Yes, the Internet is faster for YOU if no one else does anything other than check their email. In fact, it's faster for everyone if everyone just doesn't use it. Look at all that theoretical capacity!
First, I'd work with congress on ending the practice of gerrymandering and on ending discriminatory ballot access laws, which I think are the biggest threat the republic. Second, I'd withdraw from the Berne Convention and ask congress to pass sane copyright laws. Third, I'd remove all our troops from the following countries:
Kenya, Egypt, Japan, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Australia, all European countries, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, UAE, Cuba, Columbia, and Iraq.
Yes, I have heard of conspiracy to commit X. As of this writing, there is no law on the books for conspiracy to commit copyright infringement, although I believe some congressmen are trying.
I asked my congressional rep for an appt. Declined.
I wrote my congressperson about it. I got back a form letter thanking me and telling me all is well.
There's your problem. You didn't mention anything about a campaign contribution for $2,300.
I'd recommend you write your state representative(s) if you haven't already. If they refuse to go along with the Real ID laws, you won't have to worry much about it. Of course, you won't be able to board a plane without showing a passport, though. If enough states refuse the program, DHS will have to relax the laws lest large swaths of the population not be able to enter federal buildings.
Schneier has said this for years. Requiring ID as a means of stopping terrorist attacks assumes that if you can just identify everyone in a crowd, you can pick out the bad guys. This isn't even remotely true. I've never gotten so much as a speeding ticket, but that doesn't somehow preclude me from committing a felony.
Seeing as the President doesn't make the official budget, I'm betting this is his proposed budget, not the end-all official 2009 All-Star World Series budget that is actually passed by Congress.
Are you an American? I ask because you don't seem to understand how our electoral processes work.
1) We vote on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. Our congress isn't seated until January 3rd, about 2 months later. We could conceivably wait that long for results to be in. Presidential electors vote on the first Monday after the first Wednesday in December, so those results would need to be in slightly faster. Of course, both of these dates could be changed by law to allow for slowness in counting.
2) The popular vote doesn't matter. Having corrupt officials spread out over the country doesn't help you. Having corrupt officials concentrated in swing states does help you. One could arguably say this happened in 2004. In my home state of Ohio, our Secretary of State (the chief elections officer) was also a co-Chair of President Bush's campaign. So the guy in charge of counting the votes was on a candidate's payroll. At the very least, it was a huge conflict of interest.
That being said, I think they should take as long as is needed to count the votes and get the count right. Exit polls give a decent idea of who won all but the closest of elections.
I'd actually prefer an elimination of corporate income taxes and taxing of dividends only and at a very high rate at that. Why work is taxed at a higher rate than investments, I'll never understand.
singling out dividends for extra taxation doesn't make much sense, as the rich and the poor both are subjected
Who are these poor people you know that make money on anything other than their labor? In the sum total of my life, I think I've made about $5 in interest income and about $20 on a savings bond; the rest was via elbow grease. Granted I'm young and just out of college, but I don't think too many people in downtown Cleveland are clamoring for reduced taxes on their non-existent stock dividends.
Not in Ohio. In Ohio you must at the very least vote a partisan ballot in the next primary in order to be a poll worker. That registers you as a member of the party.
First of all, if you think the people managing the booth aren't trustworthy, offer to do it yourself. I honestly see no reason why you shouldn't be able to do it.
Last I checked, you have to be a registered Democrat or Republican in order to work the polls. At the very least, there have to be equal numbers of both parties working a precinct.
Yeah, my Grandma lives in the middle of nowhere. She can get dial-up or satellite. Her modem connects at about 26.4 kbps on an average day. At that speed, it's nearly impossible to keep her anti-virus and the like updated.
"Open Source" doesn't tell you that- even microsoft's insane Shared Source is technically open.
I used "Open Source" (note the capitals) to denote a license that meets the OSI standards for being Open Source; those standards are well defined, but somewhat diverse. I probably should have been more clear in my meaning. The Shared Source license is open in that you can look at it, but it is not OSI-approved and hence, is not Open Source.
