1. A grand total of 12 songs of mine were taken from FTP. This was The Gray Album, which can only be distributed in this manner for legal reasons.
2. About 30% comes from iTunes, from when I used my Windows side.
3. None. I don't even know about that.
4. About 65% comes from these sources.
5. The sum total of such songs are Strong Bad Sings, which was a copy of a friend's CD and "Moby Dick/Bonzo's Montreaux", because I didn't see the point on dropping $80 on Boxed Set when I already had everything in it except that one song from Led Zeppelin's Complete Studio Recordings.
This isn't about FUD or who won. If poor technology can result in confusion in the returns, then the system is broken. There's something inefficient about the system, and inefficiencies can be manipulated to hijack elections. We don't want this happening, so it's in our best interest to know what we can do to streamline the process so that we don't have to resort to an irregular method of determining the president (by going to the Supreme Court) doesn't happen again.
Tammany Hall. Say no more. The corruption there is legendary. Poor New Yorkers.
That, if I remember correctly, led to many reforms in the way elections were conducted at the local level. Unfortunately, it only did marginal ammounts of good.
It'd be different if today's Republican party was Lincoln's party. It just isn't.
I'll give you the primary Democratic responsibility for the build-up in Vietnam. Ike knew better than to send too many men in there, but only a force that would theoretically be able to encourage stability. Once Kennedy and Johnson got their hands on it, though, things did really begin to go to Hell.
The Republicans don't overestimate their voters' intelligence either. They know that appeals to racism and religous fundamentalism work to garner support among the poor and undereducated.
The election system is broken. When people with a potential vested interest in the outcome of an election are charged with administering said election, things have gone wrong. Kathrine Harris should not have been allowed to participate in the Bush campaign due to her responsibilities as Secretary of State in Florida. Jeb Bush only did what was expected of him (though I still don't really like him), and I have a slightly harder time with laying much blame at his feet. He was in a sticky situation from the beginning, and if I had been in the same place as he was, I would probably have done the same things he did at the time.
This is off-topic, I know, but MOD PARENT DOWN, FLAMEBAIT.
We have no conclusive evidence on what would have happened under Gore. All that we do know is what Bush did: make a half-assed invasion of a country where the guy who planned the attack was and then toppled the government of another country on the grounds that they had assisted in that attack despite there being no credible evidence of such involvment. Saddam's hatred of bin Laden was only marginally outshone by his hatred of the United States. The same works in reverse. Saddam, in bin Laden's eyes, is an apostostate who deserves execution. bin Laden, in Saddam's eyes, was a threat to his regime.
That is the telling part. We know our election system is broken. It failed us 4 years ago. While the failure was partially due to technology being confusing, we would also like to make sure that nobody's trying to take advantage of that confusion. We cannot be certain whether the state government in Florida had any role in influencing the outcome of the Elector elections in its state. The main reason for this suspicion is the identity of the people who were in charge of that election: a major candidate's brother, who needed only that state's Elector's votes to win the election and said candidate's state campaign manager. Both of these people had a vested interest in making sure that a particular candidate won. Even if things had gone the other way four years ago, and it was Gore up for re-election, we'd be in the same boat. It's the fact that there's even remotely reasonable suspicion that people were trying to influence the election that has people concerned.
Besides, as a member of the organization in question, one should expect that we also submit to its scrutiny. It makes certain that we are fit to be election watchdogs for the rest of the world as well.
Houston's average population density is much lower than that in Dallas. MUCH LOWER. The city is spread out all over hell. It takes the better part of a day to drive through, even without traffic. Of course, I've never made it through without traffic...because Houston without traffic just doesn't make any sense.
So if population density is the driving factor, Houston will get it last.
My productivity has increased ten fold since I switched to Debian on my laptop. I'm loving it so much, that I'm joing to switch from Fedora on my desktop over winter break.
And I'm also removing that pesky, not-really-working Windows partition, too.
And for something off-topic, I'm creating a CD for my spyware package. Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice.org, The GIMP, SpyBot Search and Destroy, and AdAware 6 Personal SE. I'm going to be keeping this with me at all times, just in case I run into a Windows computer that needs protecting.
I'm not fully able to upgrade yet, as the Debian builds I'm using haven't been upgraded. There are bugs in the packaging.
The guy's working on it, though.
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When I told my non-music geek girlfriend about Apple Corps., she thought I was refering to an Apple Computer-owned record lable. For the record, Apple Records is owned by EMI.
Well, neither uses the required RPM format. I know, it's screwey. RPM shouldn't be the standard...tarballs should. Alas, nobody wants to deal with tarballs anymore--except Slackware and Gentoo users.
But one must admit that installing DEB packages without using some kind of apt-get is a bit of a pain.
This isn't about copyright, ane even if it was, Paul is still alive. George and John might be dead, but neither one has been dead long enough.
