We need more information like this to come out because when dealing with elections, the last thing we need--but apparently the opposition wants--is for some kind of shennanigans elecing the wrong person.
Aint gonna happen. The corporate media won't let it. The same people who own your legislators also own the media; there's an article about that in today's Illinois Times (a small, leftist, independant weekly).
I mean, these things could possibly affect the outcome of a vote, the foundation for a democratic republic!
In fairness, when a corporation can "donate" shitloads of money to both major candidates, that pretty much negates the elections, anyway. That's why copyright is now three lifetimes, pot is illegal even for medical purposes, the minimum wage hasn't changed in a decade, and few corporations pay any taxes.
That's the real reason voter turnout is so bad. They're not apathetic, they know they really have no choice.
I'm voting Loser Party this November, just as a futile protest. I wish everyone else would. Imagine everyone's horror if a Green or Libby candidate won?
Well, the victims weren't to blame, but they weren't very smart. And actually, if someone dug hard enough they could figure out which McGrew I am, just because I've posted a lot of stuff on the internet. But I don't expect anybody to look that hard.
Of course, maybe I'm as dumb as this guy's victims? How would I know? Most morons I've bene acquainted with think they're Einsteins.
In Illinois we get a paper printout that you check for accuracy and put in a ballot box; we can actually have a real recount.
That's incredibly weird, considering this IS Illinois, where they say "vote early, vote often," where dead people still have a right to vote, and the last two governors who lost elections went to prison (or will, in the case of Ryan).
Apples and oranges? No, more like chain saws and paring knives, with the car being the chain saw. Danger vs danger; 400,000 vs 3,000. I'm not the least bit afraid or terrorists, I'm far more likely to slip and fall down in the bathroom and break my neck than to die by terrorist attack. Hell, I'm even more likely to be murdered by somebody in a bar.
Your risk of terror attack is greatly overstated, and they overstate it with good reason - to further their own power. I'm talking of both the corporate owned government and the corporate owned media.
No. it's completely different. When your server is down you can repair it or even replace it. When your data is stored in a proprietary fprmat and the owner of the format no longer supports it, there is no fix; your data is toast. Particularly if the data are prorected by DRM.
How about you couldn't get at your patient's records because you hadn't paid your proprietary software vendor's outrageous (just increased manyfold) maintenance fee? Or you couldn't read an old file anymore, because its format is no longer supported by the current version of the software?
These are all examples of things that actually happen...
I wish you people would stop watching Fox and just forget about the damned terrorists. The red white and blue has turned yellow.
In the last 10 years <3500 people in America died in 3 terrorist attacks. 40,000 Americans die every single year on America's highways.
I'd like some of that Homeland Security money to go towards a few guardrails, bacause face it: I'm a thousand times more likely to get killed by a bimbo in her SUV yakking on a cell phone while putting her makeup on than by some islamic nutjob.
I'm also amused by people who talk about how they don't have sex anymore because of aids while they smoke their cigarette they lit up after that Burger King Doublewide Fatass Burger. How many people do you know personally who died of aids? Cancer? Heart disease?
I'm 54 and I'm not old enough to remember photcopiers being new, but you know, they still screw up! I've had originals shredded by a photocopier, haven't you ever? I've had them copy half a page, etc. If I copy a stack of paper, I make sure I have all the pages, because I've been burned by NOT checking.
The fact is, no technology, old or new, is perfect. I'm sure there were a few people who thought the machine "retyped it" like a secretary, but they were used to secretaries! It's like today with computers, some people, even some who should know better, think computers do or will someday think.
Few of us can remember any incidences in recent time when, say google.com or amazon.com or live.com was offline but we still do not trust them to be always there and available.
But they DO go offline - every time our own internet connection is down for whatever reason.
your business most likely has bigger problems to worry about when the power goes.
So... TFAuthor doesn't trust electricity! And you know, he's right not to. My power went out a couple of days ago, along with 2500 other people when a squirrel committed suicide.
It came back on; the twirley bulbs (CF) lit up and the cieling fan came on. I went to start the PC back up and the lights came on then out. I thought a surge had killed my power supply, until I went in the bathreoom where the incandescant round bulbs were dim.
I back up my data and check my oil and look to make sure I have all the phoocopied pages. My computer itself isn't trustworthy. Neither is the power supply, my car, or a photocopier. The more stuff in the middle the more likely something will break. as Scotty said in Search for Spock, "the more complicated the pluming, the easier it is to stop up the drain."
Where I work they used to keep applications on the server. They finally smartened up; with apps on the server, when the server goes down everybody twiddles thumbs instead of working.
Google Spreadsheet is for when the local spreadsheet goes titsup.
You have the wrong Steve McGrew. I'm not a Canadian, never even visited there. In 1998 when a Sreve McGrew emailed me with "look at my neato web site" and even in 1998 there were six different folks with my name. There are likely dozens on line by now.
Most prople confuse me with the "white trash world" guy in Colorado. I'm not him, either.
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Should I laugh or cry?
'The new Yahoo Mail Beta is touted as being as functional as a desktop email client (such as Outlook).
Outlook is functional?
We need more information like this to come out because when dealing with elections, the last thing we need--but apparently the opposition wants--is for some kind of shennanigans elecing the wrong person.
Aint gonna happen. The corporate media won't let it. The same people who own your legislators also own the media; there's an article about that in today's Illinois Times (a small, leftist, independant weekly).
I mean, these things could possibly affect the outcome of a vote, the foundation for a democratic republic!
In fairness, when a corporation can "donate" shitloads of money to both major candidates, that pretty much negates the elections, anyway. That's why copyright is now three lifetimes, pot is illegal even for medical purposes, the minimum wage hasn't changed in a decade, and few corporations pay any taxes.
