It's sounds like you're saying that because the ACLU defended Rush Limbaugh's privacy that the entire right wing of politics aught to support the ACLU when they go up against the majority, rather than paying attention to the issue at hand, much like you have done.
Your analogy to the phone company is absurd. It would be more accurate to say that the phone company is forced to offer caller ID, or an anti-solicitation service. I'll point out that the ACLU never stood opposed to the national do-not-call database, despite the business interests. As it is, the content-filtering companies based here in Utah stand to gain from this.
Orrin Hatch has done a great job. You must be a druggy. Only a druggy could have as much hatred for Orrin Hatch, and use as much senseless rhetoric as you do. Why don't you go "medicate" yourself.
Not unless this affects inter-state commerce. But then I'd challenge you to give me once national ISP that doesn't offer content filtering. They would be out of business. I'll watch as the first ISP to actively protest this law goes down in flames.
I guess that's why we have the ACLU, to protect ordinary American's from disgrace and embarassment by taking it all upon themselves.
I worked for a company here in Utah who I will not mention by name, they started up back in 98 or so with the primary purose of developing a database of websites with a more refined policy management interface, for example, you could filter out only all the hate related sites if you wanted, unlike Rulespace(tm) of California which used a more general policy. It was a combination of AI and human interaction to develop the database. They market products which can run at the ISP level or on the individuals computer.
To make a long story short, the company screws over everybody they do business with, including their employees. Ethics apparently meant nothing to these guys. I wouldn't be surprised if this is an effort to increase the company's revenue by lobbying for laws like this, a practice I disapprove of.
HOWEVER...
As other's have suggested, it's like the V-chip. It's opt-in. All the ISP has to do is bundle content-filtering software with their installation CD, or post a link to it on their website, hidden in the FAQ section. It is painfully obvious what the ACLU is really going after here. They are protecting the rights of businessmen to show pornography to minors and clobbering a parent's right to guard their kids from pornography.
What this means to me is that in this instance, google appears to have taken action to prevent microsoft from dominating the free image software game, with their recent purchase of picassa.
At first glance I thought this was microsoft fighting against google's innovation, but apparently I was mistaken.
It always surprises me how those jobs are always in demand, how a guy who designs networks can make as much as I do designing software. I could design a network with my hands behind my back, it is a subset of my own job to understand everything that goes on in the network software.
I really would like to relieve myself of all this responsibility, but maybe one of these days I will find the 100k/year salary I'm looking for.
I think they should just prosecute the babysitter who is playing dads movies and ruin her life to make an example to the rest of the bootlegging trash, like Apple does with their tiger pre-releases.
One thing I noticed is that the PS3 has slots for memory stick, compact flash and secure digital. This gives me some insight into what took place into the designers meetings:
"Memory stick, memory stick and we sell more memory stick!"
"Noooooo! Memory stick sucks! People like SD and CF, like their cameras!"
Don't underestimate the lethality of tritium. It is the only risky substance associated with a fusion reactor, tritium escaping into the atmosphere behaves the same as the strontium-90 released after an atomic bomb, it will contaminate drinking water, if your battery springs a leak it is still very capable of killing you, slower than a CO leak but much more potent in terms of volume.
I don't know why the wikipedia article claims tritium is formed naturally in water when cosmic radiation hits deuterium, all significant amounts ot tritium formed in seawater has been as a result of nuclear bomb testing, there is no significant natural formation. In the real world, tritium would be formed in a nuclear reactor, not "harvested" from the ocean as a result of natural cosmic radiation bombardment.
So like someone pointed out above, these batteries would be expensive, but if properly contained could be plenty safe, just don't assume tritium is a harmless gas, compare it to drinking the contents of a lead acid battery. I'll also point out that I'm not opposed to this, nor any other form of nuclear energy. It is just a matter of proper containment and disposal.
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Ruby is replacing perl in my case, and I think that will develop into a trend. Ruby is a lot more like coding in perl.
