Hundreds of years ago, the religious also honestly believed based on biblical evidence that the Sun revolved around the Earth. They deluded themselves, just as people today delude themselves about evolution, which is as absolutely factual as the Earth going around the Sun.
Can you provide some quotes from the Bible regarding this? I've never heard of such a thing. I know Catholic tradition had something to that effect, but I don't believe it's in the Bible itself.
I read an excellent book by James R. Cook called Full Faith and Credit: A Novel About Financial Collapse. It starts out with the US stock market over-leveraged, and then the stock market crashes, mortgages collapse, and massive inflation and interest rates occur as the government steps in and tries to help. The main character is a trader who buys gold and makes a vast fortune.
As liquidity disappears, hedge and mutual funds and AAA companies fail and the dollar slides, Congress bails out banks and major funds to no avail. At the end a (laughable now) $100 billion stimulus is proposed (centering on infrastructure improvements), but the federal government teeters on default and starts having troubling paying bond interest. Unemployment benefit claims balloon, and in the face of imminent default and chaos, the president courageously proposes and passes a plan to cut the government down to actual income levels and shears off roughly half the government. There are various riots initially, but things finally settle down to a hard and thrifty recovery.
At the end Cook includes a note saying that the collapse was compressed to 3 years for the sake of the story but that the real crash could take several more years. It's scary how realistic the entire things is, right down to terms like 'stimulus package' and 'bailout'. It's copyright 1999.
Because of the underlying philosophies. Both left-R's and left-D's have the notion that government is god and must solve everything. The R's do it by twiddling with business, the D's do it by twiddling with the little people. The R's appeal to traditional religions. The D's appeal to anti-religion religions. The end result is the same: more government, less freedom.
A pretty quick litmus test of a politician is how they stand on guns and abortion. Answering those two questions answers most of all the other ones too.
P.S. Some legal folks say that the government is legally required to refund all income taxes ever collected. But I don't really know how much of that is true.
Many states didn't actually finish the process, ratified a slightly different version (they must be absolutely exact), or violated their own state constitutions (in my home state of Idaho, the Governor didn't sign it, which is required)
The whole thing was more or less a circus, or so I read (I'm not a historian myself).
That's because the EC has been bound by state laws to vote in accordance with the popular vote. What we need to to free the EC and roll back direct election of senators. Both of these measures have increased the amount of direct democracy, and now we're hurting because of it.
We used to be able to take them away much more easily. Unfortunately, folks who wanted a lot of progressive change back at the turn of the century ratified the 17th Amendment which took away our power to yank senators at any time. Now we're suffering from it. The 16th Amendment (which btw wasn't properly ratified, the Secretary of State simply declared it ratified) was another amendment that seriously eroded our country's original system.
What sort of hardware are you running? It sounds almost like some of those garbage old Intel chipsets, but I wouldn't imagine you'd be running anything that old.
You started off right, but I turn off when I hear anything 'United Nations blah blah'. Anyone who puts any stock in the UN needs to read a history book like The Fearful Master. It thoroughly (like 4 cites per page) documents the UN's suppression of Katanga's independence and backing of Communist despots.
I checked Wikipedia and it looks like a clear case of historical revisionism. Wikipedia talks of the UN's peaceful negotiations, not mentioning a 2-year war against a civilized republic (they had a stable, American-style representative government) that actually bankrupted the UN. Kennedy bailed them out from his personal slush fund. No mention of the bombing of Red Cross hospitals by the UN or the atrocities committed by UN mercenaries (including cannibalism). No mention of UN Sec. General Dag HammarskjÃld's personal letters to Tshombe promising the UN wouldn't militarily intervene even as UN troops were being deployed. No mention of the 46 civilian doctors of Elizabethville, Katanga's report denouncing UN atrocities. The report stated, among other things, that 90% of structures bombed by the UN were civilian. No mention of Georges Olivet of the Swiss Red Cross's being murdered in a Red Cross ambulance (he had criticized the attacks on ambulances), and the UN's subsequent refusal to investigate.
There's a grave reality distortion field around the UN's military activities. I put no stock in anything they say.
I've noticed several of these uninstall-proof extensions lately. How about the Mozilla folks tweaking the extension model to allow an uninstall option?
I have a Furman PL8-II rackmount power conditioner. It has LEDs in pull-out tubes dimmed by a rotary control. I can see no flickering at any time, and they go from bright down to barely on. They use two whites coupled with one yellow to achieve a 'soft' effect. Now, I don't know if the dimming is power efficient, and I do know it has a lot of circuitry surrounding the LEDs inside the pull-outs, but the designers were concerned about heat output (there obviously isn't any). http://www.furmansound.com/new/images/highres/PL-8_II.jpg
That playbook is called "complete control over every aspect of everything". Doing that in Linux would require some serious cooperation in the desktop wars.
I'd like to see OpenOffice run in KDE without messing up everything else's color palette whenever the OO's window isn't minimized. It doesn't really affect usability, but it's really, really obnoxious. I don't know exactly what it is but it looks terrible.
Also, someone tell the KDE devs to at least replace the gfx buffer with a solid color. At the minute whatever barf is left over is shown while dialogs are initializing. (Note that I happily use KDE 4.1 every day.)
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Hundreds of years ago, the religious also honestly believed based on biblical evidence that the Sun revolved around the Earth. They deluded themselves, just as people today delude themselves about evolution, which is as absolutely factual as the Earth going around the Sun.
Can you provide some quotes from the Bible regarding this? I've never heard of such a thing. I know Catholic tradition had something to that effect, but I don't believe it's in the Bible itself.
Outlaws break laws by definition. When the law bans guns, only the lawbreakers will have guns.
I suspect that for $160k there will be some competent thought put into the judging.
