Why is it that people who don't have any state or federal ID are more likely to vote (D)? I'm really wondering about that.
Illegal immigrants? No sympathy here: if you want to be afforded full citizen rights, you need to do it legally. Immigration sucks? Yes it does, but if you're already not prone to following the laws just getting in, why should anyone believe you're going to follow the laws once you're in? Voting is a right for citizens. If your party is reliant on illegal voting to get a majority, I would think you don't really represent the general citizen population, and maybe a refocus is in order.
Homeless? Canada seems to be able to subsidise ID cards of some sort for homeless people. Not sure what the problem is in the US.
If you have a driver's license, you have state ID, so you can vote. If you don't, it seems reasonable to get a non-driver's license (at least, that's what it was called here when my wife got hers originally 15 years or so ago). It's provincial ID that can be used like a driver's license for everything except actually driving. And was cheaper than a driver's license. You could use it to buy booze, enter a bar, get a passport, and even vote. I'm not sure it even needed regular renewal.
So who, exactly, doesn't have ID in the U.S. that would traditionally/normally vote (D)? I'm curious.
Yes, yes. Just like oncologists have "massively increase[d]" cancer diagnoses. I go to a chiropractor for certain injuries where experience tells me that I will get back to life-as-normal much faster with adjustments from the chiropractor than going to a normal doctor (whom I'm unlikely to get in to see within a week anyway) or just managing it on my own. That doesn't mean I believe half their crap, and I've never had any chiropractor use the term "subluxation" on me (I'd probably find a new chiropractor after that). All that said, that fact that a group of professionals (let's use the term loosely, for the sake of argument) arises and a corresponding rise in diagnoses made by said professionals occurs does not mean that they're snake-oil salesmen. It's entirely reasonable to deduce that these issues were on-going prior to chiropractic and we now have people trained to diagnose and treat them. Of course, the fact that it's reasonable and plausible doesn't make it true, either. My point is that correlation != causation, and you're making the same ascientific blunder that the rest of society does which is so derided on slashdot, but because it's against chiropractic, it's acceptable for some uninformed reason.
(This is not a slight against the GP - their rant is entirely parody, making fun of the chiropractic claims, and thus is actually making a similar claim against chiropractic that I'm making against the parent, but doing so through parody instead of directly.)
Teh Capitalism requires equal knowledge to have an equal exchange of goods. That's why you hire an expert to work on your behalf, e.g., a lawyer, general contractor, real estate agent, etc., and then your knowledge is now ostensibly that of your expert (hope you got a good one). However, you're now erecting a new strawman, which is actually Le Laissez-Faire, whereby the government does not get involved merely because you don't have enough knowledge. But that's what I said above: you should have known better, which is different from being deceived. If you fail to do your research or hire the correct expert, that's your problem, not Laissez-Faire Capitalism's problem. The government getting involved to end deception still is not socialism, nor even anti-capitalist. It's restoring trust in the market which generally helps the economy grow faster (people who don't trust who they're dealing with will inevitably spend less, resulting in less cash flow, resulting in a slower economy).
No. Capitalism only works properly when all parties have equal knowledge of the area they are exchanging value over. Such as exchanging $1/lb for these apples, I know what $1 is, I know how many pounds of apples I'm buying (if the scales are rigged, this is not-equal knowledge), and I know what apples are/taste like/contribute toward my health. Similarly, the vendor knows all of this as well. I am accepting the veracity of the apples, he is accepting the veracity of the cash as a representation of value, and both can use the government as an enforcer of the same (e.g., vs rigged scales, rotten apples, fake money).
This is not Teh Socialism. This is Teh Justice in pursuit of Teh True Capitalism. Buyer beware only applies if you should have known better, not when you were intentionally deceived. Teh Socialism would be if the government wasn't merely trying to stop deception in the marketplace but also regulating the cell carriers' rates.
No, the GP meant "rubish" - as in "similar to a Rube Goldberg machine". Use in a sentence: "Best Buy's Geek Squad is rubish if their ultimate goal is to actually fix your computer, but confusingly direct if their goal is to generate income from anyone unfortunate enough to accidentally walk somewhere near to their counter, say, within three miles."
