You need to make a choice and priorities when your views are like that. You cannot name one candidate who could have gotten enough electoral votes to win the president in the last election who agreed with that guy on all points. And he just gave a short list (though it covered most of the really controversial issues), consider a list that coveres everything.
If Pro-War and Anti-racist-preferences get higher marks, than the rest you are pro Bush. (Though Kerry might be pro war, it was hard to tell early on, though in the late campaign he was against it) Others are gray. Bush isn't Pro-low-taxes exactly, but he was a stronger candidate than Kerry.
I've seen these IDs. However his response is why get one? So far as I can tell they are only useful when you write a check in person, something few people bother to do anymore. (I get 1% back on my credit card, while I have to buy my checks. Add in float and for anyone careful with money checks make no sense)
Now if he needed id that id might be useful. Though I would suggest he is better of getting two forms of id: a passport. However he doesn't really need id. So far as he can determin there is no law that says he must have one for his activities, and he needs to pay a small fee to get an id.
While it is silly, I have to come out on his side. He should not have to show is in this case.
When he first refused to give an ID they offered him the more intrusive search option, which he took. Then while standing in line to get on the plane (presumably after some more intrusive search though nothing is stated) a guard pulled him out and said he could not fly today.
Our system of laws makes it possible for the little guy to get his day in court. It is easily abused, but despite all the stories about abuse it isn't that bad in reality.
Personally I pity you, living in a country where a faceless company can kill someone though negligence and there is nothing you can do about it, just because your contract doesn't prohibit it. Though from what I know of Swedish law (very little) my guess is that your courts are more likely to take my side of the argument than our courts in the US.
Doesn't matter, the law trumps anything in a contract. The law will take very dimly to any contract that allows someone to die. In fact once this becomes common you can sue your ISP for downtime, despite that part of the contract.
Any judge who hears these words: "Your honor, they cannot know when my great aunt will come for a visit after surgery. Therefore they need to assume I always have someone visiting who needs a net connection." The judge is likely to find that the ISP must keep the net connection up in this case. If you really had a visitor with a critical need for a net connection then downtime is criminal negligence, even if nothing happened.
The phone companies already face this. On call doctors can sue the phone company if their phone goes down because they depend on the phone. There are elderly who have a monitoring system already that used the phone. They do not pay extra for service, but the phone company is expected to provide them with 24x7 service.
I am not a lawyer. Only a lawyer can give you advice on what will happen. Don't be surprised to see it happen though.
if something like this ends up focusing primarily on people contributing to projects like KDE, GNOME, etc. it'd be missing the point.
That was a large part of my point: it is too easy to miss many good projects because things like KDE and GNOME are great and have plenty that deserve recognition that you could cover only those two projects and not get into the hard work of finding other worthy projects. (There are plenty of unworthy projects, though most have little source code)
How much market share does Dell have? AMD doesn't need Dell. They would like to have Dell, but they don't need Dell. HP/Compaq, is only slightly back, while IBM, Gateway, and the like still account for something. However that isn't the full story either, adding the market share of everyone with more than 5% of the market you come up short of 50%, meaning the little guy (who is a tech and should of heard of AMD) accounts for more total than the big names.
No, AMD, does not need Dell. AMD needs the motherboard and chipset vendors, but they seem to have enough of them.
That is a bad idea, though your heart is in the right place. There are just too many of them.
It is trivial to keep hero of the month busy for years, just taking the major contributors to kde who aren't recognized outside of the kde developer comunity. Now toss in the GNOME developers, the x.org developers, various Linux developers, netBSD, freeBSD, battle for Wesnoth, nethack and you have filled a lifetime of months touching many deserving hackers, but missing the large majority of both hackers and worthy projects.
A project of the week isn't even though to list the major projects you should know about, and many of them have more than one developer who is worth listing.
ISPs are gonna love this. Suddenly your net connection is as critical as a phone connection. People will die when the net connection goes down. Suddenly telco 99.999% uptime looks small.
Even when the ISP doesn't care about you, their lawyers care because your heirs will have an easy suit if they can prove the network was down for even 30 seconds at about the time you died.
Geeks everywhere will rejoice if this happens after "fast enough" netconnections are rolled out. Suddenly the bandwidth we want will be legally 24x7, and an effective static ip address because 30 seconds is less than how long it can take to reconnect after a dhcp lease changes.
