Maybe I'm just a bit old fashioned, but I think a letter is much more personal than an email. A letter captures a lot more about you. It captures your handwriting, how you may even mis-spell certain words, (if you are sure you are going to die soon) small warping of the paper from teardrops, hell even the paper you write it on may have a personal touch. It is easier to connect with the dearly departed. An email could have been sent by anyone, it just sits on a computer or gets printed out on bleached paper.
Thanks, but I'll just stick to good ol' fashioned communication models and leave emails for the "when the hell was that meeting" domain.
I'm a moron, I lost part of my sentence: although the author notes that the "bread and peace" index should have been:
Although the author notes that the "bread and peace" index should not be used to predict elections, only explain them, that index both hurts and helps Bush.
Stupid preview button, sitting there mocking me.
how much the rules have changed from the 70's. For instance, although the author notes that the "bread and peace" index both hurts and helps Bush.
Start with the bread. The economy has been going, and for certain sectors of the economy, things are picking up. For others, it's been a disaster. Income levels are increasing slightly, with less taxes, but prices for fuel and healthcare have skyrockted. You really can't say Bush did a stellar job on the economy, but you really can't say he totaly bungled it either.
Same with the peace problem. Iraq isn't nearly as bad as Vietnam, but it's not a bed of roses either. I think this is why John Kerry is having a tough time differentiating himself from Bush on the issue of Iraq. It's obviously far from perfect, if Bush were doing a stellar job like he claims, then Iraq would be a non-issue for this election. But it's not an unmitigated disaster either. If so, John Kerry could really pounce on that.
This election is looking to be as hard to predict as 2000 was.
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If you choose to buy a hard drive made in taiwan, or a chinese chair, the trade deficit will increase.
You don't seem to know what the term "deficit" means. We can still import hard drives and chairs if we don't have a deficit, but they have to buy stuff made in America. Only they choose not to buy stuff made in America. Guess what, we import more from Canada than we do China. The only difference is that Canada doesn't have any barriers to import goods made in the US, versus places like Taiwan, China, and India which have HUGE barriers put in place against importing American products, but they have no problems selling stuff to the US.
To me, that isn't trade, it's importing stuff and exporting green bills with dead men on them. All these countries extoll the virtues of free trade when it means selling stuff to the US, but all of a sudden change their tune when it comes to importing. They want to have their cake and eat it too....
yeah, because I'm SURE all those slaves could read and write. Guess what, slaves made up much more than 2% of the population in 1776, and the slaves sure as hell were not literate. Unless you don't want to count slaves as people, in which case, you are a horrible human being. Thanks for arguing for public education, your ignorance of even the most rudimentary facts about our country's history does insurmountable good for the people you are trying to argue against. Keep up the good work!
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Actually the really funny thing is that during Clinton's presidency, a lot of people(esp. Republicans) criticized Clinton for adopting Republican economic policies. But then they turn around and blame the recession on those same policies. How quickly we all forget what really happened during Clinton's years.....
I really think the whole blind Clinton bashing is a lot like blind Bush bashing, the other side so reviles the person that they are willing to say anything to keep their side riled up against the competetion.
My biggest gripe against Bush isn't that he "caused" the recession, you really won't be able to convince a single Republican that he did, but that he bungled the recovery while creating record deficits. That is something that even Herbert Hoover didn't do. The government is spending tons of money, but a lot of people are still having trouble finding work. Where is it all going? That is the question I really want answered from a Bush supporter.
Small towns don't usually have 24 hour chinese food delivery, job opportunities, or a large singles community for dating or marriage opportunities.
Neither does/.:P
From week to week, you will have a change in the polls that is within the margin of error for the presidential race. Then of course, because the media has nothing better to do, they will report that this must mean the Kerry campaign is stalling or that Bush obviously has lost touch etc. Whatever story they can pull out of their ass for explaining why 10 more people out of the 1000 randomly selected picked candidate X instead of candidate Y in the latest poll. The polls are worthless, but since most Americans don't know jack about Stat., the media can manipulate them to suit their sensationalist agenda.
But in order to make and transport that food, one needs oil, and lots of it. Now there might be enough to make the food, and if you transport it by rail, but don't think there aren't going to be grocery store riots if the US gets cut off from oil...
