And one more for good measure; Firefox 13. Again, less than half the vulnerabilities of IE 9. Even the unpatched vulnerabilities for Firefox are less critical than the ones for IE 9.
So yes, things have changed substantially in one year. Either IE 9 has gotten worse or Firefox has gotten better. Take your pick.
are all Abrahemic religions and they split when they picked which son to follow.
Worse than that, each group has their own subgroups. Islam has, for the most part, Sunni and Shiites.
Judaism has Reform, Conservative and Ultra-Orthodox.
Christianity, gees, too many to count. First there was the Roman Catholic Church vs Eastern Orthodox. Then you have Lutherans, Episcopalians, Baptists, Anglicans (which came from a king making himself ruler or both church and state), Methodists, and the list goes on.
And this doesn't include the subgroups of these subgroups. Apparently god wanted people to be completely confused about how to worship it.
The Militia Act of 1792. It required every able-bodied white male citizen (interesting distinction) above the age of 18 to be registered within the militia. It also specified what equipment they should have.
There are also records from Philadelphia showing how many firearms were owned by private citizens.
You could also reference this article done by Playboy in 2001 which talks to a person who is an avid trapshooter who found, during the research for his book, that the States regularly took a census of who owned a gun, what condition and so forth. Do a search for 'registered' to get to the relevant section.
So yes, guns were registered, in the broadest sense, by the Colonial government for the reasons I stated.
Considering the Colonial government required people to register their firearms, it's a good bet the Constitution they were using is the same one we're using (with minor adjustments). After all, if you're going to call up the militia, you need to know who has a gun and who doesn't so those who don't have a gun can be supplied with one.
Which is exactly what happened when militia drills were held.
It's Windows 8, of course it sucks. It's even worse than Windows 7.
In fact, Microsoft has taken hiding things to a whole new level. It was bad enough you can't see every program on your system in one shot. You have wait, and wait, and wait for the list to scroll or options to expand, unlike XP where you could see everything you had in one shot.
Now you can't even see what you have installed. You have to scroll, and scroll, and scroll to see what's there and even then it's not a complete list.
It's like the Soup Nazi* from Seinfeld: "No viewing for you!"
* Yeah, yeah. He doesn't like that name and will refuse you service. I'm just using what the show did.
engage at ranges of a few hundred metres, instead of a few million miles.
If you engaged at millions of miles, you would have time to maneuver and/or jump out of the way of incoming missiles. If guided missiles, as you suggested, you would have defenses set up a great distance away from your ship which would intercept the missiles.
You will note that missiles from both sides did do a small amount of maneuvering on their way in. However, that seemed to be purely for positioning. Once locked on, the missiles came straight in (though why the bottom of ships, presumably with much less to no defenses, weren't targeted more is a question left to the producers.)
Engaging at close range is the only way to insure you are hitting your target. Granted, it puts you in harm's way as well, but that's why you have counter-batteries for defense.
The TSA budget is $6.5 billion. Get rid of the TSA and their security theater and that will go a long way towards funding these scientific endeavors.
I realize defunding the TSA will immediately allow the hordes of terrorists lurking in our country to go into action, but that is a chance we'll have to take if we want to slow or halt the downward spiral of science in this country.
As certain folks on here will tell you, this is just a money grab by evil pharmaceutical companies. These poor souls in Africa will be forced to take these tablets simply so the evil companies can make a profit.
This could have been done a long time ago, and without companies making a profit, but it's been put off because of the conspiracy between government and evil corporations to keep the man down by making him pay for medications which can wipe out a disease/affliction/whatever.
As this is purely a profit-driven exercise, it must be shouted down and demonstrations made to prevent this tablet from being used.
Oh, and since this involves use of evolutionary doctrine, we need to get the Christian community in an uproar because this goes against the Almighty's will. If he didn't want malaria to exist, he wouldn't have created it to torment humans. Trying to find a way to prevent/cure malaria is an assault on religion and must be stopped.
