That sounds like a good idea.
With maybe a how and why to dual partition a drive to run linux. Throw in a [best buy] catalog and a $12 rebate form.
Building on your idea, maybe partner with aol to mail everybody 20 copies.
Although that was posted as a funny, it's something that Bill could and should do.
The Bill & Melinda Gates foundation could give away for free, software so that a slightly motivated kid could teach themselves high school coursework.
With the catch that it runs only on Windows, so step 3 is profit.
In 1981 I worked at the University of Delaware's office of computer-based instruction, where we were designing the software to do this sort of thing.
It was just around the corner. A generation later, the good news is most high school students have computers, but they are still stuck in compulsory education big-box prisons which teach to the lowest common denominator, at a cost in tax dollars of, say, 5K per kid per year.
It wouldn't have to be microsoft that does this;
they are just one of the players that could do this soonest with the resources they already have.
Maybe I should pitch this to google instead.
Due to hava upgrades, about 1 million more votes were counted in 2004 than in 2000. The result was the same either way. HAVA cost about 6 billion. If my math is right, that's $6,000 per extra vote properly counted. I would cheerfully have sold my vote for a bit less than that. Certainly, it would have been well worth it if it had somehow kept Bush out, but since it didn't I'm not convinced the money was well spent.
What possible reason could I, as a Libertarian election lawyer, have for opposing the bill? Well, how about the part about making 'deceptive' statements about the election a felony? I blogged about this 2/18/05 ballots.blogspot.com. Rick Hasen's www.electionlawblog.org is a good place to track these issues. If you are very familiar with how Senator Clinton works, a "deceptive" statement is one she doesn't agree with. I suspect, and this is only a suspicion, that the bill is an unconstitutional violation of free speech and voting rights. As a person who has sworn to uphold the constitution, I couldn't go along with that. Does that make me evil?
> Thats why campaign contributions should only be able to be made by those legally able to vote.
All you need to do is repeal those pesky First and Fourteenth Amendments. McConnell v FEC (findlaw.com) held that the government could not ban kids from making campaign contributions. Corporations are already prohibited from making federal contributions.
OK, now post the photo in the neighborhood, offering reward upon conviction. List an email, do not list your home address.
This might deter this guy from working your neighborhood. It might deter thieves in general.
Or, he might come back and kill you.
Good idea to have a game plan for what to do if you find him.
If anybody read the article, the coffeeshop had to have a broadband account to start with. So the "free" service the company offers could be accomplished with a gadget from best buy. What do those run, $20? What coffeeshop doesn't have a tech nerd customer to plug it in? They are selling nothing but hype. Not that there's anything wrong with that - getting ubiquitous computing to the masses is a good thing, and this company spreads the meme. But their value added is mimimal. My coffeeshop already has free broadband. This is a) because the owner figures if he's gonna be there all day, he wants net access, and why not share? and b) the anthropic principle - if it didn't have net access, it wouldn't be my coffeeshop.
Is it smaller than a breadbox? Does it have moving parts? Is it not part of some larger device? I think the harmonica (mouth organ) was on the list. Didn't see the banjo.
It is useful to keep in mind that half the nerds who have ever lived are living now. Multi-billion populations come after 1900. Multi-million populations comes after the beginning of the neolithic. The list does not include the crossbow, the sling-and-rock, hmm, no colt.45? the atl-atl (hard to find an atl-atl dart small enough for a breadbox), the blow-gun with curare dart, the bolo, the rosary, the slipknot, the hypodermic, the mousetrap. It's a cool list, but not exhaustive or scientific.
"This location on Mars is actually moving faster than any other location." Heck yeah it is. Oceanfront property on Mars! I know some folks have been selling deeds to land on Mars, but I don't know if that part has been platted. Is there a market where martian deeds are resold? (Yes, I know that currently the deeds are "entertainment value" and not recognized by governments. Like federal reserve notes, it only works if enough people pretend in it.)
If you put a dome over your acre of ice, does it stay ice or melt into a pond? What other methods are handy for melting the ice lake (if indeed it turns out to be ice)? Orbital solar collector.. oh... orbital mirror/lens? Nuclear waste? If the ice is melted, does it evaporate and wind up as snow at the poles? What's the temperature on Mars if you dig down 100 feet? Nobody knows? What are some good sites for informed layperson discussion of new Mars info?
http://www.angelfire.com/journal/timbuktu/images/t x/timspkeys.jpg Is that the headmouse? Chess? (if yes, i'm in.) www.20q.net i think for a curious ai.
