I agree, what the hell is going on here? 22% of the precincts are reporting and Bush has 51% of the vote compared to 46% for Gore... yet CNN gave it to Gore. WTF!? How on earth did they come up with that?
Well, if you want to check Smartfilter, Security Dynamics provides a web-based form you can type some URL's into and see how they're categorized: SmartfilterWhere. Unfortunately, it really depends on local site configuration on what is blocked or not though because the admin of the proxy is the one that would actually choose which categories to block. You could see if it came up as something weird like "sex" or "hate speech". Those are generally blocked obviously.
I highly suggest having a Win2k box for web browsing. I'm a Unix bigot while I'm at work, but when I come home, want to put my brain back in the protective jar in the fridge, and vege out and browse, Win2k is *the* perfect OS to meet my needs. IE5.5 is absolutely wonderful and combined with the host of multimedia players available for Windows you have a platform that is fantastic for browsing the web.
Now, before you call me a Windoze luser, I use Windows2k for my browser and to play Half-life (counter-strike), linux on my Alpha as a squid web proxy and file server, Solaris on my Sparc, and OpenBSD for my NAT'ing firewall. I like to think that I'm above all this mindless nonsense of the OS flamewars.
5 years ago people on the comp.os.linux.advocacy usenet group sounded exactly the same way most people on Slashdot sound today and it's really tiring. Nerds, ESPECIALLY nerds, should except that a person likes to use different OS's that meet their specific needs. There's nothing wrong with that! To blindly advocate an OS as the end-all-to-be-all operating system is ridiculous. Linux is severely lacking in multimedia and 3D support for example. I have a hard time even justifying a reason why I would need to dual boot my Win2k box to Linux anymore. There just isn't anything there I need that I can't do just as well, if not better, under Win2k.
So, take this all with a grain of salt and I will put on my flame-retardant suit.
After dozens of trips there I seem to recall the only thing they really asked was where were you born, where are you going, and how long will you be staying. Never had anyone ask me about my criminal history or what I was planning on doing with the explosives in my trunk (just kidding).
Your mother-in-law was fined $300 by the CANADIAN government for drunk driving 14 years ago? Hell, if they had suggested something so stupid as paying a fine to a foreign government for a relatively minor crime like DUI I would've laughed in their face and went back to the USA. How ridiculous.
It's going to be horrible Wednesday when Bush wins. I don't know how the police will contain the rioting, looting, and utter mayhem that will ensue. Frankly I've converted all my stocks and cash into weapons to use to protect my family in the chaos that follows tomorrow's election. Not. Go BUSH!
I would avoid trying to torch the White House. You'd have to pass through some very bad neighborhoods where the locals are probably going to be a lot more heavily armed then your army. Do they even issue firearms up there or do your soldiers rely on throwing witty European-wannabe taunts at the Americans?;-)
I doubt MS cares if you have MP3's or porn on your systems. They're going to be looking for unlicensed copies of Office and Windows and such. Hell, I remember a story on here I believe a few days back about someone's machines being confiscated by the FBI for allegedly being involved in the yankees.com hack. Apparently the FBI didn't even care about the mp3's, why should microsoft?
I'm really starting to think patents have outlived their usefulness along with IP law in general. Exclusive government-granted monopolies are fine for individual inventors who NEED that monopoly of their work to just get off the ground before being beat to market by some huge competitor stealing their technology but this is just being ridiculous. It seems like all the inventions are being produced and patented by large corporations which just turn around and use these intellectual monopolies to bolster their market position by trying to find any and all ways to attack their competition.
Take Amazon's one click shopping for example. How in the HELL is that innovative and worthy of patenting?? We need to have the patent office either disolved or pump more money into it so they can examine each and every patent application thoroughly for both prior art and just general common sense. As silly as it sounds, I wouldn't be suprised if someone held a patent on the wheel.
I have used IE2... it is quite horrible in fact. You can't even bring up Microsoft's homepage with it because of all their fancy formatting. It's really kind of ironic that to get IE5 on a freshly installed NT4 box I had to download Netscape, go to MS's website and then download IE5.:-) I'm sure there's an easier way but I had too much bandwidth to care.;-)
Where the heck have you been for the last 2 years, locked in a bombshelter in your basement? Here's another headline you may have missed.. we survived Y2K just fine.:-)
Hmm.. so copy the harddrive and replace the one in the system with the copied drive. Then you have the original for evidence without inconveniencing your "suspect". I have a problem with forensics that essentially confiscate something for months or years based on a whim or suspicion. If the FBI wants to confiscate your property they should compensate you with the equivalent hardware and a copy of your data or cash in the equivalent of your hardware and a copy of your data. (data that isn't illegal though).