This is, however, about trademark. The fact is that Apple Corps. still exists, and holds the trademark on the name. Apple Computer just chose a really bad name, and probably should have done some research. Granted, we wind up in another Mozilla Firesomething situation, but seriously, Steve and Woz made a bad call when the named their company Apple.
All I was doing was identifying the countries allowed to have nuclear programs under the NPT. Kinda strange that the five countries allowed nukes are the ones that have veto power in the UN Security Council.
The rule on nukes: If you're not a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, you're not allowed to make nukes. Ever.
However, India and Pakistan are known to have the bomb as well, despite not being on that list. Israel is also suspected of having nukes, but nobody's been allowed in. The only reason that they're allowed that secrecy is because of Adolph Hitler and his goons.
Seriously, that's how I learned how to manage Linux myself, over the course of about a month. Fix the problems in FC1 and get it to work properly. It was fun, and it kept me occupied during what otherwise would have been a boring summer break.
As for Fedora only by download, I've found that free ISOs are probably the best way to install anything...except Debian. With that, I'd just grab Knoppix, install it to hard disk, and then use apt-get to get a normal Debian system...again, what I did.
The other advice I'm hearing is to roll your own. While it can be complex, it's a project I'd love to try, just to gain a working knowledge of the low-level processes in Linux. Yes, I can handle the high-level stuff, but when it comes to that kernel, I'm clueless.
Actually, I would recommend the Fedora Project here. It's got enough bugs in it that he'll have to learn how to fix most anything. That's how I learned Linux in the first place. I still use my Fedora box, despite the fact that both my apt-rpm/Synaptic and yum/Yumi packages are broken. I'll probably continue to do so until Thanksgiving or so, when I'll have time to back everything up and move to Debian, which I have working successfully on my laptop, save for getting J2RE to work in Mozilla and Firefox (though it works in Konqueror).
Google Support! The DIY-version of RTFM, where there isn't a FM.
Seriously, During my migrations, Google was (and remains) my best friend in the universe. It can find anything I need quite quickly. Thank God for the built-in Googlebar in Firefox.
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1. A grand total of 12 songs of mine were taken from FTP. This was The Gray Album, which can only be distributed in this manner for legal reasons.
2. About 30% comes from iTunes, from when I used my Windows side.
3. None. I don't even know about that.
4. About 65% comes from these sources.
5. The sum total of such songs are Strong Bad Sings, which was a copy of a friend's CD and "Moby Dick/Bonzo's Montreaux", because I didn't see the point on dropping $80 on Boxed Set when I already had everything in it except that one song from Led Zeppelin's Complete Studio Recordings.
I'd love to be in that conversation:
thephotoman: So, tell me, why aren't you using Firefox yet?
Bill Gates: Because I PWN TEH INTARWEB! PH33R MY 1337 $$$!
tpm: *rolls eyes*
BG: As long as everybody uses MY browser, I have EVERYTHING they own!
tpm: *calls the police, the SEC, and publishes a tape of the converastion on the internet*
This isn't about FUD or who won. If poor technology can result in confusion in the returns, then the system is broken. There's something inefficient about the system, and inefficiencies can be manipulated to hijack elections. We don't want this happening, so it's in our best interest to know what we can do to streamline the process so that we don't have to resort to an irregular method of determining the president (by going to the Supreme Court) doesn't happen again.
Tammany Hall. Say no more. The corruption there is legendary. Poor New Yorkers.
That, if I remember correctly, led to many reforms in the way elections were conducted at the local level. Unfortunately, it only did marginal ammounts of good.
It'd be different if today's Republican party was Lincoln's party. It just isn't.
I'll give you the primary Democratic responsibility for the build-up in Vietnam. Ike knew better than to send too many men in there, but only a force that would theoretically be able to encourage stability. Once Kennedy and Johnson got their hands on it, though, things did really begin to go to Hell.
The Republicans don't overestimate their voters' intelligence either. They know that appeals to racism and religous fundamentalism work to garner support among the poor and undereducated.
The election system is broken. When people with a potential vested interest in the outcome of an election are charged with administering said election, things have gone wrong. Kathrine Harris should not have been allowed to participate in the Bush campaign due to her responsibilities as Secretary of State in Florida. Jeb Bush only did what was expected of him (though I still don't really like him), and I have a slightly harder time with laying much blame at his feet. He was in a sticky situation from the beginning, and if I had been in the same place as he was, I would probably have done the same things he did at the time.
"Texan from Hell"
"-1, Redundant"
This post from a native Texan.
This is off-topic, I know, but MOD PARENT DOWN, FLAMEBAIT.
We have no conclusive evidence on what would have happened under Gore. All that we do know is what Bush did: make a half-assed invasion of a country where the guy who planned the attack was and then toppled the government of another country on the grounds that they had assisted in that attack despite there being no credible evidence of such involvment. Saddam's hatred of bin Laden was only marginally outshone by his hatred of the United States. The same works in reverse. Saddam, in bin Laden's eyes, is an apostostate who deserves execution. bin Laden, in Saddam's eyes, was a threat to his regime.