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Generally, I find that winning an award is a good indicator that I'm not going to be interested. Although there have been some exceptions, I take them as the exceptions that prove the rule rather than detracting from it. When I hear a movie has won an award, it will have a higher bar to meet for me to contemplate watching it after that.
Seriously? I got a used Honda Odyssey earlier this year, and my 2-year-old has already managed to kill the battery once (by turning on a light inside the vehicle that we didn't notice he did). Got a free jump from our local AMA-affiliate (AMA is the Alberta equivalent of the CAA which is the Canadian equivalent of AAA - not sure what the equivalent is in other parts of the world). Noticed the light, turned it off. But the radio and nav systems were both locked out. Opened the user manual where the previous owner put the stickers with the passcodes, entered them in, and everything was working before we left the driveway.
When looking at these vehicles, I tried some out at the dealership (they wouldn't come down in price far enough, so I left after wasting 5 hours there). In the middle of winter, all the batteries were dead. So I asked the sales critter about it, jokingly complaining about the $35 labour charge for resetting the radio if I didn't already know about it. He said that the sales critters would generally do this for free.
I'm not sure if he's lying (he is in sales, after all), or if Honda just has nicer policies, but I'd be somewhat surprised if Ford charged for this.
And do you think that France defines unemployment rates any differently? The numbers are comparable, even if they aren't what you may want them to mean.
Is my wife unemployed? She stays at home, raising our kids. She has no interest in a paying job. Why should her lack of interest in a job inflate the numbers?
Granted, this means that people who have "given up" also aren't counted, but I doubt that a system could be both simple enough for bureaucrats to implement in a non-biased manner and accurate. Thus, we're just stuck with these numbers, which is a meaningful approximation.
At least, a cruise missile that we didn't even make.
I can just see it now. A bunch of sardines-in-a-can finding the "Made in China" embossment on their cruise missiles, and spray-painting through a stencil that reads "Return To Sender" on it, before loading it in the pipe, and launching it.
I highly highly doubt that Apple can do anything about this. If a bank goes to a retail shop, picks up five iPads, and then advertises that they're giving away real iPads(*) to 5 lucky people who take out brand new loans in the next 30 days, ((*) iPad is trademark of Apple (**)) there is simply nothing for Apple to latch on to.
Check that literature closer - I bet that "used with permission" rarely shows up. (**) "not us, you moron" -- the disclaimer is to avoid making it sound like the iPad is their own trademark... which is only needed in rare cases, such as when confusion about the ownership of that trademark may arise. If the bank is giving away an iPad, only morons are going to associate the bank with the iPad name. However, if it's "BigBankCorp with Dell" holding the promotion, the distinction is a bit blurred, as Dell really is a computer company (well, most people think of them that way). Permission to use a trademark is not generally required. Only when confusion about ownership arises is the license required.
According to my Shaw customer-care page, my monthly cap (at 25Mbps) is 100GB (up+down). Last month, I managed to get to 94GB. My normal is about 60GB.
While this doesn't really invalidate your point (why merely 100GB per month?), I do think proper numbers are in order. It may just be that Shaw sucks less than Rogers. Then again, you probably live in Toronto, which thinks that "Toronto" and "Canada" are synonymous, thus the confusion. (Your nick makes me think Quebec, but I find it's generally pretty rare for Quebecers to refer to themselves as "in Canada".)
And this is why normal people hate lawyers/government. Does it have to be so indirect and complicated? Without lawyers attempting to weasel their way out of obvious intents of plain language, we could have a much simpler legal system.
Well, yes and no. You see, there are two lists going on here. The first list is "stuff that's important." On this list you'll find things like "peace in the Middle East" and "harmony among the planet's many ethnicities". Or things like "democracy in every country" (which may include the U.S. depending on your perspective).
On the second list, there is "stuff that is important but that I can actually do something about right now." Unless you live in Libya or another country currently undergoing a rebellion to institute some form of democracy, we have to go waaaay down on that first list to find anything from the second.
This is what I call the second Microsoft Tax. The first one is the extra ~$30-$60 you pay on your computer that goes to Microsoft for their OS (prices assume it's a new rig with the OEM version pre-installed). The second one, this one, is the extra money you spend on CPU cycles and RAM to run the anti-malware software so that you still have as much CPU power/RAM as you need for what you really bought the computer for.
