What are you saying? Bush was in court and swore an oath? Not to beat a dead horse, but the Presidental Oath includes swearing to protect the Constitution of the United States. I'm pretty sure signing statements that subvert Article One are contrary to that oath. Expanding Article Two with nonsense because the administration says so is another. Ignoring the 4th Amendment is a nice touch, too.
Not that Congress has any problems subverting the 1st, 2nd, 5th, 9th, and 10th Amendments for themselves after taking similar oaths.
Also, "I reboot my computer... why should I have to reboot my computer?" I find it hard to realize that he wouldn't know the technical difficulties in replacing a dll while the system is running, and possible ways around this, and the current state of affairs. One of the main goals introduced for Windows 5 (Win2k/XP) was to eliminiate required reboots. By that time in the installed ecosystem, Windows 9x/Me users were having to reboot CONSTANTLY for just about everything. In fact, one of the guidelines to get permission from Microsoft to put the label "Made for Windows XP" on your software product was that the application was not permitted to require the user to reboot.
In reality it still had to be done because of the technical aspects of changing a.dll in use and no safe way to replace it in flight (why not?), but then again getting that stupid little logo on your box wasn't going to trump usability... but at least there was "some" encouragement for developers to find another way.
Obviously completely different from lying, and completely out of the realm of lying under oath. Hmm... funny, I seem to recall this courtroom oath:
"Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?"
On my scale of harm, lying about a BJ is inconsequential versus lying about reasons for war, but that's not good enough reason to give it a pass. Sometimes you just gotta call a spade a spade: breaking your oath (legal affirmation) by withholding the whole truth is perjury.
Seriously, the week after the grounding of all flights, the air was clearer than it has been in decades. We really have to cut back on useless air travel - it's a "luxury" our children will be paying for, and cursing us for. So, the air was cleaner than in all those decades with just one week of not flying planes?
I fail to see how our children would curse us for something that can be undone in a week.
The bulk of constitutional law is dealing with a couple of centuries of legal opinions, tests and precedence which make up the body study. Which is the whole source of the problem. As soon as the constitution was considered a "living document" instead of a literal one the words on it all of a sudden holds no meaning.
Leave it to a bunch of lawyers to muck up what is a very simple (ok ok, 6th grade reading level) guideline for what Government is limited to doing into something more complicated.
If the government wants to waste it's citizens time, shouldn't the citizens have the same right. Because throwing you in Guantanamo Bay doesn't really take up a whole lot of the government's time (lots and lots of people) but will take a whole lot of your time (all of it).
I don't really see the privacy angle. If you're not using cash, then a third party is already privy to the transaction, and who knows who has access to it from there. Obviously privacy isn't the buyer or seller's primary concern. It's to everyone's benefit that individuals aren't able to escape their tax obligations through their unconventional business schemes. Why would we want to pay their due? Privacy: the whole thing of "I have nothing to hide" has really taken root. Personally I find it disturbing to use fairness envy ("I pay my fair share, so must everyone else, to the point of invading privacy") to further advances against government-enforced privacy violations. Please refer to Daniel J. Solove's excellent paper on the matter. The point of using, say, a credit card and disclosing to them your transaction is that it's your decision and they are legally bound to their privacy policy. The government has no privacy policy (other than systematically invading it at every opportunity).
Not to say it's never happened before. Terrorists, pedophiles, drug abusers... they all welcome tax evaders as the new bogeyman by which the government can shoehorn new bad laws onto the books with overreaching influence.
So am I for tax-dodgers? No: the people not paying taxes on their ebay stores are ALREADY breaking the law and can ALREADY be successfully prosecuted for it. Financial records can be obtained by subpoena and the proper procedure within the justice system. This bill would force all handlers of electronic payment to account and disclose information at THEIR expense (read: our expense because profit margins sure as hell aren't going to take the hit from government compliance costs). Now justice and investigation doesn't need a warrant or a court order because private companies are now compelled to broadcast this data.
... to tax you with, my dear. Funny delivery yes, but not so funny realities. It's clearly paving the way for the federal government to track that persnickity little inter-state commerce that gives them carte blanche to do whatever they want with the country. I'm sure the twinkling in the eyes has at least some part about taking a cut, or at the very least taking a cut for the states (since congress is elected via the state, they're job is to bring home the bacon).
I never did get the obsession other people have with the units we use in the states. It's merely a point of contention for the "we're right, you're wrong" nationalistic crowd. Same with dates: MM/DD/YYYY, DD-MM-YYYY, YYYY.MM.DD, so on and so on.
I'm sure a war or two has been fought over whether toilet paper should be hung in the proper overhand fashion or the grotesque underhand abomination.
