The phrase "series of tubes" is easier to make fun of, but the bigger display of stupidity is when Stevens talked about one of his staffers sending him an "Internets" (e-mail message) on a Friday and Stevens not receiving it until Monday because of how clogged the tubes were.
This is the "party of smaller government?" "Mentioning Jesus in a speech, that's small government. Doing what Jesus said, that's big government."
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Which is why I'm not part of the group around here that insists that the only good solution is to completely eliminate patents. The first step towards fixing the patent system should be to actually enforce the existing rules, then we can see what actually needs to be changed.
A plurality system inexorably pushes politicians towards the center, rather than the fringes. You clearly aren't talking about the same USA that the rest of us are.
So they can either go bankrupt without their advertising program, or they can go bankrupt with their advertising program not making them enough money to pay their army of lawyers to deal with a never-ending flood of lawsuits. I guess I don't see the advantage of one situation over the other.
They would pull out of the market that is making them all their money? If that market stops making them money, or starts costing them money, why wouldn't they?
That is quite interesting. I wonder how many atheists would be willing to admit that they would change their minds if they were presented with legitimate proof (however high that requirement may be) of some sort of divine being.
The question is whether or not Sony knew the lock was going to blow up before they sold it to their customers.
And Sony knew how it was going to work. Come again?
What we need is a DHS agent following each and every american citizen around 24/7 with weapons locked and loaded. The need for so many more agents would take care of unemployment too. It's a win-win.
The universe is infinite, but the number of planets certainly isn't. I believe that's only true if the portion of the universe that contains planets is finite. Let's say 1/10 of the universe contains planets (because it's too early in the morning for large numbers). 1/10 of infinity is still infinity. Of course, since we essentially have no idea what "infinite" means in the context of the universe, nothing we say about it can be considered even close to accurate.
I don't own a Wii, so I only get to play when I'm at a friend's house, but we play almost every time we get together. I can see how it wouldn't be as fun playing with your Wii by yourself (sorry, couldn't resist). It's been great for us late-20's geeks, though.
...the Canonical distros are nothing special. As a 24-7 sysadmin... I believe your second sentence there identifies you as someone that is not in Ubuntu's primary target audience. I think most Ubuntu users, including myself, will openly admit that regular Ubuntu releases (long-term releases such as 6.06 are somewhat different) are not really intended for mission-critical servers. If I have to spend half an hour rebooting my Ubuntu system at home and fixing the Xorg config file, I'm probably annoyed, but nobody has lost millions of dollars. The same can't always be said for production servers.
One student could almost completely prove they weren't there for the alleged rape based on a series of privacy invasions (taxi records, dorm records, ATM suvielence records and cell phone records). I'm sure some people still think so, but I think you'll find that most people don't consider it an invasion of privacy when such records are obtained by court order. I don't recall offhand if that was the case in your example, but all of those records would be legitimate targets for search warrants granted by a court.
Considering the fact that they're just under 30 years old, I don't think they cared much about politics more than one decade ago. Maybe they would join the Libertarian party if they thought it would make a difference in any way. Who you vote for is far more important than which checkbox you marked when you registered to vote.
...there is a lot of people out there who view the blog as some sacred confessional that shall not be besmirched with bought-and-sold thoughts. Yeah, and they're often called "bloggers". They're the ones that want all of the authority of legitimate journalists without any of the responsibility.
Yeah, Ron Paul is probably one of the most conservative (in the political and economic sense) candidates running. I have several friends that are Republicans that are pretty unhappy that political and economic conservatives have been abandoned in favor of religious zealots.
Just out of curiosity, what Independents, Libertarians, and Socialists have declared that they are candidates? I believe there are 18 total Republicans and Democrats that are officially declared as candidates right now, and the other few in the survey are probably people like Al Gore and Fred Thompson that are considered "strong possibilities" for declaring their candidacy sometime in the near future. I did cringe a bit when I came across "undeclared candidates" in the summary. Some people are saying that Michael Bloomberg left the Republican Party and became an Independent as a prelude to becoming a candidate, but he's denying it so far. There are one or two other Republicans that might run as Independents (Hagel, I think?), but otherwise the only actual candidates that I know of right now are either Republicans or Democrats.
That reminds me of the book award I got my senior year of high school. I got The Harvard Book. Yes, as the name might imply, it's just a book of essays by famous people saying how great Harvard is. The student that got the Yale book award got the Complete Works of William Shakespeare, and I got a doorstop. If they're really that good, why do they need a book that just talks about how good they are.
