I think you are probably beter off working within the two existing parties than trying to start a third party. The third party won't win and the in meantime, you just draw off votes from the people who are most closely your allies.
No offense, but this is a very shallow statement. You're saying not to pick the best person for the job but pick one of the two that you hate the least.
There are other voting methods that would allow for a third party candidate to make it into office. I'm unsure as to what it's called, but essentially it doesn't deal with an absolute candidate. You vote for all of the candidates on the bill that you believe would suit the job. So you can vote for the democratic or republican candidate and still vote for whatever third party you want as well. For that matter you can also vote both republican and democrat if you feel that both would be well suited for the job. After all is said and done, then the votes are tallied and then you have who the people would really like to have in office. This way if you want a libertarian candidate in office but don't want a republican in office you don't have to pull your vote away from the democratic party to vote libertarian, you can vote for both.. and then in the event of a tie then you have a run off of the two (or whatever number) of candidates that are tied.
If people weren't so afraid of "wasting" their vote, more people would vote for the right candidates. But here's the thing to remember.. if you are worrying about "wasting" your vote, it's no more of a waste to vote for who you really want than it is to vote for the lesser of two evils and still lose.
I remember back around 6 years or so ago there was a company called FreePC that was giving away free computers and all you had to do was keep advertisements on your screen and use it so many hours a month. They also gave you free internet (dial up) access. I signed up for it and received mine, and those advertisements were annoying as heck.. but hey, I got a completely new computer for free.. no shipping or anything, I just had to put up with having my resolution set at 1024x768 and only getting to use 800x600 of it since the left side and bottom were taken up by advertisements.
Funny side note to the story was that the company went under after only a few months of sending me my computer and they sent a letter stating that I could remove the advertisements (which was just an executable that you could disable through msconfig) and keep the computer. That was right when netZero started up and they had the same type of advertisements for their free internet, but instead of taking up the left side and bottom it just took up the left side.
The conspiracy theorists think that HAARP is a project by the government to control the weather and use the weather as instruments of mass destruction. A weather weapon..
Gentoo has excellent documentation for installing their OS whether you are choosing the more difficult installation or the canned installation. Not only that, if you have a problem the forums that they have set up is superiour. It seemed like any question I had was answered within a few hours of asking, sometimes minutes.
Not that I see this as a big problem for people here, but my thing on this issue (aside from it being another hit on our rights in this country) is that there will be people out there that will have an unsecured wireless access point in their homes that could suffer undue legal actions. I highly doubt someone will carry on with "terrorist" actions in their own homes if they find out that John Smith down the street just got a brand new wireless access point and knows little about computers and security. The apethetic reasoning would say, well hey they should learn, but we all know that won't happen. So what you are going to have are people that will have log records kept of activity that they aren't even performing. Then when the good ol' guvment comes to prosecute, how will they defend themselves? And if they can't prosecute with logs alone, how will it help them catch the real criminals.
At a time when wireless access should be becoming more and more prevelant, they are passing laws that are going to make people think twice about letting people use their own access points or tracking what those individuals do.
The scary thing is that if you are a windows user, what's the stop M$ from requiring any updates and patches to come through this new P2P system, thus making it almost mandatory to install it on your system if you ever want to update your OS.
Microsoft doesn't want to compete, they want to force.
Theft is theft. No matter how crappy Windows might be, no matter how overpriced, it does not give anyone the right to steal it. There are materials and expenses that go into creating software just as much as there is a car. While you may not have the expense of metals and vinyls and plastics like you would in a car, you still have a different type of expense. Stealing is stealing, end of story.
"Microsoft is being realistic. They can't force developing countries like us to solely use legal software since we can't afford it. They want us to gradually reduce our use of it."
I wonder how many people this would work for if they didn't pay their taxes to their government? What if they citizens sent them a letter stating that they can't force them to send them money since they can't afford to pay it. That has to be the most idiotic statement I have ever read. Of course it is great in their eyes. If they want software that doesn't cost money they should switch to a free OS and not pirate copies since they "can't afford it".. hey.. I can't afford a new car. Mine is breaking down all the time, I have a family of five.. but I doubt anyone would have pity on me if I went out and stole a car from a manufacturer.
I don't write them down because I generate passwords with a little app that I wrote that scrambles together 2 or 3 passwords I can remember and generates a upper/lower/number/letter/symbol password for my usage... but I don't see a problem with writing down a password. I would probably keep it in my wallet or whatever and not just have it laying around. Maybe even do something clever like make all the consanants upper case and the vowels lower case but write it down in reverse, or add two to the numbers and keep all numbers 0-7.. you could get clever with it and still keep it simple to decode.
