No, the Supreme Court didn't have jurisdiction. They were relied upon because Bush knew they would side with him.
There are specific federal laws governing elections, and more specifically the couting of military ballots. The law is, if they aren't in by a certain date, they aren't counted.
Bush and his people (namely his brother and Kathleen Harris) broke federal election laws and counted all military ballots, regardless of when they came in, to the tune of a +800 gain for Bush, pushing him over by 576 votes total.
Obey the existing laws (both state and federal) and Gore wone by nearly 300 votes.
The fact that I have never tried drugs, alcohol, or tobacco is a religious commitment, and one I am thankful for. It is in no way motivated by fear. I can visit any "rough neighborhood" in America and in a glance know that I want nothing to do with alcohol, tobacco, or drugs. That isn't fear, it's intelligence.
You are wrong on the matter of self-control, however. It is one of the greatest things to aspire to, and severly lacking in modern America.
"Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power." Seneca (Roman philosopher, mid-1st century AD)
"I am lord of myself, accountable to none". Benjamin Franklin
"The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions." Lord Alfred Tennyson
"But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed." James 1: 6
"Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control,-- These three alone lead life to sovereign power." Lord Alfred Tennyson
"Industry, thrift, and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character." Calvin Coolidge
"Fortunate is the person who has developed the self-control to steer a straight course toward his objective in life, without being swayed from his purpose by either commendation or condemnation." Napoleon Hill
In short, if you don't have self-control you don't have anything. All else is easily removed from your possession by others. I think there is nothing in life more valuable than self-mastery.
You are an idiot. You are destined to be a candidate or winner of the Darwin Award.
Trying cocaine to prove to myself that I can overcome it would be the stupidest course of action ever. Why? I'm smarter than that. I have nothing to prove to myself that I haven't already done.
I heard of a catholic bishop that wanted to show some inner city youth how easy it was to quit drugs. So he tried cocaine, and after 2 years of addiction and losing everything in his life that he valued, he had a better understanding of addiction and better empathy with the addicted. Nonetheless, it was a stupid course of action.
Self control is not mutually exclusive with common sense and intelligence, as you suggest.
I choose to use them in harmony, thank you very much. Good luck, you're going to need it. And please, don't have kids. [fast forward]"Hey, kids, come over her and stick your hand into this fat fryer, test your will power and see how long you can hold it in there"[/fast forward]
I've never had a drop of alcohol in my life, and never plan to.
But I can look at my signifigant sweet tooth and other behaviors and know that were I to ever take a single drink, I would be an alcoholic. I have no doubt of that.
That same predisposition to "isms", does indeed affect my consumption of everything from caffiene to swedish fish (and other carbs).
The irony to this is that I have a healthy dosage of self-control and discipline. But in these areas the "ism" kicks in. Therefore, I'll never take a single sip of alcohol or a single drag on a cigarette (my common sense can keep me from both anyway).
It may not be a disease, per se, but there is a very clear and very real genetic predisposition for some people to be alcoholics, and others to be able to drink half a glass and leave the rest on the table when they leave.
It's easy for the latter to judge the former, but that doesn't mean the condition is any less real.
It's like those that aren't succeptable to depression judging those that are, and telling them to just "shake it off" or "snap out of it".
That attitude shows a clear lack of understanding.
Great, let me make sure I have all of your points correct:
1) It's OK to drastically alter the US Constitution and take away citizen's rights as long as it "pacifies some people"?
2) Al Qeida, which is now in about 10 times the countries and has dozens more cells, is "on the run"?
3) Afghanistan is free from Taliban rule? (You may want to ask the average Afghan about that.)
4) Being President is too hard for Bush, so he needs to spend nearly every other hour on vacation? (And you're OK with that? And are naive enough to think that all presidents do it.)
5) Saddam "deserved to be taken out". (So we should invade the 20 or 30 other countries whose leaders deserve to be taken out?)
6) Bush has made us safer and less of a target? (So we have more allies and less enemies than we did 4 years ago?)
Wow, this planet you live on sounds like a great place to live. I'll have to come visit sometime.
If I were running for president, on any platform and for any party, I would want a country full of people just like you to believe every bit of fear, uncertainty, and doubt their leaders feed to them.