Well, sort of. I personally cannot as an American, but congress can do all of that. It is only an international issue if other nations choose to make it one. Nations invade each other all the time. (for some definition of all the time) Nations do a lot of other things to control other nations (See Russia/Ukraine). Sometimes it is an internation issue, sometimes it is not.
I don't have time to read the whole charter and respond to each point. Here is some examples of how I'm concerned it can be abused:
Genocide means (point b)causing mental harm to a group.
What is a group? Anything they want it to be, so long as they can find some slight connection. Lawyers are good at finding slim connections to define groups.
What is mental harm. Lawyers advise clients to always claim back pain after an auto accident because it is easy to win on that based on little proof. Mental harm is also is easy to claim on behalf of someone, but hard to prove.
Read a little farther and I'm sure you can come up with objections. You seem to have a brain (at least you knew where to find the document), so this shouldn't be hard for you. Now your position that those objections are not something that will be every used is valid. (And I'm sure you can come up with other rebuttals) However make sure you understand the other side before you use it.
To the US, which is full of people used to lawyers finding loop-holes in the law, this looks like an easy way to attack the US.
In short, I don't think you'd be happy with the human rights committee - or the UN as a whole, or even the whole world - unless they did exactly what America wants and said.
You almost got that. Change America to I. If you find two people who agree 100% on everything you can be sure that at least one fails to use his brain. Since I'm not in charge (and honestly I don't want to be) as dictator of the world for life, I have to compromise. I elect people, who sometimes even win. I allow someone to "represent" me, even though we disagree about 95%, because that is democracy.
I know of no criteria that will solve the problem. I can point out that it is wrong to put Libya in charge of a human rights commission. However that should not be read to mean I have a better solution.
That isn't my experience. I had to pry the heatsink off the northbridge of one of my machines to get the model number off the chip which I could then google for to find the driver. Linux just installs and works.
Of course if you stick with the OS installed on the machine you are fine, but that isn't always what you need. The machine in question had a nice "Designed for Windows 2000" sticker on it, yet the latest MSDN windows 2000 cd did not have drivers.
Who knows anything about energy policy other than oil (and coal and...) execs? Who knows anything about privacy other than privacy invaders? Who knows anything about drugs other than drug companies?
Seriously, I know gas prices affect me, but I don't know enough about energy policy to write a good one. In fact my knowledge of the issue is so small that an oil exec will write a better policy than me. Now I could get the information to write a good policy, but it would take several years.
The question should be how to we keep the experts from using their knowledge to screw us.
Since you still can't make it translate that simple sentence to English correctly. Hint: you should have used "an", not "a".
P.S. betting is now open for how many people will correct the mistakes I made, who would have ignored it had I not started it by correcting someone else.
I hate to break this to you, but MS Windows and Mac GUIs also have to do context switches when doing drawing. X has no weakness here. It is easy to tell if a system doesn't do context switching to do drawing: it crashes all the time. You cannot allow direct hardware access to user software and maintain a stable system.
Whats wrong with joining the Democrats or the Republicans? Fact is until you get to the national level both parties are rules by people like you and me who decide to do something.
When my parents moved the local party begged him to be president again even though the rules stated he would have to resign when the moved happened.
Course if you go to a party meeting you will discover something else: people do not agree. Even at the local level where people are self selected to be close to the party already, and there are only 10 people (representing a town of 3000!), arguments are long. Still, our government happens first in those rooms with the locals.
Seriously, money only works in politics so long as you let it. When you inform yourself of the issues and then go vote you start to change that. When you go one more and talk about issues you start scaring politicians. Go one more step and join a party can get your issues on the platform and the money works for you.
Sit on slashdot and whine about congress, corruption, and big money - you loose.
Now my talents are in computer programing, and it is a waste of everyone's time if I spend more than a few moments balancing my companies accounts. An accountant can do that better and faster. However it is also a waste for me to call an accountant when I need a USB cable or some such. It is a better use of everyone's time if I just order the cable and enter it into the books. (Best Buy is just around the corner, I can be back before the purchasing guy reads my request) The accountant will check the math latter, but the data is there.
However to give me that ability means the books need to be open to me. I should not have access to accounting data, but it is easier for everyone if I have full access.
Even in the small 10 person company I work for I don't get to know how much money my co-workers make. It means that the books are closed, so I can't enter my USB cable myself, I have to get someone else to enter it. (and in fact someone else ends up buying it)
Don't forget the other big downside. If the company officers are keeping two sets of books I don't know that. Therefore I can't blow the whistle on them. (If there is fraud and you are an officer in the company this is good, to the investors which might include my retirement account this is bad) I also have no clue if my stock options (I wish...) that seem high today will pull and Enron before they vest.
