Just a pedantic correction to help make the task even harder. It's actually closer to 48 million bits for the "average 3.5 minute song". Almost no one uses 128kbit mp3s anymore with storage so cheap, 192kbit is more the norm. I just looked at an album here and average per track was over 70 million bits, but those were extended length remixes.
Fragmentation is of little concern with SSDs. The time needed to read out of order bits on a rotating media is much higher as we know, but reading bits out of order in memory or on SSD is almost identical to reading the bit beside it due to the low seek times. Also, partitioning schemes that try to keep the most often accessed files at the beginning of the media lose their edge for the same reason. A SSD has the same performance characteristics from the beginning to the end of the drive from 1% to 99% used capacity. Partitioning could actually shorten the lifespan of the drive, because it could prevent the wear-leveling algorithms from doing their job properly. You'd likely have the most often written to partition fail much sooner than the rest of the drive.
The bottom line will still be the same to the types of people that make those decisions. They'll only do it if it puts more money into their pockets. Make no mistake about it, the higher ups in power companies don't give a damn about you or me even having power to run our stoves. All they care about is their year end bonus check. If it costs more to reuse electricity than it would to just let it go to waste, 90% of them will just let it go without doing a thing.
IMO, I see things being exactly the opposite. I expect by 2030 the devices in our daily lives being more efficient. I don't expect that to cause a decrease in our total usage since we'll have more "devices", so I expect the average household power usage to increase but only slightly. And hopefully by then the people getting in the way of it will take their heads out of their asses and more nuclear power generation will exist.
I think this is a long ways off, and I'd imagine that if this starts happening, they'd start installing more/bigger transmission infrastructure, rather than a voluntary-shutoff communications infrastructure. They may even increase their connection fees to do so. The power company wouldn't want all that power to go to waste.
No they won't. We already have an electrical infrastructure that's out of date and overloaded because the distribution companies refuse to spend the money replacing some really expensive equipment. In Oct '06 I helped replace some pieces exactly of this type at a fossil plant, which is also older than it was designed to be in operation. We renovated 3 bays of a switch yard, with each bay consisting of 1 breaker and 3 sets of switches. Each new breaker had a cost of about $250k and each of the 9 per bay switches are about $50k. So a rough cost is $900k per bay. This doesn't include the lost revenues, man hours, and other required materials. In the end we replaced equipment for 8 bays in about 45 days of outage over a 2 year span. For that plant, 1 day of downtime is $1M of lost revenue. That's a hard one to sell to the man above you.
"We need to spend $100M to replace this equipment."
"Why? Has it exploded? Are we not selling power?"
"No. It's expired."
It's not like replacing a gallon of milk that's 2 weeks out of date. The oldest breaker we removed in fall of '06 was put into service in '53 and was designed to be there for 40 years. I think the latest manufacturing date I saw on one was '59. Which would mean when we removed it in '07 it was 7 years overdue for replacement.
All the old equipment was 161kv rated for 2000amps. What we replaced it with was rated for 3000amps. Getting them to upgrade the service stations due to increases sell back will be even more difficult.
"We need to spend $100M to replace this equipment."
"Why? Has it exploded? Are we not selling power?"
"No, it hasn't exploded, but no we're not really selling power anymore. You see, the people we sell power to are trying to sell us so much back that we can't handle the load."
How do you think that would go over in a behind closed doors meeting? They'd much rather throw that power into the ground and let it go to waste than have to spend ANY money to buy it back unless they can store it and sell it back to you for more than they paid for it.
Right now I'm using a laptop with 2 hard drives. Last summer, 2-3 months after buying it, I upgraded one of the drives to a 160GB Seagate Momentus 7200.2. At the time it was the fastest drive on the market. It's since been surpassed by the 200GB Hitachi Travelstar 7K200. With a transfer rate min 40-71.5MB/s max http://www.storagereview.com/HTS722020K9A00.sr?page=0%2C1 it's as fast or faster than these fancy new "oh so awesome" SSD drives. The only benefit would be power savings. Flash sucks. The Adobe driven ads and the RAM. It's too slow to be considered in the average device. Even the latest model 32 and 64GB flavors only come in at about 55MB/s http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/12/17/solid_state_drives/page5.html, but it is a steady transfer rate media wide.