I guess I'm too paranoid. I like to have at least the last known-working kernel still around to boot from if the new kernel doesn't work. I've had more than one occasion where I screwed up some kernel parameter.
Running Gentoo, I build my kernels. I created a "cp_kernel" script that would copy the kernel (after building) to/boot and rebuild my grub.conf, all in one fell swoop. That way, I could never get them out of sync. I also wrote a corresponding rm_kernel script that would remove the kernel from/boot, remove it from/usr/src and the modules from/lib/modules, and rebuild my grub.conf. Again, all one command. So I can't screw it up.
It'd be nice, though, if it weren't so convoluted. I've made it easy for myself, but that only helps me. If there were a "make install" target in the kernel that copied the correct file(s) to/boot, including some simple file describing everything that a boot loader would need to know about it (for the current machine), then grub or lilo or whatever would be able to read those files to see what kernel options were available. Package managers (i.e., distros) would have to modify those files in their post-install code to fit the current machine, of course. Unless there were saner defaults (e.g., the root filesystem labelled in a separate config file instead of with each kernel).
Basically, the boot-loader devs and the kernel devs and the distros come together to define a common standard for interoperability, much like OpenDesktop between Gnome, KDE, and likely others, to make installing and uninstalling kernels safer, regardless of bootloader (lilo or grub or other), distro, or method of kernel install (distro-managed.rpm or.deb, or manual compile/install from distro-managed sources, or manual compile/install from vanilla sources even on a distro-managed system). But now I'm just talkin' nonsense.
It all depends. When I first got out of school (B Sc Elec Eng), I coded at work, and I coded at home. Later, I got married, and the coding at home started to drop off, but not completely. Now I have three kids, and the for-fun coding has dropped to near, but not quite, zero. However, I don't think that my day job had anything to do with it - if I were doing Electrical Engineering, my for-fun coding would still have dropped to near zero, if not actually zero. It's just a matter of having other events in life that readjust your priorities.
So says you. I bet all those people die later, and there's no conclusive proof that it wasn't caused by your allegedly "harmless" chemical that they were breathing through their lives.
This is it for me. I'm not going to buy a blu-ray player until I get one that works properly for under $100CDN. I bought a CostCo special in the last week of last year, but it wouldn't play DVDs properly (it squished them to 4:3 on my 16:9 1080i TV) even though it played Blu-Rays fine. So I returned it.
$20 discs are still pricey, but if I had a sub-$100 player that played DVDs fine, then I'd at least have the option - if DVD quality is good enough, get the DVD, if I want higher quality (action/explosions/panorama) get Blu-Ray. Otherwise, I play most of my stuff through a WDTV device over the network.
Here's the basic issue. gpgv2 is GPL3. It's in the box. The user cannot modify it, as per the GPL3 license. Thus, Boxee is failing to meet the GPL3 license obligations.
It doesn't matter if the main code is proprietary. It doesn't matter if the kernel is GPL2. What matters in the court of law is that this particular piece does not live up to the license obligations that the author placed on the code as a condition of copying. If the authors of gpgv2 sued, Boxee would lose, assuming the GPL stands up in court (which I expect it would).
Whenever my Windows VMs are downloading patches, I notice that they max out my cable connection. I bet that if I had 105Mb/s instead of 15Mb/s that they would still max out. Or at least get far more than they do now.
This morning, a new vlc stabilised on Gentoo/AMD64. I downloaded the source (24MB) at 904KB/s from a mirror. I'm guessing here, but if I had a bigger pipe, I probably could have gotten faster. Not that I would have got a full 10MB/s, but I might have gotten 1.5-2MB/s - the wget log shows bursts of 2-4MB/s as it is.
Average websites don't send enough data to really make a huge difference. But some sites, such as microsoft.com and many mirrors, have the bandwidth to flood you with. I'm guessing that Youtube would as well.
It's actually pretty rare for P2P to max out my connection here. It's actually rare for it to get close. Maybe I'm downloading the wrong stuff.
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Why is it that people who don't have any state or federal ID are more likely to vote (D)? I'm really wondering about that.