Or in my case, eat triple bacon cheeseburgers (on occasion), eat snacks before and after eating meals, gorge at the occasional buffet, and remain skinny while enjoying anything I eat.
Natural gas prices have fallen so low that manufacturers are relocating to the US
Except that because of low prices, the producers are trying to get export rules eased so they can export the stuff to foreign markets because they aren't making enough money here.
On one hand, that is the free market working. Overproduction = lower prices. But then, instead of the U.S. relying on these cheap resources to fuel itself, we're now trying to send the stuff overseas.
So much for cutting our dependence on foreign suppliers, as promised by the natural gas industry.
I was using PA as an example (I'm from there). As a rule, a presidential candidate needs to win PA, OH or FL to win the election with the way the electoral college system works.
As to commercials, I see commercials occasionally for Romney (though I rarely watch commercials anyway so I might be missing more).
As to NC, I just saw yesterday(?) that Obama has either equaled or is ahead in that state. Which is somewhat surprising considering the demographics there. Maybe those people who have moved in from elsewhere are making the difference.
A Democrat has not won the presidency for over 60 years without winning PA.
There are only about 7 states legitimately in play right now,
And that is precisely why we need to do away with the electoral college system. The victor should be decided by who gets the most votes, just like every other election in the country.
And no, this does not mean the big states (CA, TX, NY, etc) can sway the election. You are still looking at the total number of votes cast. For example, let's say CA voters cast 3 million total votes. Of those, candidate A gets 1.4 million while candidate B gets 1.6 million. That's a difference of 200K votes for candidate B.
In TX, a total of 2.5 million votes are cast. Candidate A gets 1.4 million votes while candidate B gets 1.1 million votes. A difference of 300K votes for candidate A. For those keeping score, candidate A now has a 100K vote advantage. Rinse and repeat for each state.
In the end, it won't make much difference changing to a "normal" voting process as the victors have also received the most total votes, but it would do away with this nonsense of concentrating on a few select states (PA, OH and FL for instance) and force the candidates to go after every vote. This doesn't mean there won't still be pockets for either candidate(s) in states, but we won't have to hear about winning a state. You're winning the vote.
The fact is, there's profit being made here. The next question is what lobbying & what pressure is being put on legislators to insure these profits.
If that is your sole argument, that someone is lobbying the government to force people to get vaccinated so these companies can make money, you've lost any semblance of logical argument.
The fact that you consider homeopathic to be medicine, which it isn't, and choose to focus on the money aspect, which is completely irrelevant to the medically sound reason to be vaccinated, shows your lack of common sense.
I can assure you when people were being vaccinated for smallpox or polio, no one gave a rats ass about who was making a profit, or if a profit was even being made. All they cared about was that the yearly sweeps of infections that plagued the country came to a stop.
Are you now going to complain about all the money those big bad corporations made eradicating smallpox and polio? How about rinderpest, an equally devastating disease which has afflicted animals since before the time of Greeks? Are you going to complain about the money corporations made selling this vaccine to the animal industry to innoculate animals to prevent them from getting infected and making it the second time in human history that a disease has been wiped from the face of the Earth?
It seems counter-intuitive to complain these companies are making money to produce a product which will, eventually, make the use of that product unnecessary (in the case of smallpox and rinderpest). After all, wouldn't it be easier to make something which only treats the symptoms rather than cures it? That way they could have a perpetual source of income.
You and Jenny McCarthy would make a great pair. You should go on tour.
Living on a reservation essentially forces you to live there. You are part of a separate nation as far as the government is concerned.
There was a case a few years back where a woman wanted to run for office in Washington state. Everything was set to go until someone realized (or her opponent found out) that she was not a resident of Washington State but a member of whatever her Indian tribe was. Thus, she was ineligible to run for office even though, technically, she was living within the bounds of Washington State.
One can move off the reservation, but it's not like you or I picking up our stuff and moving to a new state. There are a whole host of other issues the rest of us take for granted.
And how, pray tell, would you like the software to know what you want to do with your windows? How is it supposed to know if you want a window in the top left of your screen while another window is minimized?
