The term `paid efforts to stimulate grassroots lobbying' means any paid attempt in support of lobbying contacts on behalf of a client to influence the general public or segments thereof to contact one or more covered legislative or executive branch officials...
So it seems to me that a blogger (or any lobbyist for that matter) would have to actually be paid and act "on behalf of a client" to fall under this term?
I don't intend to disagree with your assessment on where "our federal government" is heading to, but your interpretation on "tamper" sounds a little "over-relaxing". According to WordNet, "tamper" means
"play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly". Smashing the RFID sure falls into "alter".
Wrong logic. "They all fall down" is a fact. "It is the gravity that causes them to fall down" is a theory. There can be many theories to interpret how "they all fall down", just like there are many theories to interpret how "we came to be what we are."
So, your ground to go ahead and demand that gravity is presented as a theory and not a fact is no more or less solid than that for demanding that Darwinism is presented as a theory and not a fact.
AFAIK most commercial software written for Linux does not need to run anything as a kernel module, so the connection between "having commercial software on Linux" and "binary drivers in the kernel" is fairly slim, anyhow. Please correct me if I am wrong. And you are - or at least missing the logical connection. 8-)
Of course most commercial software in and by itself does not need to run anything in kernel, but a lot of that wouldn't be able to run at all or not as well as they do in Windows if binary drivers for popular hardware aren't available, which in turn discourages commercial vendors from releasing linux versions of their software.
I also think, from what I heard during my visit and what other Microsoft employees and customers have told me at other times, that it has degenerated into a series of disconnected fiefdoms that aren't all moving in the same direction. Had it not been the two Foundations established at the opposite ends of the galaxy.
Doesn't "Internet only 1% Porn" mean "Only 1% of all porn content are published on the Internet", while TFA actually talks about "Only 1% of content published on the Internet are porn," which should have been "Port only 1% Internet?"
I must tactfully disagree. The only wars I believe have moral justification were nations coming to the defense of another nation being invaded. Example, liberating France during WWII. If only we'd started earlier before they got to France, but that's another matter.
In every case I can think of, an invading army is just a misuse of power.
So apparently the Allies should have stopped at the Rhine River, because even invading the Nazi Germany would be "just a misuse of power"?
As a Web developer, I would very much like to be able to start a new instance of Firefox which would be isolated from others, and hence maintain separated sessions.
I probably wouldn't want to put any system partitions(e.g. C: in Windows,/boot or/var in *nix) on disks like this. But I can see it being useful for partitions dedicated to storing data. It's not obvious from TFA that whether it can be used in external HDs. It'd be great if I could carry arround a 2.5" 60G disk with "all my stuff" on it, without having to worry about the risk from leaving it behind.
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I wish I could give ISP's a good figurative slap on the back of the head!
Got to be a big conpiracy to smear Mac - the Mac Guy has been standing to the right all the time in the commercials, too! (from the audience's perspective)
They also mention the possibility of using it for displaying multiple ads in public, so that the ad you see varies depending on whether you are coming ("You're just a few feet away from Joe's Cafe!") or going ("Turn around! You just missed the best restaurant in town!").
Uh, I think one has missed it, he would have to physically "turn around" first to see your "turn around!" version.
Creativity: Why are we good at coming up with surprising and unexpected insights? Modern AI tries this by billions and trillions of fumbling attempts to introduce randomness - but most of them are rubbish. But this is like evolution - which takes thousands or millions of years to innovate (randomly, clumsily) - and not like creative engineering.
But creativity != useful results. On a mass scale, that's precisely the same process the human society takes to innovate - one paper on Relativity Theory out of 10 thousand rubbish ones published. I mean just check out the US Patent Office web site. 8-)
Now if there was a bottle opener and USB memory that automatically backs up YOUR physical memory to the drive when the bottle opener is used, allowing to restore it once the effects of the contents of the bottle expire, that would be useful.
That's a brilliant idea - except how would one remember there is a backup to restore to when one needs to restore the memory first to remember there was a backup?;-)
How am I going to explain to my kids why some of the most valuable keyboard real estate is squatted by a large, useless key that above all you must not press!
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What would you expect to see in Rocky 9 anyway? Him belly flapping?
(Just joking, I got your point)
I don't intend to disagree with your assessment on where "our federal government" is heading to, but your interpretation on "tamper" sounds a little "over-relaxing". According to WordNet, "tamper" means "play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly". Smashing the RFID sure falls into "alter".
The perpetually fitting joke: "Nothing to see here. Move along."
So, your ground to go ahead and demand that gravity is presented as a theory and not a fact is no more or less solid than that for demanding that Darwinism is presented as a theory and not a fact.
Doesn't "Internet only 1% Porn" mean "Only 1% of all porn content are published on the Internet", while TFA actually talks about "Only 1% of content published on the Internet are porn," which should have been "Port only 1% Internet?"
As a Web developer, I would very much like to be able to start a new instance of Firefox which would be isolated from others, and hence maintain separated sessions.
when my XP updater offered to install the "genuine Windows" thingy.
I probably wouldn't want to put any system partitions(e.g. C: in Windows, /boot or /var in *nix) on disks like this. But I can see it being useful for partitions dedicated to storing data. It's not obvious from TFA that whether it can be used in external HDs. It'd be great if I could carry arround a 2.5" 60G disk with "all my stuff" on it, without having to worry about the risk from leaving it behind.
Got to be a big conpiracy to smear Mac - the Mac Guy has been standing to the right all the time in the commercials, too! (from the audience's perspective)
(I see your point, just couldn't resist...)
Agree with your other points though.
All the data sent back will be lost by NASA anyways.