Heh, I'm not sure what your point is, of the countries you listed(Germany, Italy, Austria, and France), only France is a nuclear power(in case you need a refresher, the current 7 declared nuclear powers are(in order that they got the bomb): US, Russia, UK, France, China, India, and Pakistan, with Iran and North Korea considered probables). I bet most people aren't even aware that a fundamentalist muslim country has nuclear weapons, and are the ones that gave North Korea a lot of info. Hell, I would be surprised if most people in the industrialised world could even name Musharaff.....
Default status my dear friend, in the good ol' US of A, as long as a law against it is not on the books, you can go at it as you please. And, if it does become law, you cannot be arrested for doing it before it became law.
Go look up the laws in your state, good times, good times.
he signed a law that finally made necrophilia a crime in California. Who cares about file sharing...
When the casket is a 'rockin
Don't come a 'knockin
(Although it may result in the shutdown of systems that support people's lives. I'd tend to blame this on the idiots who use Windows for those systems, though.)
So by your logic, then a person who is new in town, gets lost in the bad part of town, and gets hit by a stray bullet from a gang fight should be blamed for not wearing bulletproof armor? Just because someone leaves themselves open for an attack DOES NOT MEAN IT IS OK TO ATTACK THEM!
There, rant over(no I don't use windows because I don't want to be attacked, but that doesn't mean I think windows users deserve 'what they have coming to them')
I mean are these people like convience store robbers or jewel thieves? Convience store robbers are thieves of opportunity, they just see a place that seems vunerable and hit it. Do the attackers just release exploits out into the wild(or just use other peoples exploits) and see what sticks?
Or are they more along the lines of jewel thieves, carefully staking out their victim and carefully planning their heist. My guess is that they are more like the former than the latter, but the study doesn't really say much.
Heh, well, it's slightly more complicated than that. Yes you are voting for electors, but in some(but not all) states, the electors are bound by law to vote for whomever the state voted for...
Just this one statement told me I never need to listen to this guy again: Ever since the inception of government schooling in the 19th century under Horace Mann, the US has been on a downward trend in literacy, numeracy and science learning. Sometimes that trend is briefly halted, but it always continues. To the extent that there might be some mild upheaval, it seems to me that the more quickly we exit the downward spiral, the shorter the climb back up will be. This begs to differ. If you are going to argue against public education, AT LEAST get your facts straight. The fact that he was willing to make stuff up just to promote what he already "knew" from his ideology proves to me his absolute worthlesness as a candidate. I think it also says something for the Libertarian movement as a whole. Their whole argument is based on, "Well if a happens b is bound to happen" ignoring conditions c,d, and f. Politics has plenty of room for ideology, but I think that Badnarick needs a heavy dose of pragmatism before he will influence large amounts of people.
Yeah but how important is ultra-high performance for you? If you are in charge of a multi-million dollar super computer, I would hope that you wouldn't say, "Well, I can get better performance out of this commerical compiler, but I disagree with commercial software, so I'll use open source"
My view on the whole open-vs-closed debate is whatever gets the job done. There are a lot of open source tools that get the job done quite well, and I use those. But there are also occaisions where proprietary software gets what I need done quicker and easier, so I'll use that.
I wonder how hard it would be to do a/. interview with each candidate, similar to the interview with R. Glaser. I kindof doubt that it would happen, but you never know!
I can see it now: Commander Taco interviews President George W. Bush
CT:Greetings Mr. Bush, my name is Comander Taco, AKA Rob Malda and I run a technology enthusiast site called Slashdot. The technology community has a lot of issues including... Gets interrupted
GW:You are a commnader like I am a commander on the war on terror, we both have to do our parts to defeat evil, you commanding geeks, I commanding people warring on terror.
CT: Anyway....as I was saying....the technology enthusiast community has a lot of diverse viewpoints and we want to know where you stand on..... Interrupted again
GW: Thats an interesting name, taco. I can speak Spanish! George W. Bush es el presidente de americainos!
CT: I give up! I'm going to interview John Kerry!