My C drive currently has 40.8GB used on it. That could be trimmed (and 12GB of it is system restore garbage), but I'd still probably want a 32GB SSD drive to run Vista (XP doesn't like my hardware at all, too lazy to force it). I might even be able to get by with a 16GB drive if I uninstalled some large programs. But still let's go with your 8GB OS drive solution. The cheapest SATA SSD drive on NewEgg is an 8GB 2.5".1 watt $240 drive. Or I can get the fastest magnetic drive on the market, 200GB 2.5" 1.5watt idle/5watt load 7200rpm Hitachi 7K200 for $165. Seeing as my laptop has been plugged up 99% of its life and 2.5" drives are virtually inaudible, I know which I'd choose. Which would you choose?
The cheapest 16 and 32GB SATA SSD drives that I'd HAVE to have to run my laptop are $350 and $700 respectively. For either of those single drive prices I can buy one of the fastest AND one of the largest magnetic drives out right now, the $165 Hitachi 7K200 AND any of the 3 $140-$170 320GB drives (the largest out is not 500GB). Cost is the reason we can't/shouldn't have both. Flash drives are still niche tech. And that's why you can add one if you have to have it. But why would any retailer push anything they'd have to sell so hard?
Dell: "Here, this $500 option will give you 30 minute more battery life per charge."
Customer: "But isn't it less space? Why would I want that? Why does that cost more?"
Dell: "Yes. Because it's good for the environment? It's fancy technology!"
Customer: "I think I'll just get the $150 extended battery option."
Straight off Dell's website while customizing a laptop.
"Reliability: 64GB Solid State Drive and Speed:200GB SATA Hard Drive (7200RP [add $1,000 or $30/month1]"
The only reason I can think they wouldn't offer a smaller drive is it's really just too small. And it probably would cut into their profits.
Is there a scientific definition for life? I don't mean the using energy and waste - has dna - reproduces - want to will to survive stuff.
The ability of organic material to move, reproduce, utilize energy, do work, grow and die That is a scientific definition of life. You may be wanting a more full definition for sentience than tfd or dictionary.com provides. One is a biological question, the other is a philosophical.
I'm just curious your opinion of the story now that Bellsouth and Verizon have both denied turning over/being asked for the phone records. Did the USA Today screw up? Did some conspiracy theorist/individual "fighting to make America great agian" make the story up and then "leak" it to the USA Today? Or is this an expression of the PATRIOT ACT preventing those at Bellsouth and Verizon from making an official statement?
It's interesting that Slashdot decided to carry a story on Reporter Phone Records Being Used to Find Leaks yesterday but nothing of a mention today about Bellsouth and Verizon rebuking TFA to which our conversation in attached.
I do not hate America. I hate AmericaNS. Well, not all, but a lot of them. I hate niggers, annoying fags, bossy jews, stupid rednecks, and non-English speaking illegal immigrants. I'm fine with moderate Muslims, but can't stand pushy better-than-thou Christians. I don't care too much for extreme radical Muslims or liberals either. I understand all those have rights, but so do I. I love America. And I love utilizing my rights in every way possible to annoy those groups of people I don't care for. And your intolerance of my intolerance makes you a hypocrit.
Quite frankly, I'm not a mouthpiece, I'm a realist. Not once did I say the gov't. should be recording numbers and tapping calls. I just said it was legal. That may still be stepping a bit, but they will get away with it. That I do know, cause this is a "post 9/11" world. And for right now that means almost anything goes for "Average Joe American" to keep the first of "Life, Liberty, and pursuit of Happiness".
Most of slashdot is terrified of the government taking their liberty, and most of the rest of the US is terrified of the losing their life. I don't know who's terrified of their happiness being encroached but likely someone is. Possibly those "global warming is coming" nuts. The terrorists have won, and did so the moment our government decided to start fighting them. Maybe that's why we haven't been hit again? But now majority is ruling, is that what you meant about the America you love no longer being what it should be? And yes, I do mean that question sincerely, as the Constitution is meant to protect the few from the many.
