What you're really talking about is a government monopoly over oil, coal, et cetera. That is no better than a Comcast monopoly. It has exactly the same flaws, with the additional flaw that government doesn't listen to the people (it just takes the money directly from your paycheck).
It makes a lot more sense to sub-divide those things across multiple owners, and have those owners compete for your business. That provides the People with the *most direct* method of control - the power of the purse. If you don't like company A's practices, withhold your money. Stop buying the product.
Or continue buying the product, but instead choose company B, C, D,..., X, Y, or Z. THAT is true pro-choice and true power to the people.
>>>we had clean high-speed electric trains and buses and cars
They're not clean. They output the same amount of pollution, just that it's located at a central coal-to-electric factory instead of at the car. I'm an Environmentalist myself, but I don't support lying about the truth. EVs still pollute.
Nor do I think trains are practical. If I had to rely on a train to get me to work, I'd be out of luck. There's no room to lay train rails in my area, furthermore it's doubtful that a train would run from my Lancaster suburb across the river to the York suburb where I live. A train can't serve every house the way that a car can.
Be environmentalist, like me, but don't be stupid about it. Cars are still the most-flexible solution since they are not "tied down" to a set route, or set time. Also the absolute cleanest cars in the world are the 70mpg Honda Insight and the Civic GX (and possibly the 88mpg VW Lupo 3L). Not an EV1 which is powered by 75% coal, 20% CNG, and 5% nuclear, and overall no cleaner than a Prius. Although it is better than an EV train; their frequent starts-and-stops means they only average 15mpg per person according to EPA.gov.
>>>no more traffic accidents (or at least many fewer),
No instead you'd have trains collide head-on because the lazy engineer was text-messaging instead of watching the road, and therefore lots of lots of innocent passengers got killed. (referece recent U.S. accident). I feel a LOT safer when I'm behind the wheel. I drive on split-highways (safest mode of travel) and with extreme caution.
I've worked a lot of different locations (Oklahoma, Michigan, Virginia, South Carolina, New York, New Jersey, and in only one of those places would a train have worked. In all the rest there was simply no room to support the required steel rails a train requires.
>>>$35,000 is more than I make in a year and a half. Get over it.
You earn just over $20,000 a year? What is your job? Professional panhandler??? Or maybe you're the guy who stands on the corner and washes people's windows even though the window is already perfectly clean.
I imagine they are discussing those so-called "domestic terrorists" who believe such wacky ideas like "Don't Tread on Me", or that the Constitution is the Supreme Law, or that Human Rights are inalienable, or that juries have the power to nullify prosecution brought against innocent persons. ( http://www.pa-aware.org/who-are-terrorists/domestic-6.asp [pa-aware.org] )
Judas Priest. And I imagine they are discussing those so-called "domestic terrorists" who believe such wacky ideas like "Don't Tread on Me", or that the Constitution is the Supreme Law, or that Human Rights are inalienable, or that juries have the power to nullify prosecution brought against innocent persons. ( http://www.pa-aware.org/who-are-terrorists/domestic-6.asp )
I didn't think of that because my laptop doesn't have a battery. I sold it for $50 on ebay and as a result, the actual laptop is always plugged-into a wall socket in my hotel, or in my office. I never thought of the battery issue.
It would make more sense to sub-divide the printer driver into twenty or thirty drivers, one for each format, and only load the one or two drivers you actually use, that way it only occupies ~2.5 megabytes of RAM rather than 50.
In addition the drivers would only load as needed, rather than at bootup. I don't even own a printer, so having the printer driver loaded is silly.
Henry David Thoreau is famous for his "Walden Pond" work, but he also wrote treatises on civil disobedience. A true citizen should be willing to spend time in prison in order to fight immoral laws. As happened with Ghandi and Martin Luther King.
In addition a law that is unConstitutional is no law at all. (According to the U.S. Supreme Court.) It is null-and-void.
That's fine, but it also helps if you actually READ the law. The U.S. Supreme Court has affirmed time-and-time again that photos of naked children are not illegal. They are protected by free speech, and that's why nudist sites exist. It's why some child actors like Brooke Shields ran-around naked in their movies. It's not illegal to be without clothes.
