Yes, write your representative, tell him he's lost a vote.
This isn't actually as good a tactic as it seems. I don't know where you come from, but around here (Dayton area), our districts are gerrymandered like crazy. My state representative could still win if 10% of the vote defected to his token opposition. My legislator knows I'll never vote for him, so it isn't a lost vote in his mind. As a matter of fact, I'm not represented by a single Democrat from city councilman up to President.
Honestly, take a look at our results for our lower house. Is it this bad all over the country or am I just in a screwy state?
Not too often do you hear about the rights of the patent holders, or the rights of the inventors, or the creators... do they have no rights?
Regarding software patents? No they have no rights, AFAIK.
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I think thats just the point. They don't want you encoding/decoding that file. They want to lock you in to their software.
Imagine if the only MP3 encoder/decoder combination was the Fraunhofer one? How popular would MP3 be? Would Vorbis or something similar be the de facto standard?
But hey, if you want to blame the guys that grow the food you eat, go ahead.
As I mentioned, my grandfather was a farmer until he retired. I have nothing but respect for family farmers (the agribusiness hacks, I could care less about). Again, my grandfather didn't care either way... he just started the day an hour later.
I've heard stories both ways regarding farmers' opinions about DST, so its not a cut and dry issue as you or Wikipedia says it is.
Conservatives do, in fact, support states' rights. Neo-cons do not.
I'm certainly not a conservative, but I feel bad for those true paleo-conservatives that have had their party hijacked by religious nuts, corporate hacks, and warmongers.
Congress doesn't have the balls to admit that we have an energy problem and need to reduce consumption. Honestly though, if we reduce consumption, we'll probably go bankrupt since consumption is what pays the debt.
Farmers hold a decent bit of lobbying power, moreso than one would expect by chance. They complain about DST one way or another. Most farmers like DST so they don't need to get up so early in order to get chores done. My grandfather didn't really care; he just got up when it was light out, regardless of time.
Indiana still doesn't do DST (due to the farm lobby), but, IIRC, they're trying to work it through their legislature. Whenever I go to my mom's in the summer I always laugh at them because the sun rises around 5 a.m. in June / July.
True, although those values were found back at a time when the Republicans were getting hammered in congress by the Democrats. Was it any accident that when they were in the minority, the Republicans favored cutting spending on programs? Of course not, they knew their programs would never pass, so they just said "to hell with the federal govt... let the states handle this". Now that they are in charge, they're whistling quite a different tune.
As we can see, they're only for cutting so-called liberal programs. States' rights have seemed to lose style because those Massachusetts liberals can let gays marry (the horror!).
Whenever any party is in the minority, they rail against any expansion of federal government powers because they know it won't be expanding in the way they like. As soon as the tides turn, government expansion is a nessary evil.
I had a nasty problem that sounds similar to what you are experiencing. Every so often my IDE hard drives wouldn't work and I'd have to reboot. They'd come up fine in BIOS almost all of the time. I finally figured out that it was a bad IDE cable that was the culprit.
If enough DNS servers get bad info, we may have a hell of a time getting most of the Internet back to a workable state.
Imagine the reprecussions for national security and the economy if people were spoofing the NYSE or other important data center that distributes information that many people rely on.
"Today the DJIA dropped 5,000 points, oil is trading at $200/barrel, etc."
he talks about how GPL is bad because it doesn't allow you to keep your changes secret.
Technically, you can keep your changes secret. That is, I can take any GPL'd code and change it to my heart's content and not tell anyone. The moment I distribute that code to anyone else, I have to release the changes I made via source.
My friends in the band HPD have done pretty well just playing shows and getting their name out via Myspace. Unfortunately, they haven't released an album yet, because quite a few people ask to buy one after a show. I think they'd tell you that it is most important to get your name out locally by doing as many shows as possible.
It all depends on what you want to be doing. If you want to be heard on the radio 24/7/365, then you probably need to try to get with a major label and hope you don't lose your shirt in the process. If you're content with making some modest amounts of money and willing to tour a lot, then an indie label is probably your best bet.
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to picking yourself up by your bootstraps
I don't know exactly who said this, but it seems fitting:
They tell me to pick myself up by my own bootstraps. Believe me, I would, but I don't even have any boots.
Well the closest thing many people here will get to an orgasm is seeing one on their pr0n.
but this statement in the article implies a kind of exponentially-exploding disaster that it doesn't actually demonstrate.
Its an excellent way of pushing your agenda without techncially lying about your data.
For example, it is true that I have not beaten my girlfriend in the past 3 months. It is just as true that I've never beaten my girlfriend.
Yes, write your representative, tell him he's lost a vote.
This isn't actually as good a tactic as it seems. I don't know where you come from, but around here (Dayton area), our districts are gerrymandered like crazy. My state representative could still win if 10% of the vote defected to his token opposition. My legislator knows I'll never vote for him, so it isn't a lost vote in his mind. As a matter of fact, I'm not represented by a single Democrat from city councilman up to President.
Honestly, take a look at our results for our lower house. Is it this bad all over the country or am I just in a screwy state?