I work for the local government, and it's interesting you bring this point up. My first day my boss told me that I would find this job a lot less stressful as a programmer than in the private sector because government wasn't in the business of making money but was in the business of spending it. I had to quietly chuckle..
And I don't think a dude and a dudette deserve to die because they used an astonishingly-ill-designed fake lightsabre.
Deserve has nothing to do with it. This is natures way of adding a little chlorine to the gene pool. People should realize anytime that someone says "Hey, this would be awesome!".. you might want to sit and think about it a little while.
I'm from the southern US, and anytime I hear the words "Hey ya'll watch this!".. I run!
Why would someone take the kind of chance that is required to be an IT professional. I have been a programmer for around 10 years now and have just recently got a stable job with the government, but right before that I spent a year working little small minimum wage jobs trying to find work to feed my family. During the years that I was making good money things were great, but they didn't last too long before things took a nose dive. Why would anyone want a career doing something that is so unstable. Not to mention the fact that you have to constantly grow or you will die. There is no way that you can be stagnant in the IT field and still expect to work somewhere else later. Not to mention the constant attention that offshoring is getting and how our jobs are being lost everyday to that. Why the hell would ANYONE want to work IT with that type of worry.
Yup.. I have the right to kill them, eat them and use their fur for clothing if I so choose.. the same way a lion would with an elk.. though I haven't seen too many lions in elks clothing.. at any rate they eat the elk, so I feel it's my right to eat deer.
Actually killing someone in your home can not be in protection of your home but rather in protection of your family. The individual has to have a weapon on his or her person and you have to be in fear for your life or the lives of your family to be able to legally kill that person. I hardly think a camper constitutes threatning. Be that as it may, taken that into consideration what about the many attacks on humans that are in their own yard. Alligators, bears, large cats (ie bob cats, panthers, etc.). Or do we label only certain animals innocent.
Animals live off of instinct. They don't have silly laws or things of that nature. And they will kill whenever they feel the need arises. And that need comes in many forms, but among those forms food. Which most hunters who hunt on foot use the animals for. There are trophy hunters, don't get me wrong, but most hunters eat the meat and feed their families with the animals they kill. A hungry bear would have no problem eating you.. trust me..
whereas tracking and killing innocent animals on foot is just fine.
Innocent animals. Anyone that even remotely thinks this has never been out in the woods camping and ran across a bear, or even yes a deer can be quite aggresive. I don't agree with the whole sit on your butt and shoot from a computer, but hey, if you wanna do it have a private club or something on private land then its your choice of what you do in my opinion. But don't call animals innocent.. if you do it's obvious that the only animals you have seen are either domesticated or in zoos (or the discovery channel.. weeeee.. actually they do a pretty good portrayal of animals for the most part).. this is grizzly adams, signing off..
I found this not too long ago, it's a google parody and any website you put into it gets converted into Snoop Dog website. Check it out.
http://www.gizoogle.com/
I mean since mice can't talk how do they know how this affects their memories? The normal human brain cannot go without oxygen for 5 minutes, and while oxygen wouldn't be completely cut off from the brain, it would still be greatly reduced. I wonder if this would send the brain into a "skeleton system" type of environment where it keeps on only the bare essentials to survive and therefore shuts out memories. Humans breathe roughly 12 - 20 times per minute, if we apply the rate change of the mouse (1/12 it's normal rate) then humans would be breathing between 1 and 1.5 times a minute. I wonder if this would be enough oxygen for the brain to retain everything that it needs so when the person wakes up they can still perfrom their lives and jobs.
Well the guy states in his faq 1(which is a little hard to find) that according to a law setup in the UN 1967 Outer Space Treaty that no government body can own extraterrestrial property, but gave no indication about individuals.
So I dunno how it would fare in court one way or another.. but I have a feeling we might find out if a lunar base comes to pass.
This is going to be interesting to see how the man that "laid claim" to the moon is going to handle people that he's sold property to. I wonder how he will respond to the government building a base on "his" territory..
Hmmm wonder if this will turn into a court battle?
