We didn't used to have political parties. In fact one of the founding fathers, I do not remember which, said that a two party system would be the death of this democracy. I believe that the reason that there are official parties today has to do with ballot printing. Each party used to print its own ballots, but that lead to problems and so a centralized agency took over the printing proccess, but which candidates do they put on the ballots? Any native born citizen over, I think 35, can run to be president. They had to decide how to choose which candidates were serious enough to put on the ballot. They needed to keep costs down, if nothing else. Can you imagine a ballot with even 500 candidates for one position?
So get websites to sell pay per view ads, and then use a blocker that loads the ad but doesn't display it. That way the website creator gets his money, and you get fewer ads. Who care what happens to the advertisers. Given the time it takes my browser to load some sites I know that I am doing the second part of that allready. (yes I know that I can stop, but I just stated the reasons to not do so).
Really? I've had some odd problems with Firefox rendering slashdot strangely. But I am using 1.0+ and I just got one of them. The problems rendering slashdot haven't changed for me between updates. Perhaps I am not all the way up to date (i.e. more than a few days old)? I'll try things and see if that is the case.
I don't have any statistics, but I have seen people who were hostile to Firefox after using it. An example is hearing a grudging affirmation of Firefox's victory after haveing gotten it to do something that they could not force IE to do (it invovled printing an email). Neither browser would do it in the way that they wanted, but Firefox would do it at all. They still seemed to be adversarial to the new idea.
A shining example of the promblems with proprietary design. No one can see what's wrong with it without expending a huge amount of effort. I'm just glad someone did decide to spend the effort.
Yes. How self programing is the human mind? It might be possible for it to patch itself if it knew enough about the techniques likely to be used on it. So knowing how people are going to try to manipulate you is usualy a good thing. Then again someone may come up with an attack on the human mind that only works if the target knows about the attack, or a similar attack.
The forehead is the visible part of where you remember your social security number, and you can't do much buisness without that. So perhaps one has the option of having the chip, or remembering their SS#.
I would seldom call a religious extremist a real christian. The extreamist bit tends to cloud out the religious bit. Real education tends to make people less extreamist.
Wouldn't it be nice if most of the voters in his district were slashdot readers. Then he might get a lot of the vote even while he was against a big company.
Since when does having money mean one knows the risks? There are far too many people who have lots of money and don't bother with that "technical stuff."
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We didn't used to have political parties. In fact one of the founding fathers, I do not remember which, said that a two party system would be the death of this democracy. I believe that the reason that there are official parties today has to do with ballot printing. Each party used to print its own ballots, but that lead to problems and so a centralized agency took over the printing proccess, but which candidates do they put on the ballots? Any native born citizen over, I think 35, can run to be president. They had to decide how to choose which candidates were serious enough to put on the ballot. They needed to keep costs down, if nothing else. Can you imagine a ballot with even 500 candidates for one position?
This is one more grain of precedent on a terrible scale. I do not know exactly where the balance is right now, but every grain hurts.
So get websites to sell pay per view ads, and then use a blocker that loads the ad but doesn't display it. That way the website creator gets his money, and you get fewer ads. Who care what happens to the advertisers.
Given the time it takes my browser to load some sites I know that I am doing the second part of that allready. (yes I know that I can stop, but I just stated the reasons to not do so).
Your complaint is an example of its own subject. Complaining about Group Think is part of the Group Think, I think.
Really? I've had some odd problems with Firefox rendering slashdot strangely. But I am using 1.0+ and I just got one of them. The problems rendering slashdot haven't changed for me between updates. Perhaps I am not all the way up to date (i.e. more than a few days old)? I'll try things and see if that is the case.
I don't have any statistics, but I have seen people who were hostile to Firefox after using it. An example is hearing a grudging affirmation of Firefox's victory after haveing gotten it to do something that they could not force IE to do (it invovled printing an email). Neither browser would do it in the way that they wanted, but Firefox would do it at all. They still seemed to be adversarial to the new idea.
A shining example of the promblems with proprietary design. No one can see what's wrong with it without expending a huge amount of effort. I'm just glad someone did decide to spend the effort.
Yes. How self programing is the human mind? It might be possible for it to patch itself if it knew enough about the techniques likely to be used on it. So knowing how people are going to try to manipulate you is usualy a good thing. Then again someone may come up with an attack on the human mind that only works if the target knows about the attack, or a similar attack.
This could give an advantage to Open Source games, because it will probably be easier to have them without ads. I certainly hope this is true.
That is a nasty thought. He's too old to run around like that.
The forehead is the visible part of where you remember your social security number, and you can't do much buisness without that. So perhaps one has the option of having the chip, or remembering their SS#.
I would seldom call a religious extremist a real christian. The extreamist bit tends to cloud out the religious bit. Real education tends to make people less extreamist.
Wouldn't it be nice if most of the voters in his district were slashdot readers. Then he might get a lot of the vote even while he was against a big company.
Since when does having money mean one knows the risks? There are far too many people who have lots of money and don't bother with that "technical stuff."
I have always wanted to be able to grep a text when I was searching it for citations for an english paper.