So I guess that makes you, like, ignorant and a bigot. "I got more brains in my pinky than all you hicks" or something along those lines? Classy guy.
But I'm clearly not saying Republicans were disenfranchised. I think I even tried to be fair about it saying Im not sure how to interpret the law. I know a lot of people didnt get to vote because they were late, and because the DNC selectively enforced poll closings. Go look it up rather than write some ass-hatted bullshit. Our police decided to let everyone that was in line at closing time vote and turned everyone else away. We got sued and won in court, with a fairly liberal court, a democrat governor, and a democrat legislature. But you're right - no one on slashdot will buy it. Hopefully I get modded down enough to stop wasting my time posting anything here.
How come no one talks about the long lines in white middle-class republican polling places?? Here in NH I was at the polls when they closed, and watched well-organized democrat squads complete with lawyers, radios and video cameras stop the election when the second hand hit 12 o'clock. They physically blocked the lines and threatened everyone from the voters to police with lawsuits unless they turned around and went home without voting. They did this across the state, only in districts that were known to vote heavily republican.
Personally I dont know how to interpret the law. If youre in line to vote when the polls close, do you get to vote? It seems a place where we should err on the side of letting everyone vote, but I dont know. Maybe the dem goon squads had it right, but its not right to selectively enforce according to your political bias. So our town got sued by the DNC for letting people vote after the polls had technically closed, and other towns got sued by the DNC for *not* letting people vote past closing time. Anyone who claims that only democrat-voting blacks got disenfranchised is just cherry picking their facts. The whole election cycle sucked for everyone.
I replaced all my incandescent bulbs with twirly bulbs. Now I have less CO2 emissions and more money!
No you do NOT have more money, since you bought the bulbs. They will begin to pay for themselves when your investment is paid off in maybe 5 years (more or less). Since they took energy to produce (and you already had the incandescents) you are running an energy/carbon deficit, until THAT is paid off as well. In a few years, when the next big mindless panic hits and twirly bulbs are outlawed because of the mercury and lead content, you'll have to go buy LED bulbs, and pay toxic waste fees to dispose of your oh-so-eco-friendly twirly bulbs. I wouldn't be surprised that GE already has the sample legislation written and the toxic waste fee structure worked out, using a blind offshore manufacturer as legal cover.
By demanding this, you of course are offering to produce 3 links yourself? I thought not.
FWIW having programmed drivers on both platforms (and Linux) I havent found Macs to be any more or less secure and stable than anything else, on a code-for-code basis. Macs' effective and perceived strengths IMO largely come from limiting options and complexity. They support less hardware, less software, and have a smaller installed base, all of which reduce their risk profile.
Due to the perception that they are utterly secure, the first kiddie script that targets a Mac will probably wipe out the entire population. From the haunted looks on the faces of all the Mac developers I know they will probably all be relieved when it happens:-)
The people bitching about vista here are the same ones who bitched about XP, and before that, windows 2000.
Well, Ive used it, so thats 100% of my sample HAVE used and and HATE it. I actually give myself 200% because I was a consultant for (graphics card company name deleted) to port drivers to Vista so I got pretty familiar with it. First step after install was to turn EVERYTHING off, because nothing will run otherwise. All coding and debugging had to run on a peer XP machine because not even Microsoft compilers and debuggers run correctly on Vista. And we lived and died by the nightly performance tests, waiting to see if maybe the next set of hacks would make it almost as fast as XP (never was... you just cant push ALL the hardware drivers out of the kernel and into application space without taking a performance hit). All so that DRM would be safe and FOR NO OTHER REASON.
No, I hate Vista because I'm way more familiar with it than I ever wanted to be. My computer shouldn't be something I have to "work around".
Cant speak for AT&T but I have Verizon DSL. Installed on a promo price of $14.95/mo when I put in new voice lines. After 4 years now I called about upgrading and they bumped me to 3m/768 for no charge pretty much without my even asking. I run remote desktop and remote backup for a dozen computers over it, keeping that 768 pretty loaded and never even a hint of throttling.