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I think you are probably beter off working within the two existing parties than trying to start a third party. The third party won't win and the in meantime, you just draw off votes from the people who are most closely your allies. No offense, but this is a very shallow statement. You're saying not to pick the best person for the job but pick one of the two that you hate the least. There are other voting methods that would allow for a third party candidate to make it into office. I'm unsure as to what it's called, but essentially it doesn't deal with an absolute candidate. You vote for all of the candidates on the bill that you believe would suit the job. So you can vote for the democratic or republican candidate and still vote for whatever third party you want as well. For that matter you can also vote both republican and democrat if you feel that both would be well suited for the job. After all is said and done, then the votes are tallied and then you have who the people would really like to have in office. This way if you want a libertarian candidate in office but don't want a republican in office you don't have to pull your vote away from the democratic party to vote libertarian, you can vote for both.. and then in the event of a tie then you have a run off of the two (or whatever number) of candidates that are tied. If people weren't so afraid of "wasting" their vote, more people would vote for the right candidates. But here's the thing to remember.. if you are worrying about "wasting" your vote, it's no more of a waste to vote for who you really want than it is to vote for the lesser of two evils and still lose.
I remember back around 6 years or so ago there was a company called FreePC that was giving away free computers and all you had to do was keep advertisements on your screen and use it so many hours a month. They also gave you free internet (dial up) access. I signed up for it and received mine, and those advertisements were annoying as heck.. but hey, I got a completely new computer for free.. no shipping or anything, I just had to put up with having my resolution set at 1024x768 and only getting to use 800x600 of it since the left side and bottom were taken up by advertisements.
Funny side note to the story was that the company went under after only a few months of sending me my computer and they sent a letter stating that I could remove the advertisements (which was just an executable that you could disable through msconfig) and keep the computer. That was right when netZero started up and they had the same type of advertisements for their free internet, but instead of taking up the left side and bottom it just took up the left side.
The conspiracy theorists think that HAARP is a project by the government to control the weather and use the weather as instruments of mass destruction. A weather weapon..
I think it was the enlarged foot with hair still growing out of it next to the jaw that was a dead give away.
Gentoo has excellent documentation for installing their OS whether you are choosing the more difficult installation or the canned installation. Not only that, if you have a problem the forums that they have set up is superiour. It seemed like any question I had was answered within a few hours of asking, sometimes minutes.
Not that I see this as a big problem for people here, but my thing on this issue (aside from it being another hit on our rights in this country) is that there will be people out there that will have an unsecured wireless access point in their homes that could suffer undue legal actions. I highly doubt someone will carry on with "terrorist" actions in their own homes if they find out that John Smith down the street just got a brand new wireless access point and knows little about computers and security. The apethetic reasoning would say, well hey they should learn, but we all know that won't happen. So what you are going to have are people that will have log records kept of activity that they aren't even performing. Then when the good ol' guvment comes to prosecute, how will they defend themselves? And if they can't prosecute with logs alone, how will it help them catch the real criminals.
At a time when wireless access should be becoming more and more prevelant, they are passing laws that are going to make people think twice about letting people use their own access points or tracking what those individuals do.
The scary thing is that if you are a windows user, what's the stop M$ from requiring any updates and patches to come through this new P2P system, thus making it almost mandatory to install it on your system if you ever want to update your OS. Microsoft doesn't want to compete, they want to force.
Theft is theft. No matter how crappy Windows might be, no matter how overpriced, it does not give anyone the right to steal it. There are materials and expenses that go into creating software just as much as there is a car. While you may not have the expense of metals and vinyls and plastics like you would in a car, you still have a different type of expense. Stealing is stealing, end of story.
"Microsoft is being realistic. They can't force developing countries like us to solely use legal software since we can't afford it. They want us to gradually reduce our use of it."
.. hey.. I can't afford a new car. Mine is breaking down all the time, I have a family of five.. but I doubt anyone would have pity on me if I went out and stole a car from a manufacturer.
I wonder how many people this would work for if they didn't pay their taxes to their government? What if they citizens sent them a letter stating that they can't force them to send them money since they can't afford to pay it. That has to be the most idiotic statement I have ever read. Of course it is great in their eyes. If they want software that doesn't cost money they should switch to a free OS and not pirate copies since they "can't afford it"
I don't write them down because I generate passwords with a little app that I wrote that scrambles together 2 or 3 passwords I can remember and generates a upper/lower/number/letter/symbol password for my usage... but I don't see a problem with writing down a password. I would probably keep it in my wallet or whatever and not just have it laying around. Maybe even do something clever like make all the consanants upper case and the vowels lower case but write it down in reverse, or add two to the numbers and keep all numbers 0-7 .. you could get clever with it and still keep it simple to decode.
