the few exploit/hacking books I've read they seem more like "This is how much I (the author) know, that you don't" instead of informative, factual exchange of security-minded information.
I may jump on this one, if not just to see if they laid the hubris on heavy this time...and, well, also because of the simple fact that the future is going to be completely wireless.
I wish I could mod the editors. -1 redundant YES, we know Linux is the solution to world hunger. YES, Mircosoft is evil and expensive. YES, rednecks now have access to linux like the rest of the educated tech society. Move on and post the XBOX2 schematics. :)
...we could just get Slick Billy (Gates) to say the same thing, World Peace just might be achievable.
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Certain hand/arm disformaties or Nuerological Degeneration diseases can have their affect on the use a of a PC nullified with proper application of this tool (as opposed to attention/finger dexterity demanding keyboards and mice).
Unfortunately, I doubt the funding is out there to adopt this technology to disabled persons uses, much less actually get it to them :-\ .