The INSTALLERS though are whiny little morons, so when the underground cable got eaten by squirrels, it took 3 hours of them explaining to me why 3mb cant possibly ever work and about an hour to make it work again just fine. But other than that I dont have a single unkind word for DSL providers. Your mileage may vary of course.
I just got a new Dell - a Dimension 9200 with (mercifully) XP on it. FWIW it was nowhere near the level of infestation of my last three Dell's. Those I eventually reformatted and reinstalled. The 9200 took one pass through the control panel uninstaller and its been great! No lurking background processes, no services waiting to launch drive-by videos, nothing. Its been a downright pleasure. Makes me wonder why though. My guesses for the difference are:
- Dell realized they were pissing off their business customer base and toned down the crapware fest
- Its a slightly more upscale machine than the base models Ive bought in the past, so Dell wasnt under as much price pressure to subsidize the machine with crapware
- Since switching to Vista, their panic'ed reintroduction of XP wasnt technically prepared to reintroduce the crapware
- It was a complete oversight, and they'll fully crap up the next machine
Re:Wrong number, in both the GP and the summary!
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If you actually count the numbers, its 313. My text editor concurs. Whitespace and newlines were my first guess too though.
You mean the section between "Worldwide Translations" and "Kimba in Pop Culture"? Yes, of course. Did you?
The OP asked if you had a reference to the film festival thing. There is no reference to it in the link you cite. Again, please post a reference. I enjoy a good Eisner/Disney lynching as much as the next guy
BUT... A Google search of "film festival" Ontario "jungle taitei" Disney finds almost nothing except an organizers concern that Jungle Taitei might upset some PC folk with its portrayal of african natives. My ham-handed googling isnt definitive enough to call a 'bullshit' on you, so Im giving you the benefit of the doubt by asking for a reference again.
Nope, nothing there about it. No recent edits either. Interestingly the article doesnt mention that Disney won the lawsuit too, so a court found no infringement. By leaving this out of the wiki entry it seems like an automatic dispute of neutrality. And sure Disney has more lawyers and will almost always present a powerful case, but its not fair that NO ONE ever even looks at what the court found in Disney's favor. If someone has a link to the decision Id like to read it.
Pollution from fossil fuel fired power plants causes thousands of deaths in Canada per year, primarily of the elderly, who have to be hospitalized for lengthy periods of time due to respiratory problems.
This argument only works if you assume that without fossil fuel emissions, then the elderly will kick off quietly, abruptly, and at the same age. If they live longer, they will cost more, even if they are healthy. And there is still probably an equally lengthy and costly hospitalization due to some other cause waiting for them. Probably longer and more costly if they are older. The inconvenient truth is that the high cost of elder care has nothing to do with fossil fueled plants, and that the cost savings you hint at will never, never materialize.
Not sure why you cant do some reading yourself. According to wikipedia, the Himalayas are the youngest mountains on earth and geologically active, growing 5mm per year. Over 100000 years, thats 500 meters, assuming the growth rate is constant, which it probably isnt. The jet stream does in fact pass directly over Everest.
Is that enough to trigger a shift in the Jet Stream? I dont know and neither does anyone modding the parent a troll. While the parent may not be definitive or even correct, I sure as hell think its interesting.
Bullshit. Your reference is to an uncited student paper. From Wikipedia:
On July 25, 1997, before the Kyoto Protocol was finalized (although it had been fully negotiated, and a penultimate draft was finished), the U.S. Senate unanimously passed by a 95-0 vote the Byrd-Hagel Resolution (S. Res. 98),[40] which stated the sense of the Senate was that the United States should not be a signatory to any protocol that did not include binding targets and timetables for developing as well as industrialized nations or "would result in serious harm to the economy of the United States". On November 12, 1998, Vice President Al Gore symbolically signed the protocol. Both Gore and Senator Joseph Lieberman indicated that the protocol would not be acted upon in the Senate until there was participation by the developing nations.[41] The Clinton Administration never submitted the protocol to the Senate for ratification.
So Al Gore signed it as a gesture while stating he wouldnt act on it, and Congress voted unanimously to reject it (in possibly the first and last time Dems and Repubs ever agreed on anything). Its OK, you can still hate Bush for other shit.