Panera also has the most free pastrami croissants and suchlike. Just check the big green box out back after closing time. I'm sure there's some slashdotter somewhere who will find this useful.
bungleized.
So what's the registration number, and where's the website with the pics?
You mistake was in thinking the cops would do anything.
That is rare, and varies by location.
With the kind of numbers they are looking at,
using space for a new genre of internet porn should be viable in 5-15 years.
The space prize Bigelow is funding is $50 million.
That's less than the budget for spiderman 3.
Which is more fun, the game of you versus -big evil game company-, or the game you wanted to play that they aren't letting you play?
It doesn't have to cost $15/mo to fight -big evil game company-, although you could spend that much.
But by all means, think of it as a game. Use your game skills. And if it stops being fun, go play something else.
The post says that the comment period ended today.
That does not mean that comments cannot still be submitted. Informed helpful comments submitted after the deadline can be considered.
I myself have no position on the proposed rule changes, but as someone who has participated in rule-making procedures I thought I'd point that out.
To The Honorable Tom Davis
Declan McCullough cites you as saying
"When I get on an airplane and someone shows ID, I'd like to be sure they are who they say they are," said Rep. Tom Davis, a Virginia Republican, during a floor debate that started Wednesday.
I am writing seeking clarification of what existing policy is about ID requirements for being a passenger on a plane.
A friend of my brother's was asked to show ID, and asked whether that was a government policy or an airline policy, and couldn't get a straight answer.
If there is a government policy that airline passengers must show ID, can you provide me with a copy of the policy?
Thanks in advance,
Sincerely,
[me]
(send via web page form)
# posted by gt @ 9:38
http://ballots.blogspot.com
(the friend of my brother was john gilmore,
as in gilmore v ashcroft. see
http://papersplease.org )
Perhaps other slashdotters could make similar requests and see if we get an answer.
If it is a government policy, it is also an unwarranted search, which is a civil rights violation, which is a federal felony.
John's case is pending before the 9th circuit.
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If they would/could integrate the map with the web sites that originate from points on the map, it would be something like the multiverse in snow crash.
Good idea. All we have to do is get there before the feds do. I'll pledge $100 towards that. Sort of a slashdot prize. What is the deadline?
I know NaSA was looking at one to two billion for the repair mission - could it be done for $10 million? 100 million? Within the budget of the movie we'd make about it? What would a slightly used Hubble bring on e-bay?
In my country, the government provides heavy disincentives that make car sharing difficult, although hitchhiking used to be a common form of car sharing. Food sharing is quite common. In my town one of the food sharing groups does some bike sharing. Food sharing examples: lecture is free, comes with free pizza. Food banks and food pantries. Pot-luck dinners. Setting an extra plate at dinner. Beer nuts. Bread not bombs.
Earth at equilibrium? Tell that to the panda, the sumatran tiger, the mastadon, the great auk, the mountain gorilla, the hobbits. Yes, humans and cockroaches will probably survive when some jr high kid with a chemistry set invents grey goo in 2030. As an aardvark, I have reason for being concerned. Warming Mars is good science and good politics, and it can be done with smoke and mirrors.
Thanks. So it's the next day and i'm having my morning coffee and imagining 101 uses for a roomba with a personality upgrade. Brings new meaning to an old song.
Shock Treatment c Richard OBrien
Commercial Announcer First and foremost, Farley Flavors fabulous fast foods Feed and fortify families for a fabulous future
Bitchin' in the Kitchen Brad Majors
Dear blender Oh won't you help a first offender Oh, toaster Don't you put the burn on me Refrigerator, why are we always sooner or later Bitchin' in the kitchen or crying in the bedroom all night
Dear knife drawer Now won't you help me to face life more Oh, trashcan Don't you put the dirt on me Oh percolator, why are we always sooner or later Bitchin' in the kitchen or crying in the bedroom all night Janet Majors
Everything used to be OK But I've been had And Brad, I'm glad to say, is on his way Micro-digital awaker, why are we always sooner or later Bitchin' in the kitchen or crying in the bedroom all night
Shower curtain Oh won't you help me to be certain Oh, toothpaste Don't you put the squeeze on me Depilitator, why are we always sooner or later Bitchin' in the kitchen or crying in the bedroom all night
Tell me spectator, why are always sooner or later Bitchin' in the kitchen or crying in the bedroom all night!
Slashdot Mirror
That sounds like a good idea.
With maybe a how and why to dual partition a drive to run linux. Throw in a [best buy] catalog and a $12 rebate form.