Illegal immigrants? No sympathy here: if you want to be afforded full citizen rights, you need to do it legally. Immigration sucks? Yes it does, but if you're already not prone to following the laws just getting in, why should anyone believe you're going to follow the laws once you're in? Voting is a right for citizens. If your party is reliant on illegal voting to get a majority, I would think you don't really represent the general citizen population, and maybe a refocus is in order.
Homeless? Canada seems to be able to subsidise ID cards of some sort for homeless people. Not sure what the problem is in the US.
If you have a driver's license, you have state ID, so you can vote. If you don't, it seems reasonable to get a non-driver's license (at least, that's what it was called here when my wife got hers originally 15 years or so ago). It's provincial ID that can be used like a driver's license for everything except actually driving. And was cheaper than a driver's license. You could use it to buy booze, enter a bar, get a passport, and even vote. I'm not sure it even needed regular renewal.
So who, exactly, doesn't have ID in the U.S. that would traditionally/normally vote (D)? I'm curious.
Yes, yes. Just like oncologists have "massively increase[d]" cancer diagnoses. I go to a chiropractor for certain injuries where experience tells me that I will get back to life-as-normal much faster with adjustments from the chiropractor than going to a normal doctor (whom I'm unlikely to get in to see within a week anyway) or just managing it on my own. That doesn't mean I believe half their crap, and I've never had any chiropractor use the term "subluxation" on me (I'd probably find a new chiropractor after that). All that said, that fact that a group of professionals (let's use the term loosely, for the sake of argument) arises and a corresponding rise in diagnoses made by said professionals occurs does not mean that they're snake-oil salesmen. It's entirely reasonable to deduce that these issues were on-going prior to chiropractic and we now have people trained to diagnose and treat them. Of course, the fact that it's reasonable and plausible doesn't make it true, either. My point is that correlation != causation, and you're making the same ascientific blunder that the rest of society does which is so derided on slashdot, but because it's against chiropractic, it's acceptable for some uninformed reason.
(This is not a slight against the GP - their rant is entirely parody, making fun of the chiropractic claims, and thus is actually making a similar claim against chiropractic that I'm making against the parent, but doing so through parody instead of directly.)
Teh Capitalism requires equal knowledge to have an equal exchange of goods. That's why you hire an expert to work on your behalf, e.g., a lawyer, general contractor, real estate agent, etc., and then your knowledge is now ostensibly that of your expert (hope you got a good one). However, you're now erecting a new strawman, which is actually Le Laissez-Faire, whereby the government does not get involved merely because you don't have enough knowledge. But that's what I said above: you should have known better, which is different from being deceived. If you fail to do your research or hire the correct expert, that's your problem, not Laissez-Faire Capitalism's problem. The government getting involved to end deception still is not socialism, nor even anti-capitalist. It's restoring trust in the market which generally helps the economy grow faster (people who don't trust who they're dealing with will inevitably spend less, resulting in less cash flow, resulting in a slower economy).
No. Capitalism only works properly when all parties have equal knowledge of the area they are exchanging value over. Such as exchanging $1/lb for these apples, I know what $1 is, I know how many pounds of apples I'm buying (if the scales are rigged, this is not-equal knowledge), and I know what apples are/taste like/contribute toward my health. Similarly, the vendor knows all of this as well. I am accepting the veracity of the apples, he is accepting the veracity of the cash as a representation of value, and both can use the government as an enforcer of the same (e.g., vs rigged scales, rotten apples, fake money).
This is not Teh Socialism. This is Teh Justice in pursuit of Teh True Capitalism. Buyer beware only applies if you should have known better, not when you were intentionally deceived. Teh Socialism would be if the government wasn't merely trying to stop deception in the marketplace but also regulating the cell carriers' rates.
No, the GP meant "rubish" - as in "similar to a Rube Goldberg machine". Use in a sentence: "Best Buy's Geek Squad is rubish if their ultimate goal is to actually fix your computer, but confusingly direct if their goal is to generate income from anyone unfortunate enough to accidentally walk somewhere near to their counter, say, within three miles."
Generally, I find that winning an award is a good indicator that I'm not going to be interested. Although there have been some exceptions, I take them as the exceptions that prove the rule rather than detracting from it. When I hear a movie has won an award, it will have a higher bar to meet for me to contemplate watching it after that.