And for the record, I'm a die hard conservative republican. I'm just very much opposed to George Bush. His policies are anything but conservative, and they are very, very bad for Americans in the long run.
The actions Bush has taken since in office (asside from the 42% of his time he has spent on his ranch or a golf course) have not protected America in any way, instead they have made us a bigger target than we have ever been before.
Al Qeida (you know, the people actually responsible for the 9/11 attack) use to be a group of people. Bush has made them a cause, a rallying point against America. Now Al Qeida will never go away. Iraq is now a breeding ground for terrorists, far, far worse than it was before we invaded it.
Bush isn't fighting terrorism. He's fighting a Bush family holy war. And he's using it as an excuse to turn cart blanche power over to his rich friends, and funnel more wealth than ever before over to his rich cronies. Hardly republican ideals, and hardly conservative.
The message this administration sends to the world is "We'll decide what's best for the world, we'll decide who we do and don't invade, we'll decide whether it's right for you to have nuclear weapons (which we have in unfathonable amounts), we'll decide whether it's right for you to have long range weapons capabilities (again, we have more than anyone), etc etc etc".
We want the entire planet to play with a different set of rules than we play with, and do it with a smile on their faces. And if they don't, they'll be next (once we get out of Iraq in 2037).
The entire Cold War took place because 2 super powers had plans. Neither side acted on them, but they had them, and it turned into one big pissin' match.
The more we try to keep the battlefield uneven in the world, the worse this will become. Space is no exception. And this administration is worse than any other in this regard. Just ask anyone besides Tony Blair.
Space junk will be the least of our worries if we make it a habit of shooting down everyone elses technology from space.
I swear, especially under this new administration, America has taken on the roll of big brother / playground bully to a degree I'm not comfortable with.
Yes we need to be afraid of attack. Yes we need to protect ourselves. No that doesn't mean we have exclusive rights to space.
If we start shooting down China et al's space technology, the next target will be painted on our foreheads, and every other soveriegn country on earth will have their fingers on the trigger.
I have spend like 10 hours of my life installing gentoo, 3 times, i mean, it takes me like 2-3 hours to do it, most ditros take about 2 hours, so not big deal to me.
Most distros right now may take 2 hours to install, but my attention is only required for about 10 minutes of that. This has not been my experience so far with Gentoo.
i dont have any dependency problems installing KDE from CVS once a week, how many distros give you that ??
Well, that's my point. Gentoo rocks. I just wish there were an option for a simpler install. I've just been reading up on the web site about the different "stages", and it appears a "stage 3" install may be what I'm after. So maybe all my griping has been for naught. One can only hope.
I think, once installed, Gentoo is the best desktop distribution around. Very polished.
But why make it harder than it needs to be? If I have 12 machines in my office to install Gentoo on, why should all 12 have to be done so manually, in such a time consuming manner?
Sure, I could just use Mandrake, but I'd rather use Gentoo. But I won't pay the elite-geek tax to use it.
No wonder Microsoft still has 90%+ market share. [frowns]
I don't require an easy install, but you shouldn't have to go through all the crap you have to.
Why not make people retype the entire kernel in vi, then you'd REALLY have an elite distro! The 3 people using it would be gods!
From the outside looking in, that is what the Gentoo distro feels like.
A days worth of coding could create a simple text based install that would open up an incredibly clean and powerful distribution to thousands and thousands of new users.
1) Go outside. Find a cement wall. Push on it as hard as you can for 10 minutes.
2) Go outside. Find a compact car. Push it up a hill as hard as you can for 10 minutes.
Are you telling me that you exerted less energy on the wall solely because it didn't move? Rubbish.
I agree completely that we shouldn't just jump into global wind farms that cover the earth and expect there to be no side effects. But that is very unlikely to happen on a scale that really affects the environment.
Now compare that possible outcome to the very real outcome we are already experiencing today with heavily polluting power plants and the accumulation of nuclear waste.
Until something better comes along, I'll gladly take my chances on the wind power.
The threat of signifigant change to the polar ice caps and ice shelves, and the very, very rapid (in the scheme of things) change to the environment they will and are bringing are a clear and present danger to all life on earth, and I think far outweight the effects of slowing down the wind a little while at the same time repairing the existing environmental damage.