Building on your idea, maybe partner with aol to mail everybody 20 copies.
Although that was posted as a funny, it's something that Bill could and should do. The Bill & Melinda Gates foundation could give away for free, software so that a slightly motivated kid could teach themselves high school coursework. With the catch that it runs only on Windows, so step 3 is profit. In 1981 I worked at the University of Delaware's office of computer-based instruction, where we were designing the software to do this sort of thing. It was just around the corner. A generation later, the good news is most high school students have computers, but they are still stuck in compulsory education big-box prisons which teach to the lowest common denominator, at a cost in tax dollars of, say, 5K per kid per year. It wouldn't have to be microsoft that does this; they are just one of the players that could do this soonest with the resources they already have. Maybe I should pitch this to google instead.
Due to hava upgrades, about 1 million more votes were counted in 2004 than in 2000. The result was the same either way. HAVA cost about 6 billion. If my math is right, that's $6,000 per extra vote properly counted. I would cheerfully have sold my vote for a bit less than that. Certainly, it would have been well worth it if it had somehow kept Bush out, but since it didn't I'm not convinced the money was well spent.
What possible reason could I, as a Libertarian election lawyer, have for opposing the bill?
Well, how about the part about making 'deceptive' statements about the election a felony?
I blogged about this 2/18/05 ballots.blogspot.com.
Rick Hasen's www.electionlawblog.org is a good place to track these issues.
If you are very familiar with how Senator Clinton works, a "deceptive" statement is one she doesn't agree with.
I suspect, and this is only a suspicion, that the bill is an unconstitutional violation of free speech and voting rights. As a person who has sworn to uphold the constitution, I couldn't go along with that. Does that make me evil?
> Thats why campaign contributions should only be able to be made by those legally able to vote.
All you need to do is repeal those pesky First and Fourteenth Amendments. McConnell v FEC (findlaw.com) held that the government could not ban kids from making campaign contributions. Corporations are already prohibited from making federal contributions.
OK, now post the photo in the neighborhood, offering reward upon conviction. List an email, do not list your home address. This might deter this guy from working your neighborhood. It might deter thieves in general. Or, he might come back and kill you. Good idea to have a game plan for what to do if you find him.
(were there roombas? [www.irobot.com])
If anybody read the article, the coffeeshop had to have a broadband account to start with.
So the "free" service the company offers could be accomplished with a gadget from best buy. What do those run, $20? What coffeeshop doesn't have a tech nerd customer to plug it in?
They are selling nothing but hype.
Not that there's anything wrong with that - getting ubiquitous computing to the masses is a good thing, and this company spreads the meme.
But their value added is mimimal.
My coffeeshop already has free broadband.
This is a) because the owner figures if he's gonna be there all day, he wants net access, and why not share? and b) the anthropic principle - if it didn't have net access, it wouldn't be my coffeeshop.
Is it smaller than a breadbox?
Does it have moving parts?
Is it not part of some larger device?
I think the harmonica (mouth organ) was on the list.
Didn't see the banjo.
It is useful to keep in mind that half the nerds who have ever lived are living now. Multi-billion populations come after 1900. Multi-million populations comes after the beginning of the neolithic. .45? the atl-atl
The list does not include the crossbow, the sling-and-rock, hmm, no colt
(hard to find an atl-atl dart small enough for a breadbox), the blow-gun with curare dart, the bolo,
the rosary, the slipknot, the hypodermic, the mousetrap. It's a cool list, but not exhaustive or scientific.
"This location on Mars is actually moving faster than any other location."
.. oh... orbital mirror/lens? Nuclear waste? If the ice is melted, does it evaporate and wind up as snow at the poles?
Heck yeah it is. Oceanfront property on Mars!
I know some folks have been selling deeds to land on Mars, but I don't know if that part has been platted. Is there a market where martian deeds are resold? (Yes, I know that currently the deeds are "entertainment value" and not recognized by governments. Like federal reserve notes, it only works if enough people pretend in it.)
If you put a dome over your acre of ice, does it stay ice or melt into a pond?
What other methods are handy for melting the ice lake (if indeed it turns out to be ice)?
Orbital solar collector
What's the temperature on Mars if you dig down 100 feet? Nobody knows?
What are some good sites for informed layperson discussion of new Mars info?
no, that's not it.
http://www.angelfire.com/journal/timbuktu/images/t x/timspkeys.jpg
Is that the headmouse?
Chess? (if yes, i'm in.)
www.20q.net i think for a curious ai.