Details details. Since when has Microsoft had to ship anything to take the #1 spot on any review or poll?:-) X-Box is THE best gaming platform of all time. It beats out the PS2, Dreamcast, and Dolphin without a fight. If you start out thinking otherwise you'll just end up in a bad mood when the reviews come out. Just start to accept Microsoft==FAST, Microsoft=Good.. Microsoft==Stable. Can I put my clothes back on now?
Result of rape: victim whose rights were violated.
Result of murder: dead victim whose rights were violated.
Result of smoking a joint: spaced-out non-victim with nobody's rights violated.
No, I don't troll. If I want to troll I will post as an AC. Marijuana is a bullshit drug on-par with tobacco and alcohol. My concern is with harder drugs like crack, acid, heroin, opium, etc. It's that shit the cops cart off out of a crackhouse by the wheelbarrel-full. You know the places.. you watch them on Cops. They break down the door and find a bunch of stoned out lusers with little 5 year old kids running around with guns laying on the couch. Nice environments.
But then, according to your argument, drugs don't affect anyone but yourself. Let's ask their neighbors how they like people driving in at all hours of the night to buy crack. How do they feel to have gang members peddling that shit next door? How is your family affected when you overdose and end up in the hospital after a stroke? Who is going to support you after you become a burned out vegetable? The state? Your family? Maybe after you've experienced your family being torn apart by drug use by a family member you can come back and comment on it. I realize it is human nature to be selfish, but stop and think about it for a minute and realize that you're not living in a bubble. Your actions DO affect the people around you in far less subtle ways than a murderer.
I tend to believe the AC since they are generally people who fear repercussions from what they post here, be it from their employer, future employers, or the community. Thankfully there is still the AC account available for these courageous souls to use to get this information out there.. otherwise it would be hidden in the closets of corporate america along with everything else.
The difference of course is that with Samba and Wine, anybody can sit there and track the CVS tree from day to day and see exactly what changes are going on. Yes, if Joe Shmoe checks in some MS proprietary secret HE will get slammed not Wine or Samba. Those projects have effectively given these crooks the kiss of death and told them to bugger off with their stolen code. Besides, they're already doing fine on their own without it. I imagine the code the Samba and Wine teams are hacking together are probably BETTER than the actual code Microsoft puts out.;-)
Well, actually a corporation is a person. When the feds crack down on it you don't see the President and board members going to jail unless they've done something blatantly illegal outside the company. The corporation acts as the legal entity for all the shareholders for their protection. If it goes bankrupt, the shareholders don't lose their houses (well, unless they have all their money in the company's stock). Corporations are not evil greedy monsters anymore than any other community is.
On a similar note, the statistics and evidence is also there for drug use. There are a LOT of bad things that are going to kill you.. junk food, cocaine, driving fast on your crotch rocket, banging the entire girls' volleyball team without protection (the parents WILL kick your ass when they find out.. man).
I suppose we can go three routes: Ban everything bad for humanity and encase all kids in a 24" thick suit of foam rubber for their first 18 years of life, let anybody do whatever they want, or a healthy balance of somewhere in between. Marijuana certainly kills your brain cells off and creates stupid stoners, but so does alcohol. I say if you're going to ban one you need to ban the other.
Cigarrettes? That pisses me off on a personal level. Your right to smoke stops where my nose begins. Go take it outside. No, I do not give a shit if it is sleeting or raining out. You picked up a bad addiction, deal with it, don't force the consequences (smell, coughing, etc.) on everyone else around you. If you want to be a luser and get addicted to such a stupid thing, be my guest.
So I guess the question was, does DARE work? I would say so. You're always going to have the lusers and potheads who go and do it anyway thinking they're somehow "cool" by rebelling against the "man". What these idiots fail to realize is they're not gaining anything.. instead of staying clean they're rebelling into the arms of the sadistic drug dealers who rape them for whatever money they can get from them. Do you honestly think your dealer gives a shit whether you live or die? You're just cash flow to them. They can replace you with the next batch of 5th graders. So dopeheads: Get a LIFE! Stop and think about it for a minute. The only people who think you are cool are the other lame ass stoners. I guess you're in good company. Hopefully the Darwin effect will start taking hold and clear the gene pool of you fools.