They only time a naked child becomes illegal is if an adult forces the child to have sex, because a minor (17 or less) can not give consent. But nudity is a natural state. It's how we're born, and not obscene.
Worthless. Really? Let's consider then: How would you watch Heroes HD without broadcast television? Could you watch it via NBC.com? No, not really. 30 million people watch that show on Monday night, and it streams at 15 megabit/second over the airwaves. That's approximately 500,000 gigabit of bandwidth in total. No way could NBC.com or any other website handle that load.
BROADcasting is still the most-efficient ways to distribute (versus single-casting). Using broadcasting, NBC can send-out just 200 copies of Heroes via 200 stations distributed over the continent, and reaching 99% of the U.S. population. That's far more efficient than sending out 30,000,000 copies of the show via internet.
One final thought:
Whitespace Devices won't just block over-the-air television. They will also block your Cable television, or at least severely degrade the image, as the WSD signals leak into the exposed jacks hanging off your walls or set-top boxes.
By that reasoning, the government could to confiscate your car, because your exhaust is FAR more polluting to my lungs, than a single cigarette. Fortunately for you, the Congress doesn't have the power to confiscate either cars or cigarettes. That power lies with the individual States of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Missouri, and so on.
>>>Fuck the Constitution.
I cannot. I swore an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the U.S. Constitution as the ultimate voice of the people. If you want to amend the constitution, that's fine, but ignoring the constitution is not and never will be an option. It's the SUPREME Law of the Land, and laws do not exist simply to be ignored.
Given your attitude towards the Constitution, you would have a hard time swearing an oath, since you so clearly disrespect the Will of the People as embodied by that document. That is truly sad, and I hope as you grow older your attitude will change, and you will come to realize how important both the U.S. Constitution and the 50 State Constitutions are.
Well there is at least ONE positive thing to come out of Australia: Abby Winters dot-com ----- Of course if the Aussies "turn on" their filter Miss Winters will probably no longer be available.:-(
>>>I think child-naked picture without sex is shady enough that I would not want to have even that.
Okay. Here's a challenge for you. Go here and tell me how this is morally wrong? http://www.purenudism.com/free-nudist-pictures.html ----- I don't see a single image there that depicts sex. These are3 just family photos!
And as I said before, a human body is God's creation. To label God's artistry as "obscene" is an insult to the Creator.
I used to think of Australia as one of the freest nations in the world (in some respects, even more free than the U.S. itself). What the hell happened???
There is NO leftover frequency space. Every channel from 2 to 51 already has a digital television station assigned to it. What whitespace devices are about is broadcasting *overtop* of the existing television channels, which is incredibly stupid, because they will block the picture.
>>>If the majority wants smoking banned and it isn't unconstitutional who am I to say it's wrong?
You've framed the question wrong. It should be, "Is a smoking ban Constitutional?" I don't know about other countries, but in these United States the answer is "no". The Congress has not been granted the authority to ban smoking. That power lies with the 50 State governments, or the People.
Post by Pig Hogger shouldn't be marked "troll" or "flamebait". He's voiced EXACTLY what I was thinking. I just read an article about how the U.S.-FCC wants to gradually phasing-out free television and replacing it with subscription-only whitespace devices.
Meanwhile Australia is trying to dumb-down the internet (via filtering) so it's harmless fluff even a 5-year-old could read. Government is supposed to be "of, by, and for the People" and instead they seem to be working for Google, Microsoft, et cetera. - Of, by, and for the Corporations.
>>>You're being overly literal to score points with the anti-Windows crowd.
He's also being a major-league asshole. He doesn't know how easy my XP is to install. How could he? He's never even touched my machine and has *no clue* how it easy it works. Damn Cylon bastard.
Anyway I've got an XP laptop which I can sacrifice to a pure-Ubuntu Linux install. I'll try that sometime during my Christmas break when I have time to kill.
>>>>> I like the ease of just clicking "install" and everything automagically takes care of itself. (Like my Windows XP disc.)