Debian testing is still sitting on 2.0.0.8. Just about the time the 10 days is up for migration to testing from unstable, the package gets changed and/or a new upstream version gets released:
# [2007-11-27] Accepted 2.0.0.10-2 in unstable (low) (Eric Dorland) # [2007-11-27] Accepted 2.0.0.10-1 in unstable (low) (Eric Dorland) # [2007-11-24] Accepted 2.0.0.9-2 in unstable (low) (Mike Hommey) # [2007-11-12] Accepted 2.0.0.9-1 in unstable (low) (Eric Dorland) # [2007-11-03] Accepted 2.0.0.6+2.0.0.8-0etch1 in stable-security (critical) (Alexander Sack) # [2007-11-02] iceweasel 2.0.0.8-1 MIGRATED to testing (Britney)
If I say a piece of software is Open Source or Free Software, you have a rough idea of what you can do with it. If I say a work is available under a Creative Commons license, I haven't told you anything because the licenses are so diverse.
You called it the Democrat Party. You're either being intentionally trollish or are just not well versed in the English language.
In any case you're not 100% correct. You got the part right about early neo-cons being mostly Jewish (American) liberals. Many neo-cons were actually Trotskyist communists, but didn't like that the Democrats weren't willing to go that extra mile in big government by advocating an extremely interventionist foreign policy.
Christian fundies are indeed neo-cons because they love big government. Old fashioned conservatives believed in federalism, liberty, and personal responsibility. Fundamentalists believe in none of these.
The best thing about their website is that they charge a $25 investigation fee if you dispute your charge with your credit card company. I'll bet they waived that fee for you.:-)
If Shentech is a corporation, I'd revoke their charter and liquidate their assets at auction. Then I'd prosecute their executives for knowingly infringing on a trademark (is that criminal or civil?).
Even though superior alternatives exist, the vast majority of people will continue to use Adobe's crappy PDF reader, and will see all these annoying ads.
That's mostly because the vast majority of people don't know there is an alternative. The big blue E is the Interweb. Adobe is to view the bank statement. Word is for typing letters.
Since OS X, Apple has been a big supporter of Open Source software - but NOT Free (GPL'd) software.
You mean they're a supporter of F/OSS but not copyleft software. The BSD license is just as (if not more so) Free and Open as the GPL (for certain values of Free and Open).
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Yes, the Internet is faster for YOU if no one else does anything other than check their email. In fact, it's faster for everyone if everyone just doesn't use it. Look at all that theoretical capacity!
First, I'd work with congress on ending the practice of gerrymandering and on ending discriminatory ballot access laws, which I think are the biggest threat the republic.
Second, I'd withdraw from the Berne Convention and ask congress to pass sane copyright laws.
Third, I'd remove all our troops from the following countries:
Kenya, Egypt, Japan, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Australia, all European countries, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, UAE, Cuba, Columbia, and Iraq.
Well, a multithreaded filesystem is only a performance hack anyway.
Yes, I have heard of conspiracy to commit X. As of this writing, there is no law on the books for conspiracy to commit copyright infringement, although I believe some congressmen are trying.
Yeah, I had those skins on my copy of SimCity that came with a Packard Bell my dad bought around 1996.
I haven't heard of them before or since then.
Too early in the morning for flapjacks?
No MSCE, you say? No thanks! We'll take this trained monkey over someone who actually groks computing systems and associated software.
There's your problem. You didn't mention anything about a campaign contribution for $2,300.
I'd recommend you write your state representative(s) if you haven't already. If they refuse to go along with the Real ID laws, you won't have to worry much about it. Of course, you won't be able to board a plane without showing a passport, though. If enough states refuse the program, DHS will have to relax the laws lest large swaths of the population not be able to enter federal buildings.
Exactly.
Schneier has said this for years. Requiring ID as a means of stopping terrorist attacks assumes that if you can just identify everyone in a crowd, you can pick out the bad guys. This isn't even remotely true. I've never gotten so much as a speeding ticket, but that doesn't somehow preclude me from committing a felony.