I haven't done benchmarks, but my guess is the Cisco router is an order of magnitude SLOWER processing any one socket. Cisco optimizes their products for passing packets based on the IP header. They rarely look at the TCP/UDP part at all.
Often IP routing is done in hardware, but there is a slow trap called for every packet destined to the router. The CPU then slowly switches modes, processes the packet, and deals with it. Since the router should never receive many packets they put little effort into optimizing this part of the process. Linux by comparison often runs things like a webserver, meaning it often has to process a packet destined for it, so they put effort into this part.
Simple economics, and programing 101. Do not optimize code that is rarely used. Cisco managers should fire anyone who wastes time optimize code that isn't a bottleneck.
Note that firewalls muck this up a little because the CPU may need to process many packets, but they still are not packets destined for the router.
Even when making the worst Vodka they take care to make it safe for humans to drink. (at least in small quantities, but I'll assume you know better than to OD) When you are only going to run it through an engine they don't care if it has some deadly leftovers from the production process in it. In fact they put poison in it so that you can't drink it. (If you can drink it the taxes go up)
If you care about performance numbers. Truth is my Geo Metro running on just 2 cylinders (missing on the other) still out accelerates traffic most of the time because people rarely use the power their engine can give. (To merge on the freeway safely I need to floor it from the moment the light turns green. merging on the freeway is one of the most common times I accelerate from a red, so I'm in that habit)
Yeah, but that is accounted for in the studies. Farmers don't like to use that stuff because it costs them money to buy. They now use satellites and other technology to decide where to use fertilizer. Each area (10 square feet IIRC) gets a different amount depending on what it needs.
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You need to make a choice and priorities when your views are like that. You cannot name one candidate who could have gotten enough electoral votes to win the president in the last election who agreed with that guy on all points. And he just gave a short list (though it covered most of the really controversial issues), consider a list that coveres everything.
If Pro-War and Anti-racist-preferences get higher marks, than the rest you are pro Bush. (Though Kerry might be pro war, it was hard to tell early on, though in the late campaign he was against it) Others are gray. Bush isn't Pro-low-taxes exactly, but he was a stronger candidate than Kerry.
I've seen these IDs. However his response is why get one? So far as I can tell they are only useful when you write a check in person, something few people bother to do anymore. (I get 1% back on my credit card, while I have to buy my checks. Add in float and for anyone careful with money checks make no sense)
Now if he needed id that id might be useful. Though I would suggest he is better of getting two forms of id: a passport. However he doesn't really need id. So far as he can determin there is no law that says he must have one for his activities, and he needs to pay a small fee to get an id.
While it is silly, I have to come out on his side. He should not have to show is in this case.
When he first refused to give an ID they offered him the more intrusive search option, which he took. Then while standing in line to get on the plane (presumably after some more intrusive search though nothing is stated) a guard pulled him out and said he could not fly today.
Our system of laws makes it possible for the little guy to get his day in court. It is easily abused, but despite all the stories about abuse it isn't that bad in reality.
Personally I pity you, living in a country where a faceless company can kill someone though negligence and there is nothing you can do about it, just because your contract doesn't prohibit it. Though from what I know of Swedish law (very little) my guess is that your courts are more likely to take my side of the argument than our courts in the US.
Doesn't matter, the law trumps anything in a contract. The law will take very dimly to any contract that allows someone to die. In fact once this becomes common you can sue your ISP for downtime, despite that part of the contract.
Any judge who hears these words: "Your honor, they cannot know when my great aunt will come for a visit after surgery. Therefore they need to assume I always have someone visiting who needs a net connection." The judge is likely to find that the ISP must keep the net connection up in this case. If you really had a visitor with a critical need for a net connection then downtime is criminal negligence, even if nothing happened.
The phone companies already face this. On call doctors can sue the phone company if their phone goes down because they depend on the phone. There are elderly who have a monitoring system already that used the phone. They do not pay extra for service, but the phone company is expected to provide them with 24x7 service.
I am not a lawyer. Only a lawyer can give you advice on what will happen. Don't be surprised to see it happen though.
if something like this ends up focusing primarily on people contributing to projects like KDE, GNOME, etc. it'd be missing the point.