>> It's not and you idiots can keep replying here as much as you want but it doesn't change the fact that windows is not a click install.
MY versions of Windows XP is that simple. 3 steps (insert CD and click install, type username, remove disc when done). That's all it takes. Who are YOU to disagree with my statement? Are you in my room? Looking over my shoulder? Do you even own a Dell Dimension with dual-hard drive RAID system? Hell no. So frak off.
You remind me of a damn Democrat politician, who thinks HE knows better than I do, how I should run my own life ("let the government take care of you like a daddy"). I'm not an idiot. I'm not a child. Don't talk down to me like I am.
What you describe below is identical to what happens when I reinstall XP onto my HP machine. With just few minor modifications.
>>>Ubuntu on the other hand contains much less steps >>>1) Pop in disk >>>2) click on the install icon and choose your keyboard, location, username and password >>>3)..... >>>4) Wait for installer to finish then restart taking out the disk
The grandparent was correct that you put-in a bunch of nonsense (lies) in order to boost your case. Reinstalling XP on my machine is ridiculously easy.
That doesn't make any sense. Memory is measured in base 2 (gibibytes). If Ubuntu is also using base 2, it should report 4 GiB. If it uses base 10, it should report 4.3 gigabytes.
>>>For example, my Mac will go from startup to login in half the time of either Vista
Macintosh has the advantage of being a sole-source system, where the design is strictly regulated by Apple. IBM PCs have the disadvantage of being a mishmash of thousands of different hardware suppliers, many of which don't cooperate, and the Windows OS has to be the "mediator" between all these noncompatible devices.
So Windows has to operate more slowly, just trying to handle the negotiation, and getting all these random hardware pieces talking to one another.
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>>>protection of large-scale commons.
What you're really talking about is a government monopoly over oil, coal, et cetera. That is no better than a Comcast monopoly. It has exactly the same flaws, with the additional flaw that government doesn't listen to the people (it just takes the money directly from your paycheck).
It makes a lot more sense to sub-divide those things across multiple owners, and have those owners compete for your business. That provides the People with the *most direct* method of control - the power of the purse. If you don't like company A's practices, withhold your money. Stop buying the product.
Or continue buying the product, but instead choose company B, C, D, ..., X, Y, or Z. THAT is true pro-choice and true power to the people.
>>>we had clean high-speed electric trains and buses and cars
They're not clean. They output the same amount of pollution, just that it's located at a central coal-to-electric factory instead of at the car. I'm an Environmentalist myself, but I don't support lying about the truth. EVs still pollute.
Nor do I think trains are practical. If I had to rely on a train to get me to work, I'd be out of luck. There's no room to lay train rails in my area, furthermore it's doubtful that a train would run from my Lancaster suburb across the river to the York suburb where I live. A train can't serve every house the way that a car can.
Be environmentalist, like me, but don't be stupid about it. Cars are still the most-flexible solution since they are not "tied down" to a set route, or set time. Also the absolute cleanest cars in the world are the 70mpg Honda Insight and the Civic GX (and possibly the 88mpg VW Lupo 3L). Not an EV1 which is powered by 75% coal, 20% CNG, and 5% nuclear, and overall no cleaner than a Prius. Although it is better than an EV train; their frequent starts-and-stops means they only average 15mpg per person according to EPA.gov.
>>>no more traffic accidents (or at least many fewer),
No instead you'd have trains collide head-on because the lazy engineer was text-messaging instead of watching the road, and therefore lots of lots of innocent passengers got killed. (referece recent U.S. accident). I feel a LOT safer when I'm behind the wheel. I drive on split-highways (safest mode of travel) and with extreme caution.
I've worked a lot of different locations (Oklahoma, Michigan, Virginia, South Carolina, New York, New Jersey, and in only one of those places would a train have worked. In all the rest there was simply no room to support the required steel rails a train requires.
>>>$35,000 is more than I make in a year and a half. Get over it.
You earn just over $20,000 a year? What is your job? Professional panhandler??? Or maybe you're the guy who stands on the corner and washes people's windows even though the window is already perfectly clean.
Get thee to a better job.