That's the real reason voter turnout is so bad. They're not apathetic, they know they really have no choice.
I'm voting Loser Party this November, just as a futile protest. I wish everyone else would. Imagine everyone's horror if a Green or Libby candidate won?
I got flashed in a bar once, the bartender barred the flasher. Pity, the flasher had big tits!
Well, the victims weren't to blame, but they weren't very smart. And actually, if someone dug hard enough they could figure out which McGrew I am, just because I've posted a lot of stuff on the internet. But I don't expect anybody to look that hard.
Of course, maybe I'm as dumb as this guy's victims? How would I know? Most morons I've bene acquainted with think they're Einsteins.
In Illinois we get a paper printout that you check for accuracy and put in a ballot box; we can actually have a real recount.
That's incredibly weird, considering this IS Illinois, where they say "vote early, vote often," where dead people still have a right to vote, and the last two governors who lost elections went to prison (or will, in the case of Ryan).
Or the asshole in his semitractor.
Apples and oranges? No, more like chain saws and paring knives, with the car being the chain saw. Danger vs danger; 400,000 vs 3,000. I'm not the least bit afraid or terrorists, I'm far more likely to slip and fall down in the bathroom and break my neck than to die by terrorist attack. Hell, I'm even more likely to be murdered by somebody in a bar.
Your risk of terror attack is greatly overstated, and they overstate it with good reason - to further their own power. I'm talking of both the corporate owned government and the corporate owned media.
Hmmm, the /. thing says when I log on "have you metamoderated lately?" I guess that's moderating the moderators.
Well, yes. Once you know a person and see how he or she is, you can begin to trust. It's unwarranted trust that damages.
No. it's completely different. When your server is down you can repair it or even replace it. When your data is stored in a proprietary fprmat and the owner of the format no longer supports it, there is no fix; your data is toast. Particularly if the data are prorected by DRM.
...and God created whiskey to keep the Irish from comquering the world
here hasn't been a significant regional power outage here since the Northeast Blackout of 1965.
I was without power for most of a week in March after the tornados hit. My cell phone wouldn't make long distance calls for a day or two, either.
Wow, you had some really strange abacuses!
How about you couldn't get at your patient's records because you hadn't paid your proprietary software vendor's outrageous (just increased manyfold) maintenance fee? Or you couldn't read an old file anymore, because its format is no longer supported by the current version of the software?
These are all examples of things that actually happen...
And are a great argument in favor of open source.
I wish you people would stop watching Fox and just forget about the damned terrorists. The red white and blue has turned yellow.
In the last 10 years <3500 people in America died in 3 terrorist attacks. 40,000 Americans die every single year on America's highways.
I'd like some of that Homeland Security money to go towards a few guardrails, bacause face it: I'm a thousand times more likely to get killed by a bimbo in her SUV yakking on a cell phone while putting her makeup on than by some islamic nutjob.
I'm also amused by people who talk about how they don't have sex anymore because of aids while they smoke their cigarette they lit up after that Burger King Doublewide Fatass Burger. How many people do you know personally who died of aids? Cancer? Heart disease?
I'd like to see Fox gone, and Bush with them.
By the time Gmail is out of beta, Duke Nukem Forever will be out of print and your grandchildren will be retired.
You've never heard of mistrust? You must have been living under the cloud :)
Well I don't know about him but it's been raining here for 3 days. I'm under the cloud!
I'm 54 and I'm not old enough to remember photcopiers being new, but you know, they still screw up! I've had originals shredded by a photocopier, haven't you ever? I've had them copy half a page, etc. If I copy a stack of paper, I make sure I have all the pages, because I've been burned by NOT checking.
The fact is, no technology, old or new, is perfect. I'm sure there were a few people who thought the machine "retyped it" like a secretary, but they were used to secretaries! It's like today with computers, some people, even some who should know better, think computers do or will someday think.
Few of us can remember any incidences in recent time when, say google.com or amazon.com or live.com was offline but we still do not trust them to be always there and available.
But they DO go offline - every time our own internet connection is down for whatever reason.
your business most likely has bigger problems to worry about when the power goes.
So... TFAuthor doesn't trust electricity! And you know, he's right not to. My power went out a couple of days ago, along with 2500 other people when a squirrel committed suicide.
It came back on; the twirley bulbs (CF) lit up and the cieling fan came on. I went to start the PC back up and the lights came on then out. I thought a surge had killed my power supply, until I went in the bathreoom where the incandescant round bulbs were dim.
I back up my data and check my oil and look to make sure I have all the phoocopied pages. My computer itself isn't trustworthy. Neither is the power supply, my car, or a photocopier. The more stuff in the middle the more likely something will break. as Scotty said in Search for Spock, "the more complicated the pluming, the easier it is to stop up the drain."
Where I work they used to keep applications on the server. They finally smartened up; with apps on the server, when the server goes down everybody twiddles thumbs instead of working.
Google Spreadsheet is for when the local spreadsheet goes titsup.
Damn, my grade school teachers did me wrong again! I before E and all that.
Thanks, I'll fix it.
Hmm. I'd say he was in deep doodoo. I hope it can be enforced in court, and his victims call him on it.
Actually, I agree with you. I wouldn't do it, but I would expect others to.
Well, now, I dodn't say "only microsoft" now did I? As they say, keft shift happens and that last guy who was perfect got nailed to a tree.
I screw up too. But yes, a bigger screw up would be to not correct it immediately.
You have the wrong Steve McGrew. I'm not a Canadian, never even visited there. In 1998 when a Sreve McGrew emailed me with "look at my neato web site" and even in 1998 there were six different folks with my name. There are likely dozens on line by now.
Most prople confuse me with the "white trash world" guy in Colorado. I'm not him, either.