When they make the chips, the ones that perform poorly and produce more heat are just downgraded to lower clock speeds and sold for less. As manufacturing is perfected, all the chips are performing better, so each year there are advancements to be made, whether AMD utilizes the advancements to produce faster clock speeds or lower power consumption is up to them. These days I think power consumption is becoming more an issue than clock speed, and it also lends itself to clock speed eventually.
I can tell you the difference between an atheist and an agnostic, in the real world, political sense. It's more of a social attitude than anything else, these days. If you really don't give a damn what people preach, and sortof have an inkling in you that there may be a god but that you just can't determine anything about that god, then you are an agnostic.
If you simply believe there is no god, and that that is a provable fact, you're an atheist. In my opinion, both deists and atheists commit the same fallacy in reasoning. The agnostics are the one's who're truly use sound reasoning, and personally I think they have a better outlook on life than the other two.
I think its funny when people debate religion, I often wonder why they don't just break it down to the fundamental root of the argument, who's better? I'm better than you, I know what I'm talking about, you aught to just believe me. It's just silly.
Evolution has just become a way for the atheists to indoctrinate kids. Not that the theory is bullshit, just that the science teacher out there will harness it to preach their own anti-religion gospel.
I was thinking the other day, I'm not a religious person, haven't been to church since I was about 16, but I really want to show off my backyard kitchen to the folks in the neighborhood. Should I start "the church of showing off cool stuff you made in your spare time"? I was thinking if enough people joined, we could collaborate, like the electricians give wiring advice. Damn, what I really want is a structural engineer to help me remove the support column in the basement so I can fit a pool table down there.:(
Here's what you're not seeing bub. The exact same thing is going on with this Bolton nomination, all the judges the left is filibustering. It is a tactic used by both sides.
So don't call your post "what you do not see" when you're a racehorse going down a narrow track yourself. Everybody is guilty of playing dirty politics. You want to talk about Clinton? Good president, played dirty as hell. It's how you get shit done, how you advance your agenda.
I have been programming computers for 3 or 4 years, a year ago I started on a business degree, I might also go for art. My reasoning is this:
I already know a whole lot about computers, more than most undergrads. Probably more than most masters. I find internet resources to be better than most books coming off the printing press these days, joining a few mailing lists, participating in open source software development, infinitely more informative than some instructors material. So I will get a business degree (MBA), and get in on these fortunes being made with emerging technology.
Plus a business degree is much easier to do in the off hours I am not working. CS degrees tend to be tailored to full time/daytime students, who don't have jobs. I expect when I'm done with my undergrad degree I will be much better off than most CS majors, with my 5+ years of work experience and all. Like others have stated, kids that go to school on mommy and daddy's tab don't seem to have a clue. You have to spend another year teaching them everything they didn't learn at school. If I were hiring people, I would hire the guy who went to school while he worked full time to support his family. Work ethic is priority number one, you don't want to hire the guy who can hibernate at work.
Hah, not all of us buddy. Nobody's pure libertarian either. Personally I'd rather not see people ruining their life with pot but whatever... can't do much to stop them, and the drug war is a waste of money.
1. I am not explaining you, you're the one tasked with that responsibility. Burden of proof is on you.
But you want to talk about flaws in logic. You just came to some belief that gays are born gay based on your crazy fear of ridicule.
My best friend growing up was in love with my sister, asked her out all the time and she rejected him all the time, now he's gay. Explain that.
3. You're wrong. Deviance is a term used often in sociology for someone who goes against the norms. It's not even a derogatory term. It would also help you understand #1, check it out at wikipedia or something.
Whether you're a gay nazi or not, us libertarians don't give a rats nipple what you do, so long as you're not given special privilege. Our position is to eliminate income tax breaks (as well as income tax all together) and any reference to marriage. Pretty much 90% of the laws out there can go, so don't go knocking libertarians because you learned in your high school history class that we are conservative and all conservatives are bad. We are conservative, no doubt. Learn to love it, nazi boy.
You talk like it is a proven fact that people are born gay, like African American's are born black. You completely fly right over that and make these comparisons between the civil rights movement and whatever this is.