That "whooshing" sound you here is not the leak of propane from your cylinder. It's the sound of sarcasm passing overhead.
Seriously? I got a used Honda Odyssey earlier this year, and my 2-year-old has already managed to kill the battery once (by turning on a light inside the vehicle that we didn't notice he did). Got a free jump from our local AMA-affiliate (AMA is the Alberta equivalent of the CAA which is the Canadian equivalent of AAA - not sure what the equivalent is in other parts of the world). Noticed the light, turned it off. But the radio and nav systems were both locked out. Opened the user manual where the previous owner put the stickers with the passcodes, entered them in, and everything was working before we left the driveway.
When looking at these vehicles, I tried some out at the dealership (they wouldn't come down in price far enough, so I left after wasting 5 hours there). In the middle of winter, all the batteries were dead. So I asked the sales critter about it, jokingly complaining about the $35 labour charge for resetting the radio if I didn't already know about it. He said that the sales critters would generally do this for free.
I'm not sure if he's lying (he is in sales, after all), or if Honda just has nicer policies, but I'd be somewhat surprised if Ford charged for this.
And do you think that France defines unemployment rates any differently? The numbers are comparable, even if they aren't what you may want them to mean.
Is my wife unemployed? She stays at home, raising our kids. She has no interest in a paying job. Why should her lack of interest in a job inflate the numbers?
Granted, this means that people who have "given up" also aren't counted, but I doubt that a system could be both simple enough for bureaucrats to implement in a non-biased manner and accurate. Thus, we're just stuck with these numbers, which is a meaningful approximation.
At least, a cruise missile that we didn't even make.
I can just see it now. A bunch of sardines-in-a-can finding the "Made in China" embossment on their cruise missiles, and spray-painting through a stencil that reads "Return To Sender" on it, before loading it in the pipe, and launching it.
I highly highly doubt that Apple can do anything about this. If a bank goes to a retail shop, picks up five iPads, and then advertises that they're giving away real iPads(*) to 5 lucky people who take out brand new loans in the next 30 days, ((*) iPad is trademark of Apple (**)) there is simply nothing for Apple to latch on to.
Check that literature closer - I bet that "used with permission" rarely shows up. (**) "not us, you moron" -- the disclaimer is to avoid making it sound like the iPad is their own trademark... which is only needed in rare cases, such as when confusion about the ownership of that trademark may arise. If the bank is giving away an iPad, only morons are going to associate the bank with the iPad name. However, if it's "BigBankCorp with Dell" holding the promotion, the distinction is a bit blurred, as Dell really is a computer company (well, most people think of them that way). Permission to use a trademark is not generally required. Only when confusion about ownership arises is the license required.
According to my Shaw customer-care page, my monthly cap (at 25Mbps) is 100GB (up+down). Last month, I managed to get to 94GB. My normal is about 60GB.
While this doesn't really invalidate your point (why merely 100GB per month?), I do think proper numbers are in order. It may just be that Shaw sucks less than Rogers. Then again, you probably live in Toronto, which thinks that "Toronto" and "Canada" are synonymous, thus the confusion. (Your nick makes me think Quebec, but I find it's generally pretty rare for Quebecers to refer to themselves as "in Canada".)
What, and stop reading slahsdot?
And this is why normal people hate lawyers/government. Does it have to be so indirect and complicated? Without lawyers attempting to weasel their way out of obvious intents of plain language, we could have a much simpler legal system.
Well, yes and no. You see, there are two lists going on here. The first list is "stuff that's important." On this list you'll find things like "peace in the Middle East" and "harmony among the planet's many ethnicities". Or things like "democracy in every country" (which may include the U.S. depending on your perspective).
On the second list, there is "stuff that is important but that I can actually do something about right now." Unless you live in Libya or another country currently undergoing a rebellion to institute some form of democracy, we have to go waaaay down on that first list to find anything from the second.
This is what I call the second Microsoft Tax. The first one is the extra ~$30-$60 you pay on your computer that goes to Microsoft for their OS (prices assume it's a new rig with the OEM version pre-installed). The second one, this one, is the extra money you spend on CPU cycles and RAM to run the anti-malware software so that you still have as much CPU power/RAM as you need for what you really bought the computer for.