How is it supposed to know you want your screen one way while I want mine another? How is it supposed to determine size?
It's one thing to criticize the crapload of bad software out there, including W8, but at least use some semblance of common sense when trying to make a point.
(instead of just "rape," which is how the law reads now). We might well have wondered why in the world Ryan and Akin thought that distinction was important.
This was clarified on NPR last night. By using the term forcible rape, the Republicans were trying to short circuit a supposed attempt by Planned Parenthood to mount an attack against the bill. In Ryan, and other people's minds (such as Akin), there is a supposed distinction between rape and forcible rape.
By using the term forcible rape, this would narrow the exceptions for women to have abortions in cases of rape.
This was just another attempt by the GOP to insinuate government into people's personal lives, specifically women;s. It's what happens when you let mythological beliefs override common sense.
you drive full throttle down the road, but you miss-judged a corner,... and applies the little correction you need to make it through.
So you want the AI to keep people alive who don't know how to drive safely? You want to thwart evolution and allow the stupid/careless/whatever to be able to keep reproducing?
We have enough hippos going to Wal Mart, we don't need to keep the herd growing. A little culling now and then will do the trick.
Except for the fact you are still being treated like a criminal. You have to give up your information so they can run background checks on you to make sure you're not a t'rrist. Which is just as bogus as the TSA procedures because there is no way for them to know if you're a new member of a group and aren't on their radar.
Further, it's none of their business who I am or where I'm going. As has been repeatedly pointed out, every time since 9/11 someone decides to go nuts on a plane, the passengers take care of things, not the government and their vaunted TSA agents.
Flying used to be tolerable, not it's an outright hassle. If I can't walk up to a counter and plunk down a pile of cash to buy a ticket to go somewhere without being subject to the third degree, I don't fly.
So yes, the terrorists have won. Their actions have now led everyone to be considered a criminal and forced to prove their innocence with the strongest proponents of these procedures being the same people who were touting how free this country was back in the 80s as compared to the Soviet Union. Now these same people are using the KGB handbook to cudgel the public into believing these measures are "for their protection".
Adobe, like so many tech businesses, can't simply create a tool and then be finished. They always have to add more features, more code, more bloat. And surprise surprise, problems arise.
So you're saying they've adopted the Mozilla team's programming philosophy?
religious "freedom" means the freedom for everyone to be Christian, and anything that interferes with that goal is (or should) violate the First Amendment.
Or, as Asimov said:
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
Mandatory insurance was forced through by the insurance companies.
Sort of like Obama's mandatory health insurance. The only people who truly benefit are the insurance companies as they rake in the money from the healthy people who don't use it.
It's called stability. The Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution in such a way that it didn't need to be changed every few years while at the same allowing for the option to change it as needed.
Our values haven't changed that much. We still want our freedom from religion as well as being able to practice or not without the government telling us otherwise (well, the ones that know history at least), we still want the government to keep out of our bedroom (at least those that understand the Constitution was a limitation on governmental powers, unlike Roberts and Scalia), we still want our free speech, we still want equality for all people (except for those who think how a person is born limits those rights), and so on.
I'll take a system which is stable over the centuries rather than having to worry if the next guy who gets in office will scrap everything and declare themselves dictator for life (or in my case, benevolent dictator until such time as the people can get their heads out of their asses).
Dragonflies and bats are the mosquitoes natural enemies. Put up bat boxes to get more bats and they will have a field day munching on the buggers. The one downside to dragonflies is they need swamps and such to breed, the same place as mosquitoes do.
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IE9 was more secure in several ways than Firefox. It also had comparable number of security holes.
Oh really? You might want to check what Secunia has to say on the matter.
For IE 9
For Firefox 15
The two aren't even close in terms of vulnerabilities. Too soon for Fx 15? Let's go with the 14 version:
Less than half the problems.
And one more for good measure; Firefox 13. Again, less than half the vulnerabilities of IE 9. Even the unpatched vulnerabilities for Firefox are less critical than the ones for IE 9.