You'll have to convince the majority with scientific proof that you were born gay and that you're not just another sexual deviant.
That's not to say that you can't accomplish your goals with lawyers and judges collaborating to undermind majority rule, as is the case with affirmative action, which I'll remind you was never written into law.
This bill will die. Perhaps that's why MS isn't supporting it any longer. Hey, where's Apple in all of this? Isn't Steve Jobs a big time liberal?
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Your analogy to the phone company is absurd. It would be more accurate to say that the phone company is forced to offer caller ID, or an anti-solicitation service. I'll point out that the ACLU never stood opposed to the national do-not-call database, despite the business interests. As it is, the content-filtering companies based here in Utah stand to gain from this.
Orrin Hatch has done a great job. You must be a druggy. Only a druggy could have as much hatred for Orrin Hatch, and use as much senseless rhetoric as you do. Why don't you go "medicate" yourself.
Not unless this affects inter-state commerce. But then I'd challenge you to give me once national ISP that doesn't offer content filtering. They would be out of business. I'll watch as the first ISP to actively protest this law goes down in flames.
I guess that's why we have the ACLU, to protect ordinary American's from disgrace and embarassment by taking it all upon themselves.
Thank god we don't have anything resembling the Vermont supreme court here in Utah.
I worked for a company here in Utah who I will not mention by name, they started up back in 98 or so with the primary purose of developing a database of websites with a more refined policy management interface, for example, you could filter out only all the hate related sites if you wanted, unlike Rulespace(tm) of California which used a more general policy. It was a combination of AI and human interaction to develop the database. They market products which can run at the ISP level or on the individuals computer.
To make a long story short, the company screws over everybody they do business with, including their employees. Ethics apparently meant nothing to these guys. I wouldn't be surprised if this is an effort to increase the company's revenue by lobbying for laws like this, a practice I disapprove of.
HOWEVER...
As other's have suggested, it's like the V-chip. It's opt-in. All the ISP has to do is bundle content-filtering software with their installation CD, or post a link to it on their website, hidden in the FAQ section. It is painfully obvious what the ACLU is really going after here. They are protecting the rights of businessmen to show pornography to minors and clobbering a parent's right to guard their kids from pornography.
At first glance I thought this was microsoft fighting against google's innovation, but apparently I was mistaken.
I really would like to relieve myself of all this responsibility, but maybe one of these days I will find the 100k/year salary I'm looking for.
I think they should just prosecute the babysitter who is playing dads movies and ruin her life to make an example to the rest of the bootlegging trash, like Apple does with their tiger pre-releases.
"Memory stick, memory stick and we sell more memory stick!"
"Noooooo! Memory stick sucks! People like SD and CF, like their cameras!"
"Memory stick make us more money!"
"Nooooooo memooory stiiick!! Hai-yah!" *chop*
Don't underestimate the lethality of tritium. It is the only risky substance associated with a fusion reactor, tritium escaping into the atmosphere behaves the same as the strontium-90 released after an atomic bomb, it will contaminate drinking water, if your battery springs a leak it is still very capable of killing you, slower than a CO leak but much more potent in terms of volume. I don't know why the wikipedia article claims tritium is formed naturally in water when cosmic radiation hits deuterium, all significant amounts ot tritium formed in seawater has been as a result of nuclear bomb testing, there is no significant natural formation. In the real world, tritium would be formed in a nuclear reactor, not "harvested" from the ocean as a result of natural cosmic radiation bombardment. So like someone pointed out above, these batteries would be expensive, but if properly contained could be plenty safe, just don't assume tritium is a harmless gas, compare it to drinking the contents of a lead acid battery. I'll also point out that I'm not opposed to this, nor any other form of nuclear energy. It is just a matter of proper containment and disposal.
Ruby is replacing perl in my case, and I think that will develop into a trend. Ruby is a lot more like coding in perl.