With all the diverse landscapes, plants, and buildings that cover the earth, I highly doubt any amount of windmills that will be built could have any noticeable impact, even globally, even in the long run.
I appreciate the formulas, I just strongly disagree with the analysis. Wind power is far preferable to anything but solar, and solar isn't feasible on that kind of scale right now.
So, to follow your line of reasoning (to the extreme, I admit), all of the following must be outlawed:
** Tall people ** Tall buildings ** Semi Trucks ** Billboards ** Kites ** Telephone poles ** Etc.
I don't see how the amount of windmills on the earth today can even come close to the changes in wind that are brought about by cities, billboards, and other man made, immovable objects.
Wind power is just a good, safe, clean way to produce energy.
Solar is preferred, but isn't efficient or cheap enough to use on that scale.
Slashdot Mirror
If you read the article, it's clear this kid has crossed the line.
Let him share a cell with Martha for a while.
Maybe we can't catch and prosecute the phishers overseas, but we can catch and prosecute the punks helping them out from the U.S.
No, the Supreme Court didn't have jurisdiction. They were relied upon because Bush knew they would side with him.
There are specific federal laws governing elections, and more specifically the couting of military ballots. The law is, if they aren't in by a certain date, they aren't counted.
Bush and his people (namely his brother and Kathleen Harris) broke federal election laws and counted all military ballots, regardless of when they came in, to the tune of a +800 gain for Bush, pushing him over by 576 votes total.
Obey the existing laws (both state and federal) and Gore wone by nearly 300 votes.
Yeah, exept MirrorDot mirrored the site AFTER it crashed. That's funny. Maybe they should change their name to ErrorDot.
Howard Stern is a horses butt that embodies everything that is wrong with humanity (via something good about society: free speech).
He's the lowest common denominator, the world would be better off without him...
Just my opinion, of course.
I find it really funny that a website dedicated to the creation of FAQ's, doesn't have an FAQ page!
I'm still chuckling about that...
The fact that I have never tried drugs, alcohol, or tobacco is a religious commitment, and one I am thankful for. It is in no way motivated by fear. I can visit any "rough neighborhood" in America and in a glance know that I want nothing to do with alcohol, tobacco, or drugs. That isn't fear, it's intelligence.
You are wrong on the matter of self-control, however. It is one of the greatest things to aspire to, and severly lacking in modern America.
"Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power." Seneca (Roman philosopher, mid-1st century AD)
"I am lord of myself, accountable to none". Benjamin Franklin
"The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions." Lord Alfred Tennyson
"But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed." James 1: 6
"Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control,-- These three alone lead life to sovereign power." Lord Alfred Tennyson
"Industry, thrift, and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character." Calvin Coolidge
"Fortunate is the person who has developed the self-control to steer a straight course toward his objective in life, without being swayed from his purpose by either commendation or condemnation." Napoleon Hill
In short, if you don't have self-control you don't have anything. All else is easily removed from your possession by others. I think there is nothing in life more valuable than self-mastery.
You are an idiot. You are destined to be a candidate or winner of the Darwin Award.
Trying cocaine to prove to myself that I can overcome it would be the stupidest course of action ever. Why? I'm smarter than that. I have nothing to prove to myself that I haven't already done.
I heard of a catholic bishop that wanted to show some inner city youth how easy it was to quit drugs. So he tried cocaine, and after 2 years of addiction and losing everything in his life that he valued, he had a better understanding of addiction and better empathy with the addicted. Nonetheless, it was a stupid course of action.
Self control is not mutually exclusive with common sense and intelligence, as you suggest.
I choose to use them in harmony, thank you very much. Good luck, you're going to need it. And please, don't have kids. [fast forward]"Hey, kids, come over her and stick your hand into this fat fryer, test your will power and see how long you can hold it in there"[/fast forward]
No gene causes alcoholism or depression.
Me, my family medical history, and most scientists in this field disagree with you.
Indeed you are right.
I've never had a drop of alcohol in my life, and never plan to.
But I can look at my signifigant sweet tooth and other behaviors and know that were I to ever take a single drink, I would be an alcoholic. I have no doubt of that.