The budget for Voices in the Dark wasn't exceptionally high, so they decided to cut the release from three stories down to two, removing the story that would have involved Jerry Doyle. If sales go well (within two days of being available for pre-order on Amazon back in April, it was up to #5 on the top sellers list), future stories will bring in more characters. Jerry Doyle, Mira Furlan, and Peter Jurasik would probably appear in the second or third releases, obviously depending on availability.
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The phrase "series of tubes" is easier to make fun of, but the bigger display of stupidity is when Stevens talked about one of his staffers sending him an "Internets" (e-mail message) on a Friday and Stevens not receiving it until Monday because of how clogged the tubes were.
Which is why I'm not part of the group around here that insists that the only good solution is to completely eliminate patents. The first step towards fixing the patent system should be to actually enforce the existing rules, then we can see what actually needs to be changed.
...the Right to Party... You have to fight for it, though.So they can either go bankrupt without their advertising program, or they can go bankrupt with their advertising program not making them enough money to pay their army of lawyers to deal with a never-ending flood of lawsuits. I guess I don't see the advantage of one situation over the other.
I stand corrected then. I've only ever voted in Portland and Orono.
That is quite interesting. I wonder how many atheists would be willing to admit that they would change their minds if they were presented with legitimate proof (however high that requirement may be) of some sort of divine being.
Maine also does ballots this way, except that you use a black marker instead of a pencil.
I don't own a Wii, so I only get to play when I'm at a friend's house, but we play almost every time we get together. I can see how it wouldn't be as fun playing with your Wii by yourself (sorry, couldn't resist). It's been great for us late-20's geeks, though.
...the Canonical distros are nothing special. As a 24-7 sysadmin... I believe your second sentence there identifies you as someone that is not in Ubuntu's primary target audience. I think most Ubuntu users, including myself, will openly admit that regular Ubuntu releases (long-term releases such as 6.06 are somewhat different) are not really intended for mission-critical servers. If I have to spend half an hour rebooting my Ubuntu system at home and fixing the Xorg config file, I'm probably annoyed, but nobody has lost millions of dollars. The same can't always be said for production servers.Considering the fact that they're just under 30 years old, I don't think they cared much about politics more than one decade ago. Maybe they would join the Libertarian party if they thought it would make a difference in any way. Who you vote for is far more important than which checkbox you marked when you registered to vote.
...how long before we see companies using 'Gamma' testing... My memory may be faulty on this one, but hasn't MySQL been doing this for several years?
...there is a lot of people out there who view the blog as some sacred confessional that shall not be besmirched with bought-and-sold thoughts. Yeah, and they're often called "bloggers". They're the ones that want all of the authority of legitimate journalists without any of the responsibility.Yeah, Ron Paul is probably one of the most conservative (in the political and economic sense) candidates running. I have several friends that are Republicans that are pretty unhappy that political and economic conservatives have been abandoned in favor of religious zealots.
Just out of curiosity, what Independents, Libertarians, and Socialists have declared that they are candidates? I believe there are 18 total Republicans and Democrats that are officially declared as candidates right now, and the other few in the survey are probably people like Al Gore and Fred Thompson that are considered "strong possibilities" for declaring their candidacy sometime in the near future. I did cringe a bit when I came across "undeclared candidates" in the summary. Some people are saying that Michael Bloomberg left the Republican Party and became an Independent as a prelude to becoming a candidate, but he's denying it so far. There are one or two other Republicans that might run as Independents (Hagel, I think?), but otherwise the only actual candidates that I know of right now are either Republicans or Democrats.
That reminds me of the book award I got my senior year of high school. I got The Harvard Book. Yes, as the name might imply, it's just a book of essays by famous people saying how great Harvard is. The student that got the Yale book award got the Complete Works of William Shakespeare, and I got a doorstop. If they're really that good, why do they need a book that just talks about how good they are.
The budget for Voices in the Dark wasn't exceptionally high, so they decided to cut the release from three stories down to two, removing the story that would have involved Jerry Doyle. If sales go well (within two days of being available for pre-order on Amazon back in April, it was up to #5 on the top sellers list), future stories will bring in more characters. Jerry Doyle, Mira Furlan, and Peter Jurasik would probably appear in the second or third releases, obviously depending on availability.
Yeah, no idea what I was thinking. My apologies.