That was a large part of my point: it is too easy to miss many good projects because things like KDE and GNOME are great and have plenty that deserve recognition that you could cover only those two projects and not get into the hard work of finding other worthy projects. (There are plenty of unworthy projects, though most have little source code)
How much market share does Dell have? AMD doesn't need Dell. They would like to have Dell, but they don't need Dell. HP/Compaq, is only slightly back, while IBM, Gateway, and the like still account for something. However that isn't the full story either, adding the market share of everyone with more than 5% of the market you come up short of 50%, meaning the little guy (who is a tech and should of heard of AMD) accounts for more total than the big names.
No, AMD, does not need Dell. AMD needs the motherboard and chipset vendors, but they seem to have enough of them.
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That is a bad idea, though your heart is in the right place. There are just too many of them.
It is trivial to keep hero of the month busy for years, just taking the major contributors to kde who aren't recognized outside of the kde developer comunity. Now toss in the GNOME developers, the x.org developers, various Linux developers, netBSD, freeBSD, battle for Wesnoth, nethack and you have filled a lifetime of months touching many deserving hackers, but missing the large majority of both hackers and worthy projects.
A project of the week isn't even though to list the major projects you should know about, and many of them have more than one developer who is worth listing.
ISPs are gonna love this. Suddenly your net connection is as critical as a phone connection. People will die when the net connection goes down. Suddenly telco 99.999% uptime looks small.
Even when the ISP doesn't care about you, their lawyers care because your heirs will have an easy suit if they can prove the network was down for even 30 seconds at about the time you died.
Geeks everywhere will rejoice if this happens after "fast enough" netconnections are rolled out. Suddenly the bandwidth we want will be legally 24x7, and an effective static ip address because 30 seconds is less than how long it can take to reconnect after a dhcp lease changes.
Well, sort of. I personally cannot as an American, but congress can do all of that. It is only an international issue if other nations choose to make it one. Nations invade each other all the time. (for some definition of all the time) Nations do a lot of other things to control other nations (See Russia/Ukraine). Sometimes it is an internation issue, sometimes it is not.
I don't have time to read the whole charter and respond to each point. Here is some examples of how I'm concerned it can be abused:
Genocide means (point b)causing mental harm to a group.
What is a group? Anything they want it to be, so long as they can find some slight connection. Lawyers are good at finding slim connections to define groups.
What is mental harm. Lawyers advise clients to always claim back pain after an auto accident because it is easy to win on that based on little proof. Mental harm is also is easy to claim on behalf of someone, but hard to prove.
Read a little farther and I'm sure you can come up with objections. You seem to have a brain (at least you knew where to find the document), so this shouldn't be hard for you. Now your position that those objections are not something that will be every used is valid. (And I'm sure you can come up with other rebuttals) However make sure you understand the other side before you use it.
To the US, which is full of people used to lawyers finding loop-holes in the law, this looks like an easy way to attack the US.
In short, I don't think you'd be happy with the human rights committee - or the UN as a whole, or even the whole world - unless they did exactly what America wants and said.
You almost got that. Change America to I. If you find two people who agree 100% on everything you can be sure that at least one fails to use his brain. Since I'm not in charge (and honestly I don't want to be) as dictator of the world for life, I have to compromise. I elect people, who sometimes even win. I allow someone to "represent" me, even though we disagree about 95%, because that is democracy.
I know of no criteria that will solve the problem. I can point out that it is wrong to put Libya in charge of a human rights commission. However that should not be read to mean I have a better solution.
Evil is negative. Therefore your sqrt(evil) results in an imaginary number. (But see the third point, which might override this criticism)
Second, it is love of money that is the root of all evil. Money by itself is just fine.
Third, why are you assuming squareroot? Why not cubic roots? Or something higher? More justification is needed before you can make that step.
Oh, you are not fooling anyone, this is slashdot. Everyone knows that you don't have any female friends.
That isn't my experience. I had to pry the heatsink off the northbridge of one of my machines to get the model number off the chip which I could then google for to find the driver. Linux just installs and works.
Of course if you stick with the OS installed on the machine you are fine, but that isn't always what you need. The machine in question had a nice "Designed for Windows 2000" sticker on it, yet the latest MSDN windows 2000 cd did not have drivers.
Who knows anything about energy policy other than oil (and coal and...) execs? Who knows anything about privacy other than privacy invaders? Who knows anything about drugs other than drug companies?
Seriously, I know gas prices affect me, but I don't know enough about energy policy to write a good one. In fact my knowledge of the issue is so small that an oil exec will write a better policy than me. Now I could get the information to write a good policy, but it would take several years.