The intent of that law was to make it illegal for the provider to sell consumer records or use the information gathered from other providers to spam their competition's customers. Nothing in there makes your idiotic "the government isn't allowed to see this" claim hold water. The government is "allowed" to see anything these days. That's the world/country we live in. Either get used to it or start a revolution. The only thing that's going to come out of this being made public is a change in the law/new law stating all the providers must comply and Qwest's customers will be in that database soon enough. It's not my fault you're a moron and twice argued shit in words as if I hadn't already given a reason against your argument. You don't have to quote everything I said, but if you're going to respond at least read it. I'll be the first to tell you I'm full of shit, now that I have read everything you wrote.
Hey, you did it again. Good job on consistently being obtuse and not reading anything past where you quoted. You're still missing this. The government is not allowed to seize the data or property without a warrant. The government can have and own anything a company or individual wants to give them.
Wait for the $50B lawsuit to pan out before claiming how right you and others "who are angry" are.
Again, this was not a "seizure" and the government did not "take" anything. They "requested" the information. And since they made the request right after 9/11 all but 1 company were willing to "give" the records. The MS one is a bad analogy, since as I've said the government didn't "steal" anything. It's more like China asking Microsoft for the source code to Windows 2000. And they gave it to their government. I never said no one owned these records. I believe the phone companies own these records. I said the records could be duplicated with little if any inconvenience to the phone companies and they have no reason not to duplicate them cause they simply don't give a fuck about their consumers.
I don't care what your friend says the phone companies have done when local police have made requests. My point is that this is not a violation of the citizen's 4th amendment right.
Several others have replied to this with "God's law > man's law" type comments, but the article hinted he may be a Jehovah's Witness. They respect the Bible and in it is plenty of crap about respecting the law's of Rome. So bunk to those God's law > man's law sayers, it's only when the 2 directly conflict does that come up in most religions.
Both the summary and your snipet quote are misleading. The SS and FBI can delay informing the victims iff such notice will impede or compromise a criminal investigation or national security. Sure the "national security" clause is likely bs, but the rest is typical and smart. Also note the FBI/SS has to let the owner/company know in writing within 7 days of the reporting that they cannot inform the victims for 30 days. Or until the FBI/SS sees fit... That part kinda blows, but a 30 day delay will be the norm.
Not if you cheat with an uber defecit that charges you interest rates so high they're actually negative. If you build massive numbers of the plants so they don't run at 110% usage they'll last you forever. This is obviously what the US government has planned considering the they just raised the "money we'll worry about in the future" fund to $9,000,000,000,000.
Did you stop reading where you stopped quoting? These companies were not forced. Also, this is not a new thing. On this large a scale is the story. The companies gave public information voluntarily when simply asked for it in an easy to handle form. The only company that would not... I repeat, the ONLY company that would not do this voluntarily is Qwest. Until you understand that Qwest has not been shut down by our fascist regime, continue to believe whatever evil conspiracy you want here. It's not at all like the government asking for your car keys. It's more like the government asking for copies of your gas receipts and when you say no, nothing happens. Records are not property, so don't try to make this analogous to the government stealing your car.
How's this for a conspiracy. As I already said, records/data/information isn't "property" in the typical sense where it's taken away from one and given to the other. Knowing how to use a computer I'll assume you know this. Both parties can utilize the data simultaneously without ill-effects to the other's usage. So the gov't. asks your cel phone provider for any and all information they have on you. Why would the provider not oblige? There's likely something in your service contract saying they can do just this and you have no legal grounds for any action when they do. So the provider really has nothing to lose except you as a customer which as we all know actually works out in their favor when you pay the early cancellation fees. So after 15 years of having cel phones invade our landscape we have yet another story about "how the phone company doesn't give a shit about you" -- but does that really surprise you?
That article still has no official statement from Parker and Stone thus my skepticism is still not swayed. All that CNN "reported" was basically a recap of what aired on CC already. I haven't seen anything from the writers saying "we were forced to not be able to show this" or along those lines, and until I do I'll still think it was their own prank.