So yes, things have changed substantially in one year. Either IE 9 has gotten worse or Firefox has gotten better. Take your pick.
are all Abrahemic religions and they split when they picked which son to follow.
Worse than that, each group has their own subgroups. Islam has, for the most part, Sunni and Shiites.
Judaism has Reform, Conservative and Ultra-Orthodox.
Christianity, gees, too many to count. First there was the Roman Catholic Church vs Eastern Orthodox. Then you have Lutherans, Episcopalians, Baptists, Anglicans (which came from a king making himself ruler or both church and state), Methodists, and the list goes on.
And this doesn't include the subgroups of these subgroups. Apparently god wanted people to be completely confused about how to worship it.
Care to cite that one?
The Militia Act of 1792. It required every able-bodied white male citizen (interesting distinction) above the age of 18 to be registered within the militia. It also specified what equipment they should have.
There are also records from Philadelphia showing how many firearms were owned by private citizens.
You could also reference this article done by Playboy in 2001 which talks to a person who is an avid trapshooter who found, during the research for his book, that the States regularly took a census of who owned a gun, what condition and so forth. Do a search for 'registered' to get to the relevant section.
So yes, guns were registered, in the broadest sense, by the Colonial government for the reasons I stated.
Considering the Colonial government required people to register their firearms, it's a good bet the Constitution they were using is the same one we're using (with minor adjustments). After all, if you're going to call up the militia, you need to know who has a gun and who doesn't so those who don't have a gun can be supplied with one.
Which is exactly what happened when militia drills were held.
It's Windows 8, of course it sucks. It's even worse than Windows 7.
In fact, Microsoft has taken hiding things to a whole new level. It was bad enough you can't see every program on your system in one shot. You have wait, and wait, and wait for the list to scroll or options to expand, unlike XP where you could see everything you had in one shot.
Now you can't even see what you have installed. You have to scroll, and scroll, and scroll to see what's there and even then it's not a complete list.
It's like the Soup Nazi* from Seinfeld: "No viewing for you!"
* Yeah, yeah. He doesn't like that name and will refuse you service. I'm just using what the show did.
engage at ranges of a few hundred metres, instead of a few million miles.
If you engaged at millions of miles, you would have time to maneuver and/or jump out of the way of incoming missiles. If guided missiles, as you suggested, you would have defenses set up a great distance away from your ship which would intercept the missiles.
You will note that missiles from both sides did do a small amount of maneuvering on their way in. However, that seemed to be purely for positioning. Once locked on, the missiles came straight in (though why the bottom of ships, presumably with much less to no defenses, weren't targeted more is a question left to the producers.)
Engaging at close range is the only way to insure you are hitting your target. Granted, it puts you in harm's way as well, but that's why you have counter-batteries for defense.
The TSA budget is $6.5 billion. Get rid of the TSA and their security theater and that will go a long way towards funding these scientific endeavors.
I realize defunding the TSA will immediately allow the hordes of terrorists lurking in our country to go into action, but that is a chance we'll have to take if we want to slow or halt the downward spiral of science in this country.
As certain folks on here will tell you, this is just a money grab by evil pharmaceutical companies. These poor souls in Africa will be forced to take these tablets simply so the evil companies can make a profit.
This could have been done a long time ago, and without companies making a profit, but it's been put off because of the conspiracy between government and evil corporations to keep the man down by making him pay for medications which can wipe out a disease/affliction/whatever.
As this is purely a profit-driven exercise, it must be shouted down and demonstrations made to prevent this tablet from being used.
Oh, and since this involves use of evolutionary doctrine, we need to get the Christian community in an uproar because this goes against the Almighty's will. If he didn't want malaria to exist, he wouldn't have created it to torment humans. Trying to find a way to prevent/cure malaria is an assault on religion and must be stopped.
Did I cover everything?
Exactly. Look at Windows 7. It sort of works. Maybe. If you don't mind being harassed every time you want to do something, even if you're an admin.