Well, I would say there will be a manned mission to Mars within 20 years definitely. Just for the hell of it. We'll have the technology needed better developed by then. If you REALLY want to see it happen, start spreading the rumor to everyone you know that Saddam Hussein has manned-space capability and is planning on sending 3 Arabnauts to the red planet to mine it for oil. Congress will pass an emergency appropriations bill for $100 billion more NASA funding the next day and the President will declare it a national priority to claim those rich oil fields on Mars before anyone in the middle east gets there.:-)
I find it more likely that the world will unite into a one-world government and everyone will sing in harmony and contribute work and services willingly to each other in the interests of fostering world peace. Who needs money when you have love baby? Want to put men on Mars? All the scientists will get together out of the sheer thrill of doing the task rather than expecting to get some monetary reward out of it. All resources will be shared amongst all world states whether they be resource rich or poor. We'll all light a huge bonfire an sing the night away as the world finally matures in a single cohesive unit. Of course ironically, three days later the comet the size of Texas will hit the Earth and we'll be wiped out. But it was a damn good 3 days while it lasted!
So, no.. maybe in about 500 years corporations will want to mine the moon or Mars.. but right now, there's too much good stuff to exploit right here on Earth. Unless they find some really rare element up there they're never going to justify it to their stockholders.
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I think you need to get your facts straight and stop lumping things together. The defense budget for 2000 is about $278 billion. NASA's 2000 budget was $14 billion. Much of that goes to manned space missions, but research in microgravity, aeronautics, and earth sciences comes out of it as well. That's like saying if I cut out going to the movies on Friday nights and stop my $150 a day crack addiction I'll be able to feed my kids. Two totally different things with two totally different moral stigmas which have a hell of a lot of difference in the price tag. How about we muddy the waters and throw some facts in:
Budget items FY2000
Agriculture: $17 billion
Education: $34 billion
Health and Human Services: $43 billion
House and Urban Development: $34 billion
Veterans Affairs: $20 billion
Environmental Protection Agency: $7 billion
Federal Emergency Management Agency: $3 billion
Internation Assistance Programs: $12 billion
National Science Foundation: $3 billion
When it comes down to it, general science, space and technology spending is $19 billion. Revenue from all sources was $1.9 trillion in 2000. For you non-math majors, that's only about 1% of the total revenue being spent on space, general science, and technology.
Social security, Medicare, and Medicaid account for over 42% of that $1.9 trillion. So before you continue to spout off biased liberal feel-good views, we ARE feeding the hungry, housing and homeless and protecting the environment.
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I hate to break this to you, but who do you think gets the federal contracts from NASA to BUILD this stuff? Boeing, Lockheed Martin, etc. The problem is a sort of double-edged sword. There's so much red tape to wade through it adds tons of extra effort and money to the whole project, but on the other hand... people get really sad when something like the Challenger explosion happens.
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And according to CNN, the other 1% voted for Nader. :-) (Hehe, their percentages add up to 101% ;-)
I agree, what the hell is going on here? 22% of the precincts are reporting and Bush has 51% of the vote compared to 46% for Gore... yet CNN gave it to Gore. WTF!? How on earth did they come up with that?
Well, if you want to check Smartfilter, Security Dynamics provides a web-based form you can type some URL's into and see how they're categorized: SmartfilterWhere. Unfortunately, it really depends on local site configuration on what is blocked or not though because the admin of the proxy is the one that would actually choose which categories to block. You could see if it came up as something weird like "sex" or "hate speech". Those are generally blocked obviously.
Now, before you call me a Windoze luser, I use Windows2k for my browser and to play Half-life (counter-strike), linux on my Alpha as a squid web proxy and file server, Solaris on my Sparc, and OpenBSD for my NAT'ing firewall. I like to think that I'm above all this mindless nonsense of the OS flamewars.
5 years ago people on the comp.os.linux.advocacy usenet group sounded exactly the same way most people on Slashdot sound today and it's really tiring. Nerds, ESPECIALLY nerds, should except that a person likes to use different OS's that meet their specific needs. There's nothing wrong with that! To blindly advocate an OS as the end-all-to-be-all operating system is ridiculous. Linux is severely lacking in multimedia and 3D support for example. I have a hard time even justifying a reason why I would need to dual boot my Win2k box to Linux anymore. There just isn't anything there I need that I can't do just as well, if not better, under Win2k.
So, take this all with a grain of salt and I will put on my flame-retardant suit.
Amazing... you get a +1 for posting this and I got moderated down to -1?? WTF! FUCK YOU MODERATORS!