Maybe OT but... I've been to Singapore, like it quite a lot actually. I think we tend to have a knee-jerk reaction to any restriction in freedom and automatically assume its bad. While I was getting on a subway in Singapore I saw a girl maybe 8 years old sitting on the subway steps alone, obviously traveling by herself and passing time playing with her dolls between trains. She obviously felt completely safe, and no one else saw her as out of place. Only me, the American, was worried about her safety because I was used to subway's in American cities.
Yes Singapore may have draconian laws and restricted freedoms, but I cant forget that little girl in perfect safety in a city. People in Singapore may give up something for their freedom but they do get something in return. In this case I envy it.
So speaking of Cape Wind... I couldnt quite make up my mind on which side to back. The economics of the project really did sound questionable without the massive government subsidies, although you cant really trust any numbers from either side. On the other hand, I giggle every time I think of plopping an eyesore onto the Kennedy mansion's horizon.
I can believe wind power can provide some percentage of our power needs cost-effectively, but I dont think Nantucket Sound is a cost-effective place. Being only 4 miles offshore, Teddy could still hit one while driving.
The US was a one time fan of Hussein back when he was a low level assassin working for the CIA.
So, your point is that since Saddam was associated with the CIA, and that his personal blog has an article from a professional CIA hater, that somehow that gets your automatic buy-in? I dont get that. The only common factor is that you both hate the president. Thats actually fine with me (the hate part) I guess, but waving around an Iraqi propaganda story isnt going to sway many people.
Morales's avocation in the early 80's was listing covert CIA operatives, and lots of them. This is your hero? Its OK when this clown does it but when (maybe) the current administration did it to Valerie Plame, its wrong? Where is your consistency? Its not fair constructiong you worldview from the bits of string that fit your mindset and throwing out the rest.
And yes there is no mention of Katrina. There is also no mention of Bush taking over the country. You're seeing what you want to see in it and you dont appear willing to consider anything less nefarious.
I hate to rain on a great Fuck-Bush fest and all, but...
The referred article seems to have been posted originally on Saddam Hussein's supporter's website. It doesn't make it wrong of course but it doesn't lend to credibility or unbiased reporting:
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The author, Frank Morales ("morals", get it?) is a priest activist with a history of CIA conspiracy theories. He also hates the police and just about anything in uniform. If you want to hate your government, he makes great reading.
Reads to me more of a response to Katrina. Remember Katrina? Thats where we blamed the FEDERAL government for not sending in the state national guard when they had no authority to do it. And this bill directly addresses that. Damned if you do, damned if you dont, I guess. The bill also gives the National Guard more authority and recognition in the Pentagon.
Now, let the hate mail continue. Here, let me get you all going again: "BUSH SUCKS! He killed puppies!!"
and whats with all the donuts nowadays made of sawdust
Thank the world for small sawdusty favors! All donuts suck at precisely the age I need to cut back on donuts. Its as if there were some kind of force in the universe watching over me... oh, wait, thats just the FBI:-)
Well, yes. Also note that towers may not be owned by the service provider, so the tower operator gets paid per connect minute. Calls generally should hand off to the next adjacent tower when traveling, but since the adjacent tower may not be owned by the same entity the software is 'tweaked' again to keep the call no matter what or however bad the signal may get, to maximize the billing to the carrier by the tower operator. This is why, the second your call is dropped, you look at your phone and have five bars of signal.
The software and business arrangements in the industry are fundamentally broken. The technology is pretty good, and the companies involved manage to screw it up through concerted effort.
imagine going into a shop, approaching the cashier and saying you've left your cc at home.. its ok tho, cos u remember the number and they can just type it into the till manually.
I dont have to imagine that since Ive done it... works great! No more or less secure than paying by CC over the phone. Also my wife using my CC even though she's not technically authorized. A clerk that wants to make a sale is going to do whatever it takes to get the charge through. Once I called my bank and had them give me my CC # over the phone (card wasnt in my wallet) so I could buy some laptops over the phone to be picked up by a 3rd party at a shipping dock across the country. Theres a transaction that should make the security guys scream, but my customer that needed the laptops ASAP thought I was a miracle worker. But it proves how and why security will never work, because EVERYBODY wants to bypass it to make a sale.