I work for the local government, and it's interesting you bring this point up. My first day my boss told me that I would find this job a lot less stressful as a programmer than in the private sector because government wasn't in the business of making money but was in the business of spending it. I had to quietly chuckle..
And I don't think a dude and a dudette deserve to die because they used an astonishingly-ill-designed fake lightsabre.
.. you might want to sit and think about it a little while.
.. I run!
Deserve has nothing to do with it. This is natures way of adding a little chlorine to the gene pool. People should realize anytime that someone says "Hey, this would be awesome!"
I'm from the southern US, and anytime I hear the words "Hey ya'll watch this!"
This has been out for years, it's called Windows XP Activation.
We are the Borg. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Resistance is futile.
We should show them the /. effect and send nothing but linux security questions on how to fortify your linux distro ;-)
Why would someone take the kind of chance that is required to be an IT professional. I have been a programmer for around 10 years now and have just recently got a stable job with the government, but right before that I spent a year working little small minimum wage jobs trying to find work to feed my family. During the years that I was making good money things were great, but they didn't last too long before things took a nose dive. Why would anyone want a career doing something that is so unstable. Not to mention the fact that you have to constantly grow or you will die. There is no way that you can be stagnant in the IT field and still expect to work somewhere else later. Not to mention the constant attention that offshoring is getting and how our jobs are being lost everyday to that. Why the hell would ANYONE want to work IT with that type of worry.
Yup.. I have the right to kill them, eat them and use their fur for clothing if I so choose.. the same way a lion would with an elk.. though I haven't seen too many lions in elks clothing.. at any rate they eat the elk, so I feel it's my right to eat deer.
You mean that's not normal? >.>
heh, ummm yah.. cuz.. umm.. yah that's never happened to me or anything.. just.. umm.. curious.. yah.. curious.. heh.. >.>
Actually killing someone in your home can not be in protection of your home but rather in protection of your family. The individual has to have a weapon on his or her person and you have to be in fear for your life or the lives of your family to be able to legally kill that person. I hardly think a camper constitutes threatning. Be that as it may, taken that into consideration what about the many attacks on humans that are in their own yard. Alligators, bears, large cats (ie bob cats, panthers, etc.). Or do we label only certain animals innocent. Animals live off of instinct. They don't have silly laws or things of that nature. And they will kill whenever they feel the need arises. And that need comes in many forms, but among those forms food. Which most hunters who hunt on foot use the animals for. There are trophy hunters, don't get me wrong, but most hunters eat the meat and feed their families with the animals they kill. A hungry bear would have no problem eating you.. trust me..
whereas tracking and killing innocent animals on foot is just fine.
Innocent animals. Anyone that even remotely thinks this has never been out in the woods camping and ran across a bear, or even yes a deer can be quite aggresive. I don't agree with the whole sit on your butt and shoot from a computer, but hey, if you wanna do it have a private club or something on private land then its your choice of what you do in my opinion. But don't call animals innocent.. if you do it's obvious that the only animals you have seen are either domesticated or in zoos (or the discovery channel.. weeeee.. actually they do a pretty good portrayal of animals for the most part).. this is grizzly adams, signing off..
I found this not too long ago, it's a google parody and any website you put into it gets converted into Snoop Dog website. Check it out. http://www.gizoogle.com/
I mean since mice can't talk how do they know how this affects their memories? The normal human brain cannot go without oxygen for 5 minutes, and while oxygen wouldn't be completely cut off from the brain, it would still be greatly reduced. I wonder if this would send the brain into a "skeleton system" type of environment where it keeps on only the bare essentials to survive and therefore shuts out memories. Humans breathe roughly 12 - 20 times per minute, if we apply the rate change of the mouse (1/12 it's normal rate) then humans would be breathing between 1 and 1.5 times a minute. I wonder if this would be enough oxygen for the brain to retain everything that it needs so when the person wakes up they can still perfrom their lives and jobs.
They've been doing this for years, taking old eggs and creating life from them.. they are called Sea Monkeys
:-)
Well the guy states in his faq 1(which is a little hard to find) that according to a law setup in the UN 1967 Outer Space Treaty that no government body can own extraterrestrial property, but gave no indication about individuals. So I dunno how it would fare in court one way or another.. but I have a feeling we might find out if a lunar base comes to pass.
This is going to be interesting to see how the man that "laid claim" to the moon is going to handle people that he's sold property to. I wonder how he will respond to the government building a base on "his" territory.. Hmmm wonder if this will turn into a court battle?