If you don't mind having to search for something because everything is hidden.
If you don't mind having to wait while it "Prepares" to do something.
Or in my case, eat triple bacon cheeseburgers (on occasion), eat snacks before and after eating meals, gorge at the occasional buffet, and remain skinny while enjoying anything I eat.
Is that what that noise was? It sounded like a leper who hadn't had a drink in a while as they were staked to the ground in Death Valley.
My cat sounds better than whatever that "music" was.
Natural gas prices have fallen so low that manufacturers are relocating to the US
Except that because of low prices, the producers are trying to get export rules eased so they can export the stuff to foreign markets because they aren't making enough money here.
On one hand, that is the free market working. Overproduction = lower prices. But then, instead of the U.S. relying on these cheap resources to fuel itself, we're now trying to send the stuff overseas.
So much for cutting our dependence on foreign suppliers, as promised by the natural gas industry.
I was using PA as an example (I'm from there). As a rule, a presidential candidate needs to win PA, OH or FL to win the election with the way the electoral college system works.
As to commercials, I see commercials occasionally for Romney (though I rarely watch commercials anyway so I might be missing more).
As to NC, I just saw yesterday(?) that Obama has either equaled or is ahead in that state. Which is somewhat surprising considering the demographics there. Maybe those people who have moved in from elsewhere are making the difference.
A Democrat has not won the presidency for over 60 years without winning PA.
There are only about 7 states legitimately in play right now,
And that is precisely why we need to do away with the electoral college system. The victor should be decided by who gets the most votes, just like every other election in the country.
And no, this does not mean the big states (CA, TX, NY, etc) can sway the election. You are still looking at the total number of votes cast. For example, let's say CA voters cast 3 million total votes. Of those, candidate A gets 1.4 million while candidate B gets 1.6 million. That's a difference of 200K votes for candidate B.
In TX, a total of 2.5 million votes are cast. Candidate A gets 1.4 million votes while candidate B gets 1.1 million votes. A difference of 300K votes for candidate A. For those keeping score, candidate A now has a 100K vote advantage. Rinse and repeat for each state.
In the end, it won't make much difference changing to a "normal" voting process as the victors have also received the most total votes, but it would do away with this nonsense of concentrating on a few select states (PA, OH and FL for instance) and force the candidates to go after every vote. This doesn't mean there won't still be pockets for either candidate(s) in states, but we won't have to hear about winning a state. You're winning the vote.
The fact is, there's profit being made here. The next question is what lobbying & what pressure is being put on legislators to insure these profits.
If that is your sole argument, that someone is lobbying the government to force people to get vaccinated so these companies can make money, you've lost any semblance of logical argument.
The fact that you consider homeopathic to be medicine, which it isn't, and choose to focus on the money aspect, which is completely irrelevant to the medically sound reason to be vaccinated, shows your lack of common sense.
I can assure you when people were being vaccinated for smallpox or polio, no one gave a rats ass about who was making a profit, or if a profit was even being made. All they cared about was that the yearly sweeps of infections that plagued the country came to a stop.
Are you now going to complain about all the money those big bad corporations made eradicating smallpox and polio? How about rinderpest, an equally devastating disease which has afflicted animals since before the time of Greeks? Are you going to complain about the money corporations made selling this vaccine to the animal industry to innoculate animals to prevent them from getting infected and making it the second time in human history that a disease has been wiped from the face of the Earth?
It seems counter-intuitive to complain these companies are making money to produce a product which will, eventually, make the use of that product unnecessary (in the case of smallpox and rinderpest). After all, wouldn't it be easier to make something which only treats the symptoms rather than cures it? That way they could have a perpetual source of income.
You and Jenny McCarthy would make a great pair. You should go on tour.
Living on a reservation essentially forces you to live there. You are part of a separate nation as far as the government is concerned.