Banks get their 6% fee and 20% interest by selling CONVENIENCE not by selling SECURITY (only slashdotters give a hoot about security). Biometrics can make it easier to buy things... a bank will use it when they think it will make a customer more likely to use their card than another bank's card. The banks long ago wrote off fraudulent use as a (small) cost of doing business, which they pass on to consumers anyway.
Honestly, Im not sure. I have 4 LCD's - Amptron 17, 2x Dell 19, Amptron 19. I got the Dell's recently. Ive noticed my eyes dont focus anymore weekday evenings since I started using the Dell's. It may be a coincidence, or my imagination, or the angle on the desktop, but it seems like the Dell 19's hurt my eyes. Especially the more expensive of the two, although I dont spend the number of hours on the newer one to have as strong an opinion.
Either way, if it wasnt for the price and that its hard to get a deal on a desktop without buying the monitor 'package' I would certainly have gone with another brand. First, a monitor company lives and dies by the quality (and price) of the monitor, while Dell sells them by leveraging. Its not 'Darwinian'... Second, if Dell is pushing them so hard they must be extremely profitable, meaning the margins are good, meaning they may spend less in parts than a comparably priced Viewsonic, for instance.
OH! Almost forgot... The newest Dell 19 always autosets its parameters when the computer comes out of sleep or powers on. Its REALLY annoying and it rarely catches the first two pixels on a line. When youve spent 10+ years staring at Windows you might be surprised how out of place the desktop looks with the left two pixels missing. Its the only monitor Ive ever owned that autosets constantly, and I cant find a way to turn it off.
But I have to repeat, Im pretty happy overall with what I got for how little I spent on a moderately loaded Inspiron 3100 + 19" panel. I love my Inspiron 6000 laptop and so does every client that sees it. The base desktop for $270 on sale is damned respectable too.
Not sure what a class action would sue for (though IANAL). No one has been hurt, DellSony is replacing all affected batteries. Recall dfoes not automatically mean lawsuit. Does anyone know how many of these have actually blown up? Is it 5 or 10? The only real and lasting damage is to Dell, Sony, and Chinese manufacturing quality standards (since the batteries made in Japan, Taiwan, and Malaysia were all fine).
Personally, I loved Dell boxes. I know it's getting chic to sing about their downfall, but I think they make a solid product for short change. It may take me a few hours to de-crappify their installation, but after that they are the best boxes I have (4 of 11 of my boxes are Dell).
OTOH my eyesight has gone to hell since I bought their flat-panel monitors. Never again on those...
...except that Lieberman is way up in the general polls. He's keeping his 48% of the Democrats and has some 80% of the Republicans. Independent polls have him up by double digits. TIME claims the Lieberman loss is the best thing that has happened to the Republicans, since it paints the Dem's as radically left by dumping their moderates (I quote CNN and TIME on purpose since they are at least a little 'lefter' than others).
Hey not that everyone loves Bush, but the Dem's arent getting the boost they should be, and no where near what your post claims.
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So I guess that makes you, like, ignorant and a bigot. "I got more brains in my pinky than all you hicks" or something along those lines? Classy guy.
But I'm clearly not saying Republicans were disenfranchised. I think I even tried to be fair about it saying Im not sure how to interpret the law. I know a lot of people didnt get to vote because they were late, and because the DNC selectively enforced poll closings. Go look it up rather than write some ass-hatted bullshit. Our police decided to let everyone that was in line at closing time vote and turned everyone else away. We got sued and won in court, with a fairly liberal court, a democrat governor, and a democrat legislature. But you're right - no one on slashdot will buy it. Hopefully I get modded down enough to stop wasting my time posting anything here.
Personally I dont know how to interpret the law. If youre in line to vote when the polls close, do you get to vote? It seems a place where we should err on the side of letting everyone vote, but I dont know. Maybe the dem goon squads had it right, but its not right to selectively enforce according to your political bias. So our town got sued by the DNC for letting people vote after the polls had technically closed, and other towns got sued by the DNC for *not* letting people vote past closing time. Anyone who claims that only democrat-voting blacks got disenfranchised is just cherry picking their facts. The whole election cycle sucked for everyone.