I imagine they are discussing those so-called "domestic terrorists" who believe such wacky ideas like "Don't Tread on Me", or that the Constitution is the Supreme Law, or that Human Rights are inalienable, or that juries have the power to nullify prosecution brought against innocent persons. ( http://www.pa-aware.org/who-are-terrorists/domestic-6.asp [pa-aware.org] )
>>>Twitter as a potential terrorist tool.
Judas Priest. And I imagine they are discussing those so-called "domestic terrorists" who believe such wacky ideas like "Don't Tread on Me", or that the Constitution is the Supreme Law, or that Human Rights are inalienable, or that juries have the power to nullify prosecution brought against innocent persons. ( http://www.pa-aware.org/who-are-terrorists/domestic-6.asp )
Good point. +1.
I didn't think of that because my laptop doesn't have a battery. I sold it for $50 on ebay and as a result, the actual laptop is always plugged-into a wall socket in my hotel, or in my office. I never thought of the battery issue.
It would make more sense to sub-divide the printer driver into twenty or thirty drivers, one for each format, and only load the one or two drivers you actually use, that way it only occupies ~2.5 megabytes of RAM rather than 50.
In addition the drivers would only load as needed, rather than at bootup. I don't even own a printer, so having the printer driver loaded is silly.
Stupid. Bunch of cowards afraid to see the human body. What about Michaelangelo's "David"? He's an underage "child" of about 15.
Will his image be censored from Australian internet too? Probably. This is the modern-day equivalent of burning books or burning "degenerate" arts.
>>>unless I want to go to jail.
Henry David Thoreau is famous for his "Walden Pond" work, but he also wrote treatises on civil disobedience. A true citizen should be willing to spend time in prison in order to fight immoral laws. As happened with Ghandi and Martin Luther King.
In addition a law that is unConstitutional is no law at all. (According to the U.S. Supreme Court.) It is null-and-void.
That's fine, but it also helps if you actually READ the law. The U.S. Supreme Court has affirmed time-and-time again that photos of naked children are not illegal. They are protected by free speech, and that's why nudist sites exist. It's why some child actors like Brooke Shields ran-around naked in their movies. It's not illegal to be without clothes.
They only time a naked child becomes illegal is if an adult forces the child to have sex, because a minor (17 or less) can not give consent. But nudity is a natural state. It's how we're born, and not obscene.
Worthless. Really? Let's consider then: How would you watch Heroes HD without broadcast television? Could you watch it via NBC.com? No, not really. 30 million people watch that show on Monday night, and it streams at 15 megabit/second over the airwaves. That's approximately 500,000 gigabit of bandwidth in total. No way could NBC.com or any other website handle that load.
BROADcasting is still the most-efficient ways to distribute (versus single-casting). Using broadcasting, NBC can send-out just 200 copies of Heroes via 200 stations distributed over the continent, and reaching 99% of the U.S. population. That's far more efficient than sending out 30,000,000 copies of the show via internet.
One final thought:
Whitespace Devices won't just block over-the-air television. They will also block your Cable television, or at least severely degrade the image, as the WSD signals leak into the exposed jacks hanging off your walls or set-top boxes.
By that reasoning, the government could to confiscate your car, because your exhaust is FAR more polluting to my lungs, than a single cigarette. Fortunately for you, the Congress doesn't have the power to confiscate either cars or cigarettes. That power lies with the individual States of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Missouri, and so on.
>>>Fuck the Constitution.
I cannot. I swore an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the U.S. Constitution as the ultimate voice of the people. If you want to amend the constitution, that's fine, but ignoring the constitution is not and never will be an option. It's the SUPREME Law of the Land, and laws do not exist simply to be ignored.
Given your attitude towards the Constitution, you would have a hard time swearing an oath, since you so clearly disrespect the Will of the People as embodied by that document. That is truly sad, and I hope as you grow older your attitude will change, and you will come to realize how important both the U.S. Constitution and the 50 State Constitutions are.
I'm suffering under a $35,000 a year tax burden. And that's just income tax; it doesn't include the dozens of other taxes.