Not too often do you hear about the rights of the patent holders, or the rights of the inventors, or the creators... do they have no rights?
Regarding software patents? No they have no rights, AFAIK.
I think thats just the point. They don't want you encoding/decoding that file. They want to lock you in to their software.
Imagine if the only MP3 encoder/decoder combination was the Fraunhofer one? How popular would MP3 be? Would Vorbis or something similar be the de facto standard?
MS hold many many patents of code/methodologies used in Open Source
... please clarify.
I have no idea what that means
I am as big of a privacy nut as the rest of you, but I'm also in the advertising industry
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Yes, the days of the true family farmer are numbered. My grandfather both worked full time at a factory and farmed. Farming was just supplemental.
That's what we get for insisting that everyone should be able to afford milk, bread, and eggs at the local supermarket.
We should insist on that. We should also insist that our farmers can make decent money doing something so important to the well-being of our country
The link has very little additional information.
Well its the submitter's blog. I was about to call a Roland Piquepaille on this, but there aren't any ads on the site.
But hey, if you want to blame the guys that grow the food you eat, go ahead.
... he just started the day an hour later.
As I mentioned, my grandfather was a farmer until he retired. I have nothing but respect for family farmers (the agribusiness hacks, I could care less about). Again, my grandfather didn't care either way
I've heard stories both ways regarding farmers' opinions about DST, so its not a cut and dry issue as you or Wikipedia says it is.
You make an interesting point.
Conservatives do, in fact, support states' rights. Neo-cons do not.
I'm certainly not a conservative, but I feel bad for those true paleo-conservatives that have had their party hijacked by religious nuts, corporate hacks, and warmongers.
Not all of us have fancy jobs. Many of us get pissed when the sun is up at 7:55, because we have another 4 hours of sleep before we get up.
But then again, a lot of us live in mom's basement, so it might not be so bad.
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You must be new here.
Congress doesn't have the balls to admit that we have an energy problem and need to reduce consumption. Honestly though, if we reduce consumption, we'll probably go bankrupt since consumption is what pays the debt.
Catch 22.
Farmers.
Farmers hold a decent bit of lobbying power, moreso than one would expect by chance. They complain about DST one way or another. Most farmers like DST so they don't need to get up so early in order to get chores done. My grandfather didn't really care; he just got up when it was light out, regardless of time.
Indiana still doesn't do DST (due to the farm lobby), but, IIRC, they're trying to work it through their legislature. Whenever I go to my mom's in the summer I always laugh at them because the sun rises around 5 a.m. in June / July.
Michael is the one who is liberal, and its a shame the axed him.
With the wrong man in charge we might have ended up, oh, I don't know, invading the wrong country by mistake or something...
Ha!
You think it was a mistake.
True, although those values were found back at a time when the Republicans were getting hammered in congress by the Democrats. Was it any accident that when they were in the minority, the Republicans favored cutting spending on programs? Of course not, they knew their programs would never pass, so they just said "to hell with the federal govt ... let the states handle this". Now that they are in charge, they're whistling quite a different tune.
As we can see, they're only for cutting so-called liberal programs. States' rights have seemed to lose style because those Massachusetts liberals can let gays marry (the horror!).
Whenever any party is in the minority, they rail against any expansion of federal government powers because they know it won't be expanding in the way they like. As soon as the tides turn, government expansion is a nessary evil.
Not to troll, but are you sure its the OS?
I had a nasty problem that sounds similar to what you are experiencing. Every so often my IDE hard drives wouldn't work and I'd have to reboot. They'd come up fine in BIOS almost all of the time. I finally figured out that it was a bad IDE cable that was the culprit.
If enough DNS servers get bad info, we may have a hell of a time getting most of the Internet back to a workable state.
Imagine the reprecussions for national security and the economy if people were spoofing the NYSE or other important data center that distributes information that many people rely on.
"Today the DJIA dropped 5,000 points, oil is trading at $200/barrel, etc."
he talks about how GPL is bad because it doesn't allow you to keep your changes secret.
Technically, you can keep your changes secret. That is, I can take any GPL'd code and change it to my heart's content and not tell anyone. The moment I distribute that code to anyone else, I have to release the changes I made via source.
Lets also not forget that Speakeasy DSL nearly encourages you to share your wireless access.
C'est vrai!
Well, IIRC, Canada has an extradition treaty with the US regarding draft dodgers now. It may have something to do with that, but who really knows.
I have a feeling that if I took off for Yellowknife or something up that way, no one would know the difference anyway.
expanded to cover a 55 mile radius
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You must be joking. A 55 mile radius would put wifi access all the way into Indiana and Kentucky, and probably into parts of Columbus.
A 5 mile radius I could see
My friends in the band HPD have done pretty well just playing shows and getting their name out via Myspace. Unfortunately, they haven't released an album yet, because quite a few people ask to buy one after a show. I think they'd tell you that it is most important to get your name out locally by doing as many shows as possible.
It all depends on what you want to be doing. If you want to be heard on the radio 24/7/365, then you probably need to try to get with a major label and hope you don't lose your shirt in the process. If you're content with making some modest amounts of money and willing to tour a lot, then an indie label is probably your best bet.