Look at the graphs used by the inventor of global warming and the internet, then zoom in and set the base at 1935, wow, cooling trend instead of warming. Just something I noticed.
If they don't care about a minuscule chance that the government is listening to their conversations, then that issue isn't important from their perspective. Important is a relative term.
Well, even if the thinkpad is durable, your average business customer wants something that is reliable, they aren't really interested in extreme thinness. Most prefer a classy appearance to a trendy and beautiful one.
admit that the direction the US is heading towards isn't exactly anti-police state either.
The US was far closer to "police state" status during WWII, mail was censored, there was massive monitoring of civilians, secret spying on people, etc. Post WWII the rights returned. Then the Red Scare put us closer to police state with political witch hunts by the House UnAmerican Activities Committee. Then after that ended we saw the return of rights. 9/11 brought us closer, but notice how the PATRIOT Act and many of these other "police state" laws have expiration dates? Things will go back to normal as they always have.
I don't understand how the party can survive with so many factions that hate each other.
Because we largely hate the Democrats more. Even though we tend to disagree we are usually willing to work together to try to beat the Democrats.
Fiscal Conservatives have had to watch government and spending grow out of control the last 8 years.
Yes there is a huge demand that the GOP return to how it was when the Republican Revolution started where they balanced the budget (sort of) and cut spending. The fiscal conservatives stayed home in 2006 which cost the GOP. The GOP still trust McCain as president instead of a government run by Hillary, Reed, and Pelosi.
Dear god you sound like Michael Moore. The poor vote so politicians listen to them, otherwise Medicade, TANF, S-CHIP, Scholarships, and all of the other programs that we have would not exist. Gates seems to forget that "kinder capitalism" and all of the other plans that try to use the economy for the common good usually hurt the poor more than anything else. The Chinese regulate their economy into a "kinder capitalism" where bureaucrats decide what merchandise is beneficial to it's population. How'd that turn out?
Step two: have your dial-up ISP hang up on you before the download completes, or not have any way to boot the ISO to install it. High-speed Internet access (and Ethernet cards to enable it) and CD recorders were not universal on machines sold in the Windows 98 era. Workaround: Buy a copy of Kubuntu on CD.
Or just have a friend download it for you, or place a free shipit order.
Step three: You downloaded or bought the wrong CD. Many PCs from the Windows 98 era had 128 MB of RAM, but the Kubuntu live CD needs about twice that. Instead, you will need the alternate installer CD. But by this time, you might as well use Xubuntu instead.
True, Kubuntu should learn to make swap files on FAT systems like Knoppix. Xubuntu would be better on 128MB.
Step four: Have the CD fail to recognize at least one of sound, networking, and printing. Many older video cards have decent Free 2D drivers in X.Org, but winmodems and winprinters were unfortunately common in that era.
The restricted drivers manager detects most video cards just fine and can install their propriatary drivers. Sound cards usually work, or work if you compile OSS (which is really easy to do if you search the forums). There is a website for winmodems that can solve most of those issues, failing that, a USB hardmodem usually cost $12 including the cost of shipping on ebay. Winmodems are sometimes caught by the restricted drivers manager.
Believe it or not, Universities are traditionally considered bastions OF free thought and speech - these are the tools of learning. If I wanted to just learn from the professor in a classroom, then why don't we just simply call it "High School v.2"?
Oh really? So the founder of the Minuteman Project goes to a college and is physically attacked, that is a bastion of free speech? Some colleges have rules forbidding use of the term Islamofascist or Islamist or Islamic Terrorist, and yet I am supposed to believe they are bastions of free speech. Several colleges forbid criticizing homosexuality, and yet I am to consider them bastions of free speech. The College Republicans have been assaulted and their rallies have been driven from campuses and yet colleges are bastions of free speech? Bullshit. Colleges may have been bastions of free speech in the past, but now they only support free speech for the left.
Tories morphed into the Whig Party which in turn was the foundation of the Republican party which is why Republicans tend to be white, elitist and pro wealth.
Incorrect! The Republican Party was founded when there was a split between the Democratic-Republic party. The Democrats formed when they started to oppose the anti-slavery sentiment in the party so they left and formed the Democrats. The Republicans formed out of what remained of the party and took up the issue of opposition to slavery. Also the modern day Democratic party is often considered to be the elitist party. Who are the elite members of the Democratic party? Large CEO's (despite the strange stereotype that all businesses are conservative look at most CEOs, most are Democrats), college professors, 85% of the media, and the educated elite, and most actors. The Democratic party tends to include the richest of the rich, and at the same time the poorest of the poor. The Republican party includes the small business owners, the Democrats have the CEO's. The Republicans include more people at the less extreme ends of the scale if you look at facts instead of stereotypes.
Your blathering about the skull and bones sounds like the dude who got tazed.
Wait, you mean in a nation where whole chunks of the population teach their kids that the world was created by an invisible sky daddy in six days isn't leading the pack in science education? We'd better pray harder!
Putting your anti-religious bigotry aside I would like to point out that more than 90% of the world's population believes in a religion. This figure has remained pretty high all through world history, and science has continued. Any one who believes religion is blocking science has clearly paid more attention to the 1% of the time when it has instead of the 99% of the time it hasn't.
if you really wanted to screw with the election in this country, it would be WAY cheaper just to buy some electoral votes than to try to manipulate tons of ballots which won't have any effect on the actual election outcome.
Several states have laws against this, also remember a faithless elector has never once cast a deciding vote.
And exactly how many rapes and molestations occur because of MySpace? How about we place the same restrictions on schools and churches, where you are certainly more likely to end up being molested.