CT:Greetings Mr. Kerry, my name is Comander Taco, AKA Rob Malda and I run a technology enthusiast site called Slashdot. The technology community has a lot of issues including... Gets interrupted
JK:I was a swift boat commander in Vietnam, where we didn't have tacos, we had rice, because it was Vietnam. And my opponent decided to stay in Alabama and eat tacos, not rice, because, he, unlike I, decided not to go to Vietnam!
CT: Anyway....as I was saying....the technology enthusiast community has a lot of diverse viewpoints and we want to know where you stand on..... Interrupted again
JK: My opponent would rather Americans be forced to eat rice instead of tacos, because he doesn't care that 1.1 million less jobs exist now than 4 years ago, and tacos are a lot less healthy than rice, and since millions of Americans can no longer afford health care, they have to eat rice instead of tacos, just like I did in Vietnam.
CT: Yeah, forget it, I wonder if Ralph Nader is home.
They ask an interesting question about star wars here. Bush claims that the program is working, and will be much more fully operational soon, Kerry says that more research is needed. However, the question only focuses on the scientific aspects of the system, not on it's stratagic usefulness. The world is much different than it was during the Soviet era. During the soviet era, outside the possibility of submarines the only way for the Soviets to attack the US was through missiles, because we hardly did any trade at all with our "enemy", but today the world is much different.
Suppose North Korea really wanted to nuke the US. They have missiles that could potentially reach Alaska, MAYBE California, and will soon have the nuclear technology to make weapons, if they don't have it already. But if North Korea really wanted to attack the US, why would they use a missile whose source can be detectable when they could just sneak a missile on one of the thousands of Chinese ships that come to the US each year that go virtually unsearched by customs? North Korea would have to be morons not to have spies working in the Chinese shipping industry(unbeknowst to China of course).
We are just dumping money down the drain on a system that is questionable both scientifically and strategically.
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Maybe I'm just a bit old fashioned, but I think a letter is much more personal than an email. A letter captures a lot more about you. It captures your handwriting, how you may even mis-spell certain words, (if you are sure you are going to die soon) small warping of the paper from teardrops, hell even the paper you write it on may have a personal touch. It is easier to connect with the dearly departed. An email could have been sent by anyone, it just sits on a computer or gets printed out on bleached paper.
Thanks, but I'll just stick to good ol' fashioned communication models and leave emails for the "when the hell was that meeting" domain.
Look at the pi calculation screenshot, they are using windows....and using a 6Ghz cpu w/ 512 ram...
I'm a moron, I lost part of my sentence:
although the author notes that the "bread and peace" index should have been:
Although the author notes that the "bread and peace" index should not be used to predict elections, only explain them, that index both hurts and helps Bush.
Stupid preview button, sitting there mocking me.
how much the rules have changed from the 70's. For instance, although the author notes that the "bread and peace" index both hurts and helps Bush.
Start with the bread. The economy has been going, and for certain sectors of the economy, things are picking up. For others, it's been a disaster. Income levels are increasing slightly, with less taxes, but prices for fuel and healthcare have skyrockted. You really can't say Bush did a stellar job on the economy, but you really can't say he totaly bungled it either.
Same with the peace problem. Iraq isn't nearly as bad as Vietnam, but it's not a bed of roses either. I think this is why John Kerry is having a tough time differentiating himself from Bush on the issue of Iraq. It's obviously far from perfect, if Bush were doing a stellar job like he claims, then Iraq would be a non-issue for this election. But it's not an unmitigated disaster either. If so, John Kerry could really pounce on that.
This election is looking to be as hard to predict as 2000 was.
what if Shakespeare played MMORPGs......
If you choose to buy a hard drive made in taiwan, or a chinese chair, the trade deficit will increase.
You don't seem to know what the term "deficit" means. We can still import hard drives and chairs if we don't have a deficit, but they have to buy stuff made in America. Only they choose not to buy stuff made in America. Guess what, we import more from Canada than we do China. The only difference is that Canada doesn't have any barriers to import goods made in the US, versus places like Taiwan, China, and India which have HUGE barriers put in place against importing American products, but they have no problems selling stuff to the US.