I read an excellent book by James R. Cook called Full Faith and Credit: A Novel About Financial Collapse. It starts out with the US stock market over-leveraged, and then the stock market crashes, mortgages collapse, and massive inflation and interest rates occur as the government steps in and tries to help. The main character is a trader who buys gold and makes a vast fortune.
As liquidity disappears, hedge and mutual funds and AAA companies fail and the dollar slides, Congress bails out banks and major funds to no avail. At the end a (laughable now) $100 billion stimulus is proposed (centering on infrastructure improvements), but the federal government teeters on default and starts having troubling paying bond interest. Unemployment benefit claims balloon, and in the face of imminent default and chaos, the president courageously proposes and passes a plan to cut the government down to actual income levels and shears off roughly half the government. There are various riots initially, but things finally settle down to a hard and thrifty recovery.
At the end Cook includes a note saying that the collapse was compressed to 3 years for the sake of the story but that the real crash could take several more years. It's scary how realistic the entire things is, right down to terms like 'stimulus package' and 'bailout'. It's copyright 1999.
Because of the underlying philosophies. Both left-R's and left-D's have the notion that government is god and must solve everything. The R's do it by twiddling with business, the D's do it by twiddling with the little people. The R's appeal to traditional religions. The D's appeal to anti-religion religions. The end result is the same: more government, less freedom.
A pretty quick litmus test of a politician is how they stand on guns and abortion. Answering those two questions answers most of all the other ones too.
P.S. Some legal folks say that the government is legally required to refund all income taxes ever collected. But I don't really know how much of that is true.
Many states didn't actually finish the process, ratified a slightly different version (they must be absolutely exact), or violated their own state constitutions (in my home state of Idaho, the Governor didn't sign it, which is required)
The whole thing was more or less a circus, or so I read (I'm not a historian myself).
That's because the EC has been bound by state laws to vote in accordance with the popular vote. What we need to to free the EC and roll back direct election of senators. Both of these measures have increased the amount of direct democracy, and now we're hurting because of it.
That's exactly what it is. There are two power buttons. One boots Windows, the other boots Linux on a special ARM thingy.
We used to be able to take them away much more easily. Unfortunately, folks who wanted a lot of progressive change back at the turn of the century ratified the 17th Amendment which took away our power to yank senators at any time. Now we're suffering from it.
The 16th Amendment (which btw wasn't properly ratified, the Secretary of State simply declared it ratified) was another amendment that seriously eroded our country's original system.
FYI, socking figures are similar to 'punching figures'. They're designed to put you in shock.
Hey, I bet that example works for banks and auto plants too!
Isn't the Macbook Air more or less a netbook?
What sort of hardware are you running? It sounds almost like some of those garbage old Intel chipsets, but I wouldn't imagine you'd be running anything that old.
You started off right, but I turn off when I hear anything 'United Nations blah blah'. Anyone who puts any stock in the UN needs to read a history book like The Fearful Master. It thoroughly (like 4 cites per page) documents the UN's suppression of Katanga's independence and backing of Communist despots.
I checked Wikipedia and it looks like a clear case of historical revisionism. Wikipedia talks of the UN's peaceful negotiations, not mentioning a 2-year war against a civilized republic (they had a stable, American-style representative government) that actually bankrupted the UN. Kennedy bailed them out from his personal slush fund. No mention of the bombing of Red Cross hospitals by the UN or the atrocities committed by UN mercenaries (including cannibalism). No mention of UN Sec. General Dag HammarskjÃld's personal letters to Tshombe promising the UN wouldn't militarily intervene even as UN troops were being deployed. No mention of the 46 civilian doctors of Elizabethville, Katanga's report denouncing UN atrocities. The report stated, among other things, that 90% of structures bombed by the UN were civilian. No mention of Georges Olivet of the Swiss Red Cross's being murdered in a Red Cross ambulance (he had criticized the attacks on ambulances), and the UN's subsequent refusal to investigate.
There's a grave reality distortion field around the UN's military activities. I put no stock in anything they say.
Why isn't it working for Firewire? I'm sure we'd all love to kill off USB in favor of Firewire.
I'm in the habit of calling small children over to the desk and letting them click the EULA. They couldn't read it; how could it be binding?
Wrong way around. Free does not mean open-source. It's quite plausible that MS might give away Windows, but not that they would open-source it.
I've noticed several of these uninstall-proof extensions lately. How about the Mozilla folks tweaking the extension model to allow an uninstall option?
I have a Furman PL8-II rackmount power conditioner. It has LEDs in pull-out tubes dimmed by a rotary control. I can see no flickering at any time, and they go from bright down to barely on. They use two whites coupled with one yellow to achieve a 'soft' effect. Now, I don't know if the dimming is power efficient, and I do know it has a lot of circuitry surrounding the LEDs inside the pull-outs, but the designers were concerned about heat output (there obviously isn't any).
http://www.furmansound.com/new/images/highres/PL-8_II.jpg
But you're still required to evacuate if one breaks. That in itself seems reason enough NOT to mandate them.
80%? Places like Newegg don't seem to follow that trend.
I believe Senate is more liberal than the House and thus more likely to kowtow to his O-ness.
That playbook is called "complete control over every aspect of everything". Doing that in Linux would require some serious cooperation in the desktop wars.
I'd like to see OpenOffice run in KDE without messing up everything else's color palette whenever the OO's window isn't minimized. It doesn't really affect usability, but it's really, really obnoxious. I don't know exactly what it is but it looks terrible.
Also, someone tell the KDE devs to at least replace the gfx buffer with a solid color. At the minute whatever barf is left over is shown while dialogs are initializing.
(Note that I happily use KDE 4.1 every day.)