The question should be how to we keep the experts from using their knowledge to screw us.
Since you still can't make it translate that simple sentence to English correctly. Hint: you should have used "an", not "a".
P.S. betting is now open for how many people will correct the mistakes I made, who would have ignored it had I not started it by correcting someone else.
I hate to break this to you, but MS Windows and Mac GUIs also have to do context switches when doing drawing. X has no weakness here. It is easy to tell if a system doesn't do context switching to do drawing: it crashes all the time. You cannot allow direct hardware access to user software and maintain a stable system.
Frivolous lawsuits can get lawyers disbarred. I think a judge has done this - that is one judge once.
Once in a while a lawyer will be fined for bringing a frivolous lawsuit, but not often. Being lawyers, they tend to fight as much as they can.
Whats wrong with joining the Democrats or the Republicans? Fact is until you get to the national level both parties are rules by people like you and me who decide to do something.
When my parents moved the local party begged him to be president again even though the rules stated he would have to resign when the moved happened.
Course if you go to a party meeting you will discover something else: people do not agree. Even at the local level where people are self selected to be close to the party already, and there are only 10 people (representing a town of 3000!), arguments are long. Still, our government happens first in those rooms with the locals.
Seriously, money only works in politics so long as you let it. When you inform yourself of the issues and then go vote you start to change that. When you go one more and talk about issues you start scaring politicians. Go one more step and join a party can get your issues on the platform and the money works for you.
Sit on slashdot and whine about congress, corruption, and big money - you loose.
I'm hired and paid to make the company money.
Read that again.
Now my talents are in computer programing, and it is a waste of everyone's time if I spend more than a few moments balancing my companies accounts. An accountant can do that better and faster. However it is also a waste for me to call an accountant when I need a USB cable or some such. It is a better use of everyone's time if I just order the cable and enter it into the books. (Best Buy is just around the corner, I can be back before the purchasing guy reads my request) The accountant will check the math latter, but the data is there.
However to give me that ability means the books need to be open to me. I should not have access to accounting data, but it is easier for everyone if I have full access.
Even in the small 10 person company I work for I don't get to know how much money my co-workers make. It means that the books are closed, so I can't enter my USB cable myself, I have to get someone else to enter it. (and in fact someone else ends up buying it)
Don't forget the other big downside. If the company officers are keeping two sets of books I don't know that. Therefore I can't blow the whistle on them. (If there is fraud and you are an officer in the company this is good, to the investors which might include my retirement account this is bad) I also have no clue if my stock options (I wish...) that seem high today will pull and Enron before they vest.
I haven't done benchmarks, but my guess is the Cisco router is an order of magnitude SLOWER processing any one socket. Cisco optimizes their products for passing packets based on the IP header. They rarely look at the TCP/UDP part at all.
Often IP routing is done in hardware, but there is a slow trap called for every packet destined to the router. The CPU then slowly switches modes, processes the packet, and deals with it. Since the router should never receive many packets they put little effort into optimizing this part of the process. Linux by comparison often runs things like a webserver, meaning it often has to process a packet destined for it, so they put effort into this part.
Simple economics, and programing 101. Do not optimize code that is rarely used. Cisco managers should fire anyone who wastes time optimize code that isn't a bottleneck.
Note that firewalls muck this up a little because the CPU may need to process many packets, but they still are not packets destined for the router.
Even when making the worst Vodka they take care to make it safe for humans to drink. (at least in small quantities, but I'll assume you know better than to OD) When you are only going to run it through an engine they don't care if it has some deadly leftovers from the production process in it. In fact they put poison in it so that you can't drink it. (If you can drink it the taxes go up)
If you care about performance numbers. Truth is my Geo Metro running on just 2 cylinders (missing on the other) still out accelerates traffic most of the time because people rarely use the power their engine can give. (To merge on the freeway safely I need to floor it from the moment the light turns green. merging on the freeway is one of the most common times I accelerate from a red, so I'm in that habit)
Yeah, but that is accounted for in the studies. Farmers don't like to use that stuff because it costs them money to buy. They now use satellites and other technology to decide where to use fertilizer. Each area (10 square feet IIRC) gets a different amount depending on what it needs.
Sure is one all-powerful form that controls everything: form hj-8452-lk-1, "Request to control issuance of forms."
Since red tape makes the universe run, he who controls who has a form controls the universe.