That is the telling part. We know our election system is broken. It failed us 4 years ago. While the failure was partially due to technology being confusing, we would also like to make sure that nobody's trying to take advantage of that confusion. We cannot be certain whether the state government in Florida had any role in influencing the outcome of the Elector elections in its state. The main reason for this suspicion is the identity of the people who were in charge of that election: a major candidate's brother, who needed only that state's Elector's votes to win the election and said candidate's state campaign manager. Both of these people had a vested interest in making sure that a particular candidate won. Even if things had gone the other way four years ago, and it was Gore up for re-election, we'd be in the same boat. It's the fact that there's even remotely reasonable suspicion that people were trying to influence the election that has people concerned.
Besides, as a member of the organization in question, one should expect that we also submit to its scrutiny. It makes certain that we are fit to be election watchdogs for the rest of the world as well.
Houston's average population density is much lower than that in Dallas. MUCH LOWER. The city is spread out all over hell. It takes the better part of a day to drive through, even without traffic. Of course, I've never made it through without traffic...because Houston without traffic just doesn't make any sense.
So if population density is the driving factor, Houston will get it last.
My productivity has increased ten fold since I switched to Debian on my laptop. I'm loving it so much, that I'm joing to switch from Fedora on my desktop over winter break.
And I'm also removing that pesky, not-really-working Windows partition, too.
And for something off-topic, I'm creating a CD for my spyware package. Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice.org, The GIMP, SpyBot Search and Destroy, and AdAware 6 Personal SE. I'm going to be keeping this with me at all times, just in case I run into a Windows computer that needs protecting.
Your apology is graciously accepted.
Err...my spelling is admittedly terrible. As for my grammar errors, I haven't slept in a week, and O-Chem is eating my brain. Have mercy on me.
I'm an undergrad that saw both the Firefox and Linux light. I'm now prostletyzing for both.
Since Fedora, I haven't had a crash, either!
I'm not fully able to upgrade yet, as the Debian builds I'm using haven't been upgraded. There are bugs in the packaging.
The guy's working on it, though.
When I told my non-music geek girlfriend about Apple Corps., she thought I was refering to an Apple Computer-owned record lable. For the record, Apple Records is owned by EMI.
Well, neither uses the required RPM format. I know, it's screwey. RPM shouldn't be the standard...tarballs should. Alas, nobody wants to deal with tarballs anymore--except Slackware and Gentoo users.
But one must admit that installing DEB packages without using some kind of apt-get is a bit of a pain.
This isn't about copyright, ane even if it was, Paul is still alive. George and John might be dead, but neither one has been dead long enough.
This is, however, about trademark. The fact is that Apple Corps. still exists, and holds the trademark on the name. Apple Computer just chose a really bad name, and probably should have done some research. Granted, we wind up in another Mozilla Firesomething situation, but seriously, Steve and Woz made a bad call when the named their company Apple.
Oops! Appearantly, Slashdot cannot handle macrons on the i's for amici.
After all, I can get wireless ethernet, type stuff like Salvete, amc!, and all sorts of stuff on Linux.
All I was doing was identifying the countries allowed to have nuclear programs under the NPT. Kinda strange that the five countries allowed nukes are the ones that have veto power in the UN Security Council.
The rule on nukes: If you're not a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, you're not allowed to make nukes. Ever.
However, India and Pakistan are known to have the bomb as well, despite not being on that list. Israel is also suspected of having nukes, but nobody's been allowed in. The only reason that they're allowed that secrecy is because of Adolph Hitler and his goons.
Seriously, that's how I learned how to manage Linux myself, over the course of about a month. Fix the problems in FC1 and get it to work properly. It was fun, and it kept me occupied during what otherwise would have been a boring summer break.
As for Fedora only by download, I've found that free ISOs are probably the best way to install anything...except Debian. With that, I'd just grab Knoppix, install it to hard disk, and then use apt-get to get a normal Debian system...again, what I did.
The other advice I'm hearing is to roll your own. While it can be complex, it's a project I'd love to try, just to gain a working knowledge of the low-level processes in Linux. Yes, I can handle the high-level stuff, but when it comes to that kernel, I'm clueless.
Actually, I would recommend the Fedora Project here. It's got enough bugs in it that he'll have to learn how to fix most anything. That's how I learned Linux in the first place. I still use my Fedora box, despite the fact that both my apt-rpm/Synaptic and yum/Yumi packages are broken. I'll probably continue to do so until Thanksgiving or so, when I'll have time to back everything up and move to Debian, which I have working successfully on my laptop, save for getting J2RE to work in Mozilla and Firefox (though it works in Konqueror).
Google Support! The DIY-version of RTFM, where there isn't a FM.
Seriously, During my migrations, Google was (and remains) my best friend in the universe. It can find anything I need quite quickly. Thank God for the built-in Googlebar in Firefox.