It's due to the fact that AT&T the phone company is a common carrier while AT&T the ISP isn't.
Seeing as the President doesn't make the official budget, I'm betting this is his proposed budget, not the end-all official 2009 All-Star World Series budget that is actually passed by Congress.
Are you an American? I ask because you don't seem to understand how our electoral processes work.
1) We vote on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. Our congress isn't seated until January 3rd, about 2 months later. We could conceivably wait that long for results to be in. Presidential electors vote on the first Monday after the first Wednesday in December, so those results would need to be in slightly faster. Of course, both of these dates could be changed by law to allow for slowness in counting.
2) The popular vote doesn't matter. Having corrupt officials spread out over the country doesn't help you. Having corrupt officials concentrated in swing states does help you. One could arguably say this happened in 2004. In my home state of Ohio, our Secretary of State (the chief elections officer) was also a co-Chair of President Bush's campaign. So the guy in charge of counting the votes was on a candidate's payroll. At the very least, it was a huge conflict of interest.
That being said, I think they should take as long as is needed to count the votes and get the count right. Exit polls give a decent idea of who won all but the closest of elections.
Who are these poor people you know that make money on anything other than their labor? In the sum total of my life, I think I've made about $5 in interest income and about $20 on a savings bond; the rest was via elbow grease. Granted I'm young and just out of college, but I don't think too many people in downtown Cleveland are clamoring for reduced taxes on their non-existent stock dividends.
Not in Ohio. In Ohio you must at the very least vote a partisan ballot in the next primary in order to be a poll worker. That registers you as a member of the party.
Which, after I figured out that she'd never be able to keep anything updated, is exactly what I told her.
Yeah, my Grandma lives in the middle of nowhere. She can get dial-up or satellite. Her modem connects at about 26.4 kbps on an average day. At that speed, it's nearly impossible to keep her anti-virus and the like updated.
Debian testing is still sitting on 2.0.0.8. Just about the time the 10 days is up for migration to testing from unstable, the package gets changed and/or a new upstream version gets released:
# [2007-11-27] Accepted 2.0.0.10-2 in unstable (low) (Eric Dorland)
# [2007-11-27] Accepted 2.0.0.10-1 in unstable (low) (Eric Dorland)
# [2007-11-24] Accepted 2.0.0.9-2 in unstable (low) (Mike Hommey)
# [2007-11-12] Accepted 2.0.0.9-1 in unstable (low) (Eric Dorland)
# [2007-11-03] Accepted 2.0.0.6+2.0.0.8-0etch1 in stable-security (critical) (Alexander Sack)
# [2007-11-02] iceweasel 2.0.0.8-1 MIGRATED to testing (Britney)
Meh, thats what I get for using testing.
Well that isn't the main point.
If I say a piece of software is Open Source or Free Software, you have a rough idea of what you can do with it.
If I say a work is available under a Creative Commons license, I haven't told you anything because the licenses are so diverse.
LOL
You called it the Democrat Party. You're either being intentionally trollish or are just not well versed in the English language.
In any case you're not 100% correct. You got the part right about early neo-cons being mostly Jewish (American) liberals. Many neo-cons were actually Trotskyist communists, but didn't like that the Democrats weren't willing to go that extra mile in big government by advocating an extremely interventionist foreign policy.
Christian fundies are indeed neo-cons because they love big government. Old fashioned conservatives believed in federalism, liberty, and personal responsibility. Fundamentalists believe in none of these.
The best thing about their website is that they charge a $25 investigation fee if you dispute your charge with your credit card company. I'll bet they waived that fee for you. :-)
+1
If Shentech is a corporation, I'd revoke their charter and liquidate their assets at auction. Then I'd prosecute their executives for knowingly infringing on a trademark (is that criminal or civil?).
That's about as far as it goes.
You mean they're a supporter of F/OSS but not copyleft software. The BSD license is just as (if not more so) Free and Open as the GPL (for certain values of Free and Open).