. . . It's a classic blunder, like getting into a land war in Asia . . . 99 44/100 percent . . . Security is like sex. Once you're penetrated you're ****ed. You are now my new favorite poster.
And what about Jane Blow who does not want to pay the government to find out that information? What choice does she have? Vote accordingly. FCC chair is a position appointed by elected officials, and are subject to laws passed by Congress.
Actually, what should be done is that the information should be destroyed, those who were negatively impacted by the action should be compensated, and the public should be refunded the money that was spent on the project. The answer again is to vote.
Majority rules (when not doing wonky things with the electoral college), so the idea is to communicate, educate, and inspire others to agree with you and vote for candidates who would be in favor of truly slashing huge rolls of fat in government spending for agencies like the FCC. Sadly, we're talking about the uphill battle of toppling the big two political parties who have no intention of letting in the outsiders in order to do it.
Don't you mean rational measurements and British currency into stupid measurements and a currently rather crap currency translation? What does it matter? As long as the conversion is accurate, why should anyone be offended?
Hell, I'd like to see the units translated to cubits and hogsheads.
There's a lot of ray-traced images from the POV-Ray galleries which closely follow not only the mathematical basis from which computing as we know it was born, but have been beautified so even those who don't know the geeky underpinnings can appreciate them... preferrably before they learn them.
A lot of them have high quality prints available, and even some free (as in beer) ones will have the original.POV file so you can render it at any resolution you see fit for whatever gargantuan dimensions you'll send to the printing office and make them cry.;)
Really, it would have been either party, and any person in office that would have fought this. That's entirely irrelevant. I don't really care what party it is, if the Democrats were in this situation they would be scrutinized just as much as the current administration is. Unfortunately, the politics can't be just ignored. All it would take is a 3/4 majority in either house to get a Freedom of Information Act revision to make it speicifically applicable to the executive office. But likely any voting on such a thing would go down party lines, and once more the politics of the day take precedence over what's best for the country.
Even the printer friendly version has text ads sliming it up, and they were practically more distracting than regular ads since they look identical to heading nodes within the article.
Eh, is it time to just hosts out infoworld.com so I don't frustrate myself trying to read anything they product?
in case you are wondering, whether i am a fanboi or not - i dislike being fanboi of anything. but when i see some party pulling bullshit, i side with the other. I don't know much about 10.1, but if what you say is true, your beef is probably with Ubisoft for actually doing it, not NVidia for requesting it.
Links (to article, edit history, and discussion page) or it didn't happen. Wikitruth has much discussion over how admins can selectively delete sections or entire articles, histories, and discussion without leaving a trace. That site also claims to have mirrors of pre-cabal articles.
Don't know, but 144,000 people are about to lose their jobs in Brazil thanks to mechanised automation progress: There, fixed that for you.
It's not like all those people cannot possibly get more work or different kinds of work. There will always be jobs for manual labor: the nature of the labor just changes.
How do we deal with [child produced pornography]? At the risk of being called a pedophile myself: We don't.
To me at least, the fact that the tools to produce pornography are falling into the hands of children and it's being used as such is evidence that we need to completely rethink childhood, adolesence, sexuality, and age of consent. I know parents will be horrified at the thought of their precious little fuzzy-lumpkins actually being as curious as they were when they were that age, but it's true.
Nah, they just hate gays and atheists//agnostics. So, when it comes to instilling values and giving youths something to do, no gays nor atheists nor agnostics. When it comes to getting help from the open source community all of a sudden the help from those who are gay and/or atheist or agnostic is perfectly welcome for giving them some free (as in beer) stuff?
Tell them to go shove it and write their own God-fearing straight-male software.
Because it is impossible for a partial blowout of a tire to force a 5000lb SUV into a 1900lb compact? That's why truckers get specialized drivers licenses, granted upon demonstration of the skills required to minimize the impact of genuine ACCIDENTS like tire blowouts.
SUVs don't require a special license and literally any 16 year old kid who might barely be able to work a manual compact can climb into an H2 and single-handedly manage to kill occupants of 2 or 3 or more small cars.
Why is it that when an SUV owner gets into an accident, it is because they are aggressive? How exactly do you roll over an SUV if you're not speeding during a turn? How do you sideswipe someone if you didn't fail at cutting them off or didn't check before changing lanes and other basic driving skills?
You want to talk aggressive, talk to all the 530i penis compensators who drive like they are on their own personal autobahn. Yes, drivers of small vehicles can (and do) get in "accidents" by driving like jerks. The 530i, however, doesn't weigh what an SUV weighs, won't put the same wear on the road, and isn't likely to bounce around other vehicles being more deadly in an accident on a road during a collision the same way a heavy SUV does.