Hmm, Well, I used 2004, the oldest on that site is '98. 62.1% Registered. 41.9% Reported Voted (Of Total Elligible). 67.5% of registered, voted. MAybe all that "Rock the Vote" crap actually did something. Or just the fact that '98 wasn't a Pres. Election year might have something to do with it, but the numers are considerably different. Here's the page on these numbers. http://www.census.gov/population/socdemo/voting/cp s1998/tab02.txt
This is where I get lost in this whole thing. That "data" isn't the citizen's property. It's the property of the phone companies. And AFAIK the gov't didn't force any of them to release the records. According to all stories and accounts, Qwest refused and their CEO and board isn't in Gitmo yet. The best thing that people could do in response to this is either call or write their phone provider asking to not be listed or switch to Qwest. The government isn't "barred" from "requesting" or having information. The government is barred from "seizing" information. And even then it wouldn't be a violation of anyone's rights other than the phone provider's rights.
Close. 65.9% of the elligible registered to vote but 58.3% of the elligible voted. The good majority (88.5%) of those that bother to registed bother to vote.
Source, http://www.census.gov/population/socdemo/voting/cp s2004/tab02-1.xls
But yes, a good third of US either don't give a rat's ass or don't know how to. Or they've realized gov't is corrupt and they don't have enough money to buy a law.
You do realize it's the other way around don't you? A friend's girlfriend got strip searched at an airport for wearing a "God Bless America" t-shirt with a flag on it. It made her look "suspicious".
No, you get Vincent in the basement of the Shinra Mansion in Nibelheim. You get Vincent's Level 4 Limit Break and "Best Weapon"/8 slot 0 growth in Lucrecia's Cave behind the waterfall. And that cave can be accessed with the submarine, so a Chocobo isn't needed for him.
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Just a pedantic correction to help make the task even harder. It's actually closer to 48 million bits for the "average 3.5 minute song". Almost no one uses 128kbit mp3s anymore with storage so cheap, 192kbit is more the norm. I just looked at an album here and average per track was over 70 million bits, but those were extended length remixes.
Don't hold your breath. I don't have a clue what the parent is talking about. KPi and NaPi electrolyte/salt? There is no element Pi.
Buy a drive intelligently. Maybe they should check out these drives. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227344 http://www.hothardware.com/News/OCZ_Core_Series_SSD_Vs_VelociRaptor_Sneak_Peek/ The 32GB version that would be suitable for a linux boot drive is going to have a $140-160 price point I believe. I'm considering a 64GB for my Vista laptop to reduce the heat it generates.
Fragmentation is of little concern with SSDs. The time needed to read out of order bits on a rotating media is much higher as we know, but reading bits out of order in memory or on SSD is almost identical to reading the bit beside it due to the low seek times. Also, partitioning schemes that try to keep the most often accessed files at the beginning of the media lose their edge for the same reason. A SSD has the same performance characteristics from the beginning to the end of the drive from 1% to 99% used capacity. Partitioning could actually shorten the lifespan of the drive, because it could prevent the wear-leveling algorithms from doing their job properly. You'd likely have the most often written to partition fail much sooner than the rest of the drive.
The bottom line will still be the same to the types of people that make those decisions. They'll only do it if it puts more money into their pockets. Make no mistake about it, the higher ups in power companies don't give a damn about you or me even having power to run our stoves. All they care about is their year end bonus check. If it costs more to reuse electricity than it would to just let it go to waste, 90% of them will just let it go without doing a thing.
IMO, I see things being exactly the opposite. I expect by 2030 the devices in our daily lives being more efficient. I don't expect that to cause a decrease in our total usage since we'll have more "devices", so I expect the average household power usage to increase but only slightly. And hopefully by then the people getting in the way of it will take their heads out of their asses and more nuclear power generation will exist.
I think this is a long ways off, and I'd imagine that if this starts happening, they'd start installing more/bigger transmission infrastructure, rather than a voluntary-shutoff communications infrastructure. They may even increase their connection fees to do so. The power company wouldn't want all that power to go to waste.