Both on myspace, and in school and church, your odds of being raped are very very unlikely. The reason church molestations gain so much attention is because they are unusual. Sort of how traffic flowing smoothly never gets covered but the media is all over the 10 car pile up when the first is more common or how back when Iraq had explosions going off daily the media covered that but now will not cover the decrease in violence. To Catch A Predator had perverts asking teens to have sex, but how many teens would agree to have sex with strangers. Most real life conversations would be like
Perv: "Do you want me to have sex with you?"
Teen: "Eww, gross!" (blocks pervert).
Statistically rapist are not people who find your address online and jump out of the bushes and attack you, nor are they random people walking down the street. They are almost always somebody who knows the victim reasonably well such as a date, a relative, or a friend. Most child molesters do not meet victims from the internet or stalk kids in a park, the overwhelming majority are relatives, friends of the parents, siblings, abusive parents, etc. It's also crucial to remember, 98% of all the people in this world are not evil. Say you were to run into a cafe, walk up to a random person, tell them that your wife was giving birth at the hospital across the street, and ask them to park your Ferrari and to call you later so you can get your keys the odds are very good that they would not steal the car. A few might, but the overwhelming majority are ok. Same thing with myspace, most of the people on it are harmless teens. There are a few perverts but it is overwhelmingly teens. Same with a church or school. Both are statistically very safe (you are far more likely to die or be hurt on the car ride to church or school, and you are far more likely to be molested or raped at home or someone else's home).
When Halliburton sells to the government they make noise about how "patriotic" it is that they are selling to them.
Just something I would like to mention, there are really only two major companies in the world that are able to do all of the jobs we hire Halliburton for particular field. Schlumberger and Halliburton. Since Schlumberger mostly is based in the Netherlands and France, and since Halliburton is an American company (though it also has a headquarters in the United Arab Emirates) there was little question of who the contract would go to. There are other companies that do some of what these two do, but these are the only ones who do all of what we hire Halliburton to do. Also for several years, Halliburton was losing money in Iraq, only recently did they finally manage to make a profit. Just thought I would mention that.
Ever think of using an origional Xbox. It is fairly easy to hack an Xbox, and deep down an Xbox is just a regular PC with a 700-ish mhz cross between a P3 and Celeron, a hard disk that is either 8 or 10 GB, a Nvidia Graphics card (though 3-D isn't fully supported on Linux), and 64 MB of RAM. For a small file server it works well enough. Most hacked dashes have an FTP server, but you can install Linux (my fave is X-DSL) easily. Some of the distros are rather old though.
If you don't mind the old hardware, you can usually find an old used Xbox for about $50 at a used game shop. Versions of 007, Mech Assault, or Splinter Cell are usually required to softmod the box, and you can pick those up on ebay for nearly nothing.
I imagine these could be inexpensive computers for schools quite easily. Our school has a ton of old P3's running Windows 2K. When Win 2K support ends in 2010, I suppose they could be replaced with these, but I don't know if Samba would let students still use their networked accounts.
actually keeping 100% of all software on the box current is harder for Windows than say, Ubuntu.
I wonder why all these companies, Adobe, Real, Sun, Apple, these companies want their products up to date, MS wants Windows to be secure and therefor would want all the software on it to be patched why not work out a deal where other software providers can update through MS update along with Office and Windows. I do think it might be against antitrust laws so they might be restricted in that way.
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Look at the graphs used by the inventor of global warming and the internet, then zoom in and set the base at 1935, wow, cooling trend instead of warming. Just something I noticed.
If they don't care about a minuscule chance that the government is listening to their conversations, then that issue isn't important from their perspective. Important is a relative term.
Well, even if the thinkpad is durable, your average business customer wants something that is reliable, they aren't really interested in extreme thinness. Most prefer a classy appearance to a trendy and beautiful one.
Your blathering about the skull and bones sounds like the dude who got tazed.
Both on myspace, and in school and church, your odds of being raped are very very unlikely. The reason church molestations gain so much attention is because they are unusual. Sort of how traffic flowing smoothly never gets covered but the media is all over the 10 car pile up when the first is more common or how back when Iraq had explosions going off daily the media covered that but now will not cover the decrease in violence. To Catch A Predator had perverts asking teens to have sex, but how many teens would agree to have sex with strangers. Most real life conversations would be like
Perv: "Do you want me to have sex with you?"
Teen: "Eww, gross!" (blocks pervert).
Statistically rapist are not people who find your address online and jump out of the bushes and attack you, nor are they random people walking down the street. They are almost always somebody who knows the victim reasonably well such as a date, a relative, or a friend. Most child molesters do not meet victims from the internet or stalk kids in a park, the overwhelming majority are relatives, friends of the parents, siblings, abusive parents, etc. It's also crucial to remember, 98% of all the people in this world are not evil. Say you were to run into a cafe, walk up to a random person, tell them that your wife was giving birth at the hospital across the street, and ask them to park your Ferrari and to call you later so you can get your keys the odds are very good that they would not steal the car. A few might, but the overwhelming majority are ok. Same thing with myspace, most of the people on it are harmless teens. There are a few perverts but it is overwhelmingly teens. Same with a church or school. Both are statistically very safe (you are far more likely to die or be hurt on the car ride to church or school, and you are far more likely to be molested or raped at home or someone else's home).
If you don't mind the old hardware, you can usually find an old used Xbox for about $50 at a used game shop. Versions of 007, Mech Assault, or Splinter Cell are usually required to softmod the box, and you can pick those up on ebay for nearly nothing.
I imagine these could be inexpensive computers for schools quite easily. Our school has a ton of old P3's running Windows 2K. When Win 2K support ends in 2010, I suppose they could be replaced with these, but I don't know if Samba would let students still use their networked accounts.