There was a case a few years back where a woman wanted to run for office in Washington state. Everything was set to go until someone realized (or her opponent found out) that she was not a resident of Washington State but a member of whatever her Indian tribe was. Thus, she was ineligible to run for office even though, technically, she was living within the bounds of Washington State.
One can move off the reservation, but it's not like you or I picking up our stuff and moving to a new state. There are a whole host of other issues the rest of us take for granted.
And how, pray tell, would you like the software to know what you want to do with your windows? How is it supposed to know if you want a window in the top left of your screen while another window is minimized?
How is it supposed to know you want your screen one way while I want mine another? How is it supposed to determine size?
It's one thing to criticize the crapload of bad software out there, including W8, but at least use some semblance of common sense when trying to make a point.
(instead of just "rape," which is how the law reads now). We might well have wondered why in the world Ryan and Akin thought that distinction was important.
This was clarified on NPR last night. By using the term forcible rape, the Republicans were trying to short circuit a supposed attempt by Planned Parenthood to mount an attack against the bill. In Ryan, and other people's minds (such as Akin), there is a supposed distinction between rape and forcible rape.
By using the term forcible rape, this would narrow the exceptions for women to have abortions in cases of rape.
This was just another attempt by the GOP to insinuate government into people's personal lives, specifically women;s. It's what happens when you let mythological beliefs override common sense.
you drive full throttle down the road, but you miss-judged a corner, ... and applies the little correction you need to make it through.
So you want the AI to keep people alive who don't know how to drive safely? You want to thwart evolution and allow the stupid/careless/whatever to be able to keep reproducing?
We have enough hippos going to Wal Mart, we don't need to keep the herd growing. A little culling now and then will do the trick.
Except for the fact you are still being treated like a criminal. You have to give up your information so they can run background checks on you to make sure you're not a t'rrist. Which is just as bogus as the TSA procedures because there is no way for them to know if you're a new member of a group and aren't on their radar.
Further, it's none of their business who I am or where I'm going. As has been repeatedly pointed out, every time since 9/11 someone decides to go nuts on a plane, the passengers take care of things, not the government and their vaunted TSA agents.
Flying used to be tolerable, not it's an outright hassle. If I can't walk up to a counter and plunk down a pile of cash to buy a ticket to go somewhere without being subject to the third degree, I don't fly.
So yes, the terrorists have won. Their actions have now led everyone to be considered a criminal and forced to prove their innocence with the strongest proponents of these procedures being the same people who were touting how free this country was back in the 80s as compared to the Soviet Union. Now these same people are using the KGB handbook to cudgel the public into believing these measures are "for their protection".
Adobe, like so many tech businesses, can't simply create a tool and then be finished. They always have to add more features, more code, more bloat. And surprise surprise, problems arise.
So you're saying they've adopted the Mozilla team's programming philosophy?
religious "freedom" means the freedom for everyone to be Christian, and anything that interferes with that goal is (or should) violate the First Amendment.
Or, as Asimov said:
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
Mandatory insurance was forced through by the insurance companies.
Sort of like Obama's mandatory health insurance. The only people who truly benefit are the insurance companies as they rake in the money from the healthy people who don't use it.
It's called stability. The Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution in such a way that it didn't need to be changed every few years while at the same allowing for the option to change it as needed.
Our values haven't changed that much. We still want our freedom from religion as well as being able to practice or not without the government telling us otherwise (well, the ones that know history at least), we still want the government to keep out of our bedroom (at least those that understand the Constitution was a limitation on governmental powers, unlike Roberts and Scalia), we still want our free speech, we still want equality for all people (except for those who think how a person is born limits those rights), and so on.
I'll take a system which is stable over the centuries rather than having to worry if the next guy who gets in office will scrap everything and declare themselves dictator for life (or in my case, benevolent dictator until such time as the people can get their heads out of their asses).
lets create some diseases that kill mosquitos.
Dragonflies and bats are the mosquitoes natural enemies. Put up bat boxes to get more bats and they will have a field day munching on the buggers. The one downside to dragonflies is they need swamps and such to breed, the same place as mosquitoes do.