No they won't. We already have an electrical infrastructure that's out of date and overloaded because the distribution companies refuse to spend the money replacing some really expensive equipment. In Oct '06 I helped replace some pieces exactly of this type at a fossil plant, which is also older than it was designed to be in operation. We renovated 3 bays of a switch yard, with each bay consisting of 1 breaker and 3 sets of switches. Each new breaker had a cost of about $250k and each of the 9 per bay switches are about $50k. So a rough cost is $900k per bay. This doesn't include the lost revenues, man hours, and other required materials. In the end we replaced equipment for 8 bays in about 45 days of outage over a 2 year span. For that plant, 1 day of downtime is $1M of lost revenue. That's a hard one to sell to the man above you.
"We need to spend $100M to replace this equipment."
"Why? Has it exploded? Are we not selling power?"
"No. It's expired."
It's not like replacing a gallon of milk that's 2 weeks out of date. The oldest breaker we removed in fall of '06 was put into service in '53 and was designed to be there for 40 years. I think the latest manufacturing date I saw on one was '59. Which would mean when we removed it in '07 it was 7 years overdue for replacement.
All the old equipment was 161kv rated for 2000amps. What we replaced it with was rated for 3000amps. Getting them to upgrade the service stations due to increases sell back will be even more difficult.
"We need to spend $100M to replace this equipment."
"Why? Has it exploded? Are we not selling power?"
"No, it hasn't exploded, but no we're not really selling power anymore. You see, the people we sell power to are trying to sell us so much back that we can't handle the load."
How do you think that would go over in a behind closed doors meeting? They'd much rather throw that power into the ground and let it go to waste than have to spend ANY money to buy it back unless they can store it and sell it back to you for more than they paid for it.
Right now I'm using a laptop with 2 hard drives. Last summer, 2-3 months after buying it, I upgraded one of the drives to a 160GB Seagate Momentus 7200.2. At the time it was the fastest drive on the market. It's since been surpassed by the 200GB Hitachi Travelstar 7K200. With a transfer rate min 40-71.5MB/s max http://www.storagereview.com/HTS722020K9A00.sr?page=0%2C1 it's as fast or faster than these fancy new "oh so awesome" SSD drives. The only benefit would be power savings. Flash sucks. The Adobe driven ads and the RAM. It's too slow to be considered in the average device. Even the latest model 32 and 64GB flavors only come in at about 55MB/s http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/12/17/solid_state_drives/page5.html, but it is a steady transfer rate media wide. My C drive currently has 40.8GB used on it. That could be trimmed (and 12GB of it is system restore garbage), but I'd still probably want a 32GB SSD drive to run Vista (XP doesn't like my hardware at all, too lazy to force it). I might even be able to get by with a 16GB drive if I uninstalled some large programs. But still let's go with your 8GB OS drive solution. The cheapest SATA SSD drive on NewEgg is an 8GB 2.5" .1 watt $240 drive. Or I can get the fastest magnetic drive on the market, 200GB 2.5" 1.5watt idle/5watt load 7200rpm Hitachi 7K200 for $165. Seeing as my laptop has been plugged up 99% of its life and 2.5" drives are virtually inaudible, I know which I'd choose. Which would you choose?
The cheapest 16 and 32GB SATA SSD drives that I'd HAVE to have to run my laptop are $350 and $700 respectively. For either of those single drive prices I can buy one of the fastest AND one of the largest magnetic drives out right now, the $165 Hitachi 7K200 AND any of the 3 $140-$170 320GB drives (the largest out is not 500GB). Cost is the reason we can't/shouldn't have both. Flash drives are still niche tech. And that's why you can add one if you have to have it. But why would any retailer push anything they'd have to sell so hard?
Dell: "Here, this $500 option will give you 30 minute more battery life per charge."
Customer: "But isn't it less space? Why would I want that? Why does that cost more?"
Dell: "Yes. Because it's good for the environment? It's fancy technology!"
Customer: "I think I'll just get the $150 extended battery option."
Straight off Dell's website while customizing a laptop.