FWIW having programmed drivers on both platforms (and Linux) I havent found Macs to be any more or less secure and stable than anything else, on a code-for-code basis. Macs' effective and perceived strengths IMO largely come from limiting options and complexity. They support less hardware, less software, and have a smaller installed base, all of which reduce their risk profile.
Due to the perception that they are utterly secure, the first kiddie script that targets a Mac will probably wipe out the entire population. From the haunted looks on the faces of all the Mac developers I know they will probably all be relieved when it happens :-)
No, I hate Vista because I'm way more familiar with it than I ever wanted to be. My computer shouldn't be something I have to "work around".
The INSTALLERS though are whiny little morons, so when the underground cable got eaten by squirrels, it took 3 hours of them explaining to me why 3mb cant possibly ever work and about an hour to make it work again just fine. But other than that I dont have a single unkind word for DSL providers. Your mileage may vary of course.
I think the *real* moral of this story is that no matter what you do, in 50 years you'll look like an idiot.
- Dell realized they were pissing off their business customer base and toned down the crapware fest
- Its a slightly more upscale machine than the base models Ive bought in the past, so Dell wasnt under as much price pressure to subsidize the machine with crapware
- Since switching to Vista, their panic'ed reintroduction of XP wasnt technically prepared to reintroduce the crapware
- It was a complete oversight, and they'll fully crap up the next machine
If you actually count the numbers, its 313. My text editor concurs. Whitespace and newlines were my first guess too though.
BUT... A Google search of "film festival" Ontario "jungle taitei" Disney finds almost nothing except an organizers concern that Jungle Taitei might upset some PC folk with its portrayal of african natives. My ham-handed googling isnt definitive enough to call a 'bullshit' on you, so Im giving you the benefit of the doubt by asking for a reference again.
Is that enough to trigger a shift in the Jet Stream? I dont know and neither does anyone modding the parent a troll. While the parent may not be definitive or even correct, I sure as hell think its interesting.
On July 25, 1997, before the Kyoto Protocol was finalized (although it had been fully negotiated, and a penultimate draft was finished), the U.S. Senate unanimously passed by a 95-0 vote the Byrd-Hagel Resolution (S. Res. 98),[40] which stated the sense of the Senate was that the United States should not be a signatory to any protocol that did not include binding targets and timetables for developing as well as industrialized nations or "would result in serious harm to the economy of the United States". On November 12, 1998, Vice President Al Gore symbolically signed the protocol. Both Gore and Senator Joseph Lieberman indicated that the protocol would not be acted upon in the Senate until there was participation by the developing nations.[41] The Clinton Administration never submitted the protocol to the Senate for ratification.
So Al Gore signed it as a gesture while stating he wouldnt act on it, and Congress voted unanimously to reject it (in possibly the first and last time Dems and Repubs ever agreed on anything). Its OK, you can still hate Bush for other shit.
Maybe OT but... I've been to Singapore, like it quite a lot actually. I think we tend to have a knee-jerk reaction to any restriction in freedom and automatically assume its bad. While I was getting on a subway in Singapore I saw a girl maybe 8 years old sitting on the subway steps alone, obviously traveling by herself and passing time playing with her dolls between trains. She obviously felt completely safe, and no one else saw her as out of place. Only me, the American, was worried about her safety because I was used to subway's in American cities. Yes Singapore may have draconian laws and restricted freedoms, but I cant forget that little girl in perfect safety in a city. People in Singapore may give up something for their freedom but they do get something in return. In this case I envy it.
So speaking of Cape Wind... I couldnt quite make up my mind on which side to back. The economics of the project really did sound questionable without the massive government subsidies, although you cant really trust any numbers from either side. On the other hand, I giggle every time I think of plopping an eyesore onto the Kennedy mansion's horizon. I can believe wind power can provide some percentage of our power needs cost-effectively, but I dont think Nantucket Sound is a cost-effective place. Being only 4 miles offshore, Teddy could still hit one while driving.
So, your point is that since Saddam was associated with the CIA, and that his personal blog has an article from a professional CIA hater, that somehow that gets your automatic buy-in? I dont get that. The only common factor is that you both hate the president. Thats actually fine with me (the hate part) I guess, but waving around an Iraqi propaganda story isnt going to sway many people.