To me, that isn't trade, it's importing stuff and exporting green bills with dead men on them. All these countries extoll the virtues of free trade when it means selling stuff to the US, but all of a sudden change their tune when it comes to importing. They want to have their cake and eat it too....
yeah, because I'm SURE all those slaves could read and write. Guess what, slaves made up much more than 2% of the population in 1776, and the slaves sure as hell were not literate. Unless you don't want to count slaves as people, in which case, you are a horrible human being. Thanks for arguing for public education, your ignorance of even the most rudimentary facts about our country's history does insurmountable good for the people you are trying to argue against. Keep up the good work!
Actually the really funny thing is that during Clinton's presidency, a lot of people(esp. Republicans) criticized Clinton for adopting Republican economic policies. But then they turn around and blame the recession on those same policies. How quickly we all forget what really happened during Clinton's years.....
I really think the whole blind Clinton bashing is a lot like blind Bush bashing, the other side so reviles the person that they are willing to say anything to keep their side riled up against the competetion.
My biggest gripe against Bush isn't that he "caused" the recession, you really won't be able to convince a single Republican that he did, but that he bungled the recovery while creating record deficits. That is something that even Herbert Hoover didn't do. The government is spending tons of money, but a lot of people are still having trouble finding work. Where is it all going? That is the question I really want answered from a Bush supporter.
Small towns don't usually have 24 hour chinese food delivery, job opportunities, or a large singles community for dating or marriage opportunities. /. :P
Neither does
From week to week, you will have a change in the polls that is within the margin of error for the presidential race. Then of course, because the media has nothing better to do, they will report that this must mean the Kerry campaign is stalling or that Bush obviously has lost touch etc. Whatever story they can pull out of their ass for explaining why 10 more people out of the 1000 randomly selected picked candidate X instead of candidate Y in the latest poll.
The polls are worthless, but since most Americans don't know jack about Stat., the media can manipulate them to suit their sensationalist agenda.
But in order to make and transport that food, one needs oil, and lots of it. Now there might be enough to make the food, and if you transport it by rail, but don't think there aren't going to be grocery store riots if the US gets cut off from oil...
Heh, I'm not sure what your point is, of the countries you listed(Germany, Italy, Austria, and France), only France is a nuclear power(in case you need a refresher, the current 7 declared nuclear powers are(in order that they got the bomb): US, Russia, UK, France, China, India, and Pakistan, with Iran and North Korea considered probables). I bet most people aren't even aware that a fundamentalist muslim country has nuclear weapons, and are the ones that gave North Korea a lot of info. Hell, I would be surprised if most people in the industrialised world could even name Musharaff.....
Default status my dear friend, in the good ol' US of A, as long as a law against it is not on the books, you can go at it as you please. And, if it does become law, you cannot be arrested for doing it before it became law.
Go look up the laws in your state, good times, good times.
he signed a law that finally made necrophilia a crime in California. Who cares about file sharing...
When the casket is a 'rockin
Don't come a 'knockin
(Although it may result in the shutdown of systems that support people's lives. I'd tend to blame this on the idiots who use Windows for those systems, though.)
So by your logic, then a person who is new in town, gets lost in the bad part of town, and gets hit by a stray bullet from a gang fight should be blamed for not wearing bulletproof armor? Just because someone leaves themselves open for an attack DOES NOT MEAN IT IS OK TO ATTACK THEM!
There, rant over(no I don't use windows because I don't want to be attacked, but that doesn't mean I think windows users deserve 'what they have coming to them')
From TFA:
"We're seeing an attempt in exploiting Linux environment and as it becomes more widely deployed it will become more of a target," he said
I mean are these people like convience store robbers or jewel thieves? Convience store robbers are thieves of opportunity, they just see a place that seems vunerable and hit it. Do the attackers just release exploits out into the wild(or just use other peoples exploits) and see what sticks?
Or are they more along the lines of jewel thieves, carefully staking out their victim and carefully planning their heist. My guess is that they are more like the former than the latter, but the study doesn't really say much.
Heh, well, it's slightly more complicated than that. Yes you are voting for electors, but in some(but not all) states, the electors are bound by law to vote for whomever the state voted for...