"Reliability: 64GB Solid State Drive and Speed:200GB SATA Hard Drive (7200RP [add $1,000 or $30/month1]"
The only reason I can think they wouldn't offer a smaller drive is it's really just too small. And it probably would cut into their profits.
I'm just curious your opinion of the story now that Bellsouth and Verizon have both denied turning over/being asked for the phone records. Did the USA Today screw up? Did some conspiracy theorist/individual "fighting to make America great agian" make the story up and then "leak" it to the USA Today? Or is this an expression of the PATRIOT ACT preventing those at Bellsouth and Verizon from making an official statement?
It's interesting that Slashdot decided to carry a story on Reporter Phone Records Being Used to Find Leaks yesterday but nothing of a mention today about Bellsouth and Verizon rebuking TFA to which our conversation in attached.
I do not hate America. I hate AmericaNS. Well, not all, but a lot of them. I hate niggers, annoying fags, bossy jews, stupid rednecks, and non-English speaking illegal immigrants. I'm fine with moderate Muslims, but can't stand pushy better-than-thou Christians. I don't care too much for extreme radical Muslims or liberals either. I understand all those have rights, but so do I. I love America. And I love utilizing my rights in every way possible to annoy those groups of people I don't care for. And your intolerance of my intolerance makes you a hypocrit.
Quite frankly, I'm not a mouthpiece, I'm a realist. Not once did I say the gov't. should be recording numbers and tapping calls. I just said it was legal. That may still be stepping a bit, but they will get away with it. That I do know, cause this is a "post 9/11" world. And for right now that means almost anything goes for "Average Joe American" to keep the first of "Life, Liberty, and pursuit of Happiness".
Most of slashdot is terrified of the government taking their liberty, and most of the rest of the US is terrified of the losing their life. I don't know who's terrified of their happiness being encroached but likely someone is. Possibly those "global warming is coming" nuts. The terrorists have won, and did so the moment our government decided to start fighting them. Maybe that's why we haven't been hit again? But now majority is ruling, is that what you meant about the America you love no longer being what it should be? And yes, I do mean that question sincerely, as the Constitution is meant to protect the few from the many.
The intent of that law was to make it illegal for the provider to sell consumer records or use the information gathered from other providers to spam their competition's customers. Nothing in there makes your idiotic "the government isn't allowed to see this" claim hold water. The government is "allowed" to see anything these days. That's the world/country we live in. Either get used to it or start a revolution. The only thing that's going to come out of this being made public is a change in the law/new law stating all the providers must comply and Qwest's customers will be in that database soon enough. It's not my fault you're a moron and twice argued shit in words as if I hadn't already given a reason against your argument. You don't have to quote everything I said, but if you're going to respond at least read it. I'll be the first to tell you I'm full of shit, now that I have read everything you wrote.
Hey, you did it again. Good job on consistently being obtuse and not reading anything past where you quoted. You're still missing this. The government is not allowed to seize the data or property without a warrant. The government can have and own anything a company or individual wants to give them.
Wait for the $50B lawsuit to pan out before claiming how right you and others "who are angry" are.
Again, this was not a "seizure" and the government did not "take" anything. They "requested" the information. And since they made the request right after 9/11 all but 1 company were willing to "give" the records. The MS one is a bad analogy, since as I've said the government didn't "steal" anything. It's more like China asking Microsoft for the source code to Windows 2000. And they gave it to their government. I never said no one owned these records. I believe the phone companies own these records. I said the records could be duplicated with little if any inconvenience to the phone companies and they have no reason not to duplicate them cause they simply don't give a fuck about their consumers.
I don't care what your friend says the phone companies have done when local police have made requests. My point is that this is not a violation of the citizen's 4th amendment right.
Eh, probably not. There's not that much there.
Several others have replied to this with "God's law > man's law" type comments, but the article hinted he may be a Jehovah's Witness. They respect the Bible and in it is plenty of crap about respecting the law's of Rome. So bunk to those God's law > man's law sayers, it's only when the 2 directly conflict does that come up in most religions.