I guess I'm too paranoid. I like to have at least the last known-working kernel still around to boot from if the new kernel doesn't work. I've had more than one occasion where I screwed up some kernel parameter.
Running Gentoo, I build my kernels. I created a "cp_kernel" script that would copy the kernel (after building) to /boot and rebuild my grub.conf, all in one fell swoop. That way, I could never get them out of sync. I also wrote a corresponding rm_kernel script that would remove the kernel from /boot, remove it from /usr/src and the modules from /lib/modules, and rebuild my grub.conf. Again, all one command. So I can't screw it up.
It'd be nice, though, if it weren't so convoluted. I've made it easy for myself, but that only helps me. If there were a "make install" target in the kernel that copied the correct file(s) to /boot, including some simple file describing everything that a boot loader would need to know about it (for the current machine), then grub or lilo or whatever would be able to read those files to see what kernel options were available. Package managers (i.e., distros) would have to modify those files in their post-install code to fit the current machine, of course. Unless there were saner defaults (e.g., the root filesystem labelled in a separate config file instead of with each kernel).
Basically, the boot-loader devs and the kernel devs and the distros come together to define a common standard for interoperability, much like OpenDesktop between Gnome, KDE, and likely others, to make installing and uninstalling kernels safer, regardless of bootloader (lilo or grub or other), distro, or method of kernel install (distro-managed .rpm or .deb, or manual compile/install from distro-managed sources, or manual compile/install from vanilla sources even on a distro-managed system). But now I'm just talkin' nonsense.
It all depends. When I first got out of school (B Sc Elec Eng), I coded at work, and I coded at home. Later, I got married, and the coding at home started to drop off, but not completely. Now I have three kids, and the for-fun coding has dropped to near, but not quite, zero. However, I don't think that my day job had anything to do with it - if I were doing Electrical Engineering, my for-fun coding would still have dropped to near zero, if not actually zero. It's just a matter of having other events in life that readjust your priorities.
What do you call a government that does not trust its own citizens?
British?
So says you. I bet all those people die later, and there's no conclusive proof that it wasn't caused by your allegedly "harmless" chemical that they were breathing through their lives.
This has got to be a bigger concern than even HVDC power lines to the paranoid and delusional!
That's why I've patched my kernel to put a bit-shredder in front of /dev/null. All my bytes become NULs and SOHs, regardless of what they started as.
This is it for me. I'm not going to buy a blu-ray player until I get one that works properly for under $100CDN. I bought a CostCo special in the last week of last year, but it wouldn't play DVDs properly (it squished them to 4:3 on my 16:9 1080i TV) even though it played Blu-Rays fine. So I returned it.
$20 discs are still pricey, but if I had a sub-$100 player that played DVDs fine, then I'd at least have the option - if DVD quality is good enough, get the DVD, if I want higher quality (action/explosions/panorama) get Blu-Ray. Otherwise, I play most of my stuff through a WDTV device over the network.
Here's the basic issue. gpgv2 is GPL3. It's in the box. The user cannot modify it, as per the GPL3 license. Thus, Boxee is failing to meet the GPL3 license obligations.
It doesn't matter if the main code is proprietary. It doesn't matter if the kernel is GPL2. What matters in the court of law is that this particular piece does not live up to the license obligations that the author placed on the code as a condition of copying. If the authors of gpgv2 sued, Boxee would lose, assuming the GPL stands up in court (which I expect it would).
Whenever my Windows VMs are downloading patches, I notice that they max out my cable connection. I bet that if I had 105Mb/s instead of 15Mb/s that they would still max out. Or at least get far more than they do now.
This morning, a new vlc stabilised on Gentoo/AMD64. I downloaded the source (24MB) at 904KB/s from a mirror. I'm guessing here, but if I had a bigger pipe, I probably could have gotten faster. Not that I would have got a full 10MB/s, but I might have gotten 1.5-2MB/s - the wget log shows bursts of 2-4MB/s as it is.
Average websites don't send enough data to really make a huge difference. But some sites, such as microsoft.com and many mirrors, have the bandwidth to flood you with. I'm guessing that Youtube would as well.
It's actually pretty rare for P2P to max out my connection here. It's actually rare for it to get close. Maybe I'm downloading the wrong stuff.