Morales's avocation in the early 80's was listing covert CIA operatives, and lots of them. This is your hero? Its OK when this clown does it but when (maybe) the current administration did it to Valerie Plame, its wrong? Where is your consistency? Its not fair constructiong you worldview from the bits of string that fit your mindset and throwing out the rest.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_Action_Quarter ly
And yes there is no mention of Katrina. There is also no mention of Bush taking over the country. You're seeing what you want to see in it and you dont appear willing to consider anything less nefarious.
The referred article seems to have been posted originally on Saddam Hussein's supporter's website. It doesn't make it wrong of course but it doesn't lend to credibility or unbiased reporting :
http://www.uruknet.biz/?p=m27769&hd=0&size=1&l=e
> The author, Frank Morales ("morals", get it?) is a priest activist with a history of CIA conspiracy theories. He also hates the police and just about anything in uniform. If you want to hate your government, he makes great reading.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Morales
More interesting is Leahy's and Bond's joint statement on it (of course it must be half lies because Bond is a republican and all) and its here:
http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200609/091906a.html
Reads to me more of a response to Katrina. Remember Katrina? Thats where we blamed the FEDERAL government for not sending in the state national guard when they had no authority to do it. And this bill directly addresses that. Damned if you do, damned if you dont, I guess. The bill also gives the National Guard more authority and recognition in the Pentagon.
Now, let the hate mail continue. Here, let me get you all going again: "BUSH SUCKS! He killed puppies!!"
...but they all work for Republicans.
The software and business arrangements in the industry are fundamentally broken. The technology is pretty good, and the companies involved manage to screw it up through concerted effort.
I dont have to imagine that since Ive done it... works great! No more or less secure than paying by CC over the phone. Also my wife using my CC even though she's not technically authorized. A clerk that wants to make a sale is going to do whatever it takes to get the charge through. Once I called my bank and had them give me my CC # over the phone (card wasnt in my wallet) so I could buy some laptops over the phone to be picked up by a 3rd party at a shipping dock across the country. Theres a transaction that should make the security guys scream, but my customer that needed the laptops ASAP thought I was a miracle worker. But it proves how and why security will never work, because EVERYBODY wants to bypass it to make a sale.
Banks get their 6% fee and 20% interest by selling CONVENIENCE not by selling SECURITY (only slashdotters give a hoot about security). Biometrics can make it easier to buy things... a bank will use it when they think it will make a customer more likely to use their card than another bank's card. The banks long ago wrote off fraudulent use as a (small) cost of doing business, which they pass on to consumers anyway.
Either way, if it wasnt for the price and that its hard to get a deal on a desktop without buying the monitor 'package' I would certainly have gone with another brand. First, a monitor company lives and dies by the quality (and price) of the monitor, while Dell sells them by leveraging. Its not 'Darwinian'... Second, if Dell is pushing them so hard they must be extremely profitable, meaning the margins are good, meaning they may spend less in parts than a comparably priced Viewsonic, for instance.
OH! Almost forgot... The newest Dell 19 always autosets its parameters when the computer comes out of sleep or powers on. Its REALLY annoying and it rarely catches the first two pixels on a line. When youve spent 10+ years staring at Windows you might be surprised how out of place the desktop looks with the left two pixels missing. Its the only monitor Ive ever owned that autosets constantly, and I cant find a way to turn it off.
But I have to repeat, Im pretty happy overall with what I got for how little I spent on a moderately loaded Inspiron 3100 + 19" panel. I love my Inspiron 6000 laptop and so does every client that sees it. The base desktop for $270 on sale is damned respectable too.
Personally, I loved Dell boxes. I know it's getting chic to sing about their downfall, but I think they make a solid product for short change. It may take me a few hours to de-crappify their installation, but after that they are the best boxes I have (4 of 11 of my boxes are Dell).
OTOH my eyesight has gone to hell since I bought their flat-panel monitors. Never again on those...
Hey not that everyone loves Bush, but the Dem's arent getting the boost they should be, and no where near what your post claims.