Both the summary and your snipet quote are misleading. The SS and FBI can delay informing the victims iff such notice will impede or compromise a criminal investigation or national security. Sure the "national security" clause is likely bs, but the rest is typical and smart. Also note the FBI/SS has to let the owner/company know in writing within 7 days of the reporting that they cannot inform the victims for 30 days. Or until the FBI/SS sees fit... That part kinda blows, but a 30 day delay will be the norm.
Not if you cheat with an uber defecit that charges you interest rates so high they're actually negative. If you build massive numbers of the plants so they don't run at 110% usage they'll last you forever. This is obviously what the US government has planned considering the they just raised the "money we'll worry about in the future" fund to $9,000,000,000,000.
Did you stop reading where you stopped quoting? These companies were not forced. Also, this is not a new thing. On this large a scale is the story. The companies gave public information voluntarily when simply asked for it in an easy to handle form. The only company that would not... I repeat, the ONLY company that would not do this voluntarily is Qwest. Until you understand that Qwest has not been shut down by our fascist regime, continue to believe whatever evil conspiracy you want here. It's not at all like the government asking for your car keys. It's more like the government asking for copies of your gas receipts and when you say no, nothing happens. Records are not property, so don't try to make this analogous to the government stealing your car.
How's this for a conspiracy. As I already said, records/data/information isn't "property" in the typical sense where it's taken away from one and given to the other. Knowing how to use a computer I'll assume you know this. Both parties can utilize the data simultaneously without ill-effects to the other's usage. So the gov't. asks your cel phone provider for any and all information they have on you. Why would the provider not oblige? There's likely something in your service contract saying they can do just this and you have no legal grounds for any action when they do. So the provider really has nothing to lose except you as a customer which as we all know actually works out in their favor when you pay the early cancellation fees. So after 15 years of having cel phones invade our landscape we have yet another story about "how the phone company doesn't give a shit about you" -- but does that really surprise you?
That article still has no official statement from Parker and Stone thus my skepticism is still not swayed. All that CNN "reported" was basically a recap of what aired on CC already. I haven't seen anything from the writers saying "we were forced to not be able to show this" or along those lines, and until I do I'll still think it was their own prank.
Did Comedy Central censor it or did Parker and Stone "censor" it themselves as a joke? I always assumed the latter.
Hmm, Well, I used 2004, the oldest on that site is '98. 62.1% Registered. 41.9% Reported Voted (Of Total Elligible). 67.5% of registered, voted. MAybe all that "Rock the Vote" crap actually did something. Or just the fact that '98 wasn't a Pres. Election year might have something to do with it, but the numers are considerably different. Here's the page on these numbers. http://www.census.gov/population/socdemo/voting/cp s1998/tab02.txt
This is where I get lost in this whole thing. That "data" isn't the citizen's property. It's the property of the phone companies. And AFAIK the gov't didn't force any of them to release the records. According to all stories and accounts, Qwest refused and their CEO and board isn't in Gitmo yet. The best thing that people could do in response to this is either call or write their phone provider asking to not be listed or switch to Qwest. The government isn't "barred" from "requesting" or having information. The government is barred from "seizing" information. And even then it wouldn't be a violation of anyone's rights other than the phone provider's rights.
Close. 65.9% of the elligible registered to vote but 58.3% of the elligible voted. The good majority (88.5%) of those that bother to registed bother to vote. Source, http://www.census.gov/population/socdemo/voting/cp s2004/tab02-1.xls
But yes, a good third of US either don't give a rat's ass or don't know how to. Or they've realized gov't is corrupt and they don't have enough money to buy a law.
You do realize it's the other way around don't you? A friend's girlfriend got strip searched at an airport for wearing a "God Bless America" t-shirt with a flag on it. It made her look "suspicious".
I tagged it as globalwarming. Hopefully with the piracy numbers up an unexpected 75% more we'll have a less active hurricane season in '06.
No, you get Vincent in the basement of the Shinra Mansion in Nibelheim. You get Vincent's Level 4 Limit Break and "Best Weapon"/8 slot 0 growth in Lucrecia's Cave behind the waterfall. And that cave can be accessed with the submarine, so a Chocobo isn't needed for him.
Hey hey now. We'll have none of that. Take your "logic" and "thought" and "context" elsewhere.