Panera also has the most free pastrami croissants and suchlike. Just check the big green box out back after closing time.
I'm sure there's some slashdotter somewhere who will find this useful.
bungleized. So what's the registration number, and where's the website with the pics? You mistake was in thinking the cops would do anything. That is rare, and varies by location.
With the kind of numbers they are looking at, using space for a new genre of internet porn should be viable in 5-15 years. The space prize Bigelow is funding is $50 million. That's less than the budget for spiderman 3.
Which is more fun, the game of you versus -big evil game company-, or the game you wanted to play that they aren't letting you play? It doesn't have to cost $15/mo to fight -big evil game company-, although you could spend that much. But by all means, think of it as a game. Use your game skills. And if it stops being fun, go play something else.
The post says that the comment period ended today. That does not mean that comments cannot still be submitted. Informed helpful comments submitted after the deadline can be considered. I myself have no position on the proposed rule changes, but as someone who has participated in rule-making procedures I thought I'd point that out.
You should respond, if you can do so in person.
To The Honorable Tom Davis Declan McCullough cites you as saying "When I get on an airplane and someone shows ID, I'd like to be sure they are who they say they are," said Rep. Tom Davis, a Virginia Republican, during a floor debate that started Wednesday. I am writing seeking clarification of what existing policy is about ID requirements for being a passenger on a plane. A friend of my brother's was asked to show ID, and asked whether that was a government policy or an airline policy, and couldn't get a straight answer. If there is a government policy that airline passengers must show ID, can you provide me with a copy of the policy? Thanks in advance, Sincerely, [me] (send via web page form) # posted by gt @ 9:38 http://ballots.blogspot.com (the friend of my brother was john gilmore, as in gilmore v ashcroft. see http://papersplease.org ) Perhaps other slashdotters could make similar requests and see if we get an answer. If it is a government policy, it is also an unwarranted search, which is a civil rights violation, which is a federal felony. John's case is pending before the 9th circuit.
If they would/could integrate the map with the web sites that originate from points on the map, it would be something like the multiverse in snow crash.
Good idea. All we have to do is get there before the feds do. I'll pledge $100 towards that. Sort of a slashdot prize. What is the deadline?
I know NaSA was looking at one to two billion for the repair mission - could it be done for $10 million? 100 million?
Within the budget of the movie we'd make about it?
What would a slightly used Hubble bring on e-bay?
In my country, the government provides heavy disincentives that make car sharing difficult, although hitchhiking used to be a common form of car sharing. Food sharing is quite common. In my town one of the food sharing groups does some bike sharing. Food sharing examples: lecture is free, comes with free pizza. Food banks and food pantries.
Pot-luck dinners. Setting an extra plate at dinner.
Beer nuts. Bread not bombs.
Highly illogical. The odds are 287,942 to 1.
Earth at equilibrium? Tell that to the panda, the sumatran tiger, the mastadon, the great auk, the mountain gorilla, the hobbits. Yes, humans and cockroaches will probably survive when some jr high kid with a chemistry set invents grey goo in 2030.
As an aardvark, I have reason for being concerned.
Warming Mars is good science and good politics, and it can be done with smoke and mirrors.
DER SPIEGEL: "Bill Gates is the devil"
Thanks. So it's the next day and i'm having my morning coffee and imagining 101 uses for a roomba with a personality upgrade.
Brings new meaning to an old song.
Shock Treatment c Richard OBrien
Commercial Announcer
First and foremost, Farley Flavors fabulous fast foods
Feed and fortify families for a fabulous future
Bitchin' in the Kitchen
Brad Majors
Dear blender
Oh won't you help a first offender
Oh, toaster
Don't you put the burn on me
Refrigerator, why are we always sooner or later
Bitchin' in the kitchen or crying in the bedroom all night
Dear knife drawer
Now won't you help me to face life more
Oh, trashcan
Don't you put the dirt on me
Oh percolator, why are we always sooner or later
Bitchin' in the kitchen or crying in the bedroom all night
Janet Majors
Everything used to be OK
But I've been had
And Brad, I'm glad to say, is on his way
Micro-digital awaker, why are we always sooner or later
Bitchin' in the kitchen or crying in the bedroom all night
Shower curtain
Oh won't you help me to be certain
Oh, toothpaste
Don't you put the squeeze on me
Depilitator, why are we always sooner or later
Bitchin' in the kitchen or crying in the bedroom all night
Tell me spectator, why are always sooner or later
Bitchin' in the kitchen or crying in the bedroom all night!