After dozens of trips there I seem to recall the only thing they really asked was where were you born, where are you going, and how long will you be staying. Never had anyone ask me about my criminal history or what I was planning on doing with the explosives in my trunk (just kidding).
Your mother-in-law was fined $300 by the CANADIAN government for drunk driving 14 years ago? Hell, if they had suggested something so stupid as paying a fine to a foreign government for a relatively minor crime like DUI I would've laughed in their face and went back to the USA. How ridiculous.
It's going to be horrible Wednesday when Bush wins. I don't know how the police will contain the rioting, looting, and utter mayhem that will ensue. Frankly I've converted all my stocks and cash into weapons to use to protect my family in the chaos that follows tomorrow's election. Not. Go BUSH!
I would avoid trying to torch the White House. You'd have to pass through some very bad neighborhoods where the locals are probably going to be a lot more heavily armed then your army. Do they even issue firearms up there or do your soldiers rely on throwing witty European-wannabe taunts at the Americans? ;-)
I doubt MS cares if you have MP3's or porn on your systems. They're going to be looking for unlicensed copies of Office and Windows and such. Hell, I remember a story on here I believe a few days back about someone's machines being confiscated by the FBI for allegedly being involved in the yankees.com hack. Apparently the FBI didn't even care about the mp3's, why should microsoft?
Take Amazon's one click shopping for example. How in the HELL is that innovative and worthy of patenting?? We need to have the patent office either disolved or pump more money into it so they can examine each and every patent application thoroughly for both prior art and just general common sense. As silly as it sounds, I wouldn't be suprised if someone held a patent on the wheel.
I have used IE2... it is quite horrible in fact. You can't even bring up Microsoft's homepage with it because of all their fancy formatting. It's really kind of ironic that to get IE5 on a freshly installed NT4 box I had to download Netscape, go to MS's website and then download IE5. :-) I'm sure there's an easier way but I had too much bandwidth to care. ;-)
Where the heck have you been for the last 2 years, locked in a bombshelter in your basement? Here's another headline you may have missed.. we survived Y2K just fine. :-)
Hmm.. so copy the harddrive and replace the one in the system with the copied drive. Then you have the original for evidence without inconveniencing your "suspect". I have a problem with forensics that essentially confiscate something for months or years based on a whim or suspicion. If the FBI wants to confiscate your property they should compensate you with the equivalent hardware and a copy of your data or cash in the equivalent of your hardware and a copy of your data. (data that isn't illegal though).
Details details. Since when has Microsoft had to ship anything to take the #1 spot on any review or poll? :-) X-Box is THE best gaming platform of all time. It beats out the PS2, Dreamcast, and Dolphin without a fight. If you start out thinking otherwise you'll just end up in a bad mood when the reviews come out. Just start to accept Microsoft==FAST, Microsoft=Good.. Microsoft==Stable. Can I put my clothes back on now?
Result of rape: victim whose rights were violated.
Result of murder: dead victim whose rights were violated.
Result of smoking a joint: spaced-out non-victim with nobody's rights violated.
No, I don't troll. If I want to troll I will post as an AC. Marijuana is a bullshit drug on-par with tobacco and alcohol. My concern is with harder drugs like crack, acid, heroin, opium, etc. It's that shit the cops cart off out of a crackhouse by the wheelbarrel-full. You know the places.. you watch them on Cops. They break down the door and find a bunch of stoned out lusers with little 5 year old kids running around with guns laying on the couch. Nice environments.
But then, according to your argument, drugs don't affect anyone but yourself. Let's ask their neighbors how they like people driving in at all hours of the night to buy crack. How do they feel to have gang members peddling that shit next door? How is your family affected when you overdose and end up in the hospital after a stroke? Who is going to support you after you become a burned out vegetable? The state? Your family? Maybe after you've experienced your family being torn apart by drug use by a family member you can come back and comment on it. I realize it is human nature to be selfish, but stop and think about it for a minute and realize that you're not living in a bubble. Your actions DO affect the people around you in far less subtle ways than a murderer.
I tend to believe the AC since they are generally people who fear repercussions from what they post here, be it from their employer, future employers, or the community. Thankfully there is still the AC account available for these courageous souls to use to get this information out there.. otherwise it would be hidden in the closets of corporate america along with everything else.