Just this one statement told me I never need to listen to this guy again:
Ever since the inception of government schooling in the 19th century under Horace Mann, the US has been on a downward trend in literacy, numeracy and science learning. Sometimes that trend is briefly halted, but it always continues. To the extent that there might be some mild upheaval, it seems to me that the more quickly we exit the downward spiral, the shorter the climb back up will be.
This begs to differ. If you are going to argue against public education, AT LEAST get your facts straight. The fact that he was willing to make stuff up just to promote what he already "knew" from his ideology proves to me his absolute worthlesness as a candidate. I think it also says something for the Libertarian movement as a whole. Their whole argument is based on, "Well if a happens b is bound to happen" ignoring conditions c,d, and f. Politics has plenty of room for ideology, but I think that Badnarick needs a heavy dose of pragmatism before he will influence large amounts of people.
Yeah but how important is ultra-high performance for you? If you are in charge of a multi-million dollar super computer, I would hope that you wouldn't say, "Well, I can get better performance out of this commerical compiler, but I disagree with commercial software, so I'll use open source"
My view on the whole open-vs-closed debate is whatever gets the job done. There are a lot of open source tools that get the job done quite well, and I use those. But there are also occaisions where proprietary software gets what I need done quicker and easier, so I'll use that.
when will SCO finally make the laughable mistake of suing SCO? I can't wait till that day :P
general opinion that people like Ms Sears
Oh no, Britnney has gone that far done the crapper that she is now Bob Villa's bitch?
I have a craving for coconut and Indian food and I'm not high, what is wrong with me!?
I wonder how hard it would be to do a /. interview with each candidate, similar to the interview with R. Glaser. I kindof doubt that it would happen, but you never know!
I can see it now:
Commander Taco interviews President George W. Bush
CT:Greetings Mr. Bush, my name is Comander Taco, AKA Rob Malda and I run a technology enthusiast site called Slashdot. The technology community has a lot of issues including...
Gets interrupted
GW:You are a commnader like I am a commander on the war on terror, we both have to do our parts to defeat evil, you commanding geeks, I commanding people warring on terror.
CT: Anyway....as I was saying....the technology enthusiast community has a lot of diverse viewpoints and we want to know where you stand on.....
Interrupted again
GW: Thats an interesting name, taco. I can speak Spanish! George W. Bush es el presidente de americainos!
CT: I give up! I'm going to interview John Kerry!
CT:Greetings Mr. Kerry, my name is Comander Taco, AKA Rob Malda and I run a technology enthusiast site called Slashdot. The technology community has a lot of issues including...
Gets interrupted
JK:I was a swift boat commander in Vietnam, where we didn't have tacos, we had rice, because it was Vietnam. And my opponent decided to stay in Alabama and eat tacos, not rice, because, he, unlike I, decided not to go to Vietnam!
CT: Anyway....as I was saying....the technology enthusiast community has a lot of diverse viewpoints and we want to know where you stand on.....
Interrupted again
JK: My opponent would rather Americans be forced to eat rice instead of tacos, because he doesn't care that 1.1 million less jobs exist now than 4 years ago, and tacos are a lot less healthy than rice, and since millions of Americans can no longer afford health care, they have to eat rice instead of tacos, just like I did in Vietnam.
CT: Yeah, forget it, I wonder if Ralph Nader is home.
They ask an interesting question about star wars here. Bush claims that the program is working, and will be much more fully operational soon, Kerry says that more research is needed. However, the question only focuses on the scientific aspects of the system, not on it's stratagic usefulness. The world is much different than it was during the Soviet era. During the soviet era, outside the possibility of submarines the only way for the Soviets to attack the US was through missiles, because we hardly did any trade at all with our "enemy", but today the world is much different.
Suppose North Korea really wanted to nuke the US. They have missiles that could potentially reach Alaska, MAYBE California, and will soon have the nuclear technology to make weapons, if they don't have it already. But if North Korea really wanted to attack the US, why would they use a missile whose source can be detectable when they could just sneak a missile on one of the thousands of Chinese ships that come to the US each year that go virtually unsearched by customs? North Korea would have to be morons not to have spies working in the Chinese shipping industry(unbeknowst to China of course).
We are just dumping money down the drain on a system that is questionable both scientifically and strategically.