I mean, how many people have plastic surgery, eh? Even though you could get a better product (improved looks), it costs you money, it's risky, and it's a pain in the neck. So most people decide their 'free' physical appearance is just good enough.
Or say, you can chose to pay $300 for a retail copy of Win XP, or you could keep a pre-installed free OS (equivalent or better), which one would you chose? It becomes especially tough to sell you something when you get all the free stuff by default.
Another case in point is health insurance in certain European countries: all citizens get some basic insurance, or they can purchase a private plan. You will find 99.9% are quite happy with what they have even though they could get faster service, better equipment, and top-notch doctors from the private hospitals/insurers. (This is why American insurers have spent billions lobbying against a universtal govt. insurance: they would lose profits big-time).
Why should we take E-voting advice from a Dutch guy who probably thinks our Joint Chiefs of Staff are a bunch of Native American elders rolling extra-large doobies?
And it's not like the Dutch know what a proper voting machine looks like. As Taco himself said, these Dutch diebolds have less space than a Nomad and no wireless: lame
Well, how many home users have a second PC with 2 NICs, and know how to configure it as a NAT/firewall server?
For the absolute majority of home windows users, a software firewall is the only viable option. And if MS did their job, that would be the only solution they would need.
Off topic: (and please forgive my ignorance) doesn't moisturizing cream make one's face break out anyways, by clogging all those pores and whatnot?
I had some very bad experience with TV makeup (that stuff that feels like "Tub and Tile" caulk), and I got the worst achne after that for several weeks.
Why? Slowing economy, high IT unemployment, Congressmen wishing to be seen as limiting immigration (since they cannot actually do anything about 2,000,000 undocumented workers per year from Mexico).
As for security, there weren't any terrorists coming in under H1-B.
I am not actually comparing Bush to Hitler. Rather, I focus on the legalistic resemblance of Hitler's rise to power and the recent working in Washington.
The fact that I (and most of my friends) like and completely trust Bush, and support most of his decisions, is completely irrelevant:
Once certain pre-conditions are met and a basic framework conductive of a dictatorship is in place, it only takes one bad person for such a dictatorship to arise. I am confident it will not be Bush; I am less confident it would not be Hillary; and I have no idea about John Doe that will come after them.
The point is, I am not willing to weaken our democracy to the point where it will be at a mercy of (and up for grabs by) a 2008 presidential winner.
1) In 1933 "terrorists" destroyed German Reichstag 2) To begin war on terror, the German "Patriot" act was passed getting rid of habeas corpus 3) The German congress passed the Enabling Act to help the president's "war on terror". 4) Hitler consumated the powers granted to him by the Congress through this legal process.
And the countless sheeple cheered on.
Bush is about to sign Step 3) Can I get a Hallelujah?
Easily taken care of if all schools that participate in the voucher program are required to take all applicants.
We already have that. Such schools are called public schools
The whole reason private schools are better is because their students are better (filtered out academically, behaviorally, etc.) and because the parents actually care (or are rich enough to hire someone who does). I am willing to bet pretty much anything you will not find any half-decent private school agreeing to admit everyone.
Vaucher solution makes about as much sense as saying "Graduate students are smarter, so let's admit everybody to graduate school" or "Olympic runners are thin, let's send all the fat kids to run in the Olympics"
I have spoken to several officers serving in Iraq... The standard description for a 'private security contractor' is something like 'a dick-headed fuckup'.
One even told me the contractors were directly responsible for most of the insurgency: our military were in fact greeted as liberators, but eventually the contractors showed up in one too many wrong places and pissed off one too many wrong people.
Why not try your idea on our police, ambulance, and military?
Private schools can pick and chose whom they wish to educate, and can cut off poor, misbehaving, lazy, underperforming students at any time.
Now imagine that instead of one person (Bush) having a "goverment monopoly" on nuclear missile launch codes, each citizen would get a "voucher" for 1/30,000th of a nuke which they could use to grant access to anybody they think represent their special interest...
Why would you think normal people should take Islamic sects as the moral benchmark? Are we talking about people that castrate babies to groom them into jokeys, cover females from head to toe, and cut throats of their daughters if they lose their virginity before marriage (for whatever reason)?
not to troll, but a lot of cultures also consider strapping a suicide vest on then running into hospitals a GoodThing (tm). doesn't mean it's right!