When they make the chips, the ones that perform poorly and produce more heat are just downgraded to lower clock speeds and sold for less. As manufacturing is perfected, all the chips are performing better, so each year there are advancements to be made, whether AMD utilizes the advancements to produce faster clock speeds or lower power consumption is up to them. These days I think power consumption is becoming more an issue than clock speed, and it also lends itself to clock speed eventually.
There are invisible unicorns. I'm buying one for my wife for her birthday.
Why are we still using relational databases?
Don't answer that. It's a rhetorical question. :)
If you simply believe there is no god, and that that is a provable fact, you're an atheist. In my opinion, both deists and atheists commit the same fallacy in reasoning. The agnostics are the one's who're truly use sound reasoning, and personally I think they have a better outlook on life than the other two.
I think its funny when people debate religion, I often wonder why they don't just break it down to the fundamental root of the argument, who's better? I'm better than you, I know what I'm talking about, you aught to just believe me. It's just silly.
I was thinking the other day, I'm not a religious person, haven't been to church since I was about 16, but I really want to show off my backyard kitchen to the folks in the neighborhood. Should I start "the church of showing off cool stuff you made in your spare time"? I was thinking if enough people joined, we could collaborate, like the electricians give wiring advice. Damn, what I really want is a structural engineer to help me remove the support column in the basement so I can fit a pool table down there. :(
Does such a thing already exist?
So don't call your post "what you do not see" when you're a racehorse going down a narrow track yourself. Everybody is guilty of playing dirty politics. You want to talk about Clinton? Good president, played dirty as hell. It's how you get shit done, how you advance your agenda.
I already know a whole lot about computers, more than most undergrads. Probably more than most masters. I find internet resources to be better than most books coming off the printing press these days, joining a few mailing lists, participating in open source software development, infinitely more informative than some instructors material. So I will get a business degree (MBA), and get in on these fortunes being made with emerging technology.
Plus a business degree is much easier to do in the off hours I am not working. CS degrees tend to be tailored to full time/daytime students, who don't have jobs. I expect when I'm done with my undergrad degree I will be much better off than most CS majors, with my 5+ years of work experience and all. Like others have stated, kids that go to school on mommy and daddy's tab don't seem to have a clue. You have to spend another year teaching them everything they didn't learn at school. If I were hiring people, I would hire the guy who went to school while he worked full time to support his family. Work ethic is priority number one, you don't want to hire the guy who can hibernate at work.
Hah, not all of us buddy. Nobody's pure libertarian either. Personally I'd rather not see people ruining their life with pot but whatever... can't do much to stop them, and the drug war is a waste of money.
But you want to talk about flaws in logic. You just came to some belief that gays are born gay based on your crazy fear of ridicule.
My best friend growing up was in love with my sister, asked her out all the time and she rejected him all the time, now he's gay. Explain that.
3. You're wrong. Deviance is a term used often in sociology for someone who goes against the norms. It's not even a derogatory term. It would also help you understand #1, check it out at wikipedia or something.
Why doesn't he just join up with KDE? Theres enough bulk in KDE that it should fit his needs nicely.
Wonder who's opinion this is. This is where your money spent in support of a monopolistic superpower goes.... what a shame.
I say let gays get married only if we can ban the gay pride parade. Isn't compromise what this country is all about?
Whether you're a gay nazi or not, us libertarians don't give a rats nipple what you do, so long as you're not given special privilege. Our position is to eliminate income tax breaks (as well as income tax all together) and any reference to marriage. Pretty much 90% of the laws out there can go, so don't go knocking libertarians because you learned in your high school history class that we are conservative and all conservatives are bad. We are conservative, no doubt. Learn to love it, nazi boy.
You'll have to convince the majority with scientific proof that you were born gay and that you're not just another sexual deviant.
That's not to say that you can't accomplish your goals with lawyers and judges collaborating to undermind majority rule, as is the case with affirmative action, which I'll remind you was never written into law.
This bill will die. Perhaps that's why MS isn't supporting it any longer. Hey, where's Apple in all of this? Isn't Steve Jobs a big time liberal?
The libertarians support your views, retard. Go read the libertarians viewpoint on gay marriage.