That same predisposition to "isms", does indeed affect my consumption of everything from caffiene to swedish fish (and other carbs).
The irony to this is that I have a healthy dosage of self-control and discipline. But in these areas the "ism" kicks in. Therefore, I'll never take a single sip of alcohol or a single drag on a cigarette (my common sense can keep me from both anyway).
It may not be a disease, per se, but there is a very clear and very real genetic predisposition for some people to be alcoholics, and others to be able to drink half a glass and leave the rest on the table when they leave.
It's easy for the latter to judge the former, but that doesn't mean the condition is any less real.
It's like those that aren't succeptable to depression judging those that are, and telling them to just "shake it off" or "snap out of it".
That attitude shows a clear lack of understanding.
You answered your own question:
What is all of this talk about a geek tax?
just set your gcc flags, recompile glibc, recompile gcc, then recompile glibc again
Great, let me make sure I have all of your points correct:
1) It's OK to drastically alter the US Constitution and take away citizen's rights as long as it "pacifies some people"?
2) Al Qeida, which is now in about 10 times the countries and has dozens more cells, is "on the run"?
3) Afghanistan is free from Taliban rule? (You may want to ask the average Afghan about that.)
4) Being President is too hard for Bush, so he needs to spend nearly every other hour on vacation? (And you're OK with that? And are naive enough to think that all presidents do it.)
5) Saddam "deserved to be taken out". (So we should invade the 20 or 30 other countries whose leaders deserve to be taken out?)
6) Bush has made us safer and less of a target? (So we have more allies and less enemies than we did 4 years ago?)
Wow, this planet you live on sounds like a great place to live. I'll have to come visit sometime.
What was it called again? Planet AcidTrip?
If I were running for president, on any platform and for any party, I would want a country full of people just like you to believe every bit of fear, uncertainty, and doubt their leaders feed to them.
And for the record, I'm a die hard conservative republican. I'm just very much opposed to George Bush. His policies are anything but conservative, and they are very, very bad for Americans in the long run.
The actions Bush has taken since in office (asside from the 42% of his time he has spent on his ranch or a golf course) have not protected America in any way, instead they have made us a bigger target than we have ever been before.
Al Qeida (you know, the people actually responsible for the 9/11 attack) use to be a group of people. Bush has made them a cause, a rallying point against America. Now Al Qeida will never go away. Iraq is now a breeding ground for terrorists, far, far worse than it was before we invaded it.
Bush isn't fighting terrorism. He's fighting a Bush family holy war. And he's using it as an excuse to turn cart blanche power over to his rich friends, and funnel more wealth than ever before over to his rich cronies. Hardly republican ideals, and hardly conservative.
OK, enough sunlight. Back under your rock.
That space is reserved for the mark of the beast.
Considering Bush is the anti-christ, I find that very appropriate.
This is meant as a joke with a smidgen of truth. I'm a republican, I just despise Bush and his policiies.
What does this administration have to do with it?
Everything.
The message this administration sends to the world is "We'll decide what's best for the world, we'll decide who we do and don't invade, we'll decide whether it's right for you to have nuclear weapons (which we have in unfathonable amounts), we'll decide whether it's right for you to have long range weapons capabilities (again, we have more than anyone), etc etc etc".
We want the entire planet to play with a different set of rules than we play with, and do it with a smile on their faces. And if they don't, they'll be next (once we get out of Iraq in 2037).
The entire Cold War took place because 2 super powers had plans. Neither side acted on them, but they had them, and it turned into one big pissin' match.
The more we try to keep the battlefield uneven in the world, the worse this will become. Space is no exception. And this administration is worse than any other in this regard. Just ask anyone besides Tony Blair.
I think most Gentoo evangelists think the motto of Gentoo is "As tough as possible. Hardcore geeks only.".
According to the Gentoo website, "choice is what Gentoo is all about".
Well, what I want to choose is an easy install.
I don't honestly think it's a one day project, I was being fecicous. But it's very doable considering all else the Gentoo team have accomplished.
Remember, the entire Cold War was about the weapons we had, but never used.
If your argument is taken at face value, we should have no problem whatsoever that North Korea and Iran are developing nuclear programs.