Good thing we didn't elect him in 2000 then, or else he would run up record budget and trade deficits with his liberal spending.
Gas would be $3/gal under Gore due to his taxed on the oil companies, while cutting taxes for his liberal Hollywood buddies. He would cut student loans and military hazard pay (students and soldiers emit CO2). He would starve science, education, and research investment of this country.
There would be massive unemployment because all the jobs would be outsourced to non-Kyoto countries like India and China; our Big-Three automakers would lay off millions and post record losses under Gore!
What's more, somewhere around August 2001 he would go to his forest to clear some bear-traps, all the while ignoring a PDB titled "Bin laden determined to attack American ozone using planes", which would have led to a great tragedy perhaps a month later... Which Gore would exploit to roll back civil liberties, torture random people suspected of driving an SUV, and even rolling back Habeas Corpus (or else the Global Warmists would win!).
Finally, Al Gore would probably invade some crazy country because Gore they were hiding the Weapons of Mass Polution
The only reason people are doing it is to appeal the the paedophile side of their partner.
So if your guy/girl demands a hairless crotch, report his/her pervie ass to the police before they molest some kids. Or at least inform his/her parents, neighbours, pastor, and employer.
These cost too much. A typical Home user would not like to pay tens of thousands of dollars for XP Corp (and most companies cannot just hand these out).
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You cannot compete with free stuff.
I mean, how many people have plastic surgery, eh? Even though you could get a better product (improved looks), it costs you money, it's risky, and it's a pain in the neck. So most people decide their 'free' physical appearance is just good enough.
Or say, you can chose to pay $300 for a retail copy of Win XP, or you could keep a pre-installed free OS (equivalent or better), which one would you chose? It becomes especially tough to sell you something when you get all the free stuff by default.
Another case in point is health insurance in certain European countries: all citizens get some basic insurance, or they can purchase a private plan. You will find 99.9% are quite happy with what they have even though they could get faster service, better equipment, and top-notch doctors from the private hospitals/insurers. (This is why American insurers have spent billions lobbying against a universtal govt. insurance: they would lose profits big-time).
-invent better ways to suppress/reverse global warming?
Nucular winter?
Why should we take E-voting advice from a Dutch guy who probably thinks our Joint Chiefs of Staff are a bunch of Native American elders rolling extra-large doobies?
And it's not like the Dutch know what a proper voting machine looks like. As Taco himself said, these Dutch diebolds have less space than a Nomad and no wireless: lame
Well, how many home users have a second PC with 2 NICs, and know how to configure it as a NAT/firewall server?
For the absolute majority of home windows users, a software firewall is the only viable option. And if MS did their job, that would be the only solution they would need.
You OpenBSDats just want to cut and run from Windows. We need to stay the course if we do not want the smoking router to become a mushroom CPU.
Stay with Windows, or the hackers win!
You know who's paying for Iraq war? China, that's who.
Of course, some day we might need to pay them back.
Wow, what a great analogy.
Off topic: (and please forgive my ignorance) doesn't moisturizing cream make one's face break out anyways, by clogging all those pores and whatnot?
I had some very bad experience with TV makeup (that stuff that feels like "Tub and Tile" caulk), and I got the worst achne after that for several weeks.
He's talking about Mac OS X updates.
Why? Slowing economy, high IT unemployment, Congressmen wishing to be seen as limiting immigration (since they cannot actually do anything about 2,000,000 undocumented workers per year from Mexico).
As for security, there weren't any terrorists coming in under H1-B.
H1-B quota was cut to 1/3 of that under Clinton. So vote for Bush.
Stand by for a picture of a giant phallus.
Seriously though, I respect the guy for giving up half his prize to the other algorithm developer.
I am not actually comparing Bush to Hitler. Rather, I focus on the legalistic resemblance of Hitler's rise to power and the recent working in Washington.