Where are the people desiring to relieve my suffering?
Well there is at least ONE positive thing to come out of Australia: Abby Winters dot-com ----- Of course if the Aussies "turn on" their filter Miss Winters will probably no longer be available. :-(
Stupid Christian. Where do you get off imposing your morals on me??? Butt out bastard.
>>>I think child-naked picture without sex is shady enough that I would not want to have even that.
Okay. Here's a challenge for you. Go here and tell me how this is morally wrong? http://www.purenudism.com/free-nudist-pictures.html ----- I don't see a single image there that depicts sex. These are3 just family photos!
And as I said before, a human body is God's creation. To label God's artistry as "obscene" is an insult to the Creator.
I used to think of Australia as one of the freest nations in the world (in some respects, even more free than the U.S. itself). What the hell happened???
There is NO leftover frequency space. Every channel from 2 to 51 already has a digital television station assigned to it. What whitespace devices are about is broadcasting *overtop* of the existing television channels, which is incredibly stupid, because they will block the picture.
>>>If the majority wants smoking banned and it isn't unconstitutional who am I to say it's wrong?
You've framed the question wrong. It should be, "Is a smoking ban Constitutional?" I don't know about other countries, but in these United States the answer is "no". The Congress has not been granted the authority to ban smoking. That power lies with the 50 State governments, or the People.
Post by Pig Hogger shouldn't be marked "troll" or "flamebait". He's voiced EXACTLY what I was thinking. I just read an article about how the U.S.-FCC wants to gradually phasing-out free television and replacing it with subscription-only whitespace devices.
Meanwhile Australia is trying to dumb-down the internet (via filtering) so it's harmless fluff even a 5-year-old could read. Government is supposed to be "of, by, and for the People" and instead they seem to be working for Google, Microsoft, et cetera. - Of, by, and for the Corporations.
>>>You're being overly literal to score points with the anti-Windows crowd.
He's also being a major-league asshole. He doesn't know how easy my XP is to install. How could he? He's never even touched my machine and has *no clue* how it easy it works. Damn Cylon bastard.
Anyway I've got an XP laptop which I can sacrifice to a pure-Ubuntu Linux install. I'll try that sometime during my Christmas break when I have time to kill.
>>>>> I like the ease of just clicking "install" and everything automagically takes care of itself. (Like my Windows XP disc.)
>> It's not and you idiots can keep replying here as much as you want but it doesn't change the fact that windows is not a click install.
MY versions of Windows XP is that simple. 3 steps (insert CD and click install, type username, remove disc when done). That's all it takes. Who are YOU to disagree with my statement? Are you in my room? Looking over my shoulder? Do you even own a Dell Dimension with dual-hard drive RAID system? Hell no. So frak off.
You remind me of a damn Democrat politician, who thinks HE knows better than I do, how I should run my own life ("let the government take care of you like a daddy"). I'm not an idiot. I'm not a child. Don't talk down to me like I am.
I stand by my original statement as accurate.
What you describe below is identical to what happens when I reinstall XP onto my HP machine. With just few minor modifications.
>>>Ubuntu on the other hand contains much less steps .....
>>>1) Pop in disk
>>>2) click on the install icon and choose your keyboard, location, username and password
>>>3)
>>>4) Wait for installer to finish then restart taking out the disk
The grandparent was correct that you put-in a bunch of nonsense (lies) in order to boost your case. Reinstalling XP on my machine is ridiculously easy.
That doesn't make any sense. Memory is measured in base 2 (gibibytes). If Ubuntu is also using base 2, it should report 4 GiB. If it uses base 10, it should report 4.3 gigabytes.
It should never report less than 4.
>>>For example, my Mac will go from startup to login in half the time of either Vista
Macintosh has the advantage of being a sole-source system, where the design is strictly regulated by Apple. IBM PCs have the disadvantage of being a mishmash of thousands of different hardware suppliers, many of which don't cooperate, and the Windows OS has to be the "mediator" between all these noncompatible devices.
So Windows has to operate more slowly, just trying to handle the negotiation, and getting all these random hardware pieces talking to one another.