Space junk will be the least of our worries if we make it a habit of shooting down everyone elses technology from space.
I swear, especially under this new administration, America has taken on the roll of big brother / playground bully to a degree I'm not comfortable with.
Yes we need to be afraid of attack. Yes we need to protect ourselves. No that doesn't mean we have exclusive rights to space.
If we start shooting down China et al's space technology, the next target will be painted on our foreheads, and every other soveriegn country on earth will have their fingers on the trigger.
I have spend like 10 hours of my life installing gentoo, 3 times, i mean, it takes me like 2-3 hours to do it, most ditros take about 2 hours, so not big deal to me.
Most distros right now may take 2 hours to install, but my attention is only required for about 10 minutes of that. This has not been my experience so far with Gentoo.
i dont have any dependency problems installing KDE from CVS once a week, how many distros give you that ??
Well, that's my point. Gentoo rocks. I just wish there were an option for a simpler install. I've just been reading up on the web site about the different "stages", and it appears a "stage 3" install may be what I'm after. So maybe all my griping has been for naught. One can only hope.
I think, once installed, Gentoo is the best desktop distribution around. Very polished.
But why make it harder than it needs to be? If I have 12 machines in my office to install Gentoo on, why should all 12 have to be done so manually, in such a time consuming manner?
Sure, I could just use Mandrake, but I'd rather use Gentoo. But I won't pay the elite-geek tax to use it.
No wonder Microsoft still has 90%+ market share. [frowns]
Why make it harder than it needs to be?
I don't require an easy install, but you shouldn't have to go through all the crap you have to.
Why not make people retype the entire kernel in vi, then you'd REALLY have an elite distro! The 3 people using it would be gods!
From the outside looking in, that is what the Gentoo distro feels like.
A days worth of coding could create a simple text based install that would open up an incredibly clean and powerful distribution to thousands and thousands of new users.
Why is that a bad thing?
Countless hours, indeed.
I would love to try Gentoo, but there is simply no excuse for putting users through all those hoops.
If you want an expert install, great, offer one. But don't use it to build a wall around your distribution and charge admission.
I simply can't set aside 4 frustrating hours of my life to install Gentoo, when so many other distributions work so well and install so easily.
If I were part of the Gentoo leadership, I'd make this my #1 priority.
Here's a test:
1) Go outside. Find a cement wall. Push on it as hard as you can for 10 minutes.
2) Go outside. Find a compact car. Push it up a hill as hard as you can for 10 minutes.
Are you telling me that you exerted less energy on the wall solely because it didn't move? Rubbish.
I agree completely that we shouldn't just jump into global wind farms that cover the earth and expect there to be no side effects. But that is very unlikely to happen on a scale that really affects the environment.
Now compare that possible outcome to the very real outcome we are already experiencing today with heavily polluting power plants and the accumulation of nuclear waste.
Until something better comes along, I'll gladly take my chances on the wind power.
The threat of signifigant change to the polar ice caps and ice shelves, and the very, very rapid (in the scheme of things) change to the environment they will and are bringing are a clear and present danger to all life on earth, and I think far outweight the effects of slowing down the wind a little while at the same time repairing the existing environmental damage.
With all the diverse landscapes, plants, and buildings that cover the earth, I highly doubt any amount of windmills that will be built could have any noticeable impact, even globally, even in the long run.
I appreciate the formulas, I just strongly disagree with the analysis. Wind power is far preferable to anything but solar, and solar isn't feasible on that kind of scale right now.
So, to follow your line of reasoning (to the extreme, I admit), all of the following must be outlawed:
** Tall people
** Tall buildings
** Semi Trucks
** Billboards
** Kites
** Telephone poles
** Etc.
I don't see how the amount of windmills on the earth today can even come close to the changes in wind that are brought about by cities, billboards, and other man made, immovable objects.
Wind power is just a good, safe, clean way to produce energy.
Solar is preferred, but isn't efficient or cheap enough to use on that scale.
Maybe you had a different version of the game than I did.
In MY Half Life I could run the game, click multiplayer, and kill people in the HL game, in HL maps, with HL weapons, and HL skins.
What were you playing?