The fact that I (and most of my friends) like and completely trust Bush, and support most of his decisions, is completely irrelevant:
Once certain pre-conditions are met and a basic framework conductive of a dictatorship is in place, it only takes one bad person for such a dictatorship to arise. I am confident it will not be Bush; I am less confident it would not be Hillary; and I have no idea about John Doe that will come after them.
The point is, I am not willing to weaken our democracy to the point where it will be at a mercy of (and up for grabs by) a 2008 presidential winner.
This depends entirely on what you use the power for.
Air-conditioning, for example, is mostly on during the day, so using solar panels to supplement mains power to the AC would be a good thing.
The problem, of course, is that the solar panels just cost way too much right now.
Coincidence you say?
1) In 1933 "terrorists" destroyed German Reichstag
2) To begin war on terror, the German "Patriot" act was passed getting rid of habeas corpus
3) The German congress passed the Enabling Act to help the president's "war on terror".
4) Hitler consumated the powers granted to him by the Congress through this legal process.
And the countless sheeple cheered on.
Bush is about to sign Step 3)
Can I get a Hallelujah?
We already have that. Such schools are called public schools
The whole reason private schools are better is because their students are better (filtered out academically, behaviorally, etc.) and because the parents actually care (or are rich enough to hire someone who does). I am willing to bet pretty much anything you will not find any half-decent private school agreeing to admit everyone.
Vaucher solution makes about as much sense as saying "Graduate students are smarter, so let's admit everybody to graduate school" or "Olympic runners are thin, let's send all the fat kids to run in the Olympics"
I have spoken to several officers serving in Iraq... The standard description for a 'private security contractor' is something like 'a dick-headed fuckup'.
One even told me the contractors were directly responsible for most of the insurgency: our military were in fact greeted as liberators, but eventually the contractors showed up in one too many wrong places and pissed off one too many wrong people.
Why not try your idea on our police, ambulance, and military?
Private schools can pick and chose whom they wish to educate, and can cut off poor, misbehaving, lazy, underperforming students at any time.
Now imagine that instead of one person (Bush) having a "goverment monopoly" on nuclear missile launch codes, each citizen would get a "voucher" for 1/30,000th of a nuke which they could use to grant access to anybody they think represent their special interest...
What do I care if muslims shave or not?
Why would you think normal people should take Islamic sects as the moral benchmark? Are we talking about people that castrate babies to groom them into jokeys, cover females from head to toe, and cut throats of their daughters if they lose their virginity before marriage (for whatever reason)?
not to troll, but a lot of cultures also consider strapping a suicide vest on then running into hospitals a GoodThing (tm). doesn't mean it's right!
Oh yeah? Your state probably has a law against that kind of deviant sexual procedure.
Good thing we didn't elect him in 2000 then, or else he would run up record budget and trade deficits with his liberal spending.
Gas would be $3/gal under Gore due to his taxed on the oil companies, while cutting taxes for his liberal Hollywood buddies. He would cut student loans and military hazard pay (students and soldiers emit CO2). He would starve science, education, and research investment of this country.
There would be massive unemployment because all the jobs would be outsourced to non-Kyoto countries like India and China; our Big-Three automakers would lay off millions and post record losses under Gore!
What's more, somewhere around August 2001 he would go to his forest to clear some bear-traps, all the while ignoring a PDB titled "Bin laden determined to attack American ozone using planes", which would have led to a great tragedy perhaps a month later... Which Gore would exploit to roll back civil liberties, torture random people suspected of driving an SUV, and even rolling back Habeas Corpus (or else the Global Warmists would win!).
Finally, Al Gore would probably invade some crazy country because Gore they were hiding the Weapons of Mass Polution
Good thing Gore was not elected, eh?
shaving one's pubic hair is just plain perverted.
The only reason people are doing it is to appeal the the paedophile side of their partner.
So if your guy/girl demands a hairless crotch, report his/her pervie ass to the police before they molest some kids. Or at least inform his/her parents, neighbours, pastor, and employer.
what was your point?
"Stealing software saves you money?"
These cost too much. A typical Home user would not like to pay tens of thousands of dollars for XP Corp (and most companies cannot just hand these out).
In that case you may get the discounted OEM XP Home for a mere $100.
Everybody wins!
Oh yeah? Then why do Americans keep electing people who do exactly that?