The difference of course is that with Samba and Wine, anybody can sit there and track the CVS tree from day to day and see exactly what changes are going on. Yes, if Joe Shmoe checks in some MS proprietary secret HE will get slammed not Wine or Samba. Those projects have effectively given these crooks the kiss of death and told them to bugger off with their stolen code. Besides, they're already doing fine on their own without it. I imagine the code the Samba and Wine teams are hacking together are probably BETTER than the actual code Microsoft puts out. ;-)
Well, actually a corporation is a person. When the feds crack down on it you don't see the President and board members going to jail unless they've done something blatantly illegal outside the company. The corporation acts as the legal entity for all the shareholders for their protection. If it goes bankrupt, the shareholders don't lose their houses (well, unless they have all their money in the company's stock). Corporations are not evil greedy monsters anymore than any other community is.
Which part doesn't it cover?
I suppose we can go three routes: Ban everything bad for humanity and encase all kids in a 24" thick suit of foam rubber for their first 18 years of life, let anybody do whatever they want, or a healthy balance of somewhere in between. Marijuana certainly kills your brain cells off and creates stupid stoners, but so does alcohol. I say if you're going to ban one you need to ban the other.
Cigarrettes? That pisses me off on a personal level. Your right to smoke stops where my nose begins. Go take it outside. No, I do not give a shit if it is sleeting or raining out. You picked up a bad addiction, deal with it, don't force the consequences (smell, coughing, etc.) on everyone else around you. If you want to be a luser and get addicted to such a stupid thing, be my guest.
So I guess the question was, does DARE work? I would say so. You're always going to have the lusers and potheads who go and do it anyway thinking they're somehow "cool" by rebelling against the "man". What these idiots fail to realize is they're not gaining anything.. instead of staying clean they're rebelling into the arms of the sadistic drug dealers who rape them for whatever money they can get from them. Do you honestly think your dealer gives a shit whether you live or die? You're just cash flow to them. They can replace you with the next batch of 5th graders. So dopeheads: Get a LIFE! Stop and think about it for a minute. The only people who think you are cool are the other lame ass stoners. I guess you're in good company. Hopefully the Darwin effect will start taking hold and clear the gene pool of you fools.
Well, I would say there will be a manned mission to Mars within 20 years definitely. Just for the hell of it. We'll have the technology needed better developed by then. If you REALLY want to see it happen, start spreading the rumor to everyone you know that Saddam Hussein has manned-space capability and is planning on sending 3 Arabnauts to the red planet to mine it for oil. Congress will pass an emergency appropriations bill for $100 billion more NASA funding the next day and the President will declare it a national priority to claim those rich oil fields on Mars before anyone in the middle east gets there. :-)
I find it more likely that the world will unite into a one-world government and everyone will sing in harmony and contribute work and services willingly to each other in the interests of fostering world peace. Who needs money when you have love baby? Want to put men on Mars? All the scientists will get together out of the sheer thrill of doing the task rather than expecting to get some monetary reward out of it. All resources will be shared amongst all world states whether they be resource rich or poor. We'll all light a huge bonfire an sing the night away as the world finally matures in a single cohesive unit. Of course ironically, three days later the comet the size of Texas will hit the Earth and we'll be wiped out. But it was a damn good 3 days while it lasted!
So, no.. maybe in about 500 years corporations will want to mine the moon or Mars.. but right now, there's too much good stuff to exploit right here on Earth. Unless they find some really rare element up there they're never going to justify it to their stockholders.
Budget items FY2000
Agriculture: $17 billion
Education: $34 billion
Health and Human Services: $43 billion
House and Urban Development: $34 billion
Veterans Affairs: $20 billion
Environmental Protection Agency: $7 billion
Federal Emergency Management Agency: $3 billion
Internation Assistance Programs: $12 billion
National Science Foundation: $3 billion
When it comes down to it, general science, space and technology spending is $19 billion. Revenue from all sources was $1.9 trillion in 2000. For you non-math majors, that's only about 1% of the total revenue being spent on space, general science, and technology.
Social security, Medicare, and Medicaid account for over 42% of that $1.9 trillion. So before you continue to spout off biased liberal feel-good views, we ARE feeding the hungry, housing and homeless and protecting the environment.
SOURCE: http://w3.access.g po. gov/usbudget/fy2001/pdf/guide.pdf
I hate to break this to you, but who do you think gets the federal contracts from NASA to BUILD this stuff? Boeing, Lockheed Martin, etc. The problem is a sort of double-edged sword. There's so much red tape to wade through it adds tons of extra effort and money to the whole project, but on the other hand... people get really sad when something like the Challenger explosion happens.