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Not that Congress has any problems subverting the 1st, 2nd, 5th, 9th, and 10th Amendments for themselves after taking similar oaths.
In reality it still had to be done because of the technical aspects of changing a .dll in use and no safe way to replace it in flight (why not?), but then again getting that stupid little logo on your box wasn't going to trump usability... but at least there was "some" encouragement for developers to find another way.
"Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?"
On my scale of harm, lying about a BJ is inconsequential versus lying about reasons for war, but that's not good enough reason to give it a pass. Sometimes you just gotta call a spade a spade: breaking your oath (legal affirmation) by withholding the whole truth is perjury.
I fail to see how our children would curse us for something that can be undone in a week.
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Leave it to a bunch of lawyers to muck up what is a very simple (ok ok, 6th grade reading level) guideline for what Government is limited to doing into something more complicated.
All things told, I'd rather die by act of science than by act of war.
Not to say it's never happened before. Terrorists, pedophiles, drug abusers... they all welcome tax evaders as the new bogeyman by which the government can shoehorn new bad laws onto the books with overreaching influence.
So am I for tax-dodgers? No: the people not paying taxes on their ebay stores are ALREADY breaking the law and can ALREADY be successfully prosecuted for it. Financial records can be obtained by subpoena and the proper procedure within the justice system. This bill would force all handlers of electronic payment to account and disclose information at THEIR expense (read: our expense because profit margins sure as hell aren't going to take the hit from government compliance costs). Now justice and investigation doesn't need a warrant or a court order because private companies are now compelled to broadcast this data.
... to tax you with, my dear. Funny delivery yes, but not so funny realities. It's clearly paving the way for the federal government to track that persnickity little inter-state commerce that gives them carte blanche to do whatever they want with the country. I'm sure the twinkling in the eyes has at least some part about taking a cut, or at the very least taking a cut for the states (since congress is elected via the state, they're job is to bring home the bacon).I'm sure a war or two has been fought over whether toilet paper should be hung in the proper overhand fashion or the grotesque underhand abomination.
Majority rules (when not doing wonky things with the electoral college), so the idea is to communicate, educate, and inspire others to agree with you and vote for candidates who would be in favor of truly slashing huge rolls of fat in government spending for agencies like the FCC. Sadly, we're talking about the uphill battle of toppling the big two political parties who have no intention of letting in the outsiders in order to do it.
Hell, I'd like to see the units translated to cubits and hogsheads.
There's a lot of ray-traced images from the POV-Ray galleries which closely follow not only the mathematical basis from which computing as we know it was born, but have been beautified so even those who don't know the geeky underpinnings can appreciate them... preferrably before they learn them.
.POV file so you can render it at any resolution you see fit for whatever gargantuan dimensions you'll send to the printing office and make them cry. ;)
A lot of them have high quality prints available, and even some free (as in beer) ones will have the original
(er, 3/4 for constitutional amendment to get around the usual defence of "Article Two" by Bush so far)
Even the printer friendly version has text ads sliming it up, and they were practically more distracting than regular ads since they look identical to heading nodes within the article.
Eh, is it time to just hosts out infoworld.com so I don't frustrate myself trying to read anything they product?
I love parent's question, and therefore love them and hate not having mod points.
It's not like all those people cannot possibly get more work or different kinds of work. There will always be jobs for manual labor: the nature of the labor just changes.
We don't.
To me at least, the fact that the tools to produce pornography are falling into the hands of children and it's being used as such is evidence that we need to completely rethink childhood, adolesence, sexuality, and age of consent. I know parents will be horrified at the thought of their precious little fuzzy-lumpkins actually being as curious as they were when they were that age, but it's true.
Tell them to go shove it and write their own God-fearing straight-male software.
SUVs don't require a special license and literally any 16 year old kid who might barely be able to work a manual compact can climb into an H2 and single-handedly manage to kill occupants of 2 or 3 or more small cars. Why is it that when an SUV owner gets into an accident, it is because they are aggressive? How exactly do you roll over an SUV if you're not speeding during a turn? How do you sideswipe someone if you didn't fail at cutting them off or didn't check before changing lanes and other basic driving skills? You want to talk aggressive, talk to all the 530i penis compensators who drive like they are on their own personal autobahn. Yes, drivers of small vehicles can (and do) get in "accidents" by driving like jerks. The 530i, however, doesn't weigh what an SUV weighs, won't put the same wear on the road, and isn't likely to bounce around other vehicles being more deadly in an accident on a road during a collision the same way a heavy SUV does.